Boston Arts Academy Foundation Names Avid CEO Jeff Rosica Board Chairman
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Boston Arts Academy Foundation engages private donors in funding programming and opportunities that allow young artists to find their voices, express themselves, and achieve their dreams. BOSTON (PRWEB) May 27, 2021 Boston Arts Academy Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that raises essential funds for Boston Arts Academy (BAA), the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, today announced the election of Avid Technology CEO and President Jeff Rosica to Board Chairman. Longtime BAA Foundation Chair Lee Pelton will be recognized as Chairman Emeritus, as he also becomes President and CEO of The Boston Foundation.
By John Lee Grant |
May 27, 2021
City Finance Director Charles Benevento and Mayor James J. Fiorentini during 2017 budget talks. (WHAV News photograph.)
With Haverhill’s budget negotiation season commencing, city councilors received their first formal briefing this week on a proposed $216 million budget.
Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini presented his budget Tuesday for the year that begins July 1. He said the total represents an increase of 2.6% over this year.
“The overall budget is balanced for the 18
th year in a row without an override, a debt exclusion, without any cuts in vital services. In fact, we continue to improve and expand our services without a major tax increase,” he said.
ATHOL In boxing, a “no decision” means no one wins and no one loses. In deliberations on town meeting warrant articles, a “no decision” means “we’ll see when we get there.” At its meeting Monday night, the Finance and Warrant Advisory Committee.
For more than an hour, the Everett City Council appeared to have been taken over by Martians, aliens or the lollipop kids – with technical issues taking over the meeting and making every councilor and presenter appear to have a very high-pitched and electrified voice.
It was nothing new for the Council, which had experienced numerous technical difficulties over the last year when holding meetings at City Hall, but it was unexpected as the body had moved to the School Committee Chambers in Everett High School. The School Committee has met there successfully for months with no issues, but on Monday the system went awry. It evoked the best of Buck Rogers, Lost in Space, or maybe Dr. Who, as everyone sounded quite strange and outer-space like.
The Haverhill School Committee is moving ahead with an application for financial assistance from the state regarding needed repairs at two city schools. The Committee voted last Thursday to approve sending a statement of interest to the Massachusetts School Building Authority for necessary upgrades to the William H. Moody School and the Silver Hill Elementary […]