Boston Creates – City of Boston’s Arts & Culture Plan

Boston Creates is a city-wide initiative to build a plan that will guide development of arts and culture for the next ten years. Over the next year, Boston Creates will provide an opportunity to create a cultural blueprint highlighting Boston’s strengths and setting innovative goals for the future. Currently we’re looking for people to get involved as Community Team Members. We’ll be holding the first city-wide Boston Creates Town Hall on June 2nd at 6 p.m. at English High School in Jamaica Plain.

S.1451, An Act relative to payments in lieu of taxation of organizations exempt from the property tax

Senator Brownsberger has recently submitted the following testimony on S.1451, An Act relative to payments in lieu of taxation of organizations exempt from the property tax: TO:                  Joint Committee on Revenue FROM:             Senator William N. Brownsberger RE:                   S.1451 DATE:              May 12th, 2015 ­I am writing in support of S.1451, An Act relative to …

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Neighborhood Solar

It is with great pleasure that Neighborhood Solar II is launched. Green Cambridge is partnering with Neighborhood Solar to help promote this program in Cambridge. This time-limited program opens to all residents, businesses, and non-profits in Watertown and Cambridge on Monday, May 1, 2015. Former Cambridge Mayor Henrietta Davis will host a public informational presentation on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Letters to the FAA

The towns of Arlington, Belmont and Watertown, Senators Brownsberger and Donnelly, Representatives Garballey, Hecht, Lawn and Rogers joined the Logan Airport Community Committee in urging the FAA to consider the Committee’s motion to reexamine the use of the Runway 33L RNAV departure procedures.