The week ahead: City Council will discuss Fernald property funding at final meeting of the year

Waltham’s government is wrapping up its work for 2025 — most boards and commissions have already held their last meetings for the year, and this year’s final City Council meeting is scheduled for tonight, Monday, Dec. 22.

The meeting will be a special expedited one. The council as a whole will convene at 7:30 p.m. to vote on whether to approve business from committee meetings last week as well as a request from the Community Preservation Committee for Community Preservation Act funding for the Wellington House.

It will then split into its committees to discuss new business. 

Committee agenda items include funding requests for work at the former Fernald State School property by Mayor Jeannette A. McCarthy, who is requesting the council allocate $50,000 for a golf course and approve a $6.8 million loan for roadway reconstruction. The committees will also consider another funding request from McCarthy about the former Elks Building on School Street and a donation for the Waltham Police Department from New Light Korean Church. 

After committee meetings the City Council will reconvene to act on the recommendations made in committees.

When the City Council reconvenes in January, at-large councilors Kathy McMenimen and Tom Stanley won’t return with it; on Jan. 4, Inauguration Day, councilors-elect Emma Tzioumis and Tim King will take their seats on the council.