Finance Subcommittee’s recommended budget of $358.8 million was sent to a second reading.
FRAMINGHAM - The full 11-member Framingham City Council began its review of the fiscal year 2025 operating budget for the city during their meeting at the Memorial Building on Tuesday, May 21.
The recommended FY25 budget currently stands at $358,840,477, which represents a nearly $15 million increase from the FY24 budget. A 2.5% tax levy increase, which is projected to produce an additional $5.3 million in revenue compared to last year, is included in the budget pitch.
One change to the budget was made during the City Council Finance Subcommittee’s meeting on May 14, as the group approved a removal of $200,000 from the city’s reserve fund by a 3-2 vote. At-Large City Councilor and Chair of the Finance Subcommittee George King explained to the full City Council on Tuesday that the decision was based off of previous spending.
“The reason we did that was that: it’s a $400,000 reserve fund,” King said at the Memorial Building.
“It’s a fund that (the City Council controls). We really haven’t utilized it in recent years, and if money was needed in any larger amounts, there are other places we can get money. It’s really just more of a symbolic cut.”
The FY25 budget was not finalized by the City Council, as the group voted to pass it along to a second reading. In the meantime, District 4 City Councilor Michael Cannon urged his colleagues and Mayor Charlie Sisitsky’s administration to consider financial factors like inflation and state aid while looking at the budget again.
“I am truly hopeful that as we go forward to the second reading,” Cannon continued, “we can just have another look and see if there are some ways that maybe some of the things that we thought were mission critical for the coming fiscal year, perhaps, can wait a little bit longer, be done a little bit differently, and we don’t set a precedent by passing along the largest spending increase in the history of the City of Framingham.”
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Framingham's Troop 12 announced last week they would be establishing their first girls' troop.
Esta semana no The Frame: O prefeito Sisitsky informa que o plano de construir um novo centro comunitário sofreu um revés devido à falta de financiamento federal, uma licença especial para construir um prédio residencial de três andares perto do Lago Waushakum foi negada pelo Conselho de Apelações de Zoneamento e uma olhada na Tropa 12 de Framingham, enquanto meninos e meninas locais progridem de escoteiros para escoteiros.
This week on The Frame: Mayor Sisitsky advises that the plan to build a new community center has hit a setback due to a lack of federal funding, a special permit to build a three-story residential building by Waushakum Pond is denied by the Zoning Board of Appeals, and a look at Framingham’s Troop 12, as both local boys and girls progress from cub scouts to scouts.
