Plan To Reduce Worcester Speed Limits Will Wait For Survey Results - Worcester, MA - After five hearings in 2024, a council committee reviewing a plan to lower speed limits wants to survey residents before voting.
WORCESTER The City Council Tuesday bumped to next week discussion of City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. s executive order on structural and institutional racism and accompanying recommendations, but that didn t stop many community members who called in to the virtual meeting from making their voices heard.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty announced at the beginning of the meeting that the manager s report, which includes an executive order acknowledging the role structural and institutional racism have played and continues to play in the city, would be taken up at next week s meeting.
The report includes recommendations to remove resource officers from schools and restructure how police interact with schools; to implement some form of alternative deployment that sends mental health and social workers on calls with police; and to establish a new investigations division at City Hall that would address both employee and resident complaints.