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Turnarounds set for 2 Hub schools Level 4 status triggers intervention for Brighton, S. Boston Excel high schools By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Two Boston high schools that fell to Level 4 status this year are slated for major staffing changes. On Friday, Feb. 3, about 90 percent of teachers and staff at Brighton High School and Excel High School in South Boston were slated to receive dismissal notices, according to reports. Only custodians and cafeteria workers were guaranteed to be kept on for the next year. As of Mar. 1, about 110 teachers will be asked to reapply for their positions, states the Herald. The two schools are up for reevaluation in 2020. If they cannot demonstrate sufficient improvement by that point, they could be put into state receivership. Tenured teachers will be retained as Boston Public Schools employees, regardless of whether they are rehired by their original schools, Dan O’Brien, BPS press secretary, told Wicked Local.
Excel fails to meet targets
In the 2014-2015 school year, Excel High School’s 550member student body was 38.4 percent black, 23.3 percent Hispanic and 13.6 percent white, according to BPS data. Nearly 86 percent of students were identified as low income; about a quarter were in special educatio; and nearly a quarter were English language learners. A school’s level ranking is based on graduation rates and standardized test scores. Excel did not meet or exceed targets for reducing achievement gaps
in any subject, according to BPS data. In a December letter sent to Tommy Chang, BPS superintendent advising on turnaround plan development, a local stakeholder group praised the supportive environment at the school and recommended retaining teachers where possible. In the letter, the group said one of Excel’s strengths is an inclusive atmosphere characterized by emotional support, classroom organization, instructional support and teacher sensitivity. Another mark in Excel’s favor: positive faculty-student relationships. “A deep concern raised by the LSG [local stakeholder group] was the loss of this positive asset as an unintended consequence of the timing of the Turnaround Plan,” letter states. The group referred to an understanding that teachers may be “excessed” on Feb. 1, should a turnaround plan not be finalized by that point. They said they were concerned such an action could cause disruption to students and loss of knowledgeable and devoted faculty. “If this occurs, the LSG worries that some of the most expert and committed teachers who currently are part of the faculty will leave because of the uncertain nature of the jobs that might exist within the turnaround environment,” the stakeholder group wrote. The group’s recommendations included partnering with University of Massachusetts Boston and Boston Innovation District firms to advance design,
See BRIGHTON, page 20
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City Councilor Tito Jackson speaks during a meeting of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization at the Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain. More than 800 people attended the meeting, during which elected officials pledged support for criminal justice reform, the Affordable Care Act and affordable housing.
Senate prez supports criminal justice reforms Electeds pledge support for housing, health care By YAWU MILLER
It’s been a long haul. Last December, activists briefly disrupted a meeting of legislative leaders in protest of a criminal justice reform push they said wouldn’t go far enough to ameliorate racial disparities in sentencing and reduce the number of non-violent offenders serving hard time. In January, Second Suffolk
District Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz called out legislative leadership during a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial breakfast in which she made a forceful plea for action on substantive reforms. But last week legislative action seemed imminent when state Senate President Stanley Rosenberg committed to work for legislative fixes supported by the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, including pretrial bail
reform, the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, the elimination of excessive fees and fines and the elimination of excessive use of solitary confinement. “This is the time,” Rosenberg said during a meeting held at Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain that drew more than 800 GBIO members. “We are a close as we’ve ever been.”
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Fire Dept. hiring few minorities Officials cite veterans preference law By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
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City of Boston Chief Diversity Officer Danielson Tavares, Boston Fire Department Diversity Officer Juan Sanchez, Deputy Commissioner for Labor Relations Connie Wong and Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn.
A recent letter from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice ratcheted up attention on the Boston Fire Department’s low diversity numbers. Since 2011, people of color have comprised half or more of Boston’s population, but to date, only 25 percent of the fire department is
non-white, according to a letter the Lawyers’ Committee sent to Mayor Martin Walsh and Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn. And diversity seems set to decline, with 90 percent of new firefighters brought on under Walsh being white, and many minority firefighters nearing retirement age, the letter stated. The Lawyers’ Committee is demanding action, outlining several policy recommendations formulated in conjunction with the
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http://lawyerscom.org/90-of-bostons-newfirefighters-have-been-white Boston Society of Vulcans and suggesting that failing to take up these policies could constitute a violation of federal law. Should a court find that an public agency’s practices — for instance, its hiring policies — produce disparate impact, and that the agency had
See FIRE DEPT., page 8
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City works to assist middle-income housing construction DND program sells city land at discount to developers building moderately-affordable homes By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
With housing prices squeezing middle class renters and buyers in Boston, the rising cost of land remains a challenge to efforts to hold down the cost of new units. The administration of Mayor Martin Walsh is seeking to reduce that cost, offering land at a reduced price to developers for the construction of homes affordable to middle-income buyers through its Neighborhood Homes Initiative. When Walsh took office, the Department of Neighborhood Development inventoried all cityowned parcels and identified 250 suitable for residential construction based on location, size and other factors. To date, 73 units are in construction on these parcels, with 45 slated for later this year, according to the Dorchester Reporter. As of mid-December, 36 parcels were sold, and developers were in the process of closing on 16 more, according to the DND. All parcels ultimately will be used and a bulk of the city-owned land is in Roxbury, said Lisa Pollack, DND director of media and public relations. “[Mayor Walsh aims] to return as much city land to the highest, best use,” she said in a phone interview with the Banner. The NHI program has met favorable responses from developers for streamlining the process,
Pollack said. Community members are engaged on the initial designs for the units, which frequently are single- or two-family homes, before plans are sent to the Boston Planning and Development Agency for approval. Only then are requests for proposals issued and developers selected. As such, the developers enter the process with community negotiations and permitting largely settled, Pollack said.
DND seeks small developers to purchase and construct the housing. Pollack did not have information on the percent of minority developers engaged. While the city legally is not allowed to turn over land for free, it offers levels of subsidies that vary by project, Pollack said. To facilitate small developer involvement, DND hosts seminars on how to do business with the city and how to collaborate with other small firms to create a joint venture that has the capacity to be competitive on larger bids, Pollack said. The units are promoted to
moderate- and middle-income prospective homebuyers. The individuals undergo review by the Boston Home Center before approved applicants are selected via the NHI housing lottery, states the Dorchester Reporter. The program also is a financial win for the city, with new developments bringing in new taxes, the DND reports. The NHI program has a finite end: The city holds only so many parcels and has few ways of gaining more. The only way property enters DND’s inventory is through foreclosure, seizure for nonpayment of a vast amount of taxes or
acquisition of a parcel when it is no longer needed for its current use. For example, when the Grove Hall public library branch was reopened on a new site, the previous library building was considered “surplus” and given to DND to assign new use. A related effort by DND involves rehabilitating abandoned, foreclosed buildings into homes available to middle-income buyers. By mid-December 2016, the program had completed rehabilitation of one unit, with two more under construction and two more ready for construction to start, according to the DND.
‘Portraits of Purpose’ opens at Boston Center for Adult Education
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Mayor Martin Walsh attends a gallery opening for Don West, “Portraits of Purpose”, at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Behind are BCAE Executive Director Susie Brown, West and his wife Libbie Shufro.
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City, neighborhood group at odds over Roxbury housing competition By YAWU MILLER
Previous projects
GTNA members have been working with the city to develop parcels of vacant land on Harold, Crawford, Waumbeck, Holworthy, Holborne and Westminster streets over the last two years. In August 2016, the neighborhood group voted to approve a request for proposals for Phase 1 of the so-called Garrison Trotter housing — 19 units in large, one- and two-family homes with off-street parking and setbacks from the curb, consistent with the design of Victorian-era homes in the area. That process is moving forward, with the Humboldt Avenue-based development firm Crosswinds Enterprises currently pouring foundations for the new homes. The design requirements for the Phase 1 housing are nearly identical to those laid out in a previous RFP process the Department of Neighborhood Development negotiated with GTNA. The general contractor selected for Phase 1 — Crosswinds Construction — also built the earlier units. Those designs present a stark contrast with the Housing Innovation Competition submissions, which feature modern-looking structures, some with micro-units and other strategies to build with more density. “We never would agree to
micro-units,” Elisa emphasizes. DND spokeswoman Lisa Pollack sent the Banner a list of meetings city officials have held with GTNA members, including a brief description of the May 15, 2016 meeting in which the organization allegedly agreed to the competition: “5/15/16- GTNA Monthly Meeting- Support reached on the RFP. DND, HIL [Housing Innovation Lab] and BSA [Boston Society of Architects] presentation.” But GTNA Secretary Connie Forbes said there was no approval given for an RFP during that May 15 meeting. As evidence, she forwarded the Banner a copy of the minutes taken for it: “Members voiced concerns that if Harold Street is reopened area may once again become a grand prix; would like a small play area on Hollander site; how will Radius project impact the area; impact on Townsend St; addressing area density; area for dogs; green space; rodents; parking and perhaps more than housing. Harold St used to have cleaners, shoe shops, a bakery, and stores. Perhaps there is an opportunity for dual use/ commercial area.” Had the GTNA membership approved the plan, a vote would have been recorded in the minutes, Forbes said. By comparison, the minutes from the September 2015 meeting in which the first phase of the Garrison Trotter housing
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The development firm Urbanica submitted this rendering as part of its response to an RFP for a vacant parcel on Westminster Avenue as part of the Housing Innovation Competition. clearly records a vote: “DND Plans contain 5 sites, 12 buildings, 19 new homes, 10 owner units, 3 rental units. …Vote to confirm the plan is acceptable and can move forward with plan and modifications. Motion Proceed with RFP and housing, seconded and passed.” Forbes, Elisa and GTNA member Joseph Eubanks all said the organization agreed to discuss the housing innovation idea, but never gave consent for the request for proposals to move forward. Richardson said the Housing Committee kept the GTNA apprised, via monthly meetings, of the developments in the Housing Competition. But at the Jan. 21 meeting, held in the Crispus Attucks meeting room where developers presented their plans for the three housing competition lots, few GTNA members were present. Richardson, who does not use email, said the Housing Committee used flyers to advertise the meeting.
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“The flyers were supposed to go to everybody on the list of [GTNA] members,” he said. “It certainly was the intent to get all the members notification. You do the best you can to get them out to everyone.” Elisa, Forbes, Eubanks and others on the GTNA email list who were contacted by the Banner said they never received the flyers.
What’s next
Six developers submitted proposals for the three lots: four for 24 Westminster Avenue, and one each for 71 and 73 Holworthy Street and 29 and 31 Hollander Street. The submissions will be judged by a jury that includes architects, officials from DND and the Boston Planning and Development Agency, along with two GTNA Housing Committee members. Neighborhood residents can view the proposals on the city’s website: https://www.boston.gov/housing/ housing-innovation-competition. The period for public comment ended Feb. 5.
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An affront to Boston’s black history Since the beginning of the republic, Boston has been the site of opposition to injustice. In 1770, Crispus Attucks’ aggressive opposition to the occupation by British troops provoked the Boston Massacre. In 1773, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere were among the colonialists who dumped crates of tea in Boston Harbor to protest taxes. In 1854, Boston abolitionists invaded the courthouse to free Anthony Burns who faced charges as a runaway under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. And in 1916, William Monroe Trotter, publisher of the Boston Guardian, led opposition to the public showing of the racist film “Birth of a Nation.” Recently, WGBH, Boston’s PBS station, aired a documentary entitled “Birth of a Movement: The Battle Against America’s First Blockbuster.” The film was about Trotter’s unrelenting battle for full equality for African Americans. As the first black Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, Class of 1895, Trotter was understandably unwilling to accept the diminished role in society that was approved by Booker T. Washington. Trotter persistently publicized his point of view. In post-slavery America, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that the division of the races was constitutional as long as it was “separate but equal.” On the basis of that Supreme Court decision, whites believed it was lawful to treat blacks as inferior and establish Jim Crow, a social pattern of racial segregation. D.W. Griffith, the most imaginative filmmaker of the era, produced a film called “The Clansman,” about the Civil War and Reconstruction. He portrayed the KKK as the savior of society against the savage blacks. The depiction of blacks was so derogatory that the film has been described as “racial
pornography.” The title of the film was changed to “Birth of a Nation” for its presentation up north where the clan might not be highly regarded. The two central characters of the documentary are Griffith, a groundbreaking filmmaker, and Trotter, whose strategies for protest and opposition established a model for the Civil Rights Movement to come. It should come as no surprise that Boston’s black community holds Trotter in the highest regard, and the Boston Guardian newspaper has a special position of respect although it has not been published for many years. Trotter died in 1934. His sister Maude and her husband, a friend of Trotter’s from Harvard named Dr. Charles Steward, continued publication for many years. Dr. Steward, the last of the so-called Boston Radicals who were involved in the “Birth of a Nation” protest, died in 1967. But if you live in the Back Bay or Beacon Hill you might still get a Boston Guardian every week. David Jacobs decided to appropriate that newspaper title when he found it inadvisable to continue publication of his Boston Courant under that legend. Any copyright protection of the Boston Guardian had expired, but Jacobs was nonetheless informed that the Guardian had special historical significance. Even more disappointing was that the Anti-Defamation League failed to understand that Trotter and his newspaper are still sacrosanct to many people. The ADL is usually more sensitive to black-Jewish conflicts and the necessity of preserving the quality of that relationship. Now every week there will be another desecration of the special status of Trotter’s Boston Guardian. Certainly Trotter’s protest against racial defamation ranks up there with other early Boston oppositions to injustice.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Alternate reality? Apparently in a White House Black History Month moment Trump and his black staff Celebrity Surgeon Ben Carson and Celebrity Apprentice Omarosa (the Spooks
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Trump administration risks war with Iran over nothing
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By WILLIAM O. BEEMAN, NEW AMERICA MEDIA The Trump administration appears to be renewing the possibility of violent confrontation with Iran using a questionable pretext — Iran’s testing of conventional missiles. No one in the U.S. government or the press seems to understand that Iranian ballistic missiles do not fall under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA (the “Iran Deal”). The JCPOA has nothing at all to do with conventional weapons, only nuclear technology. The current controversy over Iran’s missile testing has entirely to do with interpretations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (20 July 2015), which endorsed the JCPOA after it had been ratified. UNSC Resolution 2231 stated that ALL previously existing UN sanctions against Iran were terminated, viz. “(a) The provisions of resolutions 1696 (2006), 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008), 1835 (2008), 1929 (2010) and 2224 (2015) shall be terminated” (p. 3 of the full document). The current objections to Iran’s missile testing has to do with a clause in Resolution 2231 that “calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology,” until eight years after the implementation of the deal. This clause can’t be found on the UNSC web page announcing the agreement to the press. It is buried on page 99 of the 104 page actual Resolution 2231 document with annexes. The agreement does NOT prohibit Iran from developing conventional weapons or missiles at all. It also only “calls upon” Iran to not develop technology capable of carrying such nuclear weapons. It does not flat-out prohibit even this development. The language “calls upon” was deliberate because the other P5+1 signatories to the JCPOA (Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) would not endorse a stronger “prohibition.” Moreover, the provision written this way provides no prescription for punishment if the provision is violated — which Iran claims has not happened. This means that the UN can’t impose sanctions on Iran without an additional resolution. It is notable that, according to experts, Iran never had, nor has today a nuclear weapons program, so there are no nuclear weapons that could be mounted on such missiles. Anything the United States does in retaliation is in fact a response NOT to the JCPOA, to which the US is a signatory, but rather to some perceived violation of this UN Resolution. The United States in doing this is essentially engaging in a remarkable activity--cherry picking the violations of UN Resolutions that it likes and ignoring violations of UN Resolutions that it doesn’t like, and deciding to act entirely independently of the UN, meting out its own free-boot punishment. Once again, the United States is singling out and targeting Iran on highly questionable grounds without any real authority. The tiny issue on which the US objection rests is whether the Iranian missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Iran says: no! The United States (and Israel) say “maybe,” because they can’t know for sure whether this is the case. In the latest missile test, the missile blew up, so no one can say one way or the other. This is splitting hairs in the most egregious way. The Trump administration continues the tradition of the hawks in Congress to do anything and everything to antagonize Iran. In this regard Iran’s leaders have been remarkably calm. Hawkish legislators in the United States would like to completely eliminate Iran’s conventional weapons AND its overall missile program. Iran has all kinds of reasons for wanting to maintain this technology including satellite launchings. Today the Trump administration’s sanctions proved to be wimpy at best, targeting “multiple entities and individuals involved in procuring technology and/or materials to support Iran’s ballistic missile program, as well as for acting for or on behalf of, or providing support to, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force.” Since there were already existing sanctions against such individuals, this amounts to virtually no “punishment” at all. However, President Trump’s insistence that “nothing has been taken off the table” ominously suggests some kind of military action. Iran responded with something much more symbolically effective, reportedly barring the U.S. wrestling team from competition in the Freestyle World Cup Competition on Feb. 16-17. It is dismaying that the Trump administration would risk violent action over such a small matter, but hatred of Iran in U.S. Government circles is so ubiquitous, rationality seems never to prevail, and as can be seen, provides Iran with the opportunity to retaliate in ways that can provide much more effective press.
William O. Beeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has conducted research in Iran for over 40 years. His most recent forthcoming book is Understanding Iran from Ancient Times to the Islamic Republic.
I think you have to understand that in this day and age with Trump it makes things more difficult, but we have to overcome the challenges.
This should remind us that racism never went away and that we, as people of color, have to remain vigilant.
I think our response should be nonviolent. Everybody should be extremely careful.
Lilian O’Neal
Segun Idowu
Cassandra Scarlet
Organizer Hyde Park
Student Dorchester
You have to stand up for the person next to you. If you hear something unacceptable, respond.
I think Americans should respond with the spirit of America. This is an open and just society for all. We should do everything we can to look out for each other. Hate has no place in a decent society.
With the fullest of the heart. It’s time to transform all that poison into medicine. We need to work together to do it.
Heshan Berents-Weeramuni
Artist Roxbury
Resident Poet Jamaica Plain
Joyce Clark
Program Coordinator Roslindale
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ALEXANDRA VALDEZ Alexandra Valdez has been appointed the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services liaison to Jamaica Plain and Boston’s Latino community. In her new role, Valdez provides a line of communication between neighborhood and community residents and the city departments that impact their day-to-day lives. Born in the Dominican Republic, Valdez moved to the United States at the age of nine. Valdez graduated from Fitchburg State University with a degree in communications and political science. While in college she worked for City Councilor Matt O’Malley as the Latino liaison to Jamaica Plain. Upon graduating she moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Hispanic Congressional Caucus, where she led programs for Latinos across the nation. In 2016, Valdez returned to Boston to work as a public information officer for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department.
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Highland Park versus City Realty By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Members of the neighborhood association in Roxbury’s Highland Park came together for an emergency meeting on Jan. 23. Developers were due to appear the following morning before the city’s zoning board, where they would seek zoning relief to allow them to proceed with construction plans for a Juniper Street property. The problem: The developers still had not sat down with residents to get feedback or explain the project, Highland Park Neighborhood Coalition members said. HPNC members say City Realty has not responded to requests to meet with them, while the developers say they already reached out to HPNC and have met with abutters and community residents on their own, even if they have not attended HPNC meetings. While City Realty says many resident respondents support the project, HPNC firmly voted to oppose it and questions where this support is coming from. “We know from the past that
community support can be misrepresented at Board of Appeal hearings,” John Ellertson, Thornton Street resident and HPNC secretary, wrote in an email to local elected officials, residents and the Banner. The centerpiece of the discussion is 37-39 Juniper Street, owned by City Realty, and site of two existing townhouses. City Realty members plan to build two more townhouses on the rear of the site in a manner necessitating zoning lenience. Before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal can give the go-ahead, a developer is obliged to meet with community members. The Juniper project dispute raises questions on the nature of an effective community engagement process, and which stakeholders must be included.
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Rodney Singleton, HPNC member, said that past bitter relations with the developers over “sober homes” adjacent to the site has left many residents wary. “Historically, City Realty’s been
Boston Public Health Commission Boston Biosafety Committee members The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) is seeking new community members for its Boston Biosafety Committee (BBC) from the South End, Fenway, and/or Chinatown neighborhoods. The BBC provides technical assistance and advice on issues related to regulation and permitting of biological research laboratories in the City of Boston. Community members should be able to commit to two years on the committee. BPHC permits and regulates research laboratories in Boston and the BBC has a role in advising the Executive Director of BPHC. Community members of the BBC have a role in communicating information on biological safety to the public and providing input on community concerns. The BBC meets when required for review of research projects, laboratory permit applications, or other times requested by the BPHC Executive Director. The time commitment will average five hours a month, with some months having no meetings and some months having meetings with materials to review in advance. Community members interested in being on the BBC should contact Julien Farland, Boston Public Health Commission Director of Biological Safety, at jfarland@bphc.org or 617-534-2814.
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PROJECT PROPONENT: Horizons Watermark LLC PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Horizons Watermark LLC (the Proponent), a joint venture between Horizons for Homeless Children (Horizons) and Watermark Development Inc., proposes to redevelop an approximately 39,458 square foot site located at 1785 Columbus Avenue in the Jamaica Plain/Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The site will be developed into a seven-story, approximately 139,200 square foot (sf) building to be occupied by Horizons on the second and third floors, and social service oriented tenants on the upper floors (the Project). The Project will also include a small ground floor retail space, and approximately 157 parking spaces.
a bad player,” Singleton, who lives on Cedar Street near another City Realty property, told the Banner in a phone interview. “We just have a real bad taste in our mouth.” Singleton and Ellertson separately cited a variety of concerns about the project, including factors such as parking, traffic density and transient use. Ellertson said in an email that there is concern that the new developments would house students, potentially driving up rent at the expense of longterm residents. Homeownership opportunities would be a better use of the property, Singleton said. In a conversation with the Banner, Josh Fetterman, director of real estate development at City Realty and Jeff Drago, the firm’s zoning attorney, said the plans entail construction of two townhouses in the open expanse at the rear of the site. The townhouses, known as 37R-39R Juniper Street, would be sold as condos, likely to families. Parking spaces behind the existing buildings would be widened and paved, ultimately creating five parking spaces — one more than developers are obliged to provide. Zoning relief is needed to allow the proposed buildings’ side and rear yards to be smaller than otherwise required and for the parking spaces to be located between the two pairs of townhouses, Drago said. While there is no community benefit package per se, Fetterman says they would bring benefit to other residents by repairing Juniper Terrace, which has fallen into disrepair and connects to 37-39 Juniper Street and others nearby properties. City Realty would repave the terrace as well as a back area parking lot shared by its current Juniper townhouses and a few neighboring buildings. The firm also would continue to handle snow removal for those areas. Repairing Juniper Terrace also could alleviate parking pressure, Fetterman said, as during bad weather, cars sometimes park on
the street rather than risk traveling down the pothole-riddled road. “When it snows, cars don’t want to go down, so they park on the street,” Fetterman said. “Part of our action to clean up Juniper Terrace and ensure snow is removed is in response to one of those parking questions.” For HPNC, higher on their list than any property-specific concern is the lack of conversation that leaves wariness and lingering questions. “That’s probably the biggest issue,” Singleton said. “We’ve made requests to have City Realty come to the table and tell us their plans so we can have a discussion round these properties. For any number of reasons, they’ve not been able to make or fit into their schedule to attend a community meeting.”
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In the Jan. 23 special meeting, the ten HPNC members in attendance voted unanimously to oppose the project, according to Ellertson. Five more Thornton and Juniper Street residents who could not be there in person sent on expressions of opposition as well. Singleton said residents on the group’s listserv also oppose the project. Ellertson said that City Realty was invited to attend HPNC’s Jan. 10 meeting, but did not show. Singleton said HPNC has been trying for about two months to get City Realty to come meet with them. Meanwhile, City Realty representatives and Joshua McFadden, the city’s Roxbury Liaison, said they reached out to the HNPC in October. McFadden said they did not receive a reply until late October or early November, while City Realty members recall not receiving a response until January. As such, the city and developers moved ahead without HPNC to arrange resident meetings at the Shelburne Center. “I reached out to them [the HPNC]. We didn’t hear form them for a while. That’s why we had to set up our own abutters meeting,” McFadden said in a Banner phone interview. “We had
to go forward with making sure that at least some residents heard the proposal.” According to McFadden, Drago and Fetterman, about ten residents attended the first meeting, in late November, and about nine attended a second meeting in January. Flyering for the meetings was required within 300 feet of the Juniper Street properties, but was not required to extend more broadly. McFadden said residents seemed fairly supportive. “They got the support of some of the direct abutters as well as the local condo association,” McFadden said. Fetterman said they also received letters of support from abutters. “We met with a number of abutters and received a number of letters of support. Overall, it’s been positive,” he said. That news clashes directly with HPNC’s perspective. Singleton and Ellertson say that former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, representing a consulting firm engaged by City Realty, told HPNC members that the developers have 20 letters from residents stating support of the project. Ellertson and Singleton expressed doubts, however, that the letters reflect the full voice of the community, and asked to see them. “We demand to see such letters, as we suspect many of them may be from City Realty tenants or residents of the adjacent Sober Homes,” Ellertson wrote. “We would love to see those letters that they claim they have,” Singleton said. “We know at the past few meetings we’ve been to at the Highland Park Neighborhood Coalition … there has not been one — not one — endorsement of the projection save from Dianne Wilkerson. … Other than that, the community that I see says, No, we want them to first come to a community meeting and we want to talk.” Given the HPNC response, the mayor’s office requested that the Zoning Board of Appeals, which heard City Realty’s Juniper Street Request, defer on passing a final opinion. Instead, a new community meeting is set for Feb. 16. This will not fulfill HPNC’s request for developers to attend one of the neighborhood association’s meetings, but will be held at the Area B-2 police station in Dudley Square. HPNC, Shelburne Community Center members and other residents are invited, Fetterman said. City Realty’s new Zoning Board of Appeals date is set for March 16, McFadden said.
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available but did not choose to use alternatives that are less discriminatory and do not impede meeting business needs, the court may rule that this violates anti-discrimination law. The Boston Society of Vulcans is a nonprofit organization of Black and Latino firefighters with a mission to empower urban Boston residents to pursue public safety careers. Commissioner Finn, along with Danielson Tavares, the city’s chief diversity officer, Juan Sanchez, the fire department’s diversity officer, and Connie Wong, fire department deputy commissioner for labor relations, human resources and legal affairs, met with the Banner at the Boston Fire Department headquarters on Monday. During the meeting, officials said that their hiring practices are tightly constricted by state law but that they seek to boost diversity and will take action on several initiatives, including some of the Lawyers’ Committee proposals.
Civil service list and language preferences
When the Boston Fire Department hires its next batch of recruits, it will select names from a ranked state-created list of eligible applicants. Those who pass an entrance exam are ranked in order of preferential status, and then, within each preference category, in order of test scores. Only after every member of the top preference category is hired (or bypassed
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While people of color make up 50 percent of Boston’s population, they account for just 25 percent of those employed by the Boston Fire Department. for a valid reason) may members of the second-highest preference category be considered, and so on. Top hiring priority goes to applicants who are the children of firefighters or police killed in the line of duty, followed by children of firefighters or police completely disabled in the line of duty — such as firefighters paralyzed from being caught in a collapsing building. These are rare eventualities and the latest list had only three people in these categories combined, Finn said. Next, preference goes to disabled veterans and then veterans. Only after every eligible veteran is hired do the most promising general category applicants get consideration. A typical recruit class is 50 people, Finn said, although this year’s group will number 65 in an effort to compensate for the number of officers aging out. With hundreds of applicants for tens of spots, non-military applicants have essentially no chance.
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“In a class of 50, there’s not a lot of people getting in,” Sanchez said. “We’re talking 500 veterans and 200 DAVs [disabled veterans] applying for one class.” In phone conversation with the Banner last week, Tavares said if civil service-determined hiring were ignored, 49 percent of city hires for full-time positions would be nonwhite. The Lawyers’ Committee letter states that the cultural and linguistic gaps expected from a non-diverse fire department places a barrier to most effective communication and collaboration with Boston’s diverse communities, and proposes using a preference category for those with multilingual skills. A provision in the civil service law permits such preferences, provided that for each year the BFD seeks to utilize the provision, it makes a case to the state that there is demonstrable need. Finn said he intends to activate the provision for the next hiring class, but warned that in the past it had not always helped diversity. In 2011, a Spanish-fluency preference resulted in the hiring of white male candidates, Finn and Wong said. Finn suggested a language preference may produce additional ranking within veteran categories, and said on the latest list there were 14 disabled veterans with self-declared Haitian, Spanish or Chinese fluency and
One diversifying tool was removed in the early 2000s, when a group of white applicants who had consistently attained top scores on the entrance exam successfully challenged in federal appeals court the fire department’s adherence to a consent decree that had governed hiring since the 1970s, Finn said. The court ruled against use of the consent decree, stating that the BFD need not be reflective of the city population as a whole, only the population eligible to be firefighters — those between ages 19 and 65. The Lawyers’ Committee and Vulcans suggested introduction of a cadet program to boost diversity at the entry level. Under the Boston Police Department’s cadet program, cadets are given preference so that they may constitute one-third of the recruit class. Tavares previously told the Banner that while there are no diversity goals for cadet classes, the selection drew from a diverse pool of Boston applicants. There are obstacles to the Fire Department following suit, however. Finn said that recent state laws establish veterans as a protected class, creating a legally tricky situation for measures — such as a fire cadet program — that could be considered advancing another group at veterans’ expense. “Veterans are preferenced and protected under the laws as much as nonwhites,” Finn said. The police department was able to enact its cadet program because it simply was restoring funding to a program that has been on the books. The Fire Department would have to establish theirs from scratch, opening it to potential legal challenges, according to Finn.
Further initiatives
A current law prioritizes those who have lived in Boston for one year prior to their taking the civil service exam over
non-city-residents, though children of killed or disabled police or fire officers are excepted. The BFD representatives at last week’s gathering, along with the Lawyers’ Committee in its letter, expressed support of a measure that would expand the Boston residency preference from one to three years. City Councilor Michael Flaherty proposed this measure in 2014, but it was vetoed by Walsh, who said he would refile it. The mayor now has included the measure in a legislative package, passing the matter along to the state, Tavares said. Sanchez, who took up his diversity officer role at the fire department in May, says he aims to boost the number of minority applicants through measures such as increasing career opportunity awareness among veterans and providing waivers to the $250 exam fee. He expressed interest in partnering with the Vulcans. Sanchez said he is collaborating with the Veterans Affairs Office to connect with minority veteran groups and hold monthly sessions in different neighborhoods to spread information on fire department options and exams. In development now is a “Soldier for Life” program under which military members from Massachusetts who are in the process of transitioning to civilian life would be advised on fire internship opportunities, Sanchez said. The pilot program will be limited to the army. Several programs currently in place aim to increase high school youth awareness of fire fighting as a career opportunity, Wong said. Finn said that while he is reluctant to advise children into a dangerous career, under the current system, joining the military is the pathway to become a firefighter. “We need to educate minority youth on the benefits of being a veteran, and this is how to be a Boston firefighter,” Finn said. The city also is discussing diversification strategies with other municipalities’ fire departments but has yet to find a model they wish to copy, Tavares told the Banner in a phone conversation.
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Black Masons owe lineage to 18th century Boston pioneer Prince Hall By YAWU MILLER
Throughout North America, the Caribbean and Europe there are Freemasons whose lineage began here in Boston in 1775, when Prince Hall and 14 other freed black men secured a charter to join the international association. The history of the Prince Hall Masons is exceptional, especially given the time in this country when the Lodge was founded. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall and 14 freed black men were made Masons by Worshipful Master John Batt of Army Lodge No. 441 of the 38th Regiment of Foot of the British Army. The Army Lodge’s Charter was under the Grand Lodge of Ireland Constitution. As a new Master Mason, Prince Hall petitioned membership in the Masonic Lodges headed by colonists, but all his petitions were rejected. When the British Army left Boston in 1776, this Lodge, No. 441, granted Prince Hall and his brethren authority to meet as African Lodge No. 1 (Under Dispensation), to go in procession on St. John’s Day, and as a Lodge to bury their dead; but they could not confer degrees nor perform any other Masonic “work.” Besides Hall, the other black
Masons were Cyrus Forbes; Bristol Stenzer; Thomas Sanderson; Prince Taylor; Cato Gardner; Boston Smith; Peter Best; Fortune Howard; Prince Reed; John Carter; Peter Freeman; Benjamin Tyler; Cuff Bufform; and Richard Tilledge. For eight years these brethren, together with others who had received their degrees elsewhere, assembled and enjoyed their limited privileges as Masons. Thirty-three Masons were listed on the rolls of African Lodge No.1 on Jan. 14, 1779. Finally on March 2, 1784, Prince Hall petitioned the Grand Lodge of England, through a Worshipful Master of a subordinate Lodge in London (William Moody of Brotherly Love Lodge No. 55) for a warrant or charter. On Sept. 29, 1784 a charter was issued to the African Lodge, making it a regular Lodge with all the rights and privileges of any Lodge in the world. The Warrant to African Lodge No. 459 of Boston is the most significant and highly prized document known to the Prince Hall Masonic fraternity. It was delivered in Boston on April 29, 1787 by Captain James Scott, brother-inlaw of John Hancock and master of the Neptune. African Lodge of Boston became the “Mother Lodge” of the Prince Hall Family.
All of this took place at a time in American history when it wasn’t safe for black men to be speaking with, much less asking for favors from, the British. But it was also a time when free black men very much needed a means by which to advance the cause of black equality. Boston was a major port for selling slaves in the North. Black Codes were enacted by all the colonies, curtailing the movement of blacks, both free and slave, especially after dark. Prince Hall looked to the Fraternal Order of Free and Accepted Masons because the chief purpose of Freemasonry is benevolence and charity to all mankind. Hall was convinced that Freemasonry’s ideals for the betterment of man made it an ideal organization to advance the cause of black equality in the colonies. Today, the Prince Hall Masonic Order spans across all 50 states in the U.S. as well as Lodges in Canada, the West Indies, the Bahamas, Europe, and Asia. There are over 250,000 Prince Hall Masons worldwide, working in more than 5,000 Lodges that can trace their roots to African Lodge No. 459 which, as the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, is located here in Boston, at 24 Washington St. in Grove Hall.
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The multitalented Matthew Washington Bullock Athlete, attorney, coach and teacher first black chairman of Mass. Board of Pardons By ANTHONY W. NEAL
A star athlete in both high s c h o o l a n d c o l l e ge , Ha r vard-trained attorney Matthew Washington Bullock coached high school and college football, taught at Morehouse College, served as special assistant attorney general for Massachusetts, and became the first black chairman of the
Massachusetts Board of Parole and Advisory Board of Pardons. He was born Sept. 11, 1881, in Dabney, North Carolina. His parents, Amanda and Jesse Bullock, formerly enslaved, poor and illiterate, brought him and his siblings to Boston when he was 8 years old. He recalled, “I entered the first grade of an elementary school on Phillips Street in the spring of 1890.” His family found a home
in the West End, first at 14 Gilson Court, then at 29 Anderson Street. There his father earned a living peddling coal and wood. By 1895, the Bullock family had moved to 14 Winter Street in Everett, where young Matthew attended the Center Grammar School. He went on to attend Everett High School, where he was elected captain of the varsity football and varsity baseball teams in
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his senior year. After graduating from Everett High in 1900, Bullock spent the summer employed at the Oxford, a hotel in Fryeburg, Maine. Then, with just a suitcase and $50, he enrolled at Dartmouth College in the fall. Not only was he an exemplary student, but he excelled in sports, playing the right end position on the varsity football team and competing in the high jump and the long jump as a track team member. Being the only black player on Dartmouth’s varsity football team in 1903 was at times humiliating. When he traveled to New Jersey to play the Princeton Tigers on Oct. 24, 1903, the Princeton Inn, where his team stayed, refused him accommodations because of his color. On top of that, a Princeton player, who was quoted as saying, “We’ll teach you not to bring niggers down to play against us,” intentionally dislocated Bullock’s shoulder in the game. But he persevered.
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In addition to his athletic prowess, Bullock had a love for music. While at Dartmouth, he sang bass in the college glee club and baritone in the chapel choir, and he served on the music committee of the YMCA, headquartered at Bartlett Hall. He was an associate editor of The Aegis, the yearly publication of Dartmouth’s junior class, and a member of Palaeopitus — a senior society whose members were selected on the basis of their demonstrated dedication to the college. Bullock acquired a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1904 and attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a bachelor of laws degree in 1907. He worked his way through law school by coaching football at Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC) and Malden High School. Near the end of the 1904 season, William Anson Munson, captain of MAC’s allwhite varsity football team, lauded him, noting, “Mr. Matthew Bullock . . . took charge of the team, and with the hardest schedule which we have ever played has developed one of the best teams the college has ever put on the gridiron.” Munson concluded, “Too much praise cannot be given to Coach Bullock for the work he has done this season. To his conscientious labors and knowledge of the game much of our success is due.” In 1910, Bullock married 25-year-old Katherine H. Wright, a dressmaker from Middlesboro, Kentucky. They had two children: Matthew Jr., born in1920, and Julia Amanda, born in 1921.
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Matthew Washington Bullock Matthew Jr. graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College and, like his father, attended Harvard Law School. He eventually became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia. Julia graduated cum laude from Fisk University. From 1908 to 1911, Bullock taught economics, history, government and Latin at Atlanta Baptist (now Morehouse) College under the strong leadership of John Hope, its first African American president. While there, he also coached the football team to a record of thirteen wins and three losses. He practiced law in Atlanta from 1912 to 1915 and, thereafter, accepted a two-year appointment as dean of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes (now Alabama A & M University) in Normal, Alabama. Bullock gained admittance to the Massachusetts Bar on Sept. 11, 1917. That year, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army to fight in World War I, but was rejected for service because he had a slight heart murmur. Not one to give up easily, he became educational secretary for the YMCA at Camp Meade in Maryland, serving from November 1917 to January 1918. And on Feb. 20, 1918, he boarded the ship Rochambeau for France as a special representative of the National War Work Council of the YMCA, and assisted in its war effort overseas as an athletic director, choir leader and French language instructor. He completed duty in May 1919.
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A prominent leader among black folk of Boston’s South End and Roxbury, Bullock had political aspirations. Seeking to represent the 13th Suffolk District, he and African American physician Andrew B. Lattimore ran for state representative as Republicans in 1920; however, Democrats Frank J. Burke and Timothy J. Driscoll defeated them in an election tainted by voter intimidation
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continued from page 9 and explicit racial appeals. Blacks charged that on the day before the election they received circulars headed, “Massachusetts Election Commission, State House, Boston, Mass.,” charging that they had illegally registered to vote and warning them against voting in the election. Additionally, Bullock and Lattimore asserted that, though they conducted a clean campaign, their white opponents, having been “soundly beaten on the real issues,” distributed cards exhorting the voters of Ward 13 to “re-elect two white representatives, Burke and Driscoll.” After that unsuccessful bid, Bullock ran for the seat again on Nov. 7, 1922. In that campaign, he and Jessie F. Emery secured the Republican Party nomination but lost the election to Democrats Richard Daniel Gleason and Edward F. Wallace. Bullock, whose father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the South, wanted to ban groups that promoted racial hatred. On Oct. 23, 1922, when he was a candidate for state representative, he filed with the clerk of the House a bill to prohibit the organization of the Klan in Massachusetts, declaring it “a menace to the public peace.” Under the proposed measure, any person who joined a society or order of the Klan within the state would have been subject to a fine of $500, two years imprisonment or both.
State appointment
In 1924, Attorney General Jay R. Benton tapped Bullock for the post of special assistant attorney general for Massachusetts. In that position, he was responsible for assisting the Metropolitan District Commission in performing any legal work that arose out of the construction of the Northern Artery — a highway running from Boston to Somerville’s Wellington Bridge. In 1927, Gov. Alvan T. Fuller appointed Bullock to the Massachusetts Board of Parole and Advisory Board of Pardons, where his chief concern in considering prisoners for parole was the safety and welfare of the public. As a state parole board member, Bullock attended the National Crime Conference in Washington, D.C. in December, 1934. On his first day there, he suffered the indignity of being treated as a second-class citizen. Invited to call at the suite of his colleague, parole board member P. Emmet Gavin, when he entered the hotel where Gavin was staying, an employee directed him to use the freight elevator. Bullock indignantly replied, “Why, I don’t intend to use the freight elevator.” He called Gavin, informing him that he had been denied use of the regular hotel elevator. Incensed, Gavin advised him to wait outside and, with other members of the Massachusetts delegation, confronted the hotel manager and threatened to leave immediately unless Bullock was promptly admitted and treated courteously. The hotel yielded to Gavin’s demand and there was no
further trouble, as Bullock found its staff both courteous and apologetic. At that conference, Bullock presented a resolution recommending the adoption of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-lynching Bill, which would have made it a crime for any law enforcement officer to refuse to protect a person in his charge from a lynch mob. He argued that drastic legislation was needed because lynchings were “undermining the social fabric of the nation,” and the states in which the crime had been committed had “constantly failed or refused to give protection.” Succeeding governors reappointed Bullock to the Parole Board, on which he served until 1936, when he was named division director of the Department of Correction. During his six-year appointment, Bullock and his family moved from 56 Windsor Street to 101 Munroe Street in Roxbury. He returned to the parole board in 1943. The following year, Governor Leverett Saltonstall appointed him to parole board chairman at an annual salary of $9,000, making him the first African American to serve as chairman and, likely, the highest paid one in public service in Massachusetts at that time. Bullock left for the South Pacific on Sept. 23, 1945. Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal had appointed him to a commission of six men to study racial conditions among enlisted men stationed there during World War II. The findings of the commission were relied upon to begin the process of racially integrating the U.S. Navy.
Reformer
As parole board chairman, Bullock promoted reasonable prison reform. He advocated a policy of separating adult convicts from juveniles, saying, “We need a system where prisoners can be properly classified and housed. Hardened prisoners don’t belong with youngsters.” On Aug. 30, 1948, at the annual Congress of Correction in Boston, Bullock remarked that “imprisonment as merely a punitive measure” had “not served to reduce crime.” He said that since 95 percent of U.S. prisoners were at some point paroled, prisons needed to do more than simply punish criminals, and he urged a policy of preparing them for their release as the major objective of all correctional institutions. On occasion, Bullock gave lectures. At the twenty-third annual convention of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs at the Olney Street Baptist Church in Providence in 1919, he spoke on the work of African American troops in France. In 1921, he delivered a lecture before the Everett Board of Trade entitled, “The Negro: A Great Asset.” And on Christmas Eve, 1933, he took as the topic of his address “Can Races, Creeds and Classes Live Together in Peace?” He said, “I say there can be no peace as long as this country gives itself to segregation, as long as the black man does not have the freedom of the court, as long as the colored people of the South are prohibited the right to vote and have their vote counted, and as long as
social customs of the country draw a line of demarcation.” He added, “The black man has the right to demand the ordinary rights and privileges of American citizenship, and when that day comes then we can meet on Christmas and really say, ‘Peace on earth.’” In March 1963, Bullock took issue with Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara’s claim before the Boston City Council that police officers in patrol cars were more effective at deterring crime than those who walked the beat. Bullock informed the council, “We don’t need men in cars. We need the man on the beat who knows every family.”
Honors
Bullock served as executive secretary of the Boston Urban League, and he was a member of the board of directors of the Boston Center for Adult Education and the executive board of the Law Society of Massachusetts. He served on the Boston Zoning Commission as well, having been appointed by Mayor John F. Collins in June 1965. Dartmouth College awarded Bullock an honorary degree at its 201st commencement on June 13, 1971. At the age of eighty-nine, he was a recognized leader of the Baha’i faith and had traveled all over the world in the interest of the religion. He died in Detroit on Dec. 17, 1972, leaving behind his daughter, Julia A. Gaddy of Detroit, and his son, Matthew W. Bullock Jr. of Philadelphia.
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TECH TALK Facebook has changed its algorithm to detect and demote posts that are fake news and “show people the stories that are most relevant to them,” said the company in a recent blog post. To determine whether a post is “not misleading, sensational or spammy,” the social media giant first downranked Pages which had posts that were frequently hidden by See BIZ BITS, page 13
Entrepreneur melds arts, marketing interests By SANDRA LARSON
Outside the Box Agency President Justin Springer’s path has always been nontraditional, and his entry into entrepreneurship is no exception. A few years ago, when he was frustrated by a string of unfulfilling jobs and job searches, a friend mentioned Future Boston Alliance, the organization known for championing innovative ideas for Boston, but less known at the time for its new business accelerator program. Springer thought he was simply signing up for membership in a club focused on Boston happenings and people. “I filled the form out with all the stuff I’d been working on,” he says, speaking with the Banner recently in his light-filled workspace at Fairmount Innovation Lab’s new Uphams Corner facility. To his surprise, he received word that he’d been selected for Future Boston’s accelerator cohort. “I didn’t have a business yet, but I had always wanted one — this was the push for me to get this going. So I started my business backwards. Just imagine a ski slope, and you’ve never been skiing, but there’s no stopping.”
Legal details are critical in business formation By PRIYA LANE
Springer’s world encompasses arts and youth development work alongside and often merged with
At the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, we believe that small businesses owned by people of color and immigrants are economic engines fueling the growth of our Commonwealth. We are committed to providing entrepreneurs and small business owners with free legal assistance, business support and education. Promoting sustainable economic development in diverse communities helps us all thrive. Every day, we encounter small business owners with big dreams and limited resources. Many are unaware of the benefits of incorporating their businesses. Choosing from the many options of incorporating a business can be overwhelming. Many find it easier to run their business as a sole proprietorship or general partnership — the default forms of businesses when the owner does not formally incorporate. A common misconception is that a sole proprietorship or general partnership has the same protections as an incorporated entity. Nothing can be further from the truth; unless you are an entity such as an LLC or S-corp, you do not have the same legal protections. Without the protection of incorporation, small business owners run the risk of personal liability in the event that something unforeseen happens. If an unincorporated business gets sued, the owner’s personal assets — the money they use to feed their children and pay for housing — could get taken away. If they are incorporated, however, it is more likely that their personal assets will be protected. Another common misunderstanding is that a DBA or “Doing Business As” certificate with the City of Boston is the same as being incorporated. A DBA is a document that is required of every business conducting business in the City of Boston, but it does not provide
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‘Finding Mr. Joy’
Outside the Box Agency, which the 38-year-old Springer terms a “creative think tank,” offers services from brand management to public relations, but the heart of the work is digital storytelling. “You have to show people the great things that you do,” he says. “A lot of nonprofits tend to present data — but visuals can show their energy, their diversity, their stories.” An important early and continuing client is ArtsEmerson, who has tapped Springer’s imagination and community connections to reach a wider audience for its productions, which typically run in downtown Boston venues. “They hired me to be the bridge to Dorchester, Roxbury, those communities that may not always feel invited,” he explains. Springer was charged in 2015 with spreading the word about ArtsEmerson’s production of “Finding Mr. Joy,” the story of a Harlem shoe shop owner whose wide-ranging impact on his community isn’t understood until he goes missing. Springer jumped on the idea of exploring who Boston’s own “Mr. Joys” might be. He solicited ideas from community residents and set to work producing a series of video portraits highlighting the unique personas
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You have to show people the great things that you do. A lot of nonprofits tend to present data — but visuals can show their energy, their diversity, their stories.” — Justin Springer
of longtime community advocate Mel King, the late “Wally” Walcott of Wally’s Jazz Club, and Bobby Garnett, owner of Bobby from Boston vintage clothing shop, who passed away in 2016. “Sometimes it takes a different kind of invitation to start changing people’s perceptions of the theater and of downtown spaces,” says Nicole Olusanya, special initiatives manager at ArtsEmerson. “Justin’s work in creating that video series really helped drive demand. And that demand helped us listen to
the community, and realize that this was a piece of art people in the community really want to see.” ArtsEmerson is planning another run of “Mr. Joy” in April, Olusanya noted, this time as a touring production in several Boston neighborhoods.
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the business or the business owner any legal protections. If you are planning on going into business with a partner, incorporation is especially important. At the beginning, excited business partners often do not anticipate anything going wrong. However, relationships change and often what seemed like an amazing idea at the start — working every day with your business partner — ends with the partnership needing to be dissolved. Anticipating this possibility at the outset ensures that there is no disruption in business. In an unincorporated general partnership, each partner has equal power in the business, which means that either partner can make agreements binding the whole business without the other partner’s consent. Incorporating allows owners to think critically about roles within the business, and to set a clear path for making changes. These issues are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to legal issues that small businesses face. At the Lawyers’ Committee, we are happy to talk to small business owners about their legal issues, and work with them to make sure that they have a healthy thriving business. Please contact us at EJP@Lawyerscom.org if you have any questions.
his Outside the Box Agency work. His projects in recent years include BREAD (Boston’s Racial + Economic Activated Dialogue), and the Dream Builders Youth Project, which began with an art mural project with students from Jeremiah Burke High School depicting Grammy award-winning artist and disco queen Donna Summer. He is the curator of “Boston Unplugged,” a concert series he devised for ArtsEmerson that features rising local music talent and benefits local nonprofits. Springer lives in Roxbury, a short walk from the Fairmount Innovation Lab, but carries a bit of the South inside, stemming from childhood summers in Tennessee with his father. “I’ve got a little laid-back country and southern charm, but also some city hustle,” he says. In the Innovation Lab’s open space, he tends to roam about, doing work by phone as well as getting to know his entrepreneur neighbors. His young agency’s revenue remains sporadic, but Outside the Box grossed about $60,000 last year, he says, even as he juggled it along with a full-time marketing job until December. He hopes to double that revenue this year. Other goals include attracting some new and larger firms as clients and building a permanent staff. Springer gives substantial
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ON THE WEB OUT OF THE BOX AGENCY Online: http://otb.agency Facebook/Twitter: @OTBAgency “FINDING BOSTON’S MR. JOY” VIDEO SHORTS With Bobby from Boston: www.youtube.com/
watch?v=SRsFUl1vcXU&t=4s With Wally’s Jazz Cafe: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=a1IqKzc9hNM
credit to Future Boston Alliance (now Epicenter Community) for paving his path to business ownership and to Fairmount Innovation Lab Executive director Liora Beer, who gave him a lifeline at a low moment in life. He and Beer have worked out a partnership in which his company resides in the Lab in trade for providing branding and promotion services for the Lab and the other entrepreneurs in residence. “I’m very highly invested in the Fairmount Lab. It gave me another chance — maybe my 30th chance!,” he says. “Since I’ve been
here for the past month, my whole energy level has gone up — everything I was worrying about disappeared.” Especially exciting at the moment is a budding partnership with another Fairmount Lab entrepreneur, Jemuel Stephenson, founder of Fabwright Origins and an expert in digital design and 3-D prototyping. The two are brainstorming on ways they could work in tandem to devise branding and promotion strategies with Stephenson’s skills in the mix. After many years of working for others, “giving someone else all my good ideas,” as he terms it, Springer relishes being able to choose clients whose work he believes in and starting to cultivate a pipeline of local young people who could pursue creative careers. “When I was 17, I didn’t have someone pushing me,” he says. “I’m an entrepreneur, and also a social entrepreneur. I want to build the future of creatives in Boston.”
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Comic pulls no punches on Trump
Drawing Strength from Struggle
Jimmy Tingle played Sanders Theatre Feb. 4 By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
DIAGO EXHIBIT REWRITES AFRO-CUBAN HISTORY By CELINA COLBY
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hrough May 5 at the Cooper Gallery, “Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present” confronts the Cuban racial narrative, rewriting history to include the slavery and shame the country has tried to forget. This is artist Juan Roberto Diago’s first retrospective, and first exhibit in the United States. Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the show is on display at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art. The exhibit turns inward at a time when many Cuban artists are looking out. The Cooper Gallery lends itself to an artist like Diago, who has worked with a vast array of media over his lifetime. The space is divided into different rooms and hallways, providing each style its own showcase. According to de la Fuente, the media variation wasn’t always a discretionary choice, but a necessity. “Some of his early works from the 1990s were made with the only materials he had available, construction materials,” says the curator. A prime example is “Paisaje I” (Landscape I) which is painted on canvas with cement. The large piece shows tight geometric patterns mixed with chunky brushstrokes. Diago’s heavy Basquiat influence is clear in the graffiti-style triangles and squares. The organic and industrial worlds blend as one, with the grey cement tones diffusing the vibrancy of a natural landscape. In many ways this reflects the fate of African people in Cuba, their enslavement and the fact that racial violence inflicted on them is rarely included in the history of the country. Their history and identity was shoved quietly under the rug.
Mining poverty
Along with racial themes, Diago’s work delves into poverty and community. Having grown up in a dilapidated neighborhood, the artist is intimately familiar with urban poverty. “These are not Cuban issues,” says de la Fuente. “These are global issues. He’s not imagining these things, he has lived this.” The curator hopes this
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Stand-up comedy, social justice and politics mingled in a tasty brew last Friday night at Sanders Theatre in Harvard Square, where renowned Cambridge-born comic Jimmy Tingle presented his oneman show, “Humor for Humanity: Jimmy Tingle in the age of Trump.” Captivating his audience of 1,100 over two hours with one intermission, Tingle pulled no punches in his assessment of the new president’s first two weeks in office. Cathartic in its exposure of the absurdities, follies and human toll of Trump’s decisions, Tingle’s humor had bite but not bitterness. If there were Trump voters in the audience, they had no cause to feel unwelcome. Tingle focused not on the man but on his actions.
Character sketches
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(from top) “Mi Historia Es Tu Historia,” “Sin Titulo [Untitled],” “Aché Pa’ Los Míos”
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Outfitted in an unbuttoned jacket and plain tie, like a slightly rumpled office worker, Tingle demonstrated his mastery of stand-up art, with his timing, pauses and use of his entire body and voice to morph into various characters. One was his 93-year old aunt, shopping for medical treatment in a privatized health care market, as she phoned a friend and in a wheezing voice said, “There’s a special on hips today … shall we go?” Later, he mimicked a border control officer calling his boss to report the arrival of a Palestinian Jew with 12 followers, making the point that with the new restrictions on refugees, even Jesus would have a hard time getting into the USA. Tingle’s only prop was a podium. He used it only once, to read out the names of the 20 nonprofits the show was supporting with a portion of the ticket price. Tingle’s website describes his “Humor for Humanity” project as a “social enterprise and solo show…which aspires to raise
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State of emergency
DS4SI provides artistic healing to battered community By CELINA COLBY
Social emergency
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Artists and Dorchester area residents express themselves through dance and art during the Design Studio for Social Intervention’s Social Emergency Response Center project at the Dorchester Arts Collaborative.
Lori Lobenstine, program design lead, said the idea has been in the works since the Michael Brown shooting in 2014. “For other emergencies we had procedures,” she said. “We started thinking about how people could organize for a social emergency. What would people be hungry for, if not food? What is the reconstruction needed to repair our democracy?” The result was a rich display of community activism. The SERC had stations for food, healing, reading, planning and making, all backed by an impressive program agenda that was packed with activities. Genki Spark, an all-female, Asian music and cultural group, performed and taught audiences cathartic Taiko drumming. Fine arts instructor Taina Vargas taught printmaking, accompanied by empowering quotes about radical change and equality. Project South hosted a lecture and discussion on new forms of government. Lobenstine said there was so much interest, they couldn’t accommodate all the artists who wanted to be involved.
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The choice of location was strategic. Not only did the Dorchester Arts Collaborative have the space to accommodate the event, it’s in the heart of an area that lives these issues daily. “We wanted to be in a neighborhood that has experienced social emergency, whether that’s gentrification or violence in the black community,” said Lobenstine. Education is as important in the SERC as healing. For many people, particularly white allies, Trump’s presidency has brought these issues to light. But the underlying social conditions giving rise to them always were present. “The social emergency was already here. It was just unevenly distributed,” Lobenstine said.
first time in a long time, everyone was smiling. SERC facilitated a sense of humanity, community and connection that is all-too rare in the contemporary world. “Artists and art are tremendously important right now,” said Lobenstine. “Artists understand things that aren’t as linear as politics. They understand emotions.”
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The Dorchester Arts Collaborative pulsed with laughter, energy and life last Saturday, Feb. 4. It was the second of two weekends during which the Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI), hosted their Social Emergency Response Center project. The SERC drew inspiration from Emergency Response Centers that often evolve in the wake of disasters such as hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and earthquakes. In this case, the goal is to provide food, shelter, and artistic and spiritual healing to people who have been victims of racial violence and social repression.
At the Saturday event, Smallie Michelle led an intensive aerobic dance workshop. It wasn’t about keeping time to specific steps or beats. It was about collective movement and release. People of all races, genders and ages swayed their hips together to Shakira’s latest hit. Those who weren’t dancing clapped along. For the
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spirits, funds and awareness” for social causes. Its brand of humor is “entertainment for a purpose beyond itself, to celebrate people doing good work that demonstrates “who we are and who we aspire to be.” A comic with an amiable rapport and an eye to injustice and hypocrisy, Tingle, 61, has had a long career spanning TV, radio, film and stage, and from 2002 to 2007 ran his own theater in Davis Square, Somerville — a revered club-scale venue for live shows. In 2010, Tingle earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which borders Harvard Square, where in the 1980s he got his start in standup as a street performer. Stevie Wonder songs played as people took their seats. The program began with video clips of street protests from ’60s civil rights marches to last month’s Women’s March, accompanied by the 1967 anthem sung by Buffalo Springfield with the familiar chorus, “It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound/Everybody look what’s going down.” The multigenerational audience clapped to its beat. By way of introduction, Tingle opened the show with a video of his short and funny commencement address for the Kennedy School, a mix of ideals and
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Comedian Jimmy Tingle autobiography. Tingle spoke of struggling to learn statistics in a tutorial with students from countries at war with one another. “We all helped each other,” and adding a nod to his thick Boston accent, added, “we all spoke English as a second language.” Tingle then strode on stage and began by commenting on the beauty of the grand gothic hall, a memorial to Harvard men who died serving the Union in the Civil War. He slowly named people who have spoken on this stage: “Winston Churchill. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. Martin Luther King. John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” He paused, and then in a wobbly voice, added “Tingle,” earning his first roar from the audience. Turning to the topic at hand, Tingle said, “It’s going to be OK.” Quoting Martin Luther King from his August 1967 speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Tingle said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “This is a long game,” Tingle said, before reflecting on the new president’s first two weeks in office.
He expressed admiration for candidate Trump’s ability to speak with New Hampshire voters about painful local issues, including their state’s opioid epidemic. Tingle underscored the cyclical nature of progress by taking three steps forward while noting a positive change and then taking three steps back as he pointed out a reversal. Stepping forward, he said that 22 million people gained health insurance thanks to Obamacare; retreating, he noted its impeding repeal. Conjuring a surreal, hilarious chain of events
related to dismantling air traffic control, Tingle described forest rangers with flashlights landing planes over Walden Pond. Saying that Trump had promised to “drain the swamp” of entrenched players in the nation’s capital, Tingle described the president’s incoming cabinet as “the Everglades.” Tingle noted that the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency has denied climate change, and Rick Perry, Trump’s pick as energy secretary, pledged to dismantle the Department of Energy when he was a presidential candidate. His job will be easy, said Tingle, mimicking Perry answering the phone by saying, “We’re closed.” Describing former presidential candidate and surgeon Ben Carson as “the mellowest man in America,” Tingle noted the experience Carson touted as he prepared to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development: He lived in public housing as a child. “My father drove taxis in Cambridge,” said Tingle. “But don’t make me secretary of transportation. It’s like someone who has never served in government becoming president.” Tingle raised another round of laughter by simply stating the name of Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and impresario of fake news. Commenting on Trump’s suspicion of voter fraud and insistence on a formal investigation, Tingle said, “He wants to figure out how the hell he won.”
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MOVIE REVIEW
Film fleshes out James Baldwin’s unfinished ‘Remember This House’ ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ nominated for Best Documentary Oscar By KAM WILLIAMS
When novelist/social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled “Remember This House.” The 30-page manuscript assessed the plight of African Americans in the United States while specifically reflecting upon the assassinations of three civil rights icons: Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With “I Am Not Your Negro,” director Raoul Peck (“Lumumba”) cinematically fleshes out Baldwin’s musings into a searing indictment of the United States as an unapologetically racist nation. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the movie has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.
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The focus of the film never strays far from Baldwin, nimbly alternating between archival footage of the fiery figure challenging the status quo, and Jackson’s readings from “Remember
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continued from page 14 worldwide appeal will facilitate the exhibit’s travel. Diago’s most striking interpretation of poverty is the installation “Ciudad Ascenso” (Ascending City). Black, charred looking pieces of wood are stacked in an ascending pyramid in the corner of the room. Pieces litter the floor and the whole structure appears unstable. But it is moving upwards. Wood block by wood block, struggle by struggle, the figurative ghettos of Cuba are striving for a better life. Through a translator, Diago explains that this piece will be the inspiration for his 2017 Venice Biennale
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“I Am Not Your Negro,” directed by Raoul Peck, is nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar.
Americans to second-class status. He even goes so far as to refer to them as morally-blind monsters for seeing blacks as subhuman. Until that attitude is eradicated, whites will never recognize that “I am flesh of their flesh.” Baldwin concludes that “The story of the Negro in America is the story of America.” Therefore, with black and white fates inextricably linked, “It’s not a question of what happens to the Negro. The real question is what is going to happen to this country.” Given the precarious state of race relations, the late visionary’s prescient insights may prove more timely posthumously than in their own day.
This House” and his other writings. Again and again, we hear him question the depth of the country’s commitment to reverse the damage inflicted upon the black community by generations of slavery, lynchings and Jim Crow segregation. For example, he asserts that most whites are perfectly comfortable relegating African
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submission. He plans to construct an entire ascending city made of these dark, modern wood blocks, against the backdrop of the ornate 16th century palace that will house the work. The contrast, he says, is crucial: You have opulence alongside the struggle to survive. Though the exhibit contains heavy themes with a good deal of
anger behind them, the ending note of “Ciudad” is hopeful. Greatness can be born from repression, violence and difficulty. “These poor neighborhoods teach you how to survive,” says Diago. “They teach you how a negative can become a positive. They teach you dignity and they teach you strength.”
‘I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO’ The verdict: Excellent (4 stars) Rated: PG-13 for profanity, mature themes,
violent images and brief nudity Running time: 95 minutes Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
ON THE WEB To see a trailer for “I Am Not Your Negro,” visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM
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THURSDAY CHRONIC PAIN SELFMANAGEMENT PROGRAM Chronic pain and discomfort limit activities adults may enjoy. This FREE 6-week workshop teaches adults suffering from chronic pain simple techniques to better manage their pain, improve sleep, increase energy, eat healthier, and more. Classes are highly participative, where mutual support and successes build a participants’ confidence in their ability to manage their health, and maintain active and fulfilling lives. Includes a mild, strength and flexibility exercise routine and a lifestyle manual with exercise DVD. BCYF Curtis Hall Community Center, 20 South St. in Jamaica Plain. Thursdays from 9:30am - 12pm, through February 16. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617-477-6616 or aglora@ ethocare.org.
TUESDAY BOBBY SEALE IN CONVERSATION WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University. Bobby Seale, Original 1966 Founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University. Tuesday, February 14, 4pm at Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.
UPCOMING CABIN FEVER FAMILY FUN HIKE Meet at Houghton’s Pond parking lot at 840 Hillside Street in Milton on Saturday, February 18 at 11 am. Are you tired of sitting on the couch? Grab the kids and get out! Join a DCR Park interpreter for some fun under the winter sun. We’ll take a 1.5 mile trek and play some games along the way. Dress in warm layers and boots. Don’t forget hats and mittens too. For ages 8 and up. 1.5 hours. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.
BODEGA’S KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTION Bodega (improv troupe) is thrilled to present Bodega’s Kaleidoscope Collection. This show showcases intelligently fearless and
vibrantly diverse talent, representing a beautiful cross-pollination of performance, spoken and visual arts. Wherever your heart is when you arrive, you’ll leave revived and inspired! Saturday, February 18, 7-8:30pm, Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Boston. Ticket Price: $10. Event page: http://bit.ly/2kSXTxu. Featuring: Phunk Phenomenon (Dance Crew), Quentin James (Standup), Jo Galvin (Standup), Jiayong Li (stand up), Deannah Blemur (vocalist), and much, much more plus Bodega (improv) and you! Past Acts Included: Stand-ups, dancers, vocalists, poets, violinists, storytellers, live music sketch comedy, drummers, improv comedy and a DJ. For more information about this event, please contact Rosena Cornet via email at bodega improv@gmail.com.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (NHS) will open for Washington’s Birthday (Presidents’ Day) Monday, February 20. The site will be open from 9:30am until 5pm. Guided tours of JFK’s birthplace will be available throughout the day on the hour and the half hour. For further information, please call 617-566-7937 or visit www.nps.gov/ jofi. In commemoration of the centennial of John F. Kennedy’s birth, the site will unveil a new exhibit on JFK’s political legacy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The First One Hundred Years highlights his administration’s achievements in human rights, conservation and preservation, foreign affairs, humanitarian aid, and space exploration. John Fitzgerald Kennedy NHS is located just outside Coolidge Corner at 83 Beals Street in Brookline. The site is a ½ mile-walk from the Coolidge Corner T-Stop (Green Line, C-Cleveland Circle). Free on-street parking is available on Beals Street for up to two (2) hours. Except for Washington’s Birthday (Presidents’ Day), February 20, 2017, the site is closed for the winter and reopens to the public on May 5, 2017.
CLASSICS FOR KIDS Boston Baroque presents its annual Classics for Kids program, with six performances of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons especially tailored for children February 22-24 at locations in Boston and Lawrence. Vivaldi’s four violin concerti are immediately evocative and ever-popular with listeners of all ages. The 35-minute interactive performance of this work is facilitated by actor Jenna Lee Scott, and seven members of the Boston Baroque Orchestra. The performances of The Four Seasons are followed by a hands-on “Instrument Petting Zoo,” where children can experience some of the particular elements of music making. Classics for Kids provides an ideal creative and educational activity to enjoy during February school break, and serves as a catalyst for future audiences and for potential musicians as well. Classics for Kids is part of Boston Baroque’s ongoing Community Outreach Programs, aimed at making classical music accessible in neighborhoods throughout Greater Boston. This is Classics
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BLUE HILLS SUNSET STROLL ON VALENTINE’S DAY Meet at the Blue Hills Headquarters at 695 Hillside Street in Milton on Tuesday, February 14 at 4:30pm. Share your love of the great outdoors on a scenic sunset walk in the Blue Hills. We’ll watch the sun set over Houghton’s Pond and admire the beauty of nature together. 1 hour. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes. for Kids’ first residency at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in Boston’s South End. Villa Victoria Center for the Arts is New England’s largest Latino cultural center, bringing arts programs to over 800 community members. Wednesday, February 22 at 10 and 11:30am, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 West Newton St., Boston South End — FREE Admission.
CHILDREN’S WINTER FESTIVAL Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will be bringing the annual Children’s Winter Festival to Boston Common in partnership with the Highland Street Foundation during school vacation week on Thursday, February 23, from 10am -3pm. Among the attractions will be Snowzilla, a threestory-high inflatable snow tube slide, the 15-foot-tall and 45-foot-long Toboggan Tunnel mountainous adventure with twin roller lanes, and the Snow Mazing maze. In addition, the Highland Street Foundation is sponsoring a week-long Winter Camp at the Boston Common Frog Pond with free skating and rentals for all ages from February 20 through February 24. For more information on the Winter Camp skating, please visit www.highlandstreet. org. The festival will also feature a DJ from Magic 106.7, the Museum of Science Chocolate Truck with facts about chocolate and free hot chocolate samples, an appearance by the L.L.Bean Bootmobile with their popular Boot Toss game, giveaways from Summit Premiere’s “Rock Dog” and Columbia Picture’s “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” and refreshments from DAVIDsTEA and KIND Snacks. In addition, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Outdoors Rx program will present activities including a snowshoe obstacle course, scavenger hunts, and a winter play party. Additional support is being provided by the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center and Fisher College. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www.cityofboston. gov/parks or go to www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment.
Chi. The forms are tailored to older adults who wish to improve balance and mobility, and consequently, reduce the risk of falling. Class meets twice a week for 12 weeks and is designed for beginners. Twelfth Baptist Church, 160 Warren Ave. in Roxbury. Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-2pm, through May 3. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617-477-6616 or aglora@ethocare.org.
THE COOPER GALLERY 2017 SPRING EXHIBITION Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present on view: Through May 5. Opening Reception: February 1, 6pm. Visit coopergalleryhc.org/upcoming-exhibition for more information. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Open Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am - 5pm. Closed: Sunday, Monday, and on official Harvard University holidays.
FALLS PREVENTION CLASSES FOR SENIORS Many older adults experience a fear of falling. People who develop this fear often limit their activities, which can result in physical weakness, making the risk of falling even greater. A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls is a FREE 8-week program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. Classes include fun videos, group discussion, a safe surroundings survey, and mild exercise to increase strength and flexibility. BCYF Grove Hall Community Center, 51 Geneva
Ave. in Dorchester. Wednesdays from 10am - 12pm, through March 1. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617-4776616 or aglora@ethocare.org.
PUBLIC OPEN NIGHT AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to come observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. The Open Nights are held most Wednesday evenings throughout the year, weather permitting. The program starts promptly at 7:30pm during the fall and winter months, and 8:30pm during the spring and summer months. Please arrive early as there is no admittance once the program begins. We start admitting ticketed guests 10 minutes before the program begins. Right before the program starts and after all the ticketed guests that are present are admitted, we will admit any non-ticketed guests until we reach capacity. Public Open Nights are open to everyone, however space is limited. To reserve a free ticket for admission visit: http://bit.ly/28QbEHr. The Public Open Night is held at the Coit Observatory at Boston University. We are located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell up to the Observatory is on the fifth floor just to the left of room 520. Unfortunately, there is no disabled access to the Observatory. For information about Open Night, please call 617-353-2630, or check our Twitter feed (twitter.com/ buobservatory).
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Middling meat becomes succulent in tin foil By ARI LEVAUX, MORE CONTENT NOW
W
e like our meat tender, and we like our meat juicy. And we like it easy to prepare, too. If you’ve got the money for steak, then just don’t overcook it, and you will have soft and juicy, with ease. But you might be surprised to learn that those prestigious pieces are among the least flavorful of cuts, well behind the ones that you can’t even chew. The most flavor resides in the least-expensive cuts like shank, chuck, shoulder, brisket, flank and, if you can get it, neck. These keep their flavor hidden in their collagen, the tough, protein-rich gristle that crisscrosses the chewier cuts of meat, and holds all of the meaty fibers together. The only way to truly enjoy the pleasures of collagen is to melt it into a what is called gelatin. While uncooked collagen chews like a snow tire, gelatin is soft, with a creamy mouthfeel that adds fat-like lubricity as you chew. The question is, how do we melt that gristle without letting the meat dry out? It’s a bit of a trick, but the methods are many.
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Collagen will begin to melt in temperatures as low as 160 degrees, which is easy to achieve in the kitchen. But it’s the amount of time spent above this low threshold, rather
than the temperature itself, that erodes the rigid collagen structure into its soupy alter-nutrient. As the collagen dissolves, the muscle fibers it once held tightly begin to burst from its grasp, as it achieves the famous falling-apart-tender state. To a certain extent, acid helps break down collagen as well. Some vinegar in the stew pot, a long, tangy marinade for the flank steak or some wine in the braise will all help speed the process. All of these methods, in their own way, deal with the problem that collagen doesn’t melt below 160 but meat begins to dry out above 130. Barbecuers baste continuously with their vinegary sauce. Soup makers and braisers do their business underwater. I’ve been enjoying a technique by which I wrap my meat tightly in tin foil, push it into the oven, and forget about it. This setup essentially steams the meat in its own juices, injecting the moisture right back into the meat as it tries to escape. The other day I took a hunk of bone-in elk shank from the freezer and immediately wrapped it in foil, still frozen solid. Into the oven it went, at 325. I proceeded to forget about it for the rest of the day. No salt, no herbs, no additions of any kind. It came out divine, but was not so much a finished product as a worthy ingredient. With added salt, raw onions and cilantro on tacos, it wore the salsa like a champ. One can get quite creative about foiling meat in such a way that it
comes out ready to eat – a flavorful, satisfying product that needs nothing but a glass of wine alongside it. Brining the meat first in salt water will help it retain even more moisture. And if you put your hunk of collagen-reinforced meat under the broiler, a tasty, crispy brown skin will develop. This will help contain the juices to an extent, and will add a caramelized complexity that only browned proteins can muster. Add flavorings before you foil it. Lemon and dried apricots and harissa and olive oil, if you want a North African feel, or cumin and red chile if you liked the sound of those tacos, or rosemary, thyme and olive oil if you want something like an osso bucco. When you have your flavorings figured out, tightly foil your brined, browned meat. As it cooks, some juices will inevitably find their way out, but the fewer the better. When that gelatin-rich liquid begins weeping from the foil, don’t let it go to waste. A way to harvest those escaping juices is to pave the bottom of the baking pan with sliced roots and tubers, like potato, carrot, parsnip, celeriac, onion and garlic. They will put those juices to good use by soaking them up, as any Thanksgiving veteran knows. — Ari LeVaux writes Flash in the Pan, a syndicated weekly food column that’s appeared in more than 50 newspapers in 25 states. Ari lives can be reached at flash@flashinthepan.net.
TIP OF THE WEEK Make dairy part of your daily diet Want to resolve to get three servings of milk, cheese and yogurt every day? Here are some ideas to get you started: n Build a breakfast parfait with your favorite yogurt, fruit and whole grain cereal, or mix things up with milk or yogurt by blending a smoothie. n Sneak in healthier eating by pairing cheese with fresh fruit or vegetables. Research shows when cheese is coupled with these foods, it helps kids eat more of all of them. n After a workout, recover with a tall glass of chocolate milk, which studies have proven to be effective in aiding tired muscles. — Family Features/ Midwest Dairy Association
EASY RECIPE Panzanella Salad Serves: 8-10 n 1 whole wheat baguette, cut into 1-inch cubes n 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided n 2 cloves garlic, minced n 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard n 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar n Salt, to taste n Pepper, to taste n 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved n 1 hothouse cucumber, diced n 3 assorted bell peppers, diced n ½ red onion, diced n 10 sprigs basil leaves, julienned Heat oven to 350 F. On baking sheet, spread bread in single layer and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Bake 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove and set aside. In bowl, whisk together garlic, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper with remaining olive oil to make vinaigrette. In large bowl, toss ingredients together, making sure to coat all ingredients with vinaigrette. Serve immediately. — Family Features/Stouffer’s
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billion: Americans eat potato chips at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds per year.
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Safe Communities Act rally
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Activists rallied in front of the Massachusetts State House in support of the Safe Communities Act, which would ensure due process rights to people detained for civil immigration violations and ensure police don’t participate in immigration enforcement.
science, entrepreneurship, technology and arts education; creating a schoolwide project that examines civic engagement, history, race and segregation; increasing opportunities for student leadership and student voice to be heard; expanding elective and extracurricular offerings; and granting teachers more decision-making power and planning time. Other recommendations aimed to increase parent involvement and community engagement and improve school site resources, such as fully-functional technology. Stakeholders also noted that many students are assigned to Excel, rather than choosing to join it. As such, they recommended a grade 9 orientation that includes a focus on building morale and school pride.
Brighton High: dropping enrollment, rising need
In school year 2014-2015, Brighton High enrolled 989 students of whom 45.8 percent were black, 43.7 percent Hispanic, 5.6 percent white and 3.2 percent Asian. About 88 percent of students were low-income, 20 percent special education and 39.7 percent English Language Learners. Among challenges, said the local stakeholders in a letter to Chang, is a drop in funding due to declining enrollments. Although the overall enrollment reduced, students’ needs increased, they said. “Brighton High School’s capacity to improve is tied to critical systemic factors within the district. District systems that have had negative impacts on the school include a student assignment policy
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driven by the limited number of truly comprehensive, ‘open to all’ BPS high schools, coupled with significant enrollment declines, including at Brighton High School,” they wrote. “These have produced a drop in funding even as the intensity and amount of students’ needs continue to grow.” Local stakeholders said improving teaching and learning practices and student experience at Brighton High were the top focus. They recommended a turnaround plan that bolsters academic supports through measures such as enhancing professional
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development, improving teacher-student relationships, providing better access to computers and other technology, offering multiple graduation pathways and more rigorous academic opportunities, better prioritizing of time uses and more resources for the school. The letter also included recommendations for socioemotional supports, such as increasing family engagement and adding psychology and social work staff, and strengthening school culture through steps such as encouraging student leadership and improving the facilities.
Reduced funding for 49 schools
District-wide, about 49 schools are allocated less funding in Fiscal Year 2018 than they received in FY2017, according to BPS budget information analyzed by Kristin Johnson, member of the Citywide Parent Council. Among the schools receiving a lower budget is the Mattahunt, which is being reconfigured from an elementary school into an early education center. The largest projected funding declines are at McCormack Middle School (about a 21 percent
reduction), Timilty Middle School (about a 19 percent reduction), and Tynan Elementary and Dever Elementary schools (each receiving about an 18 percent reduction). These tie to projected enrollment declines of 21 percent, 18 percent, 30 percent and 22 percent, respectively, according to the budget information. In nearly all cases reflected in this data, funding decreases were paired with enrollment decreases. Brighton High is receiving a 13.35 percent lower budget while Excel High is due to receive a 4.32 percent increase.
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continued from page 1 LEGAL Chang-Diaz, who attended the GBIO meeting along with Sens. Linda Dorcena Forry and William Brownsberger and state Rep. Jay Kaufman, echoed the frustration criminal justice reform activists expressed at the Council of State Governments meeting in December when the nearly all-white group of legislators and policy makers was criticized for its incremental approach. “They’re issuing a report that has nothing to do with racial and ethnic bias and has no sentencing reform,” she said. “I’m done with waiting.” As Chang-Diaz pointed out, legislative leaders, including former Senate President Theresa Murray, agreed to take up mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenders in 2012 in exchange for support for a controversial “Three Strikes” bill that triggers life sentences for repeat violent offenders. “It’s 2017 and we have not taken up that issue,” she said. Kaufman, whose district includes Lexington and western metro-area towns, told the Banner that the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission recommended the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders during his first term in office in the 1990s. “That was 20 years ago,” he said. “It’s astounding to me that we still have to fight this battle. Astounding and very disappointing.” In his remarks to the GBIO members, Rosenberg said the CSG
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decide to have a spine and stand up to the political leaders in their party, the repeal won’t happen.” — Stephen Rosenfeld, interim director, Health Care For All
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Senators William Brownsberger, Stanley Rosenberg and Sonia Chang-Diaz, state Rep. Russell Holmes and Bethel AME Pastor Ray Hammond during a meeting of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization at Hammond’s Jamaica Plain church. recommendations will not represent the full extent of the reforms the Legislature takes up this year. “The Council of State Government is part of the process,” he said. “It’s not the be-all and end-all.” He told the audience the Senate would “do everything possible” to make meaningful reforms to criminal justice policy. GBIO members committed to writing and calling their legislators to press for the group’s package of criminal justice reforms.
Health care
GBIO members pledged to work in support of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and fight a rumored plan from Congressional Republicans to cut Medicaid funding. GBIO members also pledged to reach out to friends and family members in nine states with Republican Senators and ask for a “no” vote on the repeals of the ACA. “If only three of them decide to have a spine and stand up to the political leaders in their party, the repeal won’t happen,” said Health
Care For All interim Director Stephen Rosenfeld, addressing the GBIO membership.
Community Reinvestment Act
City councilors Andrea Campbell, Ayanna Pressley and Tito Jackson pledged to work to ensure that Boston residents who are representative of the city’s communities of color and nominated by the Yes for a Better Boston Coalition be selected to fill four of the nine seats on the Community Preservation Committee — a group that
will make decisions on spending the estimated $16 to $20 million in revenue generated by the Community Preservation Act. That money comes from a CPA-mandated small surcharge on Boston property taxes, which is to be earmarked for affordable housing, open space and historic preservation projects. “We want to hear from our city councilors that they will be partners with us in appointing the right people,” said GBIO Strategy Team member Jumaada Abdal-Khallaq Smith. Pressley said the councilors are committed to working to increase affordable housing. “We are one, our cause is one and we must work together if we are to succeed,” she said. GBIO members pledged to attend a City Council hearing on the Community Preservation Committee, slated for Monday February 13.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Removal of a Guardian of an Incapacitated Person
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You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Francia A. Lara, 1865 Columbus Ave., #3A, Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 04/06/2017. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 18, 2017
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
In the Interests of Thomas Collins Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person
The petition asks the court to make a determination that the Guardian and/ or Conservator should be allowed to resign; or should be removed for good cause; or that the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship is no longer necessary and therefore should be terminated. The original petition is on file with the court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 03/09/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 27, 2017 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Francia A. Lara
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MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting cost estimating and scheduling Consultant services for the MBTA’s Program Oversight Department on a task order basis. The amount of $3,000,000, with $1,000,000 available for each of the three consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project. This contract will utilize Federal and State Funds. The DBE Participation Goal is seven-percent (7.0%). The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_ solicitations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications. Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO
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The work is estimated to cost $450,000.00 Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for free electronically at www.Projectdog.com, 18 Graf Road, Suite 8, Newburyport, MA, 01950, www. projectdog.com using Project Code 817380 after 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. Bids are subject to M.G.L.c.149 §44A-J and to minimum wage rates as required to M.G.L.c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive and federal Davis Bacon wage rates or the higher of the two rates. General bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the category of Elevators.
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elevators with two (2) new hydraulic elevators and related work including, but not limited to, asbestos abatement, masonry patching, roof flashing, gypsum wallboard patching, tile and carpet patching, painting, ventilation and air conditioning, electrical and fire alarm work.
INVITATION FOR BIDS The Medford Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids for the modernization of two (2) hydraulic elevators for the Medford Housing Authority in Medford Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by CBI Consulting, Inc. The Project consists of: complete replacement of two (2) existing hydraulic
General Bids will be received until 3:00pm on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 and publicly opened, forthwith. General Bidder’s written questions will be received until 3:00 p.m. on March 3, 2017. All questions and requests for interpretation must be submitted in writing to the Architect via facsimile at (617) 464-2971 or via email at askalski@cbiconsultinginc.com. No oral interpretations will be given. Questions will be answered via addendum as determined by the Architect. Filed sub-bids for the trades listed below will be received until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, and publicly opened forthwith. Filed Sub-Bidders’ written questions will be received until 3:00 p.m. on February 24, 2017. All questions and requests for interpretation must be submitted in writing to the Architect via facsimile at (617) 464-2971 or via email at askalski@cbiconsultinginc.com. No oral interpretations will be given. Questions will be answered via addendum as determined by the Architect. Filed sub-bidders must be DCAMM certified for the trades listed below and must include a current DCAMM Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAMM Sub-Bidder’s Update Statement. SUBTRADES: Electrical This project is being Electronically Bid (E-Bid). All bids shall be submitted online at www.Projectdog.com. Hard copy bids will not be accepted by the Awarding Authority. E-Bid tutorials and instructions are available within the specifications and online at www.Projectdog.com. For assistance, call Projectdog, Inc. at (978) 499-9014, M-F 8:30AM-5PM. General bids and sub bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY. Bid forms and contract documents will be available at www.Projectdog.com or for pick-up at Projectdog, Inc., 18 Graf Road, Suite 8 Newburyport, MA, 978499-9014 (M-F 8:30AM-5PM). Go to www.Projectdog.com and login with an existing account or click Sign Up to register for free. Enter Project Code 817380 in the project locator box. Select “Acquire Documents” to download documents, review a hard copy at Projectdog’s physical location, or request a free project CD. The job site and/or existing building(s) will be available for inspection between 9:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, February 15, 2017.
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The Medford Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from General Contractors for the Modernization of Main Lobby and Common Areas in Medford Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by Abacus Architects + Planners.
Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Labor Standards under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.
The Project consists of: Interior renovation of the first, second, & third floor lobbies.
Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The work is estimated to cost $300,000.00 Bids are subject to M.G.L.c.149 §44A-J and to minimum wage rates as required to M.G.L.c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive. THIS PROJECT IS BEING ELECTRONICALLY BID AND HARD COPY BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please review the instructions in the bid documents on how to register as an electronic bidder. The bids are to be prepared and submitted at www. biddocsonline.com. Tutorials and instructions on how to complete the electronic bid documents are available online (click on the “Tutorial” tab at the bottom footer). General bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the following category of work, General Building Construction, and must submit a current DCAMM Certificate of Eligibility and signed DCAMM Prime/General Contractor Update Statement (Form CQ 3).
Plans & specs may be downloaded from DCAMM’s E-Bid Room https://www. bidexpress.com/businesses/10279/home. The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@state.ma.us. Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Filed sub-bids for the trades listed below will be received until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, and publicly opened online, forthwith.
Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1305-C2, RUNWAY 4R-22L REHABILITATION AND APPROACH LIGHT PIER REPLACEMENT, 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, MARCH 8, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.
Filed sub-bidders must be DCAMM certified for the trades listed below and bidders must include a current DCAMM Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAMM Sub-Bidder’s Update Statement.
NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2017.
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The work includes MILL AND INLAY OF RUNWAY 4R-22L INCLUDING: PAVEMENT MILLING, WARM MIX ASPHALT INLAY, BITUMINOUS CRACK REPAIRS, IN-PAVEMENT LIGHT ADJUSTMENTS, DUCT BANK AND CONDUIT INSTALLATION, LIGHT BASE INSTALLATION, SAWING AND SEALING JOINTS, PAVEMENT MARKINGS, RUNWAY GROOVING. REPLACE APPROACH LIGHTING PIER INCLUDING: INVENTORY, REMOVE AND STORE EXISTING FAA NAVIGATIONAL AIDS, REMOVE AND DISPOSE OF EXISTING ELECTRICAL SHELTER, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TIMBER LIGHT PIER AND PILES, INSTALL THREE MICRO PILES AND NINE DRILLED SHAFTS FOR NEW PIER FOUNDATION, INSTALL NEW PRE-CAST / C-I-P CONCRETE PILE CAPS AND DECKING, INSTALL NEW FRP RAILINGS, INSTALL NEW NAVIGATION LIGHTS, SAFETY LADDERS AND LIFE RINGS, RE-INSTALL EXISTING FAA NAVIGATIONAL AIDS, AND INSTALL NEW EQUIPMENT SHELTER.
General Bids will be received until 2:00pm on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 and publicly opened online, forthwith.
Section 09 30 00 – Tile Section 26 00 00 – Electrical Work All Bids should be submitted online at www.biddocsonline.com and received no later than the date and time specified above. General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Medford Housing Authority. Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up at www. biddocsonline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc., at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA, 01749 (978568-1167). There is a plan deposit of $50.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payabletoBidDocs ONLINEInc. Plan deposits may be electronically paid or by check. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for sub-bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty (30) days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority. Additional sets may be purchased for $50.00. Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS overnight), non-refundable, payable to the BidDocs ONLINE Inc., to cover mail handling costs. PRE-BID CONFERENCE/SITE VISIT: Date and Time: Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 10:00 AM Address: 121 Riverside Ave. #1, Medford, MA 02155, MA Instructions: The Contract Documents may be seen, but not removed at: Medford Housing Authority 121 Riverside Avenue Medford, MA 02155 781-396-0924
Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. The estimated contract cost is TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 27,700,000.00). 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.
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A senior/disabled/ handicapped community AA/EOE NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid, endorsed with the name and address of the bidder, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud. Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon: February 23, 2017 General Bids at 2:00 PM: March 3, 2017 Every Filed Sub-Bidder and General Bidder must submit a valid Certificate of Eligibility with its bid and must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance in the category for which they bid and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project, if applicable. The Category of Work is: GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Mass. State Project No. DCP1532 Contract No. FC1 Hurley Building Bathroom Renovations 19 Staniford Street, Boston, MA And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Tile; Plumbing; Electrical E.C.C: $773,870 This project is scheduled for 180 calendar days to substantial completion. Scope: The complete renovation of four (4) toilet rooms on 2 floors of the Charles F. Hurley Building. The toilet rooms to be renovated are the existing Men’s and Women’s rooms located on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Pre-Bid/Site Visit Information: Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM. Meet at the Hurley Building in the lobby of the Office of Unemployment
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Bidders must submit a Buy American Certificate with all bids or offers on AIP funded projects. Bids that are not accompanied by a completed Buy American Certificate must be rejected as nonresponsive. 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 $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. This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than ONE PERCENT (1%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged 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. 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). 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. A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments. Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if: he Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report (a) T within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and he Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph (b) T 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100. The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address: Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506 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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Market Mill Apartments will be accepting applications for 2 bedroom family housing units under the Section 8 Program. Eligible applicants will be placed on an existing waiting list by random order via a lottery, not by the order in which the completed application is received. There are no units available at this time. Applications will be accepted from Monday, February 6, 2017 and ending on Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. (the “lottery period”) either in person or via the mail. They must be received or postmarked with a date of February 6th through February 26th. Applications after this date will not be accepted for the lottery. Please note office hours for Market Mill Apartments: Open daily, Monday thru Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The lottery selection will be held on Tuesday, March 21st at Noon at the Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street, Lowell; you do not need to be in attendance for the selection process since you will be notified of your position on the waiting list. Interested applicants may apply in person at the site located at Market Mill Apartments, 246 Market Street, Lowell, or retrieve an application from either Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street, Lowell (Hours: Mon-Thu 9am-9pm, Fri-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun Closed); or Community Teamwork, Inc., 155 Merrimack Street, Lowell; or by downloading the application at www.PeabodyProperties.com. Completed application should be submitted to Market Mill Apartments at 246 Market Street, Lowell, MA 01852 in person or by mail by Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. NOTE: Applications will not be sent or received by fax or e-mail. Please call in advance at (978) 454-8030 or MA TTY: Dial 711 or 1.800.439.2370 if a reasonable accommodation request is needed or assistance with Limited English proficiency.
Income Limits (as of 3/28/16)*: All applicants must be determined eligible in accordance with the Department of HUD regulations and must meet the family size requirements for a designated bedroom size Maximum Income as well as maximum income of all family members. The waiting list will remain open after HH# 30% AMI the lottery period and applications will be processed in order of receipt from that point $19,150 1 forward. $21,900 2 *Median income levels, rents & utility allowances are subject to change based on $24,650 3 HUD guidelines (HUD.gov). Please inquire in advance for reasonable accommodation. $27,350 4 Information contained herein subject to change without notice.
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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. United Housing Management LLC is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer
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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
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 moti-
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The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency for metropolitan Boston, seeks candidates for Chief Housing Planner, who will oversee MAPC’s work in the housing field. The Planner will help cities and towns to plan for housing production and preservation, with a special focus on affordable housing. The Planner will also assist in evaluating and improving state laws, policies, and programs to expand housing access. The Planner will operate as a manager in the Land Use Department, and supervise one or more staff.
Growing, property management, company looking for experienced manager, with ten-plus years of experience in property management field, to provide effective, professional oversight for a rental cooperative located in Boston, MA.
This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and innovative environment with professionals who are committed to building a more equitable, sustainable, vibrant, and welcoming future for Metro Boston.
Ideal candidates are industry professionals with qualifications that include exceptional knowledge and experience with local and federal government/agencies housing regulations, Section-8, and HUD regulations. Experience with cooperative housing, a plus. Solid knowledge and experience in preparation, development, review and monitoring budgets and critical financial statements. Computer proficient, experienced with Microsoft Office and Yardi software.
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In addition, the well-qualified candidate possesses expert managerial abilities that include exceptional oral and written communication skills, excellent leadership, and organizational interpersonal skills working effectively with clients, residents, staff, and co-workers and with resident groups. Bachelor’s degree in Business or related fields preferred. Compensation is commensurate based upon experience, plus an excellent benefits package that includes one hundred percent employer paid healthcare insurance. Please send resumes to: propmgmtprofessional@gmail.com.
ASSISTANT PROPERTY MANAGER Growing real estate management-company, is seeking to hire experienced assistant property manager for a rental cooperative in Boston, MA. This excellent opportunity is for an optimistic individual with one to three years of experience working in the property management or real estate field. Overall, this full-time position is responsible for providing fundamental support to the Property Manager for this community helping to maintain superior resident relations and successful operations. Candidates must be highly motivated and well versed in low income tax credits, federal, State and local housing laws, experienced in recertification, processing applications, rent collections, and apartment inspections. This professional has excellent interpersonal, customer service and organizational skills, works well as part of a team, and in conducting interviews and completing paperwork with residents. The candidate selected is available to work flexible hours. Proficiency and solid experience in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, required. Experience with Yardi property management software a plus. Must have a valid driver’s license and own transportation. Candidates with 2-year Associates Degree and/or professional training encouraged to apply. Offering competitive salary, commensurate with experience; attractive benefits package. Interested parties send cover-letter and resume to: propmgmtprofessional@gmail.com
Qualifications: The Chief Housing Planner will supervise one or more staff within the Land Use Department. Evening meetings, occasional weekend meetings, and local travel are a responsibility for this position. Candidates will have most or all of the following: A Master’s degree in urban/regional planning, public policy/management, urban design/architecture, or closely related field plus at least 4 years of relevant experience; Experience supervising staff in a professional setting; Experience in housing planning, production, preservation, and/or policy, especially in regard to affordable housing; experience developing or implementing plans, zoning, permitting, programs, or strategies to create and preserve mixed-income housing; experience with Housing Production Plans in Massachusetts is a plus. Compensation and Benefits: The starting salary ranges from $65,000 to $80,000, depending on qualifications and experience. This is a full time exempt position. MAPC offers excellent Massachusetts state employee benefits as well as a flexible, supportive, and family-friendly work environment, and a commitment to continued professional development. SEE COMPLETE JOB AD AT: www.mapc.org (Jobs at MAPC) AND APPLY AT LINK SHOWN THERE. Please attach a cover letter, resume, and writing sample. A review of applications will begin immediately. This position is open until filled. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region. MAPC is an EOE/AA employer. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce and encourage all qualified persons to apply. Thomas E. Hauenstein, Manager of Operations. Posted 1/31/17.
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Offer ends 4/3/17, and is limited to new residential customers. Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. Requires subscription to Starter XF Triple Play with Digital Starter TV, Performance Pro Internet and XFINITY Voice Unlimited services. Early termination fee applies if all XFINITY services are cancelled during the agreement term. Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including regulatory recovery fees, Broadcast TV Fee (up to $7.00/mo.), Regional Sports Network Fee (up to $5.00/mo.) and other applicable charges extra and subject to change during and after the promo. After promo, or if any service is cancelled or downgraded, regular charges apply (subject to change). Service limited to a single outlet. May not be combined with other offers. TV: Limited Basic service subscription required to receive other levels of service. On Demand selections subject to charge indicated at time of purchase. Internet: WiFi claim based on March 2016 study by Allion Test Labs, Inc. Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. XFINITY WiFi hotspots included with Performance Internet or above only. Available in select areas. Requires WiFi-enabled device. Voice: $29.95 activation fee applies. If there is a power outage or network issue, calling, including calls to 911, may be unavailable. Two-year term agreement required with prepaid card offer. Visa® Prepaid Card offer requires minimum term agreement. Cards issued by MetaBank,® member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa® U.S.A. Inc. Cards will not have cash access and can be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted. Money-back guarantee applies to one month’s recurring service charge and standard installation charges up to $500. © 2017 Comcast. All rights reserved. EMPIRE TM & © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NPA197690-0002 DIV17-1-203-AA-$89TP-A1
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