Juan Perfetti and Mayor Marty Walsh during the Imagine Boston, Imagine Dorchester, Boston Capital Plan announcement event at Franklin Park on April, 26th, 2018 | Photo: CRISTINA EDUARDOThe Dorchester Post editor Juan Perfetti personally met Mayor of Boston Marty Walsh on April 26th, during the announcement of the fiscal years 2019-2023 budget “Imagine Boston Capital Plan”, part of the “Imagine Boston 2030” city plan.
During the event, Mayor Walsh, alongside City Councilor Kim Janey and City Officials, remarked on the $2.4 Billion plan to make “critical” investments in the city’s infrastructure in every Boston neighborhood, at the schools, streets, arts, and climate change readiness.
Marty Walsh is a first-generation American, born in Boston to Irish immigrants and grew up in the Savin Hill area of Dorchester. He has been in the Mayor’s office since 2014 and was reelected in December 2017 for another term.
Juan Perfetti is a Venezuelan exiled, social entrepreneur, journalist, editor of the Dorchester Post, and founder of the Comunicas Foundation.
