March 31, 2021

1 recorded votes, 1 with disagreement.

Sources: Official minutes (PDF) · City meeting page

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Committee on Finance: committee votes are recommendations to the full council, which takes the final vote. About this committee

Attendance

Present: Ian Abreu, Derek Baptiste, Naomi R. A. Carney, Debora Coelho, Maria E. Giesta, Scott J. Lima, Joseph P. Lopes, William “Brad” Markey, Linda M. Morad

Absent: Hugh Dunn, Brian K. Gomes

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New Bedford, Massachusetts Meeting: Committee on Finance Date: March 31, 2021 Time: 7:01P.M. Place: Held Remotely in Accordance with the Governor of Massachusetts’ March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law G. L. C. 30A, Section 20 and the City Council’s Vote to…

Minutes, page 1

Table (set aside)Passed · 8–0

To table this matter at this time.

The minutes list each councilor’s vote, but the list does not match the 8–0 count, so individual votes are not shown. We will ask the City Clerk to confirm.

From the minutes

“On motion by Councillor Abreu and seconded by Councillor Lopes, the Committee VOTED: To table this matter at this time. This motion passed on a Roll Call Vote of Yeas 8, Nays 0, with Councillors Abreu, yes; Baptiste, Yes; Carney, yes; Giesta, yes; Lima, yes; Lopes, yes; Markey, yes; Morad, yes; and Councillor Coelho not present for the vote..” (Motion: Abreu, second: Lopes)

Read it in the official minutes, page 1 (PDF)

From the official minutes kept by the New Bedford City Clerk (agendas and minutes). The minutes are text documents; we read every action, check every roll-call count against the councilors named, and quote the exact wording. Most items pass by voice vote, and the minutes record only the result for those; how each councilor voted is shown only for roll calls. MassVoter never grades officials; votes and attendance are shown exactly as the minutes record them. Councilor photos: cropped from the City of New Bedford's official 2026 City Council photo (newbedford-ma.gov). The 2024–2025 group photo, and the photos of Maria E. Giesta and Linda M. Morad cropped from it: City of New Bedford, provided by the City Clerk.

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