Bradford City Council adopts vacant-property registration ordinance and approves multiple routine resolutions

The Bradford City Council voted to adopt an ordinance establishing a vacant-property registration program and approved a series of routine resolutions and administrative actions during the meeting (date not specified).

The new ordinance, described on the record as an amendment to the city code chapter titled “vacant property registration,” provides for registration, maintenance and security requirements for vacant and foreclosed properties, establishes fees, and provides for enforcement and penalties; an effective date was included in the ordinance text read into the record.

Councilors also authorized city action on a number of administrative items: permission to advertise an investment-management request for proposals for the defined-benefit pension plan; approval of a certificate of appropriateness for property at 39–43 Mechanics Street linked to Robert Reich; a termination and release involving Central Square Technologies LLC and the city; approvals of vendor payments and other routine resolutions identified by number on the agenda; and the sale or disposition of certain city tax parcels as listed on the meeting agenda.

During consideration of resolution 38046, council members amended the resolution on the floor to set the amount at $4,800. A council member spoke in favor of the amended payment, noting the municipality’s support for an animal-welfare organization and saying the organization had helped “more than 2,000 stray and feral cats” (comment recorded during the discussion). The transcript does not identify the organization by name in the portions provided to the transcript.

Multiple agenda items were moved and seconded and were recorded as approved by voice vote on the record. Several items were listed by resolution or agenda number (for example, items appearing as 38039, 38040, 38042–38050 and related general-file numbers); the meeting record shows affirmative votes following the reading of those items. The transcript does not supply a roll-call vote tally with individual yes/no votes for each listed item in the supplied excerpt.

Other items noted on the agenda included: an ordinance amendment identified as “Ordinance 2945.2” (general-file references appear in the transcript), an item to advertise an RFP for investment-management services for the police and nonuniform pension plans, and a certificate-of-appropriateness item for property on Mechanics Street. The transcript also records a council motion to accept a termination and release between Central Square Technologies LLC and the city; details of the termination terms were not read into the supplied excerpt.

The meeting concluded after routine business and the council moved to adjourn. No executive-session actions or closed-session vote results are recorded in the supplied transcript excerpt.

Ending: The transcript excerpt supplied does not include a meeting date or a detailed roll-call for each vote. Where the record did not specify details (for example, exact motion text, individual vote tallies, or the name of the animal-welfare organization referenced), this article reports those items as described in the meeting record and notes when information was not specified.