Last week the Ballpark Commission approved a massive active shooter drill to take place in and (maybe?) around Polar Park next June. This counts as a “community day” by the way remember those? The 20 minute meeting and the agenda.
As far as I can tell this has gone unreported, though as we discussed at the top of the episode, officiating my sister’s wedding had me pretty checked out for a few days there. Could have missed it.
One of the commission members, can’t make out who, said:
This will include almost like every first responder in this city and kind of in central Mass because the goal is to give them the training of if something were to happen, how they’re communicating with each other and the response times and kind of what that would look like. And this being a large venue here in the city, they thought that it would be good to host it here, not only to get our staff training, but then to also have those live scenarios of the traffic and at least square and everything else that these first responders happen to go with. So I know, like you said, this is in June, but we’ve been in the planning process with them trying to get a date and work with the city to get this approved and have a pretty large meeting coming up. So they really wanted to see if this would be something that y’all would be interested in allowing here.
No discussion at all, nor even a voice vote—okay then!
Otherwise, we discuss how the LVT security robot aimed at the homeless downtown was supposed to leave on the 10th but is still there, surprise surprise. And a major Moneybags Mitra update.
LVT website, in particular the state and local government subpage, is a revealing browse!
Article on the Worcester Work Farm
“At the Poor Farm, also known as the Worcester Home Farm, life was difficult. Its residents, called “inmates,” were not permitted to be idle; or to talk without permission; nor leave. It was considered shameful to be considered a pauper, and the location of the Poor Farm enabled the city to provide for their needs while ostracizing them from the community”
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