Beverly City Council Meeting 11/09/2026

The Beverly City Council’s regular meeting on November 9, 2026, approved several funding items: an $18,900 MassD RDP grant, a $100,000 MassD CHARM facility grant, and a $10,000 MIA BPD Blue Voice software grant. The council also approved a National Grid petition for utility work on Bow, Wallace, Cavitt, and Abbott Streets, with conditions requiring full street and sidewalk restoration, landscaping repairs, and a two-year guarantee for replacement trees. Requests to install underground fiber-optic facilities at several locations were referred for public hearings, and a public hearing was scheduled on a Community Preservation Act funding request for Lynch Park Phase 3 design development and environmental permitting. The council approved a request to ask the mayor to raise and appropriate $20,000 for Human Rights Committee activities; the vote was 5–3, and funding remains subject to the mayor’s next steps and a required public hearing.

The council gave an 8–0 first vote to a proposed temporary moratorium on data-center construction and related uses through November 30, 2027; a final vote remains pending. The proposal would pause new applications while the city develops regulations and evaluates impacts, potentially affecting future data-center development and permitting. During public comment, a resident said the mayor’s office had announced that the city would let its Flock camera contract lapse while reviewing outstanding issues; the council took no action on that contract during this meeting. The council also approved vehicle and taxi-livery licenses, but no new purchasing or vendor award was identified in those items.