NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Public Arts Commissioner Bryan Sapienza was voted 5-3 onto the nine-member City Council on Tuesday. Sapienza replaces Paul Hopkins, council president,.
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At its virtual meeting Tuesday night, the North Adams, Massachusetts city council heard updates from Mayor Tom Bernard about the COVID-19 vaccination rollout as well as the city’s efforts to address malfunctioning fire hydrants.
Bernard opened his remarks with a nod to U.S. Capitol Police Officer Williams Evans, a North Adams native who was killed in the line of duty earlier this month.
“I just want to thank the members of the council and the members of the community who were took part in paying respects to Officer Evans, his colleagues and his family during the procession that came through North Adams on April 14th, said the mayor. I know that a number of communities along the motorcade route turned out, but I do think and I have heard that it was especially meaningful that Officer Evans’ hometown showed that support to him, to his family, and to his colleagues.”
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North Adams, Massachusetts Mayor Tom Bernard will deliver his annual State Of The City address tonight.
Bernard is in the final year of his second two-year term as mayor in the city of around 13,000.
“I think we’ll really continue to see work focused on our microbusiness lending program to help small businesses recover, in addition to programs like the one that the state announced last week, and then really continuing to focus on downtown development, economic development,” said Bernard.
The mayor also identified climate resilience and long term fiscal planning among his 2021 goals.
“We ve talked about this before, budgets being tight and really just making sure that we are- we, me- being responsible with the public purse and the investments that we make and the responsibility that we have to the taxpayers of the city,” Bernard said.
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