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Minority businesses to see boost State to actively recruit diverse contract suppliers

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Alex Ponte-Capellan says Boston police labeled him a gang member, despite his lack of involvement in any gang, and subjected him to illegal searches. Youth advocates say there’s little information on how teens are added to or subtracted from the department’s gang list.

‘Gang’ label can have serious consequences for Hub teens More police stops for those labeled under secretive system

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Alex Ponte-Capellan, now 24, was a student at Brighton High School when a police officer informed him he was on their “gang list.” He had never been in a gang, he told the Banner.

Like untold numbers of teenagers and young adults in Boston, Ponte-Capellan’s entry into the police database triggered a higher level of police scrutiny, including frequent stops and illegal searches.

“They [the officers] had a file

on me and all of my friends, picture, and basic information about all of us,” Ponte-Capellan said.

“They just told me I was on whatever list of theirs. And that they were watching me, basically.”

Ponte-Capellan said a fight most likely triggered the increased scrutiny. The altercation was sparked when he and his friends confronted a larger group of kids about an iPod they had stolen from one of his friends.

The kids turned violent, Ponte-Capellan said, and in the ensuing fight he was stabbed. When

the police arrived, all of them fled.

He said the group of kids he and his friends had fought were from the same neighborhood, which might have seemed like a gang.

“I know that different neighborhoods have beef with other neighborhoods. It wasn’t a formal gang, it was just a neighborhood.”

Stops and searches

The day after the fight, police were waiting for Ponte-Capellan

See GANG LIST, page B10

The Baker administration will take a more active approach on generating contracting with small businesses and those owned by minorities and women, the governor said Monday, during a roundtable discussion with ethnic media.

The state’s recruitment methods fall behind modern standards, said Gov. Charlie Baker.

Currently, the state posts jobs on its website and waits for responses. In today’s environment, he said, an employer must also visit events and join organizations that serve the kind of diverse young professionals they wish to recruit for jobs and bidding, learn best practices from other groups and use social media.

“In this day and age, if you don’t do that sort of thing, the likelihood that you’ll succeed in a lot of your initiatives, especially in workforce, is pretty small,” said Baker.

Efforts will be made to simplify the process for certifying the status of minority-owned

and women-owned businesses.

That means streamlining the process and simplifying state accreditation for businesses already meeting criteria set forth by nationally-recognized organization such as the Center for Women & Enterprise and Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, said Baker and Jabes Rojas, deputy chief of staff for Access and Opportunity.

“The state’s credentialing process is terrific if you’re a big company who’s familiar with it, have done it before, and have resources to deliver on it. That’s not necessarily true for small business,” said Baker.

The governor added that the state plans to write RFPs that are easier for small businesses to address, while educating suppliers new to government contracts about existing opportunities and how best to bid.

Under consideration as well: raising benchmarks for the portion of state discretionary spending that goes to procuring goods and services from businesses

See ROUNDTABLE, page A10

City schools eye unified enrollment Charters, district consider one lottery

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

When educational leaders from charter, district and parochial schools convened for a meeting at Roxbury Community College last week, a new school enrollment plan dominated the conversation.

The proposal, which would blend charter schools into district schools’ existing enrollment

system and create a single lottery process, has drawn mixed responses from education advocates as charter school proponents are seeking a greater share of students — and the city’s education funding.

Rahn Dorsey, the mayor’s chief of education, and other representatives of the Boston Compact presented 125 city principals from all three educational sectors with goals and proposals for

meeting them.

Speakers emphasized that sectors were not in competition with each other but instead all sought the same goal: improving educational outcomes for their students.

“There are 75,000 students in the city. It is time to regard them all together as opposed to neighborhood-by-neighborhood or school-by-school,” said Rachel Weinstein, chief collaboration officer of the Boston Compact,

See COMPACT, page B13

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Governor Charlie Baker, accompanied by Mark Steffen, deputy press secretary, presented plans for transit and small and diverse businesses at an ethnic media roundtable discussion held at the Statehouse.

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BRA approves housing development over protest

By YAWU MILLER

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has given the green light to a 40-unit Blue Hill Avenue residential development despite the objections of neighbors and Impact Advisory Group members who raised concerns about density, traffic and the developer’s questionable record of hiring minority contractors on previous jobs.

The Community Builders’ proposed Clarion building, a four-story apartment complex to be built on the large vacant site between Quincy and Holborn streets in Roxbury, will contain a mix of market rate, moderately affordable and deeply affordable units as well as retail space, limited parking and a public plaza.

A spokeswoman for the company, Stephanie Anderson Garrett, said the TCB has responded to community concerns about the project.

“We hosted and participated in 20 meetings with the community,” she said. “As a result, the valuable community input we received influenced a number of the design choices.”

Garrett said TCB raised the percentage of market-rate and moderately affordable units, expanded retail space, modified access to its parking lot and included a public plaza, all in response to community concerns.

But Laura Younger, a member of the Holborn, Gannett, Gaston, Otisfield Betterment Association, said the developer has not responded adequately to neighbors’ concerns about the size and scope of the project.

“I’m highly disappointed to

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The Community Builders Clarion project was approved through the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Article 80 process, despite community concerns about density, traffic and the developer’s past record of compliance with community and city guidelines for minority hiring and contracting in construction. learn that TCB presented The Clarion development before the BRA Commissioners without a completion of the Article 80 Process,” she said, referring to the large project review guidelines written into Boston’s zoning code.

The neighborhood association sent a letter to the Boston Redevelopment Authority requesting that its board not approve of the project.

Younger and other neighbors say the development, sited across the street from an early learning center and within blocks of the new location for the Bridge Charter School and Boston Latin Academy, would exacerbate traffic on an already congested stretch of

Quincy Street. She questioned the BRA’s approval of the project, despite what she says was an inadequate review process.

“We’ve made progress over time in Boston around meaningful resident participation in development, and this feels like a step backwards,” she said. “I’m optimistic that the door is still open to continued dialogue about the serious community concerns that were expressed to TCB, DND and the BRA.” The Community Builders is a Boston-based firm with a 45-year history of developing and managing affordable housing throughout the United States. One of its more recent projects, 225 Centre Street,

sparked controversy when the firm consistently failed to meet city and community-established hiring goals for minorities, Boston residents and women and for minorityand women-owned business enterprises (MWBE).

“They did the absolute worst job I’ve ever seen,” said Rodney Singleton, who headed that project’s Impact Advisory Group, a BRA-appointed committee of neighbors that represents the community’s interests in development projects. “Their overall numbers for Boston minority business utilization were less than 1 percent.”

Garrett disputed Singleton’s assertion, although she

acknowledged the project fell short of the city’s requirement that 50 percent of construction jobs go to Boston workers, 25 percent to minorities and ten percent to women.

“We did not meet our goal, although we surpassed the average of all developers in Boston,” she said. “We believe what we’ve learned has made us better prepare to ensure we meet or exceed the goals we set for ourselves and the goal set by the city.”

Singleton said TCB tried to satisfy the minority participation numbers by using a Portuguese-owned subcontracting firm from Rhode Island and another firm that was not certified as minority-owned by the State Office for Woman and Minority Business Assistance.

“They claim they had 18 percent minority participation,” Singleton said. “They never came close to it.

They should be barred from building projects in Boston.”

Younger said her neighborhood organization will continue to apply pressure to TCB if they move forward with the project.

“My neighbors in HGGOBA are committed to our goals for this development,” she said in an email.

“Including a mixed income component (rooted in an anti-displacement plan), an appropriate size, achieving community standards for MWBE on construction and permanent jobs, safety of our families addressed around security and traffic (especially during school time), and that the businesses in the commercial space add to the positive economic development that we so sorely need.”

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Thursday, September 24, 2015 • BAY STATE BANNER • A3

Election reveals challenges for new commissioner

By YAWU MILLER

The fiasco of the Sept. 8, 2015 preliminary election was set in stone months before Dion Irish was named the city’s election commissioner. Just 7 percent of registered voters turned out for the preliminary, held on a sweltering, star-crossed Tuesday, earlier than typical fall elections and coinciding with both the first day of school and the day after the long Labor Day weekend.

Irish understands that dealing with the aftermath of the preliminary is now his responsibility.

“When you’re in government, particularly in the department head role, you’re in the hot seat,” he said. “We have to do everything we can to make sure nothing goes wrong.”

In hindsight, Irish says the Election Department may revisit its policy of allowing the Boston City Council to determine the date of elections when there’s a conflict with the normal schedule. (This year, the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur falls on the third Tuesday of September, the day the preliminary would normally be held).

But ultimately, Irish says, much of the blame for low turnout falls on voter apathy.

“We have a right to vote, but we should also look at is as a duty,” he said. “It’s bigger than the candidates. It’s about how we govern.

We’re in a participatory democracy. Voting makes democracy stronger.”

Irish, who grew up in Roxbury, got his start in city government working with the Inspectional Services Department, before moving on to head the city’s Office of Fair Housing and Equity. At the Election Commission, he succeeds interim Commissioner John

Donovan, who retired.

The disappointing turnout of Sept. 8 underscores the challenges Irish faces. The city has seen a long, steady decline in turnout for municipal elections. Just 31 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2013 municipal preliminary, despite a field of 12 candidates for mayor and 20 candidates for at-large City Council seats. In the November election that year, just 38 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

Moving forward, Irish points to two developments that may help boost turnout and make voting easier.

In next year’s state election, when voters elect their state representatives and senators, Boston and the other 350 cities and towns in Massachusetts will implement early voting, allowing voters to cast ballots starting 11 days before Election Day. While Boston hasn’t ironed out the details – mainly, whether locations other than City Hall will be open for balloting – Irish says the reform will make it easier to vote.

“We’re very excited about this,” he said. “It will make voting more accessible by not limiting it to one day.”

MassVOTE Executive Director Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, who headed efforts to institute early voting and other reforms, says the details of how the voting program is implemented are important.

“So far, there are no provisions for early hours or weekend hours,” she said. “In Boston, we should be looking at locations where people can vote after work, like libraries or community centers.”

The second reform, which is less certain, is the re-drawing of the city’s precinct lines. All Massachusetts cities and towns are required to re-draw the lines of

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Newly-appointed Boston Election Commissioner Dion Irish is responsible for making sure the city’s 255 polling places remain accessible and comply with state and federal voting laws. voting precincts every ten years, as data from the decennial U.S. Census is made available. All precincts in a municipality are intended to have roughly the same number of voters.

Legislators exempted Boston from the state law mandating the re-drawing of precincts, and has not done so in more than 100 years. During that expanse of time, the city’s population swelled to more than 800,000 and then plummeted to 562,000 in 1980.

Now, with luxury high-rises going up in areas that until recently had few residential units, the relative population of precincts has become uneven. In Ward 3,

which includes much of Downtown Boston, there are two precincts with more than 4,000 eligible voters, while in Ward 12, centered in Roxbury, there are four precincts with fewer than 1,000 voters.

Irish says the city has a vested interest in re-drawing precincts and equalizing the population in each, as equalizing the population could reduce the number of precincts from 255 to 190.

With a minimum of six poll workers required to cover each precinct, the reduction could cut the city’s Election Day costs substantially, eliminating the need for 390 of the more than 1,700

temporary workers the city hires and trains for each election.

The missing voters

One other hiccup Irish had to resolve early on was the accidental exclusion of 200 voters from City Council District 4, an accident discovered by a voter. Fortunately, the voters were re-assigned to vote in District 4 in time for the election — but the gaffe triggered a citywide review of voting locations, Irish said. The review identified one other problem, affecting four voters, which was also rectified.

“We can confidently say that every address is properly precincted for the first time in 70 years,” he said.

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Even black PhD’s lives don’t matter When reports of police violence are publicized, the first concern of many citizens is what induced such aggressiveness by the police. Many people believe that the victim must have been provocative. As the organization committed to “protect and serve” the public the police enjoy a superior status in society that affords them the benefit of the doubt. But with violent police attacks on upright citizens such as the false arrest of James Blake in New York, the reputation and stature of the police are declining.

A security video recorded Blake’s arrest. There can be no doubt that he was violently taken to the ground as he simply stood at the entrance of New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel. A Harvard alumnus, Blake was once a leading professional tennis player. Now he has joined the number of black Harvard men who have been accosted by the police, including professors S. Allen Counter and Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. The ardent supporters of police, despite their excesses, undoubtedly will dismiss the Blake incident as an unfortunate case of mistaken identity. They even have a common rebuttal to “Black Lives Matter” protests of police killings of blacks. They point to the

high rate of murders by young urban blacks.

But the defense of police violence fails.

While there has always been some violence among boys in the city, the level did not become flagrantly lethal until the emergence of the drug trade. Selling drugs became a common source of employment. Gang violence became a strategy to preserve control over defined market sectors. Anyone with knowledge of law enforcement knows that the police are frequently involved as associates of drug dealers.

Of course gang bangers who become armed and then fire at their perceived enemies must assume responsibility for their abhorrent conduct. And it is unfortunate that the minority community lacks the power to hold their adolescents in check. However, it is unreasonable for the majority community to place total responsibility on African Americans to correct a problem that others have created.

The police assault on Blake should inform everyone about the hazards faced by black males regardless of their educational achievements or personal accomplishments. A citizen without the stature of Counter, Blake or Gates would have to suffer in silence.

“We gotta keep these people in line.”

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Judicial abuse of power An effort is underway to eliminate an egregious impairment of human rights.

All across the country, citizens who are unable to post bail for minor offenses are jailed until the matter is adjudicated. This procedure is extensive but has not gained general attention because all the victims of this injustice are poor and unable to protest.

Their plight is ignored.

The purpose of bail is to allow a person to be at liberty until liability for a criminal offense is determined at trial. However, many indigent defendants are jailed because they cannot afford to pay the bail. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, 62 percent of

those in U.S. jails have not been convicted of a crime. The Pretrial Justice Institute found that 53 percent of those accused of felonies are jailed because they cannot post bail.

Civil rights lawyers have begun an assault on the bail system as a deprivation of the 14th Amendment rights of the indigent. Until these issues are resolved, non-profit organizations like the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Bail Fund provide bail up to $500 for pretrial defendants.

It is patently unjust that a person accused of a crime who is not a flight risk or a danger to the public should be jailed only because of poverty.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Voters stayed home

I’ve heard people blame the weather, the first day of school and the day after Labor Day for the abysmally low turnout in the September 8 primary.

Nobody is blaming the voters, but that’s where the problem really lies.

Keep in mind that in Districts 7 and 4, a lower than average percentage of people have even bothered to register to vote. Shame on those among 93 percent of voters who were too unmo-

tivated to exercise the most sacred and basic political act in the United States.

The sad fact is that most people think the president and the governor are more important than their city councilor and mayor. While state and federal government may take a larger share of your pay check than the taxes you pay for your property or your excise tax, the mayor and the council make important decisions about how and where your children are educated,

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when your trash gets picked up, how police officers should behave and how much we’re spending on youth programming. Those decisions affect your day-to-day life more than most other decisions government officials make.

And you have the ability to influence those decisions twice a year when you vote. Don’t give up your power. Vote November 3.

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Obama still target of GOP hate

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON

Front running GOP Presidential contender Donald Trump doesn’t utter the words, “Show me your birth certificate,” in the same breath with President Obama anymore. But then again, he doesn’t have to. He mined that fraudulent birther movement hard and deep enough a few years back to get his mug, name and point about Obama supposedly being un-American in front of millions of GOP voters. This launched the Trump traveling media and public titillation and entertainment show that currently masquerades as serious politics.

But none of Trump’s brash, loud mouth, neo-nothing, borderline racist jibes would have worked if it weren’t for Obama. The proof of this reared its ugly head again with the recent poll by Public Policy Polling.

It found that a plurality of GOP voters still say Obama is not an American citizen. And since in their eyes and twisted logic he’s not an American citizen, it follows he must be a Muslim. In this case, the number of Republicans who say that is not a plurality, but a solid majority.

Trump didn’t feed that notion. GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker did when he publicly mused that he wasn’t sure whether Obama was a Christian or not. None of the others in the pack of GOP contenders said anything of the sort, at least publicly. But not one of them publicly rebuked Walker for saying it. The birther movement and the accompanying “Obama-is-a-Muslim” belief never could or would die among the wide body of GOP voters as long as Obama sat in the White House. From the start, there was a canny, calculated and politically cynical motive behind birtherism, the religion question, and Obama’s supposed foreign loyalties.

It started the instant that he declared his presidential candidacy in February 2007. Take your pick: He was too black. He was not patriotic enough. He was too liberal, too effete, too untested. He was a Muslim, terrorist fellow traveler, and a closet black radical. The shock of an Obama in the White House was simply too much for many to bear.

Obama defied the stereotypical textbook look and definition of what an American president was supposed to be like — namely, a wooden image middle-aged or older white male. That was just the tip of the iceberg. The real value of the silly Obama-fed phony controversies was that it was a convenient and serviceable way to ridicule, undermine, and ultimately attempt to derail Obama’s policy initiatives on health care, the economy, and a reasoned foreign policy approach.

Fast forward to the 2016 presidential race. Stalking horse Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson have no defined program on education, health care, the economy and foreign policy. Yet they ride high at the top of the GOP polls. They’re at the top by tossing out pithy, outrageous, and bombastic sounding quips on any and everything that comes to mind with full knowledge they will grab headlines and draw even more rapturous applause from the anti-Obama loathers. But even better, their digs inflame, rev up, and stir, millions of angry, frustrated, and alienated GOP voters. The hope is that if they stay angry enough, their anger will translate into a surge to the polls in November 2016. This is something that the GOP has not had in the past two presidential elections.

The rap against both John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 was that both were much too traditional, establishment and even moderate. They did nothing to inspire and mobilize ultra-conservatives, Christian evangelists, and Tea Party acolytes who make up a large and influential number of the GOP’s foot soldiers. When many of them stayed home Election Day, this cost the GOP any real shot they had at beating Obama. This time it may be different.

Trump quickly signed the pledge not to bolt the GOP if he does not get the party nomination. Carson has never given any hint that he’s anything other than a loyal Republican. The Faustian deal is that the GOP regulars will publicly deplore Trump’s immigrant bashes and insults to women.

But privately, they will wink and nod at them knowing that he, and Carson, stir the anger, xenophobia, bigotry, and even hate, among legions of GOP voters. The 2016 GOP presidential nominee must win the hearts and minds of these voters. That means they must march to the polls in droves in the key battleground states on Election Day. The man they bank on to make that happen is Obama. He’s the red flag that Trump and Carson will wave high at every turn in the crudest, nastiest and most vilifying way. As Trump, and now Carson, surge in the polls, it’s paying some dividends. Expect more to come.

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The shock of an Obama in the White House was simply too much for many to bear. ”

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

An act of God. I think it’s really going to take body cameras, reform in the justice system and more civilian oversight.

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It’s a tough question. It’s been going on for so many years, I don’t know what it would take.

Vera Miller Retired Roxbury

They need to have a better understanding of the community. They need group meetings with the public. Instead of being against us, they need to be with us.

Jesse Robinson Bellman Roxbury

Nothing, really. Police have power issues. They have personal issues.

They hate us.

Willie Harris Painter South End

IN THE NEWS

BEVERLY MORGAN-WELCH Beverly Morgan-Welch, long-time executive director of The Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket, is leaving the organization to assume a seniorlevel position at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. As part of the leadership transition, former board chair Marita Rivero will become Interim Executive Director of the Boston-based museum beginning on October 19, 2015.

A veteran leader of media and cultural organizations, Rivero stepped down in 2013 as Vice President and General Manager for Radio and Television at the public broadcasting station WGBH and continued in the role of counsel until July of this year. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

In November, Mor-

gan-Welch will become Associate Director for External Affairs for the Smithsonian’s newest museum, set to open its doors in 2016. She will have responsibility for directing all aspects of the global strategic vision for development, public affairs, and education programming.

Morgan-Welch has led the MAAH since 1999, presiding over an extraordinary period of growth and renewal, raising more than $15 million to restore and preserve the Museum’s seven structures, including three National Historic Landmarks. She oversaw the award-winning historic restoration of the African Meeting House in Boston, as well as the purchase and preservation of a pre-Revolutionary War home on Nantucket built by a formerly enslaved weaver named Seneca Boston and his Wampanoag wife, Thankful Micah, and occupied by multiple generations of their descendants.

Joy Bryson Student Roxbury

I think they should have stricter punishments for abuse, instead of just a suspension without pay.

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NEWSBRIEFS VISIT US ONLINE FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS: WWW.BAYSTATEBANNER.COM Councilor Jackson to conduct a comprehensive review of re-entry resources in Boston On Tuesday, September 29 Councilor Tito Jackson, in partnership with Sheriff Steve Tompkins, will for the first time in the history of the Boston City Council hold a hearing at the Suffolk County House of Corrections on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 6:00 pm. Councilor Tito Jackson will lead the comprehensive review of re-entry resources in Boston.

“Our goal is to improve recidivism outcomes, especially in those populations that are disproportionately impacted. We need to ensure that our adults return home to their communities and become productive citizens,” said Jackson.

“We need to put our heads together and figure out how to create a one-stop shop for an effective and successful re-entry program for Boston residents.”

“I am thrilled about this unique opportunity to bring attention to the subject of re-entry and the need for more addiction recovery and mental health programming in our communities,” said Sheriff Tompkins. “We welcome Councilor Jackson and the members of Boston City Council to our facility to shed light on this important public health and safety issue.”

Those invited to testify include incarcerated males and females, representatives from organizations and government agencies that help formerly incarcerated people transition back into their communities, and representatives from

the Suffolk County Sheriff ’s Office, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and the Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Roslindale grocery store cited $300,000 for failing to pay overtime and Sunday wages, hindering investigation

Baby Nat’s pays restitution and penalties for failing to comply with Massachusetts wage and hour laws A Roslindale grocery store and its owners have agreed to pay more than $300,000 in citations for failing to properly pay their employees in violation of the state’s wage and hour laws, and for hindering an investigation, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.

Baby Nat’s, Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution to workers and more than $100,000 in penalties for not paying proper overtime rates, Sunday premium pay rates, failing to keep accurate payroll records, and failing to issue suitable pay slips to employees. The penalties also include a $15,000 citation for hindering an investigation by trying to coerce employees to either lie to or refuse to communicate with the AG’s Office in connection with this investigation.

“This business repeatedly took advantage of its workers by failing to pay them the hard-earned money they were owed,” Healey said. “Our office will continue to make sure that workers in Massachusetts know their rights and don’t fall victim to unfair employment practices.”

In January 2015, the AG’s Office began its investigation of Baby Nat’s,

following a complaint from a former employee. The office determined that, from January 2012 to February 2015, a total of 21 employees were not paid the proper overtime rate, and 23 employees were not paid the required Sunday premium pay, (a rate of pay no less than one and one-half times their regular hourly rate). Baby Nat’s also failed to keep true and accurate payroll records, and failed to provide suitable pay slips to employees.

During the investigation, Kenneth Natorelli, Jr., and Darlene Etienne Natorelli, who operate Baby Nat’s, allegedly told employees not to talk to the AG’s Office or provide information about their employment, hours worked or rate of pay. These attempts to keep the AG’s investigation from materializing included the intimidation of a likely cooperating employee.

The investigation also revealed that, despite receiving inquiries from employees, Baby Nat’s historically refused to pay overtime wages to its employees, the majority of them low-income, non-English speaking Latino workers. The state’s Overtime Law requires employers to pay qualifying employees time and one-half their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a work week.

This case serves as an example of the office’s focus on providing economic security to the residents of Massachusetts, particularly vulnerable workers. The AG’s Office enforces the laws regulating the payment of wages, including prevailing wage, minimum wage and overtime laws. Workers who believe that their rights have been violated in their workplace are encouraged to call the Office’s Fair Labor Hotline at (617) 727-3465. More information about

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Mass. Auditor: Review of tax expenditure program necessary State Auditor Suzanne Bump recently testified on behalf of legislation she filed granting state auditors the ability to review the state’s tax expenditure program. The Office of the State Auditor first began researching Massachusetts’ tax expenditure program in 2011, but was unable to complete the work because state statute restricted access to the documents needed to verify if this multi-billion program is working effectively.

“As the State Auditor, it is my job to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in state government programs. I follow the dollars to make sure that taxpayer money is being spent effectively. But there is another type of expenditure that is similarly subject to waste, fraud, and abuse, and currently, it is beyond the reach of the state auditor – that is, a tax expenditure,” said Bump during the Joint Committee on Revenue hearing this morning.

“The goal of this bill is to bring that same standard of accountability to the tax expenditure program.”

Massachusetts’ corporate tax expenditure budget accounts for $3.2 billion in foregone tax revenue for FY16. The access granted by this bill would allow the Auditor’s Office to

work with the Department of Revenue to determine whether these tax credits and incentives are an effective policy for the state. The bill would not allow OSA to audit corporations doing business in the Commonwealth.

During her testimony, Bump explained that of the 43 states that require the filing of tax returns, 37 grant access to tax return information to their state audit function.

Currently in Massachusetts, there are 26 exceptions to this law, including fraud examiners in the Office of the State Auditor’s Bureau of Special Investigations, which have access to tax returns but the exemption does not include state auditor.

Citing questions about how the bill will affect the business climate in Massachusetts, Bump pointed to the fact that seven of the top-ten friendliest states for business and careers, according to Forbes, allow their state audit function access to corporate tax returns.

“Until this bill is passed, we are unable to determine if the more than $3 billion worth of foregone revenue is actually a benefit to the Commonwealth and its citizens,” said Bump.

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BPCAT ‘cautiously optimistic’ on body camera pilot

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

In a move that came as a surprise to some, Commissioner Evans announced last week that Boston will launch a pilot program of police body-worn cameras.

Groups such as Boston Police Camera Action Team have been calling for the devices. In August, BPCAT and Councilor Charles Yancey presented the City Council with an ordinance detailing a policy for body-camera usage, should the devices become used.

Until recently, the commissioner expressed wariness.

Segun Idowu, co-founder of BPCAT, said the group was “completely stunned, in a cautiously optimistic way” when they heard the commissioner’s decision.

“I still don’t really know what to say, because for the last year they’ve been staunchly against it,” said Idowu.

What can we expect?

The cameras are only a piece of the program. At least as significant is the policy that guides their use.

Evans said that he is meeting with vendors and will collaborate with the police unions and his legal staff to develop policy specifics.

“I’m working with our legal staff to look at the policies across

the country. I’m working with the unions,” Evans told the Boston Globe. “So it’s coming here.”

Evans said he expects the pilot to launch within a few months.

The Boston Police Department did not respond to a request for information about the pilot program.

Policy concerns

In past body camera discussions, the commissioner has highlighted the need to answer questions around cost and privacy protections.

That officers face consequences for failing to follow procedure for proper camera use is a major concern, said Idowu. “[It] was the number one concern of every community we talked to. Everyone said, ‘If they do not have consequences I do not want this.’ ” Idowu also said he wanted assurance that any body camera program would allow an individual to have access to recordings taken of them.

Lens on transparency

Idowu expressed concerns that if policy development remains in the hands of the police union and the commissioner’s legal staff, Evans may bypass responsiveness to the community.

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He added that openness and responsiveness in creating the body camera policy would be important to developing trust between the community and the police.

“One reason people were protesting across the country is, we don’t trust the police to police themselves.”

BPCAT continues

Now that BPCAT’s goal of body-camera implementation is coming to fruition, the organization will strive to ensure the pilot program follows procedures that answer community concerns and that the process moves quickly from pilot to full adoption, according to Idowu.

“We will work to make sure the pilot program doesn’t drag on for a year,” he said.

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While plans develop on the pilot program, city officials also

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Legislators, activists advocate for increase in early education

By SANDRA LARSON

Massachusetts may be a national leader in K–12 education, but it is falling behind in pre-kindergarten education, according to many of the education and children’s advocates, parents, officials and legislators who testified at a State House hearing last week.

The two dozen bills on the agenda for the Sept. 16 hearing of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Education address early education and care, kindergarten, learning time and extracurricular activities, but most of the testimony focused on access to and quality of pre-kindergarten programs.

“I know first hand that early education is critical,” said an East Boston mother of two daughters, one of whom missed out on preschool and another who was able to attend Head Start, where she mastered colors, letters and numbers and improved her English and behavior.

“I could see the difference,” the mother told the legislators, describing how her first daughter struggled with English and listening in school. “Please prioritize early education.”

“This is a huge statewide crisis that must be addressed now — and I underline, now,” Jones told committee members. “If not, the human and fiscal costs are too horrifying to contemplate.”

Jones spoke in favor of a bill, sponsored by Committee CoChair Rep. Alice Peisch of Wellesley and Sen. Sal DiDomenico of Everett, that would create a grant

program for high-quality preschool implementation.

“Too many desperate parents settle for inadequate, substandard preschool programs. Demand for high-quality programs vastly outstrips supply,” Jones said. “The tragic outcomes for poor children in our state’s urban centers cry out for legislative action.”

Jones mentioned research that

has shown dramatic differences in early-word learning between poorer and more affluent homes.

“It is no surprise that poor children tend to enter kindergarten clearly behind their wealthier peers. It is not just poverty that holds them back, but lack of words,” he said. If reading, math and behavioral benchmarks are not met during elementary school, he added, children remain at an educational disadvantage and are at high risk of dropping out before graduation.

“The slippery slope begins well before kindergarten,” he concluded.

Throughout the lengthy hearing, there was no argument over early education’s importance, but questions remain on how to balance speed of implementation with quality, how to balance access for the most needy with universal access, how to train, compensate and retain qualified early ed teachers — and of course, how to pay for an expanded system of any sort.

Hubie Jones had a clear answer on that last question.

“How are we going to pay for it? We’re going to pay for it with money. We’re going to pay for it with tax dollars,” he said. “When legislative leaders lead, the public comes along. The public wants to do the right thing. This is our responsibility.”

The cost of implementing quality preschool is estimated at about $13,000 per child per year, and to serve all 3- and 4-year-old children in the lowest-performing (levels 4 and 5) school districts would require an initial investment of $128 million, according to Jason Williams, executive director of Stand for Children, which spearheads the Pre-K for MA coalition along with another advocacy group, Strategies for Children.

“I know that it’s a hard decision and resources are limited, but public support for this issue is at an all-time high,” said Williams. He cited a statewide survey

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A statewide crisis

Passionate testimony by Hubie Jones, founder of Massachusetts Advocates for Children, brought the issue’s urgency home in no uncertain terms.

How to pay for it?

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Massachusetts Early Education and Care Commissioner Tom Weber and Lead Preschool Teacher Melanie Mathieu engage with children last week in the new preschool classroom at the YMCA of Greater Boston. The classroom is part of Boston Public Schools’ preschool expansion initiative and is funded through a $15 million federal Preschool Expansion Grant.

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A group of Greater Boston independent schools invites you to attend Open House Programs SCHOOL NAME CITY/TOWN •The Rivers School Weston •Dana Hall School Wellesley •The Roxbury Latin School West Roxbury •The Sage School Foxboro •Boston University Academy Boston •Delphi Academy Milton •The Riverbend School S. Natick •Newton Montessori School Newton •Derby Academy Hingham •The Learning Project Boston •Beaver Country Day School Chestnut Hill •Park Street School Boston •Noble and Greenough School Dedham •Thayer Academy Braintree •Boston Trinity Academy Boston •Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School Waltham •Meridian Academy Boston •Kingsley Montessori School Boston •St. Sebastian’s School Needham •Dexter Southfield School Brookline •German International School Boston •Fayerweather Street School Cambridge •Meadowbrook School Weston •Brimmer and May School Chestnut Hill •Cambridge Montessori School Cambridge •The Cambridge School of Weston Weston •The Fessenden School West Newton •Jackson School Newton •Shady Hill School-Lower School Cambridge •Shady Hill School-Middle School Cambridge •The Waldorf School Lexington •BB&N Lower School Cambridge •BB&N Middle and Upper School Cambridge •Atrium School Watertown •The Chestnut Hill School Chestnut Hill •Dedham Country Day School Dedham •Newton Country Day School Newton •The Winsor School Boston •Adams Montessori School Quincy •Cambridge Friends School Cambridge •Milton Academy K-8 Division Milton •Belmont Day School Belmont •Lesley Ellis School Arlington •The Park School Brookline •Tenacre Country Day School Wellesley •Lexington Montessori School Lexington •The Advent School Boston •Fay School Southborough •The Fenn School Concord •Charles River School Dover •The Newman School Boston •The Rashi School Dedham •Waldorf High School of Mass Bay Belmont (MS= Middle School US= Upper School)

AGES AND GRADES 11-18 years (6-12) 10-18 years (girls 5-12) 12-18 years (9-12) 4-14 years (PK-8) 13-18 years (9-12) 2.9-13 years (PK-8) 15 mo-14 years (PK-8) 15mo-12 years (Todd.-6) 4-15 PK-8 5-12 years (K-6) 11-18 years (6-12) 2-12 (Toddler-6) 11-18 years (7-12) 11-18 years (6-12) 11-18 years (6-12) 14-18 years (9-PG) 11-18 years (6-12) 2-12 years (PK-6) 12-18 years (boys 7-12) 4-18 years (PK-12) 4-18 (PS-12) 3-14 years (PK-8) 4-14 years (Jr.K-8) 4-18 years (PK-12) 21 mos. to 14 years (T-8) 14-18 years (9-12) 4-15 years (boys PK-9) 5-12 years (K-6) 4-10 years (PK-4) 11-14 years (5-8) 3-13 years (PK-8) 4-12 years (PK-6) 12-18 years (7-12) 4-14 years (PK-8) 3-12 years (Beginners-6) 4-14 years (PK-8) 10-18 years (girls 5-12) 10-18 years (girls 5-12) 15 mo -12 years 4-14 years (PK-8) 5 -14 years (K-8) 4-14 years (PK-8) 2.9-14 years (PS-8) 4-15 years (PK-9) 4-12 years (PK-6) 21 mos-14 years (Todd.-8) 4-14 years (PK-6) 4-15 years (PK-9) 9-15 years (boys 4-9) 4-14 years (PK-8) 13-19 years (9-12) 5-14 years (K-8) 14-18 years (9-12)

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Jabes Rojas, deputy chief of staff, and Nam Pham, assistant secretary for business development and international trade, spoke on streamlining the state’s accreditation process for minority- and women-owned businesses at Governor Baker’s roundtable discussion.

In order to provide greater and more cost-effective transport, the administration also is soliciting proposals from private carriers to provide smaller vehicles for latenight services, express bus transit and lightly-traveled routes. Baker says this would free up the drivers and large buses serving those circuits for deployment on more heavily-trafficked routes and more high-demand times.

“We’d redeploy buses that currently run on those routes to routes that are oversubscribed, where people can’t get on the bus, especially in the morning, because there’s no room on the bus or people are packed in and it’s simply a bad customer experience,” said Baker.

“No one’s going to get laid off,” he emphasized.

Drivers on the late-night shift are paid time-and-a-half, yet serve so few passengers that in effect, the state spends an additional $20 per rider at these times, said Mark Steffen, the governor’s deputy press secretary.

The governor is not set on privatization: “If we don’t get good proposals, we’re not going to do anything,” Baker said.

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“I support the project, and I believe in the project, but I don’t support and believe in it for $3 billion. My expectation is we will be able to find a way to reduce that price tag and continue to do the work,” said Baker.

The governor said that December 2014 estimate put the Green Line extension cost $4 billion, with $2 billion to be provided by the state and $2 billion from the federal government. This past June, these estimates increased, pegging the state’s payment at $3 billion. The administration will look for ways to reduce costs and expects to complete its assessment by late November, said Baker.

“We have a real cost-estimation issue with respect to way we’re doing business as a city,” he added.

Early education

Baker said $45 million will be dedicated over three years to add “significant early childhood education capacity” in 25 schools in Boston, Lawrence, Springfield, Lowell and Holyoke. Childcare providers would hold their programs in public school buildings.

By enrolling children in the buildings where they may later attend elementary school, the program has potential to create stability and a sense of progress for the kids, said Baker.

Further initiatives

Baker said his housing policy will focus on creating more working-affordable dwellings instead of focusing on rent-control or subsidizing and that recent projects had included rehabilitation and renovation awards to improve existing housing stock. He said he also aims for a bill on hydro and solar power this fall.

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An $83 million initiative aims to prevent last winter’s crises.

The third rail lines that crashed after becoming exposed to the elements last winter are being refurbished. Other improvements include snowplows affixed to the front of trains, snow fence installation, independent snowplows and upgrades to switches and traction motors.

Baker said they will conduct a series of drills and simulations from October through November to

ensure personnel know how to deal with potential winter challenges.

“We are far better prepared for this winter than we were last winter,” he said.

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“We’re seeing strong support not only for the issue, but for making sure we pay for quality and get it done,” Williams concluded.

Rahn Dorsey, Boston’s chief of education, said Boston’s existing BPS pre-k (known as “K1”) system has yielded significant results in behavior, language, literacy and math achievement. Now the city needs to ensure quality, flexibility, livable teacher compensation and increased alignment into a zero-to-8 continuum as early education expands to reach more children.

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Committee Co-Chair Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz took a seat at the table to testify on a bill she has introduced that would draw on Chapter 70 funds (state aid to elementary and secondary education) for early education expansion, with an initial target of children of lower-income families and a five-year ramp-up to universal access.

She used her testimony not to tick off details or statistics, but to ask why, as other states surpass us in early education offerings, Massachusetts has not acted.

“How is that in the face of all this evidence, we have not yet made universal quality early education a reality?” She ventured a simple answer: “We have simply not chosen to do it.”

She urged her fellow legislators to consider early education as crucial as universal K–12 education, and not the “afterthought” it has been up to now.

In a phone interview after the hearing, Chang-Diaz cited some of the facts and figures her office has been publicizing on Twitter with

info-graphics: n Studies of the “word gap” show that by age 4, children of low-income families have heard 32 million fewer words than those in affluent families. n Statewide, 43 percent of third-graders are not reading at grade level; among black and Latino children, that figure is 60 percent. n Low-income children who attend early education programs are 40 percent less likely to require special education or be held back a grade. n Early education programs yield a $17-to-$1 return on investment, according to estimates by the U.S Chamber of Commerce.

The education committee has about 300 bills to consider between now and March, but for Chang-Diaz, early education is the highest priority, she said. Her bill has been identified also as a 201516 legislative priority by the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.

“Early education is the great unfinished work of education reform,” Chang-Diaz said. “Closing that gap is the thing we haven’t cracked yet.”

Federal grant aids BPS pre-k

In related news, Boston is benefiting from part of a $15 million federal Preschool Expansion Grant to Massachusetts that is helping to provide more children across the state with access to high-quality preschool.

Celebrated locally last week at a new preschool classroom in the YMCA’s Roxbury branch, the federal funding supports Boston, Springfield, Holyoke, Lowell and Lawrence school districts to provide a year of free, high-quality preschool for 4-year-olds through partnerships with local early education and care programs. Statewide, the funding will open up free preschool slots for more than 850 low-income children. In Boston, $4 million is being used by Boston Public Schools to support 300 4-year-old children to attend Boston preschool programs licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care.

The eight preschool program partners in Boston are YMCA of Greater Boston, Nurtury, Ellis Memorial, Wesley Child Care, Catholic Charities. ABCD Head Start, Paige Academies and Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester, according to EEC.

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Govt. agencies crack down on fraudulent mortgage practices

By GEORGE WHITE NEW AMERICA MEDIA

City, state and federal agencies have been stepping up efforts to stamp out fraudulent mortgage practices that target communities of color — pricing discrimination and redlining among them.

Redlining, the practice of denying credit to qualified applicants who seek loans for homes in specific neighborhoods, is illegal under the 1968 Fair Housing Act. However, a Buffalo-area bank on September 10 agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges it redlined a large, predominantly black community in that city.

The suit, filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, said Evans Bancorp created an investment map that excludes much of Buffalo’s East Side, an area that is predominantly African American. Evans Bank has been denying loans for homes in that area since 2009, according to the lawsuit.

Evans Bank denied the allegations but agreed to create a settlement fund to promote home ownership in the East Side and other areas that were allegedly redlined.

“That we continue to see systematic racial and housing discrimination in New York in 2015 is shocking,” Schneiderman said.

“We will fight for equal justice under law for all New Yorkers and hold lenders to their legal duty to

treat all our citizens fairly in the marketplace.”

The lawsuit and settlement is part of Schneiderman’s larger, ongoing investigations into mortgage redlining in New York. He said it was prompted by concerns that banks have halted or reduced lending activity in communities of color in the wake of the mortgage crisis and financial collapse of 2008.

The settlement is one of a number of court actions brought by cities and states against banks for alleged fraudulent lending practices. The cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Memphis have recently filed suits against major banks - with mixed results. On the federal level, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last May reached an agreement with the Wisconsin-based Associated Bank to settle redlining allegations. Associated Bank agreed to invest $200 million in increased home lending in communities that were allegedly redlined. HUD said it was the largest redlining settlement in its history.

HUD is now considering new allegations of discrimination-related realtor fraud, another kind of illegal activity in the housing market. The National Fair Housing Alliance, a Washington D.C.based nonprofit, last week filed a complaint with HUD against a real estate company near Jackson, Mississippi, alleging that the

realtor steered potential homebuyers to neighborhoods based on their race.

The housing alliance said its allegations are based on reports of those who took part in a “fair housing test,” whites and blacks who posed as potential home buyers.

The complaint alleges that the

company’s agents steered white home-seeking posers away from interracial neighborhoods in Jackson, a city with an African-American majority. Conversely, the black “testers” who inquired about properties in the Jackson area were often never called back and were generally provided very limited information, the complaint said.

A similar pattern of steering in many other cities was alleged in a report that the housing alliance produced nearly a decade ago. The study, partially funded

by HUD, was based on fair housing tests in New York, Washington

D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Detroit, Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Dayton, Mobile and Pittsburgh.

Despite being better qualified financially, the report said, black and Latino testers were shown fewer homes than their white peers, were often denied information about special incentives that would have made the purchase easier and were required to produce loan pre-approval letters and other documents when whites were not.

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continued from page A14 Pricing discrimination is another mortgage-market fraud and federal, state and city agencies are taking banks to court for allegedly engaging in the illegal practice. For example, a federal court earlier this month revived lawsuits in which the City of Miami accused three of the nation’s largest banks of predatory mortgage lending to African-American and Latino borrowers.

By a 3-0 vote, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said a lower court erred in dismissing the city’s claims under the federal Fair Housing Act, over what Miami called a decade of lending discrimination in its residential housing market.

Some of recent successful actions on bank discrimination claims are the result of jointagency efforts on the federal level.

For example, the Federal Trade Commission referred its investigation of Countrywide Financial Corporation to the U.S. Department of Justice and partnered with that agency in a joint probe that began in 2012.

In June, the Justice Department

Protections The Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act — two federal laws — offer protections against discrimination.

The ECOA forbids credit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status and age. Lenders and real estate brokers who arrange financing must comply with the ECOA. The FHA forbids discrimination in all aspects of residential real-estate related transactions, including: n making loans to buy, build, repair, or improve a place to live; n selling, brokering or appraising residential real estate; n selling or renting a place to live.

Loan application denials If your application is denied, the lender must give you specific reasons in writing. You also have the right to know why you were offered less favorable terms than you applied for - but only if you reject these terms. Moreover, you are entitled to obtain a free copy of the credit report that the lender used in making a determination announced it had obtained the largest residential fair lending settlement in history to resolve a discrimination lawsuit it filed against Countrywide. Under the settlement agreement, Countrywide, headquartered near Los Angeles, is to pay $335 million in compensation to discrimination victims.

The Justice Department said Countrywide discriminated by charging more than 200,000 African-American and Latino

of your application. In addition, you have the right to review the lenders property appraisal because some mortgage applications are rejected because of low valuations.

If you suspect discrimination n Check with your state attorney general to determine if the lender has violated state laws in the past. Many states have their own equal credit opportunity laws. n Consider suing the lender in federal district court. If you win, you can recover your actual damages and be awarded punitive damages if the court finds that the lender’s conduct was willful.

Also, you may recover reasonable lawyers’ fees and court costs. Or you might consider finding other people with the same claim and get together to file a class action suit. n Report any violations to the appropriate government agency.

You can file a complaint regarding a violation of the ECOA with the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You can file a complaint regarding a violation of the FHA with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

borrowers higher fees and interest rates than whites. The agency said the borrowers were qualified applicants who were charged higher fees and rates because of their race or national origin.

The Justice Department also alleges that Countrywide steered thousands of African-American and Latino borrowers into subprime mortgages from 2004 to 2007, while providing prime loans to whites with similar credit. Subprime

loans generally involve higher-cost terms such as prepayment penalties and adjustable interest rates that increase after a few years.

In another joint-agency bank discrimination case, the Justice Department and the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced in May that they reached a settlement with the San Bruno, CA-based Provident Funding Associates in a lawsuit that alleges the company charged

Latinos and African Americans higher prices for loans.

The lawsuit alleged that Provident over-charged black and Latino borrowers nationwide by levying higher broker charges. For example, Provident charged its African-American customers borrowing $220,000 at least $858 more in total broker fees, assessments based on the race — not their credit worthiness, the lawsuit said. The Justice Department also alleged that the bank charged Latino customers borrowing $240,000 at least $615 more in broker fees because of their ethnicity.

Provident agreed to provide $9 million in compensation to Latino and African-American borrowers.

Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission has been holding public briefings in many cities on scams — fraudulent mortgage practices among them. In May, the FTC and NAACP co-hosted a “Scam Jam” in Atlanta to hear about scams that affect African-American communities.

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By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

ime and its passing is a theme that ripples through the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music,” from its opening songs to the sublime anthem to regret, “Send in the Clowns.”

An elegant farce deepened by grace notes of wisdom, the romantic comedy is composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s take on the classic 1955 film by Ingmar Bergman, “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Both take place at a country estate in turn-of-the-century Sweden, on the night of the summer solstice, when the sun barely sets at all.

As in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the solstice is a night of transformation. After a night of romantic capers and follies, mismatched couples find their rightful mates. But “A Little Night Music” casts its wry eye on human choices and second chances rather than magic.

In the Huntington Theatre

Company’s shimmering production of this award-sweeping musical, on stage through Oct. 11 at the Boston University Theatre, the musical’s many moving parts interlock with music-box precision and artfulness. In the process, heart meets art.

Directed by Peter DuBois, the Huntington’s artistic director, the production is faithful to the book by Hugh Wheeler and music and lyrics by Sondheim, a master of brainy, sophisticated and intricately-structured musical comedies.

In some scenes, the stagecraft veers on surrealism, such as when the actors perform a stylized dance like Belle Époque figurines, or when a couple freezes midway

in conversation. The show’s artifice lends a satirical edge to the musical. But as its parts slip into place, the actors, staging and music conspire to draw the audience into the poignant humanity of the characters and their follies and yearnings.

Like the Bergman film, the musical revolves around a legend that the solstice bestows smiles on three sorts of people: the young, the fools and the old. In its first act, three couples meet, each in distress. In the second act, they mingle, entangle and change.

Three generations of Armfeldt women bring about these changes, each in her own way. Wheelchair-bound but still potent Madame Armfeldt, a retired courtesan who presides over a grand estate, instructs her 13-year-old granddaughter, Fredrika, to watch for the three smiles.

Desiree Armfeldt, Madame’s daughter and Fredrika’s mother, is a celebrated stage actress. She is tiring of her “shoddy tours” and her lover, Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, a married cavalry soldier with “the brain of a pea.” When she crosses paths with a former lover she has not seen for 14

years, Fredrik Egerman, they rekindle their liaison for one night. She longs to win him back, yearning for a “coherent existence after so many years of muddle.”

Fredrik and Desiree became lovers after the death of his first wife. He does not know that Fredrika is the love child of their affair.

He has just remarried, and his wife, Anne Egerman, is 18 years old, about the same age as his son, Henrik, an earnest young man who is studying to become a minister.

Henrik burns with love for Anne, his new stepmother, and Anne has put off consummating her marriage.

Undaunted by Fredrik’s unlikely marriage, Desiree gets her mother to invite the Egermans to a weekend at her estate with hope of starting anew with him.

In the musical’s spare opening scene, a singer comes out, sits at a piano, and plucks one note. But quickly joining him are four other singers who form an elegant vocal ensemble. Alternating between solos and gliding harmonic passages, they also dance

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Los Angeles trio KING open RISE concert series at Gardner Museum

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

It’s a homecoming of sorts for musical group KING, who perform on Thursday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new music series RISE. KING consists of twin sisters Paris and Amber Strother and vocalist Anita Bias.

Paris, who is a pianist, keyboardist and composer, initially met Bias at the Berklee College of Music when they were both students at the internationally-renowned music college. “Having gone to school there, I always loved the city,” says Paris of her time in Boston.

RISE is curated by singer and rapper Shea Rose and music producer Simone Scazzocchio, and pairs established and emerging musicians from the worlds of pop, rock, hip hop and other genres.

When Paris, Amber and Bias initially got together “it was more of hanging out with each other and just having a good time making music,” says Paris. “We initially wanted to make the music for family and friends because we were having such fun hanging out together doing small shows here

in LA.” That was in 2011 and since then it’s been a meteoric rise to musical success for KING. A year later, they opened for Prince on his final show of the Welcome 2 American tour in Charlotte, N.C. That same year, Paris teamed up with musician Robert Glasper in co-writing the song Move Love for his record Black Radio. The album went on to win a Grammy in the Best R&B Album category in 2013.

Speaking by phone from Los Angeles recently, Paris talked about her time at Berklee, working with Prince and the artist she’d like to work with someday.

You mentioned that you just wanted to make music for yourself and for your family. Were you working other jobs and did you think this would be a potential career at the time?

Paris Strother: I always had it in my mind. I had gone to Berklee and always knew I wanted to do music but wasn’t exactly sure how.

It came completely out of left field for my twin sister Amber who always loved music and we always connected over music, but I don’t think she’d ever see herself doing

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Musical group KING comprised of twin sisters Paris and Amber Strother and musical compadre Anita Bias. They will open the RISE concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday, September 24, 2015. it professionally. She had also gone to Berklee for a short period. I think years later she remembered that she had specifically wanted to be in a band when she was younger. That was a lot of fun. I think it was definitely a big dream come true.

You’ve performed with Prince. Can you still describe what the feeling was like when you received that

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email asking if you were interested in meeting him, and then you were asked to perform with him?

As artists, what did you learn from working with him?

PS: It was kind of disbelief. It was astonishing. At the time we didn’t have any press or anything; no agents. It was really a wild moment. Our first formal show, I think it was 16,000 people. It was just incredible and it kind of set the bar for where we wanted to be as artists.

PS: He really kind of instilled the self-confidence and was always pretty adamant about not changing for anyone and staying true to ourselves. It was really a welcome piece of advice and stayed with us.

He was really inspiring in the way of staying true to ourselves.

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When a distraught Henrik seeks to hang himself from a tree limb, he finds the birch trees too tall for his noose.

Deft costuming by Robert Morgan also heightens comic effects and accents character and personality.

Scene-stealer Lauren Molina is Countess Charlotte Malcolm, the count’s long-suffering wife. In one of the Charlotte’s semi-hysterical moments, she wears a hat with an alarmingly high peak — the millinery equivalent of a shriek.

Lauren Weintraub is a natural as the wise, solemn Fredrika. With her long hair and white dress, she resembles Alice in Wonderland, a suitable look for a girl taking in the foibles of her adult companions.

As rivals for Desiree, Count Carl-Magnus (given a hearty comic turn by Mike McGowan) and Fredrik Egerman (Stephen Bogardus) face off wearing matching beige duster coats.

Bobbie Steinbach is the solitaire-playing Madame Armfeldt, who with her droll asides lets it be known that she does not gladly suffer fools, including her daughter.

McCaela Donovan is luscious as the Egermans’ frisky servant Petra.

Morgan Kirner is just right as daffy, sweet Anne Egerman and Pablo Torres gives Henrik a soulful dignity. Both actors are students at Boston Conservatory, and their physical resemblance to one another hints at the future destiny of Anne and Henrik as mates.

As various couples contemplate the fateful weekend ahead, scenes shift from one to another with cinematic speed. In one scene, Desiree asks Fredrika how she would feel “if we had a home of our very own with me only acting when I felt like it — and a man who would make you a spectacular father?”

Meanwhile, in another scene, the jealous count, determined to attend with his wife although they are not invited, orders the countess to watch his rival like a hawk.

Molina, her body folded into a tense Z shape, replies in a flat voice, “You’re a tiger, I’m a hawk.

We’re our own zoo.”

As Fredrik Egerman, Bogardus is buff and dashing, but also a man who needs a nap to keep up with his teenaged wife. He and

in some way or another but Berklee really honed the skill and talent and set my learning along continued from page B2 a really directional path. I studied contemporary writing and Is he still working with you guys? production, which is kind of like PS: He’s still a friend and ally. scoring for orchestra or a large ensemble or a big band. That kind of If it hadn’t been for Berklee would you have continued making the music practical education, learning the software programs that everyone or did it jumpstart it for you?

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and mingle, and in most scenes populate the on-stage party as friends and neighbors.

Conducted by Eric Stern, a 12-member orchestra renders Sondheim’s orchestrations, which always serve the story within his lyrics — whether injecting delicate emotional punctuation or providing soaring melodic accompaniment. The lilting, infectious score is written almost entirely in waltz time, with variations of tempo and mood to suit each scene throughout the production, which runs two-and-a-half hours with one intermission.

Subtle lighting by Jeff Croiter conjures the magic of a midsummer night that keeps darkness at bay, and with Derek McLane’s set, allows fluid scene shifts. Slender curtains quickly partition a scene and floor panels glide furniture off stage, often along with their occupants frozen mid-pose. A pavilion drops from the ceiling to conjure Madame’s country estate.

KING

You’ve performed with some really amazing and talented musicians like Marsha Ambrosius, Lianne La Havas and Alice Smith. Who in your mind immediately stands out as someone you’d like to perform with?

PS: Janet Jackson is the first person that comes to mind.

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Stephen Bogardus as Fredrik Egerman and Haydn Gwynne as Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music” at BU Theatre Haydn Gwynne, as Desiree, share a warm rapport, and their humor and chemistry make a reunion seem inevitable.

Gwynne’s Desiree is sexy and self-aware and she shades the wry humor of her one-liners with a touch of vulnerability. When Fredrik shows up in her theater

And why Janet?

PS: She’s just such an icon.

Her music and her sound, specifically the sound of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, was so instrumental in growing up in Minneapolis. I think that Janet, with who she is, her voice, and their production, is really iconic to us and really, I think for each of us individually, it had us fall in love with music.

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dressing room yearning for a tryst, she readily agrees, saying, “What are old friends for?”

And when it appears that Desiree’s scheme to win Fredrik has failed, Gwynne delivers the show’s signature song, “Send in the Clowns,” with an aching lyricism that makes time stand still.

IF YOU GO KING performs this Thursday at the RISE

music series in Calderwood Hall at the Gardner Museum located at 25 Evans Way, Boston. Admission: $27 for adults; $24 for seniors; $17 for members; $12 students and children; and youth age 7 and under are not admitted. Visit www.gardnermuseum.org to purchase tickets.

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BAYOU BITES LOUISIANA’S CHICKEN MAQUE CHOUX MAKES A GREAT ENTREE

BY THE EDITORS OF RELISH MAGAZINE

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aque Choux (pronounced “mock shoe”) is a braised corn, tomato and pepper dish of French Acadian and Native American origin, popular in Louisiana. This version includes chicken thighs, rubbed with a mixture of garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, cinnamon and sugar and cooked until crispy brown.

Fresh corn, onions, tomatoes and bell peppers are added to the skillet, and the chicken is nestled in the mixture, covered and baked.

Serve Chicken Maque Choux with a crispy baguette to soak up the juices.

Chicken Maque Choux n 1 tablespoon garlic powder n 1 tablespoon onion powder n 1 teaspoon cumin n 1 teaspoon cinnamon n 1 teaspoon sugar n ½ teaspoon salt n ½ teaspoon black pepper n 8 chicken thighs n 1 tablespoon oil n 1 cup chopped green onions n 4 cups fresh corn kernels (about 6 large ears) n 1 large tomato, chopped n 1 red bell pepper, chopped

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Combine the first seven ingredients (garlic powder through black pepper). Rub on chicken thighs.

Heat oil in large ovenproof skillet. Add chicken and cook until browned, about 5 minutes per side.

Transfer to a plate.

Combine onions, corn, tomato and bell pepper in a 13-by-9-inch pan. Place chicken on top of corn mixture. Cover and bake 15 minutes.

Uncover and bake 15 more minutes. Serves 4.

— Photo by Mark Boughton; Photography/styling by Teresa Blackburn

TIP OF THE WEEK

Desserts and snacks that pop Make your next friendly gathering a popping success with desserts and snacks made from a wholesome simple grain.

Popcorn is a naturally healthy treat that’s low in fat and calories, non-GMO and gluten free, so you can be assured that party-goers will keep popping back by for one more guilt-free bite.

What’s more, freshly popped corn makes it easy to tickle all your guests’ taste bud cravings. Salty, spicy, sweet; the options are nearly endless.

A popcorn bar is a fun and easy way to have guests take an active role in the party. Provide a wide range of toppings and watch them get creative dreaming up delicious flavor combinations. You can even host a taste test and award prizes to the tastiest concoctions.

Set out a large bowl of popcorn and surround it with smaller bowls with various popcorn fixings. Let each person fill a paper bag or other container with popcorn and top or mix with their desired flavorings.

Find more festive popcorn recipes to help plan your next party at popcorn.org.

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EASY RECIPE

Marmalade Popcorn Balls n 1 ½ cups sugar n 1 ¼ cups water n 1 cup orange marmalade n ½ teaspoon salt n ½ cup light corn syrup n 1 teaspoon vinegar n 5 quarts popped popcorn In saucepan combine sugar, water, marmalade, salt, light corn syrup and vinegar. Bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cook to hard-ball stage (250 degrees Fahrenheit).

Pour slowly over popped popcorn and mix thoroughly. Butter hands and shape into 2 ½-inch balls.

— Family Features

FOOD QUIZ What did the dish merguez originate?

A. North Africa B. Europe C. Central America D. South America Answer at bottom of column.

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Cornichons: Adorable little French pickles made from miniature gherkin cucumbers. The crunchy pickles have a dry, sharp taste, and are often served alongside fatty meats such as pork rillettes or with traditional French pot-aufeu, in order to perk up and cut through the richness of a meaty dish. They are also used in tartare and other sauces.

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QUIZ ANSWER A. Merguez is a type of thin, spicy sausage that originated in North Africa.

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Simple ideas for easy entertaining For seasoned pros and home cooks alike, entertaining friends and family is an opportunity to gift loved ones with a taste of festive fun. A few simple tips will help make it easy to cook up one delicious spread. n Plan a menu that lets you enjoy the party, too. Serve a simple main course, and let the smaller dishes and desserts be the heroes of the holiday.

Flavorful finger foods, appetizers and sweets are easily prepared and guests can serve themselves. n Keep your kitchen stocked with a few key ingredients that can be used in a variety of dishes. For example, Philadelphia Cream Cheese is perfect in rich cheesecake and other desserts, but it also lends a creamy texture to appetizers and main dishes. n Remember that special can be simple, and recipes do not need to be complex to be guest-worthy. Take care to offer a diverse selection to satisfy a range of tastes and dietary needs.

— Family Features

EASY RECIPE

Classic Cheesecake n 1½ cups graham cracker crumbs n 3 tablespoons sugar n 1⁄3 cup butter or margarine, melted n 4 packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened n 1 cup sugar n 1 teaspoon vanilla n 4 eggs Heat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix graham crumbs, 3 tablespoons sugar and butter; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan.

Beat cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and vanilla with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Pour over crust.

Bake 1 hour or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim.

Refrigerate for 4 hours.

— Family Features

FOOD QUIZ Made with meringue, cream and fruit, what is the name of this popular dessert from Australia and New Zealand?

A. Pavlova; B. Aloo pie C. Carac; D. Croline Answer at bottom of column.

WORD TO THE WISE Agnolotti: Agnolotti (“priest hats”) are stuffed, fresh pasta from the Piedmont region. Agnolotti are traditionally made by folding small, thinly rolled rounds of pasta dough over fillings into a halfmoon (or rectangular) shape, and crimping the edges to seal.

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QUIZ ANSWER A. The dessert is called pavlova.

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Fall flavor

BY THE EDITORS OF RELISH MAGAZINE

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ant to be a smart cookie? Here are some cookie-baking tips from the Relish test kitchen: n Use self-rising flour, which has leavening agents and salt in premeasured proportions. No need to worry with measuring out baking powder and soda. n Make sure your ingredients are room temperature. n Use an insulated baking pan. n Don’t “fluff ” the creamed mixture. This whips too much air into the dough. Beat just until creamy. n When adding the flour, beat the mixture just until the

flour disappears. n Remove your cookies from the oven just before they look done. A tan cookie will be more dense and pliable than a golden cookie. n Don’t cram extra cookies on the baking sheet. Each sheet should hold one dozen. n Use a small or medium scoop to measure your dough. n Make sure your baking sheet cools down before scooping a second batch onto it to keep your cookies from spreading too much. n A metal cake spatula is better for removing cookies from the pan — it’s less sticky than a rubber cookie spatula.

Maple Walnut Cookies Cookie ingredients: n 1 cup butter n 1 cup granulated sugar n 1 cup brown sugar n 2 large eggs n 1 cup whole-wheat flour n 1 cup self-rising white flour (plus ½ to 1 cup more if needed) n 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts n 1 teaspoon maple flavoring n 1 teaspoon salt

Icing ingredients: n 4 tablespoons butter n 2 cups powdered sugar n 1 teaspoon maple flavoring n 3 to 4 tablespoons milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Combine butter, sugars, eggs, flavoring, and salt and beat until just combined. Add flours, 1 cup at a time. If dough is sticky to the touch, add more self-rising flour in ½-cup increments until smooth. Stir in walnuts.

Scoop onto a baking sheet one dozen at a time. Bake in center of oven 10 to 13 minutes, until cookies are puffy and beginning to turn tan. Remove from oven and let cool.

Meanwhile, mix icing ingredients until texture is smooth and thick. Add more milk or sugar to achieve a creamy texture. Ice tops of cookies.

Makes 2 dozen.

— Recipe by Mary Carter. Photo by Kyle Dreier/styling by Teresa Blackburn.

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But the university does less than many other schools when it comes to one thing: helping its poor students.

ProPublica analysis based on new data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that students from low-income families graduate from NYU saddled with huge federal loans. The school’s Pell Grant recipients – students from families that make less than $30,000 a year – owe an average of $23,250 in federal loans after graduation.

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Advancements in technology improve both diagnoses and treatment quality. Retail health offers a convenience used by more than 10 million patients at 1,800 retail health locations. Along with the current challenges facing the healthcare system, such as an aging population, increased patient volume and physician shortages, these changes prompt the expansion of the traditional role of a nurse.

Generally, Americans believe nurses’ roles are expanding as they share increased responsibilities to support the delivery of high quality healthcare, according to a poll commissioned by University of Phoenix College of Health Professions.

The survey also found that adults in the United States view their experience with nurses as overwhelmingly positive. In fact, 95 percent found nurses to be a valuable addition to the healthcare system as a whole, and 87 percent viewed nurses as trusted sources of health information.

“As nurses take on greater responsibility, and as the needs of healthcare organizations continue to grow more complex, the skills and training requirements of nurses must be prepared to match this growth,” says Betty Nelson, Ph.D., RN, and academic dean for University of Phoenix School of Nursing.

“This is especially important given that the United States is currently facing a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025..

Nurses with advanced education can help fill this shortage, particularly in areas where consumers do not have access to care.”

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SBA expands reach

IMAGES COURTESY OF SBA

Left, Tameka Montgomery, associate administrator of the SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development. Right, the Business Smart Toolkit welcome packet for community organizations.

New program trains community orgs to support local entrepreneurs

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

The federal government is trying to do a better job helping small businesses in underserved communities grow, and is reaching out to community organizations as partners in doing so.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders launched the Business Smart Toolkit, designed to teach faith-based and community organizations to deliver education and training to aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners among their membership.

“The idea is to provide a resource for these community organizations,” said Tameka Montgomery, associate administrator of the SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development, “so they can provide a base level of information to their constituents, educating them and connecting them to the resources they need to grow their business.”

The Toolkit equips local community leaders to offer 60–90-minute presentations and workshops, starting with simple information useful to those who might be thinking about starting a business but do not know where to begin. The Toolkit provides PowerPoint presentations for each module, tips for successful workshops, an instructor guide and even customizable flyers to advertise the workshops.

The curriculum’s three modules — dubbed “Ready, Set, Go” — cover business startup basics, essentials of becoming credit-ready, and how to find additional resources for small business support and education.

Trusty intermediaries

The SBA, through its regional offices and local partners, already provides business development and support programs across the country, but Montgomery said the hope is that the Business Smart Toolkit program, with its

reliance on community-based organizations, will be more effective at reaching underserved communities. Community organizations may be seen as trusted sources of information that local community members will be more likely to turn to than an SBA office. “[The organizations] can be like force multipliers for our agency that help us spread the

news and allow us to access more communities,” she said.

Prior to launching the Toolkit program, the SBA and NAGGL reached out to community organizations to ask what could be done to help them support small businesses in their areas.

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On Tuesday, September 15, Governor Charlie Baker visited with employees and job seekers at the FutureWorks Career Center in Springfield. FutureWorks is one of the state’s 32 One Stop Career centers helping people with everything from resume writing to job training to assistance with unemployment insurance benefits.

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continued from page B8 The feedback was overwhelmingly in support of the Toolkit’s trainthe-trainer approach.

“Everyone that we spoke to said, ‘Yes, this is definitely what we need,’” Montgomery said.

About a dozen test-case organizations will serve as groundbreakers to roll out the toolkit program and jump-start awareness of how it works and how to implement it.

NAGGL is an association that represents small business lenders that take part in SBA’s guaranteed government loan programs.

The chance to help more small

businesses grow and become more credit-ready was too good to pass up, NAGGL leaders say, as the more businesses that reach the stage of needing loans for growth, the more potential customers the lenders have.

NAGGL President and CEO Tony Wilkinson said he hopes the program inspires more entrepreneurs to open small businesses, and wants his organization to provide as much support and resources as it can to make this happen.

The credit-ready aspect of the Business Smart Toolkit program is especially exciting to NAGGL leaders, as the organization works with traditional lenders who want their loans to be available to small

businesses, but still need the businesses to be ready to pass loan applications.

Access to capital

The toolkit program can put small businesses on track to have quicker access to capital to fuel growth, said NAGGL Executive Vice President Jane Butler. She views the program as helping bolster a future generation of small businesses that lenders will be able to work with.

“We see this program as maybe being the step before traditional lending, for folks that might not be able to walk into a bank and walk out with a loan,” Butler said. “This is part of our commitment to make sure there is access to capital for

all small businesses — even those that might not be ready for a traditional loan today.”

Bob Nelson, district director in the SBA’s Massachusetts office, said the Business Smart Toolkit program should provide a big boost to his office’s efforts to reach out to underserved communities.

The model of connecting with community partners who in turn train entrepreneurs will be key to success, he noted, because it helps bridge the gap between neighborhood small businesses and the government.

“We have been spending a lot of time trying to increase our numbers to underserved communities.

Things don’t change overnight,

but when I look at the lending activity this year to date versus last year there are some strong trends in terms of numbers to minority businesses,” Nelson said.

On the national level, the SBA’s Montgomery said the toolkit program will keep her organization moving in the right direction in its commitment to communities of color and underserved communities.

“We are excited about it. We want to be intentional about reaching out to underserved communities,” she added. “We believe this approach will allow us to educate more people, reach out to more people, and make them more aware of the resources available to them.”

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continued from page A1 at school outside his homeroom.

They searched his person and backpack, and broke the lock off his locker to search it as well. The officers spoke with the school disciplinary staff and his parents.

They visited his home to speak to his parents a couple times during the next few months.

Ponte-Capellan, then 16, had gone to meet friends in Roxbury a few days after the fight, when officers called him over to their cruiser and started talking to him about their gang list. They showed him the file and told him his friends said he was the leader of their “gang.”

His friends, said Ponte-Capellan, denied this.

Before police pegged him as a gang member, Ponte-Capellan said officers would stop and pat him down him about three times a week. After the fight — and subsequent positioning on the gang list — it got worse.

“Every time I came back to downtown after that, they were all over me.”

Criminal justice reform activists say that when teens like Ponte-Capellan are labeled gang members — rightly or wrongly — they often are subjected to higher levels of police scrutiny, including surveillance and frequent stops and searches. And the cops who target the teens, members of the department’s Youth Violence Strike Force — commonly referred to as the gang unit — have a long reputation for aggressive behavior and disregard for teens’ Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure.

Ponte-Capellan said the police frequently searched his pockets without his permission, despite not having probable cause to arrest him.

The increased police harassment took a toll.

“It had a psychological impact on me,” Ponte-Capellan said. “I was a good kid. I went to school.

When the police came down on me, it made me think differently of myself.”

Ponte-Capellan eventually dropped out of high school and joined the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation — better known as the Latin Kings. After two years, he left and returned to high school, graduating from the Notre Dame Education Center. He now works with the criminal justice reform group, Youth Against Mass Incarceration.

The list

For years, police have kept lists of young men they say are either gang members or gang-affiliated.

Few outside the police department understand the gang list’s workings, how gang affiliation is determined, what constitutes a gang and how the police’s gang database is managed.

Yet these lists impact the lives of those on it, as being regarded as part of a gang can increase the frequency with which police engage with an individual.

In a report released last year, researchers found that of the 204,000 field interrogations Boston Police made between 2007 and 2010, 63 percent were interrogations of people police identified as black, 22 percent were identified as white and 12 percent were identified as Latino. Blacks make up 23 percent of the city’s

population. Non-Hispanic whites make up 45 percent.

Police cited gang involvement as a major factor in the disproportionate number of blacks and Latinos who were stopped, patted down, questioned or simply observed in their Field Intelligence Observation database.

The BPD did not respond by the Banner’s press deadline to requests for information about their definition of gang involvement and about policies governing their gang lists and databases.

Activists familiar with the police department’s practices say their use of the list, and the secrecy they maintain around it, pose important questions.

Makis Antzoulatos, a Boston attorney and member of the National Lawyers Guild, believes Boston’s Youth Violence Strike Force continues to operate under the gang definition it created in 1993. The definition is broad: a formal or informal group of 3 or more people with current or past criminal activity and either claimed territory or some form of identifier, such as name or colors.

Membership indicators that may justify an FIO database entry range from self-admission to being seen in the company of gang members on at least two occasions.

Individuals may also enter the database as “gang associates”, a term provided for those the police consider closely connected to a gang, but who did not fit the specified criteria.

“What we have is an unchecked situation,” says Carlton Williams, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. “We do know that police are profiling and that race is one of

the indicators of who they’re stopping. We can’t monitor how or why they’re putting people of color on their gang list. It raises concerns.

How do we know that people are being treated fairly? We don’t.”

Serious consequences

In addition to stops and searches, people listed as gang affiliates or members also are subjected to worse treatment in the criminal justice system, beginning with the bail process.

“It can be used by a District Attorney to advocate for increased bail,” said Antzoulatos. “People who are freed on bail are more likely to have a positive outcome in their cases.”

Antzoulatos said police also use alleged gang affiliation or membership to justify searches that otherwise would be illegal.

Perhaps most frustrating, Anzoulatos said, is the secrecy around the list. Once when he requested a record from the police database showing his client’s alleged gang membership, he was given a single page with little information, other than his client’s name and photograph.

“There was no information in the document about how he got on the list, who said he was a gang member or anything,” Anzoulatos said. “They don’t tell us how you got on the list and there’s no information about how to get off the list.”

Gang outreach

In addition to increased police scrutiny, people on the police department’s gang list are sometimes targeted for services.

Partnerships Advancing Communities Together, launched in 2010, lists 200-300 of an

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estimated 3,500 “gang affiliates” in Boston, according to a report by the United States Attorney’s Office.

PACT aims to connect those involved, or at risk of involvement, in gang or firearm violence with social and financial support, such as jobs, health care, education and counseling in order to turn them from violence.

Stephanie Berkowitz, director of external relations for the Center for Teen Empowerment, helps connect job opportunities with some youth the BPD regards as at risk of gang-involvement.

Both those likely to perpetrate or be victims of violence are listed, said Berkowitz. She said that a strong effort is made to protect the privacy of those on the list.

“It’s actually very secretive,” Berkowitz said. She said that currently the Boston list consists solely of young men, but she did not know other details, such as what factors put someone on this list or under what conditions they are removed.

Avoiding conflict

Ponte-Capellan said he was offered no such assistance. He doesn’t know whether he’s still on the gang list, but he has only been stopped once in the last year.

His lack of contact with the police could well be the result of changed habits. These days, he says he avoids hanging out with large groups of people, especially if he does not know everyone in the group out of fear of how the police might treat him.

“I’m just afraid if the police do come, they’re going to associate me with everyone there, and I don’t want to deal with that.”

Yawu Miller contributed to this story.

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Asked about their modest number of low-income students, a Harvard official said that the school is committed to enrolling the best students, regardless of their financial circumstances.

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When the clock struck prejudice: Islamophobia from Texas to India

By SANDIP ROY, NEW AMERICA MEDIA COMMENTARY

Mahesh Sharma, India’s culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realise. On the face of it, the two incidents appear poles apart.

Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteenyear-old freshman in a high school in Texas, was handcuffed and detained by police after he took a homemade alarm clock to school to show his engineering teacher.

But another teacher thought it looked like a bomb and called the police. The boy in his NASA T-shirt was interrogated and taken to a juvenile detention centre, triggering off a huge row about Islamophobia and stereotyping.

Meanwhile over in India, Mahesh Sharma, the culture minister who has recently found his tongue with a vengeance, tells India Today TV that it makes sense to rename Aurangzeb Road after APJ Abdul Kalam because Kalam “despite being a Muslim” was a

great nationalist and humanist.

Sharma was actually trying to deliver a compliment. The Texas police were reacting to young Mohamed as a threat but both responses draw from the same wellspring of prejudice.

Both see being Muslims ultimately from a base level of suspicion. The Texas authorities might insist anyone carrying a contraption with wires to school would be subject to the same treatment, but they will never be able to demonstrate that Ahmed’s name and religion were not factors as well. “I like science, but I look like a threat because of my brown skin,” said Ahmed. He is not just a teenager building a clock, he is a Muslim teenager building a bomb-like device. As has been pointed out, if it was indeed a bona fide bomb scare, why was the school not evacuated? Why was a bomb squad not called? And if it was a bomb hoax, why would the perpetrator call it a clock and defeat the point of a hoax?

Sharma might insist he was trying to prove that he, in fact, had

no prejudice towards Muslims by making Kalam the “good” Muslim to Aurangzeb’s “bad” Muslim. That was belittling enough to Kalam’s memory, but Sharma took it a step further because as Siddharth Vardarajan writes in The Wire, “In the Culture Minister’s perverted worldview, being Muslim is a handicap that the former President had to overcome in order to serve the country.” That’s a fine message to send out to the country’s Muslims.

The point of the story is the stereotypes we harbour. And that includes Taslima Nasreen who tweeted out, “If I could see Ahmed Mohamad’s home-made clock, I would hv mistaken his thing for a bomb. Why ppl think Muslims can bring bombs? Cause they do.” But Muslims don’t bring bombs. Bad people, who come in all shapes, sizes and denominations, do. Just because there are terrorists who find their inspiration in their religion does not mean Ahmed Mohamed deserves to be interrogated for building a clock. America’s greatest school tragedies have not

been caused by Muslims bringing bombs. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Springfield. Blacksburg.

Those shooters had names like Eric Harris, Dylan Kiebold, Adam Lanza and Seung-Hui Cho. Ahmed, however has been flooded with support from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to President Obama. “Cool clock, Ahmed,” tweeted President Obama. “Want to bring it to the White House?”

It’s unlikely the Indian prime minister will say anything to Sharma.

PM Narendra Modi, after all, is the face that launched a thousand #DespiteBeingAWoman hashtags after telling Sheikh Hasina, “I am happy that Bangladesh Prime Minister, despite being a woman, has declared zero tolerance for terrorism.”

Of course, it’s also highly unlikely that Ahmed would have gotten anywhere near the White House with his contraption without triggering a security alert. But the point is the context. An unknown person with a jerry-rigged device with wires sticking out near the White House is clearly not the same as your fellow student bringing a clock to school and showing it to the engineering teacher.

Let’s be clear. No Qurans were desecrated here. No mosques vandalised. No one was beaten up for

wearing a headscarf or a “beard like Osama”. But these forms of covert prejudice are more insidious and all the harder to root out because someone like Mahesh Sharma probably genuinely believes he was paying an ex-president a well-deserved compliment.

Just as Ahmed’s high school, in a display of obdurate tone-deafness, has issued a statement without even a hint of apology, patting themselves on the back instead for “always” taking “the necessary steps to keep our school as safe as possible.”

Ahmed says he can “never look at the world in the same way.”

But he is fourteen and hopefully the scars will fade and the support he has received is also unprecedented. As for Kalam, he is beyond caring about what anyone thinks of him. But what do we do about a culture minister who, despite being a culture minister, seems to show little appreciation for the breadth and diversity of India’s culture? Ahmed’s clock was just a clock, but given his slew of explosive statements, Mahesh Sharma seems to be a ticking time bomb.

Sandip Roy is editor with Firstpost.com where this article originally appeared. He is also the author of “Don’t Let Him Know.”

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FRIDAY THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY READING OF PRISONERS’ WRITINGS 7-8:30pm, monthly prose/poetry participatory event focused on the voices of prisoners through their writings, as mentoring tools to impact youth in the community towards positive decision-making. Audience participation encouraged, light refreshments, bring a friend. MBTA buses #17 to Quincy/Bowdoin or #15 to Kane Sq. Created/directed by Arnie King www.arnoldking.org. September 25, 1st Parish Dorchester, 10 Parish St, Dorchester on Meetinghouse Hill. (Call if you need help getting up the hill.) Contact throughbarbedwire@yahoo.com; tel: 857-492-4858. Free/Donation.

SATURDAY KIDS REALLY ROCK Kids Really Rock is a FREE all-day family festival that brings together the country’s top family bands for a fantastic day of dancing, music and hands-on art activities. Families who are able are asked to bring a board book or bib for a drive benefitting event partner Room to Grow, a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of babies born into poverty through their third year. In addition to two stages for all-day musical entertainment, The Lawn will be packed with activities focused on kindness, community and creativity, such as stuffed animal portraits created by We Art Boston (don’t forget your favorite furry friend!), bib decorating, book making, a percussion petting zoo and more. Plus, don’t miss your photo opp with SNOOPY, who will be stopping by from 11am - 3pm. We hope you can stop by for a day that is sure to be filled with fun for all. Kids Really Rock at The Lawn on D, 420 D St., Boston, on September 26 from 11am - 6pm.

RACE AND CLASS TALKABOUT On September 26, the Union of Minority Neighborhood’s Boston Busing/ Desegregation Project is hosting a Race and Class Talkabout at the First Church of Roxbury. Part performance and part dialogue, BBDP members and audience will come together to listen to each other’s stories, discuss how the workings of race and class keep us stuck, and think about ways we can move forward, individually and collectively. Based on BBDP’s report, Unfinished Business: 7 Questions, 7 Lessons, the Talkabout will touch on the school desegregation crisis in Boston, but we also want to examine how the issues that were at play then are still with us today and how things may or may not have changed. 4-6pm at First Church of Roxbury, 10 Putnam St, Roxbury. We’d love to have you join us. Co-sponsored by the First Church in Roxbury Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry.

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Day in recognition of National Recovery Month Monday, September 28, 11am - 5:30pm. STEPROX Recovery Support Center, 9 Palmer St., Roxbury (Between Warren Street and Harrison Avenue). For more information, call us at 617-442-7837. This is a FREE indoor and outdoor event.There will be information tables and presentations on the following: Hep C, Nutrition, Smoothies 101, Meditation, Diabetes, Breast Cancer, Health/ Wellness, Self-Esteem, Rapid HIV Testing, L.I.P.S.T.I.C.K. (Ladies Involved in Putting A Stop To Inner City Killing). Healthy refreshments will be served.

WEDNESDAY MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER MID-WEEK SHUFFLE You helped us fund it, now help us celebrate it! That’s right, The Mid-Week Shuffle is FREE each Wednesday night starting September 23. The doors to our Upper Gallery will open at 6:30pm and appetizers, beverages, and conversations will take place until roughly 7:30. Both galleries will be open to allow you to take in the art while you hang out! Then, at 7:30pm, the show will begin. Each Wednesday we have a different group joining us for an exciting after-work night out. Come learn how to Salsa Dance with MetaMovements or be a part of choreography making with Monkeyhouse Dance Company. Watch the development of a classic with Poets’ Theatre’s scriptin-hand reading of Dracula and be the judge at our very own Northeast Poetry Slam! So many opportunities to not only observe art, but be a part of it. Dialogue is an integral part of each event. Choose one shuffle, or choose all four! Just make a FREE seat reservation and get ready for some great food, entertainment, and CONVERSATION! September 30 — Monkeyhouse Skort, October 7 — Poets’ Theatre Presents Dracula, October 14 — Poetry Slam Night.

Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge, In our Upper Gallery, Cash Bar (21+) & Complimentary Apps at 6:30pm. Performance in our Theater from 7:30-8:30pm. TICKETS: Free General Admission with a Seat Reservation, reservations can be made online at www.multiculturalartscenter.org.

UPCOMING BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, some hills. Walk a 4 mile loop around Ponkapoag Pond on the green dot trail. Meet at the Ponkapoag Golf Course parking lot at 2167 Washington St. in Canton. Saturday, October 3 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles.

New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites.

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Kipp Academy Boston charter school Principal Nikki Delk Barnes speaks during a rally at the State House to launch the Great Schools Massachusetts campaign, an effort aimed at lifting the cap on new charter school seats in Massachusetts.

continued from page A1 the partnership between district, charter and Catholic schools.

What Compact renewal means

For the first time since the Compact’s founding in 2011, the steering committee asked participants to confirm if they wished to continue the partnership.

The cross-sector and crossschool collaboration looks to have sectors coordinate activity and share ideas as they explore how best to serve students.

In the past, members have shared and worked together on lesson plans and techniques.

Erica Brown, executive director of City on a Hill charter school and member of the Boston Compact steering committee, said that from speaking with people from other schools she learned about new approaches to school fundraising and one school’s system for ensuring students met benchmarks .

“That [system] takes a lot of time to develop and for them to just hand it over? That’s what I’d consider true collaboration,” Brown said.

Members who renew the Compact must commit to four core goals. First, they agree to establish collective responsibility for closing opportunity and achievement gaps.

Second, they promise to increase the number of high-quality schools in Boston. Third, they commit to developing family-friendly, equitable systems to help families access high-quality schools close to home.

Lastly, in deciding matters such as where and what kind of new schools the members open, they pledge to communicate with the other sectors to take on a citywide, coordinated approach.

“We should make sure all our kids, regardless of where they go, have the opportunity to be successful,” said Mayor Walsh, speaking in support of collaboration to boost all schools. “I want to make sure when somebody drives by a school building in our city — whether it’s parochial, charter or district — the conversation should go like this: parents should say, ‘That’s a great school.’ … It shouldn’t be limited to certain areas, it should be every school in our city.”

Renewing the Compact commits members to the core largescale goals but does not require

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they adopt specific proposals for fulfilling them, such as increased data sharing and the unified enrollment system.

Although their original agreement does not require renewal, the Boston Compact’s steering committee seeks it due to widespread leadership changes across the sectors, which replaced many of the original signers. Recent years have seen new superintendents for both Boston Public Schools and Catholic Schools, as well as the election of a new mayor; meanwhile, the Boston Charter Alliance currently seeks a director of strategic projects. Additionally, Weinstein said that with a few years under their belt, the Compact team now had a “strong foundation to do bolder work” making it an appropriate time to address plans for the future.

to the student’s home. This means that if added, charter schools would switch from operating on a citywide basis — in which anyone, no matter where they live, can apply to any charter — to serving the neighborhoods in which they are located.

The shift would require a change to state law. Currently, students are admitted to charters based on a lottery, regardless of neighborhood or municipal lines.

That could trigger demographic changes in charter school makeup, as parents who otherwise might bypass charter schools’ enrollments would now be presented with charters as options.

Odette Williamson, a member of Quality Education for Every Student, a grassroots BPS parent organization, has one child who attended a charter school for the past four years and another child who attended a district school.

There are significant differences between the two educational environments, including pedagogy, discipline and opportunities for parental involvement. Putting both types of schools on the same enrollment list will mask that, Williamson said. “[The single enrollment system] is not really educating parents or telling them the different in choices and how that can impact their child’s success and ability to graduate,” said Williamson.

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Unified enrollment

If adopted, the single, unified enrollment system would streamline the lottery process so that parents interested in both district and charter schools have one application, instead of one BPS application and a different application for each charter.

To accomplish this, charter schools would be added into the database from which the BPS creates customized lists of recommended schools for each child.

Walsh said the proposed single enrollment process would “build on the [existing enrollment] system to create more options for families.”

Under the current system, parents get lists generation by an algorithm incorporating such things as school test scores and proximity

If funds go but costs stay

Some opponents fear that the single enrollment system will lead to funding diversions from district schools to charters and transfer

costs for students needing more resources back onto the public schools.

When a child attends a charter school, district funding follows.

The state then is required to reimburse the district for these funds for one year, and pay 25 percent of that amount for the next three years. But the state consistently has failed to fully reimburse municipalities for the funds.

According to a press release by QUEST, charters receive 49 percent of the state’s Chapter 70 education funding while serving 12 percent of Boston students.

“Students who don’t adhere to the discipline or code of conduct programs at charter schools often end up back in Boston Public Schools,” said Kim Janey, senior project director of Boston School Reform.

Education advocates say charters use suspensions to push out students who are more difficult to educate, including special-education students. In 2014, the state’s average suspension rate was 6.2 percent, while on average, Boston charters suspended 17.3 percent of their students.

Every student?

Higher needs

Among district school supporters, there is a prevailing perception that charters do not adequately serve higher-need students. “[Single enrollment] has the potential of providing fewer options and less equitable options for higher-need students and special-need students, because we know charters do not serve special-need students, English-language-learner students,” said Mary

Battenfield a member of QUEST. Shannah Varón, chair of Boston Charter Alliance and executive director of Boston Collegiate Charter School, said this perception was inaccurate, but that a “fair amount” of people share that belief.

Compact signatories would agree that all three sectors must provide programs to meet the needs of all students, although each individual school would not be required to do so, said Weinstein.

“While a given school might not be able to serve every type of low-incident, high-need student, across each sector we need to be able to do that,” said Weinstein. She said a small, 300-person school could not be expected to have the resources to serve all needs ranging from blindness to ELL. A particular focus would be put on programs for traditionally underserved groups: special needs, ELL and black and Latino boys.

Data sharing

Currently, there is no shared methodology among the three school sectors for gauging student performance, parental participation and teacher evaluation, said Dorsey. More comparable data would let the schools determine where they want to collaborate.

Varón said that determining what “quality” means across all schools could pose a challenge.

The Compact proposes to work with the Boston Opportunity Agenda to add metrics into the January 2017 report card that would reflect each sector’s performance on closing the achievement gaps for underserved student groups, said Weinstein.

Timeline

Within the next few weeks the Compact will be presented for discussion and a vote on renewal.

Meanwhile, discussion will continue on the proposed unified enrollment system. From October until the end of the year, six citywide meetings on the plan will be held to solicit responses and ideas from parents, families and advocates. The mayor then will present a detailed plan before the BPS School Committee. If the School Committee ratifies it, the proposal will be presented to individual charter schools to opt in or not. If accepted, the unified system would go into effect by January 2017.

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

Docket No. SU15C0328CA In the matter of Salvarys Rafael Caban of Roxbury Crossing, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Salvarys R. Caban requesting that Salvarys Rafael Caban be allowed to change his name as follows: Salvarys Rafael Reynoso Santos 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 10/01/2015.

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Lyn Marcia DeanHenry, 86 Regent St., Apt. 2 Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 11/12/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: September 2, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Date: August 3, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D1720DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Lyn Marcia Dean-Henry

vs.

Trevor Henry

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Docket No. SU15P2166GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Lawrence Smith Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Brigham & Women’s Hospital of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Lawrence Smith is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Gloria Smith of Roxbury, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 10/08/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: September 04, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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LEGAL NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE

Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid, endorsed with the name and address of the bidder, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud.

Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon:

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Every Filed Sub-Bidder must submit a valid Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility with its bid and must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance in the category of sub-bid work for which they bid.

General Bids at 2:00 PM:

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Every General Bidder must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project, if applicable.

The Category of Work is:

General Building Construction

Mass. State Project No.

DCP1431 Contract No. HC1

Building Envelope Repairs Phase 2, Massachusetts Information Technology Center, Chelsea, MA And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Waterproofing, Dampproofing & Caulking; Roofing & Flashing; Painting.

E.C.C: $738,400.00 This project is scheduled for 270 calendar days to substantial completion and in general includes: removal & replacement of existing EIFS cladding on the north and south elevations of the main building and at the perimeter of the skylight atrium.

Removal and replacement of ballasted EPDM roofing at entry canopy roof.

A Pre-Bid meeting will be held on Friday, October 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM at MITC, 200 Arlington Street, Chelsea, MA (meet in Visitors Parking Lot).

Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.

Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003. Copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $50.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2015 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other type of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors.

Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER NOTICE TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS REQUEST FOR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY is soliciting Statements of Qualifications from ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS interested in performing work for MPA CONTRACT NO. LP1407-C1, FY 16 – 18 LOW VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL SENSITIVE SECURITY INFORMATION TERM CONTRACT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking Qualification Statements from Electrical Contractors who have a demonstrated experience in the construction and implementation of work that includes THE PROVISION OF LABOR FOR JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS INCLUDING TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND INCIDENTAL MATERIALS FOR THE REMOVAL, RELOCATION, REPAIR, INSTALLATION, INSPECTION AND TESTING OF LOW VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND WIRING (600V NOMINAL OR LESS) AND THE PROVISION OF LABOR FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN INCLUDING REMOVAL, RELOCATION, INSTALLING, TERMINATING AND TESTING COPPER DATA CABLES, SINGLE AND MULTI MODE FIBER OPTIC CABLE, SUMITOMO FUTURE FLEX AIR BLOWN FIBER OPTIC CABLE AND CABLE SUPPORTS. ALL ELECTRICAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS WORK IS RELATED TO SENSITIVE SECURITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACCESS CONTROL, SECURITY CAMERAS, BAGGAGE SCREENING, SECURITY KIOSKS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE SECURITY NETWORK. ALL WORK IS PERFORMED AT LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA. ON AN AS NEEDED AND ON CALL BASIS FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS. The construction duration for this contract is twenty-four (24) months. The estimated value of work to be performed by electrical contractors is as follows: NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($900,000.00).

In order to be eligible and responsible to be pre-qualified on this contract General Bidders must submit with their qualifications statement a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ELECTRICAL. The Authority is implementing this project in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 149, Section 44D1/2, paragraph 2(b)(2) as the plans and specifications for this project contain sensitive security information, hereinafter referred to as SSI. In compliance with this legislation, the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) will be utilized to prequalify and shortlist General Bidders capable and experienced in similar building infrastructure modifications. The Authority shall utilize a two-step process, which includes the pre-qualification of General Bidders 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 pre-qualified General Bidders. In order to be shortlisted a General Bidder must, at a minimum, have demonstrated expertise in the low voltage electrical and telecommunications cabling work similar in terms

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of scale and complexity to that described in this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), and a demonstrated ability to manage and protect SSI. The Authority expects to prequalify a minimum of three (3) General Bidders but may choose to prequalify a different number if it is deemed in the best interests of the project.

AFFORDABLE RENTAL OPPORTUNITY

Will be accepting applications for a lottery to be held to re-open the 1&2 bedroom project based section 8 waitlist

The Authority will evaluate each submission and create a shortlist based upon its review of the responses to the evaluation criteria including; •

Qualifications, credentials and recent relevant experience on similar work;

•

Experience, geographic location and availability of the proposed Project Manager and other key staff;

•

A minimum of five (5) licensed electricians and two (2) data technicians on staff with more than five (5) years of field experience with certifications to install the project equipment;

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To qualify for these waitlists, income limits apply.

All applicants will be screened for eligibility.

Use & Occupancy Restrictions Apply.

Maximum Incomes Limits Are Listed Below.

Corporate ownership, history, financial stability and long term viability of the firm;

• •

Quality of references for similar work completed in the past three (3) years;

•

Project approach and ability to meet project requirements;

•

Depth and breadth of airport related experience and understanding of the challenges of working in an operational airport;

•

Have within the past five (5) years contracted to provide Electrical and Data installation services on Massport projects at Logan Airport requiring Security Sensitive Information procedures and protocols.

•

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

WRA-4102

Purchase of Fifteen (15) New Electric Vehicles

10/06/15

12:00 p.m.

OP-296

RFQ Purchase and Supply of Electric Energy to Interval Accounts

10/08/15

11:00 a.m.

OP-287

Sodium Hypochlorite Storage Tank Repairs

10/08/15

2:00 p.m.

S545

Overhead Door Maintenance

10/08/15

2:30 p.m.

OP-305

RFP Lease of Space for Equipment Storage

10/23/15

11:00 a.m.

7362

Caruso Pump Station Improvements

10/29/15

2:00 p.m.

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

REAL ESTATE NORWOOD RENTAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING 28—One ($1,134), Two ($1,362) and Three ($1,566) Bedroom One Upland Apartments—1 Upland Road Utilities are not included.

For Info and Application Availability: Pick Up: Norwood Town Hall, - Town Clerks Ofc, Public Library & Leasing Office Phone: (978) 456-8388 TTY/TTD: 711, when asked 978-456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com FAX: 978-456-8986

$49,250

5 Person Household

$53,200

Call 617-364-3020, TTY 711

Affordable Apartments Lewis Latimer Place

12 Shawmut Street • Chelsea, MA 02150 Type

2 Bedroom

Project Based Voucher Rent Household Size

$1,494*

2-4

*Contract Rent — Eligible Households pay 30% of their income towards rent

BID NO.

Units available to all eligible applicants.

4 Person Household

For more info or reasonable accommodations,

4

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

Reasonable Accommodations Available for persons with disabilities

$44,350

The placement of your application on the waiting list will be decided by a lottery held at 10:00 am December 3, 2015 at Georgetowne Homes Leasing Center.

Number of Units

INVITATION TO BID

Units distributed by lottery.

$39,400

3 Person Household

Applications MUST BE POST MARKED, EMAILED, FAXED OR DELIVERED IN PERSON BY October 13, 2015

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.

Public Information Meeting 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 3, 2015 Morrill Memorial Library 33 Walpole Street, Norwood Application Deadline October 27, 2015 Lottery 1:00 pm, Friday, Nov 6, 2015—Library

2 Person Household

Georgetowne Homes Leasing Center Applications can be picked up in person, emailed, faxed or US Mail from the Georgetowne Homes Leasing Office: 400A Georgetowne Drive, Hyde Park MA 02136

Seven (7) copies of a bound document each limited to 10 sheets (20 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 Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 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.

$34,500

Information Sessions will be held on September 24, 2015 at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm at the

The prequalification process shall involve the creation of a shortlist based on the evaluation of the Submittals received in response to the RFQ. The Authority does not intend to conduct interviews, but reserves the right to do so.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

50% AMI

How to Get an Application: Applications will be available September 23, 2015 to October 6, 2015 from 10 am to 4 pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday; 10 am to 7 pm on Wednesdays; and Saturday, September 26th from 10 am - 2 pm

Demonstrated ability to manage and protect sensitive security information.

A Project Briefing will be held on Tuesday October 6, 2015, 2015, at 9:00 AM in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, 2nd floor, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, MA. Attendance at the briefing is mandatory in order to best familiarize your firm with the project details and the prequalification process.

Household Size 1 Person Household

MAX ALLOWABLE INCOME 80% of AMI 1 person household: 2 person household: 3 person household: 4 person household: 5 person household: 6 person household:

$48,800 $55,800 $62,750 $69,700 $75,300 $80,900

Language/translation assistance available, at no charge, upon request.

Maximum Income per Household Size (2015 Limits) Household Size 1 2 3 4

30% Income Limit $20,700 $23,640 $26,610 $29,550

50% Income Limit $34,500 $39,400 $44,350 $49,250

Applications can be found online at www.TheNeighborhoodDevelopers.org/lewislatimer or picked up in person at 4 Gerrish Avenue, Chelsea MA 02150 Monday – Friday September 24, 2015 through November 24, 2015 9 AM – 5 PM Or picked up in person at 101 Park Street, Chelsea, MA 02150 Mondays 1 PM - 5 PM and Thursdays 10 AM - 1 PM All applications must be received or postmarked by November 24, 2015.

Selection by lottery. There is a preference for potential residents who are atrisk or high-risk Pregnant or Parenting Heads of Household and are eligible for supportive services offered at Lewis Latimer Place under the Harbor Area Healthy Family Program and High-Risk Young Mothers Program. An informational meeting will be held at 4 Gerrish Avenue on Tuesday, November 10 from 5-7 PM. Attendance is not required to be selected for a housing unit. Use and Occupancy Restrictions apply.

Households with a need for accessible housing will have preference for accessible units. For more info or reasonable accommodations, call Winn Management: 617-884-0692. TTY: 800-439-2370.

TND Homes I LLC and Winn Management do not discriminate because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, handicap, disability, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, children, familial status, marital status or public assistance recipiency in the leasing, rental, sale or transfer of apartment units, buildings, and related facilities, including land that they own or control.

How to Return Application: FAX: 978-456-8986 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Mail: P.O. Box 372, Harvard, MA 01451 Drop Off: 206 Ayer Road, Harvard, MA

Application available online at: www.mcohousingservices.com

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The Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is seeking a public participation specialist. This individual will be responsible for all aspects of the MPO’s Public Participation Program and will perform other planning and technical support services, as needed.

For details about this position, please visit www.bostonmpo.org.

Send your resume and cover letter to Recruitment Director, CTPS, 10 Park Plaza, Ste. 2150, Boston, MA 02116, or recruitment@ ctps.org. Applicants must have legal status for working in the US. AA/EOE

Central Transportation Planning Staff Unified Planning Work Program Manager The Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is seeking a manager for its Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP). This individual will be responsible for all aspects of the annual update of the UPWP and will perform other planning and technical support services, as needed.

For details about this position, please visit www.bostonmpo.org.

Send your resume and cover letter to Recruitment Director, CTPS, 10 Park Plaza, Ste. 2150, Boston, MA 02116, or recruitment@ ctps.org. Applicants must have legal status for working in the US. AA/EOE

PROPERTY CLERK/OFFICE ASSISTANT Cruz Management Company, an established property management firm, has an opening for a Property Clerk/ Office Assistant. The position is full-time.

The incumbent supports property managers, maintenance staff, and residents in order to provide seamless customer service to the community at Warren Gardens.

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Essential functions and responsibilities include: Greeting all residents, customers, vendors, contractors, staff, etc. in a professional, respectful, efficient manner; Rent collection, posting, and depositing; Assist in preparation of all mailings; Satisfactorily process all maintenance requests, work orders, for all residents; Assist in filing all work orders, waiting list applications, letters, and copies of invoices Update waiting list; pre-screen applicants for vacancy; collect references for potential tenants; Maintain resident files in compliance with HUD and Mass Housing regulations to pass inspections Exceptional filing accuracy and organization skills.

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Position Responsibilities: n Provide overall administrative support to General Partners, Quality Control Team, Independent Contractors and Clinical Supervisors, correspondence, photocopying, file management, data entry, etc. n Perform function of office receptionist including answering phones and greeting visitors. n Completing and submitting Insurance billing(Mass Health) and Virtual Gateway CANS reports n Maintaining excel data base of clients and contractors.

Position Requirements: Education: High school diploma or Associates Degree Relevant Work Experience: 3- 5 years administrative experience. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced environment. Outstanding organizational, communication and office technology skills required. Prior experience in an administrative role required.

Bilingual/Multi-lingual Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: n Strong organizational skills, Superior clients service, communication n Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel) and Outlook required n Data entry skills required n Superior customer service, communication and organizational skills n Detail oriented and ability to multi-task n Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to engage in and support an environment encouraging diversity, teamwork and open communication.

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