Votes at a glance: Key council actions, April 2025
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Summary
The City Council passed a slate of routine and substantive items including appointments, liquor and business licenses, several MDOT agreements, grant acceptances, a collective bargaining contract and emergency EMS funding. Roll-call tallies are provided where recorded in the meeting transcript.
The Portland City Council took votes on multiple orders and resolutions during the meeting. The following is a concise summary of actions and recorded outcomes.
- Appointment of constables for the parking division (Order 1542425): Motion moved by Councilor Ali, seconded by Councilor Sykes; passed unanimously.
- Municipal officer approvals (liquor/entertainment) for Lucky Cheetah (11 Moulton St.), Lone Pine Brewing (219 Anderson St.), 0 Bar and Grill (155 Riverside St.), and Lynchionette (15147 Cumberland Ave) (Orders 155–158): Motion moved by Councilor Sykes, seconded by Councilor McNevich; passed unanimously.
- Collective bargaining agreement between the City and the Communications Employees Association (Order 1532425): Council approved the contract and an amendment correcting contract dates to 07/01/2024–06/30/2027; amendment passed unanimously; main motion then passed by roll call.
- MDOT agreements for paving and ADA work: Order 1512425 (Woodford Street / Deering Avenue) and Order 1522425 (Congress Street / West Commercial / Fore River Parkway) were presented by Director Michael Murray; both orders were approved on roll call.
- Acceptance and appropriation of grants and donations: a $50,000 grant from the State of Maine's Housing Opportunity Program for a housing policy evaluation study (Order 100Fifty-twentyFour-twenty5) was accepted; the council approved the order. Other first-read grant acceptances were listed for later action (program details in meeting backup).
- Emergency appropriation: The council accepted and appropriated a $200,000 State of Maine EMS grant to support Portland Fire Department EMS operations and waived the second reading and passed the item as an emergency; roll call recorded unanimous approval.
- Additional orders passed by the council included various administrative and program actions (parking division appointments, CIP orders, MDOT agreements and other grant acceptances) as recorded in the meeting agenda; where the transcript includes roll-call tallies, they have been noted above.
Where vote tallies were provided in the transcript, they are included. For more details and to see the complete vote records, council minutes and roll-call records in the official packet should be consulted.