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Where things stand with the Mayor’s fire station budget request heading into December

  • Posted on December 2, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

I watched last night’s Committee Chairs meeting and was able to get a better sense of the timeline for a final vote on funding for the new fire station. When…

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Police oversight and building committees fill the agenda for the Charter Review Committee.

  • Posted on December 1, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

When we last left off with the Charter Review Committee, the plan for their Nov. 23 meeting was to tackle Articles 6 and 7 of the Greenfield City Charter. However,…

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Citizen petitions and initiatives, oh my!

  • Posted on November 23, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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November 20, 2020 – The week ahead

  • Posted on November 22, 2020November 22, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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The City Council hears from GCET, funds Wisdom Way work, and continues to fret about the fire station and the library.

  • Posted on November 21, 2020November 22, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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The DPW takes the hit from a $370k cut from the FY21 Operating Budget.

  • Posted on November 21, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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The City Council partially reverses itself on Accessory Dwelling Units.

  • Posted on November 20, 2020November 21, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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The City Council approves a single property tax rate for 2021.

  • Posted on November 20, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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Posts coming over the next few days on the Nov. 18 City Council meeting.

  • Posted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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…

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The Ways & Means Committee votes for a single tax rate for FY21.

  • Posted on November 18, 2020
  • by Pete Brown

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.…

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