Possible contract for Batista tops Worcester City Council agenda
Mayor Joseph M. Petty will ask the City Council during its meeting Tuesday to appoint Assistant City Manager Eric Batista as interim city manager.
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Mayor Joseph M. Petty will ask the City Council during its meeting Tuesday to appoint Assistant City Manager Eric Batista as interim city manager.
Worcester’s chief diversity officer role was the lowest-paid chief position in the City cabinet in 2020, making a salary roughly $74,000 lower than the average c-suite city employee, according to 2020 data on Worcester’s website.
For them, looking forward to the future was less a criticism of Augustus' tenure and more an opportunity to see the city led with a fresh set of eyes.
"We have gone backwards. With a population so diverse we now only have one person of color in the leadership of the administration and no Black women," wrote Fred Taylor, president of Worcester’s NAACP Unit, in a letter.
An update on where the city stands in its efforts to tackle institutional and systemic racism prompted renewed calls for a police civilian review board.