Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer presented her $175.5 million operating budget to the Pittsfield City Council Tuesday in what was the first budget hearing of the season.
The Pittsfield City Council doesn't want to rush into making a $74 million decision. IBerkshires.com reports that Mayor Linda Tyer has introduced a petition calling for the borrowing of that amount of money for a massive wastewater treatment system project.
A year and a half and a dozen or so meetings later, Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer’s trash proposal is pretty much back where it began. IBerkshires.com reports that the City Council returned the proposal to overhaul the city’s garbage collection system back to Tyer, asking for a revised plan.