Friday, June 7, 2013
Federal cuts eliminated the resident coordinator program that services 3,500 residents across all Boston neighborhoods.
City Councilor Rob Consalvo called for stop gap funding to save the Boston Housing Authority resident services program that assists more than 3,500 low-income, elderly and disabled residents across the city. "On May 1 the resident services program was ended due to cuts on the federal level that funded the program the and the impact of those cuts are being felt locally," District 5 City Councilor Rob Consalvo said during Wednesday's council meeting. "All resident service coordinators were eliminated..." In total, 40 positions are no longer being funded. "This has a dire and serious impact on Boston people who are still going to live in public housing. [Resident Service Coordinators] work day-to-day to provide help on healthcare, nutritional…
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
District 5 City Councilor Rob Consalvo is a candidate for Boston mayor.
Last Thursday, when I officially announced my candidacy for Mayor of Boston, I called for reviving the Boston Compact to bring back businesses, colleges and universities, unions and non-profit organizations as partners in our efforts to improve the Boston Public Schools. The first Boston Compact was signed in 1982, back when the Boston public schools were facing a clear-cut crisis of confidence. Today, the schools are stronger and enrollment is growing. But the last Compact was signed in 2000—three years ago. A lot of things have changed since then in Boston and in the world. Thirteen years ago, the city’s labor force was 20 percent smaller, jobs required less technical skills, and Mark Zuckerberg who invented Facebook was still in high …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
The Boston City Council supported a redistricting map, the third one, after the first two were vetoed by Mayor Menino.
The Boston City Council is hoping the third's time the charm for their latest redistricting map submitted to Mayor Thomas Menino on Wednesday. The Council supported a redistricting map at Wednesday's meeting by a vote of 11-2, with the two votes against the map coming from District 4 City Councilor Charles Yancey, and the chair of the Census Committee, District 2 City Councilor Bill Linehan. The map now awaits Menino's approval or disapproval. Menino has vetoed the last two redistricting maps, citing concerns of an "over-concentration of protected groups" in districts both times. The Council-approved map was originally submitted by Councilors Frank Baker, Rob Consalvo and Matt O'Malley. At Wednesday's meeting, District 7 City Councilor …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Boston City Councilors Rob Consalvo and Charles Yancey both offered redistricting maps, with Yancey taking exception to not being invited to work on Consalvo's map.
District 4 City Councilor Charles Yancey said he was upset that three of his colleagues met on Sunday morning to create a redistricting map he feels cuts up the district he represents. During Wednesday's Boston City Council meeting, Yancey said he'd welcome an invitation next time. Yancey, who offered his own redistricting map at the meeting (attached map), provoked District 5 City Councilor Rob Consalvo to retort that Yancey didn't invite him to discuss Yancey's redistricting map. Consalvo added he hasn't been involved in many discussions that cut up District 5, which added he didn't expect to be invited, too. Along with Yancey's map, Consalvo and District Councilors Matt O'Malley and Frank Baker, presented a map. The map they created …
just thinking
12:08 am on Saturday, June 8, 2013
and we should give those 40 people citizenship,and send them to markey's house in chevy chase maryland,has anyone asked markey for an utility bill from.ah ah malden.of course not more ›