COMMITTEE ON APPOINTMENTS AND BRIEFINGS  - April 19, 2022
MEETING AT 7:00 PM,
City Hall, 133 William Street, New Bedford, MA City Council Chambers - Room 214
AGENDA
 

1. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the REAPPOINTMENT of CELEINE SARAIVA, New Bedford, MA to the PROBLEM PROPERTIES APPEALS PANEL; this term will expire June 2024. (Ref’d 02/24/2022) (03/22/2022 – tabled until the Committee can meet in person)

 

INVITEES: Celeine Saraiva

 

2. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of CELEINE M. SARAIVA, New Bedford, MA to the COUNCIL ON AGING, replacing the late William E. Jennings; this term will expire June 2024. (Ref’d 03/10/2022)

 

INVITEES: Celeine Saraiva

 

3. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of RAMON SILVA, New Bedford, MA to the AIRPORT COMMISSION, Mr. Silva will be replacing William Peter Gushue, who has resigned; this term will expire December 2022. (Ref’d 03/24/2022)

 

INVITEES: Ramon Silva

 

4. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of LISA DUNAWAY, New Bedford, MA to the ELECTION COMMISSION, Ms. Dunaway will be replacing Heather Heffernan, who has resigned; this term will expire April 2025. (Ref’d 03/24/2022)

 

INVITEES: Lisa Dunaway

 

5. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of JOAO GILMETE, New Bedford, MA 02744, as a CONSTABLE. (Ref’d 03/10/2022)

 

5a. AN APPLICATION, (Ref’d 03/10/2022)

 

INVITEES: Joao Gilmete

 

6. COMMUNICATION, City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council, to City Council, on behalf of Frank Vasquez, 1049 Cove Road, New Bedford, MA 02744, d/b/a KINGDOM TRANSPORTATION, 1049 Cove Road, New Bedford, MA 02744 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 03/24/2022)

 

INVITEES: Frank Vasquez

 

7. COMMUNICATION, City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council, to City Council, on behalf of Frank Vasquez, 1049 Cove Road, New Bedford, MA 02744, d/b/a KINGDOM TRANSPORTATION, 1049 Cove Road, New Bedford, MA 02744 hereby submitting a copy of the Application requesting a RENEWAL of a PRIVATE LIVERY LICENSE, to carry passengers for hire over the streets of New Bedford. (Term of License July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023.) (Ref’d 03/24/2022)

 

INVITEES: Frank Vasquez

 

Chair Suggests ‘Waive Reading’, ‘No Further Action’ and ‘Report Out to the Full City Council’

 

8. RELATED MOTION, Councillor Morad, that the City Clerk forward to the Administration a request for updated attendance records from July 2021 to February 24, 2022 for the reappointments of David Kennedy to the Redevelopment Authority, Paul Chasse to the Redevelopment Authority and Celeine Saraiva to the Problem Properties Appeal Panel; and that said attendance records be forwarded to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings prior to these reappointments being heard in Committee. (Ref’d 02/24/2022)

 

9. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting the APPOINTMENT of LISA P. DUNAWAY, New Bedford, MA to the ELECTION COMMISSION, replacing Henry Bousquet; this term will expire April 2025. (Ref’d 03/10/2022)

 

 

 

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