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Taunton committee approves $4.45M payroll and $7.48M accounts payable; multiple council referrals and readings advanced
Summary
The Committee on Finance and Salaries approved a payroll warrant for $4,452,566.60 and an accounts payable warrant of $7,477,739.57. The municipal council placed several communications on file, referred multiple items to committees, and advanced an order and an ordinance to later readings.
The Taunton Committee on Finance and Salaries approved a payroll warrant of $4,452,566.60 and an accounts payable warrant of $7,477,739.57 during its meeting. Both motions passed by voice vote.
The accounts payable warrant included several large expenditures itemized by the committee: $126,000 for the airport taxiway; $235,000 for a Bristol Aggie assessment; $403,000 for water and sewer main replacements; $355,000 for the Chamberlain School solar project; $317,000 for student transportation; $273,000 for federal and Medicare tax payments; $104,000 for the Taunton Police Department cardiac screening program; $107,000 for street markings; $3,900,000 for group health insurance payments; and $446,000 for solid waste disposal and pump station improvements.
At the municipal council meeting that followed, Mayor Shawna O’Connell’s written communication regarding memorabilia at the former Coyle Cassidy High School was placed on file after the mayor described staff actions and expressed regret about items of sentimental value that were discarded or removed prior to the city’s acquisition of the property. The council also received a law department communication advising that a city Housing Production Plan (HPP) should first be approved by the planning board and then referred to the municipal council in accordance with the state executive office of housing and livable communities regulations.
Other actions and referrals adopted by the council included: - A communication from Xfinity about channel lineup and service changes (received and placed on file). - A request from the Election Commission to review election commissioner stipends, which the council referred to Finance and Salaries. - A request from the finance department to consider submitting 2 Hamilton Street to the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s Accelerated Repair Program, which the council referred to the Public Property Committee for discussion on March 11. - Approval and referral of a Massachusetts State Lottery Commission one-day bingo application from the Greater Taunton and Raynham Junior Women’s Club (June 13 event) to the chief of police for signature. - Two petitions: a sewer extension request for Willow Terrace Mobile Home Park (referred to DPW Committee) and a damage claim from Antonio H. Felix (already referred to the law department and DPW).
In orders and ordinances, the council moved an order establishing a landfill closure stabilization fund in the amount of $1,780,400 to a second reading, and it moved an ordinance allowing fee waivers for certified birth certificates for homeless individuals to a third reading. Both procedural moves passed by voice votes.
Most motions and referrals recorded in the transcript were agreed by voice vote with the clerk recording “Aye” and no roll-call tallies noted. The meeting adjourned after the council completed the listed business.
