Whos of Who-cester

non-testifying attendee at City Council tonight Good evening, Mr. Chair, My name is Tracy Novick and I live at 135 Olean Street here in Worc...

A quick note, first of all, on tomorrow night's Worcester City Council agenda: the City Manager's portion of the agenda  requests Co...

I understand that it is possible that you didn't read the entirety of the backup or all of my notes from our F&O meeting on Tuesda...

Foley: giving back 48 cents this year cannot overspend the budget,, but don't want to leave money behind Allen: final report is in a d...

The full agenda is here The auditors reports are here Allen: these are the FY13 reports Mr. Hunt: internal controls relates to federal...

Note that Vice Chair Monfredo is chairing We've got the quarterly report as well as a renewal of contract with the Collaborative. N...

We have the July meeting of the Worcester School Committee tomorrow at 4 at City Hall. (Different time, same location) You can find the age...

The first of our two long ones is this coming Thursday, June 5. Remember that our June meetings are effectively double-headers: budget at 4...

in other words, yes, yes, I do read other districts' budgets in my spare time... The Springfield School Committee received their propos...

report here Allen: bottom line has not changed projecting about a $300,000 deficit in all accounts not a concern that administration has ...

As a sort of pregame to the public hearing on FY15, we're having our quarterly Finance and Operations meeting. You can find the agenda ...

( h/t Julie; thanks! ) Governor Patrick filed a supplemental spending bill on Thursday that includes full funding for charter reimbursemen...

Of course, we knew this, but here's the letter from Commissioner Chester.

Class enrollment, teacher numbers. ..it's in the budget! And there have not been any changes in staffing this year, with the exception ...

Just heard this number today: the charter school reimbursement is currently funded 62% for FY14. How much is that short? Were the reimburse...

John Crafton, Executive Director of MASBO, back to speak noting that he was here a few months ago for Mr. Allen's Distinguished Eagle ...

The Association of School Business Officials International agrees: the Worcester Public Schools have been awarded the Meritorious Budget Awa...

As we head into March and the schools  hear a bit more about how the district budget will affect them, I suspect we'll begin also to hea...

I'm not going to liveblog the entire budget presentation as you had that here . You can also see that presentation here. Posting as w...

While we don't yet have a full FY15 budget projection presentation ( which I suspect may have something to do with this ), there's ...