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Waltham City Council approves FY2026 municipal and school budgets, parking appropriation and revolving accounts
Summary
At a June 9 special meeting the Waltham City Council approved a $254,155,373 municipal budget and a $123,336,745 school budget, authorized a $545,069 appropriation from parking meter funds and approved revolving accounts under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 44 §53E½.
The Waltham City Council on Monday approved its fiscal year 2026 municipal budget of $254,155,373 and the school department budget of $123,336,745, authorized a $545,069 appropriation from the parking meter account and approved revolving accounts for several departments.
Councilor Anthony LaFosse, chair of the finance committee, opened the special meeting and said the council’s finance panel and other members spent two days — May 28 and June 4 — reviewing 30 department budgets before making its recommendations to the full council. “The total city budget is $378,037,187,” LaFosse said during the meeting. “We’re going to…
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