(Providence, RI)--Former Providence City Council member Luis Aponte [[ uh-PON-tee ]] is being allowed to continue receiving a city pension.The Providence Journal reports the city's Retirement Board of the Employees' Retirement System voted 8-to-1 on Tuesday not to take any action regarding Aponte's five-hundred-dollar-per-month pension.Aponte resigned in July after he pleaded no contest to embezzling from his own campaign account. Newly-elected board chair and city treasurer James Lombardi said he voted not to take any action because he didn't consider Aponte's crimes to be directly connected to his service as a council member.