PITTSFIELD The Pittsfield Public Virtual Academy served hundreds of students this past school year, with a focus on the medically comprised. Now, the School Committee is weighing whether to
PITTSFIELD The City Council Tuesday accepted the budgets for the fire department and emergency management, then debated the Pittsfield Police Department funding request following calls during the public comment
PITTSFIELD â The City Council Tuesday accepted the budgets for the fire department and emergency management, then debated the Pittsfield Police Department funding request following calls during the public comment portion of the meeting to probe and reduce areas of police spending.
Councilors had not conducted a final vote on the police budget by press time, after power outages kicked some councilors off of the Zoom meeting and prompted the council to break for two recesses.
By unanimous vote, the council signed off Mayor Linda Tyerâs proposed $8,781,434 million budget for the fire department for next fiscal year, up 4.2 percent over this fiscal year, and her $26,400 level-funded request for emergency management. The council accepted the budgets without much discussion, but with praise for Fire Chief Thomas Sammons and his department.
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PITTSFIELD â A trio of councilors is taking a crack at dealing with one of the cityâs perennial issues â curbside trash collections.
A new ordinance proposed by Councilors Peter Marchetti, Pete White and Earl Persip III would place the cityâs trash pickup under a bag-based âpay-as-you-throwâ system.
If the ordinance is approved, residents would be required to place their garbage inside an official trash bag, either in or out of barrels, before it can be removed by haulers. Residents would receive coupons that would allow them to purchase two 15-gallon bags per week â a total of 104 each year â at cost, which shakes out to about 24 to 28 cents each, Marchetti told The Eagle.