Boston City Council Meeting on September 16, 2026

0:58 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

1:17 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:19 GOOD TO SEE SO MANY FOLKS IN

1:21 THE CHAMBER THIS AFTERNOON.

1:23 I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING

1:25 OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

1:27 VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE

1:28 COUNCIL MEETING ON

1:30 YOUTUBE@BOSTON.GOV BACKSLASH

1:32 CITY COUNCIL TV.

1:34 AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

1:36 COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

1:37 AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

1:38 THEIR CELL PHONES AND

1:39 ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

1:41 ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 40 AND

1:43 REMIND ALL IN THE CHAMBER THAT

1:45 NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

1:47 DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

1:48 PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

1:50 THANK YOU.

1:50 AND ALSO PER COUNCIL RULES I

1:53 KNOW WE'RE WELCOMING UH, FOLKS

1:54 FROM THE ONCOR, UH, WORKERS.

1:58 UM, AND JUST A REMINDER THAT

2:00 PER COUNCIL RULES, DISPLAYING

2:02 OF SIGNS IS NOT PERMITTED

2:03 WITHIN THE CHAMBER.

2:04 SO I APPRECIATE YOUR, UM, ALL

2:06 BEING HERE AND WE KNOW WHY

2:08 YOU'RE HERE.

2:09 WE'RE SUPPORTIVE.

2:10 UH, BUT, UH, THE COUNCIL RULES

2:12 WITH NO SIGN.

2:12 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR

2:13 COOPERATION WITH THAT.

2:14 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:15 COULD YOU PLEASE CALL A ROLL,

2:17 UH, TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE

2:18 OF A QUORUM?

2:20 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:22 HERE.

2:23 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PERSON.

2:24 YEAH.

2:25 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:26 COUNCIL.

2:27 DURKAN.

2:28 COUNCIL.

2:28 FITZGERALD.

2:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:30 YEAH.

2:31 COUNCILOR.

2:31 LOUIJEUNE.

2:32 COUNCILOR.

2:32 MEJIA.

2:34 COUNCILOR.

2:34 MURPHY.

2:35 COUNCILOR.

2:36 PEPEN.

2:36 COUNCILOR.

2:37 SANTANA.

2:38 COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCIL.

2:40 WE'RE HERE.

2:41 A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

2:43 THANK YOU.

2:43 BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK

2:45 THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

2:46 NOW IT'S MY PLEASURE TO ASK,

2:48 UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA TO COME

2:50 FORWARD AND INTRODUCE TODAY'S

2:51 STRATEGY.

2:52 FOLLOWING, UH, THE REMARKS FROM

2:54 THE TODAY'S STRATEGY WE PLEDGE

2:57 WE TAKE THE PLEDGE, WE RECITE

2:59 THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

3:00 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

3:06 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

3:07 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:10 IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE

3:13 WILSON SANTOS, A PASTOR AND

3:15 DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT, TO

3:17 LEAD TODAY'S INVOCATION.

3:19 MR SANTOS IS AN IMMIGRANT FROM

3:20 THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WHO HAS

3:22 BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE

3:24 CONGREGATION ON THE HULA, A

3:26 BILINGUAL CHURCH BASED IN

3:28 ROXBURY SINCE 1991.

3:31 THERE HE SERVED AS YOUTH PASTOR

3:33 FOR 12 YEARS AND BECAME A FULL

3:34 TIME AND FULL TIME ASSOCIATE

3:36 PASTOR IN 2025.

3:38 NOT ONLY HAS HE BEEN DEEPLY

3:41 INVOLVED IN THE CHURCH, BUT HE

3:43 HAS SHOWN HIS DEDICATION TO

3:45 SERVING THE YOUTH OF OUR CITY.

3:46 THROUGH HIS WORK WITH THE

3:48 DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES,

3:49 THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND

3:50 FAMILIES AND AS THE SUPERVISOR

3:53 OF THE ATTENDANCE UH FOR BOSTON

3:55 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

3:56 HE ALSO SERVES ON THE BOARD

3:57 OF THE BOSTON HIGHER EDUCATION

3:59 RESOURCE CENTER, AND HE

4:02 CELEBRATED HIS 25TH WEDDING

4:03 ANNIVERSARY WITH HIS WIFE THIS

4:05 PAST MAY.

4:06 I KNOW SO MUCH.

4:07 YEAH.

4:08 PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING ME A

4:09 WARM WELCOME.

4:10 SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN HERE, UM,

4:13 UM, IN THIS CHAMBER, UM, TO

4:15 PASTOR WILSON'S AND THOSE.

4:16 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.

4:18 THANK YOU.

4:19 WELL, HE KNOWS ME PRETTY WELL.

4:20 I DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT THAT

4:22 INFORMATION THAT I JUST

4:23 CELEBRATED MY 25 YEAR

4:24 ANNIVERSARY.

4:25 I WANT TO JUST TO READ A QUICK

4:27 VERSE AND I WANT TO JUST TO

4:28 PRAY OVER EVERYONE WHO'S IN

4:31 THIS ROOM, ESPECIALLY OUR CITY

4:32 COUNCILORS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT

4:33 YOU HAVE A TOUGH JOB

4:36 REPRESENTING THE CITY OF BOSTON

4:37 AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF PRESSURE.

4:39 SO I'M GOING TO A VERY SIMPLE

4:41 VERSE THAT YOU FIND IT IN JAMES

4:43 ONE FIVE.

4:44 UM, THE TWO THINGS I WANT TO

4:46 PRAY ABOUT.

4:46 I WANTED TO PRAY OVER WISDOM

4:47 AND UNITY.

4:48 THAT I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING

4:49 THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED IN

4:51 THESE TIMES.

4:52 SO JAMES ONE FIVE SAYS THIS

4:55 WHEN YOU GET OLDER IN YOUR

4:56 READING GLASSES BUT IF ANYONE

4:59 LACKS WISDOM LET HIM ASK OF GOD

5:02 WHO GIVES TO ALL GENEROUSLY AND

5:04 WITHOUT REPROACH AND IT WILL BE

5:06 GIVEN TO HIM.

5:10 UM HEAVENLY FATHER I JUST THANK

5:11 YOU LORD FOR THIS MORNING.

5:13 THANK YOU FOR THIS GATHERING

5:14 HERE LORD.

5:15 LORD I PRAY FOR EVERY CITY

5:18 COUNCILOR THAT'S HERE.

5:18 LORD GOD YOU KNOW THEM BY NAME

5:20 LORD AND YOU KNOW THEM BY NAME.

5:23 LORD JESUS, I PRAY FOR WISDOM

5:25 OVER THEM LORD GOD AS THEY HAVE

5:28 A LOT OF HARD THINGS THAT THEY

5:29 HAVE TO UM DEAL WITH EVERY DAY

5:31 LORD GOD.

5:32 SO I PRAY FOR WISDOM OVER THEM.

5:34 I PRAY FOR PROTECTION OVER

5:35 THEIR FAMILIES LORD GOD.

5:38 UM AND ALWAYS TO THEM TO KNOW

5:39 THAT THEY COULD TAP INTO YOU

5:41 LORD JESUS IF THEY EVER NEED

5:43 ANYTHING THEY COULD TAP INTO

5:44 YOU.

5:44 LORD, IF WE ASK FOR WISDOM

5:46 DIRECTION FROM YOU YOU WILL

5:48 GIVE IT TO US LORD GOD.

5:49 AND AGAIN I PRAY FOR TODAY'S

5:51 MEETING AND ALL THE THINGS THAT

5:52 THEY'RE GOING TO BE TALKING

5:53 ABOUT.

5:54 I PRAY FOR EVERY PERSON IN THIS

5:55 ROOM LORD GOD BECAUSE YOU ALSO

5:56 KNOW THEM AND YOU LOVE THEM

5:58 LORD GOD.

5:58 AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO JUST

6:00 THANK YOU FOR THE SERVICE THAT

6:02 THEY DO EVERY DAY LORD GOD THAT

6:04 THEY DO THINGS THAT SOMETIMES

6:05 PEOPLE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE

6:06 THAT THEY'RE WORKING FOR FOR

6:08 THE PEOPLE OF GOD.

6:09 SO AGAIN I JUST PRAY FOR WISDOM

6:10 AND UNITY AMONGST THEM SO THEY

6:13 COULD PUSH THE THINGS FORWARD

6:15 THAT THIS CITY NEEDS.

6:17 I PRAY FOR THESE THINGS IN

6:18 JESUS NAME AMEN.

6:20 AMEN.

6:21 THANK YOU.

6:23 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE

6:25 FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES

6:26 OF AMERICA.

6:29 REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS

6:30 ONE NATION UNDER GOD,

6:34 INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND

6:35 JUSTICE FOR ALL.

6:41 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

6:43 UH, BEFORE WE GO ON TO OUR

6:45 REGULAR PRESENTATIONS, UH, WE

6:48 UH WE WILL BE VOTING ON A

6:50 RESOLUTION LATER IN THE

6:51 MEETING, UH, REGARDING IN

6:53 SUPPORT OF THE WORKERS AT ONCOR

6:56 BOSTON HARBOR.

6:57 UH, SO WE'D LIKE TO TAKE A FEW

6:59 MINUTES TO ASK OUR BROTHERS AND

7:01 SISTERS FROM THE UNCLE WORKERS

7:03 TO COME FORWARD AND HAVE A

7:04 PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN WITH THE CITY

7:06 COUNCIL AND I'LL ASK MY

7:07 COLLEAGUES TO COME FORWARD AS

7:10 WELL.

7:10 SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME DOWN?

7:19 AND.

7:23 CONFIRM WHEN IT COME ON.

7:27 OH NO.

7:28 OKAY.

7:29 YEAH, IT'S BEEN A WHILE.

7:31 YEAH.

7:39 I GOT YOU KNOW.

7:42 RIGHT NEXT TO ME.

7:43 COME ON.

7:45 RIGHT HERE.

7:50 AND COME.

7:55 YEAH YEAH YEAH RIGHT HERE.

8:08 SO.

8:13 YEAH YEAH RIGHT THERE.

8:20 YEAH RIGHT.

8:29 SO SO SO EXCITED ABOUT THINGS

8:31 LIKE.

8:53 I'LL.

8:58 YOU YEAH.

9:09 I.

9:14 YEAH YEAH GOOD.

9:21 YEAH SO NOW I GET.

9:30 UM I CAN ONLY.

9:36 GET BRIAN AS CHIEF.

9:39 YEAH YEAH I, I WAS A LITTLE

9:43 YEAH YEAH I DID UH YEAH IT'S

9:50 NOT.

9:54 MY FIRST.

9:59 YEAH BUT IT.

10:03 THANK YOU EVERYONE WE ARE NOW

10:06 ON TO PRESENTATIONS TODAY WE

10:08 HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS.

10:09 COUNCILOR COLLETTE IS A PATA IS

10:12 RECOGNIZING LENNY CURTIS AND

10:14 COUNCILOR WORRELL IS UH GOING

10:15 TO RECOGNIZE MARCUS CRAIG WELL

10:17 THE HEAD OF THE LACROSSE COACH

10:19 AT BC HIGH.

10:20 SO WE'LL START WITH CONSTABLE

10:21 COLLETTE AS A PARTNER AND HER

10:23 GUEST UH, LENNY CURTIS.

10:45 PRESENTATION.

10:49 OKAY.

10:51 COME ON UP ON THE DAIS.

10:53 UM, I WANT MY KNEE TO STAND

10:55 RIGHT NEXT TO MEJIA.

10:56 UM, I THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

10:59 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT, FOR

11:01 ALLOWING US TO HAVE THIS SPACE

11:02 TO HONOR, UH, YOUR OWN

11:04 INSTITUTION, LENNY CURTIS.

11:06 WE'RE JOINED HERE BY HIS SISTER

11:08 KATHY, HIS BROTHER GLENN.

11:09 AND I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO

11:10 DO THIS.

11:10 I'M SO SORRY.

11:11 HIS NEPHEW COREY, UM, LENNY IS

11:14 RETIRING AFTER 26 YEARS

11:16 OF SERVICE TO THE CITY

11:17 OF BOSTON.

11:18 HE IS OUR BELOVED HOKIE IN IN

11:20 EAST.

11:21 UM, LENNY GOT HIS START DUE TO

11:23 THE FAMOUS, UH, JUNIOR LOMBARDI

11:25 WHO IS A LEGENDARY EAST BOSTON

11:27 WARD BOSS.

11:29 UM, I THINK WE'LL I'LL HAVE TO

11:30 GET STORIES FROM YOU ABOUT

11:31 JUNIOR AT SOME POINT, BUT UM,

11:34 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT HE

11:36 REALLY WORKED TO, UH, GET THE

11:39 YOUTH INTO CITY JOBS TO START

11:41 THIS PIPELINE SO THAT PEOPLE

11:42 FELT LIKE THEY HAD OWNERSHIP

11:44 OVER THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS.

11:45 UM, LENNY HAS BEEN A CONSTANT

11:48 FIXTURE ON MERIDIAN STREET

11:49 WHERE I LIVE IN EAGLE HILL.

11:51 UM, AND FROM JUST ASK HIM A

11:53 QUESTION ABOUT HOW HE GOT THIS

11:55 JOB, UH, AND WHAT HE LOVES MOST

11:57 ABOUT IT.

11:57 YOU COULD REALLY HEAR THE

11:59 PASSION IN HIS VOICE FOR JUST

12:00 SERVING OUR COMMUNITY.

12:02 UM, WHEN I ASKED HIM WHY HE

12:04 LOVES HIS JOB, HIS ANSWER TELLS

12:06 YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO

12:07 KNOW.

12:07 HE GOT TO TAKE CARE OF THE

12:08 PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY OUR SENIORS.

12:10 UM, AND IT'S CLEAR THAT HE

12:12 CARES ABOUT HIS BOSS AND HE

12:13 CARES ABOUT THE PEOPLE.

12:14 THANK YOU.

12:15 WHO LIVE HERE.

12:16 HE UNDERSTANDS THAT IT'S NOT

12:17 JUST WORK.

12:18 IT'S ABOUT TAKING CARE OF YOUR

12:20 OWN.

12:21 AND, UM, YOU ALWAYS SHOW UP FOR

12:23 US.

12:23 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

12:24 YOU'VE ALWAYS SHOWN UP FOR

12:25 ME PERSONALLY AND I WANTED TO

12:27 BE SURE THAT BECAUSE OF YOUR

12:28 HARD WORK, UM, AND THE FACT

12:31 THAT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS KNOW

12:32 YOU AND LOVE YOU, THAT YOU GET

12:34 YOUR FLOWERS TODAY AND JUST

12:36 GENERAL THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

12:37 YOU DO FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON,

12:39 UM, AND ESPECIALLY EAST BOSTON

12:40 .

12:41 SO WITH THAT I WANT TO PRESENT

12:42 YOU WITH AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION

12:44 PRESENTED BY MYSELF AND THE

12:45 ENTIRE COUNCIL BE IT RESOLVED

12:47 THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON HONORS

12:48 YOU, LENNY LEONARD, LENNY

12:51 CURTIS IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR

12:52 MANY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE

12:53 TO THE EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY,

12:55 YOUR INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS

12:56 AS AN INTEGRAL MEMBER OF THE

12:57 PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND

12:59 YOUR COMMITMENT TO KEEPING OUR

13:00 NEIGHBORHOODS CLEAN AND

13:01 WELCOMING.

13:02 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT

13:03 THIS RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED

13:05 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY

13:06 COUNCIL AND ATTESTED TO IN A

13:07 COPY THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE

13:09 CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

13:10 SO AFTER 26 YEARS, LENNY,

13:12 CONGRATULATIONS AND HAVE FUN ON

13:15 YOUR RETIREMENT.

13:15 YOU DESERVE IT.

13:16 CONGRATULATIONS.

13:22 UH, I JUST I JUST WANT TO TAKE

13:24 I WANT TO TAKE THAT REAL

13:26 POSITIVE APPROACH.

13:27 UH, SO THAT I'M GOOD.

13:30 I'M READY, I'M READY.

13:31 UM.

13:33 IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME TO RETIRE

13:35 FROM THIS JOB BECAUSE I'VE SEEN

13:37 PEOPLE OUT THERE WATCHING

13:40 ME AND, UM, SAYING GOOD JOB,

13:42 GOOD, GOOD.

13:43 AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW

13:46 EACH PERSON YOU KNOW, I CAN

13:47 TELL THE SKIN WAS GETTING BAD

13:50 UP THERE AND I KNOW THAT IT'S

13:52 MY JOB TO CLEAN UP AND

13:54 HOPEFULLY, UH, I CAN HELP THE,

13:56 UH, PEOPLE IN EAST BOSTON EVEN

13:58 THOUGH I'M RETIRED.

14:00 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I'M

14:01 RETIRED FROM FROM CLEANING I

14:03 SPOKE I STILL GO OUT THERE AND

14:05 DO THE BEST I CAN IF ANYBODY

14:07 NEEDS ME, I'M THERE FOR THEM.

14:09 THAT'S HOW I AM.

14:10 AND I LIKE TO SAY TO CHAIR, UH,

14:13 I LOVE YOU.

14:16 UH THANK YOU.

14:21 WE LOVE.

14:22 YOU SO MUCH, LENNY.

14:23 UM, AND KATHY WANTS TO SAY A

14:24 FEW WORDS.

14:27 I JUST WANTED TO SAY HOW PROUD

14:29 I AM OF MY BROTHER.

14:30 HE NOT ONLY WORKED IN EAST

14:32 BOSTON FOR 26 YEARS, BUT HE

14:34 LIVED THERE SINCE.

14:35 HE WAS JUST A.

14:36 LITTLE KID.

14:37 AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A

14:38 PHOTOGRAPH OF HIM WHEN HE WAS

14:40 ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OLD WITH MY

14:41 MOM WHERE THEY LIVED AND I

14:43 THINK THE MAYOR AT THE TIME.

14:45 WAS IT MAYOR.

14:46 FLYNN, MAYOR WHITE, MAYOR WHITE

14:48 WE HAVE A PICTURE OF LENNY WITH

14:49 MAYOR WHITE WHEN HE WAS ONLY

14:51 ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OLD AND WE'RE

14:52 REALLY.

14:52 PROUD OF HIM.

14:56 ALL RIGHT.

14:57 IF MY COLLEAGUES WANT TO

14:58 COME OUT, WE CAN TAKE A PHOTO

14:59 WITH LENNY.

15:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

15:01 YOU KNOW, SO THAT SO YOU.

15:06 WANT TO GO PHOTOGRAPH THEM?

15:07 UM.

15:11 REPRESENTATIVES FROM.

15:16 CITY STATE WE'LL NEVER THINK

15:18 ABOUT.

15:21 YOU'RE WELCOME TO THANK YOU.

15:41 THANK YOU.

15:46 OKAY.

15:50 AND I DON'T WANT TO.

15:56 COME ON.

16:01 ANYONE.

16:08 AT THIS?

16:13 OH.

16:13 OH, YOU.

16:16 WALK INTO YOUR.

16:34 RIGHT NEXT TO ME.

16:41 IS THIS.

16:46 I KNOW DON'T SAY.

16:49 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

16:52 CONGRATULATIONS, LENNY.

16:53 UH, AND I I'LL INVITE

16:55 COUNCILOR WORRELL TO COME

16:56 FORWARD WITH IT FOR HIS

16:57 PRESENTATION.

17:08 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

17:10 UH, I'D ALSO LIKE TO CALL, UH,

17:13 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IF HE

17:14 WANTS TO JOIN ME AS WELL.

17:21 I AM PROUD TODAY TO STAND

17:23 ALONGSIDE COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

17:25 TO HONOR COACH MARCUS CRAIG.

17:27 WELL AND CELEBRATE HIS 2026

17:31 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE TAKING

17:36 OFFICE.

17:36 YEAH, WE COULD CLAP FOR THAT.

17:42 SINCE TAKING OFFICE IN 2000

17:44 2019.

17:45 COACH CRAIG HAS LED HIS TEAM TO

17:48 FIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

17:51 APPEARANCES.

17:56 BUT THIS YEAR THEY BROUGHT HOME

17:58 THE TITLE GAME.

17:59 HIS DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT

18:01 SHOWS UP IN HIS RECORD 14

18:05 ALL-AMERICANS, THREE

18:06 PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS FOR COACH

18:09 OF THE YEAR HONORS AND A 169

18:12 CAREER HIGH SCHOOL WINS.

18:15 SPORTS PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN

18:17 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND A GOOD

18:18 COACH BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN

18:20 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.

18:21 THEY RECOGNIZE TALENT, BUILD

18:23 CONFIDENCE AND PUSH STUDENTS TO

18:26 SEE HOW FAR THEY CAN GO.

18:28 COACH COACH CRAIG WELL IS

18:30 PUTTING THAT INTO PRACTICE

18:32 OPENING DOORS TO SPORT THAT

18:34 SOME YOUNG PEOPLE MIGHT NEVER

18:35 HAD THE CHANCE TO PLAY.

18:37 COACH IN YOUR PROGRAM YOUNG

18:39 PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO COMPETE,

18:41 HOW TO BE ACCOUNTABLE.

18:43 HOW TO.

18:44 SHOW UP FOR THEIR TEAMMATES

18:45 AND HOW TO LEAD THOSE LESSONS

18:47 STAY WITH THEM LONG AFTER THE

18:49 FINAL WHISTLE.

18:51 SO TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE

18:52 CHAMPIONSHIP.

18:53 WE CELEBRATE THE WORK IT TOOK

18:55 TO GET THERE AND WE CELEBRATE A

18:57 COACH WHO IMPACT REACHES WELL

18:59 BEYOND THE FIELD.

19:01 THANK YOU COACH FOR YOUR

19:02 LEADERSHIP, FOR YOUR

19:05 MENTORSHIP, YOUR COMMITMENT TO

19:06 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND

19:08 CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND THE

19:09 ENTIRE BCI TEAM.

19:18 COACH AT FIRST WANT TO THANK

19:20 COUNCILOR WORRELL FOR INVITING

19:21 ME UP HERE AS WELL.

19:22 UH B-C HIGH SITTING WELL WITHIN

19:23 THE DISTRICT UH, A COACH IS NOT

19:25 JUST SOMEONE WHO TEACHES YOU

19:26 SPORTS, RIGHT?

19:28 A LOT OF THE TIME THEY'RE THE

19:29 ONES WHO CAN CONNECT TO YOUR

19:30 KIDS WHEN YOUR KIDS STOP

19:31 LISTENING TO YOU.

19:32 AND I'M LEARNING THAT

19:33 CURRENTLY.

19:34 AND SO, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE

19:35 MIGHT THINK THEY'RE A COACH,

19:36 BUT IT TAKES A LOT TO BE A

19:38 GREAT COACH AND NOT JUST TO WIN

19:40 ON THE FIELD BUT OFF THE FIELD

19:41 AS WELL.

19:41 AND THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'VE

19:42 EXEMPLIFIED AND SO JUST SO

19:43 PROUD TO HAVE YOUR BCI TEACHING

19:45 A LOT OF THE KIDS IN DORCHESTER

19:48 UH THOSE EXACT VALUES.

19:49 SO COACH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

19:50 HAVING ME.

19:51 YOU.

19:54 I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A SPEECH

19:55 BUT.

19:56 I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK

19:57 YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION AND, UM

19:59 ,ALTHOUGH I'M THE FIRST BLACK

20:01 COACH TO WIN A STATE STATE

20:04 CHAMPIONSHIP IN BOYS ACROSS.

20:06 ALL.

20:06 MAJOR THAT, UH, I.

20:09 KNOW I WON'T BE THE LAST AND I

20:11 HOPE I JUST ENCOURAGE MORE, UH

20:13 ,PEOPLE OF COLOR TO PLAY THE

20:15 SPORT AND I JUST APPRECIATE IT.

20:16 THANK YOU.

20:20 YES.

20:21 I WOULD LIKE TO CALL MY

20:22 COLLEAGUES OUT FOR A PICTURE.

20:24 OKAY.

20:25 THANK YOU.

20:30 CAN YOU HEAR?

20:35 OH THEY OH, WAIT.

20:37 OH OKAY I MISSED THEM.

20:41 IT'S AWESOME.

20:42 YOU GUYS CAN.

20:51 THANK YOU THANK.

20:53 YOU.

20:53 THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH.

20:55 COULD YOU KEEP GOING THE YEAH

20:58 WE STILL DON'T OH.

21:01 OH ABSOLUTELY I THANK YOU.

21:05 YEAH.

21:11 I.

21:11 THANK YOU FOR.

21:21 JUST YEAH I MEAN LIKE.

21:27 YEAH OKAY.

21:36 UM HMM.

21:37 OKAY.

21:45 THANK YOU EVERYONE

21:47 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR HONOREES

21:48 TODAY.

21:49 MR DIRECTOR, PLEASE AMEND THE

21:51 ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT THE

21:53 CULTURE LOUIJEUNE HAS JOINED

21:54 US.

21:57 WE'RE NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER

21:58 OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE

21:59 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

22:00 THE MEETING OF AUGUST 26TH,

22:03 2026.

22:03 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

22:05 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

22:08 THE AYES HAVE IT.

22:09 THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 26TH

22:11 MEETING ARE APPROVED.

22:13 WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS

22:15 FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR.

22:18 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

22:19 READ DOCKETS 1671 THROUGH 1674

22:23 .

22:24 DOCKET NUMBER 1671 MESSAGE IN

22:26 ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

22:28 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

22:29 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

22:30 BARGAINING BY $1,951,894 TO

22:36 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

22:38 POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

22:39 YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED

22:41 WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

22:43 BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN

22:44 THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE

22:46 BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVE

22:47 BENEVOLENT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

22:50 DUCKY NUMBER 1672 MESSAGE IN

22:52 ORDER FOR THE BOSTON POLICE

22:53 DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 27

22:55 THE AMOUNT OF $1,951,894 TO

23:00 COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

23:03 ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

23:04 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

23:06 BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND

23:08 THE BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES

23:10 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

23:11 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACTS ARE

23:14 JULY 1ST, 2025 THROUGH JUNE

23:16 30TH 2026.

23:17 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

23:19 CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

23:21 INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY OF 2025.

23:25 THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

23:27 UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY IN

23:29 AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND SICK

23:31 TIME.

23:31 BUY BACK EVERY TIME AS

23:33 ORIGINALLY PRESENTED TO YOU THE

23:35 FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET REQUEST

23:37 INCLUDED A RESERVE FOR

23:38 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A

23:40 SEPARATE APPROPRIATION TO FUND

23:42 PROJECTED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

23:44 INCREASES.

23:45 A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

23:46 TO REDUCE THE APPROPRIATION BY

23:52 $1,951,894.

23:53 NUMBER 1673 MESSAGE IN ORDER TO

23:57 REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR 27

23:59 APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE

24:00 FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

24:06 $1,366,093 TO PROVIDE FUNDING

24:07 FOR THE BOSTON POLICE

24:09 DEPARTMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR

24:11 27 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

24:13 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

24:14 AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY

24:15 OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE

24:18 DETECTIVE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

24:20 SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT TALKING

24:23 OVER 1674 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR

24:25 THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT

24:26 FOR FISCAL YEAR 27 THE AMOUNT

24:32 OF $1,366,093 TO COVER THE

24:33 FISCAL YEAR 27 COST ITEMS

24:36 CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

24:37 BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

24:39 THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE

24:41 BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES

24:43 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY SUPERIOR

24:45 OFFICERS UNION.

24:46 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

24:49 JULY 1ST 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

24:52 2026, THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

24:54 OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE EACH

24:55 WEEK BASE WAGE INCREASE OF 2%

24:58 IN JULY OF 2025.

25:00 THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

25:02 UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY

25:04 AND AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND PAY

25:07 DETAILS AND SUMMER VACATION

25:09 SCHEDULES AS ORIGINALLY

25:11 PRESENTED TO YOU, THE FISCAL

25:12 YEAR 27 BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDED

25:15 A RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

25:16 BARGAINING, A SEPARATE

25:18 APPROPRIATION TO FUND PROJECTED

25:20 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

25:21 INCREASES.

25:22 A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

25:24 TO REDUCE THAT APPROPRIATION BY

25:29 $1,366,093.

25:31 .

25:31 THANK YOU DOCKETS 167121674

25:35 AND BE REFERRED TO THE

25:36 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.

25:38 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

25:39 READ DOCKET 1675.

25:41 TALKING OF A1675 MESSAGE NOT

25:44 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

25:45 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

25:47 OF A $13,471,070.40 IN THE FORM

25:53 OF A GRANT FISCAL YEAR 2025

25:56 URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE

25:59 AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES

26:00 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

26:02 PASS THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE

26:04 OFFICE OF PUBLIC SECURITY,

26:06 PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY TO

26:08 BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

26:10 OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

26:11 A GRANT WILL FUND THE

26:13 ENHANCEMENT OF REGIONAL

26:14 PREPAREDNESS AND CAPABILITIES

26:16 IN DESIGNATED HIGH THREAT HIGH

26:18 DENSITY AREAS.

26:21 THANK YOU.

26:22 DOCKET 1675 WILL BE REFERRED

26:24 TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

26:25 SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

26:28 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

26:29 READ DOCKET 1676.

26:31 TALKING OF A1676 MESSAGE IN

26:33 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

26:35 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AN EXPEND

26:36 AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION IN THE

26:38 FORM OF A GRANT THE SUNDAY

26:41 SUPPORT GRANT AWARDED BY THE

26:42 BOSTON FOUNDATION TO BE

26:44 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

26:45 OF ARTS AND CULTURE.

26:46 THE GRANT WOULD FUND

26:48 MILWAUKEE'S CULTURAL ACCESS

26:50 PROGRAM MUSEUM SUNDAYS,

26:53 ALLOCATING 60% OF THE FUNDS TO

26:55 THE INNOVATION FUND AND 40% TO

26:58 UNRESTRICTED UNRESTRICTED

27:00 PROJECT EXPENSES.

27:02 .

27:03 THANK YOU.

27:03 THANK YOU MR.

27:04 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

27:06 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, THE CHAIR

27:07 OF THE COMMITTEE ON UM

27:08 COMMITTEE ON ARTS, CULTURE,

27:10 ENTERTAINMENT AND TOURISM.

27:12 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

27:12 THANK YOU.

27:13 MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE FOR

27:14 PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET.

27:15 THIS IS TO SUPPORT.

27:16 THE, UH, MUSEUM SUNDAYS, UH,

27:18 THE BOSTON SUNDAYS.

27:19 SUNDAYS PROGRAM.

27:21 UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR YOUNG

27:22 PEOPLE ACROSS THE CITY ARE ABLE

27:24 TO ACCESS.

27:25 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS.

27:26 THE INNOVATION FUND WILL

27:27 SUPPORT THE FREE ADMISSIONS TO

27:29 THE CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND,

27:31 UH, THE REMAINDER WILL SUPPORT

27:33 ,UH, THE ADMINISTRATION UM,

27:36 OF THIS PROGRAM.

27:37 SO LOOKING FOR MY COLLEGE

27:38 SUSPENSION FASTER.

27:38 THANK YOU, THANK.

27:39 YOU.

27:41 .

27:42 CONCERT COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

27:43 HAVE THE FLOOR.

27:44 THANK YOU.

27:45 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

27:46 I RISE ALSO TO, UH, RECOMMEND

27:48 SUPPORTING.

27:49 THIS IMPORTANT DOCKET.

27:52 BE THIS OPPORTUNITY.

27:53 TO ENSURE THAT ALL CHILDREN.

27:55 HAVE ACCESS.

27:56 TO.

27:56 MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL

27:58 INSTITUTIONS ON ON SUNDAYS IS

28:00 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT GIVING.

28:02 PEOPLE THE.

28:03 OPPORTUNITY YOUNG PEOPLE THE

28:04 OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT MUSEUMS

28:06 REGARDLESS OF THEIR INCOME

28:09 REGARDLESS OF WHAT SCHOOL THEY

28:10 GO TO IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.

28:12 YOU LEARN A LOT AT MUSEUMS AND

28:15 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS.

28:16 AND JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

28:18 TO THESE NONPROFITS FOR THEIR

28:19 SUPPORT OF THE RESIDENTS

28:21 OF BOSTON.

28:21 THANK YOU.

28:22 MADAM CHAIR.

28:22 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

28:24 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY

28:25 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

28:26 OH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

28:28 I'M GLAD WE'RE CONTINUING TO

28:30 FIND WAYS TO FUND THIS AND KNOW

28:32 THAT, UM, THE WORK THAT I KNOW

28:34 MYSELF AND COUNCIL FLYNN AND

28:35 OTHERS DID TO ADVOCATE TO MAKE

28:37 SURE ALL CHILDREN ALL FAMILIES

28:39 ACROSS THE CITY ARE BENEFITING

28:41 FROM WHAT IS SUCH A WONDERFUL

28:42 OPPORTUNITY.

28:43 WHEN I'M AT THE MUSEUMS MYSELF

28:45 ,IT'S GREAT TO SEE FAMILIES

28:46 THAT YOU KNOW MIGHT OTHERWISE

28:47 NOT BE THERE BECAUSE THIS IS

28:49 THE POINT OF THAT IF NOT THIS,

28:50 THEY MAY NOT ATTEND ALL

28:52 OF THESE WONDERFUL INSTITUTIONS

28:54 ACROSS THE CITY.

28:55 SO HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

28:56 THAT.

28:56 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

29:00 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, THE CHAIR

29:02 OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS,

29:03 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM

29:04 AND SPECIAL EVENTS SUSPENSION

29:06 OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

29:07 OF DOCKET 1676.

29:09 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

29:11 ALL OPPOSED.

29:11 SAY NAY.

29:14 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE ALL

29:16 COUNCIL DURKAN.

29:17 THANK YOU.

29:18 PARDON, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

29:19 OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

29:20 UM, I JUST WANTED TO THANK

29:21 THERE ARE SO MANY CULTURAL

29:22 INSTITUTIONS IN MY DISTRICT

29:23 THAT HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THEY

29:25 CAN TO OPEN THEIR DOORS AND

29:27 REALLY THE BEGINNING OF THIS,

29:29 UM, WAS UH, THIS, UH, FENWAY

29:32 ALLIANCE CREATING THIS, UM,

29:34 GREAT THING.

29:35 YOU KNOW, IT'S NOW 25 YEARS

29:36 OF OPENING OUR DOORS UM, WHICH

29:38 NOW WILL BE OCTOBER 12TH.

29:40 BUT THAT WAS REALLY THE

29:41 BEGINNING OF THINKING ABOUT HOW

29:42 OUR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS COULD

29:43 GO BACK.

29:44 AND AS THE CHAIR OF PILOT, UM,

29:46 I JUST WANT TO THANK THE

29:47 ADMINISTRATION FOR STEPPING

29:49 FORWARD, UH, THE MUSEUM

29:51 OF SCIENCE A LOT OF THESE UM,

29:52 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS THE MFA,

29:54 UM AND OTHERS UM, YOU KNOW, THE

29:56 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IT GOES ON

29:57 AND ON AND ON.

29:58 UM AND THOSE PARTNERS WHO HAVE

30:00 MADE THIS WORK POSSIBLE UH,

30:02 BECAUSE IT REALLY HAS BEEN

30:04 TRANSFORMATIONAL AND WE HEAR IT

30:05 FROM FAMILIES ACROSS THE CITY

30:06 EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT UM IT WAS

30:08 THEIR FIRST TIME UM AND UH AND

30:11 IT WON'T BE THEIR LAST UM, AT

30:14 MANY OF THESE CULTURAL

30:14 INSTITUTIONS.

30:15 SO, UH, THANK YOU,

30:16 COUNCILOR BRUTON.

30:17 THANK YOU.

30:18 MR CHAIR.

30:19 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

30:19 CALL?

30:20 VOTE ON DOCKET 1676.

30:22 COUNCILOR BREAK.

30:23 YES, COUNCILOR BREADON?

30:24 YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS

30:25 OPPOSED COUNCILOR.

30:26 CLOSE THE PARTY.

30:27 YES.

30:27 COUNCILOR.

30:28 CULPEPPER.

30:29 YES.

30:29 COUNCILOR.

30:29 CULPEPPER.

30:30 YES.

30:31 COUNCILOR.

30:31 DURKAN.

30:32 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

30:32 YES.

30:33 COUNCILOR.

30:33 FITZGERALD.

30:33 YES.

30:34 COUNCILOR.

30:34 SHOW.

30:35 YES.

30:35 COUNCILOR.

30:35 FLYNN.

30:36 COUNCILOR.

30:36 FLYNN.

30:37 YES.

30:37 COUNCILOR.

30:37 LOUIJEUNE.

30:38 YES.

30:38 COUNCILOR.

30:39 LOUIJEUNE.

30:39 YES, COUNCILOR.

30:40 MEJIA.

30:40 COUNCILOR.

30:41 MEJIA.

30:41 YES.

30:42 COUNCILOR.

30:42 MURPHY.

30:43 COUNCILOR.

30:43 MURPHY.

30:43 YES.

30:44 COUNCIL.

30:44 PEPEN.

30:45 YES.

30:45 COUNCILOR.

30:46 PIN.

30:46 YES, COUNCILOR.

30:47 SANTANA.

30:47 YEAH.

30:48 COUNCILOR.

30:48 SANTANA.

30:49 YES.

30:49 COUNCILOR.

30:50 WEBER.

30:50 YES.

30:50 COUNCIL.

30:51 WEBER.

30:51 YES AND COUNCILOR.

30:52 WORLD.

30:52 YES.

30:53 COUNCIL.

30:53 WELL YES.

30:54 DEACON NUMBER 1676 HAS RECEIVED

30:57 A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

30:59 AFFIRMATIVE.

30:59 THANK YOU.

31:00 DOCKET 1676 HAS PASSED.

31:03 UH, MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

31:05 READ DOCKET 1677.

31:09 LIKE A NUMBER 1677 MESSAGING ON

31:12 OR AUTHORIZING THE CITY

31:13 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND

31:14 THE AMOUNT OF $750,000 IN THE

31:17 FORM OF A GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR

31:20 26 FAIR SHARE SUPPLEMENTAL

31:21 FUNDS AWARDED BY MASSACHUSETTS

31:24 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO

31:26 BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

31:27 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

31:28 THE GRANT WILL FUND ONGOING

31:30 SUPPORT OF STREET OPERATIONS IN

31:31 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

31:34 THANK YOU.

31:34 MR.

31:35 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

31:36 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

31:37 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

31:38 AS THE CHAIR OF PLANNING,

31:39 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, I

31:41 WOULD LIKE.

31:41 TO PUSH.

31:42 FOR SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE

31:43 OF THIS DOCKET.

31:44 EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE

31:45 MASSACHUSETTS STATE LEGISLATURE

31:46 PASSED THE.

31:47 FISCAL YEAR 26 SUPPLEMENTAL

31:49 BUDGET DRAWING FROM EXCESS FAIR

31:51 SHARE REVENUE.

31:52 SEVERAL PROVISOS WITHIN THE

31:53 LEGISLATION EARMARK FUNDS

31:54 EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE CITY

31:55 OF BOSTON.

31:56 AMONGST THESE EARMARKS IS

31:58 $750,000 FOR THE STREETS

32:00 CABINET PROVIDED FURTHER THAT

32:01 IS NOT AND THIS IS THE LANGUAGE

32:03 FROM THE LEGISLATION PROVIDED

32:04 FURTHER THAT NOT LESS THAN

32:07 $750,000 SHALL BE EXPANDED TO

32:08 THE CITY OF BOSTON FOR STREET

32:10 OPERATIONS ACCESS TO STATE

32:11 FUNDING AS PARTICULARLY

32:12 OPPORTUNE NOW AS THE CABINET

32:14 FACES SIGNIFICANT BUDGETARY

32:15 PRESSURES AND INCREASING RAW

32:17 MATERIAL COSTS, THE $750,000

32:20 WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARDS FOUR

32:21 MAJOR CATEGORIES BT SIGN AND

32:24 SIGNAL SHOP EQUIPMENT MATERIALS

32:26 INCLUDING SIGNALS AND

32:27 PEDESTRIAN BUTTONS AND SIGN

32:28 POLES AND BLANKS UH WILL BE

32:31 SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS

32:33 MATERIALS THAT INCLUDE ASPHALT

32:34 FOR POTHOLES, UH, TRASH BAGS

32:36 AND BRICKS FOR ROUTINE STREET

32:38 MAINTENANCE, PASSPORT CARD

32:39 MANAGEMENT CONTRACT A CONTRACT

32:41 THAT SCOPE INCLUDES HANDLING

32:43 PARKING NOTICE ROUTING, PAYMENT

32:45 PROCESSING, DATA ENTRY

32:47 COLLECTIONS AND DOCUMENT

32:48 SCANNING AND SIDEWALK UM SMALL

32:51 SIDEWALK AND BRICK REPAIR

32:52 CONTRACTS WHICH I KNOW

32:53 COUNCILOR CLODAGH AND I ARE ARE

32:55 CHEERING FOR UM UH WHICH IS A

32:58 UH, CONTRACT SCOPE THAT

32:59 INCLUDES MINOR SIDEWALK AND

33:00 ROADWAY REPAIRS ON CITY'S BRICK

33:02 AREAS.

33:03 UM, THESE UH.

33:05 ARE REALLY I MEAN FOR A

33:07 DISTRICT COUNCILOR.

33:08 THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS WE

33:09 WANT DONE IN OUR DISTRICT

33:10 IMMEDIATELY.

33:11 UH, SO WITH THAT I WILL PUSH

33:13 FOR SUSPENSION OF PASSAGE AND I

33:14 THANK MY COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR

33:16 BEARING WITH ME WHILE I READ

33:18 HOW THIS MONEY WILL BE SPENT.

33:19 THANK YOU.

33:20 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

33:21 UM, CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR.

33:23 FRIEND.

33:23 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

33:24 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

33:25 I'M NOT GOING TO OBJECT TO THE

33:27 SUSPENDING PASSAGE AND I'M

33:29 GOING TO I'M GOING TO SUPPORT

33:30 THIS DOCKET.

33:31 I ALSO WANT TO RECOMMEND IF

33:32 WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT HOW WE

33:34 CAN SUPPORT TRANSPORTATION

33:36 DEPARTMENT OR CITY OFFICIALS TO

33:39 CHANGE HOW WE'RE ABLE TO, UM,

33:42 GET RID OF BASICALLY THE

33:44 CONCURRENT LIGHTING ISSUE.

33:45 IT'S AN INCREDIBLY ISSUE,

33:47 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT ISSUE

33:49 THAT'S IMPACTING ALMOST ALL

33:50 RESIDENTS ACROSS ACROSS THE

33:52 CITY FOR THE PUBLIC THAT IS NOT

33:54 AWARE OF IT, BASICALLY A CAR

33:57 AND PEDESTRIAN WOULD HAVE THE

34:00 RIGHT OF WAY BASICALLY AT THE

34:03 SAME TIME FOR EXAMPLE ON

34:05 MELCHER STREET IN SUMMER

34:07 STREET, IF YOU'RE WALKING

34:08 ACROSS THE CROSSWALK AND THE

34:11 CAR IS COMING DOWN UM SUMMER

34:13 STREET TAKING A RIDE BOTH THE

34:16 VEHICLE AND THE PEDESTRIAN WILL

34:17 HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY.

34:19 THIS BODY WENT ON RECORD

34:22 AGAINST THAT PROPOSAL BECAUSE

34:23 IT'S NOT SAFE.

34:24 WE ALL KNOW WHAT'S DANGEROUS

34:25 BUT AS PART OF THIS FUNDING,

34:28 MAYBE THE CITY OF BOSTON COULD

34:30 LOOK AT HOW WE'RE ABLE TO

34:32 CHANGE THIS POLICY AGAIN, I

34:34 DON'T WANT TO OBJECT TO UM

34:37 OBJECT TO THIS WITHOUT HAVING

34:38 HAVING A HEARING, BUT I DO WANT

34:41 TO ADVOCATE FOR A CHANGE A

34:43 NEEDED CHANGE THAT ALL 13 CITY

34:45 COUNCILS WENT ON RECORD FOR AS

34:47 IT RELATES TO THIS DANGEROUS

34:49 PRACTICE THAT'S CURRENTLY

34:51 HAPPENING NOW IN THE CITY

34:52 OF BOSTON IMPACTING ESPECIALLY

34:55 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND

34:58 SENIORS.

34:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

34:59 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

35:00 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

35:02 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

35:02 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

35:03 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

35:05 I JUST WANTED TO RISE IN

35:06 SUPPORT OF THIS GRANT.

35:07 I KNOW THAT FOR MY DISTRICT

35:09 SPECIFICALLY, A LOT OF THE

35:10 SIGNS AND EQUIPMENT THAT WERE

35:11 MENTIONED ARE FOR SCHOOL.

35:13 ZONES AND PEDESTRIAN LIGHTS

35:14 THAT PEOPLE PRESS TO TRY TO

35:16 CROSS THE STREET SAFELY AND

35:17 BUSY INTERSECTIONS.

35:18 THESE ARE VITAL UM.

35:20 JUST EQUIPMENT THAT WE MAY NOT

35:23 SEE AS A BIG PROJECT IN MAKING

35:25 FRONT LINES NEWS CLIPS BUT IN

35:28 REALITY THESE ARE THE THINGS

35:29 THAT REALLY HELP OUR RESIDENTS.

35:30 AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO SAY

35:32 THAT IF THERE'S ANY CONCERNS

35:34 ABOUT CONCURRENT CROSSINGS, MY

35:36 RECOMMENDATION IS WHAT MY

35:37 OFFICE DID WAS WE IDENTIFIED

35:40 UM, VERY DANGEROUS

35:41 INTERSECTIONS AND WORK WITH THE

35:42 RESIDENTS AND WE BROUGHT THAT

35:43 TO THE ATTENTION OF THE

35:44 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

35:44 THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE

35:46 ADJUSTMENTS WITH THE LIGHTING

35:46 TEAM.

35:47 SO UM THAT IS MY ONE OF MY

35:49 RECOMMENDATIONS BUT I'LL BE

35:50 VOTING YES FOR THIS.

35:51 THANK YOU.

35:51 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN.

35:56 COUNCILOR DURKAN, THE CHAIR

35:56 OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING

35:58 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

35:59 SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

36:00 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1677.

36:02 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

36:04 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

36:06 UM, MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

36:07 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

36:08 VOTE ON DOCKET 1677.

36:11 COUNCILOR BREADON.

36:11 YES, COUNCILOR.

36:12 VERY NICE COUNSELOR COLOR AS

36:13 OPPOSED COUNSELOR COLOR AS A

36:15 PARTNER.

36:15 YES.

36:16 COUNCILOR.

36:16 CULPEPPER.

36:17 COUNCILOR.

36:17 CULPEPPER.

36:18 YES.

36:19 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

36:19 COUNCILOR.

36:20 DURKAN.

36:20 YES.

36:20 COUNCILOR.

36:21 FITZGERALD.

36:22 YES.

36:22 COUNCIL.

36:23 FITZGERALD.

36:23 YES.

36:23 COUNCILOR.

36:24 FLYNN.

36:24 YES.

36:25 COUNCILOR.

36:25 FLYNN.

36:25 YES.

36:26 COUNCILOR.

36:26 LOUIJEUNE.

36:27 YES.

36:27 COUNCIL.

36:27 LOUIJEUNE.

36:28 YES.

36:28 COUNCILOR.

36:28 MEJIA.

36:29 COUNCIL ME HERE.

36:30 YES.

36:30 COUNCILOR.

36:30 MURPHY.

36:31 COUNCILOR.

36:32 MURPHY.

36:32 YES.

36:33 COUNCIL.

36:33 THE PEN COUNCILOR.

36:34 PEN.

36:34 YES.

36:35 COUNCILOR.

36:35 SANTANA.

36:36 YES.

36:36 COUNCILOR.

36:37 SANTANA.

36:37 YES.

36:38 COUNCILOR.

36:38 WEBER.

36:39 COUNCILOR.

36:39 WEBER.

36:39 YES AND COUNCILOR.

36:40 WORLD.

36:40 YES.

36:41 COUNCILOR.

36:41 WORLD.

36:42 YES.

36:43 TALKING ABOUT 1677 AS WE SEE

36:46 THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

36:47 AFFIRMATIVE.

36:48 THANK YOU, MR JACK.

36:49 DOCKET 1677 HAS PASSED.

36:52 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

36:53 READ DOCKET 1678?

36:55 DOC HAVE A1678 MESSAGE YOU NOT

36:58 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

36:59 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

37:04 OF $288,221 IN THE FORM OF A

37:05 GRANT THE FISCAL YEAR 25 DNA

37:08 CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AND

37:10 BACKLOG REDUCTION PROGRAM

37:11 AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES

37:13 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO BE

37:14 ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE

37:15 DEPARTMENT.

37:16 THE GRANT WOULD FUND TWO

37:18 CRIMINAL DISPOSITIONS OVER TIME

37:20 LAB SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND

37:22 CONTINUING EDUCATION EXPENSES.

37:25 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

37:26 UH, DOCKET 167 IT WILL BE

37:29 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

37:30 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

37:31 JUSTICE.

37:34 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

37:35 DOCKET 1679.

37:36 TALKING 1679 MESSAGING ON

37:39 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

37:41 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

37:44 OF $200,000 IN THE FORM OF A

37:45 GRANT.

37:47 BE CCI CONNECT, LEARN, EXPLORE

37:49 AND CEF AWARDED BY BOSTON

37:51 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TO BE

37:53 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

37:54 OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.

37:55 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE.

37:57 B HCC.

37:58 CONNECT, LEARN AND EXPLORE AND

38:00 CHILD ENTREPRENEUR FUND GRANT.

38:05 THANK YOU DOCKET 1679 BE

38:07 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

38:08 HUMAN SERVICES.

38:11 MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

38:12 READ DOCKET 1680.

38:14 NUMBER 1680 MESSAGE IN ORDER

38:17 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

38:19 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

38:24 OF $64,201.50 IN THE FORM OF A

38:25 GRANT FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 25

38:27 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

38:28 PERFORMANCE GRANT AWARDED BY

38:30 FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

38:32 AGENCY TEST THROUGH THE MESS

38:35 MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY

38:36 MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO BE

38:38 ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

38:40 OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

38:41 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

38:43 ENHANCEMENT OF OPERATIONAL

38:44 CAPACITY AT THE BOSTON

38:46 EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER AND

38:48 PROMOTE THE PROFESSIONAL

38:50 DEVELOPMENT OF WHOLE EMS STAFF.

38:52 THANK YOU.

38:53 DOCKET 1680 WILL BE REFERRED TO

38:56 THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

38:57 AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

39:02 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

39:03 FLOOR.

39:04 YES.

39:04 UM, SORRY I DIDN'T FLAG IT

39:06 AT FIRST BUT I'D LIKE TO GO

39:08 BACK TO DOCKET 1679 IF THAT'S

39:09 OKAY BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO

39:10 SUSPEND AND PASS THE $200,000

39:12 GRANT FOR THE OFFICE OF EARLY

39:15 CHILDHOOD.

39:16 MAKE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER.

39:20 DO YOU HAVE A SECOND?

39:21 THANK YOU.

39:22 UM.

39:22 COUNCIL MURPHY.

39:23 SO LET'S LET'S SAY THANK YOU.

39:25 DOCKET 1680 WILL BE REFERRED TO

39:27 THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

39:28 AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

39:29 UH, WILL NOW GO BACK TO

39:31 RECONSIDER UH, DOCKET 1679.

39:34 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

39:35 FLOOR.

39:36 YES.

39:36 I JUST LIKE TO RISE THE

39:38 SMALL DOLLAR GRANT TO MAKE SURE

39:39 THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

39:42 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND OUR

39:43 EARLY CHILDHOOD DEPARTMENT,

39:44 WHICH IS EXPANDING AND DOING

39:46 SUCH GREAT WORK IN MANY OF OUR

39:47 YOUNG PARENTS COUNTRY.

39:49 NOW COULD YOU PAUSE A SECOND?

39:52 I, UM I HAVE TO HAVE A VOTE TO

39:54 RECONSIDER.

39:54 SO COULD, UH.

39:55 MR.

39:56 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

39:57 CALL?

39:57 VOTE UH, ON A MOTION TO

39:59 RECONSIDER DOCKET UH, 1679.

40:04 COUNSELOR.

40:05 BRAIN.

40:05 YES, COUNCILOR.

40:06 BRAIN.

40:07 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:07 COLLETTE ZAPPALA.

40:08 COUNSELOR.

40:09 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:10 CULPEPPER.

40:10 YES.

40:11 COUNSELOR.

40:11 CULPEPPER.

40:12 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:12 DURKAN.

40:14 COUNSELOR.

40:15 FITZGERALD.

40:15 COUNSELOR.

40:16 SO.

40:16 YES.

40:17 COUNSELOR.

40:17 FLYNN.

40:17 COUNCILOR.

40:18 FLYNN.

40:18 YES.

40:20 COUNCILOR.

40:20 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

40:21 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:22 MEJIA.

40:22 CONSIDER MEJIA.

40:23 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:23 MURPHY.

40:26 COUNSELOR.

40:26 MURPHY.

40:27 YES, COUNSELOR.

40:28 MURPHY.

40:29 YES.

40:29 I'M RESPONSIBLE.

40:30 YEAH.

40:31 SORRY.

40:31 HEADS OF OPINIONS.

40:32 COUNCILOR.

40:32 SANTANA.

40:34 YES.

40:34 COUNSELOR.

40:34 WEBER.

40:35 COUNSELOR.

40:36 YES AND COUNSELOR.

40:36 EARL.

40:37 COUNSELOR.

40:38 WELL, YES.

40:39 DOCKET THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER

40:41 TO CONSIDER PASSES.

40:42 THANK YOU.

40:44 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR, COUNSELOR

40:46 MURPHY.

40:46 THANK YOU.

40:47 AND THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR

40:48 GOING BACK TO DO THIS.

40:49 SO IT IS A LOW DOLLAR AMOUNT

40:50 BUT $200,000 CAN REALLY MAKE AN

40:53 IMPACT.

40:53 AND AS A FORMER EARLY CHILD TO

40:55 TEACHER AND DPS AND I WAS

40:57 STARTING TO SAY WE HAVE MANY

40:58 YOUNG PARENTS HERE I THINK THEY

41:00 SENT OFF KIDS TO KINDERGARTEN

41:01 AND FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

41:02 WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS

41:03 THAT WE CONTINUE TO FUND AND

41:05 EXPAND ALL OF OUR EARLY

41:08 CHILDHOOD SEATS ACROSS THE CITY

41:09 OF BOSTON.

41:10 IT MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE FOR

41:11 OUR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND

41:13 THEIR FUTURE.

41:13 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO PASS THIS

41:15 GRANT AND GET IT INTO THE HANDS

41:16 OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL USE IT

41:18 WISELY.

41:18 SO THANK YOU.

41:19 THANK YOU.

41:20 UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY SIX

41:21 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

41:23 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1679.

41:25 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

41:26 ALL OPPOSED.

41:27 SAY NAY.

41:29 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

41:30 A ROLL CALL?

41:31 VOTE ON DOCKET 16799921 CONTROL

41:35 .

41:36 FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

41:36 YEAH.

41:37 YEAH, I DID WANT TO SPEAK ON

41:39 THIS.

41:39 UM.

41:40 MADAM CHAIR.

41:41 UM, I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

41:43 TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR, UM,

41:45 WORKING WITH THE CITY OF BOSTON

41:47 ON THIS IMPORTANT GRANT.

41:48 THIS IMPORTANT INITIATIVE.

41:49 I VISITED THE CHILDREN'S

41:50 HOSPITAL AT THE BEGINNING

41:53 OF THE SUMMER AND HAD AN

41:54 OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO WITNESS THE

41:56 INCREDIBLE WORK THEY ARE DOING

41:58 SUPPORTING.

41:59 UM.

42:00 CHILDREN AND SUPPORTING

42:01 PATIENTS UM, ON EARLY CHILDHOOD

42:05 EDUCATION RELATED ISSUES AND

42:07 WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR

42:09 DEDICATED AND PROFESSIONAL

42:10 STAFF OF EDUCATORS AND MEDICAL

42:14 PROFESSIONALS FOR ALWAYS BEING

42:15 THERE FOR THE RESIDENTS

42:16 OF BOSTON.

42:17 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

42:18 THANK YOU.

42:20 MR CHAIR.

42:20 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

42:21 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1679.

42:24 COUNCILOR BREADON YES AND YES,

42:26 COUNSELOR COLOR AS OPPOSED.

42:27 YES, COUNSELOR.

42:28 CLOSE BUDDY.

42:29 YES, COUNSELOR.

42:29 CULPEPPER.

42:30 YES.

42:30 COUNCIL.

42:31 CULPEPPER.

42:31 YES, COUNSELOR.

42:32 DURKAN.

42:33 COUNSELOR.

42:34 FITZGERALD.

42:34 YES.

42:34 COUNCIL.

42:35 MICHELLE.

42:35 YES.

42:35 COUNSELOR.

42:36 FLYNN.

42:36 YES.

42:37 COUNSELOR.

42:37 FLYNN.

42:37 YES.

42:38 COUNSELOR.

42:38 LOUIJEUNE.

42:39 COUNSELOR.

42:39 YES, COUNSELOR.

42:40 MEJIA.

42:41 COUNSELOR.

42:41 MEJIA.

42:42 YES, COUNSELOR.

42:42 MURPHY.

42:43 COUNSELOR.

42:44 MURPHY.

42:44 YES.

42:44 COUNCIL.

42:44 PIPPIN.

42:46 YES.

42:46 COUNCIL.

42:46 SANTANA.

42:47 COUNSELOR.

42:48 SANTANA.

42:48 YES.

42:49 COUNCIL.

42:50 COUNCIL MEMBER.

42:50 YES AND COUNSELOR.

42:51 WORLD.

42:52 YES.

42:52 OIL.

42:53 YES.

42:53 DOCTOR.

42:54 NUMBER 1679 HAS RECEIVED 12

42:57 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

42:58 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

42:59 DOCKET 1679 HAS PASSED.

43:03 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

43:04 READ DOCKETS 1681 AND 1682

43:07 TOGETHER?

43:09 DOCTOR NUMBER 1681 MESSAGE IN

43:11 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

43:12 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

43:13 THE AMOUNT OF $51,980.30 IN THE

43:19 FORM OF A GRANT FEDERAL FISCAL

43:22 YEAR 26 STATE ADMINISTRATIVE

43:23 MATCHING GRANTS FOR SNAP

43:25 AWARDED BY USDA FOOD AND

43:28 NUTRITION SERVICE YES THROUGH

43:29 THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH.

43:31 AND HUMAN SERVICES TO BE

43:33 ADMINISTERED BY THE STRONG

43:35 COMMISSION, THE GRANT WILL FUND

43:37 COSTS INCURRED TO OPERATE SNAP

43:39 INCLUDING OUTREACH AND

43:41 APPLICATION ASSISTANCE.

43:42 SUCKER NUMBER 1682 MESSAGING ON

43:46 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

43:47 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

43:49 OF $50,000 IN THE FORM OF A

43:51 GRANT FOOD, FUEL AND SHELTER

43:53 OF OF AWARDED BY THE BOSTON

43:55 FOUNDATION TO BE ADMINISTERED

43:56 BY THE OFFICE OF FOOD JUSTICE.

43:59 THE GRANT WILL FUND THE

44:01 EXPANSION OF THE BOSTON DOUBLE

44:02 UP FOOD BOOKS PROGRAM TO MORE

44:05 COMMUNITIES.

44:06 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

44:07 COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNTRY YOU

44:08 HAVE THE FLOOR.

44:09 THANK YOU.

44:10 I'LL SPEAK TO BOTH.

44:11 I KNOW WE WILL VOTE ON THEM

44:12 SEPARATELY, BUT I'M ASKING FOR

44:14 A SUSPENSION AND PASS ANY TIME

44:16 WE CAN MAKE SURE.

44:17 THERE'S MORE.

44:17 FOOD IN THE HANDS AND IN THE

44:19 MOUTHS OF OUR CHILDREN.

44:20 I KNOW WE'LL BE SPEAKING LATER

44:22 TOO ABOUT THE INCREASING

44:23 CONCERN ABOUT THE HOMELESSNESS

44:24 ACROSS OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR

44:26 FAMILIES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

44:28 SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

44:30 THIS GETS PASSED.

44:31 I WANT TO THANK DENISE FOR

44:32 MAGGIE WHO DID SEND ALONG A

44:34 WRITE UP IF ANYONE WANTS I KNOW

44:36 I CAN SHARE IT OUT WITH MY

44:37 COLLEAGUES IF THEY HAVE ANY

44:39 QUESTIONS BEFORE WE VOTE, BUT I

44:40 THINK THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY

44:42 PASSAGE TODAY THAT I'M LOOKING

44:44 FORWARD TO.

44:44 THANK YOU.

44:45 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

44:46 UH, COUNCILOR, UH, COULD I JUST

44:48 HAVE I NOTICED YOUR LIGHT ON

44:49 YOU?

44:50 IT'S OKAY.

44:51 UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU ARE

44:53 COUNCIL.

44:53 FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

44:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

44:56 UM, MADAM CHAIR, I RISE TO

44:57 SUPPORT BOTH OF THESE.

44:58 DOCKETS.

44:59 THE FOOD ACCESS AND JUSTICE

45:01 PROGRAM IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT

45:03 IN THE CITY.

45:04 THERE'S A HIGH CONCEPT, HIGH

45:06 PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN OUR

45:08 CITY THAT ARE LIVING IN

45:10 POVERTY.

45:10 BUT FOOD ACCESS IS A CIVIL

45:12 RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE AND

45:14 THERE'S SO MANY WONDERFUL

45:16 NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY

45:17 PARTNERS THAT THAT DO

45:19 EXCEPTIONAL WORK THROUGHOUT THE

45:21 CITY, INCLUDING IN MY DISTRICT

45:22 AND DISTRICT.

45:23 SO I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

45:25 THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT

45:28 SUPPORT MY CONSTITUENTS IN

45:31 CHINATOWN ESPECIALLY UM, IT'S

45:33 ONE OF THE HIGHEST IT'S ONE

45:34 OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH THE

45:35 HIGHEST CONCENTRATION

45:38 OF POVERTY AND FOOD ACCESS IS

45:40 AN IMPORTANT ISSUE, BUT THERE'S

45:41 SO MANY NONPROFITS THAT DO

45:43 EXCEPTIONAL WORK PROVIDING

45:45 CRITICAL FOOD SERVICE FOOD

45:47 ACCESS TO THE RESIDENTS

45:49 OF CHINATOWN ON THE SOUTH END

45:51 AND THROUGH A PUBLIC HOUSING IN

45:52 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

45:53 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

45:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

45:56 SO WE'RE GOING TO UH WE'RE

45:57 GOING TO VOTE ON THESE

46:00 SEPARATELY.

46:01 UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR

46:04 OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN

46:05 SERVICES SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

46:06 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

46:08 1681.

46:08 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

46:11 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

46:13 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

46:14 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

46:15 VOTE ON DOCKET 1681.

46:17 COUNCILOR BREADON.

46:18 YES, COUNCILOR.

46:18 BREADON.

46:19 YES, COUNCILOR.

46:19 CLOSE.

46:20 APOLLO.

46:21 COUNCILOR.

46:21 CLOSED.

46:21 YES.

46:22 COUNCILOR.

46:22 CULPEPPER.

46:23 COUNCILOR.

46:24 CULPEPPER.

46:24 YES.

46:24 COUNCILOR.

46:25 DURKAN.

46:26 COUNCILOR.

46:26 DURKAN.

46:26 YES.

46:27 COUNCILOR.

46:27 FITZGERALD.

46:27 YES.

46:28 COUNCIL FOR SHOW.

46:29 YES.

46:29 COUNCILOR.

46:29 FLYNN.

46:30 YES.

46:30 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

46:31 YES.

46:31 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

46:33 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

46:33 YES, COUNCILOR.

46:34 MEJIA.

46:34 COUNCILOR.

46:35 MEJIA.

46:35 YES.

46:36 COUNCILOR.

46:36 MURPHY.

46:37 COUNCILOR.

46:37 MURPHY.

46:38 YES.

46:38 COUNCILOR.

46:38 PIPPIN.

46:39 COUNCILOR.

46:40 PAN.

46:40 YES.

46:40 COUNCILOR.

46:41 SANTANA.

46:41 COUNCIL.

46:42 SANTANA.

46:42 YES.

46:43 COUNCIL.

46:43 WEBER.

46:44 YES.

46:44 COUNCILOR.

46:44 WEBER.

46:45 YES.

46:45 AND COUNCILOR.

46:46 WORLD.

46:47 YES.

46:47 COUNCILOR.

46:48 EARLE.

46:48 YES.

46:48 TALKING OF A1681 IS RECEIVED A

46:51 UNANIMOUS VOTE IN.

46:52 THE AFFIRMATIVE.

46:53 THANK YOU.

46:54 DOCKET 1681 HAS PASSED.

46:57 MR TRAYER, COULD YOU PLEASE

46:58 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

46:58 VOTE ON DOCKET 1682.

47:02 COUNCILOR BREADON.

47:03 YES, COUNCILOR.

47:03 BREADON.

47:04 YES.

47:04 COUNCILOR.

47:04 KOZAK.

47:06 COUNCILOR.

47:08 COLLETTA ZAPPO COUNCIL.

47:10 THAT IS THE PARTY.

47:10 YES.

47:11 COUNCILOR.

47:11 CULPEPPER.

47:12 COUNCILOR.

47:13 CULPEPPER.

47:13 YES.

47:14 COUNCILOR.

47:14 DURKAN.

47:15 COUNCILOR.

47:15 DURKAN.

47:16 YES.

47:16 COUNCILOR.

47:17 FITZGERALD.

47:17 YES.

47:18 BOUNCES.

47:18 JOE.

47:18 YES.

47:19 COUNCILOR.

47:19 FLYNN.

47:20 YES.

47:20 COUNCILOR.

47:20 FLYNN.

47:21 YES.

47:21 COUNCILOR.

47:21 LOUIJEUNE.

47:22 YES.

47:22 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

47:23 YES, COUNCILOR.

47:24 MEJIA.

47:25 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

47:26 YES.

47:26 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

47:27 YES.

47:27 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

47:28 YES.

47:28 COUNCILOR PIN.

47:29 YES.

47:30 COUNCILOR PIN.

47:30 YES.

47:30 COUNCILOR.

47:31 SANTANA.

47:31 YES.

47:32 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

47:33 YES.

47:33 COUNCIL.

47:34 WEBER.

47:34 YES.

47:34 COUNCIL.

47:35 WEBER.

47:35 YES.

47:36 AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

47:37 YES.

47:37 COUNCILOR.

47:37 WELL, YES.

47:38 TALKING OF A1682 HAS RECEIVED A

47:42 UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

47:43 AFFIRMATIVE.

47:43 THANK YOU.

47:44 MR TRACK DOCKET 1682 HAS

47:47 PASSED.

47:48 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

47:49 READ DOCKET 1683.

47:52 DOCKET NUMBER 1683 MESSAGING ON

47:55 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

47:57 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

47:58 OF $50,000 IN THE FORM OF A

48:00 GRANT TUITION FREE COMMUNITY

48:02 COLLEGE EXPANSION AWARDED BY

48:04 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

48:05 OF LABOR TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

48:07 THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

48:08 DEVELOPMENT.

48:09 THE GRANT WILL FUND THE

48:11 COMMUNITY PROJECT TUITION FREE

48:12 COMMUNITY COLLEGE INITIATIVE.

48:15 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

48:17 COUNCILOR ROUND, THE CHAIR

48:17 OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR

48:18 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

48:20 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

48:21 THIS IS A SMALL DOLLAR GRANT

48:23 $50,000 TO REIMBURSE THE WORK

48:26 DONE BY THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

48:27 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE TUITION

48:29 FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROGRAM

48:31 THAT SUPPORTED 170 BOSTON

48:33 RESIDENTS AND RECEIVING

48:35 TRAINING FOR POSITIONS AT ONE

48:36 OF THE SIX PARTNER COMMUNITY

48:38 COLLEGES BETWEEN 2024 AND 2025.

48:41 SO THIS $50,000 IS A

48:42 REIMBURSEMENT BUT PASSWORD FOR

48:45 A PROGRAM THAT HAS NOW BEEN

48:46 REPLACED BY THE STATE ONE.

48:47 BUT I WANTED TO, UH, GIVE A BIG

48:49 SHOUT OUT TO THE OFFICE

48:50 OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT UH,

48:51 FOR ALL THEIR WORK AROUND THE

48:53 TUITION FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

48:54 PROGRAM.

48:55 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MY

48:56 COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND AND PASS

48:58 THIS SMALL DOLLAR GRANT.

48:59 THANK YOU.

49:00 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

49:01 REALISTIC SUSPENSION OF THE

49:02 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

49:04 1683.

49:04 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

49:06 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

49:09 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

49:10 A ROLL CALL?

49:10 VOTE ON DOCKET 1683.

49:13 COUNSELOR BRAIN.

49:14 YES.

49:15 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:15 BREADON.

49:16 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:16 COLLETTE AS A PILOT.

49:17 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:18 CLOSET.

49:18 YES.

49:19 COUNSELOR.

49:19 CULPEPER.

49:20 COUNSELOR.

49:21 CULPEPER.

49:22 YES.

49:22 COUNSELOR.

49:22 DURKAN.

49:23 COUNSELOR.

49:24 DURKAN.

49:24 YES.

49:24 COUNSELOR.

49:25 FITZGERALD.

49:25 YES.

49:25 COUNSELOR.

49:26 FITZGERALD.

49:26 YES.

49:27 COUNSELOR.

49:27 FLYNN.

49:28 COUNSELOR.

49:28 FLYNN.

49:29 YES.

49:29 COUNSELOR.

49:30 LOUIJEUNE.

49:30 COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

49:31 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:32 MEDIA COUNSELOR.

49:33 MEJIA.

49:34 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:34 MURPHY.

49:35 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:36 MURPHY.

49:36 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:37 PIPPIN.

49:38 COUNSELOR.

49:38 PEN.

49:39 YES, COUNSELOR.

49:39 SANTANA.

49:41 YES.

49:41 COUNCIL.

49:42 WEBER.

49:42 YES.

49:42 COUNCIL.

49:43 WEBER.

49:43 YES AND COUNCIL.

49:44 WORLD.

49:44 YEAH.

49:45 COUNCIL.

49:45 WELL, YES.

49:46 TALKING OF A1683 AS RECEIVED A

49:49 UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

49:50 AFFIRMATIVE.

49:51 THANK YOU.

49:51 DOCKET 1683 HAS PASSED.

49:54 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

49:56 DOCKET 1684.

49:57 TALKING OF A1684 MESSAGE IN

50:00 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

50:01 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND

50:03 THE AMOUNT OF $1,890 IN THE

50:05 FORM OF A GRANT PROJECT VOICE

50:08 AWARDED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE

50:10 FOUNDATION THROUGH THE GEORGIA

50:12 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO BE

50:15 ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT

50:16 OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY.

50:17 THE GRANT WILL FUND

50:19 CO-DESIGNING CIVIC TECHNOLOGY.

50:21 TOOLS WITH AND FOR YOUTH AND

50:23 COMMUNITIES ACROSS BOSTON WITH

50:25 THE GOAL OF STRENGTHENING

50:26 NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL COHESION

50:28 AND SUPPORTING YOUTH MENTAL

50:30 HEALTH AND RESILIENCE.

50:33 THANK YOU.

50:34 UM, THE CHAIR BRACKETT

50:36 COUNCIL CHAIR RECOGNIZES

50:37 COUNCILOR CLOVIS THE PANEL.

50:38 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

50:39 PRESIDENT.

50:40 JUST SEEKING SUSPENSION

50:41 OF PASSAGE.

50:41 OF THIS THOUSAND DOLLAR

50:42 GRANT.

50:42 THANKS.

50:43 THANK YOU.

50:46 COUNCILOR COLLETTA ZAPATA

50:47 SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

50:48 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1684.

50:50 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

50:52 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

50:54 THE AYES HAVE IT.

50:56 DOCKET 1684 HAS PASSED.

51:00 UM, MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

51:02 READ DOCKET 1685.

51:03 DOC NUMBER 1685 MESSAGING ON

51:06 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY

51:07 OF BOSTON PROCUREMENT

51:08 DEPARTMENT TO ENTER INTO A

51:10 CONTRACT FOR PERIOD OF UP TO

51:12 SIX YEARS FOR THE PURCHASE

51:14 OF FIRE APPARATUS, LADDER

51:16 PUMPER AND TOWER TRUCKS.

51:18 THE CONTRACT TERM WOULD BEGIN

51:21 IN SEPTEMBER 2026 AND END

51:23 DECEMBER 31ST, 2031.

51:24 THE CITY COUNCIL'S PERMISSION

51:27 TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT

51:29 OF THIS TYPE FOR A PERIOD

51:30 OF MORE THAN THREE YEARS IS

51:31 REQUIRED BY SECTION 12

51:34 OF CHAPTER 35 OF THE GENERAL

51:36 LAWS.

51:37 A TERM LONGER THAN THREE YEARS

51:38 WILL ENABLE THE CITY TO ENSURE

51:40 THAT THE CONTRACT IS IN EFFECT

51:42 WHILE THE APPARATUS ARE BEING

51:43 BUILT FOR ALL THREE FISCAL YEAR

51:46 ORDERS, YEAR ONE WILL BE

51:48 ORDERED IN AUGUST OF 2026.

51:50 YEAR TWO ORDERED IN JULY

51:52 OF 2027 AND YEAR THREE ORDERED

51:55 IN JULY OF 2027.

51:57 BUT THE EXPECTED LEAD TIME FOR

51:59 THE APPARATUS IS BETWEEN 24 TO

52:02 36 MONTHS, WITH DELIVERY AND

52:03 PAYMENT FOR THE FINAL APPARATUS

52:06 EXPECTED DURING 2031.

52:08 THANK YOU.

52:09 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

52:11 COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

52:11 OF WAYS AND MEANS.

52:12 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

52:13 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

52:14 UH, MADAM PRESIDENT.

52:15 SO, UH, DOCKET NUMBER 1685.

52:19 UH.

52:20 BUT THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT

52:21 IN THE PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT.

52:22 UH.

52:22 SEEK APPROVAL.

52:23 OF A CONTRACT OF UP TO SIX

52:24 YEARS TO PURCHASE, UH,

52:26 ADDITIONAL FIRE.

52:27 APPARATUS OR, YOU KNOW, IT'S MY

52:28 KIDS CALL THEM FIRE TRUCKS.

52:30 UH, YOU KNOW, PURSUANT TO, UH,

52:32 MIDDLE MASS GENERAL LAW CHAPTER

52:35 30 B SECTION 12.

52:37 THE COUNCIL'S.

52:37 PERMISSION IS REQUIRED FOR ANY

52:39 CONTRACT LONGER THAN THREE

52:40 YEARS.

52:40 UH, CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE HAD

52:42 UH, WITH SAM DILLON AND OTHER

52:44 FIREFIGHTERS, IT IS TAKING

52:45 LONGER AND LONGER TO HAVE NEW

52:48 UH, FIRE APPARATUS CONSTRUCTED

52:51 I THINK A RECENT INTERNET

52:52 SEARCH SO IT COULD TAKE.

52:53 UP TO FOUR.

52:54 YEARS FROM ORDERING UM, UH, TO

52:57 COMPLETION.

52:57 UH, SO A CONTRACT HERE OF MORE

52:59 THAN THREE YEARS WILL ALLOW

53:00 ENOUGH TIME FOR THE PROCESS TO

53:02 PLAY OUT GIVEN THAT EACH

53:04 APPARATUS IS EXPECTED TO.

53:05 TAKE.

53:06 2 TO 3 YEARS UH, TO COMPLETE TO

53:08 ASSEMBLE.

53:08 SO, UH, FOR THAT REASON, UM,

53:11 YOU KNOW, AND I GET THIS

53:13 PROCESS UH, GOING UH, AND

53:16 SUPPORT OUR FIREFIGHTERS I IT'S

53:18 MY RECOMMENDATION THAT WE

53:19 SUSPEND AND.

53:19 PASS THIS DOCKET TODAY.

53:21 THANK YOU.

53:24 UH.

53:26 THE CONSTABLE WEBER, THE CHAIR

53:28 OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

53:29 MEANS, TOOK SIX SUSPENSION

53:30 OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF ONE

53:32 DOCKET 1685.

53:33 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED

53:36 .

53:37 SAY NAY.

53:38 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

53:39 A ROLL CALL?

53:40 VOTE AND DOCKET 1685.

53:42 COUNCILOR GREEN.

53:43 YES.

53:44 COUNCILOR BREADON.

53:45 YES.

53:45 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.

53:47 AS COUNCIL CALL AS A PARTY.

53:49 YES.

53:49 COUNCIL.

53:50 CULPEPPER.

53:50 COUNCILOR.

53:51 CULPEPPER.

53:51 YES.

53:51 COUNCILOR.

53:52 DURKAN.

53:53 COUNCIL.

53:53 DURKAN.

53:53 YES.

53:54 COUNCILOR.

53:54 FITZGERALD.

53:55 YES.

53:55 COUNCIL.

53:55 FITZGERALD.

53:56 YES.

53:56 COUNCILOR.

53:57 FLYNN.

53:57 YES.

53:58 COUNCILOR.

53:58 FLYNN.

53:58 YES.

53:59 COUNCILOR.

53:59 LOUIJEUNE.

53:59 YES.

54:00 COUNCIL.

54:00 JEN.

54:01 YES.

54:01 COUNCIL.

54:01 ME.

54:02 COUNCIL.

54:02 ME.

54:03 HERE.

54:03 YES.

54:03 COUNCILOR.

54:04 MURPHY.

54:05 COUNCIL.

54:05 MURPHY.

54:05 YES.

54:06 COUNCIL.

54:06 PIPPIN.

54:07 COUNCILOR.

54:07 OPINIONS.

54:08 COUNCILOR.

54:08 SANTANA.

54:09 YES.

54:09 COUNCIL.

54:10 SANTANA.

54:10 YES.

54:10 COUNCILOR.

54:11 WEBER.

54:11 YES.

54:12 COUNCIL.

54:13 WEBER.

54:13 YES AND COUNCILOR.

54:14 WORLD.

54:14 YES.

54:15 COUNCIL.

54:15 ORAL.

54:15 YES.

54:16 DOCKET NUMBER 1685 AS RECEIVED

54:20 A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

54:21 AFFIRMATIVE.

54:22 THANK YOU.

54:23 DOCKET 1685 HAS PASSED.

54:26 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

54:28 READ DOCKET 168621694 TOGETHER?

54:36 DOCKET NUMBER 1686 MESSAGE IN

54:39 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

54:40 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF FRED

54:42 PENNY AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

54:43 WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A TERM

54:46 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2027.

54:48 CYCLE NUMBER 1687 AS A DENIAL

54:51 FOR THE CONFIRMATION OF THE

54:53 APPOINTMENT OF MAYOR SMITH AS A

54:55 MEMBER OF THE BOSTON WATERWAYS

54:56 BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING ON

54:59 SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2027.

55:01 DOCKING NUMBER 1688 MESSAGE IN

55:04 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

55:05 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF GINA

55:06 SMITH AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

55:09 WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A TERM

55:10 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2027.

55:13 DOC NUMBER 1689 MESS IN YOU

55:16 KNOW FOR THE CONFIRMATION

55:18 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF KAILEE

55:19 DENSON AS A MEMBER OF THE

55:21 BOSTON WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A

55:22 TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER

55:25 14TH, 2028.

55:26 TALKING NUMBER 1690 MESSAGE IN

55:29 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

55:31 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF MIKE

55:32 GLASS FILLED AS A MEMBER OF THE

55:33 BOSTON WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A

55:35 TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER

55:37 14TH, 2028.

55:39 TALKING NUMBER 1691 MESSAGE FOR

55:42 THE CONFIRMATION OF THE

55:44 APPOINTMENT OF JOE VALDEZ

55:46 HORWOOD AS A MEMBER OF THE

55:48 BOSTON WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A

55:50 TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER

55:52 14TH, 2028.

55:54 TUCKER NUMBER 1692 MESSAGE IN

55:57 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

55:58 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF GABRIELA

56:00 COLLETTE AS A PARTNER AS A

56:02 MEMBER OF THE BOSTON WATERWAYS

56:03 BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING IN

56:05 SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2029.

56:07 TALKING NUMBER 1693 MESSAGE IN

56:10 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

56:12 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF JOSH HILL

56:15 TO LESLIE AS A MEMBER OF THE

56:16 BOSTON WATERWAYS BOARD FOR A

56:18 TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER

56:21 14TH, 2029 AND NUMBER 169 FOR

56:25 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR THE

56:26 CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT

56:28 OF OLIVER SELLERS GARCIA AS A

56:31 MEMBER OF THE BOSTON WATERWAYS

56:32 BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING ON

56:35 SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2029.

56:37 THANK YOU, MR DUNCAN 168631694

56:43 WE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

56:44 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,

56:45 RESILIENCY AND PARKS.

56:49 WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS

56:51 OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

56:53 MR CLERK.

56:54 COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

56:59 169531707?

57:03 DOCKET NUMBER 1695 NOTICE TO

57:05 SEE FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

57:07 APPOINTMENT OF RICHARD CLAY

57:08 TOURS AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK

57:10 MEN AND BOYS COMMISSION FOR A

57:11 TERM EXPIRING JULY 1ST, 2028.

57:14 DOC NUMBER 1696 NOTICE

57:17 OF RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

57:18 APPOINTMENT OF ALEX EDWARDS AS

57:20 A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN AND

57:22 BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

57:25 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029

57:28 DOCKET NUMBER 1697 NOTICE I

57:30 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

57:32 APPOINTMENT OF EVER GO FORESTER

57:33 AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN

57:35 AND BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

57:37 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029.

57:40 DUCKY NUMBER 1698 NOTICE WAS

57:43 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

57:44 APPOINTMENT OF MATTHEW GIBSON

57:45 AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN

57:47 AND BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

57:50 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029

57:52 DORKING NUMBER 1699 NOTICE

57:54 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

57:56 APPOINTMENT OF STANLEY GREEN AS

57:58 A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN AND

57:59 BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

58:01 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029.

58:04 DUCKY NUMBER 1700 NOTICE I

58:07 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

58:08 APPOINTMENT OF REGINALD JEAN AS

58:10 A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN AND

58:11 BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

58:13 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029.

58:16 DUCKY NUMBER 1701 NOTICE

58:19 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR.

58:20 THEY CLAIM THAT DESMOND KENNARD

58:22 AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN

58:23 AND BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

58:25 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029

58:28 TALKING NUMBER 1702 NOTICE I

58:31 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

58:32 APPOINTMENT OF RON MARLOW AS A

58:34 MEMBER OF THE BLACK MEN AND

58:36 BOYS COMMISSION FOR A TERM

58:37 EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 11TH 2029.

58:40 TALKING NUMBER 1703 NOTICE

58:43 RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN

58:45 ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX

58:46 OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979 WE

58:49 GOT AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE

58:51 MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY

58:52 THE CITY COUNCIL.

58:53 AT ITS MEETING ON AUGUST 26TH,

58:56 2026.

58:58 DUCKY NUMBER 1704 COMMUNICATION

59:01 WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL FLYNN

59:04 TRANS MEANING BOSTON PUBLIC

59:05 SCHOOLS PROCUREMENTS, CONTRACTS

59:07 AND PAYMENTS.

59:09 IMPROPER WORKAROUNDS AND

59:09 OVERSIGHT FAILURES.

59:11 LEAD TO WASTED.

59:11 PUBLIC FUNDS AND INACCURATE

59:14 BUDGET REPORTING BY THE

59:16 MASSACHUSETTS INSPECTOR GENERAL

59:18 DUCKY NUMBER 1705 COMMUNICATION

59:21 WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL FLYNN

59:23 REGARDING A POTENTIAL HATE

59:24 CRIME IN THE SOUTH END.

59:26 TALKING ABOUT 1706

59:28 COMMUNICATION POLICY FROM

59:30 COUNCIL AS.

59:30 WELL FROM COUNCIL AS WELL AND

59:33 COUNCILOR CULPEPER REGARDING A

59:34 MEMO FROM PROFESSOR JAMES

59:37 JENNINGS ON THE BLUE HILL LAB

59:38 THE REDESIGN PROJECT TALKING

59:41 ABOUT 1707 COMMUNICATION

59:43 RECEIVED FROM METRO BOSTON

59:45 HOMELAND SECURITY REGARDING

59:48 SUPPORT FOR ACCEPT AND EXPAND

59:50 THE FISCAL YEAR 25 USA GRANT

59:54 FUNDING.

59:55 TALKING ABOUT 1708

59:57 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

59:58 THE MAYOR.

1:00:00 I CAN OH MR DIRECTLY REPORTED

1:00:03 AT UH DOCKET 1707 AND UM THANK

1:00:06 YOU DUNCAN 169531707 WILL BE

1:00:11 PLACED ON FILE.

1:00:13 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:00:14 READ DOCKET 1708 AND 1709

1:00:17 TOGETHER.

1:00:18 TALKING HAVE A1708

1:00:20 COMMUNICATION WITH YOU FROM THE

1:00:21 MAYOR PURSUANT TO THE ORDINANCE

1:00:23 ON SURVEILLANCE, OVERSIGHT AND

1:00:25 INFORMATION SHARING BOSTON CITY

1:00:27 CODE SECTION.

1:00:28 CHAPTER 1663.

1:00:31 TRANSMITTING THE CITY

1:00:32 OF BOSTON'S 2025 ANNUAL

1:00:34 SURVEILLANCE REPORT AND DOCKING

1:00:36 NUMBER 1709 COMMUNICATION

1:00:39 RECEIVED FROM THE BOSTON POLICE

1:00:41 DEPARTMENT REGARDING A REVISED

1:00:44 SURVEILLANCE.

1:00:44 USE POLICY.

1:00:45 FOR THE DEPARTMENT'S USE

1:00:48 OF SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS TOOLS.

1:00:50 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

1:00:52 DOCKETS 1708 AND 1709 WILL BE

1:00:55 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:00:56 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

1:00:57 JUSTICE.

1:00:59 MR TRUCK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:01:00 DOCKET 1710.

1:01:02 TALKING NUMBER 1710 THE

1:01:04 CONSTABLE BONDS OF CHRISTOPHER

1:01:07 CASTAGNA, CAROL JEAN LEWIS

1:01:10 FILLMORE PHILIP BIANCA PIERRE

1:01:12 AND PATRICIA SHEETS HAVE BEEN

1:01:14 DULY APPROVED BY THE COLLECTOR

1:01:16 TREASURER WE RECEIVED.

1:01:18 THANK YOU DOCKETS DOCKET 1710

1:01:21 UH IS APPROVED UNDER THE USUAL

1:01:23 TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1:01:25 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO MATTERS

1:01:27 RECENTLY HEARD.

1:01:28 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:01:30 DOCKET 1334.

1:01:32 STALKING NUMBER 1334 ORDER FOR

1:01:34 A HEARING TO DISCUSS THE

1:01:35 STANDARDS OF EACH TRACK

1:01:37 OF UPDATES IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:01:38 SCHOOLS.

1:01:40 THANK YOU.

1:01:41 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE

1:01:42 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

1:01:43 EDUCATION.

1:01:43 COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE

1:01:45 FLOOR.

1:01:47 THANK YOU, MADAM.

1:01:49 UM, PRESIDENT.

1:01:50 UH, SO ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

1:01:52 THE.

1:01:53 15TH AT 1030 THE EDUCATION

1:01:55 COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING ON

1:01:56 DOCKET 1330 FOR AN ORDER FOR A

1:02:00 HEARING TO DISCUSS THE STATUS

1:02:02 OF HVAC UPDATES AT THE BOSTON

1:02:03 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:02:04 I WAS JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES

1:02:06 COUNSELOR BURBANK UM AND

1:02:08 FITZGERALD AS THE LEAD SPONSORS

1:02:10 AS WELL AS COUNCILOR MURPHY

1:02:12 LOUIJEUNE FLYNN, CULPEPPER,

1:02:15 WEBER AND WORRELL AND PRESENT

1:02:17 FROM THE CPS WAS UH DOCTOR SAM

1:02:19 DE PINA AND BRIAN FORD JR.

1:02:21 THE ADMINISTRATION'S OPENING

1:02:23 STATEMENTS HIGHLIGHTED THE AGE

1:02:25 OF MANY OF OUR BUILDINGS THAT

1:02:27 ALL SCHOOLS HAD HEATING SYSTEMS

1:02:29 ,THAT THREE HVAC PROJECTS ARE

1:02:31 UNDERWAY TO BE COMPLETED THIS

1:02:34 WINTER AND THAT THERE ARE

1:02:35 CURRENTLY FOUR SCHOOLS THAT

1:02:36 WILL NOT HAVE AC BY DECEMBER

1:02:39 2026 WHICH IS YOU KNOW THE IT'S

1:02:42 GETTING COLD SO THANK GOODNESS

1:02:43 IT'S GETTING COLDER.

1:02:46 UM WHICH ARE THE TAYLOR

1:02:48 ELEMENTARY UH THE MATHERS

1:02:50 ELEMENTARY MOZART ELEMENTARY

1:02:51 AND COMMUNITY ACADEMY THEY

1:02:53 DESCRIBE USING DIFFERENT

1:02:54 FUNDING SOURCES SUCH AS MSBA

1:02:57 CAPITAL FUNDS AND OTHER GRANTS

1:02:58 AND PARTNERSHIPS TO COVER THE

1:03:00 COST OF PAST AND FUTURE

1:03:01 PROJECTS.

1:03:02 CURRENT COOLING EFFORTS FOR THE

1:03:04 REMAINING FOUR SCHOOLS UM LIKE

1:03:06 COOLING ZONES AND POPSICLES

1:03:08 WERE ALSO DISCUSSED.

1:03:09 YES PEOPLE.

1:03:11 POPSICLES AS A WAY TO DEAL WITH

1:03:14 THE HEAT COUNSELORS QUESTION

1:03:16 FOCUS ON SPECIFIC TIMELINES AND

1:03:18 PLANS FOR INDIVIDUAL.

1:03:19 SCHOOLS PLANS IN THE MEANTIME

1:03:21 WHERE UPGRADES UH ARE BEING

1:03:23 MADE UM BUDGET COST AND FUNDING

1:03:25 SOURCES FOR REMAINING SCHOOLS

1:03:27 ALTERNATIVES AND INTERACTION

1:03:28 WITH UTILITY COMPANIES AND

1:03:30 TRADES DECISION MAKING

1:03:32 PROCESSES SCHOOL CLOSURES

1:03:33 GENERATORS OF COLLABORATION

1:03:34 WOULD BE CYF LIBRARIES AND

1:03:37 OTHER SPACES THAT THE PUBLIC

1:03:39 AVAILABILITY UM OF UPDATES

1:03:42 PUBLIC TESTIMONY FROM PARENTS

1:03:43 SHARED STORIES OF THEIR

1:03:45 CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS AND MET AND

1:03:47 MENTIONED THE DIFFICULT

1:03:48 DECISIONS WHETHER TO KEEP THEIR

1:03:49 CHILDREN AT HOME ON EXTREME

1:03:52 HEAT DAYS WHICH WILL THEN

1:03:53 INTERRUPT NOT ONE OF THEIR

1:03:54 LEARNING BUT ALSO MAKE IT

1:03:55 DIFFICULT FOR WORKING

1:03:57 CAREGIVERS.

1:03:58 WE HOPE TO CONTINUE THIS

1:03:59 CONVERSATION AND THEREFORE I

1:04:01 RECOMMEND THAT THIS COMMITTEE

1:04:03 THIS UH, MATTER UH, REMAINS IN

1:04:05 COMMITTEE AND I'M NOT SURE IF

1:04:06 ANY OF THE LEAD SPONSORS.

1:04:08 WOULD LIKE TO.

1:04:08 UH, SHARE REMARKS AND IF THEY

1:04:10 DO I WELCOME.

1:04:11 THEM TO DO SO.

1:04:12 THANK YOU.

1:04:13 COUNCILOR.

1:04:13 UH, HEAR DOCKET 1334 WILL

1:04:17 REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.

1:04:17 UH, NO.

1:04:20 MY COUNCIL.

1:04:22 .

1:04:23 I'M SORRY.

1:04:23 COUNSELOR PEPEN.

1:04:25 YES, PLEASE.

1:04:25 THANK YOU.

1:04:27 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:04:28 UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO CHAIR

1:04:30 OF EDUCATION COMMITTEE

1:04:31 COUNSELOR ME FOR HOSTING THIS

1:04:33 IMPORTANT AND INFORMATIONAL

1:04:35 HEARING THAT WE HAD.

1:04:36 UM, AS I MENTIONED, TWO OF THE

1:04:38 SCHOOLS IN THE LIST WERE IN MY

1:04:39 DISTRICT THE MOZART SCHOOL AND

1:04:41 THE BATES.

1:04:41 LUCKILY WE DID RECEIVE UPDATES

1:04:43 THAT THE BATES HVAC SYSTEM WILL

1:04:45 BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THIS

1:04:47 YEAR.

1:04:47 BUT THE MOE'S OUR SCHOOL

1:04:48 CONTINUES TO BE AN ISSUE.

1:04:50 UM WE WERE I ALSO WANT TO THANK

1:04:52 UM DOCTOR DE PINA AND CHIEF

1:04:54 FORD FOR THEIR UPDATES ON THE

1:04:55 WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE

1:04:57 I KNOW THAT IS NOT EASY.

1:04:58 WE LEARNED THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE

1:04:59 EXTREMELY OLD BUILT PRIOR TO

1:05:01 WORLD WAR TWO.

1:05:02 UM WE ALREADY HAVE HOMEWORK TO

1:05:03 DO.

1:05:04 WE'RE GOING TO WORK

1:05:05 COLLABORATIVELY WITH EVERSOURCE

1:05:06 AND WITH BP'S AND INTERNALLY

1:05:07 WITH COUNSELORS HERE TO MAKE

1:05:09 SURE THAT THE REMAINING FOUR

1:05:10 SCHOOLS ANY WORK TO BE DONE, UM

1:05:12 ,GET THEIR PROPER ATTENTION

1:05:13 THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO MOVE

1:05:15 FORWARD, MAKE SURE THAT EVERY

1:05:16 SINGLE SCHOOL HAS A WORKING

1:05:18 HVAC SYSTEM.

1:05:18 THANK YOU SO.

1:05:19 MUCH, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:05:21 I COULD CATCH UP.

1:05:22 UM, FOR ME.

1:05:23 HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:05:23 OH.

1:05:24 GOOD JOB YOU SAW ME.

1:05:25 THANK YOU.

1:05:26 UM, I JUST WANTED TO JUST MAKE

1:05:28 A NOTE HERE.

1:05:29 UH, PUBLICLY FOR THE RECORD, IS

1:05:32 THAT, UM, THERE WAS A SCHOOL

1:05:33 THE LEA UH, THAT IN 2022.

1:05:36 RECEIVED.

1:05:37 UH, FUNDING IN SOME.

1:05:39 FEASIBILITY STUDIES.

1:05:40 AND GIVEN THE TIMES THAT WE'RE

1:05:42 DEALING WITH IN TERMS OF FISCAL

1:05:43 RESPONSIBILITY, I'M JUST REALLY

1:05:45 CURIOUS ABOUT HOW WE WILL

1:05:46 CONTINUE.

1:05:47 TO PLAN.

1:05:48 UM, THE FACILITIES.

1:05:49 PLAN AND SO A LOT OF MY

1:05:51 QUESTIONS ARE STILL UNANSWERED

1:05:52 IN REGARDS TO KIND OF, UH, HOW

1:05:54 WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS AND THEN

1:05:56 WE'RE CLOSING SCHOOLS.

1:05:58 AND SO I THINK THAT THERE'S A

1:05:59 LOT OF WORK TO DO IN THAT SPACE

1:06:01 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING

1:06:02 WITH US.

1:06:02 TO GET THOSE ANSWERS.

1:06:04 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

1:06:05 UM, THIS DOCKET 1334 WILL

1:06:08 REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.

1:06:09 WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS ORDERS

1:06:11 AND RESOLUTIONS A REMINDER THAT

1:06:14 UNDER RULE 39 REMARKS ON NEW

1:06:16 MATTERS NOT UP FOR A VOTE TODAY

1:06:18 SHOULD BE LIMITED TO THREE

1:06:19 MINUTES FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR

1:06:20 AND TWO MINUTES FOR CO-SPONSORS

1:06:22 .

1:06:23 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:06:24 READ DOCKET 1711.

1:06:27 TALKING ABOUT 1711 COUNCIL IS

1:06:29 BRINGING IN COLETTE AS A PART

1:06:30 OF THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE

1:06:33 AMENDING AND EXTENDING

1:06:34 PROTECTIONS FOR TENANTS FACING

1:06:36 DISPLACEMENT BY CONDOMINIUM OR

1:06:40 COOPERATIVE CONVERSION.

1:06:54 THANK YOU.

1:06:55 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:06:58 COUNCILOR BREADON

1:06:59 COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE

1:07:00 FLOOR.

1:07:01 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:07:06 MIKE IT AND I THANK YOU.

1:07:09 UH THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:07:10 I'M GRATEFUL TO CONSIDER TO

1:07:11 PAPER UH, FOR HER PARTNERSHIP

1:07:14 IN THIS ORDINANCE.

1:07:14 WE'VE SPENT MANY MONTHS WORKING

1:07:16 CLOSELY WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

1:07:18 OF HOUSING.

1:07:18 LEGAL STAFF.

1:07:19 ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

1:07:21 TO BRING FORWARD A THOUGHTFUL

1:07:22 AND NECESSARY UPDATE TO

1:07:24 BOSTON'S CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION

1:07:25 PROTECTIONS.

1:07:26 BOSTON'S CONDO CONVERSION

1:07:28 ORDINANCE HAS BEEN A KEY.

1:07:30 ANTI DISPLACEMENT TOOL SINCE IT

1:07:31 WAS ADOPTED IN 1999, AMENDED IN

1:07:35 2021 AND RENEWED BY THIS

1:07:37 COUNCIL LAST YEAR.

1:07:37 BUT CURRENTLY IT ONLY APPLIES

1:07:40 TO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WITH

1:07:41 FOUR OR MORE UNITS BUILT BEFORE

1:07:44 1983.

1:07:45 TODAY WE ARE IN NEED OF AN

1:07:48 UPDATE MOST BOSTONIANS THAT

1:07:50 FACE DISPLACEMENT DUE TO CONDO

1:07:52 CONVERSION LIVE IN SMALLER TWO

1:07:54 AND THREE UNIT BUILDINGS NOT

1:07:56 COVERED BY THE CONDO CONVERSION

1:07:57 ORDINANCE.

1:07:58 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING

1:08:00 ANALYSIS OF CONDO CONVERSIONS

1:08:04 BETWEEN 2019 AND 2024 INDICATES

1:08:05 THAT IF EXPANDED TO APPLY TO

1:08:08 TWO PLUS UNIT BUILDINGS, THE

1:08:10 CONDO CONVERSION ORDINANCE

1:08:11 WOULD HAVE PROTECTED TENANTS

1:08:13 AND 97% OF RENTAL UNITS LOST TO

1:08:16 CONVERSIONS.

1:08:17 IMPORTANTLY, TENANTS OF SMALLER

1:08:19 BUILDINGS ARE THOSE WHO NEED

1:08:21 PROTECTIONS MOST 91% OF RENTAL

1:08:23 UNITS AND BUILDINGS WITH 2 TO 3

1:08:25 UNITS LOST TO CONVERSIONS ARE

1:08:27 LOCATED IN SOME OF BOSTON'S

1:08:29 LOWEST INCOME AREAS DORCHESTER,

1:08:31 HYDE PARK, MATTAPAN, ROSLINDALE

1:08:35 ,ROXBURY, WEST ROXBURY SOME

1:08:37 OF THE LOWEST IN TODAY WE FACE

1:08:39 RISING PRICES, RISING CONDO

1:08:42 PRICES AND A CONTINUED LOSS

1:08:43 OF RENTAL HOUSING.

1:08:44 THIS ORDINANCE STRENGTHENS AND

1:08:46 MODERNIZES PROTECTIONS.

1:08:49 IT EXPANDS COVERAGE TO TRIPLE

1:08:51 DECKERS.

1:08:52 THIS IS CRITICAL IN A CITY

1:08:53 WHERE TRIPLE DECKERS MAKE UP A

1:08:55 LARGE SHARE OF OUR NATURALLY

1:08:57 AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THIS

1:08:59 ORDINANCE CLARIFIES NOTICE

1:09:01 REQUIREMENTS AND EXPANDS THE

1:09:03 LOOKBACK PERIOD TO PREVENT

1:09:04 STRATEGIC VACANCY AND IMPROVES

1:09:06 RELOCATION BENEFITS FOR

1:09:08 DISABLED DISPLACED TENANTS.

1:09:10 THIS ALSO FORMALIZES A TWO STEP

1:09:12 PERMITTING PROCESS, SO THE

1:09:14 MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING AND

1:09:15 INSPECTIONAL SERVICES CAN

1:09:16 BETTER ENFORCE COMPLIANCE.

1:09:19 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

1:09:20 YOU ALL IN OUR UPCOMING WORKING

1:09:22 SESSIONS TO REFINE THIS

1:09:24 ORDINANCE.

1:09:25 INCORPORATE FEEDBACK FROM

1:09:27 TENANTS AND OWNERS AND ENSURE

1:09:28 THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE

1:09:30 CAN TO PREVENT DISPLACEMENT AND

1:09:33 PRESERVE STABLE AFFORDABLE

1:09:34 HOUSING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:09:36 THANK YOU.

1:09:37 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:09:40 COUNCILOR TABATA YOU HAVE THE

1:09:41 FLOOR.

1:09:41 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR.

1:09:42 GREAT IT.

1:09:43 UH I THINK THAT AS PRESIDENT

1:09:46 FOR UM FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP IT'S

1:09:48 BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.

1:09:49 THERE'S BEEN SO MANY

1:09:50 CONVERSATIONS.

1:09:50 ABOUT THIS AND.

1:09:51 I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED THAT IT

1:09:53 FINALLY CROSSED.

1:09:54 THE FINISH LINE, NOT.

1:09:55 THE FINISH LINE.

1:09:56 WE ARE INCHING TOWARDS THE

1:09:57 FINISH LINE UM THROUGH THE

1:09:58 COMMITTEE PROCESS BUT THIS IS

1:10:00 REALLY WHAT I LOVE ABOUT

1:10:01 WORKING IN CITY GOVERNMENT.

1:10:03 WORDS THAT WE WRITE DOWN ON A

1:10:05 PAPER UH WILL HAVE REAL AND

1:10:07 LASTING POSITIVE IMPACTS AND

1:10:09 PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE.

1:10:10 UM, IN OUR CITY AND ESPECIALLY

1:10:12 IN.

1:10:12 EAST BOSTON WE ARE SEEING SO

1:10:14 MANY UH, UH, CONDOS BEING

1:10:16 CONVERTED FROM TWO AND THREE

1:10:18 FAMILY HOMES.

1:10:19 THIS WAS NOT UM WHERE THE THE

1:10:21 UH PREVIOUS OR UH EXISTING

1:10:23 CONDO CONVERSION ORDINANCE DID

1:10:25 NOT COVER THOSE UNITS AND SO I

1:10:27 FORGET THE NUMBER EXACTLY.

1:10:29 MAYBE MADAM PRESIDENT KNOWS BUT

1:10:30 EAST BOSTON HAS REALLY, UM,

1:10:32 FELT THIS ACUTELY AND

1:10:34 UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF THAT

1:10:35 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED.

1:10:36 AND SO THANKS TO LEGISLATION

1:10:38 FILED UP AT THE STATE HOUSE BY

1:10:41 MY PREDECESSOR, UH, NOW SENATOR

1:10:42 EDWARDS WHO I KNOW UM, REALLY

1:10:44 FOCUSED IN ON THIS AS CHAIR

1:10:45 OF THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

1:10:46 COMMITTEE WHEN SHE WAS HERE UM,

1:10:48 TO STRENGTHEN THIS BUT NOW WE

1:10:49 ARE TRULY MODERNIZING IT AND

1:10:51 DOING IT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

1:10:52 MORE TO HAVE BETTER, UM,

1:10:54 ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES IN

1:10:55 PLACE.

1:10:55 AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED, UH,

1:10:57 THAT WE ARE UM THAT WE'RE

1:11:00 MOVING FORWARD UH, JUST TO READ

1:11:01 SOME NOTES THAT I HAVE WRITTEN

1:11:03 DOWN HERE, IT'S CREATING A

1:11:04 LONGER UH EXCUSE ME STRONGER

1:11:05 AND CLEARER SYSTEM.

1:11:06 IT'S PROVIDING TENANTS WITH AT

1:11:07 LEAST ONE YEAR OF NOTICE BEFORE

1:11:08 DISPLACEMENT.

1:11:09 ELDERLY, DISABLED AND LOW AND

1:11:11 MODERATE INCOME TENANTS RECEIVE

1:11:12 AT LEAST TWO YEARS WITH THE

1:11:14 POSSIBILITY OF UP TO TWO

1:11:15 ADDITIONAL YEARS IF COMPARABLE

1:11:16 HOUSING CANNOT BE FOUND.

1:11:17 IT PROVIDES $10,000 IN

1:11:19 RELOCATION ASSISTANCE,

1:11:20 INCREASED TO $15,000 FOR

1:11:22 ELDERLY, DISABLED OR LOW OR

1:11:24 MODERATE INCOME TENANTS.

1:11:26 UH MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT CREATES

1:11:27 A REAL PERMITTING AND

1:11:28 ENFORCEMENT STRUCTURE THROUGH

1:11:29 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF.

1:11:30 HOUSING AND I-S-D SO THAT AN

1:11:32 OWNER SIMPLY CAN'T EMPTY A

1:11:34 BUILDING.

1:11:34 FIRST AND THEN CALL IT UH.

1:11:36 CONDO CONVERSION LATER.

1:11:37 UM, WE ALSO ESTABLISH A LOOK.

1:11:39 BACK PROTECTIONS.

1:11:39 SO THAT TENANTS WHO ARE

1:11:40 PUSHED OUT SHORTLY BEFORE

1:11:41 CONVERSION MAY STILL BE

1:11:43 ENTITLED TO BENEFITS.

1:11:44 AND WE GAVE THE CITY THE

1:11:45 ABILITY TO DENY A CONVERSION

1:11:47 PERMIT WHEN AN OWNER HAS

1:11:48 ATTEMPTED TO CIRCUMVENT THESE

1:11:50 PROTECTIONS THROUGH

1:11:50 UNREASONABLE RENT INCREASES.

1:11:52 REDUCTIONS IN SERVICES OR

1:11:54 TERMINATION OF A TENNESSEE.

1:11:55 AND SO IF YOU'RE A BAD ACTOR AS

1:11:56 A.

1:11:57 LANDLORD.

1:11:57 WATCH OUT.

1:11:58 WHERE MAKING SURE THAT YOU

1:11:59 ARE ABIDING BY THE LAW UM AND

1:12:00 AGAIN FOR EAST BOSTON UH ALL

1:12:02 OF THIS MATTERS AND I WANT TO

1:12:03 THANK COUNCILOR BRATTON FOR HER

1:12:04 PARTNERSHIP UM, UH, THE STATE

1:12:07 HOUSE FOR PASSING THE

1:12:07 AFFORDABLE HOMES ACT IN 2024,

1:12:09 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING

1:12:10 AND ISD FOR THEIR WORK ON

1:12:12 IMPLEMENTATION AND ENSURING

1:12:12 THAT WHAT WE WRITE HERE AND

1:12:14 WHAT WE DO HERE HAS UM, UH, HAS

1:12:16 ALREADY BEEN OPERATIONALIZED

1:12:17 AND I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO

1:12:19 THE PROCESS THROUGH THE

1:12:19 COMMITTEE AND INVITE ALL MY

1:12:21 COLLEAGUES TO TO JOIN IN AND

1:12:22 HELP US MAKE IT EVEN BETTER.

1:12:23 THANK YOU.

1:12:24 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:12:26 COUNCILOR MEJA, COUNCILOR MEJIA

1:12:27 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND LIGHT IS

1:12:30 ON.

1:12:31 THAT'S FOR SOME.

1:12:32 SPECIAL OKAY.

1:12:36 THANK THANK YOU.

1:12:38 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:12:40 NAME?

1:12:43 COUNCILOR DURKAN,

1:12:44 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:12:45 COUNCIL THANK I SO LOUIJEUNE

1:12:47 COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL MURPHY

1:12:49 COUNCILOR SANTANA UH SO WE'RE

1:12:51 WELL AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR

1:12:55 PACKAGE NUMBER 1711 WILL BE

1:12:57 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:12:58 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

1:13:02 SO CLERK PLEASE CALL 1712.

1:13:05 TALKING NUMBER 1712

1:13:08 COUNCIL FLYNN OFF OF THE

1:13:09 FOLLOWING ORDINANCE TO CODIFY

1:13:10 ABUTTERS MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY

1:13:12 PROCESS FOR ALL PROJECTS

1:13:14 SEEKING ZONING RELIEF IN THE

1:13:17 CITY OF BOSTON.

1:13:20 THANK YOU.

1:13:21 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES UM WHEN WE

1:13:24 ARE UH THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:13:28 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:13:28 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:13:30 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:13:31 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I.

1:13:32 ADD COUNCILOR.

1:13:33 COLE PEPPER AS AN ORIGINAL

1:13:35 CO-SPONSOR PLEASE.

1:13:36 CONSIDER CULPEPER SO ADDED.

1:13:38 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:13:39 ABOUT A MEETING STARTED IN THE

1:13:42 1980S UNDER MAYOR FRIEND AND

1:13:44 UNDER THE CREATION OF THE

1:13:45 OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES

1:13:47 TO CONNECT RESIDENTS TO CITY

1:13:49 HALL.

1:13:50 THE PRACTICE EXPANDED IN THE

1:13:52 1990S FOR NEIGHBORS TO REVIEW.

1:13:54 ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

1:13:56 AS WELL.

1:13:57 THE ZBA INSPECTS AND REVIEWS

1:13:59 BUILDINGS FOR ZONING COMPLIANCE

1:14:01 WITH THE BOSTON ZONING CODE.

1:14:03 THE ZBA HEARS APPEALS TO GRANT

1:14:06 ZONING RELIEF OR GRANT SPECIAL.

1:14:09 PERMISSION TO BUILD FOR A

1:14:10 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.

1:14:12 VIOLATIONS IN THE CODE CAN

1:14:14 RANGE FROM THE CONSTRUCTION

1:14:15 OF A ROOF DECK, INCREASING THE

1:14:17 FLOOR AREA RATIO OR ADDING A

1:14:21 HATCH.

1:14:21 CHAPTER 40 A OF THE MASS ZONING

1:14:23 ACT WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY

1:14:25 CODIFIED REVISED IN 1975,

1:14:28 MANDATED THAT ABUTTERS RECEIVE

1:14:31 FORMAL NOTIFICATION ON LOCAL

1:14:33 ZONING RELIEF OR VARIANCES

1:14:35 DATING BACK TO THE LATE 20TH

1:14:37 CENTURY.

1:14:38 MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION

1:14:39 STREAMLINED THE BUTTER MEETING

1:14:41 FORMAT TO INFORM RESIDENTS TAKE

1:14:43 FEEDBACK, MAKE COMPROMISE

1:14:45 BEFORE FORMAL MEETINGS AND

1:14:47 HEARINGS.

1:14:49 TRADITIONALLY ONUS WAS

1:14:50 RESPONSIBLE HOSTING THE

1:14:51 COMMUNITY PROCESS IN MEETINGS

1:14:53 ON ZONING AND LICENSING

1:14:55 PROJECTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:14:57 THAT REQUIRED.

1:14:58 VARIANCE AND APPROVAL.

1:14:59 AT CBA THIS PROCESS HAS

1:15:01 REMAINED VIRTUAL SINCE THE

1:15:03 COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

1:15:06 THESE MEETINGS ARE INTENDED TO

1:15:07 PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE

1:15:09 PUBLIC PROCESS BY OBTAINING

1:15:11 FEEDBACK FROM THOSE NEIGHBORS

1:15:13 MOST IMPACTED BY A PARTICULAR

1:15:14 PROJECT.

1:15:15 IN RECENT MONTHS, OAS HAS

1:15:18 NOTIFIED DISTRICT CITY

1:15:19 COUNCILORS THAT INSTEAD

1:15:20 OF HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS AND

1:15:22 A COMMUNITY PROCESS FOR ALL

1:15:24 MATTERS THAT SEEK RELIEF AND

1:15:26 VARIANCES FROM THE ZONING CODE,

1:15:28 OWNERS WILL NOW MAKE A

1:15:30 DETERMINATION ON WHICH PROJECTS

1:15:31 ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO HOLD

1:15:34 ABUTTERS MEETINGS.

1:15:37 IN SOUTH BOSTON SINCE THE TIM

1:15:39 PANDEMIC I HEAR FROM SENIORS,

1:15:41 VETERANS.

1:15:41 PERSONS WITH.

1:15:42 DISABILITIES, YOUNG FAMILIES UM

1:15:45 ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THE

1:15:48 ABUTTERS MEETINGS ARE BECAUSE

1:15:52 IT IMPACTS THEIR QUALITY

1:15:53 OF LIFE.

1:15:53 IT IMPACTS EVERYBODY'S QUALITY

1:15:55 OF LIFE.

1:15:55 BUT ESPECIALLY THE MOST

1:15:58 VULNERABLE IN OUR POPULATION

1:15:59 BECAUSE SOME OF THE PROJECTS DO

1:16:02 IMPACT FAMILIES, THEY IMPACT UM

1:16:05 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,

1:16:07 PEOPLE WITH YOUNG KIDS SUCH AS

1:16:09 UM A ROOF DECK THE ZBA DOES NOT

1:16:13 SEE IT THAT WAY AND OWNERS MAY

1:16:17 DECIDE NOW THAT BECAUSE OF A

1:16:19 DIFFERENCE WITH THE CITY

1:16:21 COUNCILOR NO PUBLIC PROCESS IS

1:16:24 NEEDED.

1:16:26 THIS ORDINANCE WOULD QUALIFY IN

1:16:28 THE CITY OF BOSTON CODE THAT AT

1:16:30 LEAST ONE ABUTTERS MEETING MUST

1:16:32 BE HELD IF A PROJECT IS

1:16:33 REQUIRED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE

1:16:35 ZBA FOR RELIEF.

1:16:37 I THINK RESIDENTS DO WANT TO

1:16:38 HAVE THE ABILITY TO WEIGH IN ON

1:16:42 A PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT

1:16:43 PROJECT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:16:45 IT'S ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE

1:16:47 OF RESIDENTS.

1:16:48 IT'S ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

1:16:49 .

1:16:49 IT'S ABOUT RESPECTING OUR

1:16:52 NEIGHBORS.

1:16:52 IT'S ABOUT RESPECTING OUR

1:16:54 NEIGHBORS CONSTITUENTS AS

1:16:56 DISTRICT COUNCIL IS ESPECIALLY

1:16:58 UM, BUT GIVING PEOPLE THE

1:17:00 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD AT CITY

1:17:02 HALL.

1:17:03 WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT CAN'T

1:17:04 GIVE VOICE BE HEARD AT CITY

1:17:07 HALL OR SHOULD WE LIMIT YOUR

1:17:09 VOICE AT CITY HALL?

1:17:11 THAT'S THE QUESTION.

1:17:12 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:17:13 THANK YOU.

1:17:14 COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

1:17:15 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:17:16 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:17:17 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:17:20 AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:17:22 FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

1:17:24 CO-SPONSOR AND FOR BRINGING

1:17:25 THIS ORDINANCE FORWARD A BETTER

1:17:28 MEETING HAVE LONG PROVIDED

1:17:30 RESIDENTS WITH AN OPPORTUNITY

1:17:32 TO LEARN ABOUT PROPOSED CHANGES

1:17:34 IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, TO ASK

1:17:36 QUESTIONS, TO RAISE CONCERNS

1:17:38 AND TO SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH

1:17:40 APPLICANT BEFORE PROJECT

1:17:41 REACHES THE ZONING BOARD

1:17:43 OF APPEALS.

1:17:44 I BELIEVE THAT PROCESS IS

1:17:45 PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT WHEN AN

1:17:48 APPLICANT IS ASKING THE CITY

1:17:49 FOR RELIEF FROM THE

1:17:51 REQUIREMENTS OF OUR ZONING

1:17:53 CODE IF A PROJECT CANNOT BE

1:17:54 BUILT AS A RIGHT AND REQUIRES A

1:17:56 VARIANCE OR OTHER ZONING

1:17:58 RELIEF, THE RESIDENTS WHO WILL

1:18:00 BE MOST DIRECTLY IMPACTED

1:18:01 SHOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO

1:18:03 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING

1:18:04 PROPOSED AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK

1:18:06 BEFORE THE ZBA MAKES ITS

1:18:08 DECISION.

1:18:09 I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT MOVING

1:18:11 TOWARD A SYSTEM WHERE THE CITY

1:18:13 DETERMINES THAT CERTAIN

1:18:15 PROJECTS SEEKING ZONING RELIEF

1:18:17 NO LONGER REQUIRE AND ABUTTERS

1:18:20 MEETING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

1:18:22 SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON AN

1:18:24 ADMINISTRATIVE DETERMINATION

1:18:26 ABOUT WHETHER A PARTICULAR

1:18:28 PROJECT IS SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH

1:18:29 TO WARRANT PUBLIC DISCUSSION.

1:18:31 HAVING A CONSISTENT REQUIREMENT

1:18:33 ALSO PROVIDES FLAHERTY FOR

1:18:35 RESIDENTS, APPLICANTS AND THE

1:18:37 CITY ABOUT WHAT THE COMMUNITY

1:18:39 PROCESS WOULD LOOK LIKE.

1:18:40 THE ORDINANCE ESTABLISHES THAT

1:18:43 CONSISTENCY BY REQUIRING AT

1:18:45 LEAST ONE ABUTTERS MEETING

1:18:46 BEFORE A PROJECT SEEKING ZONING

1:18:48 RELIEF APPEARS BEFORE THE ZBA

1:18:51 THIS IS THAT MEAN THAT EVERY

1:18:53 PROJECT REQUIRES AN EXTENSIVE

1:18:55 OR DRAWN OUT COMMUNITY PROCESS.

1:18:57 IT SIMPLY PRESERVES A BASIC

1:19:00 OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO

1:19:02 HEAR ABOUT A PROJECT, ASK

1:19:04 QUESTIONS AND MAKE THEIR VOICES

1:19:06 HEARD AS WE CONTINUE REFORMING

1:19:09 BOSTON ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT

1:19:10 PROCESSES, I BELIEVE WE CAN

1:19:12 MAKE THOSE PROCESSES MORE

1:19:13 EFFICIENT WITHOUT SACRIFICING

1:19:16 TRANSPARENCY AND MEANINGFUL

1:19:17 COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.

1:19:20 I AM PROUD TO JOIN

1:19:21 COUNCILOR FLYNN AS AN ORIGINAL

1:19:23 CO-SPONSOR AND LOOK FORWARD TO

1:19:25 WORKING WITH HIM AND MY

1:19:26 COLLEAGUES ON THIS ORDINANCE.

1:19:28 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:19:29 THANK YOU COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:19:31 I NOTICED COUNCILOR FRIEND YOU

1:19:32 HAVE THE LIGHT ON COUNCILMAN.

1:19:34 MADAM MADAM CHAIR, UM MAY I

1:19:37 SUSPEND THE RULES?

1:19:39 I SHOULD HAVE DID IT AT THE

1:19:40 BEGINNING.

1:19:41 I APOLOGIZE BUT CAN I SUSPEND

1:19:42 THE RULES AND ADD

1:19:43 COUNCIL FITZGERALD AS AN

1:19:44 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:19:46 SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:19:47 OBJECTIONS.

1:19:48 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IS SO OUT

1:19:49 OF CONCERN.

1:19:49 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:19:51 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:19:53 I DO WANT TO THANK

1:19:54 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR HAVING

1:19:55 ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.

1:19:55 THIS HAS COME UP A LOT.

1:19:56 IN MY OFFICE RECENTLY WHERE

1:19:58 WE WERE NOT NOTIFIED ABOUT

1:19:59 ABUTTERS MEETINGS AND I THINK

1:20:01 ALL OF US AS CITY COUNCILORS UH

1:20:03 ,ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S

1:20:04 GOING ON MAKING SURE WE HAVE

1:20:05 STAFF AT THE MEETING TO HEAR

1:20:06 THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, COMMENTS

1:20:09 ON ANYTHING.

1:20:09 AND SO A CODIFIED PROCESS WOULD

1:20:11 HELP BECAUSE WHEN WE REACHED

1:20:12 OUT TO SAY, HEY, WHY DON'T WE

1:20:14 RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT

1:20:16 ABUTTERS MEETINGS THAT GO ON IN

1:20:17 THE NEIGHBORHOODS SO THAT WE

1:20:18 KNOW TO ATTEND?

1:20:19 UH, THEY TOLD US, UH, WHY DON'T

1:20:21 YOU GUYS YOURSELVES CHECK THE

1:20:22 LIST EVERY DAY?

1:20:23 JUST GO ON THE WEBSITE AND

1:20:24 YOU'LL FIND AND YOU HAVE TO

1:20:25 LOOK FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND

1:20:26 SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.

1:20:28 UM, I'VE WORKED IN THIS.

1:20:30 BUILDING FOR OVER 20 YEARS.

1:20:31 IT WAS ALWAYS THE CASE THAT YOU

1:20:33 NOTIFY ELECTED OFFICIALS

1:20:34 OF THINGS THAT GO ON IN THEIR

1:20:36 DISTRICT.

1:20:36 AND SO I THINK THAT SHOULD

1:20:38 REMAIN UH AND I JUST THINK

1:20:39 CODIFYING THAT PROCESS WOULD

1:20:41 HELP IT WOULD HELP US AS

1:20:42 ELECTEDS ALSO KNOW, UH, TO KEEP

1:20:44 A BETTER, UH, FINGER ON THE

1:20:45 PULSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON THE

1:20:46 NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT FOLKS

1:20:47 WANT AND LET THEIR VOICE BE

1:20:48 HEARD.

1:20:49 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:20:49 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:20:50 THANK YOU,

1:20:51 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:20:51 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:20:53 NAME?

1:20:56 COUNCILOR MURPHY THANK YOU.

1:21:00 UH, DOCKET 1712 WOULD BE

1:21:02 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:21:04 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

1:21:08 MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:21:09 READ DOCKET 1713.

1:21:10 TALKING ABOUT 1713 COUNCILORS

1:21:13 MURPHY AND FLYNN OFF OF THE

1:21:14 FOLLOWING PETITION FOR A

1:21:16 SPECIAL LAW AN ACT RELATIVE TO

1:21:18 FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND

1:21:19 OVERSIGHT OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:21:21 SCHOOLS.

1:21:23 THANK YOU.

1:21:24 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:21:25 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:21:26 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:21:27 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:21:29 EVERY YEAR WE ARE ASKED TO

1:21:31 APPROVE NEARLY $1.8 BILLION FOR

1:21:34 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:21:35 YET ONCE THAT APPROPRIATION IS

1:21:37 APPROVED, OUR ABILITY TO

1:21:39 PROVIDE MEANINGFUL ONGOING

1:21:40 FISCAL OVERSIGHT IS EXTREMELY

1:21:43 LIMITED.

1:21:43 THE RECENT INSPECTOR GENERAL'S

1:21:46 REPORT MAKES CLEAR WHY THAT

1:21:48 NEEDS TO CHANGE.

1:21:49 IT IDENTIFIED SERIOUS FAILURES

1:21:51 INVOLVING PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS

1:21:54 ,PAYMENTS AND INTERNAL

1:21:56 OVERSIGHT INCLUDING MORE THAN

1:21:59 $857,000 IN PUBLIC FUNDS SPENT

1:22:02 IMPROPERLY OR IN VIOLATION

1:22:04 OF PROCUREMENT LAW.

1:22:06 MY HOMEWORLD PETITION TODAY IS

1:22:08 ABOUT PUTTING PERMANENT

1:22:10 SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE.

1:22:11 IT WOULD GIVE THE CITY

1:22:13 COUNCIL REGULAR ACCESS TO

1:22:14 FINANCIAL REPORTING EARLY IN

1:22:16 NOTICE OF PROJECTED DEFICITS,

1:22:19 GREATER TRANSPARENCY AROUND

1:22:21 CONTRACTS AND SPENDING AND A

1:22:23 ROLE IN REVIEWING MAJOR

1:22:24 FINANCIAL CHANGES AFTER THE

1:22:26 BUDGET IS APPROVED.

1:22:27 THIS IS NOT ABOUT TAKING OVER

1:22:29 THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL

1:22:30 COMMITTEE OR MANAGING THE DAY

1:22:32 TO DAY OPERATIONS OF BFS.

1:22:34 IT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT

1:22:35 WHEN THIS COUNCIL APPROPRIATES

1:22:37 NEARLY $1.8 BILLION IN TAXPAYER

1:22:41 DOLLARS, WE HAVE THE TOOLS

1:22:43 NECESSARY TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL

1:22:45 FISCAL OVERSIGHT THROUGHOUT THE

1:22:46 YEAR.

1:22:47 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE

1:22:49 HEARING ORDER FILED BY

1:22:51 COUNCIL AS WELL AND FITZGERALD,

1:22:52 WHICH WILL GIVE US AN IMPORTANT

1:22:54 OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE THE

1:22:56 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S FINDINGS

1:22:57 AND HEAR WHAT CHANGES BP

1:23:00 INTENDS TO MAKE.

1:23:01 THAT HEARING LOOKS AT WHAT

1:23:03 HAPPENED AND WHAT BP PLANS TO

1:23:04 DO NEXT THAT WE ALL RE OKAY.

1:23:10 OH I'M SORRY THANK YOU.

1:23:12 I HAD THAT WRONG SO LET ME GO

1:23:13 BACK.

1:23:14 IT'S COUNCILOR UM WEBER NOT BUT

1:23:16 I KNOW THAT PROBABLY

1:23:17 COUNCIL WE'RE ALL WILL BE

1:23:18 WORKING HARD ALONGSIDE

1:23:21 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:23:22 BUT THANK YOU.

1:23:23 AND WHICH WILL GIVE US AN

1:23:25 IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO

1:23:26 EXAMINE THE FINDINGS WHICH I

1:23:28 KNOW ALL OF US PROBABLY FOUND

1:23:29 VERY DISTURBING THAT HEARING

1:23:31 LOOKS AT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT

1:23:33 BP'S PLANS TO DO NEXT.

1:23:34 THIS HOME RULE PETITION IS

1:23:36 ABOUT MAKING SURE THE

1:23:37 COUNCIL HAS THE AUTHORITY AND

1:23:39 SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO PROVIDE

1:23:41 STRONGER OVERSIGHT GOING

1:23:42 FORWARD.

1:23:43 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

1:23:45 CONVERSATIONS TO WORK ON THE

1:23:47 LANGUAGE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE

1:23:49 CONTINUE.

1:23:49 WE CAN ASK THE QUESTIONS BUT WE

1:23:51 KNOW AND I'VE STOOD HERE MANY

1:23:53 TIMES I THINK AT THE END

1:23:55 OF LAST YEAR THERE WERE OVER

1:23:56 300 UNANSWERED RFIS AND

1:23:58 UNANSWERED 17 F'S NOT JUST WITH

1:24:00 THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE BUT THIS

1:24:02 ACROSS THE CITY.

1:24:03 SO JUST HAVING THE AUTHORITY

1:24:04 AND MANY PEOPLE SAYING WELL YOU

1:24:05 CAN JUST ASK AND IT GOES ALONG

1:24:08 WITH THE HEARING THAT WAS JUST

1:24:10 FILED ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT

1:24:11 THEY DO A BETTER JOB OF TELLING

1:24:14 US INFORMATION.

1:24:14 WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO HEAR IT ON

1:24:16 THE NEWS OR FIND OUT FROM OTHER

1:24:18 CITY EMPLOYEES THE CITY

1:24:19 COUNCIL THERE'S ONLY 13 OF US.

1:24:21 WE SHOULD BE GETTING ONGOING.

1:24:22 REGULAR UPDATES ESPECIALLY WHEN

1:24:24 IT DEALS WITH OUR CHILDREN AND

1:24:26 FAMILIES.

1:24:26 SO THANK YOU.

1:24:27 THANK YOU.

1:24:28 COUNCILOR MURPHY RECOGNIZES

1:24:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

1:24:30 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:24:31 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:24:33 THE CITY COUNCIL HAS THE

1:24:35 RESPONSIBILITY TO REVIEW AND

1:24:36 APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR THE

1:24:38 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT UNDER

1:24:41 EXISTING LAW DOES NOT POSSESS

1:24:43 CONTINUING FISCAL OVERSIGHT

1:24:45 AUTHORITY WITH THAT

1:24:47 RESPONSIBILITY AFTER THE ANNUAL

1:24:48 APPROPRIATION HAS BEEN

1:24:51 APPROVED, EXISTING LAW PROVIDES

1:24:52 THE CITY COUNCIL VOTES ON THE

1:24:54 TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED, WHILE

1:24:56 THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE HAS

1:24:57 THE SOLE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE

1:25:00 FUNDING.

1:25:00 EXPENDITURES WITHIN THE TOTAL

1:25:02 APPROPRIATION.

1:25:03 EXISTING LAW FURTHER DESIGNATES

1:25:05 A SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

1:25:07 SUPERINTENDENT OF THE.

1:25:08 SCHOOLS AS THE OFFICIAL.

1:25:09 THE OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE.

1:25:11 FOR THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT UM

1:25:13 EXPENDITURES AND GRANTS.

1:25:16 THE SUPERINTEND AS.

1:25:17 REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE

1:25:18 CERTAIN FISCAL REPORTS ON

1:25:20 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURES,

1:25:23 FUNDING.

1:25:23 FOR PROJECTED EXPENDITURES AND

1:25:26 TRANSFERS TO THE SCHOOL

1:25:27 COMMITTEE, THE CITY AUDITOR AND

1:25:30 CITY BUDGET OFFICE.

1:25:30 BUT THE CITY COUNCIL IS NOT

1:25:32 REQUIRED TO RECEIVE THESE

1:25:34 REPORTS AT THAT TIME I WOULD

1:25:36 ASSUME WE WOULD ALL WANT TO

1:25:37 READ THESE REPORTS.

1:25:40 UM, THE RECENT FINDING BY THE.

1:25:43 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

1:25:44 IDENTIFIED NEARLY 900,000 IN

1:25:47 IMPROPER SPENDING VIOLATION

1:25:49 MASSACHUSETTS PROCUREMENT LAW

1:25:51 INACCURATE BUDGET REPORTING

1:25:52 SIGNIFICANT FAILURES

1:25:54 OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT.

1:25:57 AT THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

1:26:01 WE CAN NO LONGER IN GOOD

1:26:04 CONSCIENCE CALL OURSELVES THE

1:26:05 MOST PROGRESSIVE CITY IN

1:26:07 AMERICA WHEN WE BALANCE THE

1:26:08 BUDGET ON THE BACKS

1:26:10 OF PARAPROFESSIONALS, LOW

1:26:12 INCOME WOMEN FROM COMMUNITIES

1:26:14 OF COLOR ALL TO HAVE $900,000

1:26:20 IN MISMANAGEMENT, MISMANAGEMENT

1:26:24 OF TAXPAYER MONEY.

1:26:26 WE NEED TO PRIORITIZE OUR

1:26:28 STUDENTS PROFESSIONAL

1:26:30 PARAPROFESSIONALS ENSURE THAT

1:26:32 THEY ARE RESPECTED AND THAT WE

1:26:35 ACCOUNT FOR EVERY DOLLAR IN THE

1:26:37 CITY BUDGET.

1:26:39 I DO.

1:26:40 BELIEVE THE CITY COUNCIL DOES

1:26:41 WANT TO PLAY A CRITICAL

1:26:43 OVERSIGHT ON.

1:26:44 BUT THE QUESTION IS DO WE HAVE

1:26:47 THE COURAGE TO DO IT?

1:26:48 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:26:49 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:26:50 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:26:51 NAME?

1:26:54 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

1:26:56 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:26:59 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

1:27:01 UH THANK YOU.

1:27:02 DOCKET 1713 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:27:06 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:27:07 OPERATIONS.

1:27:09 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:27:10 READ DOCKET 1714.

1:27:12 TALKING NUMBER 1714

1:27:15 COUNCILOR WORRELL OFFER THE

1:27:16 FOLLOWING PETITION FOR A

1:27:17 SPECIAL LAW AN ACT DIRECTING

1:27:18 THE CITY OF BOSTON POLICE

1:27:20 DEPARTMENT TO WAIVE THE MAXIMUM

1:27:22 AGE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICE

1:27:24 OFFICERS FOR MELVIN CASSIUS.

1:27:27 THANK YOU.

1:27:28 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:27:29 COUNCILOR ORAL CANCER.

1:27:30 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:27:31 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:27:32 MELVIN CASSIUS IS A 41 YEAR OLD

1:27:35 RESIDENT OF BOSTON WHO HAS A

1:27:36 DREAM OF BECOMING THE BOSTON

1:27:37 POLICE OFFICER AND A CITY IN

1:27:39 HIS COMMUNITY.

1:27:40 HE'S EQUIPPED WITH AN

1:27:41 IMPRESSIVE LINE UP

1:27:42 OF CERTIFICATIONS THAT MAKE HIM

1:27:44 WELL QUALIFIED TO JOIN.

1:27:46 THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDED BASIC

1:27:48 LIFE SUPPORT, CPR FIRST AID, A

1:27:50 LICENSE TO CARRY DEFENSIVE

1:27:52 TACTICS TRAINING, HANDCUFFS

1:27:54 TRAINING AND TRANSIT POLICE 911

1:27:56 THIS PAST TRAINING NOT TO

1:27:58 MENTION HE'S ALSO TRILINGUAL IN

1:28:00 ENGLISH, SPANISH AND HAITIAN

1:28:02 CREOLE BUT PERHAPS MORE

1:28:04 IMPORTANTLY HE HAS THE HEART

1:28:05 AND CHARACTER THAT THE JOB

1:28:06 DEMANDS MASSIVE EXPANSION AND

1:28:08 PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET SO WE

1:28:09 CAN SEND HIS AGE WAIVER UP TO

1:28:11 THE STATE HOUSE AND HAVE MELVIN

1:28:12 ACHIEVE HIS GOALS OF BECOMING A

1:28:14 BOSTON POLICE OFFICER.

1:28:15 THANK YOU.

1:28:16 THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL

1:28:17 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:28:19 NAME?

1:28:20 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A POWDER

1:28:22 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:28:23 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:28:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN CANTRELL

1:28:24 LOUIJEUNE POINTS TO MEJIA COMES

1:28:26 FROM MURPHY COUNTRY UH PEPEN

1:28:29 COACH SANTANA CONSTABLE WEBER

1:28:31 AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR.

1:28:34 THANK YOU.

1:28:35 DOCKET 1714 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:28:37 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:28:39 OPERATIONS.

1:28:41 OH, YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND

1:28:43 ITS PASS.

1:28:45 UH, WOULD ANYONE, UH, ELSE LIKE

1:28:47 TO SPEAK TO THIS MATTER?

1:28:48 COUNCILOR MURPHY, WE'RE GOING

1:28:50 TO SUSPEND AND PASS.

1:28:50 BUT DID YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON?

1:28:54 AND I PUT MY MY EYES.

1:28:58 BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD AND I

1:29:00 KNOW THAT WE DID PASS.

1:29:02 LAST TERM TO KIND OF BLANKET

1:29:04 THESE WHERE WE KNOW.

1:29:05 BUT THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO WHEN

1:29:07 PEOPLE REACH OUT AND WE

1:29:08 ADVOCATE WE NEED MORE FIRST

1:29:10 RESPONDERS AND WE KNOW THAT

1:29:12 WHEN PEOPLE COME FORWARD AND

1:29:13 JUST SHARING HIS BACKGROUND AND

1:29:15 WHAT HE WANTS TO BRING TO THE

1:29:16 CITY, I THANK YOU FOR PUTTING

1:29:18 THAT FORWARD.

1:29:19 THANK YOU.

1:29:19 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:29:20 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:29:21 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:29:22 PARTNER.

1:29:22 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:29:23 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:29:24 I FULLY SUPPORT THIS AS THE

1:29:25 CHAIR OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

1:29:25 AND WE DID FILE SOMETHING IN

1:29:28 2024 THAT PASSED THE HOUSE THIS

1:29:29 YEAR ACTUALLY ON MARCH 25TH.

1:29:32 UM IT WENT TO THE SENATE WHERE

1:29:34 IT CURRENTLY IS AND IT'S

1:29:35 SITTING THERE FOR FURTHER

1:29:36 ACTION.

1:29:36 SO POSITIVE NEWS ALTHOUGH

1:29:37 TAKING FOREVER.

1:29:38 SO I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO

1:29:39 MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN MOVE THIS

1:29:40 FORWARD AND WOULD.

1:29:41 LOVE UM.

1:29:42 THE SUPPORT OF MY COLLEAGUES IN

1:29:43 THAT ENDEAVOR.

1:29:44 THANK YOU.

1:29:47 COUNCILOR.

1:29:48 WELL, SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

1:29:49 RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

1:29:52 1714.

1:29:53 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:29:55 AYE.

1:29:55 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY VOTE.

1:29:58 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

1:29:59 A ROLL CALL?

1:29:59 VOTE ON DOCKET 1714.

1:30:02 COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:30:02 YES.

1:30:03 COUNCILOR BREEN.

1:30:03 YES.

1:30:04 COUNCIL.

1:30:04 COLLETTE AS A PERSON.

1:30:05 YES, COUNCILOR AS A YES

1:30:07 COUNCILOR.

1:30:07 CULPEPER COUNCIL.

1:30:08 CULPEPER.

1:30:08 YES.

1:30:09 COUNCILOR.

1:30:09 DURKAN.

1:30:10 COUNCILOR.

1:30:10 FITZGERALD.

1:30:11 YES.

1:30:11 THAT'S SO.

1:30:12 YES.

1:30:13 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:30:13 YES.

1:30:14 COUNCILOR.

1:30:14 FLYNN.

1:30:15 YES.

1:30:15 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:30:16 YES.

1:30:17 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:30:17 YES.

1:30:18 COUNCIL.

1:30:18 MEJIA.

1:30:19 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:30:20 YES.

1:30:20 COUNCILOR.

1:30:21 MURPHY.

1:30:21 COUNCILOR.

1:30:21 MURPHY.

1:30:22 YES.

1:30:22 COUNCILOR.

1:30:23 PIPPIN.

1:30:23 COUNCIL.

1:30:23 PIPPIN.

1:30:24 YES, COUNCILOR.

1:30:26 SANTANA.

1:30:26 YES.

1:30:27 COUNCILOR.

1:30:27 SANTANA.

1:30:27 YES.

1:30:28 COUNCIL.

1:30:28 WEBER.

1:30:29 COUNCIL.

1:30:29 WEBER.

1:30:29 YES AND COUNCILOR.

1:30:30 WORLD.

1:30:31 YES.

1:30:31 COUNCIL.

1:30:32 WELL, YES.

1:30:33 TALKING ABOUT 1714 AS WE SEE 12

1:30:36 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:30:37 THANK YOU, MR TRIBE.

1:30:38 DOCKET 1714 HAS PASSED.

1:30:42 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:30:43 READ DOCKET 1715.

1:30:45 LIKE A NUMBER 1715

1:30:48 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OFFER THE

1:30:49 FOLLOWING PETITION FOR A

1:30:50 SPECIAL LAW AND ACT AUTHORIZING

1:30:53 PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR

1:30:55 COMMUNITY SERVING NONPROFIT

1:30:57 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CITY

1:30:58 OF BOSTON.

1:30:59 THANK YOU.

1:31:00 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:31:01 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

1:31:02 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:31:03 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:31:04 SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

1:31:07 SERVICES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

1:31:08 ARE PROVIDED BY SMALL COMMUNITY

1:31:11 BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

1:31:13 THEY PROVIDE FOOD ASSISTANCE,

1:31:16 VIOLENCE PREVENTION, YOUTH

1:31:18 PROGRAMING, IMMIGRANT SERVICES,

1:31:20 PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS, HOUSING

1:31:23 ASSISTANCE, ARTS AND CULTURAL

1:31:24 PROGRAMING AND COUNTLESS OTHER

1:31:26 SERVICES THAT STRENGTHEN OUR

1:31:29 COMMUNITIES.

1:31:30 BUT MANY OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS

1:31:32 OPERATE ON LIMITED BUDGETS

1:31:34 WHILE FACING THE SAME RISING

1:31:35 PROPERTY VALUES AND OPERATING

1:31:37 COSTS AFFECTING EVERYONE ELSE

1:31:39 IN BOSTON, EXISTING STATE LAW

1:31:41 DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE

1:31:43 EVERY PROPERTY OWNED BY A

1:31:45 NONPROFIT TAX EXEMPT DEPENDING

1:31:47 ON HOW PROPERTY IS OWNED, HOW

1:31:50 IT'S OCCUPIED OR USED OVER

1:31:52 SERVING A COMMUNITY NONPROFIT

1:31:55 CAN STILL FACE PROPERTY TAX

1:31:57 OBLIGATION EVEN WHEN THEIR

1:31:58 PROPERTY SUBSTANTIALLY SUPPORTS

1:32:01 MISSION.

1:32:02 THIS HOME RULE PETITION WILL

1:32:03 GIVE TARGETED RELIEF TO SMALLER

1:32:06 ORGANIZATIONS THAT FALL INTO

1:32:07 THAT GAP.

1:32:08 I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT

1:32:10 THIS IS DELIBERATELY NOT A

1:32:12 BROAD TAX EXEMPTION FOR EVERY

1:32:14 NONPROFIT IN BOSTON.

1:32:15 THE PROPOSAL ESTABLISHES

1:32:17 FINANCIAL ELIGIBILITY

1:32:18 REQUIREMENTS AND ESPECIALLY

1:32:21 SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDES

1:32:23 UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES,

1:32:25 HOSPITALS, PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS

1:32:26 ,CERTAIN NATIONAL

1:32:28 ORGANIZATIONS AND PROPERTIES

1:32:29 THAT ARE ALREADY FULLY TAX

1:32:31 EXEMPT.

1:32:32 IT ALSO CAPS INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT

1:32:34 AND LIMITS THE TOTAL AMOUNT

1:32:36 OF THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE

1:32:37 THAT CAN BE FORGONE CITYWIDE.

1:32:39 THE PURPOSE IS TO HELP

1:32:41 NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS

1:32:43 REMAIN IN THE COMMUNITIES THEY

1:32:44 SERVE AND ALLOW MORE OF THE

1:32:46 LIMITED RESOURCES TO GO TOWARD

1:32:48 THEIR MISSIONS RATHER THAN

1:32:50 PROPERTY TAXES.

1:32:52 IF WE VALUE THE WORK OF THESE

1:32:54 ORGANIZATIONS, THE WORK THAT

1:32:55 THEY PROVIDE, I THINK WE SHOULD

1:32:57 ALSO EXPLORE REASONABLE AND

1:32:59 FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAYS

1:33:01 OF HELPING THEM REMAIN IN

1:33:02 BOSTON.

1:33:02 ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY I

1:33:04 BROUGHT THIS FORWARD, MADAM

1:33:06 PRESIDENT AND ALL OF MY

1:33:07 COLLEAGUES IS BECAUSE WHEN

1:33:09 NONPROFITS ARE RENTING FROM A

1:33:13 PRIVATE OWNER, THE PRIVATE

1:33:14 OWNER REQUIRES THEM TO PAY A

1:33:17 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THE PROPERTY

1:33:18 TAX AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT

1:33:20 THAT ADDRESS IS.

1:33:21 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:33:23 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:33:25 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:33:27 NAME?

1:33:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN?

1:33:30 COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL,

1:33:31 WIRRAL COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE UM

1:33:35 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD UM AND

1:33:37 PLEASE AH THE CHAIR.

1:33:39 PROPERLY UH.

1:33:41 COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR PÉPIN

1:33:42 AND COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:33:44 UH DOCKET 1715 WILL BE REFERRED

1:33:48 TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:33:49 OPERATIONS.

1:33:52 MR COOK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:33:55 DOCKET.

1:33:58 1716.1716 COUNCIL AS WEBER AND

1:34:00 FITZGERALD OFFER THE FOLLOWING.

1:34:02 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:34:03 THE FINDINGS OF THE STATE

1:34:05 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON

1:34:07 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1:34:08 PROCUREMENTS, CONTRACTS AND

1:34:10 PAYMENTS AND PLANS TO IMPROVE

1:34:12 FISCAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

1:34:13 GOING FORWARD.

1:34:15 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:34:16 COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

1:34:17 OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COUNTRY.

1:34:19 YOU HAVE.

1:34:19 THE FLOOR.

1:34:20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM

1:34:21 PRESIDENT.

1:34:21 FIRST I'D LIKE TO SEEK TO

1:34:22 SUSPEND THE RULES AND AS

1:34:24 COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD

1:34:25 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:34:27 UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:34:28 OBJECTION.

1:34:29 COUNCILMEMBER HERE IS SO ADDED

1:34:31 OKAY.

1:34:32 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:34:33 IF ANYONE WHO'S READ THE

1:34:34 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT

1:34:35 RELEASED ON AUGUST 26TH SHOULD

1:34:37 HAVE DEEP CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT

1:34:38 IS GOING ON IN REVIEWING

1:34:41 PRACTICES BETWEEN 2019 TO 2024,

1:34:43 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOUND

1:34:45 VIOLATIONS OF STATE PROCUREMENT

1:34:46 LAW, LAX OVERSIGHT AND

1:34:48 PRACTICES THAT SEEM TO AMOUNT

1:34:50 TO BILLING FRAUD.

1:34:51 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOUND

1:34:52 THAT $857,000 IN PUBLIC FUNDS

1:34:55 WERE SPENT IMPROPERLY OR IN

1:34:56 VIOLATION OF MUNICIPAL

1:34:57 PROCUREMENT LAW, INCLUDING

1:34:59 WASTEFUL CONTRACTOR MARKUPS AND

1:35:01 EXCESSIVE SHIPPING COSTS.

1:35:02 THERE ARE OTHER CONCERNING

1:35:03 DETAILS THE CITY'S FINANCE

1:35:05 COMMISSION HAD ALERTED DPS TO

1:35:07 SOME OF THESE PRACTICES IN MAY

1:35:10 OF 2023.

1:35:10 THE REPORT EXPOSED TO $24,000

1:35:13 MARK MARKUP THE PSP TO A

1:35:15 CONTRACTOR IN EXCHANGE FOR

1:35:17 SUBMITTING A PASS THROUGH

1:35:18 INVOICE.

1:35:19 IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE

1:35:20 INSPECTOR GENERAL, DPS

1:35:21 OFFICIALS STATED THAT THEY HAD

1:35:22 CONDUCTED AN INTERNAL

1:35:24 INVESTIGATION AFTER RECEIVING

1:35:25 THE FINANCE COMMISSION'S 2023

1:35:27 REPORT AND FOUND THAT THIS AND

1:35:30 IDENTIFIED NO OTHER PASS

1:35:31 THROUGH INVOICES.

1:35:32 THE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S

1:35:34 REPORT, HOWEVER, SEEMS TO

1:35:36 CONTAIN CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT

1:35:37 THERE ARE MANY OTHER INCIDENTS

1:35:39 INSTANCES OF WASTEFUL PASS

1:35:41 THROUGH PAYMENTS.

1:35:42 SO THE QUESTION HAS TO BE ASKED

1:35:43 WAS BP'S GUILTY OF LAX

1:35:45 OVERSIGHT OR WAS NOT BEING

1:35:47 FORTHCOMING IN ITS DISCUSSIONS

1:35:49 WITH THE INSPECTOR GENERAL?

1:35:50 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT

1:35:51 SAYS THAT HIS INVESTIGATION WAS

1:35:53 NOT EXHAUSTIVE AND IT AND HIS

1:35:55 REPORT LEAVES A LOT OF OTHER

1:35:57 QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED OR ANY

1:35:59 OF THE PRACTICES DISCUSSED IN

1:36:01 THE REPORT CONTINUING TODAY

1:36:02 WERE THE PROCUREMENT PRACTICES

1:36:04 THAT GAVE RISE TO THE REPORT

1:36:05 USED IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS

1:36:06 OF BP'S WHAT STEPS IS BP'S

1:36:08 TAKEN SINCE 2024 TO RECOVER

1:36:11 IMPROPERLY PAID OUT FUNDS?

1:36:12 WHAT STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO

1:36:13 ENSURE THAT PRACTICES LIKE

1:36:14 PAYING CONTRACTOR A MARKUP FOR

1:36:16 SERVING AS A PASS THROUGH OR

1:36:18 PAYING PREDATORY LOOKING

1:36:19 SHIPPING FEES FOR BOOKS DO NOT

1:36:21 SURFACE AGAIN, THESE ARE

1:36:23 QUESTIONS THAT ARE PROPERLY

1:36:24 POSED AT A PUBLIC HEARING.

1:36:26 UH SO BUT ALSO I WOULD SAY

1:36:29 CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT BETWEEN

1:36:32 2019 AND 2024 UNDER THE TENURE

1:36:33 OF THREE DIFFERENT DPS

1:36:34 SUPERINTENDENTS AND TWO MAYORS

1:36:36 ,UH $857,000 WERE WASTED OUT

1:36:40 OF $8 BILLION SPENT UH WHILE

1:36:42 SOME OF THAT MONEY AS THE

1:36:44 INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT POINTS

1:36:45 OUT WAS SPENT WASTEFULLY ON FOR

1:36:46 EXAMPLE PASS THROUGH OR HIGH

1:36:48 SHIPPING CHARGES.

1:36:49 SOME OF IT WAS PAID TO VENDORS

1:36:50 WITH VALID CONTRACTS WHO

1:36:52 PERFORM NECESSARY SERVICES FOR

1:36:54 AT THE APPROPRIATE RATE.

1:36:56 BUT NO MISSPENT CITY DOLLARS

1:36:57 SHOULD BE OVERLOOKED AND GIVEN

1:36:59 AS AS MY COLLEAGUES UH, SO UH

1:37:02 ARTICULATELY EXPLAINED IN

1:37:03 SUPPORT OF THEIR HOME RULE

1:37:04 PETITION.

1:37:05 YOU KNOW, GIVEN THAT BP'S

1:37:06 RECEIVED SUCH A LARGE PORTION

1:37:07 OF THE CITY'S OPERATING CAPITAL

1:37:09 BUDGETS, WE HAVE AN EVEN

1:37:10 GREATER RESPONSIBILITY AS A

1:37:11 BODY TO INVESTIGATE BOTH WHAT

1:37:13 LED TO THESE ISSUES AND WHAT

1:37:14 STEPS ARE BEING TAKEN TO

1:37:15 PREVENT THEM FROM HAPPENING

1:37:16 AGAIN.

1:37:16 OUR GOAL IN THIS HEARING IS TO

1:37:18 ENSURE BP'S FUNDS ARE MANAGED

1:37:20 RESPONSIBLY AND THAT RESOURCES

1:37:22 INTENDED FOR BOSTON STUDENTS

1:37:23 ARE BEING USED EFFECTIVELY.

1:37:24 UH.

1:37:25 MOREOVER, WE MUST MAKE CLEAR

1:37:27 THAT THE COMPETITIVE BIDDING

1:37:28 REQUIREMENTS OF STATE LAW ARE

1:37:29 NOT SIMPLY SUGGESTIONS THERE

1:37:30 ARE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST WASTEFUL

1:37:32 SPENDING, UH, TO MAKE SURE ALL

1:37:34 CITY AGENCIES.

1:37:35 COMPLY WITH THEM.

1:37:36 UH, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:37:38 THANK YOU.

1:37:38 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:37:39 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:37:40 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:37:41 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:37:42 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:37:43 AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER

1:37:44 FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR

1:37:46 HERE.

1:37:46 UH, JUST TO REITERATE SOME

1:37:47 OF THOSE POINTS, IT'S OUR

1:37:48 FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO

1:37:49 MAKE SURE EVERY TAXPAYER DOLLAR

1:37:51 UH IS SPENT APPROPRIATELY.

1:37:53 UH, AND AS CHAIR OF THE POST

1:37:54 AUDIT, UH, WHERE I WHERE I

1:37:56 BELIEVE THIS SHOULD RESIDE, UH,

1:37:57 I LOOK FORWARD TO ASKING THOSE

1:37:58 QUESTIONS AND I.

1:37:59 BELIEVE THE COUNCIL DOES HAVE

1:38:00 THAT RIGHT.

1:38:01 UH, AND SO WE WANT TO SHOW THAT

1:38:03 THERE'S TRANSPARENCY, UH, IN

1:38:04 THIS PROCESS AND IN THE BOSTON

1:38:05 PUBLIC SCHOOL PROCESS.

1:38:07 UH, AND SO LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:38:08 ASKING SOME OF THOSE.

1:38:08 TOUGH QUESTIONS AND MAKING SURE

1:38:10 WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT NEEDS TO

1:38:12 BE CORRECTED.

1:38:12 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:38:13 THANK YOU.

1:38:13 COATS OF GENERAL THE CHAIR

1:38:14 RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:38:16 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:38:17 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:38:18 AND I WANT TO THANK, UH,

1:38:20 COUNCILOR WEBER AND

1:38:21 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FOR ADDING

1:38:22 ME TO THIS HEARING ORDER AND AS

1:38:23 THE PREVIOUS CHAIR OF THE

1:38:26 AUDIT, I AM GOING TO GO ON THE

1:38:29 RECORD AND ADVOCATE THAT IT

1:38:30 GOES TO YOUR COMMITTEE AS WELL

1:38:32 CONSIDERING ALL THE WORK THAT.

1:38:33 I TRY TO DO.

1:38:35 UM, IN MY LAST FEW UH, TERMS

1:38:38 REGARDING ALL THINGS THAT DEAL

1:38:39 WITH UM, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

1:38:41 IN FACT OUR OFFICE A FEW YEARS

1:38:43 AGO LED UH, THE INITIATIVE TO

1:38:47 ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF THE

1:38:48 INSPECTOR GENERAL HERE ON THE

1:38:50 MUNICIPAL LEVEL IN THE CITY

1:38:52 OF BOSTON.

1:38:52 BUT, UH, THERE WAS REALLY NO

1:38:54 APPETITE FOR THAT, SO WE GOT A

1:38:55 LITTLE BIT WATERED DOWN AND NOW

1:38:58 IT'S IN THE STATEHOUSE AND

1:38:59 HOPEFULLY NOBODY GOES OUT THERE

1:39:00 TO KILL IT BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT

1:39:02 HAPPENS AT THE STATEHOUSE

1:39:03 THERE'S USUALLY A FUNERAL.

1:39:05 BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THIS

1:39:07 WORK, I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT AT

1:39:09 LEAST THIS BODY MANAGED TO UH,

1:39:12 HAVE SOME INTEREST IN MORE

1:39:15 OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY AS

1:39:17 IT DEALS WITH OUR BUDGET.

1:39:19 SO I WANT TO THANK MY

1:39:20 COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR SUPPORT AT

1:39:21 LEAST GETTING IT OUT OF HERE.

1:39:22 UM, SO THE FINDINGS IN THE

1:39:24 MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF THE

1:39:25 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT

1:39:27 PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 26TH

1:39:29 OF THIS YEAR.

1:39:29 ARE TROUBLING, ESPECIALLY THE

1:39:32 MISCONDUCT, THE VIOLATION

1:39:33 OF THE LAW WEAKNESSES UM, THE

1:39:36 EXISTING PROCESSES AND THE LACK

1:39:38 OF EFFECTIVE OVERSIGHT.

1:39:40 THE OIG DISCOVERED

1:39:42 APPROXIMATELY 850,000 IN WASTE

1:39:45 OR MISUSE PUBLIC FUNDS AND

1:39:46 STATED IN THE REPORT THE OIG

1:39:49 DID NOT PERFORM AN EXHAUSTIVE

1:39:52 REVIEW ACROSS BUT IT IS LIMITED

1:39:55 LOOK AT A HANDFUL OF CONTRACTS

1:39:57 IDENTIFIED THROUGH COMPLAINTS

1:39:59 SUGGESTIONS THIS CONDUCT MAY BE

1:40:00 MORE WIDESPREAD.

1:40:02 THE ORG LIKELY ONLY SCRATCHED

1:40:05 THE SURFACE OF 10,000 AND THEN

1:40:07 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THE

1:40:09 DEPARTMENTS EXAMINED IN THESE

1:40:11 INVESTIGATIONS UM SPENDING ON

1:40:13 SUPPLIES AND SERVICE CONTRACTS

1:40:14 EVERY YEAR KNOWING THAT AT

1:40:16 LEAST 850,000 AND LIKELY MORE

1:40:19 WAS WASTED RAISES CONCERNS

1:40:21 ESPECIALLY EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR

1:40:23 MATTERS TO OUR STUDENTS,

1:40:24 EDUCATORS AND COMMUNITIES.

1:40:26 THESE FUNDS COULD HAVE BEEN

1:40:27 SPENT TO SUPPORT BOSTON

1:40:30 RESIDENTS DESERVE TRANSPARENCY

1:40:32 ABOUT THE USE OF THEIR TAX

1:40:33 DOLLARS.

1:40:34 PUBLIC DOLLARS MUST BE USED

1:40:37 RESPONSIBLY AND EFFECTIVELY.

1:40:38 THE REPORT ALSO HIGHLIGHTS THE

1:40:40 LACK OF ADEQUATE RESPONSES

1:40:42 FOLLOWING CONCERNS BY THE

1:40:44 FINANCE COMMISSION IN 2023 AND

1:40:47 2024, WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE

1:40:49 NEED FOR STRONGER

1:40:50 ACCOUNTABILITY, GREATER

1:40:51 TRANSPARENCY AND MEANINGFUL

1:40:53 INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT.

1:40:54 AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

1:40:56 HEARING SO THAT OUR BODY CAN

1:40:57 CARRY OUT ITS DUTY TO ENSURE

1:40:59 OUR PUBLIC FUNDS AND ASSETS ARE

1:41:01 MANAGED RESPONSIBLY AND

1:41:03 EFFECTIVELY BY REVIEWING THIS

1:41:05 REPORT.

1:41:06 I KNOW MY TIME WAS UP BUT I DO

1:41:08 APPRECIATE THE EXACT TIME.

1:41:08 THANK YOU THANK YOU

1:41:10 COUNCILMEMBER HERE WOULD ANYONE

1:41:12 LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

1:41:17 UH COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:41:17 COUNCILOR FLYNN,

1:41:18 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:41:19 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:41:20 COUNCILOR.

1:41:20 PEPEN CONTRA SANTANA CONCERTO

1:41:22 WORRELL AND PLEASE OF THE

1:41:24 CHAIR.

1:41:25 DOCKET 1716 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:41:28 THE COMMITTEE AND ONE

1:41:30 COUNCILOR PLEASE.

1:41:30 OUR COUNTRY CLUB IS ABOUT AS

1:41:32 WELL.

1:41:32 UM.

1:41:34 THANK YOU.

1:41:34 DOCKET 1716 REFER TO THE

1:41:36 COMMITTEE ON POST AUDIT.

1:41:38 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:41:40 DOCKET 1717.

1:41:41 DOUG NUMBER 1717

1:41:43 COUNCILOR FLYNN ON FOR THE

1:41:44 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:41:46 TO DISCUSS SAN FRANCISCO'S

1:41:48 REDUCED AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:41:50 REQUIREMENTS AND INCLUSIONARY

1:41:51 HOUSING PROGRAM TO ADDRESS THE

1:41:53 HOUSING CRISIS.

1:41:55 .

1:41:55 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:41:56 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

1:41:57 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:41:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:41:59 THE CITY OF BOSTON'S

1:42:00 INCLUSIONARY DEVELOPMENT POLICY

1:42:02 AIMS TO CREATE MORE AFFORDABLE

1:42:04 HOUSING OPTIONS IN REQUIRING

1:42:07 INCOME RESTRICTED UNITS WITHIN

1:42:08 A NEW BUILDING CREATION

1:42:10 OF INCOME RESTRICTED UNITS AT A

1:42:12 LOCATION NEAR THE BUILDING.

1:42:14 CONTRIBUTIONS TO.

1:42:15 BE MADE TO THE IDP FUND USED

1:42:17 BY THE CITY TO FUND THE

1:42:18 CREATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:42:20 ACROSS BOSTON ID IDP APPLIES TO

1:42:23 MARKET RATE HOUSING

1:42:24 DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE IN NEED

1:42:26 OF ZONING RELIEF AT THE BPD

1:42:29 BOARD AND THE ZONING BOARD

1:42:31 OF APPEALS IN 2022, THE CITY

1:42:35 OF BOSTON INCREASED IDP AND

1:42:37 AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS

1:42:38 FROM 13 TO 17% WITH AN

1:42:41 ADDITIONAL 3%.

1:42:42 SET ASIDE FOR.

1:42:43 SECTION EIGHT VOUCHERS.

1:42:46 THIS POLICY.

1:42:48 CHANGE TOOK EFFECT IN

1:42:50 OCTOBER 2020 FOR.

1:42:54 IN JUNE 2025 IT WAS REPORTED

1:42:56 THAT BOSTON TRAILED 16 PEER

1:42:58 CITIES IN MULTI-FAMILY

1:43:00 CONSTRUCTION.

1:43:03 HOUSING PRODUCTION HAS FALLEN

1:43:05 SIGNIFICANTLY HERE IN BOSTON

1:43:06 FROM 98 UNITS APPROVED IN 2020

1:43:10 .

1:43:11 TO THE TWO LOWEST YEARS FOR NEW

1:43:13 HOUSING PERMITS ISSUED IN 2011

1:43:15 WITH 2023 AND 2024 BOTH UNDER

1:43:19 2400 UNITS.

1:43:21 THE LAST THREE YEARS HAVE BEEN

1:43:23 REPORTEDLY BEEN THE LOWEST FOR

1:43:24 A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY

1:43:26 OF BOSTON SINCE THE GREAT

1:43:28 RECESSION.

1:43:28 I WAS AT A MEETING LAST NIGHT

1:43:29 WITH REVEREND CULPEPER AND

1:43:31 COUNCIL FITZGERALD IN THE SOUTH

1:43:32 END.

1:43:32 SHEILA DILLON WAS TALKING

1:43:34 EXACTLY ABOUT THE SUBJECT.

1:43:36 SAN FRANCISCO FACES SIMILAR

1:43:38 CHALLENGES AS BOSTON WHERE

1:43:40 POST-PANDEMIC INFLATION, HIGH

1:43:41 INTEREST RATES, INCREASED

1:43:43 CONSTRUCTION COST TARIFFS HAVE

1:43:46 EXASPERATED THE HOUSING CRISIS

1:43:48 IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

1:43:52 ON JULY 2026, UM WITH HOUSING

1:43:55 PRODUCTION NOWHERE NEAR THE

1:43:56 PACE REQUIRED TO KEEP UP WITH

1:43:58 THE DEMAND, THE CITY OF SAN

1:44:00 FRANCISCO THE BOARD OF.

1:44:02 SUPERVISORS VOTED 9 TO 2 TO CUT

1:44:05 INCLUSIONARY ON-SITE AFFORDABLE

1:44:06 UNITS REQUIREMENTS FROM 15%

1:44:09 SIMILAR TO BOSTON TO 5% WITH

1:44:11 THE EXCEPTION.

1:44:12 FOR A CERTAIN DISTRICT

1:44:13 MISSION.

1:44:14 DISTRICT WHICH WAS CUT FROM 17%

1:44:17 TO 8% UM.

1:44:18 MOREOVER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:44:20 REQUIREMENTS WERE ELIMINATED

1:44:22 COMPLETELY FOR A NEW

1:44:24 DEVELOPMENT UNDER 25 UNITS.

1:44:26 FACING STRONG ECONOMIC

1:44:28 HEADWINDS, HOUSING DEVELOPERS

1:44:29 AND ACTIVISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO

1:44:31 FORMED A COALITION TO TACKLE

1:44:32 THE HOUSING CRISIS.

1:44:35 I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE NEED TO

1:44:37 GO BACK TO 5%, BUT I'M SAYING

1:44:41 LET'S WORK WITH THE NUMBER WE

1:44:42 HAVE TO REDUCE IT SO WE'RE ABLE

1:44:45 TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:44:46 WE'RE ABLE TO.

1:44:48 MOVE UM, HOUSING INTO THE NEXT

1:44:50 PHASE.

1:44:51 THERE'S A LOT OF APPROVED

1:44:53 HOUSING THAT'S JUST NOT GETTING

1:44:55 BUILT.

1:44:55 WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSING IN

1:44:57 THIS CITY AND WHEN WE BUILD

1:44:59 HOUSING IN THE CITY IT WILL

1:45:01 INCREASE AFFORDABLE UNITS.

1:45:03 BUT HAVING THE 17% PLUS THREE

1:45:06 UM IS IMPACTING.

1:45:09 THE ABILITY OF DEVELOPERS TO

1:45:12 GET THEIR PROJECT OFF THE

1:45:14 GROUND.

1:45:14 THIS MIGHT BE ONE TOOL TO STUDY

1:45:17 SAN FRANCISCO AND SEE IF BOSTON

1:45:19 CAN MAKE, UH SIMILAR

1:45:22 RECOMMENDATIONS.

1:45:23 AGAIN, THIS WOULD BE TEMPORARY.

1:45:25 UM, BUT WE NEED TO THINK

1:45:27 OUTSIDE THE BOX AND LEARN FROM

1:45:28 OTHER PROGRESSIVE CITIES LIKE

1:45:30 SAN FRANCISCO AND SEE HOW WE

1:45:32 CAN GET MORE HOUSING BUILT IN

1:45:33 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:45:34 MADAM CHAIR.

1:45:35 THANK YOU.

1:45:35 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:45:37 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:45:39 NAME?

1:45:41 COUNCILOR.

1:45:42 DURKAN.

1:45:43 COUNCILOR.

1:45:43 FITZGERALD.

1:45:44 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:45:46 THANK YOU.

1:45:47 DOCKET 1717 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:45:49 THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND

1:45:50 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

1:45:52 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:45:54 READ DOCKET 1718.

1:45:57 TALKING ABOUT 1718

1:45:59 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OVER THE

1:46:00 FOLLOWING ORDER REGARDING A

1:46:01 TEXT AMENDMENT TO THE BOSTON

1:46:03 ZONING CODE.

1:46:04 TO PROHIBIT DATA CENTERS IN ALL

1:46:06 ZONING DISTRICTS.

1:46:07 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

1:46:08 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:46:10 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:46:10 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:46:11 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

1:46:13 TO ADD COUNCIL AS WELL AS A

1:46:15 SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:46:16 CONTROL ALSO ADDED.

1:46:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:46:21 AS DATA CENTERS CONTINUE TO

1:46:23 EXPAND ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS AND

1:46:26 THE COUNTRY, I BELIEVE BOSTON

1:46:28 NEEDS TO BE TO DECIDE

1:46:30 PROACTIVELY WHETHER THIS IS A

1:46:32 LAND USE THAT MAKES SENSE FOR

1:46:34 OUR CITY RATHER THAN WAITING

1:46:36 UNTIL A MAJOR PROPOSAL IS

1:46:38 ALREADY BEFORE US.

1:46:39 DATA CENTERS CAN PLACE

1:46:41 SIGNIFICANT DEMANDS ON

1:46:43 ELECTRICITY, WATER, SEWER

1:46:46 INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE

1:46:47 ELECTRICAL GRID WHILE REQUIRING

1:46:49 SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF LAND.

1:46:51 WATER IS ALREADY AN INCREDIBLY

1:46:53 DENSE CITY WITH LIMITED LAND

1:46:56 AND SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE

1:46:58 NEEDS.

1:46:59 WE SHOULD BE PRIORITIZING THE

1:47:01 LIMITED SPACE AND CAPACITY FOR

1:47:03 HOUSING, JOBS, COMMUNITY

1:47:06 DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER USES THAT

1:47:08 PROVIDE MORE DIRECT BENEFIT TO

1:47:10 OUR RESIDENTS.

1:47:11 THIS ISSUE HAS BECOME

1:47:13 PARTICULARLY TIMING FOLLOWING

1:47:15 GOVERNOR HEALEY'S RECENTLY

1:47:17 EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING

1:47:20 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR

1:47:22 LARGE DATA CENTERS AND

1:47:24 RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE

1:47:25 OF LOCAL APPROVAL.

1:47:28 MUNICIPALITIES HAVE THE MOST

1:47:29 IMPORTANT ROLE IN DETERMINING

1:47:31 WHETHER THESE FACILITIES ARE

1:47:33 COMPATIBLE WITH THEIR LAND USE

1:47:35 AND INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

1:47:36 THAT IS WHY THIS AMENDMENT

1:47:38 TAKES A CLEAR APPROACH.

1:47:40 IT DEFINES DATA CENTERS IN THE

1:47:42 ZONING CODE AND MAKES HIM A

1:47:43 FORBIDDEN USE CITYWIDE WHILE

1:47:46 PROTECTING ORDINARY SERVER

1:47:47 ROOMS AND COMPUTING

1:47:49 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ARE

1:47:51 NECESSARY TO BUSINESSES,

1:47:52 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS,

1:47:55 EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND

1:47:57 OTHER LAWFUL USES.

1:47:59 BUT SINCE DENSITY SCARCITY

1:48:02 OF DEVELOPABLE LAND AND

1:48:03 EXISTING DEMANDS ON OUR

1:48:05 INFRASTRUCTURE MAKE LARGE SCALE

1:48:07 DATA CENTERS INCOMPATIBLE WITH

1:48:09 THE DIRECTION WE SHOULD BE

1:48:11 TAKEN AS A CITY.

1:48:12 THIS AMENDMENT GIVES US AN

1:48:14 OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH THAT

1:48:16 POLICY NOW AND ENSURE OUR

1:48:18 LIMITED LAND AND RESOURCES

1:48:20 CONTINUE TO SERVE THE BROADER

1:48:22 NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS

1:48:23 OF BOSTON.

1:48:24 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:48:25 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:48:27 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:48:29 CONTROVERSIAL COUNCILOR.

1:48:29 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:48:31 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:48:32 THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:48:34 FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

1:48:35 CO-SPONSOR.

1:48:36 UM, AS COUNCIL CULPEPER SAID

1:48:37 THIS HEARING ORDER OR ORDINANCE

1:48:40 COMES AT A PERFECT TIME AS WE

1:48:42 ARE SEEING COMMUNITIES BEING

1:48:44 BOMBARDED BY INTEREST TO PLACE

1:48:45 DATA CENTERS IN THEIR

1:48:46 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:48:48 WE HAVE SEEN THE IMPACTS THESE

1:48:49 CENTERS HAVE AIR POLLUTION, THE

1:48:51 STRAIN ON OUR WATER SOURCES, A

1:48:54 STRAIN ON OUR CITY'S ENERGY

1:48:55 GRID AND WE DO NOT NEED

1:48:57 UNREGULATED ENTITIES TAKING

1:48:59 OVER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:49:00 A ZONING REVIEW CAN EXAMINE HOW

1:49:02 WE CAN ASSURE OUR NEIGHBORS OUR

1:49:04 NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT CARRYING

1:49:04 THE BURDEN THAT THESE DATA

1:49:06 CENTERS BRING.

1:49:07 THANK YOU.

1:49:08 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL.

1:49:09 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:49:11 NAME?

1:49:12 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A POWDER

1:49:13 CONSTRUCT DURKAN COUNCILOR UM

1:49:17 LOUIJEUNE CONTROL UH, HERE.

1:49:20 HUNTER.

1:49:21 PEPEN COUNCILOR MURPHY

1:49:23 CONSCIOUS INTERNAL

1:49:24 COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE OUT

1:49:25 THE CHAIR.

1:49:28 COUNCILORS.

1:49:30 UH UM YES THANK YOU DON'T GOOD

1:49:33 171 IT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:49:35 COMMITTEE ON PLANNING

1:49:36 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

1:49:37 .

1:49:39 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:49:40 READ DOCKET 1719.

1:49:42 TALKING ABOUT 1719

1:49:44 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR THE

1:49:45 FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING

1:49:47 CERTAIN INFORMATION IN THE

1:49:48 SECTION 17 F REGARDING VOTER

1:49:52 REGISTRATION AND ELECTION DAY

1:49:52 VOTING PROCEDURES IN THE CITY

1:49:55 OF BOSTON.

1:49:55 TO RECOGNIZE AS COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:49:57 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:49:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:49:59 A SIMPLE 17 F REQUEST THE CITY

1:50:03 OF BOSTON ELECTION DEPARTMENT

1:50:03 IS.

1:50:04 CURRENTLY UNDER STATE RECEIVED

1:50:06 RECEIVERSHIP AFTER FAILING TO

1:50:07 HAVE SUFFICIENT BALLOTS ACROSS

1:50:09 THE CITY AND ONE OF THE MOST

1:50:11 IMPORTANT ELECTIONS OF OUR

1:50:12 LIFETIME THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL

1:50:14 ELECTION.

1:50:16 I BELIEVE WE NEED TO STAY ON

1:50:17 TOP OF, UM, THIS ISSUE BECAUSE

1:50:21 IF IT'S A BASIC CITY SERVICES

1:50:23 IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE EVERYONE

1:50:25 HAS ACCESS TO VOTING.

1:50:27 IMPLEMENTING IMMEDIATE CHANGES

1:50:29 TO ENSURE EVERY VOTE COUNTS.

1:50:33 UM THE CITY OF BOSTON SHOULD

1:50:34 PRIORITIZE CRITICAL COMMUNITY

1:50:36 NEEDS.

1:50:37 THESE TYPES OF QUALITY OF LIFE

1:50:38 ISSUES AND THE ABILITY TO

1:50:41 ADMINISTER BASIC CITY SERVICES.

1:50:44 UM BUT IT MUST BE CLEAR AND

1:50:46 ENSURE THAT IT'S EASY AND

1:50:48 ACCESSIBLE FOR RESIDENTS TO

1:50:50 VOTE INCLUDING RESIDENTS LIVING

1:50:52 IN PUBLIC HOUSING.

1:50:53 OUR SENIORS NOT PERSONS WITH

1:50:57 DISABILITIES AS WELL.

1:50:59 IMPLEMENTING AN EFFECTIVE,

1:51:01 TRANSPARENT AND FAIR ELECTION

1:51:02 PROCESS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY

1:51:04 OF THE CITY OF BOSTON ELECTION

1:51:05 DEPARTMENT AND I'M REQUESTING

1:51:07 THIS INFORMATION SO I CAN STUDY

1:51:09 THE DATA TO ENSURE THAT WE

1:51:10 PROVIDE, UM, EVERY RESIDENT THE

1:51:13 OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE THAT'S

1:51:15 ELIGIBLE.

1:51:15 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:51:19 UH, CHAIR I SEE UM, SO THIS IS

1:51:24 1719 UH 1717 S ALL IN FAVOR?

1:51:28 UH, CONSEQUENCES SUSPENSION

1:51:30 OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

1:51:31 OF DOCKET 1719.

1:51:32 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:51:34 ALL OPPOSED?

1:51:35 SAY NAY.

1:51:36 THANK YOU.

1:51:37 MR CHAIR.

1:51:37 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

1:51:39 CALL?

1:51:39 VOTE ON 1719.

1:51:41 COUNCILOR BREEN.

1:51:42 NO.

1:51:43 COUNCILOR BRAYTON NO

1:51:44 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPONENT

1:51:46 COUNCILOR CLOSE TO NO

1:51:48 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:51:49 PRESENT COUNCIL CULPEPPER

1:51:51 PRESENT COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:51:54 COUNCILOR DURKAN PRESENT.

1:51:55 COUNCILOR.

1:51:55 FITZGERALD.

1:51:56 YES.

1:51:57 COUNCILOR.

1:51:57 FISCAL.

1:51:58 YES.

1:51:58 COUNCILOR.

1:51:59 FLYNN.

1:51:59 YES.

1:52:00 COUNCILOR.

1:52:00 FLYNN.

1:52:00 YES.

1:52:01 COUNCILOR.

1:52:01 LOUIJEUNE.

1:52:02 NO.

1:52:02 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:52:03 NO.

1:52:04 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

1:52:05 COUNCILOR.

1:52:06 MEJIA.

1:52:06 PRESENT.

1:52:07 COUNCILOR.

1:52:08 MURPHY.

1:52:09 COUNCILOR.

1:52:09 MURPHY.

1:52:10 YES.

1:52:10 COUNCILOR.

1:52:11 PIPPIN.

1:52:12 COUNCILOR.

1:52:12 PEN.

1:52:13 NO.

1:52:14 COUNCILOR SANTANA PRESENT.

1:52:17 COUNCILOR.

1:52:18 WEBER.

1:52:19 COUNCILOR.

1:52:19 WEBER.

1:52:20 NO.

1:52:21 COUNCILOR.

1:52:21 WORLD.

1:52:21 YES.

1:52:22 COUNCILOR.

1:52:24 WELL.

1:52:24 YES.

1:52:25 ONE MORE.

1:52:28 I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A VOTE.

1:52:29 YOU CAN FINISH.

1:52:31 CUT!

1:52:33 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE

1:52:34 THE FLOOR.

1:52:34 I MEAN, I DID THE MATH IN MY

1:52:35 HEAD, SO I JUST WANT TO RAISE A

1:52:38 CONCERN THAT HAD I NOT CALLED

1:52:40 FOR A VOTE THAT.

1:52:43 I'M IN THE.

1:52:44 KNOW SO THAT THIS IS NOT A

1:52:46 POINT OF ORDER FOR ME.

1:52:47 I SAYS NOT TO BE.

1:52:48 YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT A POINT

1:52:49 OF ORDER.

1:52:50 THE MAYOR'S FINISHES WELL, I

1:52:51 HAVE TO FINISH THE ROLL CALL.

1:52:53 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:52:55 CONTINUE?

1:52:57 MR CLERK PLEASE CONTINUE.

1:53:00 SO DUCKING NUMBER 1719 HAS

1:53:02 RECEIVED 12345 VOTES IN THE

1:53:05 NEGATIVE FOR VOTES IN THE

1:53:08 AFFIRMATIVE AND FOR VOTES

1:53:11 PRESENT.

1:53:13 IT FAILS.

1:53:15 THANK YOU, MR TARGET 1719 HAS,

1:53:18 UH, NOT PASSED.

1:53:22 MR.

1:53:22 MISS, PLEASE.

1:53:24 NO, I TALK PLEASE.

1:53:26 MADAM CHAIR.

1:53:27 JUST A QUICK QUESTION TO YOU.

1:53:29 UM, IS IT EASIER FOR THE BODY

1:53:32 IF INSTEAD OF DOING 17 HALF FOR

1:53:35 ME GOING FORWARD IS IT EASIER

1:53:37 TO DO A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

1:53:39 ?

1:53:40 DOES THAT MAKE THE PROCESS

1:53:41 EASIER FOR MY COLLEAGUES?

1:53:43 UM, SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO

1:53:46 TAKE A VOTE WHERE IT'S JUST IF

1:53:48 I JUST DO A FREEDOM

1:53:49 OF INFORMATION IT DOESN'T HAVE

1:53:50 ANY IMPACT ON THE CITY

1:53:52 COUNCIL AND I CAN JUST REQUEST

1:53:53 RELEVANT INFORMATION THAT WAY

1:53:55 INSTEAD OF.

1:53:55 THAT'S THE PREROGATIVE OF ANY

1:53:57 CITIZEN TO DO THAT.

1:53:58 YEAH.

1:53:59 YEAH IT MIGHT BE BUT IT

1:54:00 MIGHT BE EASIER FOR FOR THIS

1:54:02 BODY IF WE KIND OF GET RID

1:54:04 OF IF WE GO AWAY FROM 17

1:54:06 THERE'S NO WAY WE'RE NOT GOOD.

1:54:07 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

1:54:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:54:10 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:54:11 YES.

1:54:11 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:54:13 MURPHY.

1:54:15 I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON.

1:54:18 COUNCILOR MEJIA, YOU HAVE THE

1:54:19 FLOOR JUST FOR A BRIEF AND THEN

1:54:21 WE'RE MOVING ON.

1:54:22 NO, I'M GOING TO.

1:54:23 THANK YOU.

1:54:24 SHE WANTS TO.

1:54:27 CANCEL CULTURE.

1:54:29 MURPHY.

1:54:31 THANK YOU.

1:54:31 AND MAYBE I DIDN'T HEAR WELL

1:54:33 ,BUT WHEN WE ASKED ALL THOSE

1:54:35 IN FAVOR AND THEN ALL THOSE DID

1:54:38 ANYONE SAY THEY WERE AGAINST?

1:54:39 I DIDN'T HEAR IT AND SO IT WAS

1:54:41 ABOUT TO PASS.

1:54:42 SO I'M JUST ASKING A PROCEDURAL

1:54:44 QUESTION TO THE CLERK OR TO YOU

1:54:47 ,MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I HAD NOT

1:54:49 SAID DEALT THE VOTE AND WE WENT

1:54:51 AROUND ROLL CALL IT WAS ABOUT

1:54:53 TO PASS.

1:54:54 IT WILL PASS NEXT WEEK.

1:54:55 IT'S A 70 NOW IT WILL GO

1:54:56 THROUGH AND WE'LL GET THE

1:54:58 ANSWERS EVENTUALLY.

1:54:58 BUT IF SOMEONE COULD PLEASE

1:54:59 SPEAK TO THAT IF NOT IF WE

1:55:02 COULD TAKE A BRIEF RECESS

1:55:02 BECAUSE THAT'S CONCERNING.

1:55:03 TO ME.

1:55:04 THE WAY.

1:55:05 I KNOW THE PROCEDURE I'M

1:55:06 JUST AT WHEN BUT NOBODY DID SAY

1:55:08 SO WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO AS

1:55:10 THE NO.

1:55:11 I MIGHT I ASK ALL THOSE IN

1:55:13 FAVOR SAY I THEN I ASK I MAKE A

1:55:16 DELIBERATE I AM REQUIRED TO SAY

1:55:17 ALL I ALL THOSE IN AGAINST SAY

1:55:19 NAY ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

1:55:22 AND BEFORE I FINISH THAT

1:55:23 SENTENCE SOMEBODY SAYS TO VOTE.

1:55:25 USUALLY SOMEBODY SAYS START THE

1:55:27 VOTE.

1:55:27 SO I THEN I AM I HAVE TO GO TO

1:55:30 THE FERC AND ASK THEM TO TAKE A

1:55:31 ROLL CALL.

1:55:32 THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER.

1:55:34 THANK YOU.

1:55:35 MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:55:38 DOCKET 1701720.

1:55:42 DUCKING NUMBER 1720 COUNCILORS

1:55:44 FLYNN AND SANTANA FOR THE

1:55:46 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION ENDORSING

1:55:48 A FINANCIAL LITERACY GRADUATION

1:55:51 REQUIREMENT FOR BOSTON PUBLIC

1:55:52 SCHOOLS.

1:55:54 THANK YOU.

1:55:55 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:55:56 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:55:57 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:55:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:55:59 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I SUSPEND THE

1:56:01 RULES AND ADD COUNCIL MEJIA.

1:56:03 UM, COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD

1:56:05 CO-SPONSOR?

1:56:06 YES.

1:56:06 UH, HEARING AND SEEING

1:56:08 SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:56:09 OBJECTIONS.

1:56:09 CONSUMER IS ADDED AS A THIRD.

1:56:11 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:56:13 FINANCIAL LITERACY IS A

1:56:14 CRITICAL SKILL THAT HELPS

1:56:16 MANAGE DAY TO DAY FINANCES

1:56:18 LEARN HOW TO BUDGET, RESEARCH

1:56:20 FINANCIAL GOALS BASIC FINANCIAL

1:56:22 CONCEPTS AT A YOUNG AGE CAN

1:56:24 HELP PREPARE OUR STUDENTS AS

1:56:26 THEY TRANSITION INTO ADULTHOOD

1:56:28 .

1:56:29 EQUIP THEM WITH THE KNOWLEDGE

1:56:30 TO MAKE BETTER PERSONAL

1:56:32 FINANCIAL DECISIONS.

1:56:34 WELL, 70% OF MASSACHUSETTS

1:56:37 SCHOOLS OFFER SOME ELECTIVES IN

1:56:39 FINANCIAL LITERACY.

1:56:40 MOST STUDENTS GRADUATE WITH

1:56:41 LITTLE TO NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE

1:56:43 FUNDAMENTALS OF BUDGETING,

1:56:44 SAVINGS, INVESTING, MAINTAINING

1:56:46 GOOD CREDIT.

1:56:49 IN 2015 OUR COLLEAGUE STATE

1:56:52 TREASURER DEB GOLDBERG

1:56:53 ESTABLISHED THE OFFICE

1:56:54 OF ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND

1:56:56 CREATED THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:56:57 FINANCIAL LITERACY TASK FORCE

1:56:59 TO STUDY THE ACCESS TO

1:57:01 FINANCIAL EDUCATION AMONG K-12

1:57:04 STUDENTS, COLLEGE STUDENTS AND

1:57:06 ADULTS.

1:57:08 THEY OFFER A VARIETY

1:57:09 OF PROGRAMS WEBINARS, FAIRS,

1:57:11 GRANTS TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE,

1:57:14 WOMEN, FAMILY, VETERANS AND

1:57:16 OLDER ADULTS WITH FINANCIAL

1:57:19 LITERACY.

1:57:21 WE ALSO NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN

1:57:22 TO HELP OUR KIDS PREPARE FOR

1:57:24 THE REAL WORLD.

1:57:24 AFTER HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE,

1:57:26 IT'S CRITICAL WE PROVIDE THEM

1:57:28 WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE

1:57:29 DEMANDS OF BEING AN ADULT AS

1:57:30 WELL AS KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC

1:57:33 FINANCIAL TOOLS TOOLS THEY NEED

1:57:36 TO SUCCEED INCLUDING A MONTHLY

1:57:38 BUDGET IN COST OF LIVING

1:57:40 EXPENSES, THE IMPORTANCE

1:57:42 OF SAVINGS FOR RETIREMENT AT AN

1:57:44 EARLY AGE OR EVEN COLLEGE

1:57:45 SAVINGS DOWN THE ROAD WHEN THEY

1:57:47 BECOME PARENTS THEMSELVES.

1:57:50 THIS IS AN ISSUE I'VE WORKED ON

1:57:52 UM, NOT JUST ON THE CITY

1:57:55 COUNCIL BUT I TAUGHT THIS CLASS

1:57:56 WHEN I WAS IN THE NAVY TO

1:57:59 YOUNGER PEOPLE ABOUT THE

1:58:01 IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL

1:58:02 LITERACY.

1:58:04 WE HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGES WITH

1:58:06 YOUNG PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP TO

1:58:08 JOIN THE NAVY AND THEN THEY FOR

1:58:10 EXAMPLE, THEY WOULD GO OUT AND

1:58:12 BUY A BRAND NEW CAR AND THEIR

1:58:15 CREDIT WOULD BE HURT.

1:58:17 BECAUSE THEY REALLY HAD NO

1:58:19 MEANS TO PAY FOR A BRAND NEW

1:58:21 CAR AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW

1:58:23 ANYTHING ABOUT THE DOWN

1:58:24 PAYMENT.

1:58:24 THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT

1:58:26 THE UM ABOUT THE MONTHLY

1:58:29 PAYMENT FEES.

1:58:30 THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT

1:58:31 THE INSURANCE, UM AND THE RATES

1:58:34 AND IT DID IMPACT THEM FOR A

1:58:36 LONG PERIOD OF TIME ESPECIALLY

1:58:37 WHEN THEY WANTED TO BUY A HOME

1:58:39 .

1:58:40 SO I'M JUST TRYING TO DO WHAT I

1:58:41 CAN TO ENSURE THAT YOUNG PEOPLE

1:58:42 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON HAVE THIS

1:58:44 CRITICAL TOOL SO THAT THEY CAN

1:58:47 HOPEFULLY BUY A HOME, UM, AND

1:58:50 CREATE GENERATIONAL WEALTH.

1:58:52 I THINK THAT'S CRITICALLY

1:58:54 NEEDED, ESPECIALLY IN

1:58:55 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ACROSS THE

1:58:57 CITY OF BOSTON.

1:58:58 MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU.

1:59:00 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:59:02 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRIES AND

1:59:03 TOWN AND COUNTRY.

1:59:04 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:59:05 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:59:07 UM, AND I WANT TO THANK MY

1:59:08 COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR

1:59:09 INCLUDING.

1:59:10 ME IN THIS.

1:59:11 UM, I'M PROUD TO JOIN

1:59:13 COUNCILOR FUNDING

1:59:13 COUNCILOR MEJIA UM, IN

1:59:15 CO-SPONSORING THIS RESOLUTION.

1:59:17 FINANCIAL LITERACY IS A SKILL

1:59:18 THAT IS NECESSARY FOR

1:59:20 NAVIGATING OUR WORLD, BUT IT'S

1:59:21 STILL NOT REQUIRED TO BE TAUGHT

1:59:23 IN OUR SCHOOLS.

1:59:24 BY ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE

1:59:26 FINANCIAL LITERACY REQUIREMENT

1:59:27 FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN

1:59:28 BOSTON PUBLIC.

1:59:29 SCHOOLS.

1:59:30 WE ARE PREPARING THEM TO

1:59:31 TACKLE WHATEVER COMES NEXT AND

1:59:33 THRIVE IN TODAY'S RAPIDLY

1:59:35 SHIFTING ECONOMY.

1:59:36 WE ALREADY KNOW THIS MODEL

1:59:38 WORKS.

1:59:38 THIS IS EXPANDING IN 2020 FOR

1:59:41 TARGETED FINANCIAL LITERACY

1:59:42 INITIATIVES HAVE PARTNERED WITH

1:59:45 11 ORGANIZATIONS AND EMPOWERED

1:59:46 NEARLY 1000 STUDENTS ACROSS OUR

1:59:48 DISTRICT.

1:59:48 BUT FINANCIAL EDUCATION

1:59:50 SHOULDN'T DEPEND ON A ZIP

1:59:51 CODE OR A PILOT PROGRAM.

1:59:53 IT MUST BE A GUARANTEED RIGHT

1:59:54 FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT.

1:59:57 BY ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE

1:59:59 FINANCIAL LITERACY REQUIREMENT

2:00:00 ACROSS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

2:00:01 WE ARE INVESTING IN EQUITY.

2:00:04 CLOSING GENERATIONAL WEALTH

2:00:05 GAPS AND ENSURING THAT OUR

2:00:08 GRADUATES LEAVE OUR HALLS READY

2:00:09 TO THRIVE.

2:00:10 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN US

2:00:12 IN SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION

2:00:13 TODAY.

2:00:13 THANK YOU.

2:00:15 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:00:18 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSUMER

2:00:19 HERE.

2:00:19 CONSUMER HEARING OF THE FLOOR.

2:00:20 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:00:22 I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES

2:00:23 FOR.

2:00:23 UM.

2:00:23 ADDING ME TO THIS

2:00:25 RESOLUTION.

2:00:25 UM, FINANCIAL LITERACY.

2:00:27 IS AN ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL

2:00:29 THAT ALL PEOPLE NEED.

2:00:30 HOWEVER, WE DO NOT EQUIP OUR

2:00:32 STUDENTS WITH WITH IT DESPITE

2:00:34 THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND

2:00:36 BUDGETING, FINANCIAL DECISIONS,

2:00:37 TAXES, CREDIT SCORES, SAVINGS,

2:00:39 PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT AND SO

2:00:41 MUCH MORE EMPOWERING OUR YOUTH

2:00:42 FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY WILL

2:00:44 MEANINGFULLY UM CHANGE THEIR

2:00:46 LIVES.

2:00:46 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING

2:00:47 THESE SKILLS AND LACKING THEM

2:00:49 COULD BE BUYING A HOUSE,

2:00:51 BUILDING GOOD CREDIT, MANAGING

2:00:52 DEBT AND THEIR OVERALL ABILITY

2:00:55 TO IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICES

2:00:55 WHEN IT COMES TO PERSONAL AND

2:00:57 BUSINESS FINANCES.

2:00:59 THIS RESOLUTION ALSO CALLS FOR

2:01:01 A TRAUMA INFORMED AND

2:01:02 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE APPROACH

2:01:05 TO FINANCIAL EDUCATION BECAUSE

2:01:06 YOU KNOW WHERE SOMETIMES

2:01:09 GROWING UP UM, HERE IN THE CITY

2:01:11 OF BOSTON AND AS AN IMMIGRANT.

2:01:13 YOU KNOW.

2:01:14 WE GET FUNNY ABOUT MONEY.

2:01:15 WE DON'T REALLY TALK ABOUT IT

2:01:16 IN THE HOME.

2:01:17 AND I THINK IT'S REALLY

2:01:18 IMPORTANT FOR US TO THINK ABOUT

2:01:19 THIS FROM A CULTURAL COMPETENCY

2:01:22 LENS.

2:01:22 PEOPLE WHO GREW UP WHO GREW UP

2:01:24 IN POVERTY END UP STAYING IN

2:01:25 POVERTY BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T

2:01:27 KNOW HOW TO HAVE A GOOD

2:01:29 RELATIONSHIP, UM, WITH WEALTH

2:01:31 AND SO FINANCIAL LITERACY IS NO

2:01:32 DIFFERENT AND BUILDING THIS

2:01:33 KIND OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENT

2:01:35 AND TO SET OUR STUDENTS UP FOR

2:01:37 THEIR ENTIRE LIFE AND I'LL JUST

2:01:38 SAY UM WELL I WAS IN HIGH

2:01:40 SCHOOL, I HAD THREE JOBS I

2:01:42 WORKED AT MCDONALD'S BRIGHAM

2:01:43 AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL AND A SHOE

2:01:45 STORE AND IN THE EVENINGS I

2:01:46 WOULD EVEN GO CLEAN OFFICES

2:01:48 WITH MY MOM AND IF ANYONE WOULD

2:01:50 HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO SIT WITH

2:01:52 ME AND SAY BUY A HOUSE, DO

2:01:55 THIS, I PROBABLY UM WOULD BE IN

2:01:57 A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE IN MY

2:01:58 LIFE FINANCIALLY.

2:01:59 AND SO THE WORK UM IS REALLY

2:02:01 ABOUT BUILDING GENERATIONAL

2:02:03 WEALTH BUT WE CAN'T DO THAT

2:02:04 WHEN PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND UM

2:02:06 ,THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH

2:02:07 MONEY.

2:02:08 SO I THINK THAT THIS IS AN

2:02:09 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.

2:02:10 BUT BEFORE UH, I AND I JUST

2:02:13 WANT TO SAY RESOLUTIONS ARE

2:02:14 GREAT BUT I THINK YOU KNOW,

2:02:16 PUTTING PEN TO PAPER AND

2:02:18 TURNING THESE INTO ACTUAL

2:02:19 POLICIES THAT WE CAN MAKE

2:02:21 HAPPEN IS THE DEFINITELY THE

2:02:23 ENERGY THAT WE NEED IN THIS

2:02:25 MOMENT.

2:02:25 THANK YOU.

2:02:26 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:02:26 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:02:28 COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNTRY YOU

2:02:29 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:02:30 YES I KNOW MY TIME IN THE

2:02:33 CLASSROOM BUT ALSO HERE ON THE

2:02:35 COUNCIL HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING

2:02:36 FOR MORE CLASSES AND MORE

2:02:39 TRAINING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND

2:02:40 ALSO ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS

2:02:42 ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:02:43 I DO JUST WANT TO TAKE THE

2:02:45 OPPORTUNITY TO THANK STEVE

2:02:46 WHALEN AND CITY KIDS AND I KNOW

2:02:48 THERE'S MANY OTHER NON-PROFITS

2:02:50 THAT IS UM TEACHES FINANCIAL

2:02:52 LITERACY AT THE BASE AND ALSO

2:02:55 EAST BOSTON HIGH IS ONE

2:02:56 OF THEIR SEVERAL SCHOOLS HOPING

2:02:58 TO EXPAND ACROSS ALL OF OUR

2:03:00 SCHOOLS.

2:03:01 SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:03:03 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THOSE

2:03:04 OUTSIDE AGENCIES THAT ARE

2:03:06 TRYING TO FILL THE GAP THAT DPS

2:03:08 HAS AND ALSO ADVOCATING THAT

2:03:11 JUST MAKES IT A REQUIREMENT.

2:03:13 ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ACROSS THE

2:03:14 CITY SHOULD BE LEARNING THIS.

2:03:16 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:03:18 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:03:19 NAME?

2:03:20 COUNTRY COLOR IS A POWDER

2:03:22 COUNTRY.

2:03:22 CULPEPER CONSTRUCTOR CAN TO

2:03:24 FITZGERALD COUNTRY LOUISIANA

2:03:26 COUNTRY MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN

2:03:28 COUNCILOR WORRELL AND PLEASE

2:03:29 ADD THE CHAIR COUNCILORS FLYNN

2:03:33 ,SANTANA AND MEJIA SEEK

2:03:35 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

2:03:35 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1720.

2:03:39 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:03:40 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:03:43 MR TRUMP.

2:03:44 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

2:03:45 CALL?

2:03:46 VOTE ON DOCKET 1720.

2:03:48 COUNCILOR BREAK.

2:03:49 YES, COUNCILOR BREADON?

2:03:50 YES.

2:03:50 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

2:03:51 PARTNER.

2:03:51 YES.

2:03:52 COUNCIL AS A PARTNER.

2:03:52 YES.

2:03:53 COUNCILOR.

2:03:53 CULPEPPER.

2:03:54 COUNCILOR.

2:03:55 CULPEPPER.

2:03:55 YES.

2:03:56 COUNCILOR.

2:03:56 DURKAN.

2:03:58 COUNCILOR.

2:03:58 DURKAN.

2:03:58 YES.

2:03:58 COUNCILOR.

2:03:59 FITZGERALD.

2:04:00 COUNCILOR.

2:04:00 FITZGERALD.

2:04:01 YES.

2:04:01 COUNCILOR.

2:04:01 FLYNN.

2:04:02 YES.

2:04:03 COUNCILOR.

2:04:03 FLYNN.

2:04:03 YES.

2:04:04 COUNCIL.

2:04:04 LOUIJEUNE.

2:04:05 COUNCILOR.

2:04:06 LOUIJEUNE.

2:04:06 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:04:06 MEJIA.

2:04:07 COUNCIL ME HERE.

2:04:08 YES.

2:04:08 COUNSELOR.

2:04:09 MURPHY.

2:04:09 COUNCILOR.

2:04:10 MURPHY.

2:04:10 YES.

2:04:11 COUNCIL.

2:04:11 PIPPIN.

2:04:12 COUNCILOR.

2:04:12 PAN.

2:04:13 YES.

2:04:13 COUNCIL.

2:04:13 SANTANA.

2:04:14 COUNCILOR.

2:04:15 SANTANA.

2:04:15 YES.

2:04:16 COUNCILOR.

2:04:16 WEBER.

2:04:17 COUNCILOR.

2:04:17 WORLD.

2:04:18 YES.

2:04:19 COUNCIL.

2:04:20 ARROYO.

2:04:20 YES.

2:04:20 TALKING ABOUT 1720 HAS

2:04:23 RECEIVED.

2:04:26 OH COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:04:30 FINANCIAL THAT IS.

2:04:31 YES.

2:04:32 COUNCILOR WEBER YES.

2:04:33 TALKING NUMBER 1720 HAS

2:04:36 RECEIVED A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN

2:04:37 THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:04:38 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:04:40 DOCKET 1720 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:04:43 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

2:04:44 DOCKET 1721.

2:04:46 DOCKET NUMBER 1721

2:04:48 COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR THE

2:04:49 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

2:04:51 OF THE WORKERS AT ENCORE BOSTON

2:04:53 HARBOR.

2:04:54 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:04:56 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL.

2:04:56 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:04:58 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:05:00 MADAM PRESIDENT, UM, CAN I

2:05:02 PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR COLETTA

2:05:03 SUPPORTER AS AN ORIGINAL

2:05:04 CO-SPONSOR SUSPEND THE RULES

2:05:05 AND ADD COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:05:07 AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:05:08 COUNTRY COLOR TO SUPPORT IS OUT

2:05:09 OF A SECOND AND SEEING AND

2:05:11 HEARING NO OBJECTION CONSIDER

2:05:12 IT AS A THIRD.

2:05:14 I ALSO JUST WANT TO MAKE IT

2:05:15 CLEAR THAT THERE'S A LOT

2:05:16 OF SUPPORT ON THE COUNCIL UM,

2:05:19 FOR UH FOR MY

2:05:20 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.

2:05:21 UM I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT

2:05:23 TO COUNCIL OF LANCASTER

2:05:24 LOUIJEUNE UM AND MANY OTHERS UM

2:05:27 FOR FOR THEIR SUPPORT HERE.

2:05:29 I ALSO WANT TO THANK UM ALL

2:05:31 OF OUR WORKERS WHO ARE HERE WHO

2:05:32 HAVE BEEN PATIENT.

2:05:33 I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG MEETING

2:05:34 .

2:05:34 UM, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS

2:05:36 RESOLUTION, UM, IS ON BEHALF

2:05:39 OF YOU ALL UM, I KNOW YOU ALL

2:05:41 HAVE BEEN ON THE FRONT LINES

2:05:42 RIGHT NOW FOR THE LAST TWO

2:05:43 WEEKS.

2:05:43 UM, SO, UM, I'M VERY PROUD TO

2:05:46 STAND WITH MY LABOR SIBLINGS,

2:05:47 UM, AND UNITE HERE LOCAL 26 AND

2:05:50 TEAMSTERS UM LOCAL 25 BY

2:05:52 INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION

2:05:53 WITH THIS RESOLUTION BACKING

2:05:55 THE STRIKING WORKERS UP ARM FOR

2:05:58 BOSTON HARBOR, THEIR STRIKE IS

2:05:59 NOW IN ITS SECOND WEEK.

2:06:01 TWO WEEKS INTO THEIR STRIKE,

2:06:03 WORKERS ARE HOLDING THE LINE

2:06:04 FOR COMPETITIVE PAY, JOB

2:06:06 SECURITY AND HEALTH CARE

2:06:08 BENEFITS.

2:06:09 BOSTON RESIDENTS WORK AT

2:06:11 BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE

2:06:12 REGION INCLUDING ENCORE, BOSTON

2:06:14 HARBOR AND EVERETT AND THE

2:06:15 WORKING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYEES

2:06:17 THROUGHOUT THE GREATER BOSTON

2:06:18 HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON OUR

2:06:20 RESIDENTS AND REGIONAL ECONOMY.

2:06:22 EVERETT CITY COUNCIL PASSED A

2:06:24 VERY SIMILAR RESOLUTION ON

2:06:25 MONDAY NIGHT, AND SO I'D LIKE

2:06:27 TO INVITE MY FELLOW COUNCILORS

2:06:28 WHO JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING THE

2:06:30 STRIKING WORKERS AT LONG FOR IT

2:06:32 AND END WITH A QUOTE FROM THE

2:06:33 EVERETT MAYOR ROBERT VAN

2:06:35 KAMPEN.

2:06:37 ENCORE WANTS TO CALL THEMSELVES

2:06:39 ENCORE BOSTON BUT THEY DON'T

2:06:41 WANT TO PAY BOSTON RATES.

2:06:42 PAY THE PEOPLE.

2:06:45 IT'S TIME FOR THE BOSTON CITY

2:06:47 COUNCIL TO ADD OUR VOICE TO

2:06:48 THIS CALL.

2:06:49 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT

2:06:50 THIS RESOLUTION AND I GUYS

2:06:53 REALLY WANT TO THANK ALL THE

2:06:54 WORKERS WHO ARE HERE.

2:06:54 MR GLASS YES, I WILL SAY THIS

2:06:56 UM, WHO ARE UH YOU KNOW, JUST

2:07:00 CONTINUING TO UM FIGHT FOR FOR

2:07:02 FOR BASIC NEEDS I MEAN FOR THE

2:07:03 BASIC RIGHTS.

2:07:04 RIGHT.

2:07:04 AND UM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:07:06 YOU ALL KNOW THAT HERE ARE THE

2:07:07 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

2:07:08 UM, WE ARE STANDING WITH YOU.

2:07:09 I KNOW MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES,

2:07:10 UM, HAVE STOOD IN THE FRONT

2:07:12 LINES WITH YOU ALL AND WE WILL

2:07:13 CONTINUE TO FIGHT ON YOUR

2:07:14 BEHALF.

2:07:14 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:07:16 THANK YOU.

2:07:17 COUNCILOR STANTON OF THE

2:07:17 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:07:18 COUNCILOR COLORS AS A POWDER

2:07:20 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:07:21 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

2:07:22 PRESIDENT.

2:07:22 AND I'M SO PROUD.

2:07:23 TO, UH, STAND AS SECOND UH,

2:07:25 CO-SPONSOR ALONGSIDE COUNCIL.

2:07:26 SANTANA, I WANT TO THANK YOU

2:07:28 FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

2:07:28 UM.

2:07:29 LOCAL 26 TEAMSTERS.

2:07:31 MY BACK IS NOT, UM, UH, NOT

2:07:34 FACING YOU.

2:07:35 UH, BUT I'M STANDING SHOULDER

2:07:36 TO SHOULDER WITH YOU.

2:07:37 I'M SORRY.

2:07:37 I'M SLEEP DEPRIVED.

2:07:38 I'M MUFFLED SO THAT YOU COME UP

2:07:40 WAY THAT I WANTED.

2:07:40 IT TO.

2:07:41 BUT JUST KNOW I'M STANDING

2:07:42 SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH ALL

2:07:42 OF YOU AND I WILL BE THERE WITH

2:07:44 WALKING WITH HIS.

2:07:45 HEADPHONES.

2:07:46 AND I LOOK FORWARD.

2:07:47 TO TO.

2:07:48 WALK IN PICKET.

2:07:48 LINE WITH YOU UM SHORTLY.

2:07:50 BUT WE KNOW THAT THIS ISSUE IS

2:07:52 IMPORTANT TO ALL OF YOU, OUR

2:07:53 NEIGHBORS.

2:07:53 YOU ADD VALUE TO OUR

2:07:55 COMMUNITIES, YOU STRENGTHEN OUR

2:07:56 COMMUNITIES.

2:07:56 UM, YOUR LABOR HAS VALUE AND

2:07:58 IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT YOUR.

2:08:00 CONTRACT, UM.

2:08:01 REFLECTS THAT VALUE.

2:08:02 UH, WE KNOW THAT, UM, WAGES ARE

2:08:05 NOT KEEPING UP WITH THE COST

2:08:06 OF LIVING RISING UH, HOUSING

2:08:08 PRICES HERE AND SO YOU DESERVE

2:08:10 THAT AND YOU DESERVE SO MUCH

2:08:12 MORE.

2:08:12 OUR MESSAGE.

2:08:13 IS SIMPLE AND WE STAND WITH

2:08:14 YOU IN THAT MESSAGE.

2:08:15 ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH.

2:08:16 YOU DESERVE HEALTHCARE, DESERVE

2:08:18 ADEQUATE BENEFITS THAT.

2:08:19 REFLECT THE 21ST CENTURY.

2:08:22 UH, AND YOU DESERVE JOB

2:08:23 SECURITY.

2:08:24 AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY WITH

2:08:26 YOU.

2:08:26 UH, NOT JUST IN THE COUNCIL,

2:08:27 BUT I WILL BE THERE WITH ONE

2:08:29 KEY.

2:08:29 UM, OVER AT EVERETT, ALTHOUGH

2:08:31 IT IS OVER AND WE KNOW THAT YOU

2:08:32 ALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY

2:08:33 OF BOSTON EVERY SINGLE DAY.

2:08:35 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

2:08:36 EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.

2:08:37 WE STAND WITH YOU.

2:08:38 UM, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO

2:08:40 THIS FIGHT.

2:08:40 GOOD GOD.

2:08:41 THANK YOU.

2:08:48 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR

2:08:50 DURKAN COUNTRY.

2:08:51 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:08:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:08:53 UM, COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREEDEN

2:08:54 UM, I JOINED THE PICKET LINE

2:08:56 LATE ONE NIGHT.

2:08:57 UM, BUT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LATE

2:08:58 ONE NIGHT, BUT THE ENERGY WAS

2:09:00 THERE AND, UM, IT'S VERY CLEAR

2:09:02 TO ME, UH, THAT THESE WORKERS

2:09:04 YOU MIGHT.

2:09:04 BE WORKING IN EVERETT, THERE

2:09:06 MIGHT BE CHELSEA POLICE

2:09:07 OUTSIDE.

2:09:08 IT MIGHT BE JURISDICTIONAL

2:09:10 NONSENSE.

2:09:10 BUT YOU ARE SERVING THE BOSTON

2:09:12 HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.

2:09:14 UM, AND IT'S CLEAR TO ME, UH,

2:09:16 THAT WHEN UM, YOU KNOW, ON CORE

2:09:18 MARKETS ITSELF AS A FIRST CLASS

2:09:21 RESORT, YOU GUYS ARE THE ONES

2:09:23 MAKING IT THAT FIRST CLASS

2:09:24 RESORT AND THAT PLACE THAT.

2:09:25 PEOPLE WANT TO GO.

2:09:26 UM, SO THE BOSTON HOSPITALITY

2:09:29 INDUSTRY HAS THE TEAMSTERS AND

2:09:30 LOCAL 26 TO THANK FOR FOR WHAT

2:09:33 THEY'RE DOING AND THEY DESERVE

2:09:35 A FAIR CONTRACT AND THEY

2:09:36 DESERVE A FAIR CONTRACT RIGHT

2:09:38 NOW.

2:09:38 AND SO UM SO I'LL BE BACK OUT

2:09:40 THERE WHENEVER I SEE YOU GUYS

2:09:41 OUT THERE AND I KNOW YOU GUYS

2:09:43 HAVE BEEN OUT THERE LATE.

2:09:43 THERE HAVE BEEN DRUMS, THERE'S

2:09:45 BEEN EXCITEMENT.

2:09:46 UM, BUT UM, WE NEED TO ADD OUR

2:09:49 VOICE TO THIS FIGHT BECAUSE

2:09:50 THIS IS A REGIONAL FIGHT.

2:09:52 YOU ARE A REGIONAL, UH,

2:09:55 HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY THAT WE

2:09:56 LOVE AND WE CHERISH.

2:09:58 UM, YOU KNOW, LATE AT NIGHT

2:09:59 PEOPLE ARE ASKING LIKE WE'RE

2:10:01 NEXT.

2:10:01 YOU GUYS ARE.

2:10:02 THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY'S GOING

2:10:03 NEXT.

2:10:04 THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE HEADED TO.

2:10:05 AND HAVING PATRONIZE SOME GREAT

2:10:08 RESTAURANTS AND UM, HAVING BEEN

2:10:09 IN THE HOTEL HAVING BEEN TO

2:10:11 CONFERENCES, WE KNOW THE

2:10:13 INCREDIBLE HOSPITALITY THAT YOU

2:10:14 OFFER OUR REGION AND YOU

2:10:16 DESERVE BETTER AND WE'RE GOING

2:10:18 TO STAND WITH YOU.

2:10:24 THANK YOU.

2:10:25 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:10:27 UH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:10:28 THEIR NAME?

2:10:30 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:10:31 COUNCILOR.

2:10:31 FITZGERALD.

2:10:32 COUNCILOR.

2:10:32 FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:10:33 LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:10:34 MEJIA, COUNCILOR.

2:10:34 MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

2:10:36 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

2:10:37 WEBER, COUNCILOR.

2:10:38 WORRELL.

2:10:39 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR

2:10:43 COUNCILOR SANTANA, COLLETTA,

2:10:44 ZAPATA AND DURKAN.

2:10:46 SEE?

2:10:46 OH, BEG YOUR PARDON, MADAM.

2:10:50 YOU MADAM I'M A MADAM.

2:10:52 CONSIDER TO BE A

2:10:54 COUNCILOR MARIA, YOU HAVE THE

2:10:55 FLOOR.

2:10:56 THANK YOU.

2:10:57 MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:10:58 UH, I I THINK NORMALLY WE GO

2:11:00 AND ASK IF ANYONE WANTS TO

2:11:02 SPEAK.

2:11:02 I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S CHANGED

2:11:03 SINCE.

2:11:04 NO IT'S NOT WHEN THERE'S A VOTE

2:11:05 WE'RE OPEN.

2:11:06 WELL, WELL.

2:11:07 I'M NOT BREAKING ANY RULES.

2:11:08 HERE, ALL RIGHT?

2:11:09 NO, NOT AT ALL.

2:11:10 BUT I.

2:11:10 WANTED.

2:11:10 TO TO GET UP AND TO THANK YOU

2:11:12 ALL FOR BEING HERE.

2:11:14 I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HERE ALL DAY

2:11:17 AND I'M SURE YOU GOT LOTS OF,

2:11:18 UH, INSIGHT TO THE BUSINESS

2:11:21 OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE YOU KNOW,

2:11:23 THE WORK THAT WE DO HERE.

2:11:24 BUT I.

2:11:24 WANTED TO JUST SAY.

2:11:26 THANK YOU TO UNITE 26 I ALWAYS

2:11:29 TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT MY MOM

2:11:30 WAS A LOW WAGE WORKER AND

2:11:32 WORKED AT THE SAME, UM.

2:11:34 FOOD INDUSTRY I BAPS IN COLLEGE

2:11:37 AND WAS NEVER ABLE TO UNIONIZE

2:11:40 AND THEY JUST BECAME A UNION

2:11:42 AND MY MOM NOW IS 76 YEARS OLD

2:11:45 AND I ALWAYS USED TO.

2:11:46 SAY THAT SHE.

2:11:46 WAS TOO POOR TO RETIRE.

2:11:48 SHE'S STILL WORKING.

2:11:50 AND IT WAS NOW IS SUCH A GREAT

2:11:51 PRIDE THAT SHE HAS THAT SHE IS

2:11:53 PART OF THE FAMILY.

2:11:55 BUT THEY'RE STILL FIGHTING FOR

2:11:57 AND STILL NEGOTIATING FOR FAIR

2:12:00 WAGES.

2:12:00 THEY'RE STILL NEGOTIATING FOR

2:12:02 BETTER CARE.

2:12:03 SO EVEN THOUGH WE ARE IN A

2:12:05 UNION I SAY WE EVEN THOUGH I'M

2:12:07 NOT I BUT I WANT TO BE BUT EVEN

2:12:09 THOUGH SHE'S IN A UNION THERE'S

2:12:10 STILL A FIGHT AND THE FACT THAT

2:12:12 YOU STILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR

2:12:13 YOUR RIGHTS WHILE THESE FAT

2:12:15 CATS GET RICHER RIGHT?

2:12:16 AND YOU JUST GET MORE WORK AND

2:12:19 NOTHING IN RETURN SPEAKS

2:12:21 VOLUMES TO THE ROLE THAT WE

2:12:23 HERE AS CITY COUNCILORS NEED TO

2:12:24 PLAY NOT JUST TO STAND UP AND

2:12:26 SAY WE SUPPORT YOU BUT TO MAKE

2:12:28 THOSE PHONE CALLS KNOCK ON

2:12:29 THOSE DOORS AND SHAME PEOPLE

2:12:32 WHEN THEY'RE NOT SHOWING UP FOR

2:12:33 WORKING CLASS FOLKS.

2:12:34 SO JUST KNOW THAT YOU HAVE OUR

2:12:36 SUPPORT AND I WANT TO THANK MY

2:12:37 COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP

2:12:38 IN THIS SPACE AND FOR ALLOWING

2:12:40 ME TO SPEAK.

2:12:41 THANK YOU.

2:12:42 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MAHI.

2:12:48 AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:12:50 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

2:12:51 THE FLOOR.

2:12:51 THANK YOU.

2:12:51 I JUST.

2:12:52 WANT TO.

2:12:52 THANK MY COLLEAGUES

2:12:53 COUNCIL SANTANA FOR FILING THIS

2:12:54 RESOLUTION AND I JUST WANT TO

2:12:55 THANK ALL OF YOU.

2:12:56 WE LIVE IN A CITY.

2:12:56 WHERE ONE JOB SHOULD.

2:12:58 BE ENOUGH.

2:12:58 THAT SHOULD.

2:12:59 BE TRUE NOT.

2:12:59 ONLY IN BOSTON.

2:13:00 IT SHOULD.

2:13:00 BE TRUE EVERYWHERE.

2:13:01 AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE FIGHTING

2:13:02 .

2:13:02 UNTIL THAT.

2:13:03 SO SO JUST.

2:13:03 KNOW THAT I.

2:13:04 WILL CONTINUE.

2:13:05 SHOWING UP AT THE PICKET LINE.

2:13:07 UH, MY.

2:13:07 FAVORITE NUMBER IS.

2:13:08 LOCAL 26.

2:13:10 UM, AND.

2:13:11 YOU KNOW.

2:13:11 A NUMBER OF MY FAMILY

2:13:12 MEMBERS ARE A MEMBER OF THIS.

2:13:13 UNION AND IT MEANS SO MUCH.

2:13:15 THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE

2:13:16 CAN.

2:13:16 TO BUILD WORKING CLASS POWER

2:13:17 IN THE CITY.

2:13:18 UM, I THINK COUNCILMAN HE HAS

2:13:19 SAID.

2:13:19 IT ENOUGH.

2:13:20 THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER AND

2:13:22 WE NEED TO.

2:13:22 MAKE SURE THAT.

2:13:23 WE'RE PUTTING PEOPLE BEFORE

2:13:23 PROFIT.

2:13:24 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

2:13:29 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:13:29 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:13:31 MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:13:32 AND TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES I'D

2:13:34 BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SEND, UH.

2:13:37 AND SAY I'M WITH YOU 100%.

2:13:39 THANK YOU.

2:13:40 REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY THAT I'M

2:13:41 COMING.

2:13:42 OUT.

2:13:43 TO STAND OUT ON.

2:13:43 THE PICKET.

2:13:44 LINE BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT.

2:13:46 FIVE MOVE.

2:13:47 OF STANDING UP FOR.

2:13:48 WHAT'S RIGHT AND IT.

2:13:49 IS ABOUT STANDING UP TO

2:13:50 MAKE.

2:13:50 SURE THAT YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH.

2:13:52 FOOD ON THE TABLE TO FEED YOUR

2:13:54 FAMILY BY SAID TO 100%.

2:13:56 DON'T STOP UNTIL VICTORY.

2:13:58 IS ONE AND I'LL SEE YOU ON THE

2:14:01 PICKET LINE.

2:14:10 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:14:11 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:14:12 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:14:14 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:14:15 I WANT TO WELCOME THE WORKERS

2:14:17 FROM ONCOR THAT ARE HERE WITH

2:14:19 US THIS AFTERNOON AND FOR BEING

2:14:21 PATIENT.

2:14:22 BUT I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:14:24 AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE

2:14:27 GOING TO TAKE A VOTE IN A FEW

2:14:28 MINUTES ON ON THIS IMPORTANT

2:14:30 MATTER.

2:14:31 AND THIS IS ABOUT SOCIAL AND

2:14:33 ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE AS

2:14:35 FAR AS I'M CONCERNED.

2:14:36 IT'S ABOUT.

2:14:37 THE DIGNITY OF THE.

2:14:38 WORKER AND WANT TO LET THE

2:14:41 WORKERS KNOW THAT THEY ARE

2:14:43 RESPECTED AND WE VALUE WHAT YOU

2:14:45 DO YOU HELP BUILD BOSTON.

2:14:47 YOU HELPED BUILD OUR OUR

2:14:49 NATION.

2:14:49 UH, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:14:52 LOCAL 26.

2:14:53 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:14:54 THE TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AND TO

2:14:56 OUR MARIAN OUTSTANDING JOB

2:14:59 OF THESE TWO UNIONS WORKING

2:15:01 TOGETHER FIGHTING FOR SOCIAL

2:15:02 AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE.

2:15:04 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:15:10 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:15:13 THANK YOU.

2:15:14 UM, IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU

2:15:17 ALL HERE.

2:15:18 I WANT YOU TO KNOW I THINK IT'S

2:15:21 OBVIOUS THAT THE CITY

2:15:22 COUNCIL STANDS WITH YOU IN

2:15:23 SOLIDARITY.

2:15:24 UH, AS SOMEONE SAID, ONE JOB

2:15:26 SHOULD BE ENOUGH.

2:15:27 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO STRUGGLE

2:15:28 SO HARD TO JUST GET BY IN

2:15:30 BOSTON, IN MASSACHUSETTS IN THE

2:15:32 UNITED STATES THE RICHEST

2:15:33 COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

2:15:35 SO WE STAND WITH YOU.

2:15:37 I SEE A FRIEND OVER THERE IN

2:15:39 THE CORNER.

2:15:39 GOOD TO SEE YOU, JIMMY.

2:15:41 UH, AND.

2:15:42 WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH

2:15:43 LOCAL 26 AND WITH THE

2:15:45 TEAMSTERS.

2:15:45 SO, UH, WE WISH YOU GODSPEED IN

2:15:47 THIS IN THIS FIGHT FOR A FAIR,

2:15:49 UH, A FAIR CONTRACT AND GOOD

2:15:51 LIVABLE WAGES.

2:15:54 SO ON THE BEST.

2:16:01 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:16:04 NAME?

2:16:04 WE'VE DONE THAT.

2:16:06 THANK YOU.

2:16:07 PARDON?

2:16:08 SORRY I'M LOSING MY TRACK IN

2:16:09 THIS THIS, UM.

2:16:12 COUNCILOR SANTANA COLLETTE AS A

2:16:14 POWDER AND DURKAN SEEKS

2:16:15 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:16:16 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1721.

2:16:18 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.

2:16:21 UH.

2:16:22 ALL OPPOSED.

2:16:22 SAY NAY.

2:16:24 UH, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:16:26 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:16:27 VOTE ON DOCKET 1721?

2:16:30 YES.

2:16:36 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:16:37 YES, SIR.

2:16:37 BREADON.

2:16:38 YES, COUNCIL COLLETTE AS A

2:16:39 PARTNER.

2:16:40 COUNCIL AS A PARTNER.

2:16:41 YES.

2:16:41 COUNCILOR.

2:16:42 CULPEPER.

2:16:43 COUNCILOR.

2:16:43 CULPEPER.

2:16:43 YES.

2:16:44 COUNCILOR.

2:16:44 DURKAN.

2:16:45 COUNCILOR.

2:16:45 DURKAN.

2:16:46 YES.

2:16:46 COUNCILOR.

2:16:47 FITZGERALD.

2:16:48 YES.

2:16:48 COUNCIL.

2:16:48 FITZGERALD.

2:16:49 YES.

2:16:49 COUNCILOR.

2:16:49 FLYNN.

2:16:50 YES.

2:16:50 COUNCIL.

2:16:51 FLYNN.

2:16:51 YES.

2:16:51 COUNCILOR.

2:16:52 LOUIJEUNE.

2:16:52 YES.

2:16:53 COUNCILOR.

2:16:53 LOUIJEUNE.

2:16:54 YES.

2:16:54 COUNCILOR.

2:16:54 MEJIA.

2:16:55 COUNCILOR.

2:16:55 MEDIA'S COUNCILOR.

2:16:56 MURPHY.

2:16:57 COUNCILOR.

2:16:58 MURPHY.

2:16:58 YES.

2:16:59 COUNCILOR.

2:16:59 PEN.

2:17:00 COUNCILOR THE PLAN.

2:17:01 YES.

2:17:01 COUNCILOR.

2:17:01 SANTANA.

2:17:02 YES.

2:17:03 COUNCILOR.

2:17:03 SANTANA.

2:17:03 YES.

2:17:04 COUNCIL.

2:17:04 WEBER.

2:17:04 YES.

2:17:05 COUNCILOR.

2:17:05 WEBER.

2:17:06 YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:17:07 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:17:08 WELL, YES.

2:17:08 TALKING NUMBER 1721 HAS

2:17:11 RECEIVED A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN

2:17:14 THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:17:22 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

2:17:23 DOCKET 172 0 TO 1 HAS BEEN

2:17:27 PASSED ADOPTED.

2:17:28 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

2:17:32 WE'RE ON TO MR. CLERK.

2:17:35 WE'LL GIVE OUR FRIENDS OF A FEW

2:17:38 MOMENTS TO LEAVE THE CHAMBER.

2:17:39 THANK YOU.

2:17:39 JANEY.

2:17:58 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:18:03 THANK.

2:18:15 YOU.

2:18:16 NEXT.

2:18:33 WE'LL.

2:18:38 MISTER CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:18:40 READ DOCKET 1722.

2:18:41 TALKING NUMBER ONE 7 TO 2.

2:18:43 COUNCILOR FLYNN OVER THE PHONE

2:18:46 RESOLUTION DENOUNCING HATE

2:18:47 CRIMES AGAINST THE ASIAN

2:18:49 AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER

2:18:50 COMMUNITY.

2:18:52 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:18:53 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL, YOU

2:18:54 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:18:55 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:18:56 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I HAD YOU AS

2:19:00 AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:19:01 THANK YOU.

2:19:02 I'D BE HONORED.

2:19:03 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:19:04 UM.

2:19:09 ON SEPTEMBER 2ND, AN ELDERLY

2:19:11 WOMAN IN HER LATE 70S IN MY

2:19:13 DISTRICT IN THE SOUTHERN WAS A

2:19:17 VICTIM OF A VIOLENT ATTACK

2:19:20 WHERE SOMEONE PUSHED HER AS

2:19:23 HARD AS THEY COULD ONTO THE

2:19:25 GROUND.

2:19:25 THE WOMAN FELL AND HAD SOME.

2:19:30 BRUISES AND.

2:19:30 HAD SOME ISSUES WITH HER KNEES

2:19:33 AND A KIND OF WRIST AND THERE

2:19:35 WAS BLOOD.

2:19:36 THEY TOOK A CHAIR.

2:19:37 THEY TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL.

2:19:38 MY ASSISTANT WAS IN THE

2:19:40 NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:19:41 MELISSA AND THE WOMAN SPOKE

2:19:44 CANTONESE.

2:19:45 THANKFULLY MY ASSISTANT MELISSA

2:19:47 WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH.

2:19:48 THE POLICE AND IN WITH THE UH,

2:19:51 EMS.

2:19:52 THEY DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.

2:19:55 I MET THE WOMAN TWO DAYS AGO AT

2:19:58 HER HOUSE IN THE SOUTH AND THAT

2:20:00 WOULD BE A DEVELOPMENT.

2:20:02 ONE OF THE NICEST LADIES YOU

2:20:04 COULD MEET IN YOUR LIFE.

2:20:05 AND WE HAD A WONDERFUL

2:20:07 OPPORTUNITY.

2:20:08 TO.

2:20:09 TO TALK BUT WE TALKED ABOUT.

2:20:13 A COUPLE OF THINGS.

2:20:13 WE TALKED ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE

2:20:14 ROLE ASIAN AND ASIAN PEOPLE

2:20:17 HAVE PLAYED HAVE MADE TO THE

2:20:21 CITY OF BOSTON THE

2:20:21 CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICE

2:20:23 THEY HAVE MADE TO THE CITY

2:20:24 OF BOSTON.

2:20:25 BUT WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE

2:20:27 DISCRIMINATION THAT ASIAN AND

2:20:29 ASIAN AMERICANS ALSO FEEL OR

2:20:35 VICTIMS OF AS WELL.

2:20:37 AND WE'VE SEEN THAT IN THE CITY

2:20:40 OF BOSTON.

2:20:41 WE'VE SEEN IT IN A LOT

2:20:42 OF PLACES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

2:20:45 AND I KEEP THINKING ABOUT AND

2:20:47 I'VE I'VE SAID THIS WHEN THE

2:20:50 PANDEMIC HIT A LOT OF PEOPLE

2:20:52 DID AND IT'S AND IT WAS RACIST

2:20:55 BUT THEY DID BLAME THE CHINESE

2:20:57 COMMUNITY FOR FOR COVID 19 AND

2:21:01 BECAUSE OF THAT IN THE IN THE

2:21:03 HATEFUL RHETORIC COMING OUT

2:21:04 OF THE WHITE HOUSE AT THE TIME

2:21:06 THAT BECAUSE OF THAT PEOPLE

2:21:07 ALMOST FELT LIKE IT WAS

2:21:10 ACCEPTABLE TO HARASS ASIAN

2:21:11 PEOPLE AND WE DID SEE HATE

2:21:14 CRIMES.

2:21:15 BUT WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WE

2:21:17 HAVE HATE CRIMES IN OUR COUNTRY

2:21:21 TO DOCUMENT THEM TO INVESTIGATE

2:21:23 HATE CRIMES AGAINST PEOPLE

2:21:26 OF COLOR AGAINST AGAINST ASIAN

2:21:28 PEOPLE AS WELL.

2:21:30 BUT TO ENSURE THAT BOSTON IS

2:21:32 ALWAYS A CITY THAT WELCOMES

2:21:36 EVERYBODY.

2:21:36 BUT WHEN THERE IS AN ISSUE

2:21:39 ESPECIALLY A RACIAL ISSUE WE

2:21:41 DEAL WITH IT.

2:21:42 WE DEAL WITH IT UPFRONT AND WE

2:21:45 DEAL WITH IT TRANSPARENT WISE.

2:21:47 AND IF THERE IS A HATE CRIME

2:21:49 AGAINST A PERSON BASED ON THEIR

2:21:52 COLOR OF THEIR SKIN OR

2:21:54 ETHNICITY OR SEXUALITY, IT

2:21:56 SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED AND IT

2:21:58 SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BECAUSE

2:22:00 HATE CRIMES IF THEY ARE ALLOWED

2:22:03 TO CONTINUE MAKES ANY CITY OR

2:22:08 SOCIETY LESS COMPASSIONATE,

2:22:12 LESS UNDERSTANDING AND YOU

2:22:15 ALMOST LOSE YOUR SOUL IF YOU

2:22:18 DON'T ADDRESS HATE CRIMES.

2:22:20 BUT AS A CITY I JUST WANT US TO

2:22:22 CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON ANY HATE

2:22:25 CRIME BECAUSE THEY DO HAPPEN

2:22:29 HERE AND THEY DO HAPPEN IN

2:22:30 AMERICA AND WE HAVE TO

2:22:32 ACKNOWLEDGE AND ADDRESS IT.

2:22:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:22:35 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

2:22:36 THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ME AS A

2:22:38 UH AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:22:40 UM, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR

2:22:42 CONTINUED ADVOCACY AND REALLY

2:22:43 ELEVATING THIS ISSUE OVER MANY,

2:22:45 MANY YEARS ALL THE TIME I'VE

2:22:46 BEEN ON THIS COUNCIL YOU'VE

2:22:47 BEEN RAISING THIS ISSUE.

2:22:49 UM I THINK YOU YOU REFERENCED

2:22:51 UH THE TIME DURING THE COVID

2:22:53 PANDEMIC.

2:22:54 UH, AND.

2:22:56 UH I KNOW IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

2:22:58 WE HAVE UH A LARGE POPULATION

2:23:01 OF UH ELDERS FROM THE ASIAN

2:23:02 COMMUNITY AND EVEN JUST HEARING

2:23:05 ABOUT THESE ATTACKS ON OTHER

2:23:07 MEMBERS OF THE ASIAN COMMUNITY

2:23:09 WAS DETERRING ELDERS FROM

2:23:11 LEAVING THEIR RETIREMENT

2:23:12 BUILDING.

2:23:13 UH, THEY WERE AFRAID TO GO OUT

2:23:15 IN THE STREET.

2:23:16 NO ONE SHOULD BE AFRAID TO GO

2:23:17 OUT ON THE STREET.

2:23:18 UH, AND HATE CRIME IS SOMETHING

2:23:20 THAT FESTERS.

2:23:22 IT, UH, ENGENDER FEAR AND

2:23:25 MISTRUST AND IT MAKES US ALL

2:23:27 LESS SAFE AT THE END OF THE

2:23:28 DAY.

2:23:28 SO I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE

2:23:31 INCLUDED AS AN ORIGINAL

2:23:32 CO-SPONSOR ON THIS AND UH UH, I

2:23:34 HOPE THAT WE CAN ALL, UH,

2:23:35 SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION.

2:23:37 THANK YOU.

2:23:37 MR.

2:23:38 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:23:40 UM.

2:23:41 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:23:43 SPEAK WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:23:45 THEIR NAME CONTACT LET US ABOUT

2:23:47 A COUNSELOR CULPEPER CONSIDER

2:23:49 CAN COUNSELOR FITZGERALD

2:23:50 CULTURAL DIVISION COMES FROM UH

2:23:53 CULTURAL MAHINA COMES FROM

2:23:54 MURPHY COUNCILOR PEPEN CONTRA

2:23:56 SANTANA, COUNCILOR WEBER AND

2:23:59 COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNCILORS

2:24:01 FLYNN AND BREADON SEEK

2:24:03 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:24:05 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1722.

2:24:07 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:24:09 ALL OPPOSED.

2:24:10 SAY NAY.

2:24:12 MR KERR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:24:13 A ROLL CALL?

2:24:13 VOTE ON DOCKET 1722.

2:24:15 COUNCILOR BREAK.

2:24:16 YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:24:17 YES.

2:24:18 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PERSON.

2:24:19 YES.

2:24:19 COUNCIL AS A PARTY.

2:24:20 YES.

2:24:21 COUNCILOR.

2:24:21 COPPER COUNCILOR.

2:24:23 CULPEPER.

2:24:23 YES.

2:24:24 COUNCILOR.

2:24:24 DURKAN.

2:24:25 COUNCILOR.

2:24:25 DURKAN.

2:24:25 YES.

2:24:26 COUNCIL.

2:24:26 FITZGERALD.

2:24:27 YES.

2:24:27 COUNCILOR.

2:24:28 FITZGERALD.

2:24:28 YES.

2:24:28 COUNCILOR.

2:24:29 FLYNN.

2:24:29 YES.

2:24:30 COUNCILOR.

2:24:30 FLYNN.

2:24:31 YES.

2:24:31 COUNCIL.

2:24:31 LOUIJEUNE.

2:24:32 COUNCILOR.

2:24:33 LOUIJEUNE.

2:24:33 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:24:34 MEJIA.

2:24:34 COUNCILOR.

2:24:35 MEJIA.

2:24:36 YES.

2:24:36 COUNCILOR.

2:24:37 MURPHY.

2:24:37 COUNCILOR.

2:24:38 MURPHY.

2:24:38 YES.

2:24:39 COUNCILOR.

2:24:39 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

2:24:41 PENNIES.

2:24:41 COUNCIL.

2:24:41 SANTANA.

2:24:42 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:24:43 SANTANA.

2:24:43 YES.

2:24:44 COUNCILOR.

2:24:44 WEBER.

2:24:44 YES.

2:24:45 COUNCIL.

2:24:45 WEBER.

2:24:46 YES AND COUNSELOR.

2:24:47 YES.

2:24:47 COUNCIL.

2:24:48 ORAL.

2:24:48 YES.

2:24:48 TALKING OF A ONE 7 TO 2 HAS

2:24:51 RECEIVED A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN

2:24:52 THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:24:53 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

2:24:55 DOCKET 121722 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:24:59 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

2:25:00 DOCKET 1723.

2:25:02 TALKING NUMBER 1723

2:25:04 COUNCIL FLYNN OFF OF THE

2:25:05 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION CALLING

2:25:07 UPON THE ADMINISTRATION TO

2:25:09 HONOR ITS COMMITMENTS TO THE

2:25:10 PEOPLES ACADEMY INC. AND ENSURE

2:25:13 TRANSPARENCY AND EQUITY IN THE

2:25:15 CITY'S TREATMENT OF A ROXBURY

2:25:17 BASED WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

2:25:19 ORGANIZATION.

2:25:20 THANK YOU.

2:25:21 MR.

2:25:21 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:25:22 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:25:23 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:25:24 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:25:25 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD

2:25:26 COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER AS AN

2:25:28 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?

2:25:29 COUNCILOR CULPEPER SO ADDED.

2:25:31 AND BEFORE I BEGIN I DO WANT TO

2:25:33 APOLOGIZE TO I DO WANT TO

2:25:36 APOLOGIZE TO MY COUNCILORS THAT

2:25:38 COULD HAVE HANDLED THIS, UM,

2:25:40 BETTER, MORE PROFESSIONALLY IN

2:25:43 A MORE TRANSPARENT MANNER.

2:25:44 AND I ESPECIALLY WANT TO

2:25:45 ACKNOWLEDGE MY SHORTCOMINGS AND

2:25:48 APOLOGIZE.

2:25:49 FOR FOR NOT DOING WHAT I SHOULD

2:25:53 HAVE DONE, UM, ON THIS BUT.

2:25:56 BUT LET ME LET ME CONTINUE.

2:25:59 THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY IS A

2:26:01 BOSTON BASED NONPROFIT

2:26:03 ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO

2:26:05 CREATING PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC

2:26:06 OPPORTUNITY FOR BOSTON

2:26:08 RESIDENTS THROUGH EDUCATION,

2:26:10 PRE APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING,

2:26:12 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND

2:26:13 TRAINING IN THE SKILLED

2:26:15 CONSTRUCTION TRADES INCLUDING

2:26:16 THE PRESERVATION AND

2:26:18 RESTORATION OF HISTORIC

2:26:20 EXTERIOR COPPER AND OTHER METAL

2:26:23 WORKS.

2:26:23 I'VE BEEN AT THIS ACADEMY

2:26:27 DOZENS OF TIMES OVER THE LAST

2:26:30 UM OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.

2:26:36 UM IT'S SUBMITTED A DEVELOPMENT

2:26:39 PROPOSAL, A COMPLICATED

2:26:41 PROPOSAL, UM, THAT'S BEEN GOING

2:26:42 THROUGH THE SYSTEM FOR FOR A

2:26:44 NUMBER OF YEARS.

2:26:45 UM, THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE

2:26:47 CITY'S PUBLIC DEVELOPER

2:26:49 PRESENTATION PROCESS AND WAS

2:26:51 TENTATIVELY DESIGNATED BY THE

2:26:54 PUBLIC FACILITIES COMMISSION AS

2:26:55 A DEVELOPER.

2:26:58 I BELIEVE THE CITY HAS HAS AN

2:27:01 OBLIGATION TO WORK CLOSELY WITH

2:27:02 THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY TO

2:27:06 ADMINISTER AND ENSURE THAT WE

2:27:09 COME TO A CONCLUSION.

2:27:10 WE COME TO A DECISION WHERE THE

2:27:13 PEOPLE THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY IS

2:27:15 HEARD AND RESPECTED.

2:27:17 I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE

2:27:18 LOOKING FOR AND THAT'S WHAT

2:27:19 I'VE BEEN ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING

2:27:21 THEM FOR I DON'T KNOW 8 OR 9

2:27:24 YEARS BUT I I DO WANT TO

2:27:27 ACKNOWLEDGE TEAM MICHAEL THOMAS

2:27:28 THAT IS HERE RIGHT NOW THAT IS

2:27:30 PRESENT WHO HAS BEEN A LEADER

2:27:32 IN THE CITY ON HELPING PEOPLE

2:27:36 OF COLOR ESPECIALLY GET INTO

2:27:39 VARIOUS TYPES OF UH WORKFORCE

2:27:42 DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING AND

2:27:44 I'VE SEEN THE PROGRAM I'VE SEEN

2:27:46 THE WORK HE DOES AND HE'S

2:27:50 TRYING HIS BEST TO LIKE ALL

2:27:51 OF US.

2:27:52 INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE

2:27:54 DEVELOPMENT CAN STRENGTHEN

2:27:55 BOSTON'S TAX BASE.

2:27:57 IT CAN REDUCE DEPENDANCE ON

2:27:59 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE, EXPAND

2:28:01 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, SUPPORT

2:28:02 HOME HOMEOWNERSHIP, STRENGTHEN

2:28:05 FAMILIES, IMPROVE NEIGHBORHOOD

2:28:06 STABILITY, PROVIDE POSITIVE

2:28:09 ALTERNATIVES FOR RESIDENTS WHO

2:28:10 MIGHT OTHERWISE FACE

2:28:11 UNEMPLOYMENT, UNDEREMPLOYMENT.

2:28:13 UM, SO I THINK THIS IS AN

2:28:16 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO COME

2:28:17 TOGETHER TO SUPPORT THE WORK

2:28:18 OF THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY AND TO

2:28:22 MAYBE GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT

2:28:23 OF ENCOURAGEMENT THAT THE CITY

2:28:26 COUNCIL STANDS WITH THEM.

2:28:26 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:28:28 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:28:30 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:28:31 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER COUNCIL YOU

2:28:32 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:28:33 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:28:34 THANK YOU.

2:28:35 COUNCILOR FLYNN FATEMI AS AN

2:28:38 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR, PEOPLE'S

2:28:41 ACADEMY HAS WORKED FOR YEARS TO

2:28:42 BUILD A PERMANENT HOME IN

2:28:44 ROXBURY WHERE RESIDENTS CAN

2:28:46 RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE SKILLED

2:28:47 TRADES AND PURSUE CAREERS THAT

2:28:50 OFFER STABILITY AND

2:28:52 OPPORTUNITY.

2:28:52 THE CITY TENTATIVELY DESIGNATED

2:28:55 THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY AS THE

2:28:57 DEVELOPER OF THE QUINCY AND

2:28:58 WARREN STREET PROPERTIES IN

2:29:00 2020.

2:29:01 SIX YEARS LATER, THE

2:29:03 ORGANIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY

2:29:05 DESERVE A CLEAR ACCOUNT

2:29:06 OF WHERE THE PROJECT STANDS AND

2:29:08 WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE.

2:29:10 THIS RESOLUTION ASKS THE

2:29:12 ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE THAT

2:29:14 FLAHERTY, A WRITTEN PATH AND

2:29:16 TIMETABLE FOR THE PROPOSED

2:29:18 PROPERTY CONVEYANCE A REVIEW

2:29:20 OF THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY CLAIMS

2:29:23 CONCERNING LINKAGE FUNDS AND AN

2:29:24 ACCOUNTING OF THE ARPA FUNDS

2:29:26 ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT.

2:29:28 IT ALSO CALLS FOR THE CITY

2:29:30 DEPARTMENTS TO MEET DIRECTLY

2:29:32 WITH THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS

2:29:34 DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS.

2:29:35 SO EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT

2:29:37 SENDING APPROVALS, THE

2:29:40 FINANCING MILESTONES AND

2:29:42 RESPONSIBILITIES THOSE WHO

2:29:43 QUESTION AND PRESUME THE

2:29:44 OUTCOME OF ANY LEGAL OR

2:29:47 FINANCIAL REVIEW THEY ASK THE

2:29:49 CITY TO EXPLAIN ITS DECISION,

2:29:51 ACCOUNT FOR PUBLIC RESOURCES

2:29:53 AND GIVE A COMMUNITY

2:29:54 ORGANIZATION THAT HAS INVESTED

2:29:56 YEARS IN A PROJECT THAT IS A

2:29:59 TIMELY ANSWER.

2:29:59 WITH THE CURRENT EXTENSION

2:30:02 REACHING SEPTEMBER 26TH, THAT

2:30:05 ANSWER IS ESPECIALLY URGENT.

2:30:08 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:30:10 THANK YOU.

2:30:11 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:30:13 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:30:13 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YOU HAVE

2:30:14 THE FLOOR.

2:30:15 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:30:17 AND I WANT TO THANK MY

2:30:18 COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS

2:30:19 RESOLUTION FORWARD.

2:30:20 AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:30:23 UM, TO MICHAEL WHO HAS BEEN A

2:30:25 PERSISTENT ADVOCATE HERE UM, IN

2:30:28 REGARDS TO THIS ISSUE, EVEN

2:30:29 BEFORE I RAN.

2:30:31 FOR OFFICE.

2:30:32 YOU WERE POUNDING THE PAVEMENT

2:30:34 AND UM, REALLY WORKING HARD AT

2:30:37 MAKING SURE THAT WE

2:30:40 CREATED SPACE, UH, FOR A

2:30:41 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

2:30:42 INITIATIVE THAT'S REALLY GOING

2:30:44 TO LIKE YOU ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY

2:30:45 TRADES NOT TRIGGERS.

2:30:48 AND SO ESPECIALLY GIVEN ALL THE

2:30:49 VIOLENCE THAT WE SEE HERE IN

2:30:50 THE CITY OF BOSTON AND ALL

2:30:52 OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN

2:30:53 AND AROUND THIS COMMUNITY,

2:30:55 THIS.

2:30:55 IS THE PEOPLE'S.

2:30:56 LAND AND IT SHOULD BE THE

2:30:57 PEOPLE'S ACADEMY.

2:30:57 AND SO I REALLY DO WANT TO

2:31:00 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN

2:31:01 INCREDIBLY PATIENT WITH US.

2:31:03 UM, FROM YOUR EMAILS TO DMING

2:31:06 US ON INSTAGRAM AND TRYING TO

2:31:08 CLAP BACK ON US WHEN WE POST

2:31:10 SOMETHING ON ON INSTAGRAM AND

2:31:12 YELLING AT ME FOR THINGS THAT I

2:31:13 DID NOT DO.

2:31:14 BUT I ALWAYS TAKE

2:31:15 ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE I AM ONE

2:31:16 OF 13 AND THEREFORE I

2:31:18 UNDERSTAND THE ROLE THAT I PLAY

2:31:19 AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE

2:31:21 ADVOCATING FOR YOU AND I KNOW

2:31:22 THAT THEN COUNCILOR BAKER WAS A

2:31:25 BIG ADVOCATE UH, ON YOUR

2:31:27 BEHALF, UM, ON THIS COUNCIL IN

2:31:29 REGARDS TO YOUR EFFORTS AND I

2:31:31 JUST WANT TO JUST RISE AND

2:31:34 APOLOGIZE, UM, FOR EVERYTHING

2:31:37 THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH TO

2:31:39 GET HERE.

2:31:40 UM, AND JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

2:31:42 FOR YOUR PERSISTENCE.

2:31:43 AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:31:45 HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP FOR

2:31:47 YOU AND STAYED HERE ALL DAY

2:31:50 JUST TO SUPPORT YOU IN THIS

2:31:52 QUEST.

2:31:53 RIGHT.

2:31:53 AND I HOPE IT GOES TO SHOW HOW

2:31:55 IMPORTANT IT IS FOR PEOPLE TO

2:31:56 SHOW UP FOR EACH OTHER,

2:31:57 ESPECIALLY IN THESE MOMENTS.

2:31:59 RIGHT AND IN THIS TIME THAT

2:32:00 WE'RE DEALING WITH.

2:32:01 AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

2:32:03 AND YOUR ENTIRE ENTOURAGE, UM,

2:32:05 BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS SENT PEOPLE

2:32:06 AFTER US.

2:32:07 SO I KNOW BECAUSE I'M ON THE

2:32:10 RECEIVING END OF IT.

2:32:11 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:32:12 EVERYBODY WHO'S ALWAYS

2:32:13 ADVOCATING ON YOUR BEHALF.

2:32:15 THANK YOU.

2:32:17 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:32:17 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:32:18 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:32:19 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:32:20 THANK YOU.

2:32:20 UM, THANK YOU TO MICHAEL THOMAS

2:32:23 FOR BEING HERE TODAY.

2:32:24 BUT IT HAS BEEN SAID BUT YOU

2:32:27 HAVE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS AND

2:32:29 DESPITE NOT HAVING THE ANSWERS

2:32:31 I THINK YOU DESERVE YOU

2:32:33 CONTINUE.

2:32:34 TO TRAIN AND PREPARE OUR YOUTH

2:32:37 .

2:32:37 IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'VE BEEN

2:32:38 WAITING FOR A HANDOUT IN ANY

2:32:40 WAY.

2:32:40 YOU CONTINUE.

2:32:41 TO SHOW UP FOR THE CHILDREN.

2:32:43 WE EARLIER TALKED ABOUT.

2:32:44 FINANCIAL LITERACY.

2:32:45 WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT WORKFORCE

2:32:48 DEVELOPMENT HERE AND THE NEED

2:32:49 FOR OUR OUR SCHOOLS TO MAKE

2:32:52 SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS GRADUATE

2:32:54 WITH SKILLS THAT WILL GIVE THEM

2:32:56 THE JOBS THEY NEED.

2:32:57 WE JUST PASSED A RESOLUTION FOR

2:33:00 WORKERS WHO HAVE A JOB ALREADY

2:33:01 BUT ARE ON STRIKE BECAUSE

2:33:03 THEY'RE NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY

2:33:04 AND MAYBE DON'T HAVE OPTIONS TO

2:33:06 GO OTHER PLACES.

2:33:07 SO WHAT YOU PROVIDE.

2:33:09 FOR PEOPLE?

2:33:11 MANY PEOPLE UM I.

2:33:13 THINK UNDERESTIMATE THAT.

2:33:14 THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING THAT.

2:33:15 THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP.

2:33:17 THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE

2:33:19 IN YOU WHO CONTINUE WE GOOD.

2:33:21 THINGS.

2:33:22 DON'T HAPPEN QUICKLY.

2:33:23 PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE.

2:33:24 WE ALL MYSELF INCLUDED

2:33:26 SOMETIMES WANT THINGS TO HAPPEN

2:33:27 SOONER BUT KNOW THAT DESPITE

2:33:30 WHAT HAPPENS I KNOW YOU WILL.

2:33:33 CONTINUE TO SHOW UP AND.

2:33:34 I'LL BE BESIDE YOU SO.

2:33:34 THANK YOU.

2:33:36 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:33:39 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL YOU

2:33:40 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:33:41 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:33:44 UM, I WANT TO THANK THE, UH.

2:33:46 UH.

2:33:47 THE FIGHTERS FOR FILING THIS

2:33:48 .

2:33:49 UM, AND I JUST WANT TO RISE

2:33:50 TODAY BECAUSE I KNOW MICHAEL

2:33:51 LIKES THINGS ON THE RECORD.

2:33:52 RIGHT.

2:33:53 UM, SO, UM, I HAD THE

2:33:55 OPPORTUNITY TO GO AND VISIT,

2:33:57 UM, BUT BEFORE I WAS ACTUALLY

2:33:59 IN OFFICE, UM, AND AS YOU ALL

2:34:01 KNOW, I'VE BEEN SOMEONE WHO'S

2:34:02 BEEN, UM, ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR

2:34:04 OUR YOUTH.

2:34:05 UM, AND OUR YOUTH AS MY NUMBER

2:34:07 ONE PRIORITY.

2:34:08 UM, AND BECAUSE OF THAT,

2:34:09 THERE'S NO WAY THAT I CAN

2:34:10 SUPPORT, UM, THE WORK THAT

2:34:12 YOU'RE DOING.

2:34:12 UM, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR BLACK

2:34:13 MEN HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:34:15 SO I JUST WANT TO RISE, UM, AND

2:34:17 ,UM, I'M GOING TO BE

2:34:19 SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION

2:34:20 TODAY.

2:34:20 I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU

2:34:21 DO, MICHAEL.

2:34:22 UM, ON BEHALF OF OUR BOSTON

2:34:24 YOUTH, UM, AND, UM, AGAIN,

2:34:26 REALLY APPRECIATE THE PARTNERS

2:34:27 FOR PROVIDING THIS.

2:34:28 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:34:30 THANK YOU.

2:34:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:34:33 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:34:34 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:34:35 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:34:36 I JUST WANT TO RISE IN SUPPORT

2:34:37 OF TE MICHAEL AND HIS PEOPLE'S

2:34:38 ACADEMY AS WELL.

2:34:39 UH, I HAVE GONE AND VISITED THE

2:34:41 ACADEMY IN THIS HOUSE, UH, AND

2:34:43 SEEN THE THINGS THAT NOT JUST,

2:34:45 UH NOT JUST THE SPACE HE'S

2:34:47 CREATED BUT ALSO, UH, THE

2:34:48 THINGS HE'S MADE OUT OF THE

2:34:49 MATERIALS COPPER AND THE LIKE

2:34:51 AND THE SHOW THE SKILLS HE'S

2:34:52 TRAINING OUR YOUTH FOR GIVING

2:34:54 THEM AN OUTLET, GIVING THEM

2:34:55 SOMETHING TO DO BUT ALSO GIVING

2:34:56 THEM THE SKILLS NEEDED TO

2:34:58 SUCCEED AT A FUTURE, UH, JOB.

2:35:00 UM IT'S IMPORTANT IT WOULD BE

2:35:01 GREAT TO SEE, UH, HIM HAVE THE

2:35:03 PROPER SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE THE

2:35:05 WORK THAT HE'S DOING FOR OUR

2:35:06 KIDS.

2:35:06 UH, SO HE COULD REALLY GROW OUT

2:35:08 WHAT HE'S TRYING TO DO.

2:35:09 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO

2:35:10 MICHAEL.

2:35:11 THANK YOU.

2:35:12 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:35:13 COUNCILOR PEPEN COUNCIL YOU

2:35:13 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:35:14 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:35:15 I JUST.

2:35:16 WANTED TO RISE AND SHOW

2:35:17 SUPPORT AS WELL.

2:35:18 I REMEMBER THAT BEFORE I WAS A

2:35:19 CITY COUNCILOR I WAS ABLE TO

2:35:20 VISIT PEOPLE'S ACADEMY AND IT

2:35:22 WAS THAT WAS WHEN I WAS WORKING

2:35:24 WITH CONGRESSMAN JOE KENNEDY

2:35:25 AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET A TOUR

2:35:27 OF THE WHOLE SITE AND WE WERE

2:35:28 ABLE TO ACTUALLY I THINK HE

2:35:29 MADE A BRACELET THAT DAY WITH

2:35:31 WITH THE MATERIAL AND JUST

2:35:32 LEARNED WHAT YOUR TRADES ABOUT

2:35:34 .

2:35:35 UM AND I ALSO KNOW THAT FABIAN

2:35:36 THE PS IS PROBABLY WATCHING

2:35:37 THIS SOMEWHERE.

2:35:37 AND HE.

2:35:38 CALLS ME A LOT ABOUT THIS SO

2:35:40 I WANTED TO SHOW MY SUPPORT AND

2:35:41 WE'LL BE VOTING YES ON THIS.

2:35:42 THANK YOU.

2:35:44 CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE

2:35:46 WORRELL CONSTABLE YOU HAVE THE

2:35:47 FLOOR.

2:35:47 UH THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:35:48 THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FLYNN

2:35:49 AND COUNCILOR CULPEPPER FOR

2:35:52 BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:35:53 AND EVERY TIME I RUN INTO TE

2:35:55 MICHAEL IS.

2:35:55 LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO.

2:35:56 SUPPORT THIS THING AS SUPPORT

2:35:57 AS I.

2:35:57 HERE I AM.

2:35:58 I TOLD YOU I WAS.

2:35:59 A GUY YOU.

2:36:00 UH, LOVE YOUR PASSION.

2:36:01 LOVE YOUR ADVOCACY.

2:36:03 UM, LOVE THAT THE WORK THAT.

2:36:04 YOU DO FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE UM

2:36:06 AND ALWAYS PUSHING WORKFORCE

2:36:08 DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRADES HERE

2:36:09 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON SO RISING

2:36:11 AND SUPPORT I GOT YOU LOOKING

2:36:13 TO VOTE YES ON THIS RESOLUTION.

2:36:16 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:36:18 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL YOU

2:36:19 HAVE THE FLOOR LOOKS.

2:36:20 LIKE WE'VE ALL BEEN OUT AND

2:36:21 VISITED YOU AT YOUR.

2:36:23 HOME AND SEEN THE INCREDIBLE

2:36:24 WORK THAT YOU DO UM AND YOUR

2:36:26 VISION.

2:36:27 SO JUST WANTED TO RISE IN

2:36:28 SUPPORT AND YOU KNOW THAT I'VE

2:36:29 BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS TO

2:36:30 TRY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO

2:36:33 RESOLVE SOME OF THESE ISSUES.

2:36:35 SO UM THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE

2:36:36 DOING COMMUNITY AND THANK YOU

2:36:37 TO THE COMMUNITY TO FOLKS WHO.

2:36:38 SUPPORT THANK YOU THANK YOU.

2:36:44 UM I DID TAKE THE TRIP TO YOUR

2:36:45 HOUSE.

2:36:46 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE

2:36:47 INVITE.

2:36:47 I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE

2:36:49 INCREDIBLE WORK THAT YOU DO OUT

2:36:50 THERE ON THE THE WONDERFUL

2:36:51 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

2:36:53 THAT YOU'RE OFFERING, UH,

2:36:55 WORKING WITH COPPER AND IT'S A

2:36:57 VERY NICHE SKILL AND UH, AS WE

2:37:00 AS WE TRY AND DO HISTORIC

2:37:01 RESTORATION ACROSS THE CITY,

2:37:03 THERE'S A THERE'S A DEMAND FOR

2:37:04 THOSE SKILLS AND UH AND THANK

2:37:06 YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND

2:37:07 YOUR VISION AND UH, I WILL

2:37:10 CERTAINLY BE VOTING IN SUPPORT

2:37:11 OF THIS RESOLUTION AND, UH,

2:37:13 WISH YOU ALL THE BEST WITH YOUR

2:37:15 ENDEAVORS OUT THERE.

2:37:17 AT THE PEOPLE'S ACADEMY.

2:37:18 THANK YOU.

2:37:18 AND WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:37:20 THEIR NAME?

2:37:22 COUNCIL COLOR AS A POWDER?

2:37:25 EVERYBODY'S SPOKEN ALREADY.

2:37:27 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:37:28 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:37:29 MEJIA, COUNCILOR.

2:37:30 MURPHY, COUNCILOR PEPEN CONTRA

2:37:31 SANTANA.

2:37:32 COUNCILOR WEBER COUNCIL WILL

2:37:33 RAIL AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

2:37:37 COUNCILOR UM COUNCILORS FLYNN

2:37:40 AND CULPEPER SEEK SUSPENSION

2:37:41 OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:37:44 1723.

2:37:45 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:37:46 ALL OPPOSED.

2:37:47 SAY NAY.

2:37:49 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:37:50 A ROLL CALL?

2:37:51 VOTE ON DOCKET 1723.

2:37:54 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:37:55 YES.

2:37:55 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:37:56 YES.

2:37:56 COUNCIL.

2:37:57 COLETTA.

2:37:57 ZAPATA.

2:37:58 YEAH.

2:37:58 COUNCIL THAT AS A YES

2:38:00 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

2:38:01 COUNCILOR.

2:38:02 COVER.

2:38:02 COUNCILOR.

2:38:03 DURKAN.

2:38:03 COUNCILOR.

2:38:04 FITZGERALD.

2:38:04 YES.

2:38:05 COUNCILOR.

2:38:05 FITZGERALD.

2:38:06 YES.

2:38:06 COUNCILOR.

2:38:06 FLYNN.

2:38:07 YES.

2:38:08 COUNCILOR.

2:38:08 FLYNN.

2:38:08 YES.

2:38:08 COUNCILOR.

2:38:09 LOUIJEUNE.

2:38:09 YES.

2:38:10 COUNCIL.

2:38:10 LOUIJEUNE.

2:38:10 YES.

2:38:11 COUNCILOR.

2:38:11 MEJIA.

2:38:12 COUNCIL ME HERE.

2:38:13 YES.

2:38:13 COUNCILOR.

2:38:14 MURPHY.

2:38:14 COUNCILOR.

2:38:15 MURPHY.

2:38:15 YES.

2:38:16 COUNCILOR.

2:38:16 PEPEN.

2:38:17 OF A PEN.

2:38:18 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:38:19 SANTANA.

2:38:19 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:38:20 SANTANA.

2:38:21 YES.

2:38:21 COUNCILOR.

2:38:22 WEBER.

2:38:22 COUNCILOR.

2:38:22 WEBER.

2:38:23 YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:38:24 WORLD.

2:38:24 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:38:26 OH YES.

2:38:26 TALKING ABOUT 1723 AS WE SEE 12

2:38:29 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:38:31 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

2:38:31 DOCKET 1723 HAS BEEN ADOPTED

2:38:35 AND I'M GOING TO ASK MY, UM,

2:38:37 VICE PRESIDENT TO TAKE THE

2:38:39 CHAIR.

2:38:51 I MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

2:38:52 READ DOCKET 1724.

2:38:54 TALKING OF A1724 COUNCILOR BRAY

2:38:56 ENOUGH OF THE FOLLOWING

2:38:58 RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE

2:38:59 UNITED STATES POSTAL.

2:39:00 SERVICE'S PROPOSAL.

2:39:02 TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE THE AUSTIN

2:39:04 POST OFFICE BRANCH.

2:39:06 THANK YOU.

2:39:07 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:39:08 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON

2:39:09 COUNCIL.

2:39:09 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:39:11 THANK YOU.

2:39:12 THANK YOU, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT

2:39:14 .

2:39:15 UH, FOR SEVEN YEARS AUSTIN

2:39:17 RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN WITHOUT A

2:39:18 NEIGHBORHOOD POST OFFICE AFTER

2:39:20 THE FORMER BRANCH AND HARVARD

2:39:22 OF WAS FORCED TO CLOSE DUE TO

2:39:24 STRUCTURAL ISSUES.

2:39:26 SINCE THEN ROUGHLY 87,000

2:39:28 RESIDENTS AND ALSO BRIGHTON

2:39:29 HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO RELY ON

2:39:31 ONE POST OFFICE AND BRIGHTON

2:39:32 CENTER FOR ESSENTIAL POSTAL

2:39:34 SERVICES.

2:39:36 IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, THE USPS

2:39:38 PROVIDED THE CITY WITH A FINAL

2:39:40 DECISION IN WRITING INFORMING

2:39:43 US THAT THE BOSS AUSTIN POST

2:39:44 OFFICE WOULD BE REESTABLISHED

2:39:46 AND A RETAIL OPERATION WOULD

2:39:48 RETURN TO AUSTIN FOR THE LONG

2:39:50 TERM.

2:39:51 NOW, AFTER YEARS OF PUBLIC

2:39:53 ENGAGEMENT AND PLANNING, USPS

2:39:55 HAS COMPLETELY REVERSED THAT

2:39:56 DECISION AS AND IS MOVING TO

2:39:59 PERMANENTLY CLOSE THE AUSTIN

2:40:00 BRANCH.

2:40:02 USPS HAS STATED THAT THERE ARE

2:40:04 NO SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE

2:40:06 LOCATIONS DESPITE PREVIOUSLY

2:40:08 AGREEING TO OCCUPY A NEW SPACE

2:40:10 ON HARVARD OF IT WAS BEING

2:40:11 BUILT OUT TO USPS

2:40:14 SPECIFICATIONS.

2:40:15 THIS IS INCREDIBLY.

2:40:16 FRUSTRATING FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

2:40:19 RESIDENTS HAVE.

2:40:19 WAITED SEVEN YEARS.

2:40:21 PARTICIPATED IN THE PUBLIC

2:40:22 PROCESS AND WERE REPEATEDLY

2:40:24 TOLD.

2:40:24 THAT THEIR POST OFFICE WAS.

2:40:26 COMING BACK.

2:40:27 AUSTIN IS ONE OF BOSTON'S.

2:40:29 UH, DENSEST NEIGHBORHOODS.

2:40:31 AND OUR SENIORS, IMMIGRANT

2:40:32 COMMUNITIES.

2:40:33 SMALL BUSINESSES AND OTHER

2:40:34 RESIDENTS.

2:40:35 SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TRAVEL.

2:40:37 TO.

2:40:37 ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD TO ACCESS

2:40:38 THEIR BASIC.

2:40:39 SERVICES LIKE.

2:40:40 THE.

2:40:40 POST OFFICE.

2:40:41 BOXES.

2:40:42 PASSPORTS, CERTIFIED MAIL

2:40:44 MONEY ORDERS AND DELIVERY

2:40:46 OF IMPORTANT MEDICATIONS AND

2:40:47 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.

2:40:51 THIS RESOLUTION.

2:40:52 CALLS ON.

2:40:53 THE USPS TO STOP THE

2:40:56 DISCONTINUANCE PROCESS.

2:40:57 AND HONOR THE COMMITMENT TO

2:40:58 THAT IT HAS.

2:40:59 ALREADY MADE TO REESTABLISH A

2:41:01 PERMANENT POST OFFICE IN

2:41:02 AUSTIN.

2:41:04 IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER

2:41:06 MUNICIPALITIES, UNIONS.

2:41:07 AND EXPERTS.

2:41:08 IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS IS A

2:41:10 PATTERN.

2:41:10 AND NOT LIMITED TO AUSTIN.

2:41:13 USPS HAS BEEN.

2:41:14 WEAPONIZING LEASES.

2:41:16 TO SHUTTER POST OFFICE

2:41:17 LOCATIONS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH

2:41:19 THE.

2:41:19 REQUISITE PROCESSES.

2:41:21 CONSIDER WILL BE CHAIRING A

2:41:23 HEARING.

2:41:24 ON THIS ON NEXT WEDNESDAY AND I

2:41:26 HOPE TO SEE MY COLLEAGUES.

2:41:28 THERE AND LOOK FORWARD TO

2:41:29 THIS DISCUSSION.

2:41:30 AUSTIN IS NOT THE LAST.

2:41:32 LOCAL POST.

2:41:33 OFFICE IT WILL BE.

2:41:34 CLOSED SO THIS EVERYONE HAS A

2:41:36 STAKE IN THIS AND WE'RE

2:41:37 PARTICULARLY CONCERNED IN

2:41:38 AUSTIN.

2:41:39 BUT THIS IS UH.

2:41:41 A PREVIEW OF COMING.

2:41:42 ATTRACTIONS IN OTHER

2:41:42 NEIGHBORHOODS.

2:41:43 ACROSS THE CITY.

2:41:44 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:41:45 THANK YOU.

2:41:46 COUNCIL DIRECTING YOU KNOW

2:41:47 HAVE BEFORE.

2:41:48 THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU

2:41:50 SO MUCH TO COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:41:51 BREEDEN FOR BRINGING THIS

2:41:52 FORWARD.

2:41:52 UM LOOK FORWARD TO OUR HEARING

2:41:54 .

2:41:54 UH, NEXT TUESDAY AT 10 A.M. A

2:41:56 VERY SIMILAR THING HAPPENED IN

2:41:58 MISSION HILL AROUND TWO YEARS

2:41:59 AGO.

2:42:00 WE RECEIVED A NOTICE ON THE

2:42:02 FRONT OF THE MISSION POST

2:42:03 OFFICE UM, WHICH MANY RESIDENTS

2:42:05 AND BUSINESS LEADERS RELY ON UH

2:42:07 ,THAT THEY WERE GOING TO CLOSE

2:42:09 AND THAT THE NEAREST POST

2:42:10 OFFICE WAS GOING TO BE ROXBURY

2:42:12 WHICH ALREADY HAS LONG WAIT

2:42:13 TIMES.

2:42:14 UM, AND WE WERE ABLE TO WORK

2:42:16 WITH SENATOR MARKEY TO FIGURE

2:42:18 OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND

2:42:20 REVERSE COURSE, UM, REALLY

2:42:22 GRATEFUL TO SENATOR MARKEY FOR

2:42:24 HIS, UM, TEAM'S WORK ON THIS.

2:42:26 UM, BUT WHAT WE FOUND OUT IN

2:42:28 THE HEARINGS WE'VE HAD SENSE IS

2:42:30 THAT, UH, IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT

2:42:32 THE POST OFFICE IS DOING THIS

2:42:35 ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY.

2:42:36 UM, AND THEY THINK THAT WE ARE

2:42:38 GOING TO NOT PUT UP A FIGHT AND

2:42:40 UM, I NEVER TALK ABOUT MY ONE

2:42:42 PRECINCT OF AUSTIN BUT UH, MY

2:42:45 ONE PRECINCT OF AUSTIN UP TO

2:42:46 BABCOCK STREET AS THE OTHER

2:42:48 AUSTIN ELECTED OFFICIAL, UM,

2:42:50 ALSO NEEDS A POST OFFICE.

2:42:52 IT'S RIDICULOUS THE USPS IS

2:42:53 DOING THIS.

2:42:54 I'M EXCITED FOR THE HEARING.

2:42:56 UM, AND, UM, I'M THRILLED THAT

2:42:59 RESIDENTS ARE STEPPING UP AND

2:43:00 SAYING ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND

2:43:01 THEY DESERVE A POST OFFICE AND

2:43:04 GRATEFUL TO COUNCILOR BREADON,

2:43:05 UH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRADEN'S

2:43:06 LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

2:43:07 WE ALL NEED TO BAND TOGETHER.

2:43:09 I HOPE TO SEE FOLKS AT THE

2:43:10 HEARING NEXT WEEK IN THE PILOT

2:43:11 COMMITTEE.

2:43:13 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:43:14 UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU KNOW

2:43:16 BEFORE.

2:43:17 THANK YOU.

2:43:18 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:43:20 UM, PLEASE ADD MY NAME.

2:43:22 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UM

2:43:26 ,COUNCILOR BRADEN'S

2:43:27 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRADEN'S, UH,

2:43:29 POSITIVE LEADERSHIP ON THIS

2:43:30 ISSUE.

2:43:31 I WAS TALKING TO A MUTUAL

2:43:34 FRIEND THE OTHER DAY.

2:43:35 AL AND TONY DOES ADORO AND THEY

2:43:37 SAID TO ME AT MAKE SURE YOU

2:43:39 SUPPORT UH, COUNCIL COUNCIL

2:43:42 PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL.

2:43:43 I SAID I I'M DEFINITELY GOING

2:43:44 TO SUPPORT IT.

2:43:45 AND THEY SAID MAKE SURE YOU GO

2:43:46 TO THE HEARING AS WELL.

2:43:47 AND I SAID I'LL BE AT THE

2:43:49 HEARING AS WELL.

2:43:49 BUT I KNOW THERE'S A LOT

2:43:51 OF SUPPORT FOR WHAT YOU'RE

2:43:52 DOING IN YOUR COMMUNITY

2:43:54 COUNCIL.

2:43:55 BREADON AND UM THE RESIDENTS

2:43:57 THERE UM I'M LUCKY TO HAVE A

2:43:59 STRONG LEADER LIKE YOU.

2:44:00 THANK YOU.

2:44:02 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:44:04 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

2:44:06 THEIR NAME?

2:44:09 MR CLERK, PLEASE ADD

2:44:10 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:44:11 COUNCILOR.

2:44:11 DURKAN.

2:44:11 COUNCILOR.

2:44:12 FITZGERALD.

2:44:12 COUNCILOR.

2:44:12 FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:44:13 LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

2:44:14 MEJIA COUNCILOR.

2:44:14 MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

2:44:16 PREPARED COUNCILOR.

2:44:16 SANTANA, COUNCILOR.

2:44:17 WEBER AND COUNCIL.

2:44:18 WELL AND PLEASE I'M CHAIR

2:44:20 COUNCILOR COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:44:20 BREADON SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE

2:44:22 RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:44:24 1724.

2:44:24 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:44:26 ALL THOSE OPPOSED?

2:44:27 NAY.

2:44:28 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:44:29 THANK YOU.

2:44:29 DOCKET 1724 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:44:37 MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:44:39 DOCKET.

2:44:41 17251725 COUNCILOR BRAID NOW

2:44:43 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

2:44:45 SUPPORT OF MAIL-IN VOTING.

2:44:47 THANK YOU.

2:44:48 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:44:49 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON

2:44:50 COUNCIL YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:44:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:44:53 UM.

2:44:55 I WOULD.

2:44:55 ALSO LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR.

2:44:57 MEJIA AS A SECOND.

2:44:59 CO-SPONSOR AND.

2:45:00 SUSPEND THE RULES.

2:45:00 AND.

2:45:01 I'D CONSIDER LOUIJEUNE.

2:45:01 AS A.

2:45:02 THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:45:03 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:45:05 OBJECTIONS.

2:45:05 COUNCILMEMBER HERE IS ADDED AS

2:45:06 A SECOND AND

2:45:07 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AS A THIRD.

2:45:10 MAIL-IN VOTING IS AN IMPORTANT.

2:45:11 PART OF MAKING OUR ELECTIONS

2:45:13 ACCESSIBLE.

2:45:13 TO.

2:45:13 ALL OF.

2:45:14 BOSTON RESIDENTS, ESPECIALLY

2:45:15 .

2:45:15 OUR SENIORS.

2:45:16 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,

2:45:17 WORKING.

2:45:18 FAMILIES, STUDENTS AND ANYONE

2:45:20 ELSE WHO MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY

2:45:21 VOTING IN PERSON.

2:45:23 MASSACHUSETTS LAW PROTECTS THE

2:45:25 RIGHT TO VOTE BY MAIL.

2:45:26 AND BOSTON HAS INVESTED

2:45:27 SIGNIFICANT.

2:45:28 RESOURCES INTO ENSURING THAT.

2:45:30 MAIL-IN BALLOT VOTING IS

2:45:32 ADMINISTERED.

2:45:33 SECURELY AND EFFICIENTLY.

2:45:35 THIS HAS BEEN DONE IN THE FACE

2:45:37 OF SIGNIFICANT MEDDLING FROM

2:45:38 THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

2:45:40 EARLIER THIS MONTH, ATTORNEY

2:45:42 GENERAL ANDREA CAMPBELL SECURED

2:45:44 A COURT ORDER.

2:45:45 BLOCKING A NEW USPS.

2:45:47 RULE THAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED

2:45:48 IN.

2:45:49 LAWFUL MAIL IN BALLOTS BEING

2:45:52 REJECTED BASED SOLELY ON A

2:45:54 BARCODE PLACED ON AN ENVELOPE.

2:45:56 AND JUST THIS WEEK, THE SUPREME

2:45:58 COURT REJECTED TRUMP'S

2:46:00 RESTRICTIONS ON MAIL IN VOTING.

2:46:02 FOR THIS REASON, IT IS

2:46:03 IMPORTANT THAT THIS BODY AFFIRM

2:46:05 THE VALUE OF VOTING BY MAIL,

2:46:07 GIVING RESIDENTS CONFIDENCE

2:46:09 THAT A BALLOT THEY THEY'RE

2:46:10 PROPERLY CAST WILL BE COUNTED.

2:46:12 THIS RESOLUTION REAFFIRMS OUR

2:46:15 SUPPORT FOR MAIL-IN VOTING AND

2:46:17 FOR PROTECTING EVERY LAWFUL WAY

2:46:19 THAT BOSTON RESIDENTS CAN

2:46:20 PARTICIPATE IN OUR ELECTIONS

2:46:22 WHETHER THAT BE BY MAIL TO

2:46:24 EARLY VOTING OR AT THE POLLS ON

2:46:26 ELECTION DAY.

2:46:28 I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING.

2:46:29 OUR WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:46:30 EVERY ELIGIBLE BOSTON RESIDENT

2:46:32 CAN PARTICIPATE IN OUR

2:46:34 ELECTIONS CONFIDENTLY AND

2:46:35 WITHOUT UNNECESSARY BARRIERS.

2:46:38 WE ARE WHAT IS IT 45 DAYS AWAY

2:46:40 FROM MIDTERMS AND THIS IS A

2:46:42 HUGELY IMPORTANT ISSUE.

2:46:43 THERE'S A LOT OF MISINFORMATION

2:46:45 ABOUT HOW.

2:46:45 WE SHOULD GO ABOUT VOTING.

2:46:46 BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TO

2:46:49 REASSURE OUR RESIDENTS THAT

2:46:50 MAIL-IN VOTING IS HERE AND IT'S

2:46:52 TRUSTWORTHY AND IMPORTANT TO

2:46:55 PRESERVE.

2:46:56 THANK YOU.

2:46:58 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRIGHTON

2:46:59 COUNCIL ME HERE.

2:47:00 YOU NOW HAVE A FLOOR.

2:47:02 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:47:04 UM.

2:47:04 I'M SORRY.

2:47:07 UH, FOR ADDING ME, UH, TO THIS

2:47:09 RESOLUTION.

2:47:10 ALL OF US ARE WELL AWARE OF THE

2:47:12 ATTACK.

2:47:12 ON DEMOCRACY AT THE FEDERAL

2:47:13 LEVEL.

2:47:14 AND MAIL-IN VOTING IS ANOTHER

2:47:15 EXAMPLE OF THIS.

2:47:16 THE UNITED STATES POSTAL

2:47:17 SERVICE ATTEMPTED TO IMPLEMENT

2:47:19 A RULE THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED

2:47:20 THE REJECTION OF MAIL IN

2:47:22 BALLOTS BASED SOLELY ON THE

2:47:24 PRESENCE OF A BARCODE ON AN

2:47:25 ENVELOPE.

2:47:26 THIS DOES NOT ALIGN WITH

2:47:28 MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION LAW AND

2:47:29 COULD SIGNIFICANTLY

2:47:30 DISENFRANCHIZE VOTERS.

2:47:32 ATTORNEY GENERAL UM CAMPBELL

2:47:34 DID SECURE A COURT ORDER

2:47:35 BLOCKING THE IMPLEMENTATION

2:47:37 WHICH WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR.

2:47:38 MAIL-IN VOTING IS ESSENTIAL TO

2:47:40 OUR DEMOCRACY BECAUSE IT

2:47:42 ENSURES ACCESSIBILITY,

2:47:43 REQUIRING PEOPLE TO COME TO A

2:47:45 POLLING LOCATION IN PERSON

2:47:47 EITHER FOR EARLY VOTING OR ON

2:47:49 ELECTION DAY LIMITS

2:47:51 ACCESSIBILITY WHETHER IT'S

2:47:52 PHYSICALLY UM INACCESSIBLE

2:47:55 SPACES, MOBILITY ISSUES, A LACK

2:47:57 OF TRANSPORTATION WORK AND OR

2:47:59 CAREGIVING HOURS OVERLAPPING

2:48:00 WITH VOTING HOURS, THE

2:48:02 INABILITY TO CONTINUE WAITING

2:48:04 IF THERE IS A LINE OVER

2:48:06 STIMULATION OR DISCOMFORT WILL

2:48:09 UM WITH BEING IN THIS KIND

2:48:10 OF PUBLIC SPACE, TRAVELING

2:48:12 DURING ELECTION OR ANYTHING

2:48:13 ELSE.

2:48:14 UM THERE ARE A VARIETY

2:48:15 OF REASONS WHY MAIL-IN VOTING

2:48:17 IS AN IMPORTANT AND LAWFUL

2:48:19 ALTERNATIVES TO VOTING IN

2:48:20 PERSON.

2:48:21 AND SO WE MUST FIGHT UM WITH

2:48:24 THIS THIS THIS AND INFORMATION

2:48:26 AROUND MAIL-IN VOTING AND

2:48:28 AFFIRM THIS BODY'S BELIEF IN

2:48:29 THE IMPORTANCE OF UH, SECURE

2:48:32 MAIL-IN UM VOTING UH PEOPLE IN

2:48:35 THE CITY WITH A RICH HISTORY

2:48:37 OF ADVANCING DEMOCRACY IN

2:48:38 BOSTON NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT

2:48:40 THIS IS ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THAT

2:48:42 STORY FOR US AND AS SOMEONE WHO

2:48:44 ONE BY ONE VOTE Y'ALL YOU KNOW

2:48:46 EVERY SINGLE VOTE MATTERS NO

2:48:47 MATTER HOW WE GET IT, WHAT WE

2:48:49 DO MATTER.

2:48:50 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW WE GET

2:48:51 IT.

2:48:51 BUT YOU KNOW MAIL-IN BALLOT

2:48:52 SHOULD ALWAYS BE A VIABLE

2:48:54 OPTION TO DO JUST THAT.

2:48:56 THANK YOU.

2:48:57 THANK YOU COUNCIL ME HERE

2:48:59 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU KNOW

2:49:00 HOW THE FUN.

2:49:04 THANK YOU MADAM.

2:49:06 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:49:07 UM.

2:49:07 AND THANK YOU TO

2:49:08 COUNCILOR BREEDEN FOR.

2:49:09 FILING THIS.

2:49:09 UH, I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE.

2:49:11 I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.

2:49:12 IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT

2:49:12 THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE

2:49:14 CAN TO EXPAND ACCESS TO THE

2:49:16 BALLOT TO ENFRANCHISE AS MANY

2:49:17 PEOPLE AS WE CAN.

2:49:18 AND MAIL IN VOTING IS ONE

2:49:20 OF THOSE WAYS.

2:49:21 UM, IT'S AN ACCESSIBILITY ISSUE

2:49:23 .

2:49:23 UM, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU

2:49:26 KNOW, YESTERDAY WAS NATIONAL

2:49:27 VOTER REGISTRATION DAY WHERE WE

2:49:29 HIGHLIGHT AND TRY TO MAKE SURE

2:49:30 THAT WE ARE MAKING SURE PEOPLE

2:49:31 KNOW ABOUT THEIR ABILITY TO

2:49:32 VOTE.

2:49:33 YOUR ABILITY TO VOTE HERE AS

2:49:35 LONG AS YOU AREN'T INCARCERATED

2:49:37 FOR A FELONY AND THE MOMENT

2:49:38 THAT YOU'RE RELEASED, UM, FROM

2:49:40 INCARCERATION THAT YOU'RE ABLE

2:49:41 TO VOTE.

2:49:42 SO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN DO ON

2:49:43 THE CITY LEVEL AND AT THE STATE

2:49:45 LEVEL TO EXPAND ACCESS TO THE

2:49:46 BALLOT TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR

2:49:48 PEOPLE TO VOTE WHETHER THOSE

2:49:49 PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLKS WHO ARE

2:49:51 DISABLED, DIFFERENTLY ABLED,

2:49:52 HANDICAPPED, WHETHER THOSE ARE

2:49:53 PEOPLE WHO.

2:49:54 ARE JUGGLING SEVERAL JOBS,

2:49:56 PARENTS WHO HAVE IT DIFFICULT

2:49:58 OR WHO ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT

2:49:59 TIME VOTING OR MAYBE YOU'LL

2:50:00 JUST BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY OR

2:50:02 YOU'LL JUST BE TRAVELING.

2:50:03 AND SO EXPANDING ACCESS TO

2:50:04 MAIL-IN VOTING IS IMPORTANT.

2:50:06 EXPANDING ACCESS TO ALL FORMS

2:50:08 OF VOTING IS IMPORTANT,

2:50:09 ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN WE HAVE A

2:50:11 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

2:50:12 ADMINISTRATION THAT IS SEEMS

2:50:14 JUST SO FOCUSED ON

2:50:17 DISENFRANCHIZING FOLKS UH, ALL

2:50:19 SORTS OF FOLKS BUT ESPECIALLY

2:50:20 PEOPLE OF COLOR ESPECIALLY

2:50:21 THOSE WHO ARE DISABLED OR

2:50:23 DIFFERENTLY ABLED ESPECIALLY

2:50:24 THOSE UM WHO ARE TRANSIENT.

2:50:26 AND SO MAIL-IN VOTING IS

2:50:28 IMPORTANT.

2:50:28 UM, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE

2:50:29 THAT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL THAT WE

2:50:31 ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN NOT

2:50:32 TO ADOPT THE WAYS OF WHAT'S

2:50:33 HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL

2:50:34 TO PUSH BACK AND MAKE SURE THAT

2:50:36 WE ARE EXPANDING THE RIGHT AND

2:50:38 TO VOTE AND UM, THE ABILITY

2:50:40 OF REGULAR PEOPLE TO ACCESS IT.

2:50:41 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:50:42 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:50:43 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU KNOW I

2:50:44 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:50:45 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:50:46 I SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL.

2:50:48 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE

2:50:51 HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS FOR

2:50:53 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

2:50:55 ENSURING THAT THEIR VOTE IS

2:50:57 COUNTED, THAT THEIR VOTE DOES

2:50:59 MATTER.

2:51:00 IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE

2:51:03 SERVING OVERSEAS IN THE US

2:51:05 MILITARY.

2:51:06 IT HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE WHEN I

2:51:08 REQUESTED A BALLOT AND I WAS I

2:51:10 WAS IN A SMALL COUNTRY CALLED

2:51:13 BAHRAIN AND WHEN I WHEN THEY

2:51:15 SENT THE BALLOT TO ME I MOVED

2:51:17 FROM BAHRAIN UP UP TOWARDS THE

2:51:20 UM UP TOWARDS THE THE COAST

2:51:22 TOWARDS THE IRAQI PLATFORM OIL

2:51:24 PLATFORM AND I COULDN'T I

2:51:26 COULDN'T VOTE BECAUSE THE

2:51:27 BALLOT THE BALLOT WASN'T

2:51:29 AVAILABLE TO ME.

2:51:31 UM DUE TO LOGISTICAL LOGISTICAL

2:51:33 ISSUES BUT BUT I STILL KNOW

2:51:36 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT MAIL-IN

2:51:38 BALLOTS ARE CRITICAL, UH,

2:51:40 CRUCIAL FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE

2:51:42 DIFFICULT TIME OR IMPOSSIBLE

2:51:44 TIME TO GET TO THE ACTUAL

2:51:46 VOTING BOOTH SUCH AS PERSONS

2:51:47 WITH DISABILITIES SUCH AS OUR

2:51:49 SENIORS.

2:51:50 UH, THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT WORK

2:51:52 DIFFERENT.

2:51:53 WORK SHIFTS.

2:51:55 UM, BUT VOTING IS IS A FEDERAL

2:51:57 ISSUE.

2:51:57 IT'S A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE AND

2:51:59 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY

2:52:01 REGISTERED VOTER HAS THE RIGHT

2:52:02 TO CAST THEIR VOTE IN A SAFE

2:52:05 AND LEGAL SYSTEM.

2:52:06 THANK YOU.

2:52:07 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

2:52:09 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU KNOW

2:52:09 BEFORE.

2:52:10 THANK YOU.

2:52:11 I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ALSO

2:52:14 THAT.

2:52:15 I THINK GALVIN WAS PREDICTING

2:52:16 CLOSE TO 60% OF THE BALLOTS

2:52:18 CAST WERE MAILED IN BEFORE

2:52:20 ELECTION DAY AND EVERY ELECTION

2:52:22 WE SEE THAT MORE AND MORE

2:52:24 PEOPLE ARE GETTING USED TO IT

2:52:26 OR TRUSTING IT AND IT WAS

2:52:27 BROUGHT UP ABOUT PERSONS WITH

2:52:29 DISABILITIES BUT ALSO OUR

2:52:30 SENIORS AND OUR VETERANS.

2:52:32 ONE OF THE FIRST RULE PETITIONS

2:52:34 I FILED HERE ON THIS BODY AND

2:52:37 PASSED WAS TO EXPAND VETERANS

2:52:39 WHO WERE DEPLOYED, THE

2:52:41 OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE

2:52:43 ELECTRONICALLY WHEN IT'S A

2:52:44 MUNICIPAL IT WAS ALREADY

2:52:45 ALLOWED AT STATE ELECTIONS.

2:52:46 BUT ANY WAY WE CAN MAKE SURE

2:52:48 ANY OF OUR VETERANS WHO ARE

2:52:50 EITHER NOT IN THEIR HOME TOWN

2:52:52 IN ANOTHER STATE OR DEPLOYED

2:52:55 OVERSEAS IS ABLE TO CAST THEIR

2:52:56 VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT

2:52:58 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SEE A RECENT

2:53:00 ELECTION WAS JUST A COUPLE

2:53:02 OF VOTES AWAY.

2:53:03 SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE

2:53:05 IS ABLE TO VOTE AND THAT WHEN

2:53:07 WE KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE ARE

2:53:08 MAILING THEM IN WE NEED TO

2:53:09 SUPPORT THIS AND ALSO JUST MAKE

2:53:11 SURE WE AS A BODY UNDERSTAND

2:53:13 HOW WE CAN SUPPORT AND MOVE

2:53:15 FORWARD WORKING ALONGSIDE THE

2:53:17 ELECTION DEPARTMENT TO MAKE

2:53:18 SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE

2:53:20 PROPERLY.

2:53:20 SEEING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH

2:53:22 TO WHEN THEY CERTIFY ALL THE

2:53:23 VOTES THAT COME THROUGH AT

2:53:24 EVERY ELECTION.

2:53:25 THANK YOU.

2:53:26 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:53:27 WOULD ANYONE.

2:53:28 ELSE.

2:53:28 WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?

2:53:30 UM, I'LL TAKE A.

2:53:31 FEW SECONDS JUST TO SAY THAT

2:53:32 I.

2:53:32 UM, 100% SUPPORT THIS.

2:53:33 I WANT TO THANK

2:53:34 COUNCILOR BRADING FOR.

2:53:35 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:53:36 UM, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER

2:53:37 INSTANCE OF AN UNLAWFUL ACTION,

2:53:40 UM, AFFIRMED BY THE COURTS BY

2:53:41 THIS PRESIDENTIAL

2:53:42 ADMINISTRATION TO DISMANTLE

2:53:44 DEMOCRACY PIECE BY PIECE AND

2:53:45 AFTER HE'S GONE, UH, AFTER HIS

2:53:48 ADMINISTRATION IS DONE, UM,

2:53:50 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PUT

2:53:50 HUMPTY DUMPTY BACK TOGETHER

2:53:51 AGAIN.

2:53:52 BUT UNTIL THEN WE HAVE TO STAY

2:53:53 VIGILANT.

2:53:53 THIS IS ONE OF ONE SMALL ACTION

2:53:55 THAT WE CAN DO TO JUST AFFIRM,

2:53:57 UM, EVERY AMERICAN'S RIGHT TO

2:53:58 VOTE.

2:53:58 SACRED RIGHT TO VOTE.

2:54:00 UM, BUT IT'S ALREADY BEEN SAID

2:54:01 WE NEED TO MAKE IT EASIER AND

2:54:02 UM, UH, JUST DISMANTLE AS MANY

2:54:04 BARRIERS AS WE CAN FOR FOLKS

2:54:06 WHO WANT TO VOTE ESPECIALLY

2:54:08 SECOND AND THIRD SHIFT WORKERS

2:54:09 IN MY DISTRICT WHO WORK AT THE

2:54:10 AIRPORT AND WHO MAYBE CAN'T

2:54:12 MAKE IT TO THE POLLS ON TIME.

2:54:15 UM, BUT I, UH I SUPPORT THIS

2:54:18 WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

2:54:18 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BRING IT

2:54:19 FORWARD.

2:54:20 AND I THINK THE LAST THING I

2:54:21 WANT TO SAY IS THAT THE

2:54:22 PRESIDENT VOTES BY MAIL BECAUSE

2:54:23 HE LIVES IN FLORIDA.

2:54:25 THANK YOU.

2:54:27 ALL RIGHT.

2:54:28 UH, MR. CLERK, UH, WOULD

2:54:30 ANYONE LIKE TO.

2:54:31 ADD THEIR NAME?

2:54:31 SORRY.

2:54:32 UM, PLEASE ADD

2:54:35 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCIL.

2:54:36 DARKENED COUNCIL.

2:54:37 FITZGERALD.

2:54:37 COUNCILOR.

2:54:38 FLYNN.

2:54:38 COUNCILOR.

2:54:39 MEJIA.

2:54:39 COUNCILOR.

2:54:40 MURPHY.

2:54:42 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL.

2:54:43 WEBER.

2:54:43 COUNCILOR TO PEN.

2:54:44 COUNCILOR WORRELL AND PLEASE AT

2:54:45 THE CHAIR.

2:54:46 UH, COUNCILOR PRESIDENT

2:54:47 BRIGHTON SEEKS.

2:54:48 SUSPENSION OF.

2:54:48 THE.

2:54:49 RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:54:50 1725.

2:54:51 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:54:52 ALL THOSE OPPOSED?

2:54:53 NAY.

2:54:54 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:54:55 THANK YOU.

2:54:56 DOCKET 1725 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:55:00 MR. CLERK.

2:55:00 CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET.

2:55:04 1726.1726 COUNCIL OF READING

2:55:06 OFF OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:55:08 IN SUPPORT OF HOUSE 1405 SENATE

2:55:11 860 AN ACT ESTABLISHING

2:55:13 MEDICARE FOR ALL IN

2:55:15 MASSACHUSETTS.

2:55:16 THANK YOU.

2:55:17 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:55:17 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BURTON.

2:55:18 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:55:20 THANK YOU.

2:55:20 CHAIR I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

2:55:23 COUNCILOR WEBER AS A SECOND AND

2:55:25 SUSPEND THE RULES AND I'D

2:55:26 CONSIDER MEJIA AS A THIRD

2:55:27 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:55:30 UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:55:32 OBJECTIONS.

2:55:33 UH, THEY ARE SO ADDED.

2:55:35 THANK YOU.

2:55:36 HEALTHCARE CONTINUES TO BE

2:55:38 UNAFFORDABLE FOR TOO MANY

2:55:40 MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS EVEN

2:55:42 PEOPLE WITH INSURANCE FEARS

2:55:44 RISING PREMIUMS, DEDUCTIBLES,

2:55:46 CO-PAYS, PRESCRIPTION

2:55:47 PRESCRIPTION COSTS AND OTHER

2:55:49 EXPENSES THAT CAN MAKE GETTING

2:55:51 UNNECESSARY CARE VERY, VERY

2:55:52 DIFFICULT.

2:55:53 WE HAVE A HUGE.

2:55:54 NUMBER OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE.

2:55:56 UNDERINSURED OR UNINSURED.

2:55:59 NURSES AND HEALTH CARE

2:56:00 PROFESSIONALS SEE THE

2:56:01 CONSEQUENCES OF THIS EVERY DAY

2:56:03 PATIENTS DELAY.

2:56:04 APPOINTMENTS.

2:56:05 MEDICATIONS AND PREVENTATIVE

2:56:06 CARE.

2:56:07 BECAUSE OF COSTS.

2:56:09 OFTEN NEEDING MORE SERIOUS AND

2:56:11 EXPENSIVE TREATMENT LATER.

2:56:13 NO ONE SHOULD HAVE.

2:56:14 TO CHOOSE.

2:56:14 BETWEEN PAYING THE RENT,

2:56:15 BUYING THE GROCERIES OR GETTING

2:56:17 THE HEALTH CARE OR MEDICATION

2:56:19 THAT THEY NEED.

2:56:20 HOUSE BILL 1405.

2:56:23 AND SENATE BILL 860 WOULD

2:56:25 ESTABLISH A SINGLE PAYER HEALTH

2:56:27 CARE SYSTEM IN MASSACHUSETTS

2:56:28 THAT PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE

2:56:30 COVERAGE TO RESIDENTS AND

2:56:32 ELIMINATES PREMIUMS AND

2:56:34 DEDUCTIBLES.

2:56:35 THIS IS ALSO AN.

2:56:36 ISSUE FOR HEALTH CARE.

2:56:37 WORKFORCE.

2:56:38 RISING PRIVATE INSURANCE

2:56:40 COSTS PUT ADDITIONAL PRESSURES

2:56:41 ON WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS AND

2:56:43 TAKE ATTENTION AWAY FROM.

2:56:44 WAGES.

2:56:45 WORKING CONDITIONS AND

2:56:47 IMPROVEMENTS TO PATIENT CARE.

2:56:49 EVEN HERE IN THIS IN THIS UH AS

2:56:51 WE NAVIGATED OUR BUDGET PROCESS

2:56:53 THIS YEAR, ONE OF THE BIG

2:56:55 ISSUES WAS THE INCREASING COST

2:56:57 OF HEALTH CARE AND IT CAUSED

2:57:01 UNDUE STRESS ON OUR.

2:57:02 MUNICIPAL BUDGET AND HOUSEHOLD.

2:57:03 BUDGETS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS.

2:57:05 THE COUNCIL HAS PREVIOUSLY

2:57:07 HEARD FROM HEALTH CARE

2:57:08 PROFESSIONALS AND COMMUNITY

2:57:10 ORGANIZATIONS AND POLICY

2:57:12 EXPERTS ABOUT THE IMPACT

2:57:13 OF GAPS IN INSURANCE AND

2:57:15 UNAFFORDABLE CARE HAVE ON

2:57:17 BOSTON'S MOST VULNERABLE

2:57:18 RESIDENTS.

2:57:19 ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE.

2:57:20 SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON THE

2:57:22 CARE.

2:57:23 A PERSON.

2:57:24 SHOULD BE BASED ON THE CARE

2:57:25 THAT A PERSON NEEDS, NOT THE

2:57:26 AMOUNT.

2:57:27 THAT THEY'RE ABLE.

2:57:27 TO PAY.

2:57:28 I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT.

2:57:30 THESE TWO PIECES OF LEGISLATION

2:57:32 CURRENTLY ON BEACON HILL, AND I

2:57:33 ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO.

2:57:34 JOIN UH.

2:57:35 AND AND SUPPORT.

2:57:36 JOIN ME IN.

2:57:38 SUPPORTING THEM.

2:57:38 THANK YOU.

2:57:40 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BURTON.

2:57:41 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:57:42 COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:57:43 COUNCILOR RB NOW BEFORE YOU.

2:57:45 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:57:46 UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU,

2:57:48 MADAM PRESIDENT, FOR HAVING

2:57:49 ME AS A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

2:57:50 DOCKET.

2:57:51 I ALSO LIKE TO THANK A FEW

2:57:52 OF MY CONSTITUENTS WHO HAVE

2:57:53 BEEN VERY ACTIVE, UH, ON THE

2:57:56 HEALTH CARE FOR ALL GROUP, UH,

2:57:58 PARTICULARLY, UH, BRUCE

2:58:00 FLEISCHER'S WHO'S HERE?

2:58:01 UH, MARGE COHEN, CATHERINE NASH

2:58:03 ,MARTHA COCHAIR AND SARAH

2:58:05 CAMPBELL.

2:58:06 UM, WHO ALL REACHED OUT TO MY

2:58:09 OFFICE IN THE HOPES OF THERE

2:58:10 BEING ACTION AT THE STATE HOUSE

2:58:12 TO PASS, UH, THESE TWO, UH,

2:58:15 PIECES OF LEGISLATION.

2:58:16 I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, SPEAK

2:58:18 FOR MYSELF, BUT I THINK WE ALL

2:58:21 GOT AN EDUCATION DURING THE

2:58:22 LAST BUDGET CYCLE ABOUT HOW, UH

2:58:25 HOW MUCH RISING AND

2:58:27 SKYROCKETING HEALTH CARE COSTS

2:58:29 UH, CAN UH HOW MUCH OF A

2:58:31 NEGATIVE IMPACT THEY CAN HAVE,

2:58:33 UH, ON A CITY BUDGET.

2:58:34 YOU KNOW, OUR BUDGET WENT UP

2:58:35 AROUND 99 MILLION AND ABOUT 97

2:58:38 MILLION OF THAT, UH, WAS TO PAY

2:58:40 FOR RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS.

2:58:41 YOU CAN IMAGINE THE IMPACT IT'S

2:58:43 HAVING IN HOUSEHOLDS ACROSS THE

2:58:46 STATE.

2:58:46 UH, AND YOU KNOW, BOTH FOR

2:58:48 BUSINESSES AND FOR FOR FOR

2:58:51 FAMILIES.

2:58:51 UH, WE CAN'T JUST SIT AROUND

2:58:53 AND HOPE THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE

2:58:54 COSTS ARE GOING TO COME DOWN IN

2:58:56 THE FUTURE.

2:58:57 WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION.

2:58:58 UH, THIS IS A STATE WHERE WE'VE

2:59:00 LED ON THIS ISSUE, UH, WITH

2:59:02 ROMNEYCARE AND NOW IS A CHANCE

2:59:04 FOR US TO LEAD AGAIN WITH

2:59:05 MEDICARE FOR ALL.

2:59:06 I KNOW THIS BODY LAST, UH, WE

2:59:08 PASSED A RESOLUTION IN FAVOR

2:59:09 OF THIS IN 2023.

2:59:11 I HOPE WE'LL JOIN TOGETHER AND,

2:59:13 UH, PASS THIS AGAIN.

2:59:14 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:59:15 MADAM PRESIDENT, THANK YOU, UH,

2:59:17 VICE PRESIDENT FOR RECOGNIZE

2:59:18 ME?

2:59:20 THANK YOU.

2:59:20 COUNCIL WEBER.

2:59:21 UH, COUNCIL HERE.

2:59:22 DID YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW

2:59:23 WORDS?

2:59:24 YOU KNOW THE.

2:59:26 THANK YOU.

2:59:27 MADAM PRESIDENT AND.

2:59:30 UM AND COUNCILOR WEBER, UH, FOR

2:59:32 ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:59:34 CO-SPONSOR.

2:59:34 UH, HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN

2:59:35 RIGHT AND COST SHOULD NOT BE A

2:59:37 BARRIER TO ESSENTIAL CARE IN

2:59:39 MASSACHUSETTS AND ACROSS THIS

2:59:40 COUNTRY.

2:59:41 WE HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT

2:59:42 INCREASES IN HEALTH CARE COSTS

2:59:44 ACROSS THE HEALTH UM CARE.

2:59:46 SECTOR.

2:59:47 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS,

2:59:48 UNIONS AND POLICY EXPERTS HAVE

2:59:50 TESTIFIED ABOUT THE BENEFITS

2:59:51 OF A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM SUCH

2:59:54 AS REDUCING DISPARITIES,

2:59:56 INCREASING PREVENTATIVE CARE,

2:59:57 DISCONNECTING HEALTH CARE FROM

2:59:59 EMPLOYMENT AND REDUCING

3:00:01 ADMINISTRATIVE WASTE,

3:00:02 INCREASING WAGES, ALLOWING

3:00:04 UNIONS TO FOCUS ON OTHER

3:00:06 ADVOCACY AND MINIMIZING

3:00:07 EMPLOYERS.

3:00:08 SHIFTS THE COST TO THEIR

3:00:10 EMPLOYEES OVERALL.

3:00:11 A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WOULD

3:00:13 IMPROVE HOW MASSACHUSETTS

3:00:14 DELIVERS HEALTH CARE ACROSS THE

3:00:16 BOARD.

3:00:17 WE HAVE SEEN THE SUCCESSFUL

3:00:19 EXCUSE ME THE SUCCESS

3:00:21 OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID AT ALL

3:00:23 AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND THEIR

3:00:25 ABILITY TO COVER.

3:00:25 NECESSARY CARE PRESCRIPTION

3:00:27 COSTS.

3:00:27 HEALTH CARE COSTS AND KEEP

3:00:29 PEOPLE PROPERLY INSURED.

3:00:30 THIS IS NOT SOMETHING RADICAL.

3:00:33 IT IS UM TRIED AND TRUE AND

3:00:35 THIS AND IT IS TIME FOR US TO

3:00:37 IMPLEMENT MEDICARE FOR ALL.

3:00:38 HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS I JUST

3:00:39 WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES,

3:00:41 UM, ON THE STATE HOUSE, UH, FOR

3:00:43 LEADING THIS CHARGE AND I.

3:00:44 LOOK FORWARD.

3:00:45 TO, UH, A FAVORABLE YES ON

3:00:48 THIS RESOLUTION ACROSS.

3:00:49 THE BOARD HERE.

3:00:50 THANK YOU.

3:00:51 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

3:00:52 UH, COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

3:00:54 A FLOOR.

3:00:54 THANK YOU.

3:00:55 I JUST WANT TO RISE IN SUPPORT

3:00:56 OF THIS RESOLUTION.

3:00:56 UH, MEDICARE FOR ALL WOULD

3:00:58 BRING US, UM, I THINK IN LINE

3:01:03 WITH A LOT OF OTHER ACTUALLY

3:01:06 LIKE WESTERN COUNTRIES, UM, UH

3:01:09 ,SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES,

3:01:10 CANADA WHERE YOUR HEALTH CARE

3:01:13 DOESN'T HINGE ON WHETHER OR NOT

3:01:16 YOU HAVE EMPLOYMENT.

3:01:18 UM, I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S A

3:01:20 GREAT WAY TO SET UP A SYSTEM

3:01:21 AND WE'VE SEEN IT WHETHER IT'S

3:01:23 WITH THE CLOSURE OF THE KARNI,

3:01:25 WHETHER IT'S WITH OUR COMMUNITY

3:01:26 HEALTH CENTERS AND HOW MUCH

3:01:28 DIFFICULTY THEY HAVE STAYING

3:01:29 AFLOAT.

3:01:31 UM SHOUT OUT YOU KNOW, I THINK

3:01:33 WE RECENTLY ALLOCATED THREE

3:01:35 ABOUT $3.2 MILLION TO SOME

3:01:36 OF OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH

3:01:37 CENTERS.

3:01:38 IT IS NOT A GOOD WAY TO CARE

3:01:41 FOR.

3:01:41 PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UM HEALTH CARE

3:01:44 NEEDS.

3:01:44 UM, WE HAVE A SYSTEM THAT

3:01:48 DISCOURAGES PEOPLE REALLY FROM

3:01:50 MAINTAINING WELLNESS.

3:01:51 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT LIKE WE

3:01:53 SAID EARLIER UH, I LIKE I SAID

3:01:55 EARLIER, UM, PUTTING PEOPLE.

3:01:57 BEFORE PROFIT.

3:01:58 .

3:01:58 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS SO

3:02:00 BROKEN.

3:02:00 WE HEAR STORIES ALL THE TIME BY

3:02:02 PEOPLE WHO ARE IN SUCH

3:02:04 SIGNIFICANT, UM, MEDICAL DEBT

3:02:06 AND HAVING A SYSTEM THAT REALLY

3:02:09 PUT PEOPLE AND THEIR WELLNESS

3:02:10 FIRST IS A SYSTEM THAT WE

3:02:12 SHOULD ADOPT.

3:02:13 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU I

3:02:14 THINK COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU

3:02:14 FILED THIS BEFORE ON THIS BODY

3:02:16 AND I JUST WANTED TO STAND IN

3:02:17 SUPPORT.

3:02:18 THANK YOU.

3:02:19 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:02:21 .

3:02:21 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ON

3:02:22 THIS MATTER?

3:02:24 SO ANYONE WANT TO ADD THEIR

3:02:24 NAME?

3:02:26 MR CLERK, PLEASE ADD UH,

3:02:28 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCIL.

3:02:29 FITZGERALD.

3:02:29 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

3:02:30 MURPHY, COUNCILOR FOR

3:02:32 COUNCILOR.

3:02:32 CULPEPER COUNCILOR SANTANA AND

3:02:34 COUNCIL.

3:02:35 WORLAND, PLEASE AT THE CHAIR.

3:02:37 UH COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND

3:02:38 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

3:02:39 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1726.

3:02:41 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:02:43 ALL.

3:02:44 MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

3:02:46 CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

3:02:47 DOCKET 1726.

3:02:50 COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:02:50 YES.

3:02:51 COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:02:52 YES.

3:02:52 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.

3:02:53 YES.

3:02:54 COUNCIL AS PER YES.

3:02:55 COUNCILOR.

3:02:55 COPA.

3:02:56 COUNCILOR.

3:02:57 CARVE UP.

3:02:57 YES.

3:02:57 COUNCILOR.

3:02:58 DURKAN.

3:02:59 COUNCILOR.

3:02:59 DURKAN.

3:02:59 YES.

3:03:00 COUNCIL.

3:03:00 FITZGERALD.

3:03:01 YES.

3:03:02 COUNCILOR.

3:03:03 FITZGERALD.

3:03:03 YES.

3:03:03 COUNCILOR.

3:03:04 FLYNN.

3:03:04 COUNCILOR.

3:03:05 LOUIJEUNE.

3:03:06 COUNCILOR.

3:03:07 LOUIJEUNE.

3:03:07 YES.

3:03:07 COUNCILOR.

3:03:08 MEJIA.

3:03:08 COUNCIL.

3:03:09 MEJIA.

3:03:09 YES.

3:03:09 COUNCILOR.

3:03:10 MURPHY.

3:03:10 COUNCILOR.

3:03:11 MURPHY.

3:03:11 YES.

3:03:12 COUNCILOR.

3:03:12 PAPIN.

3:03:13 COUNSELOR.

3:03:13 PEN.

3:03:14 YES, COUNCILOR.

3:03:15 SANTANA.

3:03:16 YES.

3:03:16 COUNCILOR.

3:03:17 SANTANA.

3:03:17 YES.

3:03:17 COUNCIL.

3:03:18 WEBER.

3:03:18 YES.

3:03:19 COUNCILOR.

3:03:19 WEBER.

3:03:19 YES AND COUNCILOR.

3:03:20 WORLD.

3:03:21 YES.

3:03:21 COUNCILOR.

3:03:21 ORAL.

3:03:22 YES.

3:03:22 TALKING OF A1726 HAS RECEIVED

3:03:26 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:03:27 THANK YOU.

3:03:28 DOCKET 1726 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:03:32 UH.

3:03:41 THANK YOU.

3:03:45 MR. CLERK.

3:03:46 WE, UH, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

3:03:47 DOCKET 1727?

3:03:50 DOCKET NUMBER 1727

3:03:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR THE

3:03:53 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

3:03:55 OF H.R. 1725 SERGEANT ISAAC

3:03:59 WOODARD JUNIOR AND SERGEANT

3:04:00 JOSEPH H.

3:04:01 MADDOX, G.I. BILL RESTORATION

3:04:03 ACT OF 2025.

3:04:05 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:04:07 COUNCILMAN FLYNN COUNCIL.

3:04:08 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:04:10 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:04:13 JUST AS A WAY OF.

3:04:14 BACKGROUND, UM, IN.

3:04:17 1944 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNED

3:04:19 THE SERVICEMEN'S READJUSTMENT

3:04:21 ACT, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE GI

3:04:23 BILL INTO LAW PROVIDING WORLD

3:04:25 WAR TWO VETERANS MONEY FOR

3:04:27 COLLEGE OR TRADE SCHOOL.

3:04:29 LOW COST HOME AND BUSINESS

3:04:30 LOANS AND UNEMPLOYMENT PAY.

3:04:34 16 MILLION VETERANS RECEIVE

3:04:35 BENEFITS TO ASSIST THEM TO

3:04:38 INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

3:04:40 WHILE THE ORIGINAL BILL WAS

3:04:42 RACE NEUTRAL, THE

3:04:43 ADMINISTRATION OF BENEFITS

3:04:44 RESULTED IN A PATTERN

3:04:46 OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST

3:04:47 RACIAL MINORITIES, ESPECIALLY

3:04:49 AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

3:04:50 MORE THAN 1 MILLION

3:04:52 AFRICAN-AMERICANS SERVED IN THE

3:04:53 ARMED FORCES, AND BY 1945

3:04:57 ALMOST 2% OF OFFICERS IN THE

3:04:59 ARMED FORCES WERE AFRICAN

3:05:00 AMERICANS.

3:05:02 VA BENEFIT COUNSELORS FUNNELED

3:05:04 APPLICATIONS INTO TRADE SCHOOLS

3:05:06 DENYING THEM ACCESS TO

3:05:08 EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS AT CERTAIN

3:05:10 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

3:05:13 ONLY 6% OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN

3:05:15 VETERANS OF WORLD WAR TWO

3:05:17 EARNED A COLLEGE DEGREE,

3:05:18 COMPARED TO 19% OF WHITE WORLD

3:05:21 WAR TWO VETERANS.

3:05:23 HERE'S THE ISSUE.

3:05:24 UNDER 1725, WHICH WAS

3:05:27 INTRODUCED BY U.S.

3:05:28 REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON AND

3:05:30 JAMES CLYBURN, BLACK WORLD WAR

3:05:33 TWO VETERANS WHO CAN PROVE THAT

3:05:34 THEY WERE DENIED OR PREVENTED

3:05:38 BENEFITS UNDER THE GI BILL.

3:05:39 THE ORIGINAL GI BILL WOULD

3:05:41 BECOME ELIGIBLE FOR CERTAIN.

3:05:43 VA BENEFITS.

3:05:44 IT WOULD ALSO.

3:05:45 EXTEND TO LIVING SPOUSES,

3:05:48 CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND

3:05:50 OTHER DIRECT DESCENDANTS

3:05:52 INCLUDING.

3:05:52 A WAIVER FOR THE LOAN.

3:05:54 FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VA LOAN

3:05:56 PROGRAM.

3:05:56 ACCESS TO POST GI.

3:05:59 BILL EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS.

3:06:01 THE APPLICANTS.

3:06:02 MUST APPLY WITHIN FIVE.

3:06:03 YEARS AFTER IT'S ENACTED BEYOND

3:06:08 ACCESS TO BENEFITS.

3:06:09 IT WOULD.

3:06:10 ALSO AUTHORIZE THE US.

3:06:11 SECRETARY OF VETERANS TO

3:06:13 ESTABLISH A DOWN PAYMENT

3:06:14 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS WELL.

3:06:18 EACH INDIVIDUAL ELIGIBLE FOR

3:06:20 HOME.

3:06:20 LOAN OR.

3:06:21 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE.

3:06:22 MUST APPLY.

3:06:23 AS I MENTIONED WITHIN FIVE

3:06:24 YEARS.

3:06:25 OF THE DATE BEFORE THE

3:06:27 SERGEANT.

3:06:27 WOULD WOULD AND SERGEANT JOE.

3:06:29 MADDOX GI BILL RESTORATION.

3:06:32 YES IT IS CONTROVERSIAL PIECE

3:06:35 OF.

3:06:35 PROPOSED LEGISLATION BECAUSE.

3:06:39 VETERANS BENEFITS SPECIFICALLY.

3:06:42 GO TO VETERANS OR THEIR SPOUSE.

3:06:45 UM THIS IS.

3:06:46 DIFFERENT BECAUSE.

3:06:47 AS I HIGHLIGHTED BLACK VETERANS

3:06:51 ALTHOUGH THEY WERE ELIGIBLE FOR

3:06:55 VA BENEFITS.

3:06:55 THEY WERE SYSTEMATICALLY UM

3:07:00 DISCRIMINATED AGAINST I SHOULD

3:07:01 SAY.

3:07:03 UM AND SO.

3:07:03 THIS OPPORTUNITY.

3:07:05 IS TO PROVIDE.

3:07:06 THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.

3:07:08 BASICALLY AN OPPORTUNITY.

3:07:10 TO GET A HOME LOAN TO GET

3:07:12 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

3:07:14 WE TALK ABOUT GENERATIONAL

3:07:17 WEALTH AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IN

3:07:18 THE.

3:07:19 BLACK COMMUNITY.

3:07:19 BUT IF BLACK WORLD WAR TWO

3:07:22 VETERANS.

3:07:22 HAD ACCESS TO.

3:07:24 A VA HOME LOAN, THEY COULD HAVE

3:07:27 BOUGHT A HOME.

3:07:29 LIKE OTHER WHITE WORLD.

3:07:30 WAR TWO VETERANS.

3:07:32 THAT'S THAT'S.

3:07:33 A GENERATION LOST

3:07:35 OF HOMEOWNERSHIP IN.

3:07:35 THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

3:07:38 THIS WOULD NOT NOT TOTALLY FIX

3:07:41 IT, BUT IT WOULD BE A SMALL WAY

3:07:44 TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BLACK

3:07:45 VETERANS PLAYED AN.

3:07:46 INCREDIBLE ROLE.

3:07:48 IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY

3:07:50 DEFENDING OUR NATION.

3:07:51 BUT GIVING THEIR CHIL CHILDREN

3:07:53 AND GRANDCHILDREN.

3:07:54 SOME OF THE BENEFITS THAT.

3:07:56 BLACK VETERANS DIDN'T RECEIVE

3:07:59 AND THEY SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED.

3:08:02 AND I THINK.

3:08:03 IT'S.

3:08:03 IMPORTANT, BILL, I DON'T KNOW

3:08:05 HOW MUCH.

3:08:07 SUPPORT THERE IS FOR IT.

3:08:08 I DO KNOW THAT CONGRESSWOMAN.

3:08:10 PRESSLEY IS IN SUPPORT OF.

3:08:11 THE THE PROPOSAL BECAUSE.

3:08:13 I.

3:08:14 TALKED TO HER ABOUT IT.

3:08:14 UM, IN PERSON.

3:08:16 BUT I.

3:08:17 THINK THIS IS JUST A SMALL WAY

3:08:21 TO RECOGNIZE.

3:08:21 BLACK VETERANS.

3:08:24 ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SERVICE,

3:08:25 ACKNOWLEDGE THE DISCRIMINATION.

3:08:26 THEY FELT THEY EXPERIENCED.

3:08:30 THEY CAN'T BENEFIT.

3:08:32 PERSONALLY BUT HOPEFULLY THEIR

3:08:35 GRANDCHILDREN.

3:08:35 UM.

3:08:36 WHICH ARE CHILDREN CAN

3:08:38 BENEFIT.

3:08:38 FROM IT.

3:08:39 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:08:41 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:08:45 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN

3:08:47 FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY.

3:08:48 FOR VETERANS.

3:08:49 I THINK THIS IS.

3:08:50 A PARTICULARLY.

3:08:51 IMPORTANT ISSUE.

3:08:52 UM, YOU SAID THAT THIS IS

3:08:55 CONTROVERSIAL.

3:08:55 IT SHOULD NOT BE

3:08:56 CONTROVERSIAL.

3:08:57 THE FACT IS THAT OUR BLACK

3:08:58 VETERANS UH, GUYS WHO.

3:09:00 SERVED IN WORLD WAR TWO.

3:09:02 WERE SYSTEMATICALLY

3:09:03 DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND WE'RE

3:09:05 STILL LIVING WITH THE

3:09:05 CONSEQUENCES OF THAT POLICY, UH

3:09:07 ,IN OUR.

3:09:08 NEIGHBORHOODS AND.

3:09:09 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR EVEN

3:09:10 TODAY.

3:09:10 SO, UH, I WILL.

3:09:12 CERTAINLY BE VOTING.

3:09:13 IN SUPPORT OF THIS, UH,

3:09:14 RESOLUTION.

3:09:17 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:09:18 NAME?

3:09:20 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:09:20 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:09:21 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

3:09:23 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

3:09:24 COUNCILOR MEJIA COMES FROM

3:09:25 MURPHY CONCHA.

3:09:25 PEPEN CONSCIOUS COMES.

3:09:27 FROM WEBER COUNCILOR.

3:09:29 MORAL AND PLEASE ARE THE CHAIR.

3:09:34 UM COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:09:34 SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

3:09:37 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1727.

3:09:39 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:09:41 ALL OPPOSED?

3:09:42 SAY NAY.

3:09:44 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:09:45 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:09:45 VOTE ON DOCKET 1727.

3:09:48 COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:09:50 YES.

3:09:50 COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:09:51 YES.

3:09:51 COUNCILOR COLON AS OPPOSED TO

3:09:54 COUNCILOR CULPA.

3:09:56 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

3:09:56 YES.

3:09:57 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:09:59 YES.

3:09:59 COUNCILOR.

3:09:59 FITZGERALD.

3:10:00 YES.

3:10:00 COUNCIL.

3:10:01 JUST SHOW.

3:10:01 YES.

3:10:01 COUNCILOR.

3:10:02 FLYNN.

3:10:02 YES.

3:10:03 COUNCILOR.

3:10:03 FLYNN.

3:10:03 YES.

3:10:04 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:10:06 YES, COUNCILOR.

3:10:07 MEJIA.

3:10:07 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

3:10:08 YES.

3:10:08 COUNCILOR.

3:10:09 MURPHY.

3:10:09 COUNCILOR.

3:10:10 MURPHY.

3:10:10 YES.

3:10:11 COUNCILOR.

3:10:11 PEN.

3:10:11 YES.

3:10:12 COUNCILOR.

3:10:13 PIN.

3:10:13 YES.

3:10:13 COUNCILOR.

3:10:14 SANTANA.

3:10:14 YES.

3:10:15 COUNCILOR.

3:10:15 SANTANA.

3:10:15 YES.

3:10:16 COUNCIL.

3:10:16 WEBER.

3:10:16 YES.

3:10:17 COUNCIL.

3:10:17 WEBER.

3:10:18 YES AND COUNCIL.

3:10:18 WORLD COUNCILOR ORAL.

3:10:20 YES.

3:10:21 SO I CAN HAVE A1727 AS RECEIVED

3:10:24 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:10:25 THANK YOU.

3:10:26 DOCKET 1727.

3:10:28 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:10:30 MR CHAIR, COULD.

3:10:30 YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 1728?

3:10:33 SO I CAN HAVE A1728.

3:10:35 COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR THE

3:10:36 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:10:38 RECOGNIZING APRIL 22ND AS.

3:10:41 ANY MOTTOES.

3:10:42 DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:10:45 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER

3:10:46 HERE COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR

3:10:48 .

3:10:49 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:10:52 UM AND IT'S JEANNIE MOTHER'S.

3:10:55 DAY THAT WE ARE, UM, HOPING TO

3:10:58 PASS.

3:10:59 UM, AND I'D LIKE TO ADD

3:11:01 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AN

3:11:02 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

3:11:04 COUNCILOR SANTANA SO ADDED.

3:11:08 SO JEANNIE MATOS WAS AN

3:11:11 INNOVATIVE YOUTH WORKER,

3:11:12 COMMUNITY LEADER AND A SOCIAL

3:11:13 JUSTICE WARRIOR.

3:11:16 SHE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS LADYBUGS

3:11:19 AND WAS AN INFLUENTIAL FORCE IN

3:11:22 BOSTON'S DANCE COMMUNITY AND

3:11:23 ARTS AND CREATIVE SECTOR AT

3:11:25 LARGE.

3:11:25 SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF JP, BUT

3:11:28 JEANNIE WAS MORE THAN JUST HER

3:11:30 ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

3:11:31 SHE WAS A LOVING AND ENERGETIC

3:11:33 PERSON WHO POURED INTO HER

3:11:35 FAMILY, FRIENDS, MENTEES AND

3:11:38 COMMUNITY.

3:11:40 I AM BLESSED TO HAVE HAD

3:11:42 JEANNIE IN MY LIFE AS A CLOSE

3:11:44 PERSONAL FRIEND AND HAD THE

3:11:46 PRIVILEGE OF KNOWING JEANNIE,

3:11:48 UM UNDERSTANDS THE IMPACT THAT

3:11:51 SHE HAD UM ON ALL OF US AROUND

3:11:55 HER.

3:11:59 UM, JEANNIE, UH, WORKED AT THE.

3:12:00 CRACK CENTER WHEN ANNALISE WAS

3:12:01 JUST TWO YEARS OLD.

3:12:04 UM, AND THEN LATER ON WAS THE

3:12:06 PERSON WHO GAVE MY DAUGHTER HER

3:12:08 .

3:12:08 FIRST JOB WHEN SHE WAS 14.

3:12:12 AND JEANNIE WAS JUST THAT

3:12:15 SOMEONE WHO WAS ALWAYS LOOKING

3:12:16 OUT FOR EVERYONE AT ALL TIMES.

3:12:19 JEANNIE WAS A VISIONARY LEADER

3:12:21 WHO CREATED TRANSFORMATIVE

3:12:22 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND

3:12:24 ART PROGRAMS, AND OUR OFFICE

3:12:27 PRESENTED JEANNIE WITH MULTIPLE

3:12:27 AWARDS.

3:12:28 FOR HER.

3:12:29 WORK AND INVESTMENT IN THE

3:12:30 CITY OF BOSTON AND ITS PEOPLE.

3:12:32 AND I AM GRATEFUL THAT WE GAVE

3:12:34 HER HER FLOWERS WHILE SHE WAS

3:12:35 STILL WITH US.

3:12:37 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS

3:12:40 COUNCILOR SANTANA AND OTHERS

3:12:42 CELEBRATED JEANNIE FOR HER

3:12:43 CONTRIBUTIONS.

3:12:44 SHE WAS ALSO A DEDICATED.

3:12:45 SHE WAS ALSO DEDICATED TO

3:12:46 SUPPORTING OUR UNHOUSED YOUTH,

3:12:49 AND WE HOPE TO SEE THE JEANNIE

3:12:52 BATTLES YOUTH HOUSE AND ITS

3:12:54 PROGRAMING COME TO LIFE IN

3:12:56 HONOR OF HER ADVOCACY AND LIFE

3:12:57 WORK.

3:13:00 JEANNIE WAS UM.

3:13:05 BORN ON EARTH.

3:13:06 DAY AND IT'S A DAY ABOUT

3:13:10 ADVOCACY AND MAKING THE WORLD A

3:13:11 BETTER PLACE WHICH SPEAKS TO

3:13:13 THE WAY JEANNIE LIVED HER LIFE

3:13:15 AND IT IS ONLY APPROPRIATE TO

3:13:17 HONOR HER LEGACY AND UPLIFT HER

3:13:19 LIFE'S MISSION OF SUPPORTING

3:13:20 OUR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BY

3:13:22 HONORING HER ON APRIL THE 22ND

3:13:25 EACH YEAR AND I HAVE HELD IT

3:13:30 TOGETHER.

3:13:31 UM.

3:13:34 AND I HAD JUST SPOKEN TO

3:13:36 HER.

3:13:38 SHE WAS REALLY EXCITED TO GO

3:13:39 BACK TO WORK AND UM MY OFFICE

3:13:47 HOSTED HER YOUNG PEOPLE.

3:13:49 UM I THINK I WAS ONE OF THE

3:13:51 FIRST AND ONLY OFFICERS TO SAY

3:13:53 YES WHEN SHE WANTED YOUNG

3:13:55 PEOPLE HERE AND I SAID

3:13:58 ABSOLUTELY.

3:14:01 AND WE WORKED IN COLLABORATION

3:14:03 ON A LOT OF PROJECTS TOGETHER.

3:14:08 AND UM UH.

3:14:14 WE JUST HAVE TO HOLD THE PEOPLE

3:14:15 THAT ARE NEAR US THAT WE LOVE

3:14:17 AND WHETHER WE LOVE THEM OR NOT

3:14:18 CLOSE TO US.

3:14:20 UM.

3:14:23 BECAUSE IT IS NOT EASY TO LOSE

3:14:26 A FRIEND, A COLLEAGUE AND

3:14:30 SOMEONE WHO GAVE SO MUCH

3:14:31 OF HERSELF TO THIS COMMUNITY.

3:14:33 SO I WANT TO THANK THE FLOOR

3:14:35 LORDS.

3:14:35 FOR SHOWING UP THE WAY THAT

3:14:37 THEY HAVE FOR HER AND MY

3:14:39 SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO HER

3:14:40 FAMILY.

3:14:45 UM THANK YOU.

3:14:47 THANK YOU.

3:14:48 COUNCILOR HERE.

3:14:49 CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

3:14:50 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:14:51 YOU HAVE.

3:14:51 THE FLOOR.

3:14:53 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:14:54 THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER

3:14:55 HERE, UM, FOR INCLUDING ME ON

3:14:58 THIS, UH, KNOW I'M DEEPLY

3:15:02 HEARTBROKEN, UM, TO HEAR OF THE

3:15:04 PASSING OF JEANNIE MATTOS

3:15:05 WORKING ALONGSIDE JEANNIE AS A

3:15:07 CITY COUNCILOR.

3:15:08 I SAW SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T JUST

3:15:10 ADVOCATE FOR OUR CITY'S YOUTH

3:15:11 FROM BEHIND A DESK.

3:15:13 SHE WAS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY

3:15:14 EVERY SINGLE DAY DOING THE REAL

3:15:16 WORK WITH AN OPEN HEART,

3:15:17 RELENTLESS ENERGY AND PURE

3:15:19 LOVE.

3:15:22 AS AN INAUGURAL MEMBER

3:15:23 OF SANTANA'S CAPE, AN

3:15:25 INCREDIBLE PILLAR AT MADISON

3:15:26 PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,

3:15:29 JEANNIE WAS A CLOSE,

3:15:30 IRREPLACEABLE PARTNER IN

3:15:31 SUPPORTING BOSTON'S YOUTH.

3:15:33 SHE WAS ESPECIALLY INSTRUMENTAL

3:15:35 WITH MY SANTANA'S YOUTH FOR US

3:15:38 MAKING SURE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

3:15:40 ALWAYS HAD A DEDICATED ADVOCATE

3:15:42 IN THEIR CORNER.

3:15:43 JEANNIE CONSISTENTLY SHOWED UP

3:15:45 FOR THEM.

3:15:45 SHE BELIEVED DEEPLY IN THEIR

3:15:47 POTENTIAL AND WORKED TIRELESSLY

3:15:49 TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAD A REAL

3:15:51 SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITIES TO

3:15:52 THRIVE.

3:15:54 WHAT MADE JEANNIE SO UNIQUE WAS

3:15:56 HOW EFFORTLESSLY SHE BROUGHT

3:15:58 PEOPLE TOGETHER.

3:15:59 SHE WAS AMAZING AT BREAKING THE

3:16:01 ICE.

3:16:02 WALKING INTO A SPACE WITH A

3:16:03 WARM, COMPLETELY NON-JUDGMENTAL

3:16:05 ENERGY AND MADE EVERY YOUNG

3:16:07 PERSON AND NEIGHBOR FEEL

3:16:08 INSTANTLY COMFORTABLE, HEARD

3:16:10 AND VALUED.

3:16:12 EVERYTHING SHE DID WAS DEEPLY

3:16:14 COMMUNITY CENTERED AND YOU

3:16:17 COULDN'T TALK ABOUT UNITY

3:16:18 WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT HER

3:16:19 VIBRANT SPIRIT, HER PASSION FOR

3:16:21 DANCE.

3:16:22 HER LIVELY NATURE AND THE SHEER

3:16:24 JOY SHE RADIATED IN EVERY SPACE

3:16:27 SHE ENTERED.

3:16:28 SHE SHOWED OUR YOUTH THAT

3:16:30 COMMUNITY WORK ISN'T JUST ABOUT

3:16:31 FIGHTING FOR RESOURCES IT'S

3:16:33 ABOUT BRINGING YOUR FULL

3:16:35 AUTHENTIC SELF, CELEBRATING

3:16:37 WHERE YOU COME FROM AND LIFTING

3:16:39 UP EACH OTHER UP WITH JOY.

3:16:42 UM MY DEEPEST PRAYERS AND

3:16:44 CONDOLENCES ARE WITH THE UNION

3:16:45 FAMILIES AND HER LOVED ONES AND

3:16:46 ALL WHO KNEW HER.

3:16:48 UM HER LEGACY LIVES ON AND

3:16:50 EVERY YOUTH THAT SHE LIFTED UP.

3:16:53 UM, AND THIS IS WHERE THIS ONE

3:16:57 JUST REALLY CLOSE TO ME AND

3:16:58 JUST BECAUSE IF YOU KNEW IF YOU

3:17:00 HAD THE HONOR OF KNOWING

3:17:02 JEANNIE JUST SHE WAS JUST AN

3:17:04 AMAZING, AMAZING, UM, SPIRIT.

3:17:07 UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE HAD

3:17:09 MULTIPLE OF HER YOUTH WORKING

3:17:10 IN OUR OFFICE.

3:17:11 SHE SHOWED UP FOR THEM LIKE NO

3:17:14 ONE EVER DID.

3:17:15 UM, AND POSSIBLY A LOSS OF REAL

3:17:18 ONE HERE AND, UM, SHE YOU KNOW

3:17:21 ,I THINK AS COUNCIL MEMBERS I

3:17:23 THINK THERE'S IN THE FUTURE I

3:17:25 THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A

3:17:26 CENTER.

3:17:26 THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING FOR

3:17:27 THE WORK THAT SHE'S DONE.

3:17:28 UM, BECAUSE, UH, SHE'S BEEN

3:17:31 IMPACTED SO SO MANY, UM,

3:17:33 PARTICULARLY OF OUR YOUTH HERE.

3:17:35 SO, UM, MY OFFICE SENDS, UM OUR

3:17:38 DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO, UM, HER

3:17:40 LOVED ONES, HER FAMILIES AND

3:17:41 EVERYONE, UM, WHO KNEW HER.

3:17:42 THANK YOU.

3:17:45 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:17:46 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:17:47 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:17:48 THANK YOU.

3:17:49 I JUST WANT TO THANK

3:17:49 COUNCILORS.

3:17:50 MCGEE AND SANTANA FOR FILING

3:17:51 THIS.

3:17:52 I THINK THEY BOTH CAPTURED IT

3:17:53 WELL, JEANNIE WAS SUCH A LIGHT

3:17:54 .

3:17:55 I DON'T THINK I EVER SAW HER

3:17:56 NOT SMILING AND NOT DEEPLY

3:17:58 ROOTED IN TRYING TO CONNECT.

3:18:01 PEOPLE.

3:18:01 ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE TO

3:18:03 OPPORTUNITY.

3:18:03 UM, MY ENTIRE OFFICE WE WERE

3:18:06 DEVASTATED.

3:18:06 BECAUSE WE.

3:18:07 JUST REMEMBER ALWAYS

3:18:08 EMAILING AND TEXTING AND SAYING

3:18:10 MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE SHOWING

3:18:11 UP, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE

3:18:12 SHOWING UP FOR MARSDEN PARK

3:18:13 YOUTH AND I ALWAYS REMEMBER

3:18:15 ACTUALLY I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SHE

3:18:16 WAS.

3:18:17 BORN ON EARTH DAY.

3:18:18 UM BUT MY VIVID MEMORIES OF HER

3:18:20 FROM WAKE UP ARE A FESTIVAL

3:18:21 ACTUALLY OF HER DANCING FOR US

3:18:24 DANCING AND FOR.

3:18:25 SENDING.

3:18:25 PICTURES OF ME DANCING.

3:18:27 UM AND UH, IT'S IT'S IT'S A

3:18:31 LOSS AND IT'S A LOSS FOR THE

3:18:32 CITY AND IT'S A LOSS FOR THE

3:18:33 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY.

3:18:34 AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY

3:18:35 PEOPLE WHO ARE MOURNING.

3:18:37 SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE MY

3:18:38 CONDOLENCES CONTINUE TO CRONOS

3:18:39 AS HER SON AND TO HER FAMILY,

3:18:41 TO ALL.

3:18:42 OF THOSE WHO LOST HER LIFE.

3:18:43 THANK YOU.

3:18:46 COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

3:18:47 UM COUNCILMEMBER HERE AND

3:18:49 COUNCILOR SANTANA

3:18:51 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE WOULD.

3:18:52 ANYONE LIKE TO.

3:18:52 ADD.

3:18:53 THEIR NAME?

3:18:54 CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

3:18:55 DURKAN COUNCILOR.

3:18:56 FITZGERALD.

3:18:56 COUNCILOR.

3:18:57 UH, COUNCILOR.

3:18:58 FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

3:18:59 LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

3:19:00 MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

3:19:01 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

3:19:03 WEBER CULTURAL.

3:19:04 AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

3:19:07 COUNSELORS.

3:19:08 UH MEJIA AND SANTANA SEEKS

3:19:10 SUSPENSION.

3:19:11 THROUGH THE ADOPTION OF DOCKET

3:19:14 1728.

3:19:14 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.

3:19:17 LIKE, UH, THANK THANK YOU,

3:19:19 DOCKET ONE.

3:19:20 UH, ALL ALL OPPOSED.

3:19:22 SAY NAY.

3:19:23 THANK YOU.

3:19:24 DOCKET ONE 7.

3:19:25 TO 8.

3:19:25 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:19:28 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:19:29 READ.

3:19:30 1729 DUNCAN NUMBER 1729

3:19:33 COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE AND MAY

3:19:34 HEAR OF THE FOLLOWING

3:19:36 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

3:19:38 SEPTEMBER 2026 AS SUICIDE

3:19:40 PREVENTION MONTH IN BOSTON.

3:19:42 THANK YOU.

3:19:43 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:19:45 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

3:19:45 THE FLOOR.

3:19:46 THANK YOU.

3:19:46 UH, MADAM CHAIR, CAN I PLEASE

3:19:48 ADD COUNCILOR DURKAN AS A THIRD

3:19:49 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?

3:19:51 SEEING AND HEARING NO.

3:19:52 OBJECTIONS CONSIDER GOING TO SO

3:19:53 I.

3:19:54 THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO SEEK

3:19:55 SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

3:19:57 RESOLUTION.

3:19:57 UM.

3:19:58 SEPTEMBER IS WHEN WE

3:20:00 RECOGNIZE SUICIDE PREVENTION

3:20:02 MONTH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON UM,

3:20:04 AND AROUND THE COUNTRY.

3:20:06 UM, AND WHILE IT'S, UM, A

3:20:08 DIFFICULT TOPIC, IT'S A

3:20:10 NECESSARY ONE FOR US TO

3:20:11 CONTINUE TO RAISE AWARENESS SO

3:20:13 THAT.

3:20:14 FEWER PEOPLE WILL DIE BY

3:20:17 SUICIDE.

3:20:17 UM, I BELIEVE IN 2024 THERE ARE

3:20:21 49,000 PEOPLE ACROSS THE

3:20:23 COUNTRY WHO DIE BY SUICIDE.

3:20:24 AND IT'S AN ISSUE THAT WE

3:20:25 CONTINUE TO, UH, GRAPPLE WITH

3:20:28 AS, UH, ISOLATION INCREASES AS

3:20:31 LONELINESS INCREASES AS THE THE

3:20:33 ILLS OF SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASE.

3:20:35 AND SO.

3:20:36 UM.

3:20:37 I ALWAYS THINK IT'S

3:20:38 IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE

3:20:39 AND TO SHARE RESOURCES TODAY

3:20:42 THIS THIS YEAR SEPTEMBER THE

3:20:45 DAY BEFORE ON AUGUST 31ST, UH,

3:20:49 A YOUNG HAITIAN MAN 20 YEARS

3:20:52 OLD WHO WAS IN HIS LOCAL JROTC

3:20:55 PROGRAM WHO WANTED TO BECOME A

3:20:57 NEUROSURGEON WHO HAD GRADUATED

3:20:59 HIGH SCHOOL WITH FLYING COLORS

3:21:00 ,WHO WANTED TO DO EVERYTHING

3:21:02 TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COUNTRY.

3:21:04 UM.

3:21:05 ON AUGUST 31ST, THE DAY

3:21:06 BEFORE A SUICIDE PREVENTION

3:21:08 MONTH, HE THREW HIMSELF IN

3:21:09 FRONT.

3:21:09 OF A.

3:21:10 TRUCK UM.

3:21:12 BECAUSE HE HAD LOST HIS

3:21:13 IMMIGRATION STATUS AND WAS NOT

3:21:16 ABLE TO ENROLL IN CLASSES AND

3:21:18 HE DID IT KNOW WHAT HE WOULD

3:21:20 DO.

3:21:21 POLICY CHOICES THAT WE MAKE

3:21:23 LEAD TO PEOPLE MAKING

3:21:25 UNFORTUNATE DECISIONS.

3:21:27 AND MY HEART IS WITH HIM AND

3:21:29 HIS FAMILY.

3:21:29 HIS NAME IS PIERRE THOMAS BELL

3:21:31 AND MAY HIS LIFE NOT BE IN VAIN

3:21:33 .

3:21:34 LAST WEEK A MOTHER IN ANOTHER

3:21:37 MIDWESTERN STATE UM PIERRE

3:21:39 THOMAS BALL WAS IN SPRINGFIELD,

3:21:42 OHIO.

3:21:43 UM UH LOCATION WHERE THE THIS

3:21:45 PRESIDENT HAS BLASTED OUT LIES

3:21:47 AND RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC

3:21:49 TROPES AGAINST THE HAITIAN

3:21:50 COMMUNITY THERE.

3:21:51 LAST WEEK ANOTHER WOMAN IN UM,

3:21:54 A MIDWESTERN STATE DRANK

3:21:56 BLEACH.

3:21:56 SHE WAS PREGNANT FOR THE VERY

3:21:58 SAME REASON SHE HAD LOST HER

3:21:59 IMMIGRATION STATUS AND DIDN'T

3:22:00 KNOW WHAT SHE WOULD DO.

3:22:02 THESE ARE VERY REAL.

3:22:04 UM.

3:22:05 IMPACTS OF POLICY WHEN WE

3:22:07 SHOULD BE DOING EVERYTHING WE

3:22:08 CAN TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH THE

3:22:09 MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES THEY

3:22:10 NEED.

3:22:11 I GET TEXTS AND CALLS FROM

3:22:13 PEOPLE HERE IN BOSTON WHO TELL

3:22:15 ME THAT THEY ARE THINKING

3:22:16 ABOUT.

3:22:17 ANALYZING THEMSELVES AND THEIR

3:22:19 CHILDREN ARE REALLY STRUGGLING

3:22:20 FOR THIS VERY REASON.

3:22:22 ALL OF THIS IS INTERCONNECTED

3:22:24 AND WE KNOW THAT THAT.

3:22:26 UM.

3:22:27 MENTAL HEALTH IS IS IS AN

3:22:30 ISSUE AND THERE'S LESS

3:22:31 RESOURCES IN COMMUNITIES

3:22:33 OF COLOR IN COMMUNITIES THAT

3:22:34 HAVE BEEN MARGINALIZED AND

3:22:35 EXCLUDED.

3:22:36 AND IT'S UP TO US TO RAISE

3:22:39 AWARENESS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:22:40 PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO THERAPY.

3:22:41 YOUTH CONNECT WITH ME THIS

3:22:43 MORNING IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT

3:22:43 THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE

3:22:44 IMPORTANCE OF THERAPY.

3:22:45 I'M SORRY, I'M JUST GOING TO GO

3:22:46 OVER A LITTLE BIT MORE BECAUSE

3:22:47 THIS IS UM I WANT TO MAKE SURE

3:22:49 THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE RESOURCES

3:22:50 THEY NEED.

3:22:52 UM THERE ARE SO MANY RESOURCES

3:22:53 IN THE CITY.

3:22:54 I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT

3:22:55 THERE IS YOU CAN CALL OR TEXT

3:22:56 988 THE SUICIDE AND CRISIS

3:22:59 LIFELINE OR YOU CAN CALL THE

3:23:01 MASSACHUSETTS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

3:23:02 HELPLINE.

3:23:05 (833) 773-2445 OR SAMARITANS.

3:23:10 1-877-870-4673.

3:23:11 THERE'S ALSO A VETERANS CRISIS

3:23:12 LINE.

3:23:12 IF YOU DIAL 988 THEN PRESS ONE

3:23:15 OR TEXT 838255 THIS PAST FRIDAY

3:23:18 AT STAND DOWN.

3:23:19 UM THAT THE CITY HOLDS ANNUALLY

3:23:22 THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND THE

3:23:23 NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR VETERANS

3:23:24 TALKED ABOUT HOW EVERY DAY

3:23:26 ABOUT 1617 VETERANS.

3:23:29 UM AN ALIVE THEMSELVES AND DIE

3:23:32 BY SUICIDE.

3:23:33 WE NEED TO BE MEETING PEOPLE

3:23:34 WHERE THEY ARE AND RELEASING

3:23:36 THE STIGMA AND THE SHAME THAT

3:23:37 IS THAT IS ATTACHED WITH

3:23:39 TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND

3:23:41 MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE

3:23:42 UNDERSTAND THAT JUST AS MUCH AS

3:23:44 YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH IS

3:23:45 IMPORTANT, YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

3:23:46 IS AS WELL.

3:23:47 UM IF WE HAD MEDICARE FOR ALL

3:23:49 IT WOULD MAKE IT MUCH MORE

3:23:50 ACCESSIBLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

3:23:51 AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE

3:23:53 SURE THAT WE ARE NOT

3:23:54 COMMEMORATING THE SUMMER WHEN

3:23:55 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL

3:23:56 HEALTH SO THAT PEOPLE HAVE

3:23:57 ACCESS TO RESOURCES.

3:23:58 UM, I WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT

3:24:01 OUT TO.

3:24:01 UM.

3:24:02 MY CHIEF OF STAFF, HER

3:24:03 FATHER LARRY POSTON, WHO WAS

3:24:05 WITH THIS THIS PAST WEEKEND

3:24:06 WHO.

3:24:06 UM.

3:24:07 SERVED IN VIETNAM AS A NAVY

3:24:09 VETERAN AND TALKED ABOUT HOW

3:24:12 HARD COMING HOME AND HOW HARD

3:24:15 BOTH HOME AND HIS GRANDFATHER

3:24:18 UM, HOW THEY STRUGGLED DEEPLY

3:24:20 WITH THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND

3:24:21 WITHOUT THE SERVICES THAT

3:24:22 RECEIVED AT THE VA THEY DON'T

3:24:24 THINK THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN

3:24:25 HERE.

3:24:25 AND SO I'M I REALLY.

3:24:29 UM AM REALLY WORRIED RIGHT NOW

3:24:33 ABOUT THE NUMBER OF COMMUNITIES

3:24:35 AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO

3:24:37 ARE STRUGGLING.

3:24:38 UM.

3:24:39 AND MAY WE DO EVERYTHING WE

3:24:40 CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE

3:24:42 THE RESOURCES AND KNOW THAT

3:24:43 THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND KNOW

3:24:44 THAT IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING IF

3:24:46 YOU NEED HELP, KNOW THAT

3:24:47 THEY'RE YOU ARE LOVED AND THAT

3:24:49 THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE.

3:24:51 UM WHO.

3:24:51 WILL HOLD YOUR HAND SO THAT

3:24:53 YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER DAY.

3:24:53 THANK YOU AND I APOLOGIZE FOR.

3:24:55 GOING OVER TIME.

3:24:55 THERE'S NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE.

3:24:57 THIS IS A REALLY, REALLY

3:24:58 IMPORTANT AND CONVERSATION THAT

3:25:01 WE NEED TO HAVE.

3:25:02 UH.

3:25:03 CONCERN UH, COUNSELOR SECOND

3:25:04 CO-SPONSOR CONSUMER HERE.

3:25:06 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:25:07 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:25:09 AND I WANT TO THANK COUNSELOR

3:25:10 LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING ME TO THIS

3:25:12 RESOLUTION.

3:25:13 UM, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO

3:25:15 RECOGNIZE SUICIDE PREVENTION

3:25:17 MONTH TO ADVANCE EDUCATION

3:25:18 ABOUT THE WARNING SIGNS, REDUCE

3:25:20 THE STIGMA, UPLIFT

3:25:22 ORGANIZATIONS AND THE RESOURCES

3:25:23 THAT ARE AVAILABLE AND

3:25:24 REASSURING PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE

3:25:26 NOT ALONE AND ENCOURAGING THEM

3:25:27 TO SEEK SUPPORT.

3:25:28 YOU KNOW, MY GRANDFATHER DIED

3:25:32 BY SUICIDE.

3:25:33 MY COUSIN WHO WAS A VETERAN

3:25:35 DIED BY SUICIDE.

3:25:37 UM.

3:25:38 I'VE WORKED WITH YOUNG

3:25:39 PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED BY

3:25:41 SUICIDE.

3:25:42 I MYSELF AM A SUICIDE ATTEMPT

3:25:44 SURVIVOR.

3:25:46 SO, UM, YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

3:25:49 WHAT PEOPLE ARE CARRYING.

3:25:51 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE

3:25:52 OF THE REASONS WHY I THINK NOW

3:25:53 MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO START

3:25:56 REALLY BEING MORE COMPASSIONATE

3:25:57 AND CARING.

3:25:59 FULL STOP PERIOD.

3:26:01 AND NOT JUST IN THE WORKPLACE

3:26:03 BUT OUR CHILDREN NEED TO BE A

3:26:06 LITTLE BIT MORE, UM,

3:26:08 EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT WHEN

3:26:10 INTERACTING WITH.

3:26:11 THEIR PEERS.

3:26:13 UM.

3:26:13 YOU'VE SEEN THINGS ON SOCIAL

3:26:15 MEDIA AND THEN JUST THE RIPPLE

3:26:16 EFFECT THAT IT HAS ON YOUNG

3:26:18 PEOPLE AND I JUST THINK THAT AS

3:26:21 A MOTHER TO A 16 YEAR.

3:26:23 OLD.

3:26:24 UM.

3:26:25 I DEEPLY CARE ABOUT MAKING

3:26:26 SURE THAT I DON'T PASS ON

3:26:28 UNTREATED TRAUMA TO MY

3:26:30 DAUGHTER.

3:26:30 UM, AND SO I'M TRYING TO LEAD

3:26:32 BY EXAMPLE AND I THINK THAT ONE

3:26:34 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS

3:26:35 THAT WE CAN DO IS TO

3:26:37 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S OKAY TO

3:26:38 NOT BE OKAY.

3:26:40 I THINK ESPECIALLY IN

3:26:41 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND PEOPLE

3:26:42 WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN POVERTY,

3:26:43 WE HAVE THIS MENTALITY THAT WE

3:26:45 CAN JUST KEEP ON KEEPING ON BUT

3:26:47 IT'S JUST NOT UM, EASY TO DO SO

3:26:50 AND SO PEOPLE ARE OFTENTIMES

3:26:52 SUFFERING IN FEAR AND IN

3:26:55 ISOLATION AND.

3:26:58 UM AND SOMETIMES DISAPPEARING

3:27:00 FROM OUR LIVES.

3:27:01 AND SO SUICIDE AWARENESS IS

3:27:04 PART OF THE THE EQUATION HERE

3:27:07 AND I THINK YOU KNOW, I'LL BE

3:27:09 QUICK.

3:27:09 GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ONLY GOT

3:27:10 ONE MORE.

3:27:11 SECOND SPOT.

3:27:12 UM.

3:27:13 A POINT OF PRIVILEGE.

3:27:14 I'M GOING TO TAKE A FEW MORE

3:27:15 SECONDS.

3:27:16 JUST TO.

3:27:16 SHARE THIS, UM, COUNSELOR.

3:27:18 UM, IS THAT YOU KNOW, WHEN I

3:27:23 HAD MY OWN ATTEMPTS, MY MOTHER

3:27:26 WHO WAS UNDOCUMENTED AT THE

3:27:27 TIME, UH, DID NOT TAKE ME TO

3:27:30 THE HOSPITAL.

3:27:31 AND I OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE

3:27:32 STORY THAT I GREW UP BELIEVING

3:27:34 THAT MY MOM DID NOT LOVE ME BUT

3:27:36 MY MOM DID LOVE ME.

3:27:37 SHE WAS JUST AFRAID OF LOSING

3:27:39 ME TO THE SYSTEM.

3:27:42 AND SO IT WASN'T UNTIL 2016

3:27:44 THAT I REALIZED THAT POINT THAT

3:27:47 MY MOM LOVED ME SO MUCH THAT

3:27:50 SHE NEVER TOOK ME TO THE

3:27:51 HOSPITAL.

3:27:51 OR.

3:27:52 EVER REPORTED MY ATTEMPT

3:27:53 BECAUSE SHE DID NOT WANT TO

3:27:54 LOSE ME.

3:27:55 AND SO WHEN COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE

3:27:57 TALKS ABOUT THE STIGMA, THE

3:27:58 STIGMA IS REAL.

3:28:00 AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

3:28:02 FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THAT AND I

3:28:04 WANT TO THANK

3:28:05 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

3:28:06 UPLIFTING THE MANY WAYS THAT WE

3:28:08 CAN SUPPORT PEOPLE.

3:28:09 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:28:10 THANK YOU.

3:28:11 COACH MCKEE.

3:28:12 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:28:13 COUNCILOR DURKAN AND THEN WE'LL

3:28:14 GO TO COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:28:15 THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

3:28:17 UM, THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES

3:28:18 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND MEJIA

3:28:20 FOR FILING THIS RESOLUTION AND

3:28:21 ADDING THESE CO-SPONSOR.

3:28:22 THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT

3:28:24 CONVERSATION AND SUICIDE IS

3:28:26 COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE.

3:28:27 ONE IS TOO.

3:28:28 MANY AND ALL OF US HAVE KNOWN

3:28:31 SOMEONE WHO HAS DIED BY

3:28:32 SUICIDE.

3:28:32 IT'S INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT AND

3:28:35 IT CAN BE VERY PERSONAL AND SO

3:28:37 CHALLENGING.

3:28:38 UM BUT THE NEED TO CONTINUE TO

3:28:40 HAVING HAVING THESE

3:28:41 CONVERSATIONS TO RAISE

3:28:42 AWARENESS IS SO IMPORTANT.

3:28:44 WE NEED TO REDUCE STIGMA AND WE

3:28:45 NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN

3:28:47 BETTER SUPPORT EACH OTHER.

3:28:48 AS A CITY WE ALSO MUST BE

3:28:50 CONSIDERATE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

3:28:51 WE USE WHILE DOING SO.

3:28:53 SUICIDE IS SO COMPLEX AND IT

3:28:55 CAN AFFECT ANYONE BUT CERTAIN

3:28:57 COMMUNITIES FACE MORE RISK IN

3:28:58 CARING INCLUDING YOUTH AND

3:28:59 VETERANS, LGBTQ PEOPLE UM,

3:29:03 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, PEOPLE

3:29:04 OF COLOR AND THOSE IN

3:29:06 RECOVERY AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE

3:29:07 BEEN INCARCERATED.

3:29:08 UM AND IT'S NOT LOST ON ME THAT

3:29:10 WITH ENOUGH MONEY, WITH ENOUGH

3:29:12 HOUSING UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO

3:29:16 FIND THEMSELVES AT THE WIT'S

3:29:17 END UM, COULD BE SOLVED BY

3:29:19 GOVERNMENT STEPPING UP AND UH

3:29:22 AND CREATING A SITUATION WHERE

3:29:24 THEY ARE HOUSING SECURE.

3:29:26 UM, I WE TALK ABOUT IT IN MY

3:29:28 OFFICE A LOT.

3:29:29 A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WE HEAR

3:29:30 FROM IN OUR OFFICES ARE DEEPLY

3:29:31 DEALING AND STRUGGLING WITH

3:29:33 MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

3:29:34 UM, AND, UM, WE NEED TO

3:29:37 ADVOCATE FOR ADEQUATE

3:29:39 RESOURCES.

3:29:39 AS A CITY, WE NEED TO CONTINUE

3:29:40 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO

3:29:41 CONNECT RESIDENTS WITH MENTAL

3:29:42 HEALTH, SUICIDE PREVENTION AND

3:29:45 CRISIS RESPONSE PROGRAMS.

3:29:46 I'M PROUD TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES

3:29:48 UM, TODAY.

3:29:49 UM, TO THOSE WITH SUICIDAL

3:29:52 IDEATIONS.

3:29:52 HANG ON.

3:29:54 WE LOVE YOU.

3:29:54 BRIGHTER TIMES ARE AHEAD.

3:29:56 UM, I KNOW FROM, UM, MY FAMILY

3:29:59 MEMBER WHO IS IN RECOVERY, UH,

3:30:01 THAT A LOT OF THE SYSTEMS HAVE

3:30:04 FAILED EACH OTHER AND IT'S THAT

3:30:06 PERSON WHO PICKS UP THE PHONE

3:30:07 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

3:30:09 UM, NOT WITH ANY FORM OVERALL.

3:30:12 MAYBE AS AN AA SPONSOR, MAYBE

3:30:13 AS SOMEONE WHO UM AND SO, UM, I

3:30:17 WANT TO THANK THOSE WHO STEP UP

3:30:18 FOR THEIR COMMUNITY MEMBERS

3:30:19 WHETHER THEY HAVE A FORMAL ROLE

3:30:21 OR NOT.

3:30:21 AND I THINK AS A CITY WE

3:30:23 ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO MORE UM,

3:30:25 TO MAKE SURE THAT MENTAL HEALTH

3:30:27 RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL.

3:30:28 I KNOW ONE OF MY FIRST HEARING

3:30:29 ORDERS WAS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

3:30:31 FOR CITY WORKERS.

3:30:32 SO MANY OF OUR CITY WORKERS

3:30:34 HAVE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON

3:30:35 THEM.

3:30:36 THEY'RE DOING SO MUCH FOR OUR

3:30:37 CITY.

3:30:37 THEY'RE AND THEY'RE YOU KNOW,

3:30:39 THEY'RE STRUGGLING.

3:30:40 THEY'RE UM THEY'RE LIFTING

3:30:41 THEIR FAMILIES UP.

3:30:42 THEY'RE WORKING AT NIGHT.

3:30:43 UM, THEY'RE WORKING LONG

3:30:45 SHIFTS.

3:30:45 UM, THEY'RE WORKING OVERTIME

3:30:47 AND WE DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE ALWAYS

3:30:49 THE STRESS THAT WE PUT CITY

3:30:50 WORKERS UNDER.

3:30:51 AND SO, UM, I'VE ADVOCATED FOR

3:30:54 MORE AT EAP RESOURCES AND I

3:30:56 KNOW THAT THAT CONTINUES TO BE

3:30:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CITY

3:30:59 COUNCIL, UH, CAN UNITE ON.

3:31:01 UM, BUT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT I

3:31:03 KNOW EVERY SINGLE CITY

3:31:04 COUNCILOR CARES ABOUT AND

3:31:05 THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S SO

3:31:06 IMPORTANT THAT WE RAISE

3:31:07 AWARENESS HERE AND THAT WE WORK

3:31:09 TOGETHER ACROSS ANY POLITICAL

3:31:11 BOUNDARIES THERE MAY BE BECAUSE

3:31:12 THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE.

3:31:14 IT'S ONE OF THE PEOPLE

3:31:15 OF BOSTON.

3:31:16 IT'S ONE OF OUR NATION.

3:31:17 AND UM AND I'M GRATEFUL TO MY

3:31:19 COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS

3:31:20 FORWARD.

3:31:21 THANK YOU.

3:31:22 CONSIDER CO-CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:31:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

3:31:24 HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:31:26 THANK YOU.

3:31:27 MADAM CHAIR.

3:31:27 AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES

3:31:28 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

3:31:30 IT'S AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION

3:31:32 AND SUPPORT AND RESOLUTION.

3:31:34 AND WHAT.

3:31:37 I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IS THE

3:31:39 NUMBER OF VETERANS THAT DIE BY

3:31:43 SUICIDE EVERY DAY.

3:31:46 AT ONE TIME IT WAS ALMOST CLOSE

3:31:48 TO 30.

3:31:49 A DAY.

3:31:50 NOW IT'S JUST UNDER 120 MAYBE

3:31:52 17, MAYBE 18.

3:31:55 UM BUT THAT'S WHY.

3:31:57 CRITICAL ACCESS TO MENTAL.

3:32:00 HEALTH COUNSELING IS SO

3:32:02 IMPORTANT NOT JUST FOR.

3:32:03 VETERANS AND FOR MILITARY

3:32:05 FAMILIES.

3:32:07 BUT BUT FOR EVERYBODY.

3:32:08 AS WELL.

3:32:10 WE ON THIS BODY OFTEN ADVOCATE

3:32:12 FOR MORE SERVICES.

3:32:14 FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY

3:32:16 FAMILIES.

3:32:17 BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE

3:32:20 ADVOCATE FOR THEM SO THAT THEY

3:32:21 HAVE THE RIGHT RESOURCES, THE

3:32:24 RIGHT PROGRAMS, THE RIGHT

3:32:26 MENTAL HEALTH.

3:32:27 COUNSELING AT THE RIGHT TIME.

3:32:28 WE ALSO HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

3:32:29 THAT THERE'S A HIGH PERCENTAGE

3:32:34 OF WOMEN VETERANS THAT ALSO DIE

3:32:37 BY SUICIDE.

3:32:38 WOMEN VETERANS HAVE.

3:32:40 UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT MEDICAL

3:32:43 AND MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES

3:32:45 THAN THAN MALE VETERANS.

3:32:49 AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IT'S

3:32:51 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO.

3:32:53 RESPECT WOMEN VETERANS BUT ALSO

3:32:55 TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THE

3:32:57 THE RIGHT MENTAL HEALTH.

3:32:58 COUNSELING SUPPORT.

3:33:00 IN MEDICAL SERVICES, INCLUDING.

3:33:03 MORE WOMEN WORKING IN THE IN

3:33:06 THE VETERANS AFFAIRS IN THE

3:33:08 MEDICAL COMMUNITY, UH,

3:33:10 PROVIDING MENTAL HEALTH

3:33:11 COUNSELING.

3:33:12 SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'M I'VE

3:33:14 DEDICATED MY.

3:33:15 LIFE TO IS.

3:33:16 ENSURING THAT OUR.

3:33:17 RETURNING VETERANS HAVE ACCESS

3:33:19 TO THESE CRITICAL SERVICES

3:33:21 BECAUSE WE KNOW WE HAVE A

3:33:23 CRISIS.

3:33:23 ON OUR HANDS WITH VETERANS THAT

3:33:27 DIE BY SUICIDE.

3:33:28 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:33:30 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:33:31 WOULD ANYONE.

3:33:32 LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

3:33:34 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:33:36 UM.

3:33:37 CUTTER FLYNN.

3:33:37 UH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:33:41 UH COUNCILOR MURPHY CONTRA

3:33:42 PEPEN.

3:33:43 CONSCIOUS AND.

3:33:43 TOWN OF CULTURE.

3:33:44 WEBER CULTURAL REALM.

3:33:45 AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

3:33:48 COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE MAYOR.

3:33:50 AND DURKAN.

3:33:50 SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:33:52 ADOPTION.

3:33:52 OF DOCKET 1729.

3:33:54 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:33:55 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:33:59 UH.

3:33:59 THANK YOU.

3:34:01 DOCKET 1729 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:34:04 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:34:05 TAKE, UH COULD YOU PLEASE READ

3:34:07 DOCKET 1730.

3:34:09 SO I CAN HAVE A1730 COUNCIL?

3:34:11 I'M HERE FOR THE FOLLOWING

3:34:13 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

3:34:15 SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2026 AS BLACK

3:34:18 JOY DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:34:20 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL MEMBER

3:34:22 HERE.

3:34:22 COUNCIL.

3:34:22 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:34:24 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:34:26 UM, AND OUR OFFICE OFFICIALLY

3:34:29 RECOGNIZED BLACK JOY DAY IN

3:34:30 BOSTON IN 2020 UNDER THE

3:34:31 LEADERSHIP OF THADDEUS MILES.

3:34:33 UM, AND THIS DAY RECOGNIZES

3:34:35 BLACK JOY AS AN IMPORTANT FORM

3:34:36 OF HEALING AND CREATING SPACE

3:34:38 TO HONOR THE EXPERIENCES

3:34:39 OF BLACK BOSTONIANS.

3:34:41 UM, AND IT'S ALSO A CHANCE TO

3:34:44 REFLECT ON BOSTON'S PROGRESS IN

3:34:46 THE WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE, UM

3:34:47 ,TO BUILD A CITY WHERE

3:34:49 EVERYONE CAN THRIVE.

3:34:51 THIS RESOLUTION AND THE WORK AS

3:34:52 I MENTIONED, WAS INSPIRED BY

3:34:54 THADDEUS, UM, AND OTHER BLACK

3:34:56 LEADERS ACROSS THE CITY.

3:34:57 UH, JUST TO HAVE FUN, UH, DOING

3:34:59 THE WORK.

3:35:00 AND.

3:35:00 UPLIFTING.

3:35:01 UH, THE STRENGTH AND POWER

3:35:02 OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE

3:35:03 TIME STIRRING OF CIVIL UNREST.

3:35:05 YOU KNOW COVID.

3:35:07 UM, THE GEORGE FLOYD THERE WAS

3:35:09 JUST A LOT HAPPENING AT THE

3:35:11 TIME WHEN, UH, THADDEUS CAME UP

3:35:13 WITH THIS WHOLE CONCEPT.

3:35:14 AND BLACK JOY IS A DYNAMIC

3:35:16 MOVEMENT AND IT SERVES AS AN

3:35:18 ACT OF RESISTANCE.

3:35:19 THE MOVEMENT ALSO INCLUDES.

3:35:22 TRANSFORMATIVE INITIATIVES

3:35:23 INCLUDING SELF-CARE.

3:35:25 THE SPIRIT.

3:35:26 OF COMMUNITY.

3:35:27 EXPLORATION, UM, AND WELL-BEING

3:35:29 .

3:35:29 THE ROAD OF WELLNESS UH

3:35:31 CHAMPIONS UH A DIVERSE UH

3:35:33 JOURNEY TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH

3:35:35 UH, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL

3:35:37 WELL-BEING.

3:35:37 BLACK JOY ALSO ACKNOWLEDGES

3:35:39 BLACK INNOVATORS IN FIELDS THAT

3:35:40 ARE DOMINATED BY NON POC

3:35:43 INDIVIDUALS.

3:35:44 UM WITH BLACK JOY DAY WE

3:35:46 CELEBRATE UH THE RESILIENCE,

3:35:49 EMPOWERMENT AND JOY AND UNITY

3:35:51 OF GREATNESS.

3:35:51 I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE

3:35:52 WHO HAS BEEN PARTICIPATING IN

3:35:55 ALL THINGS THAT DEAL WITH BLACK

3:35:56 JOY.

3:35:58 AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO

3:35:59 ACKNOWLEDGE REALLY QUICK, UM,

3:36:01 DOCTOR GAIL CRUM SLABY, UH, WHO

3:36:04 MY OFFICE HAS BEEN IN

3:36:05 PARTNERSHIP WITH SINCE UM COVID

3:36:08 AND THROUGH.

3:36:09 HER WORK.

3:36:10 WE HAVE NOW TWO PROGRAMS

3:36:11 RUNNING OUT OF EPS.

3:36:13 ONE IS AT MADISON AND THE OTHER

3:36:16 IS UM IT STARTED OFF AT THE

3:36:18 BURKE AND THE IT'S A DAY WHERE

3:36:22 WE SHUT DOWN THE SCHOOL AND

3:36:23 PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG

3:36:25 PEOPLE TO JUST DISCONNECT.

3:36:26 SO THEY GET TO DO

3:36:28 ROLLERSKATING.

3:36:29 UH, THEY GET THEIR NAILS DONE.

3:36:30 THEY GET MENTAL HEALTH AND

3:36:31 WELLNESS UH, SERVICES.

3:36:33 AND SO IT REALLY IS AN

3:36:35 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO RECOGNIZE

3:36:37 THAT JOY IS PART OF THE

3:36:39 WELLNESS UM, JOURNEY HERE.

3:36:41 AND I THINK THAT OFTENTIMES

3:36:42 WE'RE JUST DOING DOING DOING

3:36:44 DOING SO TAKING A MOMENT TO

3:36:45 REFLECT AND I WANT TO THANK

3:36:47 BP'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOW

3:36:49 EXTENDED UH, THIS MENTAL HEALTH

3:36:51 AND WELLNESS PROGRAM AND WE ARE

3:36:53 HOPING TO GO TO OTHER SCHOOLS.

3:36:55 NOW AS PART OF THE MOVEMENT

3:36:58 OF BRINGING JOY AND MENTAL

3:36:59 HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACROSS THE

3:37:00 CITY OF BOSTON.

3:37:02 SO THANK YOU DOCTOR CRUMP.

3:37:03 SO SWABY THANK YOU FOR THAT

3:37:04 OF YOUR SMILES AND THANK YOU TO

3:37:05 EVERYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE

3:37:07 IMPORTANCE OF JOY.

3:37:08 THANK YOU COUNCILOR HEALTH

3:37:09 COUNSELOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

3:37:11 FLOOR.

3:37:12 UM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:37:14 AND I.

3:37:14 JUST WANT.

3:37:15 TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCIL.

3:37:16 ME.

3:37:16 HERE FOR BRINGING THIS

3:37:17 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION FORWARD.

3:37:19 I SUPPORT IT I THINK IT'S AN

3:37:21 INCREDIBLY.

3:37:21 IMPORTANT TOPIC AND SUBJECT,

3:37:24 AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO

3:37:26 LEARN AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

3:37:28 AND SUPPORT.

3:37:29 BLACK JOY AS WELL.

3:37:30 I DO WANT TO.

3:37:31 ACKNOWLEDGE MY FORMER

3:37:33 COLLEAGUE.

3:37:33 WHO I STARTED OUT WITH ON THE

3:37:35 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

3:37:36 UM CITY COUNCIL KIM JANEY WHO

3:37:39 DID A LOT OF WORK IN THIS SPACE

3:37:41 AS WELL.

3:37:41 SHE LATER OBVIOUSLY BECAME

3:37:43 MAYOR OF BOSTON.

3:37:44 BUT I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE.

3:37:45 UH, KIM JANEY FOR.

3:37:47 HER INCREDIBLE.

3:37:48 WORK AND CONTRIBUTIONS SHE HAS

3:37:50 MADE.

3:37:52 TO BLACK JOY.

3:37:53 BUT ALSO TO THE CITY

3:37:54 OF BOSTON.

3:37:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:37:56 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:37:59 WOULD ANYONE.

3:38:00 LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

3:38:02 COUNCILOR.

3:38:03 CULPEPER.

3:38:03 COUNCILOR.

3:38:03 DURKAN.

3:38:04 FITZGERALD.

3:38:04 COUNCILOR.

3:38:05 FLYNN.

3:38:05 COUNCIL.

3:38:06 LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

3:38:07 MURPHY.

3:38:07 PEPEN.

3:38:08 CONSCIOUS AND TOWN CULTURAL

3:38:09 WEBER.

3:38:10 COUNCIL.

3:38:10 REL AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR

3:38:13 CONSIDER MEJIA SIX SUSPENSION

3:38:15 OF THE RULES ADOPTION.

3:38:16 OF.

3:38:16 DOCKET 1730.

3:38:18 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.

3:38:20 ALL OPPOSED.

3:38:21 SAY NAY.

3:38:22 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:38:24 DOCKET 1730 HAS.

3:38:26 BEEN ADOPTED.

3:38:28 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:38:29 READ DOCKET 1731?

3:38:31 DUCKY NUMBER 1731

3:38:33 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE FOR THE

3:38:34 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:38:36 RECOGNIZING LATINO HERITAGE

3:38:38 MONTH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:38:40 FROM SEPTEMBER 15TH TO

3:38:42 OCTOBER 15TH.

3:38:43 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL MEJIA

3:38:45 COUNCILOR.

3:38:45 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:38:46 UH.

3:38:47 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:38:50 UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

3:38:53 COUNCILOR BURBANK AS AN

3:38:54 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND I'D

3:38:55 LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

3:38:56 ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A

3:38:58 THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

3:39:00 COUNCILOR PEPEN IS ADDED AS A

3:39:01 SECOND AND SEEING AND.

3:39:02 HEARING NO OBJECTIONS.

3:39:04 COUNCILOR SANTANA CITED AS A

3:39:05 THIRD.

3:39:06 AS A DOMINICAN AND.

3:39:07 AFRO-LATINA IT IS MY HONOR TO

3:39:09 ONCE AGAIN RECOGNIZE LATINO

3:39:11 HERITAGE MONTH HERE IN THE CITY

3:39:13 OF BOSTON FROM.

3:39:14 SEPTEMBER THE 15TH.

3:39:15 TO OCTOBER THE.

3:39:16 15TH.

3:39:17 ALONGSIDE MY

3:39:17 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.

3:39:18 LATINO HERITAGE MONTH

3:39:20 CELEBRATES THE HISTORY, CULTURE

3:39:22 AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LATINO

3:39:24 COMMUNITY AND ITS ROOTS.

3:39:25 GO BACK TO THE HISPANIC

3:39:26 HERITAGE WEEK IN 1968.

3:39:30 UM WITH.

3:39:31 THE EXPANSION TO A MONTH

3:39:32 LONG CELEBRATION IN 1988 AND

3:39:35 GAINING STRENGTH UH DURING THE

3:39:37 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE

3:39:39 1960S, THE TIMING OF THE

3:39:41 CELEBRATION ALIGNS WITH SO MANY

3:39:42 INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARIES

3:39:44 OF THE LATINO COUNTRIES.

3:39:46 BOSTON IS HOME TO.

3:39:47 THE.

3:39:47 LARGEST LATINO COMMUNITY IN

3:39:49 MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH CONTINUES

3:39:51 TO BE A GROWING SHARE

3:39:53 OF BOSTON'S.

3:39:54 WORKFORCE AND COMMUNITY.

3:39:55 DURING LATINO HERITAGE MONTH,

3:39:56 WE CELEBRATE THE LATINO

3:39:58 INNOVATORS, EDUCATORS,

3:39:59 SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, WORKERS,

3:40:01 ENTREPRENEURS, PUBLIC SERVANTS

3:40:04 ,AGITATORS, DISRUPTORS AND ALL

3:40:07 THINGS UH AND MUCH MORE WHO

3:40:09 HAVE SHAPED OUR NATION AND OUR

3:40:11 CITY WITH CULTURE, CREATIVITY

3:40:13 AND LEADERSHIP.

3:40:14 WITH THIS RESOLUTION WE ARE

3:40:16 REAFFIRMING DIVERSITY UM, AS A

3:40:19 STRENGTH IN OUR CITY AND

3:40:20 HONORING THE LATINO LEADERS

3:40:22 WITH THEIR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.

3:40:25 UM I.

3:40:26 THINK LA LA COMUNIDAD LATINA.

3:40:28 AND SURVEYMONKEY IN MAY THAT I

3:40:30 HAD NCAA BANNER I CAN SAY THIS

3:40:33 AT THE NBA KINSELLA OCTUBRE

3:40:35 COMO UNA DOMINICANA UNA UM

3:40:39 AFRO-LATINA BEING YOUR THEIR

3:40:41 ME RISES AS THEY MAY AS PARA

3:40:43 CELEBRATE NOTRE CULTURA

3:40:46 NOSOTROS HOCKEY AND SEATTLE

3:40:48 BOSTON AND IF YOU DIDN'T

3:40:50 UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAID GOOGLE

3:40:51 IT.

3:40:55 THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERE UH

3:40:58 WOULD ANYONE.

3:41:00 ELSE UH.

3:41:02 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:41:03 AND SANTANA.

3:41:04 START WITH PEPEN?

3:41:05 IT WAS THE SECOND AND THEN

3:41:06 WE'LL GO TO SANTANA.

3:41:07 PONCE DE PEPEN, YOU HAVE THE

3:41:09 FLOOR.

3:41:10 THANK YOU.

3:41:11 MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:41:11 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

3:41:12 MEJIA FOR OUT OF ME AS A

3:41:14 CO-SPONSOR TO THIS AMAZING

3:41:15 RESOLUTION OF HISPANIC HERITAGE

3:41:18 MONTH.

3:41:18 IT'S JUST VERY IMPORTANT FOR

3:41:21 OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT'S A

3:41:23 TIME FOR US TO REALLY HIGHLIGHT

3:41:25 ALL.

3:41:25 THE.

3:41:26 CONTRIBUTIONS AND JUST

3:41:26 EVERYTHING THAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE

3:41:28 DONE NOT JUST IN THIS COUNTRY

3:41:30 BUT ACROSS THE WORLD.

3:41:32 AND AS A PROUD SON OF DOMINICAN

3:41:35 IMMIGRANTS UM, BUT ALSO HAVING

3:41:36 A FAMILY THAT MARRIED INTO THE

3:41:38 PEOPLE THAT MARRIED INTO THE

3:41:39 FAMILY FROM VENEZUELA, FROM

3:41:41 COLOMBIA, FROM PUERTO RICO,

3:41:43 FROM MEXICO IT'S IT JUST SHOWS

3:41:46 YOU THAT WE'RE ALL JUST ONE ONE

3:41:48 FAMILY WITH SHARED CULTURE WE

3:41:49 SHARE LANGUAGE WHICH SHARED

3:41:51 STORY OF WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND IN

3:41:54 THEIR HOME COUNTRIES TO COME

3:41:56 HERE AND START SOMETHING NEW.

3:41:57 AND I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT JUAN

3:42:02 JUAN LOPEZ WHO WOULD LOVE TO

3:42:03 TALK ABOUT LIKE SPANISH THAT

3:42:05 AND THAT FLAG THAT HE LOVES TO

3:42:07 CARRY EVERYWHERE BUT IT HAS A

3:42:09 REALLY DEEP MEANING AND INSTEAD

3:42:11 IT'S JUST SHARED STORIES

3:42:12 OF THAT THAT SHARED BROTHERHOOD

3:42:14 SISTERHOOD OF OF SACRIFICE,

3:42:17 OF FIGHT, OF SWEAT, BLOOD AND

3:42:18 TEARS OF WORKING TIRELESSLY

3:42:20 EVERY SINGLE DAY IN THIS

3:42:22 COUNTRY TO MAKE OURSELVES FEEL

3:42:23 HEARD AND THAT TO MAKE SURE

3:42:25 THAT WE REMEMBER REMIND PEOPLE

3:42:27 THAT IS VERY MUCH PART OF THE

3:42:28 FABRIC OF THIS COUNTRY.

3:42:30 AND I ACTUALLY GOT CURIOUS I'M

3:42:31 LIKE WHY IS IT THAT WE DO IT IN

3:42:33 SEPTEMBER?

3:42:34 AND I DID SOME RESEARCH AND

3:42:38 ACTUALLY ON THIS ON SEPTEMBER

3:42:39 15TH IN 1821 COSTA RICA, EL

3:42:43 SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS

3:42:44 AND NICARAGUA THEY ALL SIGNED

3:42:46 THE ACT OF INDEPENDENCE ON THAT

3:42:47 ONE DAY TO END SPANISH RULE IN

3:42:50 CENTRAL AMERICA.

3:42:51 AND THEN TODAY IS MEXICAN

3:42:53 INDEPENDENCE.

3:42:53 DAY AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A

3:42:55 LOT OF OTHER COUNTRIES RAISE

3:42:56 THEIR FLAGS IN THIS MONTH

3:42:57 BECAUSE THIS THIS MONTH IS A

3:42:59 REALLY PROMINENT MONTH IN THE

3:43:01 LATIN CULTURE.

3:43:02 SO I INVITE EVERYONE TO

3:43:04 CELEBRATE.

3:43:04 WHAT IS LATIN?

3:43:06 WHAT IS THIS SPANISH HERITAGE

3:43:07 MONTH AND TO ATTEND THE FLAG

3:43:09 RAISINGS AND TO HONOR ALL

3:43:11 OF THOSE WHO PAID SOMEONE TO

3:43:12 SACRIFICE.

3:43:13 THANK YOU.

3:43:14 THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN

3:43:16 CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSCIOUS AND

3:43:17 TAINO COUNTRY.

3:43:18 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:43:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:43:20 UM, I WANT TO THANK

3:43:22 COUNCILOR MEJIA UM, AND

3:43:23 COUNCIL FOR INCLUDING ME IN

3:43:24 THIS.

3:43:25 I AM A PROUD UM, DOMINICAN, UM

3:43:28 PROUD LATINO.

3:43:29 UM, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S TRUE.

3:43:32 I THINK OF MY COLLEAGUES SAID

3:43:34 IT SO I DON'T WANT TO READ WHAT

3:43:36 I HAVE.

3:43:36 UM.

3:43:37 THERE'S WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE

3:43:39 CITY TO THIS COUNTRY IN SO MANY

3:43:41 DIFFERENT WAYS.

3:43:41 UM, IN THIS MONTH WE GET TO BE

3:43:43 ABLE TO TO CELEBRATE THAT AND

3:43:44 UPLIFT THAT.

3:43:45 I THINK ALSO JUST UNDER THIS

3:43:47 FEDERAL UM ADMINISTRATION I

3:43:48 THINK IT'S EVEN MORE CRITICAL

3:43:50 TO DO SO UM, AS UM THE LATINO

3:43:52 COMMUNITY HAS BEEN UM ONE OF UH

3:43:56 OF OF TRUMP'S UM TARGETS AND UM

3:43:59 ,I DO I KNOW THAT I WANT TO DO

3:44:02 EVERYTHING I CAN TO BE ABLE TO

3:44:03 UPLIFT UM, MY COMMUNITY

3:44:05 ESPECIALLY DURING THIS MONTH.

3:44:07 UM I OFTEN THINK ABOUT LONG

3:44:09 LOPEZ TO WHEN I THINK ABOUT

3:44:10 THIS MONTH AND JUST, UM, THE

3:44:12 EDUCATION THAT UM, HE PROVIDES

3:44:14 AND THE PRIDE THAT HE TAKES IN

3:44:16 PROVIDING THAT EDUCATION FOR TO

3:44:17 MANY OF US UH UM BUT REALLY TO

3:44:20 THE NEXT GENERATION, THE

3:44:21 YOUNGER PEOPLE I ALSO JUST

3:44:23 THINK ABOUT UM YES.

3:44:25 UH MY PARENTS PERSONALLY UM AND

3:44:27 JUST UM THE PARENTS AND

3:44:31 GRANDPARENTS UM UH OF SO MANY

3:44:33 OTHERS WHO HAVE JUST LAID OUT

3:44:34 THE UM THE GROUNDWORK UM, FOR

3:44:36 PEOPLE TO FOR SOMEONE LIKE

3:44:38 ME TO BE EVEN AND BE IN THIS

3:44:40 POSITION SO I KNOW THERE'S A

3:44:41 LOT OF SACRIFICES, A LOT

3:44:42 OF SWEAT, A LOT OF TEARS, UM, A

3:44:44 LOT OF UM AND YOU KNOW, I JUST

3:44:46 WANT TO UM, THANK THEM AND

3:44:48 THANK MY ANCESTORS WHO HAVE,

3:44:50 UM, PUT ME IN A POSITION TO BE

3:44:52 WHERE I AM TODAY.

3:44:53 SO I'M A PROUD OF THEM AND I

3:44:55 KNOW I'M PROUD LATINO UM, AND

3:44:57 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO

3:44:58 CELEBRATING, UM, THIS UPCOMING

3:45:00 MONTH.

3:45:00 THANK YOU.

3:45:02 UH, CANCER CENTER OF THE CHAIR

3:45:04 RECOGNIZES I MAY HAVE MISSED

3:45:07 THE ORDER, BUT CONSIDER COLETTE

3:45:08 A.

3:45:08 SUPPORTER AND THEN WE'LL GO TO

3:45:09 CANCER TRACKING.

3:45:10 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

3:45:11 PRESIDENT.

3:45:12 I WANT TO THANK

3:45:12 COUNCILOR MEJIA, UM, AS ALWAYS

3:45:13 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

3:45:15 UH, AND, UM, JUST REALLY

3:45:17 GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF OUR, UH,

3:45:19 HISPANIC AND LATINO LEADERS

3:45:20 HERE ON THE COUNCIL.

3:45:21 UM, I'M HONORED TO REPRESENT

3:45:22 THE BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY OF EAST

3:45:24 BOSTON WHO HAVE UM WHO'S HAD

3:45:26 THOUSANDS OF FOLKS COME FROM

3:45:27 PLACES LIKE MALA, EL SALVADOR,

3:45:30 UM MEXICO AND MY ADOPTIVE

3:45:31 FAMILY THROUGH MY HUSBAND IN

3:45:32 COLOMBIA AND UM, YOU KNOW, I

3:45:35 OFTEN TALK ABOUT UH, MY MY

3:45:38 GRANDMOTHER WHO UM, SEE THAT

3:45:39 HERE WHO ASSIMILATED AND

3:45:41 ASSIMILATED AND WHITEWASH

3:45:41 HERSELF TO BE SALLY AND SHE UM

3:45:44 SHE DID SO SO THAT SHE COULD

3:45:45 FIT IN AND THAT MEANT

3:45:46 ABANDONING HER CULTURE AND HER

3:45:48 LANGUAGE AND THAT WAS NOT

3:45:49 SOMETHING THAT I GREW UP WITH

3:45:50 AND UM, I STILL FEEL VERY CLOSE

3:45:52 TO HER AND CLOSE TO UM, UH, MY

3:45:56 MEXICAN CULTURE AND I'M

3:45:57 LEARNING MY OWN IDENTITY AS AS

3:45:59 I MOVE FORWARD.

3:45:59 BUT UM, REALLY NOW THAT I HAVE

3:46:02 A CHILD AND JOAQUIN AND HE IS

3:46:04 PART COLUMBIA AND I REALLY WANT

3:46:06 TO DO MY BEST TO BREAK THE

3:46:07 CYCLES OF FOLKS THAT UM UH UH

3:46:11 THAT THINK THAT THEY HAVE TO

3:46:12 ASSIMILATE THEIR SELF WHERE

3:46:13 THEY HAVE TO BE LESS THAN AND

3:46:14 THEY CAN'T LIVE IN THEIR

3:46:15 AUTHENTIC SELF BECAUSE OF SOME

3:46:16 OF THE REGRESSIVE AND ABHORRENT

3:46:19 ATTACKS THAT WE'RE SEEING FROM

3:46:20 OUR FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION

3:46:21 AGAINST UM, OUR UH, HISPANIC

3:46:23 AND LATINO BROTHERS AND

3:46:24 SISTERS.

3:46:25 SO I'M I'M DOING MY BEST AND

3:46:26 ENSURING THAT FUTURE

3:46:27 GENERATIONS ARE PROUD TO

3:46:28 CELEBRATE WHO THEY ARE AND

3:46:30 DOING IT WITH THEIR WHOLE CHEST

3:46:32 AND UM, JUST REALLY DOING THIS

3:46:34 FOR WATCHING BUT, UH, WANT TO

3:46:36 THANK AGAIN, UM,

3:46:37 COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR PUTTING

3:46:38 THIS FORWARD AND UH, LOOKING

3:46:40 FORWARD TO ALL THE CELEBRATIONS

3:46:41 THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE

3:46:43 COUNCIL AND IN EAST BOSTON.

3:46:44 THANKS.

3:46:45 THANK YOU.

3:46:46 COUNCIL COLOR THIS A PART

3:46:47 OF THE CONCERT.

3:46:48 DURKAN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:46:49 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

3:46:50 UM, AND I'M REALLY PROUD, UH,

3:46:52 TO BE THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF A

3:46:53 SPANISH IMMIGRANT JUAN TO HER

3:46:55 BLANCA RUIZ OR IN MY SOUTHERN

3:46:58 HOMETOWN IT WAS JOHN T RUIZ.

3:47:01 HE WAS BOTH THINGS HE WAS A

3:47:02 PROUD AMERICAN, UM, AND SOMEONE

3:47:05 WHO MOVED HERE, UM, AS A

3:47:06 TEENAGER SENT MONEY BACK TO HIS

3:47:09 FAMILY IN SPAIN.

3:47:10 UM, I JUST REMEMBER DURING THE

3:47:12 WORLD CUP, UM, BUT MY MOM WAS

3:47:14 IN TOWN JUST GETTING TO

3:47:16 EXPERIENCE THE CULTURES

3:47:18 OF BOSTON AND EVERYONE'S SO

3:47:19 PROUD OF WHERE THEY CAME FROM

3:47:21 AND OBVIOUSLY SPAIN WON THE

3:47:23 WORLD CUP SO NOT TO NOT TO YOU

3:47:25 KNOW, NOT TO UM BUT I LEARNED

3:47:27 THROUGH THAT UM, I GOT TO BRING

3:47:29 MY, UH, MOM'S PAY A RECIPE TO

3:47:32 THE CABANA AT THE CLUBS AT

3:47:33 CHARLES RIVER PARK, WHICH IS A

3:47:35 GREAT POOL UM, IN THE WEST END.

3:47:37 UM AND GOT TO SHARE MY FAMILY'S

3:47:38 RECIPE WITH, UH, THE WEST END,

3:47:41 WHICH WAS REALLY, REALLY FUN

3:47:42 AND I JUST, UM I WANT TO THANK

3:47:45 UM, JUAN TOO BECAUSE I YOU KNOW

3:47:48 ,I ALWAYS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN A

3:47:49 CITY LIKE BOSTON SOMETIMES YOU

3:47:51 WONDER HOW MUCH OF YOURSELF YOU

3:47:53 SHOULD SHARE.

3:47:54 LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'M IRISH AND

3:47:56 I'M SPANISH AND THERE'S A LOT

3:47:58 GOING, YOU KNOW?

3:47:58 BUT, UM, WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY

3:48:00 MOM TALKING TO THE, UM, PUERTO

3:48:03 RICAN IMMIGRANTS AT MISSION

3:48:04 MAINE IS THAT WE'RE ALL ONE

3:48:06 CULTURE LIKE WE'RE ALL ONE.

3:48:08 UM, WE ALL HAVE SIMILAR RECIPES

3:48:10 AND SIMILAR, UM, CONVERSATIONS

3:48:13 AND THINGS THAT WE CARE ABOUT

3:48:15 AND SO YEAH, IF YOU EVER NEED

3:48:16 ANYONE TO STUMP FOR YOU IN

3:48:18 SPANISH MY MOM IS THE BEST UM

3:48:21 AND UM BUT I'M GRATEFUL TO MY

3:48:23 COLLEAGUES WHO STEP FORWARD

3:48:24 EVERY DAY AND SHARE THEIR FULL

3:48:26 IDENTITY.

3:48:26 I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.

3:48:28 AND UM, AS WE UM AS WE APPROACH

3:48:31 THIS MONTH EXCITED TO CELEBRATE

3:48:33 AND I'M HOPING THERE'S SOME

3:48:34 GOOD FOOD INVOLVED WITH

3:48:35 EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING

3:48:36 THIS MONTH.

3:48:36 UM, THANK YOU TO

3:48:38 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

3:48:38 UM, YOU ARE THE FIRST AND YOU

3:48:40 ARE NOT THE LAST.

3:48:41 IT'S LIKE WE ARE.

3:48:43 UM, I THINK THIS BODY IS ONE

3:48:46 THAT SHARES OUR FULL SELVES AND

3:48:48 OUR FULL UM.

3:48:49 AND I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE

3:48:50 YOUR LEADERSHIP.

3:48:50 THANK YOU.

3:48:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:48:54 COUNCILOR WEBER COUNCIL YOU

3:48:55 HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:48:56 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:48:58 I JUST WANT TO THANK, UH,

3:48:59 COUNCILORS HERE PEPEN AND

3:49:01 SANTANA, UH, FOR BRINGING THIS

3:49:04 AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AS A

3:49:06 REPRESENTATIVE OF DISTRICT SIX,

3:49:08 UH, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR MY

3:49:10 DISTRICT WOULD NOT, UH, BE

3:49:12 ANYWHERE NEAR AS GREAT AS IT IS

3:49:15 WITHOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF I

3:49:16 THINK WOULD ONE, YOU KNOW,

3:49:17 WOULD CALL HISPANIC OUT WITH

3:49:18 FIRST CUBANS AND PUERTO RICANS

3:49:20 AND NOW DOMINICANS HAVE UH,

3:49:23 MADE, YOU KNOW, HYDE SQUARE,

3:49:24 JACKSON'S UH, JACKSON SQUARE.

3:49:26 EGGLESTON SQUARE AN AMAZING

3:49:28 PLACE.

3:49:28 UH, IT'S IT WAS MY HONOR AS AN

3:49:30 ATTORNEY 18 YEARS AGO TO

3:49:32 REPRESENT MEXICANS AND

3:49:33 GUATEMALANS AND IN FARMWORKER

3:49:35 CASES AGAINST, UH, YOU KNOW, UH

3:49:37 ,FARMERS WHO WEREN'T PAYING

3:49:38 THEIR WORKERS.

3:49:39 AND IT'S NOW AN HONOR TO WORK

3:49:41 WITH, YOU KNOW, LIKE OF THE

3:49:42 EGGLESTON SQUARE ROSEANNE

3:49:44 RIVERA, UH, AND YOU KNOW, UH,

3:49:46 ALL THE FOLKS WHO WHO LIVE WORK

3:49:49 OWNED BUSINESSES IN MY

3:49:51 DISTRICT, UH, YOU KNOW,

3:49:53 EVERYTHING.

3:49:54 UM, IT'S JUST IT'S IT'S REALLY

3:49:56 A PLEASURE AND I CAN'T WAIT TO

3:49:58 WORK, UH, CONTINUE WORKING WITH

3:49:59 THEM AND I JUST I REALLY WANT

3:50:01 TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES HERE ON

3:50:02 THE COUNCIL AND SHOW THEM, YOU

3:50:04 KNOW, THAT THAT, UH, YOU KNOW,

3:50:06 I'M WORKING ALONGSIDE WITH THEM

3:50:07 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING

3:50:10 MORE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

3:50:11 THANK YOU.

3:50:13 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:50:14 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE

3:50:15 FLOOR.

3:50:15 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:50:16 I WAS GOING TO SPEAK BUT I

3:50:17 WANTED TO JUST, UH,

3:50:18 COUNCILOR PEPEN MENTIONED SORT

3:50:19 OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN

3:50:21 COUNTRIES THAT CELEBRATE THEIR

3:50:22 INDEPENDENCE AND UM, IT'S.

3:50:25 UH THIS YEAR I WENT LAST YEAR

3:50:26 WHEN IT'S ALWAYS A BEAUTIFUL

3:50:28 CELEBRATION ON CITY HALL

3:50:31 OF COUNTRIES FROM CENTRAL

3:50:32 AMERICA THAT ARE CELEBRATING

3:50:33 THAT INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN

3:50:36 THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT AND WHAT

3:50:38 IT MEANS TO REALLY BE.

3:50:39 LATINA LATINA THAT LIKE UM LIKE

3:50:42 UH ONE.

3:50:43 IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT.

3:50:45 UM AND TO SEE PEOPLE FROM

3:50:47 GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, PANAMA,

3:50:49 BELIZE.

3:50:50 UH SALVADOR, UM, NICARAGUA.

3:50:54 OUT HERE CELEBRATING THE

3:50:56 FULLNESS OF WHO THEY ARE AND

3:50:59 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UH, A

3:51:01 DIVERSE ARRAY OF PEOPLE.

3:51:03 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO

3:51:04 OFTEN DON'T SEE THEMSELVES HERE

3:51:06 IN THE CITY OR DON'T HAVE THE

3:51:08 OPPORTUNITY FOR THEIR FLAGS TO

3:51:09 BE REALLY CELEBRATED.

3:51:10 UM, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

3:51:12 BLACK HONDURANS.

3:51:13 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BLACK

3:51:15 PANAMANIANS.

3:51:15 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE.

3:51:17 WHO SOMETIMES ARE SIDELINED

3:51:19 EVEN WITHIN THEIR OWN IDENTITY

3:51:20 .

3:51:21 AND TO SEE THEM CELEBRATE EVERY

3:51:23 YEAR IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL.

3:51:25 AND I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A

3:51:26 BIG, BIG SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE

3:51:28 AND HIS ENTIRE TEAM FROM THE

3:51:30 CENTRAL AMERICAN UM CENTRAL

3:51:32 AMERICAN CIVIC CULTURAL

3:51:33 ALLIANCE FOR PUTTING THAT EVENT

3:51:35 ON EVERY YEAR BECAUSE IT IS

3:51:36 ALWAYS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SO

3:51:39 POWERFUL TO WITNESS.

3:51:40 UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT

3:51:41 GOING ON.

3:51:42 THERE'S A LOT MORE CULTURE

3:51:43 CELEBRATING.

3:51:43 YESTERDAY WE RAISED THE MEXICAN

3:51:44 FLAG HERE SO I JUST WANTED TO

3:51:46 SAY UM HAPPY UH LATINO AND

3:51:48 HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH TO

3:51:49 EVERYONE AND I HOPE IT'S A

3:51:51 JOYOUS MONTH OF CELEBRATING AND

3:51:52 BEING ROOTED IN THE WORK

3:51:53 BECAUSE AS CANCELO SANTANA SAID

3:51:54 THERE ARE MANY COMMUNITIES THAT

3:51:56 ARE UNDER ATTACK THAT ARE BEING

3:51:58 OTHER EYES THAT ARE BEING MADE

3:52:00 TO FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE

3:52:01 TAKING FROM OTHERS WHEN REALLY

3:52:03 WE HAVE SO MUCH TO THANK THEM

3:52:04 FOR FOR WHAT THEY'VE BEEN

3:52:05 GIVING THIS COUNTRY.

3:52:06 THANK YOU.

3:52:07 THANK YOU COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:52:08 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:52:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:52:10 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:52:12 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

3:52:14 THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS THAT

3:52:15 BROUGHT.

3:52:16 FORWARD THIS LATINO HERITAGE

3:52:17 MONTH RESOLUTION.

3:52:19 IT'S AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT

3:52:20 THAT.

3:52:21 WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE

3:52:22 INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS AND

3:52:24 SACRIFICES.

3:52:25 THE LATINO COMMUNITY HAVE.

3:52:26 MADE NOT HERE JUST IN BOSTON

3:52:28 BUT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS

3:52:30 WELL.

3:52:31 I DID WANT TO SPECIFICALLY

3:52:33 HIGHLIGHT IN MY DISTRICT I HAVE

3:52:36 A LARGE PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY

3:52:38 IN THE SOUTH AND IN AND IN

3:52:40 SOUTH BOSTON AS WELL.

3:52:41 BUT I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE

3:52:42 PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY AND THE

3:52:46 RESIDENTS OF VILLA VICTORIA,

3:52:47 WHICH IS WHICH HAS A LARGE

3:52:49 PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY THERE AS

3:52:51 WELL AND IN THE SOUTH END AND

3:52:55 IT'S ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE

3:52:56 AND WONDERFUL COMMUNITIES YOU

3:52:58 PROBABLY COULD EVER VISIT IN

3:52:59 BOSTON SUCH WONDERFUL,

3:53:01 WONDERFUL PEOPLE.

3:53:02 BUT I ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE

3:53:04 INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OUR

3:53:06 PUERTO RICAN VETERANS HAVE MADE

3:53:09 TO OUR NATION.

3:53:13 UM AS WELL WE HAVE A WONDERFUL

3:53:18 MEMORIAL IN THE HEART OF THE

3:53:19 SOUTH END, UM, WHERE WE

3:53:22 CELEBRATE THE ENORMOUS

3:53:24 CONTRIBUTIONS PUERTO RICAN

3:53:25 VETERANS HAVE MADE AND DURING

3:53:27 VETERANS DAY AND OTHER UM IN

3:53:29 OTHER TIMES DURING THE YEAR WE

3:53:30 HAVE WE HAVE A AN EVENT TO

3:53:33 CELEBRATE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.

3:53:35 WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE MEMOR

3:53:38 MEMORIAL CELEBRATING PUERTO

3:53:39 RICAN VETERANS IS THERE'S ALSO

3:53:43 A A STATUE RIGHT RIGHT DOWN THE

3:53:46 ROAD ABOUT ABOUT ROBERTO

3:53:48 CLEMENTE WHAT WAS THE UNITED

3:53:49 STATES MARINE BUT ALSO THE THE

3:53:52 SCULPTURE OF THE PUERTO RICAN

3:53:53 VETERAN IS A MAN AND A WOMAN

3:53:57 AND IT'S CELEBRATING WOMEN

3:53:59 VETERANS AS WELL.

3:54:00 IT'S THE FIRST TIME THERE WAS A

3:54:02 MEMORIAL FOR PUERTO RICAN

3:54:04 VETERANS IN THE COUNTRY.

3:54:06 I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY CLOSE

3:54:07 FRIEND TONY MOLINA AND THE

3:54:09 COMMITTEE THAT DID A WONDERFUL

3:54:11 JOB BRINGING THIS HERE.

3:54:12 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:54:14 COUNCILOR CONNORS THANK YOU,

3:54:16 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:54:17 UM THANK YOU.

3:54:18 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:54:19 NAME COUNTRY COLOR AS A POWDER?

3:54:22 CONSIDER UH, CULPEPER.

3:54:24 CONSIDER IT'S JOE FLYNN.

3:54:26 UH, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:54:29 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:54:30 COUNCILOR WEBER, CONSTABLE

3:54:31 REALM, PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

3:54:33 COUNCILORS MARIA.

3:54:34 PEPEN AND SANTANA WOULDN'T.

3:54:36 SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

3:54:37 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1731.

3:54:39 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:54:41 AYE ON OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:54:44 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:54:46 DOCKET 1731 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:54:51 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

3:54:52 DOCKET 1732.

3:54:54 TALKING OF A1732

3:54:56 COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR.

3:54:57 THE.

3:54:58 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DECLARING

3:55:01 SEPTEMBER 18TH AS BEEN SWORN

3:55:02 DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:55:03 THANK YOU.

3:55:05 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:55:06 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:55:06 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:55:07 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:55:09 MASSACHUSETTS STATE

3:55:10 REPRESENTATIVES SWORN DEDICATED

3:55:13 DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO PUBLIC

3:55:15 SERVICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS AS

3:55:18 PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER SPRING

3:55:20 BRANCH OF THE NAACP HE FOUGHT

3:55:22 FOR EQUALITY DESEGREGATION

3:55:26 POLICE HAVE COME BUILD ABILITY

3:55:28 GREATER OPPORTUNITY FOR

3:55:30 HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED

3:55:31 COMMUNITIES.

3:55:32 HE LATER BROUGHT THAT

3:55:33 COMMITMENT TO BEACON HILL

3:55:35 REPRESENTING SPRINGFIELD IN THE

3:55:37 MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE

3:55:38 OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1995

3:55:40 THROUGH 2016.

3:55:43 THROUGHOUT THAT WORK,

3:55:44 REPRESENTATIVE SWANN UNDERSTOOD

3:55:46 THAT ACHIEVING JUSTICE REQUIRES

3:55:48 US NOT TO ONLY CONFRONT

3:55:50 DISCRIMINATION IN THE PRESENT

3:55:52 BUT ALSO TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND

3:55:54 ADDRESS THE CONSEQUENCES

3:55:56 OF HISTORICAL INJUSTICE.

3:55:58 HIS ADVOCACY FOR THE NATIONAL

3:56:01 UNITY AND RECONCILIATION ACT

3:56:03 REFLECTED THAT COMMITMENT TO

3:56:04 TRUTH, RECONCILIATION AND

3:56:07 RESTORING DIGNITY TO PEOPLE

3:56:09 AFFECTED BY COLONIES

3:56:12 COLONIZATION SEPTEMBER 18TH IS

3:56:15 REPRESENTED AS SWAN'S BIRTHDAY

3:56:16 AND I BELIEVE IT IS FITTING

3:56:18 THAT BOSTON USE THIS DAY TO

3:56:20 RECOGNIZE THE MASSACHUSETTS

3:56:22 CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS WHOSE WORK

3:56:24 EXTENDED FAR BEYOND THE

3:56:25 COMMUNITY HE REPRESENTED.

3:56:27 THE DECLARING BEN SWAN DAY IS

3:56:30 BOTH A RECOGNITION OF HIS

3:56:31 LIFETIME OF SERVICE AND AN

3:56:34 OPPORTUNITY TO CARRY FORWARD

3:56:35 THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE,

3:56:38 EQUALITY, RECONCILIATION, HUMAN

3:56:42 DIGNITY THAT DEFINED HIS WORK.

3:56:43 I'M PROUD TO OFFER THIS

3:56:46 RESOLUTION DECLARING SEPTEMBER

3:56:47 18TH HAS BEEN SWAN DAY IN THE

3:56:49 CITY OF BOSTON IN RECOGNITION

3:56:51 OF HIS LIFE AND THE LEGACY OF.

3:56:54 THE HONORABLE.

3:56:55 BEN SWAN, SENIOR MADAM

3:56:58 PRESIDENT, I SEEK SUSPENSION

3:57:00 OF THE RULES.

3:57:01 PASS THIS MATTER.

3:57:02 THANK YOU.

3:57:03 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:57:05 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:57:07 NAME?

3:57:08 COUNCILOR COLOR THE CITADEL

3:57:10 COUNCIL DURKAN.

3:57:10 COUNTRY FITZGERALD.

3:57:11 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:57:12 CONTRA LOUIJEUNE CONCERT MEJIA

3:57:14 COUNCIL.

3:57:15 MURPHY COUNCILOR SANTANA

3:57:17 COUNCIL WEBER CULTURAL RAIL AND

3:57:19 PLEASE OF THE CHAIR

3:57:22 COUNCILOR CULPEPER SEEKS

3:57:22 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:57:23 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1732.

3:57:26 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

3:57:29 SAY NAY.

3:57:30 THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:57:32 DOCKET 1732 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:57:35 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:57:36 READ DOCKET 1733.

3:57:38 TALKING NUMBER 1733

3:57:41 COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR THE

3:57:42 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:57:44 RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER 23RD,

3:57:46 2026 AS INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATE

3:57:49 BISEXUALITY DAY AND A PLUS

3:57:52 VISIBILITY DAY.

3:57:53 THANK YOU.

3:57:54 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:57:56 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:57:56 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:57:57 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:57:59 I AM PROUD TO INTRODUCE A

3:58:00 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

3:58:02 SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2026 AS BYPASS

3:58:05 VISIBILITY DAY IN THE CITY

3:58:06 OF BOSTON.

3:58:07 THIS ACTION STEMS DIRECTLY FROM

3:58:09 OVER A YEAR OF CONTINUOUS

3:58:11 DIALOG FROM LAST YEAR'S

3:58:12 BISEXUAL ROUNDTABLE TO OUR

3:58:16 ONGOING WORK WITH THE BISEXUAL

3:58:17 RESOURCE CENTER WHERE RESIDENTS

3:58:19 SHARE THE UM DAMAGING DAILY

3:58:21 IMPACT OF BI PLUS ERASURE WHILE

3:58:25 BY BOSTONIANS MAKE UP OF THE

3:58:26 LARGEST SEGMENT OF OUR LGBTQIA

3:58:29 TOWARDS PLUS COMMUNITY, THEY

3:58:31 REMAIN SYSTEMATICALLY PUSHED

3:58:32 INTO THE MARGINS PERVASIVE

3:58:36 MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND BIPHOBIA

3:58:38 FOR MANY BI PLUS RESIDENTS TO

3:58:41 HIDE THEIR AUTHENTIC SELVES

3:58:42 FROM FAMILIES AND PEERS,

3:58:45 COMPOUNDING MENTAL HEALTH

3:58:46 STRUGGLES AND REINFORCING THIS

3:58:47 CYCLE OF INVISIBILITY ACROSS

3:58:49 OUR CITY.

3:58:50 THE URGENCY IS CLEAR AS

3:58:52 OF MONTHS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

3:58:53 WHILE BI PLUS YOUTH ACCOUNT FOR

3:58:55 NEARLY 40% OF OUR LGBTQ PLUS

3:58:59 LGBTQ UM PLUS YOUTH THEY ARE

3:59:02 ALARMING DISPARITIES INCLUDING

3:59:05 UM RATES OF ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

3:59:07 AND SUICIDAL UM SUICIDAL

3:59:10 IDEATION COMPOUNDED BY A

3:59:11 PERCEIVED PERVASIVE LACK

3:59:14 OF VISIBLE ROLE MODELS AND

3:59:15 TARGETED SUPPORT WE COULD NOT

3:59:18 MEANINGFULLY ADVOCATE FOR OUR

3:59:20 YOUTH BY OVERLOOKING THE

3:59:21 SPECIFIC CRISIS IMPACTING OUR

3:59:23 BI PLUS YOUNG PEOPLE.

3:59:25 NOR CAN WE ASSUME GENERIC

3:59:27 INITIATIVES ARE THROUGH THAT TO

3:59:29 MEET THEIR NEEDS.

3:59:31 THEN ACTIVISTS LIKE WENDY CURRY

3:59:34 ,MICHAEL PAGE AND GRAVEN

3:59:36 WILBUR ESTABLISHED THIS DAY IN

3:59:38 1999.

3:59:39 THE DEMAND HAS REMAINED CLEAR

3:59:42 VISIBILITY, SAFETY AND RESPECT

3:59:45 BOSTON MUST TAKE A FIRM STANCE

3:59:46 AGAINST BY PLUS ERASURE.

3:59:49 I URGE OUR CITY COUNCIL, UM

3:59:52 MUNICIPAL AGENCIES AND

3:59:53 COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO MOVE

3:59:55 BEYOND PASSIVE INCLUSION

3:59:57 TOWARDS AND TOWARDS UH

3:59:59 DEDICATED RESOURCES, EQUITABLE

4:00:01 HEALTH CARE AND ACTION SUPPORT

4:00:03 FOR OUR BOSTON BI PLUS

4:00:05 COMMUNITY.

4:00:05 UM THEY DESERVE TO BE SEEN,

4:00:07 AFFIRMED AND FULLY VALUED.

4:00:09 THANK YOU.

4:00:11 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

4:00:14 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

4:00:17 NAME?

4:00:19 COUNCILOR UH, COLLETTE AS A

4:00:20 POWDER COUNCILOR.

4:00:20 CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

4:00:21 DURKAN.

4:00:22 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

4:00:23 COUNCIL FLYNN LOUIJEUNE MEJIA

4:00:25 COUNCIL.

4:00:26 MURPHY COUNCILOR.

4:00:27 PEPEN COUNCIL.

4:00:28 WEBER COUNCIL.

4:00:29 WORRELL AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR

4:00:32 COUNCILOR SANTANA SIX

4:00:33 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

4:00:35 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1733.

4:00:37 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

4:00:39 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

4:00:41 THE AYES HAVE IT.

4:00:43 DOCKET 1733 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

4:00:47 MR COOK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

4:00:48 DOCKET 1734.

4:00:49 TALKING ABOUT 1734

4:00:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN OR FOR THE

4:00:53 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

4:00:55 RECOGNIZING THE 115TH

4:00:57 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING

4:00:58 OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA TAIWAN

4:01:00 AND FLAG RAISING FOR TAIWAN

4:01:02 DAY.

4:01:04 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:01:05 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

4:01:06 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:01:08 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:01:14 OCTOBER 10TH 2026 MARKS THE

4:01:15 115TH.

4:01:16 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING

4:01:18 OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA TAIWAN

4:01:20 .

4:01:21 WE RECOGNIZE THE LONGSTANDING

4:01:23 FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BOSTON AND

4:01:24 THE PEOPLE OF TAIWAN.

4:01:25 THE COMMUNITY ENRICHES AND

4:01:27 ENHANCES THE CITY OF BOSTON

4:01:28 THROUGH ITS FRIENDSHIP,

4:01:30 BUSINESS, SPORTS, GOVERNMENT,

4:01:33 EDUCATION, DANCE, LITERATURE IN

4:01:36 THE ARTS.

4:01:36 THE TAIWAN FLAG WILL BE RAISED

4:01:38 AT CITY HALL PLAZA ON SATURDAY

4:01:41 ,OCTOBER 3RD AT 12 P.M. WE

4:01:43 HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

4:01:43 THANK YOU.

4:01:46 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:01:49 UM.

4:01:50 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

4:01:51 THEIR NAME AS A POWDER

4:01:54 COUNCILOR?

4:01:55 CULPEPER COUNCILOR DURKAN

4:01:56 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD LOUIJEUNE

4:01:58 COUNCILMEMBER HERE COMES FROM

4:01:59 MURPHY COUNCILOR.

4:02:00 PEPEN COUNCILOR SANTANA

4:02:02 CONSTABLE WEBER CULTURAL RAIL,

4:02:03 PLEASE OF THE CHAIR

4:02:06 COUNCILOR FLYNN SIX SUSPENSION

4:02:07 OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

4:02:08 OF DOCKET 1734.

4:02:10 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

4:02:13 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

4:02:15 THANK YOU.

4:02:15 DOCKET 1734 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

4:02:19 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

4:02:20 DOCKET 1735.

4:02:22 TALKING OF A1735

4:02:24 COUNCILOR SANTANA AND THE PANEL

4:02:25 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

4:02:28 RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 26TH, 2026

4:02:31 AS INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY.

4:02:33 THANK YOU.

4:02:34 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:02:35 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL YOU

4:02:36 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:02:37 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:02:39 AS A PROUD ALLY OF THE INTERSEX

4:02:41 COMMUNITY, I'M PROUD TO

4:02:42 INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION

4:02:43 RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 26TH AS

4:02:46 INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY IN THE

4:02:47 CITY OF BOSTON FOR THE THIRD

4:02:49 CONSECUTIVE YEAR AND I WELCOME

4:02:50 SUPPORT FOR MY FRIEND AND

4:02:52 COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR PEPEN.

4:02:55 INTERSEX REFERS TO PEOPLE BORN

4:02:57 WITH NATURAL VARIATIONS AND

4:02:58 THEIR PHYSICAL SEX

4:03:00 CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS ANATOMY

4:03:02 AND HORMONES.

4:03:04 INTERSEX TRAITS ARE MORE COMMON

4:03:06 THAN MANY REALIZE, WITH STUDIES

4:03:08 FINDING UP TO 1 IN 20 PEOPLE

4:03:11 COULD BE CONSIDERED INTERSEX.

4:03:13 ODDS ARE WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE

4:03:14 WHO IS INTERSEX.

4:03:16 OUR INTERSEX COMMUNITY

4:03:17 CONTINUES TO FACE UNIQUE

4:03:19 CHALLENGES.

4:03:21 LIKE UM, MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS

4:03:24 AND IGNORANCE ABOUT THEIR

4:03:25 LIVES.

4:03:26 ACCORDING TO THE TREVOR

4:03:28 PROJECT, 77% OF INTERSEX YOUNG

4:03:31 PEOPLE REPORTED THAT SOMEONE IN

4:03:33 THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR LIFE

4:03:34 ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE THE LGBTQ

4:03:37 TOWARDS PERSON IDENTITY.

4:03:39 OUR CITY HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE

4:03:41 IN INTERSEX HISTORY.

4:03:43 IN 1996, BOSTON WAS HOME TO THE

4:03:46 FIRST PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION BY

4:03:47 INTERSEX PEOPLE IN THE UNITED

4:03:49 STATES WITH THE INTERSEX

4:03:51 SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA STAGED

4:03:53 A PROTEST TO CALL ATTENTION TO

4:03:55 THE TRAUMA, STIGMA AND

4:03:57 ISOLATION THEY FACED AFTER

4:03:59 NON-CONSENSUAL UM GENERAL

4:04:01 SURGERY.

4:04:02 WE CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR

4:04:03 COURAGE EVERY UM EVERY

4:04:07 OCTOBER 26TH, IN RECOGNITION

4:04:09 OF OCTOBER 26TH AS INTERSEX

4:04:11 AWARENESS DAY WE ARE FOR

4:04:13 EVERYTHING THAT INTERSEX

4:04:13 BOSTONIANS ARE VALUED,

4:04:15 CELEBRATED AND NEVER ALONE.

4:04:17 WE ARE COMMITTING OURSELVES TO

4:04:18 THEIR SAFETY, DIGNITY AND

4:04:21 HEALTH.

4:04:21 I URGE ALL MY COLLEAGUES TO

4:04:23 JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING THIS

4:04:24 RESOLUTION.

4:04:25 ALSO ON OCTOBER 24TH I AM

4:04:27 HOSTING A SCREENING OF THE

4:04:29 DOCUMENTARY EVERYBODY WITH MY

4:04:31 COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR PÉPIN AT

4:04:33 THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND

4:04:35 THE MRK INTERSEX ORGANIZATION.

4:04:38 AFTERWARDS WE WILL UM BE LED IN

4:04:41 DISCUSSION BY ESTHER LEAD OFF

4:04:43 FOUNDER OF THE JAMAICA PLAIN

4:04:44 MARK ORGANIZATION INTERSEX

4:04:48 ACTIVISTS, I WELCOME YOU ALL TO

4:04:49 JOIN US THERE.

4:04:50 THANK YOU.

4:04:52 THANK YOU CONSCIOUS AND TOMA UH

4:04:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRA PEPEN

4:04:56 CANCER COUNCIL AND YOU HAVE THE

4:04:57 FLOOR.

4:04:58 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:04:59 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA

4:05:01 FOR INCLUDING ME AS A

4:05:02 CO-SPONSOR ON THIS DOCKET AND

4:05:04 FOR THE WORK HE IS DOING TO

4:05:05 RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THIS IN

4:05:06 THE COMMUNITY IN BOSTON.

4:05:08 INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY IS A

4:05:09 TIME TO AFFIRM OUR SUPPORT FOR

4:05:11 THE INTERSEX COMMUNITY TO RAISE

4:05:13 DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CHALLENGES

4:05:14 THE COMMUNITY FACES TO GIVE OUR

4:05:16 INTERSEX NEIGHBORS THE

4:05:17 VISIBILITY THEY DESERVE.

4:05:19 WE RAISE AWARENESS TO THOSE WHO

4:05:20 MAY BE INTERSEX AND UNDERSTAND

4:05:22 THAT ONLY NOT ONLY IS THERE A

4:05:24 LARGER INTERSEX COMMUNITY THAT

4:05:25 MAY SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES,

4:05:26 BUT THERE'S ALSO A COMMUNITY

4:05:28 OF SUPPORT AROUND THEM.

4:05:29 UM DECIDED TO BE WANTED TO

4:05:31 SUPPORT COUNCILOR SANTANA IN

4:05:32 THIS BECAUSE THE SCREENING FOR

4:05:35 FOR INTERSEX AWARENESS MONTH

4:05:36 AND DAY IS GOING TO BE SCREENED

4:05:38 OVER AT THE ROSLINDALE BRANCH

4:05:40 LIBRARY AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S

4:05:42 UM GOOD SUPPORT SYSTEM OVER

4:05:43 THERE AND THEY PROVIDED THIS

4:05:45 SPACE SO THAT I WANTED TO MAKE

4:05:46 SURE THAT EVERYONE WAS INVITED

4:05:48 TO THAT AND YOU'LL PROBABLY GET

4:05:49 THE DETAILS IN THE NEXT COMING

4:05:51 WEEKS.

4:05:51 THANK YOU.

4:05:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN.

4:05:57 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

4:05:58 NAME?

4:05:59 COUNCILOR COLORED AS A PART

4:06:00 OF CONCERT CULPEPER CONCERT.

4:06:02 DURKAN.

4:06:02 COUNTRY FITZGERALD.

4:06:03 COUNCILOR FLYNN HUNTER

4:06:05 LOUIJEUNE COME TO MEJIA TOUCH A

4:06:06 MURPHY.

4:06:09 UH COUNCILOR WEBER COUNCIL ORAL

4:06:10 AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR

4:06:13 COUNCILOR SANTANA AND BAND SIX

4:06:16 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

4:06:17 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1735.

4:06:19 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED

4:06:22 .

4:06:22 NAY.

4:06:23 THE AYES HAVE IT.

4:06:24 DOCKET 1735 IS ADOPTED.

4:06:29 NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO UH.

4:06:34 UH LET'S SEE WE'RE MOVING ON TO

4:06:37 PERSONNEL ORDERS.

4:06:38 UH, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU READ

4:06:41 THE PERSONNEL ORDERS.

4:06:43 NUMBER 1736 COUNCILOR BREADON

4:06:47 FOR COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:06:52 THE CHAIR MOVES TO PASSAGE

4:06:53 OF THE PERSONNEL ORDER.

4:06:54 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.

4:06:56 YEAH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.

4:06:59 THE AYES HAVE IT.

4:07:00 PERSONAL ORDER IS PASSED.

4:07:02 UH, WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

4:07:05 GREEN SHEETS BEFORE WE MOVE ON

4:07:06 TO GREEN SHEETS.

4:07:07 IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE

4:07:08 TO ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET

4:07:10 THAT THEY MAY HAVE MISSED?

4:07:14 WE'RE GOOD.

4:07:16 UH, WE'RE NOW ON TO GREEN

4:07:18 SHEETS TO ANYONE LOOKING TO

4:07:19 PULL A DOCKET FROM THE GREEN

4:07:22 SHEETS.

4:07:24 OKAY.

4:07:33 COUNCILOR SANTANA, DID YOU HAVE

4:07:35 SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO PULL

4:07:36 FROM THE GREEN SHEET?

4:07:38 NO.

4:07:43 OKAY.

4:07:45 YOU'RE GOOD.

4:07:51 OKAY, WELL, WOMEN ARE MOVING ON

4:07:54 TO LATE FILES.

4:07:55 UH, MR. CLERK, UM, CAN YOU TELL

4:07:59 US WHAT WE HAVE FOR THE

4:08:00 ADVANCE?

4:08:00 UH, THERE WERE FIVE LATE FILES,

4:08:02 TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS, A

4:08:04 CONSTABLE BOND AND TWO

4:08:06 EMERGENCY ORDERS.

4:08:07 OKAY.

4:08:10 WE'LL START WITH THE

4:08:12 PERSONNEL FILE.

4:08:13 PERSONNEL UM ORDERS.

4:08:16 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE

4:08:18 TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS.

4:08:20 TOO LATE ON PERSONNEL ORDERS

4:08:22 WE'LL HAVE TO GO TO ACCEPT.

4:08:24 UH.

4:08:25 YES WE WILL.

4:08:27 UM, SO WE HAVE TWO PERSONNEL

4:08:30 ORDERS ABSENT.

4:08:30 OBJECTION.

4:08:31 THESE TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS ARE

4:08:33 ,UH, WILL BE ADDED.

4:08:35 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:08:36 READ THESE TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS

4:08:37 INTO THE INTO THE RECORD.

4:08:39 FIRST PERSONNEL ORDER,

4:08:40 COUNSELOR BRAIN FOR COUNSELOR

4:08:42 BRADEN'S OFFICE.

4:08:43 AND.

4:08:43 SECOND CROSS.

4:08:45 PERSONNEL ORDERS.

4:08:45 COUNSELOR BRAIN FOR COUNSELING

4:08:47 MEJIA.

4:08:51 THANK YOU.

4:08:52 UM.

4:08:55 TO BOTH.

4:08:56 I'D LIKE TO, UM.

4:08:58 YES.

4:08:58 UH, COULD WE HAVE A, UM ALL

4:09:00 THOSE IN FAVOR OF PASSAGE

4:09:01 OF THE PERSONNEL ORDERS, PLEASE

4:09:03 SAY I THANK YOU.

4:09:06 THE AYES HAVE IT.

4:09:07 PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE BEEN

4:09:08 PASSED.

4:09:09 UH, WE'RE NOW ON TO WE HAVE A

4:09:11 LITTLE FILE FOR A CONSTABLE

4:09:13 BOND.

4:09:14 MR TRAYER, COULD YOU PLEASE, UH

4:09:17 ,ABSENT COULD YOU?

4:09:19 MR TRAYER, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:09:20 READ THE, UH, CONSTABLE BOND

4:09:21 THE MATTER.

4:09:23 CONSTABLE BOND OF HOLSTEN

4:09:24 PERGOLA HAVING BEEN DULY

4:09:26 APPROVED BY THE COLLECTOR

4:09:27 TREASURER WAS RECEIVED.

4:09:30 THANK YOU.

4:09:31 UM, THIS, UH, MATTERS, UH,

4:09:34 PROPERLY BEFORE THE ORDER THESE

4:09:35 WILL BE PLACED ON.

4:09:37 FINE.

4:09:37 UH, THIS.

4:09:38 IS LIKE.

4:09:39 THE.

4:09:40 YES.

4:09:41 THE CONSTABLE BONDS WILL BE

4:09:42 APPROVED UNDER THE USUAL.

4:09:44 TERMS AND.

4:09:45 TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

4:09:46 THANK YOU.

4:09:47 AND WE ARE NOW ON TO.

4:09:52 WHAT WHAT ELSE HAVE WE GOT?

4:09:54 OUTSTANDING.

4:09:54 FIRST EMERGENCY ORDER BY

4:09:57 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

4:09:58 OKAY.

4:09:58 UM.

4:10:03 SO WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY HEARING

4:10:06 ORDER.

4:10:07 UM.

4:10:07 COULD WE COULD WE READ THE

4:10:13 EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER INTO.

4:10:17 I HAVE JUST TO MAKE THIS IS

4:10:21 THIS IS THIS IS, UM THE

4:10:23 RESOLUTION FOR THE CASE FOR THE

4:10:25 BUS CRASH.

4:10:30 CRASH?

4:10:34 OKAY.

4:10:35 UH.

4:10:37 SO WHAT WE HAVE.

4:10:38 WELL, JUST TO BE CLEAR JUST TO

4:10:40 BE CLEAR WHAT WE HAVE BEFORE US

4:10:41 RIGHT NOW IS A RESOLUTION AND

4:10:43 WE HAVE A HEARING ORDER.

4:10:45 FOR US.

4:10:47 UM.

4:10:51 WHICH ONE ARE WE OBJECTING TO

4:10:53 BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T.

4:10:54 PRESENTED I HAVEN'T PRESENTED

4:10:56 THEM YET.

4:10:57 YEAH.

4:10:58 UH, WE'LL.

4:10:59 TAKE A BRIEF RECESS.

4:11:01 HOLD ON.

4:11:01 BUT WE HAVE TO.

4:14:28 COLLEAGUES LISTED BACK WE HAVE

4:14:31 ,UH, LATE FILE RESOLUTION AND

4:14:34 OBVIOUSLY IT'S A HEARING ORDER.

4:14:36 UH, WE WILL TAKE THE LEAD FILE

4:14:39 RESOLUTION FIRST.

4:14:42 UM.

4:14:44 HEARING NO OBJECTION TO THE

4:14:48 HEARING.

4:14:48 UH, THE THE RESOLUTION THE, UH

4:14:52 THE RESOLUTION WILL BE READ

4:14:53 INTO THE RECORD.

4:14:54 HAVING A HARD TIME HEARING.

4:14:59 AS WELL.

4:15:02 SO.

4:15:03 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:15:04 READ THE LATE FINE RESOLUTION

4:15:06 INTO THE RECORD.

4:15:07 OFFERED BY COUNCILORS WORRELL

4:15:09 AND FITZGERALD RESOLUTION TO

4:15:10 HONOR THOSE KILLED IN THE CAPE

4:15:13 VERDE BUS CRASH TO.

4:15:14 SUPPORT VICTIMS FAMILIES.

4:15:24 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:15:26 COUNCILOR WIRRAL COUNCIL YOU

4:15:27 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:15:28 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:15:30 ON SEPTEMBER 5TH.

4:15:31 A DEVASTATING TRAGEDY STRUCK

4:15:33 THE ISLAND OF FOGO AND CAPE

4:15:34 VERDE.

4:15:35 A BUS.

4:15:36 CARRYING STUDENTS FROM A SCHOOL

4:15:37 TRIP CRASHED CLAIMING AT LEAST

4:15:40 25 LIVES.

4:15:42 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DAY

4:15:43 OF LEARNING AND JOY AND THEN

4:15:44 THE LOSS THAT HAS SHAKEN THE

4:15:46 COUNTRY.

4:15:46 HERE IN BOSTON THAT GRIEF IS

4:15:49 DEEPLY PERSONAL.

4:15:51 MEMBERS OF OUR CAPE VERDE

4:15:52 COMMUNITY HAVE LOST FAMILIES

4:15:53 AND FRIENDS.

4:15:55 AN OCEAN SEPARATES BOSTON FROM

4:15:57 FOGO BUT THE BONDS OF FAMILY

4:15:59 KEEPS US CLOSE.

4:16:01 IN THE DAYS SINCE OUR CAPE

4:16:02 VERDE COMMUNITY HAS COME

4:16:03 TOGETHER TO MOURN, COMFORT ONE

4:16:06 ANOTHER AND SUPPORT FAMILIES.

4:16:08 THAT STRENGTH DESERVES OUR

4:16:10 RECOGNITION AND OUR SUPPORT.

4:16:13 I WANT TO THANK THE CAPE VERDE

4:16:16 ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON, MANY

4:16:17 OF MY COLLEAGUES AND ALL THE

4:16:20 ORGANIZATIONS THAT BROUGHT OUR

4:16:21 CAPE VERDE COMMUNITY AND

4:16:22 NEIGHBORS ACROSS BOSTON

4:16:24 TOGETHER TO CREATE A SPACE FOR

4:16:26 US TO GRIEVE TOGETHER.

4:16:27 SUPPORT THE FAMILIES AFFECTED.

4:16:29 REMIND ONE ANOTHER THAT WE DO

4:16:31 NOT HAVE TO FACE THIS LOSS

4:16:32 ALONE.

4:16:34 TO EVERYONE MOURNING WE STAND

4:16:35 WITH YOU.

4:16:37 REMEMBER THE CHILDREN WHOSE

4:16:38 FUTURE WERE CUT SHORT AND THE

4:16:40 ADULTS WHO LIVES WERE TAKEN

4:16:41 ALONGSIDE THEM.

4:16:42 WE HOPE THE INJURED AND THEIR

4:16:44 FAMILIES IN OUR HEARTS.

4:16:46 I'M ALSO ASKING FOR SUSPENSION

4:16:48 AND PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION

4:16:49 .

4:16:50 THANK YOU.

4:16:52 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

4:16:54 AS AN IMMIGRANT MYSELF, I FIND

4:16:56 THAT VERY OFTEN WHEN A TRAGEDY

4:16:58 HAPPENS BACK HOME UM, WE'RE ALL

4:17:01 DEEPLY AND PROFOUNDLY TOUCHED

4:17:03 BY THAT AND IMPACTED.

4:17:05 SO EVEN THOUGH WE LIVE IN

4:17:06 ANOTHER COUNTRY, GRIEF AND

4:17:10 SADNESS IS UNIVERSAL.

4:17:12 WHEN WE WHEN WE LOSE COMMUNITY

4:17:13 MEMBERS WITH CONNECTIONS,

4:17:15 COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE

4:17:16 CONNECTIONS TO WHAT'S HAPPENING

4:17:17 BACK HOME.

4:17:18 SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING

4:17:19 FORWARD THIS RESOLUTION.

4:17:23 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE

4:17:24 THE FLOOR.

4:17:26 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:17:27 UH.

4:17:28 I'D LIKE TO THANK COUNCIL AS

4:17:29 WELL FOR ALSO INCLUDING.

4:17:30 THIS AS WE AS WE.

4:17:31 REPRESENT A LARGE CAPE VERDEAN

4:17:32 COMMUNITY TOGETHER ACROSS THE

4:17:34 BOARD.

4:17:34 UH.

4:17:35 WE ATTENDED THE, UH THE

4:17:37 REMEMBRANCE THE OTHER NIGHT.

4:17:38 UH, AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL

4:17:40 NIGHT OF OF UH, MUSIC, POETRY

4:17:42 AND PRAYER.

4:17:43 UH, FOR THOSE UH, 25

4:17:45 INDIVIDUALS THAT LOST THEIR

4:17:46 LIFE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, CABO

4:17:49 VERDE, SMALL ISLAND AND UH, SO

4:17:51 EVERYONE KNOWS EACH OTHER.

4:17:52 IT'S A LOT LIKE BOSTON AND

4:17:53 ESPECIALLY IN THE CAPE VERDEAN

4:17:55 COMMUNITY HERE IN BOSTON.

4:17:57 UH, THERE ARE CERTAINLY A

4:17:58 NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT WE MET

4:17:59 WITH THAT NIGHT, UM, THAT HAVE

4:18:02 RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE BACK

4:18:03 HOME AND FAMILIES AFFECTED.

4:18:04 AND SO, UH, WE'RE DOING

4:18:06 EVERYTHING WE CAN HERE TO

4:18:07 SUPPORT THEM, UH, AND TO

4:18:09 SUPPORT ACROSS UH IN CABO VERDE

4:18:10 AS WELL.

4:18:11 OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THOSE THAT

4:18:13 WERE AFFECTED AND WE PRAY THAT

4:18:14 THEY'LL.

4:18:14 REMEMBER THEM IN.

4:18:15 A GOOD WAY.

4:18:16 THANK YOU.

4:18:17 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

4:18:18 .

4:18:22 UM.

4:18:22 CARA.

4:18:50 UH.

4:19:38 WE'RE BACK IN SESSION.

4:19:39 UH, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, YOU

4:19:43 HAVE THE FLOOR?

4:19:45 YES.

4:19:46 THANK YOU.

4:19:46 I JUST WANTED TO RISE.

4:19:47 UM.

4:19:49 JUST TO.

4:19:50 MY CONDOLENCES TO OUR CAPE

4:19:52 VERDEAN COMMUNITY.

4:19:54 UM.

4:19:55 THIS I THINK IS LIKE ONE

4:19:57 OF THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE

4:19:59 WHO HAVE DIED AT ONE POINT AND

4:20:01 THEY WERE YOUNG PEOPLE AND

4:20:03 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO UM, I

4:20:07 HAVEN'T SEEN IN YEARS WHEN I

4:20:08 SAW AT THE MEMORIAL THE OTHER

4:20:09 NIGHT.

4:20:11 UM.

4:20:12 .

4:20:12 WHO WERE JUST SO DEEPLY

4:20:13 AFFECTED BY WHAT HAPPENED.

4:20:14 AND SO UM, AS SOMEONE WHO IS

4:20:19 DEEPLY CONNECTED TO WHAT GOES

4:20:21 ON IN MY PARENTS HOME COUNTRY,

4:20:23 I MY HEART BREAKS WHENEVER I

4:20:25 SEE THAT FOR A COMMUNITY.

4:20:27 AND SO.

4:20:28 UM.

4:20:29 I JUST WANT TO EXTEND MY

4:20:30 LOVE AND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE

4:20:33 PEOPLE OF.

4:20:34 UM THE CAPE VERDE FOR THOSE

4:20:36 PARTICULARLY UM, TO SENATOR

4:20:38 MIRANDA WHO I KNOW WHOSE HEART

4:20:39 AS A CAPE VERDEAN WOMAN IS

4:20:40 BREAKING SPECIFICALLY AND

4:20:43 ESPECIALLY UM AND IS LEADING

4:20:45 DURING THESE DIFFICULT TIMES

4:20:47 AND TO PAOLO AND THE CAPE

4:20:48 VERDEAN ASSOCIATION WHO PUT ON

4:20:50 A REALLY BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL.

4:20:52 UM THAT JUST A LOT OF PEOPLE

4:20:54 TOGETHER.

4:20:54 AND SO UM.

4:20:56 MY CONDOLENCES TO OUR CAPE

4:20:57 BRETON COMMUNITY.

4:20:58 I DO CONCLUSION UM CULTURAL.

4:21:01 YOU YES.

4:21:03 UM I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES

4:21:05 AND ADD COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AS

4:21:06 A.

4:21:07 THE ORIGINAL.

4:21:08 CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

4:21:10 .

4:21:10 SO ADDED.

4:21:12 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

4:21:13 NAME?

4:21:15 COUNCILOR UH COLLETTA ZAPATA.

4:21:16 COUNCILOR.

4:21:18 CULPEPER.

4:21:20 COUNCILOR.

4:21:22 THANK YOU FOR HAVING MEJIA.

4:21:24 I DIDN'T SEE YOUR LINES.

4:21:26 COUNCIL, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:21:28 THANK YOU.

4:21:29 PRESIDENT.

4:21:30 UM, BRENNAN, I WANT TO THANK MY

4:21:33 COLLEAGUES.

4:21:33 UH, I SAW A POST ON FACEBOOK

4:21:38 EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO

4:21:40 BE ON FACEBOOK THESE DAYS.

4:21:41 BUT I DO TROLL SOMETIMES AND I

4:21:45 SAW A POST, UM, FROM A FORMER,

4:21:49 UH, EMPLOYEE OF CITY HALL.

4:21:52 WHO NAMED AND CALLED AND

4:21:55 BROUGHT TO LIGHT.

4:21:57 UM, THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH WE

4:22:01 AS A BODY UM AND IN HER OWN WAY

4:22:05 HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB AT

4:22:07 RECOGNIZING HOW WE SHOW UP FOR

4:22:10 THE CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY.

4:22:12 UM, SO WE'RE DOING JUST THAT

4:22:15 AND AND MY HOPE IS THAT THE

4:22:19 CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY,

4:22:20 ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES

4:22:22 RECOGNIZES THAT NOT ONLY ARE WE

4:22:24 HERE AND SHOWING UP BUT WE ALSO

4:22:27 UNDERSTAND AT LEAST I'LL SPEAK

4:22:28 FOR MYSELF AS AN IMMIGRANT.

4:22:30 UM, THE HARDEST THING TO DO

4:22:32 ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO

4:22:33 CAN'T GO BACK HOME TO

4:22:36 COMFORT THEIR LOVED ONES IS TO

4:22:38 BE SO MANY MILES AWAY AND NOT

4:22:40 BEING ABLE TO HUG UP AND LOVE

4:22:43 UPON YOUR PEOPLE.

4:22:44 AND SO I KNOW THAT THE CAPE

4:22:46 VERDEAN COMMUNITY IS MOURNING

4:22:48 NOW AND I GREW UP WITH CAPE

4:22:52 VERDEANS I WELL I KNOW HOW TO

4:22:53 DO A SABLE COMPROMISE WHICH IS

4:22:55 DO YOU WANT TO BUY SOCKS?

4:22:56 BECAUSE I USED TO WORK.

4:22:57 AT.

4:22:58 A SHOE STORE BUT IT WAS THE

4:23:00 CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY.

4:23:01 A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS

4:23:02 CAPE VERDEAN BECAUSE YOU KNOW

4:23:04 LATINOS AND CAMBODIANS LOOK

4:23:05 ALIKE AND SO WE'RE FAMILY AND

4:23:09 SO I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW

4:23:10 NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT

4:23:11 BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE

4:23:13 CAN DO ADVOCATE UM TO SEND

4:23:16 VEHICLES OVER TO CAPE VERDE.

4:23:19 I BELIEVE WE I BELIEVE THE CITY

4:23:21 OF BOSTON IS A SISTER CITY.

4:23:22 NOT SURE IF THAT'S STILL THE

4:23:24 CASE, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE

4:23:25 HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AND A

4:23:27 RESPONSIBILITY TO SHOW UP FOR

4:23:29 OUR, UH, IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

4:23:31 THAT COME HERE AND THAT IF WE

4:23:33 HAVE A LARGE NUMBER I THINK

4:23:34 CAPE VERDEANS ARE HOLDING DOWN

4:23:35 ALL OF DORCHESTER.

4:23:37 UM, WE NEED TO SHOW UP IN BIG

4:23:39 WAYS NOT JUST HERE BUT ALSO

4:23:40 ABROAD.

4:23:41 MY CONDOLENCES TO.

4:23:43 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

4:23:45 I WILL PICK UP WHEN I WAS.

4:23:47 UH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO OTHER

4:23:48 NAME COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

4:23:49 POWDER COUNCILOR CULPEPER

4:23:51 COUNCIL DURKAN COUNCILOR.

4:23:53 FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.

4:23:54 FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

4:23:55 MEJIA COUNCILOR.

4:23:56 MURPHY COUNCILOR.

4:23:57 PEPEN CONSCIOUS SANTANA AND SO

4:23:59 WEBER AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR.

4:24:04 COUNCIL ORAL SEEK SUSPENSION

4:24:05 OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

4:24:07 OF THIS UH, LET'S FILE A

4:24:10 RESOLUTION.

4:24:11 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

4:24:14 SAY NAY.

4:24:14 UM, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:24:17 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

4:24:17 VOTE ON THE SOLIDIFIED

4:24:18 RESOLUTION.

4:24:20 COUNCILOR BRIE.

4:24:21 YES.

4:24:22 COUNCILOR BREADON.

4:24:22 YES, COUNCILOR.

4:24:23 CLOSER.

4:24:23 POTTER.

4:24:24 YES.

4:24:24 COUNCIL CLOSE BY.

4:24:25 YES.

4:24:26 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:24:27 YES.

4:24:28 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:24:28 YES.

4:24:29 COUNCILOR.

4:24:29 DURKAN.

4:24:29 YES.

4:24:30 COUNCIL.

4:24:30 DURKAN.

4:24:31 YES.

4:24:31 COUNCILOR.

4:24:31 FITZGERALD.

4:24:32 COUNCILOR.

4:24:32 SO.

4:24:33 YES.

4:24:33 COUNCILOR.

4:24:34 FLYNN.

4:24:34 YES.

4:24:34 COUNCILOR.

4:24:35 FLYNN.

4:24:35 YES.

4:24:35 COUNCILOR.

4:24:36 LOUIJEUNE.

4:24:38 COUNCILOR.

4:24:38 MEJIA.

4:24:39 COUNCILOR.

4:24:40 MEJIA.

4:24:40 YES.

4:24:41 COUNCILOR.

4:24:41 MURPHY.

4:24:42 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

4:24:43 YES.

4:24:43 COUNCIL.

4:24:43 THE PEN.

4:24:44 YEAH.

4:24:44 COUNCILOR.

4:24:45 PIN.

4:24:45 YES.

4:24:45 COUNCIL.

4:24:46 SANTANA.

4:24:46 YES.

4:24:47 COUNCIL.

4:24:47 SANTANA.

4:24:47 YES.

4:24:48 COUNCIL.

4:24:48 WEBER.

4:24:49 YES.

4:24:49 COUNCIL MEMBER.

4:24:50 YES AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

4:24:51 YES.

4:24:51 COUNCILOR.

4:24:52 WELL, YES.

4:24:53 THIS RESOLUTION HAS RECEIVED 12

4:24:55 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

4:24:56 THANK YOU.

4:24:57 THE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION HAS

4:24:59 BEEN ADOPTED.

4:25:01 MR. CLERK, WHAT ARE WE.

4:25:05 UM.

4:25:07 TO SMOKE THE SMOKE.

4:25:08 HEARING HEARING NO OBJECTIONS.

4:25:11 TO THE FIRE AFTER.

4:25:12 THE FINDING MATTER WAS AN

4:25:15 EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER.

4:25:16 UH, IT'S BEEN OBJECTED TO.

4:25:19 THIS, UH, EMERGENCY HEARING

4:25:21 ORDER WILL BE SENT TO THE

4:25:22 COMMITTEE.

4:25:23 NO.

4:25:24 DON'T HAVE ANY.

4:25:25 OKAY.

4:25:26 VERY GOOD.

4:25:27 IT'S BEEN OBJECTED TO.

4:25:29 OKAY, LET ME GO.

4:25:32 UM.

4:25:35 WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

4:25:37 CONSENT AGENDA.

4:25:38 I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE TRC

4:25:40 THAT THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS TO

4:25:42 THE CONSENT AGENDA.

4:25:43 THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON

4:25:45 APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS

4:25:47 CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

4:25:47 AGENDA.

4:25:48 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.

4:25:50 UH.

4:25:51 THANK YOU.

4:25:51 THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN

4:25:53 ADOPTED.

4:25:54 WE ARE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

4:25:55 PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE

4:25:57 FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.

4:25:59 UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

4:26:02 ANNOUNCEMENTS?

4:26:02 IF YOU JUST PUT YOUR LIGHT ON,

4:26:03 I'LL CALL ON YOU.

4:26:08 OKAY.

4:26:10 UH, WE WANT TO WISH A VERY

4:26:13 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UH, FOR THIS

4:26:14 UPCOMING WEEK.

4:26:16 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

4:26:18 UH, ETHAN VARA OF CENTRAL STAFF

4:26:21 GABRIELLE WITCHER OF COUNCILOR

4:26:24 SANTANA'S OFFICE.

4:26:26 UH, HOLLY MARGOLIS.

4:26:28 OF UH COUNCIL DURKIN'S UH

4:26:31 OFFICE.

4:26:32 WE ALSO SEND EXPRESS EXTENDED

4:26:35 CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHELLE

4:26:37 GOLDBERG OF CENTRAL STAFF AND

4:26:38 HER HUSBAND FOR THE BIRTH

4:26:39 OF THEIR NEW BABY.

4:26:41 CONGRATULATIONS.

4:26:43 UM.

4:26:45 ANY OTHER ANYBODY MISSING

4:26:47 ANYONE?

4:26:48 THANK YOU.

4:26:49 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

4:26:51 MEMORIALS.

4:26:51 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT A

4:26:54 NAME?

4:26:54 WE'RE GOING TO START.

4:26:55 I'M GOING TO.

4:26:57 COUNCIL.

4:26:58 COLLECTORS.

4:26:59 BATTLE COUNTRY COLLECTORS.

4:27:00 SORRY I HAD, TO ANNOUNCEMENTS

4:27:02 JUST REALLY QUICK.

4:27:03 OH YEAH.

4:27:03 WE HAVE YOUR NOTICE.

4:27:04 OKAY, THANKS.

4:27:05 UM, SO I JUST WANT TO CALL

4:27:07 ATTENTION TO THE ARMY CORPS

4:27:08 OF ENGINEERS.

4:27:08 UM, UH, COMMENT PERIOD.

4:27:10 THE STUDY IS, UM, FAST

4:27:13 APPROACHING.

4:27:14 IT'S FRIDAY.

4:27:14 I RECOMMEND ALL MY COLLEAGUES

4:27:15 TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND PROVIDE

4:27:16 THEIR COMMENTS.

4:27:17 IT HAS BROAD RAMIFICATIONS

4:27:18 ACROSS THE CITY.

4:27:19 UM, WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CITY

4:27:20 FROM COASTAL FLOODING AND STORM

4:27:21 SURGE AND GET THIS FEDERAL

4:27:22 MONEY.

4:27:23 UH, THE SECOND IS FOR ALL, UM,

4:27:25 YOUTH, UH, THE RETRO TOBACCO

4:27:27 WEARING ONE.

4:27:27 YOU KNOW, IT'S MAROON THIS

4:27:28 TIME.

4:27:29 UM, ALL, UH, YOUTH

4:27:31 OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK FOR THE

4:27:32 CITY OF BOSTON AND ALSO FOR UM,

4:27:35 UH, PRIVATE COMPANIES.

4:27:37 UH, ALL OF THAT IS GOING TO BE

4:27:39 MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND UM,

4:27:41 YOUTH ARE FREE TO BROWSE AND

4:27:42 START APPLYING SEPTEMBER 30TH

4:27:45 2026.

4:27:46 THANKS.

4:27:46 THANK YOU.

4:27:48 UH, NEXT I'M GOING TO GO RUN

4:27:50 THE ROOM SO FOR MEMORIALS.

4:27:52 UH, COUNCILOR UH, CULPEPER.

4:27:55 MADAM PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO

4:27:57 ADD ARE THE NAME OF VICTORIA

4:27:59 WILLIAMS.

4:28:02 THAT WE MIGHT KEEP OUR FAMILY

4:28:04 IN PRAYER.

4:28:07 IS HER HOME.

4:28:09 GOING IS ON SEPTEMBER 24TH.

4:28:14 FORMER OR.

4:28:17 12 CHAIR.

4:28:17 FORMER.

4:28:20 FAIR HOUSING DIRECTOR FOR THE

4:28:22 CITY OF BOSTON AMONG MANY OTHER

4:28:25 THINGS.

4:28:26 THANK YOU.

4:28:29 NEXT COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:28:30 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

4:28:31 UM, WHILE I DIDN'T KNOW HIM,

4:28:33 I'D LIKE TO READ THOMAS ROSE'S

4:28:34 NAME INTO THE RECORD.

4:28:35 HE WAS 37.

4:28:37 HE WAS AN MIT PROFESSOR.

4:28:39 UM, HE PASSED AWAY ON HIS BIKE.

4:28:41 UH, MEMORIAL DRIVE EAST AND

4:28:43 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE.

4:28:44 UM, HE, UM, DIED 12 DAYS AFTER

4:28:47 HIS CRASH.

4:28:48 UM, HE WAS BORN IN BERLIN,

4:28:50 GERMANY AND EVERYONE AT MIT UM

4:28:53 ,DESCRIBED HIM AS SOMEONE WITH

4:28:55 NEW ENERGY AND PROMISE.

4:28:56 THIS COULD HAVE BEEN ANYONE IN

4:28:58 THERE ON THEIR BIKE.

4:28:59 UM, AND, UH, ROSE IS THE FIFTH,

4:29:01 UH, BICYCLIST OR AND PEDESTRIAN

4:29:03 OR PEDESTRIAN TO BE FATALLY

4:29:05 INJURED ALONG MEMORIAL DRIVE.

4:29:06 AND SO I KNOW THAT WE OFTEN SEE

4:29:09 ,UM, YOU KNOW, JURISDICTIONAL

4:29:11 BOUNDARIES AS OH THAT'S

4:29:12 CAMBRIDGE OH THAT'S DCR OH

4:29:14 THAT'S MASSDOT.

4:29:15 UM, BUT TO HIM HE WAS A PERSON

4:29:17 WHO PEOPLE LOVED.

4:29:19 UM HE WAS AN AVID MEMBER OF THE

4:29:21 CYCLIST COMMUNITY BUT HE WAS

4:29:22 JUST TRYING TO GET TO WORK AND

4:29:24 I THINK UM, TO A LOT OF MY

4:29:26 COLLEAGUES THAT UM, HAVE

4:29:29 ADVOCATED AND TO SOME OF MY

4:29:30 COLLEAGUES THAT UM, YOU KNOW,

4:29:32 NEED TO ADVOCATE MORE.

4:29:35 UM, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO GET

4:29:36 UNITED AROUND BIKE SAFETY IN A

4:29:38 REGIONAL MANNER.

4:29:39 AND I THINK IT'S REALLY

4:29:40 IMPORTANT THAT, UM, WE DON'T

4:29:42 USE ACCIDENTS AS FODDER AND WE,

4:29:45 UM, REALLY RESPECT THE PEOPLE

4:29:46 WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES ON

4:29:49 OUR ROADWAYS.

4:29:49 UM, AND UM, THOMAS DESERVED

4:29:52 BETTER FROM OUR REGION AND WE

4:29:54 HAVE TO DO BETTER ON BIKES.

4:29:56 THANK YOU.

4:29:57 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR.

4:30:00 UH LOUIJEUNE.

4:30:00 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:30:01 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:30:03 THIS RELATES TO MY IN MEMORIAM,

4:30:04 BUT, UM, I WAS, UH, OUTSIDE

4:30:07 WHEN WE VOTED ON THE

4:30:08 RESOLUTION, SO I'D LIKE TO

4:30:09 PLEASE ADD MY NAME AND OFFER A

4:30:11 MOTION TO RECONSIDER A VOTE

4:30:14 THAT.

4:30:14 SECONDED.

4:30:16 SECOND.

4:30:17 ALL IN FAVOR?

4:30:18 UH, FAVOR SAY.

4:30:19 I.

4:30:20 UM, TO ALLOW ME TO VOTE IN

4:30:22 THE AFFIRMATIVE AND TO ADD MY

4:30:23 NAME ON THE RESOLUTION WHICH I

4:30:24 WAS.

4:30:24 ADDED ON AS A THIRD.

4:30:25 SO THANK YOU.

4:30:26 UM, I WANT TO AGAIN UPLIFT THE

4:30:31 25 LIVES MOSTLY YOUNG PEOPLE

4:30:32 WHO WERE LOST IN FOGO IN THE IN

4:30:34 THE BUS ACCIDENT AND WANTED TO

4:30:36 MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THE

4:30:38 ENTIRETY OF OUR CAPE VERDEAN

4:30:38 COMMUNITY AND OUR CAPE VERDEAN

4:30:40 EMPLOYEES HERE IN THE CITY

4:30:41 OF BOSTON AND OUR THOUGHTS AS

4:30:42 THEY MOURN.

4:30:43 I MENTIONED HIS NAME EARLIER

4:30:44 APPEARED ON MY SPELL THE 20

4:30:46 YEAR OLD IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO

4:30:47 WHO THREW HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A

4:30:49 TRUCK.

4:30:50 UM AND UH, DYING BY SUICIDE OR

4:30:52 AS A RESULT OF THIS

4:30:54 ADMINISTRATION'S ACTIONS WITH

4:30:55 RESPECT TO STRIPPING PEOPLE

4:30:57 OF TPS.

4:30:57 UH, I HEARD COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

4:30:59 UPLIFT IN THE NAME OF VICTORIA

4:31:01 WILLIAMS FORMER UH, WARD 12

4:31:03 CHAIR AND WOULD JUST LIKE TO

4:31:04 ECHO THOSE SENTIMENTS AND, UM,

4:31:06 SHE WAS AN AMAZING WOMAN AND SO

4:31:08 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO GIVE MY

4:31:09 CONDOLENCES TO HER FAMILY AND

4:31:11 AS CUSTOMER HERE DECLARED APRIL

4:31:12 20TH 2ND JUNE, YOU MIGHT JUST

4:31:14 WANT TO CONTINUE TO UPLIFT THE

4:31:15 MEMORY OF JANINE MATOS.

4:31:16 THANK YOU.

4:31:17 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:31:19 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

4:31:19 THANK YOU.

4:31:21 I WANT TO JOIN TODAY'S MEETING

4:31:23 IN MEMORY OF NOREEN DWYER

4:31:25 KELLY, A LIFELONG DORCHESTER

4:31:27 RESIDENT AND A TRUE SAINT

4:31:29 ANNE'S GIRL NOREEN AND JACK

4:31:31 SHARED.

4:31:31 60 YEARS OF MARRIAGE AND RAISED

4:31:33 SIX BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN SEAN,

4:31:35 STEPHEN, DIANE, TRICIA, EDWARD

4:31:37 AND GREGORY.

4:31:38 AND SHE WAS THE PROUD

4:31:39 GRANDMOTHER OF 16.

4:31:40 THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WAKE AND

4:31:43 MASS THIS PAST FEW DAYS AND I

4:31:46 JUST KNOW THAT HER MEMORY AND

4:31:47 HER LEGACY WILL LIVE ON IN HER

4:31:49 FAMILY AND THOSE WHO LOVED HER.

4:31:51 THANK YOU.

4:31:52 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:31:53 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

4:31:54 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:31:55 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:31:56 TODAY I RISE IN HONOR OF RALPH

4:31:58 CUT, A ALSO BELOVED COMMUNITY

4:32:00 LEADER IN HYDE PARK WHO PASSED

4:32:02 AWAY JUST TEN DAYS AGO.

4:32:03 RALPH WAS BORN AND RAISED IN

4:32:05 HYDE PARK, A GRADUATE OF HYDE

4:32:06 PARK HIGH SCHOOL.

4:32:07 AND A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE

4:32:09 HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD

4:32:10 ASSOCIATION WHERE HE

4:32:11 CONTRIBUTED COUNTLESS EVENTS

4:32:13 AND INITIATIVES FOR THE BENEFIT

4:32:15 OF THE HYDE PARK COMMUNITY AT

4:32:17 ONE TIME OR ANOTHER.

4:32:18 DURING HIS 40 YEARS IN THE

4:32:20 ASSOCIATION, RALPH HELD EVERY

4:32:22 SINGLE POSITION ON THE BOARD

4:32:23 NOW EVEN AS HE BATTLED CANCER.

4:32:26 RALPH SERVED AS ASSOCIATION

4:32:28 TREASURER RECENTLY SO IF ANY

4:32:30 OF MY COLLEAGUES, MY AT-LARGE

4:32:32 COLLEAGUES OR YOUR STAFF BEEN

4:32:33 TO A MEETING RECENTLY, HE WAS

4:32:35 THERE AS THE TREASURER.

4:32:36 THE HYDE PARK COMMUNITY AND I

4:32:38 ARE GRATEFUL FOR RALPH'S

4:32:39 DEDICATION, HIS SERVICE AND HIS

4:32:42 LOVE.

4:32:42 MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

4:32:47 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

4:32:51 ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR PEPEN

4:32:53 RALPH CARTER LESS ON BEHALF

4:32:56 OF CONTRA DURKAN THOMAS ROSE

4:32:59 BEHALF OF COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

4:33:00 AND COUNCILOR MURPHY.

4:33:02 NOREEN KELLY.

4:33:04 BEHALF OF COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

4:33:06 MADELINE LA MONICA, ELIZABETH

4:33:08 BETH RUNKEL AND EDWARD WALSH

4:33:12 WELSH ON BEHALF OF COUNCILORS

4:33:14 MEJIA LOUIJEUNE AND SANTANA

4:33:16 JEANNIE MATOS.

4:33:18 I WOULD EXTEND THAT TO ALL

4:33:20 OF THE CITY COUNCIL UH ON

4:33:23 BEHALF OF LOUIJEUNE AND

4:33:25 CULPEPER VICTORIA WILLIAMS, THE

4:33:27 FORMER MOORE 12 DEMOCRATIC

4:33:29 CHAIR AND CITY OF BOSTON

4:33:31 EMPLOYEE ON BEHALF OF ALL

4:33:33 OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

4:33:35 UH THE 25 MOSTLY TEENAGERS WHO

4:33:38 DIED IN THE BUS ACCIDENT IN

4:33:39 CAPE VERDE.

4:33:40 ALL OF THEIR LOVED ONES BOTH IN

4:33:42 CAPE VERDE AND HERE IN BOSTON.

4:33:45 ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, UH,

4:33:48 COUNCILOR BREADON JOHN PATRICK

4:33:50 MCLAUGHLIN, UH, THE BELOVED SON

4:33:52 OF.

4:33:59 24, 24 YEARS OLD DIED IN A

4:34:02 TRAGIC MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN

4:34:03 THAILAND.

4:34:05 BELOVED SON OF UM.

4:34:10 CATHY AND JIM MCLAUGHLIN AND,

4:34:13 UH, WHO LOST THEIR OLDEST

4:34:15 DAUGHTER AND 29 2019 2018, UH,

4:34:20 TO BRAIN CANCER.

4:34:21 THIS IS A HUGE LOSS TO THIS

4:34:22 FAMILY.

4:34:23 UM, JOHN AROON BASU WHO'S A

4:34:26 LONG TIME RESIDENT AND ALL IN

4:34:28 BRIGHTON CENTER AND A VERY

4:34:30 FAITHFUL MEMBER OF BRIGHTON

4:34:31 ALLSTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

4:34:34 UM, AN IMMIGRANT FROM INDIA, A

4:34:36 PROFESSOR AND TEACHER

4:34:38 OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS AND

4:34:40 VERY BELOVED IN THE

4:34:41 NEIGHBORHOOD ESPECIALLY DANIEL

4:34:43 SPEAR BAKERY WHERE HE WAS A

4:34:45 REGULAR CUSTOMER.

4:34:47 FRC LADY THIS VESSEL LADIES WHO

4:34:50 IS 98 YEARS OLD.

4:34:52 UH THE MOTHER OF UM CHARLIE

4:34:54 VASILY WHO'S A LONG TIME UM

4:34:57 LONGTIME FAMILY RESIDENT IN A

4:34:59 GREEK COMMUNITY IN ALLSTON AND

4:35:00 BRIGHTON.

4:35:01 UH, AND UH, GREATLY LOST UM

4:35:03 VERY DEDICATED FAMILY TAKE CARE

4:35:05 OF OF UH FOR FOR TO THIS GREAT

4:35:08 AGE OF ALMOST MAKING IT TO 100

4:35:10 BUT SHE'LL BE GREATLY MISSED IN

4:35:11 THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

4:35:13 SISTER BETTY CRAWLEY A COLLIE.

4:35:16 UM, SISTER OF SAINT JOSEPH, UH

4:35:19 ,WHO WAS UH, LED THERE.

4:35:21 UM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL

4:35:24 JUSTICE UH COMMITTEE ALSO UH,

4:35:29 ON MY BEHALF AND UH, GLORIA

4:35:31 STEINEM ALL OF THOSE WOMEN IN

4:35:33 THIS COUNCIL AND ANYWHERE WHO

4:35:35 HAVE A CREDIT CARD.

4:35:37 GLORIA STEINEM HELPED MAKE THAT

4:35:38 HAPPEN.

4:35:41 THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE

4:35:43 COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY, IT DOES

4:35:45 SO IN MEMORY OF THE FOR THE

4:35:47 AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS.

4:35:51 A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

4:36:02 THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

4:36:03 MEET AGAIN ON THE ISLAND AT THE

4:36:05 CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

4:36:07 23RD, 2026 AT 12 P.M..

4:36:09 THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES,

4:36:11 CENTRAL STAFF, THE CLERK'S

4:36:13 OFFICE AND THE

4:36:15 COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER.

4:36:16 UM ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT

4:36:19 PLEASE SAY AYE.

4:36:20 AYE.

4:36:21 THANK YOU.

4:36:22 THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.

4:36:37 THE.