I spent over an hour scrubbing through this
city council meeting video (after trying to piece things together from terse
meeting minutes, trying to find out if they discussed using emergency cash to prevent school firings until the Prop 2.5 override (which will allow property taxes to be raised more than 2.5%) passes in the fall. I never found out; it seems like no?
That video web page provides no transcript, even though there are captions, possibly baked into the mp4. Maybe I'll try to pry it out tomorrow.
I'm really trying to be a basic informed citizen here, but it's really inefficient. This really is asking a lot of people who aren't retired.
That said, I did like what I heard so far from all of the city councilors (except the Old Medford guy, Scarpelli, who just complained about "waste" even though Medford has an incredibly lean budget compared to other cities its size) and the mayor. In Cambridge, they basically all suck, except maybe Azeem. One upside of not having a strong commercial sector is that business interests haven't dug in as hard.