New Bedford City Council · 2026

Committee on Economic Development

Chair and 4 members. Committee votes are recommendations; the full council takes the final vote.

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Members (2026)

Chair: Leo Choquette

Members: Ian Abreu, Derek Baptiste, Naomi R. A. Carney, Scott Pemberton

Meetings with posted minutes

The city does not post this committee’s minutes online, so we can’t show its own votes or attendance. Below is what it sent to the full council.

What the full council did with its recommendations

Items listed in the council minutes under “Committee on Economic Development recommending.” Each shows the full council’s vote.

None in this record yet.

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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