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Community organizations and the general public will have the opportunity to take a more active role in the spending of federal coronavirus relief money as Pittsfield opens project applications.
Commissioner of Public Services and Utilities Ricardo Morales said his department is studying traffic patterns, biking patterns, and car and pedestrian accidents and will be ready to present its findings in a presentation to the City Council at the end of the spring.
The new School Committee has its work cut out for it with a school safety study, staffing and sub shortages, the coronavirus and a new budget season.
When the coronavirus pandemic began many of the daily school, shopping and municipal tasks that occurred face-to-face moved online, exacerbating “the digital divide." City officials hope to remedy that with a new public Wi-Fi network.
The new council and committee will hit the ground running next week with their first meetings. Here are some of the biggest pieces of business handled by each group in 2021 that new city leaders may want to study up on for the coming year.
The location change from City Hall to the college theater was made in an effort to make the in-person event more COVID-safe as the omicron variant continues to move through the community and country.
Pittsfield received about 11,000 kits. North Adams got 4,500. Both cities are trying to reach residents who really need the free tests.
Mayor Linda Tyer selected familiar faces in Deanna Ruffer, the Community Development director, and Gina Armstrong, the former Health Department director, to oversee the city's use of almost $41 million in American Rescue Plan Act money.
Increasing coronavirus cases throughout Pittsfield landed the city back on the state's red list of communities with high risk for coronavirus transmission — a title the city hasn't held since January.
The City Council voted Tuesday to adopt Mayor Linda Tyer's original tax rates, voting against using additional money from the city's free cash account to lower the tax levy further.
