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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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-City-Hall-250x228.jpg)
The first regular meeting of the Warwick City Council takes place tonight, 7 p.m. at City Hall, Council Chambers, 3275 Post Road. This is the second official meeting of the […]
![[CREDIT: Lane Italiane Campaign] Beth A. Lane Italiane, is running for Ward 6 City Council.](https://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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 […]
![[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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Warwick-City-Council-ACLU-Cote-Free-Speech-1-300x225.jpg)
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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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://northamerica.b-cdn.net/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 […]
![[CREDIT: Sean Henry for Warwick] Sean Henry, independent candidate for the Ward 9 City Council race.](https://northamerica.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sean-Henry-Warwick-City-Council-Ward-9-race-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Sean Henry, one of two Independent candidates for the Ward 9 Warwick City Council race, aims to bring government experience to work solving Warwick’s problems. Warwick Post.com […]
WARWICK– S&P Global Ratings has assigned an “AA” long-term rating for Warwick’s general obligation bonds, re-affirming its “AA” long-term rating on existing debt, and the outlook on all ratings as […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council unanimously passed Mayor Joseph J. Solomon’s proposed $323.5 million budget Saturday morning with a few adjustments but no change to the bottom line […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Warwick City Council met at Warwick Veterans Middle School Feb. 11, 2020.](https://northamerica.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Warwick-Veterans-Middle-School-300x225.jpg)
WARWICK — The Warwick School Committee adopted a new staff absence policy before discussing Toll Gate High’s flooded week-long shutdown and a new $10 million sports field bond ballot question […]
WARWICK — Council Finance Committee Chair Ed Ladouceur expressed misgivings about the contract ironed out between Mayor Joseph Solomon and Warwick Firefighters Local 2748 Monday night, then residents urged delaying […]
TO THE EDITOR: Many of those who could least afford it were hit with double-digit tax increases this year after the state-mandated revaluation on property. Those steep tax hikes were […]
WARWICK, RI – During the new business segment of tonight’s City Council meeting, the agenda holds resolutions seeking a $3.2 million bond to purchase street lights from National Grid and […]
