Comptroller James News Today

WATERTOWN — The City Council spent more than two hours Monday night deliberating the city’s fiscal year 2024-25 budget.

It would later be known for illustrations, but when the Utica Saturday Globe launched in 1881, its first edition was missing a promised sketch.

WATERTOWN — The city has sold a former auto repair shop on Factory Street that it had acquired through back taxes.

WATERTOWN — With the bidder who withdrew purchase offers after a city auction in March banned from buying Tuesday, the city sold nine vacant lots.

WATERTOWN — Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith remains pessimistic about adding 24 new positions proposed in the city’s budget.

WATERTOWN — The 24 additional positions in the proposed budget would add $1.4 million to the city’s payroll.

WATERTOWN — City Manager Kenneth A. Mix is encouraging the City Council to apply for a federal grant to hire city firefighters, calling it “a sound financial decision.”

WATERTOWN — Two new council members could lead to a different perspective on using a federal grant to hire city firefighters.

WATERTOWN — COVID-19 was supposed to wreak havoc on the city’s finances.

WATERTOWN — Two City Council members are accusing Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith of failing to tell them that he was involved in negotiations with Pamelia officials about an agreement associated