Here is a complete blip.tv video of the 9/10/09 meeting of Northampton’s Planning Board. The first portion is a joint meeting with the City Council’s Ordinance Committee. A discussion of who should make decisions on heavy public uses takes place from 0:00:00-1:49:24 on the video. For the result, see the quote below from the 9/11/09 Gazette. This recording was made by Mimi Odgers of […]
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Here is a complete blip.tv video of the 9/3/09 meeting of Northampton’s City Council. This video is 2 hours 23 minutes long and was recorded by Mimi Odgers of Water Not Waste. Video highlights:0:05:00-0:08:24… Mimi Odgers speaks in the public comment period. She objects to the wording of a landfill ballot question proposed by Councilors Jim […]
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Here is a blip.tv video of the 8/31/09 meeting of Northampton’s Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims. This committee is a subcommittee of the City Council. The video is 1 hour 8 minutes long. We join the meeting just a few minutes after the start. The video was recorded by Mimi Odgers of Water […]
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The Northampton Mayor’s office has just announced that the final settlement agreement to purchase the homes near the landfill has been made public and posted on the city website at this address:http://www.northamptonma.gov/dpw/Landfill/The link is called: “Final Settlement Agreement to purchase homes by landfill, May 2009”. You may also download this agreement here (PDF, 403KB) or view […]
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Northampton’s City Council plans to discuss the following non-binding question for the November 3 ballot at its September 3 meeting (City Council Chambers, 212 Main Street, 7:15pm).See also:Video: Special Meeting of the Board of Public Works and the City Council, 8/21/09; Landfill Ballot Question No. 2The claim that there will be “no new environmental risk […]
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Here is a 1 hour 13 minute blip.tv video from the 8/21/09 special meeting of the Northampton Board of Public Works and members of City Council. This video was recorded by Lachlan Ziegler. The participants discussed the language of a City Council-sponsored nonbinding question for the November election ballot regarding the proposed expansion of the municipal […]
Here is a complete blip.tv video of the 8/20/09 Northampton City Council meeting. This video is 1 hour 37 minutes long and was recorded by Benjamin Spencer. Here is the official agenda of the meeting:Pertaining to the “Heavy Public Use” ordinance cited above, here is the draft of the ordinance that was circulated with the […]
Continue reading Video: City Council Meeting of 8/20/09; Local Option Meals and Hotel Taxes
Here is a complete blip.tv video of the 8/17/09 public information meeting on landfill options. This video is 1 hour 48 minutes long and was recorded by Lachlan Ziegler.From the official description: “The Board of Public Works is hosting a public informational meeting relating to the recently completed Solid Waste Managment Alternatives Study. The first […]
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The recently issued Solid Waste Management Alternatives Study (PDF, 2.7MB) is 145 pages long, so if you can’t read the whole thing before tonight’s information session (7pm, JFK Middle School Community Room), be sure to read pages 2.10 and 6.82-6.86 as shown below, plus the summary on pages 10.130-10.138.Table 2-1 suggests that at 34%, Northampton’s […]
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These two blip.tv videos (part 1, part 2) cover the complete 8/13/09 meeting of Northampton’s Planning Board. The recording was made by Ben Spencer. The first video is 1 hour 28 minutes long and addresses these agenda items: 7:00 P.M. Request by Marge Curello for Special Permit/Site Plan Amendment to change the house plans/elevations for the single […]
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