While writing my post about the Accessory Dwelling Unit zoning amendment, I made a note for myself that I should also spend some time digging into the issue of citizen…
With the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s going to be a light week, both for municipal meetings and for posting on this site. There are two meetings I’ll be keeping an eye…
Despite the amount of time they consumed, the DPW cuts, Accessory Dwelling Units, and Greenfield’s tax classification were not the only topics the City Council addressed on Wednesday evening. Wisdom…
A third major item on the City Council’s November 18 agenda (two others being Greenfield’s tax classification and Accessory Dwelling Unit zoning amendments) was a bucket of cuts to the…
Also on the agenda for the November 18 City Council meeting was yet another revisitation of Greenfield’s Accessory Dwelling Unit zoning ordinance. What’s the issue? For the full backstory of…
One of the many items up for discussion at the Greenfield City Council’s November 18 regular meeting was whether city would stay with a single property tax rate. The motion…
Last night’s meeting of the City Council ran more than four hours, and it is taking me a while to get through the entire recording. Look for multiple posts coming…
About half of last night’s meeting of the Ways & Means Committee of the City Council was devoted to discussion of the the city’s tax classification for the coming year.…
I have felt for a while that news coverage of politics and current events would benefit from the “Previously on…” segments that happen at the beginning of every episode of…
I managed to catch pieces and parts of the School Committee’s Budget & Finance Subcommittee meeting this morning. The main agenda item for the meeting was an update on the…