Woonsocket Radio News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2025  6:45 P.M.

NORTH SMITHFIELD TOWN COUNCIL
83 GREENE STREET, NORTH SMITHFIELD, RI 02896
PARTICIPATION FOR THIS MEETING WILL BE IN-PERSON ONLY.

The meeting will also be livestream. Please join the meeting (viewing only) from your computer, tablet, or smartphone by clicking on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFgw5KxL950ZgZ_DKz8B-MQ

or go to the North Smithfield YouTube page - North Smithfield Town Meetings
*If technical difficulties occur during livestream the above specified meetings will resume as scheduled.
Documents related to the meeting will be posted on the Town Council’s page of the Town’s website on Monday, February 3, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., see link here:

https://www.nsmithfieldri.org/

FOR BOARDS/COMMISSIONS VACANCIES: https://onboard.nsmithfieldri.org/

FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONS:
https://www.nsmithfieldri.org/FormCenter/Boards-Commissions-5/Application-for-Board-Commission-46

I. OPEN MEETING-PRAYER-PLEDGE
II. ROLL CALL
III. OPEN FORUM – PURSUANT TO 42-46-6 (d) (Maximum 3 minutes per person)
IV. NORTH SMITHFIELD TOWN COUNCIL SITTING AS BOARD OF LICENSING –
Applicant Thomas Pollock, Applying for a Solicitation License – Sales and Installation of Solar and Roofing – D/B/A Trinity Solar, LLC
V. DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL, VOTE, OR OTHER ACTION ON PAYMENT OF BILLS
VI. OLD BUSINESS
    A. Discussion by Council, Vote or Other Action on Status/Progress Report of Specific Items
        1. Facilities Manager
        2. Grants
        3. Human Resources Position – Ms. Alves
        4. Municipal Building Review Task Force – Ms. Alves
    B. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Resolution Establishing the Halliwell Multi-Generational Building Committee (HMBC)
    C. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Resolution Dissolving the Halliwell Review Committee (HRC)
    D. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Resolution Dissolving the Multi- Generational Advisory Committee (MAC)
    E. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Appointments to Town Boards/Commissions
        1. Halliwell Multi-Generational Building Committee
        2. Planning Board
VII. NEW BUSINESS
    A. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Consideration of Memorandum of Understanding for the North Smithfield Fire Department Contract for FY 2025 – Chief Chartier
    B. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on Abatements/Supplementals – Ms. St. George
    C. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action to Adopt the Municipal Immigrant Protection Ordinance for Rhode Island Cities and Towns – Ms. Alves or Ms. DeCristofaro
VIII. OPEN FORUM – PURSUANT TO 42-46-6 (d) (Maximum 3 minutes per person)
    A. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action Pursuant to RIGL 42-46-5 (a)(5) Any discussion or considerations related to the acquisition or lease of real property for public purposes, or of the disposition of publicly held property wherein advanced public information would be detrimental
to the interest of the public
        1. Potential Acquisition of Land
X. ADJOURN
Individuals requesting special assistance should contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 767-2200, ext. 504 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the meeting date.
Agenda posted January 30, 2025

Delays and cancaletions at airports are rising across the U.S. The number of flights have been cut by the FAA since Friday due to shutdown-related staffing issues. At last check, over 23-hundred flights have already been canceled with more than 83-hundred delays.        President Trump says he believes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went "too far" in the shutdown fight. During an interview with Fox News, Trump said Schumer "thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him." Trump discussed a series of topics, also saying he was not pleased when he saw the air traffic controller staffing issues in recent days, saying he would get the potential bonus money he discussed for them on Truth Social "from someplace."        An Arctic blast is hitting millions of people from the Midwest all the way to the Florida Panhandle. Parts of several states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York could see lows 10-to-25 degrees below normal in the next 24-hours. It will be a dramatic change for Miami residents, who could see temps plunge into the 30's and 40's, just after reaching a high of 84 on Sunday.        Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will reportedly be sworn in as early as this week. Multiple reports say she will be sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson before a vote is held on a government funding bill. Grijalva won a special election in September, but Johnson has not sworn her in due to the House not being in session.        A bid to overturn the right to same-sex marriages has been shot down by the Supreme Court. The justices declined to take up the appeal from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to overturn the 2015 landmark decision. The bid had been seen as long-shot by analysts.        Michael Jackson is still making history more than 16 years after his death. His classic hit "Thriller" re-enters Billboard Hot 100 chart this week at number ten. It makes Jackson the first-ever artist to rank in the chart's top ten in six different decades. Jackson last reached the top ten in 2018 when he was featured on Drake's "Don't Matter to Me."       

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