Newton Aldermen Looking for More Details Before Moving Forward with Override Package
The aldermen are hoping to receive more details on the $500,000 set aside for four new police officers and equipment.
Before agreeing to put the mayor's proposed override package on a ballot, the Newton Board of Aldermen is hoping to clear up a few specifics on what is slated to receive funding. In a Committee of the Whole meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 14, several aldermen requested more information on what exactly the operational override would fund in the Police Department. According to city officials, $500,000 of the total $8.4 million operational override package will be used to cover salaries for four new police officers. During Wednesday night's meeting, Interim Police Chief Howard Mintz explained that the department could use additional weekend officers in the Traffic Bureau, as that department currently does not have any traffic specialists working…
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Adam Maleson
1:32 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 ›