1. CITIZEN’S INPUT TIME – Not to exceed the first thirty (30) minutes of the meeting.

1a. Randy Jones, 22 McGurk Street, 02744, speaking on the genocide of South and West End Youth and the Andrea McCoy Youth Center. (Ref’d 08/31/2021)

2. COMMUNICATION, City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council, to City Council, on behalf of Tanya DePina, 47 Lauren Drive, New Bedford, MA 02745 d/b/a COMFORT TRANSPORTATION, LLC, 47 Lauren Drive, New Bedford, MA 02745, hereby submitting a copy of the Application requesting a NEW PRIVATE LIVERY LICENSE to carry passengers for hire over the streets of New Bedford. (License will expire – June 30, 2022.) (Ref’d 07/15/2021)

3. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of KIMBERLI BETTENCOURT, New Bedford, MA to the GREATER NEW BEDFORD REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE; this term will expire May 2023.  (Ref’d 5/27/2021)

4. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of REBECA LINHART, New Bedford, MA, to the CONSERVATION COMMISSION, Ms. Linhart will be replacing Jacob Gonsalves whose term has expired; this term will expire June 2023. (Ref’d 06/24/2021) (07/28/2021 – tabled, applicant not present)

5. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to the City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of THIAGO HENRIQUE LOPES, New Bedford, MA 02746 as a Constable. (Ref’d 8/19/2021)

5a. APPLICATION, for the APPOINTMENT of THIAGO HENRIQUE LOPES, New Bedford, MA 02746 as a Constable. (Ref’d 8/19/2021)

6. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell to the City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of SANDRA QUADROS BOWLES, New Bedford, MA, to the CEMETERY BOARD.  Ms. Bowles will be replacing Egidio Mello whose term has expired; this term will expire in April 2024. (Ref’d 09/09/2021)

7. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell to the City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of JONATHAN CARVALHO, New Bedford, MA, to the CEMETERY BOARD.  Mr. Carvalho will be replacing the late Carol Grimes; this term will expire in April 2024. (Ref’d 09/09/2021)

8. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Morad and Markey, requesting, that in consideration of the important task the Board of Health will be undertaking related to the approval of the application of Parallel Products to operate expanded operations in the New Bedford Business Park, that a representative of the Administration appear before the Committee on Appointments and Briefings to discuss the expired terms of Board Member Sarah Morris, (term expired April 2020) and Board Member Dr. Craig Longo, (term expired February 2021) and the Administration’s plans for submitting a renewal application for Ms. Morris and a replacement application for Dr. Longo, who is currently not a resident of the City of New Bedford. (To be Referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings.) (Ref’d 5/27/2021)

9. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Markey, requesting that the Committee on Appointments and Briefings meet with Members of South Coast Neighbors United and Attorney Kirstie Pecci, the Director of Conservation Law Foundation’s Zero Waste Products, to discuss Phase 1 and 2 of Parallel Products project proposed for the City of New Bedford. (To be Referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings.) (Ref’d 8/19/2021)

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