Newton Cultural Council will meet in person (1294 Centre Street) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, July 28 at 6PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of minutes for June 23, 2025 meeting
- Brief report on grantee events attended by council members
- Community survey update
- Responses summary
- Outreach tracking
- Translating the responses into Council priorities
- Grantee outreach and final report update
- Grantee Reception Update – 9/18/25, City Hall War Memorial Auditorium
- Planning for new grant cycle
- Scoring rubric
- Marketing and communications
- Next meeting: August 25, 2025
Newton Affordable Housing Trust will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, July 29 at 4PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Approval of May Meeting Minutes
- Approve transfer of $292,500 in IZ funds from 106 River Street project to NHA
- Dream Collaborative – Site Feasibility Project Review and Discussion
- Review of Revised Trust Funding Application
- Update on Newton Gardens Project
- Discussion of CPA Funding Application for August CPC Meeting
- Adjourn
Newton Retirement Board will meet in person (Room 211) on Tuesday, July 29 at 9AM. The agenda includes the following:
- New Agenda Items:
- Receipt of 4 accidental disability retirement application from School Custodian, Fire Lieutenant, and two Police Officers
- Receipt of an involuntary accidental disability retirement application from Chief George McMains re: Police Officer
- Discussion regarding threshold requirements for board to accept applications for Accidental Disability Retirement
- Board to review regular session minutes of meeting held June 24, 2025
- Board to review executive session minutes of meeting held June 24, 2025
- Administrative Agenda Items:
- Monthly financial reporting for month ending May 2025
- Retirement Board Election Update – Ballots to be mailed August 5, 2025
- 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 the expense warrants:
- Warrant # 17-25 07-28-25 07-31-2025 Contributory pension payroll $ 4,315,039.72
- Warrant # 18-25 07-30-25 Administrative expense/member account disbursements $ 595,390.38
- Warrant # C06-25 07-30-25 Federal Tax $ 4,693.35
- 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.
- Discussion relating to the handling of the City’s appropriation due to the Board on 8/1/2025
- Dori Zaleznik’s Needham Bill waiver request and refund of elected official service credit purchase – tabled pending resolution of all litigation
- Staff update on Employee Handbook – Time Off Policy-Draft still in progress
- 2024 post-retirement excess earnings discussion with Human Resources Department
- Discussion relating to storage space, scanning, Massachusetts Municipal Retention Schedule
- Current status of pending appeal cases
- Director’s Report
- Correspondence:
- PERAC Memo #16 2025 Tobacco Company List
- PERAC Memo #17 2025 Revised Language for Benefit Calculation Approval Letters
- PERAC Memo #18 2025 Cyber Attack
- PERAC Memo #19 2025 Updated Member & Beneficiary Refund Forms and IRS Special Tax Notice
- PERAC Memo #20 2025 Mandatory Retirement Board Member Training-3rd Quarter 2025
- PERAC Memo #21 2025 FY2026 Budget & the Definition of Wages in Chapter 32
- PERAC Memo #22 2025 Fraud Alert
- PERAC Memo #23 2025 Cost of Living Increase for Supplemental Dependent Allowance Paid to Accidental Disability Retirees and Accidental Death Survivors
- PERAC Memo #24 2025 Reinstatement to Service under G.L. c.32, S. 105
