Ward 2 City Councilor, Emily Norton recently led a presentation hosted by the Climate Crisis Subcommittee of the Newton Democratic City Committee and Green Newton: “Preparing for Climate Change: Is Newton Doing Enough?” Norton, who is also the Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association, shared the urgency for…
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Betty Chan Newton resident, Betty Chan together with Ward 2 Councilor Tarik Lucas, co-authored this resolution, urging the City of Newton to take action on Anti-Asian hate crimes and invest in multiracial community health and safety. The resolution was adopted unanimously by the City Council last July. With the Newton…
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:
Zoning and Planning will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, May 22 at 6:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Chair’s Note: Ann Berwick, Co-Director of Sustainability, will join the Committee to discuss a draft waiver provision to add to the draft ordinance. The Chair will also entertain a motion to…
Newton Cultural Council will meet in person (1294 Centre Street) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, May 22 at 5:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Council on Aging and Advisory Board will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Designer Selection Committee…
On its May 15th agenda, the City Council discussed a requesti by Mayor Fuller to appropriate $10 million from Free Cash to pay down that amount of the $50 million bonds for construction of the new Lincoln-Eliot school. The Mayor indicated that the annual debt service saved from this allocation…