Crime & Safety

City Council Wants Answers on Missing Granite, College Course

City Council members say the city paid for Mayor Bill Carpenter to take a college class and granite for the City Hall project is missing.

BROCKTON, MA — Mayor Bill Carpenter may have gone back to school but City Council members are upset that the public paid for the bill.

This fall, Carpenter enrolled in a semester-long course in elementary Cape Verdean Creole at Massasoit Community College for $585, according to the Enterprise.

In addition to the class, councilors are also questioning $9,078 in unaccounted granite bricks from the City Hall Plaza renovation project.

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Ward 3 City Councilor Dennis Eaniri said the class should have been paid for with Carpenter's own money or campaign funds.

The City Council's next meeting is Monday.

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