Pt. 2/11 - Boston City Council District 3 Candidates' Forum - 08/18/2011
Channel: Mike Deehan
Date: 2011-08-21

With 40 days left until the Sept. 27 preliminary, the seven candidates hoping to fill the District 3 seat on the City Council were back before a crowd of voters on Thursday night, laying out their positions on a city employee residency requirement, crime and public schools.
At a forum in the First Parish Church on Meetinghouse Hill, the seven candidates running to replace City Councillor Maureen Feeney agreed that city employees should be required to live in Boston, but they differed on whether unions should be able to negotiate changes to the policy. Mayor Thomas Menino has eased the requirement for police officers, teachers are exempt statewide and many city employees are allowed to live outside the city after 10 years.

Read the rest of the Dorchester Repoert's coverage of the forum at: http://www.dotnews.com/2011/district-3-candidates-get-down-details-first-parish-forum