Mayor Ballantyne has made real progress combating the city's rat problem. She's combined expanded traditional methods with innovative technologies like electric traps and fertility control. She has made Somerville a leader in rat control, and our neighbors in Boston and Cambridge are looking to her for help.

The entire WHCIS community is now together in their interim home in Edgerly Education Center, and Mayor Ballantyne has focused her efforts on opening an entirely new facility in 2031 (That’s only six years away, when a typical school building project takes ten years or more).

Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne is actively implementing recommendations from the Public Safety for All initiative's task forces and working groups, focusing on creating a community-directed approach to public safety