10.     REPORT, Committee on Public Safety & Neighborhoods, recommending to the City Council to take “NO FURTHER ACTION” on the WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Rebeiro, Dunn, Abreu, Lopes and Giesta, asking that the Committee on Public Safety & Neighborhoods request that a representative from the Mayor’s Office, a representative from the City Solicitor’s Office and Attorney Jonathan M. Silverstein, of KP Law, be invited to a Committee meeting to discuss the possibility of the City of New Bedford joining the 100 other Cities across the Commonwealth in the lawsuit seeking civil damages from pharmaceutical companies responsible for the wrongful distribution of opiates.

10a.     WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Rebeiro, Dunn, Abreu and Lopes, asking, that the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods request that a representative from the Mayor’s Office, a representative from the City Solicitor’s Office and Attorney Jonathan M. Silverstein, KP Law, be invited to a committee meeting to discuss the possibility of the City of New Bedford joining the 100 other Cities cross the Commonwealth in the lawsuit seeking civil damages from pharmaceutical companies responsible for the wrongful distribution of opiates.  (Referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods – August 16, 2018.)