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Votes at a glance: Woonsocket City Council, July 14, 2025
Summary
The council approved multiple ordinances and resolutions on July 14, including zoning and parking changes, several first‑passage salary ordinances, approvals of contracts and the CDBG budget (first passage). All listed actions passed by recorded vote unless noted.
The Woonsocket City Council took the following formal actions during its July 14 meeting. Vote tallies reflect roll‑call responses recorded in the meeting minutes.
- 25LC26 (Board of License Commissioners: license applications/renewals): received motion and approved, vote recorded as 6–0 (Councilwoman Harmon made the motion; second by Councilwoman Fox).
- Approval of minutes of the June 16 regular meeting: approved, 6–0.
- Consent agenda: received and placed on file with exceptions; 25CO95 and 25CO104 were taken up separately.
- 25CO95: received and placed on file, vote 6–0.
- 25CO104 (Assessor’s statement of assessed values / tax levy materials): received and placed on file, vote 6–0.
- 25 O 25 (ordinance granting easement to Narragansett Electric Company on Smithfield Road): second passage approved, 6–0.
- 25 O 39 (ordinance: three‑year lease extension with AgentWell Inc. for 84 Social Street): second passage approved, 6–0.
- 25 O 40 (ordinance revising penalties for on‑street parking violations and prohibiting overnight parking in municipal lots): second passage approved, 6–0.
- 25 O 41 (ordinance regulating roadside memorials in city right‑of‑ways and sidewalks): second passage approved, 6–0.
- 25 O 43 (ordinance to eliminate minimum parking requirements for future residential property developments): motion to table approved, 6–0.
- 25 O 44 (ordinance approving FY2025–26 CDBG/HOME/Energy budgets): approved on first passage, 6–0.
- 25 O 46 (ordinance transferring funds to create temporary Community Learning Center coordinator): amended and approved, 6–0 (amendment redirected budgeted funds to provide ~15 weeks of funding for the coordinator; see council record for amendment details).
- 25 O 45 and 25 O 47 (ordinances updating salaries of nonunion/nonclassified employees and city officers): both approved on first passage, 6–0.
- 25 R 84 (resolution ratifying private police detail rates): approved, 6–0.
- 25 R 85: permission to use city property — approved, 6–0.
- 25 R 86: authorize public works director to award bid No. 6317 for water‑distribution materials — approved, 6–0.
- 25 R 87 and 25 R 89: permissions to use city property — approved, 6–0 each.
- 25 R 88: resolution recognizing Gregory Duhamel for historic preservation efforts — approved, 6–0.
- 25 R 90: authorize mayor to execute agreement to dispose of leaf and yard waste with Blackstone, MA — approved, 6–0.
Several of these items were passed as first passage and will return as required by city charter for final adoption where applicable. For ordinance items identified as second passage, the council recorded final passage on July 14.
