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...Vellucci there is no time to rest on newly won laurels. A string of social policy challenges await the council's senior member, who in recent years has controlled the crucial swing vote between four staunch conservative Independents and four equally committed members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA...
...hope Vellucci's performance last week at his one council meeting as mayor will not be indicative of his future stances. Normally joining CCA on housing issues to preserve the city's strict guidelines for rent control and ordinances prohibiting condominium conversion. Vellucci instead sided with the Independents in a vote which might have allowed about 1000 apartments to go condo. From some tenant activists came angry cries that Vellucci had sold out rent control to become mayor...
...chairman of the school committee. Vellucci will be in the middle of even more sensitive social policy debates. Whether he supports the CCA in its efforts to equip the city with a racially and ethnically mixed school system in terms of students and teachers, or whether he takes the easier course of protecting teachers' seniority and other political interests, may also depend on the extent of Vellucci's commitment to the Independents...
...CCA Councilor David Sullivan, one of the strongest supporters of the city's strict housing policies, said that the council's decision to block an appeal "struck me as particularly cowardly and irrational" and worried that it may set a precedent for similar maneuvers around the city's housing codes in the future...
...much easier to vote not to enforce a law than to change it," David Sullivan said. He added that, in making the vote for Vellucci unanimous. "The four of us [CCA members] made the best decision we could make under the circumstances...