Framingham Mayor Unexpectedly Slashes FY25 Capital Budget

This seems very unwise, deferring critical infrastructure maintenance, making the giant backlog worse, and raising downstream cost.

A previous article explained how the Mayor and City Councilors King and Cannon were laboring under a serious misconception that Proposition 2 ½ restricts the FY25 city tax levy increase to 2.5%, and how such a mistake completely distorts the city approach to the FY25 operating budget, increasing the likelihood of serious damage to city operations and th…