Thursday, May 17, 2012
Nearly $20,000 for voting system taken to help repair playground closed since November.
Every so often at Belmont Town Meeting – usually on one of the final nights when the budget is being read – a representative will speak to the assembled with a heartfelt plea about something or another that was left off the funding list. Two years ago it was Maryann Scali's lament that the Grove Street tennis courts were destined for demolition. And years before, it was the elimination of elementary school librarians. "Why," they ask the 290 representatives, "was this abandoned? What does this say about us that we can't fund this simple request?" And like Henry V before Agincourt, a seemingly insignificant request hits a collective nerve with the assembled representatives and the town's legislative body quickly evolves into a community of…
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
It's about budgets and dollars and cents.
7:12 p.m.: Hello. It's night three of Belmont's annual Town Meeting. Sorry for the slight delay - I was at the Blacker Prize ceremony at the High School's Library which honors three seniors on their exceptional writing in their senior theses. 7:16 p.m.: Will Brownsberger, the state senator, speaking to Town Meeting as its state rep. The is giving an update from Beacon Hill, specifically state aid. And he has good news with the state increasing funding to help pay for special education expenses. And in fiscal 2014, Brownsberger expects a better deal in Chapt. 70 - education - funding. Brownsberger said the state will be able to sustain the current growth rate if 1. the economy continues growing; 2. the state can keep health care costs …
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Representatives will review how the town spend available revenue.
It's all about the money. Belmont's annual Town Meeting will resume tonight at 7 p.m. at Belmont High School's auditorium with representatives set to debate how to spend the town's fund. The third night of Belmont's yearly gathering of the town's legislative body will discuss and vote on the budgets for all town departments and the schools. In addition, Town Meeting will go over the Capital Budget which allocated nearly $2.6 million for projects and roads. The Belmont Media Center will broadcast the preceedings on Channels 8 on COMCAST and 28 on VERIZON and well as online. And Belmont Patch will also following the meeting live with a continuing updated article begining at 7 p.m. The schedule for Wednesday night will be: • Article 1: …
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Belmont resident coming closer to nomination to take on President Obama in November.
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Wednesday, May 16
With the road unencumbered with opponents, Belmont's Mitt Romney drove through Nebraska and Oregon to win the state's Republican presidential primary Tuesday by more than 60 percentage points over his closest challengers. Romney did not campaign in the states other than a rally last week in Omaha and did not issue any comments on winning, according to Politico. In fact, the big news in Nebraska was the upset win by part-time cow poke and State Sen. Deb Fischer to become the Republican candidate for US Senate.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Due to delays, two years worth of street repairs will get underway beginning this year.
If you live on Creeley Road, you've hit the road jackpot. Creeley and its cross streets of Flett Road and Francis Street will be some of the first roads that will be reconstructed by the town as long-awaited repairs to town streets has been announced this week. Due to an extraordinary delay in putting together proposals and putting out bids, two years worth of road repair will commence in the coming months, according to Glenn Clancy, director of Belmont's Office of Community Development at last week's Warrant Committee's pre-Town Meeting Informational Briefing. Last year, the town allocated $1.8 million and $1.2 million this year in pavement management. But even though the money has been targeted, reconstruction will not start for the 2013…
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The good, bad and ugly of Belmont's annual legislative gathering.
At the end of the second night of Belmont's Town Meeting, one well-connected representative said she had her own headline concerning one of the night's vote. "Despite the anticipation by town officials of a heated two-hour debate, Town Meeting ignored the town's long-standing history and quickly voted to approve moving town elections to Tuesdays," she said with a chuckle. "How dare they! Don't they have any respect for tradition?" she laughed, commenting on the overwhelming support of Belmont stripping away 150 years of history and joining the rest of the country voting on the second day of the week. On a night where the humidity inside Belmont High School's auditorium caused hair to curl, the Town Meeting coolly debated and voted on a …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Welcome back after three weeks off. Tonight is the special town meeting articles.
7 p.m. Welcome back, everyone. After a week and a fortnight (love that word) away, the 2012 Belmont Town Meeting reconvenes to begin passing around the town's money in the auditorium of Belmont High School. You can view the Town Meeting on one of Belmont Media Center's cable channels (I forgot which one!) The representative legislative body of the town debated and voted on a limited number of non-financial articles back on April 23 with the creation of a stabilization fund for repairs and capital improvements for Minuteman Tech High School voted down by Town Meeting. Tonight the reps will begin with the financial articles starting with the convening of a Special Town Meeting – for those articles offered after the initial closing of the …
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Annual gathering reconvenes after fortnight break with Special Town Meeting articles.
After two weeks away, approximately 290 representatives to the annual Town Meeting will come back to Belmont High School's auditorium at 7 p.m. to reconvene to tackle the articles that has to do with the money. Town Meeting will begin with articles in a Special Town Meeting which will be opened after the legislative body is summoned. Tonight's meeting will take up a pair of stablilzation funds: one will be for special education expenses and the other focuses on paying down the large ($182 million) Other Post-Employment Benefits to town retirees. While unlikely, if there is any time available after the Special Town Meeting articles are covered, the representatives will debate and vote on Annual Town Meeting articles 7, 9, 12, 13 and 14. …
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Belmont resident is first democrat to win place on the Sept. 6 primary ballot.
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Saturday, May 12
The Committee to Elect Robert P. Reardon, Jr. is pleased to announce that Bobby Reardon is the first candidate to have filed the necessary paperwork to be on the Democrat ballot for State Representative from the 24th Middlesex District. After weeks of hard work the campaign collected more than 500 signatures from the three communities in the district including Arlington, Belmont and Cambridge. According to an official in Secretary Galvin’s office, as of Monday, April 30, Bobby was the only candidate to have turned in certified nomination papers. Each candidate is required to collect the signatures of a minimum of 150 registered voters from the district and file with the office of Secretary of State William Galvin. Bobby submitted nearly …
Candidates for state Senate and state House of Rep for Belmont meeting in Watertown.
The Watertown Republican Town Committee will host a meet the candidate night on May 21 in Watertown along with other area Republican groups. The event will be held a Marine Corps League Shutt Detachment, 215 Mt. Auburn St., at 7 p.m. Candidates running for seats in Belmont include Watertown's Steve Aylward, who is running for the Second Suffolk and Middlesex State Senate Seat against incumbent Democrat Will Brownsberger. Also scheduled to attend will be Belmont's Tomi Olson who is running for the open seat in the 24th Middlesex State House District – last occupied by Brownsberger before he was elected to the Senate in January – which includes all of Belmont's precincts. The evening begins with the meet and greet, which will be followed by…
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Dalton Roader
5:08 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Hat-tip to the Butler parents and the rest of the community for raising the majority of the funds going into this project too. more ›