Word: deguglielmo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 had actually requested approval of a $10 million loan, claiming that the construction bids on the hospital had exceeded the architects' cost estimates by $2.2 million, and that a total of $9.8 million would be needed...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, who opposed DeGuglielmo's appointment as Manager, immediately objected to the request. He said that hospital construction could begin this year for only $8 million if money for its equipment was not appropriated now. The additional $2 million needed, Crane said, could be raised from City surpluses and special funds on hand. Equipment money could be raised after construction was over...
...meeting lasted more than three hours, and the new city manager answered questions for nearly a third of that time. After he left, however, the four councillors who had opposed his appointment introduced what may be the first of many motions to have him dismissed. (The four anti-DeGuglielmo councillors are Crane, Vellucci, Thomas H.D. Mahoney, and Walter J. Sullivan...
...supporting the motion for dismissal, Crane said that DeGuglielmo had agreed not to collect salary pending the outcome of a taxpayers suit against him. Crane predicted that the Court would permanently prohibit DeGuglielmo from collecting salary on the grounds that he receives a city pension, and that a pensioner cannot receive a salary. DeGuglielmo has said he will waive the pension; Crane has said the court will not permit that...
...legal challenge to DeGuglielmo appears headed for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. However, another indirect legal challenge to DeGuglielmo's appointment has been overcome. During the removal proceedings of former manager Curry, three applications for criminal complaint against three pro-DeGuglielmo councillors were brought in East Cambridge Court. Two of these have now been dropped voluntarily, and the third has been dropped...