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Rox. workers stunned by hospital closure Sandra Larson

over the state, and are among the most difficult patients to place.

“There’s already an extreme Employees of Radius Specialty Hospital received a sur- shortage of psych units across the prise announcement last week state,” he said. “Closing this, there that its Quincy and Roxbury facil- won’t be many other places to go. ities would be permanently clos- The psych unit here takes a lot of ing immediately, causing patients people who nobody else wants to at the two long-term acute care take.” He predicted that patients sites to be relocated and some 350 who can’t be placed in nursing homes will be placed in emergency employees to lose their jobs.

In a brief letter to representa- rooms.

Radius has been operating tives of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, dated Sept. its 84-bed Roxbury facility at 22, Radius Director of Human 59 Townsend Street, the former Resources Christine Bresna- Jewish Memorial Hospital, since han said, “All it acquired employees the financialwill be laid ly-strapped off and each older hospital entire worksite in 2006. The will be closed Quincy site “1199 is filing permanently.” has 38 beds, litigation that Layoffs were located within expected to Quincy Mediargues these were start the folcal Center. lowing day and Both sites not unforeseeable be complete by served patients circumstances.”

October 7. coming from “People intensive care — Jeff Hall were crying,” units and said Cassanrequiring an dra Gittens, extended stay, an administraand specialtor reached by ized in intenphone at Radius’ Roxbury site. sive rehabilitation of patients with “Many people had to leave the respiratory conditions requiring room. None of us knew the hospi- ventilator care and patients with tal was in jeopardy. Some of these other medically complex condipeople have never had another tions, according to the hospital’s job.” website.

Gittens also expressed concern According to the letter from for patients and their families.

Bresnahan to the union, the clo“People don’t even know where sure is the result of an “unexpected their family members are going to decline in patient census” at Radibe relocated to,” she said. us-Quincy, which resulted in the Christopher Caufield, a nurse hospital’s lender seizing funds and in the psychiatric department at leaving the hospital unable to conRadius and a union representative tinue operations. for the Mass Nursing Association, Stewart Grossman, an attorney Radius, continued to page 12 said Radius’ patients come from all

Gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley rallies the crowd at a rally held at Hibernian Hall Sunday. Coakley supporters pledged to mobilize voters in Boston’s black and Latino communities during the event. (Banner photo)

Coakley, Baker tout support in black, Latino communities Yawu Miller With polls showing Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker in a dead heat for governor, both campaigns have ratcheted up operations in Boston’s predominantly black and Latino communities.

Coakley kicked off the week Sunday with a rally of black and Latino elected officials at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, calling on supporters to join a massive, grass roots get-out-the-vote effort.

At the Banner’s press time, Baker was scheduled to hold an endorsement press conference with black community supporters including nonprofit director

Robert Lewis, former Judge Joyce London Alexander, Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers President Larry Ellison, and Republican activists Rachel Kemp and Robert Fortes.

While Baker is looking to make inroads among communities of color in Massachusetts, Coakley holds the clear advantage, with the support of virtually every black elected official in the city and Gov. Deval Patrick, who told the crowd at Hibernian Hall that the attorney general would continue his legacy in the corner office.

“You’ve got one candidate talking about tax cuts and another talking about early childhood

education. That’s as obvious as it gets,” Patrick told the crowd Sunday. “We’ve got to be about common destiny and common good, and Martha has shown through her whole career that she has been about the common good.”

Among those in the auditorium Sunday were activists and officials with the power to mobilize hundreds of volunteers. State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry said she is making her two campaign offices in Dorchester’s Lower Mills and in South Boston available for the coordinated campaigns of Coakley and other candidates for statewide office.

“We need to support the Coakley, Baker, continued to page 12

Hub NAACP kicks off contentious election Yawu Miller

NAACP Boston Branch President Michael Curry addresses the audience at a meeting Monday. Looking on are (l–r) 1st Vice President Cheryl Clyburne Crawford and Treasurer Terri L. Brown. (Banner photo)

The basement meeting room was full and the debate was heated at times as NAACP Boston Branch members new and old discussed the upcoming election for branch president and other positions.

The room at the Twelfth Baptist church was divided between supporters of incumbent President Michael Curry and challenger Larry Ellison, president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers.

Ellison and his supporters say

the branch has been silent on key issues affecting blacks in Boston.

“There’s been a lot of issues going on in Boston that I and others feel aren’t being addressed by the Boston Branch,” Ellison told the Banner. “Every time you turn around folks are out on the picket line, but aren’t in the job line.”

Curry used the meeting’s customary committee reports to highlight the work the branch has been undertaking. The Education Committee negotiated to block the Boston Public Schools from requiring 7th graders to ride the NAACP, continued to page 8

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Tremendous Maid founders emphasize upward mobility Martin Desmarais In her business, Tremendous Maid co-founder and CEO Victoria Amador understands that clean is the bottom line. But when she started her Jamaica Plain-based cleaning services company in early 2011, she had more in mind — she wanted to create a business that brought a new level of efficiency and customer service to the industry and also provided an opportunity for its cleaners to advance in the company and in their careers.

“There is a level of professionalism that is normally lacking in the

industry, especially for residential cleaning services,” Amador said.

“We want to change that.”

Amador also decries a lack of respect for the cleaners who are the heart and soul of the industry and do the work that makes her business possible. She admits a passion to fix this lack of respect.

She points out that many cleaners are immigrants from other countries, leaving behind careers as business professionals, doctors and lawyers to come to the United States to start a new life — and working as cleaners may be the only job they can get to start on their path.

“What we want to do with Tremendous Maid is really give our employees the opportunity to advance,” Amador said. “We want a higher retention, which normally in the cleaning business is very low. If we treat them in the right way and make it possible for them to eventually move on and achieve the American Dream — whatever that may be — it is easy to keep them and promote them to managers.”

At Tremendous Maid, the vision is to be able to move employees from cleaners to team leaders to supervisors to managers.

Tremendous Maid family (l–r) Nisaury Tejada, Rosa Tejada, Victoria Amador. (Photo courtesy of Tremendous Maid)

The company has partnered with People’s United Bank to offer its employees financial literacy classes.

For Amador, investing in her employees is investing in the company.

“We have a pretty good amount of the team members right now that are very serious about advancing and they are taking classes after hours and on the weekends,” she said. “For the ones that are trying, you really see a difference.”

Amador started Tremendous Maid with her sister, Nisaury Tejeda, and her mother, Rosa Tejada.

Amador came to the United States in 1995 from the Dominican Republican when she was 14.

She graduated from East Boston High School and then attended Cornell University, graduating from the college’s famed School of Hotel Administration in 2004. She then took a job as assistant executive housekeeper at five-star hotel The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., before starting Tremendous Maid.

Nisaury Tejada is a graduate of Boston College and has a background in real estate and property management. She works as Tremendous Maid’s chief financial officer.

Rosa Tejada is the company’s director of operations and has 20 years of experience in residential and commercial cleaning and has worked at many upscale hotels and resorts, including brands owned by Marriott, Hilton and Starwood.

The company began just offering residential cleaning services in 2011, but expanded to commercial cleaning services under the division Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning in mid-2013.

It has clients throughout Boston and in neighboring cities and towns.

The company ended year one with six employees and had grown to close to 20 by the end of the second year. It now has about 30 employees.

According to Amador, the goal is to have 400 employees by 2019.

“We are on track to do that,” she said. “We do have a pretty good long-term vision.”

With profit margins very low overall in the cleaning industry — typically around 10 percent for residential work — Amador said the move into commercial helps with the growth of the company because commercial margins can be as high as 20–30 percent.

Everything Tremendous Maid makes goes into developing the company as well.

“We are putting back whatever earnings we get until we feel that we are fully established,” Amador said.

She credits her time at The Breakers for learning the value and efficiency of high-level hospitality.

This includes a consistent training process, inspections of work, and feedback and meetings.

“I’d like to say cleaning is cleaning but at the end of the day that is not true,” she said. “We are always about the customer service. We are always putting ourselves in the customer’s shoes.”

While Nisaury Tejada was set in a stable job at a property management firm when her sister approached her about leaving to start Tremendous Maid, she said she was excited by the opportunity, especially for her own growth in the business world.

“She convinced me. I needed a change. It was the right time,” she said. “I have grown a lot personally in learning how to run the company and working with the employees.”

“There is a lot more growth opportunity here as we grow,” she added. “The bigger it gets, the more opportunity.”

Amador admits that when she was in college at Cornell she never thought she would end up opening a cleaning business, but she definitely knew she wanted to someday start her own business. She is thrilled so far with the results of Tremendous Maid.

“I honestly don’t think I can work for somebody else after doing this. It is a challenge. It is different. You can be as creative as you want. You can make this go as high as you want,” she said. “It is the best decision I have made in my life and there are no regrets.

This is just the beginning.”

Lantigua, Devers square off in Lawrence state rep. race Yawu Miller Do a Google search on Willy Lantigua and the headlines paint a bleak picture: “Controversy surrounding Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua,” “Can William Lantigua survive?”

The articles stem from his tumultuous four years in office, during which he and members of his administration were under near-constant investigation by federal and state authorities.

In April of this year, former Lantigua aide Leonard Degnan was sentenced to 18 months in the Essex County House of Correction for allegedly strong-arming a city contractor into donating a garbage truck to a small town in the Dominican Republic.

Despite the headlines, Lantigua was never charged with any wrongdoing, save for a slew of campaign finance violations, which included illegal contributions and improperly recorded donations.

Last year, Lantigua narrowly lost the mayor’s office to former City Councilor Dan Rivera. This year, he’s running for the 16th Essex state representative seat he vacated after being elected mayor.

“I’m answering the call of the people,” he said in a recent interview. “They keep asking me to continue in a leadership role.”

Marcos Devers (Banner photo) Running as an independent, Lantigua will face off against incumbent Marcos Devers in the November 4 state election.

Devers did not return the Banner’s phone calls. His campaign manager, Dan Mackland-Rivera, said he was confident Devers would be re-elected.

“People are very excited about this election,” he said. “Some people who haven’t voted in years want to vote for Devers because they know Lantigua is running against him.”

Lantigua, too, says he has the support of the voters. Standing in front of his Essex Street campaign office, Lantigua stops his conversation at regular intervals to respond to passersby offering handshakes and hugs.

The race between Lantigua and Devers could be close, observers say.

Devers may have alienated some of the city’s predominantly Dominican voting base by refusing to support School Committee member Pavel Payano, who was defeated in his bid for the state Senate in the September 9 primary by former state Rep. Barbara L’Italien.

“People are very mad with Devers,” said Lawrence radio personality Jose Ayala. “Some of Devers’ supporters worked on Barbara L’Italien’s campaign.”

Devers is also catching flack for what some see as a laid-back legislative schedule. According to roll calls and travel vouchers Devers submitted, he spent just 47 days at the State House in the last year.

“I think it’s going to be a close race,” Ayala said. “If Devers doesn’t get out and explain things

like his attendance at the State House, I think it’s going to be difficult for him. Willy still has a lot of people who trust him.”

Lantigua says he’s earned the voters’ respect during his years of public service, noting that he entered the mayor’s office in 2010 facing a $30 million deficit, inherited from outgoing mayor Michael J. Sullivan. Lantigua borrowed $35 million from the state to help bring the city’s finances back in line.

Lantigua, continued to page 18

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Willy Lantigua at his Essex Street campaign office. (Banner photo)

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America’s race sickness afflicts public health Unlike citizens of other industrialized countries, many Americans oppose government financed health care. President Barack Obama confronted massive opposition in his effort to gain popular support for passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was dismissively referred to as “Obamacare.”

Criticism has not completely abated even now with substantial evidence that the law is working.

Before passage of the ACA, opponents insisted that the law would fail because Americans would resist buying health insurance. Opponents seemed to delight in the early problems when the computer system failed and enrollment fell behind schedule. But now about 3.8 million uninsured Americans have enrolled. According to a federal report, the number of uninsured Americans has already dropped by about 8 percent as of the first quarter of 2014. The ACA program is on schedule.

Obama is indeed concerned that all Americans can have access to quality health care, but he is also aware that the nation’s escalating medical expenses had to be curtailed. A persistent argument of the conservatives who opposed the ACA is that spiraling health costs would bankrupt the nation. However, Obama established administrative systems to get health costs under tighter control.

According to an Aug. 27 report from the Congressional Budget Office, projections for Medicare costs have substantially declined. The budget estimate for 2019 is $95 billion less than it was four years ago. According to The New York Times, that amount is greater than the anticipated total combined expenditures in 2019 for welfare, unemployment insurance and Amtrak.

Of course it is too early to assert that the

economies in the cost of health care are the result of the ACA. However, it does appear that Americans are enrolling for health care insurance as anticipated and that tighter administration of the nation’s health care system will ultimately contain the costs. Why then is there still such objection to Obamacare, especially from those who will benefit the most from the program?

An important aspect of the ACA was to expand Medicaid eligibility to families earning as much as 138 percent of the appropriate federal poverty level. But this was not a federal requirement. Individual states had to agree to the Medicaid expansion, but the federal government would pay the costs for two years. While this seems like an easy win-win decision, 22 states have refused to accept the offer.

It should come as no surprise that most states of the Old Confederacy have refused the federal government’s generous offer. A good number of their citizens would then qualify for Medicaid and many of them are black. In addition, their refusal provides another opportunity to oppose the black president in Washington.

The response to the ACA in Kentucky demonstrates the racial tension. Kentucky has successfully embraced the ACA through a state agency called kynect. However, many citizens do not realize that they are still benefiting from Obamacare.

Polls indicate a massive opposition in Kentucky to Obama and his plan for health insurance, but great support for kynect.

It appears that bigots are willing to deny health care to their families as an expression of racial hostility. Now that is sick, and very serious.

“I know you’re not feeling good, but we’re not going to stoop to taking Obama Care!”

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Applauds mayor’s caution on Dearborn School

I write in support of Mayor Walsh’s decision to slow down the process regarding the future of the Dearborn STEM Academy in order to allow for more community input and engagement.

I serve as Executive Director of BPE (formerly the Boston Plan for Excellence). BPE is a non-profit organization that has focused exclusively on supporting BPS students, teachers and schools for the past 30 years. We have prepared more than 500 teachers for BPS through our Boston Teacher Residency program. Together with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, we launched the Dudley Street School in 2012.

When Superintendent McDonough asked BPE to submit a proposal to run the Dearborn STEM Academy, he was driven by the urgent threat of the school being designated a Level 5 school and placed into state receivership. We saw it as a way to support the improvement of the school, to keep it from becoming Level 5, and to create a great preK–12 school pathway in, for and with the Dudley neighborhood.

Before we opened the Dudley Street School, together with DSNI , we worked with parents, families, and students to design a school to meet the needs of the community. And we made

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a promise to Dudley Street School families to grow our school to serve students from preschool through grade 12.

Moving forward, we all hope that the outcome of a collaborative process to transform the Dearborn 6–12 STEM Academy results in an outstanding educational experience for all our students. We have put forth our proposal for such a school in the form of the prospectus we submitted to the state (available on our website). We plan to refine and submit this prospectus to respond to the district’s request for proposals.

As the conversations about the Dearborn continue, and as we all continue to shape and discuss the future of public education in Boston, I have two hopes: 1. That the adults find a way to get beyond highly-polarized and divisive conversations to focus on common ground and doing what’s right for children, and 2. That we

ensure that the voices of the families most affected by decisions about their school communities are heard loud and clear in our discussions.

It is easier to bring people together against something than it is to bring people together to build something.

The question of how to build a worldclass educational institution for every single student and family at the Dearborn is a huge and difficult question; communities across the country are struggling with similar questions without much success. It will take our best thinking and our best collaboration as adults to come together, make tough decisions, and carry them out with common purpose. Our children’s futures depend on our ability to do so.

Respectfully, Jesse Solomon, Executive Director

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OPINION Eric ol er as our fire all against GOP bigotry Earl Ofari Hutchinson One of the most poignant moments in Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.’s six-year tenure heading the Justice Department came in February 2009, barely a month after he had been confirmed as Attorney General. He told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department that America was “cowardly” when it came to facing race and racism. That did it. From that moment on the lines were sharply and brutally drawn. The pack of right wing bloggers, web sites, and of course, the GOP, made Holder their Public Enemy Number 1.

They would hector, hound, harass, demean, insult and batter him at every turn. He was hauled before countless GOP controlled House committees and grilled mercilessly on everything from his alleged bungling and deceit in the fast and furious gun running sting to the reporter leak flap in which he supposedly vindictively went after reporters in an effort to uncover damaging security leaks. The topper was the House’s frivolous lawsuit, a contempt citation and an equally frivolous and clumsy threat to impeach him.

The vicious baiting was never really about Holder. It was about President Obama and race. Obama, in the sense that Holder became the softest of soft targets in the GOP’s no-holds-barred campaign to hamstring Obama with the odor of scandal and in effect straightjacket his presidency. The race part was even more insidious. Holder meant what he said that the nation had marched backward for every step it went forward in dealing with racial bias. He backed up his words with repeated actions on voting rights abuses, grotesque racially skewed sentencing disparities, and defense of gay rights. This was crowned by his rush to St. Louis following the slaying of Michael Brown and putting dozens of FBI and Justice Department attorney’s boots on the ground there with the strong hint that a civil rights prosecution could be in the offing if there was no state prosecution of Ferguson cop Darren Wilson for The vicious baiting the killing of Brown. This sent the professional Holder baiters into was never really about a tizzy and again the shouts were Holder. It was about long and loud for his head.

But Holder each time held fast President Obama and and didn’t buckle. He even dourace. bled down again on his blast at racism noting on several occasions that he, as Michael Brown and countless other young black males, had been profiled by police once as a law student and later as a federal prosecutor. To add even more to the GOP and Holder baiters’ vitriol, he had the audacity to make the claim and the revelation of his personal experience with racial profiling in a keynote speech before Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention last April.

Sharpton went further in that speech and frontally called out the GOP about its ruthless, cynical and politically calculating war against Obama.

He noted that Obama had been vilified as no other president in living memory, and race was the reason. Holder could say that. Obama couldn’t at the risk of creating another firestorm and laying himself open even wider to the accusation that he was a race baiting president. Holder in essence had license to say what Obama didn’t dare say but well knew to be true. So Holder continually and effectively provided a protective cover over Obama in taking on the critics on racial matters. And he provided the same protective cover over the key areas of civil rights and voting rights protections that no other Attorney General had provided since Attorney General Ramsey Clark had done during the Lyndon Johnson administration in the late 1960s.

The proof of Holder’s effectiveness was the backhand perverse compliment the Holder baiters paid him in their euphoria over his resignation. They dredged up all the old distortions, myths, and lies about him in their rush to maliciously tar him as “the worst attorney general” the nation ever had. This spoke volumes how Holder was able to get under their skin to the point where they had to shout in glee at his departure.

The beauty is that Holder has left a solid legacy of accomplishment in the areas that have been and continue to be the greatest flashpoints of public controversy, namely civil rights, and racial justice and fairness.

A final testament to Holder’s commitment here was his announcement three weeks before he announced his departure that the probe he ordered into the killing of Trayvon Martin was still active and that there were new developments to be announced. The implication was that there was still the possibility of civil rights charges being filed against Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. Holder then ended his tenure as he began still taking controversial stances on issues that would surely send his army of detractors back into froth. But that was vintage Holder. He was our firewall against GOP bigotry and we’ll sorely miss him.

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What do you think should be the U.S. response to the Islamic State’s military aggression?

They’ve been fighting for years over there. They brought it to us when they killed the journalist.

I don’t know whether we should send in troops, though.

We’ve already got involved. There has to be some type of transition to local militaries.

I think there should be an education program in the United States so we know who those people are.

We don’t even understand why this is happening.

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Jorge Martinez Executive Director Dorchester

I don’t think we should be bombing other countries. We have to set the tone and this is not the way to do it.

I support what President Obama is doing.

Anytime somebody needs help, America should help. That’s what we’re all about.

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Alvin Poussaint

Alvin Poussaint was recognized at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated and the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses’ Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts.

Poussaint is a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School in Boston who has written more than 100 articles and professional publications, including Why Blacks Kill Blacks, and Come on, People, a book he co-wrote with Bill Cosby. He was a script consultant to NBC ’s The Cosby Show and A Different World and continues to advocate for responsible programming. Dr. Poussaint attended Columbia and earned his doctor of medicine from Cornell in 1960. He received postgraduate training at UCLA .

Now in its 18th year, the Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts raises scholarship funds for students pursuing visual and performing arts. Past honorees

include B.B. King, Quincy Jones, Tyler Perry, Alice Walker, Robert Townsend, the O’Jays, and most

recently, critically acclaimed A r t i s t C a r r i e M a e We e m s , award-winning Director/Producer Antoine Fuqua, and visionary Educator and Novelist Tananarive Due.

Others recognized this year were actor Phylicia Rashad and musician Bill Withers.

“Any discussion about African-American history and culture must include African-American artists,” said A. Shuanise Washington, the president and CEO of the CBCF . “Through the Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts, the CBCF and the CBC Spouses pay homage to those whose creative bodies of work convey the rich and diverse African-American experience.

CBCF is proud to support the next generation of great artists with scholarships to pursue their education and hone their crafts.”

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated, established in 1976, is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy, research and educational institute intended to broaden and elevate the influence of African Americans in the political, legislative and public policy arenas.

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STRIVE Boston merges with JRI

STRIVE Boston, an agency that provides individuals who have been out of the workforce with training and job placement, will merge with Justice Resource Institute, a Massachusetts-based human services agency that provides trauma-informed care to children and adults across the Northeast, the boards of both organizations announced last week. The merger takes effect immediately.

“The work done by STRIVE Boston on behalf of many individuals who have traditionally been viewed as difficult to employ and to help them to get and keep good jobs is both an extension of, and a complement to, the services provided by JRI ,” said Andy Pond, JRI president. “Employment is a critical piece of the puzzle in our work in educating traumatized youth and helping them to heal, and we believe the resources that STRIVE can bring to that work will enable career success for many that we serve. As an agency, this merger also strengthens our connection to Boston’s neighborhoods.”

STRIVE Boston was founded 20 years ago and its workforce model includes job readiness training, financial literacy,

computer literacy, GED instruction, college prep courses, and opportunities to pursue a college education. It has two training centers, one in Dorchester and the other in Roxbury. From 1994 through 2013, STRIVE Boston graduated 4,428 adults from training and placed 4,187 adults in full-time jobs.

“The merger will enable us to serve not only more individuals, but a broader array of individuals as well,” said STRIVE Boston’s Executive Director Charmane Higgins, who will remain in her role while also taking on the title of vice president for employment and vocational services at JRI .

“JRI is able to provide the clinical interventions to help its clients recover from trauma, and STRIVE Boston can now work on creating competencies that will help these individuals to move forward and succeed in the workplace.”

JRI has a longtime — and growing — presence in Boston, including clinical, home-based and day services for a broad range of children and adults, as well as varied residential educational services. The organization also serves individuals with developmental disabilities across the region in both residential and community settings.

STRIVE Boston will maintain its two sites and program staff are expected to remain in place.

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Elisa Miller, 9, of Roxbury, receives some bass guitar tips from Berklee student Sebastian Bucio in the “instrument petting zoo” at the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival Sept. 27. (Banner photo)

Mayor announces Neighborhood Innovation District Committee M a y o r M a r t i n Wa l s h announced the formation of a “Neighborhood Innovation District Committee” to expand innovation and entrepreneurship in the City of Boston.

The Neighborhood Innovation District Committee will seek to identify policies, practices and infrastructure improvements to support the development of innovation districts throughout the city. The first meeting will be October 1 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Room 1 (Room 301) at 1234 Columbus Avenue. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

“As we seek to foster and support economic development in Boston, it is essential for us to establish an environment that supports entrepreneurship and job creation throughout all corners of our city,” Walsh said. “Innovation

knows no boundaries, and our policies, infrastructure, and programs should reflect that, from West Roxbury and Hyde Park to East Boston and Charlestown.”

Comprised of local leaders and experts who represent businesses, community-based organizations, elected offices, and City of Boston departments, the Neighborhood Innovation District Committee will be chaired by John Barros, Chief of Economic Development for the City of Boston, and Edward Glaeser, professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

“In today’s economy entrepreneurship and innovation can offer flexible career choices for everyone, from a resident’s first job to those looking to start a second or even third career,” Barros said.

“Having the ability and support to create and grow businesses can only make our neighborhoods and communities stronger.”

“This is an exciting opportunity to envision a Boston that is both more entrepreneurial and more inclusive,” Glaeser said.

In addition to ensuring that all residents have an opportunity to be a part of the modern economy, this committee will provide review and make suggestions for an inclusive economic agenda on innovation for the city, and lay the groundwork to pilot an innovation district embedded within a neighborhood.

Governor announces third straight year of double-digit job growth in clean energy industry Gov. Deval Patrick announced that the Massachusetts clean energy sector saw double-digit job growth for the third consecutive year and now employs more than 88,000 workers in the Commonwealth.

The 2014 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report, released on Monday at the Boston Green Academy in Brighton, shows that the clean energy sector has grown by nearly 50 percent since 2010 and now includes 88,372 employees and 5,985 businesses. From July 2013 to July 2014, clean energy jobs in Massachusetts grew by 10.5 percent.

“We have long believed that a strong commitment to investing in clean energy would not only provide significant environmental benefits, but would also serve as an economic catalyst in the Commonwealth,” Patrick said. “This sustained job growth proves our news briefs, continued to page 10

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MBTA to school and secured an agreement that the parents of 8th graders could opt out of the transportation plan if they decide their children aren’t safe taking the T. East Boston High School students started a branch of the NAACP at their school and negotiated changes to the student disciplinary policy to decrease the school’s use of out-of-school suspensions.

“This is your opportunity to hear what we do, so the next time somebody asks you, you can say what we do,” Curry told the NAACP members at the meeting.

Curry, who was elected

president in 2010, highlighted other achievements, including the recruitment of 1,200 new NAACP members.

In an interview with the Banner, Curry noted that he was elected to the national board of the NAACP by branch members across the country. He acknowledges that the organization’s sometimes lowkey approach to problem solving hasn’t always garnered headlines.

But he says the organization has been at the center of efforts to expand opportunities for people of color in Boston.

“We are the strongest voice in Boston on the issue of discrimination — public and private sector — and we meet regularly with Boston Police Department, Boston Public Schools, MBTA ,

corporations and the mayor to address issues,” Curry said.

Ellison says Curry’s ability to lead the organization is constrained by his job as a lobbyist for the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Centers. Ellison also says he would continue to serve as president of MAMLEO, if elected president of the Boston Branch.

Ellison, whose application to become a member of the Boston Branch was submitted April 1, the deadline for candidates to be eligible to run for president, has not attended an NAACP meeting in recent memory, according to the branch’s 1st Vice President Cheryl Crawford.

“Where has he been when we’ve been doing this work?” she

Massachusetts ssociation of Minority La Enforcement fficers resi ent Larry Ellison ( hite shirt) is running for presi ent of the Boston Branch of the . (Banner photo)

said. “Why isn’t he here working with us on the issues now?”

Ellison says his candidacy has

members the four-hour polling time would be more than enough to accommodate branch mem-

“The voting should follow the same schedule as city elections. There are a lot of people, including seniors, who would love to volunteer so their friends could be able to vote.”

— Bill Owens

been endorsed by notables in the black community, including Nation of Islam Minister Don Muhammad and Pastor Bruce Wall. Among Curry’s backers are former Branch President Leonard Alkins, who was present at Monday’s meeting.

“Michael has done an excellent job,” Alkins told the Banner.

“He’s brought in volunteers and a lot of youth. The youth are in the office doing work. He’s gotten grants to pay them. That speaks volumes.”

The election process began with Monday’s meeting, with a vote to hold the election on Nov. 24 from 4 to 8 p.m.

Many of Ellison’s supporters at the meeting asked that the voting time start earlier in the day to accommodate the schedules of branch members, many of whom are police officers who work nights and are new to the NAACP .

“As black people, can’t we just vote?” said officer Paul Joseph, drawing applause.

Curry told the branch

bers’ schedules.

As he left the meeting, former state Sen. Bill Owens said the voting time would likely exclude senior citizens who depend on public transportation.

“With all the issues around the country where people are losing their right to vote, I don’t think the NAACP should be a part of that,” he said. “The voting should follow the same schedule as city elections. There are a lot of people, including seniors, who would love to volunteer so their friends could be able to vote.”

Curry said Owen’s comparison to municipal elections was unfair.

“The membership has already decided that the election will be on Nov. 24 from 4 to 8 p.m.,” he said. “Sen. Owens, who is not a regular attendee of our meetings, should understand the process better. We’re a nonprofit organization, not a city agency.

We don’t have the number of voters or volunteers for an allday vote.”

Forum pushes candidates on human service issues Sandra Larson In a forum hosted by the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers last week, four candidates for governor pledged to implement a law that raises reimbursement rates for human service providers, convene a domestic violence summit including victims and survivors, and designate a share of expanded casino revenue to human services.

The Providers’ Council Human Services Gubernatorial Forum last week in Faneuil Hall drew an audience of some 700 people, many of them workers in community-based agencies serving the elderly, people with mental illness, brain-injured veterans, homeless people and other vulnerable populations.

“You may ask, why is this sector special?” Providers’ Council President and CEO Michael Weekes said in his introduction.

Weekes outlined some statistics on community-based human service agencies and providers in Massachusetts: 6,000 locations and sites across the state; 145,000 workers who contribute $2.5 billion in spending to local economies; a remarkable 47.9 percent growth in employment from 2003–2011; and a workforce that is 80 percent female, one in five of whom live at less than $30,000 a year.

The participating candidates were Republican Charlie Baker, Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley and independents Evan Falchuk and Jeff McCormick.

Independent candidate Scott Lively was not present.

Karen Holmes Ward of WCVB-TV moderated the event, billed as an exchange of ideas, not a formal debate. Candidates were limited to 90-second responses and did not directly question one another. The format included video vignettes featuring workers speaking on camera about issues and posing questions to the candidates.

In one video segment, a residential counselor said that over a 15-year career, his hourly pay has increased by only $1, from $11 per hour to $12.

“For most of us, we have to work multiple jobs just to get by,” he said.

The question posed was, how would the candidates ensure that community-based direct care workers receive a sufficient wage?

Candidates agreed that a living wage is important, but didn’t offer

much in the way of specifics.

Coakley said she has repeatedly heard from human service workers of the struggle to make ends meet doing the work they love.

“You’re working with our seniors, our developmentally disabled, our most vulnerable populations… We are going to look at making this a living wage. I am committed to that, including your ability to organize and get those wages,” she said.

Baker, who headed the state Department of Health and Human Services during the administration of former Gov. William Weld, emphasized a win-win-win situation for workers, service recipients and the state.

“I absolutely believe that wellpaid, long-term experienced direct care workers not only do a better job serving the people they serve, but that [the work they do] can actually save money elsewhere.”

He called this a “big opportunity” for the Commonwealth and suggested examining rules and regulations of hiring and recognizing that well-paid and qualified staff can do great things.

All four said they would move to implement Chapter 257, a law that updates reimbursement rates for human and social service providers. The law was signed in 2008, but foundered in the recession and has yet to bring new rates to the majority of service providers.

The Providers’ Council and other groups are now suing the state to push the process along.

“I feel like 257 is the train that never gets to the station. I can promise you, as governor, it will be funded,” said Baker. He also spoke of simplifying the system to reduce the “tons of administrivia” human service workers face.

Coakley said that besides putting Chapter 257 into effect, she will push to utilize community health centers for behavioral and mental health services and work to break down the ‘silos’ in state government so agencies can coordinate care more effectively.

McCormick highlighted his business background and suggested greater use of technology to make service delivery more efficient.

Falchuk took the opportunity to hammer away at the status quo and paint the established party candidates as part of the problem.

“Here’s an idea: What if the state did a study and discovered human service workers were undercompensated, and then passed a law to pay people appropriately? Wouldn’t that be a good idea?” Falchuk said.

“The thing is, we’ve already done that — and yet, there’s no action being taken.”

He argued that Coakley as attorney general could have sued the state to compel action on Chapter 257 and that Baker spent time in state government roles while wages languished.

“We need a new set of leaders who are willing to not just say really nice words about the work you do, but uphold and enforce the law,” Falchuk said.

In a lightning round of questions to which the candidates were allowed only to say “yes” or “no,” all four pledged to hold a domestic violence summit that includes victims, survivors and service providers and said that if casino gambling is expanded, they would direct some of the additional revenue to human services.

In a video vignette, workers expressed frustration at the difficulty in affording graduate education with low salaries and, for many, undergraduate student loan debts. They called for expansion of a state tuition remission program that allows employees to fill empty seats in classrooms at public universities and community colleges.

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“This is an exciting opportunity for Massachusetts to grab,” said Coakley. “For all of our residents, investing in education makes such common sense.”

Coakley added that she has already proposed “need-blind” admissions for community colleges as a gateway to jobs or further education.

“This is a place where the next governor can really focus on where are the jobs going to be and where we need the skillsets for helping our [vulnerable populations]. Investing in education of people who do that — it’s a no-brainer,” she said.

“We can find pathways for that.”

McCormick called for using technology to bring education to more people at a lower cost, and to eliminate redundancy in reporting and paperwork.

Baker spoke of online education as a complement to classroom time.

“The great thing about online education is it makes it possible to take the class when they have time, not necessarily at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday,” he said. He suggested creating a benchmark curriculum and tying education to a salary structure and career ladder.

Here and throughout the debate, Falchuk questioned the priorities of the political establishment.

“I hear nice words and platitudes on these topics, but we don’t see the action that’s needed,” he said. “Is the political establishment very serious about these issues, or do they just want to say enough to tantalize you and make you think this time it will be different?”

In the crowded Great Hall, dozens of members of The Caring Force, the Providers’ Council’s grassroots advocacy movement, were easily visible in bright yellow-orange T-shirts. The group

has been pushing for implementation of Chapter 257, and rallied at the State House earlier this year for fairer human services funding and salaries. But it was difficult to discern audience reaction to particular candidates or their words, as the crowd obeyed instructions to withhold all applause until the end.

Caring Force member Kormasa Amos, a staff advocate for Horace Mann Educational Associates, was featured in the video segment on expanding tuition remission programs. After the forum, Amos told the Banner she has a graduate certificate, but is unable to afford the full master’s degree in public administration she feels would make her more effective and help her implement change in her field.

Standing nearby, Amos’s colleague Rea Kostopulos, a recruiter at HMEA, added that retaining staff for their work serving people with developmental disabilities is difficult when salaries and benefits are so poor.

“If another agency pays 25 cents more per hour, people will leave,” she said.

One of the Providers’ Council’s goals with this forum was to raise candidates’ awareness of the growth of the service provider sector and the issues facing its workforce, Weekes said in an interview.

“People think of this sector as ‘charity,’ but it has great economic value,” he said.

The forum also gave workers an opportunity to feel their voice was heard, in a hall with a storied history of speeches on the value of liberty and democracy.

“For some of the people in the audience, it was the first time they had been in that building,” Weekes said. “Faneuil Hall is as much theirs as anyone else’s.”

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strategy is working and working well.”

The Massachusetts clean energy sector is now a $10 billion industry, responsible for 2.5 percent of Gross State Product.

Employers are optimistic, predicting a 13.3 percent jump in clean energy employment over the next year, with clean energy employment expected to surpass 100,000 in early 2015.

“The Patrick Administration’s framework and focus on clean energy as an economic driver have positioned the

Commonwealth for sustained growth for years to come,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett.

“The clean energy industry is no longer a niche sector of the Massachusetts economy,” said Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Alicia Barton.

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Economists discuss lessons from Market Basket saga Martin Desmarais The Market Basket saga that took place this summer has been heralded as a labor protest like few seen before — so much so, that on Sept. 26 academics from MIT and Harvard joined together in Cambridge to discuss the potential impact the revolt can have on workers, employers and leaders in the future.

“What I think that leaders can learn from this is that they need to change the mental model that you do not need to make a choice between treating people fairly and making money,” said MIT Sloan School of Business Professor Deborah Ancona.

MIT Adjunct Professor Zenyep Ton Ancona, who heads M I T ’s Leadership Center, said that the efforts of Market Basket employees to fight for the return of fired Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas illustrated the loyalty that can be invoked by leaders who showcase care and concern for the wellbeing of their employees. “Loyalty breeds loyalty,” she pointed out.

She praised the structure of Market Basket, under Demoulas, that allowed for invested leadership at all levels of the company.

“This organization had that working for it before the crisis so that it was really ready to go into action,” Ancona said. “You had leaders at all levels that were ready and able to step into leadership positions… They had the confidence to step up and lead.”

In mid-July, Market Basket workers walked off the job at stores throughout the 71-location chain to protest the firing of Arthur T. Demoulas and other executives of the company by the board of directors. Protesters

included executives, store managers, cashiers, store stockers, drivers and warehouse workers at the company, all risking their jobs to support the fired leaders.

Protesters held rallies at Market Basket headquarters and stores and enticed customers to boycott stores. With staff out, operations were crippled at many Market Basket locations, and estimates are that the company lost as much as $10 million a day during the saga, which stretched until late August.

The protest ended when the Market Basket board accepted a buyout offer that allowed Arthur T. Demoulas to return as CEO .

MIT Sloan Professor Thomas Kochan and Adjunct Professor Zeynep Ton, both of whom study labor and employment, have been analyzing the Market Basket case and led the forum, “Lessons from Market Basket,” held on MIT ’s campus last Thursday night.

Moderated by WBUR reporter Curt Nickisch, panelists included K o c h a n , To n a n d A n c o n a , along with fellow MIT Sloan faculty members Renee Gosline and Andrew Lo, as well as MIT political science professor Andrea Campbell. Other panelists included Harvard Kennedy School of Government Professor Marshall Ganz; Ownership Associates CEO Christopher Mackin, an advisor on employee ownership; and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees organizer Kris Rondeau.

Ton said her interest in the case stems from the fact that it is unlike the typical labor dispute focused on pay and benefits, but instead had employees banding together to fight out of loyalty to their fired CEO and for preservation of the company’s culture and business model.

She also said the success of Market Basket’s efforts to offer low prices to customers, treat employees better and pay them more challenges the dominant assumption in business that labor is just a cost to be minimized.

“That is the mindset that needs to change because people are not a cost. People can be a significant asset,” Ton said. “I think we have to stop seeing people as a cost and change our mindset to seeing them as a strategic asset, as

valuable resources.”

Ton pointed to other companies including Costco, Trader Joe’s and QuikTrip as businesses that have made an effort to balance long-term shareholder value, good pay and benefits, and highly competitive prices as Market Basket has done.

Lo, a finance professor at MIT , said a lesson learned from Market Basket on the financial end is that running a business only focused on short-term profits cannot be the only approach.

“Then Market Basket becomes like any other supermarket,” he said.

While some question whether the buyout needed to get Arthur T. Demoulas back as CEO — including an estimated $1.3 billion in debt to finance the sale — will put the company in a precarious financial situation, Lo said the company’s longterm vision and commitment to employees and customers has shown it can be profitable and will likely continue to be.

“The fact is that the Demoulas family launched this small business in 1917 and they grew it into an incredible behemoth — $4 billion annual revenues — a marvelous, privately held company that is a tremendous success,” Lo said.

Lo concluded that the real heroes in the story are the employees and the customers who fought to keep the tremendous success of Market Basket on the same path as it has been — with the same leadership culture — that has gotten it where it is today.

Union organizer Rondeau called what Market Basket’s employees did an inspiration to unions, even though Market Basket workers do not belong to a union.

“People in labor where surprised I think by what you did, and I think they were inspired because you went after an idea that workers, whether they are union or not union, are being told over and over again that slashing wages, cutting benefits and raising prices is the natural law, this is the way it is,” Rondeau said. “I think that for labor there was a pride and a feeling that, you know what, you can go after that idea.

She also said there are lessons to be learned by unions from the

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“What you did, bringing management and labor together is something that unions don’t usually do on the shop floor. The idea that a worker would be defined completely different, that a worker would be defined as someone who works in and cares about the company no matter what their position, this is an idea that could save us, frankly. It is an important idea,” she added.

Also in attendance at the forum, were a number of Market Basket employees, who supported the protest and risked their jobs in doing so.

Mark Owens, a manager of a Market Basket store, said he spent his life building the company and felt like he had no choice but to fight for something he felt he owned.

Jim Fantini, a Market Basket vendor with Fantini Bakery in Haverhill, Mass., also attended.

Though his livelihood is directly tied to his company’s sales to Market Basket he said he also felt like it was necessary to support the protest. He called his choice to do so “instinct.”

“I never considered myself a vendor. I consider myself part of the Market Basket family,” Fantini said.

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Democratic ticket,” she said. “We have 36 days to get out the vote.”

Also participating in the coordinated campaign is Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, who faces a challenge from independent candidate Hassan Williams.

“We’re focused on getting out the vote and making sure that people have the literature to understand the candidates’ stands on the issues,” Tompkins said. “We’re going to work diligently and collectively to get people out of their homes and into the polling places.”

Tompkins said he had more than 100 volunteers working on his race in the Democratic primary.

“The vast majority of folks have asked to work on behalf of the coordinated campaign,” he said.

Also present at the rally were leaders of two Service Employees International Union Locals with large memberships in the state’s black and Latino communities: Local 32 BJ and 1199.

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serving as spokesperson for Radius, said the sudden drop in patient count came when South Shore Hospital, which had supplied a large percentage of referrals to Radius-Quincy, stopped referring patients in mid-August. Patients are being referred instead to skilled nursing facilities, apparently in

Roxanna Rivera said her local’s members in East Boston, Dorchester, Mattapan, Lawrence , Lynn, Brockton and Springfield would be canvassing their respective communities on behalf of the Democratic ticket, alongside their work on ballot question 4, which proposes mandatory earned sick time for Massachusetts workers.

“Folks are very excited about being part of this race,” she said.

Among Baker supporters there is less talk of the ground game and more talk about the Republican nominee’s merits as a candidate.

“He’s been in communities of color more in his short time running than the attorney general has in her whole time in office,” Ellison said, noting that Baker has met with MAMLEO twice.

Ellison says he also likes Baker’s pledge to cut taxes and, and the candidate’s experience in the private sector.

“Charlie Baker has created jobs for people,” he said. “In communities of color, people are looking for jobs, not handouts.”

Political activist Kevin Peterson said he supports Baker’s emphasis accordance with a new health care reform model pushing the use of Accountable Care Organizations instead of long term acute care.

After the Radius-Quincy patient count plummeted, Radius informed the state Department of Public Health they did not have the funds to keep the facilities open, Grossman said. The process of patient relocation to other facilities is “moving along” and should be completed over the next 30 days.

Gov. Deval Patrick addresses a gathering of political activists rallying in support of gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley.

(Banner photo) on moving people off the welfare rolls and into work.

“I support his efforts around welfare reform, job creation for black men and access to small businesses for those who are currently locked out of building wealth,” Peterson said. “The party he is in does not matter. What matters are

the positions he takes on the issues that impact black people.”

As much of a boost as Baker will likely get from the endorsement of black supporters, Coakley plans to round out the week with an appearance from First Lady Michelle Obama, who is scheduled to appear with the

candidate at the Strand Theater Friday at 11 a.m.

“I look forward to joining the First Lady and thousands of our grassroots supporters in Uphams Corner, to discuss how we will turn our economy around for all of our families,” Coakley said in a press statement.

Normally, 60 days’ notice to employees is required for large employment site closures, under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The Radius letter claims “unforeseeable business circumstances” allow the reduced notice period.

But union officials are crying foul at the short notice and taking the fight to court.

“1 1 9 9 is filing litigation that argues these were not

unforeseeable circumstances,” said Jeff Hall, a spokesperson for 1199SEIU , which represents 50 Radius employees in Quincy and 120 in Roxbury.

On Monday, the local 1199SEIU headquarters invited displaced Radius employees to visit an allday open house for assistance with health insurance and job referrals.

Hillie Sampson, 56, a fulltime cook at the Roxbury hospital for 37 years, was at the open house seeking health insurance for himself and his wife. Sampson also works part-time as a security guard, but needs a full-time income to pay his home mortgage and make ends meet.

He is unfamiliar with today’s online job application systems, but is optimistic he’ll find something, and SEIU staff had encouraging news about an open cook position at Boston Medical Center.

“I’m old, but I’m still fast. And I have a lot of experience,” he said.

According to SEIU representatives, employees at the Roxbury site will receive pay for unused vacation time, a lump sum severance payment that varies with length of service, and two weeks’ salary.

(The suit SEIU has filed demands 60 days’ salary, Hall said.) But they will not get back pay for unused sick time. This is especially unfortunate for Sampson, who over his tenure at the hospital accrued 397 hours of unused sick time, he said, pulling out pay stubs to prove it.

Certified nursing assistant Muriel O’Flaherty has worked at the hospital for 20 years, most recently on the 11–7 night shift, and was stunned last week to find out the hospital was closing.

Though she is 65, she was not planning to retire for some years.

“I’m disappointed at the lack of communication,” she said. “We’ve given them 100 percent. When there was a snow emergency, I came in. They should have some kind of respect for us.”

O’Flaherty is still reporting to work to care for the 30 patients not yet relocated. She spoke of the bonds formed in the long-term care facility.

“Patients look forward to you being there, talking to them, combing their hair. Some of them can’t talk, but they know my voice,” she said. “Some of them don’t have any visitors. All of us, staff and patients, are like a family.”

Part-time switchboard operator Naomi Walker was informed by phone that her job of 32 years was disappearing. She may take some time off to work for her community, she said. Then will seek another job, perhaps working with children as she did in the past.

Walker said she hopes all her co-workers will be able to find work. About her own future, she expressed optimism and faith.

“I will survive, because I always have and always will,” she said.

“I’m a strong believer.”

Besides leaving longtime employees jobless, the exit of Radius leaves empty buildings in Roxbury. The large site on Townsend Street, with its multistory tan brick structures and parking lots, was occupied by the Jewish Memorial Hospital for 75 years before Radius acquired it.

Before that, it was the original location of Beth Israel Hospital.

Grossman said he did not know yet what the fate of the building will be. The building is owned by Radius Hospital Realty Trust, he said, but the mortgage is now in default.

“If anyone is interested in acquiring it, they should call me,” he said. “It’s perfect for another health care facility. Some say it’s perfect for a psychiatric hospital.

But it could be developed into other things.”

Nursing assistant Muriel O’Flaherty (l) and switchboard operator Naomi Walker, who are losing their jobs at Radius Hospital, came to an open house for displaced Radius workers at 1199 SEIU headquarters. (Banner photo)

Yawu Miller contributed reporting to this story.

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Dynamic dance company Abraham.In.Motion performs at the ICA Colette Greenstein Called the “best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama”

by OUT Magazine in 2011, Kyle Abraham is a creative force in the world of dance. He is the 20122014 Resident Commissioned Artist for New York Live Arts, a 2012 USA Ford Fellow and a 2013 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow.

Influenced by hip-hop in the late ’70s and the rave culture of the ’90s, Abraham began his formal dance training and education at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the Creative and Performing Arts High School in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He pursued his dance studies in New York, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Purchase College and a Master of Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2006, he founded his company, Abraham.In.Motion.

The company recently premiered two new programs — The Watershed and When the Wolves Came In — at New York Live Arts.

The weekend of October 10–12, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art will present the second of the two works, When the Wolves Came In. Inspired by Max Roach’s seminal 1960 album, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, Abraham’s When the Wolves Came In explores the legacies of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Movement in America and the 20-year anniversary of the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa, through a trio of works: Hallowed, The Gettin’, and When the Wolves Came In. The works feature collaborations with acclaimed conceptual artist Glenn Lignon and Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Robert Glasper, who created original music for The Gettin’.

Abraham.In.Motion’s mission is to create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work through a representation of dancers from various disciplines and diverse personal backgrounds.

Reflective of this mission are dancers Matthew Baker and

Tamisha Guy, who both recently joined the dance company and will appear in Abraham.In.Motion’s ICA show in October. Both spoke to the Banner recently by phone.

Baker will be performing in two of the pieces, When the Wolves Came In and The Gettin’.

Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baker came to dance by way of gymnastics and sports.

He grew up as an athlete and started taking ballet to help with his flexibility but it wasn’t until he attended college at Western Michigan University, where he was exposed to modern and contemporary dance, that he truly fell in love with dance. In 2008, Baker earned a BFA in Dance and upon graduation made his way east to New York City.

Since 2009, he has been creating and performing with the dance company Keigwin + Company and in 2012 he became a member of Abraham.In.Motion. Kyle has helped him to see movement in a whole new different way, Baker says. “It’s been really interesting to see how one can grow and expand

where it previously wasn’t thought possible.”

Tamisha Guy, who performs in all three works in the upcoming show, knew she wanted to pursue dance when she was in high school.

The native of Trinidad and Tobago began her formal dance training at Ballet Tech, the New York City Public School for Dance, and says that her family was supportive, especially her mom.

“She said whatever I wanted to do, she would definitely be there for me,” Guy says.

A 2013 honors graduate of SUNY at Purchase College with a double major in Dance and Arts Management, Guy is also a dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. This year marks her first season with Abraham’s company.

She noted clear differences between the two companies in technique and style.

With Abraham, she says, she has more freedom and she can play different character roles.

“I have more of an input. I can vocalize it if something feels more natural to me,” she explains.

At Martha Graham, the learning is more structured.

“It’s a codified technique. It has to look a certain way,” she says.

“It’s about the way you hold your hands, the way you hold your back. It’s very specific.”

When asked what it means to be a part of Abraham.In.Motion, Matthew Baker says, “It’s been such a wonderful opportunity. It’s been inspiring to see Kyle get so much notoriety and recognition for his work because I know how few and far between those things are in the dance world. He’s such a hard worker, driven and passionate about the company.”

Tamisha Guy says, “It means the world to me. It’s been a dream of mine to be a part of an organization like this. [Kyle] is a genius.”

The ICA and World Music/ CRASHarts presents Kyle Abraham and Abraham.In.Motion Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 12 at 3 p.m.

Tickets: $40 members and $50 nonmembers. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.icaboston.org.

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Comic Jerrod Carmichael headlines HBO special Colette Greenstein Bursting onto the comedy scene in 2008, Jerrod Carmichael has had a meteoric rise in the world of stand-up. Just three years in, in 2011, Variety named him “one of the top 10 comics to watch,” and that same year he performed on the New Faces show at annual industry festival, Just For Laughs in Montreal.

Hollywood has definitely taken notice. Earlier this spring, Carmichael appeared in the film Neighbors opposite Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, and a television pilot is in the works with NBC. Of the pilot, Carmichael says, “It’s coming along really, really great. I believe you’ll see it sometime soon.”

Originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Carmichael began his stand-up career when a close friend kept pushing him to do it, he says.

“She refused to speak to me until I got on stage,” he recalls.

But he rebelled against doing it because he wanted to do stand-up in New York and in Los Angeles. Jerrod ended up doing just that when he moved to L.A. and performed stand-up for the first time in the 150-seat Belly room of Hollywood’s legendary The Comedy Store.

Since then, life has truly come full circle for Carmichael. He is set to star in his first comedy special, titled Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store, on HBO this Saturday, October 4. Directed by Spike Lee and produced by Funny or Die, the special was taped at (you guessed it) The Comedy Store in May of this year. The hour-long special features Carmichael’s unique perspective on such topics as poverty, wealth, race, crime, and female empowerment.

Arriving in Boston for a stand-up gig at Johnny D.’s Uptown Restaurant & Music Club in Somerville this past Sunday, Carmichael spoke to the Banner by phone about the special, Spike Lee and performing at The Comedy Store.

How did the special come about with HBO, and how did Spike Lee get involved?

Jerrod Carmichael: HBO was

open to doing some new specials and I was considering recording one and so we met right there in the middle. Regarding Spike, I called him and he said “yes”.

Were you involved in the look and feel of the special or was that something that Spike Lee was more in control of?

JC: I had a lot of it packaged already. We [Jerrod and his

producer, Andrew Themeles] wanted to shoot in that room and we wanted to shoot at The Comedy Store. Spike took it home and added a lot of integrity.

Watching the special, you’re standing on the stage where some of the comedy greats like Robin Williams, Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison performed. Did you feel any pressure hile filming the special

JC: It’s the same amount of pressure on any given night in that room. Automatically, being there and knowing the history, there is a certain amount of pressure and that’s what fun for me. It forces you to be more authentic, more honest, and have more integrity.

At this point in your career, is there any material that you won’t touch?

JC: I don’t think of it in those terms. For me, it’s whatever subject comes up. For me it’s an honest thought, honest feeling. It’s a creative way to discuss it. I don’t do anything for shock value. [Comedy] shouldn’t be mindless. It should make you think and should challenge you.

With everything going on in your world, have you received any piece of advice that has helped you during this crazy time?

Comic Jerrod Carmichael. (Photo by Mandee Johnson) JC: I watched Eddie Murphy’s interview on [Inside] the Actor’s Studio where he said, “The best advice is not to take any advice.”

HBO airs the one-hour special, Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store this Saturday, October 4 at 10 p.m.

You have shackled your feet with countless desires, and so you weep in the face of hardship.

Blinded by your craving for wealth, joy, and sense pleasures, you fall in the well of karma.

You suffer affliction.

— Swami Muktananda

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Musical situates Biblical Job story in black community Reynolds Douglass Graves From September 18 to 21, the third floor of 184 Dudley Street was transformed into the “First Born , New Born, Non-Denominational, Totally Inspirational, Functionally Congregational Church” as the setting for the world premier of JoBe the Musical, a modern-day interpretation of the book of Job from the Old Testament.

Written and produced by retired Judge Milton Wright, formerly of the Roxbury District Court, JoBe the Musical is set in Our Town in the City of Overtown where the full house on opening night was greeted with a chorus praising: “I found God Here!…I found God Here!…In this House!” filling Hibernian Hall in bass-thumping, hand-clapping feel-good hymns.

In that sanctuary is where we find Minister Anna Bell Thompson, played by Wright’s Grammy Award-winning sister Betty Wright, invoking the faithful congregation with a sermon about “the most noble man in town! A righteous man! A Man of God!…

Job!…Talkin’ ’bout Job!,” referring to the husband and father of four; a symbol of perseverance and strong family values who ends up facing continued hardship — provoking him to question his creator.

“My people!” she called. “We have such a person in Our Town that embodies Job in present day — our neighbor — JoBe!” In Wright’s adaptation we see JoBe (pronounced Joe-B), played by the young and talented Toussaint Liberator, go through what Wright refers to as “a Job-like experience.” As a father and husband to his wife Sara, Job is seen as a pillar in the family and a prosperous member of his community, yet faces multiple hardships losing both his wealth and family.

Though weak at times in the face of adversity or conflict, JoBe ultimately finds strength in his steadfast faith and gets his family back.

It was the same sense of family and devotion to community that led Wright to put the production together. Involving his younger sister Betty Wright in the production was a no-brainer, Wright said. Recording and performing as a professional vocalist since the age of 12, and best known for her hits Clean up Woman and Tonight is the Night, she traveled from Miami to take on the role of the baptist preacher, but ended up imparting years of wisdom, experience and talent on the overall production.

“My family’s involvement was essential, and I don’t think I could have done this until we all got together,” Wright said, his face betraying a sense of pride.

Wright also enlisted his son, Kavayah Wright to do the sound design and music arrangement for the soul music production, complete with 16 songs and multiple dance sequences, one of which was performed by Wright’s granddaughter.

After his family, Wright turned to the community to fill the remaining positions in the cast

and crew, starting with the Butterfly Project, a theater nonprofit he co-founded with the goal of getting (and keeping) young people involved in theater and performing arts.

From the Butterfly Project he picked up Charles Potter, who in his first-ever theater performance amazed the crowd as Satin, the devilish figure who continuously taunted JoBe and his family with temptation, lies and deceit, all the while exhibiting humor and poise with his stage presence and booming baritone voice.

Also from the Butterfly Project came Shaffany Terrell and young talents Cali Leonard and James McDonough, who remain active in the annual Black Nativity production.

Both Wright and director

Vincent Ernest Siders knew that they wanted JoBe the Musical to be two things: extraordinary and local.

“I was familiar with his work and knew of his appreciation for musical productions and the community of Roxbury,” Wright said of Siders.

Perhaps no single talent was more local than that of Grove Hall native Rachel Redd. With over 15 years of experience as an actress in both television and film, Redd, a Spelman College and Boston Arts Academy graduate, previously starred on the hit PBS Kids TV show “ZOOM!” and in recent Tyler Perry productions. These roles more than prepared her for the lead role of Sara, the loyal wife and loving mother, and a role perhaps she

Toussaint Liberator as Jobe and Rachel Redd as Sara in JoBe the Musical. (Idly Galette photo) has been destined to play.

“I remember being a little girl and hearing Milton go over songs and lines in the script quite

often,” Redd said. “So it really was an honor and a pleasure to participate in this production.”

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‘Heaven’ musical mines ’50s racial mores for drama Kevin C. Peterson The angst and tragic dimensions existing between Cathy Whitaker and Raymond Deagan in the musical drama Far From Heaven (presented by SpeakEasy Stage company through Oct.11) seems as much about the gulf between two star-crossed lovers as it is a view into the unfortunate circumstances of race and class in 1950s America.

Cathy (played splendidly by the talented Jennifer Ellis) lives in upper middle class Hartford, Connecticut with her white friends, possessing all of the accoutrements of refined, white Americana — married with two kids and living a life replete with dinner parties, museum openings, fabric shopping, receptions, expensive perfumes, girly group lunches,

vacations to Miami and a negro maid.

Raymond (rendered earnestly, with intelligently packed passion

by Maurice Parent) is black. He lives in the section of Hartford that Cathy’s friends say does not really exist — so far is it from their communal orbit and concern.

A widowed father of a young daughter, Raymond encounters Cathy as he assumes ownership of his recently deceased father’s landscaping business, taking up the gardening work at her well-appointed home.

After Cathy realizes her husband’s secret sexual predilections — and an initial platonic liking to Raymond — her life is jolted into uncertain turmoil. The facade of her social life collapses, spiritual ennui sets in; self-questioning floods in about her identity as

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a white woman and an American.

“The racial part is there and there is conflict drawn from it, but this [play] is a little more subtle also, which makes it a little more dangerous,” Parent said in a recent interview with the Banner.

Noting the blues-based downbeat of the drama, Parent adds, “I think it says that just beyond racism, in the end, we are all just people. We want to be seen. We want to be recognized as individuals in the world.”

Far From Heaven is directed with crisp precision by Scott Edmiston and guided very ably by musical director, Steven Bergman, whose alternative uses of jazz and show tunes presented dramatic tonal juxtapositions. David Connolly’s choreography is effortlessly executed as characters move through various scenes with spare, seamless simplicity.

The mid-sized ensemble of 18 actors populates the play with solid performances, especially Jared Troilo, who portrays Frank Whitaker, the tortured, closeted homosexual and husband of Cathy.

Sophia Mack, a local prepubescent thespian, plays Sarah Deagan, Raymond’s daughter, with confidence and realistic poise.

As the title of the play suggests, Far From Heaven makes

Maurice Parent and Jennifer Ellis in Far from Heaven no pretense about racial utopia in America. It explores the idiosyncratic arch of race and class with a knowing sobriety.

The play also conveys much about the human condition and the high existential cost to be paid in finding true love — or rejecting it flat out — a plight particularly suffered by Cathy.

The play finds its heroic moments in Raymond’s willingness to move beyond the parochial constraints of skin color into vistas that are truly telling of the human heart.

Like Sethe’s character in relation to Paul D in Toni Morrison’s

novel, Beloved, Raymond is simply poised to be a friend to Cathy’s “mind” — a spiritual soul mate seeking to transcend caste and color in America, desiring, for its own sake, to be together with someone in love.

Far from Heaven runs through Oct. 11 at the Boston Center for the Arts.

For more information or to purchase tickets, see www.speakeasystage.com.

One who takes false pride in his wisdom attains neither yoga, love, nor knowledge.

Due to pride, man is miserable and afraid.

O dear one, he falls.

– Swami Muktananda

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Though trained in Drama, Redd amazed the crowd with her flawless alto voice emoting songs of loss and sorrow as her family went through hardship after hardship.

“It forced me to challenge myself as an actress and I really enjoyed working with Milton, Vincent and the entire team they put together,” she said. “Everyone gets nervous, but I have always learned to trust the director and those involved in the production.”

“Having experienced talent like Betty and Rachel made my

job easy,” Siders said. “They both were such great mentors to other cast members throughout the production and really made the show come alive. I wanted strong female voices as well, to compliment JoBe, and we got it.”

After the final curtain and the music, dancing and praising had subsided, Wright gathered the cast and crew at his home for fellowship and a collective thank you for what had been a long and rigorous production schedule.

It was there one got the sense that perhaps no one had worked harder, or certainly longer, on JoBe the Musical than Milton Wright, who as a judge was active in theater productions and the arts

and continues to do so now as the chairman of the Boston Licensing board.

“This was about a 25-year-long process…because JoBe is such a complicated story, and every experience we face in life that we then overcome makes you step back and say ‘I found God here,’ and that is a JoBe moment,” said Wright.

Despite JoBe the Musical having a very local feel, Wright and his team have big dreams and high hopes for the future of the production, including a soundtrack and perhaps another run before Thanksgiving or early next year.

“This play was for the people.

That’s where it belongs,” Wright said.

Thousands turned out for live music at the Berklee Beantown Jazz festival on Columbus Ave. in Lower Roxbury. (Photo courtesy Berklee College of Music)

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“I left the city well organized,” he says. “I balanced four budgets in a row with real numbers. I had two budget surpluses of $7 million and $10 million. It was the first time in 50 years.”

The city’s bond rating, which had hit rock bottom, was upgraded under Lantigua’s watch.

“We did a lot of good that the media chose to ignore,” he says.

“Unemployment dropped from 18 percent to 11 percent.”

Digging the city out of its fiscal hole may have cost Lantigua some political capital. He laid off police officers and sold off the unmarked cars many of the officers took home for personal use, while the department paid for insurance and gas.

Although the crime rate dropped under his administration, Lantigua was blamed for an initial increase in crime in Lawrence. His relations with the police remained icy.

Lantigua may have also alienated some in the city by terminating longstanding contracts with tow companies, private snow removal firms and other contractors who did business under the city’s previous administrations.

The first Dominican to lead Lawrence— and only the second Dominican ever elected mayor in the United States— Lantigua ran

an administration that awarded contracts to Dominican businesses as well as businesses run by whites.

“Willy is a lot more aggressive than Marcos,” said Marvin Venay, who served as executive director of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus while Lantigua and Devers were each in office. “That’s not a knock on Devers. They just have different approaches. They both care a lot about Lawrence, by all means. Devers is a lot more cordial, whereas Willy is a lot more assertive.”

Whether it’s due to his assertiveness or his willingness to break the decades-long lock that white Lawrencians have had on the city’s politics and municipal contracts, Lantigua has made enemies. A 40-minute interview with the candidate took place under the glare of a heavy-set, bespectacled man in a Lincoln Town Car at the curb just before Lantigua’s Essex Street office.

“He’s always there,” Lantigua said of the observer.

For now, Lantigua says, he’s focused on winning the 16th Essex race, one vote at a time.

“My target is to knock on every door in the district at least two times,” he said. “I work from the premise that I’m behind by one vote from the beginning to the end. The rest is up to the people.”

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COMMUNITY Calendar Thursday October 2 A New Hybrid World At 5pm in the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center (ICC), 50 Warren St., we continue the Center’s Lecture Series with “A New Hybrid World: Crossing Cultures with the Portuguese in Asia, Africa, and the Americas,” by Prof.

Kenneth David Jackson of Yale University. Reception to follow.

Free and open to the public.

This lecture is co-sponsored by departments of Cultural Studies and History. For more information: www.uml.edu/internationalprograms/Portuguese/default. aspx.

A Misunderstanding Through November 26, The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting an exhibition curated

by Latin Art Space presenting 11 Cuban artists in an exhibition entitled A Misunderstanding.

Each artist participating brings their own unique style to speak about one common topic, misunderstandings and perceptions of “the other” and how we can break down those barriers. The exhibition opens with this piece by Ibrahim Miranda, Dumbo And The

Candies, A Misunderstanding. It speaks of the perceived misunderstandings that routinely occur in our everyday lives. Choco (Eduardo Roca), considered one of Cuba’s greatest printmakers, will be one of the featured artists in A Misunderstanding. Among other techniques used to represent the idea of “a misunderstanding” are metal work, wood work, screen prints, engravings, and a plethora of mixed media.

An eclectic and informative collection of pieces, this exhibition not only presents a beautiful display of work, but also a chance to open our minds to concept that is both foreign and close to home for everyone. Reception: October 2, 6-8pm. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am-6pm. At Multicultural Arts Center, Upper Gallery 41 2nd St., Cambridge, www.multiculturalartscenter.org/ galleries.

Alex Gerasev’s Short Stories Through December 2, The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting Alex Gerasev’s exhibition Short Stories. Gerasev grew up and received his art education in Russia and is now living in Boston. The inspiration for Gerasev’s imagery comes from everyday life, watching real people in

the real world, despite the whimsy they portray at first glance. It is as though you step into a fantastical world that somehow seems familiar enough to nod your head in agreement. Aside from printmaking, Gerasev also works in painting and graphic design. The reception will be held on Thursday, October 2, 6-8pm. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am-6pm. At Multicultural Arts Center, Upper Gallery 41 2nd St., Cambridge, www.multicultur alartscenter.org/galleries.

Saturday October 4 Shirley-Eustis House The Shirley-Eustis House, 33 Shirley Street, a National Historic Landmark house museum and carriage house in Roxbury announces Open Studios Activities for Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5. History Beneath our Feet — It’s time to do some digging in honor of Massachusetts Archeology Month!

Learn how archaeologists learn about the past from what they find in the ground! We will dig in sandboxes to uncover treasures left behind. You will learn the

proper ways to dig, record facts and put together an 18th-century mystery! Adults $5, Students and Seniors $4. This program will be held in the Carriage House at 1pm on Saturday, October 4 and is FREE with house tour. The Art of Apples — Back by popular demand! We will discover the wonderful varieties of apples on our grounds and then use them to paint and create apple masterpieces, cook apples over an open fire for an applelicious treat, and sample apple cider. Participants will learn about the life and times of Johnny Appleseed! This will be held at the Shirley-Eustis House Carriage House from 1-4pm on Sunday, October 5 $5 for adults, $4 for students and seniors — FREE with historic Shirley-Eustis House tours. Shirley-Eustis House Tours — The main mansion will be open on Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5 from 1-4pm. Adults $5, Students and Seniors $4.

Wednesday October 8 HipHop Galsen: HipHop Activism and Notions of the Democratic in Senegal W. E. B. Du Bois Research

Institute Fall Colloquium: Damon Burchell-Sajnani — Hiphop artist and Doctoral Candidate, African American Studies, Northwestern University — HipHop Galsen: HipHop Activism and Notions of the Democratic in Senegal. 12pm, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn St., 3R, Cambridge. Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Upcoming 9th Annual HONK! Festival Time to mark the calendar for the ninth annual HONK! Festival (www. honkfest.org) which will take place from October 10-12 throughout the neighborhoods of Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston. Founded in 2006 in Davis Square by members of the Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.sec ondlinebrassband.org), HONK! is a rousing socio-political music spectacle which features social activist street bands from all over who come together to share their different approaches to merry making while also instigating positive change in their communities. Free and open to all. For more information visit: h o n k f e s t . o rg / 2 0 1 4 - f e s t i v a l .

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City seeks developer for Columbia Road building Yawu Miller Since 1977, the comfort station at 611 Columbia Road has remained vacant, its doors and windows sealed shut.

Last Friday, prospective developers, business owners and curious neighbors got a peek inside the one-story building, constructed in 1912 as a public bath house with showers and toilet stalls next to the Dorchester Burial Ground in Upham’s Corner.

With a developer’s touch, the building could be transformed into a small eatery, coffee shop or boutique. But rebuilding the approximately 1,100 square-foot building won’t be easy, said Department of Neighborhood Development Project Manager William Epperson.

“It will need an extensive rehab,” he said. “The end use will determine what needs to be done.”

Prospective buyers trickled through the building during the hour-and-a-half-long viewing Friday morning, their flashlights revealing bits of the building’s details — tiled walls and floors, still-intact shower stalls, and thick interior walls. Here and there, holes in the clay-tiled roof let in shafts of sunlight that did little to illumine the darkness.

In the basement, accessible by a narrow wooden staircase with low clearance, well-rusted sewer pipes serve as a reminder that the building will need new plumbing, in addition to a replaced roof, new windows and doors and a new electrical system.

The renovations will not be simple.

“It’s clay block with stucco,” Epperson said. “It’s a little unique for New England. You can’t just come in and re-frame it. You have to work with what’s there.”

When it opened, the comfort station was one of many in Boston.

In the early part of the 20th century, many tenements in the city lacked indoor plumbing. The clay-tiled roof and stucco exterior complement the 1926 Italianate Engine 21 Fire House at 641 Columbia Road.

“It was the style of public architecture in the early part of the last century,” notes DND Senior Project Manager Reay Pannesi. “You see a lot of public buildings in that style in Boston.”

Any redevelopment plans for the comfort station will be subject to approval from the Boston

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Landmarks Commission and the Massachusetts Historical Commission. Because the building is listed in the state and national registers of historic places, it’s likely that prospective developers would be required to retain the building’s exterior, including the red-tiled roof.

The DND officials said neighborhood residents will have an opportunity to weigh in on proposals for the redevelopment. Bids are due Nov. 12. There will be another opportunity for bidders to view the

The comfort station at 611 Columbia Road. (Banner photo)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14C0361CA

In the matter of Raymone Dinnes Washington, Jr. of Mattapan, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Raymone D Washington, Jr. requesting that Raymone Dinnes Washington, Jr. be allowed to change his name as follows: Abdulqayyum Muhammed Ibn-Raymone IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 10/23/2014.

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

Date: September 19, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

property Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. There will be a minimum $100 purchase price.

“We’d like to see a redevelopment that brings further economic development to the greater Upham’s Corner neighborhood,” Epperson said.

“There’s all kinds of possibilities,” said Dorchester resident Dianne Knowles, who toured the structure with her daughter Alexandra. “What you really need is someone with a vision for the building.”

Docket No. SU13P2486EA Citation on Petition for Removal Estate of Clara A Abercrombie Date of Death: 08/20/2013

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Nitcole Tina Abercrombie of Weymouth, MA requesting that Dorian Abercrombie of Jamaica Plain, MA be removed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate.

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 10/23/2014. 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 18, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. 14P1473 Estate of Jerry Donald Burnett Date of Death: June 21, 2010

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Virginia E. Burnett of Cordova, AL, Virginia E. Burnett of Cordova, AL has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

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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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU11P0953GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition to Expand the Powers of a Guardian In the Interests of Paula Hughes Of Attleboro, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Department of Development of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Expand the powers of a Guardian of the Respondent.

The petition asks the court to make a determination that the powers of a Guardian and/or Conservator should be expanded, modified, or limited since the time of the appointment. The original petition is on file with the court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 10/09/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: September 08, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P2235EA Estate of Anthony Paul Frissora Date of Death: March 13, 2009

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE GLc 190B § 3-306 To all persons who have or may have some interest in the above-captioned estate and, if interested, to the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Veterans Affairs, notice is hereby given that the Petitioner intends to file with the above-named Probate and Family Court not sooner than seven (7) days after this notice, a Petition for Informal Appointment of Personal Representative, to serve without surety on the bond Sona T. Frissora of Boston, MA. 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.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P2083EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of: Jack M Williams Date of Death: 08/19/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Elizabeth Williams of Jasper, AL requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Gregory T Pearce, Esq. of Cambridge, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 10/23/2014. 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.

The estate is being administered under formal 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 recipients 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.

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

Date: September 22, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU11P2625GD In the interests of Naliyah K Green of Roxbury, MA Minor

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Resignation or Petition for Removal of Guardianship of a Minor 1.

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NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition to Resign as Guardian of a Minor or Petition for Removal of Guardian of a minor filed by Shanntone T Green on August 8, 2014 will be held 10/24/2014 10:30 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA 02114 – 3rd fl - Probation Dept.

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 before the hearing.

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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.

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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.

Date: August 14, 2014

Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P1964EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Diana Sanchez Date of Death: 10/22/2011 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Diana Sanchez of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Diana Sanchez of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 10/16/2014. 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.

The estate is being administered under formal 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 recipients 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.

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

Date: September 12, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR VALUE ENGINEERING CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting two or more Consultants to provide Value Engineering Services, on a task order basis, to support the MBTA’s Design and Construction Department. Services will include but not be limited to the method of identifying and exploring alternative project site layouts and configurations, methods of construction, building systems, materials and finishes, plus numerous other elements of a project including costs effectiveness, for the purpose of selecting a project design that maximizes value at minimum cost, while meeting project goals and objectives. The Value Engineering exercise is usually done during the preliminary or schematic design stages of a project.

This contract will be Federally Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 15%.

Public Project Record and (3) Capacity to Complete including a demonstration that the contractor has the financial stability and long-term viability to successfully implement the Project. A Supplemental Information Package that discusses these Evaluation Criteria and the Prequalification Process in more detail as well as any other requirements for the Qualification Statements will be available to interested parties beginning Wednesday, October 1, 2014, by contacting Susan Brace at 617-568-5961 or via email at sbrace@massport.com A Project Briefing will be held on Monday, October 6, 2014, at 10:00 AM in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, 2nd floor, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, MA. Attendance at the briefing is not mandatory, however, it is strongly encouraged in order to best familiarize your firm with the project details and the prequalification process.

Seven (7) copies of a bound document each limited to 20 sheets (40 pages), exclusive of covers and dividers and resumes which shall be limited to one page, shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 ½” x 11”) and shall be addressed to Mr. Houssam H. Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs, and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submittal that exceeds the page limit set here or that is not received in the Capital Programs Department by the above deadline shall be rejected as non-responsive.

Questions regarding this RFQ shall be submitted in writing and directed to cpbidquestions@massport.com with the Project name and number included in the subject line of the email.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1385-C1, BUILDING 08 – SOFFIT PANEL REPLACEMENT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 11:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014.

The work includes THE CLEANING AND PREPARATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURAL STEEL MEMBERS TO RECEIVE A NEW SHEET METAL AND METAL ROOF DECK ASSEMBLY SYSTEM OVER THE EXISTING HANGAR BUILDING 08 HANGAR DOOR. THE NEW DECK ASSEMBLY WILL CONSIST OF A 3” 18 GA. GALVANIZED ROOF DECK WITH A CONTINUOUS 12 GA. GALVANIZED SHEET METAL BOTTOM CLOSURE. THIS WORK IS BEING UNDERTAKEN DUE TO THE PRIOR REMOVAL OF THE ORIGINAL EXISTING TECTUM INSULATION PANELS ABOVE THE HANGAR DOOR. THE WORK AREA CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY THE 300’ LENGTH OF THE HANGAR DOOR AT THE SOUTH FACE OF THE EXISTING HANGAR BUILDING 08. THE WIDTH OF NEW METAL DECK ASSEMBLY INSTALLATION VARIES FROM APPROXIMATELY 2’-8” TO 8’-0” ACROSS THE LENGTH OF THE HANGAR DOOR, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WIDTH OF THE HANGAR DOOR TRACK VARIATION ACROSS THE LENGTH OF THE HANGAR DOOR. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014.

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.

http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

The estimated contract cost is TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($225,000.00).

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link:

Richard A. Davey Mass DOT Secretary & CEO

Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. General Manager and Rail & Transit Administrator

NOTICE TO TRADE CONTRACTORS REQUEST FOR TRADE CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY is soliciting Statements of Qualifications from TRADE CONTRACTORS interested in performing work for MPA PROJECT NO. L1319-C1, LOGAN EXPRESS PARKING GARAGE, FRAMINGHAM, MASSSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking Qualification Statements from Trade Contractors who have a demonstrated experience in the construction and implementation of similar work in terms of scale and complexity as required for the LOGAN EXPRESS PARKING GARAGE project in Framingham. In accordance with Massachusetts construction manager at-risk requirements, MGL Chapter 149a, Section 44F, Qualification Statements are being requested from trade contractors capable of performing the following class of work: MASONRY. The contract includes the following scope of work: The construction of a new multi-story parking garage at the Logan Express Terminal in Framingham, Ma. The garage shall be a precast concrete structure consisting of a ground floor and three elevated levels. The completed facility shall have capacity for approximately 1100 vehicles. The garage shall include stairtowers and elevators for pedestrian circulation. Within the footprint of the garage, a new 7,000 square foot terminal building shall be constructed. The terminal building shall include office space for staff, Men’s and Women’s Rooms, passenger waiting area and space for a future concession. The terminal building shall be integrated into the elevator core.

The estimated cost of the Masonry trade contractors’ portion of this phase of the Project is approximately $108,000. and the construction completion is estimated at Spring 2015.

The Authority is implementing this project in accordance with MGL Chapter 149A, Sections 1 thru 13. This selection of trade contractors conforms to MGL Chapter 149A, Section 8, subsections (b) to (k) inclusive. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) will be utilized to prequalify trade contractors capable and experienced in the construction of parking garages and terminal buildings. The Authority shall utilize a two-step process including the prequalification of trade contractors based on an evaluation of the Statement of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed by an Invitation to Bidders that will only be issued to the prequalified trade contractors. A Prequalification Committee consisting of four representatives, one each from the Designer and the CM at Risk and two Massport staff.

This Prequalification Committee will be conducting a qualifications-based evaluation of submittals received from interested trade contractors in order to identify prequalified trade contractors who will be invited to respond to a written Invitation to Bidders. Please note that the Authority is not utilizing this process to prequalify subcontractors who are not trade contractors which shall be done separately in accordance with MGL C149A, Section 8, subsection (j).

Qualification Statements shall be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria; (1) Management Experience; (2) Project References including a

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A351, FY15-18 CONSTRUCTION SAFETY SUPPORT SERVICES AT MPA FACILITIES. The Authority is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide construction support services consisting of construction safety inspection services associated with monitoring construction activities including but not limited to fall protection, confined space entry, electrical safety, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), personal protective equipment, scaffolding, aerial lifts, hoisting equipment, earth moving equipment, ladder safety, asbestos abatement, as well as conformance to safety plans. These inspections will be conducted to enable Massport to maintain the highest level of safety for its construction projects.

These services are expected to be provided throughout all Massport facilities. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. Such services shall be provided on an on-call, as-needed basis.

Such inspections shall be performed in accordance with OSHA, NFPA, DOT, MA Department of Public Safety, and/or other appropriate specifications and standards. All inspections shall be done under the direction and management of the Authority’s Safety Manager. The Consultant shall be required to provide vehicles and operators with appropriate insurance coverage and shall be capable of being licensed and badged to allow for access to all of the Authority’s facilities.

The Authority expects to select one (1) consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount, not to exceed Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

In recognition of the unique nature of the project and the services required to support it, the Authority has scheduled a Consultant Briefing to be held at 9:00 AM on Thursday,October 9, 2014, at the Capital Programs Department, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128. At this session, an overview of the project will be provided, the services requested by the Authority will be described, and questions will be answered.

Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www. gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. M/WBE Certification of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal and the Consultant shall provide a copy of M/ WBE certification letter from the Supplier Diversity Office, formerly known as State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an original and nine copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See http://www.massport.com/business-with-massport/capital-improvements/resource-center for more details on litigation and legal proceedings history submittal requirements.

The Authority may reject any application if any of the required information is not provided: Cover Letter, Insurance Requirements, Litigation and Legal proceedings, SF330 Part IIs for the Prime and every sub-consultant.

The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1) availability of key personnel to be assigned to the project (2) knowledge of construction safety, construction project management, public safety and environmental concerns surrounding construction activities (3) CSP or other similar certifications for inspectors and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (4) demonstrated capability with OSHA EPA Massachusetts DEP regulations regarding construction, demolition, and abatement activities (5) demonstrated ability to ensure safe working conditions for large complex construction projects, (6) exhibit a system of reporting and tracking of safety issues on multiple projects (7) familiarity with risk management, behavioral based safety programs, organizational behavior management, incident investigation, and root cause analysis (8) current and past performance for the Authority, if any (9) M/WBE and affirmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed % of M/WBE participation The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant(s) by the Authority.

By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The exception to this standard agreement is the insurance requirements as follows; (1) $1,000,000 of automobile liability and (2) $1,000,000 of commercial general liability. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.

Some members of the project team will need to get security clearance to work at certain secure facilities including Logan International Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport, and Massport Maritime Facilities.

Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. Ten (10) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to: 1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs, 2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E, 3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, 4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and 5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs, and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the

Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT

DATE/TIME

Solicitation: Release Date

October 1, 2014

Project Briefing

October 9, 2014, 9 AM

Deadline for submission of written questions

October 17, 2014; 12 PM (noon)

Official answers published (Estimated)

October 24, 2014

Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline

November 6, 2014; 12 PM (noon)

Times are Eastern Standard Time (US).

Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number.

Questions and their responses will be posted on Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/ CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice and on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK SERVICES The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Massport) is soliciting Construction Management at Risk Services for MPA PROJECT NO. L1346, TERMINAL E A380 ACCOMMODATIONS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (the Project). In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149A, Sections 1 thru 13, Massport is seeking a highly qualified and competent Construction Manager (CM) to provide preconstruction services and implement the construction of the Project in accordance with an agreement where the basis for payment is the cost of the work plus a fee with a negotiated guaranteed maximum price. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is being utilized to prequalify and shortlist CM firms who will be invited to submit proposals in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) to be issued by Massport.

The proposed project includes construction and commissioning of approximately 125,000 gsf of both new construction and renovation of existing space. The goal of the project is to reconfigure and provide the required services to accommodate A380 Group VI aircraft. In support of this goal the project will investigate the reconfiguration and modification of existing gates #E7B, E8A and E8B to allow for the installation of new two-level aircraft boarding jet bridges and vertical circulation nodes at these gates. The addition of departure level concourse holding rooms and arrivals level de-boarding areas, adequately sized to accommodate A380 Group VI aircraft, with concession areas and other support spaces. Reconfiguration and expansion of the existing security checkpoint and re-composure zone. Relocation of existing land side concession areas to secure side areas. Reconfiguration of the holding room at gate E6. Improve passenger experience enhancements. An addition of a third level shell space to be available for Airline Club fit-out. Renovation, reconfiguration and expansion of the existing corridor connection to Immigrations and Customs. Modification and renovation of baggage claim. Modifications and improvements to the Passenger Greeter Hall. Modification and renovation of the existing taxi lanes and the existing apron to accommodate the aircraft. The project will incorporate sustainable and resilient design elements and will seek LEED certification.

The work includes general site preparation, foundations, utility relocations, construction phasing and sequencing, architecture, pedestrian circulation/ wayfinding, means of egress, signage/graphics, stairs, ADA and code compliance, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, lighting, power, security, and other systems and facilities required by existing codes and regulations and necessary to achieve a complete functional facility.

Massport recognizes the numerous benefits Building Information Modeling (BIM), can potentially provide to each phase of the facility life cycle. In an effort to realize the added value of these benefits, Massport will require an extensive Building Information Model (BIM) in this project. In addition, to further improve efficiency and value on this project, Massport will also be implementing Lean Construction principles, including Pull Planning and other Lean process tools.

In addition to the construction services, the CM shall also provide Preconstruction Services which shall include, but are not limited to, cost estimating, scheduling, phasing and logistics, value engineering, document review to support the preparation of trade packages and constructability reviews. The CM shall be expected to work closely with Massport’s Project Manager and design team in order to effectively implement the project.

The construction budget is estimated at approximately One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) with an estimated date of full beneficial occupancy in the third quarter of 2016.

Massport intends to implement a two-step selection process including a Qualification phase to create a shortlist of competent CM firms. Shortlisted firms shall be invited to respond to the written RFP which will require both a technical proposal and a price proposal. A Selection Committee will review Proposals to rank the shortlisted firms and make the final selection.

Massport intends to shortlist qualified firms in October 2014 and make a final selection by the end of January 2015. Interviews may be held at the Authority’s discretion. The Designer will participate in the selection of the Construction Manager.

A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process shall be available as of Thursday, October 2, 2014 by contacting Susan Brace at 617-5685961 or by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Bid Room located in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. The briefing is mandatory.

Qualification Statements from interested firms will be evaluated in accordance with the following Evaluation Criteria in order to shortlist qualified CM firms: (1) proposed CMR team, with special emphasis on the experience of the Project Manager; (2) project approach; (3) experience with similar terminal expansion projects and recent relevant project experience; (4) CM-at-Risk and MGL 149A Project Management experience, including Public Projects; (5) Project Management and Lean Construction Experience; (6) Building Information Model (BIM) experience; (7) safety record; (8) capacity and financial stability; (9) litigation and termination history; and (10) M/WBE compliance history and approach.

These Evaluation Criteria will be more fully explained in the Supplemental Information Package.

The CM shall be DCAMM-certified and provide an Update Statement as well as an affidavit that the Statement of Qualifications being submitted in response to the RFQ is signed under the pains and penalties of perjury. The

CM shall also provide a letter from a surety company confirming the CM firm’s ability to provide performance and payment bonds in the full amount of the construction estimate. Please note that having the document notarized does not fulfill the requirement for signing under the pains and penalties of perjury.

Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c66.

Each Qualification Statement shall be limited to 15 sheets (30 pages) of written material, which shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 ½ x 11).

The 30 pages exclude cover letter, response cover, dividers, resumes and DCAMM documents. The firm’s financial information shall be submitted in a separate envelope. Ten (10) copies of the bound document and one envelope clearly marked “Financial Information” 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 6, 2014 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909.

Any submission that is not received in the Capital Programs Department in a timely manner shall be rejected by Massport as non-responsive. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to CPBidQuestions@massport. com. 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.

The procurement process for this project will proceed according to the following schedule: Event

Date/Time

Solicitation: Release Date:

October 1, 2014

Supplemental Information Package Available:

October 2, 2014

Project Briefing:

October 7, 2014 at 10 AM

Deadline for submission of written questions:

October 17, 2014 at 4 PM

Official answers published by MPA:

October 23, 2014

RFQ Submission Deadline:

November 6, 2014, 12 PM Noon

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. Glynn CEO and Executive Director INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

WRA-3922

Purchase of Four (4) 24" and Four (4) 30" Butterfly Valves

10/15/14

10:00 a.m.

WRA3925

Purchase of Thirteen (13) Self Priming Horizontal Centrifugal Pumps (per Specifications)

10/15/14

10:00 a.m.

To access and bid please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.

LEGAL NOTICE PROPOSAL INVITATION MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT & WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT MAINTENANCE OF PASSENGER LOADING BRIDGES The Massachusetts Port Authority (the “Authority) invites submission of proposals from persons or firms interested in entering into a three (3) year contract, with options to extend the contract for two (2) additional years, to provide maintenance of passenger loading bridges at Logan International Airport (“Logan”) and Worcester Regional Airport (“Worcester”).

Proposal Documents will be made available on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and may be obtained from the Massport website listed below: http://www.massport.com/doing-business/pages/RFPs.aspx Note: A PRE-SUBMISSION Conference will be held at Massport Airport Facilities-1, Building 18, Logan International Airport, at 10:00 a.m. local time, on Thursday, October 9, 2014. An on- location examination of the contract locations will be conducted immediately after the Pre-Submission Conference. IT IS A REQUIREMENT OF THE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS THAT ALL PROSPECTIVE PROPOSERS HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN ATTENDANCE AT THIS PRE-SUBMISSION CONFERENCE. A PROSPECTIVE PROPOSER’S FAILURE TO ATTEND THIS PRE-SUBMISSION CONFERENCE SHALL RESULT IN THE REJECTION OF THE PROPOSER’S SUBMITTED PROPOSAL WITHOUT FURTHER CONSIDERATION BY THE AUTHORITY. The proposal form will require Proposers to submit information in the following general categories: “Background and Financial Information”, “Operating Experience”, “Management Plan”, “Cost Proposal”, and “Non-Discrimination, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policies”. Ten (10) sealed proposals, with a proposal bid bond in the amount of 5% of the value of the three (3) year contract in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Proposal Form must be received at or prior to 11:00 a.m. local time on Friday, October 17, 2014, at the Executive Offices of the Authority, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, Attention: Michael A. Grieco, Assistant Secretary–Treasurer.

The successful Proposer or Proposers shall enter into a Contract in substantially the form of the Draft Contract included in the Proposal Documents.

Certain terms of the Contract will be completed in accordance with the terms of the successful proposal and may be modified only as deemed necessary or desirable by the Authority’s Chief Legal Counsel.

The staff of the Authority will evaluate the proposals and will present to the Authority Board the results of the evaluation and a recommendation for award. The staff will evaluate proposals on the basis of which proposal(s) best serves the overall interest of the Authority.

The Authority is soliciting competitive proposals pursuant to a determination that such a process best serves the interest of the Authority and not because of any legal requirement to do so. The Authority reserves the right to accept one or more of the proposals, reject any and all proposals, waive any informality of any or all proposals, modify or amend with the consent of the Proposer any proposal before acceptance, and affect any Contract otherwise, all as the Authority in its sole judgment may deem to be in its best interest.

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A Public Info Session will be held on Oct. 8th, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. at Medford City Hall (85 George P. Hassett Drive in the Council Chambers, 2nd floor).

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Completed applications and required income documentation must be received, not postmarked, by 2 pm on November 12th, 2014. The lottery will be held on December 3rd at 6 pm.

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Each year at this time we notify appropriate agencies and interested parties regarding our application period. November is the only month that interested parties must apply in person.

In order to be eligible as an applicant these basic qualifications must be met at the time the application is assigned: 1. Be 18 years of age or older: 2. Capable of performing the work of the trade; 3. Have a high school diploma or equivalent; 4. Reside within the jurisdiction of Local 4; 5. Be a citizen or otherwise meet the requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; 6. Have a valid motor vehicle driver’s license in your possession; 7. Have a Social Security card in your possession; Please note the application will be on our forms. Individuals applying will sign for the application.

Applications will only be given to the person applying for the Program that shows a valid driver’s license and social security card. Be prepared to stay and complete the entire application. You will not be allowed to leave the Engineers Training Center with the application. Before you arrive, you must: 1. Have a valid driver’s license with a current address showing that you reside in our jurisdiction.

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4. Be prepared to list on the application your current employer, and two previous employers (if applicable). NOTE: Your current employer will not be notified if it would jeopardize your current employment situation.

5. Be prepared to have your own pen to complete the application on the day you choose to apply to Local 4’s Apprenticeship Program.

THE ONLY DAYS AND HOURS THE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ISSUED: NOTE: If not on time, doors are locked and you would need to wait until the next time slot.

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