No Override Belmont Campaign Committee
Chair Wayne Wild and family
Chair of No Override Belmont - Wayne Wild
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Wayne was born in Manhattan to immigrant parents who fled Austria during the holocaust. He attended Columbia College and later Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He moved to Watertown in 1973 and has lived in Belmont since mid-1970’s, first on Selwyn Rd., then Washington Street (the oldest house in Belmont), and since 2000 in Alexander Avenue. After 20 years of medical practice, Wayne went back to earn a Ph.D. in literature at Brandeis University, and retiring from medicine, has been a professor at Berklee College of Music since 2000, teaching college writing, aesthetics, and other courses. Wayne has a son, Nicholas and daughter, Zoe. Both Nicholas and Zoe grew up in Belmont and attended the Belmont schools.
After years as a member of the First Church in Belmont, Wayne currently is a leader in a Buddhist sangha. He lives with his significant other, Eunice Flanders, whom he met at Berklee, and they have been together over ten years now, living on Alexander Avenue. They have a most loving Bichon named Tucker.
Tucker, the Bichon Frise
Treasurer of No Override Belmont - Sunyoung Hong
Sunyoung Hong moved to Belmont in 2015 with her husband, Andy, and two wonderful kids. A rescued maltese, Jinjoo, joined the family in 2017. Her kids went to Winn Brook Elementary School and Chenery Middle School and now are both at Belmont High School. They were in the school band and orchestra (trumpet and viola) and various town teams of soccer, baseball, basketball, swimming, tennis, and lacrosse. Belmont schools, education and sports for kids are the utmost priority to Sunyoung. She supported them as:
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a parent volunteer for numerous school events
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a class mom, class mom coordinator, Winn Brook 4th grade parent chair, Chenery PTO secretary, and currently BHS PTSO fundraising chair
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a member of Belmont Math, a parent group for math enrichment
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a tennis mom for "We belong" campaign to re-establish the BHS tennis courts
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a volunteer for YES campaign to build two new schools, which is now Belmont Middle and High School
Sunyoung Hong was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and became a US citizen in 2015. After receiving degrees from Yon-sei University in Seoul (BS, Interior Architecture & Built Environment) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Master of Architecture), she worked for Wiss Janney Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE), a forensic engineering architecture and materials consulting firm. At WJE, she managed over 200 projects involving architectural /engineering failure investigations, structural analysis/performance evaluation, repair design, code analysis, construction administration related services, insurance claim investigations, and litigation support. She is a licensed Architect in New York and Massachusetts.
Treasurer Sunyoung Hong and her family
Jinjoo (Pearl in Korean), the Maltese
Press Release - February 1, 2024 - Belmont, Massachusetts
No Override Committee Formed - 2Much2Ask.org
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Wayne Wild, Belmont Resident
617-465-5113
communications@2much2ask.org
CITIZENS FORM “NO OVERRIDE BELMONT” TO OPPOSE TOWN’S REQUEST FOR $8.4 MILLION BUDGET OVERRIDE
BELMONT—A group of Belmont citizens today announced the formation of a grassroots campaign to oppose the town’s request for a proposition 2 ½ override. The effort, No Override Belmont, will educate the voters of Belmont on the impact of the proposed $8.4 million override which will permanently increase their property tax bill. The No Override Committee urges a no vote on the measure in the town election on Tuesday, April 2.
“The voters of Belmont have generously stepped-up time and again in recent years—$370 million in debt exclusion to fund a new high school-middle school, a new library, and a new ice rink. But this override, an additional $8.4 million, is simply too much to ask from citizens,” said Wayne Wild, Chairman of No Override. “Like each and every resident in Belmont, the town must operate within its means. We urge citizens to vote NO on the override.”
No Override Belmont has created a website, www.2much2ask.org, which provides voters with insight into the impact of the override if it were to pass.
Belmontonians will vote on the override in the town elections on Tuesday, April 2.
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