Beverly Meeting Digest
Beverly's city meetings, once a week, by email
What the City Council, School Committee and city boards did, and what is coming up. Built from the meeting recordings and the city's posted documents, with links so you can check any of it. Independent, not a City of Beverly publication.
One short email on Mondays: each story's headline, a sentence on what happened, and a link to the full issue. Free, and every email has an unsubscribe link.
Sent through Kit, an email service. Your address is used for the digest and nothing else.
The latest issueNo. 7 · October 26
- The Coast Guard houses on Laurel Street are headed to auction
The 16 empty Coast Guard houses on Laurel Street are listed for online auction, with no dates set, after the state and the city passed on buying them. What a buyer could do with the land under today's zoning, and how Question 7 on the November 3 ballot could change that.
- The deficit committee's ideas, sorted by how soon and how much
The Deficit Reduction Committee presented its ideas to the public for the first time. Which could come within about a year and which would take longer, with members' early estimates of how much each could save or raise, and what residents said.
- A month before the Flock contract expires, the decision is the Mayor's
The city's Flock contract expires in mid-November, and whether to renew it is the Mayor's decision, councilors heard at their second meeting on the cameras. No decision has been made. About 14 residents spoke, all asking the city to end it.
- Millbrook Road becomes a public street, and the Council next meets November 9
The Council voted 8-0 to make the private stretch of Millbrook Road a public street, put off a $20,000 funding request for the Human Rights Committee, and set its next regular meeting for November 9, a week later than usual because of the election.
- Camp Paradise: what the city plans for its 12 acres on Cole Street
A Council committee holds a public meeting tonight at 6pm on how the city uses Camp Paradise, the 12-acre former Girl Scout camp on Cole Street, and its plans for it. Background: a nonprofit's proposal for a nature center there, and the Mayor's response in January.
By James Laurenti. Privacy · Questions or corrections
Free to reuse, adapt or republish, no permission needed (CC0). A link back is appreciated, and please keep the links to recordings and documents. Feeds: every issue · every story.