MassVoter.com← Fall River City CouncilFall River · Committee on Finance · 6:00 p.m.
March 26, 2024
2 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: Joseph D. Camara, Michelle M. Dionne, Paul B. Hart, Bradford L. Kilby, Linda M. Pereira, Cliff A. Ponte, Andrew J. Raposo, Laura-Jean Sampson
Absent: Shawn E. Cadime
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2 Fiscal Year 2025 Enterprise Fund budgets for Water and Sewer Divisions A detailed summary of the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Proposed Budgets for the Water and Sewer Divisions was presented by Paul Ferland, Administrator of Community Utilities, Zachary
Minutes, page 67 · Agenda packet · Video
To recommend that a letter be sent to the Administration requesting that a Request for
From the minutes
“On a motion made by Councilor Ponte and seconded by Councilor Dionne, it was unanimously voted to recommend that a letter be sent to the Administration requesting that a Request for.” (Motion: Ponte, second: Dionne)
To refer the Fiscal Year 2025 Proposed Water and Sewer Division Budgets to the full Council for action
From the minutes
“On a further motion made by Councilor Ponte and seconded by Vice President Pereira, it was unanimously voted to refer the Fiscal Year 2025 Proposed Water and Sewer Division Budgets to the full Council for action, with Councilor Cadime absent and not voting.” (Motion: Ponte, second: Pereira)
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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