Experience: president, Highlands Neighborhood Association; chair, Highlands Stabilization Committee; member, Board of Zoning Appeals; member, Alewife Committee; delegate, state Democratic convention.

Platform: Enforce zoning laws, encourage volunteer neighborhood councils, increase police protection, encourage fiscal conservatism, set term limitations, oppose rent control.

Jane F. Sullivan

Experience: School Committee (1982-87); manager of low and moderate income housing.

Platform: Increase police protection, hire professional mediators to negotiate housing policies, provide aid to homeless, create affordable housing, oppose rent control, support neighborhood groups.

Walter Sullivan

Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Increase police protection, investigate rising education costs, reduce bureaucracy, reform rent control.

Timothy J. Toomey

Experience: Incumbent, former School Committee member.

Platform: Control development, create fair housing policy, support rent control, create family programs.

Alfred Vellucci

Experience: Former mayor and School Committee member.

Platform: Support rent control, encourage closer ties between council and neighborhoods, improve urban health care.

William Walsh