Menino, Walsh discuss transition

"Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh promised today to help Mayor Thomas M. Menino negotiate a contract with the city’s police union if the City Council votes it down.

“I certainly will offer my services to Mayor Menino in the interim to sit down with both sides,”Walsh said at a news conference this afternoon. “We can certainly get to yes.”

He declined to offer the council advice on which way to vote. “I think the council’s going to make their decision. … I will accept whatever their decision is, whatever they vote.”"