Newton Cultural Council will meet in person (1294 Centre Street, Newton Centre) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, January 27 at 6PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of minutes from last meeting
- Approval of modification request from Newton Theater Company
- Report on grantee events attended by council members
- Discuss 2025 Executive Committee positions, to be nominated and voted on at February meeting.
- Debrief on FY 2025 adjudication process, including scoring inconsistencies.
- Planning for Spring Arts and Culture Summit (in lieu of Grantee Reception)
- Set next meeting dates.
Newton Parks and Recreation Commission will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, January 27 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of Meeting Minutes: November 2024; December 2024 — no meeting
- Albemarle Field Project Kick-Off Update
- Newton Centre Clay Court Fees & Hours of Operation
- Recurring Outdoor Special Events
o Nonantum Village Day – June
o St. Mary Carmen Festival – July
o Indigenous Peoples Day – October
o NSHS Lions 5K Race – May 18 - Commissioner’s Report
- Committee Reports
- Community Preservation Committee – B. Dunker
- Urban Tree Commission – B. Wilkinson
- Farm Commission – B. Wilkinson
- Commonwealth Golf Foundation – J. Neville
- Commission Elections:
- Chairperson
- Vice-Chairperson
- New Business
Newton Retirement Board will meet in person (Room 211) on Tuesday, January 28 at 9AM. The agenda includes the following:
- New Agenda Items
- Board to review regular session minutes of special meeting held December 13, 2024
- Board to review regular session minutes of meeting held December 17, 2024
- PTG Scanning – Chris Lodge, PTG’s President and COO, and Stephan Georgacopoulos, PTG’s Sr. Account Representative, to attend meeting and provide updates on scanning project and ESS (Notice of Deposits)
- Administrative Agenda Items
- Monthly financial reporting for month ending November 2024
- Board to approve new members as indicated on list provided in Board Member’s monthly packet
- New application(s) for superannuation & termination retirement
- Board to approve expense warrants
- Pending Agenda Items
- Scott Perella –5 year repayment plan; oral agreement with member to mail payment on the 25th of each month- repayment to be completed by May 2029.
- Dori Zaleznik’s Needham Bill waiver request and refund of elected official service credit purchase – tabled pending resolution of all litigation
- Employee Handbook – Table of Contents/Outline
- Meeting with Human Resources -next meeting TBD.
- School Department and Newton Housing Authority were invited to attend the 1/28/25 meeting to discuss limitations on post-retirement employment/response pending
- Michael Abbruzzese, James McCarthy, and Thomas McCarthy-repayment agreement regarding 2023 excess earnings
- System Actuary Kathleen Riley of Segal to attend 2/25/25 meeting to discuss 1/1/24 actuarial valuation of the Newton Retirement System
- Current status of pending appeal cases
- Director’s Report
- 2023 PERAC Annual Statement of Earned Income compliance pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 32,s. 91A
- Correspondence
- PRIT Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for Fiscal Years ended 2024 and 2023
- PTG’s 1/6/25 email: “Setting the Record Straight on Misleading Claims”
- PTG’s 1/9/25 email: “Scanning Project Update”
- PTG’s 1/23/25 email: “PTG’s 2024 Wins, Exciting 2025 Plans and a New Website!”
- PERAC Memo #32 2024 Tobacco Company List
- PERAC Memo #33 2024 Mandatory Retirement Board Training-First Quarter 2025
- PERAC Memo #34 2024 Annual Review of Medical Testing Fee
- PERAC Memo #1 2025 2025 Interest Rate set at 0.1%
- PERAC Memo #2 2025 Repeal of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset
- PERAC Memo #3 2025 Required Minimum Distribution: Still Age 73 for This Year’s Notifications
- PERAC Memo #4 2025 Limits under Chapter46 of the Acts of 2002
- PERAC Memo #5 2025 Limits under Section 23 of Chapter 131 of the Acts of 2010
- PERAC Memo #6 2025 COLA Notice
- PERAC Memo #7 2025 Buyback and Make-up Repayment Worksheets
Newton Housing Partnership will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 28 at 5PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Review and Approval of December Minutes
- Update on IZ Ordinance Review by RKG
- Strategic Planning Status
- Review of draft revisions of Purpose, Roles, and Structure document
- Draft of resident services document
- Update on mitigation fees report
- Next steps
- Summary of Discussion with Shelly Goehring, MHP Senior Program Manager
- New Items
- Request from Walker Center JAPG
- Update on ADU reform
- Website updates
- Conflict of Interest training
- Staff Items
- FY26-FY30 Consolidated Plan and Citizen Participation Plan
- Project update chart
Council on Aging will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 28 at 7:30PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of minutes of last COA meeting
- GoGo Newton Update from Planning Department
- Welcome New OAS Staff
- Cooper Center Update: Community Project Update Tuesday, February 4
- Department of Older Adult Services: Director’s Report
- Other Business
Newton Commonwealth Foundation, which manages the municipal golf course, will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 28 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Agenda Items
- Approval of December 03, 2024 meeting minutes
- Approval of December 27, 2024 special meeting minutes
- Treasurer’s Report
- Sterling Golf Report
- Old Business
- Bid from Sterling Golf for RFP 25-28 Operation of Newton Commonwealth Golf Course from 2025 2028, approved at Special Foundation Meeting on 12/27/24
- Low bid of $1,428,000 received on 12/19/24 from Seaver Construction Co. for RFP 24-65 Maintenance Building Renovation, Phase One. Seaver recently renovated the Newton Fire Station in Oak Hill
- The Pathway to Possible Mayor’s Christmas Party was held on 12/21/24 at Newton Comm. Golf Course. Approx. 45 guests. Mayor Fuller was in attendance along with Foundation members Jack Neville, Jack Synnott, and Peter Doherty. Mayor Fuller personally distributed $50 gift cards, courtesy of the Foundation, to all the invited guests who are residents of Pathway to Possible and their friends. [UPDATED per Mayor’s Office]
- New Business
- Update on Capital Improvement project planning for 2025-2029
- Update on review of Foundation By-Laws
- Revisit establishing a Foundation webpage on City of Newton website for: meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and all motions made at meetings. State law requires that a committee must maintain a copy of all approved minutes for public inspection.
Fair Housing Lottery Results and Lease Up Subcommittee will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Wednesday, January 29 at 11:30AM. The agenda includes the following:
- Updates on data collection efforts
- Discussion on priorities for the coming year, including potential challenges to AFFH by the new administration
- Discussion on merging the subcommittee with the full Fair Housing committee
- Fair Housing Committee Priorities Discussion
- Promote housing choice for diverse populations to advance Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), with focus on race/ethnicity, public subsidy and disability
- Identify and work to overcome barriers to successful tenancies and to improve processes/practices for tenant selection in lottery and market rate multi-family rental housing
- Promote data collection on multi-family rental and new homeownership occupancy
- Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Newton
Newton Citizens Commission on Energy will meet in person (Room 205) and virtually (Zoom link) on Wednesday, January 29 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of past minutes
- Update on sustainability hiring
- Further brainstorming on residential sector
- ZAP relationship & liaison
- Garland Street
- Case study updates
- BERDO write-up update, and approval
- Public Facilities relationship
- NCCE vacancies
Conservation Commission will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, January 30 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following (see Packet):
- Wetlands Decisions
- Notice of Intent (NOI) for repaving of a parking lot at 300 Hammond Pond Parkway – Boston College
- Notice of Intent (NOI) for addition and fence at 23 Selwyn Road – see 23 Selwyn Rd NOI; 23 Selwyn Rd Civil Plans
- Notice of Intent (NOI) for the 40B development at 528 Boylston Street – see 528 Boylston Civil Site Plans; 528 Boylston Storage Exhibits; 528 Boylston Drainage Report; 528 Boylston Inv Species Mgt Plan; 528 Boylston Landscape Plans; 528 Boylston O&M Plan; 528 Boylston Prelimin Construction Phasing; 528 Boylston RFA Degredation; 528 Boylston Test Pit Exhibit; 4th 528 Boylston BSC Peer Review
- Notice of Intent (NOI) for stormwater infiltration for the subdivision at 85 Dudley Road – see 85 Dudley Rd NOI; 85 Dudley Rd Site Plans; 85 Dudley Rd SW Report; 85 Dudley Rd Planting Plan
- Informal discussion re: a new single-family house with mitigation planting area at 240 Old Farm Road
- Administrative Decisions
- Conservation Area Decisions – none at this time
- Issues Around Town Decisions – none at this time
- Updates / Discussion – none at this time
- Public Comment
- Other Topics Not Reasonably Anticipated by the Chair 48 Hours before the Meeting
