Plan to move City Hall could fall victim to city budget cutbacks; so could sidewalk and school repairs
The Globe reports on efforts by Tom Menino to deal with shrinking investment income and cuts in state aid (hmm, the story doesn't mention it, but you gotta think revenue from the auto excise tax is also dropping).
In addition to a hiring freeze, the city is looking at scaling back $120 million in planned capital improvements over the next year - such as repairs and upgrades to parks, schools and sidewalks. Also on the potential chopping block: The proposed move of City Hall to the South Boston waterfront, for which the city had budgeted several hundred thousand dollars this year just in planning costs.
In an effort to jumpstart the local economy, Menino also asked the BRA to speed up its approval for $1.9 billion worth of construction projects in the Back Bay, near South Station and Downtown Crossing, the Globe reports.
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there go the bike lanes and lockup hoops
RIP, Mayor's Bike Efforts. We barely knew ye...
I'm surprised mumbles would
I'm surprised mumbles would delay projects financed with bonds. Deval cut millions but he did not delay construction projects financed with bonds.
You think mumbles decided relocating City Hall is not justifiable?
It's not to the bonding phase yet
We're talking about the $2 million or so Menino snuck into the budget (helping, in the process, to raise doubts about Michael Flaherty's attention to detail) to study the move.
$2M Study
Gee, I'm sorry to see that cut..........
Nothing wrong with a 2
Nothing wrong with a 2 million dollar study on a multi million dollar building if your serious about it. Of course the mayor should have been more upfront about the 2 million dollars rather then trying to hide it.
I encourage all that live in the city
To help me out cracking down on all of those damn out of state registrations
http://www.mass.gov/rmv/ipaytax/index.htm
I know plenty of folks that have had registrations in my neighborhood from out of state that have lived there for the three years I have been there. I have had it with this, even if it will cost me a stamp per person I turn in.
plans to move city hall
Good riddance to a bad idea. The ONLY thing Menino and the BRA know how to build with is concrete and more concrete, which is why our beautiful city is increasingly blighted by pseudo-Soviet monstrosities. God knows what hideous post-modern pretension they'd build as a new city hall (Yes, we CAN do worse than what we've got!) Boston, like San Francisco and New Orleans and Baltimore, has a unique style of architecture that needs to be respected and drawn upon. This isn't Phoenix, Concrete Tom!
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