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Council debates whether $3M Boston Mills connector is a park trail or general-fund sidewalk

Hudson City Council · January 17, 2026
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Summary

Hudson councilors disagreed over funding for a roughly $3 million project along Boston Mills: staff say ~ $2.1 million will come from the parks fund while others argued the work functions primarily as a sidewalk and should be funded by the general fund. Council asked staff and the park board to return with prioritized criteria and a workshop on options.

Council members spent the retreat’s first substantive block debating how to classify and pay for a nearly $3 million pathway project along Boston Mills that staff describe as a multipurpose trail but several councilors called essentially a sidewalk.

Tom, a city staff member who outlined the project, said the whole job is a little over $3 million and that the current budget splits about $2.1 million from parks funds, roughly $550,000 from the general fund and just under $300,000 from a neighborhood…

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