5 Things to Know Today, Monday, July 16

Good morning, here are five things to know today:

City Councilor: Medford's Budget Process Not Good Enough: The City Council approved Medford's municipal budget for 2013 two weeks ago it still hasn't received a complete, bound copy of it, councilor Robert Penta said Tuesday. " This is an insult to the taxpayers, this is an insult to this city council," Penta said during the council's meeting Tuesday. Unlike nearby communities like Malden and Somerville, Medford's city council receives the draft form of the budget department-by-department instead of in one complete bound copy in advance of the review process, Penta said. Other communities also put the draft form of the budget online, available for all the public to review. "We’re not even close to that," Penta said Tuesday. "We don’t even have the book."

Weather: Mostly sunny skies with highs around 90 are expected today, according to the National Weather Service. Similar weather with highs in the mid 90s is expected tomorrow.

If all goes according to plan, the federal government will pick up half of the estimated $1.3 billion Green Line Extension project, according the MassDOT. The project has received preliminary funding for funding from the "New Starts" program through the Federal Transit Administration, according to announcement from the state's transit department Thursday. But the funds aren't guaranteed -- the project still needs to compete with other public transit project around the country. And the program is competitive. It's expected to dole out nearly $2 billion to projects in fiscal 2013 alone.

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A brawl at a women's football game in Somerville and a trailer fire in Malden. Those are a couple of the top recent headlines from beyond Medford's bounds.