UNION SQUARE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SELECTED
Committee of residents, community leaders and business owners advise City on strategic planning decisions and development in Union Square.
SOMERVILLE – A group of 19 community members, local advocates and business owners has been selected for The Union Square Community Advisory Committee that will advise the City on strategic planning decisions and development in the Union Square area over the next two years, and Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced the selections for the committee today.
2014 Property Assessment Info Sessions 1/23 & 1/27
Due to predictions of heavy snow, tonight's meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 23. The meeting will still be held in the West Somerville Neighborhood School at 6:30 p.m.
2014 Property Assessment
Info Sessions:
PUBLIC INVITED TO HOUSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION SERIES
Three public forums will explore housing needs, affordability, gentrification and strategies for an effective housing agenda to promote housing for all in Somerville
SOMERVILLE
– As more families and individuals seek to remain in Somerville amid market
forces that are creating a crunch of affordable and moderate-priced housing
across the metro area and in Somerville, the City of Somerville, Somerville Community Corporation (SCC)
and Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
invite the community to three public forums starting the first week of February
CITY RECEIVES $100,000 ‘WORKING CITIES’ GRANT FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Grant to fund innovative job and skills training program for lower-income 18-24-year-olds that uses mobile app and Level Up incentives to drive traditional skills development
grant as part of the Working Cities Challenge (WCC), a program designed to fund
proposals that will significantly impact the lives of lower-income residents.
One of twenty submissions, Somerville's project aims to support out-of-school
"youth" aged 18 to 24 through workforce development training that pairs
innovative mobile technology and unique partnerships with the local business
community with traditional skills development. A one-year seed award of
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EXPERT NAMED TO UNION SQUARE CIVIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Professor Anne Tate brings 20 years of experience
- A final member of the Union Square Civic Advisory Committee with 20 years of
experience in sustainable planning has been named at the request of the
committee's chairman Wig Zamore, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today.
Public Hearing 2014 Property Valuations
The
public is invited to a Public Hearing before the Board of Aldermen’s Committee
on Finance on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at 6 p.m., in the Aldermanic Chambers, 2nd
Floor, City Hall, 93 Highland Ave. Members of the public may comment on the increase
in residential and commercial property valuations as part of the 2014
Assessment. For additional information on the 2014 Assessment including
SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL VOTED ELIGIBLE BY STATE FOR POSSIBLE RENOVATION OR NEW BUILDING FUNDING
Massachusetts School Building Authority’s vote kicks off feasibility process
SOMERVILLE - Somerville is one step closer to a renovated or
new high school after the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) voted
on Wednesday to invite Somerville Public Schools into MSBA's eligibility period,
which is the first step in the application process for State funding for renovation
or replacement of the school.
City, State, Youth Agencies Conducting Youth Homelessness Survey
City of Somerville, working in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of
Housing and Community Development, is conducting a survey of young residents up
to age 24 who are currently homeless or may be at risk of becoming homeless.
From Jan. 30 through Feb. 5, Massachusetts is conducting its first statewide
census of unaccompanied homeless youth who are not in the physical custody or
care of a parent or legal guardian and who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
McCarthy Field Community Meeting 2/26
all interested residents to a community meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from
6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Capuano Early Childhood Center (150 Glen St) to discuss
new lighting plans for the Capuano School / James McCarthy Field. The City is
proposing to install new lighting at the Michael E. Capuano Early Childhood Center Turf Soccer Field
in the fall of 2014, but is seeking community input prior to finalizing design
plans. For more information, contact Arn Franzen in the Mayor's Office of
RESIDENT IDEAS WANTED AT COMMUNITY BUDGETING PROCESS
Three public meetings give residents a chance to guide City investments that put SomerVision into action in four key areas and learn more what goes in to developing Somerville’s annual budget
RESIDENTS INVITED TO COMMUNITY BUDGETING PROCESS
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