Monday, July 21, 2008

Jack at Boston City Council


This past week was quite the week in the Boston City Council. Many Councilors had returned from summer plans and the office was busier than it had been the previous two weeks. The main project I was working on was a research project for one of the councilors’ offices. I was researching a security level-4 bio-laboratory that Boston University wants to build in a residential area. I cycled through the meeting minutes of the past twenty years looking for any time that the issue had been brought up and I obtained and copied any orders or ordinances pertaining to the laboratory. It was a somewhat time consuming project, but it was satisfying to end up with a long report in the end. In addition to this project, I sat in on a council hearing about certain sound signal devices (code for ice cream truck songs) and then spent the day Friday lending a hand in a short-staffed councilor’s office. It was a fun and busy week and I hope the next one is just as enjoyable.

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