At tonight's special meeting, the Common Council overwhelmingly rejected the budget proposal for 2026 by a vote of 8-3. Only Council President Tom DePietro (a member of the BEA and thus, alongside Mayor Kamal and the Treasurer, one of the architects of this budget) and Third Ward representatives Lola Roberts and Shershah Mizan voted yes. What preceded the vote was, by Hudson's standards, a crisp exchange where grievances were aired across the aisle. What's in the 2026 budget