By Stephanie Butler
CAMBRIDGE -- Construction on the city’s new $50 million police headquarters is nearly complete, and the move-in date for police personnel is set for early November, according to the city police department website.
The development of the headquarters began on April 11, 2005, when the City Council voted unanimously to buy the empty five-story building at 125 Sixth St.
The five-story building will be named the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility after the sitting city manager who spearheaded the project.
In 1938, the city established a new city charter that provided for nine city councilors elected to serve a two-year term. The city councilors appoint a city manager, the chief administrative officer of the city.
At least one resident says that Cambridge has an ineffective form of government.
Peter Schweich said the first conflict came when he tried to make changes to his house, which is classified as a historic building. Schweich went to the City Council meetings and felt that they were “extremely unevenhanded.”
He created a website, cambridgeneedsreform.org, about his issues with the Historic Commission earlier this year, which he later revised to “consider more serious issues.”
Schweich cites a number of problems with the city government on his website, including city employee salaries.
“Fidel Castro could have easily existed under this form of government,” said Schweich, a former vice president of Boston University. “The city manager makes all the decisions; he makes whatever deal he wants to make.”
The city manager of Cambridge earned $242,619 in 2006, while the mayor of Boston earned $175,000, according to the Boston Herald website.
“My purpose is to force the state legislature to require Plan E to be amended so that elective officials have a supervisory role over the city manager, or to have a democratic government in Cambridge,” Schweich said.
CAMBRIDGE -- Construction on the city’s new $50 million police headquarters is nearly complete, and the move-in date for police personnel is set for early November, according to the city police department website.
The development of the headquarters began on April 11, 2005, when the City Council voted unanimously to buy the empty five-story building at 125 Sixth St.
The five-story building will be named the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility after the sitting city manager who spearheaded the project.
In 1938, the city established a new city charter that provided for nine city councilors elected to serve a two-year term. The city councilors appoint a city manager, the chief administrative officer of the city.
At least one resident says that Cambridge has an ineffective form of government.
Peter Schweich said the first conflict came when he tried to make changes to his house, which is classified as a historic building. Schweich went to the City Council meetings and felt that they were “extremely unevenhanded.”
He created a website, cambridgeneedsreform.org, about his issues with the Historic Commission earlier this year, which he later revised to “consider more serious issues.”
Schweich cites a number of problems with the city government on his website, including city employee salaries.
“Fidel Castro could have easily existed under this form of government,” said Schweich, a former vice president of Boston University. “The city manager makes all the decisions; he makes whatever deal he wants to make.”
The city manager of Cambridge earned $242,619 in 2006, while the mayor of Boston earned $175,000, according to the Boston Herald website.
“My purpose is to force the state legislature to require Plan E to be amended so that elective officials have a supervisory role over the city manager, or to have a democratic government in Cambridge,” Schweich said.
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