13. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Abreu, Giesta, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima, Dunn, Baptiste, Gomes, Carney and Markey, requesting that the Administration begin the process of filing the appropriate Home Rule Petition documentation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to allow for “killed in the line of duty” benefits to the surviving spouse of former New Bedford Police Sergeant, Michael Cassidy, who passed away from complications associated with COVID-19 in April of 2021. (To be Referred to the Administration.)

13a. COMMUNICATION, Councillor Abreu, submitting a copy of “An Act providing killed in the Line of Duty Benefits to the surviving spouse of a Police Officer of the Town of Rutland, MA.”