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BIDEN S BOOSTER SHOT The Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Massachusetts has been pretty slow compared to other states. Can President Joe Biden speed it up?
The new president made a big promise: 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of his term. But before he took office, Biden expressed concern that his Covid team won t meet that goal,
Council President Kim Janey. Chris Lovett photo
While there are plenty of unanswered questions about what the next 10 months hold for Boston City Hall, there is one certainty: City Council President Kim Janey will be the next mayor of Boston for at least a few months and possibly longer.
Janey will take control of the Mayor’s Office the minute that Mayor Walsh submits his letter of resignation to City Clerk Maureen Feeney, the former city councillor from Dorchester who is next in line of succession. She would be acting mayor in the event that Janey is out of town or indisposed during her time as Walsh’s replacement.
Marty Walsh, was tapped to be Secretary of Labor by President-elect
Joe Biden.
Janey was elected as a city council member in 2017 and selected as city council president last year.
WBUR, the city charter of Boston makes provisions for the city council president to step in as mayor, if the role is vacated. With Walsh’s impending departure, Janey would be expected to fill the role until the scheduled election in November takes place.
The report details that if Walsh leaves before March 5, a special election would have to take place 120-140 days from the day he resigned.
If he leaves after March 5, City Clerk
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By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
December 24, 2020
Kaitlin Passafaro: A long history with City Hall
Earlier this month when Mayor Walsh announced the transition of several City Hall staff into new leadership positions in his administration, Kaitlin Passafaro, a lifelong Dorchester resident, was named director of the office of Intergovernmental Relations, which coordinates interactions between municipal, state, and federal governments, assists City departments with advocacy and prospecting for public and private grants, and helps determine the mayor’s legislative agenda.
Passafaro, the daughter of former District 3 City Councillor Maureen Feeney, most recently served as director of policy in Walsh’s Office of Economic Development. She began working at City Hall in 2010 as a correspondence and advance assistant in the mayor’s office. She is a graduate of Boston Latin School and holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a master’s from Suffolk University.