Boston City Council Meeting on September 30, 2026

1:18 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

1:20 I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING

1:22 OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

1:24 VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE

1:25 COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON

1:28 YOUTUBE@BOSTON.GOV BACKSLASH

1:29 CITY COUNCIL DASH TV.

1:32 AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

1:33 COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

1:34 AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

1:35 THEIR CELL PHONES AND

1:36 ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

1:38 ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42, I

1:41 REMIND ALL IN THE CHAMBER THAT

1:43 NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

1:44 DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

1:45 PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

1:47 THANK YOU.

1:49 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE,

1:50 UH, TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE TO

1:52 ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A

1:53 QUORUM?

1:54 COUNCILOR BREADON HERE.

1:56 COUNCIL.

1:56 COLLETTA.

1:57 ZAPATA.

1:58 COUNCILOR.

1:58 CULPEPER.

1:59 COUNCILOR.

2:00 DURKAN.

2:00 COUNCILOR.

2:01 FITZGERALD.

2:02 COUNCILOR.

2:02 FLYNN.

2:03 COUNCIL.

2:04 LOUIJEUNE.

2:04 COUNCILOR.

2:05 MEJIA.

2:07 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:07 COUNCILOR.

2:08 THE PEN.

2:09 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:11 COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:11 AND COUNCILOR.

2:12 WORLD OF PALMS.

2:14 THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

2:15 I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE TALK

2:16 THAT THE QUORUM QUORUM IS

2:18 PRESENT.

2:19 NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO ASK

2:21 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTNER

2:22 TO COME FORWARD AND INTRODUCE

2:23 HER TO THIS CLERGY.

2:32 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:33 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.

2:34 UM, IT'S AN HONOR TO WELCOME

2:36 FATHER PAOLO COMING HERE.

2:38 DID I GET THAT RIGHT?

2:40 EXCELLENT.

2:40 OKAY.

2:40 UM, FROM EAST BOSTON, FROM

2:42 SACRED HEART CHURCH WHICH IS MY

2:43 HOME PARISH IN EAST BOSTON.

2:45 HE WAS BORN IN ITALY AND AFTER

2:48 SCHOOLING HE JOINED THE

2:49 SEMINARY OF THE FRATERNITY

2:50 OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO IN

2:51 ROME IN 2001 HE WAS OR HE WAS

2:54 ORDAINED DEACON AND ASSIGNED TO

2:55 THE MISSION OF THE OF THE

2:57 FRATERNITY IN TAIWAN AND AFTER

2:58 TEN YEARS IN TAIWAN AND A SHORT

3:00 VISIT BACK TO ITALY, HE ARRIVED

3:02 IN BOSTON AT THE BEGINNING

3:03 OF 2012 AND TAUGHT MATH AT

3:05 CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL IN

3:06 DORCHESTER.

3:08 IN JUNE 2013 CARDINAL SEAN

3:09 O'MALLEY ENTRUSTED THE PASTORAL

3:11 CARE OF SAINT CLEMENT PARISH IN

3:13 MEDFORD IN SOMERVILLE WHERE HE

3:15 TAUGHT MATH AND RELIGION AT

3:16 SAINT CLEMENT HIGH SCHOOL FOR

3:17 FOUR YEARS.

3:18 AFTER THE PARISH SCHOOL CLOSED

3:22 IN 2017 HE ARRIVED AS VICAR AT

3:24 AT THE BEVERLY UM AT A BEVERLY

3:27 CHURCH AND LATER APPOINTED

3:29 CHAPLAIN AT THE SHRINE OF OUR

3:30 LADY OF GOOD VOYAGE IN THE

3:31 SEAPORT DISTRICT IN BOSTON ON

3:34 AUGUST 1ST 2020 EAST BOSTON

3:35 WELCOME FATHER TO SACRED HEART

3:37 PARISH IN EAST BOSTON AND AS I

3:38 MENTIONED SACRED HEART IS MY

3:39 FAMILY PARISH.

3:40 I WAS BAPTIZED THERE, I GOT

3:42 COMMUNION THERE I RECEIVED I

3:44 WAS CONFIRMED UM AND IT'S BEEN

3:46 REALLY A PLEASURE AND I'M

3:48 THRILLED TO SEE HOW MUCH THE

3:49 CHURCH HAS THRIVED SINCE HIS

3:51 ARRIVAL.

3:51 HE'S OPENED UP THE, UH, SPACE

3:54 IN THE BASEMENT FOR A SOUP

3:55 KITCHEN WHICH MEETS EVERY FIRST

3:57 FIRST WEDNESDAY OF SECOND

3:59 WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH.

3:59 I'M HAPPY THAT YOU CORRECTED

4:01 ME AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO

4:02 SEE THIS CHURCH COME ALIVE AND

4:05 WELCOME UH, IN UM, FOLKS FROM

4:08 EAST BOSTON NO MATTER WHO THEY

4:10 ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM, UM,

4:11 IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL UH, TIME

4:14 TO TO BE WITH EVERYBODY AND

4:15 PEOPLE HAVE REALLY GREAT

4:16 CONVERSATIONS.

4:17 I'VE HAD SOME OF THE BEST

4:18 CONVERSATIONS AT THAT UH, SOUP

4:19 KITCHEN.

4:19 SO I WELCOME EVERYBODY TO BE

4:21 THERE UM, AND GET A CHANCE TO

4:23 HAVE A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH

4:24 SOMEONE WHO I CALL A FRIEND AND

4:26 REALLY GRATEFUL TO HAVE HIM

4:27 HERE.

4:28 UM UH, FATHER CUBAN.

4:29 SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, PLEASE

4:31 PROVIDE A WARM WELCOME, UH, FOR

4:33 FATHER.

4:33 PABLO CUBAN.

4:33 YOU HAVE TO BE.

4:35 THANK YOU.

4:36 UH, COUNCILOR ZAPATA, MY

4:39 FRIEND.

4:40 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:41 IT'S MY FOURTH TIME HERE.

4:44 UH, THE FIRST TIME WAS, UH,

4:46 VIRTUAL IN 2020 WITH

4:48 CANCER EDWARDS.

4:50 UH, MY LAST NAME IS NOT VERY

4:54 ITALIAN COMING?

4:55 NOT SURE.

4:56 I SPENT TEN YEARS IN TAIWAN IN

4:58 MY LAST NAME IN TAIWAN IN

4:59 CHINESE.

5:00 SOUNDS LIKE HARSH LIFE WITH SO

5:02 MANY MEANINGS.

5:03 HARSH LIFE.

5:04 WELL I'M I'M SAYING THIS

5:07 BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE

5:08 TO START OFF WITH SOMETHING A

5:09 BIT HARSH LIKE UH WELL WE HEAR

5:13 CONSTANTLY ABOUT AI APOCALYPSE

5:17 WARS AND INTERNATIONAL TURMOIL,

5:19 POLITICAL DIVISIONS AND

5:21 TENSIONS IN OUR COUNTRY,

5:23 UNCERTAINTY FOR THE FUTURE, OUR

5:25 PLANET, OUR COUNTRY, OUR OUR

5:27 CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN.

5:29 YEAH THESE ARE SOME WORLD WHERE

5:31 I'M SURE KEEP YOU AWAKE AT

5:32 NIGHT AND THE REST OF MY BRAIN

5:35 AND MY HEART AS YOUR BRAIN AND

5:39 YOUR HEART IS ONE.

5:41 WHERE CAN WE FIND SOME STABLE

5:43 GROUND?

5:45 ARE THERE ANY HOPE AND

5:47 CERTAINTIES ON WHICH WE CAN

5:48 RELY TO BUILD THE FUTURE OUR

5:49 FAMILIES, OUR CITY AND OUR

5:51 SOCIETY?

5:52 SPEAKING OF HEADQUARTERS

5:54 OF UNESCO YOU KNOW THE NATION

5:55 INTERNATIONAL IT'S SORT

5:56 OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC

5:58 CULTURE ORGANIZATION IN PARIS

5:59 LAST WEEK POPE LEO SENT REGARDS

6:04 TO FINDING HOPE AND STABLE

6:06 GROUND FOR THE FUTURE.

6:07 I WOULD LIKE TO APPEAL TO TWO

6:08 IMAGES FROM A BIBLE A GREAT

6:11 CULTURAL TREASURE OF HUMANITY

6:13 THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE

6:15 PUBLIC SQUARE OF PENTECOST WITH

6:18 OUR BABEL REPRESENTS A UNITY

6:19 IMPOSED FOR DOMINATION.

6:21 AT THE SAME TIME THIS EDIFICE

6:24 REVEALS THAT THE MORE POWER

6:25 SEEKS TO OPPRESS THE MORE IT

6:27 WEAKENS ITSELF EXPOSING ITS YOU

6:29 ,ITS INHUMANE FACE THEREFORE

6:33 CONTINUES THE CORRUPTION

6:34 CULTURE WHICH ARE CONSIDERING

6:35 FINES OF REDEMPTION IN THE

6:37 SQUARE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE

6:38 PENTECOST 50 DAYS AFTER EASTER

6:41 THEIR MESSAGE OF PEACE AND

6:42 MERCY THAT GOOD NEWS BY PEOPLE

6:44 EVERY NATION THIS MESSAGE

6:47 PROCLAIMED BY RESTRICTION JESUS

6:48 VICTORY OF LIFE OVER DEATH AND

6:50 SALVATION GIVES HOPE TO A

6:51 WORLD.

6:52 THE PENTECOST THE PUBLIC SQUARE

6:54 BECOMES A PLACE FOR PEACE

6:56 BECAUSE EVERY DEFENSE AGAINST

6:58 HUMAN PERSONS CELEBRATING

7:00 EQUITY AND PROPS.

7:01 THOSE WORDS I WOULD LIKE TO

7:03 INVITE EVERYONE AT THIS POINT

7:05 TO RISE, SETTLE IN PRAYER AND

7:07 FOLLOW ME IN PRAYER.

7:08 YOU COME TO PRAY OR JUST FOLLOW

7:10 SILENTLY AND QUIETLY YOUR

7:13 FATHER IN HEAVEN.

7:14 MAY THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS

7:17 ESTEEMED COUNCIL HAVE THE

7:18 COURAGE TO TAKE UP THE

7:19 RESPONSIBILITY THE TASK

7:20 OF PROMOTING PEACE PEACE IN

7:22 YOUR HEARTS, IN THE

7:24 RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN OUR

7:25 FAMILIES, IN OUR CITY.

7:26 MAYBE NOT GIVE IN TO THE

7:29 MENTALITY OF VIOLENCE AND

7:30 OPPRESSION.

7:31 NEVER LONG MAY THEY LOVE LIFE

7:33 AT EVERY MOMENT FROM ITS

7:34 BEGINNING TO ITS END AND NOT BE

7:36 AFRAID OF THE FUTURE.

7:37 MAYBE NOT GROW WEARY BUT WORK

7:39 TIRELESSLY FOR THE GOOD OF OUR

7:40 OTHER COMMUNITIES SO THAT WITH

7:43 THEM OUR BELOVED CITY OF BOSTON

7:45 FIRMLY ROOTED IN ITSELF AND

7:47 CONTINUE TO FLOURISH AS A TRUE

7:49 HOME FOR EVERYONE.

7:50 MAY GOD SUSTAIN US TEAM

7:52 OFFICIALS IN THESE COMMITMENTS

7:53 AND MAY BLESS SIMPLE.

7:55 THANK ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN

7:56 OVER CITY WE ASK FOR THROUGH

7:58 CHRIST OUR LORD.

7:59 AMEN.

8:02 THANK YOU.

8:03 SACRED PLEDGE.

8:06 ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG.

8:08 AND OF.

8:09 AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR

8:11 WHICH IT STANDS.

8:12 ONE NATION.

8:13 UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH

8:16 LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

8:25 THANK YOU FATHER.

8:27 UH WE ARE NOW MOVING ON.

8:29 WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS THIS

8:30 AFTERNOON.

8:31 COUNCILOR POPE CULPEPER IS

8:33 RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL FORUM

8:34 FOR BLACK PUBLIC

8:36 ADMINISTRATORS.

8:37 UH, AND I'M ALSO, UH, HAVE A

8:39 PRESENTATION FOR MAURA TO

8:40 ME AND THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN

8:42 WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION.

8:44 COUNCILOR CULPEPER, WOULD YOU

8:45 LIKE TO COME FORWARD WITH YOUR

8:46 GUESTS?

8:59 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

9:11 I WANT TO.

9:12 RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE

9:14 BOSTON CHAPTER.

9:16 OF THE.

9:17 NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK

9:18 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS FOR

9:20 JOINING US TODAY FOR THEIR

9:23 PRESENTATION TO THE CITY

9:25 COUNCIL DURING OUR LUNCH AND

9:26 LEARN.

9:27 AND IF BPA PLAYS AN IMPORTANT

9:30 ROLE IN STRENGTHENING PUBLIC

9:32 SERVICE BY DEVELOPING AND

9:34 SUPPORTING BLACK LEADERS IN

9:35 LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT HERE

9:37 IN GREATER BOSTON.

9:39 THE BOSTON CHAPTER CONTINUES

9:40 THAT MISSION THROUGH

9:42 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT,

9:45 MENTORSHIP, NETWORKING, CIVIC

9:49 ENGAGEMENT AND HELPING PREPARE

9:50 THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC

9:52 SERVANTS AND CULTIVATING

9:54 LEADERS WHO STRENGTHEN OUR

9:56 COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVE OUR

9:57 GOVERNMENT.

9:58 WE WANT TO THANK THE MEMBERS

9:59 OF THE BOSTON CHAPTER NOT ONLY

10:01 FOR SPENDING TIME WITH US

10:03 TODAY, BUT FOR THE WORK YOU DO

10:04 EVERY DAY HERE IN BOSTON,

10:06 THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS AND AS

10:09 A PART OF A NATIONAL

10:10 ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO

10:11 EXCELLENCE AND OPPORTUNITY IN

10:14 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

10:15 IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WELCOME

10:17 YOU TO CITY HALL AND LOOK

10:18 FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK

10:20 TOGETHER TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC

10:22 SERVICE AND DEVELOP THE NEXT

10:25 GENERATION OF LEADERS.

10:26 AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO GIVE A

10:28 SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO A LONG

10:30 TIME FRIEND UH, WHEN WE WERE.

10:33 YOU YOUTH I'M NOT TELLING HOW

10:37 FAR BACK WE GO, BUT WE'VE BEEN

10:39 FRIENDS FOR A REALLY LONG TIME

10:41 AND I'D LIKE TO BRING UP FORMER

10:43 PAST PRESIDENT HONORED.

10:45 UH.

10:47 THANK YOU.

10:48 VERY MUCH.

10:49 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER AND, UH

10:51 ,I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL

10:52 OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON

10:55 CITY COUNCIL FOR ATTENDING THE

10:58 PRESENTATION THIS MORNING.

10:59 AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK ALL

11:03 OF THE STAFF MEMBERS AND IN

11:06 PARTICULAR THE STAFF THAT, UH,

11:07 WORK WITH COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

11:09 FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN

11:11 ORGANIZING THE THE MEETING THAT

11:13 WE HELD THIS MORNING TO SHARE

11:16 INFORMATION RELATED TO THE

11:17 NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC

11:19 ADMINISTRATORS AND THE

11:20 IMPORTANT WORK THAT WE DO NOT

11:22 ONLY LOCALLY BUT ALSO

11:23 NATIONALLY.

11:25 SO AGAIN, UM, I UH, APPRECIATE

11:28 ALL ALL OF YOUR GRACIOUS

11:31 HOSPITALITY AND UH, I'M HAPPY

11:33 TO SAY THAT AS A LONG TERM

11:34 RESIDENT, UH, TRANSPLANT TO

11:37 BOSTON, UM, I'M VERY PLEASED TO

11:41 SEE THAT, UH, WE CONTINUE TO

11:43 MAKE, UM, PROGRESS, BUILD

11:46 BRIDGES AND ALSO ADDRESS, UM,

11:50 MANY PROBLEMS WITH NEW

11:51 SOLUTIONS AND NEW STRATEGIES TO

11:54 MOVE FORWARD IN A VERY A VERY

11:57 POSITIVE MANNER FOR THE FUTURE.

11:59 THANK YOU AGAIN, UH,

12:02 COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND THANK

12:02 YOU TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE

12:04 CITY COUNCIL AND UM AND FRIENDS

12:07 WHO ARE HERE TODAY.

12:09 MICHAEL, FORMER PRESIDENT

12:12 OF THE BOSTON CHAPTER OF THE

12:14 NATIONAL FORUM OF BLACK PUBLIC

12:17 ADMINISTRATORS.

12:17 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

12:19 CULPEPER AND.

12:20 THANK YOU.

12:21 TO CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR VERY

12:23 WARM AND GENEROUS WELCOME TO

12:25 OUR CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES.

12:28 UM, THIS MORNING UM IT'S A REAL

12:30 PLEASURE TO MEET ALL OF YOU.

12:32 UM, AS A LONG TIME UH,

12:35 DORCHESTER RESIDENT THOUGH UH,

12:37 BORN IN CHICAGO, UM, I AND A

12:40 PROFESSOR IN PUBLIC POLICY AND

12:43 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,

12:44 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

12:45 BOSTON UM, I SEE FIRSTHAND THE

12:49 POWER OF.

12:50 GOOD GOVERNMENT.

12:51 TO, UH, CHANGE PEOPLE'S LIVES.

12:54 AND I HOPE THAT THE BOSTON

12:55 CHAPTER OF NATIONAL FORUM FOR

12:57 BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS CAN

12:59 WORK WITH CITY COUNCIL, ITS

13:01 STAFF AND ALL OF YOUR

13:02 CONSTITUENTS TO ENHANCE, UM,

13:07 PATHWAYS TO PUBLIC SERVICE FOR

13:09 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, UM, AND

13:11 PRODUCTIVE CAREERS FOR THOSE

13:13 WHO ARE IN OR CONSIDERING

13:14 PUBLIC SERVICE.

13:15 THANK YOU.

13:16 I'D ALSO LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT

13:17 OUT TO CHANEL AND MARIE, THE

13:21 BACKBONE OF THIS ORGANIZATION.

13:23 OH COME ON.

13:24 OKAY.

13:25 UM.

13:26 I WAS NERVOUS, SO I TYPED MY

13:27 SPEECH.

13:27 UM.

13:28 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

13:30 UM, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR

13:32 HAVING US HERE TODAY AND THANK.

13:33 YOU ALL TOO AS WELL.

13:36 UM.

13:37 WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO BE HERE

13:38 .

13:39 UM, OUR CHAPTER REMAINS

13:40 COMMITTED.

13:41 TO STRENGTHENING PUBLIC

13:42 ADMINISTRATION THROUGH

13:44 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT,

13:46 MENTORSHIP, PROFESSIONAL

13:47 NETWORKING AND CREATING

13:48 PATHWAYS FOR THE NEXT

13:49 GENERATION OF PUBLIC SERVANTS.

13:51 UH, WE BELIEVE PUBLIC SERVICE

13:53 IS MORE THAN A PROFESSION.

13:54 IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD

13:56 WITH INTEGRITY, UPLIFT OUR

13:58 COMMUNITIES AND CREATE

14:00 OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHERS.

14:01 SO WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THIS

14:02 RECOGNITION AND WE LOOK FORWARD

14:04 TO CONTINUING BUILDING

14:05 MEANINGFUL.

14:06 PARTNERSHIPS AND RELATIONSHIPS

14:07 WITH YOU HERE.

14:09 UM.

14:09 AND BEYOND UM, HERE AND

14:11 OUTSIDE OF THESE OFFICES TO

14:12 SERVE THE GREATER BOSTON

14:14 COMMUNITY.

14:14 THANK YOU.

14:16 THANK YOU CHANEL.

14:17 AND LET ME JUST QUICKLY READ

14:19 THIS RESOLUTION CITY OF BOSTON

14:22 AND CITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL

14:25 RESOLUTION PRESENTED BY

14:26 COUNCILOR MINYARD CULPEPER BE

14:28 RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON CITY

14:30 COUNCIL OFFERS ITS

14:31 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BOSTON

14:33 CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL FORUM

14:34 FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS

14:37 IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR

14:38 OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT TO

14:39 ADVANCING EXCELLENCE, DIVERSITY

14:42 AND LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC

14:43 SERVICE THROUGHOUT GREATER

14:44 BOSTON, YOU HAVE STRENGTHENED

14:46 THE PIPELINE OF BLACK PUBLIC

14:48 SECTOR LEADERS BY FORCE AND

14:49 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT,

14:51 MENTORSHIP, NETWORKING AND

14:52 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FOR CURRENT

14:54 AND ASPIRING PUBLIC

14:56 ADMINISTRATORS THROUGH

14:57 PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS GREATER

14:58 BOSTON, YOU CONTINUE TO PREPARE

15:00 THE NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK

15:02 OF GENERATION OF PUBLIC

15:03 SERVANTS.

15:04 THE BOSTON CHAPTER CONTINUES A

15:06 NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC

15:08 ADMINISTRATORS MISSION BY

15:10 CULTIVATING TALENTED PUBLIC

15:12 LEADERS WHO STRENGTHEN

15:13 COMMUNITIES, IMPROVE GOVERNMENT

15:15 AND EXPAND OPPORTUNITY ACROSS

15:17 GREATER BOSTON.

15:18 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT

15:20 THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS

15:21 ITS BEST WISHES FOR YOUR

15:23 CONTINUED SUCCESS THAT THIS

15:25 RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED BY

15:26 THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY

15:28 COUNCIL AND ATTACH IT TO COPY

15:30 THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE

15:31 CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

15:33 SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE

15:35 CITY COUNCIL ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN

15:37 ,ATTESTED TO BY THE CITY CLERK

15:40 OF BOSTON ALEX GRATIS AND

15:42 OFFERED BY CITY

15:45 COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN THE

15:46 HEART OF BOSTON VINEYARD

15:48 CULPEPER.

15:50 THANK YOU THANK YOU, THANK YOU

15:52 VERY COMING.

15:57 YES.

15:59 I'M INVITING ALL OF MY

16:02 COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE COME IN.

16:04 AND HAVE.

16:05 A PHOTO WITH.

16:07 THE.

16:09 AND THE EPA.

16:13 CITY.

16:17 OKAY.

16:17 AND HOW ARE YOU?

16:20 UP?

16:23 ALL ALL.

16:27 IT'S MY MICROPHONE.

16:28 OKAY?

16:30 YOU'RE ALL THIS.

16:41 THANK YOU.

16:42 CONGRATULATIONS I MR.

16:45 PRESIDENT.

16:46 LET ME JUST SAY THIS I'VE

16:47 BEEN REFERRING.

16:48 TO THE.

16:49 MEN AS.

16:50 PARENTS PRESIDENTS.

16:51 THIS IS THE CURRENT.

16:54 PRESIDENT.

16:54 OF THE UNION, SO THANK THANK

16:59 YOU THANK YOU THANK.

17:00 YOU KNOW THAT WE THANK YOU.

17:03 APPRECIATE YOU.

17:04 YES.

17:06 SORRY SORRY AS WELL THANK

17:09 YOU.

17:09 SO GOOD WORK.

17:10 THANK YOU.

17:16 IT'S TIME TO SEE YOU I SEE YOU

17:19 AROUND ME OKAY.

17:23 THANK YOU.

17:24 IT'S GOOD.

17:25 TO SEE AS.

17:27 WELL THANK.

17:37 YOU.

17:39 THIS IS MY I.

17:41 THINK THIS OVER.

17:44 NOT YOURS.

17:45 I WANT TO.

17:53 CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO,

17:56 UM, COUNCILOR COLE PEPPERS

17:57 HONOREES THE NATIONAL FORUM FOR

17:59 BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS.

18:01 UH, IT'S WONDERFUL WONDERFUL TO

18:02 HAVE YOU ALL HERE THIS MORNING.

18:05 UM, WE'RE NOW ON TO MY

18:08 PRESENTATION.

18:08 UH, I'D LIKE TO INVITE MAURA TO

18:11 ME AND HER SUPPORT TEAM THE HER

18:15 HER, UH, FRIENDS.

18:16 ALL OF YOU COME UP, UH, FROM

18:17 THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER UH

18:20 ,SWIMMING ASSOCIATION AND, UH

18:23 ,I THINK TAMARA AND KATE AND

18:26 COME ON, ALL OF YOU COME ON UP.

18:29 COME ON.

18:30 YOU'RE THE HOME TEAM THAT

18:31 SUPPORT THE HOME TEAM, SO COME

18:33 ON UP.

18:46 LITTLE BIT TO THE YOU STAND

18:50 HERE, YOU STAND SOMEWHERE NEAR

18:52 ME.

18:54 I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING

18:55 TO WORK.

18:57 SO.

18:57 UM, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE A

18:59 HEROIC MEMBER OF, UH, THE CITY

19:03 OF BOSTON, UH, RESIDENT, LONG

19:05 TERM RESIDENT, AN IRISH NATIVE

19:07 FROM DUBLIN AND A JAMAICA PLAIN

19:09 RESIDENT.

19:10 MAURA TO ME AND ALSO A VERY

19:11 DEAR FRIEND OF MINE I'VE KNOWN

19:13 HER FOR 30 YEARS SINCE I FIRST

19:15 ARRIVED IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

19:17 I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE MAURA

19:18 TOOMEY TODAY ORIGINALLY, AS I

19:21 SAID FROM DUBLIN CURRENTLY

19:22 LIVING IN JAMAICA PLAYING A

19:24 LEGENDARY OPEN WATER SWIMMER

19:26 REPRESENTING THE MASSACHUSETTS

19:27 OPEN WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

19:29 ,MAURA BEGAN BY VOLUNTEERING

19:32 FOR THE PROVINCETOWN SWIM FOR

19:34 LIFE THAT WHAT BEGAN AS A

19:36 VOLUNTEER EFFORT SPARKED INTO A

19:38 JOURNEY THAT LED TO COMPLETING

19:40 THE OPEN WATER TRIPLE THE OPEN

19:42 THE TRIPLE CROWN FOR OPEN WATER

19:44 SWIMMING.

19:44 AND LET ME JUST GIVE YOU SOME

19:45 DETAILS THAT SWIMMING THE

19:47 ENGLISH CHANNEL 21 MILES THE 20

19:50 BRIDGES SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN

19:54 30 MILES AND THE CATALINA

19:57 CHANNEL WHICH IS 20.2 MILES.

20:00 UM SHE COMPLETED HER FIRST OPEN

20:02 WATER CHALLENGE ON HER 50TH

20:04 BIRTHDAY UH, SWIMMING ACROSS

20:07 SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO FROM

20:10 ALCATRAZ TO THE PRESIDIO.

20:11 AND THEN SHE WENT ON TO SWIM

20:13 THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN 2015

20:15 RAISING MONEY FOR THE IRISH

20:17 CYSTIC FIBROSIS CHARITY AND

20:19 THEN COMPLETED THE 20 BRIDGES

20:21 SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN THIS

20:24 AUGUST SHE ACHIEVED THE LAST

20:26 SWIM AND THE TRIPLE CROWN AT 70

20:28 YEARS OLD SHE BECAME THE OLDEST

20:30 PERSON TO EVER COMPLETE THE

20:31 CATALINA CHANNEL CROSSING.

20:33 SHE SWAM OVER 20 MILES ACROSS

20:36 CALIFORNIA'S CATALINA CHANNEL

20:38 BATTLING COLD WATERS, HEAVY

20:40 SWELLS AND FIERCE WINDS WHERE

20:41 SHE FINISHED IN 15 HOURS AND 45

20:45 MINUTES.

20:45 AND I'M IN ALL BECAUSE I CAN

20:47 SWIM THE LENGTH OF A SWIMMING

20:48 POOL BUT UM I CAN'T EVEN

20:50 IMAGINE WHAT THAT'S LIKE.

20:51 BUT AS ANY CHANNEL SWIMMER WILL

20:53 TELL YOU, NOBODY SWIMS THE

20:55 CHANNEL ALONE.

20:56 BEHIND EVERY CROSSING IS A

20:58 NETWORK OF PEOPLE BY YOUR SIDE

21:00 KEEPING YOU AFLOAT IN

21:02 MASSACHUSETTS, THE

21:03 MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

21:04 SWIMMING ASSOCIATION MALTA

21:08 SANCTIONS AND SAFEGUARDS

21:09 MARATHON SWIMS ACROSS

21:11 MASSACHUSETTS AND TRAINS THE

21:13 OBSERVERS AND SAFETY CREWS THAT

21:14 FOLLOWS SWIMMERS MILE AFTER

21:16 MILE TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE.

21:19 IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS

21:20 ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONS LIKE

21:22 MOZA THAT.

21:23 LOCAL ATHLETES HAVE SAFELY HAVE

21:25 THE SAFETY AND BACKING TO

21:27 UNDERTAKE THESE COURAGEOUS

21:29 SWIMS AND TO TAKE THE DIP INTO

21:31 MARATHON SWIMMING JUST LIKE

21:32 MORE I DID.

21:33 I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE MAURA

21:35 TODAY.

21:36 UH, WHO SHOWS US THAT AGE IS NO

21:39 BARRIER TO GREATNESS AND THAT

21:40 IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO DECIDE

21:42 YOU AREN'T CONTENT JUST TO

21:43 STAND ON THE SHORE.

21:45 I INVITE MAURA, UM, THE

21:47 MASSACHUSETTS WATER UM, OPEN

21:49 WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION TO

21:51 SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN I'LL.

21:54 HAVE A CITATION FOR YOU.

21:56 MAURA.

21:57 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

21:59 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

22:00 BREADON AND ALL THE COUNCILORS

22:02 .

22:02 UM.

22:03 ESPECIALLY MY.

22:04 LOCAL COUNCILOR DAN WEBER.

22:06 UM, IT FEELS.

22:08 A LITTLE WEIRD TO ME TO BE

22:10 HERE TODAY.

22:11 BEING HONORED FOR.

22:12 DOING SOMETHING THAT I LOVE.

22:14 AND I JUST WANTED TO.

22:16 SAY OUT LOUD IT WAS KIND

22:18 OF ACCIDENTAL.

22:19 I'M FROM.

22:19 A VERY WORKING CLASS FAMILY

22:21 IN.

22:21 DUBLIN THAT I LEARNED TO SWIM.

22:23 JUST BECAUSE MY FATHER'S.

22:25 WORK HAD A POOL.

22:26 AND WE COULD GO PLAY THERE AND

22:28 UM JUST.

22:29 SAY THAT OUT LOUD.

22:30 I HOPE EVERY KID.

22:31 IN BOSTON.

22:32 GETS AN OPPORTUNITY.

22:34 I WANT TO.

22:36 SPECIALLY THANK MY WIFE TAMARA

22:39 PITTS.

22:39 I'M STARTING WITH HER BECAUSE I

22:41 USUALLY FORGET HER.

22:42 UH.

22:43 SHE'S NOT A SWIMMER.

22:45 SHE DOESN'T LOVE COLD WATER BUT

22:47 SHE SUPPORTS ME IN EVERYTHING I

22:50 DO.

22:50 UM, SOME OF THAT INVOLVES A LOT

22:53 OF ANXIETY.

22:54 IS SHE THERE?

22:55 IS SHE SAFE AND TRUSTING IN MY

22:58 PALS?

22:59 UH.

23:01 I WANT TO.

23:02 THANK MY COMPANIONS.

23:03 ONE OF THE THINGS.

23:04 ABOUT OPEN WATER SWIMMING IS

23:06 YOU COULD BE WITH THE STATE OR

23:09 THE CONGRESSMAN FOR.

23:11 MASSACHUSETTS, OR YOU.

23:12 COULD BE.

23:13 WITH THE.

23:14 CARPENTER FROM DORCHESTER OR

23:17 THE NANNY FROM EAST BOSTON.

23:19 ONCE YOU GO DOWN THERE TO THE

23:21 OPEN WATER YOU'RE WET FOLKS AND

23:24 YOUR FOCUS IS ENJOYING YOUR

23:26 SWIM AND KEEPING EACH OTHER

23:28 SAFE.

23:29 I HAD A JOKE WITH ME NOW FROM

23:31 THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

23:33 SWIMMING ASSOCIATION THIS

23:34 MORNING IS THE REASON THE.

23:36 COUNSELORS DON'T KNOW.

23:37 YOU OR THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WEIRD

23:39 NAME IS BECAUSE YOU DO YOUR JOB

23:43 SO WELL.

23:44 EVERYBODY SWIM SAFELY.

23:46 THEY RUN GREAT RACES FROM HALF

23:48 A MILE TO ONE MILE.

23:50 THEY KEEP THE NAME OF JIM DOTY

23:52 ALIVE WHO HELPED US CLEAN THE

23:54 HARBOR AND ALSO RUN LONGER

23:57 SWIMS IN FROM THE BOSTON LIGHT.

23:59 AND MOSTLY PEOPLE DON'T CARE

24:01 ABOUT US BECAUSE THEY KEEP IT

24:03 SAFE.

24:04 THEY RUN A VERY PROFESSIONAL

24:07 UH, OPERATION.

24:09 SO THANKS SO MUCH SHARING THE

24:10 FLOOR.

24:10 WITH ME.

24:13 MY NAME IS MINA ON CASH AND

24:15 I'M THE CURRENT PRESIDENT

24:16 OF THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

24:18 SWIMMING ASSOCIATION.

24:19 I'M JOINED BY ELAINE HOWLEY WHO

24:22 IS UH, THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND

24:24 THE FOUNDER OF OUR ORGANIZATION

24:25 .

24:26 WE ARE UH A SMALL BUT MIGHTY

24:28 BOARD OF FOUR ON A UM ALL WOMEN

24:31 RUN BOARD, UH, VOLUNTEER

24:34 ORGANIZATION OF A NONPROFIT

24:36 OF SWIMMERS AND PEOPLE WHO LOVE

24:39 SWIMMERS, UH, SUPPORTING OTHER

24:40 SWIMMERS.

24:42 SO I THINK WE'D ALL AGREE

24:45 EXCUSE ME THAT IN MASSACHUSETTS

24:47 WE TAKE OUR SPORTS PRETTY

24:48 SERIOUSLY.

24:49 RIGHT?

24:50 UM, FROM OUR PROFESSIONAL

24:52 TEAMS TO THE BOSTON MARATHON

24:54 AND BEYOND.

24:55 BUT OPEN WATER SWIMMING HAS ITS

24:56 OWN MARATHON.

24:57 UM, A MARATHON IS, UH, ANY OPEN

25:01 WATER SWIM?

25:02 UM, TEN KILOMETERS OR ROUGHLY

25:04 SIX MILES OR LONGER.

25:06 OUR MARATHON IS THE BOSTON

25:07 LIGHT SWIM.

25:09 UM, THIS SWIM BEGAN IN 1907,

25:12 JUST TEN YEARS AFTER THE OLDER

25:14 SIBLING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON

25:16 ,UH, AND REMAINS AMERICA'S

25:18 OLDEST OPEN WATER SWIM.

25:22 UM MAURA SWAM ITS EIGHT MILES

25:24 AS TRAINING TOWARD WHAT SHE HAD

25:26 BEEN UH, MOVING TOWARD UM SHE

25:30 SWAM THAT WITH MELISSA AND THEN

25:32 SWAM IT AGAIN WITH US BOTH

25:34 WAYS.

25:35 SHE DID A 16 MILE DOUBLE AT THE

25:37 SPRIGHTLY YOUNG AGE OF 69 UM IN

25:41 OCTOBER.

25:41 WHEN IT WAS CHILLY.

25:42 I THINK, UH, ELAINE AND I

25:44 AREN'T ALWAYS ON ALL OF THESE

25:45 SWIMS, BUT WE WERE, UH,

25:47 PRIVILEGED TO SUPPORT HER ON

25:48 THIS ONE ELAINE ON A MOTORIZED

25:50 BOAT AND ME ALONGSIDE HER IN A

25:52 KAYAK AND WE WERE ABLE TO

25:53 WITNESS HER DETERMINATION

25:55 FIRSTHAND.

25:55 UM, SO, MAURA, CONGRATULATIONS

25:58 AGAIN ON YOUR CATALINA CROSSING

25:59 AND YOUR WELL-EARNED TRIPLE

26:01 CROWN AT 70.

26:02 YOU INSPIRE US AND ALL SWIMMERS

26:06 TO GET IN THE WATER AND DREAM

26:07 BIGGER NO MATTER WHAT.

26:09 UH, WHAT THAT DREAM IS.

26:11 AND WHEN THAT DREAM BEGINS ON

26:14 OUR MASSACHUSETTS COAST, A

26:16 BATHING SUIT AND ACCESS TO

26:17 CLEAN WATER CAN OPEN A WORLD

26:19 OF POSSIBILITY AN AMAZING

26:21 SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY AS WELL.

26:22 UH, TO SWIMMERS OF ALL SHAPES,

26:24 SIZES, COLORS, GENDERS, AGES

26:26 AND ABILITIES THIS SEASON

26:28 MELISSA UH SUPPORTED OVER 100

26:29 SWIMMERS COVERING NEARLY 500

26:33 MILES AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

26:34 WHAT MORE WE CAN DO AND HOW WE

26:36 CAN HELP TOWARDS THEIR SWIMMING

26:37 DREAMS.

26:38 SO WANTED TO THANK THE

26:40 COUNCIL FOR YOUR WATERWAYS

26:42 RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE

26:43 INADEQUATE DRAFT COMBINED SEWER

26:45 OVERFLOW PLAN UH AND FOR

26:47 PURSUING ANSWERS ON BLACKSTONE

26:49 POOL REPAIRS TO THE CLEAN WATER

26:53 AND ACCESS UH IS SOMETHING THAT

26:56 IS NEAR AND DEAR TO US AND WE

26:58 WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO

26:59 PARTNER ON ANY SUPPORT OF THAT

27:01 WORK.

27:04 SO WE'RE, UH, PROUD TO HAVE

27:05 PLAYED A VERY SMALL PART IN

27:07 MORRIS JOURNEY.

27:08 SO THANK YOU MAURA FOR SHOWING

27:09 US WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND BEING AN

27:11 INSPIRATION AND A FRIEND IN AND

27:12 OUT OF THE WATER.

27:14 I WANTED TO LEAVE YOU, UM, WITH

27:15 A COUPLE OF PHOTOS THAT WE USE

27:18 UM, FROM MOUSER THAT WE SHARE

27:22 WITH OUR SWIMMERS.

27:23 THESE ARE PHOTOS OF EVIL

27:26 MORRISON IN 1935.

27:29 A LITTLE.

27:29 BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE BOSTON

27:31 COASTLINE TODAY AND A DIFFERENT

27:33 SWIMMING OUTFIT UM, BUT 1935

27:35 AND IN 1927 THE BOSTON LIGHT

27:38 SWIM WHERE SWIMMERS ARE OUTSIDE

27:41 OF BOSTON.

27:42 WE ARE UH, HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO

27:45 BE UH, THE STEWARDS FOR THE

27:48 BOSTON LIGHT SWIM AND OTHER

27:50 HISTORIC SWIMS IN MASSACHUSETTS

27:52 BECAUSE MASSACHUSETTS UH, OPEN

27:54 WATER SWIMMING IS A

27:55 MASSACHUSETTS TRADITION.

27:58 THANK YOU ALL.

28:03 BEFORE I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES

28:04 UP, I'D JUST LIKE TO PRESENT

28:06 MAURA WITH THIS, UH, OFFICIAL

28:08 RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED THAT

28:10 THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS

28:12 ITS CONGRATULATIONS TO MAURA TO

28:14 ME IN RECOGNITION OF A

28:15 REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT

28:17 OF SWIMMING THE CATALINA

28:18 CHANNEL AT 70 YEARS OLD AND ON

28:21 THE SAME DAY COMPLETING THE

28:22 TRIPLE TRIPLE CROWN OF OPEN

28:24 WATER SWIMMING COMPRISING THE

28:25 ENGLISH CHANNEL, THE 20 BRIDGES

28:27 AROUND MANHATTAN AND THE

28:29 CATALINA CHANNEL.

28:30 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT

28:32 THE CITY BOSTON CITY

28:33 COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS BEST WISHES

28:34 FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS AND THAT

28:36 THIS RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED

28:38 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY

28:40 COUNCIL AND ATTESTED TO AND A

28:41 COPY THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE

28:43 CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

28:46 UM MAURA, MANY CONGRATULATIONS.

28:49 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MOSER AND

28:51 MAY YOU HAVE US A WONDERFUL,

28:53 UM, HERITAGE.

28:55 UH.

28:56 AND MAY YOU KEEP GOING MORE

28:59 MORE SUCCESS AND, UH, KEEP

29:01 PUTTING BOSTON ON THE MAP AS A

29:04 DESTINATION FOR OPEN WATER

29:04 SWIMMING.

29:05 THANK YOU.

29:05 LAURA.

29:09 THANK YOU PERSON.

29:12 UM.

29:13 INVITE MY COLLEAGUES UP FOR A

29:14 PHOTOGRAPH.

29:15 THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.

29:15 THANK YOU.

29:18 TOMORROW.

29:23 LOOK AT YOU IN HERE IN THE

29:24 MIDDLE.

29:25 TOMORROW ON THAT.

29:28 SO YEAH.

29:28 AND THEN.

29:29 WE HAVE A.

29:32 THANK YOU TO.

29:34 YEAH I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW HOW

29:37 MUCH IT.

29:38 SHOULD BE IN THIS.

29:40 I NEED YOU TO COME WITH ME TO

29:41 THE RESTAURANT AND AGAIN YEAH.

29:45 I JUST CAN'T DO IT FOR ME.

29:47 I'LL BE THERE.

29:48 ACTUALLY ARE.

29:50 IS NICE AND WARM.

29:51 FOR DINNER.

29:52 YOU.

29:58 YOU NEED TO CARRY THAT.

29:59 THANK YOU.

30:01 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

30:04 THANK YOU.

30:04 THANKS AGAIN I'LL TAKE CARE

30:06 NOW GUYS.

30:08 SO.

30:09 TONIGHT THIS MORNING JUMPED

30:12 IN THE HENNIGAN AND I TALKED TO

30:14 WONDER IS SOMETHING.

30:17 THAT JUST LIKE.

30:18 JUST I KNOW.

30:22 YEAH YEAH.

30:26 YEAH SO HE'S GOING TO.

30:29 OKAY THERE YOU GO ALL RIGHT

30:32 YEAH THANK YOU.

30:37 SO MUCH UH THANK YOU SO MUCH.

30:38 OH UH, SOMEBODY BE RECOGNIZED

30:40 AND ALL THAT YEAH YEAH YEAH,

30:44 WE'RE VERY, VERY PROUD OF.

30:51 EXACTLY.

30:51 YEAH.

30:52 YES.

30:59 YEAH.

31:03 IT SHOULD.

31:04 HAPPEN AND ONE UH.

31:12 THIS IS LIKE.

31:15 WE ALWAYS HAVE COLORS.

31:16 VERY GOOD.

31:17 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

31:19 YEAH.

31:20 UH, MR TURNER, COULD YOU

31:22 PLEASE AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO

31:23 REFLECT THE COUNCILORS PÉPIN

31:25 AND WORRELL HAVE JOINED US.

31:30 WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST

31:31 ORDER OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE

31:34 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

31:36 THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 23RD,

31:38 2026.

31:39 ALL AND ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

31:43 OPPOSED.

31:44 SAY NAY.

31:45 THE AYES HAVE IT.

31:46 THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER

31:48 23RD MEETING ARE APPROVED.

31:50 WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS

31:52 FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR.

31:54 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

31:56 READ DOCKET 182921838.

32:01 DOCKET NUMBER 1829 MESSAGE IN

32:04 ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

32:06 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

32:07 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

32:08 BARGAINING BY $268,887 TO

32:13 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

32:15 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

32:17 27 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

32:19 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

32:20 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

32:22 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON

32:23 SCHOOL POLICE PATROLMEN'S

32:25 ASSOCIATION STOCKING NUMBER

32:28 1830 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

32:30 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

32:31 ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

32:33 SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

32:34 YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

32:39 OF $268,887 TO COVER THE FISCAL

32:41 YEAR 27 COST ITEMS CONTAINED

32:44 WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

32:45 BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

32:46 THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

32:48 THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE

32:50 PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

32:51 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE

32:54 SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH

32:58 AUGUST 31ST 2027.

32:58 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

33:00 CONTRACT INCLUDE ABH, A BASE

33:02 WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN

33:05 OCTOBER 24, 2024, 2025 AND 2026

33:10 AND A FLAT DOLLAR AMOUNT

33:11 INCREASE OF $250, $900 AND $800

33:16 TO BE ADDED TO ANNUAL SALARIES

33:19 IN JANUARY OF 2025, 2026 AND

33:23 2027 RESPECTIVELY.

33:25 DUCKY NUMBER 1831 MESSAGE ON

33:28 FOURTH TO REDUCE THE FISCAL

33:29 YEAR 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

33:33 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

33:34 BARGAINING BY $111,802 TO

33:37 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

33:39 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

33:42 27 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

33:43 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

33:44 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

33:46 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON

33:47 SCHOOL POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

33:50 FEDERATION.

33:52 DUCKY NUMBER 1832 MESSAGE IN

33:54 ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

33:56 APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON

33:57 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

34:00 27, IN THE AMOUNT OF $111,802

34:04 TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27

34:06 COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

34:08 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

34:08 BETWEEN THE BUSSES SCHOOL

34:10 COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL

34:13 POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

34:14 FEDERATION.

34:15 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

34:18 JULY 1ST 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

34:22 2027, THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

34:23 OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE

34:25 WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN

34:27 OCTOBER OF 2024, 2025 AND 2026

34:31 AND A FLAT TOTAL AMOUNT

34:33 INCREASE OF $250, $900 AND $800

34:37 BE ADDED ANNUALLY TO BE ADDED

34:39 TO ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

34:42 OF 2025, 2026 AND 2027

34:46 RESPECTIVELY.

34:47 THAT NUMBER 1833 PASSAGE IN

34:50 ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

34:53 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

34:54 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

34:54 BARGAINING BY $85,879 TO

34:58 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

35:00 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

35:03 27 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

35:04 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

35:05 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

35:06 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SEIU LOCAL

35:09 880 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES

35:11 CHAPTER, THE PERMANENT PLANNING

35:13 AND ENGINEERING NUMBER 1834

35:16 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

35:18 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

35:19 ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

35:20 SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

35:22 YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

35:26 OF $85,879 TO COVER THE FISCAL

35:28 YEAR 27 COST ITEMS CONTAINED

35:30 WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

35:32 BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

35:33 THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

35:36 SEIU LOCAL 880 PROFESSIONAL

35:38 EMPLOYEES CHAPTER DEPARTMENT

35:41 OF PLANNING AND ENGINEERING.

35:43 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE

35:46 SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026 TO APRIL

35:49 31ST 2027.

35:50 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

35:51 CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

35:53 INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

35:56 OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

35:58 AMOUNT OF $800 ADDED TO ANNUAL

36:01 SALARIES IN JANUARY OF 2027.

36:05 DOCKET NUMBER 1835 MESSAGE IN

36:08 ORDER FOR TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

36:10 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

36:12 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

36:13 BARGAINING BY $40,365 TO

36:17 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

36:18 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

36:20 27 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

36:22 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

36:23 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

36:24 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND BOSTON

36:26 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT PLANT

36:27 ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION THE

36:30 NUMBER ONE EIGHT B6 MESSAGE IN

36:33 ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

36:34 APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON

36:35 PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR

36:37 FISCAL YEAR 27, THE AMOUNT

36:41 OF $40,365 TO COVER THE FISCAL

36:42 YEAR COST ITEMS CONTAINED

36:44 WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

36:46 BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

36:47 THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

36:48 THE BOSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

36:50 PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

36:52 ASSOCIATION.

36:52 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT IS

36:55 SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH

36:58 AUGUST 31ST 2027.

36:59 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

37:01 CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

37:02 INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

37:06 OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

37:07 AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

37:10 ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

37:12 OF 2027.

37:14 DOCKET NUMBER 1837 MESSAGE IN

37:16 ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

37:19 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

37:20 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

37:22 BARGAINING BY $10,320 WOULD BE

37:25 PROVIDED TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

37:27 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

37:29 FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

37:32 CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

37:33 BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

37:34 THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

37:36 AND THE.

37:37 AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL

37:40 2814 STORE KEEPERS AND STORES

37:43 DELIVERYMAN UNION DOCKET NUMBER

37:46 1838 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

37:48 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

37:49 ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

37:50 SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

37:52 YEAR 27 THE AMOUNT OF $10,320

37:57 TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27

37:59 COURSE ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN

38:00 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

38:01 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

38:03 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND AFL CIO

38:07 COUNCIL 93 LOCAL 2814 STORE

38:10 KEEPERS AND STORES DELIVERY

38:11 MEN'S UNION THE TERMS OF THE

38:14 CONTRACT AS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026

38:16 THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027.

38:19 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

38:20 CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

38:23 INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

38:26 OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

38:27 AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

38:30 ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

38:32 OF 2027.

38:33 THANK YOU MR CLERK DOCKETS ONE

38:35 YEAR TONIGHT UM DOCKET 20 829

38:39 THROUGH 1838 WILL BE REFERRED

38:42 TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

38:43 MEANS.

38:44 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

38:46 READ DOCKET 1839?

38:48 OOPS.

38:49 DUCKY.

38:50 NUMBER 1839 MESSAGE NOT

38:52 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

38:54 TO ACCEPT AND SPEND THE AMOUNT

38:58 OF $34,350 IN THE FORM OF A

39:00 GRANT THE NATIONAL

39:02 OF PRESERVATION COMMISSION

39:03 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED BY THE

39:05 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

39:06 COMMISSION TO BE ADMINISTERED

39:08 BY THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC

39:09 PRESERVATION.

39:10 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE COST

39:12 OF HISTORICAL AND HISTORIC

39:14 DISTRICT COMMISSION MEMBERS AND

39:15 MUNICIPAL STAFF AND TURNING THE

39:17 NATIONAL LINES OF PRESERVATION

39:20 COMMISSIONS FORM CONFERENCE.

39:22 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR RECOGNIZES

39:24 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY YOU

39:25 HAVE THE FLOOR.

39:26 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

39:27 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

39:28 THIS IS OFF OVER A LITTLE.

39:30 BIT OVER $4,000 SCHOLARSHIP

39:31 FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS

39:32 HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO SEND

39:33 THE HISTORIC DISTRICT

39:34 COMMISSION AND CITY STAFF TO

39:36 THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE

39:37 OF PRESERVATION COMMISSIONS

39:38 CONFERENCE, OUR HISTORIC

39:40 DISTRICT COMMISSION AND OFFICE

39:41 OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION DO

39:43 INCREDIBLE WORK AND I ADMIRE

39:44 THEIR DEDICATION TO CONTINUING

39:46 THEIR CRAFT AND THEIR EDUCATION

39:48 SO THAT THEY CAN BETTER SERVE

39:49 OUR CITY.

39:49 I WANT TO THANK THE

39:50 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

39:51 COMMISSION FOR PROVIDING THIS

39:53 OPPORTUNITY, AND I WOULD LIKE

39:54 TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND

39:55 AND PASS THIS GRANT TODAY.

39:57 THANK YOU.

39:59 CONSIDER CONSIDER SUSPENSION

40:00 OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

40:01 OF DOCKET 1839.

40:02 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

40:04 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

40:06 BOTH.

40:07 BUT, UH, MR CHAIR, COULD YOU

40:08 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

40:10 VOTE ON DOCKET 121839.

40:13 COUNCILOR BREADON.

40:13 YES I.

40:14 WAS READING YES CONCEPTUAL

40:15 ART AS OPPOSED COUNCIL CLOSED

40:18 BY YES.

40:18 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

40:19 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

40:20 YES.

40:21 COUNCILOR.

40:21 DURKAN.

40:22 COUNCILOR.

40:22 DURKAN.

40:23 YES.

40:23 COUNCILOR.

40:23 FITZGERALD.

40:24 YES.

40:24 COUNCIL.

40:25 SO YES.

40:25 COUNCILOR.

40:26 FLYNN.

40:26 COUNCILOR.

40:27 FLYNN.

40:27 YES.

40:28 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

40:29 WHO'S IN?

40:30 YES, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

40:31 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

40:32 YES.

40:32 COUNCILOR.

40:32 MURPHY.

40:33 COUNCILOR.

40:34 MURPHY.

40:34 YES.

40:35 COUNCIL.

40:35 PIPPIN.

40:36 COUNCILOR.

40:36 PEN.

40:37 YES.

40:37 COUNCIL.

40:37 SANTANA.

40:38 COUNCIL.

40:38 SANTANA.

40:39 YES.

40:39 COUNCIL.

40:40 WEBER.

40:40 YES.

40:40 COUNCILOR.

40:41 WEBER.

40:41 YES AND COUNCILOR.

40:42 WORLD.

40:42 YES.

40:43 COUNCIL.

40:43 WELL YES.

40:44 TALKING NUMBER 1839 AS WE.

40:47 SPEAK.

40:48 A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

40:49 AFFIRMATIVE.

40:50 THANK YOU.

40:51 MR TARGET 1839 HAS PASSED.

40:54 WE ARE NOW, UH, ON TO REPORTS

40:57 OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

40:59 MR. CLERK, UM, CAN YOU PLEASE

41:02 READ DOCKETS 1840 THROUGH.

41:07 18421840 COMMUNICATION WAS

41:09 RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY

41:10 REGARDING OUTSTANDING REQUESTS

41:12 FOR INFORMATION SEVEN SIX

41:14 SECTION 17 F ORDERS AND PUBLIC

41:17 RECORDS REQUEST NUMBER 1841

41:20 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

41:22 COUNCIL OF COLOR AS A PARTNER

41:23 REGARDING COMMENTS ON THE

41:25 BOSTON COASTAL STORM RISK

41:26 MANAGEMENT DRAFT INTEGRATED

41:29 FEASIBILITY REPORT AND

41:31 PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL

41:32 ASSESSMENT AND DUCKY NUMBER

41:34 1842 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED

41:37 FROM COUNCILOR CULPEPER

41:39 REGARDING FULL BOOKS BOOKSTORE.

41:41 THANK YOU.

41:42 THESE DOCKETS 1840 THROUGH 1842

41:46 WILL BE PLACED.

41:47 ON FILE.

41:48 WE KNOW ON TWO MATTERS RECENTLY

41:50 HEARD MR KERR COULD YOU PLEASE

41:52 READ DOCKETS 1671 THROUGH 1674

41:55 .

41:56 NOT GOING TO HAVE A1671 MESSAGE

41:59 IN ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

42:02 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

42:04 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

42:05 BARGAINING BY $1,951,894 TO

42:09 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

42:12 POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

42:13 YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED

42:17 WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

42:18 BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN

42:19 THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE

42:21 BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES BAND

42:22 AND VILLAGE SOCIETY SECOND

42:24 NUMBER 1672 MESSAGE IN ORDER

42:27 FOR THE BOSTON POLICE

42:29 DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 27,

42:31 IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,951,894 TO

42:36 COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

42:38 ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

42:39 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

42:40 BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND

42:42 THE BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES

42:44 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

42:45 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT JULY

42:49 1ST 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2026

42:52 .

42:52 THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

42:54 CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

42:55 INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY OF 2025

42:58 .

42:59 THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

43:01 UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY IN

43:03 AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND SICK

43:04 TIME PAY BACK EVERY TIME IT IS

43:07 ORIGINALLY PRESENTED TO YOU.

43:08 THE FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET

43:10 REQUEST INCLUDED A RESERVE FOR

43:12 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A

43:14 SEPARATE APPROPRIATION TO FUND

43:15 PROJECTED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

43:17 INCREASES.

43:18 A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

43:20 TO REDUCE THE APPROPRIATION BY

43:25 $1,951,894 TALKING NUMBER 1673

43:28 MESSAGE TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

43:31 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

43:32 RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

43:33 BARGAINING BY $1,366,093 TO

43:39 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

43:40 POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE

43:42 FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

43:44 CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

43:45 BARGAINING RING AS BETWEEN THE

43:47 CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON

43:49 POLICE DETECTIVE BENEVOLENT

43:50 SOCIETY SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT

43:54 NUMBER 1674 MESSAGE IN ORDER

43:57 FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR

43:58 FISCAL YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

44:04 OF $1,366,093 TO COVER THE

44:05 FISCAL YEAR 27 COST ITEMS

44:07 CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

44:08 BARGAINING.

44:09 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY

44:11 OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE

44:13 DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

44:15 SUPERIOR OFFICERS YOUTH.

44:18 THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

44:21 JULY 1ST 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

44:23 2026, THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

44:25 OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE

44:27 WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY

44:30 OF 2025.

44:30 THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

44:32 UPDATE HAZARD IS DUTY PAY, AN

44:35 AMENDED LANGUAGE AMOUNT, PAID

44:37 DETAILS AND SOME APPLICATION

44:38 SCHEDULES AS ORIGINALLY

44:40 PRESENTED TO YOU.

44:41 THE FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET

44:43 REQUEST INCLUDED A RESERVE FOR

44:44 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A

44:46 SEPARATE APPROPRIATION TO FUND

44:47 PROJECT OF COLLECTIVE PROJECTED

44:50 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INCREASES

44:51 .

44:52 A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

44:54 TO REDUCE THAT APPROPRIATION BY

44:59 $1,366,093.

45:00 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

45:01 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

45:03 COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

45:04 OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

45:05 MEANS.

45:05 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

45:07 MADAM PRESIDENT.

45:07 UH, ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH,

45:09 UH, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

45:11 HELD A HEARING ON DOCKET NUMBER

45:14 1671 TO 1674 REGARDING

45:15 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

45:16 AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY

45:18 OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE

45:20 DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

45:21 AND A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

45:22 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

45:23 POLICE DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT

45:24 SOCIETY SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT

45:26 AND THE CITY OF BOSTON.

45:28 UH THE HEARING WAS ATTENDED BY

45:30 MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILORS ED

45:31 FLYNN, UH ERIN MURPHY AND JOHN

45:34 FITZGERALD.

45:34 WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY.

45:36 UH.

45:37 PANELISTS JIM WILLIAMSON,

45:37 THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE

45:38 OF BUDGET MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS

45:40 UH, DETECTIVE BOB GRIFFIN,

45:42 PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON POLICE

45:43 DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

45:45 UH, AT THE HEARING THE FOCUS

45:48 WAS ON UH FISCAL YEAR 27

45:51 FUNDING UH ASSOCIATED WITH

45:53 THOSE UH TWO COLLECTIVE

45:54 BARGAINING AGREEMENTS THE UH

45:55 THE UH THE THE SUMMARIES THAT

45:58 WERE SEEKING TO TRANSFER UH 3.3

46:01 JUST OVER $3.3 MILLION FROM THE

46:04 CITY'S RESERVE.

46:04 FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TO

46:06 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO

46:07 COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COSTS

46:10 ASSOCIATED WITH THESE

46:11 AGREEMENTS.

46:12 UH, WE DID HOLD A HEARING ON

46:14 APPROVING THESE AGREEMENTS IN

46:15 MAY OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR.

46:18 UH, WE JUST AS A REMINDER, THE

46:21 NEW CONTRACTS, UH, HAD SEVERAL

46:23 NEW PROVISIONS THAT THAT WERE

46:26 HIGHLIGHTED UH, THEY ALLOWED

46:28 CIVILIAN PERSONNEL TO PERFORM

46:30 ALL TASKS, RESPONSE AND

46:33 RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AREA

46:34 OF DETAIL CLERKS, UH AND SWORN

46:36 OFFICERS IN THE PAY DETAILS

46:38 UNIT UM, UH AND UH FOR BOTH THE

46:41 DISTRIBUTION OF PAY DETAILS AND

46:43 FOR THE CLERICAL OVERTIME

46:44 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS.

46:45 DETAILS WERE THEN ALIGNED TO

46:48 CONFORM WITH CONTRACTUAL SHIFTS

46:50 DETAILS ACCORDING TO THE NEW

46:52 CBA WERE ALLOWED TO OVERLAP UH

46:54 WITH UH REGULAR SHIFT PAY FOR

46:56 THE MAXIMUM OF TWO HOURS.

46:58 UH THE VACATION SUMMER VACATION

47:00 PERIOD WAS EXTENDED UH TO ALLOW

47:03 UH.

47:04 FOR FOR OFFICERS NOT TO OVERLAP

47:06 UH FOR VACATION THE CITY

47:08 PROVIDED FUNDING UH FOR

47:10 DEPARTMENTAL GYMS UH AND FOR TO

47:12 PROVIDE MAINTENANCE OF FREE

47:13 MEMBERSHIP AND ACCESS TO

47:15 DETECTIVES COVERED BY THE

47:16 AGREEMENT HAZARDOUS PAID

47:17 HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY UH WAS

47:20 CALCULATED AS 5.65% OF THE BASE

47:23 PAY FOR ALL DETECTIVES.

47:25 UH, THE UH THE THERE WAS AN

47:28 INCLUSION OF FOR.

47:29 HALF HOUR FULLY COMPENSATED

47:30 BLOCKS OF WORKOUT MEDITATION

47:33 TIME PER WEEK UH FOR THE

47:34 MEMBERS AND NAMETAGS UH WOULD

47:37 BE WORN BY DETECTIVES.

47:38 WE APPROVED THAT CONTRACT IN

47:39 MAY HERE.

47:40 THAT CONTRACT EXPIRED AT THE

47:41 END OF THE FISCAL YEAR AT THE

47:44 END OF JUNE 2026 UNDER I THINK

47:46 IT'S THE LABOR LAW DOCTRINE

47:48 OF STATUS QUO.

47:49 THE CONTRACT CONTINUES ONCE

47:51 YOU'RE OUT OF CONTRACT YOU

47:52 DON'T JUST, YOU KNOW, NOT HAVE

47:53 A CONTRACT.

47:54 SO THE TERMS OF THE OLD

47:55 CONTRACT ARE STILL IN PLACE.

47:56 THERE'S A 2% UH, PAY RAISE.

47:59 UH, THESE UH THESE RESERVES

48:01 WOULD PAY FOR THAT.

48:02 UH.

48:03 PAY RAISE FOR THE DETECTIVES

48:05 AND THE DETECTIVE SUPERIOR

48:06 OFFICERS.

48:07 UH.

48:08 I JUST YOU KNOW, WITH ALL

48:09 THAT SAID AS THE AS THE CHAIR

48:11 OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

48:11 MEANS, I'M RECOMMENDING

48:12 ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE.

48:13 REPORT AND PASSAGE OF THESE

48:15 DOCKETS TODAY.

48:15 THANK YOU.

48:16 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR

48:18 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY.

48:20 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

48:21 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

48:23 THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR FOR.

48:24 HOLDING THIS HEARING.

48:25 AND LIKE COUNCILOR.

48:26 WEBER SAID WE.

48:28 ARE JUST RENEWING THE CONTRACT

48:29 .

48:30 THAT WE SPOKE.

48:30 ABOUT IN MAY.

48:31 IT EXPIRED.

48:32 AND WE WANT TO EXTEND IT.

48:33 I DO JUST WANT TO THANK THE

48:35 CHAIR FOR ALLOWING PRESIDENT.

48:37 GRIFFIN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

48:39 DETECTIVES UNION WHO WAS NOT

48:41 ORIGINALLY INVITED, BUT WE DID

48:43 HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT.

48:46 THE WORK.

48:47 THAT'S EXPECTED AND JUST SOME

48:49 OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AND

48:50 CONCERNS THAT THAT UNION HAD.

48:52 SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING HIM

48:54 TO BE A PANELIST AND PUT SOME

48:56 THINGS ON THE RECORD.

48:57 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING IN

48:58 SUPPORT OF THIS AND SUPPORTING

49:01 OUR UH, COLLEAGUES.

49:02 ONE THING WE DID LEARN AT THIS

49:03 HEARING IS THAT THE.

49:05 POLICE UM, ARE FUNDRAISING

49:08 THEMSELVES FOR THEIR WELLNESS

49:09 AND SOME OF THEIR SCREENINGS

49:11 SOMETHING THAT I KNOW THIS BODY

49:13 UM, DIDN'T PASS.

49:15 IN AN.

49:15 AMENDMENT PROCESS BUT WE HAVE

49:17 FOUND OUTSIDE SOURCES FOR OUR

49:19 FIRE CANCER SCREENINGS WHICH I

49:20 THINK IS WONDERFUL AND WE NEED

49:22 TO CONTINUE THAT BUT WE HAVE

49:23 TO, I BELIEVE, PUT IT INTO OUR

49:25 CITY BUDGET BUDGET TO MAKE SURE

49:26 THAT ALL OF OUR FIRST

49:27 RESPONDERS ARE GETTING THE

49:29 WELLNESS AND ANY

49:30 CANCER SCREENINGS THAT THEY

49:31 NEED AND THEY'RE NOT EXPECTED

49:32 TO FUNDRAISE ON THEIR OWN.

49:34 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS BODY

49:36 ADVOCATING IN THE NEXT ROUND

49:37 OF THE BUDGET TO MAKE SURE THAT

49:38 HAPPENS.

49:39 THANK YOU.

49:40 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

49:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

49:42 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

49:43 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

49:45 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

49:46 UM.

49:47 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

49:49 THAT.

49:50 THE PRESIDENT OF THE DETECTIVES

49:53 UNION.

49:53 ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T INVITED, DID

49:55 PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION.

49:58 IT WAS AN INFORMATIVE

49:59 DISCUSSION AND HE ALSO BUT

50:04 BOBBY GRIFFIN ALSO TALKED ABOUT

50:06 AS COUNCILOR MURPHY MENTIONED

50:07 THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS

50:10 OF THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS

50:12 PROGRAM AND SCREENINGS,

50:15 PARTICULARLY WHERE POLICE

50:18 OFFICERS ARE PAYING THEIR OWN

50:21 SCREENING OR MEDICAL.

50:22 COST THROUGH THE THROUGH THE

50:24 UNION OR THROUGH UM

50:25 FUNDRAISING.

50:26 BUT THAT BUT THE CITY OF BOSTON

50:28 IS NOT PAYING FOR THAT.

50:30 I DID HIGHLIGHT THAT DURING THE

50:33 DISCUSSION UM WITH THE WAYS AND

50:36 MEANS CHAIR.

50:37 I DO THINK THE CITY OF BOSTON

50:39 HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO SUPPORT

50:41 THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF OUR

50:44 POLICE OFFICERS.

50:45 I THINK THAT'S A CRITICAL

50:47 ASPECT OF OF THE JOB WHEN

50:49 THEY'RE IN HARM'S WAY AND

50:51 THEY'RE WORKING 16 HOURS A DAY

50:53 .

50:54 UM, IS IT APPROPRIATE FOR US TO

50:57 PAY FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS?

50:58 I THINK IT IS.

51:00 I WAS I WAS SOMEWHAT

51:04 EMBARRASSED THAT THEY ARE

51:06 PAYING ALMOST ALL OF 100% OF OF

51:10 HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND

51:12 SCREENINGS AND DURING THE

51:14 BUDGET PROCESS.

51:16 I SPECIFICALLY PROPOSED FUNDING

51:18 FOR THE BOSTON POLICE HEALTH

51:20 AND WELLNESS PROGRAM SO THAT

51:22 THAT SO THAT IT WOULD ADDRESS

51:24 THOSE PARTICULAR ISSUES.

51:26 UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS BLOCKED OR

51:28 WASN'T ACCEPTED BY THE CITY

51:30 COUNCIL.

51:31 UM MY PROPOSAL BUT I DO BELIEVE

51:34 AS WE GO INTO THE BUDGET WE

51:36 HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO FIGHT

51:38 FOR OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, THEIR

51:40 HEALTH AND WELLNESS UM, IN

51:42 VARIOUS SCREENINGS FOR THE

51:43 POLICE, FOR THE FIRE, FOR EMS

51:46 AS WELL.

51:46 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

51:47 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

51:50 UH, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THESE

51:51 DOCKETS, VOTE ON THESE DOCKETS

51:53 SEPARATELY.

51:54 THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS

51:55 SEEKS, UH, ACCEPTANCE OF THE

51:57 COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

51:58 OF DOCKET 1671.

52:01 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

52:02 A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

52:04 1671.

52:05 COUNCILOR BREADON.

52:06 YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

52:08 YES, COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A

52:09 PARTNER.

52:09 COUNCIL AS A PARTNER.

52:10 YES.

52:11 COUNCILOR.

52:12 CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

52:14 CULPEPER.

52:14 YES.

52:15 COUNCILOR.

52:15 DURKAN.

52:15 COUNCILOR.

52:16 DURKAN.

52:16 YES.

52:17 COUNCILOR.

52:17 FITZGERALD.

52:18 COUNCIL FOR SHOW.

52:19 YES.

52:19 COUNCILOR.

52:19 FLYNN.

52:20 YES.

52:20 COUNCILOR.

52:21 FLYNN.

52:21 YES.

52:21 COUNCILOR.

52:22 LOUIJEUNE.

52:22 COUNCILOR.

52:23 LOUIJEUNE.

52:23 YES.

52:24 COUNCILOR.

52:24 MEJIA.

52:25 COUNCILOR.

52:25 MEJIA.

52:26 YES.

52:26 COUNCILOR.

52:26 MURPHY.

52:27 COUNCILOR.

52:28 MURPHY.

52:28 YES.

52:28 COUNCILOR.

52:29 OPEN.

52:30 COUNCILOR.

52:30 THE PIN.

52:30 YES.

52:31 COUNCIL.

52:31 SANTANA.

52:32 COUNCILOR.

52:33 SANTANA.

52:33 YES.

52:33 COUNCILOR.

52:34 WEBER.

52:34 YES.

52:35 COUNCIL.

52:35 WEBER.

52:35 YES.

52:36 AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

52:36 YES.

52:37 COUNCIL.

52:38 WE'RE ALL YES.

52:39 TALKING OF A1671 HAS RECEIVED A

52:41 UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

52:42 AFFIRMATIVE.

52:43 THANK YOU.

52:44 THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

52:45 ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1671 HAS

52:47 PASSED.

52:48 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

52:50 WAYS AND MEANS SIX ACCEPTANCE

52:51 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

52:52 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1672.

52:55 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

52:56 TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

52:58 1672.

52:59 COUNCILOR BRIE.

52:59 YES.

53:00 COUNCILOR VOTING YES.

53:01 COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTY

53:03 COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PARTY.

53:04 YES.

53:04 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

53:05 YES.

53:06 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

53:06 YES.

53:07 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

53:09 YES.

53:10 COUNCILOR.

53:10 FITZGERALD.

53:10 YES.

53:11 COUNCILOR.

53:11 FISCAL.

53:12 YES.

53:12 COUNCIL.

53:13 FLYNN.

53:13 YES.

53:13 COUNCIL.

53:14 THIN.

53:14 YES.

53:15 COUNCILOR.

53:15 LOUIJEUNE.

53:16 YES.

53:16 COUNCIL.

53:16 LOUIJEUNE.

53:17 YES, COUNCILOR.

53:18 MEJIA.

53:19 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

53:20 YES.

53:20 COUNCILOR.

53:21 MURPHY.

53:21 COUNCILOR.

53:22 MURPHY.

53:22 YES.

53:23 COUNCIL WITH A PEN.

53:23 YEAH.

53:24 COUNCILMEMBER PEN.

53:25 YES.

53:25 SANTANA.

53:27 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

53:27 YES.

53:28 COUNCIL.

53:28 WEBER.

53:28 YES.

53:29 COUNCIL.

53:29 WEBER.

53:30 YES.

53:30 AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

53:31 YES.

53:32 COUNCIL.

53:32 ROWE.

53:33 YES.

53:33 TALKING NUMBER 1672 AS WE SEE

53:36 THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

53:37 AFFIRMATIVE.

53:38 THANK YOU.

53:38 THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS

53:39 BEEN ADOP ACCEPTED AND DOCKET

53:41 1672 HAS PASSED THE CHAIR THE

53:44 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS

53:45 AND MEANS SIX ACCEPTANCE OF THE

53:46 COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

53:48 OF DOCKET 1673.

53:50 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

53:52 A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1673

53:53 .

53:54 COUNCILOR BREADON.

53:55 YES.

53:56 COUNCILOR.

53:56 BRAIN.

53:56 YES.

53:57 COUNCILOR.

53:57 COLORED AS A PART OF COUNCIL.

53:59 AS A PARTY.

53:59 YES.

54:00 COUNCILOR.

54:00 CULPEPER.

54:01 COUNCILOR.

54:02 CULPEPER.

54:02 YES.

54:03 COUNCIL.

54:03 DURKAN.

54:04 COUNCILOR.

54:04 DURKAN.

54:05 YES.

54:05 COUNCILOR.

54:05 FITZGERALD.

54:06 COUNCIL.

54:07 FITZGERALD.

54:07 YES.

54:08 COUNCILOR.

54:08 FLYNN.

54:08 YES.

54:09 COUNCILOR.

54:09 FLYNN.

54:10 YES.

54:10 COUNCILOR.

54:11 LOUIJEUNE.

54:11 YES.

54:11 COUNCIL.

54:12 LOUIJEUNE.

54:12 YES.

54:12 COUNCIL.

54:13 MEJIA.

54:14 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

54:14 YES.

54:15 COUNCILOR.

54:15 MURPHY.

54:16 COUNCILOR.

54:16 MURPHY.

54:17 YES.

54:17 COUNCIL.

54:18 PIPPIN.

54:18 COUNCILOR OF EVENT.

54:19 YES.

54:20 COUNCILOR.

54:20 SANTANA.

54:21 COUNCILOR.

54:21 SANTANA.

54:22 YES.

54:23 COUNCILOR.

54:23 WEBER.

54:23 YES.

54:24 COUNCILOR WEBER.

54:24 YES.

54:25 AND COUNCILOR.

54:25 WORLD.

54:26 YES.

54:26 COUNCILOR.

54:27 WORLD.

54:27 YES.

54:28 SO I CAN HAVE A1673 BECAUSE WE

54:31 SEE THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

54:32 AFFIRMATIVE.

54:33 THANK YOU, MR BURKE.

54:34 THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

54:35 ACCEPTED ON DOCKET 1673 HAS

54:37 PASSED THE CHAIR OF THE

54:39 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SIX

54:40 ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

54:41 REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

54:43 1674.

54:44 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

54:45 TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

54:47 1674.

54:48 COUNCILOR BREADON.

54:49 YES.

54:50 COUNCILOR BRAYTON.

54:50 YES, COUNCILOR COLON AS OPPOSED

54:53 COUNCILOR CLOSED FOR YES.

54:53 COUNCILOR.

54:54 CULPEPER.

54:55 COUNCILOR.

54:56 CULPEPER.

54:56 YES.

54:57 COUNCILOR.

54:57 DURKAN.

54:58 COUNCILOR.

54:58 DURKAN.

54:59 YES.

54:59 COUNCILOR.

55:00 FITZGERALD.

55:00 YES.

55:01 COUNCIL.

55:01 FITZGERALD.

55:01 YES.

55:02 COUNCILOR.

55:02 FLYNN.

55:03 YES.

55:04 COUNCILOR.

55:04 FLYNN.

55:04 YES.

55:04 COUNCIL.

55:05 LOUIJEUNE.

55:05 YES.

55:06 COUNCIL IS IN.

55:06 YES, COUNCILOR.

55:07 MEJIA.

55:08 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

55:09 YES.

55:10 COUNCILOR.

55:10 MURPHY.

55:11 COUNCILOR.

55:11 MURPHY.

55:12 YES.

55:12 COUNCIL.

55:13 PIPPIN.

55:13 COUNCIL.

55:14 OPINIONS?

55:15 COUNCILOR.

55:15 SANTANA.

55:15 YES.

55:16 COUNCILOR.

55:17 SANTANA.

55:17 YES.

55:18 COUNCILOR.

55:18 WEBER.

55:18 YES.

55:19 COUNCIL MEMBER.

55:20 YES AND COUNCILOR.

55:20 WORLD.

55:21 YES.

55:22 COUNCIL.

55:22 YES.

55:23 SO I CAN HAVE A1674 AS WE SEEM

55:26 TO BE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

55:27 AFFIRMATIVE.

55:27 THANK YOU.

55:28 THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

55:30 ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1674 HAS

55:33 PASSED.

55:34 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

55:35 READ DOCKET 1695?

55:38 DUCKY NUMBER 0695 ORDER FOR A

55:40 HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE

55:42 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY

55:44 OF BOSTON'S ASSESSMENT OF FAIR

55:46 HOUSING.

55:47 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR

55:48 OF THE HOUSE HOUSING AND

55:49 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

55:51 COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU HAVE THE

55:52 FLOOR.

55:54 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

55:56 YESTERDAY THE COMMITTEE ON.

55:58 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

55:59 DEVELOPMENT HELD A HEARING ON

56:00 DOCKET NUMBER 0695 IN ORDER FOR

56:03 A HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE

56:05 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY

56:06 OF BOSTON ASSESSMENT ON FAIR

56:08 HOUSING.

56:08 THE DOCKET WAS SPONSORED BY

56:10 COUNCILORS MORRELL, CULPEPER

56:12 AND MARIA.

56:13 IN ATTENDANCE WERE COUNCILORS

56:15 MORRELL, CULPEPER, MEJIA,

56:17 FLYNN, MURPHY, MORRELL, BREADON

56:20 WEBER, FITZGERALD LOUIJEUNE AND

56:21 CLARISSA PORTER.

56:23 WE WERE JOINED BY MEMBERS

56:24 OF THE EQUITY AND INCLUSION

56:26 CABINET AS WELL AS A ROBUST

56:27 PANEL OF ADVOCATES FOR A

56:28 DISCUSSION ON THE CITY'S

56:29 ASSESSMENT OF FAIR HOUSING.

56:31 THE CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED

56:33 BOTH IN BOSTON AND THE LARGEST

56:35 ECONOMY SINCE THE ASSESSMENT

56:36 WAS RELEASED IN 2022 AND WHAT

56:39 WORK THE CITY HAS DONE IN THE

56:40 WAKE OF THE ASSESSMENT.

56:42 THE DISCUSSION FOCUSED ON WHAT

56:43 THE CITY CAN DO BETTER TO MEET

56:45 ITS OBLIGATION TO AFFIRMATIVELY

56:47 FURTHER FAIR HOUSING GIVEN THE

56:48 CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE.

56:50 OPTIONS INCLUDE FILLING

56:51 VACANCIES IN THE OFFICE OF FAIR

56:53 HOUSING AND WORKING TO ACHIEVE

56:54 THE GOALS LAID OUT IN THE

56:55 ASSESSMENT.

56:57 ADVOCATES EMPHASIZE THE

56:58 IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMATIVELY

57:00 FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING ACROSS

57:01 CITY DEPARTMENTS AND

57:02 REMEMBERING THE FAIR HOUSING

57:03 GOALS BEYOND HOUSING

57:04 DISCRIMINATION.

57:06 I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO

57:07 THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUES BECAUSE

57:08 I WAS VERY JUST PLEASED TO SEE

57:10 HOW MANY OF YOU SHOWED UP

57:12 YESTERDAY.

57:12 IT WAS A VERY UM STRONG HEARING

57:14 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOR

57:16 YOUR ATTENDANCE.

57:17 BUT AT THIS TIME I WOULD LOVE

57:19 TO OFFER THE MAIN SPONSOR

57:21 OF THIS HEARING,

57:22 COUNCILOR BRIAN MORROW, AN

57:23 OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ANY

57:24 REMARKS IF HE PLEASES TO DO SO.

57:26 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

57:27 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

57:28 COUNCILOR WORRELL YOU HAVE THE

57:29 FLOOR.

57:29 UH.

57:30 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

57:31 THANK YOU TO COUNCIL, UH, PEPEN

57:32 FOR OUR CHANCE THIS HEARING AND

57:34 THANK YOU TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES

57:35 THAT SHOWED UP.

57:36 UH, I WANT TO START BY

57:37 REMEMBERING THE LATE GREAT BOB

57:39 TYRRELL.

57:40 UH, MANY OF US SPENT HOURS WITH

57:42 BOB LISTENING AND LEARNING.

57:43 HE MADE SURE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT

57:45 FAIR HOUSING MEANS AND WHAT WE

57:46 NEEDED TO DO ABOUT IT.

57:48 I ALSO WANT TO THANK OUR, UH,

57:51 COMMUNITY PANEL.

57:52 UH, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE

57:53 BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR YEARS

57:54 AND HAVE PUT FAIR HOUSING INTO

57:56 OUR ZONING CODE.

57:57 AND THANK YOU TO OUR FORMER

57:58 COLLEAGUES, ESPECIALLY SENATOR

57:59 EDWARDS, AND GET THAT ACROSS

58:01 THE FINISH LINE.

58:02 UH, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK

58:03 DONE BUT WE KNOW THERE'S MORE

58:04 TO DO.

58:05 POLICY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS

58:07 IMPLEMENTATION.

58:08 AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

58:09 BRINGING, UH, OFFICE OF FAIR

58:10 HOUSING AND THE RELEVANT

58:11 DEPARTMENTS BACK, UH, FOR A

58:13 WORK SESSION.

58:14 UH, LET'S GET THE OUTSTANDING

58:15 QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

58:16 UH, GET AN UPDATE ON THE

58:18 QUARTERLY REPORT AND BE CLEAR

58:19 ON THE NEXT STEPS AND WHAT THIS

58:21 OFFICE NEEDS TO GET IT DONE.

58:22 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE FH

58:25 COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON

58:27 LEAD FROM THE EQUITY UH

58:29 DEPARTMENT.

58:30 UH, DEWAYNE WATSON WHO THE OLD

58:31 MAC ROOM FOR FAIR HOUSING AND I

58:32 ALSO WANT TO REMEMBER JOYCE

58:34 RIVERA WHO PUT SO MUCH INTO

58:35 THIS WORK AND HELPED CARRY

58:36 BOB'S LEGACY FORWARD.

58:37 THANK YOU.

58:38 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

58:40 WELL, DOCKET 1695 WILL REMAIN

58:43 IN COMMITTEE.

58:45 WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS, ORDERS

58:47 AND RESOLUTIONS A REMINDER THAT

58:49 UNDER RULE 39 REMARKS ON NEW

58:51 MATTERS NOT UP FOR A VOTE TODAY

58:53 WILL SHALL BE LIMITED TO THREE

58:55 MINUTES FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR

58:56 AND TWO MINUTES FOR THE

58:58 CO-SPONSORS.

58:59 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

59:00 READ DOCKET 1843.

59:02 TALKING NUMBER 1843 COUNCIL IS

59:04 WELL AND MEJIA UH FOR THE

59:06 FOLLOWING ORDINANCE AMENDING

59:07 AND FORMALIZING THE

59:09 NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT COMMISSION

59:10 .

59:11 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

59:13 COUNCILOR WORRELL YOU HAVE THE

59:14 FLOOR.

59:15 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

59:17 I WANT TO ALSO THANK, UH,

59:19 COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR HER

59:20 CO-SPONSORSHIP.

59:21 THIS ORDINANCE COMES FROM YEARS

59:23 OF EFFORTS THAT STARTED BEFORE

59:24 MY TIME HERE ON THE CITY

59:26 COUNCIL HAS CONTINUED

59:27 THROUGHOUT MY TIME IN OFFICE

59:29 AND HOPEFULLY WILL CONTINUE IN

59:30 OUR CITY LONG INTO THE FUTURE

59:32 SO WE CAN SHOW ALL OF BOSTON

59:34 RESIDENTS SHARE IN THE BOSTON'S

59:35 GROWTH AND NONE OF THEM HAVE TO

59:37 ACCEPT ACCEPT DISPLACEMENT AS A

59:39 NORM.

59:40 THIS ORDINANCE IS MEANT AS A

59:42 COMPANION PIECE TO THE ZONING

59:43 PETITION I FOUND EARLIER THIS

59:45 YEAR TO CREATE SPECIAL

59:47 PROTECTION ZONES AS A TOOL TO

59:48 STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOODS

59:49 ABILITY, STABILITY,

59:52 AFFORDABILITY AND ANTI

59:53 DISPLACEMENT EFFORTS AND THE

59:54 NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE RISK

59:56 OF DISPLACEMENT IS HIGHEST THAT

59:58 UM THAT PETITION WILL CREATE

1:00:00 DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT FINANCE

1:00:01 AND ZONES WHICH WILL ALLOW A

1:00:02 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS AT RISK

1:00:04 OF DISPLACEMENT TO REINVEST IN

1:00:06 NEW PROPERTY TAXES FROM GROWTH

1:00:08 INTO MEASURES THAT WE KNOW CAN

1:00:09 FIGHT DISPLACEMENT AND INCLUDES

1:00:11 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

1:00:13 ESPECIALLY JOB UPSKILLING

1:00:14 BECAUSE WE KNOW A BIGGER

1:00:15 PAYCHECK CAN HELP MAKE YOUR

1:00:16 LIFE MORE STABLE AND ALSO CAN

1:00:19 INCLUDE INVESTMENTS IN

1:00:20 ENVIRONMENTAL AND

1:00:21 TRANSPORTATION EQUITY.

1:00:23 THE ORDINANCE I'M INTRODUCING

1:00:24 TODAY BUILDS UP A COMMISSION

1:00:25 THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE 80S

1:00:28 THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT

1:00:29 COMMISSION.

1:00:30 THIS ORDINANCE WILL REFORM THAT

1:00:32 COMMISSION AND BREATHE NEW LIFE

1:00:34 INTO IT IN A WAY THAT WILL

1:00:36 ALLOW FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE

1:00:37 NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE MORE

1:00:38 PREDICTABLE FOR DEVELOPERS AND

1:00:39 FOR RESIDENTS.

1:00:41 IT WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THIS

1:00:42 COMMISSION AT THE DISTRICT

1:00:43 LEVEL TO ADMINISTER THOSE FUNDS

1:00:45 FROM THE DEATH DIRECTLY INTO

1:00:47 ANTI DISPLACEMENT AND ANTI

1:00:49 DISPLACEMENT MEASURES.

1:00:50 THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT

1:00:52 COMMISSION ON A CITYWIDE LEVEL

1:00:53 AND FOR EACH AT RISK

1:00:54 NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD WILL

1:00:56 BE MADE UP OF CITY OFFICIALS,

1:00:57 HOUSING EXPERTS, COMMUNITY

1:00:59 LEADERS, BUSINESS OWNERS AND

1:01:01 RESIDENTS TO ACT AS A

1:01:02 REPRESENTATIVE BODY.

1:01:03 THIS BODY WOULD BE TASKED WITH

1:01:05 MAKING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

1:01:07 THAT ENCOURAGE THE PURSUIT

1:01:08 OF HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT

1:01:09 PRACTICES THAT PROMOTE

1:01:10 EQUITABLE PATHWAYS TO

1:01:12 NEIGHBORHOOD BASED, AFFORDABLE

1:01:13 AND DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING,

1:01:16 HOMEOWNERSHIP, SUSTAINABLE JOBS

1:01:17 AND WAGES AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY

1:01:19 FOR ALL AND CREATING SPACES

1:01:21 WHERE INDUSTRY EXPERTS, CITY

1:01:23 OFFICIALS AND RESIDENTS CAN

1:01:24 WEIGH IN TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT

1:01:26 MAKES THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW

1:01:27 PROCESS COHESIVE PRODUCTIVE FOR

1:01:29 ALL STAKEHOLDERS DECREASES TIME

1:01:30 AND COST FOR BUILDERS AND

1:01:32 CENTERS EQUITY AND DEVELOPMENT

1:01:33 BY BETTER INTEGRATING RESIDENTS

1:01:35 COLLABORATION.

1:01:36 I WANT A SHOUT OUT ACTION FOR

1:01:37 EQUITY WHO'S HERE TODAY FOR ALL

1:01:39 THEIR WORK, THE COLLABORATION

1:01:41 AND THIS FOR THE PAST COUPLE

1:01:42 OF YEARS THEY'VE BEEN WORKING

1:01:44 ON ANTI DISPLACEMENT MEASURES

1:01:46 AND HOUSING AND WORKFORCE

1:01:46 ISSUES FOR YEARS AND I'M SO

1:01:48 HONORED TO BE ABLE TO FILE THIS

1:01:50 ON THEIR BEHALF.

1:01:52 I WANT TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT THAT

1:01:55 WE HAVE ALSO WORK WITH

1:01:56 DEVELOPERS ON THIS.

1:01:56 AND WE TEND TO CONTINUE THOSE

1:01:58 COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS.

1:02:00 WE REALLY WANT TO GET THIS

1:02:01 RIGHT AND THAT MEANS

1:02:02 INCORPORATING FEEDBACK FROM ALL

1:02:03 ENDS OF EXPERTISE WHO HAVE A

1:02:05 HAND IN CREATING THE DIVERSE

1:02:06 HOUSING STOCK THAT BOSTON

1:02:07 NEIGHBORHOODS NEED.

1:02:08 I WANT TO THANK AGAIN THE TEAM

1:02:10 FOR ACTING FOR EQUITY ONCE MORE

1:02:12 AS WELL AS DEVELOPERS AND

1:02:13 HOUSING EXPERTS.

1:02:14 I ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT STACEY

1:02:15 FROM MY TEAM WHO HAS CONVENED

1:02:17 ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO BRING THIS

1:02:19 ORDINANCE HERE TODAY TO THE

1:02:20 FLOOR.

1:02:20 THANK YOU.

1:02:22 COUNCILMEMBER WORRELL CHAIR

1:02:24 RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:02:25 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:02:27 UH THANK YOU.

1:02:28 ,MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:02:29 AND I WANT TO THANK

1:02:30 COUNCIL WORRELL FOR ADDING ME,

1:02:31 UH, TO THIS ORDINANCE AND ALL

1:02:33 OF HIS LEADERSHIP IN THIS

1:02:34 SPACE.

1:02:35 UM, IN THE FACE OF RISING

1:02:36 HOUSING COST DISPLACEMENT AND

1:02:39 GENTRIFICATION, UM, AND LIMITED

1:02:41 ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION AND

1:02:42 GREEN SPACES AND HOUSING

1:02:43 INSTABILITY, THIS ORDINANCE

1:02:45 OFFERS A SOLUTION THAT HELPS

1:02:47 PROTECT COMMUNITIES AND THEIR

1:02:48 VOICES.

1:02:49 I GREW UP IN THE CITY

1:02:50 OF BOSTON, SO I KNOW FIRSTHAND

1:02:52 WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO NAVIGATE

1:02:53 SYSTEMS AND DECISIONS THAT HAVE

1:02:55 MADE, UM, A REAL IMPACT ON

1:02:58 WHERE YOU LIVE, HOW YOU LIVE

1:02:59 AND WHETHER YOU CAN EVEN AFFORD

1:03:00 TO LIVE HERE ANY LONGER.

1:03:03 I ALSO KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

1:03:04 WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR

1:03:07 NEIGHBORHOODS BEST ARE THE LAST

1:03:08 ONES THAT ARE BROUGHT INTO THE

1:03:10 CONVERSATION.

1:03:11 THIS LIVED EXPERIENCE IS WHY

1:03:12 OUR OFFICE IS DEDICATED TO

1:03:14 ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY

1:03:16 AND ACCESSIBILITY IN OUR CITY'S

1:03:18 PROTOCOLS, POLICIES AND

1:03:20 PROCEDURES.

1:03:21 ENSURING MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY

1:03:22 INPUT EARLY IN PLANNING AND

1:03:24 DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES.

1:03:26 CENTERS AND HONORS COMMUNITY

1:03:28 VOICES AND NEEDS.

1:03:30 I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT THAT THE

1:03:32 WHEREAS CLAUSES AND THE TEXT

1:03:33 OF THE ORDINANCE MENTIONS TRUE

1:03:35 AFFORDABILITY AND THE ISSUES

1:03:37 WITH CITYWIDE AMI BECAUSE IT

1:03:40 VARIES GREATLY ACROSS

1:03:41 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:03:42 WHAT IS CONSIDERED AFFORDABLE

1:03:44 IN BOSTON DOES NOT REFLECT THE

1:03:46 REALITIES ON THE GROUND.

1:03:47 OUR OFFICE CONTINUES TO

1:03:49 ADVOCATE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BASED

1:03:51 AIMS TO ENSURE DEEP

1:03:53 AFFORDABILITY.

1:03:53 I LOOK FORWARD TO COLLABORATING

1:03:55 IN MOVING THIS WORK FORWARD AND

1:03:57 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE

1:03:58 ADVOCATES.

1:03:59 OUR OFFICE HAS A CO GOVERNANCE

1:04:01 MODEL AND SO THIS IS WHAT IT

1:04:03 LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE LITERALLY

1:04:04 STEP TO THE SIDE AND LET

1:04:06 COMMUNITY LEAD.

1:04:06 AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO

1:04:08 MORE OF BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE

1:04:09 LIVING THE REALITIES AND OR

1:04:10 DOING THE WORK HAVE A BETTER

1:04:12 UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOLUTIONS

1:04:14 THAT WE NEED.

1:04:15 SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO WORK

1:04:16 ALONGSIDE COUNCILOR WORRELL AND

1:04:18 HIS TEAM AND COMMUNITY, UH, TO

1:04:20 MAKE IT HAPPEN.

1:04:21 THANK YOU.

1:04:23 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:04:24 COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNCILOR,

1:04:25 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:04:26 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:04:27 I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:04:28 ADD COUNCILOR CULPEPER AS A

1:04:29 THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:04:30 UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:04:32 OBJECTIONS.

1:04:33 COUNCIL CULPEPER HAD ADDED AS A

1:04:35 THIRD.

1:04:37 UM, ARE YOU OBJECTING?

1:04:38 SORRY.

1:04:39 COUNCIL CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE

1:04:40 FLOOR.

1:04:41 SOMETIMES CHOKING IS NOT

1:04:44 APPROPRIATE.

1:04:45 UH, MADAM CHAIR, I I'D LIKE TO

1:04:47 COMMEND COUNCILOR AMA HERE FOR

1:04:51 MOVING TO AMEND THIS ORDINANCE.

1:04:53 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

1:04:54 THEM CLOSELY.

1:04:55 COUNCIL WITH HERE AND AMENDING

1:04:58 THIS ORDINANCE AND WITH THE

1:04:59 COMMUNITY.

1:04:59 THANK YOU.

1:05:02 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:05:03 THEIR NAME?

1:05:06 COUNCILOR DURKAN CONTRA

1:05:07 FITZGERALD CONTRA FLYNN.

1:05:08 COUNCILMAN LOUIJEUNE

1:05:09 COUNCILOR MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN.

1:05:12 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:05:13 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:05:14 UH.

1:05:15 THANK YOU.

1:05:15 DOCKET 1843 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:05:17 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:05:19 OPERATIONS.

1:05:21 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:05:22 READ DOCKET.

1:05:25 18441844 COUNCIL FLANNEL FOR

1:05:26 THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A

1:05:28 HEARING TO DISCUSS THE BOSTON

1:05:29 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION'S

1:05:31 FLOOD REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE

1:05:33 PROGRAM.

1:05:34 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:05:35 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:05:36 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:05:37 THANK YOU MADAM.

1:05:38 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:05:41 ESTABLISHED IN 1977, THE BOSTON

1:05:43 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION.

1:05:44 PROVIDES RESIDENTS AND

1:05:46 BUSINESSES IN THE CITY

1:05:47 OF BOSTON WITH THE BEST QUALITY

1:05:49 WATER AND SEWER SERVICES.

1:05:51 IT WORKS TOGETHER WITH.

1:05:52 THE MASSACHUSETTS WATER AND

1:05:55 RESOURCE AUTHORITY AND RA TO

1:05:58 ENSURE THAT BOSTON'S WATER.

1:06:00 MEETS THE FEDERAL.

1:06:01 AND STATE DRINKING WATER

1:06:02 QUALITY REQUIREMENTS.

1:06:05 IT ALSO MONITORS THE QUALITY

1:06:06 OF BOSTON'S DRINKING WATER.

1:06:08 TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS.

1:06:08 SAFE TO CONSUME.

1:06:10 IN ADDITION, THE COMMISSION

1:06:12 ALSO PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL

1:06:14 MATERIALS REGARDING OUR WATER

1:06:16 AND ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING

1:06:18 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT.

1:06:19 CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND LEAD IN

1:06:23 OUR WATER.

1:06:24 LEAD CAN ENTER OUR DRINKING

1:06:25 WATER AS A.

1:06:26 RESULT OF.

1:06:27 CORROSION OF LEAD PIPES.

1:06:28 AS WELL AS FROM THE.

1:06:30 WEARING AWAY OF MATERIALS

1:06:32 CONTAINING LEAD IN THE WATER.

1:06:33 DISTRICT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.

1:06:35 EXCESSIVE LEAD.

1:06:36 IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR WATER

1:06:39 CAN POSE INCREASED HEALTH RISKS

1:06:41 ,ESPECIALLY FOR.

1:06:41 YOUNG.

1:06:42 CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN.

1:06:44 THE LEAD REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE

1:06:45 PROGRAM ENCOURAGED ENCOURAGES

1:06:47 PROPERTY OWNERS TO REPLACE

1:06:49 PRIVATE WATER SERVICES.

1:06:52 ACCORDING TO THE COMMISSION, A

1:06:53 PRIVATE WATER SERVICE.

1:06:55 IS THE PORTION.

1:06:55 OF THE WATER.

1:06:56 SERVICE PIPE RUNNING.

1:06:57 FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.

1:06:59 INTO THE BUILDING IN.

1:07:01 THE PIPE MAY BE MADE

1:07:02 OF LEAD.

1:07:03 THE BOSTON WATER AND SEWER.

1:07:04 COMMISSION DEVELOPED THE LEAD

1:07:06 REPLACEMENT.

1:07:07 INCENTIVE PROGRAM TO REMOVE AND

1:07:08 REPLACE THE LEAD PIPE.

1:07:10 AT NO COST TO THE OWNER.

1:07:11 THE PROGRAM SERVES BOSTON

1:07:13 PROPERTY OWNERS WHO ARE

1:07:14 ELIGIBLE TO.

1:07:15 PARTICIPATE AS LONG AS THE

1:07:17 PROPERTY IS.

1:07:17 SERVED BY.

1:07:19 A TWO INCH OR SMALLER WATER

1:07:22 SERVICE LEAD.

1:07:23 PIPE THAT THE WATER AND SEWER

1:07:25 ACCOUNT OF THE PROPERTY IS

1:07:27 ACTIVE AND THE PROPERTY OWNER

1:07:29 AGREES TO.

1:07:29 HAVE.

1:07:30 THE.

1:07:30 WORK DONE BY THE BOSTON WATER

1:07:31 AND SEWER COMMISSION.

1:07:33 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT OUR

1:07:34 RESIDENTS ARE AWARE OF THE LEAD

1:07:36 REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

1:07:38 SO THAT THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE

1:07:40 OF THE BOSTON WATER AND SEWER

1:07:41 COMMISSION.

1:07:42 SERVICE TO REPLACE THEIR LEAD

1:07:43 PIPES TO PROTECT.

1:07:45 THEIR HEALTH AND THEIR FAMILY'S

1:07:46 HEALTH.

1:07:47 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:07:48 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:07:50 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:07:52 NAME?

1:07:53 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARA

1:07:55 COUNCILOR CULPEPER CONSIDER CAN

1:07:57 CONSIDER FITZGERALD COMES FROM

1:07:58 LOUIJEUNE CONSUMER HERE

1:08:00 COUNCIL MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN

1:08:02 COUNTRY SANTANA.

1:08:03 CONSTABLE.

1:08:03 WEBER.

1:08:03 CONSTABLE ROWLAND PLEASE OF THE

1:08:05 CHAIR DOCKET 1844 IT WOULD BE

1:08:10 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:08:11 CITY SERVICES.

1:08:13 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:08:14 READ DOCKET 1845.

1:08:17 TALKING OF A1845 COUNCIL DURKAN

1:08:19 AND LOUIJEUNE OFFER THE

1:08:20 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:08:22 AND A ON BUSKING AND

1:08:24 OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT LOCAL

1:08:26 MUSICIANS AND PERFORMERS.

1:08:28 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:08:30 COUNCILOR DRUNKEN CONTINUE WITH

1:08:31 THE FLOOR.

1:08:31 THANK YOU SO.

1:08:32 MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'D

1:08:33 LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:08:34 ADD COUNCILOR BRIAN WORRELL AS

1:08:35 A THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

1:08:37 SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION

1:08:39 COUNCILOR WARREN CITED AS A

1:08:40 THIRD.

1:08:40 THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU

1:08:42 TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

1:08:43 COUNCILOR RALPH FOR PARTNERING

1:08:44 WITH ME ON THIS.

1:08:45 BOSTON IS AN INCREDIBLE CITY

1:08:46 AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT

1:08:48 WE ARE GOOD AT.

1:08:48 WE HAVE WORLD CLASS HOSPITALS

1:08:50 AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

1:08:51 WE HAVE LEADING TECH COMPANIES

1:08:52 AND OF COURSE OUR BOSTON SPORTS

1:08:54 TEAMS WHICH I KNOW.

1:08:55 I'M ROOTING FOR THE RED SOX

1:08:56 TONIGHT.

1:08:56 BUT WHAT MAKES OUR

1:08:58 NEIGHBORHOODS VIBRANT UM BRINGS

1:08:59 PEOPLE TOGETHER AND HELPS

1:09:01 RESIDENTS FEEL MORE ROOTED IN

1:09:02 OUR COMMUNITIES IS OUR ARTS AND

1:09:04 CULTURE.

1:09:04 I REPRESENT SO MANY ARTISTS

1:09:06 INSTITUTIONS AND FENWAY

1:09:08 ORGANIZATIONS FROM LOCAL

1:09:08 MUSICIANS PERFORMING VENUES TO

1:09:11 THE UH FENWAY CULTURAL DISTRICT

1:09:13 COMMUNITY WHICH INCLUDES

1:09:15 BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

1:09:16 THE ARTS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART

1:09:18 OF OUR ECONOMY AND BRING

1:09:19 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR

1:09:20 AND IN PART BECAUSE OF OUR

1:09:22 INCREDIBLE MUSICAL

1:09:24 INSTITUTIONS, BOSTON IS HOME TO

1:09:25 A LOT OF RISING TALENT.

1:09:26 THE CHALLENGES THAT WITH

1:09:27 FUNDING CHALLENGES BOTH LOCALLY

1:09:28 AND FEDERALLY AS MANY

1:09:31 PERFORMING VENUES AND STUDIOS

1:09:32 HAVE CLOSED AND CONSOLIDATED,

1:09:33 LOCAL PERFORMERS AND ARTISTS

1:09:35 ARE STRUGGLING TO BUILD CAREERS

1:09:36 HERE IN BOSTON.

1:09:37 WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO CREATE

1:09:38 MORE SPACE FOR ARTISTS AND WE

1:09:39 NEED TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT

1:09:41 HOW WE CAN SUPPORT THEM.

1:09:42 RECENTLY I MET DERMOT KENNEDY

1:09:44 AND HIS STORY GOT ME THINKING

1:09:45 ABOUT BUSKING.

1:09:46 DERMOT WAS BORN IN IRELAND AND

1:09:48 STARTED HIS CAREER BY COMING TO

1:09:49 BOSTON ON A J-1 VISA AND HE

1:09:51 BUST ON THE STREETS OF NEWBURY

1:09:54 STREET, FANEUIL HALL, THE

1:09:54 BOSTON COMMON UM AND UH TO HEAR

1:09:58 TO GET TO MEET WITH HIM WAS TO

1:10:00 REALIZE THAT WE HAVE A REAL

1:10:02 OPPORTUNITY HERE TO UH TO MAKE

1:10:04 HIS STORY FROM BEING ON A J-1

1:10:06 VISA BUSKING OUTSIDE TO SELLING

1:10:08 OUT MGM'S MUSIC HALL.

1:10:10 THAT STORY SHOULD BE POSSIBLE

1:10:11 IN BOSTON AND AS FAR AS CITIES

1:10:14 GO, BOSTON HAS A PRETTY OPEN

1:10:15 POLICY FOR BUSKERS.

1:10:16 FROM THE PAST 20 YEARS, LOCAL

1:10:18 PERFORMERS HAVE BEEN FREE TO

1:10:19 PERFORM ALMOST ANYWHERE WITH

1:10:21 FEW EXCEPTIONS WITHOUT A PERMIT

1:10:23 AS LONG AS THEY COMPLY WITH

1:10:24 NOISE AND SAFETY REGULATIONS.

1:10:25 LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES BRING

1:10:27 PEOPLE TOGETHER AND ADD

1:10:29 VIBRANCY TO OUR STREETS.

1:10:30 OTHER U.S. CITIES HAVE USED

1:10:31 BUSKING PROGRAMS AS A WAY TO

1:10:33 ACTIVATE LOCAL AREAS AND

1:10:34 SUPPORT LOCAL MUSICIANS AND

1:10:36 ARTISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND

1:10:37 AUSTIN, THEY'VE ACTUALLY

1:10:38 PARTNERED WITH BUSINESSES TO

1:10:39 COMPENSATE PERFORMERS WHILE

1:10:41 DOING SO.

1:10:41 BOSTON IS A LEADER IN THE ARTS

1:10:43 BUT WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO

1:10:44 SUPPORT OUR ARTS COMMUNITY.

1:10:46 I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN BE THE

1:10:47 BEST ARTS CITY IN AMERICA.

1:10:49 WE CAN BE A PLACE WHERE

1:10:51 OPPORTUNITY IS MORE

1:10:52 INTENTIONAL, WHERE WE OPEN UP

1:10:53 THE DOORS FOR ARTISTS BIG AND

1:10:56 SMALL WHERE UH, WE GIVE ACCESS

1:10:58 TO ELECTRICITY, SIGNAGE AND

1:10:59 OTHER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT

1:11:01 WOULD MAKE THIS POSSIBLE AND WE

1:11:03 NEED TO EXPLORE A MODEL THAT

1:11:04 GOES BEYOND TRADITIONAL BUSKING

1:11:06 BY CREATING PAID FOR.

1:11:07 FORM A.

1:11:08 PERFORMER PROGRAM.

1:11:09 AND I'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING

1:11:11 TO SOME OF OUR INSTITUTIONS

1:11:12 ABOUT HOW WE COULD JUST DO

1:11:13 THAT.

1:11:14 UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD VIBRANCY TO

1:11:16 OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND GIVE

1:11:17 LOCAL ARTISTS AN OPPORTUNITY.

1:11:18 AND THIS REALLY ISN'T ABOUT THE

1:11:20 NEWBURY STREET, THE FANEUIL

1:11:22 HALL.

1:11:22 THIS IS ABOUT EVERYWHERE IN

1:11:23 BOSTON.

1:11:23 THIS IS ABOUT OUR MAIN STREETS

1:11:25 AND ABOUT AND ENCOURAGING LOCAL

1:11:27 PERFORMANCES AND ENCOURAGING,

1:11:28 UH, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO

1:11:30 PERFORM THE ARTS.

1:11:31 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE A NEKO

1:11:32 BABY TO BE FAMOUS IN BOSTON AND

1:11:34 THIS IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.

1:11:36 SO THANK YOU TO COUNCILORS

1:11:37 LOUIJEUNE AND WE'RE ALL FOR

1:11:38 PARTNERING WITH YOU ON THIS.

1:11:39 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:11:41 CONCLUSION YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:11:42 THANK YOU.

1:11:43 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK

1:11:44 YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

1:11:45 FILING AND I LOOK FORWARD TO

1:11:46 HOLDING THIS HEARING ON THIS

1:11:48 IMPORTANT TOPIC.

1:11:48 THANK YOU.

1:11:49 YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:11:50 COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNCILOR,

1:11:51 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:11:52 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:11:53 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DEREK AND

1:11:55 COUNCILOR UH LOUIJEUNE FOR

1:11:56 BRINGING ME ONTO.

1:11:57 THIS ONTO.

1:11:58 THIS, UH, HERE IN ORDER.

1:12:00 UM, THIS IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT

1:12:01 MAKING OUR STREETS LIVELY IN

1:12:03 CERTAIN DISTRICTS.

1:12:03 IT'S ABOUT CREATING A VIBE AND

1:12:05 ATTRACTION THAT WOULD BRING

1:12:06 PEOPLE IN AND HELP THE

1:12:07 BUSINESSES IN THE AREA, UH,

1:12:09 CREATING ATTRACTIONS A BIT MORE

1:12:10 INTENTIONALLY IN EVERY

1:12:11 NEIGHBORHOOD CAN HELP SPREAD

1:12:12 MORE VALUABLE TOURISM DOLLARS

1:12:14 ACROSS EVERY CORNER OF BOSTON.

1:12:16 I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING.

1:12:17 THANK YOU.

1:12:18 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:12:19 NAME?

1:12:20 CAN CIRCLE UH CAN I JUST POWDER

1:12:23 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:12:24 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:12:24 COUNCILOR.

1:12:25 FLYNN.

1:12:26 COUNTRYMAN.

1:12:26 COUNTRY.

1:12:26 MURPHY.

1:12:27 COUNTRY.

1:12:27 PEPEN COUNTRY SANTANA AND JOE

1:12:30 WEBER AND.

1:12:31 PLEASE UH THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE

1:12:34 EIGHT 4 OR 5 WILL BE REFERRED

1:12:36 TO THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS,

1:12:37 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM

1:12:39 AND SPECIAL EVENTS.

1:12:41 UH, I'M GOING TO ASK MY

1:12:42 COLLEAGUE, UM,

1:12:45 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:12:46 I THINK YOU AND I ARE YOUR

1:12:47 SECOND ON THIS ONE.

1:12:48 AND SO CULPEPER, WOULD YOU MIND

1:12:49 TAKING THE CHAIR?

1:13:14 THANK YOU.

1:13:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:13:17 COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL WE

1:13:18 HAVE YOU HAVE A IT'S A CLERK.

1:13:21 WILL YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

1:13:22 NUMBER 1846?

1:13:25 DUGGAN NUMBER 1846

1:13:27 COUNCILOR BREADON UM, FOR THE

1:13:28 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:13:30 REGARDING THE STATUS

1:13:31 OF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS.

1:13:33 LONG TERM.

1:13:34 CONTROL PLANNING.

1:13:36 THANK YOU.

1:13:37 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:13:39 COUNCILOR PRESIDENT BREADON.

1:13:40 MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

1:13:41 FLOOR.

1:13:47 THANK YOU.

1:13:48 AND MAY I ADD

1:13:49 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTNER

1:13:51 AS A SECOND.

1:13:55 IT BEING NO OBJECTING

1:13:57 COUNCIL IS A PART OF A LETTER

1:13:59 IT'S A PART OF ADDED AS A

1:14:01 SECOND.

1:14:01 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:14:02 I'M INTRODUCING THIS HEARING

1:14:04 ORDER TO COMPLIMENT A

1:14:05 RESOLUTION THE COUNCIL PASSED

1:14:07 LAST MONTH.

1:14:08 WE NEED ANSWERS TO THE STATUS

1:14:10 OF THE UPDATED COMBINED SEWER

1:14:13 OVERFLOW LONG TERM CONTROL

1:14:14 PLAN.

1:14:15 SEWER OVERFLOWS AND WATER

1:14:17 POLLUTION CONTINUE TO BE AMONG

1:14:18 THE MOST PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL

1:14:20 AND PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS

1:14:21 FACING OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:14:23 BOSTON'S INFRASTRUCTURE LACKS

1:14:26 MODERN SYSTEMS THAT TRANSPORT

1:14:27 RAINWATER AND SEWAGE AND

1:14:29 TRANSPORT AND TRANSPORT

1:14:31 RAINWATER AND SEWAGE THROUGH

1:14:32 SEPARATE PIPES.

1:14:34 INSTEAD, BOSTON USES COMBINED

1:14:36 SEWERS THAT CARRY BOTH FLOWS

1:14:38 TOGETHER DURING HEAVY RAIN.

1:14:40 MUCH LIKE WE HAVE THIS PAST

1:14:42 WEEKEND, THESE SYSTEMS OVERFLOW

1:14:43 INTO OUR NEAREST WATERWAYS,

1:14:46 RELEASING UNTREATED WASTEWATER

1:14:47 DIRECTLY INTO THE NEAREST BODY

1:14:49 OF WATER LIKE THE CHARLES OR

1:14:51 THE MYSTIC RIVER.

1:14:53 IN AUGUST OF 22, 2026 OUR

1:14:56 COUNCIL TOOK A FIRM STAND TO

1:14:58 PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL

1:14:59 WATERWAYS BY PASSING A

1:15:01 RESOLUTION CALLING FOR STRONG

1:15:03 INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS FROM

1:15:04 THE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS

1:15:06 AND OPPOSING ONGOING SEWAGE

1:15:08 DISCHARGES.

1:15:09 THE BOSTON CONSERVATION

1:15:10 COMMISSION HAS LEFT THE

1:15:12 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES,

1:15:13 WATERSHED GROUPS AND

1:15:15 CONSERVATION COMMISSIONERS

1:15:16 WITHOUT A SINGLE RESPONSE FOR

1:15:17 MORE THAN NINE MONTHS DESPITE

1:15:20 ONGOING REQUESTS FOR

1:15:21 INFORMATION.

1:15:22 THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

1:15:23 OUR RESIDENTS DESERVE

1:15:26 TRANSPARENCY, PUBLIC

1:15:28 PARTICIPATION AND TIMELY

1:15:29 COMMUNICATION.

1:15:30 THIS IS ESSENTIAL WHEN

1:15:32 EVALUATING DECISIONS THAT

1:15:33 DIDN'T DIRECTLY IMPACT PUBLIC

1:15:35 HEALTH FROM WATER QUALITY AND

1:15:37 THE ENVIRONMENT OF OUR

1:15:37 COMMUNITIES.

1:15:39 RESIDENTS SHOULD KNOW THE

1:15:40 STATUS OF THE LTE, PC, CPW AND

1:15:43 THE CITY'S OFFICIAL POSITION ON

1:15:45 FUTURE SEWAGE DISCHARGES.

1:15:47 REGIONAL AGENCY COORDINATION

1:15:49 AND ACTIVE STEPS TAKEN TO

1:15:51 PROTECT THE WATERWAYS THAT ARE

1:15:52 ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE CITY

1:15:54 OF BOSTON.

1:15:55 I'M CALLING FOR THIS ORDER FOR

1:15:58 A HEARING FOR CITY DEPARTMENTS,

1:15:59 STATE AGENCIES, ENVIRONMENTAL

1:16:02 ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PUBLIC

1:16:03 CAN ADDRESS CONCERNS DIRECTLY

1:16:05 BECAUSE THE CHARLES RIVER IS AN

1:16:07 IMPORTANT WATERWAY WITHIN

1:16:08 BOSTON AND THAT RUNS THROUGH

1:16:10 OUR CITY.

1:16:11 IT SHOULD BE CLEAN, SAFE AND

1:16:13 PROTECTED FOR EVERY COMMUNITY.

1:16:15 AS WE HAVE HEARD FROM OUR GUEST

1:16:18 THIS MORNING, THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:16:20 OPEN WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

1:16:22 .

1:16:22 THE QUALITY OF WATER UM IS VERY

1:16:25 IMPORTANT FOR RECREATIONAL

1:16:26 SWIMMING IN THE HARBOR AND IN

1:16:29 OUR AND ON THE CHARLES RIVER IN

1:16:30 THE MYSTIC AND UH, YOU KNOW, IF

1:16:33 YOU CAN SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN

1:16:35 ISLAND IN THE HUDSON, WHY CAN

1:16:36 WE NOT SWIM IN THE CHARLES?

1:16:37 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

1:16:38 SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE,

1:16:40 UM, FOR THE QUALITY OF LIFE

1:16:42 AND, UH, THANK YOU.

1:16:45 I LOOK FORWARD TO A HEARING ON

1:16:46 THIS.

1:16:48 THANK YOU.

1:16:51 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:16:52 COUNCILOR BECAUSE THAT IS A

1:16:53 PART OF COUNCILOR HE'S A PART

1:16:56 OF YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:16:57 THANK YOU.

1:16:57 UM, COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND I

1:16:58 WANT TO THANK MADAM PRESIDENT

1:16:59 UM, FOR.

1:17:00 YOUR, UM.

1:17:01 UH.

1:17:02 FOR INVITING ME ONTO.

1:17:03 THIS HEARING ORDER.

1:17:05 UM, I APPRECIATE IT.

1:17:06 IT WAS PROACTIVE AND, UM, I I

1:17:08 KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF WORK

1:17:09 HAPPENING ACROSS THE CITY, SO I

1:17:10 REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU GIVE

1:17:11 ME A SECOND.

1:17:12 I APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP.

1:17:13 UM, FOR.

1:17:13 THOSE OF US REPRESENTING

1:17:14 WATERFRONT COMMUNITIES,

1:17:15 COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS AND

1:17:17 THE INFRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY TO

1:17:18 PREVENT THEM ARE NOT ABSTRACT

1:17:19 POLICY DISCUSSIONS.

1:17:21 WE ARE WATCHING THE WORK HAPPEN

1:17:22 BENEATH OUR STREETS RIGHT NOW

1:17:24 IN EAST BOSTON.

1:17:25 UH, BOSTON WATER AND SEWER IS

1:17:27 CURRENTLY UNDERTAKING THE

1:17:27 FOURTH PHASE OF A MASSIVE

1:17:29 MULTI-YEAR SEWER SEPARATION

1:17:30 PROJECT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY

1:17:32 TO REDUCE THE NUMBER AND VOLUME

1:17:34 OF COMBINED.

1:17:34 SEWER OVERFLOWS.

1:17:35 INTO THE CHELSEA CREEK AND

1:17:36 BOSTON HARBOR.

1:17:37 THIS PHASE ALONE INVOLVES FIVE

1:17:40 SEPARATE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

1:17:42 BEGINNING.

1:17:42 IN.

1:17:43 2025 AND EXTENDING THROUGH 2031

1:17:46 .

1:17:46 JOAQUIN WILL.

1:17:47 BE SIX YEARS OLD.

1:17:48 THE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE IS

1:17:50 SIGNIFICANT, STRETCHING ACROSS

1:17:52 PORTIONS OF EAGLE HILL AND

1:17:53 MAVERICK SQUARE ALL THE WAY UP

1:17:55 TO MURRAY HEIGHTS.

1:17:55 ANYONE WHO LIVES IN EAST BOSTON

1:17:57 KNOWS JUST HOW EXTENSIVE THIS

1:17:59 WORK IS.

1:17:59 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OPENING UP

1:18:01 STREETS, INSTALLING ENTIRELY

1:18:03 NEW STORM DRAINS, REPLACING AND

1:18:05 REHABILITATING SEWER

1:18:06 INFRASTRUCTURE, REPLACING AGING

1:18:08 WATER MAINS AND PHYSICALLY

1:18:09 SEPARATING STORMWATER FROM

1:18:11 SANITARY SEWAGE SO THAT DURING

1:18:13 HEAVY RAIN EVENTS OUR SYSTEM

1:18:14 ISN'T OVERWHELMED AND SEWAGE

1:18:16 ISN'T DISCHARGED INTO OUR

1:18:18 WATERWAYS.

1:18:19 DISTRICT ONE BOTH UNDERSTANDS

1:18:21 THE ENORMOUS DISRUPTION AND THE

1:18:24 ENORMOUS INVESTMENT REQUIRED TO

1:18:26 MODERNIZE AN INFRASTRUCTURE

1:18:27 THAT PEOPLE NEVER SEE BUT KEEPS

1:18:29 THE CITY RUNNING.

1:18:30 WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THE PAYOFF.

1:18:32 CLEANER WATERWAYS REDUCE

1:18:34 FLOODING.

1:18:35 STRONGER INFRASTRUCTURE AND

1:18:36 FEWER COMBINED.

1:18:37 SEWER OVERFLOWS.

1:18:38 SO I DO LOOK FORWARD TO THE.

1:18:39 CONVERSATION AND LOOK FORWARD

1:18:41 TO THE HEARING.

1:18:41 THANK YOU.

1:18:43 UH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:18:44 THEIR NAME?

1:18:48 COUNCILOR DURKAN FITZGERALD.

1:18:50 THAT'S THE FLARING COUPLE

1:18:52 LOUIJEUNE.

1:18:53 UH.

1:18:53 SO.

1:18:54 MURPHY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN

1:18:54 COUNCIL.

1:18:55 SANTANA HOUSE OR WHATEVER AND

1:18:58 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:18:59 THANK YOU.

1:19:00 DOCKET NUMBER 1846 WILL BE

1:19:03 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:19:05 CITY SERVICES CITY CLERK.

1:19:08 AND PLEASE READ.

1:19:13 DOCKET NUMBER 1847.

1:19:16 DOG NUMBER 184 SO AND FLYNN FOR

1:19:19 THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HUMAN

1:19:21 TO DISCUSS THE DECLINING

1:19:23 MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE

1:19:25 ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND CARE

1:19:27 SCORES.

1:19:29 THANK YOU.

1:19:29 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:19:30 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNTER.

1:19:31 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:19:32 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:19:33 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD.

1:19:35 COUNCILOR MURPHY?

1:19:36 UH, COUNCIL MURPHY SO ADDED.

1:19:37 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:19:40 IN OCTOBER 2024, THE BOSTON

1:19:41 CITY COUNCIL HELD A HEARING TO

1:19:44 DISCUSS.

1:19:44 STANDARDIZED TESTING HAS A

1:19:46 GRADUATION.

1:19:47 REQUIREMENT.

1:19:49 IN NOVEMBER 2024 VOTERS

1:19:50 DETERMINE THE MIXED.

1:19:51 RESULTS WHEN NO LONGER NEED TO

1:19:53 REACH A CERTAIN SCORE IN.

1:19:55 ORDER TO GRADUATE.

1:19:56 LAST WEEK, THE BOSTON GLOBE

1:19:58 PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE.

1:20:00 ANALYZING MASSACHUSETTS

1:20:02 MASKLESS.

1:20:04 THE RESULTS CONCLUDE THAT THE

1:20:05 TEST SCORES FAILED TO REBOUND

1:20:08 TO LEVELS ACHIEVED PRIOR TO

1:20:09 COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

1:20:12 STATEWIDE ELA PERFORMANCE IN

1:20:13 GRADE.

1:20:14 THREE EIGHT CONTINUES TO

1:20:15 STRUGGLE, WITH JUST 40%

1:20:17 OF STUDENTS MEETING OR

1:20:19 EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS.

1:20:21 A 12 POINT DROP.

1:20:24 SINCE 2019.

1:20:25 THE DECLINE IS SHARPER AMONG

1:20:27 10TH GRADERS, WHOSE.

1:20:29 PASSING RATE FELL TO 4,045%,

1:20:32 PUTTING PERFORMANCE 16 POINTS

1:20:33 LOWER 2019 LEVELS WHILE AN

1:20:38 INCREASE IN.

1:20:38 GRADE SIX AND EIGHT MATH SCORES

1:20:40 .

1:20:41 THE EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE EXAM.

1:20:44 THERE WERE ALSO REPORTEDLY

1:20:46 SHARP DECLINES IN ENGLISH

1:20:47 SCORES AND LITTLE PROGRESS

1:20:49 OTHERWISE WITH THESE TEST

1:20:51 SCORES.

1:20:52 THE MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS

1:20:55 ALLIANCE CALLED AGAIN FOR.

1:20:57 THE REINSTATEMENT OF.

1:20:58 MCAS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.

1:21:01 IT IS CRITICAL TO DISCUSS THESE

1:21:03 FINDINGS WHY MCAS SCORES ARE.

1:21:05 NOT IMPROVING.

1:21:06 AND WHAT SUPPORT NEEDS TO

1:21:08 IMPROVE STUDENT SCORES.

1:21:10 .

1:21:10 THE BOSTON.

1:21:11 CITY COUNCIL.

1:21:11 CAN'T ACCEPT.

1:21:13 THESE SCORES AND LOWER RESULTS

1:21:15 .

1:21:16 UM WELL WE CAN MAKE A POLICY

1:21:18 CHANGE TO ENSURE THAT EVERY

1:21:19 STUDENT HAS.

1:21:20 THE OPPORTUNITY.

1:21:22 TO SUCCEED.

1:21:23 IN BOSTON.

1:21:24 IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE ALSO

1:21:25 ACCOUNT FOR CHALLENGES IN THE

1:21:27 DIGITAL AGE.

1:21:28 THE REPORT ALSO.

1:21:30 STATED AND I QUOTE.

1:21:32 INTERNATIONAL TEST SCORES HAVE

1:21:34 SHOWN SIMILAR DECLINES ACROSS

1:21:36 MUCH OF THE WORLD REGION

1:21:38 FOCUSING.

1:21:40 REINFORCING CONCERNS.

1:21:41 ABOUT THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL

1:21:43 .

1:21:43 INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL BASED

1:21:44 LAPTOPS CELL PHONES ON STUDENT

1:21:46 LEARNING.

1:21:47 THE NEW WEBCASTS SCORE.

1:21:49 MIRROR THE.

1:21:50 LATEST INTERNATIONAL.

1:21:53 TEST RESULTS.

1:21:54 WHICH DEMONSTRATED DECLINES.

1:21:55 FOR 15 YEAR OLDS ACROSS THE

1:21:57 WORLD.

1:21:57 STUDENTS SCORED WORSE ON THE

1:22:00 TEST IF THEY.

1:22:00 USED AI.

1:22:02 REGULARLY USED COMPUTERS.

1:22:03 FOR FUN AT.

1:22:04 SCHOOL OR REPORTED.

1:22:05 ELEVATED LEVELS OF DIGITAL

1:22:07 DISTRACTION.

1:22:09 I LEAVE YOU WITH THE WARNING

1:22:10 FROM THOMAS KANE IS A

1:22:12 PROFESSOR.

1:22:12 AT THE EDGE EDUCATION SCHOOL AT

1:22:14 HARVARD.

1:22:15 OUR LEADERS MUST HAVE BEEN

1:22:16 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AND.

1:22:18 I.

1:22:18 HOPE THEY WAKE UP BEFORE

1:22:19 MASSACHUSETTS LOSES ITS LEAD IN

1:22:22 K-THROUGH-12 EDUCATION.

1:22:23 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:24 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:22:26 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:22:27 COUNCILOR MURPHY COMES THROUGH.

1:22:28 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:22:29 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:31 AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:22:32 FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS

1:22:34 IMPORTANT CONVERSATION.

1:22:35 I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO

1:22:36 HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.

1:22:38 WE ARE GOING IN THE WRONG

1:22:40 DIRECTION.

1:22:42 AS AN EDUCATOR.

1:22:43 AS A MOM I AM WELL AWARE AND A

1:22:46 TRUE BELIEVER THAT ONE TEST

1:22:48 NEVER TELLS THE FULL STORY OF A

1:22:50 CHILD AND THEIR ABILITY BUT AT

1:22:52 THE SAME TIME IT DOES GIVE US A

1:22:54 PULSE AND A TRUE IDEA OF WHAT'S

1:22:57 HAPPENING AT EACH SCHOOL LEVEL.

1:22:59 WE HAVE SCHOOLS HERE IN OUR

1:23:01 SYSTEM THAT HAD A 0 TO 10%

1:23:05 PROFICIENCY RATE.

1:23:06 WE HAVE SOME SCHOOLS WHERE 0%

1:23:08 OF OUR STUDENTS ARE EVEN

1:23:10 REACHING A PROFICIENCY RATE ON

1:23:12 THE MCAT AND TO BE PROFICIENT

1:23:15 IS D LEVEL.

1:23:17 SO WE ALREADY HAVE A LOW MARK

1:23:18 IN MY OPINION.

1:23:20 SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:23:21 WE'RE DOING ALL WE CAN TO

1:23:24 PROVIDE OUR STUDENTS WITH THE

1:23:26 BEST EDUCATION.

1:23:27 AND WE KNOW THAT IF THEY DON'T

1:23:29 HAVE A GOOD EDUCATION, THEIR

1:23:32 OUTCOMES WHEN THEY GRADUATE ARE

1:23:34 THE REASON WHY MANY OF US ARE

1:23:35 ADVOCATING FOR ALL THE OTHER

1:23:37 RESOURCES WE NEED TO PROVIDE

1:23:38 OUR RESIDENTS.

1:23:39 SO IT'S IMPORTANT EDUCATION IS

1:23:40 THE WAY OUT FOR EVERYONE AND WE

1:23:43 NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT NO

1:23:44 MATTER WHAT SCHOOL YOUR CHILD

1:23:46 ATTENDS THAT THEY HAVE THE

1:23:49 OPPORTUNITY TO THE BEST

1:23:50 EDUCATION AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE

1:23:52 NOT OFFERING THAT TO ALL OF OUR

1:23:53 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.

1:23:55 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:23:56 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:23:58 NAME ADDIS ABABA

1:24:01 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNSELOR.

1:24:01 DURKAN COUNSELOR.

1:24:02 FITZGERALD.

1:24:04 COUNSELOR.

1:24:05 UM COUNSELING HERE.

1:24:07 COUNSELOR.

1:24:08 PEPEN.

1:24:09 COUNSELOR.

1:24:09 SANTANA.

1:24:10 COUNSELOR.

1:24:10 WEBER.

1:24:11 CULTURAL REALM PLEASE OUT THE

1:24:12 CHAIR.

1:24:14 THANK YOU.

1:24:15 DOCKET 1847 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:24:18 THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

1:24:21 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:24:23 READ DOCKET 1848.

1:24:24 TALKING NUMBER 1848 CANCEL PLAY

1:24:26 NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR

1:24:28 A HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:24:29 IMPLEMENTATION.

1:24:31 OF THE SEVEN NIGHTS PER WEEK

1:24:33 RESIDENT PARKING ONLY POLICY IN

1:24:35 SOUTH BOSTON.

1:24:36 THANK YOU.

1:24:37 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:24:38 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:24:39 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:24:41 YES.

1:24:42 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:24:43 ALMOST ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO

1:24:45 THE CITY ANNOUNCED.

1:24:46 AT A PUBLIC.

1:24:47 MEETING THAT SOUTH BOSTON.

1:24:50 UM.

1:24:51 WOULD RECEIVE.

1:24:53 UH, SEVEN NIGHTS PER.

1:24:54 WEEK RESIDENT PARKING ONLY IN

1:24:56 SOUTH BOSTON IN ALL AREAS THAT

1:24:59 DID.

1:24:59 NOT CURRENTLY HAVE OVERNIGHT

1:25:01 RESTRICTIONS.

1:25:01 THE TD COMMITTED TO ME OVER TWO

1:25:05 YEARS AGO THAT THIS WOULD

1:25:06 OCCUR.

1:25:06 AND I AM SEEKING AN UPDATE.

1:25:08 THIS CHANGE.

1:25:09 ALIGNS WITH THE CITY'S GOALS IF

1:25:11 THE CITY WANTS LESS PEOPLE

1:25:12 USING CARS.

1:25:13 THE SOUTH IN SOUTH BOSTON HAS

1:25:15 BECOME AS.

1:25:16 MUCH A DESTINATION FOR YOUNG.

1:25:18 PEOPLE TO.

1:25:18 VISIT ON THE WEEKENDS.

1:25:20 AS DOWNTOWN BOSTON OR FANEUIL

1:25:22 HALL.

1:25:23 WE SHOULD.

1:25:23 NOT WANT MORE PEOPLE

1:25:24 BRINGING.

1:25:24 CARS IN NEGATIVELY IMPACTING

1:25:26 THE COMMUNITY.

1:25:27 IT IS INCONSISTENT TO SAY THE

1:25:29 CITY WANTS.

1:25:30 PEOPLE TO TAKE PUBLIC

1:25:31 TRANSPORTATION.

1:25:32 RIDE IS A BIKE SHARE IS.

1:25:34 OR BIKES.

1:25:35 DURING THE WEEK BUT FRIDAY,

1:25:36 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT IS

1:25:39 OKAY TO PARK YOUR.

1:25:40 CAR IN SOUTHIE.

1:25:41 THIS CHANGE IS CRITICAL FOR

1:25:42 MANY REASONS.

1:25:43 SOUTH BOSTON'S EXISTING PARKING

1:25:45 CRISIS.

1:25:47 AND IN.

1:25:48 THE NUMBER OF PARKING SPOTS

1:25:50 WE HAVE THERE'S A.

1:25:51 QUESTION OF FAIRNESS WHEN.

1:25:53 MOST OF.

1:25:54 THE NEIGHBORHOOD CURRENTLY

1:25:55 MAINTAINS RESIDENT PARKING FOUR

1:25:57 NIGHTS PER WEEK, WHICH.

1:25:59 IS MONDAY.

1:25:59 THROUGH THURSDAY AND.

1:26:00 SOME AREAS HAVE SEVEN NIGHTS

1:26:02 PER WEEK RESIDENT PARKING.

1:26:03 THERE'S ALSO CONTINUED

1:26:05 PRESSURE.

1:26:05 WITH THE CITY WHEN THE CITY

1:26:07 APPROVES ARTICLE 80

1:26:09 DEVELOPMENT.

1:26:09 WITH 0.5 PARKING SPACES.

1:26:11 THE PARKING CRISIS.

1:26:13 IN SOUTH.

1:26:14 BOSTON HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY

1:26:16 UNSUSTAINABLE.

1:26:17 A 2023 BTD UM REPORT INDICATED

1:26:21 THAT THERE WERE.

1:26:22 ALMOST 29,000 ACTIVE RESIDENT

1:26:26 PARKING.

1:26:26 PERMITS AND ONLY ABOUT.

1:26:28 11,000 ON.

1:26:29 STREET PARKING.

1:26:30 SPACES AT THAT TIME I REQUESTED

1:26:33 AN AUDIT.

1:26:33 AND NEARLY.

1:26:34 8000 INCORRECT.

1:26:36 PERMITS WERE REVOKED.

1:26:38 MEANWHILE, SOUTH BOSTON

1:26:39 CONTINUES TO ABSORB ABSORB.

1:26:41 A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF ARTICLE

1:26:43 80 DEVELOPMENTS.

1:26:44 WHILE MANY HAVE GAINED SUPPORT

1:26:46 OF THE COMMUNITY.

1:26:48 IN THE MIDST OF OUR HOUSING

1:26:49 CRISIS, DEVELOP IS.

1:26:50 REPORTED BEING STALLED WITH A

1:26:51 REQUEST TO CUT ALREADY AGREED

1:26:53 UPON PARKING RATIOS AND ADHERE

1:26:56 TO.

1:26:57 BTD RECOMMENDATION PARKING

1:26:59 GUIDELINES.

1:27:00 OF POINT FIVE SPOTS.

1:27:01 PER UNIT AND DISREGARD LOCAL.

1:27:03 ZONING REGULATIONS.

1:27:06 SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE WE

1:27:08 HAVE.

1:27:08 TO DECIDE IF THIS IS A

1:27:09 HOUSING.

1:27:10 CRISIS CRISIS WE'RE IN A.

1:27:11 RUSH TO ADDRESS OR.

1:27:13 IT'S A PARKING.

1:27:13 LITMUS TEST.

1:27:15 RESIDENTS CONSISTENTLY REPORT A

1:27:17 LARGE NUMBER.

1:27:18 OF OUT-OF-STATE PLATES IN CARS

1:27:19 WITHOUT A PARKING PERMIT.

1:27:21 THEY SAY MANY, MANY VISITOR

1:27:22 VISITORS WILL PARK HERE FOR

1:27:24 SEVERAL DAYS BEGINNING FRIDAY

1:27:25 MORNING AT 10 A.M. THROUGH

1:27:28 MONDAY EVENING AT 6 P.M. WHEN

1:27:31 OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:27:32 IN SIMILAR PROXIMATE.

1:27:34 PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN THAT HAVE

1:27:36 STRICTER RESIDENTIAL PARKING

1:27:38 REGULATIONS.

1:27:39 IT IS NO LONGER TENABLE.

1:27:40 FOR THE ABSENCE OF SEVEN

1:27:41 NIGHTS PER WEEK RESIDENT

1:27:44 PARKING.

1:27:44 ONLY POLICY.

1:27:46 THIS IS.

1:27:47 A COMPROMISE IN MY VIEW,

1:27:48 WITH OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS HAVING

1:27:49 24 SEVEN RESIDENT PARKING.

1:27:51 THIS CHANGE.

1:27:52 IS LONG OVERDUE.

1:27:53 AND I WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR MY

1:27:55 CONSTITUENTS.

1:27:56 IN SOUTH BOSTON.

1:27:56 MADAM CHAIR, IT'S ABOUT RESPECT

1:27:58 .

1:27:59 IT'S ABOUT PROVIDING.

1:28:00 QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVING

1:28:01 THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE AND IT'S

1:28:03 LONG OVERDUE FOR THE BOSTON.

1:28:06 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TO

1:28:06 TREAT THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTH.

1:28:08 BOSTON WITH RESPECT.

1:28:09 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:28:10 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:28:11 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:28:13 NAME?

1:28:16 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

1:28:18 FITZGERALD.

1:28:18 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

1:28:19 MEJIA CONTRA PEPEN CONTRA

1:28:21 SANTANA COUNCILOR WEBER AND

1:28:23 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:28:27 UM DOCKET ONE I'LL SEE DOCKET

1:28:32 184 IT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:28:33 COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES.

1:28:36 MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:28:37 DOCKET 1849.

1:28:39 SO I CAN I MOVE 1849

1:28:41 COUNCIL THING ON FOR THE

1:28:42 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:28:44 TO DISCUSS BUILDING A PARKING

1:28:46 GARAGE AT THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:28:47 MUNICIPAL.

1:28:48 LOT ON WEST BROADWAY AND SOUTH

1:28:50 BOSTON.

1:28:51 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:28:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:28:53 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:28:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:28:55 OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES.

1:28:56 SOUTH BOSTON HAS EXPERIENCED.

1:28:59 UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH WITH MANY

1:29:00 LARGE SCALE.

1:29:01 PROJECTS HAVING BEEN COMPLETED.

1:29:03 AND OTHERS CURRENTLY IN THE

1:29:04 PIPELINE.

1:29:05 IN ADDITION, THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:29:06 HAS DEVELOPED INTO AS.

1:29:09 A DESTINATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

1:29:10 TO FREQUENT OUR.

1:29:11 RESTAURANTS AND ESTABLISHMENTS

1:29:12 ON THE WEEKENDS.

1:29:14 SOCIAL MEDIA WILL OFTEN POINT

1:29:16 OUT TO.

1:29:16 LINES ON EAST.

1:29:17 BROADWAY AND WEST BROADWAY AT

1:29:19 THE VERY SAME TIME THERE ARE

1:29:20 BOTH NO RESIDENT PARKING AS I

1:29:22 MENTIONED.

1:29:23 UM IN PLACES WHERE THIS INFLUX

1:29:26 OF CARS ARRIVE ON THE WEEKENDS

1:29:27 .

1:29:28 WITH THIS.

1:29:29 NEIGHBORS CONTINUE TO CALL

1:29:30 ATTENTION TO SOUTH BOSTON'S.

1:29:32 EXISTING PARKING CRISIS

1:29:34 RESIDENT PARKING.

1:29:35 ONLY BEING IN.

1:29:36 PLACE FOUR NIGHTS PER WEEK.

1:29:38 AS WELL AS SUFFICIENT PARKING

1:29:39 AT.

1:29:39 NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN.

1:29:41 RESTRICTING RESIDENT PARKING

1:29:42 PERMITS.

1:29:43 FOR THESE BUILDINGS.

1:29:44 TO PREVENT.

1:29:45 AN OVERFLOW OF CARS THAT WOULD.

1:29:47 WORSEN THE.

1:29:47 QUALITY OF.

1:29:48 LIFE FOR CURRENT.

1:29:49 RESIDENTS FOR YEARS DURING.

1:29:51 BUDGET SEASON.

1:29:52 RESIDENTS AND I HAVE ADVOCATED

1:29:53 FOR A PARKING GARAGE TO BE

1:29:55 ERECTED ON THE WEST BROADWAY

1:29:56 MUNICIPAL LOT.

1:29:57 IN SOUTH BOSTON.

1:29:59 AND NOW AN APPROVED PROJECT AT

1:30:01 THE VACANT.

1:30:02 FORMER BANK BUILDING NEXT DOOR

1:30:04 WILL INCLUDE A COURT MOMENT, A

1:30:07 COURTHOUSE OFFICE AND SUPPORT

1:30:10 SPACE FOR USE BY THE TRIAL

1:30:11 COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH, A

1:30:13 PLACE FOR OUR TRIAL COURT AND

1:30:15 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS.

1:30:16 CRITICAL IN SOUTH BOSTON.

1:30:18 I SUPPORT THAT.

1:30:19 AND I.

1:30:19 ALSO HAVE BEEN ACTIVE

1:30:21 ENGAGED AS.

1:30:22 A PROBATION OFFICER IN.

1:30:23 NIGHT REPORTING.

1:30:24 AND RECOVERY SERVICES.

1:30:26 FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING

1:30:28 .

1:30:28 DURING THE DAY BUT STILL.

1:30:29 HAVE TO.

1:30:29 MEET THEIR PROBATION.

1:30:30 OFFICER NIGHT.

1:30:31 BUT NEIGHBORS AND I REMAIN.

1:30:33 CONCERNED THAT.

1:30:34 THE DEMANDS FOR THE EXISTING

1:30:35 PARKING LOT.

1:30:35 MAY NO LONGER BE.

1:30:36 SUFFICIENT AND REQUIRE

1:30:38 ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO

1:30:40 HELP ADDRESS THE DEMAND FOR

1:30:42 VISITORS.

1:30:43 AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC TO WEST

1:30:44 BROADWAY RESTAURANTS AND

1:30:45 ESTABLISHMENT TO.

1:30:46 POTENTIAL NEW CONSTRUCTION

1:30:48 NEARBY THAT MAY IMPACT THE

1:30:50 EXISTING MUNICIPAL ON.

1:30:51 AND SOUTH.

1:30:52 BOSTON'S PUBLIC.

1:30:54 UM PARKING CRISIS.

1:30:56 AS I MENTIONED.

1:30:57 IT IS APPROPRIATE TO BEGIN

1:30:58 DISCUSSION.

1:30:59 ON CONSTRUCTING A PARKING.

1:31:00 GARAGE AT THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:31:02 MUNICIPAL.

1:31:02 PARKING LOT.

1:31:03 ON WEST BROADWAY.

1:31:04 AND SOUTH BOSTON AND THERE ARE

1:31:07 NEARBY EXAMPLES.

1:31:08 FOR US TO LOOK AT INCLUDING

1:31:09 THE SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT

1:31:12 TRANSPORTATION CENTER.

1:31:13 AT MASSPORT.

1:31:14 UM, THEY HAVE A GARAGE WHICH

1:31:16 CURRENTLY OFFERS COMMUNITY

1:31:17 BENEFITS.

1:31:18 INCLUDING RESIDENTIAL PARKING.

1:31:21 DURING SNOWSTORM I.

1:31:22 BELIEVE THERE ARE PARKING LOTS

1:31:23 NEAR QUINCY CENTER AS WELL THAT

1:31:26 MAY PROVIDE DISCOUNTED RATES

1:31:27 FOR RESIDENTS.

1:31:28 AND SOMETHING WE SHOULD.

1:31:29 CERTAINLY LOOK AT AND RESEARCH

1:31:32 AT WITH OUR EXISTING PARKING

1:31:34 ISSUES.

1:31:36 UM I DO THINK RESIDENTS WANT.

1:31:38 US TO REFOCUS ON HOW WE'RE ABLE

1:31:40 TO SUPPORT THEM INSTEAD.

1:31:42 OF HAVING CARS DRIVE AROUND.

1:31:45 45 MINUTES A NIGHT.

1:31:45 IT'S NOT JUST MY.

1:31:46 NEIGHBORHOOD IT'S.

1:31:47 OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS.

1:31:47 THE CITY.

1:31:48 THE RESIDENTS REPORT.

1:31:49 DRIVING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1:31:51 LOOKING FOR A.

1:31:51 PARKING SPOT.

1:31:52 THIS IS A POSSIBILITY.

1:31:53 I'M UM, ADVOCATING FOR.

1:31:56 AND I.

1:31:57 HOPE THE.

1:31:57 CITY WILL SUPPORT MY

1:31:58 RECOMMENDATION.

1:31:58 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:32:00 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:32:01 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:32:03 THEIR NAME?

1:32:06 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:32:07 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

1:32:08 COUNCILOR.

1:32:08 WIRRAL COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

1:32:11 COUNSELOR.

1:32:11 UM.

1:32:11 HERE.

1:32:13 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:32:14 CANCER COLOR DISSIPATED.

1:32:16 COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM, PLEASE

1:32:17 HAVE THE CHAIR.

1:32:19 OH, AND COUNCILOR SANTANA AND

1:32:21 COUSIN WEBER.

1:32:22 THANK YOU.

1:32:23 DOCKET UM, WHICH ONE IS THIS?

1:32:26 DOCKET 1849 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:32:29 THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES.

1:32:31 THANK YOU.

1:32:33 UM, MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:32:35 READ DOCKET 1850.

1:32:37 TALKING ABOUT 1850

1:32:39 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OF THE

1:32:40 FOLLOWING.

1:32:41 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO EXAMINE

1:32:43 THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS

1:32:45 OF IMMIGRANT FARE FLIGHT AND

1:32:46 FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

1:32:48 IN BOSTON.

1:32:49 THANK YOU.

1:32:50 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:32:51 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:32:52 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:32:53 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:32:54 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

1:32:56 TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A

1:32:58 SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:33:00 I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST

1:33:02 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES THAT

1:33:04 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS A THIRD

1:33:06 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:33:07 COUNCILOR SANTANA'S ADDED AS A

1:33:09 SECOND AND SEEING AND HEARING

1:33:10 NO OBJECTION COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

1:33:12 THAT IS A THIRD.

1:33:13 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:33:15 AN ISSUE THAT BECAME

1:33:17 INCREASINGLY CLEAR DURING LAST

1:33:19 FRIDAY'S COMMITTEE ON CIVIL

1:33:21 RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUITY AND

1:33:23 IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT HEARING

1:33:25 REGARDING THE TERMINATION

1:33:28 OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS

1:33:29 FOR HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT

1:33:31 THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEDERAL

1:33:33 IMMIGRATION POLICY EXTENDED FAR

1:33:35 BEYOND IMMIGRATION STATUS.

1:33:37 THEY ARE INCREASINGLY AFFECTING

1:33:39 BOSTON'S ECONOMY BOTH AND

1:33:42 WORKFORCE AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS

1:33:45 IMMIGRANTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO

1:33:46 BOSTON'S WORKFORCE SMALL

1:33:48 BUSINESSES, NEIGHBORHOODS AND

1:33:49 TAX BASE.

1:33:50 WITHOUT IMMIGRATION,

1:33:53 MASSACHUSETTS WITH AN

1:33:54 EXPERIENCED POPULATION DECLINE

1:33:55 OVER THE LAST CENTURY AND

1:33:57 GREATER BOSTON WOULD HAVE LOST

1:33:59 APPROXIMATELY 100,000 RESIDENTS

1:34:02 IN THE PAST DECADE ALONE.

1:34:04 WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT

1:34:05 INCREASED FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT

1:34:07 AND FEAR OF DETENTION OR

1:34:09 DEPORTATION MAY BE CAUSING

1:34:11 IMMIGRANTS RESIDENTS TO LEAVE

1:34:13 MASSACHUSETTS, STAY HOME FROM

1:34:14 WORK, AVOID BUSINESSES AND

1:34:17 PUBLIC SPACES OR OTHERWISE

1:34:19 WITHDRAW FROM ECONOMIC LIFE.

1:34:21 A RECENT WHARTON STUDY

1:34:23 EXAMINING MORE THAN 5000

1:34:25 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

1:34:27 FOUND THAT ENFORCEMENT REDUCED

1:34:29 WEEKLY FOOT TRAFFIC BY 2.7% AND

1:34:33 SPENDING BY 6.2% PER LOCATION,

1:34:36 WITH IMPACTS EXTENDING BEYOND

1:34:39 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.

1:34:40 WE NEED TO EXAMINE HOW THESE

1:34:42 TRENDS ARE AFFECTING BOSTON'S

1:34:44 RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES,

1:34:46 WORKFORCE, NEIGHBORHOODS AND

1:34:48 TAXPAYERS AND WHAT THE CITY CAN

1:34:49 DO TO MEASURE AND MITIGATE

1:34:51 THESE HARMS IF FEAR IS DRIVING

1:34:54 RESIDENTS AWAY OR CAUSING THEM

1:34:56 TO WITHDRAW FROM OUR ECONOMY

1:34:57 THAT IS NOT ONLY AN IMMIGRANT

1:35:00 ISSUE BUT AN ISSUE FOR BOSTON'S

1:35:02 LONG TERM ECONOMIC STABILITY.

1:35:06 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:35:08 THANK YOU.

1:35:10 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:35:10 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRA

1:35:11 SANTANA COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE

1:35:13 FLOOR.

1:35:14 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:35:15 I WANNA THING COUNCILOR PEPPER

1:35:16 FOR CALLING ME ON THIS AND, UM,

1:35:18 FOLLOWING THIS HEARING, I'M

1:35:20 ORDER.

1:35:21 AS AN IMMIGRANT, I KNOW

1:35:22 FIRSTHAND THAT OUR IMMIGRANT

1:35:23 NEIGHBORS ARE THE BACKBONE

1:35:24 OF BOSTON SUCCESS FROM EAST

1:35:26 BOSTON AND DORCHESTER TO

1:35:27 MATTAPAN AND AUSTIN RIGHT NOW

1:35:30 FEAR IS PARALYZING OUR

1:35:32 COMMUNITIES.

1:35:32 NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED

1:35:34 WHILE SIMPLY DOING THEIR JOBS A

1:35:36 CALCULATED EFFORT TO INSTILL

1:35:37 TERROR AND MAKE FAMILIES AFRAID

1:35:39 TO STEP OUTSIDE WITH THE

1:35:41 ONGOING ICE SURGE IN NEW

1:35:43 BEDFORD, THERE'S HOSTILITIES ON

1:35:45 OUR DOORSTEP AND DRIVING A WAVE

1:35:47 OF FEAR.

1:35:47 FLIGHT RESIDENTS ARE LEAVING

1:35:50 BOSTON AVOIDING LOCAL

1:35:52 STOREFRONTS, UM AND SKIPPING

1:35:54 ESSENTIAL DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS

1:35:55 FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR

1:35:56 CHILDREN OUT OF FEAR THE

1:35:58 ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DAMAGE IS

1:35:59 IMMEDIATE.

1:36:00 A STUDY BY THE UCLA'S LATINO

1:36:02 POLICY AND POWER AND POLITICS

1:36:04 INSTITUTE FOUND THAT AN ICE

1:36:06 SURGE IN L.A. COUNTY CAUSED

1:36:08 NEARBY BUSINESSES.

1:36:09 TO LOSE.

1:36:10 46,000 VISITS AND ABOUT $3.16

1:36:13 MILLION IN JUST TWO WEEKS HERE

1:36:15 IN BOSTON, FEAR OF FLIGHT

1:36:16 DIRECTLY THREATENS OUR SMALL

1:36:18 BUSINESSES PUBLIC HEALTH,

1:36:19 HOUSING STABILITY, TAX REVENUE

1:36:21 AND CRITICAL INDUSTRIES.

1:36:24 SO FAR WE ONLY HAVE A SMALL

1:36:25 PICTURE OF WHAT THAT LEVEL

1:36:27 OF ENFORCEMENT IS DOING TO OUR

1:36:28 CITY.

1:36:28 WE MUST LEARN THE FULL EXTENT

1:36:30 OF THIS IMPACT HERE DIRECTLY

1:36:32 FROM BOSTON'S IMMIGRANT

1:36:33 COMMUNITIES, AND TAKE CONCRETE

1:36:34 STEPS TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS

1:36:35 .

1:36:36 WE MUST REMAIN COMMITTED TO

1:36:38 CREATING A BOSTON WHERE EVERY

1:36:39 RESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF STATUS

1:36:41 CAN LIVE, WORK AND THRIVE

1:36:42 WITHOUT FEAR.

1:36:43 THANK YOU.

1:36:44 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:36:46 CONTRIBUTION YOU HAVE THE

1:36:47 FLOOR.

1:36:47 THANK YOU I JUST WANT TO THANK

1:36:48 THE MAKER FOR ADDING ME AND

1:36:49 LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED

1:36:51 WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC.

1:36:52 UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF THE

1:36:55 ANTI-IMMIGRANT NATURE OF THIS

1:36:56 ADMINISTRATION.

1:36:57 THANK YOU.

1:37:00 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:37:02 NAME?

1:37:03 COUNTRY CANADA.

1:37:04 ZAPATA.

1:37:05 COUNCILOR.

1:37:05 DURKAN.

1:37:06 COUNCILOR.

1:37:06 FITZGERALD.

1:37:07 COUNTRY.

1:37:07 FLYNN.

1:37:07 COUNTRY.

1:37:08 MURPHY.

1:37:08 COUNTRY.

1:37:09 PEPEN.

1:37:10 COUNCILOR WEBER CONSTANT

1:37:11 WARRANT PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:37:13 THANK YOU.

1:37:14 DOCKET 1850 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:37:16 THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS,

1:37:17 RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

1:37:19 ADVANCEMENT.

1:37:21 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:37:22 READ DOCKET 1851.

1:37:25 TALKING NUMBER 1851 HAS BEEN

1:37:27 WITHDRAWN.

1:37:29 THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

1:37:31 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:37:32 DOCKET 1852.

1:37:34 TALKING NUMBER 1852

1:37:36 COUNCILOR MURPHY OFFERED THE

1:37:37 FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING

1:37:39 CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER

1:37:40 SECTION 17 OF REGARDING

1:37:43 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS.

1:37:44 REMOTE WORK CONTRARY TO A

1:37:46 CLASSIFICATION AND PAYMENTS TO

1:37:48 A FORMER SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL

1:37:50 ENGINEER.

1:37:52 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:37:54 UH, CONCERN MURPHY.

1:37:55 UM, WE JUST USUALLY SUSPEND THE

1:37:58 RULES AND ACCEPT THIS IF THAT'S

1:38:00 OKAY.

1:38:00 COUNTRY MURPHY SIX SUSPENSION

1:38:02 OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

1:38:03 OF DOCKET 1852.

1:38:04 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

1:38:07 SAY NAY.

1:38:07 THE AYES HAVE IT.

1:38:09 DOCKET 1852 HAS PASSED,

1:38:11 MR. CLERK THREE DOCKET 1853.

1:38:14 TALKING NUMBER 1853

1:38:16 COUNCILOR MURPHY OFF OF THE

1:38:17 PHONE ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:38:20 INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17

1:38:23 OF REGARDING BOSTON PUBLIC

1:38:24 SCHOOLS.

1:38:24 PROCUREMENT.

1:38:25 CONTRACTING, PAYMENT

1:38:26 CONTROLS AND IMPLEMENTATION

1:38:28 OF THE STATE INSPECTOR

1:38:29 GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

1:38:31 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY SIX

1:38:33 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:38:34 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1853.

1:38:36 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

1:38:38 SAY NAY.

1:38:39 THE AYES HAVE IT.

1:38:41 DOCKET 1853 HAS PASSED.

1:38:43 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:38:45 READ DOCKET 18546.

1:38:47 NUMBER 1854 COUNCILOR MURPHY OH

1:38:49 FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER

1:38:51 REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION

1:38:52 UNDER SECTION 17 OF REGARDING

1:38:55 RULE, ROADWAY ALTERATIONS AND

1:38:57 THE CITY'S RESPONSE AT

1:38:59 TREATMENT STREET AND PARKER

1:39:00 STREET.

1:39:01 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY SIX

1:39:03 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:39:04 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1854.

1:39:06 ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I.

1:39:09 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

1:39:10 A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

1:39:12 1854.

1:39:14 COUNCIL AGREED?

1:39:15 YES.

1:39:16 COUNCIL.

1:39:16 BREADON.

1:39:17 YES.

1:39:17 COUNCILOR COLLETTE OSIPOV.

1:39:19 YES.

1:39:19 COUNCIL OCCURS ABOUT A YES.

1:39:21 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:39:22 YES.

1:39:22 COUNCILOR.

1:39:23 CULPEPER.

1:39:23 YES.

1:39:24 COUNCILOR.

1:39:24 DURKAN.

1:39:25 COUNCILOR.

1:39:25 DURKAN.

1:39:26 YES.

1:39:26 COUNCIL.

1:39:27 FITZGERALD.

1:39:27 YES.

1:39:27 COUNCIL.

1:39:28 FISCAL.

1:39:28 YES.

1:39:29 COUNCILOR.

1:39:29 FLYNN.

1:39:29 YES.

1:39:31 COUNCIL.

1:39:31 FLYNN.

1:39:31 YES.

1:39:32 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

1:39:34 MEJIA.

1:39:35 COUNCILOR.

1:39:35 MURPHY.

1:39:36 COUNCILOR.

1:39:37 MURPHY.

1:39:37 YES.

1:39:37 COUNCIL.

1:39:38 PIPPIN.

1:39:39 COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.

1:39:40 SANTANA.

1:39:40 YES.

1:39:41 COUNCIL.

1:39:41 SANTANA.

1:39:42 YES.

1:39:42 COUNCILOR.

1:39:43 WEBER.

1:39:43 YES.

1:39:43 COUNCIL.

1:39:44 WEBER.

1:39:44 YES AND COUNCILOR.

1:39:45 WORLD.

1:39:46 YES.

1:39:46 COUNCIL.

1:39:46 ORAL.

1:39:47 YES.

1:39:47 TALKING NUMBER 1854 AS WE

1:39:49 RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

1:39:51 AFFIRMATIVE.

1:39:51 THANK YOU.

1:39:53 DOCKET 1854 HAS PASSED.

1:39:55 MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:39:56 READ DOCKET 1855I.

1:39:58 NUMBER 1855 COUNCILOR, CALL

1:40:00 PEPPER OFF OF THE FOLLOWING

1:40:02 ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:40:04 INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17

1:40:06 OF REGARDING THE STATUS OF THE

1:40:08 BOSTON REPARATIONS TASK FORCE.

1:40:11 RESEARCH REPORTS AND FUTURE

1:40:12 WORK.

1:40:13 CONSTRUCTION CULPEPER.

1:40:14 WE DON'T USUALLY SPEAK ON

1:40:15 THESE.

1:40:16 WE JUST, UH, SUSPEND AND PASS

1:40:17 IF WE IF THAT'S OKAY WITH

1:40:19 THAT'S COUNCILOR CULPEPPER SIX

1:40:22 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:40:23 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1855.

1:40:24 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:40:26 AYE.

1:40:26 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

1:40:28 THE AYES HAVE A DOCKET 1855 IS

1:40:31 PASSED.

1:40:33 MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:40:34 DOCKET 1856.

1:40:36 DOC NUMBER 1856 COUNCIL IS

1:40:38 DURKAN AND WE'RE OFF WITH THE

1:40:40 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

1:40:42 OF QUESTION SIX TO CREATE A

1:40:44 NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION

1:40:45 FUND.

1:40:46 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:40:48 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY YOU

1:40:48 HAVE THE.

1:40:49 FLOOR THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:40:50 AND UM THANK YOU SO MUCH TO

1:40:52 COUNCILOR AS WELL FOR JOINING

1:40:52 WITH ME ON THIS.

1:40:53 I RISE TODAY TO INTRODUCE A

1:40:55 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

1:40:56 OF QUESTION SIX WHICH WOULD

1:40:57 CREATE A NATIONAL RESOURCE

1:40:58 CONSERVATION FUND.

1:40:59 OUR NATURAL RESOURCES ARE

1:41:01 PRECIOUS AND SUPPORTING

1:41:03 CONTINUED PUBLIC USE AND

1:41:04 CONSERVATION OF THESE SPACES

1:41:05 ARE IMPORTANT PRIORITIES.

1:41:07 QUESTION SIX ON THE NOVEMBER

1:41:08 3RD STATEWIDE BALLOT WOULD

1:41:09 CREATE A FUND KNOWN AS THE

1:41:11 NATURE FOR ALL FUND OF UP TO

1:41:13 $100 MILLION ANNUALLY FROM

1:41:14 EXISTING SALES OF OUTDOOR

1:41:16 RECREATION EQUIPMENT.

1:41:17 THIS WOULD PROVIDE A STABLE

1:41:19 LONG TERM FUNDING TO PROTECT

1:41:20 AND MAINTAIN OUR PARKS AND

1:41:22 RECREATIONAL SPACES, PLAN FOR

1:41:23 CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND CONSERVE

1:41:25 NATURAL RESOURCES WHILE

1:41:27 EXPANDING ACCESS TO OUTDOOR

1:41:28 RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES

1:41:29 WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.

1:41:30 RELIABLE FUNDING IS ESPECIALLY

1:41:32 IMPORTANT WHEN CONSERVATION OR

1:41:33 CLIMATE PROGRAMS ARE

1:41:35 JEOPARDIZED BY STATE TIGHT

1:41:36 STATE BUDGETS AND LIMITED

1:41:38 FEDERAL RESOURCES.

1:41:39 IT WOULD ALLOW COMMUNITIES TO

1:41:41 PLAN PROJECTS IN ADVANCE THAT

1:41:43 WOULD OTHERWISE.

1:41:43 NOT BE POSSIBLE.

1:41:44 THE STATE MANAGES MORE PARKLAND

1:41:46 IN BOSTON THAN WE DO, SO THIS

1:41:47 FUNDING COULD HELP MAINTAIN

1:41:48 TREASURED OUTDOOR SPACES IN OUR

1:41:50 COMMUNITIES INCLUDING THE

1:41:51 ESPLANADE, STONY BROOK

1:41:53 RESERVATION AND THE SOUTHWEST

1:41:54 CORRIDOR PARK.

1:41:55 UM AS A DISTRICT EIGHT CITY

1:41:57 COUNCILOR UM WE HAVE A LOT

1:41:59 OF DCR LAND IN OUR DISTRICT SO

1:42:01 I FEEL LIKE THIS IS, UH,

1:42:03 APROPOS UM, TO BE TO BE

1:42:05 AUTHORING THIS.

1:42:06 UM, MASSACHUSETTS HAS STRONG

1:42:08 OUTDOOR RECREATION INDUSTRY AND

1:42:10 OTHER SIMILAR MODELS

1:42:11 OF DIRECTING SALES REVENUE FROM

1:42:12 SPORTING EQUIPMENT TO

1:42:13 CONSERVATION AND RECREATION.

1:42:15 IT HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF OUR

1:42:16 PRIORITIES TO CONSERVE NATURAL

1:42:18 RESOURCES AND EXPAND ACCESS TO

1:42:19 GREENSPACE AND OUTDOOR

1:42:20 RECREATION FOR BOSTON RESIDENTS

1:42:22 ,ESPECIALLY FOR FROM OUR LOW

1:42:23 INCOME RESIDENTS AND

1:42:24 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

1:42:25 I URGE OUR COMMUNITIES TO JOIN

1:42:26 ME IN VOTING YES.

1:42:27 UM AND I ALSO URGE MY

1:42:28 COLLEAGUES TO VOTE YES AND I AM

1:42:30 PUSHING FOR A SUSPEND AND PASS

1:42:31 TODAY.

1:42:32 UM, IF YOU SEE FROM A LOT

1:42:34 OF THE ENDORSEMENTS, UH, THAT

1:42:35 HAVE BEEN MADE, UH, A LOT

1:42:37 OF PEOPLE HAVE LEFT THIS

1:42:38 QUESTION BLANK AND I THINK IT

1:42:40 WOULD MEAN A LOT FOR THE

1:42:40 BOSTON.

1:42:41 CITY.

1:42:41 COUNCIL TO STAND UP IN SUPPORT

1:42:43 OF THIS QUESTION.

1:42:43 UM, VOTE YES ON QUESTION SIX.

1:42:46 THANK YOU.

1:42:47 CONSIDER CONCUR RECOGNIZES

1:42:48 CONSTABLE ORAL CONSTABLE YOU

1:42:49 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:42:50 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:42:51 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

1:42:53 ADDING ME UM, AS A ORIGINAL

1:42:55 CO-SPONSOR.

1:42:56 UM, I'M EXCITED TO BE

1:42:59 SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION.

1:43:01 UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:43:02 VOTING YES IN NOVEMBER ON THIS.

1:43:04 I BELIEVE SUCH A DEDICATED

1:43:05 FUNDING UM, SOURCE WOULD GROW

1:43:07 QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY FOR

1:43:08 THESE PURPOSES.

1:43:09 AND I ALSO WANT TO CONNECT A

1:43:10 STORY HERE IN ORDER I FOUND

1:43:12 RECENTLY TO EXPLORE INCREASING

1:43:14 THE PERCENTAGE OF CPA FUNDS

1:43:15 THAT ARE DEDICATED TO

1:43:17 AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:43:18 UH, IF WE HAD A DEDICATED FUNDS

1:43:19 SOURCE FOR CONSERVATION AND

1:43:21 GREENSPACE, IT COULD CREATE A

1:43:23 WAY FORWARD FOR US TO DIRECT

1:43:24 MORE CPA FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE

1:43:26 HOUSING NEEDS WHILE ENSURING WE

1:43:27 CAN MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL

1:43:29 OF FUNDING FOR OPEN SPACE AND

1:43:30 PRESERVATION EFFORTS.

1:43:32 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO VOTING IN

1:43:33 EASY YES ON QUESTION SIX IN

1:43:35 NOVEMBER AND WORKING WITH

1:43:36 COUNCILOR DURKAN AND OUR

1:43:37 COLLEAGUES ON THIS FURTHER IN

1:43:38 THE FUTURE AND TO MAKING SURE

1:43:40 THAT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS ARE

1:43:41 ALSO VOTING YES ON SIX.

1:43:43 THANK YOU.

1:43:43 THANK YOU COUNCILOR ELLEN.

1:43:45 ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME

1:43:47 COUNTRY COLOR TO SIBANDA

1:43:48 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:43:50 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.

1:43:51 FLYNN.

1:43:51 COUNTRY.

1:43:51 MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN CONSCIOUS

1:43:53 AND TURNER CULTURAL WEBER

1:43:54 PLEASE UH THE CHAIR COUNCILORS

1:43:57 DURKAN GENERAL SEEK SUSPENSION

1:43:59 OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

1:44:01 1856.

1:44:03 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:44:04 AYE.

1:44:05 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

1:44:07 A ROLL CALL?

1:44:07 VOTE ON DOCKET 1856.

1:44:10 COUNCILOR.

1:44:11 BRAIN.

1:44:11 YES, COUNCILOR.

1:44:12 BRAIN.

1:44:12 YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:44:13 PERSON.

1:44:14 YES, COUNCILOR CARLOS.

1:44:15 BUT YES, COUNCILOR CARTER.

1:44:18 COUNCIL.

1:44:18 YES.

1:44:19 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:44:20 YES.

1:44:21 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:44:21 YES.

1:44:22 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:44:22 YES.

1:44:23 COUNCIL TO SHOW.

1:44:24 YES.

1:44:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:44:26 COUNCIL.

1:44:26 FLYNN.

1:44:26 YES.

1:44:27 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:44:27 YES.

1:44:28 COUNCIL.

1:44:28 HUSSAIN.

1:44:28 YES.

1:44:29 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:44:30 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:44:32 COUNCIL PUT PEN.

1:44:33 HAS BEEN.

1:44:34 YES.

1:44:35 SANTANA.

1:44:35 YES.

1:44:36 COUNCIL.

1:44:36 SANTANA.

1:44:37 YES.

1:44:37 COUNCIL.

1:44:37 WEBER.

1:44:38 YES.

1:44:38 COUNCIL WILL BE YES AND

1:44:40 COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.

1:44:41 COUNCIL WE'RE ALL YES TALKING

1:44:42 ABOUT 1856 AS WE RECEIVED 12

1:44:45 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:44:46 THANK YOU MR TRACK DOCKET 1856

1:44:49 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

1:44:52 MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:44:53 DOCKET 1857.

1:44:55 SO I CAN NUMBER 1857

1:44:57 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART

1:44:58 OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

1:45:00 SUPPORT OF THE U.S. ARMY CORPS

1:45:03 OF ENGINEERS BOSTON HARBOR

1:45:04 COASTAL STORM RISK MANAGEMENT

1:45:07 COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM PLAN AND

1:45:09 THE CITY OF BOSTON'S

1:45:10 APPLICATION OF FEDERAL

1:45:12 AUTHORIZATION.

1:45:13 THANK YOU.

1:45:14 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:45:15 COUNCILOR COLOR.

1:45:15 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:45:16 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:45:17 I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:45:18 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS A

1:45:19 CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND THE

1:45:20 RULES.

1:45:20 UH, ROUTE 12 AND AD

1:45:22 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS.

1:45:24 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD DECIDED AS

1:45:25 A SECOND AND SEEING AND HEARING

1:45:27 NO OBJECTIONS COUNTRIES AND

1:45:28 THEN COUNTRY FITZGERALD ADDED

1:45:31 AS A SECOND COUNCILOR SANTANA'S

1:45:32 ADDED AS A THIRD.

1:45:33 THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO UM

1:45:34 JUST CALL IT COUNCILOR FLYNN AS

1:45:36 AN HONORARY FOURTH UM SPONSOR

1:45:37 FOR THIS.

1:45:38 I RISE TODAY TO ASK MY

1:45:40 COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS

1:45:40 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE

1:45:41 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

1:45:43 BOSTON HARBOR COASTAL STORM

1:45:44 RISK MANAGEMENT COMPREHENSIVE

1:45:46 SYSTEM PLAN AND IMPORTANTLY THE

1:45:48 CITY OF BOSTON'S PURSUIT

1:45:49 OF FEDERAL AUTHORIZATION.

1:45:51 FOR YEARS I'VE BEEN SOUNDING

1:45:52 THE ALARM THAT PLANNING FOR

1:45:53 CLIMATE RESILIENCE IS NOT

1:45:54 ENOUGH.

1:45:55 WE'VE DONE THE STUDIES.

1:45:56 WE KNOW WHERE THE WHAT WE KNOW

1:45:57 THE WATER'S COMING.

1:45:58 WE KNOW WHICH NEIGHBORHOODS,

1:45:59 HOMES, BUSINESSES,

1:46:00 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND

1:46:01 CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE

1:46:02 VULNERABLE.

1:46:02 THE QUESTION NOW IS HOW DO WE

1:46:04 ACTUALLY PAY TO PROTECT THEM?

1:46:06 THIS HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO MY

1:46:07 ADVOCACY AND HAVE CONSISTENTLY

1:46:09 PUSHED TO MOVE BEYOND PLANNING

1:46:11 AND TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION,

1:46:12 PARTICULARLY TOWARD CREATING A

1:46:14 REAL FINANCING STRATEGY FOR THE

1:46:15 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN

1:46:16 RESILIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE

1:46:18 BOSTON WILL NEED.

1:46:18 I'VE SAID IN THE PAST THAT THIS

1:46:20 IS BOSTON'S NEXT BIG DIG AND

1:46:22 THE PRICE TAG IS UPWARDS OF $10

1:46:24 BILLION.

1:46:24 BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE

1:46:25 ARMY CORPS PROCESS IS SUCH AN

1:46:27 EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY.

1:46:29 FEDERAL AUTHORIZATION COULD

1:46:30 MAKE ELIGIBLE PROJECTS WITHIN

1:46:31 THIS PLAN AVAILABLE FOR UP TO A

1:46:34 65% FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COST

1:46:36 SHARE THAT FUNDAMENTALLY

1:46:38 CHANGES WHAT IS FINANCIALLY

1:46:39 POSSIBLE FOR BOSTON.

1:46:41 SEPARATELY, I'M EXCITED ABOUT

1:46:43 THE WORK UNDERWAY WITH THE

1:46:44 GREEN RIBBON COMMISSION ON A

1:46:46 COASTAL RESILIENCE FINANCIAL

1:46:47 BLUEPRINT FOR THE REMAINING

1:46:50 35%.

1:46:50 THEY ARE EXAMINING PUBLIC AND

1:46:51 PRIVATE FUNDING SOURCES, THE

1:46:53 FINANCING GAP, GOVERNANCE AND

1:46:55 HOW COST CAN BE SHARED

1:46:56 EQUITABLY.

1:46:57 I LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING THE

1:46:58 GREEN RIBBON COMMISSION BEFORE

1:47:00 US FOR A CITY COUNCIL BRIEFING

1:47:01 WHICH IS ON THE CALENDAR SO

1:47:02 THAT WE CAN DIG INTO THAT WORK

1:47:04 AND UNDERSTAND WHAT A

1:47:05 SUSTAINABLE FINANCING MODEL FOR

1:47:06 BOSTON COULD ACTUALLY LOOK

1:47:07 LIKE.

1:47:08 AND WHILE I REPRESENT SOME

1:47:09 OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE

1:47:10 FRONT LINES EAST BOSTON,

1:47:12 CHARLESTOWN, THE NORTH END AND

1:47:13 OUR DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT THIS IS

1:47:14 NOT A WATERFRONT ISSUE SIMPLY A

1:47:16 WATERFRONT ISSUE WHEN A MAJOR

1:47:18 STORM FLOODS OUR TUNNELS,

1:47:20 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, OUR

1:47:21 AIRPORTS, HOSPITALS, POLICE

1:47:22 STATIONS, FIRE STATIONS,

1:47:24 ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE HOMES

1:47:26 THE CONSEQUENCES DO NOT STOP AT

1:47:28 A NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY.

1:47:29 CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T CARE

1:47:30 ABOUT DISTRICT LINES.

1:47:31 WATER DOES NOT CARE ABOUT

1:47:32 POLITICAL DIFFERENCES.

1:47:33 AND THE SCALE OF THIS THREAT

1:47:35 DEMANDS THAT WE COME TOGETHER

1:47:36 AROUND A GENERATIONAL SOLUTION

1:47:37 TO A GENERATIONAL PROBLEM.

1:47:39 WE CAN AND SHOULD CONTINUE

1:47:40 DEBATING THE DETAILS WHERE

1:47:41 PROTECTION PROTECTIONS GO, HOW

1:47:43 THEY ARE DESIGNED AND HOW WE

1:47:44 PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESS AND

1:47:46 NATURAL SYSTEMS AND CRITICALLY

1:47:48 WHO PAYS FOR IT.

1:47:48 BUT ON THE.

1:47:49 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION

1:47:50 OF WHETHER BOSTON SHOULD

1:47:51 POSITION ITSELF TO RECEIVE THE

1:47:53 LARGEST POSSIBLE FEDERAL

1:47:54 PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT OUR

1:47:55 CITY, I BELIEVE THE PATH

1:47:57 FORWARD IS CLEAR THIS

1:47:58 INFRASTRUCTURE THIS IS

1:47:59 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL

1:48:00 PROTECT GENERATIONS

1:48:01 OF BOSTONIANS WE WILL NEVER

1:48:03 MEET.

1:48:03 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT

1:48:05 THIS RESOLUTION AND STAND

1:48:06 TOGETHER IN PURSUING THE

1:48:07 FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP NECESSARY

1:48:08 TO PROTECT ALL OF BOSTON FOR

1:48:10 FUTURE GENERATIONS.

1:48:11 THANK YOU.

1:48:13 COUNCILOR COLLETTE, AS A

1:48:13 PART OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:48:15 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE

1:48:16 THE FLOOR.

1:48:17 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:48:18 I FIRST JUST.

1:48:18 WANT TO THANK.

1:48:19 COUNCIL COLLETTA SUPPORTIVE FOR

1:48:20 HER STEADFAST ADVOCACY.

1:48:21 AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL.

1:48:23 ISSUES FROM COASTAL FLOODING TO

1:48:25 RESILIENCE AND SHE'S.

1:48:27 ALWAYS BEEN.

1:48:27 A LEADER.

1:48:28 IN THAT.

1:48:28 AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO

1:48:29 FOLLOW IN HER FOOTSTEPS UH, IN

1:48:31 HELPING HER DO THAT.

1:48:33 UM I BELIEVE MANY OF US.

1:48:34 PROBABLY WROTE A LETTER.

1:48:35 ALREADY THAT WAS DUE UH, LAST

1:48:37 WEEK UH, FOR THIS AND I KNOW

1:48:39 FOLKS UP AT THE STATEHOUSE DID

1:48:40 AS WELL.

1:48:41 UM, I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK WITH

1:48:42 CHIEF SWETT YESTERDAY AND HE

1:48:43 SAID SOMETHING THAT SORT OF,

1:48:45 UH, MADE ME THINK A LITTLE BIT

1:48:46 DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE

1:48:47 I ASKED HIM A QUESTION.

1:48:48 HEY.

1:48:48 LOOK.

1:48:49 WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE MONEY

1:48:49 ON THE TABLE.

1:48:50 THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF.

1:48:51 BUT I ALSO, UH, WOULD SAY WE'RE

1:48:53 NOT SURE WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING

1:48:55 TO BE BUILT WHERE AND OBVIOUSLY

1:48:57 THAT CAUSES A LITTLE BIT

1:48:58 OF TREPIDATION FOR SOME FOLKS

1:49:00 AND HOW THEY COULD BE IMPACTED

1:49:01 FROM THIS.

1:49:02 AND HE SAID, JOHN, I THINK THE

1:49:04 MOST.

1:49:05 IMPORTANT THING.

1:49:06 IS THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND

1:49:07 THAT BOSTON'S BEEN SORT

1:49:09 OF POINTED OUT TO PROTECT AND I

1:49:11 THINK THAT'S A SIGNAL THAT THEY

1:49:12 KNOW WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN THIS

1:49:14 CITY, WHAT WE PRODUCE FROM A

1:49:15 FROM A MEDICAL STANDPOINT, FROM

1:49:17 AN EDUCATIONAL STANDPOINT AND

1:49:18 REALLY JUST THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

1:49:19 HERE UH, AND THAT SO THAT UH,

1:49:22 FORCE IS GREATER THAN CITY

1:49:23 COUNCIL OR THE MAYOR ARE

1:49:25 LOOKING AT BOSTON AND SAYING

1:49:26 THIS IS A CITY WE SHOULD

1:49:27 PROTECT.

1:49:27 AND THAT MADE ME I WAS PROUD,

1:49:29 RIGHT?

1:49:30 LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE RIGHT

1:49:31 AND I SHOULD BE LOOKING AT IT

1:49:32 THAT WAY.

1:49:33 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING

1:49:34 WITH COUNCIL AS PART OF UH

1:49:36 CHIEF SWEAT UH, AND

1:49:37 UNDERSTANDING HOW THESE UM, UH,

1:49:40 IMPACTS ARE GOING TO UH NOT

1:49:41 ONLY HELP US BUT ALSO WHAT WE

1:49:43 CAN DO TO MAKE SURE IT'S NOT

1:49:45 BURDENSOME ON THE COMMUNITY AS

1:49:46 WELL.

1:49:46 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH MAP AS

1:49:47 IT.

1:49:48 THANK YOU.

1:49:49 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD CHAIR

1:49:50 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:49:51 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:49:52 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:49:54 I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL THAT I

1:49:55 SUPPORT THAT UH, FOR INCLUDING

1:49:56 ME ON THIS AND I WAS UM

1:50:00 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD MENTIONED

1:50:01 I THINK UM, SOMEONE WHO'S HAS

1:50:02 BEEN A GREAT LEADER FROM THIS I

1:50:04 SAY SINCE DAY ONE.

1:50:05 SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR

1:50:06 LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

1:50:07 UM, AND UH, ENVIRONMENTAL

1:50:09 ISSUES, UM, HERE IN THE CITY

1:50:11 OF BOSTON.

1:50:12 UM, I THINK I'D LIKE TO JUST

1:50:13 ECHO ALSO COUNCIL TO SUPPORT

1:50:14 THE STATEMENT, UM, THAT WE OWE

1:50:16 IT TO TODAY'S YOUTH AND FUTURE

1:50:17 BOSTONIANS TO DO EVERYTHING

1:50:18 THAT WE CAN TO BUILD A CLIMATE

1:50:20 RESILIENT, UM, UH, BOSTON.

1:50:23 UM, I THINK AS AS SHE STATED AS

1:50:25 WELL WE NEED THESE FEDERAL

1:50:26 PARTNERSHIPS AS IS CRITICAL.

1:50:28 UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:50:29 THE CONVERSATION AND PARTNERING

1:50:30 WITH BOTH.

1:50:30 UM, BUT AS A COUNCIL AS A

1:50:32 PATTERN UM,

1:50:33 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, I, UM TO

1:50:34 MOVE THIS FORWARD.

1:50:35 THANK YOU.

1:50:35 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:50:38 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:50:39 NAME?

1:50:40 COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

1:50:41 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:50:42 CONTRA FLYNN.

1:50:43 COUNCILOR.

1:50:43 MEJIA.

1:50:44 COUNCILOR.

1:50:44 MURPHY.

1:50:45 I'M SURE PEPEN.

1:50:47 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:50:48 CONSTABLE RAEL AND PLEASE, UH,

1:50:49 THE CHAIR.

1:50:52 UM COUNCILORS THE PATTER

1:50:53 FITZGERALD AND SANTANA SEEK

1:50:55 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:50:57 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1857.

1:51:00 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:51:02 ALL OPPOSED?

1:51:02 SAY NAY.

1:51:04 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:51:06 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:51:06 VOTE ON DOCKET.

1:51:08 1857.

1:51:09 COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:51:09 YES.

1:51:10 COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:51:10 YES.

1:51:11 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:51:12 PARTNER.

1:51:12 COUNCILOR.

1:51:13 CLOSED.

1:51:13 BUDDY.

1:51:14 YES.

1:51:14 COUNCILOR.

1:51:14 CULPEPPER.

1:51:15 COUNCILOR.

1:51:16 CULPEPER.

1:51:16 YES.

1:51:16 COUNCILOR.

1:51:17 DURKAN.

1:51:18 COUNCILOR.

1:51:18 DURKAN.

1:51:19 YES.

1:51:19 COUNCILOR.

1:51:19 FITZGERALD.

1:51:20 YES.

1:51:20 COUNCILOR.

1:51:21 FITZGERALD.

1:51:21 YES.

1:51:21 COUNCILOR.

1:51:22 FLYNN.

1:51:22 YES.

1:51:23 COUNCIL.

1:51:23 FLYNN.

1:51:23 YES.

1:51:24 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:51:25 COUNCILOR.

1:51:25 MEJIA.

1:51:26 COUNCILOR.

1:51:27 MEJIA.

1:51:27 YES.

1:51:28 COUNCILOR.

1:51:28 MURPHY.

1:51:29 COUNCILOR.

1:51:29 MURPHY.

1:51:30 YES.

1:51:30 COUNCIL.

1:51:30 PIPPIN.

1:51:31 COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.

1:51:32 SANTANA.

1:51:33 YES.

1:51:33 COUNCILOR.

1:51:34 SANTANA.

1:51:34 YES.

1:51:35 COUNCIL.

1:51:35 WEBER.

1:51:36 COUNCILOR.

1:51:36 WORTHY.

1:51:37 YES AND COUNCILOR.

1:51:38 WORLD.

1:51:38 YEAH.

1:51:38 COUNCILOR.

1:51:39 WELL, YES.

1:51:39 CAN NUMBER 1857

1:51:43 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE TO LIKE TO

1:51:46 VOTE ON.

1:51:47 THE COASTAL.

1:51:51 .

1:51:51 UH, YES.

1:51:52 HI.

1:51:52 MY NAME IS.

1:51:55 COUNCILOR LOUISIANA'S TALKING

1:51:57 NUMBER 81857 AS WE SEE THE

1:51:59 UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

1:52:00 AFFIRMATIVE.

1:52:01 THANK YOU.

1:52:03 MR CHAIR OF DOCKET 1857 HAS

1:52:04 BEEN ADOPTED.

1:52:08 THAT COUNCILOR CLOSES THE

1:52:10 BATTLE.

1:52:13 SO.

1:52:14 UM, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, IF

1:52:15 YOU WOULD MIND.

1:52:38 MR. CLERK, WILL YOU CAN YOU

1:52:39 PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 1858

1:52:42 .

1:52:43 DOC NUMBER 1858 CANCEL PLAY NOW

1:52:45 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

1:52:47 SUPPORT OF HOUSE 1544 SENATE

1:52:51 998 AN ACT TO GUARANTEE A

1:52:55 TENANTS FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL

1:52:56 .

1:52:57 THANK YOU.

1:52:58 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:53:00 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

1:53:01 MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

1:53:02 FLOOR.

1:53:03 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:53:05 UH, MAY I ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA

1:53:07 AS A SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

1:53:09 AND I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

1:53:11 RULES AND I'D CONSIDER MEJIA AS

1:53:13 A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:53:14 SAME.

1:53:15 NO OBJECTING COUNCIL THAT

1:53:17 THAT'S THEIR ORIGINAL

1:53:20 CO-SPONSOR.

1:53:20 IT ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

1:53:21 THAT WE HAD UH

1:53:24 COUNCIL RESOLUTION AND ALSO US

1:53:25 TO BE UH A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

1:53:28 UH, MASSACHUSETTS FACES A

1:53:30 SEVERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:53:31 SHORTAGE LEAVING EXISTING

1:53:32 RENTAL UNITS VULNERABLE TO

1:53:34 CONVERSION, REDEVELOPMENT AND

1:53:36 STEEP RENT INCREASES THAT

1:53:37 DISPLACED RESIDENTS.

1:53:40 UH, HERE 1544 AND S998 AN ACT

1:53:45 TO GUARANTEE A TENANT'S RIGHT

1:53:47 OF FIRST REFUSAL.

1:53:48 RIGHT OF REFUSAL GIVES TENANTS

1:53:50 THE FIRST CHANCE TO BUY THE

1:53:52 RESIDENTIAL BUILDING THROUGH A

1:53:53 TENANT ASSOCIATION WHEN THE

1:53:55 PROPERTY GOES UP UH, COMMONLY

1:53:57 REFERRED TO AS A TENANT

1:54:00 OPPORTUNITY.

1:54:01 TO.

1:54:01 PURCHASE ACT TOPA THIS

1:54:04 LEGISLATION SAFEGUARDS

1:54:05 NATURALLY.

1:54:06 OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:54:08 WHICH CONSISTS OF UNSUBSIDIZED

1:54:10 RENTAL HOMES THAT REMAIN

1:54:12 NATURALLY AFFORDABLE DUE TO

1:54:13 AGE, SIZE OR CONDITION OF THE

1:54:16 PROPERTY.

1:54:16 TENANTS CAN ORGANIZE TO

1:54:19 INDEPENDENTLY.

1:54:20 OR COLLABORATE COLLABORATE.

1:54:21 WITH NONPROFIT.

1:54:22 COMMUNITY NONPROFITS, COMMUNITY

1:54:24 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS AND

1:54:26 AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:54:29 DEVELOPERS OR COMMUNITY LAND

1:54:31 TRUST TO SECURE FINANCING AND

1:54:33 COMPLETE THE PURCHASE.

1:54:34 THE BILL DOES NOT FORCE OWNERS

1:54:36 TO SELL AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE.

1:54:39 TENANTS MUST MATCH THIRD.

1:54:40 PARTY MARKET OFFERS.

1:54:42 WITHIN DEFINED TIMELINES WITH

1:54:44 EXEMPTIONS FOR SMALL.

1:54:45 PROPERTY OWNERS.

1:54:46 FAMILY TRANSFER AND NEW

1:54:48 CONSTRUCTION GIVING TENANTS A

1:54:51 MEANINGFUL.

1:54:52 OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THEIR

1:54:53 HOMES.

1:54:54 SERVES AFFORDABILITY.

1:54:55 PREVENTS DISPLACEMENT AND

1:54:57 MAINTAINS NEIGHBORHOOD

1:54:59 CONTINUITY.

1:55:00 ACROSS BOSTON.

1:55:01 THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO.

1:55:03 PROTECTING OUR RESIDENTS.

1:55:04 STABILIZING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:55:06 AND ENSURING THAT LONG TIME

1:55:08 BOSTONIANS.

1:55:08 ARE NOT PRICED OUT OF THE

1:55:10 COMMUNITIES.

1:55:11 THAT.

1:55:11 THEY HELP BUILD AND CALL HOME.

1:55:13 THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL URGES

1:55:15 AND SUPPORTS THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:55:17 LEGISLATURE TO PASSAGE 1544 AND

1:55:21 S998.

1:55:23 TO PROTECT.

1:55:23 OUR.

1:55:23 RESIDENTS AND EXPAND.

1:55:25 AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS

1:55:26 STATEWIDE.

1:55:27 AND I URGE MY, UH, FELLOW AND

1:55:29 MY COLLEAGUES TO.

1:55:30 SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION.

1:55:32 THANK YOU.

1:55:37 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:55:39 COUNCILOR SANTANA'S

1:55:41 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:55:41 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:55:43 THANK YOU.

1:55:44 CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK

1:55:45 COUNCIL, UM, PRESIDENT BREADON

1:55:47 FOR SPONSORING THIS TALK IN AND

1:55:48 OUT OF THE MANTLE CO-SPONSOR TO

1:55:50 COMBAT THE UNPRECEDENTED

1:55:52 HOUSING CRISIS THAT THREATENS

1:55:53 THE FABRIC OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

1:55:55 .

1:55:55 WE MUST USE ALL TOOLS AT OUR

1:55:57 TOOLBOX HOUSE BILL 1544 AND

1:56:01 SENATE BILL UM 998 EMPOWERS

1:56:05 TENANTS WITH THE FIRST

1:56:06 OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THEIR

1:56:07 RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WHEN THE

1:56:09 OWNER DECIDES TO SELL

1:56:10 SAFEGUARDING THE NATURALLY

1:56:12 OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:56:12 THAT KEEPS OUR COMMUNITIES

1:56:14 INTACT RATHER THAN FORCING LONG

1:56:16 TERM RESIDENTS AND WORKING

1:56:18 FAMILIES OUT WHENEVER A

1:56:19 PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS.

1:56:20 THIS LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS

1:56:22 PARENTS TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN

1:56:23 AND STABILITY AND ENSURES

1:56:25 NEIGHBORS CAN REMAIN ROOTED IN

1:56:27 THEIR COMMUNITIES BY GIVING

1:56:28 TENANTS A FAIR CHANCE TO STAY.

1:56:30 WE PROTECT BOTH A HUMAN

1:56:31 CONNECTION THAT BINDS OUR CITY

1:56:33 TOGETHER AND BOSTON'S RAPIDLY

1:56:35 SHRINKING SUPPLY

1:56:37 OF UNSUBSIDIZED AFFORDABLE

1:56:38 HOUSING.

1:56:38 I'M CALLING UPON MY

1:56:40 COUNTERPARTS IN STATE HOUSE TO

1:56:41 ALSO SUPPORT THIS BILL TO

1:56:43 PROVIDE TENANTS INCREASED

1:56:45 ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:56:46 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:56:49 COUNCILOR MAHI.

1:56:50 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:56:51 COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL OVER

1:56:52 HERE.

1:56:53 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:56:55 THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT.

1:56:57 UM.

1:56:58 AND I WANT TO THANK, UH,

1:57:00 COUNCIL PRESIDENT UH.

1:57:01 BREADON FOR ADDING ME AS WELL

1:57:04 AS COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR HIS

1:57:05 LEADERSHIP IN THIS SPACE.

1:57:06 AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

1:57:07 MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR LUCY

1:57:09 LOUIJEUNE, WHO HAS BEEN A BIG

1:57:11 ADVOCATE AND ALL THINGS THAT

1:57:13 DEAL WITH HOUSING.

1:57:14 SO SORRY THAT I GOT TO HER

1:57:16 BEFORE.

1:57:16 YOU DID, BUT.

1:57:17 I GOT YOU UM, IN GENERAL TENANT

1:57:21 OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ACTS

1:57:22 ARE.

1:57:22 ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY

1:57:23 SUPPORT HOUSING STABILITY BY

1:57:25 SEEKING TO REDUCE DISPLACEMENT.

1:57:27 THIS BILL AT THE STATE HOUSE

1:57:29 SPECIFICALLY GIVES EACH CITY OR

1:57:30 TOWN THE CHOICE TO ADOPT THIS

1:57:32 POLICY THAT ALLOWS FOR TENANTS

1:57:35 OF MULTI-UNIT BUILDINGS UM

1:57:36 PROPERTIES TO HAVE THE

1:57:37 OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THE PROPERTY

1:57:39 IF THE OWNER IS SELLING.

1:57:41 FIRST BEFORE AN OUTSIDE PARTY

1:57:43 CAN BUY IT.

1:57:43 TENANTS CAN CREATE TENANT

1:57:45 ASSOCIATIONS OR PARTNER WITH

1:57:46 NONPROFIT CTCS, LAND TRUST AND

1:57:49 MORE TO SUPPORT THEIR PURCHASE

1:57:51 OF THE PROPERTY AT MARKET RATE

1:57:52 .

1:57:53 THE SEVERAL PATHS TO PURCHASING

1:57:55 GIVES TENANTS THE FLEXIBILITY

1:57:56 THEY NEED AS WE KNOW UM THERE

1:57:59 IS A LOT THERE'S NOT ONE SIZE

1:58:00 FITS ALL APPROACH TO THESE

1:58:01 EFFORTS.

1:58:02 CREATING PATHWAYS FOR

1:58:03 HOMEOWNERSHIP MEANS CREATING

1:58:04 PATHWAYS FOR FINANCIAL

1:58:05 STABILITY AND GENERATIONAL

1:58:07 WEALTH.

1:58:07 AS THE FIRST PERSON IN MY

1:58:09 FAMILY TO ACHIEVE HOMEOWNERSHIP

1:58:11 HERE IN BOSTON, I UNDERSTAND

1:58:12 THIS WELL.

1:58:13 I KNOW FIRSTHAND WHAT IT'S LIKE

1:58:15 HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY THAT

1:58:17 THAT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR A

1:58:18 FAMILY.

1:58:19 IT MEANS FINALLY FILLING STABLE

1:58:21 BUILDING, BUILDING WEALTH AND

1:58:22 HAVING GREATER CONTROL OVER

1:58:24 YOUR OWN FUTURE.

1:58:25 WE SHOULD BE CREATING MORE

1:58:26 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORKING.

1:58:27 FAMILIES TO EXPERIENCE THAT

1:58:28 SAME SENSE OF SECURITY.

1:58:30 I SUPPORT THIS BILL AND I

1:58:31 SUPPORT ADOPTING IT IN BOSTON

1:58:34 ONCE IT PASSES, TENANT

1:58:36 OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE SHOULD

1:58:37 BE A PART OF THE ASSET BUILDING

1:58:39 PROGRAM THAT THE CITY SHOULD BE

1:58:42 IMPLEMENTING WITH COMMUNITY

1:58:43 PARTNERS AS WELL AS FINANCIAL

1:58:44 AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS.

1:58:46 IT ALSO MUST BE CARRIED OUT IN

1:58:48 A WAY THAT CENTERS CULTURALLY

1:58:49 COMPETENCY.

1:58:50 THIS POLICY MUST BE SUPPORTED

1:58:51 WITH ADDITIONAL INITIATIVES

1:58:53 THAT STRENGTHEN TENANT RIGHTS

1:58:55 INCLUDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION

1:58:56 ,TENANT ORGANIZING AND

1:58:57 ALTERNATIVE.

1:58:58 HOMEOWNERSHIP MODELS LIKE

1:58:59 CO-OPS.

1:59:00 EMPOWERING TENANTS IS A KEY TO

1:59:02 BUILDING STABILITY, EQUITY AND

1:59:04 COMMUNITY CONTROL IN OUR

1:59:04 HOUSING SYSTEM.

1:59:05 THANK YOU.

1:59:07 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:59:08 NAME AS THE POTTER

1:59:12 COUNCILOR DURKAN?

1:59:12 STOP IT CHERYL COUNCIL THANK.

1:59:14 COUNCIL SHE OR.

1:59:16 SCUSE ME THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:59:19 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE LOUIJEUNE

1:59:22 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:59:23 THANK YOU.

1:59:23 UH.

1:59:26 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:59:27 I WANT TO THANK THE.

1:59:28 SPONSORS FOR FILING THIS.

1:59:29 UM, TOPA IS SO INCREDIBLY

1:59:31 IMPORTANT TO TRYING TO.

1:59:36 PULL THE.

1:59:37 LEVER CLOSER.

1:59:38 TO THE NEEDS OF TENANTS IN OUR

1:59:40 CITY.

1:59:41 THIS BILL HAS BEEN.

1:59:42 FLOATED ABOUT AND TALKED ABOUT

1:59:43 FOR QUITE.

1:59:44 SOME TIME.

1:59:44 I KNOW THAT THIS.

1:59:45 IS.

1:59:45 NOT THE FIRST TIME.

1:59:46 I THIS IS MY TIME ON THIS BODY

1:59:47 THAT WE FILED A RESOLUTION IN

1:59:49 SUPPORT OF TOPA.

1:59:51 UM BUT.

1:59:52 IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET THE

1:59:54 UH IT IS IT IS.

1:59:55 TENANTS HAVE VERY LITTLE.

1:59:58 POWER AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT

2:00:00 WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO PREVENT

2:00:03 DISPLACEMENT.

2:00:04 WE OFTEN KNOW THAT WHEN THERE'S

2:00:05 A NEW OWNER OF OF OF A LIVED IN

2:00:07 BUILDING FEEL LIKE.

2:00:09 WE'VE SEEN AROUND THE CITY.

2:00:10 THEY'RE DRIVEN BY PROFIT.

2:00:12 OFTENTIMES THE TENANTS WHO LIVE

2:00:13 THERE ARE FORCED OUT.

2:00:14 WE'RE ACTUALLY I WAS ACTUALLY

2:00:16 AT A RALLY AT A VIGIL.

2:00:18 ON SUNDAY EVENING IN JAMAICA

2:00:21 PLAIN FOR.

2:00:22 A COMMUNITY.

2:00:22 ORGANIZER WHO THERE'S A NEW

2:00:24 OWNER.

2:00:24 OF HIS BUILDING.

2:00:25 AND THE OWNER.

2:00:27 IS DOUBLING THE RENT AND.

2:00:30 THERE WAS NO REAL.

2:00:31 OPPORTUNITY FOR THE.

2:00:32 PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE

2:00:34 BUILDING TO.

2:00:34 ORGANIZE AND WORK.

2:00:36 TOGETHER ON FINDING.

2:00:37 A SOLUTION.

2:00:39 UM, AND.

2:00:40 IF SOMETHING LIKE TOPA WAS IN

2:00:42 EFFECT.

2:00:43 THAT ALLOWS TENANTS TO.

2:00:45 ORGANIZE AND TO.

2:00:46 WORK WITH OUTSIDE ENTITIES

2:00:47 AND TO WORK WITH COMMUNITY LAND

2:00:49 TRUST.

2:00:49 AND TO WORK WITH.

2:00:50 UH, WHOEVER.

2:00:52 IT MAY.

2:00:52 BE NONPROFIT DEVELOPERS.

2:00:53 TO WORK WITH THE CITY AND

2:00:54 ACQUISITION.

2:00:55 OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM.

2:00:57 IT WOULD ALLOW IT WOULD IT

2:00:58 WOULD HELP TO PREVENT

2:00:59 DISPLACEMENT.

2:00:59 IT WOULD.

2:01:00 GIVE OUR TENANTS.

2:01:01 UH, MORE POWER IN A MARKET THAT

2:01:03 IS REALLY, REALLY UM, RIGGED

2:01:06 TOWARDS THOSE WHO.

2:01:07 ACTUALLY OWN.

2:01:08 THE LAND AND OWN PROPERTY.

2:01:09 AND SO I THINK THIS UH, TOPA

2:01:11 AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

2:01:12 IS SO IMPORTANT.

2:01:12 THERE ARE OTHER AREAS IN WHICH

2:01:14 WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THIS

2:01:15 IN WHICH MY OFFICE IS LOOKING

2:01:16 AT THIS, BUT I REALLY WANT TO

2:01:18 URGE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS IN A

2:01:20 MARKET THAT CARES MOSTLY ABOUT

2:01:22 AND PRIMARILY ABOUT PROFIT THAT

2:01:24 WE NEED TO BE DOING EVERYTHING

2:01:25 WE CAN TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT

2:01:27 TENANTS, TO PREVENT

2:01:28 DISPLACEMENT AND TO DISRUPT

2:01:30 WHAT IS AN EXTRACTIVE REAL

2:01:32 ESTATE MARKET.

2:01:32 THANK YOU.

2:01:34 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:01:36 THEIR NAME?

2:01:37 COUNCIL AS A PART OF THE DARK

2:01:39 AND GENERAL COUNCIL PLAN?

2:01:41 ABSOLUTELY JOHN.

2:01:44 COUNCILOR MURPHY,

2:01:45 COUNCILOR PEPPER AND

2:01:48 COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCILOR.

2:01:50 WELL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:01:55 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON SEEKS

2:01:56 SUSPENSION OF THE.

2:01:57 RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:02:01 1858.

2:02:02 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:02:04 AYE.

2:02:05 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:02:08 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:02:11 MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:02:12 COUNT THE VOTE?

2:02:15 COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL.

2:02:16 BREADON.

2:02:17 YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

2:02:18 PART OF COUNCILOR PAULETTE AS A

2:02:20 PARTNER.

2:02:20 YES.

2:02:21 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:02:21 YES.

2:02:22 COUNCILOR.

2:02:22 CULPEPER.

2:02:23 YES.

2:02:24 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:02:26 YES.

2:02:26 COUNCILOR.

2:02:26 FITZGERALD.

2:02:28 COUNCIL OFFICIAL.

2:02:28 YES.

2:02:29 COUNCIL.

2:02:29 FLYNN.

2:02:30 COUNCILOR.

2:02:30 FLYNN.

2:02:30 YES.

2:02:31 COUNCIL.

2:02:31 ILLUSION.

2:02:32 YES.

2:02:32 COUNCIL.

2:02:32 LOUIJEUNE.

2:02:33 YES.

2:02:33 COUNCIL.

2:02:33 MEJIA.

2:02:35 COUNCIL ME HERE.

2:02:35 YES.

2:02:36 COUNCILOR.

2:02:36 MURPHY.

2:02:37 COUNCILOR.

2:02:37 MURPHY.

2:02:38 YES.

2:02:38 COUNCIL PEN COUNCIL A PEN.

2:02:40 YES.

2:02:40 COUNCIL.

2:02:41 SANTANA.

2:02:41 YES.

2:02:42 COUNCILOR.

2:02:42 SANTANA.

2:02:42 YES.

2:02:43 COUNCIL.

2:02:43 WEBER.

2:02:44 YES.

2:02:44 COUNCIL.

2:02:45 OBVIOUS AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:02:46 YES.

2:02:47 COUNCIL ORAL.

2:02:47 YES.

2:02:48 DOCKET NUMBER 1858 AS RECEIVED

2:02:51 A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:02:52 AFFIRMATIVE.

2:02:52 THANK YOU DOCTOR.

2:02:54 DOCKET NUMBER 1858 HAS BEEN

2:02:58 ADOPTED.

2:03:00 MR CLERK, CAN.

2:03:02 YOU PLEASE CALL PLEASE READ

2:03:04 DOCKET 1859.

2:03:06 DOC NUMBER 1859 COUNCILOR BRAY

2:03:08 NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING

2:03:10 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING TWO

2:03:12 HISPANIC DEAD PLAGUED.

2:03:15 THANK YOU.

2:03:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:03:18 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

2:03:19 MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

2:03:20 FLOOR.

2:03:27 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:03:30 UM I'M SUBMITTING I SUBMITTED.

2:03:32 THIS RESOLUTION ON BEHALF.

2:03:33 OF THE ENTIRE CITY

2:03:35 COUNCIL AHEAD OF OCTOBER 14TH

2:03:37 AND RECOGNIZED IN RECOGNITION

2:03:39 OF HISPANIC DAD.

2:03:40 FLAG DAY AND IN CELEBRATION OF.

2:03:43 HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.

2:03:44 I LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING MY

2:03:46 COLLEAGUES AND COMMUNITY

2:03:47 MEMBERS AND HONORING A RICH

2:03:48 CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND

2:03:50 HERITAGE.

2:03:51 OF HISPANIC AND LATINX

2:03:52 COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY.

2:03:54 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO.

2:03:55 UM.

2:03:56 JOINING OUR.

2:03:57 COLLEAGUES AND HAVING.

2:03:58 A.

2:03:58 WONDERFUL CELEBRATION AND LOOK

2:04:00 FORWARD TO YOUR SUPPORT FOR

2:04:01 THIS RESOLUTION.

2:04:02 THANK YOU.

2:04:04 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:04:06 NAME COUNCILOR DURKAN?

2:04:09 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:04:10 COUNCIL FLARING UP FOR THE

2:04:11 ALWAYS ON THE HERE

2:04:13 COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL CAPPING

2:04:15 OFF SANTANA WEBER

2:04:17 COUNCILOR WORRELL AND PLEASE

2:04:19 ADD THE CHAIR.

2:04:28 COUNCIL BREADON SIX SUSPENSION

2:04:29 OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

2:04:32 OF DOCKET NUMBER 1859.

2:04:34 ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE

2:04:36 AYE.

2:04:36 AYE THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:04:40 MR CLERK PLEASE COUNT THE VOTE

2:04:41 .

2:04:43 COUNSELOR.

2:04:44 BRAIN.

2:04:44 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:45 BRAIN.

2:04:46 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:46 COLOR AS OPPOSED COUNSELOR

2:04:49 CULPEPER.

2:04:49 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:50 CULPEPER.

2:04:50 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:51 DURKAN.

2:04:52 COUNSELOR FITZGERALD.

2:04:53 COUNCILOR FOR SHELL.

2:04:54 YES.

2:04:55 COUNSELOR.

2:04:55 FLYNN.

2:04:56 COUNSELOR FLYNN.

2:04:57 HE HAS COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE

2:04:58 COUNCILOR.

2:04:59 COLLUSION.

2:04:59 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:05:00 MEJIA.

2:05:01 COUNSELOR.

2:05:01 MEJIA.

2:05:01 YES, COUNSELOR.

2:05:02 MURPHY.

2:05:02 COUNSELOR.

2:05:03 MURPHY.

2:05:03 COUNSELOR.

2:05:04 PEN.

2:05:05 COUNSELOR.

2:05:06 OPINIONS.

2:05:06 COUNCIL.

2:05:07 SANTANA.

2:05:07 YES.

2:05:07 COUNSELOR.

2:05:08 SANTANA.

2:05:08 YES.

2:05:09 COUNSELOR.

2:05:09 WEBER.

2:05:10 COUNCILOR IS AND COUNSELOR.

2:05:11 WORLD.

2:05:12 YES.

2:05:13 COUNSELOR.

2:05:13 OH, YES.

2:05:14 TALKING NUMBER 1859 AS WE THE

2:05:17 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:05:18 THANK YOU.

2:05:19 DOCKET NUMBER 1859 HAS BEEN

2:05:23 ADOPTED.

2:05:23 MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:05:24 DOCKET NUMBER 1860.

2:05:27 SO I CAN NUMBER 1860 COUNSELOR

2:05:29 BRAID NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING

2:05:31 RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE

2:05:32 103RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE

2:05:35 DECLARATION OF THE REPUBLIC

2:05:36 OF TURKEY AND THE 31ST ANNUAL

2:05:38 BOSTON TURKISH ARTS AND

2:05:40 CULTURAL FESTIVAL.

2:05:41 THANK YOU.

2:05:42 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:05:44 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

2:05:45 MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

2:05:47 FLOOR.

2:05:47 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:05:49 I SUBMITTED.

2:05:50 THIS RESOLUTION ON.

2:05:51 BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY

2:05:52 COUNCIL.

2:05:52 IN RECOGNITION OF THE 31ST.

2:05:54 ANNUAL BOSTON TURKISH ARTS AND

2:05:56 CULTURAL FESTIVAL.

2:05:57 AND THE TURKISH.

2:05:58 FLAG RAISING CEREMONY ON

2:06:00 OCTOBER 29TH.

2:06:00 THIS RESOLUTION CELEBRATES THE

2:06:02 RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND.

2:06:04 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE TURKISH

2:06:06 AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND

2:06:08 RECOGNIZES THE ENDURING

2:06:09 FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED

2:06:10 STATES AND TURKEY.

2:06:11 I LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING MY

2:06:13 COLLEAGUES.

2:06:13 AND.

2:06:13 COMMUNITY MEMBERS MEMBERS IN

2:06:15 HONORING THESE IMPORTANT

2:06:16 TRADITIONS AND CELEBRATING THE

2:06:18 VIBRANT TURKISH AMERICAN

2:06:19 PRESENCE IN BOSTON.

2:06:20 THANK YOU.

2:06:21 MR CHAIR.

2:06:21 THANK YOU.

2:06:22 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:06:23 NAME COUNCILOR FLYNN,

2:06:27 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:06:28 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:06:29 COUNCILOR HERE.

2:06:29 COUNCILOR MURPHY THAT'S A

2:06:31 PERFECT COUNCIL.

2:06:32 SANTANA SO WHEREVER

2:06:34 COUNCILOR WU, PLEASE.

2:06:37 AND THE CHAIR.

2:06:42 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON SEEKS

2:06:44 TO KNOW THE RULES AND ADOPTION

2:06:47 OF DOCKET NUMBER 186.

2:06:48 OH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE

2:06:51 .

2:06:52 AYE.

2:06:52 THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:06:54 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:06:56 THANK YOU DHAKA NUMBER 186.

2:06:59 SO THAT'S BEEN ADOPTED.

2:07:02 MR. CLERK AND PLEASE READ

2:07:04 DOCKET NUMBER 1861.

2:07:06 DOG NUMBER 1861 COUNCIL IS

2:07:09 LOUIJEUNE AND WE'RE ALL FOR THE

2:07:10 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:07:12 RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 1ST 2026 AS

2:07:15 NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY.

2:07:17 THANK YOU.

2:07:18 MR. CLERK CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:07:20 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE.

2:07:21 THE FLOOR.

2:07:21 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:07:23 CAN I PLEASE, UH, MAYBE SUSPEND

2:07:24 THE RULES AND ADD

2:07:26 COUNCILOR COBB AS A THIRD

2:07:27 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:07:28 ?

2:07:28 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:07:29 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:07:30 OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:07:31 SO.

2:07:32 THANK YOU.

2:07:32 UM, AND I SEEK SUSPENSION AND

2:07:34 PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET TOMORROW

2:07:37 OCTOBER 1ST IS THE 66TH AND SO

2:07:39 CELEBRATION OF.

2:07:40 INDEPENDENCE DAY OF NIGERIA.

2:07:42 AND HERE IN BOSTON AND IN THE

2:07:43 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS WE HAVE

2:07:45 A LARGE NIGERIAN POPULATION.

2:07:47 UM, SINCE I WAS YOUNG ME AND MY

2:07:49 SISTERS WOULD ATTEND NYU A

2:07:50 COMMUNITY EVENTS AND SO UH,

2:07:53 ENJOY CELEBRATING AND UPLIFTING

2:07:54 .

2:07:55 OUR NIGERIAN COMMUNITY IS ONE

2:07:56 OF THE LARGEST SOURCES

2:07:57 OF AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE

2:07:58 UNITED STATES.

2:08:00 UM AND IT'S AN IMMIGRANT

2:08:00 COMMUNITY WHERE FAMILIES ARE

2:08:03 UH, ENTREPRENEURS ARE LEADERS

2:08:05 HERE IN OUR CITY UM, ESPECIALLY

2:08:07 IN HIGH PARK WHERE THERE ARE

2:08:08 NIGERIAN OWNED BUSINESSES AND

2:08:09 THERE ARE UM UH A LOT

2:08:11 OF LEADERS.

2:08:11 AND SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE

2:08:13 THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE

2:08:14 WITH OUR NIGERIAN COMMUNITY

2:08:16 HERE.

2:08:16 UH, NIGERIA IS MADE UP OF A

2:08:18 NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TRIBES AND

2:08:20 PEOPLES AND HAS HAD A NUMBER

2:08:21 OF DIFFERENT UM, STRUGGLES IN

2:08:24 BECOMING ONE COUNTRY.

2:08:25 AND SO THEY CELEBRATE BY UH,

2:08:28 CELEBRATING THEIR FLAG A SYMBOL

2:08:30 OF UNITY, UH, THAT UH IS STILL

2:08:34 UH IN PROGRESS BUT ONE THAT

2:08:36 WHERE WE THE COMMUNITY COMES

2:08:37 TOGETHER AND CELEBRATES THE

2:08:38 FLAG THAT IS GREEN, WHITE GREEN

2:08:39 AND TOMORROW I LOOK FORWARD TO

2:08:41 BEING WITH OUR NIGERIAN

2:08:42 COMMUNITY AND.

2:08:43 TO.

2:08:43 BE IN CONTINUED CELEBRATION

2:08:44 WITH THEM AT A NUMBER OF EVENTS

2:08:45 AS THEY CELEBRATE NIGERIAN

2:08:47 INDEPENDENCE DAY.

2:08:47 THANK YOU.

2:08:48 THANK YOU COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:08:49 CHAIR.

2:08:50 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:08:52 COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:08:53 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND

2:08:55 THANK YOU TO COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

2:08:56 FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:08:58 CO-SPONSOR.

2:08:58 UH ALSO THANK YOU TO.

2:09:00 COUNCILOR COKE PEPPER.

2:09:00 AS WELL.

2:09:01 UM LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:09:02 CELEBRATING UH NIGERIA'S

2:09:03 INDEPENDENCE DAY TOMORROW.

2:09:05 UM ALSO I JUST WANT TO SHOUT

2:09:06 OUT UH TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

2:09:08 AND BUSINESSES INVOLVED WITH

2:09:09 TOMORROW'S FLAG RAISING.

2:09:11 UM WE HAVE SUYA JOINT UM AND

2:09:13 ALSO THE NY AND WILD NIGERIAN

2:09:16 YOUTH ORGANIZATION OF BOSTON.

2:09:18 UH THAT ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN

2:09:19 AROUND FOR 30 YEARS UM AND HAS

2:09:21 PROVIDED IMPORTANT GUIDANCE AND

2:09:22 SUPPORT AS WELL AS FUN EVENTS

2:09:24 UH, FOR OUR NIGERIAN YOUTH HERE

2:09:26 IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON.

2:09:27 ALSO UN SHOUT OUT JOSEPH UH FOR

2:09:29 HELPING COORDINATING UH THE UH

2:09:32 THE FLAG RAISING ALL THE EVENT

2:09:33 UH, THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKING

2:09:35 PLACE AROUND NIGERIAN

2:09:35 INDEPENDENCE DAY AND JUST

2:09:37 LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

2:09:38 CELEBRATION.

2:09:38 THANK YOU.

2:09:39 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

2:09:40 WORRELL THE.

2:09:41 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:09:42 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:09:42 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:09:43 MADAM PRESIDENT, I THANK

2:09:45 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING

2:09:46 ME AS A ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND

2:09:49 TO JOIN WITH A COMFORTABLE WELL

2:09:51 AND CELEBRATING OCTOBER 1ST IS

2:09:54 NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE DAY AND

2:09:56 ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT MY

2:09:59 BROTHER IN LAW I HAVE NIGERIAN

2:10:01 FAMILY MEMBERS THAT I'LL BE

2:10:03 CELEBRATING WITH TOMORROW AND

2:10:05 TO THE ENTIRE NIGERIAN

2:10:07 COMMUNITY WE CELEBRATE THIS

2:10:10 GREAT DAY.

2:10:10 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:10:11 THANK YOU.

2:10:12 WOULD ANYONE LIKE.

2:10:14 TO ADD.

2:10:15 THEIR NAME COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:10:18 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:10:18 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:10:20 COUNCILOR.

2:10:20 UM.

2:10:20 MURPHY.

2:10:21 COUNTRY.

2:10:21 PEPEN.

2:10:22 COUNTRY SANTANA CONTRA WEBER

2:10:24 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:10:26 UM.

2:10:30 CONTRIBUTION ORAL.

2:10:31 AND CULPEPER SUSPENSION OF.

2:10:33 THE RULES.

2:10:33 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1861.

2:10:35 ALL IN.

2:10:35 FAVOR SAY AYE UNOPPOSED.

2:10:38 SAY NAY.

2:10:39 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:10:41 DOCTOR.

2:10:41 DOCKET 1861.

2:10:43 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:10:45 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:10:46 READ DOCKET.

2:10:49 18621862?

2:10:50 COUNCIL HAS PUT PEN AND

2:10:51 DURKAN OFF OF THE FOLLOWING

2:10:53 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

2:10:55 OCTOBER AS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

2:10:56 MONTH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:10:58 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:11:00 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:11:00 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:11:01 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:11:03 TOMORROW IS THE BEGINNING

2:11:05 OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MONTH.

2:11:06 BUT IN REALITY THAT FOR ME IS

2:11:08 EVERY SINGLE DAY.

2:11:10 THIS IS WHEN WE GET TO

2:11:11 ACKNOWLEDGE THE SAFETY OF OUR

2:11:13 PEDESTRIANS THOSE WHO WALK

2:11:13 THOSE OR USE OUR STREETS EVERY

2:11:15 SINGLE DAY THROUGHOUT OUR

2:11:16 COMMUNITY.

2:11:17 IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE

2:11:19 AWARENESS, PROMOTE SAFER

2:11:21 STREETS AND REMIND EVERYONE

2:11:23 THAT PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS A

2:11:24 SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.

2:11:26 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS THE REASON

2:11:28 WHY YOU GUYS CONSISTENTLY HEAR

2:11:30 ME SPEAK ABOUT JUST SAFER

2:11:32 CROSSWALKS, SAFER SCHOOL ZONES

2:11:34 SUPPORTING OUR CROSSING GUARDS

2:11:35 ,MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S

2:11:36 BETTER VISIBILITY FOR THOSE

2:11:38 TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET.

2:11:39 IT'S UM.

2:11:41 IT'S LITERALLY ONE OF THE TOP

2:11:43 TWO TOPICS THAT MY OFFICE HEARS

2:11:45 ABOUT EVERY SINGLE DAY IS THAT

2:11:47 PEOPLE DON'T FEEL SAFE CROSSING

2:11:48 THE STREET OR THEY'RE CONCERNED

2:11:49 ABOUT SOMEONE SPEEDING DOWN THE

2:11:51 STREET WHETHER IT'S A MAIN

2:11:53 THOROUGHFARE OR IF IT'S A SIDE

2:11:55 TO SIDE STREET IN A

2:11:56 NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:11:57 IT'S SOMETHING THAT MY OFFICE

2:11:58 TAKES VERY SERIOUS ALSO BECAUSE

2:12:00 WE'VE UNFORTUNATELY SEEN A LOT

2:12:02 OF CASUALTIES AS A RESULT

2:12:04 OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST THEIR

2:12:05 LIVES AND FAMILIES ARE IMPACTED

2:12:07 BY THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY, WHICH

2:12:09 IS WHY YOU DO HEAR ME SUPPORT

2:12:10 PROJECTS THAT ARE FOR SAFER

2:12:12 STREETS WHEN PEOPLE SIMPLY ARE

2:12:14 REQUESTING FOR MORE SPEED

2:12:15 HUMPS, FOR CROSSWALKS, FOR THE

2:12:17 CURB REDESIGNS ETC. UM IT'S NOT

2:12:20 JUST BECAUSE I'M A GEEK

2:12:22 OF TRANSPORTATION BUT THERE'S A

2:12:23 BIGGER MEANING BEHIND IT THAT

2:12:25 IS GOING TO MAKE OUR STREETS

2:12:26 SAFER.

2:12:27 AND THROUGHOUT THIS MONTH

2:12:28 YOU'LL SEE ME FILE OTHER

2:12:30 THINGS.

2:12:31 AND I HOPE THAT ALSO CONTINUE

2:12:33 TO GET THE SUPPORT FOR THE

2:12:35 ORDER THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:12:37 AND I PUT FORWARD FOR JUST

2:12:39 ADVANCING SAFER STREET PROJECTS

2:12:40 AND OTHER INITIATIVES THAT

2:12:42 OTHER COUNCILORS HAVE PUT

2:12:43 FORWARD.

2:12:44 I THINK WE ALL WANT OUR STREETS

2:12:45 TO BE SAFER IN THE CITY

2:12:46 OF BOSTON, AND I THINK THAT

2:12:48 OCTOBER IS A GOOD MONTH FOR US

2:12:50 TO REVIEW WHAT WE'RE DOING

2:12:51 CORRECTLY AND WHAT WE NEED TO

2:12:52 WORK ON MOVING FORWARD.

2:12:53 SO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

2:12:55 THANK YOU.

2:12:56 COUNCILOR PEPEN CHAIR

2:12:57 RECOGNIZES.

2:12:58 COUNCIL DURKAN YOU HAVE THE

2:12:59 FLOOR.

2:12:59 THANK YOU SO MUCH

2:13:00 COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU

2:13:02 TO COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR

2:13:03 INCLUDING ME ON RECOGNIZING

2:13:04 OCTOBER AS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

2:13:05 MONTH JUST YESTERDAY.

2:13:07 UM, THERE IS UH, SOMEONE IN

2:13:11 CRITICAL CONDITION, A

2:13:12 PEDESTRIAN THAT WAS HIT IN MY

2:13:13 DISTRICT.

2:13:14 UM, OUR RESIDENTS DESERVE

2:13:16 SAFETY AND IT MUST BE A TOP

2:13:18 PRIORITY.

2:13:19 BOSTON IS COMMITTED TO VISION

2:13:20 ZERO AND WHEN WE COMMITTED IN

2:13:22 2015 AND WHILE OVERALL

2:13:25 FATALITIES IN CRASHES MAY HAVE

2:13:26 DECREASED, WE STILL HAVE A LONG

2:13:27 WAY TO GO.

2:13:28 ONE FATALITY IS TOO MANY.

2:13:30 WE MUST REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT

2:13:31 TO SAFER STREETS BY

2:13:32 IMPLEMENTING TRAFFIC CALMING

2:13:34 MEASURES AND ROBUST PEDESTRIAN

2:13:36 INFRASTRUCTURE AND USING DATA

2:13:38 TO INFORM WHERE WE CAN

2:13:39 IMPLEMENT THESE PROVEN

2:13:40 STRATEGIES.

2:13:41 WE NEED TO CONTINUE DEDICATING

2:13:42 RESOURCES TO INSTALLING MORE

2:13:43 HIGH SPEED HUMPS, RAISED

2:13:45 CROSSWALKS AND BIKE

2:13:46 INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEDICATING

2:13:47 OUR STREETS AND TRAFFIC

2:13:48 PATTERNS TO SERVE THE NEEDS

2:13:50 OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

2:13:52 ON OCTOBER 22ND, I'M HOLDING A

2:13:53 HEARING ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE

2:13:54 ENFORCEMENT OF BLOCKED BIKE

2:13:55 LANES AND CROSSWALKS BECAUSE

2:13:57 ENFORCEMENT AND ADDRESSING

2:13:59 DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIOR IS

2:14:01 AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS

2:14:02 CHALLENGE.

2:14:02 I FREQUENTLY HEAR FROM CIVIC

2:14:04 AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, RESIDENTS

2:14:05 AND ADVOCATES ABOUT HOW WE CAN

2:14:07 MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER.

2:14:08 THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU TO ALL

2:14:10 OF THE RESIDENTS WHO REACHED

2:14:11 OUT AND FOR DRAWING ATTENTION

2:14:13 TO THE ISSUES IN THE STREETS

2:14:14 AND FOR ADVOCATING FOR

2:14:15 YOURSELF, YOUR NEIGHBORS AND

2:14:16 YOUR COMMUNITY.

2:14:17 EVERYONE IN BOSTON REGARDLESS

2:14:19 OF WHAT MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

2:14:20 YOU ARE OR REGARDLESS OF WHAT

2:14:22 COUNCIL DISTRICT YOU'RE IN,

2:14:23 WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD YOU LIVE IN,

2:14:25 WHAT AGE YOU ARE SHOULD BE ABLE

2:14:26 TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSE AND TRAVEL

2:14:28 TO THE CITY AND FEEL SAFE

2:14:29 GETTING TO AND WHERE THEY NEED

2:14:31 TO GO.

2:14:32 THAT INCLUDES RESIDENTS THAT

2:14:33 COME IN FROM CAMBRIDGE AND

2:14:34 SOMERVILLE.

2:14:35 I OFTEN HEAR UH ELECTED

2:14:36 OFFICIALS SAY WELL WHERE IS

2:14:38 THAT PERSON FROM SOMERVILLE?

2:14:39 SOMEONE FROM SOMERVILLE DIED IN

2:14:42 MY DISTRICT SINCE I'VE BEEN A

2:14:43 CITY COUNCILOR I DON'T CARE IF

2:14:44 YOU LIVE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

2:14:46 YOU DESERVE TO GET AROUND

2:14:48 BOSTON SAFELY.

2:14:48 PERIOD.

2:14:49 IT'S NOT A QUESTION ABOUT, YOU

2:14:52 KNOW, THE DIRECT ABUTTERS

2:14:54 OF SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:14:56 WE HAVE TO MOVE BEYOND THAT.

2:14:57 WE HAVE TO MOVE TOWARDS SAFETY

2:14:59 AND WE HAVE TO DO SO WITH

2:15:01 RESIDENTS IN MIND.

2:15:02 UM, BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE PERSON

2:15:04 HAS BEEN TOUCHED UM, BY UH

2:15:07 SPEEDING CARS.

2:15:09 I KNOW IN MY DISTRICT UM THERE

2:15:10 HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE TIMES WHERE

2:15:13 UM PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT AND

2:15:15 SAID I FEEL LIKE THIS IS UNSAFE

2:15:16 AND THEN MONTHS LATER SOMEONE

2:15:18 HAS HEADED THAT EXACT LOCATION

2:15:20 SO WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYES

2:15:22 OPEN, OUR EARS OPEN AND UM,

2:15:24 CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK

2:15:25 AND CONTINUE TO MOVE AS QUICKLY

2:15:27 AS POSSIBLE ON THESE

2:15:28 INITIATIVES.

2:15:28 THANK YOU.

2:15:30 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:15:31 UM.

2:15:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:15:32 COUNCILOR MURPHY AND THEN WE'LL

2:15:33 GO TO COUNCILOR FRIEND.

2:15:34 COUNCILMEMBER FOR YOU HAVE THE

2:15:35 FLOOR.

2:15:36 YES.

2:15:36 UM, I'D LIKE TO LET

2:15:38 COUNCILOR PEPEN ADD A THIRD

2:15:39 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR FIRST IF

2:15:41 THAT'S OKAY.

2:15:41 MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:15:42 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:15:44 OBJECTIONS.

2:15:44 UM.

2:15:46 COUNCILOR COUNTRY PEPEN, YOU

2:15:47 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:15:47 THANK YOU.

2:15:48 THANK YOU, MEMBER FOR.

2:15:52 UH OH.

2:15:55 GOOD TO.

2:15:56 GIVE YOU.

2:15:56 THE MIC.

2:15:56 THERE YOU GO.

2:15:57 THANK YOU.

2:15:57 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:15:58 FOR THE.

2:15:59 KINDNESS I JUST FAILED TO

2:16:00 ADD.

2:16:00 UM, COUNCILOR BEN WEBER AS THE

2:16:02 THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR, I

2:16:04 WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST TO

2:16:05 SUSPEND.

2:16:05 THE RULES AND I.

2:16:06 CAN SEE YOU.

2:16:07 CAN HEAR HIM.

2:16:08 NO OBJECTIONS COMES FROM

2:16:08 WEBER IS ADDED AS A THIRD

2:16:10 CO-SPONSOR.

2:16:11 THANK YOU.

2:16:13 UH COUNCILMEMBER.

2:16:14 FOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:16:15 THANK YOU.

2:16:16 JUST WANTED TO RISE AND

2:16:18 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

2:16:19 PEPEN FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'RE

2:16:21 DOING.

2:16:21 AND I KNOW THIS BODY TRYING TO

2:16:23 MAKE SURE.

2:16:24 OUR STREETS.

2:16:25 ARE SAFE.

2:16:25 FOR EVERYONE.

2:16:26 IF YOU'RE RIDING A BIKE,

2:16:27 WALKING, GETTING ON AND OFF A

2:16:29 BUS IN A CAR AND UPLIFT THE

2:16:32 YOUNG WOMAN 19 YEARS OLD WHO'S

2:16:34 CRITICALLY INJURED UM, YOU

2:16:37 KNOW, WE ALL SEE TOO MANY TIMES

2:16:39 IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE

2:16:40 CITY PEOPLE WHO ARE INJURED ON

2:16:42 OUR STREETS.

2:16:43 SO WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO MAKE

2:16:44 OUR STREETS SAFER.

2:16:45 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO ALWAYS

2:16:47 CHAMPIONING AND WORKING

2:16:48 ALONGSIDE WITH THIS BODY TO

2:16:50 MAKE SURE OUR STREETS, OUR

2:16:52 SIDEWALKS AND OUR

2:16:53 INFRASTRUCTURE IS SAFE FOR

2:16:53 EVERYONE.

2:16:54 THANK YOU.

2:16:55 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:16:56 I'M GOING TO GO.

2:16:57 TO THIS THIRD CO-SPONSOR,

2:16:58 COUNCILOR WEBER AND THEN WE'LL

2:16:59 GO TO COUNSELOR FRIEND

2:17:00 CONSTABLE WEBER.

2:17:00 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:17:01 OKAY.

2:17:01 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:17:03 UH.

2:17:03 I JUST, UM YOU KNOW, I WANT TO

2:17:05 THANK, UH, COUNCILORS.

2:17:06 PAPIN AND.

2:17:07 DURKAN FOR FILING THIS JUST

2:17:09 THIS MORNING.

2:17:10 UH, I I WENT OUT TO VOLUNTEER

2:17:12 AS A CROSSING GUARD AT THE

2:17:13 CORNER OF WESTMOUNT AND

2:17:15 LAGRANGE IN WEST ROXBURY.

2:17:17 UH, I FEEL LIKE THAT IS IT'S A

2:17:18 VERY DANGEROUS INTERSECTION

2:17:20 WHERE KIDS ARE CROSSING

2:17:22 LAGRANGE STREET TO GO TO SCHOOL

2:17:23 AT THE LINDEN.

2:17:25 UH, AND I THINK IT'S VITAL THAT

2:17:26 WE HAVE A CROSSING GUARD THERE.

2:17:28 UH, JUST HIGHLIGHTED WE HAVE A

2:17:31 SHORTAGE OF CROSSING GUARDS AND

2:17:32 WHILE THEY'RE THERE.

2:17:34 SO IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT TO

2:17:35 ASSIGN A CROSSING GUARD EVERY

2:17:36 DAY THERE TODAY THERE WAS A

2:17:38 CROSSING GUARD AND, UH, YOU

2:17:40 KNOW, UH, AN OFFICER FROM E5.

2:17:42 UM, BUT I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW,

2:17:44 THERE UH, THEY THINK THERE WAS

2:17:45 AN ISSUE WITH THE CROSSING

2:17:46 GUARD UH, QR CODE APPLICATION

2:17:49 THAT HAS BEEN FIXED.

2:17:50 PEOPLE CAN APPLY TO BE CROSSING

2:17:52 GUARDS.

2:17:52 I THINK WE NEED MORE, UM, AND

2:17:54 MAKE SURE YOU KNOW ALL OF OUR

2:17:55 OUR DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS

2:17:57 ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOMEBODY

2:17:58 THERE WHO CAN HELP PEOPLE HELP

2:17:59 THESE KIDS CROSS THE STREET.

2:18:01 UM, AND AGAIN THANK YOU TO THE

2:18:03 FILERS AND I SUPPORT THIS

2:18:04 RESOLUTION.

2:18:05 THANK YOU.

2:18:06 COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

2:18:07 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN

2:18:08 COUNTER YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:18:10 THANK YOU.

2:18:11 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:18:12 AND I.

2:18:12 JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:18:14 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR

2:18:15 ACKNOWLEDGING THE.

2:18:16 UH.

2:18:17 CROSSING GUARDS AND TO WANT

2:18:19 TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR UM.

2:18:20 PEPEN FOR HIS WORK IN

2:18:23 SUPPORTING CROSSING GUARDS

2:18:25 ACROSS THE CITY AS WELL.

2:18:26 UM.

2:18:27 FOR OVER NINE YEARS I'VE

2:18:30 FILED AND WORKED ON THIS ISSUE

2:18:32 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY INCLUDING

2:18:35 HAVING RECOMMENDING ACTUALLY A

2:18:37 12 POINT PEDESTRIAN PLAN.

2:18:39 UM, I ADVOCATED FOR RAISE

2:18:42 RAISED.

2:18:43 TRAFFIC CALMING INFRASTRUCTURE

2:18:44 SUCH AS RAISE.

2:18:45 CROSSWALKS.

2:18:45 SPEED HUMPS, TEST FREE AND

2:18:48 CROSSING ISLANDS WITH RAPID

2:18:49 FLASH BEACONS, CLAWBACKS AND

2:18:52 EXTENSIONS AND MORE.

2:18:55 UM INCLUDING.

2:18:56 I THINK IS A.

2:18:56 CRITICAL PART OF THIS IS

2:18:58 REDUCING THE SPEED.

2:18:59 LIMIT FOR VEHICLES.

2:19:01 25 MILES AN HOUR.

2:19:02 CERTAINLY IT'S 20.

2:19:03 MILES AN HOUR NEAR SCHOOLS.

2:19:05 I DO THINK.

2:19:06 THAT'S EXCESSIVE.

2:19:08 25 MILES AN HOUR DRIVING DOWN A

2:19:11 A NARROW.

2:19:11 CITY STREET.

2:19:13 UM THERE'S.

2:19:14 BARELY THERE'S BARELY ENOUGH

2:19:15 ROOM TO.

2:19:15 PASS NEVER MIND GOING.

2:19:17 IN AN EXCESSIVE SPEED AT 25

2:19:20 MILES AN.

2:19:20 HOUR SHOULD.

2:19:21 BE REDUCED.

2:19:22 WE NEED MORE SUPPORT FROM

2:19:23 BOSTON POLICE AS WELL.

2:19:26 TO FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

2:19:27 THAT'S A CRITICAL ASPECT OF IT

2:19:29 .

2:19:30 UM.

2:19:32 I.

2:19:33 I DO WANT TO SUPPORT AND

2:19:36 HIGHLIGHT.

2:19:37 THE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS BUT

2:19:41 BOSTON CAN'T CONTINUE TO BE

2:19:42 LIKE THE WILD WILD WEST OUT

2:19:44 THERE.

2:19:45 WE HAVE TO BE AGGRESSIVE WITH

2:19:47 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BUT ALSO

2:19:48 PROVIDING A SAFE AND HEALTHY

2:19:51 CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD AND

2:19:53 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS UM AND BE

2:19:57 RESPECTFUL TO PERSONS WITH

2:19:59 DISABILITIES.

2:20:00 BE RESPECTFUL TO OUR SENIORS

2:20:01 WHEN WE SEE PEOPLE IN

2:20:04 CROSSWALKS UM, DON'T TRY TO GO

2:20:07 AROUND THEM.

2:20:08 BE RESPECTFUL AND GIVE THEM

2:20:09 THEIR OPPORTUNITY ACROSS THE

2:20:11 STREET ALMOST EVERY.

2:20:13 DAY WHEN MY PARENTS GO UP TO

2:20:15 THE SOUTH BOSTON LIBRARY, THEY

2:20:16 COME BACK AND TELL ME THAT

2:20:18 THEY'RE CROSSING THE STREET AND

2:20:19 .

2:20:20 AS THEY'RE IN THE CROSSWALK

2:20:21 SOMEONE WILL DRIVE RECKLESSLY

2:20:23 RIGHT BY THEM.

2:20:24 UM, IT'S NOT JUST THEM.

2:20:26 IT'S SO MANY OTHER ELDERLY

2:20:27 PEOPLE THROUGHOUT OUR CITY WE

2:20:29 ALSO SEE YOUNG FAMILIES.

2:20:31 IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC AWARENESS

2:20:33 ALSO AND BEING RESPECTFUL TO,

2:20:35 UM, ALL NEIGHBORS.

2:20:37 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:20:39 THANK YOU.

2:20:39 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:20:41 UM, AND.

2:20:41 I ALSO.

2:20:42 WANT TO THANK THE.

2:20:43 SPONSORS FOR THIS REALLY

2:20:44 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.

2:20:45 UM.

2:20:46 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

2:20:48 IS A HUGE.

2:20:49 ISSUE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN

2:20:50 ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

2:20:51 UH, WE'VE HAD UH SEVERE

2:20:54 INJURIES.

2:20:55 WE'VE HAD FATALITIES ON

2:20:56 CROSSWALKS.

2:20:57 AN UNTOLD.

2:20:58 NUMBER OF NEAR-MISSES TO

2:20:59 YOUR POINT, CONSTANTLY ABOUT.

2:21:00 UM, UH.

2:21:02 AN ELDER CROSSING A CROSSWALK

2:21:03 AND A TRUCK GOES BY AND CLIPS

2:21:05 THEM WITH THE RIGHT WING MIRROR

2:21:06 AND THEY BREAK AN ARM.

2:21:08 OR THEY CLIP THEM AND TOSS THEM

2:21:09 OVER AND THEY BREAK A LEG.

2:21:11 IT IS IT HAS.

2:21:12 GOT LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES.

2:21:14 IN ONE CASE.

2:21:15 RECENTLY AN ELDER WAS HIT ON A

2:21:17 CROSSWALK.

2:21:18 SHE SURVIVED THANKFULLY.

2:21:19 BUT UM SHE WAS IN UH ON A NON

2:21:22 WEIGHT BEARING FOR THREE MONTHS

2:21:23 AND THEY ENDED UP.

2:21:24 HAVING TO.

2:21:25 SPEND MONTHS IN AN ASSISTED

2:21:26 LIVING FACILITY AND UNABLE TO

2:21:28 GO BACK TO HER OWN HOME.

2:21:29 THESE THINGS HAVE GREAT IMPACT

2:21:31 ON OUR OWN, OUR FAMILIES AND

2:21:32 OUR.

2:21:33 COMMUNITIES.

2:21:35 ELDERS, CHILDREN WE HAD A NURSE

2:21:36 KILLED AT CROSSING UH UM ON HER

2:21:38 WAY TO.

2:21:38 WORK AT.

2:21:39 SAINT ELIZABETH'S A FEW

2:21:40 YEARS AGO.

2:21:41 UM SO ALL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE

2:21:43 THAT WE CAN PUT IN PLACE LIKE

2:21:44 WHERE'S CROSSWALK SPEED BUMPS.

2:21:46 AND SPEED.

2:21:47 ENFORCEMENT ALL OF IT WILL SAVE

2:21:49 LIVES AND UM, SO I'M

2:21:51 WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND IN SUPPORT

2:21:53 OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT

2:21:54 RESOLUTION.

2:21:56 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:21:57 NAME AS A PART OF COUNCILOR

2:22:01 CULPEPER CONSIDER

2:22:02 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:22:03 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNTRY

2:22:04 LOUIJEUNE TO MEJIA.

2:22:05 COUNCILOR MURPHY CONSCIOUS.

2:22:07 AND TYLER.

2:22:07 AND COUNCILOR WORRELL AND

2:22:09 PLEASE ARE THE CHAIR COUNCILORS

2:22:11 DURKAN OH.

2:22:13 CONSCIOUS PEPEN.

2:22:14 DURKAN AND WEBER SEEK.

2:22:16 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:22:18 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1862.

2:22:19 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:22:21 AYE.

2:22:21 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:22:23 THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:22:24 DOCKET 1862 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:22:29 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:22:30 READ DOCKET 1863.

2:22:31 DOCKET NUMBER 1863 COUNCILORS

2:22:33 LOUIJEUNE AND COLLETTE IS A

2:22:35 PART OF THE FOLLOWING

2:22:37 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

2:22:40 OCTOBER 2026 AS DOMESTIC

2:22:41 VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.

2:22:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:22:44 COUNCIL DIVISION.

2:22:44 COUNCIL.

2:22:45 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:22:46 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:22:47 UM, MAY I ASK TO SUSPEND THE

2:22:49 RULES THAT COME TO ME AS A

2:22:50 THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:22:51 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:22:52 OBJECTIONS.

2:22:52 COUNCILMEMBER HAZEL TO THE

2:22:54 THIRD.

2:22:54 THANK YOU.

2:22:55 AND UH, SEEKING A.

2:22:56 SUSPENSION AND.

2:22:56 PASSAGE OF THIS.

2:22:58 UH, RESOLUTION UH, TOMORROW

2:23:00 IS OCTOBER 1ST AND OCTOBER IS

2:23:02 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS

2:23:03 MONTH.

2:23:04 UM, IF WE CARE ABOUT ROOTING

2:23:07 OUT ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN

2:23:10 OUR CITY AND IN OUR COUNTRY IN

2:23:12 SOCIETY WE REALLY DO HAVE TO

2:23:14 START WHERE VIOLENCE REALLY

2:23:15 STARTS AND IT IS TOO OFTEN AT

2:23:17 THE HOME, UM.

2:23:19 IN DIFFERENT.

2:23:19 KINDS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:23:22 SO I'M PROUD TO YET AGAIN OFFER

2:23:23 THIS RESOLUTION AS AN

2:23:25 OPPORTUNITY.

2:23:26 TO.

2:23:26 STAND WITH SURVIVORS UH,

2:23:27 REMEMBER THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE

2:23:29 BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM US.

2:23:31 DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WE

2:23:33 AFFIRM OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO

2:23:34 PREVENT, UM, ABUSE.

2:23:37 UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECTS

2:23:39 FAMILIES ACROSS OUR CITY.

2:23:41 IT AFFECTS PEOPLE BEYOND

2:23:42 PHYSICAL.

2:23:43 INJURY TO.

2:23:44 A.

2:23:44 PERSON'S MENTAL HEALTH.

2:23:45 AND WE'RE JUST.

2:23:46 COMING OFF OF SEPTEMBER WHICH

2:23:48 IS SUICIDE AWARENESS MONTH

2:23:50 HOUSING.

2:23:50 STABILITY, FINANCIAL.

2:23:51 SECURITY AND UH, THE WELL-BEING

2:23:53 OF.

2:23:54 CHILDREN IN A HOME WHO.

2:23:55 TOO CAN BE THE VICTIMS OF.

2:23:57 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:23:58 SURVIVORS DESERVE SAFETY.

2:24:00 DIGNITY AND SUPPORT WITHOUT

2:24:02 JUDGMENT.

2:24:02 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:24:03 RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE

2:24:05 BARRIERS, UH, OF WHY IT IS

2:24:07 OFTEN.

2:24:08 DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE.

2:24:09 UH, SITUATIONS OF DOMESTIC

2:24:11 VIOLENCE AND INTIMATE PARTNER

2:24:12 ABUSE.

2:24:13 UH.

2:24:13 THERE'S A.

2:24:14 NUMBER OF BARRIERS THAT

2:24:15 PEOPLE FACE WHEN IT COMES TO

2:24:16 ACCESSING RESOURCES WHETHER IT

2:24:17 BE LANGUAGE BARRIERS THERE BE

2:24:19 RACISM, FINANCIAL.

2:24:20 DEPENDENCY.

2:24:21 DISABILITY AND FEAR RELATED

2:24:22 TO IMMIGRATION STATUS THAT CAN

2:24:24 MAKE SEEKING HELP MORE

2:24:25 DIFFICULT.

2:24:27 I SEE THE I SAW THIS SO OFTEN

2:24:29 IN SENSITIVE IMMIGRATION CASES

2:24:31 WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO SEEK

2:24:33 HELP.

2:24:36 UM OUR.

2:24:36 RESPONSE FOR EACH PERSON MUST

2:24:38 BE TO REACH OUT WHEN THOSE

2:24:39 CIRCUMSTANCES UM FIND THEM.

2:24:42 SO WHEN PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES

2:24:44 ISOLATED IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES

2:24:46 AWARENESS HAS TO BE BACKED BY

2:24:47 RESOURCES.

2:24:48 AND I KNOW RIGHT NOW THAT WE

2:24:49 HAVE IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH

2:24:51 COMMISSION THAT DOMESTIC SEXUAL

2:24:52 AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

2:24:54 PREVENTION INITIATIVE LED BY

2:24:56 KIM MENDOZA ARATA AND RIGHT NOW

2:24:58 THEY'RE HOLDING.

2:24:59 TRAININGS TRAININGS FOR THOSE

2:25:00 FOR PROVIDERS WHO INTERACT WITH

2:25:03 FAMILIES AND.

2:25:03 CHILDREN AND PEOPLE.

2:25:04 WHO COULD.

2:25:05 BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:25:05 .

2:25:06 THEY HAVE THREE TRAININGS IN

2:25:07 ROXBURY STARTING IN THIS MONTH.

2:25:09 UM, AND SO WE WE ENCOURAGE

2:25:11 PEOPLE TO SEEK OUT THAT

2:25:12 INFORMATION.

2:25:13 UM, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

2:25:15 THAT TO SURVIVORS THAT PEOPLE

2:25:16 THAT THEY KNOW THAT WE.

2:25:17 SEE THEM.

2:25:18 THAT THAT YOU DESERVE TO BE

2:25:19 BELIEVED TO BE LOVED, TO BE

2:25:20 CHERISHED AND TO FEEL SAFE.

2:25:22 I WANT TO THANK ALL THE

2:25:23 ADVOCATES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

2:25:24 WHO STAND ALONGSIDE IN THIS

2:25:25 WORK.

2:25:26 UM, IF YOU KNOW ANYONE

2:25:27 EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:25:29 OR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE,

2:25:30 CALL THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC

2:25:31 VIOLENCE HOTLINE AT ONE 807

2:25:36 997233 OR TEXT 88788 FOR FREE

2:25:39 CONFIDENTIAL SUPPORT 24 HOURS A

2:25:41 DAY.

2:25:42 UM AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE

2:25:43 NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS

2:25:44 INVOLVED.

2:25:45 IN HELPING TO.

2:25:45 STEM THE TIDE OF DOMESTIC

2:25:47 VIOLENCE THAT.

2:25:47 INCLUDES THE MASSACHUSETTS

2:25:48 OFFICE FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE,

2:25:50 THE BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS

2:25:52 CENTER, THE ASIAN TASK FORCE

2:25:53 AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,

2:25:55 SAFELINK ELIZABETH STONEHOUSE

2:25:56 FOR SUPPORT GROUPS SHAKIRA

2:25:58 STORY, CASA MUNA AND JANE DOE

2:26:01 INCORPORATED MANY OF WHOM THAT

2:26:02 WE'VE HAD HERE FOR CITY

2:26:04 COUNCIL HEARINGS ON DOMESTIC

2:26:05 VIOLENCE AND WE WILL DO

2:26:07 CONTINUE TO HAVE THEM HERE AS

2:26:08 THE WORK CONTINUES ESPECIALLY

2:26:10 UM, AS WE LOOK.

2:26:12 TO STEM AN INCREASE THAT WE ARE

2:26:14 SEEING IN CERTAIN AREAS.

2:26:15 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I

2:26:17 HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES JOIN

2:26:18 ME IN PASSING THIS RESOLUTION.

2:26:19 THANK YOU.

2:26:20 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE CHAIR.

2:26:21 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTE

2:26:22 AS A PARTNER.

2:26:23 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:26:24 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:26:24 AND I WANT TO THANK

2:26:25 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND HER

2:26:26 LEADERSHIP.

2:26:27 UH, AND ADDING.

2:26:28 ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:26:29 CO-SPONSOR.

2:26:29 AND JUST THANK YOU.

2:26:30 FOR, UH, OUTLINING.

2:26:31 ALL OF THOSE RESOURCES.

2:26:32 YOU NEVER KNOW.

2:26:32 WHO IS.

2:26:33 LISTENING AND WHAT THEY'RE

2:26:33 GOING THROUGH.

2:26:34 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT

2:26:35 COMPREHENSIVE LIST.

2:26:35 UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:26:37 TEACHERS UH.

2:26:39 IT TOUCHES EVERY COMMUNITY.

2:26:40 AND REGARDLESS OF.

2:26:41 RACE, GENDER, INCOME OR.

2:26:43 NEIGHBORHOOD THIS MONTH IS

2:26:44 ABOUT CENTERING.

2:26:44 SURVIVORS BELIEVING.

2:26:45 AND SUPPORTING.

2:26:46 THEM.

2:26:46 AND MAKING.

2:26:46 SURE THEY.

2:26:47 HAVE THE RESOURCES AND

2:26:48 SAFETY THEY NEED.

2:26:48 TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

2:26:50 AWARENESS ALSO MEANS.

2:26:51 PREVENTION AND.

2:26:51 THAT MEANS RECOGNIZING.

2:26:54 SIGNS.

2:26:54 INTERVENTION AND ADEQUATELY

2:26:55 FUNDING.

2:26:56 ORGANIZATIONS DOING.

2:26:57 THIS IMPORTANT WORK.

2:26:58 EVERY DAY.

2:26:59 I WANT TO SHOUT OUT UH FCCPS

2:27:01 AND KIM, WE HAD HER IN HERE TO

2:27:04 TALK ABOUT UM DRINK SPIKING.

2:27:05 BUT IN THAT HEARING SHE HAD

2:27:06 TALKED.

2:27:07 ABOUT HER WORK WITH.

2:27:09 UM SURVIVORS OF.

2:27:10 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SHE WAS

2:27:11 REALLY DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB.

2:27:12 SO I JUST WANT TO.

2:27:13 GIVE HER HER FLOWERS.

2:27:13 AND HER.

2:27:14 KUDOS FOR IT.

2:27:14 UM, NO SURVIVORS SHOULD EVER

2:27:16 FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO.

2:27:17 NAVIGATE ABUSIVE ALONE.

2:27:18 UM, AGAIN, I'M GRATEFUL TO

2:27:20 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:27:20 PARTNERSHIP AND EVERY ADVOCATE

2:27:22 AND SURVIVOR WHO CONTINUES TO

2:27:23 PUSH US FORWARD.

2:27:24 UM.

2:27:24 FOR A SAFER BOSTON.

2:27:25 YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

2:27:26 WE'RE HERE TO.

2:27:26 HELP YOU.

2:27:27 THANK YOU.

2:27:28 COUNCIL AS A PANEL.

2:27:29 CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

2:27:30 THIRD CO-SPONSOR CONSUMER

2:27:31 HERE YOU COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE

2:27:33 FLOOR.

2:27:35 COUNCILMEMBER MEJIA YOU THIRD

2:27:38 CO-SPONSOR.

2:27:40 I AM.

2:27:41 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:27:42 THAT'S RIGHT I DO.

2:27:44 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:27:47 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND

2:27:48 THANK YOU TO MY

2:27:50 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

2:27:51 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

2:27:52 COUNCILOR CLAIRE FOR ADDING

2:27:53 ME TO THIS RESOLUTION AS A

2:27:55 SURVIVOR THIS ISSUE IS CLOSE TO

2:27:58 MY HEART.

2:27:58 UM, WE SAY NOT ONE MORE BUT

2:28:00 UNFORTUNATELY DV IS FAR TOO

2:28:02 COMMON.

2:28:03 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IMPACTS

2:28:05 INDIVIDUALS REGARDLESS

2:28:06 OF GENDER, RACE, SOCIOECONOMIC

2:28:08 STATUS, CLASS, SEXUAL

2:28:11 ORIENTATION AND MORE.

2:28:12 BUT CERTAIN GROUPS SUCH AS

2:28:13 BLACK INDIGENOUS WOMEN

2:28:15 EXPERIENCE HIGHER RATES

2:28:16 OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURING

2:28:18 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS

2:28:18 MONTH WE RAISE AWARENESS UM

2:28:21 SUPPORT SURVIVORS, UPLIFT

2:28:22 RESOURCES, INVEST IN PREVENTION

2:28:24 AND INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION.

2:28:27 WE ALSO MUST ENSURE THAT

2:28:28 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCES ARE

2:28:30 EQUITABLE, ACCESSIBLE AND

2:28:31 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE.

2:28:32 THIS WORK IS NOT JUST.

2:28:34 IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER BUT

2:28:35 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

2:28:36 OUR OFFICE IS PROUD TO BE IN

2:28:38 PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS

2:28:39 LIKE SHAKIRA STORY THAT ARE LED

2:28:41 BY THOSE WHO ARE LIVING THE

2:28:42 REALITIES AND OR DOING THE.

2:28:43 WORK AND WHO ARE ON THE

2:28:45 FRONTLINES UM, ALWAYS

2:28:47 ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF THOSE

2:28:48 WHO ARE STILL STRUGGLING.

2:28:50 THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE

2:28:51 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS,

2:28:52 HOTLINES AND SOCIAL WORKERS,

2:28:53 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

2:28:54 AND OTHERS WHO.

2:28:55 SUPPORT SURVIVORS.

2:28:57 WHO ARE EXPERIENCING DV BY

2:29:00 RAISING AWARENESS.

2:29:01 SURVIVORS AND THOSE

2:29:02 EXPERIENCING DV ARE AFFIRMED

2:29:04 THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND

2:29:06 HOPEFULLY ARE MORE LIKELY TO

2:29:07 REACH OUT FOR HELP.

2:29:08 PLEASE KNOW THAT WE'RE HERE IF

2:29:09 YOU NEED ANY WITH THIS

2:29:11 RESOLUTION THE BOSTON CITY

2:29:12 COUNCIL RECOGNIZES OCTOBER 2026

2:29:14 AS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:29:16 AWARENESS MONTH AND SUPPORTS

2:29:18 FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL

2:29:19 INITIATIVES THAT ALLOCATE MORE

2:29:21 RESOURCES, FUNDING AND AID FOR

2:29:22 PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES THAT

2:29:24 ADDRESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:29:25 AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO

2:29:26 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, YOU KNOW,

2:29:27 THERE ARE LIKE THIS TEEN DATING

2:29:28 VIOLENCE AS WELL.

2:29:29 YEAH.

2:29:30 UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT

2:29:31 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS USUALLY UM

2:29:33 HAS A LAYER OF JUST SOMETHING

2:29:34 THAT'S HAPPENING AT HOME BUT

2:29:37 THERE'S RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE

2:29:38 HAPPENING AND A LOT A LOT

2:29:40 OF DIFFERENT SPACES AND PLACES

2:29:41 AND VERBAL EMOTIONAL MENTAL ALL

2:29:45 OF THOSE.

2:29:46 ARE FORMS OF ABUSE.

2:29:47 THANK YOU.

2:29:48 COUNCILMEMBER HERE THE CHAIR

2:29:49 RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR FLYNN.

2:29:50 COUNSELOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:29:52 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:29:53 AND JUST FOR THE RECORD I I

2:29:55 REQUESTED.

2:29:55 TO BE AN ORIGINAL.

2:29:57 CO-SPONSOR ON THIS.

2:29:58 I KNOW THAT THERE WAS OTHER.

2:30:00 CITY COUNCIL IS THAT WERE.

2:30:01 ALREADY UM, PART OF IT.

2:30:05 I UNDERSTAND THAT.

2:30:05 IN OVER.

2:30:06 EIGHT YEARS ON THE CITY

2:30:07 COUNCIL I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY

2:30:08 INVOLVED WITH THIS ISSUE

2:30:10 OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL

2:30:11 ASSAULT HOLDING A NUMBER

2:30:13 OF CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS ON

2:30:15 THIS FOR MANY YEARS ESPECIALLY

2:30:18 WORKING WITH UM NOW

2:30:20 MASSACHUSETTS.

2:30:20 ATTORNEY GENERAL ANDRE CAMPBELL

2:30:21 .

2:30:22 AS WELL AS WELL AS OTHER

2:30:24 COLLEAGUES.

2:30:26 .

2:30:26 I WORK CLOSELY WITH A NUMBER

2:30:28 OF ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE

2:30:29 ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST

2:30:30 DOMESTIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASA

2:30:32 MYRNA TO TRY TO CONTINUE THE

2:30:34 WORK OF OF MY MOTHER WHEN SHE

2:30:36 WAS THE FIRST LADY THAT WAS HER

2:30:38 TOP ISSUE WAS UM DOMESTIC

2:30:40 VIOLENCE SUPPORTING SURVIVORS

2:30:42 OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE

2:30:43 CITY OF BOSTON.

2:30:44 UM.

2:30:48 THIS ISSUE.

2:30:49 RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:30:51 AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ARE OFTEN

2:30:54 UNDERREPORTED BY IMMIGRANT

2:30:55 NEIGHBORS, MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ

2:30:58 PLUS COMMUNITY IN THE MONTH

2:31:00 OF OCTOBER AND THROUGHOUT THE

2:31:01 YEAR.

2:31:01 IT IS CRITICAL WE CONTINUE TO

2:31:03 WORK.

2:31:04 TO BREAK.

2:31:05 THIS STIGMA AND REMIND

2:31:07 SURVIVORS THAT THEY ARE NOT

2:31:08 ALONE.

2:31:09 I ALSO BELIEVE WE HAVE TO

2:31:10 CONTINUE TO WORK IN THE BOSTON

2:31:12 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM TO HELP

2:31:15 SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS THAT.

2:31:20 MAYBE THEY.

2:31:21 HAVE THEIR PARENT OR THE

2:31:22 GUARDIAN MIGHT.

2:31:22 BE A.

2:31:23 A SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT.

2:31:26 BUT WE WANT TO BREAK THAT CYCLE

2:31:28 WHEN UM WHEN A CHILD SEES THEM

2:31:31 THEIR MOTHER OR FATHER OR A

2:31:32 GUARDIAN AS A VICTIM OR A

2:31:35 SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT,

2:31:38 WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THAT

2:31:40 YOUNG PERSON DOES NOT BECOME A

2:31:42 FOLLOWER OF THAT OF THAT

2:31:45 PRACTICE.

2:31:46 UM, BUT THAT CHILD DOES NEED

2:31:48 CRITICAL UH SUPPORT AND

2:31:51 SERVICES FROM US.

2:31:53 THE THE.

2:31:55 CRIME OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND

2:31:57 SEXUAL ASSAULTS IS UP IN THE

2:31:59 CITY OF BOSTON.

2:32:00 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:32:00 THANK YOU.

2:32:01 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:32:02 .

2:32:03 UM.

2:32:03 COMES FROM A FAN NOTICED YOUR

2:32:04 LIGHT ON EARLIER.

2:32:05 YOU KNOW I OKAY.

2:32:06 THANK YOU.

2:32:07 AND WOULD ANYONE.

2:32:08 LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

2:32:11 COUNCILOR?

2:32:11 UH, CULPEPER.

2:32:12 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:32:13 UH, COUNTERFEITS.

2:32:14 JONES.

2:32:15 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:32:16 COUNSELOR PEPPER IN CONTRAST

2:32:17 INTERNAL CONTROL WEBER

2:32:19 COUNCIL ROWLAND, PLEASE.

2:32:19 I HAVE THE CHAIR CONSCIOUS

2:32:21 LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL COLLETTE AS

2:32:23 THE PATTERN HERE SEEKS

2:32:25 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:32:26 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1863.

2:32:28 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:32:30 ALL OPPOSED.

2:32:31 SAY NAY.

2:32:32 MR COOK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:32:34 A ROLL CALL?

2:32:34 VOTE ON DOCKET 1863.

2:32:37 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:32:38 YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:32:39 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:32:40 CALL AS A OF COUNCILPERSON

2:32:42 BURNEY.

2:32:42 YES.

2:32:42 COUNCILOR.

2:32:43 CULPEPER.

2:32:44 COUNCILOR.

2:32:44 CULPEPER.

2:32:45 YES.

2:32:45 COUNCILOR.

2:32:46 DURKAN.

2:32:47 COUNCILOR.

2:32:47 DURKAN.

2:32:47 YES.

2:32:48 COUNCILOR.

2:32:48 FITZGERALD.

2:32:49 YES.

2:32:49 COUNCILOR.

2:32:49 FISCAL.

2:32:50 YES.

2:32:50 COUNCILOR.

2:32:51 FLYNN.

2:32:51 YES.

2:32:52 COUNCILOR.

2:32:52 FLYNN.

2:32:53 YES.

2:32:53 COUNCILOR.

2:32:54 LOUIJEUNE.

2:32:54 YES.

2:32:54 COUNCIL.

2:32:55 LOUIJEUNE.

2:32:55 YES, COUNCILOR.

2:32:56 MEJIA.

2:32:57 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

2:32:58 YES.

2:32:58 COUNCILOR.

2:32:58 MURPHY.

2:32:59 COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS

2:33:01 COUNCILOR PIN COUNCIL HAVE A

2:33:02 PEN.

2:33:03 YES.

2:33:03 SANTANA COUNCIL.

2:33:05 SANTANA.

2:33:05 YES.

2:33:06 COUNCIL.

2:33:06 WEBER.

2:33:06 YES.

2:33:07 COUNCIL.

2:33:07 WEBER.

2:33:08 YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:33:08 WORLD.

2:33:09 YES.

2:33:09 COUNCIL.

2:33:10 ORAL.

2:33:10 YES.

2:33:10 TALKING OF THE 1863 AS WE SEE

2:33:13 THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:33:15 AFFIRMATIVE.

2:33:15 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:33:16 GOOD.

2:33:17 DOCKET 1863 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:33:21 UM, BEFORE.

2:33:22 WE MOVE ON.

2:33:23 TO.

2:33:23 GREEN SHEETS, IS THERE.

2:33:24 ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD

2:33:25 THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET THEY.

2:33:26 MAY HAVE MISSED?

2:33:27 I WILL.

2:33:28 START WITH COUNCILOR MURPHY AND

2:33:30 PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON AND

2:33:31 WE'LL CALL ON YOU.

2:33:32 COUNCILOR MURPHY?

2:33:33 YES?

2:33:33 COULD YOU PLEASE ADD.

2:33:34 MY NAME TO COUNCILOR FLYNN'S

2:33:36 ORDER ABOUT, UM, RESIDENT

2:33:39 PARKING DOCKET 1848.

2:33:42 OKAY.

2:33:43 THANK YOU.

2:33:44 COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE

2:33:46 FLOOR.

2:33:47 YES, MADAM PRESIDENT, UM, CAN

2:33:49 YOU PLEASE ADD ME, UH, TO

2:33:52 DOCKET 1846 AND 1850 AND I WANT

2:33:55 TO VOTE ON THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:33:58 AND I.

2:33:59 ALSO WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED UM

2:34:01 ,AND RECORDED AS A YES VOTE

2:34:04 FOR 1856.

2:34:05 OKAY.

2:34:07 THANK YOU.

2:34:08 ONE SECOND.

2:34:09 I BEG YOUR PARDON?

2:34:10 I'LL WAIT FOR YOU, COUNSELOR.

2:34:11 AND MR. CLERK.

2:34:12 YOU'RE GONNA SAY IT AGAIN.

2:34:14 1856 IN A YES VOTE.

2:34:15 YES PLEASE.

2:34:29 OKAY.

2:34:29 GOOD TO RECOGNIZE.

2:34:31 COUNSELOR AND AND YOU.

2:34:32 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:34:33 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:34:34 UM, CAN YOU ADD MY NAME TO

2:34:36 DOCKET 81857 AND 1847?

2:34:41 THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

2:34:43 OKAY.

2:34:44 ANYONE ELSE?

2:34:46 185771847.

2:34:50 GOOD.

2:34:51 YEP.

2:34:52 SO WE'RE NOW ON TO GREEN

2:34:53 SHEETS.

2:34:54 IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL A

2:34:56 DOCKET FROM THE GREEN SHEETS

2:34:58 TODAY.

2:34:59 ?

2:34:59 NO NO.

2:35:02 NO.

2:35:06 UH, WE'RE NOW, UM, MOVING ON

2:35:09 TO LATE FILES, MR. CLERK.

2:35:10 HOW MANY FILES?

2:35:13 ONE.

2:35:16 THANK YOU.

2:35:17 I'M INFORMED BY THE CLERK

2:35:18 THAT WE HAVE TWO FILES ONE

2:35:20 EMERGENCY RESOLUTION.

2:35:22 AND, UH.

2:35:23 ONE LATE FILE HEARING ORDER.

2:35:25 ABSENT OBJECTION.

2:35:26 THESE LEAD FILE MATTERS WILL BE

2:35:28 ADDED.

2:35:29 MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

2:35:30 THE FIRST LATE FILE MATTER?

2:35:32 FIRSTLY FILE OFFERED BY

2:35:34 COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND SANTANA

2:35:36 .

2:35:37 EMERGENCY RESOLUTION CALLING

2:35:38 FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR

2:35:41 BUSINESSES DEVASTATED BY THE

2:35:42 SIX ALARM FIRE AT THE HISTORIC

2:35:45 EDISON BUILDING IN NEW BEING

2:35:46 SQUARE.

2:35:50 THANK YOU.

2:35:50 UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

2:35:54 UM, THIS LATE.

2:35:55 FILE MATTER.

2:35:56 UM, IT'S PROPERLY BEFORE THE

2:35:57 BODY.

2:35:57 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES, UH, THE

2:36:00 LEAD SPONSOR COUNSELOR.

2:36:01 UM, CULPEPER.

2:36:03 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:36:04 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:36:07 FIRST I WANT TO EXPRESS MY

2:36:09 DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO THE BOSTON

2:36:11 FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONER

2:36:14 MARSHAL AND EVERY FIREFIGHTER

2:36:16 FIRST RESPONDER WHO SPENT HOURS

2:36:19 AND DAYS BATTLING THIS FIRE

2:36:21 UNDER EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

2:36:23 CONDITION.

2:36:24 SEVERAL FIREFIGHTERS SUSTAINED

2:36:26 MINOR INJURIES BUT THANKFULLY

2:36:28 NO OCCUPANTS WERE REPORTED TO

2:36:30 HAVE BEEN INSIDE THE BUILDING

2:36:32 WHEN THE FIRE WAS DISCOVERED.

2:36:34 BUT THE DEVASTATION TO THE

2:36:36 BUSINESSES INSIDE THIS BUILDING

2:36:38 IS CATASTROPHIC.

2:36:39 THESE BUSINESSES LOST THEIR

2:36:41 WORKPLACE EQUIPMENT INVENTORY

2:36:44 RECORDS AND THEIR ABILITY TO

2:36:46 OPERATE.

2:36:47 .

2:36:48 THESE BUSINESSES WILL

2:36:48 ESSENTIALLY HAVE TO START OVER

2:36:50 FROM SCRATCH.

2:36:52 MANY OF THESE ARE BLACK AND

2:36:53 BROWN OR OPERATED BUSINESSES

2:36:56 THAT HAVE INVESTED IN ROXBURY

2:36:58 EMPLOYED OUR RESIDENTS,

2:37:00 PROVIDED ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND

2:37:02 CONTRIBUTED TO THE ECONOMIC AND

2:37:04 CULTURAL VIABILITY OF NUBIAN

2:37:06 SQUARE.

2:37:07 WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO FACE

2:37:10 THIS RECOVERY ALONE.

2:37:12 THAT IS WHY THIS RESOLUTION

2:37:14 CALLS ON THE ADMINISTRATION TO

2:37:16 PROVIDE THE FULLEST POSSIBLE

2:37:18 ASSISTANCE INCLUDING EMERGENCY

2:37:21 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TEMPORARY

2:37:23 RELOCATION SUPPORT,

2:37:26 RECOVERY PLANNING, TECHNICAL

2:37:28 ASSISTANCE AND COORDINATION

2:37:30 WITH EVERY CITY, STATE, FEDERAL

2:37:34 ,NONPROFIT, FILM THEME FROM

2:37:36 PHILANTHROPIC AND PRIVATE

2:37:37 RESOURCE.

2:37:38 IT ALSO CALLS FOR A COORDINATED

2:37:40 EFFORT TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE

2:37:43 OF THIS HISTORIC BUILDING AND

2:37:45 TO GIVE DISPLACED BUSINESSES A

2:37:47 MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITY TO

2:37:49 RETURN TO NUBIAN SQUARE THESE

2:37:51 BUSY BUSINESSES.

2:37:52 MADAM PRESIDENT AND MY

2:37:54 COLLEAGUES NEED HELP NOW NOT

2:37:57 MONTHS FROM NOW I ASK MY

2:37:59 COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT PASSAGE

2:38:00 UNDER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

2:38:03 TO COME SO WE CAN MAKE CLEAR

2:38:05 THAT THE CITY STANDS WITH THE

2:38:06 BUSINESSES.

2:38:07 THE WORKERS COMMUNITY AFFECTED

2:38:09 BY THIS DEVASTATING FIRE IN

2:38:12 NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:38:13 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:38:15 THANK YOU.

2:38:15 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

2:38:16 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:38:17 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:38:18 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:38:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:38:20 AND I WANT TO THANK.

2:38:23 UM MY DISTRICT

2:38:24 COUNCILOR COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:38:25 FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND

2:38:27 CONTINUED WORK ON THIS ISSUE.

2:38:29 UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK

2:38:31 COMMISSIONER RODNEY MARSHALL

2:38:32 AND ALL OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS

2:38:33 WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE SCENE AT

2:38:36 THE EDISON BUILDING.

2:38:37 UM, MY HEART GOES OUT TO

2:38:38 EVERYONE WHO WAS AFFECTED BY

2:38:39 THE FIRE AT THE EDISON BUILDING

2:38:41 WHERE SO MANY SMALL BUSINESSES

2:38:43 WERE ANCHORED A HANDYMAN TEAM

2:38:45 UM UGG SUBS, UM BRAND NUBIAN

2:38:48 ATHLETICS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, UM

2:38:50 AND MANY MORE.

2:38:51 LOSING A SMALL BUSINESS CAN BE

2:38:53 DEVASTATING.

2:38:54 IT'S OFTEN BOTH SOMEONE'S DREAM

2:38:56 AND THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

2:38:58 NUBIAN SQUARE IS THE HEART

2:39:00 OF ROXBURY AND THE HEART

2:39:01 OF BLACK BOSTON.

2:39:02 AND THE EDISON BUILDING WAS,

2:39:05 WAS AND WILL REMAIN A

2:39:06 CORNERSTONE OF THE COMMUNITY.

2:39:08 IT IS CRUCIAL THAT WE WORK IN

2:39:10 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY TO

2:39:11 ASSESS THAT NUBIAN SQUARE

2:39:12 COMMUNITY AND RECOVERING FROM

2:39:13 THE STRATEGY AND CONTINUING UM

2:39:16 ,THE UH THE EDISON BUILDING'S

2:39:17 HISTORIC LEGACY.

2:39:19 THIS MORNING WE HAD A GREAT

2:39:20 MEETING WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS,

2:39:22 INCLUDING THE BOSTON FIRE

2:39:23 DEPARTMENT TO DISCUSS HOW TO

2:39:24 WORK TOGETHER ON THE IMPACTS

2:39:26 THIS INCIDENT HAS CAUSED TO OUR

2:39:28 COMMUNITY.

2:39:29 AND I WILL UM I'M CONTINUING TO

2:39:31 MONITOR THE SITUATION.

2:39:33 THE FIRE IS STILL AN ACTIVE

2:39:34 INCIDENT AND AN INVESTIGATION

2:39:36 WILL BEGIN ONCE AN EMERGENCY

2:39:38 RESPONDERS ARE ABLE TO SECURE

2:39:39 THE SCENE NEXT WEEK IN

2:39:41 PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ELECTED

2:39:42 OFFICIALS, WE WILL CONVENE A

2:39:44 MEETING WITH THOSE MOST

2:39:45 AFFECTED TO ASSESS THE IMPACT

2:39:46 AND HOW WE CAN BEST FOR SMALL

2:39:48 BUSINESSES, OWNERS, EMPLOYEES

2:39:50 AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

2:39:51 FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MEETING

2:39:53 WILL BE SHARED SOON.

2:39:54 I CALL THE RESOLUTION IS CALLED

2:39:56 TO PROVIDE THE FULLEST POSSIBLE

2:39:57 ASSISTANCE TO EVERY DISPLACED

2:39:59 UM OR DAMAGED BUSINESS AND

2:40:01 PROVIDE THEM WITH A MEANINGFUL

2:40:02 OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN TO NUBIAN

2:40:04 SQUARE NUBIAN SQUARE WE CAN NOW

2:40:06 REPLACE WHAT WE LOST IN EDISON

2:40:08 BUILDING, BUT WE SHOULD DO

2:40:09 EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE

2:40:11 THAT THAT WHAT RISES IS EVEN

2:40:13 STRONGER.

2:40:14 UH, AGAIN, I REALLY WANT TO

2:40:15 THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPER, UM,

2:40:18 FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

2:40:19 UM, HE GAVE ME A CALL UM, VERY

2:40:22 SOON AFTER WE HEARD THE NEWS.

2:40:24 UM, AND HIM AND I AND OUR TEAMS

2:40:26 HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER.

2:40:26 I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT

2:40:27 TO BOTH.

2:40:28 UM, REPRESENTATIVE.

2:40:30 UM, UM, TRY TO TYLER AND

2:40:31 SENATOR LIZ MIRANDA WHO ARE UP

2:40:33 AND ON TOP OF THIS ON THE.

2:40:34 STATE SIDE.

2:40:35 THANK YOU.

2:40:36 CATCH YOU SEND IT.

2:40:37 LET'S CHECK IN TO RECOGNIZE

2:40:38 THIS COUNTRY MURPHY COUNTRY.

2:40:39 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:40:40 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:40:41 THANK YOU TO THE FILERS AND

2:40:43 COUNCIL.

2:40:44 SANTANA, YOU SPOKE TO WHAT I

2:40:46 WAS GOING TO SAY?

2:40:46 UM, MANY TIMES OUR RESOLUTIONS

2:40:49 ARE JUST CEREMONIAL WHICH ARE

2:40:50 IMPORTANT ALSO.

2:40:51 BUT YOU ALREADY SPOKE TO THE

2:40:52 WORK YOU'RE DOING.

2:40:53 SO WHAT I WAS GOING TO RISE TO

2:40:55 SAY PLEASE, UM, PUT ME AND MY

2:40:57 TEAM AND US WHEN WE VOTE IN

2:40:59 FAVOR OF THIS WITH YOU TO WORK

2:41:01 ALONGSIDE THE BUSINESSES YOU

2:41:02 ALREADY MENTIONED.

2:41:03 BUT THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER

2:41:05 MARSHALL, THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO

2:41:06 WERE THERE, THE FIRST

2:41:07 RESPONDERS AND WE KNOW SO MANY

2:41:09 CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT OWN US.

2:41:10 OFTEN ORGANIZERS SHOW UP WHEN

2:41:12 THIS HAPPENS BUT THIS IS

2:41:14 DEVASTATING TO OUR BUSINESS

2:41:15 OWNERS IN WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO

2:41:17 MAKE SURE WE, YOU KNOW, GIVE

2:41:19 THEM WHAT THEY NEED WHICH WILL

2:41:21 BE MORE THAN MONEY.

2:41:22 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOW

2:41:23 UP ALONG THE WAY ROLL UP OUR

2:41:25 SLEEVES.

2:41:25 SO THANK YOU.

2:41:26 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

2:41:27 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL FLYNN

2:41:29 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:41:32 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:41:33 I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:41:36 COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

2:41:38 COUNCILOR SANTANA AND SENATOR

2:41:40 MIRANDA AND REPRESENTATIVE

2:41:42 TYLER.

2:41:43 UM, OUTSTANDING LEADERS IN THE

2:41:46 CITY.

2:41:47 UM AND I DO WANT TO ECHO WHAT

2:41:49 ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED.

2:41:52 I DO THINK WE WE ALL IN THE

2:41:54 CITY HAVE AN OBLIGATION AS IT

2:41:55 RELATES JUST TO KNOW BEING

2:41:58 SQUARE AND TO THE RESIDENTS ARE

2:42:00 THE WORKERS THEY ARE.

2:42:01 THE SMALL BUSINESSES THERE.

2:42:02 YES.

2:42:03 IT MIGHT NOT BE PARTICULARLY

2:42:05 IT MIGHT.

2:42:05 NOT.

2:42:05 NECESSARILY BEEN IN OUR

2:42:06 DISTRICT BUT I THINK WE ALL

2:42:08 HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE

2:42:11 THAT.

2:42:11 THE WORKERS THE BUILDING, UM

2:42:14 THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:42:15 GET THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT

2:42:17 FROM THE CITY.

2:42:19 UM I DO THINK IT SHOULD BE A

2:42:21 PRIORITY.

2:42:22 AND AS A.

2:42:23 DISTRICT CITY COUNCILOR I

2:42:24 STRONGLY SUPPORT MY MY FELLOW

2:42:26 DISTRICT COUNCILOR AND KNOW THE

2:42:30 IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP.

2:42:31 HE IS.

2:42:32 PROVIDING ON IT.

2:42:33 UM BUT I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

2:42:35 THE INCREDIBLE ROLE AS ALREADY

2:42:37 MENTIONED BUT FROM OUR FIRST

2:42:39 RESPONDERS BUT ESPECIALLY OUR

2:42:40 MEN THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE

2:42:42 BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.

2:42:44 UH THEY RESPONDED.

2:42:45 THEY DID EVERYTHING IN A

2:42:48 PROFESSIONAL MANNER.

2:42:49 BUT WE ALSO WANT TO ENSURE THAT

2:42:51 WE SUPPORT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS

2:42:53 AS WELL, ESPECIALLY DURING

2:42:55 CHALLENGING TIMES.

2:42:56 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:42:57 THANK YOU.

2:42:58 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:42:58 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME TO MEJIA.

2:43:00 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:43:01 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:43:04 I ALSO RISE TO.

2:43:05 SUPPORT MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

2:43:07 UM, WITH UH, SUPPORTING THIS

2:43:08 RESOLUTION AND ANYTHING THAT MY

2:43:10 OFFICE CAN DO TO SUPPORT, UM,

2:43:13 THE BUSINESSES AND THE OVERALL

2:43:15 COMMUNITY JUST LET ME KNOW.

2:43:17 I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT.

2:43:19 I DO HAVE A POINT OF.

2:43:21 ORDER QUESTION TO ASK.

2:43:24 GO AHEAD.

2:43:25 DO YOU WANT TO DO THE VOTE?

2:43:25 AND THEN.

2:43:27 WE WOULD.

2:43:28 HAPPY TO DO THE.

2:43:29 VOTE HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN.

2:43:31 ME NOW YOU KNOW DO NO WANT TO.

2:43:33 DO.

2:43:33 THE VOTING DOES NO.

2:43:34 THANK YOU.

2:43:35 GO AHEAD.

2:43:36 I'M JUST CURIOUS BECAUSE I'VE

2:43:38 RECEIVED TWO LATE.

2:43:39 FILES TODAY.

2:43:41 AND THEY BOTH SAY EMERGENCY AND

2:43:45 THEN ONE SAYS AND PURSUANT TO

2:43:47 EMERGENCY UH TO RULE 46 UM, YOU

2:43:51 KNOW, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS

2:43:52 PARTICULAR RESOLUTION ON NUBIAN

2:43:54 SQUARE FEELS LIKE AN EMERGENCY.

2:43:56 IT JUST HAPPENED.

2:43:57 UM, THERE WAS YOU KNOW, SOME

2:43:59 ISSUES THAT I THINK THE

2:44:01 COUNCIL CAN UH NOT ONLY AFFIRM

2:44:02 AND SUPPORT BUT ALSO JUST BE

2:44:04 REALLY MINDFUL OF THE ROLE THAT

2:44:05 WE CAN ALL PLAY IN.

2:44:07 SUPPORTING UM.

2:44:08 NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:44:09 AT.

2:44:09 THIS MOMENT.

2:44:09 AND THEN I RECEIVED ANOTHER ONE

2:44:14 REGARDING FUNDING FOR HEALTH

2:44:16 SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS SUPPORT

2:44:17 FOR BOSTON FIRST RESPONDERS.

2:44:19 AND I'M JUST CURIOUS AND I DID

2:44:21 ASK THE MAKER YOU KNOW, WHAT

2:44:23 THE EMERGENCY WAS AS IT RELATES

2:44:24 TO THIS PARTICULAR ONE.

2:44:26 SO THEN MY POINT OF ORDER.

2:44:27 QUESTION TO YOU, COUNCILOR.

2:44:29 UH, PRESIDENT.

2:44:30 UM BREEDEN IS THAT YOU.

2:44:32 KNOW.

2:44:32 THE USE OF LATE FILES HAVE

2:44:34 BECOME UH.

2:44:34 A NORM HERE ON THE COUNCIL.

2:44:37 AND IT'S VERY.

2:44:39 CONFUSING AS TO WHAT

2:44:41 CONSTITUTES.

2:44:42 AS AN.

2:44:42 EMERGENCY AND WHAT IS NOT AN

2:44:44 EMERGENCY.

2:44:44 AND THEN WHAT IS HAPPENING IS

2:44:46 THAT THESE EMERGENCIES BECOME,

2:44:49 YOU KNOW, HEADLINES AND THEN IT

2:44:52 CREATES AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH

2:44:53 PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WE'RE NOT

2:44:55 SUPPORTING CERTAIN THINGS

2:44:56 BECAUSE WE'RE ALLEGEDLY

2:44:57 BLOCKING THEM.

2:44:59 SO OUT OF THE.

2:45:02 OUT OF MY HEART.

2:45:03 I AM ASKING FOR SOME FLAHERTY

2:45:06 BECAUSE IT IS.

2:45:08 BECOMING TO.

2:45:09 FEEL LIKE A NORM AND I THINK

2:45:11 YOU AS THE PRESIDENT OF THIS

2:45:14 BODY AND THE CLERK AND IF YOU

2:45:16 CAN ALSO HELP ME THE CLERK TO

2:45:17 PLEASE ALEX I'M GOING TO ASK

2:45:18 YOU TO GIVE ME SOME HELP.

2:45:20 HERE BECAUSE.

2:45:22 I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE

2:45:23 FOR US TO CONTINUE TO UTILIZE

2:45:26 LATE FILES, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN

2:45:28 THEY'RE NOT IN EMERGENCY.

2:45:31 SO THANK YOU.

2:45:31 COACH MADE.

2:45:33 MY POINT.

2:45:33 I'M NOT DONE MY POINT.

2:45:34 I NEED TO KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING

2:45:36 TO BE MOVING FORWARD.

2:45:37 BECAUSE THESE LATE FILES.

2:45:40 OCCUPY A LOT OF OXYGEN AND

2:45:42 SPACE AND TIME AND POLITICAL.

2:45:45 UM, THEATER.

2:45:47 AND I THINK THAT WE NEED TO GET

2:45:49 REAL ABOUT WHAT THE BUSINESS

2:45:51 OF OUR COUNCIL IS AND WHAT.

2:45:53 WE'RE HERE.

2:45:54 TO.

2:45:55 DO IS.

2:45:55 THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.

2:45:56 I'M NOT.

2:45:57 QUESTIONING THE TOPIC.

2:45:58 WHAT I'M QUESTIONING IS THE

2:45:59 TACTIC.

2:46:00 AND SO WHAT I NEED TO KNOW FROM

2:46:02 YOU, RIGHT, IS HOW WE'RE GOING

2:46:04 TO HANDLE LATE FILES MOVING.

2:46:05 FORWARD IN.

2:46:07 THIS MOMENT.

2:46:09 UM I UH INQUIRED.

2:46:10 FROM COUNCILOR FROM

2:46:11 MR. CLERK AND HE SAID WE HAD.

2:46:13 TWO FILES.

2:46:14 HE TOLD ME THAT WE HAD.

2:46:16 UH, AN EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER

2:46:18 AND.

2:46:19 WE HAD AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION,

2:46:21 BOTH.

2:46:21 OF WHICH.

2:46:21 ARE ON.

2:46:22 EVERYBODY'S DESK.

2:46:23 AND WHEN I ASKED UH, ABSENT OF.

2:46:26 OBJECTION THESE NO ONE OBJECTED

2:46:28 TO THEM BEING PLACED BEFORE THE

2:46:29 BODY.

2:46:30 SO.

2:46:30 UM.

2:46:32 SO WE I'M NOT THAT WHAT YOU

2:46:34 MEAN I DON'T.

2:46:35 SO, UM, WE HAVE BOTH BOTH THESE

2:46:39 BOTH.

2:46:39 THESE DOCTORS ARE PROPERLY

2:46:42 BEFORE THE BODY RIGHT NOW.

2:46:44 AND WHEN WE COME TO.

2:46:45 THAT WHEN WE COME TO THE UM.

2:46:47 I KNOW THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS

2:46:49 BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HERE AND YOU

2:46:50 HAVE TO READ THE THE THE THING

2:46:52 BEFORE YOU.

2:46:53 OBJECT TO.

2:46:53 IT.

2:46:54 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I'VE SEEN.

2:46:55 BEEN DONE.

2:46:56 HERE BEFORE.

2:46:57 THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES.

2:46:58 WHEN YOU GUYS HAVE SAID YOU

2:46:59 HAVE TO READ THE THE ORDER INTO

2:47:02 THE RECORD BEFORE YOU CAN

2:47:04 OBJECT.

2:47:04 TO IT.

2:47:05 SO I'M CONFUSED.

2:47:07 WE'VE STARTED OFF WITH ONE.

2:47:08 WE HAVEN'T.

2:47:08 GONE TO THE SECOND ONE OKAY.

2:47:11 SO YOU KNOW THEY'RE BOTH.

2:47:12 WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

2:47:13 BOTH OF THEM ARE PROPERLY IN

2:47:13 FRONT OF THE BODY.

2:47:14 THEY'RE THAT'S.

2:47:14 WHEN WE WANT ONE AT.

2:47:17 A TIME WE'RE DEALING WITH.

2:47:18 THEM OKAY SO THEN LET'S BE

2:47:18 CLEAR WITH NOT YOU KNOW BUT SO

2:47:20 THIS IS WHAT I'M TRYING.

2:47:22 TO UNDERSTAND AND I'M TRYING

2:47:22 TO.

2:47:24 I'M TRYING TO.

2:47:25 DO THE BEST THAT I CAN TO

2:47:27 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS.

2:47:28 HOW WE END UP IN THIS PLACE.

2:47:30 ALL.

2:47:30 THE TIME.

2:47:31 TO.

2:47:31 MAKE.

2:47:31 SURE.

2:47:32 YEAH, I THINK TO.

2:47:34 I THINK YOU.

2:47:35 KNOW, WHAT CONSTITUTES

2:47:37 EMERGENCY IS NOT CLEARLY

2:47:38 DEFINED IN THE RULES.

2:47:40 SO UM.

2:47:41 WE YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'VE

2:47:43 GOT TWO DOCKETS BEFORE US.

2:47:45 UM.

2:47:46 WE ARE.

2:47:46 IN THE.

2:47:47 MIDST OF.

2:47:48 DISCUSSING THE EMERGENCY

2:47:50 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE.

2:47:53 UH THE THE.

2:47:53 DEVASTATION THAT WAS CAUSED TO

2:47:55 BUSINESSES IN NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:47:56 THAT IS AN EMERGENCY.

2:47:58 YEAH.

2:47:58 UM, WE AND I'M NOT HERE TO

2:48:00 DEFINE.

2:48:01 EMERGENCIES, BUT.

2:48:03 UH, THIS.

2:48:04 THIS IS THE ONE THAT'S THAT'S

2:48:05 PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY RIGHT

2:48:07 NOW.

2:48:08 AND UH, NO ONE OBJECTED TO THE

2:48:11 SECOND ONE BUT WE'LL WE'LL

2:48:12 START WE'LL STARTING WITH THE

2:48:13 FIRST ONE WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH

2:48:15 THIS SO AND THEN WHEN WE WHEN

2:48:17 WE WILL ADDRESS THE SECOND ONE

2:48:19 WHEN WE COME TO.

2:48:19 SO WHEN WE JUST THE SECOND.

2:48:21 ONE CAN THEN I WAS LIKE.

2:48:23 IT WOULD BE.

2:48:23 HELPFUL TO ME.

2:48:25 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT CONSTITUTES

2:48:27 .

2:48:28 AS.

2:48:28 AN EMERGENCY IN REGARDS TO THIS

2:48:30 PARTICULAR SECOND ONE JUST

2:48:31 BECAUSE IT'S A THOUGHT WHEN WE.

2:48:32 GET TO IT, WHEN.

2:48:33 WE GET TO IT AND.

2:48:34 THE WAY WHEN THE RULES DO NOT

2:48:37 DEFINE AN EMERGENCY BUT IF

2:48:39 FOLKS OBJECT TO IT BEEN BROUGHT

2:48:41 BEFORE THE.

2:48:41 BODY UH, WE CAN WE CAN WE.

2:48:44 CAN.

2:48:45 CLOSE IT DOWN.

2:48:45 YOU CAN YOU CAN.

2:48:47 OBJECT ONE.

2:48:48 MORE PERSON WE MIGHT WANT.

2:48:49 TO.

2:48:51 I WANT TO.

2:48:52 I'M GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF

2:48:53 RECESS.

2:48:54 IT'S ALREADY.

2:54:23 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

2:54:25 I I THINK THAT'S WHAT I READ.

2:54:30 YEAH.

2:54:34 ONE MORE.

2:54:36 OKAY.

2:54:43 YEAH.

2:54:46 WE'RE BACK IN SESSION.

2:54:48 WE HAVE ONE LAST FILE.

2:54:49 UM.

2:54:52 WE HAVE ONE LATE FILE HEARING.

2:54:54 UM, EMERGENCY RESOLUTION FROM

2:54:59 COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND SANTANA

2:54:59 .

2:55:00 UM, I MISSPOKE I BUNCHED THE

2:55:03 TWO TOGETHER.

2:55:03 THE FIRST LED PHONE UM, THE

2:55:06 FIRST LIT FILE MATTER IS AN

2:55:08 EMERGENCY RESOLUTION FROM

2:55:09 COUNCILMAN BERNARD UH, CULPEPER

2:55:11 AND COUNCILMAN HENRY SANTANA.

2:55:13 IT IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY.

2:55:15 WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ON

2:55:17 THIS MATTER.

2:55:18 UM, AND THEN WE WILL DEAL WITH

2:55:20 THE SECOND PHONE MATTER.

2:55:21 WHEN WE HAVE A PRESIDENT.

2:55:23 COUNCILOR.

2:55:24 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU.

2:55:25 MAY SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

2:55:28 COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE AS, A.

2:55:30 UH, ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:55:34 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:55:35 OBJECTIONS.

2:55:36 LOUIJEUNE HAS ADDED A THIRD

2:55:38 CO-SPONSOR TO YOUR EMERGENCY.

2:55:40 UM, RESOLUTION.

2:55:44 RESOLUTION.

2:55:44 THANK YOU.

2:55:49 SO, UM, LET'S SEE WHERE WE ARE.

2:55:52 COUNCILOR.

2:55:53 UH LOUIJEUNE.

2:55:53 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:55:55 THANK YOU.

2:55:56 VERY MUCH.

2:55:57 AND THANK YOU TO

2:55:58 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER FOR ADDING

2:55:59 ME ON THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION

2:56:02 GIVEN THE FIRE RECENTLY

2:56:04 OCCURRED.

2:56:05 AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILORS

2:56:07 SANTANA AND CASAS CULPEPER FOR

2:56:09 THE, UH, THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE

2:56:10 THAT IS BOTH REQUIRED BY THIS

2:56:13 COUNCIL WHICH UH UH WHICH IS

2:56:15 UNDER THE RULES FOR AN

2:56:17 EMERGENCY UH FILING AND ALSO UH

2:56:19 MAKING SURE THAT THE ROXBURY

2:56:21 COMMUNITY IN THE IN THIS

2:56:22 HISTORIC BUILDING GET THE

2:56:24 ATTENTION THAT THEY NEED.

2:56:26 UH, I WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR,

2:56:28 UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND

2:56:29 EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED TO THIS

2:56:31 FIRE.

2:56:31 UM, AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE A

2:56:33 LOT OF THE BUSINESSES THERE ARE

2:56:34 ONES THAT ARE HELD VERY

2:56:36 CLOSELY, UM, IN THE HEARTS

2:56:38 OF THOSE WHO LIVE IN ROXBURY.

2:56:39 AND SO I JUST WANT TO LET MY

2:56:40 COLLEAGUES KNOW, UH, ALONGSIDE

2:56:42 SENATOR MIRANDA AND ROB TYLER

2:56:45 THAT UH, THEY HAVE THE FULL

2:56:47 SUPPORT OF THIS BODY AND MAKING

2:56:48 SURE THAT THE BUSINESSES IN THE

2:56:50 COMMUNITY IN ROXBURY GETS WHAT

2:56:51 THEY NEED IN RESPONSE TO THIS

2:56:52 FIRE.

2:56:52 AND I WANT TO THANK I KNOW

2:56:54 PREVIOUSLY THERE'S BEEN WORK ON

2:56:55 THIS COUNCIL.

2:56:56 UH, I KNOW COUNCIL AS OPPOSED

2:56:58 TO UH, MYSELF INVOLVED IN

2:57:00 MAKING SURE THAT WE WERE HAVING

2:57:02 WE COULD RESPOND MATERIALLY

2:57:03 WHEN PEOPLE HAVE FIRES BOTH

2:57:05 PEOPLE AND ENTITIES AND HOW

2:57:06 WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:57:07 THEY HAVE SUPPORT DURING THIS

2:57:08 TIME.

2:57:08 SO JUST THANK YOU TO THE FILERS

2:57:10 AND TO THE MAKERS FOR THEIR

2:57:11 RESPONSE HERE.

2:57:12 THANK YOU.

2:57:12 THANK YOU AND GOOD COUNSELOR

2:57:13 DURKAN COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

2:57:15 FLOOR.

2:57:15 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:57:16 AS SOMEONE WHO CARES DEEPLY

2:57:17 ABOUT PRESERVATION I KNOW THIS

2:57:19 IS A LANDMARK BUILDING.

2:57:20 UM, AND I JUST WANT TO SUPPORT

2:57:21 MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:57:23 UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, THAT

2:57:25 REALLY THE DEFINITION OF, UH,

2:57:27 YOU KNOW, OPEN MEETING LAW AND

2:57:28 THE WAY THAT WE SHOULD THINK

2:57:29 ABOUT EMERGENCIES IS SOMETHING

2:57:31 UNEXPECTED, UNPLANNED AND A

2:57:34 CRISIS WHICH I BELIEVE THIS IS

2:57:36 SO UM SO I'M GRATEFUL TO MY

2:57:38 COLLEAGUE FOR FILING THIS, UM,

2:57:39 AND FOR HIS ONGOING SUPPORT

2:57:41 OF PRESERVATION THROUGHOUT THE

2:57:42 CITY.

2:57:42 UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY

2:57:44 THERE I DO THINK THERE HAS BEEN

2:57:46 A POLITICIZATION OF LATE FILES

2:57:48 I HAVE BEEN USED AS CLICKBAIT.

2:57:50 UM, I HAVE SOME THREATS THAT

2:57:52 ARE ACTUALLY IN MY DMS RIGHT

2:57:53 NOW FROM SOMETHING THAT

2:57:54 HAPPENED LAST WEEK.

2:57:55 UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY, REALLY

2:57:57 IMPORTANT THAT WE ACTUALLY

2:57:59 PRIORITIZE THE WORK, UM, AND

2:58:00 STOP TRYING TO MAKE VILLAINS

2:58:01 OF CERTAIN PEOPLE.

2:58:02 UM, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT

2:58:04 AND I WANT TO THANK

2:58:06 COUNCILOR MICKEY, UH, FOR

2:58:07 STANDING UP BECAUSE I DO THINK

2:58:09 THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICIZATION

2:58:11 OF LATE FILE MATTERS AND IT IS

2:58:13 SO IMPORTANT TO ME THAT

2:58:15 EVERYONE KNOW THAT ANY TIME I

2:58:17 HAVE BLOCKED A LATE FILE

2:58:18 MATTER, IT HAS NOT BEEN ABOUT

2:58:19 THE PERSON WHO IS PUTTING IT

2:58:21 FORWARD.

2:58:21 IT HAS BEEN ABOUT THE CONTENTS

2:58:23 AND NOT FEELING LIKE IT WAS AN

2:58:24 EMERGENCY.

2:58:26 UM SO UM I CAN SAY THAT I'M

2:58:28 SURE THAT'S NOT THE QUOTE THAT

2:58:30 WILL BE TAKEN BUT THAT IS WHAT

2:58:32 I BELIEVE IS THAT AS A BODY

2:58:34 THAT RELIES ON TRANSPARENCY AND

2:58:36 ACCESSIBILITY, OUR LIGHT FILE

2:58:37 MATTERS SHOULD HAVE THE UTMOST

2:58:40 UM WE SHOULD BE MAKING SURE

2:58:41 THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING TO

2:58:43 BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AND

2:58:45 I THINK, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT

2:58:46 ARE LATE FILED TODAY ARE

2:58:49 OF CONSEQUENCE TO THE PUBLIC

2:58:50 AND THEY WOULD PROBABLY LIKE TO

2:58:51 KNOW THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING THEM

2:58:53 AND THAT IS WHAT OPEN MEETING

2:58:54 LAW IS ALL ABOUT.

2:58:56 UM AND I THINK IF ONE COLLEAGUE

2:58:57 OF OURS IS FILING 50% OF THE

2:59:00 OPEN OF THE UH OF EMERGENCY

2:59:04 HEARING ORDERS AND EMERGENCY

2:59:06 FILINGS, ONE PERSON HAS FILED

2:59:08 50% OVER THE PAST YEAR.

2:59:09 I WILL NOT BE SILENT ON THIS

2:59:11 BECAUSE I THINK THAT

2:59:12 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESSIBILITY

2:59:14 IS SHOULD BE OF TOP CONCERN TO

2:59:15 EVERYONE IN THIS BODY.

2:59:16 THANK YOU.

2:59:21 SO THE MATTER BEFORE US IS

2:59:23 THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION.

2:59:25 I'M CONSCIOUS CULPEPER SANTANA

2:59:28 AND RACINE LOUIJEUNE UM.

2:59:34 THE CHAIR MOVES.

2:59:36 OH, YES.

2:59:37 DOES ANYONE OUT PLEASE?

2:59:38 ANYONE WANT TO ADD THEIR NAME,

2:59:39 COUNSELOR?

2:59:40 COUNSELOR COLLETTE AS A PART

2:59:42 OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRA

2:59:43 FITZGERALD.

2:59:43 COUNCILOR FLYNN CONSUMER HERE

2:59:45 COUNCIL MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN

2:59:47 COUNSELOR WEBER CONSTABLE RAIL

2:59:49 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:59:52 MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:59:53 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:59:54 VOTE ON THIS EMERGENCY

2:59:56 RESOLUTION.

2:59:59 COUNSELOR BRAIN.

3:00:00 YES.

3:00:01 COUNCIL BRAIN.

3:00:01 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:02 COLOR AS A OF COUNSELOR.

3:00:04 CLOSE BUDDY.

3:00:04 YES.

3:00:05 COUNSELOR.

3:00:05 CULPEPER.

3:00:06 COUNSELOR.

3:00:06 CULPEPER.

3:00:07 YES.

3:00:07 COUNSELOR.

3:00:08 DURKAN.

3:00:08 COUNSELOR.

3:00:09 DURKAN.

3:00:09 YES.

3:00:10 COUNSELOR.

3:00:10 FITZGERALD.

3:00:11 COUNSELOR.

3:00:11 VISTO.

3:00:12 YES.

3:00:12 COUNSELOR.

3:00:13 FLYNN.

3:00:13 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:14 FLYNN.

3:00:14 YES.

3:00:14 COUNSELOR.

3:00:15 LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:15 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:16 LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:17 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:17 MEJIA.

3:00:18 COUNSELOR.

3:00:18 MEJIA.

3:00:19 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:20 MURPHY.

3:00:20 COUNSELOR MURPHY AS COUNCILOR.

3:00:23 PIPPIN.

3:00:23 COUNCILOR.

3:00:24 PIPPIN.

3:00:24 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:25 SANTANA.

3:00:26 YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:26 SANTANA.

3:00:27 YES.

3:00:27 COUNCILOR.

3:00:28 WEBER.

3:00:28 YES.

3:00:29 COUNCILOR.

3:00:29 WEBER.

3:00:29 YES AND COUNSELOR.

3:00:30 WORLD.

3:00:31 YES.

3:00:31 COUNCILOR.

3:00:32 WELL, YES.

3:00:32 THE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION ON THE

3:00:36 HISTORIC ADDISON BUILDING FIRE

3:00:37 AND NUBIAN SQUARE HAS RECEIVED

3:00:39 A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

3:00:41 AFFIRMATIVE.

3:00:41 THANK YOU.

3:00:42 THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION IS

3:00:43 PASSED.

3:00:46 COUNSELOR MURPHY.

3:00:47 THANK YOU.

3:00:48 UM.

3:00:49 I WOULD.

3:00:50 LIKE TO REFERENCE RULE 46 AND.

3:00:53 IN A MOMENT ASK THE CLERK TO

3:00:54 READ IT.

3:00:55 BUT IT DOES SAY THAT.

3:00:57 THE EMERGENCY.

3:00:59 NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN INTO

3:01:00 ANYTHING VIOLATE.

3:01:02 PER OPEN MEETING LAW UNDER

3:01:04 CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE SUCH FILING

3:01:06 ONE WAS UNABLE TO BE

3:01:08 ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO THE FILING

3:01:10 DEADLINE.

3:01:11 SO THAT IS THE REASON IT'S NOT

3:01:13 ALWAYS THE CONTENT BUT IT'S

3:01:15 THAT YOU COULD NOT ANTICIPATE

3:01:17 IT.

3:01:17 THIS HEARING ORDER IS CLEARLY

3:01:19 STATED THAT'S COMING UP AND

3:01:21 OTHERS IN THE PAST WHERE

3:01:22 INFORMATION YOU FIND OUT AFTER

3:01:24 I KNOW THAT I'LL BE SPEAKING ON

3:01:25 THE HEARING ORDER ONCE IT'S

3:01:26 READ INTO THE RECORD.

3:01:28 BUT BEFORE YOU.

3:01:29 UM READ THAT RULE PLEASE CLERK

3:01:31 I DID JUST ALSO WANT TO SAY

3:01:33 THAT IT.

3:01:33 TAKES TWO MINUTES.

3:01:35 THAT'S IT TWO MINUTES.

3:01:38 IF A LATE FILE IS ACCEPTED, THE

3:01:40 PERSON WHO FILED IT GETS ONLY

3:01:42 TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ON IT AND

3:01:44 THEN IT'S PLACED INTO A

3:01:45 COMMITTEE AND WE MOVE ON.

3:01:46 THAT'S ALL.

3:01:47 THERE IS NO REASON FOR IT TO

3:01:48 DRAG OUT.

3:01:49 THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK THAT

3:01:50 IT'S DRAGGING US DOWN.

3:01:52 MY FIRST TERM ON THIS BODY

3:01:53 SOMETIMES WE HAD 15 LATE FILES

3:01:56 WHICH I THINK IS EXCESSIVE BUT

3:01:58 A WEEK NEVER WENT BY EITHER

3:01:59 FROM CENTRAL STAFF WITH

3:02:01 COLLEAGUES FILING LATE FILES

3:02:03 AND LAST TERM I KNOW THAT IT

3:02:05 WAS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT OF THE

3:02:07 COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO RING THAT

3:02:09 IN USE THE WORD EMERGENCY

3:02:10 REALLY BE THOUGHTFUL OF IT.

3:02:13 I WILL EXPLAIN IF NEEDED.

3:02:15 THANK YOU.

3:02:15 WHEN MY HEARING ORDER IS READ

3:02:16 INTO THE RECORD WHY I BELIEVE

3:02:18 IT'S A LAY FILE.

3:02:19 BUT IF THE CLERK COULD JUST

3:02:20 READ RULE 46 INTO THE RECORD

3:02:22 PLEASE I'D APPRECIATE THAT.

3:02:23 THANK YOU.

3:02:24 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY,

3:02:26 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME TO

3:02:27 MEJIA COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

3:02:28 FLOOR.

3:02:30 THANK YOU.

3:02:31 UM, A.

3:02:37 YES I DO APPRECIATE MY

3:02:38 COLLEAGUES A COMMENTS REGARDING

3:02:42 WHAT RULE 46 STATES AND.

3:02:44 ADDING EMERGENCY TO A HEARING.

3:02:47 ORDER OR RESOLUTION WHEN

3:02:51 IMMEDIATE BECAUSE THE

3:02:53 COUNCIL IS NOT GOING TO TAKE

3:02:54 IMMEDIATE ACTION.

3:02:56 ON THE SECOND.

3:02:57 UH.

3:02:58 DOCKET THAT.

3:02:59 WE'RE ABOUT.

3:02:59 TO HEAR ABOUT.

3:03:01 SO BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT

3:03:05 COUNCIL MEETING.

3:03:06 ,I'M JUST TRYING TO.

3:03:07 UNDERSTAND HOW AND.

3:03:08 WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN THAT

3:03:12 CONSTITUTES AS AN EMERGENCY.

3:03:13 AND I THINK THAT THIS IS AN

3:03:15 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO DEFINE

3:03:17 FOR OURSELVES MOVING FORWARD.

3:03:20 IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN

3:03:22 EMERGENCY HEARING, THEN THERE

3:03:23 HAS TO BE SOME EXPECTATION THAT

3:03:25 A HEARING WILL BE HELD BETWEEN

3:03:28 NOW AND NEXT WEDNESDAY'S

3:03:30 COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE WE'RE

3:03:31 GOING TO BE TAKING SOME ACTION

3:03:32 .

3:03:33 SO THIS IS WHERE THIS IS WHY I

3:03:35 NEED SOME FLAHERTY.

3:03:36 REGARDING RESOLUTIONS AND

3:03:38 HEARINGS BECAUSE IF WE'RE NOT

3:03:40 GOING TO TAKE A VOTE ON THIS

3:03:42 PARTICULAR HEARING THAT WE'RE

3:03:43 NOT PROBABLY EVEN GOING TO.

3:03:44 HAVE WE DON'T TAKE A VOTE ON

3:03:46 HEARING ORDERS.

3:03:46 I KNOW, BUT I'M SAYING THAT

3:03:48 LIKE IF WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A

3:03:49 DECISION IF THIS HEARING IS

3:03:51 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO DECIDE

3:03:53 ON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS NEXT

3:03:54 WEEK'S COUNCIL MEETING, THEN I

3:03:57 UNDERSTAND IT BEING AN

3:03:59 EMERGENCY.

3:03:59 BUT IF THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE

3:04:01 ANY COUNCIL ACTION AS A RESULT

3:04:03 OF THIS HEARING, THEN I NEED TO

3:04:07 UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS AN

3:04:10 EMERGENCY AND THAT IS THE

3:04:12 QUESTION THAT I FEEL LIKE WE

3:04:13 NEED TO GET A BETTER

3:04:15 UNDERSTANDING IN THIS BODY SO

3:04:17 THAT WE CAN GET SOME CONTROL.

3:04:20 REGARDING THE.

3:04:21 WAY WE'VE BEEN FUNCTIONING.

3:04:22 THANK YOU.

3:04:23 POINT OF ORDER.

3:04:26 COUNCIL MURPHY UM.

3:04:27 I'M JUST.

3:04:27 GOING TO ASK AGAIN IF THE

3:04:29 CLERK IS GOING TO READ RULE 46.

3:04:31 YES, PLEASE READ THAT.

3:04:33 THANK YOU.

3:04:37 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

3:04:38 RULE 46 ALL PORTIONS OF THE

3:04:40 RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

3:04:42 THEY REQUIRE COMPLIANCE WITH

3:04:43 THE OPEN MEETING LAW, PORTIONS

3:04:46 OF THE RULES MANDATED BY CITY

3:04:48 CHARTER AND THE PORTIONS OF THE

3:04:49 RULES IN ENUMERATING OR DO

3:04:52 DESIGNATING THE AUTHORITY

3:04:53 OF THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL

3:04:54 NOT BE SUSPENDED.

3:04:57 RULE 1233 AND 35TH MAY BE

3:04:59 SUSPENDED ONLY BY UNANIMOUS

3:05:02 CONSENT.

3:05:02 ALL OTHER RULES SHALL NOT BE

3:05:04 ALTERED, AMENDED, SUSPENDED OR

3:05:05 REPEALED AT ANY TIME EXCEPT BY

3:05:07 A VOTE OF TWO THIRDS OF ALL

3:05:10 MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL PROVIDED

3:05:11 HOWEVER, THAT RULE 12TH MAY BE

3:05:13 SUSPENDED TO INTRODUCE A MATTER

3:05:16 SUBMITTED BY A COUNCIL A

3:05:18 CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE

3:05:19 COUNCIL ON THE DAY OF A MEETING

3:05:22 ONLY IN THE CASE OF AN

3:05:23 EMERGENCY AND THE FILING

3:05:25 INCLUDES A DECLARATION

3:05:26 EXPLAINING SUCH EMERGENCY WHICH

3:05:28 PER THE OPEN MEETING LAW WOULD

3:05:30 BE UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE

3:05:32 SUCH FILING WAS UNABLE TO BE

3:05:35 ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO THE FILING

3:05:37 DEADLINE AND REQUIRES AN

3:05:39 IMMEDIATE RESPONSE BY THE CITY

3:05:41 COUNCIL.

3:05:42 THANK YOU.

3:05:42 THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

3:05:45 POINT OF ORDER FIVE.

3:05:49 COUNCIL OFFLINE.

3:05:49 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:05:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN'S LIGHT GOES

3:05:53 ON.

3:05:53 SORRY, COUNCILOR FLYNN TO.

3:05:56 COUNCILOR DURKAN TO DO HAVE

3:05:57 SOMETHING TO SAY.

3:05:58 NOPE NOPE.

3:05:59 NO CROSSTALK.

3:06:00 WE'RE NOT DOING THIS.

3:06:01 OKAY.

3:06:02 UM.

3:06:04 THE I BELIEVE THE REASON

3:06:06 THAT THIS IS AN.

3:06:07 EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER AND

3:06:09 IT'S.

3:06:10 CERTAINLY SPELLED.

3:06:11 OUT IN THE FIRST.

3:06:12 PARAGRAPH THIS IS NOT A POINT

3:06:14 OF ORDER.

3:06:15 UM WE HAVEN'T.

3:06:17 WE HAVEN'T EVEN READ THIS INTO

3:06:18 THAT INTO THE.

3:06:19 MADAM CHAIR.

3:06:19 HAVE EVERYONE HAD AN

3:06:21 OPPORTUNITY TO TO DISCUSS WHY.

3:06:22 WHY IT SHOULDN'T.

3:06:23 BE AN EMERGENCY AND.

3:06:25 I'M I'M JUST TRYING TO BE.

3:06:26 UH, PROVIDE A.

3:06:27 LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION WHY

3:06:28 IT IS AN EMERGENCY, BUT

3:06:29 EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

3:06:30 SAY WHY IT'S NOT.

3:06:33 PLEASE CONTINUE.

3:06:34 OKAY.

3:06:37 MADAM.

3:06:37 MADAM CHAIR, THE REASON I

3:06:39 THINK IT'S A.

3:06:40 IT'S AN.

3:06:41 EMERGENCY ON ON MONDAY AFTER

3:06:44 AFTER THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT

3:06:46 SOMETHING IN FOR THE AGENDA THE

3:06:48 CITY COUNCIL WAYS AND MEANS

3:06:49 CHAIR HELD A HEARING WITH UM ON

3:06:53 ON.

3:06:54 A ISSUE RELATED TO THE BOSTON

3:06:57 POLICE COURT.

3:07:02 ON ON THE RELEASES.

3:07:04 MADAM CHAIR, SOMEONE WAS, UM

3:07:06 INTERRUPTING.

3:07:06 NO POLICE ARE NO CROSSED.

3:07:08 CROSSTALK.

3:07:08 I'M SORRY, MADAM CHAIR.

3:07:09 SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE TO.

3:07:10 YOU KNOW.

3:07:10 SIT DOWN PLEASE.

3:07:13 COUNCILOR FLYNN IS SPEAKING.

3:07:15 COUNCILOR.

3:07:16 THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:07:17 OKAY.

3:07:17 UM, MADAM CHAIR ON ON MONDAY

3:07:20 THERE WAS A HEARING TO DISCUSS

3:07:24 A CONTRACT FOR THE BOSTON

3:07:26 POLICE AND IT WAS CONDUCTED BY

3:07:28 THE WAYS AND MEANS CHAIR.

3:07:30 AT THAT TIME IT WAS DETERMINED

3:07:33 THAT THE BOSTON POLICE MANY

3:07:35 BOSTON POLICE.

3:07:36 OFFICERS ARE.

3:07:38 PAYING THEIR OWN HEALTH AND

3:07:40 WELLNESS AND SCREENING AND OR

3:07:42 THE UNION THAT REPRESENTS THEM

3:07:45 IS PAYING THEIR HEALTH AND

3:07:46 WELLNESS SCREENING.

3:07:50 IS THAT AN EMERGENCY THAT THE

3:07:51 BOSTON THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:07:53 IS NOT SUPPORTING POLICE

3:07:55 OFFICERS WITH HEALTH AND

3:07:56 WELLNESS SCREENING UM AND AND

3:08:01 MEDICAL CARE IS THAT I DO

3:08:03 BELIEVE THAT IS IT IT THAT

3:08:05 MADAM CHAIR IF SOMEONE KEEPS

3:08:07 INTERRUPTING ME UM.

3:08:08 UH PLEASE OKAY PLEASE I I KNOW.

3:08:11 IT'S JUST DISTRACTING.

3:08:12 THERE'S NO CROSSTALK.

3:08:14 SOMEONE KEEPS YELLING OUT.

3:08:15 UH, MADAM CHAIR, UM, SO THE THE

3:08:19 BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS ARE

3:08:22 PAYING MUCH OF THEIR HEALTH AND

3:08:25 WELLNESS AND SCREENINGS.

3:08:27 AND IT.

3:08:28 WAS DETERMINED THAT THE CITY

3:08:30 OF BOSTON IS NOT PAYING

3:08:31 ANYTHING.

3:08:32 NOW THE QUESTION IS IS THAT AN

3:08:35 EMERGENCY?

3:08:36 SHOULD THE BOSTON POLICE

3:08:37 OFFICERS BE PAYING THEIR OWN

3:08:39 HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND

3:08:40 SCREENINGS UM OR OR SHOULD THE

3:08:44 CITY OF BOSTON BE SUPPORTING

3:08:45 OUR POLICE OFFICERS AND THEIR

3:08:47 FAMILIES WITH HEALTH AND

3:08:49 WELLNESS AND SCREENINGS?

3:08:50 I DO THINK IT IS CRITICAL THAT

3:08:53 WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE NOT

3:08:54 PAYING FOR THE HEALTH AND

3:08:55 WELLNESS AND THE SCREENINGS AND

3:08:57 MADAM CHAIR, AS WE ALL KNOW, I

3:09:00 FILED A AN AMENDMENT DURING THE

3:09:03 AMENDMENT PROCESS FOR HEALTH

3:09:05 AND WELLNESS SCREENING DURING

3:09:07 THE BUDGET DEBATE.

3:09:08 AND IT WAS.

3:09:09 BLOCKED BY CITY COUNCIL.

3:09:12 THANK YOU.

3:09:12 I DO THINK I THANK YOU, MADAM

3:09:13 CHAIR.

3:09:13 THIS IS AN.

3:09:13 EMERGENCY ORDER.

3:09:15 AND I WAS HAPPY ABOUT THIS BUT

3:09:17 YEAH.

3:09:18 NO THAT'S ALL.

3:09:20 COUNCIL MEMBERS NEXT AND THEN I

3:09:22 REALLY WANT TO MOVE.

3:09:23 WE'D LIKE TO BRING THIS BEFORE

3:09:24 THE DOCTOR BEFORE IN THE BODY

3:09:25 AND DEAL WITH IT IN WHICHEVER

3:09:27 WAY WE CHOOSE.

3:09:29 APPROPRIATE.

3:09:29 BUT I GUESS MADAM PRESIDENT AND

3:09:32 THE.

3:09:32 CLERK I THINK.

3:09:33 THE RULE SAYS THAT THIS THAT

3:09:34 THE EMERGENCY FILING HAS TO

3:09:36 HAVE A STATEMENT OF WHY IT'S AN

3:09:38 EMERGENCY THERE.

3:09:39 I I DON'T SEE THAT.

3:09:41 I'M JUST I'M WONDERING YOU

3:09:42 KNOW, IF THAT GETS ENFORCED BY

3:09:44 THE CLERK UH BY THE BY THE

3:09:46 PRESIDENT UH, I DO THINK THAT

3:09:48 THERE IS A SORT OF TEMPORAL,

3:09:50 UH, ISSUE HERE WHERE YOU KNOW,

3:09:52 WE HAVE VICTIMS OF THE FIRE WHO

3:09:54 ARE WHO NEED OUR HELP.

3:09:55 THAT'S WHY.

3:09:56 WE SUPPORTED THE RESOLUTION FOR

3:09:58 NUBIAN SQUARE.

3:09:59 AND YOU KNOW, THERE HAS BEEN A

3:10:01 POLITICIZATION OF THIS FOR

3:10:03 WEAPONIZATION OF THE EMERGENCY

3:10:04 FILING PROCESS THAT WE'VE SEEN

3:10:05 OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND

3:10:07 MONTHS.

3:10:07 AND SO JUST YOU KNOW, THERE IS

3:10:10 LIKE JUST TO REQUIRE PEOPLE TO

3:10:12 SAY IN THEIR EMERGENCY WHAT THE

3:10:14 EMERGENCY IS AND IF THEY CAN'T

3:10:16 EXPLAIN IT IN A SENTENCE THEN

3:10:17 IT'S NOT AN EMERGENCY.

3:10:19 UH, BUT I THINK THE RULE SAYS

3:10:21 IT HAS TO BE IN THE FILING I

3:10:23 WHAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HAVE

3:10:24 THE CLERK AND THE AND MADAM

3:10:26 PRESIDENT.

3:10:26 INTERPRET THAT SECTION OF THE

3:10:27 RULE.

3:10:28 THANK YOU.

3:10:30 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

3:10:33 CONCERNED AND YOU HAVE THE

3:10:35 FLOOR.

3:10:36 THANK YOU.

3:10:36 THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST RELATED

3:10:37 POINT OF INCREASE ACTUALLY UM

3:10:38 I'M GOING TO IS TOWARDS UH

3:10:40 CENTRAL STAFF AND MEGAN

3:10:41 CAVANAUGH I UH WE'VE HAD

3:10:44 MULTIPLE TIMES WHERE PEOPLE AND

3:10:45 THIS HAPPENED LAST TERM AS WELL

3:10:47 WHERE PEOPLE JUST SAY POINT

3:10:48 OF ORDER AND IT'S NOT A POINT

3:10:52 OF INJURY AND IT'S NOT A POINT

3:10:53 OF INFORMATION.

3:10:54 AND I KNOW THAT WE WORKED ON

3:10:55 SENDING OUT TO CITY COUNCIL.

3:10:56 IT NEVER HAPPENED.

3:10:57 WHAT IS A POINT OF ORDER HOW

3:10:59 YOU MAKE A POINT OF ORDER?

3:11:00 WHAT IS A POINT OF INFORMATION?

3:11:02 HOW YOU MAKE A POINT OF AND A

3:11:03 POINT OF ENTRY.

3:11:04 AND I JUST THINK THAT WOULD BE

3:11:05 INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE BEST

3:11:06 SHARED WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

3:11:07 THANK YOU.

3:11:08 THANK YOU FOR THAT

3:11:08 RECOMMENDATION.

3:11:09 SO RIGHT NOW.

3:11:13 WE HAVE AN ORDER FOR AN

3:11:15 EMERGENCY HEARING OFFERED BY

3:11:18 COUNCILORS ERIN MURPHY AND ED

3:11:20 FLYNN.

3:11:23 UH, WE WILL WE WE WE DEALT WITH

3:11:26 THE OTHER MATTER SEPARATELY.

3:11:27 WE'RE NOW ON TO THE SECOND LEAD

3:11:28 MATTER.

3:11:29 UH, ABSENT OBJECTION THIS

3:11:31 SECOND IT MATTER.

3:11:33 WILL COUNCILOR UH, DURKAN

3:11:36 OBJECTS THIS DOCKET WILL BE

3:11:38 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

3:11:39 PUBLIC SAFETY.

3:11:40 THANK YOU.

3:11:41 OH, NO.

3:11:45 OH OBJECTED.

3:11:46 WE NEED A SECOND POINT.

3:11:48 IT'S NOT.

3:11:49 IT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

3:11:51 THAT WOULD GIVE US.

3:11:53 OKAY.

3:11:54 THANK YOU.

3:11:56 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

3:11:58 CONSENT AGENDA.

3:12:00 I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE

3:12:01 SHERIFF THAT THERE ARE NO

3:12:04 ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA

3:12:05 .

3:12:06 THIS QUESTION NOW COMES ON

3:12:08 APPROVAL OF VARIOUS MATTERS

3:12:09 CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

3:12:10 AGENDA.

3:12:10 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I THANK

3:12:14 YOU.

3:12:14 THE CONSENT AGENDA IS ADOPTED.

3:12:17 WE ARE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:12:19 PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE

3:12:20 FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENT.

3:12:22 DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

3:12:25 ANNOUNCEMENTS?

3:12:26 I SEE COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:12:26 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:12:27 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:12:29 UH, THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 4TH IS

3:12:32 THE 87TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

3:12:36 CHURCH THAT MY GRANDFATHER

3:12:38 BUILT IN 1941.

3:12:40 WE WILL HAVE SERVICES AT 11

3:12:42 A.M. AND 4 P.M. ALL THE

3:12:45 COUNSELORS ARE INVITED TO COME.

3:12:47 AND PARTICIPATE IN THE WORSHIP

3:12:52 SERVICE AT 11 A.M..

3:12:54 YOURS TRULY WILL BE SPEAKING AT

3:12:57 11 A.M. AT 4 P.M. UH, REVEREND

3:13:00 DAVID BULLOCK FROM METROPOLITAN

3:13:01 BAPTIST CHURCH.

3:13:02 IN WEST.

3:13:03 VIRGINIA WILL BE A FEATURED

3:13:05 SPEAKER.

3:13:06 I INVITE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES

3:13:07 TO COME AND PARTAKE AND DO SOME

3:13:11 SHOUTING SUNDAY MORNING AFTER

3:13:13 WHAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH.

3:13:15 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:13:16 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:13:19 UM, GOING TO COUNTRY MURPHY

3:13:20 NEXT COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

3:13:21 FLOOR.

3:13:23 THANK YOU.

3:13:24 JUST ANTICIPATE.

3:13:25 ALL OF YOU.

3:13:26 PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON IF

3:13:27 YOU WISH TO SPEAK.

3:13:28 OKAY.

3:13:28 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:13:30 TOMORROW IS OCTOBER SO I RISE

3:13:32 TO WISH MY THREE SONS AND MY

3:13:34 GRANDSON BRIAN, COLIN, MICHAEL

3:13:36 MY SONS AND MY GRANDSON CADEN

3:13:38 HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY.

3:13:40 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO LOTS

3:13:41 OF CELEBRATIONS IN THE NEXT

3:13:42 WEEK AND JUST WANT THE BODY TO

3:13:45 KNOW THAT 27 MINUTES AGO WE

3:13:47 WOULD HAVE JUST PLACED THAT

3:13:48 HEARING ORDER INTO THE WAYS AND

3:13:50 MEANS COMMITTEE AND WE WOULD

3:13:51 HAVE MOVED ON.

3:13:52 AND I DO BELIEVE ANY TIME ANY

3:13:53 CITY EMPLOYEE HAS TO PUT THEIR

3:13:55 HAND IN THEIR OWN POCKET TO GET

3:13:57 CANCER SCREENING FOR WELLNESS,

3:13:58 OUR EMS WORKERS ARE BEING

3:14:00 ATTACKED AND I CARE ABOUT THAT

3:14:02 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE 27

3:14:04 THANK.

3:14:05 YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:14:05 THIS IS NOT THAT'S NOT THE

3:14:06 ANNOUNCEMENT.

3:14:07 IT IS SO TO ME THANK YOU.

3:14:09 I'M GOING ON TO CONTRA PEPEN

3:14:11 COUNCIL.

3:14:12 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:14:14 UH THANK.

3:14:15 YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:14:17 THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT

3:14:18 THIS.

3:14:19 SUNDAY IT IS THE 50TH

3:14:21 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROSLINDALE

3:14:22 PARADE AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL

3:14:24 PARADE HONORING MY

3:14:25 NEIGHBORHOOD.

3:14:26 UM.

3:14:27 IT'S GOING TO BE.

3:14:27 BEAUTIFUL WHEN THE ROUTE IS

3:14:28 CHANGING THIS YEAR AND I JUST

3:14:30 ENCOURAGE ALL MY AT-LARGE

3:14:33 COUNCILORS.

3:14:33 NO OTHER DISTRICT COUNCILORS

3:14:34 ARE INVITED.

3:14:35 THAT'S FOR YOU BY NOVEMBER.

3:14:38 UM.

3:14:38 I'M KIDDING.

3:14:39 EVERYONE'S INVITED.

3:14:40 BUT.

3:14:41 UM, IT'S GOING TO BE A

3:14:42 BEAUTIFUL DAY.

3:14:42 HOPEFULLY THE RAIN HOLDS OFF

3:14:43 AND THEN I ALSO JUST WANT TO

3:14:45 WISH MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE A VERY

3:14:46 HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:14:47 TODAY IS HER BIRTHDAY.

3:14:49 SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND.

3:14:50 SHE'S THE MOTHER OF MY THREE

3:14:51 KIDS AND JUST I CAN'T WAIT TO

3:14:53 GET HOME TO CELEBRATE SO.

3:14:54 THANK YOU.

3:14:56 .

3:14:56 THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:14:59 UM COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE

3:15:01 THE FLOOR?

3:15:02 YES.

3:15:03 THE THE NEW ROUTE FOR THE

3:15:04 PARADE IS THROUGH NEW DISTRICT

3:15:05 SIX.

3:15:05 SO, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO

3:15:07 SEEING IT.

3:15:08 UM, SO JUST SATURDAY NIGHT, UH,

3:15:09 JEEP FIGHTS BACK IS HAVING A

3:15:11 FUNDRAISER SPONTANEOUS

3:15:12 CELEBRATIONS 6 P.M..

3:15:15 UH, THEY'LL BE RAISING FUNDS

3:15:17 FOR YOUTH PROGRAMS AT THE SOUTH

3:15:18 SHORE YOUTH CENTER AND HEAL THE

3:15:20 HOOD AS WELL AS ORGANIZATIONS

3:15:21 SUPPORTING THOSE IMPACTED BY

3:15:22 THE END OF, UH, THE TEMPORARY

3:15:25 PROTECTED STATUS.

3:15:27 UH, I WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN

3:15:29 THE FUNDRAISER.

3:15:30 I'M NOT I CAN'T I DON'T KNOW IF

3:15:32 IT WOULD BE A SURPRISE.

3:15:32 UH, BUT SHOW UP AND UH, I

3:15:35 THINK, UH, IT'LL BE A GOOD

3:15:36 TIME, SO.

3:15:36 THANK YOU.

3:15:38 COUNCIL MEMBER THE CHAIR

3:15:39 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:15:41 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:15:42 UM.

3:15:43 THANK YOU.

3:15:43 THIS, UH, SUNDAY IS THE 40

3:15:45 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 40TH

3:15:47 BIRTHDAY OF JOHN AMICI AND HE

3:15:49 WAS MY LOCKER.

3:15:50 ME UM, IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HE

3:15:53 PASSED AWAY IN THE NINTH GRADE

3:15:54 AND IT WAS, UH, A VERY TRAGIC,

3:15:57 UM, INCIDENT FIRST AND PASSING

3:15:59 AND DEATH FOR SO MANY OF US

3:16:01 INCLUDING HIS FAMILY, I AND

3:16:03 FAMILY AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS

3:16:04 A, UH, BIG YEAR FOR THEM TO

3:16:06 REMEMBER.

3:16:06 SO WE JUST WANTED TO, UH, PAY

3:16:08 MY RESPECTS TO THE SCION FAMILY

3:16:10 OF WEST ROXBURY AND LET THEM

3:16:11 KNOW THAT, UM, I THINK OF DOM

3:16:13 AND THEIR SON ON EVERY

3:16:16 OCTOBER 4TH BUT ESPECIALLY THIS

3:16:16 YEAR.

3:16:17 UM, AND SO, UH, I KNOW THAT

3:16:20 IT'S I KNOW WE'RE DOING

3:16:21 MEMORIALS BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD

3:16:23 HAVE BEEN A MEMORIAL SO BUT UM,

3:16:24 BECAUSE THE DATE IS ON SUNDAY

3:16:26 SO I APOLOGIZE IF IT SHOULD

3:16:27 HAVE BEEN IN THE NEXT SECTION,

3:16:28 BUT UM AND I ALSO WANTED TO SAY

3:16:29 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY OWN

3:16:31 CANDACE AND, UM, HER NOW FIANCE

3:16:34 CESAR AND I WISH THEM THE BEST.

3:16:35 YES.

3:16:36 CONGRATULATIONS TO CANDACE.

3:16:38 UM, THANK YOU,

3:16:42 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:16:43 UH, WE WANT TO WISH A VERY

3:16:45 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CONTRA

3:16:47 SANTANA THIS WEEK.

3:16:49 HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:16:50 MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY.

3:16:53 UM, WE ALSO FROM ALLSTON

3:16:55 BRIGHTON WE HAVE ALLSTON OPEN

3:16:57 STREETS.

3:16:57 WE HAD A COMPLETE WASHOUT

3:16:58 OF OUR UH, PARADE OUR STREET

3:17:01 FAIR UM FAIR FIVE K ROAD RACE

3:17:03 AND OUR PARTY IN THE PARK LAST

3:17:05 WEEKEND BUT I THINK WE MIGHT

3:17:07 HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR THE

3:17:08 CELEBRATIONS AND AT AUSTIN OPEN

3:17:10 STREETS THIS UM THIS WEEKEND

3:17:13 SUNDAY FROM 10 TO 2 AND I HOPE

3:17:15 MY COLLEAGUES AND ALSO A VERY

3:17:16 BUSY WEEKEND OTHER OTHER

3:17:18 PRIORITIES, OTHER NEEDS.

3:17:19 BUT UH, WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU IN

3:17:21 ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

3:17:21 WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

3:17:23 MEMORIALS.

3:17:24 UM, COUNCILOR UM UH,

3:17:28 COUNCILOR UH, WE'LL START WITH

3:17:30 COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

3:17:31 PARTNER.

3:17:32 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

3:17:33 PRESIDENT.

3:17:33 I RISE TO.

3:17:35 UM, MEMORIALIZE.

3:17:36 MICHAEL SMOKEY KANE FROM

3:17:37 CHARLESTOWN.

3:17:38 WE LOST.

3:17:38 A BELOVED.

3:17:39 AND DEEPLY ADMIRED LIGHT IN

3:17:40 CHARLESTOWN.

3:17:42 HE SPENT HIS.

3:17:42 LIFE AS A LIGHTHOUSE FOR OTHERS

3:17:44 GUIDING PEOPLE.

3:17:44 THROUGH SOME OF.

3:17:45 THE ROCKY WATERS OF THEIR

3:17:46 LIVES, PARTICULARLY THOSE

3:17:47 STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION,

3:17:48 GRIEF AND LOSS.

3:17:49 HE HAD.

3:17:50 AN EXTRAORDINARY GIFT FOR

3:17:51 SEEING PEOPLE, MAKING THEM FEEL

3:17:52 LIKE THEY MATTERED AND

3:17:53 REMINDING THEM THAT THERE WAS

3:17:55 ALWAYS HOPE.

3:17:56 I FIRST MET SMOKEY IN.

3:17:56 2017 WHILE WORKING ON HIS

3:17:58 CAMPAIGN AND I QUICKLY.

3:17:59 REALIZED WHY.

3:18:01 UM TOWNEES.

3:18:01 LOVED HIM AND WHAT THEY ALREADY

3:18:02 KNEW.

3:18:03 HE WAS FUNNY.

3:18:04 HE WAS LOYAL, RELIABLE AND A

3:18:05 STRONG ANCHOR IN PEOPLE'S

3:18:06 LIVES.

3:18:07 IF HE.

3:18:08 SAID HE WOULD BE THERE HE

3:18:08 WAS THERE AND USUALLY BROUGHT

3:18:09 MUSIC.

3:18:10 LAUGHTER AND.

3:18:10 A HELPING HAND WITH HIM.

3:18:12 HE WAS.

3:18:12 A STAPLE AT OUR UH, RECENT

3:18:14 EQUITY DIALOGS IN CHARLESTOWN.

3:18:16 DISCLOSING HIS.

3:18:16 LIFE STORY WHICH WAS.

3:18:17 REMARKABLE AND VULNERABLE.

3:18:19 MOMENTS IN HIS LIFE ALL TO

3:18:20 PROVIDE AN IMPORTANT

3:18:21 PERSPECTIVE IN LIFE LESSONS.

3:18:22 TO THE YOUTH IN ATTENDANCE.

3:18:24 AND EVENTUALLY.

3:18:24 ALL OF.

3:18:25 THEM UM.

3:18:26 GREW TO.

3:18:27 RESPECT HIM AND LOVE HIM AS AS

3:18:28 WE ALL DID.

3:18:29 CHARLESTOWN WILL SOUND.

3:18:31 A LITTLE QUIETER WITHOUT SMOKEY

3:18:32 BEHIND THE DJ BOOTH.

3:18:34 BUT I'M COMFORTED HE'S REUNITED

3:18:36 WITH HIS SON MICHAEL, HIS

3:18:37 BROTHERS AND HIS PARENTS.

3:18:39 UM HE WAS A DEAREST.

3:18:40 FRIEND OF MY STAFF MEMBER

3:18:41 ELAINE DONOVAN SO MY HEART IS

3:18:42 ESPECIALLY WITH HER LISA,

3:18:44 MELANIE, SHEENA, JACOB,

3:18:46 JACQUELINE AND HIS

3:18:47 GRANDCHILDREN AND EVERYONE THAT

3:18:48 LOVED HIM.

3:18:48 HIS LEGACY WILL LIVE LOUDLY IN

3:18:51 EVERY PERSON HE HELPED.

3:18:52 REST EASY SMOKEY WE ALL LOVE

3:18:54 YOU.

3:18:55 THANK YOU.

3:18:55 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:18:58 COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE

3:18:59 FLOOR.

3:18:59 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WAS INFORMED

3:19:02 EARLY SUNDAY MORNING THAT

3:19:04 BROOKE WOODSON HAD PASSED A

3:19:07 TRUSTED ADVISOR MEMBER NINO AND

3:19:10 HIS ROLE OF ADVISOR FOR MAYOR

3:19:12 MENINO AND THE COC.

3:19:13 HE WAS AN ADVISOR IN EVERY

3:19:16 MAJOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FROM

3:19:20 1993 TO 2013 U.S. PRESIDENT,

3:19:23 SENATOR, CONGRESS PERSON EVERY

3:19:25 LOCAL CAMPAIGN GOVERNOR,

3:19:28 DISTRICT ATTORNEY, STATE

3:19:29 SENATE, STATE REP AND CITY

3:19:33 COUNCILOR ESPECIALLY MINE HIS

3:19:34 ROLE AS AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

3:19:36 OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

3:19:37 OF MINORITY WOMEN AND BUSINESS

3:19:39 ENTERPRISE.

3:19:40 HE FOUGHT FOR JOBS AND

3:19:42 CONTRACTS, ENSURED THAT THE

3:19:43 CITY MET OR EXCEEDED THEIR GOAL

3:19:46 ON HIRING PEOPLE OF COLOR AND

3:19:47 CITY PROJECTS NOT JUST ON CITY

3:19:50 PROJECTS BUT ON ALL PROJECTS IN

3:19:51 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:19:52 BROOKE WAS ONE OF THOSE SPECIAL

3:19:54 PEOPLE YOU COULD YOU WOULD EVER

3:19:57 MEET, WORK AND ASSOCIATE WITH.

3:19:59 THROUGH HIS WORK HE QUIETLY

3:20:00 HELPED CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE AND

3:20:02 THE CULTURE OF BOTH AND

3:20:04 ESPECIALLY THE COMMUNITIES

3:20:06 OF COLORS OF BOSTON.

3:20:08 WE COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A

3:20:09 BETTER PERSON WHO WENT INTO THE

3:20:11 LION'S DEN OF CITY HALL EVERY

3:20:13 SINGLE DAY AND FOUGHT FOR THE

3:20:16 PEOPLE OF BOSTON.

3:20:17 MY CONDOLENCES TO HIS FAMILY.

3:20:19 AND TO ALL THOSE THAT KNEW AND

3:20:21 LOVE.

3:20:22 GREG MAY REST IN PEACE.

3:20:24 AMEN.

3:20:25 THANK YOU.

3:20:26 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THE

3:20:27 CHAIR UM COUNCILOR AT HOLD ON

3:20:29 CULTURALLY CONSIDER THIS.

3:20:31 TO TELL YOU.

3:20:32 THIS HOMEGOING WILL BE A

3:20:34 MONDAY.

3:20:35 UH, OCTOBER 5TH AT 10 A.M. THE

3:20:38 VIEWING THE 11 A.M. SERVICE AT

3:20:41 CHARLES STREET A.M.E. 551

3:20:43 WARREN STREET IN ROXBURY.

3:20:47 THANK YOU.

3:20:48 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:20:49 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

3:20:50 THE FLOOR.

3:20:51 THANK YOU.

3:20:51 I WANT TO JOIN

3:20:53 COUNCILOR CULPEPER IN UPLIFTING

3:20:53 THE MEMORY OF BROOKE WOODSON

3:20:55 WHO.

3:20:56 WAS UH, CITY HALL EMPLOYEE UH,

3:20:59 POLITICO AND WHO WAS OFTEN

3:21:01 ACTUALLY BEFORE THIS BODY.

3:21:03 I KNOW I HAD HIM HERE TWICE UH,

3:21:05 TO TALK ABOUT THE BOSTON

3:21:06 RESIDENT'S JOB POLICY.

3:21:07 AND SO MY CONDOLENCES TO

3:21:09 BROOKE, HIS HIS BROTHER, HIS

3:21:11 MOTHER, UM, AND THE ENTIRE

3:21:13 WOODSON FAMILY ON THE LOSS

3:21:15 OF BROOKE.

3:21:15 I ALSO WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

3:21:16 MEMORY OF JANET JONES.

3:21:18 UH, DORCHESTER, UM, RESIDENT

3:21:21 ADVOCATE.

3:21:22 UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES

3:21:24 UM, SHE'S HELD COURT IN ONE

3:21:26 FAMILY DINER ON BOWDOIN STREET

3:21:27 AND, UM, HELD ME AND MY STAFF

3:21:30 TO TASK.

3:21:30 SO I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THEM

3:21:32 AT HER MEMORY AND MY

3:21:34 CONDOLENCES TO HER WIFE DAVIDA

3:21:35 .

3:21:36 UM, WHO IS MOURNING NOW.

3:21:37 UM, THERE WILL ALSO BE A

3:21:39 CELEBRATION OF LIFE AT ONE

3:21:40 FAMILY DINER TO REMEMBER JANET.

3:21:42 UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UH, WANT

3:21:44 TO UH UH, REMEMBER MIGHTY

3:21:47 SPARROW.

3:21:48 ,UH, A.

3:21:49 FAMOUS CALYPSO ARTIST FROM

3:21:51 TRINIDAD WHO UM ONE OF MY

3:21:53 FAVORITE SONGS IS A MIGHTY

3:21:55 SPARROW SONG AND HE WAS A

3:21:57 LEGEND UH, TO SO MANY AND IT

3:21:59 WAS SAD NEWS TO HEAR OF HIS

3:22:00 PASSING THIS WEEK.

3:22:02 THANK YOU.

3:22:03 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:22:05 COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:22:05 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:22:06 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:22:08 JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE, UH,

3:22:09 PINEY CASTING LONG TIME JAMAICA

3:22:11 PLAIN RESIDENT.

3:22:12 UH.

3:22:13 WHO UH.

3:22:16 UM UH, HAD, UH, DID A LOT IN

3:22:19 HER LIFE UH, FOR THE

3:22:21 PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

3:22:22 SHE CAME UH, JUST BEGINNING AS

3:22:24 A COLLEGE STUDENT, 1970S

3:22:26 VISITING UM, PALESTINIAN

3:22:27 REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON.

3:22:29 SHE SPENT A LIFETIME, UH,

3:22:32 WRITING ABOUT AND ORGANIZING

3:22:33 AID FOR UH, PALESTINIANS, UH,

3:22:37 THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND,

3:22:38 UH, I KNOW SHE'LL BE SORELY

3:22:40 MISSED.

3:22:40 THANK YOU.

3:22:42 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:22:43 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

3:22:43 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:22:44 YEAH.

3:22:45 I'D LIKE TO JOIN MY

3:22:46 COLLEAGUES IN RECOGNIZING.

3:22:47 UM, THE LIFE AND THE WORK

3:22:49 OF BROOK WOODSON.

3:22:50 UH, SOMEONE THAT I WOULD REACH

3:22:51 OUT TO REGARDING, UH, DIVERSITY

3:22:55 AND CITY CONTRACTS OR BOSTON

3:22:56 RESIDENTS DOT POLICY.

3:22:57 UH, SO MY HEART AND MY

3:22:59 CONDOLENCES GO OUT TO THE

3:23:00 FAMILY ALSO UH, JANET JONES AND

3:23:02 DAVIDA ALDERMAN UM CIVIC

3:23:06 LEADERS UM INSIDE OF THE

3:23:07 DISTRICT UM THEY HAVE ALWAYS

3:23:10 BEEN FIERCE ADVOCATES FOR UM

3:23:12 QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES UM

3:23:15 BETTER CITY SERVICES IN THE

3:23:16 AREA.

3:23:17 UH SO MY HEART UM AND PRAISE

3:23:19 ALSO GOES OUT TO TO BEAT OUT A

3:23:20 MAN UM AND I ALSO WANT TO

3:23:22 REMEMBER THE LIFE OF JANET

3:23:23 JONES AND THEN ALSO SLINK

3:23:25 OF FRANCISCO WHO IS KNOWN TO

3:23:27 THE WORLD AS MIGHTY SPARROW UH

3:23:29 ,GAVE GENERATIONS OF CARIBBEAN

3:23:31 PEOPLE A VOICE UH THROUGH

3:23:32 CALYPSO TOLD OUR STORIES,

3:23:34 CHALLENGE JUSTICE AND GAVE US A

3:23:37 REASON TO LAUGH, DANCE AND HOLD

3:23:38 OUR HEADS HIGH.

3:23:39 UH, JUST WANT TO REMEMBER

3:23:41 FRANCISCO ALSO KNOWN TO THE

3:23:43 WORLD AS MIGHTY SPARROW.

3:23:46 THANK YOU.

3:23:47 UM, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A

3:23:49 MOMENT TO REMEMBER MY SISTER

3:23:50 HEATHER.

3:23:51 HER BIRTHDAY IS OCTOBER 2ND.

3:23:53 UH, SHE PASSED AWAY WAY TOO

3:23:55 YOUNG AT 55 YEARS OLD IN

3:23:58 SEPTEMBER 8TH YEARS AGO.

3:23:59 SO, UM, THIS IS A BITTERSWEET

3:24:01 TIME.

3:24:03 THE CHAIR MOVES US WHEN THE

3:24:05 COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY IT ALSO

3:24:06 IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED

3:24:08 INDIVIDUALS.

3:24:09 A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

3:24:19 THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

3:24:21 MEET AGAIN IN THE IRON CHAMBER

3:24:23 ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 2026

3:24:26 AT 12 P.M. THANK YOU TO MY

3:24:28 COLLEAGUES CENTRAL STAFF.

3:24:29 THE CURB CUTS, THE CLERK'S

3:24:32 OFFICE AND OUR GUEST UM

3:24:34 STENOGRAPHER TODAY.

3:24:35 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

3:24:36 ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT

3:24:37 PLEASE SAY AYE.

3:24:39 THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.

3:24:41 THANK YOU.