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Fox poised for new term on Providence license board

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January 21, 2009 5:53 pm
By News staff

By Phil Marcelo

House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox, D-Providence, is up for another three-year term on the city's Board of License Commissioners, where he has served since being appointed by Democratic Mayor David N. Cicilline in 2005.

The City Council will vote to approve the mayor's appointment Thursday. The licensing board oversees the operation of restaurants, bars, clubs and assorted other businesses in the city.

Fox is a lawyer with an office downtown. He was elected state representative in 1992 and rose to majority leader in 2002.

The council will also consider Cicilline's re-appointment of longtime state Democratic Party Committeewoman Allene R. Maynard to the licensing board. Maynard was first appointed in 2005, the same year that Fox was appointed, although he had actually served on the board before, from 2001 to 2004, before stepping down to focus on his role as house majority leader.

Maynard, who is retired, is corresponding secretary, one of 11 officer positions on the state committee.

Like other members of the five-member licensing board, Fox, 47, and Maynard, 70, will earn $10.21 an hour. That works out to about $18,500 a year. Both of their new terms, if approved, expire January 2012.

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