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Tony Economou

Context

Associated municipality: Worcester.

District 1 councilor. Source: City Council journals (official minutes); spellings from the minutes.

Issues

Log

  • 2026-10-13 - City Council — Spoke first on the winter readiness report, praising its equipment, brine and training additions and urging residents to join ALERTWorcester; sponsor of the resolution honoring McGrath, Midland Street, Worcester Arts Magnet and Columbus Park elementary schools (13e, adopted under suspension); voted yes on both rules referrals.
  • 2026-10-06 - City Council — Sponsored the WPI housing report (9-2); sponsored the Burncoat Street on-street parking report and the King Philip Rd. sidewalk repair order; urged using existing restrooms and a maintenance plan before new ones.
  • 2026-09-29 - City Council — Questioned the Fire Chief on hydrant spacing; thanked the Police Chief and worried about police manpower; warned the Council of hard tradeoffs on the Burncoat project; supported the noise-fine order (reported a meeting the night before with the pastor, neighbors and police) but voted against filing the one-day event item; his pothole (Oriental St.), manhole (Bay State Rd. at Bellingham Rd.) and sidewalk (2 Intervale Rd.) orders were adopted; opposed King's amended bathrooms order.
  • 2026-09-22 - City Council — Raised the Winter Heights granite survey markers (referred to Public Works); sponsored the scooter and e-bike licensing order (asked that it be held pending state action, adopted 10-0) and the Clark St. recycling bin order (adopted 11-0); amended Bilotta's truck ban to Shore Dr.; only nay on sending the 25 West Chester St. zone change to committee (8-1); on the camping ordinance listed fines in Lowell, Fall River and Brockton and urged refining it.
  • 2026-09-15 - City Council — Downtown violence action plan order placed on file 10-0 (Toomey recused) after the City Manager described police reassignments; street and sidewalk reinstallation order (Florida Ave., Park Ave., Germain St., Burncoat St., Thorndyke Rd.) and winter-readiness report order adopted 11-0; asked on the progress report whether streets without sidewalks get them; voted no on extending public comment indefinitely.
  • 2026-09-14 - Public Works Committee - Chaired. Sponsor of the Northeast Cutoff sidewalk; narrowed the Mountain St. East sidewalk, amended the 381 Hamilton St. request to bollards, and issued orders on streetlight repair, police attention near Hotel Vernon, Hamilton St. lighting, a Solicitor report on the Thorndyke path and ALERTWorcester sweeping notices.
  • 2026-09-08 - Public Safety Committee — Co-sponsor of the noise ordinance review order; per the captions he pressed on one-day and annual entertainment licenses, police presence at events, training for noise meters and tougher building-code penalties for repeat violators, and said he was misled by the entity involved. On the Hospital Guard he asked about short-term two-officer cars and working with the Sheriff's Office.
  • 2026-09-08 - City Council — Questioned the City Manager on the trash-placement ordinance amendment (21a); said the public should hear the presentation and spoke against a civilian review board (citing 92 officers decertified by the POST Commission); co-sponsored the in-road warning-light crosswalk order (adopted 10-0); his snow preparation (15a), street reinstallation (15i) and downtown violence (15g) orders were held under privilege; filed Valley Hill Dr. safety petitions (12k-12n); working with a 50 Bristol St. resident on a handicap space.
  • 2026-08-26 - Planning Board - Spoke against the RS-7 to RL-7 change for 25 West Chester Street, asking for more discussion; the Planning Board still recommended it 5-0.
  • 2026-08-25 - Public Works and Traffic and Parking Joint Committee — Chair of Public Works; his order brought the joint pavement management plan review (held 3-0).
  • 2026-08-18 - City Council — Absent. Several of his orders (13d, 13n, 13o) were taken up and adopted in his absence.
  • 2026-08-11 - Traffic and Parking Committee — Attended remotely; asked to remove the bus stop between Chino Ave. and 12 Boylston St. over quality-of-life problems; held 3-0 so the Commissioner could seek an alternative.
  • 2026-07-21 - City Council — Sponsor of the St. Joan of Arc neighborhood-meeting and noise orders; Holden sewer lawsuit report; MassDOT meeting on Grove St. crashes; pavement management plan review (joint Public Works and Traffic and Parking); streetlight outage report; shade tree root sewer damage report. Per the captions he said the St. Joan of Arc church had given neighbors lip service, questioned why the Holden suit sat dormant, asked about streetlight outages tied to National Grid (Montclair Dr. and Devon Rd.), and won adoption of a Proctor St. guardrail petition the committee had recommended filing.
  • 2026-07-21 - Public Works Committee - Chaired. Wildwood Ave. public way denied and a culvert, water gate and manhole report ordered; Orient St. sidewalk petitions denied; 360 May St. sidewalk, Coombs Rd., Lovell St. and four resurfacing streets added to lists; praised Westerling and Mello for pushing Eversource on Sagamore Rd.
  • 2026-07-22 - Traffic and Parking Committee — Sponsored the Burncoat St. bike lane no-parking petition (filed as a duplicate), Beechmont St. stop bars, Ararat St. truck exclusion and the Pasadena Pkwy. sign fix; proposed the order on school bus speeding on Westport Rd.; offered to meet Burncoat St. neighbors.