Find a place for the new library and you’ve got your new Police Station. You may also have found an answer to the Underwood/Skating Rink question, too.
Crazy ideas for ’09: Smaller is better for Town Meeting
Town Meeting, as it currently exists in Belmont, is too large and too unwieldy to serve the town as it should.
Happy Holidays! Now about Next Year…
A First Night celebration in Belmont would bring residents together, help out our downtown shops, and attract more businesses to town.
Firenze planning to run again in 2009
Selectman Angelo Firenze will run again for a second full term in 2009, The Belmont Citizen Herald is reporting.
The high costs of doing nothing
The town’s older schools are going to require capital investments that are 10x to 20x greater than the one new school (Chenery) in the next few years…and these are just the repairs that we know about.
Grim projections on school funding in ’10
Forced to reduce School Dept. spending by $2.8m in the next school year, Belmont’s public school system would be forced to make drastic cuts to staffing, materials and programming in 2010, according to a presentation by current Superintendent Dr. Pat Aubin and finance director Gerry Missal.