Whos of Who-cester

You'll remember that there were two items of school interest on the agenda: On the request to create a new revolving fund for Foley Sta...

I left at this point, but there were more remarks made by Council on schools . (start at 8:28)

asks for a copy of the budget: broken down by school? Yes likely June 8 passing City budget; notes that School Committee is holding a hearin...

Councilor Petty has a question, after all... telecommunications loophole..where are we now?

Councilor Rosen just threw a big wrench in the works here tonight by taking Section 19 (which provides for coalition bargaining for retirees...

9e & f: Petty: "one of the biggest budget issues we're facing is the school department"...feels he doesn't have a good...

I should mention that Councilor Petty also has an item on the agenda requesting that the Council and School Committee meet within 60 days to...

On this week's Council agenda is an item from Councilor Petty asking for an accounting of how much money was received by the schools thr...

says he'd like to know what we are looking at moving ahead. He's also asking where the missed money is coming from. Brian Allen says...

and the same refrain keeps coming back: There are more cuts coming We don't have a done budget yet. On a day in which the lead headline ...

"an excellent job" A question about impact statements: will we get them or do we have them? Departments are getting them together,...

Councilor Toomey is asking (under suspension) that we have an investigation (done by colleges, perhaps?) into moving to a single residential...

I did not liveblog the Tuesday (3/3) City Council meeting, but I did take some notes on the budget. Tuesday's talk around the budget wa...

On a question from Councilor Petty about health care changes if they were applied to the school side: 75-25% would be a savings that would b...

Friendly amendment passes

"make sure the city is financially secure" "unless we get some additional revenue sources...it's going to be a tighter bu...

Councilor Petty: How many students have we lost and how is that related to the budget deficit? We've lost 3000 students over the past si...

(with a bonus of Quotable Quotes!) Tonight's City Council discussion of the money saved from health care was, as foreseen, worth seeing....