Vote Yes for Newton filed its 30-day post-election campaign finance report at City Hall on Thursday. The report shows the group raised an additional $4,700 since the February 24 ending of its pre-election report. Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and her husband together contributed $2000 of the additional funds raised, in…
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In 2022, City Council President Susan Albright had appointed a study group — including City Council Vice President Rick Lipof, Finance Committee Chair Becky Grossman, and Councilor Chris Markiewicz — to work with her and with Newton School Committee member Chris Brezski to develop a plan to adjust the rate…
Tuesday’s School Committee meeting did not have a public comment period, and began with a typical update from Interim Superintendent Kathy Smith. After Dr. Smith spoke, Committee member Cove Davis (Ward 8) requested that the Superintendent address concerns in the community about low Advanced Placement Math test pass rates for…
Set to take the reins at the Newton Public Schools on July 1, Dr. Anna Nolin will be the first permanent female superintendent in the city, overseeing a district of 11,717 students that is still getting back to a place of normalcy since the Covid pandemic. She begins her job…
Presented last Wednesday, the proposed budget for FY2024 has created – among many other things – a new topic for conversation. While the verdict of the override was released March 14, it’s the proposed new budget that, when implemented, will determine where and how funding is allocated as well as…
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…
Faced with the prospect of personal fines of $25 per day for not filing a pre-election campaign-finance report as required eight days before the election, the treasurer of the No Override Newton ballot committee has filed the group’s pre-election report at City Hall. The report is dated March 17 and was…
On March 14, Newton voters rejected Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s proposal to levy an additional $9,175,000 in real estate and personal property taxes for a range of infrastructure improvements, senior programming, the expansion and renovation of the Horace Mann School. The “No” vote was 10,566 to 9,428 in favor. By almost…
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…
After months of intense debate, unofficial election results posted at City Hall show that Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s two debt exclusion proposals passed by wide margins while the proposed operating override failed by a similar margin. The operating override failed by 1138 votes, and the debt exclusions for Countryside and Franklin…