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![[CREDiT: City of Warwick] The Warwick City Council paused its meeting twice for several minutes to discuss the course of votes on Council President Anthony Sinapi's committee changes. The changes would have removed Councilman Ed Ladouceur as Finance Chair.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Sinapis-committee-changes-Council-01-05-25-250x228.jpg)
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![[CREDIT: Rob Borklowski] Warwick City Hall on Post Road. The Warwick City Council's first meeting adjusts rules on meeting agendas, moving public comment one item later, and preserves a rule cited in a First Amendment Lawsuit against the Council.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-City-Hall-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved a new WFD firefighter contract Monday with a 3 percent raise retroactive to July, a 1.25 percent increase in January, and biennial hikes […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Schools deficits, $1.2M from FY23 & FY24, $5M in FY25 and $2.2M in FY26, were the result of lax fiscal controls and practices, according to […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council’s Ordinance Committee held Mayor Picozzi’s proposed re-write of the city’s tax sale ordinance Monday, giving the administration till Oct. 20 to address concerns […]
![[CREDIT: City of Warwick] A Warwick Officer escorts Rob Cote from Council Chambers July 17, 2023. Councilwoman Donna Travis ordered him removed for persisting in speaking about a property dispute detailed in a Providence Journal article involving Travis.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Warwick-City-Council-ACLU-Cote-Free-Speech-1-300x225.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Former City Council member Donna Travis and other individual members are shielded from Rob Cote’s free speech suit seeking nominal damages from the body and punitive damages […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved new DPW and police vehicles Monday night and renewed Warwick’s expiring 2-year Flock camera deal to operate 11 license plate cameras in […]
Editor’s note: The May 14 Warwick Schools Budget Commission meeting referenced in this article has been cancelled due to members’ scheduling conflicts. WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Schools Budget is […]
STATE HOUSE — The Senate today passed legislation introduced by Sen. Mark McKenney (D-Dist. 30, Warwick) that would allow the city to create a Warwick Schools Budget Commission. The bill […]
![[CREDIT: Lane Italiane Campaign] Beth A. Lane Italiane, is running for Ward 6 City Council.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lane-Italiane-Warwick-City-Council-Ward-6-race-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Beth A. Lane Italiane, an accountant who has led nonprofits and former business manager for Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, is running for Ward 6 City Council to […]
![[CREDIT: Kirby for Ward 7] John T. Kirby, owner of Kirby Bros. Construction, is running in the Warwick Ward 7 City Council race.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jack-Kirby-City-Council-Ward-7-race-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — John T. Kirby, owner of Kirby Bros. Construction, hopes to bring his fiscal and financial planning skills to bear if he wins the Warwick Ward 7 City Council […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council ratified Mayor Frank Picozzi’s agreement with the city, fire & police unions adding a paid union Juneteenth holiday to the city’s 13 holidays, […]
![[CREDIT: Mayor Picozzi's Office] A view of part of Mayor Frank Picozzi's $3.5M City Hall Plaza plan.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/City-Hall-Plaza-Plan-1-140x140.png)
WARWICK, RI — Monday, the City Council will consider the federal recreation bond and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – funded $7.2 million bid by Tower Construction Corp. of Cranston […]
![[CREDIT: NOAA] A graph showing sea level rise during the last few decades, which is predicted to continue throughout the century.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOAA-Sea-Level-Rise-140x140.png)
TO THE EDITOR: US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse recently spoke to a group of business leaders and referenced a RI Coastal Resources Management Council report that indicated Warwick is especially vulnerable to raising […]
WARWICK, RI — Tonight’s City Council meeting considers a tax exemption exempting the Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island located at 831 Bald Hill Road from property tax. The […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council voted 8-1 to release $350 million in building bonds for two new high schools Monday, though a new estimate shows the voter-approved plan […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council began its full meeting Wednesday with an immediate vote to enter executive session to discuss Rob Cote’s free speech suit against the body, […]
Editor’s note: The Council Update is a twice-monthly update on Council meetings and developments from Warwick City Council President Steve McAllister. The column is written after each council meeting, twice a month. This […]
![[CREDIT: City of Warwick] Mayor Frank Picozzi's $353M Warwick Budget kept the city's tax mix as-is and added more than $1 million to Warwick Public Schools' request.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Warwick-Budget-2023-Picozzi-140x140.png)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved a $353.2 million FY24 Warwick budget unaltered at the bottom line Thursday night without the lion’s share of an additional $1.4 million […]
WARWICK, RI — This evening’s City Council Intergovernmental Committee will hear a proposal allowing the city to adjust the residential – commercial property tax mix, raising concern with a councillor […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council unanimously OK’d new regulations governing short-term rental properties Feb. 27, characterized as a reasonable compromise subject to change. Objections raised during discussion included […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council has authorized Mayor Frank Picozzi to seek legal representation in a “contingent fee legal retainer” in an unspecified lawsuit involving water-contaminating firefighting foam. […]
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misidentified Tina Langill. Warwick Post had corrected, and regrets, the error. WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council expanded public speaking time during […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Mayor Frank Picozzi delivers the oath of office to the Warwick City Council at Crowne Plaza Warwick Jan. 3.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Warwick-Inaugurates-Mayor-Council-Committee-2023-4-140x140.jpg)
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story inaccurately identified Democrat James McElroy’s political affiliation. Warwick Post has corrected, and regrets, the error. WARWICK, RI — The city swore in its […]
![[CREDIT: Steve McAllister] Work on several upgrades to the Apponaug Recreational Complex will begin in the spring.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Apponaug-Recreation-Complex-Upgrade-140x140.jpeg)
WARWICK, RI — With the $789,950 Apponaug Recreation Complex upgrades fully funded and a contractor secured, work will begin on the project this spring. Warwick City Council Steve McAllister announced […]
WARWICK, RI — It’s dubbed a “hidden gem” by trailsandwalksri, and as of last week’s City Council meeting, the city-owned 61-acre Dawley Farm is protected by a public trust, the […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council amended Warwick’s Comprehensive Plan and its Zoning Monday night to allow a 200-unit multi-family Kilvert Street development Monday. The Council approved second passage […]
WARWICK, RI – The City Council voted 7-2 to approve Mayor Frank Picozzi’s proposed $341.1 million, no-tax increase Fiscal Year 2023 Warwick budget Thursday. It is the second year the […]
![[CREDIT: City of Warwick] The Warwick City Council will begin FY23 Warwick Budget hearings today.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/FY23-Warwick-Budget-Hearings-140x140.png)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick budget hearings on Mayor Frank Picozzi’s proposed $341.1 million fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget, with no tax increase, is expected to get underway today, May 23, […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council meets tomorrow night to review city finances, hear the School Committee’s new plan to replace both high schools, discuss an OPEB plan and […]
WARWICK, RI — Tonight’s Warwick City Council meeting features second passage of a six-month solar moratorium unanimously passed at last month’s meeting, and commissions on tax relief and city employee […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council holds a special meeting Tuesday night to ratify a new police contract, replacing the one that expired June 30 and a new contract […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council meets tonight at Warwick City Hall to review an updated solar zoning for power generation ordinance renamed to match. The meeting will also […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick solar zoning updates for power generation and $33 million borrowed from the sewer system for sewer extensions top the Warwick City Council’s June 21 agenda at […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council has much on its agenda for the coming Monday meeting via Zoom teleconference, including scheduling a presentation on the report of the Animals […]
WARWICK, RI — The City’s in dire need of three new rescue trucks, but Greenwood Emergency Vehicles in North Attleboro will hold three till Monday, so the City Council will […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick city employees have a new health insurance provider. At a Wednesday night special meeting last week, after more than five hours of presentations and discussion, City […]
WARWICK, RI — Repairs at the ice arena and McDermott Pool were under discussion at Monday night’s Warwick City Council Finance Committee meeting with one put on hold and the […]
WARWICK, RI — Monday’s Warwick City Council meeting was cancelled due to an error omitting the zoom log in information from the agenda posted Thursday, pushing scheduled agenda items to […]
WARWICK, RI — The newly inaugurated Warwick City Council, sporting new members and new President Steven McAllister, tackle a request for a state vaccination plan, OK-ing a $10M high school […]
The Warwick City Council met Monday night, approving several contracts but also holding several items until newly elected city councilors Vincent J. Gebhart and William Foley, as well as mayor-elect […]
