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2026-11-02 - City Council

Summary

Built from the posted agenda and packet; no minutes or video recorded yet. The packet was read from a scanned document; one page (a buyout spreadsheet) was illegible and another only partly readable.

  • Monday, November 2, 2026, 7:30 AM (moved from the usual schedule because of the November 3 state election). Hearings: none. Unfinished business, orders and ordinances, and new business: none listed.
  • Appointments (mayoral communications, no Council action required): reappointment of Peter Hoye and Lisette Miranda to the Taunton Cultural Council for three-year terms expiring October 2029.
  • Chief Financial Officer asks to discuss establishing a gift account for public health, safety and welfare, administered by the Human Services Department (home heating needs, temporary housing in an unexpected emergency, and public safety, health and education initiatives). See Gift Account for Public Health and Welfare.
  • Superintendent of Buildings asks to pay a prior-year invoice of $243.46 for alarm services at the Hopewell School received after the close of the fiscal year, by transfer between building accounts.
  • Four retirement leave buyout submissions (one from the Department of Public Works, three from the Retirement Board office) are in the packet. See Retirement Leave Buyouts. The packet does not agree with itself on one retirement date: a Police Department retirement letter gives January 16, 2027 while the accompanying buyout spreadsheet gives December 31, 2026. The spreadsheet for another buyout was illegible. Nothing here implies wrongdoing; it is a discrepancy in the documents.
  • A letter from a resident expressing concern about a recent tow; the packet contains no response.
  • Hours of operation license renewal petition: MPG Corporation, doing business as Garrett's Family Market, 231 Broadway.
  • Addendum: 7:30 AM executive session on the Police Chief's employment contract. See Police Chief Appointment.
  • Committee on Finance and Salaries (same time): approve minutes of October 20 and 27 and review weekly vouchers and payroll.
  • The Mayor's community update (events, early voting, Veterans Day office closure) is also in the packet.

Agenda

Pledge of Allegiance, invocation, roll call, reading of the records of October 27, 2026

Public input (three minutes; written comments allowed)

Communications from the Mayor: community update

Appointments

  • Pg. 1: reappointment of Peter Hoye to the Taunton Cultural Council, three years expiring October 2029
  • Pg. 2: reappointment of Lisette Miranda to the Taunton Cultural Council, three years expiring October 2029

Hearing: none

Communications from City Officers

  • Pg. 3: Chief Financial Officer, request to discuss establishing a gift account (Gift Account for Public Health and Welfare)
  • Pg. 4: Superintendent of Buildings, request to pay a prior-year invoice ($243.46)
  • Pg. 5: Department of Public Works Operations Office Manager, submitting a buyout (Retirement Leave Buyouts)
  • Pg. 6-7: Assistant Executive Director, Retirement, submitting a buyout (spreadsheet page illegible)
  • Pg. 8-9: Assistant Executive Director, Retirement, submitting a buyout
  • Pg. 10-11: Assistant Executive Director, Retirement, submitting a buyout (retirement date differs between the letter and the spreadsheet; spreadsheet partly readable)

Communications from Citizens

  • Pg. 12: letter expressing concern regarding a recent tow

Petitions

  • Hours of operation license renewal: MPG Corporation, dba Garrett's Family Market, 231 Broadway

Committee reports; unfinished business: none; orders, ordinances and resolutions: none; new business: none

Addendum: executive session on the Police Chief's employment contract (Police Chief Appointment)

Committee on Finance and Salaries: approve minutes of October 20 and 27, 2026; review weekly vouchers and payroll

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