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December 16, 2021
2 meetings this evening, 6 recorded votes in all, in the order they were held.
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Start my ballot →7:00 p.m. · New Bedford City Council · Special meeting
Sources: Official minutes (PDF) · City meeting page
Attendance
Present: Ian Abreu, Derek Baptiste, Naomi R. A. Carney, Hugh Dunn, Maria E. Giesta, Brian K. Gomes, Scott J. Lima, William “Brad” Markey, Linda M. Morad
Absent: Debora Coelho, Joseph P. Lopes
3 recorded votes, 1 with disagreement. This meeting on its own page
Communication, Council President Lopes, to City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council Dennis W. Farias, calling a Special Meeting of the City Council for Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., in City Council Chambers, Second Floor of City Hall.
Received and Placed on File
From the minutes
“Received and Placed on File. (Matter #1920).”
Report, Committee on Finance, recommending to the City Council Adoption of the Order for the Transfer of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) from Water Stabilization to the Fiscal Year 2022 Water Enterprise Fund Budget, and that the portion raised by Water Receipts is hereby reduced by the same amount.
Recommended by the Committee on Finance
Recommendation Followed
From the minutes
“Recommendation Followed. (Matter #1921).”
Ordered, that to balance the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2022 the sum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) now standing to the credit of the account from the Water Stabilization Fund be and is hereby assigned to the Fiscal Year 2022 Water Enterprise Fund…
Adopted and Rule 40 Waived
The minutes record 9–1, more votes than the 9 councilors listed as present; this looks like a typo. Individual votes are not shown until it is confirmed. We will ask the City Clerk to confirm.
From the minutes
“Adopted and Rule 40 Waived – Yeas 9, Nays 1. (Councillor Morad OPPOSED.) (Matter #1845).”
7:15 p.m. · New Bedford City Council · Special meeting
Sources: Official minutes (PDF) · City meeting page
Attendance
Present: Ian Abreu, Derek Baptiste, Naomi R. A. Carney, Hugh Dunn, Maria E. Giesta, Brian K. Gomes, Scott J. Lima, Joseph P. Lopes, William “Brad” Markey, Linda M. Morad
Absent: Debora Coelho
3 recorded votes, 1 with disagreement. This meeting on its own page
Communication, Council President Lopes, to City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council Dennis W. Farias, calling a Special Meeting of the City Council for Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 7:15 p.m., in City Council Chambers, Second Floor of City Hall, for the continuation of the Tax Classification Hearing.
Received and Placed on File
From the minutes
“Received and Placed on File. (Matter #1922).”
Communication, Interim CFO Gagne, submitting one option table with a Tax Levy of $141,651,995.00 and another option table with a Tax Levy of $143,651,995.00.
Received and Placed on File
From the minutes
“Received and Placed on File. (Matter #1923).”
Ordered, That the Minimum Residential Factor of 0.8116 for Local Assessment Be and the Same Is Hereby Adopted Fiscal Year 2022. (Shift of 1.75%.) Hearing Continued until December 16, 2021 at 7:15 pm – Yeas 9, Nays 0 – December 7, 2021. Adopted – Yeas 6 Nays 4 (Councillors Giesta, Lopes, Markey and…
Adopted
Yes: Abreu, Baptiste, Carney, Dunn, Gomes, LimaNo: Giesta, Lopes, Markey, MoradAbsent: Coelho
From the minutes
“Adopted – Yeas 6 Nays 4 (Councillors Giesta, Lopes, Markey and Morad OPPOSED.) Waiving Rule 40 – FAILED – Yeas 7, Nays 3. (Councillors Lopes, Markey and Morad OPPOSED.) (Matter #1850).”
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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