WHO TO VOTE FOR

City Council Candidates

Edward Cyr

Experience: Incumbent; director, Cambridge Committee of Elders.

Platform: Support rent control, increase police protection.

Francis H. Duehay '55

Experience: Incumbent, former mayor.

Platform: Lobby for federal and state support, increase outreach to citizens and encourage citizen participation on city boards, support rent control.

Robert Hall

Platform: Oppose rent control, create affordable housing, create "minority business zone."

William Jones

Platform: Address homelessness, support rent control, use tax money efficiently.

Vivian Kurkjian

Experience: Previous campaigns for local office.

Platform: Encourage recycling, reduce bureaucracy, clean up hazardous materials, increase police protection, support rent control.

James J. McSweeney

Platform: Cut red tape, make services more available, encourage fiscal responsibility, revise rent control.

Jonathan Myers

Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Increase police protection, develop affordable housing, create job-training programs, support rent control.

R. Elaine Noble

Platform: Increase police protection, reduce traffic, address homelessness, streamline government, create affordable housing, support rent control.

Kenneth E. Reeves '72

Experience: Incumbent vice mayor.

Platform: Create jobs, encourage neighborhood safety and crime prevention, support rent control.

Arnold Roquerre

Platform: Create jobs, trim budget, improve housing, alleviate traffic, legalize drugs, oppose rent control.

Sheila Russell

Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Reduce bureaucracy, improve relations between police and neighborhoods, improve coordination of city services, revise rent control.

George A. Spartichino

Experience: president, Highlands Neighborhood Association; chair, Highlands Stabilization Committee; member, Board of Zoning Appeals; member, Alewife Committee; delegate, state Democratic convention.

Platform: Enforce zoning laws, encourage volunteer neighborhood councils, increase police protection, encourage fiscal conservatism, set term limitations, oppose rent control.

Jane F. Sullivan

Experience: School Committee (1982-87); manager of low and moderate income housing.

Platform: Increase police protection, hire professional mediators to negotiate housing policies, provide aid to homeless, create affordable housing, oppose rent control, support neighborhood groups.

Walter Sullivan

Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Increase police protection, investigate rising education costs, reduce bureaucracy, reform rent control.

Timothy J. Toomey

Experience: Incumbent, former School Committee member.

Platform: Control development, create fair housing policy, support rent control, create family programs.

Alfred Vellucci

Experience: Former mayor and School Committee member.

Platform: Support rent control, encourage closer ties between council and neighborhoods, improve urban health care.

William Walsh

Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Increase police protection, oppose rent control, increase tax base.

Thomas Watkins

Platform: Encourage neighborhood solutions to crime problem, restore citizen control over neighborhoods, support rent control.

Alice Wolf

Experience: Incumbent mayor, former School Committee member.

Platform: Broaden property tax base, create "safety net" for disadvantaged, increase police protection, support rent control.

School Committee Candidates

Bob B. Buckley

Experience: masters in education and management from Cambridge College, served as director of the High Tech Program at Roxbury College for six years.

Platform: modernizing teaching methods and curricula.

Peter V. Cignetti

Experience: former PTA president of the Fitzgerald school, member of numerous school committees.

Platform: Putting a disillusioned central administration back in touch with parents, students and fiscal responsibilities.

Ronald S. Crichlow

Experience: minor in education from Dartmouth University, masters in education and public administration from Northeastern University, former classroom teacher and director of education for the Department of Youth Services, director of the Upward Bound program at MIT

Platform: get children more motivated.

Henrietta Davis

Experience: two-term committee veteran, administrator of the Agassiz Preschool in Porter Square.

Priority: improve science education.

Alfred B. Fantini

Experience: 10-year committee veteran.

Platform: keep the committee motivated.

Henry J. Lukas

Experience: masters degree in history and education from the University of Wisconsinat Madison, principal of Marblehead High School; former principal of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High school.

Platform: more parent involvement, long-range planning, environmental education.

Betty Luther

Platform: high school grads should be qualified to get decent paying jobs.

David P. Maher

Platform: school must be careful with spending; administration has become bloated.

James J. Rafferty

Experience: two terms on the School Committee, worked with adolescents in the Boy Scouts and Little League, handled juvenile law cases.

Platform: updating budget allocation and holding schools more accountable for their educational quality.

E. Denise Simmons

Experience: Masters in education from Antioch College in Ohio.

Platform: strengthen parent involvement by holding workshops and establishing more direct contact.

Carolyn B. Tabor

Experience: minor in education at Howard University and a masters degree in education from Curry College.

Platform: push for equity among all students, not just those from affluent families who have power and resources.

Larry A. Weinstein

Experience: three terms on the school committee board, masters degree in education.

Platform: focus on teacher hiring and evaluation as well as health and safety issues.