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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On January 3 at the Massachusetts State House, Framingham Mayor Charlie Sisitsky officially signed control of the Thomas Danforth Building along Union Avenue over to the state Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. Current plans are to develop the site into a regional justice center.
Esta semana no The Frame: o Finance Subcommittee ouve as mudanças propostas para as classificações e compensações de funcionários municipais, subsídios estaduais estão prontos para impulsionar programas de faculdade antecipada na Framingham State University e no Massachusetts Bay Community College, e uma revisão dos eventos recentes na State House: a nova bandeira de Framingham está pronta para ser exibida em Beacon Hill, enquanto o estado recebeu o controle de um prédio no centro da cidade para abrir caminho para um novo centro regional de justiça.
This week on The Frame: the Finance Subcommittee listens to proposed changes to municipal employee classifications and compensation, state grants are set to boost early college programs at Framingham State University and Massachusetts Bay Community College, and a review of recent events at the State House: Framingham's new flag is set to be displayed on Beacon Hill, while the state has been given control of a downtown building to pave the way for a new regional justice center.
