WCSD
The Board of Education meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the District Office. The board is scheduled to vote on a $424,420 Willink site work change order and to receive a report putting worst-case assessment exposure at $4.4 million against a $5 million reserve. Public comment is scheduled for 6:40 p.m.
Planning & development
The board voted 4-0 to close environmental review of the road and trail package tied to the Xerox campus. Five people spoke during Open to the Floor, one of them urging the board to require an environmental impact statement instead.
Planning & development
The vote would end environmental review for the Webster Transportation Infrastructure Project. Thursday's 6:30 p.m. workshop is canceled; the 7:30 p.m. meeting is on.
Webster homeowners get two tax bills a year, and each is a stack of separate governments. Here is how the town, county, school, and special district pieces fit together, and the math behind every line.
Moving to Webster means joining a community with its own civic rhythms. None are complicated, but a few will surprise you if you don't know to look. 1. There are two governments, and they overlap Webster has a Town government and a Village government. The Village of Webster
You have more power at Webster Town Hall than you might think. Here is exactly how to use it.
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The Planning Board tabled both Verizon cell tower applications to Oct. 6 on 5-1 votes, after the town's own radio-frequency consultant told members there is a real service gap at both sites. The Lake Road public hearing was left open.
Webster caps communications towers at 100 feet. A guide to the three questions the Planning Board has to answer on a tower application, what the code says about camouflage and co-location, and why health effects cannot be the ground for a denial.
Both Verizon tower applications are on the Planning Board's Tuesday agenda, each scheduled for a public hearing. Every earlier appearance was a sketch plan review. The town's own engineering reviews are now on file.
School starts Wednesday. The Planning Board holds three public hearings Tuesday, Sept. 1. Thursday's 6:30 p.m. Town Board workshop is canceled, and the 7:30 p.m. meeting is still on.
The 5-0 vote Aug. 20 was one of two consents the annexation needs. What General Municipal Law Article 17 requires next, who decides, and what changes for the 28-acre parcel.
Classes start Wednesday, Sept. 2, and the first week is only two days long. Bell times, a coming traffic change at Willink, the paperwork that will bite you, and what is actually new this year.
Bills go out this week. Full payment runs penalty-free through Oct. 1, the installment plan disappears if the first payment misses Sept. 20, and installments two and three go to the county, not Town Hall.
What needs a permit in the Town of Webster, what it costs, and who inspects the work.
The board voted Thursday night to approve a petition to annex a portion of the Xerox campus from the town into the Village of Webster. It also enacted Local Law #3 and adopted an environmental review determination after the town attorney raised the requirement from the floor.
The Webster Town Board weighs a petition to annex a Xerox parcel into the Village of Webster, votes on updated traffic regulations, and hears from summer interns and the town engineer at Thursday's meeting.
Webster's community development director told the Town Board on Aug. 6, 2026, that the moratorium has not changed the number of single-family homes likely to be built over the next 12 to 18 months. Local Law No. 2 of 2026 covers six commercial and office districts.
The Board of Education meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday with the 2026-27 tax warrant, a public hearing on the student code of conduct and $6.25 million in reserve transfers on its agenda. Public comment is at 6:05 p.m., after the votes.