On April 16, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller presented the City’s FY2025 budget to the City Council (see text of her speech and NewTV video). She told the City Council, “Tonight I present to you a stable, strong, sustainable — and hefty budget — for the City of Newton’s next fiscal year,…
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Lawyers for Civil Rights Boston filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Thursday on behalf of TrailblazHers Run Co. The lawsuit is directed against “the BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, CITY OF NEWTON, and JOHN F. CARMICHAEL JR., Chief of Police of the…
In a public meeting on April 10, the MBTA presented a conceptual design for an accessible, single-platform commuter rail station in Newtonville. The design features a station platform placed between the tracks to accommodate trains in both directions. A bridge built over the track would be high enough to accommodate…
On March 7, the City Council convened as a Committee of the Whole in order to discuss the upcoming budget process with Mayor Ruthanne Fuller. Council President Marc Laredo opened the meeting by explaining that this meeting would take the place of a process in earlier years, in which the…
On March 7, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reported that the City of Newton has once again received a rating of “Aaa – Stable” — the highest rating offered by Moody’s Investors Service. Newton is one of only 14 municipalities in Massachusetts with this rating. Among the reasons cited by Moody’s in…
The Finance Committee met on Monday and voted to establish an NPS Educational Stabilization Fund and fund it with $22 million (see NewTV video). Chief Finance Officer Maureen Lemieux presented the item to the Finance Committee and explained that the impetus to create the fund began when the City accumulated a…
On February 20, in her annual State of the City address to the City Council (text and NewTV video), Mayor Ruthanne Fuller honored the late Audrey Cooper — “a person with a very big heart, a deep commitment to community, a readiness to collaborate, and a dedication to the joy…
In separate press conferences on the evening of February 2, the Newton School Committee and Newton Teachers Association (NTA) announced that moments earlier they had reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that both parties said they are proud of. The School Committee will meet on Saturday at 10AM…
On February 1: The School Committee… The NTA offered a counterproposal to the School Committee’s 1PM proposal and announced at its evening press conference that it awaits a reply. With this counterproposal from the NTA, the sides were about $4 million apart over the life of the contract. The Healey/Driscoll…
On January 31, the School Committee and Newton Teachers Association (NTA) continued to meet, and at the end of the day, each side acknowledged some progress was made and that the remaining gap is primarily financial. Late in the evening, the parties continued to meet as the strike continues. Schools…