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Votes at a glance: Gardner City Council advances ordinances, approves pole relocation and donations
Summary
At its March 2 meeting, the Gardner City Council approved a National Grid pole relocation, advanced two compensation-related ordinances to first printing, accepted multiple donations (while referring a Gardner Community Action Team gift to the law department for review), elected a president pro tem and voted to enter executive session under MGL citations.
The Gardner City Council on March 2 took several formal actions during its regular meeting, moving multiple items forward and approving routine petitions.
The council unanimously approved a petition from National Grid to relocate two jointly owned poles on High Street (poles P30 and P31) to accommodate new construction on Newton Street. Councilor Mack, reporting for the Public Service Committee, said a public hearing on Jan. 30 produced no objections and the council passed the relocation petition.
The Finance Committee brought forward two personnel-related ordinances. One ordinance would add a new section to Exhibit F (attachment 1) of Chapter 8 to cover temporary field positions and permit those workers to be paid under the corresponding union rate rather than as 1099 contractors; the council…
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