The Newton Historical Commission will review proposed plans to remediate the violation at 29 Greenwood Street – teardown of the historic structure, at its meeting on Thursday, April 28th at 7:00 p.m. Go here to join the Zoom meeting. See Agenda, Staff Memo, Revised Packet documents, and 29 Greenwood Public…
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Crafts Street – Senior Housing Development Proposal: The Ward 1 and Ward 2 Councilors have arranged a presentation by SRG Senior Housing and Mark Development on their proposed project – elderly housing with services, for Crafts Street – (129 independent living units; 56 assisted living beds, and 26 memory care…
Commonwealth Carriageway Project – The Ward 4 City Councilors have organized a Zoom meeting for Monday, April 25th at 5:30 p.m. regarding the Commonwealth Carriageway Project. Join the Zoom meeting, here. The Commonwealth Carriageway Project, funded through MassDOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program ($5.9 million confirmed for FY2023) is designed to…
Budget Meetings in Full Swing: This week, the City Council will be reviewing the following departmental budgets this week: Comptroller/Retirement, Treasurer, Purchasing, Public Buildings, Assessing, Human Resources, Financial Services, and Executive/Sustainability. In addition, the Council will meet as a Committee of the Whole on Wednesday, April 27th at 6:00 p.m.…
In addition to the FY2023 Budget, the Mayor presented the Supplemental Capital Improvement Plan (Supplemental CIP) amending the FY2023-2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) submitted to the Council last October. Major changes to the CIP were outlined in the submittal memo include the following: New Projects: Feasibility study for an indoor…
The Mayor presented the FY2023 Budget – $480 million Operating Budget, $61 million in Water, Sewer, and Stormwater Enterprise funding, and $5.6 million in Community Preservation funds. Delivering her presentation remotely, the Mayor stated that this year’s budget represents at 3.5% increase to the school budget ($262M) and a 3% increase…
The School Committee voted to approve the Superintendent’s recently updated proposed FY2023 budget at its meeting on Tuesday, April 12th. The approved budget is approximately an $8.8 million increase over the FY2022 Budget. After the School Committee sent this resolution on March 31st, 12 members of the Newton City Council…
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COVID-19 Update: The number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases has risen to13,161 and sadly, the number of COVID-19 related deaths has also increased to 200. The Newton data can be found here and the NPS data can be found here (numbers are rising). Presentation of FY2023 Budget: The Mayor is…
This week’s road construction schedule can be found here