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Growing opposition to mandatory minimums District attorney’s comments draw rebuke

By YAWU MILLER

Swimming against a rising tide of public sentiment, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley made waves last week with a spirited defense of mandatory minimum sentences for criminal offenses in Massachusetts.

Speaking during the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Coalition Summit at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Conley vigorously opposed repealing mandatory minimums, which he said would give judges too much discretion in sentencing.

“We shouldn’t leave to chance the idea that 400 judges have 400 different views on how defendants who commit drug offenses ought to be sentenced and give them

full and unfettered discretion. It is a recipe for disaster,” Conley was quoted as saying in a MassLive report.

Conley’s broadside against repealing mandatory minimums comes as public officials ranging from former Gov. Deval Patrick to Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins have spoken out publicly against the mandatory sentencing guidelines.

His remarks came after Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants gave a lengthy keynote address detailing his opposition to mandatory minimums during the forum, which was sponsored by MassINC, the Mass Bar Association and Community Resources for Justice.

See MINIMUMS, page 11

Group gets representatives to ride public transit system

By ELIZA DEWEY

Winter 2015 was the winter that few will forget — especially MBTA commuters who suffered through severely delayed buses and trains, unprecedented system-wide suspensions of service, and a crippled commuter rail system that still is getting back on its feet.

On a fittingly freezing first day of spring last week, 47 state legislators took public transportation to work in a coordinated show of support for weary commuters. The initiative was organized by a new grassroots group called GovOnTheT formed by Boston-area residents Michele Rapp and Stephen Kropper to highlight transportation

concerns and mobilize legislators toward an improved MBTA. “The idea came after I had many frustrating commutes,” says Rapp.

“I complained a lot and also questioned whether legislators who were voting on the MBTA had any direct experience with the frustration of the system.”

Rapp and Kropper said they formulated the idea and planned the event in the course of just 17 days. While the snow served as a breaking point and convenient rallying cry, they both cite long-running frustrations they’ve had as commuters.

Rapp, who travels from Arlington Heights to Alewife station each

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State Rep. Russell Holmes was among several dozen legislators who rode the MBTA to work last Thursday at the urging of transit advocacy group GovOnTheT.

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Caption Gov. Charlie Baker signs an executive order creating a task force to expand job opportunities for blacks, Latinos, veterans and people with disabilities as Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Ron Walker (2nd from l) and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Francisco Urena (r) look on.

Baker admin. targets chronically unemployed Task force to seek opportunities for black, Latino, veteran and disabled job seekers

By ELIZA DEWEY

Six years ago, during the height of the Great Recession, it might have seemed improbable that the unemployment rate in Massachusetts would ever drop to the 4.9 percent revealed in state data released last week. But economic relief has not been felt across the board. Unemployment remains at a stubborn 7 to 12 percent for African Americans, Latinos, veterans and people with disabilities, according to data from the Governor’s Office.

That’s why Governor Charlie Baker signed an executive order last week establishing a task force on Economic Opportunity for Populations Facing Chronically High Rates of Unemployment.

The task force will focus on unemployment among those four target groups.

T he panel, chaired by

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Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Ron Walker, includes the heads of five executive offices — Housing and Economic Development, Health and Human Services, Veterans’ Services, Education, and Access and Opportunity – as well as members from the business, non-profit, public health and education sectors appointed by the governor.

“For too long, the target populations have suffered from chronically high rates of unemployment,” Walker said in a press statement. “The task force is charged with understanding how best to reshape our public workforce system to meet the needs of the target population and how best to assist individuals in achieving their goals of meaningful employment.”

The group will meet for eight months both internally and community members to identify with challenges and develop strategies to address chronic unemployment. The task force is slated to make policy recommendations to the governor by November 15, 2015 and then disband within 30 days of presenting their ideas.

Ann Dufresne, communications director for the state’s Executive Office of Labor and

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School department to keep schools open, cut busing, staff

By YAWU MILLER

Students and parents who packed the auditorium at English High School last week wearing “Save Our Schools” stickers scored a partial victory: three of the five schools the school department proposed closing will remain open next year.

West Roxbury Academy, Community Academy in Jamaica Plain, and Middle School Academy in South Boston will remain open. The Elihu Greenwood School and the William B. Rogers Middle School, both in Hyde Park, will close.

Students from West Roxbury, Community Academy and Middle School Academy erupted in applause when Interim School Superintendent John McDonough announced their schools would remain open. But McDonough said more school closings could be likely in coming years, given what he characterized as an ongoing problem of revenues that are not keeping pace with the department’s rising costs.

In addition to the school closures, the BPS will move forward with plans to end yellow bus service for 7th graders and will reduce central staff by 20 percent, cutting 134 of the 671 positions at the department’s headquarters in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building.

These staffing reductions will generate $13 million in savings,

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according to a BPS presentation, which will go toward closing a projected $42 million gap in this year’s overall budget of more than $1 billion. Speaking to several hundred students, parents and education activists, McDonough, who will be replaced by incoming Superintendent Tommy Chang July 1, said the city needs to develop a long-term strategy to stay ahead of what he termed a structural deficit fueled by personnel costs, along with costs associated with maintaining undersubscribed school buildings, transportation and food.

“The intent behind these proposals has been to take a first step toward fixing these structural imbalances,” he said. “So long as we spread our resources so thin, we as a district will not be in a position to strengthen our schools and support our students.”

McDonough said the department’s stated goals of closing the achievement gap between white students and student of color and providing a quality education for all students will remain unmet as long as the system is financially over-extended.

McDonough said ending 7th grader bus service will result in 80 fewer buses. He added that bus stop consolidation could lead to further savings in the department’s transportation budget, which accounts for 10 percent of the BPS budget.

The department ended busing for 8th graders last year, instead

providing them with MBTA student passes.

Parent Monica Cannon, who has a daughter entering the 7th grade next year, said she opposes putting 7th graders on the MBTA. “It’s unsafe because walking through our community is not safe,” said Cannon, whose daughter attends the Frederick Pilot School on Columbia Road.

Cannon noted that groping and cell phone theft are among the top crimes on the MBTA. “There’s no safety and there

aren’t enough Transit Police,” she said before the meeting.

City councilors Tito Jackson and Tim McCarthy spoke out against the cuts. McCarthy, who lives in Hyde Park, said his father and wife both attended the Rogers school. Jackson objected to proposed cuts of $1.5 million to the Madison Park Vocational Technical High School.

While many protested cuts, others in attendance at the meeting acknowledged the fiscal challenges facing the Boston schools.

“They have to basically rightsize the school system,” said Ayele Shakur, a co-chair of the NAACP Boston Branch’s Education Committee, speaking after the meeting.

Shakur noted that the schools

are facing rising health care costs for its workforce at the same time that state aid is declining and the system is losing funding to charter schools.

“If five students leave a classroom for a charter school, the costs of running that classroom don’t go down just because $50,000 just left the classroom,” she said. “You still have to pay the teacher. The district has a lot of empty seats.”

Shakur echoed McDonough’s call for a wider conversation about school funding.

“You have to start the conversation in November,” she said “Not in March when you have three weeks to make the decisions.”

The School Committee was expected to vote on the budget at this week’s Wednesday meeting.

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Dorchester residents fighting Fannie’s foreclosure evictions

By ELIZA DEWEY

On a street lined with triple-deckers near Dorchester’s Ronan Park, a crowd of about 40 people gathered last week outside Maria Baptista’s house as the sun set to stage a protest against the foreclosure of her home and her ongoing eviction process.

The rally was both a sign of solidarity for their friend and an outcry against what the group sees as a broader crisis of residential displacement in Boston’s working-class neighborhoods that’s fueled by a mix of factors, including foreclosures, the erosion of rent control, and the proliferation of large, higher-end developments that contribute to rent increases outpacing wage gains for many workers.

The vigil, organized by the housing advocacy group City Life/ Vida Urbana, focused specifically on foreclosures of properties held

by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the federally-funded housing giants that are the nation’s largest mortgage holders. City Life/ Vida Urbana is a member of both the Boston-based Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure (COHIF) and the national Right to the City Alliance.

The crowd chanted “Fannie Mae, you’re no good, get them out of our neighborhood!” Housing activists told stories of various instances in which COHIF had stepped in to help local homeowners in distress. COHIF sometimes negotiates with Fannie Mae to purchase foreclosed properties from them so that occupants can stay in their homes, albeit as tenants instead of owners. Maureen Flynn, executive director of COHIF, says the strategy enables the group to keep properties affordable for existing residents using a package of state, city, and private foundation grants and loans that allow COHIF to charge affordable rents and improve the properties’ conditions.

State Rep. Evandro Carvalho, who grew up in the area and lives just a few blocks away from Baptista, came to the vigil to show his support and speak to the broader issue of rising housing costs.

“My mother couldn’t afford a home in Dorchester anymore,” he said. “She had to buy a home in Brockton. Not that there’s anything wrong with Brockton, but she would have liked to stay in her home.”

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Workforce Development, says the effort is unique because it is the first time a governor has brought together high-level Cabinet officials with community representatives to directly focus on the needs of the four target populations.

The task force is the latest in a series of moves by the governor aimed at addressing joblessness and increasing diversity within state government. In February, he elevated the Office of Access and Opportunity to a Cabinet-level office and created the position of deputy chief of staff to lead it. The OAO was created by former Governor Deval Patrick and previously

The protesters also called for “just cause” legislation, which would limit eviction to a specified list of circumstances and include a mediation procedure between parties.

“What a radical idea — a bank should have to have a reason to evict somebody!” one of the organizers exclaimed.

Current Massachusetts law allows landlords to pursue socalled “no-fault” eviction cases in court as a means to evict a tenant.

No-fault cases do not require the landlord to provide a specific reason for eviction. According to data from Right to the City Boston, twenty percent of evictions in Massachusetts are no-fault – a minority of cases but still a significant percentage.

Housing disruptions

Housing advocates argue that foreclosure and eviction together help drive displacement of working-class communities. Maria Christina Blanco, an organizer with City Life/Vida Urbana, says that despite the legal costs associated with the eviction process, it may “look better on the books” for banks or investors holding foreclosed properties to evict low-income tenants – either through no-fault evictions or waiting for people to fall behind on their rents – and then resell the property for a higher price. However, she says, this process has a long-term negative effect on the housing market and the neighborhood in general.

Because banks are basing their decisions on speculation about the kinds of future offers they might get rather than the real offer in front of them from organizations like COHIF, housing prices rise over time and the market experiences the same kind of speculation-based instability that contributed to the national housing crisis in the first place.

Advocates argue that foreclosure doesn’t have to lead to eviction, and that efforts should be made to ensure occupants can stay in the building as renters and also be able to buy back the properties if possible.

City Life argues further that in order to avoid even getting to the point of foreclosure in the first place, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should reduce the principal for borrowers in underwater mortgages.

She says, however, that banks have raised the concern that doing so would create a perverse

housed within the office of Administration and Finance.

Multi-pronged strategy

Baker also signed another executive order in February establishing a Workforce Skills Cabinet with the goal of improving the general population’s preparedness for jobs in today’s economy. Secretary Walker also chairs that cabinet. The recommendations generated by the eight-month task force will inform the longer-term work of the Workforce Skills Cabinet.

In a conversation with the Banner, Walker said the Task Force would focus on ensuring people are equipped for the needs of today’s employers. He said this process would include creating more effective partnerships between

incentive for people to try and game the system. According to that argument, people might get themselves in hot water on purpose so they can negotiate a lower principal on their mortgage.

Blanco says such logic is faulty.

“Obviously a singular concern for the bottom line is how the business world works, but that’s not how people feel about their homes where they live and raise their families,” she says. “That argument is crazy.”

Blanco also emphasizes that there does not need to be a division between renters and owners that conversations about real estate often spark. She says the national housing crisis highlighted the vulnerability of working- and middle-class homeowners to having their assets stripped and their access to credit restricted.

“You can find yourself a tenant again, even if you were an owner,” she says.

She also adds that City Life/ Vida Urbana is pushing for a kind of no-fault eviction legislation that would not apply to owner-occupants, due to concerns about the needs of working-class

homeowners.

The rally was not just about sad stories, however. Alma Chislom, a native of Dorchester who now lives close to where she grew up, shared her story of being part of a COHIF pilot program that she says saved her house. Soon after she moved into her rental unit in a triple-decker in 2012, she learned that the building was going up for an auction because the landlord was behind on his mortgage payments.

She approached City Life, only to discover that her landlord had also approached the organization separately. The organization was able to bring in a contractor to bulk-buy the building and three other similar properties for a period of two years. In the meantime, COHIF went about trying to find lenders to back the properties for the long term.

Chislom says the process was nerve-wracking because the organization was turned down by multiple lenders. However, she says in the end the group was able to bring in four lenders that successfully bought the four properties.

Chislom just signed her new lease this past week. “I feel really stable right now,” she says.

Inequality rises

Organizers are planning a rally at City Hall for April 7 to highlight the broader issue of displacement,

which has been a concern for many in Boston’s low-income neighborhoods. Last week the Banner reported on rapidly-rising rents in Roxbury, and a new report by the Brookings Institute showed that Boston is third among U.S. cities in terms of income inequality after Atlanta and San Francisco — up from the city’s fourth place the year before. Housing advocates also emphasize the extent to which working-class minority neighborhoods were targeted by the predatory subprime loans that drove the national housing crisis.

The high rate of foreclosures then destroyed the credit history of many low-income families who had invested most of their savings in their homes.

Beyond the just-cause legislation, advocates organizing the April 7 event hope to build support for a development policy that would create and preserve more affordable housing units, with an emphasis on the use of public land for such developments and more assistance for small property owners to help them keep rents at rates that low-income tenants can afford.

In an ironic turn of events, just as the Banner reporter left the vigil for Baptista, a man pulled up in a car to ask about the safety of the area because he was from out of town and considering buying a condo on that street.

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State Rep. Evandro Carvalho speaks to housing advocates with City Life/Vida Urbana at a Dorchester rally protesting foreclosures and residential displacement. employers and the state’s network of career centers, community colleges and vocational schools; examining best practices from organizations’ on-the-ground experiences to implement them on a broader scale; ensuring solutions are regionally focused to take into account the differences between communities; and building proficiency in math, reading and science with a focus on technology and STEM to ensure people have the credentials for the jobs that local employers are looking to fill.

The formal schedule for the Economic Opportunity task force’s community meetings has not yet been determined. When they are scheduled they will be publicized widely and appear on the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development’s website.

Dufresne says that the community partner organizations selected for the panel were chosen “based on their track record of delivering positive services and outcomes to the populations that they serve.”

All task force members have been identified, although there are a few who have not yet been publicly named because they are finishing the required background check.

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Former City Councilor Chuck Turner, who helped found the Greater Roxbury Workers Alliance, said the task force’s first step was to give a clear picture of the problem.

“While you’ll see anecdotal stories about joblessness, there isn’t any overall source to look at the

issue,” he said.

Turner said that more specifically, the task force should do an analysis of state prisons and jails to determine the exact number of men and women returning to their communities after incarceration, as that population is unemployed by definition. He also suggested the task force look at how urban areas such as Boston, Springfield and Fall River could replicate the kind of target level requirements that currently exist for Boston construction projects within other industries as well.

Under city law, both publicly funded and large privately funded construction projects are supposed to hire a construction staff comprising 50 percent city residents, 25 percent people of color, and 10 percent women.

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The beginning of a black business boom?

The ideal American prototype is someone born to modest circumstances who develops a significant and profitable business. Over the years a number of both public and private institutions have been developed to stimulate business growth.

Private enterprise has become the nation’s secular religion. Our magazine Banner Biz is published to provide helpful information and inspiration to those starting out on the corporate path.

It is indeed heroic to go into business.

According to the Small Business Administration, the risk is substantial. Only half of new small businesses survive for five years, and only a third make it to their 10th birthday. When a business fails, its proprietor usually has to cope with a severe financial loss. Despite the risk, there is still a growing interest among blacks in becoming entrepreneurs.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there has been a huge increase in the number of black-owned businesses from 2002 to 2007. In fact, the increase of 60.5 percent to 1.9 million was greater than three times the rate of growth for the nation, which was only 18.0 percent. As one might expect, the revenues of black-owned businesses grew during this period by 55.1 percent, reaching $137.5 billion.

While the size of the consolidated revenue of black businesses might appear to be impressive, it does not compare favorably with the nation’s mega-businesses. For example Walmart, with revenue of $476.3 billion, is 3.5 times bigger than all black businesses combined. Of the 1.9 million black-owned businesses, only 14,500 have revenues greater than $1 million per year.

This group employed 565,000 workers.

It would be a mistake to conclude that blacks are capable of operating only “Ma and Pa” businesses. Over the years blacks have been very inventive. Their products

have become part of the mainstream business economy. In his book Eight Black American Inventors, Robert Hayden profiles for younger readers the lives of three early inventors from the Boston area: n Lewis Temple (1800-1854), a blacksmith living in New Bedford, designed a whaling harpoon that revolutionized the whaling industry. n Jan E. Matzeliger (1852-1889), a resident of Lynn, designed and patented shoe-making machinery that drove production for United Shoe Machinery Company, which later became known as USM. n Lewis H. Latimer (1848-1928), reared in Boston, invented the light bulb with carbon filaments as an associate of Thomas Edison.

He held numerous patents.

Other inventions by blacks profiled in Hayden’s book include automatic traffic lights, truck refrigeration units, sugar refinery equipment, a type of gas mask, and automatic lubrication devices for machinery. There undoubtedly are many more inventions which could not be secured by patents. For example, a black Boston inventor reportedly created the first air brake, but lacked the finances to develop the product so ended up selling his rights. Also, slaves lacked legal authority to obtain a patent.

Surprisingly, most of the 1.9 million black-owned businesses in the Census Bureau report were operated by single entrepreneurs alone. Only 106,824 of the firms had employees. There are two major reasons for this. The process of invention is a solitary function. Also, the difficulty of finding investment capital is an impediment to employing the staff needed for growth.

The bi-monthly Banner Biz will assist private enterprise acolytes to become familiar with the culture of capitalism. The racial wealth gap in America will never diminish significantly without a major increase in the growth of black ownership in businesses.

I would like to clarify a recent article in the Bay State Banner (Massport makes push for diversity, March 11, 2015) in regards to the standards that the Massachusetts Port Authority has established for diversity in the Headquarters Hotel construction project.

While, as stated in the article, Massport “wants to shatter the status quo and set a new standard for all future Boston development” in terms of diversity and inclusion components,

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As the article duly notes, what distinguishes this project is that Massport is making an “effort to have diversity participation in all levels of the project — from development, financing and ownership to design and construction to hotel operations.”

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If Ferguson stays Ferguson, blacks have no one to blame but themselves

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Ferguson will hold municipal elections on April 7. The mayor and five of the six city councilpersons are white. Three are up for reelection. Since Michael Brown was gunned down by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, the one loud refrain has repeatedly been how could a city where African-Americans make up the overwhelming majority of the population be policed by a nearly all-white police force, and governed by a nearly all-white city administration? The thought was that the Brown slaying angered and engaged so many thousands that it was almost a done deal. The first chance black residents got they’d jam the polls and totally revamp city government in Ferguson.

That would mean the election of a majority black city council and mayor. This in turn could quickly be followed by the hiring of a black city manager and other top level administrators. After that: an overhaul of the police department to make diversity and reform a reality. Eight months after the Brown slaying, the April elections will put that thinking to the test.

But early signs aren’t good. In the nearly three-month period between the day Brown was slain and October 8, only 204 eligible adults in Ferguson registered to vote. A month later, less than half of the nearly 25,000 registered voters in Ferguson bothered to go to the polls in the mid-term elections. There was no breakdown by ethnicity of the number who actually did bother to vote. But given the general pattern of less voter participation by minorities in midterm elections, and the far greater participation of older, conservative white voters, almost certainly, the turnout of black voters in Ferguson was abysmal.

The one faint stir of optimism is the recall petition filed against the current mayor James Knowles. He has made it clear he won’t step down. He moved quickly to pose as the change agent, held a high profile press conference, and mobilized black support to beat back the recall effort. Despite his protestations and promises to jump hard on the reform train, he can’t separate himself from a rigid, racially balkanized city government structure that has maintained iron-clad political control, and a racially polarizing police force and city administration.

The reasons for the chronic past absences of blacks from the Ferguson polls in part mirror the reasons for the persistent low minority voter turnout in local and national election in past years. The oft-cited reasons are apathy, disinterest, GOP voter suppression, the sense that their vote won’t change anything, that there’s little difference between the two parties, and the inherent distrust of politicians. There’s also the deep sense that the Democratic Party routinely takes the black vote for granted and that Democratic elected officials, no matter their color, offer few tangible programs and initiatives to deal with poverty, joblessness, the stratospheric black incarceration rates, and gaping health and education racial disparities. Other than the well-publicized voter outreach and mobilization campaigns that Democrats launch in the immediate run-up to a national election, there is no sustained effort to energize and engage black voters.

A standard rule in American politics is that politicians appeal to, mobilize and champion programs and initiatives that are dear to the voters who are likely to vote for them. The other part of that rule is that those voters are for the most part white, middle class and politically vocal. The poor, especially the black poor, have never fit that demographic. Ferguson has been a near textbook example of the cycle of neglect on the part of the city council, mayor and city administration. African-Americans in Ferguson have read the political tea leaves and responded with their indifference.

Despite this entrenched pattern and past voting obstacles, there are compelling reasons for Ferguson blacks to rush to the barricades to vote. One is the prospect of a regime change at city hall and the police force. Another is they could move to dump the despicable near shakedown racket that city officials have run for years that criminalizes virtually the city’s entire black population. Police and the courts issued 16,000 arrest warrants in one year in Ferguson, a city of less than 25,000. Many of the warrants were for unpaid parking and traffic tickets. The offenders were arrested, and sometimes rearrested with the fines doubling and tripling. The fines enriched city coffers as well as the pockets of a few public officials.

Another is, there’s no excuse. The only requirement to vote is to be 18, a U.S. citizen and resident of Ferguson. A person can register at dozens of locations, from city hall to churches, by mail, and at all DMV and welfare offices. The April 7 election can be a turning point for Ferguson. If it’s not, and Ferguson stays Ferguson, then blacks have no one to blame but themselves.

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Crawford joins The Trustees after seven years at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Commonwealth’s state parks agency, where he first served as Director of Partnerships and then became

the Director of the Office of External Affairs in 2013. While there, he oversaw agency policies and relations with external non-profit, corporate, and institutional partners, strengthening the DCR’s relations with park advocacy organizations, stakeholders, and constituents.

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IN THE NEWS

CONRAD CRAWFORD The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) is pleased to announce that Conrad Crawford has joined the organization as Director of the Boston Region.

Formerly the Director of External Affairs and Partnerships for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Crawford is an avid supporter of conservation, recreation, and healthy living. In his new role, Crawford will lead The Trustees’ many community-based initiatives to promote open space protection, outdoor recreation, and community gardening among Greater Boston residents and visitors, using organization’s urban gardens, pocket parks, greenways and farmers markets located throughout the city as a platform. In addition, he will oversee the organization’s programming partnership with the Boston Public Market, directing a staff of educators and programming partners in providing a diverse array of educational classes, tours, and workshops

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Public sentiment shifting on Boston 2024 Olympics bid

By ELIZA DEWEY

The public relations battle over Boston’s Olympic bid heated up this past week with the release of a study about the impact of the games and a new public opinion poll showing a continued drop in public support. These developments were followed by calls from the governor, senate president and house speaker for an independent financial review and an announcement from Boston 2024 Chairman John Fish that the group would only move forward with the bid if it obtained the support of the majority of Boston voters.

The study, authored by the UMass Donahue Institute and commissioned by the Boston Foundation, concluded that the games could generate billions in revenue for the region — $4 billion in construction during the five years leading up to the event, $5 billion from operational impacts during the year of the games from activities such as venue management and ceremonies, and another $514 million from tourist spending above and beyond Boston’s already-high tourism revenue.

The report said it would create or support 4,100 jobs annually during the construction period spanning from 2018 to 2023, 50,000 jobs from operations of the games in 2024, and 4,300 jobs from increased tourist spending in 2024.

However, the report also offered stern warnings about potential

pitfalls. It flagged the possibility for cost overruns, noting “extensive research suggesting that the final costs of modern Olympic Games are always significantly higher than the initial budget estimates.”

It also noted that the long-term impact that the games might have on the region’s economy needs to be better understood, citing the potential for displacement of current economic activity.

Money concerns

No Boston Olympics, the main group opposing the 2024 bid, sent out a statement soon after the report’s release highlighting its concerns about the potential for cost overruns and raising doubts about the efficacy of an insurance policy that has been touted by Olympic proponents as an answer to potential overruns. The group also noted that while the construction industry would benefit from the games, the bid would do “little to nothing for critical Massachusetts industries such as technology, healthcare, or education.”

Boston 2024, the group behind the city’s Olympic bid, has focused its messaging about the Donahue report on the estimates of games-related economic enterprise and job creation. The group also has highlighted the report’s finding that although all recent Olympics have had cost overruns, the last three Olympic games in the US — Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles — turned a profit.

The matter of turning a profit

is somewhat technical, however.

The Donahue report specifies that any references to profitable games refer specifically to the budget of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. The OCOG budget is based on temporary games-specific expenditures like venue construction and privately-generated revenue streams such as ticket sales and sponsorships. (If there are overruns in the OCOG budget, host cities typically agree to cover the shortfalls, although Boston 2024 has stated they are planning to avoid this scenario and are working to purchase insurance to protect Boston from having to cover any overruns.)

Any kind of long-term projects for the region that are not games-specific — like investments in public transportation and infrastructure — cannot be paid for by the OCOG budget. They must be paid for by public-private partnerships. The Donahue report therefore clarifies that infrastructural spending “can be extensive and yet hard to compare among past Olympics games.”

The day after the report’s release, WBUR issued a new public opinion poll saying that public support for the Olympics bid had fallen to 36 percent, down from 44 percent in February and 51 percent in January. The poll also showed that for the first time in WBUR’s three polls this year, a majority — 52 percent — of those surveyed opposed bringing the 2024 Games to Boston. The survey was conducted

with 504 registered voters in the Boston area.

No Boston Olympics quickly sent out a release describing the support for the games as “in freefall” and highlighting Boston 2024’s significant financial resources that they characterized as going toward “selling” the bid to the public.

Boston 2024 also released a statement in response to the poll, pointing to what the group called “its increasingly successful grassroots campaign” and predicting that “the more one-on-one conversations we have — discussing the benefits and addressing the concerns – the more support will grow.” The group cited the bevy of public meetings being held across the region on the topic — 20 in 20 weeks hosted by the group in addition to nine hosted by Mayor Walsh in Boston — and referred again to the economic impact and job creation estimates included in the Donahue report.

Shifting strategy

In the wake of the public backand-forth, elected officials and stakeholders announced several key developments to the bid process. On Monday, Governor Baker, Senate President Stan Rosenberg, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo announced they are seeking a consultant to analyze the potential impacts of Boston hosting the Olympics. The administration aims to select one by the end of April who would produce a report by July. The report would examine the costs, responsibilities, and potential risks of overruns the Olympics might inflict on state and local government.

Also on Monday, Boston 2024 released an outline of 10 commitments that the group pledged to

meet as a condition for submitting a final bid to the International Olympic Committee. The commitments included promises to submit a bid to the IOC only if a majority of people in Massachusetts supported bidding for the games, and create a plan to protect the city and state from financial risk, including “multiple layers of insurance.”

Tuesday morning, Boston 2024 Chairman John Fish announced at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast that his group wanted to hold a statewide referendum on the bid and would take the lead in gathering the required signatures to get the ballot ready for November 2016. Fish also said that Boston 2024 would not move forward if it did not receive support from a majority of Boston voters, regardless of the statewide ballot’s outcome.

Fish said Governor Baker and Mayor Walsh had agreed with his referendum proposal in conversations Monday night. On Tuesday, Walsh released a statement calling the games an “opportunity to envision and build together the next chapter in Boston’s history” and said the bid should only move forward “in a way that will bring the greatest benefit to the City and its neighborhoods.”

No Boston Olympics released a statement immediately after Fish’s announcement, saying they were “glad to see Boston2024 embrace that idea after months of rejecting it.” They also said they looked forward to working with Boston 2024 on crafting the ballot language and continued to support the separate idea of a non-binding city-wide resolution this November, given the different material impact the games would have on the city compared to the rest of the state.

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OBITUARY

Activist Florence Hagins, 67, fought for affordable housing program designed to reverse decades of redlining by area banks.

Hagins quickly became the chief advocate of the innovative mortgage plan that has now reached 18,300 low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers across Massachusetts, half being homeowners of color.

“I was the first person to get a SoftSecond mortgage and it changed my life,” said Hagins in 2011 in advance of a MAHA ceremony honoring 20 women who worked to change bank lending practices in neighborhoods like Dorchester and Roxbury. “I say this because it not only allowed me to provide a stable home for many years and to save for retirement but it gave me the opportunity to spend many years working with an unbelievable group of women who wouldn’t stop fighting for their community.”

In 1990, Hagins attended a community meeting at a church on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester

Florence Hagins, a mother and community activist who convinced bank presidents to increase mortgage lending in Boston’s neighborhoods of color, died Saturday March 21, 2015 at her home in Jacksonville, Florida. She was 67.

Florence transitioned from this earth to join her parents, Hazel Louise McCarthy and Carlton Robart McCarthy II, her aunt May Evelyn Diggs, and her sister Charlene McCarthy Beavers. Florence was educated in the Boston Public School system and graduated from Jamaica Plain High School.

Hagins retired in 2005 as assistant director of the Dorchester-based Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. Florence worked in the health care field for 23 years before her tenure at MAHA. She was a life-long Boston resident until her retirement. She grew up in the Whittier public housing development in Roxbury and in 1991 became the first homeowner in an affordable mortgage

MBTA

he began his commute at an intersection in Mattapan served by both the 21 and the 31 bus routes.

He said he was particularly interested in potential improvements to the 31 bus route. That route was slated to be upgraded to a Key Bus Route with more frequent service in a 2008 MBTA service plan.

Those exact changes did not materialize due to lack of funding. However, MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo says that the 31 bus line has seen some improvements in service frequency and that the MBTA will consider more upgrades as part of future service planning. He also said that no significant service changes are planned as part of the Casey Overpass demolition, other than occasional night and weekend detours during construction.

Rep. Evandro Carvalho said he is encouraged by the governor’s special commission on the MBTA and is awaiting that group’s recommendations, due at the end of March, to see what specific issues need to be tackled first. He said the report should provide a holistic view of what is needed, noting that he was very familiar with the Red Line because he grew up in Fields Corner, but that any one person

continued from page 1 morning, said she has concerns about station parking, which is costly and crowded. Add to that the bus service, which she often finds to be too infrequent even during peak hours and belabored by frequent stops, creating a crowded and tedious commute that is especially painful on cold days.

Kropp says the T’s problems extend beyond public funding. He cites the tough competition that public transportation faces from roads and highways that don’t cost money to travel (with the exception of tolls on the Mass Pike and various tunnels). He argues one solution would include “cross-subsidization” between the gas tax, the MBTA, and federal support. The gas tax currently goes to an overall transit fund, but voters repealed a law last November that tied increases in the gas tax to inflation.

Legislators who participated in the GovOnTheT event told the Banner that while they did not always take the T, the experience was a valuable demonstration of their commitment to transportation issues.

Rep. Russell Holmes said that

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and learned about the soon-to-be launched program. Her pending mortgage application was denied because the private mortgage insurer thought she was not a good risk. Florence told the Banker & Tradesman in 2001, “It was on a Wednesday that I got the denial letter, and on Friday I got a call from one of the organizers here at MAHA, and she told me that the Soft Second [program] was up and running. I called…the bank and had someone in my house on Sunday night from Shawmut,” she said.

She was approved and closed on her new home on Dorchester’s Jones Hill in January 1991. “I was thrilled.”

Volunteering at MAHA

Later that year, she began volunteering her time at MAHA’s classes for first-time buyers.

“I would tell them that if I could buy a house as a single mom with a modest salary, they could do it too.”

In 1996, Hagins joined MAHA

could only provide limited anecdotal evidence.

Carvalho added that the issue at hand was bigger than performance during the snowstorms, which revealed larger underlying problems and led the public to demand more immediate answers. In particular, he cautioned against seeking expansion projects before dealing first with more fundamental issues such as maintenance. Earlier this month, state transportation officials disclosed that the MBTA has a maintenance backlog of $6.7 billion in repairs.

The human side

Rep. Marjorie Decker of Cambridge expressed similar concerns about the long-term T funding, appealing to the human side of the issue.

“There’s so many stories we haven’t read yet — how many people lost their jobs, or lost hourly wages [during the storms]?” she asked. “We have to think about the impact on society if a nurse can’t get to work that day.”

When asked about outgoing General Manager Beverly Scott’s handling of the winter storms, both Carvalho and Decker said they did not blame her for the winter service issues, saying they

full-time and counseled thousands of first-time homebuyers over the years.

“It was a good feeling when I would see people again and they would say ‘I just bought a house.’

It was almost like me buying my house all over again. It’s such a great feeling to think that you actually helped somebody. Then, as a homeowner, seeing the difference in your own community; the stabilization of your own community makes a big difference.”

Florence McCarthy Hagins began her second career after moving from her job at Boston Medical Center to MAHA’s Dorchester Avenue headquarters.

“She counseled thousands of first-time homebuyers, established a groundbreaking post-purchase education and discount program, negotiated Community Reinvestment Act agreements with banks for over $1.5 billion in mortgage lending, testified before Congress, led a grassroots movement of women of color to reform bank lending practices in Boston, and chaired community meetings with more than 1,000 people and the likes of Mayor Thomas Menino, Governor Mitt Romney, and Congressman Barney Frank,” said MAHA board president Esther Maycock-Thorne. “She was a leader in every sense of the word.”

“Florence left an indelible legacy,” said Robert K. Sheridan, president emeritus of Savings Bank Life Insurance and former president of the Massachusetts Bankers Association. “Bankers would initially fear her, then come to respect her, and eventually embrace everything she was about.

Florence wanted bank executives to understand that they could reach underserved communities with affordable and sustainable mortgages that would change lives and improve neighborhoods. Now heaven will benefit from her community organizing skills.”

She leaves to cherish many happy and fond memories her daughter Andraea Hagins Green and her husband Deon Green, who lovingly cared for her mother at home until her passing, her siblings Gladys McKamey Mungo of NJ, Carlton R. McCarthy and his wife, Janet, of FL, Luanne McCarthy Martel, and Milton McCarthy and his wife, Jackie, of MA. She also leaves many nieces and nephews and extended family and friends.

MAHA is creating the Florence McCarthy Hagins Endowment Fund. In lieu of flowers, her family asks to please send donations in her name payable to MAHA. The address is MAHA, 1803 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02124.

thought she did the best she could with the transportation system she had been handed. Scott became MBTA chief in December 2012 and resigned in February following public outcry and political finger-pointing over the T’s snowstorm performance.

Rep. Dan Hunt said he was most interested in seeing upgrades at JFK/UMASS station to make it a “fully modern station.” When asked by the Banner if he thought the Olympics could serve as the catalyst for the improvements, as Boston 2024 and Mayor Martin Walsh have argued, Hunt said he did. He said the Olympics could “shine a spotlight” on the JFK project and move it up the list of priorities.

Boston 2024 has said that the only transportation projects required for the games would be new Orange and Red Line cars that already have been paid for and are due to arrive in 2018.

However, the group has also proposed nearby Harbor Point (formerly Columbia Point) as the site for the Athlete’s Village.

The group has highlighted JFK/ UMASS as one of the stations they would like to see improved and argued that the games could potentially expedite that project.

The Banner also spoke with some T employees last week about their experiences working during the snowstorm. One employee said the public backlash about the service during the snowstorms was in many ways nothing new.

“They give us a hard time anyway,” she said. She recalled, for instance, one time when she could not answer a customer’s question and he responded, “You never know anything.”

Another employee who had spent much of the winter shoveling off the snow-covered rails described the physical exertion required for the job, adding that when he was done with work he had to return home to shovel some more. However, he said that he was at least compensated extra for the grueling work.

As for GovOnTheT, the fledgling group says they may take the initiative to other cities following the successful experiment in their home base. Closer to home, they may use a similar model to address environmental, economic and social issues, such as GovOnTheFarm, GovInTheFactory and GovInTheCourts. Those who are intrigued by the concept should stay tuned.

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Now is the time for new startups

Mass Challenge CEO spurs on entrepreneurs

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Speaking at Startup Night at District Hall in the heart of Boston’s Innovation District, MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne had a tough but ultimately encouraging message for aspiring entrepreneurs — the startup world is full of fear, failure and frustration, but if you have a passion for what you are doing and the will to work hard, success is possible.

“Doing a startup is a surreal process. It is really hard and it is full of a lot random chance and luck and surreal moments … and also a lot of trauma and suffering and unknowns,” Harthorne said. “You have to be really thickskinned or crazy — or both — to get through it.”

According to Harthorne, when first starting a business there is nothing but fear because it is a constant balancing act between decisions that move the business, forward and decisions that can plummet the business into the abyss of failure.

Fits and starts

Many businesses formulate around one idea for an end product and face challenges in putting a supporting organization in place around the idea. The mistakes made in doing this can lead to a constant cycle of failures and setbacks. Harthorne called these “debilitating” but the expected stepping stones on the path forward for any business.

He experienced this at MassChallenge after starting the company five years ago.

“We had a great idea and we had a good team and we kept plugging

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MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne

SANDRA LARSON

Mayor Martin Walsh speaks about financial empowerment strategies at UMass Boston last weekend. At left is moderator Eric Rosengren, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; the three other mayors featured at the public forum were (l-r) Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore, Ed Murray of Seattle and Bill de Blasio of New York.

Mayors talk inequality, financial empowerment Forum met at UMass Boston ahead of mayors’ conference

By SANDRA LARSON

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the mayors of three other large U.S. cities shared a stage at UMass Boston Sunday to discuss financial empowerment strategies that help cities address increasing income inequality and persistent poverty.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Walsh covered such topics as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising the minimum wage and bolstering residents’ financial literacy, as well as their views the role private business can play in lifting people from poverty.

“Insecurity is affecting people right now,” Walsh said. “It’s undermining the American promise.”

Unemployment is relatively low in Boston and plenty of construction activity is happening, but inequality is still high in terms of financial attainment, Walsh said. He cited recent figures showing that 46 percent of Boston households don’t have enough assets to cover three months’ expenses. That’s sobering enough, but the figure is 69 percent for

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percent of Boston households don’t have enough assets to cover three months’ expenses. percent of black households in Boston don’t have enough assets to cover three months’ expenses. percent of Latino households in Boston don’t have enough assets to cover three months’ expenses.

the city’s black households and 75 percent for Latino households.

Data presented by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren further illustrated the inequality that exists in cities that appear to be thriving. Seattle, for instance is doing very well on metrics such as higher education attainment — but the statistics mask the unequal on-the-ground experience; many lifelong Seattle residents actually do not have college degrees, while college-educated adults migrating there raise the overall average.

The forum came a day before a meeting in Boston of the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Cities of Opportunity Task Force, which is chaired by de Blasio with Walsh as vice chair. All four forum participants are Democrats, and all

assumed the office in 2014 except Rawlings-Blake, who has led Baltimore since 2010.

Rawlings-Blake described a number of Baltimore initiatives, including “Your Money, Your Goals” financial literacy training and the “Baltimore CASH Campaign” free tax preparation and asset-building program.

While acknowledging there clearly are other issues such as education and racism that impact poverty, Rawlings-Blake emphasized the importance of engaging residents consistently and repeatedly around financial wellness.

“Part of the work of financial fitness is breaking that cycle of poverty that we have seen in too many of our families,” she said.

Back to basics

De Blasio highlighted his success in establishing universal pre-kindergarten, which he estimated saves many families $10,000 a year, and aggressive outreach to educate working families about the Earned Income Tax Credit, which brings an average additional refund of $2,500.

In Seattle, Murray signed a law last year that will phase in a $15 minimum wage, the highest in the nation. This sort of action

does not come without pushback, though. Murray recounted a recent misinformation campaign by conservative media to blame several Seattle restaurant closings on the new wage law. In fact, Murray said, the restaurants had closed for unrelated reasons, and the owners actually supported the wage law. Further, new restaurants have opened and other businesses have moved to Seattle since the new wage law was signed.

“Folks, you raise the minimum wage, and it actually attracts business,” said Murray, adding, “When we talk about financial empowerment, everything we talk about won’t make a difference unless you give people a wage they can live on.”

De Blasio and Walsh also made the case for business support and engagement.

“This isn’t an anti-business conversation,” said Walsh, while discussing Boston’s living wage ordinance for city contractors and Massachusetts’ rising minimum wage and new domestic workers’ bill of rights. “This is a conversation about working together to ensure equality.”

De Blasio asserted the business

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away and we made more good decisions than bad ones. So you just gradually take two steps forward and one step back and you are gradually making progress and if you just care enough and you don’t give up, you eventually just push through,” Harthorne said.

He also didn’t shy away from the notion that entrepreneurs may be involved in several failing business ventures until they get it right. This is all part of the process as well, because lessons learned during an early business failure could be the key to ultimate success with another startup.

While Harthorne is a startup entrepreneur in his own right he perhaps is more acutely attuned to comment on the launch of a company than most because MassChallenge is in the business of startups.

Located in the Seaport District, MassChallenge is a startup accelerator that helps entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, providing everything from office space to mentors to connections with investors. The organization runs an annual application process for interested startups. In 2014, 1,650 startups from 50 countries and 40 states applied. Since 2010, the 617 startups supported by MassChallenge have raised over $706 million in funding, generated $404 million in revenue and created 4,800 jobs.

Harthorne sees on a daily basis what makes a startup succeed.

His goal is to share that advice

with others.

He cautions against trying to grow too quickly before a startup — or the startup team — is ready, but at the same time he warns against too humble a vision because the effort to establish a small business is not that much different than what it takes to establish a big business. He stressed the need to think big.

“By thinking big you attract big thinkers. Those are the people that have the knowledge and the influence and the funding that helps you to get stuff done. If you propose a small initiative you will attract other people who like small initiatives and they will help you and that will work and that is fine, but it is really not that different to go big,” he said. “So go all in and say, Why not? Go big.”

Renaissance 2.0

Referring to his own startup roots, the MIT Sloan School of Management grad told the tale of how MassChallenge was able to get funding from the state and some of the state’s most successful entrepreneurs because the vision was to impact the entire economy of the state, the country and even beyond to other countries.

“Our stated mission is we are going to instigate a period of renaissance globally. By empowering the creative class and restoring creativity to the soul of the economy we are going to put away this medieval architecture of short-term profit and instead focus on solving the world’s problems together, integrating art and science and technology around improving the human condition.

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We are going to create massive amounts of wealth and a period renaissance,” he said. “That is a crazy mission.”

But it was just crazy enough to impress — and get MassChallenge the funding it needed.

While extolling his passion for working in the startup world, Harthorne also supports working in a traditional corporate business at some point, particularly pre-startup. He values his prior experience at Bain Capital, for example, though he did not enjoy it. He believes you can learn a lot from the organization and structure of the corporate world that can be very useful in a startup environment.

Harthorne capped off his talk by saying now is as good a time to start a business, particularly with advances in technology allowing for so much infrastructure savings.

“It gets cheaper and cheaper every day to launch a startup,” he said.

The interest in the startup world also is booming again, so entrepreneurs can find great workers to come on board pretty easily.

“It is cool to be in startups so there is a lot of labor that is interested. There is a lot of talent that would otherwise have gone to investment banking or consulting or finance,” he said. “There is real talent in the market.”

“I am super optimistic about now,” he added. Though like all passionate entrepreneurs he countered this by saying anytime you are ready to start a business you should do it. He is a firm believer of going for it and jumping in.

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Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito joined Down Home Delivery owner Gary Webster and Catering Manager Cherelle Webster-Payne to announce that the Dorchester business received the first loan from the Massachusetts Snow Storm Fund, which was set up to help businesses cope with losses related to this year’s winter storms.

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continued from page 9 community can step up to address income disparity.

“There’s no law against the private sector stepping forward,” he said. He suggested firms could go above minimum wage voluntarily, and called on industry to bring young people in the doors for their first jobs and partner with schools to educate students about the world of work.

Walsh launched a new Office of Financial Empowerment last fall to assist Bostonians with free tax preparation, employment assistance and asset building. Since October, the centers have served 1,800 low-income clients, he said. He also highlighted the recently revitalized Boston living wage ordinance, a

new child savings account for college program, and outcomes measured so far in the financial empowerment centers, such as raised credit scores and improved spending patterns.

Attendee Bruce Marks, CEO of Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), commented afterward that the corporate world needs to be held to greater accountability, with banks at the very least pressured to eliminate checking account fees, reduce overdraft and credit card fees and do better outreach to lower-income clients.

The emphasis on financial education, Marks told the Banner, is a misplaced focus on the victims.

“It’s always about putting pressure on the people at the lowest rung of the ladder,” he said. “Where’s the pressure on institutions?”

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Gants pointed out that in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 75 percent of the 450 people convicted of minimum mandatory drug offenses in Massachusetts.

He argued that mandatory minimum sentences have done nothing to stop the drug trade, pointing out that drug overdose has increased six-fold since 1990 and is now the leading cause of accidental death in Massachusetts.

“The fact is that minimum mandatory sentences in drug cases have failed to substantially affect the price of availability of dangerous narcotics,” he said.

Conley drew fire from retired U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner, who called his comments in support of mandatory minimums “outdated, inaccurate, overstated, even disrespectful” in an op-ed in the Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly publication.

Beginning in the 1980s, legislators in Massachusetts and other

states have favored mandatory minimum sentences as a response to what many saw as an epidemic of drug-related crime. Critics have argued that mandatory sentencing takes away their discretion to consider the merits of each case.

“As a commonwealth, we need to look at some of the larger implications of the war on drugs and the disproportionate impact it’s had on people of color,” said Rasaan Hall, a former Suffolk County Prosecutor who is now deputy director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

In 2012, then-Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation reducing mandatory minimum sentences for many non-violent drug offenses from 5 years to 3 ½ years.

This year, legislators in Massachusetts are considering ending mandatory minimums for many categories of crimes. The Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus is backing a bill advanced by state Sen. Sonia Chang Diaz and Rep. Mary Keefe that would end mandatory minimums.

Criminal justice re form

advocates cite the racial disparities of arrests and sentencing in arguing for reform. Police have broad leeway in how they can charge suspects caught in possession of drugs, notes ACLU attorney Carlton Williams.

“They catch a white kid with three-quarters of an ounce, and they let him go,” he said.

“They arrest a black kid, and he’s facing possession with intent to distribute.”

Among the factors Williams, a former defense attorney, has seen police and prosecutors cite to establish that a suspect is a dealer, and not a casual user, are whether a suspect has cash in his possession, where the suspect was apprehended, tinted windows on a car, or possession of a rental car.

Few serve time

Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Jake Wark cited the relatively low incarceration rate in Massachusetts as evidence prosecutors are not abusing mandatory minimum sentences. While the incarceration rate in the United State is 700 per 100,000 people – the highest

in the industrialized world – in Massachusetts the rate is 200 per 100,000 people.

“The incarceration rate in Massachusetts fell 13 percent between 2008 and 2013,” he said. “When you see that rate falling and compare it to other states, it’s clear that prosecutors are using their discretion judiciously and sparingly. We’re targeting the individuals who are driving crime in Boston and in Suffolk County.

When we seek a sentence in a house of correction or a state prison, it’s because the offender is a repeat offender, violent offender or high-level offender.”

But Williams says the state’s incarceration rate doesn’t paint the full picture, noting that many defendants end up on probation.

He cites a hypothetical case where a suspect is arrested with a small quantity of drugs.

“If you’re caught with three ecstasy tablets anywhere in Boston, you’re in a school zone,” he said.

The school zone – anywhere within 100 yards of school – along with a police officer’s contention that the suspect was selling,

or intending to sell the pills, automatically triggers a two-year mandatory minimum sentence.

Williams and others say prosecutors often use the school zone charge, and the threat of a mandatory minimum, to pressure suspects into pleading guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for probation.

“It creates an unfair advantage for the prosecutor,” Rasaan Hall said. “Defendants are less likely to roll the dice if they’re facing a mandatory sentence. Even if you’re innocent, there’s a strong risk that 12 jurors won’t see things your way and convict.”

Once the jury votes to convict a defendant, the judge has no choice but to impose the mandatory sentence.

Whether or not suspects served jail time, the drug charges greatly diminish their chances of obtaining employment and make it impossible to secure student loans or public housing. And those convicted must pay $65 a month to stay on probation, Williams points out.

“We destroy peoples’ lives and leave them on the hook,” he said.

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On Friday, March 13, Discover Roxbury celebrated the 5th Annual Black & White Party, a fundraiser benefitting programs supporting Roxbury’s local artists held at MassArt’s Pozen Center. An estimated 300 people enjoyed this unique experience where the decor, dress code, artwork for sale, and food & drink (to the extent possible) were all black and white. The point is to remind us just how important artists are in bringing color to our lives. Working with MassArt’s Center for Art & Community Partnerships (CACP), under the direction of Ceci Mendez, was especially helpful in making this event a success. CACP’s staff and student volunteers provided much-needed expertise in prepping and hanging the art with the help of our volunteer curator, Aziza Robinson-Goodnight. Sixty-seven local artists submitted work to the Black & White art exhibit, many donating all proceeds to Discover Roxbury. The event underwrites much of the promotional expenses producing Roxbury Open Studios, an annual event in October that expands participating artists’ exposure to new audiences. Also, we debuted the annual ArtROX! Season Guide, a publication, which highlights our arts programming and local artists while offering new art experiences to participants. Derek Lumpkins, Executive Director said, “Discover Roxbury is growing to become a larger player in Boston’s Arts scene for emerging artists and artists of color. By supporting the Black & White Party, patrons and guests are affirming the future of Boston’s creative economy and the continued growth of the ArtROX! Series, which spotlights the careers of these PHOTOS BY DANA QUIGLEY local artists and continues to promote Roxbury as a cultural destination.”

Clockwise, from top: Attendees during welcome remarks; Roxbury artist Percy Davis (R) and guest Andrea Spence (L); Kelley Bates and Husband; Clauda Davis and husband; Exec. Director Discover Roxbury Derek Lumpkins, Ceci Mendez Director MassArt’s Center for Arts & Community Partnership; Laura and Remon

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Sinbad

Being a father key to success for veteran comic

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

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inbad. He’s like your favorite brother, uncle or cousin whom you can’t wait to see because he always has a smile on his face and a story to tell. You never know what he’s going to say but you do know for sure that it’s going to be funny. It seems like we’ve known him forever.

Sinbad first achieved notoriety in 1983 as a finalist on the television comedy competition Star Search, hosted by Ed McMahon. Even though he didn’t win, it was only a matter of time before he would reappear on

the national stage. Three years later in 1986, he landed on The Redd Foxx television series and in 1987 he appeared on an episode of The Cosby Show which led to a recurring role on its spin-off, A Different World

starring Lisa Bonet. He’s been making audiences laugh ever since.

In 1990, Sinbad performed his first stand-up comedy special for HBO called Sinbad: Brain Damaged. The special was recorded at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. He released his second special two years later Sinbad: Afros and Bellbottoms which he performed at the Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden. In 1995, he won an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Variety — Series or Special for Afros for the special.

After A Different World ended its run, Sinbad appeared on numerous TV series including Roc and Moesha.

He also hosted Saturday Night Live and eventually starred in his own television series The Sinbad Show. It wasn’t long before Sinbad’s largerthan-life persona propelled him to the big screen. He had supporting roles in the films Necessary Roughness and opposite Robert Townsend in The Meteor Man. In 1995 he co-starred with Phil Hartman

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On With Living and Learning (OWLL) is premiering their remixed and re-imagined production of Hidden Faces of Courage.

OWLL is a local organization that seeks to “bring together female ex-offenders, artists, human service professionals and the public to inspire public dialogue about the incarceration of women.”

Hidden Faces of Courage was written in collaboration with On With Living and Learning founder and co-artistic director of Fort Point Theatre Channel Mary Driscoll who credits a large portion of the inspiration for the show to a promise she made to a late friend.

“I was inspired by a friend of mine who had come to OWLL right out of prison,” Driscoll said.

“Ultimately she became my best friend over 12 years. When she was dying she asked me to write a play to inspire other women who were retuning citizens from prison. She went from being a returning citizen to becoming a social activist.”

The show delves into the lives and realities of women re-entering society after serving prison time for non-violent crimes.

They represent a demographic not often acknowledged, with stories and histories not often explored. The women are unseen and hidden, left only with a profound sense of isolation, a theme explored in a show these women helped to create.

“There are three levels to the work,” said Driscoll. “The workshops where the stories are told and the scripts are created, the presentation of the scripts to the local community by the women themselves, then lastly the professional actors who spread the message out into the larger community.”

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IF YOU GO WHAT: Hidden Faces of Courage, with a

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Haitian dancer/choreographer Jean Appolon gives back through dance

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Captivated by dance and music since he was a child, Jean Appolon turned his love of movement into a reality. He first saw African-American dancer Lavinia Williams on television in Haiti when he was about six or seven years old. “I started seeing her on TV every Sunday teaching

traditional class. I would fantasize about the class,” recalled Appolon.

Now, some 30 years later, Appolon is a renowned choreographer and master teacher based in Boston and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He has performed with the North Star Ballet Company in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Black Door Company in Miami, and the Atlantic City Ballet Company.

Appolon is the co-founder and artistic director of Jean Appolon Expressions, a Boston-based contemporary Haitian dance company founded in 2011. In 2014 he was awarded a dance residency at the Boston Center for the Arts.

In partnership with the BCA, his company is premiering its newest work Angaje later this month on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28. [As of press time there

are a few tickets available for March 27. March 28 is sold out.]

Angaje, which means “engaged” or “committed” in Haitian Creole, explores the themes of inequality, injustice and homophobia, set to music by legendary Haitian actress and singer Marie Clotilde “Toto” Bissainthe.

“It’s been a fight about how people survive, how people are trying to live, how mostly young gay men and women are trying to be in Haiti,” explained Appolon.

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He hopes the piece will start a conversation in Boston on what it means to be gay in Haiti, and hopefully continue it back home.

“Haiti is so complex because sometimes if you do not have a system of government to stand with you, you are in trouble to talk about a subject that is very sensitive,” he said. “That is why I

choreographed this ballet to really start talking about this issue and hopefully when we get to Haiti people can have a sense of what we’re trying to say.”

It wasn’t an easy path for Appolon to accomplish his dream.

As a child, his parents were dead set against his watching programs that featured dance. Mainly it was that “they did not want me to be a dancer because they felt like it was very feminine, there wasn’t any money in it and they didn’t know anything about dance pretty much.”

He left the island in 1993 at the age of 17 — just two years after his father was murdered during a regime change — and moved to the states to live with his mother, who resided in Cambridge.

During those two years in Haiti, dance was his outlet in dealing with his father’s murder.

“I used dance as therapy because I never really went any place to have therapy,” Appolon recalled.

Once in the U.S., his situation changed. His new home was located right across the street from The Dance Complex in Central Square and his new high school Cambridge Rindge and Latin School offered a dance program.

However, his mother still didn’t

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continued from page 14 approve of his dancing. He had to sneak around to take classes at The Dance Complex and when his mother found out she warned him, “the day that you walk into that building again I will send you back to Haiti.” Appolon wasn’t going to be deterred: he was determined and pressed on.

Soon, his teacher Patrick Sylvain intervened and visited his mother and, according to Appolon, told her that “if you don’t let your son dance he might die, because he really wants to do this.” Upon completion of high school, Appolon was on his way to a new life.

In 1995, he received a one-year scholarship to attend the Harvard and Radcliffe Dance Program and followed that up with another scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York (1996-1998). In 1998, Appolon attended the Joffrey American Ballet School where he graduated with a B.A. from a joint degree program offered by The New School in 2003.

Back to roots

In 2006, he began conducting the Summer Dance Institute a free annual summer dance course at ENARTS (Ecole Nationale des Artes) in downtown Port-auPrince, as a way of giving back “to the country that he knew and the country that he grew up in.”

The one-month program teaches Haitian folkloric dance

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Dancers with Jean Appolon Expressions. to aspiring Haitian youth and adults who do not have regular access to dance training. Funding has come from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, FOKAL, Choreart, and Haiti’s Ministry of Culture and Office of Ethnology, but additional sources of funding are always needed.

“We’re still using everything that we can to make people understand the value of what we’re doing in Haiti because there’s nothing like this in Haiti,” Appolon said.

Since the devastating earthquake of 2010, the need for dance and art has become increasingly more important, Appolon maintains.

“There are a lot of people who still today [are] really trying to find a way to heal from it. A lot of people haven’t healed from this,”

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Through an in-kind donation, The Summer Dance Institute has taken place in an open-air gazebo in Hôtel Oloffson on the island’s capital in 2013 and 2014, and will continue there for the forseeable future.

The long-term goal of JAE is “really to have an after-school program or an arts school in Haiti,” said Appolon. “It’s our passion to be in Haiti more than one month because in one month you just teach a kid a few steps, and they go and next year you come back. That doesn’t really last. So, we would really like to put our feet in Haiti where we can train kids for seven, eight months out of the year and know that we are creating productive citizens.”

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continued from page 13 as a con man on the run from the mob over an unpaid debt in Houseguest. He became a household name a year later when he went toe-to-toe with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the holiday comedy Jingle All the Way, and played the role of a Secret Service agent guarding the president’s son in First Kid. The Benton Harbor, MI, native, who is a huge music fan, also created the ’70s Soul Music Festival Summer Jam featuring performances from 1970s and 1980s musical acts such as Earth Wind & Fire, The O’Jays, Teena Marie, Gladys Knight and many more.

Sinbad, who’s performing stand-up comedy at The Wilbur on Friday, was in Boston this week collaborating with the Berklee College of Music. He recently spoke to the Banner about fame, being counted out in Hollywood, and starting his stand-up career in Boston.

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“Getting famous brings trials that no one is ready for. No one’s ready to be famous. I don’t care what you say. No one’s ready.

Being famous has a lot of pitfalls and drawbacks to it that no one cares for. It’s not normal for people who want to be around you that you don’t know. You have to achieve some kind of balance.

Some people say, ‘keep people around you that keep you humble’ but sometimes the people around you can’t keep it humble. So you have to find something that grounds you whether it’s church or whatever you believe in you have to find something that keeps you human.

“At the time I wasn’t ready to be married and to have kids. I didn’t want that. But I know my son saved my life. No matter what else happens to me I love them and they’re the most important things to me. And now my daughter, who’s a singer, I was just at SXSW where I was her roadie. I’m carrying her gear and I’m watching her do her thing.”

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continued from page 13 For many years, Driscoll, who has a Ph.D., made her living as an occupational therapist, before she had an experience that changed her life.

“I had no interest in theater; I had never been on stage until I was 50. I was working in Jamaica and I took an acting class, and I realized I could make more change through theater than all the policy papers I was writing.

I saw what theater could do in that country, so I quit my job, came home and decided I would become an actor and write a play about women who had H.I.V. “From that we gathered a group of courageous women and started to do this work and form this company. I never considered I was doing playwriting, just thought I was doing workshops and were telling our stories. I knew that with theater I could do more with social change.”

While the show first premiered a few years ago, Driscoll believes that this was a perfect time to

IF YOU GO WHAT: Sinbad WHERE: The Wilbur Theater WHEN: Friday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m.

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On being counted out…

“The hardest part about comedy is dealing with people who really don’t understand what funny is — dealing with people in Hollywood who’ve decided you’re done. Shoot, I’m at my peak.

It’s not like sports. It’s more like music. The thing about comedy, about entertainment, if you can stay healthy … Clint Eastwood directed a great movie, American Sniper. When I see that it gives me so much inspiration. My best work is still ahead of me. That’s what cracks me up sometimes.

I get so excited about what I’m going to do and when I’m dealing with somebody who doesn’t believe in me I say ‘Dude, I’m so far down the road from what you’re talking about. I’m already doing the work that’s in my mind. What makes me frustrated is trying to convince people on who you are.”

On starting his comedy career in Boston…

I started comedy in 1983, 1984. The first thing I remember was standing in the alley of the movie theater waiting to go see the Prince concert Purple Rain.

My brother was here working in a summer program. He was doing a summer internship in Boston.

He lived in the ’hood before it got gentrified. We saw it change.

We saw them come in and move everybody out. What was amazing was I had no money. I had no job. A brother was hungry and I said ‘Show me where a comedy club is.’ I met Lenny Clarke. I knew who Lenny Clarke was.

He got me time on stage at the Boston comedy club. After I was done, they gave me work, they gave jobs. I made something like $6,000 in one weekend. That’s when Boston was the mecca: Boston and San Francisco.

Comics who lived there made six figures a year. It was the mecca for comedy.” bring the piece back.

“It’s especially important right now since we are facing a complex and crucial time in our country about racism and injustice. Clearly it’s critical the things we are facing now in terms of trying to change the system of racial injustice that has led to over-incarceration. It intersects with the same issue of identity in our society. And we’re dealing this across the country.”

Overall, Driscoll hopes that this show will invoke understanding and compassion to this marginalized community of women.

“We hope that the audience will laugh, and cry and learn something new. This is for the people who care, but don’t understand why women end up in prison, and if they come they can go back and contribute however they can.”

On With Living and Learning in collaboration with Fort Point Theatre Channel presents a remixed and re-imagined “Hidden Faces of Courage” by Mary Driscoll with members of On With Living and Learning. Directed by Tasia A. Jones, Music by Allyssa Jones.

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Honey Mustard Chicken n 4 (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken thighs n ½ teaspoon salt n Freshly ground black pepper n 4 tablespoons Dijon mustard n 2 tablespoons honey n 1 minced shallot n 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme leaves or ½ teaspoon dried n 1 pound small red potatoes, cut into halves n Olive oil cooking spray

Sprinkle chicken thighs with ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper. Place in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Combine mustard, honey, shallot and thyme in a small bowl to form a paste. Spread over thighs, covering them completely.

Add potatoes to the pan and spritz with olive oil spray. Sprinkle potatoes with remaining ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper.

Bake about 50 minutes, stirring potatoes once, until potatoes and chicken are tender. Serves 4.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

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THURSDAY TOUCHED BY THE MOTHER: A LECTURE Black History/Art History Lecture and Performance Series: Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Alumnus W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Fellow — Touched by the Mother: A Lecture. Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, will discuss how feminist discourses since the 1970s have at once hampered and enabled critical queerings of maleness and masculinity within contemporary African American art. His talk will examine the ways in which the black maternal presence has shaped both artistic and interpretive practices. This performance is the fourth and final event in the Black History/ Art History Lecture and Performance Series, which is generously sponsored by the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Center for African Studies, Harvard Art Museums, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of African and African American Studies, and Program in American Studies. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Room B-04, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

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The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will host his Excellency, the US Ambassador in Lisbon, the Honorable Robert A. Sherman, on Tuesday, March 31 at 11:30am in the Robert F. Stoico/FirstFed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room at the Claire T. Carney Library at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA 02747. Honorable Robert A. Sherman’s address will reflect on his experience as US Ambassador in Lisbon over the past year. Please join us in this milestone event and engage in a debate that will cover pertinent issues related with US and Portugal and common interests within the current globalized matrix. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at 11am. Please RSVP as seats are limited to ltavares4@umassd. edu or 508-999-8255.

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Hub Theatre Company of Boston will kick off its third season this spring with Joe Orton’s irreverent and amoral dark farce, Loot, at the First Church in Boston Friday, March 27 - April 12. Poor Mr. McLeavy! It’s the day of the funeral and his late wife won’t stay in her coffin. The nurse — a seven-time widow — fancies him as her latest “late” husband. His ne’er-do-well son and his “friend” are pursuing new careers as bank robbers and a nosy representative from the water board (or so he claims) is asking some very probing questions and making everyone quite nervous indeed. In this tour de force of bad taste, taboos, and high farce, nothing and no one is safe from Orton’s wicked wit!

Inspired by the trial of the infamous police detective Harold “Tanky” Challenor, notorious for his brutality and planting of evidence, Loot satires the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes toward death, police brutality and everything in between. This show will make you laugh but its message will stay with you long after you leave the theatre. The Hub Theater Company of Boston was founded in 2012 to foster creativity among Boston’s emerging theatre artists and as a means to help break down barriers between audience and art. As such, all tickets to all performances are Pay-What-You-Can! First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and may be purchased via www.hubtheatreboston.ticketleap.com.

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS 6 5 69 57 91 72 14 28 43 8 3 Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1525-C1, FY15-17 Hard AUTHORITYSUDOKU Hard SUDOKU 3 7 31 74 18 45 82 59 26 9 6 WIDE TERM AUTOMATIC ENTRANCE DOOR REPAIRS, BOSTON, BEDFORD 4 8 2 6 3 9 5 7 1 AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 4 will 8 be 2 received 6 3 9by the 5 7Massachusetts 1 Port Authority at the Capital5 Programs Office, Suite 209S, 4 5 8 4 3 Department 87 31 76 12 69 2 9 Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 9 7 time 6 9 5 on 6 2WEDNESDAY, 5 4 2 3 4 1 3 8APRIL 1 8 22, 2015 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M.7 local immediately after which, in a 1designated and 2 1 3 2 8room, 3 9 8 6the9 7bids 6 4 will 7 5 be 4 opened 5 read publicly.

9 6 95 61 54 17 48 73 82 3 2 8 1 8 4 WILL NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE 1 2 4 5BE 2 3 HELD 5 9 3 6 AT 9 7 6THE7 CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT ADDRESS) AT 10:00AM 2 3 2 7 3 9(ABOVE 6 8 1 5 7 9 6 8 14 5 4 LOCAL TIME ON GHNS TUESDAY, #2456 APRIL 7, 2015.

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49 91 15 53 38 86 67 72 2 73 32 21 16 65 59 98 84 4 7 Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the 2 5 Programs 7 76Department 4 4together 8 83with 3any 1 addenda 2 69 9Office, 1 Authority’s Capital 5 68 the87Authority 74 may42issue 2and or amendments, 9 96 which 5 a 5printed 1 1copy 3 of3the Proposal 5 form.

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7 3 72 31 26 15 69 58 94 8 4 Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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65 51 12 23 37 79 9 Complete information 4 8 9and 35 the756site 9may 61 be31obtained 4 8 9 2 authorization 1 2 427 873 to6view 5 from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port 9 1 4 7 3 6 2 5 9 The 1right is4reserved 7 to waive 3 any6informality 2 in5or8 reject 8 any or Authority. all proposals.

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The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.

By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has 4 to 3 obtain 5 6 requisite 7 2 8insurance 1 9 coverage. the ability 2 9 6 5 8 1 3 4 7 This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a 7 sealed 8 1 envelope 4 9 3 as2 required 5 6 shall be addressed to Houssam H. separate Sleiman, 9 PE, 1 CCM, 8 7 Director 2 4 of 5 Capital 6 3 Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the 5 6 7 9 3 8 4 2 1 Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, 3 4 Logan 2 1International 5 6 7 Airport, 9 8 East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any Suite 209S, submission 8 5which 3 is 2 not 1 received 9 6 7in a4 timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any 6 or7 other 9 3written 4 5or oral 1 8communication 2 Proposal between the Proposer and the Authority 1 2 will 4 not 8 be, 6 7or deemed 9 3 5to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such GHNS #2460 information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

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consulting services for MPA6 CONTRACT AIRPORT 49 58 97HANSCOM 8 7 3 62 31 2NO. 4 15H260-D1 RESCUE AND FIRE FIGHTING (ARFF) FACILITY/UNITED STATES CUSTOMS 4 8 49 82 97 23 75 36 51 6 1 AND BORDER PROTECTION FACILITY, L.G.HANSCOM FIELD, BEDFORD, GHNS #2459 GHNS #2459 MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking qualified multidiscipline consultGHNS #2459 GHNS #2459 ing firm or team, with proven experience to provide professional services including planning, design, and construction related services as well as the 5 the 9 5project 1 9 3 1program 8 3 7 8 6and 7 2 evaluate 6 4 2 4 building locaskills necessary to develop tions that meet all of the Massport, 7 2 7 3 2 US 6 3Customs 9 6 4 9 8 and 1 5 1 5Protection and 4 8Border Federal Aviation Administration’s requirements for a LEED Gold, state-of-the8 4 86 45 61 52 13 27 39 7 9 art, Airport Rescue and Firefighting Facility (ARFF)/United States Customs 9 1 94 17 43 76 32 65 28 5 8 and Border Protection Facility.

2 6 28 64 85 41 57 19 73 9 3 The contract will be work order based, and Consultant’s fee for each work 5 3 7 5 8the 1 9for 4 1the 6 4contract 7 2total 8 9 2fee 6 order shall be negotiated;3 however, shall not exceed Nine Hundred Thousand 1 7 1Dollars 5 7 9 5 ($900,000).

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4 8 9 2 7 3 5 6 1 GHNS #2460 Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, GHNS #2459 Massachusetts 02128. At this session, an overview of the project will be provided, the services requested by the Authority will be described, and questions will be answered. At this time a Supplemental Information Package will be available on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http:// www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, and on COMMBUYS (www. commbuys.com) in the listings for this project. If you have problems finding it, please contact Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com

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INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

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*WRA-4009

Vibration Analysis Training and Support Services Deer Island Treatment Plant

04/08/15

2:00 p.m.

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Rental of Temporary Laboratory 04/08/15 Trailer for the MWRA Southboro Facility

2:30 p.m.

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South Dike Tree Removal at Wachusett Reservoir

2:00 p.m

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Centrifuge Services Deer Island 04/16/15 Treatment Plant

04/09/15

2:00 p.m.

*To access and bid on Events please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. **To obtain Contact Documents send request to the MWRA’S Document Distribution Office at MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com

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LEGAL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1018-C1 HVAC/MECHANICAL SYSTEM REPLACEMENT, TERMINALS B AND C, BOSTON LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015.

The work includes THE INSTALLATION OF (5) HVAC UNITS, DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING HVAC UNITS, AND ARCHITECTURAL, MECHANICAL AND PLUMBING MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING FAN ROOMS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE INSTALLATION. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is SIX MILLION DOLLARS ($ 6,000,000).

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Subbidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal.

LEGAL Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. H62CN01: REPAIR/REHABILITATION OF BEVERLY DRAW BRIDGE OVER DANVERS RIVER BEVERLY/SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, (CLASS 1A, MARINE GENERAL CONSTRUCTION and CLASS 4B, BRIDGES/CONCRETE STRUCTURE AND PROJECT VALUE – $9,044,010.00)., can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on April 14, 2015. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

Work under Contract No. 1 – Approach Span, consists of cleaning of piles of all debris and marine growth, concrete pile repairs and jacketing, and FRP wrapping of concrete piles. Removal and replacement of stone riprap at the south abutment. Replacement of stone blocks at north abutment walls and fully grouting of joints between stones, with all work being done in the dry.

Miscellaneous structural repairs to the concrete superstructure and coating of all exposed superstructure concrete surfaces with water repellent coating.

In addition coordination with Contractor for future Contact No. 2 – Swing Span. For a more detailed scope of work see section 01010.

Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti- Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of 7 percent.

Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Francis A. DePaola, P.E. Interim General Manager of the MBTA March 19, 2015 Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING $3,500,000 PLUMBING $90,000 ELECTRICAL $300,000 FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEM $180,000 The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than EIGHT AND ONE TENTH PERCENT (8.1%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TRANSPORTATION BUILDING 100 SUMMER STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116-3975 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date.

Docket No. SU15C0076CA

SUFFOLK Division

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

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

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In the matter of Armando Noah Nova of Roxbury, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Iris Hernandez requesting that Armando Noah Nova be allowed to change his name as follows:

lowed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: February 26, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Josephine E. Lawrence Date of Death: 11/22/2014 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Peter L. Brotman of Dedham, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Peter L. Brotman of Dedham, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 04/02/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: February 25, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Noah Hernandez 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 04/02/2015.

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

Date: February 25, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P0423EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Lelia Eliza Jackson Date of Death: 02/13/2015 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Adell E. Coren of Fall River, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Adell E. Coren of Fall River, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 04/09/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Wilfredo Nevarez Of Roxbury Crossing, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by The Developmental Services of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Wilfredo Nevarez is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Lourdes Benoit of Jamaica Plain, 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 04/30/2015. 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: March 12, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0122EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Servius Saintcyr Date of Death: 02/06/2012 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Angeline Saintcyr of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Angeline Saintcyr of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 04/02/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection fol-

Docket No. SU15P0492GD

SUFFOLK Division

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

Date: March 09, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Docket No. SU15P0380EA

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0101EA

Estate of: Louise P. Kush Also Known As: Louise Peter Kush, Louise Kush Date of Death: December 3, 2014 INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner David F. Hayes of Gloucester, MA a will has been admitted to informal probate.

David F. Hayes of Gloucester, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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Docket No. SU15C0090CA In the matter of Shabori Velmeka Clark of Mattapan, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Shabori V Clark requesting that Shabori Velmeka Clark be allowed to change her name as follows: Shabori Velmeka Burton

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

Date: March 5, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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To the Defendant:

Applicants must meet income eligibility requirements Household income must be below the following maximum limits

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.

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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: Ferenkeh Kumalah, 102 Livermore St. Mattapan, MA 02126, your answer, if any, on or before 05/14/2015. 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.

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Maximum Income

$41,100

REAL ESTATE Hingham Affordable Housing One 1 Bedroom Condo Price: $124,500

PLEASE NOTE: HUD issued new income limits effective 3/6/15 for both of these programs.

Tax credit rents are based on the new income limits

OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, March 29, 2015 1:00—3:00 p.m.

Public Information Meeting 6:30, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Hingham Town Hall, 210 Central St Application Deadline April 27, 2015

Assets to $75,000

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

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Income Limits by Household Size must be at or below HUD’s 50% Area Median Gross Income Limit as follows: 1 Person $34,500 3 Persons $44,350 5 Persons $53,200 7 Persons $61,100 2 Persons $39,400 4 Persons $49,250 6 Persons $57,150 8 Persons $65,050 Applicants must qualify for Section 8 and Tax Credit Programs, rents will be calculated using Section 8 guidelines.

Applications for housing can be obtained as follows: • In-person at Franklin Highlands Security Office, 246 Humboldt Avenue, Dorchester MA 02121 (on the dates and times specified above); or •

By U.S. Mail if request is made by calling 617-209-5411/MA Relay 711 and leaving a message, or emailing FHapp@maloneyproperties.com, with the following information: o Type of application requested (a 1, 2, 3 or 4 Bedroom Application); and o Applicant’s full name, full mailing address and telephone number.

All email and phone requests must be made by 7pm on April 9, 2015.

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The Maximum Income Limits for Households is 80% AMI which is as follows: 1 Person - $55,150*; 2 Person - $63,050*; 3 Person - $70,900*; 4 Person - $78,800* *Income Limits subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits Applications are available during the application period of April 13th to April 21st, 2015. To request an application during the application period call 617.782.6900 or send an email to seb.housing@gmail.com. You will need to provide your name and mailing address. Applications may also be picked up at the South End Branch of the Boston Public Library (685 Tremont St, Boston) on Tuesday April 14th (4 PM to 8 PM) and Thursday April 16th (1 PM to 6 PM) and Saturday April 18th (10 AM to 2 PM) Complete applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 AM and 4 PM on April 27th and 28th, 2015.

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The deadline for completed application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on April 28th, 2015.

Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by April 28th, 2015.

The SEB Office is on 165 Chestnut Hill Ave #2, Brighton, MA 02135.

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Asset, Use & Resale Restrictions apply.

Preference for Boston Residents.

Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom.

Preference for First-Time Homebuyers.

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Deadline: All completed, original applications must be received or post-marked no later than 4:30pm on Monday April 20, 2015. Only original applications will be accepted (no photo copied or emailed applications will be accepted).

Franklin Highlands has existing waitlists. Completed original applications received by the deadline will be entered into a lottery to determine placement order of lottery applicants to be added to these existing lists.

Preferences will apply. The lottery will take place on a future date, to be determined, and all applicants to be entered into the lottery will be notified in writing at least 10 days prior to the lottery date.

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All completed applications must be submitted in-person or via U.S. Mail to: • Franklin Highlands Management Office, 278 Humboldt Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121 • Office hours for submissions in-person are: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm

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# of Units 14 12 5 15 37 12

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66 Hudson Street, Boston, MA 02111 Chinatown Maximum Income per Household size

Rent $550 $660 $763 $1,100 $1,320 $1,526

% Income 30% 30% 30% 60% 60% 60%

Applications Available: March 30, 2015 through April 24, 2015 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am-2pm Tuesday 4pm-8pm & Saturday 10am-2pm Via telephone: 617-209-5407 | US Relay 711 Online at: www.onegreenwayaffordable.com In person at: Oak Terrace Apartments 888 Washington Street Boston, MA If you or any family member has a disability, or limited English proficiency, and as a result need assistance completing the application and/or any assistance during the application process, we will be happy to provide assistance upon request.

Information Sessions: April 4, 2015 9:30AM, Community Room, 38 Oak Street, Boston, MA (Chinatown) April 6, 2015 6PM-7:30PM, Geneva Ave Elderly, 22 Beechwood Street, Dorchester, MA April 8, 2015 6PM, Community Room, 38 Oak Street, Boston, MA (Chinatown)

Household Size 1 person 2 persons 3 persons 4 persons 5 persons 6 persons 7 persons 8 persons

30% of median income 19,800 22,600 25,450 28,250 30,550 32,800 35,050 37,300

60% of median income 39,540 45,180 50,820 56,460 61,020 65,520 70,020 74,580

Occupancy selection by lottery on May 6, 2015 Preferences for: 5 units for households requiring a wheelchair accessible unit.

Households with at least one person per bedroom (subject to reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities).

Homeless households for 10 units.

Disabled households needing services, including four units for CBH-eligible households, and four units for FCF-eligible clients.

Occupancy beginning July 2015.

Application deadline if returned in person is 5PM on April 27, 2015 or if by mail postmarked by April 27, 2015 to: Oak Terrace Apartments 888 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 Maloney Properties Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including disability, in the admission of or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities. Kathy Broderick coordinates Maloney Properties’ compliance with all nondiscrimination requirements, including Section 504. She can be reached at (781) 943-0200 x255, US Relay 711 or at Maloney Properties, Inc, 27 Mica Lane, Wellesley, MA 02481.

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For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 218.

Quinsigamond Community College has an immediate need for an:

LEAD TEACHER–CHILDREN’S SCHOOL

This is a full-time 12 month position, working directly with children in the Child Study Center. The Lead Teacher exercises direct supervision over teachers, volunteers, work study students and students from other QCC departments participating in the Early Childhood Program for observations or field placement.

Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education required, Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education preferred.

Interested candidates should visit our website www.QCC.edu/human-resources for a complete job description, requirements and application procedures.

Applicants must apply online by April 12, 2015 for consideration.

QCC is an equal opportunity affirmative action college supporting diversity.

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Ad #: 22852-6 Publication: State Banner North Attleborough Housing Bay Authority (NAHA) seeks staff replacement for retiring personnel. requires comprehensive knowledge and Run Date: This position 03/26/15 skill in common office administration software, as well as public service Section: HW Education patience with people of differing cultures, income-levels, education-levels, $125 andCost: logic. Computer skills and$200.00 the ability to+learn new internet software are required.

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providing counter-service to walk-in clients. Applicant must be willing to assist NAHA colleagues in their duties when needed. Applicant should have 3-5 years’ experience in customer service AND formal education certificate or degree beyond high school. Public housing experience and multi-lingual skills are preferred. Some travel may be required for training and meetings.

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Call today to schedule an Information Session: 617-542-1800

The Director of Career and Academic Planning provides management, planning, evaluation and overall direction to career and academic planning services at the college, and ensures delivery of high quality career and academic planning to all QCC students within the context of a developmental advising model. Master’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in academic advisement and career planning/development required. Master’s Degree in Student Personnel Counseling or Administration, Guidance Counseling, or Higher Education Administration preferred.

Interested candidates should visit our website www.QCC.edu/human-resources for a complete job description, requirements and application procedures.

Applicants must apply online by April 5, 2015 for consideration.

For copy of full job description please email dan@northattleborohousing.org NAHA is a medium-size housing authority with heavy dependence on staff reliability, so benefits are as generous as possible. Hourly wages are based upon DHCD rates ($15.44 / hour for 37.5 hours a week).

Letter of interest and resumes must be received by 12:00 noon March 30, 2015.

Send to: Dan Ouellette, North Attleborough Housing Authority, 20 S. Washington Street, North Attleborough MA 02760

QCC is an equal opportunity affirmative action college supporting diversity.

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Employment Opportunities: Ad #: 22851-6 Early Care and Education Center: Roxbury n Teacher* n Substitute Teachers *Must be in a degree program or have already obtained a degree in Early Childhood Education.

CSA: Community Service Agency (Specialized in Black Families): This program provides support to families with young people with Severe Emotional Disturbances: Roxbury n Family Partners: Individuals who are experienced caregivers of youth with emotional challenges and are able to support and coach other families. n Intensive Care Coordinator: An individual that facilitates the Wraparound care planning process and coordinates services and natural supports for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges.

Behavioral Health Services: Roxbury Community Support Program Worker: Provides outreach, care management monitoring, follow-up, and general assistance for clients in dealing with day-today activities or problems that may impede access to treatment or the progress of recovery *Must have a Bachelor’s degree in human services field from an accredited university and one (1) year of experience working with the target population. n In Home Therapist: Providing strength-based therapeutic relationship between a Master level clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of treating the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her healthy functioning within the family. * Must be a master’s level (or above) with at least 3 years experience in providing outpatient Behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience managing a home-based or Wraparound program models is preferred. Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. n Outpatient Mental Health Therapist: Performing assessments; formulating clinical diagnoses; providing individual, family and group counseling; collaborating with other agencies, family members and other relevant parties involved

Intensive Foster Care Program: Roxbury & Tewksbury n Family Visitation Program & Intensive Foster Care/ Family Support and Stabilization Program Manager (Roxbury): Overall responsibility for compliance with contract regarding utilization, policy and procedures and Licensing. High energy level needed in fast-paced environment with skills necessary in trouble-shooting and crises management in Intensive Foster Care, Family Support & Stabilization and Family Visitation Programs. Must demonstrate the ability and experience in supervision, program administration, program

Publication: Bay State Banner RunFamily Date: 03/26/15 n Senior Partners: Ensures that all Intensive Care Coordinators complete all required trainings, including CANS andEducation CANS certification (Training is completed Section: HW upon initial employment and annually.); ensure that all ICC’s provide intensive care coCost: $230.00 + $125 internet ordination to youth/families; facilitates the development of Care Plan Teams; conducts Size: 2 colCPTx meetings; 3 inches CANS and risk assessments; convenes coordinates and communicates with the members of the CPT to ensure the implementation of the ICP; works directly with the youth and family to implement elements of the ICP; coordinates the delivery of available services; monitors and reviews progress toward ICP goals and updates the ICP in concert with CPT. * Must be a master’s level (or above) clinician with at least 3 years experience in providing outpatient behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience managing a home-based or wraparound program is preferred. Must be licensed at the Independent practice level to support programs requirements.

Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. in the client’s care; providing consultation to CSR non clinical and home-based clinical staff; and participating in research/evaluation activities to ensure the delivery of evidence-based trauma informed care and best clinical practices. * Master’s level degree is required in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field with 2 years experience in providing Behavioral health services to youth, adults and families. Experience in home-based or wraparound program models is preferred. Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS

n In Home Therapist- Therapeutic Training and Support: a service provided by a qualified paraprofessional working in collaboration with a Master level clinician, using the co-clinician model, to support implementation of the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address the youth’s mental health, behavioral and emotional needs. This service includes teaching the youth to understand, direct, interpret, manage, and control feelings and emotional responses to situations and to assist the family to address the youth’s emotional and mental health needs. *Must have a valid driver license without restrictions and have reliable transportation, Bachelor’s degree in human services field from an accredited university and one (1) year of experience working with the target population, or Associate’s degree in a Human Service field from an accredited school and one (1) year of experience working with children/adolescents/transition age development. Must have thorough knowledge of Early Education & Care (EEC) and Department of Children and Families (DCF) policies and procedures. * Must hold a Master’s Degree in Social Worker or related field. Preference LICSW, LCSW. Must have a minimum of three (3) years experience working in an Administrative Capacity. Must have a valid Driver’s License. n Child Specific Worker (Spanish Speaking- Tewksbury Office): CSR’s Intensive Foster Care Program works to place children in stable, loving, nurturing foster homes. Our goal is to find both short-term and long-term place-

n Senior Intensive Care Coordinator: Ensure that all ICCs provide intensive care coordination to youth/families. This service includes but is not limited to facilitating the development of Care Plan Teams (CPT); conducts CANS and risk assessments; convenes CPT meetings; coordinates and communicates with the members of the CPT to ensure the implementation of the Intensive Care Planning (ICP); works directly with the youth and family to implement elements of the ICP; coordinates the delivery of available services; monitors and reviews progress toward ICP goals and updates the ICP in concert with CPT. * Must be a master’s level (or above) clinician with at least 3 years experience in providing outpatient behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience managing a home-based or wraparound program is preferred. Must be licensed at the Independent practice level to support programs requirements.

Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. Must have a valid driver license without restrictions and have reliable transportation. youth, and a minimum of two (2) years experience working with children/ adolescents/transition age youth n Clinical Supervisor: Provide weekly supervision to Clinicians and Therapeutic Training & Support Staff. Offer guidance to direct care staff in addressing client management, crisis intervention, and emergencies. Ensure adherence to professional standards and policies. Provide quality assurance through chart review. Facilitate peer review and related activities to ensure quality of services.

Oversee charting and documentation to ensure that clients meet medical necessity criteria for the services. Provide Clinical Supervision for license eligible interns. *Must be Massachusetts CANS certified. Must be a Master’s level (or above) clinician with at least three (3) years supervisory and/or management experience. Experience managing a home-based or wraparound program is preferred. Must be Independently Licensed to meet programs requirements. Must have at least five (5) years post graduate experience providing behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience in navigating any of the child/family serving systems and experience in advocating for family members who are involved with behavioral health systems is preferred. Must have a valid driver license without restrictions and reliable transportation with valid state minimum insurance coverage. ments for at-risk children and youth with a broad range of emotional, physical and developmental special needs. Reunification with the child’s biological family is our goal. When that is not feasible, care providers and staff work together to formulate an alternate plan for permanency such as kinship care, guardianship, or adoption. * Bachelor’s level. Must be LCSW, LSW, LSWA, or LICSW eligible. Must have a valid driver’s license without restrictions and have reliable transportation

For more information regarding these listings and/or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.csrox.org and send your resume to: Children’s Services of Roxbury, Inc. 520 Dudley St. Roxbury, MA 02119

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