Felix D. Arroyo

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Felix D. Arroyo was a city councilor (at-large) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States from January 2003 - January 2008.

Arroyo completed his undergraduate studies and received a Masters in Secondary Education at the University of Puerto Rico. A long-time resident of Boston, he taught at Springfield College, UMass Boston, Roxbury Community College, Boston University, and Emmanuel College. In 1992, he resigned his salaried position as the Director of Personnel for the City of Boston to take an unpaid position as a member of the Boston School Committee. Arroyo would later serve as Vice President and President of the Boston School Committee.

Arroyo joined the City Council as one of its four at-large members in January 2003, after placing sixth in the 2001 election. The fifth-place candidate later won a special election to replace one of the nine district councilors, so Arroyo was seated when one of the four at-large council members resigned.[1] He was re-elected in 2003 and 2005, but narrowly lost in November 2007, placing fifth in a field of nine candidates. His loss has been blamed[2] on low turnout among nonwhite communities, coupled with disproportionately strong turnout in traditionally white, Irish enclaves; overall turnout was only 13.6%.

[edit] Selected positions held

  • Boston City Councilor At-Large, 2003-2008.
  • Committee Chair: New Bostonians and Youth Affairs
  • Committee Vice Chair: Human Rights
  • Committee Member: Environment; Health & Human Services; Housing
  • Director of Advocacy at the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation
  • President, Vice President and Member of the Boston School Committee
  • Director of Personnel for the City of Boston
  • Education Advisor to Mayor Raymond Flynn
  • Chair of the Boston Arson Commission
  • Encuentro5 Adivory Board member
  • Teacher at Springfield College, UMass-Boston, Roxbury Community College, Boston University, and Emmanuel College

[edit] References

  1. ^ For more information, see David S. Bernstein, "The Rumor Mill", The Boston Phoenix, 5 September 2007 (accessed 9 November 2007).
  2. ^ Donovan Slack and Matt Viser, "Turnout at polls lowest in decades", The Boston Globe, 7 November 2007 (accessed 9 November 2007).

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