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Quiet push for unified enrollment
Many taken by surprise as Walsh co-sponsors state bill By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Coming before the state Legislature with little debate last week was a bill co-sponsored by Mayor Martin Walsh that would fasttrack a controversial school enrollment policy known as “unified enrollment.” Under the bill, charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, would be added into the school assignment lists that Boston Public School parents receive. Currently the assignment lists include only BPS schools. Students would automatically be entered into charter school lotteries and would have to actively opt out if they so choose. Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable
ON THE WEB QUEST’s report: https://goo.gl/oS5rq2 House bill on charter enrollment:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H2876 access and the BPS budget. “This bill is not one that has ever been discussed in open community meetings, in meetings of the Boston School Committee, which I attend regularly, in the local press or in any other public way,” said Wolf, who spoke on her own behalf, not as a representative of the parent group Quality Education for Every Student (QUEST), of which she is a member. “Nor has it been discussed in one-on-one conversations I’ve had with those involved in the process, at the city, district or school committee level.” Boston School Committee member Miren Uriarte said the body was not informed that the bill was being filed. “They have told us nothing,” she said. “We have not heard anything on this issue in several months.” The lack of public discourse
See ENROLLMENT, page 9
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District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson makes a point during a mayoral forum hosted by Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and South End ward committees and held at English High School. Looking on is moderator Chris Lovett.
Jackson hits Walsh on education, development
Mayoral candidates offer differing views on Boston By YAWU MILLER
Mayor Martin Walsh and City Councilor Tito Jackson made their cases to Roxbury and Jamaica Plain voters last week, fielding questions about housing, schools and their records in office in the first mayoral candidate forum since the Sept. 26 preliminary election. Walsh kicked off the forum, hosted by Democratic committees from wards 8, 9, 10, 11 and 19, touting his accomplishments over
the last four years for half an hour before Jackson took the stage and for the next 30 minutes took aim at Walsh’s record. Walsh emphasized what he characterized as $152 million “investments in schools.” Jackson hit back, detailing $142 million in cuts to BPS schools. Jackson hit Walsh for city and state tax breaks used to lure General Electric to Boston. Walsh spoke about the promise of new manufacturing jobs the multinational corporation might bring to Boston. The contrasting versions of the last four years gives an insight into
the rhetoric each is likely to deploy on the campaign trail: Walsh’s vision of a prospering city with substantial challenges his administration has been willing to take on, versus Jackson’s vision of a city with growing disparities between long-term residents struggling to afford rents and deep-pocketed newcomers occupying gleaming new luxury high-rises. “We are a city of Boston right now where families can barely afford to live here. The housing
See DEBATE, page 3
Puerto Rico’s growing emergency Hurricanes exacerbate financial crisis By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
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Otoniel Figueroa-Duran of Vamos4PR speaks to a crowd of over 100 people at the JFK Federal Building on October 4th. The crowd demanded a cancellation of the debt Puerto Rico has been saddled with.
The devastation of two hurricanes has put the human costs of Puerto Rico’s debt repayments in sharper focus. The U.S. territory owed more than $70 billion before Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck, knocking out most of the already-outdated electric grid, flooding streets, demolishing homes and causing massive shortages of basic supplies. On Sept. 30, the Department of Defense
estimated that 45 percent of Puerto Rico residents were without access to drinking water and 95 percent without power. Fixing the damages caused by Maria alone, which had more severe impact than Irma, is estimated to cost $95 billion to a government already unable to pay its $70 billion debt. As the government strives to stay afloat and fund recovery efforts, it does so while revenue has been cut off due to the emergency. Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Raul Maldonado told
Bloomberg News on Oct. 4 that it will be at least another month before the government resumes collecting taxes. “Essentially you’re looking at zero revenue for the next couple of months,” said Maldonado. “While you have zero revenue, you still have expenditures, plus emergency expenditures. That means the money is going to run out very quickly.” Even when tax collection resumes, that revenue may be severely depleted, as the hurricane has accelerated an ongoing
See PUERTO RICO, page 24
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In Arroyo firing, some see disparate treatment By YAWU MILLER
Just weeks after a worker under his supervision alleged that Felix G. Arroyo had sexually harassed her, Mayor Martin Walsh fired Arroyo from his post as chief of Health and Human Services. Yet two city employees indicted for extortion by a federal grand jury have remained on the city’s payroll for more than a year. The difference in treatment between Arroyo, who was fired without an opportunity to respond to any specific charges, and the city’s tourism chief, Kenneth Brissette and its head of intergovernmental affairs, Timothy Sullivan — both of whom were indicted in July 2016 — has some activists complaining of disparate treatment. “At the Lawyers’ Committee, we are concerned that the highest-ranking Latino in city government was terminated while an investigation remains pending, even though white employees have remained in place during the course of a federal investigation,” said Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice. “Though the facts may be different, the policy surrounding termination or administrative leave for employees in City Hall should be clear, transparent and uniform.” Arroyo was put on paid leave July 28, after Hilani Morales, an employee in Health and Human Services filed a complaint with the city’s Human Resources Department. Arroyo was then fired August
24, after Morales filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination naming him, the City of Boston and Mayor Martin Walsh. The MCAD complaint has not yet had a hearing. Typically, cases filed with the state agency can take as long as two years before a finding is reached.
Harassment charges, rapid dismissal
In her MCAD complaint, Morales alleges that Arroyo sexually harassed her repeatedly from when she was hired in 2015 through 2017. In his response to Morales’ MCAD complaint, Arroyo denies her claims, cites witnesses and offers as evidence text messages and emails from Morales. The text messages show that during the time Morales says Arroyo was harassing her, she offered him unsolicited rides to work, which he declined, wished him a happy Valentine’s Day and exchanged and initiated other friendly messages with Arroyo and other Human Services staff. City officials repeatedly have refused to give the Banner a specific reason for Arroyo’s termination, referring a reporter to a statement spokeswoman Laura Oggeri released Aug. 24. “Felix Arroyo has been terminated from the City of Boston after a comprehensive internal investigation,” the statement reads in its entirety. Brissette and Sullivan were indicted for extortion in 2016 after they allegedly pressured the organizers of the Boston Calling music
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Mayor Martin Walsh fired Felix G. Arroyo in August. festival into hiring union stage hands by threatening to withhold city permits for the event. Walsh subsequently told reporters he was “deeply concerned” about the indictments, and placed both employees on paid administrative leave. Brissette and Sullivan both earn more than $100,000 a year. Paying their salaries will cost the city $350,000 by the time they head to trial in January, according to New England Cable News. Judy Meredith, a longtime Dorchester political activist, said Arroyo’s firing is “just not fair” in light of the mayor’s decision to retain Brissette and Sullivan.
“I’m very disappointed in Marty because he fired Felix Arroyo before any formal investigation finished,” she said. “At the same time he’s been keeping on for more than a year two very nice white guys who’ve been indicted by a federal grand jury.” Arroyo’s firing, in the weeks before preliminary balloting in this year’s mayoral race, has raised concerns among some that the Latino community is not being taken seriously. “He was the only high-ranking Puerto Rican in the City of Boston,” said Tony Molina, president of the Puerto Rican
Veterans Monument Square Association. “We feel he should have been given a chance to make his case.” Arroyo, who gave up an atlarge Boston City Council seat to run for mayor in 2013, supported Walsh’s candidacy in the general election that year. State Rep. Russell Holmes said he is “not pleased” that Arroyo was terminated. The fact that he was fired while facing harassment charges will damage his career, Holmes said. “Even if he’s found to be innocent, his reputation is substantially damaged,” Holmes commented.
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continued from page 1 policies are pushing people out of the city and gentrifying people out of the city every single day,” Jackson said in his opening statement. “We have $8 billion of development in our city,” Walsh said in his opening statement. “We have 60,000 new jobs in the last three years, we have 30,000 new people living in our city in the last three years. We’re building housing like we’ve never built before in our city. We have a triple-A bond rating for the last three years in our city.” The location of the forum — at English High School — underscored the tensions between Walsh’s triumphal take on his initiative to build the city out of its housing crisis with 53,000 new units of housing and the perceived lack of affordability in the luxury condos currently under planning and development along the predominantly working-class Washington Street corridor neighborhood surrounding English High. Barely a minute into his remarks, Walsh was interrupted by a heckler wearing a City Life/Vida Urbana T-shirt, who questioned the mayor’s commitment to affordable housing. “When I was running for mayor, I stood with you guys on a picket line when a guy was getting evicted out of his house by, I think, Santander Bank,” Walsh shot back. “He was an Iron Worker Local 7.” Walsh listed among his accomplishments an increase in the percentage of affordable units required in new developments from 13 percent to 18 percent; increased revenue for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which he said is plowing millions of dollars back into the production and maintenance of affordable units in Boston; and the passage on the 2016 ballot of the Community Preservation Act, a measure that will provide millions more in affordable housing funds. While Walsh’s Boston 2030 housing plan calls for the production or preservation of 8,000 units of affordable housing, the city will likely exceed that goal, he said. “There’s no magic number, because if you’re a family of four, whether you’re making zero, $50,000 or $100,000, you’re still struggling to make ends meet in those situations,” Walsh said. “We have to build housing so people can stay in the city, so we don’t continue to see what’s happening in South Boston and Charlestown, where many of the people sold and left, younger people came in and costs went up, and we’re starting to see that spread to Roxbury, to Dorchester where I grew up, to Mattapan, to other parts of the city. We’re working to make sure we build more housing.”
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Walsh’s assessment of the Boston Public Schools similarly contrasted with Jackson’s searing criticism. Walsh cited the district’s 72-percent graduation rate — the highest ever — and said there are more Level I and Level II schools than ever before, while also acknowledging that there is more work to be done. At one point he seemed to undercut his own assertion of unprecedented investment in the schools, citing principals who struggle with funding. “Some principals think it may actually be better to go to Level 4, because extra money comes with that, than sticking with Level III
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Mayor Martin J. Walsh limbo,” he said. “That can’t be the answer. The answer has to be improving quality education.” Jackson, who rallied alongside frustrated students who walked out of classes on three occasions last year to protest proposed budget cuts, brought his message back to school funding. “I’ve been in this room too many times when young people were begging, begging for resources,” he said. “In the past three-anda-half years we’ve seen $140 million in cuts to our public schools. Eleven million in cuts in this past year alone, with 49 public schools receiving cuts.” Jackson called for restoration of funding for school nurses, librarians, and music and art programs in all BPS schools. Jackson also took aim at Walsh’s proposed compromise with charter proponents in which he proposed a gradual lifting of the cap on charter school expansion from the current 18 percent to 23 percent, along with increased funding from the state.
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While Jackson has over the last year hammered away at Walsh for tax breaks given to General Electric to entice the multinational to relocate its headquarters to Boston, Walsh leaned in to the controversy, bringing up GE in his remarks. “I’m bringing up GE in this room for a reason,” he said. “Because in some ways, having GE come to Boston puts us in a very important conversation around the country about companies moving to our city. And I think GE is just one step in that. What I’d like to see in the next step is, how do we bring in manufacturing?” Walsh said GE could help the city by partnering with local startups to manufacture its products. “Everything we touch is made somewhere,” he said. “So why not look and try and take advantage of some of that by using the leverage of General Electric to maybe take something they’re making and bringing into the city of Boston so they can make it here.” Jackson hit at the GE deal and Walsh’s interest in luring Amazon to Boston, saying he would not offer incentive packages to large firms. “They’re free to come here, and they have enough money to do that — but what they don’t need is our tax money,” he said. “And, by the way, they don’t need a helicopter pad either. I would take those incentive dollars that are being allocated to these large companies and I would re-allocate them to small companies, locally-owned companies, companies owned by women and companies owned by minorities in the city of Boston and we can actually economically uplift people.” Jackson also suggested that the city itself could direct more of the $2 billion it pays out for goods and services to businesses owned by women and people of color. “Very little of that goes to Boston-based businesses and businesses owned by women,” he asserted.
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Blacks must fight to defend democratic rights While there has been greater black participation in elections, there are still too many who believe that they are powerless, and their vote has little significance. But with the election of Donald Trump as president, black voters can lead the spiritual reformation of the country. That goal requires blacks to be politically well-informed and active in every election. The American principle of freedom, justice and equality has encouraged blacks to endure the burden of racial discrimination. Like many others, blacks are inspired by the nation’s Declaration of Independence: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. There is nothing in the language to suggest that an enlightened state of the government will be easily attained. The first battle was to end slavery. Now the opposition is trying to make it difficult for citizens of color to vote, and to make their vote worthless. As demanding as it is, blacks must contest every effort to render the black vote worthless. Unfortunately, there was hardly any protest when the state Legislature ousted Carlos Henriquez from its body last February, 2014 by a vote of 148-5. Henriquez had been duly elected, but he was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery against a female companion. However, there is no legal basis to permit the House of Representatives to take such action. The weak response from the black community sends the message that black political officials or operatives are fair game in political machinations. Now another similar situation has emerged and citizens of color must not sit by and accept
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the damage to the reputation of Felix G. Arroyo. Hilani Morales, an employee of Boston’s Department of Health and Human Services filed a sexual harassment complaint against Arroyo. Included in the complaint as defendants are the City of Boston and Mayor Martin Walsh. This is especially troubling to Walsh in an election year because he would not want to appear to be indifferent to harassment claims of female city employees. Arroyo and other department heads of Walsh’s administration are employees at will. The mayor has the right to fire them, even without cause. After an internal investigation which did not include cross examination of the complainant, Walsh decided to fire Arroyo. The hearing before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has not yet been held. While Walsh has resolved the problem with feminism, he has created another issue. Two of his department chiefs were arraigned last July for violation of federal law. Kenneth Brissette, Boston’s tourism chief, and Timothy Sullivan, the head of Intergovernmental Affairs, are both accused of illegally threatening to deny permits to a music festival unless they hired union workers are under indictment for a serious federal felony. Their trial will be in January, after the November election, but both men will be drawing their pay until then. Brissette and Sullivan are both white and they have been treated better than Arroyo. However, it is not reasonable to assume that it is because of racial discrimination. But it should be clear that black tolerance in the Henriquez case has made them easy targets. It is time to vote to strengthen the bloc to place the promise of the Declaration of Independence within closer reach.
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There they go again making excuses for the Paddocks
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Why do you think turnout was so low in the Sept. 26 preliminary election?
By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The predictable began the instant Stephen Paddock mass murdered 59 persons and wounded hundreds more. That is, the almost by now ritual handwringing, soul searching and pop psychology rationalizations to explain the behavior of white mass murderers. There is the round the clock, non-stop coverage of investigators’ effort to find his motive for the carnage. In Paddock’s case, there is the dash to talk to every family member, friend, acquaintance, teacher, priest, rabbi, or even a parking attendant, that ever had any contact with him. The questions are always the same: “What was he like?” “Did you notice anything odd about his behavior?” “Did he say or do anything out of the ordinary?” Then there’s the almost obligatory revelation that the shooter suffered depression, high anxiety, was distraught, or in Paddock’s case, had aggressive tendencies. This leads to the equally inevitable revelation that he was on meds to treat his condition. None of this is deliberately done to create public sympathy or depict the mass killer as an object worthy of sympathy. That’s impossible. However, it does inadvertently do something that, given the bestial nature of his crime, is equally despicable: namely humanize him and his actions. The rush to try to understand, make sense of, and come to grips with the killer as a real person is treatment that’s only reserved for white males. With few exceptions, they are the ones who routinely mass murder in America. And they are the ones who get the intense glare of media character studies and deep personality probes. Countless studies have been cited that compare and contrast how whites who commit crime, even mass murder, are routinely apologized for, sanitized, psychoanalyzed, or simply ignored. This in brutal comparison to how blacks, even black victims of white crimes, are depicted. Following the slaying of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the Huffington Post did a telling compare and contrast of the ritual apologetics for misbehavior or lawbreaking by whites and blacks citing several well-publicized recent cases. In an Alabama multiple murder case in 2010, the white suspect, a college professor, was described as “brilliant, but a social misfit.” In the shooting death of a Black in Montgomery, Alabama, the description was “the homicide victim had a history of narcotics abuse, tangles with the law.” A New York man, who was a star athlete, killed his parents in 2010, was depicted as mentally challenged “brilliant, athletic — but his demons were the deaths of his parents.” Trayvon Martin, murdered by George Zimmerman, was repeatedly raked over the coals for alleged drug use, and his school suspensions. This in contrast to the 15-year-old Oregon school shooter who shot up his school in 2014, a headline read, “school shooting suspect fascinated with guns, but was a devoted Mormon, his friends say.” When mass murderer, Elliot Rodgers, went on his shooting rampage at U.C. Santa Barbara in 2014, there was much media soul searching trying to get inside his head. This was neatly summed up in a headline that read, “Suspect was soft-spoken, polite, a gentleman, says ex-principal.” There were no such personality probes, human interest peaks, or psychoanalyst coach analysis for John Crawford III who was gunned down at a Walmart in Richland, Ohio, after a report that he was carrying a toy gun in the store. The state attorney general defended the shooting by claiming that the gun was not really a toy. Yet when an Ohio teen killed three students in 2012, he was described in a headline story as “a fine person.” Then there’s the wildly contrasting terminology used to describe white mass killers. They will not officially be branded as domestic terrorists. Trump typified that when the best he could sum up to say about Paddock is that he and his act were “evil.” That’s obvious. But even calling a mass killer evil avoids dealing with the far deeper and more damaging fact that America has been under assault for decades by white men with guns who are not afraid to kill anyone, anytime, for any reason. The death and destruction they wreak has threatened to turn the nation into a dangerous national security state that little by little erodes even more of our personal freedoms. Paddock was a terrorist, a true blue, red-blooded American, born and bred here, not in Afghanistan or Iraq. The perennial search to explain him again fits neatly into the perennial pattern of writing off the killer, when he’s a white male, as a kook, crank, lone wolf or nut case, or, simply, an evil man. Paddock was that. But he was much more and making back door excuses for him and the monstrous carnage men like him create do nothing to confront the causes and consequences of made-in-America terrorism and terrorists.
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I think that a lot of nonpartisan groups weren’t putting out the word. People have to get involved. You have to want to be active in something that affects your community.
I think people may have though there was a forgone conclusion about who the strongest candidates were, which is unfortunate. This is the opportunity for people to come out and express their views.
Lack of outreach. Many people weren’t even informed that there were elections on the 26th. The city needs to do a better job notifying people that there are elections.
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I think it’s because it was not promoted very well. Last-minute polling changes and the last-minute deployment of signs didn’t help.
People are more concerned about things going on at the national level. It’s a distraction. People feel helpless when their participation in voting is important.
Boston hasn’t had a lot of experience electing mayors. People haven’t paid so much attention to mayoral races because Menino was in for so long.
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PASTOR WILLIAM E. DICKERSON II Greater Love Tabernacle Pastor William E. Dickerson II has been elevated to bishop. Dickerson was born in Virginia and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Boston Latin School. After completing high school, he graduated from Bible school. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in business, Bishop -elect Dickerson earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Cambridge College. He later obtained a Masters of Arts in Urban Ministry degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and he holds an honorary doctorate. Bishop -elect Dickerson has been pastoring for twenty-seven years. He is the founding pastor of Greater Love Tabernacle. He and his wife of thirty-six years, Luella, founded Greater Love Tabernacle in 1989. Bishop-elect Dickerson also is the founder and president of Restoration Ministries Inc. and
the president of Greater Love Community Cares, Inc., a philanthropic agency. Over his twenty-seven years of pastoring, he has assisted in the establishment of other churches and ministries. For years, Bishop-elect Dickerson has taught and counseled troubled youth and adults. He has spoken frequently in schools and in jails and prisons. He also is a
former adjunct college instructor and former Boston Public School teacher. Bishop-elect Dickerson states, “I accepted the call to ministry as a result of my mother’s spiritual influence upon me of reaching hurting and disenfranchised people.” For many years, Bishop-elect Dickerson has done the work as an overseer for other pastors and ministry leaders. Therefore, after prayerful consideration he will be officially consecrated a bishop in the Lord’s Church. The consecration worship service will be held at 10 AM Saturday October 14, at Greater Love Tabernacle, 101 Nightingale Street, Dorchester. The inaugural gala will be held at 5 PM the next day, Sunday October 15 in the Tiffany ballroom at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Norwood, MA. For additional information, please consult the website: bishopdickersonconsecration.org
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Weakened Jim Brooks Act passes in Council By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Housing is a top concern of Boston voters as the mayoral race heads to its final weeks, and now, a long-awaited piece of legislation on eviction protection plays into both candidates’ arguments. When the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act hit the city council floor last week, councilors voted 10-3 to pass it. But by the accounts of many of its city council supporters, the measure was only a weak, if welcome, contribution to protecting vulnerable residents from displacement. Mayor Martin Walsh filed the legislation in December and lists the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act among the components of his anti-displacement strategy. Mayoral challenger Tito Jackson took an opportunity during the city council meeting to upbraid Walsh for the slow process in realizing this legislation and what he alleges is a less-than laser-focus by the mayor on the issue of displacement. “We live in city where we have huge income inequality, and our wealth gap is even larger than our income inequality. It is going to require courageous leadership to do something about this,” Jackson said. “This is one baby step,” he said of the legislation. The rest of the city council, meanwhile, seems reluctant to give the appearance of siding with Jackson’s mayoral bid, and Councilor Michael Flaherty stepped in to say the legislation’s timeline was normal for a legislative process and not reflective of Walsh’s priorities.
One tool, more needed
Many of the ten councilors who voted to enact the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act said that while it is
better to have the measure than not, it provides only a minor improvement to the lot of those Bostonians facing displacement, and that much more work must be done. “What will this do to solve the problem?” asked Councilor Andrea Campbell, who voted to pass the act. “I was extremely devastated to learn this might do very little. ... This, if anything, just requires us to send some information to our landlords.” Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George, chair of the Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health and Recovery, who also voted in favor, said, “This small step in the right direction will help us build stability in our neighborhoods.” The impact of the act is significantly pared down from what housing activists originally proposed. Over the course of multiple drafts and compromises, the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act was stripped of several provisions intended to make it more difficult for landlords to force out responsible tenants in order to pursue higher rent or for discriminatory or retaliatory reasons. When activists in 2015 proposed the legislation, then called the “Just Cause Eviction” bill, it contained provisions allowing tenants to request nonbinding third-party mediation with their landlord in cases where the landlord sought to hike rent by more than 5 percent. Another provision more recently scrapped would have required a landlord to provide an eligible reason for evicting a tenant — for instance, because the landlord wished to offer the unit to a family member or because the tenant had failed to pay rent or violated the terms of the lease. This restriction
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applied only to landlords with seven or more units who did not live in the property, and would not block any landlords from raising rents at the end of a lease term. What passed was a piece of legislation requiring landlords or foreclosing owners to inform the city whenever they initiate the process to evict one of their tenants. Landlords and the city also would have to inform tenants of their basic housing rights and of available resources. Additionally, the landlord or owner must serve a written notice to quit or notice of lease expiration or nonrenewal at least 30 days before initiating processes against the tenant or former homeowner. An eviction that did not follow these regulations would be vacated. Currently, the city does not collect this kind of eviction data, and, Councilor Ayanna Pressley noted, has been unable to secure such information from the Housing Court. The new information gathered under the Jim Brooks Act will help provide groundwork for creating solutions, she said. “We cannot tackle a problem we do not have data for,” Pressley said, calling the act an important measure. Speaking to the Banner following the hearing, Boston Department of Neighborhood Development Director and Chief of
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Mayor Martin Walsh signs the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act. Housing Sheila Dillon said the measure allows the city to know which residents may need their support and to offer them assistance, such as finding a new unit or to urging the landlord to provide the tenant more time. Eviction is costly for management firms and landlords, giving the city leverage to find alternatives. The other piece of the solution, Dillon said, is full-force efforts to build more affordable housing in the city until supply meets demand, as well as to better connect people in need with resources that already exist. The state Legislature will have to approve the legislation before it can be implemented. Councilors Josh Zakim and Frank Baker co-sponsored a backup ordinance that provides for eviction data collection that would go into effect even if the Legislature rejects the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act. Councilor Jackson said that the 68 percent of Bostonians
who are renters remain vulnerable. He said the real solution lies in city policies to require more affordable and middle-income housing creation from developers, especially those who use public land. Voting against the Jim Brooks Act were Councilors Bill Linehan, Sal LaMattina and Tim McCarthy. “I don’t think this truly addresses the matter,” Linehan said. “I never said I was going to support just cause eviction, because I felt there were ample laws and bureaucracies in place to address these issues.” Councilors said they had had their work cut out for them in trying to balance financial needs of landlords with concerns of tenants facing push-out as Boston’s tide of development raises rents. “It’s not everything the advocates want. It’s certainly not everything that real estate wants,” Councilor Baker said. “Maybe that’s legislation — no one’s happy.”
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Mayor, Jackson clash over debate schedule Jackson calls for four debates, Walsh will only agree to two By YAWU MILLER
The ink had barely dried on the Sept. 26 preliminary election results when Mayor Martin Walsh proposed two debates against his challenger, District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson. One debate was to be hosted by conservative WBZ talk show host Dan Rea, the other by WGBH Boston Public Radio hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan. Jackson, who has called for four debates, didn’t immediately respond to Walsh’s challenge to debate on the two radio shows, both of which feature Walsh frequently as a guest. Both Jackson and Walsh have been invited also to a broad array of forums and debates hosted by ward committees and community groups.
Fits and starts
Among those requesting a debate is a coalition of black, Latino and Asian community groups who back in July had invited Walsh and Jackson to participate in a forum. Jackson agreed to the forum, but Walsh stalled, according to organizers. “We were told the mayor wouldn’t make a decision until after the preliminary,” said Cheryl Crawford, executive director of MassVOTE. “I called back the day after.”
Crawford made the request on behalf of the We Decide Coalition, a group of 20 civil rights and community-based organizations representing the city’s black, Latino and Asian communities. After seeing Walsh’s acceptance of the WBZ and WGBH debates, Crawford again asked for confirmation of his participation in the We Decide Coalition debate. Last Thursday, the Walsh campaign made public the mayor’s debate schedule. The WBZ debate was dropped, due to a labor dispute between the station management and staff. But the We Decide Coalition was not included in the two debates the mayor agreed to: one with WGBH and one with the RoxVote Coalition. “Mayor Walsh has committed to participating in a forum hosted by the RoxVote Coalition, in Roxbury, and has also requested that the format be changed into a debate,” a spokeswoman for his campaign said in a statement sent to the Banner. “He also looks forward to the WGBH debate slated to air on both TV and radio on October 24th.” Jackson told the Boston Globe Walsh’s refusal to agree to more than two debates was “disrespectful.” In his 2013 race against former At-large City Councilor John Connolly, Walsh
participated in three debates. Walsh’s campaign manager, John Laadt, sent a letter to Jackson, responding to his criticism with a dismissive tone, emphasizing Walsh’s campaign rhetoric more than the issue at hand. “We understand your frustration with the state of the race so far, but Mayor Walsh has spoken to thousands of Bostonians about
his plans for the next four years and will speak to thousands more before the election is over,” Laadt wrote last week. “We both agree that the people of Boston deserve to hear about the progress that’s been made under the Mayor’s leadership and look forward to seeing you at the debate next week.” The RoxVote Coalition, housed
at Madison Park Development Corporation, includes other community development corporations and community organizations. The debate was scheduled for Oct. 11 at Hibernian Hall. A Walsh campaign spokeswoman said the mayor will not entertain requests for more debates than the two to which he has already agreed.
AKA chapter anniversary
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Lambda Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. celebrated its 40th anniversary as the first sorority chartered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. Chartered on October 8, 1977 by seventeen scholastic and campus leaders, Lambda Upsilon Chapter membership consists of undergraduate women at Harvard University, M.I.T., and Wellesley College committed to the sorority’s ideals of scholarship, sisterhood and service to all mankind. The reunion weekend, with the theme Pink & Prestigious: 40 Years of Service, included acts of community service to benefit hurricane victims and U.S. Soldiers, and culminated with a festive luncheon held on Sunday, October 8th at Wellesley College. Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons issued a proclamation designating Sunday, October 8, 2017 as Lambda Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Day in the City of Cambridge.
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has stoked some parents’ concerns that there is an effort underway to advance charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools. Wolf told the Banner it appears that discussions of issues such as unified enrollment and school closings are being delayed for pre-mayoral election optics. “They’ve managed to hold back on BuildBPS, except most PRfriendly things like, ‘We’re going to buy furniture,’” she said. “Nothing controversial would come out before the election.” In response to Banner questions on when the public will have a chance to weigh in on the plans, a Walsh administration spokesperson issued a statement attributed to the mayor. “I look forward to reviewing the final proposal once it’s complete and hearing additional feedback from our families and school community,” the statement said. Walsh did not respond to questions on the timeline for implanting unified enrollment or presenting a draft plan. The Banner was unable to reach Rep. Evandro Carvalho, one of the bill’s four co-sponsors.
Question of purpose, impact
It is unclear exactly how unified enrollment would be implemented for Boston. QUEST published a report last month outlining concerns on possible effects of unified enrollment, including that it could result in a reduction in options for students. These concerns are not answered in the four-page bill filed last week. Currently, students have a list of school options comprising only district schools and can apply also to as many charters as desired. Under unified enrollment, unless school list lengths are expanded, the presence of any charter school on the list necessarily will bump a district school off of it, reducing district school options, states QUEST in its report published
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After seven citywide meetings, 20 community discussions and many conversations with parents and educators, the Boston Compact is looking to address some of the questions that were raised, such as special education needs and students arriving mid-year.” — Rahn Dorsey
on Sept. 18, 2017. Under bill H.2876 filed by Rep. Alice Peisch and co-sponsored by Walsh, Carvalho and Rep. Dan Hunt, charter schools could elect to give enrollment preference to students living near the school. QUEST’s report also raises questions on whether families would be guaranteed to have high-performing district school options on their list. Given that school lists draw from a onemile radius around the students’ home, QUEST also says answers are needed as to whether a unified enrollment system will mean that assignment lists for students in charter-heavy neighborhoods like Hyde Park could include only or almost all charter options. Other questions raised by QUEST include whether charter schools will be required to increase programming for students with higher needs and English Language Learners so that they take in an equal share of these more costly-to-educate demographics. Otherwise, it could put BPS at a disadvantage in school rankings if the new enrollment system causes charters to increasingly siphon off less-expensive students who traditionally perform better on standardized tests. In 2015, supporters presented unified enrollment as a way to simplify the then-complicated charter school application process. At the time, families had to fill out a different application for each charter school. However, this problem has disappeared: at present, more than a dozen participating charters have switched to a single online common application form. In a statement provided to
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: October’s PLAN: Dudley Square workshop will focus on climate readiness and resiliency. There will be an opportunity to learn about environmental conditions and mitigation strategies. Feedback from the workshop will be reflected in the Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for this land to be produced later this year. Throughout the evening there will be opportunity for attendees to engage in productive dialogue with City/BPDA team members and each other on elements of the material being shared as part of the workshop. PLAN: Dudley Square is an initiative to think strategically about the types of uses and the scale of development best suited for the future of Dudley Square and Roxbury. The goals of this study are to provide an inclusive community engagement process, create an updated vision with the community, and establish an implementation plan that will lead to the issuance of RFPs for publicly-owned parcels in Dudley Square. For more information please visit: http://bit.ly/PlanDudley
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Boston Compact member. In response to Banner questions on why unified enrollment was necessary, given the availability of a common charter application, a Boston Compact spokesperson issued a statement attributed to collaboration officer Rachel Weinstein that said that unified enrollment is meant to simplify enrollment and application processes, create consistent enrollment policies and procedures across district and charter schools and provide Boston students with “fairer access to high quality schools.”
Limited information
Unified enrollment was proposed in 2015 by the Boston Compact. However, QUEST states that some attendees at the Compact’s meetings on unified enrollment found the information limited. “Details of the proposal’s implementation [at these meetings] were minimal,” states the QUEST report. “What information was provided changed from meeting to meeting, and it seemed to many parents that the goal was to promote the plan rather than to elicit genuine feedback. Even now, two years after the launch of the plan, details of how it would work, who would sign on, or what
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the Banner in Boston Education Chief Rahn Dorsey’s name said that “Families need a clear and simple path to school enrollment and the goal of unified enrollment is to create an equitable system for all Boston’s families.” The statement said that BPS currently is focused on evaluating its existing assignment system. Parents have long questioned the push to create a new assignment system, unified enrollment, without information on how well the current system is working. The Dorsey statement also said that the work of addressing concerns over potential public policy on unified enrollment is being handled by a private entity called the Boston Compact. The Boston Compact comprises representatives of charter schools, religious schools and BPS schools and has the stated goal of promoting collaboration across these school sectors. “After seven citywide meetings, 20 community discussions and many conversations with parents and educators, the Boston Compact is looking to address some of the questions that were raised, such as special education needs and students arriving mid-year,” said the statement attributed to Dorsey, who is a
the potential benefits and costs would be, remain vague.” The Boston Compact wrote in a Feb. 2016 letter that parents had expressed the belief that the Compact was not sufficiently transparent. Indeed, in Nov. 2015, QUEST filed a complaint to try to compel the Compact to abide by open meeting laws. The Compact defeated the complaint in July 2016, successfully arguing in part that, given the presence of charter and parochial school representatives and receipt of funding from private foundations, the Compact is a private entity and therefore not subject to public oversight. The Center on Reinventing Public Education, a corporate education reform organization, provides a playbook for avoiding public resistance to implementing unified enrollment. CRPE refers to Denver and New Orleans as example locations where leaders managed to limit conflict and controversy over the strategies in part by avoiding robust conversation until late in the process. “Leaders framed policy problems and solutions associated with enrollment in ways that resonated with stakeholders and delayed debates on the most controversial enrollment issues,” CRPE’s policy brief states. In Jan. 2017, Education Chief Dorsey told the Banner that the Compact was 90 percent finished with its unified enrollment plan. Since then, there does not appear to have been any public airing of a plan except for last week’s hearing, in which the bill Walsh co-sponsored was among many pieces of charter-related legislation that came before the Legislature.
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WINSOR GIRLS SEE A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES “Winsor girls have a passion to create change in the world, and that’s something that the world definitely needs,” reflects Unique, a senior at the Winsor School in Boston, a leading independent school for academically promising girls in grades 5-12. In its mission of preparing girls to “contribute to the world,” Winsor opens girls’ eyes to their own extraordinary potential in countless ways, from cutting-edge Global Studies to hands-on STEM courses to extensive arts and athletics. Looking ahead, Unique sees “so many different possibilities.” Thanks to Winsor, “I’m prepared to be anything that I want to be.” “When I think about Winsor girls, I think bold,” adds Anshi, now a Harvard undergraduate. “Every Winsor girl that I know just pushes the boundaries. Winsor is a place that prepares strong women, in every sense of the word, to take ownership of making the world a better place, to think bigger, to think broadly, and to be able to listen to others.” Winsor alumnae have been “pushing boundaries” for more than a century. Today, Winsor continues to build on a tradition of forward thinking with a vision of providing girls with an education second to none. In spring 2015, Winsor’s new centers for the performing arts and for athletics and wellness opened.
The transformative building project has doubled the school’s educational space, and also includes an Innovation Lab and state-of-the-art new classrooms. Every space focuses on skills that promising girls will need to thrive in the future. Located in Boston’s dynamic Longwood Medical Area, Winsor draws its students from across the city and more than 50 surrounding communities. The school strives to be “a place where everyone feels welcome,” reflects Julian Braxton, director of community and multicultural affairs. Affinity groups are a powerful way in which the school lives out its ideals of welcome and support. Groups include SISTERS, short for Sharing Individual Stories Through Everyone’s RootS, a support system for girls of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Cape Verdean, and Latina descent; SOMOS, an affinity group for Latina Heritage and Hispanic Heritage students; and AsIAm, for students of Asian descent including the Indian subcontinent. “The best part,” explains one Winsor student, “is knowing that everyone comes into our group with an open attitude. We bond with one another and share parts of ourselves and honestly become each other’s sisters.”
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Students raise their hands in a Winsor School classroom.
From the start, “we try to teach girls the importance of actively and positively defining yourself,” adds Mr. Braxton. Each fall, the school’s Parent Network for Diversity also sponsors a “welcome” event, helping girls and families feel at home at Winsor. At Winsor, “we want every girl who comes through the door to feel like this is her place,” explains Sarah Pelmas, Winsor’s head of school. As she tells the girls, “You need to be your authentic selves, and be open to everyone else being their authentic selves.” Winsor’s lessons—and friendships—stay with girls for their lifetimes. The college choices of Winsor
she weaves a simple invitation into her conversations: “Challenge yourself. Enjoy yourself. Be yourself.” The admission team looks carefully at every girl who applies, and seeks girls who will thrive here. Intellectual curiosity, academic ability, motivation, a generous spirit and a respect for difference are all part of what Winsor seeks. On Friday, November 10, the school’s annual Admission Open House will offer interested families a firsthand glimpse of Winsor girls and teachers in action on a typical day. To learn more, please call the Admission Office at 617-735-9503 or visit www.winsor.edu.
graduates reflect the strength of both the school and its students. In recent years, the colleges attracting the largest number of Winsor alumnae have been Amherst, Barnard, BC, Bowdoin, Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Michigan, NYU, Stanford, Tufts, University of Chicago, UPenn, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale. While college is in girls’ immediate futures, Winsor truly prepares them for life. “We’re excited to share why Winsor is such a special place,” says Pamela Parks McLaurin, director of admission and financial aid and a Winsor graduate herself. When she talks to girls,
We’ll see you in class. Join us and explore all that Winsor means to academically promising girls in grades 5-12.
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EDUCATION NEWS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL
ROXBURY LATIN PUTS EMPHASIS ON CHARACTER, RIGOR When Mahamud Hashi was a sophomore at Roxbury Latin, he played in a soccer game that, to the outside viewer, was of little consequence. On a rain-soaked field, Mahamud’s junior varsity team faced a fierce league rival. “It was a pretty scrappy game,” he recalls, “and competitive the whole way through.” The game was tied late in the contest, and the referee called a foul on the opponent, granting R.L. good field position and an important opportunity. “James Jaffer took the free kick,” Mahamud remembers. “He placed it in the box. I headed the ball, which bounced off the post, and then Ben Stick finished it off.” Mahamud joyfully recounts the moment his team netted the final goal, and clinched a thrilling victory. Now a senior at The Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, MA, Mahamud recalls this moment with less emphasis on the victory itself, and more on the atmosphere: the intensity of the match, the camaraderie of his teammates, the support of the fans, and the thrill of the moment. “At a lot of other schools, people wouldn’t take a JV game that seriously. It just wouldn’t matter. But I knew that my teammates and coach were taking it very seriously.” Mahamud also points to the enormous fan support on the sidelines that day: “It felt like my entire grade was there to support us—it felt
like a varsity game. I remember our excitement—we ran over to the bench and gave each other hugs. It was a great celebration of something we had accomplished together.” Such moments are common for R.L. boys. They suggest that competition is alive and well at the school—that boys are given opportunities to get out onto the fields, to bear down in tight spots, and to fight hard for their team and their school. Whether it is a moment on the playing field, like Mahamud’s, or another instance, like that fluttering inhale before a boy voices his first words on stage, Roxbury Latin provides boys the chance to strive for something great in a safe learning environment. Moments of peak focus and concentrated exertion test boys’ mettle and prove to them not only their talent, but also their courage to answer the call. Roxbury Latin believes that these lessons— learned in classrooms, on athletic fields, in concert halls—are transferrable moments of discovery that prepare students to enter larger contexts and to engage broader communities, having forged their resolve and honed their skill. Mahamud lives in Roxbury and attended Roxbury Prep Charter School before entering Roxbury Latin as a freshman. As seniors, he and his 49 classmates are helping to lead
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Mahamud Hashi
the student body this year. A small school of 300 boys (an easy, ten-minute commute from Forest Hills), Roxbury Latin is dedicated to preparing boys for lives of purpose. Through rigorous academic training and a consistent focus on character development, the school instills in boys a sense of what is true and virtuous, charging them to honor and defend those virtues throughout their lives. Roxbury Latin’s small size naturally fosters lasting relationships. Our faculty professes to know and love each boy, and the careful work of advisors allows the school to fulfill this fundamental promise. Each
boy has an adult in the community with whom he meets weekly. That support, along with learning specialists, dedicated classmasters, and teachers who are available and eager for extra help sessions, ensure that boys are cared for and supported throughout their R.L. years. For the second summer, Mahamud worked as a counselor at the Roxbury Latin Soccer Clinic, one of the school’s many summer enrichment offerings. He volunteers his time serving as a big brother to a new seventh grade boy. Mahamud recently returned from an overnight camping trip in New Hampshire, where a group
of senior leaders and faculty orchestrated an orientation experience for boys new to the school. Even with a demanding course load, Mahamud prioritizes contributing in these ways. This generosity and selflessness that Mahamud exhibits is common among boys on campus. Students regularly give their time to tutor other boys, lead activities, and pitch in where needed. “Your classmates become your family,” says Mahamud. “When I first arrived here, I didn’t feel quite as comfortable talking openly with my peers, or sharing with them as I do now. After spending so much time together and getting to know your classmates, it’s easy to confide in them. You begin to realize how much you have in common, and you find a new family here at R.L.” Mahamud feels the school’s structure helps generate these lasting peer bonds. “You are always with a different mix of kids—in the lab or at lunch or for group work.” Mahamud sees the people of Roxbury Latin—the students and adults—as one of its greatest assets. He values the relationships he has formed as a true friend to many of his classmates and a selfless supporter of the larger school community. He is one of 300 motivated and capable boys who attend Roxbury Latin and ensure that it remains a vibrant environment of learning and growing. Roxbury Latin is a distinctive community comprised of boys from various backgrounds contributing various talents. To learn more about Roxbury Latin, please visit www.roxburylatin. org, or contact us at admission@ roxburylatin.org or 617.477.6317.
Open Houses Saturday October 21: 10am–1:30pm
Sunday November 5: 12:30–4pm
The Roxbury Latin School An independent day school for boys in grades 7–12
Come to an Open House and learn about academics, athletics, and extracurricular activities from the Headmaster, faculty, students, and current parents. Also, learn about financial aid and our need-blind admission policy.
For a detailed schedule, visit www.roxburylatin.org or call 617.325.4920. No reservation necessary. No application fee.
101 St. Theresa Avenue, West Roxbury, MA 02132
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EDUCATION NEWS BROUGHT TO YOU BY SHADY HILL SCHOOL
FOSTERING A DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY IS AT THE CORE OF SHADY HILL SCHOOL Set on Coolidge Hill in Cambridge, Shady Hill is an independent elementary school serving about 500 students in pre-kindergarten (age 4) through eighth grade. The School is committed to stewarding a rich, multicultural curriculum and a diverse, inclusive community. As Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Practice, I help lead Shady Hill’s diversity and social justice initiatives. As I start my second year at the School, I am heartened to know I am part of its rich legacy and commitment to diversity and inclusion. Founded in 1915, Shady Hill was modeled after a school run by Maria Baldwin, a prominent African American educator in the Cambridge area in the early 1900s. When Students engrossed in play at Shady Hill. Miss Baldwin’s School closed in 1914, Harvard professor during the Civil Rights Movement, William Ernest Hocking and his wife Shady Hill welcomed its first African Agnes O’Reilly Hocking, whose children had been enrolled at Miss Bald- American students. In the following decade, the School began to diverwin’s School, took interest in beginsify its faculty as well. Faith Chase, ning a new school. They established the School’s first African American the Cooperative Open Air School, teacher, was hired in 1969 and taught which eventually became Shady Hill at Shady Hill until 1992. The School School. From the start, Shady Hill has since established a fellowship in distinguished itself as a leader in her name that provides funds for curprogressive education and modeled rent faculty members to attend the a commitment to diversity. People of Color Conference, an annual In the 1950s, while the nation conference hosted by the National grappled with legal racial segregation
18 percent of the Administrative Team. While I help to coordinate the School’s diversity initiatives for adults and children, I certainly am not alone in these efforts. This is truly everyone’s responsibility. Through regular professional development, Shady Hill teachers continually work toward improving their practice and fostering a welcoming environment in their classrooms. We launch each school year with a formal session on diversity at our opening faculty meetings and a follow-up session PHOTO: COURTESY SHADY HILL SCHOOL with all new faculty and staff. At this year’s opening meeting, Dr. Ali Michael explored race and Association of Independent Schools. identity with the full faculty, based As it enters its second century, on the work she did for her book, Shady Hill continues to push toward Raising Race Questions. She also increased inclusion and racial diverworked with leaders in our parent sity. One initiative is its collaboration community on the topic of “Building with other area schools to raise the an Inclusive Parent Community.” awareness of African-American and Another voice for inclusion and Latino families that independent multicultural practice on campus schools are a viable option. Curis DASH (Diversity at Shady Hill). rently, students of color comprise 33 DASH, which celebrates its thirtieth percent of the student body, faculty year this spring, is a group that helps of color make up 18% of the faculty, and administrators of color comprise foster parent engagement around
issues of equity. At Shady Hill, we regularly build our faculty’s skills and expand their capacity as culturally competent, multicultural educators. We do this through professional development opportunities that take place throughout the year. We also provide opportunities for formal and informal conversation through faculty discussion groups like the SEED program (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). These monthly gatherings open conversations that allow participants to explore their own understanding of issues of diversity. Our commitment to creating a more socially just world has been a long part of our philosophy and tradition. The School’s reputation and commitment to equity and social justice is part of what attracted me to Shady Hill. The fact that our Head of School Mark Stanek spends time during the summer serving on the faculty of the Diversity Directions Independent School Seminar was a good indicator to me that support for diversity and inclusion efforts at Shady Hill were an institutional commitment at the highest level. As a diversity practitioner, this support is both compelling and critical. More than just symbolic, it is sustaining. If this sounds like a community that might be right for your family, please come to an Admission Open House. To learn more about Shady Hill, visit our website at www.shs.org. We look forward to meeting you! — James Greenwood, Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Practice
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Lower School Open House: Sunday, October 22 Middle School Open House: Tuesday, November 7 www.shs.org / ADMISSION We offer a rigorous, dynamic curriculum of integrated, in-depth study; experiential, project-based, collaborative learning; and an inclusive community that values multiple perspectives. Financial aid, transportation, and afterschool programs are available.
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AUTHOR PROBES DIFFICULTIES IN GRADUATING COLLEGE ‘WHEN GRIT ISN’T ENOUGH’ EXAMINES EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON STUDENTS’ COLLEGE COMPLETION RATES During her fourteen years as founder and co-headmaster of the urban high school, Boston Arts Academy, Linda Nathan began every year with a promise to the freshman class; all of them would graduate and all would continue on to either college or a career. After stepping down in 2014, Nathan began a deep interrogation of that promise. She increasingly felt troubled that she may have promoted a false myth about equality and opportunity — one that pushed the responsibility for success onto her students’ shoulders without acknowledging the structural inequities they would face as they pursued their lives after high school. Now, in her book, “When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-forAll Promise,” Nathan confronts long-held assumptions about college access and takes a sobering look at how current practices and policies push poor and first-generation students off the college track. Revealing how the pursuit of a college degree left too many of her students with impossibly huge debts and limited paths to middle-class lives, Nathan also investigates how career and technical education done well might provide a viable alternative to the four-year degree. Drawing on interviews with over 90 BAA alumni, Nathan identifies the five myths or assumptions that repeatedly came up in those conversations. She devotes a chapter in the book to each: 1. Money doesn’t have to be an obstacle 2. Race doesn’t matter 3. Just work harder 4. Everyone can go to college
5. If you believe, your dreams will come true “Taken together, the five assumptions listed above can be dangerous because they reinforce the deeply held American belief that success is individually created and sustained,” writes Nathan. “Yet data repeatedly show how poverty, social class, race, and parents’ educational attainment more directly influence an individual’s success and possible earnings than any individual effort. We clearly do not have a level playing field, but this belief is all but impossible to challenge.” While a safety net protects middle and upper income students from mistakes, argues Nathan, the fragility that poverty creates means poor youths’ missteps can easily and devastatingly derail them from enrolling in or persisting in college. Pointing repeatedly to the lived experiences of her students, she illuminates exactly what these missteps look like, from a class valedictorian who lost a full scholarship when she did not have the money for the deposit to hold her place to a well-performing sophomore who had to leave college because her family did not understand that financial aid forms need to be filled out each year. After examining four-year college alternatives, including the hidden costs of community colleges (financial aid does not cover developmental classes) and the risks inherent in online “competency-based” degrees, Nathan suggests specific ways in which both high schools and colleges could work towards alleviating their students’ financial burdens. “College can be hard for most young people,” notes Nathan. “Add racial isolation to issues of
economic and social class and the experience can be overwhelming.” Sharing her students’ accounts about how race impacted their ability to withstand the challenges of college, including some who felt too alienated to stay enrolled, she examines how the belief that race does not matter denies an important reality for students of color on college campuses, which are overwhelmingly white. Nathan details how teachers at BAA have continually wrestled with and learned from their antiracist curriculum and explores why peer support programs, such as LEAD and Posse, should be expanded to many more college campuses. “Race and privilege can differentiate students in insidious ways,” she observes. “Colleges can gain from vigilance in providing meaningful supports before a student begins to teeter and fall.” The narrative about student success being entirely dependent on the individual, argues Nathan, has been reinforced over the past decade by the rise in the notion of “grit,” a term originally codified as a characteristic of success by psychologist Angela Duckworth. She critiques the “no excuses” pedagogy — born from theories about grit and reflected in initiatives such as the Knowledge is Power Program and Teach for America — and recounts visits to “no
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Linda Nathan is a former headmaster at Boston Arts Academy.
excuses” charter schools where black and brown students must adhere to rigid behavior codes as their entree to success. During one grade school visit, she observes five different classes of non-white students eating lunch in complete silence while their teachers, almost all white, monitor the room. “It seemed more like a prison, with the teachers as guards,” she reflects. “I was stunned that this had become a regular practice. Gone is the joy of meeting friends at lunch
and chattering about anything and nothing. Gone is the joy of just being a carefree kid.” In counterpoint, Nathan recounts visiting a classroom in an urban public high school in New York City where the white teacher ignores small behavior infractions in favor of getting his students of color to think for themselves and define their own notions of achievement. She goes on to share
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Learn how to ski or snowboard this winter Apply to be an adult volunteer for Youth Enrichment Services (YES)’s Learn-to-Ski or Snowboard & Teach program at www.yeskids.org/learnteach. Learn with us, then teach Boston youth. No transportation required. Must be 18+. Application deadline 11/15. Know how to ski or snowboard already? Apply at www.yeskids.org/ssvolunteer. E-mail volunteer@yeskids.org or call 617-267-5877 X 24 for more information.
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Noble and Greenough School offers an exceptional academic, athletic and creative experience with an emphasis on service-learning and community. The school supports intellectual, social and personal growth to encourage a lifetime mission of leadership for the public good. Join us for our open house:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 – 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. visit: www.admission.nobles .edu for more details
Nobles is a coed day and five-day boarding school for students in grades 7-12. 10 Campus Drive, Dedham MA 02026 • 781 320 7100
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Did you know there’s a school in the Back Bay where
analyzing a geometry proof, the rise and fall of a society, or a line of poetry can fuel an entire class?
Commonwealth School An independent, co-ed high school where small classes, gifted faculty, a strong community, and high academic standards inspire students to do their best work.
Open Houses:
Sunday, November 5, 2:30-5:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 5, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
commschool.org/openhouse 151 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02116 • commschool.org
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Nathan
continued from page 13 stories from three BAA graduates, each illuminating how working hard does not automatically equal success — even given their school experience which encouraged perseverance, and embraced creativity and a growth mindset. “In my insistence that my students’ hard work would allow them to achieve success,” she reflects, “I had underestimated the negative and pervasive effects of race, social class and also immigrant status through the educational pipeline.” In the last chapters of the book, Nathan explores how that educational pipeline, one that centers a college degree as the ultimate goal, needs to be rethought, especially in light of the many students who are interested in careers that provide middle-class wages, but may not have the interest in, or the time or money for college. Acknowledging the troubled history of vocational education which tracked poor and minority youth into nonacademic course work, she poses what has become an uncomfortable question: is college really the right course for everyone? In exploring that question, she highlights the importance of career and technical education (CTE) programs that alternate between traditional academics and hands-on work in the trades, while offering examples of model CTE schools — from New England to Iceland, Switzerland and Germany. Nathan concludes with stories about BAA alumni who have
drawn on their sense of personal agency, as well as the power of community, to create impressive careers in the arts and other fields. She celebrates their extraordinary achievements (while acknowledging the danger in holding up the exception as the rule), and suggests ways in which educators can bolster their students’ belief in their ability to succeed. “My work now focuses on leadership development,” she says. “I hope the next generation of leaders can create schools that address the hard questions that I have raised here. They will move us forward to a more equitable future.” Nathan is the executive director of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for fifteen years. Dr. Nathan served as founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts. She also founded and directed the Center for Arts in Education, an arm of BAA that serves the outreach, professional development, and arts advocacy needs of the school. Dr. Nathan was the co-director of Fenway High School for fourteen years and founded two nonprofit organizations: El Pueblo Nuevo (arts and youth development) and the Center for Collaborative Education (school reform issues). She is also the cofounder of the Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership and serves on numerous nonprofit boards both locally and nationally. Nathan is the author of The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test.
The Park School exceptional independent education
The Park School provides an exceptional education for boys and girls ages 4-14. At Park, students develop a passion for learning in a diverse environment that is both nurturing and challenging. Our outstanding teachers get to know each child through small classes and an active partnership with parents. Central to our mission is an appreciation of similarities and differences of perspective and the interdependence of all people. We offer after-school programs, generous financial aid, and free shuttles from nearby MBTA stations. Please join us at our Open House to explore the school, meet teachers, students and parents, and learn about Park’s curriculum and community.
Open House Sunday, October 29, 12–3 p.m.
The Park School 171 Goddard Avenue Brookline, MA 02445 617.277.2456 www.parkschool.org
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Liberty Tax Service franchisee finds success in tax prep biz By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Sam Trotman never planned to make a living in tax preparation. But what started as a side gig soon had him hooked. Equipped with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management, Trotman was working in high-end retail management when he took the leap and switched careers. “I started doing this for supplemental income, back in 2009. I really wasn’t trying to start a career with it,” Trotman said. “I ended up liking it much more than I thought.” In 2012, Trotman took the opportunity to join the Liberty Tax Service franchise, buying the rights to Liberty’s operations in Hyde Park. The following year he teamed up with a partner, Cynthia Ward, and they proceeded to acquire operations in South Boston and in Mattapan Square. They now handle a variety of tax preparation services for businesses and individuals, and unlike most tax businesses, stay open year-round. This allows them to take on non-tax-preparation work
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Being a part of a franchise, I have unlimited access to what’s going on in the tax world. The tax code is very very long. If I did start this business myself, I would only be able to count on what I can find out, what I can learn, what research I can get through.” — Sam Trotman
that still relies on strong knowledge of the tax code.
Peak and slow seasons
January through April is the height of tax season, during which Trotman and Ward hire 30 to 40 temporary employees in roles ranging from tax preparers, marketers and “wavers” — the women and men dressed in pale bluegreen robes and Lady Liberty crowns that Liberty Tax Service is known for. During those months, from Monday through Saturday the office is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., or until the last customer leaves,
whichever is later. On Sunday, hours condense to 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. When he first entered the tax prep business, Trotman thought he would have the rest of the year to relax. But he soon learned that while schedules slow down, there still is a lot to do — and that staying open has advantages. In the offseason, office hours drop to Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., still above the eight-hours-a-week minimum that Liberty Tax Service requires from its franchisees. With most other tax services closed during those months, Liberty stays
open. Filing and refund deadlines have shifted, spreading out to other months, Trotman noted, and some competitors’ clients turn to Liberty during the offseason for help with this. “I have noticed over the years, because most of our competitors are closed, once your doors are open and you’re giving good service, your off season will start to pick up because they really don’t have anywhere else to go,” Trotman said. “Anything that deals with a personal return we can assist on.” Trotman also handles other types of paperwork where deep understanding of taxes can help. This includes helping older clients with pension paperwork, parents and youths with parsing tax returns when filling out forms for colleges or private schools, and foreign clients filing for tax identification numbers. Trotman also hosts tuition-free tax classes each fall. The aim is to help individuals understand what to expect on their returns, even if they continue to hire someone to
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Exit plan When you need to quit a new job By DANIEL BORTZ, MONSTER.COM
Whether you were a victim of a bait-and-switch scheme — wherein you were hired for a job but actually get assigned an entirely different role — or you’re answering to a toxic boss, you want out of your new job yesterday. Or, maybe you’ve received a better offer from another employer. Regardless of why you’re halfway out the door, you don’t want to burn bridges. But the fact is there are potential repercussions to making a quick exit: Getting blacklisted. “You may never be able to have a relationship with your manager or with the company going forward,” cautions Ryan Kahn, founder of career coaching firm The Hired Group. Damaging your reputation in the industry. “If you’re a tightknit field, word may get around that you quit unexpectedly,” says Kahn. If that happens, future hiring managers might negatively
notify the rest of the team. Don’t tell your co-workers you’re quitting until you speak with your boss.
Keep a positive tone
“Let your boss know that you’ve thought long and hard about your decision, that you don’t take it lightly, and that you don’t want to cause any harm to the organization or the team,” says Zucker. If your manager presses you for an explanation, simply say that you feel leaving is the best decision for both you and the company.
perceive you as a job hopper, which can make your next job search more difficult. Aggravating your co-workers. Exiting abruptly could force your co-workers to pick up the work you leave behind, which can build resentment among people you might cross paths with in the future. Making financial sacrifices. Obviously, your eligibility for unemployment insurance (if it even kicked in yet) may be at risk if you voluntarily quit your job. Additionally, if you received a sign-on bonus or reimbursement for relocation expenses but decide to leave within the first six months to a year, you might need to forfeit the cash, says San Francisco– based career and executive coach Rebecca Zucker. On the other hand, there are benefits to quitting an ill-fitting job. In addition to regaining your mental health, you’re less likely to repeat this mistake, meaning your next job search will place the proper amount of focus on cultural fit. Only you can decide whether to stay or leave, but if you’re already seriously contemplating quitting, you’re likely halfway there — the situation has to be pretty extreme to get you to this point. Should you choose to pack up, follow these steps to quitting a job:
Draft a letter of resignation
Many employers require paper documentation for resignations. To save your boss time, type a resignation letter yourself and present it to your manager.
Offer at least 2 weeks’ notice
Even though you’ve only been with the company for a short period of time, giving two weeks’ notice is appropriate, says Zucker. (Some companies even have a set policy for how many weeks’ notice is required.) But if you have the flexibility, you could offer to stay for three or four weeks, if your manager prefers it. Nonetheless, be prepared for a negative response. “The company may just want you to leave immediately,” says Zucker.
Don’t mentally check out
Once you’ve announced that you’re leaving, you still need to put 100 percent of your time and effort into the job. Put simply: “Don’t coast,” says Ashley Stahl, a millennial career and business coach. Making an effort during your last two weeks on the job can only help your reputation in this delicate situation.
Resign in person
“Don’t hide behind an email resignation,” says Zucker. Then ask your boss how she’d like you to
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‘The Owl Answers’
Chadwick Boseman stars as Thurgood Marshall in “Marshall.” PHOTO: BARRY WETCHER
Harvard student production explores identity, race, gender By CELINA COLBY
From October 13–21, students of Harvard University’s newly-formed Theater, Dance and Media concentration will perform “The Owl Answers,” an impactful, poetic play by powerhouse African American writer Adrienne Kennedy. The one-act experimental play features a central figure, Clara, who’s struggling to deal with her dual heritage as the daughter of a white father and a black mother. Director David R. Gammons has a long history with the playwright. He studied under Kennedy while at Harvard himself and has remained engaged with her in the production process for this play. “She’s a one-of-a-kind playwright,” Gammons says. “You really can’t stage one of her plays as a traditional narrative. They’re like dreams. They’re like nightmares.”
Personal plays
Kennedy began writing “The Owl Answers” in 1960 while on a trip with her husband and child to Europe and Africa. They shot some Super 8 film footage of their journey. She sent Gammons the footage when he began working on the show. “That resource was so fascinating, to see how her African heritage informed ‘The Owl Answers,’” Gammons says. The playwright’s grandson, who lives with her, also has been present for rehearsals. Kennedy’s plays are deeply personal, Gammons says, and these numerous resources help him to keep that component of the show alive. Enosa Ogbeide, a Harvard undergraduate student who plays Clara, feels many connections to her character. As the daughter of two Nigerian parents, she too has experienced pushback while finding and reconciling with her identity. “People have often tried to label me as one thing or another,” she says. “That experience has really informed my performance.” Ogbeide hopes that audiences come away from the show with a broader understanding of how harmful assumptions and stereotypes can be in an already harsh world.
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‘MARSHALL’ SETS STAGE FOR LITIGATOR’S RISE
REGINALD HUDLIN’S LEGAL THRILLER FOCUSES ON EARLY CASE IN THURGOOD MARSHALL’S ASCENDANCY TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
Film director Reginald Hudlin has always been a huge Thurgood Marshall fan. So, it was no wonder that he jumped at the chance to direct and produce the film “Marshall” when he received a call from producer Paula Wagner (“Mission: Impossible”) about the project. When he read the script, it wasn’t what he expected, he says, speaking by phone recently — and both filmmaker and producer found it “completely intriguing.” Written by attorney
Michael Koskoff and his screenwriter son Jacob Koskoff, “Marshall,” opening this week, stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall. The film focuses on one of Marshall’s earliest and least-known cases for the NAACP — The State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell. It’s December 1940, and the 32 year-old Marshall is sent to Connecticut to represent Spell, a black chauffeur, who was accused of rape and the attempted murder of Greenwich socialite Eleanor Strubing. Judge Carl Foster refuses to allow Marshall to defend Spell, and the NAACP
litigator partners with Samuel Friedman (played by Josh Gad), a young Jewish civil trial attorney from Bridgeport, Connecticut, as part of Spell’s defense team. Friedman, who has never tried a criminal defense case, becomes the lead attorney, since the judge silences Marshall during the courtroom proceedings. The case would set the stage for Marshall to become a prominent civil rights activist and attorney, and also lays the groundwork for him later to become the first African American U.S. Supreme
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Court Justice. In addition to Boseman, the film also stars Kate Hudson (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”) as accuser Eleanor Strubing; Sterling K. Brown (NBC’s “This Is Us”) as defendant Joseph Spell; Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) as prosecutor Lorin Willis; and James Cromwell (HBO’s “The Young Pope”) as Judge Carl Foster. The film, utterly engaging from beginning to end, is set up as a legal thriller as opposed to a “cradle-tograve” biopic, Hudlin says. It was his intention to make Marshall less iconic and more relatable. “As a fan of Thurgood Marshall and all great men and women, it’s very easy to put them on a pedestal and let them sit. We admire them but we don’t relate to them, and that’s especially easy to do with Thurgood Marshall, because we mainly know him as a Supreme Court Justice — an older man in robes in this cloistered world,” explains Hudlin. “By jumping to his superhero origin story, we see him very much as a man, a young man with swagger. He smokes and drinks, flirts and fights, and you go, ‘Oh, you’re a dude. And I relate to you. Yes, you’re a hundred times smarter than me but I relate to you.’” Hudlin, who thinks that Thurgood Marshall has been underrated in history, hopes that audiences will leave theaters discussing the movie that day and the next, and the next. “I want people to really get the full range of emotion out of the movie. And ultimately, I want people to feel inspired,” says the director. He adds, “It’s really easy, with watching the news, to feel anxious, to feel depressed. This movie shows you in the past we faced overwhelming odds, impossible obstacles to overcome, and we beat them. We can come together; link arms and we can do it again.”
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“A MIRACLE on Broadway.”
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Crowning a new generation of artists Fields Corner art piece celebrates Basquiat and black men
Original Broadway Cast. Photos by Matthew Murphy
(above) Maria Fitzpatrick’s “Saints” street art project pays homage to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and local youth. (below) Teens who are depicted in “Saints” pose with the work.
By CELINA COLBY
A street art project called “Saints” is now gracing the historic Jerrier Storage Building in Fields Corner. Artist Maria Fitzpatrick and a group of young men at the Boston Center for Youth and Families’ Cleveland Community Center put the piece together over a period of 10 months during a bi-monthly art group. Fitzpatrick and the young men met at the center twice a month from 5–7 p.m. to make and discuss art and also to decompress from the day’s stresses. “I wanted to do an arts group for some kids in the community because I think it’s an important part of development,” says Fitzpatrick. When she saw that the group was comprised of black males, she focused the sessions on Jean-Michel Basquiat, the graffiti artist who achieved wild success and celebrity in the 1980s. “Here’s this African American young man who comes from a background of immigration, and he’s now the highest-priced artist in the country,” says Fitzpatrick. “I wanted to show them that African American artists can become extremely successful.”
Graffiti collage
Drawing from this inspiration, the wheat paste art piece on the Jerrier building features a photoshopped graffiti collage. The cutout word “Boston” sits in the background, while photos of each of the eight young artists float in front of it. Each artist has a gold, halo-like crown, a signature of Basquiat’s work. Basquiat challenged the Western artistic tradition by crowning black men that he admired as kings and saints in his works. Fitzpatrick says the symbol remains significant in a world still hostile to black men. She wanted viewers to see the boys in the positive light they deserve. The social aspect of the sessions was just as important as the artistic lessons, Fitzpatrick says. The group would have dinner together during their two hours and talk about school, girls and television. “These are men of color
who are living in a really negative world towards them,” says Fitzpatrick, who grew up in the neighborhood herself. “For them to be somewhere with an adult that’s not a teacher or a social worker is really important.” Fitzpatrick says she thought of art as a positive activity that allowed the young creators to be themselves. Basquiat grew up in Brooklyn and due to early exposure to art from his mother, channeled his dissatisfaction with racial and social norms onto the page and onto walls. Now, these Fields Corner artists are following in his footsteps.
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Documentary tackles the topic of food waste Anna Chai and Nari Kye co-directed ‘Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste’ By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
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A still from the documentary “Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste.”
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Massimo Bottura is an Italian chef and restaurateur. while addressing food insecurity. The mission of the retail store is to help communities make great choices around food by making it easy for them to choose tasty, healthy, convenient and truly affordable meals and groceries, according to its website. Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s and founder of Daily Table, who has worked in the food industry for 35 years, says in the documentary that he is keenly aware that “throughout the system, top-to-bottom, there’s a lot of food being wasted.” He notes that one in six Americans is ‘food insecure,’ and knowing this, the concept behind Daily Table is really simple. It’s “What can we do to try to use one problem to solve the other problem?” says Rauch. Kye notes that another way to combat food waste is to create awareness through word-ofmouth and social media. “The more that people know about this issue and spread the word of how detrimental food waste can be for their lives and the environment, [the more] it will stick with you and it will, I think, create behavioral change,” she says. One of the simplest tips that both filmmakers would like audiences to take away from the film is to purchase less food, to value it and to think about who grew it and where it comes from — in short, to become a conscious consumer.
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Forty percent of the food produced in the United States goes to waste, more than 90 percent of wasted food in the U.S. ends up in landfills and the annual cost of food waste is $1 trillion, according to the documentary “Wasted! The Story of Food Waste.” And it’s not just an American problem — it is happening globally. Food that ends up in landfills often doesn’t decompose properly. As a result, it releases methane into the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas that contributes to human-induced climate change. Despite the bleakness of the statistics and the reality of what is occurring globally, “Wasted!” also offers some promising and realistic solutions, and the hope that food waste can be reduced on an individual and collective level. Co-directors Anna Chai and Nari Kye set out to imbue a sense of optimism in their documentary about the issues of food loss and food waste. “We have seen all kinds of social documentaries, and while many of them are provocative and thought-provoking, we noticed a trend that a lot of them scared the pants off of you, really,” says Kye. “We wanted to offer solutions that as an individual you could feel like you’re doing something better. Anna and I were very focused on having a very solution-focused film that didn’t make you feel awful; that made you feel empowered as a consumer.” The film project was aided by funding from The Rockefeller Foundation. In 2015, the United Nations announced a global goal to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2030. In support of this goal, The Rockefeller Foundation launched its $130 million, seven-year YieldWise initiative designed to systemically address preventable food waste. Zero Point Zero Films — the production company behind “Wasted!” as well as the Peabody Award-winning series “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and the Emmy Award-winning series “The Mind Of A Chef ” — approached The Rockefeller Foundation with the idea of making the
“Wasted” documentary. With the Foundation’s support, production on the film began in August 2016 and was completed in March of this year, in time to premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. “It was great that we had sort of an aligned purpose, and with The Rockefeller Foundation we were able to make this film,” says Chai. Narrated and executive-produced by chef and author Anthony Bourdain, “Wasted” screens on Thursday, Oct. 12 at the Kendall Square Cinema at 7 p.m. as part of this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival. The film features several internationally renowned chefs, including Dan Barber, Mario Batali and Danny Bowien, who discuss the farm-to-table movement, food insecurity and how they avoid food waste. Italian chef Massimo Bottura, interviewed in the film, states that 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. “We need to act differently,” he says. And even Bourdain, who states in the beginning of the film that he doesn’t like the idea of being an advocate, says the food principle that was drilled into him as a cook coming up in the culinary world, was to “use everything, waste nothing.” Directors Chai and Kye, who have worked together for a long time and have worked with a lot of chefs over the years, both say that one of the things they’ve learned about chefs is they abhor food waste. “They truly and utterly hate wasting food,” says Chai. “It’s both a sign of lack of creativity and a waste of resources. It’s literally money going into the trash that could be transformed into a meal, even if it’s feeding the staff.” One of the ways that the film aims to empower viewers is by offering practical tips, such as shopping and eating mindfully as a first step in reducing food waste in our daily lives. “If everyone did one thing every day, it would make a huge dent in it,” says Chai. “I think that’s an exciting part of a problem like food waste — small changes can actually have great impact.” In Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, the Daily Table, a notfor-profit grocery store, also hopes to provide a solution to food waste
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Though the play was written more than 50 years ago, the issues of race, gender and identity continue to resonate today. In fact, Ogbeide says this continued relevance was one of the things that drew her to the script. Gammons says the show isn’t political in a literal sense, but his directorial choices have served to bring those themes home, including staging the production in the round. “The way we staged the show is incredibly intimate. It’s really in your face,” he says. “I hope that intensity and intimacy causes people to reflect on one’s individual consciousness and identity.”
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“The Owl Answers,” by powerhouse African American writer Adrienne Kennedy, features a central figure, Clara, who’s struggling to deal with her dual heritage as the daughter of a white father and a black mother.
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TIP OF THE WEEK Make slow-cooker meals taste better With the arrival of cooler weather comes the season of the slow cooker. With these tips from the Food Network, you can make your dinners as delicious as they are easy: Keep the lid shut: Each peak will add an additional 15 to 20 minutes of cooking time. Browning boosts flavor: Brown your meat and saute your vegetables before adding them to the crock for a deep, caramelized flavor. Avoid frozen food: Icy ingredients will keep food in the danger zone of harmful bacteria. Make sure your meat and vegetables are fully thawed before turning the cooker on. Don’t overcrowd: For the best results, fill your slow cooker between one-half and two-thirds full. Layer wisely: Place slow-cooking root vegetables at the bottom of the crock and pile the meat on top. Add dairy last: Stir in sour cream, milk and yogurt during the last 15 minutes of cooking.
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Leafy wraps-ody Creating the perfect bite BY ARI LEVAUX
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ood wraps can be found, in one incarnation or another, anywhere in the world that people eat. They include Mexican wraps held together by tortillas of flour and corn, and Asian spring and egg rolls, the contents of which are contained by rice paper or egg noodles. Middle Eastern pita flatbreads are filled with gyro meat and falafel. Italian cannoli pastry is filled with sweetened ricotta cheese and other goodness, while the pasta is stuffed with savory cheese and ragu. Part of the reason for the ubiquity of wraps is that they can be made with so many different ingredients and allow such an endless variety of perfectly optimized bites. Consider the fish taco, in which the corn tortilla packages a symphony of flavors leveraged against the fish: Creamy sauce, crunchy cabbage, fruity salsa. All of the basic flavors: sweet, salty, sour, and the dark and mysterious newcomer, umami. And fat, of course, the uncrowned king of flavors that amplifies them all. Wraps allow you to set up one winning combination after another, with no ceiling on the possibilities. The fact that the wrappers themselves are usually made of supple, yummy processed carbohydrates hardly hurts the cause. But there are many kinds of plant leaf out there that are bendy and tasty enough to use as wrappers as well. The shining example in this department would be the nori seaweed sheets that bind sushi together, a successful mouthful if there ever was one. The salad bites that I’ve been rocking lately have been Mediterranean-themed, built upon the sturdy stems of Italian radicchio. One thing about radicchio, or any chicory leaf for that matter, is that you have to be OK with bitter. And you should be OK with bitter. It is good in more ways than just beer, and coffee, and chocolate. Cultivating an appreciation for bitter plants is like exercising a muscle. It can be done, and makes you healthier. I have a garden full of Italian chicory plants of all shapes and colors, as well as romaine, an honorary chicory. But when it’s time for wrapping, the one I reach for most often is the Rossa di Treviso, an elongated variety with lanky, fleshy leaves that stay crispy when stuffed or dipped. I fill them with the likes of tomato, onion, cheese and perhaps a chunk of salmon,
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Part of the reason for the ubiquity of wraps is that they can be made with so many different ingredients.
wrapped and dipped in a marinade before chewing. Some notes on bitter leaf wraps: n As with many fresh leaf wraps, they are best done one at a time, just when you are ready to eat it. They don’t always hold together well, especially after you have overloaded them with stuffing, and should be brought to your mouth quickly. n The cheese should be dense and bold, like feta or provolone picante, or perhaps shavings of Romano or Grana Padano. Whenever buying Italian cheeses, look for the DOP designation. n If I’m wrapping fish I use mayonnaise instead of cheese (grape seed oil Vegenaise, to be specific). If I don’t have salmon, pickled herring works well. As do anchovies, or a dab of anchovy paste. n If I do have salmon, and I do a lot these days because it’s in season, I bake it slowly with a sweet rub to balance the bitter of the radicchio. Rub it with a mix of two parts brown sugar and one part salt, with a splash of maple syrup if you’ve got it, and then bake at 215 for about a half hour, until some milky juice starts weeping from the tight, glazed orange flesh. Allow to
cool, and break it apart into chunks. n Don’t forget the sliced onion. n Capers don’t hurt. n Tomatoes should be cut so they easily give up their juices. Without a cut surface, a tomato won’t absorb the vinaigrette. n Speaking of which, I use my wife’s radicchio dipping dressing: ∏ cup XVOO, ∑ cup soy sauce, 1⁄3 cup vinegar (half white balsamic, half balsamic). n As you dip, you may have to add more oil, as it hangs out on top and coats each leaf as you remove it (bummer, I know). You decide on a dip-by-dip basis how much dressing to use. n You can also marinate the onions and tomatoes in the dressing before adding them to the wrap, and skip the dip altogether. n Put the wrap in your mouth, chew, and enter a flavor warp. Rinse with water or wine, and repeat. And that, for lack of a better ending, is a wrap. Ari LeVaux writes a syndicated weekly food column that’s appeared in more than 50 newspapers in 25 states. Ari can be reached at flash@flashinthepan.net.
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Dominica hit hard by hurricane Maria By YAWU MILLER
Hours be fore Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, it hit the Caribbean island of Dominica with the full brunt of its category 5 strength. The 160-mile-an-hour winds ripped off roofs, flattened homes, destroyed power lines and, combined with heavy rains, washed away roads — leaving the island of 72,000 residents utterly devastated. “Electric Power is gone,” said Donald Peters, president of Dominica State College. “Roads are gone. Schools are gone. There’s no communications.” In Massachusetts to raise money for the rebuilding of his college, Peters, who graduated from Northeastern University, said he’s concerned for the future of the island, which he estimates will need at least $5 billion to rebuilt its ruined infrastructure.
Aid spread thin
“It’s difficult because of all the other islands seeking aid,” he said, noting that many aid organizations have focused on the devastation in Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, overlooking Dominica. While the Red Cross, USAID and Oxfam have chipped in, Peters says many Dominicans, including students at his university, are moving to Barbados and other islands that are members of the Caribbean Community, a multi-state association that shares citizenship rights. “We are concerned about a mass migration, because the
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Donald Peters, president of Dominica State College. island’s population is so small,” he said.
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At Dominica State College, eight of the 15 buildings on campus lost their roofs, and the entire computer system was destroyed by water damage. Peters says it will cost at least $1 million to repair damage to his university. University officials hope to have repairs in place by January so students can return to class for the spring semester. “Our focus is on rebuilding the school as quickly as possible,” he said. In the meantime, students have gone to other universities in
the Caribbean. “Barbados has taken 50 second-year students,” Peters said. “Granada is taking more. But, of course, students will need aid to go. So that will be a challenge.” When Peters returns to Dominica, he faces another daunting challenge: his own home, where he and his wife reside. “Our roof is gone,” he said. “We are sleeping on the second floor with no ceiling.”
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exodus of residents driven out by the island’s buckling economy and lack of jobs. Between 2010 and 2016, the population declined by 8 percent, according to MarketWatch. In the hurricane’s aftermath, it is likely another 100,000 to 200,000 residents will leave, Edwin Meléndez from Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College told Vox. Maldonado has asked the federal government to provide $6 billion to $8 billion to keep the territory’s government running for the next few months. Without emergency funding from Congress, Puerto Rico’s government may shut down on Oct. 31, he said.
The creditors
P u e r t o R i c o’s c r e d i t o r s range from individual retirees to deep-pocketed hedge fund owners. After the hurricanes struck, The Intercept contacted 51 major bondholders to ask if they would support a cancellation or moratorium on debt payments. By Sept. 27, none of the 51 creditors contacted said they supported debt relief, and only three reported donations to relief organizations: Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Scotiabank. Others,
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Essentially you’re looking at zero revenue for the next couple of months. While you have zero revenue, you still have expenditures, plus emergency expenditures. That means the money is going to run out very quickly.” — Raul Maldonado, Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary
including the Prepa Bondholder Group, offered a new loan and a loan swap. The offer would provide immediate cash for restoring power, but would have to be repaid with interest, piling more onto the debt burden. The bonds offered also are of a type that have a higher repayment priority than currently held by that creditor group, thus placing them ahead in the line to get paid, The Intercept states.
Boston connection
Bostonians are among notable players in Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. Recently, it was revealed that Seth Klarman’s Boston-based Baupost Group hedge fund owns $911 million of Puerto Rico’s debt. Another local is Carlos Garcia, owner of BayBoston and a member of the Hyde Square Task Force board of directors, who was involved in issuing debt on behalf of Puerto Rico, tightly linked to a company
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paid to underwrite the debt and on the board charged now with resolving the crisis. Garcia became head of Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank in 2009. While there, he issued COFINA bonds, which are backed by sales taxes and thus draw from funds that otherwise would support public services. One of the banks that received steep fees for underwriting those bonds was Santander, where Garcia had been an executive and to which he returned after his government role, according to a report from the Hedge Clippers and Committee for Better Banks. Report authors questioned the financial logic behind many of the COFINA bonds issued, and charged that Garcia profited off exacerbating the financial crisis. Garcia was appointed to the Financial Oversight and Management Board, which is charged with restructuring Puerto Rico’s finances to address the debt crisis.
Meanwhile, Garcia also chairs the Caribbean Financial Group, which offers small, personal loans aimed at individuals with little access to credit from traditional lenders. The group’s loans have interest rates listed as high as 25 percent over four years, according to the Hedge Clippers-Better Banks report. That report states that such loans seem designed to extract profit from those with few alternatives, such as Puerto Ricans in the midst of the debt crises. Protestors demonstrated in Newton, Massachusetts in March, calling for Garcia to step down from the board.
The White House
President Donald Trump shook the finance industry when he said in an interview that aired on Fox News on Oct. 3 that Puerto Rico’s debt would be cleared. Following his comments, White House officials quickly backtracked, saying the president
should not be taken literally. “You know they owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We’re going to have to wipe that out,” Trump said on CNN. “You can say goodbye to that, I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that.” The value of Puerto Rico’s general obligation bonds dropped after these comments, and White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney downplayed the comments on CNN. “I think what you saw the president talking about was his acknowledgment that Puerto Rico is going to have to figure out a way to solve that debt problem in order to fix itself going forward,” Mulvaney said. “Puerto Rico is going to have to figure out how to fix the errors that it’s made for the last generation on its own finances.” He told Bloomberg that the administration would not pay off Puerto Rico’s debt, but is preparing a rebuild and repair plan. Critics have said the government is moving too slowly to rescue its citizens in Puerto Rico. According to figures provided to Vox on Oct. 3 by a spokesperson, FEMA had approved $691 million in grants to Florida to recover from Irma but only $35 million to Puerto Rico.
LEGAL
LEGAL
LEGAL
LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2017.
GENERAL CONTRACTOR GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
The work includes REMOVE EXISTING CHILLED WATER EXPANSION TANKS, CONNECTIONS TO OWNER SUPPLIED NEW EXPANSION TANKS. REPLACE STEAM HEADER, ISOLATION VALVES, BLOWDOWN TANK AND ASSOCIATED AFTERCOOLER AND PIPING, STEAM PRESSURE REDUCING STATION, STEAM POWERED PUMP AND ASSOCIATED TIE-INS, OPACITY METER, EQUIPMENT SUPPORTS AND BASES AND MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS, STRUCTURAL WORK, AND ELECTRICAL WORK INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF VFDS.
Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).
The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Massport) is soliciting Statement of Qualifications for MPA PROJECT NO. H275-C1 HANSCOM AIRPORT RESCUE FIREFIGHTING / UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION FACILITY, L.G. HANSCOM FILED, BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is issued pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149 § 44D½. Firms interested in providing General Contractor Services for the construction of this project must submit a Statement of Qualifications in response to this RFQ. The Contractor selection for this Project is a two-phase process as set forth in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149 § 44D½. The Project delivery method for construction will be under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149. Massport is pre-qualifying firms interested in providing General Contractor service for the Project through this RFQ prequalification process. The project includes the construction of a new state-of-the-art, Massport Airport Rescue and Firefighting Facility (ARFF) / United States Customs and Border Protection Facility (CBP) at LG Hanscom Field. The building will meet all the requirements Massport Fire Department, Federal Aviation Administration and US Customs and Border Protection. The facility will be LEED Gold Certified. The total square footage of the building is expected to be approximately 11,000 square feet and will include ARFF vehicle bays, CBP passenger screening areas and support areas. A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process and evaluation criteria shall be available on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, on MassPort website, http://www.massport.com/massport/business/bids-opportunities/ capital-bids/ as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, on CommBuys (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this Project or by contacting Susan Brace by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at 11:00 AM. The briefing is not mandatory, however, interested Bidders are encouraged to attend. Responses shall be addressed to Houssam Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received in the Capital Programs Department no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to CPBidQuestions@ massport.com. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number. It is strictly prohibited for any proponent to contact anyone else from Massport about this Project from the time of this solicitation until award of the Project to the successful proponent. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. Glynn CEO and Executive Director MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1519-C1, CENTRAL HEATING PLANT UPGRADES, 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, NOVEMBER 15, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.
Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Assessment Management and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,400,000.00). In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Sub-bidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal. Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: ELECTRICAL $180,000.00
Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.
The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.
NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS
This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the
The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS GENERAL CONTRACTOR GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Massport) is soliciting Statement of Qualifications for MPA PROJECT NO. A359-C1 FAA NEXTGEN ATC TOWER SPACE CONSOLIDATION PROJECT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is issued pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149 § 44D½. Firms interested in providing General Contractor Services for the construction of this project must submit a Statement of Qualifications in response to this RFQ. The Contractor selection for this Project is a two-phase process as set forth in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149 § 44D½. The Project delivery method for construction will be under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149. Massport is pre-qualifying firms interested in providing General Contractor service for the Project through this RFQ prequalification process. The Project includes construction of an addition to 4th level of Central Garage Building 30, to provide approximately 6,150 SF of office areas, support areas, training room and telecommunication equipment space. The General Contractor shall provide phased construction services. Phase 1 includes completion for occupancy of an approximately 1,500 SF telecommunication equipment space and Phase 2 includes completion of offices, support areas and training room. A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process and evaluation criteria shall be available on October 4, 2017 on MassPort website, http://www.massport.com/massport/business/bids-opportunities/capital-bids/ as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, on CommBuys (www. commbuys.com) in the listings for this Project or by contacting Susan Brace by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Tuesday, October 10, 2107 at 11:00 AM. The briefing is not mandatory, however, interested Bidders are encouraged to attend. Responses shall be addressed to Houssam Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received in the Capital Programs Department no later than 12:00 Noon on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to CPBidQuestions@ massport.com. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number. It is strictly prohibited for any proponent to contact anyone else from Massport about this Project from the time of this solicitation until award of the Project to the successful proponent. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. Glynn CEO and Executive Director
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INVITATION TO BID
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before the hearing.
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.
DESCRIPTION
DATE
TIME
WRA-4432
Purchase of Two (2) New GM Pickup Trucks (per specifications)
10/24/17
12:00 p.m.
7361
DeLauri Pump Station Upgrades 11/29/17
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
4.
Counsel for Parents: If you are a parent of the minor child who is the subject of this proceeding you have a right to be represented by an attorney. If you want an attorney and cannot afford to pay for one and if you give proof that you are indigent, an attorney will be assigned to you. Your request for an attorney should be made immediately by filling out the Application of Appointment of Counsel form. Submit the application form in person or by mail at the court location where your case is going to be heard.
2:00 p.m.
*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. 5.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110
Date: September 26, 2017
NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date. Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. G70CN01, COMMUTER RAIL TRACK, TIES AND SWITCHES ON-CALL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS (CLASS 1 – GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION ($15,000,000.00) and CLASS 3 – TRACKAGE ($15,000,000.00), PROJECT VALUE - $29,998,654.00), can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on October 31, 2017. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly. Work consists of providing construction-related services on an on-call basis to support state of good repair repair/reconstruction needs of the Authority. Work is anticipated to be performed throughout the MBTA Commuter Rail service area in Massachusetts and will primarily consist of track repair and reconstruction work. Bidders attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. While there is no DBE goal associated with this contract, the Authority strongly encourages the use of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises as prime contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in all of its contracting opportunities.
A petition for Order of Complete Settlement has been filed by Shirley R. Odoms of Mattapan, MA requesting that the court enter a formal Decree of Complete Settlement including the allowance of a final account, 1st-3rd and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/03/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: September 22, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU17P1732GD In the interests of Tyana Shanice Green of Roxbury, MA Minor
NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 08/10/2017 by Tijuana Green of Roxbury, MA will be held 12/04/2017 08:30 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA 02114 - 3rd floor - Probation.
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Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Edward C Logan Jr of Roslindale MA
A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Gladys Rodriguez of Roxbury, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Gladys Rodriguez of Roxbury, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
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Estate of Luria J Williams Date of Death: 01/08/2015
Docket No. SU17P2148EA Estate of Barbara Elizabeth Burton Date of Death August 23, 2017
INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE
To all interested persons:
Luis Manuel Ramirez General Manager of the MBTA
Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement
SUFFOLK Division
Estate of Nelida Rodriguez Date of Death: 05/22/2017
On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Docket No. SU15P0691EA
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication
Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solicitations/
SUFFOLK Division
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: September 28, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate
Docket No. SU17P2017EA
Bidders will affirmatively ensure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this solicitation, minority and female construction contractors will be afforded full opportunity to submit Bids and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin in consideration for an award.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.
Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 11/06/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.
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Studio
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Studio
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AN INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 464 TREMONT STREET BOSTON MA (Castle Square Apartments Community Room) THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2017 6PM-8PM Applications will be available at the information session. For more information or an application to be sent by mail or alternate means, call Madison Park Management Office during the application period of 10/16/17 to 10/30/17. Phone: 617-445-8338 Deadline for completed applications to be in the Lottery is: In person at the Management Office by 4:00pm 11/10/17 or mail postmarked by 11/10/17 SELECTION BY LOTTERY Two units have a preference for persons with mobility impairment. Preference for households of at least one person per bedroom. Maximum Income Limits by Household:
60%
70% $50,700
2 Persons
$49,680
$57,950
3 Persons
$55,860
$65,200
4 Persons
$62,040
$72,400
5 Persons
$67,020
$78,200
6 Persons
$72,000
$84,000
**Voucher Holders not subject to minimum income requirements or rent at payment standard** Contact (617) 445-8338 or TDD: 1-800-439-2370 for Reasonable accommodations regarding the application process or to request an application by mail Translation assistance is available. 2101 Washington Street Rental Housing is an equal housing opportunity Managed by WinnResidential
$72,400
$124,100
5
$78,200
$134,050
6
$84,00
$144,000
Completed Applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 AM and 4 PM on Nov 7th, 2017 The deadline for application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on Nov 7th, 2017. Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by Nov 7th, 2017. The SEB Office is on 257 Hillside Ave, Needham, MA. Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply. Minimum income limits apply. Preference for Boston Residents. Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom. 200 Brookline Avenue is a smoke free and pet friendly community For more information or reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or those with limited English proficiency, call 617.782.6900
Use and Occupancy Restrictions Apply Applications may be requested by email at 9williams@winnco.com or picked up during the following dates and times at: 207 Dudley Street Roxbury MA 02119 (Management Office) Reasonable accommodations made Applications available: Monday-Friday 10/16/17 – 10/27/17 & Monday 10/30/17 Hours: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday 10/21/17 Hours: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
$43,440
$111,700
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From Oct 19th to Oct 31st applications can be requested by phone (617.782.6900) or email (200Brook.BPDA@s-e-b.com). Applications may also be picked up at the Fenway Community Development Corporation (70 Burbank St, Boston) Thurs Oct 19h (4 pm to 8 pm), Saturday Oct 21st (10 am to 2 pm), Monday Oct 23rd (1 pm to 5 pm), Tuesday Oct 24th (1 pm to 5 pm), and Wed Oct 25th (1 pm to 5 pm)
*Preference for persons with mobility impairment 1- (1br PBV-BHA unit) 1- (2br 60% AMI unit) *Rents are based upon adjusted gross income. Section 8 available through the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). To apply, households should contact the BHA, 52 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA 02111 ** Gross Rent includes utility allowance with tenant payment for heat, hot water, and electricity.
HH size
$57,950 $65,200
MINIMUM Income Requirements (approximate) to afford the 70% AMI BRA Income Restricted Units (for households who do NOT currently have a subsidy like a Section 8 voucher) are: $26,064 to lease a studio, $30,408 to lease a 1-BR unit, $34,752 to lease a 2-BR unit, and $39,120 to lease a 3-BR unit. Please see Info Packet for details.
See below*
1 Person
2 3
*Income Limits subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits
9 WILLIAMS STREET RENTAL HOUSING 9 Williams Street, Roxbury, Ma 02119 Type
Income Limit
Pierce Boston Condominium
188 Brookline Ave, Boston MA (Fenway) BPDA Income Restricted Housing Lottery 1 New BPDA Income Restricted Condominiums FOR-SALE # of Units
Type
Price*
Approx Sqft
Income Limit
1
1BR
$239,000
658 sqft
80% to 100% AMI
The MINIMUM Income Limits for Households are as follows: 1 Person - $57,900; 2 Persons - $66,200; The MAXIMUM Income Limits for Households are as follows: $72,400; 2 Persons - $82,750; *Income Limits and Sales Price subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits The Maximum Household Assets are $100,000. From Oct 19th to Oct 31st applications can be requested by phone (617.782.6900) or email (Pierce.BPDA@s-e-b.com). Applications may also be picked up at the Fenway Community Development Corporation (70 Burbank St, Boston) Thurs Oct 19th (4 pm to 8 pm), Saturday Oct 21st (10 am to 2 pm), Monday Oct 23rd (1 pm to 5 pm), Tuesday Oct 24th (1 pm to 5 pm), and Wed Oct 25th (1 pm to 5 pm) Completed Applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 AM and 4 PM on Nov 7th, 2017 The deadline for application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on Nov 7th, 2017. Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by Nov 7th, 2017. The SEB Office is on 257 Hillside Ave, Needham, MA. Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Resale Restrictions apply. Preference for Boston Residents. Preference for First-Time Homebuyers. For more information or reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or those with limited English proficiency, call 617.782.6900
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Affordable Rental Housing Opportunity Selection by Lottery - 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
SALE OF TWO (2) AFFORDABLE 2-BEDROOM CONDOMINIUMS 150 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA (with parking) Applications Due By 12 Noon, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
~ A 55 & Over Community ~ Rents:
# of Type Apts. Gross Rent*
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11 Midway Park Dr., Dartmouth, MA 02747 Applications available beginning 10/9/17 thru 12/8/17 at • Dartmouth Town Clerks Office, Town Hall, Rm. 203, 400 Slocum Rd., Dartmouth • Southworth Library, 732 Dartmouth St., S. Dartmouth • North Dartmouth Library, 1383 Tucker Road, N. Dartmouth or by phone 508.513.5223 (TTY 711) or online at RentAtLincolnPark.com or PeabodyProperties.com Mail completed application to: Peabody Properties, Inc. c/o Lincoln Park Lottery, 536 Granite Street, Braintree, MA 02184 or email to lincolnleaseup@peabodyproperties.com Deadline: Postmarked by December 8, 2017
1BR 1BR 1BR 2BR 2BR 2BR
24 1 5 14 1 3
REAL ESTATE
Program Type
Number of Persons in Household
Maximum Income
1
$54,750
60% 30% 30% 60% 30% 30%
$708 $368 PBV Rent** $850 $510 PBV Rent**
Heat & Hot Water Included
$70,350
4
$78,150
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Rents, utility allowances & income limits based on HUD guidelines & subject to change. Please inquire in advance for reasonable accommodation. Info contained herein subject to change w/o notice.
REOPENING WAIT LIST
Mishawum Park Apartments will be accepting applications for 1, 2, and 3 bedroom family housing units under the Section 236 program. 338 Main St., Charlestown, MA 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. Application Pick-Up Locations (available beginning 9/28/17 thru 10/30/17): ∙ Mishawum Park Apartments, 338 Main Street, Charlestown (office hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Thurs 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.) ∙ Charlestown Community Center, 255 Medford Street, Charlestown or by downloading the application at PeabodyProperties.com; or by phone 617.242.4016 (TTY 711) NOTE: Applications will not be sent or received by fax or e-mail. Please call in advance at 617.242.4016 or MA TTY: Dial 711 or 1.800.439.2370 if a reasonable accommodation request or assistance with limited English proficiency is needed. Submit Completed Application To: Mishawum Park Apartments, 338 Main Street, Charlestown, MA 02129 in person or by mail. Deadline: Received or postmarked with a date of 9/28/17 through 10/30/17. Applications received after this date will not be accepted for the lottery. The lottery selection will be held on 11/6/17 at 10 a.m. at Mishawum Park Apts. Community Room, 95 Dunstable Street, Charlestown. You do not need to be in attendance for the selection process since you will be notified of your position on the waiting list. All applicants must be determined eligible in accordance with the Department of HUD and DHCD regulations and must meet the family size requirements for a designated bedroom size unit and the income of all family members must be greater than the 236 program mininum but less than the established maximum. All utilities are included Income Limits - 236 Program*: in the rent and voucher Maximum Income holders are welcome to HH# Minimum Income $31,400 1 $20,820 apply. $34,320 2 $22,770 $36,720 3 $24,360 $39,240 4 $26,010 *Median income levels, rents & utility allowances are subject to change based on HUD guidelines (HUD.gov). Please inquire in advance for reasonable accommodation. Info contained herein subject to change w/o notice.
Lunenburg Affordable Rentals Twelve 1 and 2 Bedroom Units Rent: $844 and $1,057, utilities not included Whalom Luxury Apartments GPS: 250 Whalom Road, Lunenburg Public Info Meeting/Open House 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m., Saturday, October 21, 2017, 1 Rogers Rd #102 (GPS: 250 Whalom Road) Application Deadline November 17, 2017 Reasonable Accommodation Available for persons with disabilities.
MAX INCOME 1—$44,800 3- $57,600 2—$51,200 4- $64,000 Language/translation assistance available at no charge upon request.
For Info and Application: Pick Up: Lunenburg Town Hall—Town Clerk, Public Library, or Leasing Office, 69 Massachusetts Ave, Lunenburg Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com TTY/TTD: 711, when asked 978-456-8388 FAX: 978-456-8986
Pet and Smoke Free Bldg Units by lottery
Application available online at: www.mcohousingservices.com
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It is unlawful to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, familial status, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran’s or military status, national origin, ancestry, marital status, source of income or genetic information. Reasonable accommodations will be made for those who require them.
$26,460 $30,240 $34,020 $37,800
Info Session: Wednesday, November 8th | 2 & 6 P.M. Lottery Drawing: Tuesday, December 19th | 11 A.M. Both events held at Rachel’s Lakeside, 950 State Road, Dartmouth, MA
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
$203,553
For information on this and other opportunities, consult: http://www.brooklinema.gov/231/Affordable-Housing-Opportunities
Income Limits (as of 4/14/17)*: 30% AMI 60% AMI #HH $13,250 $16,240 $20,420 $24,600
$62,550
Estimated Monthly Real Estate Taxes & Condo Fees
For an application call (617) 730-2091 or visit Brookline Public Library at 361 Washington Street
*Utility allowance to be determined and deducted from gross rent allowable. **Rent share determined by PHA based on income of applicant.
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Arlington Public Schools
Principal, Ottoson Middle School
BPDA Income Restricted Rental Opportunity 5-9 Woodworth Street, Boston, MA 02122
Start date: July 1, 2018 See website for Application Process and for other current job openings:
www.WoodworthLottery.com
http://www.arlington.k12.ma.us/hr/
1 Income Restricted Rental Unit
Arlington values diversity. The Arlington Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, age, ancestry, or disability.
# of Units
BR Size
Rent*
% Income
1
2 Bed
$1,448
70%
*Minimum income limits apply Maximum Income Limit
HH size
Up to 70%
1
$50,700
2
$57,950
3
$65,200
4
$72,400
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Households may request an application be sent by email or mail from Monday October 16th – Wednesday October 25th through the following methods: To complete the application online, please visit: www.WoodworthLottery.com To have a hard copy of the application sent to your mailing address, please call: 617-209-5403
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Date
Time
Tuesday, October 17. 2017
10:00AM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, October 18. 2017
10:00AM - 2:00PM
Thursday, October 19. 2017
10:00AM - 2:00PM
Friday, October 20. 2017
3:00PM - 7:00PM
BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY (BHA)
Saturday, October 21. 2017
10:00AM - 2:00PM
RECEPTIONIST/PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVE
Funding and enrollment based on eligibility
Location: 5 Woodworth Street, Boston, MA 02122 Applications must be submitted Wednesday, November 1, 2017 and can only be submitted by completing it online or by mailing in the paper application: Mailed applications must be postmarked no later than November 1, 2017 Maloney Properties, Inc. Attention: Woodworth Lottery 27 Mica Lane, Wellesley MA 02481 Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply. Preference for Boston Residents. Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom. For more info or reasonable accommodations, Call Maloney Properties, Inc. 617-209-5403 | U.S. Relay 711 Email: Woodworth@MaloneyProperties.com www.MaloneyRealEstate.com Equal Housing Opportunity
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Responsibilities: • Serve as the first point of contact for all BHA incoming calls and visitors. • Provides clerical and administrative support to the Subsidized Housing and Applications Departments. • Addresses customer, applicant and resident inquiries and directing questions to the appropriate BHA staff and/or department. • Assist BHA visitors with general information of the Section 8 and Public Housing programs. Qualifications: • Previous experience in the affordable housing or similar field. • High school graduate or GED equivalent. • Ability to interact professionally with a diverse range of people. • Strong administrative and computer skills (MS Word, Excel and Outlook). • Bilingual a plus. Salary & Benefits: BHA offers a generous benefits package, including state GIC health insurance and a defined-benefit pension plan. Salary commensurate with qualifications and in accordance with Collective Bargaining Agreement. To apply: Submit cover letter and resume by email to: jobs@brooklinehousing.org. Position is open until filled, application by email only. A full job description is at: http://brooklinehousing.org/Business&employmentOpportunities.html. The Brookline Housing Authority is an equal opportunity/affirmative action, Section 3 employer. Females, minorities, veterans, Section 3 qualifying individuals, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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