Word: vellucci
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...vote to substitute the FAR of six failed on a 4-4 tie with Councillor Barbara Ackermann voting present. Then, only Hayes, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Mayor Walter J. Sullivan voted in favor of the request for a FAR of six. Councillor Thomas W. Danehy voted present, and the other five councillors voted...
Sullivan's hiring was opposed by Mayor Walter J. Sullivan (no immediate kin), and Councillors Edward A. Crane '35, Thomas W. Danehy, and Alfred E. Vellucci...
Last Monday, Sullivan was at City Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph's side when Rudolph underwent one of his periodic interrogations by the Council. The manager helped to field some of the questions which Alfred E. Vellucci, a perennial Rudolph foe, directed toward the traffic director. Rudolph, who previously underwent the grillings solo, appeared calmer than usual...
...called "firing five" are, however, themselves divided. At one pole, Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment...
...They were dancing in the streets when we brought this tax rate in," Vellucci says. He and other members of the council majority have made sure that the voters will not forget it. During a hearing on a routine renewal of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Crane sharply questioned the group's director about the costs of its work, and noded approvingly when he was assured that overhead was kept below ten per cent of project costs. At another hearing--this one with Justin M. Gray, the city manager's assistant for Community Development Crane wanted to know when...