The City Council is not scheduled to meet this week.
Finance will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, October 15 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
- Request for proposals from outside special counsel to ensure compliance and enforcement of applicable permits at the Turtle Lane site in Auburndale
- Appointment of Christopher di Bonaventura as a trustee of the Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust Fund
- Request to accept and expend a $50,000 grant from the FY25 Community Compact grant program for the development of an Economic Development Plan
- Request to accept and expend a $217,800 MassDOT Shared Streets and Spaces Program grant for BlueBikes bike-share operations in the City of Newton
- Request to appropriate and expend $50,000 grant from FY25 Community Compact grant program for the development of a Wage and Classification Plan
- Request to appropriate and expend $14,350 from Fire Prevention Fine Receipts Reserve for Appropriation for enforcement, training, and education of Fire Prevention Officers
- Request to accept and expend a $585,989.09 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighter Grant for the purchase of AEDs, training, and fitness/wellness classes
Rules Subcommittee will meet in person (Room 205) and virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, October 17 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
Chair’s Note: The Rules Subcommittee will continue its review of City Council Rules. The focus of this meeting will be on the following items:
- Items referred to the Public Safety & Transportation Committee
- Addition of a dress code
- Amendments from the Clerk’s office regarding the hygiene of the document
- Noting what items are referred to the Real Property Reuse Committee
- Incorporation of the Financial Audit Advisory Committee into the text of City Council Rules
Traffic Council will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, October 17 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following requests:
- Discussion and possible action to change the parking regulations on Nonantum Place, the section of Charlesbank Road between Saint James Street, and Centre Street, and potentially Jefferson Street, Russell Road and Maple Street. This discussion is likely to include whether to remove or modify the current parking meter zones on Charlesbank Road and whether to modify the resident-only permit zones on Nonantum Place and Charlesbank Road in some way, with a goal of improving consistency and on-street parking availability to residents of Russell Road, Charlesbank Terrace, Orchard Street, Jefferson Street, and other streets in the immediate neighborhood.
- Discussion and a possible change to the parking regulations on Russell Road.
- Add a parking prohibition on portions of the west side of Jackson Road, in the vicinity of the newly constructed neckdowns at 150 Jackson Road.
- A trial which will allow for various changes to the parking and circulation on streets near the new Lincoln-Eliot School at 150 Jackson Road and the building at 191 Pearl Street, to be used as a swing space school. It is expected that various changes will be necessary on nearby neighborhood streets in order to facilitate the opening of these schools, which is currently scheduled for September 2025.
- Establishment of a Safety Zone on a section of Waverley Avenue near Burr Park.
- Restrict parking on both sides of the block of Farwell Street between North Street and Joseph Road. Note that this petition does not request to change the parking regulations on any other portion of Farwell Street, only to further restrict parking on the east side of the block of Farwell Street between North Street and Joseph Road.