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Under Plan E, the city's most powerful official is the city manager. The City Council sets policy and makes laws which are carried out by the city manager. The mayor serves as chair of both the School Committee and City Council and is chosen by the council, not the...
Candidate Statement: "I was one of only three councillors that voted not to extend the city manager's contract. There are some candidates that claim to be actively against uncontrolled development or profess concern about the lack of open space but continue to support the city manager."
Williamson has been a member of local Democratic groups, tenants' rights groups, building preservation societies and other local activist groups. He wants to restore and extend affordable housing, put a one-year moratorium on commercial real-estate developments, renegotiate the "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement with Harvard, and look...
Healy has come under fire this year, as three city councillors--Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Timothy J. Toomey Jr. and Katherine Triantafillou--voted to not give the city manager a new contract Sept. 13.
He said Reeves appeared on "Inside Out" and gave credit to Healy for his "financial acumen" but said he wanted a new city manager anyway.