SAVE THE DATE: Holiday Party Saturday, December 13, 2014, 4:00-6:00 PM

SAVE THE DATE: Holiday Party

Saturday, December 13, 2014, 4:00-6:00 PM

 Prepare to celebrate the Holidays!

Hors d'oeuvres and beverages from 4-6 PM in the lobby.

Meet your friends and make some new friends.

All residents, owners, and tenants are invited.

Questions?  send them to mc900@comcast.net

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November 10, 2014; 7:00 PM: Cambridge City Council Meeting

NOVEMBER 10TH  MEETING  OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL TO BE HELD AT THE DORCHESTER COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING 501 COURT LANE 7:00 PM The following is an agenda item under Unfinished Business: Unfinished Business Introduction and discussion of the following: ·        Charter Resolution No. CR-2014-01 – adding Section 3-39 entitled “City Manager” ·        Charter Resolution No.  CR-2014-02 – amending Section 3-21 entitled “Mayor: Oath of Office, Duties” to incorporate changes to the duties of the office of the Mayor consistent with the adoption and implementation of a City Manager-Commissioner Form of Governance ·        Charter Resolution No. CR-2014-03 – repealing in its entirety Section 3-22 entitled “Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector” ·        Ordinance 1041 to implement a transition plan for the implementation of a City Manager form of government ATTEND, BECOME INFORMED! BRING A FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR!

Sailwinds Planning: November 17th at 6:00 p.m. at the County Office Building

Dear Group:

On November 17th at 6:00 p.m. at the County Office Building (Enter through the rear door), there will be a meeting of the city council about the planning for Sailwinds.

There are a number of challenges that Cambridge faces with regard to this project that are too numerous and detailed to go into here. The details of this project have not been made available in any detail to the public so far, and, hopefully, that will happen at this meeting.

It is important that the meeting room be filled with those of us who are interested in this issue as it is very important to the community.

Sailwinds is one of, if not the, most important pieces of any successful future development of Cambridge or preservation of a valuable attraction and resource of this community. Who the developer will be, how much we as taxpayers will be asked to contribute to this project through our taxes, and what vision the city leadership and developer have for Sailwinds are all unknown at this point.

We need to pay close attention to what is going on and ask hard questions of those we have elected to make decisions such as this for us, as they will be doing it without having any community input by referendum or other public vote on the matter.

See you on the 17th.

Steve

West End Citizens Association
	From: Steve Rideout [mailto:swrideout@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:18 AM Subject: City Manager Matters - 1st reading of the City Manager Charter Proposals Dear Group: This coming Monday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. at the COUNTY BOARD  meeting room (enter from the rear of the county building), our City Commissioners will take up the first reading of the proposed charter with some modifications that we developed based on public comment at the public hearing in early October and one written detailed list of concerns filed by a citizen. I am attaching to this email the responses that we developed to the concerns raised in the written response. I am also attaching the final proposed version of the City Manager Charter 3-39 that shows what we changed and did not change from the one previously submitted. The written response that had some detail appears to seek to gut the original proposal. The attached response tries to explain the reasoning behind each section and why it was written in the way that it was. I hope that these are helpful. Having you at this meeting will be helpful to this effort. Each time there is a meeting on the topic of the city manager it seems that something new pops up, so having supporters there is always helpful. Thanks for your continued support. Charter Resolution Charter resolution – citizen response Steve