![]() ![]() “We are in our greatest time of need,” said Mike Young, a volunteer at the shelter.Ĭolumbia Animal Services isn’t the only shelter that is full. The so-called DIF program, established in Quincy in 2006, allows the city to pay for downtown infrastructure projects by borrowing against the projected future property assessments and repay the loans with property tax revenue exclusively from the city’s downtown district.Columbia Animal Services recently reached full capacity and is making extra efforts to increase adoption and avoid euthanization. Wollaston Center: Quincy moving ahead with Wollaston revitalization effortsĭowntown: Quincy defends little-used Generals Bridge, say it 'wasn't built for today' Mahoney said she'd like an update on how bonds sought through the city's district-improvement financing program have been used downtown before the city potentially establishes a second district in the Wollaston area. ![]() She asked for a presentation on the status of the animal shelter project as well as an update on how $3.5 million appropriated for the project years ago has been spent. Mahoney said she's heard rumors that the Quincy Animal Shelter is moving ahead with a temporary location, but that the council has been given no updates. Tiki bar included: $4.5M Squantum waterfront home in the Top 5 South Shore sales this week 'It's complicated': Little progress made on plans for new Quincy Animal Shelter Mayor Thomas Koch last year said finding a workable site for the shelter has been more difficult than anticipated, and said the shelter will likely need to find an interim space between when the police station project starts and its own building can go up. The Quincy Animal Shelter on Broad Street will move to make way for a proposed public safety complex. A plan to build a new $7.1 million shelter circulated several years ago, but only half of that money was ever approved by city councilors and no new plan has been brought before them. The shelter is in a small building on Broad Street that is scheduled to be torn down to make way for a new police station. Little progress has been made on efforts to rebuild the Quincy Animal Shelter that have been in the works since 2017. "If we are going to have a conversation about the retirement system in general, we should probably broaden the conversation to include whether or not the city pensioners would be better served in investing their retirement funds in the state-governed system, rather than the local-governed system," Palmucci said. Roughly $450 million borrowed by the city last year to fully fund Quincy's pension system is under the management of PRIM. Palmucci also asked the board to come prepared to discuss whether it would make sense to move money managed by the Quincy Retirement Board into the management of PRIM, state Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. Quincy: Hackers broke into city servers, demanded money in exchange for data ![]() ![]() 11: Quincy city pension investment manager lost $3.5 million in an email phishing scam The Quincy board didn't discover the fraud until eight months later.įeb. The email included instructions for a $3.5 million wire transfer, which the manager made in February 2021. The Quincy Retirement Board is under investigation by the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission after one of the board's investment managers received an email from a former employee's board email account, which had been hacked. Palmucci on Monday formally asked representatives from the Quincy Retirement Board to come before the council to discuss the loss of $3.5 million in an email phishing scheme that was not disclosed to councilors or the public at the time it happened. Fellow councilors supported their requests. QUINCY – City councilors say it's time they get an update on what the retirement board is doing to recoup $3 million lost in an email phishing scheme, what the plans are to relocate the Quincy Animal Shelter and how money borrowed through the district-improvement financing program is spent.Ĭity Councilor-at-Large Anne Mahoney and Ward 4 Councilor Brian Palmucci brought several resolutions to the city council Monday asking to be updated on a number of projects and ongoing issues in the city. ![]()
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