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1. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, submitting for review and approval AN ORDER accepting a thirty (30) year Term Preservation Restriction granted by the Waterfront Historic Area League of New Bedford, Inc., to the New Bedford Historical Commission for property containing about 2,952 square feet, more or less, improved by a building and owned by the Waterfront Historic Area League of New Bedford, Inc., the subject property is located at 305-307 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, being more particularly described in a quitclaim deed dated December 1, 1999, and recorded in Book 4573, Page 60 in the Bristol County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds. (Ref’d 02/11/2021)

1a. AN ORDER, (Ref’d 02/11/2021)

2. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Giesta, Abreu, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima, Carney and Coelho, requesting that City Solicitor Mikaela McDermott, DPI Commissioner Jamie Ponte, Director of Parks, Recreation and Beaches Mary Rapoza, and the Director of Purchasing Molly Gilfeather, be invited to a Committee on City Property meeting to discuss the possibility of the City selling the two pocket parks in the North End, the Nye Street Pocket Park and the Phillips Avenue Pocket Park, these parks were first created as an idea that the neighborhood would take advantage of the green space that these parks provided; unfortunately, these pocket parks have had the opposite effect, they are being used by drug dealers and users and for prostitution, the residents and business owners in the surrounding areas deserve better and should not have to live with the ongoing crime that is being perpetrated in these pocket parks; further requesting that the City please sell these pocket parks to interested buyers who will utilize their use for the betterment of the neighborhood, i.e., possible business or residential parking. (To be Referred to the Committee on City Property.) (Ref’d 02/25/2021)

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