FEBRUARY 18, 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.
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Documents related to the meeting will be posted on the Town Council’s page of the Town’s website on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., see link here: https://www.nsmithfieldri.org/
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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- Secondhand
license DBA She Shed Furnishings-1105 Iron Mine Hill Rd.- Ann Marie Champagne
V. DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL, VOTE, OR OTHER ACTION ON PAYMENT OF BILLS
VI. DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL, VOTE, OR OTHER ACTION ON CONSENT AGENDA
All items listed in this section are considered in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Councilor requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda.
A. Town Council Minutes of January 6, 21, February 3 and 10, 2025
B. Communications
1. NSF&R Monthly Report for January 2025
2. NS Municipal Court Monthly Report for January 2025
3. NSPD Monthly Report for January 2025
VII. OLD BUSINESS
A. Discussion by Council, Vote or Other Action on Status/Progress Report of Specific
Items
1. Asset Management
2. Grants
3. Human Resources – Ms. Alves
4. Municipal Building Review Task Force – Ms. Alves
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
A. Discussion by Council, Vote or other Action on Petition/Application for an Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance Pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 45-24-50 and 45-24-51 - 45-24-53 as follows:
1. Petition/Application for Amendment to Zoning Ordinance filed by Pound Hill Realty, LLC, c/o 618 Greenville Road, North Smithfield, RI 02896, the owner of the parcel of land situated off Old Oxford Road, Pound Hill Road and Pine Hill Road in the Town of North Smithfield, more particularly described as Town of North Smithfield Tax Assessor’s Plat 7, lot 38, consisting of 89.44 acres (subject property).
2. Text amendment and a zoning map amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the Town of
North Smithfield (the “Zoning Ordinance”). The proposed zoning amendment will create a
new zoning district “Industrial Special Management District 1 Overlay,” the intent of the
district is to allow mining, quarrying, sand and gravel extraction, loam stripping, stone
cutting operations, crushing, washing, and/or processing of materials. The zoning map
amendment proposes to amend the zoning designation of the parcel of land located at 14 Pine Hill Road in the Town of North Smithfield, more specifically described as Assessor’s Plat: 7, Lot: 38 (the “Property”) from Rural Agricultural (RA) & Rural Estate Agricultural (REA) to Industrial Special Management District 1 Overlay.
a. Public Hearing
b. Discussion by Council, Vote or Other Action
B. Discussion by Council, Vote or Other Action on Map Plotter Bid Award-Antony St. Onge
C. Discussion by Council, Vote or Other Action on Resignation of Evan Masse from the North Smithfield Historic District Commission
IX. OPEN FORUM – PURSUANT TO 42-46-6 (d) (Maximum 3 minutes per person)
X. EXECUTIVE SESSION (Closed Session)
A. DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL, VOTE, OR OTHER ACTION RE: RIGL 42-46-5(A)(2) Sessions pertaining to collective bargaining or litigation or work sessions pertaining to collective bargaining or litigation or potential litigation:
1. Notice of Claim to Town Council of North Smithfield - Personal Injury Claim
XI. OPEN SESSION
A. DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL, VOTE, OR OTHER ACTION RE: Notice of Claim to Town Council of North Smithfield - Personal Injury Claim
XII. 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 February 13, 2025
The Supreme Court is siding with a straight woman in a reverse discrimination case. The justices ruled unanimously and it could create an easier path in some areas of the U.S. for people in majority groups to bring discrimination claims. Marlean Ames sued the Ohio Department of Youth Services, after a lesbian was given a promotion she applied for. She would later be demoted and her old position was given to a gay man. 
