Docket Digest

A weekly summary of Board of Aldermen agendas and actions highlighting items of interest to the LWVN. Archive of previous weeks here.

Board and Committee Meeting Schedule

Extracted from full calendar. Links to full calendar and docket packet here.

Key to color coding: CPC, Planning, Environmental, CAG, Charter, Housing.

May 2010

Monday

7:00 pm

7:45 pm

Budget - Finance Committee--comptroller, Asessing, Treasurer, Purchasing

Zoning and Planning

Room 222

202

Tuesday

7:45

Land Use Committee -- includes discussion of Omni site

Chamber/

Room 202

Wednesday

7:00 pm

Budget-Committee of the Whole -- CIP and Water & Sewer Rate Hearings, Budget Deliberations, Resolutions to Mayor

Chamber

Thursday

7:00 pm

Budget - Committee of the Whole (if needed), Budget Deliberations, Resolutions to Myaor

Chamber

Agendas:

Finance--includes: #113-10 THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE recommending that
$5,200 be appropriated from the FY10 Community Preservation Fund’s historic resources and general reserves and expended under the spending authority of the City Clerk, to preserve and restore the original frame and 19th century portrait of James F. C. Hyde, Newton’s first mayor. [03/22/10 @ 4:58 PM] COMMITTEE ON COMM. PRESERVATION APPROVED 7-0 ON 5/3/10
#83-10 THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE recommending that the sum of sixty three thousand, eight hundred forty five dollars ($63,845) be appropriated from the FY10 Community Preservation Fund’s historic resources and general reserves to be expended by the Public Buildings Department to complete the design of storage and accessibility improvements for the archives at the Jackson Homestead. [03/09/10 @ 4:20 PM] COMMITTEE ON COMM. PRESERVATION APPROVED 7-0 ON 5/3/10 PUBLIC FACILITIES APPROVED 6-0-2 (Gentile and Savlucci abstaining) ON 05/05/10
#147-08 COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE recommending that the sum of $359,400, including $2,000 for legal costs, be appropriated from the FY’08 Community Preservation Fund’s historic resources and general reserves, for a project to rehabilitate and expand storage space for the research library and archives at the Newton History Museum, to preserve the existing collections, and enhance public access to the collections. [04-01-08 @ 4:10 PM] COMMUNITY PRESERVATION APPROVED 6-0 on 4-29-08 (A) DESIGN FUNDS ESTIMATE $37,500.00 – BOA APPROVED ON 07/21/08 (B) BALANCE OF PROJECT ESTIMATE $321,900.00 – HELD PUBLIC FACILITIES VOTED NO ACTION NECESSARY ON PART B 8- 0 on 05/05/10

Documents:

Group Health monthly report
Third quarter revenue report
Summary of major general financial reserves
News Notes--includes: Riverside Project Environmental Notification Form – This document was sent to my attention through the Clerk’s Office. There is one copy because it is very large. If you would like to review it, please stop in the Clerk’s Office or make arrangements with any of the Clerk’s
Retirement Board memo
Traffic Council Report--includes discussion and vote on Beacon Street Bike Lane.
Traffic Council Actions
Committee Actions--includes #128-10 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS requesting Board of Aldermen approval to remove the traffic island at the intersection of Beacon Street and Herrick Road. [04-27-10 @ 1:59 PM] PUBLIC FACILITIES APPROVED 8-0
Gentile memo on budget deliberations/hearings on May 12 & 13.