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Tania Fernandes Anderson, who chairs the City Council’s Ways & Means Committee, told members of the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) early this month that the city bureaucracy moves too slowly in distributing funds and the Main Streets model does not work in Black and Brown communities. She suggested that some other type of program replace the model in communities
The race for the City Council’s presidency has typically played out behind closed doors and on councillors’ cell phones. Councillors vote on who gets the job in January, when the 13-member body will have five new members. But one former at-large candidate, David Halbert, says it should be a more public process, citing the importance of the position. District 7 Councillor Kim
Board expands to 11 directors.
The Haitian-American lawyer and kindergarten teacher will replace Wu and Essaibi George as the new at-large City Councilors.
The city's unofficial election results show Murphy with 325-vote lead over Halbert for the fourth at-large Boston City Council seat.