Somerville Named "All America City"

[somerville311.livejournal.com]

SOMERVILLE NAMED ‘ALL AMERICA CITY’

Team of Business Owners, City Officials, Residents, and Local Organizations Travel to Florida to Bring Home 2009 All America City Title after Fierce Competition in Tampa

Comments

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Just curious who paid for the trip. Not that we're in a financial crisis or anything and just have all sorts of money to throw around and can send city officials on trips to Florida.

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Recall there was a fundraiser held a month or so month ago to pay for this trip. In the article the OP posted the link to, the Mayor thanks those who helped raise the funds.

[dent42.livejournal.com]

Aw man, these funds totally could have gone towards to help defray the costs of paving over even more greenspace in the city by some developer from Lexington!

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I did eventually read further down the article and saw the part about the fundraising.

I will admit, though, the whole "preparing for the Green Line" thing would be like Boston going into full-fledged planning mode for completion of the Big Dig back in, oh, the early 80s when it was first proposed and funded. If the Green Line extension opens any earlier than 2020, I'll be very very surprised.

[fefie.livejournal.com]

I hear ya (and it pains me to know the extension of the Community Path to Lechmere depends on the Green Line Extension schedule too). But we as a community have to proceed with the public process end-of-things as if it will open in Dec 2014. After all, EOT has a legal committment to meet that deadline.