Newton Aldermen voted last night to approve the schematic design for the new Zervas School and to appropriate $36,585,000 to pay for it, Wicked Local’s Jim Morrison reports.
Ultimately, the site design passed 16-6, with two absent. Board members Ted Hess-Mahan, Amy Sangiolo, Jim Cote, Emily Norton, Brian Yates and Dick Blazar voted against approval.
The appropriation vote, which required at least 16 votes in the affirmative, was approved 19-3. Yates, Blazar and Norton voted against the appropriation.
Looks like the Zervas Express has left the station, as planned by the Newton School Committee under the jurisdiction of Dori and Susie many years past…
Just for fun, listen to the Zervas Express
What a sad day for Newton. Only 3 aldermen voted against this extremely costly and ill advised project. I received a letter from the assessors’s office last month reminding me as a home owner that my property tax was due to rise as of Jan. 1st 2014. Never have I received such an ominous letter. My annual increase will not be the usual amount but the increase will double according to Dromey.
Now I am getting the picture. Setti pleads for a tax increase beyond the legal 2 and a half per cent. Then he quickly begins to spend our taxes in extravagant and reckless ways.
My husband and I just retired. Our income is significantly less. It is just a matter of time until we are compelled to move away from Newton.
Colleen,
I too received that letter. I also don’t recall ever having received such a dire warning ahead of time. But even if they have done so in the past, it’s really sad that there’s such a need to mentally prepare people for a major blow to their pocketbook.
Maybe they just want to make sure we allocate the money first ahead of the rising gas and electricity bills?