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NU case revolves around public land Northeastern dorm occupies land Set aside for community benefit By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
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Mayor Martin Walsh opens early voting in City Hall.
Early voting sites open in Boston this week Long lines as voters cue up at City Hall, in Chinatown By KAREN MORALES
On Boston’s first day of early voting ever, 4,289 ballots were cast across four different voting locations in the city, according to numbers released by the Boston Elections Department. Massachusetts passed a 2014 law that requires cities and towns to hold an early voting every two years before the November general election. Thirty other states have also passed laws allowing residents to vote before Election Day.
From October 24 to November 4, voters can cast their ballots at locations across the city with the option to send their ballot through the mail. Twenty-eight locations will be used throughout the voting period with various hours of operation. “We just want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to vote, there’s no excuse you can’t vote,” said Mayor Marty Walsh at a press conference held on Monday at City Hall. The municipal building kicked off early voting at 9 a.m., and after 1 p.m., more than 700
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edition of the Banner or visit the City of Boston website: www.boston.gov/news/early-votinglocations-boston-2016-election ballots had been cast, including the Mayor’s. “I think folks are very interested in particular in this election,” said Dion Irish, Commissioner of the Boston Elections Department.
See EARLY VOTING, page 9
A group of minority businesses and nonprofits is charging that Northeastern University cheated them out of multi-million dollar developments on one of Roxbury’s most valuable parcels of land in an explosive lawsuit making its way through Suffolk Superior Court. Lawyers representing Columbia Plaza Associates, a group of 25 black and Latino businesses and nonprofit entities, faced off against Northeastern in seven days of hearings at Suffolk Superior Court earlier this month. The dispute centers on Parcel 18, where CPA owns the development rights, while NU owns most of the land. The city and state assembled the parcel from public land in the 1980s and awarded CPA the rights to build under the city’s parcel-to-parcel linkage program. In 1999, CPA and NU signed an agreement to work together to create a 925-car parking garage. It opened in 2001. The agreement also included language later used by Northeastern to justify creation of a 22-story dormitory, which opened in 2009. Thus far, NU has reaped the majority of the profit from both facilities — developments that the plaintiffs value at more than $300 million for the dormitory and $100 million for the garage. Meanwhile, CPA has received only $320,000. NU rejects claims that they violated the 1999 agreement to reach this outcome. Plaintiffs Kevin Cohee, chair and CEO of One United Bank,
and John Cruz, president and CEO of Cruz Construction, were interviewed by the Banner, as were Bob Cooper, One United Bank’s senior vice president and general counsel, and CPA’s attorney Henry Owens. An attorney for Northeastern said he was not authorized to speak with the Banner about the suit. “Either the dorm or the garage would be a very big enterprise in the hands of minorities in the city,” Cohee said. “It would be a major victory for the minority communities of Boston if we’re able to get control of this.” Judge Janet Saunders heard the case from October 11 to 18 and her ruling is due in December.
Linkage program
In the 1980s, operating under the Linkage Program, officials assembled city, state and MBTA-owned land to create Parcel 18. The program linked the development of city-owned land in downtown Boston with the development of parcels in the city’s residential neighborhoods, thus invigorating the local economy and job market through siting new retail, office and residential development. Development rights gave minority groups a say in what would be located there. Profits from the development of Parcel 18 were expected to ripple out into the communities as businesses hired local residents and those with barriers to employment, such as low educational attainment or prior
See NORTHEASTERN, page 20
Money key to charter schools debate Supporters, opponents dispute costs By YAWU MILLER
Across Massachusetts supporters of Ballot Question 2, which would lift the statewide cap on charter school expansion, are squaring off against measure opponents in school committee meetings, public forums and on the airwaves in what will likely be the most expensive ballot question in state history. Supporters and opponents are
expected to surpass $30 million in campaign spending. At stake is more than $15 billion in K-12 education spending across the state. During a Ford Hall Forum debate last week both sides of the ballot initiative drilled down on funding issues. While supporters of Question 2 argue that the state funding — and the cost of educating an individual student — follows the student from district to charter schools, opponents say that the way the
question was written — increasing the number of schools without any additional funding — will force existing charter and district schools and the new charters to compete for a finite pool of resources. Great Schools Mass Coalition Director Shane Dunn argued that charter schools actually increase education funding because district schools receive partial funding for the students they lose to charter schools. City Councilor Tito Jackson maintained that the Legislature has consistently
See QUESTION 2, page 14
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Codman Academy Head of School Thabiti Brown (right) speaks as former state Board of Education member Harneen Chernow looks on during a Ford Hall Forum debate.
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Housing analysis before action called for, promised in PLAN Dudley By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
On Monday morning, City Councilor Tito Jackson fired off a letter to the director of the Boston Planning and Development Agency, calling for a halt to final development plans and city-issued requests for proposals in Dudley Square, pending an in-depth housing analysis. PLAN Dudley held its last scheduled public session on Monday night, with a meeting on plan’s draft urban design and development guidelines and a workshop on implementation. Jackson says it is crucial that the city’s PLAN Dudley be guided by research on how development could impact housing in the area, and that moving ahead without it risks displacing current residents. “It seems to me that development is what drives planning in Roxbury, rather than actual planning driving development,” Jackson told the Banner in a phone interview. In his letter, Jackson also questions why PLAN JP/Rox featured a housing study, but not PLAN Dudley.
On the horizon
City officials say Monday’s meeting is not necessarily the end of the conversation. John Barros, city chief of economic development, told the Banner that a summary of the
planning process and recommendations for moving forward will be presented at the next Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee meeting. Depending on the committee’s response, official may hold more working sessions or proceed to draft RFPs. Lara Mereida, the city’s deputy director of community planning, said in a Banner phone interview that while there are no solid deadlines for issuing RFPs, the city would like to do so in 2017, ideally by spring, in order to take advantage of a hot development market.
to Jackson’s request. Mereida said that the Dudley Square community seemed especially concerned about jobs, thus PLAN Dudley has focused strongly on workforce and economic development. But, she said, housing has been part of the conversation. Tim Davis, city’s housing policy manager, told the Banner that research similar to what Jackson
requested currently is underway. Barros said a housing analysis was completed at the start of PLAN Dudley, and that a report on it will be prepared and provided to the councilor and oversight committee. Barros said the study revealed a high percentage of affordable housing in the area, but said that conversations have not yet reflected what is needed, going forward. Davis said thus far, housing planning ideas are exploratory. One item under consideration: allowing developers to fulfill inclusionary development
requirements not by creating affordable units but instead by providing innovation spaces or funding job development programs.
Larger Roxbury
Jackson further advocated for a comprehensive housing plan for all of Roxbury, and critiqued the BPDA decision to create PLAN JP/Rox and PLAN Dudley as separate processes for areas in such close proximity. Mereida said taking a unified look at whole neighborhood would be a large undertaking and that it is standard and more feasible to divide planning into key focus areas.
Basketball court opens in Ramsey Park
Housing study
The average individual income in the neighborhood is $33,000 and rents have been rising untenably, with residents already displaced, Jackson warned. An effective housing study, he wrote, should present information on race; household size and income; homeownership; rental unit types; public, subsidized and deed-restricted housing; number of current and planned units by type; affordable housing production and land usage. Important as well: a map of all public, vacant and underutilized land. Jackson also sought information on which developers had created affordable housing in area over the last 15 years, along with their funding sources and amounts, land costs, the project’s unit counts and the income levels served. City officials seemed amenable
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Former New Edition and Bel Biv Devoe star Michael L. Bivens joins local children in celebrating the opening of the Micheal Bivens basketball court at Ramsey Park.
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A history of enterprise and ingenuity American private enterprise enables those who are so inclined to go into business. Over the years the growth of business has become the greatest source of wealth in the nation. Unfortunately, too few African Americans have become entrepreneurs. One objective of the Banner’s recent “Money Talk” conference was to provide information and inspiration to those planning a business career. An awareness of the inventiveness and determination of black Greater Boston residents of an earlier generation should be encouraging. Robert Hayden’s book entitled “Eight Black American Inventors” included several from the Boston area. Lewis Temple (1800-1854) was a blacksmith in New Bedford who designed and manufactured a harpoon that became the standard in the whaling industry. Jan E. Matzeliger (1852-1889) lived in Lynn at a time when all shoes were essentially made by hand. He invented the shoe lasting device that made it possible to manufacture shoes by machine. This invention gave birth to the American shoe making industry which for decades was located in Greater Boston. His invention became the foundation of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, with former headquarters at 138 Federal Street in Boston and with factories in Beverly. Lewis H. Latimer (1848-1928) was an associate of Thomas Edison, for whom he designed the first electric lightbulb. A skilled draftsman, he also drew the plans for Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone patent. He became the only African American to be part of the Edison Pioneers when they relocated to New Jersey to develop numerous electronic products. The inventions of Matzeliger and Latimer were protected by patents, but Temple’s was not. Many inventors cannot afford the expense of obtaining a patent to protect the
rights to their work, so they are forced to sell their creations at a bargain basement price. A black Bostonian named Herman Hemingway invented the air brake, a device commonly found in the large trucks that carry goods across the country. When he was unable to raise the capital to develop the product, he sold out the rights. Consequently, very few recognize that black ingenuity enables huge trucks with a heavy load to stop on a dime. The most successful black businessman in the state during colonial times was Paul Cuffee (1759-1817). From the age of eight he lived on a 116-acre farm in Westport, Mass. that his father, a freed slave, had purchased. Cuffee became skilled in boat building and navigation. During the Revolutionary War he was able to run the British blockades. After the war Cuffee built his own merchant fleet. With black and Native American crews he engaged in commerce in ports on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. But Cuffee did not rest on his affluence, and went on to become active in social change. When he and his brother John were denied the right to vote, although they had met the requirement as property owners, they refused to pay taxes on the grounds of “no taxation without representation.” The state relented. When there was resistance to a racially integrated town school in Westport, Cuffee built a school on his own property, hired the teachers and invited all the town children of any race to attend. Slavery, segregation and blatant racial discrimination have not succeeded in destroying the ingenuity and creativity of African Americans. Indeed, today’s more supportive circumstances should open the door to greater entrepreneurial opportunities for those who are skilled and determined.
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Common sense dress Boston Latin School has decided on re-imposing a dress code reminding students to dress appropriately for the business of education. However, if you listen to some of the so-called student leaders one would think the policy is odorous. Of course almost immediately both the race and gender cards are immediately tossed on the table. One student says the dress code ‘enforcers the sexualization of girls’ bodies. She called the dress code “unacceptable.” More than 500 students have signed an online protest petition. I am surprised
every student didn’t sign up to protest. The dress code is forcing boys to wear ties every day like I had to do. The dress code is telling girls to wear dresses down below their kneecaps. The dress code is telling you what kind of footwear to wear. Bringing up the race or gender card is totally expected. Students in school shouldn’t look like they’re at the beach. Students in school shouldn’t look like the old days of the Combat Zone on lower Washington Street back in the day. Students going to school shouldn’t dress up like they’re going bar-hopping at
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Corporations dodge $718 bn in taxes through offshore tax havens
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By MATTHEW GARDNER European regulators’ recent finding that Apple avoided billions of dollars in taxes by stashing its profits in Ireland, a known tax haven, put the tech giant in an unwelcome spotlight. But Apple’s tax dodging is just the tip of a huge iceberg of offshore corporate tax avoidance. According to a new report, Offshore Shell Games 2016, by CTJ, ITEP & USPIRG , American firms are avoiding up to $718 billion in U.S. taxes on $2.5 trillion in profits held offshore. These jaw-dropping numbers will keep getting bigger until we fix the corporate tax system. The report found that nearly three-quarters of America’s biggest companies avoid U.S. taxes by setting up subsidiaries in tax haven nations — countries where corporate tax rates are minimal or nonexistent, financial transparency murky and tax-law enforcement lax. The use of tax haven subsidiaries to avoid U.S. taxes is highly concentrated among a small group of mega-corporations: just 30 firms are responsible for two-thirds of all that offshore loot. Apple is the leader, holding nearly $215 billion offshore, on which it owes more than $65 billion in U.S. taxes. Drug giant Pfizer isn’t far behind, with nearly $200 billion spread among a dizzying array of 181 tax-haven subsidiaries. This might explain why Pfizer claims it hasn’t turned a profit in the U.S. in almost a decade. The United States taxes all the worldwide profits of American corporations every year. But a loophole called “deferral” allows firms to indefinitely delay paying taxes on earnings booked offshore. If they book these profits to subsidiaries in tax haven countries, they pay little or nothing to any country. The report estimates that big American corporations have paid worldwide taxes on their trillions of dollars of offshore profits at a rate of just 6.2 percent--less than the rate that average middle-class families pay in U.S. taxes each year. Much of the corporate profit booked in offshore tax havens isn’t earned there. Corporations use accounting tricks to artificially shift earnings from the U.S. (and other large nations with big markets and effective tax systems) to small-nation tax havens. For instance, a pharmaceutical firm can assign a drug patent to a subsidiary in a tax haven, then pay steep royalties to the subsidiary to manufacture and sell the drug in this country. The result? U.S. expenses are artificially inflated, depressing domestic profits and therefore taxes, while profits stack up in offshore havens where they’re taxed little if at all. Pretty much the only business tax-dodging American corporations are doing in tax havens is the business of tax avoidance. One way we know this is that they claim to generate profits at levels that dwarf local economies. The $104 billion in profits U.S. companies say they’ve earned in Bermuda, for instance, is 19 times the entire economic output of that island nation. Another phony angle on corporate-profit offshoring is that a lot of those earnings officially booked overseas are really right here in America. A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that found 93 percent of Microsoft’s supposedly “offshore” profits (now totaling $124 billion) are really invested domestically. When multinational corporations avoid taxes by using offshore havens, the rest of us pick up the tab through higher taxes on working people and domestic businesses, reduced public services or higher public debt. Ending deferral — demanding corporations pay all their taxes every year like everyone else — is the best way to end offshore tax dodging. This simple reform should apply both to future profits and the $2.5 trillion now sitting overseas. Unfortunately, some politicians want to richly reward big corporations for effectively hiding their profits in offshore tax havens with a steep cut in the U.S. taxes they owe on that existing earnings pile. Donald Trump would tax these profits at just 10 percent, handing tax-dodging corporations a half-trillion-dollar tax cut. Some in Congress want to reduce the rate even more. Whether to give such massive and unwarranted tax discounts to some of the nation’s most profitable corporations is sure to be the centerpiece of a Congressional struggle over corporate tax reform expected next year. Big companies and their wealthy investors don’t need another handout. Corporations with profits stashed in offshore tax havens should pay what they owe, now and in the future.
Matthew Gardner is the Executive Director of Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Please note this op-ed previously appeared in The Hill.
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Surgery in 2000. Dr. Williams has been a member of the Massachusetts Public Health Council and is the hospital liaison to the Commission on Cancer. He has a large surgery practice and enjoys supervising transitional year residents in the hospital’s newly renovated operating suites. The Bishop Healey Award is named for James Augustine Healy, the first Roman Catholic priest and the first bishop in the United States of any known African descent. Of mixed Irish and African ancestry, Healey was ordained in 1854. In 1866 he became the pastor of St. James Church, the largest Catholic congregation in Boston. In 1874 when the Boston legislature was considering taxation of churches, Healy defended Catholic institutions as vital organizations that helped the state both socially and financially. He also condemned existing laws,
which were generally enforced only on Catholic institutions. He founded several Catholic charitable institutions to care for the many poor immigrants who had arrived during the Great Famine years.
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MARTIN J. WILLIAMS The Archdiocese of Boston’s Office for Black Catholic Ministries’ 2016 Bishop Healy Award will be presented to Dr. Martin J. Williams, Chief of Surgery at Carney Hospital and parishioner at St. Mary of the Angels Parish in Roxbury, for his dedicated work and advocacy for quality healthcare for all, especially the poor and disenfranchised. He has provided kind and compassionate care for many people in the former Columbia Point Housing Project, Health Centers and the Bridge Over Troubled Waters Van, which provided free health care throughout greater Boston. Dr. Williams graduated from Harvard Medical School. He completed residencies in both internal medicine and general surgery followed by a fellowship in surgical critical care. He joined Carney Hospital as director of Surgical Education in 1997 and was appointed chief of
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NEWSBRIEFS VISIT US ONLINE FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS: WWW.BAYSTATEBANNER.COM SJC Chief Justice prioritizes racial disparities Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants presented his third annual address at the Massachusetts Bar Association’s State of the Judiciary event in the John Adams Courthouse last week calling for major initiatives to address issues of racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Data from the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission shows
that the racial and ethnic disparity in the rates of imprisonment in Massachusetts is significantly greater than it is nationwide. To learn the reasons for this disparity, the Chief Justice has asked Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School to establish an independent research team to examine the issue. Gants also declared that courts are working to address implicit bias in the court system through training of judges and staff, jury instructions, and other measures.
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Mayor Martin Walsh chats with Michael Bloomberg during the announcement of the former New York Mayor’s $50 million donation to the Museum of Science.
Issues of poverty in the criminal justice system are also being confronted. Gants noted that last term the Court “reaffirmed the legal principle that no defendant should be imprisoned or otherwise punished because he or she is too poor to be able to pay a fine, fee, or an order of restitution... We are examining whether we are unwittingly punishing poverty by the imposition of fines, fees, and restitution that a defendant has no ability to pay.” Chief Justice Gants reiterated his support for a statewide Housing Court to provide every person equal access to the courts of the Commonwealth. Stating that Housing Court programs are good for both landlords and tenants and make economic sense because of their programs to avoid homelessness and evictions, he said. “If we care about tenants, if we care about landlords, if we care about homelessness, we must care about Housing Courts,” he commented. On the civil side, Gants described some of the many new options developed in the trial courts to provide faster and more economical resolution of civil cases. He encouraged the bar to make use of these options, and to discuss them with clients for “a fair, timely and cost-effective resolution of their civil dispute.” The chief justice expressed optimism about the collaborative effort of the governor, speaker, Senate president and chief justice in working with the Council
of State Governments on criminal justice reform. He noted that the group eagerly awaits the final recommendations of the CSG to assist in “shaping criminal justice policy and improving public safety by reducing the rate of recidivism.” Trial Court Chief Justice Paula M. Carey, Trial Court Administrator Harry Spence, and Massachusetts Bar Association President Jeffrey N. Catalano also delivered remarks. (SJC Public Information Office)
State to activate allelectronic tolling Oct. 28 The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced last week that plans are on schedule to activate All Electronic Tolling in the state on Friday, October 28, at 10 p.m., and to immediately deploy equipment to begin the process of demolishing existing toll plazas. As the program, EZDriveMA, is launched, drivers will begin to be charged tolls after passing under sixteen gantry locations and contractors will be deployed in 23 work zones. Under EZDriveMA, drivers have the option of using a free E-ZPassMA transponder to receive a toll discount, using an out-of-state transponder, or being invoiced if not using a transponder under the Pay By Plate payment process. “In preparing for the launch of AET, we are trying to get the
word out to the public about what to expect, and putting in place logistics to inform drivers about the work which will be occurring,” said Massachusetts Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack. “While we recognize that our customers may face some short term inconvenience as the toll booths come down and as we all adjust to this new system, the benefits of improved safety , reduced congestion, and improved air quality will be of long lasting, and significant benefit for the people of the Commonwealth and beyond.” “We are committed to educating the public about the transition to EZDriveMA,” said Highway Administrator Thomas J. Tinlin. “The toll demolition and road reconstruction projects beginning on October 28 will impact travel for motorists along I-90, (the Massachusetts Turnpike), and drivers are encouraged to slow down in these active construction areas, consider traveling at off-peak hours, and evaluate whether mass transit might be a preferred option.” The first transition to All Electronic Tolling which the public may notice will begin on October 28, at 6:45 p.m., when the existing E-ZPass MA customer service call center will go off-line until 7 a.m., Tuesday, November 1. This outage is necessary in order to update and activate the new EZDriveMA system. Members of the public with concerns or questions can still email Aetinfo@dot.state.ma.us.
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Community Education Showcase
Open House Join us for BuildBPS! Saturday, October 29 - Sunday, October 30, 2016 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Bruce C. Bolling Building 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury
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Interactive exhibits Explore the K-12 classrooms of the future Fresh Truck (Produce Give-Away) Hands on learning for all ages Chess and Math Tournaments Student leadership Boston Police Department Ice Cream Truck
BuildBPS Open House panels to feature agency executives from: The Office of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Vertex, General Electric, Artists for Humanity, State Street, Autodesk, Nike, Puma, Converse, Reebok, MassHousing, LEGO Education, Microsoft, and more!
School Showcase for Grades Pre K-12 Sat. November 5, 2016 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. at Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy CPS 23 Leonard Street Dorchester, MA Meet and greet with Private, Parochial and Charter Schools Noble and Greenough School Beaver Country Day Mother Caroline Academy Fontbonne Academy Roxbury Latin School Boston Renaissance CPS Cristo Rey High School Davis Leadership Academy CPS Paige Academy Cambridge School of Weston Benjamin Banneker CPS Jackson School-Newton St. Sebastian’s
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Chinatown residents fighting for building ownership Finance Agency, $500,000 in funding from the City of Boston, $500,000 from the state Department of Housing and Community Development, $400,000 in HUD funding and a $4.5 million in state low income tax credits.
By YAWU MILLER
Back when Trinity Financial acquired the Mass Pike Towers housing development in 2000, the deal seemed like a win-win, tenants say. The developers secured $16 million in public funds to purchase and renovate the nearly 30-year-old building complex. They promised to keep the units affordable and to give tenants the right to purchase the development after 15 years. The tenants remembered that option, spelled out in a memorandum of understanding, when things began to go sour in 2003. Trinity proposed a 200-unit luxury tower on the development’s parking lot — a move tenants said would block sunlight, remove valuable parking spaces and add to the glut of luxury units that by then were beginning to encircle Chinatown. The tenants fought and blocked the development plan, at one point picketing in front of Trinity’s Court Street office. “It would have been very dense,” said Serene Wong, a cofounder of the Mass Pike Towers Tenants Association. Fast forward to 2016. At a meeting in April, the tenants informed Trinity principal James Keefe of their intention to buy the property. “He seemed shocked,” Wong said. “He said, ‘Oh, that memorandum of understanding was signed 15 years ago.’” “He said something like, ‘What? Do you have $40 million?’” recalls
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Mass Pike Towers resident Serene Wong says Trinity Financial is blocking tenants in their efforts to exercise right to purchase the affordable housing development. Chinese Progressive Association co-director, who also attended the meeting with Keefe. “He was pretty hostile.”
An offer
As it turns out, the tenants were able put to together the sum. Working with the nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., on September 13 they made an offer of $42 million, a sum a third party representing the residents determined to be the fair market value of the 200-unit development. Three days later came the hand-delivered response from the New Mass Pike Towers Limited Partnership — the entity Keefe set up on behalf of Trinity — informing them
that their offer was “not acceptable.” Through a spokesperson, Trinity points out that an appraiser appointed by the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development had pegged the fair market value at $61 million — more than ten times the initial $6 million the firm paid for the 1973 building. “The Option Agreement required that the sale price for the property be at ‘Market Value,’” reads a statement emailed to the Banner from InHouse Public Relations on behalf of Trinity. “For the purposes of establishing what the Market Value of the property was, the rightful owner of the option, the City’s Department of Neighborhood Development, commissioned an appraisal from an
experienced and credible appraisal firm. Trinity had no input on the selection of the appraisal firm, no input on the appraisal process, and was not allowed to review and comment on it before it was published and distributed.” Wong says that regardless of the appraisal, Keefe is not entitled to reap a tenfold profit on a building he acquired with federal, state and city funding. “He paid for it with public money,” Wong said. “I didn’t think he could make that much profit from the sale.” Among the funding sources Trinity used to purchase the building were a $10 million loan from the Massachusetts Housing
“There’s a clear moral argument that this is not what public subsidy was meant for,” Lowe said “It’s not to enrich developers.” Trinity’s statement argues that the firm has invested in the property and is committed to maintaining its affordability. “When we assumed ownership in 2000, the property was in financial distress, in physical disrepair, and in danger of losing its affordability and rental subsidies,” the statement reads. “As a result of Trinity’s ownership, we have voluntarily increased longterm affordability, which will run for another 55 years, made significant capital investments, and have encouraged and financially supported the establishment of a tenants’ association.” Lowe says that the tenants negotiated for Trinity to pay into the tenants fund as part of the conditions for purchasing the property with public funding and says the real issue is honoring the tenants’ right to purchase the property, which was also part of the negotiations they agreed to in 2000. “This isn’t about saying that Trinity is a terrible landlord,” she said. “They made an agreement. Why are they trying to weasel out of it and make a profit off of it?”
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Football players risked for civil rights in college, now tell their story By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
In the spring of 1970, nine black college football players — including several who were up for NFL recruitment — put their athletic and academic careers on the line to protest what they said was racial discrimination and insufficient medical care for all athletes. For many of these Syracuse University students — dubbed the “Syracuse 8” (media at the time was unaware that a ninth, injured player was involved) — their decision to boycott spring practice brought an end to their football careers. It also brought a ticket into civil rights history. Five members of the Syracuse 8 will reunite in Boston this Friday, 47 years later, for a signing and discussion of a book published last year that tells their story. Local members of the Syracuse 8, Cambridge-and-Boston-raised Alif Muhammad (known at the time as Al Newton) and Dana Harrell, who moved to Boston in the ‘80s, recently recounted their experiences during an interview at the Banner office. “For a period of time after you take a stand and are [off the field] watching guys you played with and against play, you squirm,” Harrell recalled. “But if had to do it again, I would do it the same damn way.” The Syracuse University students’ allegations of racial discrimination were vindicated in a human rights investigation conducted by the state. Thirty-six years after the protest, the university officially apologized. Muhammad said he sees the Syracuse 8’s decision to boycott as a continuation of a movement that includes activists such as John Carlos, who, after winning an Olympic bronze in track and field in 1968, raised his fist in the Black Power salute during the national anthem. Today, Black Lives Matter members, Colin Kaepernick and other proponents of racial justice seem to be taking up the mantle, Harrell said. “Young people finally again decided to make decisions about what’s important to them,” he said.
The Syracuse boycott
The Syracuse 8 directed their protest to four goals: equal access to academic tutoring for black players, improved health care (operations on the wrong limb were not unheard of, Muhammad said), merit-based allocations of playing time and racial integration of the coaching staff. In the late 1960s, the players filed a complaint with the New York state Human Rights Commission. Following what they claimed was
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NFL player and Syracuse alum Jim Brown talks at the university during a ceremony honoring the Syracuse 8. the university’s failure to uphold its promise to diversify the coaching staff, they boycotted the spring 1970 practice and presented the football coach and university chancellor with their list of four demands. The chancellor and coach discussed the proposed reforms with the players, but when the Syracuse 8 refused to sign a statement blaming them for the conflict, they were suspended from the 1970 football season. Tensions built. Supporters of the Syracuse 8 protested in solidarity at the season’s opening game, and NFL player and Syracuse alum Jim Brown tried to facilitate negotiations. Meanwhile, white players threatened to walk out if the black players were allowed to return. Harrell said the white players fell into three camps — those who sympathized with the cause but disagreed with the decision to appeal to authorities other than the football coach, those who did not care about the issues and just wanted to play, and those who hated blacks. In December 1970, the New York Human Rights Commission concluded its investigation and reported that there was longstanding racism in Syracuse’s athletic department.
Decision to boycott
Many of the Syracuse 8 were 19 and 20 years old when they chose to boycott, Harrell and Muhammad recounted. “We were the generation where we were no longer just happy to be there [on campus],” Harrell said. “We were the change generation.”
Taking a stand meant giving up a shot for professional football careers. Three of the Syracuse 8 were up for recruitment by the NFL, Muhammad said. “We were going for national championship that year,” Muhammad said. “We had a powerhouse team.” Even more worrisome: many were first-generation college students relying on scholarships that they feared could be revoked. Each player made an individual decision on whether to join the protest, with two deciding the sacrifice was more than they could risk. In the end, nine agreed to boycott: Greg Allen, Richard Bulls, John Godbolt, John Lobon, Clarence “Bucky” McGill, Duane Walker, Ron Womack, Harrell and Muhammad. Muhammad said some of his family agreed he had to take the stand he believed in, while others feared he was throwing away opportunities. Harrell’s father called him and made him promise that no matter what happened, he would get a college degree. “‘When you’re 40 years old, you’ll need that college education,’” Harrell recalls his father told him. Several graduate students advised the Syracuse 8 to pare their grievances down to a few fundamental concerns and proposed solutions, which Harrell said were key.
Today’s athlete-activists
Harrell and Muhammad praised Colin Kaepernick, whom
Harrell said is one example of how this generation’s youth are taking action on what matters to them. When the 49ers quarterback protested police brutality against people of color by not standing during the national anthem, he sparked praise, imitation and fierce backlash, including some claims that he was un-American. Like the Syracuse 8, Kaepernick decided that civil rights was more significant to him than football, Harrell said, and lauded him for expressing his message peacefully in the most visible way he could. “The things they’re saying about him is what they said about us … we were ‘ungrateful’, ‘disrespectful’ … and those were the nice comments,” Harrell said.
Life without football
After being kicked off the team, most of the Syracuse 8 never played for Syracuse again, and the NFL blackballed them, Muhammad said. Being locked out of sports forced them to discover new talents, Harrell recalled. After graduating from college, four of the Syracuse 8 went on to attain master’s degrees, with two earning doctorates. Muhammad, now retired, is an instructional coach in education for the state’s juvenile justice system; he also has served as an adjunct professor at Springfield College. Dana Harrell now is an attorney and principal of Harrell Associates real estate consulting firm, and formerly served as deputy commissioner of real estate
services in former Governor Deval Patrick’s administration.
Reconciliation
In later years, many white players reached out to apologize, including one whom Harrell described as “one of the most virulent racists at the time.” In 2005, the Syracuse 8 were invited to tell their story at Syracuse’s African American and Latino alumni celebration. Their talk inspired the chancellor to award them the university’s highest honor, the Chancellor’s Medal, for courage give them the letterman jackets they never received. The event also attracted writer David Marc to their story, and he spent the next eight years working on a book, which published in 2015. Earlier this month, Syracuse 8 members answered an invitation to speak about leadership and their protest with schoolchildren in Richmond, Virginia. Muhammad said it was striking to be invited to the former capital of the Confederacy, and that he hopes the Syracuse 8’s story helps inspire the next generation to take a stand. “Hopefully there will be a new set of leaders coming out of that,” Muhammad said.
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“Having more options for people to cast their vote to be counted on November 8th is better for democracy.” After the last ballots had been cast on Monday at 8 p.m., 1,818 votes were counted at City Hall, including 16 provisional ballots. At Orient Heights Yacht Club, The Metropolitan condominiums in Chinatown, and the Harriet Tubman House in the South End where polls opened at 2 p.m., a total of 417, 729, and 1,325 votes were cast, respectively. The Metropolitan’s vote tally included 18 provisional votes while Harriet Tubman House had 16 provisional votes in their totals. Provisional ballots are those in which voters’ registrations have yet to be verified. On Saturday October 29, residents will have the opportunity to vote at 9 different polling locations, one in each city council district, from noon to 6 p.m. According to Irish, every early voting site is accessible for persons with disabilities. “They are all equipped with AutoMark machines to assist voters, and chairs are available to assist folks who can’t wait in line longer than expected,” he said. Automark machines assist voters with sensory and physical limitations in marking their ballots, as well as provides language translation. “I happened to be out today, and though I might as well come down here and vote,” said Herb
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Boston residents line up to cast ballots in early voting at City Hall. Webb, a resident of Back Bay. “I’m excited to be here for early voting, this is a brand new.” According to Mayor Walsh, $670,000 for early voting was allocated in last year’s city budget. City Hall will remain open for voting Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. through 8 p.m. until November 4.
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For the first time ever, registered Boston voters can vote at any early voting location from Monday, October 24 – Friday, November 4 in the City, including City Hall. Pick a time and place that is best for you. Voter registration deadline is October 19. MON. OCT. 24, 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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BPS airs bold ideas for cutting costs By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The Boston Public School budget shortfall that galvanized high school students to walk out en mass and ultimately left some schools without librarians and autistic children in larger classes, are unlikely to be a thing of the past, BPS officials said. That is, unless serious changes happen. BPS and city budget officials gathered with reporters on Monday to unveil key ideas on how to substantially alter operations so that school expenditures do not continue to outstrip revenue. But, they were quick to say, at this stage, these remain ideas, not necessarily recommendations. School costs are expected to grow 3 to 4 percent annually, while revenue for schools rises only about 2 percent, according to a report presented by officials. Weighing over their heads: Next year, BPS is projected to have a $20 to $25 million budget gap, assuming no steps are taken. If Question 2 passes and the charter cap is lifted, that deficit will be even greater, officials say. Report authors sought to illuminate BPS’s main expenditure areas and offered possible changes. They addressed transportation, educator and other staff salaries and benefits, number of facilities and classrooms, special need student services and limits to city revenue generation. In the unlikely event that all proposals are taken up, officials estimate the city could save $100 million. One caveat: The cost-savings ideas reflect only that some practices carry high pricetags — not that they fail to meet educational goals. Comparisons to 12 districts across the U.S. with similar size, poverty level and student mix to Boston found that BPS is a relatively high spender. Even acknowledging higher cost of living it spends 45 percent more per pupil, according to the report. However, BPS also produces many positive results, noted Eleanor Laurans, the school department’s chief financial officer. “We don’t necessarily think spending more in certain areas is overspending,” Laurans said. “BPS does do well compared to other urban centers on National Assessment of Educational Progress.” Laurans emphasized that the ideas should be taken as ways to assess how money is spent so that the district is making conscious choices about where it prioritizes its dollars. “We wanted to point out costs associated with some of the choices we’ve made as a district so we can have conversation of if we want to
continue with those investments,” she said. Public feedback will be solicited, with a presentation to the school committee on ideas, responses and, potentially, some recommendations intended for February 1. No specific level of public feedback is required.
Transportation
About 11 percent of BPS’ budget is spent on transporting children to school, and costs are expected to rise 7.5 percent annually. Part of the expense comes from serving children from a wide geographic range. BPS shoulders transit costs for private, charter and some parochial schools, all which may have citywide enrollment. Furthermore, when BPS switched to a home-based system, it allowed children to remain in their current schools instead of transfer into ones closer to where they live. One proposal suggests eliminating transportation for children who elect to attend these more distant schools or putting a cap on how far BPS is willing to fund travel. Other factors noted: Drivers are paid above the national average, and school start times are not aligned so as to allow one bus to serve multiple schools on time, thus requiring a larger vehicular fleet. Proposals include assigning start times with an eye to bus routing, considering alternate transit for more distantly-located children, and no longer providing a higher level of transit service than required under state law, which only stipulates serving K-6 students who live two or more miles from their school.
Facilities and programs
Another cost area: A prevalence of small schools. On average, BPS enrolls 420 children per primary school, while comparison districts enroll 562 on average. Although some parents say their children thrive in these smaller environments and with more individualized attention, fewer, larger schools could more maximally utilize resources, BPS’s report states. Each facility brings certain costs, such as staffing a principal, and having somewhat larger schools might extend the benefit of that expenditure over a greater population. A similar concern was classrooms with seats unintentionally left empty, suggesting that in these cases, the benefit of teachers and programming is felt by fewer students. The report recommended reconsidering the number of schools, classrooms and program sites in the interest of concentrating resources in fewer locations.
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ON THE WEB Read the report, find engagement events and submit online responses: https://medium.com/@DaveSweeney3/ana lyzing-the-fiscal-impact-of-question-2-9f1a36d 8d823#.595n6e4cm At a school committee hearing last month, Gabi Pereire, a junior at Excel High School, warned against increasing class sizes too much. Pereire said that current funding shortfalls resulted in her AP Language Arts becoming overcrowded with 40 students each. “I don’t know how I’m expected to learn or hear myself think,” Pereire said. “There are teachers who are unable to teach because they are so overwhelmed by lack of resources and so many students.” Any steps here should follow research into student demand, facility capacity and equity by neighborhood, the report advises.
Teacher compensation
Salaries and benefits constitute 75 percent of BPS’s budget. Officials are interested in adding 40 extra minutes to the school day, a measure heralded as producing positive educational outcomes, which they note would come at the cost of paying teachers an additional five percent of their annual salary. Officials say this compensation is high compared to other districts, but add that they are not necessarily advocating cutting or freezing wages. The city’s early hiring initiative has allowed it to recruit high-quality, diverse educators, officials say. But this may fill so many teaching positions that some tenured teachers
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SPED and ELL
Boston serves an especially high number of special education students, which may reflect overlooked needs in other districts. Twenty percent of BPS students receive some level of special education service, compared, on average, to 17 percent statewide and 13 percent nationally. With special education spending making up more than 33 percent of the FY 2016 budget, according to the report, reforming how the state provides funding could be impactful. The state funding formula presumes BPS has one-fifth of the number of SPED students it actually enrolls, and underestimates the costs to
educate, officials said. Further aggravating shortfalls: When the state underestimates, BPS has to spend more to meet its high level of higher-need students; the state then requires BPS to provide similar funding for charter school’s special education students, who tend to have needs that are less costly to address, officials said. Other report suggestions included a shift to address earlier on what could evolve into special educational needs down the road. This might entail providing targeted, flexible supports to more students, instead of either providing a complete individualized education plan or none at all, the report states.
Revenue
The state regards Boston’s high property values and income as an indicator that the city has wealth and needs less state support to fund its education. However, because Boston does not have authority to implement an income or sales tax and with Proposition 2.5 limiting property tax, the city has limited ability to tap this wealth for schools. Report authors recommended advocating measures to the state that allow Boston more revenue-generating tools.
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Attending the Campeón Soccer opening at Logan Airport: (l-r) Roy Avellaneda; Josiane Martinez, Archipelago Strategies Group CEO; Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea City Manager; Jabes Rojas, Governor Office’s Deputy Chief of Staff; José C. Massó III, Massport Policy Director; Nam Pham, Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of Business Development; Javier Marin, Campeón Soccer owner; Camilo Hernandez, Boston City Council District 1 Director of Constituent Services; and Verónica Robles, VROCC Director.
Will soccer sell at airport?
Local entrepreneur bets big with airport sportswear store By KAREN MORALES
In recognition of soccer’s fierce worldwide fan base, Logan airport recently opened a new Campeón Soccer location in Terminal B. The store is the first major soccer retailer in a U.S. airport and the first Hispanic-owned business in the terminal. “I definitely love the soccer community’s passion towards the sport,” said Javier Marin, owner of the store. “The community has been growing and making a big presence in this country.” As founder and co-owner of the El Planeta newspaper, Marin has always had his finger on the pulse of Boston’s Latino community, a population that continues to grow. He began distributing official World Cup merchandise in 2011, and opened the first Campeón Soccer location in Chelsea, Massachusetts two years later. “Soccer is like a religion in the Latino market,” he said. After going through Terminal B’s security checkpoint, passengers can shop for soccer paraphernalia of international teams and leagues, as well local soccer club New England Revolution, at the Campeón Soccer kiosk. Items range from jerseys, phone cases, hats, scarves and figurines for teams like Brasil, USA, Real Madrid, Manchester United or Arsenal.
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The airport kiosk sells merchandise mostly for the soccer fans, Marin said. That’s in contrast to his Chelsea flagship, which also offers products for soccer players such as cleats, soccer balls and team uniforms. Five other sales associates take shifts running the store, all of whom, according to Marin, are soccer experts. “I know that if you buy something of Ronaldo for a kid that loves Messi, they’re going to hate you,” he said. “The person that works here needs to know the community well.”
Value capture
The process of opening the new store began a couple years ago, according to Marin, when Camilo Hernandez, a local political and community organizer, invited various minority-owned business owners to discuss the airport retail space. In partnership with Massport and AIRMALL, Campeón Soccer opened for business on October 14, 2016. “As the gateway to Boston and beyond, Logan International Airport is the first stop for millions of visitors from around the world,” said Massport CEO Thomas P. Glynn. “Increasing the number of locally-owned and diverse businesses operating in the airport is a key component to solidifying
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I definitely love the soccer community’s passion towards the sport. The community has been growing and making a big presence in this country.” — Javier Marin, owner, Campeón Soccer
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Increasing the number of locally-owned and diverse businesses operating in the airport is a key component to solidifying Logan’s world-class status.” — Thomas P. Glynn, Massport CEO
Logan’s world-class status.” Marin said he crunched a lot of numbers and compiled research to scale his business into a second location, including looking at statistics and demographics of passengers flying out of Terminal B. In 2015, 4.88 million travelers went outbound through Terminal B, with roughly half of them international passengers. American Airlines also is located in Terminal B, which many travelers going to South America take — another strong soccer market, Marin said. “The data convinced me that this was a viable business,” he said. In addition, the United States is a unique market. As a country of immigrants, American soccer
fans tend to watch all of the international leagues, as opposed to a country like Spain, where Spaniards tend to only support Spanish teams. “And during the World Cup, everybody loves to see their own native country playing,” said Marin. “Every major international airport in Europe has a soccer store but there is a difference,” he said. “If you go to a store in Germany, the store will only have merch from their German team and their German league.” The store owner has future expansion plans, like additional Campeón Soccer locations in other Logan terminals and other international airports. “It’s an international business model that has worked,” he said.
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TECH TALK A class action lawsuit was filed on Oct. 18 in New Jersey against Samsung over its exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones. The plaintiffs claim to have suffered “economic injuries” from the company’s mishandling of the recall. Experts predict that this is the first of many lawsuits the company will face as after it had no choice but to recall and discontinue one of its popular flagship smartphones after reports the devices caught fire when charging or burst when being used. — More Content Now
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under-funded those reimbursements and that the loss of funding to charters leads to district school closures. A ssessments for char ter schools and the cost of busing students to charters costs Boston $175 million a year, Jackson said. If three new schools open each year in Boston, Jackson said, it could force the closure of as many as 45 district schools. Dunn ignited Jackson’s ire when he argued that the state does not need to spend more funding on public education, at one point stating that Boston, with a $1.3 billion school budget, is spending more money on its schools than ever before, arguing that the city and state are “throwing money” at public education. “We’ve been throwing billions of dollars at public education for decades and not getting results,” Dunn said. Jackson countered that the state has not maintained adequate funding for public schools, citing a report from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that found that the Legislature has underfunded the so-called foundation budget for k-12 education by $1 billion a year. The ballot question, he argued, is a diversion from the larger issue of funding. “This actually skirts the real issue,” he said of Question 2. “We’ve been de-funding education in Massachusetts, not only for district schools, but also for
charters. If we’re going to solve the problem, we have to invest in public schools.” The Ford Hall Forum exchange mirrors debates that are playing out across Boston and the state on the editorial pages of newspapers and in city and town halls. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, a founding board member of the Conservatory Lab Charter School, spelled out his opposition to the charter expansion Question 2 would facilitate, arguing that the current funding formula in which charters receive the average per-pupil funding in a district doesn’t account for the fact that charter schools educate fewer high-need, high-cost students.
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Walsh claimed the charter assessments Boston pays, which now account for 5 percent of total city spending, could mushroom to 20 percent over the next decade. “It’s a looming death spiral for our district budget, aimed squarely at the most vulnerable children in our city” Walsh wrote. “It’s not just unsustainable, it’s unconscionable.” In a City Council meeting Monday, the city’s Chief Financial Officer David Sweeney said charter assessments against the district could rise as high as $800 million a year by 2028 if the charter cap is lifted. While Walsh, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Reps. Michael Capuano and Katherine Clark have come out against charter school expansion, Gov. Charlie Baker, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and state Reps. Marcos Devers
and Frank Moran are among those supporting the measure. Several national organizations, including the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, have passed resolutions calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion. Charter proponents in Massachusetts point out that President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education John King support charter school expansion. As of Monday, 200 school committees in Massachusetts passed resolutions against Question 2. Statewide education organizations and the Massachusetts Municipal Organizations are also opposing the measure. At the Ford Hall Forum, former state Board of Education member Harneen Chernow stressed that the funding battle is the major sticking point in the battle over the ballot question. “If this ballot question had be proposed with money to pay for it, if this were about building one system without destroying another, it would be a different conversation,” she said. Chernow also contended that the Board of Education has not done an effective job in regulating charters. “It’s not a given that a charter is going to have a better outcome than district schools,” she said. “Some of the charters are better, many of them are the same, many of them are worse.” Chernow said the 15 percent of charter schools in the state are on probation, and that the board has closed only five in the 23 year history of charters in Massachusetts.
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DEFINING SUCCESS SHEA ROSE REFLECTS ON HER LIFE AND MUSIC ON NEW ALBUM, ‘D.T.M.A.’ By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
Three years in the making, the EP “D.T.M.A.” is a reflection and a celebration of Shea Rose’s journey in navigating the music industry from an emerging artist to becoming an independent, empowered singer, songwriter, and producer in her own right. Primed to sign with a major record label in 2013, Rose felt that she was being pulled in many different directions, and decided to pull the plug on the offer. It was like putting a “nail in the coffin,” described Rose of turning down the deal, in a recent sit down with the Banner. And then she had to process that decision which took some time. “I’m so happy that it happened. It was such a sobering awakening and failure. I’m happy that it happened here in Boston with my family and friends,” said the Berklee College of Music grad. “It was the best thing that happened — failing.” In the three years since, Rose has been able to take the lessons that she learned from that time to define what success means to her. Quite simply, it was about having balance in her life. “I want to be healthy physically, spiritually and mentally, and have space to produce my art.” “Dance This Mess Around,” which was funded by a Kickstarter campaign, took some time in coming to life. “I tried after the Kickstarter, and turning down the major label to release it as a project,” said Rose. “I realized about a year ago when I kept hitting a wall, that I had to tell the story about why this is so hard. I think that’s just as important as the song.” The album, which is produced by Rose and her partner in life and in music, Simone Scazzocchio, exposes the struggles and the ups and downs of being an artist. Rose, who co-wrote five of the six songs, describes the album as “the story of her life” beginning with the first single “Do I Really Wanna Be? (A Rock Star),” — released on October 14 — which describes the inner conflict that she went through in 2013.
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Shea Rose from the artwork to the “Forcin’ It” single. PHOTO: JOEL BENJAMIN
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Spaces of hope Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo closes Greenway season on a positive note By CELINA COLBY
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy commissioned up and coming Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo to paint the fifth Dewey Square Park mural. Known for his surrealist public art, particularly in his native Tehran, “Spaces of Hope” represents Ghadyanloo’s American debut. For the artist, the opportunity to paint here isn’t just a line on his resume, but a chance to bring light into a time of deep uncertainty. He says, “I’m trying to spark positivity and imagination. I want it to be poetic.” The mural is a look into an archway. At the bottom of the black background, throngs of people stand there, chatting and interacting in groups. Light pours in from a doorway on the left and a bright red balloon descends, or rises, from a cutout in the ceiling. Ghadyanloo says this is his visual representation of hope. When he visited Boston after being invited to create the work, all the people moving through the space inspired him. The throngs pouring out of South Station en route to work or play vibrated with life and energy. He translated that energy into the painting. Ghadyanloo studied painting and cinema at the University of Tehran, but his interest in architecture also is evident. The base of the mural is that archway, inspired by the lines
of the Greenway wall. The architecture was one of the first things the artist noticed about Dewey Square. Skyscrapers surround the park on all sides, and he knew he’d have to create something bold and enigmatic to be noticed among such large buildings. Ghadyanloo also noticed that the Dewey Square area is a unique space in the city. “I think this area is very different than the rest of Boston,” he says. Next to South Station, the financial district and the Seaport, the square is a transitional place. It brings people in and out of the city, to work and the ocean, but never to stay. As an international artist, Ghadyanloo has taken the temperature of many places in order to install artwork there. Each of his public pieces is unique to its home. “People in Iran, people in Boston, people everywhere are very similar,” he says. “I like to use unifying concepts like hope and light. I like to appeal to the inner child in all of us.” In conjunction with the mural, Ghadyanloo will exhibit an original painting at Boston City Hall and publish a limited edition screen print only available in Boston. The presence of artists like Ghadyanloo in Boston, especially during this political climate, reminds us of our shared humanity. The artist also wants “Spaces of Hope” to remind us of our shared experiences. He says, “When you turn on the TV or look at social media, there’s negativity everywhere. I think public art can counteract that.”
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Mehdi Ghdyanloo’s “Spaces of Hope” takes shape in Dewey Square.
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Hanging heads and swinging bodies Artist Steve Locke’s dual exhibit confronts racial, romantic history By CELINA COLBY
Artist Steve Locke is not afraid of handling delicate subject matter. In fact, he relishes the opportunity to bring the dark secrets of human history to light. In his collaborative exhibitions “Family Pictures” at Gallery Kayafas and “The School of Love” at Samsøn, he confronts violence, racism, and identity with controlled expertise. He reminds Boston, an academically progressive but often tightlipped city, that historical transgressions and personal violence do not rub off with warm water and a firm hand. “Family Pictures” represents Locke’s first photographic portfolio, featuring a series of large scale prints depicting black and white photographs in decorative frames, sitting on a wooden end table. On closer inspection, the frames contain images of lynchings, mobs and racial violence from U.S. history. A white frame with “Our Honeymoon” written in script on the bottom holds a diagram of a slave ship’s cargo area. Two white flip-flops, cast into the top of the frame, sit heavily like the weights on a noose.
Picturing pain
Locke tells the untold stories. These photographs were taken from a collection of books about African American history, which are available in a reading room next to the exhibit for perusal. He plucks the most heart wrenching moments of violence and neglect from history and hangs them on the wall. In his artist statement, Locke discusses how this kind of treatment of black and poor people is becoming increasingly visible. Black men were always unfairly shot, but now we see it on the news. “Family Pictures” reminds viewers that this is not a new phenomenon; this is our collective cultural heritage. Lynchings were considered a lurid source of entertainment for much of the 19th and, alarmingly, the 20th centuries. Nearly 3,500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Photographers would capture the event and then print postcards for attendees to send to their family and friends. Many of these are pictured in the reading room collection, some with the writing still on them. Locke plays on this dark, grotesque pit of human nature with frames that say things like “I can’t believe we did that” and “Wouldn’t you want
ON THE WEB Artist Steve Locke online:
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Shea Rose
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The second single “Forcin’ It,” which comes out this Friday (October 28) talks about the images and ideas that are placed on us by others and by ourselves. Thinking about that period in her life, Rose realizes that “it just speaks to how powerful the media is and how when you’re constantly seeing those images nobody has to do it to you. You actually can do it to yourself because you have this expectation of that’s who you’re supposed to be and that’s what you
her album release and more, visit www.shearose.com. see, and so you mimic that.” These days Rose has a new lease on life; she’s engaged and present and absolutely thrilled to share her journey through her music. The album is slated for release over the course of several months with a new track being revealed every two weeks on iTunes before becoming available on Spotify, Google Player, and other platforms.
Plus, each song has its own cover art and behind the scenes video representing a different piece of Shea’s story. “Oftentimes we get to see the package when it’s done. Everything looks incredible, beautiful and sparkly. We decided to open up and tell the story and show the process. That’s the art. That’s just as important as the music,” said Rose in explaining the unique concept behind “D.T.M.A.” Come 2017, fans in Boston and on the East Coast will get to experience the music and the album up close when Rose hits the road in her first official tour.
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to be us?” encasing photographs of innocent black men hanging from trees while the mob around them celebrates. “The School of Love,” at Samsøn, reflects similar violent undertones but within sexual context. Locke is known for his portraits and has often been criticized for painting white people. Many of these portraits are prominently featured against one wall of the exhibit. A line of white men make lascivious, foolish faces with their tongues out and their features inflated. In fact, they mirror the offensive, exaggerated historical depictions of black men as foolish and frightening clowns.
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Kitsch cast heads of a fawn hang in and around the portraits, bearing some resemblance to the artist. The heads are cast in Hydrocal and dyed a spectrum of bold, vivid colors. They hang from the ceiling, from the paintings and lay on the floor, creating a minefield of decapitation throughout the gallery. Some have nails penetrating the head and eyes, bungee cords and cotton rope bind. In many ways the sculptures seem to represent Locke — tied, bound and penetrated at the hands of the portraits that watch him from the wall. Locke was inspired by, and takes the name from, Correggio’s portrait “The School of Love.” But his process of learning about love, sex and communication was much less delicate than Correggio’s cuddling angels. The titles of the works indicate this, “lessons from Occupied Japan,” and “for when he tells you, ‘I love your nigger cock.’” A piece tucked into the end of the gallery has a head suspended from a floating bookshelf stocked with titles like “Growing up Hard,” and “Uncle’s Plaything,” a textural memory of love’s lessons learned, whatever the damage. In a society where racial injustice continues to exist, Locke plunges us head first into the abyss. He reminds the audience that for African Americans, violence, racism and assault are status quo. He reminds us that no matter how we dress our history up in whimsical frames or layers of dye, it is still comprised of hanging heads and swinging bodies.
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criminal justice involvement, Cohee said. With this new income and new places to spend it, local employees would turn into local consumers and the wealth would cycle throughout the community. “This was our big chance to use the private sector to start an economy,” Cohee said. “They selected vital business from black, Latino and Asian communities they were going to bolster up.” The Asian members later sold their membership in the group.
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it, while CPA members say they first laid eyes on it during the course of a 2013 lawsuit. CPA also claims that the deal violates NU’s responsibility to make a good faith attempt to act in both parties’ best interest. Based on estimates of the material value of the garage, plaintiffs assert that they have lost out on $100 million.
was paid off, the parties would split net profits equally. But fifteen years later, that payoff date has yet to materialize. In their agreement, the parties authorized Northeastern to manage the joint venture. Using this authority to represent the parties, Lawrence F. Mucciolo, then-senior vice president for administration and finance at Northeastern, signed a 1999 ground lease establishing the joint venture as lessor and Northeastern University — an entity independent of the venture — as lessee. On this document, Mucciolo signed both as the joint venture’s representative and NU’s independent representative. Under the terms of the lease, the university pays the joint venture an annual rent of $100 for the next 60 years — terms that make it impossible to reimburse NU the millions of dollars in development costs. Meanwhile, the university as garage operator is free to capture revenue from running the facility. NU asserts that CPA was aware of the terms of the lease and approved
Plaintiffs allege that Northeastern acted — without CPA’s knowledge — to arrange a garage lease deal that benefited the university exclusively, rather than negotiating for their mutual benefit. In 1999, CPA and Northeastern entered into a joint venture to develop a portion of Parcel 18 into a garage. The terms of the joint venture agreement stated that CPA would contribute its development rights, while Northeastern would front the capital to purchase the land from the Boston Redevelopment Authority on behalf of both parties, and pay CPA $320,000 initially, and an in-kind payment of $100,000 at some future point. Additionally, NU would develop the parking facility and rent it to an outside facility manager. Profits generated would accrue to Northeastern until its investment was reimbursed, plus a little extra (a priority return of 10 percent annually on the amount contributed). At the point when Northeastern’s initial investment
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NU seeks to build a hotel on a parcel subsection, though plans remain on hold because CPA has not given Northeastern the development rights it needs to move forward. Originally, the hotel was envisioned for the area where the dorm now resides, and NU represented to the BRA that CPA agreed to switch the locations. CPA said no approval was given and that in discussions on the hotel, NU has presumed mistakenly that a few members of CPA speak for the whole.Partners H
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would be created and details finalized. NU argues that they only agreed to discuss the enterprise. This distinction is key because NU has since built a 22-story, 1,100-bed dorm on that land, while the joint venture was never formed. Cohee said the CPA had presumed NU was holding off on negotiating fair net profit division until construction was completed and the university could accurately represent the extent of development costs. NU has argued that because its financial obligation is to a nonexistent entity, not to CPA directly, the university does not have to pay the $100,000 or share profits. Meanwhile, CPA attorney Owens argues that the reason Northeastern did not create the entity was to avoid making payment. The provision tentatively placed CPA’s share of the dorm profit at 30 percent, and CPA’s Cohee estimates his group would be due at least $100 million from the development of the dormitory. During the final day in court, Vincent Lembo, senior counsel and vice president for Northeastern and secretary to the board of trustees, acknowledged that Northeastern had made no attempts to form the joint venture during the stipulated six-month time frame, or to extend that deadline. NU also avoided CPA attempts to establish the joint venture by not responding to requests to meet or provide a draft joint venture agreement, Cohee said. “They [NU] simply did nothing and have kept all the proceeds of the dorm site,” Cohee said. During a 2015 hearing on the matter, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins noted that the language of the agreement never envisioned a reality in which
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On October 28, at approximately 8:00 p.m., work zone logistical deployments will be obvious as law enforcement details and contractors will be visible setting up at the existing toll plazas and prepare to mobilize equipment for demolition and signs to inform drivers of the lanes of travel to the right and left sides of existing toll plazas. Manual toll collection is scheduled to officially end on October 28 at 9:45 p.m., and the existing E-ZPass MA system will stop processing transactions at existing toll plazas. The electronic tolling gantries will then “go-live” at 10:00 p.m., and will begin to collect vehicle information as drivers pass under the gantries above the highway. The existing tolling websites (www.ezpassma.com and www.
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ZONING HEARING The Zoning Commission of the City of Boston hereby gives notice, in accordance with Chapter 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, that a public hearing will be held on November 9, 2016, at 11:45 AM, in Room 900, Boston City Hall, in connection with Text Amendment Application No. 469, filed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a Boston Planning and Development Agency (“BRA”). Said petition will be heard only if approved at the BRA Board of Director’s Meeting scheduled for October 20, 2016. Said text amendment would amend Article 50, Roxbury Neighborhood District, with respect to the maximum floor area ratio (“FAR”) and allowed maximum building height in Planned Development Areas (“PDAs”), specifically for a portion of Parcel P-3 and Parcel P-3h in the Campus High Urban Renewal Area, Project No. Mass. R-129, within the Roxbury Neighborhood District. A copy of the petition may be viewed at the office of the Zoning Commission, Room 916, Boston City Hall, between 9 AM and 5 PM any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. For the Commission, Kathleen R. Pedersen Executive Secretary INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.
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Supply and Delivery of Two (2) Grit Screws Deer Island Treatment Plant
11/07/16
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*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.
Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1485-C1 WEST GARAGE SIGNAGE CLEARANCE, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly. NOTE:
PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 2:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016.
The work includes signage removal, new and replacement signage for the Central and West Central Garages at Boston Logan International Airport, to accommodate oversized vehicular parking on the first level of the garage. The work includes SIGNS, PAVEMENT MARKINGS, AND ELECTRICAL. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Assessment Management and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is TWO HUNDRED SIXTYSEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 267,000.00). In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Sub-bidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal.
The Authority expects to select two consultants. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis. A Supplemental Information Package will be available, on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/ default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, and on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project. If you have problems finding it, please contact Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements. By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.
Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: ELECTRICAL
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The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A361, FY17-19 TERM LASER SCANNING SERVICES, BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking qualified consulting firms or teams, with proven experience to provide professional services on an on-call, as needed basis. These services are expected to be provided at all Massport Facilities, including but not limited to Boston-Logan Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport, Conley Terminal, Cruiseport Boston, and South Boston waterfront properties. The Consultant/s must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. The consultant/s shall demonstrate experience in several disciplines including but not limited to laser scanning both interior and exterior of buildings and BIM modeling.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16P1917EA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Albert Miller Date of Death: 10/01/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Shirley V. Miller of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Shirley V. Miller of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 11/16/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 14, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Paul Dean Pina Date of Death: 11/02/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Jeanetta L. Pina of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Jeanetta L. Pina of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 11/24/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.
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Interested? To qualify for inclusion in the lottery, you must: 1. Be a 1st time homebuyer & complete approved homebuyer ed course; 2. Have a minimum household size of number of bedrooms, minus one; 3. Meet income and asset requirements. Deed-restricted, owner-occupancy, Boston residency, & household size preferences. Other restrictions apply. Requirements subject to change.
MAXIMUM HOUSEHOLD INCOME 10 GLEN ST. & 17 TRULL ST. 1 person: $54,950 2 persons: $62,800 3 persons: $70,650 4 persons: $78,500
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Public Information Meeting 6:30pm, Wednesday, Nov 9, 2016 Hingham Town Hall Application Deadline December 3, 2016
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For Info and Application: Pick Up: Hingham & Norwell Town Hall, Town Clerks Office or Public Lib. Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: maureen@mcohousingservices.com
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Information and application packets available at Planning Board office, Town Hall; reference desk at the Public Library; from the lottery administrator or may be downloaded from the town web site: www.wellesleyma.gov
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The lottery will be held in the Juliani room in the Wellesley Town Hall, 525 Washington Street at 7:30 p.m. on December 6,2016. For questions call lottery administrator Steve Burtt at 781-235-4120 or e-mail him at srburtt@comcast.net
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Informational Meeting: Monday, November 7, 2016, 6:00 PM Urban Edge, 1542 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury, MA Deadline for completed applications to be in lottery: Monday, November 28, 2016 by 4:00 p.m. In person at the above address or mailed and postmarked by that day. Reasonable accommodations made.
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an independent elementary school in Andover, MA, serves 440 students in grades pre-kindergarten through nine. We are looking for a
You may also request an application by contacting the management office at Montebello@winnco.com
For more information call Winn Management (617) 989-1052 TTY/TDD: (800) 439-2370
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Completed application must be postmarked by November 30, 2016 and submitted to Housing Options, 20 Ledyard Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
52 Montebello Road
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Monthly rent $1831.00 includes utilities Unit is in walk to town location
An information meeting will be held at the Wellesley Police Station,485 Washington, Street on Saturday, November 19, at 1:30 p.m.
52 Montebello Road Jamaica Plain, MA
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