Community Budgeting Meeting 2/27
The
Community Budgeting meeting originally scheduled for Monday, Feb. 10, has been
rescheduled to Thursday, Feb. 27. The meeting will still be held at the West
Somerville Neighborhood School, 177 Powderhouse Blvd., at 6:30 p.m.
Two
additional meetings, which will include the same information, are scheduled as
follows:
CITY RECEIVES 10 APPLICANTS FOR UNION SQUARE MASTER DEVELOPER
Evaluation of developers will identify finalists to be interviewed prior to final proposals
- The City of Somerville received 10 responses to the Somerville Redevelopment
Authority's Request
for Qualifications (RFQ) for a Union Square and Boynton Yards master
developer partner, with several respondents displaying previous experience of
working within existing urban neighborhoods to create new mixed-use,
transit-oriented developments.
The
SOMERVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD REPORT PROMOTES BOLD UNIVERSAL KINDERGARTEN READINESS STRATEGY
Somerville poised to take leadership role in building integrated citywide early childhood system, with public schools, private providers and community agencies working collaboratively
SOMERVILLE – A comprehensive
report commissioned by the schools, the City and the School Committee on
preparing children for kindergarten recommends that rather than pursuing solely
school-based universal preschool for 4-year-olds, that the community establish an
innovative early childhood system for pre-kindergarteners of all ages via a
provider network, which would include Somerville Public Schools, nonprofit and private
2014 URBAN AGRICULTURE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM NOW SEEKING INTERESTED APPLICANTS
2nd annual Ambassador Program train 20 residents in urban food-growing techniques in exchange for volunteer service in urban gardens.
DIVE INTO DATA WITH SOMERVILLE’S NEW OPEN SOURCE WEBSITE
Easy to navigate website includes interactive maps and graphs of property values, crime, city revenues, and more
SOMERVILLE
- Did you know that Somerville's birth rate surpassed Massachusetts' falling
rate a few years back? Or that the city has had a lower unemployment rate than
the state and the nation since 2000? You can delve into this data and more with
the City of Somerville's new open source website, Key System Indicators
at somervillema.gov/dashboard,
which includes data on living, working, playing and raising a family in
Somerville.
CITY SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR CURBSIDE COMPOSTING TASK FORCE
Resident input sought for composting program in Somerville. Interested applicants asked to submit personal statement to Office of Sustainability by March 24.
SOMERVILLE
– Furthering its commitment to sustainability and best practices surrounding
trash and recycling policies, the City of Somerville announces its newest task
force to review feasibility and implementation options for a Curbside Composting
Initiative. Announced this week by Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and to be co-Chaired
by Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz, who is the Vice Chairperson of the Board of
CITY, FEDERAL REALTY HOST LOCAL HIRING EVENTS MARCH 1, 2, 8 and 9
Working collaboratively to establish jobs for Somerville residents, FRIT and City co-host two weekend-long hiring events; Somerville residents invited to first weekend, second weekend to be opened to general public.
SOMERVILLE UNITES WITH AREA CITIES TO ADDRESS OPIOID ADDICTION
State-funded Prevention Collaborative between Somerville, Cambridge, Everett and Watertown reports on needs and next steps, including prevention initiatives and NARCAN use.
SOMERVILLE – Strategies to expand efforts to prevent heroin
and opioid use and overdoses, including the use of the opioid overdose antidote
nasal NARCAN, are now being developed by a four-city Massachusetts Opioid
Addiction and Prevention Collaborative (MOAPC) that includes Somerville,
Cambridge, Everett and Watertown. Funded by a $100,000 Massachusetts Department
of Public Health MOAPC grant awarded in July 2013, the Collaborative conducted
OPEN SPACE WORKSHOPS INVITE RESIDENTS TO THINK GREEN AND SOCIALLY
Residents will brainstorm in Somerville by Design workshops about playgrounds, recreation fields, community gardens, civic plaza spaces and more.
SOMERVILLE
– Do you value Somerville’s parks and playgrounds? Do you think the city’s street life makes it
a great place? Have some ideas you’d like to share? The City of Somerville is
inviting residents to participate in “Green Spaces, Community Places” workshops
in March to learn about the city’s open spaces and cook up some ideas that will
shape the city’s civic open space plans.
PUBLIC INPUT SOUGHT ON POLICE CHIEF SEARCH
Community input on desired characteristics and qualities of new chief will be gathered at public hearing and through survey
SOMERVILLE –Somerville is seeking
a new police chief and the City wants to hear from the community what
characteristics and qualities they would like to see in a new chief, with a
public hearing scheduled for March 5 and a survey that will be available both
online and in hard copy.
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