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REVISED

New Shoreham Town Council Meeting

Town Hall, 16 Old Town Road

Monday, November 17, 2025

7:00 p.m.

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1. Public Comment

2. Consent Agenda:

a. Approval of minutes: November 3, 2025 open and closed; and November 5, 2025

b. Receive Correspondence: Town of New Shoreham to RI Department of Environmental Management re: An application from James Blansfield of Blansfield Realty Holdings. LLC, off Mansion Road, Plat 3, Lot 136 to alter freshwater wetlands

3. Discuss and act on Board, Commission and Committees:

a. Appoint School Committee member term expiring 11/2026

b. Consider enlarging the membership of the AARP Age-Friendly Community Task Force

c. Appoint members to the Age-Friendly Community Task Force to a two year staggered terms expiring 12/2026 & 12/2027 (to be determined at the committee level)

d. Receive resignation from Andrew Transue from the Police Advisory Commission

e. Announce vacancies:

i. Commission on Motor Vehicles for Hire: One (not MVFH licensee) (term exp. 12/2026)

ii. Coastal Resilience Committee (term exp. 12/2027)

iii. Senior Advisory Committee (term exp. 12/2026)

iv. Police Advisory Commission (term exp. 12/2026)

4. Discuss and act on direction to the Planning Board to draft a Zoning Ordinance regulating Cannabis Retail operations: location from schools, daycares, place of worship, hours of operation, etc.

5. Discuss and act on directing the Town’s Attorney to draft an ordinance to allow Town employees to run for the office of School Committee

6. Receive updated from Town Engineer on RIDEM Landfill Closure and Landfill Slope Repair

7. Receive and act on Report of Town Manager (Public Works, Finance, School, School Construction Project, Library, Recreation, Administration, Harbors, Broadband, Police, Roads, Human Services)

8. Discuss and act on an agreement between the Town of New Shoreham and Clifton Larson Allen LLP for temporary accounting services for the Finance Department