FALL RESISTAT MEETINGS TO RUN OCT. 17 TO NOV. 21 WITH MAYOR, ALDERMEN – AND PIZZA
Residents
Asked to Take Online Survey to Help Shape Meeting Agenda; Meetings to
include new interactive data-gathering activity on neighborhood
preferences
SOMERVILLE
– Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone invites residents to the Fall 2013 ResiStat
Community Meetings, a twice-yearly effort to share the latest City news
and data directly with residents and gather their feedback. Seven
neighborhood meetings, one in each ward, will be held in the coming
weeks starting Thursday, Oct. 17, with the Ward 4 Winter Hill and Ten
Hills Meeting with Mayor Curtatone and Ward 4 Alderman Tony Lafuente.
At
each meeting, Mayor Curtatone, ward and at-large aldermen, members of
the Somerville Police Department, and City staff will present updates
and take questions on issues proposed by residents who take the meeting
survey in advance of their ward meeting. Refreshments will be served
(pizza and healthy snacks) at a meet-and-greet before each meeting,
where residents can talk one-to-one with City officials and meet with
neighbors.
New this
season, an interactive data-gathering activity will also challenge
residents at each meeting to identify the visual features in their
neighborhoods that they enjoy now and those they would like to change.
Topics
to choose from include crime and safety reports, updates on
neighborhood and citywide development, infrastructure improvements
including streets and sidewalks, rodent control, park projects in your
neighborhood, transportation projects including the Green Line
extension, and traffic and parking. Residents are invited to help shape
the meeting agendas by taking the Meeting Survey to vote on these topics
or propose others for discussion. The survey is online at http://somervilleresistat.blogspot.com/p/meetings.html. Or take the survey by phone by calling Community Engagement Specialist Meghann Ackerman at 617-625-6600 x2120.
In
addition to these options, the Mayor will present on how the use of
data contributed to recent phenomenal MCAS gains in the Somerville
Public Schools, and residents will be treated to a first look at the
2013 Happiness Survey results. (more)
SPRING 2013 ResiStat Meeting Schedule
Ward 4: Thursday, Oct. 17, for Winter Hill, Ten Hills, Mystic River, Mystic View
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at Healey School cafeteria, 5 Meacham St.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 1: Tuesday, Oct. 22, for East Somerville, Assembly Square, Inner Belt
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at East Somerville Community School auditorium, 115 Pearl St.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 2: Tuesday, Oct. 29, for Union Square South, Somerville Ave. & Beacon St. areas, and the Lincoln Park and Perry park areas
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at Argenziano School cafeteria, 290 Washington St.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 7: Wednesday, Nov. 13, for West Somerville and Teele Square area
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at West Somerville Neighborhood School cafeteria, 177 Powderhouse Blvd.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 6: Tuesday, Nov. 19, for Greater Davis Square and SW Ball Square
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at Davis Square Theatre, 255 Elm St. (This is the small theatre below Foundry, NOT the movie theater.)
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 5: Wednesday, Nov, 20, for Magoun Square, NE Ball Square, Cedar & Lowell St. areas, NW Porter Square
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at John F. Kennedy Elementary School cafeteria, 5 Cherry St.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
Ward 3: Thursday, Nov. 21, for N. Union Square, Prospect Hill, Spring Hill, Central Hill
· Meeting: 7-8:30 p.m. at Somerville High School cafeteria, 81 Highland Ave.
· Meet-and-Greet: 6:30-7 p.m. with refreshments
For more information, visit http://somervilleresistat.blogspot.com and click the "Meetings" tab. Or contact Meghann Ackerman at mackerman@somervillema.gov or 617-625-6600 x 2120.
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