Maureen on the Issues

Since 1994, Maureen Feeney has served Dorchester residents as a Boston City Councillor with a “strong record of constituent service” (Boston Globe, 2005). Today, she is president of the Boston City Council and maintains her commitment to basic city services while fighting for safer streets, better schools and lower property taxes for families across our city.

Safer Streets: There is no priority more urgent than ensuring that our neighborhoods are violence free. Maureen is a leading advocate for community policing and supported crime fighting ShotSpotter technology and expanded programs to serve our young people. Creating safe neighborhoods takes all levels of government working together to fight crime and build stronger communities.

Better Schools: Our children are the future of our city. Maureen is working hard to expand walk-to schools and to create new K-8s in our neighborhoods, while pushing for more quality early education programs and safer learning environments for all our children. Our schools should be vibrant centers of learning that instill students with values of responsible citizenship and service.

Lower Property Taxes: Maureen is fighting at all levels of government to lower property taxes for families in our city. She has proposed relief for seniors, the people most vulnerable to rising taxes, and is advocating at the state level to diversify the city's revenue so that tourists and suburban commuters contribute for the city services they use, and don't leave the rest of us with the bill.

Effective Constituent Service: Perhaps more than anything else, people want someone to answer the phone when problems arise. From cracked sidewalks, to broken streetlights and through the most complex zoning and development issues, Maureen is well known for making sure that all city services work for her constituents.