Andrea Sarvela
16 May 2024
Episode

The Frame: May 16, 2024

This week on The Frame: updates on plans for a new community center in Framingham, the Planning Board prepares for a public hearing regarding a downtown apartment proposal, and the search for a new Library Director is down to two. Plus: an interview with At-Large City Councilor George King amid the review process for the city’s 2025 fiscal year budget. All of that and more on The Frame: Framingham News in Focus.

This week on The Frame: updates on plans for a new community center in Framingham, the Planning Board prepares for a public hearing regarding a downtown apartment proposal, and the search for a new Library Director is down to two. Plus: an interview with At-Large City Councilor George King amid the review process for the city’s 2025 fiscal year budget. All of that and more on The Frame: Framingham News in Focus.

Further articles

Currently outside of Framingham State’s Danforth Art Museum are a set of bright pink chairs—they’re called the Conversation Chairs, and they’re meant to initiate dialogues between neighbors and to inspire participants to draw representations of what those talks featured.

Following a community meeting on Monday, leaders on the project noted the first phase of construction into Framingham should hopefully begin in 2029.

With a 1.69% CIP shift—which was the same shift seen in FY25—residential taxpayers are slated to pay $11.91 per $1,000 of appraised property value. Commercial property owners would pay $24.13 per $1,000.