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The Somerville City Hall (which formerly served as Somerville High School) is a historic municipal building at 93 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts.Built in 1852 and enlarged several times, it has served as the city's first high school, first public library, and only city hall.
Proposition 2½ (Mass. Gen. L. c. 59, § 21C) is a Massachusetts statute that limits property tax assessments and, secondarily, automobile excise tax levies by Massachusetts municipalities. The name of the initiative refers to the 2.5% ceiling on total property taxes annually as well as the 2.5% limit on property tax increases.
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [ 1 ] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts.
Somerville was established as a town in 1842, when it was separated from Charlestown. In 2006, the city was named the best-run city in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe. [3] In 1972, 2009, and 2015, the city received the All-America City Award. [4] [5] It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus along the Somerville and Medford border.
Industrialist James F. Hathaway of Somerville, Massachusetts refused to pay a municipal tax on his corporation stock and would periodically threaten to pack up and leave town if the city insisted on pressing for payment, in a game of bluff that sometimes led to the city waiving the tax, but other times led to Hathaway's jailing. [98]
Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews. OL 23272543M. Edwin P. Conklin, Middlesex County and Its People: A History. In Four Volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1927. Samuel Adams Drake, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County.
A city has a council or board of aldermen (and may or may not have a mayor, a city manager, or both). Prior to 1821, the only recognized form of government in Massachusetts was the town meeting. On April 9, 1821, an amendment to the state constitution was approved that permitted municipalities to choose other forms of government.
Somerville Theatre, a movie theatre and concert venue in Massachusetts Somerville Auditorium, an outdoor cinema at the University of Western Australia Somerville Times , a newspaper published in Somerville, Massachusetts