Remarks by Cliff A. Ponte
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“Thank you. You yield? Yes. Thank you. Councilor O'Connor?”
“Thank you, Councilor. Councilor Kadeem? Thank you.”
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“Motion to adopt has been made by Councilor Pereira, seconded by Councilor Raposo. Is there discussion on this item? on the adoption of the memorandum of agreement between the mayor and the city council. Council Vice President Dionne.”
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“All right. Councilor Pereira, you have a vote.”
“i'm going to yield to give my colleagues thank you before i acknowledge our other counselors just as a point of clarification council of carrera made a good point what is the school committee's or your position on how much you need for transportation is it 17 million yes that is exactly the amount that the school committee passed on april 16th it's 17.1 million dollars for a non-net school spending okay and that has not changed And that's what we want to know, just to be clear. And the city is submitting a budget at $16.6 million. All right, just so we're clear, because Council of Prairie was…”
“I just wanted to be clear because she made some good points and I wasn't sure of what you were saying. Councilor Kadeem.”
“If I can, Deputy, if you could just introduce yourself for the record, please.”
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“Thank you. Council, Vice President Deon.”
“You wanna speak on Councilor Deon's comments or at all from a financial?”
“So, so there's a motion on the floor by council of Kadeem to send a communication to the administration on getting the amount from where, from the, um, for the amount of how much?”
“Correct. We can do that. Actually, if that's the case, we can do that when we have it in our appropriation vote. So it wouldn't be necessary.”
“I just wanted to be clear. Motion has been made by Councilor Kadeem to suggest to the administration that they send down the transportation line, taking out of the... uh five out of the five hundred and seventy five one seven four hundred and fifty thousand dollars was that the correct number yes four fifty four hundred and fifty thousand dollars has been made by council of khadim seconded by council vice president dion i know council of peckham needs to speak but on the on the suggested letter any further discussion on that no to be honest with you i would like to sorry to be honest i'd like…”
“We can't do that tonight. I'll allow it because it's not anticipated as well. Good. Well, I want to take a five-minute recess.”
“This forum for city council meeting is now back in session after a brief recess. At this point, who had the floor? I don't remember.”
“Councilor Kadeem, you had the floor. You haven't yielded yet. I'll give you the floor back if you'd like.”
“Thank you, Councilor. Councilor Peckham.”
“Any further discussion? No. Madam Clerk, if you could please introduce this item to the record, please.”
“Council Vice President Dionne, you good?”
“Motion to adopt is amended. The amendment is the amendment, the appropriation motion to approve the appropriation. There's no amendment necessary because we haven't amended anything. Right. To be clear, madam clerk motion to approve the appropriation for us. The new appropriation that has been introduced by the clerk has been made by council. Vice-president Deon seconded by council of the Dean discussion on the approval of the appropriation hearing on roll call on the phone, please.”
“Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next order of business.”