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Council adopts finance transfers, confirms election commissioner and advances ordinances
Summary
Council approved two finance transfers, confirmed Alfredo Els to the Board of Election Commissioners, referred multiple ordinances to committees and adopted several routine traffic and site-plan items; several public‑hearing dates and licensing renewals were set.
Beyond the public hearing and the solid-waste debate, the council handled routine but consequential municipal business.
Finance: The council approved two appropriation transfers: $25,932 from the insurance recovery fund to the water enterprise fund for capital expenditures and $15,000 from inactive capital projects to the Waterfront Improvement Capital Project.
Appointments: The council confirmed Alfredo Els to the Board of Election Commissioners by roll call after councilors offered brief remarks in support.
Ordinances and communications: The council referred multiple mayoral communications to committees (water and sewer connection fee schedule; intermunicipal agreement regarding the South Coast Life Science and Technology Park referred to ordinance/finance committees), set public hearings for a Mass Electric underground conduit application and a second‑hand goods store license, and adopted miscellaneous traffic and site‑plan-review ordinances during the meeting. The council accepted several departmental communications and routine license renewals.
The meeting concluded after a short recess for document signing and customary adjournment motions.
