Public Hearing and Vote on a proposed loan order that the sum of $315,000 is appropriated to pay costs of design and engineering services for the development of plans and specifications for upgrades to the HVAC system to install air conditioning in portions of Watertown Middle School, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; and that to meet this appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the City Manager, is authorized to borrow said amount under and pursuant to M.G.L. c.44, §7(7) or pursuant to any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the City therefor
Resolution authorizing a Transfer of Funds in the amount of $27,000 from the Fiscal Year 2024 City Clerk Full Time Salaries to the Fiscal Year 2024 Transfer to Elections Printing & Forms in order to purchase an AS-650 High Speed Monochrome Inkjet Address Printer and an Omation 306 Envelopener with High Speed Inkjet Printer and pay for associated expenses
First Reading on a proposed loan order that Order No. 2022-O-18 of the City Council passed March 22, 2022 authorizing a borrowing in the amount of $198,844,252 for the High School Project is hereby amended to increase the authorized borrowing amount for such project to $216,118,750, which amended order shall read as follows in its entirety: “ORDERED: That City hereby appropriates the amount of Two Hundred Sixteen Million One Hundred Eighteen Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($216,118,750) for the purpose of constructing a new Watertown High School located at 50 Columbia Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, including the payment of all costs related to designing the project, demolishing the existing building, equipping and furnishing the school, site improvements, and all other costs incidental and related thereto (the “Project”), which appropriation shall be in addition to all amounts previously appropriated to pay costs of the Project, including the feasibility study and schematic design phase of the Project, and which school facility shall have an anticipated useful life as an educational facility for the instruction of school children of at least 50 years, and for which the City may be eligible for a grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (the “MSBA”), said amount to be expended under the direction of the Watertown School Building Committee; that to meet this appropriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the City Manager, is authorized to borrow said amount pursuant to G.L. c.44, §7(1) or G.L. c.70B, or pursuant to any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the City therefor; that the City acknowledges that the MSBA’s grant program is a nonentitlement, discretionary program based on need, as determined by the MSBA, and any project costs the City incurs in excess of any grant approved by and received from the MSBA shall be the sole responsibility of the City; that any grant that the City may receive from the MSBA for the Project shall not exceed the lesser of (1) forty-nine and thirty-three one hundredths percent (49.33%) of eligible, approved project costs, as determined by the MSBA, or (2) the total maximum grant amount determined by the MSBA; that the amount of the borrowing authorized by this order shall be reduced by any grant amount set forth in and received pursuant to the Project Funding Agreement that may be executed between the City and the MSBA; and that the design/bid/build delivery method is hereby authorized to carry out the Project pursuant to the provisions of G.L. c.149
First Reading on a Proposed Amendment to the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget -Amendment 1 – Tax Rate
First Reading on a Proposed Amendment to the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget -Amendment 2 - Watertown Firefighters’ Association, Local 1347 Union Contract
Consideration and action on an order authorizing an amendment to pending special legislation (H2910) relative to property tax classification allowing for new minimum residential factors for Fiscal Years 2024, 2025 and 2026
Committee on Economic Development and Planning regarding a report from its meeting on September 27, 2023 - Feltner, Chair
Preliminary Budget Overview for Fiscal Year 2025
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