L5.       REPORT, Committee on Finance, recommending to the City Council ADOPTION of a COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, requesting, on behalf of the New Bedford School Committee, the renewal of a second one-year option on all New Bedford School bus contracts for authorization to ratify the extension of said contacts.

L5a.     COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, requesting on behalf of the New Bedford School Committee, the renewal of the second one-year option on all New Bedford School bus contracts of authorization to ratify the extension of said contracts.