Boston City Council Meeting on October 7, 2026
2026-10-07

[1:13] FORWARD SLASH CITY COUNCIL TV.
[1:16] AT THIS TIME I ASK MY
[1:17] COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE
[1:18] AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE
[1:19] THEIR PHONES AND ELECTRONIC
[1:21] DEVICES.
[1:21] ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42, I
[1:24] REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER THAT
[1:26] NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR
[1:27] DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE
[1:28] PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.
[1:30] THANK YOU, MR CLERK.
[1:31] WE PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO
[1:33] ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A
[1:34] QUORUM.
[1:38] YOU'RE MY HATE TO BE TURNED
[1:39] OFF.
[1:41] THANK YOU.
[1:45] COUNCIL AGREED.
[1:46] COUNCIL COLOR AS OPPOSED HERE.
[1:48] COUNCIL.
[1:48] CULPEPER.
[1:49] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[1:51] COUNCILOR.
[1:51] FITZGERALD.
[1:52] COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:53] YES.
[1:54] COUNCIL.
[1:55] MEJIA.
[1:56] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:58] COUNCILOR.
[1:58] PIPPIN.
[2:00] COUNCILOR.
[2:00] SANTANA.
[2:01] YEAH.
[2:02] COUNCILOR WEBER.
[2:02] HERE AND COUNCIL.
[2:03] WE'RE ALL HERE.
[2:04] THE QUORUM.
[2:06] THANK YOU.
[2:06] I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
[2:07] CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.
[2:09] AND COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
[2:10] AND COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE AND
[2:13] COUNCILOR PEPEN.
[2:14] I THINK WE.
[2:15] ACCEPTED THAT.
[2:16] NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO CALL
[2:17] ON THE CLERK TO OFFER SOME
[2:19] BRIEF REMARKS AS AN INVOCATION.
[2:32] TO.
[2:35] GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
[2:36] LET'S PLEASE STAND.
[2:40] BLESSED ARE THE JUST FOR THEY
[2:42] HAVE THEIR REWARD AND AN
[2:44] INDESTRUCTIBLE INTEGRITY.
[2:45] BLESSED ARE THE BLESSED ARE
[2:47] THEY WHO LABOR IN THE VINEYARDS
[2:49] OF THE PUBLIC REALM FOR THEY
[2:50] SHALL BE REMEMBERED.
[2:52] BLESSED ARE THEY WHO LOVED THE
[2:54] NATION ENOUGH TO PRAISE ITS
[2:55] STRENGTHS AND CRITICIZE ITS
[2:58] WEAKNESSES.
[2:58] FOR THEY SHALL BE MADE WISE.
[3:00] BLESSED ARE PUBLIC OFFICIALS
[3:02] WHO ARE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS
[3:05] OF THESE THE LEAST OF THE
[3:05] PEOPLE, FOR THEY SHALL BE
[3:07] DEPUTIES OF THE COMMUNITY.
[3:09] BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO SERVE THE
[3:10] PUBLIC GOOD.
[3:11] FOR THEIR REWARD IS IN BEING
[3:13] USED.
[3:14] BLESSED ARE THE POWERFUL WHO
[3:16] ACKNOWLEDGE THAT POWER IS BOTH
[3:17] GIFT AND RESPONSIBILITY.
[3:19] FOR THEY KNOW THE BINDING
[3:21] OBLIGATIONS OF THEIR BOUNTY.
[3:24] WE ESPECIALLY ASK FOR YOUR
[3:26] BLESSINGS UPON THE MEMBERS
[3:27] OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AS
[3:29] THEY CONTINUE THEIR GOOD WORK
[3:31] ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS
[3:33] CITY ON A HILL.
[3:36] AMEN.
[3:37] THANK YOU.
[3:38] WILL NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE
[3:39] OF ALLEGIANCE.
[3:39] I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
[3:42] OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[3:44] .
[3:44] TWO FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE
[3:47] NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE,
[3:50] WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR
[3:52] ALL.
[3:57] WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS
[3:59] TODAY.
[3:59] FIRST WE'LL CALL UP
[4:00] COUNCILOR DURKAN RECOGNIZING
[4:02] OPENING OUR DOORS FESTIVAL AND
[4:04] THEN COUNCILOR FLYNN
[4:05] RECOGNIZING THE MASSACHUSETTS
[4:06] NURSES ASSOCIATION.
[4:08] COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE
[4:09] FLOOR FOR FIVE MINUTES.
[4:12] THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[4:13] UM, AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE.
[4:14] EVERYONE WHO'S HERE UH, FROM
[4:15] THE OPENING OUR DOORS UH,
[4:17] COMMITTEE.
[4:18] UH.
[4:18] GOOD MORNING.
[4:19] THIS YEAR MARKS 25 THE 25TH
[4:22] ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OUR
[4:23] DOORS AN ALL DAY FESTIVAL
[4:25] OF FREE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES IN
[4:26] THE FENWAY FROM ARTS EXHIBITS
[4:28] AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.
[4:29] UM, I'VE I'VE INVITED MANY
[4:31] OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WHO MAKE
[4:32] THIS INCREDIBLE EVENT POSSIBLE
[4:34] .
[4:34] UM, AND I KNOW WE HAVE THE
[4:35] FENWAY ALLIANCE HERE BOSTON
[4:37] SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE
[4:38] CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, COZY
[4:40] ACCESS STUDIOS.
[4:41] I'M GOING TO KEEP MY REMARKS
[4:43] BRIEF BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A
[4:44] LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
[4:45] INTERESTED IN SAYING A FEW
[4:46] WORDS, BUT I WANT TO TAKE A
[4:48] MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE HOW SPECIAL
[4:49] THIS IS.
[4:50] THE FENWAY ALLIANCE STARTED AND
[4:52] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, PLEASE GET
[4:54] UP HERE WITH ME IF YOU CAN.
[4:55] SO SORRY.
[4:56] UM.
[4:58] UH, RECOGNIZE WHAT A SPECIAL
[5:00] TRADITION THIS IS.
[5:01] THE FENWAY ALLIANCE STARTED
[5:02] OPENING OUR DOORS IN 2001.
[5:04] UM, AND THEY'VE STARTED
[5:05] BEGINNING AND THEY OFFERED
[5:07] CULTURAL OFFERINGS TO THE
[5:08] BROADER PUBLIC.
[5:09] UM, ACTUALLY LAST, UH, A FEW
[5:12] YEARS AGO THE MAYOR ACTUALLY
[5:13] SAID THIS WAS HER INSPIRATION,
[5:15] UH, FOR THE FREE SUNDAYS
[5:17] PROGRAM.
[5:17] SO, UM, SO THIS IS REALLY, UH,
[5:20] THE INSPIRATION FOR A LOT OF,
[5:22] UH, THE CULTURAL OFFERINGS THAT
[5:23] OUR INSTITUTIONS OFFER.
[5:24] UM, AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN
[5:26] POSSIBLE WITHOUT KELLY AND NOW
[5:28] GENEVIEVE AND JUST EVERYONE WHO
[5:30] IS A PART OF THE FENWAY
[5:31] ALLIANCE.
[5:31] UH, IT'S AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE
[5:33] OF WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
[5:34] CAN ACCOMPLISH.
[5:36] UM, AND, UH, THE FESTIVAL TAKES
[5:39] PLACE EVERY YEAR ON INDIGENOUS
[5:40] PEOPLES DAY, WHICH ORGANIZERS
[5:42] ARE INTENTIONAL ABOUT
[5:43] ACKNOWLEDGING.
[5:44] IT'S ALSO A DAY WHEN THESE
[5:45] INSTITUTIONS MIGHT OTHERWISE BE
[5:47] CLOSED.
[5:47] SO OPENING OUR DOORS CREATES A
[5:48] BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR
[5:49] RESIDENTS TO COME TOGETHER AND
[5:51] EXPERIENCE AND APPRECIATE THE
[5:52] ARTS AND CULTURE THAT THEY
[5:53] MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS
[5:54] TO.
[5:55] UM, THIS AND SO, UH, I WANT TO
[5:58] THANK UH, COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE
[5:59] AND SANTANA FOR PARTNERING WITH
[6:00] ME ON THIS AND I'M SO EXCITED
[6:02] TO BE PART OF THIS YEAR'S EVENT
[6:04] AND I ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY
[6:05] COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME.
[6:06] UM, IT'S 10:00 AM.
[6:07] THEY START RIGHT ON THE DOT I
[6:09] BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY
[6:10] ORCHESTRAS THIS YEAR.
[6:11] UM ON OCTOBER 12TH.
[6:14] UM BUT TODAY I HAVE A
[6:16] RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 25TH
[6:18] ANNIVERSARY AND NAMING
[6:19] OCTOBER 12TH, 2026 AS OPENING
[6:21] OUR DOORS DAY IN THE CITY
[6:23] OF BOSTON AND THIS DOES NEED TO
[6:24] BE VOTED ON.
[6:25] SO I'M READING IT NOW BUT I'M
[6:27] WITH MY COLLEAGUES HELP UM,
[6:28] HOPING THAT WE CAN VOTE ON THIS
[6:30] TODAY.
[6:31] UM WHEREAS OPENING OUR DOORS
[6:32] FESTIVAL BOSTON'S LARGEST DAY
[6:33] OF FREE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
[6:35] WAS STARTED BY THE FENWAY
[6:36] ALLIANCE IN 2001 WITH THE
[6:38] MISSION OF OPENING OUR DOORS
[6:39] OF BOSTON'S ICONIC AND HISTORIC
[6:41] INSTITUTIONS GROWING FROM 12
[6:42] LOCATIONS IN 2001 TO FESTIVAL
[6:45] THAT SPANS THE FENWAY
[6:46] NEIGHBORHOOD AND WELCOMES MORE
[6:47] THAN 10,000 AND, UH, ATTENDEES
[6:50] ANNUALLY.
[6:50] UM, THIS PARTNERSHIP I MEAN
[6:52] THIS EVENT IS ONLY POSSIBLE
[6:54] THANKS TO THE FENWAY ALLIANCE,
[6:55] ITS MEMBER INSTITUTIONS AND ALL
[6:57] PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS,
[6:58] CORPORATE SPONSORS, COMMUNITY
[7:00] PARTNERS, LOCAL ARTISTS AND
[7:01] PERFORMERS.
[7:02] NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED
[7:03] THAT THE BOSTON CITY
[7:05] COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS GRATITUDE
[7:06] TO THE FENWAY LIONS FOR
[7:07] OFFERING THIS ALL DAY FESTIVAL
[7:09] WHICH BRINGS COMMUNITIES
[7:11] TOGETHER TO ENSURE OUR CULTURAL
[7:12] OFFERINGS IN THE FENWAY FOR
[7:13] FREE AND WE CELEBRATE THEIR
[7:15] 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
[7:16] UM, AND IT WAS INTERESTING
[7:17] KELLY REMINDED ME THAT MIKE
[7:20] ROSS ACTUALLY BROUGHT THE
[7:21] FENWAY ALLIANCE AND SO ALL GOOD
[7:23] IDEAS COME COME ALL THE WAY
[7:25] BACK TO ALL THE OTHER DISTRICT
[7:26] EIGHT COUNCILORS WHO HAVE DONE
[7:27] AMAZING THINGS.
[7:28] BUT UM, IT FENWAY IS A CULTURAL
[7:31] UH, AREA AND A CULTURAL
[7:33] DISTRICT AND UH, THAT PROVIDES
[7:35] THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOT
[7:37] OF PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER.
[7:38] SO I WANT TO INVITE MY
[7:40] COLLEAGUE COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE TO
[7:41] SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN WE
[7:42] WILL HAVE UH, KELLY AND
[7:44] GENEVIEVE AND WE ALSO HAVE UH,
[7:46] KEITH ELDER WHO IS THE
[7:48] PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON
[7:48] SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS HERE WITH
[7:50] US.
[7:51] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[7:53] AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK
[7:53] YOU TO THE FENWAY ALLIANCE.
[7:55] IT'S BEEN GREAT TO, UH, MEET
[7:57] WITH YOU AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT
[7:58] IDEAS.
[7:59] AND IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT, UH,
[8:01] THERE WAS LIKE A NOR'EASTER
[8:02] LAST LAST YEAR THE DAY OF THE
[8:05] OPENING OUR DOORS AND MY OFFICE
[8:06] HAS A TRADITION OF ON A IT HAS
[8:08] A TRADITION ON INDIGENOUS
[8:09] PEOPLES DAY BUT WE COULDN'T DO
[8:10] IT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER.
[8:11] AND SO I ENDED UP AT THE
[8:12] WONDERFUL OPENING OUR DOORS
[8:13] FESTIVAL UH, LISTENING AT THE
[8:15] BACK.
[8:16] SO LISTENING TO SOME OF THE
[8:17] YOUNG MUSICIANS WHO INCREDIBLE
[8:19] OUR YOUNG TALENT HERE IN THE
[8:20] CITY IS INCREDIBLE MADE ME VERY
[8:22] EMBARRASSED THAT MY MOM PAID
[8:23] FOR PIANO LESSONS BECAUSE I
[8:24] DON'T KNOW WHAT IT NETTED.
[8:25] BUT THE KIDS ARE SO TALENTED
[8:27] AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE ALL
[8:29] THESE AMAZING CULTURAL
[8:29] INSTITUTIONS IN THE FENWAY IT'S
[8:31] GREAT.
[8:31] THANK YOU FOR COMING TOGETHER
[8:32] TO CREATE THIS COLLABORATION
[8:33] AND IF ANYONE IS ABLE TO ON
[8:35] MONDAY, IT'S A REALLY GREAT
[8:36] ACTIVITY TO BRING YOUR FAMILIES
[8:37] TO ON DAYS OFF.
[8:38] YOU DON'T EVEN GOT TO BE YOU
[8:39] DON'T HAVE THE NETS YOUR
[8:40] COUNSELOR JUST GO WITH YOUR
[8:41] FAMILIES AND HAVE A REALLY GOOD
[8:42] TIME AND UM, AS ALL OF OUR
[8:44] INSTITUTIONS OPEN THEIR DOORS.
[8:45] SO THANK YOU.
[8:45] THANK YOU TO KELLY AND
[8:47] GENEVIEVE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
[8:47] AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S
[8:48] A PART OF THE ALLIANCE.
[8:52] THANK YOU.
[8:53] UM, I'M KELLY.
[8:55] BRILLIANT CO-DIRECTOR OF THE
[8:56] FENWAY ALLIANCE.
[8:57] I WANT TO SAY I'M HONORED AND.
[8:58] DELIGHTED TO.
[8:59] BE HERE.
[8:59] UM, TODAY.
[9:01] I WANT TO THANK UM, COUNCILOR.
[9:03] AND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND
[9:06] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[9:07] AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE
[9:09] ALL THE OTHER COUNCILORS IN THE
[9:10] ROOM FOR GIVING US THIS
[9:12] INCREDIBLE HONOR.
[9:13] UM.
[9:14] I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE
[9:15] OUR.
[9:16] CHAIR, COUNCILOR.
[9:17] ZAPATA FOR OPENING UP THE
[9:18] MEETING TODAY.
[9:19] UM.
[9:20] THE OUR, UH, CHAIR OF THE
[9:22] FENWAY ALLIANCE IS JOHN TOBIN.
[9:24] HE'S A FORMER CITY COUNCILOR.
[9:26] AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, HE WAS HE
[9:27] WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN
[9:28] HERE.
[9:29] HE HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING
[9:30] TODAY.
[9:30] BUT HE SENDS HIS REGARDS TO
[9:32] EVERYONE.
[9:33] WE THANK JOHN FOR HIS
[9:34] INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP AND
[9:36] MAKING US SMILE.
[9:37] WHILE HE'S HELPING DIRECT THE
[9:40] ORGANIZATION.
[9:41] UM I JUST WANT TO SAY A COUPLE
[9:43] BRIEF WORDS ABOUT THE FENWAY
[9:44] ALLIANCE.
[9:45] AS COUNCILOR DURKAN SAID WE
[9:46] WERE STARTED IN 1977 EVEN
[9:49] BEFORE MY TIME THERE AND THE
[9:51] PURPOSE OF THE FENWAY ALLIANCE
[9:53] WAS INITIATED TO BETTER OUR
[9:56] COMMUNITY.
[9:57] THAT PURPOSE IN 2026 STILL.
[9:59] REMAINS AND WE DO THAT THROUGH
[10:02] A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES.
[10:04] WE WORK IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
[10:05] WE WORK TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY
[10:07] GREENER.
[10:07] WE WORK TO STEWARD THE MUDDY
[10:09] RIVER, THE.
[10:10] OLMSTED UH.
[10:11] HISTORIC PARKWAY AND WE ALSO DO
[10:14] A FREE FOOD.
[10:14] WE JOIN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND
[10:16] FREE FOOD DISTRIBUTION.
[10:18] BUT THE INITIATIVES THAT ARE
[10:20] THE CLOSEST TO.
[10:22] MY HEART.
[10:22] ARE THE ONES THAT INVOLVE
[10:24] ACCESS TO CULTURE IN THE ARTS
[10:26] FOR ALL BOSTONIANS.
[10:29] I CONCEIVED OF OPENING OUR
[10:30] DOORS 25 YEARS AGO JUST FOR
[10:33] THAT PURPOSE, AND I PERSUADED
[10:36] ALL OF THESE OTHER PARTNERS TO
[10:38] JOIN ME IN THAT DREAM.
[10:39] UH, THEY ARE THE INSTITUTIONS
[10:42] OF THE FENWAY ALLIANCE,
[10:43] INCLUDING THE ONES THAT ARE
[10:45] HERE WITH US TODAY THE FIRST
[10:46] CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST,
[10:48] BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY
[10:50] ORCHESTRA, MASS ART SCHOOL
[10:52] OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS K.J.
[10:54] ALSO STUDIO AND APOLOGIES IF
[10:57] I'M FORGETTING ANYONE HERE BUT
[10:59] PLEASE KNOW THERE'S A WHOLE
[11:01] BUNCH OF OTHERS WHO WORK IN
[11:02] THIS SPACE TO MAKE THIS DAY THE
[11:04] FREE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THAT
[11:06] IT IS FOR CHILDREN'S AND
[11:08] CHILDREN AND FAMILY IN BOSTON.
[11:10] UM SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FROM
[11:11] THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
[11:13] THEY DONATE.
[11:14] TONS OF TALENT.
[11:16] THEY BRING THEIR A-GAME
[11:17] CULTURAL.
[11:17] PROGRAMING.
[11:18] TIME, TALENT AND MONEY.
[11:21] IS PUT.
[11:21] INTO THIS DAY.
[11:22] FROM THE FENWAY ALLIANCE
[11:24] INSTITUTIONS AND FROM ALL
[11:25] OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
[11:26] OF WHICH WE NOW WORK WITH 20
[11:29] COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
[11:29] SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU
[11:31] FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
[11:32] THIS WAS AN IDEA.
[11:33] YOU MADE IT.
[11:34] WORK.
[11:34] SO THANK YOU.
[11:36] UM, I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT, UH
[11:39] ,OPENING OUR DOORS IS A
[11:42] TRIBUTE THE NAME TO WHEN UM WAY
[11:44] BACK WHEN WHEN DIRECTOR MALCOLM
[11:46] ROGERS OPENED THE DOORS OF THE
[11:47] MFA ON HUNTINGTON AVENUE AND I
[11:50] DON'T KNOW IF MANY OF YOU HERE
[11:51] ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, BUT
[11:53] THAT FRONT DOOR HAD BEEN
[11:54] SHUTTERED FOR YEARS BEFORE HE
[11:56] MADE THE.
[11:57] FIGURATIVE AND SYMBOLIC GESTURE
[11:59] OF OPENING THAT.
[12:00] DOOR TO THE PUBLIC.
[12:01] THAT'S HOW I THOUGHT OF THE
[12:02] NAME.
[12:03] OPENING OUR DOORS.
[12:04] FOR OUR EVENT AND THAT'S REALLY
[12:06] WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT OPENING
[12:07] THESE DOORS TO AMAZING
[12:10] CULTURAL.
[12:10] GIFTS THAT THE.
[12:11] FENWAY HAS TO EVERYONE IN
[12:13] BOSTON.
[12:13] UM, I WANT TO NOW, UM, JUST
[12:17] BRING UP MY PARTNER IN CRIME,
[12:19] UH, GENEVIEVE DAY WHO HAS
[12:22] REALLY BROUGHT.
[12:23] OPENING OUR DOORS TO ITS.
[12:26] 2.42.0 ERA AND IS BRINGING IT
[12:28] INTO THE FUTURE IN THE
[12:30] LOVELIEST, GRANDEST AND MOST.
[12:32] ORGANIZED WAY.
[12:33] SO I'D LOVE HER TO COME UP.
[12:35] AND JUST SAY A FEW.
[12:36] WORDS, BUT WE REALLY THANK YOU.
[12:38] THIS IS A HIGH POINT.
[12:39] OF OUR LIVES.
[12:40] A LOT OF THE WORK WE DO IS
[12:41] UNGLAMOROUS.
[12:41] THIS IS A GLAMOROUS MOMENT FOR.
[12:44] US SO THANK YOU ALL.
[12:51] THANK YOU KELLY UM I'M
[12:54] GENEVIEVE DE I'M THE
[12:55] CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
[12:56] FENWAY ALLIANCE AND WE ARE THE
[12:58] PRODUCERS OF OPENING OUR DOORS
[13:00] ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY.
[13:02] UM, IT'S AN HONOR AND A
[13:04] PRIVILEGE TO RECEIVE THIS
[13:05] RECOGNITION OF OPENING OUR
[13:06] DOORS ON ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
[13:10] YEAR.
[13:10] UM, AND THANK YOU TO THE ENTIRE
[13:12] CITY COUNCIL AND ESPECIALLY.
[13:14] COUNCILOR DURKAN, UH,
[13:17] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND
[13:18] COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR BRINGING
[13:19] .
[13:19] FORTH THIS RESOLUTION.
[13:21] UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE
[13:22] MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ART AND
[13:24] CULTURE, UM AND MAYOR WU FOR
[13:26] THEIR ONGOING AND.
[13:27] CONTINUED SUPPORT.
[13:29] OF OPENING OUR DOORS.
[13:30] IT MEANS A LOT TO US.
[13:31] UM, OPENING OUR DOORS WELCOMES
[13:33] ALL BOSTONIANS TO CELEBRATE ART
[13:36] IN ALL OF ITS INDIVIDUAL AND
[13:37] VARIED FORMS PRACTICED BY YOUNG
[13:39] AND OLD WITH ARTISTS AND
[13:41] PERFORMERS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS
[13:43] WORKING IN ALL ARTISTIC MEDIUMS
[13:46] ART, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE DANCE
[13:49] CONNECTS US TO EACH OTHER IN
[13:51] BOTH EPHEMERAL AND LASTING WAYS
[13:54] ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN THIS
[13:55] MOMENT WHERE TECHNOLOGY IS
[13:57] THREATENING TO COMMODIFY AND
[13:58] CO-OPT ART AND THE ARTISTIC
[14:01] PRACTICE.
[14:02] WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS THAT THIS
[14:04] CAN NEVER HAPPEN.
[14:06] IN THE WORDS SHARED RECENTLY BY
[14:08] POPE LEO ON THE IMPORTANCE
[14:10] OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND
[14:11] CREATIVITY, ART NURTURES THE
[14:14] FUNDAMENTAL POSTURE
[14:16] OF LISTENING THROUGH WHICH WE
[14:17] CAN LEARN ABOUT HUMANITY'S
[14:20] ASPIRATIONS AND WOUNDS OUR
[14:21] THIRST FOR BEAUTY, JUSTICE AND
[14:23] PEACE AND OUR SEARCH FOR
[14:25] MEANING OR SIMPLY TO BORROW
[14:27] FROM WALTER BENJAMIN REAL ART
[14:30] HAS AURA SO PLEASE COME TO
[14:32] OPENING OUR DOORS ON
[14:34] OCTOBER 12TH IN THE FENWAY AND
[14:36] EXPERIENCE THE MAGNIFICENT AND
[14:38] TRANSITORY YET LASTING AURA
[14:41] OF ART, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND
[14:42] DANCE THROUGHOUT THE FENWAY
[14:44] CULTURAL DISTRICT.
[14:46] PRACTICE AND INSTRUMENT AT
[14:47] SYMPHONY HALL.
[14:48] GO BACKSTAGE AND TOUR THE
[14:50] HUNTINGTON'S NEW PRODUCTION
[14:51] OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
[14:53] VISIT THE MFA AND GARDNER
[14:54] MUSEUM FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S
[14:56] DAY PERFORMANCES AND ART MAKING
[14:57] .
[14:58] LISTEN TO A CONCERT ON ONE
[15:00] OF THE LARGEST CHURCH ORGANS IN
[15:02] THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.
[15:03] MAKE ART AT A GIANT COMMUNITY
[15:05] ART INSTALLATION AT NEW EDGE
[15:07] PLAZA AND MUCH MUCH MORE.
[15:11] WE THANK ALL BOSTON ARTISTS,
[15:13] PERFORMERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS
[15:14] WHO HAVE SHARED THEIR ARTISTRY
[15:16] WITH US OVER SO MANY YEARS.
[15:18] WE CELEBRATE THIS HONOR WITH
[15:20] THEM WITH OUR ARTISTIC AND
[15:22] CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
[15:23] FENWAY AND WITH THE OPENING OUR
[15:25] DOORS PLANNING COMMITTEE, SOME
[15:27] OF WHOM ARE HERE WITH US TODAY.
[15:29] SO THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR.
[15:30] IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
[15:34] AND WE ARE.
[15:35] SO EXCITED ALSO TO HAVE UM SOME
[15:37] PEOPLE CALL IT BY SO SOME
[15:39] PEOPLE CALL IT BY I SO KEITH
[15:41] ELDER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
[15:42] BEING HERE FOR SAYING A FEW
[15:44] WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE
[15:44] COMMITTEE.
[15:45] THANK YOU.
[15:46] UH, GOOD.
[15:47] AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU FOR THE
[15:48] OPPORTUNITY TO CONGRATULATE THE
[15:50] FENWAY ALLIANCE OF THE 25TH
[15:51] ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OUR
[15:53] DOORS FESTIVAL, BOSTON YOUTH
[15:55] SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN OUR YOUTH
[15:57] CENTER FOR MUSIC ARE SO PROUD
[15:59] TO BE PART OF THIS BOSTON
[16:00] NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY.
[16:02] BESO IS MORE THAN A MUSIC
[16:04] PROGRAM.
[16:05] IT'S A PLACE WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE
[16:06] LEARN CONFIDENCE, DISCIPLINE,
[16:09] TEAMWORK AND THE VALUE
[16:10] OF LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER.
[16:12] EVERY REHEARSAL TEACHES OUR
[16:13] STUDENTS THAT THEIR INDIVIDUAL
[16:14] VOICE MATTERS, BUT THERE'S
[16:16] SOMETHING EVEN MORE POWERFUL
[16:18] HAPPENS WHEN THEY CREATE
[16:19] SOMETHING TOGETHER.
[16:21] OPENING OUR DOORS ILLUSTRATES
[16:24] JUST THAT COMING TOGETHER AND
[16:26] CELEBRATING THE IMPACT WE HAVE
[16:28] AS A CREATIVE COMMUNITY.
[16:30] IT IS WHAT MAKES BOSTON
[16:32] SPECTACULAR AND ON BEHALF
[16:34] OF OUR NEARLY 600 YOUNG
[16:36] MUSICIANS, WE WOULD LIKE TO
[16:37] THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATE THE
[16:39] FENWAY ALLIANCE ON THE 25TH
[16:41] ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OUR
[16:42] DOORS.
[16:44] AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE MY
[16:46] COLLEAGUES TO COME AND TAKE A
[16:48] PHOTO WITH US.
[16:51] EVERYBODY IN THE SCHOOL.
[17:01] ARE YOU 23 YEARS?
[17:30] I WANT TO DO YOU WANT ME TO
[17:31] GIVE THIS TO YOU AGAIN?
[17:33] OH.
[17:41] OH MY.
[17:48] THANK YOU.
[17:50] YEAH.
[17:50] SO DO.
[17:50] YOU WANT TO TAKE US HERE?
[17:51] YOU WANT ME TO BRING IT?
[17:52] OKAY OKAY OKAY.
[17:54] IT'S LIKE YOU SAY TO.
[17:55] GIVE OR TAKE BACK.
[17:56] I I I'M NOT.
[17:59] OKAY LIKE THIS IS NOT LIKE.
[18:01] THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT NO.
[18:03] SOMEBODY ELSE IS NOT.
[18:05] OKAY HERE I'M GOING TO GIVE US
[18:06] TO YOU.
[18:06] YEAH THERE YOU GO.
[18:12] THANK YOU.
[18:14] THANK YOU VERY.
[18:18] THANK YOU SO MUCH OF THE FENWAY
[18:20] LIONS.
[18:20] WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO
[18:21] TO UPLIFT CREATIVES HERE IN THE
[18:23] CITY AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO ARTS
[18:25] AND CULTURE IN OUR CITY.
[18:26] TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD IS MY
[18:27] FAVORITE NOVEL, SO I LOOK
[18:28] FORWARD TO GOING TO THE
[18:29] HUNTINGTON THEATER TO SEE THAT.
[18:30] THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CALLING
[18:31] THAT OUT.
[18:31] OKAY.
[18:32] I UH I WOULD NOW LIKE TO BRING
[18:34] UP, UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN WHO
[18:35] WILL BE RECOGNIZING THE
[18:37] MASSACHUSETTS NURSE NURSES
[18:38] ASSOCIATION.
[18:39] COUNCILOR FLYNN, I HAVE.
[18:41] FIVE MINUTES.
[18:41] JUST GIVE ME THE.
[18:45] OKAY.
[18:46] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[18:47] AND MAY.
[18:49] I INVITE, UH, RICH KEN LAUDER,
[18:51] WHO'S A 28 YEAR NURSE AT THE
[18:54] BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL TO
[18:55] COME.
[18:56] BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK, UH,
[18:59] COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND
[19:00] COUNCILOR MURPHY IF THEY'D LIKE
[19:01] TO PLEASE JOIN ME AS WELL.
[19:14] THANK YOU.
[19:15] RICH AND RICH FROM THE MASS
[19:17] NURSES ASSOCIATION AND THE
[19:19] OTHER NURSES THAT THAT ARE HERE
[19:21] AND THAT CALLED AND ADVOCATED
[19:23] FOR UM FOR.
[19:25] DIGNITY FOR WORKERS.
[19:27] UM I WANT TO THANK THE NURSES
[19:28] AND CLINICIANS WHO ARE HERE
[19:30] TODAY FOR CONTINUING TO
[19:32] ADVOCATE.
[19:32] FOR THEIR PATIENTS, THEIR
[19:34] COLLEAGUES AND URGING BRIGHAM
[19:36] AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL TO
[19:37] IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO THE TABLE
[19:39] .
[19:40] NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH.
[19:42] .
[19:43] NURSES AND HEALTH CARE
[19:44] WORKERS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE
[19:46] HEALTH AND SAFETY.
[19:47] OF BOSTON.
[19:47] AND OUR NATION.
[19:50] IN APRIL.
[19:50] THIS.
[19:51] BODY THE BOSTON CITY
[19:52] COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A
[19:53] RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF NURSES
[19:55] AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
[19:57] .
[19:57] ISSUES INCLUDED AT THE
[19:59] BARGAINING TABLE INCLUDED
[20:01] PATIENT SAFETY, SAFE WORKLOADS
[20:05] ,RECRUITMENT RETENTION,
[20:06] AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR
[20:08] CAREGIVERS BUT ALSO DECENT
[20:10] WAGES.
[20:11] DIGNITY IN RETIREMENT.
[20:13] UM WE STAND HERE WITH.
[20:15] THE NURSES WITH THE UH MASS
[20:18] NURSES ASSOCIATION AND
[20:20] ENCOURAGE THE HOSPITAL TO GET
[20:21] BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
[20:24] IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE A FAIR
[20:26] CONTRACT.
[20:26] IT'S ABOUT DIGNITY AND RESPECT
[20:28] AND THIS IS ABOUT SOCIAL AND
[20:30] ECONOMIC JUSTICE AS WELL FOR
[20:31] NURSES AND PATIENTS.
[20:33] I DO WANT TO GIVE MY COLLEAGUES
[20:34] AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO OFFER
[20:36] BRIEF REMARKS AND THEN I'M
[20:38] GOING TO ASK RICH IF I'D LIKE
[20:40] TO RESPOND AS WELL, UM, WITH
[20:42] COMMENTS.
[20:43] BUT UH, REVEREND CULPEPER.
[20:47] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[20:49] I TOO WANT TO WELCOME THE
[20:52] MASSACHUSETTS NURSES
[20:54] ASSOCIATION TO THE COUNCIL AND
[20:57] AS COUNCIL FLYNN I URGE
[21:00] MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
[21:03] AND BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S TO GET
[21:05] BACK TO THE TABLE, NEGOTIATE A
[21:09] FAIR CONTRACT AND A FAIR WAGE
[21:12] FOR THESE NURSES.
[21:14] THIS IS NOT NEW TO ME.
[21:17] UH, MY MOTHER WAS A LICENSED
[21:20] PRACTICAL NURSE AND AND THOSE
[21:23] DAYS IT WAS A BIG THING.
[21:26] I TWO KNOW WHAT 11 TO 7 IS ALL
[21:29] ABOUT.
[21:30] UH, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU KNOW
[21:33] WHAT 11 TO 7 ME.
[21:34] WHEN I SAY 11 TO 7.
[21:38] BUT I WATCHED MY MOTHER EVERY
[21:39] NIGHT, UH, PUT US TO BED AND
[21:43] THEN HEAD OUT TO WORK AT 11 AND
[21:49] THEN TO SEE HER COME IN AT 7
[21:52] A.M. IN THE MORNING TO GET US
[21:54] READY FOR SCHOOL AND, UH.
[22:00] I NEVER UNDERSTOOD HOW MY
[22:01] MOTHER DID IT, BUT SHE DID IT.
[22:05] AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT THE
[22:07] NURSES ARE DEALING WITH TODAY,
[22:09] WE DON'T SEE THE ACTUAL
[22:12] CHALLENGES THAT THEY HAVE TO GO
[22:13] TO.
[22:14] WE DON'T SEE THEM LEAVING HOME
[22:17] AT 11 P.M. AND COMING BACK AT 7
[22:20] A.M. TO GET THEIR YOUNG FOLKS
[22:21] AND THEIR CHILDREN READY FOR
[22:23] SCHOOL.
[22:23] AND SO I SALUTE THE NURSES
[22:26] TODAY FOR ALL THAT THEY DO FOR
[22:29] ALL OF US.
[22:31] FOR WHAT WOULD HOSPITALS BE
[22:33] WITHOUT NURSES?
[22:35] WHAT WOULD DOCTORS BE WITHOUT
[22:37] NURSES?
[22:38] AND SO TODAY I I LIFT THE
[22:41] NURSES NURSES UP IN A WAY THAT
[22:45] WE REALIZE THE VALUE AND THEIR
[22:49] SIGNIFICANCE AND THEIR
[22:50] IMPORTANCE AND THE GOOD THAT
[22:51] THEY DO.
[22:55] SO NURSES WE FIGHT RIGHT ALONG
[22:56] WITH YOU AND WITH YOU 100% AND
[23:00] I HOPE THAT THE HOSPITAL COMES
[23:02] TO THE TABLE IN GOOD FAITH TO
[23:05] WORK ON A FAIR CONTRACT.
[23:06] THANK YOU.
[23:08] THANK UH COUNCIL CALL UP.
[23:09] UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[23:11] THANK YOU.
[23:12] UM.
[23:13] I OFTEN.
[23:14] REALIZE PERSONALLY.
[23:15] YOU.
[23:15] NEVER THINK ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.
[23:17] OR A LOVED ONE'S HEALTH UNTIL
[23:18] YOU DON'T HAVE IT IN YOU ARE
[23:20] NEEDING HEALTH CARE.
[23:22] SO I JUST.
[23:22] WANT TO THANK.
[23:23] ALL OF THE NURSES AND THEIR
[23:25] FAMILIES OUT THERE JUST LIKE
[23:26] OUR FIRST.
[23:27] RESPONDERS AND.
[23:28] COUNSELOR CULPEPER SAID IT.
[23:30] HE LIVED.
[23:30] IT WITH HIS MOM.
[23:31] UH.
[23:32] WORKING YOU KNOW, 24 HOUR A
[23:34] DAY SHIFTS.
[23:34] NOT ALL.
[23:35] MISSING FAMILY EVENTS.
[23:37] BUT ALWAYS WHEN I'M.
[23:38] ON THE PICKET LINE WITH THE
[23:40] NURSES AND THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR
[23:41] JUST DIGNITY.
[23:42] ALL THEY WANT IS WHAT IS BEST
[23:44] FOR THEIR PATIENTS.
[23:46] IT'S NOT SELFISH.
[23:47] AT ALL.
[23:47] SO WE.
[23:48] NEED TO MAKE SURE.
[23:48] AND WHEN BIG CORPORATIONS
[23:50] AREN'T WILLING TO COME TO THE
[23:51] TABLE THAT JUST TELLS YOU THEY
[23:53] KNOW THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO
[23:55] TALK TO THE ORGANIZERS.
[23:57] SO THANK YOU TO THE M&A.
[23:58] AND THE OTHER.
[23:58] UNIONS WHO I KNOW ARE FIGHTING
[24:00] ACROSS THE CITY.
[24:01] SO MANY OF OUR HOSPITALS.
[24:02] AND THE NURSES ARE GOING OUT ON
[24:04] STRIKE.
[24:04] THAT'S A SCARY THING TO DO AND
[24:06] THEY DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE THEIR
[24:08] PATIENTS WITHOUT THE CARE THEY
[24:09] KNOW THEY PROVIDE.
[24:10] SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THAT
[24:12] RISK.
[24:12] KNOW THAT OURSELVES AND I KNOW
[24:13] THIS BODY IS BEHIND YOU AND
[24:15] WE'LL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO
[24:17] MAKE SURE YOU GET WHAT YOU
[24:18] DESERVE.
[24:18] SO THANK YOU.
[24:20] THANK YOU.
[24:20] UH, RICH, A.
[24:21] 28 YEAR NURSE.
[24:22] AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S
[24:24] HOSPITAL.
[24:25] HELLO EVERYONE.
[24:26] MY NAME.
[24:26] IS RICHARD LOT.
[24:27] I AM.
[24:27] A.
[24:28] NURSE AT THE BRIGHAM.
[24:28] I'VE BEEN IN THE ER THERE FOR
[24:30] 28 YEARS.
[24:31] UM, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO
[24:34] US.
[24:34] THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US.
[24:35] UH, WE'RE BASICALLY HERE, UH,
[24:38] TO GET SAFE CARE FOR OUR
[24:41] PATIENTS AND BY THAT WE NEED
[24:43] THE BRIGHAM MASS GENERAL
[24:44] BRIGHAM TO COME TO THE TABLE
[24:46] AND AT LEAST NEGOTIATE WITH US
[24:48] .
[24:48] THEY'RE REFUSING TO, UH, REALLY
[24:51] TALK TO US ABOUT ANYTHING
[24:52] UNLESS WE CONCEDE ALL POINTS
[24:54] THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
[24:55] AND TO ME, THAT'S NOT
[24:57] NEGOTIATING.
[24:58] THEY CLAIM, UM, FROM WHAT I'VE
[25:00] HEARD, THEY SEND OUT AN EMAIL
[25:02] TO ANYONE THAT HAS GATEWAY
[25:03] THAT'S A PATIENT THERE
[25:05] YESTERDAY OR TODAY STATING THAT
[25:07] BUSINESS NEXT WEEK WILL BE THE
[25:08] SAME AS IT IS CURRENTLY.
[25:10] UM WE HAVE 4000 HIGHLY SKILLED
[25:12] NURSES THAT WORK THERE THAT
[25:13] PROVIDE CARE TO ALL OF OUR
[25:14] PATIENTS AND I DON'T SEE THEM
[25:16] GETTING 4000 NURSES TO REPLACE
[25:19] US AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND
[25:20] THE LAST STRIKE DID NOT GO WELL
[25:22] IN THE HOSPITAL.
[25:23] THEY BASICALLY CLOSED THE ED.
[25:25] THERE WERE NOT A LOT
[25:26] OF PATIENTS THERE.
[25:26] THE VOLUME WAS SIGNIFICANTLY
[25:28] LOWER.
[25:28] THE CARE WAS NOT THE SAME.
[25:30] AND I THINK THAT WHEN WE LOOK
[25:32] YOU KNOW TOWARDS NEXT WEEK AND
[25:34] GOING DOWN ON WEDNESDAY NONE
[25:36] OF THE NURSES REALLY WANT TO DO
[25:38] THIS.
[25:38] WE DON'T WANT TO BE PUT IN THIS
[25:40] UH PREDICAMENT WHERE WE HAVE TO
[25:41] YOU KNOW, EITHER CHOOSE YOU
[25:43] KNOW, TAKING WHATEVER THE
[25:45] BRIGHAM IS OFFERING US WHICH
[25:46] ISN'T A LOT OR GOING OUT ON
[25:48] STRIKE AND NONE OF US WANT TO
[25:50] GO OUT ON STRIKE.
[25:51] THAT'S NOT GOING TO PROVIDE
[25:52] SAFE CARE FOR OUR PATIENTS.
[25:53] IT'S NOT GOING TO YOU KNOW,
[25:54] IT'S NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR
[25:56] ANYONE HERE IN THE CITY.
[25:56] AND SO WE'RE ASKING THAT THE
[25:58] BRIGHAM AT LEAST COME TO THE
[25:59] TABLE AND ACTUALLY TRY TO
[26:01] NEGOTIATE WITH US INSTEAD OF UH
[26:03] OFFERING US UH NO NO AND NO FOR
[26:06] THEIR RESPONSES.
[26:08] UM, THAT IS PROBABLY THE
[26:09] BIGGEST THING THAT WE HAVE HERE
[26:11] HERE TODAY.
[26:12] UM, AND WE JUST FEEL THAT THEY
[26:15] NEED TO BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE IN
[26:17] GOOD FAITH WITH YOU KNOW, ON ON
[26:19] MY SIDE OF THE TABLE FIELDS
[26:20] THAT THEY'RE DOING WHEN ALL THE
[26:22] RESPONSES UM NO.
[26:24] UH THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO
[26:25] US.
[26:25] I HOPE THAT WE CAN GET A
[26:27] RESOLUTION SOON AND GET BACK TO
[26:29] DOING THE THINGS THAT WE DO AND
[26:30] I LOVE BEING A NURSE.
[26:32] I LOVE TAKING CARE OF PATIENTS
[26:33] AND ALL MY COLLEAGUES FEEL THE
[26:35] SAME WAY AND ALL OF US REALLY
[26:36] WANT TO DO THIS AND IT'S VERY
[26:38] EMOTIONAL FOR A LOT OF US.
[26:39] SO I.
[26:40] DO APPRECIATE IT.
[26:41] THANK YOU.
[26:43] RICH COULD.
[26:44] COULD COULD I ASK MY
[26:46] COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE
[26:46] JOIN US FOR A PHOTO?
[26:48] WE WILL BE VOTING ON A
[26:49] RESOLUTION LATER UM IN THE
[26:51] AGENDA.
[26:52] BUT I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU
[26:53] TO THE MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION
[26:55] AND THE NURSES THAT ARE
[26:56] PRESENT.
[26:58] I KNOW.
[27:00] THINK.
[27:04] OH WE CANNOT WE CAN.
[27:06] HAVE SIGNS.
[27:06] I'M SORRY.
[27:07] SOMETIMES.
[27:28] IT WAS LIKE OH THANK YOU.
[27:36] THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE
[27:37] MASSACHUSETTS NURSES
[27:38] ASSOCIATION AND THANK YOU TO
[27:39] ALL NURSES WHO UH, WORK EVERY
[27:41] DAY TO KEEP US HEALTHY AND
[27:42] SAFE.
[27:42] I JUST WANT TO THANK UM, UH,
[27:45] BRIGHAM ESPECIALLY MY MY MOTHER
[27:47] DURING COVID, UM, WAS INTUBATED
[27:49] AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC
[27:50] AND, UH, YOU ALL WERE THERE BY
[27:52] HER SIDE WHEN WE COULD NOT BE
[27:53] THERE.
[27:53] SO THANK YOU.
[27:54] AND WE STAND WITH YOU AS YOU
[27:55] CALL FOR ECONOMIC DIGNITY
[27:56] INSURANCE.
[27:59] MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE.
[28:00] AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT
[28:02] COUNSELORS.
[28:04] FITZGERALD AND HERE ARE
[28:06] PRESENT.
[28:12] NOW ON.
[28:12] TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS
[28:13] WHICH IS APPROVAL OF THE
[28:14] MINUTES FROM.
[28:15] THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER
[28:16] 30TH, 2026.
[28:17] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[28:19] ALL THOSE OPPOSED NAY, NAY.
[28:21] THE AYES HAVE IT.
[28:22] THE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 30TH
[28:23] MEETING ARE APPROVED.
[28:25] WE ARE NOW ON TO.
[28:26] COMMUNICATIONS FROM HER HONOR.
[28:27] THE MAYOR.
[28:28] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[28:29] DOCKET 1883?
[28:30] DUCKY NUMBER 1883 MESSAGE NOT
[28:33] AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
[28:35] TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT
[28:39] OF $3,250,220 IN THE FORM OF A
[28:41] GRANT BOSTON MPO SURPLUS FISCAL
[28:43] YEAR 26 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
[28:46] GRANT PROGRAM AWARDED BY THE
[28:48] MISS METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING
[28:50] COUNCIL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
[28:51] THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
[28:53] TO GRANT WITH FUNDS SUPPORT FOR
[28:55] NEW E-BIKES AND SPARE BATTERIES
[28:57] FOR THE BIKE SHARE SYSTEM.
[29:00] THANK YOU.
[29:00] DOCKET 1883 WILL BE REFERRED
[29:02] TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,
[29:03] DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION
[29:04] .
[29:05] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[29:06] DOCKET 1884 AND 1885 TOGETHER.
[29:09] TALKING NUMBER 188 FOR
[29:11] MESSAGING ON AUTHORIZING THE
[29:13] CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND
[29:14] EXPAND THE AMOUNT
[29:19] OF $103,239.10 IN THE FORM OF A
[29:20] GRANT THE FISCAL YEAR 27 LOCAL
[29:23] CONSUMER AID FUND GRANT AWARDED
[29:25] BY THE MASS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
[29:27] BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
[29:29] OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND
[29:30] LICENSING.
[29:30] THE GRANT WILL FUND STAFF
[29:32] COSTS, OUTREACH MATERIALS AND
[29:34] OPERATIONAL EXPENSES TO CONDUCT
[29:36] THE CONSUMER AFFAIRS PROGRAM.
[29:39] DOCKET NUMBER 1885 MESSAGE IN
[29:41] ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
[29:43] OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
[29:45] THE AMOUNT OF $14,272.98 IN THE
[29:51] FORM OF A GRANT WAGNER PACER
[29:54] PROGRAM SUPPLEMENTAL AWARDED BY
[29:56] THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
[29:58] OF LABOR PASSED TO THE MASS
[29:59] HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
[30:01] SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
[30:02] THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
[30:04] DEVELOPMENT.
[30:05] THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE
[30:06] INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT NEEDS
[30:09] OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
[30:10] CLAIMANTS AS WELL AS PREVENT
[30:12] AND DETECT IMPROPER BENEFIT
[30:14] PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION
[30:16] ASSISTANCE FOR TRAINING AND
[30:17] EDUCATION RESOURCES AND
[30:19] PROGRAMS.
[30:19] THANK YOU.
[30:20] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[30:22] COUNCIL WORRELL THE CHAIR
[30:23] OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND
[30:24] ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
[30:25] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[30:26] UH THANK YOU CHAIR.
[30:27] UM, THE LOCAL.
[30:28] CONSUMER AID FUND.
[30:29] OH, DOCKET NUMBER 184 UM, IS
[30:32] OUR LOCAL CONSUMER AID FUND,
[30:35] UM, THAT'S AWARDED BY THE
[30:37] MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY
[30:38] GENERAL'S OFFICE.
[30:39] THE GRANT SUPPORTS THE
[30:40] OPERATIONS OF BOSTON'S CONSUMER
[30:41] AFFAIRS PROGRAM INCLUDING
[30:43] SALARIES AND PERSONNEL COSTS,
[30:44] CONSUMERS AFFAIRS, EDUCATION
[30:46] AND OUTREACH AND CONSUMER
[30:47] RIGHTS PROTECTION AND RESOURCES
[30:49] AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND
[30:50] OPERATIONAL NEEDS.
[30:52] UH THE CONSUMER FARE PROGRAM
[30:53] PROVIDES DIRECT ASSISTANCE TO
[30:55] BOSTON RESIDENTS.
[30:56] CONSUMER COMPLAINTS ARE
[30:57] INITIALLY RECEIVED AND MANAGED
[30:59] BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
[30:59] OFFICE, WHICH REFERS CASES TO
[31:01] THE CITY'S CONSUMER AFFAIRS
[31:03] PROGRAM FOR INVESTIGATION AND
[31:05] RESOLUTION WHEN APPROPRIATE.
[31:06] UM, AT THIS TIME I'M
[31:08] RECOMMENDING THAT DOCKET NUMBER
[31:10] 184 UM UM OUGHT TO PASS AND
[31:13] THEN DOCKET NUMBER 1885 IS A
[31:16] SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT.
[31:17] GRANT UM IT'S A LITTLE OVER
[31:20] $14,000.
[31:21] UM IT'S A GRANT THROUGH MASS
[31:22] HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
[31:23] SERVICES WHICH IS ALSO
[31:25] ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
[31:26] OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WHICH
[31:28] WOULD FUND THE REEMPLOYMENT
[31:30] NEEDS OF OUR RESIDENTS.
[31:31] THESE FUNDS ARE FEDERAL FORMULA
[31:33] DOLLARS MEANT TO SUPPORT
[31:34] EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AT ONE-STOP
[31:35] CAREER CENTERS SUCH AS OUR TWO
[31:38] MASS HIRE CENTERS IN BOSTON AND
[31:40] THEN ALSO CONNECTING JOB
[31:41] SEEKERS TO OPEN POSITIONS AND
[31:43] EMPLOYERS TO INDIVIDUALS
[31:45] SEEKING WORK.
[31:45] AND AT THIS TIME I ALSO
[31:46] RECOMMEND THAT DOCKET NUMBER
[31:49] 1885 UM OUGHT TO BE SUSPENDED
[31:50] AND PASS.
[31:51] THANK YOU THANK YOU.
[31:52] WE WILL.
[31:52] VOTE ON THESE ONE AT A TIME
[31:54] COUNSELOR FUN.
[31:54] WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE
[31:55] REMARKS?
[31:56] YES, MADAM.
[31:57] MADAM CHAIR, MAY I SPEAK ON
[31:58] DOCKET 1884?
[32:00] YOU MAY.
[32:01] UM.
[32:01] THANK YOU.
[32:03] I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
[32:05] MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL
[32:06] ANDREA CAMPBELL, UM, AND HER
[32:08] TEAM FOR THE WORK THEY ARE
[32:10] DOING ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS
[32:12] THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH BUT
[32:13] ALSO HERE IN BOSTON.
[32:15] I DO SUPPORT THIS AWARD THAT
[32:17] BOSTON IS RECEIVING.
[32:20] CONSUMER SUPPORTING CONSUMERS
[32:21] AND THE PUBLIC IS A CRITICAL
[32:23] PART OF CITY GOVERNMENT
[32:25] OF STATE GOVERNMENT AS WELL.
[32:26] I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR
[32:28] OFFICIALS HERE IN THE CITY BUT
[32:30] ALSO TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
[32:31] OFFICE AS WELL.
[32:32] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[32:33] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[32:36] COUNCILOR MORALES.
[32:36] SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
[32:38] PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1884.
[32:39] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[32:41] ALL THOSE PERSONS THE AYES HAVE
[32:44] IT.
[32:44] THANK YOU.
[32:45] DOCKET 1884 HAS PASSED.
[32:47] MR.
[32:47] COOK.
[32:48] EXCUSE ME, COUNCILOR WORRELL
[32:49] SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
[32:51] PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1885.
[32:53] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[32:55] ALL THOSE MOST IN THE VOTE.
[32:57] UH, MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE.
[32:59] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE?
[33:02] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR
[33:04] COLLETTE AS OPPOSED?
[33:04] YES, COUNSELOR COLLETTE AS
[33:06] PROBABLY YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:07] CULPEPER.
[33:07] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:08] CULPEPER.
[33:09] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:10] DURKAN.
[33:10] COUNSELOR.
[33:11] DURKAN.
[33:11] YES.
[33:12] COUNSELOR.
[33:12] FITZGERALD.
[33:12] YES.
[33:13] COUNSELORS.
[33:14] SHOW.
[33:14] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:14] FLYNN.
[33:15] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:15] FLYNN.
[33:16] YES.
[33:16] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[33:17] COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.
[33:18] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:19] MEJIA.
[33:19] COUNSELOR.
[33:20] MEJIA.
[33:20] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:21] MURPHY.
[33:22] COUNSELOR.
[33:22] MURPHY.
[33:23] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:23] THE PEN.
[33:24] COUNSELOR PEN.
[33:25] YES.
[33:26] SANTANA.
[33:26] YES, COUNSELOR.
[33:27] SANTANA.
[33:27] YES.
[33:28] COUNSELOR.
[33:28] WEBER.
[33:28] YES.
[33:29] COUNCILOR.
[33:30] ABSENT COUNCILOR.
[33:31] WORLD COUNSELOR.
[33:32] OH, YES.
[33:32] TALKING 1885 HAS RECEIVED 12
[33:35] VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[33:36] THANK YOU.
[33:37] DOCKET 1885.
[33:38] HAS PASSED.
[33:40] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[33:42] DOCKETS.
[33:43] 188631888 TALKING NUMBER 1886
[33:46] MESSAGE IN AUTHORIZING THE CITY
[33:48] OF BOSTON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
[33:50] DEPARTMENT TO ENTER IN A
[33:51] CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO
[33:53] 20 YEARS TO MANAGE, MAINTAIN,
[33:55] EXPAND AND MODERNIZE THE CITY'S
[33:57] ADVERTISING SUPPORTED
[33:58] COORDINATED STREET FURNITURE
[34:00] PROGRAM INCLUDING BUS SHELTERS,
[34:02] PUBLIC TOILETS, INFORMATION
[34:04] PANELS, DISPLAY DIGITAL
[34:06] DISPLAYS, BENCHES AND RELATED
[34:08] PUBLIC REALM AMENITIES.
[34:09] THE NEWLY REIMAGINED PROGRAM IS
[34:13] INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE
[34:14] ATTRACTIVENESS OF PUBLIC
[34:15] TRANSIT AS A COMMUTING
[34:17] COMMUTING OPTION ALONG WITH
[34:19] COMFORT, ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY
[34:21] ,REAL TIME INFORMATION AND
[34:23] MAINTENANCE ACROSS BOSTON'S.
[34:24] STREET STREETSCAPES WHILE
[34:28] INCREASING ADVERTISING REVENUE
[34:30] AND STRENGTHENING CITY
[34:32] OVERSIGHT.
[34:32] THE INITIAL CONTRACT TERM WOULD
[34:34] BEGIN IN MAY 2027 AND END ON
[34:38] APRIL 30TH 2037 WITH TWO FIVE
[34:39] YEAR EXTENSIONS POSSIBLE AT THE
[34:42] CITY'S SOLE OPTION NUMBER 1887
[34:46] MESSAGE IN ORDER PURSUANT TO
[34:48] GENERAL LAWS CHAPTER 40 SECTION
[34:50] 15 A THAT CERTAIN PORTIONS
[34:52] OF HBO AND STREET BRAIN
[34:54] DISCONTINUE BY A VOTE OF THE
[34:56] PUBLIC APPROVED IMPROVEMENT
[34:58] COMMISSION ON MAY 22ND 2025 AS
[35:01] SHOWN ON A SET OF PLANS CITY
[35:03] OF BOSTON PUBLIC WORKS
[35:04] DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION
[35:07] DISCONTINUANCE PLAN H BOURNE
[35:08] STREET, BRIGHTON AND BOSTON IN
[35:11] THE BRIGHTON NEIGHBORHOOD ONE
[35:14] SHEET DATED AUGUST 29TH, 2023
[35:17] IS TRANSFERRED FROM
[35:18] DISCONTINUED STREET PARCEL TO
[35:20] SALE PARCEL DOCKING NUMBER ONE
[35:22] 880 MESSAGE IN ORDER THAT
[35:25] PURSUANT TO GENERAL LAWS
[35:26] CHAPTER 40 SECTION 15 THAT
[35:28] CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CONGRESS
[35:30] STREET AND SLEEPER STREET AND
[35:32] SOUTH BOSTON DISCONTINUE BY
[35:33] WILL OF THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
[35:35] COMMISSION ON JUNE 25TH 2026 AS
[35:39] SHOWN ON A SET OF PLANS CITY
[35:41] OF BOSTON PUBLIC WORKS
[35:42] DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION
[35:45] VERTICAL DISCONTINUANCE PLAN
[35:47] CONGRESS AND SLEEPER STREET
[35:50] 3083 16 CONGRESS STREET SOUTH
[35:52] BOSTON TWO SHEETS DATED MARCH
[35:56] 23RD 2026 IS TRANSFER FROM
[35:58] PURPOSE OF DISCONTINUE STREET
[36:00] PARCEL TO SALE PARCEL.
[36:03] THANK YOU DOCKETS.
[36:06] 188631888 WILL BE.
[36:07] REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON.
[36:08] PLANNING.
[36:09] DEVELOPMENT AND
[36:09] TRANSPORTATION.
[36:10] WE ARE NOW.
[36:11] ON TO REPORTS OF PUBLIC.
[36:12] OFFICERS AND OTHERS.
[36:13] MR CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[36:14] DOCKETS.
[36:15] 1889 THROUGH.
[36:19] 1916 TALKING 1889 NOTICE
[36:21] RECEIVED FROM ME OR THE
[36:23] APPOINTMENT OF REGGIE L COUNTS
[36:25] AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A2S
[36:28] PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[36:31] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[36:32] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[36:35] 2028.
[36:35] TALKING NUMBER 1890 NOTICE
[36:37] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE
[36:40] APPOINTMENT OF GARY DEVON IS A
[36:41] MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ AS TWO AS
[36:45] PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[36:47] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[36:49] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH
[36:52] 2028.
[36:52] TALKING TO 891 1891 NOTICE WAS
[36:56] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[36:57] APPOINTMENT OF ALEX EBERHARDT
[36:59] AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ I TO S
[37:03] PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[37:05] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[37:07] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[37:10] 2028.
[37:10] DOCKET NUMBER 1892 NOTICE
[37:12] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[37:14] APPOINTMENT OF JACK AND
[37:15] BERGAMOT AS A MEMBER OF THE
[37:18] LGBTQ I AA TWO AS PLUS
[37:22] ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[37:23] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[37:24] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[37:27] 2028.
[37:28] TALKING OF A1893 NOTICE, WAS HE
[37:31] FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[37:32] APPOINTMENT OF MICKEY JONES AS
[37:33] A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ UH A TO
[37:37] AS PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[37:39] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[37:40] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[37:43] 2020 TALKING NUMBER 1894 NOTES
[37:46] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[37:47] APPOINTMENT OF MERCEDES LOVING
[37:49] MANLEY AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ
[37:54] IE2S PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[37:56] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[37:58] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[38:00] 2028.
[38:01] DOCKET NUMBER 1895 THOSE
[38:03] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE
[38:05] APPOINTMENT OF RICARDO MARTINEZ
[38:07] AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A TO
[38:10] US PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[38:12] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[38:14] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[38:17] 2028.
[38:17] TALKING NUMBER 1896 NOS.
[38:19] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR
[38:21] EMPLOYMENT OF GABRIEL RIVAS FOR
[38:23] ORELLANA AS A MEMBER OF THE
[38:25] LGBTQ IA2 AS PLUS ADVANCEMENT
[38:30] ADVISORY COUNCIL STEERING
[38:31] COMMITTEE FOR A TERM EXPIRING
[38:34] SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2028.
[38:36] DOCKET NUMBER 1897 NO.
[38:38] AS RECEIVED THE MAYOR THE
[38:39] APPOINTMENT OF LILY ROSE BYLAW
[38:41] AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ I TO
[38:44] LES PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[38:46] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[38:48] A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,
[38:51] 2028.
[38:51] THE NUMBER 1898 NOTES RECEIVED
[38:54] FROM THE MAYOR THE APPOINTMENT
[38:55] OF GRETCHEN VAN NESS AS A
[38:57] MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A TO US
[39:00] PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[39:03] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[39:04] TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH
[39:08] 2028 DOCKET NUMBER 1899 THOSE
[39:10] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR UH THE
[39:13] APPOINTMENT OF FINN GARDNER AS
[39:15] A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ UH TO US
[39:18] PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY
[39:20] COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR
[39:21] A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 1ST
[39:24] 2028 TALKING ABOUT 1900 NOTICE
[39:28] RECEIVED FOR THE MAYOR OF THE
[39:30] REAPPOINTMENT OF JOANNE
[39:30] FRIEDMAN FAN FINN AS A MEMBER
[39:32] OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[39:35] NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM
[39:36] EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028
[39:39] DOCKET NUMBER 1901 NOS.
[39:42] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE
[39:43] REAPPOINTMENT OF DOCTOR MARY
[39:44] GRANT AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON
[39:46] SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING
[39:47] PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING ON
[39:49] SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028, DOCKET
[39:52] NUMBER 1902 NO.
[39:54] THIS WAS SEE FROM THE MAYOR THE
[39:56] APPOINTMENT OF JERRY HOLLAND AS
[39:58] A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[39:59] COMMITTEE NOMINATING PANEL FOR
[40:01] A TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER
[40:03] 30TH, 2028 DOCKET NUMBER 1903
[40:06] NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR
[40:08] OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DORY
[40:10] MORIKAWA AS A MEMBER OF THE
[40:11] BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[40:13] NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM
[40:14] EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027,
[40:17] DOCKET NUMBER 1904 NOTICE
[40:20] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE
[40:21] APPOINTMENT OF TIFFANY BENSON
[40:22] AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON
[40:24] SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING
[40:26] PANEL FOR A TERM EXPERIENCED
[40:29] SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.
[40:30] DUCKY NUMBER 1905 KNOWN AS SEE
[40:32] FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[40:34] APPOINTMENT OF ESO BUSTAMANTE
[40:36] AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON
[40:38] SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING
[40:39] PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRES ON
[40:42] SEPTEMBER 30TH 2020 TALKING
[40:46] A19069 AS RECEIVED FROM THE
[40:47] MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT
[40:49] OF COLLEEN COFFEY AS A MEMBER
[40:50] OF THE BUS SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[40:52] NOMINATING POUND FOR A TERM
[40:55] EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.
[40:57] TALKING NUMBER 1907 THOSE
[40:59] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
[41:01] APPOINTMENT OF JASON GALLAGHER
[41:02] AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON
[41:03] SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING
[41:05] PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING
[41:07] SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028.
[41:09] DUCKY NUMBER 1908 NO.
[41:11] AS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR
[41:12] OF THE APPOINTMENT OF SHAMIKA
[41:14] MARINO AS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS
[41:16] OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[41:17] NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM
[41:21] EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.
[41:23] DUCKY NUMBER 1909 NOTICE
[41:26] RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE
[41:27] APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM THOMAS
[41:28] AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON
[41:30] SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING
[41:31] PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING
[41:35] SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028 TALKING
[41:36] ABOUT 1910 NOT AS RECEIVED FROM
[41:39] COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRAIN OH FOR
[41:41] ABSENCE FROM THE OCTOBER 7TH,
[41:43] 2026 PLUS THE CITY
[41:45] COUNCIL MEETING TALKING ABOUT
[41:47] 1911 NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE
[41:50] CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH
[41:51] CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES
[41:54] OF 1979 REGARDING ACTION TAKEN
[41:57] BY THE INDIAN PAPERS, ACTED
[41:58] UPON THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS
[42:00] MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2026
[42:03] TAKEN UP ON THAT 1912 NOTICE
[42:06] RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN
[42:07] ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX
[42:09] OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979
[42:12] REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE
[42:13] MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
[42:15] THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING
[42:19] OF SEPTEMBER 23RD 2026 DOCKET
[42:20] NUMBER 1913 COMMUNICATION WAS
[42:23] RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL OFFLINE
[42:25] TRANSMITTING THE 2026 DOWNTOWN
[42:27] BOSTON PUBLIC SAFETY SURVEY
[42:30] DOCKET NUMBER 1914
[42:32] COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM
[42:34] COUNCIL REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY
[42:36] IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON.
[42:37] TALKING NUMBER 1915 CAN YOU SEE
[42:40] FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY SETTING
[42:41] THE RECORD STRAIGHT REGARDING
[42:43] HER WORK IN THE COUNCILS LEAGUE
[42:45] FILING PRACTICE AND DOCKET
[42:47] NUMBER 1916 COMMUNICATION
[42:50] RECEIVED FROM TIMOTHY J.
[42:51] SMITH, EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE
[42:53] BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD
[42:55] REGARDING RESULTS OF THE
[42:56] ELECTION.
[42:57] KAREN T CROSS AND SEAN F KELLY
[42:59] WERE ELECTED TO SERVE AS
[43:02] TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON RETIRING
[43:03] BOARD FOR A THREE YEAR TERM.
[43:05] THANK YOU.
[43:06] DOCKETS 1889 THROUGH 1916
[43:09] WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.
[43:12] MR CLERK, WE.
[43:13] ARE NOW ON TO.
[43:14] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
[43:14] MR CLERK.
[43:15] WOULD YOU PLEASE READ.
[43:15] DOCKET 1805.
[43:17] CAN HAVE A1805 THE COMMITTEE ON
[43:20] SENSES REDISTRICTING AND
[43:21] ELECTIONS TO WHICH WAS REFERRED
[43:25] ON SEPTEMBER 23RD 2026 DOCKET
[43:26] NUMBER 1805 RESOLUTION IN
[43:29] SUPPORT OF QUESTION FOR TO
[43:31] ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY VOTER
[43:33] REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS
[43:35] SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING
[43:36] THAT THE RESOLUTION OUGHT TO BE
[43:38] ADOPTED.
[43:39] THANK YOU.
[43:40] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE
[43:41] CHAIR OF THE.
[43:41] COMMITTEE ON CENSUS,
[43:42] REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS
[43:44] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE
[43:44] THE FLOOR.
[43:45] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[43:47] UM, AND I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL
[43:50] STAFF, UH, TO START WITH FOR
[43:51] THIS COMMITTEE REPORT, WE HELD
[43:53] THIS HEARING ON TWO DOCKETS ON
[43:55] A DOCKET ABOUT ELECTION
[43:56] PREPAREDNESS AND ACCESSIBILITY,
[43:58] ENSURING THAT OUR ELECTIONS
[44:01] DEPARTMENT IS ABLE AND READY TO
[44:03] MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE
[44:04] EVERYTHING UNDER OUR BELT FOR
[44:05] THE UPCOMING.
[44:05] ELECTION AND ELECTIONS TO
[44:06] FOLLOW TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, UM,
[44:09] ENSURING ACCESS TO DEMOCRACY
[44:10] FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND ALSO ON A
[44:12] RESOLUTION ON QUESTION FOR UH
[44:14] THE COMMITTEE ON SUCH AS
[44:15] REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS
[44:16] WERE REFERRED THAT THIS DOT
[44:18] DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1805
[44:20] RESOLUTION SUPPORTIVE QUESTION
[44:21] FOUR TO ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY
[44:23] VOTER REGISTRATION IN
[44:24] MASSACHUSETTS.
[44:24] THE OTHER DOCKET REMAINS IN
[44:26] COMMITTEE.
[44:26] SO THIS, UH, COMMITTEE REPORT
[44:27] IS JUST GOING TO BE ABOUT THE
[44:29] RESOLUTION.
[44:29] THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY
[44:31] COUNCIL RESOLUTION AND THE
[44:32] STREET AND WAS REFERRED TO THE
[44:33] COMMITTEE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD
[44:34] 2026.
[44:35] SUMMARY OF LEGISLATION DOCKET
[44:37] NUMBER 1805 RESOLVES THAT THE
[44:39] BOSTON CITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS
[44:40] BALLOT QUESTION FOUR TO TO
[44:42] ESTABLISH SECURE AND.
[44:42] ACCESSIBLE ELECTION DAY VOTER.
[44:44] REGISTRATION THROUGHOUT THE
[44:45] COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
[44:47] QUESTION FOUR.
[44:48] AS IT.
[44:49] APPEARS ON THE NOVEMBER 3RD,
[44:50] 2026 STATEWIDE BALLOT WOULD
[44:51] ALLOW ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS TO
[44:53] REGISTER OR UPDATE THEIR
[44:55] ADDRESS AT THEIR POLLING PLACE
[44:56] FOR THE PRECINCT.
[44:57] IN WHICH THEY.
[44:57] RESIDE ON ELECTION DAY BY
[44:59] PROVIDING PROOF OF RESIDENCY
[45:00] AND SIGNING AN OATH AFFIRMING
[45:01] THEIR CITIZENSHIP, AGE
[45:02] ELIGIBILITY AND THAT THEY HAVE
[45:04] NOT VOTED AND WILL NOT VOTE
[45:05] ELSEWHERE IN THE SAME ELECTION.
[45:07] IF APPROVED, QUESTION FOUR.
[45:09] WOULD TAKE EFFECT ON JANUARY
[45:10] 1ST, 2028, PROVIDING THE
[45:11] COMMONWEALTH AND ITS
[45:12] MUNICIPALITIES TIME TO
[45:13] ESTABLISH PROCEDURES, TRAN POLL
[45:15] WORKERS EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND
[45:17] PREPARE FOR EFFECTIVE
[45:18] IMPLEMENTATION AND IT WAS GREAT
[45:19] TO HEAR.
[45:20] FROM THE CITY COUNCIL.
[45:21] ALUM, NOW HEAD OF THE ELECTIONS
[45:22] DEPARTMENT CAREY JORDAN ABOUT
[45:24] HIS BELIEF IN THE ELECTIONS
[45:26] DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO UH,
[45:29] EXECUTE ON ELECTION DAY UH
[45:31] ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION
[45:32] SHOULD IT BECOME THE LAW IN THE
[45:34] COMMONWEALTH.
[45:35] MASSACHUSETTS WON AGAIN.
[45:36] CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE ROLE
[45:37] AND THANK HIM FOR HIS
[45:38] LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY.
[45:40] I THINK THAT WAS HIS FIRST
[45:41] HEARING IN FRONT OF US AS THE
[45:42] CHAIR OF THE AS THE NEW HEAD
[45:43] OF THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT, UH
[45:46] ,THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY
[45:47] FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WHICH
[45:48] INCLUDED KERRY JORDAN,
[45:49] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
[45:50] BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT,
[45:51] PAUL CHUNG, COMMISSIONER CITY.
[45:53] RECORDS AND SABINA MONTY, HEAD
[45:55] ASSISTANT REGISTRAR OF VOTERS,
[45:56] BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.
[45:58] THE COMMITTEE ALSO HEARD FROM
[45:59] COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INCLUDING
[46:01] TRACY GRIFFITH, DIRECTOR OF THE
[46:02] RACIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AT THE
[46:03] ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS BROOKE
[46:05] SIMMONS, STAFF ATTORNEY AT
[46:07] LAWYER FOR THE LAWYER FOR CIVIL
[46:08] RIGHTS CELIA CANAVAN, EXECUTIVE
[46:11] DIRECTOR OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN
[46:12] VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND
[46:13] CHERYL CLYBURN, UH, CHERYL
[46:15] CLYBURN CRAWFORD EXECUTIVE
[46:17] DIRECTOR OF MAST VOTE, CHAIR
[46:19] OF QUESTION FOR BALLOT
[46:20] COMMITTEE AND EXECUTIVE
[46:20] COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE NAACP
[46:24] BOSTON BRANCH.
[46:24] WE ALSO HEARD TESTIMONY FROM
[46:26] RAHSAAN HALL, EXECUTIVE
[46:27] DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN LEAGUE
[46:29] OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
[46:30] I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THEM,
[46:31] ESPECIALLY CHERYL, WHO'S
[46:32] DEVOTED SO MUCH OF HER TIME TO
[46:34] ENSURING THAT ELECTION DAY
[46:35] REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS
[46:36] COULD BE I COULD IT COULD
[46:38] HAPPEN AND IS GOING TO UH, DO
[46:40] THAT ALL THE WAY UNTIL ELECTION
[46:41] DAY.
[46:41] I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES
[46:42] WHO ATTENDED COUNCIL.
[46:44] PRESIDENT BREADON.
[46:46] COUNCILOR FLYNN,
[46:47] COUNCILOR WEBER,
[46:47] COUNCILOR MEJIA, COUNCILOR ORAL
[46:49] AND ALSO RECEIVED AN ABSENTEE
[46:51] LETTER FROM COUNCILOR PIPPEN.
[46:53] UH THE COMMUNITY PANELISTS
[46:55] EXPRESSED THE URGENT NEED FOR
[46:56] ELECTION REFORMS TO REMOVE
[46:57] BARRIERS AND MAKE DEMOCRACY
[46:58] MORE INCLUSIVE.
[46:59] THEY DISCUSSED THIS REPORT FOR
[47:00] QUESTION FOUR STATING THAT
[47:01] ENABLING SAME DAY VOTER
[47:02] REGISTRATION WOULD SECURE
[47:04] INCREASED PARTICIPATION,
[47:05] ESPECIALLY AMONG MARGINALIZED
[47:06] GROUPS VOTERS OF COLOR, RENTERS
[47:08] ,TRANSIENT POPULATIONS UH, OUR
[47:11] RESIDENTS WHO ARE UH WITHOUT
[47:14] HOMES.
[47:14] THE EVIDENCE OF THIS WAS SHOWN
[47:15] BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE 24 STATES
[47:17] PLUS WASHINGTON D.C. THAT
[47:18] CURRENTLY HAVE AND ALLOW SAME
[47:20] DAY REGISTRATION.
[47:21] THE COMMUNITY PANELISTS STATED
[47:22] THAT THESE MEASURES HAVE ALSO
[47:23] RESULTED IN NO INCREASE IN
[47:25] FRAUDULENT VOTING.
[47:26] THEY ADDED THAT THE PROPOSED
[47:28] IMPLEMENTATION DELAY UNTIL 2028
[47:29] ALLOWS FOR COMPREHENSIVE
[47:30] TRAINING ADMINISTRATIVE
[47:32] ADAPTATION.
[47:32] THE ADMINISTRATION STATED THAT
[47:34] OKAY, I ALREADY SAID THAT WHEN
[47:36] I WAS CONGRATULATING KERRY THAT
[47:37] THEY'D BE READY.
[47:38] YOU KNOW.
[47:39] THEY'RE READY.
[47:40] UM COMMITTEE CHAIR
[47:40] RECOMMENDED ACTION AS CHAIR
[47:42] OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEE
[47:43] ON CENSUS AND ELECTIONS ARE
[47:45] MOVING THE LISTED DOCKET FROM
[47:47] THE COMMITTEE TO THE FULL
[47:48] COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR
[47:49] ELECTION AT THIS TIME MY
[47:51] RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL
[47:51] COUNCIL WOULD BE THIS
[47:52] RESOLUTION OUGHT TO BE ADOPTED.
[47:53] I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES,
[47:55] UM, FOR COMING AND FOR ADDING
[47:57] TO A RICH CONVERSATION.
[47:58] NOT JUST ABOUT.
[47:59] QUESTION FOUR BUT REALLY ABOUT
[48:00] WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE UM
[48:02] ELECTIONS MORE UH, ATTRACTIVE
[48:05] BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
[48:07] ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO
[48:09] GET THE WORD OUT TO ALL OF OUR
[48:11] NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO ALL OF OUR
[48:12] RESIDENTS ABOUT VOTING.
[48:13] VOTING IS NOT GOING TO.
[48:14] SOLVE EVERYONE'S PROBLEMS, BUT
[48:15] IT IS DEFINITELY A PART OF THE
[48:16] SOLUTION.
[48:16] AND WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO TO
[48:18] BRING MORE PEOPLE INTO THE WORK
[48:19] OF DEMOCRACY.
[48:19] AND SO I WANT TO THANK
[48:21] EVERYONE.
[48:21] UM, I YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT AS
[48:24] AN ELECTED ELECTIONS MEAN ONE
[48:25] THING BUT JUST AS A PERSON WHO
[48:27] CARES DEEPLY ABOUT DEMOCRACY,
[48:28] UH, AND ABOUT GOVERNMENT
[48:29] WORKING FOR PEOPLE AS AN
[48:30] ATTORNEY WORKING ON ELECTIONS,
[48:31] THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT WE
[48:33] CAN BE.
[48:33] DOING AS A CITY.
[48:34] AS A COMMONWEALTH TO MAKE
[48:36] ELECTIONS UH, LESS LABORIOUS
[48:40] FOR RESIDENTS WE'VE TALKED EVEN
[48:41] ABOUT UH ADVOCATE TALKED ABOUT
[48:43] UH MAKING ELECTION DAY A
[48:45] HOLIDAY.
[48:45] WE TALKED ABOUT UH OTHER WE
[48:47] TALKED ABOUT EXAMPLES IN OTHER
[48:48] COUNTRIES THAT REQUIRE VOTING
[48:50] AND SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE
[48:51] THAT WE CAN BE DOING UH,
[48:53] ALONGSIDE OUR ADVOCATES AND
[48:54] MAKING DEMOCRACY REAL FOR EVERY
[48:56] PERSON IN THE CITY.
[48:57] AND QUESTION FOR IS ONE STEP.
[48:58] SO I HOPE THE COUNCIL UH.
[48:59] HOPEFULLY UNANIMOUSLY PASSES
[49:01] THIS.
[49:01] RESOLUTION AND I HOPE THAT IT
[49:04] THAT RESIDENTS VOTE FOR IT ON
[49:06] ELECTION DAY.
[49:07] THANK YOU.
[49:08] THANK YOU
[49:08] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[49:09] COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
[49:09] FLOOR.
[49:10] THANK YOU MADAM.
[49:11] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[49:16] I ALSO WANT US TO FACTOR IN AS
[49:18] PART OF THE CONVERSATION AND TO
[49:21] ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE CITY
[49:22] OF BOSTON ELECTION DEPARTMENT
[49:24] IS CURRENTLY UNDER THE
[49:25] RECEIVERSHIP OF THE SECRETARY
[49:26] OF STATE.
[49:29] WHY?
[49:30] DURING THE DURING THE 2024
[49:33] PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, POLL
[49:34] WORKERS.
[49:35] REPORTED ISSUES.
[49:36] OF.
[49:37] CITYWIDE BALLOT SHORTAGES,
[49:38] BALLOTS IN THE INCORRECT
[49:40] LANGUAGE AND CALLS TO THE
[49:41] ELECTION DEPARTMENT THAT WENT
[49:43] UNANSWERED.
[49:44] THIS CAUSED UNNECESSARY AND
[49:47] UNREASONABLE WAIT TIMES FOR
[49:49] RESIDENTS AND MANY WHO LEFT
[49:50] WITHOUT CASTING A VOTE.
[49:53] ON FEBRUARY 8TH.
[49:54] 2025, FOLLOWING AN
[49:55] INVESTIGATION INTO THESE ISSUES
[49:56] ,THE SECRETARY OF STATE
[49:57] ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT OF A
[49:59] STATE RECEIVER AS ELECTION DAY
[50:02] VOTER REGISTRATION LATE MAY
[50:04] PLACE ADDITIONAL
[50:06] RESPONSIBILITIES ON POLL
[50:07] WORKERS.
[50:08] WE NEED TO ENSURE TO REQUIRE
[50:10] ADDITIONAL TRAINING
[50:11] COORDINATION IN THE RESOURCES
[50:13] TO ENSURE THE PROCESS IS
[50:15] IMPLEMENTED.
[50:16] ACCURATELY AND EFFICIENTLY.
[50:18] I BELIEVE.
[50:18] THAT'S WHAT OUR PANELISTS ALSO
[50:20] CALLED FOR.
[50:21] WE NEED TO.
[50:22] WORK HARD AND BOSS TO ENSURE
[50:23] ELECTION OFFICIALS AND POLL
[50:25] WORKERS HAVE THE NECESSARY
[50:27] RESOURCES AND SUPPORT THEY
[50:28] NEED.
[50:28] FROM US.
[50:30] AS MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS.
[50:33] LAST WEEK I WENT TO A A
[50:36] COMMUNITY EVENT SPONSORED BY
[50:38] THE JEREMIAH GROUP WITH UM AND
[50:41] I TALKED WITH.
[50:41] RUSS REPRESENTATIVE.
[50:43] RUSSELL HOMES AND THE MOSTLY
[50:44] WOMAN THAT WERE THERE AND WE
[50:46] WENT AND DISCUSSED.
[50:49] EACH QUESTION.
[50:50] IN LENGTH PROBABLY FOR ABOUT
[50:52] TWO HOURS WAS A WONDERFUL
[50:53] CONVERSATION.
[50:54] I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE RUSSELL
[50:55] RUSSELL HOLMES AND EXPLAINING,
[50:57] UM, ALL THE BALLOT INITIATIVES
[50:59] INCLUDING THIS ONE WHICH
[51:01] GENERATED A LOT OF UM A LOT
[51:03] OF SUPPORT.
[51:04] I SUPPORT EXPANDING ACCESS TO
[51:05] VOTING, BUT LET'S ALSO CONTINUE
[51:08] TO FOCUS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO
[51:09] ENSURE THAT OUR ELECTIONS ARE
[51:11] ADMINISTERED EFFECTIVELY.
[51:13] GIVEN THE RECENT CHALLENGES IN
[51:15] OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT, OUR.
[51:16] TOP PRIORITY MUST.
[51:18] BE TO.
[51:18] CONTINUE TO.
[51:19] MAKE SURE EVERY.
[51:20] PERSON THAT IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE
[51:22] CAN CAST THEIR BALLOT WITHOUT.
[51:24] UNNECESSARY DELAYS, CONFUSION
[51:29] OR BARRIERS.
[51:30] FINALLY, LET US ALSO
[51:32] ACKNOWLEDGE.
[51:32] THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE U.S.
[51:35] MILITARY THAT GAVE US THE RIGHT
[51:37] TO VOTE.
[51:38] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[51:39] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[51:41] COUNCILOR.
[51:42] HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[51:45] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[51:47] UM.
[51:47] AND I WANT TO THANK MY
[51:49] COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[51:50] UH, AND COUNCILOR BRAEDEN FOR
[51:52] HOSTING UM IN SPONSORING THIS
[51:54] UH, HEARING, UM, AS SOMEONE WHO
[51:57] ONE BY ONE VOTE I AM THE POSTER
[51:59] CHILD FOR HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
[52:02] TO GIVE PEOPLE ACCESS TO THE.
[52:03] BALLOT AND SOMETIMES RIGHT ON
[52:05] THE SPOT.
[52:05] UM, WHEN I RAN IN 2019 I CAME
[52:08] ACROSS SO MANY PEOPLE UM WHO
[52:10] FELT DISENFRANCHIZED AND WHEN
[52:12] THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY UH, TO
[52:15] REGISTER AND TO VOTE FELT LIKE
[52:18] THEIR VOTE MATTERED.
[52:19] BUT THEN I ALSO CAME ACROSS
[52:20] PEOPLE ON ELECTION DAY THEY
[52:22] WERE LIKE OH MY.
[52:23] GOD.
[52:24] I DIDN'T.
[52:25] EVEN REGISTER.
[52:25] I DON'T EVEN.
[52:26] KNOW WHERE I WHERE WHERE I
[52:27] LIVE BECAUSE I MOVED SO MANY
[52:29] TIMES.
[52:30] BECAUSE I'M HOUSING INSECURE.
[52:33] UM AND WE'RE SO MANY BARRIERS
[52:35] FOR PEOPLE PARTICULARLY LOW
[52:36] INCOME PEOPLE WHO THE DECISIONS
[52:38] THAT WE MAKE IMPACT THEIR LIVES
[52:40] THE MOST.
[52:41] AND SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY
[52:43] FOR US TO REALLY DEMONSTRATE
[52:45] WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO SUPPORT
[52:47] DEMOCRACY, UM, AND GIVING
[52:48] PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
[52:50] REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT THEN AND
[52:51] THERE IS GIVING PEOPLE AGENCY
[52:53] OVER THEIR LIVES AND THAT'S
[52:56] WHAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON
[52:57] HERE ON THIS COUNCIL IS
[52:59] CREATING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
[53:00] PEOPLE, UM, TO FEEL LIKE THEIR
[53:03] VOTE MATTERS AND THAT THEY HAVE
[53:05] MANY PATHWAYS, UM, TO BEING
[53:08] ABLE TO DO THAT.
[53:09] SO I'M VERY EXCITED TO VOTE IN
[53:12] FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION.
[53:13] AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO
[53:15] ACKNOWLEDGE UM THAT YOU KNOW,
[53:17] OFTENTIMES WE PRESENT
[53:19] RESOLUTIONS HERE ON THE FLOOR
[53:20] AND THEN SOMETIMES WE OBJECT TO
[53:22] THEM AND THEN THEY GO INTO
[53:23] COMMITTEE BECAUSE THERE'S AN
[53:25] OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THEM
[53:26] FURTHER.
[53:27] I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO START
[53:28] GETTING INTO THE HABIT OF IS
[53:30] IDENTIFYING WHAT IS A
[53:32] RESOLUTION THAT IS A NO BRAINER
[53:34] AND WHAT IS A RESOLUTION THAT,
[53:35] UH, YOU KNOW, REQUIRES.
[53:37] MORE UH, DISCUSSION.
[53:40] AND I THINK THAT THAT IS
[53:42] SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO
[53:43] ENCOURAGE US TO REALLY START
[53:44] THINKING ABOUT AS WE CONTINUE
[53:46] TO MOVE IN THIS, UH, WORK.
[53:48] AND SO THIS RESOLUTION WAS A NO
[53:50] BRAINER WHEN IT WAS PRESENTED
[53:53] AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A NO
[53:55] BRAINER.
[53:55] UM, AS WE UH, MOVE FORWARD WITH
[53:58] A FAVORABLE VOTE.
[53:59] SO UH, THANK YOU CHAIR.
[54:02] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA
[54:03] COUNCIL BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE
[54:04] FLOOR.
[54:05] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[54:06] THANK YOU TO THE MAKERS OF THIS
[54:08] RESOLUTION.
[54:09] I AM FULLY IN SUPPORT OF IT
[54:10] BECAUSE OF WHAT IT STANDS FOR.
[54:12] IT'S ABOUT VOTER ACCESS.
[54:13] IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR
[54:15] RESIDENTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
[54:17] THAT ON AN ELECTION DAY THAT IF
[54:19] THEY WANT TO VOTE AND WE'RE NOT
[54:21] AWARE THEY STILL HAVE THE
[54:22] OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE.
[54:23] I KNOW VERY WELL WHAT IT IS TO
[54:26] SPEAK TO A RESIDENT THAT ON
[54:27] ELECTION DAY, IF IT'S ON EITHER
[54:29] THE PRELIMINARIES OR THE FINAL
[54:31] GENERAL ELECTION THAT YOU GO UP
[54:33] TO THEM AND THEY'RE ON THE
[54:34] STREET AND YOU HAND THEM YOUR
[54:36] CARD SAYING HEY, WELL IF YOU'RE
[54:38] TO GO VOTE AND THEY'RE NOT
[54:40] REGISTERED AND THEY MENTION
[54:41] THAT TO YOU AND THEY ARE SIMPLY
[54:45] JUST YOU KNOW, THEY THEY FORGOT
[54:46] IT WAS ELECTION DAY OR THEY
[54:48] FORGOT ABOUT THEIR REGISTRATION
[54:49] OR MAYBE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
[54:50] REGISTERED AND THEY'RE NOT
[54:51] REGISTERED AND THEY WANT TO
[54:53] STILL VOTE.
[54:53] THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR
[54:55] THEM.
[54:56] THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO CHANGE
[54:58] THIS ACROSS THE STATE NOT JUST
[55:00] HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
[55:02] UM I REALLY BELIEVE IN QUESTION
[55:04] FOUR AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR AND
[55:05] I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
[55:06] HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON IN
[55:08] THE CITY COUNCIL WE STAND TO
[55:09] MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO GO
[55:11] OUT TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY.
[55:12] AND THAT'S WHY I WANT TO
[55:13] SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND I
[55:14] THANK THE MAKERS FOR BRINGING
[55:16] IT FORWARD.
[55:16] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[55:17] THANK YOU COUNCIL AND
[55:18] COUNCIL DEREK CAN YOU HAVE THE
[55:19] FLOOR?
[55:19] THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR.
[55:21] UM THERE HAVE UM BEEN SO MANY
[55:24] CONSTITUENTS OF MINE THAT HAVE
[55:25] BEEN DISENFRANCHIZED BY THE
[55:27] CURRENT SYSTEM.
[55:28] UM AND IT MATTERS DEEPLY TO
[55:30] ME ESPECIALLY AS SOMEONE WHO
[55:31] REPRESENTS A YOUNG POPULATION
[55:33] WHO REPRESENTS UM, UH DISTRICT
[55:36] THAT TOUCHES 12 COLLEGES AND
[55:39] UNIVERSITIES.
[55:39] UM, THIS LAST ELECTION
[55:42] COMPLETELY DISENFRANCHIZED MY
[55:44] DISTRICT.
[55:44] UM AND I DO THINK THERE ARE
[55:46] SOME ELECTION RESULTS THAT
[55:47] WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF
[55:48] THERE HAD BEEN SAME-DAY VOTER
[55:50] REGISTRATION.
[55:50] SO I THINK IT UM IT DEEPLY
[55:53] MATTERS AND UM I KNOW THERE'S
[55:55] BEEN A LOT OF EVOLUTION AT THE
[55:56] STATE HOUSE ON THIS AS WELL AND
[55:58] A LOT OF EVOLUTION UH, WITH THE
[56:01] UM SECRETARY OF STATE AS WELL.
[56:02] SO I THINK UM AND WITH THOSE
[56:04] THAT WORK IN CITIES AND TOWNS
[56:06] ACROSS UH ACROSS THE STATE, UM,
[56:09] SO I'M STRONGLY IN SUPPORT
[56:10] OF THIS AND UH, LOOK FORWARD TO
[56:12] VOTING.
[56:12] YES.
[56:14] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[56:15] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
[56:16] ON THIS MATTER?
[56:18] UH, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
[56:19] ON CENSUS, REDISTRICTING AND
[56:20] ELECTIONS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE
[56:22] OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND
[56:23] ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1805.
[56:26] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[56:29] MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[56:30] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[56:32] COUNCILOR BRIEF.
[56:34] COUNCIL COLOR.
[56:34] YES.
[56:35] COUNCIL COLOR.
[56:36] PUT ZAPATA.
[56:36] YES, COUNSELOR.
[56:37] CULPA.
[56:38] COUNSELOR.
[56:38] CULPEPER.
[56:39] YES, COUNSELOR.
[56:39] DURKAN.
[56:40] YES, COUNSELOR.
[56:41] DURKAN.
[56:41] YES.
[56:42] COUNSELOR.
[56:42] FITZGERALD.
[56:43] COUNSELOR.
[56:43] FITZGERALD.
[56:44] YES, COUNSELOR.
[56:44] FLYNN.
[56:45] YES.
[56:45] COUNSELOR.
[56:46] FLYNN.
[56:46] YES.
[56:46] COUNCILOR.
[56:47] ILLUSION.
[56:48] COUNSELOR.
[56:48] LOUIJEUNE.
[56:48] YES, COUNSELOR.
[56:49] MEJIA.
[56:50] COUNCILMEMBER HERE.
[56:51] YES.
[56:51] COUNCIL.
[56:51] MURPHY.
[56:52] COUNSELOR.
[56:52] MURPHY.
[56:53] YES.
[56:53] COUNSELOR.
[56:53] PEN.
[56:54] COUNSELOR.
[56:55] PIN.
[56:55] YES.
[56:55] COUNCIL.
[56:56] SANTANA.
[56:56] COUNSELOR.
[56:57] SANTANA.
[56:58] YES.
[56:58] COUNSELOR.
[56:58] WEBER.
[56:59] COUNSELOR.
[56:59] WEBER.
[57:00] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[57:01] WORLD.
[57:01] YES.
[57:01] COUNSELOR.
[57:02] WELL, YES.
[57:03] DOCKET NUMBER 1805 HAS RECEIVED
[57:06] .
[57:06] 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[57:08] THANK YOU.
[57:09] THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
[57:10] ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1805 HAS
[57:12] BEEN ADOPTED.
[57:13] WE'RE NOW ON TO MATTERS
[57:14] RECENTLY HEARD.
[57:16] MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
[57:17] DOCKET 1829 THROUGH 1838?
[57:23] DOCKET NUMBER 1829 MESSAGE IN
[57:25] ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27
[57:28] APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE
[57:29] FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY
[57:34] $268,887 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR
[57:35] THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR
[57:37] FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES
[57:39] CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[57:41] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[57:41] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[57:43] THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE
[57:45] PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION TALKING
[57:47] NUMBER 1830 MESSAGE IN ORDER
[57:50] FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL
[57:51] APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR THE
[57:52] BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
[57:53] DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 27,
[57:56] THE AMOUNT OF $268,887 TO
[58:01] COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST
[58:03] ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE
[58:04] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
[58:06] BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[58:07] COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[58:09] POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
[58:11] THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE
[58:13] SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH
[58:17] AUGUST 31ST 2027.
[58:18] THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
[58:19] CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE
[58:21] INCREASE OF 2% IN OCTOBER OF
[58:24] 2024, 2025 AND 2026 AND A FLAT
[58:28] DOLLAR AMOUNT INCREASE OF $250
[58:31] ,$900 AND $800 TO BE ADDED TO
[58:35] ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY
[58:37] OF 2025, 2026 AND 2027
[58:41] RESPECTFULLY DOCKET NUMBER 1831
[58:44] MESSAGE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE
[58:47] FISCAL YEAR 27 APPROPRIATION
[58:48] FOR THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE
[58:50] BARGAINING BY $111,802 TO
[58:54] PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON
[58:55] PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL
[58:57] YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED
[58:59] WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[59:00] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[59:02] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE IN
[59:03] THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE
[59:05] SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION
[59:08] DOCKET NUMBER 1832 MESSAGE IN
[59:10] ORDER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL
[59:12] APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR BOSTON
[59:14] PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR
[59:16] 27, IN THE AMOUNT OF $111,802
[59:20] TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27
[59:22] COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN
[59:24] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
[59:25] BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[59:26] COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[59:29] POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS
[59:30] FEDERATION.
[59:31] THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT
[59:35] JULY 1ST 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH
[59:36] OF 2027.
[59:37] THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
[59:39] CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE
[59:40] INCREASE OF 2% IN OCTOBER OF
[59:43] 2024, 2025 AND 2026 AND A FLAT
[59:47] DOLLAR AMOUNT INCREASE OF $250,
[59:51] $900 AND $800.
[59:53] TO BE ADDED TO ANNUAL SALARIES
[59:55] IN JANUARY OF 2025, 2026 AND
[1:00:00] 2027 RESPECTIVELY.
[1:00:02] DOCKET NUMBER 1833 MESSAGGERO
[1:00:05] TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27
[1:00:07] APPROPRIATION OF THE RESERVE
[1:00:08] FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY
[1:00:12] $85,879 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR
[1:00:13] THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR
[1:00:15] THE FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES
[1:00:18] CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[1:00:19] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[1:00:21] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[1:00:23] SEIU LOCAL 880 PROFESSIONAL
[1:00:25] EMPLOYEES CHAPTER, DEPARTMENT
[1:00:28] OF PLANNING AND ENGINEERING
[1:00:29] DOCKET NUMBER 1834 MESSAGE IN
[1:00:32] ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL
[1:00:33] APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR BOSTON
[1:00:34] PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR
[1:00:36] 27, THE AMOUNT OF $85,879 TO
[1:00:40] COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST
[1:00:43] ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE
[1:00:44] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
[1:00:46] BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[1:00:48] COMMITTEE AND SEIU LOCAL 880
[1:00:50] PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES CHAPTER
[1:00:52] THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND
[1:00:53] ENGINEERING THE TERMS OF THE
[1:00:55] CONTRACT AS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026
[1:00:58] THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027, THE
[1:01:00] MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
[1:01:02] CONTRACT CONTRACT INCLUDES A
[1:01:03] BASE WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN
[1:01:06] SEPTEMBER OF 2026 AND A FLAT
[1:01:09] DOLLAR AMOUNT OF $800 AT ANNUAL
[1:01:11] SALARIES IN JANUARY OF 2027.
[1:01:15] TALKING ABOUT 1835 MESSAGE IN
[1:01:17] ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27
[1:01:21] APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE
[1:01:22] FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY
[1:01:25] $40,365 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR
[1:01:27] THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR
[1:01:29] FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES
[1:01:31] CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[1:01:33] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[1:01:33] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[1:01:35] THE BOSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
[1:01:38] PLANT ADMINISTRATORS
[1:01:39] ASSOCIATION DOCKET NUMBER 1836
[1:01:42] MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A
[1:01:44] SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION
[1:01:45] ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC
[1:01:47] SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 27, THE
[1:01:49] AMOUNT OF $40,365 TO
[1:01:52] COVER FISCAL YEAR 27 COST ITEMS
[1:01:54] CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[1:01:56] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[1:01:57] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[1:01:59] THE BUS AND SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
[1:02:00] PLANT ADMINISTRATORS
[1:02:01] ASSOCIATION THE TERMS OF THE
[1:02:04] CONTRACT OF SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026
[1:02:07] THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027.
[1:02:09] THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
[1:02:11] CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE
[1:02:13] INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER
[1:02:15] OF 26, 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR
[1:02:18] AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO
[1:02:21] ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY
[1:02:23] OF 2027.
[1:02:25] DOCKET NUMBER 1837 MESSAGE IN
[1:02:28] ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL 27
[1:02:30] APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE
[1:02:32] FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY
[1:02:34] $10,320.
[1:02:35] PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON
[1:02:37] PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL
[1:02:38] YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED
[1:02:40] WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
[1:02:41] BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[1:02:42] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[1:02:44] THE AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL
[1:02:48] 2814 STORE KEEPERS AND STORES
[1:02:50] DELIVERY MEN UNION NUMBER 1838
[1:02:55] MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A
[1:02:56] SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION
[1:02:58] ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC
[1:02:59] SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 27, IN
[1:03:02] THE AMOUNT OF $10,320 TO
[1:03:05] COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST
[1:03:07] ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE
[1:03:08] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
[1:03:10] BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[1:03:11] COMMITTEE AND AFL CIO
[1:03:14] COUNCIL 93 LOCAL 2814 STORE
[1:03:17] KEEPERS AND STORES DELIVERY
[1:03:18] MEN'S UNION THE TERMS OF THE
[1:03:21] CONTRACT OF SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026
[1:03:25] TO AUGUST 31ST 2027.
[1:03:26] THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
[1:03:28] CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE
[1:03:29] INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER
[1:03:32] OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR
[1:03:34] AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO
[1:03:37] ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY
[1:03:39] OF 2027.
[1:03:41] THANK YOU.
[1:03:42] CLERK PLEASE GET SOME WATER.
[1:03:43] YES.
[1:03:43] UM, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE
[1:03:45] CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
[1:03:47] MEANS.
[1:03:48] COUNCIL MEMBER YOU HAVE THE
[1:03:49] FLOOR.
[1:03:49] THANK YOU.
[1:03:51] YEAH.
[1:03:52] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:03:53] UH, ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH,
[1:03:55] THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
[1:03:56] HELD A HEARING ON DOCKET
[1:03:57] NUMBERS 1829 TO 18 38 TO.
[1:04:01] 10.
[1:04:01] APPROPRIATION ORDERS THAT.
[1:04:02] WOULD REDUCE THE.
[1:04:03] RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE
[1:04:04] BARGAINING UH, IN ORDER TO
[1:04:06] APPROPRIATED APPROXIMATELY
[1:04:08] $517,000 TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC
[1:04:10] SCHOOLS.
[1:04:11] THIS APPROPRIATION WOULD
[1:04:12] COVER FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES
[1:04:14] CONTAINED WITHIN CBAS BETWEEN
[1:04:17] THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
[1:04:19] THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE
[1:04:20] PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION, THE
[1:04:22] BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE SUPERIOR
[1:04:24] OFFICERS FEDERATION, THE BOSTON
[1:04:25] SCHOOL DEPARTMENT PLAN
[1:04:27] ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION, THE
[1:04:29] STORE KEEPERS AND STORES
[1:04:31] DELIVERY UNION WHO ARE PART
[1:04:33] OF THE AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL
[1:04:37] UH 2814 AND PLANNING AND
[1:04:38] ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS WHO
[1:04:40] ARE PART OF SEIU LOCAL 888 UH
[1:04:42] THE PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES
[1:04:43] CHAPTER.
[1:04:44] THE COMMITTEE UH ON TUESDAY WAS
[1:04:46] JOINED BY COUNCILORS MURPHY,
[1:04:48] FLYNN LOUIJEUNE FITZGERALD,
[1:04:50] CULPEPER AND MORRELL AS WELL AS
[1:04:52] THE OFFICE OF BUDGET MANAGEMENT
[1:04:53] DIRECTOR JIM WILLIAMSON, OFFICE
[1:04:56] OF LABOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR
[1:04:58] JEREMIE HASSAN UM OUR HASSEN
[1:05:01] SORRY, UH, OFFICE OF UH SAFETY
[1:05:03] SERVICES CHIEF AND EXECUTIVE
[1:05:05] DIRECTOR FOR BP'S IZZY MARRERO
[1:05:08] AND BP'S CHIEF OPERATING
[1:05:10] OFFICER UH, BRIAN FORD.
[1:05:12] UH, THE THE HEARING CENTERED
[1:05:13] AROUND THE APPROVAL OF THESE
[1:05:15] TEN APPROPRIATION ORDERS TIED
[1:05:17] TO FIVE RECENT UNION CONTRACTS
[1:05:19] ,UH, MOSTLY ONE YEAR
[1:05:20] AGREEMENTS PROVIDING A 2%
[1:05:22] GENERAL WAGE INCREASE AND AN
[1:05:24] ADDITIONAL, UH, AMOUNT OF, YOU
[1:05:27] KNOW, AROUND $800 TO BE ADDED
[1:05:29] TO BASE WAGES.
[1:05:30] UH, MOVING FORWARD, THE
[1:05:32] PANELISTS UH, YOU KNOW, UH,
[1:05:35] INCLUDED THE LABOR RELATIONS
[1:05:37] STAFF PROVIDED EXPLANATIONS
[1:05:39] OF THE COSTS, THE CONTRACT
[1:05:40] TERMS, OPERATIONAL STATUS
[1:05:41] HELPING TO CLARIFY ISSUES, UH,
[1:05:43] AND SUPPORT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE
[1:05:46] PATH TOWARD OUR APPROVAL.
[1:05:47] WE HEARD THAT THIS THESE
[1:05:49] CONTRACTS COVER ROUGHLY THE 50
[1:05:51] MEMBERS OR COVERED BY THE
[1:05:53] PATROLMEN'S CONTRACT.
[1:05:54] ABOUT 19 UH, INDIVIDUALS ARE
[1:05:57] COVERED BY THE SUPERIOR
[1:05:58] OFFICERS CONTRACT.
[1:05:59] ABOUT 37 INDIVIDUALS ARE
[1:06:01] COVERED IN THE PLANNING
[1:06:02] ENGINEERING CONTRACT AND UH, 16
[1:06:06] BY THE PLANT ADMINISTRATORS
[1:06:07] CONTRACT AND ANOTHER SIX UNDER
[1:06:08] THE STOREKEEPERS CONTRACT.
[1:06:10] UM, AS DIRECTOR WILLIAMSON
[1:06:12] STATED AT THE HEARING THERE WAS
[1:06:14] APPROXIMATELY THERE WAS
[1:06:15] APPROXIMATELY $22 MILLION FOR
[1:06:17] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE
[1:06:18] RESERVES AT THE START OF THE
[1:06:19] FISCAL YEAR.
[1:06:20] UH, AND UH SINCE THE START
[1:06:22] OF THE YEAR THIS BODY IS
[1:06:23] APPROVED AROUND 3.3 MILLION TO
[1:06:25] BE TAKEN FROM THE RESERVES, UH,
[1:06:27] FOR SEPARATE CBAS THE
[1:06:29] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
[1:06:29] AGREEMENTS DISCUSSED ON TUESDAY
[1:06:31] REQUIRE US TO TAKE AN
[1:06:32] ADDITIONAL $517,000 OUT
[1:06:34] OF RESERVES TO SATISFY THE
[1:06:35] CONDITIONS CONTAINED WITHIN UH
[1:06:37] ,COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
[1:06:38] AGREEMENTS.
[1:06:39] UM, UH AND SO WE WE DID HAVE A
[1:06:43] REQUEST AT THE HEARING FROM
[1:06:44] SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR A
[1:06:45] MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
[1:06:46] BETWEEN THE UH I BELIEVE IT'S
[1:06:49] BETWEEN DPS AND THE BOSTON
[1:06:50] POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH,
[1:06:53] GOVERNING, YOU KNOW, THEIR
[1:06:54] INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOLS.
[1:06:55] UH, WE I AS THE CHAIR WE
[1:06:57] REACHED OUT FOR THAT MEMORANDUM
[1:06:58] OF UNDERSTANDING.
[1:06:59] WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE IS NO
[1:07:00] EXECUTED MEMORANDUM
[1:07:02] OF UNDERSTANDING TO PROVIDE US.
[1:07:04] SO I DON'T HAVE THAT UH, FOR
[1:07:07] FOR FOR YOU TODAY.
[1:07:08] UH, ALSO, YOU KNOW, HAVING
[1:07:11] LOOKED INTO IT, UH, YOU KNOW, I
[1:07:14] I THINK WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO
[1:07:15] ASK FOR FOR DOCUMENTS AND AND
[1:07:18] AND FOR AS MUCH INFORMATION AS
[1:07:19] WE CAN GET FROM THE
[1:07:20] ADMINISTRATION.
[1:07:21] UH, I'M NOT SURE IT'S DIRECTLY
[1:07:24] RELEVANT.
[1:07:24] UH, THE MOU TO OUR DISCUSSION
[1:07:26] TODAY ABOUT WHETHER TO TO GIVE
[1:07:28] THESE INCREASES FOR THAT
[1:07:29] REASON, YOU KNOW, AS THE
[1:07:30] COMMITTEE CHAIR, I'M GOING TO
[1:07:32] SEEK ACCEPTANCE OF THE
[1:07:33] COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE
[1:07:34] OF THESE DOCKETS BEFORE YOU
[1:07:36] TODAY.
[1:07:36] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[1:07:37] THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNSELOR
[1:07:38] WEBER.
[1:07:38] UM, I APOLOGIZE I KNOW THAT
[1:07:40] COUNCILOR MURPHY HAD HER LIGHT
[1:07:41] ON FIRST AND THEN IT WAS
[1:07:44] COUNCILOR MEJIA AND THEN FLYNN.
[1:07:45] UM, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:07:47] AND THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR THE
[1:07:49] COMMITTEE.
[1:07:49] UM, LOOKING.
[1:07:50] FORWARD TO VOTING IN FAVOR
[1:07:51] OF ALL OF THESE.
[1:07:52] THANK YOU.
[1:07:53] CLERK UM, FOR READING THEM ALL
[1:07:55] .
[1:07:55] I DID JUST WANT TO STAND AS
[1:07:57] SOMEONE WHO WORKED IN OUR
[1:07:58] SCHOOLS FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES
[1:08:00] .
[1:08:01] IT IS A VILLAGE I KNOW WE HERE,
[1:08:03] WE ARE HERE AND WE ADVOCATE FOR
[1:08:04] OUR TEACHERS ALL OF THE TIME
[1:08:07] BUT THERE'S SO MANY OTHER
[1:08:09] INDIVIDUALS THAT SHOW UP EVERY
[1:08:10] DAY MAKING SURE THAT THE HEAT
[1:08:12] TURNS ON THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE
[1:08:14] FED, THAT OUR SCHOOL YOU KNOW
[1:08:15] THE SCHOOL BUSSES HAVE DRIVERS
[1:08:17] SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAN
[1:08:19] JUST WHAT GOES ON INSIDE THE
[1:08:20] CLASSROOM.
[1:08:21] SO ALWAYS THANK YOU TO OUR
[1:08:22] TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS.
[1:08:23] BUT ALL OF THESE CONTRACTS JUST
[1:08:25] SHOW HOW MUCH IT REALLY DOES
[1:08:27] TAKE TO HAVE A SCHOOL
[1:08:29] DEPARTMENT RUN SMOOTHLY.
[1:08:31] SO LOOKING FORWARD.
[1:08:32] TO.
[1:08:32] SUPPORTING THEM.
[1:08:33] THANK YOU THANK YOU
[1:08:34] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:08:36] COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU HAVE THE
[1:08:36] FLOOR NOW.
[1:08:39] UM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:08:40] AND I WANT TO THANK.
[1:08:42] CHAIR WEBER.
[1:08:42] FOR, UH, YESTERDAY'S HEARING.
[1:08:44] AND ALTHOUGH I WAS UNABLE TO
[1:08:46] ATTEND MYSELF, MY TEAM WATCHED
[1:08:49] AND THEN REVIEWED WITH ME THE
[1:08:50] HEARINGS.
[1:08:51] UM, AND TYPICALLY ALL OF THESE
[1:08:54] DOCKETS, UM, WOULD JUST PASS.
[1:08:57] BUT THERE ARE A FEW OUTSTANDING
[1:08:58] QUESTIONS ABOUT SOME OF THESE
[1:09:00] CONTRACTS THAT, UM, ARE IN
[1:09:03] OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS THAT
[1:09:04] ARE CURRENTLY BEING
[1:09:05] INVESTIGATED BY THE OFFICE
[1:09:08] OF INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT
[1:09:09] ON DPS THAT CAME OUT IN LATE
[1:09:12] AUGUST AND WE NEED TO DO.
[1:09:13] OUR DUE DILIGENCE.
[1:09:14] AND ENSURE THAT BP'S OFFICES
[1:09:16] AND DEPARTMENTS UH, IN THE OIG
[1:09:19] REPORT, ARE FOLLOWING PROPER
[1:09:22] CONTRACTING PROTOCOLS, POLICIES
[1:09:24] AND PROCEDURES AND UNTIL THAT
[1:09:26] IS DONE I AM UNCOMFORTABLE
[1:09:28] VOTING IN FAVOR OF THESE
[1:09:31] CONTRACTS, HOWEVER.
[1:09:32] AND I.
[1:09:33] WANT.
[1:09:33] TO BE.
[1:09:33] REALLY CLEAR.
[1:09:34] FOR THE RECORD.
[1:09:34] I DO SUPPORT OUR UNIONS AND OUR
[1:09:36] WORKERS.
[1:09:36] AND I DO NOT WANT TO VOTE.
[1:09:38] AGAINST THEIR CONTRACTS.
[1:09:40] UM AND THEY WORKED REALLY HARD
[1:09:42] TO NEGOTIATE.
[1:09:43] AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE REALLY
[1:09:44] CLEAR THAT FOR ME, UH, THIS I
[1:09:47] I'M FEELING CONFLICTED IN
[1:09:49] REGARDS.
[1:09:50] TO THE UM, WHAT WE'RE
[1:09:52] COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC.
[1:09:53] CAN WE GUARDS TO SOME OF THESE
[1:09:55] THINGS THAT ARE STILL
[1:09:56] OUTSTANDING?
[1:09:57] UM AND THEREFORE I WILL BE
[1:09:59] VOTING PRESENT ON DOCKETS UM.
[1:10:02] 1833 THROUGH 188 UM 1838.
[1:10:08] UM JUST.
[1:10:09] FOR THE RECORD.
[1:10:10] UM SO FOLKS KNOW WHY NOW YOU
[1:10:13] KNOW.
[1:10:14] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[1:10:16] COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
[1:10:17] FLOOR.
[1:10:18] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:10:21] I I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THESE
[1:10:23] DOCKETS ALTHOUGH.
[1:10:27] THERE'S A LOT OF OUTSTANDING.
[1:10:28] ISSUES THAT WE HAVEN'T
[1:10:31] ADDRESSED AS.
[1:10:32] COUNCILMEMBER HERE MENTIONED I
[1:10:33] AGREE WITH HER.
[1:10:37] AS WELL AS THE $900,000.
[1:10:40] MISAPPROPRIATION OF.
[1:10:42] CITY FUNDS THAT BOSTON.
[1:10:43] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, THERE.
[1:10:45] WAS A DEVASTATING REPORT
[1:10:47] ISSUED BY THE.
[1:10:48] STATE UM INSPECTOR GENERAL.
[1:10:52] ON MISAPPROPRIATION.
[1:10:52] BASICALLY OF.
[1:10:53] CITY FUNDS.
[1:10:55] AND WHAT IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE
[1:10:57] ON.
[1:11:00] UH STUDENTS ON TEACHERS.
[1:11:02] ON A PUBLIC EDUCATION.
[1:11:03] ON ON.
[1:11:04] THESE COLLECTIVE.
[1:11:05] BARGAINING CONTRACTS?
[1:11:07] WE REALLY DON'T KNOW.
[1:11:08] I DID ASK SOME OF THOSE
[1:11:10] QUESTIONS, UH, BUT DID NOT GET
[1:11:14] THE RIGHT ANSWERS.
[1:11:15] BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE VOTING
[1:11:17] ON.
[1:11:17] THESE DOCKETS WITHOUT.
[1:11:20] ,UM.
[1:11:21] ADEQUATE INFORMATION.
[1:11:24] WHICH IS DISCOURAGING.
[1:11:25] I SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF LAST
[1:11:27] NIGHT WITH.
[1:11:28] THE SAINT.
[1:11:28] STEPHEN'S YOUTH GROUP.
[1:11:30] IN THE SOUTH END.
[1:11:31] UM, LISTENING TO.
[1:11:33] UH, PARENTS AND GUARDIANS
[1:11:35] STUDENT OF STUDENTS WITH.
[1:11:38] DISABILITIES.
[1:11:39] ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.
[1:11:40] IMMIGRANT STUDENTS ASKING A LOT
[1:11:43] .
[1:11:43] OF A LOT OF ISSUES THAT WE.
[1:11:45] FOCUS ON HERE.
[1:11:47] UH, WE SHOULD BE.
[1:11:48] FOCUSING ON ON THE CITY.
[1:11:50] COUNCIL.
[1:11:51] BUT THESE PARENTS.
[1:11:53] WERE ASKING.
[1:11:53] US ASKING ME QUESTIONS.
[1:11:55] ABOUT WHAT IMPACT.
[1:11:57] DOES THE.
[1:11:58] RECENT LAYOFF
[1:12:01] OF PARAPROFESSIONALS HAVE?
[1:12:03] AND THEY'RE EXPLAINING.
[1:12:04] TO ME.
[1:12:04] THAT THERE IS A LOT
[1:12:06] OF PARAPROFESSIONALS NOW.
[1:12:07] THAT ARE NOT IN CLASSROOMS AND
[1:12:09] IT'S IMPACTING THE.
[1:12:10] QUALITY OF LIFE IN PUBLIC.
[1:12:11] EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILD.
[1:12:14] UM, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND SUPPORT
[1:12:16] THESE CONTRACTS.
[1:12:17] AND WE ALL WILL.
[1:12:19] UM, BUT WE'RE DOING A
[1:12:21] DISSERVICE.
[1:12:23] TO STUDENTS.
[1:12:24] AND TEACHERS WHEN WE HAVE
[1:12:25] WE'RE AFRAID.
[1:12:26] TO ASK DIFFICULT.
[1:12:28] QUESTIONS TO HOLD THE
[1:12:29] ADMINISTRATION AND THE
[1:12:31] DEPARTMENT.
[1:12:32] ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE POOR.
[1:12:35] PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT IS
[1:12:36] HAPPENING IN BOSTON.
[1:12:38] STUDENTS DESERVE BETTER.
[1:12:39] THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT FROM THE
[1:12:41] BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
[1:12:42] THANK YOU.
[1:12:42] YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN, WOULD
[1:12:44] ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON
[1:12:45] THIS MATTER, COUNSELOR
[1:12:45] DIRECTING IT BEFORE.
[1:12:47] THANK YOU.
[1:12:48] UM, I STAND WITH AND FOR
[1:12:50] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SO I WILL
[1:12:52] BE VOTING YES.
[1:12:52] THANK YOU.
[1:12:55] COUNCILOR DURKAN, THE CHAIR
[1:12:58] OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
[1:12:59] MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
[1:13:00] COMMITTEE REPORT AND WE'RE
[1:13:02] GOING TO DO THIS INDIVIDUALLY
[1:13:04] AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1829.
[1:13:06] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[1:13:09] ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAY NAY.
[1:13:11] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:13:12] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:13:13] ROLL CALL VOTE AND DOCKET 1829
[1:13:16] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR
[1:13:18] AS OPPOSED.
[1:13:18] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:13:19] CLOSE BUDDY.
[1:13:20] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:13:21] CULPEPER.
[1:13:22] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:22] CULPEPER.
[1:13:23] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:13:24] DURKAN.
[1:13:24] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:25] DURKAN.
[1:13:25] YES.
[1:13:25] COUNCIL HAS GENERAL COUNCILOR.
[1:13:28] VISIO.
[1:13:28] YES.
[1:13:28] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:28] FLYNN.
[1:13:29] YES.
[1:13:29] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:30] FLYNN.
[1:13:30] YES.
[1:13:30] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:31] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:13:31] YES.
[1:13:32] COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:13:33] YES.
[1:13:33] COUNSELING HERE COUNTS FOR
[1:13:34] MEJIA.
[1:13:35] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:13:35] MURPHY.
[1:13:36] COUNSELOR.
[1:13:36] MURPHY.
[1:13:37] YES.
[1:13:37] COUNCIL.
[1:13:38] PIPPIN.
[1:13:38] YES, COUNSELOR AND YES.
[1:13:40] COUNCIL.
[1:13:40] SANTANA.
[1:13:40] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:13:41] SANTANA.
[1:13:42] YES.
[1:13:42] COUNCIL.
[1:13:43] WEBER.
[1:13:43] YES.
[1:13:44] COUNCIL.
[1:13:44] WEBER.
[1:13:44] YES AND COUNCIL.
[1:13:45] WORLD.
[1:13:46] YES.
[1:13:46] COUNCIL.
[1:13:47] WORLD.
[1:13:47] YES.
[1:13:47] TALKING NUMBER ONE 8 TO 9 AS WE
[1:13:50] SEE 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE
[1:13:51] .
[1:13:52] THANK YOU.
[1:13:53] THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:13:54] ON WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS
[1:13:55] ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:13:55] REPORT AND PASSENGER DOCKET
[1:13:57] 1830.
[1:13:58] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I, UH,
[1:14:00] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:14:01] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:14:03] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR
[1:14:04] AS A.
[1:14:05] YES COUNSELOR.
[1:14:06] COLORS A YES COUNSELOR CULPA.
[1:14:09] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:09] CULPEPER.
[1:14:10] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:10] DURKAN.
[1:14:11] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:12] DURKAN.
[1:14:12] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:13] FITZGERALD.
[1:14:14] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:14] SHOW.
[1:14:14] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:15] FLYNN.
[1:14:15] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:16] FLYNN.
[1:14:17] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:17] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:14:18] YES.
[1:14:18] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:19] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:14:19] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:20] MEJIA.
[1:14:20] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:21] MEJIA.
[1:14:21] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:22] MURPHY.
[1:14:23] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:23] MURPHY.
[1:14:24] YES.
[1:14:24] COUNCIL.
[1:14:24] PIPPIN.
[1:14:25] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:26] THE PEN.
[1:14:26] YES.
[1:14:27] COUNCIL.
[1:14:27] SANTANA.
[1:14:28] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:29] SANTANA.
[1:14:29] YES.
[1:14:29] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:30] WEBER.
[1:14:31] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:31] WEBB'S AND COUNSELOR.
[1:14:32] WORLD.
[1:14:33] YEAH.
[1:14:33] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:34] OH, YES.
[1:14:34] TALKING NUMBER 1830 HAS
[1:14:36] RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
[1:14:38] AFFIRMATIVE.
[1:14:38] THANK YOU.
[1:14:39] THE CHAIR OF WAYS MEANS SEEKS
[1:14:40] ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:14:41] REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
[1:14:43] 1831.
[1:14:44] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[1:14:45] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:14:46] DOCTOR ROLL CALL.
[1:14:46] VOTE COUNSELOR BRIEF COUNSELOR
[1:14:48] COLLETTE AS A PILOT.
[1:14:49] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:50] COLOR AS A BODY.
[1:14:51] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:52] CULPEPER.
[1:14:52] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:54] CULPEPER.
[1:14:54] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:55] DURKAN.
[1:14:55] COUNSELOR.
[1:14:56] DURKAN.
[1:14:56] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:14:57] FITZGERALD.
[1:14:58] COUNSELOR FOR SO.
[1:15:00] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:00] FLYNN.
[1:15:01] YES.
[1:15:01] IT'S A FLYNN.
[1:15:02] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:03] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:15:03] COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:15:05] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:05] MEJIA.
[1:15:06] COUNSELOR MEJIA.
[1:15:07] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:08] MURPHY.
[1:15:08] YEAH.
[1:15:09] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:09] MURPHY.
[1:15:09] YES.
[1:15:10] COUNCIL.
[1:15:10] PIPPIN.
[1:15:11] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:12] VAN.
[1:15:12] YES.
[1:15:13] CONSTANTIN.
[1:15:13] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:14] SANTANA.
[1:15:15] YES.
[1:15:15] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:15] WEBER.
[1:15:16] YES.
[1:15:16] COUNCIL.
[1:15:17] WEBER.
[1:15:17] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:15:18] YES.
[1:15:19] COUNCILOR WORRELL.
[1:15:20] YES.
[1:15:21] TALK NUMBER 1831 HAS RECEIVED
[1:15:23] 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[1:15:25] THANK YOU.
[1:15:26] THE CHAIR ON WAYS AND MEANS
[1:15:27] SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
[1:15:27] COMMITTEE REPORT AND POSITIVE
[1:15:28] DOCKET 1832.
[1:15:30] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:15:31] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:15:33] COUNSELOR BREAK.
[1:15:34] COUNSELOR COLADAS A PARTY?
[1:15:35] YES, AS A PARTY.
[1:15:36] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:37] CULPEPER.
[1:15:38] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:39] CULPEPER.
[1:15:39] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:40] DURKAN.
[1:15:41] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:41] DURKAN.
[1:15:42] YES.
[1:15:42] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:42] FITZGERALD.
[1:15:43] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:44] FITZGERALD.
[1:15:44] YES.
[1:15:45] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:45] FLYNN.
[1:15:45] YES.
[1:15:46] COUNCILOR.
[1:15:46] FLYNN.
[1:15:47] YES.
[1:15:47] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:15:48] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:49] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:15:49] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:50] MEJIA COUNSELING MEJIA.
[1:15:52] YES.
[1:15:52] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:52] MURPHY.
[1:15:53] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:53] MURPHY.
[1:15:54] YES.
[1:15:54] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:55] PIPPIN.
[1:15:56] COUNSELOR.
[1:15:56] PEN.
[1:15:56] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:57] SANTANA.
[1:15:58] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:15:59] SANTANA.
[1:15:59] YES.
[1:16:00] COUNCILOR.
[1:16:00] WEBER.
[1:16:01] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:02] WEBER.
[1:16:02] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:16:03] WORLD COUNSELOR.
[1:16:04] OH, YES.
[1:16:06] TALKING A1832 IS RECEIVED 12
[1:16:08] VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[1:16:10] THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON
[1:16:11] WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE
[1:16:12] OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND
[1:16:13] PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1833.
[1:16:15] MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:16:16] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:16:18] COUNSELOR BRAIN CANCER.
[1:16:20] COLLETTE.
[1:16:20] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:21] CLOSET.
[1:16:22] YES.
[1:16:22] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:23] CULPEPER.
[1:16:23] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:24] CULPEPER.
[1:16:25] YES.
[1:16:25] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:25] DURKAN.
[1:16:26] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:27] DURKAN.
[1:16:27] YES.
[1:16:28] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:28] FITZGERALD.
[1:16:28] YES.
[1:16:29] COUNCILOR.
[1:16:30] FITZGERALD.
[1:16:30] YES.
[1:16:30] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:31] FLYNN.
[1:16:31] YES.
[1:16:31] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:32] FLYNN.
[1:16:32] YES.
[1:16:33] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:33] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:16:34] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:34] WHO'S IN?
[1:16:35] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:35] MEJIA.
[1:16:37] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:40] MEJIA.
[1:16:40] PRESENT.
[1:16:42] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:42] MURPHY.
[1:16:43] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:44] MURPHY.
[1:16:44] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:45] PEN COUNSELOR PENNY HAS
[1:16:46] COUNSELOR SANTANA.
[1:16:48] YEAH.
[1:16:48] COUNSELOR.
[1:16:48] SANTANA.
[1:16:49] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:16:50] WEBER.
[1:16:50] COUNSELOR LIVES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:16:52] WORLD COUNSELOR.
[1:16:53] OH, YES.
[1:16:55] TALKING OF A1833 HAS RECEIVED
[1:16:58] 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND
[1:16:59] ONE PRESENT.
[1:17:01] THANK YOU.
[1:17:02] UH, THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS
[1:17:04] SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
[1:17:05] COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE
[1:17:06] OF DOCKET 1834.
[1:17:07] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:17:08] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:17:09] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR
[1:17:11] AS A PARTNER?
[1:17:12] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:17:13] CLOSE BODY.
[1:17:14] YES.
[1:17:14] COUNCILOR.
[1:17:15] CULPEPER.
[1:17:16] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:16] CULPEPER.
[1:17:17] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:17:17] DURKAN.
[1:17:18] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:19] DURKAN.
[1:17:19] YES.
[1:17:19] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:20] FITZGERALD.
[1:17:21] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:21] SHOW.
[1:17:22] YES.
[1:17:22] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:22] FLYNN.
[1:17:23] YES.
[1:17:23] COUNCILOR.
[1:17:24] SUN.
[1:17:24] YES.
[1:17:25] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:17:26] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:26] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:17:27] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:17:28] MEJIA.
[1:17:29] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:30] MEJIA.
[1:17:30] PRESENT.
[1:17:31] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:32] MURPHY.
[1:17:32] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:33] MURPHY.
[1:17:33] YES.
[1:17:34] COUNCILOR.
[1:17:34] PIPPIN.
[1:17:35] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:35] PEN.
[1:17:35] YES.
[1:17:36] COUNCILOR.
[1:17:36] SANTANA.
[1:17:37] YEAH.
[1:17:37] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:38] SANTANA.
[1:17:38] YES.
[1:17:38] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:39] WEBER.
[1:17:39] COUNSELOR.
[1:17:40] WEBER.
[1:17:40] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:17:41] WORLD COUNSELOR.
[1:17:42] ORAL.
[1:17:43] YES.
[1:17:44] DOCKET NUMBER 1834 IS RECEIVED
[1:17:47] 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND
[1:17:48] ONE PRESENT.
[1:17:49] THANK YOU.
[1:17:50] THE CHAIR OF WAYS MEANS THE
[1:17:51] ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:17:52] REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
[1:17:54] 1835.
[1:17:54] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:17:56] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[1:17:57] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR
[1:17:58] COLLETTE AS A PUBLIC YES,
[1:17:59] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:00] CLOSE BY.
[1:18:01] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:01] CULPEPER.
[1:18:02] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:03] CULPEPER.
[1:18:03] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:04] DURKAN.
[1:18:05] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:05] DURKAN.
[1:18:06] YES.
[1:18:06] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:07] FITZGERALD.
[1:18:07] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:08] FITZGERALD.
[1:18:08] YES.
[1:18:09] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:09] FLYNN.
[1:18:09] YES.
[1:18:10] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:10] FLYNN.
[1:18:11] YES.
[1:18:11] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:18:13] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:14] MEJIA.
[1:18:15] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:16] MEJIA.
[1:18:16] PRESENT.
[1:18:17] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:17] MURPHY.
[1:18:19] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:19] MURPHY.
[1:18:19] YES, COUNCILOR.
[1:18:20] PUT PEN.
[1:18:20] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:21] PEN.
[1:18:21] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:22] SANTANA.
[1:18:23] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:24] SANTANA.
[1:18:24] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:25] WEBER.
[1:18:25] YES.
[1:18:26] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:27] BUT YES.
[1:18:27] AND COUNSELOR.
[1:18:28] WORLD.
[1:18:28] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:29] OH, YES.
[1:18:30] TALKING OF THE 1835 HAS
[1:18:33] RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
[1:18:34] AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.
[1:18:36] THANK YOU.
[1:18:37] I SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT
[1:18:38] EACH COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
[1:18:39] ACCEPTED AND, UH, THIS DOCKET
[1:18:41] 1835 HAS PASSED AS UH.
[1:18:43] WORD 1834 AND 1833.
[1:18:45] I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MATTERS,
[1:18:46] MR CLERK.
[1:18:47] UM, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:18:48] ON WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS
[1:18:49] ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
[1:18:50] REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
[1:18:51] 1836.
[1:18:53] COUNSELOR GREAT COUNSELOR
[1:18:55] COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.
[1:18:55] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:56] CLOSE BY.
[1:18:57] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:18:57] CULPEPER.
[1:18:58] COUNSELOR.
[1:18:59] CULPEPER.
[1:18:59] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:00] DURKAN.
[1:19:00] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:01] DURKAN.
[1:19:02] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:02] FITZGERALD.
[1:19:03] COUNSELOR OF HIS SHOW.
[1:19:04] YES.
[1:19:05] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:05] FLYNN.
[1:19:06] COUNCIL.
[1:19:06] FLYNN.
[1:19:07] YES.
[1:19:07] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:07] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:19:08] COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:19:09] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:09] MEJIA.
[1:19:11] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:11] MEJIA.
[1:19:12] PRESENT.
[1:19:13] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:13] MURPHY.
[1:19:14] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:14] MURPHY.
[1:19:15] YES, COUNCILOR.
[1:19:15] PUT PEN.
[1:19:16] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:16] PEN.
[1:19:17] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:17] SANTANA.
[1:19:18] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:19] SANTANA.
[1:19:19] YES.
[1:19:20] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:20] WEBER.
[1:19:21] YES.
[1:19:21] COUNCIL.
[1:19:21] WEBER.
[1:19:22] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:19:23] WORLD COUNSELOR.
[1:19:24] YES.
[1:19:25] TALKING NUMBER 1836 AS WE SEE
[1:19:28] 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND
[1:19:30] ONE PRESENT.
[1:19:30] THANK YOU.
[1:19:31] THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
[1:19:32] ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1836 HAS
[1:19:34] PASSED.
[1:19:34] THE, UH THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND
[1:19:36] MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
[1:19:37] COMMITTEE REPORT AND PATCHES
[1:19:38] OF DOCKET 1837.
[1:19:39] MR CLERK, PLEASE CONDUCT ROLL
[1:19:40] CALL.
[1:19:40] VOTE COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR
[1:19:42] COLETTE AS A PARTNER.
[1:19:43] YES.
[1:19:43] COUNCIL GOES BUTTER.
[1:19:44] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:45] CULPEPER.
[1:19:46] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:47] CULPEPER.
[1:19:47] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:48] DURKAN.
[1:19:48] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:49] DURKAN.
[1:19:50] YES.
[1:19:50] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:51] FITZGERALD.
[1:19:52] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:52] FISHER.
[1:19:52] YES.
[1:19:53] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:53] FLYNN.
[1:19:54] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:55] FLYNN.
[1:19:55] YES.
[1:19:56] COUNSELOR.
[1:19:56] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:19:57] COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:19:58] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:19:59] MEJIA.
[1:19:59] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:00] MEJIA.
[1:20:00] PRESENT.
[1:20:01] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:02] MURPHY.
[1:20:03] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:03] MURPHY.
[1:20:03] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:04] THE PEN COUNSELOR FOR PEN.
[1:20:06] YES.
[1:20:06] COUNCIL.
[1:20:06] SANTANA.
[1:20:07] YEAH.
[1:20:08] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:08] SANTANA.
[1:20:08] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:09] WEBER.
[1:20:10] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:11] WEBSITE AND COUNSELOR.
[1:20:11] EARL.
[1:20:12] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:13] WELL, YES.
[1:20:14] TALKING NUMBER 1837 HAS
[1:20:16] RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
[1:20:18] AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.
[1:20:19] THANK YOU.
[1:20:20] THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS
[1:20:21] BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1837
[1:20:23] HAS PASSED.
[1:20:24] MR. CLERK, UM, EXCUSE ME.
[1:20:26] THE CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON WAYS
[1:20:27] AND MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE
[1:20:28] OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND
[1:20:28] PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1838.
[1:20:30] IT'S KIRK.
[1:20:30] PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL
[1:20:32] VOTE.
[1:20:32] COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR
[1:20:34] COLLETTE AS A PARTNER?
[1:20:35] YES.
[1:20:35] I SUPPOSE BUT A YES.
[1:20:36] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:37] CULPEPER.
[1:20:37] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:38] CULPEPER.
[1:20:38] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:39] DURKAN.
[1:20:40] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:41] DURKAN.
[1:20:41] YES.
[1:20:42] COUNCILOR IS CHERYL.
[1:20:43] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:44] SO YES.
[1:20:44] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:45] FLYNN.
[1:20:45] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:46] FLYNN.
[1:20:47] YES.
[1:20:47] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:47] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:20:48] YES.
[1:20:49] SUZANNE.
[1:20:49] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:50] MEJIA.
[1:20:51] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:51] MEJIA.
[1:20:51] PRESENT.
[1:20:52] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:52] MURPHY.
[1:20:53] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:20:54] MURPHY.
[1:20:54] YES.
[1:20:54] COUNCIL.
[1:20:55] PIPPIN.
[1:20:55] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:56] PEN.
[1:20:56] YES.
[1:20:57] COUNCIL.
[1:20:57] SANTANA.
[1:20:58] COUNSELOR.
[1:20:59] SANTANA.
[1:20:59] YES.
[1:21:00] COUNSELOR.
[1:21:00] WEBER.
[1:21:00] YES, COUNSELOR.
[1:21:01] YES AND COUNSELOR.
[1:21:02] EARL.
[1:21:03] COUNSELOR.
[1:21:03] ROLL.
[1:21:04] YES.
[1:21:04] TALKING NUMBER 1838 HAS
[1:21:07] RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
[1:21:08] AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.
[1:21:10] THANK YOU.
[1:21:11] THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
[1:21:12] ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1838 HAS
[1:21:14] PASSED.
[1:21:15] WE ARE NOW ON TO MOTIONS,
[1:21:16] ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS A
[1:21:17] REMINDER THAT UNDER RULE 39
[1:21:19] REMARKS ARE NEW MATTERS NOT UP
[1:21:21] FOR VOTE TODAY SHALL BE LIMITED
[1:21:22] TO THREE MINUTES FOR THE LEAD
[1:21:23] SPONSOR AND TWO MINUTES FOR THE
[1:21:25] CO-SPONSORS.
[1:21:25] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[1:21:27] DOCKET 1917.
[1:21:28] TALKING 1917 COUNSELORS FOR
[1:21:31] MURPHY AND FLYNN FOR THE
[1:21:33] FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
[1:21:34] REGARDING CITY FUNDING FOR
[1:21:36] HEALTH SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS
[1:21:38] SUPPORT FOR BOSTON'S.
[1:21:39] FIRST RESPONDERS.
[1:21:40] THANK YOU.
[1:21:41] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[1:21:42] COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL YOU
[1:21:43] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:21:44] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:21:46] COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I ARE
[1:21:47] BRINGING THIS HEARING ORDER
[1:21:49] FORWARD BECAUSE OUR FIRST
[1:21:50] RESPONDERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO
[1:21:51] ORGANIZE GOLF TOURNAMENTS OR
[1:21:53] SPEND UNION FUNDS TO OBTAIN
[1:21:55] ESSENTIAL HEALTH SCREENINGS.
[1:21:58] AT A RECENT HEARING.
[1:21:59] PRESIDENT GRIFFIN EXPLAINED
[1:22:01] THAT THE DETECTIVES UNION
[1:22:02] RAISES MONEY AND USES ITS OWN
[1:22:04] FUNDS TO PROVIDE THESE
[1:22:05] SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS
[1:22:06] SUPPORT.
[1:22:07] WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY THESE
[1:22:09] SERVICES DEPEND ON FUNDRAISING
[1:22:11] AND WHAT THE CITY CAN DO TO
[1:22:12] PROVIDE DEPENDABLE SUPPORT.
[1:22:15] I HAVE PUBLICLY SUPPORTED
[1:22:16] EFFORTS TO PRESERVE
[1:22:18] CANCER SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS
[1:22:19] SUPPORT FOR OUR FIREFIGHTERS
[1:22:21] THAT IS IMPORTANT WORK OUR
[1:22:23] POLICE OFFICERS, DETECTIVE
[1:22:25] SUPERIOR OFFICE AND OUR EMS
[1:22:26] PERSONNEL NEED ACCESS TO
[1:22:28] APPROPRIATE SCREENINGS AND
[1:22:30] WELLNESS SERVICES AS WELL.
[1:22:32] THESE EMPLOYEES TAKE CARE
[1:22:33] OF BOSTON EVERY DAY.
[1:22:35] TAKING CARE OF THEIR HEALTH
[1:22:36] SHOULD BE PART OF OUR
[1:22:38] RESPONSIBILITY TO THEM.
[1:22:39] THIS HEARING WILL EXAMINE
[1:22:41] EXISTING SERVICES GAPS AND
[1:22:43] ACCESS COSTS AND OPTIONS FOR
[1:22:46] SUSTAINABLE CITY FUNDING.
[1:22:48] OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTIONS CAN HELP,
[1:22:50] BUT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS SHOULD
[1:22:52] NOT HAVE TO FUNDRAISE FOR
[1:22:53] ESSENTIAL PREVENTIVE CARE.
[1:22:55] I ASK THAT THIS SORT OF BE
[1:22:56] REFERRED TO FOR A HEARING SO WE
[1:22:58] CAN IDENTIFY THESE NEEDS AND
[1:23:00] WORK TOWARDS PERMANENTLY
[1:23:01] FUNDING THEM.
[1:23:02] THANK YOU.
[1:23:03] THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY
[1:23:04] COUNCIL FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
[1:23:04] FLOOR.
[1:23:06] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:23:08] DURING THE.
[1:23:10] DURING LAST YEAR'S.
[1:23:11] BUDGET DEBATE I PROPOSED.
[1:23:15] AMENDMENTS TO SUPPORT OUR FIRST
[1:23:17] RESPONDERS.
[1:23:18] WITH HEALTH AND WELLNESS
[1:23:20] PROGRAMS WITH SCREENINGS.
[1:23:22] FOR POLICE, FOR.
[1:23:24] FIRE.
[1:23:24] FOR EMS.
[1:23:26] .
[1:23:27] THE CITY.
[1:23:28] COUNCIL HERE AGREED WITH ME.
[1:23:30] ON SUPPORT FOR.
[1:23:31] EMS PERSONNEL AND.
[1:23:33] I'M GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL FOR
[1:23:34] THAT.
[1:23:36] BUT I ALSO.
[1:23:36] BROUGHT FORWARD.
[1:23:38] AMENDMENTS TO SUPPORT HEALTH.
[1:23:40] AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND
[1:23:42] SCREENINGS FOR.
[1:23:43] OUR POLICE OFFICERS.
[1:23:45] AND FIREFIGHTERS.
[1:23:49] THE CITY.
[1:23:50] COUNCIL VOTED AGAINST IT.
[1:23:54] LET ME SAY THAT.
[1:23:55] AGAIN THE.
[1:23:57] BOSTON CITY COUNCIL WENT ON
[1:23:59] RECORD VOTING AGAINST HEALTH.
[1:24:01] AND.
[1:24:02] WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND
[1:24:03] SCREENINGS, SCREENINGS, FUNDING
[1:24:05] .
[1:24:06] FOR POLICE OFFICERS.
[1:24:08] AND FIREFIGHTERS.
[1:24:12] WE ALSO.
[1:24:13] KNOW THAT.
[1:24:14] POLICE OFFICERS.
[1:24:15] ARE FUNDRAISING.
[1:24:19] TO MAKE.
[1:24:20] UP THAT MONEY.
[1:24:21] SO THAT THEY CAN.
[1:24:22] GET.
[1:24:22] THE NECESSARY.
[1:24:24] SCREENINGS SO THAT IT.
[1:24:25] CAN BE.
[1:24:26] HEALTHY.
[1:24:27] PRODUCTIVE ON THE JOB AND AT
[1:24:31] HOME.
[1:24:33] BUT IS THAT.
[1:24:34] REALLY WHAT THIS CITY IS.
[1:24:36] ABOUT IS.
[1:24:38] NOT FULLY.
[1:24:39] FUNDING HEALTH AND WELLNESS
[1:24:41] PROGRAMS AND SCREENINGS.
[1:24:43] VARIOUS SCREENINGS FOR POLICE
[1:24:45] OFFICERS.
[1:24:46] AND FIREFIGHTERS.
[1:24:49] THAT'S NOT.
[1:24:50] THE BOSTON I KNOW.
[1:24:54] WE CAN'T BALANCE THE BUDGET ON
[1:24:56] THE BACKS OF.
[1:24:57] OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.
[1:24:59] WE CAN'T BALANCE THE BUDGET ON
[1:25:01] THE BACKS OF.
[1:25:02] CITY EMPLOYEES AND WE CERTAINLY
[1:25:04] CAN'T.
[1:25:05] BALANCE THE BUDGET ON THE BACK
[1:25:07] OF VETERANS AND OUR MILITARY
[1:25:08] FAMILIES AS WELL.
[1:25:09] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:25:10] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:25:12] UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
[1:25:15] ADD THEIR NAME?
[1:25:18] MR CORRECTLY SAID
[1:25:19] COUNCIL CULPEPER
[1:25:20] COUNCILOR DURKAN
[1:25:21] COUNCIL FITZGERALD
[1:25:21] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[1:25:22] COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL BUT
[1:25:23] THEN COUNCILOR SANTANA
[1:25:25] COUNCIL WHETHER THAT'S ALL
[1:25:26] AROUND PLEASE AT THE CHAIR
[1:25:28] THANK YOU DOCKET 1917 WILL BE
[1:25:30] REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
[1:25:32] WAYS AND MEANS.
[1:25:34] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[1:25:36] DOCKET 1981918.
[1:25:38] TALKING OF A1918
[1:25:40] COUNCIL OFFLINE OFF OF THE
[1:25:42] FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
[1:25:44] TO DISCUSS THE DEDICATION
[1:25:46] OF HERO SQUARES AND BLUE
[1:25:47] SQUARES THAT HONOR VETERANS AND
[1:25:49] MILITARY FAMILIES BEING PLACED
[1:25:52] SOLELY UNDER THE PURVIEW
[1:25:54] OF BOSTON VETERANS SERVICES.
[1:25:56] THANK YOU.
[1:25:56] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[1:25:57] COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:25:58] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:25:59] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:26:00] MADAM CHAIR, MAY I HAD
[1:26:02] COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AN
[1:26:03] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND
[1:26:05] THE RULES AND ADD
[1:26:06] COUNCILOR MURPHY AS WELL.
[1:26:07] SEEING AND HEARING NO
[1:26:08] OBJECTIONS.
[1:26:08] THEY ARE SO ADDED.
[1:26:10] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:26:12] A HERO SQUARE IS A DESIGNATED
[1:26:13] SQUARE OR INTERSECTION.
[1:26:15] HONORING THE MEMORY.
[1:26:16] OF.
[1:26:17] A SERVICE.
[1:26:17] MEMBER WHO CELEBRATE THEIR.
[1:26:19] SACRIFICE AND EDUCATE LOCAL
[1:26:20] COMMUNITIES ABOUT THE HISTORY
[1:26:23] OF.
[1:26:23] SERVICE IN.
[1:26:24] OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
[1:26:25] TODAY I.
[1:26:25] WANT TO.
[1:26:26] FOCUS ON BLUE SQUARE
[1:26:27] DEDICATION.
[1:26:27] THAT HONOR OUR VETERANS
[1:26:29] MILITARY FAMILIES.
[1:26:31] .
[1:26:31] BOSTON AS A HAS HISTORICALLY
[1:26:33] .
[1:26:33] ESTABLISHED BLUE SQUARES TO
[1:26:34] DEDICATE A CITY SQUARE IN.
[1:26:36] HONOR OF.
[1:26:37] NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE LEFT.
[1:26:40] A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THEIR
[1:26:42] COMMUNITY.
[1:26:42] RECENTLY IN SOUTH.
[1:26:43] BOSTON, MY NEIGHBOR.
[1:26:45] A MILITARY.
[1:26:46] FAMILY REQUESTED TO ESTABLISH A
[1:26:48] BLUE SQUARE.
[1:26:49] TO HONOR THE MEMORY.
[1:26:50] SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF.
[1:26:52] A NAVY CORPSMAN.
[1:26:53] WHO SAVED MANY.
[1:26:54] LIVES IN THE IRAQ WAR FOR MANY
[1:26:57] YEARS A.
[1:26:57] FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN HIS
[1:26:59] NAME WORKED TIRELESSLY TO BOTH
[1:27:02] RAISE AWARENESS OF.
[1:27:03] THE HIDDEN WOUNDS OF.
[1:27:04] WAR, POST-TRAUMATIC.
[1:27:05] STRESS AS WELL AS RAISING.
[1:27:07] TENS OF THOUSANDS OF.
[1:27:08] DOLLARS TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS
[1:27:10] TO OUR LOCAL YOUTH.
[1:27:12] SINCE AUGUST, BOSTON VETERANS
[1:27:14] COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO OFFERED
[1:27:16] HIS FULL SUPPORT TO BOTH
[1:27:18] COORDINATE AND.
[1:27:19] CONDUCT A CEREMONY WITH.
[1:27:20] MILITARY HONORS FOR THIS BLUE
[1:27:22] SQUARE.
[1:27:22] CEREMONY AS TRADITIONALLY DONE
[1:27:24] FOR BLUE SQUARE DEDICATION.
[1:27:26] TO VETERANS AND SERVICE
[1:27:27] MEMBERS.
[1:27:28] HOWEVER.
[1:27:29] THE FAMILY WAS NOTIFIED.
[1:27:31] THAT THIS REQUEST WAS GOING TO
[1:27:33] BE HANDLED BY THE OFFICE
[1:27:34] OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.
[1:27:36] THE FAMILY WAS THEN.
[1:27:37] ASKED BY AND ASKED TO COLLECT
[1:27:38] 200 SIGNATURES.
[1:27:39] CANNOT CONDUCT AN ABUTTERS.
[1:27:41] MEETING.
[1:27:42] RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM.
[1:27:43] THE.
[1:27:43] LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD CIVIC
[1:27:44] ASSOCIATION.
[1:27:45] REMEMBER AT THE SAME TIME
[1:27:48] COUNCILOR.
[1:27:48] CULPEPER, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[1:27:50] .
[1:27:50] AND I.
[1:27:51] HAVE AN ORDINANCE TO CODIFY BUT
[1:27:52] AS MEETINGS BECAUSE AWARENESS
[1:27:55] HAS ALSO INFORMED DISTRICT CITY
[1:27:57] COUNCILORS THAT THE CITY WILL
[1:27:58] NOW DECIDE WHAT CVA CASES NEED
[1:28:01] COMMUNITY PROCESS IN WHICH
[1:28:03] DON'T ALSO A MILITARY FAMILY IS
[1:28:06] BEING ASKED FOR 200 SIGNATURES
[1:28:08] BUT RESIDENTS MAY BEGIN A
[1:28:10] PETITION FOR BOSTON LANDMARKS
[1:28:12] WITH TEN SIGNATURES TO ENSURE
[1:28:15] THAT MILITARY FAMILIES ARE.
[1:28:16] NO LONGER.
[1:28:17] BEING UNFAIRLY HELD TO A
[1:28:19] DIFFERENT.
[1:28:19] STANDARD OF.
[1:28:20] COMMUNITY PROCESS.
[1:28:21] IT'S CRITICAL THAT THIS PROCESS
[1:28:22] BE UNDER THE PURVIEW OF BOSTON
[1:28:25] VETERANS SERVICES.
[1:28:26] AS A RETIRED VETERAN WHO SERVED
[1:28:29] 25 YEARS IN THE NAVY, IT'S
[1:28:30] BEYOND SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL TO
[1:28:32] ME THAT WITH THE LIMITED TO
[1:28:34] ALMOST NO DEVELOPMENT IN BOSTON
[1:28:36] AND VIRTUALLY ABOUT HIS
[1:28:37] MEETINGS CONDUCTED QUICKLY OVER
[1:28:39] ZOOM, A CITY DEPARTMENT THAT
[1:28:41] CONSIDERED ITSELF TOO BUSY TO.
[1:28:43] CONDUCT A COMMUNITY MEETING ON
[1:28:44] .
[1:28:44] DEVELOPMENT IS.
[1:28:46] NOW ABLE TO HOLD DEDICATIONS
[1:28:49] FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY
[1:28:50] FAMILIES TO A MORE EXTENSIVE
[1:28:52] PUBLIC PROCESS.
[1:28:54] OWENS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
[1:28:56] MILITARY FAMILIES.
[1:28:57] AND VETERANS THAT NEEDS TO BE
[1:28:59] UNDER THE CITY OF BOSTON
[1:29:00] VETERANS SERVICES.
[1:29:01] DEPARTMENT ARE.
[1:29:03] MORE RESPECTFUL.
[1:29:03] THEY KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE
[1:29:05] WITH VETERANS.
[1:29:06] AND I'M SO UPSET AND ANGRY
[1:29:08] ABOUT HOW OWENS IS TREATING
[1:29:10] THIS MILITARY FAMILY.
[1:29:11] IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD OF.
[1:29:13] SOUTH BOSTON.
[1:29:14] THANK YOU.
[1:29:14] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:29:16] COUNCILOR SANTANA MURPHY, WOULD
[1:29:17] YOU LIKE TO, UH,
[1:29:19] COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE.
[1:29:19] THE MICROPHONE.
[1:29:21] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:29:23] UM, AND THANK YOU,
[1:29:24] COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR HAVING
[1:29:25] ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR
[1:29:26] AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY
[1:29:29] ON BEHALF OF BOSTON'S VETERANS
[1:29:30] COMMUNITIES.
[1:29:31] BLUE SQUARES JUST LIKE HEROES
[1:29:33] SQUARES ARE A WAY OF HONORING
[1:29:34] OUR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE SERVED
[1:29:35] OUR COUNTRY.
[1:29:36] THEIR FAMILIES SHOULD BE
[1:29:37] TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND
[1:29:38] RESPECT, NOT GIVEN THE
[1:29:40] RUNAROUND AND FORCED TO HOLD
[1:29:42] AND ABUTTERS MEETINGS.
[1:29:44] CONSISTENCY IS KEY.
[1:29:45] ,ESPECIALLY IN MATTERS
[1:29:46] OF GOVERNMENT AND POLICY.
[1:29:47] THE OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD
[1:29:49] SERVICES HAS A LOT OF CONCERNS,
[1:29:50] AND THE OFFICE OF VETERANS
[1:29:51] SERVICES ALREADY HAS A PROCESS
[1:29:53] AND THE NECESSARY LIVED
[1:29:54] EXPERIENCE TO MAKE SURE THAT
[1:29:56] THE BLUE SQUARES NAMING PROCESS
[1:29:57] CONTINUES TO RUN SMOOTHLY.
[1:29:59] I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING
[1:30:00] EVERYONE TOGETHER TO DISCUSS
[1:30:01] HOW WE CAN BEST STREAMLINE THIS
[1:30:03] PROCESS.
[1:30:04] THANK YOU.
[1:30:04] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[1:30:05] COUNCILOR MURPHY BEFORE.
[1:30:07] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:30:08] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:30:10] AND I'M SORRY THAT.
[1:30:13] YOU HAD TO BRING THIS FORWARD.
[1:30:14] THAT'S MORE SIGNATURES THAN A
[1:30:16] DISTRICT COUNSELOR NEEDS.
[1:30:17] TO GET TO.
[1:30:18] GET ON THE BALLOT TO BE
[1:30:19] ELECTED.
[1:30:19] SO I THINK IT IS EXTREMELY
[1:30:22] DISRESPECTFUL.
[1:30:23] UM.
[1:30:24] CLOSING.
[1:30:25] UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR ADDING MY
[1:30:28] NAME TO THIS HEARING ORDER HERO
[1:30:30] SQUARES AND BLUE SQUARES CARRY
[1:30:33] NAMES AND STORIES THAT BOSTON
[1:30:35] HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO
[1:30:37] PRESERVE.
[1:30:38] THESE DEDICATIONS MEAN A GREAT
[1:30:39] DEAL.
[1:30:40] TO THE VETERANS MILITARY
[1:30:42] FAMILIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
[1:30:43] WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED.
[1:30:45] AND IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES UM
[1:30:47] HAVE BEEN I SAY IT OFTEN THAT
[1:30:50] SOUTH BOSTON DOES AN
[1:30:52] OUTSTANDING.
[1:30:52] JOB REMEMBERING AND RESPECTING
[1:30:54] THEIR VETERANS.
[1:30:56] I SUPPORT EXAMINING WHETHER
[1:30:57] BOSTON VETERANS SERVICES SHOULD
[1:30:59] LEAVE THIS WORK.
[1:31:00] I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD, BUT I
[1:31:01] THINK A CONVERSATION IS NEEDED
[1:31:03] TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL
[1:31:05] CLEAR THAT IT SHOULD BE AND
[1:31:07] SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN THE
[1:31:09] VETERANS SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
[1:31:11] FAMILIES SHOULD HAVE A CLEAR
[1:31:13] POINT OF CONTACT.
[1:31:14] THE PROCESS SHOULD BE
[1:31:15] RESPECTFUL, CONSISTENT AND
[1:31:17] ACCURATE FROM THE FIRST REQUEST
[1:31:18] THROUGH THE DEDICATION IN THE
[1:31:21] ONGOING CARE OF THE SQUARE.
[1:31:22] AS THE MOTHER OF A SON SERVING
[1:31:24] IN THE ARMY, I KNOW HOW MUCH IT
[1:31:26] MATTERS WHEN A CITY RECOGNIZES
[1:31:28] MILITARY SERVICE AND REMEMBERS
[1:31:30] THAT FAMILIES ARE BEHIND THEM.
[1:31:33] SO THANK YOU TO COUNCIL FLYNN
[1:31:34] FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND
[1:31:35] I'M LOOKING.
[1:31:36] FORWARD TO.
[1:31:37] HAVING A HEARING.
[1:31:37] SOON SO WE CAN GET THIS
[1:31:39] STRAIGHT.
[1:31:39] THANK YOU.
[1:31:40] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:31:40] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[1:31:42] THEIR NAME?
[1:31:45] UH, MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD
[1:31:47] COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR.
[1:31:48] DURKAN COUNCILOR.
[1:31:49] FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.
[1:31:50] COPAN COUNCILOR WEBER
[1:31:52] COUNCIL ORAL COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
[1:31:53] AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.
[1:31:55] THANK YOU.
[1:31:56] DOCKET 1918 WILL BE REFERRED TO
[1:31:58] THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS,
[1:31:59] MILITARY FAMILIES AND MILITARY
[1:32:02] AFFAIRS.
[1:32:03] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[1:32:04] DOCKET 1919.
[1:32:05] TALKING NUMBER 1919
[1:32:07] COUNCILOR FLYING OFF OF THE
[1:32:08] FOLLOWING.
[1:32:09] FLORIDA FOR A HEARING TO
[1:32:10] DISCUSS STALKING AND
[1:32:11] RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE AT
[1:32:13] COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN
[1:32:15] THE CITY OF BOSTON.
[1:32:18] UH THANK YOU MR.
[1:32:20] MISTER COUNCILMAN, YOU NOW HAVE
[1:32:21] A QUESTION.
[1:32:22] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:32:24] MADAM CHAIR, MAY I.
[1:32:25] ADD COUNCIL.
[1:32:26] SANTANA AS AN ORIGINAL.
[1:32:27] CO-SPONSOR PLEASE?
[1:32:30] UH SO ADDED.
[1:32:31] THANK YOU.
[1:32:33] RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE DESCRIBES
[1:32:35] A PATTERN OF ABUSIVE AND.
[1:32:37] CONTROLLING BEHAVIORS.
[1:32:38] AGAINST A CURRENT.
[1:32:39] OR FORMER PARTNER TO OBTAIN
[1:32:41] THEM AND MAINTAIN.
[1:32:43] POWER AND THE RELATIONSHIP.
[1:32:44] WITH KINSHIP VIOLENCE CAN
[1:32:46] INCLUDE PHYSICAL.
[1:32:47] AND EMOTIONAL.
[1:32:48] ABUSE.
[1:32:49] SEXUAL ABUSE.
[1:32:50] STALKING AND DIGITAL ABUSE.
[1:32:53] ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL
[1:32:55] COALITION.
[1:32:55] AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,
[1:32:57] ROUGHLY.
[1:32:58] 1 IN 5 COLLEGE STUDENTS.
[1:32:59] SO THEY HAVE BEEN.
[1:33:00] ABUSED BY A PARTNER.
[1:33:02] WOMEN ARE AT A HIGHER RATE RISK
[1:33:04] RATE THAN ANY OTHER SURVEY
[1:33:06] GROUP, ACCORDING TO THE JUSTICE
[1:33:08] DEPARTMENT.
[1:33:10] STALKING IS A WIDESPREAD
[1:33:11] PROBLEM ACROSS COLLEGES AND.
[1:33:13] UNIVERSITIES IN OUR COUNTRY.
[1:33:15] ACCORDING TO THE STALKING.
[1:33:18] PREVENTION AWARENESS AND.
[1:33:19] RESOURCE CENTER.
[1:33:21] UP TO 40% OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
[1:33:24] REPORT BEING STALKED.
[1:33:24] SINCE STARTING.
[1:33:26] COLLEGE STUDENTS AT HIGHER RISK
[1:33:28] FOR EXPERIENCE.
[1:33:30] STALKING INCLUDE WOMEN.
[1:33:32] STUDENTS OF COLOR, STUDENTS IN
[1:33:34] THE LGBTQ PLUS.
[1:33:35] COMMUNITY AND.
[1:33:37] STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.
[1:33:39] THE CLEARY ACT IS A FEDERAL
[1:33:41] CONSUMER PROTECTION.
[1:33:42] LAW THAT WAS ENACTED IN 1990.
[1:33:45] AFTER A COLLEGE STUDENT WAS
[1:33:46] SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
[1:33:47] AND MURDERED.
[1:33:48] IN HER.
[1:33:48] COLLEGE DORM.
[1:33:49] THE LAW REQUIRES COLLEGES AND
[1:33:51] UNIVERSITIES TO TO DISCLOSE
[1:33:53] CAMPUS CRIME STATS AND SECURITY
[1:33:56] POLICIES.
[1:33:57] THE CAMPUS SAFE ACT, CAMPUS
[1:33:59] SEXUAL.
[1:34:00] VIOLENCE ELIMINATION ACT
[1:34:03] FURTHER.
[1:34:04] AMENDS THE.
[1:34:04] QUERY ACT BY IMPROVING
[1:34:06] TRANSPARENCY, SURVIVOR SUPPORT,
[1:34:09] PREVENTION EDUCATION.
[1:34:10] RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL.
[1:34:12] VIOLENCE EDUCATION AS WELL.
[1:34:16] IT'S CRITICAL THAT OUR COLLEGES
[1:34:18] AND UNIVERSITIES HERE IN BOSTON
[1:34:20] ARE ACTUALLY ACCURATELY
[1:34:22] REPORTING EVERY INCIDENT.
[1:34:24] OF RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE.
[1:34:25] AND STALKING.
[1:34:28] THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
[1:34:29] BOSTON POLICE TO SUPPORT OUR
[1:34:31] COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AS
[1:34:33] WELL.
[1:34:34] IN PREVENTING.
[1:34:35] RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE.
[1:34:36] AND STALKING AND ENSURE THAT
[1:34:38] ANY INDIVIDUALS.
[1:34:39] FOUND TO.
[1:34:39] COMMIT A CRIME.
[1:34:40] AGAINST THEIR PARTNER ARE
[1:34:42] PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY.
[1:34:44] IN THE CRIMINAL.
[1:34:45] JUSTICE SYSTEM.
[1:34:46] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:34:47] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:34:49] COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW HAVE
[1:34:49] THE FLOOR.
[1:34:51] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:34:53] AND UH, THANK YOU
[1:34:54] COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR INCLUDING
[1:34:56] ME AS A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS
[1:34:57] HEARING ORDER RIGHT NOW ALL
[1:34:59] EYES ARE ON THE COLLEGE
[1:35:01] CAMPUSES BECAUSE OF THE
[1:35:02] HORRIFIC SITUATION AT CORNELL.
[1:35:04] BUT LET'S BE ENTIRELY CLEAR
[1:35:06] THIS CRISIS DIDN'T START WITH
[1:35:07] THE LATEST LATEST HEADLINES
[1:35:10] RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE AND
[1:35:11] STALKING ARE KNOWN.
[1:35:13] THIS HAS BEEN A QUIET
[1:35:15] SYSTEMATIC CRISIS BURNING ON
[1:35:17] OUR CAMPUSES FOR YEARS.
[1:35:18] IT HAPPENS OUT IN THE OPEN
[1:35:20] EVERY SINGLE DAY.
[1:35:22] LOOK AT THE NUMBERS.
[1:35:23] LOOK AT THE REALITY.
[1:35:25] COLLEGE AGE VICTIMS ACCOUNT FOR
[1:35:27] NEARLY ONE THIRD OF ALL RAPES
[1:35:29] REPORTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ONE
[1:35:31] THIRD.
[1:35:33] THAT ISN'T JUST A STATISTIC
[1:35:34] THAT IS A MASSIVE STRUCTURAL
[1:35:36] ALARM BELL.
[1:35:38] 1 IN 4 STUDENTS SAY SEXUAL
[1:35:39] ASSAULT AND MISCONDUCT ARE
[1:35:40] DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC AT THEIR
[1:35:42] SCHOOLS.
[1:35:43] STUDENTS ARE TELLING US
[1:35:44] DIRECTLY THEY DO NOT FEEL SAFE
[1:35:46] WHERE THEY LIVE AND LEARN.
[1:35:48] AND IF WE'RE GOING TO CONFRONT
[1:35:50] THE CRISIS, WE HAVE TO FIGHT
[1:35:52] FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT,
[1:35:53] ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE
[1:35:54] ROUTINELY LEFT OUT OF THE ROOM
[1:35:56] WHEN DECISIONS ARE MADE, DATA
[1:35:58] FROM THE NETWORK SHOW SHOWS
[1:36:01] THAT ONE OF EVERY FOUR LGBTQ
[1:36:03] PLUS YOUTH WILL EXPERIENCE
[1:36:04] ABUSE FROM A DATING PARTNER 1
[1:36:07] IN 4 THAT IS A DEVASTATING
[1:36:10] REALITY AND WE CANNOT AND WILL
[1:36:11] NOT ALLOW OUR LGBTQ TOWARDS
[1:36:14] PLUS STUDENTS TO BE SIDELINED,
[1:36:16] IGNORED OR LEFT TO NAVIGATE
[1:36:18] DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS ON THEIR
[1:36:20] OWN.
[1:36:21] I'M NOT GOING TO STAND HERE AND
[1:36:22] PRETEND THAT A SINGLE HEARING
[1:36:24] ORDER IS GOING TO MAGICALLY
[1:36:26] ERADICATE TEMPLE CAMPUS SEXUAL
[1:36:28] VIOLENCE OVERNIGHT.
[1:36:29] IT WON'T BUT WE HAVE TO START
[1:36:31] MOVING THE NEEDLE.
[1:36:33] WE NEED UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP,
[1:36:35] CITY OFFICIALS AND MOST
[1:36:36] IMPORTANTLY IMPACTED YOUTH
[1:36:38] SITTING IN THE EXACT SAME TABLE
[1:36:40] HAVING HONEST, UNCOMFORTABLE
[1:36:42] CONVERSATIONS AND WORKING
[1:36:43] TOGETHER.
[1:36:44] THIS IS HOW WE DRIVE REAL
[1:36:46] SYSTEMATIC CHANGE AND THAT IS
[1:36:47] HOW WE TAKE A NECESSARY STEP
[1:36:49] TOWARDS MAKING OUR COLLEGE
[1:36:51] CAMPUSES ACTUALLY SAFE.
[1:36:52] THANK YOU.
[1:36:53] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[1:36:54] COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU WANTED TO
[1:36:55] PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REMARKS?
[1:36:56] YEAH.
[1:36:57] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:36:58] UM, MADAM CHAIR, I FEEL TO UM.
[1:37:00] UM, MENTIONED THAT
[1:37:02] COUNCILOR MURPHY UM, WOULD.
[1:37:04] BE.
[1:37:04] ADDED FOR.
[1:37:05] A AS.
[1:37:06] AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[1:37:06] MAY I MAKE THAT REQUEST?
[1:37:07] UH, YES.
[1:37:08] SEEING AND HEARING NO
[1:37:09] OBJECTION.
[1:37:09] SHE HAS HER ADDED COUNCIL.
[1:37:10] MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:37:12] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:37:13] UM, AND THANK YOU,
[1:37:15] COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR FILING THIS
[1:37:16] IMPORTANT HEARING ORDER THE
[1:37:19] DISTURBING.
[1:37:20] SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS AT
[1:37:22] CORNELL AND THE SERIOUS
[1:37:23] QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE
[1:37:25] UNIVERSITY RESPONDED SHOULD
[1:37:27] MAKE EVERY COLLEGE COMMUNITY
[1:37:28] EXAMINE WHETHER ITS STUDENTS
[1:37:29] ARE BEING PROTECTED.
[1:37:32] WOMEN DESERVE TO BE SAFE.
[1:37:33] ALL PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE SAFE
[1:37:35] ON CAMPUS IN THEIR HOMES AND
[1:37:37] THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.
[1:37:38] WHEN SOMEONE REPORTS STALKING
[1:37:40] THREATS, RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE
[1:37:42] OR SEXUAL ASSAULT THEY DESERVE
[1:37:43] TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND
[1:37:45] RECEIVE TIMELY PROTECTION AND
[1:37:47] SUPPORT.
[1:37:48] BOSTON WELCOME STUDENTS FROM
[1:37:50] ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
[1:37:51] THE WORLD.
[1:37:52] THEY LIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS,
[1:37:53] WORK IN OUR BUSINESSES AND OUR
[1:37:55] PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
[1:37:56] OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THE
[1:37:58] PEOPLE OF BOSTON INCLUDES THEM
[1:38:00] .
[1:38:01] IT DOES NOT STOP AT THE
[1:38:02] ENTRANCE TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS.
[1:38:04] WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
[1:38:06] HAPPENS AFTER A STUDENT ASKS
[1:38:08] FOR HELP WHO RESPONDS HOW
[1:38:11] QUICKLY.
[1:38:11] WHAT PROTECTION IS AVAILABLE?
[1:38:13] HOW DO COLLEGES COORDINATE WITH
[1:38:15] THE BOSTON POLICE AND
[1:38:16] ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT
[1:38:18] SURVIVORS?
[1:38:20] I KNOW FAMILIES SEND THEIR
[1:38:21] CHILDREN TO COLLEGE EXPECTING
[1:38:23] THEM TO BE SAFE.
[1:38:24] I DID WHEN MY CHILDREN WENT OFF
[1:38:26] .
[1:38:27] STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO
[1:38:28] CHOOSE BETWEEN CONTINUING THEIR
[1:38:30] EDUCATION AND PROTECTING
[1:38:31] THEMSELVES.
[1:38:32] SO THANK YOU AGAIN TO
[1:38:34] COUNCILOR FLYNN AND
[1:38:35] COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR
[1:38:36] PARTNERING AND FOR BRINGING
[1:38:37] THIS FORWARD AND LOOKING
[1:38:39] FORWARD TO A HEARING.
[1:38:40] AND I DO JUST WANT TO ALSO
[1:38:42] SHOUT OUT THE COLLEGES THAT I
[1:38:44] KNOW MANY OF US WORK CLOSELY
[1:38:45] WITH AND I KNOW IN DOWNTOWN WE
[1:38:47] HAVE SUFFOLK AND EMMANUEL AND
[1:38:49] ALL OF THE COLLEGES HERE IN THE
[1:38:51] CITY AND I KNOW THAT THEY WILL
[1:38:52] UM WELCOME THIS.
[1:38:54] CONVERSATION SO.
[1:38:54] LOOKING FORWARD TO SPEAKING
[1:38:55] WITH THEM ALSO AND BEING PART
[1:38:57] OF THE SOLUTION.
[1:38:57] THANK YOU.
[1:38:58] THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:38:59] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[1:39:00] THEIR NAME?
[1:39:02] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:39:03] STATE COUNCILOR CULPEPER
[1:39:04] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[1:39:05] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[1:39:06] COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL THAT
[1:39:06] THEN COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE
[1:39:08] ADD A CHAIR.
[1:39:10] UH THANK YOU.
[1:39:10] DOCKET 1919 WILL BE REFERRED TO
[1:39:12] THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
[1:39:13] AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
[1:39:15] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ?
[1:39:17] I'M SORRY.
[1:39:17] PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR.
[1:39:18] I DON'T KNOW IF I SAID THAT.
[1:39:19] YES.
[1:39:20] I THINK YOU, UH, MR. CLERK, CAN
[1:39:21] YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 1920.
[1:39:23] DARK AND NUMBER 1920
[1:39:26] COUNCILOR MURPHY OVER THE
[1:39:27] PHONE.
[1:39:27] ORDER FOR A HEARING REGARDING
[1:39:29] DPS TRANSPORTATION PERFORMANCE
[1:39:31] AT THE OPENING OF THE 2026 2027
[1:39:35] SCHOOL YEAR CONTRACTOR
[1:39:37] ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRECTIVE
[1:39:38] ACTION.
[1:39:39] THANK YOU.
[1:39:39] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[1:39:40] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:39:41] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:39:42] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:39:43] UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD
[1:39:44] COUNCILOR FLYNN, PLEASE.
[1:39:45] SO ADDED.
[1:39:46] THANK YOU.
[1:39:48] AN 80% ON-TIME RATE IS
[1:39:51] UNACCEPTABLE FOR A SCHOOL
[1:39:52] TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM COSTING
[1:39:54] CLOSE TO $200 MILLION.
[1:39:57] RIDERSHIP CONTINUES TO DROP,
[1:39:58] BUT THERE ARE STILL CLOSE TO
[1:40:00] 20,000 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
[1:40:01] WHO DEPEND ON OUR SCHOOL BUSSES
[1:40:03] EVERY DAY DURING THE FIRST WEEK
[1:40:06] OF SCHOOL THIS YEAR, A 20%
[1:40:09] OF OUR BUSSES ARRIVED TO SCHOOL
[1:40:12] LATE.
[1:40:12] THAT IS 4000.
[1:40:14] CHILDREN WHO WERE.
[1:40:15] STRANDED AT BUS STOPS FOR HOURS
[1:40:18] OR NOT GETTING PICKED UP AT ALL
[1:40:20] IN MANY OF THEM AT THE END
[1:40:22] OF THE SCHOOL DAY ALSO WAITING
[1:40:23] AT SCHOOL TO GO HOME.
[1:40:24] IT IS UNACCEPTABLE WHEN
[1:40:26] STUDENTS ARE MISSING IMPORTANT
[1:40:27] CLASSROOM TIME AND FAMILIES ARE
[1:40:30] SCRAMBLING FOR ALTERNATIVES SO
[1:40:31] THEY CAN GET TO WORK AND MANY
[1:40:34] OF US.
[1:40:34] FEEL THOSE.
[1:40:35] CALLS WHEN MANY FAMILIES DON'T
[1:40:37] EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVES.
[1:40:39] I CONTINUOUSLY HEAR FROM
[1:40:40] FAMILIES AND TEACHERS ABOUT
[1:40:42] THESE FAILURES AT ONE SCHOOL,
[1:40:44] STUDENTS DISMISSED AT 210 ARE
[1:40:47] STILL THIS WEEK WAITING FOR
[1:40:49] TRANSPORTATION WELL PAST 430
[1:40:51] MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER
[1:40:53] DISMISSAL.
[1:40:53] WE ARE NOW INTO THE SECOND
[1:40:55] MONTH OF SCHOOL AND THIS IS
[1:40:56] STILL HAPPENING.
[1:40:57] CHILDREN ARE STUCK AT SCHOOL
[1:40:59] OFTEN FAR ACROSS THE CITY FROM
[1:41:01] HOME.
[1:41:01] PARENTS CANNOT SIMPLY LEAVE
[1:41:03] WORK TO PICK THEM UP.
[1:41:05] TEACHERS AND STAFF STAY WELL
[1:41:07] PAST THE END OF THEIR WORK DAY
[1:41:08] TO KEEP THEM SAFE.
[1:41:09] WE ALREADY FACE SERIOUS
[1:41:11] CHALLENGES EDUCATING OUR
[1:41:13] CHILDREN.
[1:41:13] CAN WE AT LEAST GET THEM TO
[1:41:15] SCHOOL ON TIME AND GET THEM
[1:41:16] HOME SAFELY WHEN THEIR FAMILIES
[1:41:18] ARE EXPECTING THEM?
[1:41:20] KNOWS THESE PROBLEMS EXIST.
[1:41:22] FAMILIES HAVE REPORTED THEM
[1:41:24] REPEATEDLY.
[1:41:25] WE NEED CORRECTIVE ACTION.
[1:41:26] FIRM DEADLINES AND CONSEQUENCES
[1:41:29] WHEN THE CONTRACTOR FAILS TO
[1:41:30] DELIVER.
[1:41:31] THIS HEARING WILL EXAMINE
[1:41:33] CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE, THE
[1:41:34] CHANGES NEEDED NOW AND THE
[1:41:37] CONTRACTUAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE
[1:41:38] IF SERVICES DOES NOT DO NOT
[1:41:39] IMPROVE.
[1:41:40] OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
[1:41:42] DESERVE BETTER AND I DO WANT TO
[1:41:44] UPLIFT.
[1:41:45] I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO OUR.
[1:41:46] FAMILIES BUT ALSO UPLIFT STAFF
[1:41:48] WHO I KNOW ARE STAYING VERY
[1:41:49] LATE INTO THE EVENING AND
[1:41:52] MISSING THEIR OWN FAMILY EVENTS
[1:41:54] TRYING TO GET THEMSELVES HOME.
[1:41:55] SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
[1:41:57] IT SHOULD NOT.
[1:41:57] BE.
[1:41:58] UNNECESSARY THOUGH.
[1:41:58] THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:42:00] COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
[1:42:00] FLOOR.
[1:42:03] THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
[1:42:05] AS I MENTIONED EARLIER LAST
[1:42:06] NIGHT.
[1:42:07] I WAS.
[1:42:07] AT SAINT STEPHEN'S YOUTH GROUP.
[1:42:08] LISTENING TO.
[1:42:09] PARENTS TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE
[1:42:13] AMONG.
[1:42:13] MANY UM MANY STUDENTS.
[1:42:17] MOSTLY STUDENTS OF.
[1:42:18] COLOR, MANY STUDENT, MANY
[1:42:20] PERSONS.
[1:42:20] WITH DISABILITIES.
[1:42:22] UM CONTINUING TO WAIT TO GET
[1:42:25] PICKED UP.
[1:42:26] TO BE DROPPED OFF.
[1:42:28] ONE MOTHER WAS.
[1:42:29] TELLING ME A STORY ABOUT.
[1:42:30] HER HER CHILD.
[1:42:32] THAT IS CONSTANTLY LATE IN HER
[1:42:35] AFTER.
[1:42:36] SCHOOL PROGRAM.
[1:42:37] SOMETIMES THE CHILD GETS THEIR
[1:42:38] HALF LATE FRO.
[1:42:40] SOMETIMES THE CHILD DOESN'T GET
[1:42:41] THERE AT ALL.
[1:42:43] BUT IS.
[1:42:43] THAT FAIR TO THE CHILD?
[1:42:45] IS THAT FAIR TO THEIR.
[1:42:47] DEVELOPMENT.
[1:42:48] THEIR EDUCATION.
[1:42:52] PROVIDING A GOOD AND HEALTHY
[1:42:53] LIFE?
[1:42:55] WE WANT CHILDREN.
[1:42:56] TO BE ENGAGED IN AFTERSCHOOL
[1:42:58] PROGRAMS BUT WHEN THE BUS IS
[1:43:01] LATE.
[1:43:01] FOR THEM TAKING THEM HOME
[1:43:05] THAT'S TERRIBLY UNFAIR.
[1:43:08] FAMILIES WITH ACCESS.
[1:43:09] THAT HAVE MONEY HAVE THE
[1:43:11] ABILITY.
[1:43:12] TO PICK THEIR CHILDREN.
[1:43:13] UP.
[1:43:13] WELL OTHER.
[1:43:15] FAMILIES DON'T.
[1:43:16] AND THEY.
[1:43:17] RELY ON.
[1:43:17] PUBLIC EDUCATION,
[1:43:19] TRANSPORTATION THEY DESERVE
[1:43:22] RESPECT.
[1:43:23] AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT.
[1:43:25] I BELIEVE.
[1:43:26] THIS IS A RACIAL JUSTICE
[1:43:27] ISSUE.
[1:43:29] I THINK WE ARE DOWNPLAYING THE
[1:43:32] SIGNIFICANCE OF.
[1:43:32] THIS ISSUE.
[1:43:34] WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO PARENTS
[1:43:36] .
[1:43:36] WE'RE NOT SUPPORTING.
[1:43:38] THESE CHILDREN.
[1:43:43] AND WE'RE PROVIDING A
[1:43:46] DISSERVICE TO.
[1:43:46] THEM AND.
[1:43:47] TREATING AND.
[1:43:48] TREATING THEM SO.
[1:43:50] DISRESPECTFULLY BY.
[1:43:52] CONSTANTLY HAVING THEM WAIT FOR
[1:43:53] THE.
[1:43:53] BUS TO TAKE THEM TO.
[1:43:55] SCHOOL OR TAKE THEM TO AN
[1:43:56] AFTER.
[1:43:56] SCHOOL PROGRAM IT'S UNFAIR.
[1:43:59] IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE.
[1:44:01] THANK YOU.
[1:44:02] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:44:04] UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
[1:44:05] ADD THEIR NAME?
[1:44:08] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE ADD
[1:44:09] COUNCILOR CULPEPER,
[1:44:11] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,
[1:44:12] COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[1:44:12] COUNCILOR FOR BEND.
[1:44:13] COUNCILOR WEBER
[1:44:15] COUNCILOR ARROYO PLEASE ADD THE
[1:44:16] CHAIR.
[1:44:16] UH, DOCKET 1920 WILL BE
[1:44:23] REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
[1:44:24] EDUCATION.
[1:44:26] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[1:44:27] DOCKET 1921.
[1:44:29] DOCKET NUMBER 1921 COUNCIL SIGN
[1:44:31] OFF FOR THE FOLLOWING
[1:44:33] RESOLUTION URGING A MASS
[1:44:34] GENERAL PROGRAM BOARD
[1:44:36] OF DIRECTORS TO RETURN TO THE
[1:44:37] TABLE AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD
[1:44:39] FAITH IN LIGHT OF HISTORIC
[1:44:41] STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.
[1:44:43] COUNSELOR FUNDING NOT BEFORE.
[1:44:45] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:44:46] MADAM CHAIR, UM, MAY I ADD
[1:44:49] COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER.
[1:44:50] AS AN.
[1:44:51] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[1:44:52] AND, UH, SUSPEND THE RULES AND
[1:44:54] ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS WELL.
[1:44:56] UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO
[1:44:57] OBJECTIONS.
[1:44:58] THEY ARE SO ADDED.
[1:45:00] THAT THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:45:02] WE HAD THE.
[1:45:03] OPPORTUNITY TODAY.
[1:45:06] TO HAVE A MEMBER OF THE.
[1:45:08] THE HOSPITAL AND THE NURSES.
[1:45:10] MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION.
[1:45:12] UM WITH.
[1:45:13] US UM.
[1:45:14] TO TALK ABOUT THE ONGOING.
[1:45:16] THE UPCOMING STRIKE AND HOW.
[1:45:19] NEGOTIATIONS ARE.
[1:45:20] GOING WELL.
[1:45:21] BETWEEN THE.
[1:45:22] BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.
[1:45:24] AND THE.
[1:45:25] DEDICATED AND.
[1:45:26] PROFESSIONAL NURSING.
[1:45:27] STAFF THERE.
[1:45:29] .
[1:45:29] WHAT THIS RESOLUTION WOULD
[1:45:31] CALL.
[1:45:31] FOR IS ADVOCATING.
[1:45:35] FOR BRIGHAM.
[1:45:36] AND WOMEN'S.
[1:45:37] HOSPITAL TO GET BACK TO THE
[1:45:38] NEGOTIATING TABLE TO NEGOTIATE
[1:45:42] FAIRLY RESPECTFULLY.
[1:45:45] TO TREAT THE NURSES.
[1:45:46] FAIRLY, TO TREAT THEM
[1:45:47] RESPECTFULLY.
[1:45:49] IT'S ABOUT COLLECTIVE
[1:45:50] BARGAINING.
[1:45:51] IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER,
[1:45:54] IRONING OUT YOUR DIFFERENCES.
[1:45:55] BUT YOU WANT WE CAN DO THAT.
[1:45:57] WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ACROSS.
[1:45:58] FROM SOMEONE TALKING NOT
[1:46:00] THROUGH THE MEDIA, NOT BY.
[1:46:02] IGNORING PEOPLE PRETENDING
[1:46:04] THERE'S NOT A PROBLEM SITTING.
[1:46:06] DOWN AND HAVING A MEANINGFUL
[1:46:08] DISCUSSION ABOUT A CONTRACT.
[1:46:10] NURSES JUST.
[1:46:12] NURSES DESERVE A FAIR CONTRACT.
[1:46:14] THEY DESERVE DIGNITY.
[1:46:15] THEY DESERVE JUSTICE.
[1:46:17] I THINK.
[1:46:18] THEY'VE EARNED IT.
[1:46:19] I SAW DURING.
[1:46:21] THE PANDEMIC WHEN I WAS.
[1:46:22] YOU KNOW.
[1:46:22] IN THE CITY COUNCIL I WOULD
[1:46:25] GO TO WORK EVERY DAY BUT I
[1:46:26] WOULD SEE NURSES ALSO.
[1:46:28] THEY'D BE GOING.
[1:46:29] TO WORK.
[1:46:29] EVERY DAY.
[1:46:30] WHETHER THEY WERE TAKING THE
[1:46:31] TRAIN, TAKING THE BUS OR OUT
[1:46:32] THE HOSPITAL.
[1:46:33] THEY DIDN'T MAIL IT IN.
[1:46:34] THEY WERE THERE CARING FOR
[1:46:36] PEOPLE PATIENTS.
[1:46:38] IN NEED.
[1:46:40] THEY ALSO FOUGHT FOR A SAFE.
[1:46:42] UH.
[1:46:43] PATIENT BALLOT.
[1:46:44] INITIATIVE THAT WAS THAT FILLED
[1:46:47] SEVERAL YEARS.
[1:46:48] AGO THROUGHOUT.
[1:46:50] THE COMMONWEALTH.
[1:46:52] UH NURSES ARE.
[1:46:52] OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID.
[1:46:54] OFTENTIMES THEY'RE ASSAULTED
[1:46:56] TOO BY PATIENTS.
[1:46:59] IT'S ABOUT RESPECT FOR THE
[1:47:00] NURSES.
[1:47:01] IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT THEY.
[1:47:02] CAN RETIRE WITH DIGNITY,
[1:47:05] PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.
[1:47:06] FOR THEM.
[1:47:07] THE ABILITY TO EARN A DECENT
[1:47:08] WAGE, CONTINUING WITH THEIR
[1:47:11] EDUCATION.
[1:47:12] AND TRAINING.
[1:47:12] IT'S ABOUT JUSTICE.
[1:47:14] IT'S A.
[1:47:14] SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC.
[1:47:15] JUSTICE ISSUE AND WE'RE HERE TO
[1:47:18] SAY.
[1:47:18] AND TO ENCOURAGE THE.
[1:47:21] UM THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S
[1:47:22] HOSPITAL AND THE MASS NURSES.
[1:47:25] ASSOCIATION TO IMMEDIATELY GO
[1:47:27] BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
[1:47:31] AND.
[1:47:32] TO IRON OUT A.
[1:47:32] CONTRACT THAT IS FAIR TO BOTH
[1:47:35] SIDES, BUT WE NEED TO ENSURE.
[1:47:37] THAT OUR NURSES ARE TREATED
[1:47:39] WITH RESPECT.
[1:47:40] AND DIGNITY BECAUSE THEY'RE.
[1:47:41] NOT RECEIVING.
[1:47:42] IT FROM THIS HOSPITAL.
[1:47:44] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:47:45] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[1:47:47] COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU NOW
[1:47:48] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:47:50] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:47:52] THANK YOU.
[1:47:53] COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR ADDING
[1:47:55] ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[1:47:57] UH.
[1:47:58] ALONG WITH MY.
[1:48:00] COUNCILOR UH.
[1:48:02] FLYNN, I ALSO AM URGING THE
[1:48:05] MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM HOSPITAL
[1:48:07] TO RETURN TO NEGOTIATE SHIFTS
[1:48:10] IN A MEANINGFUL WAY AND TO
[1:48:11] SETTLE A FAIR CONTRACT THAT
[1:48:14] RESPECTS NURSES AND PROTECTS
[1:48:16] PATIENT CARE.
[1:48:17] AND HERE'S WHAT'S INTERESTING
[1:48:20] WE UNDERSTAND THAT MEDICINE FOR
[1:48:21] HIM IS A NONPROFIT, BUT ITS
[1:48:24] BOARD INCLUDES DIRECTORS AND
[1:48:25] INCLUDES BILLIONAIRES, PRIVATE
[1:48:28] EQUITY EXECUTIVES, CORPORATE
[1:48:30] CEOS INCLUDING PEOPLE WHOSE
[1:48:32] BUSINESS ACTUALLY INTERSECT
[1:48:33] WITH IN GP.
[1:48:36] SO WE CALL ON MGP AND THE BOARD
[1:48:42] TO RETURN TO THE TABLE AND TO
[1:48:45] REALLY LOOK AT THE PURPOSE FOR
[1:48:48] WHICH THIS HOSPITAL WAS
[1:48:50] ESTABLISHED AND THE ROLE THAT
[1:48:52] THE NURSES PLAY IN THE DAY TO
[1:48:55] DAY OPERATION OF THE HOSPITAL.
[1:48:57] I SAID THIS MORNING THAT
[1:49:00] HOSPITALS COULDN'T EXIST
[1:49:01] WITHOUT NURSES, WE COULDN'T
[1:49:04] EXIST WITHOUT NURSES.
[1:49:05] AND SO I CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON
[1:49:08] THE VALUE THE NURSES PLAY.
[1:49:11] I MENTIONED THAT MY MOTHER WAS
[1:49:12] A NURSE.
[1:49:13] I SAW THE WORK THAT SHE PUT IN
[1:49:16] AND I SAW HOW CONCERNED SHE WAS
[1:49:20] ABOUT OUR PATIENTS.
[1:49:22] I SAW HOW PAINSTAKING EVEN WHEN
[1:49:24] SHE CAME HOME CONCERNED ABOUT
[1:49:26] HER PATIENTS AND THE
[1:49:28] RELATIONSHIPS THAT SHE FORMED
[1:49:29] WITH THEM.
[1:49:30] AND UH, MY MOTHER WAS A
[1:49:33] BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND IT'S REALLY
[1:49:34] FUNNY.
[1:49:35] MY MOTHER WOULD COME HOME
[1:49:36] SOMETIME.
[1:49:37] SHE WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT
[1:49:38] HAPPENED TODAY?
[1:49:39] SHE SAID, UH, SOMEONE ASKED
[1:49:43] ME TO MARRY THEM.
[1:49:45] BUT MY POINT IS HOW SIGNIFICANT
[1:49:48] THE ROLE THEY PLAY IN THE LIFE
[1:49:51] OF THEIR PATIENTS.
[1:49:52] LET'S JUST ENCOURAGE THE BOY TO
[1:49:54] GIVE THEM A FAIR CONTRACT SO
[1:49:56] THAT THEY WON'T HAVE TO GO
[1:49:58] ASTRAY SO THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO
[1:50:00] GO THROUGH WHAT WE WENT THROUGH
[1:50:01] SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WHEN THEY
[1:50:02] WERE ON STRIKE.
[1:50:03] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:50:04] THANK YOU.
[1:50:05] COUNCILOR MURPHY OF THE
[1:50:06] FLOOR.
[1:50:07] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:50:09] UM.
[1:50:10] SO AND THANK YOU TO M&A WHO
[1:50:13] WAS HERE WITH US EARLIER AND WE
[1:50:15] WERE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THEM
[1:50:17] DIRECTLY.
[1:50:18] BUT I'VE PUBLICLY SUPPORTED ON
[1:50:20] NURSES AND I CONTINUE TO STAND
[1:50:22] WITH THEM.
[1:50:23] NURSES CARE FOR US AND OUR
[1:50:25] FAMILIES DURING SOME OF THE
[1:50:26] MOST DIFFICULT MOMENTS OF OUR
[1:50:28] LIVES.
[1:50:28] THEY DESERVE SAFE WORKING
[1:50:31] CONDITIONS, AFFORDABLE HEALTH
[1:50:32] INSURANCE AND A CONTRACT THAT
[1:50:34] RESPECTS THEIR WORK.
[1:50:35] THAT'S ALL THEY'RE ASKING FOR.
[1:50:37] STAFFING AND WORKING CONDITIONS
[1:50:39] DIRECTLY AFFECT PATIENT CARE.
[1:50:41] WHEN NURSES RAISE CONCERNS,
[1:50:43] HOSPITAL LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO
[1:50:44] LISTEN AND WORK TOWARDS AN
[1:50:46] AGREEMENT.
[1:50:47] I URGE MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM TO
[1:50:49] RETURN TO THE BARGAINING TABLE
[1:50:50] AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH.
[1:50:53] PATIENTS NEED TO DEPENDABLE
[1:50:54] CARE AND NURSES NEED THE
[1:50:55] SUPPORT PROVIDE IT.
[1:50:57] I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT THE OTHER
[1:51:00] HOSPITALS THAT MANY NURSES ARE
[1:51:02] UNDER DIFFERENT UNIONS.
[1:51:04] BUT YESTERDAY BMC.
[1:51:07] TOLD THEIR.
[1:51:08] NURSES THAT THEY'RE REFUSING TO
[1:51:09] GO BACK TO THE TABLE WHERE CITY
[1:51:11] OF WORLD CLASS COLLEGES,
[1:51:15] UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS AND
[1:51:17] HOSPITALS PEOPLE NOT JUST US
[1:51:18] HERE IN THIS RESIDENTS IN THE
[1:51:20] CITY BUT PEOPLE COME HERE FROM
[1:51:22] AROUND THE WORLD TO GET THE
[1:51:23] WORLD CLASS CARE.
[1:51:24] SO WE SHOULD GIVE THE SUPPORT
[1:51:25] THAT OUR NURSES PROVIDE THOSE
[1:51:27] PATIENTS EVERY DAY.
[1:51:29] SO I FULLY SUPPORT AND KNOW
[1:51:30] THAT THIS RESOLUTION ALTHOUGH
[1:51:33] IS NON-BINDING.
[1:51:34] I THINK THIS MESSAGE ALONG WITH
[1:51:36] OUR SUPPORT NOT JUST ON THE
[1:51:38] PICKET LINE BUT JUST REALLY
[1:51:39] URGING THE HOSPITALS TO
[1:51:41] CONTINUE CONVERSATIONS SO THAT
[1:51:43] WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN A
[1:51:45] SITUATION WHERE OUR NURSES HAVE
[1:51:46] TO WALK OUT BECAUSE WE KNOW
[1:51:47] THEY DON'T WANT TO THANK YOU.
[1:51:49] THANK YOU.
[1:51:50] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[1:51:51] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[1:51:53] THEIR NAME?
[1:51:56] PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR.
[1:51:57] UH, CULPEPPER.
[1:51:58] DURKAN.
[1:51:58] COUNCILOR.
[1:51:59] FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[1:52:00] COUNCILOR I'M HERE.
[1:52:00] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:01] PREPEND.
[1:52:01] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:02] SANTANA.
[1:52:02] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:03] WEBER.
[1:52:03] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:04] ROYAL, PLEASE.
[1:52:04] AT THE CHAIR.
[1:52:06] COUNCILOR FLYNN IS SEEKING
[1:52:07] SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
[1:52:08] ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1921.
[1:52:10] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL
[1:52:12] THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[1:52:14] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[1:52:15] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL?
[1:52:16] VOTE COUNCILOR BREADON,
[1:52:17] COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.
[1:52:18] YES, COUNCILOR.
[1:52:19] CLOSE BUDDY.
[1:52:20] YES, COUNCILOR CULPEPER
[1:52:21] COUNCIL.
[1:52:22] CULPEPER.
[1:52:22] YES, COUNCILOR.
[1:52:23] DURKAN.
[1:52:24] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:24] DURKAN.
[1:52:25] YES.
[1:52:25] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:25] FITZGERALD.
[1:52:26] COUNCIL.
[1:52:27] FITZGERALD.
[1:52:27] YES.
[1:52:27] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:28] FLYNN.
[1:52:28] YES.
[1:52:29] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:29] FLYNN.
[1:52:29] YES.
[1:52:30] COUNCIL.
[1:52:30] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:52:31] YES.
[1:52:31] COUNCIL.
[1:52:32] LOUIJEUNE.
[1:52:32] YES.
[1:52:32] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:33] MEJIA.
[1:52:34] HERE.
[1:52:34] YES.
[1:52:35] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:35] MURPHY.
[1:52:36] YES.
[1:52:36] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:36] MURPHY.
[1:52:37] YES, COUNCILOR.
[1:52:38] PIPPIN.
[1:52:39] COUNCILOR.
[1:52:39] PEN.
[1:52:40] YES.
[1:52:40] COUNCIL.
[1:52:40] SANTANA.
[1:52:41] YES.
[1:52:41] COUNCILOR SANTANA IS
[1:52:43] COUNCILOR WEBER.
[1:52:43] YES.
[1:52:44] COUNCIL.
[1:52:45] WEBB'S AND COUNCIL.
[1:52:46] WORLD COUNCILOR.
[1:52:47] OH, YES.
[1:52:48] TALKING OF A1921 AS WE SEE 12
[1:52:50] VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[1:52:52] THANK YOU.
[1:52:52] DOCKET 1921 HAS BEEN ADOPTED
[1:52:54] .
[1:52:55] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[1:52:56] DOCKET 1922?
[1:52:57] DUCKY NUMBER 1922
[1:53:00] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE
[1:53:01] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
[1:53:03] OF THIS GROWTH CENTRAL AND AN
[1:53:06] INCLUSIVE SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
[1:53:07] IN BOSTON.
[1:53:08] THANK YOU.
[1:53:09] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[1:53:10] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE
[1:53:10] THE FLOOR.
[1:53:12] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:53:14] I'D LIKE TO ADD
[1:53:16] COUNCILOR MORALES A SECOND
[1:53:17] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SO ADDED
[1:53:19] THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO
[1:53:21] REQUEST AS HAS BEEN THE RULES
[1:53:22] AT CONCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD
[1:53:23] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[1:53:24] SEEING AND HEARING NO
[1:53:25] OBJECTIONS SHE SAW ADDED.
[1:53:26] THANK YOU.
[1:53:26] AND I'D LIKE TO REQUEST FOR
[1:53:28] SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS
[1:53:29] DOCKET.
[1:53:29] THIS IS A RESOLUTION THAT
[1:53:31] RECOGNIZES THE INVESTMENT IN
[1:53:32] BOSTON SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY
[1:53:34] .
[1:53:35] AS WE ALL KNOW SMALL BUSINESSES
[1:53:36] CREATE JOBS, BRING LIFE TO OUR
[1:53:37] NEIGHBORHOODS AND HELP FAMILIES
[1:53:39] BUILD WEALTH.
[1:53:40] UH, BUT STARTING AND SUSTAINING
[1:53:41] A BUSINESS IS REALLY HARD AND
[1:53:43] REQUIRES RESOURCES THAT ARE
[1:53:45] OFTEN DIFFICULT OR EXPENSIVE TO
[1:53:46] OBTAIN.
[1:53:47] I WANT TO COMMEND THE LAWYERS
[1:53:48] FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UH, WHOSE
[1:53:50] BACKGROUND PROGRAM HAS PROVIDED
[1:53:51] FREE LEGAL AND TECHNICAL
[1:53:52] ASSISTANCE FOR 25 YEARS AND
[1:53:54] I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE
[1:53:55] OF ATTENDING BIGGER EVENTS AND
[1:53:56] SEEING FIRSTHAND HOW THEY ARE
[1:53:59] REALLY HANDS ON WITH
[1:54:00] ENTREPRENEURS AND WITH BUSINESS
[1:54:02] OWNERS WITH GIVING THEM THE
[1:54:03] ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED.
[1:54:04] THAT WORK HAS SUPPORTED
[1:54:06] ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR,
[1:54:06] IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND PEOPLE
[1:54:07] WITH LOW INCOME WHO TOO OFTEN
[1:54:09] FACE ADDITIONAL BARRIERS TO
[1:54:10] BUSINESS OWNERSHIP OFTEN NOT
[1:54:11] HAVING THE CAPITAL NECESSARY TO
[1:54:14] REALLY UM, GET STARTED OR TO
[1:54:16] ENSURE OR TO TAP INTO WHEN
[1:54:19] PROBLEMS ARISE NOT HAVING THE
[1:54:21] SOCIAL CAPITAL NECESSARY TO
[1:54:23] MANEUVER THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
[1:54:24] SO BIZ GROW IS A REALLY HANDS
[1:54:27] ON UH ASSISTANCE FOR BUSINESSES
[1:54:29] RECOGNIZED BY THE BOSTON
[1:54:30] BUSINESS JOURNAL, RECOGNIZED BY
[1:54:32] THE BOSTON GLOBE.
[1:54:33] BIZ GROWTH CENTRAL IS SCHEDULED
[1:54:34] TO OPEN OCTOBER 19TH ACROSS
[1:54:37] FROM BOSTON COMMON.
[1:54:38] IT WILL ESTABLISH A PERMANENT
[1:54:39] DOWNTOWN HOME WHERE
[1:54:40] ENTREPRENEURS CAN FIND
[1:54:41] RESOURCES AND BUILD CONNECTIONS
[1:54:43] THAT THE HUB WILL BRING
[1:54:44] TOGETHER FREE LEGAL SUPPORT,
[1:54:46] BUSINESS GUIDANCE, SKILL
[1:54:47] BUILDING PROGRAMS, TECHNOLOGY
[1:54:50] WORKSPACE AND MENTORSHIP.
[1:54:51] HAVING THOSE RESOURCES IN ONE
[1:54:53] PLACE CAN HELP AN ENTREPRENEUR
[1:54:55] MOVE AN IDEA TO A BUSINESS WITH
[1:54:56] A STRONGER FOUNDATION.
[1:54:57] THEY'VE OFTEN DONE POP UPS POP
[1:54:59] UPS ON THE GREENWAY AND ACROSS
[1:55:01] THE CITY AND HAVING A PERMANENT
[1:55:02] HOME WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL
[1:55:03] HERE.
[1:55:04] EXPANDING ACCESS TO BUSINESS
[1:55:05] OWNERSHIP IS PART OF AN
[1:55:06] EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
[1:55:07] .
[1:55:08] I'M PLEASED TO WELCOME
[1:55:10] ESSENTIAL UM AND RECOGNIZED
[1:55:11] LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS FOR
[1:55:12] HELPING MOVE BOSTON.
[1:55:13] MORE BOSTON RESIDENTS
[1:55:15] PARTICIPATE IN AND BENEFIT FROM
[1:55:16] OUR CITY'S ECONOMY.
[1:55:18] SO AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
[1:55:20] ENTIRE TEAM TO YVONNE.
[1:55:21] TO EVERYONE AT BIZ GROW TO THE
[1:55:23] SMALL BUSINESSES THAT WILL NOW
[1:55:24] BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE.
[1:55:26] AND TO THEM THEMSELVES.
[1:55:27] BEING A NEW HUB AND HAVING A
[1:55:29] NEW SPACE IN OUR CITY.
[1:55:30] THANK YOU.
[1:55:31] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR.
[1:55:32] EARL CASWELL YOU AT FOR.
[1:55:34] THANK YOU.
[1:55:35] UH, CHAIR.
[1:55:36] AND THANK YOU TO
[1:55:37] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING
[1:55:38] ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AND ALSO
[1:55:39] THANK YOU TO, UH,
[1:55:40] CONCILOR MEJIA HERE FOR ALL HER
[1:55:41] WORK AROUND SMALL BUSINESS, UH,
[1:55:43] THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AS A SMALL
[1:55:45] BUSINESS OWNER.
[1:55:46] I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS WHEN
[1:55:47] YOU'RE FIRST TRYING TO GET
[1:55:48] STARTED.
[1:55:49] UH, FOLKS WHO TELL YOU JUST ONE
[1:55:50] FORM IS JUST ONE FILING JUST
[1:55:52] NEED TO DO THIS.
[1:55:53] UM, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A LAWYER.
[1:55:54] SOMEONE WHO IS KNOWLEDGEABLE
[1:55:56] ABOUT HOW TO NAVIGATE THE
[1:55:57] SYSTEM.
[1:55:58] UH, THAT COULD FEEL LIKE A
[1:55:59] WHOLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE.
[1:56:00] UH, AND A LOT OF TIMES IT IS
[1:56:01] NOT THAT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE GOOD
[1:56:03] IDEAS.
[1:56:04] IT'S THAT THEY DON'T HAVE
[1:56:05] ACCESS TO THE SAME NETWORKS
[1:56:06] LEGAL HELP OR GUIDANCE THAT
[1:56:08] OTHER FOLKS MAY ALREADY HAVE.
[1:56:10] I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME
[1:56:11] TO SHOUT OUT THE CITY OF BOSTON
[1:56:12] AND ALL THEIR WORK UH, AROUND
[1:56:14] SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT UH, FOR
[1:56:16] PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
[1:56:17] IN THEIR MOST RECENT PROGRAM
[1:56:18] WHICH I'M A BIG FAN OF WHICH IS
[1:56:21] ON UNLOCKED.
[1:56:22] UM I WANT TO ALSO APPLAUD
[1:56:23] LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.
[1:56:24] UH, STARTING THIS AND AS WE CUT
[1:56:27] THE RIBBON UH, LATER THIS
[1:56:28] MONTH.
[1:56:29] THE NEXT STEP IS ALWAYS
[1:56:31] ENSURING THAT OUR ENTREPRENEURS
[1:56:32] AND OUR RESIDENTS KNOW THAT
[1:56:33] THIS IS AVAILABLE TO THEM.
[1:56:34] UH, BECAUSE IN OUR
[1:56:36] NEIGHBORHOODS WE HAVE THE
[1:56:37] IDEAS.
[1:56:37] WE HAVE THE TALENT.
[1:56:38] WE HAVE THE HUSTLE.
[1:56:39] BUT SOMETIMES ALL WE NEED IS
[1:56:40] THE SUPPORT.
[1:56:41] UH THANK YOU AND
[1:56:42] CONGRATULATIONS TO LAWYER FOR
[1:56:44] CIVIL RIGHTS IN THIS NEW
[1:56:45] ORGANIZATION.
[1:56:45] THANK YOU.
[1:56:46] THANK YOU CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
[1:56:47] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:56:48] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[1:56:50] UM.
[1:56:50] IF YOU DON'T MIND, I STAY
[1:56:52] SEATED.
[1:56:53] I HAVE A REALLY BAD HEADACHE.
[1:56:54] THANK YOU.
[1:56:55] UM, I WANT TO THANK
[1:56:57] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:56:58] FOR ADDING ME TO THIS DOCKET.
[1:56:59] AND I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT
[1:57:01] COUNCILOR EARL UM FOR HIS
[1:57:03] STEADFAST ADVOCACY, UM, AND
[1:57:04] SUPPORTING ALL THINGS SMALL
[1:57:06] BUSINESSES OUT IN THESE STREETS
[1:57:08] .
[1:57:08] UM, SMALL BUSINESSES ARE THE
[1:57:09] HEART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
[1:57:10] THEY PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT, BOOST
[1:57:12] OUR ECONOMY, CREATE UM,
[1:57:15] COMMUNITY AND SO MUCH MORE.
[1:57:16] BUT OFTEN THEY ARE THE.
[1:57:18] THERE ARE BARRIERS TO SMALL
[1:57:19] BUSINESSES SUCCESS AND THAT IS
[1:57:21] WHY LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
[1:57:22] BUSINESS GROW PROGRAM IS SO
[1:57:24] IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT FILLS THE
[1:57:25] GAP AND LEGAL AND TECHNICAL
[1:57:27] ASSISTANCE FOR OUR SMALL
[1:57:28] BUSINESS OWNERS INCLUDING
[1:57:30] ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR,
[1:57:31] IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN, UM AND
[1:57:33] PEOPLE OF LOW INCOME.
[1:57:35] AND WE'RE EXCITED THAT THIS
[1:57:36] PROGRAM IS OPENING THIS GROWTH
[1:57:37] CENTRAL IN ALL ITS IN ITS NEW
[1:57:39] DOWNTOWN HOME THIS MONTH AS A
[1:57:41] AS A CHILD I GREW UP AS THE
[1:57:43] OFFICIAL TRANSLATOR FOR MY MOM
[1:57:45] AND MY ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD SO I
[1:57:47] WOULD BE A DOCTOR'S
[1:57:48] APPOINTMENTS.
[1:57:49] YOU KNOW, THE WELFARE OFFICE
[1:57:50] AND NAVIGATING OTHER UM
[1:57:52] PROCESSES THAT WERE VERY
[1:57:53] DIFFICULT EVEN AT THE AGE
[1:57:55] OF NINE.
[1:57:55] AND TODAY I CONTINUE TO SERVE
[1:57:57] AS A TRANSLATOR FOR RESIDENTS
[1:57:58] ACROSS THE CITY WHO HAVE THE
[1:57:59] WHO HAVE THE VISION AND WORK
[1:58:01] ETHIC TO START A SMALL BUSINESS
[1:58:03] BUT FACE COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND
[1:58:05] BARRIERS THAT CAN MAKE IT
[1:58:06] INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT FOR THEM
[1:58:07] TO OPEN UP THEIR DOORS.
[1:58:09] UM, WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO DO
[1:58:11] TO MAKE THESE PROCESSES EASIER
[1:58:13] TO NAVIGATE AND ENSURE THAT
[1:58:15] STARTING A BUSINESS IN OUR CITY
[1:58:16] DOES NOT FEEL OUT OF REACH
[1:58:18] SIMPLY JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT
[1:58:19] KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SYSTEM
[1:58:21] AND UM, OUR CONTENT OUR OFFICE
[1:58:23] CONTINUES TO UPLIFT AND
[1:58:24] ADVOCATE UM, FOR SMALL
[1:58:26] BUSINESSES AND WE APPRECIATE
[1:58:27] LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THIS.
[1:58:29] GIRL'S WORK AND DEDICATION TO
[1:58:31] OUR SMALL BUSINESSES.
[1:58:31] AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO THANK
[1:58:33] UM, THIS COUNCIL BECAUSE A FEW
[1:58:36] YEARS AGO, UH, I ADVOCATED TO
[1:58:38] HAVE.
[1:58:39] A UM, IMMIGRANT LIAISON IN THE
[1:58:42] OFFICE OF WORKFORCE.
[1:58:43] UM, I THEY KEEP CHANGING THE
[1:58:45] NAME BUT IT WAS UH, THE OFFICE
[1:58:47] OF ECONOMIC UM EMPOWERMENT AND
[1:58:50] THAT PARTICULAR POSITION HAS
[1:58:52] HELPED SO MANY SMALL BUSINESSES
[1:58:54] PARTICULARLY IMMIGRANT UM,
[1:58:55] SPANISH SPEAKERS NAVIGATE THE
[1:58:57] SYSTEM.
[1:58:57] SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE
[1:58:59] CITY FOR THEIR CONSTANT UM,
[1:59:01] SUPPORT UM AND
[1:59:02] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ALL HER
[1:59:04] POP UP UM UH ALL THOSE POP UPS
[1:59:07] THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING ACROSS
[1:59:08] THE CITY OF BOSTON, UM, TO HELP
[1:59:10] SMALL ENTREPRENEURS.
[1:59:11] SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO
[1:59:13] SPEAK AND ADDING ME AS A
[1:59:14] CO-SPONSOR AND FOR.
[1:59:15] YOUR LEADERSHIP.
[1:59:16] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA
[1:59:18] COUNCILOR.
[1:59:18] THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:59:20] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:59:21] I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES
[1:59:22] FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
[1:59:24] I ALSO WANT TO THANK IVAN FROM
[1:59:26] THE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
[1:59:27] FOR INVITING ME TO THE BIZ GROW
[1:59:29] CENTRALS RIBBON CUTTING GRAND
[1:59:31] OPENING ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
[1:59:34] .
[1:59:34] LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE
[1:59:36] BEEN DOING OUTSTANDING
[1:59:37] EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR YEARS TO
[1:59:39] HELP SMALL BUSINESSES
[1:59:41] ENTREPRENEUR ENTREPRENEURS
[1:59:43] NAVIGATE THE LEGAL PRACTICAL
[1:59:45] CHALLENGES THAT COME WITH
[1:59:46] STARTING AND GROWING A
[1:59:47] BUSINESS.
[1:59:48] WHAT MAKES THIS GROW CENTRAL
[1:59:51] ESPECIALLY EXCITING IS THAT IT
[1:59:52] BRINGS MANY OF THESE RESOURCES
[1:59:54] TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE.
[1:59:56] ENTREPRENEURS WILL HAVE ACCESS
[1:59:57] TO LEGAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE,
[2:00:01] MENTORSHIP, TECHNOLOGY,
[2:00:02] WORKSPACE TRAINING ALL AT NO
[2:00:05] COST.
[2:00:06] HAVING A SPACE LIKE THIS IN THE
[2:00:07] HEART OF BOSTON MAKES THESE
[2:00:09] RESOURCES MORE ACCESSIBLE TO
[2:00:12] PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT OTHERWISE
[2:00:14] HAVE THE SUPPORT, WHAT
[2:00:16] CONNECTIONS THEY NEED TO GROW
[2:00:17] THEIR BUSINESS.
[2:00:19] CONGRATULATIONS TO LAWYERS FOR
[2:00:20] CIVIL RIGHTS ON THIS NEW SPACE
[2:00:22] AND ON THE WORK THEY'RE DOING
[2:00:24] TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.
[2:00:25] I LOOK FORWARD TO THE UPCOMING
[2:00:28] RIBBON CUTTING, BUT I ALSO LOOK
[2:00:29] FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK
[2:00:31] WITH LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.
[2:00:33] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:00:34] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[2:00:35] UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
[2:00:37] ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE ADD UH,
[2:00:39] MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD
[2:00:39] COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR.
[2:00:40] DURKAN.
[2:00:41] COUNCILOR.
[2:00:41] FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR.
[2:00:43] UH.
[2:00:43] FLYNN, COUNCILOR.
[2:00:44] MEJIA.
[2:00:44] COUNCILOR.
[2:00:45] AND COUNCILOR.
[2:00:45] SANTANA.
[2:00:46] COUNCILOR WEBER, PLEASE ADD THE
[2:00:48] CHAIR.
[2:00:49] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SEEKS
[2:00:50] SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
[2:00:51] ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1922.
[2:00:53] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[2:00:54] ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[2:00:56] MR. CLERK, PLEASE CONDUCT A
[2:00:57] ROLL CALL.
[2:00:58] VOTE ON DOCKET 1922.
[2:01:01] COUNCILOR BREAK COUNCIL COLETTE
[2:01:02] AS A PILOT.
[2:01:03] YES.
[2:01:03] COUNCIL BECAUSE.
[2:01:04] BURR.
[2:01:04] YES.
[2:01:05] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:05] CULPA.
[2:01:05] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:07] CULPEPER.
[2:01:07] YES.
[2:01:07] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:08] DURKAN.
[2:01:08] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:09] DURKAN.
[2:01:09] YES.
[2:01:10] COUNCIL.
[2:01:10] FITZGERALD.
[2:01:10] YES.
[2:01:11] COUNCIL THIS SHOW.
[2:01:12] YES.
[2:01:12] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:12] FLYNN.
[2:01:13] COUNCIL.
[2:01:13] SON.
[2:01:14] YES.
[2:01:14] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:15] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:01:15] YES.
[2:01:15] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:16] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:01:16] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:01:17] MEJIA.
[2:01:18] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:18] MEJIA.
[2:01:18] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:01:19] MURPHY.
[2:01:20] COUNCIL.
[2:01:21] PIPPIN.
[2:01:22] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:22] BEND.
[2:01:23] YES.
[2:01:23] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:23] SANTANA.
[2:01:24] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:25] SANTANA.
[2:01:25] YES.
[2:01:26] COUNCILOR.
[2:01:26] WEBER.
[2:01:26] YES.
[2:01:27] COUNCIL MEMBER.
[2:01:28] YES.
[2:01:28] AND COUNCILOR.
[2:01:29] WORLD.
[2:01:29] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:01:30] WELL, YES.
[2:01:31] SO I CAN NUMBER ONE 9 TO 2 AS
[2:01:34] WE SEE THE 11 VOTES IN THE
[2:01:35] AFFIRMATIVE.
[2:01:36] THANK YOU.
[2:01:36] DOCKET ONE 9 TO 2 HAS BEEN
[2:01:38] ADOPTED.
[2:01:39] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[2:01:41] DOCKET 1923.
[2:01:43] SO I CAN HAVE A1923
[2:01:45] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE
[2:01:46] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
[2:01:48] OF THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
[2:01:50] CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SENATE 3308,
[2:01:53] HOUSE 6356.
[2:01:55] THANK YOU.
[2:01:56] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:01:57] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW
[2:01:58] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:01:58] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:01:59] I'D LIKE TO ADD CONCILOR MEJIA
[2:02:01] HERE AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[2:02:02] SO ADDED.
[2:02:03] AND I'D LIKE TO REQUEST TO
[2:02:04] SUSPEND THE RULES THAT
[2:02:06] COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD
[2:02:07] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[2:02:07] SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION
[2:02:08] SEE IS ALSO SO ADDED.
[2:02:10] AND I DO SEEK SUSPENSION AND
[2:02:11] PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION.
[2:02:12] THIS RESOLUTION ADDRESSES US A
[2:02:15] RIGHTS ISSUE THAT INCREASINGLY
[2:02:16] AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE.
[2:02:17] MY OFFICE HAS BEEN IN DEEP,
[2:02:18] DEEP CONVERSATION AND IN
[2:02:20] PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ACLU
[2:02:21] AROUND LEGISLATION HERE IN THE
[2:02:23] CITY AND ONE EVENING I RAN INTO
[2:02:26] CHRISTOPHER HOPE, WHO'S BEEN
[2:02:27] DOING THIS WORK IN CAMBRIDGE
[2:02:28] AND SOMERVILLE AND WORKING
[2:02:29] ALONGSIDE SENATOR MARKEY'S
[2:02:30] OFFICE.
[2:02:31] HE HAS THE LOOP LAB UM TO GET
[2:02:33] THESE RESOLUTIONS IN SUPPORT
[2:02:35] OF THIS BILL.
[2:02:36] UM AND SO I WANT TO THANK
[2:02:37] CHRISTOPHER HOPE FOR HIS WORK
[2:02:38] AND FOR STOPPING ME AND FOR US
[2:02:40] ENGAGING IN THIS CONVERSATION
[2:02:41] ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN
[2:02:42] DOING AS WE KNOW IT'S BEEN IT'S
[2:02:44] IT'S BEEN A TOPIC
[2:02:45] OF CONVERSATION.
[2:02:46] BUT EVEN BEFORE THEN FOLKS HAVE
[2:02:47] BEEN WORKING ON THIS AND
[2:02:50] ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
[2:02:50] AUTOMATED SYSTEMS THEY HELP
[2:02:52] SHAPE FOR BETTER OR WORSE
[2:02:53] DECISIONS ABOUT JOBS, HOUSING,
[2:02:55] EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, CREDIT,
[2:02:57] PUBLIC BENEFITS, PUBLIC SAFETY
[2:03:00] SOMETIMES WITHOUT THE EFFECTIVE
[2:03:01] PERSON UNDERSTANDING HOW THIS
[2:03:02] IS HOW UH A DECISION IS MADE
[2:03:04] AND OFTEN AS WE ARE SEEING WHEN
[2:03:06] IT COMES TO A NUMBER
[2:03:07] OF DECISIONS INCLUDING
[2:03:08] EMPLOYMENT WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE
[2:03:09] BEEN WORKING ON IN PART UH, IT
[2:03:11] LEADS TO DISCRIMINATION.
[2:03:13] WHEN THOSE SYSTEMS REPRODUCE
[2:03:15] DISCRIMINATION, THEIR
[2:03:16] COMPLEXITY CAN MAKE THE HARM
[2:03:18] DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY AND
[2:03:19] CHALLENGE.
[2:03:21] RESIDENTS DESERVE CLEAR
[2:03:22] PROTECTIONS, MEANINGFUL
[2:03:24] ACCOUNTABILITY AND A WAY TO
[2:03:25] SEEK REVIEW WHEN A
[2:03:25] CONSEQUENTIAL DECISION IS
[2:03:27] UNFAIR, RACIST, DISCRIMINATORY
[2:03:29] OR UNJUST.
[2:03:30] I WANT TO RECOGNIZE SENATOR ED
[2:03:32] MARKEY AND REPRESENTATIVE
[2:03:33] YVETTE CLARKE, WHO INCLUDE AND
[2:03:34] WILL INTRODUCE THE ARTIFICIAL
[2:03:36] INTELLIGENCE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
[2:03:37] AND REPRESENTATIVE AYANNA
[2:03:38] PRESSLEY IN ORIGINAL HOUSE
[2:03:39] CO-SPONSOR THEIR LEGISLATION
[2:03:41] WOULD ESTABLISH PROTECTIONS
[2:03:42] AGAINST ALGORITHMIC
[2:03:44] DISCRIMINATION, REQUIRE
[2:03:46] EVALUATIONS AND IMPACT
[2:03:47] ASSESSMENTS AND PROVIDE
[2:03:48] ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS.
[2:03:49] THE PROPOSAL ALSO ADDRESSES
[2:03:51] NOTICE TRANSPARENCY AND HUMAN
[2:03:53] ALTERNATIVES AND APPROPRIATE
[2:03:55] CIRCUMSTANCES.
[2:03:55] THOSE SAFEGUARDS MATTER BECAUSE
[2:03:57] A PERSON'S ABILITY TO SECURE
[2:03:58] HOUSING, RECEIVE CARE OR OBTAIN
[2:04:00] EMPLOYMENT SHOULD COME WITH AN
[2:04:02] UNDERSTANDABLE PROCESS AND
[2:04:04] MEANINGFUL RECOURSE.
[2:04:05] WE ALSO SEE THE TOLL AND
[2:04:07] EFFECTIVE AI AND DATA CENTERS
[2:04:09] ON OUR COMMUNITIES AND ARE
[2:04:11] REALLY COGNIZANT OF WHAT THEY
[2:04:12] MEAN IN REAL TERMS FOR
[2:04:14] COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY
[2:04:15] BEEN HARMED, THAT WERE ALREADY
[2:04:17] SUFFERING FROM THE REALITIES
[2:04:20] OF THE PERSISTENT AND
[2:04:21] PERNICIOUS RACIAL WEALTH GAP.
[2:04:23] AI IS ONLY GOING TO HARDEN THAT
[2:04:25] IF WE DON'T TAKE THESE
[2:04:27] SAFEGUARDS AND IT'S GREAT TO
[2:04:28] SEE IT HAPPENING ON THE FEDERAL
[2:04:29] LEVEL AND WE NEED NEED IT TO
[2:04:30] HAPPEN ON ALL LEVELS.
[2:04:31] BUT UM, WE WE DO WANT TO SEE
[2:04:33] THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S
[2:04:34] LEADERSHIP HERE BOSTON WE AS A
[2:04:36] CITY WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN UM,
[2:04:38] STEPS THROUGH ITS RESTRICTIONS
[2:04:39] ON FACE FACIAL SURVEILLANCE AND
[2:04:41] GUIDANCE ON GENERATIVE AI.
[2:04:42] THIS RESOLUTION URGES CONGRESS
[2:04:44] TO ACT AND ENCOURAGES AH THE
[2:04:45] STATE IN BOSTON TO ADVANCE
[2:04:48] COMPLEMENTARY CIVIL RIGHTS
[2:04:48] SAFEGUARDS AS THESE
[2:04:49] TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO
[2:04:50] DEVELOP WORK THAT WE WANT TO
[2:04:51] CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN.
[2:04:52] AND I WANT TO THANK AGAIN THE
[2:04:54] SENATOR AND ALL OF THOSE WHO
[2:04:55] HAVE ENDORSED THIS FROM THE
[2:04:56] LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL
[2:04:57] RIGHTS TO THE LEADERSHIP
[2:04:58] CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN
[2:04:59] RIGHTS WAS GRATEFUL TO BE ON A
[2:05:01] PANEL WITH THEM YESTERDAY TO UM
[2:05:02] THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON WOMEN
[2:05:04] COLOR OF CHANGE, UH, NAACP,
[2:05:07] ACLU, ELECTRONIC PRIVACY
[2:05:09] INFORMATION CENTER EPIC.
[2:05:11] YOU GET THE POINT.
[2:05:12] SO REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEIR
[2:05:13] LEADERSHIP AND THEIR
[2:05:14] PARTNERSHIP AND TO CONTINUE TO
[2:05:15] WORK IN THIS SPACE.
[2:05:16] THANK YOU.
[2:05:16] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[2:05:18] UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA, YOU KNOW
[2:05:20] BEFORE.
[2:05:21] THANK YOU, MADAM.
[2:05:23] PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU TO
[2:05:24] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING
[2:05:25] ME TO THIS DOCKET.
[2:05:27] THIS BILL AT.
[2:05:28] AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IS ABOUT
[2:05:29] CREATING SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT
[2:05:30] OUR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CIVIL
[2:05:32] RIGHTS DURING A TIME WHEN
[2:05:33] ALMOST NO SAFEGUARDS EXIST TO
[2:05:35] REGULATE AI.
[2:05:37] AI MODELS ARE TRAINED ON ON
[2:05:39] EXISTING DATA AND FROM
[2:05:41] INFORMATION AND OTHER INPUTS WE
[2:05:43] NEED TO CONFRONT UM AND HOWEVER
[2:05:47] THAT THESE BIASES ARE BAKED
[2:05:48] INTO THE INPUT UH FED TO AI
[2:05:51] MODELS FOR THEIR TRAINING WHICH
[2:05:53] HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ONLY
[2:05:54] WORSEN EXISTING INEQUITIES AND
[2:05:56] CAUSE UNPRECEDENTED HARM IF WE
[2:05:58] DO NOT ACT NOW THIS BILL
[2:06:00] REQUIRES DISCLOSURES
[2:06:02] EVALUATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER
[2:06:04] IMPLEMENTATION AND PROHIBITS
[2:06:05] DISCRIMINATION UM BY
[2:06:08] COVERED ALGORITHMS ON THE BASIS
[2:06:09] OF PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS.
[2:06:11] WE ARE ALL FEELING THE IMPACTS
[2:06:13] OF AI AND AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY
[2:06:15] WITH WAYMO INCREASING THE USE
[2:06:17] OF AI SURVEILLANCE TOOLS AND
[2:06:19] CONCERN ABOUT AI REPLACING
[2:06:21] HUMAN JOBS AS AI CONTINUES TO
[2:06:24] EVOLVE, WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT
[2:06:25] IT DOES SO RESPONSIBLY AND IN A
[2:06:28] WAY THAT BENEFITS ALL
[2:06:29] OF HUMANITY.
[2:06:30] WE CAN NOT PUT OUR COMMUNITIES
[2:06:31] AT RISK AND LET THEM BE
[2:06:33] STEAMROLLED BY AI ADVANCEMENT
[2:06:36] THAT WILL HARM THEM IF NOT UM,
[2:06:38] REGULATE IT.
[2:06:39] SO THANK YOU.
[2:06:40] UM, TO OUR OUR COLLEAGUES ON
[2:06:42] THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHO ARE
[2:06:44] LEADING THE CHARGE AND THANK
[2:06:45] YOU TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH
[2:06:47] LOUIJEUNE FOR HOLDING IT DOWN
[2:06:49] HERE LOCALLY.
[2:06:50] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[2:06:52] COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW
[2:06:53] BEFORE.
[2:06:54] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:06:55] I AM SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN
[2:06:57] TECHNOLOGY.
[2:06:58] I BELIEVE IN.
[2:06:58] INNOVATION AND I BELIEVE IN
[2:07:00] PROGRESS.
[2:07:00] UM, EMERGING AI TOOLS HAVE THE
[2:07:02] POWER TO SOLVE SOME OF OUR MOST
[2:07:04] COMPLEX CHALLENGES.
[2:07:06] HOWEVER, WE MUST NOT FALL FOR
[2:07:07] THE DANGEROUS MYTH THAT
[2:07:09] TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS NEUTRAL,
[2:07:11] OBJECTIVE OR INHERENTLY FAIR.
[2:07:13] AND OUR GOT AN ALGORITHM HAS NO
[2:07:15] NO LIVED EXPERIENCE.
[2:07:17] IT CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR HUMAN
[2:07:18] CONTEXT, NUANCE OR RESILIENCE
[2:07:20] AND IT HAS BIASES JUST LIKE YOU
[2:07:22] AND ME, AUTOMATED SYSTEMS ARE
[2:07:24] ONLY AS GOOD AS THE DATA WE
[2:07:26] FEED IT AND UNFORTUNATELY MOST
[2:07:28] AI IS TRAINED ON DECADES
[2:07:29] OF HISTORICAL DATA THAT HAS
[2:07:30] SYSTEMATIC RACISM, SEXISM AND
[2:07:33] INEQUALITY BACK INTO ITS
[2:07:35] FOUNDATION.
[2:07:36] WHEN YOU TRAIN A SYSTEM ON A
[2:07:38] BIASED PAST YOU DON'T GET
[2:07:39] NEUTRAL DECISIONS.
[2:07:40] YOU GET AUTOMATED
[2:07:41] DISCRIMINATION OPERATING ON A
[2:07:43] SCALE.
[2:07:43] FOR JUST ONE EXAMPLE, LOOK AT
[2:07:45] HOUSING AI BASED MORTGAGES
[2:07:48] LENDERS ARE 80% MORE LIKELY TO
[2:07:50] REJECT BLACK APPLICANTS, 40%
[2:07:52] MORE LIKELY TO REJECT LATINO
[2:07:53] APPLICANTS AND 70% MORE LIKELY
[2:07:56] TO DENY NATIVE AMERICAN
[2:07:57] APPLICANTS.
[2:07:58] IMAGINE IF THOSE STATISTICS
[2:07:59] WERE APPLIED NATIONWIDE AND IF
[2:08:01] THE VICTIMS OF THAT ALGORITHM
[2:08:04] ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION HAD
[2:08:06] NO UM, RECOURSE.
[2:08:08] HOMEOWNERSHIP IS JUST THE
[2:08:09] START.
[2:08:10] AUTOMATED SYSTEMS ARE
[2:08:11] INCREASINGLY MAKING LIFE
[2:08:13] ALTERING DECISIONS ABOUT
[2:08:14] RESIDENTS DETERMINING WHO GETS
[2:08:16] A JOB, WHO GETS HEALTH CARE,
[2:08:17] WHO RECEIVES PUBLIC BENEFITS
[2:08:19] AND HOW PUBLIC SAFETY IS
[2:08:21] MANAGED.
[2:08:22] IN MOST CASES, THE PERSON
[2:08:23] AFFECTED HAS NO IDEA THAT THE
[2:08:25] DECISION WAS REACHED AND HAS NO
[2:08:26] WAY TO CONTEST THE WE CANNOT
[2:08:29] ALLOW ALGORITHM AND ARTIFICIAL
[2:08:31] INTELLIGENCE TO QUIET TO
[2:08:33] QUIETLY DISMANTLE CIVIL RIGHTS
[2:08:34] UNDER THE GUISE OF EFFICIENCY
[2:08:36] AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS.
[2:08:38] THANK YOU TO
[2:08:39] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
[2:08:40] BRINGING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.
[2:08:42] WE ARE URGING CONGRESS TO ENACT
[2:08:44] STRONG, ENFORCEABLE CIVIL
[2:08:45] RIGHTS PROTECTIONS FOR ANY
[2:08:47] AUTOMATED SYSTEMS MAKING UM
[2:08:49] CONSEQUENTIAL DECISIONS.
[2:08:50] INNOVATION SHOULD OPEN DOORS
[2:08:52] FOR OUR COMMUNITIES BY CLOSED
[2:08:53] THEM BY PROGRAMING SYSTEMATIC
[2:08:55] BIAS INTO OUR FUTURE.
[2:08:56] THANK YOU.
[2:08:57] THANK YOU COUNCILOR SANTANA
[2:08:58] .
[2:08:58] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[2:09:00] THEIR NAME?
[2:09:01] MR CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS
[2:09:03] CULPEPPER, DURKAN.
[2:09:05] FITZGERALD.
[2:09:05] FLYNN.
[2:09:07] UH, MURPHY.
[2:09:09] BUT BEN WEBER WELL, PLEASE ADD
[2:09:12] THE CHAIR.
[2:09:15] COUNCILORS.
[2:09:15] UH, I'M SORRY WE'RE ON DOCKET
[2:09:19] 1923.
[2:09:19] OKAY.
[2:09:20] UM, COUNCIL REGION MEJIA AND
[2:09:22] SANTANA SIX SUSPENSION OF THE
[2:09:23] RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET
[2:09:24] 1923.
[2:09:25] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL
[2:09:27] THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[2:09:29] UH, MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[2:09:30] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.
[2:09:33] COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL CALL
[2:09:34] THAT AS A YES.
[2:09:36] COUNCIL GOES WELL.
[2:09:36] YES.
[2:09:38] COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
[2:09:38] YES.
[2:09:39] COUNCIL.
[2:09:39] CULPEPER.
[2:09:40] YES.
[2:09:40] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:41] DURKAN.
[2:09:41] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:42] DURKAN.
[2:09:42] YES.
[2:09:42] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:43] FITZGERALD.
[2:09:44] COUNCILOR THIS SHOW.
[2:09:44] YES.
[2:09:45] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:45] FLYNN.
[2:09:46] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:46] FLYNN.
[2:09:46] YES.
[2:09:47] COUNSELOR.
[2:09:47] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:09:48] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:48] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:09:49] YES.
[2:09:49] COUNCIL.
[2:09:50] MEJIA.
[2:09:51] COUNCIL.
[2:09:51] MEJIA.
[2:09:51] YES.
[2:09:52] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:52] MURPHY.
[2:09:53] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:53] MURPHY.
[2:09:53] YES.
[2:09:54] COUNCIL.
[2:09:54] BEN.
[2:09:55] COUNCIL.
[2:09:55] PEN.
[2:09:56] YES.
[2:09:56] COUNCIL.
[2:09:56] SANTANA.
[2:09:57] YEAH.
[2:09:57] COUNCILOR.
[2:09:58] SANTANA.
[2:09:58] YES.
[2:09:59] COUNCIL.
[2:09:59] WEBER.
[2:10:00] YES.
[2:10:00] COUNCIL.
[2:10:00] WEBER.
[2:10:01] YES AND COUNCIL?
[2:10:01] WORLD COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
[2:10:03] TALKING NUMBER 1923 HAS
[2:10:06] RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
[2:10:07] AFFIRMATIVE.
[2:10:08] THANK YOU.
[2:10:08] DOCKET 1923 HAS BEEN ADOPTED
[2:10:10] .
[2:10:10] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[2:10:11] DOCKET 1924.
[2:10:13] TALKING NUMBER 1924 COUNCILORS
[2:10:16] LOUIJEUNE AND MEJIA FOR THE
[2:10:18] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
[2:10:20] CONGRATULATING BISHOP JOHN M
[2:10:22] BORDERS THE THIRD ON HIS
[2:10:23] RETIREMENT AND HONORING 45
[2:10:25] YEARS OF SERVICE TO MORNING
[2:10:27] STAR BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE CITY
[2:10:28] OF BOSTON.
[2:10:29] THANK YOU.
[2:10:30] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:10:30] COUNCIL REGION.
[2:10:31] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR QUICKLY.
[2:10:34] SORRY.
[2:10:35] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:10:37] UM, AND I'D LIKE TO SEEK
[2:10:38] SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS
[2:10:39] DOCKET.
[2:10:39] I'M SAYING THAT BECAUSE I
[2:10:40] ALWAYS FORGET TO SAY THAT
[2:10:41] SOMETHING TO GET BETTER.
[2:10:42] UM, AND I'M PRESENTING THIS
[2:10:44] RESOLUTION.
[2:10:44] UH, YOU KNOW, IT COULD HAVE
[2:10:46] BEEN ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND
[2:10:47] I THOUGHT ABOUT SHOULD I, YOU
[2:10:48] KNOW, NUMBER OF RESOLUTIONS
[2:10:49] SHOULD THIS BE ON THE MAIN
[2:10:51] AGENDA?
[2:10:51] AND I JUST THINK THAT FOR THE
[2:10:53] EXTENT OF THE WORK THAT BISHOP
[2:10:54] BORDERS HAS DONE IN OUR CITY, I
[2:10:55] THINK IT'S WORTHY OF HIS WORK
[2:10:57] AND A TESTAMENT TO HIS WORK TO
[2:10:59] HAVE IT BE BEFORE THIS BODY AND
[2:11:01] TO HAVE AND TO SPEAK ON IT NOT
[2:11:02] ONLY BECAUSE IT IS UM.
[2:11:05] UH MY PLACE OF WORSHIP BUT
[2:11:07] MOSTLY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE
[2:11:08] WORK THAT HE HAS DONE HERE FOR
[2:11:10] THE CITY OF BOSTON.
[2:11:11] SO I, I OFFER THIS TO THANK HIM
[2:11:13] FOR HIS 45 YEARS OF SERVICE,
[2:11:14] UM, TO THE CITY OF BOSTON AND
[2:11:15] TO THE MORNINGSTAR COMMUNITY.
[2:11:17] UH, HIS LEADERSHIP HAS TOUCHED
[2:11:18] GENERATIONS OF CONGREGANTS AND
[2:11:20] NEIGHBORS.
[2:11:20] UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP,
[2:11:22] MORNINGSTAR GREW FROM 75
[2:11:23] MEMBERS TO SEVERAL THOUSANDS
[2:11:24] AND BUILT A SANCTUARY SANCTUARY
[2:11:27] ON BLUE HILL AVENUE.
[2:11:28] HE'S ALSO MENTORED AND HELPED
[2:11:29] PREPARE MORE THAN 50 MINISTERS.
[2:11:31] I WAS AT A CHURCH A MONTH AGO,
[2:11:34] UM, IN OUTSIDE OF BOSTON FOR
[2:11:36] THE FUNERAL.
[2:11:37] UH WAS IN NEWTOWN FOR THE
[2:11:39] FUNERAL OF DENICE WASHINGTON
[2:11:42] AND UH TO HEAR THAT PASTOR
[2:11:44] THERE WE HAD NO IDEA TALK ABOUT
[2:11:46] BISHOP BORDERS AND HOW CENTRAL
[2:11:48] OF A FIGURE THAT HE AND DENICE
[2:11:51] WERE TO HIM WAS JUST THE DEPTHS
[2:11:54] OF HOW MUCH HE HAS MENTORED
[2:11:56] OTHERS IS JUST SO PALPABLE.
[2:11:58] UM.
[2:11:58] HE'S A SPIRITUAL FATHER TO
[2:12:00] MANY I KNOW TO TO MYSELF I KNOW
[2:12:02] TO COUNCILOR ME HERE.
[2:12:03] I KNOW TO OTHERS HERE ON HIS
[2:12:05] BODY TO THE MOST VULNERABLE
[2:12:07] AMONG US, TO GOVERNORS, UH,
[2:12:09] PRESENT AND PAST.
[2:12:11] AND HE YEARS PRAYED UH, FOR
[2:12:13] NATIONAL LEADERS SEEKING
[2:12:14] PRAYERS, WISDOM AND COUNCILOR.
[2:12:16] HIS SERVICES INCLUDED A
[2:12:17] CHAPLAINCY AT THE SUFFOLK
[2:12:18] COUNTY JAIL.
[2:12:20] MOST OF EARLY FOR ME IS, UM,
[2:12:21] TRYING TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO
[2:12:22] FAITH.
[2:12:23] MORE THAN A DECADE AGO HE WAS,
[2:12:26] UH, YOU KNOW, GOING TO
[2:12:28] MORNINGSTAR AND SITTING IN THE
[2:12:29] BALCONY WITH MY SISTER TRYING
[2:12:31] TO GO UNNOTICED UH, WAY BEFORE
[2:12:33] ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS.
[2:12:35] UM, HE MADE ME FEEL SAFE.
[2:12:36] UM, AND HE MADE ME FEEL SAFE AT
[2:12:38] MORNINGSTAR AND I'M REALLY
[2:12:39] GRATEFUL FOR HIM AND FOR HIS
[2:12:41] WORD AND FOR MAKING IT FEEL
[2:12:43] LIKE SUCH A WELCOMING AND OPEN
[2:12:45] COMMUNITY TO ANYBODY WHO NEEDED
[2:12:48] A PLACE, UM, OF HEALING BECAUSE
[2:12:50] THAT'S WHAT, UM, THE CHURCH IS
[2:12:52] .
[2:12:53] HIS RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE HERE
[2:12:54] IN THE CITY HELPED BRING CLERGY
[2:12:55] TOGETHER AND WORK THAT GAVE
[2:12:56] RISE TO THE BOSTON TEN POINT
[2:12:58] COALITION DURING THE PANDEMIC.
[2:13:00] IT WAS A CENTRAL PLACE FOR
[2:13:01] MATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH
[2:13:02] CENTER AND BOSTON MEDICAL
[2:13:03] CENTER TO SERVE AS A VITAL
[2:13:04] COMMUNITY VACCINATION SITE FOR
[2:13:06] BOSTON'S BLACK AND BROWN
[2:13:08] COMMUNITY.
[2:13:09] UH AND TO EVERYONE ANOTHER
[2:13:10] EXAMPLE OF THE CHURCH MEETING
[2:13:11] ITS NEIGHBORS NEEDS.
[2:13:12] SO AS IT PREPARES TO RETIRE AT
[2:13:14] THE END OF THIS YEAR, I EXTEND
[2:13:16] MY GRATITUDE.
[2:13:16] MY FAMILY EXTENDS OUR
[2:13:17] GRATITUDE.
[2:13:18] MY FRIENDS EXTEND OUR
[2:13:19] GRATITUDE.
[2:13:20] MY GODDAUGHTER WAS JUST
[2:13:21] BAPTIZED THERE UM TWO WEEKS AGO
[2:13:24] DURING THE MIDDLE OF A STORM.
[2:13:26] UM THE BISHOP'S LEGACY IS ONE
[2:13:29] FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS AND HE'S,
[2:13:31] UH I'M THANKFUL FOR HIS FAMILY
[2:13:33] FOR THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SHARE
[2:13:35] SO MUCH OF THEIR FATHER, THEIR
[2:13:37] HUSBAND AND THEIR GRANDFATHER
[2:13:39] WITH US AND WITH THE ENTIRE
[2:13:40] CITY OF BOSTON.
[2:13:42] SO CONGRATULATIONS TO BISHOP
[2:13:43] ORDERS.
[2:13:44] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[2:13:46] COUNCILOR.
[2:13:46] UM, HERE DID YOU WANT TO SAY A
[2:13:47] FEW WORDS.
[2:13:48] UH.
[2:13:48] BEFORE I JUST ALSO WANT TO
[2:13:50] INVITE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES
[2:13:51] THIS SUNDAY AS WE CELEBRATE HIS
[2:13:54] 45 YEARS TO, UM WHEN YOU START
[2:13:56] BAPTIST CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10
[2:13:59] A.M..
[2:13:59] THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
[2:14:00] EXCUSE ME.
[2:14:01] THANK YOU.
[2:14:02] UM, I APOLOGIZE I ACCIDENTALLY
[2:14:03] TURNED OFF COUNCILOR FLYNN'S
[2:14:04] MIC.
[2:14:04] UM, THAT WAS ON PURPOSE
[2:14:06] COUNCIL ME YOU NOW HAVE THE
[2:14:07] FLOOR.
[2:14:07] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:14:08] AND I WANT TO THANK
[2:14:09] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ACADEMY
[2:14:10] TO THIS DOCKET.
[2:14:12] UM, BISHOP BORDERS HAS SERVED
[2:14:13] BOSTON FOR OVER FOUR DECADES
[2:14:15] AND HAS BEEN A PILLAR IN OUR
[2:14:17] COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT HIS
[2:14:17] SERVICE.
[2:14:18] AND FOR THOSE.
[2:14:19] FOLKS WHO DON'T KNOW, HE WAS A
[2:14:20] ROCK STAR BEFORE HE WAS A
[2:14:21] PRIEST.
[2:14:22] I MEAN, EXCUSE ME.
[2:14:23] UH UH, A BISHOP AND I'M NOT
[2:14:27] GOING TO GO INTO HIS UH, MUSIC
[2:14:28] DAYS BUT HE OFTEN TALKS ABOUT
[2:14:31] THE MOVES THAT HE BUSTED
[2:14:32] BEFORE.
[2:14:33] HE.
[2:14:33] WAS, UM, INSIDE THE WALLS
[2:14:35] OF OUR BELOVED MORNING
[2:14:37] MORNINGSTAR.
[2:14:38] AND THAT SPEAKS, UH, TO HIS
[2:14:40] INVESTMENT AND INVOLVEMENT IN
[2:14:41] OUR CITY.
[2:14:42] UM, HE IS A SPIRITUAL LEADER,
[2:14:44] COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AND CIVIC
[2:14:46] PARTNER IN ADVANCING THE
[2:14:47] WELL-BEING OF BOSTON'S
[2:14:48] FAMILIES.
[2:14:49] HIS MINISTRY HAS GROWN
[2:14:51] MORNINGSTAR OUR CONGREGATION
[2:14:52] DEVELOPING GENERATIONS
[2:14:53] OF MINISTERS UM, ADVANCING
[2:14:55] PEACE AND BUILDING MEANINGFUL
[2:14:57] COLLABORATIONS AND ONE OF HIS
[2:14:58] EFFORTS STANDS OUT AS
[2:15:00] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE POINTED OUT
[2:15:01] WAS THE VACCINATION SITE DURING
[2:15:03] THE COVID PANDEMIC AS WELL AS I
[2:15:05] JUST WANT TO, UH, ALSO
[2:15:07] ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BISHOP BORDERS
[2:15:10] MYSELF AND VOGUE HOSTED THE
[2:15:12] FIRST UM WE'LL HAVE TOWN HALL
[2:15:16] UM CONVERSATION IN JANUARY
[2:15:18] OF 2022 AND HE OPENED UP HIS
[2:15:20] DOORS AND CREATED SPACE FOR
[2:15:21] PEOPLE TO BE HEARD.
[2:15:23] UM, REGARDING THIS PARTICULAR
[2:15:24] ISSUE, HE ALSO UM IS MY
[2:15:27] SPIRITUAL FATHER AND WHEN I RAN
[2:15:29] FOR OFFICE IN 2019 HE
[2:15:31] LITERALLY.
[2:15:33] PROPHESIZED I DON'T KNOW HOW TO
[2:15:34] SAY THAT WORD, BUT HE SAID THAT
[2:15:36] I WAS GOING TO WIN AND IT WAS
[2:15:39] GOING TO BE BAPTISM UNDER FIRE
[2:15:42] AND THAT YEAR WAS COVID AFTER I
[2:15:44] GOT UM, YOU KNOW, INAUGURATED
[2:15:48] INTO THIS UM WORK.
[2:15:50] SO IT WAS DEFINITELY BAPTISM
[2:15:51] UNDER FIRE.
[2:15:52] SO HE ALSO KNOWS WHAT IS
[2:15:54] HAPPENING AND SPEAKS TRUTH TO
[2:15:55] IT.
[2:15:56] UM, AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I
[2:15:59] DID NOT UPLIFT THAT WHENEVER
[2:16:01] I'VE HAD TO TAKE DIFFICULT
[2:16:02] VOTES.
[2:16:04] IT IS.
[2:16:04] UM, BISHOP WATERS THAT I'VE
[2:16:06] CALLED UPON AND I REMEMBER MY
[2:16:07] FIRST VOTE HERE ON THE
[2:16:10] COUNCIL THAT I KNEW WOULD HAVE
[2:16:11] A BIG CONSEQUENCE IN MY LIFE
[2:16:13] AND HOW I SHOW UP HERE WAS THE
[2:16:15] 2020 BUDGET.
[2:16:17] UM, AND IT WAS HIM THAT
[2:16:19] PROVIDED ME THE GUIDANCE AND
[2:16:20] THE SPIRITUAL.
[2:16:22] UH.
[2:16:23] TO KNOW THAT I WAS FOLLOWING
[2:16:25] MY HEART AND LEADING WITH
[2:16:27] CONVICTION.
[2:16:27] AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THE
[2:16:28] BISHOP FOR ALL HIS LOVE AND
[2:16:31] CONGRATULATE HIM AND HIS ENTIRE
[2:16:33] FAMILY.
[2:16:33] AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
[2:16:35] CELEBRATING HIM ON THE 10TH.
[2:16:36] THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
[2:16:37] COUNCIL MAYOR COUNCIL.
[2:16:37] FLYNN YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:16:41] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND
[2:16:42] HONORED TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES
[2:16:44] IN RECOGNIZING BISHOP JOHN
[2:16:46] BORDERS BUT RECOGNIZING THE
[2:16:49] INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTION HE HAS
[2:16:51] MADE TO NOT JUST THE
[2:16:53] MORNINGSTAR BAPTIST CHURCH IN
[2:16:55] MATTAPAN BUT REALLY THROUGHOUT
[2:16:57] MASSACHUSETTS THROUGHOUT
[2:17:00] THROUGHOUT THE NATION AS WELL.
[2:17:02] I DO RECALL DURING DIFFICULT
[2:17:04] TIMES, UM, IN THE 1970S AND THE
[2:17:07] 1980S ESPECIALLY.
[2:17:08] BUT BISHOP BORDERS WAS ALWAYS
[2:17:10] THERE FOR THE RESIDENTS
[2:17:12] OF BOSTON NEVER GAVE UP ON THE
[2:17:14] PEOPLE ALWAYS BRINGING PEOPLE
[2:17:16] TOGETHER, IMPROVING RACE
[2:17:19] RELATIONS IN BOSTON.
[2:17:20] HE'S HE'S REALLY AN UNSUNG HERO
[2:17:22] AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED SOMEONE
[2:17:24] I RESPECTED AND ADMIRED AND
[2:17:26] LOOKING FORWARD TO THE UM
[2:17:30] SERVICE ON SUNDAY MORNING AS
[2:17:31] WELL ON BLUE HILL AVENUE.
[2:17:32] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:17:33] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN,
[2:17:35] COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU NOW HAVE
[2:17:36] THE FLOOR.
[2:17:36] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:17:37] I'D LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF
[2:17:38] WITH THE REMARKS PREVIOUSLY
[2:17:40] MADE BY THE COUNCILORS.
[2:17:42] BUT I ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT I
[2:17:44] GREW UP WITH, UH, BISHOP JOHN
[2:17:46] BORDERS.
[2:17:47] AND I REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS AND
[2:17:49] THE GROUP CALLED THE ENERGETICS
[2:17:55] HE AND, UH.
[2:17:58] I'VE HEARD JOHN TALK ABOUT, UH
[2:18:01] ,HIS CALLING WHILE HE WAS
[2:18:02] SINGING.
[2:18:04] UH, THEY WERE IN SWITZERLAND
[2:18:08] AND UH, IN THE 70S AND HE HE
[2:18:11] HEARD THE CALL WHILE HE WAS OUT
[2:18:14] SINGING UH, ONE OF HIS
[2:18:16] INTERNATIONAL TOURS BEEN A GOOD
[2:18:18] FRIEND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
[2:18:20] UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SUPPORTED
[2:18:23] EACH OTHER IN THE MINISTRY.
[2:18:24] WE'VE BEEN IN THE MINISTRY
[2:18:26] QUITE A LONG TIME TOGETHER,
[2:18:28] ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CITY CITY'S
[2:18:31] YOUTH FOR AND RATHER THAN THE
[2:18:34] PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
[2:18:36] VIOLENT TIMES WE'VE SEEN IN
[2:18:38] BOSTON UH, BISHOP WATERS AND I
[2:18:40] WERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
[2:18:41] EVEN HAD A SCARE AT HIS CHURCH
[2:18:43] AND A FUNERAL WHERE A SHOOTING
[2:18:46] ALMOST TOOK PLACE.
[2:18:48] SO WE'VE BEEN IN THE MIDST
[2:18:49] OF THE FIRE AND WE WERE
[2:18:50] LAUGHING ON THE PHONE THIS
[2:18:52] MORNING ABOUT HOW LONG WE'VE
[2:18:54] BEEN IN THE MINISTRY AND UH,
[2:18:56] HE'S HAVING A BANQUET THIS
[2:18:57] WEEKEND AND UH, YOU KNOW, I
[2:19:02] LOOK AT THE WORK THAT HE'S
[2:19:03] DONE, I LOOK AT THE WORK THAT
[2:19:05] HIS WIFE, HIS PARTNER SANDRA
[2:19:08] HAS DONE IN THIS CITY AND HOW
[2:19:11] WITHOUT THEIR MINISTRY BEING
[2:19:13] INVOLVED IN THE CITY, BOSTON
[2:19:15] WOULDN'T BE THE CITY THAT IT IS
[2:19:18] TODAY.
[2:19:18] SO I LIFT BISHOP WATERS UP AS
[2:19:21] ONE WHO HELPED SHAPE AND CHANGE
[2:19:23] THE CITY OF BOSTON INTO THE
[2:19:25] NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
[2:19:27] ACCLAIM CITY IT IS MADE LORD
[2:19:30] BLESS BISHOP WATERS AND
[2:19:32] CONGRATULATE HIM ON HIS
[2:19:34] RETIREMENT FROM THE MINISTRY.
[2:19:36] I'M SURE HE WON'T GO FAR FROM
[2:19:37] THAT CHURCH BUT HE WILL TAKE
[2:19:39] TIME.
[2:19:39] THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:19:41] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
[2:19:42] UH, I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THE
[2:19:44] CHORUS OF CONGRATULATIONS TO
[2:19:45] BISHOP WATERS.
[2:19:45] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[2:19:47] THEIR NAME?
[2:19:48] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[2:19:49] COUNCIL.
[2:19:50] FITZGERALD.
[2:19:50] COUNCILOR.
[2:19:51] FLYNN.
[2:19:51] COUNCILOR.
[2:19:52] MURPHY COUNCILOR.
[2:19:52] PIPELINE COUNCILOR.
[2:19:54] SANTANA, COUNCILOR.
[2:19:54] WEBER, COUNCILOR.
[2:19:55] WELL, AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR
[2:19:57] AND OH I APOLOGIZE,
[2:19:59] COUNCILOR CULPEPER I APOLOGIZE
[2:20:02] UM COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND
[2:20:03] MEJIA SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE
[2:20:05] RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET
[2:20:06] 1924.
[2:20:07] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[2:20:08] UH, ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
[2:20:09] NAY, NAY.
[2:20:11] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[2:20:12] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON
[2:20:13] DOCKET 1924?
[2:20:15] COUNCILOR BREADON
[2:20:17] COUNCILOR COLOR IS A POWDER.
[2:20:18] YES.
[2:20:18] COUNCIL OPPOSED BY YES.
[2:20:20] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:20] COPPER.
[2:20:21] YES.
[2:20:21] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:21] COPPER.
[2:20:22] YES.
[2:20:22] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:23] DURKAN.
[2:20:23] YES.
[2:20:23] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:24] DURKAN.
[2:20:24] YES.
[2:20:25] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:25] FITZGERALD.
[2:20:26] COUNCILORS SHOW.
[2:20:27] YES.
[2:20:27] COUNCIL FLYNN IS
[2:20:28] COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[2:20:29] YES.
[2:20:29] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:29] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:20:30] YES.
[2:20:31] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[2:20:31] YES.
[2:20:32] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:32] MEJIA.
[2:20:33] CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
[2:20:33] YES.
[2:20:34] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:34] MURPHY.
[2:20:35] COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS
[2:20:36] COUNCILOR PIN COUNCILOR PENNY
[2:20:39] SANTANA.
[2:20:40] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:40] SANTANA.
[2:20:41] YES.
[2:20:41] COUNCILOR.
[2:20:41] WEBER.
[2:20:43] COUNCIL MEMBER.
[2:20:43] YES AND COUNCILOR.
[2:20:44] WORLD COUNCILOR WORRELL YES CAN
[2:20:46] NUMBER 1924 HAS RECEIVED 12
[2:20:50] VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[2:20:51] THANK YOU.
[2:20:52] DOCKET 1924 HAS BEEN
[2:20:53] ADOPTED.
[2:20:54] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[2:20:56] DOCKET 1925.
[2:20:58] TALKING NUMBER 1925
[2:21:01] COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR THE
[2:21:01] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION URGING THE
[2:21:03] CITY OF BOSTON AND THE
[2:21:04] COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
[2:21:06] TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER
[2:21:08] FOR DISPLACED FORMATION
[2:21:09] TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS
[2:21:12] HOLDERS.
[2:21:13] THANK YOU.
[2:21:14] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:21:15] COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCIL YOU
[2:21:16] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:21:16] AND PRESIDENT MADAM PRESIDENT,
[2:21:19] I WOULD LIKE TO ADD
[2:21:20] COUNCILOR UH LOUIJEUNE.
[2:21:22] UH, AS A SECOND ORIGINAL
[2:21:24] CO-SPONSOR, I WOULD LIKE TO
[2:21:26] REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES
[2:21:27] TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A
[2:21:30] THIRD ORIGINAL COUNCIL.
[2:21:31] SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION
[2:21:32] .
[2:21:33] I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK
[2:21:34] COUNCILMEMBER HERE FOR THE WORK
[2:21:36] SHE'S DONE ON THIS ISSUE AND
[2:21:37] HER INTEREST IN THIS RESOLUTION
[2:21:39] AND IF I COULD I WOULD ADD HER
[2:21:42] AS AN HONORARY ORIGINAL
[2:21:43] CO-SPONSOR.
[2:21:45] I THINK UH, THE WORK THE WORK
[2:21:47] THAT SHE DID IN FACT WHEN WE
[2:21:49] HAD THAT HEARING UH, IT WAS
[2:21:52] COUNCILMEMBER HERE WHO TALKED
[2:21:54] ABOUT UH, THE CITY SETTING
[2:21:58] ASIDE UH, PLACES LIKE WE DID AT
[2:22:02] UH MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD
[2:22:04] WHEN THE HAITIANS CAME HERE
[2:22:06] THEY WERE STUCK AT THE AIRPORT
[2:22:08] AND WE THE GOVERNOR MADE THE
[2:22:11] DECISION THAT WE WOULD PUT THEM
[2:22:12] UP ON THE UH, FACILITY ON
[2:22:15] MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD.
[2:22:17] COUNCILMEMBER HERE AT THAT
[2:22:18] HEARING RAISED THE SAME ISSUE.
[2:22:21] WHY CAN'T WE PUT THEM UP IN
[2:22:23] PUBLIC FACILITIES?
[2:22:25] SO I WANT TO JUST LIFT HER UP.
[2:22:28] UH, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO
[2:22:29] REQUEST THE SUSPENSION OF THE
[2:22:31] RULES TO VOTE ON THE PASSAGE
[2:22:32] OF THIS DOCKET.
[2:22:35] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:22:38] THIS RESOLUTION FOLLOWS A
[2:22:40] HEARING THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL
[2:22:41] RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUITY AND
[2:22:43] IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT HELD ON
[2:22:46] SEPTEMBER 25TH BECAUSE OF THE
[2:22:48] TERMINATION OF HAITIAN TPS.
[2:22:51] DURING THAT HEARING WE HEARD
[2:22:53] THAT OUR RESPONSE CANNOT STOP
[2:22:55] AT LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND
[2:22:57] EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT.
[2:22:58] WE ALSO HAVE TO ADDRESS
[2:23:00] IMMEDIATE IMMIGRANT
[2:23:03] HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OF RESIDENTS
[2:23:04] WHO MAY ALSO LOSE THEIR HOUSING
[2:23:06] AND HAVE NOWHERE SAFE TO GO.
[2:23:09] THE LOSS OF WORK AUTHORIZATION
[2:23:11] ,INCOME AND HOUSING STABILITY
[2:23:14] PUTS FORMER TPS HOLDERS AND
[2:23:15] THEIR FAMILIES AT GREATER RISK
[2:23:18] OF EVICTION, OVERCROWDING,
[2:23:19] DISPLACEMENT AND HOMELESSNESS.
[2:23:22] WITH COLD WEATHER APPROACHING,
[2:23:24] WE NEED TO BE PROACTIVE RATHER
[2:23:25] THAN WAIT UNTIL FAMILIES ARE
[2:23:27] ALREADY SLEEPING OUTDOORS OR
[2:23:29] FACING UNSAFE LIVING CONDITIONS
[2:23:31] .
[2:23:31] THIS RESOLUTION CALLS ON THE
[2:23:33] CITY AND THE COMMONWEALTH
[2:23:35] OF MASSACHUSETTS TO IDENTIFY
[2:23:38] VACANT OR UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC
[2:23:40] FACILITIES THAT CAN SAFELY AND
[2:23:42] LAWFULLY PROVIDE TEMPORARY
[2:23:43] EMERGENCY SHELTER.
[2:23:45] IT ALSO CALLS FOR AN ACTION
[2:23:47] PLAN IDENTIFYING THE AVAILABLE
[2:23:49] FACILITIES, CAPACITY FUNDING,
[2:23:52] RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES AND A
[2:23:54] TIMELINE FOR MAKING THAT
[2:23:55] SHELTER AVAILABLE.
[2:23:57] BOSTON'S HASTE AND COMMUNITY
[2:23:59] HAS CONTRIBUTED ENORMOUS,
[2:24:01] ENORMOUS, ENORMOUS AND
[2:24:04] ENORMOUSLY TO OUR CITY FOR MANY
[2:24:07] ,MANY GENERATIONS AT A TIME
[2:24:09] WHEN SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS ARE
[2:24:11] FACING EXTRAORDINARY
[2:24:13] UNCERTAINTY THROUGH NOT DOING
[2:24:14] THEM THEIR OWN.
[2:24:15] WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO
[2:24:17] ENSURE THAT NO FAMILIES LEFT
[2:24:19] WITHOUT A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE.
[2:24:21] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:24:22] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER
[2:24:25] COUNCILOR REGINA COUNCILWOMAN
[2:24:26] HERE WITH OUR EXCUSE ME,
[2:24:27] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[2:24:28] WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE
[2:24:28] REMARKS?
[2:24:29] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, YOU HAVE
[2:24:30] THE FLOOR.
[2:24:32] UH.
[2:24:33] THANK YOU.
[2:24:37] YOU KNOW, BEING AN AT LARGE
[2:24:38] COUNCILOR, YOU'RE ALWAYS
[2:24:39] EVERYWHERE.
[2:24:40] EVENINGS ARE ALWAYS FULL.
[2:24:41] I THOUGHT YESTERDAY WOULD BE A
[2:24:42] DAY.
[2:24:43] I WAS READY TO GO HOME.
[2:24:44] BE HOME AT 7 P.M..
[2:24:46] GOT A CALL ABOUT A CRISIS
[2:24:50] SITUATION AT AN AIRPORT AT THE
[2:24:53] AIRPORT.
[2:24:55] AND I DIDN'T GET HOME UNTIL 1
[2:24:58] A.M. LAST NIGHT.
[2:25:02] PEOPLE ARE REALLY SUFFERING AND
[2:25:06] I.
[2:25:06] TRY TO.
[2:25:13] I TRY TO ARTICULATE HOW MUCH
[2:25:15] PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.
[2:25:17] I DON'T TALK ABOUT IT.
[2:25:18] ALL THE TIME.
[2:25:19] BUT PEOPLE ARE REALLY
[2:25:21] SUFFERING.
[2:25:24] AND SO WHATEVER WE CAN DO.
[2:25:27] TO HELP PEOPLE.
[2:25:28] WHO ARE SUFFERING WHETHER IT'S
[2:25:32] SHELTER THAT THEY NEED, WHETHER
[2:25:34] IT'S MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
[2:25:37] PEOPLE ARE IN CRISIS AND THEY
[2:25:41] NEED.
[2:25:42] OUR HELP.
[2:25:43] THANK YOU.
[2:25:44] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[2:25:46] .
[2:25:47] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[2:25:48] UH, PRESIDENT.
[2:25:53] I'M SORRY, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[2:25:56] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:25:57] UM, AND THANK YOU TO
[2:25:59] COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR
[2:26:00] INCLUDING ME IN THIS.
[2:26:01] UM, AND I JUST WANT TO, UM,
[2:26:02] THANK COUNCILOR UM LOUIJEUNE
[2:26:05] FOR THE ONGOING NEVER ENDING
[2:26:08] WORK UM, AND ADVOCACY, UM, THAT
[2:26:12] SHE DOES EVERY SINGLE DAY.
[2:26:13] UM.
[2:26:14] YOU KNOW, THE ENDING
[2:26:16] OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS
[2:26:17] HAS ALREADY INFLICTED IMMENSE
[2:26:19] TRAUMA ON OUR HAITIAN NEIGHBORS
[2:26:21] .
[2:26:21] AND AFTER EVERYTHING THESE
[2:26:23] FAMILIES HAVE ENDURED TO BUILD
[2:26:25] A LIFE IN OUR CITY WORRYING
[2:26:27] ABOUT LOSING THEIR HOUSING OR
[2:26:28] HAVING THEIR FAMILIES DISPLACED
[2:26:29] SHOULD NOT BE ANOTHER FEAR
[2:26:31] FORCED ONTO THEIR SHOULDERS.
[2:26:34] WE CANNOT CONTROL FEDERAL
[2:26:35] POLICY BUT WE CAN CONTROL WHAT
[2:26:36] WE DO WITHIN OUR OWN RESOURCES
[2:26:39] .
[2:26:39] RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
[2:26:40] AND THE COMMONWEALTH HAVE AN
[2:26:42] ABUNDANCE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
[2:26:43] AND FACILITIES SITTING VACANT
[2:26:44] AND UNDERUTILIZED.
[2:26:46] THESE PROPERTIES.
[2:26:47] REPRESENT AN IMMEDIATE
[2:26:50] PRACTICAL OPPORTUNITY TO TO BE
[2:26:52] SAFELY CONVERTED INTO TEMPORARY
[2:26:53] EMERGENCY EMERGENCY SHELTER
[2:26:55] WHILE MEETING EVERY HOUSE FIRE
[2:26:58] BUILDING AND ACCESSIBILITY
[2:26:59] STANDARD.
[2:27:00] PUBLIC ASSETS SHOULD SERVE THE
[2:27:02] PUBLIC GOOD.
[2:27:04] FACILITIES THAT NO LONGER SERVE
[2:27:05] THEIR ORIGINAL PURPOSE SHOULD
[2:27:07] BE OPENING THEIR DOORS TO THE
[2:27:08] PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM MOST.
[2:27:10] WE ARE CALLING ON THE CITY AND
[2:27:11] THE COMMONWEALTH TO DEPLOY
[2:27:13] THESE AVAILABLE FACILITIES
[2:27:14] RIGHT NOW TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY
[2:27:16] SHELTER FOR OUR DISPLACED
[2:27:18] HAITIAN NEIGHBORS, UM AND TPS
[2:27:20] HOLDERS.
[2:27:22] OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE SUFFERED
[2:27:23] ENOUGH.
[2:27:24] IT'S TIME WE STEP UP TO KEEP
[2:27:25] OUR NEIGHBORS SAFE AND HOUSED.
[2:27:27] THANK YOU.
[2:27:28] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[2:27:29] CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YOU HAVE
[2:27:30] THE FLOOR.
[2:27:33] UM, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:27:34] AND, UM, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
[2:27:39] ,UM, COUNCIL LUIS JONES PAYNE.
[2:27:44] UM.
[2:27:45] AND I HOPE THAT WE ALL
[2:27:46] DEEPLY FEEL IT'S AND UNDERSTAND
[2:27:49] THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE
[2:27:51] HAVE.
[2:27:52] UM, TO.
[2:27:56] LEAD WITH MORE COMPASSION AND
[2:27:59] HUMANITY.
[2:28:03] SO I THINK.
[2:28:06] I'VE HAD LOTS OF LESSONS THIS
[2:28:09] PAST YEAR ABOUT WHAT THAT
[2:28:11] REALLY LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THIS
[2:28:13] CHAMBER AND I'M HOPING TO MODEL
[2:28:15] THAT AS I CONTINUE ON THIS
[2:28:20] JOURNEY.
[2:28:20] UM.
[2:28:24] UM AND I JUST WANT TO THANK,
[2:28:25] UH, COUNCIL CULPEPPER FOR
[2:28:27] ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I WAS HOPING
[2:28:28] TO BE A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS
[2:28:29] DOCKET AND I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT
[2:28:31] THIS RESOLUTION IN SOLIDARITY
[2:28:33] WITH OUR HAITIAN NEIGHBORS.
[2:28:35] THE TERMINATION OF TPS FOR
[2:28:37] HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS HAS
[2:28:38] CREATED REAL UNCERTAINTY AND
[2:28:40] STABILITY AND FEAR FOR
[2:28:41] RESIDENTS IN OUR CITY.
[2:28:42] FAMILIES HAVE BEEN PLACED IN
[2:28:44] HARM'S WAY AND OUR
[2:28:45] NEIGHBORHOODS ARE BEING
[2:28:47] DESTABILIZED.
[2:28:48] THESE ARE OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS
[2:28:50] WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR LIVES IN
[2:28:52] BOSTON AND DESERVE FLAHERTY,
[2:28:54] SECURITY AND PROTECTION.
[2:28:57] AT THE HEARING ON SEPTEMBER THE
[2:28:58] 25TH ON DOCKET 0299, I
[2:29:00] HIGHLIGHTED ALL THE DIFFERENT
[2:29:01] CITY DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES
[2:29:03] THAT COULD BE PART OF THE
[2:29:04] CONVERSATION ABOUT SUPPORTING
[2:29:05] OUR HAITIAN RESIDENTS,
[2:29:08] ENCOURAGING US TO THINK ABOUT
[2:29:09] ALL PATHWAYS TO SUPPORT THE
[2:29:11] BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION
[2:29:13] BP'S HOUSING.
[2:29:15] ALL OF THIS IS INTERCONNECTED
[2:29:16] WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
[2:29:18] AND I THINK AND THIS IS WHAT I
[2:29:20] ALWAYS SAY THAT BOSTON IS
[2:29:21] RESOURCE RICH FOR COORDINATION
[2:29:23] POOR AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY
[2:29:25] FOR US TO USE BOSTON RESOURCES
[2:29:27] TO HELP FULFILL THE POTENTIAL
[2:29:28] TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS AND FILL
[2:29:30] THE GAP.
[2:29:31] UM, THAT INCLUDES OCCUPYING
[2:29:33] EMPTY SPACES.
[2:29:35] UM, TO SUPPORT AS AN IMMIGRANT
[2:29:37] WHO.
[2:29:38] HAS SEEN MY COMMUNITY.
[2:29:39] SUFFER UM AND FACED ATTACKS
[2:29:41] ESPECIALLY FROM AND AT THE
[2:29:43] HANDS OF THE FEDERAL
[2:29:43] GOVERNMENT.
[2:29:44] I KNOW HOW HEAVY THIS THIS
[2:29:46] WEIGHS ON ALL OF OUR HEARTS AND
[2:29:48] MINDS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO
[2:29:49] STAND.
[2:29:50] IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HAITIAN
[2:29:51] COMMUNITY.
[2:29:52] UM, AND THIS RESOLUTION AFFIRMS
[2:29:54] THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO
[2:29:55] PROTECT AND SUPPORT IMPACTED
[2:29:57] RESIDENTS.
[2:29:57] AND SO WE'RE URGING THE
[2:30:02] COUNCIL TO STEP UP AND MAKE
[2:30:03] SURE WHEN IT'S TIME FOR BUDGET
[2:30:04] SEASON THAT THE RHETORIC THAT
[2:30:06] WE SPEAK REFLECTS THE BUDGET
[2:30:08] VOTES THAT WE TAKE.
[2:30:11] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[2:30:12] COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU NOW HAVE
[2:30:13] THE FLOOR.
[2:30:14] THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.
[2:30:15] UM, I JUST WANT TO THANK
[2:30:17] COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND
[2:30:18] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
[2:30:18] BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
[2:30:20] UM, I I THINK WE CAN ALL SENSE
[2:30:23] THE WAY THAT, UM,
[2:30:24] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IS THE
[2:30:25] FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN.
[2:30:26] UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IN THIS BODY
[2:30:29] UM, FEELS AND I JUST THINK THAT
[2:30:31] WE ALL NEED TO APPROACH A LOT
[2:30:32] OF THESE ISSUES WITH THE SAME
[2:30:33] URGENCY.
[2:30:34] UH, WE MIGHT NOT BE GETTING THE
[2:30:36] SAME PHONE CALLS, BUT WE'RE ALL
[2:30:37] ONE CITY DEALING WITH, UM, AND
[2:30:40] ONE COMMUNITY IN OUR CITY IS
[2:30:41] DEALING WITH, UM WITH THIS, UM
[2:30:44] ,SO URGENTLY.
[2:30:45] SO I JUST WANT TO THANK
[2:30:46] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR HER
[2:30:47] LEADERSHIP.
[2:30:48] IT'S NOT EASY TO BE THE FIRST.
[2:30:50] UM, IT'S NOT EASY TO FEEL THE
[2:30:51] WEIGHT ON OUR SHOULDERS.
[2:30:52] BUT WE STAND WITH YOU AND WE'RE
[2:30:54] GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
[2:30:55] AND ALL THAT YOU DO.
[2:30:57] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[2:31:00] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[2:31:02] THEIR NAME?
[2:31:03] MR CHAIR PLEASE.
[2:31:04] UH, COUNCILOR.
[2:31:05] DURKAN.
[2:31:06] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:06] FITZGERALD.
[2:31:06] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:07] FLYNN.
[2:31:07] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:08] MEJIA.
[2:31:08] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:09] MURPHY.
[2:31:10] COUNCILOR PYBURN.
[2:31:10] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:11] WEBER.
[2:31:11] COUNCIL WHILE AND PLEASE ADD
[2:31:12] THE CHAIR.
[2:31:15] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:15] CALL PEPPER LOUIJEUNE AND
[2:31:17] SANTANA SIX SUSPENSION OF THE
[2:31:18] RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET
[2:31:19] 1925.
[2:31:20] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[2:31:21] AYE.
[2:31:22] THOSE OPPOSED NAY, NAY.
[2:31:24] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[2:31:25] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON
[2:31:27] DOCKET 1925.
[2:31:29] COUNCILOR BREAK.
[2:31:29] COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PERSON.
[2:31:31] YES.
[2:31:31] COUNCILOR COVE.
[2:31:31] UH, YES.
[2:31:32] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:32] COPA.
[2:31:34] COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
[2:31:35] YES.
[2:31:35] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:36] DURKAN.
[2:31:36] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:36] DURKAN.
[2:31:37] YES.
[2:31:37] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:38] FITZGERALD.
[2:31:39] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:39] SHOW.
[2:31:39] YES.
[2:31:40] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:40] FLYNN.
[2:31:40] YES.
[2:31:41] COUNCIL.
[2:31:41] FLYNN.
[2:31:42] YES.
[2:31:42] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:42] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:31:43] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:44] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:31:44] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:31:45] MEJIA.
[2:31:46] COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[2:31:46] YES.
[2:31:47] COUNCILOR.
[2:31:47] MURPHY.
[2:31:48] YES.
[2:31:48] COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[2:31:49] YES.
[2:31:49] COUNCIL.
[2:31:50] PUT PEN TO A PEN.
[2:31:51] YES.
[2:31:51] COUNT SANTANA.
[2:31:52] YES.
[2:31:53] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[2:31:54] YES.
[2:31:54] COUNCIL.
[2:31:54] WEBER.
[2:31:55] YES.
[2:31:55] COUNCIL.
[2:31:55] WEBER.
[2:31:56] YES AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.
[2:31:57] YES.
[2:31:58] COUNCILOR ZERO YES.
[2:31:59] SO I CAN NUMBER ONE 9 TO 5 HAS
[2:32:01] RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
[2:32:02] AFFIRMATIVE.
[2:32:03] THANK YOU.
[2:32:05] DOCKET 1925 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
[2:32:08] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[2:32:09] DOCKET 1926.
[2:32:11] THE NUMBER 1926 COUNCILORS
[2:32:13] LOUIJEUNE AND FITZGERALD OFF
[2:32:15] WITH THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
[2:32:17] RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 2026 AS
[2:32:20] NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT
[2:32:22] AWARENESS MONTH.
[2:32:24] THANK YOU.
[2:32:25] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:32:25] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.
[2:32:26] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:32:27] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND
[2:32:28] THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR
[2:32:30] THE KIND WORDS.
[2:32:30] IT'S OBVIOUSLY ALL VERY, VERY.
[2:32:33] HEAVILY ON ME.
[2:32:33] AND MY.
[2:32:34] OFFICE AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK
[2:32:36] ON THE SITUATION.
[2:32:38] UM UM.
[2:32:38] BUT FOR THIS THIS IS A
[2:32:41] RESOLUTION UM I OFFER THIS OH.
[2:32:42] AND IF I COULD, UM, SUSPEND.
[2:32:45] THE RULES.
[2:32:46] TODD COUNCILOR YOURSELF, MADAM
[2:32:48] CHAIR COUNCIL.
[2:32:48] COULD.
[2:32:49] IT'S UP TO.
[2:32:49] THE THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[2:32:51] HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTION
[2:32:52] I AM SO ADDED.
[2:32:53] AND I'D LIKE TO, UM, SUSPEND
[2:32:55] THE RULES.
[2:32:56] AT, UH.
[2:32:57] SEEK SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE
[2:32:58] OF THIS DOCKET.
[2:32:59] UM, AND I WANT TO THANK UM,
[2:33:01] ANDREA FROM WORK INC. FOR HER
[2:33:03] WORK HERE AND FOR.
[2:33:05] UM.
[2:33:06] OUR PARTNERSHIP IN THIS
[2:33:08] WORK.
[2:33:08] I REMEMBER GOING TO WORK INC
[2:33:10] AND AFTER GOING TO WORK AND
[2:33:12] GOING TO GO SEE THE SITE SOME
[2:33:13] OF MY FORMER EMPLOYERS TO SEE
[2:33:16] THE WORK THAT UH, EMPLOYEES
[2:33:18] WITH WORKING.
[2:33:19] ARE DOING.
[2:33:19] AND.
[2:33:19] IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE.
[2:33:20] I KNOW THAT IT'S IN.
[2:33:21] UM COUNCIL.
[2:33:21] FITZGERALD'S DISTRICT.
[2:33:22] AND SO GRATEFUL.
[2:33:23] FOR THE WORK HERE.
[2:33:26] UM OCTOBER IS NATIONAL
[2:33:27] DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS
[2:33:28] MONTH.
[2:33:29] IT BEGAN IN 1945 AND 81 YEARS
[2:33:32] LATER IT'S CALL FOR EQUAL
[2:33:34] OPPORTUNITY REMAINS ESSENTIAL.
[2:33:36] UH WORKERS.
[2:33:37] WITH DISABILITIES CONTRIBUTE
[2:33:38] TO.
[2:33:38] EVERY PART OF.
[2:33:39] BOSTON'S ECONOMY IS
[2:33:40] EMPLOYEES.
[2:33:40] ENTREPRENEURS.
[2:33:41] PUBLIC SERVANTS AND
[2:33:42] COMMUNITY LEADERS UM THEY BRING
[2:33:44] TALENT, EXPERIENCE AND
[2:33:45] PERSPECTIVES THAT MAKE OUR
[2:33:47] WORKPLACE AND OUR CITY
[2:33:48] STRONGER.
[2:33:48] TOO OFTEN PEOPLE STILL
[2:33:50] ENCOUNTER BARRIERS BEFORE THEY
[2:33:51] EVEN.
[2:33:52] HAVE.
[2:33:52] AN OPPORTUNITY TO.
[2:33:53] DEMONSTRATE THEIR ABILITIES.
[2:33:55] UM THOSE BARRIERS CAN INCLUDE
[2:33:57] INACCESSIBLE APPLICATIONS,
[2:33:59] TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY AND
[2:34:00] WORKPLACE.
[2:34:02] UM AND.
[2:34:02] TECHNOLOGY AND WORKPLACES
[2:34:04] ALONGSIDE DISCRIMINATION AND
[2:34:06] MISCONCEPTIONS.
[2:34:07] UH WE.
[2:34:07] MUST ALSO RECOGNIZE PEOPLE
[2:34:09] WITH DISABILITIES THAT HAVE
[2:34:11] VISIBLE DISABILITIES AND
[2:34:13] INVISIBLE DISABILITIES.
[2:34:14] I WANT TO THANK AGAIN I THINK I
[2:34:16] MENTIONED THIS RECENTLY BUT WAS
[2:34:17] RECENTLY AT.
[2:34:18] THE.
[2:34:19] UM UH NATIONAL BRAILLE CENTER
[2:34:21] HERE IN THE FENWAY AS THEY'VE
[2:34:23] JUST WON VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION
[2:34:24] FOR THEIR UNION AS THEY
[2:34:26] THEMSELVES.
[2:34:27] UM.
[2:34:28] LIVE WITH DISABILITIES, UH,
[2:34:31] BLINDNESS AND ARE SEEKING TO
[2:34:32] SERVE THOSE NATIONALLY WHO ARE
[2:34:33] BLIND.
[2:34:34] SO I WANT.
[2:34:35] TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS WELL.
[2:34:36] UM, ACCESSIBLE.
[2:34:37] RECRUITMENT, REASONABLE
[2:34:39] ACCOMMODATIONS, INCLUSIVE
[2:34:40] TRAINING AND FAIR OPPORTUNITIES
[2:34:42] FOR ADVANCEMENT SHOULD BE PART
[2:34:44] OF EVERYDAY WORKPLACE PRACTICE
[2:34:45] .
[2:34:45] MEANINGFUL INCLUSION MEANS
[2:34:47] BEING ABLE TO ENTER A
[2:34:48] WORKPLACE, CONTRIBUTE FULLY
[2:34:49] EARNED FAIR WAGES AND BUILD A
[2:34:51] CAREER AT THE CITY OF BOSTON AS
[2:34:53] AN EMPLOYER AND AS A PARTNER TO
[2:34:55] BUSINESSES, EDUCATIONAL.
[2:34:56] INSTITUTIONS.
[2:34:57] LABOR AND COMMUNITY
[2:34:58] ORGANIZATIONS HAS AN IMPORTANT
[2:34:59] ROLE TO PLAY.
[2:35:00] RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
[2:35:01] MUST HELP SHAPE THAT WORK AND
[2:35:02] OUR COMMITMENT MUST EXTEND
[2:35:04] BEYOND OCTOBER.
[2:35:05] WE KNOW HERE THE CITY UM
[2:35:07] PARTNERS DEEPLY WITH UH, THOSE
[2:35:09] .
[2:35:10] WHO ARE DISABLED.
[2:35:12] UM, AND WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE
[2:35:13] AND STRENGTHEN THAT WORK.
[2:35:14] I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER.
[2:35:15] MCCOURT FOR ALL THE WORK.
[2:35:17] THAT SHE DOES.
[2:35:18] UH, FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVING
[2:35:19] WITH DISABILITIES AND JUST
[2:35:21] ENCOURAGE US AS A CITY AND AS
[2:35:24] INDIVIDUALS HERE AND AS LEADERS
[2:35:25] TO BE MORE THOUGHTFUL.
[2:35:26] AND MORE INCLUSIVE OF THOSE,
[2:35:28] UM.
[2:35:29] WHO ARE LIVING AND WORKING AND
[2:35:31] DESERVE TO HAVE DIGNIFIED
[2:35:32] EMPLOYMENT UH, AS THEY LIVE
[2:35:34] WITH DISABILITIES WHETHER IT'S
[2:35:35] PEOPLE IN YOUR OWN FAMILY, UM,
[2:35:37] LIKE MINE OR WHETHER IT'S
[2:35:38] PEOPLE.
[2:35:40] UH.
[2:35:40] WHO WE MEET EVERY DAY.
[2:35:41] WHO ARE WORTHY OF HAVING
[2:35:43] EMPLOYMENT, MAY WE BE MORE
[2:35:45] INTENTIONAL.
[2:35:45] ABOUT.
[2:35:45] THAT WORK HERE IN THE CITY
[2:35:46] OF BOSTON.
[2:35:46] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:35:48] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR JEN.
[2:35:49] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:35:50] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
[2:35:51] UH NOT BEFORE.
[2:35:52] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:35:53] AND THANK.
[2:35:53] YOU TO.
[2:35:54] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR REACHING
[2:35:54] OUT AND OFFERING TO HAVE ME AS
[2:35:56] A CO-SPONSOR.
[2:35:57] ON THIS.
[2:35:57] UH.
[2:35:58] EACH YEAR COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[2:36:00] AND I GET TO CO-HOST THE
[2:36:01] WORKING, UH, ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
[2:36:03] .
[2:36:03] UH, AND THERE WE SORT OF GET TO
[2:36:06] READ THE STORIES AND PRESENT
[2:36:07] AWARDS TO UH, SOME OF THE
[2:36:09] DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE
[2:36:10] ON TO PROVIDE GREAT WORK AT
[2:36:12] THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.
[2:36:13] UH, AND OFTEN THOSE WITH
[2:36:15] DISABILITIES BECOME THE ONES
[2:36:16] WITH THE GREATEST UH, PRIDE IN
[2:36:18] THEIR WORK AND AND TYPICALLY
[2:36:19] ALSO PROBABLY PRODUCE THE MOST
[2:36:22] UH THEY UH THEY TAKE A LOT
[2:36:24] OF PRIDE AND SO UH, YOU KNOW,
[2:36:26] WITH WORKING AND THE WORK THEY
[2:36:27] DO WE'RE HAPPY TO SEE THEM
[2:36:29] EXPAND IN THE DORCHESTER
[2:36:30] COMMUNITY, WHICH JUST MEANS
[2:36:31] THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WITH
[2:36:33] DISABILITIES WILL BE PLACED IN
[2:36:34] POSITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT SO THAT
[2:36:35] THEY CAN GAIN, UH, A FAIR WAGE,
[2:36:38] UH, AND LIVE THE LIFE THAT THEY
[2:36:39] SEE FIT.
[2:36:40] AND SO UH, REALLY JUST STAND IN
[2:36:42] THIS UH, DISABILITY MONTH HERE
[2:36:44] UH, DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT
[2:36:45] MONTHS UH AND AGAIN UH, THANK
[2:36:47] YOU TO COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR
[2:36:48] OFFERING TO ME.
[2:36:49] THANK YOU,
[2:36:50] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
[2:36:50] COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
[2:36:51] FLOOR.
[2:36:52] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:36:56] I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IN
[2:36:59] 2019, UM, THEN CITY
[2:37:01] COUNCILOR EDWARDS AND I WE
[2:37:02] FILED A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
[2:37:04] OF STATE LEGISLATION THAT
[2:37:06] CALLED FOR CONTRACTS ISSUED FOR
[2:37:08] SERVICES IN THE COMMONWEALTH
[2:37:10] OF MASSACHUSETTS THAT RECEIVED
[2:37:13] UM APPROPRIATED FUNDS FROM THE
[2:37:14] STATE TO HAVE AT LEAST 10%
[2:37:18] OF PEOPLE HIRED FOR THE
[2:37:19] CONTRACT FOR INDIVIDUALS
[2:37:20] PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
[2:37:23] IT'S PROBABLY THE ISSUE
[2:37:25] OF FOCUSED ON MOST AS A CITY
[2:37:28] COUNCIL OVER THE LAST NINE
[2:37:30] YEARS IS ENSURING THAT PERSONS
[2:37:33] WITH DISABILITIES HAVE EQUAL
[2:37:35] ACCESS, ARE TREATED WITH
[2:37:36] RESPECT AND DIGNITY.
[2:37:38] THAT ALSO STARTS AS STUDENTS
[2:37:41] STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
[2:37:43] ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE THE
[2:37:44] RIGHT EDUCATION, THE RIGHT
[2:37:46] RESOURCES SO THAT THEY CAN BE
[2:37:48] SO THAT THEY CAN GROW UP TO BE
[2:37:50] HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE UM IN
[2:37:52] THE WORKFORCE IF THAT'S WHAT
[2:37:54] THEY CHOOSE.
[2:37:55] OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT
[2:37:56] THE CITY OF BOSTON INCLUDING
[2:37:58] THE HORACE MANN SCHOOL THAT I'M
[2:38:00] VERY ACTIVE WITH IN
[2:38:01] CHARLESTOWN.
[2:38:02] BUT I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS
[2:38:04] A AS A PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
[2:38:06] UM, I CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR
[2:38:11] VETERANS AS WELL, UM, AT THE
[2:38:14] CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL
[2:38:16] THROUGH THE DISABLED AMERICAN
[2:38:17] VETERANS ORGANIZATION AND THEY
[2:38:20] DO EXCEPTIONAL WORK ON CITY
[2:38:24] LEGISLATION, STATE LEGISLATION
[2:38:25] ,FEDERAL LEGISLATION BUT
[2:38:27] ENSURING THAT RETURNING
[2:38:28] VETERANS THAT HAVE DISABILITIES
[2:38:30] HAVE THE RESOURCES, SUPPORT AND
[2:38:33] ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT SO THAT
[2:38:36] THEY CAN WORK SO THAT THEY CAN
[2:38:38] LIVE A PRODUCTIVE LIFE SO THAT
[2:38:40] THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY
[2:38:42] .
[2:38:42] I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
[2:38:44] COMMISSIONER MCCOSH WHO'S AN
[2:38:46] OUTSTANDING, DEDICATED
[2:38:48] PROFESSIONAL LEADER HERE IN THE
[2:38:50] CITY OF BOSTON.
[2:38:51] BUT IT'S ABOUT ENSURING ALL
[2:38:54] PEOPLE ESPECIALLY PERSONS WITH
[2:38:56] DISABILITIES.
[2:38:57] ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND
[2:38:58] DIGNITY.
[2:38:59] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:39:00] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[2:39:01] COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE
[2:39:02] FLOOR.
[2:39:02] THANK YOU.
[2:39:03] FOREIGN THANK YOU TO THE FILERS
[2:39:05] FOR UPLIFTING THIS IMPORTANT
[2:39:08] RESOLUTION AND RECOGNIZING NOT
[2:39:09] ONLY THIS MONTH BUT EVERY MONTH
[2:39:12] THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THE
[2:39:14] IMPORTANCE AS A MOTHER OF A.
[2:39:15] DISABLED SON, I DO.
[2:39:17] KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW IMPORTANT IT
[2:39:19] IS TO MAKE SURE WE ADVOCATE FOR
[2:39:21] DIGNIFIED.
[2:39:22] EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL OF OUR
[2:39:23] RESIDENTS.
[2:39:24] I DO IT IT'S BEEN.
[2:39:26] SAID I WANT TO UPLIFT WORK INC
[2:39:28] AND ALL THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
[2:39:30] WHO.
[2:39:30] PROVIDE THESE OPPORTUNITIES BUT
[2:39:32] ALSO THE.
[2:39:33] EMPLOYERS WHO STEP UP.
[2:39:34] AND MAKE SURE.
[2:39:35] THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING THESE UM
[2:39:39] INDIVIDUALS WHO.
[2:39:40] WORK AND WHO SHARE SUCH AMAZING
[2:39:42] STORIES.
[2:39:42] AND MANY.
[2:39:43] OF US WHEN WE'RE OUT IN THE
[2:39:44] COMMUNITY, SEE THEM.
[2:39:45] AT DIFFERENT.
[2:39:46] ORGANIZATIONS WORKING.
[2:39:47] AND WE ALL KNOW THAT.
[2:39:48] WORK EQUALS.
[2:39:49] INDEPENDENCE BUT ALSO
[2:39:51] SOCIALIZATION.
[2:39:52] SO I WANT TO ALSO UPLIFT
[2:39:54] ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE SOUTH
[2:39:55] BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS.
[2:39:56] I KNOW COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I
[2:39:58] WERE JUST.
[2:39:59] AT THEIR BOWLING EVENT THE
[2:40:01] OTHER DAY.
[2:40:01] THEY OFFER UM OPPORTUNITIES IN
[2:40:03] MANY NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE
[2:40:05] CITY.
[2:40:05] HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR.
[2:40:07] DISABLED UM YOU.
[2:40:09] KNOW.
[2:40:09] OUR.
[2:40:10] RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO.
[2:40:11] HAVE FUN AND TO.
[2:40:12] HAVE RELATIONSHIPS.
[2:40:14] AS ISOLATION IS ALSO
[2:40:15] SOMETHING THAT.
[2:40:16] IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE
[2:40:17] COME BACK TO THAT.
[2:40:18] SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING.
[2:40:20] THIS RESOLUTION FORWARD AND
[2:40:21] LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING
[2:40:22] IT.
[2:40:22] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.
[2:40:24] UM I JUST WANT TO UH, RECOGNIZE
[2:40:27] WORKING AS WELL.
[2:40:28] I HAD WORKED WITH THEM AS A
[2:40:29] STAFF MEMBER, UM, TRYING TO BE
[2:40:30] VERY INTENTIONAL AT THE
[2:40:31] DIRECTION OF MY PREDECESSOR TO
[2:40:32] PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS
[2:40:34] INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING AND
[2:40:36] REALLY APPRECIATE.
[2:40:36] THEIR WORK THAT THEY'VE.
[2:40:37] BEEN DOING SINCE 1965 AND
[2:40:39] THEY'VE SERVICED OVER 5000
[2:40:40] INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
[2:40:42] SO I WANT TO THANK THEM AND ALL
[2:40:43] THOSE WHO ADVANCE UM,
[2:40:45] DISABILITY INCLUSION AND
[2:40:46] AWARENESS ACROSS ALL OF OUR
[2:40:48] NEIGHBORHOODS IN BOSTON.
[2:40:49] UM.
[2:40:50] AND JUST ECHO ALL THE
[2:40:51] COMMENTS THAT MY
[2:40:52] COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE HAVE
[2:40:53] MADE ON THIS UM, WOULD ANYONE
[2:40:55] ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
[2:40:57] COUNCILOR.
[2:40:57] CULPEPER COUNCILOR.
[2:40:58] DURKAN.
[2:40:59] COUNCILOR.
[2:40:59] UH.
[2:41:00] FLYNN.
[2:41:00] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:00] MEJIA.
[2:41:01] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:01] MURPHY COUNCILOR.
[2:41:02] PYBURN COUNCILOR.
[2:41:03] SANTANA, COUNCILOR WEBER AND
[2:41:05] COUNCILOR WORRELL PLEASE ADD
[2:41:05] THE CHAIR UH
[2:41:07] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FITZGERALD
[2:41:08] AND MYSELF SIX SUSPENSION
[2:41:09] OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
[2:41:10] OF DOCKET 1926.
[2:41:12] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[2:41:13] ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[2:41:16] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE A
[2:41:17] ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1926.
[2:41:21] COUNCILOR BREADON
[2:41:22] COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPONENT.
[2:41:23] YES, COUNCILOR FIRST PER YES.
[2:41:25] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:25] CULPA.
[2:41:27] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:27] CULPEPPER.
[2:41:27] YES.
[2:41:28] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:28] DURKAN.
[2:41:28] YES.
[2:41:29] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:29] DURKAN.
[2:41:30] YES.
[2:41:30] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:30] FITZGERALD.
[2:41:31] YES.
[2:41:31] COUNCIL THIS SHOW.
[2:41:32] YES.
[2:41:33] COUNCIL.
[2:41:33] FLYNN.
[2:41:34] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:34] FLYNN.
[2:41:34] YES.
[2:41:35] COUNCIL.
[2:41:35] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:41:36] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:37] LOUIJEUNE.
[2:41:37] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:41:37] MEJIA.
[2:41:38] CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
[2:41:39] YES.
[2:41:39] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:40] MURPHY.
[2:41:40] YES.
[2:41:41] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:41] MURPHY.
[2:41:41] YES, COUNCILOR.
[2:41:42] PIPPIN.
[2:41:43] COUNCIL.
[2:41:44] PEN.
[2:41:44] YES.
[2:41:44] COUNCIL.
[2:41:45] SANTANA.
[2:41:45] COUNCILOR.
[2:41:46] SANTANA.
[2:41:46] YES.
[2:41:47] COUNCIL.
[2:41:47] WEBER.
[2:41:47] YES.
[2:41:48] COUNCIL.
[2:41:48] WEBER.
[2:41:49] YES AND COUNCILOR.
[2:41:50] WORLD COUNCIL.
[2:41:51] WELL, YES.
[2:41:52] TALKING NUMBER 1926 HAS
[2:41:54] RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
[2:41:56] AFFIRMATIVE.
[2:41:56] THANK YOU.
[2:41:57] DOCKET 1926 HAS BEEN
[2:41:58] ADOPTED.
[2:41:59] MR. CLERK CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE
[2:42:01] READ DOCKET 1927.
[2:42:03] TALKING NUMBER 1927
[2:42:05] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE
[2:42:06] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
[2:42:08] RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 2026 AS
[2:42:11] CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.
[2:42:15] THANK YOU.
[2:42:16] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:42:17] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.
[2:42:19] YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:42:19] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:42:20] I'D LIKE TO.
[2:42:21] ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AS AN
[2:42:23] AS AN ORIGINAL, UH, CO-SPONSOR
[2:42:26] AND I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE.
[2:42:27] RULES AD COUNCILOR DURKAN AS A
[2:42:28] THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[2:42:30] HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTION
[2:42:31] SHE HAS HER.
[2:42:32] ADDED THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO
[2:42:33] SEEK SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE
[2:42:34] OF THIS RESOLUTION.
[2:42:35] UM, OCTOBER.
[2:42:37] TO MEANS A LOT OF MONTHS.
[2:42:38] UM AND.
[2:42:39] THERE'S A LOT OF AWARENESS
[2:42:40] TO BE RAISED IN CANCER IS ONE
[2:42:41] OF THEM.
[2:42:42] LAST YEAR WE HAD A PRESENTATION
[2:42:44] I WAS ABLE TO HONOR THE FUND
[2:42:45] AND JUST WANT TO CONTINUE DOING
[2:42:47] THAT.
[2:42:47] UM.
[2:42:48] PEOPLE LIVING WITH
[2:42:49] CANCER CELEBRATE SURVIVORS
[2:42:50] REMEMBER THOSE WE HAVE LOST AND
[2:42:51] STAND WITH THE FAMILIES,
[2:42:52] CAREGIVERS AND LOVED ONES WHO.
[2:42:54] SUPPORT THEM.
[2:42:55] UM.
[2:42:55] MY GRANDMOTHER WHO I NEVER GOT
[2:42:57] THE CHANCE.
[2:42:58] TO.
[2:42:58] MEET SHE DIED THE YEAR.
[2:42:59] THAT.
[2:42:59] I WAS BORN AND MY FATHER'S
[2:43:00] MOTHER, UM, DIED OF CANCER.
[2:43:02] AND SO I WANT TO BRING HER INTO
[2:43:03] THE SPACE.
[2:43:04] AS WELL.
[2:43:04] IMMACULATE.
[2:43:05] UH, CANCER TOUCHES FAMILIES IN
[2:43:07] EVERY BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD.
[2:43:09] TIMELY SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS.
[2:43:10] TREATMENT AND FOLLOW UP CARE
[2:43:11] CAN MAKE A.
[2:43:11] PROFOUND DIFFERENCE.
[2:43:12] AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO
[2:43:14] ACCESS THAT CARE REGARDLESS
[2:43:15] OF THEIR.
[2:43:15] INCOME OR CIRCUMSTANCES.
[2:43:17] WE HAVE TO ALSO, UH, CONFRONT
[2:43:18] THE INEQUITIES IN ACCESS AND
[2:43:20] OUTCOMES INSURANCE GAPS.
[2:43:22] TRANSPORTATION COSTS, LANGUAGE
[2:43:23] .
[2:43:23] BARRIERS, CAREGIVER
[2:43:24] RESPONSIBILITIES AND TIME AWAY
[2:43:25] FROM WORK CAN MAKE IT HARDER TO
[2:43:27] RECEIVE CARE AND I CONSIDERABLE
[2:43:28] STRESS DURING TREATMENT MADE
[2:43:29] WORSE.
[2:43:30] FOR UH, BLACK WOMEN FOR.
[2:43:31] WHOM UH WHEN WE ALREADY LOOKING
[2:43:33] AT THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
[2:43:34] DISPARITIES THAT EXIST.
[2:43:35] I ESPECIALLY.
[2:43:36] WANT TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK
[2:43:37] ALLISON AND THAT'S REALLY THE
[2:43:38] REASON WHY I FILED THIS
[2:43:40] RESOLUTION BECAUSE I WAS
[2:43:41] RECENTLY WITH THEM IN COMMUNITY
[2:43:43] AS THEY WERE DOING UH,
[2:43:44] CANCER AWARENESS AND TALKING
[2:43:45] TO.
[2:43:46] PEOPLE ABOUT CANCER AND I WAS
[2:43:47] TELLING THEM.
[2:43:48] ABOUT MY OWN FAMILY.
[2:43:50] ALLISON IS A WE AND WE WERE
[2:43:51] ABLE TO WE YOU KNOW, RIGHT AT
[2:43:53] THE TIME THAT WE WERE HONORING
[2:43:54] THEM WE HAPPENED TO HAVE A
[2:43:56] CONSTITUENT IN HYDE PARK WHO
[2:43:57] WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH
[2:43:58] CANCER AND ELLIE FUND CAME CAME
[2:44:00] THROUGH FOR THEM
[2:44:01] WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
[2:44:02] AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK
[2:44:03] ELLIE FUND AND ALSO JUST MAKE
[2:44:05] PEOPLE AWARE THAT THE ELLIE
[2:44:05] FUND IS AVAILABLE UH.
[2:44:07] FOR.
[2:44:08] FOLKS UH FOR FOR ANYONE WHO HAS
[2:44:10] UH IS LIVING WITH THE DIAGNOSIS
[2:44:12] OF CANCER OR WAS RECENTLY
[2:44:13] DIAGNOSED THAT THE ELLIE FUND
[2:44:14] IS THERE TO.
[2:44:15] SUPPORT THEM.
[2:44:16] SO I WANT TO ALSO THANK
[2:44:17] BOSTON'S HEALTH CARE.
[2:44:18] WORKERS, HOSPITALS, NURSES
[2:44:19] UM, IN.
[2:44:20] THIS.
[2:44:20] MOMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS UM
[2:44:22] AND ORGANIZATIONS AND
[2:44:23] ADVOCATES.
[2:44:24] UH.
[2:44:25] WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GET
[2:44:26] YOUR MAMMOGRAMS GOT MY FIRST.
[2:44:27] ONE UM, RECENTLY AND UH, TO
[2:44:31] DISCUSS INDIVIDUAL RISK AND
[2:44:32] APPROPRIATE.
[2:44:32] SCREENINGS WITH THE HEALTH CARE
[2:44:33] PROVIDER AND.
[2:44:34] TO.
[2:44:35] OFFER MEANINGFUL.
[2:44:35] SUPPORT TO NEIGHBORS FACING
[2:44:36] CANCER.
[2:44:37] THANK YOU.
[2:44:38] COUNCIL REGION CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[2:44:40] COUNCILOR SANTANA YOU NOT
[2:44:41] BEFORE.
[2:44:41] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:44:42] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR TO
[2:44:44] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR PUTTING
[2:44:45] ME UM ON THIS RESOLUTION.
[2:44:47] UM, CANCER IS AN ISSUE THAT
[2:44:49] AFFECTS EVERY PERSON IN OUR
[2:44:51] CITY.
[2:44:51] WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS
[2:44:53] BEEN IMPACTED BY
[2:44:54] CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND CANCER IS
[2:44:55] ONE OF THE MOST PREVALENT FORMS
[2:44:57] OF CANCER ONE THAT UM, THAT
[2:44:59] IMPACTS MARGINALIZED GROUPS AS
[2:45:02] MY OWN FAMILY CONFRONTS THE
[2:45:03] CHALLENGES OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS,
[2:45:04] I UNDERSTAND DEEPLY THE IMPACT
[2:45:06] IT CAN HAVE ON MY FAMILY.
[2:45:08] MY HEART GOES OUT TO EVERYONE
[2:45:09] IN BOSTON WHO IS DEALING WITH
[2:45:10] THAT SAME STRUGGLE RIGHT NOW.
[2:45:12] SINCE THE FIRST
[2:45:14] CANCER AWARENESS MONTH MORE
[2:45:15] THAN 40 YEARS AGO, CANCER HAS
[2:45:17] DEATH RATES IN THE US HAVE
[2:45:19] DROPPED BY 44%.
[2:45:21] IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT
[2:45:22] GREATER AWARENESS INCREASES IN
[2:45:24] EARLY DETECTION AND
[2:45:25] ADVANCEMENTS IN TREATMENTS HAVE
[2:45:28] UM CONCEDED WITH THE RISE OF UM
[2:45:31] BODY CAM INCREASED AWARENESS
[2:45:32] CAN CAN AND DOES SAVE LIVES.
[2:45:36] AS WE OBSERVE THIS
[2:45:38] CANCER AWARENESS MONTH WE HONOR
[2:45:39] SURVIVORS, UPLIFT THOSE
[2:45:40] CURRENTLY BATTLING CANCER AND
[2:45:42] COMMIT OURSELVES TO ENSURING
[2:45:44] THAT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO
[2:45:45] LIFESAVING HEALTHCARE.
[2:45:46] THANK YOU.
[2:45:48] THANK YOU COUNCIL SANTANA
[2:45:49] COUNCIL DR. KING I HAVE THE
[2:45:50] FLOOR.
[2:45:51] THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU
[2:45:53] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND SANTANA
[2:45:54] FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.
[2:45:56] UM I, I THINK ABOUT CAROL MATIC
[2:45:58] IN MY DISTRICT TWO AS PART
[2:45:59] OF THE NATIONAL
[2:46:01] CANCER COALITION.
[2:46:02] UM AND.
[2:46:02] ALSO THE CHAIR OF THE WEST
[2:46:04] CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
[2:46:04] AND I THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE
[2:46:06] WOMEN IN THEIR LIFE THAT HAVE
[2:46:07] DEDICATED THEMSELVES, UH, TO
[2:46:10] ADVOCACY ONCE THEY'VE
[2:46:11] EXPERIENCED AND SURVIVED AND
[2:46:12] BEEN PART OF UH, THIS, YOU
[2:46:14] KNOW, GROUP OF SURVIVORS FROM
[2:46:16] CANCER, 1 IN 8 WOMEN IN THE
[2:46:18] UNITED STATES WILL BE DIAGNOSED
[2:46:19] WITH CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME.
[2:46:20] AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE
[2:46:21] RAISE AWARENESS, PREVENTATIVE
[2:46:23] SCREENINGS, TIMELY DIAGNOSIS
[2:46:24] AND QUALITY CARE AND TREATMENT
[2:46:26] SAVE LIVES DISPARITIES AND
[2:46:28] OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN OF COLOR.
[2:46:29] UH, AND BLACK AND BROWN WOMEN
[2:46:31] DEMONSTRATE THE NEED TO KEEP
[2:46:32] GOING AND DISMANTLE BARRIERS TO
[2:46:34] COST INSURANCE GAPS,
[2:46:36] TRANSPORTATION AND EDUCATION
[2:46:36] AND CULTURAL BARRIERS SO THAT
[2:46:39] EVERY RESIDENT CAN ACCESS
[2:46:39] SCREENINGS AND THE TREATMENT
[2:46:40] THEY DESERVE.
[2:46:42] UM, LAST NIGHT I ACTUALLY HEARD
[2:46:43] FROM MICHAEL CURRY AND SOME
[2:46:45] MEMBERS OF.
[2:46:45] THE UM HEALTH EQUITY COMPACT,
[2:46:48] UH, WHICH IS A REALLY UNIQUE UM
[2:46:51] A UNIQUE SET UP OF BASICALLY
[2:46:54] COMPETITORS WHO HAVE COME
[2:46:55] TOGETHER TO TO SOLVE SOME
[2:46:56] OF THE HEALTH INEQUITIES IN OUR
[2:46:58] CITY IN OUR STATE, UM, WE HAVE
[2:47:01] HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL
[2:47:01] INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE UM THAT
[2:47:03] THAT THAT ARE DRIVING FORWARD
[2:47:06] TO TO SOLVE ISSUES BUT UM,
[2:47:08] WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE
[2:47:10] INEQUITIES OF CARE IN OUR CITY
[2:47:11] AND OUR STATE, UH, WE CAN'T
[2:47:13] REALLY GET AT THE ROOT OF WHAT
[2:47:14] WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE, WHICH
[2:47:16] IS DRIVE AWARENESS AND UM AND
[2:47:19] CONVERSATION AND UM, I THINK
[2:47:20] ABOUT CAROL MOTUEKA WHO'S ABOUT
[2:47:22] FIVE FEET MAYBE 411 STANDING UP
[2:47:25] AGAINST STANDING YOU KNOW, NEXT
[2:47:27] TO STEPHEN LYNCH AND OTHER
[2:47:28] LEGISLATORS.
[2:47:29] UM, AND UM THERE'S A PICTURE
[2:47:31] OF HER WITH I THINK IT WAS ROB
[2:47:33] RICHIE NEIL POINTING AT HIM
[2:47:35] ABOUT CANCER AND HOW IMPORTANT
[2:47:36] IT IS.
[2:47:37] AND I JUST THINK ABOUT ALL
[2:47:38] OF THOSE ADVOCATES WHO GO TO
[2:47:40] WASHINGTON AND AND DEMAND MORE
[2:47:42] AND DEMAND UM, DEMAND THAT THIS
[2:47:46] BE TAKEN AS SERIOUSLY AS IT
[2:47:47] SHOULD.
[2:47:48] UM, AND I'M GRATEFUL TO
[2:47:49] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR SHARING
[2:47:50] HER PERSONAL STORY.
[2:47:51] WE ALL HAVE UH, WOMEN IN OUR
[2:47:53] LIVES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE AND
[2:47:54] MEN IN OUR LIVES THAT HAVE
[2:47:55] EXPERIENCED UM, AND UH I THINK
[2:47:58] IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE
[2:48:00] UM, AS A CITY AND AS A STATE
[2:48:02] AND AS A HEALTH AS A HEALTH
[2:48:04] CARE SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE IN
[2:48:04] OUR CITY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
[2:48:06] FIGHTING BACK AT.
[2:48:06] ABOUT THE.
[2:48:07] UNEQUAL NATURE.
[2:48:08] OF TREATMENT, UH, IN OUR
[2:48:10] CITY AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE
[2:48:12] UM, COLLABORATION AND THE NEW
[2:48:15] CANCER HOSPITAL THAT BI AND
[2:48:16] DANA FARBER ARE PUTTING
[2:48:18] TOGETHER.
[2:48:18] BUT IT'S NOT ONE WE NEED ALL
[2:48:20] THE COMPETITORS TO COME
[2:48:21] TOGETHER AND SAY NOT ONE MORE
[2:48:23] AND AND POUR MONEY INTO
[2:48:24] RESEARCH AND UM THANK.
[2:48:26] YOU CHAIR.
[2:48:26] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[2:48:28] UH, I WANT TO THANK MY
[2:48:29] COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS
[2:48:30] FORWARD AND JUST THANK THE
[2:48:31] ORGANIZERS JUST THIS WEEKEND
[2:48:32] OF, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
[2:48:33] THEY ORGANIZED THE, UH THE PINK
[2:48:34] RIBBON BOWL, WHICH IS A POWDER
[2:48:36] GAME.
[2:48:36] I'M INCLUDING ONE OF MY GOOD
[2:48:37] FRIENDS JUPITER'S YELLOW.
[2:48:38] UM, AND THEY RAISE MONEY FOR
[2:48:40] THE L.A. FUND.
[2:48:41] SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL FOR, UM,
[2:48:42] THEIR WORK AND AGAIN, MY
[2:48:44] COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS
[2:48:45] FORWARD AND RAISING AWARENESS
[2:48:46] AND DO WHAT WE CAN TO FIND A
[2:48:47] CURE.
[2:48:48] UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
[2:48:50] ADD THEIR NAME?
[2:48:51] COUNCILOR.
[2:48:52] CULPEPER.
[2:48:52] COUNCILOR.
[2:48:53] FITZGERALD.
[2:48:53] COUNCILOR.
[2:48:54] FLYNN, COUNCILOR.
[2:48:54] LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.
[2:48:55] MEJIA, COUNCILOR.
[2:48:56] MURPHY, COUNCILOR.
[2:48:57] PIPPEN, COUNCILOR.
[2:48:58] WEBER, COUNCILOR.
[2:48:58] AROUND PLEASE I'M CHAIR
[2:49:00] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IS SEEKING
[2:49:01] SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
[2:49:02] ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1927.
[2:49:04] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[2:49:05] ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[2:49:08] THE AYES HAVE IT.
[2:49:09] THANK YOU.
[2:49:09] DOCKET 1927 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
[2:49:12] MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[2:49:13] DOCKET 1928.
[2:49:15] DOC NUMBER 1928
[2:49:17] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD OFFER THE
[2:49:18] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
[2:49:20] RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 4TH THROUGH
[2:49:21] 10TH, 2026 AS FIRE PREVENTION
[2:49:24] WEEK.
[2:49:29] THANK YOU.
[2:49:29] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZED
[2:49:30] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
[2:49:30] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:49:33] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:49:35] I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE
[2:49:36] RULES AND ADD UH I'M SORRY I'D
[2:49:38] LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL RULES AND
[2:49:39] ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND
[2:49:40] THE RULES AND HEAD
[2:49:41] COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD
[2:49:42] ORIGINAL.
[2:49:45] I'M SEEING AND HEARING NO
[2:49:46] OBJECTIONS THERE SO I ADDED
[2:49:47] SORRY.
[2:49:48] THANK YOU.
[2:49:49] GO AHEAD.
[2:49:50] UH, THIS WEEK WE RECOGNIZE THE
[2:49:51] DEDICATED MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON
[2:49:53] FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ALL BFD
[2:49:54] PERSONNEL WHO WORK EVERY DAY TO
[2:49:56] PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS,
[2:49:57] NEIGHBORHOODS, BUSINESSES AND
[2:49:58] VISITORS.
[2:49:58] THEIR WORK GOES FAR BEYOND
[2:50:00] RESPONDING WHEN A FIRE OCCURS.
[2:50:02] BFD PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN
[2:50:04] PREVENTION INSPECTIONS,
[2:50:05] EDUCATION, CODE ENFORCEMENT AND
[2:50:07] COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
[2:50:09] SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS LIKE A
[2:50:10] WORKING SMOKE.
[2:50:11] AND.
[2:50:11] CARBON MONOXIDE.
[2:50:12] ALARMS, HAVING AN ESCAPE PLAN
[2:50:14] AND KNOWING WHAT TO DO IN AN
[2:50:15] EMERGENCY CAN MAKE THE
[2:50:16] DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND
[2:50:18] DEATH.
[2:50:18] FIRE PREVENTION IS ESPECIALLY
[2:50:20] IMPORTANT AS WE HEAD INTO THE
[2:50:21] COLDER MONTHS WHEN HEATING
[2:50:22] EQUIPMENT CAN INCREASE THE RISK
[2:50:23] OF FIRES.
[2:50:25] WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THE COURAGE,
[2:50:27] PROFESSIONALISM AND SACRIFICE
[2:50:28] OF BOSTON'S FIREFIGHTERS WHO
[2:50:29] PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY TO
[2:50:31] PROTECT OTHERS.
[2:50:32] THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT
[2:50:33] THANKING THE BOSTON FIRE
[2:50:34] DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL WHILE ALSO
[2:50:36] ENCOURAGING EVERY BOSTON
[2:50:37] RESIDENT TO TAKE FIRE
[2:50:38] PREVENTION SERIOUSLY AND MAKE
[2:50:40] SURE THEIR HOME AND FAMILY ARE
[2:50:42] PREPARED.
[2:50:42] I'M PROUD TO OFFER THIS
[2:50:44] RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FIRE
[2:50:45] PREVENTION WEEK AND HONORING
[2:50:46] THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR
[2:50:47] THEIR CONTINUED SERVICE TO OUR
[2:50:49] CITY.
[2:50:50] I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER
[2:50:51] RODNEY MARSHALL, LOCAL 718
[2:50:53] PRESIDENT SAM DILLON AND ALL
[2:50:54] THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS
[2:50:56] OF THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT
[2:50:57] FOR THEIR HARD WORK THIS WEEK
[2:50:59] AND EVERY DAY.
[2:51:00] I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT
[2:51:01] THERE IS THE BOSTON FIREFIGHTER
[2:51:03] FIVE K AND TEN K MEMORIAL ROAD
[2:51:05] RACE THIS SUNDAY WHICH STARTS
[2:51:07] AND ENDS AT FLORIAN HALL IN
[2:51:08] DORCHESTER AND YOU CAN FIND THE
[2:51:10] LINK FOR THAT AT BFD
[2:51:13] RELIEF.ORG.
[2:51:14] UH I'M LOOKING TO SEEK
[2:51:15] SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS
[2:51:17] DOCKET TODAY.
[2:51:17] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:51:18] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[2:51:19] COUNCILOR WELL YOU KNOW BEFORE.
[2:51:21] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:51:23] UH, I WANT TO THANK
[2:51:24] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FATEMI, UM
[2:51:25] ,AS A ORIGINAL.
[2:51:27] CO-SPONSOR AND INTRODUCING THIS
[2:51:28] RESOLUTION, I ALSO WANT TO
[2:51:29] THANK, UH, OUR BRAVE
[2:51:31] FIREFIGHTERS FOR THEIR
[2:51:32] PROFESSIONALISM AND THEIR
[2:51:33] BRAVERY.
[2:51:33] UH, HERE TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.
[2:51:35] UM, WE WERE ALSO TREATED TO A
[2:51:37] PERFORMANCE BY THE ACROBATICS
[2:51:38] TEAM ON CITY HALL PLAZA UH,
[2:51:40] EARLIER THIS WEEK.
[2:51:41] UM, AND DURING THAT UH, UM.
[2:51:43] PERFORMANCE.
[2:51:44] THE DEPARTMENT ALSO TOOK THE
[2:51:45] OPPORTUNITY TO REMIND RESIDENTS
[2:51:48] OF IMPORTANT FIRE SAFETY
[2:51:49] MEASURES WE SHOULD ALL BE
[2:51:50] TAKING.
[2:51:51] UH, JUST WANT TO UPLIFT.
[2:51:52] A FEW, UM, OF THOSE SAFETY
[2:51:54] MEASURES.
[2:51:55] UH, ONE IS THAT THE FIRE
[2:51:57] DEPARTMENT ALSO PROVIDES FREE
[2:51:58] FIRE PREVENTION BED SHAKERS A
[2:52:00] LIFE SAVING ALERT DEVICE WHICH
[2:52:03] PROVIDES AN ACCESSIBLE
[2:52:04] ALTERNATIVE TO SMOKE ALARMS BY
[2:52:05] USING VIBRATION FLASHING LIGHTS
[2:52:08] AND LOW FREQUENCY ALARMS TO
[2:52:09] WAKE PEOPLE UP DURING THE FIRE
[2:52:11] EMERGENCY.
[2:52:11] I ALSO WANT TO POINT RESIDENTS
[2:52:13] TO THE.
[2:52:14] UM.
[2:52:15] FIRE BOSTON FIRE PREVENTION
[2:52:17] EDUCATION UNIT WEBSITE UM IF
[2:52:19] THEY'RE LOOKING TO SCHEDULE AN
[2:52:21] INSTALLATION OR TO RECEIVE ANY
[2:52:22] MORE INFORMATION AROUND UH,
[2:52:24] FREE SERVICES THAT THE FIRE
[2:52:26] DEPARTMENT PROVIDES.
[2:52:27] I ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT UH
[2:52:30] LOCAL UH 718 UM AND ALSO UM THE
[2:52:33] FIRE DEPARTMENT LIEUTENANT
[2:52:35] HENRY PERKINS WHO PROVIDES SO
[2:52:37] MUCH CRUCIAL.
[2:52:39] RESOURCE FOR INFORMATION TO
[2:52:40] CIVIC GROUPS, UM, THROUGHOUT
[2:52:42] THE CITY OF BOSTON.
[2:52:43] I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME
[2:52:45] TO REMIND RENTERS AND RESIDENT
[2:52:47] HOMEOWNERS TO PLEASE GET
[2:52:48] RENTER'S INSURANCE.
[2:52:50] UM, YOUR HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE
[2:52:52] DOES NOT COVER YOUR RENTERS.
[2:52:53] SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
[2:52:54] THAT ALL OF OUR RENTERS KNOW TO
[2:52:56] PLEASE GET RENTER'S INSURANCE
[2:52:58] IN CASE, UH, SOMETHING LIKE A
[2:53:00] FIRE TRAGICALLY SO HAPPENS TO
[2:53:02] YOU.
[2:53:02] AND THEN, UM, THERE'S AN EVENT
[2:53:04] HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 14TH, UH,
[2:53:06] WHERE, UH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[2:53:08] AND I ARE PARTNERING UH, TO TO
[2:53:10] DISTRIBUTE THREE CARBON AND
[2:53:13] SMOKE DETECTORS.
[2:53:14] UM, THAT'S HAPPENING AT LEAHY
[2:53:16] UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.
[2:53:18] UH, AND ALSO A BIG SHOUT OUT TO
[2:53:20] AMERICAN RED CROSS.
[2:53:21] THANK YOU.
[2:53:21] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL
[2:53:23] COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW HAVE
[2:53:24] THE FLOOR.
[2:53:25] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[2:53:27] I WANT TO THANK OUR FITZGERALD
[2:53:28] FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS AND
[2:53:29] FOR FILING THIS RESOLUTION.
[2:53:32] UM.
[2:53:33] FIRE SAFETY AND PREVENTION
[2:53:34] IS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT
[2:53:35] OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
[2:53:36] THE FIRE LAST WEEK IN NUBIAN
[2:53:38] SQUARE HISTORIC EDISON BUILDING
[2:53:40] DEMONSTRATED THE SUDDEN WAY A
[2:53:41] FIRE CAN WREAK HAVOC ON A
[2:53:43] COMMUNITY.
[2:53:44] IT IS NON-NEGOTIABLE THAT WE
[2:53:46] EDUCATE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT
[2:53:47] FIRE SAFETY IN CASE
[2:53:49] OF EMERGENCY.
[2:53:50] PARENTS, DON'T FORGET TO BRING
[2:53:51] FIRE SAFETY HOME FROM SCHOOL
[2:53:53] AND ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE A FIRE
[2:53:54] SAFETY PLAN FOR YOUR HOME.
[2:53:56] HAVE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER OR A
[2:53:58] FIRE BLANKET.
[2:53:59] MAKE SURE YOU REPLACE THE
[2:54:00] BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE
[2:54:01] DETECTOR AND HAVE AN EXIT PLAN.
[2:54:03] UM I WANT TO THANK UM, BOTH
[2:54:06] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND
[2:54:07] COUNCIL.
[2:54:07] WELL, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON
[2:54:08] THIS AND LOOKING FORWARD, UM,
[2:54:09] TO THE WORK AHEAD.
[2:54:10] THANK YOU.
[2:54:11] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[2:54:13] YOU KNOW THE FLOOR.
[2:54:15] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:54:17] AND I RISE.
[2:54:17] TO SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT
[2:54:19] RESOLUTION.
[2:54:20] HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO
[2:54:22] MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FIRE
[2:54:24] DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK ON CITY
[2:54:25] HALL PLAZA AS THEY DEMONSTRATED
[2:54:28] .
[2:54:29] UM, VARIOUS TECHNIQUES THAT
[2:54:31] THEY WERE USING DEVELOPING UH
[2:54:34] TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM FROM
[2:54:36] VARIOUS SITUATIONS.
[2:54:39] UM WANT TO ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
[2:54:41] LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONALISM
[2:54:44] OF UH LOCAL 718 AND SAN DILLON
[2:54:47] BUT ALSO THE THE NATIONAL
[2:54:49] PRESIDENT EDDIE KELLY AS WELL.
[2:54:53] ONE OF THE ISSUES I WILL
[2:54:54] CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON IS
[2:54:56] EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON FIRE
[2:54:58] PREVENTION.
[2:54:59] AND UH, I WAS PART OF THE UH,
[2:55:02] SIMILAR PROGRAM AND SPONSORING
[2:55:05] A UM UPGRADES TO UH, VARIOUS
[2:55:09] EQUIPMENT IN PEOPLE'S HOMES.
[2:55:10] UH, FIRE ALARMS IN PEOPLE'S
[2:55:11] HOMES.
[2:55:12] I SHOULD SAY, UH, IN THE SOUTH
[2:55:14] END AND WANT TO THANK THE UH,
[2:55:16] FIRE DEPARTMENT BUT THANK LOCAL
[2:55:18] 718.
[2:55:19] AND THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO'S A
[2:55:21] GOOD FRIEND OF MINE WHO
[2:55:22] RECENTLY RETIRED WHO BECAME A
[2:55:24] JUDGE.
[2:55:24] CONNIE WANG WAS PART OF THE
[2:55:26] OUTREACH PROCESS AS WELL.
[2:55:28] SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE JUDGE
[2:55:31] CONNIE WANG WHO I WHO I WORK
[2:55:33] WITH AT SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT
[2:55:35] .
[2:55:36] UM, WHO WAS UM WHO.
[2:55:37] WORKED AS A I BELIEVE HER TITLE
[2:55:40] WAS DEPUTY FIRE COMMISSIONER IN
[2:55:42] CHARGE OF UM LEGAL AFFAIRS
[2:55:44] MAYBE.
[2:55:45] UM BUT I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT
[2:55:47] THE IMPORTANCE AS WE APPROACH
[2:55:49] THE BUDGET SEASON HOW IT IS,
[2:55:51] HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR ALL
[2:55:54] OF US TO SUPPORT THE HEALTH AND
[2:55:56] WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND
[2:55:59] CANCER SCREENINGS THAT ARE
[2:56:00] CRITICAL FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND
[2:56:03] THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL.
[2:56:04] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:56:05] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[2:56:07] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW
[2:56:08] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[2:56:09] THANK YOU.
[2:56:09] I WANT TO THANK THE FILERS I
[2:56:11] REALLY WANT I JUST WANTED TO
[2:56:12] RISE IN COUNCIL AROUND
[2:56:13] MENTIONED TIME BUT HENRY
[2:56:14] PERKINS HANK I DON'T KNOW BUT
[2:56:16] ONE COMMUNITY EVENT THAT WE
[2:56:18] HAVE WHERE I DON'T SEE ANY
[2:56:19] PRESIDENT, UH, DOING THE WORK
[2:56:20] OF FIRE EDUCATION AND FIRE
[2:56:22] SAFETY.
[2:56:22] SO REALLY JUST YOU KNOW I KNOW
[2:56:24] THERE ARE MANY NAMES AND MANY
[2:56:25] LOCAL 718 VULCANS.
[2:56:27] UH, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE TO
[2:56:29] THINK UM, BUT I I'VE SEEN HIM
[2:56:32] CONSISTENTLY SINCE I STARTED
[2:56:33] OFF HERE JUST VERY PRESENT AND
[2:56:35] COMMUNITY AND JUST MY HAT'S OFF
[2:56:38] TO RANDY.
[2:56:38] IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE HIM TO
[2:56:39] SAY A THANKS TO HIM BECAUSE, UM
[2:56:42] ,THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST
[2:56:43] LIKE WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE
[2:56:45] WORK AND IT JUST SHOWS.
[2:56:46] SO I JUST WANTED TO RISE TO
[2:56:48] THANK HANK AND ALSO CINDY JUST
[2:56:50] JUST JACOB IN MY OFFICE WHO
[2:56:52] PARTNERED WE PARTNERED WITH THE
[2:56:54] AMERICAN RED CROSS AND WITH BE
[2:56:56] WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
[2:56:57] UM AND THEY CANVASED WENT
[2:56:59] KNOCKING DOOR TO DOOR IN
[2:57:01] MATTAPAN AND IN HYDE PARK TO
[2:57:02] MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAD UM
[2:57:05] THE.
[2:57:06] CARBON MONOXIDE.
[2:57:06] AND UH INVITED EXTRAS THAT THEY
[2:57:10] NEEDED OF COURSE ON EVERY DOOR
[2:57:11] BUT REALLY DOING THAT WORK AND
[2:57:13] I KNOW CINDY IT WAS UH IT WAS A
[2:57:15] VERY IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR HER
[2:57:16] AND JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE
[2:57:18] OUR LEADERSHIP IN OUR OFFICE
[2:57:19] FOR GETTING THAT DONE.
[2:57:20] THANK YOU.
[2:57:21] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[2:57:22] AND THANK YOU, CINDY FOR THAT.
[2:57:24] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[2:57:25] THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.
[2:57:26] UM, MY SISTER MY BEST FRIEND
[2:57:29] TORI UM, LOST EVERYTHING IN A
[2:57:31] FIRE UM, LESS THAN TEN YEARS
[2:57:34] AGO AND WAS ABLE TO REBUILD HER
[2:57:36] LIFE.
[2:57:37] BUT IT'S LIKE THIS MATTERS SO
[2:57:38] DEEPLY.
[2:57:39] UM, MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE
[2:57:40] KNOW ABOUT FIRE PREVENTION KNOW
[2:57:43] WHAT THEY CAN DO TO PREVENT
[2:57:44] FIRES.
[2:57:44] UM, SHE HAPPENED TO LIVE IN AN
[2:57:46] APARTMENT COMPLEX AND IT WAS AN
[2:57:48] ELECTRICAL ISSUE, BUT, UM, BUT
[2:57:50] KNOWING THAT MANY FIRES CAN BE
[2:57:52] PREVENTED, UM, AND GETTING THE
[2:57:54] WORD OUT ABOUT RENTERS
[2:57:55] INSURANCE AND WHAT PEOPLE CAN
[2:57:56] DO TO PROTECT THEMSELVES UM, IT
[2:57:59] THIS MATTERS SO DEEPLY TO OUR
[2:58:01] COMMUNITIES AND WE'VE HAD MANY
[2:58:03] UM, REALLY UM, REALLY INTENSE
[2:58:06] FIRES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS
[2:58:08] AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
[2:58:09] THAT WE GET THE WORD OUT AND I
[2:58:11] KNOW AS WE'RE HEADING INTO THE
[2:58:12] WINTER SEASON IT'S EVEN MORE
[2:58:14] IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT
[2:58:15] HEATERS AND UM, ELECTRICAL
[2:58:18] OUTLETS AND MAKING SURE THAT
[2:58:19] WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN
[2:58:20] TO LET RESIDENTS KNOW HOW THEY
[2:58:22] CAN BE SAFE.
[2:58:22] I WANT TO THANK THAT ALL OF THE
[2:58:24] FIREFIGHTERS FROM THE BOSTON
[2:58:25] FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO SERVE WITH
[2:58:27] SUCH DISTINCTION EVERY SINGLE
[2:58:28] DAY UM, AND MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW
[2:58:31] AND IN THE HARDEST MOMENTS
[2:58:33] OF BOSTONIANS LIVES THEY ARE
[2:58:34] THERE UM AND I WANT TO ALSO
[2:58:36] THANK AND I KNOW
[2:58:37] COUNCILOR CLAUDE ZAPATA HAS
[2:58:38] WORKED ON THIS BUT UM, JUST THE
[2:58:41] UH, OUTREACH THAT HAPPENS AFTER
[2:58:43] A FIRE THAT YOU'RE NOT LEFT,
[2:58:45] YOU KNOW, WITHOUT SOMEWHERE TO
[2:58:46] STAY WITHOUT SOMEWHERE TO BE.
[2:58:47] AND I KNOW THAT
[2:58:48] COUNCILOR CLAUDE AS A PART HAS
[2:58:50] WORKED DEEPLY ON UM, YOU KNOW,
[2:58:51] THAT RESPONSE TO UH TO THAT AND
[2:58:54] UH, WORKING IN UH IN
[2:58:55] PARTNERSHIP WITH OFFICE
[2:58:56] OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.
[2:58:58] SO I JUST WANT TO THANK OUR
[2:58:59] FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, UM, THIS
[2:59:01] IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING.
[2:59:02] SO THANK YOU TO
[2:59:03] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FOR
[2:59:03] PUTTING THIS FORWARD.
[2:59:04] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[2:59:06] COUNCILOR PEPEN.
[2:59:07] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:59:08] UM.
[2:59:09] JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD.
[2:59:10] VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THIS
[2:59:12] RESOLUTION.
[2:59:12] VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE FIRE
[2:59:14] DEPARTMENT AND THE WORK THAT
[2:59:15] THEY DO.
[2:59:15] SOME OF THE MOST MEANINGFUL
[2:59:17] WORK THAT I'VE DONE AS A CITY
[2:59:18] EMPLOYEE WAS WHEN I WAS WORKING
[2:59:19] FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND
[2:59:21] SHOWING UP WHENEVER THERE WAS A
[2:59:22] FIRE OVERNIGHT OR ANY TIME
[2:59:25] OF THE DAY AND THERE'S A
[2:59:26] SPECIFIC UNIT FOR THE FIRE
[2:59:27] DEPARTMENT THAT I'M ALWAYS
[2:59:28] GRATEFUL FOR IS THE UM IS THE
[2:59:31] CITY FIRST I'M NOT BLANKING ON
[2:59:34] THE NAME BUT GARY CALLING IN,
[2:59:35] GARY CALLING IN WHO LEADS THE
[2:59:38] THAT UNIT?
[2:59:38] THEY ALWAYS ARE THE ONES THAT
[2:59:40] SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT
[2:59:42] PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED AND THEY
[2:59:44] ARE THE UNIT THAT CONNECTS
[2:59:47] RESIDENTS WITH THE RED CROSS
[2:59:48] AND WORKS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD
[2:59:49] SERVICES AND MAKE SURE THAT THE
[2:59:51] FAMILY IS OKAY.
[2:59:52] AND I'VE JUST BEEN ABLE TO SEE
[2:59:54] THE IMPACTFUL WORK THAT OUR
[2:59:55] FIREFIGHTERS DO WHENEVER A
[2:59:57] FAMILY IS IMPACTED.
[2:59:58] SO I'M JUST VERY GRATEFUL FOR
[2:59:59] THEM AND ALL THE WORK.
[3:00:00] THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[3:00:01] THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN.
[3:00:03] UM AND THANK YOU TO GARY
[3:00:04] CALLING OF THE EMERGENCY
[3:00:04] ASSISTANCE DEPARTMENT.
[3:00:06] UM, WHAT I DID WAS WHEN ANYONE
[3:00:09] ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME
[3:00:12] COUNCILOR CULPEPER
[3:00:12] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[3:00:14] COUNCILOR FLYNN
[3:00:15] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[3:00:16] COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL MURPHY
[3:00:17] COUNCILOR FOR THEN
[3:00:19] COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE ADD
[3:00:20] THE CHAIR COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[3:00:22] WE'RE ALL IN SATANAS SUSPENSION
[3:00:24] OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
[3:00:25] OF DOCKET 1928.
[3:00:27] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[3:00:28] ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
[3:00:29] NAY.
[3:00:30] MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[3:00:31] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON
[3:00:32] DOCKET 1928.
[3:00:35] COUNCILOR BREADON
[3:00:36] COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A
[3:00:37] PARTNER.
[3:00:37] YES, COUNCILOR GOES BY.
[3:00:38] YES.
[3:00:39] COUNCILOR.
[3:00:39] COPA COUNCILOR CULPABLY AS
[3:00:41] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[3:00:42] COUNCILOR.
[3:00:42] DURKAN.
[3:00:43] YES.
[3:00:43] COUNCILOR.
[3:00:44] FITZGERALD.
[3:00:44] YES.
[3:00:45] COUNCIL.
[3:00:45] PURCELL.
[3:00:45] YES.
[3:00:46] COUNCILOR.
[3:00:46] FLYNN.
[3:00:47] YES.
[3:00:47] COUNCIL PLAN.
[3:00:48] YES.
[3:00:48] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[3:00:49] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
[3:00:50] YES.
[3:00:50] COUNCIL.
[3:00:50] MEJIA.
[3:00:51] COUNCIL ME HERE.
[3:00:52] YES.
[3:00:52] COUNCILOR.
[3:00:53] MURPHY.
[3:00:54] COUNCILOR MURPHY IS
[3:00:55] COUNCILOR PEPEN.
[3:00:56] COUNCILOR KENYA HAS COUNCIL.
[3:00:58] SANTANA COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
[3:01:00] COUNCIL.
[3:01:00] WEBER.
[3:01:01] COUNCIL.
[3:01:01] WEBB YES AND COUNCIL.
[3:01:02] WORLD COUNCIL ROLL YES.
[3:01:04] DOCKET NUMBER 1928 AS RECEIVED
[3:01:07] 12 VOTES ANY FURTHER?
[3:01:08] THANK YOU.
[3:01:08] DOCKET 1928 HAS BEEN
[3:01:10] ADOPTED.
[3:01:11] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[3:01:12] DOCKET 1929.
[3:01:15] DOCKET NUMBER 1929 COUNCIL IS.
[3:01:17] LOUIJEUNE AND MEJIA FOR THE
[3:01:19] FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
[3:01:21] RECOGNIZING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
[3:01:23] DAY.
[3:01:24] THANK YOU.
[3:01:24] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[3:01:25] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL YOU
[3:01:26] NOW BEFORE.
[3:01:27] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:01:28] I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES.
[3:01:29] I'D LIKE TO REQUEST TO SUSPEND
[3:01:31] THE RULES I COUNCIL WHEREAS THE
[3:01:32] THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
[3:01:33] SEEING AND HEARING NO
[3:01:34] OBJECTIONS HERE SO ADDED.
[3:01:35] THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO I'D
[3:01:37] LIKE TO SEEK SUSPENSION AND
[3:01:38] PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION UM
[3:01:41] SINCE 2021 OCTOBER 6TH, 2021
[3:01:44] UNDER THEN UM EXECUTIVE AND
[3:01:46] THEN ACT MAYOR KIM JANEY UH IT
[3:01:49] WAS RECOGNIZED AS WE RECOGNIZE
[3:01:53] OCTOBER 6TH, 2021 THEN AS
[3:01:55] INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY.
[3:01:56] AND SO I WANT TO THANK MAYOR
[3:01:57] JANEY FOR HER LEADERSHIP ON
[3:01:58] THAT.
[3:01:59] UM, AND TODAY WE OFFER THIS
[3:02:01] RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE
[3:02:02] COMMEMORATING THAT IN
[3:02:03] RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS
[3:02:04] PEOPLES DAY AND IN HONOR OF THE
[3:02:06] INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHOSE
[3:02:08] HISTORIES, CULTURES AND
[3:02:10] CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WOVEN INTO
[3:02:12] BOSTON'S IDENTITY, WE
[3:02:14] ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BOSTON STANDS
[3:02:15] ON THE TRADITIONAL TERRITORY
[3:02:16] OF THE MASSACHUSETT
[3:02:18] MASSACHUSETT PUNK APART
[3:02:20] WAMPANOAG, NIPMUC AND OTHER
[3:02:22] NATIONS AND TRIBES WHOSE
[3:02:23] MEMBERS REMAIN A CONTINUING
[3:02:24] PRESENCE AND CARETAKERS OF THIS
[3:02:26] LAND THIS DAY ASKS US TO SPEAK
[3:02:28] HONESTLY ABOUT THE
[3:02:29] DISPOSSESSION OF INDIGENOUS
[3:02:30] HOMELANDS AND THE POLICIES THAT
[3:02:31] SOUGHT TO SUPPRESS INDIGENOUS
[3:02:33] CULTURES, RECOGNIZING THAT
[3:02:34] HISTORY IS PART OF BUILDING A
[3:02:35] CITY THAT RESPECTS THE PEOPLE
[3:02:37] WHO WERE HERE LONG BEFORE
[3:02:38] BOSTON BOARD'S PRESENT NAME,
[3:02:39] IT'S ALSO A DAY TO CELEBRATE
[3:02:41] THE STRANGE SURVIVAL AND
[3:02:42] THRIVING CULTURES OF INDIGENOUS
[3:02:44] COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLES BOSTON
[3:02:46] AND ITS COMMUNITIES AND MANY
[3:02:48] OTHER NATIONS, UH, DESERVE OUR
[3:02:50] RESPECT AND TO BE UM AND FOR US
[3:02:53] TO TELL ON STORIES ABOUT THIS
[3:02:56] COUNTRY I PARTICULARLY WANT TO
[3:02:57] RECOGNIZE THE NORTH AMERICAN
[3:02:59] INDIAN CENTER OF BOSTON
[3:03:00] NIGHTCLUB FOUNDED IN 1969.
[3:03:03] FOR DECADES IT HAS PROVIDED
[3:03:04] SERVICES, ADVOCACY, CULTURAL
[3:03:06] PROGRAMING AND A GATHERING
[3:03:07] PLACE THAT STRENGTHENS NATIVE
[3:03:09] FAMILIES AND CONNECTS PEOPLE
[3:03:11] ACROSS GENERATIONS.
[3:03:13] I ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO USE
[3:03:14] THIS DAY TO LEARN ABOUT THE
[3:03:15] INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AROUND
[3:03:16] US, SUPPORT THEIR INSTITUTIONS
[3:03:18] AND LISTEN TO INDIGENOUS VOICES
[3:03:20] .
[3:03:20] THEIR LEADERSHIP AND
[3:03:21] CONTRIBUTIONS DESERVE
[3:03:21] RECOGNITION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
[3:03:23] AND AGAIN WE DESERVE OUR
[3:03:25] CHILDREN DESERVE THE NEXT
[3:03:26] GENERATIONS DESERVE TO
[3:03:27] VERSATILE, HONORED STORIES
[3:03:28] ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTRY
[3:03:30] BECAUSE UNTIL WE CAN TELL THOSE
[3:03:32] STORIES WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD
[3:03:34] UM WITH THE WORK THAT WE HAVE
[3:03:35] TO DO TO BE THE MULTIRACIAL
[3:03:38] MULTI-CLASS DEMOCRACY THAT WE
[3:03:39] ALL DESERVE.
[3:03:40] THANK YOU.
[3:03:40] THANK YOU COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE
[3:03:41] COUNCIL MAY HEAR YOU NOW ON THE
[3:03:43] FLOOR.
[3:03:43] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND
[3:03:45] I WANT TO THANK OUR SOLUTION
[3:03:46] FOR ADDING.
[3:03:46] ME, UM, AS AN ORIGINAL
[3:03:48] CO-SPONSOR AND I WANT TO START
[3:03:50] BY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT BOSTON IS
[3:03:52] ON THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF THE
[3:03:54] MASSACHUSETTS PAWTUCKET WHEN WE
[3:03:56] COME AND NEED MARK PEOPLES AS
[3:04:00] WELL AS OTHERS WHO HAVE SHAPED
[3:04:01] THE SURROUNDING REGION, WE
[3:04:03] ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR
[3:04:04] STEWARDSHIP OF AND CONNECTION
[3:04:06] TO THESE LANDS FOR GENERATIONS.
[3:04:07] INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY HONORS
[3:04:10] THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND
[3:04:11] CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE INDIGENOUS
[3:04:13] PEOPLES.
[3:04:14] IT ALSO SERVES AS A REMINDER
[3:04:15] OF THE INJUSTICES INDIGENOUS
[3:04:17] PEOPLE HAVE FACED BOTH PAST AND
[3:04:20] PRESENT.
[3:04:20] WE MUST FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT
[3:04:22] OUR ABOUT SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION,
[3:04:24] GENOCIDE AND FORCED MIGRATION
[3:04:25] WHILE ALSO UPLIFTING INDIGENOUS
[3:04:28] COMMUNITIES STRENGTH,
[3:04:29] RESILIENCE AND PRESERVATION
[3:04:31] OF VALUES AND CULTURE.
[3:04:32] THIS RECOGNITION MUST BE PAIRED
[3:04:34] WITH ACTION BY AMPLIFYING
[3:04:36] INDIGENOUS VOICES, INVESTING IN
[3:04:38] RESOURCES, BUILDING
[3:04:39] PARTNERSHIPS AND ENSURING
[3:04:40] INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ARE
[3:04:41] VALUED.
[3:04:42] WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE
[3:04:44] ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE NORTH
[3:04:45] AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
[3:04:46] OF BOSTON AND JP.
[3:04:48] WHICH SERVES OUR COMMUNITIES
[3:04:49] WITH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AND
[3:04:51] CONTINUES ITS ADVOCACY UM AND
[3:04:53] WHOSE ESTABLISHMENT IS ROOTED
[3:04:55] IN SOCIAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS UM
[3:04:56] IN THE LATE 60S.
[3:04:58] WE APPRECIATE THE ORGANIZATIONS
[3:04:59] AND ADVOCATES WHO CONTINUE TO
[3:05:00] UPLIFT AND SUPPORT OUR
[3:05:01] INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES.
[3:05:02] AND I LOOK FORWARD TO PASSING
[3:05:04] THIS RESOLUTION TODAY AND I'LL
[3:05:06] END WITH WHEN I USED TO WORK AT
[3:05:07] MTV, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
[3:05:10] GO TO I THINK IT WAS SOUTH
[3:05:11] DAKOTA AND I GOT SO EXCITED
[3:05:13] BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO BE
[3:05:14] INTERVIEWING SOMEONE WHO LIVED
[3:05:16] IN THE RESERVATION AND I WAS SO
[3:05:18] IGNORANT THAT I THOUGHT WHEN I
[3:05:20] WENT TO THE RESERVATION IT WAS
[3:05:22] GOING TO BE LIKE TPS AND
[3:05:24] TURQUOISE AND LIKE INDIGENOUS
[3:05:25] PEOPLE REALLY LIVING IN THE
[3:05:27] LAND.
[3:05:27] AND WHEN I GOT THERE I WAS SO
[3:05:31] DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THE
[3:05:33] CONDITIONS THAT THE INDIGENOUS
[3:05:35] PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN UM IN RAT
[3:05:38] INFESTED SPACES AND PLACES AND
[3:05:40] JUST THE POVERTY AND IT BROKE
[3:05:42] MY HEART TO SEE.
[3:05:43] THAT AND I KNOW I CANNOT
[3:05:45] BELIEVE THAT I JUST ACKNOWLEDGE
[3:05:46] HOW IGNORANT I WAS BUT UM, IT
[3:05:49] WAS A RUDE AWAKENING ABOUT THE
[3:05:52] INJUSTICES THAT SO MANY OF OUR
[3:05:53] INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FACE HERE IN
[3:05:54] AMERICA.
[3:05:55] THANK YOU.
[3:05:56] THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERE
[3:05:58] COUNCILMEMBER.
[3:05:59] UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[3:06:01] I JUST WANT TO THANK COUNCILORS
[3:06:02] UH LOUIJEUNE AND.
[3:06:03] HERE FOR UH, ADDING ME AS A
[3:06:05] THIRD SPONSOR.
[3:06:06] UH, AS YOU KNOW, I'M, UH, PROUD
[3:06:08] TO, UH, HAVE NIQAB.
[3:06:10] IN MY DISTRICT.
[3:06:12] UM, AND IN JUNE I WAS HONORED
[3:06:15] TO ATTEND A HISTORIC LANDMARK
[3:06:17] DEDICATION FOR NIQAB AT.
[3:06:19] ITS BUILDING AT 105.
[3:06:20] SOUTH HUNTINGTON AVENUE.
[3:06:21] LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING, UM,
[3:06:24] YOU KNOW, JEAN, JEAN-LUC AND
[3:06:25] REGGIE AND AND EVERYONE ELSE AT
[3:06:27] NIQAB, UH, YOU KNOW.
[3:06:29] OVER UH ON MONDAY AND
[3:06:31] THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE
[3:06:32] YEAR.
[3:06:33] UM, I SO I JUST THANK YOU FOR
[3:06:36] HIGHLIGHTING THIS AND I THINK
[3:06:36] IS.
[3:06:37] AS COUNCILOR MEJIA HIGHLIGHTED
[3:06:38] ,IT'S LIKE YOU KNOW, WE AS A
[3:06:41] COUNTRY WE'VE.
[3:06:41] TRIED TO.
[3:06:42] ERASE AN ENTIRE PEOPLE UH, YOU
[3:06:45] KNOW, ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
[3:06:47] AND UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S UP TO US
[3:06:48] TO STAND UP TO THAT AND AND YOU
[3:06:50] KNOW, CONTINUE THAT FIGHT
[3:06:51] TODAY.
[3:06:52] MAKE SURE YOU.
[3:06:52] KNOW, EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT OUR
[3:06:54] INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE GONE
[3:06:56] THROUGH AND AND WHAT THEY'VE
[3:06:57] CONTRIBUTED.
[3:06:58] UH, HERE.
[3:06:58] SO THANK YOU.
[3:06:59] THANK YOU.
[3:07:00] COUNCIL WEBER WHEN ANYONE ELSE
[3:07:01] LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME IT'S
[3:07:04] CLERK PLEASE ADD
[3:07:05] COUNCILOR CULPEPPER
[3:07:05] COUNCIL DURKAN.
[3:07:07] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[3:07:07] COUNCILOR FLYNN
[3:07:08] COUNCILOR MURPHY
[3:07:09] COUNCIL PREPARED
[3:07:10] COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL ROW
[3:07:11] AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR UH
[3:07:14] COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE AND MARIA
[3:07:15] AS WELL AS WEBER SIX MENTIONED
[3:07:17] THE RULES AND ADOPTION
[3:07:18] OF DOCKET 1929.
[3:07:20] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL
[3:07:22] THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[3:07:24] PLEASE START THE VOTE,
[3:07:25] MR. CLERK.
[3:07:30] COUNCILOR BREADON,
[3:07:31] COUNCILOR COLLETTE.
[3:07:32] YES, COUNCILOR GOES BY.
[3:07:33] YES, COUNCILOR.
[3:07:34] CULPEPPER.
[3:07:35] COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
[3:07:35] YES.
[3:07:36] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:36] DURKAN.
[3:07:37] YES.
[3:07:37] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:38] DURKAN.
[3:07:38] YES.
[3:07:38] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:39] FITZGERALD.
[3:07:40] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:40] FITZGERALD.
[3:07:40] YES.
[3:07:41] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:41] FLYNN.
[3:07:42] YES.
[3:07:42] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:43] FLYNN.
[3:07:43] YES.
[3:07:43] COUNCIL.
[3:07:44] LOUIJEUNE.
[3:07:45] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:45] LOUIJEUNE.
[3:07:45] YES.
[3:07:46] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:46] MEJIA.
[3:07:47] CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
[3:07:48] YES.
[3:07:49] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:49] MURPHY.
[3:07:50] COUNCILOR.
[3:07:50] MURPHY.
[3:07:51] YES.
[3:07:51] COUNCIL.
[3:07:51] THE PEN.
[3:07:52] YES.
[3:07:52] COUNCIL OF A PEN.
[3:07:53] YES.
[3:07:54] SANTANA.
[3:07:56] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[3:07:56] YES.
[3:07:56] COUNCIL.
[3:07:57] WEBER.
[3:07:57] YES.
[3:07:58] COUNCIL.
[3:07:58] LEVY.
[3:07:58] YES AND COUNCILOR.
[3:07:59] WORLD.
[3:08:00] YES, COUNCILOR.
[3:08:01] OH YES.
[3:08:01] SO I CAN NUMBER 1929.
[3:08:03] YES.
[3:08:04] WE RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
[3:08:05] AFFIRMATIVE.
[3:08:06] THANK YOU.
[3:08:06] DOCKET 1929 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
[3:08:08] MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
[3:08:09] DOCKET 1930.
[3:08:11] DOCKET NUMBER 1930.
[3:08:14] COUNCILORS DURKAN AND LOUIJEUNE
[3:08:15] OFFERED THE FOLLOWING
[3:08:17] RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 25TH
[3:08:19] ANNIVERSARY IN NAMING
[3:08:21] OCTOBER 12TH, 2026 AS OPENING
[3:08:23] OUR DOORS DAY IN THE CITY
[3:08:24] OF BOSTON.
[3:08:25] THANK YOU.
[3:08:26] THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
[3:08:26] COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[3:08:27] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[3:08:28] THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.
[3:08:30] UM, WE HAD A GREAT PRESENTATION
[3:08:31] THIS MORNING AND I JUST WANT TO
[3:08:33] THANK MY COLLEAGUES WHO STOPPED
[3:08:34] BY OUR RECEPTION.
[3:08:36] UM, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR COLE
[3:08:37] PEPPER FITZGERALD.
[3:08:38] UM, SANTANA.
[3:08:39] UM, UH AND LOUIJEUNE UH, FOR
[3:08:44] YOUR, UM, SUPPORT AND REALLY
[3:08:46] GREAT AND YEAH, THANK YOU SO
[3:08:47] MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR
[3:08:48] HONORING UM, I KNOW KELLY
[3:08:51] BRILLIANT AND UM, GENEVIEVE DE
[3:08:54] UH, THEY HAVE WORKED REALLY
[3:08:55] HARD UM, AND KELLY HAS WORKED
[3:08:56] REALLY HARD OVER THE PAST 25
[3:08:58] YEARS TO KEEP THIS GOING.
[3:08:59] UM, AND IT'S BEEN THE
[3:09:01] INSPIRATION UH, FOR A LOT OF,
[3:09:03] UH OF OTHER THINGS THAT THESE
[3:09:05] CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE DONE
[3:09:06] TO OPEN UP THEIR DOORS.
[3:09:07] UM, SO I JUST WANT TO READ OUT
[3:09:09] THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
[3:09:10] PARTICIPATING AND I WANT TO
[3:09:11] GIVE COUNCILOR SANTANA I WANT
[3:09:13] TO ADD HIM AS A THIRD, UH,
[3:09:14] CO-SPONSOR AND I WANT TO GIVE
[3:09:16] HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON
[3:09:17] THIS.
[3:09:18] UM, BUT I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL
[3:09:20] ON MONDAY AT 10 A.M..
[3:09:21] UM, IT STARTS RIGHT ON THE DOT.
[3:09:23] SO IF YOU WANT TO COME, UM,
[3:09:24] JUST MAKE SURE YOU'RE THERE ON
[3:09:26] TIME.
[3:09:26] UM, SO MASS ART ART MUSEUM,
[3:09:28] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL
[3:09:30] SOCIETY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS THE
[3:09:32] FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
[3:09:33] SCIENTIST THE HUNTINGTON
[3:09:36] THEATER, FENWAY STUDIOS, BESO
[3:09:38] ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM
[3:09:41] BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS,
[3:09:43] BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, THE
[3:09:46] YMCA ON HUNTINGTON AVE, THE
[3:09:47] TRANSOM GALLERY AT SIMMONS
[3:09:48] UNIVERSITY, TUFTS U.
[3:09:50] UM TUFTS UNIVERSITY, THE
[3:09:51] SYMPHONY CACI ALSO STUDIO AND
[3:09:54] EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY UH
[3:09:56] UM CONSERVANCY JUST WANT TO
[3:09:57] THANK YOU ALL UM ALL OF THESE
[3:09:59] GROUPS UH FOR OPENING THEIR
[3:10:02] DOORS AND FOR BEING PART
[3:10:03] OF THIS UM THIS YEAR IS THE
[3:10:05] 25TH YEAR AND WE'RE ALL SO
[3:10:06] EXCITED.
[3:10:06] SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES
[3:10:07] FOR FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY
[3:10:09] I WANT TO GIVE UM THANK YOU TO
[3:10:11] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR UM AND
[3:10:12] WANT TO GIVE COUNCILOR SANTANA
[3:10:14] A CHANCE TO SPEAK AS WELL.
[3:10:15] COUNCILOR JOHN OH, UM,
[3:10:19] COUNCILOR DURKAN, ARE YOU
[3:10:20] SEEKING TO ADD
[3:10:21] COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD
[3:10:22] CO-SPONSOR?
[3:10:22] OKAY.
[3:10:22] SEEING AND HEARING NO
[3:10:23] OBJECTION.
[3:10:23] YES, BUT SO ADDED
[3:10:25] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[3:10:25] UH, YOU'RE GOOD
[3:10:28] COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[3:10:28] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[3:10:29] AND AND.
[3:10:29] AND THANK YOU.
[3:10:32] UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR
[3:10:33] INCLUDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL
[3:10:35] CO-SPONSOR WHEN I WAS A KID IN
[3:10:37] MISSION HILL AND THE MISSION
[3:10:38] WHOLE SUMMER PROGRAM, I SPENT A
[3:10:39] LOT OF TIME VISITING BOSTON'S
[3:10:40] PARKS AND MUSEUMS.
[3:10:41] I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT OPEN SPACE
[3:10:43] IS FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS,
[3:10:44] AND BOSTON HAS WON SOME OF THE
[3:10:46] FINEST IN THE WORLD.
[3:10:47] THE OPENING OUR DOORS FESTIVAL
[3:10:49] A CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC ACCESS
[3:10:50] AND KEEPS THESE INSTITUTIONS
[3:10:52] FROM BECOMING IVORY TOWERS
[3:10:54] CLOSED OFF PART OF OUR CITY.
[3:10:56] I APPLAUD THE HARRINGTON
[3:10:58] THEATER, BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL
[3:11:00] AND ALL THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS
[3:11:01] UM, THAT COUNCILOR DURKAN
[3:11:02] MENTIONED I DON'T HAVE THEM
[3:11:04] HERE IN MY LIST BUT UM I THINK
[3:11:05] I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS LAST
[3:11:06] YEAR.
[3:11:07] UM, JUST AN INCREDIBLE,
[3:11:08] INCREDIBLE DAY.
[3:11:09] UM, IT'S FILLED WITH, UM,
[3:11:11] INCREDIBLE YOUTH WHO HAVE SO
[3:11:12] MUCH TALENT.
[3:11:13] UM, AND I ENCOURAGE MY
[3:11:15] COLLEAGUES IF YOU HAVE SOME
[3:11:16] TIME ON MONDAY, UM, TO STOP BY
[3:11:18] AND SUPPORT.
[3:11:19] UM, YEAH.
[3:11:21] THANK YOU.
[3:11:22] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
[3:11:23] WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
[3:11:25] THEIR NAME?
[3:11:27] MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD
[3:11:28] COUNCILOR CULPEPER,
[3:11:29] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,
[3:11:30] COUNCILOR.
[3:11:31] FLYNN, COUNCILOR.
[3:11:32] MEJIA COUNCILOR.
[3:11:32] MURPHY COUNCIL COUNCILOR.
[3:11:33] WEBER COUNCILOR AROUND PLEASE
[3:11:35] ADD THE CHAIR
[3:11:36] COUNCILOR STRICKEN LOUIJEUNE
[3:11:37] AND SANTANA SIX OF THE RULES
[3:11:39] AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1930.
[3:11:41] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL
[3:11:44] THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[3:11:46] MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
[3:11:47] CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON
[3:11:49] DOCKET 1930.
[3:11:51] COUNCILOR BREAK.
[3:11:51] COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPONENT.
[3:11:53] YES.
[3:11:53] COUNCIL OPPOSED BUT YES.
[3:11:55] COUNCILOR.
[3:11:55] CULPEPER COUNCILOR.
[3:11:56] YES.
[3:11:57] COUNCIL DURKAN.
[3:11:58] COUNCILOR.
[3:11:59] DURKAN.
[3:11:59] YES.
[3:12:00] COUNCIL.
[3:12:00] FITZGERALD.
[3:12:01] COUNCIL FOR SHOW.
[3:12:01] YES.
[3:12:02] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:02] FLYNN.
[3:12:03] YES.
[3:12:03] COUNCIL.
[3:12:03] PHINEAS.
[3:12:04] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
[3:12:05] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:06] LOUIJEUNE.
[3:12:06] YES.
[3:12:07] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:07] MEJIA.
[3:12:08] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:08] MEJIA.
[3:12:09] YES.
[3:12:09] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:10] MURPHY.
[3:12:10] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:11] MURPHY.
[3:12:11] YES.
[3:12:11] COUNCIL.
[3:12:12] EVENT.
[3:12:13] COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.
[3:12:14] SANTANA.
[3:12:14] YES.
[3:12:14] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:15] SANTANA.
[3:12:16] COUNCILOR.
[3:12:16] WEBER.
[3:12:16] YES.
[3:12:17] COUNCIL MEMBER.
[3:12:18] YES AND COUNCILOR.
[3:12:18] WORLD.
[3:12:19] YEAH.
[3:12:19] COUNCIL.
[3:12:20] WELL YES.
[3:12:21] SO I CAN NUMBER 1930 HAS
[3:12:23] RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN.
[3:12:24] THE AFFIRMATIVE.
[3:12:26] THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
[3:12:27] UM, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO GREEN
[3:12:29] SHEETS, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE
[3:12:30] WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD THEIR
[3:12:30] NAME TO THE DOCKET THEY MAY
[3:12:31] HAVE MISSED COUNCILOR MOREAU.
[3:12:36] YES.
[3:12:37] GIVE ME ONE SECOND.
[3:12:42] UH, DOCKET NUMBER 1919.
[3:12:50] THANK YOU.
[3:12:52] UM, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
[3:12:54] YES.
[3:12:55] UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD MY NAME
[3:12:58] TO THE DOCKET TO, UH, 18.
[3:13:01] UH OH MY GOD, IT WAS THE ONE
[3:13:04] WITH THE SORRY CLICK THE UM THE
[3:13:08] VETERANS THE HERO SQUARE.
[3:13:10] YEAH.
[3:13:12] 1918 1918 1918.
[3:13:14] THANK YOU.
[3:13:16] UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
[3:13:20] UM 1919 1918.
[3:13:25] CLARK DO YOU HAVE THOSE?
[3:13:27] YES.
[3:13:27] OKAY, GREAT.
[3:13:32] WE'RE NOW ON MOVING ON TO LATE
[3:13:34] FILES.
[3:13:36] TWO PERSONNEL.
[3:13:37] TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS.
[3:13:39] OKAY.
[3:13:41] I'M A FOUR BY THE CLERK THAT
[3:13:44] THERE ARE TWO PERSONNEL.
[3:13:46] PERSONNEL ORDERS ABSENT.
[3:13:49] OBJECTION.
[3:13:49] THE PERSONNEL ORDERS WILL BE
[3:13:51] ADDED.
[3:13:51] MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ
[3:13:53] THE PERSONNEL ORDERS INTO THE
[3:13:55] RECORD.
[3:13:55] FIRST PERSONNEL.
[3:13:57] FIRSTLY FILE MANAGER THE.
[3:14:00] PERSONNEL ORDER.
[3:14:01] COUNSELOR BREEN FOR COUNSELOR
[3:14:03] MEDIA.
[3:14:04] AND SECOND PERSONNEL ORDER.
[3:14:06] COUNSELOR BRAIN FOR COUNSELOR.
[3:14:07] WE'RE UP.
[3:14:08] THANK YOU.
[3:14:09] THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE
[3:14:10] OF THESE PERSONNEL ORDERS.
[3:14:12] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[3:14:13] ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
[3:14:15] THE AYES HAVE IT.
[3:14:16] THANK YOU.
[3:14:16] THE LATE FILE PERSONNEL ORDERS
[3:14:18] MATTERS HAVE BEEN PASSED.
[3:14:21] OKAY.
[3:14:22] WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE
[3:14:23] CONSENT AGENDA.
[3:14:27] I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK
[3:14:28] THAT THERE'S ONE ADDITION TO
[3:14:29] THE CONSENT AGENDA.
[3:14:30] THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON
[3:14:32] APPROVAL OF VARIOUS MATTERS
[3:14:33] CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT
[3:14:34] AGENDA.
[3:14:35] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[3:14:36] RIGHT.
[3:14:37] THANK YOU.
[3:14:38] THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN
[3:14:39] ADOPTED.
[3:14:40] WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.
[3:14:42] PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR
[3:14:44] UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.
[3:14:46] DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY
[3:14:47] ANNOUNCEMENTS?
[3:14:50] OH I MISS GREEN SHEETS I
[3:14:51] APOLOGIZE.
[3:14:53] SORRY EVERYONE.
[3:14:56] WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE
[3:14:57] GREEN SHEETS.
[3:14:58] IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL
[3:14:59] ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS?
[3:15:02] YEAH.
[3:15:03] OKAY, GREAT.
[3:15:04] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU
[3:15:06] HAVE YOUR, UM, MICROPHONE ON.
[3:15:10] UH.
[3:15:10] MADAM CHAIR FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS.
[3:15:13] OKAY, GREAT.
[3:15:13] UM.
[3:15:16] UH, NO, WE DO ANNOUNCEMENTS
[3:15:17] FIRST.
[3:15:18] WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.
[3:15:19] PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR
[3:15:21] UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.
[3:15:22] UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU NOW
[3:15:23] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[3:15:25] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:15:26] MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANTED TO
[3:15:28] RECOGNIZE A CLOSE FRIEND
[3:15:30] OF MINE WHO I HAVE GREAT
[3:15:31] RESPECT FOR.
[3:15:32] UM, AS IT RELATES TO
[3:15:34] ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUT ON
[3:15:35] OCTOBER 17TH, UH, PASTOR BRUCE
[3:15:37] WALL IS RETIRING.
[3:15:39] AFTER 33 YEARS AS PASTOR
[3:15:42] OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES CHRISTIAN
[3:15:43] .
[3:15:43] CHURCH AND MORE THAN FIVE
[3:15:45] DECADES OF MINISTRY AND
[3:15:47] COMMUNITY SERVICE AS WELL.
[3:15:49] TOGETHER PASTOR WALL AND KAREN
[3:15:52] WALL PASTOR KAREN WALL HAVE
[3:15:54] DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO
[3:15:55] SERVING OTHERS, STRENGTHENING
[3:15:58] FAMILIES, MENTORING YOUNG
[3:15:59] PEOPLE, BRINGING PEOPLE
[3:16:01] TOGETHER ACROSS BOSTON.
[3:16:03] I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR
[3:16:04] MANY YEARS OF SERVICE AND
[3:16:06] CONGRATULATE THEM AS THEY BEGIN
[3:16:09] THIS NEXT CHAPTER.
[3:16:10] WHAT I WHAT I MOST RESPECT
[3:16:14] ABOUT PASTOR BRUCE WALL IS NOT
[3:16:18] JUST HIS SERVICE AS A AS A
[3:16:20] MEMBER OF THE CLERGY BUT WHO IS
[3:16:23] A CLERK MAGISTRATE IN THE COURT
[3:16:25] SYSTEM.
[3:16:26] HE WAS STILL ALWAYS BRINGING
[3:16:28] PEOPLE TOGETHER.
[3:16:28] HE NEVER GAVE UP ON ANYBODY.
[3:16:31] HE ALWAYS PROVIDED ENCOURAGING
[3:16:33] WORD.
[3:16:34] HE ALWAYS PROVIDED COMPASSION,
[3:16:36] PROVIDED HOPE.
[3:16:38] AND DURING BOSTON'S DIFFICULT
[3:16:40] DAYS UM PASTOR WALL WAS THERE
[3:16:43] ALONG WITH REVEREND CULPEPER
[3:16:45] AND SO MANY OTHERS JOHN WATERS
[3:16:49] SUPPORTERS.
[3:16:49] ,UM.
[3:16:50] REVEREND MICHAEL HAYNES.
[3:16:52] BUT THE CLERGY.
[3:16:54] CONTRIBUTED GREATLY.
[3:16:56] AND THEY STILL CONTRIBUTE
[3:16:57] GREATLY TO THE CITY OF BOSTON
[3:16:58] AND JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY
[3:17:01] FRIEND AND A WONDERFUL,
[3:17:03] WONDERFUL MEMBER OF THE
[3:17:04] COMMUNITY, PASTOR BRUCE PAUL
[3:17:06] AND HIS AND HIS WONDERFUL WIFE
[3:17:08] AS WELL.
[3:17:08] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:17:09] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[3:17:11] COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU NOW
[3:17:11] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[3:17:12] I WANT TO ANNOUNCE.
[3:17:13] THIS MORNING WE CELEBRATED.
[3:17:15] THE OPENING.
[3:17:16] OF THE.
[3:17:17] CVS AND NUBIAN SQUARE.
[3:17:19] WHAT A GREAT.
[3:17:20] ACCOMPLISHMENT AND ADDITION TO
[3:17:22] .
[3:17:23] THE ROXBURY MAIN.
[3:17:23] STREET KNOW THE WORK THAT
[3:17:26] THEY'VE BEEN DOING NUBIAN
[3:17:27] SQUARE I ALSO WANT TO ASSOCIATE
[3:17:29] MYSELF WITH THE REMARKS BY
[3:17:32] COUNCILOR FLYNN WITH REGARD TO,
[3:17:33] UH, REVEREND BRUCE WALL
[3:17:35] RETIRING LONGTIME FRIEND EVEN
[3:17:38] BEFORE HE WAS IN THE MINISTRY
[3:17:41] BEFORE WE WERE BOTH IN THE
[3:17:43] MINISTRY HE WAS A PROBATION
[3:17:45] OFFICER.
[3:17:45] I WAS A YOUNG LAWYER UH, EVEN
[3:17:48] BEFORE THAT AND WHEN WE WERE
[3:17:49] JUST YOUNGER, YOUNGER FOLKS,
[3:17:52] UH, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE
[3:17:53] BRUCE FOR ALL THAT HE'S DONE
[3:17:55] OVER THE YEARS BUILDING UP HIS
[3:17:58] RADIO TELEVISION STATION, UH,
[3:18:01] OVER THE YEARS IN THE CHURCH
[3:18:03] AND JUST HAVING A GREAT CAREER
[3:18:04] IN THE MINISTRY I HIS
[3:18:06] RETIREMENT PARTY IS COMING UP
[3:18:08] AS IS BISHOP BORDERS THIS
[3:18:10] SATURDAY UH, THE 10TH UH AND SO
[3:18:15] JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE THEM
[3:18:17] WHO REALLY MISS THEM AND THE
[3:18:19] MINISTRY FOR ALL THEY DO.
[3:18:21] WHO DO YOU CALL NOW WITHOUT UH
[3:18:24] ,BISHOP OR WITHOUT REVEREND
[3:18:26] LAW?
[3:18:26] SO I JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE
[3:18:28] THEM AND, UH, WISH THEM A VERY
[3:18:32] ,VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL AND,
[3:18:34] UH, FUN RETIREMENT.
[3:18:36] THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[3:18:38] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER
[3:18:39] .
[3:18:40] COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU KNOW
[3:18:41] BEFORE.
[3:18:42] THANK YOU.
[3:18:42] I JUST WANT TO ECHO MY
[3:18:43] COLLEAGUES AND UH, A LOT OF, UH
[3:18:45] .
[3:18:45] THE.
[3:18:46] PASTORS AND BISHOPS ARE
[3:18:48] RETIRING THIS YEAR.
[3:18:49] I JUST WANT TO ALSO ECHO.
[3:18:51] UH.
[3:18:52] UH, PASTOR BRUCE WALL AND
[3:18:53] EVERYTHING THAT HE'S GIVEN THE
[3:18:54] COMMUNITY AND UH, YOU KNOW,
[3:18:57] GALA PLANNING IS A LOT OF WORK
[3:18:58] AND SO I WANT TO JUST UPLIFT
[3:19:00] EVERYONE WHO'S CELEBRATING, UM
[3:19:01] AND PLANNING HIS A GALA
[3:19:03] CELEBRATION NEXT WEEKEND
[3:19:05] PARTICULARLY, UH, MY FELLOW
[3:19:06] HYDE PARK RESIDENT MARCELLA KIM
[3:19:07] JACKSON.
[3:19:08] THANK YOU.
[3:19:08] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[3:19:11] UH, WE'RE WISHING A VERY HAPPY
[3:19:13] BIRTHDAY TO DEBBIE GLENNON
[3:19:14] OF COUNCILOR BRADEN'S OFFICE.
[3:19:15] HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
[3:19:16] UM, I ALSO WANT TO REMIND
[3:19:18] EVERYBODY TO JOIN US FOR THE
[3:19:19] 2026 CITY COUNCIL HISPANIC AND
[3:19:21] LATINX HERITAGE MONTH
[3:19:22] CELEBRATION.
[3:19:22] THE CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD IN
[3:19:24] THE IRON CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY,
[3:19:26] OCTOBER 14TH AT 12 P.M. TAKING
[3:19:28] PLACE AFTER THE HISPANIC THAT
[3:19:29] FLAG RAISING AT 11 A.M. ON
[3:19:31] CITY.
[3:19:31] HALL PLAZA.
[3:19:32] WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO
[3:19:33] MEMORIALS.
[3:19:34] WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT A
[3:19:36] NAME?
[3:19:36] UM I SAW COUNCILOR WEBERS UH,
[3:19:39] LIGHT ON FIRST AND THEN WE'LL
[3:19:40] GO TO COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[3:19:43] OKAY.
[3:19:44] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[3:19:45] UM.
[3:19:45] TODAY MARKS THREE YEARS SINCE
[3:19:47] THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK BY HAMAS
[3:19:49] ON ISRAEL THAT KILLED
[3:19:50] APPROXIMATELY 12,000 PEOPLE IN
[3:19:53] ISRAEL AND WHERE 251 CIVILIANS
[3:19:56] AND SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE
[3:19:58] MANY, UH, NEVER TO BE SEEN
[3:20:00] ALIVE AGAIN.
[3:20:01] UH IN RESPONSE, ISRAEL LAUNCHED
[3:20:04] A COUNTERATTACK THAT ACCORDING
[3:20:05] TO RECENT COUNTS RESULTED IN
[3:20:08] 77,000 PALESTINIAN DEATHS AND
[3:20:10] OVER 150,000 INJURIES IN GAZA.
[3:20:13] UH, THE EVENTS OF OCTOBER.
[3:20:15] 7TH AND ITS AFTERMATH WILL
[3:20:17] BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE
[3:20:18] MOST TRAGIC CHAPTERS IN OUR
[3:20:20] SHARED.
[3:20:20] HISTORY AND UH, MANY OF US, YOU
[3:20:23] KNOW, MYSELF INCLUDED, STRUGGLE
[3:20:25] TO DEAL WITH THE SCOPE OF THE
[3:20:27] TRAUMA AND COMPLEXITY
[3:20:29] OF OCTOBER 7TH TODAY.
[3:20:31] UH, YOU KNOW MY THOUGHTS AND
[3:20:33] AGAIN, UH, I I'M SURE MANY
[3:20:35] OF MY COLLEAGUES JOIN ME OR
[3:20:36] WITH ALL THOSE WHO LOST LOVED
[3:20:38] ONES AND WHO HAVE SUFFERED AS A
[3:20:40] RESULT OF THE EVENTS OF THAT
[3:20:42] TERRIBLE DAY IN 2023.
[3:20:44] THANK YOU.
[3:20:46] COUNCIL WEBER.
[3:20:47] COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU KNOW FOR
[3:20:49] THAT.
[3:20:49] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:20:51] UM, THERE WAS SEVERAL PEOPLE IN
[3:20:55] MY COMMUNITY THAT RECENTLY
[3:20:57] PASSED AWAY.
[3:20:58] I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM
[3:21:00] BRIEFLY IF I MAY, BUT ONE
[3:21:03] PERSON, LARRY DWYER, WHO
[3:21:07] DEDICATED HIS CAREER TO SERVING
[3:21:08] BOSTON, WAS A YOUTH WORKER AT
[3:21:11] THE D STREET MULTI-SERVICE
[3:21:12] CENTER, LATER SERVED AS THE
[3:21:14] BOSTON, PA COMMISSIONER,
[3:21:16] COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND
[3:21:18] HOSPITALS.
[3:21:18] BEYOND HIS PROFESSIONAL
[3:21:20] ACCOMPLISHMENTS, LARRY WAS
[3:21:21] SOMEONE WHO WAS DEEPLY, DEEPLY
[3:21:23] COMMITTED TO HIS FAMILY, HIS
[3:21:25] FRIENDS, HIS COMMUNITY WAS A
[3:21:26] COACH AND SOFTBALL.
[3:21:28] HE PLAYED DRUMS WITH GOOD
[3:21:30] FRIENDS, SPENDING TIME IN HIS
[3:21:32] GARDEN ENJOYING ENJOYING A
[3:21:34] ROUND OF GOLF.
[3:21:35] HE BROUGHT ENERGY AND WARMTH TO
[3:21:38] EVERYTHING HE DID.
[3:21:39] HE WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE
[3:21:41] INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING
[3:21:43] IN SOUTH BOSTON CHARLESTOWN AS
[3:21:45] WELL UM ANOTHER SOUTH BOSTON.
[3:21:52] FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR WAS JOE LEE
[3:21:56] ,A DORCHESTER NATIVE.
[3:21:58] HE SPENT MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE
[3:22:00] IN SOUTH BOSTON.
[3:22:01] HE WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER.
[3:22:03] HE BECAME THE PRINCIPAL OF THE
[3:22:04] GAVIN'S SCHOOL COMES FROM A
[3:22:07] LARGE FAMILY UM HIS WIFE NANCY.
[3:22:10] THEY THEY SHARED.
[3:22:13] 55 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.
[3:22:13] THEY RAISED SEVEN CHILDREN.
[3:22:16] UM I EXTEND MY DEEPEST
[3:22:18] CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND
[3:22:20] MUCH OF THE WAKE LAST NIGHT FOR
[3:22:24] JOSEPH LEE AND AND LARRY DWYER
[3:22:27] AS WELL.
[3:22:28] I'M GOING TO MISS BOTH OF THEM.
[3:22:29] AND FINALLY UM ANOTHER ANOTHER
[3:22:32] WONDERFUL FRIEND FROM
[3:22:34] DORCHESTER WAS BOBBY.
[3:22:36] BOBBY AND.
[3:22:38] I WENT TO THE WAKE THIS MORNING
[3:22:40] NOW A RESIDENT OF CHARLESTOWN.
[3:22:43] UM BUT HE LIVED A REMARKABLE
[3:22:45] LIFE UM, AS A YOUTH WORKER, AS
[3:22:48] A TEACHER, UM, RUNNING HIS OWN
[3:22:51] BUSINESS, SERVING IN LEADERSHIP
[3:22:52] ROLES, THE FLYNN
[3:22:54] ADMINISTRATION.
[3:22:55] HE WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CIVIC
[3:22:57] POLITICAL LIFE.
[3:22:59] HE HAD MANY FRIENDS THROUGHOUT
[3:23:00] THE CITY.
[3:23:01] HE WAS DEVOTED TO HIS FAMILY,
[3:23:03] HIS ESPECIALLY PROUD OF HIS
[3:23:05] DAUGHTER ALEXIS WHO MANY PEOPLE
[3:23:07] KNOW HERE IN THIS I KNOW A
[3:23:09] CHAMBER AND HIS GODSON JOHN
[3:23:12] MCNAMEE SHARED COUNTLESS
[3:23:14] ADVENTURES AROUND BOSTON.
[3:23:16] HE WAS A READER.
[3:23:18] HE LOVED HISTORY, SPORTS NEVER
[3:23:21] NEVER FORGOT A BIRTHDAY.
[3:23:23] I EXTEND OUR DEEPEST
[3:23:26] CONDOLENCES TO ALEXIS JOHN BOB
[3:23:30] SIBLINGS, EXTENDED FAMILY UH
[3:23:32] BOB BY HIS GENEROSITY,
[3:23:35] CURIOSITY, HUMOR, COMMITMENT TO
[3:23:36] THE PEOPLE HE CARED ABOUT WILL
[3:23:38] BE DEEPLY MISSED AND I KNOW MY
[3:23:41] OTHER COLLEAGUES WILL PROBABLY
[3:23:43] MENTION, UM JUDGE HOUSTON A
[3:23:47] LIFE LIVED WELL THAT
[3:23:50] CONTRIBUTED.
[3:23:50] GREATLY NOT ONLY TO THE
[3:23:52] RESIDENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS BUT
[3:23:54] HELPING BRING THE CITY TOGETHER
[3:23:59] AND.
[3:24:00] MADE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON RACE
[3:24:02] RELATIONS AND UH, NEVER GIVING
[3:24:05] UP ON PEOPLE AS WELL.
[3:24:06] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:24:07] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[3:24:08] AND WAS IT LARRY DWYER?
[3:24:09] YES.
[3:24:10] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[3:24:13] .
[3:24:13] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:24:14] I'D ALSO LIKE TO UM AND TODAY'S
[3:24:17] MEETING IN HONOR OF BOBBY
[3:24:18] FINNERAN.
[3:24:19] UH, HE WAS JUST A GREAT GUY.
[3:24:21] GREGARIOUS, JUST CARED ABOUT
[3:24:24] REGULAR PEOPLE ALL TYPES
[3:24:26] OF PEOPLE, ALL TYPES OF THINGS.
[3:24:28] I WILL NEVER FORGET FIRST
[3:24:29] MEETING HIM.
[3:24:29] I WILL NEVER FORGET HIS WARMTH
[3:24:31] ,UH, THE WARMTH OF HIS
[3:24:33] DAUGHTER ALEXIS.
[3:24:34] AND SO I KNOW THAT SHE HER
[3:24:36] DAD WAS HER BEST FRIEND AND I
[3:24:38] CAN'T IMAGINE THE PAIN THAT
[3:24:39] SHE'S EXPERIENCING.
[3:24:40] SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE, UM, MY
[3:24:43] CONDOLENCES TO UH UM.
[3:24:46] UH, BOBBY.
[3:24:48] VETERAN'S FAMILY, ALL OF HIS
[3:24:49] SIBLINGS WHO WERE THERE THIS
[3:24:51] MORNING TO ALEXIS AND TO HIS
[3:24:55] GRANT TO ALEXIS, HIS HUSBAND,
[3:24:57] UH, KEVIN AND TO.
[3:25:00] UM JOHN ROBERT FITZGERALD, HIS
[3:25:02] GRANDSON WHO DEEPLY, DEEPLY
[3:25:03] LOVED HIS GRANDAD.
[3:25:04] THANK YOU.
[3:25:04] THANK YOU,
[3:25:06] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[3:25:06] COUNCILOR EARLE.
[3:25:09] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[3:25:10] AND I ALSO LIKE TO REMEMBER,
[3:25:12] UH, BOBBY FENNER AND I ALSO
[3:25:13] WANT TO UM, UH, REMEMBER THE
[3:25:16] LIFE OF RAHIM UH MUHAMMAD AS
[3:25:18] WELL WHO PASSED AWAY ON
[3:25:20] SEPTEMBER 26TH AFTER BATTLING
[3:25:23] UH, CONCILOR BREADON CANCER FOR
[3:25:24] 16 MONTHS.
[3:25:26] THANK YOU.
[3:25:27] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL
[3:25:28] .
[3:25:28] UM, I ALSO JUST WANT TO UPLIFT
[3:25:30] THE NAME OF, UM, BOBBY FINNERAN
[3:25:31] WHEN YOU'RE A STAFFER, PEOPLE
[3:25:34] TYPICALLY LOOK PAST YOU AND
[3:25:35] AND, UM, DON'T PAY ATTENTION.
[3:25:37] BUT HE WAS ALWAYS SOMEBODY IN
[3:25:39] CHARLESTOWN THAT WOULD ASK
[3:25:40] ME HOW I'M DOING AND PROVIDE,
[3:25:42] UH, WORDS OF ADVICE,
[3:25:43] ENCOURAGEMENT AND WISDOM.
[3:25:44] AND I LOVED HIS HUMOR AND, UM,
[3:25:47] APPRECIATED HIS SUPPORT AND UM,
[3:25:49] MY HEART GOES TO ALEXIS AND THE
[3:25:51] ENTIRE FINNER AND FAMILY.
[3:25:52] UM, PLEASE ACCEPT MY DEEPEST
[3:25:54] CONDOLENCES.
[3:25:54] THE LAST TIME I SAW BOBBY HE
[3:25:56] WAS WITH HIS GRANDSON AND HE
[3:25:57] WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH HE
[3:25:58] LOVED SPENDING TIME WITH HIS
[3:25:59] WITH HIS GRANDSON.
[3:26:01] SO UM, MY HEART TO HIS TO HIS,
[3:26:03] UH, GRANDSON AND, UM, ALL
[3:26:04] MEMBERS OF THE CENTER AND
[3:26:06] FAMILY.
[3:26:12] OKAY, SO ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR
[3:26:15] FLYNN LOUIJEUNE AND MYSELF,
[3:26:18] ROBERT BOB FINNERAN ON BEHALF
[3:26:21] OF COUNCILOR FLYNN, JOSEPH JOE
[3:26:24] LEE, LARRY DWYER AND JUSTICE
[3:26:28] JULIAN HOUSTON ON BEHALF
[3:26:30] OF COUNCILOR WORRELL RAHIM
[3:26:32] MUHAMMAD ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR
[3:26:35] FITZGERALD THERESA F TERRY
[3:26:39] NORTON DOWNEY WHO IS UM PAUL
[3:26:41] FLAHERTY'S MOM FROM THE CLERK'S
[3:26:42] OFFICE ON BEHALF OF MYSELF
[3:26:45] GERALD A JERRY DONNARUMMA AND
[3:26:49] ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR WEBER
[3:26:51] AND THE ENTIRE COUNCIL ALL
[3:26:53] THOSE LOST ON SEPTEMBER UH
[3:26:55] EXCUSE ME OCTOBER 7TH AND IN
[3:26:57] THE SUBSEQUENT WEEKS, MONTHS
[3:26:58] AND YEARS THEREAFTER.
[3:26:59] A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.
[3:27:08] THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE
[3:27:10] COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY DOES SO
[3:27:11] IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED
[3:27:12] INDIVIDUALS.
[3:27:13] THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO
[3:27:15] MEET AGAIN IN THE I KNOW THE
[3:27:16] CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY
[3:27:19] OCTOBER 21ST 2026 AT £0.12 PM.
[3:27:21] UM IT WAS AN HONOR AS AN SD
[3:27:22] CARD TO PRESIDE OVER THIS
[3:27:24] COUNCIL MEETING TODAY I WANT TO
[3:27:25] THANK MY COLLEAGUES, CENTRAL
[3:27:26] STAFF, THE CLERK AT THE CLERK'S
[3:27:27] OFFICE AND THE
[3:27:28] COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER ALL THOSE
[3:27:29] IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENTS I THE
[3:27:32] COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.
[3:27:32] THANK YOU EVERYBODY.