CITY RECEIVES $100,000 ‘WORKING CITIES’ GRANT FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Grant to fund innovative job and skills training program for lower-income 18-24-year-olds that uses mobile app and Level Up incentives to drive traditional skills development
grant as part of the Working Cities Challenge (WCC), a program designed to fund
proposals that will significantly impact the lives of lower-income residents.
One of twenty submissions, Somerville's project aims to support out-of-school
"youth" aged 18 to 24 through workforce development training that pairs
innovative mobile technology and unique partnerships with the local business
community with traditional skills development. A one-year seed award of
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EXPERT NAMED TO UNION SQUARE CIVIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Professor Anne Tate brings 20 years of experience
- A final member of the Union Square Civic Advisory Committee with 20 years of
experience in sustainable planning has been named at the request of the
committee's chairman Wig Zamore, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today.
Public Hearing 2014 Property Valuations
The
public is invited to a Public Hearing before the Board of Aldermen’s Committee
on Finance on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at 6 p.m., in the Aldermanic Chambers, 2nd
Floor, City Hall, 93 Highland Ave. Members of the public may comment on the increase
in residential and commercial property valuations as part of the 2014
Assessment. For additional information on the 2014 Assessment including
SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL VOTED ELIGIBLE BY STATE FOR POSSIBLE RENOVATION OR NEW BUILDING FUNDING
Massachusetts School Building Authority’s vote kicks off feasibility process
SOMERVILLE - Somerville is one step closer to a renovated or
new high school after the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) voted
on Wednesday to invite Somerville Public Schools into MSBA's eligibility period,
which is the first step in the application process for State funding for renovation
or replacement of the school.
City, State, Youth Agencies Conducting Youth Homelessness Survey
City of Somerville, working in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of
Housing and Community Development, is conducting a survey of young residents up
to age 24 who are currently homeless or may be at risk of becoming homeless.
From Jan. 30 through Feb. 5, Massachusetts is conducting its first statewide
census of unaccompanied homeless youth who are not in the physical custody or
care of a parent or legal guardian and who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
McCarthy Field Community Meeting 2/26
all interested residents to a community meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from
6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Capuano Early Childhood Center (150 Glen St) to discuss
new lighting plans for the Capuano School / James McCarthy Field. The City is
proposing to install new lighting at the Michael E. Capuano Early Childhood Center Turf Soccer Field
in the fall of 2014, but is seeking community input prior to finalizing design
plans. For more information, contact Arn Franzen in the Mayor's Office of
RESIDENT IDEAS WANTED AT COMMUNITY BUDGETING PROCESS
Three public meetings give residents a chance to guide City investments that put SomerVision into action in four key areas and learn more what goes in to developing Somerville’s annual budget
RESIDENTS INVITED TO COMMUNITY BUDGETING PROCESS
Community Budgeting Meeting 2/27
The
Community Budgeting meeting originally scheduled for Monday, Feb. 10, has been
rescheduled to Thursday, Feb. 27. The meeting will still be held at the West
Somerville Neighborhood School, 177 Powderhouse Blvd., at 6:30 p.m.
Two
additional meetings, which will include the same information, are scheduled as
follows:
CITY RECEIVES 10 APPLICANTS FOR UNION SQUARE MASTER DEVELOPER
Evaluation of developers will identify finalists to be interviewed prior to final proposals
- The City of Somerville received 10 responses to the Somerville Redevelopment
Authority's Request
for Qualifications (RFQ) for a Union Square and Boynton Yards master
developer partner, with several respondents displaying previous experience of
working within existing urban neighborhoods to create new mixed-use,
transit-oriented developments.
The
SOMERVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD REPORT PROMOTES BOLD UNIVERSAL KINDERGARTEN READINESS STRATEGY
Somerville poised to take leadership role in building integrated citywide early childhood system, with public schools, private providers and community agencies working collaboratively
SOMERVILLE – A comprehensive
report commissioned by the schools, the City and the School Committee on
preparing children for kindergarten recommends that rather than pursuing solely
school-based universal preschool for 4-year-olds, that the community establish an
innovative early childhood system for pre-kindergarteners of all ages via a
provider network, which would include Somerville Public Schools, nonprofit and private
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