Petitions - City of Somerville

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Whereas, at the request of the Chairman of said Committee a
Special Tercentenary School Committee has also "been appointed to cooperate
in furthering said plans, which committee has on several occasions met with
the said Aldermanic Committee, and
Whereas, the Mayor has promised for the past three,months to
name a Citizens 1 Advisory Committee to cooperate with the said Aldermanic
Committee, but to date only the-Chairman of said Citizens 1 Committee has
been named, and who was requested to sit in at the joint meetings of the
above named Committees, over which said joint meetings the Chairman of the
Aldermanic Committee has presided and acted as Chairman, and
Whereas, due to the lack of cooperation and unsympathetic attitude
of His Honor the Mayor, and his neglect to appoint a Citizens* Committee
as promised, it was voted some time ago by the Aldermanic Tercentenary
Committee to proceed with its Tercentenary plans without waiting any longer
for the appointment of said Citizens' Committee, and
Whereas, said Aldermanic Committee had planned and arranged
an appropriate and fitting program for Somerville 1 s observance of the Tercentenary
year, and in furtherance of which program letters to every organization
in the City of Somerville of every nature and description had been
prepared, requesting their cooperation and participation, and
Whereas, said communications were about to be put into the
mails for delivery when the Mayor unjustifiably and illegally -seized and conflscated
all said communications and prevented them from being forwarded to
the -aforesaid organizations. -V
Be it Therefore Resolved, that this Bdard of Aldermen in regular
meeting assembled condemns the actions of the Mayor in seizing said communications
as an unjustifiable, unwarranted, ungentlemanly and illegal interference
with the rights, duties and powers of the Legislative Branch of
our city government, and constitutes a direct insult and affront to this
Honorable Body, and
Be it Therefore Further Resolved, that in the opinion of this
Board of Aldermen, His Honor the Mayor has failed, neglected and refused to
cooperate with the Board of Aldermen through its Tercentenary Committee in
its endeavors to hold a proper and a fitting observance of the Tercentenary
Year by the City of Somerville, and has been guilty -of gross neglect in his
failure to appoint a Citizens' Committee and to further carry out his promises
made in connection with the Tercentenary celebration, and
Be it Hereby Further Resolved, that this Board of Aldermen
places, the 1 failure of Somerville 1 s observance of the Tercentenary Year solely
upon His Honor the Mayor, and lays upon him the sole responsibility for the
city ! s inability at .this late date to promulgate and carry out proper and
fitting plans for its Tercentenary celebration.
Question came on the adoption of the resolution. The vote was
by roll call, 15 Aldermen voting in the negative, 5 Aldermen voting in the
affirmative, 2 Aldermen being absent, the-president not voting, and the reso-
lution was not adopted.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM HIS HONOR THE MAYOR
Appointments, subject to confirmation by this board of,
Peter Angebrunis
Alcid Borbeau
Clarence Dev&ux
George Devaux
George Didris
Peter Freemont
Michael J. McCormack -
George E. Smith
George H. Thornton
Willis Weeks
Emll A. Weitz-
Arba E. Wilder
John P.Brodrick
Lawrence J. O'Neill