EAW petition to address the committee

EAW here to speak on PCBs
the Mayor points out that this involves ligation and a grievance, so there's a minimal amount that can be said
President Zalauskas: "you're deadbeat dads and deadbeat moms"
(this on the after-school pay of the Level 4 schools, actually; the grievance denied by the School Committee was on this issue)

"we need to bring stability back to this city"
"what would gain stability...is a contract"
"it's time to do the right thing...I still haven't heard an answer on the PCB's"
"there's other issues...of course, we know that...we have problems, we have to face them, we can't hide them"
"I spent my whole career teaching kids to be good citizens, and I'm not seeing that out of my School Committee"
(balcony crowd applauds)
The mayor points out again that the ongoing litigation and collective bargaining
unions that have settled "have sat down and negotiated fair and reasonable contracts"
would be willing to extend similar settlements to other unions
"working proactively" with environmental consultants
multi-million dollar renovations
"our schools are safe...we take these issues very seriously"