In a tradition spanning many decades, community groups, under the direction of the City’s Veterans Officer and other veterans, have collaborated in planting American flags at the graves of veterans in the Newton Cemetery before Memorial Day. Greer Tan Swiston has been doing this for twenty years, starting by coordinating…
Posts published in May 2023
It’s Memorial Day. The schedule for services can be found here. Trash pick-up this week is delayed by one day. Note: In these What’s Up posts, the links that are in bold go to details (Zoom links and agendas) about upcoming meetings, and the other links go to documents. City…
In the wake of the Operational Override failure on March 14th and after nearly two months of negotiations between the Newton City Council and the Newton Retirement Board, the City Council voted 23-0* to accept the Retirement Board’s proposal to increase funding for the Pension Trust at the rate of…
The City Council Committees have completed their review of departmental budgets for Mayor Fuller’s Proposed FY2024 Budget and the School Committee Approved Budget for FY2024 as well as the FY2024-2028 Capital Improvement Plan and the FY2024 Supplemental Capital Improvement Plan. The table below shows links to the each of the…
After several weeks of reviewing municipal and school department budgets, the City Council has submitted six budget resolutions — one to the School Department and five to the Mayor — for consideration.
The Finance Committee voted to approve the following (see Report and watch video on NewTV): The Finance Committee’s vote not to approve the following item:
The City Council has scheduled three meetings this week to review the FY2024 Municipal and School Department budgets that were reviewed by the City Council committees. The meetings are as follows: The City Council has two Special Meetings posted:
Newton Citizens Commission on Energy will meet in person (Room 205) and virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, May 30 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: The following materials will be distributed prior to the meeting: Newton Upper Falls Historic District Commission will hold a site visit on Wednesday, May…
The following potential projects/proposals are scheduled to meet with the Development Review Team (DRT) this week (see DRT Snapshot):
Last Wednesday, many active in Newton’s civic community gathered for the 49th Annual Honorable Theodore H. Mann Mayor’s Community Breakfast, hosted by the Harmony Foundation and sponsored by The Village Bank. In keeping with its theme of CommUNITY, the first in-person gathering for this event since Covid was held under…