City Services on September 21, 2026

0:51 GOOD MORNING.

0:54 MY NAME IS ED FLYNN.

0:56 DISTRICT TWO CITY COUNCIL.

0:58 I'M CHAIR OF THE CITY

1:00 COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CITY

1:02 SERVICES.

1:03 TODAY IS SEPTEMBER 21ST.

1:06 THE EXACT TIME IS TEN ZERO

1:09 THREE.

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1:42 MADE PART OF THE RECORD AND

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1:47 PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN

1:51 AT THE END OF THE HEARING OR IN

1:53 THE MIDDLE OF THE HEARING.

1:56 UH DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PEOPLE

1:59 WE HAVE TESTIFYING, UM

2:01 INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS WILL BE

2:03 CALLED IN ORDER IN WHICH THEY

2:04 ARE SIGNED UP AND WE'LL HAVE

2:06 TWO MINUTES JUSTIFY.

2:09 BUT I WON'T CUT YOU OFF IF YOU

2:11 GO OVER TWO MINUTES.

2:12 I WANT TO HEAR WHAT'S IMPORTANT

2:14 TO YOU.

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2:17 TESTIFYING IN PERSON, PLEASE

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2:21 SHEET NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE

2:23 CHAMBER.

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2:32 PRATT AND RYAN ARE RYAN DOT

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2:40 FOR THE LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL

2:42 BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

2:45 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

2:48 1085.

2:49 WHAT'S IT WHICH IS A MESSAGE IN

2:51 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

2:52 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT EXPAND THE

2:55 AMOUNT OF.

3:01 $20,930 IN THE FORM OF A GRANT

3:03 THE HEALTH CENTRAL FELLOWSHIP

3:05 GRANT ORDER TO CATHOLIC

3:07 CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON

3:10 TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

3:11 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND

3:13 TECHNOLOGY DO IT.

3:14 THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

3:16 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR L

3:17 CENTRAL IT PROGRAM GRADUATES.

3:21 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

3:23 MAYOR.

3:24 IT WAS REFERRED TO THE

3:25 COMMITTEE ON JUNE 3RD 2026.

3:29 DOCKET 1395 MESSAGE IN ORDER

3:32 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:33 TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

3:40 OF $225,125.11 IN THE FORM

3:42 OF OF A GRANT THE MWBE DIGITAL

3:45 EQUITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

3:48 AWARD BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT

3:49 OF TREASURY PASSED TO THE

3:50 MASSACHUSETTS TECHNOLOGY

3:52 COLLABORATIVE TO ADMINISTER TO

3:54 BE ADMINISTERED BY THE

3:55 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND

3:56 TECHNOLOGY.

3:57 THE GRANT WOULD FUND SERVICES

4:00 AND SUPPORT FOR RESIDENTS

4:02 OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO CANNOT

4:03 AFFORD BROADBAND SERVICE AND OR

4:07 INTERNET CONNECTED DEVICES OR

4:10 LACK THE DIGITAL SKILLS NEEDED

4:13 TO UTILIZE THE INTERNET THE

4:16 FOLLOWING THE LAST DOCKET,

4:18 WHICH IS DOCKET 1397 MESSAGE IN

4:19 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

4:21 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

4:22 A GIFT OF 43 HEATING,

4:25 VENTILATION, AIR CONDITIONED

4:27 UNITS HVAC OF VARIOUS TYPES

4:29 VALUED AT $84,210 FROM FWC 2026

4:40 US INC. THIS GIFT IS AWARDED TO

4:42 THE CITY OF BOSTON, THE MAYOR'S

4:43 OFFICE FOR THE USE AND THE

4:45 PUBLIC FACILITIES OF VARIOUS

4:47 DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY

4:50 INCLUDING POLICE STATIONS,

4:51 SCHOOLS AND MUNICIPAL OFFICES.

4:54 THESE MATTERS WERE SPONSORED BY

4:55 MAYOR WU.

4:56 THEY WERE REFERRED TO THE

4:57 COMMITTEE ON JULY 22ND 2026.

5:05 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE

5:06 ADMINISTRATION TEAM FOR BEING

5:08 HERE THIS MORNING AND WE HAVE

5:11 PRESENT WITH US BRIAN DONAHUE,

5:13 THE CHIEF DIGITAL EQUITY

5:16 OFFICER, DIRECTOR OF BROADBAND

5:17 AND CABLE DEPARTMENT,

5:19 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND

5:21 TECHNOLOGY.

5:21 DO IT SHEILA LEE, THE SENIOR

5:23 DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS,

5:25 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION

5:26 TECHNOLOGY.

5:28 TRISH.

5:32 KOSKI.

5:33 FRISKY.

5:35 OKAY.

5:36 CAFFERTY I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THE

5:38 PRONUNCIATION.

5:39 THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF OPERATIONS

5:40 ,REAL ESTATE AND CAPITAL

5:42 STRATEGIC STRATEGIES THE

5:43 MAYOR'S OFFICE.

5:46 AND PETER SEVERINO OKAY, I GOT

5:51 THAT ONE RIGHT THERE.

5:53 UH, BROADBAND AND DIGITAL

5:55 EQUITY ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT

5:58 OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY.

6:01 UM.

6:03 WOULD WOULD THE PANEL LIKE TO

6:06 SPEAK ON ALL DOCKETS AT THE

6:08 SAME TIME OR DO YOU WANT TO

6:09 BREAK THEM DOWN OR WHAT WHAT IS

6:11 BEST FOR YOU?

6:14 I WOULD SAY WE WOULD PROBABLY

6:15 NEED TO SEPARATE THE UM THE AIR

6:18 CONDITIONING DOCKET FROM THE

6:19 OTHER TWO, BUT I'LL BE HAPPY TO

6:21 SPEAK TO WHICHEVER OF THEM IN

6:23 WHICHEVER ORDER YOU PREFER.

6:24 OKAY, WHY DON'T WE WHY DON'T WE

6:27 DO ONE TALK AT A TIME?

6:28 OKAY.

6:29 LET'S START WITH THE, UM

6:31 LET'S.

6:31 START WITH THE FIRST ONE.

6:33 UM, THAT'S THAT'S ON THAT'S ON

6:37 THE AGENDA WHICH IS 1085 WHICH

6:41 IS THE $20,000 UM GRANT FOR EL

6:44 CENTRO.

6:45 YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

6:46 OKAY.

6:48 UM THANK YOU.

6:48 UH, CHAIR IN GENERAL FOR ASKING

6:50 US TO COME HERE AND SPEAK TO

6:51 SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS.

6:52 WE'RE REALLY EXCITED FOR THIS,

6:53 UH, OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE

6:56 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THESE

6:57 TYPES OF PROGRAMS FUNDED.

6:59 UH, FOR THE EL CENTRO GRANT.

7:01 WE HAD BEEN WORKING WITH THIS

7:02 ORGANIZATION IN THE PAST.

7:04 THEY ARE A SUBSIDIARY OF THE

7:05 CATHOLIC CHARITIES.

7:06 UM, THE FUNDING FROM EL CENTRO

7:08 IS FOR AN ADDITIONAL FELLOW.

7:10 THESE UH THESE FOLKS ARE COMING

7:12 TO US FROM NONTRADITIONAL

7:15 BACKGROUNDS LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

7:16 SKILLS, UH, DOING ON ON ON SITE

7:20 JOB TRAINING.

7:22 AND WE'VE BEEN THRILLED TO BE

7:23 ABLE TO, UH, HAVE FIVE FELLOWS

7:25 WORK WITH US PREVIOUSLY AND

7:27 HIRE TWO OF THEM INTO FULL TIME

7:29 ROLES.

7:30 SO IT'S REALLY EXCITING.

7:30 THESE TWO FELLOWS ARE GETTING

7:32 HANDS ON EXPERIENCE AND

7:34 CYBERSECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY

7:35 PROGRAMS.

7:36 UH, AND THE MOST RECENT

7:38 PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED

7:39 ON ARE AND IT HAS IT INVENTORY

7:41 FOR UH COMPUTER REPLACEMENT UH

7:45 VULNERABILITY UH NOTIFICATIONS

7:46 FROM A UH CYBERSECURITY

7:48 STANDPOINT AND UH,

7:50 CYBERSECURITY TRAINING AND

7:51 CONTENT CREATION FOR UH THOSE

7:54 TYPES OF UH OFFERS THAT YOU

7:55 PROBABLY GET IN YOUR EMAIL

7:56 EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE TO UH,

7:58 GET YOUR CYBERSECURITY SKILLS,

8:00 UH, UPGRADED.

8:01 SO, UH, WE'RE THRILLED TO HAVE

8:03 THIS OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, ADD

8:05 ANOTHER FELLOW TO THE PROGRAM

8:06 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER

8:08 ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.

8:11 EXCELLENT.

8:12 THANK YOU.

8:21 WELL, AS YOU CAN SEE, I WAS I

8:23 WANTED TO HAVE THE HEARING TO

8:24 GIVE MY COUNCILOR COLLEAGUES

8:27 THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MORE

8:30 ABOUT THE IMPORTANT WORK YOU'RE

8:31 DOING.

8:32 YES, SIR.

8:34 I APOLOGIZE THAT NO ONE NO

8:36 ONE IS HERE.

8:38 LET ME LET ME START.

8:40 I'M NOT I'M GOING TO KIND

8:42 OF NOT GIVE AN OPENING

8:43 STATEMENT, BUT LET ME JUST TRY

8:45 TO GO ON THE FIRST DOCKET OKAY.

8:49 SO MY QUESTION.

8:54 WHAT ARE THE WHAT ARE THE

8:55 SPECIFIC.

8:56 OUTCOMES OR EMPLOYMENT

8:58 OPPORTUNITIES.

8:59 WELL RESULTS IN THIS GRANT.

9:04 IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR

9:06 YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GET

9:07 THIS TRAINING TO GET INTO A A

9:12 CAREER FIELD?

9:13 WELL THEY HAVE THE SKILLS THAT

9:15 THAT ARE NEEDED OR.

9:16 OR AT LEAST DEVELOPED SOME

9:17 SKILLS SO THAT THEY CAN GET

9:19 ADVANCED SKILLS.

9:20 THAT'S THAT'S THE THAT IS THE

9:21 CORE IDEA OF THIS PROGRAM IS

9:23 THAT THEY GO THROUGH A CERTAIN

9:24 AMOUNT OF TRAINING LEADING UP

9:26 TO THE PROGRAM ITSELF AND THEN

9:27 WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING IS THE

9:29 SPACE AND THE SUPPORT FOR THAT

9:30 ON THE JOB TRAINING.

9:31 UH, WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL

9:33 WITH THIS IN THE PAST FROM THE

9:35 STANDPOINT OF UM, YOU KNOW,

9:37 BRINGING FOLKS IN.

9:37 THEY GET FAMILIAR WITH THE CITY

9:39 SYSTEMS AND THEY GET FAMILIAR

9:40 WITH THE TECHNOLOGY THAT

9:41 THEY'LL BE WORKING ON, YOU

9:43 KNOW, REALLY IN ANY KIND OF A

9:44 JOB LIKE THIS ACROSS THE CITY.

9:45 BUT WE ARE UH, REALLY IMPRESSED

9:47 WITH THE NUMBER OF THOSE, UH,

9:48 FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN IN THE

9:50 PROGRAM AND WE'RE ABLE TO HIRE

9:51 TWO OF THEM INTO THOSE ENTRY

9:53 LEVEL POSITIONS IN THE CITY'S,

9:55 UH, I.T OKAY.

9:58 IS IS THE TRAINING ITSELF.

10:00 WHERE IS THAT PROVIDED?

10:03 UM, SHE I DON'T KNOW IF WE.

10:04 UM EL CENTRO HAS A PROGRAM UH,

10:07 IT PROGRAM FOR THEM TO LEARN

10:08 THE SKILL SETS AND THEN THEY

10:09 APPLY IT WHILE THEY'RE, UH

10:10 WHILE THEY DO THEIR FELLOWSHIP

10:12 AT THE CITY.

10:13 OKAY.

10:15 OKAY, I'M ON ON THAT

10:18 SPECIFIC DOCUMENT DOCKET.

10:19 I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER

10:21 QUESTIONS.

10:21 UM, IS IT OKAY IF WE GO TO THE

10:24 NEXT DOCKET?

10:24 THAT'S FINE BY US.

10:25 OKAY.

10:31 SO THE NEXT DOCKET.

10:34 WHICH IS DOCKET 1395.

10:37 DO YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO

10:40 QUESTIONS NOW.

10:41 IF YOU'D LIKE.

10:42 I THINK THAT IF YOU WANTED JUST

10:43 A QUICK MAYBE MAYBE A QUICK

10:45 OVERVIEW THAT WOULD.

10:45 BE YEAH.

10:46 THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT.

10:47 YEAH WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO DO

10:48 THE OVERVIEW.

10:48 YEAH.

10:48 SO SO THE MASSACHUSETTS

10:50 BROADBAND INSTITUTE

10:51 PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM IS A

10:52 PROGRAM THAT WE'VE BEEN

10:53 RECEIVING FUNDING FOR FOR OVER

10:54 THREE YEARS NOW.

10:55 IT IS.

10:55 FUNDED I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY

10:57 OF IT IS OUT OF THE STATE ARPA

10:59 FUNDING.

10:59 UH WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL

11:01 IN A NUMBER OF PREVIOUS ROUNDS

11:03 OF THIS FUNDING AND THEY

11:05 IDENTIFIED US AS A CANDIDATE

11:06 UH, IN THE MOST RECENT ROUND.

11:08 UH, WITH.

11:09 THE SPECIFIC FOCUS OF TRYING

11:11 TO HELP UH FROM A STANDPOINT

11:12 OF HIGH LITERACY AND THEN ALSO,

11:14 UH, FOLKS WHO ARE RETURNING

11:16 CITIZENS WHO UH, NEED SUPPORT

11:20 UH DEVICES, UM AND UH

11:23 CONNECTIVITY IN ORDER TO

11:24 PROPERLY REENTER SOCIETY.

11:26 SO WE'RE THRILLED TO BE ABLE.

11:28 TO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR

11:29 THIS TYPE OF PARTNERSHIP AND

11:30 IT'S ALSO GOING TO HELP US

11:32 BENEFIT TO EXPAND SOME OF OUR

11:34 AI LITERACY PROGRAMING WHICH IS

11:35 FOCUSED ON THE FOLKS STAYING

11:37 SAFE ONLINE IN THE AGE WHEN ALL

11:40 OF THESE NEW TYPES OF SCAMS

11:41 HAVE BEEN UH, REALLY

11:43 DETRIMENTAL TO A LOT OF A LOT

11:44 OF FOLKS WHO HAVE BASIC TECH

11:46 LITERACY BUT DON'T MAYBE HAVE

11:47 THAT NEXT LEVEL AND I'D BE

11:49 HAPPY IF UH IF WE HAD A COUPLE

11:51 MINUTES FOR FOR PETER TO MAYBE

11:52 WALK THROUGH THE PREVIOUS UH,

11:53 SUCCESS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH

11:55 THIS THESE PROGRAMS INCLUDING

11:57 OUR DIGITAL EQUITY FUND AND UH,

11:59 KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT

12:00 FOR THIS THIS FUNDING THAT'S

12:01 BEEN IDENTIFIED AT.

12:02 THIS POINT.

12:03 YEAH.

12:03 THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT, PETER

12:04 EUROPE.

12:04 SURE THING.

12:05 UH, GOOD MORNING COUNSELOR.

12:06 OH.

12:06 I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU.

12:08 UM, I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

12:10 WE ARE JOINED BY CITY COUNCIL,

12:12 UH, CULPEPER.

12:13 CITY COUNCIL CULPEPER.

12:14 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.

12:16 UM, PETER, I'M SORRY TO

12:18 INTERRUPT.

12:18 GO AHEAD.

12:19 MORNING, COUNCILMAN.

12:20 GOOD MORNING, COUNCILOR DULL.

12:21 UM, SO YEAH.

12:22 SO TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK OFF

12:23 OF BUT, UH, BRIAN WAS TALKING

12:25 ABOUT SO OUR OUR DIGITAL EQUITY

12:26 FUND HAS BEEN ONE OF OUR MORE

12:28 SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS OVER THE

12:30 PAST ALMOST TEN YEARS NOW.

12:32 UM, MOST RECENTLY WE FUNDED UH

12:34 ,36 COMMUNITY BASED

12:36 ORGANIZATIONS, UH, WITH A TOTAL

12:38 OF $1.4 MILLION COMING FROM UH

12:39 THIS DIGITAL EQUITY

12:40 PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM GRANT UM

12:43 31 FOCUSED ON DIGITAL

12:44 NAVIGATION WORK SPECIFICALLY,

12:46 YOU KNOW, BASIC TECH HELP

12:48 GETTING FOLKS, UH, HOOKED UP TO

12:49 INTERNET, UH, DEVICES UM, AS

12:52 WELL AS WE FUNDED TWO

12:53 ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOU ALL TO

12:55 HELP, UH, WITH EFFORTS TO

12:56 IMPROVE TELEHEALTH PROGRAMING

12:57 UH, AND THEN THREE

12:59 ORGANIZATIONS TO DO DEVICE.

13:01 REFURBISHMENT WORK.

13:02 UM, AND THAT HAS RESULTED INTO

13:04 A GREAT NUMBER OF PARTNERSHIPS

13:05 ACROSS THE CITY.

13:06 UM, THIS WORK IS IMPACTS EVERY

13:10 RESIDENT IT'S THESE PROJECTS

13:11 HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE ACROSS

13:13 EVERY BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH

13:14 IS SOMETHING WE ARE VERY PROUD

13:16 OF.

13:16 UM AND ADDITIONALLY WE WORK

13:19 WITH UM THESE PROJECTS FOCUS ON

13:21 A WIDE RANGE OF TARGET

13:23 POPULATIONS INCLUDING UH OLDER

13:25 ADULTS, VETERANS, UH FOLKS WHO

13:28 UM WHO.

13:28 DON'T SPEAK.

13:29 ENGLISH AS THEIR MAIN

13:30 LANGUAGE UM YOUTH PUBLIC

13:32 HOUSING RESIDENTS SO ON SO ON.

13:34 UM AND THAT'S BEEN ONE OF OUR

13:37 WE WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE

13:38 THAT EVERYONE WHO YOU KNOW

13:40 NEEDS DEVICES NEEDS TECH HELP,

13:42 UM HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TO

13:44 GET THAT AND SO UM, YOU KNOW,

13:46 JUST UH SOME SOME HIGH LEVEL

13:48 DATA FROM THIS MOST RECENT

13:49 DIGITAL EQUITY FUND, UM, ACROSS

13:52 ALL PROGRAMS JUST UM JUST OVER

13:54 11 UH THOUSAND RESIDENTS WERE

13:57 SERVED BY BY THIS WORK.

13:59 UM, WE HAD ABOUT ALMOST 2700

14:02 DEVICES DISTRIBUTED TO

14:04 HOUSEHOLDS ACROSS THE CITY UM,

14:06 20 ROUGHLY 26 UH, THAT 2600

14:10 RESIDENTS RECEIVE BASIC SKILL

14:13 UH DEVELOPMENT WORK UM

14:15 SIMILARLY ABOUT 2400 RECEIVED

14:18 UM INTERMEDIATE SKILL TRAINING

14:20 AND UM ABOUT 1300 RESIDENTS

14:23 WORKED ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

14:25 SKILLS.

14:25 UM AND SO THAT'S JUST UH AT A

14:28 VERY HIGH LEVEL.

14:28 SO UM SOME INFORMATION HAPPY TO

14:29 FOLLOW UP MORE WITH UH THE REST

14:31 OF THE DATA.

14:32 UM, BUT THIS IS A NICE SEGUE

14:34 INTO OUR NEXT ROUND OF THE

14:35 DIGITAL EQUITY FUND WHICH, UH,

14:37 WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS

14:38 OF GETTING OUT THE DOOR UM,

14:41 BASED BURGER'S BASICALLY UH,

14:43 SHIFTING THE FOCUS A LITTLE BIT

14:44 FROM, YOU KNOW, JUST UH,

14:45 DIGITAL NAVIGATION AND

14:46 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

14:47 WORK, UH, INCLUDING UM FROM

14:49 WHAT WE HEARD FROM A LOT OF UH

14:51 ,COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, UM,

14:53 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES

14:55 TO UH TO TEACH THEIR RESIDENTS

14:57 ABOUT UH, ARTIFICIAL

14:58 INTELLIGENCE WHETHER IT'S, YOU

14:59 KNOW, BASIC MISINFORMATION, UM,

15:01 HOW TO AVOID SCAMS,

15:02 CYBERSECURITY, UM, ESPECIALLY

15:04 YOU KNOW, WITH YOUTH, UM, AND

15:05 OLDER ADULTS.

15:07 UM, AND THEN THE OTHER FOCUS

15:08 AREA IS DEVICE DISTRIBUTION AND

15:10 REFURBISHMENT WORK.

15:11 SO ONCE AGAIN JUST GETTING

15:12 DEVICES INTO THE HANDS OF FOLKS

15:13 WHO NEED THE MOST UH NO COST TO

15:15 THEM.

15:16 UM, AND LASTLY, UH ONE OTHER

15:20 HIGHLIGHT ONE OTHER THING THAT

15:21 WE WANT TO LIFT UP FROM THAT

15:24 RESULTS FROM THIS THIS

15:25 PARTNERSHIP GRANT IS OUR

15:26 COLLABORATION WITH THE OFFICE

15:28 OF RETURNING CITIZENS.

15:29 UM, SO SINCE JANUARY OF 2025

15:31 WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH AWC UM

15:35 TO PROVIDE UH BIWEEKLY TECH

15:37 SKILLS TO OUR TECH HELP

15:38 SESSIONS OR KIND OF LIKE TECH

15:40 OFFICE HOURS, UH, TO FOLKS WHO

15:42 ARE FORMERLY INCARCERATED.

15:43 UM, AND WE'VE IT'S BEEN ONE

15:45 OF OUR LONGEST STANDING UH,

15:47 PARTNERSHIPS WITH UH WITH UH.

15:48 SO FAR UM AND THIS YOU KNOW, WE

15:51 THESE OFFICE HOURS COVER A WIDE

15:53 RANGE OF TOPICS SUCH AS, YOU

15:55 KNOW, BASIC, AFFORDABLE, UH,

15:56 GETTING AFFORDABLE INTERNET

15:58 ACCESS, UH, HELPING FOLKS PUT

15:59 RESUMES TOGETHER, UH, TO APPLY

16:01 FOR JOBS, UM, LEARNING HOW TO

16:03 USE GMAIL ETC. ETC. UM, AND

16:05 IT'S KIND OF SUCH FUN WHAT

16:07 BRIAN WAS TALKING ABOUT.

16:08 WE'VE BEEN UH, ALSO PROVIDING

16:09 FOLKS UH WITH HOTSPOTS UH, THAT

16:12 WILL PROVIDE ONE YEAR OF SORT

16:14 OF INTERNET SERVICE UM, YOU

16:16 KNOW, FOR FOLKS WHO ARE UH

16:18 BEING RELEASED FROM THE SUFFOLK

16:19 COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS AND

16:21 SO WE'RE EXCITED TO, YOU KNOW,

16:23 BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THIS

16:24 PARTNERSHIP, CONTINUE THIS WORK

16:25 ACROSS NOT JUST, UH,

16:27 INTERDEPARTMENTAL, UM,

16:29 PARTNERSHIPS BUT ALSO ACROSS

16:30 THE CITY WITH OUR UH, COMMUNITY

16:32 BASED ORGANIZATIONS.

16:35 THANK YOU.

16:36 OKAY.

16:36 UM.

16:38 I'M GOING TO GIVE UM I'M

16:41 GOING TO LET COUNSELOR.

16:42 CULPEPER GO FIRST IN TERMS.

16:44 OF.

16:44 ASKING QUESTIONS.

16:45 ON THIS PARTICULAR.

16:46 GRANT AND THEN AND THEN I'LL GO

16:49 .

16:49 AFTER COUNSELOR CULPEPER.

16:50 UM, COUNSELOR.

16:52 CULPEPER I'M GOING TO SET A

16:53 TIME UM.

16:56 I'M GOING TO SET A TIME.

16:58 MAYBE FOR.

16:59 SIX MINUTES.

17:00 AND THEN IF WE NEED TO HAVE

17:03 IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE ASKING

17:05 QUESTIONS YOU CAN.

17:06 BUT WE ALSO CAN DO A SECOND

17:07 ROUND.

17:08 AS WELL.

17:08 IF.

17:09 IF IF NEED BE BUT.

17:10 UH COUNCIL CULPEPER.

17:11 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

17:13 THANK YOU.

17:14 MR CHAIR.

17:16 CHAIRMAN FLYNN FOR HOLDING THIS

17:17 HEARING.

17:19 AND, UH.

17:20 THANK THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM

17:21 THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE

17:25 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

17:30 FOR BEING HERE FOR THIS HEARING

17:31 TODAY.

17:33 I THINK THIS IS SIGNIFICANT AND

17:35 THEN WE GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO

17:38 LOOK AT DIFFERENT GRANTS COMING

17:40 INTO THE CITY AND AND HERE'S

17:44 WHAT'S INTERESTING.

17:44 WE JUST HAD A HEARING LAST

17:47 WEEK.

17:47 WITH THE.

17:51 I GUESS HE'S DEPUTY

17:55 SUPERINTENDENT DELAY LEON AND

17:59 UH BRIAN ABOUT THE HEATING AND

18:02 AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS IN THE

18:04 SCHOOLS AND WE WERE TALKING

18:07 ABOUT THE THREE SCHOOLS THAT

18:09 DON'T HAVE AIR CONDITIONING

18:11 YET.

18:12 THAT MAY NOT HAVE IT UNTIL NEXT

18:17 YEAR SOMETIMES.

18:18 AND SO WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS UM

18:23 ORDER EVEN HERE EVEN THOUGH

18:24 IT'S ONLY $84,000, I THINK

18:27 THESE AIR CONDITIONERS THE ONES

18:30 THAT ARE GOING TO THE PUBLIC

18:32 SCHOOLS WILL BE A GREAT

18:35 ADDITION TO AT LEAST HELPING TO

18:37 KEEP THE SCHOOLS COOL.

18:39 SOME OF THE CHILDREN BELIEVE IT

18:42 OR NOT WE'RE USING WET PAPER

18:47 TOWELS OVER THERE.

18:48 IT'S LESS.

18:50 THIS PAST SUMMER TO KEEP COOL.

18:53 AND HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU

18:55 LEARN WITH A WET PAPER TOWEL

18:59 OVER YOUR HEAD?

19:00 AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THESE 43

19:05 HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR

19:06 CONDITIONING I DON'T KNOW HOW

19:07 MANY AIR CONDITIONERS THERE ARE

19:09 BUT EVEN IF IT'S A FEW IT'S

19:11 GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN

19:13 TERMS OF HELPING TO KEEP THE

19:15 SCHOOLS A LITTLE COOLER.

19:17 UH.

19:20 DO YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO

19:21 COURSES NOW?

19:22 YEAH, I HAVE A COUPLE

19:24 OF QUESTIONS AROUND IT.

19:26 UH.

19:28 ON COUNCIL ON.

19:30 IT TRAINING AND THE.

19:31 ON THE.

19:32 OTHER PROGRAM.

19:32 YOU SENT OUT SIX MINUTES,

19:34 RIGHT?

19:34 YEAH.

19:35 YOU HAVE.

19:35 SIX MONTHS.

19:36 UM.

19:36 AND I CAN USE ANYWHERE I

19:37 WANT.

19:37 RIGHT?

19:39 YEAH.

19:39 BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN USE IT

19:41 ON THIS.

19:41 DOCKET, BUT WE CAN WE COULD GO.

19:43 OKAY, WE.

19:43 COULD HAVE ANOTHER.

19:44 SIX MINUTES ON THE OTHER

19:46 DOCKETS.

19:46 OKAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, I'VE JUST

19:49 GOT SOME BASIC QUESTIONS LIKE

19:50 THE, UM AND IT'S KIND OF FROM

19:54 CATHOLIC CHARITIES.

19:55 YEAH.

19:55 FOR THE GRADUATES WHO

19:56 PARTICIPATE IN THIS FELLOWSHIP

19:58 ,WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE

19:59 FELLOWSHIP ENDS?

20:02 UP WELL, THE PARTICIPANTS AND

20:04 THE PROGRAM WITH THOSE SOME IN

20:07 CLASSROOM TRAINING AND THEN

20:09 ALSO WHEN THEY WORK THEY'RE

20:10 WORKING WITH US THEY'RE AS

20:11 FELLOWS THAT THEY'RE GETTING

20:12 THE ON THE JOB TRAINING THAT

20:13 THEY NEED.

20:14 SO UM THOSE PREPARING THEM TO

20:18 WORK OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BUT

20:19 ALSO IN ADDITION TO THAT WE'VE

20:20 BEEN ABLE TO BRING ON UH, TWO

20:23 OF THEM AT THIS POINT INTO FULL

20:24 TIME ROLES IN THE CITY.

20:25 SO I THINK THE CITY.

20:27 YES, SIR.

20:27 AND WHAT.

20:28 ABOUT THE OUTSIDE WORK?

20:29 THEY'RE DOING THE EXTERNAL WORK

20:31 WITH EXTERNAL PLAYERS SO

20:33 THEY'RE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE

20:35 YOUNG FOLKS AFTER THEY

20:36 GRADUATE.

20:37 ABSOLUTELY.

20:38 THESE ARE THE TYPES

20:39 OF TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE

20:40 TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW ARE

20:41 EXACTLY WHAT PLAYERS ARE ASKING

20:43 FOR.

20:43 THEY'RE ASKING FOR FOLKS THAT

20:45 HAVE UM, YOU KNOW, BEEN THROUGH

20:46 BOTH A FORMALIZED CLASSROOM

20:48 SETTING AND THEN ALSO ON THE

20:49 JOB TRAINING SO THAT THEY'RE

20:50 GETTING THAT SECOND COMPONENT

20:52 WHICH IS OFTEN A LITTLE BIT

20:53 MORE DIFFICULT TO COME BY OUT

20:55 IN THE THE WILD WILD WORLD THAT

20:57 WE LIVE IN THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO

20:58 COME IN AND SAY HEY, I'VE GOT

21:00 YOU KNOW, SIX MONTHS NINE

21:01 MONTHS EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH

21:02 THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I'M ABLE

21:05 TO SAY CONFIDENTLY THAT THEY

21:07 CAN WORK ON, YOU KNOW, THESE

21:09 RANGE OF 6 OR 7 SYSTEMS THAT

21:10 THEY WERE ABLE TO BE EXPOSED TO

21:12 DURING THEIR TIME HERE WITH THE

21:13 CITY.

21:13 CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER

21:15 OF CALLS THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED

21:17 OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS

21:18 THAT DATA THAT YOU KEEP.

21:21 WE SO THAT THAT WOULD BE

21:22 PROBABLY HELD AT THE CATHOLIC

21:23 CHARITIES UH AT EL CENTRO FOR

21:26 FROM THAT DATA STANDPOINT FOR

21:27 US AT LEAST WE'VE BEEN PULLED

21:29 IN TWO OUT OF THE FIVE FOLKS

21:30 THAT WE'VE HAD COME WITH US.

21:32 SO FROM FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AT

21:33 LEAST AND I'VE DONE THIS KIND

21:34 OF WORK IN A COUPLE

21:35 OF DIFFERENT PLACES UH, THAT'S

21:36 A PRETTY UH AWESOME BEING ABLE

21:38 TO RETAIN TWO FOLKS UNDER THAT

21:39 SYSTEM IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.

21:42 UM, BUT I KNOW THAT THEY'RE OUT

21:43 THERE.

21:44 IN THE ADDITION TO THAT, THE

21:45 CATHOLIC CHARITIES EL CENTRO

21:46 ARE GIVING THEM TYPES

21:47 OF SUPPORT IN ORDER TO IF THEY

21:49 DON'T END UP PLANNING WITH THE

21:50 CITY TO FIND THAT UH,

21:52 EMPLOYMENT PATHWAY FOR

21:53 THEMSELVES OUTSIDE.

21:54 OUTSIDE?

21:54 YES, SIR.

21:55 YEAH.

21:56 THEY UH SO WHAT KIND

21:58 OF PARTNERSHIPS ARE.

21:59 THERE FOR OTHER PATHWAYS?

22:02 UH.

22:02 TO HELP THE YOUNG FOLKS

22:05 TRANSITION INTO PERMANENT IT

22:07 EMPLOYMENT OR DO YOU OR.

22:10 AND OR ARE YOU AT THAT POINT

22:13 YET.

22:14 SO SO FROM FROM US FROM THE DO

22:17 ITS ROLE IN THIS PART OF A

22:19 PROCESS IT'S MORE TO BE THAT

22:21 EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT GIVEN THEM

22:23 AND THE EXPERIENCE WE DON'T

22:25 NECESSARILY SPECIALIZE IN

22:26 FUNDING THEM THE ROLE AFTER

22:27 THAT'S OPEN A DIFFERENT A

22:29 DIFFERENT PART OF OUR

22:30 ORGANIZATION AND ALSO IN A

22:31 DIFFERENT PART OF THE CATHOLIC

22:32 CHARITIES THAT ARE GOING TO BE

22:34 ABLE TO US.

22:34 AND SO THE PART OF YOUR

22:36 ORGANIZATION THAT DOES THIS TOO

22:37 THEY KEEP ANY KIND OF DATA ON

22:40 THE SUCCESS RATES.

22:42 OR ON BASED ON UM WHERE YOU PUT

22:46 YOU MEAN MORE.

22:47 PLACEMENTS ON PLACEMENT.

22:48 REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT'S THE

22:50 END RESULT UH THE EXPERIENCE

22:52 THAT THIS YOUNG PERSON.

22:53 HAS AFTER THAT TRAINING AND

22:56 AFTER UM.

22:58 MAYBE PART TIME EMPLOYMENT OR

23:01 SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT?

23:02 YEAH I'M I'M SURE THAT WE COULD

23:04 WE COULD REQUEST THAT FROM EL

23:05 CENTRO I THINK WOULD BE AN EASY

23:06 THING TO GET BACK TO YOU.

23:08 I'M NOT SURE HOW OFTEN THEY'RE

23:10 SHARING DATA, BUT I KNOW THAT

23:11 THEY'RE DEFINITELY COLLECTING

23:12 IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE

23:13 PROGRAMMATIC UH, REQUIREMENTS.

23:15 AND THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO

23:17 SEE UH, MR CHAIR, DO CAN I

23:22 CONTINUE?

23:23 YES, YOU CAN CONTINUE.

23:24 COUNCILOR OKAY.

23:25 THANK YOU.

23:25 AND UM, THE UH.

23:27 THE EQUITY PARTNERSHIP THAT YOU

23:29 DID YOU ITS EQUITY PARTNERSHIP

23:32 PROGRAM.

23:33 YES.

23:35 THE CITY IDENTIFIES AND

23:38 REACHES THE RESIDENTS.

23:41 HOW UM WELL, WE HAVE A DECENT

23:45 AMOUNT OF INBOUND UH, FOLKS WHO

23:47 REACH OUT TO US BECAUSE WE'VE

23:49 BEEN DOING THIS WORK SINCE, UM

23:51 ,I BELIEVE THE BIDEN

23:52 ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM WAS

23:53 CALLED THE AFFORDABLE

23:54 CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM.

23:55 SO WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF GET

23:57 OURSELVES OUT THERE IN ADDITION

23:58 TO KIND OF BEING A CENTRAL HOME

24:00 WHERE WHERE FOLKS KNOW THAT

24:02 THEY CAN CALL IF THEY'RE HAVING

24:04 TROUBLE WITH THEIR CABLE

24:05 PROVIDER.

24:05 WE WE KIND OF LAYER THAT

24:07 INTERNET ASPECT INTO IT DURING

24:08 THE ACP PROGRAM.

24:10 PETER LET A LOT OF THAT WORK TO

24:11 GET FOLKS I BELIEVE THAT WE HAD

24:13 ABOUT 50,000 UH RESIDENTS THAT

24:15 WERE SIGNED UP FOR THAT

24:16 PROGRAM.

24:16 SO ALL OF THOSE FOLKS UH, SEE

24:18 US AS A RESOURCE FOR THIS TYPE

24:20 OF THING.

24:21 UM, BUT FROM THE STANDPOINT

24:22 OF WHERE WE'RE DOING A LOT

24:24 OF THE OTHER WORK INCLUDING THE

24:26 AI LITERACY AND CYBERSECURITY

24:28 WORKSHOPS THAT'S THROUGH UH,

24:29 NONPROFIT PARTNERS.

24:31 SO WE HAVE A GROUP

24:33 OF INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATIONS WHO

24:34 HAVE WORKED WITH US IN THE PAST

24:37 ON THIS TYPE OF STUFF, AND

24:38 WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ASKING

24:40 THEM TO, YOU KNOW, SURVEY THEIR

24:43 UH, THEIR CONSTITUENTS TO

24:45 GATHER, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WHAT

24:46 ARE FOLKS MOST INTERESTED IN

24:47 LEARNING ABOUT AND AT THIS

24:49 POINT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE

24:50 TO ALREADY DELIVER SIX

24:52 WORKSHOPS, UH, ALL THE WAY

24:54 SOUTH BOSTON, HYDE PARK,

24:56 ROXBURY, MATTAPAN, CHINATOWN

24:57 AND AUSTIN AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO

24:59 IT AT THIS POINT WITH UM, BOTH

25:01 HAITIAN CREOLE AND MANDARIN

25:03 SUPPORT IN ADDITION TO SPANISH

25:04 AS WELL.

25:05 SO THAT'S MOSTLY GOING THROUGH

25:07 THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

25:08 THAT ARE DOING GREAT WORK IN

25:09 THE COMMUNITY AND ADDING THIS

25:11 DIGITAL LITERACY ASPECT TO UM,

25:13 HOW THEY'RE SERVING THEIR

25:15 CONSTITUENTS.

25:15 HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS

25:17 RATE.

25:18 RIGHT NOW.

25:20 OR HOW DO YOU MEASURE WHETHER

25:21 THIS FUNDING IS ACTUALLY

25:23 IMPROVING THE DATA TO DO ACCESS

25:26 ?

25:26 UM, SO WE HAVE WE WE'VE DONE

25:29 AND WE'RE ABOUT TO LAUNCH

25:31 ANOTHER ROUND OF THIS BUT UH

25:33 AND WOULD LOVE YOUR YOUR UH BUT

25:35 EVEN THE CHAIR SUPPORT IS DOING

25:36 OUTREACH TO THE CONSTITUENTS

25:38 BUT WE'VE DONE A DIGITAL EQUITY

25:40 SURVEY UH LAST ONE WAS DONE IN

25:42 2024 TO MEASURE OUTCOMES FOR

25:44 FOLKS.

25:45 IT'S, UH VERY SIMILAR TO HOW

25:47 YOU THINK ABOUT IT THAT UM,

25:48 FOLKS WHO ARE WHO ARE LOW

25:50 INCOME, WHO ARE FORMERLY

25:51 INCARCERATED, WHO ARE

25:53 NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING AS THEIR

25:54 PRIMARY LANGUAGE ARE THE SAME

25:56 FOLKS THAT ARE HAVING A LOT

25:57 OF THESE PROBLEMS.

25:58 SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE THINK

25:59 ABOUT REACHING OUT TO THE

26:00 SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE

26:02 ALREADY HELPING THOSE TYPE

26:03 OF FOLKS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT

26:05 THEY'RE ABLE TO, UH, HAVE A

26:08 DIRECT LINE BACK INTO THE CITY

26:09 IF THAT'S THEIR PREFERENCE.

26:11 AND SO THE ONE THAT DON'T HAVE

26:14 A DIRECT.

26:15 LINE, UM, HOW DO THEY GET

26:18 CONNECTED.

26:18 THROUGH THROUGH THE NONPROFITS

26:19 THAT ARE ALREADY DELIVERING

26:21 SERVICES TO THEM?

26:22 YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S WHEN YOU

26:23 BEGIN TO MEASURE THAT AT ALL.

26:25 DO WE MEASURE UM.

26:27 ,THE SUCCESS OF THE

26:28 NON-PROFITS THAT THEY'RE.

26:30 CONNECTING WITH?

26:30 YEAH, ACTUALLY UH, PETER HAS A

26:32 .

26:32 WE HAVE A NICE UH.

26:34 SET OF DATA THAT WE'VE HOPE TO

26:35 SHARE WITH YOU THAT.

26:36 I KIND OF.

26:37 FOCUSES ON THAT IT KIND

26:38 OF BREAKS IT OUT.

26:39 THE THE TYPES OF FOLKS THAT

26:42 PEOPLE SERVE AND THEN ALSO

26:43 THEIR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

26:44 WITHIN THE CITY WHERE THE

26:45 ORGANIZATION IS.

26:46 SO WE HAVE A DECENT AMOUNT

26:47 OF DATA.

26:48 I THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE

26:49 LITERALLY MISSED THAT BY UH.

26:50 PETER, CAN YOU JUST TALK ABOUT

26:52 THAT A LITTLE BIT?

26:52 YEAH, DEFINITELY.

26:53 YEAH.

26:53 SO UM FROM THE LAST ROUND

26:55 OF THE DIGITAL EQUITY FUND, UH,

26:58 WE OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

27:00 SERVED OR SERVED ABOUT JUST

27:02 OVER 1100 THOUSAND RESIDENTS IN

27:04 TOTAL.

27:05 UM, WE'RE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE

27:07 JUST UNDER 3000 DEVICES TO

27:09 RESIDENTS FREE OF CHARGE.

27:10 UM, FOLKS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT JUST

27:13 UNDER 10,000 RESIDENTS IN TOTAL

27:15 RECEIVED A WIDE RANGE OF, UH,

27:17 DIGITAL LITERACY TRAINING.

27:19 SO BASIC INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED

27:20 LEVEL, UH, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS.

27:22 UM.

27:24 WE EACH ORGANIZATIONS HAVE

27:26 WORKSHOPS UM, WE KIND OF GIVE

27:28 THEM THE CREATIVE FREEDOM TO

27:29 CARRY OUT THEIR UH THEIR

27:32 TRAININGS AND THEIR THEIR WORK

27:33 HOW THEY SAW FIT AND YOU KNOW,

27:35 REALLY MET THE RESIDENTS WHERE

27:36 THEY WERE BOTH LITERALLY AND

27:38 FIGURATIVELY.

27:39 UM AND SO, UH, HAPPY TO PROVIDE

27:42 YOU KNOW, THIS THIS A MORE

27:43 IN-DEPTH, UH, OVERVIEW OF THIS

27:45 THIS DATA UH, AFTERWARDS BUT

27:46 UM, OKAY.

27:47 YEAH.

27:48 JUST ONE FINAL QUESTION ON

27:49 THOSE 43 EIGHTS FACTS SYSTEMS.

27:53 HOW DID YOU DECIDE WHO THEY

27:55 WENT TO AND CAN YOU TELL US

27:57 WHERE THEY WENT TO?

27:58 I BELIEVE THAT'S COMING UP AS A

28:00 DOCKET LATER THAT COUNCIL DID

28:02 YOU WANT THAT QUESTION TO BE

28:03 ANSWERED AT THIS POINT?

28:04 YEAH.

28:05 KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO?

28:06 UM WHY DON'T YOU CONTINUE.

28:08 WITH JUST.

28:09 READ THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE

28:12 REMAINING DOCKETS INTO.

28:13 THE RECORD AND THEN WE'LL

28:14 CONTINUE.

28:15 THEN WE'LL ASK QUESTIONS AGAIN.

28:17 SO UM.

28:18 INSTEAD OF.

28:19 DOING ONE DOCKET AT A TIME

28:20 WHEN.

28:20 YOU JUST READ THEM.

28:21 OKAY.

28:21 THE REMAINING REST.

28:22 MR CHAIR, THAT WAS MY LAST

28:24 QUESTION.

28:24 OKAY OKAY.

28:26 YEP.

28:26 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

28:27 THANK YOU.

28:29 UH YEP.

28:30 SO HI EVERYONE.

28:31 MY NAME IS TRISH KAFKA.

28:33 I'M THE DEPUTY CHIEF

28:33 OF OPERATIONS FOR THE CITY

28:35 OF BOSTON.

28:35 BUT I SIT WITHIN THE MAYOR'S

28:36 OFFICE, SO I'M HERE TODAY TO

28:38 TALK ABOUT THE THIRD DOCKET,

28:39 WHICH IS THE 43 HVAC UNITS THAT

28:41 WE'VE REQUESTED APPROVAL BY AND

28:43 ACCEPT AND EXPAND ORDER.

28:45 UM, SO THESE UNITS ARE COMING

28:47 FROM THE FWC 2026 USA

28:51 INCORPORATED.

28:53 UM WE ACTUALLY HAD A DEADLINE

28:54 TO PICK THEM UP SO WE ALREADY

28:56 HAVE THEM IN OUR POSSESSION.

28:57 WE HAVE NOT YET DETERMINED

28:59 WHERE THEY WILL GO BECAUSE WE

29:00 NEED TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND

29:01 APPROVED FIRST.

29:02 SO WE HAVE ONLY INVENTORIED

29:03 THEM AT THIS POINT.

29:04 UM BUT THERE ARE THREE

29:06 DIFFERENT SIZES.

29:07 THEY ARE ONE TON ONE AND A HALF

29:09 TON AND TWO TON AND SO EACH ONE

29:10 HAS A DIFFERENT SIZE SPACE THAT

29:12 THEY'RE SUITABLE FOR UM THEY

29:14 ARE GENTLY USED SO THEY COME TO

29:17 US IN THE CONDITION THAT THEY

29:18 ARE UM AND THEY MUST BE USED

29:20 FOR A MUNICIPAL PURPOSE.

29:21 BUT UM TO YOUR POINT,

29:23 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THERE ARE

29:24 A RANGE OF MUNICIPAL PURPOSES

29:25 THAT WE CAN PUT THEM TO SUCH AS

29:28 SCHOOLS, POLICE STATIONS, BCF

29:31 CENTERS AND SO THAT IS WHAT WE

29:34 INTEND TO DO WITH THEM.

29:35 AND SO YOU HAVEN'T MADE A

29:36 DECISION ABOUT WHERE THEY.

29:37 GO YET.

29:38 WE HAVE NOT MADE THE

29:39 DETERMINATION WE HAVE REACHED

29:40 OUT TO ALL OF THE FACILITY

29:42 DIRECTORS IN THE CITY THAT

29:43 REPRESENT ALL OF THE

29:45 DEPARTMENTS THAT MANAGE

29:45 PROPERTY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST

29:48 GROUPS THAT WE REACHED OUT TO.

29:49 UM AND SO AS SOON AS WE HAVE

29:51 APPROVAL TO USE THEM WE WILL

29:53 BEGIN ASKING DEPARTMENTS

29:55 BEGINNING WITH BP'S WHAT DO YOU

29:57 HAVE NEED FOR?

29:58 AND THEN WE WILL BEGIN

29:59 DISTRIBUTING THEM.

30:00 GREAT.

30:01 AND I'D LIKE TO MAKE A PITCH

30:02 FOR BP'S AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS

30:03 THAT ARE, UH, NOT.

30:05 AIR CONDITIONED.

30:07 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

30:09 OKAY.

30:10 THANK YOU.

30:10 AND WAS THERE ONE FINAL.

30:13 THERE WAS THAT.

30:14 WAS THE FINAL DOCKET.

30:16 OKAY.

30:17 UH, WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY

30:19 CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

30:21 UM, THANK YOU, COUNCIL FOR.

30:23 JOINING US.

30:24 UM.

30:27 COUNCIL BREADON I.

30:27 WAS GOING.

30:28 TO GIVE EACH.

30:29 CITY COUNCIL'S.

30:31 SIX MINUTES, UH, TO ASK.

30:33 QUESTIONS BUT.

30:34 THEN WE CAN UH, DO IT

30:36 ANOTHER ROUND AS WELL.

30:38 UM.

30:39 IF YOU.

30:39 BUT YOU COULD ASK QUESTIONS

30:41 FOR.

30:41 ALL OF THE DOCKETS UM AND.

30:44 THEN AGAIN WE'LL.

30:46 HAVE FURTHER TIME TO ASK UM.

30:48 ASK AT ANOTHER.

30:49 ROUND BUT COUNCIL OF COUNCIL

30:52 BREADON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

30:55 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN.

30:57 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

30:59 UM WE'RE ALWAYS WE'RE ALWAYS

31:00 DELIGHTED.

31:01 TO GET DONATIONS UH, IN-KIND

31:03 AND THEN IN CASH UH, TO HELP US

31:06 WITH THESE, UH, ESPECIALLY

31:09 HITCHHIKERS A BIG A BIG BIG A

31:11 NEED FOR OUR CITY.

31:12 UM, ONE QUESTION I HAD WE

31:14 NOTICED WHEN WE HAD THE CITY UM

31:15 ,THE BP'S BUDGET THIS PAST

31:17 YEAR THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE

31:19 IN OUR ENERGY COSTS.

31:20 I THINK GIVEN THE THE THE ARE

31:23 WE UM, AS SUPPOSE IF YOU GET A

31:27 GIFT YOU DON'T LOOK THE GIFT

31:28 HORSE IN THE MOUTH AS TO SAY,

31:29 UM, HOW ENERGY EFFICIENT ARE

31:31 THESE, UM, HATCHBACK UNITS?

31:36 UH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

31:37 THEY ARE ON THE NEWER SIDE SO

31:40 WE EXPECT THAT THEY WOULD BE

31:41 BETTER IN BETTER CONDITION AND

31:43 MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT THAN A

31:45 LOT OF EXISTING SYSTEMS THAT WE

31:46 HAVE THAT ARE AT THE END

31:47 OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE THAT WE

31:48 COULD REPLACE.

31:49 BUT THAT BEING SAID, WE DIDN'T

31:51 SELECT THEM AND THEY DIDN'T GO

31:52 THROUGH OUR PUBLIC FACILITIES

31:54 DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR UM, YOU

31:56 KNOW, SPECIFICATIONS.

31:58 SO THEY ARE UH THE MODEL IS OR

32:01 THE MAKE IS FRIEDRICH AND SO WE

32:04 WOULD DEFINITELY LOOK AT MAKING

32:05 SURE THAT WE'RE NOT REPLACING

32:06 SOMETHING THAT'S MORE ENERGY

32:08 EFFICIENT WITH SOMETHING THAT

32:09 IS LESS.

32:09 SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO

32:10 IMPROVE WITH THE EQUIPMENT.

32:12 OKAY THAT'S GOOD AND.

32:15 UM AND TO UM I KNOW YOU

32:18 MENTIONED THAT WE DON'T YOU

32:19 KNOW WE HAVEN'T HAD AN ACCEPT

32:20 AND EXPAND YET.

32:21 SO YOU HAVE YOU'RE JUST

32:22 INVENTORYING THESE UNITS WERE

32:24 NOT WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW

32:26 WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO LAND AT

32:27 THIS POINT.

32:28 YES.

32:28 SO WE SUBMITTED THE EXPECT

32:30 THE ACCEPT AND EXPAND TO CITY

32:32 COUNCIL IN JULY IT WAS REFERRED

32:34 TO THIS HEARING OR THIS

32:35 COMMITTEE AND SO WE JUST NEEDED

32:36 APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL IN

32:38 ORDER TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO

32:39 USE THE UNITS.

32:39 OKAY GOOD.

32:41 AND UM.

32:43 WHEN WE PUT IN HVAC UNITS DO

32:45 THEY STAY IN THE WINDOW UNITS

32:48 OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WHEN

32:49 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WINDOW

32:50 UNITS.

32:50 THESE ARE ACTUALLY MINI SPLITS.

32:52 OR MINI.

32:53 YES SO IT'S 43 MINI SPLITS

32:55 OF THREE DIFFERENT SIZES.

32:56 SO THEY ARE INSTALLED ON

32:58 THEY'RE USUALLY VERY HIGH ON A

33:00 WALL UM AND THERE'S BOTH AN

33:02 INTERIOR UNIT AND THEN THERE IS

33:04 ALSO A CORRESPONDING EXTERIOR

33:06 COMPONENT TO IT.

33:07 AND SO THE DONATION INCLUDES

33:09 BOTH FOR EACH OF THE 43.

33:11 OKAY AND THAT'S A DIFFERENT

33:13 SCENARIO THEN THAT'S A.

33:14 GOOD UM.

33:16 DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF.

33:18 WHAT THE ENERGY DEMAND ON THE

33:19 MINI SPLITS ARE LIKE I, I

33:22 HAVEN'T GOT MANY SPLITS AT MY

33:23 HOME SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S UH

33:25 HOW ENERGY EFFICIENT ARE THERE?

33:27 I KNOW THEY'RE BEEN GREATLY

33:27 LAUDED FOR THEIR ENERGY

33:29 EFFICIENCY.

33:30 THEY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE

33:32 ENERGY EFFICIENT THAN OFTEN SAY

33:33 A WINDOW UNIT.

33:34 I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT

33:36 SPECIFICATIONS FOR THESE UNITS.

33:37 I CAN FIND OUT IF THAT IS

33:39 HELPFUL.

33:40 UM BUT AGAIN THEY ARE THEY ARE

33:43 CONSIDERED MUCH MORE ENERGY

33:44 EFFICIENT THAN MANY OTHER

33:45 SYSTEMS THAT.

33:45 WE COULD DEPLOY.

33:47 SO IT'S A MINI SPLIT THE

33:48 COOLNESS IN THE SUMMER DO THEY

33:49 UM DO YOU HOW ARE YOU GOING TO

33:51 USE THEM FOR HEATING IN THE

33:52 WINTER?

33:53 THEY CAN BE YEAH.

33:55 YEP OKAY.

33:56 VERY GOOD.

33:57 OKAY.

33:57 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

33:59 THAT'S THAT'S ALL I HAD.

34:00 THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

34:06 I WILL ALSO TAKE UM, SIX

34:09 MINUTES AS WELL.

34:13 AGAIN, THANK YOU TO THE

34:14 ADMINISTRATION.

34:15 PANEL FOR.

34:16 BEING HERE.

34:16 FOR THE IMPORTANT WORK THAT

34:18 YOU'RE DOING.

34:19 I THINK IT WAS BRIAN I THINK

34:20 WAS BRIAN THAT MENTIONED.

34:24 AT THE BEGINNING.

34:25 UH MAYBE PETER.

34:27 BUT YOU MENTIONED UM ONE OF THE

34:30 GRANTS IS BENEFITING.

34:34 OLDER ADULTS.

34:35 RESIDENTS AND PUBLIC HOUSING

34:38 VETERANS, RETURNING CITIZENS.

34:41 ALL DEMOGRAPHICS.

34:44 I I STRONGLY SUPPORT I HAVE MY

34:46 MY WHOLE LIFE.

34:47 DID YOU MENTION ENGLISH

34:49 LANGUAGE.

34:49 LEARNERS THEY INCLUDE.

34:51 YES OKAY OKAY.

34:52 UM.

34:55 WHAT OTHER WHAT OTHER.

34:57 GROUP MIGHT BE PART OF THAT?

34:59 DID I MISS ANY.

35:01 UM YOU, UM.

35:04 I GUESS.

35:05 NEW IMMIGRANTS IN GENERAL, UM,

35:07 LITTLE LOWER INCOME

35:08 POPULATIONS.

35:09 OKAY.

35:10 WE'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE WE

35:11 HAVE SOME PRETTY GOOD DATA FROM

35:13 2024 LIKE WE MENTIONED, A LOT

35:14 OF THIS.

35:15 UH.

35:16 PROBLEM DOES END UP, UH,

35:17 CONCENTRATED IN THE HOUSING

35:19 AUTHORITY AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE

35:20 ALSO FOCUSED ON, UM, AND

35:22 LOOKING FORWARD TO AN

35:24 OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD.

35:25 UH.

35:26 ADDITIONAL CONNECTIVITY UP

35:27 UH.

35:27 THOSE LOCATIONS AS WELL.

35:29 SO OKAY, THE LONGER TERM FIX

35:30 FOR THAT PROBLEM OKAY.

35:32 JUST TWO.

35:33 TOOK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.

35:35 DO YOU FIND THAT YOU HAVE.

35:38 LESS DIGITAL ACCESS.

35:40 IN PUBLIC HOUSING BECAUSE

35:42 OF THE.

35:42 BECAUSE OF ANY INFRASTRUCTURE.

35:45 RELATED ISSUES?

35:47 ABSOLUTELY.

35:48 THAT IS UM AGAIN IT'S A IT'S

35:50 A LONGER TERM PROBLEM BUT IT IS

35:52 SOMETHING THAT WE'RE FACING

35:53 RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY WITH THE UH

35:55 SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS

35:56 JUST ENTERING THE DOCKET RIGHT

35:57 NOW IT'S A PROJECT TO EXPAND

36:00 CONNECTIVITY TO UH, TWO OF THE

36:02 CAMPUSES AND THEY DO HAVE UM,

36:04 SOME REMEDIATION, UH, OLDER

36:07 BUILDING ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE

36:08 COMPLETED IN ORDER TO MOVE

36:10 THOSE IN.

36:11 SO YOU SEE A LOT OF UM.

36:13 THE TRADITIONAL UH, SERVICE

36:16 PROVIDERS NOT BEING WILLING TO

36:17 GO THAT EXTRA MILE TO DO THOSE

36:19 TYPES OF, YOU KNOW, DEAL WITH

36:20 THESE OLDER BUILDINGS AND UH,

36:22 MAKE THAT WORK.

36:23 AND SO THAT'S WHY THE CITY'S

36:24 KIND OF STEPPING UP AND SAYING

36:26 WE CAN HELP WITH THIS PIECE

36:27 OF THE PUZZLE.

36:28 SO THERE WAS A GROUP I WORK

36:30 WITH.

36:30 IT'S UM CASTLE SQUARE TENANTS

36:34 ORGANIZATION.

36:35 UM.

36:36 AND THEY DO SOME OUTSTANDING

36:38 WORK THERE.

36:39 IN THE SOUTH END.

36:41 IT'S ALMOST.

36:42 PREDOMINANTLY A RESIDENTS

36:43 OF COLOR.

36:44 UH, BUT THEY.

36:45 PROVIDE TRAINING AND ACCESS.

36:47 TO ON DIGITAL EQUITY.

36:50 UM, MY QUESTION IS.

36:54 WHAT TYPE OF SUPPORT WOULD.

36:57 YOU PROVIDE?

37:00 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THAT?

37:03 IS IT IS IT PHYSICAL LIKE

37:06 COMPUTERS.

37:07 OR DO YOU MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.

37:08 TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR DO.

37:09 YOU PROVIDE.

37:11 LAPTOPS OR COMPUTERS?

37:13 UM COMPUTERS.

37:14 SO UH WE KIND OF GIVE THE

37:16 CREATIVE FREEDOM TO THE ACTUAL

37:17 ORGANIZATIONS BASED ON WHAT

37:19 THEIR EXACT NEEDS ARE.

37:20 UM, WE'VE HAD ORGANIZATIONS WHO

37:22 HAVE JUST WANTED DEVICES THAT

37:25 ARE, YOU KNOW, IPADS OR YOU

37:27 KNOW, SPECIFIC CHROMEBOOKS,

37:29 LAPTOPS THAT ARE YOU FOR.

37:30 FOR WHATEVER THEY'RE GOING TO

37:32 BE USING.

37:33 UM, WE HAVE ORGANIZATIONS WHO

37:34 HAVE REQUESTED HOTSPOTS SO THAT

37:36 THEY CAN GO TO THOSE RESIDENTS

37:37 WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE UH, YOU

37:39 KNOW, IN IN HOME, UH, INTERNET

37:41 ACCESS AND RELY ON MOBILE UH,

37:44 DATA IF THAT BUT UM, IT'S IT'S

37:47 REALLY KIND OF UP TO THEM WE WE

37:49 SET UP SOME PARAMETERS, YOU

37:50 KNOW, WE LOOK FOR UH

37:52 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE YOU

37:53 KNOW, WHETHER WHEN IT COMES TO

37:55 DIGITAL NAVIGATION WORK.

37:56 SO ONE ON ONE TECH HELP WE HAVE

37:58 CERTAIN DIGITAL LITERACY

37:59 STANDARDS THAT UH, WE PROVIDE

38:02 TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS.

38:03 UH, WE ALSO PROVIDE UM FLIERS

38:06 THAT THAT CONTAIN UM ALL OF THE

38:08 LOW COST UH, INTERNET OPTIONS

38:10 THAT ARE $30 OR LESS, UH, THAT

38:12 ARE AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS UH,

38:14 IN BOSTON UM, AS WELL AS UM

38:18 FLIERS WITH UH DEVICES THAT ARE

38:20 REFURBISHED OR LOW COST UM,

38:22 THAT RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS AS

38:23 WELL.

38:24 AND THESE ARE AVAILABLE IN 12

38:26 TOTAL LANGUAGES.

38:27 UM, WE UH WE SEND THIS OUT TO

38:29 NOT ONLY OUR DIGITAL EQUITY

38:31 FUND, UH, COMMUNITY BASED

38:33 PARTNERS BUT WE PARTNER WITH

38:34 OTHER COMMUNITY FACING CITY

38:36 DEPARTMENTS.

38:37 SO WE KIND OF YOU KNOW, WE'RE

38:38 WE'RE A SMALL BUT MIGHTY TEAM

38:39 BUT OUR FAMILY IS IS VERY BIG

38:42 AND SO WE TRY TO GET

38:43 INFORMATION OUT TO ANYONE THAT

38:46 IS IN OUR NETWORK HOWEVER WE

38:47 POSSIBLY CAN WHETHER IT BE

38:48 NEWSLETTERS, EMAILS, FLIERS,

38:50 IN-PERSON MEETINGS,

38:52 PRESENTATIONS, THE WHOLE NINE

38:53 YARDS.

38:54 UM BUT YEAH, JUST TO KIND

38:55 OF WRAP UP AS IT PERTAINS TO

38:57 THE ORIGINAL QUESTION, UM, WE

38:59 WHEN WHEN WE REVIEW THE

39:01 PROPOSALS THAT ARE SUBMITTED.

39:02 TO TO US SUBMIT THE WITHIN THE

39:04 APPLICATION PERIOD.

39:05 UM, YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN IDEA

39:08 OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR BASED

39:09 ON YOU KNOW PREVIOUS DID YOU

39:11 LIKE REFUND UM ROUNDS AND ALSO

39:13 WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO TO ACHIEVE

39:15 IN THE FUTURE AND BASED ON YOU

39:17 KNOW INCLUDING LIKE BUT BUT

39:18 BRIAN MENTIONED OUR 2024

39:20 DIGITAL EQUITY SURVEY THAT WE

39:22 CONDUCTED UM AND YOU KNOW, IF

39:24 THERE'S A HIGH NEED FOR FOLKS

39:26 TO ADOPT INTERNET UM, AND YOU

39:28 KNOW, PUT AN EMPHASIS THERE BUT

39:30 UM, IT'S REALLY KIND OF THE

39:32 BALL'S IN THE COURT OF THE THE

39:35 ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE PARTNER

39:35 WITH.

39:36 AND IN ADDITION TO THAT WE'RE

39:38 MORE RECENTLY STARTING TO UH,

39:40 COMPLETE AI LITERACY WORKSHOPS

39:42 WITH THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY

39:43 ORGANIZATIONS AND WE'D BE HAPPY

39:44 IF YOU WANTED TO.

39:45 CONNECT US WITH THE FOLKS IN

39:46 CASTLE SQUARE.

39:47 WE'D BE HAPPY TO, UH, SCHEDULE

39:49 AT LEAST AN INTRO MEETING TO

39:50 SEE IF IT'S A GOOD FIT FOR WHAT

39:52 THEY'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THEIR

39:53 RESIDENTS.

39:54 YEAH, THAT'S A.

39:55 GREAT RECOMMENDATION.

39:56 THANK YOU.

39:57 SIR, I'D.

39:58 I'D.

39:58 LIKE TO TAKE YOU UP ON UH, MY

39:59 FINAL QUESTION.

40:00 I ONLY HAVE.

40:01 12 SECONDS.

40:02 AND WE'LL DO ANOTHER ROUND.

40:03 UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT I'VE

40:06 WORKED ON FOR FOR.

40:07 YEARS I WAS A PROBATION

40:08 OFFICER, UM.

40:10 AT SUPERIOR COURT IS.

40:15 UM.

40:16 WHAT I KNOW YOU MENTIONED

40:19 RETURNING.

40:20 CITIZENS ARE COMING.

40:21 OUT OF THE, UM.

40:22 SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL.

40:24 WHAT ARE YOU PROVIDING

40:26 RETURNING CITIZENS AS IT

40:28 RELATES.

40:29 TO DIGITAL EQUITY NOW WITH

40:32 TRAINING EDUCATION.

40:34 OR HOW WERE YOU ASSISTING THEM?

40:36 YEAH.

40:36 UH, I THINK THAT PETER

40:38 TOUCHED ON IT A LITTLE BIT UH,

40:39 DURING HIS REMARKS.

40:40 WE WE'VE BEEN RUNNING SINCE

40:42 JANUARY 2025, UH, OFFICE HOURS

40:44 EVERY MONDAY FOR EVERY OTHER

40:45 MONDAY, UH, OVER AT THE EOC

40:48 LOCATION.

40:49 SO WE'RE KIND OF THERE JUST AS

40:51 A GENERAL TECH SUPPORT TECH

40:52 HELP THAT'S RANGE ALL THE WAY

40:54 FROM LIKE GETTING GMAIL SET UP

40:56 FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TO ACTUALLY

40:58 HELPING THEM TO MANAGE GOOGLE

41:00 MAPS BECAUSE IT'S AGAIN IF YOU

41:01 CAN IMAGINE IF YOU'VE BEEN IN

41:03 FOR A WHILE AND YOU AND YOU

41:04 CAME OUT INTO THIS NEW WORLD

41:05 AND EVERYONE'S NAVIGATING BY

41:06 SMARTPHONE AND PEOPLE DON'T

41:08 REALLY HAVE MAPQUEST ANYMORE.

41:10 SO UM, THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE

41:11 MORE INTERESTING ONES THAT CAME

41:13 UP DURING THESE DISCUSSIONS.

41:15 UH, WE UH KIND OF TOOK OVER AS

41:18 TECH GOES HOME WAS ROLLING

41:20 THEIR OPERATIONS DOWN.

41:22 THEY HAD MADE COMMITMENTS TO

41:25 INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE IN UM IN

41:28 SUFFOLK COUNTY FOR UH THAT IF

41:31 THEY COMPLETED THE TRAINING

41:31 THEY WOULD PUT A DEVICE IN A

41:33 HOTSPOT.

41:33 SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

41:34 CURRENTLY EXPLORING HOW TO MAKE

41:35 SURE THAT THOSE UM PROMISES ARE

41:39 MAINTAINED AND THAT UH, THE

41:40 CONSTITUENTS THAT WE HAVE ARE

41:42 RECEIVING THE DEVICES, UH, WHEN

41:44 THEY ARE WHEN THEY'RE RETURNING

41:46 HOME.

41:46 OKAY.

41:48 I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS BUT

41:49 I'M GOING.

41:50 TO DO ANOTHER ROUND.

41:51 OKAY.

41:51 I'M GOING TO START.

41:53 WITH, UM.

41:54 COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER.

41:56 I'M GOING TO GIVE I'M GOING TO

41:57 GIVE ANOTHER SIX MINUTES AGAIN

41:59 .

42:01 UM THANK YOU MR CHAIR.

42:02 SO YES YOU HAVE YOU HAVE THE.

42:03 FULL COUNCIL RUN.

42:04 I JUST HAD A COUPLE

42:05 OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AI

42:06 LITERACY.

42:07 AND SO.

42:10 WIDESPREAD IS THE TRAINING

42:11 YOU'RE DOING ARE YOU DOING IT

42:12 IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR

42:14 YOU'RE CONNECTING WITH

42:15 RESIDENTS ON AI LITERACY?

42:18 YEAH ABSOLUTELY.

42:19 SO SO THERE'S A WHOLE SET I

42:20 WON'T SPEAK TO THE AI PROGRAM.

42:23 THAT'S SOMETHING I'M FAMILIAR

42:24 WITH BUT I'M NOT AN EXPERT AND

42:26 DON'T KNOW THE DATA.

42:26 BUT YOU'RE NOT.

42:27 WORKING WITH.

42:28 IT.

42:28 I'M NOT NO I'M NOT.

42:29 OKAY YEAH.

42:30 ON A.

42:31 DAY TO DAY BASIS THAT'S, UH

42:32 ,BEEN SPUN UP SEPARATELY FROM

42:34 OUR STANDPOINT.

42:35 UH, LIKE I MENTIONED AT

42:36 COUNCILOR FLYNN'S QUESTION, WE,

42:39 UH, DETERMINED THAT ONE OF THE

42:41 BEST WAYS THAT WE COULD HELP

42:42 WAS TAKING SOME OF THE

42:42 EXPERTISE THAT WE HAD IN-HOUSE

42:44 AND WORKING WITH COMMUNITY

42:45 ORGANIZATIONS TO ORGANIZE THE

42:47 TRAININGS.

42:48 SO WHAT WE BASICALLY WE'LL

42:49 WE'LL GO OUT.

42:50 AND WE'LL SAY.

42:50 WE'LL BRING THE TRAINER, WE'LL

42:52 BRING THE CURRICULUM, WE'LL

42:53 BRING DEVICES IF IF NEEDED FOR

42:56 UM FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE

42:57 CURRICULUM AND THEN UH, IT'S

42:59 FOR THE ORGANIZATION TO RECRUIT

43:01 THE CONSTITUENTS FROM FOR THEIR

43:03 UM THEIR ORGANIZATION AND TO

43:05 FIND SPACE FOR THE TRAINING.

43:06 SO WE HAVE AT THIS POINT WE'VE

43:08 BEEN ABLE TO DO SIX WORKSHOPS

43:10 IN THIS FORMAT, UH, WITH OVER

43:12 70 PEOPLE ATTENDING.

43:14 UH AND WE'RE GETTING PRETTY

43:15 GOOD POSITIVE RESPONSE SCORES

43:16 WHERE UH THEY'RE UH BETWEEN 85

43:19 AND 95% OF FOLKS ARE SAYING

43:20 THAT THEY'VE LEARNED SOMETHING

43:23 NEW AND THEY WOULD BE, UH,

43:24 INTERESTED TO SHARE THIS WITH

43:26 ONE OF THEIR FRIENDS OR

43:28 RELATIVES TO TO PARTICIPATE IN

43:29 THIS TYPE OF TRAINING.

43:31 SO HAPPY TO ANSWER ALL ANY

43:32 OTHER QUESTIONS.

43:34 BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE EARLY

43:35 EARLY STAGE.

43:35 WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE OUR

43:37 NUMBERS FOR THOSE COURSES.

43:39 SO AS I JUST HAVE FOR

43:40 COUNCILOR FLYNN, IF THERE IS A

43:41 COMMUNE OR COMMUNITY

43:42 ORGANIZATION THAT YOU WORK

43:44 CLOSELY WITH THAT WOULD BE

43:45 INTERESTED IN THIS TYPE

43:46 OF THING, WE'RE ABOUT TO REOPEN

43:48 AND START ASKING FOLKS FOR

43:50 ANOTHER ROUND OF TRAINING.

43:51 WE CAN DO IT UM ENGLISH AND

43:54 SPANISH, UH HAITIAN CREOLE AND

43:56 UH MANDARIN SUPPORT.

43:58 UM SOMETIMES FOLKS PREFER TO

44:01 EITHER HAVE SOMEBODY FROM THE

44:02 CITY HELPING ON THAT SIDE BUT

44:03 IT'S ALSO BEEN PRETTY

44:04 SUCCESSFUL.

44:04 WE'VE DONE ONE WHERE THE UM THE

44:07 TRANSLATOR WAS FROM THE

44:09 ORGANIZATION.

44:10 SO THERE ARE SOMEONE THAT THE

44:11 FOLKS FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE

44:12 WITH AND THEY'RE MAYBE THEY'RE

44:13 LIKE CASEWORKER OR MANAGER AND

44:15 THEY'RE DOING THE TRANSLATION

44:17 SO IT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT

44:18 MORE CONVERSATIONAL FOR THEM

44:20 AND MORE EFFECTIVE.

44:21 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD ANY

44:21 OTHER.

44:22 THOUGHTS THERE.

44:23 YEAH.

44:23 AND UM WHEN WHEN WE REACH

44:25 OUT TO ADVERTISE THESE PROGRAMS

44:26 IT'S RIGHT ON BOSTON.GOV BUT WE

44:28 WE SEND IT TO OUR UM WHAT.

44:31 WE LIKE TO CALL OUR DIGITAL

44:32 EQUITY COALITION

44:34 OF ORGANIZATIONS.

44:34 SO WHO ARE LOCATED ALL ACROSS

44:36 THE CITY UM OR WHO WORK WITH

44:37 FOLKS IN BOSTON.

44:39 UM SO IT.

44:40 GOES OUT UH.

44:41 ,AT LEAST YOU KNOW 50 TO 100

44:44 ORGANIZATIONS.

44:45 UM, AND YOU KNOW FOLKS WHO WORK

44:47 AT THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL.

44:48 SO WE'RE TRYING TO COVER ALL

44:50 OF THE BASES THAT WE POSSIBLY

44:51 CAN.

44:52 AND ALSO LIKE I SAID, I UTILIZE

44:54 OTHER COMMUNITY FACING CITY

44:55 DEPARTMENTS AS WELL, UH,

44:56 WHETHER IT BE CITY COUNCILORS

44:58 OR UM, YOU KNOW, OFFICE OF UH

45:00 MAYOR'S OFFICE OF IMMIGRANT

45:01 ADVANCEMENT, VETERAN SERVICES.

45:04 ETC. ETC..

45:07 DO YOU.

45:07 DO WITH ALL THOSE OFFICES?

45:09 YEAH THE.

45:10 I TRAINING AND HOW IN-DEPTH DO

45:12 YOU GO IS IS LIKE A I 101.

45:15 OR.

45:15 YES IT'S IT'S IT'S I 101 AND

45:18 THEN WE CAN HAVE A FOCUS

45:19 ATTACHED TO THE TAIL END OF IT

45:21 THAT IS EITHER FOR SPECIFICALLY

45:23 OR FOCUS ON SCAMS AND SCAM

45:25 PREVENTION.

45:26 SOME FOLKS REALLY WANT TO LEARN

45:27 ABOUT THE IMPACT IT'S GOING TO

45:29 HAVE ON THE WORKFORCE AND WAYS

45:30 THAT THEY CAN, YOU KNOW,

45:31 SPECIFIC SKILLS THAT THEY CAN

45:32 LEARN.

45:33 OR AGAIN, WE'RE MOSTLY JUST

45:34 POINTING THEM IN THE RIGHT

45:35 DIRECTION AT THAT POINT IT'S A

45:37 60 TO 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP, BUT

45:39 WE'RE ABLE TO DO A 101 A STRONG

45:42 101 THAT WE'RE WE'RE WELL

45:44 VERSED IN AND THEN A LITTLE BIT

45:46 OF UH, WHATEVER FLAVOR THE

45:49 ORGANIZATION IS ASKING FOR

45:50 SPECIFICALLY.

45:51 UM AND A LOT OF IT HAS BEEN

45:52 AROUND THE SCAM PREVENTION UM,

45:56 STUFF SPECIFICALLY.

45:57 SO.

46:04 I DID WANT TO ASK ABOUT HOW

46:05 WIDESPREAD THAT IS FOR THE

46:07 RESIDENTS.

46:08 HOW DO YOU.

46:09 I TRAINING UP HOW WIDESPREAD

46:13 ACROSS THE CITY IS IT.

46:15 RIGHT NOW WE'VE TRAINED 70

46:17 FOLKS A LITTLE BIT OVER 70

46:19 FOLKS AND UH ARE EXPECTED THE

46:21 ONES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE

46:22 SCHEDULED WOULD BE ABOUT 450 OR

46:25 SO.

46:25 AGAIN LIKE WE MENTIONED WE'RE

46:27 GOING TO TRY TO EXPAND THIS A

46:28 LITTLE BIT.

46:29 WE HAVE FUNDING FOR THESE

46:30 PROGRAMS UNTIL THE END

46:32 OF DECEMBER.

46:33 SO WE THINK THAT WE CAN MAYBE

46:34 GET UH ABOVE 500 AT THIS POINT.

46:38 BUT UM I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH

46:40 FOR THAT WE CAN TAKE IT AND IF

46:41 I CAN COMMIT IT INTO.

46:42 THAT THAT AND.

46:43 ONE THING I DID WANT TO ALSO

46:45 ADD IS UM, THIS PAST SUMMER WE.

46:46 UH.

46:47 DID SOMETHING A LITTLE

46:48 DIFFERENT SO WE'VE.

46:49 BEEN ABLE TO.

46:50 HOST, UM, A HANDFUL OF DIGITAL

46:52 EQUITY SUMMER FELLOWS AND

46:53 INTERNS AND AND THIS SUMMER WE

46:55 HAD THEM.

46:56 LOCATED AT DIFFERENT BCF SITES

46:58 AROUND THE CITY.

46:59 UM, SOME SOME OF THE FELLOWS

47:01 WERE GOING TO TWO SITES EACH

47:02 WEEK.

47:03 UM, AND UM AND SO AT A CERTAIN

47:06 POINT ONCE THEY FELT

47:07 COMFORTABLE WITH, YOU KNOW, ALL

47:08 THE YOUTH THAT WERE COMING IN

47:09 OR IF THERE WERE ADULT PROGRAMS

47:11 THAT WERE THERE UM THEY OFFERED

47:12 OUR FELLOWS OFFERED THEIR OWN

47:14 COURSES AND AND LED TRAININGS

47:16 ON NOT JUST THINGS ABOUT AI OR

47:18 AI BASICS BUT ALSO GRAPHIC

47:20 DESIGN CODING FOR FOR FOLK

47:22 YOUTH WHO WERE INTERESTED IN

47:23 CODING UM, AND THINGS OF THAT

47:25 NATURE.

47:26 SO WE WE TRIED TO UM YOU KNOW,

47:28 BE IN MORE PLACES AND THAN JUST

47:30 CITY HALL AND YOU KNOW AND UM

47:32 AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

47:33 SO UM WE TRY TO CAST A WIDE NET

47:35 WHENEVER WE GO OUT AND DELIVER

47:36 THESE TRAININGS OR OFFER ANY

47:38 SERVICES THAT THAT.

47:39 WE READ AND HOW MUCH OF THE.

47:42 VHA PRESENT RESIDENTS ARE YOU

47:44 TRAINING?

47:46 DO YOU GO DIRECTLY TO THE VHA.

47:49 AND OFFER TRAINING TO ALL

47:51 OF THE RESIDENTS OR DO YOU?

47:55 GIVE TRAINING MOSTLY TO THE

47:57 VOLUNTEERS THAT REALLY WANT IT

47:59 ?

48:00 WE I WOULD SAY IT'S UH

48:01 DEFINITELY OPT IN.

48:03 WE DON'T FORCE THIS TYPE

48:04 OF TRAINING ON ANYBODY.

48:05 UM, WITH THE VHA WE HAVE A

48:07 GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH UH,

48:09 SAHAR LAWRENCE OVER THERE WHO

48:10 IS THE DIGITAL EQUITY WHO HAS.

48:12 A SIMILAR.

48:12 ROLE TO THE ONE THAT PETER

48:14 HOLDS IN HERE IN THE CITY HALL.

48:15 UM, WHO IS ORGANIZING THOSE

48:17 TYPES OF TRAININGS?

48:18 BUT WE CAN GET YOU SOME MORE

48:20 DATA BACK IF THAT'S A HELPFUL.

48:21 ASPECT OF THE CONVERSATION.

48:23 AND WHAT'S GREAT IS UM, LIKE AN

48:26 EXAMPLE LIKE THE WEST BROADWAY

48:27 TASK FORCES HAS BEEN LEADING

48:29 THE CHARGE FOR FOR THEIR

48:31 RESPECTIVE COMMUNITY AND SO WE.

48:33 HAVE A LOT OF BUY IN FROM THE

48:34 TASK FORCE THAT THE ACTUAL.

48:36 UH HOUSING.

48:36 AUTHORITY COMMUNITIES AND SO

48:38 THEY'RE DOING A GOOD JOB AT

48:39 SPREADING THE WORD TO RESIDENTS

48:41 THERE AND UM, AND AND STUFF

48:42 LIKE THAT.

48:44 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

48:45 THANK YOU.

48:47 COUNCIL CULPEPER UM

48:49 COUNCIL PRESIDENT YOU HAVE SIX

48:50 MINUTES.

48:51 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

48:53 UM, I'M STILL.

48:54 YOU KNOW I KNOW THAT DURING

48:56 COVID LIKE I WAS IT SEEMS LIKE

48:57 YEARS AGO NOWADAYS YEARS AGO,

48:58 SIX YEARS.

49:01 UM IT WAS HUGE.

49:02 WE IDENTIFIED HUGE GAPS IN.

49:04 DIGITAL ACCESS.

49:06 AND, UH, HOW.

49:07 ARE WE ON TOP OF.

49:09 ALL OF THAT?

49:09 ARE THERE STILL PLACES AND

49:11 SPACES WHERE.

49:12 WE STILL FIND.

49:13 THAT FOLKS DO NOT HAVE GOOD

49:14 DIGITAL ACCESS?

49:16 I THINK IT'S AN ONGOING EFFORT

49:18 TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST WITH

49:19 YOU.

49:20 I THINK THAT A LOT OF THE

49:21 SOLUTIONS THAT CAME ABOUT

49:22 DURING THE PANDEMIC WERE UH,

49:24 SOLUTIONS THAT WERE GREAT

49:26 TEMPORARY UH, AND THEN KIND

49:29 OF SEEMED TO FALL BY THE

49:30 WAYSIDE.

49:31 AND AGAIN, I WOULD SAY THAT.

49:32 IT'S BECOME EVEN MORE

49:34 SUBSTANTIAL WITH THE BOOM IN AI

49:36 AND THE.

49:37 IDEA THAT SOME OF THE THINGS

49:39 THAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WITH

49:41 EVEN AT THAT POINT WHICH IS

49:43 MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS ARE

49:44 ONLINE SAFELY THINK THAT'S ONE

49:46 OF THE CORE ASPECTS OF DIGITAL.

49:47 EQUITY IS.

49:48 THAT WE'RE NOT JUST HANDING YOU

49:50 A DEVICE AND THE INTERNET.

49:51 WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT.

49:52 THOSE TWO THINGS END UP WITH

49:54 POSITIVE OUTCOMES INSTEAD

49:56 OF SOME OF THE NEGATIVE

49:57 EXTERNALITIES THAT YOU CAN

49:58 OFTEN SEE DEVELOP.

49:59 UM, FROM FROM OUR STANDPOINT WE

50:01 ARE STILL SEEING NEED IN THE

50:04 COMMUNITY.

50:04 I THINK THAT UM IT'S SOMETHING

50:06 OR IT'S ALSO THAT THERE ARE NEW

50:07 NEW FOLKS COMING INTO BOSTON

50:09 EVERY DAY.

50:09 SO THAT'S DEFINITELY.

50:10 A GROUP THAT WE SEE IS.

50:12 UM A GROUP THAT WE.

50:13 WANT TO.

50:13 MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

50:14 FOCUSING.

50:14 ON UH FROM THE STANDPOINT OF.

50:16 THE BIGGER LARGER PUSHES THAT

50:19 WE'RE WE'RE HOPING TO TO MOVE.

50:21 UM.

50:22 ACTUALLY I THINK IT JUST GOT

50:23 PUT INTO THE DOCKET TODAY IS UH

50:26 A PROGRAM THAT THE STATE HAD

50:27 FUNDED FOR UH, PROVIDING

50:30 CONNECTIVITY TO THE FOR FREE

50:32 FAST UH, CONNECTIVITY TO FOLKS.

50:34 SO THAT'LL UH, KIND OF SHIFT

50:36 FROM UH NOT TO SAY BAND AID

50:38 WHERE WE ARE GIVING FOLKS ONE

50:39 YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO HOTSPOTS

50:41 AND A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT

50:42 WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.

50:43 BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN

50:45 BE LONG AND SUSTAINABLE AND

50:46 ACTUALLY MAKE A REALLY BIG

50:47 IMPACT ON FOLKS IS LOVE WHEN

50:48 IT'S TIED WITH THE TRAINING AS

50:50 WELL.

50:51 SO I KNOW WE WORKING WITH I

50:52 KNOW WHAT WORK WOULD BE A YOU

50:54 MENTIONED BCC YEAH SO WE WORK

50:56 WITH OUR LIBRARIES AS WELL

50:57 LIKE.

50:58 OF COURSE.

51:00 THAT WAS LIKE SO.

51:01 THIS NOT THIS.

51:02 PAST SUMMER THE PREVIOUS SUMMER

51:03 WE HAD OUR INTERNS AND FELLOWS

51:05 AT DIFFERENT LIBRARIES ACROSS

51:07 THE CITY AS WELL UM DOING

51:08 DIGITAL NAVIGATION WORK.

51:10 SO ANYONE WHO CAME IN WHO HAD

51:11 ANY TECH QUESTIONS OUR INTERNS

51:13 WERE ABLE TO HELP THEM RIGHT

51:14 THERE ON THE SPOT.

51:15 UM.

51:16 IF THEY.

51:16 NEEDED A LAPTOP WE WERE ABLE TO

51:18 APPLY FOR A FREE REFURBISHED

51:19 LAPTOP FROM ONE OF OUR

51:20 COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

51:21 UM, THEY NEEDED HELP WITH, YOU

51:22 KNOW, BEEFING UP THEIR RESUME.

51:24 SAME TYPE OF THING.

51:25 SO WE'RE COVERING EVERYTHING WE

51:27 POSSIBLY CAN.

51:28 AND WE AND WE WERE ABLE TO, UH

51:30 ,IN THE LAST ROUND OF THE

51:32 DIGITAL EQUITY FUND TO PROVIDE

51:34 SOME FUNDING TO BPL TO EXPAND

51:37 THEIR LONG TERM LENDING

51:38 PROGRAM.

51:38 SO THAT'S THAT DEVICE PLUS

51:40 HOTSPOT FOR A LONGER PERIOD

51:42 OF TIME FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL.

51:43 AND SO WE WERE ABLE WE'RE

51:44 THANKFUL THAT THEY REACHED OUT

51:46 AND JUST KIND OF HAD A SMALL

51:47 FUNDING GAP FOR HOW THEY WERE

51:49 FUNDING THAT PROGRAM.

51:50 THEY HAD A DONATION FROM

51:51 COMCAST BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO

51:53 COVER THE FULL FRAME OF THOSE.

51:55 SO WE WERE ABLE TO STEP IN AND

51:56 USE SOME OF THE FUNDING WE WERE

51:57 ALLOCATED BY THE STATE TO UH,

51:59 GET THAT PROGRAM INCREASED AND

52:01 REDUCED.

52:02 THE WAIT TIMES ARE ONE OF THE

52:03 BIG THINGS WITH THAT LONG TERM

52:04 LENDING PROGRAM.

52:05 SO AND THE TECHNOLOGY IS

52:06 CHANGING REALLY FAST.

52:07 YES.

52:08 IT WAS VERY HARD TO KEEP UP

52:09 WITH ALL THAT.

52:10 YEAH I STUFF.

52:11 IN TERMS OF JUST.

52:13 OUR VULNERABILITY OF OUR

52:15 COMMUNITIES ACROSS THEIR

52:17 PARTICULAR CONCERNS THAT YOU

52:18 THAT YOU WERE SORT OF SETTING

52:20 THEMSELVES UP TO TRY AND

52:21 ADDRESS IN THE LONGER TERM.

52:23 YEAH, THE.

52:24 BIGGEST I WOULD SAY THE BIGGEST

52:25 TOUR AFFORDABILITY AND THEN

52:27 SAFETY ARE THE TWO PIECES

52:28 OF THE PUZZLE.

52:29 SO UM, FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT

52:31 WE ARE TRYING TO FOCUS OUR AI

52:33 LITERACY WORK SPECIFICALLY ON

52:36 UM THE SCAM PREVENTION HELPING

52:38 MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE KIND

52:40 OF KNOW WHAT'S COMING UP.

52:41 I KNOW THAT FOLKS HAVE HEARD A

52:42 LOT ABOUT UM, YOU KNOW, ROBO

52:44 CALLS THAT HAVE FAKE VOICES ON

52:46 THEM AND SO KIND OF THAT

52:47 DISCERNMENT ASPECT OF IT IS

52:49 SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY

52:50 WORKING HARD ON.

52:51 UM, AND THEN AFFORDABLE

52:53 CONNECTIVITY IS THE OTHER PIECE

52:55 OF THE PUZZLE.

52:56 SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE REALLY

52:56 TRYING TO FOCUS AND PARTNER

52:58 WITH THE TO PROVIDE THAT FREE

52:59 INTERNET TO THOSE.

53:00 FOLKS.

53:01 OKAY VERY GOOD.

53:02 THANK YOU.

53:02 THANK YOU MR CHAIR.

53:04 THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

53:07 ALSO TAKE ALSO TOOK SIX

53:11 MINUTES.

53:16 MY MY MY REQUEST IS AND I'M

53:19 GLAD YOU'RE DOING SOME TRAINING

53:20 AND OUTREACH IN MANDARIN.

53:23 UM MANY OF MY.

53:25 CONSTITUENTS IN CHINATOWN.

53:27 SPEAK CANTONESE.

53:28 ARE WE.

53:29 ABLE TO.

53:29 DO ANYTHING.

53:30 IN CANTONESE.

53:31 ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY PEOPLE.

53:33 IN CHINATOWN?

53:34 THEY SPECIFICALLY SPEAK.

53:37 UM CANTONESE.

53:38 MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT.

53:40 ARE ARRIVING.

53:40 INTO INTO BOSTON FROM CHINA

53:44 SPEAK MANDARIN.

53:44 BUT MY.

53:46 PRIMARY FOCUS.

53:47 IS ON ON.

53:48 THE ON OUR SENIORS IN.

53:50 CHINATOWN, UM.

53:51 THE LIKE THE DISTRICT.

53:52 WE HAVE.

53:53 A LARGE CHINESE COMMUNITY.

53:54 BAY VILLAGE AS WELL.

53:56 BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE

53:57 THE CANTONESE LANGUAGE.

53:59 SO I CAN ACTUALLY I'LL TAKE

54:00 THAT ONE.

54:02 SO MAYBE ABOUT A YEAR AGO WE SO

54:03 ONE OF OUR DIGITAL EQUITY FUND

54:05 PARTNERS IS THE UH ASIAN

54:06 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION UH

54:08 GREAT PARTNER OF OURS.

54:09 UM, WE UM WHEN WE WHEN WE WENT

54:12 OUT AND THEY ASKED US TO DO

54:13 SOME BASIC TRAINING ON YOU KNOW

54:15 WHAT IS I YOU KNOW, HOW IS THIS

54:18 GOING TO AFFECT DAILY LIFE

54:19 STUFF LIKE THAT.

54:21 UM AND WHILE WE WERE WELL WE

54:22 GAVE THE PRESENTATION IN

54:24 ENGLISH.

54:24 THEY HAD REAL TIME TRANSLATORS

54:26 WITH HEADSETS THAT WERE UH

54:28 DELIVERING AND SPEAKING UH

54:29 MANDARIN, CANTONESE UM STUFF

54:32 LIKE THAT.

54:33 SO IF WE CAN'T PROVIDE THE

54:34 DIRECT TRANSLATIONS WE'LL UH

54:36 ASK THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

54:38 IF THEY CAN DO THAT OR WE'LL

54:40 CONNECT WITH OUR LANGUAGE AND

54:41 COMMUNITY UH, UM, LANGUAGE AND

54:43 UM, COMMUNICATION ACCESS UH,

54:45 OFFICE HERE AT THE CITY UM, TO

54:47 GET SOMEONE WHO CAN.

54:49 OKAY.

54:50 CAN WE ENSURE THAT WE.

54:53 DO SOME MORE TRAINING IN

54:55 CHINATOWN?

54:55 I DO.

54:56 THINK I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

54:57 IT'S A OBVIOUSLY IT'S A.

55:00 COMMUNITY PRIMARILY

55:02 OF IMMIGRANTS AND PEOPLE.

55:04 OF COLOR.

55:04 BUT IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD

55:06 PRIORITIZE 100%?

55:07 OKAY.

55:08 UM, THEN MY OTHER QUESTION.

55:10 IS SO FOR AN ELDERLY PERSON

55:12 .

55:12 THAT MAY NOT SPEAK.

55:13 ENGLISH AND IS.

55:15 NEW TO LEARNING ABOUT.

55:17 UM.

55:18 ACCESS TO THE.

55:19 TO UM.

55:20 TO THE.

55:20 COMPUTER OR.

55:21 DIGITAL EQUITY.

55:23 ARE THEY EASILY.

55:25 OR MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO.

55:27 BE A VICTIM OF A.

55:28 SCAM BECAUSE.

55:31 PEOPLE MIGHT TAKE THEIR

55:33 VULNERABILITIES AND USE IT.

55:35 FOR VARIOUS REASONS FINANCIAL.

55:38 BUT WHEN YOU'RE BRAND.

55:40 NEW.

55:40 TO AND YOU DON'T HAVE WHEN.

55:41 YOU HAVE LIMITED COMPUTER

55:42 SKILLS.

55:44 AND THEN SOMEONE COMES.

55:46 AT YOU WHAT THE WHAT SOME TYPE

55:48 OF SCAM HOW DO YOU HOW.

55:50 DO.

55:50 YOU.

55:50 ENSURE IF YOU'RE.

55:51 AN ELDERLY PERSON THAT YOU

55:53 KNOW YOU'RE FULLY YOU'RE FULLY

55:55 AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON?

55:57 YEP.

55:58 SO UM ONE THING THAT WE WE

55:59 LIKE OUR OUR APPROACH TO THIS

56:02 WORK IS ALWAYS UH, I DESCRIBE

56:03 IS THAT THE HUMAN SIDE

56:04 OF TECHNOLOGY AND SO WHEN WHAT

56:06 I MEAN BY THAT WHEN WE GO OUT

56:08 WE TRY TO YOU KNOW, REALLY MEET

56:09 FOLKS WHERE THEY ARE UM,

56:11 WHETHER IT CONVERSING IN

56:12 ENGLISH OR SPANISH UM, YOU

56:14 KNOW, BEFORE WE EVEN SIT DOWN

56:15 AND GET TO, YOU KNOW, WORK ON

56:17 WHATEVER THEY WANT TO WORK ON,

56:18 WE JUST GET TO KNOW THEM, GET

56:20 TO KNOW THE RESIDENTS, YOU

56:20 KNOW, LET THEM KNOW THAT HEY,

56:21 WE'RE ALSO A FELLOW BOSTONIAN.

56:23 UM, YOU KNOW, HOW'S YOUR DAY

56:25 GOING AND STUFF LIKE THAT AND

56:26 BUILD A NICE RAPPORT WITH THEM,

56:27 UH, AND AND GO FROM THERE AND

56:29 KIND OF EXPLAIN ANY TRICKY

56:32 CONCEPTS IN IN WAYS THAT ARE

56:33 EASY TO UNDERSTAND FOR THEM AND

56:35 REALLY MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE

56:36 AND UH, TRY TO GAUGE WHAT THEY

56:38 KNOW, WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW,

56:39 WHAT THEY MIGHT BE FEARING UM

56:41 AND THEN PROVIDE THE RESOURCES

56:43 THAT THEY CAN THEN USE AND AND

56:45 HOLD ON TO TO UM, YOU KNOW, IN

56:47 THE EVENT THAT THEY DO COME

56:48 ACROSS A SCAM OR SOMETHING THAT

56:50 LOOKS FISHY HOW TO NAVIGATE

56:52 THAT THAT SITUATION IS IS THERE

56:55 ANY.

56:55 SITUATION WHERE A GOVERNMENT

56:58 AGENCY OR A BANK WOULD ASK

57:01 SOMEONE FOR THEIR SOCIAL

57:02 SECURITY NUMBER OR UM, ROUTING

57:06 NUMBER BANKING INFORMATION OVER

57:07 THE TELEPHONE?

57:08 IS THERE ANY.

57:09 CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE THAT'S.

57:12 THAT COULD HAPPEN?

57:13 UH, NOT THAT I'M AWARE.

57:14 NOT THAT YOU YOU'RE.

57:15 OKAY.

57:17 UM, NO ONE WOULD EVER ASK.

57:20 A GOVERNMENT AGENCY WOULD NEVER

57:22 ASK SOMEONE FOR THEIR SOCIAL

57:24 SECURITY OR BANKING INFORMATION

57:25 OVER.

57:26 THE TELEPHONE.

57:26 UM, SO SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS

57:30 CAN WE TRY TO DO A LITTLE BIT

57:32 MORE PUBLIC AWARENESS,

57:34 ESPECIALLY IN LANGUAGES OTHER

57:36 THAN ENGLISH THAT KIND

57:38 OF REINFORCES THAT.

57:39 MHM.

57:40 YEAH.

57:40 IS THAT SOMETHING YOU GUYS.

57:41 ARE LOOKING AT.

57:42 ABSOLUTELY.

57:42 AND THAT'S I WOULD SAY THAT'S

57:44 CORE TO LIKE AND AGAIN IT ISN'T

57:46 A SPECIFIC AI TOPIC BUT THAT IS

57:49 THE EXACT KIND OF THING THAT.

57:50 WE'RE BRINGING UP IN THE.

57:51 AI LITERACY SCAM.

57:53 PREVENTION ASPECT OF SOME

57:54 OF THIS WORK IS THAT THOSE

57:57 BASIC.

57:57 ORIGINAL CYBERSECURITY TENETS

57:59 ARE THE EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE

58:00 DESCRIBING THERE.

58:00 SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

58:02 MAKING SURE THAT WE REITERATE

58:04 IT AND AGAIN THE NEW ADVENT.

58:07 OR THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IS THAT

58:09 UM.

58:10 SOMEONE COULD BE ASKING YOU FOR

58:11 THAT WITH A VERY CONVINCING

58:12 SOUNDING VOICE OR AND TRY TO

58:13 MAKE IT SOUND LIKE, YOU KNOW,

58:14 ONE OF YOUR GRANDKIDS OR

58:15 SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.

58:16 SO REALLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE

58:17 SURE THAT FOLKS KNOW THAT THIS

58:19 TECHNOLOGY IS OUT THERE AND

58:20 THAT IT IS BEING USED BY FOLKS

58:22 WHO ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE

58:24 OF OTHER FOLKS AND THAT THEIR

58:26 UM NOT TO SAY NOT DELIGHTED BY

58:28 IT BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE THEY'RE

58:29 WELL AWARE AND THEY SEE THE

58:30 SCALE AT WHICH IT'S POSSIBLE

58:32 AND THEY'RE ABLE TO.

58:33 THEN HAVE.

58:34 THAT THOUGHT IN THEIR HEAD, YOU

58:35 KNOW, IN ADDITION TO THOSE KIND

58:37 OF BASIC TENETS THAT YOU'RE

58:38 DESCRIBED OF, IT WOULDN'T ASK

58:39 YOU FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION

58:41 LIKE THAT OVER THE PHONE.

58:42 SO IF IT WELL.

58:43 IF YOU TAKE IT A STEP FORWARD,

58:45 EVEN A LOVED ONE OR A FAMILY

58:47 MEMBER YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE

58:49 YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION TO A

58:50 FAMILY MEMBER OR A LOVED ONE.

58:52 IS THAT RIGHT?

58:54 UM, I WOULD.

58:55 SAY ONE OVER.

58:56 THE PHONE.

58:57 YEAH.

58:57 IT'S ONE OF THE SAFETY

58:58 PRODUCTS.

58:58 AGAIN BECAUSE YOU DON'T

58:59 REALLY KNOW IF THAT'S THE

59:00 PERSON WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO

59:01 ISN'T IT?

59:01 OKAY.

59:02 SO THAT.

59:05 THAT WAS THAT WAS MY POINT WAS

59:06 .

59:10 YOU KNOW WHEN WHEN SOMEONE HAS

59:13 ACCESS DIGITAL ACCESS AND

59:14 THEY'RE FAIRLY NEW TO IT UM.

59:19 YOU KNOW AND IS MAKING SURE

59:20 THAT THEY KNOW THAT THOSE TYPES

59:23 OF SCAMS FROM A LOVED ONE ARE

59:25 OUT THERE.

59:26 UM, DO THEY DO THEY KNOW THAT

59:28 THOSE SCAMS EXIST OR OR ARE WE

59:31 STILL IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING

59:33 TO EDUCATE.

59:33 THEM ABOUT IT?

59:34 SO ONE ONE THING THAT UM HAS

59:36 BEEN GREAT SO OUR EVERY UM

59:38 DECEMBER WHEN UH AT&T COMES IN

59:41 TO CITY HALL WITH UH TO PARTNER

59:42 WITH H STRONG FOR THE HOLIDAY

59:44 CALLS EVENT UM THAT GOES ON

59:46 AROUND HERE YOU KNOW, UM YOU

59:48 KNOW, RIGHT UP FRONT THERE.

59:49 YEAH.

59:49 OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS,

59:51 UM, SOME FOLKS FROM AT&T HAVE

59:53 LED TRAININGS IN BOTH I THINK

59:54 ENGLISH AND SPANISH AND MAYBE

59:56 ANOTHER LANGUAGE AS WELL.

59:57 BUT ON THOSE VERY, VERY TOPICS,

1:00:00 YOU KNOW, JUST UH YOU KNOW,

1:00:01 WHEN IT COMES TO SETTING UP

1:00:03 PASSWORDS OR YOU KNOW, WHAT

1:00:04 DOES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN

1:00:06 OPEN WI-FI NETWORK IN A PRIVATE

1:00:08 NETWORK AND THE IMPORTANCE OF,

1:00:10 YOU KNOW, KEEPING YOUR PASSWORD

1:00:11 SAFE AND YOU KNOW, NOT TO GIVE

1:00:13 PERSONAL INFORMATION OVER THE

1:00:14 PHONE TO FOLKS THAT YOU DON'T

1:00:15 KNOW, UH, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

1:00:17 SO, UM, IF WE'RE NOT DOING IT

1:00:19 DIRECTLY WE HAVE PARTNERS IN

1:00:21 THE FIELD WHO WHO CAN

1:00:22 DEFINITELY DO IT AS WELL.

1:00:24 OKAY.

1:00:25 MY MY FINAL QUESTION.

1:00:27 IS UM.

1:00:28 IF YOU COULD FOLLOW UP WITH

1:00:30 ME I KNOW YOU MENTIONED EVERY

1:00:31 OTHER MONDAY YOU DO SOME

1:00:34 SUPPORT TO RETURNING CITIZENS.

1:00:37 COULD YOU.

1:00:39 EMAIL ME THE NEXT UM THE NEXT

1:00:41 COUPLE, UM, SCHEDULES THAT

1:00:45 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE?

1:00:46 UM, THAT I'D LOVE TO COME BY

1:00:47 AND AND SEE IF THERE.

1:00:49 IS A IF THAT'S OKAY.

1:00:50 YEAH DEFINITELY.

1:00:51 YEAH IT'S UM SO I THINK TO

1:00:52 TODAY THIS AFTERNOON UH BUT

1:00:54 HAPPY TO IS ONE SO FROM THERE

1:00:56 EVERY EVERY OTHER MONDAY 2 TO 5

1:00:58 P.M. UH 30 DIMMICK STREET.

1:01:00 OKAY.

1:01:01 SO HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP AN

1:01:02 EMAIL WITH THE INFO THERE.

1:01:03 AND IT'S TIED IN.

1:01:04 WITH UH, A LOT OF THE OTHER

1:01:05 SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE

1:01:06 THERE AT THAT SAME TIME.

1:01:08 SO WE'RE JUST KIND OF ONE

1:01:09 OF THE TOOLS.

1:01:09 IN.

1:01:10 THE TOOLKIT FOR FOLKS AND

1:01:11 MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE THAT

1:01:13 UM THAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A

1:01:14 DISCUSSION WITH SOMEBODY AGAIN

1:01:15 IF IT'S TRYING TO FIX THEIR

1:01:17 GMAIL OR TRYING TO GET LOGGED

1:01:18 INTO SOMETHING OR LEARN ABOUT

1:01:20 THAT.

1:01:20 SO I KNOW THIS MIGHT NOT

1:01:22 NECESSARILY.

1:01:23 BE DIGITAL ACCESS A DIGITAL

1:01:24 EQUITY, BUT WHEN I WAS A

1:01:26 PROBATION OFFICER ONE OF THE

1:01:27 BIGGEST CHALLENGES SOMEONE HAD

1:01:29 COMING OUT OF JAIL OR PRISON IS

1:01:31 A SIMPLE THING LIKE GETTING

1:01:33 YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

1:01:35 UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MAYBE YOU

1:01:37 HAD TO GO DOWN TO CITY HALL BUT

1:01:38 MAYBE NOT FROM HERE AND YOU HAD

1:01:40 TO GO TO ANOTHER CITY OR STATE

1:01:43 EVEN.

1:01:44 BUT HOW WOULD THAT IMPACT

1:01:46 DIGITAL ACCESS DIGITAL EQUITY?

1:01:49 IS THERE A WAY THAT THE

1:01:52 RETURNING CITIZENS ARE ABLE TO

1:01:54 ACCESS FORMS UM BASIC.

1:01:57 FORMS SUCH AS.

1:01:58 THAT THROUGH.

1:01:59 FOR THIS PROGRAM?

1:02:01 DEFINITELY.

1:02:02 AND I KNOW WE COULD PARTNER

1:02:03 WITH UH OTHER LIKE UM.

1:02:05 OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT

1:02:07 THAT DO THAT SPECIFIC WORK I

1:02:08 BELIEVE UM THERE HAVE BEEN

1:02:10 EVENTS THAT WERE WHERE YOU

1:02:12 COULD.

1:02:12 HAVE OR.

1:02:13 REPRESENTATIVES FROM MAYBE

1:02:15 THE REGISTRY AND GONE OUT AND

1:02:17 YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PARTS

1:02:18 OF THE CITY TO TO PRINT OUT

1:02:20 YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATES, YOU

1:02:21 KNOW, AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

1:02:23 SO I'VE BEEN LOOKING TO SEE HOW

1:02:24 WE COULD IMPLEMENT THIS INTO

1:02:25 OUR PROGRAM.

1:02:27 AND I THINK THAT YOU'RE RIGHT

1:02:28 THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A

1:02:29 DIGITAL THING.

1:02:29 I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN

1:02:30 IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO THE.

1:02:31 DIGITAL SIDE.

1:02:32 OF THAT, UH, THAT HAVE.

1:02:34 MADE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE.

1:02:35 BUT I'M UNCERTAIN THAT THE OAC

1:02:38 PROGRAMS THAT ARE ALREADY IN

1:02:40 EXISTENCE ARE ONE OF THOSE

1:02:41 ASPECTS IS THE EXACT THING

1:02:43 YOU'RE MENTIONING THAT PEOPLE

1:02:43 STRUGGLE WITH RECORDS AND UH,

1:02:45 RECOVERING THE RECORDS THAT

1:02:46 THEY NEED TO MOVE ON WITH THEIR

1:02:48 LIVES.

1:02:49 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I

1:02:50 KNOW THAT HELPED A LOT.

1:02:52 SO EXCELLENT.

1:02:53 UM, WELL, I'M I'M ABOUT TO

1:02:56 CONCLUDE THE MEETING, BUT DID

1:02:57 YOU WANT TO OFFER ANY CLOSING

1:02:59 STATEMENT BEFORE WE DO THAT AND

1:03:01 JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT

1:03:02 I HOPE TO BRING THIS TO THE

1:03:04 FLOOR ON WEDNESDAY FOR A FORMAL

1:03:06 VOTE.

1:03:07 THAT IS MY PLAN.

1:03:08 I'LL HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT

1:03:10 OF RESEARCH AND MAKING SURE I

1:03:11 WRITE IT UP THE PROPER WAY, BUT

1:03:13 DO YOU WANT TO PROVIDE ANY

1:03:15 CLOSING STATEMENT BEFORE I

1:03:16 BEFORE I ADJOURN.

1:03:18 OVER TO YOU THERE I'LL GO FOR

1:03:20 SURE.

1:03:20 BUT YEAH, UM IN TERMS OF THE

1:03:23 ACCEPT AND EXPEND FOR THE HVAC

1:03:25 UNITS, I WOULD JUST THANK YOU

1:03:27 FOR UM ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS

1:03:28 TODAY BUT ALSO UM THE SHOULDER

1:03:31 SEASONS LIKE THIS FALL IS A

1:03:33 GREAT TIME TO DO HVAC WORK.

1:03:35 SO IF WE JUST MISS IF WE AREN'T

1:03:37 ABLE TO USE THEM THIS FALL WE

1:03:39 WILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE

1:03:40 SPRING TO LIKELY INSTALL.

1:03:42 SO UM YEAH THE TIMELINESS OF A

1:03:43 WEDNESDAY BUT WOULD BE PERFECT.

1:03:47 EXCELLENT.

1:03:48 UM I SHOULD HAVE THANK YOU

1:03:50 FOR THE INCREDIBLE QUESTIONS

1:03:51 THAT WE RECEIVED IN THIS

1:03:53 HEARING ABOUT THAT.

1:03:54 UM UH EVERYONE THAT JOINED I

1:03:56 THINK HAS GOTTEN A LOT ABOUT

1:03:57 OUT OF IT AT THIS POINT.

1:03:59 UH, DID UH IT WAS IT WAS

1:04:00 BUGGING ME WHEN YOU ASKED THE

1:04:02 QUESTION OF.

1:04:02 THE CAPTAINS.

1:04:04 BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, OH, WE

1:04:05 DID SOMETHING SPECIFIC.

1:04:06 SO I FOUND THE ARTICLE FROM

1:04:08 2025 LAST YEAR THAT WAS UH IN

1:04:10 THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.

1:04:11 SO THEY.

1:04:11 DID A CANTONESE.

1:04:12 SPECIFIC TRAINING AND HOUSING

1:04:14 AUTHORITY.

1:04:15 SO WE'RE EXCITED TO DO MORE

1:04:16 OF THAT AND UM, EXCITED TO UH

1:04:18 TO MOVE AND UH GET THIS GET

1:04:20 THIS FUNDING PROGRAMED AND THEN

1:04:22 ADDITION AT.

1:04:22 THAT UH VERY EXCITED IF FEW UH

1:04:25 BE INTERESTED TO TALK MORE

1:04:26 ABOUT UM THE UPCOMING UH.

1:04:29 THE ADDITIONAL EXCEPT.

1:04:31 AND EXPAND THAT IS GOING TO BE

1:04:32 FOR UH THE THE HOUSING

1:04:35 AUTHORITIES UH INTERNET PROGRAM

1:04:36 THAT WE'RE EXCITED TO MOVE

1:04:37 FORWARD ON AS WELL.

1:04:38 THAT'S A LITTLE BIT TIME

1:04:39 SENSITIVE SIMILAR TO THE ONES

1:04:40 THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.

1:04:41 UH, BUT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO GET

1:04:43 IT FILED IN TODAY'S DOCKET SO

1:04:44 IT WOULD BE, UH, HAPPY TO TAKE

1:04:46 THAT, UM, UP TO AT YOUR

1:04:48 CONVENIENCE.

1:04:52 OH.

1:04:52 WAS THERE.

1:04:53 WERE YOU SAYING THAT THERE WAS

1:04:54 ANOTHER DOCKET.

1:04:56 THAT THAT.

1:04:56 THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE

1:04:57 AGENDA WEDNESDAY?

1:04:58 THAT.

1:05:01 THAT THAT'S SIMILAR TO THIS

1:05:02 THAT EXACTLY.

1:05:04 UH, OKAY.

1:05:04 UM.

1:05:06 CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT IT AND

1:05:08 MAYBE I CAN.

1:05:09 SUSPEND AND.

1:05:10 PASS THAT ONE?

1:05:11 UM, I DON'T THINK WE

1:05:13 NECESSARILY.

1:05:13 HAVE TO HAVE A.

1:05:15 SEPARATE HEARING ON IT, BUT

1:05:16 .

1:05:16 I'D BE HAPPY.

1:05:17 TO TOM.

1:05:17 NO.

1:05:18 IT WOULDN'T IT WOULDN'T BE

1:05:20 FORMALLY IN THE RECORD.

1:05:22 AS IN TERMS OF HAVING A.

1:05:24 SPECIFIC DOCKET THAT SPECIFIC

1:05:27 DOCKET.

1:05:27 SPOKEN TO TODAY BUT AT LEAST

1:05:29 I'M AWARE OF WHAT IT DOES AND I

1:05:32 CAN RELATE TO MY COLLEAGUES

1:05:34 THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD

1:05:36 PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT

1:05:38 IT BUT DO WANT TO TAKE A FEW

1:05:39 MINUTES TO EXPLAIN IT.

1:05:40 YEAH.

1:05:41 I COULD UH, BE SURE WITH IT.

1:05:43 AND THEN IF YOU HAD ANY FOLLOW

1:05:44 UP QUESTIONS UM, BUT THE STATE.

1:05:45 UH.

1:05:46 HAS HAD A PROGRAM RUNNING

1:05:47 FOR UH, A WHILE THAT WE'VE BEEN

1:05:50 JUMPING THROUGH A LOT

1:05:50 OF BUREAUCRATIC HOOPS TO GET

1:05:52 AUTHORIZED TO USE IN THE

1:05:54 EFFECTIVE WAY THAT WE'RE HOPING

1:05:55 TO USE IT THIS, UH, UPCOMING

1:05:58 SHORT TIME PERIOD HERE.

1:06:00 UM, THE PROGRAM WILL FUND.

1:06:02 UH.

1:06:03 FREE SERVICE.

1:06:04 FOR HOUSING RESIDENTS IN WEST

1:06:07 BROADWAY AND ARCHDAILY AND, UH,

1:06:10 WE'RE WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR

1:06:11 THE SUPPORT OF SOME OF OUR UH,

1:06:14 PROVIDERS AS WELL FOR FOR THIS

1:06:15 .

1:06:15 UH.

1:06:16 ABILITY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

1:06:18 UM, IT'LL BE A GREAT, UH.

1:06:19 BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.

1:06:21 AND IT'S FROM OUR STANDPOINT

1:06:22 SOMETHING THAT WE THINK OF AS A

1:06:24 LONG TERM SOLUTION UH, TO THE

1:06:26 AT LEAST THE AFFORDABLE

1:06:28 CONNECTIVITY ASPECT OF IT.

1:06:29 UH, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH A

1:06:30 LOT OF THE FOLKS IN ARE, YOU

1:06:33 KNOW, MAKING LIKE 20 GRAND A

1:06:35 YEAR SOMEWHERE IN THAT RANGE

1:06:36 AND IF YOU CAN THINK ABOUT I

1:06:38 DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU PAY FOR

1:06:39 COMCAST OR VERIZON BUT UH, IT'S

1:06:41 A GOOD CHUNK OF WHAT YOUR

1:06:42 MONTHLY INCOME UH, WOULD END UP

1:06:44 BEING IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT

1:06:45 THAT WAY.

1:06:46 SO WE'RE WE'VE BEEN EXCITED TO

1:06:48 WORK ON A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS

1:06:49 WITH THE VA, BUT WE REALLY

1:06:51 THINK THIS IS THE ONE THAT IS.

1:06:53 GOING TO BE.

1:06:53 A LONG TERM SOLUTION AND BE

1:06:55 ABLE TO PROVIDE FOLKS WITH THE

1:06:57 CONNECTIVITY THAT THEY NEED AND

1:06:58 THEN WE CAN FOCUS ON THE

1:07:00 TRAINING ASPECTS AND MAKING

1:07:01 SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE DEVICE

1:07:02 THAT THEY NEED TO UM, OPERATE

1:07:04 IN DAILY LIFE.

1:07:05 SO WE'RE REALLY.

1:07:06 EXCITED.

1:07:06 ABOUT IT.

1:07:06 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO TALK FURTHER

1:07:08 OR YOU KNOW, TAKE IT OFF ON

1:07:10 DISCUSS UH YOUR CONVENIENCE.

1:07:11 IN HOW MUCH IS THAT.

1:07:13 AWARD FOR.

1:07:13 1.3 MILLION.

1:07:16 SO OUR PART OF THAT IS.

1:07:17 THAT'S UH, MOST OF THE

1:07:19 EQUIPMENT AND UH, UH,

1:07:21 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES THAT

1:07:22 WOULD GO TOWARD CREATING THE

1:07:24 NETWORK.

1:07:24 UM, ON THE SITE IS THE

1:07:26 INSTALLATION.

1:07:27 SO WE'RE.

1:07:27 VERY HAPPY TO, UM, BE

1:07:30 PARTNERING WITH A COUPLE

1:07:31 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO GET

1:07:32 THIS UP AND RUNNING.

1:07:33 AND.

1:07:33 IT'S REALLY.

1:07:34 EXCITING PROJECT.

1:07:36 SO IT'S UH IT'S.

1:07:37 UH WEST BROADWAY THE ARCH DEAL

1:07:39 STEEL.

1:07:40 WAS THERE ANOTHER ONE YOU

1:07:41 MENTIONED JUST.

1:07:41 JUST THOSE JUST A RIGHT NOW

1:07:43 WE'RE REALLY HOPING THAT WE

1:07:44 CAN.

1:07:44 GET ANOTHER.

1:07:45 ONE ONE MORE PROPERTY IN UM.

1:07:48 BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE

1:07:49 STATE HAS TO KIND.

1:07:50 OF GIVE US A FINAL SIGN OFF

1:07:51 ON.

1:07:52 SO THAT'S NOT IN THE IN THE

1:07:53 DOCKET.

1:07:53 IT'S ONLY THE 1.3 THAT COVERS

1:07:55 THE FIRST TWO PROPERTIES.

1:07:56 AND WE'RE REALLY.

1:07:57 EXCITED TO.

1:07:58 START WITH WEST BROADWAY

1:07:59 BECAUSE IT'S AN AREA THAT I'VE

1:08:00 BECOME REALLY FAMILIAR WITH

1:08:01 OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

1:08:03 YOU KNOW THE SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW

1:08:04 IT'S UH IT'S ALMOST A PERFECT

1:08:05 PROJECT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS

1:08:06 AND WE'RE EXCITED TO MOVE

1:08:08 FORWARD AND JUST.

1:08:09 A.

1:08:10 LITTLE BIT STRUGGLING WITH THE

1:08:11 TIGHT TIMELINES ON THESE KIND

1:08:12 OF THINGS.

1:08:12 SO THEY HAVE A STRONG AS YOU

1:08:14 PROBABLY KNOW, A LATINO

1:08:16 COMMUNITY THAT'S VERY ENGAGED

1:08:17 THERE AT THE.

1:08:18 CALLED THE SOUTH.

1:08:19 BOSTON AND ACTION.

1:08:21 BUT ALSO.

1:08:21 THE THE YOU'RE RIGHT THE WEST

1:08:23 BROADWAY TASK.

1:08:24 FORCE UM DOES PROVIDE CRITICAL

1:08:27 LEADERSHIP UM ON SO MANY ISSUES

1:08:29 INCLUDING FOOD.

1:08:30 ACCESS.

1:08:32 UM CERTAINLY DIGITAL EQUITY.

1:08:34 ACCESS.

1:08:34 UM SOCIAL SERVICES.

1:08:37 JUST TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

1:08:38 ARCH STEEL.

1:08:40 UM, SO THAT WAS ONE THAT WAS

1:08:43 IDENTIFIED THROUGH THIS LARGER

1:08:44 PROCESS.

1:08:45 IT HAD TO FIT.

1:08:47 A HALF A DOZEN CRITERIA FROM

1:08:49 THE STATE TO BE PROVIDED.

1:08:51 IT IS.

1:08:51 GOING TO BE FOR UM.

1:08:54 DOUBLE CHECKING 285 UNITS OVER

1:08:56 SIX BUILDINGS.

1:08:57 UH, SO WE'RE REALLY.

1:08:58 THRILLED TO GET THAT ONE

1:09:00 ROLLING.

1:09:00 UM, AND THAT'S UH IT'S A VERY

1:09:03 EXCITING PROJECT.

1:09:03 I THINK THAT THE UM THE TASK

1:09:05 FORCE THERE OR THE UH,

1:09:07 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THERE IS

1:09:08 IS ALSO ENGAGED.

1:09:09 UH, CAN I DESCRIBE WEST

1:09:11 BROADWAY MAYBE IS THE BEST

1:09:12 PARTNER FOR THIS BUT ARE STILL

1:09:13 NOT TOO FAR BEHIND, SO.

1:09:15 OKAY.

1:09:16 UM.

1:09:18 AND THEN AND THEN GOING GOING

1:09:21 FURTHER YOU PROBABLY ABLE TO

1:09:24 SUPPORT OTHER DEVELOPMENTS AS.

1:09:26 WELL IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE?

1:09:27 THAT'S THAT'S THE HOPE IS TO BE

1:09:29 ABLE TO GET.

1:09:30 WITH THIS.

1:09:30 EXACT FUNDING SOURCE AT

1:09:31 LEAST ONE MORE THROUGH.

1:09:32 BUT ONCE WE'VE PROVEN OUT THE

1:09:34 MODEL UM THAT WE'D LIKE TO

1:09:36 AGAIN COME COME IN THE REGULAR

1:09:38 COURSE OF BUSINESS AND TALK

1:09:39 ABOUT THIS WITH CITY

1:09:40 COUNCIL AND OUR UH, LEADERSHIP

1:09:41 OUR BUDGET OFFICE AND SEE WHERE

1:09:43 WE COULD DO MORE OF THIS ONCE

1:09:44 WE'VE, UH, FULLY.

1:09:45 DEPLOYED IT AND GOT.

1:09:46 THIS ONE UP AND RUNNING.

1:09:47 AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION I

1:09:49 YOU MAY HAVE MENTIONED IT TELL

1:09:51 ME WHERE THIS 1.3 MILLION CAME

1:09:53 FROM.

1:09:53 UH, THIS.

1:09:54 IS FOR IT WHERE IT CAME FROM IS

1:09:56 THE STATE AND BY THE SAME

1:09:59 SOURCE AND THAT'S WHY WE WE'RE

1:10:00 TRYING TO GET IT MORE TOGETHER

1:10:02 BECAUSE THIS IS THE SAME SOURCE

1:10:03 THAT THE FUNDING THAT PETER WAS

1:10:04 TALKING IT THROUGH ON THE

1:10:06 PARTNERSHIPS GRANT THEY'RE ALL

1:10:08 FROM THE SAME UH ENTITY.

1:10:09 AT THE.

1:10:09 STATE THAT ROLLS UP INTO

1:10:11 MASTEC.

1:10:11 OKAY.

1:10:11 THEY'RE ALL UM ORGANIZATIONS

1:10:14 BUT THEY'RE THE ONES THAT HAD

1:10:16 THE FUNDING FOR THIS KIND

1:10:17 OF WORK.

1:10:18 OKAY.

1:10:19 IN IN IN.

1:10:22 WOOD WOOD RESIDENTS IN STEEL

1:10:24 AND IN WEST BROADWAY BUT WOULD

1:10:26 THEY.

1:10:27 RECEIVE A LAPTOP OR THEY

1:10:30 RECEIVE A COMPUTER OR WOULD IT

1:10:32 JUST BE MORE OF THE

1:10:33 INFRASTRUCTURE, UM THAT WOULD

1:10:35 PROVIDE THEM WITH DIGITAL

1:10:36 EQUITY?

1:10:37 MY IMPRESSION IS THAT THE WEST

1:10:39 BROADWAY PART OF THIS HAS BEEN

1:10:41 FUNDING DEVICES FOR FOLKS IN

1:10:43 WEST BROADWAY IS FOR THE MOST

1:10:44 PART ALREADY BEEN FUNDED BY

1:10:45 VHA.

1:10:45 I'D HAVE TO CHECK ABOUT THE

1:10:46 RETAIL ONES, BUT WE DO HAVE A

1:10:48 LITTLE BIT OF UH, FUNDING THAT

1:10:49 WE COULD ALLOCATE TOWARD THAT

1:10:50 AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS

1:10:51 WHO NEED A DEVICE ARE ABLE TO

1:10:52 COME.

1:10:53 ON TO HELP WHEN YOU WHEN YOU.

1:10:55 UPGRADE SYSTEMS.

1:10:57 IN PUBLIC HOUSING TO HAVE

1:10:58 TO.

1:10:59 DO YOU.

1:10:59 WORK WITH UM CONTRACTORS THAT

1:11:04 HAVE TO DO THE PHYSICAL

1:11:06 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THE

1:11:08 WIRING INTO HOMES INTO

1:11:11 BUILDINGS DO YOU HAVE TO WORK

1:11:13 DO YOU WORK WITH ELECTRICIANS?

1:11:14 DO YOU WORK WITH WHAT YOU DO?

1:11:16 OKAY.

1:11:16 SO HOW IS UH.

1:11:17 HOW DOES.

1:11:18 GENERALLY HOW DOES THAT

1:11:19 PROCESS WORK?

1:11:20 UH, SO IN THIS.

1:11:21 VERSION OF THE PROCESS BECAUSE.

1:11:23 OF THE WAY THE PROGRAM WAS SET

1:11:24 UP BY THE.

1:11:24 STATE THAT WORK IS.

1:11:26 WAS BID.

1:11:28 UH RECENTLY AND IT'S.

1:11:30 WITH UH MAPCO WHO ARE TO A LOT

1:11:33 OF THE REGIONAL PLANNING WORK

1:11:34 FOR THE COMMUNITY.

1:11:36 WAS BID WITH THEIR SUPPORT BUT

1:11:38 BY THE VHA AND WE RECEIVED BIDS

1:11:41 BACK AND UH THAT'LL BE UH

1:11:43 WORKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE

1:11:45 SYSTEM UH, IN THE NEXT COUPLE

1:11:47 OF WEEKS HERE.

1:11:47 OKAY.

1:11:48 OBVIOUSLY BID WAS THE ANSWER

1:11:50 TO YOUR QUESTION WAS UH, POORLY

1:11:51 BID PROCESS.

1:11:53 OKAY.

1:11:54 SO IT IS MY PLAN TO.

1:11:55 BRING THE.

1:11:57 DOCKETS THAT WERE.

1:12:00 ON TODAY'S AGENDA FORWARD ON

1:12:02 WEDNESDAY.

1:12:03 I ALSO WANT TO BRING THE 1.3

1:12:07 MILLION THAT'S COMING ON THE

1:12:10 AGENDA THAT ON WEDNESDAY TO DO

1:12:13 A SUSPEND AND PASS ON THAT

1:12:15 ALTHOUGH.

1:12:17 IT'S UP.

1:12:17 TO MY COLLEAGUES THEY THEY

1:12:19 THEY MIGHT ASK FOR A HEARING

1:12:21 I'M NOT SURE BUT THAT IS THEIR

1:12:23 RIGHT TO ASK FOR A HEARING.

1:12:25 UM BUT I'M GOING TO RELAY TO

1:12:26 THEM THAT I HAD AN.

1:12:27 IMPORTANT DISCUSSION WITH YOUR

1:12:29 TEAM AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT.

1:12:31 WE THAT I CAN GO FORWARD ON THE

1:12:34 1.3 SO WE CAN GET THIS OUT THE

1:12:36 DOOR.

1:12:38 UM THANK YOU.

1:12:40 SO.

1:12:42 UM.

1:12:44 IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT.

1:12:46 WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC.

1:12:47 TESTIMONY BEFORE WE END?

1:12:51 I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY

1:12:53 PUBLIC.

1:12:53 TESTIMONY AS WELL FROM UM FROM

1:12:57 UM ZOOM.

1:13:01 SO THIS.

1:13:02 HEARING ON DOCKETS.

1:13:07 SO THIS HEARING ON DOCKETS 1085

1:13:11 1395.

1:13:15 1397 A HEARING REGARDING

1:13:16 VARIOUS CITY SERVICE RELATED

1:13:18 GRANTS AND GIFTS IS ADJOURNED.

1:13:21 UM, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

1:13:23 BEFORE I BANG THE GAVEL.

1:13:24 I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

1:13:26 RYAN FOR HELPING ME AT CITY

1:13:29 COUNCIL CENTRAL.

1:13:30 STAFF AND ETHAN WHO'S IN THE

1:13:32 BACK THERE HELPING US WITH THE.

1:13:33 DIGITAL UH, CAMERAS.

1:13:36 SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

1:13:38 BOTH OF THEM.

1:13:38 THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.