Mayor Joe Petty Talks Housing, Petitions, and the Latin American Festival

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WORCESTER, MASS.- Worcester Mayor Joe Petty talks about Housing, Petitions, and Grocery Stores. He provides context to the discussion about how petitions are handled and says that this idea, put forward to have them go through councilors, didn’t come out of the blue. He talks about City Council meetings getting refocused on taking care of the people’s business on Tuesday. “You can’t just let it get out of control, which it has been, I think, over the last six months. How do you rein it back in? It’s not an open house where people just come in and speak as long as they want, anything they want.” – Mayor Petty on the city council meeting process.
The Mayor also commented on the cancellation of this year’s Latin American Festival. “Things will chang,e and for the positive, I hope, and we’ll bring this back.”