Finance Committee The Finance Committee will meet virtually on Monday, April 11th at 7:00 p.m. (Typo in the agenda). Click here to join the Zoom meeting. The agenda includes the following: Request to transfer $50,000 from Elections-Work by Other Depts. to fund the reconfiguration of some of the office space…
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Commission on Disability The Commission on Disability will meet virtually on Monday, April 11th at 6:00 p.m. Click here to join the Zoom meeting and enter Meeting Passcode: 279296 The agenda includes the following: Introductions Review and Approval of the March 14, 2022 Meeting Minutes CDBG Report Accessible Fines Reports…
This week’s road construction schedule can be found here
Let’s start with the School Committee meetings on the Budget. There were many. After several days of budget presentations – (March 28th, March 30th, March 31st), review, and discussions, all given with the understanding that the schools were faced with a $4 million dollar deficiency, the School Committee sent this…
After the public hearing on the budget at the April 4th School Committee meeting, the SC received a presentation from the Parks, Recreation, and Culture Commissioner regarding proposed lights on the Newton North and Newton South High School fields. Members received this memo from Assistant Superintendent Liam Hurley regarding the…
The Finance Committee and the Programs and Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, April 13th, and possibly, Thursday, April 14th evenings to begin their review of the NPS Budget. This will be the first of the budget reviews conducted by the Council. The Mayor will not present the budget until…
The Ligerbots, is a student-run FIRST FRC robotics team made up of students from both Newton North and Newton South High Schools. The students are given six weeks to design and build a robot that competes with other teams to play a game. Throughout the rest of the year, the…
NEWTON’S EARTH DAY FESTIVAL – APRIL 24TH Celebrate with Green Newton at Newton’s Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 24 (1-4pm) at City Hall! There will be fun activities for the whole family, live music, face painting, a petting zoo, starter kits for composting and ice cream. This special event…
Event Date: Sunday May 1, 2022 9:00am – 4:00pm, Rain or Shine If you haven’t already signed up – you can do so now! Volunteer registration deadline is April 25th. VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION REGISTER HERE. More information can be found here.
The Swap Shop will reopen April 22, 2022. Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30am – 1:30pm – April 22 through October 29. Clear out clutter without adding to the waste stream! Newton’s Swap Shop is located at the Newton Resource Recovery Center. Drop off clean, usable, working unwanted items for reuse, or come…
Newton has a goal to become carbon-neutral by 2050. The Newton Citizens Commission on Energy exists to advise the City on how to address this goal. Volunteer representatives of NCCE have created a confidential, 10-minute survey to hear your opinions about climate change, and understand what you think it will take achieve the 2050…
Last week, Mayor Fuller announced an additional $1.5M in ARPA funding would be allocated to the schools. According to Fuller, in her weekly newsletter, “the NPS financial team scrubbed their books, they let me know of $1.1 million in COVID-19 related projects that had not yet been reimbursed as well…