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August 16, 2022
8 recorded votes, 0 with disagreement.
Sources: Minutes (PDF, in the agenda packet where the council approved them) · Agenda packet · Meeting video
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Attendance
Present: Shawn E. Cadime, Joseph D. Camara, Michelle M. Dionne, Bradford L. Kilby, Pamela S. Laliberte, Leo O. Pelletier, Linda M. Pereira, Andrew J. Raposo, Laura-Jean Sampson
Absent: None
Every vote, in order
Before the numbered agenda items
Minutes, page 118 · Agenda packet · Video
That the hearing be opened
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pereira, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be opened.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Pereira)
1 Massachusetts Electric Company for an underground conduit location, as follows: Hartwell Street National Grid is petitioning to install a 6-5" PVC from existing manhole 6 to a new switchgear manhole 1-2. Manhole 6 is on the east side of Hartwell Street going towards the property at
Minutes, page 118 · Agenda packet · Video
That the hearing be closed, On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pelletier, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be opened
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Dionne, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be closed, On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pelletier, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be opened.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Dionne)
2 Massachusetts Electric Company for an underground conduit location, as follows: Pearl Street and Spring Street National Grid is petitioning to break into MH8 and install approximately 21 feet of 6-4" conduit from new pad 3-99 to MH8, and install approximately 82 feet of 2-4" conduit from MH8 to riser
Minutes, page 119 · Agenda packet · Video
That the hearing be closed
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Washington, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be closed.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Sampson)
That the hearing be opened
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pelletier, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be opened.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Pelletier)
3 Massachusetts Electric Company for an underground conduit location, as follows: Pleasant Street National Grid is petitioning to install underground conduit beginning at a point approximately 20 feet north of the centerline of the intersection of Eighth Street and continuing approximately 40
Minutes, page 119 · Agenda packet · Video
That the hearing be closed
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pereira, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be closed.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Pereira)
That the hearing be opened
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Pelletier, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be opened.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Pelletier)
4 Romanow Real Estate Trust (c/o Max Harrison Romanow, Trustee), 1010 Memorial Drive 5F, Cambridge, MA 02138 for permission to store 34,000 gallons of gasoline and 6,000 gallons of diesel fuel, for a total of 40,000 gallons underground at 323 William S. Canning
Minutes, page 120 · Agenda packet · Video
That the hearing be closed
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Kilby, it was unanimously voted that the hearing be closed.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Kilby)
Adjournment
Minutes, page 118 · Agenda packet · Video
To adjourn at 6:17 p.m
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Raposo and seconded by Councilor Dionne, it was unanimously voted to adjourn at 6:17 p.m.” (Motion: Raposo, second: Dionne)
From the official minutes kept by the Fall River City Clerk (agendas and minutes). The minutes are scanned documents; we read them with text recognition, check every vote count against the councilors named, and quote the exact sentence for each vote. MassVoter never grades officials; votes and attendance are shown exactly as the minutes record them. Councilor photos: the nine 2026–2027 councilors from the City of Fall River's official councilor photos (Contact the Council page, fallriverma.gov); earlier councilors cropped from the 2024–2025 council group photo and the 2022–2023 council group photo (as published by Fall River Reporter, September 2022). Trott Lee: from his campaign Facebook page (facebook.com/trottlee4cc). Ricky Tith: from Fall River Reporter (April 2025). 2018–2019 councilors (Steven A. Camara, Stephen R. Long, Derek R. Viveiros) and the 2018–2019 group photo: from the City of Fall River’s FY2019 budget book. Richard Cabeceiras, Raymond A. Mitchell and the 2016–2017 group photo: Herald News photo by Jack Foley (January 2016), provided by the Fall River City Clerk. The 2020–2021 and 2022–2023 group photos: provided by the Fall River City Clerk.
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