Brockton council adopts ordinance changes, accepts grants and approves transfers; vote roundup
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Summary
On Dec. 22 the council ordained an amended vacation-leave ordinance, approved multiple grants (including $323,822.71 for the fire department), authorized a five-year lease for 74 golf carts, approved $44,134.24 in expenditures, and adopted budget transfers including a $1.3 million shift to fire overtime.
At its Dec. 22 meeting the Brockton City Council completed a series of formal votes on ordinances, grants, a lease, expenditures and budget transfers.
Ordinance: The council voted to ordain an amendment to Article 3, Division 2, Section 2-137 (vacation leave) as amended; roll-call voting produced nine in favor and one opposed and the order was ordained as amended.
Residency waiver: The council adopted an order waiving Brockton’s residency requirement for Officer Spencer Benoit by roll call (9 in the affirmative, 1 opposition recorded during that vote sequence).
Grants: The council authorized acceptance and expenditure of $323,822.71 from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security for the Brockton Fire Department; it also authorized acceptance and expenditure of $175,688 from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs to the Council on Aging and $13,000 from Old Colony Planning Council to the Council on Aging. The clerk read the amounts into the record and the orders were adopted by roll call.
Lease: Pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 40, section 14, the council accepted a five-year lease with New England Golf Cars for 74 new golf carts for DW Field Golf Course, with payments to run May 2026–Oct. 2030; the order was adopted unanimously.
Expenditures and transfers: The council approved expenditures totaling $44,134.24 for listed vendors and adopted a transfer of $40,642.50 between human-resources benefits and public-works sewer/water accounts. The council also approved a $1,300,000 transfer from fire personal-service non-overtime to fire personal-service overtime; that transfer passed with a roll-call majority (10 in favor, 1 opposed recorded during that motion).
Why it matters: The measures change municipal policy (vacation leave), accept state/federal grant funding for public-safety and aging services, and reallocate city payroll resources to cover overtime costs in the Fire Department. The council recorded roll-call tallies for each formal adoption as noted in the proceedings.
Votes at a glance (as read into the record): ordinance ordained as amended (9–1); residency waiver adopted (9–1); public-safety grant $323,822.71 adopted; Elder Affairs grant $175,688 adopted; Old Colony Planning Council grant $13,000 adopted; lease for 74 golf carts adopted (10–0); expenditures $44,134.24 adopted (9–0 or unanimous as read); transfers including $40,642.50 and $1,300,000 adopted (roll-call tallies announced in minutes).