Monday, November 10, 2025
Tarr in the News: Rockport Town Hall Project
TARR IN THE NEWS | 11.3.25
'Rockport eyes budget, Town Hall and
seawall projects'
By Stephen Hagan | Gloucester Daily
Times
EXCERPT BELOW:
"Town Administrator Mitch Vieira
updated the Select Board at a recent meeting about plans for appropriations
coming from the Massachusetts Legislature. He also said plans for improvements
to Town Hall, Rockport Public Library, and the Long Beach seawall are moving
ahead.
A management meeting was held with
department heads and board and committee chairs the afternoon before the
meeting, Vieira said.
“We went over our annual budget timeline
and process and spoke to the larger pressures that the town is facing.”
The town was recently notified that Gov.
Maura Healey has released local earmarks in the state budget — one each from
Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, and Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, D-Gloucester.
“We are awaiting official word from the
state,” Vieira told the Select Board. “A week ago it was we’re hanging onto
them indefinitely but now they’re coming through. So, we will see. We’ll wait
and see.”
Vieira said the earmark from Tarr’s
office amounts to $50,000 for engineering work for the HVAC system at the
Rockport Public Library. Although he did not have specific information about
Ferrante’s earmark appropriation, he said in past years it typically has
amounted to approximately $30,000."
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