Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais released his proposed Fiscal Year 2027 city and school district budgets on Thursday night, marking the next step in Manchester’s annual municipal budget process.
As the Fiscal Year 2027 budget season continues for the Manchester School District, the Manchester Board of School Committee and the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen held a joint meeting at Manchester Memorial High School to try and iron out any confusion over questions about the proposed school district budgets.
Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais is set to provide his Fiscal Year 2027 budget presentation on Thursday night, building on the overarching vision he set earlier this year during his second inaugural address.
Each year, the Manchester School District receives an audit of its previous year’s fiscal year budget and the latest audit came with a positive note.
On Monday, U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (D-NH-01) held a small roundtable event on food prices at Diz’s on Elm Street, a conversation that quickly grew to encompass other cost-of-living issues as well.
In the days following a narrow and at times contentious vote to reconfigure a portion of Hanover Street, Ward 3 Alderman Dana Dexter is trying to reset the conversation.
In 2024, a request for 79-E tax relief was granted for the historic Dunlap Building on Elm Street. That request was never finalized and a new request from a different applicant on Tuesday was denied as the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen determined the changes that have occurred since that first request were greater than the similarity between the two requests.Â
Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais announced that the City of Manchester Commission on Child Care convened the first meeting of the City of Manchester Commission on Childcare, an advisory body of various public and private city leaders with connections to municipal government, public health, early childhood education, business, healthcare and workforce development.
A traffic redesign of a downtown area better known as the Theatre Block received support during the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen’s St. Patrick’s Day meeting, but not without plenty of opposition.
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