Corporation Counsel To Review Consultant Contract

Donna Motta April 3, 2017 Comments Off on Corporation Counsel To Review Consultant Contract

Fall River Corporation Counsel Joe Macy is reviewing the contract, and work of a Rhode Island real estate consultant hired by Mayor Jasiel Correia II last year to help sell the abandoned Bedford Street police station, and other city-owned properties. Scott Veloso of Penrose Commercial was hired last spring at a rate of $24 thousand dollars to market, find buyers, and close sales of the targeted properties. That did not happen.

City Councilors recently approved a resolution, cosponsored by City Councilors Cliff Ponte and Ray Mitchell, to have Macy review the consultant’s contract to determine if the $24 thousand dollars can be recouped. Ponte, himself a city real estate broker, maintains that Veloso was not licensed to market or sell real estate in Massachusetts.

Veloso had also been asked to appear at a city council meeting a few months back to update them on any progress he had made to date, but he was a no show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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