Cranston Forward
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We are residents across Cranston organizing and advocating to ensure people are engaged by city government, and responds to their needs in creating policy.
06/08/2026
We are the longest democratic experiment in human history. Let's keeping it going!
RSVP & details: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/958446/
06/08/2026
Cranston residents show up & speak up: let the City Council know you support zoning code changes that will help make Cranston more affordable and livable while expanding our tax base!
Proposed zoning code changes & Planning Dept's memo recommending their adoption: https://www.cranstonri.gov/june-2-2026-city-plan-commission/default.aspx
Committee agenda with zoom link for remote attendance: https://www.cranstonri.gov/ordinance-committee-meeting-rescheduled-from-6-3/
06/02/2026
Calling all patriots! Join us June 13 for the Gaspee road race & parade and help spread the revolutionary love!
RSVP/details here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/958446/
Gaspee swag here: https://cranston-forward.printify.me/
06/02/2026
Saturday, June 6 10 am-noon. Join Cranston Forward to protest Citizen Bank's underwriting of the two major corporate builders/operators of ICE prisons and detention camps. We'll be at two Cranston branches:
1030 Park Ave (RSVP/details here: https://www.mobilize.us/deicecitizens/event/953575/
Pawtuxet Village (2191 Broad Street) (RSPV/details here: https://www.mobilize.us/deicecitizens/event/957852/
Learn more about the campaign here: https://www.de-icecitizensbank.org/
05/13/2026
Cranston Forward's latest statement on the budget crisis:
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Join the Community Conversation: What We Should Do About THE BUDGET
Thursday May, 7 6pm
William Hall Library Auditorium
Sponsored by Cranston Forward & Edgewood Rising
(Edgewood Rising meeting to immediately follow at Edgewood Congregational Church)
What we know:
The Mayor wants to balance the budget on the backs of ordinary Cranstonians—including the most vulnerable—with a 7.4% tax increase and big cuts to Head Start and senior services.
What we are thinking about:
Where’s the time for community involvement, with only a 2 day notice to pass amendments and a budget in one night and no calendar for hearings and amendments as in previous years?
Where’s the audit to explain how in just two years Cranston drained its reserves and developed a $10M structural deficit?
Where is the accountability?
We Expect Competence, Transparency and Accountability.
05/01/2026
9-0. The Cranston City Council unanimously rejected Mayor Hopkins' budget last night. Here's an explainer of what happened — and what comes next. 👇
The Mayor proposed raising the property tax levy by 7.4%. State law caps it at 4%. The Council had no legal choice but to reject it.
Now he has 15 days to come back with a legal budget — which means real cuts to what he originally proposed. The deadline is May 15.
Before the vote, the administration tried to call this a "shared failure." It isn't, and we explain why in the slides.
The next two weeks really matter. The cuts being decided right now will hit schools, senior services, parks, sanitation, and all city services. We want our city to protect what matters and cut the political patronage that doesn't, while making cuts equitably.
Cranston deserves better. Swipe through, and please share — neighbors knowing what's actually going on is how we start to do something about it.
04/24/2026
Imagine you are the Mayor of the 2nd largest city in RI, and after submitting a catastrophic budget with massive tax increases, you leave for a golf trip to Florida and South Carolina for a week, and upon return your first reply to anything is this.
He scapegoats our teachers and students, and says they need to take a cut now, and that's in fact what we the residents of Cranston should be advocating for.
This is the not the behavior of a mature adult. A leader ready to get us out of this crisis.
This is quite literally the Mayor lashing out at the people he is elected to represent.
Also point of fact, he is already effectively cutting the schools in his initial budget proposal.
WPRI 12 Cranston Herald
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