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3:08 L

3:09 PASTORAL EDUCATION AT JEFFERSON

3:11 UM EINSTEIN HOSPITAL IN

3:13 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND

3:14 AT HAVEN WOOD HERITAGE HEIGHTS

3:15 IN CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

3:17 IN THEIR ROLE AS MULTI-FAITH

3:18 CHAPLAIN, SARAH SUPPORTS THE

3:20 SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING

3:21 OF PATIENTS, THEIR LOVED ONES

3:22 AND STAFF AT DANA-FARBER.

3:24 SARAH'S WORK IS ROOTED IN

3:26 APPROACHES IN HUMANIST

3:27 PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

3:29 AND PEOPLE CENTERED CARE.

3:31 THEY ARE ENDORSED AS A CHAPLAIN

3:33 BY THE HUMANE SOCIETY AND WE'RE

3:35 SO HAPPY THAT THEY ARE HERE

3:36 WITH US.

3:42 THANK YOU.

3:43 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

3:46 I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY SHARING A

3:48 READING WRITTEN BY HOWARD

3:49 THURMAN FROM MEDITATIONS OF THE

3:52 HEART CALLED TWO AREAS OF NEED.

3:55 THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO AREAS

3:57 OF NEED IN WHICH ALL PEOPLE ARE

3:59 INVOLVED.

4:00 ONE IS THE INSISTENCE UPON

4:02 FINDING SOMETHING TO WORSHIP.

4:05 EVERYBODY HAS TO HAVE SOMETHING

4:06 TO WORSHIP.

4:07 IT IS NOT OPTIONAL.

4:10 IT IS NOT MERELY THE RESULT

4:11 OF SOME PARTICULARLY

4:12 SIGNIFICANT SPIRITUAL BIAS IN

4:15 PERSONALITY EITHER.

4:16 THERE IS SOMETHING NATIVE TO

4:18 THE HUMAN SPIRIT THAT INSISTS

4:21 UPON THE OFFERING OF ONE'S

4:22 PRECIOUS GIFTS PRECIOUS

4:25 POSSESSIONS.

4:26 OFFERING THEM TO SOMETHING

4:28 OUTSIDE OF ONESELF SOMETHING

4:30 THAT IS REGARDED AS SUPREMELY

4:33 WORTHWHILE.

4:35 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET A

4:36 VERY WONDERFUL PIECE OF GOOD

4:38 NEWS?

4:38 WHAT DO YOU DO?

4:40 YOU WANT TO TELL SOMEBODY

4:42 SOMEBODY WHO MEANS ENOUGH TO

4:43 YOU TO ACCEPT YOUR TIDINGS AS A

4:46 SYMBOL OF NEARNESS AND DEVOTION

4:49 ?

4:50 WHAT DO YOU WORSHIP?

4:52 WHAT DO YOU BRING THE MOST

4:54 PRECIOUS INCREMENTS OF YOUR

4:55 SPIRIT, YOUR MIND AND YOUR

4:58 POSSESSIONS.

4:59 THE NEED IS EVER PRESENT.

5:02 WHATEVER IT IS THAT HOLDS SO

5:04 CENTRAL A PLACE IN YOUR

5:05 REACTION TO LIVING THAT IS YOUR

5:08 ALL.

5:09 THERE IS ALSO THE NEED OF BEING

5:11 A PART OF THE FAMILY, THE HUMAN

5:13 FAMILY, THE HUMAN RACE.

5:16 I'M AWARE THAT ALL THE RACE IN

5:18 SOME MEANINGFUL SENSE BREATHES

5:20 THROUGH ME THAT I AM A PART

5:23 OF THE VERY PULSATING RHYTHM

5:26 OF EXISTENCE.

5:27 I AM NOT A THING APART.

5:29 I AM NOT A SEPARATE UNIT.

5:31 I AM DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE

5:33 COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE

5:35 OF ALIVENESS AND OF HUMAN

5:37 ALIVENESS.

5:39 IF I AM CUT OFF SO THAT ONLY MY

5:41 LITTLE LIFE BREATHES THROUGH

5:42 ME, ONLY MY LITTLE HOPES

5:45 COURSED THROUGH MY MIND AND

5:46 SPIRIT.

5:48 ONLY MY LITTLE THOUGHTS

5:49 PENETRATE MY BRAIN AND LIFE FOR

5:52 ME IS NOT WORTH LIVING.

5:54 I MUST HAVE A SENSE OF DEEP

5:57 CORPORATE VITALITY.

5:59 NOTHING LESS THAN THIS WILL

6:01 SATISFY.

6:03 THEREFORE I MUST MANAGE SOMEHOW

6:04 TO KEEP THE LINES

6:06 OF COMMUNICATION OPEN BETWEEN

6:08 ME AND THE HUMAN FAMILY.

6:10 HOW WONDERFUL IT IS IF I CAN DO

6:12 THIS BY LOVE, BY WARMTH, BY

6:15 KINDLING FLAME OF ABIDING

6:17 FELLOWSHIP.

6:19 OFTEN IF IT CANNOT BE DONE THAT

6:21 WAY THERE IS RESORT TO HEAT TO

6:24 ANTAGONISM TWO AGENCY.

6:27 THE SHOUTING OF DEFIANCE IS THE

6:29 CALL OF MY HEART FOR KINSHIP.

6:33 IF ONE CANNOT BECOME THE CENTER

6:34 OF AN INCREASING AFFECTION IN

6:37 THEIR DESPERATION THEY BECOME

6:38 THE CORE OF A GREAT REJECTION.

6:40 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.

6:42 THERE IS BUT ONE FAMILY UNDER

6:44 ALL.

6:44 AND I AM A MEMBER OF IT.

6:49 IN MY WORK AS THE CHAPLAIN AT

6:51 DANA-FARBER, UM, I FREQUENTLY

6:53 WONDER ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO

6:55 PROVIDE CARE.

6:56 WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CARE?

7:00 IN HER ESSAY TITLED WHO CARES?

7:02 POLITICAL SCIENTIST AND AUTHOR

7:04 JOAN TORONTO STATES.

7:05 NEEDS NEVER END UNTIL WE DIE.

7:09 CARE IS ALWAYS PRESENT, RARELY

7:11 VISIBLE, ALWAYS REQUIRING

7:14 SOMETHING FROM US.

7:17 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CARE?

7:21 I IMAGINE IN TODAY'S MEETING

7:23 THIS COUNCIL WILL INDEED TAKE

7:25 CARE IN REVIEWING THE ITEMS ON

7:28 TODAY'S AGENDA AND

7:29 CONTEMPLATING HOW BEST TO MEET

7:31 THE NEEDS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

7:33 .

7:35 THEN LET US PREPARE FOR THE

7:37 TASK AHEAD WITH A MOMENT

7:39 OF QUIETUDE AND A BLESSING.

7:54 MAY A SPIRIT OF WISDOM,

7:57 DISCERNMENT AND COMPASSION

7:59 GUIDE THE CONTEMPLATIONS AND

8:02 DECISIONS OF THIS

8:03 COUNCIL TODAY.

8:05 MAY A SPIRIT OF SIBLING HOOD

8:07 AND FRIENDSHIP BE IN THE HEARTS

8:09 OF ALL PERSONS IN THE CITY

8:11 OF BOSTON AND MAY WE

8:14 COLLECTIVELY STRIVE TO CREATE A

8:16 MORE CARING WORLD TOGETHER.

8:21 THANK YOU.

8:23 THANK YOU SO.

8:26 MUCH.

8:27 ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG.

8:28 OF THE UNITED STATES.

8:30 OF AMERICA AND TO THE

8:31 REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS

8:33 ONE NATION UNDER GOD,

8:37 INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND

8:39 JUSTICE FOR ALL.

8:46 THANK YOU SARAH.

8:47 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

8:48 UM.

8:50 I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW INVITE

8:52 UM, THE UM A BIG UH UH.

8:58 THE MA BIG GROUP CONTRACT GROUP

9:01 TO COME FORWARD.

9:01 UM, FOR A PHOTO WE HAVE A

9:05 RESOLUTION FOR WITH AND SUPPORT

9:07 OF THEY MAY BE AND THEY'RE, UH

9:09 ,SEEKING A FAIR CONTRACT.

9:11 UM, AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME

9:13 UP, WE HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH WITH

9:14 OUR COLLEAGUES.

9:15 COLLEAGUES THAT WOULD COME UP.

9:16 WE'LL HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH WITH

9:17 THEM.

9:17 THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION

9:19 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY

9:20 IMPAIRED COMMUNITY SERVICES MAB

9:23 WAS FOUNDED IN 1903 AND HAS

9:25 LONG CREATED OPPORTUNITIES AND

9:27 EMPOWERED PEOPLE WITH

9:28 DISABILITIES THROUGH PROGRAMS

9:29 THAT PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE,

9:30 RESILIENCE AND COMMUNITY.

9:32 UH, TODAY'S RESOLUTION IS THAT

9:35 THE BOSTON CITY

9:37 COUNCIL EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR

9:38 THE MAB COMMUNITY SERVICE

9:40 WORKERS REPRESENTED BY SEIU FOR

9:42 509 AND CALLS UPON THE MAB

9:45 COMMUNITY SERVICES TO PROMPTLY

9:47 AND MEANINGFULLY, MEANINGFULLY

9:49 RESPOND TO ALL MY MEMBERS

9:51 CONTRACT PROPOSALS AND SPEEDILY

9:53 REACH A FAIR CONTRACT WITHOUT

9:54 DELAY.

9:55 SO WELCOME.

10:00 THIS.

10:03 UM.

10:05 SO THIS ISN'T A FORMAL

10:07 PRESENTATION.

10:08 WE WANT TO HAVE A RESOLUTION SO

10:09 WE'LL JUST HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH

10:10 OF OUR, UH, COLLEAGUES.

10:13 SO, UH, ARE YOU IN, UM, I WAS.

10:16 THINKING COME FORWARD.

10:17 COME, COME.

10:20 COME FORWARD UP TO THE FRONT.

10:24 SO THANK YOU.

10:25 I WORKED AT PERKINS SCHOOL FOR

10:27 THE BLIND FOR 16 YEARS AND I

10:28 REALLY APPRECIATE THE

10:30 IMPORTANCE OF CARE WORKERS LIKE

10:32 THE FOLKS WHO THERE MAY BE WHO

10:33 HELP SUPPORT OUR, UH, FOLKS

10:35 WITH, UH, VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AS

10:37 THEY, UH, LIVE INDEPENDENTLY IN

10:39 THE COMMUNITY AND UH AND ALSO

10:41 AS THEY AGE AND PLACE LATER ON

10:43 IN THEIR LIVES.

10:44 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH

10:45 AND I WISH YOU, UH, ALL THE

10:47 BEST IN YOUR CONTRACT

10:49 NEGOTIATIONS AND A SPEEDY

10:50 RESOLUTION.

10:50 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK

10:52 YOU.

10:52 AND WE'LL.

10:53 HOLD THIS OFF.

11:00 GOOD.

11:03 THANK YOU.

11:17 ANYONE?

11:19 THANK YOU.

11:27 SO WHEN NEXT WE WILL HAVE, UM,

11:29 TWO PRESENTATIONS TODAY.

11:32 UH UH, COLLEAGUES,

11:34 COUNCILOR WEBER IS RECOGNIZING

11:36 BHP'S GIRLS SPORTS COACHES.

11:38 AND COUNCILOR SANTANA IS

11:40 RECOGNIZING BHP'S SYDNEY

11:41 BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS.

11:42 LOTS OF ATHLETES IN THE ROOM

11:44 AND CULTURAL WELL, ARE YOU YOU

11:47 CONSIDER SANTANA AND COUNTRY

11:49 WELL EXCELLENT.

11:50 SO WE'LL START IT OFF.

11:52 COUNCILOR WEBER, UM, YOU HAVE

11:53 THE FLOOR FOR FIVE MINUTES.

11:54 DO YOU WANT TO INVITE YOUR.

11:57 FOCUSED ON.

11:58 YEAH.

11:58 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

12:00 UH, IF I GET, UH, JOHN CONNELLY

12:02 AND CLAUDIA PRUDENTIAL.

12:05 UH, CLARITA.

12:06 SORRY.

12:07 PRUDENTIAL DOWN HERE.

12:14 OKAY, SO SO YEAH.

12:16 YOU KNOW, JUST IN THE SAME

12:18 BEHIND ME.

12:19 OKAY.

12:24 UH, TODAY I HAVE THE HONOR

12:26 OF PRESENTING, UH, TWO

12:27 RESOLUTIONS TO TWO INCREDIBLE

12:28 INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE MADE A

12:29 DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES

12:30 OF COUNTLESS GIRLS INVOLVED IN

12:32 YOUTH SPORTS HERE IN BOSTON.

12:34 UH, WITH ME TODAY ARE, UH,

12:37 PARKWAY GIRLS SOCCER COACH, UH

12:38 ,AND, UH, FORMER AT-LARGE CITY

12:41 COUNCILOR JOHN CONNOLLY AND UH

12:44 CLARIDA PRUDENTIAL WHO IS THE

12:45 HEAD VOLLEYBALL COACH AT EAST

12:47 BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL.

12:49 UM I'M GOING TO START WITH UH

12:51 COACH PRUDENTIAL UH, WHO HAS

12:53 BEEN HARD AT WORK AS THE HEAD

12:56 OF THE GIRLS UH HEAD COACH

12:57 OF THE GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TEAM AT

12:58 EAST BOSTON HIGH.

13:00 UM I AM PRESENTING THIS

13:01 RESOLUTION ON BEHALF

13:02 OF DISTRICT ONE CITY

13:04 COUNCILOR GABRIELLE COLLETTA

13:05 ZAPATOS UH, CURRENTLY OUT ON

13:06 MATERNITY LEAVE.

13:07 UM, WE ASKED UH, FOR TO

13:11 RECOGNIZE SOMEBODY WHO'S MADE A

13:13 DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OUR,

13:15 UH, GIRL ATHLETES HERE IN

13:17 BOSTON AND, UH, AND WE WERE

13:20 TOLD COACH PRUDENTIAL WAS THE

13:22 PERSON TO RECOGNIZE, UH, AN

13:24 EAST BOSTON HIGH ALUM AND

13:26 FORMER MEMBER OF THE CITY

13:27 LEAGUE, UH, VOLLEYBALL AND

13:29 SOFTBALL ALL STAR TEAMS.

13:31 UH COACH CLARIDA BECAME A

13:33 MEMBER OF THE EAST BOSTON HIGH

13:34 SCHOOL STAFF IN 2021 AND HAD A

13:37 TERRIFIC FIRST SEASON AS HEAD

13:38 OF THE VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM WITH

13:40 TEN WINS AND THREE LOSSES WITH

13:42 HER FORMER TEAMMATE UH JESSICA

13:45 SARAVIA UH SERVING AS UM HER

13:47 ASSISTANT COACH UH UNDER HER

13:50 LEADERSHIP THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM

13:50 BECAME AN MIA TOURNAMENT

13:54 QUALIFIER IN 2022 AND 2024.

13:57 AS A LEADER UH COACH NCO CAN BE

13:59 DESCRIBED AS AN ORGANIZED AND

14:00 DISCIPLINED COACH WHO'S WELL

14:01 CONNECTED TO THE NEEDS OF HER

14:02 TEAM IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION

14:04 WITH PARENTS AND FAMILIES AND

14:07 UH AND IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER

14:09 OF THE EAST BOSTON HIGH

14:10 COMMUNITY.

14:11 UH COACH PRUDENTIAL IS

14:12 CURRENTLY TEACHES PHYSICS AT

14:13 EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL AND UM

14:17 UH HAS UH HAS REALLY SHOWN

14:20 EXCELLENCE UH IN COACHING THAT

14:22 THAT TEAM I KNOW I'VE BEEN TO

14:24 SOME VOLLEYBALL GAMES MY

14:25 DAUGHTER GOES TO BELLA WAS ON

14:27 THE JV TEAM AND SO UH WE SAW

14:29 HOW WELL DRILLED THE EAST

14:30 BOSTON TEAM WAS.

14:31 ALTHOUGH I'M NOT SURE WHO WON

14:32 THIS YEAR I COULD HAVE BEEN

14:34 PLAY BUT UM UH WE WE WE DON'T

14:37 HAVE ANY FAVORITES HERE.

14:39 UM EXCEPT RIGHT NOW WE'RE OUR

14:41 FAVORITE IS EAST BOSTON HIGH.

14:42 UM, SO I HAVE A RESOLUTION HERE

14:44 FOR, UH, COACH CLARIDA I IF YOU

14:48 WOULD LIKE TO.

14:49 COME UP UM, AND, UH, HERE.

14:54 IF YOU WOULD LIKE.

14:54 TO SAY ANYTHING, I RECOGNIZE

14:56 YOU.

14:57 WHOEVER'S WITH YOU.

14:58 OKAY.

14:59 JUST, UM.

15:01 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

15:03 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE

15:05 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AND BOSTON

15:06 PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ATHLETICS

15:07 FOR THIS INCREDIBLE HONOR AS A

15:09 PROUD EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL

15:10 GRADUATE AND FORMER STUDENT

15:11 ATHLETE, IT MEANS SO MUCH TO

15:13 COME BACK.

15:13 AND COACH.

15:14 AT THE SCHOOL THAT.

15:14 HELPED SHAPE WHO I AM.

15:15 THIS RECOGNITION.

15:16 BELONGS TO MY PLAYERS, MY

15:18 ASSISTANT COACHES, FAMILIES AND

15:19 THE ENTIRE EAST BOSTON

15:20 COMMUNITY.

15:21 THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING ME AND

15:22 MAKING OUR PROGRAM WHAT IT IS

15:23 TODAY.

15:24 I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE

15:25 OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK AND

15:26 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO

15:27 SUPPORT AND INSPIRE THE NEXT

15:28 GENERATION OF STUDENT ATHLETES

15:31 .

15:31 THANK YOU.

15:35 OKAY.

15:36 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

15:37 UH, WE'RE ALSO JOINED TODAY,

15:40 UH, BY A TEAM MEMBER OF THIS

15:44 BODY, UH, JOHN CONNOLLY.

15:46 UM, UH, HE SERVED FOR THREE

15:48 TERMS AS AN AT LARGE CITY

15:50 COUNCILOR.

15:50 UH, I WAS HERE NOW FOR HIS WORK

15:52 ON EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL

15:53 MATTERS GOING ON TO BECOME THE

15:55 FOUNDER AND LEADER, UH, AN

15:56 ADVISOR IN THE NONPROFIT SCHOOL

15:57 FOR BOSTON AND ALSO THE

15:59 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER

16:02 OF 1647 FAMILIES OVER THERE.

16:03 OKAY.

16:04 UM, AND GIVEN HIS INTEREST IN

16:05 PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE YOUTH

16:07 IN OUR CITY, IT'S NO SURPRISE

16:08 THAT COUNCILOR CONNOLLY IS NOW

16:10 NOSE COACH CONNELLY.

16:11 UM, AS PRESIDENT OF PARKWAY

16:13 TRAVEL SOCCER, HE'S HELPED GROW

16:15 THE WEST ROXBURY BASED PROGRAM,

16:17 UH, TO NEARLY 600 GIRLS

16:20 PARTICIPATING THIS SEASON ALONE

16:21 .

16:21 HIS LONG STANDING COMMITMENT TO

16:22 YOU SOCCER UM, YOU KNOW, IN

16:25 WEST ROXBURY AND, UH, I KNOW

16:28 FAMILIES COME FROM UH, HYDE

16:30 PARK AND ROSLINDALE AND JAMAICA

16:32 PLAIN ALSO, UH, HAS MADE HIM A

16:33 CITY PARTNER, UH, TO THE BOSTON

16:35 SOCCER LEAGUE SINCE ITS

16:37 INAUGURAL UH PILOT SEASONS

16:39 SUPPORTING GIRLS PARTICIPATION

16:41 ACCESS TO SPORT ACROSS THE

16:43 CITY.

16:43 I KNOW, UH, WHEN I PLAYED

16:45 SOCCER AS A KID, NONE OF THE

16:46 PARENTS KNEW HOW THE SPORT

16:48 WORKED AND THERE WAS ONE PERSON

16:50 IN MY HOMETOWN WHO WAS FROM A

16:52 LONG GONE COUNTRY CALLED

16:54 YUGOSLAVIA BECAUSE HE WAS NOT

16:55 FROM THE UNITED STATES.

16:57 HE MUST KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT

16:59 SOCCER.

16:59 SO HE WAS THE SOCCER COACH IN

17:00 THE TOWN AND TOWNS LIKE THAT

17:02 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY RELIED ON

17:04 PEOPLE JUST TO ORGANIZE

17:05 SOMETHING AROUND SOCCER.

17:07 AND SO YOU KNOW AND THAT THAT

17:08 BACK THEN IT WAS A FEW KIDS

17:10 HERE AND THERE WHO WOULD BE

17:11 PLAYING NOW IT'S PEOPLE LIKE

17:13 JOHN CONNOLLY, YOU KNOW, WHO

17:15 ARE REALLY GATHERING

17:16 COMMUNITIES AND SETTING UP THE

17:17 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CAN HANDLE

17:19 UH, PROVIDING COACHING JERSEYS

17:21 ,YOU KNOW, UH SHIN GUARDS, UH

17:24 AND TEAMS FOR 600 UH GIRLS IN

17:27 PARK SOCCER ALONE AND IT'S THAT

17:29 KIND OF, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY

17:31 ORGANIZING AND ORGANIZING

17:32 AROUND SOCCER THAT IS REALLY

17:34 YOU KNOW, IT REALLY BENEFITS

17:35 ALL OF OUR UH ALL OF OUR

17:38 NEIGHBORHOODS.

17:38 AND YOU KNOW, I'M PROUD TO BE

17:40 ABLE TO STAND UP HERE, UH, WITH

17:42 COACH CONNELLY AND AND

17:43 RECOGNIZE HIM FOR HIS WORK, UH,

17:47 WITH PARKWAY SOCCER.

17:54 UM.

17:55 THANK UH.

17:56 THANK YOU.

17:57 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR THE KIND

17:58 WORDS AND, UM, THANK YOU, UH,

18:01 PRESIDENT BRITTON FOR ALL YOUR

18:02 GOOD WORK AND THANK YOU.

18:04 UH, COUNCILORS.

18:05 IT'S GREAT TO SEE SO MANY

18:07 FAMILIAR FACES AND TO SEE SOME

18:08 NEW ONES AND, UH, I KNOW HOW

18:10 HARD YOU WORK, UH, ON BEHALF

18:12 OF THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I

18:14 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR YOUR

18:15 HARD WORK.

18:16 UH, IN THE PARKWAY WE STARTED

18:19 PARKWAY GIRLS SOCCER THIS PAST

18:21 YEAR, UH, FOR 5 TO 8 YEAR OLDS

18:24 TO, UH, HAVE AN ENTRY POINT FOR

18:25 AN ALL GIRLS UH, SOCCER LEAGUE.

18:28 WE HAD, UH, OVER 100 GIRLS SIGN

18:30 UP LIKE THAT UM, WHICH REALLY

18:32 SHOWED, UH, THE DEMAND FOR IT

18:34 UH, PRIMARILY GIRLS FROM WEST

18:35 ROXBURY, ROSLINDALE, JAMAICA

18:37 PLAIN, HYDE PARK BUT ALSO GIRLS

18:39 FROM MATTAPAN, DORCHESTER AND

18:41 BRIGHTON UM, WHO PLAY IN IT UH

18:44 AS WELL.

18:45 IT'S INCREDIBLE TO SEE THE

18:46 SMILES ON THEIR FACES AS

18:47 THEY'RE LEARNING THE GAME UM,

18:49 FOR THE FIRST TIME BUT ALSO TO

18:51 KNOW, UH, THAT THEY'RE

18:52 DEVELOPING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND

18:54 LEADERSHIP SKILLS UM, AT THE

18:55 SAME TIME AND I WOULD BE REMISS

18:57 IF I DIDN'T SAY THAT PARKWAY

18:59 GIRLS SOCCER WAS FOUNDED BY,

19:01 UM, SEVEN PARENTS, FIVE OF WHOM

19:04 ARE MOMS.

19:04 UM, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

19:06 ORGANIZATION IS IS A, UH, MOM

19:08 AND A NURSE WHO COULDN'T BE

19:09 HERE TODAY BECAUSE SHE HAD TO

19:11 WORK.

19:11 UM, AND SO I'M I'M HONORED TO

19:13 ACCEPT THIS ON BEHALF OF ALL

19:14 OF THEM.

19:15 AND I WOULD ALSO SAY, UM, THE

19:17 LION'S SHARE OF OUR COACHES ARE

19:19 MOMS.

19:19 UM, AND SO THIS IS REALLY AN

19:21 INCREDIBLE THING.

19:22 WE LOVE HAVING THE DADS TOO.

19:24 I IT'S MY FAVORITE PART OF THE

19:25 WEEK.

19:26 BUT TO KNOW THAT THESE LITTLE

19:27 GIRLS SEE MOMS IN COACHING

19:29 LEADERSHIP ROLES, UH, AND THE

19:31 IMPACT THAT WILL HAVE ON NOT

19:33 HOPEFULLY JUST CREATING UH

19:34 GIRLS WHO ARE GOING TO LOVE

19:35 SOCCER LOVE PLAYING IT BUT WHO

19:37 WILL THEN GO ON TO COACH IT AT

19:39 SOME POINT IN THEIR LIVES.

19:40 AND SO AGAIN THANK YOU FOR ALL

19:43 YOUR GREAT WORK UH, FOR

19:44 EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR THE CITY

19:46 I BELIEVE I MEAN I UNDERSTAND

19:48 HOW HARD YOU WORK.

19:49 UM AND THANK YOU,

19:50 COUNCILOR WEBER.

19:55 AND LIKE OUR COLLEAGUES TO.

19:56 COME UP FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.

19:56 THANK.

20:02 THANK THE EXCITEMENT AROUND

20:04 SOCCER.

20:05 UH, I THINK THERE'S A WHOLE NEW

20:06 GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE

20:07 GOING TO BE WANTING TO PLAY

20:09 SOCCER AFTER THE WORLD CUP THIS

20:10 YEAR, SO.

20:13 LET'S JUST.

20:44 JUST JUST EXCELLENT.

20:50 THANK YOU.

20:50 SO.

21:00 JUST.

21:06 SO.

21:13 I KNOW I GET TOGETHER YEAH WE

21:15 GET TO GET.

21:18 I WAS COMING A.

21:24 SO THANK YOU COUNCILOR WEBER UH

21:26 NEXT TO CONSIDER SANTANA UM

21:28 CONTRA SANTANA AND CONTROL

21:30 WORRELL I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE

21:32 CITY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS.

21:39 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

21:41 UH, TODAY STEAM AS STUDENT

21:43 SPORT.

21:43 UH, BUT BEFORE I DIVE INTO MY

21:45 REMARKS.

21:45 I WANT TO.

21:46 RECOGNIZE, UH, PRISCILLA FLYNN.

21:48 AND THE MARCUS ANTHONY HALL

21:50 EDUCATIONAL, UH, INSTITUTE FOR

21:52 BEING HERE IN THE CHAMBERS WITH

21:53 US.

21:53 YES.

21:55 WE GIVE THEM A ROUND

21:56 OF APPLAUSE.

22:01 BUT LET'S GIVE IT UP, UH.

22:03 FOR OUR.

22:04 UH, ELEMENTARY.

22:06 AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

22:06 CITY CHAMPIONS WHO CAN MAKE

22:09 THEIR WAY DOWN.

22:14 I KNOW FOR MANY COUNSELORS.

22:16 THAT MIDDLE SCHOOL

22:17 ATHLETICS.

22:18 HAS BEEN AN AREA OF FOCUS AND

22:19 IT'S BEEN.

22:20 SOMETHING THAT BP'S HAS BEEN

22:21 FOCUS ON SO THAT ALL STUDENTS

22:24 HAVE ACCESS TO, UH, SUPPORTS

22:26 ACROSS THE CITY.

22:27 UH, THE RESULTS OF THAT IS

22:29 COMPETITIONS LIKE OUR CITY

22:31 CHAMPIONSHIP.

22:31 WHICH NOW UH, HAD.

22:33 ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.

22:34 CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS.

22:36 I WANT TO THANK UH, AVERY UH,

22:38 FROM BP'S ATHLETIC AND ALSO

22:40 CHIEF MCCARTHY.

22:42 AND HIS WHOLE STUDENT SUPPORT

22:43 TEAM.

22:44 AT BP'S.

22:44 AND I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE.

22:46 THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS.

22:48 WE HAVE THE CONDON SCHOOL LED

22:50 BY BRITTANY ELLIS AND.

22:51 NICK WILLIAMS WHICH WON THE K

22:54 THROUGH.

22:54 EIGHT BOYS CITY CHAMPIONSHIP.

22:56 LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND

22:57 OF APPLAUSE.

23:01 THE ENGLISH HIGH TEAM LED BY

23:05 ANTHONY SEYMOUR.

23:06 YES.

23:09 WHICH WON UH THE 7 TO 12 BOYS

23:11 SCHOOLS CITY CHAMPIONSHIP.

23:13 YES GO ENGLISH AND THEY WERE

23:16 AND THEY.

23:17 AND.

23:17 THEY AND THEN WE.

23:18 HAVE UH THE MILDRED AT SCHOOL

23:20 LED BY TINA ANDERSON.

23:21 WHICH WON THE GIRLS.

23:22 MIDDLE SCHOOL CITY

23:25 CHAMPIONSHIP.

23:25 OH.

23:30 INVESTMENTS AND STUDENT

23:31 ATHLETES SHOWCASE EXCELLENCE ON

23:32 THE COURT.

23:33 AND IN OUR CLASSROOMS.

23:36 SO, UH, LET'S GIVE UH, THESE

23:38 COACHES AND STUDENT ATHLETES A

23:39 ROUND.

23:40 OF APPLAUSE.

23:40 AND LET'S BRING UP COUNSELOR

23:42 SANTANA.

23:45 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ARROYO.

23:47 TODAY WE ARE PROUD TO

23:48 RECOGNIZE.

23:49 OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE

23:50 THE MENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

23:51 CITY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS.

23:53 WE CELEBRATE THE HARD WORK,

23:55 DEDICATION, TEAMWORK.

23:56 AND PERSEVERANCE THOSE STUDENT

23:57 ATHLETES HAVE SHOWN THROUGHOUT

23:58 THE SEASON.

24:00 UM I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE

24:02 THE COACHES.

24:03 THE FAMILIES.

24:05 UM THE BROTHERS.

24:06 I KNOW THERE'S A BROTHER IN

24:07 HERE SUPPORTING HIS LITTLE

24:08 BROTHER HERE.

24:08 UM, THE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES WHO

24:10 SUPPORT UH MADE THESE

24:11 ACHIEVEMENTS POSSIBLE.

24:13 IT IS NOW MY PLEASURE TO ALSO

24:15 INTRODUCE UM ALL BEFORE WE DO

24:18 HAVE A RESOLUTION.

24:19 SO I WILL INTRODUCE COACH RANDY

24:20 FIRST AND THEN WE HAVE UM

24:21 RESOLUTIONS FOR ALL OF OUR OUR

24:23 COACHES HERE.

24:25 UM, BUT IT IS MY PLEASURE TO

24:26 INTRODUCE COACH RANDY SEYMOUR

24:27 AND DEDICATED UM, EDUCATOR AND

24:30 LEADER WHOSE COMMITMENT TO

24:31 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, ATHLETICS

24:33 AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS CONTINUES

24:34 TO MAKE A LASTING IMPACT ON

24:36 STUDENTS ACROSS BOSTON CLOSE TO

24:39 THEM.

24:39 SO MORE IS DRIVEN BY DEEP

24:41 PASSION FOR EDUCATION AND

24:42 SPORTS AND BELIEVES THAT

24:44 AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS.

24:46 TEAMWORK.

24:46 TRUST AND COLLABORATION ARE

24:48 ESSENTIAL TO DEVELOPING

24:49 LIFELONG LEARNERS.

24:51 THROUGH HIS COMMITMENT TO

24:52 SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS AND

24:53 FOSTERING STRONG COMMUNITY

24:55 PARTNERSHIPS, HE HAS

24:56 CREATED MEANINGFUL

24:57 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

24:58 BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE

25:00 CLASSROOM.

25:01 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING

25:04 COACH RANDY SOME MORE.

25:08 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

25:10 AFTERNOON I WOULD.

25:12 LIKE TO BEGIN BY THANKING

25:13 BOSTON.

25:14 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

25:15 ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT.

25:16 UH, CITY COUNCILOR SANTANA AND

25:18 CITY.

25:18 COUNCIL MOREAU FOR ORGANIZING

25:20 TODAY'S CELEBRATION HERE AT.

25:21 CITY HALL.

25:22 WE ARE PROUD.

25:24 TO HONOR OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL

25:25 BASKETBALL CITY CHAMPIONS THE.

25:28 CONDON BOYS.

25:28 BASKETBALL TEAM.

25:29 UH, THE MILDRED.

25:32 GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM.

25:36 FOR WINNING.

25:37 THE K THROUGH EIGHT BRACKET IN

25:39 THE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLE

25:41 SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL.

25:42 TEAM FOR WINNING.

25:43 THE 7 TO 12 BRACKET.

25:48 IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO SPEAK TO

25:51 YOU ALL TODAY.

25:52 I AM RANDI SEYMOUR AND

25:53 INCLUSION MATH TEACHER AND

25:54 COACH COACH ALONGSIDE JOSH

25:56 GRESHAM.

25:57 SO POP IT UP FOR COACH JACKSON

25:59 FOR.

26:00 THE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL

26:01 MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL

26:02 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM.

26:04 AS EDUCATORS AND COACHES, WE

26:05 STRIVE TO SUPPORT THE WHOLE

26:07 CHILD BY FOSTERING TEAMWORK,

26:08 TRUST AND TENACITY.

26:10 OUR STUDENT ATHLETES PROVE THAT

26:13 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

26:14 ECHOING KEVIN GARNETT AFTER THE

26:16 CELTICS 2008 CHAMPIONSHIP.

26:18 I WAS GOING TO SAY ANYTHING IS

26:20 POSSIBLE BY SHOWING INCREDIBLE

26:23 SPORTSMANSHIP, TEAMWORK AND

26:25 CONSISTENCY ON THAT PATH TO

26:26 WINNING THE 2026 MIDDLE SCHOOL

26:28 CITY CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT TO

26:30 ALL THE STUDENT ATHLETES WITH

26:32 US THIS AFTERNOON CONTINUE TO

26:35 TAKE PRIDE AND SHARE AND JOY IN

26:36 DEDICATING YOURSELVES TO.

26:38 IMPORTANT LEARNING.

26:39 OPPORTUNITIES BOTH ON AND OFF

26:41 THE COURT.

26:41 THIS LEVEL OF COMMITMENT BUILDS

26:43 CRITICAL THINKING, LIVE SKILLS,

26:45 PROMOTES POSITIVITY AND

26:47 CONSISTENTLY ENHANCES YOUR

26:48 PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL GROWTH.

26:51 TO MY FELLOW COACHES AND

26:52 ADMINISTRATORS, LET'S KEEP

26:54 INVESTING IN OUR SCHOOL

26:55 COMMUNITIES TO EMPOWER OUR

26:56 STUDENT ATHLETES RIGHT HERE IN

26:58 BOSTON TO OUR FAMILIES AND

27:01 COLLEAGUES WE ALL SHARE A

27:03 PROFOUND GRATITUDE FOR YOU FOR

27:05 YOUR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE,

27:07 PATIENCE AND UNWAVERING SUPPORT

27:09 THAT YOU SHOWED TO OUR STUDENT

27:12 ATHLETES AS WE MANAGED AND

27:13 ADAPTED GAMES COACHES ALL

27:15 SEASON LONG.

27:16 .

27:17 ULTIMATELY.

27:18 RAISING A CHILD REQUIRES A

27:19 COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY EFFORT AND

27:22 EVERY ONE OF US.

27:23 PLAY A VITAL ROLE.

27:24 IN THAT COMMUNITY.

27:26 SO WE WANT TO GIVE A HUGE

27:28 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FAMILIES

27:30 ,OUR COACHES AND MORE

27:32 IMPORTANTLY OUR STUDENT

27:34 ATHLETES.

27:36 YOU ARE ALL TRUE CHAMPIONS.

27:38 THANK YOU FOR.

27:42 THANK YOU COACH.

27:43 UM AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL

27:45 OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AGAIN.

27:47 UM AND UH AS COACH MENTIONED I

27:49 THINK.

27:50 IT TAKES.

27:50 A VILLAGE.

27:51 UM SO THANK YOU TO OUR COACHES,

27:52 OUR TEACHERS.

27:53 UM OUR FAMILIES OF.

27:55 THE MOTHERS UH MOTHERS,

27:57 FATHERS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS

27:59 IT TAKES ALL RIGHT.

28:00 SO, UM, RIGHT NOW I JUST WANT

28:02 TO BE ABLE TO.

28:04 SAY OH.

28:05 I THINK WE HAVE A YOUNG MAN

28:06 WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS.

28:07 ABSOLUTELY.

28:09 ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.

28:10 DRESSED HERE.

28:11 I WAS VOLUNTEERED AS.

28:13 JIMMY FOR THIS.

28:13 I DID NOT WANT TO DO.

28:14 THIS BUT, UM.

28:16 WE WORKED REALLY HARD

28:16 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ON OUR

28:18 ACADEMICS TO STAY ON THE TEAM

28:20 AS WELL AS TRYING TO GET POINTS

28:21 TO LIKE WIN IT ALL AND WE WORK

28:23 REALLY HARD TO BECOME CHAMPIONS

28:25 .

28:26 SO YEAH.

28:32 IT IT THANK YOU THANK GOOD.

28:37 UH SO SO.

28:37 I THINK IT'S JUST THIS ONE.

28:41 YEAH WE GOT A 30 SOMETHING FOR

28:42 YOU.

28:43 THE MVP LET'S GO AHEAD.

28:46 AND BE.

28:47 AND BE MVP.

28:52 UM.

28:56 THANK YOU.

28:57 GOOD JOB EVERYONE YAY.

29:03 FOR THERE.

29:03 AND DO WE JUST WANT TO.

29:05 RECOGNIZE UM.

29:05 AGAIN THE CAMDEN.

29:07 ELEMENTARY BASKETBALL

29:10 CHAMPIONS.

29:10 WE WERE RIGHT HERE.

29:14 WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE

29:16 MILDRED AVE SCHOOL KATE THE WAY

29:19 GIRLS CITY BASKETBALL CHAMPION.

29:25 WE GOT THE CAMDEN K THROUGH

29:27 EIGHT BOYS CITY BASKETBALL

29:29 CHAMPIONS.

29:33 AND FINALLY BUT NOT LEAST THE

29:36 ENGLISH SCHOOL 7 TO 12 BOYS

29:38 CITY BASKETBALL.

29:44 ALL RIGHT.

29:45 CAN WE JUST INVITE MY

29:46 COLLEAGUES?

29:46 I ALSO WANT TO THANK MY

29:47 COLLEAGUES.

29:48 WHO CAME FOR THE RECEPTION

29:49 UM, EARLIER AND AND SPOKE.

29:50 TO OUR.

29:51 STUDENT ATHLETES AS WELL.

29:52 IF WE CAN INVITE OUR.

29:53 COLLEAGUES FOR OUR GROUP

29:53 PICTURE.

29:56 FIRST.

30:20 ALL RIGHT.

30:31 OH YEAH.

30:58 HOW ARE YOU AND THIS THIS.

31:20 CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL

31:21 OUR YOUNG ATHLETES AND THEIR

31:22 COACHES.

31:23 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

31:25 RECORD, UH, AMEND THE RECORD TO

31:27 REFLECT THE COUNTRY C LOUIJEUNE

31:28 HAS JOINED US.

31:30 YES, YES.

31:36 NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER

31:38 OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE

31:39 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

31:40 THE MEETING OF JUNE 24TH, 2026

31:42 .

31:43 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

31:44 AYE.

31:45 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

31:47 THE AYES HAVE IT.

31:48 THE MINUTES OF THE JUNE 24TH

31:51 MEETING ARE APPROVED.

31:53 WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS

31:55 FROM HER HONOR THE MAYOR.

31:57 MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

31:58 READ DOCKET US 1311 AND 1312

32:04 TOGETHER.

32:05 DOCKET 1311.

32:07 MESSAGE IN ORDER.

32:08 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

32:10 TO APPROPRIATE THE AMOUNT OF $5

32:12 MILLION FOR THE PURPOSE

32:13 OF PAYING THE COSTS

32:15 OF FEASIBILITY STUDY AND

32:16 SOMATIC DESIGN ASSOCIATED WITH

32:19 A PROJECT FOR THE MADISON PARK

32:21 TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL HIGH

32:22 SCHOOL LOCATED AT 75 MALCOLM X

32:26 BOULEVARD, ROXBURY, MASS.

32:29 02120 THIS INCLUDE THE PAYMENT

32:31 OF ALL COSTS INCIDENTAL AND

32:33 RELATED TO AND FOR WHICH THE

32:36 CITY OF BOSTON MAY BE ELIGIBLE

32:39 FOR A GRANT FROM THE

32:40 MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL BUILDING

32:41 AUTHORITY SET AMOUNT TO BE

32:43 EXPENDED UNDER THE DIRECTION

32:45 OF THE PUBLIC FACILITIES

32:47 DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF THE

32:48 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

32:50 DOCKET 101312 MESSAGE IN ORDER

32:54 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

32:56 TO APPROPRIATE THE AMOUNT

33:00 OF $850,000 FOR THE PURPOSE

33:01 OF PAYING COSTS FOR FEASIBILITY

33:03 STUDY AND SOMATIC DESIGN WORK

33:06 ASSOCIATED WITH WINDOW, DOOR

33:08 AND ROOF PROJECTS AT THE

33:10 FOLLOWING SCHOOL BOSTON ADULT

33:12 ACADEMY JOSEPH J.

33:14 HOLY SCHOOL ALICE MENDEL

33:17 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOYCE KILMER

33:20 CANINE.

33:20 K-8 SCHOOL AND ALLIED AN UPPER

33:23 NINE DASH 12 SCHOOL.

33:25 THIS INCLUDES THE PAYMENT

33:26 OF ALL COSTS INCIDENTAL AND

33:30 RELATED THERETO AND FOR WHICH

33:31 THE CITY OF BOSTON MAY BE

33:33 ELIGIBLE FOR A GRANT FROM THE

33:35 MASSACHUSETTS CODE BUILDING

33:36 AUTHORITY SET AMOUNT TO BE

33:39 EXPENDED UNDER THE DIRECTION

33:40 OF THE PUBLIC FACILITIES

33:41 DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF THE

33:42 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

33:44 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

33:45 DOCKET IS 1311 AND 1312 BE

33:49 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

33:50 WAYS AND MEANS.

33:50 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

33:52 READ DOCKET 1313.

33:56 DOCKET 131 TRUE MESSAGE AND

33:59 ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

34:01 OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

34:03 IT.

34:04 GIFT OF PURCHASING A GLIDING

34:06 HORSE VALUED AT $8,500 FROM THE

34:10 FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON PARK

34:11 WINGS MOUNTED UNIT.

34:13 THIS GIFT IS AWARDED TO THE

34:15 CITY OF BOSTON THROUGH THE

34:16 PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

34:17 FOR THE USE OF MOUNTED UNIT

34:19 OF THE BOSTON PARK RANGERS.

34:22 THANK YOU.

34:23 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

34:25 COUNCILOR UH CULTURE AROUND YOU

34:26 HAVE THE FLOOR.

34:28 UH THANK.

34:29 YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

34:29 THIS IS A SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT.

34:30 GRANT I'M SORRY.

34:31 ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND

34:33 AND PASS.

34:34 UH, SO WE GET THESE RESOURCES

34:35 OVER TO THE.

34:36 PARK RANGERS.

34:36 THANK YOU.

34:38 UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN, I SEE

34:40 YOUR LIGHT ON.

34:41 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

34:42 UM.

34:43 I I AM A HUGE FRIEND OF THE

34:45 FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN PARK

34:46 RANGERS AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR

34:47 THEIR GIFT OF A HORSE.

34:49 UM, THE FRIEND THE FRIENDS

34:51 OF THE MOUNTAIN PARK RANGERS

34:52 WORKS TO SUPPORT THE MOUNTED

34:54 PARK RANGER UNIT AND ITS ROLE

34:55 IN PROMOTING PUBLIC SAFETY,

34:56 EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY

34:58 ENGAGEMENT ACROSS BOSTON'S

34:59 PARKS AND HAS HELPED GROW THE

35:01 UNIT INTO A HIGHLY RECOGNIZED

35:02 AND RESPECTED AGENCY OF THE

35:03 CITY OF BOSTON.

35:05 ITS FUNDRAISING EFFORTS HAVE

35:06 PROVIDED CRITICAL CARE TO THE

35:08 MOUNTED UNITS NEEDS AND

35:09 OPERATIONS INCLUDING VETERINARY

35:11 AND FARRIER CARE FOR ITS EQUINE

35:13 MEMBERS STABLE NEEDS AND

35:15 TRANSPORTATION.

35:15 I'M GRATEFUL AND I COMMEND THE

35:17 FRIEND'S ORGANIZATION.

35:19 UM AND I RECENTLY ATTENDED

35:21 THEIR ANNUAL RECEPTION, UH,

35:23 WHERE I SAW JUST HOW MUCH

35:24 ENTHUSIASM THERE IS, UH, FOR

35:26 SUPPORTING OUR PARKS.

35:27 UM, AND THE EMERALD NECKLACE,

35:29 UH, WHO UM, THE BOSTON PARK

35:31 RANGER MOUNTED UNIT PATROLS ALL

35:32 NINE PARKS OF THE EMERALD

35:33 NECKLACE AND SO GRATEFUL, UH,

35:36 THAT THEY ARE DONATING THIS

35:37 HORSE.

35:38 I DID OFFER TO GO TO CANADA TO

35:39 PICK UP THE HORSE AND THEY

35:41 DECLINED, BUT, UM.

35:42 BUT I'M A HUGE.

35:43 FAN OF ALL THEIR EFFORTS AND,

35:44 UH, THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR FOR

35:45 PUSHING FORWARD FOR A VOTE

35:47 TODAY.

35:48 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

35:49 UH UH, CONSTABLE L SIX

35:51 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

35:52 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1313.

35:55 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

35:56 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

35:59 UM, MADAM.

36:01 CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A

36:02 ROLL CALL?

36:03 VOTE ON DOCKET 1313 THE.

36:05 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1313.

36:08 .

36:08 COUNCILOR BREADON.

36:09 YES.

36:09 COUNCIL.

36:09 BREADON.

36:10 YES.

36:10 COUNCILOR.

36:11 COLITIS.

36:11 OPERA COUNCIL.

36:12 CULPEPER.

36:13 YES.

36:14 COUNCILOR.

36:15 CULPEPER.

36:15 YES.

36:16 CONSIDERATION.

36:16 YES.

36:17 COUNCILOR.

36:17 DALTON.

36:18 YES.

36:18 COUNCIL.

36:19 FITZGERALD.

36:19 YES.

36:21 FITZGERALD.

36:21 YES.

36:21 COUNCILOR.

36:22 FLYNN.

36:23 COUNCIL.

36:23 FLYNN.

36:23 YES.

36:24 COUNCIL.

36:24 LOUIJEUNE.

36:26 COUNCILOR.

36:26 MEJIA.

36:28 COUNCIL.

36:29 MURPHY.

36:30 COUNCIL.

36:31 MURPHY.

36:31 COUNCIL.

36:31 PREPARED COUNCIL.

36:33 FINANCE.

36:34 COUNCILOR.

36:34 SANTANA.

36:35 YES.

36:35 COUNCIL.

36:36 SANTANA COUNCIL.

36:37 WEBER COUNCIL.

36:38 WEBER AS COUNCIL.

36:40 WIRRAL COUNCIL APPROVED.

36:41 YES 123456789.

36:44 TEN AND AFFIRMATIVE.

36:46 THANK YOU.

36:47 DOCKET 1313 HAS PASSED.

36:50 MADAM CHAIR, CAN YOU PLEASE

36:51 READ DOCKETS?

36:55 UH 131431316.

36:57 DOCKET 1314.

36:59 MESSAGE AN ORDER CONFIRMING THE

37:01 APPOINTMENT OF JESSICA COLLINS

37:03 AS A MEMBER OF THE HIGHLAND

37:04 PARK ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

37:08 DISTRICT COMMISSION FOR A TERM

37:09 EXPIRING JUNE 30TH OF 2028.

37:12 DOCKET 1315 MESSAGE AN ORDER

37:15 FOR THE CONFIRMATION OF THE

37:16 APPOINTMENT OF SET MCCOY AS A

37:18 MEMBER OF THE HIGHLAND PARK

37:20 ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSERVATION

37:22 DISTRICT COMMISSION FOR YOUR

37:24 TERM EXPIRE IN JUNE 30TH, 2028

37:27 AND DOCKET 1316 MESSAGE IN

37:30 ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION

37:31 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF FELICIA

37:32 DRAKES AS A MEMBER OF THE

37:34 BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

37:35 AGENCY BOARD FOR A TERM

37:37 EXPIRING AUGUST 15TH, 2029.

37:41 THANK YOU DOCKETS 131431316

37:44 REFER TO THE COMMITTEE ON

37:46 PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

37:47 TRANSPORTATION.

37:48 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

37:50 READ DOCKET 1317.

37:52 DOCKET 1317 MESSAGE TRANSMIT

37:56 AND CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER

37:58 SECTION 17 OF REGARDING TO CITY

38:01 OF BOSTON EFFORT TO ADDRESS

38:02 DRINK SPIKING AND DRUG

38:04 FACILITATED SEX ASSAULT AND

38:06 NIGHTLIFE ESTABLISHMENT

38:08 INCLUDING SAFETY TRAINING

38:09 PROGRAMS, PREVENTION

38:12 INITIATIVES, COMMUNICATIONS

38:13 WITH LICENSED VENUES AND THE

38:15 STATUS OF RECORDS MAINTAINED BY

38:16 THE CITY REGARDING THE EFFORT

38:18 ON DOCKET 0595 PASSED BY THE

38:22 COUNCIL ON 318, 2026 AND DOCKET

38:26 0874 PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON

38:29 429 2026.

38:31 THANK YOU.

38:32 DOCKET 1317 WILL BE PLACED

38:33 ON FILE.

38:35 WE ARE NOW ON TO UH REPORTS

38:38 OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

38:41 UM THE POWER RULE 39 THERE'LL

38:42 BE NO REMARKS ON UH

38:45 COMMUNICATIONS FROM COUNCILORS

38:46 .

38:46 MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

38:47 READ DOCKET 1318 THROUGH 1326.

38:52 DON'T GET 1318.

38:54 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE

38:55 MAYOR OF THE REAPPOINTMENT

38:56 OF RAYMOND BOWLING AS CHAIR

38:58 OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW

39:00 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

39:01 IMMEDIATELY FOR A TERM EXPIRING

39:04 JANUARY 7TH, 2030.

39:06 DOCKET 1319 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED

39:08 FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

39:09 REAPPOINTMENT OF COLIN CALEDON

39:11 AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD

39:13 OF REVIEW EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

39:14 FOR THE TERM EXPIRING JANUARY

39:17 7TH, 2030.

39:18 DOCKET 1320 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED

39:21 FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

39:23 REAPPOINTMENT OF HELEN WONG AS

39:25 A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW

39:27 ,EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FOR A

39:29 TERM EXPIRE ON JANUARY 7TH,

39:31 2030.

39:40 NINE.

39:41 UP TO WHAT TIME VERIZON.

39:44 TALKTALK 1321 NOTICE WAS

39:46 RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

39:47 REAPPOINTMENT OF HELEN WONG AS

39:50 INTERIM COMMISSIONER OF THE

39:52 DEPARTMENT EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST

39:55 2026.

39:56 OKAY OH OKAY.

39:58 TARGET 1322 COMMUNICATION WAS

40:00 RECEIVED FROM THE BOSTON PARKS

40:02 AND RECREATION COMMISSIONER

40:04 REGARDING A VOTE TO APPROVE

40:05 DIANE FERNANDEZ B AS SERVE AS

40:08 THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION

40:10 COMMITTEE AS A REPRESENTATIVE

40:12 OF THE BOSTON PARKS AND

40:13 RECREATION COMMISSION DOCKET

40:16 1323 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM

40:18 THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE

40:19 WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE

40:21 ORDINANCES OF 1979.

40:23 WE GOT AN ACTION BY THE MAYOR

40:25 ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE

40:26 CITY COUNCIL AT HIS MEETINGS ON

40:30 JUNE 3RD 2026, DOCKET 132 FORM

40:32 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE

40:34 CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH

40:35 CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES

40:38 OF 1979.

40:39 WE GOT AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE

40:40 MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY

40:42 THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING

40:44 ON JUNE 10TH, 2026, 1325 NOTICE

40:49 WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY

40:50 CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH

40:51 CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES

40:55 OF 1979 REGARDING ACTION TAKEN

40:56 BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED

40:58 UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS

41:00 MEETING ON JUNE 24TH, 2026 AND

41:03 DOCKET 1326 COMMUNICATION WAS

41:06 RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT

41:09 BREEDEN REGARDING CITY

41:11 COUNCIL NOMINATIONS FOR THE

41:12 TRANSGENDER, GENDER DIVERSE

41:14 INTERSEX AND LGBTQ BI LGBTQ I A

41:20 TO AS PLUS OVERSIGHTS

41:22 COMMISSION.

41:23 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK DOCKETS

41:27 131831326 WILL BE PLACED ON

41:28 FILE.

41:30 MADAM CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE

41:31 READ DOCKET 1327.

41:34 DOCKET 1327 COMMUNICATION WAS

41:37 RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT

41:39 LIZ BREEDEN TO ADDRESS AN OPEN

41:41 MEETING LAW COMPLAINT AND

41:43 RESPOND ACCORDING TO THE ARE

41:45 ACCORDINGLY ON BEHALF OF THE

41:47 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

41:49 THANK YOU.

41:50 DOCKET 1327 WILL BE REFERRED

41:52 TO THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

41:54 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

41:56 READ DOCKET 1328 THROUGH 1331?

42:02 DOCKET 1328 COMMUNICATION WAS

42:05 RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR FRENCH

42:07 FLYNN CALLING FOR A PUBLIC

42:09 SAFETY SUMMIT DOCKET 1329

42:12 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

42:14 COUNCILOR FLYNN CALLING FOR THE

42:16 BOSTON POLICE ENFORCEMENT ON

42:18 MAIN STREET AND COMMERCIAL

42:20 CORRIDORS FOR MOPEDS AND

42:21 E-BIKES AND DOCKET 1330

42:25 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

42:27 COUNCILOR FLYNN REGARDING THE

42:29 LACK OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

42:31 AND PUBLIC SAFETY CONSIDERATION

42:34 FOR 3 A.M. LAST CALL.

42:37 THANK YOU.

42:38 UH, DOG.

42:39 ONE MORE, ONE MORE.

42:41 SORRY.

42:41 GO AHEAD.

42:43 DOCKET 1331 COMMUNICATION WAS

42:47 RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR FLYNN

42:49 REQUESTING A SUPPLEMENTAL

42:52 BUDGET TO SUPPORT THE RECENTLY

42:54 LAID OFF BOSTON PUBLIC.

42:55 SCHOOLS AS EMPLOYEES.

42:57 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

42:59 DOCKETS 132831331 WILL BE

43:02 PLACED ON FILE.

43:05 WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS UH

43:08 OF COMMITTEES.

43:09 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

43:11 READ DOCKET 0970.

43:14 DOCKET 097 THROUGH THE

43:16 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

43:19 CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO WHICH WAS

43:20 REFERRED ON MAY 13TH, 2026

43:24 DOCKET 0970 MESSAGE AN ORDER

43:27 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

43:29 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

43:37 OF $1,073,239.34 IN THE FORM

43:38 OF A GRANT TO 526 SENATOR

43:41 CHARLES E SHANNON JUNIOR

43:44 COMMUNITY SAFETY INITIATIVE

43:46 AWARDED BY THE MASS EXECUTIVE

43:48 OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND

43:50 SECURITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

43:52 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THE

43:53 GROUND WHICH FUND REGIONAL AND

43:57 MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO

43:59 COMBAT GANG VIOLENCE THROUGH

44:01 COORDINATED PREVENTION AND

44:03 INTERVENTION, LAW ENFORCEMENT,

44:06 PROSTITUTION AND RETAIL

44:06 PREVENTION PROGRAM SUBMITS A

44:09 REPORT RECOMMENDED THAT THE

44:10 ORDER OR TO PASS.

44:12 THANK YOU.

44:13 UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE

44:16 THE CONFERENCE AND TOWN OF THE

44:17 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANT

44:19 AT NO WRONG WRONG ONE WAS THE

44:21 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

44:23 CRIMINAL JUSTICE

44:25 COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE THE

44:26 FLOOR.

44:26 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

44:28 UM, ON THURSDAY LAST WEEK WE

44:29 HAD A.

44:30 HEARING ON THE.

44:31 FY 26.

44:31 SENATOR CHARLES E.

44:33 SHANNON JUNIOR.

44:33 COMMUNITY SAFETY.

44:34 INITIATIVE GRANT OR.

44:35 COMMONLY KNOWN.

44:36 AS.

44:37 THE SHANNON GRANT.

44:37 I WAS JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES.

44:40 UM COUNCILOR AT FLYNN,

44:41 COUNCILOR AARON MURPHY,

44:42 COUNCILOR BEN WEBER AND

44:44 COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER.

44:45 WE ALSO RECEIVED A LETTER

44:46 OF ABSENCE.

44:47 FROM COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

44:48 DURING THIS HEARING.

44:49 WE HEARD FROM THEM IN BOTH

44:51 BILLS.

44:51 THE PROJECT COORDINATOR FOR.

44:53 THE SHANNON GRANT UM SAFETY

44:54 INITIATIVE GRANT AS WELL AS

44:56 REPRESENTATIVES FROM NONPROFITS

44:57 .

44:57 AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

44:59 ABOUT THE.

44:59 IMPACT THIS.

45:00 FUNDING HAS HAD ON THEIR WORK.

45:01 THE SHANNON BRAND IS AN

45:03 INVESTMENT THAT SUPPORTS THE

45:04 CITY OF BOSTON'S COMPREHENSIVE

45:05 PUBLIC SAFETY STRATEGY.

45:07 THROUGH REGIONAL

45:08 MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

45:10 AMONG THE.

45:11 STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES.

45:13 AS WELL AS PARTNERSHIPS WITH

45:14 FAITH-BASED UM PHILANTHROPIC,

45:16 BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY

45:18 ORGANIZATIONS.

45:18 THIS YEAR THE GRANT IS

45:20 PROVIDING FUNDING TO 17

45:22 NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY

45:23 ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHANNON

45:24 GRANT SUPPORTS COORDINATED.

45:26 PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION.

45:27 LAW ENFORCEMENT.

45:29 PROSECUTION AND.

45:30 REINTEGRATION EFFORTS.

45:31 AIMED AT REDUCING GUN.

45:33 GANG AND YOUTH.

45:34 VIOLENCE ACROSS THE CITY.

45:35 THESE INITIATIVES.

45:36 FUND PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

45:37 THAT.

45:38 PROMOTE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT,

45:41 MENTORSHIP, EDUCATION AND

45:42 RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR

45:44 BOSTON'S YOUNG PEOPLE.

45:45 AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

45:46 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

45:47 JUSTICE, I RECOMMEND THAT

45:48 DOCKET NUMBER 0970 ALL TO PASS.

45:51 I ALSO JUST WANT TO READ UM,

45:54 VERY QUICKLY THE 17 UM

45:56 ORGANIZATIONS THAT DID RECEIVE

45:57 FUNDING AND SO JUST UM SO THAT

45:58 MY COLLEAGUES ARE AWARE UM AND

46:00 THE YEARS PASSED.

46:01 UM, THIS GRANT WAS ABOUT $3

46:03 MILLION.

46:04 WE'RE NOW DOWN TO $1 MILLION,

46:06 UM, FOR THIS GRANT AND UM, IT'S

46:08 PROJECTED THAT WE WILL CONTINUE

46:11 TO SEE DECREASE UM, IN THIS

46:13 FUNDING.

46:14 SO UM, I THINK WE IN THE PAST

46:15 HAVE FUNDED OVER 35

46:17 ORGANIZATIONS.

46:17 UM, WE'RE DOWN TO 17 RIGHT NOW

46:20 .

46:20 UM, AND SO YOU'LL SEE SOME

46:22 OF THAT IMPACT THE BCF UM BMC

46:27 UM VIP UM THE BOSTON PUBLIC

46:29 HEALTH COMMISSION, THE LUIS

46:31 LUIS DE BROWN INSTITUTE

46:33 PROJECT.

46:34 RIGHT.

46:34 YOUTH CONNECT UM, THE DA'S

46:37 OFFICE.

46:37 UM, YOU BOSTON THE RECORD

46:40 COMPANY VERONICA ROBERTS

46:42 CULTURAL CENTER BEANTOWN SLAM

46:44 TEEN EMPOWERMENT MAVERICK LAND

46:45 AND CULTURAL CENTER SPORTSMEN'S

46:47 TENNIS AND ENRICHMENT CENTER

46:49 ZOOM.

46:50 UM WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER AND

46:51 MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY

46:53 ARE THE 17 ORGANIZATIONS THAT

46:55 RECEIVED UM GRANT FUNDING THIS

46:57 YEAR.

46:58 UM.

46:58 THANK YOU.

46:59 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

47:00 COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU HAVE

47:01 THE FLOOR.

47:02 MADAM PRESIDENT, I DO WANT TO

47:04 BEGIN BY EXPRESSING MY

47:07 DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THE STATE

47:08 WOULD REDUCE THE BOSTON

47:10 SHANNON'S GRANT BY $600,000

47:14 COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

47:16 AT A TIME WHEN COMMUNITIES

47:18 ACROSS BOSTON CONTINUE TO

47:21 GRAPPLE WITH GUN VIOLENCE GANG

47:23 ACTIVITY.

47:24 I'M GOING TO TARGET.

47:26 TO TRAGIC EVENTS WE WITNESSED

47:27 THIS PAST WEEKEND.

47:29 THIS IS PRECISELY WHEN WE

47:32 SHOULD BE EXPANDING INVESTMENTS

47:34 IN PROVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION

47:36 STRATEGIES, NOT SCALING THEM

47:37 BACK.

47:39 KNOWING THAT THIS REDUCTION WAS

47:40 COMING, I ALSO BELIEVE THE CITY

47:42 SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOULD HAVE

47:44 ANTICIPATED THIS GAP DURING THE

47:46 FISCAL 27 BUDGET PROCESS.

47:49 VIOLENT PRESENTING

47:50 ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD NOT BE

47:51 FORCED TO REDUCE SERVICES

47:54 BECAUSE OF DECISIONS MADE AT

47:55 THE STATE LEVEL.

47:57 WHEN THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY

47:59 TO PRIORITIZE THESE INVESTMENTS

48:00 LOCALLY.

48:01 HAD WE PLANNED FOR THIS

48:03 REDUCTION, WE COULD HAVE

48:05 SUPPLEMENTED A PORTION OF THAT

48:06 LOSS TO THE CITY BUDGET TO HELP

48:08 ENSURE CONTINUITY OF SERVICES

48:11 FOR ORGANIZATIONS DOING THIS

48:13 LIFESAVING WORK.

48:15 THAT SAID, IF EVER THERE WAS A

48:18 TIME FOR BOSTON TO ACCEPT THE

48:19 SHANNON GRANT FUNDING, THAT

48:22 TIME IS NOW.

48:23 WELL THIS AWARD IS SMALLER THAN

48:25 IN PRIOR YEARS.

48:27 IT STILL REPRESENTS MORE THAN

48:29 $1 MILLION THAT WILL SUPPORT

48:30 COORDINATED PREVENTION,

48:34 INTERVENTION, LAW ENFORCEMENT,

48:37 PROSECUTION AND REINTEGRATION

48:38 EFFORTS AIMED AT REDUCING GANG

48:41 AND YOUTH VIOLENCE.

48:42 TURNING ASIDE THESE RESOURCES

48:44 WOULD ONLY MAKE IT HARDER TO

48:46 KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.

48:48 SHANNON GRANT IS FAR MORE THAN

48:50 IN LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANT.

48:52 FOR 20 YEARS IT HAS SUPPORTED A

48:54 COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC SAFETY

48:56 STRATEGY AND HAS FUNDED

48:59 APPROXIMATELY 250 NONPROFIT

49:01 ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS BOSTON.

49:04 ALTHOUGH FUNDING MAJORITY'S

49:05 HAVE MEANT THAT ONLY 17

49:07 NONPROFIT AND CITY

49:09 ORGANIZATIONS.

49:10 AS STATED BY COUNCILOR SANTANA

49:13 WILL RECEIVE AWARDS THIS YEAR,

49:15 DOWN FROM 28 LAST YEAR.

49:17 THOSE ORGANIZATIONS REMAIN THE

49:20 BACKBONE OF THIS WORK.

49:21 WELL, I HOPE TO STAY WITH

49:23 STORES AND EXPAND SHANNON

49:25 FUNDING IN FUTURE YEARS.

49:27 TODAY OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS

49:29 CLEAR.

49:29 WE SHOULD ACCEPT THESE FUNDS SO

49:31 THAT BOSTON CAN CONTINUE

49:33 SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS,

49:35 OUTREACH WORKERS AND COMMUNITY

49:37 PARTNERS WHO ARE DOING THE

49:39 DIFFICULT WORK OF PREVENTING

49:40 VIOLENCE BEFORE IT OCCURS.

49:43 AND I MIGHT SAY, MADAM

49:45 PRESIDENT.

49:45 WHEN I DID THE.

49:46 YOUTH GANG WORK AND WE WERE IN

49:48 THE STREETS WITH THE YOUNG

49:50 FOLKS FIGHTING WORKING TO HELP

49:53 THEM FIND JOBS AND TO HELP THEM

49:57 UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE

50:00 OF BEING PART OF THE POSITIVE

50:02 ENVIRONMENT IN THE COMMUNITY.

50:04 IT WAS A SHANNON GRANT THAT

50:06 MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE YEARS AGO

50:09 TO SHOW THAT THE ORGANIZATIONS

50:11 WERE DOING THE WORK NOT ONLY

50:13 HAD THE FUNDS NECESSARY TO

50:16 EXPEND TO DO THE WORK, BUT ALSO

50:18 THE SHANNON GRANT WAS SPREAD

50:20 ACROSS SOME OF THE

50:23 ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORKED WITH

50:24 THE TOUGHEST AND THE ROUGHEST

50:26 OF THESE YOUNG FOLKS.

50:27 SO NOW WE SEE WE WON'T HAVE THE

50:29 MONEY TO BE SPREAD AROUND AS

50:31 MUCH, BUT THE WORK WILL

50:34 CONTINUE AND I WILL VOTE IN

50:36 FAVOR OF RECEIVING THIS GRANT.

50:37 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

50:39 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

50:40 .

50:41 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

50:41 UH, YES.

50:42 THANK YOU.

50:44 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

50:45 AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO,

50:47 UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR AN

50:49 INFORMATIVE MEETING AND HAD AN

50:51 OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO THE

50:53 AWARD RECIPIENTS, UM, ABOUT THE

50:56 PROGRAMS THAT, UM, THEY THEY

50:58 RUN AND HOW HOW EFFECTIVE THEY

51:02 ARE IN IMPACTING AND SUPPORTING

51:06 OUR YOUTH AND FAMILIES.

51:09 I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE,

51:11 UM, IMPORTANCE OF THESE GRANTS

51:13 .

51:13 I ALSO WILL BE VOTING IN FAVOR

51:15 OF THIS.

51:17 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WE HAVE ALSO

51:20 TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WITH THE

51:21 INCREASE IN VIOLENCE.

51:23 IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.

51:25 IT'S ABOUT UH, SUPPORTING OUR

51:26 POLICE BUT IT'S ALSO EQUALLY AS

51:29 IMPORTANT SUPPORTING OUR YOUNG

51:31 PEOPLE, GIVING THEM AN

51:33 OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, LEARN ABOUT

51:35 VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND

51:38 LEARNING ABOUT JOBS AND

51:39 EDUCATION, SUPPORTING THEM IN

51:41 DIFFERENT AFTERSCHOOL TYPE

51:43 OF PROGRAMS.

51:45 I LEARNED THIS AS A PROBATION

51:46 OFFICER FOR EIGHT YEARS AT

51:47 SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT.

51:49 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE LAW AND

51:51 ORDER ASPECT OF IT.

51:53 IT'S ABOUT GIVING PEOPLE HOPE.

51:55 GIVING PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNITY

51:57 BEFORE THEY EVEN GET INTO THE

51:59 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

52:01 BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN

52:03 SOMEONE IS IN THE CRIMINAL

52:04 JUSTICE SYSTEM, WE ALSO HAVE A

52:07 RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THEY COME

52:08 OUT, UM TO PROVIDE THEM WITH

52:11 EDUCATION, TRAINING, SUPPORT,

52:14 SOCIAL SERVICES.

52:16 99% OF PEOPLE COMING OUT

52:18 OF JAIL IN PRISON ARE COMING

52:19 BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND YES

52:22 THEY HAVE MADE MISTAKES BUT

52:24 THEY DESERVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO

52:26 GET BACK INTO SOCIETY.

52:28 REINTEGRATION IS A CRITICAL

52:29 PART OF IT AND THAT'S WHY I

52:32 SUPPORT THESE PROGRAMS.

52:33 IT'S ABOUT HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE

52:35 BUT IT'S ALSO GIVING THEM A

52:36 LITTLE BIT OF ENCOURAGEMENT, A

52:38 LITTLE BIT OF SUPPORT.

52:39 UM, ESPECIALLY DURING THESE

52:42 CHALLENGING TIMES.

52:43 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

52:43 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

52:46 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

52:48 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

52:49 JUSTICE SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

52:51 COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

52:52 OF DOCKET 0970.

52:55 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

52:56 ALL OPPOSED, SAY NAY.

52:58 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

53:00 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

53:01 VOTE ON DOCKET 0970.

53:05 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0970.

53:08 COUNCILOR BRIGHTON.

53:09 YES.

53:10 COUNCILOR.

53:10 BRIGHTON AS COUNCIL.

53:11 COLLETTA.

53:12 ZAPATA.

53:13 COUNCILOR.

53:13 CULPEPER.

53:14 YES.

53:15 AND SO I'VE CANCER HIM ONCE A

53:18 JOKE.

53:18 YES.

53:19 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

53:19 YES.

53:20 COUNCIL.

53:21 FITZGERALD.

53:21 YES.

53:22 COUNCILOR.

53:23 FLYNN.

53:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

53:24 YES.

53:25 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES I

53:26 SOLUTION.

53:27 YES.

53:27 COUNCIL MAYHEM I WANT TO MAKE A

53:30 YES.

53:31 COUNCILOR MURPHY ON SOME OF THE

53:33 YES CONCEPT OPEN CONCEPT PLAN.

53:36 YES.

53:37 COUNCIL SANTANA.

53:38 YES.

53:39 COUNCIL SANTANA.

53:39 YES.

53:40 COUNCILOR.

53:40 WEBER.

53:42 COUNCILOR WHEREBY?

53:43 YES.

53:43 COUNCIL AROUND.

53:44 YES.

53:44 COUNCIL.

53:45 WE'RE ROW YES 12 AND

53:46 AFFIRMATIVE.

53:47 THANK YOU.

53:48 THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

53:49 ACCEPTED AND DOCKETS 0970 HAS

53:52 PASSED.

53:52 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

53:54 READ DOCKET 0968.

53:58 DOCKET 0968 THE COMMITTEE ON

54:01 PLANNING DEVELOPMENT ON

54:03 TRANSPORTATION TO WHICH WAS

54:04 REFERRED TO ON MARCH 13TH, 2026

54:07 MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING

54:09 THE CITY OF BOSTON ACTING

54:10 THROUGH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

54:12 OF HOUSING TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

54:15 PAYMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $30

54:17 MILLION GIVEN TO THE CITY

54:19 INCLUSIONARY DEVELOPMENT POLICY

54:21 FUND TO CITY OF BOSTON

54:24 INCLUSIONARY DEVELOPMENT POLICY

54:26 FUND WAS ESTABLISHED BY

54:29 EXECUTIVE ORDER IN FEBRUARY

54:31 2000 TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION

54:33 AND PREVENTION OF AFFORDABLE

54:35 HOUSING AND NEW MARKET RATE

54:38 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

54:38 THE IDP REQUIRES ALL DEVELOPERS

54:42 OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

54:45 PROJECTS WHICH TEN OR MORE

54:46 UNITS TO INCLUDE AFFORDABLE

54:48 UNITS IN THEIR PROJECT AS A

54:51 CONDITION OF RECEIVING RELIEF

54:53 FROM THE BOSTON ZONING CODE FOR

54:55 EITHER THE EXCLUSIVE OR THE

54:58 EXCLUSIVE ORDER PROVIDES THE

54:59 OPTION FOR DEVELOPERS TO MAKE

55:02 CONTRIBUTION TO THE IDP FUND IN

55:04 LIEU OF PROVIDING ON SITE

55:06 AFFORDABLE UNITS SUBJECT TO THE

55:08 APPROVAL OF BOSTON PLANNING AND

55:10 DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SUBMITS A

55:12 REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE

55:14 ORDER OUGHT TO PASS.

55:16 THANK YOU.

55:17 CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR

55:18 OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,

55:19 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION.

55:21 COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE

55:22 FLOOR.

55:22 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

55:23 I THINK YOU JUST GAVE ME A

55:24 PROMOTION.

55:25 NOW I'M THE HEAD OF THE

55:26 PLANNING DEPARTMENT.

55:26 BUT DON'T TELL KYRA.

55:29 UM.

55:29 THANK YOU.

55:30 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

55:31 ON THURSDAY, JUNE 25TH, THE

55:33 COMMITTEE ON PLANNING

55:33 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

55:35 CONVENED A HEARING ON DOCKET

55:36 0968, AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE

55:38 MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING TO

55:40 ACCEPT AND EXPAND 30 MILLION

55:42 FROM THE INCLUSIONARY

55:43 DEVELOPMENT POLICY FUND.

55:44 I WAS JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUE

55:46 COUNCILOR FLYNN, AND THE

55:47 COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY FROM

55:48 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING

55:49 OFFICIALS.

55:50 RICK WILSON, THE DIRECTOR

55:51 OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE

55:52 CHRISTINE O'KEEFE, DIRECTOR

55:54 OF NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND

55:55 ANDY FELDMAN, HOUSING POLICY

55:57 MANAGER.

55:58 INCLUSIONARY ZONING WAS

55:59 ESTABLISHED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER

56:01 IN FEBRUARY OF 2000 TO SUPPORT

56:03 PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION

56:04 OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND NEW

56:05 MARKET RATE HOUSING IN BOSTON.

56:07 THE OFFICIALS DESCRIBE THE

56:09 EVOLUTION OF IDP POLICY AND

56:10 OVERSIGHT, NOTING THAT THE

56:12 ADMINISTRATION WAS TRANSFERRED

56:14 IT FROM THE BPD IN 2013.

56:16 THEY ALSO DISCUSSED THE 2023

56:19 POLICY UPDATES WHICH INCREASE

56:20 IDP PERCENTAGES.

56:22 THESE FUNDS ARE IDP REVENUE

56:24 GENERATED FROM PAYMENTS MADE IN

56:26 LIEU OF ON SITE OR OFF SITE

56:28 UNITS, AS WELL AS OTHER ONE

56:30 TIME PARTIAL UNIT PAYMENTS

56:31 OVERSEEN BY THE BPA.

56:33 THE PANELISTS SHARED MORE THAN

56:35 200 MILLION OF IDP REVENUE HAS

56:37 BEEN COLLECTED SINCE THE

56:38 POLICIES INCEPTION AND

56:40 PROJECTED THAT THE PROGRAM WILL

56:41 COLLECT 26 MILLION IN FISCAL

56:43 YEAR 27 AND 28 CONSISTENT WITH

56:46 THE TYPICAL ANNUAL RANGE THE 30

56:48 MILLION AUTHORIZED IN THIS

56:50 ORDER, TOGETHER WITH THE 6

56:51 MILLION THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY

56:52 AUTHORIZED HAS BEEN ALLOCATED

56:54 TO TEN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

56:55 PROJECTS INCLUDING BOTH RENTAL

56:56 AND HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

56:58 ACROSS ROXBURY, MATTAPAN, EAST

57:00 BOSTON, DORCHESTER AND

57:02 CHINATOWN.

57:02 MANY OF THESE PROJECTS ARE

57:04 CLOSE TO COMPLETION, AND THE

57:05 PASSAGE OF THIS TODAY WILL

57:06 PROVIDE THE FUNDING NEEDED TO

57:07 HELP TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

57:09 HUNDREDS OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL

57:11 AND HOMEOWNERSHIP UNITS.

57:12 WE KNOW HOW URGENTLY BOSTON

57:14 NEEDS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND I

57:16 HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN OUR

57:17 ABILITY TO CONTINUE DELIVERING

57:20 QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING

57:21 ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS WITH THESE

57:22 FUNDS.

57:23 FOR THAT REASON, AS THE CHAIR

57:24 OF PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

57:25 TRANSPORTATION, MY

57:27 RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL

57:28 COUNCIL IS THAT THIS MATTER

57:28 OUGHT TO PASS.

57:29 THANK YOU.

57:30 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

57:32 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

57:33 PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

57:35 TRANSPORTATION SEEKS ACCEPTANCE

57:36 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

57:37 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0968.

57:40 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

57:42 ALL OPPOSED, SAY NAY.

57:44 UH, MADAM.

57:45 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

57:46 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

57:47 VOTE ON DOCKET 0968.

57:49 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0968.

57:52 COUNCILOR BRENNAN.

57:53 YES.

57:54 CONCENTRATE ON YES.

57:56 COUNCILOR COLLETTE IS A CONCEPT

57:57 CALLED PAPA.

57:58 YES.

57:59 CONCEPT CALLED PURPOSE CONCEPT

58:00 JOKING I A TOKEN YES.

58:03 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

58:05 COUNCIL.

58:05 FITZGERALD.

58:06 YES.

58:06 COUNCIL.

58:06 FLYNN.

58:07 COUNCIL.

58:08 FLEMING.

58:08 YES.

58:09 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

58:11 COUNCIL MEMBER HERE ONCE I'M

58:13 HERE.

58:13 YES.

58:13 COUNCIL.

58:14 MURPHY.

58:15 COUNCIL MURPHY HAS GONE TO PUT

58:17 PEN.

58:18 YES.

58:19 COUNCIL SANTANA.

58:21 COUNCIL SAME TIME I GUESS

58:22 COUNCIL WEBER.

58:24 COUNCIL WEBSITE.

58:24 YES.

58:25 CONTROLLER UH COUNCIL WERE

58:26 REALLY ASKING.

58:28 FOR SOME.

58:31 811 AND AFFIRMATIVE.

58:34 THANK YOU.

58:34 UH, THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS

58:35 BEEN ADOPTED AND DOCKET 0968

58:38 HAS PASSED.

58:40 WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS ORDERS

58:42 AND RESOLUTIONS A REMINDER THAT

58:44 UNDER RULE 39 REMARKS ON NEW

58:46 MATTERS NOT UP FOR A VOTE TODAY

58:47 SHOULD BE LIMITED TO THREE

58:49 MINUTES FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR

58:50 AND TWO MINUTES FOR

58:52 CO-SPONSORS.

58:52 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

58:54 READ DOCKET 1332.

58:56 DOCKET 133 TO

58:58 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OR FOR THE

58:59 FOLLOWING PETITION FOR A

59:01 SPECIAL LAW REGARDING AN ACT

59:03 RELATIVE TO INCREASING CIVIL

59:05 PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL

59:07 POSSESSION, USE AND SALE

59:09 OF FIREWORKS IN THE CITY

59:10 OF BOSTON.

59:11 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

59:12 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

59:13 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

59:14 MADAM PRESIDENT.

59:15 EVERY YEAR NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS

59:18 BOSTON EXPERIENCED THE

59:21 CONSEQUENCES OF ILLEGAL

59:22 FIREWORKS.

59:23 RESIDENTS LOSE SLEEP.

59:26 VETERANS AND OTHERS LIVING WITH

59:27 PTSD ARE AFFECTED BY REPEATED

59:29 EXPLOSIONS.

59:31 PETS BECOME DISTRESSED FAMILIES

59:33 WORRIED ABOUT THE RISKS

59:34 OF FIRES, INJURIES AND PROPERTY

59:37 DAMAGE.

59:37 OUR FIRST RESPONDERS ARE

59:39 REGULARLY REGULARLY CALLED UPON

59:42 TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINTS AND

59:44 EMERGENCY STEMMING FROM ILLEGAL

59:46 FIREWORKS, PARTICULARLY IN THE

59:49 SUMMER MONTHS ESPECIALLY DURING

59:53 JULY 4TH.

59:54 THIS HOME PETITION INCREASES

59:56 THE CIVIL FINE FOR THE ILLEGAL

59:59 POSSESSION OR USE OF FIREWORKS

1:00:03 TO BETWEEN 100 AND $1000 AND

1:00:04 INCREASES THE CIVIL FINE FOR

1:00:05 THE ILLEGAL SALE OR OFFERING

1:00:07 FOR SALE OF FIREWORKS TO

1:00:11 BETWEEN 500 AND $5000.

1:00:12 ALL EXISTING ENFORCEMENT

1:00:14 PROVISIONS INCLUDING SEIZURE

1:00:17 FOR FORFEITURE, ARREST

1:00:19 AUTHORITY AND ALL APPLICABLE

1:00:21 CRIMINAL PENALTIES REMAIN

1:00:23 UNCHANGED.

1:00:24 THE GOAL OF THIS PETITION IS

1:00:25 SIMPLE TO PROVIDE A STRONGER

1:00:28 DETERRENT AGAINST CONDUCT THAT

1:00:29 CONTINUES TO THREATEN PUBLIC

1:00:31 SAFETY AND DISRUPT

1:00:33 NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS OUR CITY.

1:00:35 ILLEGAL FIREWORKS ARE NOT A

1:00:37 HARMLESS NUISANCE THEY CREATE

1:00:39 REAL RISKS FOR RESIDENTS,

1:00:42 FIREFIGHTERS, EMERGENCY

1:00:43 PERSONNEL AND PROPERTY OWNERS

1:00:45 BY UPDATING FINES THAT HAVE NOT

1:00:47 KEPT PACE WITH THE SERIOUSNESS

1:00:49 OF THESE VIOLATIONS.

1:00:50 WE'RE STRENGTHENING A TOOL TO

1:00:52 DISCOURAGE ILLEGAL FIREWORKS

1:00:54 WHILE PRESERVING THE BROAD

1:00:55 ENFORCEMENT FRAMEWORK ALREADY

1:00:57 ESTABLISHED UNDER STATE LAW.

1:00:59 AND I MIGHT ADD, ONE OF THE

1:01:01 REASONS THAT REALLY MOVED ME TO

1:01:04 FILE THIS IS SITTING UP AT

1:01:07 NIGHT GETTING CALLS FROM FOLKS

1:01:10 ABOUT FIREWORKS AND THE

1:01:12 POSSIBILITY THAT A HOME OR HOME

1:01:14 WOULD BE SET ON FIRE.

1:01:16 IT'S AMAZING THAT WE HAVE TO

1:01:18 EVERY YEAR DURING JULY 4TH GO

1:01:21 THROUGH THE SAME THING OVER AND

1:01:22 OVER AND JUST SIT THERE AND NOT

1:01:24 OUR HEADS.

1:01:25 BUT I THINK BEFORE SOMETHING

1:01:27 BECOMES SERIOUSLY LIKE A HOME

1:01:29 CATCHING FIRE THAT THIS

1:01:32 COUNCIL NEED TO ACT.

1:01:35 AND I PUT THIS FORWARD WITH ALL

1:01:37 SERIOUSNESS BECAUSE A 4TH

1:01:40 OF JULY NIGHT FIREWORKS ARE

1:01:42 GOING CRAZY.

1:01:44 UH, I WENT OUT AND TALKED TO

1:01:45 SOME YOUTH ABOUT 20 OF THEM AND

1:01:48 ONE OF THE UH PERSONS THERE

1:01:51 STOOD UP AND SAID I'M THE ADULT

1:01:52 HERE AND I'M THE MOTHER OF MANY

1:01:55 OF THESE KIDS.

1:01:56 I SAID YOU ARE THE ONE

1:01:58 RESPONSIBLE.

1:01:59 AND SHE SAID, I'LL TAKE

1:02:01 RESPONSIBILITY.

1:02:01 I WENT HOUSE GOT A BIG GREEN

1:02:02 BAG THE NEXT MORNING THEY

1:02:05 CLEANED UP ALL OF THE FIREWORKS

1:02:07 ,UH, RESIDUE THAT WAS LEFT ON

1:02:09 THEIR EGGS.

1:02:10 AND SO I JUST THINK THAT WE

1:02:12 NEED TO BE ABLE TO WORK TO, UH

1:02:15 ,AS A DETERRENT TO THESE

1:02:17 ILLEGAL FIREWORKS AND THE CITY

1:02:19 OF BOSTON.

1:02:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:02:21 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:02:22 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:02:24 NAME?

1:02:27 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

1:02:28 COUNCILOR FLYNN,

1:02:29 COUNCILMAN DIVISION

1:02:30 COUNCILOR HERE.

1:02:31 COUNCILOR.

1:02:31 MURPHY.

1:02:32 COUNCILOR.

1:02:32 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

1:02:34 SANTANA, COUNCILOR.

1:02:35 WEBER.

1:02:35 CONSTABLE.

1:02:35 ROWLAND, PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR.

1:02:37 THANK YOU.

1:02:38 DOCKET 1332 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:02:42 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:02:43 OPERATIONS.

1:02:45 MADAM CLERK.

1:02:46 COUNCILORS.

1:02:47 UH, YES.

1:02:47 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:02:48 READ DOCKET 1333..

1:02:50 GOOD 1333 COMING.

1:02:53 SO FLYNN, OFFER THE FOLLOWING

1:02:54 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:02:56 THE IMPACTS OF RECENT BOSTON

1:02:58 PUBLIC.

1:02:58 SCHOOLS UM PERSONNEL CUTS ON

1:03:01 STUDENT WITH DISABILITIES.

1:03:02 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:03:04 COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL.

1:03:05 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:03:05 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:03:07 MAY I ADD COUNCIL MEJIA AS AN

1:03:09 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:03:11 COUNCILOR MEJIA SO ADDED.

1:03:12 MAY I SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

1:03:14 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:03:15 ?

1:03:16 SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:03:16 OBJECTIONS COMES FROM MURPHY'S

1:03:17 ADDED AS A THIRD.

1:03:19 THANK YOU.

1:03:20 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

1:03:21 WITH THE RECENT VOTE BY THE

1:03:22 CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE THE BPA

1:03:25 BUDGET, HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS,

1:03:28 PARAPROFESSIONALS AND OTHER

1:03:30 FRONTLINE WORKERS EDUCATORS ARE

1:03:33 ANTICIPATED TO LOSE THEIR JOBS.

1:03:36 THESE DEDICATED AND

1:03:38 COMPASSIONATE WORKERS PROVIDE

1:03:40 CRITICAL SOCIAL SERVICES TO

1:03:42 MANY OF THE MOST VULNERABLE

1:03:44 RESIDENTS IN BOSTON.

1:03:46 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

1:03:49 AS WE REFLECT ON THIS TERRIBLE

1:03:51 INJUSTICE AND THE IMPACT THIS

1:03:53 WILL HAVE ON DPS EMPLOYEES AND

1:03:56 THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL, WE ALSO

1:03:59 MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE POTENTIAL

1:04:01 EFFECT AND CONSEQUENCES IT WILL

1:04:04 HAVE DIRECTLY ON STUDENTS WITH

1:04:06 DISABILITIES AND SERVICES AND

1:04:09 PROGRAMS THEY ARE ENTITLED TO

1:04:11 BY LAW.

1:04:11 BY FEDERAL LAW, INDIVIDUALS

1:04:14 WOULD AND STUDENTS AND

1:04:16 INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

1:04:19 UM PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN OUR

1:04:21 CITY AND OUR COUNTRY.

1:04:25 INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

1:04:28 ACT GOVERNS HOW STATES PROVIDE

1:04:30 EARLY INTERVENTION IN SPECIAL

1:04:33 EDUCATION FOR ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

1:04:34 WITH DISABILITIES INCLUDING

1:04:36 INFANTS, TODDLERS AND CHILDREN

1:04:39 IN GRADE SCHOOL AND

1:04:41 MASSACHUSETTS.

1:04:42 ALL STUDENTS ARE ENTITLED TO A

1:04:43 FREE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC

1:04:46 EDUCATION IN THE LEAST

1:04:48 RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT,

1:04:50 MEANING THAT ALL STUDENTS WITH

1:04:52 DISABILITIES ARE PERMITTED TO

1:04:53 SERVICES LIKE SPEECH AND

1:04:55 LANGUAGE THERAPY, OCCUPATIONAL

1:04:57 THERAPY, PHYSICAL THERAPY,

1:05:01 BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, ASSISTIVE

1:05:04 TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORTATION AND

1:05:07 OTHER ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS

1:05:10 INCLUDING DEADLINE EXTENSIONS.

1:05:14 THESE PERSONNEL CUTS MAY RESULT

1:05:19 IN DEVASTATING IMPACTS FOR

1:05:20 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND

1:05:22 LET ME REPHRASE THAT THEY WILL

1:05:24 RESULT IN DEVASTATING IMPACT

1:05:26 FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

1:05:29 IN THE ABSENCE

1:05:30 OF PARAPROFESSIONALS, ALL

1:05:31 STUDENTS ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH

1:05:33 DISABILITIES MAY FACE

1:05:34 DIFFICULTIES WITH CLASSROOM

1:05:36 SUPPORT, ACCESSING RESOURCES,

1:05:39 ACCOMMODATIONS AND ULTIMATELY

1:05:41 RESULT IN A DECLINE IN ACADEMIC

1:05:43 AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS WITH THE

1:05:47 PROJECTED LOSS OF SEVERAL

1:05:48 HUNDRED EMPLOYEES, IT'S

1:05:51 CRITICAL THAT THE CITY

1:05:53 COUNCIL PROVIDES OVERSIGHT AND

1:05:55 UNDERSTANDS THE CONSEQUENCES

1:05:57 OF OUR ACTIONS FOR STUDENTS,

1:05:59 FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS.

1:06:01 IT WAS REPORTED THAT IT WAS

1:06:03 LIKELY 400 UM PERSONNEL AT

1:06:07 WOULD BE IMPACTED.

1:06:09 I THINK IT'S MUCH LARGER THAN

1:06:10 THAT.

1:06:11 I THINK IT MIGHT BE 500.

1:06:13 THOSE ARE 500 FAMILIES, BUT

1:06:17 THERE ARE ALSO STUDENTS WITH

1:06:19 DISABILITIES THAT WON'T GET THE

1:06:20 NEEDED CRITICAL SERVICES THAT

1:06:22 THEY'RE ENTITLED TO BY LAW.

1:06:25 LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN BY

1:06:26 FEDERAL LAW, STUDENTS WITH

1:06:29 DISABILITIES HAVE A RIGHT TO

1:06:30 THE SAME EDUCATION AS EVERYBODY

1:06:33 ELSE.

1:06:33 THAT'S BY FEDERAL LAW.

1:06:35 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:06:36 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:06:37 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR

1:06:38 MEJIA.

1:06:39 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:06:42 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:06:43 I WANT TO THANK

1:06:44 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR ADDING

1:06:45 ME TO THIS HEARING ORDER.

1:06:47 YOU KNOW.

1:06:48 I VOTED AGAINST THE BUDGET

1:06:50 BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT THE

1:06:52 SIGNIFICANT STAFF CUTS TO

1:06:53 STUDENTS FACING POSITIONS WOULD

1:06:54 NEGATIVELY IMPACT ALL STUDENTS

1:06:56 ,MOST ESPECIALLY OUR STUDENTS

1:06:58 WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL.

1:07:01 NEEDS.

1:07:01 OUR MULTI AND OUR.

1:07:02 MULTI LINGUAL LEARNERS THE BTU

1:07:04 TEACHERS PARAS AND OTHER SCHOOL

1:07:07 STAFF, YOUTH AND FAMILIES,

1:07:09 COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

1:07:11 SOUNDED THE ALARM FOR MONTHS

1:07:13 YET THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:07:15 SOME OF OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

1:07:16 .

1:07:17 APPROVED THE BUDGET ANYWAYS.

1:07:20 HISTORICALLY BOSTON HAS BEEN A

1:07:21 LEADER IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

1:07:23 BUT ADVOCATES HAVE BEEN WARNING

1:07:24 THAT PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN

1:07:25 WEAKENING WITH PERSONNEL CUTS.

1:07:28 UM AND IN THE LAST BUDGET OUR

1:07:30 STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS WHO ARE

1:07:32 NOW SUPPORTING THEM WITH FEWER

1:07:34 COLLEAGUES AND RESOURCES THAN

1:07:35 EVER BEFORE.

1:07:37 WILL SUFFER.

1:07:39 WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION

1:07:40 TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS

1:07:42 OF THESE PERSONNEL CUTS UH,

1:07:44 WILL HAVE ON STUDENTS WITH

1:07:46 DISABILITIES AND DEVELOP A LONG

1:07:47 TERM PLAN TO BETTER SUPPORT OUR

1:07:50 STUDENTS.

1:07:50 I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING

1:07:52 AND HAVING THE CONVERSATION.

1:07:54 AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO NOTE

1:07:57 THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO NAVIGATE

1:07:59 THESE CONVERSATIONS, NOW IS THE

1:08:01 TIME FOR US TO START REALLY

1:08:03 THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE BUDGET

1:08:05 PROCESS NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE AND

1:08:06 MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE

1:08:08 ENGAGING ALL THE RIGHT

1:08:09 STAKEHOLDERS UM IN THE

1:08:10 CONVERSATION.

1:08:11 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING JUST

1:08:13 THAT.

1:08:13 THANK YOU.

1:08:14 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:08:16 COUNSELOR MURPHY.

1:08:16 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:08:19 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:08:20 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR.

1:08:22 INCLUDING ME.

1:08:23 COUNCILOR ME HERE IN THIS

1:08:24 IMPORTANT CONVERSATION AND

1:08:26 THANK YOU FOR THE WAY YOU

1:08:27 WORDED IT TO DISCUSS THE

1:08:29 IMPACTS.

1:08:29 I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD MANY

1:08:31 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE JOB

1:08:33 LOSS OF HUNDREDS.

1:08:35 THE LAST ARTICLE HAD IT AT 560

1:08:37 JOBS LOST FOR SEPTEMBER.

1:08:39 AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO

1:08:41 CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THE

1:08:42 BUDGET.

1:08:43 AND I KNOW THERE WAS A HEARING

1:08:44 AT THE LAST MEETING THAT I

1:08:45 DIDN'T THINK SHOULD GO IN WAYS

1:08:47 AND MEANS.

1:08:48 I'M HOPING THIS GOES INTO

1:08:49 EDUCATION WHERE WE CAN REALLY

1:08:50 TALK ABOUT THE DIRECT NEGATIVE

1:08:53 IMPACT THIS IS GOING TO HAVE ON

1:08:55 OUR STUDENTS WHO NEED THESE

1:08:56 SUPPORTS THE MOST AND ALWAYS

1:08:59 CARING AND TALKING ABOUT THE

1:09:01 LOSS OF JOBS THAT OUR NEIGHBORS

1:09:02 ARE GOING TO BE LOSING.

1:09:04 BUT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

1:09:05 CONVERSATION AND HEARING

1:09:07 DIRECTLY AND HOPEFULLY THIS

1:09:08 HEARING COUNCILOR FLYNN UM IS

1:09:10 HAPPENS BEFORE THE SCHOOL YEAR.

1:09:12 STARTS OR BEFORE OUR STUDENTS

1:09:14 COME BACK TO OUR CLASSROOMS

1:09:15 THAT WE ON THIS COUNCIL ARE

1:09:18 ABLE TO GET THE INFORMATION

1:09:19 NEEDED TO ADVOCATE TO MAKE SURE

1:09:21 THAT OUR TEACHERS, OUR

1:09:24 PRINCIPALS, OUR PARENTS

1:09:25 ESPECIALLY OUR STUDENTS HAVE

1:09:26 THE SUPPORT SO THAT THEY CAN

1:09:28 GET THE RESOURCES THAT THEY

1:09:29 NEED.

1:09:29 THANK YOU.

1:09:30 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY,

1:09:31 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:09:33 NAME?

1:09:34 COUNSELOR.

1:09:35 CULPEPER.

1:09:35 COUNSELOR.

1:09:36 DURKAN.

1:09:36 COUNSELOR.

1:09:37 FITZGERALD.

1:09:37 COUNSELOR.

1:09:37 LOUIJEUNE.

1:09:38 COUNSELOR.

1:09:39 PEPEN.

1:09:39 CONSCIOUS.

1:09:40 FONTANA.

1:09:40 COUNSELOR.

1:09:41 WEBER AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

1:09:44 DOCKET UH DOCKET NUMBER 1333

1:09:48 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:09:49 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

1:09:52 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:09:54 READ DOCKET 1334.

1:09:56 DOCKET 1334.

1:09:57 COUNSELOR PEPPER AND ALL FOR

1:09:59 THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A

1:10:01 HEARING TO DISCUSS THE STATUS

1:10:02 OF HVAC UPDATES IN THE IN

1:10:04 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:10:06 THANK YOU.

1:10:07 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:10:08 COUNCILOR PEPPER AND

1:10:09 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:10:10 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:10:12 I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:10:13 ADD YOURSELF COUNCILOR BREADON

1:10:15 AS A CO-SPONSOR.

1:10:16 THANK YOU.

1:10:17 AND I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

1:10:18 RULES AND ADD COUNSELOR

1:10:19 FITZGERALD AS A THIRD

1:10:20 CO-SPONSOR.

1:10:21 SO CANTABRIANS ADDED AS A

1:10:24 SECOND AND HEARING AND SEEING

1:10:26 NO OBJECTIONS COUNSELOR WORRELL

1:10:27 NO.

1:10:28 OH, FITZGERALD.

1:10:29 FITZGERALD I BEG YOUR PARDON,

1:10:30 COUNSELOR FITZGERALD AS ADDED

1:10:32 AS A THIRD.

1:10:33 THANK YOU.

1:10:35 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS MADE.

1:10:36 SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN

1:10:38 UPGRADING HVAC SYSTEMS ACROSS

1:10:40 SCHOOL BUILDINGS OVER THE PAST

1:10:42 SEVERAL YEARS.

1:10:44 BUT WE DID.

1:10:45 HOW WE WILL HELP SO MUCH SO WHY

1:10:48 DON'T WE HURRY?

1:10:51 YEAH YEAH.

1:10:54 COME BACK TO YOU.

1:10:55 RANDY IS HERE.

1:11:04 WITH US.

1:11:05 WE?

1:41:48 WE ARE NOW BACK IN SESSION.

1:41:50 UH, WE WILL GO BACK TO, UH,

1:41:53 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

1:41:55 UH, DOCKET NUMBER 1334.

1:41:58 UH, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:42:00 I'LL JUST GIVE.

1:42:02 IF YOU'D LIKE TO START AT THE

1:42:03 BEGINNING OF YOUR COMMENTS

1:42:04 AGAIN.

1:42:04 THAT MIGHT BE GOOD.

1:42:05 YEAH.

1:42:06 UM.

1:42:09 THANK YOU.

1:42:10 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

1:42:12 UM.

1:42:13 SORRY.

1:42:16 UM, WOULD LIKE TO ADD YOU AS

1:42:19 A SECOND CO-SPONSOR.

1:42:20 I'M AT IT.

1:42:21 THANK YOU.

1:42:22 AND THEN YOU ASK TO, UH,

1:42:25 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD THERE'S A

1:42:26 THIRD.

1:42:26 SO THERE WAS NO I DIDN'T SEE OR

1:42:28 HEAR ANY OBJECTION TO

1:42:28 COUNCIL FITZGERALD IS ADDED AS

1:42:30 A THIRD.

1:42:30 YEAH.

1:42:31 YOU HAVE UM.

1:42:33 ALSO WISHING THAT OUR COLLEAGUE

1:42:36 IS OKAY.

1:42:36 THANK YOU.

1:42:38 UM.

1:42:39 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS

1:42:40 MADE A SIGNIFICANT.

1:42:41 PROGRESS IN UPGRADING HVAC

1:42:42 SYSTEMS ACROSS SCHOOL BUILDINGS

1:42:44 OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

1:42:46 HOWEVER, EIGHT BUILDINGS REMAIN

1:42:48 WITHOUT FULL BUILDING AIR

1:42:50 CONDITIONING AND TEMPERATURES

1:42:52 REACHED OVER 90 DEGREES IN SOME

1:42:54 CLASSROOMS DURING THE LAST

1:42:55 MONTH OF SCHOOL.

1:42:57 TWO OF THOSE SCHOOLS OUT OF THE

1:42:59 EIGHT ARE IN MY DISTRICT THE

1:43:01 MOZART AND THE BATES.

1:43:03 UM.

1:43:04 A GOOD AMOUNT OF PARENTS

1:43:05 REACHED OUT TO MY OFFICE WITH

1:43:07 CONCERNS OF THE TEMPERATURES

1:43:09 THAT THE CLASSROOMS REACHED

1:43:10 DURING SOME OF THE WARMER DAYS

1:43:12 AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

1:43:14 UM, MY INTENTION WITH THIS

1:43:15 HEARING IS TO OFFER THE BOSTON

1:43:17 PUBLIC SCHOOLS OFFICIALS THE

1:43:18 OPPORTUNITY.

1:43:19 TO EXPLAIN.

1:43:20 THE TIMELINE FOR HVAC UPGRADES

1:43:22 ACROSS THE DISTRICT AS WELL AS

1:43:24 TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS LEADING UP

1:43:26 BEFORE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

1:43:27 THANK YOU.

1:43:29 UM, COUNCILOR.

1:43:31 UH, CULPEPER, WOULD YOU MIND

1:43:33 TAKING THE CHAIR FOR US TWO

1:43:34 MINUTES FOR THIS I I'M A SECOND

1:43:36 SPONSOR ON THIS.

1:43:38 I THINK THEY ALLOW ME TO SPEAK

1:43:41 FOR TWO MINUTES.

1:43:46 IT'S THIS ONE HERE.

1:43:57 COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU NOW HAVE

1:43:59 THE FLOOR.

1:43:59 MR CHAIR.

1:44:05 GOT IT.

1:44:06 THANK YOU.

1:44:08 UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK

1:44:09 COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR BRINGING

1:44:10 THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE FORWARD

1:44:11 AND FOR ADDING ME AS A

1:44:12 CO-SPONSOR.

1:44:13 MANY FACILITIES ARE VERY OLD

1:44:16 AND AS THE CLIMATE CONTINUES TO

1:44:17 GROW HOTTER AND MORE

1:44:19 UNPREDICTABLE, WE NEED TO.

1:44:20 HAVE.

1:44:21 A PLAN.

1:44:21 FOR.

1:44:21 THE STATUS OF HVAC SYSTEMS

1:44:24 REMAINS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR OUR

1:44:26 FACILITIES.

1:44:26 THE JACKSON MANN SCHOOL

1:44:27 BUILDING IN ALLSTON WAS

1:44:29 DECLARED ON IT ON UM AND ON ON

1:44:33 AN INAPPROPRIATE FOR ITS

1:44:35 INTENDED USE IN LARGE PART DUE

1:44:36 TO DEFERRED MAINTENANCE OF THE

1:44:38 HVAC SYSTEM.

1:44:39 HVAC IMPROVEMENTS APPEARED IN

1:44:41 THE CAPITAL BUDGET DECADES AGO,

1:44:43 BUT ACTION WAS NEVER TAKEN AND

1:44:45 THE SCHOOL WAS FORCED TO CLOSE

1:44:46 AS A RESULT.

1:44:47 ADDRESSING HVAC CHALLENGES WILL

1:44:49 REQUIRE COORDINATION AMONG MANY

1:44:51 DEPARTMENTS.

1:44:52 HVAC UPGRADES MUST BE

1:44:54 INTEGRATED INTO A BROADER

1:44:55 CAPITAL PLANNING ELECTRICAL

1:44:57 MODEL AND MODERNIZATION AND

1:44:59 CLIMATE RESILIENCE EFFORTS.

1:45:01 ADDITIONALLY, EXTREME HEAT

1:45:03 AFFECTS STUDENTS ABILITY TO

1:45:05 FOCUS, RETAIN INFORMATION AND

1:45:07 PERFORM ACADEMICALLY.

1:45:08 EVERY STUDENT DESERVES A

1:45:11 COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT IN

1:45:12 WHICH TO LEARN.

1:45:13 THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT

1:45:15 FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

1:45:17 WHERE AS MANY OF THEM HAVE

1:45:18 TEMPER TANTRUM TEMPERATURE

1:45:21 REGULATION ISSUES.

1:45:22 I LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING

1:45:24 HOW A BUILDING HOW TO BUILD AND

1:45:26 MAINTAIN A SPACE WHERE EVERY

1:45:28 STUDENT AN EDUCATOR HAS.

1:45:30 ACCESS TO A SAFE AND TEMPERATE

1:45:32 LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.

1:45:33 THANK YOU.

1:45:39 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:45:42 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR KILPATRICK

1:45:43 .

1:45:47 THANK YOU COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:45:49 AND THANK YOU COUNCILOR PENN

1:45:50 FOR HAVING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.

1:45:51 THIS ONE'S PERSONAL FOR ME AS

1:45:52 MY KIDS GO TO A SCHOOL THAT

1:45:54 DOES NOT HAVE AIR CONDITIONING

1:45:55 AND OBVIOUSLY JUST MISSED UH,

1:45:57 WITH THE LATE SCHOOL YEAR THEY

1:45:58 JUST MISSED IT BY A WEEK

1:45:59 OF HAVING 100 DEGREE

1:46:00 TEMPERATURES OUTSIDE.

1:46:02 UH, AND WHAT THAT COULD HAVE

1:46:03 DONE, UH, TO THE LEARNING

1:46:04 ENVIRONMENT FOR MY CHILDREN AND

1:46:06 EVERYONE'S CHILDREN INSIDE.

1:46:07 UM, SO I APPRECIATE

1:46:09 COUNCILOR PEPEN BRINGING UP THE

1:46:10 FACT OF JUST ASKING THE

1:46:11 ADMINISTRATION AND FOLKS AT THE

1:46:14 ,UH, WHAT THE TIMELINE IS AND

1:46:15 WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE MEANTIME

1:46:17 TO MITIGATE THESE IMPACTS.

1:46:18 THANK YOU.

1:46:21 WE DIDN'T.

1:46:22 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:46:23 NAMES?

1:46:25 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:46:27 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:46:28 COUNCILOR.

1:46:28 MURPHY.

1:46:29 COUNCILOR.

1:46:29 OH, COUNCIL.

1:46:31 SANTANA.

1:46:31 THAT'S A WEBER.

1:46:33 SO WE'RE WELL.

1:46:33 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:46:40 THANK YOU.

1:46:40 DOCKET NUMBER 1334 WILL BE

1:46:44 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:46:45 EDUCATION.

1:47:01 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:47:04 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

1:47:05 PLEASE READ DOCKET 13351335?

1:47:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFERED THE

1:47:10 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:47:13 TO DISCUSS THE STATUS OF THE

1:47:14 BLACKSTONE POOL AND INDEPENDENT

1:47:16 ENGINEERING STUDY ON REPAIRS.

1:47:19 THANK YOU.

1:47:20 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY.

1:47:21 FLYNN COUNTRY.

1:47:22 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:47:24 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:47:25 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD.

1:47:28 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS AN

1:47:29 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:47:31 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD HAS ADDED

1:47:32 AS A SECOND.

1:47:33 IN MAY I SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:47:34 ADD COUNCILOR CULPEPER PLEASE.

1:47:36 SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:47:37 OBJECTIONS.

1:47:38 CONFLICT PRESENTED AS THE THIRD

1:47:39 .

1:47:40 AND JUST I JUST WANT TO NOTE

1:47:42 THAT THE BLACKSTONE POOL IS IS

1:47:45 IN THE SOUTH AND IT'S BY

1:47:47 MYSELF.

1:47:48 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND UM

1:47:50 COUNCILOR CULPEPER WANT TO

1:47:51 THANK WANT TO THANK BOTH

1:47:52 OF THEM FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO

1:47:54 THE RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH AND

1:47:56 THE BLACKSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER

1:47:58 IN BOSTON.

1:47:59 PUBLIC SCHOOL.

1:48:00 HAS HISTORICALLY.

1:48:01 SERVED COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND

1:48:03 THE SOUTH END IN ROXBURY,

1:48:06 INCLUDING ACROSS THE STREET IS

1:48:08 VILLA VICTORIA AND UH, ACROSS

1:48:13 FROM THAT IS THE BERKELEY

1:48:15 APARTMENTS.

1:48:17 IT HAS BEEN CLOSED

1:48:18 INDEFINITELY.

1:48:19 DUE TO.

1:48:20 STRUCTURAL ISSUES.

1:48:22 DRAIN LINE FAILURE, GROUNDWATER

1:48:25 INTRUSION.

1:48:28 OF THE 18 POOLS OPERATED BY.

1:48:30 BC.

1:48:31 BCF AND OR BOSTON PUBLIC

1:48:33 SCHOOLS, NINE WILL CLOSE TO THE

1:48:35 SUMMER OF 2025 SIGNIFICANTLY

1:48:37 LIMITING ACCESS TO SWIM

1:48:39 LESSONS, SWIM LESSONS AND

1:48:42 RECREATIONAL WATER ACTIVITIES

1:48:43 WHICH ARE VITAL FOR UM HEALTH

1:48:47 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, EXERCISE AND

1:48:49 THE SUMMER OF 20 20 2026.

1:48:52 16 OF THE.

1:48:53 18 POOLS HAVE SINCE REOPENED

1:48:55 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE

1:48:57 BLACKSTONE SWIMMING POOL AND

1:48:58 THE MIRABELLA SWIMMING POOL.

1:49:01 THE CITY OF BOSTON FY 27

1:49:04 THROUGH 31 CAPITAL BUDGET

1:49:06 INCLUDES $500,000 TO THE

1:49:08 BLACKSTONE SCHOOL STUDY, WHICH

1:49:11 WILL DETERMINE THE SCOPE

1:49:12 OF MAJOR RENOVATIONS AT THE

1:49:14 SCHOOL AND POOL.

1:49:16 A COMPLETE RENOVATION WILL TAKE

1:49:18 YEARS.

1:49:20 HOWEVER, THIS POOL CLOSURE

1:49:24 CONTINUES TO WORSEN DISPARITIES

1:49:26 AND EXPOSURE TO HOTTER SUMMERS

1:49:28 AND DENIES ENRICHMENT

1:49:30 OPPORTUNITIES.

1:49:31 FOR.

1:49:31 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND OUR

1:49:33 IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS.

1:49:34 WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT 100

1:49:36 DEGREE DAYS IN DPS AND JUNE

1:49:42 2026, THE CITY COUNCIL HELD THE

1:49:43 HEARING ON THE OVERALL

1:49:45 CONDITION OF BCF POOLS WHERE

1:49:47 BP'S INFORMED THE BODY THAT

1:49:50 REOPENING THE BLACKSTONE WOULD

1:49:51 REQUIRE A FULL EXCAVATION TO

1:49:56 UNDERSTAND THE FULL SCOPE

1:49:57 OF DAMAGE AND MAY BE IN MAJOR

1:50:01 RENOVATIONS TO BC WAY

1:50:02 OF BLACKSTONE.

1:50:03 IT'S CRITICAL THAT THE

1:50:04 BLACKSTONE POOL UNDERGO AN

1:50:07 INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING STUDY

1:50:09 ON HOW TO FIX THE POOL.

1:50:10 IN MY OPINION, FAILURE TO

1:50:13 INVEST THE APPROPRIATE

1:50:14 RESOURCES IN THE BLACKSTONE

1:50:15 SCHOOL IS AN ISSUE OF SOCIAL,

1:50:18 ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND

1:50:20 RACIAL JUSTICE.

1:50:21 I WANT TO ENSURE THAT MY

1:50:25 CONSTITUENTS CONSTITUENTS IN

1:50:26 THE SOUTH AND ROXBURY HAVE

1:50:29 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AS OTHER

1:50:31 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:50:32 I WANT TO SEE HOW WE'RE ABLE TO

1:50:34 GIVE THE KIDS FROM THE SOUTH

1:50:35 END IN ROXBURY THE THE

1:50:38 OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO A SWIMMING

1:50:40 POOL AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND

1:50:42 AND TAKE SWIMMING LESSONS.

1:50:45 I THINK THIS IS AN.

1:50:46 ISSUE ABOUT EQUAL JUSTICE AND

1:50:49 ENSURING THAT COMMUNITIES

1:50:51 OF COLOR HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS

1:50:53 AND OPPORTUNITIES AS OTHER

1:50:55 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:50:55 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:50:57 THANK YOU.

1:50:57 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:50:58 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZING NOISES.

1:50:59 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCILOR,

1:51:00 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:51:01 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:51:03 I JUST WANT TO THANK

1:51:04 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR ADDING

1:51:05 ME AS A CO-SPONSOR HERE KNOWING

1:51:07 AGAIN WITH COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

1:51:09 MYSELF AND COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:51:10 REPRESENTING A LARGE SWATH

1:51:10 OF THE SOUTH END, UM, THAT

1:51:12 THESE ARE OUR CONSTITUENTS WHO

1:51:13 USE THIS POOL AND HAVE EVERY

1:51:15 RIGHT UH AND ABILITY THAT

1:51:17 SHOULD HAVE THAT ABILITY UH TO

1:51:18 HAVE THAT AMENITY IN THEIR

1:51:20 NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:51:20 UH AND SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO

1:51:21 HAVING THE BLACKSTONE POOL

1:51:23 REOPENED, UH, AND HOPEFULLY GET

1:51:24 THESE REPAIRS UNDERWAY.

1:51:25 UH.

1:51:26 THANK YOU.

1:51:27 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:51:29 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:51:30 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:51:31 MADAM PRESIDENT, I LIKE TO

1:51:32 ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THE

1:51:33 REMARKS FROM COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:51:35 AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:51:38 WE RECENTLY HAD THAT HEARING

1:51:39 WHERE WE DISCUSSED THE

1:51:41 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SWIMMING

1:51:42 POOLS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:51:44 IT SAID THAT BLACKSTONE WILL

1:51:46 NOT BE PART OF THE GOOD TIMES,

1:51:48 THE TRAINING, THE SWIMMING

1:51:50 MEETS THAT THEY'LL HAVE AT THE

1:51:51 DIFFERENT POOLS.

1:51:53 I THINK THEY DESERVE IT AND I

1:51:54 THINK THE SOONER THEY CAN GET

1:51:56 IT DONE THE BETTER IT WOULD BE

1:51:58 FOR THE STUDENTS OF BLACKSTONE

1:51:59 .

1:51:59 HOPEFULLY IT CAN BE DONE SOON.

1:52:01 AGAIN COUNCILOR FINN.

1:52:03 THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING THAT

1:52:05 RESOLUTION.

1:52:05 AND UH.

1:52:07 TO MY.

1:52:08 COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:52:12 THANK YOU.

1:52:14 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:52:15 THEIR NAME?

1:52:16 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:52:17 COUNCILOR.

1:52:18 UM.

1:52:18 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:52:19 COUNCILOR.

1:52:21 UH LOUIJEUNE.

1:52:21 COUNCILOR.

1:52:22 MURPHY.

1:52:22 COUNCILOR.

1:52:22 PEPEN.

1:52:23 HUNTER.

1:52:24 SANTANA.

1:52:24 CONSTABLE.

1:52:25 WEBER.

1:52:25 CRUNCHER WORRELL AND PLEASE,

1:52:26 UH, THE CHAIR DOCKET UH 1335

1:52:31 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:52:32 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES.

1:52:34 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:52:35 READ DOCKET?

1:52:36 COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

1:52:39 1336?

1:52:44 ADOPTED 1336 COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:52:47 AND FOR THE FOLLOWING.

1:52:48 ORDER FOR HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:52:49 THE POTENTIAL IMPACT ON CITY

1:52:52 REVENUES IN THE EVENT THAT

1:52:54 BOSTON RECEIVE AN UNFAVORABLE,

1:52:56 FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE COURT

1:52:58 JUDGMENT ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

1:53:00 ASSESSMENTS.

1:53:00 THANK YOU.

1:53:01 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:53:02 COUNCILOR COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

1:53:03 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:53:05 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:53:07 THE CITY OF BOSTON IS CURRENTLY

1:53:08 INVOLVED IN A LAWSUIT WITH A

1:53:10 GROUP OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

1:53:11 OWNERS OVER ALLEGED INFLATION

1:53:14 OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY VALUES.

1:53:16 WHILE THE LAWSUIT IS ONGOING IN

1:53:18 COURT, THERE COULD BE MAJOR

1:53:21 IMPACTS TO BOSTON'S ASSESSING

1:53:23 PRACTICES AND GENERATED

1:53:25 REVENUES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:53:26 .

1:53:27 IF BOSTON DOES NOT WIN THE CASE

1:53:29 IN THE EVENT THAT BOSTON DOES

1:53:31 NOT WIN THE CASE, I THINK IT IS

1:53:34 IMPORTANT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION

1:53:35 WHAT IMPACT IT HAS ON THE CITY

1:53:36 OF BOSTON IN OUR FINANCES.

1:53:43 IN DECEMBER 2025, A GROUP

1:53:44 OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS

1:53:45 ENTERED INTO A LAWSUIT WITH THE

1:53:47 CITY OF BOSTON ALLEGING THAT

1:53:49 THE CITY HAD IMPLEMENTED A

1:53:52 POLICY FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WHO

1:53:53 HAVE FILED FOR AN ABATEMENT AND

1:53:56 APPEAL TO THE ATB.

1:53:57 THEY DESCRIBED IT AS

1:53:59 RETALIATORY.

1:54:01 IN MAY 2026, SUFFOLK SUPERIOR

1:54:03 COURT DENIED THE CITY

1:54:04 OF BOSTON'S MOTION TO DISMISS

1:54:06 THE LAWSUIT.

1:54:08 WHILE THE LITIGATION IS ONGOING

1:54:11 ,THE POTENTIAL NEGATIVE

1:54:13 ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS ON THE

1:54:16 CITY OF BOSTON SHOULD BE

1:54:18 DISCUSSED.

1:54:19 WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE

1:54:20 IMPLICATIONS WOULD BE IF ANY.

1:54:26 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS

1:54:28 HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON BOSTON'S

1:54:31 REVENUE.

1:54:32 IT'S CRITICAL THAT BOSTON IN

1:54:35 PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS ARE

1:54:38 CONDUCTED WITH TRANSPARENCY AND

1:54:41 THERE SHOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY

1:54:43 FOR THE CITY COUNCIL IS TO ASK

1:54:46 QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PROCESS.

1:54:47 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE

1:54:49 CITY COUNCIL TO BE MORE.

1:54:50 ENGAGED IN.

1:54:52 THIS PRACTICE AND LEARNING,

1:54:54 ESPECIALLY LEARNING ABOUT

1:54:57 ASSESSING DEPARTMENT, THE

1:54:58 CRITICAL WORK THEY PLAY, THE

1:55:00 IMPACT THEY HAVE ON TAXES IN

1:55:03 THE CITY.

1:55:03 BUT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO

1:55:05 LEARN THAT IF THERE IS A

1:55:07 NEGATIVE, UH, RULING BY THE

1:55:09 COURT THAT WE CAN HAVE A

1:55:12 RESPECTFUL CONVERSATION ON WHAT

1:55:13 IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON THE CITY

1:55:16 FINANCES, NEIGHBORHOOD

1:55:17 SERVICES, QUALITY OF LIFE

1:55:20 ISSUES.

1:55:20 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:55:21 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:55:23 UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

1:55:25 ADD THEIR NAME?

1:55:27 COUNCILOR.

1:55:27 UH.

1:55:28 CULPEPER.

1:55:28 COUNCILOR.

1:55:29 DURKAN.

1:55:29 COUNCILOR.

1:55:29 FITZGERALD LOUIJEUNE MURPHY.

1:55:31 COUNCILOR.

1:55:32 PEPEN.

1:55:32 CONTRA SANTANA.

1:55:34 CONSTABLE.

1:55:34 WEBER.

1:55:34 CONSTABLE.

1:55:35 EARL AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR.

1:55:37 DOCKET NUMBER 1336 WILL BE

1:55:39 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:55:41 WAYS AND MEANS.

1:55:44 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:55:45 READ DOCKET 1337?

1:55:50 DOCKET 1337 COUNCILOR PEPPER

1:55:54 AND WHETHER OR FOR AN OFFER THE

1:55:55 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR HEARING TO

1:55:57 DISCUSS THE FULFILLMENT

1:55:59 OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS FUNDED BY

1:56:01 THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.

1:56:02 THANK YOU.

1:56:03 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:56:04 COUNCILOR PEPEN YOU HAVE THE

1:56:05 FLOOR.

1:56:06 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:56:07 I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

1:56:08 RULES.

1:56:08 AND ADD.

1:56:09 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AS A.

1:56:10 THIRD UH AS A THIRD.

1:56:12 SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:56:14 OBJECTIONS, COUNCILOR UH

1:56:15 LOUIJEUNE ADDED AS A THIRD.

1:56:17 THANK YOU.

1:56:18 APPLICANTS FOR.

1:56:19 CERTAIN BUILDING PROJECTS IN

1:56:20 THE CITY OF BOSTON ARE REQUIRED

1:56:22 TO IDENTIFY AND CREATE BENEFITS

1:56:24 FOR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY

1:56:25 AS PART AS THEIR REVIEW PROCESS

1:56:27 .

1:56:27 THESE INCLUDE IMPROVEMENTS TO

1:56:29 OPEN SPACES IN THE PUBLIC

1:56:30 REALM, JOBS AND AFFORDABLE

1:56:32 HOUSING.

1:56:33 HOWEVER, THE PRODUCTION

1:56:35 OF THESE COMMUNITY BENEFITS CAN

1:56:36 FACE UNCLEAR TIMELINES OR NOT

1:56:39 BE COMPLETED AT ALL.

1:56:41 THIS HEARING WILL DISCUSS THE

1:56:42 STATUS OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS

1:56:43 FOR CURRENT DEVELOPMENT

1:56:45 PROJECTS.

1:56:45 THE PROCESS FOR COMPLETING THEM

1:56:47 ON SCHEDULE AND SEEING WHAT CAN

1:56:49 BE DONE TO MAKE SURE OUR

1:56:50 COMMUNITIES GET WHAT.

1:56:51 THEY DESERVE.

1:56:52 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:56:54 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:56:56 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:56:56 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:56:57 UH, YEAH.

1:56:58 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:56:59 I JUST WANT TO THANK, UH.

1:57:00 THE, UM, COUNCILOR PREPARED FOR

1:57:02 FOR ADDING ME ON TO THIS.

1:57:04 UH, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN AN

1:57:05 ISSUE IN DISTRICT SIX.

1:57:08 UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S SEVERAL

1:57:09 PROJECTS, UH, TRYING TO GET THE

1:57:11 DEVELOPERS TO COMPLY WITH THE

1:57:13 PROMISED COMMUNITY BENEFITS.

1:57:15 UM, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING

1:57:16 PART OF THE DISCUSSION.

1:57:17 THANK YOU.

1:57:19 CHAIR.

1:57:20 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:57:22 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:57:22 COUNCILOR.

1:57:23 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:57:23 I'M JUST.

1:57:24 KEEPING IT.

1:57:24 THERE YOU GO.

1:57:25 THANK YOU.

1:57:26 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK

1:57:27 COUNCIL WRITTEN FOR, UM FOR

1:57:27 ADDING ME.

1:57:29 UM, MY OFFICE HAS BEEN DOING

1:57:30 WORK ON THIS ISSUE.

1:57:32 UM, AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S

1:57:33 ISSUES WITH DATABASES TO ENSURE

1:57:37 ACCOUNTABILITY AND SO I'M JUST

1:57:38 GLAD TO BE ON IT AND LOOK

1:57:39 FORWARD TO WORKING.

1:57:40 THANK YOU.

1:57:41 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:57:42 .

1:57:42 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

1:57:44 THEIR NAME?

1:57:45 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:57:46 COUNCILOR.

1:57:46 DURKAN.

1:57:47 COUNCILOR.

1:57:47 FITZGERALD.

1:57:47 COUNCILOR.

1:57:48 FLYNN.

1:57:48 COUNCILOR.

1:57:49 MURPHY.

1:57:50 COUNCILOR.

1:57:50 SANTANA.

1:57:51 COUNSELOR.

1:57:51 MORALE.

1:57:52 AND PLEASE HAVE THE CHAIR.

1:57:54 UH, DOCKET NUMBER 1337 WILL BE

1:57:58 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:57:59 PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

1:58:01 TRANSPORTATION.

1:58:02 UM, I'M GOING TO CALL ON MY

1:58:04 COLLEAGUE AGAIN.

1:58:23 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:58:24 READ THE DOCKET?

1:58:26 DOCKET 1338.

1:58:29 COUNCILOR BREDON OR FOR THE

1:58:30 FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:58:32 TO DISCUSS REESTABLISHING A

1:58:33 POST OFFICE LOCATION IN AUSTIN

1:58:35 .

1:58:36 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:58:37 COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:58:38 COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE

1:58:39 FLOOR.

1:58:41 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:58:42 I RISE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THIS

1:58:43 HEARING ORDER TO DISCUSS THE

1:58:45 URGENT NEED TO REESTABLISH, UH,

1:58:47 A U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LOCATION

1:58:49 IN AUSTIN.

1:58:50 AUSTIN'S POSTAL BRANCH POST

1:58:52 OFFICE BRANCH WAS CLOSED IN

1:58:53 NOVEMBER OF 2019.

1:58:55 UH, WHEN THE BUILDING WAS

1:58:57 LOCATED IN A BUILDING THAT WAS

1:58:59 DEEMED STRUCTURALLY UNSOUND.

1:59:01 UH, FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS,

1:59:03 THE NEARLY 331 SO NEARLY 32,000

1:59:07 RESIDENTS OF AUSTIN HAVE BEEN

1:59:09 WITHOUT A NEIGHBORHOOD POST

1:59:10 OFFICE FORCING FAMILIES,

1:59:12 SENIORS, STUDENTS AND SMALL

1:59:13 BUSINESS OWNERS TO RELY ON A

1:59:14 SINGLE LOCATION IN BRIGHTON

1:59:16 CENTER.

1:59:18 IN JUNE 2025, USPS SENT A

1:59:19 LETTER TO MAIL CONFIRMING THE

1:59:21 FINAL DECISION TO REESTABLISH A

1:59:23 POST OFFICE BRANCH IN ALLSTON

1:59:25 AFTER A FULLY NEGOTIATED LEASE

1:59:27 WITH A NEW DEVELOPMENT

1:59:28 CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT

1:59:30 THE PREVIOUS POST OFFICE SITE.

1:59:32 IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR MY OFFICE

1:59:35 RECEIVED A LETTER FROM USPS

1:59:36 STATING THAT THEY HAD DECIDED

1:59:38 TO TEMPORARILY PAUSE LOOKING

1:59:40 FOR AN ALTERNATIVE FACILITY

1:59:42 WHILE IT FURTHER REVIEWS THE

1:59:43 OPERATIONAL NEEDS IN ALLSTON.

1:59:45 THIS ABRUPT REVERSAL IS AN

1:59:48 UNCONSCIONABLE, UNACCEPTABLE

1:59:50 BROKEN PROMISE AND TO THE

1:59:51 ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY.

1:59:53 I'M CALLING FOR A HEARING TODAY

1:59:54 TO ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO HEAR

1:59:56 DIRECTLY FROM USPS THE

1:59:58 DEVELOPER THAT IS THAT HAD

1:59:59 PREVIOUSLY SECURED A COMMITMENT

2:00:01 FROM USPS CITY OFFICIALS

2:00:03 REGARDING THE DELAY AND TO

2:00:05 IDENTIFY NEXT STEPS.

2:00:07 RESTORING A POST OFFICE IN

2:00:08 AUSTIN IS ABOUT EQUITY,

2:00:10 ACCESSIBILITY AND ENSURING

2:00:11 EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ACCESS

2:00:13 TO THIS ESSENTIAL PUBLIC

2:00:14 SERVICE.

2:00:15 I HOPE THIS HEARING BRING UH

2:00:17 HELPS BRING ALL PARTIES BACK TO

2:00:19 THE TABLE TO SEE IF WE CAN

2:00:21 FINALLY DELIVER ON THE

2:00:22 COMMITMENT THAT WAS MADE TO THE

2:00:23 PEOPLE OF ALLSTON.

2:00:25 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT

2:00:26 THIS HEARING AND LOOK FORWARD

2:00:27 TO THE DISCUSSION.

2:00:28 THANK YOU.

2:00:30 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:00:31 NAME?

2:00:33 COUNCILOR.

2:00:33 DURKAN.

2:00:34 COUNCILOR.

2:00:34 FITZGERALD.

2:00:36 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:00:36 COSTELLO.

2:00:37 NOISE IN COUNCIL.

2:00:39 MURPHY.

2:00:40 COUNCILOR PEPPING COUNCILOR.

2:00:41 SANTANA.

2:00:42 COUNCILOR.

2:00:42 WEBER.

2:00:43 COUNCILOR.

2:00:44 WILL WILL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:00:47 THANK YOU.

2:00:47 DOCKET NUMBER 1338 WILL BE

2:00:49 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:00:51 PILOT AGREEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL

2:00:53 AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL

2:00:56 RELATIONS.

2:01:05 COULD.

2:01:08 THANK YOU,

2:01:09 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:01:11 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

2:01:13 PLEASE READ DOCKET 13390.

2:01:17 DID I JUMP AHEAD TOO FAR?

2:01:20 NO DOCKET 1339

2:01:23 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OR FOR THE

2:01:24 FALLEN ORDER FOR A HEARING

2:01:26 REGARDING HOUSING VOUCHER

2:01:28 DISCRIMINATION AND FAIR HOUSING

2:01:29 AND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN

2:01:31 BOSTON.

2:01:32 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:01:34 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:01:35 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:01:35 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

2:01:37 TO ADD COUNCILOR WU AROUND.

2:01:38 IT'S A SECOND ORIGINAL

2:01:40 CO-SPONSOR.

2:01:41 CONCERNED WELL SO ADDED.

2:01:43 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT

2:01:45 BOSTON CONTINUES TO FACE A

2:01:48 HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS

2:01:50 BUT AFFORDABILITY ALONE IS NOT

2:01:53 ENOUGH IF RESIDENTS WHO

2:01:55 LAWFULLY QUALIFY FOR HOUSING

2:01:56 ARE STILL DENIED EQUAL ACCESS

2:01:59 BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE OR HOW

2:02:01 THEY PAY THEIR RENT.

2:02:03 FAIR HOUSING IS A CIVIL RIGHTS

2:02:05 ISSUE AND EVERY RESIDENT SHOULD

2:02:07 HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO

2:02:09 ACCESS SAFE, STABLE HOUSING

2:02:12 REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE OR

2:02:13 WHETHER THEY RELY ON A HOUSING

2:02:16 VOUCHER.

2:02:16 RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY THE

2:02:18 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

2:02:20 HOUSING DISCRIMINATION TESTING

2:02:22 PROGRAM AND THE BOSTON

2:02:24 FOUNDATION FOUND TROUBLING

2:02:26 EVIDENCE THAT DISCRIMINATION

2:02:28 REMAINS WIDESPREAD IN THE

2:02:30 GREATER BOSTON RENTAL MARKET.

2:02:32 THE REPORT FOUND EVIDENCE

2:02:34 OF VOUCHER BASED DISCRIMINATION

2:02:37 IN 86% OF TESTS AND RACE BASED

2:02:40 DISCRIMINATION IN 71% OF TESTS,

2:02:43 WITH WINNERS RECEIVING

2:02:44 DIFFERENT TREATMENT THROUGHOUT

2:02:45 THE HOUSING SEARCH PROCESS FROM

2:02:48 INITIAL INQUIRIES AND APARTMENT

2:02:51 SHOWINGS TO APPLICATIONS AND

2:02:53 FOLLOW UP COMMUNICATION.

2:02:55 THIS HEARING IS AN OPPORTUNITY

2:02:57 TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT

2:02:59 OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN

2:03:01 BOSTON, EVALUATE WHETHER OUR

2:03:02 CURRENT ENFORCEMENT TOOLS ARE

2:03:05 SUFFICIENT AND IDENTIFY

2:03:06 ADDITIONAL STEPS THE CITY CAN

2:03:08 TAKE TO STRENGTHEN FAIR HOUSING

2:03:10 ,EDUCATION, TESTING,

2:03:13 ENFORCEMENT AND COORDINATION

2:03:14 WITH STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERS.

2:03:16 WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT EXPANDING

2:03:19 ACCESS TO HOUSING AND COMBATING

2:03:22 SEGREGATION AND COMBATING

2:03:25 SEGREGATION.

2:03:26 THEN WE MUST ALSO ENSURE THAT

2:03:28 RESIDENTS WHO HAVE HOUSING

2:03:29 VOUCHERS OR OTHER LAWFUL

2:03:31 SOURCES OF INCOME ARE NOT

2:03:34 UNLAWFULLY DENIED THE

2:03:36 OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN THE

2:03:37 NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE CHOOSING.

2:03:39 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:03:40 THANK YOU COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:03:42 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:03:43 COUNCILOR WARD COUNCILOR YOU

2:03:44 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:03:45 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:03:46 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:03:48 UH, FRENCH ANDERSON IS HERE IN

2:03:49 ORDER AND ADDING ME AS AN

2:03:51 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:03:52 UH, WE KNOW RESIDENTS ARE STILL

2:03:54 FACING HOUSING DISCRIMINATION

2:03:56 IN OUR CITY AND IT'S OUR

2:03:57 OBLIGATION AS A CITY COUNCIL TO

2:03:59 MAKE COMBATING THAT

2:04:01 DISCRIMINATION A PRIORITY IN

2:04:02 OUR ACTIONS, NOT JUST IN OUR

2:04:04 VALUE STATEMENTS.

2:04:06 THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE FILED A

2:04:07 HEARING ORDER EARLIER THIS YEAR

2:04:09 TO DISCUSS THE CITY'S

2:04:10 IMPLEMENTATION OF FAIR HOUSING

2:04:12 PRACTICES AND HOW THE

2:04:13 ADMINISTRATION IS FAIR IN

2:04:15 ACHIEVING THE GOALS LAID OUT IN

2:04:16 THE ORIGINAL AFFIRMATIVELY

2:04:18 FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING

2:04:19 ASSESSMENT.

2:04:20 THAT ASSESSMENT WAS PUT

2:04:21 TOGETHER IN 2016 BY A DEDICATED

2:04:23 TEAM OF HOUSING EXPERTS AND

2:04:25 ADVOCATES CALLED THE COMMUNITY

2:04:27 ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO OUTLINE

2:04:29 HOW THE CITY MUST AFFIRMATIVELY

2:04:30 FURTHER FAIR HOUSING

2:04:31 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL OUR

2:04:32 RESIDENTS.

2:04:33 THAT ASSESSMENT SHEDS LIGHT ON

2:04:35 DISCRIMINATION IN OUR CITY WITH

2:04:37 STEPS OUTLINED TO RECTIFY THE

2:04:39 PROBLEM.

2:04:40 IN 2020, BOSTON BECAME THE

2:04:41 FIRST MAJOR CITY IN THE NATION

2:04:44 TO INCLUDE FAIR HOUSING

2:04:45 REQUIREMENTS IN THE ZONING

2:04:46 CODE THAT MANDATE DEVELOPERS TO

2:04:48 TAKE SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO

2:04:49 PREVENT DISPLACEMENT AND ENSURE

2:04:51 EQUITABLE HOUSING ACCESS.

2:04:53 AS A COUNCIL LAST YEAR WE VOTED

2:04:55 11 NO IN FAVOR OF STRENGTHENING

2:04:57 AND PROTECTING OUR FAMILY

2:04:59 FURTHER IN FAIR HOUSING IDEALS.

2:05:01 SO LET'S FOLLOW THROUGH AND I'M

2:05:03 LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

2:05:03 HEARING.

2:05:04 THANK YOU.

2:05:05 THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:05:05 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:05:07 NAME?

2:05:09 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:05:10 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:05:11 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:05:12 COUNCILOR.

2:05:12 MURPHY.

2:05:13 COUNCILOR.

2:05:13 PEPEN.

2:05:14 COUNCILOR.

2:05:14 SANTANA.

2:05:15 CONSTABLE.

2:05:15 WEBER.

2:05:16 AND PLEASE, UH THE CHAIR.

2:05:18 THANK YOU.

2:05:19 DOCKET 1339 WILL BE REFERRED TO

2:05:21 THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS,

2:05:23 RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

2:05:24 ADVANCEMENT.

2:05:27 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:05:29 READ DOCKET 1340?

2:05:32 DOCKET 1340 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:05:36 FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A

2:05:38 HEARING TO EXAMINE THE CIVIL

2:05:39 RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS OF RAPID

2:05:41 TRANSIT INEQUITIES IN THE CITY

2:05:44 OF BOSTON.

2:05:44 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:05:46 COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNTRY.

2:05:47 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:05:47 MADAM CHAIR.

2:05:48 MAY DAKAR 1341 BE READ ALONG

2:05:51 SIDE 1340.

2:05:53 UM CERTAINLY YOU CAN READ THEM

2:05:55 TOGETHER BUT WHEN IT COMES TO

2:05:56 UH ADDING CO-SPONSORS OR

2:05:58 WHATEVER WE'LL WE'LL FIGURE IT

2:05:59 OUT AS WE GO.

2:06:00 SO THANK YOU.

2:06:01 MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:06:02 GOOD.

2:06:03 1341 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OFFERED

2:06:05 THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

2:06:07 SUPPORT OF EVALUATING

2:06:09 EVALUATING THE ORANGE LINE

2:06:10 EXTENSION ALONG BLUE HILL

2:06:12 AVENUE.

2:06:14 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:06:15 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:06:16 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:06:16 THANK YOU.

2:06:17 MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:06:18 I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

2:06:19 COUNCILOR AS WELL AS A SECOND

2:06:21 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:06:23 ON DOCKET.

2:06:25 1340 1340.

2:06:26 OKAY.

2:06:27 THANK YOU.

2:06:29 AND 1341 OKAY.

2:06:33 UH, COUNCILOR WORRELL IS SO

2:06:35 ADDED TO DOCKET 1340 AND 1341.

2:06:39 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:06:42 ACCESS TO RELIABLE, HIGH SPEED

2:06:45 ,HIGH CAPACITY PUBLIC

2:06:47 TRANSPORTATION IS FUNDAMENTALLY

2:06:49 A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE BECAUSE IT

2:06:51 DETERMINES WHETHER RESIDENTS

2:06:53 HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO

2:06:55 EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, HEALTH

2:06:58 CARE, CHILD CARE AND ECONOMIC

2:07:02 OPPORTUNITY WHEN SOME NEIGHBORS

2:07:04 RECEIVE SUSTAINED INVESTMENT IN

2:07:06 RAPID TRANSIT WHILE OTHERS WAIT

2:07:08 DECADES FOR PROMISE

2:07:10 IMPROVEMENTS, WE HAVE A

2:07:11 RESPONSIBILITY TO ASK WHETHER

2:07:13 THOSE DECISIONS HAVE PRODUCED

2:07:15 DISPARATE IMPACTS OR WHETHER

2:07:17 EVERY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN

2:07:19 AFFORDED EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.

2:07:21 NEARLY 40 YEARS AGO WHEN THE

2:07:23 ORANGE LINE WAS RELOCATED TO

2:07:25 THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR,

2:07:27 RESIDENTS LAUNCHED RAPID

2:07:29 TRANSIT SERVICE ALONG

2:07:30 WASHINGTON STREET WITH THE

2:07:31 UNDERSTANDING THAT COMPARABLE

2:07:32 RAIL SERVICE WOULD REPLACE IT.

2:07:35 THAT PROMISE, MADAM PRESIDENT

2:07:37 AND MY COLLEAGUES, HAS NEVER

2:07:39 BEEN FULLY REALIZED AND TODAY

2:07:41 THE CORRIDOR REMAINS ONE OF THE

2:07:42 BUSIEST BUS CORRIDORS IN THE

2:07:45 COMMONWEALTH WHILE CONTINUING

2:07:47 TO LACK THE PERMANENT RAPID

2:07:49 TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE FOUND

2:07:51 ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY.

2:07:53 DURING THAT SAME PERIOD, THE

2:07:55 COMMONWEALTH CONTINUED

2:07:56 INVESTING IN MAJOR RAIL

2:07:58 PROJECTS ELSEWHERE, INCLUDING

2:08:00 THE COMPLETION OF THE RED LINE

2:08:01 EXTENSION TO ALEWIFE IN 1985.

2:08:04 THE RELOCATION OF THE ORANGE

2:08:06 LINE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW

2:08:07 SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR STATIONS IN

2:08:10 1987, THE OPENING OF THE SILVER

2:08:12 LINE WATERFRONT IN 2004, THE

2:08:15 OPENING OF ASSEMBLY STATION ON

2:08:17 THE ORANGE LINE IN 2014 WHEN

2:08:19 THE COMPLETION OF THE GREEN

2:08:20 LINE EXTENSION TO SOMERVILLE

2:08:22 AND MEDFORD BEGINNING IN 2022

2:08:25 WELL EACH OF THESE PROJECTS

2:08:27 SERVED IMPORTANT TRANSPORTATION

2:08:29 NEEDS.

2:08:29 THEY ALSO ILLUSTRATE THAT

2:08:31 TRANSFORMATIONAL RAIL

2:08:32 INVESTMENTS HAVE CONTINUED TO

2:08:34 MOVE FORWARD IN OTHER PARTS

2:08:35 OF GREATER BOSTON, WHILE

2:08:37 COMMUNITIES ALONG BLUE HILL

2:08:39 AVENUE HAVE CONTINUED WAITING

2:08:40 FOR THE RAPID TRANSIT

2:08:42 IMPROVEMENTS THEY WERE

2:08:43 PROMISED.

2:08:44 THIS HEARING IS NOT ABOUT THE

2:08:46 MISSION DIMINISHING INVESTMENTS

2:08:47 MADE ELSEWHERE.

2:08:49 IT IS ABOUT ASKING WHETHER THE

2:08:51 DISTRIBUTION OF RAPID TRANSIT

2:08:53 INFRASTRUCTURE OVER THE PAST

2:08:54 FOUR DECADES HAS BEEN EQUITABLE

2:08:56 .

2:08:58 IT IS ABOUT ASKING WHETHER THE

2:09:00 DISTRIBUTION OF RAPID TRANSFER

2:09:02 AND FOR STRUCTURE OVER THE PAST

2:09:05 FOUR DECADES HAS BEEN EQUITABLE

2:09:06 .

2:09:09 IT IS ABOUT ASKING WHETHER THE

2:09:12 DISTRIBUTION OF RAPID TRANSIT

2:09:13 SED INFRASTRUCTURE OVER THE

2:09:15 PAST FOUR DECADES HAS BEEN

2:09:17 EQUITABLE.

2:09:17 WHETHER HISTORIC PLANNING

2:09:19 DECISIONS HAVE HAD A DISPARATE

2:09:21 IMPACT ON PROTECTED COMMUNITIES

2:09:24 AND WHAT STEPS ARE NECESSARY TO

2:09:25 ENSURE THAT FUTURE

2:09:26 TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS

2:09:28 ADVANCE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

2:09:30 RATHER THAN REINFORCE

2:09:32 LONGSTANDING DISPARITIES.

2:09:35 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:09:36 THANK YOU.

2:09:37 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:09:38 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:09:39 I'M ASSUMING YOU WANT TO SPEAK

2:09:41 TO BOTH THESE DONKEYS THAT

2:09:42 YOU'RE A CO-SPONSOR?

2:09:43 YES.

2:09:43 UM THANK YOU, MADAM

2:09:45 PRESIDENT.

2:09:45 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:09:46 UM, AND I JUST URGE EVERYONE,

2:09:49 UM, ESPECIALLY MY COLLEAGUES TO

2:09:50 LOOK UP THE MBTA MAP OVERLAID

2:09:53 ON TOP OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:09:56 WHAT YOU SEE IS A GAP THAT

2:09:57 COVERS A LARGE PORTION

2:09:59 OF ROXBURY, DORCHESTER AND

2:10:02 MATTAPAN CANNOT HELP US SEE

2:10:04 THIS GAP IN TRANSIT AND CONNECT

2:10:06 IT TO THE GAPS IN WAGES, THE

2:10:09 GAPS IN EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES,

2:10:11 IN THE GAPS IN HEALTH OUTCOMES.

2:10:13 SOME FOLKS THINK DOUBLING DOWN

2:10:15 ON DIESEL BUSSES IN AN

2:10:17 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

2:10:18 NEIGHBORHOOD WILL SOLVE ALL

2:10:19 THIS, BUT OUR COMMUNITY IS

2:10:21 ASKING WHAT SO MANY OTHER

2:10:23 BOSTON COMMUNITIES HAVE A ONE

2:10:25 SEAT RIDE DOWNTOWN ON RAIL NOT

2:10:28 A CENTER RUNNING BUSTLING TO

2:10:30 NOWHERE.

2:10:30 WE'RE BEING ASKED TO GIVE UP

2:10:32 PARKING AND ANY NEW HOUSING.

2:10:34 WE'RE BEING ASKED TO GIVE UP

2:10:36 PARKING AND SOME OF OUR SMALL

2:10:37 BUSINESS DISTRICTS.

2:10:38 AND THEN WE'RE TOLD THAT OUR

2:10:40 ONLY OPTION IS A BUS RATHER

2:10:42 THAN A TRAIN.

2:10:44 THIS GAP IS A PAINFUL REMINDER

2:10:47 OF DECADES OF RACIAL INJUSTICE

2:10:49 IN BOSTON.

2:10:50 WE NEED TO THINK BIG AND GRAND

2:10:52 TO SOLVE IT, AND WE CAN'T PUT A

2:10:54 CEILING ON THE PRICE FOR

2:10:56 COLLECTIVE INVESTMENTS.

2:10:57 THE LACK OF CAPITAL PLANNING

2:10:58 AND FUNDING IS HOLDING BACK

2:11:01 GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.

2:11:03 SO I THANK COUNCIL CULPEPER

2:11:04 AGAIN WITH PARTNERSHIP ON THIS.

2:11:06 IT'S IMPERATIVE WE PROVIDE

2:11:08 TRANSIT EQUITY AND FIX THIS

2:11:10 TRANSIT GAP FOR THE FUTURE

2:11:12 OF BLACK BOSTONIANS.

2:11:14 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:11:17 UH, I SEE COUNCILOR PEPEN AND

2:11:19 COUNCILOR UH, FLYNN'S LIGHT ON

2:11:22 UM, IF IF A DOCKET IS THE

2:11:24 HEARING ORDER IS IF YOU WANT TO

2:11:26 SPEAK TO DOCKET NUMBER 1341.

2:11:30 UM.

2:11:30 IT'S KIND OF.

2:11:33 INFORMATION OVERLOAD ON EITHER

2:11:35 OF THESE TODAY.

2:11:37 I'M ASKING FOR BOTH OF THEM TO

2:11:38 BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:11:40 CIVIL RIGHTS.

2:11:40 OKAY.

2:11:41 THANK YOU.

2:11:42 NO VOTING.

2:11:43 UH, WE'LL HAVE NO FURTHER NO

2:11:44 FURTHER DISCUSSION.

2:11:46 THANK YOU.

2:11:49 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:11:51 BUT COULD I COULD I STILL SPEAK

2:11:54 ON 1341 SINCE IT ORIGINALLY

2:11:56 CAME IN AS A AS A RESOLUTION?

2:11:59 UM, I THINK UNDER THE

2:12:01 CIRCUMSTANCES WE'VE ALL HAD A

2:12:03 CHALLENGING AFTERNOON.

2:12:04 I WILL GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES.

2:12:06 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I WILL ALSO

2:12:08 GIVE THE SAME PRIVILEGE TO A

2:12:09 COUNSELOR.

2:12:10 THANK YOU.

2:12:10 YEAH.

2:12:11 THANK YOU.

2:12:12 JUST BECAUSE IT WAS, UM, ON ON

2:12:14 1341 HAS A RESOLUTION.

2:12:15 WE DO HAVE THE UNDER THE LAW WE

2:12:18 DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ON

2:12:20 IT.

2:12:20 UM, IF THE IF A VOTE DOES TAKE.

2:12:22 PLACE WITH THE WITH THE

2:12:25 RESOLUTION BUT.

2:12:26 MY POINT MY POINT IS I WANT TO

2:12:28 SAY THANK YOU TO

2:12:29 COUNCIL CULPEPER COUNCIL WE'RE

2:12:31 ALL FOR BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT

2:12:34 SUBJECT FORWARD.

2:12:35 I THINK AS A DISTRICT

2:12:39 COUNCILOR COUNCIL CULPEPER AND

2:12:40 AS A DISTRICT COUNCIL COUNCILOR

2:12:42 WE'RE ALL THEY KNOW THEIR

2:12:44 COMMUNITIES BEST.

2:12:45 THEY LISTEN TO THEIR RESIDENTS

2:12:48 ON A DAILY BASIS.

2:12:49 THEY UNDERSTAND THE

2:12:51 TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES IN

2:12:53 THEIR PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOODS.

2:12:55 I THINK WHEN A DISTRICT CITY

2:12:57 COUNCIL SPEAKS ON A PARTICULAR

2:12:59 ISSUE, I THINK IT HAS

2:13:01 INCREDIBLE WEIGHT BECAUSE

2:13:03 THEY'RE THE CLOSEST PEOPLE TO

2:13:04 THE PUBLIC.

2:13:06 THAT THE CLOSEST PEOPLE TO

2:13:07 THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

2:13:09 SO I DO SUPPORT THEM ON THIS

2:13:12 RESOLUTION ON THIS HEARING

2:13:13 ORDER AND SUPPORT WHAT THEY'RE

2:13:15 WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.

2:13:17 AND I THINK WHAT THEY'RE ASKING

2:13:20 IS UM, RESPECT AND DIGNITY FOR

2:13:23 THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

2:13:24 I ALSO BELIEVE THIS IS ALSO A

2:13:27 CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE AS WELL.

2:13:28 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:13:30 THANK YOU.

2:13:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR.

2:13:33 UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU HAVE

2:13:34 THE FLOOR.

2:13:35 UM THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:13:37 I ALSO WANTED TO RISE JUST TO

2:13:38 THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

2:13:39 COUNCIL MORRELL FOR, YOU KNOW,

2:13:41 TALKING ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

2:13:43 WE ALL KNOW THAT THE BLUE OFF.

2:13:45 CONVERSATION HAS.

2:13:45 NOT BEEN EASY.

2:13:46 UM, I REPRESENT ABOUT 1.4 MILES

2:13:49 OF IT FROM MATTAPAN SQUARE TO

2:13:51 MORTON STREET AND I'VE HEARD

2:13:53 EVERYTHING FROM PEOPLE AGAINST

2:13:55 THE PEOPLE IN SUPPORT OF IT.

2:13:56 UM, HOW IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT

2:13:58 BUSINESSES, HOW IT'S GOING TO

2:13:59 HELP SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO

2:14:00 HURT OTHERS.

2:14:01 UM, WHAT I WANTED TO PROVIDE AS

2:14:04 PART OF THE CONVERSATION IS

2:14:04 THAT WHAT'S VERY FUNNY ABOUT

2:14:07 ALL OF THIS IS THAT WE USED TO

2:14:08 HAVE BEAUTIFUL STREETCARS

2:14:10 RUNNING RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE

2:14:12 OF ALL THE WAY TO ALGONQUIN

2:14:13 SQUARE FROM THE 1890S TO 1955,

2:14:17 AND IT JUST SHOWS THAT

2:14:18 DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE OVER

2:14:20 70 YEARS AGO ARE NOW NEGATIVELY

2:14:23 IMPACTING US BECAUSE THEY

2:14:24 DECIDED TO GET RID OF THE

2:14:26 STREETCARS, ADD MORE LANES FOR

2:14:28 CARS AND WE NOW SEE THAT THE

2:14:32 NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DO HAVE

2:14:33 STREETCARS OR MORE LIKE THE

2:14:34 GREEN LINE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE

2:14:36 PEOPLE REALLY LOVE THAT.

2:14:37 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THERE

2:14:39 WAS A HUGE DISINVESTMENT IN TO

2:14:41 THIS PART OF THE CITY.

2:14:42 AND I JUST THINK THAT, YOU

2:14:44 KNOW, WE HAVE TO BE COURAGEOUS

2:14:45 WHEN I'M NOT JUST SPEAKING HERE

2:14:46 ABOUT BLUE HILL, I'M SPEAKING

2:14:47 ABOUT.

2:14:48 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN

2:14:50 GENERAL.

2:14:50 WE HAVE TO BE COURAGEOUS ABOUT

2:14:52 THE INVESTMENT OF IT.

2:14:52 WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE

2:14:54 FOR IT MORE.

2:14:55 UM, I HEAR RESIDENTS IN HYDE

2:14:57 PARK ASKING FOR ORANGE LINE

2:14:58 EXTENSION DOWN HYDE PARK

2:14:59 AVENUE.

2:15:00 I HEAR PEOPLE IN ROSELAND

2:15:01 WANTING IT TO EXTEND ALL THE

2:15:02 WAY DOWN TO WEST ROXBURY.

2:15:03 UM, FOLKS IN LYNN WANT.

2:15:04 THE BLUE LINE.

2:15:05 I THERE'S THERE'S SO MUCH

2:15:07 POTENTIAL THAT WE CAN DO AND I

2:15:09 JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN USE THIS

2:15:10 SPECIFIC CONVERSATION TO

2:15:11 REALIZE WHAT A BENEFIT IT IS TO

2:15:13 ADVOCATE FOR MORE PUBLIC

2:15:15 TRANSPORTATION, UM, SO THAT OUR

2:15:16 RESIDENTS ARE NOT FACING THE

2:15:17 CONSEQUENCES AS WAS MADE 70

2:15:19 YEARS AGO.

2:15:20 SO THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:15:21 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:15:25 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:15:26 NAME TO DOCKET 1340?

2:15:29 THE HEARING ORDER FOR, UM THE

2:15:31 HEARING ORDER FOR UH TO EXAMINE

2:15:33 CIVIL RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS

2:15:35 OF RAPID TRANSIT INEQUITIES.

2:15:38 COUNCILOR DURKAN,

2:15:39 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:15:40 COUNCILOR FLYNN,

2:15:41 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:15:42 COUNCILOR MURPHY OF PEPPER AND

2:15:44 COUNTRY SANTANA PENSIONER.

2:15:45 WEBER.

2:15:46 AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR THIS

2:15:49 DOCKET NUMBER 1340 WILL BE

2:15:51 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:15:53 CIVIL RIGHTS RACIAL EQUITY AND

2:15:54 IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.

2:15:56 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THERE

2:15:59 SINCE DOCKET 1341 IS GOING TO

2:16:02 GO DIRECTLY TO COMMITTEE?

2:16:03 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:16:05 NAME?

2:16:09 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:16:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:16:11 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:16:12 KALLSTROM.

2:16:12 MURPHY.

2:16:12 COUNCILOR.

2:16:13 PEPEN.

2:16:14 COUNCILOR.

2:16:14 SANTANA.

2:16:15 COUNCILOR.

2:16:17 WEBER.

2:16:17 UH AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR.

2:16:21 UM.

2:16:24 SINCE THE WORDING UM, JUST THIS

2:16:26 WAS GOING TO BE A WRITTEN.

2:16:28 I THINK.

2:16:28 THIS, UH, DOCKET WILL GO TO

2:16:30 PLANNING TRANSPORTATION AND

2:16:32 DEVELOPMENT DOCKET 1341.

2:16:38 THANK YOU.

2:16:39 MADAM CHAIR.

2:16:41 COUNCILOR OF CULPEPER.

2:16:43 I RESPECTFULLY APPEAL THE

2:16:44 DECISION OF THE CHAIR TO ASSIGN

2:16:46 DOCKET 1341 TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:16:51 CIVIL RIGHTS FOR RACIAL EQUITY

2:16:52 AND IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.

2:16:55 TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE

2:16:56 IS NOT JUST ABOUT MOVING

2:16:57 PEOPLE.

2:16:57 IT IS ABOUT A VEHICLE FOR

2:16:59 OPPORTUNITY.

2:17:00 HISTORICALLY, AS THIS HEARING

2:17:02 WATER NOTES AND EQUITABLE

2:17:04 INVESTMENTS HAVE CREATED A

2:17:05 TRAIN DESERT IN THE HEART

2:17:08 OF BOSTON BLACK AND IMMIGRANT

2:17:10 COMMUNITIES.

2:17:11 THE CONTINUED FAILURE TO

2:17:12 PROVIDE THIS SERVICE IS A CLEAR

2:17:13 CIVIL RIGHTS CONCERN THAT IS

2:17:16 PRODUCING DISPARATE IMPACTS

2:17:18 THAT LIMIT ACCESS TO

2:17:19 HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND

2:17:21 HOUSING.

2:17:22 WE MUST EXAMINE THESE DESIGN

2:17:24 AND FUNDING DECISIONS THROUGH A

2:17:25 CIVIL RIGHTS LENS TO ENSURE

2:17:29 THAT OUR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

2:17:31 REFLECTS THE PRINCIPLES

2:17:33 OF RACIAL EQUITY AND EQUAL

2:17:36 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.

2:17:37 SOMETHING THAT'S NOT HAPPENING

2:17:39 NOW AND.

2:17:40 HAS.

2:17:40 NOT HAPPENED FOR 40 YEARS.

2:17:43 THANK YOU.

2:17:45 COUNCILOR UM CULPEPER

2:17:46 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

2:17:47 FLOOR.

2:17:47 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:17:49 I JUST RISE IN SUPPORT

2:17:52 OF COUNCIL CALLED PEPPERS

2:17:53 REQUEST TO RECONSIDER.

2:17:54 HE ALSO WANTED THEM READ

2:17:55 TOGETHER BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE

2:17:57 HE WANTS TO WORK ON THEM

2:17:58 TOGETHER WITH HIM AND

2:17:59 COUNCILOR WORRELL BUT IT WAS

2:18:01 SOMETHING THAT

2:18:02 COUNCILOR WORRELL SAID AND I'M

2:18:03 LOOKING FORWARD TO EITHER YOU

2:18:05 SHARING WITH ME OR I'LL FIND IT

2:18:06 AFTER THIS MEETING WHEN YOU

2:18:07 SAID WHEN YOU OVERLAY A MAP

2:18:09 OF THE TRANSIT AND THE

2:18:11 NEIGHBORHOODS AND IT'S REALLY

2:18:12 SHOWING THE DESERT YOU SPEAK

2:18:13 OF AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT

2:18:15 ARE MOST NEGATIVELY AFFECTED.

2:18:17 SO I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

2:18:18 THAT THESE TWO ARE HEARD AND I

2:18:20 THINK IT'S MORE EFFECTIVE FOR

2:18:21 US AS A BODY TO HEAR THESE

2:18:22 TOGETHER.

2:18:23 SO I HOPE WE KEEP THEM IN THE

2:18:24 SAME COMMITTEE AND AGREED THAT

2:18:26 IT SHOULD BE IN THE CIVIL

2:18:27 RIGHTS COMMITTEE.

2:18:28 THANK YOU.

2:18:28 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:18:30 UM.

2:18:35 UM COUNCILOR LET ME SEE.

2:18:36 COUNCILOR UH, COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:18:38 ,YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:18:40 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:18:41 AND I KNOW, UH, OUR INTENT, UM

2:18:44 ,WAS TO HAVE THE HEARING AND

2:18:46 THEN AFTERWARDS AFTER THE

2:18:48 HEARING, UH, BRING THIS UP, UH

2:18:50 ,FOR A A VOTE AFTER THE

2:18:52 HEARING.

2:18:53 UM, AND I THINK THAT IS, UM WHY

2:18:55 WE AS, UM, SPONSORS ON THIS

2:18:57 WANTED TO KEEP THEM TOGETHER,

2:19:00 UM, AND NOT TAKE A VOTE NOW BUT

2:19:01 HAVE THE HEARING FIRST AND THEN

2:19:03 MOVE FORWARD WITH A VOTE AFTER

2:19:05 THE HEARING.

2:19:06 YEAH, I.

2:19:07 THANK YOU.

2:19:07 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:19:09 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:19:10 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:19:11 UM, THERE IS ART AS THE CHAIR

2:19:13 OF PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

2:19:14 TRANSPORTATION THERE IS ALREADY

2:19:15 A BLUE LAB DOCKET UM, IN THE

2:19:17 PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND

2:19:18 TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE UH,

2:19:20 WHICH COULD BE HEARD ALONGSIDE

2:19:21 THIS RESOLUTION AS WELL AS THE

2:19:23 UH THE OTHER DOCKET.

2:19:25 SO, UM, I DO THINK AS IT'S

2:19:27 WRITTEN IT'S WRITTEN AS THE

2:19:28 TRANSPORTATION DOCKET AND I UM

2:19:30 I APPEAL TO MY COLLEAGUES UM,

2:19:33 WE DO HAVE ANOTHER DOCKET FOR

2:19:35 BLUE HAVE IN THE COMMITTEE AND

2:19:37 HAVE ATTEMPTED TO GET THAT

2:19:38 SCHEDULED.

2:19:38 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:19:40 POTENTIALLY, UH, WORKING

2:19:42 TOGETHER UM, ON THAT.

2:19:44 UH, AGAIN IT'S I HAVE NO SKIN

2:19:46 IN THE GAME OTHER THAN THE FACT

2:19:47 THAT THERE ARE OTHER PENDING

2:19:49 DOCKETS AND I THINK IT MAKES

2:19:50 SENSE FOR ALL THE DOCKETS THAT

2:19:51 ARE HEARD TO BE HEARD TOGETHER.

2:19:53 THANK YOU.

2:19:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:19:57 YOU IF YOU REMEMBER THE

2:19:58 EXTENDED CONVERSATION THAT WE

2:19:59 HAD OVER THE PREVIOUS DOCKET

2:20:02 THAT COUNCILOR DURKAN IS

2:20:03 REFERRING TO, IT WAS NOT

2:20:06 WRITTEN IN A CIVIL RIGHTS

2:20:07 PERSPECTIVE WITH US CIVIL RIGHT

2:20:08 .

2:20:09 UH, DISPARATE IMPACT ADDED TO

2:20:12 IT.

2:20:13 SO I WOULD SAY, MADAM PRESIDENT

2:20:16 ,THAT THIS.

2:20:17 DOCKET 1341 WAS WRITTEN AS

2:20:21 COUNCIL WILL RAIL SAID TO GO

2:20:22 ALONG WITH 1340 AND TO HAVE THE

2:20:26 VOTE AFTER WE HAD THE HEARING

2:20:29 ON 134I.

2:20:30 APPRECIATE IT AND I THINK

2:20:31 WHAT'S WHAT'S CONFUSING IS THAT

2:20:33 THE TWO DOCKETS UM WERE PUT

2:20:35 TOGETHER AND THE RESOLUTION HAS

2:20:37 A SLIGHTLY.

2:20:38 DIFFERENT DYNAMICS AND THEN A

2:20:40 HEARING ORDER.

2:20:41 SO UH, GIVEN YOUR UM.

2:20:44 GIVEN YOUR ADVOCACY

2:20:47 COUNCILOR CULPEPER I WILL SEND

2:20:49 UH, BOTH DOCKETS TO.

2:20:52 UM UM.

2:20:53 THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS

2:20:55 RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

2:20:56 ADVANCEMENT.

2:21:01 THANK YOU.

2:21:02 UM, I ALSO APPRECIATE, CONSIDER

2:21:06 AND, UM, INTENTION TO HOLD A

2:21:09 HEARING ON THIS, UH, ISSUE IN

2:21:11 THE PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND,

2:21:14 UM.

2:21:15 WE'RE WE'RE.

2:21:16 WORKING ON IT.

2:21:17 VERY GOOD.

2:21:18 THANK YOU.

2:21:19 I HOPE THAT CAN BE ADDRESSED

2:21:20 FAIRLY SOON.

2:21:22 UM.

2:21:25 SO BOTH THESE DOCKETS UH, 1340

2:21:31 UH, WILL GO TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:21:33 CIVIL RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUITY AND

2:21:34 IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT AND

2:21:36 DOCKET 1341 WILL ALSO GO TO THE

2:21:40 COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS

2:21:42 RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

2:21:43 ADVANCEMENT.

2:21:44 THANK YOU.

2:21:45 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:21:46 READ DOCKET 1342.

2:21:48 DOCKET 1342 COUNCILOR HAS

2:21:51 PREPARED OR OFFER THE FOLLOWING

2:21:54 RESOLUTION CALLING CALLING ON

2:21:56 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO FULLY

2:21:57 PARTNER WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS

2:21:59 STATE FOOD.

2:21:59 SCHOOL PROGRAM.

2:22:01 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:22:03 COUNCILOR PEPEN CONTRA PEPEN.

2:22:04 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:22:05 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:22:06 MAY I ADD COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:22:08 AS OUR SECOND CO-SPONSOR?

2:22:10 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD ALSO ADDED

2:22:11 .

2:22:12 THANK YOU.

2:22:13 UM, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, THE

2:22:16 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AROUND

2:22:17 SCHOOLS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS

2:22:19 BEEN MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY

2:22:20 SINCE GETTING INTO THE CITY

2:22:22 COUNCIL.

2:22:23 UM, THIS SPECIFIC TOPIC WAS

2:22:25 PART OF MY UH, MAIDEN SPEECH MY

2:22:27 VERY FIRST SPEECH ON THE CITY

2:22:28 COUNCIL.

2:22:29 I'VE BEEN STRONGLY ADVOCATING

2:22:31 FOR THIS FOREVER.

2:22:32 I HAVE A LOT OF ELEMENTARY

2:22:34 MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN MY DISTRICT

2:22:35 WHERE PARENTS CONTINUOUSLY FEEL

2:22:38 UNSAFE ABOUT JUST DRIVERS

2:22:39 SPEEDING DOWN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

2:22:41 STREETS, THEIR KIDS CROSSING

2:22:42 THE CROSSWALKS UM, SAFELY.

2:22:45 WE HONOR OUR CROSSING GUARDS

2:22:46 MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE

2:22:47 GETTING THE RESOURCES THAT THEY

2:22:48 DESERVE.

2:22:48 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I WERE ABLE

2:22:50 TO ATTEND A LUNCHEON WITH THEM

2:22:52 WITH THE CROSSING GUARDS UM,

2:22:53 NOT TOO LONG AGO AND THANK THEM

2:22:55 PERSONALLY FOR WHAT THEY'VE

2:22:56 DONE.

2:22:58 THIS PROGRAM THROUGH THE STATE

2:23:00 IS A IT'S A FREE PROGRAM

2:23:02 FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAM

2:23:04 FOCUSED ON PROTECTING CHILDREN

2:23:05 ON THEIR WAY TO AND FROM THE

2:23:07 CLASSROOMS.

2:23:08 JOINING THE PROGRAM COST

2:23:10 NOTHING TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT

2:23:11 .

2:23:11 YET TODAY FEWER THAN 60 OUT

2:23:14 OF THE 103 ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS ARE

2:23:17 ENROLLED.

2:23:18 THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THE

2:23:19 SCHOOL LEADERS HAVE TO REACH

2:23:21 OUT INDIVIDUALLY TO THE STATE

2:23:23 PROGRAM IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY

2:23:25 SIGN UP AND RECEIVE THE

2:23:26 RESOURCES AND THE RESOURCES,

2:23:27 THE TRAININGS AND ALL THE

2:23:29 AVAILABLE TOOLS THAT THE STATE

2:23:31 PROVIDES IN ORDER TO TEACH

2:23:32 THEIR KIDS ABOUT THE

2:23:34 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY.

2:23:35 EVERY FAMILY IN OUR IN EVERY

2:23:37 NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS BOSTON

2:23:38 DESERVES TO KNOW THAT THEIR

2:23:40 CHILDREN HAVE A SAFE WAY TO GET

2:23:41 TO SCHOOL.

2:23:42 SO FULL.

2:23:43 ENROLLMENT INTO THE SAFE ALSO

2:23:44 SCHOOL PROGRAM SUPPORTS THAT

2:23:46 GOAL AND I'VE ALREADY HAD

2:23:48 CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR

2:23:49 SUPERINTENDENT.

2:23:50 UM, SHE'S VERY OPEN TO THIS.

2:23:51 THIS IS ONE OF THOSE

2:23:52 CONVERSATIONS WHERE UM IT WOULD

2:23:54 BENEFIT EVERY SINGLE STUDENT TO

2:23:56 GET THESE RESOURCES.

2:23:58 SO IT'S TIME THAT EVERY SINGLE

2:23:59 SCHOOL THAT IS ELIGIBLE FOR

2:24:01 THIS IS RECEIVING THIS THIS

2:24:02 RESOURCES.

2:24:03 AND THAT'S WHY I'M CALLING TO

2:24:04 SUPPORT THIS AND GET THIS

2:24:06 RESOLUTION PASSED TODAY.

2:24:07 THANK YOU.

2:24:07 THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:24:10 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:24:10 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:24:11 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:24:13 THANK YOU AGAIN COUNCIL FOR

2:24:14 HAVING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR ON

2:24:15 THIS BILL.

2:24:16 UH, IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME NOT

2:24:17 ONLY AS A.

2:24:17 PARENT WHO WALKS.

2:24:18 MY KIDS TO SCHOOL EVERY MORNING

2:24:20 .

2:24:20 UH, BUT ALSO I BELIEVE THAT,

2:24:22 UH, THE BUS BUDGET THAT WE HAVE

2:24:24 ,UH, IS EXORBITANTLY HIGH.

2:24:25 UH, AND IN ORDER TO SAVE MONEY,

2:24:27 I THINK WE CAN CUT FROM THE BUS

2:24:28 BUDGET GOING BACK TO LOCAL

2:24:30 SCHOOLS.

2:24:31 IF WE GO BACK TO LOCAL SCHOOLS

2:24:32 THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:24:34 THERE IS A SAFE ROUTE FOR

2:24:35 PEOPLE TO WALK TO THOSE

2:24:36 SCHOOLS.

2:24:36 AND SO I THINK GETTING OUT AND

2:24:37 PUTTING THIS INFRASTRUCTURE IN

2:24:38 PLACE AHEAD OF TIME FOR ALL

2:24:40 SCHOOLS WILL HELP US BE BETTER

2:24:41 PREPARED FOR THAT.

2:24:42 THANK YOU.

2:24:44 UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, IF YOU

2:24:46 HAVE A SECOND THOUGHTS ON THAT

2:24:48 ONE.

2:24:48 UH, NO, I JUST I MEANT IT I

2:24:51 WANT TO ADD SUSPEND THE RULES

2:24:52 IN THAT COUNCIL.

2:24:52 WELL, AS A THIRD ORIGINAL

2:24:54 CO-SPONSOR.

2:24:54 SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:24:55 OBJECTION.

2:24:56 COUNCIL IS ADDED AS A THIRD.

2:24:57 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

2:24:59 WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO

2:24:59 SPEAK TO THIS AND THEN WE'LL GO

2:25:00 TO THE COUNCIL OFFLINE.

2:25:02 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:25:03 THANK YOU TO UH COUNCILOR PEPEN

2:25:05 AND ALSO COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

2:25:06 UH, FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS

2:25:08 RESOLUTION.

2:25:09 UH, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK

2:25:10 WITH MATT MASSDOT SAFE ROUTES

2:25:12 TO SCHOOL, UH, TO ADDRESS

2:25:14 UNSAFE BUS ROUTES IN MY

2:25:15 DISTRICT.

2:25:15 AND THEY ARE A PHENOMENAL

2:25:17 PROGRAM OVER THE PAST YEAR AND

2:25:18 THE PROGRAM SERVED, UM, OVER

2:25:21 600,000 STUDENTS AND 1300

2:25:23 SCHOOLS ACROSS CITIES IN THE

2:25:24 COMMONWEALTH.

2:25:25 AND IN THEIR MOST RECENT REPORT

2:25:26 THEY CITED NUMEROUS POSITIVE

2:25:28 OUTCOMES ON STUDENTS IN THEIR

2:25:30 COMMUNITIES NOT JUST IN REDUCE

2:25:32 CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC

2:25:33 FATALITIES BUT ALSO IMPROVED

2:25:35 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, CLASSROOM

2:25:37 ATTENDANCE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

2:25:39 AND STRENGTHENED INTERPERSONAL

2:25:40 SKILLS AMONG STUDENTS AT THE

2:25:42 CITY LEVEL.

2:25:43 THE BOSTON CITIES PROJECT HAS

2:25:45 FOCUSED ON PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE

2:25:48 SAFETY UM EDUCATION AS WELL.

2:25:50 THE CITY PROGRAM IS MOSTLY

2:25:52 FOCUS ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS,

2:25:53 BUT WE KNOW THE STATE RUN

2:25:55 PROGRAM OFFERS SUPPORT FOR ALL

2:25:56 OUR SCHOOLS.

2:25:57 MY OFFICE HAS WORKED WITH THEM

2:25:59 AROUND SOME OF THE SCHOOLS IN

2:26:00 MY DISTRICT INCLUDING THE KING

2:26:01 TECH BOSTON AND THE

2:26:02 CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER

2:26:04 SCHOOL.

2:26:04 I WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT

2:26:06 TO TINA FOR REALLY WORKING WITH

2:26:07 OUR SCHOOL LEADERS IN OFFERING

2:26:09 REALISTIC AND RESPONSIVE

2:26:10 SUPPORT AROUND THE SCHOOL

2:26:12 COMMUNITY'S NEEDS RATHER THAN A

2:26:14 TECHNOCRATIC APPROACH TO

2:26:15 PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST SAFETY.

2:26:17 I KNOW MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE

2:26:18 PARTNERING WITH THE BOSTON SAFE

2:26:20 ROUTES TO SCHOOL CHAPTER, BUT

2:26:21 THERE ARE TOO MANY THAT ARE

2:26:22 NOT.

2:26:23 THIS MEANS MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS

2:26:24 ARE NOT GETTING ACCESS TO FREE

2:26:27 RESOURCES AND SERVICES THAT

2:26:28 COULD HAVE SUBSTANTIAL TRAFFIC,

2:26:29 TRAFFIC SAFETY AND HEALTH

2:26:31 BENEFITS FOR OUR STUDENTS AND

2:26:32 COMMUNITIES IN ORDER TO CREATE

2:26:34 A SAFE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

2:26:36 CITYWIDE, I'M URGING FULL

2:26:38 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MASSDOT

2:26:41 SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TO ALLOW

2:26:43 EVERY STUDENT TO BENEFIT FROM

2:26:45 SAFER AND GREATER ACCESS TO

2:26:47 TRANSPORTATION TO SCHOOL.

2:26:48 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

2:26:50 UM, CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:26:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:26:52 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:26:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:26:55 UM, THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS

2:26:56 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:26:59 IT WAS.

2:27:00 IT WAS WONDERFUL TO JOIN

2:27:01 COUNCILOR PEPEN A COUPLE

2:27:02 OF WEEKS AGO AS HE MENTIONED IN

2:27:04 ROXBURY WHERE THERE WAS A LUNCH

2:27:06 TO RECOGNIZE THE CROSSING

2:27:07 GUARDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY

2:27:08 OF BOSTON.

2:27:09 I THINK THE CROSSING GUARDS

2:27:11 PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN OUR

2:27:13 CITY.

2:27:15 UM, I THINK THEY'RE REALLY

2:27:16 UNSUNG HEROES AS.

2:27:18 AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED.

2:27:19 AND REALLY DO AN EXCEPTIONAL

2:27:21 JOB THERE.

2:27:21 THEY DON'T RECEIVE THE

2:27:24 RECOGNITION OR THE PAY OR THE

2:27:26 UH THE SUPPORT THAT I BELIEVE

2:27:28 THEY.

2:27:29 THEY THEY EARNED.

2:27:31 UM BUT I WOULD.

2:27:31 I.

2:27:32 WOULD LIKE FOR US TO UH, MOVING

2:27:34 FORWARD.

2:27:34 TO DO AS.

2:27:35 MUCH AS WE CAN FOR THE CROSSING

2:27:37 GUARDS.

2:27:37 BECAUSE OF THE CRITICAL.

2:27:38 ROLE THEY PLAY IN PUBLIC SAFETY

2:27:42 LITERALLY PUTTING THEIR BODY IN

2:27:44 FRONT OF A CAR.

2:27:46 TO ENSURE THE SAFETY.

2:27:47 OF A STUDENT WHICH WAS HEARD

2:27:50 ABOUT THAT.

2:27:50 WE KNOW THAT.

2:27:51 THAT'S THE CASE.

2:27:52 THE OTHER POINT I WANTED TO

2:27:54 MAKE, MADAM.

2:27:54 CHAIR, IS.

2:27:57 I DO BELIEVE TRAFFIC

2:27:58 ENFORCEMENT IS A CRITICAL

2:28:00 ASPECT.

2:28:00 THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE BY

2:28:02 THE.

2:28:02 BOSTON POLICE.

2:28:04 ESPECIALLY UM, ESPECIALLY CAUSE

2:28:07 THAT A SPEEDING RECKLESS

2:28:09 DRIVING IN AND AROUND.

2:28:10 SCHOOLS WE KNOW THAT THE SPEED

2:28:12 LIMIT IS 25 MILES.

2:28:14 AN HOUR.

2:28:15 AT SCHOOLS IS 20 MILES AN HOUR.

2:28:17 I DO THINK THAT IS EXCESSIVE 20

2:28:19 MILES AN.

2:28:20 HOUR AT.

2:28:21 A SCHOOL.

2:28:22 I THINK IT SHOULD BE REDUCED

2:28:23 TO.

2:28:24 15 MILES AN HOUR.

2:28:25 UM AND.

2:28:27 MAKING SURE THAT WE DO MORE

2:28:29 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

2:28:30 I'VE ASKED UH REQUESTED FROM

2:28:32 THE POLICE.

2:28:32 COMMISSIONER THAT WE DO MORE.

2:28:33 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IN OR

2:28:35 AROUND SCHOOLS FOR CARS THAT

2:28:37 ARE SPEEDING.

2:28:38 AND I KNOW COUNCILOR PEPEN

2:28:39 WORKED ON THIS WHEN WE SEE THE

2:28:42 UM, SCHOOL BUS THAT HAS THE

2:28:44 STOP SIGN COMING OUT OF IT, WE

2:28:46 OFTEN SEE CARS DRIVING.

2:28:47 RIGHT BY IT.

2:28:48 THAT'S A MAJOR.

2:28:50 VIOLATION AS FAR AS I'M

2:28:51 CONCERNED.

2:28:52 UM, BUT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BY

2:28:54 BOSTON POLICE HAS TO BE A

2:28:56 CRITICAL PART OF THIS

2:28:58 CONVERSATION ALONG WITH

2:29:00 HOPEFULLY REDUCING THE SPEED

2:29:01 LIMIT ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU,

2:29:03 MADAM CHAIR.

2:29:03 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:29:04 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:29:05 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:29:05 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:29:06 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

2:29:08 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:29:09 COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR HIS

2:29:10 ADVOCACY.

2:29:10 UH, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ISSUES

2:29:12 IN DISTRICT EIGHT.

2:29:13 UM, OUTSIDE OF THE TOBIN AND

2:29:15 FENWAY HIGH SCHOOL.

2:29:16 AND SO MAKING SURE THAT KIDS

2:29:18 CAN GET TO SCHOOL SAFELY IS

2:29:20 OF UTMOST PRIORITY.

2:29:21 AND I PLAN ON SUPPORTING THIS

2:29:22 RESOLUTION.

2:29:23 THANK YOU.

2:29:25 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:29:26 NAME COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:29:28 COUNCILOR DURKAN,

2:29:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN CRANSTON

2:29:30 LOUIJEUNE MURPHY CONTRA SANTANA

2:29:33 COUNCILOR WEBER COUNCILOR.

2:29:34 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR

2:29:38 COUNCILORS PEPEN FITZGERALD AND

2:29:40 WORRELL SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

2:29:41 RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:29:44 1342 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:29:46 AYE.

2:29:46 OPPOSED.

2:29:47 SAY NAY.

2:29:48 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:29:50 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:29:51 VOTE ON DOCKET 1342 ROLL CALL.

2:29:53 VOTE ON DOCKET 1342.

2:29:56 COUNCILOR BRIGHTON.

2:29:58 YES.

2:29:58 COUNCIL BRIGHTON HAS.

2:30:00 COUNCIL CLARESSA BOROUGH

2:30:02 COUNCIL CULPEPER YES ONCE I'VE

2:30:03 GOT THAT BY YES

2:30:05 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:30:05 I'M SORRY DUSTIN.

2:30:07 YES, SIR.

2:30:07 FITZGERALD.

2:30:08 YES.

2:30:09 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

2:30:10 YES COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:30:11 IT'S OFFLINE.

2:30:12 YES.

2:30:13 CONVOLUTION.

2:30:14 SUBMISSION.

2:30:14 YES.

2:30:14 COUNCILMAN MEJIA.

2:30:16 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:30:18 COUNCILOR PIPPEN.

2:30:19 CONCEPT WEAPON.

2:30:20 YES.

2:30:21 COUNCILOR SANTANA ON TO

2:30:22 SANTANA.

2:30:23 YES.

2:30:23 COUNCIL WEBER UNSURE WHETHER HE

2:30:25 HAS CONTROL AROUND ENSEMBLE

2:30:27 RELEVANCE 11 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

2:30:29 .

2:30:30 THANK YOU MADAM.

2:30:31 MADAM CLERK UH, DOCKET UH 1342

2:30:36 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:30:40 UM, COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAD A

2:30:43 QUESTION.

2:30:43 YES.

2:30:44 UM.

2:30:44 BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, UM,

2:30:46 DOCKET 1341 THE RESOLUTION.

2:30:49 OF CENTRAL.

2:30:50 STAFF HAD HANDED OUT A

2:30:52 SUBSTITUTION FOR SOME WORDING

2:30:53 AND I DON'T REMEMBER IF THAT

2:30:55 WAS SUBSTITUTED BEFORE WE VOTED

2:30:57 ON IT.

2:30:58 SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

2:30:59 THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT DOCKET I

2:31:03 KNOW, BUT I'M JUST PUTTING IT

2:31:06 TOWARDS THE PRESIDENT TO LET

2:31:07 HER KNOW.

2:31:07 I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GOT A COPY,

2:31:09 BUT I'M JUST NOTICING THAT THAT

2:31:12 WASN'T MENTIONED WHEN WE READ

2:31:13 THE DOCKETS TOGETHER.

2:31:18 OKAY.

2:31:19 I KNOW IT WENT TO COMMITTEE

2:31:21 BUT JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE

2:31:22 HAVE THE RIGHT DOCKET THAT WAS

2:31:23 FORMALLY BROUGHT TO COMMITTEE.

2:31:25 .

2:31:26 OKAY.

2:31:26 STILL NAMED A RESOLUTION.

2:31:28 THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR

2:31:29 BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION.

2:31:31 WILL JUST HOLD ON A SECOND

2:31:32 BRIEF RECESS.

2:31:34 THANK YOU.

2:34:54 WE'RE BACK IN SESSION.

2:34:55 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY,

2:34:56 FOR THAT INQUIRY.

2:34:57 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, WOULD

2:34:58 YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS THIS

2:34:59 QUESTION FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY?

2:35:02 YES, MADAM PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE

2:35:04 TO KEEP IT THE WAY IT IS.

2:35:05 WE CAN CHANGE THE LANGUAGE WHEN

2:35:07 WE VOTE ON IN COMMITTEE.

2:35:09 CERTAINLY.

2:35:10 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK

2:35:12 YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:35:19 SO ARE WE.

2:35:20 UM.

2:35:21 NEXT UP, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

2:35:23 PLEASE READ DOCKET 1343?

2:35:26 DON'T GOOD 1343

2:35:30 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE ON FOR THE

2:35:31 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DENOUNCING

2:35:33 THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

2:35:35 DECISION ALONE ALLOWING THE

2:35:37 TERMINATION OF TEMPORARY

2:35:38 PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIAN

2:35:40 AND SYRIAN NATIONALS AND

2:35:42 AFFIRMING BOSTON SUPPORT FOR

2:35:44 TPS HOLDERS.

2:35:45 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY

2:35:47 LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:35:48 THANK YOU.

2:35:49 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:35:49 UM I WOULD LIKE TO ADD UM

2:35:52 COUNCILOR PEPEN AS A SECOND

2:35:53 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:35:55 COUNCILOR PEPPER AND SO ADDED.

2:35:57 UM THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME

2:35:59 COURT TO TERMINATE TEMPORARY

2:36:02 PROTECTED STATUS HAS A

2:36:05 DEVASTATING IMPACT ON OUR CITY,

2:36:07 A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON OUR

2:36:10 RESIDENTS.

2:36:11 UM, THIS RECKLESS DECISION THAT

2:36:15 FORGOES ITS RESPONSIBILITY TO.

2:36:17 DO JUDICIAL REVIEW.

2:36:19 OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION AND

2:36:21 WHERE IT IGNORES THE VERY CLEAR

2:36:22 RACIAL ANIMUS AND

2:36:24 ANTI-BLACKNESS OF THIS

2:36:25 ADMINISTRATION UM, IN THEIR

2:36:28 IMMIGRATION POLICY AND A NUMBER

2:36:30 OF OTHER POLICIES, UM IS A

2:36:32 SMACK IN THE FACE OF SO MANY

2:36:34 HERE IN OUR CITY AND IN OUR

2:36:36 COUNTRY.

2:36:37 MY PHONES IN OUR OFFICE HAVE

2:36:39 BEEN RINGING OFF THE HOOK SINCE

2:36:42 THE DECISION WITH PEOPLE

2:36:44 WORRIED, SCARED AND LOOKING FOR

2:36:47 HELP.

2:36:48 UM AND IT IS AT A POINT

2:36:51 OF CRISIS FOR SO MANY UM,

2:36:53 EMPLOYERS WHO ARE TRYING TO

2:36:55 FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.

2:36:57 UM AND SO.

2:37:00 THE EFFECT AND THE IMPACT ON

2:37:03 OUR ECONOMY ON FAMILIES TEARING

2:37:05 FAMILIES APART WE ARE ALREADY

2:37:08 SEEING DECLINING ENROLLMENT IN

2:37:10 OUR SCHOOLS THAT IS GOING TO

2:37:12 CONTINUE WITH THESE RECKLESS

2:37:14 DECISIONS THAT SCARE FAMILIES

2:37:15 AND TEAR THEM APART HERE IN OUR

2:37:18 CITY, UM, HOME TO ONE OF THE

2:37:21 LARGEST HAITIAN COMMUNITIES AND

2:37:23 A LARGE SYRIAN COMMUNITY, THIS

2:37:26 OPINION IS ALSO GOING TO HAVE

2:37:28 AN EFFECT ON THE 15 OTHER

2:37:30 COUNTRIES THAT HAVE HAD THE TPS

2:37:32 DESIGNATION.

2:37:33 WE WERE JUST HERE WITH OUR

2:37:34 VENEZUELAN COMMUNITY, UH

2:37:36 LIFTING THE FLAG YESTERDAY AND

2:37:38 THAT UH IS A AND THEY JUST

2:37:40 EXPERIENCED AN EARTHQUAKE.

2:37:41 ALL OF THESE DECISIONS ARE VERY

2:37:43 REAL TO OUR RESIDENTS.

2:37:45 UM, AND SO I WANT TO UPLIFT THE

2:37:48 WORK THAT SO MANY HAVE DONE

2:37:49 FROM THE LAWYERS WHO ARGUE THE

2:37:51 CASE TO THE IMMIGRANT FAMILY

2:37:52 SERVICES INSTITUTE HERE TO UM

2:37:56 ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN WOMEN FOR

2:37:57 BOSTON THERE.

2:37:58 UH, I WANT TO THANK GOVERNOR

2:38:00 HEALEY, UM, WHO VERY QUICKLY

2:38:03 ORGANIZED UH A PRESS CONFERENCE

2:38:06 CONDEMNING THIS DECISION

2:38:07 BECAUSE SHE UNDERSTANDS VITALLY

2:38:09 WHAT THIS IS GOING TO MEAN FOR

2:38:11 OUR ECONOMY.

2:38:12 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO

2:38:14 HAVE A LAWFUL IMMIGRANT STATUS

2:38:16 AND WHO HAVE HAD ONE FOR YEARS

2:38:18 ,WHO HAVE ADULT U.S. CITIZEN

2:38:20 CHILDREN WHO PAY BILLIONS

2:38:22 OF DOLLARS IN TAXES TO OUR CITY

2:38:23 .

2:38:24 SO I'M JUST MY ENTIRE OFFICE.

2:38:26 WE ARE DEVASTATED BY THIS

2:38:27 DECISION.

2:38:28 SO MANY OF OUR AMERICAN

2:38:29 COMMUNITIES AND NATIONAL TPS

2:38:31 COALITION DEVASTATED BY THIS

2:38:33 DECISION.

2:38:33 WE'RE WORKING ON LEGAL CLINICS

2:38:35 .

2:38:35 WE'RE WORKING ON FAMILY

2:38:36 PREPAREDNESS CLINICS.

2:38:38 WE ARE WORKING ON UPLIFTING THE

2:38:39 SENATE BILL FOR 814.

2:38:41 AND I WANT TO CONTINUE THANKING

2:38:43 CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY FOR THE

2:38:44 WORK THAT SHE DID IN CONGRESS

2:38:46 FOR TPS THREE YEAR EXTENSION.

2:38:48 WE KNOW THAT WE WOULD NEED IT

2:38:49 TO PASS THE SENATE AS WELL.

2:38:50 AND WE ARE ORGANIZING PEOPLE

2:38:52 AROUND SENATE BILL 4814.

2:38:55 I WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO

2:38:56 THIS BECAUSE THIS DECISION IS

2:38:57 AGAIN RECKLESS, HARMFUL AND

2:38:59 IGNORING THE VERY REAL RACIAL

2:39:01 ANIMUS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.

2:39:03 THANK YOU.

2:39:04 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:39:07 UH, CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:39:08 COUNCILOR PEPEN COUNTRY YOU

2:39:10 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:39:11 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:39:13 I ASKED COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

2:39:15 TO BE A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

2:39:16 RESOLUTION BECAUSE OF HOW

2:39:18 DEVASTATING THIS IS TO THE

2:39:19 HAITIAN COMMUNITY AND TO TO THE

2:39:20 SYRIAN COMMUNITY.

2:39:21 UM, I WAS ABLE TO TO JOIN

2:39:24 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND OTHERS

2:39:25 AT THE STEPS AT THE STATE HOUSE

2:39:27 AND TO FEEL THE THE PAIN AND

2:39:29 THE FRUSTRATION THAT THESE THIS

2:39:31 COMMUNITY IS FACING BECAUSE

2:39:34 OF SUCH JUST INHUMANE DECISIONS

2:39:36 TAKEN BY OUR SUPREME COURT BY

2:39:37 THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY.

2:39:39 UM YES.

2:39:39 THIS IS ABOUT FEDERAL ISSUES

2:39:41 AND FEDERAL LEGISLATION.

2:39:42 HOWEVER THIS.

2:39:44 GENUINELY IMPACTS THE PEOPLE

2:39:46 RIGHT HERE IN THE CITY

2:39:47 OF BOSTON.

2:39:47 I CAN HEAR DOCTOR GUILBAULT

2:39:50 REPEATING THE NUMBERS 4814 UM

2:39:52 DURING HER SPEECH AND ASKING

2:39:53 THE SENATE TO PLEASE SUPPORT

2:39:54 IT.

2:39:55 UM BUT I ALSO HEAR THE OUTCRY

2:39:57 FROM THE COMMUNITY.

2:39:58 YOU KNOW, I OBVIOUSLY REPRESENT

2:39:59 A BEAUTIFUL HAITIAN COMMUNITY

2:40:01 IN DISTRICT FIVE AND JUST

2:40:02 SEEING WHAT A THRIVING,

2:40:06 HARDWORKING, LOVING COMMUNITY

2:40:07 THEY ARE I JUST DON'T

2:40:08 UNDERSTAND HOW THESE DECISIONS

2:40:09 CAN'T BE MADE.

2:40:10 I WANTED TO STAND HERE IN

2:40:12 SOLIDARITY TO MAKE SURE THAT MY

2:40:14 COUNCIL COLLEAGUE

2:40:15 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WHO WORKED

2:40:16 TIRELESSLY TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:40:18 THIS WAS WAS PASSED AT THE

2:40:20 CONGRESS AT THE CONGRESSIONAL

2:40:22 LEVEL, UM WHICH THIS WAS

2:40:25 SUCCESSFULLY WITH WITH

2:40:26 CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY SUPPORT.

2:40:27 BUT THERE'S A LOT MORE WORK TO

2:40:30 DO AND I JUST WANTED TO STAND

2:40:31 HERE IN SUPPORT AND THANK MY

2:40:32 COLLEAGUE FOR ALL THE WORK THAT

2:40:33 SHE DOES.

2:40:34 THANK YOU.

2:40:36 COUNCILOR PEPEN CHAIR

2:40:36 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA,

2:40:38 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:40:40 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:40:41 AND I WANT TO THANK

2:40:42 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:40:43 OFFERING.

2:40:44 THIS IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.

2:40:46 UM.

2:40:46 THE SUPREME COURT DECISION

2:40:48 IS A MORAL FAILURE.

2:40:49 WE CANNOT ALLOW RESIDENTS AND.

2:40:51 FAMILIES TO BE AT RISK OF.

2:40:53 DEPORTATION BACK TO SITES

2:40:54 OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND

2:40:56 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS.

2:40:58 TPS HOLDERS HAVE BECOME AN

2:41:00 INTEGRAL PART OF BOSTON THROUGH

2:41:01 ITS BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY

2:41:02 PARTS OF FORCES PARTICIPATION

2:41:05 AND WE WOULD NOT BE THE CITY WE

2:41:06 ARE TODAY WITHOUT THEM, THE

2:41:08 LOSS OF THIS STATUS WOULD

2:41:09 DAMAGE COMMUNITIES AND INFLICT

2:41:11 HARDSHIPS ON FAMILIES AND

2:41:12 RESIDENTS OF BOSTON.

2:41:13 THE LOSS OF PROTECTED STATUS

2:41:15 FOR HAITIAN AND SYRIAN

2:41:17 NATIONALS IS SOMETHING THE CITY

2:41:19 OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON CITY

2:41:21 COUNCIL MUST CONDEMN.

2:41:22 I STAND IN SUPPORT OF THIS

2:41:25 RESOLUTION.

2:41:25 THANK YOU.

2:41:26 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:41:27 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:41:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:41:29 CARTER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:41:30 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:41:32 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:41:34 THE SPONSORS FOR BRINGING THIS

2:41:36 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION FORWARD.

2:41:38 THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION

2:41:41 ENDING TPS STATUS FOR HAITI IS

2:41:44 UNCONSCIONABLE.

2:41:46 TPS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT PEOPLE

2:41:48 SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO RETURN

2:41:49 TO A COUNTRY LIKE HAITI THAT IS

2:41:51 RIDDLED WITH WAR OR.

2:41:53 NATURAL DISASTERS.

2:41:57 WHEN I WAS STATIONED IN THE

2:41:59 NAVY IN 2009 2010, IN

2:42:03 GUANTANAMO.

2:42:04 ,THE.

2:42:05 DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE

2:42:07 WREAKED HAVOC ON THE PEOPLE

2:42:08 OF HAITI.

2:42:09 WHICH WAS.

2:42:10 JUST MAYBE 90 MILES FROM

2:42:11 WHERE I WAS AT THAT TIME.

2:42:14 I SAW THE INCREDIBLE WORK OF SO

2:42:17 MANY HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS

2:42:19 THAT VOLUNTEERED TO SUPPORT

2:42:21 THIS DEVASTATED COUNTRY.

2:42:23 UM, BUT WE WE KNOW THAT.

2:42:27 WHEN THIS HAPPENED IT WAS.

2:42:29 IMPORTANT FOR PORT FOR THE

2:42:30 UNITED STATES TO.

2:42:32 WELCOME HAITIAN PEOPLE AND

2:42:35 THEY'VE CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO

2:42:36 THIS CITY FOR SO MANY YEARS.

2:42:39 I BELIEVE WE NEED TO SHOW

2:42:40 COMPASSION FOR VICTIMS

2:42:42 OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND THOSE

2:42:43 IN NEED BY EXTENDING TPS FOR

2:42:47 THE PEOPLE IMPACTED.

2:42:49 I PREVIOUSLY STOOD WITH.

2:42:50 THE.

2:42:50 HAITIAN COMMUNITY IN 2020 18

2:42:53 AND 2023 CALLING FOR THE

2:42:55 EXTENSION OF TPS TO ADVOCATED

2:42:58 FOR MORE ASSISTANCE FOR OUR

2:43:00 HAITIAN.

2:43:00 NEIGHBORS AS WELL.

2:43:02 WE MUST CONTINUE TO STAND IN

2:43:04 SOLIDARITY AND WORK WITH OUR

2:43:06 COLLEAGUES IN THE CITY, STATE

2:43:07 AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

2:43:10 UM WE ARE A CITY AND NATION

2:43:12 OF IMMIGRANTS AND MUST ALWAYS

2:43:13 WELCOME THOSE.

2:43:15 IN SEARCH OF.

2:43:16 A BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES,

2:43:17 THEIR FAMILIES AND THOSE WHO

2:43:19 HAVE ENDURED TERRIBLE NATURAL

2:43:22 DISASTERS AS WELL.

2:43:23 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

2:43:24 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FRENCH.

2:43:26 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:43:27 COUNCILOR WADDELL.

2:43:27 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:43:28 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:43:30 AND THANK YOU,

2:43:31 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR FILING

2:43:32 ,UH, THIS IMPORTANT RESOLUTION

2:43:34 AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK

2:43:36 AROUND, UH, FIGHTING BACK

2:43:38 AGAINST THE TRUMP

2:43:39 ADMINISTRATION, ENDING

2:43:41 TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS AS

2:43:43 THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS

2:43:44 DOING WILL MEAN THOUSANDS,

2:43:47 THOUSANDS OF HAITIAN AND SYRIAN

2:43:48 FAMILIES WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS,

2:43:51 THEIR COMMUNITIES AND ANY AND

2:43:53 ALL SENSES OF SECURITY FOR NO

2:43:56 OTHER REASON THAN DEEP SEATED

2:43:58 HATRED FROM OUR FEDERAL

2:43:59 OFFICIALS.

2:44:01 FOR 250 YEARS, ELECTED

2:44:04 OFFICIALS IN OUR NATION HAVE

2:44:05 TOUTED OURSELVES AS A BEACON

2:44:07 OF HOPE FOR THE WEARY TO FIND

2:44:10 REFUGE, OPPORTUNITY AND TO BE

2:44:12 ACCEPTED AND EMBRACED FOR WHO

2:44:13 THEY ARE.

2:44:15 AND IN SOMETHING AS CRUCIAL AS

2:44:17 TPS IS A DIRECT VIOLATION

2:44:19 OF THAT 250 YEAR OLD PROMISE.

2:44:22 SO I STAND IN SUPPORT OF THIS

2:44:25 RESOLUTION AND AGAIN THANK YOU

2:44:26 FOR THIS FILING.

2:44:28 THANK YOU.

2:44:29 COUNCIL ORAL CHAIR

2:44:30 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:44:31 COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:44:32 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT I

2:44:34 JUST WANT TO THANK

2:44:35 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AGAIN FOR

2:44:36 BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND KNOW

2:44:38 THAT SHE HAS THE FULL SUPPORT

2:44:39 OF ALL OF US ON THE COUNCIL AND

2:44:40 JUST WANT TO UPLIFT HER

2:44:41 ADVOCACY AS THEY KNOW HOW

2:44:42 PERSONAL THEY ARE AND HOW HARD

2:44:43 SHE'S BEEN WORKING.

2:44:44 UM AND WE WILL BE HERE TO DO

2:44:46 ANYTHING WE CAN HELP.

2:44:47 THANK YOU.

2:44:48 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR

2:44:50 CULPEPER.

2:44:50 COUNSELOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:44:51 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:44:53 I WANT TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH

2:44:54 THE REMARKS OF COUNCILOR

2:44:58 LOUIJEUNE AND FOR COMMENDING

2:45:02 HER FOR FILING THIS RESOLUTION.

2:45:04 I JUST WANTED TO READ, UH,

2:45:08 SMALL PARAGRAPH FROM THE

2:45:10 DISSENTING OPINION BY JUSTICE

2:45:13 UH JACKSON WHEN SHE SAID THAT,

2:45:16 UH, THIS COURT HAS VOWED VASTLY

2:45:20 UNDERVALUE THE DEVASTATING

2:45:22 CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING THE

2:45:23 GOVERNMENT TO UPEND THE LIVES

2:45:25 OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS

2:45:26 OF PEOPLE WHILE THE LEGAL

2:45:28 CHALLENGES ARE STILL GOING ON.

2:45:30 SHE ALSO RAISED CONCERNS DURING

2:45:32 ORAL ARGUMENTS REGARDING

2:45:35 WHETHER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S

2:45:36 EFFORT TO TERMINATE THE TPS

2:45:38 PROGRAMS WERE MOTIVATED BY BY

2:45:40 RACIAL ANIMUS AGAINST MINORITY

2:45:44 POPULATIONS, WHICH WE KNOW THEY

2:45:46 WERE.

2:45:46 AND I THINK, MADAM PRESIDENT,

2:45:49 WHEN THE SUPREME COURT ISSUED

2:45:51 THE DECISION ALONG WITH THAT

2:45:54 VOTING RIGHTS DECISION REVOKING

2:45:57 SECTION TWO THAT I THINK IT WAS

2:45:59 A SAD DAY AND THE UNITED STATES

2:46:02 OF AMERICA.

2:46:03 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:46:04 THANK YOU.

2:46:05 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:46:05 COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE YOU

2:46:07 HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:46:07 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

2:46:09 UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW MUCH

2:46:11 IT MEANS THAT WE HAVE A HAITIAN

2:46:12 MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, THE

2:46:14 FIRST HAITIAN TO EVER BE

2:46:16 ELECTED TO THE CITY

2:46:17 COUNCIL SERVING ALONGSIDE US

2:46:18 THE FIRST HAITIAN

2:46:19 COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

2:46:20 UM, I REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE

2:46:22 WHEN UM, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:46:24 GOT ELECTED AND HOW MUCH PRIDE

2:46:27 UM WAS BEAMING FROM HER

2:46:28 COMMUNITY.

2:46:28 AND NOW TO HAVE HER ADVOCACY ON

2:46:30 THE CITY COUNCIL IS EXTREMELY

2:46:32 MEANINGFUL.

2:46:33 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN

2:46:34 MOVE MOUNTAINS AND UM, BUT I

2:46:36 KNOW THAT THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY

2:46:38 FEELS WELL REPRESENTED IN

2:46:39 COUNCIL REGION AND I'M JUST

2:46:41 REALLY PROUD TO SERVE ALONGSIDE

2:46:42 HER AS SHE ADVOCATES FOR HER

2:46:44 COMMUNITY AND OUR BOSTON

2:46:45 NEIGHBORS WHO DESERVE BETTER.

2:46:47 UM, AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT

2:46:49 OF FEAR RIGHT NOW I I CAN'T

2:46:51 IMAGINE FEELING THAT TYPE

2:46:52 OF FEAR.

2:46:53 UM, AND UH, I'M JUST GRATEFUL

2:46:55 THAT WE HAVE A COLLEAGUE WHO

2:46:57 SERVES ALONGSIDE US WHO, UH,

2:46:59 REPRESENTS THAT COMMUNITY WITH

2:47:00 SUCH HONOR AND GRACE AND UM AND

2:47:03 WE STAND WITH THE HAITIAN

2:47:04 COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW DURING

2:47:05 THESE TOUGH TIMES.

2:47:06 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:47:09 UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK

2:47:12 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:47:12 INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP AND I

2:47:13 KNOW SHE'S WORKING HER AND HER

2:47:15 STAFF.

2:47:15 SHE AND HER STAFF ARE WORKING

2:47:16 INCREDIBLY HARD TO TRY AND

2:47:18 ADDRESS THIS REALLY CHALLENGING

2:47:19 AND DIFFICULT SITUATION THE

2:47:21 INJUSTICE AND UH, REVOKING THE

2:47:24 TPS IS UH IS HORRIFIC AND SHOWS

2:47:27 AN INCREDIBLE LACK

2:47:30 OF UNDERSTANDING AND LACK OF,

2:47:31 UM, VALUING UH COMMUNITIES THE

2:47:35 SYRIAN COMMUNITY, THE HAITIAN

2:47:36 COMMUNITY AND ALL THE OTHER

2:47:38 COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE TEMPORARY

2:47:40 PROTECTED STATUS IN OUR COUNTRY

2:47:42 .

2:47:43 UM I HAVE HAITIAN FAMILY

2:47:45 MEMBERS.

2:47:46 I KNOW THAT THIS IS HEADING

2:47:47 HOME TO THEM REALLY STRONGLY AS

2:47:48 WELL.

2:47:49 UH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAMILIES

2:47:50 AND FRIENDS IN THE UNITED

2:47:52 STATES THAT ARE IN TPS.

2:47:54 SO I THANK YOU,

2:47:56 COUNCILOR INDONESIAN AND UH I

2:47:58 THINK WE ALL STAND UNITED

2:47:59 BEHIND YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS

2:48:01 ONE.

2:48:01 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:48:07 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:48:09 NAME?

2:48:10 COUNCILOR.

2:48:11 CULPEPER.

2:48:11 COUNCILOR.

2:48:12 DURKAN.

2:48:12 COUNCILOR.

2:48:12 FITZGERALD.

2:48:13 CARLSTROM.

2:48:13 UH, FLYNN.

2:48:15 HUNTER.

2:48:15 MURPHY.

2:48:16 COUNCILOR.

2:48:16 PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

2:48:18 YOU'RE ON ALREADY.

2:48:19 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:48:19 CONSTABLE.

2:48:20 WEBER.

2:48:20 CONSTABLE WILL AND PLEASE ADD

2:48:22 THE CHAIR.

2:48:23 COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE AND

2:48:25 COUNCILOR UM PEPEN SEEK

2:48:27 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

2:48:28 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1343.

2:48:30 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

2:48:33 SAY NAY.

2:48:34 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:48:36 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:48:37 VOTE ON 1343.

2:48:38 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1343.

2:48:42 COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:48:43 YES.

2:48:43 CONCENTRATE ON YES.

2:48:45 COUNCILOR ZAPATA COUNCIL.

2:48:47 CULPEPER COUNCIL.

2:48:49 CULPEPER.

2:48:49 YES.

2:48:50 COUNCILOR DURKAN THAT'S IT.

2:48:52 DO IT THEN.

2:48:52 YES, COUNCIL.

2:48:53 FITZGERALD.

2:48:53 YES.

2:48:54 QUANTIFIED COUNSELOR.

2:48:55 FRIEND.

2:48:56 YES, IT'S A FRIEND.

2:48:57 YES.

2:48:58 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE THIS IS

2:48:59 LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL MAYOR

2:49:00 AND COUNCIL MURPHY WANTS TO

2:49:03 MONTH.

2:49:03 YES.

2:49:06 COUNCIL SANTANA CONCERT

2:49:08 SANTANA.

2:49:09 YES.

2:49:09 COUNCIL.

2:49:10 WEBER.

2:49:10 COUNCIL.

2:49:11 WEBER.

2:49:11 YES.

2:49:12 CONTROVERSIAL COUNCIL WATER.

2:49:14 YES 11 VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

2:49:16 .

2:49:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

2:49:17 DOCKET 1343 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:49:20 I'LL ASK MY COLLEAGUE, UH,

2:49:22 COUNCILOR UH CULPEPER TO TAKE

2:49:23 THE CHAIR FOR THE NEXT TWO

2:49:25 DOCKETS.

2:49:48 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:49:50 READ THE DOCKET?

2:49:51 DOCKET 134 FOR

2:49:53 COUNCILOR BRIGHTON OR FOR THE

2:49:54 FOLLOWING RESOLUTE RESOLUTION

2:49:56 IN SUPPORT OF SENATE BILL 3112

2:50:00 AND ACT AUTHORIZING

2:50:02 MUNICIPALITIES TO UP INTO A

2:50:03 TEMPORARY PILOT TO EXTEND THE

2:50:06 HOURS OF LIQUOR LICENSES AND

2:50:07 UNTIL ALLOW THE PUBLIC

2:50:10 CONSUMPTION IN DESIGNATED

2:50:11 DISTRICT IN SUMMER 2026.

2:50:14 THANK YOU.

2:50:15 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:50:17 COUNCILOR BREADON AND

2:50:18 COUNCIL GRAYDON, YOU HAVE THE

2:50:19 FLOOR.

2:50:19 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:50:21 UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

2:50:24 COUNCILOR WORRELL AS A SECOND

2:50:25 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:50:26 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:50:28 COUNCILOR WU HAS BEEN TO HAVE

2:50:29 IT.

2:50:29 THANK YOU.

2:50:30 THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT

2:50:32 SENATE BILL 3112 WHICH WOULD

2:50:35 EXTEND THE PILOT PROGRAM FOR

2:50:37 MUNICIPALITIES TO TO OPT IN TO

2:50:40 EXTENDING LAST CALL AND

2:50:42 ESTABLISHING SOCIAL DISTRICTS

2:50:43 THROUGH THE REST OF THE SUMMER.

2:50:45 MAYOR WU ADOPTED BOSTON UP TO

2:50:48 BOSTON INTO THE INITIAL PILOT

2:50:50 EARLY ON.

2:50:51 MORE THAN 200 ESTABLISHMENTS

2:50:53 NOW PARTICIPATE AND TWO SOCIAL

2:50:55 DISTRICTS OPERATE ON TIME.

2:50:57 THERE HAVE BEEN THERE HAS BEEN

2:50:59 A POSITIVE RECEPTION.

2:51:01 RESIDENTS AND VISITORS HAVE

2:51:02 EMBRACED THE EXTENDED HOURS AND

2:51:04 SOCIAL DISTRICTS.

2:51:05 WE'VE HOSTED THE TARTAN ARMY

2:51:07 AND OTHER WORLD CUP VISITORS

2:51:09 WITH GREAT SUCCESS.

2:51:11 THE SUMMER IS JUST GETTING

2:51:13 STARTED BUT THE PILOT PROGRAM

2:51:15 IS SET TO EXPIRE AT THE END

2:51:16 OF THIS MONTH.

2:51:17 I'M THANKFUL TO SENATOR SIR AND

2:51:20 FEINGOLD FOR FILING THIS

2:51:22 LEGISLATION ON BEACON HILL TO

2:51:23 KEEP THE FUND GOING AND ALLOW

2:51:25 CITIES AND TOWNS TO CONTINUE

2:51:26 THE PROGRAM THROUGH AUGUST.

2:51:28 AUGUST IS ONE OF THE BUSIEST

2:51:29 MONTHS FOR TOURISM IN BOSTON

2:51:31 AND GIVEN THE STRUGGLES OF THE

2:51:33 HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY THAT FACE

2:51:35 FACED POST-COVID WITH INFLATION

2:51:38 AND LABOR SHORTAGES ALLOWING

2:51:40 BOSTON TO CONTINUE WITH THIS

2:51:41 PILOT PROGRAM AND CREATE MORE

2:51:43 OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL

2:51:44 BUSINESSES, IT'S A NO BRAINER.

2:51:46 THIS RESOLUTION CALLS ON THE

2:51:48 COUNCIL TO EXPRESS ITS SUPPORT

2:51:49 FOR THIS BILL AND TO ENCOURAGE

2:51:52 BOSTON TO CONTINUE OPTING IN TO

2:51:54 THIS PILOT PROGRAM SHOULD THE

2:51:55 BILL ULTIMATELY PASS.

2:51:57 I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO

2:51:59 SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND UH

2:52:02 AND THANK YOU.

2:52:03 UH, IT ALSO IS AN OPPORTUNITY

2:52:05 SINCE IT'S A PILOT PROGRAM TO

2:52:06 CAPTURE SOME VITAL DATA TO

2:52:08 INFORM FUTURE POLICYMAKING

2:52:10 REGARDING BOSTON'S HOSPITALITY

2:52:12 AND TOURIST ECONOMY.

2:52:13 THANK YOU.

2:52:15 CHAIR RECOGNIZES TO RECOGNIZE

2:52:19 COUNCIL FOR.

2:52:27 THANK YOU.

2:52:32 OH, YES.

2:52:32 NO CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:52:34 COUNCILOR WILL READ

2:52:35 COUNCILOR WE'RE READY TO THE

2:52:36 FLOOR.

2:52:37 THANK YOU CHAIR.

2:52:37 AND UH, THANK YOU TO, UH,

2:52:39 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON FOR

2:52:41 UH, INTRODUCING THIS AND

2:52:42 INCLUDING ME ON THIS AND JUST

2:52:44 WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO

2:52:45 ALSO SENATOR FEINGOLD, UH, FOR

2:52:48 PUTTING THIS BILL FORWARD.

2:52:49 I ALSO JUST WANT TO JUST, UH,

2:52:51 ALSO SHOUT OUT THE LICENSES

2:52:53 DEPARTMENT, UH, WHO HAS BEEN UH

2:52:56 ,WORKING AND BEING VERY

2:52:57 FLEXIBLE ON UH, GETTING THIS UM

2:53:00 LICENSE IMPLEMENTED.

2:53:02 UM, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT

2:53:04 OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SMALL

2:53:05 BUSINESSES AND FOR US TO GET

2:53:07 MORE DATA ON IF WE WANT TO

2:53:09 CONSIDER UH, CONSIDER UH,

2:53:11 MAKING THIS A PERMANENT PROGRAM

2:53:13 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:53:14 SO THE MORE INFORMATION WE GET,

2:53:16 UH, THE MORE PEOPLE WE ARE

2:53:17 BRINGING INTO THE TABLE TO

2:53:18 UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT ARE THE,

2:53:21 UH, PROS AND CONS ON

2:53:24 ESTABLISHING ESTABLISHING

2:53:25 SOMETHING LIKE THIS PERMANENTLY

2:53:26 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON?

2:53:29 I BELIEVE, UH, IS BENEFICIAL

2:53:30 NOT ONLY TO OUR CITY BUT OUR

2:53:33 SMALL BUSINESSES.

2:53:34 SO THE MORE INFORMATION WE GET,

2:53:35 UH, THE BETTER UH,

2:53:37 UNDERSTANDING WE HAVE OF THE

2:53:38 PROGRAM SO WE CAN SEE, UH, WHAT

2:53:40 THE PROGRAM SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN

2:53:42 THE FUTURE.

2:53:42 AND AGAIN, THIS DOESN'T MEAN

2:53:44 THAT THE PROGRAM NEEDS TO HAVE

2:53:46 EVERY BAR OR EVERY RESTAURANT

2:53:49 OPEN THREE UH, UNTIL THREE AT 3

2:53:51 A.M. UH, TO EVERY DAY OF THE

2:53:53 WEEK.

2:53:53 UH, BUT WE CAN BE FLEXIBLE UM,

2:53:56 IN THE PROGRAM SO THE MORE

2:53:58 INFORMATION THE BETTER.

2:53:59 AND I THINK THIS IS A GREAT

2:54:00 OPPORTUNITY FOR SMALL

2:54:02 BUSINESSES TO REAP THE BENEFITS

2:54:03 ON THE TOURISM THAT HAS COME

2:54:05 BACK TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:54:06 THANK YOU.

2:54:07 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:54:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:54:10 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

2:54:11 FLOOR.

2:54:11 AND THANK.

2:54:12 YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:54:14 MR CHAIR, UM, I'M NOT GOING TO

2:54:16 OBJECT TO A VOTE ON THIS.

2:54:19 I DO BELIEVE A RESOLUTION

2:54:21 SHOULD HAVE A VOTE EITHER UP OR

2:54:23 DOWN.

2:54:24 UM, BUT I AM GOING TO VOTE

2:54:26 AGAINST THIS, UH, FOR FOR

2:54:29 SEVERAL REASONS.

2:54:30 AND ONE OF THE REASONS IS I

2:54:33 DON'T BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A

2:54:36 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS IN

2:54:39 TERMS OF KEEPING THESE, UM,

2:54:41 BARS OF RESTAURANTS OPEN TILL 3

2:54:43 A.M..

2:54:43 SOME OF THE AREA IMPACTED WITH

2:54:46 RECENT DECISION AND AS IT

2:54:48 RELATES TO DOWNTOWN BOSTON, UM

2:54:51 RESIDENTS IN THE DOWNTOWN

2:54:52 BOSTON AREA EXPRESSED TO

2:54:54 ME SOME RESIDENTS THAT THEY

2:54:57 DIDN'T HAVE ANY HAD ANY

2:54:59 OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN WITH

2:55:01 THE LICENSING BOARD, WITH THE

2:55:02 CITY COUNCIL, WITH THE MAYOR'S

2:55:04 OFFICE.

2:55:04 IT WAS JUST KIND OF RUBBER

2:55:07 STAMPED AND APPROVED.

2:55:08 UM, I DO BELIEVE IN A COMMUNITY

2:55:11 ENGAGEMENT PROCESS.

2:55:13 I DO THINK RESIDENTS IN A

2:55:15 PARTICULAR NEIGHBOR IN A

2:55:16 PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD

2:55:18 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOICE

2:55:20 THEIR OPINION.

2:55:22 IF YOU ARE KEEPING A RESTAURANT

2:55:24 OR BAR OPEN IN A PARTICULAR

2:55:26 NEIGHBORHOOD SAY ON BROADWAY IN

2:55:28 SOUTH BOSTON WHERE I LIVE TO,

2:55:31 WHY WOULD I WANT MY NEIGHBORS

2:55:33 TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UM

2:55:36 ,VOTE FOR IT OR AGAINST IT?

2:55:39 I THINK I WOULD I THINK

2:55:40 RESIDENTS MOST IMPACTED BY THIS

2:55:42 TYPE OF DECISION SHOULD BE

2:55:43 HEARD.

2:55:44 THEY SHOULD BE RESPECTED.

2:55:45 THE DECISION SHOULD IN MY

2:55:47 OPINION SHOULD NOT COME FROM

2:55:48 CITY HALL.

2:55:50 RESIDENT RESIDENTS DESERVE AN

2:55:52 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD TO BE

2:55:55 RESPECTED.

2:55:55 I ALSO THINK THERE ARE OTHER

2:55:57 ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO FACTOR

2:56:00 IN IN TERMS OF KEEPING BARS

2:56:01 RESTAURANTS OPEN AT 3:00.

2:56:03 WHAT IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE ON

2:56:05 OTHER CITY SERVICES THAT MAY

2:56:07 NEED TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION

2:56:10 AS IT RELATES TO PUBLIC SAFETY

2:56:13 OR UM INSPECTIONS AS WELL.

2:56:15 SO I'M GOING TO VOTE I'M GOING

2:56:17 TO VOTE NO.

2:56:19 UM ALTHOUGH I DO THINK IT

2:56:20 SHOULD GO TO A COMMITTEE FOR A

2:56:22 HEARING BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO

2:56:24 THAT BECAUSE I WANT TO BE

2:56:25 RESPECTFUL TO MY COLLEAGUES.

2:56:27 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:56:31 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:56:33 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:56:33 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

2:56:35 FLOOR.

2:56:35 THANK YOU.

2:56:37 CHAIR.

2:56:37 UM, TO THE MAKER.

2:56:39 TO THE CHAIR IF IT'S FINE.

2:56:40 IF YOU HAVE ANSWERS JUST TO A

2:56:42 COUPLE QUESTIONS.

2:56:44 WHERE ARE THE CURRENT

2:56:46 DESIGNATED CONSUMPTION AREAS IN

2:56:48 THE CITY OF BOSTON?

2:56:49 I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE

2:56:50 WANT TO OPT IN TO THIS

2:56:51 TEMPORARY PILOT.

2:56:52 AND HOW MANY ESTABLISHMENTS HOW

2:56:55 DO WE CHOOSE WHICH ONES AND

2:56:56 WE'LL ALL OF THEM IF THIS

2:56:58 BECAME PERMANENT BE GIVEN A 3

2:57:00 A.M. LIQUOR LICENSE?

2:57:05 COUNCILOR BRITTON, YOU HAVE THE

2:57:07 FLOOR.

2:57:11 I THINK REALLY THAT IT'S A

2:57:12 PILOT TO EXTEND IT THROUGH

2:57:14 AUGUST SO I THINK I DON'T HAVE

2:57:17 THE DATE ON THE PRECISE UM

2:57:20 ESTABLISHMENTS UH CURRENT

2:57:21 CURRENTLY.

2:57:21 YEAH.

2:57:22 BUT I DO KNOW IT'S IT'S REALLY

2:57:24 A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT OF THE

2:57:26 UM THE SENATE BILL THAT IS

2:57:29 PENDING AT THE MOMENT.

2:57:31 AND IS IT SOMETHING THAT THIS

2:57:34 BODY WITH THIS RESOLUTION IS

2:57:36 SAYING THAT WE ARE IN SUPPORT

2:57:37 OF ALL OF OUR LIQUOR LICENSES

2:57:39 WITHOUT NEIGHBORHOOD INPUT OR

2:57:42 BUSINESS INPUT OR POLICE AND

2:57:44 PUBLIC SAFETY INPUT HAVING A

2:57:46 SAY IS THAT TIED TO DO.

2:57:48 YOU KNOW.

2:57:50 TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN MOUTH

2:57:51 BUT WONDERING IF THAT IS I.

2:57:53 THINK THE THE PARAMETERS OF THE

2:57:54 SUMMER PROGRAM ARE ESTABLISHED

2:57:56 SO I THINK IT WOULD BE

2:57:57 CONTINUING WHATEVER AND IT'S

2:57:58 NOT A IT'S ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY

2:58:01 SO YOU KNOW IT DOESN'T FORCE

2:58:02 BUSINESSES TO STAY OPEN TO

2:58:03 THREE BUT IF IF THERE'S EVEN

2:58:06 NOT EVEN EVERY DAY LIKE MIGHT

2:58:08 BE JUST ONE ONE NIGHT A WEEK OR

2:58:09 WHATEVER BUT YEAH.

2:58:11 THANK YOU SO I ALSO WOULD WILL

2:58:13 NOT BE BLOCKING THIS AS A VOTE

2:58:18 I THINK A VOTE IS A GOOD IDEA

2:58:19 TODAY BUT I WILL BE FILING JUST

2:58:21 IT AS A HEARING ORDER ALSO JUST

2:58:23 TO GET ANSWERS ESPECIALLY THIS

2:58:24 PILOT THEN BECOMES A PERMANENT

2:58:26 THING.

2:58:26 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:58:28 HAVE THAT INFORMATION BUT

2:58:28 THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN.

2:58:29 DO DOWN THE ROAD.

2:58:30 THANK YOU.

2:58:31 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:58:32 BEFORE WE PROCEED, MAY I YES UM

2:58:34 I AMENDED TO I WOULD LIKE TO

2:58:36 SUSPEND THE RULES AND THAT

2:58:37 COMES FROM LOUISIANA'S UH,

2:58:39 THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

2:58:41 .

2:58:41 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IS

2:58:42 ACTIVE AT IT AS A THIRD

2:58:44 CO-SPONSOR.

2:58:45 UH.

2:58:46 THANK YOU.

2:58:47 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:58:51 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:58:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:58:53 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR

2:58:54 CULPEPER.

2:58:55 UM, I AM IN SUPPORT OF THIS.

2:58:57 I, UH WAS ABLE TO GO TO TEMPLE

2:58:59 PLACE, WHICH IS WHERE ONE

2:59:00 OF THE UH, PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

2:59:01 SITES IS ON UM, DOWNTOWN THAT

2:59:04 THE DOWNTOWN BOSTON ALLIANCE IS

2:59:06 RUNNING.

2:59:06 UM, AND I JUST SAW THE VITALITY

2:59:09 THAT IT'S BRINGING TO BOTH THE

2:59:10 COMMON AND THE WHOLE AREA AND I

2:59:13 WAS REALLY, REALLY GRATEFUL, UH

2:59:14 ,FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP AND MIKE

2:59:16 NICHOLS LEADERSHIP.

2:59:17 HE WAS MY CONSTITUENT UNTIL

2:59:18 ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO.

2:59:20 SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF HIM AND

2:59:21 THE WORK THAT THE DOWNTOWN

2:59:22 BOSTON ALLIANCE IS DOING TO

2:59:24 REVITALIZE THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

2:59:26 UM, GENERALLY I AM IN SUPPORT

2:59:28 OF THE CITY OF BOSTON HAVING

2:59:30 MORE POWER WHEN IT COMES TO

2:59:31 LICENSING AND THEN GIVING US

2:59:33 THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN IN

2:59:34 OUR INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS.

2:59:36 UM, SO I AM EXCITED UM, TO

2:59:40 SUPPORT THIS.

2:59:40 UM, AGAIN, THERE ARE A NUMBER

2:59:42 OF AREAS THAT I DO NOT THINK A

2:59:44 3 A.M. WOULD WORK IN DISTRICT

2:59:45 EIGHT.

2:59:46 UM, BUT HAVING THE ABILITY FOR

2:59:48 THE CITY OF BOSTON TO HAVE

2:59:50 THOSE CONVERSATIONS AT THE

2:59:52 LICENSING UM SIDE OF THINGS

2:59:54 WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT.

2:59:55 SO I'M BOTH IN SUPPORT OF THIS

2:59:56 AND THE OTHER BILL AT THE STATE

2:59:58 HOUSE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT

3:00:00 GIVEN THE STATE OF GIVING THE

3:00:01 CITY OF BOSTON MORE OPTIONALITY

3:00:04 WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT WORKS FOR

3:00:05 OUR BUSINESSES IN OUR

3:00:06 NEIGHBORHOODS IS HELPFUL.

3:00:08 AND SO UM, SO GRATEFUL.

3:00:09 COUNCILOR BREADON, I KNOW YOU

3:00:11 HAVE UH, THE YOUNGEST DISTRICT

3:00:13 AROUND.

3:00:14 UM AND SO I KNOW THAT A LOT

3:00:15 OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE

3:00:16 BENEFITING THIS, UH, FROM THIS

3:00:18 AS WELL AS MINE.

3:00:19 UM, BUT IT'S BEEN REALLY

3:00:20 EXCITING TO SEE THE VITALITY

3:00:22 THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT FROM THE

3:00:23 WORLD CUP AND, UH, I REALLY

3:00:25 WOULD SAY BOSTON COMING.

3:00:27 UM, IT'S EXCITING TO SEE WHAT,

3:00:30 UH, WHAT THE CITY OF BOSTON CAN

3:00:32 DO TO CONTINUE THAT FOR LOCAL

3:00:33 BUSINESSES.

3:00:33 UH, FOR ME, SUPPORTING LOCAL

3:00:36 BUSINESSES IS THE CORNERSTONE

3:00:37 OF WHAT I TRY TO DO AS A CITY

3:00:39 COUNCILOR BECAUSE WE WE HAVE

3:00:41 VERY FEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SAY

3:00:43 UM, TO TO REALLY TO REALLY HELP

3:00:45 OUR BUSINESSES.

3:00:45 AND SO WHILE A LOT OF PEOPLE

3:00:47 CHOSE NOT TO GO FOR THE 3 A.M.

3:00:49 UM, I'LL JUST BE VERY CLEAR

3:00:50 THAT UM, THIS IS A ONE HOUR UM,

3:00:52 EXTENSION OF YOUR LICENSE.

3:00:54 SO IF YOU ARE 12 YOU CAN GO TO

3:00:56 ONE.

3:00:57 IF YOU'RE A ONE YOU CAN GO TO

3:00:58 TWO AND IF YOU'RE A TWO YOU CAN

3:00:59 GO TO THREE.

3:01:00 UM SO I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL TO

3:01:01 CLARIFY THANK YOU CHAIR.

3:01:02 THANK YOU.

3:01:03 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:01:05 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:01:06 I JUST HAVEN'T TURNED THE LIGHT

3:01:07 OFF FROM EARLIER.

3:01:08 YOU NEVER TURN THE LIGHT

3:01:09 OFF.

3:01:10 NO THANK YOU.

3:01:11 ALWAYS READY.

3:01:14 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:01:15 NAME?

3:01:20 COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:01:22 COUNCILOR SANTANA,

3:01:23 COUNCILOR WEBER,

3:01:26 COUNCILOR DURKAN AND

3:01:27 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:01:28 THANK YOU.

3:01:31 COUNCILOR BREEDEN SIX

3:01:32 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

3:01:34 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1344.

3:01:37 ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I.

3:01:40 MADAM CLERK.

3:01:41 PLEASE COUNT THE VOTE.

3:01:43 ROLL CALL VOTE ON 1344

3:01:46 COUNCILOR BRIGHTON.

3:01:46 YES.

3:01:48 CONCENTRATE ON YES.

3:01:49 COUNCILOR.

3:01:50 CLEANSER POWDER

3:01:51 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:01:52 PRESENT CONCEPT PROPER.

3:01:54 PRESENT.

3:01:56 COUNCILOR.

3:01:56 DURKAN.

3:01:57 COUNCILOR.

3:01:57 DOCTRINE.

3:01:58 YES.

3:01:58 COUNCIL.

3:01:59 FITZGERALD.

3:02:00 COUNCILOR.

3:02:01 FITZGERALD.

3:02:01 YES.

3:02:02 COUNCILOR.

3:02:02 FLYNN.

3:02:03 UH I JUST I DON'T KNOW HOW

3:02:05 SOLUTION COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES.

3:02:08 COUNCIL.

3:02:08 MY HAIR.

3:02:09 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:02:10 IT'S A MURPHY NO.

3:02:12 CONCEPT.

3:02:12 PAPA.

3:02:14 I.

3:02:14 SUPPORT PEN.

3:02:15 YES, COUNCIL.

3:02:16 SANTANA COUNCIL.

3:02:18 SANTANA.

3:02:19 YES.

3:02:19 COUNCIL.

3:02:20 WEBER.

3:02:20 YES.

3:02:21 COUNCIL WEBSITE.

3:02:22 YES.

3:02:22 COUNCIL.

3:02:23 ARROYO.

3:02:24 YEAH I'M SO AROUND.

3:02:28 YES 12345678.

3:02:30 VOTE YES ONE PRESENT AND TWO

3:02:33 NO.

3:02:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:02:36 MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

3:02:37 READ DOCKET NUMBER 1345?

3:02:43 DOCKET 1345.

3:02:46 COUNCIL BRIGHTON OFFER THE

3:02:47 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

3:02:49 OF FAIR CONTRACT FOR MAPP

3:02:51 COMMUNITY SERVICES GROUP CALL

3:02:54 DIRECT SUPPORT STAFF.

3:02:56 THANK YOU.

3:02:57 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:02:58 COUNCILOR BREADON

3:02:59 COUNCILOR BREADON YOU HAVE THE

3:03:00 FLOOR.

3:03:01 THANK YOU.

3:03:02 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

3:03:04 UM I RISE TODAY IN SUPPORT

3:03:05 OF THIS RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A

3:03:07 FAIR CONTRACT FOR THE DIRECT

3:03:08 PROFESSIONAL UH AND ASSISTANT

3:03:11 RESIDENTIAL COORDINATORS AT MAB

3:03:13 AND MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR

3:03:16 MORE THAN 100 YEARS, MAB UH

3:03:17 COMMUNITY SERVICES EMPOWERED

3:03:19 INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

3:03:21 BY PROVIDING PROGRAMS THAT

3:03:22 PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE, DIGNITY

3:03:23 AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION

3:03:26 THROUGHOUT BOSTON AND THE

3:03:27 COMMONWEALTH.

3:03:27 THE STAFF AT MAB PERFORM

3:03:29 ESSENTIAL WORK EVERY DAY AND

3:03:31 HELP INDIVIDUALS LIVE AS

3:03:33 INDEPENDENTLY AS POSSIBLE.

3:03:34 THESE ARE DEMANDING

3:03:36 RESPONSIBILITIES THAT REQUIRE

3:03:37 PATIENCE, COMPASSION,

3:03:39 PROFESSIONALISM AND DEDICATION

3:03:40 .

3:03:40 YET MANY OF THESE WORKERS

3:03:42 REMAIN UNDERPAID WITH FEW

3:03:43 BENEFITS.

3:03:44 AFTER CHOOSING TO UNIONIZE WITH

3:03:47 SEIU 509 THESE EMPLOYEES HAVE

3:03:50 BEEN WORKING TOWARDS A FIRST

3:03:52 CONTRACT THAT PROVIDES FAIR

3:03:54 WAGES, REASONABLE BENEFITS AND

3:03:56 WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS AND

3:03:58 RESPECT ON THE JOB.

3:04:00 SUPPORTING WORKERS TO PROVIDE

3:04:01 WHO PROVIDE THIS LEVEL OF CARE

3:04:03 IS SUPPORTING THE INDIVIDUALS

3:04:05 AND FAMILIES WHO RELY ON THEM

3:04:07 EVERY SINGLE DAY.

3:04:08 A FAIR CONTRACT WILL HELP

3:04:10 IMPROVE EMPLOYEE RETENTION,

3:04:12 STRENGTHEN THE WORKFORCE AND

3:04:14 ENSURE CONTINUITY OF CARE FOR

3:04:16 SOME OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S MOST

3:04:17 VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.

3:04:19 BECAUSE THIS PROGRAM IS LARGELY

3:04:21 PUBLICLY FUNDED, NEGOTIATIONS

3:04:23 MUST CONTINUE IN GOOD FAITH AND

3:04:25 MOVE TOWARD A FAIR AGREEMENT

3:04:27 THAT RECOGNIZES THE VALUE

3:04:29 OF THESE ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND

3:04:30 THIS RESOLUTION CALLS FOR THAT.

3:04:32 AND I RESPECTFULLY ASK MY

3:04:34 COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT, SUPPORT

3:04:36 ME AND AND AND JOIN ME IN

3:04:38 SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION.

3:04:39 THANK YOU.

3:04:39 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:04:40 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:04:42 NAME?

3:04:44 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:04:45 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:04:46 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:04:48 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

3:04:50 MURPHY.

3:04:50 COUNCILOR.

3:04:51 HAPPEN.

3:04:51 COUNCIL.

3:04:52 SANTANA.

3:04:52 COUNCILOR.

3:04:53 WEBER COUNCILOR MURPHY AND

3:04:55 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

3:04:59 COUNCIL WILL WHERE I CAN'T

3:05:01 FORGET TO COUNCILOR BREADON SIX

3:05:05 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

3:05:06 ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 1345

3:05:09 .

3:05:09 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:05:11 AYE AYE.

3:05:12 THOSE OPPOSED NAY NAY.

3:05:15 MADAM CLERK PLEASE COME TO

3:05:17 VOTE.

3:05:19 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1345.

3:05:22 COUNCILOR BREDON.

3:05:24 COUNCIL.

3:05:24 BREDON.

3:05:25 YES.

3:05:25 COUNCIL.

3:05:25 COLITIS ABOUT COUNCIL.

3:05:27 CULPEPER.

3:05:27 YES.

3:05:28 OF COURSE.

3:05:29 YES.

3:05:29 COUNCILOR.

3:05:30 DURKAN.

3:05:31 YES.

3:05:32 COUNCIL.

3:05:32 FITZGERALD.

3:05:33 YES, I'M A FITZGERALD.

3:05:35 YES.

3:05:35 COUNCIL.

3:05:35 FLYNN AND JOSLYN.

3:05:37 YES.

3:05:38 COUNCIL.

3:05:38 LOUIJEUNE.

3:05:39 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:05:40 YES.

3:05:40 COUNCILOR.

3:05:41 MEJIA.

3:05:43 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:05:43 WHAT YOU MUST.

3:05:44 YES.

3:05:44 BAN.

3:05:47 YES.

3:05:48 COUNCILOR.

3:05:48 SANTANA.

3:05:49 COUNCILOR.

3:05:50 SANTANA.

3:05:50 YES.

3:05:50 COUNCIL.

3:05:51 WEBER.

3:05:51 COUNCIL.

3:05:52 WEBER.

3:05:53 YES, YES I'M SO WE'RE AROUND.

3:05:55 YES.

3:05:56 11 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:05:57 THANK YOU.

3:05:58 DOCKET 1345 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:06:16 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:06:21 UH, MR MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

3:06:23 PLEASE READ DOCKET 13461346.

3:06:28 COUNCILORS MURPHY AND FLYNN ALL

3:06:29 FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:06:31 CALLING FOR IMMEDIATE BRIEF AND

3:06:33 ON BUS TO SUMMER SAFETY PLAN

3:06:35 AND A COLLABORATIVE PREVIEW TO

3:06:37 STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SAFETY.

3:06:39 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:06:40 COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILMEMBER

3:06:41 FOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:06:42 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT

3:06:46 PROTECTING THE SAFETY OF BOSTON

3:06:48 RESIDENTS, THE VISITORS

3:06:50 BUSINESSES ALL OF OUR

3:06:51 NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE FIRST

3:06:52 RESPONDERS IS THE MOST

3:06:54 FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

3:06:55 OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

3:06:57 AS WE ALL KNOW, BOSTON HAS

3:06:59 EXPERIENCED REPEATED INCIDENTS

3:07:01 OF VIOLENT CRIME THROUGHOUT

3:07:02 THIS CURRENT YEAR INCLUDING

3:07:05 SHOOTINGS, ASSAULTS ON BOSTON

3:07:07 POLICE OFFICERS AND OTHER

3:07:10 SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY

3:07:11 INCIDENCES THAT HAVE HEIGHTENED

3:07:12 CONCERN AMONG RESIDENTS ACROSS

3:07:14 THE CITY NOT JUST RESIDENTS BUT

3:07:16 ALL OF US.

3:07:17 I BELIEVE OVER THE 4TH OF JULY

3:07:19 HOLIDAY WEEKEND, MULTIPLE

3:07:20 SHOOTINGS OCCURRED ACROSS THE

3:07:22 CITY OF BOSTON RESULTING IN 13

3:07:25 INDIVIDUALS BEING SHOT AND TWO

3:07:26 PEOPLE BEING KILLED WHILE

3:07:29 OFFICERS ALSO FACED DANGEROUS

3:07:31 CONDITIONS INCLUDING FIREWORKS

3:07:32 BEING THROWN AND SHOT AT THEM

3:07:35 DURING PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONSES.

3:07:38 THESE INCIDENTS ARE NOT

3:07:40 ISOLATED BUT PART OF A LARGER

3:07:41 AND DEEPLY CONCERNING PATTERN

3:07:43 THAT DEMANDS A CLEAR,

3:07:45 COORDINATED AND ACCOUNTABLE

3:07:46 RESPONSE FROM CITY LEADERSHIP.

3:07:49 EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SAFETY

3:07:50 REQUIRES.

3:07:51 PREVENTION, INTERVENTION

3:07:53 ENFORCEMENT, COMMUNITY

3:07:54 PARTNERSHIP, ADEQUATE STAFFING

3:07:56 OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT

3:07:58 AND CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR

3:07:59 BOSTON FIRE, BOSTON EMS AND

3:08:02 VIOLENCE PREVENTION

3:08:03 ORGANIZATIONS.

3:08:04 THE CITY COUNCIL HAS BOTH THE

3:08:06 LEGISLATIVE AND OVERSIGHT

3:08:09 RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT

3:08:10 THE CITY'S PUBLIC SAFETY

3:08:12 STRATEGIES ARE TRANSPARENT,

3:08:14 ACCOUNTABLE, RESPONSIVE TO

3:08:16 CHANGING CONDITIONS AND

3:08:18 REFLECTIVE OF THE NEEDS

3:08:19 OF RESIDENTS IN EVERY

3:08:20 NEIGHBORHOOD.

3:08:21 THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON WANT US TO

3:08:24 WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP EVERY

3:08:25 NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE, AND THEY

3:08:26 WANT TO SEE US THAT WE'RE

3:08:28 COMMITTED TO TAKING PROACTIVE

3:08:29 STEPS TO PREVENTING VIOLENCE

3:08:31 BEFORE TRAGEDY STRIKES THAT THE

3:08:34 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL SO THIS

3:08:37 RESOLUTION I'M FILING I THINK

3:08:39 UM, IT'S HARD ESPECIALLY IN OUR

3:08:41 LEADERSHIP ROLES WHEN.

3:08:42 WE'RE HEARING.

3:08:44 INFORMATION ON THE NEWS OR

3:08:45 WE'RE SEEING IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA

3:08:47 AND NOT GETTING THE INFORMATION

3:08:49 DIRECTLY TO US OFTENTIMES AND

3:08:51 IT MEANS WE'RE NOT GETTING THE

3:08:52 ACCURATE INFORMATION NEEDED TO

3:08:54 MAKE THE DECISIONS WE HAVE TO

3:08:56 ADVOCATE FOR.

3:08:57 SO I'M HOPING THAT THIS

3:08:58 RESOLUTION SENDS A MESSAGE THAT

3:09:00 WE ARE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER.

3:09:02 WE I WANT TO SEE AND

3:09:04 COUNCILOR FLYNN, WE TALKED

3:09:05 ABOUT THIS WHEN WE WERE GETTING

3:09:07 CALLS AND SEEING THE VIOLENCE

3:09:08 HAPPENING OVER THE LAST WEEKEND

3:09:09 THAT WE GET A BRIEFING, WE GET

3:09:11 THE INFORMATION WE NEED AND

3:09:13 WITH THAT INFORMATION WHICH

3:09:14 THAT KNOWLEDGE IS POWER TO MAKE

3:09:16 THE RIGHT DECISIONS TO NOT BE

3:09:19 REACTIVE BUT TO HAVE THE TOOLS

3:09:21 WE NEED TO HELP MAKE THE

3:09:22 DECISIONS NEEDED GOING FORWARD.

3:09:24 SO I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

3:09:26 THAT WE RECONVENE AND REALLY

3:09:29 SEE IF THE SUMMER SAFETY PLAN

3:09:31 THAT I GUESS IS IN PLACE.

3:09:33 I KNOW I'VE NEVER RECEIVED A

3:09:34 FORMAL COPY OF IT THAT WE SEE

3:09:35 WHAT IT IS AND WHAT NEEDS TO

3:09:37 CHANGE SO WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR

3:09:39 THOSE CHANGES.

3:09:40 THANK YOU.

3:09:41 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:09:42 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES FROM FLYNN

3:09:43 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:09:45 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:09:48 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR

3:09:49 ADDING ME.

3:09:52 IT'S CLEAR WE NEED A NEW

3:09:54 COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC SAFETY

3:09:56 PLAN.

3:09:57 STAFFING LEVELS ARE DANGEROUSLY

3:09:59 LOW.

3:10:01 SHIFTS ARE NOT FILLED IMPACTING

3:10:04 PUBLIC SAFETY IN EVERY

3:10:05 NEIGHBORHOOD.

3:10:08 WE HAVE ALSO WITNESSED FREQUENT

3:10:10 ASSAULTS AGAINST POLICE

3:10:12 OFFICERS.

3:10:15 WE HAVE HELD HEARINGS FOR YEARS

3:10:19 ON MANY OF THESE ISSUES BUT

3:10:21 ESPECIALLY THE LOW NUMBER

3:10:22 OF POLICE OFFICERS WE HAVE.

3:10:25 WE KNOW POLICE OFFICERS ARE

3:10:26 FREQUENTLY WORKING 16 HOURS A

3:10:29 DAY MANDATORY OVERTIME.

3:10:34 WE ALSO KNOW MORALE IS LOW ON

3:10:36 THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.

3:10:39 POLICE OFFICERS KNOW THEY'RE

3:10:40 NOT SUPPORTED OR APPRECIATED

3:10:44 HERE AT CITY HALL.

3:10:48 WHEN YOU ARE WORKING A 15 HOUR

3:10:50 DAY SHIFT AND SOMETHING

3:10:53 TERRIBLE HAPPENS, WE'LL CITY

3:10:57 HALL SUPPORT THE POLICE OFFICER

3:10:59 THAT WAS FORCED TO WORK 15

3:11:01 STRAIGHT HOURS.

3:11:04 YOU'RE NOT ON TOP OF YOUR GAME

3:11:07 AFTER WORKING 1516 STRAIGHT

3:11:09 HOURS AND THEN BEING INTENSE

3:11:12 SITUATIONS THROUGHOUT MANY

3:11:13 NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE CITY.

3:11:16 I THINK HAVING A PUBLIC SAFETY

3:11:20 MEETING DISCUSSION BRIEFING

3:11:23 SUMMIT I DO THINK CITY

3:11:25 COUNCILORS WANT TO BE PART

3:11:27 OF THE STRATEGY AND BE ENGAGED

3:11:30 AND OFFER THEIR OPINION, BUT I

3:11:31 ALSO THINK THE PUBLIC WANTS TO

3:11:34 BE HEARD AS WELL.

3:11:35 WE HAVE TO RESPECT OUR POLICE

3:11:38 OFFICERS.

3:11:38 WE HAVE TO RESPECT THE PEOPLE

3:11:39 IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT WE'RE

3:11:42 NOT PROVIDING THE LEVEL

3:11:44 OF POLICE OFFICERS THAT ARE

3:11:45 NEEDED ACROSS THE CITY

3:11:47 OF BOSTON.

3:11:47 PUBLIC SAFETY IS NEGATIVELY

3:11:50 IMPACTED BECAUSE OF THAT.

3:11:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:11:52 THANK YOU.

3:11:53 COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

3:11:54 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN

3:11:55 COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:11:57 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:11:58 UM, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY, UM,

3:12:00 TO SOME OF COUNCILOR FLYNN'S

3:12:02 REMARKS.

3:12:03 I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THE POLICE

3:12:05 DEPARTMENT.

3:12:05 MY SISTER, UM, SERVED AND HER

3:12:07 LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT.

3:12:08 UH, MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A POLICE

3:12:10 OFFICER.

3:12:10 UM, I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO

3:12:13 HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS GO OUT FOR

3:12:15 WORK AND NOT KNOW WHAT'S GOING

3:12:17 TO HAPPEN TO THEM.

3:12:18 SO I JUST I JUST WANT TO SAY ON

3:12:20 BEHALF OF MY OFFICE WE CARE

3:12:21 DEEPLY ABOUT WHAT OUR PUBLIC

3:12:23 SAFETY PROFESSIONALS ARE GOING

3:12:24 THROUGH EVERY SINGLE DAY.

3:12:25 UM, AND I KNOW THAT

3:12:27 COUNCILOR FLYNN ALSO CALLS

3:12:28 ALONG THE CITY COUNCIL TO DO A

3:12:29 RIDE ALONG.

3:12:30 I'VE DONE TWO SINCE I'VE BEEN

3:12:31 IN OFFICE AND EXCITED TO JOIN

3:12:33 FOR ANOTHER UM I THINK IT'S

3:12:36 REALLY IMPORTANT UM, TODAY THAT

3:12:38 UH I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT UH,

3:12:41 BRIEFING ON BOSTON SUMMER

3:12:42 SAFETY PLAN.

3:12:43 I DID NOTICE THAT THERE IS A

3:12:45 LATE FILE MATTER FROM

3:12:47 COUNCILOR CULPEPER WHICH I HAVE

3:12:48 DECIDED I AM NOT GOING TO

3:12:50 OBJECT TO GIVEN THAT IT'S

3:12:51 REGARDING A IT'S REALLY

3:12:53 REGARDING A DOCKET UH, THAT IS

3:12:56 PROPERLY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

3:12:57 AND IT'S REGARDING THE SAME

3:12:58 SUBJECT.

3:12:59 SO I THINK HIS HEARING ORDER

3:13:00 GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS

3:13:02 SAFETY SUMMIT AND HEARING ORDER

3:13:04 TO HAPPEN.

3:13:05 AND SO I WILL NOT BE OBJECTING

3:13:06 TO THE SLATE FILE.

3:13:07 AND I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT OUR

3:13:09 PUBLIC SAFETY PROFESSIONALS AND

3:13:10 THE WORK THAT THEY GO THROUGH.

3:13:12 AND I KNOW THERE IS A UH,

3:13:14 DOCKET LATER IN THIS, UH, TO

3:13:17 SUPPORT OUR PUBLIC SAFETY

3:13:18 OFFICERS AND OUR BOSTON POLICE.

3:13:20 UM, IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT

3:13:23 THEY KNOW THAT THE CITY

3:13:24 COUNCIL DOES STAND WITH THEM

3:13:25 AND KNOWS THAT UM AND KNOWS THE

3:13:28 WORK THAT THEY GO THROUGH DAY

3:13:29 IN AND DAY OUT UH, TO SUPPORT

3:13:31 UH TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC.

3:13:33 UM, AND I, I WANT TO ALSO SHOUT

3:13:35 OUT OPERATION BRAIN FREEZE AND

3:13:37 THE BOSTON COMMON AND OUR A1

3:13:39 CAPTAIN CAPTAIN DRISCOLL UH,

3:13:41 WHO IS MAKING SURE THAT

3:13:42 COMMUNITY POLICING UM IS AT THE

3:13:44 IS AT THE YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE

3:13:45 AT THE TOP OF OUR GAME AND

3:13:46 COMMUNITY POLICING SO UH THANK

3:13:48 YOU, CHAIR AND THANK YOU TO THE

3:13:49 FILERS.

3:13:50 THANK YOU.

3:13:51 COUNCILOR DURKAN CHAIR

3:13:52 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:13:54 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:13:57 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:13:59 THE RECENT ACTS OF VIOLENCE

3:14:01 ACROSS OUR CITY, MOST OF WHICH

3:14:04 OCCURRED IN MY DISTRICT ARE

3:14:06 HEARTBREAKING AND EVERY

3:14:08 RESIDENT DESERVES TO FEEL SAFE

3:14:10 IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE

3:14:13 CANNOT AND WILL NOT NORMALIZE

3:14:15 WHAT HAS HAPPENED, WHAT HAS

3:14:17 HAPPENED.

3:14:18 I KNOW THIS FIRSTHAND.

3:14:20 I'VE WORKED DIRECTLY IN AN

3:14:21 EFFORT TO ADDRESS GANG RELATED

3:14:23 VIOLENCE, SO IT'S HEARTBREAKING

3:14:25 TO SEE VIOLENCE RESURFACE IN

3:14:27 COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE FOUGHT

3:14:29 HARD TO MOVE FORWARD.

3:14:30 THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT'S

3:14:33 2025 GUN TRAFFICKING REPORT

3:14:35 MADE THIS CLEAR THE HIGHEST

3:14:38 CONCENTRATION OF GUN

3:14:39 TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATIONS

3:14:41 REMAIN CLUSTERED IN DISTRICTS

3:14:43 B2 AND B3, PREDOMINANTLY

3:14:45 ROXBURY AND PARTS

3:14:47 OF DORCHESTER.

3:14:47 I SUPPORT DEVELOPING A SUMMER

3:14:50 SAFETY PLAN BUT AS WE DEVELOP

3:14:52 THIS PLAN WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE

3:14:55 WORK ALREADY BEING DONE DESPITE

3:14:57 LIMITED RESOURCES FOR DECADES

3:15:00 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE GREATEST

3:15:01 MINDS, TORCHLIGHT 11 ALONG WITH

3:15:05 LEADERS LIKE RANDY MUHAMMAD,

3:15:08 BISHOP DICKERSON, REVEREND WALL

3:15:11 ,CHIP GREENWICH HAVE BUILT

3:15:13 RELATIONSHIPS, TRUSTED

3:15:15 RELATIONSHIPS, MEDIATED

3:15:17 CONFLICTS, MENTORED YOUNG

3:15:19 PEOPLE AND INVESTED IN

3:15:20 NEIGHBORHOODS CARRYING A

3:15:22 DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE OF GUN

3:15:23 VIOLENCE.

3:15:24 THEIR WORK HAS SAVED LIVES, YET

3:15:27 IT TOO OFTEN GOES UNRECOGNIZED

3:15:29 AND UNDERFUNDED.

3:15:30 ELECTED OFFICIALS AND LAW

3:15:33 ENFORCEMENT HAVE A

3:15:34 RESPONSIBILITY TO DEVELOP A

3:15:36 STRATEGY THAT PROTECTS EVERY

3:15:38 NEIGHBORHOOD.

3:15:39 BUT WE DON'T NEED TO REINVENT

3:15:41 THE WHEEL TO GET THERE.

3:15:42 THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS

3:15:44 EARNING RESIDENTS TRUST AND

3:15:46 PRESENTING PREVENTING VIOLENCE

3:15:48 ON THE GROUND MUST HAVE A SEAT

3:15:50 AT THE TABLE FROM THE VERY

3:15:51 BEGINNING.

3:15:52 THEIR ROLE SHOULDN'T BE LIMITED

3:15:54 TO RECOMMENDATIONS AFTER A PLAN

3:15:55 IS WRITTEN IT SHOULD BE

3:15:57 REFLECTED IN THE PLAN ITSELF.

3:15:59 NOW IS THE TIME TO COME

3:16:01 TOGETHER AS ONE CITY.

3:16:03 INCORPORATE COMMUNITY

3:16:04 ORGANIZATIONS EXPERTISE INTO

3:16:06 THE CITY'S SUMMER SAFETY

3:16:07 STRATEGY AND ENSURE THEY NO

3:16:09 LONGER HAVE TO BEAR THE

3:16:11 RESPONSIBILITY OF PROTECTING,

3:16:13 SUPPORTING AND ENGAGING OUR

3:16:14 COMMUNITIES ALONE.

3:16:16 I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND

3:16:18 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING

3:16:19 ALONGSIDE MY

3:16:20 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, THE

3:16:21 ADMINISTRATION, LAW ENFORCEMENT

3:16:24 AND OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO

3:16:25 BUILD A SUMMER SAFETY PLAN THAT

3:16:28 REFLECTS BOTH THE EXPERIENCE

3:16:30 OF THOSE ON THE GROUND AND THE

3:16:32 URGENCY OF THIS MOMENT.

3:16:33 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:16:35 THANK YOU.

3:16:36 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER CHAIR

3:16:37 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:16:38 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:16:41 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:16:42 AND UM, I WANT TO THANK MY

3:16:44 COLLEAGUES FOR UM THEIR WORK

3:16:46 AND I ALSO JUST WANTED TO

3:16:47 EXPRESS SORT OF THE DEEP

3:16:48 SADNESS AS A RESULT OF WHAT

3:16:50 HAPPENED, UM, THIS PAST WEEKEND

3:16:52 IN OUR CITY AND THE DEEP SENSE

3:16:56 OF UNSAFE DO YOU SENSE OF, UH,

3:16:58 LOSS, UH, AND COMMUNITY

3:17:01 GRIEVING?

3:17:01 UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR

3:17:03 US TO ALWAYS BRING PEOPLE AND

3:17:04 STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER TO THINK

3:17:06 ABOUT WHAT WE CAN BE DOING

3:17:07 BETTER, HOW WE IMPROVE, UM, TO

3:17:09 GET TO NO VIOLENCE, NO NO GUN

3:17:12 VIOLENCE, NO UH, NO DOMESTIC

3:17:14 VIOLENCE, NO FORMS OF VIOLENCE

3:17:16 AT ALL IN OUR CITY.

3:17:17 AND SO UM I WELCOME THESE

3:17:19 CONVERSATIONS.

3:17:20 UM, I DO KNOW THAT THESE ARE

3:17:23 FOCUSING ON UM, SUMMER BUT I DO

3:17:26 WANT TO STATE THAT, UM.

3:17:30 THAT I YOU KNOW, I THINK

3:17:32 THERE'S SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WE

3:17:33 NEED TO DO FOR SUMMER AND SOME

3:17:34 OF THOSE CAN BE FOR ALSO LEND

3:17:37 TO YEAR ROUND SOLUTIONS.

3:17:38 SO I, I DO HAVE A HEARING ORDER

3:17:40 THAT I FILED EARLIER THIS YEAR

3:17:43 UM FOR UM A COLLABORATIVE

3:17:46 CITYWIDE STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY

3:17:47 SAFETY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION

3:17:48 AND THIS WAS REALLY FILED UM

3:17:52 UPON THE DISMANTLING OF PSAS

3:17:53 AND OUR STREET WORKER PROGRAM

3:17:54 THAT REALLY ALLOWED FOR DIRECT

3:17:56 UM, INTERVENTION.

3:17:58 I MEAN, I THINK IT'S WORTH

3:17:59 EXPLORING SORT OF THE THE THE

3:18:01 WHAT WORKED WHAT DIDN'T WORK

3:18:02 AND HOW THAT CAN BE RETOOLED.

3:18:04 SO, UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, I

3:18:05 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

3:18:07 YOU ON THE SUMMER PLAN AND

3:18:08 COMMUNITY STRATEGIES.

3:18:09 BUT I ALSO HOPE THAT WE CAN

3:18:10 HAVE THE LARGER CONVERSATION

3:18:12 ABOUT WHAT ARE THE

3:18:13 INTERVENTIONS AT WORK, WHAT

3:18:14 WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST THAT UH,

3:18:16 WE SHOULD LOOK AT AGAIN OR THAT

3:18:18 WE AND WE SHOULD TWEAK AND ALSO

3:18:20 HEAR SUGGESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY

3:18:21 SO HOPING THAT WE CAN HAVE A A

3:18:24 NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS AT ONCE

3:18:26 TO ADDRESS IT DURING THE SUMMER

3:18:27 AND YEAR ROUND.

3:18:29 THANK YOU.

3:18:30 THANK YOU

3:18:30 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:18:36 UH WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

3:18:37 THEIR NAME COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:18:40 COUNCILOR DURKAN,

3:18:41 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD UM

3:18:45 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

3:18:46 PEPEN.

3:18:47 COUNTRIES.

3:18:47 SANTANA COUNCILOR.

3:18:48 WEBER COUNCILOR.

3:18:49 WHALEN PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

3:18:52 COUNCILOR MURPHY AND FRANCISCO

3:18:53 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:18:54 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1346.

3:18:56 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

3:18:59 SAY NAY.

3:19:00 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:19:02 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:19:02 VOTE ON DOCKET 1346.

3:19:05 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1346.

3:19:07 COUNCILOR BRENNAN.

3:19:08 YES.

3:19:09 ONCE A BURDEN IS

3:19:10 COUNCILOR CLARISSE

3:19:12 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:19:12 YES.

3:19:13 CULPEPER.

3:19:13 YES.

3:19:14 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:19:15 ANSWER.

3:19:16 DURKAN.

3:19:16 YES.

3:19:17 COUNCILOR.

3:19:17 FITZGERALD.

3:19:18 YES.

3:19:19 COUNCIL.

3:19:19 FITZGERALD.

3:19:20 YES.

3:19:20 COUNCIL.

3:19:21 FLAME.

3:19:21 YES.

3:19:22 OFFLINE.

3:19:22 YES.

3:19:23 COUNCIL.

3:19:23 LOUIJEUNE.

3:19:24 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:19:25 YES.

3:19:26 I'M SOMEBODY HERE.

3:19:27 COUNCILOR MURPHY SOME MURPHY.

3:19:29 YES.

3:19:30 CONCEPT I'M COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:19:34 SANTANA.

3:19:35 YES.

3:19:35 COUNCIL WEBER.

3:19:37 UNSOLVABLE.

3:19:37 YES.

3:19:38 CONTROVERSIAL.

3:19:38 YES.

3:19:39 I'M TO WORRY ABOUT THE YES 11

3:19:41 VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:19:42 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:19:44 DOCKET 1346 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:19:47 UH, I UNDERSTAND THE DOCKET

3:19:50 1347 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.

3:19:53 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:19:57 UM.

3:19:59 AND MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

3:20:01 PLEASE READ DOCKET 13481348?

3:20:05 COUNCILOR FLYNN OR FOR THE

3:20:06 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION TO USE A

3:20:08 SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET TO RESTORE

3:20:10 FUNDING FOR BOSTON PUBLIC

3:20:12 SCHOOLS EMPLOYEES.

3:20:13 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:20:15 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:20:15 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:20:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:20:18 MAY I ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS

3:20:19 AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?

3:20:21 COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS ADDED AS A

3:20:22 SECOND THANK YOU.

3:20:24 I WAS OBVIOUSLY GOING TO ADD UM

3:20:26 COUNCILOR HERE.

3:20:27 UM BUT BUT I DO WANT TO

3:20:30 ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILMAN HE IS UM

3:20:32 LONGTIME ADVOCACY FOR FAMILIES

3:20:36 .

3:20:40 UM SO MY THIS RESOLUTION MADAM

3:20:42 CHAIR, IS A IS AN OPPORTUNITY

3:20:46 FOR US TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE

3:20:48 CITY COUNCIL GOT IT WRONG

3:20:51 BECAUSE THIS LIKELY GOING TO BE

3:20:56 500 POTENTIAL JOB LOSS.

3:20:58 UM, THIS YEAR OF TEACHERS,

3:21:03 OF PARAPROFESSIONALS, OF BUS

3:21:06 MONITORS THIS RESOLUTION WOULD

3:21:08 ENCOURAGE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO

3:21:10 DO A SUPPLEMENTAL TO LET THOSE

3:21:13 DEDICATED WORKERS MOST OF THEM

3:21:16 MOST OF THEM A WOMAN OF COLOR.

3:21:17 BUT LETTING.

3:21:18 THEM KNOW.

3:21:19 THAT THEY'RE.

3:21:19 IMPORTANT THEY'RE A PART

3:21:21 OF THE CITY.

3:21:22 THEY DO EXCEPTIONAL WORK

3:21:24 HELPING STUDENTS WITH

3:21:26 DISABILITIES.

3:21:29 IS IT RIGHT FOR US TO ADVOCATE

3:21:31 FOR THEM DURING THIS DURING

3:21:33 THIS PERIOD?

3:21:34 I THINK IT IS.

3:21:35 I THINK IT'S WORTH IT.

3:21:38 WE VISIT SCHOOLS ALL THE TIME.

3:21:41 WE SEE PARAPROFESSIONALS, WE

3:21:42 SEE BUS MONITORS, WE SEE

3:21:44 TEACHERS, WE SEE

3:21:47 PARAPROFESSIONALS TAKING

3:21:48 SPECIAL EDUCATION KIDS TO THE

3:21:50 BATHROOM, THE CLEANING THEM

3:21:53 AFTER THEY GO TO THE BATHROOM

3:21:56 WASHING THEIR HANDS, BRINGING

3:21:57 THEM BACK TO THE CLASSROOM,

3:22:00 MANAGING AND HELPING THE

3:22:02 TEACHER WITH WITH WITH AURA AND

3:22:05 WITH SOME WITH EDUCATIONAL

3:22:07 ASSISTANCE.

3:22:10 THROUGH A CRITICAL PART OF OUR

3:22:11 CITY THE CRITICAL PART OF OUR

3:22:15 EDUCATION THERE ARE UNSUNG

3:22:18 HEROES AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED

3:22:19 ALONG WITH THE CROSSING GUARDS

3:22:22 AS I MENTIONED EARLIER.

3:22:24 BUT IS THERE ROOM IN THIS CITY

3:22:27 FOR LOW WAGE WORKERS THAT DO AN

3:22:29 EXCEPTIONAL JOB?

3:22:30 NO ONE'S EVEN QUESTIONING THEIR

3:22:33 PROFESSIONALISM OR THEIR

3:22:35 DEDICATION.

3:22:37 THEN WHY ARE WE GIVING THEM A

3:22:39 PINK SLIP?

3:22:41 DO THEY DESERVE THE OPPORTUNITY

3:22:43 TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO DO THE

3:22:45 JOB THAT THEY LOVED THAT THEY

3:22:47 WERE TRAINED TO DO?

3:22:48 THEY'RE NOT MAKING A WHOLE LOT

3:22:50 OF MONEY, BUT THEIR SERVICE IS

3:22:53 INVALUABLE.

3:22:54 THEY'RE HELPING STUDENTS WITH

3:22:56 DISABILITIES.

3:22:56 THEY'RE SUPPORTING THEIR

3:22:57 FAMILIES, THEY'RE PAYING TAXES.

3:23:00 THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING

3:23:03 GOVERNMENT ASKED THEM TO DO AND

3:23:04 MORE.

3:23:06 AND WHAT DO WE SAY TO THEM

3:23:09 WE'RE SORRY THERE'S NO MORE

3:23:11 MONEY FOR YOU BUT THERE IS

3:23:14 MONEY.

3:23:16 IF WE VOTE FOR SUPPLEMENTAL

3:23:17 BUDGET WE CAN ENCOURAGE A CITY

3:23:21 CITY GOVERNMENT, THE MAYOR'S

3:23:22 OFFICE TO RECOGNIZE THESE

3:23:25 MOSTLY WOMEN OF COLOR, GIVE

3:23:26 THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET BACK

3:23:29 TO THE CLASSROOM SO THAT THEY

3:23:30 CAN PAY THEIR BILLS, EDUCATE

3:23:32 OUR CHILDREN.

3:23:33 THEY DESERVE DIGNITY.

3:23:35 THEY DESERVE RESPECT.

3:23:36 THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT RIGHT

3:23:38 NOW IN THE BOSTON CITY

3:23:40 COUNCIL VOTING FOR THE BUDGET,

3:23:44 WE BASICALLY CUT THEIR JOB.

3:23:46 IT WAS 400 JOBS NOW IT COULD BE

3:23:49 500 JOBS OF THE LEARNING IS

3:23:51 THAT RACIAL JUSTICE IS THAT

3:23:54 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE IS

3:23:56 THAT HELPING OUR TEACHERS?

3:23:58 IS THAT IT HELPING OUR STUDENTS

3:24:00 WITH DISABILITIES?

3:24:02 IS THAT A PROGRESSIVE VOTE?

3:24:05 IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LOW

3:24:07 WAGE WORKERS IN THIS CITY TO

3:24:10 CONTINUE TO DO THE JOB THAT

3:24:11 THEY LOVE TO HELP STUDENTS WITH

3:24:15 DISABILITIES?

3:24:16 I THINK THERE IS I THINK THAT

3:24:17 WORTH FIGHTING FOR AND I'M NOT

3:24:21 GOING TO GIVE UP ON THEM.

3:24:22 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:24:23 THANK YOU.

3:24:24 COUNCILOR FLYNN CHAIR

3:24:25 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY THE

3:24:26 FLOOR.

3:24:27 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:24:29 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR

3:24:31 ADDING ME AND CONTINUING TO

3:24:33 ADVOCATE WITH MYSELF.

3:24:34 AND YOU MENTIONED

3:24:35 CONCILOR MEJIA HERE AND

3:24:36 COLLEAGUES HERE.

3:24:38 IF THERE WAS EVER A RAINY DAY I

3:24:40 DO BELIEVE THIS IS IT.

3:24:42 UM, AND I THINK IT'S ALWAYS A

3:24:45 GOOD DAY TO FIGHT AND ADVOCATE

3:24:47 FOR OUR CITY WORKERS.

3:24:49 I KNOW I'VE STOOD UP EVERY TIME

3:24:52 OVER THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS

3:24:53 WHEN WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT

3:24:54 THE BUDGET AND WHEN THIS BODY

3:24:57 PASSED THE BUDGET WHICH WE KNEW

3:25:00 WAS GOING TO CUT JOBS THAT OUR

3:25:02 TEACHERS, OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS

3:25:04 ,THEY OUR CITY WORKERS EVEN

3:25:06 THOUGH IT'S A SEPARATE BUDGET

3:25:07 THEY ARE WORTH ADVOCATING JUST

3:25:09 LIKE WE CHANGED OUR AMENDMENT.

3:25:12 PAUL, WE WE REALLY ADVOCATED

3:25:14 AND MADE CHANGES TO MAKE SURE

3:25:16 THAT THE TRANSPORTATION DIDN'T

3:25:17 HAVE ANY CUT AT ALL EVEN THOUGH

3:25:20 IT WAS UNDERSPENT FOR YEARS AND

3:25:22 NOT ONE JOB WOULD HAVE BEEN

3:25:24 TOUCHED.

3:25:24 WE REALLY INTENTIONALLY WORKED

3:25:27 TO MAKE THAT PULL COME FROM

3:25:29 SOMEWHERE ELSE SO THERE WAS NO

3:25:31 EVEN APPEARANCE OF TAKING AWAY

3:25:34 ANYONE'S JOB HERE IN THE CITY

3:25:36 OF BOSTON.

3:25:36 BUT FOR SOME REASON AND I WILL

3:25:38 NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY WHEN IT

3:25:39 COMES TO OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS

3:25:41 WHICH MANY OF THESE OVER 500

3:25:44 POSITIONS ARE GOING TO BE IN

3:25:46 CLASSROOM TEACHERS, WE DON'T

3:25:47 SEEM TO HAVE THE SAME ADVOCACY

3:25:50 ,BUT I VOTED AGAINST THE

3:25:51 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL BUDGET

3:25:52 AGAIN THIS YEAR BECAUSE I COULD

3:25:54 NOT SUPPORT A PLAN THAT CUTS

3:25:57 HUNDREDS OF JOBS FROM OUR

3:25:58 SCHOOLS.

3:25:59 WE ARE NOW LEARNING THAT MORE

3:26:00 THAN.

3:26:01 560 POSITIONS WILL BE

3:26:03 ELIMINATED EVEN MORE THAN

3:26:04 ORIGINALLY PROJECTED.

3:26:06 THESE AREN'T JUST JOBS THEY ARE

3:26:08 OUR NEIGHBORS.

3:26:09 THEY ARE THE TEACHERS,

3:26:10 PARAPROFESSIONALS, COUNSELORS

3:26:11 IN SCHOOL STAFF WHO MAKE A

3:26:13 DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES

3:26:15 OF BOSTON CHILDREN EVERY SINGLE

3:26:16 DAY.

3:26:17 BOSTON HAS MORE THAN 500

3:26:19 MILLION IN AVAILABLE RESERVES.

3:26:21 IF THERE WAS EVER A RAINY DAY

3:26:23 THIS WOULD BE IT.

3:26:25 I BELIEVE PROTECTING THE PEOPLE

3:26:27 WHO EDUCATE, MENTOR AND SUPPORT

3:26:29 OUR STUDENTS IS EXACTLY WHAT

3:26:31 THOSE FUNDS SHOULD BE USED FOR

3:26:32 .

3:26:33 I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TO

3:26:35 SEND A MESSAGE THAT WE THE

3:26:37 COUNCIL AS A BODY IS SAYING TO

3:26:39 THE ADMINISTRATION SAYING TO

3:26:40 THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE SAYING TO

3:26:42 THE SUPERINTENDENT BUT MORE

3:26:44 IMPORTANTLY SAYING TO THE

3:26:46 EDUCATORS WHOSE LAST DAY WAS

3:26:48 OVER A WEEK AGO WHO WERE OUT

3:26:50 OF A JOB THAT WE'RE GOING TO

3:26:52 FIGHT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE

3:26:54 UP AND HOPEFULLY COME SEPTEMBER

3:26:55 THEY'RE BACK IN CLASSROOMS AND

3:26:58 ALSO WE'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR

3:26:59 STUDENTS BECAUSE EVERY TIME A

3:27:01 STAFF MEMBER IS ELIMINATED FROM

3:27:03 A SCHOOL IT'S A CHILD, IT'S A

3:27:05 FAMILY, IT'S A CLASSROOM THAT'S

3:27:07 NEGATIVELY AFFECTED.

3:27:08 THANK YOU.

3:27:09 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:27:10 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CULTURAL

3:27:11 CULPEPER COUNCILOR CULTURE.

3:27:13 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:27:16 THANK YOU.

3:27:17 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:27:18 JUST LIKE.

3:27:23 YOU HAVE.

3:27:23 THE FLOOR.

3:27:24 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:27:25 JUST LIKE COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

3:27:30 COUNCILOR MURPHY HAVE STOOD

3:27:31 OVER AND OVER TO VOICE THEIR.

3:27:39 DISSATISFACTION WITH THE

3:27:41 APPROVAL OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC

3:27:43 SCHOOL BUDGET.

3:27:45 I TWO STAND.

3:27:48 AND IT'S IT'S AMAZING HOW WITH

3:27:56 A $1.73 BILLION BUDGET WE FOUND

3:28:02 IT POSSIBLE TO FROM WHAT WE'VE

3:28:05 LEARNED THIS WEEK TO FIRE AND

3:28:09 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.

3:28:10 WE'RE ACTUALLY FIRING OVER 500

3:28:15 EMPLOYEES FROM THE BOSTON

3:28:16 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

3:28:17 AND HERE'S WHAT'S SAD ABOUT IT

3:28:21 NONE OF US WILL FEEL THE PAIN

3:28:23 THAT THOSE FAMILIES WILL FEEL.

3:28:26 NONE OF US WILL GO WITHOUT FOOD

3:28:30 IN THEIR REFRIGERATOR.

3:28:33 NONE OF US WILL STRUGGLE TO

3:28:34 FIND WAYS TO PAY THEIR RENT.

3:28:38 NONE OF US WILL STRUGGLE WHEN

3:28:40 SEPTEMBER COMES TO MAKE SURE

3:28:42 THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE SHOES ON

3:28:44 THEIR FEET.

3:28:45 BUT YET WE WERE ABLE TO APPROVE

3:28:49 THAT BUDGET KNOWING THAT THERE

3:28:52 WERE THOSE THAT WOULD BE FIRED.

3:28:57 I DO HOPE THAT THERE'S SOME WAY

3:29:00 THAT WE CAN FIND AND I

3:29:02 UNDERSTAND THAT THE BOSTON

3:29:02 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS

3:29:05 CONTINUING TO HIRE EMPLOYEES,

3:29:07 UH, RECEIVE THAT LETTER.

3:29:10 BUT I DO HOPE THERE'S SOME WAY

3:29:12 THAT WE CAN FIND SOME MECHANISM

3:29:16 WHETHER IT'S A SUPPLEMENTAL

3:29:18 BUDGET OR WHETHER IT'S FROM

3:29:19 THEIR STATE FAIR SHARE FUND

3:29:22 SOME WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:29:24 THESE FAMILIES HAVE FOOD ON THE

3:29:25 TABLE AND THAT THEIR RENT IS

3:29:27 PAID.

3:29:28 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:29:30 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

3:29:35 UM, WOULD ANYONE

3:29:38 COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE

3:29:39 FLOOR.

3:29:41 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:29:43 UH, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW

3:29:46 WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT.

3:29:47 USING SUPPLEMENTALS.

3:29:48 TO DO.

3:29:49 THINGS IN THE BUDGET FOR,

3:29:50 UM.

3:29:51 YOU KNOW, ONE TIME, UH,

3:29:52 EXPENSES I THINK AS THE FILERS

3:29:54 HAVE MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS, UH

3:29:58 ,HEARINGS THAT.

3:29:58 WE'RE NOT.

3:29:59 SURE ABOUT WHAT THE NUMBERS

3:30:01 ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE UNTIL

3:30:03 SEPTEMBER.

3:30:03 OCTOBER?

3:30:04 UH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A

3:30:05 BETTER.

3:30:06 TIME TO ADVOCATE.

3:30:07 FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL.

3:30:08 UH, I MEAN, I YOU KNOW, I'M I'M

3:30:09 FINE WITH LETTING.

3:30:10 THIS GO FORWARD AND.

3:30:12 AND SUPPORTING.

3:30:13 OUR TEACHERS.

3:30:14 UH.

3:30:14 BUT UNTIL WE ADDRESS, YOU

3:30:16 KNOW, THE THE.

3:30:17 THE SHARP DROP IN ENROLLMENT

3:30:18 IN.

3:30:19 OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

3:30:20 AND HOW WE'RE GOING.

3:30:21 TO DEAL WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING

3:30:23 TO BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION

3:30:24 FOR A LONG TIME.

3:30:24 THANK YOU.

3:30:26 COUNCILOR WEBER A

3:30:27 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

3:30:29 FLOOR.

3:30:29 THANK YOU.

3:30:30 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:30:31 THE THE TIMING OF THIS IS

3:30:33 IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT'S.

3:30:35 IT'S IT'S JULY AND FAMILIES

3:30:38 NEED TO THESE WORKERS NEED TO

3:30:41 BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT

3:30:44 THEY'RE NOT GOING BACK TO A JOB

3:30:48 IN SEPTEMBER.

3:30:50 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO A BACK TO

3:30:52 A JOB THAT THEY LOVE HELPING

3:30:55 KIDS, EDUCATING KIDS, STUDENTS

3:30:59 WITH DISABILITIES.

3:31:02 DON'T DO WE HAVE MONEY IN THE

3:31:05 BUDGET FOR THOSE PROGRAMS?

3:31:10 405 HUNDRED JOBS UNION JOBS,

3:31:14 UNION JOBS I HEAR A LOT OF CITY

3:31:18 COUNCIL IS TALKING ABOUT HOW

3:31:21 THEY SUPPORT WORKING MEN AND

3:31:23 WOMEN IN SUPPORT ORGANIZED

3:31:25 LABOR.

3:31:25 THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT

3:31:27 ISSUE THAN SUPPORTING THIS.

3:31:31 LOW LOW WAGE WORKERS THE

3:31:34 UNIONIZED THE WOMAN OF COLOR.

3:31:38 UH WE GOING TO TURN OUR BACK ON

3:31:40 THEM NOW IS THE TIME.

3:31:44 NOW IS THE TIME TO SAY YES WE

3:31:46 SUPPORT THEM.

3:31:47 THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOR US.

3:31:50 COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER MENTIONED

3:31:51 IT.

3:31:52 WHO ELSE IS GOING TO DO THAT

3:31:54 WORK?

3:31:56 THESE DEDICATED WORKERS ARE

3:31:58 DOING THE WORK.

3:31:59 THEY'RE DOING AN EXCEPTIONAL

3:32:01 JOB.

3:32:02 THEY'RE WORKING HARD.

3:32:04 THEY'RE COMPASSIONATE.

3:32:08 THEY TREAT THEIR STUDENTS WITH

3:32:10 RESPECT.

3:32:11 THEY PROVIDE SERVICES TO THEM.

3:32:14 I TALKED TO THE PARENTS.

3:32:15 THE PARENTS ARE THANKFUL FOR

3:32:18 OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS AFTER THE

3:32:19 DAY IS OVER BECAUSE.

3:32:21 THE PARAPROFESSIONAL AND THE

3:32:23 TEACHER HELP THE STUDENT THAT

3:32:25 MAKES THE PARENTS JOB EASIER.

3:32:29 WE HAVE TO BE A COMPASSIONATE

3:32:30 CITY.

3:32:32 THERE'S MONEY IN THE BUDGET.

3:32:34 THERE'S MONEY IN THE COFFERS

3:32:35 FOR WORKERS THAT DO THIS TYPE

3:32:38 OF WORK.

3:32:38 WE CAN'T TURN OUR BACKS ON THEM

3:32:40 DURING THIS TIME OF NEED.

3:32:42 NOW IS THE TIME FOR US TO STAND

3:32:45 WITH THEM.

3:32:46 WHY THEY'VE ALWAYS STOOD WITH

3:32:48 THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON.

3:32:49 THEY'VE ALWAYS STOOD WITH

3:32:51 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

3:32:53 THEY NEVER GAVE UP ON THEM.

3:32:55 THEY NEVER TURNED THEIR BACKS

3:32:56 ON THEM.

3:32:57 THEY MIGHT BE MAKING $35,000 A

3:33:00 YEAR.

3:33:02 IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR

3:33:03 THEM IN THE CITY OF BOSTON?

3:33:05 THAT'S THE QUESTION WE HAVE TO

3:33:07 ASK AND IF WE SAY YES THEN VOTE

3:33:09 FOR AND IF WE SAY NO THERE'S NO

3:33:11 PLACE FOR THEM THEN YOU VOTE NO

3:33:13 I GUESS THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:33:15 THANK YOU.

3:33:18 MR.

3:33:19 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, WOULD

3:33:22 YOU MIND TAKING THE PODIUM FOR

3:33:23 A FEW MINUTES?

3:33:46 THANK YOU FOR THE ADVOCACY,

3:33:48 MR CHAIR.

3:33:49 THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:33:53 COUNCILOR BREADON

3:33:54 COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE

3:33:55 FLOOR.

3:33:55 THANK YOU.

3:33:56 I REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS AN

3:33:58 INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT ISSUE AS

3:33:59 WE DISCUSS IT BACK AND FORWARD

3:34:00 .

3:34:01 I APPRECIATE COUNCILOR, FRIEND

3:34:03 AND CUSTOMER MURPHY'S

3:34:03 INCREDIBLE ADVOCACY FOR AND ALL

3:34:06 OF US REALLY APPRECIATE, UH,

3:34:08 THE INCREDIBLE VALUE IN THE

3:34:09 WORK OF OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS.

3:34:12 I I'VE TALKED TO THE CHAIR

3:34:14 OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, I'VE

3:34:15 TALKED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT,

3:34:16 I'VE TALKED TO FAMILIES AND UM

3:34:20 UH, RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT I

3:34:21 DON'T FEEL THAT WE'RE DEALING

3:34:23 WITH ACCURATE NUMBERS, ACCURATE

3:34:26 INFORMATION.

3:34:27 WE KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOL

3:34:29 POPULATION IS DROPPING BY 3000

3:34:31 STUDENTS.

3:34:32 UM, ENROLLMENT IS DROPPING AND

3:34:34 WE ARE CLOSING SCHOOLS.

3:34:36 UM AND IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN

3:34:38 ALSO THE INCREDIBLE PRESSURE

3:34:39 AND THE UNCERTAINTY ABOUT

3:34:41 FAMILIES BEING DISPLACED AND

3:34:43 CENTRO DE.

3:34:45 DEPORTED BASICALLY.

3:34:46 UH, WE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH

3:34:48 ,A YOUNG KID FROM UH ONE

3:34:50 OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HER

3:34:52 HER MOTHER, UM, VOLUNTARILY

3:34:54 RETURNED TO UH, HONDURAS UM AND

3:34:58 TOOK HER SCHOOL AGE, UH,

3:35:00 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGE US

3:35:03 CITIZEN WITH HER BACK TO

3:35:05 HONDURAS.

3:35:05 UH, IT'S A VERY VOLATILE AND

3:35:09 UNSTABLE SITUATION WITH REGARD

3:35:10 TO HER ENROLLMENT IN THE

3:35:12 SCHOOLS AT THE MOMENT, UH, I

3:35:13 HAVE BEEN ASSURED THAT FOLKS

3:35:15 THAT ARE PERMANENT UH,

3:35:18 PARAPROFESSIONALS ARE BEING

3:35:19 REHIRED AND REASSIGNED TO THE

3:35:21 SCHOOLS AND PLACES THAT THEY'RE

3:35:22 NEEDED.

3:35:23 AND I'VE ALSO HEARD THAT, YOU

3:35:24 KNOW, AS TEACHERS THAT ARE, UH

3:35:28 ,THEIR SCHOOLS CLOSED THAT

3:35:29 THEY HAVE BEEN REASSIGNED.

3:35:31 SO I THINK IT'S A WORK IN

3:35:32 PROGRESS.

3:35:33 AND RIGHT NOW I DON'T FEEL THAT

3:35:34 I CAN IN ALL HONESTY VOTE IN

3:35:37 SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION

3:35:38 BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL THAT I'M

3:35:39 WORKING WITH A FULL DATA SET.

3:35:42 I APPRECIATE THE ADVOCACY.

3:35:44 I ALSO APPRECIATE THE STRESS

3:35:46 AND THE TRAUMA OF UH,

3:35:48 PARAPROFESSIONALS GETTING A

3:35:49 PINK SLIP SAYING THAT THEY'RE

3:35:50 NOT NOT NOT GOING TO BE

3:35:52 REHIRED.

3:35:53 BUT I THINK THE IS IN THE

3:35:55 PROCESS OF REHIRING AS MANY

3:35:56 PEOPLE AS THEY CAN AT THIS

3:35:58 MOMENT.

3:35:59 SO UM, THIS IS A DIFFICULT ONE

3:36:01 FOR ME BUT I THINK I'M GOING TO

3:36:03 PROBABLY VOTE PRESENT ON THIS

3:36:04 BECAUSE I FEEL WE NEED MORE

3:36:06 INFORMATION BEFORE.

3:36:06 WE.

3:36:06 CAN MAKE.

3:36:07 THIS VOTE ON.

3:36:08 THIS RESOLUTION.

3:36:08 THANK YOU.

3:36:10 THANK YOU SIR.

3:36:14 COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR

3:36:15 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:36:16 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

3:36:18 FLOOR.

3:36:22 THANK YOU I WANTED OKAY, OKAY.

3:36:27 CANCER COUNCIL MURPHY, YOU HAVE

3:36:28 THE FLOOR.

3:36:28 THANK YOU.

3:36:29 CHAIR I JUST WANTED TO

3:36:31 FOLLOW UP AND I OFTEN FEEL LIKE

3:36:34 I'M A BROKEN RECORD.

3:36:35 BUT MANY OF THESE ISSUES I

3:36:37 STAND UP AND REITERATE THAT

3:36:39 THESE QUESTIONS THAT YOU'RE

3:36:41 RIGHT, COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:36:43 WE NEED THESE ANSWERS.

3:36:44 BUT THEY'RE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE

3:36:45 BEEN BEING ASKED TIME AND TIME

3:36:46 AGAIN NOT JUST WEEKS AGO MONTHS

3:36:49 AGO AND WE STILL WENT FORWARD

3:36:50 AND VOTING VOTED ON A BUDGET

3:36:52 WITH THESE QUESTIONS THAT WERE

3:36:54 ON THE RECORD EITHER IN 17 FORM

3:36:57 OR RFIS THAT REMAINED

3:36:59 UNANSWERED THAT THE DATA IS

3:37:01 THERE AND IT IS TRUE IF YOU'RE

3:37:03 A PERMANENT TEACHER AND IF YOUR

3:37:04 POSITION IS CUT YOU STILL DO

3:37:06 HAVE A JOB, YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE

3:37:08 A JOB.

3:37:08 THIS DISTRICT DOES HAVE TO FIND

3:37:10 SOMEPLACE FOR YOU.

3:37:11 IT'S NOT.

3:37:12 WHERE YOU WERE AND THAT'S HARD

3:37:13 BUT YOU WILL HAVE A JOB.

3:37:15 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OVER 500

3:37:16 POSITIONS OF PEOPLE WHO AREN'T

3:37:18 GUARANTEED JOBS IN JUST A FEW

3:37:21 MONTHS.

3:37:22 A FEW WEEKS AGO WE HAD COLLEEN

3:37:24 WHO WAS THE REPRESENTATIVE

3:37:25 OF THE UNION OF OUR

3:37:27 PARAPROFESSIONALS COME IN AND

3:37:30 ENCOURAGED US TO VOTE DOWN THIS

3:37:31 BUDGET KNOWING THAT MANY

3:37:32 OF THOSE PARAPROFESSIONALS THAT

3:37:34 SHE SUPPORTS EVERY DAY WE'RE

3:37:36 GOING TO LOSE THEIR JOBS.

3:37:38 SO THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND

3:37:41 THE CITY OF BOSTON WE DESERVE

3:37:43 THESE ANSWERS JUST LIKE WE

3:37:45 DESERVE ANSWERS ABOUT PUBLIC

3:37:46 SAFETY IN SUMMER SAFETY PLAN.

3:37:48 WE DO DESERVE THESE ANSWERS.

3:37:49 BUT THIS RESOLUTION I MEAN

3:37:52 OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE CAN VOTE ANY

3:37:53 WAY THEY WANT BUT THE REASON

3:37:54 WHY I PUT IT FORWARD AND THE

3:37:56 REASON WHY I'M VOTING IN FAVOR

3:37:58 OF IT IS BECAUSE WHEN WE

3:37:59 ADVOCATE FOR ALL OF THE OTHER

3:38:01 CITY JOBS WHICH I DO AND WILL

3:38:03 CONTINUE TO DO OUR MANY OF US

3:38:05 THIS MORNING AT 530 THIS

3:38:07 MORNING I WAS IN FRONT

3:38:08 OF BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

3:38:09 ADVOCATING FOR THE NURSES WHO

3:38:10 HAVE JUST BEEN LOCKED OUT FOR

3:38:12 THE NEXT FIVE DAYS.

3:38:13 SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

3:38:16 SUPPORT OUR LOWEST PAID AND IN

3:38:18 MANY CASES I KNOW

3:38:20 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

3:38:21 COUNCIL CULPEPPER ELOQUENTLY

3:38:22 STAND UP AND SAY IT IS THAT,

3:38:25 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE WORKING WITH

3:38:25 OUR MOST VULNERABLE STUDENTS

3:38:27 AND IN A DISTRICT WHERE WE'RE

3:38:28 FORCING IN MANY WAYS NOT

3:38:32 EFFECTIVELY INCLUSION ACROSS

3:38:33 THE ENTIRE DISTRICT AND WE'RE

3:38:34 TAKING AWAY THE SUPPORTS NEEDED

3:38:36 THAT IT'S JUST UNFAIR.

3:38:38 SO I HOPE THAT MANY.

3:38:40 OF OUR.

3:38:40 COLLEAGUES WILL VOTE IN

3:38:41 SUPPORT.

3:38:41 THANK YOU.

3:38:42 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:38:45 WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

3:38:47 THEIR NAME?

3:38:51 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

3:38:52 COUNCILOR UH, FITZGERALD.

3:38:57 UM COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:38:59 COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:39:00 COUNCIL WORRELL THANK YOU.

3:39:04 COUNCILOR FLYNN AND MURPHY SIX

3:39:05 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:39:06 ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1348.

3:39:08 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:39:10 ALL OPPOSED.

3:39:11 SAY NAY.

3:39:13 AND MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

3:39:14 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:39:15 VOTE ON 134.

3:39:17 IT DOES.

3:39:17 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1348

3:39:20 COUNCIL BE BRITTANY.

3:39:22 PRESENT ON SEPARATE AND PRESENT

3:39:24 COMES A LOT OF SEPARATE

3:39:26 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:39:28 YES I'M SCOTT BECKER YES

3:39:31 COUNCILOR DURKAN CONCEPT OKAY

3:39:34 NO COUNCIL FITZGERALD YES IT'S

3:39:37 A FITZGERALD YES

3:39:37 COUNCILOR FLYNN YES I'M JUST

3:39:39 LEARNING AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

3:39:41 ONCE A LOUIJEUNE PRESENT

3:39:43 COUNCIL.

3:39:43 MAYOR.

3:39:44 COUNCIL.

3:39:44 MURPHY.

3:39:46 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:39:47 YES.

3:39:48 COUNCIL.

3:39:48 UH PAT BROWN.

3:39:51 UM.

3:39:51 I'M SO PREPARED.

3:39:52 NO ANSWER.

3:39:53 SO DONNA.

3:39:55 UM AND COUNCIL SANTANA NO

3:39:57 COUNCIL WEBER.

3:39:58 YES WHATSOEVER.

3:39:59 YES.

3:40:01 COUNCIL RULE YES.

3:40:02 COUNCIL ALLOWED YES TO FIVE SIX

3:40:07 YES ONE PRESENT AND THREE NO

3:40:11 TWO PRESENT.

3:40:13 SO LET ME GO OVER IT AGAIN

3:40:19 6123456 YES TWO PRESENT AND

3:40:22 THREE NO DON'T.

3:40:25 THANK YOU DOCKET 1348 IT'S BEEN

3:40:28 ADOPTED.

3:40:30 I DON'T.

3:40:30 NEED SEVEN.

3:40:31 WANTS TO BECOME.

3:40:33 MAJORITY OF THEM OKAY THANK YOU

3:40:35 .

3:40:37 DOCKET DOCKET 1348 HAS NOT BEEN

3:40:40 ADOPTED.

3:40:41 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:40:43 READ 13.1350.

3:40:47 DOCKET 1350 COUNCIL FLYNN

3:40:50 OFFERED THE FOLLOWING

3:40:51 RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT

3:40:53 MAINTAINING AND HEARING THE

3:40:55 PROPOSITION TWO AND A HALF IN

3:40:56 THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:40:57 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:40:59 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:41:00 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:41:05 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:41:09 PROPOSITION TWO AND A HALF IS A

3:41:11 LAW PASSED BY VOTERS IN 1980

3:41:13 THAT LIMITS HOW MUCH CITIES AND

3:41:15 TOWNS CAN RAISE PROPERTY TAXES.

3:41:19 THE LAW HAS TWO LIMITS WITHIN

3:41:22 IT THE LEVY CEILING AND THE

3:41:23 LEVY LIMIT.

3:41:24 THE LEVY LIMIT DETERMINES HOW

3:41:26 MUCH A CITY MUNICIPALITY CAN

3:41:28 INCREASE PROPERTY TAX

3:41:29 COLLECTION FOR ONE YEAR TO THE

3:41:31 NEXT.

3:41:32 IT'S DETERMINED BY TAXES

3:41:33 GENERATED FROM NEW GROWTH SUCH

3:41:37 AS NEW RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL

3:41:38 DEVELOPMENT OR RENOVATIONS TO

3:41:40 EXISTING PROPERTIES THAT

3:41:43 INCREASE ASSESSED VALUE.

3:41:44 THE LEVY CEILING IS THE

3:41:46 ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM AMOUNT

3:41:47 OF PROPERTY TAXES THAT CAN BE

3:41:49 COLLECTED BY A CITY

3:41:51 MUNICIPALITY, A CITY A TOWN

3:41:53 CAN'T COLLECT MORE THAN 22. 5%

3:41:56 OF THE TOTAL VALUE OF ALL

3:41:58 TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN ITS

3:41:59 BORDERS.

3:42:03 BECAUSE MASSACHUSETTS

3:42:05 MUNICIPALITIES RELY HEAVILY ON

3:42:06 PROPERTY TAXES TO FUND LOCAL

3:42:08 GOVERNMENT, PROPOSITION TWO AND

3:42:10 A HALF HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT

3:42:11 ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, POLICE, FIRE

3:42:13 DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC WORKS,

3:42:16 LIBRARIES, PARKS, RECREATION,

3:42:18 MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES SALARIES

3:42:20 BENEFITS THAT WE WERE JUST

3:42:21 DISCUSSING.

3:42:24 WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN

3:42:25 ONGOING DISCUSSION.

3:42:27 HERE AT.

3:42:28 THE CITY AND THROUGHOUT MANY

3:42:29 CITIES AND TOWNS AND AT THE

3:42:30 STATE HOUSE ABOUT POTENTIALLY

3:42:33 LIFTING PROPOSITION TWO AND A

3:42:35 HALF.

3:42:38 IN OCTOBER 2025 WHEN THEY WERE

3:42:40 CALLS TO THE MASSACHUSETTS

3:42:43 LEGISLATURE TO REPEAL

3:42:44 PROPOSITION TWO AND A HALF.

3:42:46 UM, MANY CITY OFFICIALS SAID IT

3:42:50 SHOULD BE REPEALED.

3:42:53 LIMITING PROPERTY TAX REVENUE

3:42:55 GROWTH MEANS THAT THE LOCAL

3:42:57 GOVERNMENT MUST EXERCISE FISCAL

3:42:59 RESPONSIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY

3:43:01 ,TRANSPARENCY THIS PROPOSITION

3:43:05 MAKES TAXES MORE PREDICTABLE

3:43:07 FOR RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ENDURED

3:43:10 CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES IN

3:43:11 BOSTON DUE TO SEVERAL YEARS

3:43:13 OF STEEP INCREASES IN THE

3:43:15 PROPERTY TAXES FOR MANY

3:43:17 RESIDENTS OVER THE LAST OVER

3:43:18 THE LAST TWO YEARS THEY'VE SEEN

3:43:22 A DOUBLE DIGIT PROPERTY TAX

3:43:23 INCREASE.

3:43:28 THIS RESOLUTION, I BELIEVE IS

3:43:31 IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT PROVIDES

3:43:33 BOSTON.

3:43:35 IT PROVIDES CITIES AND TOWNS

3:43:37 WITH STRUCTURE OF HOW MUCH THEY

3:43:40 CAN RAISE TAXES BUT ALSO.

3:43:45 LIVE WITHIN THEIR MEANS TO BE

3:43:47 FISCALLY DISCIPLINE, FISCALLY

3:43:48 RESPONSIBLE, TRANSPARENT AND

3:43:50 ACCOUNTABLE.

3:43:53 I BELIEVE WE NEED TO REAFFIRM

3:43:54 OUR COMMITMENT TO THESE

3:43:57 PRINCIPLES AND ENSURE THAT WE

3:44:00 PRACTICE FISCAL DISCIPLINE AND

3:44:03 RESPONSIBILITY AS MUCH AS WE

3:44:05 CAN, KNOWING THAT RESIDENTS ARE

3:44:09 SEEING STEEP PROPERTY TAXES

3:44:13 CONSISTENTLY, IS THERE AN

3:44:16 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE A

3:44:19 IMPORTANT DISCUSSION DOWN THE

3:44:20 ROAD ABOUT PROPOSITION TWO AND

3:44:23 A HALF IN TAXES GENERALLY?

3:44:25 I THINK THAT'S ALSO AN

3:44:26 IMPORTANT FACTOR THAT WE SHOULD

3:44:28 CONSIDER AS WE CUT SERVICES UM,

3:44:32 LIKE JOBS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL

3:44:35 TEACHERS.

3:44:36 UM, I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT

3:44:38 PART OF THIS DISCUSSION AS WELL

3:44:40 .

3:44:40 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:44:42 THANK YOU.

3:44:43 COUNCILOR FLINTSHIRE

3:44:43 RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE WEBER

3:44:44 COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:44:46 UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:44:47 UH.

3:44:48 I AGREE WITH THE FILER THAT

3:44:49 THIS, UH, DOES SET THE TABLE

3:44:52 FOR AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION.

3:44:53 WE JUST.

3:44:54 SPENT TWO MONTHS OR THREE

3:44:55 MONTHS, UH UH, FIGHTING TO

3:44:57 RESTORE VITAL PROGRAMS.

3:44:59 UH, WE ALSO TALKED A LOT ABOUT

3:45:01 THE FACT THAT REVENUES, UH, ARE

3:45:03 NOT INCREASING ENOUGH TO KEEP

3:45:05 PACE WITH INCREASED EXPENSES.

3:45:06 THE MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL

3:45:08 ASSOCIATION HAS ISSUED A REPORT

3:45:09 CALLED THE PERFECT STORM.

3:45:11 .

3:45:11 THAT HOW, UH, THIS IS CAUSING

3:45:13 HAVOC WITH CITY BUDGETS ALL

3:45:15 ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH?

3:45:16 UH, THE REPORT POINTS OUT,

3:45:18 NUMBER ONE, THAT SINCE 2005

3:45:20 STATE AID HAS GONE DOWN FROM

3:45:22 23% OF CITY BUDGETS TO NOW IT'S

3:45:24 CLOSER TO 11%.

3:45:26 IT'S ALSO POINTED OUT THAT

3:45:27 PROP.

3:45:28 TWO AND A.

3:45:28 HALF UM DOES NOT KEEP PACE WITH

3:45:31 INCREASED COSTS FOR HEALTH

3:45:32 CARE, ENERGY INFLATION.

3:45:34 CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

3:45:35 AND CLIMATE RESILIENCY

3:45:36 INVESTMENTS.

3:45:37 THE MAYOR RECOMMENDED THAT, UH,

3:45:40 WE WE REWORK PROP TWO AND A

3:45:42 HALF TO ALLOW FOR FLEXIBILITY

3:45:43 IN THE CAP AND FLEXIBILITY IN

3:45:45 HOW WE ALLOCATE, UH, TAXES

3:45:48 BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL

3:45:49 PROPERTIES.

3:45:50 UH, WE, UH, JUST SPENT WEEKS

3:45:53 LOOKING THROUGH THE MINUTIA

3:45:55 OF OUR CITY BUDGET.

3:45:56 UH, YOU KNOW, INCLUDING, UH,

3:45:58 THINGS LIKE REVENUE GENERATING

3:46:00 ASPECTS LIKE THE PARKING METER

3:46:01 FUND AT A TIME WHEN WE'RE

3:46:03 TALKING ABOUT SPENDING

3:46:05 INCREASES, ADDING 300 TO 600

3:46:07 MORE POLICE OFFICERS, UH,

3:46:09 CREATING FUNDS TO TO, UH, MAKE

3:46:11 SURE WE HIRE 400 MORE EMPLOYEES

3:46:14 .

3:46:15 UM, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES SENSE TO

3:46:17 HAVE AN INFORMED DISCUSSION

3:46:19 ABOUT, UH, THE NUMBER ONE

3:46:20 SOURCE OF THIS CITY'S REVENUE

3:46:22 TO DO THAT.

3:46:23 WE SHOULD HAVE A HEARING.

3:46:24 UH, I AM GOING TO OBJECT TO

3:46:26 THIS.

3:46:27 ASK THE TO BE SENT FOR A

3:46:28 HEARING.

3:46:28 I HOPE THAT IT GOES TO THE WAYS

3:46:30 AND MEANS COMMITTEE WHERE I

3:46:31 WILL I WILL MAKE SURE WE HAVE A

3:46:33 HEARING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

3:46:34 WE CAN HAVE INFORMED

3:46:35 DISCUSSION, UH, ABOUT THIS

3:46:37 ISSUE WHICH I AGREE IS

3:46:38 IMPORTANT.

3:46:39 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:46:41 UM, I THINK, UH, THERE'S BEEN

3:46:43 AN OBJECTION TO THIS UM THIS

3:46:45 DOCKET UH, 1350 WILL BE, UH,

3:46:49 SENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS

3:46:51 AND MEANS.

3:46:52 THANK YOU.

3:46:52 I THINK THAT MERITS A MORE

3:46:54 IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION.

3:46:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:46:58 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:46:59 READ DOCKET 1351?

3:47:01 OH, BEG YOUR PARDON?

3:47:02 SORRY, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

3:47:03 HOLD A SECOND?

3:47:04 UM, I SEE COUNCILOR PIPPINS.

3:47:06 UH, LIGHT IS ON.

3:47:07 DID YOU HAVE.

3:47:09 I KNOW UH, WHEN IT WAS IT'S

3:47:11 GONE TO COMMITTEE SO YEAH.

3:47:14 NO THANK YOU.

3:47:14 THIS IS ACTUALLY IN REGARDS TO

3:47:16 A PREVIOUS MATTER.

3:47:18 UM.

3:47:19 THANK YOU.

3:47:20 UH.

3:47:22 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK, UM, WHEN

3:47:24 IS IT APPROPRIATE TO MOTION TO

3:47:25 RECONSIDER A VOTE?

3:47:26 UH, WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT AT

3:47:28 THE END BEFORE WE WHEN WE GET

3:47:29 DOWN TO PAST GREEN SHEETS WE'RE

3:47:30 GOING TO BEFORE WE DO.

3:47:31 YES.

3:47:31 I'LL DO THAT FOR EVERYONE

3:47:32 LATER.

3:47:33 THANK YOU.

3:47:33 I'LL DO THAT LATER.

3:47:34 THANK YOU.

3:47:34 I'LL COME BACK TO YOU.

3:47:35 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:47:37 READ DOCKET 13511351?

3:47:42 COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFER THE

3:47:43 FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:47:46 OF UNEQUIVOCAL DENOUNCEMENT

3:47:48 AGAINST ANY VIOLENT ASSAULT AND

3:47:50 HARASSMENT TOWARDS BOSTON

3:47:52 POLICE OFFICERS, OUR DEDICATED

3:47:53 FIRST RESPONDERS AND.

3:47:55 CITY OFFICIALS.

3:47:57 THANK YOU.

3:47:57 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:47:58 COUNCILOR FLYNN CASTRO.

3:47:59 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:48:00 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:48:01 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD

3:48:03 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS AN

3:48:04 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?

3:48:05 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD SO ADDED.

3:48:07 MAY I SUSPEND THE RULES THAT

3:48:08 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:48:09 UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

3:48:10 OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR MURPHY'S

3:48:12 ADDED AS A THIRD A THIRD

3:48:14 CO-SPONSOR.

3:48:15 THANK YOU.

3:48:16 AND AS THE RESOLUTION NOTED,

3:48:18 IT'S ALSO ABOUT RESPECTING

3:48:20 OTHER CITY WORKERS THAT PROVIDE

3:48:23 FIRST RESPONDER TYPE SERVICES

3:48:27 OR UM, SOME TYPE OF PUBLIC

3:48:28 SAFETY SUPPORT OR INTERACTING

3:48:30 WITH THE WITH RESIDENTS AS WELL

3:48:33 SUCH AS CODE ENFORCEMENT

3:48:34 OFFICERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE

3:48:36 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON BOSTON

3:48:39 TRANSPORTATION UM TRAFFIC

3:48:41 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS UM AS WELL

3:48:45 I SEE THEM FREQUENTLY.

3:48:47 THEY DO AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB BUT

3:48:49 THEY'RE OFTEN SOMETIMES THEY'RE

3:48:51 HARASSED AND EVEN PHYSICALLY

3:48:53 ASSAULTED BY THE PUBLIC.

3:48:55 UM WE KNOW AND I MENTIONED

3:48:57 BOSTON POLICE HAS LONG STANDING

3:48:59 ISSUES OF UNDERSTAFFING,

3:49:01 OVERSTRETCHED RESOURCES, FORCED

3:49:03 OVERTIME, LOOMING RETIREMENTS,

3:49:06 BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS WORK 16

3:49:08 HOURS A DAY.

3:49:10 BOSTON POLICE PATROLMEN

3:49:11 ASSOCIATION RECENTLY NOTED THAT

3:49:12 THE DEPARTMENT IS DOWN ROUGHLY

3:49:15 600 OFFICERS OPERATING ROUGHLY

3:49:18 ONE THIRD OF THE WORKFORCE.

3:49:21 THIS AND SIMILAR INCIDENTS

3:49:23 CONTRIBUTE TO LOW MORALE

3:49:25 RETENTION RECRUITMENT.

3:49:28 THE LACK OF SUPPORT OR

3:49:30 INDIFFERENCE WHEN IT COMES TO

3:49:31 SUPPORTING THE POLICE, THE FIRE

3:49:33 EMS HAS A NEGATIVE IMPACT, YOU

3:49:38 KNOW AND ULTIMATELY OUR CITY IS

3:49:40 LESS SAFE BECAUSE OF THAT.

3:49:42 PUBLIC SAFETY BEGINS WITH

3:49:43 SUPPORTING THE FAMILIES OF THE

3:49:45 MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT

3:49:46 THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY EVERY

3:49:47 DAY TO SERVE AND PROTECT OUR

3:49:50 COMMUNITIES.

3:49:51 IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE UH,

3:49:54 ESPECIALLY THE CITY

3:49:55 COUNCIL DENOUNCE ANY VIOLENCE,

3:49:57 ASSAULTS, HARASSMENT AGAINST

3:49:59 THE POLICE CODE ENFORCEMENT

3:50:01 OFFICERS, OFFICIALS AND

3:50:03 TRANSPORTATION OUR DEDICATED

3:50:04 FIRST RESPONDERS AND WE SUPPORT

3:50:07 THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL.

3:50:10 WE ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT

3:50:12 THOSE WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON

3:50:13 THE LINE TO PROTECT OUR

3:50:15 COMMUNITIES DESERVE OUR

3:50:16 SUPPORT.

3:50:18 WE RESOURCES TO EFFECTIVELY

3:50:19 SERVE THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON.

3:50:24 TO PARAPHRASE MY GOOD FRIEND

3:50:27 COUNCILOR MICHAEL FLAHERTY, HE

3:50:27 USED TO SAY THAT YES WE HAVE

3:50:29 THE BEST HOSPITALS, COLLEGES,

3:50:31 UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY

3:50:32 RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON.

3:50:35 WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE THE CROWN

3:50:37 JEWELS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:50:38 BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE PEOPLE WHO

3:50:40 WANT TO COME HERE AND

3:50:41 EXPERIENCE THEM BECAUSE THEY

3:50:43 BELIEVE IT IS SAFE TO BE HERE

3:50:45 AND THAT IS DUE TO THE WORK

3:50:47 OF OUR DEDICATED FIRST

3:50:48 RESPONDERS.

3:50:51 THEY DON'T GET THE APPRECIATION

3:50:54 OR RESPECT IN MY OPINION FROM

3:50:57 ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUT THEY

3:50:59 CERTAINLY HAVE EARNED IT.

3:51:01 I THINK THIS IS A SMALL STEP TO

3:51:03 ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR

3:51:05 PROFESSIONALISM, TO ACKNOWLEDGE

3:51:07 THE DANGEROUS POSITION THAT

3:51:09 THEY'RE OFTEN PLACED IN AND TO

3:51:12 LET THEM KNOW THAT THE CITY

3:51:16 COUNCIL HAS THEIR BACK.

3:51:17 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:51:18 THANK YOU COUNCILOR UH, FLYNN

3:51:20 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:51:21 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:51:22 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:51:26 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:51:27 UH, AND THANK YOU TO

3:51:29 COUNCIL FLYNN FOR ADDING ME AS

3:51:30 A CO-SPONSOR.

3:51:31 UM.

3:51:32 YOU KNOW, WE SAW SOME OF WHAT.

3:51:33 OUR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS HAVE

3:51:35 GONE THROUGH OVER THIS PAST

3:51:37 WEEKEND IN A VERY DIFFICULT

3:51:38 TIME AND WE KNOW SOME OF THAT

3:51:39 WAS DUE TO UNDERSTAFFING.

3:51:42 UM, AND SO, UH, WE JUST REALLY

3:51:44 WANT TO SUPPORT THEM IN THIS

3:51:45 TIME OF NEED.

3:51:45 THEY'RE TRYING TO DO THEIR JOB.

3:51:47 THEY'RE TRYING TO GET BACK TO

3:51:48 THEIR FAMILIES SAFELY AS WELL.

3:51:50 AND UH, WE JUST WANT TO MAKE

3:51:51 SURE UH THAT THE FOLKS OUT

3:51:53 THERE KNOW UM, THAT THEY'RE NOT

3:51:55 JUST UH THEY ARE PEOPLE TOO,

3:51:58 UH, AND WE SUPPORT THEM AND WE

3:51:59 WANT THEM TO GET BACK TO THEIR

3:52:01 FAMILY.

3:52:01 UH, AND WE PLEASE ASK EVERYONE

3:52:03 TO JUST MAINTAIN COMMON

3:52:04 COURTESY OUT THERE WHILE HAVING

3:52:05 FUN.

3:52:06 BE RESPECTFUL AND UNDERSTAND

3:52:07 THAT FOLKS ARE JUST TRYING TO

3:52:09 DO THEIR JOB AND PLEASE DON'T

3:52:10 TREAT THEM AS AN OBJECT UH AS

3:52:12 THERE ARE PEOPLE TOO AND WE ASK

3:52:13 THAT WE ALWAYS AS WE ALWAYS ASK

3:52:15 OUR POLICE TO DO THE SAME UH,

3:52:16 FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT THAT ARE

3:52:18 OUT THERE, UM, CAUSING THE

3:52:19 TROUBLE AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW,

3:52:21 REALLY JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN DO

3:52:23 AND I THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR

3:52:24 ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR HERE.

3:52:25 UH, AND WE AS ALWAYS WE STAND

3:52:27 UP WITH THAT BOSTON POLICE

3:52:28 OFFICERS AND ALL PUBLIC SAFETY

3:52:29 THAT HAVE TO TAKE THE HEAT OUT

3:52:30 THERE.

3:52:31 THANK YOU.

3:52:32 COUNCILOR, UM,

3:52:33 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, THE CHAIR

3:52:33 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:52:34 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:52:37 THANK YOU.

3:52:38 PRESIDENT.

3:52:40 THE RECENT ATTACKS ON BOSTON

3:52:43 POLICE OFFICERS MUST BE.

3:52:44 CONDEMNED CLEARLY AND.

3:52:45 WITHOUT HESITATION.

3:52:46 BY EVERY.

3:52:47 ELECTED OFFICIAL IN OUR CITY.

3:52:49 OUR OFFICERS PUT THEMSELVES IN

3:52:51 HARM'S.

3:52:51 WAY EVERY DAY TO PROTECT.

3:52:53 NOT JUST.

3:52:54 OUR NEIGHBORHOODS BUT ALL OF.

3:52:55 OUR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS

3:52:56 TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:52:57 THEY DESERVE RESPECT, SUPPORT

3:52:59 AND THE CONFIDENCE THAT CITY

3:53:01 LEADERS WILL.

3:53:02 STAND WITH THEM WHEN THEY ARE

3:53:03 ATTACKED.

3:53:05 MANY OF.

3:53:05 OUR OFFICERS WHO WERE WORKING.

3:53:08 OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN

3:53:09 EXTREME HEAT THERE.

3:53:10 WAS A.

3:53:11 HEAT WAVE GOING ON, HAD FIRE

3:53:13 WORKERS FIRECRACKERS.

3:53:16 FIREWORKS SHOT AT THEM WHILE

3:53:17 THEY WERE OUT JUST.

3:53:18 TRYING TO KEEP OUR.

3:53:20 CITY OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE.

3:53:21 THAT'S COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE

3:53:23 .

3:53:24 BOSTON NEEDS MORE POLICE

3:53:26 OFFICERS.

3:53:26 THE DEPARTMENT.

3:53:27 HAS BEEN UNDERSTAFFED.

3:53:28 FOR TOO LONG, LEAVING.

3:53:30 OFFICES STRETCHED.

3:53:31 THIN, WORKING FORCED OVERTIME

3:53:33 IN RESPONDING TO.

3:53:34 DANGEROUS SITUATIONS WITHOUT

3:53:36 ENOUGH SUPPORT.

3:53:38 WE NEED TO CONDEMN ATTACKS.

3:53:40 ON POLICE OFFICERS.

3:53:41 EVERY TIME THEY HAPPEN AND LIKE

3:53:43 COUNCILOR.

3:53:43 FITZGERALD SAID.

3:53:44 IN FLYNN, UNFORTUNATELY.

3:53:46 IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS THERE

3:53:48 HAVE BEEN ATTACKS.

3:53:50 THAT ARE JUST UNACCEPTABLE

3:53:50 AND.

3:53:51 I KNOW THAT OUR.

3:53:52 OFFICERS FEEL IT OFTEN.

3:53:53 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT

3:53:54 WE.

3:53:55 STAND WITH THEM KNOWING THAT

3:53:56 WE.

3:53:57 SUPPORT THEIR THE WORK THEY DO

3:53:59 AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT WE KNOW

3:54:00 WHEN.

3:54:01 AN OFFICER WHEN ANY.

3:54:02 FIRST RESPONDER SERVES THEIR

3:54:03 FAMILY SERVES ALONGSIDE THEM.

3:54:04 THANK YOU THANK YOU

3:54:06 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:54:07 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:54:08 NAME?

3:54:10 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:54:12 COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCILOR.

3:54:14 UH, COUNCILOR PET COUNCIL WHAT

3:54:17 ?

3:54:18 PEPPA.

3:54:18 PEPPA AND COUNCILOR WEBER UM,

3:54:21 OKAY.

3:54:23 UM, PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR.

3:54:26 COUNCILOR FRANCIS AND

3:54:27 COUNCILOR MURPHY AND FITZGERALD

3:54:28 SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

3:54:29 AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1351.

3:54:32 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:54:33 ALL OPPOSED.

3:54:34 SAY NAY.

3:54:35 MISS MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

3:54:38 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:54:39 VOTE ON DOCKET 1351 WILL CALL

3:54:41 VOTE ON DOCKET 135 ON

3:54:44 COUNCIL READING YES ON.

3:54:45 SEPARATE ON THIS

3:54:46 COUNCIL CALENDAR.

3:54:47 ZAPATA ON SO CALLED PEPPER ON

3:54:49 SO CALLED THAT BY YES

3:54:50 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:54:51 WANTS TO DO A THING IS

3:54:53 COUNCIL FEATURING.

3:54:54 YES.

3:54:54 WANT TO FITZGERALD.

3:54:55 YES.

3:54:56 COUNCIL FLYNN INTO FLYNN YES

3:54:58 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:54:59 YES ON SOLUTION.

3:55:00 YES.

3:55:01 COUNCILMAN MEJIA.

3:55:02 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:55:04 YES.

3:55:04 BRIAN.

3:55:07 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:55:08 COUNCILOR.

3:55:09 WEBER.

3:55:09 YES.

3:55:10 IT'S A WEB.

3:55:11 YES.

3:55:11 CONSOLE.

3:55:12 YES I SAW I MEAN 123456 TEN AND

3:55:17 AFFIRMATIVE.

3:55:18 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:55:19 UH, DOCKET 1351 HAS BEEN

3:55:21 ADOPTED.

3:55:22 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:55:24 READ DOCKET 1352.

3:55:26 DOCKET 1352 COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:55:29 OFFERED THE FOLLOWING

3:55:30 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

3:55:32 OF DECLARING JULY 11TH AS MAD

3:55:34 MOMS DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:55:37 .

3:55:37 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:55:39 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:55:39 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:55:40 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:55:42 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

3:55:44 TO REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE

3:55:45 RULES ON THE PASSAGE OF THIS

3:55:47 DOCKET BEHIND EVERY STATISTIC

3:55:50 ABOUT SUBSTANCE ABUSE USE

3:55:54 OVERDOSE OR COMMUNITY VIOLENCE

3:55:58 IS A FAMILY WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN

3:56:00 PERMANENTLY CHANGED.

3:56:03 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE MAD MOMS

3:56:05 REMIND US THAT RECOVERY AND

3:56:07 HEALING ARE NOT ONLY INDIVIDUAL

3:56:09 JOURNEYS BUT THEY ARE COMMUNITY

3:56:13 RESPONSIBILITIES THROUGH

3:56:15 ADVOCACY, PEER SUPPORT,

3:56:17 EDUCATION AND CREATING SPACES

3:56:19 WHERE FAMILIES CAN GRIEVE, HEAL

3:56:22 AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER.

3:56:24 MAD MOMS HAS BECOME AN

3:56:26 IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR

3:56:28 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES

3:56:30 NAVIGATING SOME OF LIFE'S MOST

3:56:32 DIFFICULT CHALLENGES.

3:56:34 THIS RESOLUTION ALSO RECOGNIZES

3:56:37 THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP

3:56:39 OF JANICE V JOHNSON, WHOSE

3:56:41 DECADES OF SERVICE TO BOSTON

3:56:43 HAVE TOUCHED COUNTLESS LIVES

3:56:45 RATHER THAN ALLOWING PERSONAL

3:56:47 TRAGEDY TO DEFINE HER, SHE

3:56:49 TRANSFORMED IT INTO A MISSION

3:56:51 OF COMPASSION, ENSURING THAT

3:56:53 OTHER FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO

3:56:55 THE SUPPORT AND SENSE

3:56:57 OF COMMUNITY THAT EVERY PERSON

3:56:59 DESERVES.

3:56:59 THE OPENING OF THE FIVE STAR

3:57:02 STUDIO CAFE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE

3:57:04 OF THAT COMMITMENT, CREATING A

3:57:07 SPACE WHERE HEALING, CREATIVITY

3:57:09 AND RECOVERY CAN COME TOGETHER.

3:57:12 I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS

3:57:14 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JULY

3:57:17 11TH AS MADD MOMS DAY AND

3:57:19 THANKING JANICE JOHNSON AND

3:57:21 EVERYONE AT MADD MOMS FOR THE

3:57:23 WORK THEY CONTINUE TO DO TO

3:57:25 STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITIES AND

3:57:28 TO BRING HOPE TO FAMILIES

3:57:29 ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:57:31 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:57:33 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:57:34 .

3:57:34 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:57:35 COUNCIL WORRELL COUNTRY.

3:57:36 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:57:37 UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:57:38 THANK YOU.

3:57:39 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:57:39 I JUST WANT TO.

3:57:40 STAND UP AND.

3:57:42 JUST, UM, EXPRESS MY DEEP

3:57:44 GRATITUDE FOR JANICE JOHNSON

3:57:45 AND HER TEAM, UH, FOR SUCH

3:57:48 SELFLESSNESS AND AN UNDENIABLE

3:57:50 IMPACT ON THE WELL-BEING OF OUR

3:57:52 COMMUNITIES AND ALL THAT THEY

3:57:53 WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE IN

3:57:55 TURNING PAIN INTO POWER.

3:57:56 SO, UH, SHOUT OUT TO JANICE,

3:57:58 UH, THE WHOLE TEAM OVER THERE.

3:58:01 UM, AND JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR

3:58:02 SERVICE TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:58:04 THANK YOU.

3:58:05 COUNCILOR BROWN.

3:58:06 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:58:07 NAME?

3:58:10 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:58:12 COUNCILOR UM FITZGERALD

3:58:14 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR UH,

3:58:17 WEBER CONSTABLE BROWN UM,

3:58:19 PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

3:58:24 COUNCILORS.

3:58:25 UH CULPEPER SEEKS SUSPENSION

3:58:26 THROUGH HIS ADOPTION OF DOCKET

3:58:28 1352.

3:58:28 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:58:30 ALL OPPOSED.

3:58:31 SAY NAY.

3:58:32 UH, MADAM.

3:58:33 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:58:35 READ?

3:58:36 UH, NO.

3:58:36 COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

3:58:37 CALL?

3:58:37 VOTE ON DOCKET 1352 ROLL CALL

3:58:40 VOTE.

3:58:41 ON DOCKET 1352.

3:58:42 COUNCILOR BREATHING.

3:58:43 YES.

3:58:44 WHICH I BRITTANY I SPONSOR

3:58:45 COLLETTE IS A BOROUGH

3:58:47 COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:58:48 YES.

3:58:50 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:58:52 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:58:53 YES.

3:58:53 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

3:58:54 YES.

3:58:54 COUNCILOR.

3:58:55 FLYNN.

3:58:55 YES.

3:58:56 COUNCIL FOR ANY SOLUTION THAT'S

3:58:58 ILLUSION.

3:58:59 YES.

3:58:59 COMES FROM MY HERE,

3:59:01 COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:59:02 COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS GONE UP

3:59:03 ON.

3:59:03 YES.

3:59:04 IT'S A PEPPERONI AS

3:59:06 COUNCIL SANTANA WHOMSOEVER.

3:59:09 YES WHATSOEVER.

3:59:10 COUNCIL RA.

3:59:11 YES.

3:59:12 COUNCIL MONTH.

3:59:14 EIGHT NINE AND AFFIRMATIVE.

3:59:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

3:59:18 DOCKET 1352 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:59:20 WE ARE NOW ON TO PERSONNEL

3:59:22 ORDERS.

3:59:22 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:59:24 READ THE PERSONNEL ORDERS?

3:59:25 UH, DOCKETS 135331357.

3:59:31 PERSONNEL ORDER DOCKET 1353

3:59:33 COUNCILOR BREADON FOR

3:59:35 COUNCIL MEJIA DOCKET 135 FOR

3:59:38 COUNCIL.

3:59:38 BREDON FOR COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:59:40 DOCKET 1355 COUNCIL BREDON FOR

3:59:43 COUNCIL SANTANA DOCKET 1356

3:59:48 COUNCILOR BREADON FOR COUNCIL.

3:59:48 WEBER.

3:59:51 DOCKET 1357 COUNCIL BREADON FOR

3:59:54 COUNCIL DOCKET.

3:59:56 THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE

3:59:58 OF THE PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:59:59 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.

4:00:02 THE AYES HAVE IT.

4:00:02 THE PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE

4:00:04 PASSED BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO

4:00:05 GREEN SHEETS.

4:00:06 IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE

4:00:07 TO ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET

4:00:08 THAT THEY MAY HAVE MISSED?

4:00:11 I THINK, UH, COUNCILOR WORRELL

4:00:13 AND THEN WE'LL GO TO

4:00:15 COUNCILOR PEPPER AND OVER THERE

4:00:17 COUNCILOR WORRELL.

4:00:17 I'D LIKE TO ADD MY NAME TO

4:00:19 DOCKET NUMBER 1351.

4:00:30 THAT IT.

4:00:31 THAT'S ALL.

4:00:32 OKAY.

4:00:33 UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU

4:00:34 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:00:35 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:00:36 YOU ALL SET?

4:00:37 UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:00:39 I JUST WANTED TO ADD MY NAME TO

4:00:42 1339.

4:00:45 ANYONE ELSE WANT TO AMEND THE

4:00:46 RECORD OF THEIR VOTES?

4:00:48 THANK YOU.

4:00:50 UM, WE'RE NOW ON TO GREEN

4:00:52 SHEETS.

4:00:52 IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL

4:00:54 ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS

4:00:55 ?

4:00:56 UH, COUNCILOR AT THE CHAIR

4:00:57 RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA,

4:00:58 THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

4:01:00 PUBLIC SAFETY.

4:01:01 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:01:03 THANK YOU.

4:01:04 MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:01:05 I WOULD.

4:01:05 LIKE TO PULL UP DOCKET

4:01:06 NUMBER 1035 FOR FURTHER ACTION.

4:01:10 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU, UH,

4:01:14 11035 AND WHAT.

4:01:15 WAS IT?

4:01:16 THERE'S TWO.

4:01:17 OKAY.

4:01:17 UM.

4:01:18 THEY'RE PROBABLY SEPARATE,

4:01:19 RIGHT?

4:01:21 YEAH.

4:01:22 I WANT YOUR SECOND ONE.

4:01:23 WE'LL DO THAT 131035.

4:01:26 OKAY.

4:01:27 GO AHEAD.

4:01:29 MADAM CLERK I COULD 1035

4:01:30 MESSAGE ON ORDER AUTHORIZING

4:01:32 THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT

4:01:33 AND EXPEND AMOUNT OF $24,095 IN

4:01:38 THE FORM OF A GRANT FY 24 POINT

4:01:41 COMBAT FOR SEPTIC SCIENCE

4:01:43 IMPROVEMENT AWARDED BY THE

4:01:44 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

4:01:46 OF JUSTICE PASSED THROUGH THE

4:01:47 MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE

4:01:49 CRIME LABORATORY TO BE

4:01:51 ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE

4:01:52 DEPARTMENT.

4:01:52 THE GRANT WOULD FUND TRAINING

4:01:54 AND CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR

4:01:56 FACILITY EXAMINERS, CRIMINALIST

4:01:58 AND LABORATORY PERSONNEL.

4:02:03 UM, SO DID YOU HAVE A SECOND

4:02:06 DOCKET?

4:02:07 SECOND.

4:02:08 JUST JUST.

4:02:09 JUST ONE.

4:02:11 I LIKE A DOCKET, BUT THERE'S A

4:02:12 OKAY.

4:02:13 STEP 111035 OKAY.

4:02:16 ABSENT OBJECTION.

4:02:17 THE MOTION OF THE COMMITTEE

4:02:18 CHAIR CHAIR IS ACCEPTED AND

4:02:21 DOCKET 1035 IS PROPERLY BEFORE

4:02:23 THE BODY COUNCIL AND THE FLOOR

4:02:24 IS YOURS.

4:02:25 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:02:26 UM, THE PAUL VALLEY FORENSIC

4:02:28 SCIENCE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

4:02:30 PROGRAM AWARDS FUNDING STATES

4:02:31 AND UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

4:02:33 TO HELP IMPROVE THE QUALITY

4:02:35 OF HOMELESSNESS UH, FORENSIC

4:02:36 SCIENCE AND MEDICAL EXAMINER

4:02:38 SERVICES PROVIDED THE BOSTON

4:02:40 POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL UTILIZE

4:02:41 THE FUNDS REQUESTED THROUGH THE

4:02:44 FY 24 COVER DOE TO OFFSET

4:02:46 TRAINING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH

4:02:47 THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE,

4:02:49 SKILLS AND ABILITIES FOR NEWLY

4:02:51 HIRED AND EXISTING STAFF

4:02:52 MEMBERS.

4:02:53 TRAINING COSTS WILL ALSO BE

4:02:55 OFFERED FOR THOSE UNDERGOING

4:02:56 CHANGES IN JOB FUNCTIONALITY

4:02:58 DUE TO CHANGES IN WORK

4:03:00 REQUIREMENTS OR THE DEVELOPMENT

4:03:02 OF ADDITIONAL UM EXPERTISE.

4:03:03 MEMBERS OF THE FORENSICS GROUPS

4:03:06 UM FIREARMS ANALYSIS UNIT,

4:03:08 IMPRINT UNIT AND CRIME SCENE

4:03:11 RESPONSE UNIT WILL ATTEND

4:03:13 VARIOUS TRAININGS THROUGHOUT

4:03:14 THE YEAR TO IMPROVE THEIR

4:03:16 ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCES AS A

4:03:18 PROGRAM.

4:03:18 THIS PROGRAM IS NEEDED TO

4:03:20 MAINTAIN UM AND KEEP PERSONNEL

4:03:22 UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST

4:03:24 FORENSIC LABORATORY TYPE

4:03:26 TECHNIQUES UM AND RESEARCH.

4:03:28 IT IS CRITICAL DUE TO THE

4:03:29 EVOLVING SCIENCE AND NEW

4:03:31 TECHNOLOGY USED TO TO PROCESS

4:03:32 EVIDENCE AND CONTRIBUTE TO

4:03:35 INVESTIGATIONS OF CRIMES.

4:03:36 AS THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

4:03:37 ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

4:03:38 JUSTICE, I RECOMMEND THAT

4:03:41 THERE'S TALK IT OUT WITH US.

4:03:45 THANK YOU.

4:03:46 COUNCILOR SANTANA, THE CHAIR

4:03:47 OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

4:03:49 SAFETY MOVES TO PASSAGE

4:03:51 OF DOCKET 1035.

4:03:55 SINCE WE HAVE YOU KNOW.

4:03:57 AM I ABLE TO SPEAK ON IT?

4:03:58 UM, CERTAINLY.

4:03:59 COUNCIL FLYNN, YOU HAVE DONE

4:04:01 TWO MINUTES.

4:04:01 THANK YOU.

4:04:03 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

4:04:05 COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR BRINGING

4:04:06 THIS FORWARD.

4:04:07 IT'S AN IMPORTANT GRANT THIS

4:04:09 GIVES US GIVES THE BOSTON

4:04:11 POLICE AND FIRST RESPONDERS AN

4:04:14 OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE TRAINING

4:04:16 AND EXPERIENCE THEY NEED AND

4:04:19 WORK WITH COLLEAGUES THROUGHOUT

4:04:20 THE COUNTRY ON FORENSIC RELATED

4:04:23 ISSUES.

4:04:24 THIS IS AN ISSUE I'VE WORKED ON

4:04:26 FOR EIGHT YEARS AS IT RELATES

4:04:28 ESPECIALLY TO THE BOSTON POLICE

4:04:30 CRIME LAB.

4:04:31 IT IS MY GOAL TO HAVE THE BEST

4:04:34 CRIME LAB IN THE COUNTRY.

4:04:36 WE ARE NOT THERE RIGHT NOW.

4:04:39 WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES

4:04:40 WITH THE BOSTON POLICE CRIME

4:04:41 LAB AS IT RELATES TO HOW WE

4:04:45 TEST SEXUAL ASSAULT KITS.

4:04:47 WE NEED TO BE USING THE MOST

4:04:49 ADVANCED EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY

4:04:52 WHICH IS WHY SCREENING BUT ALSO

4:04:55 THE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT THESE

4:04:58 LABS TECHNICIANS, CRIME LAB

4:05:00 SPECIALISTS.

4:05:01 THEY ALSO NEED THE TRAINING.

4:05:03 AS COUNCILOR SANTANA

4:05:04 HIGHLIGHTED THE TRAINING TO

4:05:06 UNDERSTAND AND LEARN FROM THEIR

4:05:08 COLLEAGUES ACROSS ACROSS THE

4:05:09 COUNTRY ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT

4:05:11 IS TO CONTINUE TO STUDY UM AND

4:05:15 LEARN ABOUT NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW

4:05:19 WAYS TO TEST FIREARMS, NEW WAY

4:05:23 TO TEST SEXUAL ASSAULT KITS AND

4:05:26 THAT'S WHY SCREENING WE NEED TO

4:05:29 HAVE THE BEST FIRE WE NEED TO

4:05:31 AND WE NEED TO HAVE THE BEST

4:05:33 CRIME LAB IN THE COUNTRY.

4:05:35 NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT

4:05:37 HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL CRIME LAB.

4:05:39 BOSTON NEEDS TO BE ON PACE WITH

4:05:41 THE NEW YORK WE'RE WE'RE A

4:05:44 FIRST CLASS CITY.

4:05:45 WE NEED A FIRST CLASS CRIME LAB

4:05:47 .

4:05:48 I'VE I'VE VISITED THERE MANY

4:05:50 TIMES.

4:05:50 IT'S SMALL.

4:05:51 IT'S IT'S NOT DOING THE WORK

4:05:54 THAT IT SHOULD BE DOING.

4:05:57 WE NEED TO WE NEED TO ENSURE WE

4:05:59 HAVE THE RIGHT LEADERSHIP, THE

4:06:00 RIGHT PERSONNEL, THE RIGHT

4:06:02 TRAINING, THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE.

4:06:03 AND RIGHT NOW THE CRIME LAB IS

4:06:05 STRUGGLING.

4:06:06 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS

4:06:07 ON THIS ISSUE AS LONG AS I'M A

4:06:09 CITY COUNCILOR.

4:06:11 SURVIVORS OF JUSTICE DEMANDED.

4:06:13 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:06:13 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:06:15 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED

4:06:16 ADVOCACY FOR THE CRIME LAB.

4:06:19 COUNCILOR SANTANA MOVES FOR

4:06:20 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1035.

4:06:23 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

4:06:25 ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

4:06:27 UM, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU

4:06:28 PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

4:06:29 VOTE ON DOCKET 1035.

4:06:32 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 135.

4:06:34 DOC COUNCIL.

4:06:35 BREADON.

4:06:37 YES, IT'S A BREADON.

4:06:38 YES.

4:06:38 LET US THE POWDER COUNCIL.

4:06:40 CULPEPER.

4:06:40 YES.

4:06:41 COUNCIL.

4:06:41 CULPEPER.

4:06:42 YES.

4:06:42 COUNCIL.

4:06:42 DURKAN ONCE A SPONSOR

4:06:45 FITZGERALD.

4:06:45 YES.

4:06:46 ONCE A FITZGERALD.

4:06:47 YES.

4:06:48 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:06:49 YES I JUST READ YES.

4:06:51 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE LOUIJEUNE.

4:06:53 YES.

4:06:53 COUNCIL.

4:06:54 MAYOR.

4:06:55 COUNCIL MURPHY.

4:06:55 AND MURPHY.

4:06:56 YES.

4:06:57 CONCERT PREP N YES YES.

4:06:59 CONCERT.

4:07:00 SANTANA.

4:07:00 YES.

4:07:01 CONSCIOUS ACT ON COUNCIL.

4:07:03 WEBER.

4:07:04 COUNCIL MEMBER ASSISTANCE

4:07:05 OVERALL.

4:07:05 YES.

4:07:06 COUNCILOR.

4:07:07 OH YES 11 INTERFEROMETER.

4:07:09 THANK YOU.

4:07:10 UH, DOCKET 1035 HAS PASSED.

4:07:15 UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU

4:07:18 PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE UH 1122

4:07:22 .

4:07:23 YES.

4:07:23 THANK YOU.

4:07:25 COUNCILOR COUNCIL I'M GETTING

4:07:26 EVERYTHING BACK.

4:07:26 WE CAN DO.

4:07:27 IT FOR ME.

4:07:28 COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE THE

4:07:29 FLOOR.

4:07:30 UM.

4:07:30 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:07:31 I WOULD LIKE TO PULL DOCKET 1

4:07:33 TO 2 FIVE FOR FURTHER ACTION.

4:07:35 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:07:37 READ A DOCKET 1225 INTO THE

4:07:38 RECORD DOCKET.

4:07:40 1225 MESSAGE ON ORDER

4:07:42 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

4:07:43 TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND $100,000

4:07:47 UM OF CREDITS FROM THE UNTIED

4:07:49 TROPIC TO THE STRENGTHENING

4:07:50 OF THE CITY'S CYBER DEFENSE.

4:07:52 THESE CREDITS ARE GRANTED TO

4:07:53 AND THROUGH THE STATE, LOCAL

4:07:56 TRIBAL AND TERRIBLE CYBER

4:07:58 DEFENSE PROGRAM.

4:07:59 THE CREDITS WERE UTILIZED TO

4:08:02 AUTOMATE THIS THE CAMERAMAN AND

4:08:04 TRIGGERING THE PATCHING OF OUR

4:08:05 CITY TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE

4:08:08 USING CLAUDE O PLUS 4.8 THE

4:08:11 LATEST MODEL OF ACTOR TROPIC

4:08:14 GENERATIVE AI TOOL.

4:08:15 THE INITIATIVE WOULD HELP TO

4:08:18 SIGNIFICANTLY IF I EVER

4:08:20 EVALUATE OUR CYBER SECURITY

4:08:22 POSTURE AGAINST INCREASINGLY

4:08:24 SOPHISTICATED AI DRIVEN THREATS

4:08:28 THREATS.

4:08:28 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.

4:08:30 ABSENT OBJECTION THE MOTION

4:08:31 OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIR IS

4:08:32 ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1225 IS

4:08:35 PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY

4:08:36 COUNSELOR.

4:08:37 SO IS YOURS.

4:08:37 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:08:38 THE EVOLVING THREAT LANDSCAPE

4:08:40 AND ADVERSARIAL AI THE CYBER

4:08:42 THREAT LANDSCAPE FACING LOCAL

4:08:44 GOVERNMENTS HAS FUNDAMENTALLY

4:08:45 SHIFTED.

4:08:46 MUNICIPALITIES ARE NO LONGER

4:08:48 JUST DEALING WITH COORDINATED

4:08:49 HUMAN HACKERS.

4:08:50 WE ARE NOW DEFENDING AGAINST

4:08:51 ADVERSARIAL ARTIFICIAL

4:08:53 INTELLIGENCE.

4:08:55 THREAT ACTORS ARE ACTIVELY

4:08:57 LEVERAGING AI TO EXPLOIT

4:08:59 GOVERNMENT ENTITIES IN SEVERAL

4:09:01 UNPRECEDENTED WAYS.

4:09:04 UM AUTOMATED VULNERABLE

4:09:06 VULNERABILITY PROBING UM

4:09:09 CYBERCRIMINALS USE AUTOMATED AI

4:09:10 BOARDS TO SCAM MUNICIPAL

4:09:12 NETWORKS 24 SEVEN IDENTIFYING

4:09:14 AND EXPLOITING SOFTWARE

4:09:16 VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITIES

4:09:18 WITHIN MINUTES OF THEM BEING

4:09:19 DISCOVERED UM THE AI ENHANCED

4:09:23 UM SOPHISTICATED MALWARE UH

4:09:26 MUTED UM BY THE AI CAN BYPASS

4:09:29 TRADITIONAL FIREWALLS DEFENSES

4:09:31 BY ADOPTING ITS CODE IN REAL

4:09:32 TIME TO AVOID DETECTION AND

4:09:35 THEN FINALLY THE UM HYPER

4:09:37 REALISTIC.

4:09:37 PHISHING THREATS ACTORS USE

4:09:40 GENERATIVE AI TO DRAFT HIGHLY

4:09:42 CONVINCING LOCALIZED UM

4:09:44 PHISHING EMAILS TARGETING CITY

4:09:45 EMPLOYEES, MAKING HUMAN

4:09:47 DETECTION INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT

4:09:49 TO DEFEND CITY IN THIS NEW

4:09:51 LANDSCAPE, HUMAN INTERVENTION

4:09:52 ALONE IS NO LONGER FAST ENOUGH

4:09:55 .

4:09:55 WE MUST FIGHT AI WITH AI UM AND

4:10:01 UH SORRY UM THE CREDITS WILL

4:10:04 UTILIZE TO AUTOMATE THE UM

4:10:06 SCANNING UM AND PATCHING OF OUR

4:10:09 CITY'S TECHNOLOGY

4:10:10 INFRASTRUCTURE USING CLAUDE

4:10:12 OPUS 4.8 THE LATEST MODEL

4:10:15 OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC GENERATIVE

4:10:17 AI TOOL, THIS INITIATIVE WILL

4:10:18 HELP TO SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATE

4:10:20 THE CITY'S CYBERSECURITY

4:10:21 POSTURE AGAINST INCREASED,

4:10:23 INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED AI

4:10:25 DRIVEN RESULTS.

4:10:27 UM THANK YOU.

4:10:28 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

4:10:30 UH, SOMETIME OFTEN YOU HAVE THE

4:10:32 SHORT.

4:10:33 MADAM CHAIR.

4:10:34 UM, FOR THE CHAIR.

4:10:35 MAY I ASK A QUESTION TO, UM,

4:10:37 COUNCIL SANTANA?

4:10:37 CERTAINLY.

4:10:37 YEAH.

4:10:39 UM, DID WE HAVE A HEARING ON

4:10:41 THIS COUNCIL?

4:10:41 SANTANA WE DID HAVE A HEARING

4:10:44 THAT WAS COVERED WITH MULTIPLE

4:10:46 OF THESE UM, GRANTS.

4:10:49 UM.

4:10:49 AND THIS GRANT WAS ONE

4:10:50 OF THEM THAT, UM.

4:10:51 THAT WAS COVERED.

4:10:52 I DON'T KNOW IF WE ANYTHING I

4:10:53 DON'T REMEMBER ANY OF THE.

4:10:54 COUNCILORS GOING.

4:10:55 INTO DETAIL.

4:10:56 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THIS ONE.

4:10:58 UM.

4:10:58 BUT I DID RECEIVE UM,

4:11:00 COMMUNICATION.

4:11:00 UM.

4:11:01 FROM THE.

4:11:02 POLICE DEPARTMENT.

4:11:03 ABOUT, YOU.

4:11:03 KNOW.

4:11:04 BEING ABLE TO PASS THIS

4:11:05 BECAUSE.

4:11:05 OF.

4:11:05 THE.

4:11:06 UM THE THREAT THAT WE'RE

4:11:08 DEALING.

4:11:08 WITH.

4:11:08 RIGHT NOW.

4:11:09 OKAY.

4:11:09 UM, MADAM CHAIR, MAY I JUST

4:11:12 ASK ONE MORE QUESTION?

4:11:13 UM, COULD I JUST I'M GOING TO

4:11:15 VOTE YES ON THIS.

4:11:16 WHAT COULD THE CHAIR TELL

4:11:19 ME ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION

4:11:20 BETWEEN BOSTON POLICE AND OTHER

4:11:24 FIRST RESPONDERS IN IN DO WHAT

4:11:26 IS DO WHAT PART OF THIS

4:11:27 CONVERSATION AS WELL?

4:11:29 YEP.

4:11:29 DO IT AS ALWAYS PART OF ALL

4:11:31 OF THESE CONVERSATIONS.

4:11:32 UM I.

4:11:33 HAVEN'T HAD DIRECT

4:11:34 CONVERSATIONS WOULD DO IT

4:11:35 MYSELF.

4:11:36 UM BUT THEY ARE THEY ARE.

4:11:38 THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE

4:11:39 OVERSEERS.

4:11:40 OF ALL OF THIS.

4:11:42 UM THANK YOU, UH,

4:11:44 COUNCIL SANTANA FOR ANSWER MY

4:11:45 QUESTIONS.

4:11:45 THANK YOU.

4:11:46 THANK YOU,

4:11:47 COUNCILOR SANTANA.

4:11:49 UM, COUNCILOR SANTANA MOVES FOR

4:11:53 PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1225.

4:11:55 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

4:11:57 ALL OPPOSED.

4:11:58 SAY NAY.

4:11:59 MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:12:01 TAKE A ROLL CALL?

4:12:01 VOTE ON DOCKET 1225 ROLL.

4:12:04 CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1225

4:12:06 COUNCILOR BRITAIN YES

4:12:08 CONTEMPLATING ASK CIRCLE ADDIS

4:12:10 ABABA COUNCIL CULPEPER.

4:12:11 YES.

4:12:12 CONCEPT CALLED PROPER.

4:12:13 YES.

4:12:13 CONCEPT.

4:12:14 JOKING.

4:12:14 CONSENT VOTING YES.

4:12:16 COUNCIL FITZGERALD.

4:12:18 FITZGERALD.

4:12:18 YES.

4:12:18 COUNCIL.

4:12:19 FLYNN I'M JUST SAYING YES.

4:12:21 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE WANTS

4:12:22 INCLUSION.

4:12:23 COUNCIL.

4:12:25 MAYOR.

4:12:25 COUNCIL MURPHY.

4:12:26 YES.

4:12:26 SOME OF THE YES TOWNSHIP OPEN

4:12:27 CONCEPT UP AND

4:12:29 COUNCILOR SANTANA WANTS A

4:12:31 SANTANA WEBER COUNCIL WHEREBY

4:12:34 CONTROVERSIAL YES THAT'S RIGHT

4:12:36 YES 11 AND AFFIRMATIVE.

4:12:38 THANK YOU DOCKET 1225 HAS

4:12:41 PASSED.

4:12:44 WE ARE NOW UH MOVING ON TO LIT

4:12:47 FILES.

4:12:48 UM.

4:12:51 MADAM CLERK TO HAVE ANY.

4:12:56 WE'VE I'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED

4:12:58 WE HAVE ONE ONE LEAD FILE WHICH

4:13:00 IS A HEARING ORDER.

4:13:02 UM, AND THEN ABSENT OBJECTION

4:13:06 THESE LEAD FILE MATTERS WILL BE

4:13:08 ADDED.

4:13:08 MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

4:13:10 READ THE LEAD FILE MATTER INTO

4:13:11 THE RECORD.

4:13:12 OFFERED BY COUNCIL?

4:13:14 UM, CALLED PEPPER ORDER FOR A

4:13:15 HEARING REGARDING A COMMUNITY

4:13:18 BASED SUMMER PUBLIC SAFETY PLAN

4:13:19 FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON.

4:13:21 THANK YOU, CHAIR BRACKEN.

4:13:23 UH.

4:13:25 THANK YOU.

4:13:25 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:13:27 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

4:13:27 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:13:30 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:13:31 I'D LIKE TO REQUEST SUSPENSION

4:13:33 OF THE RULES INTRODUCED THE

4:13:35 LATE FALL AND I WOULD LIKE TO

4:13:36 ADD COUNCIL.

4:13:37 WELL, AS A SECOND ORIGINAL

4:13:39 CO-SPONSOR AND REQUEST

4:13:41 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO ADD

4:13:43 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD

4:13:45 CO-SPONSOR.

4:13:46 AND IF I COULD, I WOULD REQUEST

4:13:49 SUSPENSION OF THE RULE THAT I

4:13:51 THE LOUIJEUNE AS A FOURTH.

4:13:54 CO-SPONSOR.

4:13:55 BUT SINCE I CAN'T.

4:14:00 UH SO.

4:14:04 COUNCILOR I NEED TO BACK UP

4:14:05 A LITTLE COUNCILOR.

4:14:06 AS WELL AS THE SECOND ORIGINAL

4:14:09 CO-SPONSOR AND REQUEST

4:14:11 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO

4:14:13 COUNCILOR SANTANA AS THE THIRD

4:14:15 ORIGINAL COSPONSORED.

4:14:17 COUNCILOR ELLIS ADDED A SECOND

4:14:19 AND COUNCILOR SANTANA IS SEEING

4:14:20 AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS.

4:14:22 COUNCILOR SANTANA'S ADDED AS A

4:14:23 THIRD UM THE CHAIR MOVES AT

4:14:28 PASSAGE OF THESE UH FOR PASSAGE

4:14:29 OF THESE LATE FILE MATTERS.

4:14:31 ALL IN FAVOR THIS IS TO GET

4:14:32 THEM INTO THE TO HAVE THEM

4:14:34 BEFORE THE BODIES.

4:14:35 I BEG YOUR PARDON?

4:14:35 I'M SLIGHTLY OUT OF ORDER.

4:14:37 HERE YOU ARE.

4:14:40 UM.

4:14:41 THE CHAIR MOVES THE PASSAGE

4:14:42 OF ALL IS THERE ALL IN FAVOR

4:14:43 SAY AYE.

4:14:44 ALL OPPOSED?

4:14:44 NAY.

4:14:45 YEAH, I HAVE IT.

4:14:46 UM.

4:14:48 WELL, THAT'S A.

4:14:49 PERSONNEL COUNCILOR.

4:14:51 PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR VIEW

4:14:53 TIME.

4:14:53 MADAM PRESIDENT, THE RECENT, UH

4:14:55 ,ACTS OF VIOLENCE ACROSS OUR

4:14:57 CITY OVER THE 4TH OF JULY

4:14:59 WEEKEND HAVE BEEN HEARTBREAKING

4:15:01 AND DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACTION.

4:15:02 AFTER SPEAKING WITH COMMUNITY

4:15:04 LEADERS MONDAY, IT WAS CLEAR

4:15:06 THEIR VOICES MUST BE AT THE

4:15:08 TABLE NOW.

4:15:09 WHICH IS WHY I'M PUTTING

4:15:10 FORWARD THIS LATE FILE.

4:15:12 THIS IS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION

4:15:14 THAT REQUIRES IMMEDIATE

4:15:16 RESPONSE FROM THE COUNCIL AS WE

4:15:18 DISCUSS WHAT A COMMUNITY BASED

4:15:20 SUMMER SAFETY PLAN SHOULD LOOK

4:15:22 LIKE, WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT

4:15:25 WE DO NOT HAVE TO START FROM

4:15:27 SCRATCH.

4:15:28 ORGANIZATION LIKE THE GREATEST

4:15:30 MINDS TOWARDS LIFE MUST 11 HAVE

4:15:33 MENTORED YOUNG PEOPLE AND

4:15:34 INVESTED IN NEIGHBORHOODS TODAY

4:15:36 TOO OFTEN CARRIED A

4:15:38 DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE SHARE

4:15:39 OF THE BURDEN OF GUN VIOLENCE.

4:15:42 THEIR WORK HAS SAVED LIVES AND

4:15:45 ANY COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC SAFETY

4:15:47 STRATEGY SHOULD BUILD UPON.

4:15:49 I DUPLICATE OR OVERLOOK THE

4:15:50 WORK THE THEY'VE ALREADY DONE

4:15:53 AND ARE STILL DOING WHEN THE

4:15:55 CITY CUTS FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY

4:15:56 FACING PROGRAMING, THE

4:15:59 COMMUNITY WORK CONTINUES WHEN

4:16:01 THE CITY DOES NOT ADEQUATELY

4:16:02 PLAN FOR SUMMER SAFETY ACROSS

4:16:04 OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, THE

4:16:06 COMMUNITY STEPS IN.

4:16:07 THIS IS THE WORK THAT THE

4:16:09 SERVICES THAT THE CITY SHOULD

4:16:11 BE LEADING AND RESOURCING ALL

4:16:12 ALONG.

4:16:13 THE COMMUNITY WILL ALWAYS BE

4:16:14 THERE FOR ONE ANOTHER BUT THEY

4:16:16 SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE.

4:16:18 THIS IS WHY I'M READY TO FORM

4:16:20 ANOTHER COALITION COALITION FOR

4:16:23 PEACE OF BOSTON.

4:16:24 THE ORGANIZATION AND RESIDENTS

4:16:25 HAVE SPENT YEARS DOING THIS

4:16:27 WORK ON THE GROUND AND THEY

4:16:28 SHOULD NOT SIMPLY BE CONSULTED

4:16:30 AFTER THE PLAN IS DRAFTED.

4:16:32 THEY SHOULD BE ACTIVE PARTNERS

4:16:34 IN DEVELOPING IT FROM THE VERY

4:16:35 BEGINNING.

4:16:36 THIS IS HOW WE BUILD A STRATEGY

4:16:39 THAT IS BOTH EFFECTIVE AND

4:16:41 ROOTED IN COMMUNITIES IT IS

4:16:43 MEANT TO SERVE.

4:16:44 THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:16:46 THANK YOU.

4:16:47 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

4:16:48 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:16:49 COUNCILOR RAIL COUNCILOR YOU

4:16:50 HAVE THE FLOOR THE.

4:16:53 UM THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:16:55 THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR CULPEPER

4:16:56 FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

4:16:58 AND I ALSO WANT TO EXTEND MY

4:17:00 PRAYERS AND MY THOUGHTS TO ALL

4:17:03 THE FAMILIES IMPACTED BY THE

4:17:04 RECENT GUN VIOLENCE.

4:17:06 UM, OVER THE WEEKEND I ALSO

4:17:07 WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EFFORTS

4:17:11 THAT SO MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS

4:17:14 HAVE STEPPED UP WANTING TO

4:17:16 ASSIST THE CITY AND ALL CITY

4:17:18 DEPARTMENTS ON CREATING A

4:17:20 SUMMER OF PEACE AND A MORE, UH,

4:17:23 WAY TO COLLABORATE ON

4:17:26 ESTABLISHING NEW INITIATIVES OR

4:17:28 REESTABLISHING OLD INITIATIVES

4:17:30 HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON THAT

4:17:31 HAVE BEEN PROVEN, UH, TO BE

4:17:33 EFFECTIVE.

4:17:34 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

4:17:35 CONVERSATION, WORKING WITH ALL

4:17:37 STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED AND

4:17:38 SEEING IF WE CAN BRING

4:17:40 COMMUNITY MEMBERS, CITY

4:17:42 DEPARTMENTS, UH, STATE AGENCIES

4:17:44 TO THE TABLE TO REINSTATE OR

4:17:47 RESTART UH, SOME PAST PROGRAMS

4:17:49 BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT

4:17:51 EVERYONE HAS A VOICE AND MAKING

4:17:52 SURE THAT WE HAVE UH, A SUMMER

4:17:55 AND WHEN WE CONTINUE TO

4:17:57 DECREASE THE VIOLENCE IN OUR

4:17:58 NEIGHBORHOOD.

4:17:58 THANK YOU.

4:18:00 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:18:01 COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL YOU

4:18:03 HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:18:03 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:18:04 AND ONE THING

4:18:06 COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM, AND

4:18:08 COUNCIL ARE WELL FOR YOUR, UH,

4:18:10 LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

4:18:11 UM, YOU KNOW, THIS PAST WEEKEND

4:18:12 THE EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE HIT

4:18:14 DEVASTATINGLY CLOSE TO HOME

4:18:16 RIGHT ON OUR OWN DOORSTEPS, UM,

4:18:18 WHERE 13 PEOPLE SHOT AND TWO

4:18:21 LIVES TRAGICALLY CUT SHORT.

4:18:22 UM, YOU KNOW, MY HEART GOES TO

4:18:25 THE FAMILIES, UM, OF THOSE WHO

4:18:28 ARE, UM, AFFECTED.

4:18:30 UM, ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WHO

4:18:32 WHO DID TRAGICALLY PASSED AWAY

4:18:34 UM, OR SOMEONE THAT I USED TO

4:18:36 PLAY BASEBALL WITH UM, IN

4:18:37 LITTLE LEAGUE UM, AND YOU KNOW,

4:18:39 JUST WANT TO READ HIS NAME INTO

4:18:40 THE BACKGROUND OF IT ALL CHRIS

4:18:42 CONWAY UM, SOMEONE WHO, UM, WAS

4:18:45 VERY LOVED AND IN OUR

4:18:47 COMMUNITIES, UM.

4:18:51 I'M CARRYING A HEAVY HEART A

4:18:53 GRIEF THAT I KNOW IS SHARED BY

4:18:55 FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS ALL

4:18:57 ACROSS BOSTON AND I REFUSE AS

4:19:00 WE AS A CITY MUST REFUSE TO

4:19:02 EVEN NORMALIZE A REALITY WHERE

4:19:04 OUR STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS

4:19:06 CELEBRATIONS TURNED INTO SCENES

4:19:07 OF CHAOS AND HEARTBREAK.

4:19:09 VIOLENCE WAS NEVER ACCEPTABLE

4:19:12 OR WE CAN LOOK ACROSS THE STATE

4:19:13 AND THE COUNTRY AND SEE SIMILAR

4:19:15 STRUGGLES.

4:19:16 MY FOCUS TODAY IS ENTIRELY ON

4:19:18 OUR HOME.

4:19:19 TO TRULY PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY

4:19:20 WE HAVE TO CONFRONT A DIFFICULT

4:19:22 TRUTH WE CANNOT SIMPLY POLICE

4:19:24 OR REACT OUR WAY OUT OF THIS

4:19:26 CYCLE.

4:19:27 I BELIEVE IT IS A FAILURE

4:19:28 OF LEADERSHIP IF WE ONLY THROW

4:19:29 RESOURCES INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD

4:19:31 AFTER A TRAGEDY HAS ALREADY

4:19:33 OCCURRED, WE NEED TO BRACE

4:19:34 OURSELVES FOR THE MARATHON

4:19:36 OF THE WORK AHEAD.

4:19:38 THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS HERE.

4:19:40 I AM URGING AN IMMEDIATE

4:19:41 EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF CITY

4:19:43 RESOURCES, SHIFTING OUR

4:19:45 STRATEGY ENTIRELY FROM REACTIVE

4:19:46 DAMAGE CONTROL TO ROOT CAUSES

4:19:49 SOLUTIONS.

4:19:51 TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING

4:19:52 AGAIN, WE MUST ENSURE THAT

4:19:53 EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN BOSTON

4:19:55 HAS IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO

4:19:56 MEANINGFUL ECONOMIC

4:19:57 OPPORTUNITIES, ROBUST

4:19:59 MENTORSHIP AND LOCALIZED

4:20:00 SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

4:20:01 THIS MEANS CREATING YEAR ROUND

4:20:04 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PIPELINES,

4:20:06 SECURING SUSTAINABLE FUNDING

4:20:07 FOR OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS AND

4:20:09 BUILDING LOCALIZED NETWORKS

4:20:11 WHERE YOUTH AND ADULTS ALIKE

4:20:13 CAN EASILY FIND CAREER GUIDANCE

4:20:15 OR MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTANT

4:20:16 RIGHT IN THEIR BLOCK THROUGH

4:20:19 SAFETY IS BUILT WHEN WE EMPOWER

4:20:21 OUR COMMUNITIES FROM WITHIN

4:20:22 GIVEN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND

4:20:23 STRUCTURAL SUPPORT UM AND

4:20:26 RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO

4:20:27 UPLIFT THEMSELVES, OUR

4:20:28 NEIGHBORHOODS DESERVE NOTHING

4:20:29 LESS THAN OUR TOTAL COMMITMENT.

4:20:32 I AM READY TO BEGIN THAT

4:20:33 STRUCTURAL WORK WITH YOU TODAY

4:20:35 .

4:20:35 ENSURING SAFETY AND OPPORTUNITY

4:20:37 BELONGS TO EVERY SINGLE

4:20:38 RESIDENT.

4:20:39 I REALLY WANT TO AGAIN THANK

4:20:41 COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM FOR FOR

4:20:43 THIS FILING.

4:20:44 UM AND WE MUST GET TO WORK.

4:20:45 THANK YOU.

4:20:48 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

4:20:49 NAME?

4:20:51 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:20:52 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

4:20:52 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:20:53 COUNCIL DIVISION COUNCILOR.

4:20:54 MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN

4:20:57 COUNCILOR UH WEBER.

4:20:58 AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

4:21:01 UH, THIS DOCKET WILL BE

4:21:03 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

4:21:05 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL

4:21:06 JUSTICE.

4:21:11 WE ARE NOW ON TO THE CONSENT

4:21:13 AGENDA.

4:21:14 I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE

4:21:15 CHURCH THAT THERE ARE NO

4:21:16 ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA

4:21:18 .

4:21:18 THE QUESTION QUESTION NOW COMES

4:21:20 TO AN APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS

4:21:21 MATTERS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

4:21:22 CONSENT AGENDA.

4:21:24 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU.

4:21:27 THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN

4:21:28 ADOPTED.

4:21:29 WE ARE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

4:21:31 PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE

4:21:32 FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.

4:21:35 DOES ANYONE HAVE AN

4:21:37 ANNOUNCEMENT?

4:21:37 IF YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR LIGHT

4:21:38 ON I'LL CALL ON YOU.

4:21:42 UH WE WANT TO BE WE ARE WISHING

4:21:44 A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DIANA

4:21:47 BRANCH.

4:21:48 UH, COUNSELOR AND COUNSELOR

4:21:50 PEPEHANDS OFFICE.

4:21:52 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANA.

4:21:54 UM, ANYONE ELSE?

4:21:55 AND YOUR BIRTHDAY IS COMING UP.

4:21:57 UH, WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

4:21:59 MEMORIALS.

4:22:02 OH, YOU CANCEL LOUIJEUNE

4:22:04 WITHDRAW.

4:22:04 THANK YOU.

4:22:05 HE WOULD.

4:22:06 ABSOLUTELY HATE TO KNOW THAT

4:22:07 I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE HE DOES

4:22:09 NOT LIKE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS

4:22:10 BIRTHDAY.

4:22:10 BUT I JUST LOVE MY DAD SO MUCH

4:22:12 AND HIS BIRTHDAY IS NEXT WEEK,

4:22:14 SO I'M I'M JUST SO LUCKY TO, UM

4:22:17 ,HAVE HIM IN MY LIFE AND I

4:22:19 WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS

4:22:20 BIRTHDAY AND SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

4:22:22 TO MY DAD.

4:22:22 RIGHTLY SO.

4:22:23 YOUR DAD IS A REMARKABLE MAN

4:22:25 AND HE'S A GREAT DAD TO BECAUSE

4:22:27 UH, COUNSELOR COUNCIL FRIEND

4:22:29 YOU HAVE THE FOR.

4:22:31 .

4:22:32 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:22:33 UM, I WANTED TO MAKE AN

4:22:34 ANNOUNCEMENT, UM, ABOUT THE

4:22:38 NURSES STRIKE THAT IS TAKING

4:22:40 PLACE RIGHT NOW AT BRIGHAM AND

4:22:42 WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.

4:22:42 I WAS OVER THERE THIS MORNING.

4:22:45 UM, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE'S

4:22:47 STILL AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM,

4:22:49 OTHERS TO JOIN THAT MAY WANT TO

4:22:51 GO.

4:22:51 I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

4:22:53 COUNCILOR DURKAN AND MYSELF

4:22:54 SPONSORED A CITY

4:22:56 COUNCIL RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

4:22:57 OF THE NURSES.

4:22:59 UM, A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.

4:23:01 UM, BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT

4:23:05 FOR US TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

4:23:07 OUR SUPPORT NURSES AT BRIGHAM

4:23:10 AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL LIKE WE

4:23:12 HAVE AT MANY OTHER HOSPITALS

4:23:13 ACROSS BOSTON AND GREATER

4:23:15 BOSTON.

4:23:15 THEY PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN

4:23:16 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, BUT

4:23:18 THEY PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL CARE

4:23:21 AND DESERVE DIGNITY AND

4:23:23 RESPECT.

4:23:23 BUT I I DO WANT TO SAY THANK

4:23:25 YOU ALSO TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR

4:23:27 THEIR LONG TIME SUPPORT OF UM

4:23:30 NURSES THROUGHOUT GREATER

4:23:32 BOSTON, THROUGHOUT

4:23:33 MASSACHUSETTS BUT ALSO TO LET

4:23:35 PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE'S STILL

4:23:36 TIME IF THEY DO WANT TO GET

4:23:38 OVER TO, UH, THE STRIKE THIS

4:23:39 AFTERNOON.

4:23:40 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:23:41 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:23:42 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:23:44 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

4:23:44 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:23:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

4:23:46 AND THANK YOU TO

4:23:47 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR HIS

4:23:48 LEADERSHIP ON THAT ISSUE.

4:23:48 I WILL BE HEADED THERE SHORTLY.

4:23:50 UM, BUT JUST

4:23:52 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE REMINDED

4:23:53 ME MY MOM'S BIRTHDAY IS JULY

4:23:55 19TH.

4:23:55 I NEED EVERY READ.

4:23:56 SHE IS COMING TO TOWN TO

4:23:58 CELEBRATE WITH US AND I KNOW

4:23:59 SHE'S READY FOR TALL SHIPS AND

4:24:01 EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN

4:24:02 BOSTON RIGHT NOW.

4:24:03 SO, UH, I DIDN'T REALIZE WE

4:24:05 DIDN'T HAVE A MEETING, SO THANK

4:24:06 YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

4:24:07 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR DAD.

4:24:10 THANK YOU.

4:24:13 UH, WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

4:24:14 MEMORIALS.

4:24:15 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO LIFT UP A

4:24:17 NAME?

4:24:20 COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU HAVE

4:24:20 THE FLOOR.

4:24:21 MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

4:24:24 TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF RICHARD

4:24:26 WESTON OF THE SOUTH IN 40 YEAR

4:24:31 PARTNER OF BOB BARNEY.

4:24:35 WE ASKED THE KEEP.

4:24:37 ABOUT BARNEY AND HIS FAMILY AND

4:24:40 THE FAMILY OF RICHARD WESTON IN

4:24:43 PRAYER.

4:24:43 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:24:45 THANK YOU.

4:24:46 I'M JUST GOING TO GO AND RUN

4:24:47 THE ROOM.

4:24:48 SO, UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN, UH,

4:24:50 YOU'RE NEXT.

4:24:51 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

4:24:52 I'M WANTED TO READ INTO THE

4:24:53 RECORD MANUEL DE SOUSA CASTILLO

4:24:56 FLORES UM, WHO PASSED AWAY?

4:24:58 UM, HE WAS A GREEN LINE WORKER

4:25:00 ,UH, TRAIN DRIVER AND WAS

4:25:01 KNOWN FOR HIS DEDICATION AND

4:25:03 KINDNESS.

4:25:03 UM, I KNOW THE UNION IS REALLY

4:25:05 THE CARBON'S UNION IS REALLY,

4:25:06 UM, REALLY SAD, UM, ABOUT HIS

4:25:09 PASSING.

4:25:10 UM, I KNOW THAT HIS BODY WILL

4:25:12 TRAVEL TO EL SALVADOR WHERE HIS

4:25:13 MOTHER WAITS FOR HIM, UH, TO

4:25:15 LAY HIM TO REST.

4:25:16 UM, AND THIS JOURNEY IS REALLY

4:25:18 IMPORTANT TO HIS FAMILY.

4:25:19 UH, BUT JUST WANTED TO WRAP MY

4:25:20 ARMS AROUND THE CARMEN'S UNION

4:25:22 AND EVERYONE WHO WORKS FOR THE

4:25:23 TI UM, AS I KNOW THEY LOST HIM

4:25:25 EARLY, SO THANK YOU.

4:25:27 THANK YOU.

4:25:28 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:25:29 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:25:29 COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:25:31 AND THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:25:32 AND, UM, REVEREND COLE PEPPER

4:25:34 MENTIONED, UM, BOB BARNEY'S

4:25:37 PARTNER, UH, MR WEST.

4:25:38 AND SO I ALSO WANT TO OFFER MY

4:25:40 CONDOLENCES AS WELL AND TO LET

4:25:43 THEM LET BOB AND THE FAMILY

4:25:46 KNOW THAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT

4:25:48 THEM DURING THIS CHALLENGING

4:25:49 TIME.

4:25:49 OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THEM.

4:25:51 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:25:52 THANK YOU.

4:25:53 CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES FROM THE

4:25:54 REGION.

4:25:55 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:25:56 THANK YOU.

4:25:56 I SIMPLY WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

4:25:57 PASSING OF, UH.

4:25:58 CHRIS CONWAY.

4:25:59 UM, AS COUNCILOR SANTANA

4:26:02 MENTIONED, UM, AND JUST HIS

4:26:04 ENTIRE FAMILY IS JUST MOURNING

4:26:06 .

4:26:06 SO I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

4:26:07 MEMORY OF CHRIS CONWAY.

4:26:09 UM, ALSO WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

4:26:11 MEMORY OF, UM AT MORNINGSTAR

4:26:13 BAPTIST CHURCH THERE IS A BUNCH

4:26:16 OF NURSE NURSES AND, UH,

4:26:19 ROSEMARY NICHOLAS AS SOMEONE

4:26:20 WHO PASSED AWAY AND WHO WAS A

4:26:22 BELOVED MEMBER OF THE

4:26:23 MORNINGSTAR COMMUNITY SO JUST

4:26:24 WANTED TO LIFT HER UP AND LAST

4:26:26 BUT NOT LEAST SOMEONE WHO HAD

4:26:27 AN OUTSIZED IMPACT, UM, IN

4:26:29 ROXBURY AND IN THE ENTIRE CITY

4:26:31 OF BOSTON, PASTOR CHRIS ABNER

4:26:33 JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT

4:26:34 WE, UM, RECOGNIZE HIM AND ALL

4:26:37 HE HAS MEANT TO SO MANY WHETHER

4:26:38 IT BE IN THE JUBILEE COMMUNITY

4:26:40 OR IN THE CITY OF BOSTON ALL

4:26:41 THAT HE HAS DONE UM, JUST

4:26:43 WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND

4:26:44 GIVE MY CONDOLENCES TO HIS

4:26:45 FAMILY AS WELL.

4:26:46 THANK YOU.

4:26:47 UM, CONSOLE LOUIJEUNE WOULD YOU

4:26:49 REMAIN MIND REPEATING YOUR YOUR

4:26:52 FIRST ONE I WAS CHRIS CONNELLY

4:26:53 BUT YOU HAD ANOTHER CONWAY.

4:26:56 YES.

4:26:57 UM.

4:26:58 I'M SORRY.

4:26:58 I WANT.

4:26:59 TO THANK YOU, PASTOR UH,

4:27:00 CHRIS.

4:27:01 SUMNER YEAH.

4:27:02 UM, AND THEN, UH, ROSEMARY.

4:27:05 ROSEMARY.

4:27:07 ROSEMARY NICOLE NICHOLS.

4:27:10 NICHOLAS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR

4:27:13 PATIENCE.

4:27:15 UM, NEXT, UM, COUNCILOR MURPHY

4:27:18 ,YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:27:19 THANK YOU.

4:27:20 I WANTED TO UPLIFT.

4:27:22 ALONG WITH.

4:27:23 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

4:27:23 PAULA RYAN FROM.

4:27:25 SOUTH BOSTON.

4:27:26 THE WEST NINTH FRIENDS ARE

4:27:28 MOURNING HER.

4:27:29 WE WERE AT ONE OF THE UNITY

4:27:30 DAYS.

4:27:31 JUST THINK IT WAS.

4:27:32 JUST YESTERDAY AND IT WAS.

4:27:34 IT WAS SAD TO NOT SEE HER

4:27:36 THERE.

4:27:36 SHE ALWAYS HAD SUCH A BIG

4:27:37 PRESENCE AND WAS AT ALL.

4:27:38 THE EVENTS AROUND THE

4:27:41 NEIGHBORHOOD AND.

4:27:42 ALSO ENJOYED ALWAYS.

4:27:44 GOING TO THE SPECIAL KIDS SOUTH

4:27:46 BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS EVENTS SO

4:27:48 YOU WOULD.

4:27:49 SEE HER SMILING FACE AND THE.

4:27:51 NEIGHBORHOOD IS MISSING HER SO

4:27:52 I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT HER

4:27:53 NAME.

4:27:53 THANK YOU.

4:27:55 THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN.

4:27:58 UM THANK YOU.

4:27:59 I WOULD LIKE TO UPLIFT THE

4:28:00 MEMORY OF JOHN RAYMOND.

4:28:02 HE IS WAS A RESIDENT OF HYDE

4:28:04 PARK SPECIFICALLY THE PRIDE ONE

4:28:05 OF THE FIRST RESIDENTS TO MOVE

4:28:07 INTO THE PRIDE.

4:28:08 UM.

4:28:09 JUST WITH HIM A COUPLE

4:28:10 MONTHS AGO FOR COFFEE HOUR AND

4:28:12 ,UM, HE WAS ALSO ONCE THE HEAD

4:28:14 OF THE HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD

4:28:16 ASSOCIATION, VERY PROMINENT

4:28:17 LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.

4:28:18 SO I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

4:28:19 SPIRITS AND SEND MY MY LOVE AND

4:28:21 PRAYERS TO ALSO THE RESIDENTS

4:28:22 OF THE PRIDE THAT I KNOW TIGHT

4:28:24 KNIT COMMUNITY.

4:28:25 IS JOHN RAYMOND.

4:28:27 THANK YOU.

4:28:30 UM CONSCIOUS COUNTRY SANTANA.

4:28:33 UM THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

4:28:34 I JUST WANT TO AGAIN JUST UH

4:28:36 UM, UPLIFT THE NAME OF CHRIS

4:28:38 CONWAY, UM, WHO WE JUST LOST

4:28:40 OVER THE WEEKEND AND UPLIFT UM,

4:28:42 AND UH, THE THOUGHTS AND

4:28:43 PRAYERS TO, UM, HIS ENTIRE

4:28:45 FAMILY.

4:28:46 UH, I KNOW UM, SO MANY

4:28:48 RESIDENTS.

4:28:49 UM, OUR MOURNING IS MOURNING

4:28:51 HIS LOSS.

4:28:51 AND FOR ANYONE WHO KNEW CHRIS,

4:28:53 UM, HE WAS JUST A BEACON

4:28:54 OF LIGHT.

4:28:54 SOMEONE WHO, UM, WAS WAS VERY

4:28:57 POSITIVE.

4:28:58 UM, SUCH A GREAT, UM, YOUNG

4:29:00 MAN, UM, AND SOMEONE THAT WE'D

4:29:02 ACTUALLY LOST, UM, TOO QUICKLY

4:29:03 .

4:29:03 SO I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO

4:29:05 UPLIFT HIS NAME.

4:29:06 THANK YOU.

4:29:07 CHAIR RECOGNIZES

4:29:08 COUNCILOR WEBER.

4:29:09 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:29:10 UH, YEAH.

4:29:11 I'D LIKE TO, UM, UH, SPEAK IN

4:29:13 HONOR OF, UH, JIM GALVIN.

4:29:16 UH, WHO, UH, RESIDENT

4:29:18 OF ROSLINDALE WAS A.

4:29:19 STAPLE OF PARKWAY LITTLE

4:29:20 LEAGUE.

4:29:20 HE COACHED UH, LITTLE LEAGUE

4:29:22 FOR 33 YEARS.

4:29:23 UM, AND UH, YOU KNOW, THE

4:29:26 DRIVING TEAMS TO MAKE THE

4:29:27 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES.

4:29:29 HE COMPILED.

4:29:29 TWO STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND

4:29:31 MULTIPLE DISTRICT AND SECTIONAL

4:29:33 TITLES.

4:29:35 UM, HIS, UH, FUNERAL'S UH

4:29:37 TOMORROW TOMORROW MORNING AT 9

4:29:39 A.M. AT THE UH GORMLEY FUNERAL

4:29:41 HOME IN WEST ROXBURY WITH A

4:29:42 MASS SAINT THERESA AT UH, 10

4:29:45 A.M..

4:29:45 THANK YOU.

4:29:46 THANK YOU TO RECOGNIZE

4:29:48 CONSTABLE.

4:29:48 WELL, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

4:29:50 UH, I'D LIKE TO, UH, REMEMBER

4:29:51 THE NAME OF CHRIS CONWAY.

4:29:53 UM, ALSO PASTOR SUMMER AND

4:29:55 THEN, UH, CHURCH FAMILY LOST,

4:29:57 UM, OUR LEAD DEACON OUR HEAD

4:29:58 DEACON, UM, MICHAEL YOUNG.

4:30:00 SO, UH, PLEASE KEEP ALL THESE

4:30:02 FAMILIES IN THESE NAMES.

4:30:04 UM, IN YOUR PRAYERS.

4:30:06 MICHAEL YOUNG.

4:30:07 OKAY.

4:30:11 THANK YOU.

4:30:15 ON BEHALF OF COUNSELORS.

4:30:16 WELL, UM, AND, UH LOUIJEUNE

4:30:20 PASTOR CHRIS SUMNER ON BEHALF

4:30:23 OF COUNCIL DURKAN MANUEL MANNY

4:30:26 ,THE OFFICERS CASTELO FLORES

4:30:30 ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR WEBER

4:30:32 JIM GALVIN AND BEHALF

4:30:34 OF COUNSELOR COLLETTE AS A PART

4:30:36 OF JEAN.

4:30:37 A TOUGH.

4:30:38 TOUGH AND.

4:30:42 UH ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR

4:30:44 LOUIJEUNE ROSEMARY NICHOLAS ON

4:30:47 BEHALF OF COUNTRY LOUIJEUNE

4:30:49 CONSCIOUS INTERNAL AND CULTURAL

4:30:51 REL CHRIS CONWAY ON BEHALF

4:30:54 OF COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND

4:30:55 FLYNN RICHARD WESTON ON BEHALF

4:30:59 OF COUNCILMAN MURPHY PAUL RYAN

4:31:02 BEHALF OF COUNCILOR PEPPER JOHN

4:31:04 RAYMOND AND ON BEHALF

4:31:07 OF CANTRELL MICHAEL YOUNG A

4:31:11 MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE.

4:31:23 THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE

4:31:24 COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY WE DO SO

4:31:26 IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED

4:31:27 INDIVIDUALS.

4:31:29 THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

4:31:30 MEET AGAIN IN THE IRON CHAMBER

4:31:33 ON JULY 22ND TWO, 2026 AT 12

4:31:36 P.M. THANK YOU TO MY

4:31:38 COLLEAGUES, CENTRAL STAFF, THE

4:31:39 CHURCH, THE CHURCH OFFICE AND

4:31:42 UH THE COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER AS

4:31:44 ALWAYS, ELLEN, THANK YOU.

4:31:45 ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT,

4:31:47 PLEASE SAY I THIS CONFERENCE

4:31:49 ADJOURNED.

4:31:50 THANK YOU.