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Tonawanda council approves minutes and five resolutions, including grants to senior center and homelessness task force
Summary
The Common Council unanimously adopted six resolutions, including acceptance of prior meeting minutes and $10,000 county grants awarded to the Twin Cities Task Force for the Homeless and to the senior center; council waived readings for several resolutions and approved them by roll call.
The Tonawanda Common Council adopted six resolutions during its March 4 meeting, including acceptance of the Feb. 4 and Feb. 18 minutes and several grants that council members said would support local nonprofit and senior services.
The council first approved a resolution accepting the minutes of Feb. 4 and Feb. 18, 2025. Council then moved to waive the reading of resolutions 2 through 6 and approved those items by roll call.
Among the items recorded on the agenda and approved by roll call: an Erie County Legislator-funded $10,000 grant to the Twin Cities Task Force for the Homeless (resolution sponsored by Council President Cook) and a $10,000 grant for the senior center (sponsor recorded as council). Speakers at the meeting publicly thanked Erie County Legislator John Barnizi/Barbaganesi (name transcribed with varying spellings in the record) for the grants.
Roll-call votes recorded in the meeting transcript showed unanimous “aye” votes for the adopted items. No dissenting votes were recorded in the clerk’s roll calls.
Council members offered brief remarks at the time the grants were read: one speaker noted the Twin Cities Task Force for the Homeless has housed more than 30 people and praised volunteers working on outreach; another praised the senior center as an active part of downtown life.
Details for some resolutions on the meeting agenda were not fully read into the record at the time of the vote; the clerk and sponsors established that the listed resolutions 2–6 were waived for reading and adopted. Where the meeting did not include full text for a resolution, this summary records the adoption and notes the missing specifics.
Votes at a glance
- Resolution 1 — Accept minutes from 02/04/2025 and 02/18/2025. Sponsor: Council President Cook. Result: adopted (ayes recorded: Keasley, Fisher, Milam, Cook). - Resolution 2 — $10,000 grant to Twin Cities Task Force for the Homeless (sponsor: Council President Cook). Result: adopted (ayes recorded: Peaslee/Keasley, Fisher, Milam, Cook). Grant source: Erie County legislator (name transcribed as John Barnizi/Barbaganesi). - Resolution 3 — $10,000 grant to the senior center (sponsor: council). Result: adopted (ayes recorded: Peaslee/Keasley, Fisher, Milam, Cook). - Resolutions 4–6 — listed on the consent agenda and adopted by roll call; the meeting transcript did not include full text for each item in the record and they are recorded here as adopted with specifics not specified in the transcript.
The council concluded the consent agenda votes with unanimous approval and proceeded to public comment and other business.
