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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said that while he disliked contracts, which hindered city negotiations with the school system, he supported the extension...
Last month, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci shouted developer John L. Hall off the council floor during a short recess, later calling the incident one of the worst ethics violations in his 34 years on the council...
Since the early 1970s, the council has been split between candidates running on the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) platform and those running as independents. Although the independents currently hold a 5-4 majority, independent Mayor Vellucci often sides with the CCA, producing an uneasy balance of power between the parties...
...most important vote of the evening was the vote to reconsider--reversing prior decisions the developer didn't like. Reconsideration requires six votes; supporting reconsideration were Councillors Danehy, Saundra Graham, Sheila Russell, Walter Sullivan, William Walsh and Vellucci...
...Under enormous pressure to dispose quickly of a complicated issue, the council demonstrated its confusion and ineptitude. Vellucci voted against his own proposal for negotiations. Danehy amended not the deal with the developer, but a line item estimate in an appraisal report. Graham totally lost track of what she was voting on. Overall, most councilors showed a low level of understanding of real estate economics, and therefore were unprepared to negotiate aggressively on behalf of the city...