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2026-10-29 - Budget and Finance Committee

Summary

Status: read from a scanned document (the posted agenda is an image-only PDF); some OCR details are marked [?]. No minutes or video recorded yet, so motions and votes are not known.

  • Three new items referred from the October 20 council: payment of a $30,316.80 prior-year invoice from Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten (City Attorney), the Fiscal Year 2027 property tax classification public hearing (Chief Assessor), and authorization to expend $280 for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Awareness (ADA Compliance Officer).
  • Tabled from October 6: authorization to accept $70,000 from Cataldo Ambulance Services for the Fire Department EMS Coordinator salary; see Fire Department EMS Coordinator Funding from Cataldo Ambulance.
  • Tabled money items include a $400,000 ARPA/free cash transfer to small businesses through the Prospering Lawrence Grant (from December 2024) and a resolution on reimbursement requirements for Creating a Thriving Lawrence grants ($150K and $100K, May 2024).
  • Other long-tabled items: review of the Lawrence Redevelopment Authority financials, opioid settlement funds update, an amendment to the Housing Development Incentive Plan tax increment exemption percentage, a home rule petition on a non-utilization tax on vacant and abandoned property, and review of properties with outstanding taxes (some dating to 2015).
  • Voting members: Stephany Infante (Chair), Vivian Marmol (Vice-Chair), Jeovanny Rodriguez and Marc Laplante. Minutes of October 15 listed for approval.

Agenda

New business (October 20, 2026)

  1. 434/26 Payment of prior-year invoice, $30,316.80, Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten (City Attorney)
  2. 435/26 Fiscal Year 2027 property tax classification public hearing (Chief Assessor)
  3. 436/26 Authorization to expend $280 from a project account under MGL c. 40 sec. 22G for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Awareness (ADA Compliance Officer)

Tabled items

  • 406/26 (Oct 6, 2026) Accept $70,000 from Cataldo Ambulance Services for Fire Department EMS Coordinator salary - Fire Department EMS Coordinator Funding from Cataldo Ambulance
  • 187/26 (May 5, 2026) Investigation of unclaimed properties titled "City of Lawrence" on MissingMoney.com
  • 160/26 (Apr 21, 2026) Accept donation of a 15-passenger van from a transit authority [?] (Merrimack Valley Workforce Board)
  • 117/25 (Apr 1, 2025) Review of Lawrence Redevelopment Authority financials
  • 44/25 (Feb 4, 2025) Opioid settlement funds update
  • 568/24 (Dec 3, 2024) Transfer $400,000 ARPA/free cash to small business through the Prospering Lawrence Grant
  • 76B/24 (May 7, 2024) Resolution amending and rescinding reimbursement requirement for Creating a Thriving Lawrence grantees ($150K and $100K)
  • 59/24 (Feb 6, 2024) Amend Housing Development Incentive Plan tax increment exemption percentage
  • 173/22 (May 17, 2022) ARPA funding, education
  • 234/21 (Oct 5, 2021) Tax collection and local receipts update
  • 201/20 (Oct 20, 2020) Real estate non-utilization tax on vacant and abandoned property (home rule petition)
  • 397/19 (Dec 26, 2019) Review of state funds received by the city
  • 193/19A (Jun 4, 2019) Year-end appropriation transfers between departmental accounts
  • 342/18 (Oct 16, 2018) Pavement cost recovery agreements review
  • 197/15 (Jun 16, 2015) Properties with outstanding taxes: payment, tax title and disposal process

Minutes for approval: 10/15/2026

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