At its March 29th meeting, the Newton Retirement Board included two budget funding presentations: one from Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and the other from City Council Board President Susan Albright and Ward 2 School Committee member Chris Brezski. Both presentations were in response to the March 14th failed operational override. Mayor…
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Residents and community leaders are looking for ways to fill the budget gap that the passage of Question 1 (Requesting an Operating Override) would have filled, and one avenue being explored is adjusting the rate of the City’s funding of its pension liability. The City’s long-term pension and retiree health…
Ty Gupta, owner and developer of the historic Gershom Hyde House at 29 Greenwood Road has filed suit this week in Middlesex County Court against the City of Newton as well as individual City staff members, Historic Commission members, and the Mayor over their handling of the project. The developer bought…
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced last week that the City will use $1.75 million of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for coaching services provided by Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) to assist 50 under-resourced families that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. From three submissions for delivering these services, EMPath’s…
On Tuesday, the Charles River Regional Chamber hosted a one-hour online forum with Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and Interim Superintendent Kathleen Smith to discuss proposals for an operating override and two debt exclusions (see video). After a brief presentation by the Mayor and Interim Superintendent, Chamber president Greg Reibman moderated a…
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller held a two-hour online Town Hall Forum on January 26 to answer questions about the proposed tax override. A recording of the meeting has been posted here. On Sunday, February 5 at 2PM, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and Interim Superintendent Kathleen Smith will host a Tax Override Forum…
Twenty-five years ago, State Representative Kay Khan began her quest to upgrade the three commuter rail stations in her Newton district — Auburndale, West Newton and Newtonville — because none of them are accessible and none have both in-bound and out-bound platforms. In fact, trains stop less often in Newton…
The Full Council met as a Committee of the Whole and voted to approve (22-0, Gentile and Noel absent) the override-related items proposed by the Mayor (see Report and watch video on NewTV). The Council voted No Action Necessary on a previous docket item as it was replaced by two…
Jenn Adams of NewTV’s Newton News interviewed Mayor Fuller today about the proposed override and debt exclusions.
At the City Council meeting on Monday evening, Mayor Fuller proposed several docket items related to a $9.175 million general override, debt exclusion overrides for Countryside and Franklin Schools ($2.3 million and $3.5 million), and related exemptions (see New Docket, pp. 3-5) during her presentation of the FY2023-2027 Capital Improvement…