Local Government Update, August 2026
Discover the latest Watertown government moments, stories, and numbers in this relaxed but informative conversation with Tyler Cote, the Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the City of Watertown, and Victoria Weichel from WCA-TV.
Released August 14th, 2026
(Click here to listen on streaming apps) (Full transcript below)
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Links mentioned in the episode:
Watertown Square Improvements Website
Watertown Affordable Housing Trust
10th Middlesex District House of Representatives Debate
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Transcript
Matt 0:02
Hi there. Welcome to the Little Local Conversations Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Hanna. Every episode I sit down for a conversation to discover the people, places, stories, and ideas of Watertown. This episode is one of the monthly local government updates that I do with Tyler Cote, the Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the city, and Victoria Weichel over at WCA-TV. So let's jump right in.
Matt 0:27
Welcome to the Local Government Update. I'm here as always with Tyler.
Tyler 0:30
Hello.
Matt 0:31
And Victoria.
Victoria 0:31
Hello.
Matt 0:32
And we're here to talk about things for the month of August 2026. Since you have a couple things to drop, how about you start us off, Tyler?
Tyler 0:41
Yeah. Moments from the past month, I'll bring up two. One of them, very recent, and actually happened in August. The city council held their initial discussion, sitting as the redevelopment authority, last night as the time of this recording, actually. So it was on August 10th, to discuss the demonstration project and specifically discuss the central question of do we want a garage? Do we move forward with a garage? Council President Sideris started the conversation last night with a statement where he mentioned that the central question is do we want a garage? And before we can answer questions about what the garage looks like, or even discussing some of the other elements of the plan, there needs to be a conversation and a decision about do we want to move forward with a parking garage?
Tyler 1:28
And the area that we're talking about is the area behind CVS and Watertown Square that is a municipal parking lot there. And the conversation last night, I thought, was very insightful. I appreciate everybody that came out. There were no decisions made. There were no votes taken. Council President Sideris was very clear in that this was an initial discussion. This is something that is going to continue. We will have more information about when the next meeting is coming sometime soon. You can always watch a recording of the meeting where you can see all the public comment that was given, the brief presentation from the city manager talking about what a garage can do for downtowns when they're added in for bringing in visitors or even just allowing people that live in the city to access centralized parking to visit some of the local businesses in the area as well.
Tyler 2:19
I recommend going and checking out WCA-TV's coverage as soon as that is live. And then you'll also be able to find that on the Watertown Square Improvements.com website, which I will ensure is in the show notes as well. So appreciate WCA-TV's coverage. And then please keep an eye out for when the next meeting is going to happen. Continue to reach out to our project team if you have any questions. And this is just one of many opportunities that you're going to have and have had to give feedback and give perspective into what it is that you would like to see happening in town. So that was one of the moments of the past month that I wanted to give a shout out to.
Tyler 2:55
But also, I do want to mention, because I know that Matt, you did a podcast with myself and some of my colleagues and some of our local partners on this. And then I've talked about it on this podcast a bunch as well. Treaty Day, it happened. Recording this on August 11th, it feels both like it was last weekend and also, you know, a year ago. It's a very odd feeling. But this was really the first year that the city got very actively involved in the planning process, something that the Historical Society of Watertown were very much the leaders on, and they were very much a leader in this year as well. But we jumped in to participate in the planning. And I thought that the event itself on Saturday, the 18th, was a resounding success in July, held over at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.
Tyler 3:42
We had some drumming, we had a musket salute from the Watertown Provincial Guard. We had over 50 Native partners come down from modern day Maine and Canada to visit and participate. We had leaders from the Massachusetts, the Mi'kmaq, we had representatives from the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy all speaking on the day and sharing the impacts, the contemporary and historical impacts of this treaty and how it very much is continuing to today in some really meaningful ways. There are so many people to thank, so I'm not going to use this podcast to run down a list of several people, but I do want to thank everybody that was involved in the planning. And I do want to thank everybody that came to the Mosesian Center for the Arts last month and participated.
Tyler 4:31
One of the big pieces of feedback that we received from our Native partners was how impressed they were at the community turnout for something like this, and feeling that it was really an opportunity for them to be heard on the ways that this treaty has impacted their lives for generations. It was very much an alliance of friendship, which is the first line in the treaty. So the chance for all of us to get together, commemorate what the treaty is, what it means, 250 years of it, and just renew that friendship that has remained strong. And thanks to the Historical Society for keeping it strong. But for ourselves, our city leaders, had representatives from Senator Markey's office there giving remarks as well about the importance of this treaty. And then our Native partners as well, found it to be just a resounding success.
Tyler 5:24
So I recommend if you've missed anything, whether it was some of the lead up events, previous years events, or there's a short documentary that was made by WCA-TV, please visit WCA-TV's website. I'll make sure that that is linked in the show notes. So I'll ask that Matt links it in the show notes for me. But I'm so grateful, very, very happy how everything went and very grateful for everybody in the community that came out and were part of something that I felt was really special.
Matt 5:50
Yeah. Any, when you say moment for the past month, is there any one like snippet of a moment from that day that sticks out for you?
Tyler 5:58
I think something that really moved me was Rose Basque, who is a widow of the late Will Basque, who served in the United States Armed Forces because of the treaty, gave him the right to do so. And he had written a poem back, forgive me, I believe it was the 80s or 90s, about his time in Vietnam and how there have been members of the Mi'kmaq, a part of United States Armed Forces through all of these incredibly important events through history, and that they have been there, had just as important of a role as the other veterans that served. And she recited the poem.
Tyler 6:42
It was just incredibly moving hearing her read it and give that perspective. And also, that's real life, that's a real life example, real life impact of what that treaty has meant. And Rose has been coming to Watertown for the last few years as a part of this. And she's been such an incredible partner in the planning of this entire thing. And in the planning, we have been talking about okay, then Rose is going to read the poem, Sma'knis. And, you know, you talk about these things as okay, now this is going to happen. It's just kind of like an item on the agenda. And then when she gets up there and starts reading it, you know, it was really moving to hear her words or recite Will's words, I should say, her late husband's words. And it was a great example of what both that event and the treaty were really meant to capture, which is those lasting impacts for generations and generations.
Matt 7:32
Nice. All right, Victoria. What do you have for your moment?
Victoria 7:37
So my two moments regarding school committee and city council. So the first one is school committee. They gave some updates regarding student services improvements. So the first one is like creating an ad hoc committee on student services. This ad hoc committee has four priorities: collaboration and family engagement, high expectation and practices, training and skills development, and resource allocation. They also approved the interim director of student services, Kristen Beaupre. She has over 25 years of experience and has previously served as an interim special education coordinator at Newman Elementary School in Needham.
Victoria 8:14
And my second moment is during the last city council meeting, City Council approved the water and sewer rate. There was a 4.5 increase that was higher than expected, from miscalculations from the city consultants. The council is expressed upset with the constant increases through water and sewers and wants to work with DPW to find solutions so the increases don't keep happening, especially large increases like this.
Matt 8:42
Gotcha. All right. So we had a lot of moments, surprisingly, for the middle of the summer there. Let's move along to our success stories. Tyler, what do you have for a success story?
Tyler 8:53
Yeah, so this is one that I'm excited to share. Actually, I had mentioned it for the first time on this podcast back in February after the city manager and city council president went to the statehouse to give testimony, along with Representative Steve Owens and Representative John Lawn to the Joint Committee on Revenue at the State House about this incredibly complicated and detailed tax split bill, as I'll refer to it for the rest of this conversation. So just at the end of July, on July 30th or July 31st, the governor signed into law this complicated tax bill after passing the House and the Senate over the course of July. Since the moment that City Council President Sideris and City Manager Proakis went and gave testimony, Reps Lawn and Owens, and then Senator Brownsberger and the Senate have been working tirelessly to try and explain this really challenging and complicated bill to their colleagues and explain why this should be passed in the benefit of Watertown's residential taxpayers.
Tyler 9:57
If I can explain it as quickly and simply as I possibly can, and both of you, please check me at any moment if it's making no sense at all or if it's going on too long. Matt, you're the editor. You can just cut me out at any point.
Matt 10:10
We now cut to a message from our partners.
Tyler 10:14
So in 2024, the Commonwealth granted Watertown a reprieve from this very rare lever in the tax bill that is decades old and it limited the amount that Watertown was able to shift their tax rate between the commercial properties and then residential properties. The shifting of the tax is something that is done by other communities as well. Boston does it, Newton does it. This is something that's common. Especially with Watertown post-2015 or so, with a lot of the new development that led to a lot of new growth, leading properties being added into the tax levy and all those things happening over the last decade or so, what had happened was this like very old lever in the law was triggered.
Tyler 11:05
Because when this law was put into law back in the 80s, it was during a time when Watertown's, like one of Watertown's largest commercial areas is the Arsenal. At the time, that was untaxable land, because that was government property that has obviously since turned into taxable land and has turned into one of the larger commercial districts in our city, right? So what has happened is because so much growth and because the reality of our tax base over the course of the last 40 years has shifted so much for reasons like the Arsenal, essentially what ended up happening was anytime that new tax growth was happening in Watertown, specifically with commercial tax growth, a lot of that tax was being pushed onto our residential properties, which honestly was unfair to the residential properties for taking on that burden, essentially, for the new growth.
Tyler 12:01
I don't want me to come across as suggesting this new growth is a bad thing. This was, there's so many benefits, and there has been so many benefits for the city. So I don't want this to be perceived of me saying new growth is bad because it's led to a lot of our schools, a lot of the school projects that we've done over the last several years, and has been a great success story for Watertown that I know that Rep John Lawn has talked about on several occasions, bragging about Watertown for the strategy that they've taken on over the last decade.
Tyler 12:29
Now, in 2024, the State House ended up putting on a three-year reprieve from this rare lever in the tax law that basically only allotted us to shift, not to the full extent of what other communities were allowed to shift. And this three-year reprieve was put in to say, okay, you can shift as much as the other communities, you can ignore this very rare lever and do to the amount that some of the other surrounding communities are doing, which is great. So we've done that for three years. The three years was up, and we were coming up to that deadline. And we have now gotten to the point where, after many discussions, testimonies, as I've mentioned, and now votes at the state house in the House, the Senate, and then signing into law from the governor, a new permanent law was signed into effect that will allow the city to shift its tax rate to the maximum amount that is allowed under the law.
Tyler 13:22
So it's not changing anything in the law. It's really just allowing us to not have to abide by this one rare arcane lever that was triggered. In the end, if this hadn't been passed, we would have seen residential taxpayers would have seen an 18% increase on their tax bills. That's estimated about $1,000 on the average tax bill. So this avoids that, which is great. You'll see much more modest, that normal increase as opposed to some of these significant ones, which is great. This is just a, you know, the testimonies were done back in February. However, this is a conversation that I remember City Manager Proakis bringing up at budget hearings. There it is, said budget, for a couple of years now. So it was exciting to be able to announce that back out to the community and let them know hey, this thing that we have been talking about here for several months and even years, it's something that has passed with flying colors, sign in the law, and it's not a temporary signing. This is a permanent signing. So yeah, very exciting. I would say the definition of a success story. So we appreciate our local elected officials, both here in the city and then also Rep Lawn, Rep Owens, and Senator Brownsberger for everything they did at the state house to get this through.
Matt 14:37
Yeah. Congrats on that. Also, my son has started playing Zelda, and I feel like arcane lever is something I saw him pick up as an item.
Victoria 14:46
I was gonna say that sounds like League of Legends or something like that. Or Dungeons and Dragons.
Tyler 14:52
Yeah, that is good.
Matt 14:53
Maybe video games need to be mining more of, you know, tax language.
Tyler: 14:57
Yeah, seriously. Exactly.
Matt 15:00
Legends of the tax. Would you play that, Tyler?
Tyler 15:02
I would. Don't know how that would fly off the shelf.
Victoria 15:04
Do like D & D budget themed campaign.
Tyler 15:08
Oh, well, I would definitely do that.
Matt 15:11
All right. So now we'll move on to did you know? Tyler, what's your did you know for this month?
Tyler 15:17
Did you know that you can become a heat pump coach?
Matt 15:22
You like Uncle Sam pointing at me here?
Tyler 15:23
Yeah, for anybody. This is an audio medium, but I did point you at Matt for all of our listeners.
Matt 15:29
Uncle Sam but about heat pumps.
Tyler 15:30
Yeah. So our sustainability team in partnership with Mass Energize and Heat Smart Alliance. They just received a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. They're starting a new program using these grant funds called Electrify Watertown. This is an effort where the goal is to reduce barriers to electric heat pumps. They're going to be doing that through improved community education, improving incentives, and really just trying to help residents overcome some of those costs and motivational barriers of installing heat pumps or retrofitting their homes in any way to access heat pumps.
Tyler 16:06
This is all in line very much with our climate energy plan that we have in the city, which every time I mention, I'll say it is one of the most aggressive and impressive climate plans that you'll find in the region. Watertown takes this incredibly seriously, which we appreciate. However, the success of the climate and energy plan cannot be something that is only done in city buildings and by city employees. This is something that we very much need the support from our residents on as well. And this is one of those efforts to try and help achieve those goals.
Tyler 16:36
So with the goal of retrofitting properties and homes to reach members of the community who might be low or moderate income to access some of these services and through incentives and then working directly with a heat pump coach to help residents improve their home energy’s efficiency. They can do so. And you can do so by visiting electrifywatertown.org. I'll make sure that that is in the show notes as well. If you're interested in becoming a coach, you will receive a stipend for that work. Work will require maybe about an hour or two a week, and then training will start in November.
Tyler 17:13
If you're interested, you can go to that website, sign up, participate in being an active member of the change and of the goals that we're aiming to have here as a city and participate in a pretty cool program that other cities and towns may not be running. I think this is a really creative way of working arm in arm, hand in hand with our neighbors to try and achieve some of those goals that are listed in our climate and energy plan. So electrifywatertown.org. If you have any questions, you can always reach out to Laurel Schwab or Em Schule, who are part of our sustainability team. There are contact infos on that website as well.
Matt 17:48
Gotcha. Yeah, you need to get Sarah to mock up an image as you as Uncle Sam.
Tyler 17:53
I want you as a heat pump coach.
Matt 17:57
Let's move on to questions we get a lot. Which question are you getting a lot, Tyler?
Tyler 18:03
We're getting a lot of questions about when is early voting? We have the state primary coming up here on September 1st. So want to let everybody know that early voting is going to be taking place between August 22nd and August 28th. The times on each of those days vary. So I don't think it would be very helpful for me to just start listing off all of the times, to be honest with you. But what I'll do is I will link the city clerk's elections page in the show notes. But early voting takes place from August 22nd to the 28th. Each day will start either at 9 or 8:30 in the morning. It will always be at City Hall in the lower hearing room, which is 149 Main Street.
Tyler 18:48
Another thing to keep in mind is that voter registration will end on August 22nd, which is the same day as early voting starts at 5 p.m. for the primary. And then the vote by mail application deadline for the primary is Tuesday, August 25th at 5 p.m. as well. The state election is not till November, but the voter registration deadline for that is October 24th. So if you are wanting to get registered and you haven't yet, you can do so before the primary still, but if you are unable to do that, then you could still get registered to vote well before November. You can go onto our city clerk’s page and learn about all the different ways that you can do that, whether it's in person or online. So August 22nd to the 28th in City Hall for early voting.
Matt 19:33
Come dressed up as Uncle Sam.
Tyler 19:35
That's right. Sign up for a heat pump while you're there.
Matt 19:37
Yeah. One stop shop. All right. Number of the month. This one. One dollar.
Tyler 19:47
One singular dollar.
Matt 19:48
One singular dollar. I've been trying to think about what this could be. Trying to think, is there a place in town that does one dollar tacos on Tuesday? I don't know. What do you got for guests, Victoria?
Victoria 19:58
I'm thinking like maybe like admission to somewhere, only for a dollar. I'm trying to think of like an event that's happening where that would apply.
Tyler 20:05
Admission to an event. I will say, Victoria, you're trending towards the right target.
Victoria 20:10
I’m usually trending.
Matt 20:11
You get a lot closer than I am to the right target.
Victoria 20:15
But you got me thinking about tacos, so.
Matt 20:18
That's what I'm here for to distract.
Tyler 20:20
Yeah, if anybody knows one dollar tacos in Watertown, please let us know. Please reach out. Before I reveal the $1 as well, I will mention that I've had listeners reach out to me about the tomato eating in the park after last month's episode. So I just want to let you know you have been heard. So thank you. There are literally tens of us that will do that.
Matt 20:41
Tens of us eating tomatoes in the park watching music. You know, maybe next year for the summer concert series, you need to start a band, Tyler and the Tomato Eaters.
Tyler 20:49
There we go.
Victoria 20:49
Yeah. Encourage them to throw tomatoes at you if you’re good.
Tyler 20:53
Don't know how successful that'll be. We'll pivot off of that now. So the one dollar number of the month is the cost to ride the Watertown connector. The reason I'm bringing this up right now is because the Watertown Connector just added a new line. If you aren't familiar with the Watertown Connector, I should also mention, it is an electric shuttle that runs along Pleasant Street and Arsenal Street in Watertown. They have daily rides. And with the Arsenal Street route being new, I wanted to share, it is one dollar each way to take this ride. You can go right from Watertown Square all the way to Harvard Square for just a dollar every single day during rush hour.
Tyler 21:35
So the Pleasant Street line stops at Watertown Mews, Riverworks, Watermills, 66 Galen, or Watertown Yard, which is right on the other side of the bridge of Watertown Square, and then over to Harvard Square. It runs every 30 minutes from 430 until 730 in the evening. In the morning, it runs from 630 a.m. to about 10 a.m., give or take. And then the Arsenal street line goes from 150 Arsenal Street stops at Boulevard and Bond, which is right near Arsenal Yard, and then makes its way over to Harvard Square as well. Those rides go from 7 a.m. to about 10 a.m. And then afternoon rides go from about 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., give or take.
Tyler 22:15
You can check all those out at the Watertown Connectors webpage, which I'll make sure I link into the show notes as well. But again, you can sign up and you can buy tickets every single day on the Cricket app. We used to not have an app associated with this, but now we do. Makes it easier than ever to buy a ticket and get from point A to point B. And you can learn more at watertown-ma.gov, or you can go to the watertowntma.org website to learn more as well.
Tyler 22:41
But it is, in particular, the Arsenal Street line. This is something that, as part of the transit plan for the city, we've been looking at some of these things, and there's been a lot of support for getting some sort of public transit line going down. The MBTA does run down Arsenal, but to be able to get something that in addition goes just right from Arsenal Street over to Harvard Square has been something that people have been interested in. So this is taking advantage of hearing the input from the community and putting it into action. So appreciate the TMA for all their work as managing this. And then also Zeke Mermell, our planner on transportation, who takes a lot of time in thinking about how we can maximize some of these transit options for all of our residents. So utilize this service. It's something that is, I think, underutilized for the impressive service that it does run, especially if you work over in Harvard Square, if you want to visit there at any time. This is a quick and easy way for you to get from point A to point B.
Matt 23:36
Nice. All right. So let's move on to our department committee, et cetera, spotlight. What do we have to shine a light on this month?
Tyler 23:46
Yeah. So I want to talk a little bit about the Affordable Housing Trust, Watertown's Affordable Housing Trust. I again, I like starting off these spotlights by giving the caveat that I do not sit on them. I don't pretend to be the expert on them, but I do like to shine a little bit of the light on what it is that they're doing as much as I can. But the easiest and best way to learn about the work that they do is to go to meetings. And then you can also directly reach out to them. If you go to the Affordable Housing Trust's website or webpage on the city's website, you can always learn more and reach out.
Tyler 24:19
But the Affordable Housing Trust, they have seven trustees appointed by the city manager, confirmed by the city council. That's a process that I've talked about in the past, I believe, when highlighting our resident advisory committee. It's chaired by Cliff Cook. Cliff has worked in Cambridge's planning department for a very long time, almost 20 years, in a variety of roles. He's managed the affordable housing grant portfolio for the state for about three years as well. So he has a lot of relevant and impressive experience associated with the work that they're doing as well. They're responsible for a number of housing and specifically affordable housing topics. They're responsible for the creation, the preservation, the funding of affordable housing in Watertown, mainly aimed at benefiting low and moderate income households as much as they can.
Tyler 25:04
They advance the goal through management of the affordable housing trust funds, as well as overseeing any federal home or CDBG funds for the city for sake of not over-acronizing the conversation. I won't get too deep into this. CDBG is the community development block grant funds. And then the home refer to the West Metro Home Consortium Funds, which is a consortium of cities and towns in an area. So there's a lot there that you can definitely learn more about by going to the Affordable Housing Trust's website. That if I spend much more time on it, then this is going to be an hour and a half long episode. So it's going to be like a budget episode.
Matt 25:45
Don't need the alphabet soup.
Tyler 25:47
No, yeah. So the trust advances affordable housing through some of its role as a policy and advocacy body. So they advocate for affordable housing. They provide advice to the city council or city administration on affordable housing matters. They review affordable housing plans for development in the city. Some of the recent work that they've done on the policy front is leading some of the preparation of a new housing plan for the city, which has been submitted to the Council Committee on Human Services and Economic Development and Planning. And they've also assisted in the public process of the affordable housing incentives study. So they do a lot of the background planning work, advocacy work, giving suggestions over to the council and to the city administration, working closely with our housing planner, Will Downey, as well, who is always working hand in hand with them to make sure that it's achieving our goals and also understanding what the needs are in the community as well.
Tyler 26:39
The trust has awarded about $400,000 in trust funds to the Willow Park Redevelopment, which I believe is something that I mentioned a little bit about last month, actually, in talking about the CPC as well, who were involved in that project. Those funds will end up replacing 60 units of existing public housing, which is great, and add an additional 78 units of affordable housing. And they've awarded about $150,000 in pre-development funding for the acquisition of 108 Water Street to support the development of a 49-unit affordable housing development on the site.
Tyler 27:11
So not only are they on the advocacy policy side, but they're also making direct contributions to achieve some of the goals that they're setting out to with relation to affordable housing. So they do a lot of great work. I believe they were also involved in, there was a community conversation session, I believe it was earlier this year, about ADUs, accessory dwelling units. They were involved in that. So they do a lot of community conversation, community education. And then they do, of course, some of the direct funding side, participating in that. So a lot of amazing work coming from them. And I strongly recommend anybody that's interested in housing, interested in affordable housing and the topic and ways that we can advocate more in the city, reaching out to them. They're always open to having conversations and continuing to help serve members of our community who may be looking for services like that.
Matt 28:04
Yeah. What's the difference between like a trust, committee, a council? Like what makes it a trust?
Tyler 28:10
Yeah, it's a good question. And the specifics of it, I can't say that I have the specifics. My assumption is the relation to the funds, the available funds. So affordable housing trust having the opportunity to allocate money for projects like the ones that I had mentioned, I would imagine that that plays a role in it. But I'm also sure that there's also, you know, they're written in the admin code, which I believe I'd mentioned in the past as well. And the admin code calls them a trust. So they're a trust.
Victoria 28:38
One time me and one of my co-workers looked up like what's the difference between like committee boards and commissions. And it's also an element of it is who do they report to as well, I believe.
Tyler 28:47
Okay. That's something I will look deeper into as well and maybe report back out.
Matt 28:52
Awesome. Well, thanks for that spotlight. We've made it to the end here. Anything you guys want to shout out for upcoming? You got anything, Victoria?
Victoria 29:01
At WCA-TV, we have a new after-school program for high school students who want to get involved with video production and be more involved with WCA-TV. You can also check out our VOD. We just had a Middlesex state rep debate, and we will have the one for the Senate seat soon as well. I believe that one's getting rescheduled.
Matt 29:22
How about for you, Tyler? Anything to keep an eye out for?
Tyler 29:25
The biggest thing, September 2nd at 3 p.m., the newly opening, Watertown High School. Grand opening, ribbon cutting, some remarks, some speeches, and then an open house. So strongly recommend anybody that's interested, come explore this new amazing, beautiful, first of its kind building in the country, and participate in what we know is going to be an amazing event. So come on down, 3 o'clock. 50 Columbia Street is where the front door will be found. We look forward to seeing you there.
Tyler 29:57
One last thing for upcoming the Faire on the Square registration deadline is coming up. Any vendors, you know, community groups, anything like that that are interested in registering to have a table. Registration deadline is August 28th. So make sure you go to Faire on the Square's website, which is faireonthesquare.com. That is Faire with an E. So August 28th. And then save the date. Saturday, September 19th. Faire on the Square. Be there. I want you.
Matt 30:29
We will. I'm pretty pretty sure Cable Access and I will be there. So yeah.
Victoria 30:34
We'll be doing our big broadcast like usual.
Tyler 30:36
Yeah, make sure you come on down. We look forward to seeing you.
Matt 30:39
Awesome. Great. Well, we've made it to the end. So we will say goodbye to our great listeners. Thank you, listeners, for listening to another month of the local government update. Until next time. Thank you, Tyler.
Tyler 30:50
Thank you.
Matt 30:50
Thank you, Victoria.
Victoria 30:52
Thank you.
Matt 30:53
So that's it for the episode. You can check out the show notes for links to many of the things mentioned. If you want to hear more episodes of the podcast, you can head on over to LittleLocalConversations.com. There you can find all the episodes, upcoming events, sign up for the newsletter, help support the podcast, all that good stuff over at LittleLocalConversations.com. And if you like the podcast, you can just share it along with a friend who you think might like to hear this information as well.
Matt 31:21
All right, and I want to give a few shoutouts here to wrap things up. I want to give a thank you to the Watertown Cultural Council who have given me a grant this year to help support the podcast. So I want to give them the appropriate credit, which is, this program is supported in part by a grant from the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. You can find out more about them at WatertownCulturalCouncil.org and MassCulturalCouncil.org. And a couple more shout outs to promotional partners. First, the Watertown Business Coalition. Their motto is Community is Our Business. Find out more about them and their events at WatertownBusinessCoalition.com. And lastly, Watertown News, which is a Watertown focused online newspaper. It's a great place to keep up to date with everything going on in the city. Check that out at WatertownMANews.com. So that's it. Until next time, take care.
