The City Council's Finance Subcommittee met on the evening of January 15, 2026, to address reorganization, budget preparations, a consultant contract for CFO support, school roof funding, storm reporting, and scheduling for upcoming budget discussions. The subcommittee voted to approve a $75,000 transfer for an interim CFO consultant, authorize $125,000 for the Brophy Elementary School roof feasibility study, and set an aggressive meeting schedule for the next 11 weeks as the city faces a projected budget deficit.
The finance subcommittee of the city council is comprised of five council members and considers any or all questions appropriate for the purpose of considering the budget. Including the creation of new positions to the payroll, changes to the employee classification plan, or any matters pertaining to increasing the City of Framingham employee head count. The following City Council Finance Subcommittee meeting coverage is brought to you by the government channel. A service of the City of Framingham. All right, good evening, and we will start the City Council's finance subcommittee meeting of January 15, 2026. I am in the seat of chairing this meeting at this time because I am the longest serving member along Mr. Cannon, but uh my age beats up. Mr. Cannon once again, so I think my mere hours. Yeah, right. Decades. Not quite decades. Anyways, um so before we get to our agenda, I guess I'll just go in the order of the agenda. So we take public participation first. Uh there's no one in the room to participate. And uh Mr. Bloomfield, I see on Zoom. Go ahead, Mr. Bloomfield. You have three minutes. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you. Uh we are a max two and a half tax increase. FY27. They have a large projected city and school FY27 budget deficit. Non-essential spending will not be allowed. No room for errors or omission. Establish best employee utilization across the apartment line. MMA, not essential. Specialist, consultants, check credentials, sell out deliverables, show evidence of work performance. Get by monthly oversight reports. Working off site. Possible delays and errors. Deacon Hill having ongoing management crisis problem. City Council Finance. At this point, everything needs to be tight as a whistle, especially new contracts. RFPs are essential and mandatory. It must be in place, etc. Lastly, a woman from uh Arthur Street. Raised the issue of child children going to school at the joint budget committee meeting. More police coverage is necessary to ensure children are getting to school safely. There's too much uh traffic in the areas that you have for and indicated no uh substantial police enforcement happening, and more police need to be in that area or all areas of the city for that matter. Uh needs uh needs to be determined. Please have the police department before you show them at perhaps the very next meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, seeing no the public participation.