Budget

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• • Participatory Budgeting Cycle 6 (Vote 12/1-12/8/19) (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • November 20th, 2019
  Press Release from City of Cambridge Vote on Participatory Budgeting Projects December 1-8, 2019 How Would You Spend $1 Million to Improve Cambridge? Cambridge, MA, November 19, 2019 — Participatory Budgeting (PB) is back.  Cambridge residents age 12  or older (including all 6th graders), can vote from December 1-8, 2019 to decide how to spend $1 […]
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• • FY20 Tax Rate Executive Summary (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • October 4th, 2019
  ExecSummary FY20 From the City Manager to the Council on 10/4/19: In response to City Council requests during the Classification and Tax Rate hearing for FY19, I am providing an executive summary of FY20 recommendations.  This summary contains information on how the City has successfully minimized the impact of property taxes on taxpayers while balancing […]
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• • City Council Agenda Highlights (5/21/18) (2)
  • Jan Devereux
  • May 18th, 2018
  The Cambridge City Council will meet on Monday, May 21, 2018, at 5:30pm. At this meeting we will vote on the FY19 Budget. The agenda is online. We will not meet the following Monday (Memorial Day). City Manager’s Agenda #1 YWCA Family Shelter HUD Grant: This final $150K allocation brings the total HUD grants allocated […]
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• • Link: Finance officials remind of dangers of building only housing (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • October 5th, 2017
  We held our annual vote to approve the tax levy at the 10/2 City Council meeting. While tax payments will again remain mostly flat, the total levy ($389M) and property assessments continue to increase in large part because the commercial property tax base has continued to grow, making it possible to keep residential tax bills among the lowest in the state. That's the bargain we've struck. I am quoted in this article: "Councillor Jan Devereux wanted to hear more, considering the 'tremendous amount of political pressure' the city was facing to build more housing, making enough supply that prices remain affordable for people who want to live – and ideally buy – in Cambridge. 'But if we build a whole bunch of housing, we have to build a bunch of commercial too, right? That’s always left unsaid' by proponents, she said. 'I’d really like to see where that takes us in terms of density and population.'”
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