COMMITTEE ON FINANCE  - September 13, 2021
MEETING AT 7:00 PM,
133 William Street, City Hall, 2nd Floor, City Council Chambers
AGENDA
 

1. COMMUNICATION, Community Preservation Committee to City Council, submitting the CPA annual budget for fiscal year 2022. (To be Referred to the Committee on Finance.) (Ref’d 07/15/2021)

 

INVITEES: Jessica Bailey, Community Preservation Act Coordinator; Jennifer Carloni, Director, Planning Department

 

2. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to the City Council, submitting a request to hire the Department of Resilience and Environmental Stewardship's Environmental Project Manager, Courtney Cohen, at Grade M-12, Step 4 to compensate her commensurate with her expertise and decades of relevant experience. (Ref’d 08/19/2021)

 

INVITEES: Michele Paul, Director, Environmental Stewardship; Judith A. Perkins, Personnel Director

 

3. WRITTEN MOTION, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima, Markey and Morad, requesting that the Mitchell Administration and the Department of Public Infrastructure establish a payment plan for all past due / outstanding water and sewer bills incurred during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the payment plan shall be structured so that all past due amounts are paid in full by the end of April 2022; and further that details of the payment plan along with the verbiage being sent to the rate payers be shared with the members of the New Bedford City Council within the next 30 days. (To be Referred to the Mitchell Administration and the Committee on Finance.) (Ref’d 04/08/2021) (5/17/2021 – tabled until after the Budget Hearings)

 

INVITEES: David Gerwatowski, Legal Counsel Attorney; Mikaela McDermott, City Solicitor; Jamie Ponte, DPI Commissioner

 

 

 

 

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