In its first budget cycle since admitting to, and remedying, years of shoddy bookkeeping practices, the New Rochelle Public Library Board of Trustees has released its proposed spending plan for 2012-2013. The new budget calls for a 2.2 percent increase in the tax levy, a hike of $93,209. Overall spending,... Read More →
Assembly members George Latimer and Amy Paulin are hosting a public hearing on the state budget at City Hall in New Rochelle this afternoon. The hearing begins at 4 p.m. and will last till 8 p.m. Speakers have four minutes to make their case. Written comments may submitted at the… Read More →
Assembly members George Latimer and Amy Paulin will host a community meeting about the state’s 2012-13 budget on Wednesday at New Rochelle City Hall. The meeting, at which members of the public may air their thoughts on the budget for up to four minutes, will take place in the Council… Read More →
The New Rochelle City Council has appointed the members of its new Citizens’ Panel on Sustainable Budgets. Todd Kern, founder of 2Revolutions LLC, described as an “education design lab,” will serve as the panel’s chairman. Mayor Noam Bramson, who announced the appointments on his website on Tuesday, proposed the idea… Read More →
Stephen Mayo, who ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the New Rochelle City Council in the last election, has filed an article 78 lawsuit claiming the city’s new garbage collection fee is unfair and illegal. Mayo plans to hold a press conference Tuesday morning in front of City Hall. In… Read More →
The New Rochelle City Council adopted the 2012 budget Tuesday night by a vote of 5 to 2. Republicans Louis Trangucci and Richard St. Paul, the latter casting his last votes as a member of the City Council, were the two dissenters. Al Tarantino, the third Republican on the council,... Read More →
The New Rochelle City Council on Tuesday spared another position it had planned to cut. Discussing the 2012 budget in advance of the public hearing on the topic, council members and City Manager Charles Strome III revealed, once again, that they had overestimated the amount the state-mandated health insurance rates… Read More →
New Rochelle’s City Council on Tuesday decided to preserve six firefighter positions as well as New Rochelle’s 18 crossing guards in 2012, reversing cost-saving plans to cut the positions. City Manager Charles Strome III told council members, who are finalizing the 2012 budget, the city would have to spend about… Read More →
School budget season is coming and the Pelham Board of Education wants to hear from its constituents. The district has scheduled four public meetings over the next few weeks at which board members will discuss the budget process, talk about the newly imposed 2-percent property tax cap and take suggestions… Read More →
New Rochelle’s school budget passed by nearly a 2-1 margin Tuesday night. Voters also approved the library budget and elected Naomi Brickel and Rachel Relkin to the Board of Education. Brickel and Relkin were among six candidates vying for two seats left open by Board President Sara Richmond and Board… Read More →
