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PITTSFIELD â While school leaders look toward hiring and budgeting, health officials will take up two issues that have been generating community concern. Last week, the School Committee finalized its interview schedule for four superintendent hopefuls, putting current Interim Superintendent Joe Curtis in the spotlight first. Curtisâ interview will kick off the 5 p.m. meeting on Monday, followed by Interim Bozrah, Conn., Superintendent Portia Bonner. Wayland Public Schools Superintendent Arthur Unobskeyâs interview will start Tuesday s meeting at the same time, with the final interview of Marisa Mendonsa, principal of Mohawk Trail Regional High School, capping the evening s events. Catch the interviews live online and on PCTV s Education Television, channel 1302, before the committee makes its final hiring decision Wednesday. The vote will come after a budget hearing on the district administrationâs proposed $67.3 million spending plan for next fiscal y ....
PITTSFIELD â More than a week after the deadline to evict homeless people from Springside Park, city leaders say they stand opposed to dismantling a homeless encampment there. Mayor Linda Tyer told the City Council on Tuesday said the situation presents a âvery difficult dilemma,â and that case workers continue to âengageâ those at the park with hopes they move to the cityâs winter shelter or accept âhousing optionsâ made available by Berkshire County Regional Housing Authority. She said her administration would not âforce anybody into the shelter, weâre not forcing anyone into housing that they donât want to take advantage of.â ....
3:49 In its last meeting of 2020, the Pittsfield, Massachusetts city council unanimously passed a petition challenging a city plan to evict unhoused residents from public parks. City Clerk Michele Benjamin read out Ward 7 City Councilor Anthony Maffuccio’s petition at Tuesday night’s virtual meeting, “challenging the city’s policy of evicting homeless individuals and the policy the parks commission and the mayor have in place.” “That’s 40 homeless people who have nowhere to go except for the wilderness, and you’re trying to push them out of Springside Park,” said the councilor. “And that case says if there’s not alternative housing for these individuals to go to, they are violating their 8th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America,” said Maffuccio. ....