Your Thursday Budget Update

As you know by now, the trash fee took a beating last night. The pressure now turns ot the City Council. This is no easy decision fundamentally, and when you thrown in the general public ire against this (where's the public support? Is there any?), it makes a "yes" vote probably even tougher to take. You have to think right now it's not happening, but who knows what's happening behind the scenes?

Wong unveils the budget to the council tonight. We're not sure when we'll get our hands on it, but all signs point to some kind of Web link at some point. Will be tonight? Not sure about that. Tomorrow? We hope so. More on that later.

If you haven't checked it out, make sure you check out the story at Fitchburg Pride about councilors' views on an override. The general feeling: they'll unenthusiastically send it to voters, with all expectations that it will fail.