Boston City Council Meeting on September 23, 2026

1:03 AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

1:05 I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING

1:07 OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

1:09 VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE

1:10 COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON

1:13 YOUTUBE@BOSTON.GOV.

1:14 BACKSLASH CITY COUNCIL DASH TV

1:17 .

1:18 AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

1:20 COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

1:21 AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

1:22 THEIR CELL PHONES AND

1:23 ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

1:25 ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42 I

1:29 REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER THAT

1:31 NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

1:32 DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

1:34 PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

1:35 THANK YOU.

1:36 MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE

1:39 CALL THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE

1:40 PRESENCE OF A QUORUM?

1:42 COUNCILOR BREADON HERE.

1:44 COUNCIL.

1:44 BREADON HERE.

1:45 COUNCIL.

1:45 COLLETTA.

1:46 ZAPATA.

1:47 COUNCIL.

1:47 CULPEPER.

1:49 YES.

1:49 PEPPER.

1:50 YES.

1:51 COUNCILOR.

1:51 DURKAN.

1:52 COUNCILOR.

1:52 KENYA.

1:53 COUNCIL.

1:54 FITZGERALD.

1:55 COUNCIL.

1:56 FITZGERALD.

1:56 HERE.

1:56 COUNCILOR.

1:56 FLYNN.

1:57 YEAH.

1:58 COUNCIL FLYNN.

1:58 HERE.

1:59 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE HERE.

2:01 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HERE.

2:02 COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL.

2:04 MEJIA.

2:04 HERE.

2:05 COUNCIL MURPHY.

2:07 HERE.

2:07 COUNCIL.

2:10 COUNCILOR.

2:10 SANTANA.

2:13 COUNCIL SANTANA.

2:13 HERE.

2:14 COUNCIL.

2:14 WEBER.

2:15 COUNCIL.

2:15 WEBER HERE AND ON SEVERAL

2:17 FRONTS OVERALL.

2:18 A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

2:20 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

2:22 I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY MADAM

2:23 CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

2:25 UM, MADAM CLERK UH, I WOULD

2:28 INVITE YOU TO COME AND OFFER

2:29 SOME BRIEF REMARKS AS AN

2:31 INVOCATION SINCE OUR TRUCK IS

2:33 ABSENT TODAY AND FOLLOWING THE

2:37 ,UH THE CLERKS, MADAM CLERK

2:39 REMARKS WE WILL DO THE PLEDGE

2:41 OF ALLEGIANCE.

2:42 LET'S PRAY NOW.

2:44 MADE US FURTHER LEAD US IN OUR

2:47 SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE.

2:49 THAT SPIRIT THAT HAS AMPLE MAN

2:52 AND WOMAN TO DEVOTE LIFE AND

2:54 FORTUNE TO PUBLIC SERVICE

2:56 BEYOND HOPE OF FAME OR PEARL

2:59 OF PRIDE.

3:00 MAY THAT SPIRIT BE ALIVE AND

3:02 RENEWED IN THEM KNOW TODAY AS

3:03 THEY CONTINUE TO DO THE WORK

3:06 OF THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON.

3:06 AMEN.

3:11 THE FLAG OF THE UNITED

3:12 STATES PREPARED THE REPUBLIC

3:15 FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION

3:18 UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH

3:21 LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

3:24 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

3:25 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK, BEFORE

3:27 WE BEGIN OUR PRESENTATIONS I'D

3:29 LIKE TO INVITE THE BOSTON

3:30 MEDICAL CENTER RESIDENT

3:32 PHYSICIANS GROUP, UM, TO COME

3:36 UP FOR A QUICK PHOTOGRAPH WITH

3:37 ,UH, MY COLLEAGUES OUR

3:38 COLLEAGUES.

3:39 UH, WE WILL BE VOTING ON THIS,

3:41 UH, LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

3:42 LATER ON ON THE AGENDA.

3:44 BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'D

3:45 COME FORWARD AND ASK MY

3:46 COLLEAGUES TO COME UP FOR A

3:47 PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE, UH, BOSTON

3:49 MEDICAL CENTER RESIDENT

3:51 PHYSICIANS GROUP WHO ARE IN THE

3:53 MIDST OF.

3:54 CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS RIGHT

3:55 NOW.

4:01 JUST PUT YOU CENTER FRONT AND

4:04 CENTER.

4:05 WONDERFUL.

4:09 DOCTOR.

4:12 YOU CAN GET IN.

4:15 BETWEEN A FEW PEOPLE HERE.

4:17 ABSOLUTELY.

4:20 AND.

4:28 THANK YOU.

4:38 ALL RIGHT.

4:39 EXCELLENT.

4:39 THANK YOU.

4:41 YES.

4:41 SO WE UNDERSTOOD THE PRIMARY

4:43 RIGHT.

4:45 SO WE'RE SENDING ALL THE

4:46 BUILDINGS AND AGAIN.

4:47 IT'S SUPPORTED BY THE CITY

4:49 COUNCIL.

4:52 OKAY THANK YOU.

4:55 THANK YOU.

5:00 UH THANK YOU.

5:00 GOT TO.

5:01 BRING A LITTLE SUNSHINE.

5:02 EVERY TIME.

5:18 UH, WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS

5:21 TODAY.

5:21 UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA IS

5:24 RECOGNIZING BISEXUALITY IN

5:26 THIS, UM, VISIT PLUS VISIBILITY

5:27 DAY.

5:28 COUNCILOR WEBER IS RECOGNIZING

5:30 MARK COHEN.

5:31 SO, UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA,

5:33 WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME FORWARD?

5:51 THANK YOUR GUEST.

5:52 YEAH.

5:53 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

5:56 I'M UP HERE.

5:57 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

5:59 LAST WEEK THE COUNCIL PASSED MY

6:02 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

6:03 SEPTEMBER 20TH THROUGH THREE,

6:05 2026 AS BI PLUS VISIBILITY DAY

6:07 IN BOSTON.

6:09 I'VE WRITTEN TO ACTIVISTS LIKE

6:11 WENDY CURRY, MICHAEL PAGE AND

6:13 GIGI RAVEN.

6:14 WILBUR ESTABLISHED THIS DAY IN

6:15 1999.

6:16 THE DEMAND HAS TO REMAIN CLEAR

6:20 VISIBILITY, SAFETY AND RESPECT

6:23 BOSTON MUST STAND FIRMLY

6:24 AGAINST BI PLUS ERASURE.

6:26 I AM PROUD TO INTRODUCE TODAY'S

6:28 FEATURED SPEAKER AYANNA PEOPLES

6:30 .

6:30 AYANNA IS A BOARD MEMBER OF THE

6:32 BISEXUAL RESOURCE CENTER AND A

6:34 LEGAL AID PARALEGAL WHOSE WORK

6:35 BRIDGES COMMUNITY ADVOCACY WITH

6:38 THE LEGAL SYSTEM SHAPING

6:39 EVERYDAY LIVES.

6:41 SHE STUDIED HUMAN RIGHTS AND

6:43 SOCIOLOGY AT COLUMBIA

6:44 UNIVERSITY, WHERE SHE SERVED ON

6:45 THE BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY'S

6:47 KUTTI BIPOC STUDENT GROUP AND

6:49 WAS HONORED UPON GRADUATION

6:50 WITH THE LGBT LGBTQ LEGACY

6:53 AWARD.

6:55 THROUGH HER EXTENSIVE

6:56 BACKGROUND ACROSS THE NONPROFIT

6:57 SECTOR AND BRINGS A VITAL

7:00 INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO

7:01 QUESTIONS OF REPRESENTATION AND

7:03 ACCESS TO SUPPORT HER

7:06 LEADERSHIP.

7:07 UM A BLACK PLUS PEOPLE ARE

7:09 ARGUABLY INCLUDED IN THE

7:11 CONVERSATIONS AND DECISIONS

7:11 THAT AFFECTS THE BROADER LGBTQ

7:13 PLUS COMMUNITY.

7:14 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING

7:17 AYANNA PEOPLES.

7:25 GOOD AFTERNOON COUNCIL.

7:27 THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR SANTANA

7:29 AND HIS TEAM FOR GIVING US THIS

7:30 SPACE.

7:32 COUNCILORS I COME TO YOU TODAY

7:33 REPRESENTING THE BISEXUAL

7:34 RESOURCE CENTER HERE FOR THE

7:36 SECOND YEAR IN A ROW BECAUSE WE

7:38 AND THE GREATER BI PLUS

7:39 COMMUNITY IN BOSTON CONTINUE TO

7:40 HAVE NEEDS.

7:41 THAT MUST BE MET.

7:43 MASSACHUSETTS AND BOSTON IN

7:45 PARTICULAR HAS A HISTORY

7:46 OF CHAMPIONING THE AND TRANS

7:48 COMMUNITY.

7:48 MASSACHUSETTS WAS THE FIRST

7:50 U.S. STATE TO LEGALIZE SAME SEX

7:51 MARRIAGE IN 2004.

7:53 IN 2025, BOSTON DECLARED ITSELF

7:54 AS A SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE

7:56 AND TRANS COMMUNITY AND

7:57 RECOGNIZED SEPTEMBER 23RD AS

7:59 INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATE

8:00 BISEXUALITY DAY AND BI PLUS

8:02 VISIBILITY DAY.

8:04 HOWEVER.

8:05 BOSTON CANNOT AFFORD TO REST

8:06 ON ITS LAURELS.

8:07 IT IS NOT THAT LONG AGO THAT

8:08 LGBTQ PLUS PEOPLE HAD ZERO

8:10 RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY AND 2004

8:12 WAS A LITTLE OVER 20 YEARS AGO.

8:14 2025 WAS LAST YEAR AND BOSTON

8:17 IS NOT COMPLETELY INSULATED

8:18 FROM THE SINISTER POLITICAL

8:20 MACHINE THAT IS THE CURRENT

8:21 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

8:23 ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT

8:24 GALLUP.

8:25 POLL BY PEOPLE REPRESENT 58.2%

8:29 OF THE LGBTQ PLUS POPULATION IN

8:32 THE.

8:32 U.S. THAT IS A MAJORITY THAT IS

8:35 ABOUT 5% OF THE U.S. ADULT

8:37 POPULATION.

8:39 AND YET BY PLUS ORGANIZATIONS

8:41 SUCH AS THE BISEXUAL RESOURCE

8:43 CENTER RECEIVE APPROXIMATELY 1%

8:45 OF DEDICATED DOLLARS FOR THE

8:46 LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY ABOUT

8:48 $0.02 PER BUY PLUS ADULT IN

8:50 AMERICA BY PLUS PEOPLE ARE

8:52 COUNTED AS A PART OF THE

8:53 COMMUNITY, BUT ORGANIZATIONS

8:54 SERVING US ARE STILL EXPECTED

8:55 TO DO ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF WORK

8:57 WITH ALMOST NOTHING.

9:00 RESOURCES FOR THE BROADER LGBTQ

9:01 PLUS COMMUNITY ARE ASSUMED TO

9:02 REACH US AND MEET OUR NEEDS,

9:03 BUT.

9:04 THAT'S OFTEN UNTRUE.

9:07 EVEN WITHIN THE LGBTQ PLUS

9:09 COMMUNITY, FIVE PLUS PEOPLE

9:10 FACE PERNICIOUS STEREOTYPES AND

9:11 EXCLUSION DURING PRIDE, FOR

9:13 EXAMPLE, THERE ALWAYS SEEMS TO

9:15 BE DISCOURSE SURROUNDED BY PLUS

9:16 PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO

9:17 ATTEND EVENTS OR HOW WE'RE

9:19 ALLOWED TO SHOW UP.

9:20 THERE ARE ALSO SERIOUS HEALTH

9:22 CONSEQUENCES.

9:23 RATES OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

9:25 ARE HIGHER FOR BISEXUAL WOMEN

9:26 THAN LESBIANS AND HIGHER FOR

9:27 BISEXUAL MEN THAN.

9:28 HETEROSEXUAL MEN.

9:30 ACCORDING TO THE NIH.

9:31 ABOUT 1 IN 3 HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN

9:33 WILL EXPERIENCE INTIMATE

9:34 PARTNER VIOLENCE, BUT 61%

9:37 OF BISEXUAL WOMEN AND 78%

9:39 OF NON.

9:40 MONO SEXUAL.

9:40 WOMEN WILL.

9:41 AND DEVASTATINGLY ALMOST

9:44 HALF OF BISEXUAL YOUNG PEOPLE

9:46 SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED ATTEMPTING

9:47 SUICIDE IN 2019 IN THE UNITED

9:49 STATES AND 27%.

9:51 DID ATTEMPT SUICIDE.

9:54 THAT IS MORE THAN ANY OTHER

9:56 GROUP.

9:57 MOREOVER, SYSTEMIC ISSUES THAT

9:58 AFFECT ALL BOSTONIANS SUCH AS

10:00 HOUSING COSTS, AFFORDABILITY

10:02 AND ICE DISPROPORTIONATELY

10:03 AFFECT BY PLUS PEOPLE.

10:05 BY PLUS PEOPLE COME TO BOSTON

10:06 SEEKING THAT SANCTUARY CITY FOR

10:08 AND TRANS PEOPLE BUT THEN CAN'T

10:10 AFFORD ANYTHING OR LIVE IN

10:11 SAFETY WHEN THEY GET HERE.

10:13 I STRUGGLE TO BELIEVE THAT ANY

10:14 OF YOU ARE TRULY FOR THE

10:16 COMMUNITY IF YOU ARE NOT

10:17 PUTTING IN THE WORK DAILY TO

10:18 SOLVE THESE ISSUES, IT IS AN

10:20 ACT OF BIPHOBIA TO LET THESE

10:21 CRISES FESTER.

10:23 MOREOVER, AS A BI PLUS MIXED

10:25 RACE NEURODIVERGENT WOMAN, I

10:26 KNOW THAT MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY

10:27 HAVE MULTIPLE MARGINALIZED

10:29 IDENTITIES.

10:29 FOR EXAMPLE, SURVEYS FIND THAT

10:31 MORE THAN 40% OF BIPOC PEOPLE

10:33 IN THE COMMUNITY IDENTIFY AS

10:35 BI PLUS ANY OF THE TROUBLING

10:37 FACTS THAT I STATED BEFORE ARE

10:39 EXACERBATED IF THEY ARE PART

10:40 OF ANOTHER MARGINALIZED GROUP.

10:42 BUT THE BISEXUAL RESOURCE

10:43 CENTER, THOSE SMALL AND RUN

10:45 ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS HAS DONE

10:47 INCREDIBLE WORK.

10:48 FOR EXAMPLE, THIS YEAR WITH THE

10:50 $2,000 MOLAR GRANT A DROP IN

10:52 THE BUCKET AMOUNT FOR OTHER

10:53 LARGER GROUPS.

10:54 WE DID SOME HIGH IMPACT

10:55 OUTREACH.

10:56 WE CREATED OVER 83 COMMUNITY

10:58 CARE KITS AND DISTRIBUTED THEM

10:59 TO BY PLUS PEOPLE WHO ARE OFTEN

11:00 UNDERSERVED.

11:02 WE ALSO CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED

11:03 OVER 50 COPIES OF BI PLUS HELD

11:05 SIGNS TO VARIOUS BOOKSTORES AND

11:06 LIBRARIES ENSURING THAT FOR

11:08 ONCE BI PLUS PEOPLE GOT

11:09 INFORMATION NECESSARY FOR THEM

11:11 .

11:12 WITH THIS GRANT WE WERE ABLE TO

11:14 BE THERE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND

11:15 HELP BUT TO BE HONEST WE ARE

11:18 ALL VOLUNTEERS AND SO OFTEN WE

11:21 DO NOT GET THE SUPPORT WE NEED.

11:23 MANY OF US ARE BURNT OUT.

11:25 MANY OF US HAVE TO TAKE LONG

11:27 MENTAL HEALTH BREAKS OR CANNOT

11:28 SHOW UP EVERYWHERE WE'RE NEEDED

11:29 LIKE BEING HERE TODAY.

11:30 THIS COULD CHANGE WITH.

11:31 FURTHER SUPPORT.

11:33 AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TODAY.

11:35 THE BI PLUS COMMUNITY IS NOT

11:37 JUST STATISTICS OR SOMETHING TO

11:38 PERFUNCTORILY INCLUDE IN THE

11:40 LGBTQ PLUS LABEL.

11:42 I AM HERE AS A PERSON AND

11:43 LOOKING AT.

11:44 ALL OF YOU AND THE CITY

11:46 OF BOSTON.

11:46 LAST YEAR WE MADE DEMANDS AND I

11:48 CAN TELL YOU THEY WERE NOT MET

11:50 THIS YEAR I'M HERE TO BOTH MAKE

11:52 THOSE DEMANDS AGAIN AND TO LAY

11:53 OUT THESE.

11:54 NEW ONES.

11:55 ONE WE DEMAND INVESTMENT IN

11:57 SUICIDE PREVENTION AND

11:58 ACCESSIBLE MENTAL HEALTH

11:59 SUPPORT THAT EXPLICITLY

12:00 ADDRESSES BY PLUS PEOPLE.

12:01 THAT INCLUDES WORKING WITH BI

12:03 PLUS ORGANIZATIONS ON OUTREACH

12:04 AND HELPING PROVIDERS RECOGNIZE

12:06 THE PARTICULAR FORMS OF STIGMA

12:07 OUR COMMUNITY ENCOUNTERS.

12:10 WE WILL NOT LET HER FELLOW BI

12:11 PLUS YOUTH CONTINUE TO DIE TOO.

12:14 WE DEMAND THAT THE CITY TREAT

12:15 HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE

12:17 SAFETY OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

12:19 AS ESSENTIAL TO ITS COMMITMENT

12:20 TO LGBTQ PLUS RESIDENTS.

12:22 WE EXPECT THAT COMMITMENT TO.

12:24 INFORM FUNDING AND POLICY

12:25 DECISIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

12:28 THREE WE DEMAND INCREASED

12:29 FISCAL INVESTMENT FOR THE

12:31 BISEXUAL RESOURCE CENTER.

12:32 THIS WOULD MEAN SUSTAINED

12:33 FUNDING THAT REFLECTS THE WORK

12:35 BEING ASKED OF US AND GIVES US

12:36 THE ABILITY TO PLAN BEYOND A

12:38 SINGLE SMALL GRANT.

12:39 IDEALLY WE DEMAND AT LEAST

12:41 $15,000.

12:42 FINALLY, BEFORE WE DEMAND A

12:44 MEANINGFUL ROLE FOR

12:46 INTERSECTIONAL BI PLUS VOICES

12:48 IN DECISIONS ABOUT LGBTQ PLUS

12:49 RESOURCES INCLUDE US WHILE

12:52 PRIORITIES ARE BEING SET AND

12:53 BUDGETS ARE BEING DEVELOPED.

12:57 WE WANT TO RESPOND TO THESE

12:58 REQUESTS INCLUDING WHO WILL

12:59 WORK WITH US AND WHEN WE CAN

13:01 EXPECT FOLLOW UP.

13:02 WE WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT

13:03 SEPTEMBER FOR ANSWERS.

13:06 COUNCILORS THE BI PLUS

13:08 COMMUNITY IS HERE IN THE CITY

13:09 OF BOSTON AND WE WANT CHANGE.

13:11 WE DEMAND REAL RECOGNITION NOT

13:14 JUST LIP SERVICE OR SLIVERS

13:15 OF MONEY.

13:16 WE DESERVE TO BE ABLE TO DO

13:17 MORE THAN STRUGGLE TO KEEP OUR

13:19 COMMUNITY CARE AVAILABLE IN THE

13:22 BI PLUS COMMUNITY.

13:23 WE KNOW THAT OUR RIGHTS DID NOT

13:24 FALL INTO OUR LAPS.

13:26 THEY WERE FOUGHT FOR BY OUR

13:28 COMMUNITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW

13:29 LIKE WE KNOW THAT OUR LIVES

13:31 MATTER.

13:32 WE ARE PREPARED TO CONTINUE TO

13:34 DO THAT WORK AND IT IS TIME FOR

13:35 YOU TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR

13:37 YOUR PART IN IT.

13:38 THANK YOU.

13:47 THANK YOU I ON I REALLY

13:49 APPRECIATE THOSE WORDS AND UM

13:50 WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DO

13:51 A PICTURE IF THAT'S OKAY.

13:54 UM UM SO YEAH IF I CAN UM BY

13:56 ALL MY UM COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

13:58 PLEASE COME UP HERE AND.

13:58 IF YOU.

14:14 UM PLEASE I WANT TO THIS ITEM

14:16 COME OPEN IT UP HERE.

14:19 OKAY.

14:19 THANK YOU.

14:36 WHAT?

15:00 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

15:01 THANK YOU TO OUR FRIENDS THE

15:04 BISEXUALITY UH, VISIBILITY

15:06 GROUP.

15:06 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

15:08 UM, WE'RE NOW ONTO CONSTABLE

15:10 WEBER AND INVITE YOU AND MARK.

15:12 UM, AND IT'S.

15:18 UH.

15:22 WORKING OUT.

15:23 SO, UH.

15:24 MARK OVER HERE.

15:28 UH, YEAH.

15:31 JUST, UM.

15:32 OKAY.

15:33 YEAH.

15:34 UH.

15:36 THERE'S UM.

15:37 ALSO LIKE THIS WAY.

15:38 UM, I.

15:40 CAN LOOK THAT WAY.

15:41 OKAY.

15:41 UH, WELL, UM, BECAUSE AS YOU'RE

15:45 WALKING UP HERE SO, UH, YOU

15:46 KNOW, I I SPEAK FROM PERSONAL

15:49 EXPERIENCE BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I

15:51 THINK EVERY COUNCILOR COULD USE

15:53 SOMEONE IN THEIR OFFICE WHO IS

15:55 SMART.

15:55 WE'LL GO TO THE MAT FOR YOU,

15:59 UM, AND WHO IS ABLE TO

16:00 OCCASIONALLY LOOK YOU IN THE

16:01 EYE AND SAY WITH CONVICTION

16:05 YOU'RE FULL OF .

16:07 UM, MARK COHEN FOR ME IS THAT

16:10 GUY UM, AS SOMEONE WHO HAS

16:13 WORKED FOR THE CITY FOR NEARLY

16:15 40 YEARS, MARK BROUGHT HIS

16:17 SALTINESS AND SOME WISDOM

16:19 SPRINKLED IN, UH, TO THIS JOB

16:21 AND TO OUR OFFICE.

16:23 UM, BUT HEY, I I ALWAYS WANTED

16:26 TO WORK WITH A VETERAN OF THE

16:28 SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, SO, UH UH

16:31 UH, WHEN I FIRST MET MARK, UM,

16:35 IT WAS JUST AS SOMEBODY WHO WAS

16:36 CRITICAL OF MY CAMPAIGN.

16:38 UH, I LATER LEARNED HE WAS JUST

16:40 AS CAPABLE OF BEING CRITICAL

16:41 OF MY WORK ON THE COUNCIL.

16:43 UH, BUT HE HAD A SURPRISE IN

16:45 STORE FOR ME.

16:47 IT TURNED OUT THAT DESPITE

16:49 BEING RETIRED AND HIS MONDAY

16:52 MORNING QUARTERBACK TENDENCIES

16:53 ,MARK STILL WANTED TO HELP

16:56 PEOPLE AND HE WAS REALLY GOOD

16:58 AT IT.

16:58 FOLKS WHO WERE SKEPTICAL ABOUT

17:00 ME AND WEST ROXBURY FOUND THAT

17:02 THEIR CALLS ABOUT STREET

17:04 ISSUES, GARBAGE PICKUPS AND

17:05 PERMITTING WERE HANDLED QUICKLY

17:06 AND EFFECTIVELY BY MY OFFICE

17:09 BECAUSE MARK WAS ON IT WHEN

17:11 THEY WENT TO AN EVENING MEETING

17:13 THEY FOUND MARK WAS THERE TO

17:15 LISTEN AND OFTEN ALREADY HAD

17:16 THE ANSWERS EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T

17:17 LIKE THEM.

17:18 UM IT TURNS OUT AT THE HEART

17:22 OF THIS CRUSTY CITY HALL

17:23 VETERAN IS A PERSON WHO CARES

17:26 ABOUT HIS NEIGHBORS.

17:29 I CAN'T EVER REPLACE MARK.

17:32 UH, BUT AS HE LEAVES THE OFFICE

17:34 I WANT HIM TO KNOW THAT I WILL

17:36 ALWAYS BE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE

17:37 LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE MADE MY

17:39 OFFICE BETTER AND I LOVED

17:41 HAVING HIM AROUND.

17:42 UM, SO, UH, MY STAFF WOULD LIKE

17:46 TO INVITE EVERYONE AFTER THIS

17:48 MEETING OUTSIDE, UH, TO WATCH

17:51 MARK GO DOWN THE

17:52 INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN COP SLIDE

17:54 AS HE SLIDES INTO RETIREMENT.

17:57 UH, I'M NOT REQUIRING THAT HE

17:59 GO DOWN THAT THING, BUT UM BUT

18:01 I REALLY I JUST I WANT TO THANK

18:02 I THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR FOR

18:04 GIVING ME THE TIME TO BE ABLE

18:05 TO COME UP HERE AND SAY THANK

18:07 YOU TO SOMEBODY WHO I YOU KNOW

18:09 ,I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH

18:10 MARK THAT YOU'VE MEANT UH, TO

18:14 ME PERSONALLY.

18:14 UH AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW TO

18:16 EVERYONE THAT YOU'VE WORKED

18:18 WITH IN MY OFFICE, UH, AND YOU

18:21 KNOW, I HAVE JUST BEEN ABLE TO

18:22 BENEFIT FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE

18:24 AND FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW AND

18:26 THE WAY YOU'VE GONE ABOUT.

18:28 YOUR WORK.

18:28 IT'S JUST IT'S BEEN.

18:29 INCREDIBLE TO BE AROUND AND I'M

18:31 REALLY SORRY THAT YOU'RE

18:32 LEAVING, BUT I'M GLAD I COULD

18:33 HAVE A CHANCE TO THANK YOU.

18:35 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

18:37 THANK YOU.

18:43 SO, UH, MADAM PRESIDENT,

18:48 COUNCIL MEMBERS.

18:49 UH.

18:49 THANK YOU.

18:50 UM, THE TRUTH IS THAT, UH, I

18:55 YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IN THIS

18:57 ROOM MANY TIMES AND WATCHED

18:58 MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO ARE

19:00 NOW WHO ARE IN THE SAME

19:01 POSITION AS ME LEAVING THE CITY

19:04 AND I DIDN'T REALLY THINK IN

19:05 TERMS OF THAT MY WHOLE LIFE.

19:06 AND AFTER 37 YEARS HERE HERE I

19:09 AM.

19:09 AND THE TRUTH IS UM, INSTEAD

19:12 OF THANKING ME, I'M REALLY HERE

19:14 TO THANK YOU.

19:15 UM, THANK YOU FOR THE

19:17 OPPORTUNITY TO COME THE LAST

19:18 FEW YEARS AND WORK HERE

19:19 COUNCIL UM AND BEFORE THAT, UM,

19:21 THANK THE MANY MAYORS THAT I

19:22 WORKED WITH, UM, WHO GAVE

19:25 ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH

19:26 THE CITY.

19:27 IT IS A TREMENDOUSLY REWARDING,

19:29 UH, OCCUPATION.

19:31 UM, I'M HOPING THAT, UH, AS I

19:33 LOOK AROUND AND I SEE THE

19:35 YOUNGER MEMBERS THAT THEY WILL

19:38 ,UM, SEE THIS AS AS A GREAT

19:40 OPPORTUNITY TO, UH TO UM, SERVE

19:43 PEOPLE AND HELP PEOPLE.

19:44 SO I SAY THANK YOU TODAY TO ALL

19:46 OF YOU.

19:47 THAT NUMBER.

19:47 ONE NUMBER TWO, YOU WON'T BE

19:49 NEEDING THE TWO MINUTES BECAUSE

19:50 I'M GOING TO WRAP THIS UP VERY

19:51 QUICKLY.

19:52 UM, I AM BLESSED WITH HAVING

19:55 WORK WITH A GREAT TEAM.

19:57 UM, AND I WILL SAY THAT, UH, I

20:00 WAS HAPPILY RETIRED FROM THE

20:01 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND A, UH,

20:05 GENTLEMAN KNOCKED ON MY FRONT

20:06 DOOR IN WEST ROXBURY AND TOLD

20:08 ME THAT HE WAS GOING TO RUN FOR

20:09 CITY COUNCIL.

20:10 I HAD NO IDEA WHO THIS GUY WAS

20:12 .

20:13 UM, TALK TO HIM FOR A FEW

20:15 MINUTES AND I REALLY LIKED HIM

20:16 AND I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN

20:18 HIS CANDIDACY.

20:19 UM, AND THAT WAS BEEN I ENDED

20:21 UP HELPING HIM.

20:22 UM, I HONESTLY DIDN'T BELIEVE

20:24 HE'D EVER BE ELECTED.

20:26 UM, BUT HE WAS, UM AND, UH, I

20:30 SAILED OFF INTO THE FUTURE AND

20:32 THOUGHT THIS WAS GREAT.

20:33 UH, A LITTLE HOBBY THAT I HAD

20:35 AND HE CALLED AND HE SAID, YOU

20:37 KNOW, SETTING UP THE OFFICE.

20:38 THERE'S NO ONE IN THIS BUILDING

20:39 OLDER THAN 27 YEARS OLD.

20:41 UM, WOULD YOU COME AND AND YOU

20:44 KNOW, UH, THAT WAS THREE AND A

20:46 HALF YEARS AGO.

20:48 UM, AND MY ADVICE TO PEOPLE IS

20:51 WHEN YOU HEAR A KNOCK ON THE

20:53 DOOR, GET A RING DOORBELL AND

20:55 MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHO'S

20:56 RINGING THE DOORBELL BEFORE YOU

20:57 OPEN IT.

20:58 BUT I AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY

20:59 THANK YOU TO BEN.

21:01 THANK YOU TO MY TEAM AND MOST

21:03 IMPORTANTLY THANK YOU TO MY

21:04 WIFE MEG WHO HAS UH, PUT UP

21:06 WITH ME ALL THESE YEARS AND.

21:10 AND WILL BE PUTTING UP WITH

21:13 ME MANY YEARS TO COME.

21:14 THANK YOU ALL.

21:18 IF MY COLLEAGUES COULD JOIN US

21:20 FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.

21:22 PLEASE, PLEASE CAN WE STILL

21:26 PLEASE.

21:29 SOLUTION.

21:30 OH THANK YOU.

21:30 THIS IS MCGREGOR'S FULL

21:33 STATEMENT.

21:36 TO THE LEFT.

21:46 RIGHT YOU.

21:53 THANK.

22:06 YOU.

22:10 IT'S LIKE YOU'RE LITERALLY

22:11 WITH.

22:11 US FOR.

22:17 I'M SORRY MR..

22:20 OH NO.

22:22 OH YEAH.

22:23 I JUST I JUST.

22:25 I KNOW I KNOW YOU GET IT

22:27 BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO.

22:29 THANK YOU GUYS.

22:30 REALLY NICE TO.

22:45 YOU GUYS ALL.

22:47 HERE AT YOUR I DON'T GET THAT.

22:51 THANK YOU.

22:55 BECAUSE IT'S.

22:57 SO SO OF IT'S IT'S LIKE.

23:03 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

23:07 MADAM CLERK IF YOU COULD PLEASE

23:09 AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT

23:10 THE COUNSELORS COLOR.

23:11 THERE'S A POWDER AND COUNSELOR

23:12 PEPPER AND HAVE JOINED US OKAY

23:13 .

23:14 OH THANK YOU.

23:15 I ALSO WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT

23:17 OUT TO, UH, THE SUFFOLK

23:18 STUDENTS WHO WERE, UH, VISITING

23:20 WITH COUNSELOR PEPEHANDS OFFICE

23:22 THIS MORNING.

23:23 I SORRY I DIDN'T GET AN

23:24 OPPORTUNITY TO MEET YOU, BUT,

23:26 UH, WELCOME TO CITY HALL.

23:28 THANK YOU.

23:32 NOW WE'RE ON TO THE FIRST ORDER

23:34 OF BUSINESS WHICH IS TO APPROVE

23:35 THE MINUTES FROM THE MEETING

23:37 OF SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2026.

23:39 ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I ALL

23:42 OPPOSED.

23:42 SAY NAY.

23:43 THE AYES HAVE IT.

23:44 THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER

23:46 16TH MEETING ARE APPROVED.

23:49 WE'RE ON TO COMMUNICATIONS FROM

23:51 AROUND THE MAYOR.

23:52 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

23:53 READ DOCKET 1771.

23:57 DOCKET 1771 MESSAGE AN ORDER

24:01 AUTHORIZING AN APPROPRIATION

24:03 ORDER TO AMEND THE FY 27

24:05 COMMUNITY PRESERVATION FUND

24:07 APPROPRIATION IN THE AMOUNT

24:14 OF $47,265,655 FROM THE FUNDS.

24:17 ESTIMATED ANNUAL REVENUE FOR

24:19 FISCAL YEAR 2027 TO BE

24:22 APPROPRIATED AND RESERVED FOR

24:23 FUTURE RECOMMENDATION BY THE

24:26 CPC AND APPROPRIATION BY THE

24:28 CITY COUNCIL CONSENT WITH THE

24:30 ACT.

24:30 THIS NUMBER INCLUDES BOTH THE

24:32 ORIGINAL APPROVE FY 27 REVENUE

24:41 OF $39,587,798, AS WELL AS

24:48 $7,677,857 IN UNUSED REVENUE

24:50 FOR PROJECT AND PREVIOUS FISCAL

24:52 YEAR.

24:53 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK CHAIR

24:55 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PEPEN

24:56 GUNTER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

24:58 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

24:59 I LIKE TO SEEK SUSPENSION

25:01 OF THE RULES AND PASS THIS

25:02 APPROPRIATION.

25:03 AS WE ALL KNOW, THE COMMUNITY

25:05 PRESERVATION ACT PROVIDES VITAL

25:07 FUNDING TO GET BELOVED

25:08 AFFORDABLE HOUSING, OPEN SPACE

25:10 AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION

25:12 PROJECTS LAUNCHED THROUGHOUT

25:13 THE CITY.

25:13 I'M GRATEFUL FOR DIRECTOR TH18

25:15 BROWN AND HER TEAM FOR

25:16 PROVIDING ROBUST UPDATES ON THE

25:18 STATUS OF CURRENT PROJECTS TO

25:19 SEE HOW CPA FUNDS CAN BE

25:21 STRETCHED EVEN FURTHER FOR MORE

25:23 COMMUNITY PROJECTS WE WILL HAVE

25:25 HEARINGS ON THESE UM IN THE

25:28 FUTURE AS ALWAYS WHERE WE GET

25:29 TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEW PROJECTS

25:30 THAT ARE GOING INTO UM TO BE

25:32 CONSIDERED BY THE CPC.

25:34 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES, MY

25:36 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT

25:36 THIS APPROPRIATION IN AN EFFORT

25:38 TO HELP COMMUNITY PRESERVATION

25:39 COMMITTEE TO PLAN MORE SUPPORT

25:42 FOR FY 27 GRANT PROCESS.

25:44 THANK YOU.

25:45 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN.

25:46 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

25:47 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

25:48 HAVE THE FLOOR.

25:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

25:53 MADAM CHAIR.

25:54 APPROVED THROUGH THE CHAIR.

25:54 MAY I ASK COUNCIL AND A

25:56 QUESTION?

25:57 CERTAINLY.

25:58 YEP.

25:59 UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, DID WE

26:03 HAVE A HEARING ON THIS AND ARE

26:08 WE IS IT LIKELY WE COULD HAVE A

26:09 HEARING ON THIS?

26:10 IT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT

26:12 OF MONEY.

26:12 I JUST WANT TO SEE WHAT YOUR

26:13 THOUGHTS ARE.

26:15 .

26:15 AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

26:18 YES.

26:18 UM THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE

26:20 FROM DISTRICT TWO IN REGARDS TO

26:22 THIS.

26:22 THIS IS SIMPLY TRANSFERRING THE

26:25 $7.6 MILLION THAT WERE UNUSED

26:27 DUE TO PROJECTS ACTUALLY, UM,

26:30 NOT COSTING AS MUCH AS THEY

26:31 WERE THEY WERE ESTIMATED TO BE

26:34 OR SOME PROJECTS UM WITHDREW

26:37 FROM THEIR APPLICATION DUE TO

26:38 OTHER ISSUES.

26:39 SO WE'RE JUST MAKING SURE THAT

26:40 THIS MONEY GETS TRANSFERRED TO

26:41 THE FY 27 BUDGET FOR FOR THE

26:45 CPC AND WE WILL HAVE HEARINGS

26:46 ON THESE TO GO OVER EVERY

26:48 SINGLE PROJECT THAT'S BEING

26:49 CONSIDERED FOR THE COMMUNITY

26:51 PRESERVATION.

26:52 UM GRANT FOR THIS YEAR.

26:54 THANK YOU.

26:56 UM.

26:58 COUNCILOR MURPHY, DID YOU

26:58 HAVE UM YOUR LIGHT WAS ON?

27:00 YES.

27:01 UM THANK YOU.

27:03 COUNCILOR PÉPIN.

27:04 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

27:05 I DO JUST WANT TO.

27:06 THANK SABINE AND HER TEAM.

27:08 THEY'RE ALWAYS VERY OPEN,

27:10 TRANSPARENT AND SHARE

27:12 INFORMATION.

27:12 AND I DID READ AND PRINT OUT

27:15 THE EMAIL THAT WAS SENT FROM

27:17 HER BACK ON AUGUST 25TH THAT

27:18 HAS AN ATTACHED SPREADSHEET.

27:20 AND I ALSO SAW THE 47 MILLION

27:23 AND THOUGHT WELL THAT'S A LOT

27:24 TO JUST MOVE FORWARD.

27:26 BUT WHEN I HAD READ MORE ABOUT

27:27 WHAT WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE

27:30 VOTED ON TODAY IS THAT YOU KNOW

27:31 NOW THAT THE PROJECTS ARE

27:33 COMPLETED SO ANY MONEY WE CAN

27:35 GET BACK INTO THE POOL AND

27:36 HOPEFULLY BE FUNDING MORE GREAT

27:38 PROJECTS AND KNOWING THAT THAT

27:40 OFFICE WILL CONTINUE TO SHARE

27:41 INFORMATION AND IF YOU COULD

27:43 JUST ASSURE US WHICH I KNOW YOU

27:45 WILL IF I CAN ASK THROUGH THE

27:47 CHAIR TO THE CHAIR OF THIS

27:49 COMMITTEE THAT IF ANY

27:51 INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS WE HAVE

27:52 AND IF YOU COULD HELP MAKE SURE

27:54 THEY GET ANSWERED I WOULD

27:55 APPRECIATE THAT.

27:58 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

27:59 YES, YES RESPONDING TO UH MY

28:01 COUNCIL COLLEAGUE YEAH.

28:03 SO THIS MAKING SURE THAT ALL MY

28:04 COLLEAGUES KNOW THAT THIS IS

28:05 NOT THE LAST VOTE THIS IS JUST

28:07 ANOTHER VOTE TO MAKE SURE THAT

28:09 WE CAN USE THESE FUNDS.

28:10 WE WILL THEN HAVE THE HEARINGS

28:12 TO GO OVER THE PROJECT WILL BE

28:13 WE WE WILL BE ABLE TO ASK THE

28:15 QUESTIONS.

28:16 TO EACH INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

28:17 WHICH STADIUM BROWN OUR TEAM

28:18 DOES AN AMAZING JOB OF BREAKING

28:20 DOWN AND THEN WE WILL TAKE A

28:21 VOTE TO TO EITHER YOU KNOW

28:24 GRANT THESE THESE GRANTS TO THE

28:25 PROJECTS.

28:26 SO THAT'S.

28:26 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU

28:28 HAD A UM YOUR LIGHT IS ON.

28:30 YEAH THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

28:32 UM, I'M NOT GOING TO OBJECT TO

28:35 HAVING A VOTE I DO THINK I DO

28:38 THINK WE SHOULD WE SHOULD HAVE

28:40 A A A HEARING ON IT.

28:42 BUT AGAIN I'M NOT GOING TO

28:44 OBJECT.

28:44 I'M GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR

28:45 OF IT.

28:46 ,BUT I.

28:47 I DO THINK IT'S IT'S IT'S

28:49 WORTH HAVING A DISCUSSION ON.

28:53 WHAT IMPACT.

28:55 UM WHAT IMPACT THIS PROPOSAL IN

28:57 THIS FUNDING WILL HAVE ON CPA.

28:59 I HAVE LONG SUPPORTED CPA

29:02 LONGER THAN YOU KNOW FOR FOR 8

29:04 OR 9 YEARS HERE ON THE COUNCIL.

29:06 AND I HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT

29:08 FOR ADDING IN HER CPA TEAM AS

29:12 WELL.

29:13 AGAIN, I'M VOTING IN FAVOR

29:14 OF IT.

29:15 I DO WISH WE COULD HAVE HAD A

29:17 HEARING ON IT SO I WOULD BE

29:19 THOROUGHLY INFORMED OF ALL

29:21 ASPECTS OF THIS.

29:23 THANK YOU.

29:24 UM, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR

29:26 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

29:27 ARE YOU SEEKING A VOTE ON THIS

29:29 OR JUST TO SEND IT TO COMMITTEE

29:31 ?

29:32 I SUSPEND AND PASS.

29:35 I'M JUST GOOD.

29:37 THANK YOU.

29:37 UM.

29:40 COME MEJIA.

29:42 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

29:46 UM.

29:47 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

29:49 AND JUST SO THAT I UNDERSTAND.

29:51 AND.

29:51 THOSE WHO ARE.

29:52 TUNING IN, I UNDERSTAND THAT.

29:53 THIS PARTICULAR VOTE IS JUST TO

29:56 MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY THAT

29:58 WE HAVE LEFT OVER THAT WE CAN

29:59 USE IN THE FUTURE AND THEREFORE

30:02 THE VOTE THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO

30:03 TAKE FOR EVERYBODY THAT'S

30:04 PAYING ATTENTION IS A

30:06 RESPONSIBLE VOTE BECAUSE WHAT

30:07 WE'RE DOING IS JUST

30:09 REALLOCATING.

30:09 THOSE DOLLARS.

30:10 FOR FUTURE USE.

30:11 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

30:13 MY.

30:13 INTERPRETATION OF WHAT'S

30:14 HAPPENING.

30:14 HERE IS.

30:15 THAT SIMPLE.

30:16 IS THAT IS THAT WHAT THAT IS?

30:18 YEAH.

30:18 I'M GONNA I'M GOING TO THINK

30:19 THAT WASN'T TRUE.

30:20 YEAH OKAY.

30:21 SO THEN THE VOTE THAT I'M

30:22 TAKING IS TO JUST MAKE SURE

30:23 THAT WE CAN REALLOCATE THE

30:25 LEFTOVER FUNDS SO THAT WE CAN

30:26 USE IN THE FUTURE.

30:27 YES OKAY.

30:28 GOOD.

30:29 THANK YOU.

30:31 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

30:32 YEAH.

30:33 AND I ALSO BELIEVE THAT.

30:34 IT'S AT THE REQUEST OF.

30:35 THE, UH, OF THE OF FADING BROWN

30:38 AND HER LEADERSHIP.

30:39 IT IS THE MONEY.

30:41 IT'S NOT EVEN JUST BEING

30:42 REALLOCATED.

30:42 IT'S BEING USED FOR THE SAME

30:44 EXACT PURPOSE.

30:45 SO THE HEARINGS WILL HAPPEN IN

30:47 THE SAME WAY THAT THE CPC

30:48 HEARINGS HAPPENED ALREADY FOR

30:49 THE THREE PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE

30:51 CAN USE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION

30:52 ACT FUNDS OPEN SPACE,

30:54 AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HISTORIC

30:56 PRESERVATION IT WILL STILL BE

30:58 THOSE THREE.

30:59 CATEGORIES.

30:59 THE MONEY WILL BE ALLOCATED

31:00 FOR THOSE SAME PURPOSES AND

31:02 IT'S ACTUALLY PROBABLY A NET

31:03 GOOD BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE MORE

31:05 MONEY TO ALLOCATE TOWARDS THOSE

31:07 THREE PURPOSES FOR THE NEXT

31:08 FISCAL YEAR.

31:09 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

31:11 THANK YOU.

31:12 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

31:15 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

31:15 AGAIN I DON'T OBJECT TO HAVING

31:18 A VOTE.

31:19 I DO WISH WE HAD A HEARING

31:21 THOUGH I'M GOING TO VOTE IN

31:22 FAVOR OF THIS.

31:23 I JUST WANT TO DO MY DUE

31:25 DILIGENCE BECAUSE IT'S A LARGE

31:27 AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S BEING

31:31 APPROPRIATED AND IT IS OUR

31:33 OBLIGATION TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW

31:35 EVERY CENT IS SPENT IN THE CITY

31:37 OF BOSTON.

31:38 THAT'S MY POINT AND THAT'S MY

31:40 ONLY POINT THAT CAN.

31:42 BE CONSISTENT.

31:42 I THINK IT'S CLEAR FROM THE

31:44 CHAIR, UH, THERE WILL BE

31:46 HEARINGS ON HOW THIS MONEY IS

31:47 GOING TO BE SPENT.

31:48 IT'S JUST BEEN SHIFTED OVER TO

31:49 THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY

31:52 PRESERVATION ACT UH, UNDER THE

31:55 LEADERSHIP OF CITY.

31:57 SO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

31:59 ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION SEEK

32:00 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

32:01 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1771.

32:03 ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY I ALL

32:06 OPPOSED.

32:06 SAY NAY.

32:08 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

32:09 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

32:10 VOTE ON 1771 CALL.

32:12 VOTE ON 1771 COUNCILOR BRIGHTON

32:15 YES ON SEPARATE ON YES.

32:17 COUNCIL LET US APPARENT.

32:19 YES LET US SEPARATE YES

32:21 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

32:23 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

32:23 YES CONCEPT DUNCAN HUNTER DUCK

32:25 AND YES COUNCIL FITZGERALD ONTO

32:28 FITZGERALD.

32:29 YES.

32:30 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

32:30 COUNCIL.

32:31 FLYNN.

32:31 YES.

32:33 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

32:33 YES.

32:34 CONVOLUTION.

32:34 YES.

32:35 COUNCIL.

32:35 MAYOR.

32:37 COUNCIL MATERIAL.

32:37 YES.

32:38 COUNCIL.

32:38 MURPHY WANTS A MOVIE.

32:40 YES.

32:40 COUNCIL.

32:41 PIPPEN.

32:41 YES.

32:43 COUNCIL SANTANA.

32:44 YES.

32:44 GOING TO SANTANA?

32:45 YES.

32:46 COUNCIL WEBER.

32:47 WEBER.

32:48 YES AND COUNCIL OVERALL CONSOLE

32:50 YES 13 VOTE AND UNLIMITED.

32:52 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

32:54 DOCKET 1771 HAS PASSED.

32:57 MADAM CLERK, PLEASE READ DOCKET

32:59 1772.

33:02 DOCKET 1772 MESSAGE AN ORDER

33:05 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

33:07 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

33:13 OF $1,361,182 IN THE FORM OF A

33:14 GRAND METROPOLITAN AREA PLAN

33:17 AND COUNCIL AWARDED BY THE

33:19 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

33:21 OF TREASURY PASS THROUGH THE

33:22 MASS METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING

33:25 COUNCIL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

33:26 THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION

33:28 AND TECHNOLOGY.

33:29 THE GRANT WOULD FUND EQUIPMENT

33:32 AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR

33:33 THE EXPANSION OF THE CITY

33:35 BROADBAND NETWORK THROUGHOUT

33:37 TWO BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

33:39 CAMPUSES.

33:40 THANK YOU DOCKET 1772 AND BE

33:43 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

33:45 CITY SERVICES.

33:47 MADAM CLERK, PLEASE READ DOCKET

33:49 1773.

33:50 DOCKET 1773 MESSAGE ON ORDER

33:53 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

33:55 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

33:59 OF $750,000 IN THE FORM OF A

34:00 GRANT TO 526 BOSTON REGIONAL

34:04 INTELLIGENCE CENTER EARMARK

34:06 AWARDED BY THE MAYOR'S

34:08 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC

34:09 SAFETY AND SECURITY TO BE

34:11 ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE

34:13 DEPARTMENT.

34:13 THE GRANT WOULD FUND UPGRADING,

34:16 EXPANDING AND INTEGRATING

34:18 TECHNOLOGY AND PROTOCOLS

34:20 RELATED TO ANTI-TERRORISM,

34:23 ANTI-CRIME, ANTI-GANG AND

34:26 EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

34:28 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

34:29 DOCKET 1773 WOULD BE REFERRED

34:31 TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

34:33 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

34:36 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

34:37 READ DOCKET 1774.

34:39 DOCKET 177 FOR MESSAGE AND

34:42 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

34:44 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

34:45 THE AMOUNT OF $500,000 IN THE

34:48 FORM OF A GRANT MORE UM AWARDED

34:52 BY ROCKEFELLER FOR TRAVEL FEE

34:55 ADVISOR TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

34:56 THE DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRANT

34:58 ADVANCEMENT.

34:59 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SUPPORT

35:01 FOR CITY LED PROGRAMS THAT

35:03 ADVANCE RELIEF, INCLUSION AND

35:06 OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED

35:09 COMMUNITIES IN BOSTON THROUGH

35:10 THE GLOBAL CITIES FUND.

35:12 THANK YOU.

35:13 DOCKET 1774 BE REFERRED TO THE

35:15 COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS,

35:16 RACIAL EQUITY, EQUAL EQUITY AND

35:20 IMMIGRATION ADVANCEMENT

35:21 IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.

35:22 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

35:24 READ DOCKETS 1775 AND.

35:27 1776 TOGETHER DOCKET 1775

35:30 MESSAGE AND ORDER AUTHORIZING

35:31 THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT

35:33 AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

35:42 OF $267,721.80 IN THE FORM OF A

35:43 GRANT OR A YOUTH ACTIVITIES

35:47 ADMIN GRANT AWARDED BY THE

35:49 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

35:50 OF LABOR PASS THROUGH THE MASS

35:52 HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER

35:53 SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

35:56 THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

35:58 DEVELOPMENT.

35:58 THE GRANT WOULD FUND A PROGRAM

36:00 AND FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON

36:03 OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH BETWEEN

36:04 AGES 14 TO 24 WHO FACE BARRIERS

36:08 TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND

36:10 EMPLOYMENT.

36:11 DOCKET 1776 MESSAGE IN ORDER

36:14 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

36:16 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

36:21 OF $250,000 IN THE FORM OF A

36:22 GRANT PERMANENT FUND FOR BOSTON

36:24 GRANT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON

36:26 FOUNDATION TO BE ADMINISTERED

36:28 BY THE ORIOLE ADMIN.

36:30 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SUPPORTING

36:33 THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

36:35 OF PILOT INTEGRATING SCHOOL

36:37 BASED CAREER PATHWAYS, PAIRED

36:39 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND

36:41 POST-SECONDARY LEARNING AT

36:43 THESE HIGH.

36:44 SCHOOLS WHICH ESTABLISH HOW

36:46 CAREER PATHWAY TO ADDRESS THE

36:49 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

36:50 FACING GREATER BOSTON

36:52 COMMUNITIES.

36:53 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.

36:54 DOCKET 1775 AND 17676 WILL BE

36:58 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

37:00 LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

37:03 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

37:04 READ DOCKET 1777?

37:10 DOCKET 1777 MESSAGE AND ORDER

37:13 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

37:15 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

37:20 OF $250,000 IN THE FORM OF A

37:21 GRANT BOSTON FAMILY DAY PROGRAM

37:24 SUPPORT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON

37:26 FOUNDATION TO BE ADMINISTERED

37:27 BY THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND

37:29 CULTURE.

37:29 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SUPPORT

37:31 OF THE BOSTON FAMILY DAYS

37:33 PROGRAM FROM AMAZON VIA THE

37:36 BOSTON FOUNDATION.

37:37 THE PREVIOUS INCIDENT OF THE

37:39 GRANT TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM BY

37:44 CODE AT 24026 OCCURRED WHEN THE

37:46 PROGRAM WAS KNOWN AS A CULTURAL

37:48 ACCESS PILOT PROGRAM OR BEEPS

37:51 SUNDAYS.

37:52 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

37:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

37:55 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

37:56 THE FLOOR.

37:57 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

37:58 AND THIS IS A GRANT SIMILAR TO

38:00 THE GRANTS THAT WE PASSED

38:01 SUSPENDED AND PASSED LAST WEEK

38:03 IN SUPPORT OF BOSTON FAMILY

38:04 DAYS TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM.

38:06 I ALSO MEANT TO SAY THIS LAST

38:07 WEEK YOU GUYS WERE MISSED THAT

38:09 ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE

38:10 PROGRAM, THE MUSEUM OF FINE

38:11 ARTS HAD A CELEBRATORY MOMENT.

38:12 UH, THEIR BOARD ELECT IS THE

38:14 FIRST BLACK WOMAN FIRST BLACK.

38:15 PERSON.

38:16 TO SHARE THEIR BOARD.

38:17 SO I WANT TO GIVE A BIG THANK

38:18 YOU TO MICHELLE AND BROWN.

38:19 I WANT TO SAY A CONTINUED THANK

38:21 YOU TO ALL OF THE UH, ENTITIES

38:23 THAT PARTICIPATE IN BOSTON

38:24 FAMILY DAYS SO THAT OUR KIDS

38:27 CAN HAVE ACCESS AND THEIR

38:28 FAMILIES CAN HAVE ACCESS TO OUR

38:29 CULTURAL INSTITUTION.

38:30 SO I AM ASKING MY COLLEAGUES

38:31 THEY'LL JOIN ME IN A SUSPENSION

38:32 AND PASSAGE FOR THIS DOCKET.

38:34 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

38:35 THANK YOU.

38:36 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

38:37 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE THE CHAIR

38:38 OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS,

38:39 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM

38:40 AND SPECIAL EVENTS

38:43 COUNCILOR FLATTEN YOU YOU.

38:45 A CONSTITUENT?

38:46 YEAH.

38:47 THANK YOU.

38:48 I RISE TO SUPPORT SUPPORT THIS

38:50 PROPOSAL UM THIS FUNDING IS

38:53 COMING FROM AMAZON AND BOSTON

38:56 FOUNDATION.

38:57 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE UM

39:00 MYSELF AND UH COUNCILOR MURPHY

39:02 WE WORK TO ENSURE, UH, WORKING

39:04 WITH THE NON-PROFITS TO ENSURE

39:06 THAT, UM, ALL CHILDREN

39:10 OF BOSTON WOULD BE ABLE TO

39:11 ATTEND THESE MUSEUMS INCLUDING

39:15 CHILDREN LIVING CHILDREN

39:16 ATTENDING PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

39:18 WE DO FEEL THAT'S A THAT'S AN

39:20 IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE

39:21 PROGRAM.

39:22 UM, THEY ARE PART OF THE CITY

39:24 AND BOSTON IS A BETTER CITY

39:27 BECAUSE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN ARE

39:29 INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM.

39:30 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

39:31 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

39:34 SO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SIX

39:35 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

39:37 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1777.

39:38 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

39:40 ALL OPPOSED.

39:41 SAY NAY.

39:42 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

39:43 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

39:44 VOTE ON DOCKET 1777.

39:46 ROLL CALL.

39:47 VOTE ON DOCKET 1777.

39:51 COUNCILOR BRITA YES ON SOME

39:54 BREADON.

39:54 YES.

39:54 COUNCILOR POLARIS OPERA.

39:55 ON A LETTER SUPPORTER.

39:56 YES.

39:57 COUNCIL.

39:57 CULPEPER.

39:58 PRINCE OF CULPEPER.

39:59 YES.

40:00 COUNCILOR DURKAN

40:01 CONSIDERING.

40:01 YES.

40:02 COUNCIL.

40:03 FITZGERALD.

40:03 YES.

40:04 ONTO FITZGERALD ON YES.

40:05 COUNCIL.

40:05 FLYNN.

40:05 YES.

40:06 ONTO FLYNN.

40:07 YES.

40:07 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

40:09 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

40:10 YES.

40:10 COUNCIL.

40:10 MAYOR.

40:10 UM.

40:12 COUNCIL MURPHY ON SOME.

40:14 MURPHY.

40:14 YES.

40:15 COUNCIL PATTON CONCEPT

40:17 APPRENTICE COUNCIL SANTANA.

40:19 COUNCIL.

40:19 SANTANA.

40:20 YES.

40:20 COUNCILOR.

40:21 WEBER.

40:21 YES.

40:22 COUNCIL.

40:22 WEBER.

40:23 YES.

40:23 GOING ON SEVERAL.

40:25 YES.

40:26 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

40:27 THANK YOU MADAM.

40:28 MADAM CLERK DOCKET 1777 HAS

40:32 PASSED.

40:35 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

40:36 READ DOCKET 1778.

40:39 DOCKET 1778 MESSAGE AN ORDER

40:41 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

40:43 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

40:47 OF 202,000 AND $537.80 IN THE

40:51 FORM OF A GRANT OR A DOES.

40:55 ACTIVITIES ADMIN GRANT AWARDED

40:56 BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

40:58 OF LABOR PASS THROUGH THE MASS

41:00 HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER

41:02 SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

41:03 THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

41:05 DEVELOPMENT.

41:06 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

41:08 CREATION OF SEAMLESS SYSTEM

41:10 OF ADULT EDUCATION WORKFORCE

41:12 PREPARATION AND TRAINING

41:13 SERVICES.

41:15 THANK YOU.

41:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

41:16 CONSTABLE REALM AND CHAIR

41:17 OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

41:19 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

41:20 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

41:21 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

41:22 THIS GRANT IS THE.

41:23 SECOND OF THREE UM.

41:26 FOR THE WORKFORCE INNOVATION.

41:27 AND OPPORTUNITY THAT.

41:29 THESE GRANTS COME FROM A

41:30 FEDERAL FORMULA DESIGNED TO.

41:31 HELP JOB SEEKERS ACCESS

41:33 EDUCATION.

41:33 TRAINING AND.

41:34 SUPPORT SERVICES.

41:35 UH, THIS DOCKET IS A $202,537

41:39 GRANT TO SUPPORT STAFF TIME TO

41:41 IMPLEMENT THE LARGEST ADULT

41:42 SUPPORT SERVICES TO MASS HIRE.

41:44 THOSE SERVICES INCLUDE JOB

41:46 SEARCH, COACHING, CONNECTION TO

41:47 TRAINING AND ACCESS TO FUNDING

41:49 FOR ELIGIBLE JOBSEEKERS

41:51 PURSUING FURTHER TRAINING WIOA

41:54 ADULT CLIENTS ARE PRIMARY LOW

41:56 INCOME ADULTS WHO ARE

41:57 UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED

41:59 THAT YOU HAVE THE COMMITTEE ON

42:00 LABOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT I'M

42:01 ASKING FOR SUSPENSION AND

42:02 PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET.

42:04 THANK YOU.

42:04 THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL

42:07 THE CHAIR OF THE

42:08 COUNCILOR WORRELL, THE CHAIR

42:09 OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

42:10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SEEKS

42:11 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

42:13 PASSAGE OF ONE DOCKET NUMBER

42:16 1778.

42:17 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

42:18 ALL OPPOSED.

42:19 SAY NAY.

42:20 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

42:21 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

42:22 VOTE ON DOCKET 1778 TO A.

42:25 VOTE ON DOCKET 1778.

42:27 COUNCILOR BRENNAN.

42:28 YES.

42:29 EVEN AS COUNCIL COLOR OPERA ON

42:32 CHOCOLATE A SUPPLIER.

42:33 YES.

42:33 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

42:34 YEAH.

42:35 CONCEPT CALLED PEPPER.

42:35 YES.

42:36 COUNCILOR DURKAN CONSIDERED

42:38 TOKEN.

42:38 YES.

42:39 COUNCIL FITZGERALD CONCEPT

42:41 FITZGERALD.

42:41 YES.

42:42 COUNCIL.

42:42 FLYNN.

42:42 YES.

42:43 ALSO FILLING.

42:44 YES.

42:45 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE CON SOLUTION

42:47 .

42:47 YES.

42:48 COUNCIL.

42:48 MAYOR.

42:49 COUNCIL.

42:50 MURPHY.

42:51 COUNCIL.

42:51 MURPHY.

42:52 HAS GONE BEEN PREPARING.

42:54 YES.

42:54 COUNCIL.

42:55 SANTANA COUNCIL.

42:56 SANTANA.

42:57 YES.

42:57 COUNCIL.

42:57 WEBER.

42:59 CONSOLE.

43:00 WEBER.

43:00 PRESENT.

43:01 COUNCIL.

43:01 OVERALL CONSOLE AROUND.

43:04 YES.

43:05 123456.

43:07 AND 11.

43:08 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

43:09 I WANT TO PRESENT.

43:10 .

43:10 THANK YOU.

43:11 DOCKET 1778 HAS PASSED.

43:14 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

43:15 READ DOCKET 1779?

43:19 DOCKET 1779 MESSAGE AND ORDER

43:22 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

43:23 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

43:27 OF $150,000 IN THE FORM OF A

43:28 GRANT THE BOSTON FAMILY DAY

43:30 GRANT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON

43:32 FOUNDATION TO BE ADMINISTERED

43:34 BY THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND

43:35 CULTURE.

43:36 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE BOSTON

43:38 FAMILY DAY PROGRAM FROM 2026 TO

43:42 2027 PROVIDED BY THE JAMES UM

43:44 UM AND COLLEEN D STONE

43:46 FOUNDATION.

43:48 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

43:49 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

43:50 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

43:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

43:52 I RISE AGAIN, UH, FOR

43:53 SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

43:55 $150,000 GRANT TO SUPPORT THE

43:57 BOSTON FAMILY DAYS PROGRAM.

43:58 UH, THE CATHERINE UH, THE JAMES

44:01 M AND CATHERINE DE STONE

44:02 FOUNDATION HAVE BEEN EARLY

44:03 SUPPORTERS OF THIS PROGRAM

44:04 SINCE ITS INCEPTION AND IT'S

44:06 GREAT TO SEE THEIR CONTINUED

44:07 SUPPORT.

44:08 SO I JUST ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO

44:09 JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING THIS

44:11 GRANT FOR THE BOSTON FAMILY

44:12 DAYS PROGRAM.

44:13 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

44:14 THANK YOU.

44:17 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE THE

44:18 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS,

44:19 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM

44:20 AND SPECIAL EVENTS THE

44:21 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

44:22 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1779.

44:24 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED

44:27 .

44:27 SAY NAY.

44:29 MADAME CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

44:30 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

44:31 VOTE ON DOCKET 1779.

44:33 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1779

44:37 COUNSELOR BREEDEN YES.

44:38 IT'S BREADON AS COUNCIL.

44:40 COLLETTE AS A FATHER.

44:41 ON SOCCER.

44:41 LET US ABOUT A YES, PAPA.

44:43 YES.

44:44 ONCE A QUARTER AS

44:45 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

44:47 IT'S SAID JOKE DANIEL'S

44:48 CONSERVATION.

44:48 YES.

44:49 HUNTER FITZGERALD.

44:50 YES.

44:50 COUNCIL.

44:51 FLYNN.

44:52 YES.

44:52 IT'S OFFLINE.

44:53 YES.

44:53 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES A

44:55 LOUIJEUNE AS COUNCILOR MEJIA ON

44:57 SOME MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY AS

45:00 COUNCIL ON PEPPERONI AS

45:03 COUNCIL SANTANA YES.

45:04 THAT'S A SANTANA AS

45:05 COUNCIL WEBER YES.

45:06 IT'S A WEB BASED ON SEVERAL YES

45:09 COUNCIL ALL RIGHT.

45:10 YES 12 VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE.

45:12 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

45:13 DOCKET 1779 HAS PASSED.

45:17 MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

45:20 READ DOCKET 1780.

45:23 DOCKET 1780 MESSAGE ON ORDER

45:27 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

45:29 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

45:33 OF $150,000 IN THE FORM OF A

45:34 GRANT TO MAYOR'S OFFICE

45:35 OF HUMAN SERVICES CONNECT,

45:37 LEARN AND EXPLORE INITIATIVE

45:39 AWARDED BY BOSTON CHILDREN'S

45:41 HOSPITAL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

45:42 THE OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES.

45:44 THE GRANT WOULD FUND AN ANNUAL

45:47 CITYWIDE ACTIVATIONS SUMMIT FOR

45:50 YOUTH.

45:50 HOST HOST A CAREER AND

45:52 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

45:54 SESSIONS AND NETWORK CONVENING

45:56 FOR YOUTH WORKERS AND CONDUCTED

45:58 YOUTH NEED ASSESSMENT.

46:00 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK CHAIR

46:02 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY,

46:03 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

46:05 HUMAN SERVICES.

46:05 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

46:06 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

46:09 UM, I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND AND

46:10 PASS.

46:11 I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES JOIN ME.

46:12 THIS IS $150,000.

46:15 WHICH HELPS SUPPORT THE WORK

46:19 THAT DIRECTOR PEDRO CRUZ AND

46:21 HIS TEAM ARE DOING FOR OUR

46:23 YOUTH.

46:23 SO AS IT WAS SAID THAT WAS READ

46:26 ALREADY BUT THIS WILL ALSO HOST

46:27 EVENTS ON FRIDAY EVENING

46:29 THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER.

46:30 SOME OF THIS MONEY JUST NEEDS

46:32 TO BE WORK THAT'S ALREADY

46:33 HAPPENED.

46:34 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO

46:35 SUPPORTING PEDRO AND HIS TEAM

46:37 AND I WANT TO THANK DENISE FOR

46:39 ALWAYS SENDING ALONG THE

46:41 EXPLANATIONS SO THAT WE CAN GET

46:43 THESE GRANTS PASSED QUICKLY.

46:45 IF ANYONE HAS.

46:45 ANY OTHER.

46:46 QUESTIONS AFTER THE VOTE, THEY

46:47 CAN ALWAYS REACH OUT TO ME AND

46:48 I CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH MORE

46:50 INFORMATION.

46:51 THANK YOU.

46:51 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

46:54 COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR

46:55 OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN

46:56 SERVICES SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

46:57 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

47:00 1780.

47:00 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

47:02 ALL OPPOSED.

47:03 SAY NAY.

47:05 MADAME CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

47:06 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

47:07 VOTE ON DOCKET 1780.

47:09 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1780

47:13 COUNCILOR BRENNAN YES AND YES.

47:15 COUNCIL COLLETTE AS A PARA.

47:17 COLLETTE AS A FATHER.

47:18 YES.

47:18 COUNCIL PEPPER CONCEPT CALLED

47:20 PEPPER.

47:21 YES.

47:21 COUNCILOR.

47:22 DULL CAN.

47:22 COUNCILOR DULL CAN.

47:23 YES.

47:24 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

47:25 YES.

47:26 FITZGERALD.

47:26 YES.

47:27 COUNCILOR.

47:27 FLYNN.

47:28 COUNCIL FLYNN AS

47:29 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

47:30 YES.

47:30 AND SOLUTION IS COUNCILOR MEJIA

47:33 .

47:34 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

47:34 AND SO MURPHY.

47:36 YES.

47:36 COUNCIL PREP N

47:38 COUNCIL PEPPERINESS

47:39 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

47:41 COUNCIL SANTANA.

47:41 YES.

47:42 CONSUL.

47:42 WEBER.

47:42 YES.

47:43 COUNCIL.

47:44 WEBER.

47:44 YES.

47:44 CONSOLE.

47:45 WELL COUNCILOR WORRELL YES 12

47:48 VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE.

47:49 THANK YOU.

47:50 DOCKET 1780 HAS PASSED.

47:55 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

47:56 READ DOCKET 1781.

47:58 DOCKET 1781 MESSAGE IN ORDER

48:02 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

48:04 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

48:08 OF $125,000 IN THE FORM OF A

48:09 GRANT TO LIBERTY MUTUAL CLIMATE

48:12 RESILIENCY GRANT AWARDED BY

48:14 LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC.

48:17 PASSED THROUGH THE BOSTON LOCAL

48:18 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO BE

48:20 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

48:22 OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

48:23 THE GRANT WOULD FUND MIGRATION

48:25 AND ACTIVITY APPROACHES CLIMATE

48:28 CHANGES BY SUPPORTING

48:30 INNOVATION SOLUTIONS, SCALE AND

48:32 PROVEN TRAGEDIES AND PROMOTING

48:35 NATURE BASED INITIATIVE.

48:36 THE FUN AND POWER, A GRASSROOTS

48:40 EFFORT TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL

48:43 CHALLENGES.

48:44 THANK YOU.

48:45 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

48:46 CANCER ORAL THE CHAIR OF.

48:48 UH THE COMMITTEE ON

48:49 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

48:50 RESILIENCY AND PARKS, YOU HAVE

48:52 THE FLOOR.

48:52 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

48:53 THIS GRANT WILL BE ADMINISTERED

48:55 BY THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

48:56 DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL SUPPORT

48:58 ACTIVITIES THAT POWER COURTS

48:59 BOSTON FUNDS WILL GO TOWARD

49:00 SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND LIVING

49:02 STIPENDS PAID TO POWER FORCE

49:03 MEMBERS DURING THE PERIOD

49:05 OF SERVICE.

49:05 AND I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT

49:06 TO THE WHOLE CREW AT POWER

49:07 CORP'S, UM, ESPECIALLY RICHARD

49:09 AND JOE FOR THEIR WORK WITH MY

49:10 OFFICE AND HELPING TO GET SOME

49:12 EXTRA LOVE TO THE GREEN SPACES

49:13 .

49:14 UM IN MY DISTRICT WHETHER IT'S

49:15 THE GARDEN BEHIND THE COMMONS

49:16 SQUARE LIBRARY OR EVANS

49:17 PLAYGROUND THEY STEPPED UP IN A

49:19 FORCE AND A FORCE WITH MY

49:20 COMMUNITY AND AS CHAIR OF THE

49:22 COMMITTEE OF ENVIRONMENTAL

49:24 JUSTICE, RESILIENCY AND PARKS

49:26 I'M ASKING SUSPENSION AND

49:27 PASSAGE FOR THIS DOCKET.

49:29 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WIRRAL

49:30 COUNCIL REALISTIC SUSPENSION

49:31 OF RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

49:34 1781.

49:34 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

49:37 ALL OPPOSED?

49:38 NAY.

49:40 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

49:41 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

49:42 VOTE ON DOCKET 1781 WILL.

49:44 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1781

49:47 COUNCIL OPERATOR.

49:47 YES.

49:48 IT'S A BLUE DOWN.

49:49 YES.

49:49 GONZALES, COLOR US A POWDER.

49:50 YES.

49:51 LET US THE POWDER.

49:52 YES.

49:53 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

49:54 CULPEPER.

49:55 YES.

49:56 COUNCIL TOKEN.

49:57 YES.

49:58 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

49:59 COUNCIL.

50:00 FITZGERALD.

50:00 YES.

50:01 COUNCIL.

50:01 FLYNN.

50:01 YES.

50:02 FLYNN.

50:02 YES.

50:03 COUNCIL.

50:03 LOUIJEUNE.

50:04 YES.

50:04 ONTO LOUIJEUNE.

50:05 YES.

50:06 COUNCIL.

50:06 MEJIA.

50:07 COUNCIL.

50:08 MURPHY.

50:09 COUNCIL.

50:09 MURPHY.

50:10 YES.

50:10 COUNCIL PREPARED.

50:11 YES.

50:11 AND AS COUNCIL.

50:13 SANTANA.

50:14 COUNCIL.

50:14 SANTANA.

50:15 YES.

50:15 COUNCIL.

50:16 WEBER.

50:16 YES.

50:17 ONCE A WEBER IS CONTROVERSIAL

50:19 COUNCIL AROUND YES 12 VOTES IN

50:21 THE FORMATIVE.

50:22 THANK YOU COUNCIL DOCKET 1781

50:25 HAS PASSED.

50:27 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

50:28 READ DOCKET 1782.

50:32 DOCKET 178 TO MESSAGE AN ORDER

50:35 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

50:37 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

50:40 OF $110,000 IN THE FORM OF A

50:42 GRANT TO FY 27 DAMAGE

50:45 CORRESPOND GRANT AWARDED BY

50:47 MASS DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL

50:48 HEALTH TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

50:50 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

50:51 THE GRANT WOULD FUND ONE FULL

50:54 TIME RECOVERY COACH HIRE TO

50:56 BEST.

50:58 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

50:59 COUNCILOR SANTANA, THE CHAIR

51:00 OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

51:02 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

51:03 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

51:04 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

51:05 THIS GRANT AS PART OF THE

51:07 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT

51:07 OF MENTAL HEALTH EFFORTS TO

51:09 PLACE TRAINED MENTAL HEALTH

51:12 MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

51:13 WITHIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTS

51:14 WILL FUND A FULL TIME

51:16 RECOVERY COACH POSITION AT THE

51:17 BOSTON EMERGENCY SERVICES TEAM

51:19 .

51:20 UM KNOWN AS BEST

51:21 RECOVERY COACHES CAN CONNECT

51:22 WITH INDIVIDUALS AT RISK

51:24 OF OVERDOSE AND OR UM

51:26 OF SURVIVORS OF NON-FATAL

51:27 OVERDOSE AND THE FAMILIES WITH

51:29 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AT MANY SOURCES

51:31 AND DIVERSION PROGRAMS,

51:34 RECOVERY COACHES ARE EMBEDDED

51:34 AS PART OF THE POLICE

51:35 DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

51:37 ,INCLUDING IN CITIES LIKE NEW

51:38 BEDFORD.

51:39 THIS POSITION WILL BE CRITICAL

51:40 LIFESAVING ADDITION TO THE BEST

51:42 TEAM AS CHAIR OF THE PUBLIC

51:43 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

51:44 COMMITTEE, I RECOMMEND THAT

51:45 THIS TALK IT ALL TO PASS.

51:47 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

51:49 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

51:50 COUNCILOR CANCER FLYNN, YOU

51:51 HAVE THE FLOOR.

51:52 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

51:53 I SUPPORT THIS UM, THIS DOCKET

51:56 NUMBER.

51:58 I THINK IT'LL BE CRITICAL TO

51:59 SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN NEED

52:01 OF MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.

52:03 I ALSO WANTED TO RISE TO

52:05 ACKNOWLEDGE THE, UM, STATE

52:07 LEGISLATORS AND THE GOVERNOR

52:09 FOR SUPPORTING THE RESIDENTS

52:11 OF BOSTON.

52:11 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

52:13 THANK YOU.

52:15 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

52:17 UH, SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE

52:18 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

52:20 NUMBER 1782.

52:22 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

52:25 SAY NAY.

52:25 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

52:27 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

52:28 VOTE ON DOCKET 178 TO.

52:31 ROLL CALL.

52:31 VOTE ON DOCKET 1782.

52:33 COUNCILOR BRENNAN.

52:34 YES.

52:35 COUNCIL.

52:35 BREADON.

52:35 YES.

52:36 COUNCIL COLOR A PARA.

52:38 YES.

52:38 I TOOK A LETTER.

52:39 SAFARI.

52:40 YES.

52:40 COUNCIL COUNTERPART ONCE IT IS

52:43 CONSTITUTION.

52:43 WHAT'S A DURKAN?

52:44 YES.

52:45 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

52:46 QUINCY.

52:47 FITZGERALD.

52:48 YES.

52:48 COUNCIL.

52:48 FLYNN.

52:49 YES.

52:49 IT'S A FLAME.

52:50 YES.

52:51 CONSTELLATION.

52:51 YES.

52:52 COUNCIL.

52:52 LUCIA.

52:53 COUNCIL.

52:53 MEJIA.

52:55 COUNCILOR.

52:55 MURPHY.

52:56 COUNCIL.

52:57 MURPHY.

52:57 YES.

52:58 BEN.

52:58 YEAH.

53:00 CANCER PREPAREDNESS COUNSELOR.

53:01 SANTANA.

53:01 YES.

53:01 OH, IT'S A SANTANA.

53:02 YES.

53:03 COUNCIL.

53:03 WEBER.

53:03 YES.

53:04 THAT'S WE HAVE VARIOUS

53:05 COUNCILOR UH COUNCIL AROUND.

53:07 YES.

53:08 12 VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE.

53:10 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

53:13 DOCKET 1782 HAS PASSED.

53:16 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

53:17 READ DOCKET 1783.

53:19 DOCKET 1783 MESSAGE IN ORDER

53:23 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

53:25 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

53:30 OF $92,100.40 IN THE FORM OF A

53:31 GRANT OR A DISLOCATED WORKERS

53:35 ADMIN GRANT AWARDED BY THE

53:36 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

53:38 OF LABOR PASSED TO THE MASS

53:40 HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER

53:42 SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

53:43 THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

53:45 DEVELOPMENT.

53:45 THE GRANT WOULD FUND

53:48 INDIVIDUALIZED CAREER SERVICES

53:49 AND TRAINING SERVICES FOR

53:51 DISLOCATED WORKERS TO REJOIN

53:53 THE WORKFORCE AS EARLY AS

53:55 POSSIBLE AND OVERCOME BARRIERS

53:58 TO EMPLOYMENT.

53:59 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

54:00 COUNTRY WORRELL THE CHAIR

54:02 OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

54:03 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

54:04 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

54:05 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

54:07 UH, THIS IS A SMALL DOLLAR

54:08 GRANT UM, THAT GOES TO THE

54:10 OFFICE TO PROVIDE JOB SEARCH

54:12 SUPPORT, UH, THROUGH

54:13 OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITIES TO

54:15 RETRAIN FOR IN-DEMAND CAREERS

54:17 AND AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

54:18 ON LABOR, ECONOMIC AND

54:18 DEVELOPMENT AND FOR SUSPENSION

54:19 AND PATCH OF THE FISCAL DOCKET

54:21 .

54:22 THANK YOU.

54:22 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

54:23 WE WILL SEEK SUSPENSION, THE

54:24 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

54:26 NUMBER 1783.

54:27 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

54:30 SAY NAY.

54:32 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

54:33 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

54:34 VOTE ON DOCKET 1783 ROLL.

54:36 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1783

54:38 COUNCIL.

54:38 BREADON.

54:39 YES.

54:39 BREADON.

54:40 YES.

54:40 COUNCIL FOR LEVASSEUR.

54:42 CONCEPT THAT IS APPLY TO YES.

54:43 COUNCIL.

54:44 CULPEPER.

54:45 SO.

54:46 PROUD OF DURKAN ONCE A TOKEN

54:49 YES.

54:50 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

54:50 YES.

54:51 COUNCIL.

54:52 FITZGERALD.

54:52 YES.

54:52 COUNCIL.

54:53 FLYNN.

54:53 HUNTER.

54:54 FLYNN.

54:55 YES.

54:55 CONSTELLATION.

54:56 YES.

54:56 COUNCIL.

54:57 LOUISIANA.

54:57 YES.

54:58 CONSUMER HAIR COUNCIL.

55:00 MURPHY.

55:00 COUNCIL.

55:01 MURPHY.

55:01 YES.

55:02 COUNCIL.

55:02 PREPARED COUNCIL AS

55:05 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

55:05 YES ON SO SANTANA IS

55:07 COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL WEBER

55:09 PRESENT AND COUNCIL WILL ARRIVE

55:11 .

55:11 YES COUNCIL WERE EARLIER.

55:13 ON.

55:14 25 SIX AND.

55:16 1011 UM IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ONE

55:19 PRESENT.

55:20 THANK YOU.

55:20 UH, DOCKET 1783 HAS PASSED.

55:24 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

55:25 READ DOCKET NUMBER 1784.

55:31 DOCKET 178 FOR MESSAGE AND

55:34 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

55:36 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

55:38 THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 IN THE

55:40 FORM OF A GRANT BLOOMBERG YOUTH

55:43 CLIMATE ACTION FUND AWARDED BY

55:45 THE BLOOMBERG FOR THE FEES TO

55:47 BE ADMINISTERED BY THE ALL

55:48 WHITE ADMIN.

55:50 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE LAUNCH

55:52 OF OPEN INNOVATION AND

55:54 COMPETITIVE AND MOBILIZE YOUTH

55:58 UM FUNDS TO LAUNCH OR MOBILIZE

56:00 YOUTH PEOPLE AGED 15 TO 24 TO

56:03 DESIGN, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT

56:05 YOUTH DRIVEN SOLUTIONS THAT

56:07 ADDRESS PRESSING LOCAL NEEDS

56:09 AND ALIGN WITH THE CITY'S

56:11 CLIMATE GOALS.

56:13 THANK YOU.

56:14 UH.

56:16 DOCKET 1784 BE REFERRED TO THE

56:19 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES.

56:23 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

56:24 READ DOCKET 178521787 TOGETHER

56:28 ?

56:30 UM, COUNTER MURPHY, YOU HAVE

56:32 THE FLOOR.

56:32 YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

56:33 UM, NO.

56:35 BUT IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND IF WE

56:37 COULD RECONSIDER DOCKET 1784, I

56:39 DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS GOING.

56:41 TO HAVE A SECOND.

56:41 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

56:43 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

56:44 UM.

56:44 FOR THIS SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT

56:46 AND, UM, I THINK IT'D BE

56:48 IMPORTANT IF WE COULD JUST PASS

56:49 THIS GRANT.

56:52 COUNCILOR MURPHY, I BEG YOUR

56:53 PARDON?

56:53 AND WE DON'T DO THIS EVERY DAY.

56:55 UH, I NEED TO VOTE TO

56:57 RECONSIDER YOUR.

56:57 NO, I.

56:58 UNDERSTAND UM, MADAM CLERK,

57:00 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

57:01 CALL?

57:01 VOTE ON THE MOTION TO

57:02 RECONSIDER DOCKET UM, 1784.

57:08 UM.

57:09 AND COUNSELOR BREDON.

57:09 YES.

57:10 CONCEPT READING AS

57:11 COUNCIL LETTERS ABOUT A LET US

57:14 ABOUT A YES COUNCIL CULPEPER ON

57:16 THE COURT CONCEPT DUCKING.

57:18 ONCE A TOKEN HAS GONE TO JOHN

57:21 FITZGERALD AS COUNCIL FLYNN.

57:23 YES.

57:24 THANK YOU FOR ANY AS

57:25 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

57:27 I SOLUTION YES.

57:27 COUNCIL MY HAIR ON SOME

57:29 OF THESE YES ON SOME MURPHY YES

57:31 CONCEPT.

57:33 CONCEPT WEAPON YES.

57:34 COUNCIL.

57:35 SANTANA.

57:35 YES.

57:36 SANTANA.

57:36 YES.

57:37 COUNCIL.

57:37 WEBER.

57:37 YES.

57:38 CONSOLE WEBB I GUESS CONTROLLER

57:39 UM.

57:40 COUNCIL WERE I GUESS 12 VOTES

57:42 AND FORMATIVE TO RECONSIDER.

57:45 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

57:46 COUNCIL MEMBER IF YOU HAVE THE

57:47 FLOOR.

57:47 YES.

57:48 THANK YOU.

57:49 I THINK THE GRANT IS DESCRIBED

57:51 NICELY.

57:52 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S

57:53 DOING BUT I AM EXCITED TO SEE

57:55 THAT WE'RE FUNDING AND

57:56 SUPPORTING OUR YOUTH TO COME UP

57:58 WITH WAYS TO DESIGN AND FIND

57:59 WAYS TO HELP THE CLIMATE ACTION

58:03 FUND HERE.

58:04 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING

58:05 WHATEVER I CAN TO PUSH THIS

58:06 MONEY FORWARD.

58:07 THANK YOU.

58:08 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

58:09 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

58:11 PASSAGE OF ONE.

58:12 SO DOCKET NUMBER 1784 ALL IN

58:14 FAVOR SAY AYE.

58:16 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

58:19 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

58:20 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

58:21 VOTE ON DOCKET 178 FOR ROLL

58:24 CALL.

58:24 VOTE ON DOCKET 178 FOR COUNCIL.

58:27 BREDON.

58:28 YES.

58:28 ONCE A BREADON HAS

58:30 CONCEPTUALIZED AS A MATTER ONCE

58:31 A POLITICAL PARTY AS

58:32 COUNCIL COUNTERPART.

58:33 ONCE A.

58:34 YEAR CONSIDERED IN.

58:36 CONSIDER CAN YES

58:37 COUNCIL FITZGERALD WANTS A

58:39 FITZGERALD.

58:39 YES.

58:40 COUNCIL FLYNN.

58:41 IS WONDERFUL ANY IS

58:42 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES ON

58:44 SOLUTION IS COUNCIL MY HERE

58:46 COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL MURPHY

58:48 YES CONCEPT WEAPON.

58:50 COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS

58:52 COUNCIL SANTANA COUNCIL SANTANA

58:54 YES.

58:54 COUNCIL WEBER.

58:56 YES.

58:56 CONTROL AROUND.

58:58 COUNCIL AROUND YES.

58:59 TRY VOTING NO.

59:00 AFFIRMATIVE.

59:01 THANK YOU.

59:02 DOCKET 1784 HAS.

59:04 PASSED.

59:05 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

59:06 PLEASE READ DOCKETS 178531787.

59:12 DOCKET 1785 MESSAGE IN ORDER

59:16 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

59:17 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

59:20 OF $50,000 IN THE FORM OF A

59:21 GRANT THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH

59:24 OPPORTUNITY BOSTON VOTE BY POST

59:26 GRANT AWARDED BY THE RIBOSE

59:28 GROUP TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

59:30 OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

59:32 DEVELOPMENT.

59:32 THE GRANT WOULD FUND

59:34 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

59:35 AGES AGED AGES 14 TO 24 TO WORK

59:39 AND LEARN ALONGSIDE WITH

59:41 INTENSIVE STAFF SUPPORT.

59:43 DOCKET 1786 MESSAGE IN ORDER

59:46 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

59:48 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

59:54 OF $43,312.50 IN THE FORM OF A

59:55 GRANT F Y O B B L K SCHOLAR

59:59 PROGRAM GRANT AWARDED BY THE

1:00:02 BOSTON FOUNDATION TO BE

1:00:03 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

1:00:04 OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

1:00:05 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SUMMER

1:00:07 JOBS, FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND

1:00:10 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1:00:12 OPPORTUNITIES FOR.

1:00:12 BOSTON YOUTH.

1:00:13 AND DOCKET 1787 MESSAGE IN

1:00:16 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

1:00:18 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

1:00:19 THE AMOUNT OF $40,603.54 IN THE

1:00:26 FORM OF A GRANT WPP SNAP ITS

1:00:30 EXPANSION GRANT AWARDED BY USDA

1:00:33 FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE,

1:00:36 PASS THROUGH THE MASS HIRE

1:00:37 DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER SERVICES

1:00:39 TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

1:00:41 OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

1:00:42 .

1:00:43 THE GRANT WOULD FUND ENHANCE

1:00:45 JOB SEARCH SERVICE FOR TAP AND

1:00:47 SNAP PARTICIPANT FUNDS

1:00:50 INCLUDING CAREER COUNSELING

1:00:51 WORKSHOP JOB FAIR AND FREE JOB

1:00:53 SEARCH RESOURCES TO BOSTON,

1:00:55 MASS HIRE CAREER CENTERS.

1:00:58 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.

1:01:01 DOCKETS 178531787 WILL BE

1:01:05 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:01:06 LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

1:01:09 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:01:10 READ DOCKET 1788.

1:01:14 DOCKET 1788 MESSAGE AND ORDER

1:01:17 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:01:18 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

1:01:22 OF $25,000 IN THE FORM OF A

1:01:24 GRANT ELEVATE CITIES PROGRAM

1:01:26 AWARDED BY OTHER CITIES TO BE

1:01:28 ADMINISTERED BY THE MAYOR'S

1:01:29 OFFICE.

1:01:29 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SERVICES

1:01:31 TO SUPPORT THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1:01:32 BLOCK PARTIES, COMMUNITY

1:01:35 ACTIVATION STIPENDS AND THE

1:01:36 GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY EVENT.

1:01:39 THANK YOU.

1:01:40 DOCKET 178 IT WILL BE

1:01:42 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:01:43 CITY SERVICES.

1:01:44 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:01:46 READ DOCKET 1789.

1:01:49 DOCKET 1789 MESSAGE AND ORDER

1:01:52 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:01:53 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND AMOUNT

1:01:57 OF $15,000 IN THE FORM OF A

1:01:58 GROUND B.

1:01:59 TO EIGHT C.

1:02:00 PROGRAM AWARDED BY DONOR GROUP

1:02:03 TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

1:02:04 OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

1:02:06 TO GRANT WOULD FUND FREE TAX

1:02:08 PREPARATION AND FINANCE

1:02:09 SERVICES TO LOW MODERATE INCOME

1:02:12 BOSTON RESIDENTS.

1:02:14 THANK YOU.

1:02:15 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:02:16 COUNCILOR ORAL COUNSELOR YOU

1:02:16 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:02:17 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:02:18 UM THIS IS A SMALL DOLLAR

1:02:20 AMOUNT GRANT THAT'S GOING TO

1:02:21 HELP UH WITH FREE TAX SERVICES.

1:02:23 SO I'M LOOKING FOR SUSPENSION

1:02:25 AND PASS.

1:02:26 THANK YOU.

1:02:27 COUNCILOR AROUND THE CHAIR

1:02:28 OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

1:02:29 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SEEK

1:02:30 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:02:31 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1789.

1:02:33 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:02:35 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

1:02:37 YEAH I HAVE A DOCKET 1789 HAS

1:02:41 PASSED.

1:02:43 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:02:44 READ DOCKET 1790.

1:02:48 DOCKET 1790 MESSAGE ON THE

1:02:51 AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO ACCEPT

1:02:52 AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

1:02:55 OF $10,000 IN THE FORM OF A

1:02:56 GRANT AT 523 NATIONAL VIOLENT

1:03:00 DEAD REPORTING SYSTEM AWARDED

1:03:02 BY MASS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

1:03:04 HEALTH TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

1:03:05 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

1:03:06 THE GRANT WOULD FUND DATA

1:03:09 COLLECTION BY THE BUREAU

1:03:10 OF INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES AND

1:03:12 THE DRUG CONTROL UNIT.

1:03:14 THANK YOU.

1:03:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRIES

1:03:16 AND TOWN OF THE CHAIR OF THE

1:03:18 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

1:03:19 CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:03:19 CARTER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:03:21 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:03:22 THIS GRANT PROVIDES FUNDING TO

1:03:24 ASSIST THE BOSTON POLICE

1:03:25 DEPARTMENT IN PROCESSING AND

1:03:26 REPORTING LOCAL DATA TO THE

1:03:28 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT

1:03:29 OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOR ENTRY INTO

1:03:31 THE CDC'S NATIONAL VIOLENT

1:03:32 DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM AS THE

1:03:35 ONLY NATIONWIDE DATABASE OF ITS

1:03:37 KIND, THE SYSTEM GATHERS

1:03:39 ANONYMOUS DATA ACROSS ALL 50

1:03:40 STATES ON HOMICIDES, SUICIDES

1:03:42 AND FIREARM RELATED DEATHS DATA

1:03:45 UM COLLECTED SUCH AS MENTAL

1:03:47 HEALTH CONDITIONS UM CAN

1:03:48 PROVIDE VALUABLE CONTEXT AND

1:03:50 HELP DECISION MAKERS AND PUBLIC

1:03:51 SAFETY TO DEVELOP AND TAILOR

1:03:53 VIOLENCE PREVENTION EFFORTS BY

1:03:55 GATHERING KEY DETAILS LIKE

1:03:56 MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND

1:03:58 TOXICOLOGY REPORTS, WE GET MUCH

1:04:00 CLEARER PICTURE OF WHY THESE

1:04:02 TRAGEDIES HAPPEN.

1:04:03 AS CHAIR OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY

1:04:04 AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, I

1:04:05 COMMEND, UM THAT THIS DOCKET

1:04:07 OUGHT TO PASS.

1:04:08 THANK YOU COUNCILOR CONSCIOUS

1:04:11 AND TOWN OF THE CHAIR OF THE

1:04:12 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

1:04:13 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SEEK

1:04:14 SUSPENSION THE RULES OF PASSAGE

1:04:15 OF DOCKET 1790.

1:04:17 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:04:19 ALL OPPOSED.

1:04:20 SAY NAY.

1:04:22 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:04:23 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:04:25 VOTE ON DOCKET 1790.

1:04:27 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1790

1:04:30 COUNCIL.

1:04:31 BREDON.

1:04:31 YES.

1:04:32 READING AS COUNCIL COLLECTOR

1:04:33 ABABA.

1:04:34 CONCEPT THE.

1:04:35 LETTERS OF PROTEST

1:04:36 COUNCILOR.

1:04:36 CULPEPER CANCER CODE FOR

1:04:39 CANCER DUNCAN HUNTER.

1:04:40 DUNCAN.

1:04:40 YES.

1:04:41 COUNCIL.

1:04:41 FITZGERALD.

1:04:43 YES.

1:04:44 COUNCIL.

1:04:44 FLYNN.

1:04:45 YES.

1:04:45 THAT'S A FLYNN.

1:04:46 YES.

1:04:47 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE CONSTITUTION.

1:04:49 YES.

1:04:49 COUNCIL MEMBER HERE.

1:04:51 COUNCIL.

1:04:51 MURPHY.

1:04:52 CHRISTIAN.

1:04:52 MURPHY AS CONCEPT WEAPON.

1:04:54 LOTS OF OPINIONS.

1:04:56 COUNCIL SANTANA YES.

1:04:57 IT'S A SANTANA CONSOLE.

1:04:59 WEBER YES.

1:04:59 CONSOLE BIRTH CONSOLE A.

1:05:02 CONSOLE ABOUT.

1:05:03 YES 12 VOTING NO FOR MY CHAIR.

1:05:05 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR 1790 HAS

1:05:08 PASSED.

1:05:11 WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS

1:05:12 OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

1:05:14 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:05:15 READ DOCKETS 179131794.

1:05:22 DOCKET 1791 COMMUNICATION WAS

1:05:25 RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT

1:05:28 BREEDEN TRANSMITTED A LETTER

1:05:30 FROM BOSTON ELECTED OFFICIALS

1:05:32 OPPOSITION TO PERMANENT CLOSURE

1:05:34 OF THE BOSTON ALLSTON POST

1:05:35 OFFICE BRANCH DOCKET 1792

1:05:39 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

1:05:41 COUNCILOR MURPHY REGARDING

1:05:42 CHAPMAN STREET AND PARKER

1:05:44 STREET ROADWAY MARKETING AND

1:05:46 SAFETY CONCERNS.

1:05:48 DOCKET 1973 COMMUNICATION WAS

1:05:51 RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:05:52 REGARDING THE U.S. ARMY CORPS

1:05:55 OF ENGINEERS IN BOSTON.

1:05:57 A COASTAL STORM RISK MANAGEMENT

1:05:58 STUDY AND DOCKET 1794

1:06:02 COMMUNICATION WAS ISSUED FROM

1:06:03 JEFFREY P MULLEN FROM THE

1:06:05 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT

1:06:07 OF TRANSPORTATION REGARDING

1:06:09 STATE HIGHWAY ALTERNATIVE PLAN

1:06:11 AND ALTERNATIVE AND CITY LAYOUT

1:06:14 LOON OUT AND TRANSFER

1:06:17 OF PORTIONS OF CONGRESS STREET

1:06:18 AND ALL OF THE WEST SERVICE

1:06:20 ROAD TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:06:22 THANK YOU.

1:06:23 DOCKET ONE DOCKETS 179121794

1:06:27 WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.

1:06:29 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:06:31 READ DOCKETS ONE DOCKET 1795.

1:06:35 DOCKET 1795 THE CONSTABLE BOND

1:06:38 OF JOSEPH SMITH HAVING BEEN

1:06:40 DULY APPROVED BY THE COLLECTION

1:06:42 TREASURER I WAS RECEIVED.

1:06:43 THANK YOU DOCKET 1795 AS

1:06:47 APPROVED UNDER THE USUAL TERMS

1:06:48 AND CONDITIONS.

1:06:51 WE'RE NOW ON TO MATTERS

1:06:52 RECENTLY HEARD.

1:06:54 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:06:55 READ DOCKETS 10851395 AND 1397.

1:07:03 TOGETHER DOCKET 1085 MESSAGE

1:07:07 AND ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

1:07:09 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

1:07:11 THE AMOUNT OF $20,930 IN THE.

1:07:15 FORM OF A.

1:07:16 GRANT TO OUTSIDE GROWTH A

1:07:18 FELLOWSHIP GRANT AWARDED BY

1:07:20 CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE

1:07:23 OF BOSTON TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

1:07:24 THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION

1:07:26 AND TECHNOLOGY.

1:07:27 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

1:07:29 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OF THE

1:07:30 CENTRAL ID TRAINING PROGRAM.

1:07:32 GRADUATES DOCKET 1395 MESSAGE

1:07:36 IN ORDER OF THE RISE AND THE

1:07:37 CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND

1:07:39 EXPAND THE AMOUNT

1:07:45 OF $225,125.11 IN THE.

1:07:46 FORM OF A GRANT.

1:07:48 TO MBI DIGITAL EQUITY

1:07:50 PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM AWARDED BY

1:07:52 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

1:07:54 OF TREASURY.

1:07:55 PASS THROUGH THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:07:57 TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION TO BE

1:07:59 ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT.

1:08:02 OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY.

1:08:03 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SERVICES

1:08:05 AND SUPPORT FOR RESIDENTS

1:08:08 OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO CANNOT

1:08:09 AFFORD BROADBAND SERVICES AND

1:08:12 OR INTERNET CONNECTION DEVICES

1:08:14 OR LACK OF DIGITAL LITERACY

1:08:16 SELF NEEDED TO UTILIZE INTERNET

1:08:19 AND DOCKET 1397 MESSAGE IN

1:08:22 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

1:08:23 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

1:08:25 A GIFT FOR 43 HEATING,

1:08:28 VENTILATION AND AIR

1:08:28 CONDITIONING UNITS FOR VARIOUS

1:08:31 TYPE OF VALUES AT $84,210 FOR

1:08:39 FY 2026 US INC. THE GIFT WAS

1:08:41 AWARDED TO THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:08:43 THROUGH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR

1:08:44 USE OF PUBLIC FACILITIES AND

1:08:46 VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE

1:08:48 CITY INCLUDING POLICE STATIONS

1:08:50 ,SCHOOLS AND MUNICIPAL

1:08:52 OFFICES.

1:08:53 THANK YOU.

1:08:54 MADAM CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:08:55 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:08:56 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:08:57 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:08:58 MADAM CHAIR WITH THE

1:08:59 COMMISSION.

1:09:00 MAY I SPEAK ON ALL OF THESE

1:09:02 DOCKETS AT THE SAME TIME?

1:09:03 WE WILL YOU MAY SPEAK ON ALL

1:09:04 OF THEM AND WE'LL VOTE ON THEM

1:09:06 SEPARATELY.

1:09:07 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:09:10 THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING

1:09:13 ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2026

1:09:17 TO DISCUSS DOCKETS 1084 1395

1:09:22 AND 1397.

1:09:25 THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY

1:09:27 FROM PANELISTS FROM THE CITY

1:09:30 OF BOSTON DEPARTMENT

1:09:31 OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

1:09:33 CHIEF DIGITAL EQUITY OFFICER

1:09:36 AND DIRECTOR OF BROADBAND AND

1:09:38 CABLE BRIAN DONAHUE, BROADBAND

1:09:41 AND DIGITAL EQUITY ADVOCACY

1:09:43 EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE PETER

1:09:47 SEVERINO AND SENIOR DIRECTOR

1:09:50 OF OPERATION OPERATION SHIELD

1:09:51 SHIELD AS WELL AS FROM THE

1:09:53 MAYOR'S OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF

1:09:56 OF OPERATIONS REAL ESTATE AND

1:09:57 CAPITAL STRATEGIES TRISH

1:10:00 CAFFREY.

1:10:05 THE FOLLOWING CITY COUNCILORS

1:10:07 ATTENDED THE PUBLIC HEARING

1:10:10 NONE.

1:10:13 NO CITY COUNCIL IS ATTORNEY

1:10:16 REGARDING DOCKET ZERO 1085

1:10:20 PANELIST STATED THAT THIS GRANT

1:10:21 WILL BE USED TO FUND ONE

1:10:23 FELLOWSHIP POSITION.

1:10:25 PANELISTS NOTED THAT TWO IT HAS

1:10:27 HOSTED FIVE FELLOWS IN THE PAST

1:10:30 AND OF THOSE FIVE TO WILL LATER

1:10:32 HIRED INTO A FULL TIME ENTRY

1:10:34 LEVEL POSITION.

1:10:37 REGARDING DOCKET 1395,

1:10:38 PANELISTS NOTED THAT THE NEXT

1:10:40 ROUND OF FUNDING REPRESENTED BY

1:10:42 THE PROPOSED ORDER WOULD FOCUS

1:10:45 ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI

1:10:47 LITERACY ESPECIALLY AVOIDING

1:10:50 SCAMS.

1:10:51 WE TALK SIGNIFICANTLY ABOUT

1:10:54 SCAMS AND HOW THEY IMPACT OUR

1:10:57 SENIORS, HOW THEY IMPACT.

1:11:01 OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS.

1:11:04 AND WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW

1:11:07 WE'RE ABLE TO SUPPORT RETURNING

1:11:10 CITIZENS WITH DIGITAL ACCESS

1:11:13 DIGITAL EQUITY.

1:11:14 I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE

1:11:16 MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THE

1:11:17 IMPORTANT WORK OF HELPING

1:11:20 RETURNING CITIZENS.

1:11:22 IT'S AN ISSUE I'VE FOCUSED ON

1:11:24 AS A AS A PROBATION OFFICER FOR

1:11:26 FOR MANY YEARS.

1:11:27 THEY'RE HAVING AN UPCOMING KIND

1:11:30 OF A OPEN HOUSE NEXT MONDAY I

1:11:33 BELIEVE WHILE THE MONDAY AFTER

1:11:35 UM TO HELP RETURNING CITIZENS

1:11:37 ACCESS UM OR EDUCATE THEM I

1:11:39 SHOULD SAY ON COMPUTER AND UM

1:11:44 HOW TO NAVIGATE THE COMPUTER

1:11:46 SYSTEM SUCH AS GETTING A UM

1:11:49 PROPER PAPERWORK SO THAT THEY

1:11:51 CAN.

1:11:53 CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY.

1:11:55 UM.

1:11:58 I'LL CONTINUE.

1:12:00 UM, THE PANELISTS MORE BROADLY

1:12:02 DISCUSS THE CITY'S DIGITAL

1:12:03 EQUITY FUND DESCRIBING RECENT

1:12:06 SUCCESS AS WELL AS WORKING WITH

1:12:10 DEPARTMENT UH OFFICE

1:12:12 OF RETURNING CITIZENS TO SERVE

1:12:13 RECENTLY INCARCERATED RESIDENTS

1:12:14 AND OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AS

1:12:16 WELL REGARDING DOCKET 1397

1:12:21 PANELISTS NOTED THAT THE

1:12:22 ADMINISTRATION TOOK RECEIPT

1:12:25 OF THE UNITS AND INVENTORIED

1:12:28 THEM.

1:12:29 THOSE ARE THOSE ARE HVAC

1:12:32 SYSTEMS.

1:12:34 BUT THEY WILL NOT DISTRIBUTE

1:12:36 THEM UNTIL FACILITIES IN THE

1:12:39 COUNCIL APPROVED ACCEPTING THE

1:12:40 GIFTS.

1:12:41 SO BASICALLY WHAT WHAT THIS

1:12:43 GRANT WHAT THIS WOULD DO IS

1:12:45 PROVIDE HVAC SYSTEMS UM

1:12:50 SLIGHTLY SLIGHTLY USED BUT IN

1:12:52 VERY GOOD ORDER TO A CITY

1:12:54 MUNICIPAL BUILDING UM OR OR

1:12:57 SCHOOLS.

1:13:00 PANELISTS DESCRIBE THE UNITS AS

1:13:02 MANY SPLITS, EACH WITH AN

1:13:05 EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR COMPONENT

1:13:06 COMING IN THREE VARIETIES

1:13:09 DISTINGUISHED BY COOLING

1:13:10 CAPACITY ONE TON, 1.5 TON AND

1:13:14 TWO TON PIANOS STATED THAT

1:13:16 WHILE NO DECISIONS HAVE BEEN

1:13:17 MADE YET, THE ADMINISTRATION

1:13:19 HAS COMMUNICATED WITH

1:13:21 FACILITIES DIRECTORS ACROSS

1:13:22 DEPARTMENTS AND PLANS TO

1:13:24 PRIORITIZE.

1:13:25 AS I MENTIONED, THE BOSTON

1:13:26 PUBLIC SCHOOLS SITES HVAC

1:13:29 SYSTEMS ARE CRITICAL AND I OUR

1:13:33 SCHOOLS ESPECIALLY FOR LEARNING

1:13:37 AND TEACHING.

1:13:39 AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

1:13:40 CITY SERVICES I RECOMMEND

1:13:41 MOVING THE REQUESTED DOCKET

1:13:43 FROM THE COMMITTEE TO THE FULL

1:13:45 COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION AND

1:13:48 FORMAL ACTION.

1:13:50 AT THIS TIME, MY RECOMMENDATION

1:13:51 TO THE FULL COUNCIL IS THAT

1:13:53 THESE MATTERS OUGHT TO PASS.

1:13:55 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:13:57 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:14:00 COUNCILOR FLYNN, THE CHAIR

1:14:01 OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY

1:14:03 SERVICES.

1:14:04 SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:14:05 COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

1:14:07 OF DOCKET 1085.

1:14:09 ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE.

1:14:12 ALL OPPOSED?

1:14:13 SAY NAY.

1:14:14 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:14:16 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:14:17 VOTE ON DOCKET 1085.

1:14:20 WE'LL CALL.

1:14:21 VOTE ON DOCKET 1085

1:14:23 COUNCILOR BRITAIN YES.

1:14:24 I SAID WE'D ONLY ASK FOR.

1:14:26 LETTERS OPERA.

1:14:27 ONCE A GET A SEPARATE YES

1:14:29 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

1:14:32 YES.

1:14:32 CONCEPT.

1:14:33 COUNCILOR DULL ATTORNEY.

1:14:34 HAS GOING TO.

1:14:35 FITZGERALD.

1:14:35 YES.

1:14:36 COUNCIL.

1:14:36 FITZGERALD.

1:14:37 YES.

1:14:37 COUNCIL FLYNN.

1:14:39 YES.

1:14:40 COUNCIL PLANNING AS

1:14:41 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:14:41 YES.

1:14:42 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:14:43 YES.

1:14:43 COUNCIL MEMBER HERE.

1:14:44 WATSON.

1:14:45 HERE.

1:14:45 YES.

1:14:46 CONSOLE MURPHY.

1:14:47 ON SOME.

1:14:47 MURPHY.

1:14:48 YES.

1:14:48 CONCEPT WEAPON.

1:14:48 YES.

1:14:50 COUNCIL.

1:14:51 SANTANA.

1:14:51 YES.

1:14:52 COUNCIL.

1:14:52 SANTANA.

1:14:53 YES.

1:14:53 COUNCIL.

1:14:54 WEBER.

1:14:56 COUNCIL AROUND CONSOLE.

1:14:57 WELL YES 12 VOTES AND

1:15:00 FORMATIVE.

1:15:01 THANK YOU.

1:15:02 DOCKET NUMBER 1085 IS PASSED.

1:15:05 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE AND

1:15:07 CITY SERVICES SIX ACCEPTANCE

1:15:08 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

1:15:09 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1395.

1:15:11 ALL IN FAVOR SAY.

1:15:14 I ALL OPPOSED.

1:15:14 SAY NAY.

1:15:16 THANK YOU.

1:15:17 UM, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

1:15:19 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:15:20 VOTE ON DOCKET 1395 ROLL.

1:15:22 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1395.

1:15:25 COUNCILOR BRAEDEN.

1:15:26 YES.

1:15:26 WHAT ARE.

1:15:27 YOU DOING, CHOCOLATE AS A

1:15:28 PARA?

1:15:29 YES.

1:15:29 CONSEGUIR LET US ABOUT YES

1:15:31 COPPER FOR.

1:15:32 ITS CULPEPER.

1:15:33 YES COUNCILOR.

1:15:34 YEAH THAT'S A JOKING AS.

1:15:36 COUNTERFEIT SHARON.

1:15:37 YES IT'S FITZGERALD.

1:15:38 IS COUNCIL FLYNN?

1:15:39 YES IT'S FLYNN YES.

1:15:41 CONCLUSION.

1:15:43 SOLUTION COUNCIL ME HERE

1:15:44 WHAT'S ON MEJIA.

1:15:45 IS COUNCIL MURPHY.

1:15:47 COUNCIL MURPHY.

1:15:48 YES.

1:15:49 YES AS.

1:15:52 COUNCIL SANTANA.

1:15:52 YES PUTS US ON TIME IS.

1:15:54 COUNCIL WEBER CONSOLE SEVERAL.

1:15:57 YES.

1:15:58 CONSTABLE.

1:15:58 RIGHT.

1:15:58 YES.

1:15:59 12 VOTES IN THE FAMILY.

1:16:00 THANK YOU MADAM UH, TRUCK THE

1:16:02 COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

1:16:03 ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1395 IS

1:16:05 PASSED.

1:16:07 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:16:08 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:16:09 I BEG YOUR PARDON?

1:16:10 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

1:16:12 CITY SERVICES SEEKS ACCEPTANCE

1:16:13 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

1:16:14 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1397.

1:16:17 UH, ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

1:16:19 OPPOSED.

1:16:20 SAY NAY.

1:16:21 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:16:23 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:16:23 VOTE ON DOCKET 1397A.

1:16:26 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1397.

1:16:28 COUNCIL BREDON.

1:16:29 YES, THAT'S A BREDON.

1:16:30 YES.

1:16:31 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:16:32 PARA.

1:16:32 YES.

1:16:33 I'M CHOCOLATE AS.

1:16:34 A BODY.

1:16:35 AS COUNCIL.

1:16:35 CULPEPER COUNCIL.

1:16:36 CULPEPPER.

1:16:37 YES.

1:16:37 COUNCILOR DURKAN?

1:16:38 YES.

1:16:38 ONCE A TOKEN.

1:16:39 YES.

1:16:40 GOING TO FITZGERALD ONTO

1:16:42 FITZGERALD.

1:16:42 YES.

1:16:43 COUNCIL.

1:16:43 FLYNN.

1:16:44 YES.

1:16:46 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:16:47 YES.

1:16:47 COUNCIL LOUISIANA.

1:16:48 YES.

1:16:48 COUNCIL.

1:16:49 MAYOR.

1:16:49 ME.

1:16:50 YES.

1:16:51 COUNCIL.

1:16:51 MURPHY.

1:16:51 THAT'S A MURPHY THAT'S.

1:16:53 GOING TO HAPPEN.

1:16:53 YES.

1:16:55 COUNCIL.

1:16:56 SANTANA.

1:16:58 YES.

1:16:58 SO WEBER.

1:16:59 ON SEVERAL.

1:17:00 FRONTS OVERALL YES.

1:17:02 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:17:04 THANK YOU.

1:17:05 DOCKET 1397 HAS PASSED.

1:17:09 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:17:11 READ DOCKET.

1:17:15 14141414 ORDINANCE AMENDING

1:17:17 CHAPTER 16 OF THE CITY

1:17:18 OF BOSTON CODE ORDINANCES

1:17:20 PROHIBITING THE SALE OF USE

1:17:23 SOMATIC MAJOR HYGIENE AND HIGH

1:17:27 TO MAJOR HYGIENE AND OTHER

1:17:28 DANGEROUS CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS.

1:17:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY CLUB

1:17:33 AS A PARTY CHAIR OF GOVERNMENT

1:17:35 OF PERU OPERATIONS YOU HAVE THE

1:17:36 FLOOR.

1:17:37 THANK YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH

1:17:38 CLARK I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SAY

1:17:39 TO YOU SO WE'RE JUST SAYING 700

1:17:41 .

1:17:41 UM.

1:17:42 FOR THE RECORD, UH.

1:17:43 ON SEPTEMBER 21ST THE COMMITTEE

1:17:45 ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

1:17:45 HELD THE THREE HOUR HEARING ON

1:17:47 THIS DOCKET SPONSORED BY

1:17:48 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND FLYNN

1:17:49 ADDRESSING THE SALE AND USE

1:17:51 OF SYNTHETIC AND HIGHLY

1:17:52 CONCENTRATED KRATOM COMPOUNDS

1:17:53 INCLUDING 70H.

1:17:55 WE HEARD FROM THE BFSI, THE

1:17:57 NATIONAL CREATE AND POLICY AND

1:17:58 REGULATORY EXPERTS AND TWO

1:18:00 DOZEN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

1:18:01 THE TESTIMONY UNDERSCORED AN

1:18:03 IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN

1:18:04 TRADITIONAL BOTANICAL KRATOM

1:18:05 AND NEWER CONCENTRATED AND

1:18:08 SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS WHILE

1:18:10 RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT PUBLIC

1:18:11 HEALTH, APPROPRIATE POTENCY

1:18:13 THRESHOLD ENFORCEMENT, DUE

1:18:14 PROCESS AND HOW BOSTON SHOULD.

1:18:16 INTERACT WITH STATE AND FEDERAL

1:18:18 LAW.

1:18:19 MASSACHUSETTS TEMPORARILY

1:18:20 PLACED ALL FORMS OF KRATOM IN

1:18:22 SCHEDULE ONE AND THAT, AND THAT

1:18:24 STATEWIDE ACTION IS CURRENTLY

1:18:25 BEING CHALLENGED IN COURT AT

1:18:27 THE FEDERAL UM EXCUSE ME.

1:18:29 AND THAT ACTION IS CURRENTLY

1:18:30 BEING CHALLENGED IN COURT AT

1:18:31 THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THE DEA HAS

1:18:33 BEEN CONSIDERING A THRESHOLD

1:18:34 BASED ON UM APPROACH TWO SEVEN

1:18:37 AND WHILE ALREADY SCHEDULING

1:18:39 THREE RELATED SYNTHETIC

1:18:40 COMPOUNDS, OUR NEXT STEP IS TO

1:18:42 TAKE THE SUBSTANTIVE

1:18:43 SUGGESTIONS WE HEARD AND WORK

1:18:45 THROUGH THEM IN WORK SESSIONS

1:18:46 WITH SPONSORS AND STAKEHOLDERS.

1:18:47 WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND

1:18:49 FORTHCOMING FEDERAL ACTION

1:18:50 WHICH MY UNDERSTANDING IT'S

1:18:51 GOING TO BE PASSED DOWN BY THE

1:18:52 DEA IN TWO WEEKS AND CONTINUE

1:18:55 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HEALY

1:18:56 ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE

1:18:57 COMMONWEALTH'S LONGER TERM

1:18:58 APPROACH AND CLOSELY FOLLOW THE

1:19:00 PENDING LEGAL CHALLENGE TO THE

1:19:02 STATE'S EMERGENCY ORDER VERY

1:19:03 CAREFULLY SO THAT BOSTON ITSELF

1:19:04 DOES NOT, UM, FIND ITSELF IN

1:19:07 ITS OWN LEGAL CHALLENGE WHICH

1:19:08 WILL COST THE TAXPAYER MONEY

1:19:09 AND ALL OF THAT.

1:19:11 SO UM, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS

1:19:12 WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS

1:19:13 THOUGHTFULLY AND DELIBERATELY

1:19:15 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

1:19:16 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:19:16 UH AND I WILL PASS THE MIC TO

1:19:18 HIM SINCE HE IS LEAD

1:19:19 CO-SPONSOR.

1:19:19 THANK YOU.

1:19:21 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:19:22 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNTRY

1:19:23 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:19:24 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:19:25 I JUST WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR.

1:19:26 GOVERNMENT CONCERNS GLADYS

1:19:27 ABOUT IT.

1:19:27 SHE RAN A GREAT, UH, HEARING

1:19:28 THE OTHER DAY.

1:19:29 UH, AND WE HAD A LOT

1:19:30 OF TESTIMONY UH, AT THE END

1:19:31 OF IT WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:19:32 WE GET THE WORDING RIGHT.

1:19:33 THE STATE HAS A TEMPORARY BAN

1:19:36 ON, UH, THE SYNTHETIC KRATOM AS

1:19:38 IT SPEAKS.

1:19:38 IT IS STILL AVAILABLE OVER THE

1:19:40 COUNTER IN OUR CITY AT THE

1:19:41 MOMENT.

1:19:41 UH, BUT THAT BAN IS TEMPORARY

1:19:43 AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:19:45 WHENEVER THAT BAN IS TAKEN

1:19:47 DOWN, WHETHER IT RUNS OUT IN

1:19:48 THE STATUTORY YEAR OR IT'S

1:19:50 TAKEN DOWN FOR ANY OTHER

1:19:51 REASON, UH, THAT OUR ORDINANCE

1:19:53 WOULD GO INTO EFFECT RIGHT AWAY

1:19:55 SO NOT TO HAVE A GAP IN A

1:19:56 WINDOW TO ALLOW THIS STUFF TO

1:19:58 COME BACK INTO OUR CITY.

1:19:59 UM, SO JUST BEING VERY OVERLY

1:20:01 CAUTIOUS ABOUT IT, UH, AND IT

1:20:02 IS SOMETHING THAT UH IS

1:20:04 BECOMING MORE PREVALENT, UH,

1:20:06 WHEN FOLKS OVERDOSE KRATOM IS

1:20:08 FOUND IN THEIR SYSTEM.

1:20:09 UH, AND THE SYNTHETIC STUFF IS

1:20:10 ACTUALLY, UH WE SHOULD STOP

1:20:12 CALLING IT KRATOM BECAUSE IT IS

1:20:13 NOT THE KRATOM LEAF BUT RATHER

1:20:15 ONE OF 52 DIFFERENT ALKALOIDS

1:20:17 TAKEN OUT OF THE LEAF AND

1:20:18 COMBINED WITH MANY OTHER

1:20:20 CHEMICALS UH AND AND MARKETED

1:20:22 AS KRATOM.

1:20:23 UM AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE THAT

1:20:25 DISTINCTION AND I JUST AGAIN

1:20:26 WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY THAT

1:20:27 PARTICIPATED IN THE HEARING UH

1:20:29 AND LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING

1:20:30 THIS ORDINANCE PASSED.

1:20:30 THANK YOU.

1:20:31 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:20:32 .

1:20:33 DOCKET 1414 WILL REMAIN IN

1:20:36 COMMITTEE.

1:20:37 MADAM CLERK, YOU PLEASE READ

1:20:38 DOCKET 13381338.

1:20:43 ORDER FOR YOU HERE AND TO

1:20:44 DISCUSS REESTABLISHING A POST

1:20:46 OFFICE.

1:20:47 LOCATION IN ALLSTON.

1:20:49 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:20:50 COUNCILOR DRUNKEN CULTURE.

1:20:51 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:20:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH,

1:20:53 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

1:20:54 AND I.

1:20:54 DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO MAKE

1:20:55 YOUR WAY DOWN.

1:20:55 I WAS GOING TO GIVE YOU A

1:20:56 CHANCE TO SPEAK, UM, YESTERDAY

1:20:58 ,UH, SEPTEMBER 21ST I CHARITY

1:21:00 HEARING IN THE PILOT COMMITTEE

1:21:01 ON A REESTABLISHING A POST

1:21:03 OFFICE IN ALLSTON.

1:21:04 THIS HEARING ORDER WAS

1:21:05 SPONSORED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

1:21:06 LIZ BREADON.

1:21:07 WE WERE JOINED BY COUNCILORS

1:21:08 FLYNN FITZGERALD AND COLE

1:21:09 PEPPER.

1:21:09 THE COMMITTEE ALSO RECEIVED

1:21:10 LETTERS OF ABSENCE FROM

1:21:11 COUNCILORS AND LOUIJEUNE

1:21:14 ALLSTON HAS NEARLY GONE SEVEN

1:21:15 YEARS WITHOUT A POST OFFICE

1:21:17 AFTER THE PREVIOUS BUILDING.

1:21:18 CLOSED DUE TO STRUCTURAL

1:21:19 ISSUES.

1:21:20 USPS THEN HAD FULLY NEGOTIATED

1:21:22 THE LEASE AGREEMENT AND FORM

1:21:23 CONSTRUCTION PLANS WITH A

1:21:25 LOCAL.

1:21:25 DEVELOPER.

1:21:26 EDEN PROPERTIES, BEFORE

1:21:27 BACKING OUT AND SENDING NOTICE

1:21:28 TO RESIDENTS THAT THEY WERE

1:21:29 SUSPENDING ANY FURTHER EFFORTS

1:21:31 TO REOPEN THE ALLSTON LOCATION.

1:21:33 PANELISTS INCLUDED A LOCAL

1:21:35 DEVELOPER.

1:21:35 LABOR REPRESENTATIVES UH FROM

1:21:37 THE AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS

1:21:39 UNION AND MASSACHUSETTS POSTAL

1:21:40 WORKERS UNION AND UH THE

1:21:42 PRESIDENT OF THE ALLSTON CIVIC

1:21:43 ASSOCIATION, TONY DESIDERIO AND

1:21:46 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.

1:21:47 WE HEARD FROM CONCERNED

1:21:48 RESIDENTS AND WE ALSO HEARD

1:21:49 FROM MARK, WHO REPRESENTED

1:21:51 SENATOR MARKEY IN PUBLIC

1:21:52 TESTIMONY.

1:21:53 UM, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME

1:21:55 THE COUNCIL HAS HOSTED A

1:21:56 HEARING, UM, ON THE POST OFFICE

1:21:59 AND I IMAGINE IT WON'T BE THE

1:22:00 LAST.

1:22:01 THE ALLSTON COMMUNITY NEEDS AND

1:22:02 DESERVES A POST OFFICE.

1:22:03 WE'RE GRATEFUL TO

1:22:05 COUNCILOR PRESIDENT BREEDEN FOR

1:22:06 HER LEADERSHIP.

1:22:07 UM AND SHE HAS WORKED HARD TO

1:22:08 DRAW ATTENTION AND ADVOCATE FOR

1:22:10 THIS ISSUE.

1:22:10 OUR MOST.

1:22:11 VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AND SMALL

1:22:13 BUSINESSES ARE THE MOST

1:22:14 DEPENDENT ON THE POSTAL

1:22:15 SERVICE, AND WE WILL CONTINUE

1:22:16 TO FIGHT FOR A NEW POST OFFICE

1:22:18 LOCATION IN AUSTIN.

1:22:19 THIS MATTER WILL REMAIN IN

1:22:20 COMMITTEE AT THIS TIME, BUT I'D

1:22:22 LIKE TO YIELD THE REST OF MY

1:22:23 TIME TO YOU, THE

1:22:24 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, TO SHARE ANY

1:22:25 REMARKS ABOUT THIS ISSUE THAT

1:22:27 MATTERS DEEPLY TO YOUR

1:22:28 COMMUNITY.

1:22:28 THANK YOU.

1:22:29 UM UH, VICE VICE PRESIDENT UH,

1:22:33 COLLETTE, IT'S ABOUT I WOULD

1:22:35 LIKE YOU TO BRIEFLY TAKE THE

1:22:37 CHAIR.

1:22:46 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:22:48 COUNCILOR BURTON.

1:22:49 COUNCILOR BURTON, YOU HAVE THE

1:22:50 FLOOR.

1:22:50 THANK YOU.

1:22:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:52 AND THANK YOU TO CONSIDER

1:22:53 DURKAN FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING

1:22:54 .

1:22:55 UM, AS A DISTRICT

1:22:56 COUNCILOR REPRESENTING ALSTON,

1:22:57 I SPONSORED THIS HEARING TO

1:22:59 DISCUSS THE UNCERTAIN STATUS

1:23:00 OF THE AUSTIN POST OFFICE

1:23:02 OFFICE BRANCH, UH, IN AND TO

1:23:04 CALL FOR THE UNITE THE POSTAL

1:23:06 SERVICE USPS TO REESTABLISH

1:23:08 THIS BRANCH.

1:23:09 UM, AT YESTERDAY'S HEARING, I

1:23:11 DON'T WANT TO REPEAT WHAT

1:23:13 COUNCILOR DARKNESS ALREADY

1:23:14 SAID.

1:23:14 UH, WE, UH WE LEARNED THAT WHAT

1:23:17 WAS HAPPENING IN AUSTIN IS PART

1:23:18 OF.

1:23:19 A LARGER.

1:23:19 US UH, PATTERN OF WHAT USPS IS

1:23:22 DOING NOT ONLY.

1:23:23 IN THE CITY.

1:23:24 OF BOSTON, ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS

1:23:25 AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND

1:23:27 THEY'RE NOT FOLLOWING THEIR OWN

1:23:28 REQUIRED GUIDELINES AND

1:23:30 PROCESSES.

1:23:31 WE HEARD FROM THE DEVELOPER

1:23:32 KNOWN MASSILLON OF EATING

1:23:34 PROPERTIES, WHO'S WORKED

1:23:35 CLOSELY WITH USPS TO DESIGN THE

1:23:37 SPACE TO FIT THEIR USPS

1:23:40 SPECIFICATIONS UNTIL THE.

1:23:42 USPS ABRUPTLY PULLED OUT OF THE

1:23:44 CONTRACT EARLIER THIS YEAR.

1:23:46 WE HEARD FROM UH, CIVIC LEADERS

1:23:48 TONY DECENT AUTO, A COMMUNITY

1:23:49 LEADER AND PRESIDENT OF.

1:23:50 THE AUSTIN CIVIC.

1:23:51 ASSOCIATION OF THE HISTORY

1:23:52 OF THE POST OFFICE IN AUSTIN

1:23:54 AND THE NEED FOR ONE AFTER IT

1:23:56 ORIGINALLY CLOSED ITS DOORS AND

1:23:59 UH 2019 THE STORY OF THE POST

1:24:01 OFFICE IN AUSTIN IS A STORY

1:24:03 OF BROKEN PROMISES BY THE USPS

1:24:05 AND THE RECIPIENTS AND THE

1:24:07 RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1:24:08 OF AUSTIN DESERVE TRANSPARENCY

1:24:10 AND DESERVE A POST OFFICE JUST

1:24:11 LIKE EVERY OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD

1:24:13 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, WE

1:24:15 LEARNED FROM THE PLANNING

1:24:16 DEPARTMENT THAT AUSTIN HAS SEEN

1:24:18 A 7.2% INCREASE IN POPULATION

1:24:21 COMPARED TO A 2.3% INCREASE IN

1:24:24 POPULATION.

1:24:24 AND THE REST OF THE CITY.

1:24:26 IN THE 2020 CENSUS.

1:24:28 YET THERE CONTINUES TO BE A

1:24:29 LACK OF INVESTMENT IN AUSTIN A

1:24:31 POPULATION THAT IS ONE OF THE

1:24:32 HIGHEST RATES OF RESIDENTS WHO

1:24:34 DO NOT OWN OR HAVE ACCESS TO A

1:24:35 CAR, THOSE TRAVELING TO ANOTHER

1:24:37 POST OFFICE LOCATION IN

1:24:38 BRIGHTON OR NEWTON OR BROOKLYN

1:24:40 OR WHEREVER IS LESS UH THAT IS

1:24:42 LESS UH, PLAUSIBLE IN NEWTON, A

1:24:46 CITY THAT BORDERS UH AUSTIN,

1:24:47 BRIGHTON HAS TEN POST OFFICES

1:24:50 AND WE CAN'T EVEN GET ONE IN

1:24:52 AUSTIN.

1:24:53 THIS ISSUE GOES FAR BEYOND

1:24:54 ALLSTON.

1:24:55 THIS IS A CONCERN FOR

1:24:57 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND ALL

1:24:58 OF THE CONCERNS REPRESENTING

1:25:00 DORCHESTER BECAUSE A SIMILAR

1:25:01 SITUATION IS EVOLVING AT FEELS

1:25:03 CORNER POST OFFICE AND OUR

1:25:05 FRIENDS IN WATERTOWN DUE TO THE

1:25:07 PROPOSED CLOSURE OF THE

1:25:08 WATERTOWN SQUARE POST OFFICE, I

1:25:10 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH MY

1:25:12 COLLEAGUES AT THE STATE AND

1:25:13 FEDERAL LEVEL AND STATE AND

1:25:15 FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO KEEP UH,

1:25:17 ADVOCATING TO UH FOR OUR AUSTIN

1:25:20 POST OFFICE BUT ALSO TO HOLD

1:25:22 USPS ACCOUNTABLE AND TRY AND

1:25:24 PREVENT THIS SITUATION

1:25:25 HAPPENING IN OTHER

1:25:26 NEIGHBORHOODS OF BOSTON.

1:25:27 THANK YOU.

1:25:29 UH, DOCKET 1338 WILL REMAIN

1:25:33 COMMITTEE.

1:25:33 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:25:34 READ DOCKET 0406.

1:25:38 DOCKET 0406.

1:25:40 ORDER FOR HEARING ON

1:25:42 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:25:44 OF PRIVATE.

1:25:45 FUNDRAISING IN.

1:25:46 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:25:48 THANK YOU.

1:25:49 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRARY

1:25:51 HERE THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

1:25:54 ON EDUCATION.

1:25:57 UH.

1:25:58 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:26:01 ON SEPTEMBER.

1:26:01 22ND AT 2 P.M. THE

1:26:02 COMMITTEE.

1:26:02 ON EDUCATION HELD.

1:26:04 A.

1:26:04 HEARING ON.

1:26:04 DOCKET NUMBER 0406.

1:26:06 AND ORDER FOR A HEARING ON.

1:26:08 TRANSPARENCY AND

1:26:09 ACCOUNTABILITY.

1:26:09 OF PRIVATE FUNDRAISING IN OUR

1:26:11 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:26:12 I WAS.

1:26:13 JOINED BY MY COUNCIL.

1:26:14 COLLEAGUES COUNCILOR FLYNN,

1:26:16 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL,

1:26:17 WEBER COUNCIL, CULPEPER AND

1:26:20 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND WITH A

1:26:22 LETTER OF ABSENCE THAT WE

1:26:23 RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR.

1:26:24 ABANG AT THIS HEARING.

1:26:26 WE HEARD FROM EXPERTS,

1:26:27 ADVOCATES AND MEMBERS OF THE

1:26:29 ADMINISTRATION.

1:26:30 .

1:26:30 FORMER NEW.

1:26:31 YORK CITY COUNCILOR MARK.

1:26:32 TRAGER SHARED HIS LEGISLATION

1:26:34 THAT HE PASSED IN 2018 THAT

1:26:36 MADE THE FINANCIAL REPORTING,

1:26:38 UM, THAT THE NEW YORK, US NEW

1:26:40 YORK CITY DEPARTMENT

1:26:42 OF EDUCATION ALREADY RECEIVED

1:26:43 PUBLIC UM IN ORDER TO CREATE

1:26:46 TRANSPARENCY AROUND PRIVATE

1:26:47 FUNDRAISING IN THE NEW YORK

1:26:49 CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

1:26:50 THE BOSTON BASED UH, TRAVIS

1:26:53 MARSHALL, JAMES NOONAN UM KYLE

1:26:57 MCCLAY SHARED ON THE RECORD THE

1:26:59 DISCREPANCIES THAT WE SEE IN

1:27:01 BETWEEN SCHOOLS BASED ON THEIR

1:27:04 ABILITIES TO FUNDRAISE.

1:27:05 THEY EMPHASIZE, UM, THE LACK

1:27:08 OF INFORMATION FURTHERS

1:27:10 INEQUITIES.

1:27:11 THAT UH.

1:27:13 UH.

1:27:13 THAT A CHILD'S EDUCATION SHOULD

1:27:14 NOT DEPEND ON A SCHOOL'S

1:27:16 COMMUNITY ABILITY TO FUNDRAISE

1:27:17 AND ACCESS TO SOCIAL AND

1:27:19 FINANCIAL CAPITAL.

1:27:20 THEY ALSO HIGHLIGHTED HOW CUTS

1:27:22 TO THE BUDGET AND ESPECIALLY

1:27:24 CUTS TO PARAPROFESSIONAL STAFF

1:27:26 ALONG WITH PRIVATE FUNDRAISING,

1:27:27 WIDENS THE GAP BETWEEN SCHOOLS

1:27:29 .

1:27:29 THE ADMINISTRATION SHARED THE

1:27:31 OPPORTUNITY INDEX, UM

1:27:33 PARTNERSHIP FUNDS AND PRINCIPAL

1:27:34 PARTNERS PARALLELING UM LESSONS

1:27:36 FROM E DFE SHARED.

1:27:39 HOW HURT.

1:27:40 HER ORGANIZATION SERVES NOT

1:27:42 ONLY AS A FISCAL SPONSOR FOR

1:27:43 ALL SCHOOLS BUT ALSO DOES

1:27:46 TRAININGS AND SEEKS TO SUPPORT

1:27:48 SCHOOL COMMUNITIES.

1:27:49 IMPORTANT PIECES OF THIS

1:27:51 CONVERSATION INCLUDED

1:27:52 DISCUSSING SOLUTIONS SUCH AS A

1:27:54 DASHBOARD AND UNDERSTANDING THE

1:27:57 LEGISLATION THAT COUNCILOR.

1:27:58 TRAGER FROM NEW YORK CITY

1:27:59 PASSED SO THAT WE CAN USE THAT

1:28:01 MODEL HERE IN BOSTON.

1:28:03 WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE WORK THAT

1:28:04 QUEST DOES AND HOW WE CAN FUND

1:28:06 PROGRAMS AND POSITIONS ACROSS

1:28:08 THE DISTRICT TO ADDRESS THE

1:28:09 INEQUITIES WE SEE CREATED BY

1:28:11 THE PRIVATE FUNDRAISING GAP.

1:28:13 THE ADMINISTRATION WAS ASKED

1:28:14 ABOUT THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE

1:28:16 THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX, THE

1:28:18 REIMAGINING SCHOOL FUNDING

1:28:19 FORMULA, THE RACIAL EQUITY

1:28:21 PLANNING TO AND HOW THE

1:28:22 DISTRICT AND CENTRAL STAFF

1:28:23 SUPPORTS PARENT COUNCILS WITH

1:28:25 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND

1:28:26 BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE

1:28:28 NEW YORK CITY DOES.

1:28:30 WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING

1:28:30 THOSE ANSWERS REGARDING HOW

1:28:32 MANY SCHOOLS UM HAVE A FIVE AND

1:28:35 1C3 ALREADY SET UP.

1:28:37 WHEN ASKED ABOUT BP'S APPETITE

1:28:40 FOR A DASHBOARD AND MAKING THIS

1:28:42 INFORMATION PUBLIC, THE

1:28:43 ADMINISTRATION WAS OPEN TO IT

1:28:45 AND WE WILL HAVE CONVERSATIONS

1:28:46 ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAKE THAT

1:28:48 HAPPEN.

1:28:48 I ALSO SHARE THAT THIS WORK

1:28:50 NEEDS TO BE IT NEEDS TO INCLUDE

1:28:52 AN ADVISORY BOARD.

1:28:53 UM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

1:28:55 WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH

1:28:56 THE ADMINISTRATION, QUEST AND

1:28:58 OTHER ADVOCATES TO ENSURE THAT.

1:28:59 THERE IS.

1:29:00 TRANSPARENCY AROUND PRIVATE

1:29:01 FUNDING AND AND THAT THERE ARE

1:29:05 UH CO GOVERNANCE AND CREATING

1:29:06 SPACES FOR PEOPLE.

1:29:08 WHO ARE.

1:29:08 LIVE IN THE REALITIES TO

1:29:09 HELP INFORM WHAT TYPE

1:29:10 OF REPORTING WE WANT TO SEE.

1:29:12 IT WAS MADE VERY CLEAR TO US BY

1:29:14 THE ADVOCATES THAT GETTING THIS

1:29:15 INFORMATION IS THE FIRST BIG

1:29:17 STEP SO THAT WE CAN TRULY

1:29:19 UNDERSTAND THE INEQUITIES IN

1:29:20 ORDER TO ADDRESS THEM.

1:29:21 AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES

1:29:23 FOR SHARING.

1:29:24 THANK YOU.

1:29:25 COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:29:26 DOCKET ONE NO DOCKET 0406 WILL

1:29:30 REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.

1:29:33 WE ARE NOW ON TO MOTIONS,

1:29:34 ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS A

1:29:36 REMINDER THAT ALL UNDER RULE 39

1:29:39 REMARKS ON NEW MATTERS NOT UP

1:29:40 FOR A VOTE TODAY SHOULD BE

1:29:41 LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES FOR

1:29:43 THE LEAD SPONSOR AND TWO

1:29:44 MINUTES FOR THE CO-SPONSORS.

1:29:46 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:29:48 READ DOCKET 1796.

1:29:50 DOCKET 1796 COUNCILOR WEBER OR

1:29:53 FOR THE.

1:29:54 FOLLOWING ORDINANCE AMENDING

1:29:56 CITY OF BOSTON CODE ORDINANCES

1:29:59 CHAPTER 16 SECTION 63 ORDINANCE

1:30:03 ON SURVEILLANCE OVERSIGHT AND

1:30:05 INFORMATION SHARING.

1:30:06 THANK YOU.

1:30:07 CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE

1:30:07 WEBER COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE

1:30:09 FLOOR.

1:30:09 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM

1:30:10 PRESIDENT.

1:30:11 UM, UH, FIRST I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:30:13 COUNCILOR COLLETTA ZAPATA AS

1:30:14 THE.

1:30:15 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:30:16 COUNCILOR COLLECTOR IS GLAD

1:30:18 IT'S ABOUT US.

1:30:19 SO ADDED.

1:30:20 UH, AND I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:30:22 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD,

1:30:23 UH, SPONSOR.

1:30:24 UM, SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:30:26 OBJECTIONS, COUNCILOR SANTANA'S

1:30:27 ADDED JUST A THIRD.

1:30:28 OKAY.

1:30:29 AND I JUST WOULD LIKE TO

1:30:30 RECOGNIZE SOME OF, UH, MY OTHER

1:30:32 COLLEAGUES.

1:30:33 WE ONLY HAVE ROOM FOR TWO

1:30:34 CO-SPONSORS.

1:30:34 I KNOW COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:30:36 UH, REACH OUT WAS JUST YOU.

1:30:37 KNOW, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE.

1:30:39 CLEAN UP HITTER.

1:30:40 UH, BUT WE ONLY CAN WE ONLY

1:30:41 HAVE ROOM.

1:30:42 FOR THREE HERE.

1:30:43 UH, AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW

1:30:45 COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS SPOKEN

1:30:46 ABOUT, UH, SURVEILLANCE.

1:30:49 UH, AND, UH, YOU KNOW,

1:30:51 CERTAINLY WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

1:30:52 HER, UH, COMMENTS PUBLICLY.

1:30:55 ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

1:30:56 SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS SPOTTY

1:30:58 PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE OVERSIGHT

1:31:00 ORDINANCE IN OCTOBER 2021?

1:31:03 UH, I THINK NOW IS THE TIME TO,

1:31:05 UH, TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT

1:31:07 GIVEN YOU KNOW WHAT WE'VE SEEN

1:31:09 OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, UH,

1:31:13 REGARDING HOW THAT ORDINANCE,

1:31:15 UH, YOU KNOW, IS IS IS USED,

1:31:18 UH, YOU KNOW, APPLIES TO UH,

1:31:21 WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY AND

1:31:23 THE IMPACT THAT OUR OVERSIGHT

1:31:25 HAS HAD.

1:31:26 UH, UM, YOU KNOW, WE SEE IN THE

1:31:29 LAST, UH, SURVEILLANCE REPORT.

1:31:31 FROM THE UH, THE CITY THAT

1:31:34 THERE'S A FEW ISSUES HERE.

1:31:36 UH, NUMBER ONE, WE'RE TOLD THAT

1:31:37 THAT LAST YEAR, YOU KNOW, WHILE

1:31:40 WE HAD A FLAG PILOT THAT ENDED,

1:31:42 UH, THAT THE CITY HAS WHILE NOT

1:31:45 USING FLOCK IS NOW USING TWO

1:31:47 OTHER VENDORS WHO HAVE LICENSE

1:31:49 PLATE READERS, UM, THAT THE

1:31:51 CITY IS USING UH, ANECDOTALLY

1:31:53 I'VE HEARD THAT YOU KNOW, MAYBE

1:31:54 THOSE COMPANIES DON'T EVEN HAVE

1:31:56 THE SAME UH, SORT OF SAFEGUARDS

1:31:59 AS FLOCK BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN

1:32:01 THE NATIONAL MEDIA.

1:32:03 UM, AND EVEN WITH FLOCK, YOU

1:32:05 KNOW, THIS REPORT DISCLOSED

1:32:06 THAT THE FLOCK PILOT THAT WE

1:32:08 DID LAST YEAR UH, WAS UH

1:32:11 RESULTED IN INADVERTENT SHARING

1:32:13 OF INFORMATION NATIONWIDE, UH,

1:32:15 IN VIOLATION OF OUR CONTRACT

1:32:16 WITH FLOCK.

1:32:17 UH, THE REPORT ALSO SHOWS THAT

1:32:20 WE ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA

1:32:21 MONITORING TOOLS THAT THIS BODY

1:32:23 DID NOT APPROVE LAST YEAR AND

1:32:25 IN FACT, UH, WE'VE ADDED ONE UH

1:32:28 TOOL UH, TO THAT.

1:32:29 SO YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WHEN WE

1:32:31 LOOK AT THE SURVEILLANCE

1:32:33 ORDINANCE AND THESE AMENDMENTS

1:32:34 THAT I'M PROPOSING, THEY GO TO

1:32:36 THE ISSUES I THINK THESE RAISE

1:32:38 NUMBER ONE UM, YOU KNOW, HOW

1:32:40 DOES EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES

1:32:42 APPLY?

1:32:42 CAN THIS CAN THE POLICE

1:32:44 DEPARTMENT DECLARE EXIGENT.

1:32:46 CIRCUMSTANCES JUST.

1:32:47 CONTINUE ON FOREVER AND NEVER

1:32:48 REALLY COME TO US FOR APPROVAL

1:32:51 OR NOTICE?

1:32:52 SO LET'S JUST MAKE SURE WE HAVE

1:32:53 NOTICE AND WE HAVE A CHANCE TO

1:32:54 WIN WITHIN A CERTAIN TIME FROM

1:32:56 THE BEGINNING OF THE EXIGENT

1:32:58 CIRCUMSTANCES NOT WHEN THEY MAY

1:32:59 END IF THEY EVER END UM, YOU

1:33:02 KNOW, WITH UH, SOCIAL MEDIA

1:33:04 MONITORING TOOLS, UH AND

1:33:06 ALPERS, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE

1:33:08 THAT WE HAVE SAFEGUARDS IN

1:33:09 PLACE THAT THERE'S REPORTING I

1:33:11 THINK THERE WAS AN AUDIT IN THE

1:33:12 CURRENT REPORT THAT SHOW THAT

1:33:13 THERE WAS 11,000 HIT UH,

1:33:15 SEARCHES ON FLOCK.

1:33:16 AND HALF OF THEM DID NOT HAVE

1:33:18 INCIDENT NUMBERS ATTACHED TO

1:33:19 THEM.

1:33:20 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE

1:33:21 THOSE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO

1:33:21 MAKE SURE THOSE SYSTEMS AREN'T

1:33:23 BEING ABUSED.

1:33:23 I JUST WANT TO THANK MY

1:33:24 COLLEAGUES.

1:33:24 THIS IS A CONVERSATION STARTER.

1:33:26 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

1:33:27 ALL OF YOU ON ON REVISING THE,

1:33:29 UH, SURVEILLANCE OVERSIGHT

1:33:31 ORDINANCE.

1:33:31 THANK YOU.

1:33:33 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:33:34 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:33:35 COUNCIL RECOGNIZES THE

1:33:35 CUSTOMER.

1:33:36 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:33:37 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

1:33:38 PRESIDENT AND I RISE UH, AS A

1:33:40 SECOND CO-SPONSOR OF THIS

1:33:40 ORDINANCE.

1:33:40 BUT I WANT TO THANK

1:33:41 COUNCIL WEBER FOR HIS

1:33:42 LEADERSHIP ON THIS AS WELL AS

1:33:43 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

1:33:44 I REMEMBER IN 2025 DURING THE

1:33:45 BUDGET CYCLE WE BOTH ASKED

1:33:46 QUESTIONS DURING THE BBT

1:33:48 HEARING ABOUT THE USES OF FLOCK

1:33:49 AND WE RECEIVED A PARTIAL

1:33:51 ANSWER UM UH AND UH UM I DURING

1:33:56 MY RECENT BRIEFING WITH UM SOME

1:33:58 MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION

1:33:59 AND BRICK UM AND IT BECAME

1:34:01 APPARENT THAT THIS BODY I THINK

1:34:02 IN EITHER 2022 OR 2023 HAD

1:34:04 GIVEN BLANKET APPROVAL FOR UM

1:34:06 FOR THIS TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY AND

1:34:09 AT THAT POINT I HAD SAID, OKAY,

1:34:10 WELL IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A

1:34:11 LOOPHOLE THAT WE NEED TO TO

1:34:12 CLOSE HERE.

1:34:13 LET'S AMEND THE ORDINANCE AND

1:34:14 THEN LO AND BEHOLD,

1:34:15 COUNCILOR WEBER UM, INTRODUCED

1:34:16 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN

1:34:18 FOR FOR PUSHING THIS FORWARD.

1:34:20 UM, WE ESTABLISHED THIS, UH,

1:34:21 OVERSIGHT FRAMEWORK TO CREATE

1:34:23 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:34:24 AROUND HOW SURVEILLANCE

1:34:25 TECHNOLOGY IS ACQUIRED AND USED

1:34:27 WHILE PROTECTING THE PRIVACY

1:34:28 AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF OUR

1:34:29 RESIDENTS.

1:34:30 BUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS HAVE

1:34:31 SHOWN US WHERE THERE ARE GAPS

1:34:32 IN THAT FRAMEWORK WHEN THE CITY

1:34:34 CHANGES VENDORS, WHEN THE

1:34:36 CAPABILITIES OF A TECHNOLOGY

1:34:37 CHANGE OR WHEN TECHNOLOGY IS

1:34:39 INITIALLY DEPLOYED BECAUSE OF.

1:34:40 OF AN EMERGENCY, THE

1:34:41 COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD

1:34:42 HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING

1:34:43 OF WHAT IS BEING USED, HOW IT

1:34:45 IS BEING USED AND WHAT DATA IS

1:34:47 BEING COLLECTED AND WHO HAS

1:34:48 ACCESS TO THAT DATA TO THAT

1:34:50 DATA.

1:34:50 IT SHOULD BE STATED THAT PUBLIC

1:34:52 SAFETY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES DO

1:34:53 NOT HAVE TO BE IN UM UH IN

1:34:56 COMPETING VALUES.

1:34:56 OUR POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD HAVE

1:34:58 APPROPRIATE TOOLS TO

1:34:59 INVESTIGATE SERIOUS CRIMES AND

1:35:01 PROTECT THE PUBLIC.

1:35:01 AT THE SAME TIME, POWERFUL

1:35:03 SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY SHOULD

1:35:05 COME WITH POWERFUL SAFEGUARDS,

1:35:06 TRANSPARENCY AND

1:35:07 ACCOUNTABILITY.

1:35:08 TECHNOLOGY IS GOING TO CONTINUE

1:35:09 EVOLVING AND OUR OVERSIGHT HAS

1:35:11 TO EVOLVE WITH IT.

1:35:13 SO I'M PROUD AGAIN TO JOIN

1:35:14 COUNCIL WEBER IN INTRODUCING

1:35:15 THIS ORDINANCE AND I CHAIR

1:35:16 OF THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

1:35:17 COMMITTEE, I LOOK FORWARD TO A

1:35:19 ROBUST PROCESS WILL WHERE WE

1:35:21 WILL HEAR FROM THE

1:35:22 ADMINISTRATION, PUBLIC SAFETY

1:35:23 OFFICIALS, CIVIL LIBERTIES

1:35:25 ADVOCATES, TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS,

1:35:26 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SO THAT

1:35:27 WE CAN GET THIS RIGHT.

1:35:28 THANK YOU.

1:35:30 COUNCIL CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:35:32 CONSCIOUS AND TIMER COUNCIL YOU

1:35:33 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:35:34 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT I'D

1:35:36 LIKE TO ALSO THANK

1:35:37 COUNCILOR WEBER PROUD OF ME AS

1:35:38 AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND FOR

1:35:40 HIS DILIGENT ATTENTION TO

1:35:41 MATTERS OF DATA SURVEILLANCE.

1:35:43 THIS ORDINANCE CLOSES A

1:35:45 LOOPHOLE IN THE 2022 ORDINANCE

1:35:47 ON SURVEILLANCE, OVERSIGHT AND

1:35:48 INFORMATION SHARING THAT

1:35:49 ALLOWED FOR BOTH A CHANGE

1:35:51 OF VENDORS AND RENEWED

1:35:52 AGREEMENTS FOR CURRENT

1:35:53 TECHNOLOGIES TO BE DONE WITHOUT

1:35:55 NOTIFYING THE BOSTON CITY

1:35:56 COUNCIL.

1:35:57 THIS LOOPHOLE VIOLATES THE

1:35:59 ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE 2022

1:36:01 ORDINANCE AND ITS USE AND ITS

1:36:04 USE HAS LED TO RISING PUBLIC

1:36:06 CONCERN ABOUT THE BOSTON POLICE

1:36:08 DEPARTMENT'S USAGE OF THE

1:36:09 AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS

1:36:10 AND SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING

1:36:12 TOOLS AND CLOSING THIS LOOPHOLE

1:36:14 IN REQUIRING STRICTER REPORTING

1:36:15 REQUIREMENTS.

1:36:16 WE ARE MEANING THE ORIGINAL

1:36:17 INTENT OF THE 2022 UM

1:36:20 COUNCIL AND ENSURING THAT THE

1:36:21 PUBLIC REMAINS ACCURATELY, UM,

1:36:24 INFORMED ABOUT THE TOOLS AND

1:36:25 TECHNOLOGIES USED BY THE BOSTON

1:36:26 POLICE DEPARTMENT AT A TIME

1:36:28 WHEN PEOPLE ARE VERY RIGHTFULLY

1:36:29 CONCERNED ABOUT DATA

1:36:30 COLLECTION, SURVEILLANCE AND

1:36:32 THE POSSIBLE MISUSE

1:36:33 OF GOVERNMENT TOOLS AND IT'S

1:36:34 VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE

1:36:36 MAINTAIN AND GROW PUBLIC TRUST.

1:36:38 THIS ORDINANCE DOES JUST THAT

1:36:40 AND I'M PROUD TO EXTEND MY

1:36:41 SUPPORT AND I WELCOME MY FELLOW

1:36:42 COLLEAGUES, UM, TO DO THE SAME.

1:36:44 THANK YOU.

1:36:45 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:36:47 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:36:48 NAME?

1:36:50 COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

1:36:50 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:36:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN,

1:36:53 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

1:36:54 MURPHY.

1:36:55 COUNCILOR.

1:36:55 FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR.

1:36:57 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

1:36:59 UH MORRELL AND PLEASE OUT THE

1:37:00 CHAIR.

1:37:01 DOCKET 1796 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:37:04 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:37:06 OPERATIONS.

1:37:07 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:37:08 READ DOCKET 1797.

1:37:11 DOCKET 1797 COUNCILOR MURPHY OR

1:37:14 FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR YOU

1:37:16 HERE AND TO ADDRESS THE ON

1:37:17 AUTHORIZE ROADWAY ALTERATIONS

1:37:20 AND TRAFFIC SAFETY ACT SHERMAN

1:37:22 STREET AND PARKER STREET.

1:37:24 THANK YOU.

1:37:24 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL MURPHY

1:37:26 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:37:27 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:37:29 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

1:37:31 COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND I WOULD

1:37:33 LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:37:35 ADD COUNCILOR FLYNN, PLEASE.

1:37:37 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER IS ADDED

1:37:39 A SECOND.

1:37:39 WHO'S YOUR THIRD.

1:37:40 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:37:41 I'M SEEING AND HEAR NO

1:37:43 OBJECTIONS.

1:37:44 COUNCILOR FLYNN IS ADDED AS A

1:37:45 THIRD.

1:37:45 THANK YOU.

1:37:46 I FILED THIS HEARING ORDER

1:37:48 BECAUSE THE INTERSECTION

1:37:49 OF TREMONT STREET AND PARKER

1:37:51 STREET RAISES TWO IMPORTANT

1:37:53 QUESTIONS.

1:37:54 HOW DO WE MAKE THIS BUSY

1:37:56 INTERSECTION SAFER AND WHO HAS

1:37:58 THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE OUR

1:37:59 PUBLIC STREETS?

1:38:01 A HORRIFIC FATAL CRASH OCCURRED

1:38:04 AT THIS INTERSECTION IN JULY.

1:38:06 THE SAFETY CONCERNS ARE REAL

1:38:08 AND I UNDERSTAND WHY RESIDENTS

1:38:09 ARE FRUSTRATED BY THE PACE

1:38:11 OF THE CITY'S RESPONSE.

1:38:13 THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THESE

1:38:15 CHANGES LEFT A MESSAGE ON A

1:38:16 NEARBY POLL SAYING IF WE WON'T

1:38:19 WE WILL.

1:38:20 THAT SAYS A LOT PEOPLE.

1:38:22 FELT UNHEARD AND THEY WANTED

1:38:24 ACTION.

1:38:25 FRANKLY I UNDERSTAND THEIR

1:38:27 FRUSTRATION.

1:38:28 LAST WEEK I SENT CHIEF OSGOOD

1:38:30 AND THE MAYOR A DETAILED LETTER

1:38:32 ASKING MANY OF THE SAME

1:38:33 QUESTIONS THAT THIS HEARING

1:38:35 ORDER RAISES AND I HAVE NOT

1:38:37 RECEIVED A RESPONSE YET THAT

1:38:39 DOES NOT JUSTIFY ANYONE

1:38:41 ALTERING A PUBLIC ROADWAY, BUT

1:38:43 IT REINFORCES WHY RESIDENTS

1:38:45 DESERVE TIMELY ANSWERS FROM

1:38:46 CITY HALL.

1:38:48 NO MATTER HOW FRUSTRATED

1:38:49 SOMEONE IS, RESIDENTS CANNOT

1:38:51 TAKE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING INTO

1:38:53 THEIR OWN HANDS.

1:38:54 BOSTON TRAFFIC RULES AND

1:38:56 REGULATIONS ARE CLEAR.

1:38:58 ARTICLE THREE SECTION ONE

1:39:00 PROHIBITS UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS,

1:39:02 SIGNALS, MARKINGS OR DEVICES

1:39:04 THAT RESEMBLE OFFICIAL TRAFFIC

1:39:06 CONTROLS OR ATTEMPT TO DIRECT

1:39:09 TRAFFIC UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY

1:39:10 THE BOSTON TRANSPORTATION

1:39:12 DEPARTMENT.

1:39:12 THIS IS THERE IS A REASON FOR

1:39:15 THAT.

1:39:15 WE CANNOT HAVE RESIDENTS

1:39:17 INSTALLING THEIR OWN OR THEIR

1:39:18 OWN SPEED HUMPS, MOVING STOP

1:39:21 SIGNS, CHANGING ONE WAY STREETS

1:39:23 OR PAINTING NEW TRAFFIC LANES

1:39:24 BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IT WOULD

1:39:26 BE SAFER.

1:39:27 THE CITY HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT

1:39:29 MARKINGS AT TREMONT STREET AND

1:39:31 PARKER STREET WERE NOT

1:39:33 AUTHORIZED YET THEY WERE

1:39:34 ALLOWED TO REMAIN WHILE

1:39:35 OFFICIALS CONTINUE STUDYING

1:39:36 POSSIBLE CHANGES AT THIS

1:39:38 INTERSECTION.

1:39:39 I DO NOT THINK THAT IS

1:39:41 ACCEPTABLE.

1:39:42 MAYBE THE RESIDENTS ARE RIGHT.

1:39:43 MAYBE SOME OF THE CHANGES THEY

1:39:45 MADE ACTUALLY DO CREATE A SAFER

1:39:48 CONFIGURATION.

1:39:49 IT PROFESSIONAL TRAFFIC

1:39:50 ENGINEERS DETERMINE THAT THEY

1:39:51 DO.

1:39:52 THEN LET'S MAKE THESE CHANGES

1:39:53 PERMANENT.

1:39:54 LET'S DESIGN THEM CORRECTLY,

1:39:56 INSTALL THEM PROPERLY AND MAKE

1:39:58 THE INTERSECTION SAFER.

1:40:00 BUT WE SHOULD NOT LEAVE

1:40:02 UNAUTHORIZED TRAFFIC

1:40:03 INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE WHILE

1:40:05 WE DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT WE

1:40:06 LIKE IT.

1:40:07 BOTH THINGS CAN BE TRUE

1:40:09 RESIDENTS CANNOT CHANGE PUBLIC

1:40:11 TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE ON THEIR

1:40:12 OWN AND CITY GOVERNMENT NEEDS

1:40:15 TO RESPOND MORE QUICKLY WHEN

1:40:16 RESIDENTS RAISE LEGITIMATE

1:40:18 SAFETY CONCERNS.

1:40:20 IF CHANGES AT TREMONT STREET

1:40:21 AND PARKER STREET WILL MAKE IT

1:40:22 SAFER, THEN LET'S MAKE THEM.

1:40:24 BUT LET'S MAKE THEM

1:40:26 PROFESSIONALLY THROUGH THE

1:40:27 PROPER PROCESS AND LET'S MAKE

1:40:28 THEM PROMPTLY AND PERMANENTLY.

1:40:30 THANK YOU.

1:40:32 THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

1:40:33 FUTURE RECOGNIZES

1:40:35 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:40:35 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:40:37 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:40:40 I WANT TO THANK

1:40:41 COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR ADDING

1:40:42 ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AND FOR

1:40:45 BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS

1:40:46 ISSUE FOR ME, THIS HEARING NEED

1:40:49 TO FOCUS FIRST ON

1:40:51 ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE BOSTON

1:40:53 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

1:40:55 THE COMMUNITY HAS RAISED

1:40:56 CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY ALONG

1:40:59 PARKER STREET AND AT TREATMENT

1:41:00 STREET FOR YEARS AND THE CITY'S

1:41:02 OWN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

1:41:04 PROCESS IDENTIFIED THIS

1:41:06 INTERSECTION AS A CRASH CLUSTER

1:41:09 BACK IN 2023.

1:41:11 THE CITY ALSO IDENTIFIED PARKER

1:41:13 STREET FROM TREATMENT STREET TO

1:41:15 ALLEGHANY STREET AS A HIGH

1:41:17 CRASH QUARTER FOR PEOPLE BIKING

1:41:20 AND WAS CONSIDERING

1:41:21 IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDING

1:41:22 PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, TRAFFIC

1:41:24 CALMING, SAFER BICYCLE

1:41:27 CONNECTIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY

1:41:29 UPGRADES.

1:41:29 SO I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

1:41:31 HAPPENED BETWEEN THAT PLANNING

1:41:33 PROCESS AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY

1:41:35 WHAT WAS STUDIED, WHAT

1:41:38 RECOMMENDATIONS WERE DEVELOPED

1:41:39 ?

1:41:39 WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MOVE FORWARD

1:41:41 WHICH SHOULD NOT AND WHY DIDN'T

1:41:43 THEY?

1:41:44 WHEN RESIDENTS REPEATEDLY

1:41:46 IDENTIFIED A DANGEROUS

1:41:47 CONDITION AND THE CITY'S OWN

1:41:50 ANALYSIS RECOGNIZE THE SAME

1:41:52 PROBLEM, THERE NEEDS TO BE A

1:41:54 CLEAR PATH FROM IDENTIFYING

1:41:56 THAT PROBLEM TO ACTUALLY

1:41:58 ADDRESSING IT.

1:41:59 I ALSO THINK THIS RAISES A

1:42:01 BROADER ISSUE ABOUT HOW WE

1:42:03 BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN

1:42:05 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND THE

1:42:07 NEEDS, CONCERNS AND PRIORITIES

1:42:09 OF THE COMMUNITIES DIRECTLY

1:42:12 AFFECTED BY THESE DECISIONS.

1:42:14 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CANNOT

1:42:16 HAPPEN IN A VACUUM.

1:42:18 RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND HOW THESE

1:42:19 STREETS FUNCTION EVERY DAY

1:42:22 WHILE TRANSPORTATION

1:42:23 PROFESSIONALS BRING THE

1:42:25 TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING

1:42:27 EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO DESIGN

1:42:29 SAFE SOLUTIONS.

1:42:31 WE NEED A PROCESS THAT BRINGS

1:42:32 THOSE PERSPECTIVES TOGETHER

1:42:34 RATHER THAN ALLOWING THEM TO

1:42:35 BECOME DISCONNECTED FROM ONE

1:42:37 ANOTHER.

1:42:38 I HOPE THIS HEARING GIVES US AN

1:42:40 OPPORTUNITY NOT ONLY TO

1:42:43 DETERMINE WHAT IMPROVEMENTS ARE

1:42:43 NEEDED AT TREATMENT AND PARK

1:42:45 HISTORIES, BUT ALSO TO EXAMINE

1:42:48 HOW THE TRANSPORTATION

1:42:49 DEPARTMENT RESPONDS WHEN THE

1:42:51 COMMUNITY ASKS FOR SAFETY

1:42:52 IMPROVEMENTS AND HOW WE CAN

1:42:54 MAKE SURE THOSE REQUESTS

1:42:55 ACTUALLY TRANSLATE INTO ACTION.

1:42:57 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:42:59 THANK YOU.

1:43:00 COUNCILOR CULPEPER CHAIR

1:43:00 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:43:02 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:43:05 YOU WOULD CO-SPONSOR.

1:43:08 I'M A CO-SPONSOR.

1:43:09 BUT I DON'T WISH TO SPEAK AT

1:43:11 THIS MOMENT.

1:43:11 THANK YOU.

1:43:12 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:43:13 NAME?

1:43:18 COUNCILOR WORRELL

1:43:19 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:43:21 THANK YOU.

1:43:22 DOCKET 1797 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:43:25 THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,

1:43:26 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

1:43:27 .

1:43:30 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:43:31 READ DOCKET 1798.

1:43:34 TYPEKIT 1798.

1:43:36 COUNCILOR DURKAN OFFER THE.

1:43:37 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:43:39 ON PACKAGE DEAF IN BOSTON.

1:43:41 THANK YOU.

1:43:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:43:44 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY YOU

1:43:44 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:43:45 THANK YOU.

1:43:46 I JUST LIKE TO TAKE A POINT

1:43:47 OF PRIVILEGE.

1:43:47 OBVIOUSLY THE LAST FILING WAS

1:43:49 ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS IN MY

1:43:51 DISTRICT.

1:43:52 UM, I DO THINK THE NEW

1:43:54 COUNCIL RULES DOES NOT ALLOW

1:43:54 FOR US TO SPEAK ON ISSUES UM,

1:43:58 UNLESS THEY'RE BEING VOTED ON

1:44:00 UNLESS WE'RE A LEAD SPONSOR.

1:44:02 I DO THINK IT'S REALLY

1:44:03 IMPORTANT, UM, AS CITY

1:44:05 OFFICIALS, THE REASON WHY THE

1:44:07 FOLKS THAT ARE FILING THIS HAVE

1:44:08 A LOT OF QUESTIONS IS BECAUSE

1:44:10 THEY DON'T DO TRANSPORTATION

1:44:11 WORK IN MISSION HILL AND SO

1:44:13 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IT'S VERY

1:44:15 IMPORTANT EXCUSE ME.

1:44:16 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME.

1:44:18 IT'S ABOUT THE COVERAGE.

1:44:22 HOLD ON IS CONCERNED AND UM YOU

1:44:25 WOULD YOU MIND WOULD WE TAKE

1:44:26 YOUR.

1:44:27 WHICH MOVE ON TO YOUR DOCKET?

1:44:29 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:44:30 COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'D LIKE TO

1:44:32 SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

1:44:33 COUNCILOR FLYNN AS AN ORIGINAL

1:44:34 CO-SPONSOR AND

1:44:35 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD

1:44:36 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:44:38 COUNCILOR FLYNN IS ADDED AS A

1:44:39 SECOND AND SEEING AND HEARING

1:44:40 NO OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR SANTANA

1:44:42 IS ADDED AS A THIRD.

1:44:43 PACKAGE THEFT IS AN ISSUE THAT

1:44:45 I KNOW MANY BOSTON RESIDENTS

1:44:46 HAVE EXPERIENCE WHEN THEY ARE

1:44:48 IN THE ERA OF HOME DELIVERY

1:44:49 WHERE MOST RESIDENTS RECEIVE

1:44:51 PACKAGES AT THEIR HOMES IN A

1:44:53 CITY LIKE BOSTON ESPECIALLY IN

1:44:55 MY DISTRICT UH, IT'S MULTI-UNIT

1:44:57 BUILDINGS WITH LIMITED SPACE

1:44:58 FOR DELIVERIES.

1:44:59 PACKAGES ARE OFTEN LEFT ON

1:45:00 SIDEWALKS OR IN VESTIBULES.

1:45:02 BUT WE KNOW PACKAGE THEFT

1:45:03 HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AND AND I

1:45:05 ACTUALLY, UM, WANT TO THANK UH,

1:45:07 MEMBERS OF COUNCILOR

1:45:09 FITZGERALD'S UH CONSTITUENCY

1:45:10 WHO FILED A DORCHESTER REPORTER

1:45:12 OP ED.

1:45:13 YES, I READ THE DORCHESTER

1:45:14 ORDER SOME OF THE BEST

1:45:15 REPORTING IN BOSTON.

1:45:16 UM, STEALING SOMEONE'S PROPERTY

1:45:19 IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, BUT

1:45:20 PACKAGE THEFT IS OFTEN

1:45:21 CHALLENGING TO ENFORCE AND

1:45:23 PROSECUTE.

1:45:23 IT'S A QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUE.

1:45:25 AND AS RESIDENTS, UH, WE SHOULD

1:45:27 BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE

1:45:28 CONVENIENCE OF PACKAGE DELIVERY

1:45:29 FIRST.

1:45:30 I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO

1:45:31 BETTER UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE

1:45:32 OF THE PROBLEM IN BOSTON.

1:45:34 PEOPLE SHOULD REPORT PACKAGE

1:45:35 THEFT TO BTD.

1:45:36 UH, BUT EITHER THE LACK

1:45:38 OF AWARENESS OR THE HASSLE

1:45:39 OF REPORTING DETERS THEM.

1:45:40 I KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT

1:45:42 REPORT THESE INCIDENTS,

1:45:43 INCLUDING TIMES WHERE IT'S EVEN

1:45:44 HAPPENED TO.

1:45:45 ME.

1:45:46 UH, RECENTLY I ACTUALLY, UM,

1:45:48 WAS ABLE TO CATCH A PACKAGE

1:45:49 THIEF WAS ABLE TO CALL OUR

1:45:51 POLICE CAPTAIN CAPTAIN DRISCOLL

1:45:53 UM AND WHO WHO SENT SOMEONE TO

1:45:55 GO FIND THIS PERSON AGAIN?

1:45:57 WE SHOULD NOT BE RELYING ON

1:45:59 VIGILANTISM TO FIX THIS

1:46:00 PROBLEM.

1:46:01 UH, BUT IT IS A HUGE PROBLEM

1:46:03 AND IT'S ONE OFTENTIMES, UH,

1:46:05 YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT, UH, DPD

1:46:07 HAS LITERALLY FOUND ENTIRE

1:46:09 APARTMENTS FILLED AND FILLED

1:46:10 WITH PACKAGES AND SO, UH, THIS

1:46:13 IS A HUGE ISSUE AND IT HAPPENS

1:46:15 TO NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, AMAZON

1:46:17 PACKAGES AND PACKAGES YOU'RE

1:46:18 RECEIVING THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO

1:46:19 BE REPLACED BUT TO CHERISHED

1:46:21 GOODS AND CHERISHED PRESENTS

1:46:23 THAT UH, FAMILY MEMBERS ARE

1:46:24 SENDING.

1:46:24 PART OF THE GOAL IN THIS

1:46:26 CONVERSATION IS TO HEAR FROM

1:46:27 BPD ABOUT THE DATA WE CURRENTLY

1:46:28 HAVE AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE

1:46:30 REPORTING AND.

1:46:31 WHETHER THERE ARE.

1:46:31 ADDITIONAL TOOLS OR EDUCATION

1:46:33 WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING.

1:46:34 FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BEACON

1:46:35 HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT, UH,

1:46:37 WE'VE OFTEN BEEN ENCOURAGED TO

1:46:38 GET RING CAMERAS.

1:46:40 UM AND I KNOW THE LANDMARKS

1:46:41 COMMISSION HAS WORKED TO MAKE

1:46:42 THAT EASIER.

1:46:43 WHAT IS HAPPENING?

1:46:44 I REALIZED BY READING THIS

1:46:45 DORCHESTER REPORTER ARTICLE

1:46:46 THAT THIS IS HAPPENING IN EVERY

1:46:48 SINGLE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I THINK

1:46:49 AS COUNCILORS WE SHOULD BAND

1:46:50 TOGETHER.

1:46:51 UM, THIS MIGHT BE THE ONE, UH,

1:46:54 ISSUE THAT LIKE I THINK WE CAN

1:46:55 SOLVE ON THIS COUNCIL SO I

1:46:56 REALLY I REALLY FEEL LIKE WE

1:46:58 HAVE SOME GOOD WORK TO DO AND I

1:47:00 WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:47:01 AND COUNCILOR SANTANA, UH, THE

1:47:02 CHAIR OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

1:47:03 UM, I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS

1:47:05 CONVERSATION.

1:47:06 I THINK WE CAN REALLY MAKE A

1:47:07 DIFFERENCE HERE.

1:47:07 THANK YOU.

1:47:09 COUNCILOR DURKAN CHAIR

1:47:10 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:47:11 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:47:13 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:47:14 AND THANK YOU TO

1:47:15 COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR ADDING ME.

1:47:17 THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE THAT

1:47:19 IMPACTS DISTRICT TWO WHICH

1:47:22 INCLUDES SOUTH BOSTON THE SOUTH

1:47:23 AND CHINATOWN, THE BAY VILLAGE

1:47:26 ,PARTS OF BEACON HILL, BACK

1:47:28 BAY, DOWNTOWN BOSTON, THE WHARF

1:47:31 DISTRICT COUNCIL ALMOST EVERY

1:47:33 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I HIGHLIGHTED

1:47:36 HAS TALKED TO ME ABOUT PACKAGE

1:47:38 THEFTS AND IT'S IT'S ESPECIALLY

1:47:43 SIGNIFICANT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

1:47:44 IN SOUTH BOSTON BUT ALSO IN THE

1:47:46 SOUTH END AS WELL.

1:47:48 RESIDENTS LITERALLY HAVE SAID

1:47:49 TO ME AND I HAVE SEVEN PACKAGES

1:47:52 OVER THE LAST.

1:47:54 30 DAYS THAT.

1:47:54 HAVE BEEN.

1:47:55 STOLEN AND I WOULD SAY TO THEM

1:47:57 I ASSUME YOU CALLED THE POLICE.

1:47:59 NO, WE WE DIDN'T CALL THE

1:48:00 POLICE.

1:48:01 UM, WE DON'T WANT TO WASTE

1:48:03 THEIR TIME.

1:48:04 WE DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED.

1:48:06 WE DON'T WANT TO UH WE DON'T

1:48:08 THINK IT'S THAT HIGH OF A

1:48:10 PRIORITY BUT IT IS A HIGH

1:48:12 PRIORITY.

1:48:14 IT IS A HIGH PRIORITY WHEN

1:48:16 PACKAGES ARE STOLEN AND IT'S

1:48:20 IMPACTING PUBLIC SAFETY.

1:48:21 IT'S IMPACTING QUALITY OF LIFE.

1:48:24 AND IF YOU DON'T REPORT STOLEN

1:48:28 PACKAGES IT ALMOST INVITES THE

1:48:32 PERSON TO CONTINUE DOING WHAT

1:48:33 THEY'RE DOING.

1:48:34 WHAT THAT PERSON REALLY NEEDS

1:48:36 IS DRUG TREATMENT.

1:48:37 WHAT THAT PERSON NEEDS IS TO BE

1:48:39 HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR

1:48:41 CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AS WELL.

1:48:42 BUT I THINK MOST PEOPLE THAT

1:48:44 ARE STEALING PACKAGES ARE UM

1:48:47 HAVE SUBSTANCE USE ISSUES.

1:48:49 THEY NEED HELP, THEY NEED

1:48:50 TREATMENT BUT WE NEED TO

1:48:53 DOCUMENT THIS BY CALLING 911

1:48:55 CALLING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

1:48:56 THEY NEED TO BE ARRESTED

1:48:59 BECAUSE IT'S HAVING A MAJOR

1:49:01 IMPACT.

1:49:01 IF THESE PACKAGES WERE REPORTED

1:49:03 TO THE POLICE WE WOULD SEE A

1:49:05 HIGH INCREASE OF CRIME IN

1:49:08 BOSTON.

1:49:09 BUT A LOT OF CRIME IN BOSTON

1:49:11 DOESN'T GO REPORTED FOR VARIOUS

1:49:14 REASONS SUCH AS THIS.

1:49:16 BUT RESIDENTS HAVE A

1:49:19 RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT ANY

1:49:22 TYPE OF PACKAGE THEFT TO THE

1:49:24 POLICE BECAUSE IF IT'S NOT THEM

1:49:28 IT MIGHT.

1:49:28 BE THEIR MOTHER.

1:49:29 IT.

1:49:30 MIGHT BE THEIR SISTER, IT MIGHT

1:49:31 BE THEIR.

1:49:31 FATHER AND WHO KNOWS WHAT IS

1:49:34 BEING STOLEN.

1:49:35 IT COULD BE SOMEONE'S CRITICAL

1:49:37 MEDICINE THAT THEY NEED FOR

1:49:38 THEIR CHILD.

1:49:40 SO LET'S COME TOGETHER AS A

1:49:43 COUNCIL SUPPORT OUR NEIGHBORS.

1:49:44 BUT WE'RE REALLY DOING A FAVOR

1:49:47 FOR OUR COMMUNITY BUT ALSO

1:49:49 DOING A FAVOR IN.

1:49:51 A WAY FOR THE PERSON THAT'S

1:49:52 STEALING PACKAGES.

1:49:54 BECAUSE THAT.

1:49:55 PERSON NEEDS TO BE HELD

1:49:56 ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS.

1:49:57 OR.

1:49:57 HER ACTIONS IN THE CRIMINAL

1:49:59 JUSTICE SYSTEM.

1:50:00 BUT THEY ALSO NEED DRUG

1:50:03 TREATMENT PROGRAM.

1:50:05 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:50:06 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:50:07 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:50:09 COUNCIL SANTANA COUNCIL.

1:50:09 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:50:11 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:50:12 I WANT TO THANK

1:50:13 COUNCILOR DURKAN, UM, FOR

1:50:14 LEADING OUR FOR INTRODUCING

1:50:15 THIS HEARING ORDER ON THIS

1:50:17 ISSUE.

1:50:18 UM, WHEN A PACKAGE WAS STOLEN

1:50:19 OFF A PORCH, IT WAS REALLY JUST

1:50:21 A MINOR INCONVENIENCE FOR OUR

1:50:22 SENIORS AND OUR NEIGHBORS

1:50:23 LIVING WITH DISABILITIES.

1:50:24 THAT PACKAGE OFTEN CONTAINS A

1:50:26 VITAL MEDICATION, SPECIALIZED

1:50:28 MEDICAL SUPPLIES OR ESSENTIAL

1:50:29 TOOLS FOR DAILY LIVING.

1:50:31 ALMOST EVERY ONE OF US HAS

1:50:33 EXPERIENCED THIS FIRSTHAND OR

1:50:34 KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS AND THE

1:50:36 NUMBERS BACK THAT UP.

1:50:37 LAST YEAR ALONE, NEARLY 1 IN 3

1:50:39 AMERICANS OVER 41 MILLION

1:50:41 PEOPLE FELL VICTIM OF UM TO

1:50:43 PACKAGE DEATH RIGHT HERE IN

1:50:44 MASSACHUSETTS AN ESTIMATED 3%

1:50:46 OF RESIDENTS LOSS OF DELIVERY

1:50:47 AND JUST A SINGLE THREE MONTH

1:50:49 WINDOW.

1:50:49 THIS IS HAPPENING ON OUR

1:50:51 STREETS EVERY DAY AND LOCAL

1:50:52 LEADERS LIKE CARA GILLIS FROM

1:50:54 THE DORCHESTER NORTH NEIGHBORS

1:50:55 ASSOCIATION HAVE BEEN STANDING

1:50:57 UP AND SPEAKING OUT ON BEHALF

1:50:59 OF OTHER NEIGHBORS.

1:51:00 WE NEED TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR

1:51:02 RESIDENTS TO FLAG THESE THEFTS.

1:51:04 STARTING WITH ADDING PACKAGE

1:51:05 THAT DIRECTLY TO OUR 3.1 SYSTEM

1:51:08 SO CITY SERVICES CAN TRACK

1:51:09 HOTSPOTS AND RESPOND

1:51:11 EFFECTIVELY.

1:51:11 I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING

1:51:12 THIS WORK ALONGSIDE DEDICATED

1:51:14 ADVOCATES LIKE HERA, BRINGING

1:51:16 FORWARD CREATIVE SOLUTIONS AND

1:51:18 PROTECTING OUR MOST VULNERABLE

1:51:19 RESIDENTS.

1:51:20 UM I ALSO VERY PROUD THING BOTH

1:51:22 MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED THAT

1:51:23 THEY'RE HAPPENING IN THEIR

1:51:24 RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS AND AS A

1:51:26 NIGHT CITY COUNCILOR UM

1:51:28 VISITING UM ACROSS ALL

1:51:29 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:51:30 UM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT UM

1:51:31 OFTEN RESIDENTS BRING UP.

1:51:32 UM, TO ME UM, ACROSS MULTIPLE

1:51:35 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:51:35 THANK YOU.

1:51:36 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:51:38 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:51:39 NAME?

1:51:40 COUNCILOR.

1:51:41 CULPEPER.

1:51:41 COUNCILOR.

1:51:43 FITZGERALD.

1:51:44 COUNCILOR.

1:51:45 REVISION COUNCIL.

1:51:46 MURPHY.

1:51:46 COUNCILOR.

1:51:47 PEPEN.

1:51:48 COUNCILOR.

1:51:48 WEBER.

1:51:49 CONSTABLE.

1:51:49 REALM, PLEASE.

1:51:50 UP THE CHAIR.

1:51:53 DOCKET 179 98 WILL BE REFERRED

1:51:55 TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

1:51:56 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:51:59 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:52:00 READ DOCKET 1799.281799.

1:52:05 COUNCIL OF CULPEPER FOR THE

1:52:06 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:52:09 TO EXAMINE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

1:52:11 BOSTON UNDER THE 21ST CENTURY

1:52:13 ROAD TO HOUSING ACT.

1:52:15 THANK YOU.

1:52:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:52:17 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNTRY.

1:52:18 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:52:19 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

1:52:21 TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A

1:52:23 SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:52:26 COUNCILOR SANTANA SO ADDED.

1:52:27 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:52:29 EARLIER THIS YEAR THIS

1:52:31 COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION

1:52:33 SUPPORTING THE 21ST CENTURY

1:52:35 ROAD TO HOUSING IN NOW THAT IS

1:52:38 BECOME FEDERAL LAW.

1:52:40 I BELIEVE THE NEXT QUESTION FOR

1:52:41 BOSTON IS STRAIGHTFORWARD.

1:52:43 HOW DO WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT?

1:52:46 THE ACT BECAME PUBLIC LAW 119

1:52:49 DASH 101 ON JULY 11TH AND

1:52:51 CONTAINS A NUMBER OF HOUSING

1:52:53 PROGRAMS AND POLICY CHANGES

1:52:55 THAT COULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS

1:52:57 FOR CITIES LIKE BOSTON.

1:52:59 THE LAW CREATES OPPORTUNITIES

1:53:01 AROUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:53:02 PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION.

1:53:05 CITY OWNED LAND, VACANT

1:53:06 BUILDING CONVERSIONS,

1:53:08 HOMEOWNERSHIP, REGIONAL HOUSING

1:53:10 PLANNING AND POTENTIALLY NEW

1:53:12 FEDERAL FUNDING.

1:53:14 IT ALSO MAKES AFFORDABLE

1:53:15 HOUSING CONSTRUCTION ELIGIBLE

1:53:17 UNDER CDBG.

1:53:22 AND IS.

1:53:24 AND THE CDBG AND REFORMED THE

1:53:27 HOME PROGRAM.

1:53:28 BUT NOT EVERY PROVISION CAN

1:53:29 NECESSARILY BE IMPLEMENTED

1:53:31 IMMEDIATELY.

1:53:32 SOME OPPORTUNITIES DEPEND ON

1:53:35 FEDERAL GUIDANCE OR FUNDING

1:53:36 WHILE OTHERS MAY REQUIRE

1:53:37 COORDINATION WITH THE

1:53:39 COMMONWEALTH AND OUR LOCAL

1:53:40 HOUSING PARTNERS.

1:53:41 I WANT THIS HEARING TO HELP US

1:53:43 DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THOSE

1:53:45 CATEGORIES AND TRY AND IDENTIFY

1:53:47 WHAT BOSTON CAN BEGIN PURSUING

1:53:50 NOW.

1:53:51 WE HAVE AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:53:52 CRISIS AND WHEN NEW TOOLS

1:53:54 BECOME AVAILABLE TO HELP US

1:53:56 PRODUCE AND PRESERVE HOUSING,

1:53:58 WE SHOULD BE PROACTIVE ABOUT

1:54:00 UNDERSTANDING AND USING THEM.

1:54:02 I LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING OUR

1:54:03 HOUSING AGENCIES AND PARTNERS

1:54:05 TOGETHER WITH COUNCILOR PEPEN

1:54:09 TO DETERMINE WHAT OPPORTUNITIES

1:54:11 THIS NEW LAW CREATES FOR BOSTON

1:54:13 AND HOW WE CAN PUT THEM INTO

1:54:15 PRACTICE.

1:54:16 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:54:18 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR COLE.

1:54:19 PURPLE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:54:21 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNTRY YOU

1:54:22 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:54:23 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:54:25 AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK UM,

1:54:26 COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR

1:54:27 INCLUDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

1:54:29 CO-SPONSOR.

1:54:30 THE 21ST CENTURY ROLLED INTO

1:54:31 HOUSING ACT, WHICH BECAME LAW

1:54:33 IN JULY OF THIS YEAR IS IN

1:54:35 LARGE PART DUE TO THE

1:54:36 LEADERSHIP FROM SENATOR WARREN.

1:54:37 UM, IT'S THE MOST SIGNIFICANT

1:54:39 PIECE OF FEDERAL HOUSING

1:54:40 LEGISLATION TO BE PASSED IN A

1:54:42 GENERATION.

1:54:42 IT CONTAINS OVER 40 PROVISIONS

1:54:44 FOCUSED ON AFFORDABILITY AND

1:54:46 INCREASING HOUSING SUPPLY

1:54:48 NATIONWIDE.

1:54:48 WE CANNOT LET THIS OPPORTUNITY

1:54:50 PASS BY US.

1:54:52 SO SECRET THAT BOSTON INTO THE

1:54:53 HOUSING CRISIS AND WE NEED TO

1:54:55 USE ALL OF THE TOOLS AT OUR

1:54:57 TOOLBOX TO FIX IT.

1:54:58 AT A HEARING FOCUSED SOLELY ON

1:54:59 THIS LEGISLATION, THE

1:55:00 COUNCIL CAN DIVE INTO SPECIFIC

1:55:02 PROGRAMS AND REGULATORY CHANGES

1:55:04 THAT WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE

1:55:05 OF AND IDENTIFY AREAS WHERE WE

1:55:07 NEED TO WAIT FOR OUR FEDERAL

1:55:08 APPROPRIATION PROCESS.

1:55:10 A HEARING ON THIS TOPIC WILL

1:55:11 ALSO SERVE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO

1:55:13 ENGAGE THE PUBLIC AND EDUCATE

1:55:14 THEM ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES UNDER

1:55:16 THIS NEW LEGISLATION, AND GIVE

1:55:18 NEIGHBORS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

1:55:19 WORK ON THE IMPLEMENTATION

1:55:21 ALONGSIDE US.

1:55:22 I ENCOURAGE MY FELLOW

1:55:23 COUNCILORS TO JOIN ME IN

1:55:24 SUPPORT, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO

1:55:26 THE DISCUSSION THAT WILL

1:55:26 CONTINUE TO HAVE AROUND THIS

1:55:28 ISSUE OF HOUSING.

1:55:29 THANK YOU.

1:55:30 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:55:31 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:55:33 NAME?

1:55:34 LET US A POWDER

1:55:35 COUNCILOR DURKAN FITZGERALD,

1:55:37 COUNCILOR FLYNN LOUIJEUNE

1:55:38 COUNSELOR MURPHY.

1:55:40 COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE

1:55:42 OF THE CHAIR.

1:55:43 DOCKET 1798 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:55:47 THE COMMITTEE.

1:55:48 OH, SORRY.

1:55:49 WRONG NUMBER 1799 WILL BE

1:55:52 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:55:53 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

1:55:54 DEVELOPMENT.

1:55:55 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:55:56 READ DOCKET 1800 TARGET.

1:56:00 1800 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR THE

1:56:03 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:56:04 TO DISCUSS THE SUPPORT OF LGBTQ

1:56:07 PLUS VETERANS THAT RECEIVE AND

1:56:10 OTHER THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE.

1:56:12 THANK YOU.

1:56:13 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:56:14 COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

1:56:15 FLOOR.

1:56:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:56:17 MAY I.

1:56:18 ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AN

1:56:20 ORIGINAL ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

1:56:21 PLEASE?

1:56:22 COUNCILOR SANTANA SO ADDED.

1:56:24 THANK YOU.

1:56:28 OTHER THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE

1:56:32 ALSO KNOWN AS LESS THAN

1:56:33 HONORABLE DISCHARGE.

1:56:35 IS GENERALLY ISSUED WHEN A

1:56:37 MEMBER OF THE MILITARY RESULTS

1:56:40 IN PUNISHMENT FOR.

1:56:41 VIOLATING THE.

1:56:42 UCMJ, WHICH IS THE UNIFORM

1:56:44 CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE.

1:56:46 ACCORDING TO THE VETERANS

1:56:47 AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, MORE THAN 2

1:56:49 MILLION SERVICEMEMBERS HAVE

1:56:50 BEEN DISCHARGED WITH AND OTHER

1:56:53 THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE SINCE

1:56:55 WORLD WAR TWO.

1:56:57 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE

1:56:58 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

1:57:00 IN 1949 LED.

1:57:01 TO STANDARDIZE ANTI LGBTQ PLUS

1:57:05 REGULATIONS ACROSS ALL BRANCHES

1:57:07 OF THE MILITARY FROM ITS

1:57:09 INCEPTION THROUGH.

1:57:11 1981.

1:57:11 THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

1:57:13 REQUIRED PRESCREENING OF ALL

1:57:15 DRAFTED.

1:57:16 PERSONNEL DETERMINING IF A

1:57:18 SERVICE.

1:57:19 MEMBER IDENTIFIED AS GAY OR

1:57:21 LESBIAN.

1:57:21 IN 1981 THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.

1:57:24 ISSUED A DIRECTIVE WHICH

1:57:27 OFFICIALLY DECLARED.

1:57:28 HOMOSEXUALITY WAS INCOMPATIBLE

1:57:30 WITH MILITARY.

1:57:31 SERVICE MANDATED DISCHARGE OF.

1:57:34 SERVICE MEMBERS BASICALLY.

1:57:35 IF YOU WERE GAY OR LESBIAN YOU

1:57:37 WERE DISCHARGED FROM THE

1:57:38 MILITARY.

1:57:39 .

1:57:40 IN 1993 PRESIDENT CLINTON

1:57:42 ENACTED DON'T ASK DON'T TELL

1:57:44 WHICH ALLOWED GAY.

1:57:45 LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL.

1:57:46 INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE IN THE

1:57:48 MILITARY AS LONG AS.

1:57:49 THEY KEPT THEIR.

1:57:50 ORIENTATION PRIVATE.

1:57:52 DON'T ASK DON'T TELL WAS

1:57:54 ABOLISHED, ALLOWING PERSONNEL

1:57:55 TO SERVE OPENLY.

1:57:56 WITHOUT FEAR OF DISCHARGE.

1:57:59 IN MASSACHUSETTS, THE VETERAN'S

1:58:01 EQUALITY.

1:58:02 REVIEW BOARD.

1:58:02 HELPS VETERANS.

1:58:03 WHO RECEIVE.

1:58:04 AND OTHER THAN HONORABLE.

1:58:05 DISCHARGE DUE.

1:58:07 TO DON'T ASK DON'T TELL THE

1:58:09 BOARD.

1:58:09 MUST REVIEW EACH APPLICATION

1:58:11 WITHIN 30 DAYS OF REVIEWING

1:58:12 THE.

1:58:13 APPLICATION AND.

1:58:14 PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE

1:58:15 SECRETARY OF THE.

1:58:17 VETERANS SERVICES.

1:58:20 IN 2021, THE CITY

1:58:21 COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION

1:58:22 FILED BY COUNCIL BREADON.

1:58:25 AND I CELEBRATING.

1:58:27 ALWAYS ASK PROUD TO TELL.

1:58:29 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

1:58:31 COUNCIL BREADON FOR.

1:58:32 HER.

1:58:32 IMPORTANT WORK.

1:58:32 IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE AS A CITY

1:58:35 DO ALL WE.

1:58:35 CAN TO HONOR AND SUPPORT THOSE

1:58:37 .

1:58:37 VETERANS WHO RECEIVE AND.

1:58:39 OTHER THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE.

1:58:43 SO WHEN A VETERAN RECEIVED AND

1:58:45 OTHER THAN HONORABLE.

1:58:46 DISCHARGE IT.

1:58:47 BASICALLY MEANS THAT YOU ARE

1:58:49 NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CERTAIN

1:58:50 BENEFITS THAT.

1:58:52 DISCHARGE HONORABLE DISCHARGE

1:58:54 VETERANS RECEIVED.

1:58:56 WHEN A VETERAN WAS.

1:58:57 DISCHARGED FOR BEING.

1:58:59 GAY OR LESBIAN.

1:59:00 SOMETIMES THEY DIDN'T

1:59:01 NECESSARILY.

1:59:02 PUT THAT.

1:59:03 AS THE REASON.

1:59:04 FOR A DISCHARGE.

1:59:04 THEY ADDED SOME TYPE OF.

1:59:06 MEDICAL RELATED ISSUE.

1:59:08 AND AND ENSURE.

1:59:11 THAT THAT VETERAN WOULD.

1:59:12 NOT GET AN HONORABLE.

1:59:13 DISCHARGE, MEANING THAT.

1:59:16 VETERANS WOULD NOT RECEIVE THE

1:59:17 SAME.

1:59:17 LEVEL OF BENEFITS.

1:59:18 THAT I WOULD RECEIVE.

1:59:21 THAT'S UNFAIR.

1:59:22 I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE AND.

1:59:24 ACKNOWLEDGE THE COMMISSIONER

1:59:26 OF VETERANS SERVICES, ROBERT

1:59:28 SANTIAGO IN.

1:59:29 MY AND MYSELF.

1:59:30 I GUESS WE.

1:59:31 DID A LOT.

1:59:32 OF WORK ON THIS ISSUE.

1:59:32 OVER THE OVER THE YEARS UNDER.

1:59:35 THE CURRENT FEDERAL

1:59:37 ADMINISTRATION.

1:59:37 IT'S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT.

1:59:39 TO.

1:59:39 GET ANY JUSTICE.

1:59:41 FOR GAY AND.

1:59:42 LESBIAN VETERANS THAT WOULD

1:59:44 THAT HAVE OTHER THAN HONORABLE.

1:59:46 DISCHARGE, IT MIGHT TAKE.

1:59:49 THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION TO

1:59:50 GET JUSTICE.

1:59:52 HOWEVER, WE STILL.

1:59:53 HAVE TO ADVOCATE.

1:59:56 FOR OUR.

1:59:59 LGBTQ PLUS.

2:00:00 VETERANS THAT.

2:00:01 WERE DISCHARGED.

2:00:02 BECAUSE OF THIS POLICY AND THEY

2:00:07 DESERVE.

2:00:07 THE BENEFITS.

2:00:09 AS ANY OTHER VETERAN.

2:00:11 SO WE'RE.

2:00:11 BASICALLY GOING ON RECORD AND.

2:00:14 ASKING FOR A.

2:00:14 HEARING ON WHAT WE CAN DO TO.

2:00:16 ENSURE THAT THOSE THAT RECEIVED

2:00:18 AND OTHER.

2:00:19 THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE CAN

2:00:21 GET AN OFFICIAL DISCHARGE.

2:00:23 THAT SAYS HONORABLE.

2:00:24 DISCHARGE SO THEY CAN GO TO THE

2:00:26 VA AND HAVE AND GET THE

2:00:28 SERVICES.

2:00:29 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE

2:00:30 WORKING.

2:00:30 WITH COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO.

2:00:31 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE.

2:00:32 WORKING WITH THE STATE VETERANS

2:00:35 SECRETARY.

2:00:35 I'M GOING.

2:00:36 TO CONTINUE.

2:00:37 WORKING WITH OUR.

2:00:38 FEDERAL LEADERS AS WELL.

2:00:39 ESPECIALLY THE MASS DELEGATION

2:00:41 THAT SUPPORTS THIS PROPOSAL.

2:00:44 AND THEY KNOW HOW IMPORTANT

2:00:45 THIS PROPOSAL IS TO ENSURE ALL

2:00:47 VETERANS.

2:00:48 ,LGBTQ PLUS.

2:00:49 VETERANS ARE RESPECTED AND

2:00:51 TREATED.

2:00:52 WITH.

2:00:52 RESPECT AND DIGNITY.

2:00:53 MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU.

2:00:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:00:55 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING

2:00:56 ADVOCACY FOR THE LGBT

2:00:58 COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY OUR

2:00:59 VETERANS.

2:00:59 THANK YOU.

2:01:00 UM, COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE

2:01:02 THE FLOOR.

2:01:03 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:01:05 I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN

2:01:07 FOR BOTH ADDING ME AS THE

2:01:08 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR UM, BUT

2:01:10 ALSO THANKING HIM FOR HIS

2:01:11 TIRELESS ADVOCACY FOR BOSTON'S

2:01:13 VETERANS, PARTICULARLY THOSE

2:01:15 FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES.

2:01:16 UM, EARLIER THIS WEEK I WAS

2:01:18 ACTUALLY ON A PHONE CALL WITH

2:01:19 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND INFORM YOU

2:01:20 ABOUT, UM, THE THE GREAT NEED

2:01:22 OF WORK THAT WE STILL NEED TO

2:01:24 DO UM, ON THIS TOPIC BUT THE

2:01:26 UM, THE GREAT WORK THAT BOTH

2:01:27 HIM AND THE COMMISSIONER

2:01:28 SANTIAGO UM HAVE BEEN DOING FOR

2:01:30 YEARS NOW.

2:01:31 UM AND I'M EXCITED TO BE

2:01:33 PARTNERING WITH HIM AND

2:01:33 COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO ON THAT

2:01:34 WORK.

2:01:35 IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT

2:01:36 WE DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN AS

2:01:38 A CITY TO PROTECT AND UPLIFT

2:01:39 OUR LGBTQ TO US PLUS VETERANS

2:01:42 AT THIS TIME WHILE THEIR RIGHTS

2:01:44 ARE UNDER ATTACK FROM OUR

2:01:45 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DECADES

2:01:48 LGBTQ PLUS UM SERVICE MEMBERS

2:01:49 HAVE SERVED THIS COUNTRY ONLY

2:01:51 TO BE PUSHED OUT WITH THE WITH

2:01:53 AND OTHER THAN HONORABLE

2:01:55 DISCHARGE.

2:01:55 THIS ISN'T JUST AN UNFAIR LABEL

2:01:57 ON PAPER AND REALITY IT CUTS

2:02:00 VETERANS OFF FROM BASIC

2:02:02 BENEFITS THEY EARNED LIKE VA

2:02:03 HEALTH CARE, HOUSING SUPPORT

2:02:04 AND TUITION ASSISTANCE.

2:02:06 RIGHT NOW OUR LGBTQ TO US PLUS

2:02:09 RIGHTS UM TARGETED AT THE

2:02:12 FEDERAL LEVEL AND WE CAN'T SIT

2:02:13 BACK.

2:02:14 WE NEED TO CONNECT OUR LOCAL

2:02:15 VETERANS WITH HOPE UM WITH

2:02:17 LEGAL HELP TO ENSURE THAT THEY

2:02:19 ARE ABLE TO ACCESS THE

2:02:20 RESOURCES THEY AND THEIR

2:02:21 FAMILIES DESERVE.

2:02:23 IT WAS ALSO NEVER TOO LATE TO

2:02:24 ADDRESS HISTORICAL INJUSTICES.

2:02:26 UH, OUR LGBTQ PLUS SERVICE

2:02:28 MEMBERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PART

2:02:30 OF OUR ARMED FORCES AND VETERAN

2:02:31 COMMUNITY.

2:02:32 I LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING AND

2:02:34 DISCUSSING ADDITIONAL WAYS THAT

2:02:35 WE CAN SUPPORT THEM.

2:02:36 THANK YOU.

2:02:37 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:02:39 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:02:41 NAME?

2:02:43 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:02:43 COUNCILOR.

2:02:44 DURKAN.

2:02:44 COUNCILOR.

2:02:44 FITZGERALD.

2:02:45 COUNCILMAN.

2:02:46 DIVISION.

2:02:46 COUNTRY.

2:02:46 MURPHY.

2:02:47 COUNCILOR.

2:02:47 WEBER.

2:02:48 CONSTABLE.

2:02:49 RAEL AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR.

2:02:51 UH THIS DOCKET.

2:02:53 UH, DOCKET 1800 WILL BE

2:02:55 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:02:57 VETERANS, MILITARY FAMILIES AND

2:02:59 MILITARY AFFAIRS.

2:03:03 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:03:04 READ DOCKET 1801.

2:03:07 DOCKET 1801.

2:03:09 COUNCILOR DURKAN OFFER THE

2:03:10 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

2:03:12 ON THE REVIEW OF THE MUNICIPAL

2:03:14 OPT IN SPECIALIZED STRETCH

2:03:15 ENERGY CODE AT THE THREE YEAR

2:03:18 THRESHOLD.

2:03:19 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DULL

2:03:20 CONCUSSION.

2:03:21 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:03:21 THANK YOU SO MUCH,

2:03:23 COUNCILOR PRESIDENT, I WANT TO

2:03:24 START BY CLARIFYING WHAT THE

2:03:25 SPECIALIZED STRETCH ENERGY

2:03:28 CODE IS.

2:03:28 IT IS A SET OF STATE LEVEL

2:03:30 REGULATIONS THAT ADD HIGHER

2:03:31 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS TO THE

2:03:32 BASE ENERGY CODE.

2:03:34 I ALSO WANT TO BE CLEAR IT IS

2:03:35 SEPARATE FROM BERTO AND IS ONE

2:03:37 PIECE OF A BROADER FRAMEWORK

2:03:39 OF STANDARDS THAT BOSTON HAS

2:03:40 IMPLEMENTED TO DECARBONIZE OUR

2:03:41 BUILDING STOCK.

2:03:43 MASSACHUSETTS HAS THREE LEVELS

2:03:44 OF BUILDING ENERGY CODES.

2:03:45 THE BASE CODE, THE SCRATCH

2:03:47 CODE AND THE SPECIALIZED CODE.

2:03:48 THE SPECIALIZED CODE WAS

2:03:49 CREATED IN 2021 AND IS THE MOST

2:03:51 STRINGENT OF THE THREE.

2:03:52 IT BUILDS ON THE STRETCH

2:03:53 CODE BY ADDING ADDITIONAL

2:03:54 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND EMISSIONS

2:03:57 REQUIREMENTS.

2:03:57 BOSTON ADOPTED THE STRETCH

2:03:59 CODE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO AND

2:04:00 ADOPTED THE SPECIALIZED

2:04:01 CODE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST,

2:04:03 2024.

2:04:04 THESE ARE IMPORTANT STANDARDS

2:04:06 BUT THEY ALSO COME WITH

2:04:07 STRAIGHT TRADE OFFS.

2:04:08 I'VE SPOKEN WITH ENGINEERS WHO

2:04:10 HAVE RAISED CONCERNS THAT THESE

2:04:12 REQUIREMENTS CAN SIGNIFICANTLY

2:04:13 INCREASE THE COST OF NEW

2:04:14 CONSTRUCTION AND THAT THEIR

2:04:15 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS REQUIRE

2:04:17 SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE AND THIRD

2:04:19 PARTY CERTIFICATION, ADDING

2:04:21 SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS TO

2:04:22 DEVELOPMENT.

2:04:22 WELL OVER 200 MASSACHUSETTS

2:04:25 MUNICIPALITIES HAVE ADOPTED

2:04:26 THIS CODE.

2:04:26 ONLY 60 HAVE ADOPTED THE

2:04:29 SPECIALIZED CODE.

2:04:30 UM AND I'LL JUST SAY OF THE 60

2:04:32 A LOT OF THEM REALLY DON'T WANT

2:04:34 DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN.

2:04:35 THEY'RE UH, COMMUNITIES THAT

2:04:37 ARE FIGHTING CURRENTLY THE MBTA

2:04:39 COMMUNITY ACT UM AS A LOCAL

2:04:42 ADOPTION LAW.

2:04:43 MUNICIPALITIES HAVE SPECIALIZED

2:04:45 CODE IN PLACE FOR THREE YEARS

2:04:46 BEFORE THEY CAN MAKE CHANGES.

2:04:47 BOSTON WILL REACH THAT POINT ON

2:04:49 JANUARY 1ST OF NEXT YEAR.

2:04:51 I SUPPORTED NET ZERO

2:04:52 CARBON ZONING AT THE ZONING

2:04:53 COMMISSION, WHICH HELPED CODIFY

2:04:54 SOME OF THESE REGULATIONS IN

2:04:55 BOSTON ZONING AND I PROBABLY

2:04:57 WOULD HAVE VOTED TO ADOPT THE

2:04:58 SPECIALIZED CODE IF I HAD BEEN

2:04:59 OFFICE WHEN IT CAME BEFORE THE

2:05:00 COUNCIL.

2:05:01 BUT I BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY

2:05:02 THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE

2:05:03 REALITIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

2:05:04 HEAD ON SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL

2:05:06 EQUITY, ENVIRONMENTAL

2:05:07 RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER

2:05:09 CONSIDERATIONS IN EVERYTHING WE

2:05:10 DO.

2:05:10 BUT WE CANNOT ENTER AND WE

2:05:12 CANNOT UNDERESTIMATE THE

2:05:13 ENVIRONMENTAL AND IMPACT OF OUR

2:05:14 BUILDINGS AND THE IMPORTANCE

2:05:16 OF THESE REGULATIONS.

2:05:17 WHILE I UNDERSTAND THIS TOPIC

2:05:19 CAN CAUSE EYES TO GLAZE OVER,

2:05:21 WE CANNOT UH, UNDERESTIMATE THE

2:05:23 UH, IMPACT ON THE HIGH COST

2:05:25 OF HOUSING AND THE PRESSURE

2:05:26 HOUSING MARKET IS PLACING ON

2:05:28 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES ACROSS

2:05:29 BOSTON.

2:05:30 I WANT TO BRING THIS FORWARD

2:05:31 NOW BECAUSE OVER THE PAST FEW

2:05:32 YEARS WE HAVE WATCHED INTEREST

2:05:33 RATES AND CONSTRUCTION RATES

2:05:35 CLIMB WHILE PERMITTED PROJECTS

2:05:36 SET AND RELATIVELY FEW PROJECTS

2:05:38 ARE MAKING IT OFF OF THE GROUND

2:05:39 .

2:05:40 ONLY TWO PROJECTS OF 100 UNITS

2:05:42 OR MORE HAVE STARTED

2:05:43 CONSTRUCTION IN BOSTON SINCE

2:05:45 2025 I THINK, AND A LOT

2:05:46 OF ENGINEERS THINK THAT THIS IS

2:05:48 LARGELY OR AT LEAST IMPACTED BY

2:05:50 THE BUT THE SPECIALIZED STRETCH

2:05:52 CODE I'M SPEAKING ABOUT NOW.

2:05:54 WORCESTER, THE SECOND LARGEST

2:05:55 CITY IN THE COMMONWEALTH, TRIED

2:05:56 TO PAUSE ENFORCEMENT OF THESE

2:05:58 REGULATIONS BUT THEY HAVE NOT

2:05:59 YET REACHED THE THREE YEAR

2:06:00 MARK.

2:06:01 I KNOW THE SPECIALIZED CODE IS

2:06:03 NOT THE ONLY REASON DEVELOPMENT

2:06:05 IS STRUGGLING AND WHILE HOUSING

2:06:06 REMAINS ONE OF OUR CITY'S

2:06:07 GREATEST CHALLENGES, WE NEED TO

2:06:09 BE DILIGENT IN EXAMINING EVERY

2:06:10 FACTOR THAT AFFECTS HOUSING

2:06:11 PRODUCTION.

2:06:12 THERE ARE RELATIVELY THESE ARE

2:06:14 RELATIVELY NEW REGULATIONS AND

2:06:16 BOSTON WAS THE FIRST ONE OF THE

2:06:18 FIRST MUNICIPALITIES IN THE

2:06:19 COMMONWEALTH TO ADOPT THEM.

2:06:20 THAT'S WHY I WANT THIS HEARING

2:06:22 TO ACTUALLY HEAR FROM ENGINEERS

2:06:24 WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY WORKED

2:06:25 WITHIN THESE REQUIREMENTS.

2:06:26 THERE ARE A FEW IN MY DISTRICT

2:06:28 WHO HAVE PERMITTED PROJECTS UM,

2:06:31 AND I CAN SPEAK TO THE

2:06:33 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS AS

2:06:35 WE APPROACH THE THREE YEAR

2:06:36 MARK, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY

2:06:37 TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE

2:06:38 IMPACT OF THESE REGULATIONS AND

2:06:40 UNDERSTAND HOW ARE THEY ARE

2:06:41 WORKING IN PRACTICE.

2:06:42 ULTIMATELY WE NEED TO MAKE SURE

2:06:43 THAT WE'RE MAKING INFORMED

2:06:44 DECISIONS THAT BALANCE OUR

2:06:45 CLIMATE GOALS WITH THE

2:06:47 REALITIES FACING OUR CITY.

2:06:48 UM, ONE UH JUST ANECDOTE VERY

2:06:51 QUICKLY.

2:06:51 UM, WE ARE BASICALLY PART

2:06:55 OF THE SPECIALIZED MUNICIPAL

2:06:56 OPT IN CODE IS REQUIRING

2:06:57 PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGNATION.

2:06:59 PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGNATION COST

2:07:01 A LOT OF MONEY AND IT'S NOT

2:07:04 SOMETHING THAT UM, WE ACTUALLY,

2:07:07 UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE GETTING

2:07:09 THE BRAND NAME BUT AND YOU HAVE

2:07:11 TO PAY FOR IT AND SO THAT'S

2:07:13 PART OF GOING TO BE PART OF THE

2:07:14 CONVERSATION.

2:07:14 WE'RE GOING TO BRING IN A BUNCH

2:07:16 OF ENGINEERS.

2:07:17 I AM NOT GOING TO ASK THE ADMIN

2:07:19 TO EVEN SHOW UP AT THIS

2:07:20 HEARING.

2:07:20 THE HEARING IS REALLY ABOUT

2:07:23 HOUSING ENGINEERS THE NITTY

2:07:25 GRITTY.

2:07:26 THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES WITH

2:07:27 THE SPECIALIZED MUNICIPAL OPT

2:07:29 IN STRETCH CODE.

2:07:31 UM THERE ARE A LOT OF TRADE

2:07:32 OFFS.

2:07:32 WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION

2:07:33 ABOUT IT.

2:07:34 THANK YOU.

2:07:34 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:07:37 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:07:38 NAME?

2:07:41 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:07:42 WHETHER COUNCIL AROUND CONSIDER

2:07:45 CULPEPER.

2:07:47 THANK YOU.

2:07:48 DOCKET ONE IT FITS.

2:07:50 YOUR.

2:07:51 OH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

2:07:53 BEG YOUR PARDON?

2:07:55 DOCKET 1811 AND ZERO ONE WILL

2:07:58 BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:07:59 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,

2:08:01 RESILIENCY AND PARKS.

2:08:02 ALL RIGHT.

2:08:04 CANCER.

2:08:05 UH, CANCER.

2:08:06 JENKIN.

2:08:06 UM, THE HEARING ORDER IS

2:08:07 SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN TO BRING

2:08:09 IN DEVELOPERS AND ENGINEERS WHO

2:08:11 WORK ON DEVELOPMENT.

2:08:12 AND I TOOK A LOT OF UM, I, I

2:08:16 TOOK WHEN WRITING IT.

2:08:18 UM, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE

2:08:20 TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

2:08:22 WE WILL HAVE AN ENVIRONMENTAL

2:08:23 PANEL BUT UM THE POINT OF THE

2:08:26 HEARING IS TO TALK ABOUT THE

2:08:28 DEVELOPMENT RELATED CONCERNS

2:08:28 AROUND THE SPECIAL ONE.

2:08:29 THAT'S WHAT.

2:08:30 SO, UM, ARE YOU APPEALING THE

2:08:33 DECISION OF THE CHAIR?

2:08:35 I MEAN, I I'M.

2:08:36 UH, POINT OF PRIVILEGE.

2:08:37 I'M REQUESTING THAT THE CHAIR

2:08:39 RECONSIDER GIVEN THE FOLKS THAT

2:08:41 I WANT TO SHOW UP AT THE

2:08:42 HEARING.

2:08:43 SO ARE YOU.

2:08:44 AND INVOKING RULE FIVE AND

2:08:46 INVOKING AND APPEALING THE

2:08:47 DECISION OF THE CHAIR.

2:08:48 I IF I HAVE TO I MEAN, I I

2:08:51 THINK IT COULD BE A

2:08:52 CONVERSATION AND I KNOW THAT MY

2:08:54 TEAM HAS REACHED OUT TO YOUR

2:08:55 TEAM TO ASK SPECIFICALLY GIVEN

2:08:57 WHO WE WANT TO SHOW UP AT THE

2:08:58 PANEL.

2:08:59 UM, I THINK I WANT TO STICK

2:09:04 WITH MY DECISION TO KEEP IT AN

2:09:05 ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE I THINK AND

2:09:07 I, I DON'T I DON'T HAVE TO

2:09:08 JUSTIFY MY DECISION.

2:09:09 BUT UM, IF YOU WISH TO, UH,

2:09:13 APPEAL THE DECISION OF THE

2:09:14 CHAIR, UM.

2:09:15 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ENOUGH

2:09:16 PEOPLE IN THE ROOM TO APPEAL

2:09:17 THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR, YOU

2:09:18 KNOW?

2:09:21 23456899.

2:09:22 THAT'S FINE.

2:09:23 YEAH.

2:09:24 OKAY.

2:09:24 I'D LIKE TO APPEAL THE

2:09:26 DECISION THAT THAT YOU.

2:09:27 HAVE.

2:09:27 A SECOND.

2:09:29 THE PROPONENT.

2:09:31 UM, CAN YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES

2:09:32 TO, UM, SPEAK TO YOU?

2:09:36 YOU DON'T NEED THREE MINUTES.

2:09:42 YEAH.

2:09:43 SO THE QUESTION BEFORE THE BODY

2:09:44 IS SHALL THE DECISION OF THE

2:09:45 CHAIR STAND AS THE JUDGMENT

2:09:47 OF THE COUNCIL?

2:09:48 A YES VOTE KEEPS THE DOCKET IN

2:09:50 THE COMMITTEE.

2:09:50 THE CHAIR HAS DECIDED WHICH IS

2:09:52 ENVIRONMENT UH, ENVIRONMENTAL

2:09:54 RESISTANCE RESILIENCE AND UH, A

2:09:56 NO VOTE CHANGES THE COMMITTEE

2:09:58 ASSIGNMENT.

2:09:58 UH, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

2:10:00 PLEASE TAKE.

2:10:00 A ROLL.

2:10:00 CALL VOTE ON, UH, RULE FIVE

2:10:03 APPEALING THE DECISION OF THE

2:10:04 CHAIR.

2:10:05 I JUST REMIND PEOPLE YES.

2:10:08 IS KEEPS THE VOTE.

2:10:09 IN THE IN THE IN THE IN THE

2:10:12 COMMITTEE IT WAS SENT TO A NO

2:10:13 VOTE CHANGES THE.

2:10:15 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT.

2:10:16 UM.

2:10:17 COUNCILOR BREEDEN.

2:10:18 YES.

2:10:19 OPERATOR AND YES.

2:10:20 COUNCIL COLOR IS A BOROUGH

2:10:22 COUNCIL CULPEPER?

2:10:23 YEAH, IT'S A CARD BUT I KNOW.

2:10:26 ALSO DURKAN.

2:10:27 I SAID OKAY NO

2:10:29 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

2:10:30 UH, HUNTER.

2:10:32 FITZGERALD NO COUNCIL FLYNN.

2:10:34 YES.

2:10:34 AND SO FLYNN.

2:10:35 YES.

2:10:37 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE NO.

2:10:38 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

2:10:39 NO COUNCIL HERE ON SOME MURPHY

2:10:42 .

2:10:43 IT'S A MURPHY.

2:10:44 YES.

2:10:45 COUNCIL.

2:10:45 UH COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

2:10:47 NO COUNCIL.

2:10:48 SANTANA COUNCIL WEBER.

2:10:51 NO, IT'S A WEBER.

2:10:53 NO.

2:10:54 OVERALL AND SILVER AROUND NO.

2:10:59 1234567 NO AND THREE.

2:11:01 YES.

2:11:03 SO THE UH THE APPEAL TO THE

2:11:06 APPEALING THE DECISION OF THE

2:11:08 CHAIR HAS PASSED.

2:11:10 UM NO, I.

2:11:12 KNOW IT IS.

2:11:12 NINE NINE VOTES OKAY.

2:11:14 IT HAS NOT PASSED.

2:11:15 THANK YOU.

2:11:23 SO DOCKET 1801 WILL BE REFERRED

2:11:26 TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:11:26 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

2:11:27 RESILIENCY AND PARKS.

2:11:29 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:11:30 READ THE DOCKET 1802 DOCKET.

2:11:34 1802 COUNCILOR FLYNN OR FOR THE

2:11:37 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR HEARING TO

2:11:39 DISCUSS THE FULL YEAR CIVICS

2:11:41 COURSES AND GRADUATION

2:11:42 REQUIREMENT FOR BOSTON PUBLIC

2:11:44 SCHOOLS.

2:11:44 THANK YOU.

2:11:45 MADAM CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:11:47 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:11:47 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:11:50 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:11:52 THE 2018.

2:11:54 THE MASSACHUSETTS.

2:11:55 LEGISLATURE PASSED AN ACT TO

2:11:57 PROMOTE AND ENHANCE CIVIC.

2:11:59 ENGAGEMENT THAT.

2:12:01 RESTRUCTURED THE HISTORY AND

2:12:02 SOCIAL SCIENCE FRAMEWORK TO

2:12:04 COMPLY.

2:12:05 CREATING A.

2:12:06 FULL YEAR COURSE.

2:12:07 WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT THE

2:12:09 END OF THE EIGHTH GRADE SCHOOL

2:12:11 YEAR.

2:12:12 AND PRIOR TO.

2:12:13 STARTING HIGH SCHOOL THE.

2:12:14 STUDENT WILL DEMONSTRATE CIVIL

2:12:16 .

2:12:17 KNOWLEDGE.

2:12:18 SKILLS AND UM CIVICS.

2:12:21 THIS ACT WAS TO GO INTO EFFECT

2:12:23 FOR THE 2019 2020 SCHOOL YEAR.

2:12:26 THE LEGISLATION AROSE FROM

2:12:28 CONCERNS.

2:12:29 SHARED BY MANY PARENTS,

2:12:30 EDUCATORS.

2:12:31 AND STUDENTS ABOUT THE

2:12:33 INCONSISTENCY IN CIVICS

2:12:35 EDUCATION ACROSS.

2:12:36 THE STATE.

2:12:37 SUPPORTERS OF THIS LEGISLATION

2:12:39 ,INCLUDING THE.

2:12:40 BOSTON BAR.

2:12:41 ASSOCIATION.

2:12:42 BELIEVE THAT CIVICS.

2:12:43 AND THE REQUIREMENT.

2:12:45 OF CIVICS IS CRITICAL TO

2:12:46 ENSURE THE NEXT GENERATION.

2:12:48 UNDERSTAND ALL THE DIFFERENT

2:12:49 ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF OUR

2:12:51 GOVERNMENT.

2:12:53 AT THE SAME TIME, THE.

2:12:54 CLASS GRADED CIVICS.

2:12:56 ASSESSMENT WAS THEN DEVELOPED

2:12:58 AND PILOTED.

2:13:01 UM WHAT THE 2024 2025.

2:13:04 SCHOOL YEAR OFFERING THE FIRST

2:13:05 OPERATIONAL YEAR.

2:13:09 BASED ON THE.

2:13:09 STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE IN BOSTON

2:13:11 FOR THE EMPEROR.

2:13:12 MARCUS GRADE EIGHT CIVICS 50%

2:13:14 OF.

2:13:14 STUDENTS ARE ONLY.

2:13:16 PARTIALLY MEETING EXPECTATIONS

2:13:19 20% ARE NOT MEETING

2:13:20 EXPECTATIONS AT ALL.

2:13:22 I BELIEVE CIVICS IS AN INTEGRAL

2:13:23 PART.

2:13:24 OF EDUCATION.

2:13:25 IT PROVIDES.

2:13:26 THE KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND.

2:13:27 THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND

2:13:30 LIMITATIONS ON LOCAL.

2:13:31 STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

2:13:32 .

2:13:33 IT ALLOWS CITIZENS TO BETTER

2:13:34 UNDERSTAND HOW DECISIONS.

2:13:35 ARE MADE.

2:13:36 HOW THEY CAN APPROPRIATELY

2:13:38 APPROPRIATELY.

2:13:39 COMMUNICATE THEIR CONCERNS TO

2:13:40 APPROPRIATE.

2:13:42 CITY OFFICIALS.

2:13:44 INCLUDING CITY COUNCILS.

2:13:47 I KNOW THAT SOME BOSTON PUBLIC

2:13:49 SCHOOLS USED TO OFFER CIVICS IN

2:13:51 HIGH SCHOOL.

2:13:53 TO ME THAT MAKES SENSE AS HIGH

2:13:55 SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ON THE

2:13:56 VERGE OF BECOMING ELIGIBLE TO

2:13:57 VOTE TO JOIN THE MILITARY.

2:14:01 ,TO SERVE IN JURIES.

2:14:02 AND PARTICIPATE IN OTHER

2:14:04 ASPECTS OF CIVIC LIFE WHERE

2:14:06 THEY.

2:14:07 WILL ENCOUNTER.

2:14:08 POLITICAL AND PUBLIC.

2:14:09 POLICY RELATED ISSUES.

2:14:10 MORE FREQUENTLY, PROVIDING

2:14:13 STUDENTS WITH A STRONG

2:14:14 FOUNDATION IN CIVICS.

2:14:16 PREPARES THEM TO.

2:14:17 PARTICIPATE IN RESPONSIBLY

2:14:21 PARTICIPATE IN.

2:14:22 THEIR COMMUNITIES AND

2:14:23 GOVERNMENT.

2:14:24 I THINK.

2:14:24 THIS IS A.

2:14:26 COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO ENSURE

2:14:28 THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOSTON

2:14:31 KNOW HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS,

2:14:33 ESPECIALLY.

2:14:34 OUR CITY GOVERNMENT.

2:14:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:14:36 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:14:38 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:14:40 NAME?

2:14:41 COUNTRY THIS A POWDER COUNTRY

2:14:43 CODE PAPRIKA.

2:14:44 FITZGERALD.

2:14:45 COMES FROM MURPHY CONSTRUCT

2:14:46 PEPEN CULTURAL REALM.

2:14:47 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:14:50 DOCKET 1802 BE REFERRED TO THE

2:14:53 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

2:14:56 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:14:57 READ DOCKET 1803.

2:15:01 DOCKET ONE EIGHT.

2:15:02 THERE WERE THREE

2:15:03 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR THE

2:15:04 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR HEARING TO

2:15:06 DISCUSS THE PUBLIC HEALTH

2:15:07 DISPARITIES IN BOSTON

2:15:09 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

2:15:10 THANK YOU.

2:15:11 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:15:12 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:15:13 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:15:14 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:15:15 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD, UM,

2:15:17 COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER AS AN

2:15:18 ORIGINAL, UM, ORIGINAL SPONSOR

2:15:20 AND SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

2:15:23 COUNCILOR WORRELL AS WELL.

2:15:25 UM, COUNCILOR PEPPERS ADDED AS

2:15:28 A SECOND UM SEEING AND HEARING

2:15:29 NO OBJECTIONS COUNCIL WHERE I

2:15:30 WAS ADDED AS A THIRD.

2:15:33 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:15:34 THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST

2:15:35 HEARINGS I.

2:15:36 HELD AND.

2:15:36 I WORKED CLOSELY WITH

2:15:38 COUNCILOR KIM.

2:15:39 JANEY WHO AT THE TIME.

2:15:42 HEALTH DISPARITIES AND

2:15:43 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR HAS

2:15:44 UNFORTUNATELY BEEN A PERSISTENT

2:15:46 PROBLEM NOT ONLY IN.

2:15:47 OUR.

2:15:48 CITY AND OUR COUNTRY IN 2021,

2:15:51 THE HEALTH OF BOSTON REPORT BY

2:15:53 THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH

2:15:54 COMMISSION FOUND

2:15:56 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ASIAN AMERICAN

2:15:58 LATINO RESIDENTS HISPANIC

2:16:00 RESIDENTS OF BOSTON ARE

2:16:02 SIGNIFICANTLY MORE LIKELY THAN

2:16:04 WHITE RESIDENTS TO SUFFER FROM

2:16:05 POOR PUBLIC HEALTH OUTCOMES IN

2:16:09 26 2026.

2:16:10 THE REPORT.

2:16:11 ALSO HIGHLIGHTED ON CLOSING THE

2:16:14 GAP.

2:16:15 IN EXAMINATION.

2:16:16 OF LIFE EXPECTANCY AMONG BLACK

2:16:18 RESIDENTS IN BOSTON FOUND THAT

2:16:20 LIFE EXPECTANCY GAP AMONG BLACK

2:16:22 RESIDENTS AND OTHER GROUP

2:16:25 GROUPS WIDENED FROM THREE YEARS

2:16:27 IN 2013 TO.

2:16:28 6.

2:16:28 YEARS IN 2024.

2:16:30 LIFE EXPECTANCY.

2:16:32 FOR BLACK WOMEN BETWEEN 2022

2:16:36 AND 2024.

2:16:36 WAS SIX YEARS FEWER THAN OTHER

2:16:39 DEMOGRAPHIC.

2:16:40 AND THAT BLACK MALE LIFE

2:16:42 EXPECTANCY.

2:16:42 DROPPED TO A NINE YEAR DEFICIT

2:16:45 COMPARED TO OTHER MEN IN BOSTON

2:16:47 COMPARED.

2:16:48 WITH WHITE RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS

2:16:50 AND COMMUNITIES.

2:16:51 OF COLOR EXPERIENCE HIGH

2:16:53 RATES.

2:16:55 OF PRETERM BIRTHS.

2:16:56 LOW BIRTH.

2:16:57 WEIGHT INFANT MORTALITY, ASTHMA

2:17:02 ROOM EMERGENCY VISITS.

2:17:06 HEPATITIS B.

2:17:07 TUBERCULOSIS, INFLUENZA.

2:17:09 HIV INFECTION.

2:17:11 DIABETES.

2:17:12 HOSPITAL HOSPITALIZATION AND

2:17:13 DEATHS HEART DISEASE.

2:17:19 IN 2019.

2:17:21 A REPORT BY THE UNION OF.

2:17:22 CONCERNED SCIENTISTS FOUND THAT

2:17:24 ASIAN-AMERICANS,

2:17:26 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND LATINO

2:17:27 RESIDENTS IN BOSTON SUFFER FROM

2:17:28 HIGH.

2:17:29 EXPOSURE TO PM.

2:17:30 2.5 A.

2:17:32 FINE PARTICULATE MATTER THAT

2:17:33 SIGNIFICANTLY.

2:17:34 INCREASES AN.

2:17:36 INDIVIDUAL'S RISK OF LUNG

2:17:38 CANCER, HEART.

2:17:38 DISEASE, ASTHMA.

2:17:40 THE REPORT STATED THAT.

2:17:42 CHINATOWN CONTAINS THE WORST.

2:17:43 AIR QUALITY IN MASSACHUSETTS.

2:17:45 DUE TO ITS PROXIMITY TO.

2:17:47 MASS PIKE AND.

2:17:50 I 93.

2:17:51 WHEN THEY CAME OUT.

2:17:52 WITH THEIR STUDY.

2:17:53 AND THEY DID IT AT.

2:17:54 THE.

2:17:55 JOSIAH QUINCY SCHOOL.

2:17:56 BEFORE THE NEW SCHOOL WAS BUILT

2:17:58 .

2:17:58 BOTH MYSELF AND THEN

2:18:00 COUNCIL ATTENDED ATTENDED THE

2:18:02 PRESS CONFERENCE.

2:18:05 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ARE ALSO

2:18:08 PARTICULARLY IMPACTED BY

2:18:09 BOSTON'S HOUSING CRISIS.

2:18:10 LONG TIME RESIDENTS WHO ARE

2:18:12 FACING DISPLACEMENT.

2:18:14 IN CONVICTION AND EVICTION

2:18:16 EXPERIENCE STRESS.

2:18:18 THAT CAN AFFECT PUBLIC

2:18:19 HEALTH.

2:18:21 MANY RESIDENTS OF COLOR,

2:18:23 PARTICULARLY LATINOS AND.

2:18:25 HISPANICS AND ASIAN AMERICANS.

2:18:28 THEY ALSO SPEAK OFTENTIMES

2:18:31 OF LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH

2:18:32 AND.

2:18:33 A SHORTAGE OF INTERPRETATION

2:18:34 .

2:18:34 SKILLS AND BILINGUAL PROVIDERS

2:18:36 AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

2:18:37 CREATES A GREAT BARRIER TO

2:18:40 HEALTHCARE ACCESS.

2:18:41 IN MY DISTRICT.

2:18:42 PARTICULARLY AS MANY KNOW I

2:18:44 HAVE A LARGE CONCENTRATION OF.

2:18:46 CANTONESE SPEAKING RESIDENTS

2:18:48 THAT DO HAVE CHALLENGING TIMES

2:18:51 UM.

2:18:52 INTERACTING WITH THE MEDICAL

2:18:53 PROVIDER.

2:18:54 THANKFULLY THERE ARE A LOT

2:18:55 OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS THAT DO.

2:18:56 SPEAK CANTONESE, BUT I THINK

2:18:59 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE

2:19:01 TO PROMOTE AND HIRE.

2:19:02 CANTONESE SPEAKING UM MEDICAL.

2:19:04 PROFESSION PROFESSIONALS.

2:19:07 UM MADAM.

2:19:07 CHAIR, I COULD GO ON BUT UH

2:19:09 ,MY TIME IS UP.

2:19:10 THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A FEW

2:19:11 EXTRA SECONDS.

2:19:12 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:19:13 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:19:14 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:19:15 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:19:16 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:19:18 AND I WANT TO THANK

2:19:19 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR ADDING

2:19:20 ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

2:19:23 AND FOR CONTINUING TO BRING

2:19:24 ATTENTION TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH

2:19:26 DISPARITIES THAT PERSIST ACROSS

2:19:29 OUR CITIES.

2:19:30 BOSTON IS HOME TO SOME OF THE

2:19:31 BEST HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CARE

2:19:34 INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD.

2:19:36 BUT ACCESS TO THOSE RESOURCES

2:19:38 AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE A

2:19:40 LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE ARE STILL

2:19:42 NOT EXPERIENCED EQUALLY ACROSS

2:19:44 OUR COMMUNITIES.

2:19:45 THE BOSTON HEALTH COMMISSION'S

2:19:48 2026 CLOSING THE GAP REPORT

2:19:50 PROVIDES A PARTICULARLY

2:19:52 CONCERNING EXAMPLE FROM 2013 TO

2:19:57 2024, THE LIFE EXPECTANCY GAP

2:19:59 BETWEEN BLACK BOSTONIANS AND

2:20:01 OTHER BOSTONIAN RESIDENTS

2:20:02 DOUBLED FROM 3.3 YEARS TO 6.6

2:20:08 YEARS BETWEEN 2022 AND 2024

2:20:10 BLACK MEN LIVED AN AVERAGE

2:20:12 OF 9.3 FEWER YEARS THAN OTHER

2:20:15 MEN IN BOSTON, WHILE THE GAP

2:20:16 FOR BLACK WOMEN WAS

2:20:19 APPROXIMATELY 6.4 YEARS.

2:20:21 THESE DISPARITIES DO NOT EXIST

2:20:24 IN ISOLATION HOUSING,

2:20:26 ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS,

2:20:28 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, ACCESS TO

2:20:30 HEALTH CARE, LANGUAGE ACCESS

2:20:32 AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN WHICH

2:20:34 PEOPLE LIVE ALL AFFECT HEALTH

2:20:36 OUTCOMES.

2:20:37 THE HEARING ORDER APPROPRIATELY

2:20:39 GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK

2:20:41 AT THOSE BROADER FACTORS AND

2:20:43 DISCUSS WHAT RESOURCES AND

2:20:46 INTERVENTIONS CAN ACTUALLY

2:20:47 CLOSE THESE GAPS.

2:20:49 I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING

2:20:51 AND TO DISCUSSING WHAT MORE THE

2:20:53 CITY CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT WHEN

2:20:55 SOMEONE LIVES OR THE COLOR

2:20:57 OF THEIR SKIN OR THE ZIP

2:20:59 CODE DOES NOT DETERMINE HOW

2:21:01 HEALTHY THEY CAN BE OR HOW LONG

2:21:03 THEY CAN EXPECT TO LIVE.

2:21:05 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:21:07 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:21:08 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:21:10 COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNTRY.

2:21:10 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:21:13 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:21:14 THANK YOU.

2:21:14 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:21:15 UM AND COUNCILOR.

2:21:16 CULPEPER FOR HAVING ME ON AS AN

2:21:18 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:21:19 UH, WE KNOW THE LIFE EXPECTANCY

2:21:21 GAP ACROSS BOSTON IS REAL.

2:21:22 WE SEE HIGHER DEATH RATES FROM

2:21:24 DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE

2:21:25 AMONG BLACK RESIDENTS.

2:21:26 WE SEE BLACK AND LATINO

2:21:28 RESIDENTS GOING TO THE

2:21:29 EMERGENCY ROOM MORE OFTEN FOR

2:21:30 ASTHMA.

2:21:31 WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THOSE

2:21:33 HEALTH DISPARITIES WITHOUT

2:21:34 TALKING ABOUT THE WEALTH GAP

2:21:35 AND WHAT RESOURCES ARE

2:21:36 AVAILABLE CLOSE TO HOME PEOPLE

2:21:38 SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY FRESH

2:21:39 FOOD IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD,

2:21:41 FILL IT PRESCRIPTION NEARBY AND

2:21:42 GET A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT

2:21:44 WITHOUT LOSING HOURS TO PAY.

2:21:45 THAT'S WHY I'VE BEEN WORKING

2:21:47 WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH

2:21:48 CENTERS IN MY DISTRICT TO

2:21:49 EXPAND THE SERVICES.

2:21:50 THEY KNOW OUR FAMILIES AND HEAR

2:21:52 DIRECTLY FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT

2:21:53 WHAT THEY NEED.

2:21:54 WE ARE SUPPORTING THEIR WORK

2:21:55 AND HELPING THEM BRING MORE

2:21:56 SERVICES INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

2:21:58 ,AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:22:00 DISCUSSING THIS MORE IN THIS

2:22:01 HEARING.

2:22:01 THANK YOU.

2:22:02 THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:22:03 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:22:05 NAME?

2:22:07 COUNCILOR UH.

2:22:07 COLLETTA ZAPATA, COUNCILOR.

2:22:10 FITZGERALD.

2:22:11 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:22:12 MEJIA COUNCIL.

2:22:12 PEPEN SANTANA COUNCILOR WEBER

2:22:15 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:22:17 DOCKET 1803 WILL BE REFERRED TO

2:22:20 THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH,

2:22:21 HOMELESSNESS AND RECOVERY.

2:22:25 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:22:26 READ DOCKET 1804.

2:22:28 DOCKET 1804 COUNCILORS BREADON

2:22:31 AND FLYNN OFFER THE FOLLOWING

2:22:33 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS

2:22:35 THE STATUS OF BOSTON ROAD AND

2:22:37 ACTION PLAN.

2:22:38 I'M GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUE,

2:22:40 UM, VICE VICE PRESIDENT.

2:22:43 UH, COLLETTE IS ABOUT TO.

2:22:46 TAKE OVER THE CHAIR.

2:22:53 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:22:54 COUNCILOR BREADON

2:22:55 COUNCILOR BRINGING UP THE FOUR.

2:22:57 UM THANK YOU.

2:22:58 I'D LIKE TO THANK

2:22:59 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR HIS

2:23:00 PARTNERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE.

2:23:01 UH, RODENT ACTIVITY CONTINUES

2:23:03 TO BE ONE OF THE MOST

2:23:04 PERSISTENT QUALITY OF LIFE

2:23:06 CONCERNS FACING BOSTON

2:23:07 RESIDENTS AND ALLSTON BRIGHTON

2:23:09 IT'S AN ISSUE WE HEAR ABOUT

2:23:11 DAILY IN 2024, THE CITY

2:23:14 RELEASED THE BOSTON RODENT

2:23:15 ACTION PLAN TO CREATE A MORE

2:23:17 COORDINATED APPROACH TO RODENT

2:23:19 CONTROL.

2:23:20 IT CALLED FOR STRONGER

2:23:21 INSPECTIONS AND ENFORCEMENT,

2:23:23 BETTER WASTE MANAGEMENT

2:23:25 PRACTICES, IMPROVE DATA

2:23:26 COLLECTION AND COORDINATION

2:23:28 ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS ALLSTON

2:23:30 ,BRIGHTON AND WARD THREE WHICH

2:23:32 INCLUDES UH DOWNTOWN CHINATOWN

2:23:35 ,NORTH AND SOUTH END AND UH

2:23:38 HAYMARKET WERE IDENTIFIED AS

2:23:40 THE TWO HIGHEST PRIORITY ACTION

2:23:42 NEIGHBORHOODS AND SLATED FOR

2:23:43 TARGETED INTERVENTION TWO YEARS

2:23:46 LATER WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A

2:23:47 PUBLIC UPDATE ON THE ROAD AND

2:23:49 ACTION PLAN ALLSTON BRIGHTON IS

2:23:51 STILL WAITING FOR THE TARGETED

2:23:53 INTERVENTIONS PROMISED.

2:23:54 THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT

2:23:57 RODENT RESISTANT TRASH CANS AND

2:23:58 ALLSTON VILLAGE BUT THOSE HAVE

2:24:00 YET TO BE INSTALLED.

2:24:02 RESIDENTS AND THE CITY

2:24:03 COUNCIL DESERVE FLAHERTY ON

2:24:04 TIMELINES, METRICS,

2:24:06 DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2:24:08 AND WHAT INTERVENTIONS ARE

2:24:09 HAPPENING IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS

2:24:10 EXPERIENCING THE GREATEST

2:24:11 RODENT ACTIVITY.

2:24:13 BOSTON IS HOSTING THE NATIONAL

2:24:15 URBAN RAT SUMMIT THIS WEEK,

2:24:17 BRINGING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS,

2:24:19 PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND

2:24:20 MUNICIPAL LEADERS TO.

2:24:21 DISCUSS NEW APPROACHES TO

2:24:23 RODENT CONTROL.

2:24:24 THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR

2:24:25 THE COUNCIL TO REQUEST AN

2:24:27 UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF OUR OWN

2:24:29 RODENT ACTION PLAN, AND I LOOK

2:24:31 FORWARD TO HEARING FROM

2:24:33 INSPECTIONAL SERVICES AND OTHER

2:24:35 DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN THE IN

2:24:37 THE BAR, UH, ABOUT THE PROGRESS

2:24:39 THAT HAS BEEN MADE AND CURRENT

2:24:41 GAPS AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO

2:24:43 CURB RODENT ACTIVITY IN

2:24:44 ALLSTON, BRIGHTON AND IN ACROSS

2:24:46 ACROSS THE CITY IN OTHER

2:24:47 NEIGHBORHOODS.

2:24:47 THANK YOU.

2:24:49 THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREADON THE

2:24:50 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:24:51 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL IF ANY

2:24:52 OF THE FLOOR.

2:24:53 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

2:24:54 THANK YOU TO.

2:24:56 COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR.

2:24:57 ADDING ME FOR THE IMPORTANT

2:24:59 WORK THAT.

2:24:59 YOU HAVE DONE.

2:25:00 COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'VE BEEN

2:25:02 FOCUSED ON PEST.

2:25:03 CONTROL ISSUES FOR.

2:25:05 NINE YEARS NOW.

2:25:08 WE'VE HELD HEARINGS ON PEST

2:25:09 CONTROL.

2:25:10 I FILED AN ORDINANCE TO

2:25:11 ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF PEST

2:25:12 CONTROL IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:25:14 AND HAVE MADE.

2:25:15 AT LEAST A DOZEN

2:25:17 RECOMMENDATIONS TO.

2:25:18 THE.

2:25:18 CITY ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE PEST

2:25:20 CONTROL STRATEGIES IN BOSTON BY

2:25:24 MOST OF THEM WERE IMPLEMENTED

2:25:25 BY THE CITY.

2:25:26 BUT MY.

2:25:27 MAIN POINT.

2:25:28 OF ADDING A RATS UH.

2:25:30 WAS NOT IMPLEMENTED.

2:25:32 I DO BELIEVE WE.

2:25:33 HAVE TO.

2:25:34 ELEVATE THE.

2:25:35 THE FUNCTIONS OF PEST CONTROL

2:25:38 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON TO A

2:25:40 DEPARTMENT.

2:25:40 I THINK IT'S.

2:25:41 THAT SERIOUS.

2:25:41 OF AN ISSUE.

2:25:43 IT'S THAT SERIOUS OF A PUBLIC

2:25:44 HEALTH ISSUE WHEN YOU HAVE.

2:25:48 RATS RUNNING FROM YOUR

2:25:50 APARTMENT.

2:25:51 AND YOU HAVE THE LITTLE KID.

2:25:52 IN A IN A CRIB, A BASSINET AND

2:25:54 YOUR TWO MONTH OLD.

2:25:57 CHILD IS IN THE.

2:25:58 BASSINET AS A AS.

2:26:00 A RAT RUNS THROUGH.

2:26:02 TO YOUR APARTMENT.

2:26:04 THAT'S A THAT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH

2:26:07 EMERGENCY.

2:26:08 THAT'S A PUBLIC.

2:26:08 SAFETY EMERGENCY.

2:26:10 WE CAN'T SAY THINGS.

2:26:11 ARE.

2:26:12 GETTING BETTER ON PEST CONTROL

2:26:14 WHEN WE KNOW RATS ARE RUNNING

2:26:16 THROUGH KIDS THROUGH APARTMENTS

2:26:20 WITH LITTLE KIDS.

2:26:23 IT'S IT'S A TERRIBLE IT'S

2:26:24 TERRIBLE TO HAVE THAT TYPE

2:26:26 OF CONVERSATION.

2:26:26 BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IS

2:26:28 HAPPENING IN.

2:26:30 MY DISTRICT AND DISTRICT TWO.

2:26:33 IT'S A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND

2:26:35 PUBLIC SAFETY.

2:26:36 PROBLEM.

2:26:37 WHEN A RAT RUNS TO YOUR

2:26:39 APARTMENT AND YOU HAVE LITTLE

2:26:41 CHILDREN, THE ONLY QUESTION.

2:26:42 YOU ASK.

2:26:43 IS WHEN ARE WE LEAVING THE.

2:26:44 CITY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T LIVE IN.

2:26:47 YOUR APARTMENT WHEN RATS ARE

2:26:48 RUNNING THROUGH IT.

2:26:49 WE NEED A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

2:26:51 WE NEED TO ELEVATE THIS

2:26:52 DEPARTMENT TO A CITY DEPARTMENT

2:26:54 AND WE NEED.

2:26:55 STRONG LEADERSHIP.

2:26:56 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:26:57 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:26:58 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK

2:26:59 ON THIS MATTER?

2:27:01 UM, I'LL TAKE, UH, JUST A QUICK

2:27:03 LIBERTY TO SAY THAT I'M

2:27:04 GRATEFUL FOR, UH,

2:27:05 COUNCILOR BREADON AND

2:27:06 LEADERSHIP ON THIS IN THE NORTH

2:27:07 END.

2:27:08 AS WE ALL KNOW, I'M, UH WE'RE

2:27:09 FIGHTING A PERENNIAL WAR

2:27:10 AGAINST THE RATS WITH ALL

2:27:11 OF THE RESTAURANTS THAT WE HAVE

2:27:13 AND, UH, THE LACK OF A

2:27:15 RESIDENT'S ABILITY TO PLACE

2:27:17 TRASH IN BARRELS.

2:27:18 AND SO I AM HEARTENED TO SEE

2:27:19 THAT THERE HAVE BEEN UM THERE'S

2:27:21 BEEN SOME PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN

2:27:22 MADE.

2:27:23 LOOK FORWARD TO UNDERSTANDING

2:27:24 MORE.

2:27:25 FROM JOHN O'ROURKE WHO WE ALL

2:27:26 KNOW IS IS A GREAT PUBLIC

2:27:27 SERVANT, UM, BOTH SEPARATELY

2:27:29 AND IN A MEETING WITH HIM AND

2:27:30 THEN AT THE RAT SUMMIT WHAT UH

2:27:32 WHAT ACTUALLY HAS OCCURRED AND

2:27:33 SOME OF THE PROGRESS UM,

2:27:35 ANECDOTALLY FROM RESIDENTS THE

2:27:37 RAT SITUATION HAS BEEN GETTING

2:27:38 BETTER IN THE NORTH END BUT WE

2:27:39 KNOW THAT WE COULD ALWAYS DO

2:27:40 BETTER.

2:27:40 UH, AND IT IS A PUBLIC HEALTH

2:27:41 CRISIS.

2:27:42 SO THANK YOU,

2:27:43 COUNCILOR BRITTON.

2:27:43 UM, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:27:45 ADD THEIR NAME?

2:27:47 MADAM CLERK.

2:27:48 WOULD YOU PLEASE ADD

2:27:49 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:27:50 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

2:27:50 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:27:51 COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR.

2:27:52 MURPHY COUNCILOR PREPARED

2:27:53 COUNCIL.

2:27:54 SANTANA COUNCILOR.

2:27:55 WEBER, COUNCILOR.

2:27:55 WELL AND PLEASE AT THE CHAIR.

2:27:59 THANK YOU.

2:28:00 DOCKET 1805 WILL BE WILL BE

2:28:03 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON.

2:28:05 SO OH SORRY 1804 WILL BE

2:28:08 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:28:09 CITY SERVICES.

2:28:10 THANK YOU MADAM.

2:28:11 CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ

2:28:13 DOCKET.

2:28:15 1805.1805 COUNCIL RESOLUTION

2:28:17 AND BREAKDOWN OFFER THE

2:28:18 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

2:28:20 OF QUESTION FOUR TO ESTABLISH

2:28:22 ELECTION DAY VOTERS

2:28:23 REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS.

2:28:25 THANK YOU.

2:28:26 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:28:27 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

2:28:28 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:28:28 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:28:30 I RISE TO INTRODUCE THIS

2:28:32 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT UH,

2:28:33 BALLOT QUESTION NUMBER FOUR

2:28:34 WHICH WILL BE ON UH THE BALLOT

2:28:37 IN NOVEMBER THAT WOULD

2:28:38 ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY UH VOTER

2:28:41 REGISTRATION WHICH WOULD ALLOW

2:28:42 SOMEONE TO ALSO VOTE ON THE DAY

2:28:44 OF THE ELECTION.

2:28:45 I AM NOT SEEKING SUSPENSION IN

2:28:46 PASSAGE AT THIS MOMENT BECAUSE

2:28:48 WE HAVE A HEARING SCHEDULED FOR

2:28:49 NEXT FRIDAY WHERE WE WILL

2:28:50 INCLUDE THIS RESOLUTION AND

2:28:51 BRING ADVOCATES AND TALK ABOUT

2:28:53 THIS.

2:28:53 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY

2:28:55 VOTE IN THE ENTIRE COALITION

2:28:57 OF FOLKS WHO ARE BEHIND AND WHO

2:28:58 HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING FOR

2:28:59 MEASURES TO MAKE IT MORE UH, TO

2:29:02 MAKE IT EASIER FOR FOLKS TO

2:29:04 ACCESS THE BALLOT AND TO EXPAND

2:29:06 ACCESS TO THE BALLOT.

2:29:07 UM, CURRENTLY WE REQUIRE PEOPLE

2:29:09 TO BE REGISTERED TO VOTE TEN

2:29:10 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION IN

2:29:12 ORDER FOR THEM TO VOTE IN THAT

2:29:14 ELECTION.

2:29:14 WE KNOW THAT VOTER INFORMATION

2:29:16 AND VOTER EDUCATION, VOTER

2:29:17 INTEREST IN THE ELECTION

2:29:19 INCREASES IN THE TWO WEEKS

2:29:20 PRIOR TO AN ELECTION ALLOWING

2:29:22 SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION,

2:29:25 SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION FOR

2:29:26 NEW VOTERS IS A WAY OF BRINGING

2:29:29 MORE PEOPLE INTO DEMOCRACY IS A

2:29:30 WAY OF MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE

2:29:31 NOT LEAVING.

2:29:32 WE'RE NOT LEAVING ANYONE BEHIND

2:29:33 WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING AND IT

2:29:35 INCREASES VOTER PARTICIPATION

2:29:36 AMONG VOTERS WHO HAVE A HARDER

2:29:38 TIME ACCESSING THE BALLOT.

2:29:40 THAT INCLUDES VOTERS OF COLOR

2:29:41 THAT INCLUDES YOUNG VOTERS.

2:29:43 IT INCLUDES THOSE WHO ARE

2:29:44 TRANSIENT AND INCLUDES THOSE

2:29:45 WHO ARE UM, ARE HOMELESS.

2:29:47 AND SO THERE ARE A LOT

2:29:49 OF ADVANTAGES TO HAVING

2:29:50 ELECTION DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

2:29:52 .

2:29:52 UM, IT WILL ALLOW ELIGIBLE

2:29:54 VOTERS TO REGISTER OR TO UPDATE

2:29:56 THEIR ADDRESS AT THE

2:29:57 APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACE ON

2:29:58 ELECTION DAY AND THEY WILL BE

2:30:01 REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PROOF

2:30:02 OF RESIDENCY AND SIGN AN OATH

2:30:03 AFFIRMING THEIR IDENTITY AND

2:30:05 ELIGIBILITY.

2:30:05 SO THERE ARE SAFEGUARDS BUILT

2:30:07 INTO UH THIS PROPOSAL UH,

2:30:10 QUESTION NUMBER FOUR TO ENSURE

2:30:11 THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE REGISTERING

2:30:13 ARE ABLE TO VOTE IN THE

2:30:15 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

2:30:16 THIS IS NOT NEW OR IT'S NOT

2:30:17 UNTESTED.

2:30:18 THERE ARE ACTUALLY 24 STATES.

2:30:19 AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

2:30:21 THAT PROVIDE SAME DAY VOTER

2:30:23 REGISTRATION.

2:30:23 SO WE'RE ACTUALLY BEHIND WHEN

2:30:24 WE LOOK AT OUR PEER STATES

2:30:26 AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THAT

2:30:29 INCLUDES NEIGHBORING STATES

2:30:30 LIKE MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE,

2:30:31 VERMONT AND CONNECTICUT.

2:30:34 UM THIS WOULDN'T BE EFFECTIVE

2:30:35 UNTIL 2028.

2:30:37 SO IT ALLOWS THE COMMONWEALTH

2:30:38 AMPLE TIME TO UH, GET ON TO

2:30:40 ON-RAMP ELECTION DAY VOTER

2:30:42 REGISTRATION.

2:30:43 AND SO I'M EXCITED TO CONTINUE

2:30:44 WORKING IN COALITION TO NOT

2:30:46 ONLY PASS THIS BALLOT MEASURE

2:30:47 BUT TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO

2:30:48 EXPAND ACCESS TO DEMOCRACY, TO

2:30:50 DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO

2:30:51 MAKE SURE THAT MORE VOTERS

2:30:52 VOTERS OF COLOR ARE

2:30:54 PARTICIPATING IN OUR DEMOCRACY

2:30:55 .

2:30:55 AND WE KNOW THAT WHILE

2:30:56 ELECTIONS ARE ADMINISTERED

2:30:57 LOCALLY SO THIS WILL ALLOW

2:30:58 SUFFICIENT TIME FOR ELECTION

2:31:00 OFFICIALS TO, UH, FAMILIARIZE

2:31:02 THEMSELVES WITH WHAT WILL

2:31:03 HAPPEN WILL NEED TO HAPPEN IN

2:31:05 ORDER TO MAKE ELECTION DAY

2:31:06 VOTING OR VOTER REGISTRATION

2:31:08 UH, EFFECTIVE.

2:31:09 WE'VE SEEN GREAT UPDATES

2:31:10 ALREADY TO OUR ELECTION

2:31:12 DEPARTMENT ONE WITH THE HIRING

2:31:15 OF KERRY JORDAN BUT ALSO WITH

2:31:17 THE USE OF ELECTRONIC POLL

2:31:19 BOOKS.

2:31:19 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

2:31:20 HEARING WHERE YOU TALK ABOUT

2:31:21 ELECTION PROCEDURES IN GENERAL

2:31:23 AND WE ALSO UPLIFT THE NEED FOR

2:31:24 US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE

2:31:25 ELECTION DAY VOTING IN

2:31:26 MASSACHUSETTS.

2:31:27 SO I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR

2:31:28 AND I HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES

2:31:29 WILL BE ABLE TO, UM, ATTEND THE

2:31:30 HEARING SO WE CAN SEE HOW WE

2:31:32 CAN STRENGTHEN OUR DEMOCRACY

2:31:33 RIGHT HERE IN THE CITY

2:31:34 OF BOSTON.

2:31:35 THANK YOU.

2:31:36 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE UM,

2:31:37 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:31:38 COUNCILOR BREDA.

2:31:39 I DO.

2:31:40 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR UH

2:31:42 LOUIJEUNE FOR HAVING ME AS AN

2:31:43 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:31:45 UM, SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

2:31:48 IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED

2:31:49 VOTER PARTICIPATION,

2:31:50 PARTICULARLY AMONG YOUNGER

2:31:51 VOTERS, FIRST TIME VOTERS AND

2:31:53 RESIDENTS OF HISTORICALLY

2:31:55 UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES.

2:31:57 THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT

2:31:59 IN ALLSTON, BRIGHTON AND BOSTON

2:32:00 AS A WHOLE WITH A LARGE

2:32:01 POPULATION OF RENTERS, STUDENTS

2:32:03 AND RESIDENTS WHO MOVE

2:32:05 FREQUENTLY THIS YEAR SERVED AS

2:32:07 A STARK REMINDER OF THAT

2:32:08 IMPORTANCE.

2:32:09 ELECTION DAY FELL ON MOVING DAY

2:32:12 ALSO REFERRED TO AS.

2:32:13 ALLSTON CHRISTMAS IN MY

2:32:14 DISTRICT AND THOUSANDS

2:32:15 OF ELIGIBLE ELIGIBLE VOTERS WHO

2:32:18 CHANGED ADDRESSES WERE UNABLE

2:32:19 TO VOTE FROM THEIR NEW POLLING

2:32:21 PLACE BECAUSE MASSACHUSETTS

2:32:23 DOES NOT ALLOW FOR ELECTION DAY

2:32:25 VOTER REGISTRATION.

2:32:27 ELECTION DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

2:32:28 IS NOT A RADICAL IDEA AS

2:32:30 COUNCILOR UH LOUIJEUNE HAS

2:32:31 ALREADY MENTIONED MORE THAN 20

2:32:33 STATES AND THE DISTRICT

2:32:35 OF COLUMBIA ALREADY ALLOW IT

2:32:37 AND OUR NEIGHBORING STATES

2:32:38 OF MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE,

2:32:39 VERMONT AND CONNECTICUT ALREADY

2:32:41 HAVE IT.

2:32:42 MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS

2:32:43 CURRENTLY REQUIRES RESIDENTS TO

2:32:46 REGISTER OR UPDATE THEIR VOTER

2:32:48 REGISTRATION AT LEAST TEN DAYS

2:32:49 BEFORE AN ELECTION.

2:32:51 QUESTION FOUR WOULD ALLOW

2:32:52 ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS TO REGISTER

2:32:54 OR UPDATE THEIR ADDRESS AT THE

2:32:56 POLLING LOCATION ON ELECTION

2:32:58 DAY BY PROVIDING PROOF

2:32:59 OF RESIDENT RESIDENCY AND

2:33:01 SIGNING AN OATH CONFIRMING THAT

2:33:03 THEY THEIR OF THEIR ELIGIBILITY

2:33:04 TO VOTE.

2:33:05 THIS WOULD ALSO HELP ADDRESS

2:33:07 SOME OF THE CONCERNS RAISED BY

2:33:08 OUR COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR FLYNN A

2:33:10 FEW WEEKS AGO ABOUT UM UH FOLKS

2:33:14 THAT WERE DEEMED INACTIVE WHEN

2:33:16 THEY WENT TO VOTE UH THAT THEY

2:33:19 IF WE HAD SAME DAY VOTER

2:33:20 REGISTRATION THAT AUTOMATICALLY

2:33:23 UH REESTABLISH THEIR NAMES ON

2:33:25 THE VOTER ROLL AND AND BE

2:33:26 ALLOWED TO VOTE.

2:33:27 SO I THINK IT'S IT'S A IT'S AN

2:33:29 IDEA THAT'S TIME HAS COME AND I

2:33:31 HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO

2:33:32 MOVE MOVE THIS ISSUE FORWARD.

2:33:34 I UNDERSTAND COUNCIL REVISIONS

2:33:36 AS SHE'S JUST MENTIONED IS

2:33:38 ASKING TO HAVE A HEARING NEXT

2:33:39 WEEK AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT

2:33:41 DISCUSSION AND ENCOURAGE ALL MY

2:33:42 COLLEAGUES TO.

2:33:43 PARTICIPATE IN THIS VERY

2:33:44 IMPORTANT ISSUE.

2:33:45 THANK YOU.

2:33:46 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:33:47 SPEAK UH.

2:33:48 EXCUSE ME UM.

2:33:50 UH, COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU UP

2:33:52 BEFORE?

2:33:52 I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY

2:33:53 THAT.

2:33:54 I'M SORRY.

2:33:56 I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT I

2:33:57 WILL BE SEEKING A VOTE ON THIS

2:33:59 AFTER WE HAVE OUR HEARING.

2:34:00 BUT I WANT US TO HAVE A

2:34:02 CONVERSATION AND HOPEFULLY THE

2:34:03 COUNCIL CAN COME ON RECORD, UM

2:34:04 ,IN SUPPORTING THIS MEASURE SO

2:34:07 THAT NO ONE IS NOT ABLE TO.

2:34:09 UH UH, VOTE ON ELECTION DAY

2:34:11 SIMPLY BECAUSE OF A CLERICAL

2:34:12 ERROR MOVING OR ANY OTHER

2:34:14 ISSUES.

2:34:14 SO THANK YOU.

2:34:15 I WILL ASK FOR A VOTE BUT NOT

2:34:16 TODAY.

2:34:16 THANK YOU THANK YOU

2:34:17 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE UM WOULD

2:34:18 ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:34:19 NAME?

2:34:20 THE CHAIR.

2:34:21 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:34:23 COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:34:23 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:34:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL HERE.

2:34:25 LET'S LOOK AT THEN

2:34:27 COUNCILOR MURPHY

2:34:28 COUNCILOR SANTANA

2:34:30 COUNCIL WHEREIN

2:34:30 COUNCILOR WORRELL AND PLEASE

2:34:31 ADD THE CHAIR THANK YOU.

2:34:32 DOCKET 1805 WILL BE REFERRED TO

2:34:34 THE COMMITTEE ON CENSUS

2:34:36 REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS.

2:34:37 MADAM CLERK, WE WILL YOU PLEASE

2:34:39 READ DOCKET 1806.

2:34:42 DOCKET 1806.

2:34:43 COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE AND BREDON

2:34:45 OFFERED THE FOLLOWING

2:34:47 RESOLUTION SUPPORTING BOSTON

2:34:48 MEDICAL CENTER RESIDENT

2:34:51 PHYSICIANS AS THEIR EFFORT TO

2:34:52 SECURE A FAIR CONTRACT.

2:34:54 THANK YOU.

2:34:55 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:34:56 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:34:57 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:34:58 UM, CAN I PLEASE MAY I PLEASE

2:34:59 SUSPEND THE RULES TO ADD

2:35:01 COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD

2:35:02 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:35:03 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:35:05 OBJECTIONS.

2:35:05 SHE IS SO ADDED.

2:35:06 THANK YOU.

2:35:07 MANY OF US WERE HERE THIS

2:35:08 MORNING WHEN WE SAW THE DOCTORS

2:35:09 ON UM, FROM BOSTON MEDICAL

2:35:11 CENTER COME AND TAKE A PHOTO

2:35:12 WITH US.

2:35:13 UH, AS THEY FIGHT FOR A FAIR

2:35:16 CONTRACT, THE COMMITTEE

2:35:17 OF INTERNS AND RESIDENTS

2:35:19 REPRESENTS OVER 700 UNIONIZED

2:35:20 PHYSICIANS AT BMC, AND IT'S

2:35:22 DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE

2:35:23 LIVES AND THE LIVELIHOOD AND

2:35:25 RESIDENT TRAINING AND BROUGHT

2:35:26 IN, UH, AND OUR BROADER HEALTH

2:35:28 CARE SYSTEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

2:35:30 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:35:31 STAND WITH THESE DOCTORS WHO

2:35:32 ARE SERVING SOME OF OUR MOST

2:35:34 VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AT BOSTON

2:35:35 MEDICAL CENTER THOSE WHO ARE UH

2:35:38 ,LIVING WITH ADDICTION, THOSE

2:35:40 WHO ARE BLACK AND BROWN I WHEN

2:35:42 WE TALK I TALK ABOUT HOW MY

2:35:45 GRANDFATHER WAS TREATED AND

2:35:46 CARED FOR AT BOSTON MEDICAL

2:35:47 CENTER AND WE KNOW THAT THEY

2:35:48 SERVE UH, SO MANY WHO ARE IN

2:35:50 NEED IN OUR CITY.

2:35:51 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE STAND

2:35:52 WITH OUR RESIDENTS AS THEY ARE

2:35:54 ENGAGED IN THIS FIGHT.

2:35:56 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER IS THE

2:35:57 LARGEST SAFETY NET HOSPITAL IN

2:35:59 NEW ENGLAND, WITH MORE THAN

2:36:01 HALF OF ITS PATIENT POPULATION

2:36:02 COMING FROM UNDERSERVED OR LOW

2:36:03 INCOME BACKGROUNDS.

2:36:04 THE RESIDENT PHYSICIANS PUT ALL

2:36:06 OF THEMSELVES INTO THIS WORK.

2:36:07 UM, AND THEY'RE ENGAGED IN

2:36:09 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH BMC

2:36:10 TO ADVOCATE FOR FAIR WAGES,

2:36:12 AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, SAFE

2:36:14 WORKING CONDITIONS, ADEQUATE

2:36:15 TIME OFF AND THE RESPECT AND

2:36:16 DIGNITY THAT THEY DESERVE.

2:36:18 WE KNOW THAT, UH, HEALTH CARE

2:36:19 WORKERS ARE A CRITICAL PART

2:36:20 OF OUR COMMUNITY AND RESIDENT

2:36:22 PHYSICIANS REQUIRE A FAIR AND

2:36:24 COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION FOR

2:36:25 THEM NOT ONLY TO, UH, STAY IN

2:36:27 THE CITY OF BOSTON BUT FOR THEM

2:36:28 TO CONTINUE SERVING OUR MOST

2:36:30 VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.

2:36:31 UM, THERE ARE A LOT

2:36:32 OF FINANCIAL PRESSURES HERE IN

2:36:33 THE CITY.

2:36:33 I'M NOT EVERYONE IS AWARE

2:36:35 OF THAT.

2:36:36 UM, AND ARE THE RESIDENTS FEEL

2:36:38 IT AS WELL?

2:36:39 UH.

2:36:39 SO I'M JUST HOPING THAT BMC

2:36:41 UH DOES THE RIGHT THING AND

2:36:42 COMES TO A FAIR CONTRACT WITH

2:36:44 THE RESIDENTS WITH THE ARE AT

2:36:46 THE TABLE.

2:36:47 I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE BEEN OUT

2:36:48 WITH THEM SO THIS IS JUST

2:36:49 PUTTING ON THE RECORD THE

2:36:50 COLLECTIVE RECORD, THE

2:36:51 COUNCIL'S COLLECTIVE SUPPORT.

2:36:53 SO I HOPE THAT UH IN ADDITION

2:36:55 TO ADDING CUSTOM HE HAS A THIRD

2:36:56 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR I AM

2:36:58 SEEKING SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE

2:36:59 THAT WE CAN GO ON RECORD WITH

2:37:00 THE DOCTORS WHO ARE WITH US

2:37:02 HERE TODAY AND WHO ARE WITH OUR

2:37:03 MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS HERE

2:37:04 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON EACH AND

2:37:05 EVERY DAY AT BOSTON MEDICAL

2:37:06 CENTER.

2:37:07 THANK YOU.

2:37:07 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:37:08 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:37:09 COUNCILOR BRITTON.

2:37:10 YOU MADAM CHAIR, UM, I WANT TO

2:37:13 THANK COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AGAIN

2:37:14 FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS

2:37:16 RESOLUTION.

2:37:17 BOSTON.

2:37:17 UH, THIS IS A PARTICULARLY

2:37:19 CLOSE TO MY HEART.

2:37:20 UH, MY FIRST JOB IN BOSTON WAS

2:37:22 AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT THE

2:37:23 TIME IT WAS MERGING WITH BOSTON

2:37:25 CITY HOSPITAL HOSPITAL TO

2:37:27 BECOME BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER.

2:37:28 SO I'M A FORMER EMPLOYEE AT

2:37:30 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER WAY BACK

2:37:32 WHEN.

2:37:32 UH, BOSTON IS THE HOME OF ONE

2:37:35 OF THE MOST WELL-RECOGNIZED

2:37:36 HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS IN THE

2:37:38 COUNTRY BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

2:37:41 BMC IS A NEW ENGLAND'S LARGEST

2:37:43 SAFETY NET HOSPITAL WITH MORE

2:37:45 THAN HALF OF ITS PATIENTS

2:37:46 COMING FROM UNDERSERVED OR LOW

2:37:48 INCOME BACKGROUNDS AND THE MORE

2:37:50 THAN 700 RESIDENT PHYSICIANS AT

2:37:53 BMC PLAY AN ESSENTIAL PART IN

2:37:55 PROVIDING CARE TO BOSTON

2:37:57 RESIDENTS AND FAMILIES.

2:37:58 THEY ARE NOT ONLY RECEIVING,

2:38:01 THEY ARE NOT ONLY RECEIVING

2:38:02 SPECIALIST MEDICAL TRAINING,

2:38:03 BUT THEY'RE ALSO AN IMPORTANT

2:38:05 PART OF OUR HEALTH CARE

2:38:06 WORKFORCE SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

2:38:07 EVERY DAY.

2:38:09 .

2:38:09 THESE RESIDENT.

2:38:10 PHYSICIANS ARE REPRESENTED BY

2:38:11 THE COMMITTEE OF INTERNS AND

2:38:12 RESIDENTS.

2:38:13 HERE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING TO

2:38:15 SECURE A FAIR COLLECTIVE

2:38:17 BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH BMC.

2:38:19 BMC RESIDENT PHYSICIANS ARE THE

2:38:21 LOWEST PAID UNIONIZED RESIDENT

2:38:24 PHYSICIANS IN THE GREATER

2:38:25 BOSTON AREA.

2:38:27 THESE PRIORITIES INCLUDE FAIR

2:38:29 WAGES.

2:38:29 THEIR PRIORITIES INCLUDE FAIR

2:38:31 WAGES, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE,

2:38:34 SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS,

2:38:35 ADEQUATE TIME OFF AND RESPECT

2:38:37 WITHIN THE WORKPLACE.

2:38:39 THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT

2:38:41 GIVEN THE FINANCIAL PRESSURES

2:38:43 THAT RESIN PHYSICIANS FACE,

2:38:45 INCLUDING BOSTON'S HIGH COST

2:38:47 OF LIVING AND STUDENT LOAN

2:38:48 DEBT, STRONG UNIONS AND FAIR

2:38:51 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

2:38:53 AGREEMENTS ALSO GIVE THESE

2:38:55 PHYSICIANS A MEANINGFUL VOICE

2:38:56 IN DECISIONS THAT AFFECT THEIR

2:38:58 WORKPLACE, THEIR WORKING

2:38:59 CONDITIONS AND ULTIMATELY THEIR

2:39:01 ABILITY TO SERVE THEIR

2:39:03 PATIENTS.

2:39:03 THIS RESOLUTION IS A STATEMENT

2:39:05 THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON CITY

2:39:08 COUNCIL BOSTON CITY

2:39:09 COUNCIL STANDS WITH RESIDENT

2:39:10 PHYSICIANS REPRESENTED BY THE

2:39:12 COMMITTEE OF INTERNS AND

2:39:13 RESIDENTS AT BMC AND THEIR

2:39:15 EFFORTS TO PROMPTLY SECURE A

2:39:17 UNION CONTRACT.

2:39:18 THANK YOU.

2:39:20 THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREADON

2:39:21 COUNCIL MEMBER.

2:39:22 HUME FOR.

2:39:25 THAT.

2:39:25 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND

2:39:27 I.

2:39:27 WANT TO THANK

2:39:28 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

2:39:28 AND COUNCILOR.

2:39:29 BREEDEN FOR ADDING ME AS AN

2:39:31 ORIGINAL.

2:39:32 CO-SPONSOR.

2:39:34 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER IS.

2:39:35 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

2:39:37 INSTITUTIONS IN OUR CITY.

2:39:38 EVERY DAY.

2:39:39 IT SHOWS ME UH.

2:39:40 POSITIONS CARRY THE THE.

2:39:42 ENORMOUS RESPONSIBILITY OF.

2:39:43 CARING FOR OUR CITY'S MOST.

2:39:45 VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.

2:39:46 AND YET TO MANY OF THESE

2:39:47 RESIDENT.

2:39:48 PHYSICIANS ARE STRUGGLING TO

2:39:49 MAKE ENDS MEET IN A CITY THAT

2:39:51 THEY.

2:39:51 WORK TO CARE.

2:39:52 FOR EVERY DAY.

2:39:54 WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO.

2:39:55 TALK ABOUT.

2:39:55 BOSTON BEING A WORLD CLASS.

2:39:57 HEALTH CARE CITY.

2:39:58 WHILE THE PEOPLE DELIVERING.

2:39:59 THAT CARE.

2:40:00 STRUGGLE TO.

2:40:01 LIVE HERE.

2:40:02 RESIDENTS SPENT.

2:40:03 YEARS TRAINING TO BECOME

2:40:04 DOCTORS.

2:40:04 THEY WORK LONG AND DEMANDING

2:40:06 HOURS, TAKE ON ENORMOUS.

2:40:08 RESPONSIBILITIES AND.

2:40:10 MAKE MAJOR SACRIFICES.

2:40:11 TO CARE FOR THEIR PATIENTS.

2:40:12 THEY DESERVE TO.

2:40:13 BE TREATED.

2:40:14 FAIRLY AND TO BE.

2:40:15 ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE.

2:40:16 IN THE.

2:40:17 CITY WHERE THEY WORK.

2:40:18 THIS IS ESPECIALLY.

2:40:19 IMPORTANT AT BOSTON MEDICAL

2:40:20 CENTER.

2:40:21 BMC SERVES MANY PATIENTS.

2:40:22 WHO.

2:40:23 FACE BARRIERS.

2:40:23 TO GETTING HEALTH.

2:40:24 CARE INCLUDING WORKING CLASS

2:40:26 FAMILIES.

2:40:27 IMMIGRANTS.

2:40:27 PEOPLE EXPERIENCING

2:40:28 HOMELESSNESS AND.

2:40:29 OTHER UNDERSERVED.

2:40:31 UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.

2:40:32 LIKE OTHER SURROUNDING

2:40:34 HOSPITALS, BOSTON MEDICAL

2:40:36 CENTER ALSO HAS AN INCREASED

2:40:38 UH, PATIENT UM ROLE UH SINCE UH

2:40:43 2024 WITH THE CLOSING OF THE

2:40:44 CARNEY HOSPITAL.

2:40:45 SO THEIR CAPACITY HAS INCREASED

2:40:47 .

2:40:48 SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE 2024

2:40:49 SUPPORTING A FAIR CONTRACT FOR

2:40:51 BOSTON MEDICAL OUR RESIDENT

2:40:53 PHYSICIANS IS ABOUT RECOGNIZING

2:40:54 THE IMPORTANT.

2:40:55 WORK THEY DO EVERY DAY.

2:40:56 THESE DOCTORS DESERVE FAIR.

2:40:58 PAY, GOOD WORKING.

2:40:59 CONDITIONS AND THE.

2:41:00 ABILITY TO BUILD A LIFE.

2:41:01 HERE IN BOSTON.

2:41:02 BMC'S MISSION IS TO.

2:41:03 CARE FOR THE HEALTH.

2:41:04 OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT

2:41:06 SHOULD.

2:41:07 INCLUDE CARING FOR THE PEOPLE.

2:41:08 WHO PROVIDE THAT CARE.

2:41:09 AND I'M PROUD TO.

2:41:11 SUPPORT BMC'S RESIDENT.

2:41:12 PHYSICIANS IN.

2:41:13 THEIR EFFORTS TO.

2:41:14 SECURE A FAIR CONTRACT, AND I

2:41:15 URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO STAND.

2:41:17 WITH THEM.

2:41:17 THANK YOU.

2:41:18 THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER

2:41:19 HERE WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:41:20 SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?

2:41:21 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

2:41:22 THEIR NAME?

2:41:22 I'LL CANCER STRICKEN YOU HAVE

2:41:24 THE FLOOR.

2:41:25 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:41:26 I JUST WANT TO THANK MY

2:41:27 COLLEAGUES FOR STANDING WITH

2:41:28 RESIDENTS.

2:41:29 WE HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTS IN

2:41:30 DISTRICT EIGHT.

2:41:31 UM, YOU KNOW, AS I REPRESENT

2:41:32 ALL OVER MEDICAL AREA AND MDH

2:41:34 UM AND UM THE RESIDENTS AT BMC

2:41:38 UH DESERVE BETTER AND I'M

2:41:40 EXCITED UH, THAT THEY ARE

2:41:42 ENGAGING AND WE ARE WORKING

2:41:43 WITH THEM AND WE ARE FIGHTING

2:41:45 FOR THEM BECAUSE RESIDENTS

2:41:46 OFTEN GET UM I SEE A LOT

2:41:49 OF THEM IN MY DISTRICT AND

2:41:50 THEY'RE TIRED, THEY'RE

2:41:52 OVERWORKED, THEY DON'T HAVE

2:41:53 ENOUGH BENEFITS.

2:41:54 UM, AND THEY'RE THEY FEEL VERY

2:41:56 UNPROTECTED.

2:41:56 SO UM, SO I THINK THAT

2:41:58 RESIDENTS AT BMC DESERVE THE

2:41:59 SAME ATTENTION.

2:42:01 UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE GIVING

2:42:02 IT ANY OTHER HOSPITAL AND I

2:42:04 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM

2:42:06 ,YOU KNOW, SEER KNOWS I STAND

2:42:07 WITH THEM AND, UM, AS BOSTON

2:42:10 MEDICAL CENTER REPRESENTS AND,

2:42:12 UH, CARES FOR A LOT OF THE MOST

2:42:13 VULNERABLE PATIENTS IN BOSTON.

2:42:15 UM, IT'S REALLY, REALLY

2:42:17 IMPORTANT.

2:42:17 THANK YOU.

2:42:18 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:42:20 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

2:42:21 FLOOR.

2:42:22 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:42:23 I I.

2:42:23 STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS

2:42:25 RESOLUTION.

2:42:25 THESE.

2:42:26 UM, INTERNS THESE MEDICAL

2:42:28 DOCTORS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN

2:42:31 OUR CITY CARING FOR THE MOST

2:42:35 VULNERABLE IN OUR SOCIETY.

2:42:38 UM, MANY OF THEM LIVE IN

2:42:40 DISTRICT TWO.

2:42:41 I SEE THEM FREQUENTLY AND TALK

2:42:43 TO THEM FREQUENTLY AND THEY

2:42:45 DON'T MAKE ALL THAT MUCH MONEY

2:42:47 AND THEY ARE STRUGGLING AND

2:42:50 THEY HAVE.

2:42:51 HIGH TUITION BILLS THAT THEY'RE

2:42:53 STILL PAYING.

2:42:54 THEY HAVE.

2:42:54 HIGH RENT OR MORTGAGE AS WELL.

2:42:57 BUT WE WANT TO ENSURE.

2:42:58 THAT MEDICAL DOCTORS.

2:43:00 THAT ARE PROVIDING A CRITICAL

2:43:03 SERVICE.

2:43:03 TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY

2:43:05 ARE NOT STRUGGLING.

2:43:07 TO PAY THEIR BILLS.

2:43:09 WE NEED THEM.

2:43:11 WE NEED.

2:43:11 TO ENSURE THAT.

2:43:12 THEY HAVE A GOOD QUALITY

2:43:13 OF LIFE IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT

2:43:16 WITH A GOOD, A GOOD AND.

2:43:17 STEADY PAYCHECK.

2:43:19 .

2:43:19 THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE

2:43:20 WORRYING ABOUT UM WHETHER OR

2:43:22 NOT THEY CAN PAY.

2:43:23 THE ELECTRIC BILL.

2:43:24 THEY CAN PAY THE MORTGAGE.

2:43:26 WE NEED THEM FOCUSED ON THEIR

2:43:27 JOBS.

2:43:27 WHICH THEY DO.

2:43:29 EXCEPTIONALLY WELL.

2:43:31 BUT I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD FROM

2:43:33 MEDICAL DOCTORS AT THIS

2:43:35 FACILITY THAT HAVE TOLD ME.

2:43:36 THAT BECAUSE THEY.

2:43:38 ARE STRUGGLING.

2:43:39 TO PAY THEIR BILLS.

2:43:40 WITH HIGH TUITION BILLS.

2:43:42 THEY HAD TO.

2:43:42 GET A SECOND JOB.

2:43:46 UM THAT'S THAT'S UNCONSCIONABLE

2:43:48 .

2:43:48 WELL.

2:43:48 YOU HAVE A MEDICAL DOCTOR.

2:43:49 WORKING A SECOND JOB IN SOME

2:43:51 TYPE OF OTHER INDUSTRY JUST SO

2:43:54 THAT THAT PERSON CAN CONTINUE

2:43:56 WORKING, CONTINUE LIVING HERE.

2:43:58 IT'S UP TO THE.

2:44:00 HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION TO

2:44:02 ENSURE AND PROVIDE A CONTRACT.

2:44:05 THAT RESPECTS THEIR WORK,

2:44:07 RESPECTS THEIR LEVEL

2:44:08 OF EDUCATION, RESPECTS THEIR

2:44:10 HARD WORK.

2:44:11 AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE

2:44:12 RESIDENTS OF BOSTON AS WELL.

2:44:13 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:44:15 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:44:16 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE

2:44:16 THE FLOOR.

2:44:18 THANK YOU.

2:44:18 MADAM CHAIR.

2:44:19 UH, BMC FOR THE MOST PART

2:44:22 RESIDES IN DISTRICT THREE AND

2:44:23 HAVING TO DEAL WITH WHAT WE

2:44:24 STAND WITH OUR RESIDENT

2:44:25 PHYSICIANS JUST AS WE DO UH,

2:44:26 WITH THE BMC NURSES, UH, NOT

2:44:30 ONLY TO THE TO THE GREATER CITY

2:44:31 BUT TO THE THE COMMUNITY RIGHT

2:44:33 AROUND THEM.

2:44:34 THEY ALSO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT

2:44:35 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE ISSUES

2:44:37 AT AND GAS AND SO UH TO HAVE AN

2:44:39 ISSUE WITH NURSES AND RESIDENT

2:44:40 PHYSICIANS WE HOPE THAT WE CAN

2:44:42 RESOLVE THIS BECAUSE AS THE

2:44:43 SAFETY NET HOSPITAL FOR THAT

2:44:44 AREA AND FOR OUR CITY, UH, IT'S

2:44:46 IMPORTANT WE PROVIDE TO

2:44:47 CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THESE

2:44:48 SERVICES FOR THOSE IN NEED.

2:44:49 THANK YOU.

2:44:50 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:44:51 .

2:44:52 ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:44:54 NAME?

2:44:55 COUNCILOR.

2:44:55 CULPEPER.

2:44:56 COUNCILOR.

2:44:56 DURKAN.

2:44:56 COUNCILOR.

2:44:57 FITZGERALD.

2:44:58 COUNCILOR.

2:44:58 FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:44:59 LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:45:00 MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

2:45:01 BUT THEN COUNCILOR SANTANA HAS

2:45:03 A WEBER COUNCILOR AROUND PLEASE

2:45:04 AT THE CHAIR.

2:45:07 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND BREADON

2:45:08 SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

2:45:09 AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1806.

2:45:12 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.

2:45:13 SAY AYE.

2:45:13 ALL THOSE OPPOSED.

2:45:15 NAY, NAY.

2:45:16 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:45:17 CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

2:45:20 DOCKET 1806.

2:45:22 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1806

2:45:25 COUNCILOR BREDON YES ON SOME

2:45:28 BREADON.

2:45:28 YES.

2:45:28 COUNCIL COLLETTE AS A BATTER.

2:45:30 YES.

2:45:30 COLOR AS A PLATTER.

2:45:31 YES.

2:45:32 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:45:33 ON THE CARPET.

2:45:34 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:45:35 WANTS TO DO IT THEN?

2:45:36 YES.

2:45:37 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

2:45:37 YES.

2:45:38 FITZGERALD.

2:45:39 YES.

2:45:39 COUNCIL.

2:45:40 FLYNN.

2:45:40 LENNY AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

2:45:42 YES.

2:45:43 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

2:45:43 YES.

2:45:44 CONSUMER HERE ONCE A MEJIA.

2:45:46 YEAH.

2:45:46 YES.

2:45:46 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:45:48 COUNCILOR MURPHY AS

2:45:49 COUNCIL PREPARED.

2:45:50 CONCEPT PENNY AS CONSUL SANTANA

2:45:52 .

2:45:53 CONSUL SANTANA.

2:45:54 YES.

2:45:55 COUNCIL.

2:45:55 WEBER.

2:45:56 COUNCIL.

2:45:56 WEBER.

2:45:56 YES.

2:45:57 CONSOLE.

2:45:58 COUNCIL WERE AROUND.

2:45:59 YES 13 VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE.

2:46:02 THANK YOU.

2:46:03 DOCKET 1806 HAS PASSED.

2:46:06 IT'S BEEN ADOPTED.

2:46:18 THANK YOU.

2:46:19 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:46:21 READ DOCKET 1807.

2:46:23 DOCKET 1807 COUNCIL APPROVAL OR

2:46:27 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

2:46:29 SUPPORT OF REVIVING THE CODMAN

2:46:31 SQUARE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.

2:46:33 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:46:35 COUNCILOR WORRELL YOU HAVE THE

2:46:36 FLOOR.

2:46:36 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:46:37 I'D LIKE TO ADD

2:46:38 COUNCILOR MURPHY AS AN ORIGINAL

2:46:39 CO-SPONSOR.

2:46:41 COUNCILOR MURPHY SO ADDED.

2:46:42 UH THANK YOU.

2:46:43 UH, WHEN I THINK ABOUT

2:46:44 COMMENTS, I THINK ABOUT THE

2:46:45 PEOPLE WHO HAVE POURED THEIR

2:46:46 HEART INTO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD

2:46:47 FOR YEARS THE BUSINESS OWNERS

2:46:49 WHO HAVE UH WHO KNOW YOU WHEN

2:46:51 YOU WALK THROUGH THE DOOR, THE

2:46:52 NEIGHBORS WHO KEEP SHOWING UP

2:46:53 AND THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE

2:46:55 FAMILIES HAVE COUNTED ON FOR

2:46:57 GENERATIONS.

2:46:57 THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING IN THIS

2:46:59 AREA.

2:46:59 COMMONS SQUARE PARK HAS BEEN

2:47:01 RECENTLY RENOVATED AND IS NOW

2:47:02 OPEN.

2:47:03 THE WEEKLY FARMERS MARKET

2:47:04 BRINGS OUR NEIGHBORS TOGETHER.

2:47:05 SECOND CHURCH SHOUT OUT TO PASS

2:47:07 PRIZE FOR CPA FUNDING FOR

2:47:09 RENOVATIONS.

2:47:10 WE'RE SEEING IMPROVEMENTS TO

2:47:11 CROSSWALKS AND INTERSECTIONS

2:47:12 ALONG WASHINGTON STREET.

2:47:14 OUR MERCHANTS HAVE BEEN A PART

2:47:15 OF KEEPING THIS NEIGHBORHOOD

2:47:17 GOING THROUGH ALL OF IT.

2:47:18 AS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, I

2:47:19 KNOW HOW MUCH GOES INTO OPENING

2:47:21 THOSE DOORS EVERY DAY AND DOING

2:47:23 THAT THROUGH YEARS OF UTILITY

2:47:24 WORK ON WASHINGTON STREET HAS

2:47:26 COME WITH REAL CHALLENGES.

2:47:28 WE'VE ALSO LOST A LOT OF SPACES

2:47:29 THAT PEOPLE DEPENDED ON

2:47:31 WALGREEN'S, JORDAN, JODY'S

2:47:33 MEN'S STORE AND DAILY TABLE.

2:47:35 THOSE CLOSURES WERE ALSO FELT

2:47:37 BY THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE

2:47:38 AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORS

2:47:39 WHO SHOP THERE.

2:47:40 THAT'S WHY I APPRECIATE THE

2:47:41 WORK THAT MICHAEL DOCKERY AND

2:47:43 THE MERCHANTS COMING TOGETHER

2:47:44 TO BRING BACK THE COMMON SQUARE

2:47:46 MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.

2:47:47 THEY HAVE IDEAS, THEY KNOW

2:47:49 WHAT'S WORKING AND THEY KNOW

2:47:51 WHAT NEEDS ATTENTION.

2:47:53 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BETTER

2:47:54 LIGHTING BEAUTIFICATION AND

2:47:56 WAYS TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES

2:47:58 RENTING THEIR SPACE.

2:48:00 THESE ARE BLOCK BY BLOCK

2:48:02 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE

2:48:02 NEIGHBORHOOD THEY PUT IN THEIR

2:48:04 OWN MONEY AND TIME INTO AND

2:48:06 THEY HAVE COMMITTED NEIGHBORS

2:48:08 ALONGSIDE AND UH SHOUT OUT TO

2:48:10 UH, CYNTHIA LESH AND THE WHOLE

2:48:12 NEIGHBORHOOD CONGRESS SQUARE

2:48:13 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL WHO'S ALSO

2:48:15 PURSUING A CULTURAL DISTRICT

2:48:17 DESIGNATION INSIDE THE COMMONS

2:48:18 SQUARE.

2:48:19 THE HEALTH CENTER CONTINUES

2:48:20 CALM FOR OUR FAMILIES AND

2:48:21 PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE AND

2:48:23 COMMONS SQUARE AND DC CONTINUES

2:48:24 INVESTING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:48:26 TO MICHAEL ALL THE MERCHANTS

2:48:27 INVOLVED THANK YOU.

2:48:29 RUNNING THE BUSINESS IS A FULL

2:48:30 TIME COMMITMENT BUT MAKING TIME

2:48:32 TO COME TOGETHER AND TO LOOK

2:48:33 OUT FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICTS

2:48:34 SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOUR LOVE FOR

2:48:37 COMMON SQUARE.

2:48:37 I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT

2:48:39 OUT TO YUSEF AND MY TEAM FOR

2:48:40 HELPING BRING THIS ALL TOGETHER

2:48:42 ,BUT I'M LOOKING FOR

2:48:43 SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

2:48:44 DOCKET.

2:48:45 THANK YOU.

2:48:45 THANK YOU COUNCIL WILL CHAIR

2:48:47 RECOGNIZES CONTRA MURPHY

2:48:48 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:48:50 THANK YOU.

2:48:51 UM AND THANK YOU

2:48:52 COUNCILOR WORRELL FOR ADDING

2:48:54 ME AS A NEIGHBOR TO CODMAN

2:48:55 SQUARE AND AS AN AT LARGE CITY

2:48:58 COUNCILOR.

2:48:58 I THINK.

2:48:59 WE ALL KNOW THAT

2:49:00 NEIGHBORHOODS AND PARTS OF OUR

2:49:03 CITY THAT HAVE THRIVING SMALL

2:49:05 BUSINESSES COFFEE.

2:49:06 SHOPS.

2:49:07 RESTAURANTS, SAFE PLACES,

2:49:09 CLEAN PARKS.

2:49:11 ARE HEALTHIER AND.

2:49:13 MUCH EASIER TO LIVE IN AND NOT.

2:49:16 EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS.

2:49:17 THE CITY HAS THAT LUXURY.

2:49:20 SO I'M HAPPY TO ADVOCATE AND

2:49:22 SUPPORT.

2:49:23 SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS THIS.

2:49:25 WE KNOW THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME

2:49:26 TOGETHER AND THEY'RE PUTTING

2:49:28 THEIR MINDS TOGETHER AND

2:49:30 FIGHTING FOR THE SAME THING,

2:49:32 KNOWING THAT TOGETHER WE CAN

2:49:34 MAKE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AS

2:49:37 THRIVING AS IT NEEDS AND IT'S

2:49:39 ALSO A PLACE A SAFE PLACE I

2:49:41 BELIEVE FOR THE RESIDENTS TO

2:49:43 WORK CLOSELY WITH US AS ELECTED

2:49:46 OFFICIALS, WITH CIVIC LEADERS

2:49:47 AND NEIGHBORS TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:49:49 WHEN THERE'S CONCERNS, IF IT'S

2:49:51 MORE WALKING BEATS WITH THE

2:49:52 POLICE, IF IT'S OURS AT THE

2:49:54 CODMAN SQUARE LIBRARY WE HAVE

2:49:56 GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:49:57 IT COULD BE BETTER BUT THINGS

2:49:59 HAVE BEEN MOVING.

2:50:00 WHEN I'M AT THE FARMER'S MARKET

2:50:01 AND I'M AROUND AT SOME OF THE

2:50:03 STORES IN THAT AREA, WE CAN SEE

2:50:05 THAT IT'S MOVING IN THE

2:50:06 DIRECTION THE NEIGHBORS WANT,

2:50:08 BUT I THINK THIS WOULD HELP

2:50:09 MOVE IT EVEN FURTHER.

2:50:10 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING

2:50:12 ALONGSIDE THE NEIGHBORS HERE.

2:50:13 THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:50:14 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:50:17 UM, CATHERINE COMES FROM HERE.

2:50:19 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:50:23 I THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:50:24 I WANT TO RISE IN SUPPORT

2:50:25 OF THIS RESOLUTION.

2:50:26 AS SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY LIVES

2:50:28 IN CODMAN SQUARE AND WALKED

2:50:30 EVERY DAY TO DORCHESTER HIGH

2:50:33 FROM FOUR CORNERS TO DORCHESTER

2:50:36 HIGH.

2:50:36 I HAD TO WALK DOWN WASHINGTON

2:50:38 STREET UM, IN THE 80S.

2:50:40 AND SO FOR ME IT IS REALLY

2:50:43 EXCITING TO SEE UH, THIS

2:50:45 RENEWED ENERGY REGARDING MAKING

2:50:47 SURE THAT THE MERCHANTS

2:50:49 UNDERSTAND THE ROLE THAT

2:50:50 THEY'VE PLAYED, UM, IN NOT ONLY

2:50:52 JUST KEEPING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

2:50:56 TOGETHER BECAUSE BACK IN THE

2:50:57 DAY YOU COULD GO INTO ANY

2:50:59 MERCHANTS BE LIKE HEY, I OWE

2:51:00 YOU LIKE OKAY, I KNOW YOU WALK

2:51:02 BY HERE EVERY DAY SO I KNOW YOU

2:51:04 PAY WHEN YOU COME BACK THROUGH

2:51:05 THIS WAY.

2:51:06 AND SO THERE'S ALSO A SENSE

2:51:07 OF COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO

2:51:09 OUR MERCHANTS AND SO REALLY

2:51:10 EXCITED TO SUPPORT THIS.

2:51:12 I ACTUALLY UM IT'S REALLY

2:51:15 AWESOME BECAUSE I ALSO LIVE IN

2:51:19 CODMAN AND THE SPACE THAT I

2:51:20 GREW UP IN AND UM, SO IT'S

2:51:23 GREAT TO TO STAND UP AND

2:51:25 SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND I'M

2:51:27 GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUE TO

2:51:28 ADD ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:51:30 CO-SPONSOR.

2:51:31 THANK YOU CHAIR.

2:51:33 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:51:34 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:51:35 YEAH I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

2:51:37 RULES AND ADD CONCILOR MEJIA AS

2:51:39 A ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:51:39 I'D ALSO LIKE TO SHOUT OUT NOW

2:51:41 THOUGH OVER AT THE COMMONS

2:51:43 SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD UM UH

2:51:45 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR HIS

2:51:47 WORK AS WELL IN THE SMALL

2:51:48 BUSINESS AREA.

2:51:50 THANK YOU.

2:51:51 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:51:52 OBJECTIONS FROM MEJIA SO I'D

2:51:55 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:51:56 NAME CONSTRUE COLETTE AS A PART

2:51:59 OF COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:52:01 COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:52:01 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:52:02 COUNCILOR FLYNN CULTURAL

2:52:03 DIVISION COUNCILOR UH PEPEN

2:52:07 COUNCILOR SANTANA

2:52:07 COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE UH

2:52:08 THE CHAIR COUNCILORS UH WORRELL

2:52:13 MURPHY AND HERE SEEK SUSPENSION

2:52:15 OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:52:18 1807.

2:52:18 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:52:19 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:52:22 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:52:24 UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

2:52:26 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:52:27 VOTE ON DOCKET 1807 ROLL CALL

2:52:30 VOTE.

2:52:31 ON DOCKET 1807.

2:52:33 COUNCILOR BRENNAN YES.

2:52:34 ON SEPARATE AND.

2:52:35 YES COUNCILOR COLLETTE.

2:52:36 AS A PARA ONCE A COLOR AS A

2:52:38 YES COMES UP CULPEPER CONCEPT

2:52:41 CULPEPER YES CONCEPT TOKEN ON

2:52:44 THE TOKEN YES.

2:52:45 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

2:52:46 YES.

2:52:47 FITZGERALD.

2:52:47 YES.

2:52:48 COUNCIL.

2:52:48 FLYNN.

2:52:49 YES.

2:52:49 CONSOLE.

2:52:50 FLYNN.

2:52:50 YES.

2:52:50 COUNCIL.

2:52:51 LOUIJEUNE.

2:52:51 YES.

2:52:53 CONSULTATION.

2:52:53 YES.

2:52:53 COUNCIL.

2:52:54 MAYOR.

2:52:54 COUNCIL.

2:52:55 MEJIA.

2:52:56 YES.

2:52:57 COUNCIL.

2:52:58 MURPHY.

2:52:58 COUNCIL MURPHY AS COUNCIL PIP

2:52:59 ON.

2:53:01 AS COUNCIL SANTANA ONCE A

2:53:03 SANTANA.

2:53:04 YES.

2:53:04 COUNCIL.

2:53:04 WEBER.

2:53:05 YES.

2:53:06 SO WHEREBY AS CONSOLE ROOM

2:53:08 CONSOLE RIGHT.

2:53:09 YES 13 VOTES IN THE

2:53:10 AFFIRMATIVE.

2:53:11 THANK YOU AND MADAM CLERK

2:53:13 DOCKET 1807 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:53:18 PLEASE READ DOCKET 1808.

2:53:20 DOCKET 1808 COUNCILOR FLYNN OR

2:53:24 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

2:53:26 SUPPORT OF A COMMISSION TO HIRE

2:53:28 AND RETAIN BOSTON POLICE

2:53:30 OFFICERS.

2:53:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:53:32 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:53:33 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:53:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:53:36 THE LONG STANDING ISSUE

2:53:39 OF UNDERSTAFFING, OVERSTRETCHED

2:53:40 RESOURCES, MANDATORY OVERTIME,

2:53:43 LOOMING RETIREMENTS AT THE

2:53:45 BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REMAIN

2:53:47 A PUBLIC SAFETY PUBLIC HEALTH

2:53:49 EMERGENCY WHICH ALSO DISREGARDS

2:53:51 OFFICER'S PERSONAL, PHYSICAL

2:53:53 AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING AS

2:53:55 WELL AS THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES.

2:53:59 IN JULY 1980, THE MINIMUM

2:54:00 NUMBER OF PATROLMEN AT ANY

2:54:02 GIVEN TIME FOR THE BOSTON

2:54:04 POLICE DEPARTMENT ROSE FROM

2:54:07 2300 TO 2500 BY LAW IN THE CITY

2:54:10 MUNICIPAL CODE TO ENSURE

2:54:13 ADEQUATE STAFFING FOR POLICE

2:54:15 DUTIES.

2:54:16 RECENTLY THE BOSTON POLICE

2:54:17 PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION SAID

2:54:19 THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY

2:54:21 1617 HUNDRED POLICE OFFICERS

2:54:25 WITH SUCH LOW STAFFING LEVELS

2:54:27 IT IS ALL THE MORE CRITICAL FOR

2:54:30 THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACT

2:54:31 URGENTLY TO ENSURE THAT THE

2:54:33 BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT IS

2:54:34 COMFORTABLY IN EXCESS OF 2500

2:54:37 OFFICERS, THE CITY MUST MAKE IT

2:54:39 A TOP PRIORITY TO PREVENT A

2:54:41 DYNAMIC OF OVERWORKED OFFICERS

2:54:43 WHICH HAS RESULTED IN THIS

2:54:45 ONGOING PUBLIC SAFETY CRISIS

2:54:47 DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES

2:54:49 WITH INCREASING VIOLENT

2:54:50 INCIDENTS OVER THE SUMMER, WE

2:54:53 MUST HAVE THE NECESSARY TOOLS

2:54:55 TO HIRE AND RETAIN BOSTON

2:54:57 POLICE OFFICERS.

2:54:59 A COMMISSION DEDICATED TO

2:55:00 HIRING AND RETAINING BOSTON

2:55:02 POLICE OFFICERS IS A CRITICAL

2:55:04 STEP TO ADDRESSING OUR

2:55:06 DANGEROUSLY LOW STAFFING

2:55:08 LEVELS.

2:55:08 THE COMMISSION WILL WORK TO

2:55:10 IMPROVE PUBLIC AWARENESS

2:55:12 OF UPCOMING BOSTON POLICE

2:55:14 ACADEMY CLASSES AS CLASSES,

2:55:16 PROMOTE OFFICER WELLNESS AND

2:55:18 TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO

2:55:20 RETAIN OFFICERS.

2:55:22 WE ALSO RECENTLY CUT THE BUDGET

2:55:26 FOR BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS

2:55:29 OFFICES HEALTH AND WELLNESS

2:55:30 PROGRAMS.

2:55:32 ENHANCED LEGISLATION WILL BE

2:55:33 NEEDED TO CODIFY THIS

2:55:36 COMMISSION IN THE CITY CODE.

2:55:38 HOWEVER, IT IS CRITICAL THAT

2:55:39 THE BOSTON CITY

2:55:41 COUNCIL INDICATES ITS ITS

2:55:43 SUPPORT FOR TAKING CONCRETE

2:55:44 STEPS TO IMPROVE OFFICER

2:55:46 WELLNESS FOR THE OVERALL PUBLIC

2:55:48 SAFETY OF THE CITY POLICE

2:55:50 OFFICERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

2:55:53 BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS NEED TO

2:55:55 KNOW THAT THE BOSTON CITY

2:55:58 COUNCIL UNDERSTANDS HOW

2:55:59 CHALLENGING IT IS FOR THEM AND

2:56:01 THEIR FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY ON

2:56:03 HEALTH AND WELLNESS ISSUES.

2:56:06 IT'S TIME FOR THIS BODY TO

2:56:07 STAND WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS

2:56:09 AND THEIR FAMILIES TO ESTABLISH

2:56:12 A COMMISSION WHICH WE CAN STUDY

2:56:15 ON HOW WE CAN RETAIN AND

2:56:18 RECRUIT NEW POLICE OFFICERS TO

2:56:20 OUR CITY, THAT PART OF OUR

2:56:21 NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT PART OF OUR

2:56:23 CITY THEY'RE ACTIVE IN OUR

2:56:25 COMMUNITY.

2:56:26 WE SEE THEM EVERY DAY AT OUR UM

2:56:29 COFFEE SHOPS.

2:56:30 WE SEE THEM EVERY DAY AND

2:56:31 LITERALLY LET'S TREAT THEM WITH

2:56:33 THE RESPECT THEY DON'T THINK

2:56:36 THE CITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS THEM.

2:56:37 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:56:39 THANK YOU COUNCILOR UH, FLYNN

2:56:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:56:43 COUNCILOR CANADA SUPPORTER YOU

2:56:44 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:56:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.

2:56:46 AND THANK YOU TO COUNCIL.

2:56:48 FLYNN.

2:56:48 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:56:48 UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS

2:56:50 AND.

2:56:50 I THINK IT SHOULD BE SAID

2:56:51 THAT, UM, YOU SHOULDN'T MISTAKE

2:56:52 MY QUESTIONS.

2:56:53 FOR OPPOSITION BECAUSE.

2:56:54 I DON'T.

2:56:55 INTEND TO OBJECT.

2:56:56 UM, I'M JUST.

2:56:56 DOING MY DUE DILIGENCE AS A

2:56:57 LEAD SPONSOR.

2:56:58 UM.

2:56:59 SO.

2:56:59 FREQUENTLY SAYS AND I THINK WE.

2:57:01 ALL WANT TO RECRUIT AND

2:57:02 RETAIN.

2:57:02 POLICE OFFICERS.

2:57:03 I MYSELF HAVE PUT FORWARD THE,

2:57:05 UM HOMBRE PETITION.

2:57:07 UH, SEEKING TO WAIVE THE.

2:57:08 MAXIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT SO THAT

2:57:09 WE CAN.

2:57:10 RETAIN MORE FOLKS SORRY,

2:57:11 RECRUIT.

2:57:12 MORE FOLKS AND AT LEAST GIVE

2:57:13 THEM A SHOT INTO THE POLICE

2:57:14 ACADEMY.

2:57:14 AND IF THEY DO WELL IN THE

2:57:16 POLICE ACADEMY, GREAT.

2:57:17 AND ALL THE OTHER.

2:57:18 TESTS AWESOME.

2:57:19 UM BUT.

2:57:19 IF NOT.

2:57:20 THEN THAT'S THAT'S THEIR

2:57:21 SHOT AND AT LEAST WE GIVE THEM

2:57:23 THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO AND TO

2:57:24 PROVE THEMSELVES.

2:57:25 I WANT TO REMIND FOLKS TO COME

2:57:26 WITH.

2:57:27 ME.

2:57:27 TO.

2:57:27 THE STATEHOUSE AND TO ADVOCATE.

2:57:28 FOR THAT.

2:57:29 SO THE INVITATION.

2:57:30 STANDS FOR EVERYBODY.

2:57:30 INCLUDING THE LEAD SPONSOR.

2:57:32 UM, MY QUESTIONS.

2:57:33 INCLUDE UH WHAT EXACTLY.

2:57:35 WHAT THIS COMMISSION DO THAT

2:57:36 BPD ITS HR.

2:57:37 POLICY UH POLICE.

2:57:39 ACADEMY AND EXISTING POLICE

2:57:41 CADET.

2:57:41 PROGRAM ARE NOT ALREADY DOING

2:57:43 UM HAVE YOU TALKED TO

2:57:44 COMMISSIONER COX?

2:57:45 HAVE THE POLICE ASKED FOR

2:57:46 SOMETHING LIKE THIS?

2:57:47 UM, IF.

2:57:48 THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED BARRIERS

2:57:49 TO RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION, I

2:57:50 WANT TO UNDERSTAND.

2:57:51 THESE SPECIFIC BARRIERS.

2:57:53 BEFORE CONSIDERING CONSIDERING

2:57:54 ANOTHER.

2:57:55 UM OR PRESCRIBING.

2:57:56 A NEW GOVERNMENTAL BODY.

2:57:57 SO ALTHOUGH THIS A COMMISSION

2:57:59 MAY.

2:57:59 BE THE RIGHT AVENUE AND.

2:58:01 TOOL TO FIGURE THIS OUT, I

2:58:02 DON'T NECESSARILY.

2:58:03 BELIEVE THAT.

2:58:04 A RESOLUTION.

2:58:05 AFFIRMING OUR SUPPORT OF A

2:58:07 COMMISSION UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND

2:58:08 THE FULL SCOPE OF ITS

2:58:10 COMMISSION WHO APPOINTS IT, UM

2:58:11 ,WHAT ITS AUTHORITY IS, HOW.

2:58:13 WE'LL.

2:58:13 HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

2:58:14 UM, I DON'T NECESSARILY FEEL

2:58:15 COMFORTABLE VOTING.

2:58:16 YES ON.

2:58:17 THIS RESOLUTION.

2:58:18 UM, SO I'LL PROBABLY VOTE

2:58:19 PRESIDENT ON IT BUT JUST WOULD

2:58:20 LOVE TO UNDERSTAND THOSE

2:58:21 DETAILS FROM COUNCIL.

2:58:22 FINE BEFORE I MAKE A DECISION.

2:58:23 THANK YOU.

2:58:25 UM, COUNCILOR UH,

2:58:28 COUNCILOR FLYNN, WOULD YOU LIKE

2:58:29 TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTION

2:58:30 THROUGH THE CHAIR?

2:58:32 YES.

2:58:33 UM, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:58:35 AND THANK YOU TO COUNCIL QUITE

2:58:37 AS A PART TWO IMPORTANT

2:58:38 QUESTIONS THAT YOU ASKED

2:58:39 ME WHAT WOULD THE COMMISSION

2:58:40 DO?

2:58:41 I THINK THEY WOULD STUDY ISSUES

2:58:44 THAT ARE IMPACTING POLICE IN

2:58:46 THEIR FAMILIES, MAKING IT

2:58:48 DIFFICULT FOR POLICE OFFICERS

2:58:50 TO REMAIN IN THE CITY TO REMAIN

2:58:53 ON THE FORCE I SHOULD SAY.

2:58:55 UM, AND HOW WE RECRUIT NEW

2:58:58 POLICE OFFICERS AS WELL.

2:59:00 I DO THINK WE HAVE TO CHANGE

2:59:01 THE DYNAMIC OF OUR LANGUAGE

2:59:03 WHEN WE UM ON HOW WE INTERACT

2:59:06 WITH POLICE OFFICERS.

2:59:08 I DON'T THINK THEY FEEL LIKE

2:59:10 THEY'RE SUPPORTED BY THE CITY

2:59:11 COUNCIL.

2:59:11 THAT'S MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.

2:59:15 LIKE YOU, I TALK TO THEM POLICE

2:59:17 OFFICERS EVERY DAY.

2:59:18 THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY'RE

2:59:19 SUPPORTED BY MEMBERS OF THE

2:59:20 CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE OF THAT

2:59:23 AND FOR OTHER REASONS TOO.

2:59:25 UM, OFTENTIMES BOSTON POLICE

2:59:29 BUT POTENTIAL RECRUITS DON'T

2:59:30 WANT TO TAKE THE EXAMINATION.

2:59:33 A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS

2:59:35 CURRENTLY ARE LEAVING THE THE

2:59:37 DEPARTMENT EARLY BEFORE THE

2:59:39 EARLY MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE

2:59:41 .

2:59:42 MANY ARE ACTUALLY LEAVING FOR

2:59:44 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

2:59:46 MANY ARE LEAVING FOR OTHER CITY

2:59:49 DEPARTMENTS.

2:59:49 MANY ARE LEAVING TO SAVE THEIR

2:59:51 MARRIAGE BECAUSE WHEN YOU WORK

2:59:54 16 HOURS A DAY AND YOU HAVE

2:59:58 OBLIGATIONS AS A AS A PARENT TO

3:00:01 TAKE YOUR CHILD TO A MEDICAL

3:00:04 APPOINTMENT, TAKE A CHILD TO AN

3:00:05 AFTER SCHOOL.

3:00:08 AND THEN YOU'RE REQUIRED TO

3:00:11 WORK AN EXTRA SHIFT OR OR EVEN

3:00:13 YOU VOLUNTEER TO WORK AN EXTRA

3:00:16 SHIFT KNOWING THAT YOU MIGHT BE

3:00:17 CALLED TO UM TO BE TOLD THAT

3:00:21 YOU'RE WORKING A SHIFT UM, AT

3:00:23 SOME POINT IT DOESN'T WORK FOR

3:00:25 OFFICERS AND THE OFFICERS

3:00:27 HEALTH AND WELLNESS ARE BEING

3:00:29 IMPACTED.

3:00:30 THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO DO

3:00:32 EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN ON

3:00:34 THIS ISSUE.

3:00:35 I DO THINK IT'S A PUBLIC SAFETY

3:00:36 AND A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS WHEN

3:00:38 YOU'RE WORKING 16 HOURS A DAY

3:00:42 CONSISTENTLY IT IMPACTS PUBLIC

3:00:45 SAFETY.

3:00:46 IT IMPACTS YOUR ABILITY TO DO

3:00:48 YOUR JOB RIGHT.

3:00:49 THANK YOU.

3:00:49 THANK YOU COUNSELOR.

3:00:51 UM OKAY.

3:00:52 UM I MOVE ON TO COUNCILMEMBER

3:00:53 HERE WAS NEXT COUNCIL YOU UH

3:00:54 THE FLOOR.

3:00:55 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:00:57 UM, I'M CURIOUS JUST FOR MY OWN

3:01:00 .

3:01:00 UH.

3:01:01 EDIFICATION HERE.

3:01:02 DID WE ALREADY HAVE A HEARING

3:01:05 ON ESTABLISHING A COMMISSION?

3:01:06 BECAUSE I MAY HAVE MISSED THAT

3:01:08 ONE.

3:01:09 SO A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT

3:01:11 MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE FROM

3:01:11 DISTRICT ONE ASKED WERE RELATED

3:01:14 TO THE INNER WORKINGS OF WHAT

3:01:15 THIS PARTICULAR COMMISSION

3:01:17 COULD BE AND ARE WE SUPPORTING

3:01:19 ARE.

3:01:20 WE VOTING ON SUPPORTING.

3:01:22 THE RESOLUTION.

3:01:23 BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY DONE THE

3:01:24 WORKING SESSIONS?

3:01:25 I MAY HAVE MISSED THAT BECAUSE

3:01:26 SO MUCH HAS BEEN GOING ON IN MY

3:01:28 LIFE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

3:01:30 SO JUST FOR THE.

3:01:31 SAKE OF THE EXERCISE DID I MISS

3:01:33 A HEARING WAS THERE SO WE

3:01:36 HAVEN'T EVEN TALKED ABOUT WHAT

3:01:38 THIS COULD LOOK LIKE OKAY SO I

3:01:40 THINK THAT JUST I'M A PROCESS

3:01:42 PERSON I THINK THAT THERE'S

3:01:44 SOME STEPS THAT GO INTO UM.

3:01:48 WHAT?

3:01:51 ESTABLISHING A.

3:01:51 WHOLE COMMISSION I KNOW WORKING

3:01:53 ON ESTABLISHING THE BLACK MEN

3:01:54 AND BOYS COMMISSION THAT WAS A

3:01:56 WHOLE ORDINANCE.

3:01:57 IT WAS HEARINGS IT WAS WORKING

3:01:59 SESSION.

3:02:00 SO I THINK THAT AND I THINK

3:02:02 COUNCIL PRESIDENT THIS IS

3:02:03 SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY WANT TO

3:02:04 CONSIDER.

3:02:05 YOU KNOW, WHEN.

3:02:07 WE'RE DOING RESOLUTIONS, IF

3:02:10 IT'S A RESOLUTION FOR SOMETHING

3:02:12 THAT WE HAVEN'T EVEN HAD A

3:02:13 HEARING ON OR THINGS OF THAT

3:02:15 NATURE, I DON'T KNOW, WE JUST

3:02:17 WE JUST NEED TO BETTER

3:02:18 UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMICS WITH

3:02:21 THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE.

3:02:22 IF THERE HASN'T BEEN A HEARING

3:02:24 ORDER ON THE NEED FOR THIS, IF

3:02:27 THERE HASN'T BEEN AN ORDINANCE

3:02:28 THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND

3:02:31 WORKING SESSIONS FOR US TO

3:02:32 ESTABLISH, IT IS REALLY

3:02:34 CHALLENGING AS A BODY FOR US TO

3:02:37 VOTE ON A RESOLUTION THAT WE

3:02:39 SUPPORT SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T

3:02:40 EVEN KNOW THE MECHANICS OF IT.

3:02:42 SO I RESPECTFULLY I'M GOING TO

3:02:44 OBJECT TO UH TAKING A VOTE ON

3:02:47 THIS RESOLUTION HERE TODAY

3:02:49 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DO OUR DUE

3:02:51 DILIGENCE AND MAKING SURE THAT

3:02:53 WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE

3:02:54 SUPPORTING.

3:02:55 SO ACTUALLY.

3:02:56 I DON'T KNOW HOW PEOPLE BECAUSE

3:02:57 I SEE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIGHTS ON

3:02:58 I DON'T WANT TO I DON'T WANT TO

3:03:00 I DON'T WANT TO PREVENT PEOPLE

3:03:01 FROM SPEAKING SO.

3:03:03 IT'S OUR JOB.

3:03:04 SHE COUNCIL OF UM THE THANK YOU

3:03:07 COUNCILMEMBER HERE UM.

3:03:08 I THINK WE SHOULD YOU.

3:03:09 RESPOND THERE'S BEEN THERE'S

3:03:10 BEEN AN OBJECTION TO THIS

3:03:12 RESOLUTION THIS THIS RESOLUTION

3:03:13 WILL.

3:03:14 WE GO TO THE COMMITTEE ON.

3:03:18 PUBLIC SAFETY.

3:03:21 A CORRECT THANK YOU.

3:03:26 MADAM CLERK.

3:03:29 COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

3:03:34 1809..

3:03:34 GOOD 1809 COUNSELOR PEPPER

3:03:36 AND OFFER THE FOLLOWING

3:03:37 RESOLUTION AND IN SUPPORT

3:03:39 OF ASSESSING GREENHOUSE

3:03:41 PRODUCTION WITH PROPOSED

3:03:41 TARGETED TAX AMENDMENTS.

3:03:43 ABATEMENTS CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:03:46 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:03:47 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:03:48 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:03:50 I LIKE TO ADD YOURSELF AS A

3:03:51 SECOND CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND

3:03:54 THE RULES AND NOT COUNCILOR BEN

3:03:55 WEBER AS A THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

3:03:59 UM I WILL HEARING AND SEEING NO

3:04:01 OBJECTIONS WILL I

3:04:03 COUNCILOR CULPEPER TO AS THE

3:04:05 THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

3:04:06 NO COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:04:07 OH COUNCIL WEBER BEG YOUR

3:04:09 PARDON?

3:04:09 SORRY.

3:04:11 YOU'RE GOOD.

3:04:12 I KNOW YOU'RE GOOD.

3:04:13 YEAH, I WOULD PUT WEBER IN

3:04:14 THERE INSTEAD.

3:04:16 UM, I WILL ASK MY COLLEAGUE,

3:04:17 UH, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

3:04:19 PARTNER TO TAKE THE CHAIR FOR A

3:04:20 FEW MINUTES.

3:04:33 SORRY, COUNCILOR.

3:04:33 PERTAINING TO THE FLOOR.

3:04:34 THANK YOU.

3:04:36 AS WE KNOW, BOSTON IS IN A

3:04:38 HOUSING CRISIS.

3:04:39 EVERY DAY WE HEAR FROM

3:04:40 RESIDENTS THAT RISING COSTS

3:04:41 MAKE HOMEOWNERSHIP UNATTAINABLE

3:04:43 .

3:04:43 WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO BUILD

3:04:45 MORE UNITS.

3:04:45 YET EVEN WITH THE LARGE NUMBER

3:04:47 OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT

3:04:48 HAVE BEEN APPROVED, THERE ARE

3:04:50 STILL MAJOR FINANCIAL OBSTACLES

3:04:51 DELAYING THEM TO BREAK GROUND

3:04:52 FROM STALLED STATE AND FEDERAL

3:04:54 GRANTS.

3:04:56 WE NEED TO USE EVERY TOOL

3:04:58 AVAILABLE TO GET CONSTRUCTION

3:05:00 STARTED AND SO AND SO I SUPPORT

3:05:02 THE TEMPORARY TAX ABATEMENTS

3:05:04 THE MAYOR PROPOSAL AND FOR

3:05:05 APPROVED HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.

3:05:07 THESE ABATEMENTS WOULD

3:05:08 JUMPSTART THREE PROJECTS IN

3:05:09 AUSTIN BRIGHTON AND ONE IN

3:05:11 CHARLESTOWN TO PROVIDE OVER

3:05:13 1400 MUCH NEEDED HOUSING UNITS

3:05:14 .

3:05:15 IT WILL PECK THEY WILL PAY BACK

3:05:17 THOSE TAXES IN THE FUTURE SO

3:05:19 THAT THESE PROJECT WILL COME TO

3:05:21 FRUITION RATHER THAN STAYING AS

3:05:23 PROPOSALS AS A CHAIR

3:05:25 OF HOUSING.

3:05:26 UM I TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUS AND

3:05:29 HAVE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS

3:05:30 ABOUT IT WITH THE CHAIR

3:05:31 OF HOUSING UM WITH WITH CHIEF

3:05:34 DILLON WITH SO MANY OF HER

3:05:36 DEPARTMENT MEMBERS.

3:05:37 BUT I KNOW THAT I'VE ALSO GOT A

3:05:39 LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM MY

3:05:40 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.

3:05:41 SO AT THIS TIME I'M NOT GOING

3:05:42 TO ASK FOR A SUSPENSION AND

3:05:43 PASS OF THIS RESOLUTION.

3:05:45 IF NOT, I'M GOING TO DO A

3:05:46 HEARING ABOUT THIS SO THAT WE

3:05:47 CAN ASK QUESTIONS.

3:05:48 AND MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND I

3:05:49 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO.

3:05:51 THANK YOU.

3:05:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:05:54 COUNCILOR BURTON

3:05:55 COUNCIL BRINGING UP BEFORE.

3:05:57 UM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:05:59 UM AND THANK YOU,

3:05:59 COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR HAVING

3:06:00 ME AS A SECOND IN THE MIDST

3:06:02 OF AN ACUTE HOUSING SHORTAGE,

3:06:04 BOSTON HAS SEEN HOUSING

3:06:05 CONSTRUCTION STALLED DUE TO

3:06:07 SUCH FACTORS AS HIGH INTEREST

3:06:08 RATES, RISING CONSTRUCTION

3:06:10 COSTS, TARIFFS AND BROAD

3:06:12 BROADER ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.

3:06:14 LAST WEEK THE MAYOR PROPOSED

3:06:15 TARGETED TIME LIMITED TAX

3:06:18 ABATEMENTS FOR FOUR APPROVED

3:06:20 DEVELOPMENTS THREE OF WHICH ARE

3:06:21 LOCATED IN ALLSTON, BRIGHTON

3:06:23 AND ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

3:06:24 THESE THREE PROJECTS WILL BRING

3:06:25 NEARLY 1000 UNITS OF HOUSING TO

3:06:27 OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHILE ALSO

3:06:29 DELIVERING INCOME RESTRICTED

3:06:30 HOUSING, PUBLIC REALM

3:06:32 IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION

3:06:33 BENEFITS.

3:06:34 ABATEMENTS FROM TEMPORARILY

3:06:36 DEFERRED TAX INCREASES FOR

3:06:37 THESE PROJECTS CONTINGENT ON

3:06:39 THEM BEGINNING CONSTRUCTION.

3:06:40 AND WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY NET

3:06:43 LOSS OF TAX REVENUE FOR THE

3:06:44 CITY.

3:06:45 AGAIN, THESE ARE APPROVED

3:06:47 PROJECTS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD

3:06:48 SUPPORT THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE

3:06:50 TO BREAK GROUND OFFERING TAX

3:06:52 ABATEMENTS IN ORDER TO ENABLE

3:06:54 THEM TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION.

3:06:56 CONSTRUCTION IS A SENSIBLE AND

3:06:58 PROACTIVE STRATEGY.

3:06:59 THESE PROPOSALS WILL GO THROUGH

3:07:01 A PUBLIC PROCESS WITH THE

3:07:03 PLANNING DEPARTMENT BEFORE THEY

3:07:04 MOVE FORWARD.

3:07:04 THESE INCLUDE A 30 DAY PUBLIC

3:07:06 COMMENT PERIOD, AN UPCOMING

3:07:08 COMMUNITY MEETING WHERE

3:07:10 RESIDENTS CAN ASK QUESTIONS AND

3:07:11 PROVIDE FEEDBACK AND WE NEED TO

3:07:13 USE THE TOOLS AVAILABLE TO

3:07:15 INCREASE HOUSING PRODUCTION,

3:07:16 CREATE MORE INCOME RESTRICTED

3:07:18 HOMES, SUPPORT GOOD JOBS AND

3:07:20 GIVE STALL GET STALLED PROJECTS

3:07:23 MOVING.

3:07:23 THAT'S WHY I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT

3:07:25 THIS RESOLUTION ON THIS UM

3:07:28 HEARING ORDER AS IT HAS

3:07:29 TRANSPIRED INTO IS AND UH I

3:07:32 CALL ON MY COLLEAGUES TO DO THE

3:07:33 SAME.

3:07:33 THANK YOU.

3:07:34 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON

3:07:36 COUNCIL WEBER IS THERE

3:07:36 CO-SPONSOR FOR.

3:07:38 OKAY THANK YOU CHAIR.

3:07:39 UH, I JUST WANT TO THANK

3:07:40 COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR FOR ADDING

3:07:42 ME UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ALL

3:07:44 KNOW THAT WE NEED TO, UH, DO AS

3:07:46 MUCH AS WE CAN TO JUMPSTART, UH

3:07:48 ,HOUSING PRODUCTION HERE IN

3:07:49 THE CITY.

3:07:49 AND THIS IS ONE WAY OF DOING

3:07:52 THAT WHILE MAINTAINING, UH, YOU

3:07:56 KNOW, THE REQUIREMENT THAT WE

3:07:57 BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

3:07:58 SO THIS IS A WAY TO TO GET

3:08:00 UNITS AND EVEN IF.

3:08:01 UH, PEOPLE.

3:08:02 BUY OUT THEIR AFFORDABLE UNITS

3:08:04 ,WE'RE GETTING, UH, YOU KNOW,

3:08:06 AN EXTRA UNIT OF HOUSING PLUS

3:08:08 MONEY TO BUILD AFFORDABLE

3:08:09 HOUSING.

3:08:10 SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I APPLAUD

3:08:12 COUNCILOR PIPPEN FOR FILING

3:08:13 THIS.

3:08:14 I LOOK FORWARD TO THE

3:08:14 DISCUSSION WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

3:08:15 THANK YOU.

3:08:16 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:08:17 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:08:18 YOU HAVE A FLOOR.

3:08:20 AND THANK.

3:08:21 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:08:22 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I.

3:08:23 UH, TO THE CHAIR ASK, UH,

3:08:25 COUNCILOR PEPEN THE.

3:08:25 QUESTION MAY.

3:08:28 UM COUNCILOR PEPEN IS THIS

3:08:31 RESOLUTION I KNOW IT'S GOING TO

3:08:32 BE A HEARING ON IT.

3:08:33 BUT IS THIS SIMILAR TO THE

3:08:36 PROPOSAL THE MAYOR UM,

3:08:38 ANNOUNCED RECENTLY OR THE DRAFT

3:08:42 ?

3:08:43 THE DRAFT REPORT, I SHOULD SAY.

3:08:44 IS THIS SIMILAR TO THE DRAFT

3:08:46 REPORT THE MAYOR PUT OUT

3:08:48 RECENTLY ON SOME OF THESE

3:08:51 STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE HOUSING

3:08:52 TO TO BUILD HOUSING.

3:08:56 SORRY, COUNCILOR.

3:08:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR THROUGH

3:09:00 THE CHAIR UM, TO RESPOND TO MY

3:09:02 COUNCIL COLLEAGUE FROM DISTRICT

3:09:03 TWO, THIS IS PART OF THE

3:09:05 MAYOR'S TOOLBOX AND PROPOSAL TO

3:09:08 DO MORE, UM, HOUSING PRODUCTION

3:09:09 ACROSS THE CITY.

3:09:10 THIS IS ALSO JUST VERY DIRECTLY

3:09:13 IN UM IN RESPONSE TO FOUR

3:09:16 OF THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN

3:09:17 ON HOLD FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

3:09:19 UM, FOR THOSE THOSE FOUR

3:09:22 PROJECTS ARE ON OVER 100 UNITS

3:09:24 OF DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN

3:09:26 ON HOLD.

3:09:27 SO YEAH.

3:09:27 SO THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO PART

3:09:29 OF THOSE SOLUTION IN THE

3:09:30 HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

3:09:31 OKAY.

3:09:33 UM MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ASK

3:09:34 ONE MORE QUESTION?

3:09:35 YOU MAY OKAY.

3:09:36 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:09:38 THAT'S EXACTLY UM JUST WHAT I

3:09:41 WAS ASKING SO I APPRECIATE

3:09:42 THAT.

3:09:44 SO COUNCIL AND I KNOW THE DRAFT

3:09:46 REPORT IS A DRAFT REPORT AND IT

3:09:48 HASN'T BEEN RELEASED TO THE

3:09:50 PUBLIC.

3:09:50 ARE WE ABLE TO GET A COPY

3:09:52 OF THAT SO WE CAN REVIEW WHAT

3:09:55 WE CAN READ IT?

3:09:56 I KNOW THE MEDIA HAS SAID BUT I

3:09:58 DON'T BELIEVE THE CITY

3:10:00 COUNCIL HAS IT.

3:10:01 ARE WE ABLE TO READ IT SO WE

3:10:03 CAN BE THOROUGHLY PREPARED

3:10:06 ABOUT ABOUT WHAT THE PLAN IS?

3:10:08 SO THAT WILL HELP US AS WE UH,

3:10:10 PREPARE FOR THIS MEETING AS

3:10:11 WELL?

3:10:11 YEAH.

3:10:12 I THINK THAT FOR AS WE PREPARE

3:10:15 TO HAVE THIS HEARING IN MY

3:10:16 COMMITTEE, I WILL MAKE SURE

3:10:18 THAT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT HAS

3:10:19 AS MUCH RESOURCES AS POSSIBLE

3:10:20 TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.

3:10:21 AND I THINK THAT'S WHY, UM,

3:10:24 HAVING A HEARING BEFORE TAKING

3:10:25 A VOTE ON THIS WOULD BE THE

3:10:26 BEST IDEA SO THAT WE CAN HAVE

3:10:28 THOSE ANSWERS FOR YOU.

3:10:31 THANK YOU.

3:10:33 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:10:34 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PRATT.

3:10:35 THEN.

3:10:35 UM, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

3:10:37 COUNCIL MEMBER HERE WHO HAD

3:10:37 HER LIGHT ON.

3:10:40 WHO SPEAKS UP THE COMMISSION.

3:10:43 THE RESOLUTION.

3:10:46 TO.

3:10:47 CAME ON THIS QUESTION WHICH IS

3:10:48 YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO.

3:10:50 OKAY, UM.

3:10:51 THAT COME OUT AS A RESOLUTION

3:10:53 OKAY.

3:10:54 IT'S A RESOLUTION SO PEOPLE

3:10:55 DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.

3:10:56 TO SPEAK ON IT.

3:10:56 I DO THINK THAT IF FOLKS

3:10:57 WANT TO SPEAK ON.

3:10:58 IT.

3:10:59 UM, THAT THEY SHOULD BE

3:11:00 ALLOWED TO.

3:11:02 OKAY TO OUR IF WE'RE GOING TO

3:11:04 VOTE.

3:11:04 ON IT.

3:11:05 YES.

3:11:05 OKAY.

3:11:06 SO WE MIGHT AS WELL IT'S

3:11:07 BEING SENT TO THE.

3:11:07 COMMITTEE SO OKAY.

3:11:10 I I THINK I.

3:11:11 YEAH YEAH I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD

3:11:13 BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON IT.

3:11:14 IT WAS INTRODUCED AS A

3:11:15 RESOLUTION PEOPLE SHOULD.

3:11:15 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.

3:11:16 TO SPEAK ON IT BUT IT WILL BE

3:11:17 GOING TO COMMITTEE.

3:11:18 UM COUNCILOR HERE YOU HAVE THE

3:11:20 FLOOR.

3:11:21 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:11:23 AND I WANT TO THANK, UH,

3:11:24 COUNCILOR BURBANK FOR SENDING

3:11:25 IT, UH, TO COMMITTEE FOR A

3:11:27 HEARING BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO

3:11:30 ,UH, ASK QUESTIONS MYSELF.

3:11:33 AND SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE ABLE

3:11:35 TO, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THAT

3:11:37 WAY.

3:11:38 UH, I THINK DECISIONS LIKE THIS

3:11:40 REALLY DO, UH, GIVE US AN

3:11:42 OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY GET INTO

3:11:43 THE WEEDS OF THINGS.

3:11:44 AND SO THANK YOU FOR DOING

3:11:46 THAT.

3:11:47 I ALSO THINK, UH, COUNCILOR UH,

3:11:50 DISTRICT NINE COUNCILOR IS UH,

3:11:53 REALLY GOING TO BE ONE OF THE

3:11:56 BENEFICIARIES IF WE CAN GET

3:11:57 THIS OFF THE GROUND.

3:11:58 AND I THINK THAT ALLISON AND

3:11:59 BRIAN, GIVEN THE HOUSING CRISIS

3:12:02 THAT WE'RE IN, I THINK WE THIS

3:12:03 IS A A PRIORITY HEARING AND I

3:12:05 WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN GET IT

3:12:07 ON THE DOCKET AS SOON AS

3:12:08 POSSIBLE AND UM AND THEN YOU

3:12:10 COULD BRING IT UP FOR A

3:12:11 RESOLUTION.

3:12:12 I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE

3:12:13 A PROCESS THAT WE NEED TO GO.

3:12:14 THROUGH THE PROCESS.

3:12:15 DO THE HEARING.

3:12:17 AND THEN WE CAN STAND ON THAT

3:12:18 BUSINESS AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

3:12:20 WHEN IT'S TIME FOR US TO TAKE

3:12:21 THESE VOTES.

3:12:23 SO I.

3:12:23 LOOK FORWARD TO DOING JUST

3:12:24 THAT.

3:12:25 THANK YOU.

3:12:25 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MEJIA.

3:12:27 UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN AND THEN

3:12:29 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:12:30 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:12:32 YEAH.

3:12:32 AND THANK YOU FOR THE, UM.

3:12:33 FOR BEING.

3:12:34 ABLE TO SPEAK.

3:12:34 YEAH.

3:12:35 I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK INTO THE

3:12:37 RECORD OBVIOUSLY A LOT

3:12:39 OF WHAT'S BEEN BEING DESCRIBED

3:12:41 AS SORT OF NEW POWERS ARE UM,

3:12:44 CHAPTER 121 BEADS WHICH WE'RE

3:12:46 ALREADY USING FOR OFFICE TO

3:12:48 RESIDENTIAL CONVERSIONS.

3:12:49 WE'RE REALLY JUST NEED TO HAVE

3:12:51 MORE OF A CONVERSATION ABOUT

3:12:52 HOW WE UTILIZE THESE TOOLS.

3:12:54 UM, AND I KNOW IN PREVIOUS

3:12:56 HEARINGS I BROUGHT UP THE IDEA

3:12:59 OF USING THESE TOOLS TO UM, TO

3:13:02 CREATE TAX ABATEMENTS FOR

3:13:04 RESIDENTIAL UM BUILDINGS OVER

3:13:05 100 UNITS OF HOUSING OF WHICH

3:13:07 WE HAVE VERY FEW THAT HAVE BEEN

3:13:09 BUILT UM, SINCE THE STRETCH

3:13:11 CODE AND THE UM SPECIALIZED

3:13:13 MUNICIPAL OPT IN STRETCH

3:13:14 CODE THAT I TALKED ABOUT

3:13:15 EARLIER TODAY.

3:13:16 UH, BUT THESE ARE BASICALLY

3:13:17 URBAN RENEWAL POWERS THAT ARE,

3:13:19 YOU KNOW, AS OLD AS TIME AND

3:13:21 IT'S REALLY JUST ABOUT USING

3:13:22 THESE UM, IN A NEW WAY, UM, TO

3:13:26 SPUR DEVELOPMENT.

3:13:26 UH, BUT IT'S NOT LOST ON US HOW

3:13:29 CONTROVERSIAL THIS COULD BE IN

3:13:31 CERTAIN WAYS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY

3:13:33 WE'VE JUST GONE THROUGH OUR

3:13:35 BUDGET PROCESS AND WE KNOW

3:13:36 THAT, UM, WE NEED MORE TAX

3:13:39 REVENUE FOR HOUSING.

3:13:40 SO IT'S LIKE WHEN DO WE USE

3:13:42 THIS AND HOW AND HOW IS THIS

3:13:44 NEGOTIATED?

3:13:44 IT'S A GREAT CONVERSATION TO BE

3:13:46 HAVING.

3:13:47 UM BUT IT'S NOT A NEW TOOL.

3:13:48 IT'S THE OLDEST TOOL AND IT'S

3:13:50 YOU KNOW, ONE THAT WE HAVE UM,

3:13:52 BASED ON MASSACHUSETTS LAW THAT

3:13:54 WE'VE HAD FOR A VERY, VERY LONG

3:13:55 TIME.

3:13:56 SO UH, IT'S JUST A QUESTION

3:13:57 OF WHEN WE USE IT AND HOW WE

3:13:59 USE IT AND I THINK IT'S THE

3:14:00 PERFECT TOPIC OF A HEARING.

3:14:01 SO THANK YOU TO THE LEAD

3:14:02 SPONSOR FOR BRINGING THIS

3:14:03 FORWARD.

3:14:04 THANK YOU.

3:14:05 UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE

3:14:06 THE FLOOR.

3:14:06 THANK YOU.

3:14:07 UM, AND THANK YOU,

3:14:09 COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR FILING THIS

3:14:10 .

3:14:11 AND I THINK IT'S ALWAYS

3:14:12 IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE TALKING

3:14:14 ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO

3:14:16 SUPPORT ACCELERATING HOUSING

3:14:17 PRODUCTION.

3:14:18 AND I DO JUST WANT TO GO.

3:14:19 ON THE RECORD.

3:14:19 COUNCILOR FLYNN, THANK YOU FOR

3:14:20 REMINDING ME WHEN THIS FIRST

3:14:22 WAS REPORTED IN THE MEDIA A

3:14:23 COUPLE WEEKS AGO, I DID REACH

3:14:25 OUT TO THE ADMINISTRATION, MADE

3:14:27 SEVERAL PHONE CALLS TO

3:14:28 DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND I WAS TOLD

3:14:31 THAT THIS.

3:14:33 UM THE MAYOR'S PLAN HERE THAT

3:14:36 YOU'RE REFERENCING IS KIND

3:14:37 OF BASED ON WHY YOU'RE FILING

3:14:38 THIS HEARING ORDER WAS JUST IN

3:14:40 DRAFT FORM AND IT WAS LEAKED.

3:14:43 TO THE MEDIA.

3:14:43 SO THAT I WAS NOT ABLE TO GET A

3:14:45 COPY OF EVEN THE DRAFT.

3:14:47 SO I DO HOPE THROUGH YOU IF YOU

3:14:49 COULD GET A COPY FOR US BEFORE

3:14:51 THIS HEARING EVEN IF THE

3:14:52 HEARING IS IN FOR A FEW WEEKS

3:14:54 AS SOON AS WE CAN OR THROUGH

3:14:56 THE PRESIDENT

3:14:58 COUNCILOR BREADON, IF YOU COULD

3:14:59 HELP US ON THE COUNCIL, I THINK

3:15:01 WE AS ELECTED OFFICIALS DESERVE

3:15:03 A COPY OF THE DRAFT BEFORE THE

3:15:05 GLOBE AND CHANNEL FIVE AND

3:15:06 OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS GET IT AND

3:15:08 IT'S BEEN A FEW WEEKS SO I

3:15:09 THINK IT.

3:15:09 WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR US,

3:15:10 ESPECIALLY IF WE WANT TO

3:15:12 CHAMPION AND SUPPORT PUSHING

3:15:13 THIS FORWARD.

3:15:14 THANK YOU.

3:15:16 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:15:17 THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:15:21 UH THANK YOU CHAIR AND UH,

3:15:22 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR

3:15:23 PUTTING THIS, UH, TO A HEARING

3:15:25 OR TO JUST ONE REQUEST.

3:15:26 I KNOW THIS IS A HOUSING ISSUE,

3:15:28 BUT ALSO, UM, UH,

3:15:30 COUNCILOR DURKAN BROUGHT UP THE

3:15:31 REVENUE PROJECTIONS, SO LOVE TO

3:15:33 HAVE THE CFO OR SOMEONE FROM

3:15:35 HER TEAM HERE JUST SPEAK ABOUT,

3:15:37 UH, THE REVENUE IMPLICATIONS

3:15:39 AROUND THIS CONVERSATION.

3:15:40 THANK YOU.

3:15:42 COUNCIL REALM.

3:15:42 UM, JUST REALLY QUICKLY I'LL

3:15:43 SAY THAT.

3:15:44 THIS IS SUPPOSED.

3:15:45 TO BENEFIT.

3:15:46 A PARCEL IN.

3:15:46 CHARLESTOWN AT ONE MISTAKE.

3:15:47 THERE'S BEEN MULTIPLE HANDS

3:15:49 THAT HAVE OVERSEEN THAT THAT

3:15:50 PARCEL.

3:15:51 UM.

3:15:51 I DON'T NECESSARILY.

3:15:52 KNOW WHY THIS ONE.

3:15:54 PARTICULAR PROJECT RATHER THAN

3:15:56 OTHERS IN CHARLESTOWN WHICH

3:15:57 WERE CHOSEN.

3:15:58 SO I DO APPRECIATE.

3:15:59 THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A

3:16:00 CONVERSATION.

3:16:00 THANK YOU TO THE LEAD SPONSOR

3:16:01 FOR UM, FILING UH, DOCKET ONE

3:16:06 ZERO.

3:16:07 SORRY.

3:16:08 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

3:16:08 ADD THEIR NAME?

3:16:11 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:16:12 COUNCILOR.

3:16:13 FITZGERALD.

3:16:13 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

3:16:15 COUNCILOR.

3:16:16 FLYNN.

3:16:17 COUNCILOR.

3:16:18 MURPHY.

3:16:18 COUNCILOR.

3:16:19 SANTANA, COUNCILOR.

3:16:20 WEBER, COUNCILOR.

3:16:21 WORRELL.

3:16:21 COUNCILOR.

3:16:22 LOUIJEUNE.

3:16:22 COUNCILOR.

3:16:23 MURPHY UM, PLEASE ADD THE

3:16:24 CHAIR.

3:16:26 DOCKET.

3:16:29 101809 WILL BE SENT TO.

3:16:32 UM HOUSING.

3:16:38 UH, MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

3:16:39 READ.

3:16:39 DOCKET 1810.

3:16:42 DOCKET 1810 COUNCILOR DURKAN ON

3:16:45 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:16:47 HONORING DOLLY PARTON AND

3:16:49 NAMING SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2026 AS

3:16:53 9 TO 5 DAY IN THE CITY

3:16:54 OF BOSTON.

3:16:56 THANK YOU.

3:16:56 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:16:57 COUNCILOR GERKE AND COUNCIL YOU

3:16:58 HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:16:59 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:17:00 UM, SO, UH, WE ARE NAMING

3:17:03 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH 9 TO 5

3:17:05 DAY IN HONOR OF DOLLY PARTON'S

3:17:06 INCREDIBLE LEGACY.

3:17:08 UM, THIS IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

3:17:10 THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE

3:17:11 WHO UH, MY FRIEND SENATORS

3:17:13 JULIAN CYR AND REP SAN ANTONIO

3:17:15 HAVE DONE THE SAME.

3:17:17 DOLLY PARTON WAS AN ICON WHOSE

3:17:19 PASSING FELT PERSONAL TO MARRY.

3:17:21 HER VOICE AND SONGWRITING

3:17:23 INSPIRED GENERATIONS OF WORKING

3:17:25 PEOPLE, WHILE HER SERVICE TO

3:17:26 OTHERS AND MESSAGE OF LOVE AND

3:17:28 ACCEPTANCE OF IN COMMUNITIES

3:17:29 HERE IN BOSTON AND ACROSS THE

3:17:30 COUNTRY.

3:17:31 FOR THAT REASON I'M INTRODUCING

3:17:33 THIS RESOLUTION TODAY.

3:17:34 UM, AND THERE'S A BOSTON

3:17:36 CONNECTION.

3:17:37 MANY DON'T KNOW THAT THE SONG 9

3:17:39 TO 5 UH, BEGAN HERE IN BOSTON.

3:17:41 IT WAS INSPIRED BY A GROUP

3:17:42 OF FEMALE OFFICE WORKERS IN

3:17:44 BOSTON WHO CAME TOGETHER IN

3:17:46 1973 TO FIGHT FOR MORE DIGNITY

3:17:48 AND FAIRNESS IN THE WORKPLACE.

3:17:49 THEY WORKED TO ORGANIZE AROUND

3:17:51 FUNDAMENTAL WORKPLACE RIGHTS

3:17:52 AND THEIR MOVEMENT BECAME KNOWN

3:17:54 AS 9.

3:17:55 TO 5.

3:17:55 THROUGHOUT HER LIFE, DOLLY

3:17:57 LIFTED UP HER SUCCESS AND USED

3:17:59 IT TO LIFT UP OTHERS THROUGH

3:18:01 THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION AND

3:18:02 DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION

3:18:04 LIBRARY, SHE HELPED MAKE

3:18:05 CHILDHOOD LITERACY MORE

3:18:06 ACCESSIBLE TO FAMILIES AROUND

3:18:07 THE WORLD, SENDING FREE BOOKS

3:18:09 TO HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS

3:18:11 OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN.

3:18:13 UM, IT'S EXTREMELY PERSONAL

3:18:14 DOLLY PARTON'S LEGACY TO ME AS

3:18:16 A SOUTHERNER WITH PROGRESSIVE

3:18:18 VALUES UM SHE ALWAYS LED UM ON

3:18:21 .

3:18:21 SHE WAS A LONG TIME ALLY OF THE

3:18:23 LGBTQIA PLUS COMMUNITY LONG

3:18:25 BEFORE IT WAS UM IT WAS UH,

3:18:28 WHAT PEOPLE IN SHOW BUSINESS

3:18:30 DID.

3:18:31 UM AND SHE JUST DID WHAT WAS

3:18:32 RIGHT.

3:18:33 UM, SHE BEGAN PERFORMING AS A

3:18:35 CHILD AND ROSE FROM HUMBLE

3:18:37 BEGINNINGS AND SHE GREW TO BE

3:18:39 ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED FIGURES

3:18:40 IN AMERICAN MUSIC AND POP

3:18:42 CULTURE.

3:18:42 AND SO, UM, PROUD TO JOIN MY

3:18:44 FRIENDS AND STATEHOUSE

3:18:45 COLLEAGUES SENATOR JULIAN CYR

3:18:47 AND REP SAM MONTANO.

3:18:48 UM, I'D LOVE TO ADD MY

3:18:50 COLLEAGUES UM, RUTHIE LOUIJEUNE

3:18:52 AND UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA AND

3:18:53 I'M PUTTING THEM ON THE SPOT

3:18:55 BUT I FEEL LIKE THEY LIKE DOLLY

3:18:57 PARTON SO GO AHEAD.

3:19:00 I THINK YOU KNOW.

3:19:01 BECAUSE I DID PLAN ON

3:19:02 SPEAKING ON DOLLY PARTON.

3:19:03 SHE WAS UM SHE WAS SUCH AN

3:19:05 INCREDIBLE FIGURE AND AN

3:19:06 INCREDIBLE PERSON.

3:19:07 WHO CARED DEEPLY ABOUT THE.

3:19:08 RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

3:19:09 IT WAS INTERESTING.

3:19:10 I WATCHED AN INTERVIEW THAT

3:19:11 THEY DID WITH HER SISTER AND

3:19:12 HER SISTER TALKED.

3:19:13 ABOUT HOW.

3:19:14 SHE LEFT, UH, YOU KNOW.

3:19:15 AND SHE LEFT HER POLITICS SORT

3:19:18 OF VAGUE BUT UM, IT WAS VERY

3:19:20 CLEAR WHERE SHE STOOD.

3:19:21 ON THE ISSUES AND WHEN I WAS

3:19:22 WORKING.

3:19:23 UM.

3:19:24 ON A ON A PRESIDENTIAL.

3:19:25 CAMPAIGN PRIOR TO THIS, UH,

3:19:27 SENATOR.

3:19:28 WARREN'S UM.

3:19:29 THIS WAS THE.

3:19:30 SOUNDTRACK TO OUR WORK MAKING

3:19:32 SURE THAT WE.

3:19:32 WERE CENTERING THE NEEDS OF.

3:19:33 WORKERS THINKING ABOUT, UM, HOW

3:19:36 TOO OFTEN OUR WORKERS ARE

3:19:38 BEING.

3:19:38 EXPLOITED, TAKEN.

3:19:39 ADVANTAGE OF, DON'T HAVE.

3:19:40 SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS.

3:19:41 UM, AND SO IT IS I.

3:19:43 JUST WANT TO HONOR AND IT'S

3:19:45 ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THE

3:19:46 NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND WHO SPOKE.

3:19:48 UP AT DOLLAR AND WHO DIDN'T.

3:19:49 SPEAK UP BUT WHO SPOKE UP

3:19:50 AT.

3:19:51 UH AT THE.

3:19:52 PASSING OF DOLLY PARTON.

3:19:53 A NUMBER OF CIVIL RIGHTS

3:19:54 LEADERS WERE HERALDING HER FOR

3:19:55 THE WORK THAT SHE'S DONE AND

3:19:57 FOR.

3:19:58 WHO SHE IS AND HOW SHE STOOD UP

3:19:59 EVERY DAY.

3:20:00 FOR JUST THE.

3:20:00 REGULAR PERSON AND FOR HUMAN

3:20:02 DECENCY AND KINDNESS.

3:20:03 SO I'D JUST LIKE TO JOIN

3:20:05 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:20:06 IN HONORING THE.

3:20:06 MEMORY OF.

3:20:07 DOLLY PARTON.

3:20:07 THANK YOU.

3:20:09 UM, JUST A LITTLE FORMALITY

3:20:10 HERE.

3:20:11 UM, COUNTRY LOUIJEUNE IS ADDED

3:20:13 AS A SECOND UM, SEEING AND

3:20:15 HEARING THE ARE YOU GOING TO BE

3:20:16 ADDED TO THE THIRD?

3:20:17 I'M GOING TO ADD YOU AS A

3:20:18 THIRD.

3:20:18 THEN SEEING AND HEARING NO

3:20:20 OBJECTIONS YOU'RE THE THIRD.

3:20:21 UH WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK IF

3:20:24 SPEECHLESS OKAY.

3:20:25 ALL RIGHT.

3:20:26 THIS FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING

3:20:28 UH, COUNCILOR WEBER AND THEN

3:20:31 WE'LL GO TO COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

3:20:33 COUNCILMEMBER UH COUNCILMEMBER

3:20:34 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:20:35 I JUST WANT TO SAY AS A FORMER

3:20:36 RESIDENT OF NASHVILLE,

3:20:37 TENNESSEE THAT YOU KNOW, UH,

3:20:39 DOLLY PARTON WAS A WONDERFUL

3:20:40 PART OF THE COMMUNITY, UH,

3:20:42 THERE AND UH, I THINK, YOU

3:20:44 KNOW, ALL OF THE ACCOLADES

3:20:45 SHE'S GETTING WERE

3:20:46 WELL-DESERVED AND, UH, I JUST

3:20:48 WANT TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES, UH,

3:20:50 YOU KNOW, IN THIS RESOLUTION.

3:20:51 THANK YOU.

3:20:54 COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE

3:20:55 FLOOR.

3:20:56 YES.

3:20:56 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:20:58 IT'S WORKING.

3:21:00 9 TO 5.

3:21:01 THAT'S WHICH, BY THE WAY, TO

3:21:03 MAKE A LIVING.

3:21:04 WE NEED A LITTLE JOY HERE.

3:21:05 THAT IS UM.

3:21:09 SO, UH, IT'S.

3:21:11 EVERYONE ALREADY SAID ALL THE

3:21:12 AMAZING THINGS ABOUT DOLLY AND

3:21:13 THE ONLY THING THAT I'D LIKE TO

3:21:14 JUST ADD IS THAT A LOT

3:21:17 OF PEOPLE PROBABLY DID NOT TAKE

3:21:18 HER SERIOUS.

3:21:19 JUST BECAUSE.

3:21:20 OFTENTIMES HER DEMEANOR AND

3:21:21 JUST, YOU KNOW, WOMEN WHO TEND

3:21:25 TO BE VOLUPTUOUS OR WE TEND TO

3:21:27 BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ANIMATED

3:21:29 OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE AND

3:21:31 SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T SEE THE

3:21:33 SERIOUS SIDE AND I THINK UM,

3:21:36 DOLLY DID A GREAT JOB AT

3:21:39 RECOGNIZING OUR AND UTILIZING

3:21:41 IT IN WAYS THAT HELP OTHER

3:21:43 WOMEN UNDERSTAND THAT THEY

3:21:44 COULD BE THEMSELVES NO MATTER

3:21:45 WHERE THEY WERE.

3:21:47 UM AND IN MANY WAYS SHE'S AN

3:21:50 IDOL AND AND SOMEONE WHO I

3:21:53 ALWAYS LOOKED UP TO BECAUSE SHE

3:21:54 WALKED INTO EVERY SPACE AND WAS

3:21:56 LIKE CLICK ON HER HEELS AND

3:21:58 DIDN'T REALLY CARE WHAT OTHER

3:21:59 PEOPLE THOUGHT AND THAT'S VERY

3:22:01 LIBERATING.

3:22:02 AND SO I JUST WANT TO ALSO

3:22:03 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PART OF HER

3:22:04 AND UM, AND HER PRESENCE AND

3:22:07 AND HOW SHE LIBERATED SO MANY

3:22:08 WOMEN.

3:22:09 THANK YOU.

3:22:10 THANK YOU COMES FROM MEJIA.

3:22:12 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:22:13 NAME, COUNCILOR COLLETTA ZAPATA

3:22:16 COUNCIL CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

3:22:18 UH, FITZGERALD COUNCIL.

3:22:19 FLYNN CONCILOR MEJIA I MEAN

3:22:21 HE'S OUT OF CONSTANT MURPHY

3:22:23 COUNCILOR PEPEN CONSCIOUS.

3:22:25 CITY COUNCIL SANTANA

3:22:28 COUNCIL MEMBER CONSTABLE.

3:22:29 WELL, PLEASE.

3:22:29 I'M THE CHAIR.

3:22:34 COUNCILOR.

3:22:35 WE HERE.

3:22:37 CONSIDER COUNCILORS DURKAN,

3:22:40 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

3:22:41 COUNCILOR SANTANA SEEK

3:22:41 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

3:22:42 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1810.

3:22:47 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I, UH, ALL

3:22:50 OPPOSED.

3:22:50 SAY NAY.

3:22:52 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:22:53 DOCKET 1810 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:22:57 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:22:58 READ DOCKET 1811.

3:23:01 DOCKET 1811 COUNCILOR CLARESSA

3:23:04 POWDER OR FOR THE FOLLOWING

3:23:06 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

3:23:08 OCTOBER AS ITALIAN AMERICAN

3:23:09 HERITAGE MONTH.

3:23:11 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:23:12 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

3:23:13 PARTNER.

3:23:13 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:23:14 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:23:15 I RISE TODAY TO RECOGNIZE

3:23:16 OCTOBER AS ITALIAN-AMERICAN

3:23:18 HERITAGE MONTH IN THE CITY

3:23:19 OF BOSTON AS A PROUD FOURTH

3:23:20 GENERATION ITALIAN-AMERICAN.

3:23:21 REPRESENTING EAST BOSTON IN THE

3:23:22 NORTH END.

3:23:23 THIS IS DEEPLY PERSONAL TO ME.

3:23:25 MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS

3:23:26 ALESSANDRA SEVERINO.

3:23:27 AND CARMINE.

3:23:28 GUERRA UH, ARRIVED HERE.

3:23:29 IN EAST BOSTON AND WAS.

3:23:31 PROCESSED THROUGH THE

3:23:31 IMMIGRATION STATION, WALKED UP

3:23:33 THE GOLDEN.

3:23:34 STAIRCASE UM, AS MANY

3:23:35 IMMIGRANTS DID IN THAT TIME.

3:23:36 AND.

3:23:37 SETTLED ON COTTAGE STREET.

3:23:38 UM GOLDEN STAIRCASE BY THE WAY

3:23:39 ARE GETTING REPAIRED THIS YEAR

3:23:40 BECAUSE.

3:23:41 THIS COUNCIL WAS SUCCESSFUL

3:23:42 IN ADVOCATING FOR CITYWIDE.

3:23:44 UM STAIRWAY.

3:23:46 UH RFP.

3:23:48 SO SHOUT OUT TO UM THE FOLKS

3:23:50 THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN CHARGE

3:23:51 OF UH RENOVATING.

3:23:52 THOSE STAIRS AS WELL AS OTHER

3:23:53 SHOWS ACROSS THE CITY.

3:23:54 UH, BUT MY.

3:23:56 GRANDPARENTS STORY.

3:23:57 MIRRORS GENERATIONS OF ITALIAN

3:23:58 IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME TO BOSTON

3:24:00 SEEKING.

3:24:01 OPPORTUNITY AND WENT ON TO

3:24:02 BUILD OUR NEIGHBORHOODS IN.

3:24:03 OUR CITY.

3:24:04 I ALWAYS LIKE TO, UM, DRAW.

3:24:06 PARALLELS BETWEEN ITALIAN.

3:24:07 IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS

3:24:09 OF TODAY.

3:24:10 UM ITALIANS WERE ONCE TREATED

3:24:12 AS OUTSIDERS.

3:24:13 THEIR EXPERIENCE REMINDS US

3:24:14 THAT WE NEED TO EXTEND.

3:24:15 THE.

3:24:15 SAME DIGNITY AND OPPORTUNITY TO

3:24:16 FAMILIES ARRIVING TODAY IN

3:24:18 PURSUIT.

3:24:18 OF THEIR OWN.

3:24:19 AMERICAN DREAM AND THIS.

3:24:20 YEAR IS ESPECIALLY UM, GREAT

3:24:22 BECAUSE WHILE QUINN WILL BE

3:24:23 THERE, HE'S FIFTH GENERATION

3:24:24 AND I'M REALLY HOPEFUL THAT HE

3:24:25 CAN ACT AS A GOOD LUCK CHARM

3:24:27 FOR ITALY TO FINALLY MAKE THE

3:24:28 WORLD CUP.

3:24:29 SO LET'S SEE.

3:24:29 HOW.

3:24:30 THIS GOES.

3:24:30 BUT EVERYONE'S.

3:24:31 INVITED IT'S ON OCTOBER 6TH.

3:24:32 THEY'LL BE.

3:24:32 CANNOLIS AND OF.

3:24:34 COURSE THE ELLIOTT SCHOOL

3:24:35 FOLKS UM AND KIDS ARE GOING TO

3:24:36 BE.

3:24:36 THERE TO SING THE.

3:24:37 AMERICAN UH, ANTHEM AS WELL AS

3:24:39 UH.

3:24:39 ITALY'S NATIONAL ANTHEM.

3:24:41 THANK YOU.

3:24:44 UM, I'D TAKE A MOMENT TO

3:24:45 ALSO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE

3:24:47 ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN ALLSTON.

3:24:48 BRIGHTON.

3:24:48 UH, THE CHILL CHILL MOVES THE

3:24:51 THE UH, SALVATORE'S THE TOUCHES

3:24:55 UH THE WHOLE THE WHOLE CREW AND

3:24:57 THE UH MANY OF THEM CAME FROM A

3:24:59 SMALL VILLAGE IN ITALY CALLED

3:25:01 SENDING OUT OF THE SAND NATO

3:25:03 UH, FAMILIES ARE VERY MUCH WELL

3:25:05 REPRESENTED AND AND ALSO IN

3:25:07 BRIGHTON AND WE'RE VERY PROUD

3:25:08 OF OUR ITALIAN HERITAGE AND

3:25:09 ALLSTON BRIGHTON CHAIR

3:25:12 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN

3:25:13 COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:25:14 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:25:16 AND THANK YOU TO THE SPONSOR

3:25:17 FOR BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT

3:25:19 RESOLUTION FORWARD IN MY

3:25:21 NEIGHBORHOOD OF SOUTH BOSTON.

3:25:22 I ALSO HAVE A LARGE ITALIAN

3:25:25 COMMUNITY AND THEY CONTRIBUTE

3:25:26 GREATLY TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, TO

3:25:28 OUR CITY.

3:25:30 AND I JUST WANT TO ALSO

3:25:32 ACKNOWLEDGE THE INCREDIBLE ROLE

3:25:34 ITALIAN ITALIAN AMERICANS HAVE

3:25:36 MADE IN OUR IN OUR MILITARY AS

3:25:38 WELL.

3:25:38 THEY SERVED HONORABLY IN OUR

3:25:40 ARMED FORCES.

3:25:41 THEY SACRIFICED FOR OUR NATION

3:25:43 .

3:25:44 THEY PUT THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE

3:25:45 FOR OUR COUNTRY AND WE RESPECT

3:25:48 THE ITALIAN CULTURE.

3:25:50 WE RESPECT THEIR HERITAGE AS

3:25:52 WELL AND WE'RE A BIT BETTER

3:25:55 CITY AND WE'RE A BETTER COUNTRY

3:25:56 BECAUSE OF ITALIAN AND ITALIAN

3:25:58 AMERICANS.

3:25:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:26:00 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

3:26:02 RECOGNIZES COUNCIL DIFFERENT

3:26:04 COUNTRY.

3:26:04 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:26:05 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:26:05 I JUST WANT TO THANK

3:26:06 COUNCILOR CLETA ZAPATA FOR

3:26:07 BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

3:26:08 I KNOW WHEN I GOT ONTO THE

3:26:10 COUNCIL ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS

3:26:11 UH, ONE OF THE FIRST INVITES I

3:26:13 GOT WAS COUNCILOR CLETA ZAPATA

3:26:15 INVITING ME TO THE NORTH END

3:26:16 FOR DINNER.

3:26:17 UM, I HAD VERY SIMILAR, UM,

3:26:19 HOSPITALITY FROM REP ERIN MICA.

3:26:21 IT'S, UH, WHEN I STARTED

3:26:22 RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND I JUST

3:26:25 THINK THE ITALIAN-AMERICANS

3:26:26 THAT SERVE OUR COMMUNITY, OUR

3:26:28 CITY AND OUR STATE, UM, DO SUCH

3:26:30 AN AMAZING JOB OF LIKE BEING

3:26:33 KIND OF BEACONS OF THEIR

3:26:34 COMMUNITY.

3:26:35 AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

3:26:36 FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

3:26:37 UM, AND I JUST FEEL LIKE WE ALL

3:26:39 BENEFIT AS BOSTONIANS FROM OUR

3:26:41 RICH ITALIAN-AMERICAN

3:26:43 COMMUNITIES IN WAYS THAT WE CAN

3:26:44 SEE AND WAYS THAT WE CAN'T SEE

3:26:46 UM, PARTICULARLY THE FOOD UM,

3:26:50 PARTICULARLY THE COMMUNITY AND

3:26:52 PARTICULARLY UH, THE WAY THAT

3:26:53 PEOPLE BAND TOGETHER TO BUILD

3:26:55 COMMUNITY I THINK OF UM NEURON

3:26:57 LIKE A LOT OF THE GROUPS IN THE

3:26:58 NORTH END AS PEOPLE THAT UM AS

3:27:01 COMMUNITIES THAT MY

3:27:02 CONSTITUENTS ARE LOOKING TO

3:27:04 LIKE OH, THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE

3:27:05 WHEN WE'VE GOTTEN TO A PLACE

3:27:07 WHERE WE OWN OUR COMMUNITY AND

3:27:09 WE'RE DOING IT ALL AND UH,

3:27:11 REPRESENTING THE WEST END UM UH

3:27:13 ,MOSTLY ITALIAN AND IRISH

3:27:14 COMMUNITY THAT WAS DECIMATED.

3:27:16 UM, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE

3:27:18 REMNANTS OF THAT

3:27:19 ITALIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN

3:27:21 THE WEST END OF PEOPLE WHO ARE

3:27:22 DISPLACED WEST ENDERS WHO STILL

3:27:24 LIVE IN THE WEST END.

3:27:25 SO I WANT TO SHOUT OUT TO THEM

3:27:27 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT

3:27:29 ITALIAN-AMERICANS MAKE OUR

3:27:30 COMMUNITIES RICH AND UM, SO,

3:27:32 YOU KNOW, GETTING TO REPRESENT

3:27:34 BOSTON, YOU MEET UH, A LOT

3:27:35 OF ITALIAN AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO

3:27:37 HAVE MADE THEIR HOME HERE AND

3:27:39 HAVE MADE OUR CITY BETTER.

3:27:40 THANK YOU.

3:27:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:27:43 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:27:44 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:27:45 I MAY BE TAKING YOU OUT

3:27:46 OF ORDER, BUT, UM, THEN

3:27:48 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND THEN

3:27:49 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:27:50 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:27:51 THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR SUPPORT

3:27:53 THAT FOR FILING THIS THIS

3:27:56 RESOLUTION.

3:27:56 I REPRESENT A VERY RICH ITALIAN

3:27:58 UM, COMMUNITY AS WELL IN

3:28:00 DISTRICT FIVE.

3:28:01 THERE'S A LOT OF VERY STRONG

3:28:02 ITALIAN ROOTS IN BOTH

3:28:03 ROSLINDALE AND HYDE PARK AND

3:28:05 THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH

3:28:07 THE.

3:28:08 COMMUNITY I JUST YOU KNOW,

3:28:09 TAKEN OFF ON TOP OF MY HEAD

3:28:11 LIKE JUST YOU THINK.

3:28:12 ABOUT TONY AND ADRIANA CHELO.

3:28:15 WHO HAVE BEEN IN ROZ AND

3:28:17 KNOWING DOING SO MUCH FOR THE

3:28:19 COMMUNITY FOR OVER 50 YEARS.

3:28:21 YOU KNOW OWNERS OF TONY'S

3:28:22 MARKET AND ROSSI THE OWNERS

3:28:24 OF TWO ITALIANS IN IN HYDE PARK

3:28:27 I'M SORRY RANK THE BEST ITALIAN

3:28:30 UM SUB IN ENTIRE CITY BY THE

3:28:32 BOSTON GLOBE SO UH RIGHT IN

3:28:34 GREENVILLE HIGH PARK BUT IT

3:28:36 JUST IT'S UH IT'S A BEAUTIFUL

3:28:39 ITALIAN COMMUNITY THAT I

3:28:40 REPRESENT AND UM, THERE'S A

3:28:42 THERE'S THIS GUY THE HE'S HE'S

3:28:44 A STATE REP IN HYDE PARK AND

3:28:45 HE'S A PROUD ITALIAN TO HIS

3:28:47 NAME IS ROB CONSALVO.

3:28:48 ROB, IF YOU'RE WATCHING I'LL

3:28:50 SEE YOU AT THE FLAG RAISING.

3:28:51 THANK YOU.

3:28:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:28:55 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:28:55 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:28:56 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:28:58 I JUST LIKE.

3:28:59 TO THANK THE LEAD SPONSOR

3:28:59 FOR FOR LEADING ON THIS AND

3:29:00 BRINGING.

3:29:01 IT FORWARD.

3:29:01 AND I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT.

3:29:02 THAT THE.

3:29:03 DORCHESTER ITALIAN.

3:29:04 COMMUNITY UH.

3:29:05 HE'S A REALLY NICE GUY.

3:29:07 OKAY.

3:29:08 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:29:10 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE

3:29:11 FLOOR.

3:29:12 THANK YOU.

3:29:12 AS AN AT LARGE COUNCILOR, I TOO

3:29:14 REPRESENT A VERY.

3:29:15 LARGE ITALIAN COMMUNITY HERE

3:29:16 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK.

3:29:17 UH, COUNCILOR COLETTA ZAPATA

3:29:18 FOR.

3:29:19 YOUR WORK IN MAKING SURE THAT.

3:29:20 YOUR CULTURE IS.

3:29:21 UPLIFTED AND CELEBRATED.

3:29:22 AND THERE.

3:29:23 ARE ALSO SO MANY BUSINESS

3:29:24 OWNERS WHO SAID.

3:29:24 WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT.

3:29:26 SO JUST WANTED TO JUST UPLIFT.

3:29:28 YOUR ADVOCACY.

3:29:29 AND ALSO UM.

3:29:30 WANTED TO JUST THANK.

3:29:31 ALL OF THE.

3:29:32 RESIDENTS WHO DO.

3:29:33 WHETHER IT'S.

3:29:33 TO DO ITALIANA AND UH, MY HOOD

3:29:35 OF HYDE PARK.

3:29:36 OR THE OTHER.

3:29:37 MANY WONDERFUL.

3:29:38 UH, ITALIAN.

3:29:39 RESTAURANTS AROUND.

3:29:40 THE CITY THAT WE.

3:29:41 UH, UPLIFT UH, ALL OF OUR

3:29:42 ENTREPRENEURS, OUR BUSINESSES

3:29:44 AND UH, CELEBRATE WITH THEM.

3:29:45 THANK YOU.

3:29:46 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES FROM A

3:29:48 HERE COUNCILOR.

3:29:48 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:29:49 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:29:51 AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR.

3:29:52 ABOUT THAT, UM, FOR.

3:29:54 BRINGING ALL OF HERSELF INTO

3:29:55 THIS CHAMBER AND CELEBRATING

3:29:57 UH, UH, YOUR HERITAGE AND AND

3:30:00 AND INVITING US TO DO SO

3:30:02 ALONGSIDE YOU.

3:30:04 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

3:30:04 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO GO.

3:30:05 TO DINNER WITH YOU IN THE

3:30:06 NORTH.

3:30:06 AND JUST SO YOU.

3:30:07 KNOW, COUNCILOR DURKAN IS UP IN

3:30:10 HERE GOING.

3:30:10 TO I'M GOING TO GO WITH YOU ONE

3:30:12 DAY.

3:30:13 UM, BUT NOT SERIOUSLY ALL JOKES

3:30:15 ASIDE AND I REALLY DO

3:30:16 APPRECIATE HOW, UH, YOU HAVE

3:30:19 MANAGED TO REALLY HELP PEOPLE

3:30:20 UNDERSTAND THE PARALLEL PROCESS

3:30:22 OF IMMIGRATING TO THIS COUNTRY

3:30:24 THAT EVERY SINGLE COMMUNITY HAS

3:30:27 TO RECOGNIZE THAT THOSE OTHERS

3:30:30 THAT HAVE COME BEFORE US AND

3:30:32 HAVE HAD TO ENDURE THAT PAIN.

3:30:33 AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

3:30:35 FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AS PART

3:30:36 OF YOUR REMARKS HERE TODAY

3:30:37 BECAUSE I THINK ANY MOMENTS

3:30:38 THAT WE HAVE TO REALLY HELP

3:30:40 BRING TO LIGHT THE ISSUES THAT

3:30:41 SO MANY IMMIGRANTS ARE

3:30:42 EXPERIENCING TODAY, I REALLY DO

3:30:45 APPRECIATE UM, SO THANK YOU FOR

3:30:46 THAT AND I.

3:30:47 WILL BE HAVING A CANNOLI.

3:30:49 THANK YOU.

3:30:51 OH WAIT.

3:30:52 ONE MORE THING BECAUSE.

3:30:54 WHAT I.

3:30:54 ENDED WHAT I GOT UP TO SAY.

3:30:56 I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY HEAD WENT

3:30:57 TODAY.

3:30:57 BUT UM I WENT TO THE.

3:31:00 MACKAY AND TO THE YAMANA.

3:31:02 SO I GREW UP UM IN THE 70S IN

3:31:04 THE.

3:31:04 80S UM BEING BUSED TO THE OTHER

3:31:07 SIDE OF.

3:31:09 UM TOWN AND GOT TO THERE WERE

3:31:11 STILL.

3:31:11 ITALIANS LEFT.

3:31:13 THERE UH, DURING THAT TIME AND

3:31:15 SO I GOT TO LEARN SOME BAD

3:31:17 WORDS.

3:31:18 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

3:31:20 THANK YOU.

3:31:23 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

3:31:25 THEIR NAME COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:31:27 COUNCIL.

3:31:27 DURKAN.

3:31:28 COUNTRY FITZGERALD.

3:31:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:31:29 COUNTRY LOUIJEUNE CULTURE.

3:31:30 MEDIA CUTS MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN

3:31:32 COUNTRY SANTANA COMES FROM

3:31:34 WEBER COUNCILOR WORRELL AND

3:31:36 PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

3:31:39 COUNCILOR UH COLETTA ZAPATA

3:31:40 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:31:41 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1811.

3:31:44 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:31:45 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:31:48 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:31:49 DOCKET 1811 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:31:53 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

3:31:55 PERSONNEL ORDERS, MADAM CLERK.

3:31:57 UM, HOW MANY PERSONNEL ORDERS

3:31:59 DO WE HAVE.

3:32:01 ON THE AGENDA?

3:32:01 JUST, UM.

3:32:06 OKAY, LET'S MOVE.

3:32:07 TO PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:32:08 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:32:10 READ THE PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:32:12 DOCKET 1812 PERSONNEL ORDER

3:32:15 COUNCIL BREAKDOWN FOR

3:32:16 COUNCIL MEJIA DOCKET 1813

3:32:19 PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OPERATING FOR

3:32:20 COMES FROM MCGEE.

3:32:22 THANK YOU.

3:32:23 CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE OF THE

3:32:25 PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:32:25 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.

3:32:28 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:32:29 PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE PASSED.

3:32:31 UH, WELL, NOW BEFORE WE MOVE ON

3:32:34 TO GREEN SHEETS, IS THERE

3:32:35 ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO, UH,

3:32:36 ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET THAT

3:32:38 THEY MAY HAVE MISSED?

3:32:39 YOU PUT YOUR LIGHT ON.

3:32:41 WE'LL START WITH

3:32:42 COUNCILOR WORRELL ON THE RIGHT

3:32:42 HERE.

3:32:43 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

3:32:44 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:32:45 I'D LIKE TO ADD MY NAME TO

3:32:46 DOCKET NUMBER 1799 PLEASE.

3:32:52 OKAY.

3:32:54 1799 COUNCILMEMBER HERE I

3:32:56 THINK.

3:32:58 OH YOU'RE NOT READY AND

3:33:00 COUNCILOR JACK AND WE'LL COME

3:33:00 BACK TO COUNCIL FROM ME I'D.

3:33:01 LIKE TO REQUEST FOR

3:33:03 RECONSIDERATION OF 0801 WHICH

3:33:05 WAS UM THE UH UPTURN UH,

3:33:10 SORRY OVERTURNING THE DECISION

3:33:11 OF THE CHAIR ON THE COMMITTEE.

3:33:13 UM, I JUST WANT TO GIVE ALL

3:33:14 OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE NOT IN

3:33:15 CHAMBERS A CHANCE TO VOTE ON.

3:33:17 UH.

3:33:18 WHETHER TO OVERTURN THE

3:33:20 DECISION OF THE CHAIR ON 0801

3:33:22 WHICH, UM, WE VOTED ON WHICH,

3:33:25 UM, WHAT GOT SEVEN VOTES AND

3:33:27 NEEDED NINE.

3:33:30 OKAY.

3:33:30 UH, DO WE HAVE A.

3:33:33 UH HOLD ON TO A BRIEF RECESS

3:33:35 HERE.

3:33:35 JUST GET MY BEARINGS.

3:34:22 THANK YOU.

3:34:25 UM, SO THE THE, UM YOU'VE GOT A

3:34:30 SECOND.

3:34:31 UM.

3:34:34 WE DO WISH TO SPEAK FURTHER ON

3:34:35 THIS ISSUE.

3:34:35 SURE.

3:34:36 SO, UM, A YES VOTE, UH,

3:34:38 WOULD PUT IT IN THE COMMITTEE

3:34:40 THAT THE CHAIR PUT IT IN WHICH

3:34:42 IS UM ENVIRONMENT UM, AND UH,

3:34:45 NO VOTE WOULD PUT IT IN

3:34:46 PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND

3:34:47 TRANSPORTATION.

3:34:47 UM I DID MAKE THE CASE UM AND

3:34:50 SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT THE

3:34:52 COMMITTEE DESCRIPTION UM THIS

3:34:54 DOES INVOLVE THE ZONING

3:34:54 COMMISSION WHICH IS UNDERNEATH

3:34:56 THE AUSPICES OF PLANNING

3:34:57 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION.

3:34:58 UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL UH,

3:35:01 COUNCIL HERE WHEN WE VOTED ON

3:35:02 IT.

3:35:03 UH, SO I'D LIKE TO ASK MY, UH,

3:35:05 MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE NO, UH,

3:35:07 TO PUT THIS IN THE PLANNING

3:35:08 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

3:35:09 COMMITTEE AND PROBABLY EVEN

3:35:11 MORE UH, ILLUMINATING IS THAT

3:35:13 THE CHAIR OF OF ENVIRONMENT

3:35:15 VOTED NO TO PUT IT IN PLANNING

3:35:16 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,

3:35:17 WHICH I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE

3:35:19 BECAUSE I REALLY DO WANT TO

3:35:20 HAVE A DEVELOPMENT FOCUS

3:35:21 CONVERSATION REGARDING THIS

3:35:23 DOCKET AND IT WAS WRITTEN UM IT

3:35:25 WAS WRITTEN TO BE IN THE

3:35:27 PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND

3:35:28 TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO

3:35:28 TALK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND THE

3:35:30 SPECIALIZED MISERABLE OPTION

3:35:32 STRETCH CODE UM, WHICH I THINK

3:35:34 MAKES SENSE.

3:35:35 SO I WOULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO

3:35:36 VOTE NO.

3:35:37 UM AND THIS REALLY IS NOT IN

3:35:39 ORDER TO UH, GO AGAINST THE

3:35:42 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

3:35:43 I REALLY WANT TO HAVE A

3:35:44 CONVERSATION THAT'S FOCUSED ON

3:35:45 DEVELOPMENT AND I THINK I COULD

3:35:46 DO THE BEST JOB AS THE CHAIR

3:35:48 OF THAT CONVERSATION.

3:35:50 UM.

3:35:56 WHEN ARE WE SO, UH, WHEN WE

3:35:59 JUST MOVE ON TO A UH WHEN MOVE

3:36:01 ON TO A VOTE?

3:36:01 IT'S A IT'S A MOTION TO

3:36:03 RECONSIDER FOR A.

3:36:04 MOTION TO RECONSIDER WHICH WAS

3:36:06 SECONDED.

3:36:06 YES.

3:36:06 AND NOW WE NEED TO VOTE.

3:36:08 SO ALL IN FAVOR OF A VOTE?

3:36:10 YES, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU.

3:36:13 ARE WE VOTING ON THE MOTION TO

3:36:14 RECONSIDER?

3:36:15 YES.

3:36:15 OKAY.

3:36:15 WE'RE VOTING ON THE MOTION TO

3:36:17 RECONSIDER.

3:36:17 SO ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:36:19 AYE.

3:36:19 ALL OPPOSED?

3:36:20 SAY NAY.

3:36:21 UM.

3:36:22 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU TAKE

3:36:23 A ROLL CALL?

3:36:24 VOTE ON THE MOTION TO

3:36:25 RECONSIDER DOCKET 1801.

3:36:28 COUNCIL BREDON.

3:36:31 UM.

3:36:33 NO.

3:36:34 WORD ON NO CONTRACT.

3:36:36 LET US OPERA.

3:36:37 YES.

3:36:37 I THINK A LOT OF YES.

3:36:39 COUNCIL CULPEPER ON SECOND BACK

3:36:41 ON NO CONCEPT DURKAN YES.

3:36:43 COUNCILOR DULL CAN YES.

3:36:45 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

3:36:46 YEAH.

3:36:46 CANTOR FITZGERALD.

3:36:48 YES.

3:36:50 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:36:51 NO.

3:36:51 UNSETTLING.

3:36:52 NO COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE ON THE

3:36:54 LOUISIANA.

3:36:56 YES.

3:36:56 COUNCIL.

3:36:56 MAYOR.

3:36:57 YES.

3:36:57 IT'S ON MEJIA.

3:36:58 YES.

3:36:59 COUNCIL.

3:36:59 MURPHY.

3:37:00 THANKS.

3:37:01 I'M A FEMALE COUNCIL.

3:37:02 PEPEN ONCE.

3:37:03 A BIT THEN YES, COUNCIL.

3:37:05 SANTANA.

3:37:05 YES.

3:37:06 COUNCIL.

3:37:06 SANTANA YES.

3:37:07 CONSUL.

3:37:08 WEBER.

3:37:09 COUNCIL.

3:37:09 WEBER.

3:37:10 YES.

3:37:10 COUNCIL OVERALL ON SEVERAL.

3:37:13 YES 123456789.

3:37:17 YES.

3:37:18 SO THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:37:22 COUNCIL.

3:37:23 COUNCIL MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

3:37:24 FLOOR?

3:37:24 YES.

3:37:25 UM HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU

3:37:28 PUT.

3:37:28 FORTH IN THE SAME HEARING UH,

3:37:30 REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION

3:37:32 BECAUSE WE ALREADY TOOK A VOTE.

3:37:34 COULD YOU.

3:37:35 CONTINUE TO DO.

3:37:36 NO, WE'RE.

3:37:37 NOT GOING TO CONTINUE.

3:37:38 NO NO.

3:37:39 NO, I'M ASKING HOW MANY

3:37:40 TIMES.

3:37:40 SO, MEGAN.

3:37:40 IF YOU COULD HELP ME THIS.

3:37:42 QUESTION WE'RE DOING IT NOW AND

3:37:43 THAT'S IT.

3:37:43 NO NO NO.

3:37:44 THAT'S NOT.

3:37:44 MY QUESTION COUNCIL.

3:37:45 BRIGHTON I'M SAYING IN GENERAL

3:37:46 FOR ANY RECONSIDERATION HOW

3:37:49 MANY TIMES CAN YOU KEEP

3:37:50 BRINGING THE SAME.

3:37:51 QUESTION UP IF YOU DON'T.

3:37:52 TAKE A VOTE.

3:37:52 YOU WANTED.

3:37:53 FIRST THANK YOU NEED TO TAKE.

3:37:55 SOME TIME.

3:37:56 IT'S RHETORICAL.

3:37:58 EXCUSE ME.

3:40:21 I CONCESSION.

3:40:25 SO, UH, WE'VE HAD A MOTION TO

3:40:27 RECONSIDER.

3:40:28 THAT IS PART A PAST, UM, MOTION

3:40:31 TO RECONSIDER AND THAT WAS

3:40:32 SECONDED AND PASSED.

3:40:35 UH, SO.

3:40:39 THE QUESTION BEFORE THE BODY IS

3:40:43 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR

3:40:44 STAND ON THE JUDGE AS A

3:40:46 JUDGMENT OF THE COUNCIL A VOTE

3:40:48 YES KEEPS THE DOCKET IN THE

3:40:50 COMMITTEE.

3:40:51 THE CHAIR HAS DECIDED ON A VOTE

3:40:53 NO CHANGES THE COMMITTEE

3:40:54 ASSIGNMENT.

3:40:56 SO, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

3:40:58 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:40:59 VOTE ON THE QUESTION.

3:41:02 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR

3:41:03 STAND AS A JUDGMENT OF THE

3:41:05 COUNCIL?

3:41:05 I'VE GOT A YES VOTE KEEPS A

3:41:07 DOCKET IN THE COMMITTEE THAT IT

3:41:09 WAS SENT TO AND, UH, A NO VOTE

3:41:13 CHANGES THE COMMITTEE

3:41:14 ASSIGNMENTS.

3:41:14 OKAY.

3:41:15 ON DOCKET 1801

3:41:17 COUNCILOR BREDON.

3:41:17 YES.

3:41:19 COUNCIL.

3:41:19 BREDON.

3:41:19 YES, COUNCIL.

3:41:20 COLLETTE AS A PARA,

3:41:22 COUNCIL OF COLOR AS A PARTNER.

3:41:23 NO.

3:41:23 COUNCIL.

3:41:24 CULPEPER.

3:41:24 YEAH.

3:41:25 COUNCIL.

3:41:25 CULPEPER.

3:41:26 NO COUNCIL.

3:41:27 DUNCAN.

3:41:27 HUNTER.

3:41:28 DUNCAN.

3:41:29 NO COUNCIL.

3:41:30 FITZGERALD.

3:41:31 COUNCIL.

3:41:32 FITZGERALD.

3:41:32 NO.

3:41:32 COUNCIL.

3:41:33 FLAM.

3:41:33 YES.

3:41:34 ONCE I'VE LEARNED YES.

3:41:36 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE NO ON THE

3:41:37 LOUIJEUNE.

3:41:38 NO COUNCIL MEMBER HERE.

3:41:41 COUNCIL MURPHY WANTS A MURPHY.

3:41:43 YES.

3:41:44 COUNCIL.

3:41:44 VAN JOHNSON PREPARED.

3:41:50 NO COUNCIL.

3:41:51 SANTANA COUNCIL SANTANA.

3:41:54 NO COUNSELOR WEBER.

3:41:56 NO I SO WEBER NO COUNCIL WERE

3:41:58 AROUND COUNCIL AROUND?

3:42:00 NO.

3:42:03 789 VOTES AND.

3:42:04 A.

3:42:06 NO UM UH.

3:42:07 COUNCIL UM I'M HERE.

3:42:10 I'M GOING.

3:42:10 TO VOTE.

3:42:13 ON GOING TO DUNCAN'S COMMITTEE

3:42:14 VOTE?

3:42:16 NO IT'S IT'S TO UM JUST WHETHER

3:42:18 OR NOT THE DECISION OF THE

3:42:20 CHAIR SHALL STAND.

3:42:21 NO.

3:42:23 OKAY, SO 123456789 TEN OF UH

3:42:29 .

3:42:29 YOU OKAY?

3:42:30 AND 123 YEARS.

3:42:32 SO IT DID PASS.

3:42:33 IT WENT TO.

3:42:36 TO GO BACK TO DOCKET 1800.

3:42:40 IS IT.

3:42:41 LET ME.

3:42:42 DOUBLE.

3:42:42 CHECK OKAY I'M.

3:42:44 SORRY OKAY.

3:42:46 SO THE APPEAL OF THE DECISION

3:42:48 OF THE CHAIR UM, HAS UH HAS

3:42:50 BEEN PASSED UM, DOCKET 18011 GO

3:42:56 TO THE COMMITTEE ON.

3:43:00 WASN'T MY SECOND CHOICE EITHER.

3:43:02 WE'LL GO TO PLANNING

3:43:04 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

3:43:04 .

3:43:07 THANK YOU.

3:43:14 MR.

3:43:15 SHE'S SHE'S.

3:43:18 SO WOULD ANYONE ELSE WISH TO

3:43:20 CHANGE A OH YES.

3:43:22 THAT'S WHERE WE WHERE I GOT

3:43:23 OF MY UM CANCER HAPPENED.

3:43:25 DID YOU WISH TO CHANGE A OR NO

3:43:28 TO RECORD A VOTE THAT YOU

3:43:29 MISSED?

3:43:29 YES.

3:43:32 I'D LIKE TO JUST ADD MY NAME

3:43:34 TO DOCKETS 1790 1798, 1799

3:43:41 1800.

3:43:44 AND 1801.

3:43:47 GOT IT.

3:43:48 UH, MATT COUNTRYMAN HERE YOU

3:43:51 DID YOU WANT YOU HAD SOMEBODY

3:43:52 WANTED TO RECORD COUNCILOR.

3:43:53 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:43:54 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:43:56 UM.

3:43:56 I'D LIKE TO, UH.

3:43:58 BE ON THE RECORD IN FAVOR

3:44:00 OF THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT

3:44:00 DOCKETS DOCKET 1778 1779 1780.

3:44:08 1781 1782, 1783, 1784.

3:44:13 ,1789.

3:44:14 AND 1790.

3:44:17 THANK YOU.

3:44:18 UM, CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:44:20 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:44:20 YOU'VE HAD SOME RECORD.

3:44:22 SOME YES.

3:44:23 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:44:24 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UM, ADD

3:44:26 MY NAME TO UM, 18 ZERO 218 ZERO

3:44:29 THREE AND 18 ZERO FOUR.

3:44:31 THANK YOU.

3:44:32 ANYONE ELSE?

3:44:34 OH, GOOD.

3:44:37 THANK YOU.

3:44:39 NOW WE WILL NOW ON TO GREEN

3:44:41 SHEETS.

3:44:42 IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL

3:44:43 ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS?

3:44:46 COUNSELOR SANTANA, SEE YOUR

3:44:48 LIGHTS ON THAT YOU'RE THE CHAIR

3:44:49 OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

3:44:50 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

3:44:52 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:44:54 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:44:57 I WOULD LIKE TO.

3:45:01 I HAVE A FEW PRINCIPLES.

3:45:05 UM.

3:45:08 I WOULD LIKE TO PULL DOCKET

3:45:09 NUMBER 1394.

3:45:11 UM, ON THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC

3:45:13 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

3:45:15 UM, IT'S ON PAGE 27 OF THE

3:45:17 PETITIONS.

3:45:18 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:45:20 READ DOCKET 1394?

3:45:23 I WILL.

3:45:23 INVITE IF.

3:45:24 YOU.

3:45:24 HAVE MORE THAN ONE I COULD.

3:45:26 I WOULD HAVE YOU OTHERS

3:45:27 CONCERNS SO.

3:45:28 I DO UH OKAY SO YEAH I WANT

3:45:35 13941678.

3:45:39 AND 1680.

3:45:43 MADAM CHAIR COULD YOU PLEASE

3:45:44 READ DOCKET 13941678 AND.

3:45:51 1680.81.139 FOR MESSAGE AND

3:45:53 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

3:45:55 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

3:45:56 THE AMOUNT OF $240,860 AND 50

3:46:02 CENT IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR

3:46:03 THE Y DM EIGHT CITY TAKE GRANT

3:46:09 AWARDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS

3:46:10 DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO

3:46:12 BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE

3:46:13 DEPARTMENT.

3:46:14 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

3:46:17 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 40 HOUR

3:46:18 CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM

3:46:21 TRAINING FOR OFFICERS UNDER THE

3:46:23 UMBRELLA OF THE BUREAU

3:46:24 OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

3:46:25 DOCKET 1678 MESSAGE AND ORDER

3:46:29 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:46:30 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

3:46:35 OF $288 220 $0.01 IN THE FORM

3:46:38 OF A GRANT FY 25 DNA CAPACITY

3:46:43 ENHANCEMENT AND BACKLOG

3:46:45 REDUCTION PROGRAM AWARDED BY

3:46:47 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

3:46:49 OF JUSTICE TO BE ADMINISTERED

3:46:50 BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

3:46:52 THE GRANT WOULD FUND TO

3:46:55 CRIMINALIZE POSSESSION OVER

3:46:56 TIME LAB SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT

3:46:59 AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

3:47:01 EXPENSES.

3:47:01 DOCKET 1680 MESSAGE AN ORDER

3:47:05 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:47:07 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

3:47:13 OF $64,201.50 IN THE FORM OF A

3:47:14 GRANT FEDERAL F Y 25 EMERGENCY

3:47:19 MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT

3:47:21 AWARDED BY FEDERAL EMERGENCY

3:47:23 MANAGEMENT AGENCY PASS THROUGH

3:47:25 THE MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY

3:47:27 MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO BE

3:47:29 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

3:47:31 OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

3:47:32 THE GRANTS WOULD FUND

3:47:34 ENHANCEMENT OF OPERATIONAL

3:47:37 CAPACITY AT THE BOSTON

3:47:38 EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER.

3:47:40 AND PROMOTE THE PROFESSIONAL

3:47:43 DEVELOPMENT OF OEM STAFF.

3:47:46 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:47:48 UM, ABSENT OBJECTION, THE

3:47:50 MOTION OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIR

3:47:51 IS ACCEPTED AND DOCKETS

3:47:55 13941678 AND 1680 ARE PROPERLY

3:47:58 BEFORE THE BODY.

3:47:59 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:48:00 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:48:01 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:48:02 I WILL, UM, JUST READ MY

3:48:04 STATEMENTS ON ALL THREE I THINK

3:48:06 THREE DIFFERENT REMARKS.

3:48:08 IF YOU MAKE YOUR REMARKS AND

3:48:09 VOTE ON THEM SEPARATELY.

3:48:10 OKAY, GREAT.

3:48:12 SO FOR DOCKET UM FOR DOCKET

3:48:15 NUMBER 139 FOUR, THE BOSTON

3:48:17 POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL USE

3:48:18 THESE FUNDS TO CONTINUE

3:48:19 STAFFING AND IMPROVING ITS NEW

3:48:21 CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING

3:48:22 AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER

3:48:24 THAT'S ANYWHERE SERVE THE

3:48:25 ENTIRE CITY BY INCREASING

3:48:27 MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING

3:48:28 OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOT ONLY BPD

3:48:30 OFFICERS BUT ALSO OTHER

3:48:32 SECURITY PERSONNEL WHO WORK IN

3:48:33 THE CITY.

3:48:34 THE CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM UM

3:48:36 THE CITY TEAM PROGRAM IS A

3:48:38 COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF LAW

3:48:40 ENFORCEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH

3:48:41 PROFESSIONALS, INDIVIDUALS WITH

3:48:42 MENTAL ILLNESS AND OTHER

3:48:43 PARTNERS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY

3:48:45 RESPONSES TO MENTAL HEALTH

3:48:46 CRISIS IS THE GOAL OF THE CITY.

3:48:48 TRAINING IS TO TEACH LAW

3:48:50 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ABOUT THE

3:48:51 REALITIES OF MENTAL HEALTH AND

3:48:53 HELP THEM DIVERT INDIVIDUALS

3:48:54 AWAY FROM THE CRIMINAL LEGAL

3:48:55 SYSTEM INTO PROPER MENTAL

3:48:57 HEALTH CARE.

3:48:57 OFFICERS WILL BE TAUGHT ABOUT

3:48:59 RECOGNIZING MENTAL ILLNESS,

3:49:01 DE-ESCALATION AND RESOURCES

3:49:02 AVAILABLE TO OFFICERS IN THE

3:49:04 COMMUNITY DURING THE TRAINING,

3:49:05 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY MEMBERS

3:49:07 SHARE THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE

3:49:08 WITH MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS AND

3:49:10 IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OFFICERS

3:49:11 TO HEAR POWERFUL STORIES AND

3:49:13 IT'S FREQUENTLY CITED AS MOST

3:49:15 IMPACTFUL EXPERIENCE.

3:49:16 WE KNOW THAT BOSTON POLICE

3:49:17 OFFICERS ARE OFTEN CALLED TO

3:49:19 SITUATIONS INVOLVING A MENTAL

3:49:20 HEALTH CRISIS, AND THIS

3:49:22 TRAINING WOULD EQUIP THEM WITH

3:49:23 INVALUABLE TOOLS.

3:49:25 CITY TRAINING IS A TOOL THAT

3:49:27 WILL HELP MAKE SURE OUR CITY

3:49:28 BELIEVES THAT WILL MAKE OUR

3:49:30 CITY BOTH SAFER AND MORE

3:49:32 COMPASSIONATE.

3:49:33 AS THE CHAIR OF PUBLIC SAFETY

3:49:34 IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, I

3:49:35 RECOMMEND THE TALK AT 1394 UH

3:49:38 TO PASS UM FOR DOCKET NUMBER

3:49:41 1678.

3:49:43 UM, THE FUND UM FROM THIS GRANT

3:49:45 WILL GO TOWARD SUPPORTING STAFF

3:49:47 AND BPD CRIME LABORATORY THAT

3:49:49 ARE, UM, DOING INCREDIBLE WORK

3:49:51 NOT ONLY WITH THESE FUNDS

3:49:52 SUPPORT DANDY OPERATIONS AND

3:49:54 DNA TESTING SUPPLIES, BUT THEY

3:49:55 WILL ALSO INCREASE CAPACITY AT

3:49:57 THE LAB AND HELP FURTHER REDUCE

3:49:59 A BACKLOG OF FORENSIC BIOLOGY

3:50:01 CASES.

3:50:02 THE BPD ALSO PLANS TO PROVIDE

3:50:04 REIMBURSEMENT FOR COSTS

3:50:05 ASSOCIATED WITH REGISTRATION

3:50:07 AND TRAVEL TO RELEVANT TRAINING

3:50:09 AND CONTINUE EDUCATION

3:50:10 OPPORTUNITIES TO ENSURE THAT

3:50:11 STAFF AT THE LAB REMAIN FULLY

3:50:14 UM ACCREDITED WITHOUT FINANCIAL

3:50:15 HARDSHIPS TO EMPLOYEES.

3:50:17 AS CHAIR OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND

3:50:18 CRIMINAL JUSTICE, I RECOMMEND

3:50:20 THAT DOCKET NUMBER 1678 UH TO

3:50:23 PASS AND FINALLY, UM DOCKET

3:50:26 NUMBER 1680.

3:50:29 WE KNOW THAT PUBLIC SAFETY

3:50:30 MEANS BEING PREPARED DURING

3:50:31 THESE TIMES OF DISASTER.

3:50:33 THIS FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE

3:50:35 GRANT WILL SUPPORT THE

3:50:36 TECHNOLOGY UPGRADED AND

3:50:38 IMPROVEMENTS TO BOSTON'S

3:50:39 EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER,

3:50:41 WHICH WILL ENHANCE ITS

3:50:41 OPERATIONAL CAPACITY AND

3:50:43 ABILITY TO COORDINATE EMERGENCY

3:50:44 RESPONSE EFFORTS.

3:50:45 ADDITIONALLY, THE GRANT WILL

3:50:46 SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL

3:50:48 DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING FOR

3:50:49 STAFF OF THE OFFICE

3:50:50 OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

3:50:51 THESE INVESTMENTS WILL

3:50:52 STRENGTHEN THE CITY'S EMERGENCY

3:50:54 PREPAREDNESS, COORDINATION AND

3:50:56 RESPONSE CAPABILITIES, ENSURING

3:50:58 THAT OEM REMAINS EQUIPPED TO

3:51:00 EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT BOSTON'S

3:51:01 RESIDENTS DURING EMERGENCIES

3:51:02 AND MAJOR INCIDENTS.

3:51:04 AS A CHAIR OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN

3:51:06 CRIMINAL JUSTICE, I RECOMMEND

3:51:07 THAT DOCKET NUMBER 1680 OUT TO

3:51:09 PASS.

3:51:09 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:51:11 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:51:14 UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE

3:51:15 THE FLOOR.

3:51:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:51:18 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ASK THE, UH,

3:51:21 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE A FEW

3:51:22 QUESTIONS?

3:51:23 YOU MAY THROUGH THE CHAIR.

3:51:25 OKAY.

3:51:26 YOU.

3:51:27 HAVE WE HAD HEARINGS ON

3:51:28 THESE PARTICULAR DOCKETS IN.

3:51:32 COUNCILOR SANTANA?

3:51:33 UM, WE'VE WE'VE HAD HEARINGS

3:51:35 FROM THESE DOCKET.

3:51:36 SO WE DON'T HAVE AS I YOU KNOW,

3:51:38 AS I'VE TAKEN OVER THE

3:51:39 COMMITTEE, WE DON'T HAVE UM,

3:51:41 HEARINGS ON EVERY SINGLE

3:51:42 SPECIFIC DOCKET, BUT WE DO HAVE

3:51:44 UH, MULTIPLE HEARINGS.

3:51:45 UM, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE

3:51:47 YEAR TO WHERE WE BRING DPD

3:51:49 PERSONNEL, UM, TO TALK ABOUT

3:51:51 ALL GRANTS, UM, AND JUST

3:51:52 GROUNDS FOR THOSE DOCKETS.

3:51:55 I'M NOT GOING TO OBJECT ON ANY

3:51:57 OF THESE DOCKET, SO I'M GOING

3:51:58 TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF ALL OF THEM

3:52:00 .

3:52:00 BUT I HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS

3:52:01 ABOUT THE, UH, BOSTON POLICE

3:52:03 CRIME LAB.

3:52:04 I'VE BEEN LOOKING TO HAVE A

3:52:06 MEETING A HEARING ON THIS ISSUE

3:52:09 FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

3:52:11 UM, HASN'T BEEN SCHEDULED YET.

3:52:13 UM.

3:52:16 SO CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN TO

3:52:17 ME ON ON DOCKET 1678?

3:52:20 CAN YOU GIVE ME A DEEPER

3:52:23 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE'RE

3:52:24 GOING TO HOW THIS IS GOING TO

3:52:26 IMPROVE?

3:52:27 WHY SCREENING FOR SEXUAL

3:52:29 ASSAULT CASE.

3:52:32 COUNTS FOR SOME TIME.

3:52:34 YEAH.

3:52:34 THANK YOU.

3:52:35 UM, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:52:36 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:52:38 SO WHAT I HAVE SAID IS THAT

3:52:39 THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED FOR

3:52:41 DAILY OPERATIONS AND AND DNA

3:52:42 TESTING SUPPLIES.

3:52:44 UM, AND THEN THEY ALSO PLAN FOR

3:52:47 ,UH I TALKED ABOUT THE

3:52:49 REIMBURSEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH

3:52:50 THE REGISTRATION.

3:52:50 UM, AND THIS IS SOMETHING I

3:52:52 THINK AS IT'S MONEY THAT YOU'VE

3:52:53 ACTUALLY ADVOCATED FOR UM, IN

3:52:54 THE PAST.

3:52:55 I KNOW YOU HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT

3:52:58 UM THAT MONEY IS ACTUALLY

3:52:59 DOESN'T MATCH THE MILLION

3:53:00 DOLLARS BEING ALLOCATED TO THE

3:53:02 OFFICE.

3:53:02 UM, BUT THIS IS GOING TO HELP

3:53:04 THEIR EFFORTS.

3:53:05 UM, AND SOMETHING THAT YOU AND

3:53:06 ADVOCATED FOR IN TERMS OF, UM,

3:53:08 THE HEARING THAT YOU REQUESTED

3:53:10 I DO DON'T BELIEVE THAT I HAVE

3:53:12 RECEIVED, UH, A REQUEST FROM

3:53:16 YOU OR YOUR OFFICE ABOUT

3:53:17 SCHEDULING THAT HEARING.

3:53:18 SO HAPPY TO COORDINATE WITH YOU

3:53:19 AND YOUR OFFICE, UM, AFTERWARDS

3:53:21 TO MAKE SURE THAT.

3:53:22 THAT HAPPENS.

3:53:24 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:53:25 YEAH.

3:53:25 THE THE ISSUE OF THE CRIME

3:53:28 LAB.

3:53:28 I'M I'M GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR

3:53:30 OF IT.

3:53:30 I AM TROUBLED ABOUT THE

3:53:32 LEADERSHIP WE HAVE OVER THE

3:53:34 LAST MANY YEARS AT THE CRIME

3:53:35 LAB.

3:53:36 I DON'T LIKE JUST GOING TO

3:53:39 SUPPORT A DOCKET FOR FUNDING

3:53:41 WHEN I KNOW THERE'S OUTSTANDING

3:53:42 ,OUTSTANDING ISSUES IN A

3:53:44 PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT.

3:53:45 WE HAVE OUTSTANDING ISSUES AT

3:53:47 THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT

3:53:49 CRIME LAB.

3:53:50 WE DON'T HAVE STRONG LEADERSHIP

3:53:52 THERE AND EVERYBODY KNOWS I'M A

3:53:54 STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE BOSTON

3:53:55 PUBLIC OF THE BOSTON POLICE

3:53:57 DEPARTMENT.

3:53:57 BUT I'M GOING TO CALL THEM OUT

3:53:59 WHEN I WHEN I KNOW WHEN THERE

3:54:02 ARE ISSUES AT A PARTICULAR

3:54:04 DEPARTMENT OR A PARTICULAR

3:54:05 REASON WHY FOR THEM, UH, SUCH

3:54:09 AS THE CRIME LAB, UM,

3:54:11 CONSISTENT.

3:54:11 UH.

3:54:11 NO, I KNOW BUT MADAM CHAIR,

3:54:13 THIS IS IMPORTANT.

3:54:14 BECAUSE YOU KNOW I KNOW, I.

3:54:16 KNOW, BUT WE WE HAVEN'T HAD

3:54:17 A HEARING.

3:54:18 I MAY I MIGHT YES.

3:54:19 MAY I INTERJECT?

3:54:20 YES.

3:54:21 COUNCILOR SANTANA HAS INDICATED

3:54:23 THAT HE'S HAPPY TO HAVE A

3:54:25 HEARING, BUT I.

3:54:27 I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU YOUR

3:54:29 OFFICE CAN WORK WITH HIS OFFICE

3:54:30 TO SET UP A HEARING AND

3:54:31 EXPEDITE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T

3:54:32 KNOW THAT THIS IS THE BEST

3:54:34 FORUM FOR A CONVERSATION A LONG

3:54:36 CONVERSATION ABOUT THE CRIME

3:54:37 LAB.

3:54:38 RESPECTFULLY, I FEEL THAT IT

3:54:41 DOES DESERVE A HEARING A FULL

3:54:43 HEARING RATHER THAN THIS BACK

3:54:44 AND FORWARD DISCUSSION RIGHT

3:54:45 NOW.

3:54:48 SO COUNCILOR FLYNN, THANK YOU.

3:54:54 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

3:54:55 FLOOR.

3:54:55 UM.

3:54:57 NOPE.

3:55:00 SO THESE DOCKETS 139416781680.

3:55:07 ABSENT OBJECTION THE MOTION

3:55:09 OF THE CHAIR IS ACCEPTED.

3:55:11 WE'LL START WITH DOCKET 1398.

3:55:14 UH, WE'VE ALREADY SPOKE.

3:55:16 ALL THESE DOCKETS ARE ABSENT.

3:55:19 OBJECTION.

3:55:19 THE MOTION OF THE CHAIR IS

3:55:21 ACCEPTED AND ALL OF THESE

3:55:23 DOCKETS ARE PROPERLY BEFORE THE

3:55:24 BODY.

3:55:25 COUNCILOR SANTANA MOVES FOR

3:55:26 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1394.

3:55:29 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.

3:55:31 ALL OPPOSED?

3:55:32 SAY NAY.

3:55:34 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:55:35 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:55:36 VOTE ON DOCKET 139 FOR ROLL

3:55:40 CALL.

3:55:41 VOTE ON DOCKET 1394,

3:55:43 COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:55:43 YES.

3:55:44 CONCENTRATE ON YES

3:55:45 COUNCIL COLADAS.

3:55:46 ABABA.

3:55:47 YES.

3:55:47 COUNCIL COLETTE A SEPARATE

3:55:49 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:55:49 YES.

3:55:52 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:55:52 YES.

3:55:53 ONCE I DOPED AND YES.

3:55:54 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

3:55:55 ONCE FITZGERALD.

3:55:57 YES.

3:55:57 CONSOLE.

3:55:57 FLYNN.

3:55:58 YES.

3:55:58 ONCE OF AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

3:56:00 .

3:56:02 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:56:02 YES.

3:56:02 COUNCIL.

3:56:03 MAYOR.

3:56:04 COUNCIL ME AS COUNCIL MURPHY.

3:56:08 YES.

3:56:09 COUNCIL MURPHY AS COUNCIL PREP

3:56:11 N CONCEPT WEAPON.

3:56:12 YES.

3:56:12 COUNCIL.

3:56:13 SANTANA.

3:56:13 YES.

3:56:14 COUNCIL.

3:56:14 SANTANA.

3:56:15 YES.

3:56:15 COUNCIL.

3:56:16 WEBER.

3:56:17 COUNCIL.

3:56:17 WEBER.

3:56:17 YES.

3:56:18 COUNCIL.

3:56:18 AROUND.

3:56:19 YES.

3:56:19 CONSOLE.

3:56:20 AROUND.

3:56:20 YES.

3:56:21 13 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:56:23 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK DUNCAN

3:56:26 1394 HAS PASSED.

3:56:28 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

3:56:29 YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON.

3:56:30 YEAH.

3:56:31 MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANTED

3:56:32 TO CORRECT THE RECORD.

3:56:34 I DID SEND A E-MAIL REQUEST.

3:56:37 COUNCILOR SANTANA, I

3:56:39 RESPECTFULLY ASKED FOR A

3:56:41 HEARING TO DISCUSS RESOURCES AT

3:56:43 THE BOSTON CRIME LAB.

3:56:44 I ASKED FOR DATES IN AUGUST.

3:56:47 UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO GET ON

3:56:48 THE RECORD.

3:56:49 I ASKED FOR A PARTICULAR

3:56:50 HEARING AND AND I'M STILL

3:56:52 WAITING AND I'LL CONTINUE TO

3:56:53 WAIT, BUT I AM ASKING, UM,

3:56:56 COUNCIL SANTANA TO PLEASE HAVE

3:56:57 A MEETING ON CRIME LAB.

3:56:59 THAT IS A SERIOUS ISSUE.

3:57:01 I JUST CAN'T TAKE PEOPLE'S WORD

3:57:03 THAT WE ARE DOING A VERY GOOD

3:57:04 JOB AT THE CRIME LAB.

3:57:05 I NEED TO KNOW FOR MYSELF AND

3:57:07 ASK THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS.

3:57:08 THANK YOU.

3:57:09 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:57:10 THANK YOU.

3:57:15 COUNCILOR SANTANA MOVES FOR

3:57:16 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1678.

3:57:18 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:57:20 ALL OPPOSED.

3:57:21 SAY NAY.

3:57:23 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:57:24 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:57:25 VOTE ON DOCKET 1678.

3:57:27 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1678.

3:57:30 COUNSELOR BREADON.

3:57:31 YES.

3:57:31 COUNCIL.

3:57:32 BREEDEN.

3:57:32 YES.

3:57:33 COUNCIL LOCALITIES.

3:57:34 OPERA CONCEPT.

3:57:35 CHOLERA SUFFERER.

3:57:36 YES.

3:57:36 COUNCIL.

3:57:36 CULPEPER.

3:57:37 CONCEPT.

3:57:38 YES.

3:57:39 COUNCIL.

3:57:39 DURKAN CONCEPT.

3:57:40 DOC AND YES.

3:57:41 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

3:57:43 COUNCIL.

3:57:43 FITZGERALD.

3:57:44 YES.

3:57:44 COUNCIL.

3:57:44 FLYNN.

3:57:45 YES.

3:57:46 CONTROL PLANE.

3:57:46 YES.

3:57:47 COUNCIL.

3:57:47 LOUIJEUNE LOUIJEUNE.

3:57:49 YES.

3:57:49 COUNCIL.

3:57:50 MEDIA CONSTANTLY HERE.

3:57:51 YES.

3:57:52 COUNCIL MURPHY.

3:57:54 COUNCIL MURPHY AS COUNCIL BY

3:57:55 BAND.

3:57:55 CONCEPT.

3:57:56 PEPPERONI AS COUNCIL.

3:57:58 SANTANA.

3:57:58 YES.

3:57:58 CONSCIOUS.

3:57:59 SANTANA.

3:57:59 YES.

3:58:00 COUNCIL WEBER.

3:58:01 COUNCIL.

3:58:01 WEBER.

3:58:02 YES AND COUNCIL.

3:58:03 WORLD COUNCIL WERE AROUND 13

3:58:04 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:58:06 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:58:07 DOCKET 1678 HAS PASSED.

3:58:11 UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA, MOVE TO

3:58:14 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1680.

3:58:16 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:58:18 ALL OPPOSED.

3:58:19 SAY NAY.

3:58:21 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:58:22 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:58:23 VOTE ON DOCKET 1680.

3:58:25 DOCKET ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

3:58:29 181680 COUNCIL READING.

3:58:30 YES.

3:58:31 COUNCIL.

3:58:31 BREDON.

3:58:31 YES.

3:58:32 COUNCIL COLORS.

3:58:33 OPERA.

3:58:33 CONCEPT.

3:58:34 COLLETTE.

3:58:34 IT'S ABOUT A YES COUNCIL CALLED

3:58:36 PEPPER CONCERT CALLED PEPPER.

3:58:38 YES.

3:58:38 COUNCIL DURKAN WANTS A DOG AND

3:58:39 YES COUNCIL FITZGERALD WANTS A

3:58:42 FITZGERALD.

3:58:42 YES.

3:58:43 COUNCIL FLYNN.

3:58:44 THIS COUNCIL HAS

3:58:46 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES.

3:58:48 COUNCIL MAY HEAR YOU ON SOME

3:58:50 MAY HEAR YES.

3:58:51 COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL MURPHY

3:58:53 HAS BEEN PREPARED AS

3:58:56 COUNCIL SANTANA YES.

3:58:57 ONCE A SANTANA.

3:58:57 YES.

3:58:58 COUNCIL.

3:58:58 WEBER.

3:58:59 CONSUL WEBER YES ON SEVERAL

3:59:02 COUNCILOR WORRELL YES 13 VOTES

3:59:04 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:59:04 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:59:06 DOCKET 1680 HAS PASSED.

3:59:10 WE ARE NOW ON TO LET FUNDS.

3:59:14 UH, I AM INFORMED BY THE CHURCH

3:59:17 THAT THERE ARE FOUR.

3:59:21 FOUR LEAD FUNDS ONE

3:59:24 COMMUNICATION FROM AROUND THE

3:59:25 MAYOR ONE RESOLUTION 117 F AND

3:59:28 ONE HEARING ORDER.

3:59:30 UM, MISS MADAM CLERK, UH, COULD

3:59:32 YOU PLEASE UM.

3:59:36 UH, ABSENT OBJECTION, THESE

3:59:38 LEAD FILE MATTERS WILL BE

3:59:40 ADDED.

3:59:42 COUNCILOR JACK.

3:59:46 I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR, UM, THE

3:59:48 LATE FILES TO BE READ

3:59:49 SEPARATELY BECAUSE I OBJECTED

3:59:50 TWO OF THEM.

3:59:53 WE WILL START OFF WITH THE.

3:59:56 SPECIFICALLY I OBJECT TO THE

3:59:57 EMERGENCY WHEN WE.

3:59:58 GET THERE.

3:59:59 OKAY, WE WILL GET THERE.

4:00:00 WE'LL START OFF, MADAM CLERK,

4:00:02 WITH THE COMMUNICATION FROM HER

4:00:03 HONOR THE MAYOR ABSENT

4:00:05 OBJECTION.

4:00:05 UH, THIS COMMUNICATION FROM

4:00:07 HONOR THE MAYOR IS PROPERLY

4:00:08 BEFORE THE BODY.

4:00:09 COULD YOU READ THAT INTO THE

4:00:10 RECORD?

4:00:10 THANK YOU.

4:00:11 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE

4:00:12 MAYOR OF HER ABSENT FROM THE

4:00:13 CITY FROM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

4:00:16 22ND, 2026 AT 12 P.M. RETURNING

4:00:20 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2024, 2026

4:00:25 AT 2:30 P.M..

4:00:26 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

4:00:27 UH, THIS COMMUNICATION FROM AN

4:00:29 HONOR THE MAYOR WILL BE PLACED

4:00:30 ON FILE.

4:00:32 WE NOW ON TO SECOND LATE FINE

4:00:34 MATTER WHICH IS A RESOLUTION.

4:00:37 UH, YOU HAVE THE LATE FINE

4:00:39 MATTERS.

4:00:39 EVERYONE GOT THE LATE FINE

4:00:41 MATTERS IN FRONT OF THEM?

4:00:42 YES.

4:00:44 SO THIS IS A RESOLUTION FROM

4:00:47 COUNCILOR CULPEPER RESOLUTION

4:00:49 IN SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR HALEY'S

4:00:51 PROPOSAL TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND

4:00:53 THE STATE GAS TAX.

4:00:56 THANK YOU.

4:00:57 ABSENT OBJECTION, THIS, UH,

4:00:59 LATE UH, FILE HERE, UM,

4:01:02 RESOLUTION IS PROPERLY BEFORE

4:01:03 THE BODY, BUT THE CHAIR

4:01:05 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:01:06 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:01:08 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:01:10 EARLIER THIS YEAR I FILED A

4:01:12 RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A

4:01:13 TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF THE

4:01:15 STATE GAS TAX AS MASSACHUSETTS

4:01:18 RESIDENTS FACE RAPIDLY

4:01:21 INCREASING FUEL COSTS.

4:01:23 THAT RESOLUTION DID NOT PASS IN

4:01:26 APRIL, BUT SINCE THEN THE

4:01:27 SITUATION AT THE PUMP HAS ONLY

4:01:29 GOTTEN WORSE.

4:01:31 YESTERDAY GOVERNOR HEALEY

4:01:32 ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WILL FILE

4:01:34 LEGISLATION TO SUSPEND

4:01:36 MASSACHUSETTS 24% $0.24 PER

4:01:41 GALLON TAX AND I THINK I MAY

4:01:44 HAVE CALLED FOR THAT EARLIER 24

4:01:46 CENT PER GALLON TAX ON GASOLINE

4:01:49 TO SUSPENDED FOR TWO MONTHS.

4:01:52 UNDER THE PROPOSAL, RETAILERS

4:01:54 WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PASS THE

4:01:55 SAVINGS ON TO CONSUMERS AND THE

4:02:00 APPROXIMATELY $120 MILLION IN

4:02:02 FOREGONE TAX RESIDENT REVENUE

4:02:04 WOULD BE PLACED WITH PROJECTED

4:02:06 AND BUDGETED FOR THIS YEAR.

4:02:08 SO TAX REVENUE SO THAT FUNDING

4:02:10 ROADS, BRIDGES AND PUBLIC

4:02:12 TRANSPORTATION WOULD BE

4:02:13 MAINTAINED.

4:02:14 THE RESOLUTION BEFORE TODAY

4:02:16 SUPPORTS OUR PROPOSAL AND URGES

4:02:18 THE LEGISLATURE TO ACT ON IT.

4:02:20 THE NEED FOR RELIEF HAS ONLY

4:02:22 BECOME MORE URGENT.

4:02:24 THIS IS AN EMERGENCY AND AS

4:02:27 OF YESTERDAY THE AVERAGE PRICE

4:02:28 OF GASOLINE IN MASSACHUSETTS

4:02:30 WAS APPROXIMATELY 441 PER

4:02:33 GALLON.

4:02:34 LAST NIGHT I PAID FOR 79 PER

4:02:37 GALLON UP FROM 2.90 IN FEBRUARY

4:02:39 WHILE DIESEL HAD RISEN FROM

4:02:43 APPROXIMATELY 420 TO $646.40

4:02:48 PER GALLON.

4:02:49 THESE INCREASES AFFECT MORE

4:02:51 THAN WHAT PEOPLE PAY WHEN THEY

4:02:53 FILL UP THEIR CARS.

4:02:54 THEY AFFECT WORKERS COMMUTING

4:02:57 TO AND FROM THEIR JOBS,

4:02:58 FAMILIES GETTING CHILDREN WHERE

4:03:00 THEY NEED TO GET PICKED UP,

4:03:02 SMALL BUSINESSES, DELIVERY

4:03:05 DRIVERS AND TRUCK DRIVERS AND

4:03:07 ULTIMATELY THE PRICES WE ALL

4:03:08 PAY FOR GOODS AND SERVICES.

4:03:11 AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THIS

4:03:12 PARTICULAR PROPOSAL IS THAT IT

4:03:14 IS ONLY TEMPORARY.

4:03:15 MADAM PRESIDENT AND MY

4:03:17 COLLEAGUES FOR ONLY TWO MONTHS

4:03:19 AND INCLUDES A PLAN TO REPLACE

4:03:21 THE FOREGONE REVENUE RATHER

4:03:24 THAN SIMPLY TAKING $120 MILLION

4:03:28 AWAY FROM OUR TRANSPORTATION

4:03:29 SYSTEM.

4:03:29 THE GOVERNOR HAS NOW PUT THIS

4:03:32 PROPOSAL FORWARD, BUT IT STILL

4:03:34 REQUIRES LEGISLATURE TO APPROVE

4:03:36 IT.

4:03:37 BY PASSING THIS RESOLUTION, THE

4:03:39 COUNCIL CAN FORMALLY

4:03:41 COMMUNICATE ITS SUPPORT FOR THE

4:03:43 PROPOSED TWO MONTH SUSPENSION

4:03:45 TO THE LEGISLATURE AS IT

4:03:47 CONSIDERS THIS MEASURE.

4:03:49 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT, AND

4:03:51 I HOPE THAT ALL OF MY

4:03:52 COLLEAGUES AT THIS TIME JOIN

4:03:54 ME ON SUPPORTING THIS

4:03:56 RESOLUTION.

4:03:56 THANK YOU.

4:03:57 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:03:58 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:03:59 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTY.

4:04:01 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:04:04 I JOAQUIN.

4:04:05 I'M SURE HE HAS OPINIONS.

4:04:08 I JUST LIKE TO ADD

4:04:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN AS AN ORIGINAL

4:04:11 CO-SPONSOR.

4:04:13 COUNCILOR FLYNN IS SO ADDED.

4:04:13 THANK YOU.

4:04:14 THANK YOU MINISTER.

4:04:17 COUNSELOR COMMENTS ABOUT THE

4:04:18 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:04:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:04:20 UM I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR.

4:04:21 CULPEPER FOR INTRODUCING THIS.

4:04:23 THIS ONE'S AN INTERESTING

4:04:24 ONE.

4:04:24 IT'S A LITTLE NUANCED I THINK

4:04:25 FROM THE OUTSET.

4:04:26 INITIALLY I WOULD AS AN

4:04:28 ENVIRONMENTALIST SAY NO BECAUSE

4:04:30 I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF, UM,

4:04:33 INCENTIVIZING ANYBODY TO USE

4:04:34 THEIR CARS MORE THAN THEY

4:04:35 SHOULD OR MORE CARBON EMISSIONS

4:04:37 .

4:04:37 HOWEVER, THIS PROPOSAL IS A

4:04:39 LITTLE BIT MORE AS YOU

4:04:40 MENTIONED IN YOUR REMARKS, IT'S

4:04:41 MORE COMPREHENSIVE.

4:04:42 THERE'S A FINITE DATE.

4:04:44 UM, AND IN MY MIND THIS

4:04:45 WOULDN'T UH PUT MORE CARS ON

4:04:47 THE ROAD BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY

4:04:49 IT WOULD UM, GIVE RELIEF TO

4:04:52 FOLKS THAT NEED IT THE MOST.

4:04:54 SOME OF OUR LOW WAGE WORKERS

4:04:56 WHO HAVE TO DRIVE TO GET TO

4:04:57 WORK I KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH

4:04:59 THAT WORK FOR THE AIRPORT THEY

4:05:01 TRAVEL FROM FROM BROCKTON.

4:05:02 UM, AND UH, FOLKS THAT LIVE IN

4:05:05 EAST BOSTON WHO GO TO WORK

4:05:06 OTHER PLACES.

4:05:07 SO UM, INITIALLY I WAS A NO FOR

4:05:09 THIS BUT I AM SUPPORTIVE OF IT

4:05:11 BECAUSE IT WILL ULTIMATELY HELP

4:05:12 OUR LOW WAGE WORKERS AND UM,

4:05:14 FOLKS ARE REALLY FEELING THE

4:05:16 PINCH RIGHT NOW IN THEIR

4:05:17 WALLETS AND SO UM, I'M HAPPY TO

4:05:19 STAND INS AND SUPPORT.

4:05:20 THANK YOU.

4:05:20 COUNCILOR CLAIRE, AS A PART

4:05:21 OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES I'M

4:05:23 GOING TO GO TO COUNCIL OFFLINE

4:05:24 THEN I'LL COME BACK TO

4:05:25 COUNCIL DARK AND

4:05:26 COUNCIL OFFERING YOU THE SECOND

4:05:27 CALL.

4:05:29 THANK YOU.

4:05:30 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:05:31 AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU,

4:05:33 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, FOR

4:05:34 BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT

4:05:35 RESOLUTION FORWARD FOR THE

4:05:37 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION HE

4:05:40 PREVIOUSLY, UH, BROUGHT FORWARD

4:05:41 AS WELL.

4:05:42 BUT THIS IS ABOUT PROVIDING

4:05:45 SOME RELIEF TO WORKING CLASS

4:05:48 FAMILIES, LOW INCOME FAMILIES,

4:05:50 LOW INCOME WORKERS, UH,

4:05:52 FAMILIES THAT ARE STRUGGLING.

4:05:54 SOME FAMILIES NEED AN

4:05:56 AUTOMOBILE TO GET TO WORK TO

4:05:58 TAKE THEIR KIDS TO, UM, A

4:06:00 DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS.

4:06:01 THEY DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY TO,

4:06:03 UH, HAVE SOMEONE TAKE THEM

4:06:05 THERE.

4:06:06 BUT THIS IS ABOUT A LITTLE BIT

4:06:08 OF SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES IN OUR

4:06:11 CITY, IN OUR COMMONWEALTH THAT

4:06:12 ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS

4:06:14 MEET.

4:06:15 THEY THEY'RE HAVING CHALLENGES

4:06:17 BUYING FOOD, HAVING CHALLENGES,

4:06:20 PAYING THE BILLS.

4:06:21 THEY'RE SENDING THEIR KIDS TO

4:06:22 COLLEGE.

4:06:24 CAN THEY AFFORD $5 FOR A GALLON

4:06:28 OF GAS THAT WE SEE NOW THAT'S

4:06:30 OUTRAGEOUS.

4:06:31 I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO,

4:06:32 UM, GOVERNOR HALEY FOR BRINGING

4:06:34 THIS COMMON SENSE APPROACH

4:06:37 FORWARD.

4:06:38 IT WILL HELP WORKING CLASS

4:06:40 RESIDENTS OF OF THIS CITY.

4:06:42 IT WILL HELP STRUGGLING

4:06:44 FAMILIES.

4:06:44 IT WILL HELP LOW WAGE WORKERS.

4:06:46 IT'S ABOUT JUSTICE FOR LOW WAGE

4:06:48 WORKERS AS WELL.

4:06:49 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

4:06:51 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:06:53 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:06:54 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCIL.

4:06:55 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:06:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

4:06:56 UM, WHEN I KNOCK DOORS, UH, FOR

4:06:58 THE FAIR SHARE AMENDMENT I

4:07:00 REALLY BELIEVED IN, UH, THAT

4:07:03 MONEY BEING SUPPLEMENTAL AND

4:07:05 NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, AND I DO

4:07:07 FEEL LIKE THIS PROPOSAL IS

4:07:08 EXTREMELY REACTIVE.

4:07:09 IT'S HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE

4:07:11 OF A CAMPAIGN CYCLE.

4:07:12 UM, I DO I WAS PROBABLY THE

4:07:14 LEADING OPPOSITION THE LAST

4:07:15 TIME, UM, THAT THIS WAS BROUGHT

4:07:18 FORWARD.

4:07:19 UM, HONESTLY, UM, AS A CITY

4:07:22 OFFICIAL, UM, WE ARE YOU KNOW,

4:07:25 YOU KNOW, WE AREN'T TASKED WITH

4:07:27 THIS JOB AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO

4:07:30 DEFER TO THE LEGISLATURE AND I

4:07:32 IF I HAD TO TALK TO THE I'LL

4:07:34 JUST SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE

4:07:35 LEGISLATORS IN MY DISTRICT.

4:07:36 YOU SHOULD NOT SUPPORT THIS.

4:07:38 UM, THIS IS SIMPLY PASSING THE

4:07:40 BUCK.

4:07:40 UM, WHAT WE WANT IS BETTER

4:07:43 SCHOOLS.

4:07:44 WE WANT BETTER TRANSIT.

4:07:45 WE WANT MORE INVESTMENT IN THE

4:07:47 T.

4:07:47 THAT'S WHAT THE FAIR FAIR SHARE

4:07:48 AMENDMENT WAS AND HAS BEEN

4:07:51 TASKED WITH.

4:07:51 UM, THERE'S BEEN OVER $4

4:07:53 BILLION THAT HAVE GONE INTO

4:07:54 PUBLIC TRANSIT IN SCHOOLS SINCE

4:07:56 ITS INCEPTION.

4:07:57 SO I FEEL VERY MUCH UM I, I

4:08:00 REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT THE FAIR

4:08:02 SHARE AMENDMENT ABSOLUTELY

4:08:03 SAVED UM, THE STATE BUDGET AND

4:08:06 SO LETTING THIS BE SORT OF A

4:08:09 WAY THAT WE, YOU KNOW, SAY OH,

4:08:12 $120 MILLION THAT OF REVENUE

4:08:13 THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE IN THESE

4:08:15 TWO MONTHS WE'RE JUST GOING TO

4:08:16 PULL IT FROM THE FAIR SHARE

4:08:17 AMENDMENT IS REALLY NOT THE

4:08:18 POINT OF THE ACTIVIST, UM, LIKE

4:08:20 MYSELF WHO WERE OUT THERE

4:08:22 KNOCKING ON DOORS.

4:08:23 WE WANTED SUPPLEMENTAL MONEY.

4:08:25 WE WANTED MORE MONEY FOR

4:08:26 SCHOOLS, MORE MONEY FOR TRANSIT

4:08:28 AND UM AND I KNOW THAT WHEN WE

4:08:30 WERE KNOCKING ON THOSE DOORS IT

4:08:31 WAS CONTROVERSIAL.

4:08:32 THE STATEHOUSE DIDN'T, YOU

4:08:33 KNOW, WASN'T IN SUPPORT OF IT.

4:08:34 THEY YOU KNOW, OFTEN AREN'T IN

4:08:36 SUPPORT OF UM OF AMENDMENT.

4:08:38 SO I JUST THINK I'M GONNA I YOU

4:08:40 KNOW AND I OFTEN AS WE DO I'M

4:08:42 GOING TO PUT MY YOU KNOW

4:08:43 ACTIVIST HAT BACK ON AND SAY

4:08:45 THIS ISN'T WHAT WE INTENDED AND

4:08:47 I, I IT'S SCARY RIGHT TO LIKE

4:08:50 YOU KNOW HAVE OPINIONS AND TO

4:08:52 YOU KNOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS

4:08:53 BUT I JUST I THINK WE I NEED TO

4:08:55 STAND BEHIND WHAT I BELIEVE

4:08:56 WHICH IS THAT WE NEED MORE

4:08:58 MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND MORE

4:08:59 MONEY FOR TRANSIT AND SIMPLY

4:09:00 PASSING THE BUCK HERE FOR FOR

4:09:03 TWO MONTHS IS NOT GOING TO DO

4:09:04 THAT.

4:09:04 SO I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE

4:09:06 NO AND HONESTLY LOOK I MEAN

4:09:07 LOOK AT THE MIXED REACTIONS.

4:09:10 THIS IS NOT YOU KNOW,

4:09:12 PROGRESSIVES DEMOCRATS DON'T

4:09:14 FEEL ONE WAY ABOUT THIS.

4:09:15 UM AND I HONESTLY NEITHER DO

4:09:17 REPUBLICANS.

4:09:18 SO IT'S I DON'T THINK IT'S

4:09:19 FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.

4:09:20 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:09:21 ANYONE ELSE FOR TO SPEAK?

4:09:26 COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND FLYNN

4:09:27 SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

4:09:29 AND PASSAGE OF THE SLATE FILE

4:09:31 RESOLUTION ON UH OH.

4:09:34 YEAH.

4:09:34 I BEG YOUR PARDON?

4:09:36 I FORGOT TO ASK ANYONE LIKE TO

4:09:37 ADD THEIR NAMES?

4:09:38 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

4:09:39 NAMES?

4:09:41 COUNCILOR COLOR COLLETTE IS A

4:09:42 POWDER.

4:09:44 HUNTER MURPHY.

4:09:48 COUNCILOR MORRELL AND PLEASE

4:09:51 HAVE THE CHAIR.

4:09:54 SO COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND

4:09:57 FLYNN SUSPEND TO THE RULES AND

4:09:59 PASSAGE OF THIS LATE FINE

4:10:00 MATTER.

4:10:00 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

4:10:04 UH.

4:10:05 ALL OPPOSED.

4:10:05 SAY NAY.

4:10:06 NAY.

4:10:08 OKAY.

4:10:09 MADAM CHAIR.

4:10:09 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:10:11 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

4:10:12 VOTE UH, OBVIOUSLY FILE UH

4:10:14 RESOLUTION.

4:10:15 ROLL CALL.

4:10:16 VOTE ON THE LATE FILE

4:10:18 RESOLUTION, COUNCILOR BREEDEN.

4:10:19 YES.

4:10:19 CONCENTRATE ON THIS COUNCIL.

4:10:21 LET US.

4:10:22 ONCE A LETTER SUPPORTER.

4:10:23 YES.

4:10:24 COUNCIL.

4:10:24 CULPEPER CONCEPT CALLED THE

4:10:26 PREVIOUS COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:10:28 COUNCIL DOCTOR NO.

4:10:29 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD CONTRA

4:10:30 FITZGERALD.

4:10:31 YES.

4:10:32 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:10:32 YES.

4:10:33 HUNTER FLYNN.

4:10:33 YES.

4:10:34 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

4:10:36 COUNCILOR LUCIAN PRESENT.

4:10:37 COUNCIL.

4:10:38 MAYOR.

4:10:39 YES.

4:10:40 PRESENT.

4:10:42 OKAY.

4:10:43 COUNCIL MURPHY AND SAM MURPHY.

4:10:45 YES.

4:10:46 COUNCIL.

4:10:46 BEN.

4:10:48 YES.

4:10:49 COUNCIL.

4:10:49 SANTANA.

4:10:51 CONSISTENT ON THE PRESENT

4:10:53 COUNCIL.

4:10:53 WEBER.

4:10:53 YES.

4:10:55 SO WEBB I GUESS COUNCIL.

4:10:56 AND SO AROUND.

4:10:58 YES.

4:11:03 123456789 YES.

4:11:05 I DID I DID I READY TO WHAT?

4:11:09 YEAH ONE SECOND 123456789 TEN

4:11:16 SOMEBODY SPECIAL I MISSED ONE

4:11:19 SO I'LL GO BACK BUT WE ARE

4:11:21 GOING TO GO BACK AND DO IT

4:11:22 AGAIN JUST COUNCILOR BREADON

4:11:24 YES CONCENTRATE ON YES CONCERT

4:11:27 AS OPERA.

4:11:28 CONCERT CALORIES ABOUT A YES

4:11:29 CONCERT CULPEPER CONCERT

4:11:31 CULPEPER YES CONCERT DUNCAN

4:11:33 HUNTER DUNCAN FITZGERALD.

4:11:35 COUNCIL.

4:11:36 FITZGERALD.

4:11:37 YES.

4:11:37 COUNCIL.

4:11:37 FLYNN.

4:11:38 YES.

4:11:38 ON SO.

4:11:38 FLYNN.

4:11:39 YES.

4:11:40 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE AS I SAID

4:11:41 COUNCIL MEDIA.

4:11:44 PRESENT.

4:11:44 COUNCIL.

4:11:45 MURPHY.

4:11:47 YES.

4:11:47 CONCERT BEN COUNCIL HAS

4:11:50 COUNCIL SANTANA PRESENT AND

4:11:52 COUNCIL WEBER AND

4:11:53 COUNCIL AROUND YES SO 123456789

4:12:00 YES AND THREE PRESENT NINE 1011

4:12:04 YEAH IT'S CORRECT.

4:12:06 SO IS NINE YES THREE PRESENT

4:12:08 AND ONE NO.

4:12:09 THANK YOU MADAM TRUNK UM THIS

4:12:12 RESOLUTION HAS PASSED.

4:12:14 WE'RE ON TO THE SECOND.

4:12:16 UH, WE ON TO A 17 F YES.

4:12:19 YOU HAVE THE 17 F IN FRONT

4:12:21 OF YOU HAVE ABSENT OBJECTION

4:12:23 THESE LIT THIS LIT OKAY.

4:12:27 ABSENT OBJECTION

4:12:29 COUNCILOR DURKAN OBJECTS SO

4:12:32 THIS LIT FILE UH 17 F WILL NOT

4:12:38 BE BROUGHT FORWARD.

4:12:39 AND BASED A HERE IN ORDER THAT.

4:12:41 SUBJECTED TO WE HAVE ONE WE

4:12:43 HAVE ONE MORE WE HAVE A HEARING

4:12:45 ORDER.

4:12:47 UH YOU.

4:12:48 OKAY COUNCILOR UH, DURKAN

4:12:52 OBJECTS TO BRINGING THIS

4:12:53 HEARING ORDER FORWARD.

4:12:55 THEREFORE IT WILL NOT COME

4:12:56 FORWARD.

4:12:58 THANK YOU.

4:13:00 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

4:13:01 CONSENT AGENDA.

4:13:03 I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE

4:13:04 CHURCH THAT THERE ARE NO

4:13:06 THERE'S NO ADDITIONS TO THE

4:13:08 CONSENT AGENDA.

4:13:09 THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON

4:13:10 APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS

4:13:12 CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

4:13:13 AGENDA.

4:13:14 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

4:13:17 THANK YOU.

4:13:18 THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN

4:13:20 ADOPTED.

4:13:21 WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

4:13:25 UM, WOULD ANYONE PLEASE

4:13:28 REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE FOR

4:13:29 UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS?

4:13:31 DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

4:13:33 ANNOUNCEMENTS?

4:13:34 UM, I'LL START WITH

4:13:35 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:13:36 YOU IF YOU GOT YOUR LIGHT ON,

4:13:37 PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHT ON IF YOU

4:13:38 HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

4:13:40 THANK YOU.

4:13:41 THANK YOU FOR THE FLOOR.

4:13:43 MADAM CHAIR.

4:13:43 THERE'S AN IMPORTANT CITY

4:13:45 COUNCIL HEARING TOMORROW AT 10

4:13:47 A.M..

4:13:47 IT'S ABOUT THE BLACKSTONE

4:13:49 SWIMMING POOL AND I.

4:13:51 I BELIEVE IT'S AT 10:00 IN THE

4:13:53 MORNING.

4:13:53 I DO WANT TO ASK ALL MY CITY

4:13:55 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO BE THERE

4:13:57 .

4:13:57 THE BLACKSTONE HASN'T HAD A

4:13:59 POOL IN THE LONGEST PERIOD

4:14:00 OF TIME.

4:14:01 WE'RE TRYING TO GET AN

4:14:02 INDEPENDENT STUDY ENGINEERING

4:14:04 STUDY SO WE CAN HOPEFULLY FIX

4:14:07 THE POOL.

4:14:08 BUT I REALLY NEED ALL MY CITY

4:14:10 COUNCILORS PRESENT TOMORROW

4:14:12 ENGAGED ASKING QUESTIONS

4:14:14 SUPPORTING THE BLACKSTONE

4:14:15 SCHOOL.

4:14:16 THIS IS ABOUT PROVIDING

4:14:18 RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH END IN

4:14:20 ROXBURY WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO

4:14:21 HAVE A SWIMMING POOL AND MADAM

4:14:23 CHAIR, I HAD A CITY

4:14:25 COUNCIL HEARING THE OTHER DAY.

4:14:27 NOT ONE CITY COUNCILOR ATTENDED

4:14:29 MY HEARING.

4:14:30 SO I AM ASKING YOU UM TO COME

4:14:33 TO MY HEARING TOMORROW BECAUSE

4:14:35 IT IS IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.

4:14:37 IT'S ALSO ABOUT PROVIDING

4:14:39 ACCESS TO PEOPLE OF COLOR SO

4:14:42 THAT THEY CAN ENJOY A SWIMMING

4:14:43 POOL AND A PREDOMINANTLY UH,

4:14:46 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AREA WHICH

4:14:48 IS SURROUNDED BY THE UM RUTH

4:14:50 BERKELEY APARTMENTS WHICH IS

4:14:51 CATHEDRAL UH CASTLE SQUARE IS

4:14:54 UP THE ROAD UH VILLA VICTORIA

4:14:57 ROXBURY IS RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD.

4:14:58 THIS IS A JUSTICE ISSUE.

4:14:59 I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO BE

4:15:01 THERE TOMORROW MORNING AT 10:00

4:15:02 AM.

4:15:02 THANK YOU.

4:15:04 COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

4:15:05 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:15:06 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:15:07 AND MADAM PRESIDENT, I DO

4:15:09 SUPPORT THE BLACKSTONE SCHOOL

4:15:11 GETTING A SWIMMING POOL.

4:15:13 UH, TOMORROW MORNING IS THE

4:15:15 FUNERAL HOME GOING FOR VICTORY

4:15:18 VOLUME FOR FORMER CHAIR WARD 12

4:15:22 ,UH, AND FORMER FAIR HOUSING

4:15:24 DIRECTOR IN THE CITY.

4:15:25 I'LL BE AT THAT FUNERAL

4:15:26 TOMORROW MORNING.

4:15:27 BUT I DO SUPPORT

4:15:30 COUNCILOR FLYNN IN HIS EFFORTS,

4:15:31 UH, TO BRING THE POOL TO THE

4:15:33 BLACKSTONE SCHOOL.

4:15:33 THANK YOU.

4:15:35 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER CHAIR

4:15:36 RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE PEPEN.

4:15:37 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:15:39 THANK YOU.

4:15:40 UH, MADAM PRESIDENT, I

4:15:42 APPRECIATE THE ADVOCACY FOR THE

4:15:44 BLACKSTONE.

4:15:44 I KNOW THAT COUNCILOR FINISHES

4:15:46 UP TO MY DISTRICT QUITE A BIT

4:15:48 FOR EVENTS, SO I'LL BE THERE

4:15:49 TOMORROW TO SUPPORT YOU.

4:15:50 BUT, UM, AND THIS WEEKEND IN

4:15:53 ROSLINDALE WE HAVE THE DUMPLING

4:15:56 FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY BUT ALSO,

4:15:59 UM, TO SUPPORT THE CLERK ALEX

4:16:02 THE GREAT COMMUNITY FRIDAY,

4:16:03 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IS THE

4:16:04 GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL UH SCENIC

4:16:07 CHURCH.

4:16:07 SO I'M INVITING ALL MY

4:16:08 COLLEAGUES AND SOME GOOD FOOD,

4:16:10 SOME GREEK FOOD AND SOME

4:16:11 DUMPLINGS AND ROZZI THANK YOU.

4:16:13 SOUNDS LIKE THE PLACE TO BE.

4:16:15 UH, CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:16:17 COUNCILOR DURKAN AND THEN WE'LL

4:16:18 GO TO COUNCILOR MURPHY.

4:16:19 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

4:16:20 UM, TOMORROW THE LINK FOR US IS

4:16:22 DOING A RIBBON CUTTING.

4:16:23 UM, I THINK SOME OF US REMEMBER

4:16:24 BUT THROUGH THE ARPA FUNDS

4:16:26 THERE, UH, IT PAID FOR A NEW

4:16:29 BUS FOR THE MISSION HALL LINK.

4:16:30 SO EXCITED FOR THAT TOMORROW.

4:16:32 UM, AND THEN ON SATURDAY IS THE

4:16:33 MISSION HALL ROAD RACE.

4:16:34 UH, WE JUST HEARD RAIN OR SHINE

4:16:36 AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S AT

4:16:38 KEVIN FITZGERALD PARK, SO I

4:16:39 IMAGINE ALL THE FITZGERALDS

4:16:40 WILL BE HERE.

4:16:41 SO, UM, HOPE THAT EVERYONE WILL

4:16:43 BE THERE ON SATURDAY AND IT'S A

4:16:45 REQUIREMENT YOU HAVE TO BE

4:16:46 THERE.

4:16:47 SO UM SO WE'LL WE'LL SEE

4:16:49 EVERYONE ON SATURDAY.

4:16:50 UM, AND I HEARD

4:16:51 COUNCILOR CEPHAS RUNNING NOW SO

4:16:53 ,YOU KNOW, RAIN OR SHINE.

4:16:55 UH, COUNCILOR FOR FUN I HOPE

4:16:57 YOU CAN RUN IN THE FIVE.

4:16:58 OKAY.

4:16:58 THANK YOU.

4:16:58 IT'S THE HEALTHIEST ONE IN

4:17:00 BOSTON.

4:17:01 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:17:03 COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL.

4:17:04 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:17:05 UM.

4:17:05 THANK YOU.

4:17:06 AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

4:17:07 FOR.

4:17:08 UPLIFTING TOMORROW'S HEARING.

4:17:10 AND I'M SORRY I WAS NOT AT

4:17:11 YOUR HEARING LAST WEEK.

4:17:13 WE ARE BUSY.

4:17:14 WE HAVE LIVES.

4:17:15 MY SON NEEDED ME FOR SEVERAL

4:17:17 DAYS.

4:17:18 MY DOG DIED.

4:17:19 I DIDN'T GET TO FILE MY 17 F

4:17:21 ONE TIME.

4:17:21 I WISH MY COLLEAGUE SHOULD

4:17:23 GRACE.

4:17:25 BUT I ALSO AM UPSET THAT

4:17:28 SCHEDULED SOMETHING AT THE SAME

4:17:30 TIME TO SHOWCASE THAT THE

4:17:32 BLACKSTONE HAS MADE SOME

4:17:34 RENOVATIONS IN THEIR BUILDING

4:17:36 AT THE EXACT SAME TIME THAT

4:17:37 WE'RE HOLDING THIS IMPORTANT

4:17:39 HEARING FOR THE COMMUNITY.

4:17:40 SO I REALLY HOPE THAT THE

4:17:41 ADMINISTRATION SHOWS UP AND

4:17:42 DOESN'T JUST GO TO A RIBBON

4:17:44 CUTTING BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY

4:17:46 DESERVES MORE THAN PAINT OR A

4:17:48 FEW NEW BOOKSHELVES IN THE

4:17:49 SCHOOL.

4:17:50 THEY DESERVE A POOL.

4:17:51 I WILL BE THERE AND I APOLOGIZE

4:17:53 FOR NOT BEING THERE.

4:17:54 I TRY VERY HARD TO GET TO ALL

4:17:57 OF THE HEARINGS BUT WHEN MY

4:17:58 FAMILY NEEDS ME I NEED TO BE

4:18:00 THERE.

4:18:00 THANK YOU.

4:18:01 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

4:18:02 ANYONE ELSE?

4:18:06 SO WHEN WISHING A VERY HAPPY

4:18:09 BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO

4:18:10 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IS IT YOUR

4:18:12 BIRTHDAY?

4:18:15 IT'S THIS FRIDAY.

4:18:17 GOOD.

4:18:18 WELL, WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY

4:18:19 BIRTHDAY.

4:18:21 UH, AND ALSO TO SAMANTHA PARISI

4:18:24 OF CANCER COLLECTORS THE

4:18:25 PARTIES OFFICE, UM, ANYONE AT

4:18:28 ANY OTHER BIRTHDAYS TO SHOUT

4:18:30 OUT?

4:18:30 I ALSO WANT TO WISH, UH, MY

4:18:33 SPOUSE MARY MCCARTHY.

4:18:34 UM.

4:18:35 WE WE CELEBRATE UH, BIRTHDAYS

4:18:38 BY THE MONTH IN OUR UH IN OUR

4:18:39 HOUSEHOLD.

4:18:40 SO IF YOUR BIRTHDAY FALLS IN

4:18:41 SEPTEMBER YOU GET A BIRTHDAY

4:18:42 MONTH FOR THE WHOLE THE WHOLE

4:18:43 MONTH AND IT'S A ROLLING

4:18:45 CONVENTION.

4:18:45 IT'S HAPPENS OVER AND OVER.

4:18:47 SO, UH, MARY'S BIRTHDAY WAS ON

4:18:49 SET ON SUNDAY LAST AND JUST

4:18:50 WANTED TO WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY

4:18:52 BIRTHDAY AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS

4:18:53 OF THE DAY.

4:18:55 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

4:18:57 MEMORIALS.

4:18:58 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT IN

4:18:59 THEM AND PLEASE UM I ENCOURAGE

4:19:01 EVERYONE TO SPEAK UP AS BEST

4:19:03 THEY CAN.

4:19:03 UH IT WAS MY HEARING IS NOT THE

4:19:05 BEST.

4:19:06 WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL.

4:19:07 WELL.

4:19:08 UH THANK YOU.

4:19:08 MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:19:09 I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE

4:19:10 NAME OF THEODORE UH, WEBSTER.

4:19:12 UM.

4:19:13 AND THE CARROLL FAMILY.

4:19:15 UH, THEODORE WEBSTER WAS THE

4:19:16 FOUNDER AND CEO OF WEBSTER

4:19:19 EXCAVATION COMPANY.

4:19:20 UM, A DEVOTED FATHER,

4:19:22 GRANDFATHER AND ADVOCATE FOR

4:19:24 MINORITY CONTRACTORS AND

4:19:26 WORKERS IN BOSTON.

4:19:27 SO I JUST WANT TO, UH,

4:19:28 RECOGNIZE, UH, THE WEBSTER AND

4:19:29 CARROLL FAMILY.

4:19:31 THANK YOU.

4:19:32 WHEN I MOVE ON TO

4:19:34 COUNCILOR MEJIA, YOU HAVE THE

4:19:35 FLOOR.

4:19:36 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:19:38 UM, I.

4:19:40 LIKE TO.

4:19:41 READ, UH, INTO THE RECORD UM.

4:19:44 IN MEMORIAL DOCTOR.

4:19:46 COUSIN FERGUSON, UM.

4:19:49 WHO PASSED AWAY.

4:19:51 A FEW DAYS AGO.

4:19:52 UM.

4:19:53 HE WAS.

4:19:54 A PROFESSOR A TEN YEAR

4:19:56 PROFESSOR AT UMASS BOSTON

4:19:58 FORWARD.

4:19:58 ,UH, SINCE 1979.

4:20:00 SO DO.

4:20:00 THE MATH.

4:20:01 A LONG TIME UM, AND A LOT

4:20:04 OF HIS.

4:20:05 FOCUS WAS AROUND.

4:20:06 THE EVOLUTION OF.

4:20:07 CONSCIOUSNESS RACE.

4:20:09 RELATIONS.

4:20:09 HUMAN RELATIONS.

4:20:10 CULTURAL AWARENESS.

4:20:12 UM.

4:20:13 AND I GOT TO.

4:20:14 MEET HIM.

4:20:15 UH, THROUGH.

4:20:16 OUR REPARATIONS TASK FORCE WORK

4:20:18 .

4:20:19 UM.

4:20:20 WHERE HE SAT AND.

4:20:22 USHERED US.

4:20:23 IN IN A GROUP OF VERY, UH.

4:20:25 SPIRITED ACTIVISTS.

4:20:27 AROUND PUTTING TOGETHER THE

4:20:29 REPARATIONS TASK FORCE

4:20:30 ORDINANCE.

4:20:31 SO I WANT TO.

4:20:33 EXTEND MY.

4:20:34 CONDOLENCES TO HIS.

4:20:35 FAMILY, UM.

4:20:36 FOR THE PASSING OF THEIR LOVED

4:20:38 ONES, INCLUDING.

4:20:39 ALL OF THOSE STUDENTS.

4:20:41 UM, HE USED.

4:20:41 TO INVITE ME EVERY YEAR TO

4:20:42 SPEAK TO HIS STUDENTS.

4:20:44 I DON'T KNOW WHY.

4:20:45 BUT I KEPT SHOWING UP

4:20:46 ANYWAYS.

4:20:46 BUT.

4:20:47 UM, GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY

4:20:49 TO BE IN COMMUNITY WITH YOUNG

4:20:50 PEOPLE.

4:20:51 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK UM.

4:20:53 HIM FOR ALWAYS SEEING ALL OF US

4:20:55 AND CREATING SPACE FOR FOLKS.

4:20:57 AND SO MY.

4:20:58 MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO

4:20:59 HIS FAMILY.

4:21:02 AND UM.

4:21:05 MY FATHER SOME OF YOU KNEW.

4:21:09 THAT UM.

4:21:10 MY FATHER.

4:21:10 WAS BATTLING CANCER.

4:21:13 UM.

4:21:14 AND HE WAS AT HOME CARE

4:21:15 HOSPICE OVER THE LAST FOUR

4:21:17 MONTHS.

4:21:19 AND I.

4:21:20 HAD A VERY INTERESTING

4:21:22 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

4:21:23 SO IT WASN'T ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL.

4:21:24 IT WAS MESSY AND COMPLICATED

4:21:26 AS.

4:21:26 WE ALL ARE.

4:21:27 AS HUMANS.

4:21:28 BUT WHEN.

4:21:29 I HAD MY DAUGHTER.

4:21:31 I REACHED OUT TO HIM UM, IN THE

4:21:34 LAST 16 YEARS HE HAD BECOME THE

4:21:36 FATHER THAT I ALWAYS NEEDED AND

4:21:37 SO.

4:21:38 I WAS.

4:21:39 INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE

4:21:40 TO SPEND.

4:21:41 HIS FINAL DAYS, UM.

4:21:44 WITH HIM.

4:21:45 AND UM.

4:21:49 YOU KNOW, YOU.

4:21:52 IT'S JUST HARD.

4:21:53 UM.

4:21:53 WHEN YOU.

4:21:54 LOSE A PARENT AND I.

4:21:55 KNOW BECAUSE BREATHING YOU

4:21:57 HAVE.

4:21:57 LOSS AND.

4:21:59 SO YOU KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT

4:22:01 IS.

4:22:02 UM.

4:22:03 BUT MY.

4:22:04 FATHER WAS A FIGHTER.

4:22:06 HE WAS A LEFTIST.

4:22:08 PROGRESSIVE BEFORE.

4:22:09 HIS AGE HE FOUGHT.

4:22:10 AGAINST THROUGH.

4:22:10 HE JOE THE.

4:22:11 DICTATOR THAT'S AMERICAN.

4:22:12 REPUBLIC UM AND CAME TO THIS

4:22:15 COUNTRY TO ENSURE THAT.

4:22:17 HIS CHILDREN HAD A BETTER LIFE

4:22:18 AND.

4:22:19 JUST WANT TO.

4:22:19 THANK HIM FOR BRINGING ME TO

4:22:22 AMERICA AND.

4:22:24 YOU KNOW.

4:22:25 AND GIVING ME LIFE AND MORE

4:22:27 IMPORTANTLY GIVING MY DAUGHTER

4:22:29 A GRANDFATHER THAT SHE DESERVED

4:22:31 TO HAVE.

4:22:31 AND SO.

4:22:32 UM.

4:22:33 HE LEAVES BEHIND.

4:22:35 UM, RAFAEL.

4:22:36 MEJIA IBM HE UH.

4:22:38 EVELYN MCGEE.

4:22:39 UH.

4:22:40 AND JULIA.

4:22:41 MEJIA ALONGSIDE WITH HIS FOUR

4:22:43 GRANDCHILDREN.

4:22:45 BRANDON, SARAH, ALEXIA.

4:22:49 AND AND ELISE.

4:22:51 UM AND SO SENDING MY SINCERE

4:22:53 CONDOLENCES TO MY FAMILY IN NEW

4:22:55 YORK.

4:22:56 UM.

4:22:57 AND WANT TO THANK MY

4:22:58 COLLEAGUES FOR REACHING OUT.

4:23:00 IT HAS MEANT.

4:23:01 THE WORLD TO ME.

4:23:03 UM.

4:23:04 BECAUSE I THINK AND.

4:23:06 I'M LOOKING TO COUNCILOR.

4:23:07 LOUIJEUNE THAT OFTENTIMES.

4:23:10 WE GET SO CAUGHT UP.

4:23:11 BEING IN THIS CHAMBER THAT WE

4:23:12 DON'T.

4:23:13 LOOK AT THE HUMANITY.

4:23:15 OF WHO WE ARE.

4:23:16 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK.

4:23:18 YOU TO YOU PUBLICLY.

4:23:19 UM, BECAUSE AFTER.

4:23:22 MY FAINTING SPELL.

4:23:22 AND YOU KNOW.

4:23:25 THE LEARNING.

4:23:25 THE LOSS OF MY FATHER, YOU

4:23:26 HAVE REALLY STOOD UP FOR ME.

4:23:28 AND STEPPED UP FOR ME IN WAYS

4:23:30 THAT.

4:23:30 I WANT TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE

4:23:32 PUBLICLY.

4:23:33 UM, AND SO MY MY DAD RAFAEL.

4:23:38 HERE.

4:23:39 UM.

4:23:40 REST IN PEACE.

4:23:41 I KNOW HE'S PLAYING DOMINOES

4:23:42 RIGHT.

4:23:42 NOW DRINKING CORONAS.

4:23:44 HE LOVED.

4:23:45 THE YANKEES.

4:23:46 I WAS A RED SOX FAN SO WE

4:23:48 ALWAYS HAD ISSUES THERE.

4:23:49 BUT I.

4:23:50 KNOW HE'S IN A BETTER PLACE AND

4:23:51 HE'S AT PEACE.

4:23:52 SO THANK.

4:23:53 YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO GO.

4:23:54 ON A LITTLE ONE.

4:23:55 THANK YOU.

4:23:57 FROM HERE, UM, WOULD YOU MIND

4:23:59 REPEATING THE NAME OF DOCTOR

4:24:01 KERRY CARR?

4:24:02 YES.

4:24:03 UM, HE WAS AFFECTIONATELY

4:24:05 KNOWN AS CUFF.

4:24:07 UM.

4:24:08 BUT HIS LAST NAME WAS FERGUSON

4:24:10 .

4:24:11 FERGUSON.

4:24:13 OKAY.

4:24:15 THANK YOU.

4:24:17 UM, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, YOU

4:24:19 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:24:19 THANK YOU.

4:24:20 AND I.

4:24:21 KNOW THAT WE ALL.

4:24:22 SHARE WITH CONDOLENCES TO YOU.

4:24:24 I KNOW THAT.

4:24:24 WE'VE HEARD FROM MANY WHO'VE

4:24:25 LOST THEIR PARENT THAT IT FEELS

4:24:27 REALLY ON ANCHORING AND SO.

4:24:28 UM.

4:24:29 JUST CONTINUED CONDOLENCES

4:24:30 I'D LIKE TO.

4:24:31 UPLIFT THE NAME OF MARVIN.

4:24:32 ANTOINE WHO WAS A FOOTBALL

4:24:35 PLAYER AT UMASS DARTMOUTH AND

4:24:36 WHO WAS VERY, VERY TRAGICALLY

4:24:39 KILLED IN RHODE ISLAND, UM,

4:24:40 FROM FALL RIVER.

4:24:41 BUT I HAVE JUST REACHED, HEARD

4:24:43 AND RECEIVED OUTRAGE FROM SO

4:24:45 MANY WHO WERE.

4:24:45 WHO KNEW.

4:24:46 HIM OR AFFECTED THE ENTIRE

4:24:48 UMASS DARTMOUTH COMMUNITY.

4:24:49 UM HE'S HE BELOVED COMES FROM A

4:24:51 BELOVED HAITIAN, UH, AMERICAN

4:24:53 FAMILY.

4:24:54 SO JUST MY CONDOLENCES TO

4:24:56 MARVIN ANTOINE AND THE ENTIRE

4:24:59 UMASS DARTMOUTH COMMUNITY AS

4:25:00 THEY GRIEVE HIS PASSING AND HIS

4:25:01 FOOTBALL TEAM AND HIS SISTER

4:25:03 AND ENTIRE FAMILY.

4:25:05 THANK YOU.

4:25:06 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:25:08 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

4:25:09 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:25:09 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:25:11 I JUST WANT TO KEEP MY CHIEF

4:25:12 OF STAFF AMANDA CURLEY AND I

4:25:13 THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AS SHE

4:25:14 DEALS WITH THE LOSS OF HER

4:25:16 GRANDFATHER JOHN JACK.

4:25:17 CURLEY JUNIOR.

4:25:19 UH, SHE'S HAVING A IT'S A TOUGH

4:25:20 WEEK FOR HER.

4:25:21 SHE LOST A FRIEND AS WELL.

4:25:22 AND, UM, SO THAT'S THE REST

4:25:24 OF THIS WEEK.

4:25:25 THAT'S WHAT SHE'LL BE UH,

4:25:27 SHE'LL SHE'LL BE PARTICIPATING

4:25:28 IN AND, UM, I KNOW IT'S NOT

4:25:30 EASY AND, UH, JUST TO THE

4:25:31 CURLEY FAMILY I WANT TO SAY,

4:25:32 UH.

4:25:33 WE'RE KEEPING.

4:25:33 THAT FAMILY AND OUR THOUGHTS

4:25:34 AND PRAYERS.

4:25:34 THANK YOU.

4:25:36 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:25:38 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:25:38 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

4:25:39 UM, A LOT OF US KNOW JOHN PAUL.

4:25:41 JEANNIE.

4:25:41 UM, BUT I CALLED HIM THE OTHER

4:25:43 DAY.

4:25:43 HE WORKS ON DEVELOPMENT IN

4:25:44 BOSTON AND HE'S FROM HYDE PARK.

4:25:46 UM, HIS MOM AUDREY, UH, PASSED

4:25:48 AWAY, UM, IN LATE AUGUST, SO

4:25:51 JUST WANTED TO SEND MY REGARDS

4:25:53 TO THE WHOLE JEANNIE MCCARTHY

4:25:54 FAMILY.

4:25:55 UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT

4:25:57 OFTENTIMES WE'RE WORKING WITH

4:25:58 PEOPLE ON, YOU KNOW, THE THE

4:26:00 WORK OF WHAT THEY WORK WITH.

4:26:01 UM, BUT TO TO KNOW HIM, UH, HE

4:26:04 HE WORKS VERY PROFESSIONALLY

4:26:05 AND AS A LAWYER IN THE CITY

4:26:07 AND, UM, JUST WANTED TO SEND MY

4:26:09 BEST TO HIS FAMILY AND, UM AND

4:26:10 TO EVERYONE WHO LOVED HIS.

4:26:11 MOM.

4:26:12 SAID AUDREY JEANNIE MCCARTHY.

4:26:15 AUDREY.

4:26:21 POLICY WILL.

4:26:22 DO YOU PRAYER.

4:26:25 THANK YOU.

4:26:26 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:26:29 COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU HAVE.

4:26:29 MADAM PRESIDENT WANTED TO LIFT

4:26:31 UP THE FAMILY.

4:26:32 UH, GOOD FAMILY.

4:26:34 FRIEND FRED DAVIS.

4:26:36 PASSED AND EVEN THOUGH HE'S IN

4:26:39 CALIFORNIA.

4:26:40 HIS FAMILY IS IN CALIFORNIA

4:26:42 DOESN'T LESSEN THE PAIN FROM

4:26:44 THE.

4:26:45 LOSS OF FRED DAVIS.

4:26:47 NAME AGAIN.

4:26:48 FRED DAVIS.

4:26:50 FOR DAVIS.

4:26:51 THANK YOU.

4:26:52 FOR.

4:26:58 THANK YOU.

4:27:02 ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR

4:27:03 FITZGERALD JOHN JACK KEARNEY

4:27:08 I'M GOOD BEHALF OF CONSTANT

4:27:10 LOVE AND ANTHONY.

4:27:12 AND THE UM AND WE ALSO HOLD UP

4:27:15 THE HIS COMMUNITY OF THE UMASS

4:27:16 COMMUNITY AND DARTMOUTH ON

4:27:20 BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY

4:27:23 COUNCIL RAFAEL MEJIA BEHALF

4:27:27 OF CONSTABLE ROYAL THEODORE

4:27:30 WEBSTER ON BEHALF OF CONSUMER

4:27:33 HERE COUNCIL UH DOCTOR FERGUSON

4:27:37 AND COUNCILOR ON BEHALF

4:27:40 COUNCILOR DURKAN AUDREY

4:27:41 MCCARTHY.

4:27:42 JEANNIE AND ON BEHALF

4:27:45 OF COUNCILOR CULPEPER FRED

4:27:48 DAVIS.

4:27:52 A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE.

4:28:02 COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO MEET

4:28:04 AGAIN ON THE IRON AT A CHAMBER

4:28:06 ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH

4:28:08 2026 AT 12 P.M..

4:28:10 THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES,

4:28:11 CENTRAL STAFF, THE CHURCH, THE

4:28:13 CHURCH OFFICE AND THE

4:28:15 COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER.

4:28:16 ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT

4:28:17 PLEASE SAY I THANK YOU.

4:28:21 THIS COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.