UPDATED: 5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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1 Yesterday was the final day for the City’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Kelley. She is leaving the Town/City after 16 years.

2. Mayor Yvonne Spicer signed the City’s Fiscal year 2022 budget, which starts tomorrow, July 1 on Tuesday afternoon. The $305.9 million budget has a zero tax levy increase, as City Councilors cut $1.5 million from the mayor’s proposed budget.

3. The heat index is expected tor each triple digits again today, and thus the National Weather Service still has a heat advisory in place through Wednesday night.

The City of Framingham is opening both libraries and the Callahan Center as cooling stations.

Two of the three beaches are open for swimming today.

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4. CITY of FRAMINGHAM MEETINGS:

• Edgell Grove Cemetery Trustees at 2 p.m.
• Framingham City Council: Planning & Zoning Subcommittee at 6 p.m.
• Fair Housing Committee at 7 p.m.

According to Mayor Yvonne Spicer’s public schedule she will attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Buckley Kitchen on Franklin Street.

UPDATED: 5. Track meet at Bowditch Field tonight has been cancelled due to the pending storm.

BONUS — Last call for applications for summer interns. The deadline to apply is July 1. If anyone in high school or college is interested in interning in journalism or photography (or video) please email editor@FraminghamSource.com

Check out the work of the three interns thus far:

Grace Mayer, a Boston College student

Nick Barry, a Westfield State University student

Talia Heisey, a UMass Amherst student