Word: superiorities
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Cambridge City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 told a Middlesex Superior court judge yesterday that he would advertise bids for the ballot-printing job in Friday's papers. An award of the contract will be made in time for the ballots to be printed before the November 7 election, he said...
Today, however, the City is appealing the Superior Court decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In another discouraging development, the Election Commission has refused to order the printing of the ballots because of a technicality requiring competitive bidding on the printing contract. "The ballots are miles away," Thomas J. Hartnett, one of the three commissioners said Friday. And there are clearly not miles of time before the deadline...
...When Superior Court Judge Joseph Mitchell overruled Trodden last week, in his decision he criticized the Commission for failing to process the petition; they "exceeded their authority," he wrote, when they sought Trodden's opinion. The Commission's duty is limited by law to "the ministerial function of ascertaining whether the procedural requirements for submitting an initiative petition have been met," he stated. Judge Mitchell gave the Commissioners just 48 hours to do their job because they had already wrongly wasted so much crucial time. Eight people worked through Columbus Day in order to comply with the court order...
...City Council. The City Council is allowed 20 days to consider the petition and then it must either adopt the resolution or place it on the ballot. Had the Commissioners performed their "ministerial function," the Council would have received the petition on Sept. 17. The Council and the Superior Court could have deliberated concurrently. As things stand now, the Council will take up the petition tonight for the first time...
...granted, that's all for the peace plank, at least in this election. So Loeser will be doing everything in his power to speed up the appeals process. Thus far, the City--under pressure from Loeser--has cooperated in expediting some aspects of the legal battle. For example, Superior Court hearings were scheduled for Oct. 10 by Judge Mitchell, but McCarthy agreed to move them up to Oct. 6 at Loeser's request. McCarthy was optimistic last week that arrangements could be made to get a verdict out of the high court in time for the election...