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Mayor outlines first‑term priorities: public safety building, new high school planning and Central Street project
Summary
Mayor Ted Bettencourt told a Peabody candidates forum he would spend his first six months focused on managing major capital projects — a new public safety facility, planning for a replacement high school and the long-running Central Street reconstruction — and on zoning discussions tied to several large development sites.
Mayor Ted Bettencourt said his first six months in a new term would be spent managing a slate of long‑running capital projects and near‑term zoning decisions that he and other officials see as crucial to Peabody’s future. The mayor described work on a new public safety building, the next steps in planning a replacement Peabody Veterans Memorial High School and the multi‑year Central Street reconstruction as top priorities.
The mayor said the city is meeting weekly on the public safety project and remains on schedule and “on budget.” He described the plan as an upgrade in facilities, training and technology for police, fire and emergency management so they can “combat 21st‑century crime”…
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