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The RTC voted unanimously on a slate of candidates to compete in the municipal election on November 7. For Board of Education, 4 candidates were nominated for 2 openings. Continue Reading →
“It really feels like Groundhog Day. Once again the proponents in fiscal year 2024 are requesting the exact same budget appropriation denied before.”- Lucia Jansen, RTM Budget Overview Committee Chair Continue Reading →
Assistant Town Attorney Aamina Ahmad said the town legal dept determine the motion to amend a proposed ordinance to direct 50% of fire dept fees to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was not in legal order.
Tom Byrne disagreed. He said the RTM was the ordinance-adopting authority in town. He urged appealing the Law Department’s opinion. Continue Reading →
The vote to approve the grant passed with a total of 210 votes – 104 in favor, 101 against and 5 abstentions.
After the announcement of the vote, there was a bit of a kerfuffle and members interrupted the moderator during discussion of item 11 to say some people believed their votes had not been counted. Continue Reading →
In the end, 111 members opposed eliminating the $2.8 million for bump outs and 95 voted in favor of eliminating the money. Four people abstained. Continue Reading →
“The town has failed in all respects. The SOMR is a scare tactic, and only represents 150 people who want to change the only regulation that will provide the affordable housing.” – Joe Pecora Continue Reading →
About a third of incumbents, including longtime party stalwarts, were voted out. Continue Reading →
After passionate comments from the 50 people who signed up in advance to speak, the vote was 121 in favor, 68 opposed and 5 abstentions. Continue Reading →
All votes were unanimously in favor of candidates recommended by the executive committee. An exception was for the job of town clerk. There were three candidates: Karen Fassuliotis, Fred DeCaro and Jackie Budkins. Continue Reading →
Lucia Jansen, of the RTM budget overview committee, said, “I the lead committee that cut the $950,000 request for this budget item. We were very clear that the reason was because of the lack of information, and certainly not because of the genuine support and interest for the rink.” Continue Reading →