The mayor is seeking three separate ballot questions for a March 2013 special election.
Facing a long list of infrastructure needs and a rapidly-growing student population, Newton Mayor Setti Warren proposed an $11.4 million override package tonight that would increase residents' property taxes to help pay for aging buildings, roads and public safety. During his annual Capital Improvement Plan presentation tonight at City Hall, Warren announced a request for the Board of Aldermen to set a special election for March 12, 2013 for residents to consider three separate tax overrides for various projects around the city. "This is what we believe is the right path forward," Warren said in a meeting earlier today with Newton Patch. The first question asks for an $8.4 million operational override that would cover a number of …
Voters may face a tax override to help fund the Newton schools' facilities needs.
As the Newton Public Schools' facilities continue to age and the student population remains on the rise, Mayor Setti Warren will present a five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) tonight in hopes of successfully tackling many of Newton's growing infrastructure needs. Warren will present the plan during the Board of Aldermen meeting Oct. 15 at 7:45 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber at Newton City Hall. Over the last year, Warren has provided little detail on how the latest CIP iteration will help tackle the district's aging school building stock, but according to a recent report in the Boston Globe, the mayor plans to present a approximate $11 million Proposition 2 1/2 tax override tonight. However, as the Globe reports, the Massachusetts …
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The committee approved the document Monday, which contains projects funded in fiscal 2012 and plans for fiscal 2013-fiscal 2017.
After a lengthy meeting focused on space needs and new measures to help with increased student population, the School Committee focused briefly Monday night on improvements for the buildings themselves. With a unanimous vote, the School Committee approved the fiscal 2012 Capital Improvement Plan as well as the five-year capital plan for fiscal 2012-fiscal 2017. Although the committee approved the "excellent list" of projects Monday night, it reviewed the plan at its previous meeting on May 23. Mike Cronin, the School Department's chief of operations, said during the May 23 meeting the department "scoured" through the different buildings and to-do lists to create a plan that "makes sense." A total of $1.75 million in repairs and upgrades …
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Mason-Rice Elementary School
149 Pleasant St, Newton Center, MA
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Franklin Elementary School
125 Derby St, West Newton, MA
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Ward Elementary School
10 Dolphin Rd, Newton Center, MA
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Bowen Afterschool Care Program
280 Cypress St, Newton Center, MA
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Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School
191 Pearl St, Newton, MA
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Bigelow Middle School
42 Vernon St, Newton, MA
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Memorial-Spaulding Elementary School
250 Brookline St, Newton Center, MA
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Countryside Elementary School
191 Dedham St, Newton Highlands, MA
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Burr Elementary School
171 Pine St, Auburndale, MA
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Underwood Elementary School
101 Vernon St, Newton, MA
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Horace Mann Insurance
1254 Chestnut St, Newton, MA
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Aldermen Monday night received a report outlining city projects to benefit infrastructure, safety and schools
Repairs to roads, improvements to public buildings and the demolition of the old Newton North High School were some of the highlights in Monday night's presentation of the city's five-year Capital Improvement Plan. Both Mayor Setti Warren and Chief Financial Officer Maureen Lemieux addressed the Board of Aldermen with a report of the city's growing needs. Among the list of projects were improvements that affect the public health and safety of community members as well as the quality of the city's infrastructure. According to Warren, projects on the Capital Improvement Plan were decided by a committee made up of town officials including Lemieux, Building Commissioner Stephanie Kane Gilman, Community Preservation Program Manager Alice E. …
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Adam Maleson
1:29 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Proposition 2 1/2 exists for a reason: Financial Accountability. That is a reason Newton's irresponsible, wasteful, greedy politicians do not wish to acknowledge and are probably incapable of even comprehending. The reason we need these long overdue repairs to the elementary schools is entirely the result of the perennial shortsightedness of Newton's political syndicate. We do not need an … more ›