Word: branches
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...year; coupled with a 15 per cent reduction in city revenues that means about a 25 per cent budget cut for Cambridge. Or, in city manager Jim Sullivan's words, 100 policemen, 100 firemen, 250 or more teachers. The city's neighborhood health clinics. A score of administrators. All branch libraries. And then the next year, another 25 per cent. Except that you can only get rid of branch libraries once, so maybe 150 cops this time. Cambridge's police force, by the way, numbers about 300. By the time the measure is fully phased in, the city will...
...cent over six years and the city would lose one third of its annual budget. In the first year, Cambridge would have to lay off a third of its police force and firefighters, more than a third of its teachers and public works employees, close health centers, branch libraries and community schools and stop underwriting public celebrations. When Proposition 2 1/2 is fully implemented, "there will not be sufficient revenue to retain in the service of this city one employee; not a policeman, not a fireman, not a public works laborer," Sullivan predicts...
That is until it came to paying for the project. Approximately 200,000 "Covenant kits" including copies of the statement and olive branch lapel buttons were distributed to churches, temples, and community centers throughout the Boston area. In spite of donated materials and labor, Rodman said, the Covenant committee was some $40,000 in debt as of January 1980. "Then they started turning to the churches they hadn't paid much attention to," he said. The Episcopal Diocese did contribute $5000 to the effort, "but not without protest," Rodman said. (Although he did not disclose the extent of the debt...
...canon, who did not sign the Covenant and wears no olive branch ("I'm not a hypocrite," he said), started the Boston Urban Coalition with other Episcopalians who wish to approach the issues of the Covenant from a different perspective. "You could say that on one level, the problem in the city is between Black folks and Catholics," he said. "But to think that they're the only ones who have a stake in the city--that's ludicrous." Rodman believes the Covenant organizers have erred in limiting the concept to the city of Boston, but said they have done...
...branch libraries would shut down, halving the level of service, Joseph Sakey, the city's head librarian, told the council...