An attempt to vote a proposed ordinance out of committee was shot down.
An Attleboro City Council Committee meeting on Tuesday became a heated debate between two councilors who did not see eye-to-eye on a proposed child safety ordinance. City Councilor Cherie Felos, who as chairwoman was leading the Committee on Ordinances, Elections and Legislative Matters, was questioned by other members for her motion to call for a public hearing on a proposed ordinance banning Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders from entering any child safety zone. A child safety zone includes a park, playground, recreation center, library, school, day care center, video arcade, swimming pool or wading pool, gymnasium, sports field, or sports facility, including the parking area and grounds appurtenant to any of the facilities. The zone …
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The Historical Commission has asked the city's ordinance committee to extend the 45-day demolition delay, currently on the books, to one year.
There is no question about it, Marian Wrightington is a fighter. Wrightington, chairwoman of the Attleboro Historical Commission, is on a mission to save the Tappan House, a 27-room Victorian on Park Street in Attleboro that is at risk of being raised by its owners, Sturdy Memorial Hospital, to make room for expansion. Mayor Kevin Dumas said he will know the fate of the Tappan "by the end of the week." While the decision to demolish, move or disassemble the more than century-old home is in the hands of the hospital, Wrightington wants to be sure the commission has enough time to delay future demolitions in the city. On Tuesday night, she asked the Committee on Ordinances, Elections and Legislative Matters to consider changing its 45-day …
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Jerry Chase
11:31 am on Friday, April 22, 2011
The most significant part of this report by Patricia Resende is toward the end, where Frank Cook is "concerned . . . . verbally OK'd by the city solicitor in a conversation with Ordinance chair Cherie Felos". This is radically different from Cook's attempted stifling of the previous Ordinance Committee chair, only three years ago. The Municipal Council Rules of Procedure provide for two (2) … more ›