{"id":1409,"date":"2024-10-25T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2024-10-27T22:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:36:57","slug":"action-item-write-to-the-mayor-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/2024\/10\/25\/action-item-write-to-the-mayor-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Item! Write to the Mayor & City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The City of Northampton will soon certify $6-8 million in excess revenue. During the certification process, the state counts and verifies a city’s leftover tax dollars unspent or underestimated the previous year. Those excess funds will become part of the city’s spendable cash, also called “Free Cash.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northampton has generous savings accounts within several Stabilization Funds<\/a> that accumulate monies through interest. Students attending Northampton Public Schools need the City of Northampton to allocate funds for more support now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOS – Support Our Schools<\/strong> requests that the Mayor allocate funds to Northampton Public Schools to restore positions that were cut for the FY25 School Budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informed city residents know it is fully within the Mayor’s power to present a financial order that would reallocate funds from the $6-8 million to Northampton Public Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the City Council can urge the Mayor to create this order, and then vote to make it a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please support Northampton Public Schools by writing to the Mayor and City Council using the email template below as a starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 2024 The City of Northampton will soon certify $6-8 million in excess revenue. During the certification process, the state counts and verifies a city’s leftover tax dollars unspent or underestimated the previous year. Those excess funds will become part of the city’s spendable cash, also called “Free Cash.” Northampton has generous savings accounts within […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}