Word: council
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Harvard officials privately attribute much of the fuss to politics, but for them the situation may get nastier before it gets better. The council this summer approved in principle strict limitations on institutional expansion, and if current alignments are unchanged by the election, the ordinance will surely pass soon. In general, Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates oppose unlimited institutional growth, and many are making it a campaign issue. For once, they are joined by many of their conservative fellow councilors, but the battle against the crimson dragon still is proving one-sided...
...cares about the School Committee. Candidates spend as much time convincing the public to take them seriously as they do debating issues. While City Council candidates bask in the limelight, school committee candidates patiently remind voters that they wield as much power as their more esteemed colleagues...
First, candidates point out that the committee controls all appointments within the system, from top administrators down to driver's administrators. The council can only make noise over City Manager James L. Sullivan's personnel decisions, they say. Then they explain how the school committee makes up its own budget, while control of the city budget rests mainly with Sullivan. Once satisfied that the audience knows they do more than decide what year to teach "Health," candidates can turn to the real issues...
Voters elect six members of the school committee. The mayor, chosen by the City Council from among its members, serves as the seventh member and often holds the deciding vote...
...three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...