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Council rejects $36 million debt-exclusion ballot question for Northeast Metro Tech

Malden City Council · January 14, 2026
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The council voted 2–9 against placing a $36 million debt-exclusion question on a special municipal election ballot to fund construction of the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School; finance committee had recommended against it citing overlap with a separate override question and voter confusion.

The Malden City Council voted 2–9 to reject an order that would have placed a proposed $36,000,000 debt-exclusion ballot question on a special municipal election ballot to pay for construction of the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School.

Clerk read Paper 434-25 describing the question and the proposed ballot language. Councilor McDonald, chair of the finance committee, said the committee unanimously recommended the paper unfavorably because the question would add…

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