City Budget implies "Not Enough Community After-School Spots" Saga will continue next academic year

This post is an update on my earlier post concerning DHSP's inability to provide ~500 afterschool spots to the families that need them, including 42 low-income students. 

I have 3 updates on this question. None of them is an answer. But they're what I've got, so I thought I'd share. They are:

1. Update from our talk with City Councilor Marc McGovern
2. Update within the new City Budget (released May 2 - see page 42 if you can't wait for my write-up)
3. Update on the City Manager search - which IMO is the crux of this whole thing + also a big part of why it's so unknowable.
4. Old news I should have shared earlier -- City Council passed 3 ordinances last Fall about DHSP. I didn't know about them when I wrote my Advocacy post, but they're really salient, so I'm posting about them now. 

PART I: The ordinances I should have written about before show it's all about a City Manager who cares. (This one doesn't.)

Thank you to one mom who called me to walk me through important history I left out of my Advocacy post. In that post, I discussed:

• a parent petition for more AfterSchool spots (Spring 2021).
• DHSP's 11-page, often hilariously honest report on its many failings with the Community School program. (Not online, naturally.) (October 2021.)
• a blog post by City Councilor Quinton Zondervan on his thoughts about AfterSchool expansion. (October 2021).

Well, what I left out was 3 strongly-worded (but apparently utterly meaningless) ordinances, all of which City Council passed unanimously in October 2021, under further pressure from parents, including at least one leader at the Cambridge Families of Color Coalition (emphasis added below):

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