8. REPORT, The Special Committee on Memorials and Dedications, recommending to the City Council and the Park Board send a positive recommendation for erecting a plaque or memorial honoring Leo E. Larrivee, with a request that it be placed at the walking path at Buttonwood Park.

8a. WRITTEN MOTION, that the Special Committee on Memorials and Dedications, consider creating a pocket park or monument to honor and recognize the City’s greatest track hero; the “Whaling City Wonder”, French Canadian Leo E. Larrivee, who brought home New Bedford’s first Olympic Medal – a Bronze for third-place finish in the men’s 3,000 Meter Team Race at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. (Referred to the Special Committee on Memorials and Dedications – April 28, 2016.)