Boston City Council Meeting on September 23, 2026
2026-09-23

[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.