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Bill calls for better Fairmount service Carvalho’s legislation proposes rapid transit service, CharlieCard access

By YAWU MILLER

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Protesters filled Copley Square plaza on Sunday to rebuke Trump’s travel ban, which blocks entry to refugees and immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries.

With rallies & lawyers, Boston fights travel ban Trump’s order targets refugees, Muslim immigrants

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Last Friday, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order to temporarily suspend the nation’s refugee program and bar refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the country. Boston quickly rose to answer. Over the weekend, protesters turned out to decry the

immigration order, which would return refugees to danger and detain green card and visa holders, leaving them waiting to learn if their lives in America would be unraveled.

The immigration order triggered protests and court cases across the country. Thousands of demonstrators filled Copley Square Sunday afternoon in solidarity with immigrants and Muslims. Protesters objected to a presidential

administration that appears eager to demonize Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants, and said they sought to protect human rights and their communities. Some drew parallels to Jewish refugees who were denied entry during the Holocaust. Others expressed concern about the executive order’s tone, which they considered fascist and dictatorial.

See PROTESTS, page 6

State Rep. Evandro Carvalho last week filed legislation that would reduce the wait times on the Fairmount commuter rail line from 40 to 15 minutes during peak hours and allow riders to use Charlie Cards to pay for their fares.

Transit activists have struggled for years to make the Fairmount commuter rail line more accessible to the residents of the Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods through which it runs. While they have secured notable successes — including new stops at Four Corners, the South Bay Mall and Mattapan Square — the activists’ goal of transforming Fairmount into a rapid transit line has remained elusive.

Under Carvalho’s bill, the changes would occur during a two-year pilot program that would enable the T to gauge demand for rapid transit service.

“Once the frequency is increased, it will become reliable transportation,” Carvalho said.

“People will be able to jump on the line and be at South Station in 20 minutes.”

Shorter, faster trains

Currently the Fairmount Line has standard six-car trains, a setup designed for commuter trains that make longer runs with greater distances between stations. Carvalho’s bill calls for the Fairmount Line to run no more than three passenger cars in each train. The trains would run with locomotives that are geared for

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minutes: Current wait time on Fairmount commuter rail line during peak hours minutes: Estimated wait times on Fairmount line during peak hours under proposed legislation filed by state Rep. Evandro Carvalho The current number of cars on Fairmount commuter line trains — designed for longer runs The number of cars on Fairmount commuter line trains under Carvalho’s proposed legislation — designed for rapid acceleration and quick stops million: The amount committed by Gov. Deval Patrick for special diesel cars — nixed by Gov. Charlie Baker

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more rapid acceleration and outfitted to stop more quickly than standard commuter rail trains.

“The whole purpose is to make the Fairmount Line another line in the MBTA,” he said.

Local transit activists have been calling for the Fairmount Line to be rebranded as the Indigo Line, a new rapid transit route that cuts through the most public transit-dependent neighborhoods in the city. A group of community-based organizations and community development corporations along the route organized the Fairmount Indigo Coalition in 2006 and began pressuring the administration of then-Governor Mitt Romney to improve service.

“This bill is part of the Fairmount Indigo Coalition’s

See FAIRMOUNT, page 16

City officials unveil school budget plan New action on homeless, learning time

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Memories of the outrage over last year’s Boston school budget, which spurred thousands of high schoolers to walk out in protest, are still fresh. Now, the next school budget proposal is due.

Boston Public School officials sat down with reporters on Monday to outline their plan.

The overall school budget, by

their estimate, represents a 2.8 percent increase over the previous year, with investments targeted at aiding homeless students, expanding more rigorous coursework to fifth-graders at 13 schools and providing for extended learning time. If the city factors in $20 million reserved for pay increases or other results of ongoing collective bargaining with the teacher’s union, that could bump to a 3.7 percent increase. The inflation rate

for the year ending in Dec. 2016 is 2.1 percent, according to the U.S. Inflation Calculator, making the proposed school funding in effect closer to a 0.7 percent to 1.6 percent increase.

Balancing a budget

Some schools expect to experience funding shortfalls. For one, Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury is slated to lose nine teachers. However, Eleanor Laurans, BPS chief financial

See BPS BUDGET, page 9

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Eleanor Laurans, BPS chief financial officer, outlined the city’s school budget proposal at a meeting with reporters. With her is Colin Rose, BPS assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps.

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Baker’s budget does little for schools, lot for healthcare Provisions to lessen impact of ACA repeal, education funding falls short of improvement

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Governor Charlie Baker outlined a budget proposal last week that many said made strides in addressing health care needs under the new presidential administration but fell short of alleviating the budget stress of beleaguered public education institutions.

K-12 education

The budget would increase the districts’ elementary and secondary education aid, known as Chapter 70 aid, by about $20 per pupil. This may not make much of a dent: It cost Boston about $18,372 to educate a student in the 2014-2015 school year, the latest data available from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

In comparison, that year Cambridge spent $27,569 per pupil, while the highest-spending district allotted $30,505 per pupil and no district spent less than $10,400 per pupil.

“Our shared commitment to funding local schools has led to an all-time high in Chapter 70 education funding,” Baker said.

According to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, Baker’s proposal raises Chapter 70 aid only by about 2 percent, roughly enough to match inflation rates, not rising costs. The percent increase is smaller than that given in the past few years’ budgets, MassBudget states. “[This budget] wouldn’t allow for significant improvements in class sizes or wraparound services or making sure we have all we need,” Noah Berger, MassBudget president, told the Banner.

Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz has proposed a bill that would increase the state’s determination of what counts as a minimally adequate budget for schools, the socalled “foundation budget.” Once the state calculates the foundation budget, it supplies a portion, requires a municipal contribution based on perceived local ability to pay, then makes up the difference. Chang-Diaz cochaired a bipartisan review committee that in 2015 announced that the state’s budgeting estimates understated costs incurred by schools by about $1 billion a

year. In part the shortfall is due to rising employee health benefit costs and a trend of underestimating the level of special education spending needed, the committee said.

“When you factor in inflation, the governor’s proposal would put us 5.5 percent below funding levels from 15 years ago,” ChangDiaz said in a statement to the Banner. “A bipartisan, state-commissioned panel — that included appointees from his administration — unanimously declared last session that we are falling over $1 billion short on our commitment to public education every year. Instead of addressing it in a meaningful way, the Governor has kicked the can down the road one more year.”

Early education

Both MassBudget and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation say that the Baker’s proposed 0.1 percent increase in early education funding is unlikely to affect waitlists for subsidized childcare, which MTF estimates at 30,000 children.

Higher education

Students at the state’s public colleges and universities increasingly are burdened by debt, according to a recent MassBudget report. As state support has declined, campuses have made up the difference in part by hiking mandatory student fees. Since 2001, the number of students taking out loans to attend fouryear public colleges in Massachusetts increased by 39 percent and their cumulative amount of debt was 55 percent higher, according to the MassBudget report.

Zac Bear, interim director of Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), says greater funding is sorely needed.

“The universities are severely underfunded,” Bear told the Banner. “There’s been a 31 percent cut in state funding for students since 2001 and that’s with a $4,000 increase per year in tuition and fee costs across universities and campus. It’s incredibly unsustainable. … I know many students who have to take semesters off due to financial need.”

Rates of student homelessness and food insecurity have

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Gov. Charlie Baker gave his State of the Commonwealth speech last week. been rising at state colleges and universities. At the 29 state colleges and universities, 45 percent of administrators reported a rise in student homelessness over the previous year and 38 percent reported a rise in students without consistent access to food, according to The Boston Globe. Insufficient financial aid, rising costs of living and high student debt burdens are contributors, administrators said.

Baker’s allotment falls short of UMass’s funding request by about $30 million, and about $10 million below requests from state universities and community colleges, Bear said. Beyond that, there is a large deficit remaining.

Berger said the governor’s proposal will not make higher education more affordable. One thing could, however: the Fair Share Amendment, also known as the “Millionaire’s Tax,” which is expected to pass by ballot referendum in 2018 and could provide an estimated $2 billion annually to public transportation and education.

“That would allow for significant process in making higher education more affordable, improving the quality of K-12 schools and also expand access to early education,” Berger said.

Health care

While many expressed doubts that Baker’s FY2018 plan would advance public education, the governor drew praise for his health care vision. With the federal government moving to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Baker’s plan would put more employers on the hook for providing health coverage for their employees.

The governor’s proposal would put a cap on the amount providers could charge for service and revive and enhance a piece of “Romneycare” legislation that financially penalized firms that did not supply sufficient healthcare coverage. Firms with 11 or more employees would be fined $2,000 for each worker not on the firm’s health insurance, and the state would use this revenue to support the MassHealth’s

growing enrollment. A similar provision under Romneycare was repealed when the Affordable Care Act introduced its own set of penalties for employers failing to cover their workers. “ The centerpiece of this budget is a smart, common-sense proposal to address the problem of costs for employee health care being shifted from employers onto state government,” Berger said in a statement. “Fixing that problem should create a more sustainably balanced budget and reduce the pressure for budget cuts that could harm people and communities across the Commonwealth.”

Timeline

In April, the Massachusetts House drafts its Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal, and the state Senate follows suit in May. In June, both legislative groups gather to reconcile their budgets after which a final plan is presented to the governor for his signature. The next fiscal year starts on July 1, 2017.

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Poverty, inclusion of minorities high concerns for many mayors

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Last week, researchers from Boston University’s Initiative on Cities, co-founded by late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, discussed their latest research on the priorities and concerns of America’s mayors with a small group gathered at their BU headquarters.

They presented the third annual Menino Survey of Mayors report, which reflects survey responses made during the summer of 2016 from a representative sampling of more than 100 mayors nationwide.

In the survey, mayors expressed greater concern about poverty than they did two years prior, and many mayors said they need to do more to include poor residents and minorities.

Diversity

Many mayors highlighted the importance of diversity for making their cities creative and innovative as well as attractive to new businesses and able to retain current ones. However, they also said there is far to go to until all residents are sufficiently served and included.

When asked to select the top two benefits of diversity from a list of options, two-thirds of mayors chose creativity and innovation and onethird selected benefit to current businesses. More than a quarter of surveyed mayors said diversity helped attract new businesses.

While diversity was valued, much work needs to be done to make cities truly inclusive, respondents said. Half of surveyed mayors said black residents were

ON THE WEB 2016 Menino Survey of Mayors: http://bit.ly/2kd5Z49 one of the top two most marginalized groups in their city, and over a quarter said Latinos were their most marginalized group. Roughly one-fourth of mayors also said that minorities are among the sectors least trusting of government.

In contrast to specific policy proposals they presented for how to address the needs of the poor, when it came to serving minorities better, mayors’ ideas were vague, said Katherine Levine Einstein, a BU assistant professor of political science and one of the report’s authors.

Survey respondents largely said the way to be more inclusive of black residents is to better engage them with government, acknowledge publicly black residents’ contributions and improve outreach to members of the black community. Mayors also suggested changes such as increasing Spanish translation services and forging more visible and direct ties to black leaders and residents.

“They [mayors] talked about better including them in city dialogues, but we didn’t get specifics,” Einstein said.

Mayors also had difficulty pointing to a city that demonstrated effective handling of issues of race and inclusion. Few of the 100-plus mayors named the same city for this question, according to the report.

Poverty

Representing a departure from survey responses of the past two

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Katherine Levine Einstein (right) and David Glick (left), BU assistant professors of political science, spoke to a gathering at BU last week. Einstein and Glick presented findings from a survey of the nation’s mayors they conducted with a third author. years, mayors expressed strong concern over poverty and income inequality, Levine said. Mayors in 2016 were 10 percent more likely to list socioeconomic issues among their top two policy priorities than they were in 2014.

Specific issues cited included the difficulty for those without college degrees to attain middle-class jobs and a lack of living wage jobs, and 48 percent of mayors said those living in poverty are “under-included.”

Twenty percent of mayors said addressing housing concerns was the top most important approach to serving the needs of those in poverty, and another twenty percent prioritized education. To a lesser extent, survey responders agreed that skills training, job training and

improved access to city services are important focuses.

Levels of government

With high levels of partisanship having gripped the federal government, progressive advocates appeared to be looking increasingly to the local level as a way to make an impact, Levine said. In some cases, city leaders seemed to think that if they did not take a stand on certain issue, no other unit of government would do so.

However, mayors also faced limits on the types of issues they could affect and the extent to which they could address them. For instance, in some states, mayors who sought to enact environmental protections or minimum wage increases were prevented from doing so by laws imposed at

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the state level, and mayors also cited dependence on federal assistance in areas such as economic development, poverty alleviation and infrastructure and housing investment, the report stated.

“While much of the contemporary media rhetoric surrounding local governments suggests that cities are forced to tackle significant policy programs as a consequence of federal and state intransigence, a combination of fiscal and regulatory constraints may limit independent mayoral (and city) activism to more modest policy agendas,” the report noted.

Many mayors surveyed expressed hopes that the next president would bring investments in mass transportation, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

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Time to stop killer cops America has a serious problem, with no solution on the horizon.

Despite great public awareness of violence between the police and unarmed blacks, the incidents continue. According to The Washington Post, police killed 233 blacks in 2016. President Trump seems to have great sympathy for the police as does his attorney general designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Chances of blacks prevailing in criminal prosecutions against offending police officers are slim.

There was hope for a remedy after the violent assault on Rodney King by four LAPD officers in 1991. The Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act was passed in 1994 to enable the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the violation of citizens’ civil rights by the police. However, the only remedy when unlawful police procedures are found is a consent decree.

Now more than 20 police departments are operating under consent decrees.

Critics of this procedure argue that these consent decrees do not result in the reform of police procedures. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Oakland, New Orleans, Portland, New York, Detroit, Ferguson and now Chicago are all under decree, yet blacks feel no safer from police abuse.

As disappointing as the consent decree might be, it is still one of the best methods to enable the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department to impose higher standards on the police. However, Jeff Sessions attacked this approach in a 2008 report of the Alabama Policy Institute. He stated that it is “one of the most dangerous, and rarely discussed, exercises of raw power.” He believes that “consent decrees have a profound effect on our legal system as they constitute

an end run around the democratic process.”

The problem with that position is the normal judicial process does not work in the indictments of police officers. The most egregious example is the failure to convict Michael Slager, the police officer who callously gunned down the unarmed Walter Scott as he ran away in North Charleston, S.C. Even though the whole incident was recorded on video by a bystander, a holdout on the jury derailed a conviction.

In Ferguson, Mo., the former police officer who gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown escaped federal or local level prosecution. In Cleveland, police officer Michael Brelo was acquitted when he and 12 other officers fired 137 rounds to kill unarmed suspects sitting in their car. In Baltimore, all of the police officers responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, who was in their custody, were acquitted of criminal charges.

Now a new police defense has developed. Five of the six police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case have sued Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for malicious prosecution. A federal judge, Marvin Garbis, has allowed the case to go forward. Usually prosecutors enjoy immunity in prosecutions, but Garbis found that the investigative role played by Mosby differed from being merely a prosecutor.

Undoubtedly, fear of police retaliation influences some jurors.

Now an unwise judge in Baltimore has made it more difficult for dedicated prosecutors to deviate from total reliance on police investigators in cases involving police misconduct. With judicial remedies limited, it should come as no surprise that some blacks will take remedial solutions considered to be unlawful.

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The assault on our fundamental values

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What do you think of Trump’s executive order on immigration?

By HASAN ZILLUR RAHIM, NEW AMERICA MEDIA President Trump’s executive order to ban immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for at least 90 days and to indefinitely ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States is an unprecedented assault on fundamental American values of justice and freedom. It has already set off a chain reaction of broken promises and calamitous uncertainty throughout the world.

That this most ahistorical of presidents chose to issue his order on Holocaust Remembrance Day makes it all the more tragic and ominous.

Although a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has issued an emergency stay of deportations from JFK, San Francisco, Dulles and other airports following a lawsuit by the ACLU, the stay’s consistent enforcement is doubtful given the enormous power the President wields.

What we need is a grassroots movement to stop the president from continuing his single-minded agenda of uprooting what, until now, had made America the humanitarian leader of the world, an achievement far greater than our unmatched entrepreneurial drive and material progress.

To our credit, this movement has already begun, riding the momentum created by the Women’s March on January 21. On Sunday, January 29, protests against the refugee ban swept across the nation, from New York City and Miami to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

About 100 of us — Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists - gathered in front of San Jose’s City Hall, chanting, “Say it loud, say it clear. Immigrants are welcome here,” and “San Jose stands against hate. Immigrants make America great.”

Laurie, a rabbi in a Los Gatos, California elementary school, had brought her daughter and held up a sign that read, “Rabbis for Refugees.”

“I had to be here,” she told me when I expressed my gratitude as a Muslim-American.

Miriam is an active participant with the grassroots movement launched from Facebook called Together We Will. “We are a nation of immigrants. Immigrants are welcome here. An insult against anyone is an insult against me,” she said.

Terse but telling signs were all around: “No Wall. We Stand United for All.” “Muslims Make San Jose Better.” “Be Kind to All Refugees.” “Dissent is Patriotic.” “We Are All Immigrants.” “San Jose Christians Love Muslims.” “The Power of the People is Stronger than the People in Power.”

With the refugee ban, the President has given ISIS a shot in the arm, made Americans more vulnerable to extremists and the world a more dangerous place.

Here in Silicon Valley, where a global workforce is a given and social media transcend national boundaries, Trump’s refugee ban outraged industry titans. Executives at Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Box, and other companies condemned Trump’s unilateral decision to ban immigration into a country built by immigrants and unleashing discrimination based on religion. Many companies advised their traveling Muslim employees to return to the United States to avoid the risk of deportation.

Concerned scientists, meanwhile, have moved the Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds because of the President’s actions in only the first week of his presidency. It is now two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, the closest since 1953 when the clock was set to two minutes to midnight after the United States and the Soviet Union had tested hydrogen bombs.

The U.S. constitution makes it clear that discrimination based on national origin or religion is illegal. No creative interpretation can get past this fundamental fact, something that the president, aided by a spineless, Republican-dominated congress, blithely ignores. To violate it is to violate America. “America First” rings hollow and hypocritical if it comes with the condition that Muslims, or adherents of any other faith, must be last.

In his farewell address in 1988, Ronald Reagan explained his understanding of America as “a city upon a hill,” a phrase he borrowed from John Winthrop (1588-1649) who served as a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: “In my mind it’s a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in peace and harmony.”

Compare that with Trump’s dystopian inaugural speech in which he portrayed America as a country of rusted-out factories, crime, gangs and drugs, and this chilling coda: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”

No, the American carnage is about to begin unless we ordinary Americans stop it through legal means and non-violent resistance before it is too late.

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GAIL JACKSON-BLOUNT The Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus Board of Directors announces the appointment of Gail Jackson-Blount as board President. The 46-year-old MWPC is the nation’s oldest and nonpartisan women’s political action organization committed to increasing the number of women elected to public office and appointed to public policy positions.

“I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working with Gail, who is an experienced professional who understands and is committed to advancing the values of MWPC,” said Meg Hogan, outgoing president of MWPC. “As the first African American woman to serve in this role, we are excited about the leadership and fresh perspective she will bring.” Jackson-Blount previously served as vice president of the organization.

“I am thrilled by the opportunity to serve in the role of president with such a vibrant and diverse group of women, particularly at a time when women’s parity and electoral prog-

ress demand that we do more, and I applaud MWPC’s participation in the recent historic women’s march,” said Jackson-Blount. “Our goal is to continue being present, actively involved in getting women from all walks of life elected to public office, and working in collaboration with others to grow and preserve our hard-fought gains in women’s rights. We must work even harder to encourage and support women’s involvement in public service at every level.”

Jackson-Blount is the president of Gail Jackson Communications, where she provides strategic communications programs, new business development and fundraising for public and private companies.

She has served as chief community outreach strategist for Martha Coakley’s US Senate Campaign, senior director of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, executive director for Community Outreach and Political Affairs for 2004 Democratic

National Convention Committee (DNCC), director of the Ad Club Foundation, executive director of communications at Roxbury Community College, public information director at Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., and as global communications consultant for Wang Laboratories, Inc. She also has held positions in city and state government and supports organizations and programs that foster the development of young girls and women. She lives in Quincy with her husband, Ray Blount.

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continued from page 1 Adnai Mendez, who emigrated from Cuba 11 years ago, rallied with his wife and their seven-year-old son. Trump’s ban includes turning away people who already have spent years being vetted by the CIA and the U.S. government, Mendez said.

Had that happened to him, the effect would have been “devastating,” he told the Banner. He said he feared as well that Trump’s attempts to silence the media mirrors the path forged by many oppressive regimes.

“It is essential we take a stand against hatred and bigotry,” said Adnai’s wife, Melanie Mendez, who teaches in an English as a second language program.

John Robbin, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which organized the protest, said organizers expected a few thousand attendees — far fewer than the approximately 25,000 who overflowed Copley Square.

The Copley rally followed a protest at Logan Airport Saturday night — a scene reenacted at airports across the country.

Boston was the locale for several other protest actions last week as well, including a downtown rally last Thursday against Trump’s moves to enact campaign promises to construct a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Thursday’s demonstrators promised to keep Boston safe for immigrants and their families, and the rally drew speeches from immigrant rights and labor groups, Boston clergy, and state, city and local elected officials.

“We are not agents of ICE,”

Boston police Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross told Thursday’s crowd, referring to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and prompting cheers.

City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said the Women’s March of the prior weekend was not an isolated event, but the beginning of a new era. The following days seemed to prove her right.

“That was not just a march,” Pressley said. “We are ushering a new movement.”

Executive order

The immigration ban took effect immediately upon Trumps’ signing, throwing airports and government officials into turmoil. Passengers were barred from flights to the U.S., while customs and border control agents, caught unaware, tried to figure out what to do. The executive order bans all refugee admission for 120 days, Syrian refugee admission for an indefinite period of time and put a 90-day ban on travel from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. Immigrant residents returning from funerals, family visits, conferences and other foreign destinations were detained at airports.

Confusion abounded about whether those who already have been vetted and granted lawful residence — visa holders and green card holders — could enter the country, with different federal agencies issuing contrasting interpretations.

Trump seemed to devalue the plight of Muslim refugees and told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he intends to prioritize the admission of Christian refugees from countries that are predominately Islamic over Muslims fleeing the same places.

Threat to values, vitality

Some noted that the ban violates the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom. It threatens the economic strength and intellectual vitality of the U.S. by stranding university students, scientists who had been performing critical research in the U.S., and many others engaged in active pursuits in the country. Also caught in the ban: Iraqi allies who provide aid, such as translation, to American troops fighting abroad and, in doing so put bother their own and their families’ lives in danger.

Denying them safe entry following their service could deter others from putting themselves at risk to help the U.S. in the future, some say.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel advised Trump in a Saturday phone call that the Geneva Convention requires those who are part of it, including the U.S., to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds.

Impact of public actions

The thousands of people who rallied over the past few days appear to be making an impact, many say.

Elena Letona, executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor, said that Trump’s action has mobilized a broad base of support, activating many who are new to political demonstration.

“I’ve been in this [immigrant rights] work for a couple of decades.

Many of us have this joke that every time you go, we know just about everybody,” Letona told the Banner. “[But] we are seeing a new wave of people getting engaged.”

Rodrigo Saavedera is a volunteer organizer at COSECHA, a group focused on winning protections for undocumented immigrants. He said the Logan protest created leverage

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Announced on Facebook at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, that rally drew an estimated 1,500 people by its end at 10:30 p.m., estimated Saavedera.

“At the end, we were able to leverage to get the last family to be released,” Saavedera told the Banner.

“We gave high visibility to something that was going on at Logan Airport that might not have happened if protesters weren’t there.”

The rally drew politicians, including U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.

Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, said the public outcry has brought attention to longstanding needs to update the U.S.’s immigration system, which was established in 1952, and to the fact that this kind of slapdash executive order is an ineffective approach.

“Rash executive orders that are vague and can create this kind of chaos and tear families apart are not the answer,” Millona told the Banner.

“A legislative fix, that’s the answer.”

At last Thursday’s rally, Sen. Jamie Eldridge called for passage of a bill he is co-sponsoring. The Safe Communities Act would prevent the federal government from accessing information that could be used to create a registry of Muslims or others, based on national origin, religion or other protected characteristics; requires those detained on civil immigrant violations be informed of their rights; blocks state, local and campus police from taking immigration enforcment activities based solely on immigration status; and prohibits agreements that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to deputize local officers as immigration agents.

Letona said the mass mobilization against Trump’s order creates a rare opportunity for state-level reform.

“In the state of Massachusetts we haven’t been able to pass any pro-immigrant legislation in the past 15 years or more, but now we are seeing an opportunity to finally get something enacted at the state level,” she told the Banner.

Lawyers and courts act

Last week, a flurry of legal action unfolded. Saturday, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Iraqi visa holders, who were detained at New York’s JFK airport. In response to an ACLU request, a federal judge granted a temporary, nationwide injunction preventing deportation of those stranded at U.S. airports due to Trump’s order.

Hours later, federal judges in Boston issued a seven-day restraining order against the ban. The judge’s order stated that lawful permanent residents and immigrants with visas cannot be deported or detained by federal authorities. It also requires customs and border officials to inform flyers into Logan that they will not be detained or deported underTrump’s order.

Monday night, Trump fired Sally Yates, federal acting attorney general, for refusing to defend his executive order against legal challenges. She said the order may be illegal. Her interim replacement reversed that stance.

On Tuesday, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Massachusetts will join a lawsuit against the ban.

People power

CAIR’s Robbins said the public actions make the people’s voice heard and have prompted Trump to respond to dissenters.

“It puts pressure on the administration and lets them know that the public is not happy about the Muslim ban,” Robbins told the Banner.

Locally, there was an outpouring of positive response to the Copley rally from the Muslim community, Robbins said.

“We received so many calls and emails from Muslims that say, ‘I never knew I had so many people who supported me,’” he said. “And from people across the demographics of Massachusetts that say, ‘I’m so proud to come out and see so many of my fellow Bostonians and fellow new Englanders standing up in a strong way.”

“People don’t just talk in Massachusetts,” Millona said. “People organize. People stand up. People speak up. People march.”

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Proposals are in for city’s Roxbury housing competition

By SANDRA LARSON

A jury of design experts, city officials and residents of Roxbury’s Garrison Trotter sub-neighborhood is evaluating six development proposals submitted as part of a city of Boston pilot Housing Innovation Competition launched last November.

The competition — devised by the City’s Department of Neighborhood Development in partnership with the Mayor’s Housing Innovation Lab, the Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association, and the Boston Society of Architects — aims to encourage the creation of compact multifamily rental or ownership housing with a range of affordability.

The available sites are cityowned vacant parcels located in the Garrison Trotter neighborhood at 71–73 Holworthy St., 29–31 Hollander St. and 24 Westminster Ave.

Design for living

Applicants for the competition were encouraged to create options for middle-income and for elderly residents, and several of the proposals emphasize multi-generational living and varied unit types to accommodate lifestyles from singlehood to child-rearing years to older age.

For the Holworthy site, startup company Livelight proposes a version of its tiny urban housing unit, or “uhü,” that was prototyped and displayed around Boston for several months in 2016. Livelight’s competition

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Proposals for the Housing Innovation Competition show varied visions for city-owned vacant land parcels. Left: Urbanica’s pair of buildings offer small “starter lofts” and three-bedroom duplexes. Right: Livelight’s stacked “uhü” micro-units create spaces for single, family or multi-generational living. proposal is a seven-unit building including three senior-accessible studio units on the ground floor and four two-bedroom units on the second and third floors. The design involves a “superstructure,” a grid with slots that accommodates uhü units that would be pre-fabricated in a factory. The firm presents this “plug-andplay” model as a potential model for other parts of Boston and for other cities seeking compact, affordable new housing.

For the Hollander site, Bodrick Development Partners proposes “Doma Homes,” a type of triple-decker for 21st-century households. The design is a

cluster of varied elements, including a two-bedroom, a one-bedroom and a 360-square-foot micro-unit studio. The renderings show a flexible set of options that could could allow an owner to live in one unit and rent out the others, helping to provide a foothold in home ownership as the city’s triple-deckers have traditionally done.

Diverse visions

The remaining four proposals all address the Westminster Avenue site.

DREAM Development proposes a three-story building with 11 condos in a mix of studios, one-bedrooms, and two- and three-bedroom townhouses. The units will be arranged, according to DREAM, to support multi-generational families, for instance by having connecting common hallways between three-bedroom and studio units; units of different sizes could be purchased together, with one functioning as an “in-law” unit for an older family member. Six onsite parking spaces will be available for sale separately from the dwelling units, helping to reduce cost for residents who don’t need parking.

Maple Hurst Builders proposes 19 studio apartments, each 450 square feet, in a 3.5story building with garage parking. The units’ size puts them in the micro-unit category, but the firm’s rendering poster describes the units as expansive and lightfilled nonetheless, and indicates units could be combinable,

expanding to 900 square feet for compact two- or three-bedroom configurations.

Urbanica’s Westminster site proposal is for nine units spread over two buildings. One contains sparse “starter lofts” for young singles, elders, or artists or entrepreneurs who might use part of the space for work. The second building holds three townhouses that could accommodate larger families and multi-generational living, with upper-floor three-bedroom duplex units and lower-floor one-bedroom units.

Corcoran Jennison Associates, in partnership with WHAT’S IN, proposes “The Hearth,” a 33unit, 4.5-story building, for the Westminster site. The widely varying unit types range from “bedroom suites” for singles to more traditional studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Two units are artist spaces with in-unit workspace. The concept includes a large amount of shared space, including reading nooks and “hang-out lounges” near the bedroom suites, laundry stations, an outdoor courtyard, a children’s play area and green space suitable for lawn games.

The proposals were presented at a public meeting on Jan. 21 at the Crispus Attucks Children’s Center.

About 35 to 40 people attended, according to Max Stearns, interim director at the city of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab and a member of the competition jury. The proposals are being reviewed now by the jury, which is expected to select a winner by the end of February.

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At the Jan. 21 presentation, the proposal designs were displayed on easels and attendees were encouraged to write comments on sticky notes.

“We are using these to better inform our deliberations,” Stearns told the Banner, “and also to ask, ‘What can we pull from this, no matter which proposal wins?’”

The city’s request for proposals was formulated with the assistance of the Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association, and challenges applicants to respond to the community’s vision by addressing existing neighborhood character even while showing innovation in many aspects such as compactness and “green” features. The RFP recognized residents’ desire for parking and suggested including parking but aiming for a low amount, less than one space per unit, and incorporating creative alternatives such as bicycle parking and Zipcar access.

The proposals are viewable at the Housing Innovation Competition website, https://www. boston.gov/housing/housinginnovation-competition. Members of the public may submit comments until Feb. 6 to Ryan Lundergan of the DND at ryan. lundergan@boston.gov or (617) 635-0323.

Besides Stearns, the competition jury is made up of seven other members: Tia Lawrence, member of the Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association’s Housing Committee; Tamara Roy, 2016 president of the Boston Society of Architects and principal of Stantec Architecture Boston; Richard Dattner, principal of Dattner Architects; Kirk Sykes, president of Urban Strategy America (USA) Fund; Jay A. Lee, assistant director for design, construction and open space for the city of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development; and David Carlson, deputy director for urban design at Boston Planning & Development Agency and executive director of the Boston Civic Design Commission.

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officer, said staff trimming at some schools is more likely due to those schools adjusting to declining enrollments rather than insufficient funding from the city.

“Our hope is we’ve set up our funding system so it never falls short of what a school needs,” Laurans said. “Having said that, transitions are hard for schools. Some schools are transitioning to get smaller. It’s not an easy process.”

BPS overall student body size is generally consistent with the previous year, but some particular grades are hit with smaller enrollments. Middle school pupil counts are declining and one high school grade is historically small, officials said. Additionally, certain programs, such as Sheltered English Immersion, are under-enrolled in particular grades.

Chapter 70 aid from the state remains nearly flat, growing by less than 1 percent per year, and unmet charter school reimbursements continue to cost the city millions, officials said.

“A school will always have what it needs in terms of teachers or teacher and aides, if that’s what class requires,” said Mary Driscoll, BPS principal leader. “But some discretionary dollars disappear with under-enrollment.”

In such cases, a school may receive enough to cover base necessities but not have little to support flexibility or enact new initiatives and improvements. However, BPS officials discussed allocation of newly enrolling students with geographically nearby schools in order to try to distribute them in

a way that reduces the number of under-enrolled classes at either facility, Driscoll said.

Laurans said BPS has improved its method for estimating school enrollments and thus its ability to budget accurately.

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Homeless initiative

With the district identifying nearly 3,000 homeless BPS students, the city is directing $1 million to their aid. The funding is allotted by adding a new homelessness weighting into the budget calculations.

BPS will establish school-site liaisons who can use these dollars flexibly and tailor efforts to the context and needs of their student body. This could include efforts such as establishing a clothing closet, food pantry or supply of hygiene items or providing a stipend to an existing staff member to give direct support to a homeless student and their family, said Brian Marques, BPS director of Opportunity Youth.

The Opportunity Youth Department and Homeless Education Resource Network will work with liaisons to offer guidance and training sessions. HERN also will connect students in need with external resources such as transportation, tutoring, mentoring, social service organizations and enrichment programming.

“We’re making a commitment to one of the most vulnerable populations,” added Amalio Nieves, BPS assistant superintendent of socioemotional learning and wellness. “If we can boost the resources we can provide, we’re providing safe, healthy environments for these students that’ll translate into greater attendance which

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Extended learning time

Citing research studies that tie extra classroom time to better academic outcomes, Laurans announced plans to invest $14.1 million in extended learning time. Some parents have raised concern that the longer days and later end times could result in students being let out at the height of traffic congestion.

Laurans said that the benefit outweighs the transit headache and that shifting school times to start earlier would be prohibitively

expensive. Moving a school from 9:30 a.m. start time to an 8:30 a.m. start time costs about $80,000 per altered bus route.

This adds up to about $1 million for an average-sized school, she said. Any schedule shifts to compensate for ELT would not come before the 2018-2019 school year, Laurans said.

Excellence For All

The city proposes investing an additional $715,000 into its Excellence For All program, which provides rigorous coursework to fourth-grade students at 13

schools. With the new investment, the program also would be rolled out to fifth-graders at those schools. While modeled after the Advanced Work Course program, Excellence For All reaches a more diverse demographic.

Timeline

The city’s school budget proposal was slated to be presented before the Boston School Committee on Wednesday night, Feb. 1. It will take about five months before a final budget is established, said David Sweeney, the city’s chief financial officer.

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Baby boomers have been planning and saving for retirement for decades. They are also planning their legacy — creating wills, trusts and other sophisticated estate planning strategies to transfer their wealth to the next generation.

However, most people may not realize their IRAs and qualified retirement plans — a large part of their estate — are not subject to probate nor affected by the terms of a person’s will. These assets will pass to the next generation determined solely by the client’s beneficiary designation form.

Accordingly, the beneficiary designation form is one of the most important estate planning documents but it is often overlooked when creating a legacy plan.

Here are some common beneficiary designation mistakes to avoid:

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Estate as a beneficiary: Many people unintentionally name their estate as beneficiary of their retirement accounts. Some will actually direct their retirement assets to be paid “pursuant to the terms of my will.” Others simply fail to complete their beneficiary designation form or forget to name a new beneficiary after a beneficiary dies. When this happens, the assets are usually paid to the client’s estate by default, which is probably the worst beneficiary for IRAs and retirement plans.

IRAs and qualified retirement plans — assets that normally avoid probate — will become subject to probate when paid to the estate. The probate process can be long, cumbersome and expensive. Further, these assets may have to be liquidated and paid to the estate within five years after a person’s death. While individual beneficiaries can elect to have IRA assets paid over their lifetime, thereby “stretching” their tax liability over many years, estates cannot.

Finally, estates are subject to a much higher income tax rate than individuals.

This can result in more money going to the IRS than necessary. To avoid this mistake, make sure you have an up-to-date primary and contingent beneficiary designated for all your retirement accounts.

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Trust as a beneficiary: Many attorneys like to use trusts to facilitate an effective transfer of wealth and maximize all available gift, estate and generation skipping tax exemptions.

However, there are several dangers to having retirement assets paid to a trust.

First, the IRS generally requires the assets to be paid to the trust within five years after the death of the individual.

The “stretch” rules generally do not apply to trusts unless the trust is drafted to be a “look through” trust. If the trust is a “look through” trust, the IRS permits you to “look through” the trust and “stretch” the IRA to the trust over the life expectancy of the oldest trust beneficiary. Trusts that fail to be a “look through” trust include those that have beneficiaries that are not individuals, such a charity, estate or another trust.

Second, it can be expensive to establish and maintain these trusts. If an IRA is “stretched” to a “look through” trust, a lifetime of legal, trustee and administrative fees can significantly reduce the amount the ultimate beneficiaries will receive.

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Sandra Halfkenney-Wilson is producing superhero-themed chew toys for dogs and children.

“They’re made of food-grade silicon,” she says, holding mock-ups of two of the toys created on the Fairmount Innovation Lab’s 3-D printer.

Artist Steven Huntington is working on a graphic novel drawing from Yoruba oral stories. The panels are painted on traditional West African textiles.

“It’s all centered in West African tradition,” he says.

Occupying a corner of the Fairmount Innovation Lab facing the bustling intersection of Columbia Road and Stoughton and Dudley streets, Justin Springer’s Outside the Box Agency handles marketing for businesses in the lab and other businesses throughout the city.

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We’ve helped people to retool their ideas to become more sustainable. Some of them realized they weren’t ready to launch yet. Some of them took off.”

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says of his corner window. “I like that our business is staying in the community. I never wanted my business to be downtown. I like the energy of the community.”

A year and a half into its operation, the Fairmount Innovation Lab seems to be thriving, with nine businesses and artists employing 15 people in its third startup cohort.

The lab opened in 2015 in the Masonic Building across Dudley Street from its current 594 Columbia Road location. In October, the

lab moved to its current space on the second floor of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation’s office building. Last week, entrepreneurs and artists housed in the lab held an open house, inviting in members of the public to view their work and their workspace.

Liora Beer, director of the lab, says businesses that have come through the four-month accelerator program there have had generally positive results.

“We’ve helped people to retool

their ideas to become more sustainable,” she said. “Some of them realized they weren’t ready to launch yet. Some of them took off.”

Opening doors

The Fairmount Lab takes its name from the nearby commuter rail line that runs from Hyde Park through Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury to South Station. With new stations added to the line and MBTA promising better service, many see the rail corridor as a potential nexus for economic development that could benefit the 135,000 people living in proximity to the line.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency completed a study in 2015 of the corridor looking at infrastructure improvements and opportunities for public investment.

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Leyton says the incubator space is an important investment in the arts and business climate along the corridor.

“They’re opening up doors for a lot of businesses and artists who wouldn’t have opportunities otherwise,” he said. “Artists and businesses are an important part of the fabric of this community. Here they’re learning the skills so they can develop their businesses.”

Participating startups receive space in the 2,000-square-foot space the lab leases from Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation at an affordable rent.

They also receive access to free legal assistance, networking sessions, business trainings and marketing assistance.

“We’re looking to create the infrastructure of entrepreneurs who can share resources at a reduced rate,” Beer said.

highest) as soon as the income exceeds $12,400. By comparison, married taxpayers filing jointly do not reach the 39.6 percent tax rate until their income exceeds $366,950. That means if the IRA is worth more than $12,400, more than a third can be lost to the IRS. Unless there is a compelling non-tax reason to name a trust as beneficiary of an IRA or retirement plan, you should avoid making a costly mistake.

Speak with your estate planning attorney about the pros and cons to naming a trust as a beneficiary of a retirement account.

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In addition to business services, the businesses have access to a fabrication lab, where an engineer-in-residence helps them to create prototypes like Halfkenney-Wilson’s chew toy mock-ups.

By renting space to more advanced startups, including Springer’s Outside the Box marketing firm and Joelle Jean-Fontaine’s I Am Kréyol fashion design

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The Fairmount Innovation Lab’s Columbia Road office overlooks Upham’s Corner. company, Beer says the Fairmount Lab fosters connections between successful businesses and startups.

The Dorchester Bay location works well for the lab, she says, adding that she’s planning to expand the operation to two floors.

“We’d like 8,000 square feet,” she says.

Collaborative Workspace Grant

Announced during the recent open house was a Collaborative Workspace Grant awarded by MassDevelopment, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ economic development and finance authority, in partnership with the Executive Office of Housing and Economic

Development. These funds were made possible by the Opportunities for All bill proposed by Governor Charlie Baker in 2016.

“We are thrilled to join the opening of the Fairmount Innovation Lab, which is creating crucial partnerships in Boston to support innovation, entrepreneurship and creative activity,” said Helena Fruscio Altsman, deputy assistant secretary of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology for the EOHED in a press statement. “Our collaborative workspace grant program is aimed precisely at fomenting creativity and elevating opportunities for residents to tap into our innovation ecosystem in all corners of the Commonwealth.”

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Ex-spouse as a beneficiary: Few people really intend to leave IRA and retirement assets to an ex-spouse, but this happens all the time. People fail to update their beneficiary designation form after a divorce. Often, they are under the mistaken belief the divorce decree will automatically negate their prior beneficiary designations.

Divorce decrees, court orders and wills generally have no affect on a beneficiary designation.

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“Per Stirpes” or “Per Capita”: IRA and retirement assets are not always distributed as intended. Most IRAs will allow the owner to designate multiple beneficiaries. For instance, it is common for an IRA owner to designate his or her children as equal beneficiaries. If one beneficiary predeceases the owner or “disclaims” the inheritance, the remaining primary beneficiaries will generally receive the balance of the IRA and not the children of that deceased beneficiary.

For instance, assume dad has an IRA he wants to leave to his two children Sue and Tom. Sue and Tom also have children of their own. If Tom were to die before Dad, Sue would inherit Tom’s share and nothing would go to Tom’s children. This is called a “Per Capita” distribution. If Dad wanted to make sure Tom’s share will benefit Tom’s family, Dad should make a “Per Stirpes” designation. This means Tom’s half will be shared equally by Tom’s children.

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‘Trans Scripts’ stage play tells empowering, human stories American Repertory Theater production runs through Feb. 5

By CELINA COLBY

The American Repertory Theater’s “Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women,” playing through Feb. 5, should be mandatory viewing for anyone who identifies as human.

The 90-minute show follows the stories of seven transgender women of different nationalities and transition histories. They sit panel-style chatting with us and each other not only about what it’s like to change genders, but about what it’s like to search for identity, and to grow into oneself.

The hallmark of “Trans Scripts” is its unending positivity. The dark side of transitioning is shown — the violence, the loss of friends and family — but the show is never mournful or self-pitying. It’s frank, honest and often wildly funny.

Much of that humor comes from Zakia, played by Matthew Hancock.

She had one of the more supportive transitions, with family and friends attending her drag shows and helping her through. Her resulting “deal with it” attitude brings laughter and wisdom to the narrative.

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‘I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO’ Right, James Baldwin.

Left, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck PHOTO: LYDE/SIPA

Documentary about life of James Baldwin examines race in America

Diverse experience

Writer Paul Lucas created “Trans Scripts” to show the diversity in people and experience in the trans sphere. He compiled these seven stories from interviews with transgender women across the world.

Though each character has a linear storyline, they represent dozens of women who have carved their own difficult path toward selfhood. The characters range from a Latina and African American 20-something who transitioned at 17, to a 71 yearold gynecologist who transitioned at 68. Even more importantly, the women don’t always present a unified front. There are dissenting opinions in the group about prostitution and genital surgery.

Each woman has her own hang-ups and priorities. Eden, played by Rebecca Root, was born intersex with both genitals and her father chose to raise her as a boy. Because of this history, she’s

See ‘TRANS SCRIPTS’, page 14

ON THE WEB For more about “Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women,” visit: https://americanrepertorythe-

ater.org/events/show/trans-scripts-part-i-women

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

“I Am Not Your Negro” is more than a labor of love for acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (“Lumumba” and “Sometimes In April”).

“It was a duty for me. It was a way to give back,” said the director on making the powerful and very relevant documentary about the life of James Baldwin.

“My goal from the beginning was, ‘How do I make sure that he will never disappear?’ ‘How do I make sure that people will go back and read Baldwin?’ The way it was continuing, in 20 years, people would have forgotten who Baldwin was, except some experts and privileged people, but not in the way that we should embrace him in this very country,” added Peck.

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of James Baldwin, the documentary uses the words, images and interviews of the influential author, playwright and social critic to explore and analyze the issues of race in America.

Baldwin’s works and writings were a great influence on Peck while growing up. At the age of eight,

See BALDWIN, page 14

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Grief and resentment

The entire play is set in the dead artist and girlfriend’s studio and apartment as the girlfriend photographs the mother. The

mother handles the awkward situation and her grief with a constant stream of chatter, desperate for a verbal connection with the only other person who understands what she’s going through.

The girlfriend recoils into herself, speaking sparsely and not showing emotion. The two women are

See ‘REALLY,’ page 14

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‘Trans Scripts’ continued from page 14

focused on having female genitals, while many of her counterparts feel that’s not essential to be a woman. Zakia says, “My body does not determine who I am.” Luna, played by MJ Rodriguez, puts her emphasis on activism and paving the way for future transgender people. She describes her first demonstration and how her childhood in foster care inspired her to help others.

Many of the actors are transgender or identify as on the gender

spectrum rather than part of the male/female binary. They’re able to produce such powerful, resonant performances because they’ve had these experiences themselves.

Often times, even when body parts are being discussed, it’s easy to forget that the show is specifically about transitioning. The content applies to anyone who doesn’t fit within the strict gender “norms” of the United States, or even anyone who doesn’t fit within tight societal standards.

“It’s not only a gender quest,” says one woman. “It’s a human experience. You get to rebuild yourself the way you think you should be.”

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continued from page 13 experiencing radically different types of grief. The mother also has lost her husband, and finds herself without the two men that she’s poured her life into. The girlfriend is beginning to find her identity beyond her boyfriend, who frequently overshadowed her.

The main character of the show is the deceased Calvin, and frankly, he doesn’t deserve it.

Though the actor, Alex Portenko, does an excellent job, the character of Calvin is insipid. A temperamental, spoiled artist, his interest is only in his work and himself. He claims to love his girlfriend but really just loves what she does for his art behind the camera. When she talks about her own future, her own work, and her own ideals, he ignores them and reminds her that she’s “very beautiful,” as though that should be enough.

Calvin’s past relationships with his mother and girlfriend are revealed in flashbacks that play out simultaneously with the girlfriend and mother’s photo shoot. Past and present are performed in tandem. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether we’re seeing a flashback or a dream. In many ways, this structure mirrors the grieving process. Time becomes meaningless as the two

Baldwin

continued from page 12 he and his family fled their home in Haiti due to the oppressive Duvalier regime, and joined his father in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where his family resided for the next 24 years.

Upon arriving in the Congo, Peck realized how his way of thinking of the world and of Africans had been skewed. Peck envisioned that the Congolese and the Africans he would meet all would be savages. This was based on films he saw as a child, such as “Tarzan,” he said. He characterized his brain as being “already infected by the Hollywood iconography and storyline and narrative,” even at such a young age.

He then discovered, at 15, the words and writings of James Baldwin, which helped give him a better understanding and perspective of the contradictions that

PHOTO: PAUL FOX

Kippy Goldfarb and Aleksandr Portenko in “REALLY.” women attempt to reconcile the gaping holes in their lives.

Though the underlying theme is grief, there’s much humor, too.

The mother, likely in her 60s, attempts to connect with the girlfriend by talking about hookups and the artist’s life. “That’s the difference between artist’s pictures and normal pictures, right?” she says. “They’re interesting, even ugly. Sad.” She doesn’t get it, but she’s trying. At many points it seems like they’re about to break through and reach each other, but resentment always stops them

short. They at once need each other and blame each other.

A poignant portrait of grief, identity, and relationships, “REALLY” is brought to life in the gallery setting. For anyone who has lost a loved one, or even had to get over a subpar boyfriend, the show speaks volumes.

he saw in his own life and his environment. In his travels, he eventually realized that American films are used as a form of “soft power” to control how African Americans and people of color are perceived. As the “dominant cinema,” American films “kill all abilities to question images, narratives and to be critical,” said Peck. “Baldwin helped me to understand all this.

He helped me structure all this in my brain and I used that all my life. It’s not something that I just read and put aside.”

really wrong going on, and we were going in a decline. We need the brains, the voices, to help us focus and to help us see through the haze of this confusion.”

The documentary, which was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Documentary (Feature) last month, is a continuation of Baldwin’s final literary project “Remember This House.” The book was going to chronicle the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends — Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. But before the book could come to fruition, Baldwin passed away in 1987, leaving behind 30 completed pages of his manuscript.

Baldwin’s sister and estate executor, Gloria Karefa-Smart, gave Peck the rights to Baldwin’s entire body of work, telling him, “You’ll know what to do with this.” With her blessing in hand, Peck was able to document Baldwin’s life and thoughts on the state of the Negro and race relations in the United States.

By weaving archival images of police brutality from the 1950s and ’60s interspersed with stunning and vivid imagery from recent riots and marches around the country, including those in Ferguson, Missouri, and using film clips and several of Baldwin’s interviews and lectures, “I Am Not Your Negro” connects the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter, and shows eerily how much really hasn’t changed in America since that pivotal period in American history.

Oscar contender

About 15 years ago, Peck says he felt a shift in American politics and in race relations in the U.S. So he decided “to go back to Baldwin.” As a filmmaker, Peck believes that it’s his job as well as the responsibility of other filmmakers and writers “to feel the air around us.” He goes on to say, “I felt, even before I thought about making this film, that there’s something

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IF YOU GO “I Am Not Your Negro” opens on Friday at The Coolidge Corner Theatre with a special

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TIP OF THE WEEK Add mushrooms to family favorites For lightened-up versions of classics such as burgers and meatballs, try adopting a culinary technique known as “The Blend.” Simply chop any mushroom variety to match the consistency of ground meat, blend the mushrooms into the meat and cook the mushroom-meat blend to complete the recipe.

Substituting at least 25 percent of the meat for mushrooms can enhance the taste of your favorite meaty meals, deliver an extra serving of nutrient-rich vegetables and trim calorie and fat intake.

— Family Features/Mushroom Council

EASY RECIPE

Chef David Rosner (center) at the Farmers Market Foodie Stroll in Santa Barbara, California.

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California stroll

Santa Barbara dining experience lets you shop with the chefs

Servings: 4 n 8 ounces white button mushrooms, halved n 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil n ½ teaspoon finely ground sea salt n ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper n 2 cups cooked wheat berries, warm n 2 green onions, sliced n 2 tablespoons dried cranberries, chopped

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t’s mid-afternoon as I descend the hill where the glamorous Belmond El Encanto (Spanish for “charmed”) hotel is perched in Santa Barbara, California. Downtown on State Street tents line the area, each selling produce, cheese and wares both familiar and unique to tempt locals and visitors alike. I’m here to meet Wine Cask Restaurant’s Executive Chef David Rosner for a Farmers Market Foodie Stroll during a period when there’s never been a better time to eat in Santa Barbara.

This celebrity-stuffed beach city about 95 miles north of Los Angeles is nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean along California’s Central Coast. Try to stay cool as you pass Hollywood elite – J-Lo, Tom Cruise, Oprah — on the square brimming with artisanal wine tasting rooms and endless restaurants.

Once you visit, you’ll understand why Santa Barbara is often referred to as the American Riviera. With its Spanish-style architecture and burst of bougainvillea and beaches, similarities to that other Riviera (in France) continue in the city’s cultivated food and wine scene, notable for an impressive adherence to sustainable agricultural practices.

Chef David and I amble

past an abundance of stunning and curious local produce. I ask him to explain “cherimoya” (pineapple banana) and to ID the tiny pickles I spot in pint-size containers. This is “lime caviar,” he says. He takes one and demonstrates how the seeds become a pearly topping he uses on savory dishes at Wine Cask Restaurant. The Tuesday Farmers Market Foodie Stroll and Dinner ($75/pp) includes your own personal selection of a few ingredients Chef David will later incorporate into a custom, three-course dinner with pairings by Wine Cask’s wine director.

Later that evening, I take my seat at the communal high-top table inside Wine Cask Restaurant. I am served a plate decorated with one large prawn, fiddleheads (the fronds of a young fern), roasted hearts of palm, turnip puree and delicate zucchini blossoms I’d selected at the farmers market. The blossoms retained the complete shape of both flower and stem, yet crunched and melted in your mouth, finishing with a burst of extra-virgin olive oil. The lavender buds I spied earlier that day took the form of an infusion in a decadent creme brulee. In between was Chef David’s Bouillabaisse with Local Sea Bass.

The meal was regional, sustainable and delicious beyond words.

Roasted Mushroom and Wheat Berry Salad with Orange Curry Vinaigrette

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Chef David Rosner’s Bouillabaisse with Local Sea Bass, served at Wine Cask Restaurant.

Bouillabaisse with Local Sea Bass Serves 4 n 3 fennel bulbs n 6 red peppers n 4 red onions n 4 carrots n 6 ounces garlic n 12 Roma tomatoes n 2 ounces saffron n ¼ bunch basil, stems removed n 1 pound fish bones from the sea bass n 1 pound baby zucchini n 1 pound baby patty pan squash n 1 pound baby eggplant n 8 ounces piquillo peppers n 6 ounces garlic, roasted n 4 6-ounce fillets taken from 2.5-pound whole local sea bass n Salt and pepper For the sauce: Roughly chop the fennel, peppers, onions, carrots, garlic and tomatoes. In a heavy-bottomed stock pot on medium high heat, sweat the vegetables

and the saffron and basil until tender with the pot uncovered.

Add the bones and enough water to cover them. Cover the pot and bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer for 3 hours. Remove bones and blend in a food processor until smooth. Strain through a chinois or cheesecloth-lined sieve.

In a heavy-bottomed saute pan, separately saute the zucchini, squash, eggplant and piquillo peppers, then cool them quickly. Reheat before serving with the roasted garlic.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Season fillets with salt and pepper. In a heavy-bottomed saute pan, brown all sides of the fish in a small amount of oil. Bake for approximately 6 minutes.

Plate the sauce in 4 bowls, arrange the vegetables and fish, and serve immediately.

— Recipe courtesy Executive Chef David Rosner

Dressing: n 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil n 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice n 1 teaspoon curry powder n ¼ teaspoon finely ground sea salt Heat oven to 400 F. Place mushrooms on baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss to coat. Bake 10 minutes. Carefully stir mushrooms and bake 5 more minutes, until tender. Transfer mushrooms to medium bowl. Add wheat berries, green onions and cranberries. In small bowl, whisk together all dressing ingredients.

Pour dressing over salad. Toss to mix all ingredients. Serve warm.

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS We’re going to make the Fairmount Line

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Protesters gather at Irish Potato Famine Memorial LEGAL LEGAL

a jobs corridor,LEGAL with affordable housing, through the heart of our city from Newmarket, to Roxbury, LEGALHyde Park and Readville.”

Dorchester, Mattapan,

LEGAL

— Mayor Martin J. Walsh during the State of the City address LEGAL

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mission,” said Mela Miles, who works with the Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. “This has grown out of the coalition’s work.”

Although former Governor Deval Patrick committed $200 million for the purchase of special diesel multiple units, which are self-powered cars that are designed to run on rapid transit lines, the administration of Governor Charlie Baker nixed the plan last year.

Fairmount Line supporters got a boost in January when Mayor Martin Walsh called for increased business development and jobs along the Fairmount Corridor.

“We’re going to make the Fairmount Line a jobs corridor, with affordable housing, through the heart of our city from Newmarket, to Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park and Readville,” Walsh said in his State of the City address.

Transit activists say increased

investment is the only way to increase economic development in the surrounding communities, although some worry about housing displacement.

Frequency

In recent years ridership has been relatively low on the Fairmount Line, due in part, critics say, to the infrequency of service.

During peak hours, the trains run every 40 minutes. In off-hours the trains run once an hour. Last year, The Boston Globe highlighted a series of service cancellations that occurred as trains were pulled off the Fairmount line to replace disabled trains on other lines.

Bush said Carvalho’s bill, which calls for the trains to be outfitted with Indigo Line markings, would help ensure higher public confidence.

“Once you re-brand it, you have to let people know it’s a new line,” she said. “The trains would be dedicated to the line and could not be transferred to other lines in the system.”

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(top) At Thursday’s protest Felix D. Arroyo praised Mayor Martin Walsh’s pledge to shield immigrants and said Boston would protect families from being torn apart. “We will protect each other from the harm of the President of the United States,” Arroyo said. (bottom left) Demonstrators gathered at the Irish Potato Famine Memorial downtown, a reminder of Boston’s immigrant roots. (bottom right) Roxana Rivera, vice president of 32BJ SEIU, spoke to the crowd on Thursday.

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NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017.

LEGAL 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.

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The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR, AND SUPERVISION NECESSARY FOR GENERAL CARPENTRY TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES AS REMOVE AND/OR INSTALL INTERIOR PARTITIONS, HUNG CEILINGS AND CABINETS AT LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT, AND HANSCOM CIVIL AIRFIELD ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD.

CITY OF BOSTON _______________ MAYOR’S OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (A division of the Boston & Planning Development Agency) _______________

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017.

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.

The estimated contract cost is ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($145,000).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J 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 $1,000,000.00 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.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and

PUBLIC NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) For Youth Services funded by ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION INITIATIVE (AEI) On Wednesday, February 15st, 2017, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) will issue an open and competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) for services under the Alternative Education Initiative (AEI). The RFP solicits programs that support Boston’s high school diploma, HiSET- and GED-granting alternative education programs for youth between the ages of 16-24.

You can download the AEI Youth RFP beginning Wednesday February 15st, 2017 online at owd.boston.gov. OWD will hold an AEI Bidders Conference on Friday, February 17th 2017, at 10:00am in the 9th floor Board Room located at the Boston Planning & Development Agency, One City Hall Square, Boston, MA 02201. Proposals will be due Friday March 24th, 2017 for upload onto the OWD website by 5:00 P.M. A Letter of Intent to Bid (provided in the RFP) is strongly recommended but not required. If submitting, the LOI is due by Friday March 10th, 2017.

Proposals will be due Friday March 24th, 2017 for upload onto the OWD website by 5:00 P.M. The AEI RFP seeks to identify programs for funding for fiscal year 2018, from July 1st, 2017 – June 30th, 2018. For further information, questions about the RFP, or requests for accommodations for persons with disabilities for the bidder’s conference, please contact Stefanie O’Shea, Workforce and Policy Manager, at stefanie.oshea@boston.gov.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M508-C1, BLACK FALCON CRUISEPORT SWITCHBOARD AND PANELBOARD REPLACEMENTS, SOUTH 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, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 1:00 P.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017.

LEGAL The work includes replacement of select switchboards and panelboards within Black Falcon Cruiseport. ELECTRICAL work.

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017.

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 Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ELECTRICAL The estimated contract cost is ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($175,000.00).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J 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.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

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

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Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1240-C5, TERMINAL C CRAWL SPACE LIGHTING, 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, FEBRUARY, 22, 2017 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017.

The work includes INSTALLATION OF NEW LED LIGHTING, CONDUIT AND SWITCHES IN THE TERMINAL C CRAWL SPACE AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING LIGHTS. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017.

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 Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ELECTRICAL. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,980,000.00).

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, Auto Liability Insurance, and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION ($10,000,000.00).

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.

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NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017.

The work includes REPLACEMENT OF SUMP PUMPS, INTERFACE WITH BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO PLUMBING PIPING, INSTALLATION OF STEAM PIPE, REMOVAL OF PIPING AND EQUIPMENT AND ELECTRICAL WORK IN THE TERMINAL C CRAWL SPACE. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017.

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 MECHANICAL SYSTEMS.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:

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.

BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

*WRA-4343

Purchase of Fifteen (15) New Electric Utility Vehicles - per Specifications

02/14/17

12:00 p.m.

*WRA-4341

VMWare Software and Support

02/15/17

4:00 p.m.

*WRA-4342

Commvault VM Backup and Recovery Software with Five Year Maintenance and Consulting Services

02/15/17

4:00 p.m.

**602TA

RFQ/P Survey Services Technical Assistance

02/24/17

11:00 a.m.

*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. **To obtain the bid documents MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

Engineer’s Estimate Engineer’s Estimate

request

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

$1,025,000.00 $570,000.00

To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Lauren N. Russo requesting that Lauren Nicole Russo be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows: Lauren Nicole Elia

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).

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 02/23/2017.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: January 20, 2017 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

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Worcester Pelham Apartments Cutler Heights Ashland Woods Canterbury Towers Stratton Hill Park (508)872-6393 (508)429-0099 (508)861-3052 (508)852-0060 75 Second Street 79 Hollis Street 277 West Union Street (508)757-1133 6 Wachusett Street 161 W. Mountain Street

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to:

In the matter of Lauren Nicole Russo of Boston, MA

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.

email

Docket No. SU16C0351CA

SUFFOLK Division

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: PLUMBING ELECTRICAL

please

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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 TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000.00). 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.

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1240-C4, TERMINAL C CRAWL SPACE PHASE IV MECHANICAL, 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 021282909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017 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, FEBRUARY 22, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

INVITATION TO BID

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.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the 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).

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

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.

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.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than ONE AND THREE TENTHS PERCENT (1.3%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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.

subcontract exceeds $10,000.

The estimated contract cost is TWO MILLION, NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,900,000.00).

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

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.

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MARSHFIELD HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PURCHASE PROGRAM ROUND 11-B

Tannery II Apartments, a housing community for senior adults 62 and older and/or disabled persons, is accepting applications for its Elderly Section 8 one- and two-bedroom apartments waiting list.

The Marshfield Housing Partnership is accepting additional applications from qualified applicants for grants to assist them in purchasing an existing market rate home or condominium in Marshfield. A deed restriction will be recorded on each unit purchased with a grant to secure affordability in perpetuity.

MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNTS 2 Bedroom $100,000

1 Bedroom $80,000

3, 4, and 5 Bedrooms $120,000

Independent Living.

Income guidelines apply.

Financed by MHFA Equal Housing Opportunity

MAXIMUM HOUSE/CONDOMINIUM AMOUNTS Bedrooms

Sale Price

Maximum Grant

Affordable Price After Grant

1 BR Condo

$227,030

$80,000

$147,030

1 BR House

$258,700

$80,000

$178,700

2 BR Condo

$268,900

$100,000

$168,900

2 BR House

$302,900

$100,000

$202,900

3 BR Condo

$312,000

$120,000

$192,000

3 BR House

$345,400

$120,000

$225,400

4 BR House

$359,600

$120,000

$239,600

5 BR House

$378,000

$120,000

$258,000

Call for details (978) 531-6800 TDD: 800-545-1833 Ext. 127

Parker Hill Apartments Brand New Renovated Apartment Homes

MAXIMUM ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME EFFECTIVE MARCH 29, 2016 1 Person

2 Person

3 Person

4 Person

5 Person

6 Person

7 Person

8 Person

9 or more

$51,150

$58,450

$65,750

$73,050

$78,900

$84,750

$90,600

$96,450

Please call

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Subject to periodic change by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Net family assets may not exceed $75,000.

Households interested in applying should attend one of the two informational sessions being provided.

Informational sessions will be held at the following locations: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:00 PM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield Saturday, February 25, 2017, 10:00 AM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield

Two Bedrooms Starting at $2200

A lottery will be held on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 7:00 PM at the Marshfield Town Hall, Hearing Room # 2, to select grant recipients.

Successful grant recipients are required to have at least one family member attend and complete a Homebuyer Education Workshop.

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For additional information or to receive an application please contact either the Marshfield Housing Authority (781-834-4333) or the Marshfield Housing Coordinator: (781-834-1051). Applications are also available outside the Town Clerk’s Office, Marshfield Town Hall.

Kings Beach Towers Kings Beach Towers, a housing community for the senior adults 62 and older and/or disabled persons, is accepting applications for its Elderly Section 8 one and two bedroom apartment waiting lists. Independent living.

Income Guidelines Apply.

Equal Housing Opportunity

Call for details: (781) 581-5100 TDD: 800-545-1833 Ext. 124

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A senior/disabled/ handicapped community 0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

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Plymouth Affordable Housing 2 Bedroom Townhomes Price: $183,000

All applications must be received and date stamped by the Marshfield Housing Authority no later than 12:00 PM (Noon) on Friday, March 10, 2017.

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The Marshfield Housing Partnership has an obligation to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants if they or any family member has a disability. If needed, language assistance is provided at no cost to the applicant.

MHOPP Funding was made possible by the Town’s adoption of the Community Preservation Act

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55+ Affordable Rental Community 85 Cotuit Road, Bourne, MA 02532 Now Leasing Studio, One and Two Bedroom Apartments for Summer 2017 Occupancy 58 Affordable Units # of Units

Size

Monthly Rent

% Income

Program Type

1

Studio

Income Based

30%AMI

Project Based MRVP | Tax Credit

6

1BR

Income Based

30%AMI

Project Based MRVP|HOME|Tax Credit

1

2 BR

Income Based

30%AMI

Project Based MRVP|HOME|Tax Credit

4

2 BR

$477*

30%AMI

Home | Tax Credit

24

1BR

$869*

60% AMI

2 | Tax Credit

22

2 BR

$1050*

60% AMI

2 | Tax Credit

Maximum Income per Household Size (HUD) 2016 Limits HH Size

30% of AMI

60% of AMI

HH Size

30% of AMI

60% of AMI

1 Person

$17,850

$35,700

4 Person

$25,470

$50,940

2 Person

$20,400

$40,800

5 Person

$27,510

$55,020

3 Person

$22,950

$45,900

6 Person

$29,550

$59,100

Three of the units have preference for households requiring an accessible unit. One of the units has preference for a household with sensory/ visual impairments. Six of the units have preference for homeless households. Utilities are included in the Project Based Units only. *Rents are listed as net, after current utility allowance.

Housing Choice Vouchers welcome Applications will be Available February 1, 2017 thru April 2, 2017 at the following Locations: Bourne United Methodist Church, 37 Sandwich Rd., Bourne, MA 02532, Tues & Fri 9:30 am to Noon, 2/9 – 3/30 Simpkins School Residences, 134 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA 02664, Mon-Fri 1 pm to 3pm Manomet Place, 170 Riverside Avenue, New Bedford, MA 02746, Mon-Fri 1 pm to 3pm Bourne Council on Aging, 239 Main Street, Bourne, MA 02532, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Bourne Town Hall, Clerks Office on 24 Perry Avenue, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Bourne Housing Authority, 871 Shore Road, Pocasset, MA 02559, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Housing Assistance Corporation, 460 Main Street, #1, Hyannis, MA 02601, weekdays 9 am to 5 pm Informational and Lottery Public Meetings Jonathan Bourne Public Library, 19 Sandwich Road, Bourne MA 02532 - Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 1pm Bourne United Methodist Church, 37 Sandwich Rd., Bourne, MA 02532 - Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 10 am Bourne Community Building, Room 1, 239 Main Street, Bourne, MA, 02532 - February 22, 2017 at 5:30 pm and March 8, 2017 at 5:30 pm LOTTERY Jonathan Bourne Public Library, 19 Sandwich Road, Bourne MA 02532 Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at 2 pm Lottery – Public Welcome, applicants are not required to be present APPLICATIONS MUST BE MAILED TO: P.O. Box 3026, Bourne, MA 02532 Fax to: 508-672-0466 or Email to: coadyschool@winnco.com Applications must be postmarked by 5 pm, April 2, 2017 Submission of an application will not guarantee housing for occupancy, there will be a screening process. Once the initial lease up has been completed, your housing application lottery placement number will become your waitlist number for future occupancy. Only completed and signed applications will be considered for the Lottery. Anticipated occupancy is July/August 2017. A Smoke Free Community!

For more information or reasonable accommodations, call COADY SCHOOL RESIDENCES at (774)338-4800 TTY/TDD: (800)439-2370 or Email: coadyschool@winnco.com Equal Housing Opportunity

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Human Resources Manager Madison Park Development Corporation (MPDC) seeks a Human Resources Manager to join our senior management team. This is a new position, and is responsible for strategically leading MPDC’s performance management, employee relations, recruitment and retention, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, employee records and information processing, and training and leadership development. The full job description may be viewed at www.madison-park.org.

Requirements: • Undergraduate degree in HR, business administration or related field; • Minimum of 5 years of HR experience, 8-10 preferred. Experience must include management of the HR function for an organization of at least 30 employees; • PHR or SPHR certification preferred.

Interested candidates should send cover letters and resumes to: http://ejob.bz/ATS/jb.do?reqGK=27005451 MPDC is an equal opportunity employer. Roxbury residents, people of color and women are encouraged to apply.

Section 8 (HCV) Mgr. North Attleborough Housing Authority seeks staff replacement for Section 8 / HCV Rep. This position requires comprehensive knowledge and skill in common office administration software (MS Office), as well as public service patience with people of differing cultures, income-levels, education-levels, and logic. Computer skills and the ability to learn new software (PHA Web) are required. Also required is the ability to manage time between routine tasks while assisting the Receptionist with walk-in clients AND assisting the Executive Director with clerical duties (Staff benefits, report filing, etc.) Applicant should have 3-5 years’ experience in public housing administration AND degree beyond high school. Reliability and being present and “on time” are key to success in this position.

Multi-lingual skills are preferred. For copy of full job description and other information, please email dan@northattleborohousing.org Letter of interest and resumes must be received by 12:00 noon February 21, 2017. Send to: Dan Ouellette, North Attleborough Housing Authority, 20 S. Washington Street, North Attleborough MA 02760

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HELP WANTED

RECEPTIONIST

Sr. Implementation Consultant (#968793E)

Busy Management Office seeks full time receptionist with excellent communication skills. Clerical and computer skills are necessary.

Duties include answering telephone, greeting clients, collecting rents, data entry, filing. Must have HS Diploma/ GED – bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.

Send Resumes to Human Resources, United Housing Management – 530 Warren, Dorchester, Ma 02121 no later than Friday, February 17, 2017 – Fax: 617-442-7231.

Implementation Manager (#644697E)

Dorchester, MA

United Housing Management LLC is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer

Bamboo Rose LLC’s

Boston office has openings for a Sr. Implementation Consultant (#968793E), & an Implementation Manager (#644697E).

See www.bamboorose.com for job duties & requirements.

Reference Job No. 968793E or 644697E, when sending resumes.

Mail resumes to: HR, Bamboo Rose LLC, 17 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01930.

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Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. is a mid-size national consulting engineering firm currently seeking to fill the following position: Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. is seeking a Resident Engineer Airports self-motivated team player with eight to twelve years of progressive airport construction inspection and design experience to join our growing aviation group. This job can be located in our Manchester, NH, Portsmouth, NH, North Andover, MA, Burlington, VT, or Brunswick, ME offices. The primary responsibilities include airport construction inspection and administration, design field data collection and field consultant oversight, proficiency with Microsoft Office Word and Excel, and design constructability review. Secondary responsibilities include basic airport design, quantity takeoff, cost estimation, project scheduling, basic CAD skills, and GPS data collection.

Successful candidate will possess Associates Degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Management, or equivalent – Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree a plus, and have recent experience with AutoCAD or Microstation drafting and GPS data collection.

Please forward your resume and cover letter citing career code NEG10117 to jhann@hoyletanner.com or visit our website at www.hoyletanner.com for more information. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

United Housing Management is currently seeking the professionals below. Please forward resumes to the Human Resources Department no later than February 17, 2016 to 530 Warren Street, Dorchester, MA 02121 or fax to 617-442-7231.

Property Manager: The successful candidate will be a motivated team player with 3-5 years of experience in managing at least 150 units with Project Based Section 8 and Low Income Housing Tax Credit; must have the ability to interpret and analyze financial projection; strong organizational and written communication skills are a must.

Proficiency in Spanish is a plus. Certification as a Property Manager and Tax Credit Specialist are required. Transportation is a must.

Maintenance Technician: The ideal candidate will have 3

years of experience in two or more phases of building maintenance repairs including boilers, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, plastering, locks; must be dependable and self-motivated with excellent customer service skills. Will be required to provide scheduled nights and weekends coverage. Bilingual is a plus - transportation is a must.

United Housing Management LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Faculty Openings for Fall 2017 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

MATHEMATICS

ENGINEERING

NURSING

ENGLISH RESPIRATORY CARE These positions are full time with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.

To Apply: Visit the Quinsigamond website at www.QCC.edu/human-resources for a complete job description, qualifications and application procedures. All applicants must apply online.

QCC is an equal opportunity affirmative action college supporting diversity.

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