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Votes at a glance: Cranston City Council meeting, July 28, 2025
Summary
A roundup of formal actions taken by the Cranston City Council at its July 28 meeting, including approvals of school contracts, minutes and a motor vehicle tax abatement resolution.
The Cranston City Council took the following formal actions on July 28, 2025:
• Approved minutes of the June 23 regular meeting (unanimous roll call).
• Approved minutes of the July 17, 2025 special meeting (unanimous roll call).
• Agreed to take an agenda item out of order related to the teachers’ union contract (motion approved unanimously).
• Approved Ordinance 07-25-01 ratifying the Cranston School Committee’s collective bargaining agreement with the Cranston Teachers Alliance (teachers unit) — unanimous roll call (yes: Campopiano; Bonanno; Graziano; Andujar; Ritz; Trappacanti; Traficante; Vice President Wall; President Marino).
• Approved Ordinance 07-25-02 ratifying the Cranston School Committee’s collective bargaining agreement with the Cranston Teachers Alliance (paraprofessionals unit) for Sept. 1, 2025–Aug. 31, 2028 — unanimous roll call (same voting members).
• Approved a resolution authorizing motor vehicle tax abatements as requested by the tax assessor — unanimous roll call.
• Took multiple newly introduced business items as a block and referred them to their respective committees — unanimous roll call.
• Adjourned the meeting (motion carried).
Details: The transcript shows unanimous votes for the listed measures; where the transcript did not record a named mover or seconder for individual motions, those fields are recorded as not specified in the official record. The council’s roll-call responses are recorded in the meeting minutes cited during the session.
