At its Nov. 10 session the Brockton City Council accepted mayoral communications regarding several grants, an easement and retirement-finance matters and referred the items to the Finance Committee for further review.

Councilor Farwell asked that the Real Estate Committee report portion involving the police station be referred to FINCOM "so that all councilors could have a discussion and could have input," and other items were sent to Finance as the clerk read communications.

Key items referred to Finance include:

- A $425,000 Massachusetts Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities grant for Tower Hill parking-area improvements; the project is two years (design then construction) and requires a $127,500 match from the DW Field Trust.

- A $194,150 grant from the MassDevelopment Finance Agency to Planning and Economic Development to assess and improve environmental contamination at 307 Montello Street.

- An order granting Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts (doing business as Eversource Energy) a nonexclusive easement over city-owned land at 466 Forest Ave; the clerk read the long-form description and said the mayor is authorized to execute the attached easement documents.

- A clerical reading affirming the Brockton Retirement System's unfunded accrued actuarial liability of $66,500,000 and an order under Chapter 483 of the Acts of 2004 regarding authorization to issue pension obligation bonds; councilors referred the pension matter to finance.

Clerk and councilors did not take final appropriations at the Nov. 10 meeting; instead, the items were referred to FINCOM for deliberation and potential future adoption. Finance Committee review will determine final acceptance, matching-fund sources and contract language for easements.