Greetings!

 

Mayor Koch has submitted the City's budget to the City Council for approval and the Council will hold a series of finance committee meetings as well as a public hearing. The Council is able to make cuts to the budget but cannot allocate spending or add to the budget. Prior to tonight's City Council meeting, a public hearing is being held to discuss implementing a local meals tax of .75%. If the matter passes the Council, Mayor Koch has committed these funds to the stabilization fund (i.e. rainy day fund) and debt services (which pays for the debt on capital improvement projects such as Quincy High School). Please let me know your thoughts on this matter. Mayor Koch has decided not to implement a proprety tax increase and the local meals tax is a tool the state gives to cities to raise revenue locally. Mayor Koch and Municipal Finance Director Nick Puleo have held many meetings in the City to discuss Quincy's financial situation. I attended the meeting held two weeks ago at the Merrymount School and invite all Ward One residents to attend Wednesday's meeting at the Houghs Neck Congregational Church.

 

In other City business, the Department of Environmental Protection has published a public notice relative to the City's application for the Town River/Thayer Rowing Center Project. Ward One also has two projects pending with the Conservation Commission.

 

Public notice is hereby given of the application by the City of Quincy Parks Department to construct and maintain a public park, rowing center and storage and staging area for lobsterman. Included in the proposal is the construction and maintenance of a pile supported pier, ramp and float, as part of the rowing center and a gangway and float to support the lobstermen usage at 610 Southern Artery in the municipality of Quincy in and over filled and flowed tidelands of the Town River, within the Town River Designated Port Area. The proposed use of the project is to provide docking and boating access to navigable waters; public access to waterfront open space for passive recreational purposes; and is a water dependent project.

 

The Department will consider all written comments on this Waterways application received by May 28, 2010. Failure of any aggrieved person or group of ten citizens or more to submit written comments to the Waterways Regulation Program by the Public Comment deadline will result in the waiver of any right to an adjucatory hearing in accordance with 310 CMR 9.13(4)c.

 

Additional information regarding this application may be obtained by contacting Waterways Regulation program at 617-292-5500. Project plans and documents for this application are on file with the Waterways Regulation Program for public viewing, by appointment only, at the address below. Written comments must be addressed to David Slagle, MASS DEP-WRP, One Winter Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02108.

 

The Conservation Commission will meet on Wednesday, May 19th at 7:30pm in the Conference Room, the  Kennedy Center (formerly Beechwood Community Center), 440 East Squantum Street, Quincy, MA. The public is invited to attend.

 

Request for Determination of Applicability filed by Jay B. Gould for the installation of a new, 20'0" extension to the existing paved driveway, on property located at 178 Rhoda Street, Quincy, MA - 100-Foot Buffer Zone to Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage

 

Request for Determination of Applicability filed by Dale Hausman for the installation of an approximately 15'0" x 30'0" brick patio, on sand (no mortar), on property located at 10 St. Germain Street, Quincy, MA - Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage(V-Zone); Coastal Bank and 100-Foot Buffer Zone of Coastal Bank and Beach

This event is hosted by the Houghs Neck Community Council, Bay State Community Services, End Drug Abuse Now and Impact Quincy and will be held at the Houghs Neck Congregational Church Hall, 310 Manet Ave.