The School Committee has a full agenda for its meeting TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. beginning with a short public hearing regarding School Choice. Following the public hearing, the School Committee is scheduled to recognize its student representatives, hear an update on their DEI initiatives, fiscal and operational update, capital projects…
Posts published in May 2022
The Full Council will begin its review and deliberations on the FY2023 Municipal and School Budget, as well as the FY2023-FY2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), and FY2021-FY2027 Supplemental CIP this week. The deliberations will begin TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. The Full Budget Book – with departmental budgets and committee reports…
Public Buildings Commissioner, Josh Morse, submitted a response to questions regarding the fossil fuel boiler replacements for two schools – Franklin Elementary and Newton South High School, that were approved last week. According to the response, in terms of Franklin, the cost to convert Franklin to electric is “roughly $3.5,…
Four City Councilors, Brenda Noel, Bill Humphrey, Alicia Bowman, and Holly Ryan, signed a letter to the Mayor criticizing the Mayor’s summary of the inquest and report from the judge regarding the Michael Conlon shooting in Newton Highlands in January 2021. The Councilors wrote, “The lack of empathy for the…
The number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases has risen to 14,600 and the number of COVID-19 related deaths has remained at 202. The Newton data can be found here and the NPS data can be found here.
Modifications to the Grove Street roundabout that was approved as part of the Riverside Special Permit project remain controversial. Two councilors, Alison Leary and Alicia Bowman have urged DPW Commissioner, James McGonagle, in this memo, suggesting that the Ward 4 Councilors made an incorrect claim regarding whether the proposed design…
The Craft Street proposal – a partnership between Mark Development and SRG Senior Living – for a 209 unit elder housing project (129 independent living units – studio – 2 bedrooms; 52 Assisted Living Units -studio – 2 bedrooms; and 28 Memory Care Units – studio only) will be presented…
The City Council was poised to vote on the conceptual design of the project at its Full Council meeting on May 2nd (begins at 2:15:15). After a 1-hour and 45-minute debate -which included dropping a possible trial and substituting Option 3 with Option 2 – the motion to substitute failed…
COVID-19 Update: The number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases has risen to 14,238 and the number of COVID-19 related deaths has sadly risen to 202. The Newton data can be found here and the NPS data can be found here (NOTE: a significant increase from last week 192 to 331).
The School Committee will meet virtually on Monday, May 9th, beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Executive Session – to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel, or to conduct collective bargaining sessions, or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel) and then will convene in open session at 7:00 p.m.…