2026-09-30 - City Council

01:18GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

01:20I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING

01:22OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

01:24VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE

01:25COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON

01:28[email protected] BACKSLASH

01:29CITY COUNCIL DASH TV.

01:32AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

01:33COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

01:34AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

01:35THEIR CELL PHONES AND

01:36ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

01:38ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42, I

01:41REMIND ALL IN THE CHAMBER THAT

01:43NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

01:44DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

01:45PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

01:47THANK YOU.

01:49MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE,

01:50UH, TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE TO

01:52ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A

01:53QUORUM?

01:54COUNCILOR BREADON HERE.

01:56COUNCIL.

01:56COLLETTA.

01:57ZAPATA.

01:58COUNCILOR.

01:58CULPEPER.

01:59COUNCILOR.

02:00DURKAN.

02:00COUNCILOR.

02:01FITZGERALD.

02:02COUNCILOR.

02:02FLYNN.

02:03COUNCIL.

02:04LOUIJEUNE.

02:04COUNCILOR.

02:05MEJIA.

02:07COUNCILOR MURPHY.

02:07COUNCILOR.

02:08THE PEN.

02:09COUNCILOR SANTANA.

02:11COUNCILOR WEBER.

02:11AND COUNCILOR.

02:12WORLD OF PALMS.

02:14THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

02:15I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE TALK

02:16THAT THE QUORUM QUORUM IS

02:18PRESENT.

02:19NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO ASK

02:21COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTNER

02:22TO COME FORWARD AND INTRODUCE

02:23HER TO THIS CLERGY.

02:32THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

02:33GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.

02:34UM, IT'S AN HONOR TO WELCOME

02:36FATHER PAOLO COMING HERE.

02:38DID I GET THAT RIGHT?

02:40EXCELLENT.

02:40OKAY.

02:40UM, FROM EAST BOSTON, FROM

02:42SACRED HEART CHURCH WHICH IS MY

02:43HOME PARISH IN EAST BOSTON.

02:45HE WAS BORN IN ITALY AND AFTER

02:48SCHOOLING HE JOINED THE

02:49SEMINARY OF THE FRATERNITY

02:50OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO IN

02:51ROME IN 2001 HE WAS OR HE WAS

02:54ORDAINED DEACON AND ASSIGNED TO

02:55THE MISSION OF THE OF THE

02:57FRATERNITY IN TAIWAN AND AFTER

02:58TEN YEARS IN TAIWAN AND A SHORT

03:00VISIT BACK TO ITALY, HE ARRIVED

03:02IN BOSTON AT THE BEGINNING

03:03OF 2012 AND TAUGHT MATH AT

03:05CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL IN

03:06DORCHESTER.

03:08IN JUNE 2013 CARDINAL SEAN

03:09O'MALLEY ENTRUSTED THE PASTORAL

03:11CARE OF SAINT CLEMENT PARISH IN

03:13MEDFORD IN SOMERVILLE WHERE HE

03:15TAUGHT MATH AND RELIGION AT

03:16SAINT CLEMENT HIGH SCHOOL FOR

03:17FOUR YEARS.

03:18AFTER THE PARISH SCHOOL CLOSED

03:22IN 2017 HE ARRIVED AS VICAR AT

03:24AT THE BEVERLY UM AT A BEVERLY

03:27CHURCH AND LATER APPOINTED

03:29CHAPLAIN AT THE SHRINE OF OUR

03:30LADY OF GOOD VOYAGE IN THE

03:31SEAPORT DISTRICT IN BOSTON ON

03:34AUGUST 1ST 2020 EAST BOSTON

03:35WELCOME FATHER TO SACRED HEART

03:37PARISH IN EAST BOSTON AND AS I

03:38MENTIONED SACRED HEART IS MY

03:39FAMILY PARISH.

03:40I WAS BAPTIZED THERE, I GOT

03:42COMMUNION THERE I RECEIVED I

03:44WAS CONFIRMED UM AND IT'S BEEN

03:46REALLY A PLEASURE AND I'M

03:48THRILLED TO SEE HOW MUCH THE

03:49CHURCH HAS THRIVED SINCE HIS

03:51ARRIVAL.

03:51HE'S OPENED UP THE, UH, SPACE

03:54IN THE BASEMENT FOR A SOUP

03:55KITCHEN WHICH MEETS EVERY FIRST

03:57FIRST WEDNESDAY OF SECOND

03:59WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH.

03:59I'M HAPPY THAT YOU CORRECTED

04:01ME AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO

04:02SEE THIS CHURCH COME ALIVE AND

04:05WELCOME UH, IN UM, FOLKS FROM

04:08EAST BOSTON NO MATTER WHO THEY

04:10ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM, UM,

04:11IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL UH, TIME

04:14TO TO BE WITH EVERYBODY AND

04:15PEOPLE HAVE REALLY GREAT

04:16CONVERSATIONS.

04:17I'VE HAD SOME OF THE BEST

04:18CONVERSATIONS AT THAT UH, SOUP

04:19KITCHEN.

04:19SO I WELCOME EVERYBODY TO BE

04:21THERE UM, AND GET A CHANCE TO

04:23HAVE A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH

04:24SOMEONE WHO I CALL A FRIEND AND

04:26REALLY GRATEFUL TO HAVE HIM

04:27HERE.

04:28UM UH, FATHER CUBAN.

04:29SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, PLEASE

04:31PROVIDE A WARM WELCOME, UH, FOR

04:33FATHER.

04:33PABLO CUBAN.

04:33YOU HAVE TO BE.

04:35THANK YOU.

04:36>> UH, COUNCILOR ZAPATA, MY

04:39FRIEND.

04:40THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

04:41IT'S MY FOURTH TIME HERE.

04:44UH, THE FIRST TIME WAS, UH,

04:46VIRTUAL IN 2020 WITH

04:48CANCER EDWARDS.

04:50UH, MY LAST NAME IS NOT VERY

04:54ITALIAN COMING?

04:55NOT SURE.

04:56I SPENT TEN YEARS IN TAIWAN IN

04:58MY LAST NAME IN TAIWAN IN

04:59CHINESE.

05:00SOUNDS LIKE HARSH LIFE WITH SO

05:02MANY MEANINGS.

05:03HARSH LIFE.

05:04WELL I'M I'M SAYING THIS

05:07BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE

05:08TO START OFF WITH SOMETHING A

05:09BIT HARSH LIKE UH WELL WE HEAR

05:13CONSTANTLY ABOUT AI APOCALYPSE

05:17WARS AND INTERNATIONAL TURMOIL,

05:19POLITICAL DIVISIONS AND

05:21TENSIONS IN OUR COUNTRY,

05:23UNCERTAINTY FOR THE FUTURE, OUR

05:25PLANET, OUR COUNTRY, OUR OUR

05:27CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN.

05:29YEAH THESE ARE SOME WORLD WHERE

05:31I'M SURE KEEP YOU AWAKE AT

05:32NIGHT AND THE REST OF MY BRAIN

05:35AND MY HEART AS YOUR BRAIN AND

05:39YOUR HEART IS ONE.

05:41WHERE CAN WE FIND SOME STABLE

05:43GROUND?

05:45ARE THERE ANY HOPE AND

05:47CERTAINTIES ON WHICH WE CAN

05:48RELY TO BUILD THE FUTURE OUR

05:49FAMILIES, OUR CITY AND OUR

05:51SOCIETY?

05:52SPEAKING OF HEADQUARTERS

05:54OF UNESCO YOU KNOW THE NATION

05:55INTERNATIONAL IT'S SORT

05:56OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC

05:58CULTURE ORGANIZATION IN PARIS

05:59LAST WEEK POPE LEO SENT REGARDS

06:04TO FINDING HOPE AND STABLE

06:06GROUND FOR THE FUTURE.

06:07I WOULD LIKE TO APPEAL TO TWO

06:08IMAGES FROM A BIBLE A GREAT

06:11CULTURAL TREASURE OF HUMANITY

06:13THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE

06:15PUBLIC SQUARE OF PENTECOST WITH

06:18OUR BABEL REPRESENTS A UNITY

06:19IMPOSED FOR DOMINATION.

06:21AT THE SAME TIME THIS EDIFICE

06:24REVEALS THAT THE MORE POWER

06:25SEEKS TO OPPRESS THE MORE IT

06:27WEAKENS ITSELF EXPOSING ITS YOU

06:29,ITS INHUMANE FACE THEREFORE

06:33CONTINUES THE CORRUPTION

06:34CULTURE WHICH ARE CONSIDERING

06:35FINES OF REDEMPTION IN THE

06:37SQUARE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE

06:38PENTECOST 50 DAYS AFTER EASTER

06:41THEIR MESSAGE OF PEACE AND

06:42MERCY THAT GOOD NEWS BY PEOPLE

06:44EVERY NATION THIS MESSAGE

06:47PROCLAIMED BY RESTRICTION JESUS

06:48VICTORY OF LIFE OVER DEATH AND

06:50SALVATION GIVES HOPE TO A

06:51WORLD.

06:52THE PENTECOST THE PUBLIC SQUARE

06:54BECOMES A PLACE FOR PEACE

06:56BECAUSE EVERY DEFENSE AGAINST

06:58HUMAN PERSONS CELEBRATING

07:00EQUITY AND PROPS.

07:01THOSE WORDS I WOULD LIKE TO

07:03INVITE EVERYONE AT THIS POINT

07:05TO RISE, SETTLE IN PRAYER AND

07:07FOLLOW ME IN PRAYER.

07:08YOU COME TO PRAY OR JUST FOLLOW

07:10SILENTLY AND QUIETLY YOUR

07:13FATHER IN HEAVEN.

07:14MAY THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS

07:17ESTEEMED COUNCIL HAVE THE

07:18COURAGE TO TAKE UP THE

07:19RESPONSIBILITY THE TASK

07:20OF PROMOTING PEACE PEACE IN

07:22YOUR HEARTS, IN THE

07:24RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN OUR

07:25FAMILIES, IN OUR CITY.

07:26MAYBE NOT GIVE IN TO THE

07:29MENTALITY OF VIOLENCE AND

07:30OPPRESSION.

07:31NEVER LONG MAY THEY LOVE LIFE

07:33AT EVERY MOMENT FROM ITS

07:34BEGINNING TO ITS END AND NOT BE

07:36AFRAID OF THE FUTURE.

07:37MAYBE NOT GROW WEARY BUT WORK

07:39TIRELESSLY FOR THE GOOD OF OUR

07:40OTHER COMMUNITIES SO THAT WITH

07:43THEM OUR BELOVED CITY OF BOSTON

07:45FIRMLY ROOTED IN ITSELF AND

07:47CONTINUE TO FLOURISH AS A TRUE

07:49HOME FOR EVERYONE.

07:50MAY GOD SUSTAIN US TEAM

07:52OFFICIALS IN THESE COMMITMENTS

07:53AND MAY BLESS SIMPLE.

07:55THANK ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN

07:56OVER CITY WE ASK FOR THROUGH

07:58CHRIST OUR LORD.

07:59AMEN.

08:02THANK YOU.

08:03>> SACRED PLEDGE.

08:06ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG.

08:08AND OF.

08:09AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR

08:11WHICH IT STANDS.

08:12ONE NATION.

08:13UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH

08:16LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

08:25THANK YOU FATHER.

08:27UH WE ARE NOW MOVING ON.

08:29WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS THIS

08:30AFTERNOON.

08:31COUNCILOR POPE CULPEPER IS

08:33RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL FORUM

08:34FOR BLACK PUBLIC

08:36ADMINISTRATORS.

08:37UH, AND I'M ALSO, UH, HAVE A

08:39PRESENTATION FOR MAURA TO

08:40ME AND THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN

08:42WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION.

08:44COUNCILOR CULPEPER, WOULD YOU

08:45LIKE TO COME FORWARD WITH YOUR

08:46GUESTS?

08:59THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

09:11I WANT TO.

09:12>> RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE

09:14BOSTON CHAPTER.

09:16OF THE.

09:17>> NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK

09:18PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS FOR

09:20JOINING US TODAY FOR THEIR

09:23PRESENTATION TO THE CITY

09:25COUNCIL DURING OUR LUNCH AND

09:26LEARN.

09:27AND IF BPA PLAYS AN IMPORTANT

09:30ROLE IN STRENGTHENING PUBLIC

09:32SERVICE BY DEVELOPING AND

09:34SUPPORTING BLACK LEADERS IN

09:35LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT HERE

09:37IN GREATER BOSTON.

09:39THE BOSTON CHAPTER CONTINUES

09:40THAT MISSION THROUGH

09:42PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT,

09:45MENTORSHIP, NETWORKING, CIVIC

09:49ENGAGEMENT AND HELPING PREPARE

09:50THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC

09:52SERVANTS AND CULTIVATING

09:54LEADERS WHO STRENGTHEN OUR

09:56COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVE OUR

09:57GOVERNMENT.

09:58WE WANT TO THANK THE MEMBERS

09:59OF THE BOSTON CHAPTER NOT ONLY

10:01FOR SPENDING TIME WITH US

10:03TODAY, BUT FOR THE WORK YOU DO

10:04EVERY DAY HERE IN BOSTON,

10:06THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS AND AS

10:09A PART OF A NATIONAL

10:10ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO

10:11EXCELLENCE AND OPPORTUNITY IN

10:14PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

10:15IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WELCOME

10:17YOU TO CITY HALL AND LOOK

10:18FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK

10:20TOGETHER TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC

10:22SERVICE AND DEVELOP THE NEXT

10:25GENERATION OF LEADERS.

10:26AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO GIVE A

10:28SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO A LONG

10:30TIME FRIEND UH, WHEN WE WERE.

10:33YOU YOUTH I'M NOT TELLING HOW

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

10:39FRIENDS FOR A REALLY LONG TIME

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

10:43PAST PRESIDENT HONORED.

10:45UH.

10:47THANK YOU.

10:48>> VERY MUCH.

10:49UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER AND, UH

10:51,I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL

10:52OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON

10:55CITY COUNCIL FOR ATTENDING THE

10:58PRESENTATION THIS MORNING.

10:59AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK ALL

11:03OF THE STAFF MEMBERS AND IN

11:06PARTICULAR THE STAFF THAT, UH,

11:07WORK WITH COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

11:09FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN

11:11ORGANIZING THE THE MEETING THAT

11:13WE HELD THIS MORNING TO SHARE

11:16INFORMATION RELATED TO THE

11:17NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC

11:19ADMINISTRATORS AND THE

11:20IMPORTANT WORK THAT WE DO NOT

11:22ONLY LOCALLY BUT ALSO

11:23NATIONALLY.

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

11:28ALL ALL OF YOUR GRACIOUS

11:31HOSPITALITY AND UH, I'M HAPPY

11:33TO SAY THAT AS A LONG TERM

11:34RESIDENT, UH, TRANSPLANT TO

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

11:41SEE THAT, UH, WE CONTINUE TO

11:43MAKE, UM, PROGRESS, BUILD

11:46BRIDGES AND ALSO ADDRESS, UM,

11:50MANY PROBLEMS WITH NEW

11:51SOLUTIONS AND NEW STRATEGIES TO

11:54MOVE FORWARD IN A VERY A VERY

11:57POSITIVE MANNER FOR THE FUTURE.

11:59THANK YOU AGAIN, UH,

12:02COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND THANK

12:02YOU TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE

12:04CITY COUNCIL AND UM AND FRIENDS

12:07WHO ARE HERE TODAY.

12:09MICHAEL, FORMER PRESIDENT

12:12OF THE BOSTON CHAPTER OF THE

12:14NATIONAL FORUM OF BLACK PUBLIC

12:17ADMINISTRATORS.

12:17THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

12:19CULPEPER AND.

12:20THANK YOU.

12:21TO CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR VERY

12:23WARM AND GENEROUS WELCOME TO

12:25OUR CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES.

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

12:30PLEASURE TO MEET ALL OF YOU.

12:32UM, AS A LONG TIME UH,

12:35DORCHESTER RESIDENT THOUGH UH,

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

12:40PROFESSOR IN PUBLIC POLICY AND

12:43PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,

12:44UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

12:45BOSTON UM, I SEE FIRSTHAND THE

12:49POWER OF.

12:50GOOD GOVERNMENT.

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

12:54AND I HOPE THAT THE BOSTON

12:55CHAPTER OF NATIONAL FORUM FOR

12:57BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS CAN

12:59WORK WITH CITY COUNCIL, ITS

13:01STAFF AND ALL OF YOUR

13:02CONSTITUENTS TO ENHANCE, UM,

13:07PATHWAYS TO PUBLIC SERVICE FOR

13:09OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, UM, AND

13:11PRODUCTIVE CAREERS FOR THOSE

13:13WHO ARE IN OR CONSIDERING

13:14PUBLIC SERVICE.

13:15THANK YOU.

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

13:17OUT TO CHANEL AND MARIE, THE

13:21BACKBONE OF THIS ORGANIZATION.

13:23OH COME ON.

13:24OKAY.

13:25>> UM.

13:26>> I WAS NERVOUS, SO I TYPED MY

13:27SPEECH.

13:27UM.

13:28>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

13:30UM, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR

13:32HAVING US HERE TODAY AND THANK.

13:33YOU ALL TOO AS WELL.

13:36UM.

13:37WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO BE HERE

13:38.

13:39UM, OUR CHAPTER REMAINS

13:40COMMITTED.

13:41TO STRENGTHENING PUBLIC

13:42ADMINISTRATION THROUGH

13:44LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT,

13:46MENTORSHIP, PROFESSIONAL

13:47NETWORKING AND CREATING

13:48PATHWAYS FOR THE NEXT

13:49GENERATION OF PUBLIC SERVANTS.

13:51UH, WE BELIEVE PUBLIC SERVICE

13:53IS MORE THAN A PROFESSION.

13:54IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD

13:56WITH INTEGRITY, UPLIFT OUR

13:58COMMUNITIES AND CREATE

14:00OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHERS.

14:01SO WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THIS

14:02RECOGNITION AND WE LOOK FORWARD

14:04TO CONTINUING BUILDING

14:05MEANINGFUL.

14:06PARTNERSHIPS AND RELATIONSHIPS

14:07WITH YOU HERE.

14:09UM.

14:09>> AND BEYOND UM, HERE AND

14:11OUTSIDE OF THESE OFFICES TO

14:12SERVE THE GREATER BOSTON

14:14COMMUNITY.

14:14THANK YOU.

14:16THANK YOU CHANEL.

14:17AND LET ME JUST QUICKLY READ

14:19THIS RESOLUTION CITY OF BOSTON

14:22AND CITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL

14:25RESOLUTION PRESENTED BY

14:26COUNCILOR MINYARD CULPEPER BE

14:28RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON CITY

14:30COUNCIL OFFERS ITS

14:31CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BOSTON

14:33CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL FORUM

14:34FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS

14:37IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR

14:38OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT TO

14:39ADVANCING EXCELLENCE, DIVERSITY

14:42AND LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC

14:43SERVICE THROUGHOUT GREATER

14:44BOSTON, YOU HAVE STRENGTHENED

14:46THE PIPELINE OF BLACK PUBLIC

14:48SECTOR LEADERS BY FORCE AND

14:49PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT,

14:51MENTORSHIP, NETWORKING AND

14:52CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FOR CURRENT

14:54AND ASPIRING PUBLIC

14:56ADMINISTRATORS THROUGH

14:57PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS GREATER

14:58BOSTON, YOU CONTINUE TO PREPARE

15:00THE NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK

15:02OF GENERATION OF PUBLIC

15:03SERVANTS.

15:04THE BOSTON CHAPTER CONTINUES A

15:06NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC

15:08ADMINISTRATORS MISSION BY

15:10CULTIVATING TALENTED PUBLIC

15:12LEADERS WHO STRENGTHEN

15:13COMMUNITIES, IMPROVE GOVERNMENT

15:15AND EXPAND OPPORTUNITY ACROSS

15:17GREATER BOSTON.

15:18AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT

15:20THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS

15:21ITS BEST WISHES FOR YOUR

15:23CONTINUED SUCCESS THAT THIS

15:25RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED BY

15:26THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY

15:28COUNCIL AND ATTACH IT TO COPY

15:30THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE

15:31CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

15:33SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE

15:35CITY COUNCIL ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN

15:37,ATTESTED TO BY THE CITY CLERK

15:40OF BOSTON ALEX GRATIS AND

15:42OFFERED BY CITY

15:45COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN THE

15:46HEART OF BOSTON VINEYARD

15:48CULPEPER.

15:50THANK YOU THANK YOU, THANK YOU

15:52VERY COMING.

15:57YES.

15:59I'M INVITING ALL OF MY

16:02COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE COME IN.

16:04AND HAVE.

16:05>> A PHOTO WITH.

16:07THE.

16:09>> AND THE EPA.

16:13CITY.

16:17>> OKAY.

16:17AND HOW ARE YOU?

16:20UP?

16:23ALL ALL.

16:27IT'S MY MICROPHONE.

16:28OKAY?

16:30YOU'RE ALL THIS.

16:41THANK YOU.

16:42CONGRATULATIONS I MR.

16:45PRESIDENT.

16:46>> LET ME JUST SAY THIS I'VE

16:47BEEN REFERRING.

16:48TO THE.

16:49MEN AS.

16:50PARENTS PRESIDENTS.

16:51THIS IS THE CURRENT.

16:54>> PRESIDENT.

16:54OF THE UNION, SO THANK THANK

16:59YOU THANK YOU THANK.

17:00YOU KNOW THAT WE THANK YOU.

17:03APPRECIATE YOU.

17:04YES.

17:06>> SORRY SORRY AS WELL THANK

17:09YOU.

17:09SO GOOD WORK.

17:10THANK YOU.

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

17:19AROUND ME OKAY.

17:23THANK YOU.

17:24IT'S GOOD.

17:25TO SEE AS.

17:27WELL THANK.

17:37>> YOU.

17:39THIS IS MY I.

17:41THINK THIS OVER.

17:44NOT YOURS.

17:45I WANT TO.

17:53CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO,

17:56UM, COUNCILOR COLE PEPPERS

17:57HONOREES THE NATIONAL FORUM FOR

17:59BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS.

18:01UH, IT'S WONDERFUL WONDERFUL TO

18:02HAVE YOU ALL HERE THIS MORNING.

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

18:08PRESENTATION.

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

18:11ME AND HER SUPPORT TEAM THE HER

18:15HER, UH, FRIENDS.

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

18:17THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER UH

18:20,SWIMMING ASSOCIATION AND, UH

18:23,I THINK TAMARA AND KATE AND

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

18:29COME ON.

18:30>> YOU'RE THE HOME TEAM THAT

18:31SUPPORT THE HOME TEAM, SO COME

18:33ON UP.

18:46LITTLE BIT TO THE YOU STAND

18:50HERE, YOU STAND SOMEWHERE NEAR

18:52ME.

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

18:55TO WORK.

18:57SO.

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

18:59HEROIC MEMBER OF, UH, THE CITY

19:03OF BOSTON, UH, RESIDENT, LONG

19:05TERM RESIDENT, AN IRISH NATIVE

19:07FROM DUBLIN AND A JAMAICA PLAIN

19:09RESIDENT.

19:10MAURA TO ME AND ALSO A VERY

19:11DEAR FRIEND OF MINE I'VE KNOWN

19:13HER FOR 30 YEARS SINCE I FIRST

19:15ARRIVED IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

19:17I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE MAURA

19:18TOOMEY TODAY ORIGINALLY, AS I

19:21SAID FROM DUBLIN CURRENTLY

19:22LIVING IN JAMAICA PLAYING A

19:24LEGENDARY OPEN WATER SWIMMER

19:26REPRESENTING THE MASSACHUSETTS

19:27OPEN WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

19:29,MAURA BEGAN BY VOLUNTEERING

19:32FOR THE PROVINCETOWN SWIM FOR

19:34LIFE THAT WHAT BEGAN AS A

19:36VOLUNTEER EFFORT SPARKED INTO A

19:38JOURNEY THAT LED TO COMPLETING

19:40THE OPEN WATER TRIPLE THE OPEN

19:42THE TRIPLE CROWN FOR OPEN WATER

19:44SWIMMING.

19:44AND LET ME JUST GIVE YOU SOME

19:45DETAILS THAT SWIMMING THE

19:47ENGLISH CHANNEL 21 MILES THE 20

19:50BRIDGES SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN

19:5430 MILES AND THE CATALINA

19:57CHANNEL WHICH IS 20.2 MILES.

20:00UM SHE COMPLETED HER FIRST OPEN

20:02WATER CHALLENGE ON HER 50TH

20:04BIRTHDAY UH, SWIMMING ACROSS

20:07SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO FROM

20:10ALCATRAZ TO THE PRESIDIO.

20:11AND THEN SHE WENT ON TO SWIM

20:13THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN 2015

20:15RAISING MONEY FOR THE IRISH

20:17CYSTIC FIBROSIS CHARITY AND

20:19THEN COMPLETED THE 20 BRIDGES

20:21SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN THIS

20:24AUGUST SHE ACHIEVED THE LAST

20:26SWIM AND THE TRIPLE CROWN AT 70

20:28YEARS OLD SHE BECAME THE OLDEST

20:30PERSON TO EVER COMPLETE THE

20:31CATALINA CHANNEL CROSSING.

20:33SHE SWAM OVER 20 MILES ACROSS

20:36CALIFORNIA'S CATALINA CHANNEL

20:38BATTLING COLD WATERS, HEAVY

20:40SWELLS AND FIERCE WINDS WHERE

20:41SHE FINISHED IN 15 HOURS AND 45

20:45MINUTES.

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

20:47SWIM THE LENGTH OF A SWIMMING

20:48POOL BUT UM I CAN'T EVEN

20:50IMAGINE WHAT THAT'S LIKE.

20:51BUT AS ANY CHANNEL SWIMMER WILL

20:53TELL YOU, NOBODY SWIMS THE

20:55CHANNEL ALONE.

20:56BEHIND EVERY CROSSING IS A

20:58NETWORK OF PEOPLE BY YOUR SIDE

21:00KEEPING YOU AFLOAT IN

21:02MASSACHUSETTS, THE

21:03MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

21:04SWIMMING ASSOCIATION MALTA

21:08SANCTIONS AND SAFEGUARDS

21:09MARATHON SWIMS ACROSS

21:11MASSACHUSETTS AND TRAINS THE

21:13OBSERVERS AND SAFETY CREWS THAT

21:14FOLLOWS SWIMMERS MILE AFTER

21:16MILE TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE.

21:19IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS

21:20ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONS LIKE

21:22MOZA THAT.

21:23LOCAL ATHLETES HAVE SAFELY HAVE

21:25THE SAFETY AND BACKING TO

21:27UNDERTAKE THESE COURAGEOUS

21:29SWIMS AND TO TAKE THE DIP INTO

21:31MARATHON SWIMMING JUST LIKE

21:32MORE I DID.

21:33I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE MAURA

21:35TODAY.

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

21:39BARRIER TO GREATNESS AND THAT

21:40IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO DECIDE

21:42YOU AREN'T CONTENT JUST TO

21:43STAND ON THE SHORE.

21:45I INVITE MAURA, UM, THE

21:47MASSACHUSETTS WATER UM, OPEN

21:49WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION TO

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

21:54HAVE A CITATION FOR YOU.

21:56MAURA.

21:57YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

21:59THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

22:00BREADON AND ALL THE COUNCILORS

22:02.

22:02UM.

22:03ESPECIALLY MY.

22:04LOCAL COUNCILOR DAN WEBER.

22:06UM, IT FEELS.

22:08>> A LITTLE WEIRD TO ME TO BE

22:10HERE TODAY.

22:11BEING HONORED FOR.

22:12DOING SOMETHING THAT I LOVE.

22:14AND I JUST WANTED TO.

22:16SAY OUT LOUD IT WAS KIND

22:18OF ACCIDENTAL.

22:19I'M FROM.

22:19>> A VERY WORKING CLASS FAMILY

22:21IN.

22:21DUBLIN THAT I LEARNED TO SWIM.

22:23JUST BECAUSE MY FATHER'S.

22:25WORK HAD A POOL.

22:26AND WE COULD GO PLAY THERE AND

22:28UM JUST.

22:29SAY THAT OUT LOUD.

22:30I HOPE EVERY KID.

22:31>> IN BOSTON.

22:32GETS AN OPPORTUNITY.

22:34I WANT TO.

22:36SPECIALLY THANK MY WIFE TAMARA

22:39PITTS.

22:39I'M STARTING WITH HER BECAUSE I

22:41USUALLY FORGET HER.

22:42UH.

22:43>> SHE'S NOT A SWIMMER.

22:45SHE DOESN'T LOVE COLD WATER BUT

22:47SHE SUPPORTS ME IN EVERYTHING I

22:50DO.

22:50UM, SOME OF THAT INVOLVES A LOT

22:53OF ANXIETY.

22:54IS SHE THERE?

22:55IS SHE SAFE AND TRUSTING IN MY

22:58PALS?

22:59UH.

23:01I WANT TO.

23:02THANK MY COMPANIONS.

23:03ONE OF THE THINGS.

23:04ABOUT OPEN WATER SWIMMING IS

23:06YOU COULD BE WITH THE STATE OR

23:09THE CONGRESSMAN FOR.

23:11MASSACHUSETTS, OR YOU.

23:12COULD BE.

23:13>> WITH THE.

23:14CARPENTER FROM DORCHESTER OR

23:17THE NANNY FROM EAST BOSTON.

23:19ONCE YOU GO DOWN THERE TO THE

23:21OPEN WATER YOU'RE WET FOLKS AND

23:24YOUR FOCUS IS ENJOYING YOUR

23:26SWIM AND KEEPING EACH OTHER

23:28SAFE.

23:29I HAD A JOKE WITH ME NOW FROM

23:31THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

23:33SWIMMING ASSOCIATION THIS

23:34MORNING IS THE REASON THE.

23:36COUNSELORS DON'T KNOW.

23:37YOU OR THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WEIRD

23:39NAME IS BECAUSE YOU DO YOUR JOB

23:43SO WELL.

23:44EVERYBODY SWIM SAFELY.

23:46THEY RUN GREAT RACES FROM HALF

23:48A MILE TO ONE MILE.

23:50THEY KEEP THE NAME OF JIM DOTY

23:52ALIVE WHO HELPED US CLEAN THE

23:54HARBOR AND ALSO RUN LONGER

23:57SWIMS IN FROM THE BOSTON LIGHT.

23:59AND MOSTLY PEOPLE DON'T CARE

24:01ABOUT US BECAUSE THEY KEEP IT

24:03SAFE.

24:04THEY RUN A VERY PROFESSIONAL

24:07UH, OPERATION.

24:09SO THANKS SO MUCH SHARING THE

24:10FLOOR.

24:10WITH ME.

24:13>> MY NAME IS MINA ON CASH AND

24:15I'M THE CURRENT PRESIDENT

24:16OF THE MASSACHUSETTS OPEN WATER

24:18SWIMMING ASSOCIATION.

24:19I'M JOINED BY ELAINE HOWLEY WHO

24:22IS UH, THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND

24:24THE FOUNDER OF OUR ORGANIZATION

24:25.

24:26WE ARE UH A SMALL BUT MIGHTY

24:28BOARD OF FOUR ON A UM ALL WOMEN

24:31RUN BOARD, UH, VOLUNTEER

24:34ORGANIZATION OF A NONPROFIT

24:36OF SWIMMERS AND PEOPLE WHO LOVE

24:39SWIMMERS, UH, SUPPORTING OTHER

24:40SWIMMERS.

24:42SO I THINK WE'D ALL AGREE

24:45EXCUSE ME THAT IN MASSACHUSETTS

24:47WE TAKE OUR SPORTS PRETTY

24:48SERIOUSLY.

24:49RIGHT?

24:50>> UM, FROM OUR PROFESSIONAL

24:52TEAMS TO THE BOSTON MARATHON

24:54AND BEYOND.

24:55BUT OPEN WATER SWIMMING HAS ITS

24:56OWN MARATHON.

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

25:01WATER SWIM?

25:02UM, TEN KILOMETERS OR ROUGHLY

25:04SIX MILES OR LONGER.

25:06OUR MARATHON IS THE BOSTON

25:07LIGHT SWIM.

25:09UM, THIS SWIM BEGAN IN 1907,

25:12JUST TEN YEARS AFTER THE OLDER

25:14SIBLING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON

25:16,UH, AND REMAINS AMERICA'S

25:18OLDEST OPEN WATER SWIM.

25:22UM MAURA SWAM ITS EIGHT MILES

25:24AS TRAINING TOWARD WHAT SHE HAD

25:26BEEN UH, MOVING TOWARD UM SHE

25:30SWAM THAT WITH MELISSA AND THEN

25:32SWAM IT AGAIN WITH US BOTH

25:34WAYS.

25:35SHE DID A 16 MILE DOUBLE AT THE

25:37SPRIGHTLY YOUNG AGE OF 69 UM IN

25:41OCTOBER.

25:41>> WHEN IT WAS CHILLY.

25:42>> I THINK, UH, ELAINE AND I

25:44AREN'T ALWAYS ON ALL OF THESE

25:45SWIMS, BUT WE WERE, UH,

25:47PRIVILEGED TO SUPPORT HER ON

25:48THIS ONE ELAINE ON A MOTORIZED

25:50BOAT AND ME ALONGSIDE HER IN A

25:52KAYAK AND WE WERE ABLE TO

25:53WITNESS HER DETERMINATION

25:55FIRSTHAND.

25:55UM, SO, MAURA, CONGRATULATIONS

25:58AGAIN ON YOUR CATALINA CROSSING

25:59AND YOUR WELL-EARNED TRIPLE

26:01CROWN AT 70.

26:02YOU INSPIRE US AND ALL SWIMMERS

26:06TO GET IN THE WATER AND DREAM

26:07BIGGER NO MATTER WHAT.

26:09UH, WHAT THAT DREAM IS.

26:11AND WHEN THAT DREAM BEGINS ON

26:14OUR MASSACHUSETTS COAST, A

26:16BATHING SUIT AND ACCESS TO

26:17CLEAN WATER CAN OPEN A WORLD

26:19OF POSSIBILITY AN AMAZING

26:21SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY AS WELL.

26:22UH, TO SWIMMERS OF ALL SHAPES,

26:24SIZES, COLORS, GENDERS, AGES

26:26AND ABILITIES THIS SEASON

26:28MELISSA UH SUPPORTED OVER 100

26:29SWIMMERS COVERING NEARLY 500

26:33MILES AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

26:34WHAT MORE WE CAN DO AND HOW WE

26:36CAN HELP TOWARDS THEIR SWIMMING

26:37DREAMS.

26:38SO WANTED TO THANK THE

26:40COUNCIL FOR YOUR WATERWAYS

26:42RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE

26:43INADEQUATE DRAFT COMBINED SEWER

26:45OVERFLOW PLAN UH AND FOR

26:47PURSUING ANSWERS ON BLACKSTONE

26:49POOL REPAIRS TO THE CLEAN WATER

26:53AND ACCESS UH IS SOMETHING THAT

26:56IS NEAR AND DEAR TO US AND WE

26:58WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO

26:59PARTNER ON ANY SUPPORT OF THAT

27:01WORK.

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

27:05PLAYED A VERY SMALL PART IN

27:07MORRIS JOURNEY.

27:08SO THANK YOU MAURA FOR SHOWING

27:09US WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND BEING AN

27:11INSPIRATION AND A FRIEND IN AND

27:12OUT OF THE WATER.

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

27:15A COUPLE OF PHOTOS THAT WE USE

27:18UM, FROM MOUSER THAT WE SHARE

27:22WITH OUR SWIMMERS.

27:23THESE ARE PHOTOS OF EVIL

27:26MORRISON IN 1935.

27:29A LITTLE.

27:29BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE BOSTON

27:31COASTLINE TODAY AND A DIFFERENT

27:33SWIMMING OUTFIT UM, BUT 1935

27:35AND IN 1927 THE BOSTON LIGHT

27:38SWIM WHERE SWIMMERS ARE OUTSIDE

27:41OF BOSTON.

27:42WE ARE UH, HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO

27:45BE UH, THE STEWARDS FOR THE

27:48BOSTON LIGHT SWIM AND OTHER

27:50HISTORIC SWIMS IN MASSACHUSETTS

27:52BECAUSE MASSACHUSETTS UH, OPEN

27:54WATER SWIMMING IS A

27:55MASSACHUSETTS TRADITION.

27:58THANK YOU ALL.

28:03BEFORE I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES

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

28:06MAURA WITH THIS, UH, OFFICIAL

28:08RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED THAT

28:10THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS

28:12ITS CONGRATULATIONS TO MAURA TO

28:14ME IN RECOGNITION OF A

28:15REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT

28:17OF SWIMMING THE CATALINA

28:18CHANNEL AT 70 YEARS OLD AND ON

28:21THE SAME DAY COMPLETING THE

28:22TRIPLE TRIPLE CROWN OF OPEN

28:24WATER SWIMMING COMPRISING THE

28:25ENGLISH CHANNEL, THE 20 BRIDGES

28:27AROUND MANHATTAN AND THE

28:29CATALINA CHANNEL.

28:30AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT

28:32THE CITY BOSTON CITY

28:33COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS BEST WISHES

28:34FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS AND THAT

28:36THIS RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED

28:38BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY

28:40COUNCIL AND ATTESTED TO AND A

28:41COPY THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE

28:43CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

28:46UM MAURA, MANY CONGRATULATIONS.

28:49THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MOSER AND

28:51MAY YOU HAVE US A WONDERFUL,

28:53UM, HERITAGE.

28:55UH.

28:56>> AND MAY YOU KEEP GOING MORE

28:59MORE SUCCESS AND, UH, KEEP

29:01PUTTING BOSTON ON THE MAP AS A

29:04DESTINATION FOR OPEN WATER

29:04SWIMMING.

29:05THANK YOU.

29:05>> LAURA.

29:09THANK YOU PERSON.

29:12UM.

29:13INVITE MY COLLEAGUES UP FOR A

29:14PHOTOGRAPH.

29:15THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.

29:15THANK YOU.

29:18TOMORROW.

29:23>> LOOK AT YOU IN HERE IN THE

29:24MIDDLE.

29:25TOMORROW ON THAT.

29:28SO YEAH.

29:28>> AND THEN.

29:29WE HAVE A.

29:32THANK YOU TO.

29:34YEAH I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW HOW

29:37MUCH IT.

29:38SHOULD BE IN THIS.

29:40I NEED YOU TO COME WITH ME TO

29:41THE RESTAURANT AND AGAIN YEAH.

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

29:47I'LL BE THERE.

29:48ACTUALLY ARE.

29:50>> IS NICE AND WARM.

29:51>> FOR DINNER.

29:52YOU.

29:58YOU NEED TO CARRY THAT.

29:59THANK YOU.

30:01THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

30:04THANK YOU.

30:04>> THANKS AGAIN I'LL TAKE CARE

30:06NOW GUYS.

30:08SO.

30:09>> TONIGHT THIS MORNING JUMPED

30:12IN THE HENNIGAN AND I TALKED TO

30:14WONDER IS SOMETHING.

30:17THAT JUST LIKE.

30:18>> JUST I KNOW.

30:22YEAH YEAH.

30:26>> YEAH SO HE'S GOING TO.

30:29OKAY THERE YOU GO ALL RIGHT

30:32YEAH THANK YOU.

30:37SO MUCH UH THANK YOU SO MUCH.

30:38OH UH, SOMEBODY BE RECOGNIZED

30:40AND ALL THAT YEAH YEAH YEAH,

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

30:51EXACTLY.

30:51>> YEAH.

30:52YES.

30:59YEAH.

31:03IT SHOULD.

31:04>> HAPPEN AND ONE UH.

31:12THIS IS LIKE.

31:15>> WE ALWAYS HAVE COLORS.

31:16VERY GOOD.

31:17THANK YOU EVERYONE.

31:19YEAH.

31:20>> UH, MR TURNER, COULD YOU

31:22PLEASE AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO

31:23REFLECT THE COUNCILORS PÉPIN

31:25AND WORRELL HAVE JOINED US.

31:30WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST

31:31ORDER OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE

31:34APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

31:36THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 23RD,

31:382026.

31:39ALL AND ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

31:43OPPOSED.

31:44SAY NAY.

31:45THE AYES HAVE IT.

31:46THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER

31:4823RD MEETING ARE APPROVED.

31:50WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS

31:52FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR.

31:54MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

31:56READ DOCKET 182921838.

32:01DOCKET NUMBER 1829 MESSAGE IN

32:04ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

32:0627 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

32:07RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

32:08BARGAINING BY $268,887 TO

32:13PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

32:15PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

32:1727 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

32:19THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

32:20AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

32:22SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON

32:23SCHOOL POLICE PATROLMEN'S

32:25ASSOCIATION STOCKING NUMBER

32:281830 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

32:30SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

32:31ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

32:33SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

32:34YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

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

32:41YEAR 27 COST ITEMS CONTAINED

32:44WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

32:45BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

32:46THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

32:48THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE

32:50PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

32:51THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE

32:54SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH

32:58AUGUST 31ST 2027.

32:58THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

33:00CONTRACT INCLUDE ABH, A BASE

33:02WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN

33:05OCTOBER 24, 2024, 2025 AND 2026

33:10AND A FLAT DOLLAR AMOUNT

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

33:16TO BE ADDED TO ANNUAL SALARIES

33:19IN JANUARY OF 2025, 2026 AND

33:232027 RESPECTIVELY.

33:25DUCKY NUMBER 1831 MESSAGE ON

33:28FOURTH TO REDUCE THE FISCAL

33:29YEAR 27 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

33:33RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

33:34BARGAINING BY $111,802 TO

33:37PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

33:39PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

33:4227 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

33:43THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

33:44AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

33:46SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON

33:47SCHOOL POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

33:50FEDERATION.

33:52DUCKY NUMBER 1832 MESSAGE IN

33:54ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

33:56APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON

33:57PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

34:0027, IN THE AMOUNT OF $111,802

34:04TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27

34:06COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

34:08COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

34:08BETWEEN THE BUSSES SCHOOL

34:10COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL

34:13POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

34:14FEDERATION.

34:15THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

34:18JULY 1ST 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

34:222027, THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

34:23OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE

34:25WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN

34:27OCTOBER OF 2024, 2025 AND 2026

34:31AND A FLAT TOTAL AMOUNT

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

34:37BE ADDED ANNUALLY TO BE ADDED

34:39TO ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

34:42OF 2025, 2026 AND 2027

34:46RESPECTIVELY.

34:47THAT NUMBER 1833 PASSAGE IN

34:50ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

34:5327 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

34:54RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

34:54BARGAINING BY $85,879 TO

34:58PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

35:00PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

35:0327 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

35:04THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

35:05AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

35:06SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SEIU LOCAL

35:09880 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES

35:11CHAPTER, THE PERMANENT PLANNING

35:13AND ENGINEERING NUMBER 1834

35:16MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

35:18SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

35:19ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

35:20SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

35:22YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

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

35:28YEAR 27 COST ITEMS CONTAINED

35:30WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

35:32BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

35:33THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

35:36SEIU LOCAL 880 PROFESSIONAL

35:38EMPLOYEES CHAPTER DEPARTMENT

35:41OF PLANNING AND ENGINEERING.

35:43THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE

35:46SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026 TO APRIL

35:4931ST 2027.

35:50THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

35:51CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

35:53INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

35:56OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

35:58AMOUNT OF $800 ADDED TO ANNUAL

36:01SALARIES IN JANUARY OF 2027.

36:05DOCKET NUMBER 1835 MESSAGE IN

36:08ORDER FOR TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

36:1027 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

36:12RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

36:13BARGAINING BY $40,365 TO

36:17PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

36:18PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

36:2027 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN

36:22THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

36:23AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

36:24SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND BOSTON

36:26SCHOOL DEPARTMENT PLANT

36:27ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION THE

36:30NUMBER ONE EIGHT B6 MESSAGE IN

36:33ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

36:34APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON

36:35PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR

36:37FISCAL YEAR 27, THE AMOUNT

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

36:42YEAR COST ITEMS CONTAINED

36:44WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

36:46BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

36:47THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

36:48THE BOSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

36:50PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

36:52ASSOCIATION.

36:52THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT IS

36:55SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH

36:58AUGUST 31ST 2027.

36:59THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

37:01CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

37:02INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

37:06OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

37:07AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

37:10ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

37:12OF 2027.

37:14DOCKET NUMBER 1837 MESSAGE IN

37:16ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR

37:1927 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

37:20RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

37:22BARGAINING BY $10,320 WOULD BE

37:25PROVIDED TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

37:27THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

37:29FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

37:32CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

37:33BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

37:34THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

37:36AND THE.

37:37>> AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL

37:402814 STORE KEEPERS AND STORES

37:43DELIVERYMAN UNION DOCKET NUMBER

37:461838 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

37:48SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

37:49ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

37:50SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

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

37:57TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27

37:59COURSE ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN

38:00THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

38:01AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

38:03SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND AFL CIO

38:07COUNCIL 93 LOCAL 2814 STORE

38:10KEEPERS AND STORES DELIVERY

38:11MEN'S UNION THE TERMS OF THE

38:14CONTRACT AS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026

38:16THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027.

38:19THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

38:20CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

38:23INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

38:26OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

38:27AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

38:30ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

38:32OF 2027.

38:33THANK YOU MR CLERK DOCKETS ONE

38:35YEAR TONIGHT UM DOCKET 20 829

38:39THROUGH 1838 WILL BE REFERRED

38:42TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

38:43MEANS.

38:44MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

38:46READ DOCKET 1839?

38:48OOPS.

38:49>> DUCKY.

38:50>> NUMBER 1839 MESSAGE NOT

38:52AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

38:54TO ACCEPT AND SPEND THE AMOUNT

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

39:00GRANT THE NATIONAL

39:02OF PRESERVATION COMMISSION

39:03SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED BY THE

39:05MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

39:06COMMISSION TO BE ADMINISTERED

39:08BY THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC

39:09PRESERVATION.

39:10THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE COST

39:12OF HISTORICAL AND HISTORIC

39:14DISTRICT COMMISSION MEMBERS AND

39:15MUNICIPAL STAFF AND TURNING THE

39:17NATIONAL LINES OF PRESERVATION

39:20COMMISSIONS FORM CONFERENCE.

39:22THANK YOU, MR CHAIR RECOGNIZES

39:24COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY YOU

39:25HAVE THE FLOOR.

39:26THANK YOU SO MUCH.

39:27COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

39:28THIS IS OFF OVER A LITTLE.

39:30>> BIT OVER $4,000 SCHOLARSHIP

39:31FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS

39:32HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO SEND

39:33THE HISTORIC DISTRICT

39:34COMMISSION AND CITY STAFF TO

39:36THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE

39:37OF PRESERVATION COMMISSIONS

39:38CONFERENCE, OUR HISTORIC

39:40DISTRICT COMMISSION AND OFFICE

39:41OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION DO

39:43INCREDIBLE WORK AND I ADMIRE

39:44THEIR DEDICATION TO CONTINUING

39:46THEIR CRAFT AND THEIR EDUCATION

39:48SO THAT THEY CAN BETTER SERVE

39:49OUR CITY.

39:49I WANT TO THANK THE

39:50MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

39:51COMMISSION FOR PROVIDING THIS

39:53OPPORTUNITY, AND I WOULD LIKE

39:54TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND

39:55AND PASS THIS GRANT TODAY.

39:57THANK YOU.

39:58THANK YOU.

39:59>> CONSIDER CONSIDER SUSPENSION

40:00OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

40:01OF DOCKET 1839.

40:02ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

40:04ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

40:06BOTH.

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

40:08PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

40:10VOTE ON DOCKET 121839.

40:13COUNCILOR BREADON.

40:13YES I.

40:14>> WAS READING YES CONCEPTUAL

40:15ART AS OPPOSED COUNCIL CLOSED

40:18BY YES.

40:18COUNCILOR CULPEPER

40:19COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

40:20YES.

40:21COUNCILOR.

40:21DURKAN.

40:22COUNCILOR.

40:22DURKAN.

40:23YES.

40:23COUNCILOR.

40:23FITZGERALD.

40:24YES.

40:24COUNCIL.

40:25SO YES.

40:25COUNCILOR.

40:26FLYNN.

40:26COUNCILOR.

40:27FLYNN.

40:27YES.

40:28COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

40:29WHO'S IN?

40:30YES, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

40:31CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

40:32YES.

40:32COUNCILOR.

40:32MURPHY.

40:33COUNCILOR.

40:34MURPHY.

40:34YES.

40:35COUNCIL.

40:35PIPPIN.

40:36COUNCILOR.

40:36PEN.

40:37YES.

40:37COUNCIL.

40:37SANTANA.

40:38COUNCIL.

40:38SANTANA.

40:39YES.

40:39COUNCIL.

40:40WEBER.

40:40YES.

40:40COUNCILOR.

40:41WEBER.

40:41YES AND COUNCILOR.

40:42WORLD.

40:42YES.

40:43COUNCIL.

40:43WELL YES.

40:44TALKING NUMBER 1839 AS WE.

40:47>> SPEAK.

40:48A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

40:49AFFIRMATIVE.

40:50THANK YOU.

40:51>> MR TARGET 1839 HAS PASSED.

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

40:57OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

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

41:02READ DOCKETS 1840 THROUGH.

41:0718421840 COMMUNICATION WAS

41:09RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY

41:10REGARDING OUTSTANDING REQUESTS

41:12FOR INFORMATION SEVEN SIX

41:14SECTION 17 F ORDERS AND PUBLIC

41:17RECORDS REQUEST NUMBER 1841

41:20COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

41:22COUNCIL OF COLOR AS A PARTNER

41:23REGARDING COMMENTS ON THE

41:25BOSTON COASTAL STORM RISK

41:26MANAGEMENT DRAFT INTEGRATED

41:29FEASIBILITY REPORT AND

41:31PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL

41:32ASSESSMENT AND DUCKY NUMBER

41:341842 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED

41:37FROM COUNCILOR CULPEPER

41:39REGARDING FULL BOOKS BOOKSTORE.

41:41THANK YOU.

41:42THESE DOCKETS 1840 THROUGH 1842

41:46WILL BE PLACED.

41:47>> ON FILE.

41:48WE KNOW ON TWO MATTERS RECENTLY

41:50HEARD MR KERR COULD YOU PLEASE

41:52READ DOCKETS 1671 THROUGH 1674

41:55.

41:56NOT GOING TO HAVE A1671 MESSAGE

41:59IN ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

42:0227 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

42:04RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

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

42:09PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

42:12POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

42:13YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED

42:17WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

42:18BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN

42:19THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE

42:21BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES BAND

42:22AND VILLAGE SOCIETY SECOND

42:24NUMBER 1672 MESSAGE IN ORDER

42:27FOR THE BOSTON POLICE

42:29DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 27,

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

42:36COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

42:38ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

42:39COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

42:40BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND

42:42THE BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES

42:44BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

42:45THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT JULY

42:491ST 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2026

42:52.

42:52THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

42:54CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

42:55INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY OF 2025

42:58.

42:59THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

43:01UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY IN

43:03AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND SICK

43:04TIME PAY BACK EVERY TIME IT IS

43:07ORIGINALLY PRESENTED TO YOU.

43:08THE FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET

43:10REQUEST INCLUDED A RESERVE FOR

43:12COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A

43:14SEPARATE APPROPRIATION TO FUND

43:15PROJECTED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

43:17INCREASES.

43:18A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

43:20TO REDUCE THE APPROPRIATION BY

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

43:28MESSAGE TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR

43:3127 APPROPRIATION FOR THE

43:32RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

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

43:39PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

43:40POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE

43:42FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

43:44CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

43:45BARGAINING RING AS BETWEEN THE

43:47CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON

43:49POLICE DETECTIVE BENEVOLENT

43:50SOCIETY SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT

43:54NUMBER 1674 MESSAGE IN ORDER

43:57FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR

43:58FISCAL YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

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

44:05FISCAL YEAR 27 COST ITEMS

44:07CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

44:08BARGAINING.

44:09AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY

44:11OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE

44:13DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

44:15SUPERIOR OFFICERS YOUTH.

44:18THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

44:21JULY 1ST 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

44:232026, THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

44:25OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE

44:27WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY

44:30OF 2025.

44:30THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

44:32UPDATE HAZARD IS DUTY PAY, AN

44:35AMENDED LANGUAGE AMOUNT, PAID

44:37DETAILS AND SOME APPLICATION

44:38SCHEDULES AS ORIGINALLY

44:40PRESENTED TO YOU.

44:41THE FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET

44:43REQUEST INCLUDED A RESERVE FOR

44:44COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A

44:46SEPARATE APPROPRIATION TO FUND

44:47PROJECT OF COLLECTIVE PROJECTED

44:50COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INCREASES

44:51.

44:52A SEPARATE ORDER HAS BEEN FILED

44:54TO REDUCE THAT APPROPRIATION BY

44:59$1,366,093.

45:00THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

45:01THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

45:03COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

45:04OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

45:05MEANS.

45:05THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

45:07>> MADAM PRESIDENT.

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

45:09UH, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

45:11HELD A HEARING ON DOCKET NUMBER

45:141671 TO 1674 REGARDING

45:15COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

45:16AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY

45:18OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE

45:20DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

45:21AND A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

45:22AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON

45:23POLICE DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT

45:24SOCIETY SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT

45:26AND THE CITY OF BOSTON.

45:28UH THE HEARING WAS ATTENDED BY

45:30MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILORS ED

45:31FLYNN, UH ERIN MURPHY AND JOHN

45:34FITZGERALD.

45:34WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY.

45:36UH.

45:37>> PANELISTS JIM WILLIAMSON,

45:37THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE

45:38OF BUDGET MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS

45:40UH, DETECTIVE BOB GRIFFIN,

45:42PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON POLICE

45:43DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

45:45UH, AT THE HEARING THE FOCUS

45:48WAS ON UH FISCAL YEAR 27

45:51FUNDING UH ASSOCIATED WITH

45:53THOSE UH TWO COLLECTIVE

45:54BARGAINING AGREEMENTS THE UH

45:55THE UH THE THE SUMMARIES THAT

45:58WERE SEEKING TO TRANSFER UH 3.3

46:01JUST OVER $3.3 MILLION FROM THE

46:04CITY'S RESERVE.

46:04FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TO

46:06THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO

46:07COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COSTS

46:10ASSOCIATED WITH THESE

46:11AGREEMENTS.

46:12UH, WE DID HOLD A HEARING ON

46:14APPROVING THESE AGREEMENTS IN

46:15MAY OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR.

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

46:21NEW CONTRACTS, UH, HAD SEVERAL

46:23NEW PROVISIONS THAT THAT WERE

46:26HIGHLIGHTED UH, THEY ALLOWED

46:28CIVILIAN PERSONNEL TO PERFORM

46:30ALL TASKS, RESPONSE AND

46:33RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AREA

46:34OF DETAIL CLERKS, UH AND SWORN

46:36OFFICERS IN THE PAY DETAILS

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

46:41DISTRIBUTION OF PAY DETAILS AND

46:43FOR THE CLERICAL OVERTIME

46:44DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS.

46:45DETAILS WERE THEN ALIGNED TO

46:48CONFORM WITH CONTRACTUAL SHIFTS

46:50DETAILS ACCORDING TO THE NEW

46:52CBA WERE ALLOWED TO OVERLAP UH

46:54WITH UH REGULAR SHIFT PAY FOR

46:56THE MAXIMUM OF TWO HOURS.

46:58UH THE VACATION SUMMER VACATION

47:00PERIOD WAS EXTENDED UH TO ALLOW

47:03UH.

47:04FOR FOR OFFICERS NOT TO OVERLAP

47:06UH FOR VACATION THE CITY

47:08PROVIDED FUNDING UH FOR

47:10DEPARTMENTAL GYMS UH AND FOR TO

47:12PROVIDE MAINTENANCE OF FREE

47:13MEMBERSHIP AND ACCESS TO

47:15DETECTIVES COVERED BY THE

47:16AGREEMENT HAZARDOUS PAID

47:17HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY UH WAS

47:20CALCULATED AS 5.65% OF THE BASE

47:23PAY FOR ALL DETECTIVES.

47:25UH, THE UH THE THERE WAS AN

47:28INCLUSION OF FOR.

47:29HALF HOUR FULLY COMPENSATED

47:30BLOCKS OF WORKOUT MEDITATION

47:33TIME PER WEEK UH FOR THE

47:34MEMBERS AND NAMETAGS UH WOULD

47:37BE WORN BY DETECTIVES.

47:38WE APPROVED THAT CONTRACT IN

47:39MAY HERE.

47:40THAT CONTRACT EXPIRED AT THE

47:41END OF THE FISCAL YEAR AT THE

47:44END OF JUNE 2026 UNDER I THINK

47:46IT'S THE LABOR LAW DOCTRINE

47:48OF STATUS QUO.

47:49THE CONTRACT CONTINUES ONCE

47:51YOU'RE OUT OF CONTRACT YOU

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

47:53A CONTRACT.

47:54SO THE TERMS OF THE OLD

47:55CONTRACT ARE STILL IN PLACE.

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

47:59UH, THESE UH THESE RESERVES

48:01WOULD PAY FOR THAT.

48:02UH.

48:03>> PAY RAISE FOR THE DETECTIVES

48:05AND THE DETECTIVE SUPERIOR

48:06OFFICERS.

48:07UH.

48:08>> I JUST YOU KNOW, WITH ALL

48:09THAT SAID AS THE AS THE CHAIR

48:11OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

48:11MEANS, I'M RECOMMENDING

48:12ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE.

48:13REPORT AND PASSAGE OF THESE

48:15DOCKETS TODAY.

48:15THANK YOU.

48:16>> THANK YOU, MR CHAIR

48:18RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY.

48:20COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

48:21THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

48:23THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR FOR.

48:24HOLDING THIS HEARING.

48:25AND LIKE COUNCILOR.

48:26WEBER SAID WE.

48:28ARE JUST RENEWING THE CONTRACT

48:29.

48:30THAT WE SPOKE.

48:30ABOUT IN MAY.

48:31IT EXPIRED.

48:32AND WE WANT TO EXTEND IT.

48:33I DO JUST WANT TO THANK THE

48:35CHAIR FOR ALLOWING PRESIDENT.

48:37GRIFFIN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

48:39DETECTIVES UNION WHO WAS NOT

48:41ORIGINALLY INVITED, BUT WE DID

48:43HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT.

48:46THE WORK.

48:47THAT'S EXPECTED AND JUST SOME

48:49OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AND

48:50CONCERNS THAT THAT UNION HAD.

48:52SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING HIM

48:54TO BE A PANELIST AND PUT SOME

48:56THINGS ON THE RECORD.

48:57SO LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING IN

48:58SUPPORT OF THIS AND SUPPORTING

49:01OUR UH, COLLEAGUES.

49:02ONE THING WE DID LEARN AT THIS

49:03HEARING IS THAT THE.

49:05POLICE UM, ARE FUNDRAISING

49:08THEMSELVES FOR THEIR WELLNESS

49:09AND SOME OF THEIR SCREENINGS

49:11SOMETHING THAT I KNOW THIS BODY

49:13UM, DIDN'T PASS.

49:15>> IN AN.

49:15AMENDMENT PROCESS BUT WE HAVE

49:17FOUND OUTSIDE SOURCES FOR OUR

49:19FIRE CANCER SCREENINGS WHICH I

49:20THINK IS WONDERFUL AND WE NEED

49:22TO CONTINUE THAT BUT WE HAVE

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

49:25CITY BUDGET BUDGET TO MAKE SURE

49:26THAT ALL OF OUR FIRST

49:27RESPONDERS ARE GETTING THE

49:29WELLNESS AND ANY

49:30CANCER SCREENINGS THAT THEY

49:31NEED AND THEY'RE NOT EXPECTED

49:32TO FUNDRAISE ON THEIR OWN.

49:34SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS BODY

49:36ADVOCATING IN THE NEXT ROUND

49:37OF THE BUDGET TO MAKE SURE THAT

49:38HAPPENS.

49:39THANK YOU.

49:40THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

49:42CHAIR RECOGNIZES

49:42COUNCILOR FLYNN.

49:43YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

49:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

49:46UM.

49:47I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

49:49THAT.

49:50THE PRESIDENT OF THE DETECTIVES

49:53UNION.

49:53ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T INVITED, DID

49:55PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION.

49:58IT WAS AN INFORMATIVE

49:59DISCUSSION AND HE ALSO BUT

50:04BOBBY GRIFFIN ALSO TALKED ABOUT

50:06AS COUNCILOR MURPHY MENTIONED

50:07THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS

50:10OF THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS

50:12PROGRAM AND SCREENINGS,

50:15PARTICULARLY WHERE POLICE

50:18OFFICERS ARE PAYING THEIR OWN

50:21SCREENING OR MEDICAL.

50:22COST THROUGH THE THROUGH THE

50:24UNION OR THROUGH UM

50:25FUNDRAISING.

50:26BUT THAT BUT THE CITY OF BOSTON

50:28IS NOT PAYING FOR THAT.

50:30I DID HIGHLIGHT THAT DURING THE

50:33DISCUSSION UM WITH THE WAYS AND

50:36MEANS CHAIR.

50:37I DO THINK THE CITY OF BOSTON

50:39HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO SUPPORT

50:41THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF OUR

50:44POLICE OFFICERS.

50:45I THINK THAT'S A CRITICAL

50:47ASPECT OF OF THE JOB WHEN

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

50:51THEY'RE WORKING 16 HOURS A DAY

50:53.

50:54UM, IS IT APPROPRIATE FOR US TO

50:57PAY FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS?

50:58I THINK IT IS.

51:00I WAS I WAS SOMEWHAT

51:04EMBARRASSED THAT THEY ARE

51:06PAYING ALMOST ALL OF 100% OF OF

51:10HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND

51:12SCREENINGS AND DURING THE

51:14BUDGET PROCESS.

51:16I SPECIFICALLY PROPOSED FUNDING

51:18FOR THE BOSTON POLICE HEALTH

51:20AND WELLNESS PROGRAM SO THAT

51:22THAT SO THAT IT WOULD ADDRESS

51:24THOSE PARTICULAR ISSUES.

51:26UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS BLOCKED OR

51:28WASN'T ACCEPTED BY THE CITY

51:30COUNCIL.

51:31UM MY PROPOSAL BUT I DO BELIEVE

51:34AS WE GO INTO THE BUDGET WE

51:36HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO FIGHT

51:38FOR OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, THEIR

51:40HEALTH AND WELLNESS UM, IN

51:42VARIOUS SCREENINGS FOR THE

51:43POLICE, FOR THE FIRE, FOR EMS

51:46AS WELL.

51:46THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

51:47THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

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

51:51DOCKETS, VOTE ON THESE DOCKETS

51:53SEPARATELY.

51:54THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS

51:55SEEKS, UH, ACCEPTANCE OF THE

51:57COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

51:58OF DOCKET 1671.

52:01MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

52:02A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

52:041671.

52:05COUNCILOR BREADON.

52:06YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

52:08YES, COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A

52:09PARTNER.

52:09COUNCIL AS A PARTNER.

52:10YES.

52:11COUNCILOR.

52:12CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

52:14CULPEPER.

52:14YES.

52:15COUNCILOR.

52:15DURKAN.

52:15COUNCILOR.

52:16DURKAN.

52:16YES.

52:17COUNCILOR.

52:17FITZGERALD.

52:18COUNCIL FOR SHOW.

52:19YES.

52:19COUNCILOR.

52:19FLYNN.

52:20YES.

52:20COUNCILOR.

52:21FLYNN.

52:21YES.

52:21COUNCILOR.

52:22LOUIJEUNE.

52:22COUNCILOR.

52:23LOUIJEUNE.

52:23YES.

52:24COUNCILOR.

52:24MEJIA.

52:25COUNCILOR.

52:25MEJIA.

52:26YES.

52:26COUNCILOR.

52:26MURPHY.

52:27COUNCILOR.

52:28MURPHY.

52:28YES.

52:28COUNCILOR.

52:29OPEN.

52:30COUNCILOR.

52:30THE PIN.

52:30YES.

52:31COUNCIL.

52:31SANTANA.

52:32COUNCILOR.

52:33SANTANA.

52:33YES.

52:33COUNCILOR.

52:34WEBER.

52:34YES.

52:35COUNCIL.

52:35WEBER.

52:35YES.

52:36AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

52:36YES.

52:37COUNCIL.

52:38WE'RE ALL YES.

52:39TALKING OF A1671 HAS RECEIVED A

52:41UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

52:42AFFIRMATIVE.

52:43THANK YOU.

52:44THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

52:45ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1671 HAS

52:47PASSED.

52:48THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

52:50WAYS AND MEANS SIX ACCEPTANCE

52:51OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

52:52PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1672.

52:55MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

52:56TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

52:581672.

52:59COUNCILOR BRIE.

52:59YES.

53:00>> COUNCILOR VOTING YES.

53:01COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTY

53:03COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PARTY.

53:04YES.

53:04COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

53:05YES.

53:06COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

53:06YES.

53:07COUNCILOR DURKAN.

53:08COUNCILOR DURKAN.

53:09YES.

53:10COUNCILOR.

53:10FITZGERALD.

53:10YES.

53:11COUNCILOR.

53:11FISCAL.

53:12YES.

53:12COUNCIL.

53:13FLYNN.

53:13YES.

53:13COUNCIL.

53:14THIN.

53:14YES.

53:15COUNCILOR.

53:15LOUIJEUNE.

53:16YES.

53:16COUNCIL.

53:16LOUIJEUNE.

53:17YES, COUNCILOR.

53:18MEJIA.

53:19CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

53:20YES.

53:20COUNCILOR.

53:21MURPHY.

53:21COUNCILOR.

53:22MURPHY.

53:22YES.

53:23COUNCIL WITH A PEN.

53:23YEAH.

53:24COUNCILMEMBER PEN.

53:25YES.

53:25SANTANA.

53:27COUNCILOR SANTANA.

53:27YES.

53:28COUNCIL.

53:28WEBER.

53:28YES.

53:29COUNCIL.

53:29WEBER.

53:30YES.

53:30AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

53:31YES.

53:32COUNCIL.

53:32ROWE.

53:33YES.

53:33TALKING NUMBER 1672 AS WE SEE

53:36THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

53:37AFFIRMATIVE.

53:38THANK YOU.

53:38>> THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS

53:39BEEN ADOP ACCEPTED AND DOCKET

53:411672 HAS PASSED THE CHAIR THE

53:44CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS

53:45AND MEANS SIX ACCEPTANCE OF THE

53:46COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

53:48OF DOCKET 1673.

53:50MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

53:52A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1673

53:53.

53:54COUNCILOR BREADON.

53:55YES.

53:56COUNCILOR.

53:56BRAIN.

53:56YES.

53:57COUNCILOR.

53:57COLORED AS A PART OF COUNCIL.

53:59AS A PARTY.

53:59YES.

54:00COUNCILOR.

54:00CULPEPER.

54:01COUNCILOR.

54:02CULPEPER.

54:02YES.

54:03COUNCIL.

54:03DURKAN.

54:04COUNCILOR.

54:04DURKAN.

54:05YES.

54:05COUNCILOR.

54:05FITZGERALD.

54:06COUNCIL.

54:07FITZGERALD.

54:07YES.

54:08COUNCILOR.

54:08FLYNN.

54:08YES.

54:09COUNCILOR.

54:09FLYNN.

54:10YES.

54:10COUNCILOR.

54:11LOUIJEUNE.

54:11YES.

54:11COUNCIL.

54:12LOUIJEUNE.

54:12YES.

54:12COUNCIL.

54:13MEJIA.

54:14CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

54:14YES.

54:15COUNCILOR.

54:15MURPHY.

54:16COUNCILOR.

54:16MURPHY.

54:17YES.

54:17COUNCIL.

54:18PIPPIN.

54:18COUNCILOR OF EVENT.

54:19YES.

54:20COUNCILOR.

54:20SANTANA.

54:21COUNCILOR.

54:21SANTANA.

54:22YES.

54:23COUNCILOR.

54:23WEBER.

54:23YES.

54:24COUNCILOR WEBER.

54:24YES.

54:25AND COUNCILOR.

54:25WORLD.

54:26YES.

54:26COUNCILOR.

54:27WORLD.

54:27YES.

54:28SO I CAN HAVE A1673 BECAUSE WE

54:31SEE THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

54:32AFFIRMATIVE.

54:33THANK YOU, MR BURKE.

54:34THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

54:35ACCEPTED ON DOCKET 1673 HAS

54:37PASSED THE CHAIR OF THE

54:39COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SIX

54:40ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

54:41REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

54:431674.

54:44MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

54:45TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

54:471674.

54:48COUNCILOR BREADON.

54:49YES.

54:50COUNCILOR BRAYTON.

54:50YES, COUNCILOR COLON AS OPPOSED

54:53COUNCILOR CLOSED FOR YES.

54:53COUNCILOR.

54:54CULPEPER.

54:55COUNCILOR.

54:56CULPEPER.

54:56YES.

54:57COUNCILOR.

54:57DURKAN.

54:58COUNCILOR.

54:58DURKAN.

54:59YES.

54:59COUNCILOR.

55:00FITZGERALD.

55:00YES.

55:01COUNCIL.

55:01FITZGERALD.

55:01YES.

55:02COUNCILOR.

55:02FLYNN.

55:03YES.

55:04COUNCILOR.

55:04FLYNN.

55:04YES.

55:04COUNCIL.

55:05LOUIJEUNE.

55:05YES.

55:06COUNCIL IS IN.

55:06YES, COUNCILOR.

55:07MEJIA.

55:08CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

55:09YES.

55:10COUNCILOR.

55:10MURPHY.

55:11COUNCILOR.

55:11MURPHY.

55:12YES.

55:12COUNCIL.

55:13PIPPIN.

55:13COUNCIL.

55:14OPINIONS?

55:15COUNCILOR.

55:15SANTANA.

55:15YES.

55:16COUNCILOR.

55:17SANTANA.

55:17YES.

55:18COUNCILOR.

55:18WEBER.

55:18YES.

55:19COUNCIL MEMBER.

55:20YES AND COUNCILOR.

55:20WORLD.

55:21YES.

55:22COUNCIL.

55:22YES.

55:23SO I CAN HAVE A1674 AS WE SEEM

55:26TO BE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

55:27AFFIRMATIVE.

55:27THANK YOU.

55:28THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

55:30ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1674 HAS

55:33PASSED.

55:34MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

55:35READ DOCKET 1695?

55:38DUCKY NUMBER 0695 ORDER FOR A

55:40HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE

55:42IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY

55:44OF BOSTON'S ASSESSMENT OF FAIR

55:46HOUSING.

55:47THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR

55:48OF THE HOUSE HOUSING AND

55:49COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

55:51COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU HAVE THE

55:52FLOOR.

55:54THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

55:56YESTERDAY THE COMMITTEE ON.

55:58HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

55:59DEVELOPMENT HELD A HEARING ON

56:00DOCKET NUMBER 0695 IN ORDER FOR

56:03A HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE

56:05IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY

56:06OF BOSTON ASSESSMENT ON FAIR

56:08HOUSING.

56:08THE DOCKET WAS SPONSORED BY

56:10COUNCILORS MORRELL, CULPEPER

56:12AND MARIA.

56:13IN ATTENDANCE WERE COUNCILORS

56:15MORRELL, CULPEPER, MEJIA,

56:17FLYNN, MURPHY, MORRELL, BREADON

56:20WEBER, FITZGERALD LOUIJEUNE AND

56:21CLARISSA PORTER.

56:23WE WERE JOINED BY MEMBERS

56:24OF THE EQUITY AND INCLUSION

56:26CABINET AS WELL AS A ROBUST

56:27PANEL OF ADVOCATES FOR A

56:28DISCUSSION ON THE CITY'S

56:29ASSESSMENT OF FAIR HOUSING.

56:31THE CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED

56:33BOTH IN BOSTON AND THE LARGEST

56:35ECONOMY SINCE THE ASSESSMENT

56:36WAS RELEASED IN 2022 AND WHAT

56:39WORK THE CITY HAS DONE IN THE

56:40WAKE OF THE ASSESSMENT.

56:42THE DISCUSSION FOCUSED ON WHAT

56:43THE CITY CAN DO BETTER TO MEET

56:45ITS OBLIGATION TO AFFIRMATIVELY

56:47FURTHER FAIR HOUSING GIVEN THE

56:48CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE.

56:50OPTIONS INCLUDE FILLING

56:51VACANCIES IN THE OFFICE OF FAIR

56:53HOUSING AND WORKING TO ACHIEVE

56:54THE GOALS LAID OUT IN THE

56:55ASSESSMENT.

56:57ADVOCATES EMPHASIZE THE

56:58IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMATIVELY

57:00FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING ACROSS

57:01CITY DEPARTMENTS AND

57:02REMEMBERING THE FAIR HOUSING

57:03GOALS BEYOND HOUSING

57:04DISCRIMINATION.

57:06I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO

57:07THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUES BECAUSE

57:08I WAS VERY JUST PLEASED TO SEE

57:10HOW MANY OF YOU SHOWED UP

57:12YESTERDAY.

57:12IT WAS A VERY UM STRONG HEARING

57:14AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOR

57:16YOUR ATTENDANCE.

57:17BUT AT THIS TIME I WOULD LOVE

57:19TO OFFER THE MAIN SPONSOR

57:21OF THIS HEARING,

57:22COUNCILOR BRIAN MORROW, AN

57:23OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ANY

57:24REMARKS IF HE PLEASES TO DO SO.

57:26THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

57:27CHAIR RECOGNIZES

57:28COUNCILOR WORRELL YOU HAVE THE

57:29FLOOR.

57:29UH.

57:30>> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

57:31THANK YOU TO COUNCIL, UH, PEPEN

57:32FOR OUR CHANCE THIS HEARING AND

57:34THANK YOU TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES

57:35THAT SHOWED UP.

57:36UH, I WANT TO START BY

57:37REMEMBERING THE LATE GREAT BOB

57:39TYRRELL.

57:40UH, MANY OF US SPENT HOURS WITH

57:42BOB LISTENING AND LEARNING.

57:43HE MADE SURE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT

57:45FAIR HOUSING MEANS AND WHAT WE

57:46NEEDED TO DO ABOUT IT.

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

57:51COMMUNITY PANEL.

57:52UH, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE

57:53BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR YEARS

57:54AND HAVE PUT FAIR HOUSING INTO

57:56OUR ZONING CODE.

57:57AND THANK YOU TO OUR FORMER

57:58COLLEAGUES, ESPECIALLY SENATOR

57:59EDWARDS, AND GET THAT ACROSS

58:01THE FINISH LINE.

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

58:03DONE BUT WE KNOW THERE'S MORE

58:04TO DO.

58:05POLICY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS

58:07IMPLEMENTATION.

58:08AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

58:09BRINGING, UH, OFFICE OF FAIR

58:10HOUSING AND THE RELEVANT

58:11DEPARTMENTS BACK, UH, FOR A

58:13WORK SESSION.

58:14UH, LET'S GET THE OUTSTANDING

58:15QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

58:16UH, GET AN UPDATE ON THE

58:18QUARTERLY REPORT AND BE CLEAR

58:19ON THE NEXT STEPS AND WHAT THIS

58:21OFFICE NEEDS TO GET IT DONE.

58:22I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE FH

58:25COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON

58:27LEAD FROM THE EQUITY UH

58:29DEPARTMENT.

58:30UH, DEWAYNE WATSON WHO THE OLD

58:31MAC ROOM FOR FAIR HOUSING AND I

58:32ALSO WANT TO REMEMBER JOYCE

58:34RIVERA WHO PUT SO MUCH INTO

58:35THIS WORK AND HELPED CARRY

58:36BOB'S LEGACY FORWARD.

58:37THANK YOU.

58:38THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

58:40WELL, DOCKET 1695 WILL REMAIN

58:43IN COMMITTEE.

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

58:47AND RESOLUTIONS A REMINDER THAT

58:49UNDER RULE 39 REMARKS ON NEW

58:51MATTERS NOT UP FOR A VOTE TODAY

58:53WILL SHALL BE LIMITED TO THREE

58:55MINUTES FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR

58:56AND TWO MINUTES FOR THE

58:58CO-SPONSORS.

58:59MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

59:00READ DOCKET 1843.

59:02TALKING NUMBER 1843 COUNCIL IS

59:04WELL AND MEJIA UH FOR THE

59:06FOLLOWING ORDINANCE AMENDING

59:07AND FORMALIZING THE

59:09NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT COMMISSION

59:10.

59:11CHAIR RECOGNIZES

59:13COUNCILOR WORRELL YOU HAVE THE

59:14FLOOR.

59:15UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

59:17I WANT TO ALSO THANK, UH,

59:19COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR HER

59:20CO-SPONSORSHIP.

59:21THIS ORDINANCE COMES FROM YEARS

59:23OF EFFORTS THAT STARTED BEFORE

59:24MY TIME HERE ON THE CITY

59:26COUNCIL HAS CONTINUED

59:27THROUGHOUT MY TIME IN OFFICE

59:29AND HOPEFULLY WILL CONTINUE IN

59:30OUR CITY LONG INTO THE FUTURE

59:32SO WE CAN SHOW ALL OF BOSTON

59:34RESIDENTS SHARE IN THE BOSTON'S

59:35GROWTH AND NONE OF THEM HAVE TO

59:37ACCEPT ACCEPT DISPLACEMENT AS A

59:39NORM.

59:40THIS ORDINANCE IS MEANT AS A

59:42COMPANION PIECE TO THE ZONING

59:43PETITION I FOUND EARLIER THIS

59:45YEAR TO CREATE SPECIAL

59:47PROTECTION ZONES AS A TOOL TO

59:48STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOODS

59:49ABILITY, STABILITY,

59:52AFFORDABILITY AND ANTI

59:53DISPLACEMENT EFFORTS AND THE

59:54NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE RISK

59:56OF DISPLACEMENT IS HIGHEST THAT

59:58UM THAT PETITION WILL CREATE

1:00:00DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT FINANCE

1:00:01AND ZONES WHICH WILL ALLOW A

1:00:02NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS AT RISK

1:00:04OF DISPLACEMENT TO REINVEST IN

1:00:06NEW PROPERTY TAXES FROM GROWTH

1:00:08INTO MEASURES THAT WE KNOW CAN

1:00:09FIGHT DISPLACEMENT AND INCLUDES

1:00:11WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

1:00:13ESPECIALLY JOB UPSKILLING

1:00:14BECAUSE WE KNOW A BIGGER

1:00:15PAYCHECK CAN HELP MAKE YOUR

1:00:16LIFE MORE STABLE AND ALSO CAN

1:00:19INCLUDE INVESTMENTS IN

1:00:20ENVIRONMENTAL AND

1:00:21TRANSPORTATION EQUITY.

1:00:23THE ORDINANCE I'M INTRODUCING

1:00:24TODAY BUILDS UP A COMMISSION

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

1:00:28THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT

1:00:29COMMISSION.

1:00:30THIS ORDINANCE WILL REFORM THAT

1:00:32COMMISSION AND BREATHE NEW LIFE

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

1:00:36ALLOW FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE

1:00:37NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE MORE

1:00:38PREDICTABLE FOR DEVELOPERS AND

1:00:39FOR RESIDENTS.

1:00:41IT WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THIS

1:00:42COMMISSION AT THE DISTRICT

1:00:43LEVEL TO ADMINISTER THOSE FUNDS

1:00:45FROM THE DEATH DIRECTLY INTO

1:00:47ANTI DISPLACEMENT AND ANTI

1:00:49DISPLACEMENT MEASURES.

1:00:50THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT

1:00:52COMMISSION ON A CITYWIDE LEVEL

1:00:53AND FOR EACH AT RISK

1:00:54NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD WILL

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

1:00:57HOUSING EXPERTS, COMMUNITY

1:00:59LEADERS, BUSINESS OWNERS AND

1:01:01RESIDENTS TO ACT AS A

1:01:02REPRESENTATIVE BODY.

1:01:03THIS BODY WOULD BE TASKED WITH

1:01:05MAKING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

1:01:07THAT ENCOURAGE THE PURSUIT

1:01:08OF HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT

1:01:09PRACTICES THAT PROMOTE

1:01:10EQUITABLE PATHWAYS TO

1:01:12NEIGHBORHOOD BASED, AFFORDABLE

1:01:13AND DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING,

1:01:16HOMEOWNERSHIP, SUSTAINABLE JOBS

1:01:17AND WAGES AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY

1:01:19FOR ALL AND CREATING SPACES

1:01:21WHERE INDUSTRY EXPERTS, CITY

1:01:23OFFICIALS AND RESIDENTS CAN

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

1:01:26MAKES THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW

1:01:27PROCESS COHESIVE PRODUCTIVE FOR

1:01:29ALL STAKEHOLDERS DECREASES TIME

1:01:30AND COST FOR BUILDERS AND

1:01:32CENTERS EQUITY AND DEVELOPMENT

1:01:33BY BETTER INTEGRATING RESIDENTS

1:01:35COLLABORATION.

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

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

1:01:39THEIR WORK, THE COLLABORATION

1:01:41AND THIS FOR THE PAST COUPLE

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

1:01:44ON ANTI DISPLACEMENT MEASURES

1:01:46AND HOUSING AND WORKFORCE

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

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

1:01:50ON THEIR BEHALF.

1:01:52I WANT TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT THAT

1:01:55WE HAVE ALSO WORK WITH

1:01:56DEVELOPERS ON THIS.

1:01:56AND WE TEND TO CONTINUE THOSE

1:01:58COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS.

1:02:00WE REALLY WANT TO GET THIS

1:02:01RIGHT AND THAT MEANS

1:02:02INCORPORATING FEEDBACK FROM ALL

1:02:03ENDS OF EXPERTISE WHO HAVE A

1:02:05HAND IN CREATING THE DIVERSE

1:02:06HOUSING STOCK THAT BOSTON

1:02:07NEIGHBORHOODS NEED.

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

1:02:10FOR ACTING FOR EQUITY ONCE MORE

1:02:12AS WELL AS DEVELOPERS AND

1:02:13HOUSING EXPERTS.

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

1:02:15FROM MY TEAM WHO HAS CONVENED

1:02:17ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO BRING THIS

1:02:19ORDINANCE HERE TODAY TO THE

1:02:20FLOOR.

1:02:20THANK YOU.

1:02:21THANK YOU.

1:02:22>> COUNCILMEMBER WORRELL CHAIR

1:02:24RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:02:25COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:02:27UH THANK YOU.

1:02:28,MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:02:29AND I WANT TO THANK

1:02:30COUNCIL WORRELL FOR ADDING ME,

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

1:02:33OF HIS LEADERSHIP IN THIS

1:02:34SPACE.

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

1:02:36HOUSING COST DISPLACEMENT AND

1:02:39GENTRIFICATION, UM, AND LIMITED

1:02:41ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION AND

1:02:42GREEN SPACES AND HOUSING

1:02:43INSTABILITY, THIS ORDINANCE

1:02:45OFFERS A SOLUTION THAT HELPS

1:02:47PROTECT COMMUNITIES AND THEIR

1:02:48VOICES.

1:02:49I GREW UP IN THE CITY

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

1:02:52WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO NAVIGATE

1:02:53SYSTEMS AND DECISIONS THAT HAVE

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

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

1:02:59AND WHETHER YOU CAN EVEN AFFORD

1:03:00TO LIVE HERE ANY LONGER.

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

1:03:04WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR

1:03:07NEIGHBORHOODS BEST ARE THE LAST

1:03:08ONES THAT ARE BROUGHT INTO THE

1:03:10CONVERSATION.

1:03:11THIS LIVED EXPERIENCE IS WHY

1:03:12OUR OFFICE IS DEDICATED TO

1:03:14ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY

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

1:03:18PROTOCOLS, POLICIES AND

1:03:20PROCEDURES.

1:03:21ENSURING MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY

1:03:22INPUT EARLY IN PLANNING AND

1:03:24DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES.

1:03:26CENTERS AND HONORS COMMUNITY

1:03:28VOICES AND NEEDS.

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

1:03:32WHEREAS CLAUSES AND THE TEXT

1:03:33OF THE ORDINANCE MENTIONS TRUE

1:03:35AFFORDABILITY AND THE ISSUES

1:03:37WITH CITYWIDE AMI BECAUSE IT

1:03:40VARIES GREATLY ACROSS

1:03:41NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:03:42WHAT IS CONSIDERED AFFORDABLE

1:03:44IN BOSTON DOES NOT REFLECT THE

1:03:46REALITIES ON THE GROUND.

1:03:47OUR OFFICE CONTINUES TO

1:03:49ADVOCATE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BASED

1:03:51AIMS TO ENSURE DEEP

1:03:53AFFORDABILITY.

1:03:53I LOOK FORWARD TO COLLABORATING

1:03:55IN MOVING THIS WORK FORWARD AND

1:03:57I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE

1:03:58ADVOCATES.

1:03:59OUR OFFICE HAS A CO GOVERNANCE

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

1:04:03LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE LITERALLY

1:04:04STEP TO THE SIDE AND LET

1:04:06COMMUNITY LEAD.

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

1:04:08MORE OF BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE

1:04:09LIVING THE REALITIES AND OR

1:04:10DOING THE WORK HAVE A BETTER

1:04:12UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOLUTIONS

1:04:14THAT WE NEED.

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

1:04:16ALONGSIDE COUNCILOR WORRELL AND

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

1:04:20MAKE IT HAPPEN.

1:04:21THANK YOU.

1:04:22THANK YOU.

1:04:23>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:04:24COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNCILOR,

1:04:25YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

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

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

1:04:28ADD COUNCILOR CULPEPER AS A

1:04:29THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:04:30UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:04:32OBJECTIONS.

1:04:33COUNCIL CULPEPER HAD ADDED AS A

1:04:35THIRD.

1:04:37UM, ARE YOU OBJECTING?

1:04:38SORRY.

1:04:39COUNCIL CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE

1:04:40FLOOR.

1:04:41SOMETIMES CHOKING IS NOT

1:04:44APPROPRIATE.

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

1:04:47COMMEND COUNCILOR AMA HERE FOR

1:04:51MOVING TO AMEND THIS ORDINANCE.

1:04:53I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

1:04:54THEM CLOSELY.

1:04:55COUNCIL WITH HERE AND AMENDING

1:04:58THIS ORDINANCE AND WITH THE

1:04:59COMMUNITY.

1:04:59THANK YOU.

1:05:01THANK YOU.

1:05:02>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:05:03THEIR NAME?

1:05:06COUNCILOR DURKAN CONTRA

1:05:07FITZGERALD CONTRA FLYNN.

1:05:08COUNCILMAN LOUIJEUNE

1:05:09COUNCILOR MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN.

1:05:12COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:05:13COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:05:14UH.

1:05:15THANK YOU.

1:05:15DOCKET 1843 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:05:17THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT

1:05:19OPERATIONS.

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

1:05:22READ DOCKET.

1:05:2518441844 COUNCIL FLANNEL FOR

1:05:26THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A

1:05:28HEARING TO DISCUSS THE BOSTON

1:05:29WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION'S

1:05:31FLOOD REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE

1:05:33PROGRAM.

1:05:34CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:05:35COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:05:36YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:05:37THANK YOU MADAM.

1:05:38THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:05:41ESTABLISHED IN 1977, THE BOSTON

1:05:43WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION.

1:05:44PROVIDES RESIDENTS AND

1:05:46BUSINESSES IN THE CITY

1:05:47OF BOSTON WITH THE BEST QUALITY

1:05:49WATER AND SEWER SERVICES.

1:05:51IT WORKS TOGETHER WITH.

1:05:52THE MASSACHUSETTS WATER AND

1:05:55RESOURCE AUTHORITY AND RA TO

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

1:06:00MEETS THE FEDERAL.

1:06:01>> AND STATE DRINKING WATER

1:06:02QUALITY REQUIREMENTS.

1:06:05IT ALSO MONITORS THE QUALITY

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

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

1:06:08SAFE TO CONSUME.

1:06:10IN ADDITION, THE COMMISSION

1:06:12ALSO PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL

1:06:14MATERIALS REGARDING OUR WATER

1:06:16AND ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING

1:06:18STORMWATER MANAGEMENT.

1:06:19CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND LEAD IN

1:06:23OUR WATER.

1:06:24LEAD CAN ENTER OUR DRINKING

1:06:25WATER AS A.

1:06:26RESULT OF.

1:06:27>> CORROSION OF LEAD PIPES.

1:06:28AS WELL AS FROM THE.

1:06:30WEARING AWAY OF MATERIALS

1:06:32CONTAINING LEAD IN THE WATER.

1:06:33DISTRICT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.

1:06:35EXCESSIVE LEAD.

1:06:36IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR WATER

1:06:39CAN POSE INCREASED HEALTH RISKS

1:06:41,ESPECIALLY FOR.

1:06:41>> YOUNG.

1:06:42CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN.

1:06:44THE LEAD REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE

1:06:45PROGRAM ENCOURAGED ENCOURAGES

1:06:47PROPERTY OWNERS TO REPLACE

1:06:49PRIVATE WATER SERVICES.

1:06:52ACCORDING TO THE COMMISSION, A

1:06:53PRIVATE WATER SERVICE.

1:06:55>> IS THE PORTION.

1:06:55>> OF THE WATER.

1:06:56SERVICE PIPE RUNNING.

1:06:57FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.

1:06:59INTO THE BUILDING IN.

1:07:01>> THE PIPE MAY BE MADE

1:07:02OF LEAD.

1:07:03THE BOSTON WATER AND SEWER.

1:07:04COMMISSION DEVELOPED THE LEAD

1:07:06REPLACEMENT.

1:07:07INCENTIVE PROGRAM TO REMOVE AND

1:07:08REPLACE THE LEAD PIPE.

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

1:07:11THE PROGRAM SERVES BOSTON

1:07:13PROPERTY OWNERS WHO ARE

1:07:14ELIGIBLE TO.

1:07:15PARTICIPATE AS LONG AS THE

1:07:17PROPERTY IS.

1:07:17SERVED BY.

1:07:19>> A TWO INCH OR SMALLER WATER

1:07:22SERVICE LEAD.

1:07:23PIPE THAT THE WATER AND SEWER

1:07:25ACCOUNT OF THE PROPERTY IS

1:07:27ACTIVE AND THE PROPERTY OWNER

1:07:29AGREES TO.

1:07:29>> HAVE.

1:07:30THE.

1:07:30WORK DONE BY THE BOSTON WATER

1:07:31AND SEWER COMMISSION.

1:07:33IT'S IMPORTANT THAT OUR

1:07:34RESIDENTS ARE AWARE OF THE LEAD

1:07:36REPLACEMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

1:07:38SO THAT THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE

1:07:40OF THE BOSTON WATER AND SEWER

1:07:41COMMISSION.

1:07:42SERVICE TO REPLACE THEIR LEAD

1:07:43PIPES TO PROTECT.

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

1:07:46HEALTH.

1:07:47THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:07:48THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:07:50WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:07:52NAME?

1:07:53COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARA

1:07:55COUNCILOR CULPEPER CONSIDER CAN

1:07:57CONSIDER FITZGERALD COMES FROM

1:07:58LOUIJEUNE CONSUMER HERE

1:08:00COUNCIL MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN

1:08:02COUNTRY SANTANA.

1:08:03CONSTABLE.

1:08:03WEBER.

1:08:03CONSTABLE ROWLAND PLEASE OF THE

1:08:05CHAIR DOCKET 1844 IT WOULD BE

1:08:10REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:08:11CITY SERVICES.

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

1:08:14READ DOCKET 1845.

1:08:17TALKING OF A1845 COUNCIL DURKAN

1:08:19AND LOUIJEUNE OFFER THE

1:08:20FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:08:22AND A ON BUSKING AND

1:08:24OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT LOCAL

1:08:26MUSICIANS AND PERFORMERS.

1:08:28THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:08:30COUNCILOR DRUNKEN CONTINUE WITH

1:08:31THE FLOOR.

1:08:31THANK YOU SO.

1:08:32>> MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'D

1:08:33LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:08:34ADD COUNCILOR BRIAN WORRELL AS

1:08:35A THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

1:08:37SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION

1:08:39COUNCILOR WARREN CITED AS A

1:08:40THIRD.

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

1:08:42TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

1:08:43COUNCILOR RALPH FOR PARTNERING

1:08:44WITH ME ON THIS.

1:08:45BOSTON IS AN INCREDIBLE CITY

1:08:46AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT

1:08:48WE ARE GOOD AT.

1:08:48WE HAVE WORLD CLASS HOSPITALS

1:08:50AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

1:08:51WE HAVE LEADING TECH COMPANIES

1:08:52AND OF COURSE OUR BOSTON SPORTS

1:08:54TEAMS WHICH I KNOW.

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

1:08:56TONIGHT.

1:08:56BUT WHAT MAKES OUR

1:08:58NEIGHBORHOODS VIBRANT UM BRINGS

1:08:59PEOPLE TOGETHER AND HELPS

1:09:01RESIDENTS FEEL MORE ROOTED IN

1:09:02OUR COMMUNITIES IS OUR ARTS AND

1:09:04CULTURE.

1:09:04I REPRESENT SO MANY ARTISTS

1:09:06INSTITUTIONS AND FENWAY

1:09:08ORGANIZATIONS FROM LOCAL

1:09:08MUSICIANS PERFORMING VENUES TO

1:09:11THE UH FENWAY CULTURAL DISTRICT

1:09:13COMMUNITY WHICH INCLUDES

1:09:15BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

1:09:16THE ARTS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART

1:09:18OF OUR ECONOMY AND BRING

1:09:19BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR

1:09:20AND IN PART BECAUSE OF OUR

1:09:22INCREDIBLE MUSICAL

1:09:24INSTITUTIONS, BOSTON IS HOME TO

1:09:25A LOT OF RISING TALENT.

1:09:26THE CHALLENGES THAT WITH

1:09:27FUNDING CHALLENGES BOTH LOCALLY

1:09:28AND FEDERALLY AS MANY

1:09:31PERFORMING VENUES AND STUDIOS

1:09:32HAVE CLOSED AND CONSOLIDATED,

1:09:33LOCAL PERFORMERS AND ARTISTS

1:09:35ARE STRUGGLING TO BUILD CAREERS

1:09:36HERE IN BOSTON.

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

1:09:38MORE SPACE FOR ARTISTS AND WE

1:09:39NEED TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT

1:09:41HOW WE CAN SUPPORT THEM.

1:09:42RECENTLY I MET DERMOT KENNEDY

1:09:44AND HIS STORY GOT ME THINKING

1:09:45ABOUT BUSKING.

1:09:46DERMOT WAS BORN IN IRELAND AND

1:09:48STARTED HIS CAREER BY COMING TO

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

1:09:51BUST ON THE STREETS OF NEWBURY

1:09:54STREET, FANEUIL HALL, THE

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

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

1:10:00REALIZE THAT WE HAVE A REAL

1:10:02OPPORTUNITY HERE TO UH TO MAKE

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

1:10:06VISA BUSKING OUTSIDE TO SELLING

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

1:10:10THAT STORY SHOULD BE POSSIBLE

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

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

1:10:15POLICY FOR BUSKERS.

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

1:10:18PERFORMERS HAVE BEEN FREE TO

1:10:19PERFORM ALMOST ANYWHERE WITH

1:10:21FEW EXCEPTIONS WITHOUT A PERMIT

1:10:23AS LONG AS THEY COMPLY WITH

1:10:24NOISE AND SAFETY REGULATIONS.

1:10:25LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES BRING

1:10:27PEOPLE TOGETHER AND ADD

1:10:29VIBRANCY TO OUR STREETS.

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

1:10:31BUSKING PROGRAMS AS A WAY TO

1:10:33ACTIVATE LOCAL AREAS AND

1:10:34SUPPORT LOCAL MUSICIANS AND

1:10:36ARTISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND

1:10:37AUSTIN, THEY'VE ACTUALLY

1:10:38PARTNERED WITH BUSINESSES TO

1:10:39COMPENSATE PERFORMERS WHILE

1:10:41DOING SO.

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

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

1:10:44SUPPORT OUR ARTS COMMUNITY.

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

1:10:47BEST ARTS CITY IN AMERICA.

1:10:49WE CAN BE A PLACE WHERE

1:10:51OPPORTUNITY IS MORE

1:10:52INTENTIONAL, WHERE WE OPEN UP

1:10:53THE DOORS FOR ARTISTS BIG AND

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

1:10:58TO ELECTRICITY, SIGNAGE AND

1:10:59OTHER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT

1:11:01WOULD MAKE THIS POSSIBLE AND WE

1:11:03NEED TO EXPLORE A MODEL THAT

1:11:04GOES BEYOND TRADITIONAL BUSKING

1:11:06BY CREATING PAID FOR.

1:11:07FORM A.

1:11:08PERFORMER PROGRAM.

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

1:11:11TO SOME OF OUR INSTITUTIONS

1:11:12ABOUT HOW WE COULD JUST DO

1:11:13THAT.

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

1:11:16OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND GIVE

1:11:17LOCAL ARTISTS AN OPPORTUNITY.

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

1:11:20NEWBURY STREET, THE FANEUIL

1:11:22HALL.

1:11:22THIS IS ABOUT EVERYWHERE IN

1:11:23BOSTON.

1:11:23THIS IS ABOUT OUR MAIN STREETS

1:11:25AND ABOUT AND ENCOURAGING LOCAL

1:11:27PERFORMANCES AND ENCOURAGING,

1:11:28UH, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO

1:11:30PERFORM THE ARTS.

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

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

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

1:11:36SO THANK YOU TO COUNCILORS

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

1:11:38PARTNERING WITH YOU ON THIS.

1:11:39THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:11:41CONCLUSION YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:11:42THANK YOU.

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

1:11:44YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

1:11:45FILING AND I LOOK FORWARD TO

1:11:46HOLDING THIS HEARING ON THIS

1:11:48IMPORTANT TOPIC.

1:11:48THANK YOU.

1:11:49YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:11:50COUNCILOR WORRELL COUNCILOR,

1:11:51YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

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

1:11:53THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DEREK AND

1:11:55COUNCILOR UH LOUIJEUNE FOR

1:11:56BRINGING ME ONTO.

1:11:57THIS ONTO.

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

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

1:12:01MAKING OUR STREETS LIVELY IN

1:12:03CERTAIN DISTRICTS.

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

1:12:05ATTRACTION THAT WOULD BRING

1:12:06PEOPLE IN AND HELP THE

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

1:12:09CREATING ATTRACTIONS A BIT MORE

1:12:10INTENTIONALLY IN EVERY

1:12:11NEIGHBORHOOD CAN HELP SPREAD

1:12:12MORE VALUABLE TOURISM DOLLARS

1:12:14ACROSS EVERY CORNER OF BOSTON.

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

1:12:17THANK YOU.

1:12:17>> THANK YOU.

1:12:18WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:12:19NAME?

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

1:12:23COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:12:24COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:12:24COUNCILOR.

1:12:25FLYNN.

1:12:26COUNTRYMAN.

1:12:26COUNTRY.

1:12:26MURPHY.

1:12:27COUNTRY.

1:12:27PEPEN COUNTRY SANTANA AND JOE

1:12:30WEBER AND.

1:12:31PLEASE UH THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE

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

1:12:36TO THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS,

1:12:37CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM

1:12:39AND SPECIAL EVENTS.

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

1:12:42COLLEAGUE, UM,

1:12:45COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

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

1:12:47SECOND ON THIS ONE.

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

1:12:49TAKING THE CHAIR?

1:13:14THANK YOU.

1:13:15THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:13:17COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL WE

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

1:13:21WILL YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

1:13:22NUMBER 1846?

1:13:25DUGGAN NUMBER 1846

1:13:27COUNCILOR BREADON UM, FOR THE

1:13:28FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:13:30REGARDING THE STATUS

1:13:31OF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS.

1:13:33LONG TERM.

1:13:34CONTROL PLANNING.

1:13:36THANK YOU.

1:13:37>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:13:39COUNCILOR PRESIDENT BREADON.

1:13:40MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

1:13:41FLOOR.

1:13:47THANK YOU.

1:13:48AND MAY I ADD

1:13:49COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTNER

1:13:51AS A SECOND.

1:13:55IT BEING NO OBJECTING

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

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

1:14:01SECOND.

1:14:01THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:14:02I'M INTRODUCING THIS HEARING

1:14:04ORDER TO COMPLIMENT A

1:14:05RESOLUTION THE COUNCIL PASSED

1:14:07LAST MONTH.

1:14:08WE NEED ANSWERS TO THE STATUS

1:14:10OF THE UPDATED COMBINED SEWER

1:14:13OVERFLOW LONG TERM CONTROL

1:14:14PLAN.

1:14:15SEWER OVERFLOWS AND WATER

1:14:17POLLUTION CONTINUE TO BE AMONG

1:14:18THE MOST PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL

1:14:20AND PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS

1:14:21FACING OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:14:23BOSTON'S INFRASTRUCTURE LACKS

1:14:26MODERN SYSTEMS THAT TRANSPORT

1:14:27RAINWATER AND SEWAGE AND

1:14:29TRANSPORT AND TRANSPORT

1:14:31RAINWATER AND SEWAGE THROUGH

1:14:32SEPARATE PIPES.

1:14:34INSTEAD, BOSTON USES COMBINED

1:14:36SEWERS THAT CARRY BOTH FLOWS

1:14:38TOGETHER DURING HEAVY RAIN.

1:14:40MUCH LIKE WE HAVE THIS PAST

1:14:42WEEKEND, THESE SYSTEMS OVERFLOW

1:14:43INTO OUR NEAREST WATERWAYS,

1:14:46RELEASING UNTREATED WASTEWATER

1:14:47DIRECTLY INTO THE NEAREST BODY

1:14:49OF WATER LIKE THE CHARLES OR

1:14:51THE MYSTIC RIVER.

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

1:14:56COUNCIL TOOK A FIRM STAND TO

1:14:58PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL

1:14:59WATERWAYS BY PASSING A

1:15:01RESOLUTION CALLING FOR STRONG

1:15:03INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS FROM

1:15:04THE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS

1:15:06AND OPPOSING ONGOING SEWAGE

1:15:08DISCHARGES.

1:15:09THE BOSTON CONSERVATION

1:15:10COMMISSION HAS LEFT THE

1:15:12ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES,

1:15:13WATERSHED GROUPS AND

1:15:15CONSERVATION COMMISSIONERS

1:15:16WITHOUT A SINGLE RESPONSE FOR

1:15:17MORE THAN NINE MONTHS DESPITE

1:15:20ONGOING REQUESTS FOR

1:15:21INFORMATION.

1:15:22THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

1:15:23OUR RESIDENTS DESERVE

1:15:26TRANSPARENCY, PUBLIC

1:15:28PARTICIPATION AND TIMELY

1:15:29COMMUNICATION.

1:15:30THIS IS ESSENTIAL WHEN

1:15:32EVALUATING DECISIONS THAT

1:15:33DIDN'T DIRECTLY IMPACT PUBLIC

1:15:35HEALTH FROM WATER QUALITY AND

1:15:37THE ENVIRONMENT OF OUR

1:15:37COMMUNITIES.

1:15:39RESIDENTS SHOULD KNOW THE

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

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

1:15:45FUTURE SEWAGE DISCHARGES.

1:15:47REGIONAL AGENCY COORDINATION

1:15:49AND ACTIVE STEPS TAKEN TO

1:15:51PROTECT THE WATERWAYS THAT ARE

1:15:52ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE CITY

1:15:54OF BOSTON.

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

1:15:58A HEARING FOR CITY DEPARTMENTS,

1:15:59STATE AGENCIES, ENVIRONMENTAL

1:16:02ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PUBLIC

1:16:03CAN ADDRESS CONCERNS DIRECTLY

1:16:05BECAUSE THE CHARLES RIVER IS AN

1:16:07IMPORTANT WATERWAY WITHIN

1:16:08BOSTON AND THAT RUNS THROUGH

1:16:10OUR CITY.

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

1:16:13PROTECTED FOR EVERY COMMUNITY.

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

1:16:18THIS MORNING, THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:16:20OPEN WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

1:16:22.

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

1:16:25IMPORTANT FOR RECREATIONAL

1:16:26SWIMMING IN THE HARBOR AND IN

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

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

1:16:33YOU CAN SWIM AROUND MANHATTAN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:16:46THIS.

1:16:48THANK YOU.

1:16:51THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:16:52COUNCILOR BECAUSE THAT IS A

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

1:16:56OF YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:16:57THANK YOU.

1:16:57>> UM, COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND I

1:16:58WANT TO THANK MADAM PRESIDENT

1:16:59UM, FOR.

1:17:00YOUR, UM.

1:17:01UH.

1:17:02>> FOR INVITING ME ONTO.

1:17:03THIS HEARING ORDER.

1:17:05>> UM, I APPRECIATE IT.

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

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

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

1:17:10REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU GIVE

1:17:11ME A SECOND.

1:17:12I APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP.

1:17:13UM, FOR.

1:17:13>> THOSE OF US REPRESENTING

1:17:14WATERFRONT COMMUNITIES,

1:17:15COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS AND

1:17:17THE INFRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY TO

1:17:18PREVENT THEM ARE NOT ABSTRACT

1:17:19POLICY DISCUSSIONS.

1:17:21WE ARE WATCHING THE WORK HAPPEN

1:17:22BENEATH OUR STREETS RIGHT NOW

1:17:24IN EAST BOSTON.

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

1:17:27CURRENTLY UNDERTAKING THE

1:17:27FOURTH PHASE OF A MASSIVE

1:17:29MULTI-YEAR SEWER SEPARATION

1:17:30PROJECT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY

1:17:32TO REDUCE THE NUMBER AND VOLUME

1:17:34OF COMBINED.

1:17:34SEWER OVERFLOWS.

1:17:35INTO THE CHELSEA CREEK AND

1:17:36BOSTON HARBOR.

1:17:37THIS PHASE ALONE INVOLVES FIVE

1:17:40SEPARATE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

1:17:42BEGINNING.

1:17:42>> IN.

1:17:432025 AND EXTENDING THROUGH 2031

1:17:46.

1:17:46JOAQUIN WILL.

1:17:47BE SIX YEARS OLD.

1:17:48THE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE IS

1:17:50SIGNIFICANT, STRETCHING ACROSS

1:17:52PORTIONS OF EAGLE HILL AND

1:17:53MAVERICK SQUARE ALL THE WAY UP

1:17:55TO MURRAY HEIGHTS.

1:17:55ANYONE WHO LIVES IN EAST BOSTON

1:17:57KNOWS JUST HOW EXTENSIVE THIS

1:17:59WORK IS.

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

1:18:01STREETS, INSTALLING ENTIRELY

1:18:03NEW STORM DRAINS, REPLACING AND

1:18:05REHABILITATING SEWER

1:18:06INFRASTRUCTURE, REPLACING AGING

1:18:08WATER MAINS AND PHYSICALLY

1:18:09SEPARATING STORMWATER FROM

1:18:11SANITARY SEWAGE SO THAT DURING

1:18:13HEAVY RAIN EVENTS OUR SYSTEM

1:18:14ISN'T OVERWHELMED AND SEWAGE

1:18:16ISN'T DISCHARGED INTO OUR

1:18:18WATERWAYS.

1:18:19DISTRICT ONE BOTH UNDERSTANDS

1:18:21THE ENORMOUS DISRUPTION AND THE

1:18:24ENORMOUS INVESTMENT REQUIRED TO

1:18:26MODERNIZE AN INFRASTRUCTURE

1:18:27THAT PEOPLE NEVER SEE BUT KEEPS

1:18:29THE CITY RUNNING.

1:18:30WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THE PAYOFF.

1:18:32CLEANER WATERWAYS REDUCE

1:18:34FLOODING.

1:18:35STRONGER INFRASTRUCTURE AND

1:18:36FEWER COMBINED.

1:18:37SEWER OVERFLOWS.

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

1:18:39CONVERSATION AND LOOK FORWARD

1:18:41TO THE HEARING.

1:18:41THANK YOU.

1:18:42>> THANK YOU.

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

1:18:44THEIR NAME?

1:18:48COUNCILOR DURKAN FITZGERALD.

1:18:50THAT'S THE FLARING COUPLE

1:18:52LOUIJEUNE.

1:18:53UH.

1:18:53SO.

1:18:54MURPHY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN

1:18:54COUNCIL.

1:18:55SANTANA HOUSE OR WHATEVER AND

1:18:58PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:18:59THANK YOU.

1:19:00DOCKET NUMBER 1846 WILL BE

1:19:03REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:19:05CITY SERVICES CITY CLERK.

1:19:08AND PLEASE READ.

1:19:13DOCKET NUMBER 1847.

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

1:19:19THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HUMAN

1:19:21TO DISCUSS THE DECLINING

1:19:23MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE

1:19:25ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND CARE

1:19:27SCORES.

1:19:29THANK YOU.

1:19:29>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:19:30COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNTER.

1:19:31YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:19:32THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

1:19:35COUNCILOR MURPHY?

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

1:19:37THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:19:40IN OCTOBER 2024, THE BOSTON

1:19:41CITY COUNCIL HELD A HEARING TO

1:19:44DISCUSS.

1:19:44STANDARDIZED TESTING HAS A

1:19:46GRADUATION.

1:19:47REQUIREMENT.

1:19:49IN NOVEMBER 2024 VOTERS

1:19:50DETERMINE THE MIXED.

1:19:51RESULTS WHEN NO LONGER NEED TO

1:19:53REACH A CERTAIN SCORE IN.

1:19:55>> ORDER TO GRADUATE.

1:19:56LAST WEEK, THE BOSTON GLOBE

1:19:58PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE.

1:20:00ANALYZING MASSACHUSETTS

1:20:02MASKLESS.

1:20:04THE RESULTS CONCLUDE THAT THE

1:20:05TEST SCORES FAILED TO REBOUND

1:20:08TO LEVELS ACHIEVED PRIOR TO

1:20:09COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

1:20:12STATEWIDE ELA PERFORMANCE IN

1:20:13GRADE.

1:20:14THREE EIGHT CONTINUES TO

1:20:15STRUGGLE, WITH JUST 40%

1:20:17OF STUDENTS MEETING OR

1:20:19EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS.

1:20:21A 12 POINT DROP.

1:20:24SINCE 2019.

1:20:25THE DECLINE IS SHARPER AMONG

1:20:2710TH GRADERS, WHOSE.

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

1:20:32PUTTING PERFORMANCE 16 POINTS

1:20:33LOWER 2019 LEVELS WHILE AN

1:20:38INCREASE IN.

1:20:38GRADE SIX AND EIGHT MATH SCORES

1:20:40.

1:20:41THE EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE EXAM.

1:20:44THERE WERE ALSO REPORTEDLY

1:20:46SHARP DECLINES IN ENGLISH

1:20:47SCORES AND LITTLE PROGRESS

1:20:49OTHERWISE WITH THESE TEST

1:20:51SCORES.

1:20:52THE MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS

1:20:55ALLIANCE CALLED AGAIN FOR.

1:20:57>> THE REINSTATEMENT OF.

1:20:58MCAS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.

1:21:01IT IS CRITICAL TO DISCUSS THESE

1:21:03FINDINGS WHY MCAS SCORES ARE.

1:21:05NOT IMPROVING.

1:21:06AND WHAT SUPPORT NEEDS TO

1:21:08IMPROVE STUDENT SCORES.

1:21:10.

1:21:10>> THE BOSTON.

1:21:11CITY COUNCIL.

1:21:11CAN'T ACCEPT.

1:21:13THESE SCORES AND LOWER RESULTS

1:21:15.

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

1:21:18CHANGE TO ENSURE THAT EVERY

1:21:19STUDENT HAS.

1:21:20>> THE OPPORTUNITY.

1:21:22TO SUCCEED.

1:21:23IN BOSTON.

1:21:24IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE ALSO

1:21:25ACCOUNT FOR CHALLENGES IN THE

1:21:27DIGITAL AGE.

1:21:28THE REPORT ALSO.

1:21:30STATED AND I QUOTE.

1:21:32INTERNATIONAL TEST SCORES HAVE

1:21:34SHOWN SIMILAR DECLINES ACROSS

1:21:36MUCH OF THE WORLD REGION

1:21:38FOCUSING.

1:21:40REINFORCING CONCERNS.

1:21:41ABOUT THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL

1:21:43.

1:21:43INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL BASED

1:21:44LAPTOPS CELL PHONES ON STUDENT

1:21:46LEARNING.

1:21:47THE NEW WEBCASTS SCORE.

1:21:49MIRROR THE.

1:21:50LATEST INTERNATIONAL.

1:21:53TEST RESULTS.

1:21:54WHICH DEMONSTRATED DECLINES.

1:21:55>> FOR 15 YEAR OLDS ACROSS THE

1:21:57WORLD.

1:21:57STUDENTS SCORED WORSE ON THE

1:22:00TEST IF THEY.

1:22:00USED AI.

1:22:02REGULARLY USED COMPUTERS.

1:22:03FOR FUN AT.

1:22:04SCHOOL OR REPORTED.

1:22:05ELEVATED LEVELS OF DIGITAL

1:22:07DISTRACTION.

1:22:09I LEAVE YOU WITH THE WARNING

1:22:10FROM THOMAS KANE IS A

1:22:12PROFESSOR.

1:22:12AT THE EDGE EDUCATION SCHOOL AT

1:22:14HARVARD.

1:22:15OUR LEADERS MUST HAVE BEEN

1:22:16ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AND.

1:22:18>> I.

1:22:18HOPE THEY WAKE UP BEFORE

1:22:19MASSACHUSETTS LOSES ITS LEAD IN

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

1:22:23THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:24THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:22:26THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:22:27COUNCILOR MURPHY COMES THROUGH.

1:22:28YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:22:29THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:31AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:22:32FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS

1:22:34IMPORTANT CONVERSATION.

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

1:22:36HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.

1:22:38WE ARE GOING IN THE WRONG

1:22:40DIRECTION.

1:22:42AS AN EDUCATOR.

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

1:22:46TRUE BELIEVER THAT ONE TEST

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

1:22:50CHILD AND THEIR ABILITY BUT AT

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

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

1:22:57HAPPENING AT EACH SCHOOL LEVEL.

1:22:59WE HAVE SCHOOLS HERE IN OUR

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

1:23:05PROFICIENCY RATE.

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

1:23:08OF OUR STUDENTS ARE EVEN

1:23:10REACHING A PROFICIENCY RATE ON

1:23:12THE MCAT AND TO BE PROFICIENT

1:23:15IS D LEVEL.

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

1:23:18IN MY OPINION.

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

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

1:23:24PROVIDE OUR STUDENTS WITH THE

1:23:26BEST EDUCATION.

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

1:23:29HAVE A GOOD EDUCATION, THEIR

1:23:32OUTCOMES WHEN THEY GRADUATE ARE

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

1:23:35ADVOCATING FOR ALL THE OTHER

1:23:37RESOURCES WE NEED TO PROVIDE

1:23:38OUR RESIDENTS.

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

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

1:23:43NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT NO

1:23:44MATTER WHAT SCHOOL YOUR CHILD

1:23:46ATTENDS THAT THEY HAVE THE

1:23:49OPPORTUNITY TO THE BEST

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

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

1:23:53STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.

1:23:55THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:23:56WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:23:58NAME ADDIS ABABA

1:24:01COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNSELOR.

1:24:01DURKAN COUNSELOR.

1:24:02FITZGERALD.

1:24:04COUNSELOR.

1:24:05UM COUNSELING HERE.

1:24:07COUNSELOR.

1:24:08PEPEN.

1:24:09COUNSELOR.

1:24:09SANTANA.

1:24:10COUNSELOR.

1:24:10WEBER.

1:24:11CULTURAL REALM PLEASE OUT THE

1:24:12CHAIR.

1:24:14THANK YOU.

1:24:15DOCKET 1847 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:24:18THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

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

1:24:23READ DOCKET 1848.

1:24:24TALKING NUMBER 1848 CANCEL PLAY

1:24:26NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR

1:24:28A HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:24:29IMPLEMENTATION.

1:24:31OF THE SEVEN NIGHTS PER WEEK

1:24:33RESIDENT PARKING ONLY POLICY IN

1:24:35SOUTH BOSTON.

1:24:36THANK YOU.

1:24:37CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:24:38COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:24:39COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:24:41YES.

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

1:24:43ALMOST ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO

1:24:45THE CITY ANNOUNCED.

1:24:46AT A PUBLIC.

1:24:47MEETING THAT SOUTH BOSTON.

1:24:50UM.

1:24:51>> WOULD RECEIVE.

1:24:53UH, SEVEN NIGHTS PER.

1:24:54WEEK RESIDENT PARKING ONLY IN

1:24:56SOUTH BOSTON IN ALL AREAS THAT

1:24:59DID.

1:24:59>> NOT CURRENTLY HAVE OVERNIGHT

1:25:01RESTRICTIONS.

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

1:25:05YEARS AGO THAT THIS WOULD

1:25:06OCCUR.

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

1:25:08THIS CHANGE.

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

1:25:11THE CITY WANTS LESS PEOPLE

1:25:12USING CARS.

1:25:13THE SOUTH IN SOUTH BOSTON HAS

1:25:15BECOME AS.

1:25:16MUCH A DESTINATION FOR YOUNG.

1:25:18PEOPLE TO.

1:25:18VISIT ON THE WEEKENDS.

1:25:20AS DOWNTOWN BOSTON OR FANEUIL

1:25:22HALL.

1:25:23WE SHOULD.

1:25:23>> NOT WANT MORE PEOPLE

1:25:24BRINGING.

1:25:24CARS IN NEGATIVELY IMPACTING

1:25:26THE COMMUNITY.

1:25:27IT IS INCONSISTENT TO SAY THE

1:25:29CITY WANTS.

1:25:30PEOPLE TO TAKE PUBLIC

1:25:31TRANSPORTATION.

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

1:25:34OR BIKES.

1:25:35DURING THE WEEK BUT FRIDAY,

1:25:36SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT IS

1:25:39OKAY TO PARK YOUR.

1:25:40CAR IN SOUTHIE.

1:25:41THIS CHANGE IS CRITICAL FOR

1:25:42MANY REASONS.

1:25:43SOUTH BOSTON'S EXISTING PARKING

1:25:45CRISIS.

1:25:47AND IN.

1:25:48>> THE NUMBER OF PARKING SPOTS

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

1:25:51QUESTION OF FAIRNESS WHEN.

1:25:53MOST OF.

1:25:54THE NEIGHBORHOOD CURRENTLY

1:25:55MAINTAINS RESIDENT PARKING FOUR

1:25:57NIGHTS PER WEEK, WHICH.

1:25:59>> IS MONDAY.

1:25:59THROUGH THURSDAY AND.

1:26:00SOME AREAS HAVE SEVEN NIGHTS

1:26:02PER WEEK RESIDENT PARKING.

1:26:03THERE'S ALSO CONTINUED

1:26:05PRESSURE.

1:26:05>> WITH THE CITY WHEN THE CITY

1:26:07APPROVES ARTICLE 80

1:26:09DEVELOPMENT.

1:26:09WITH 0.5 PARKING SPACES.

1:26:11THE PARKING CRISIS.

1:26:13>> IN SOUTH.

1:26:14BOSTON HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY

1:26:16UNSUSTAINABLE.

1:26:17A 2023 BTD UM REPORT INDICATED

1:26:21THAT THERE WERE.

1:26:22ALMOST 29,000 ACTIVE RESIDENT

1:26:26PARKING.

1:26:26PERMITS AND ONLY ABOUT.

1:26:2811,000 ON.

1:26:29STREET PARKING.

1:26:30SPACES AT THAT TIME I REQUESTED

1:26:33AN AUDIT.

1:26:33AND NEARLY.

1:26:348000 INCORRECT.

1:26:36PERMITS WERE REVOKED.

1:26:38MEANWHILE, SOUTH BOSTON

1:26:39CONTINUES TO ABSORB ABSORB.

1:26:41A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF ARTICLE

1:26:4380 DEVELOPMENTS.

1:26:44WHILE MANY HAVE GAINED SUPPORT

1:26:46OF THE COMMUNITY.

1:26:48IN THE MIDST OF OUR HOUSING

1:26:49CRISIS, DEVELOP IS.

1:26:50REPORTED BEING STALLED WITH A

1:26:51REQUEST TO CUT ALREADY AGREED

1:26:53UPON PARKING RATIOS AND ADHERE

1:26:56TO.

1:26:57BTD RECOMMENDATION PARKING

1:26:59GUIDELINES.

1:27:00OF POINT FIVE SPOTS.

1:27:01PER UNIT AND DISREGARD LOCAL.

1:27:03ZONING REGULATIONS.

1:27:06SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE WE

1:27:08HAVE.

1:27:08>> TO DECIDE IF THIS IS A

1:27:09HOUSING.

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

1:27:11RUSH TO ADDRESS OR.

1:27:13>> IT'S A PARKING.

1:27:13LITMUS TEST.

1:27:15RESIDENTS CONSISTENTLY REPORT A

1:27:17LARGE NUMBER.

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

1:27:19WITHOUT A PARKING PERMIT.

1:27:21THEY SAY MANY, MANY VISITOR

1:27:22VISITORS WILL PARK HERE FOR

1:27:24SEVERAL DAYS BEGINNING FRIDAY

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

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

1:27:31OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:27:32IN SIMILAR PROXIMATE.

1:27:34PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN THAT HAVE

1:27:36STRICTER RESIDENTIAL PARKING

1:27:38REGULATIONS.

1:27:39IT IS NO LONGER TENABLE.

1:27:40>> FOR THE ABSENCE OF SEVEN

1:27:41NIGHTS PER WEEK RESIDENT

1:27:44PARKING.

1:27:44>> ONLY POLICY.

1:27:46THIS IS.

1:27:47>> A COMPROMISE IN MY VIEW,

1:27:48WITH OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS HAVING

1:27:4924 SEVEN RESIDENT PARKING.

1:27:51THIS CHANGE.

1:27:52IS LONG OVERDUE.

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

1:27:55CONSTITUENTS.

1:27:56>> IN SOUTH BOSTON.

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

1:27:58.

1:27:59IT'S ABOUT PROVIDING.

1:28:00QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVING

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

1:28:03LONG OVERDUE FOR THE BOSTON.

1:28:06TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TO

1:28:06TREAT THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTH.

1:28:08BOSTON WITH RESPECT.

1:28:09THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:28:10THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:28:11WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:28:13NAME?

1:28:16COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

1:28:18FITZGERALD.

1:28:18COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

1:28:19MEJIA CONTRA PEPEN CONTRA

1:28:21SANTANA COUNCILOR WEBER AND

1:28:23PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

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

1:28:32184 IT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:28:33COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES.

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

1:28:37DOCKET 1849.

1:28:39SO I CAN I MOVE 1849

1:28:41COUNCIL THING ON FOR THE

1:28:42FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:28:44TO DISCUSS BUILDING A PARKING

1:28:46GARAGE AT THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:28:47MUNICIPAL.

1:28:48LOT ON WEST BROADWAY AND SOUTH

1:28:50BOSTON.

1:28:51CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:28:52COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:28:53YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:28:54THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:28:55OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES.

1:28:56SOUTH BOSTON HAS EXPERIENCED.

1:28:59UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH WITH MANY

1:29:00LARGE SCALE.

1:29:01PROJECTS HAVING BEEN COMPLETED.

1:29:03>> AND OTHERS CURRENTLY IN THE

1:29:04PIPELINE.

1:29:05IN ADDITION, THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:29:06HAS DEVELOPED INTO AS.

1:29:09A DESTINATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

1:29:10TO FREQUENT OUR.

1:29:11RESTAURANTS AND ESTABLISHMENTS

1:29:12ON THE WEEKENDS.

1:29:14SOCIAL MEDIA WILL OFTEN POINT

1:29:16OUT TO.

1:29:16LINES ON EAST.

1:29:17BROADWAY AND WEST BROADWAY AT

1:29:19THE VERY SAME TIME THERE ARE

1:29:20BOTH NO RESIDENT PARKING AS I

1:29:22MENTIONED.

1:29:23UM IN PLACES WHERE THIS INFLUX

1:29:26OF CARS ARRIVE ON THE WEEKENDS

1:29:27.

1:29:28WITH THIS.

1:29:29NEIGHBORS CONTINUE TO CALL

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

1:29:32EXISTING PARKING CRISIS

1:29:34RESIDENT PARKING.

1:29:35ONLY BEING IN.

1:29:36PLACE FOUR NIGHTS PER WEEK.

1:29:38AS WELL AS SUFFICIENT PARKING

1:29:39AT.

1:29:39NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN.

1:29:41RESTRICTING RESIDENT PARKING

1:29:42PERMITS.

1:29:43FOR THESE BUILDINGS.

1:29:44>> TO PREVENT.

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

1:29:47WORSEN THE.

1:29:47>> QUALITY OF.

1:29:48>> LIFE FOR CURRENT.

1:29:49RESIDENTS FOR YEARS DURING.

1:29:51BUDGET SEASON.

1:29:52RESIDENTS AND I HAVE ADVOCATED

1:29:53FOR A PARKING GARAGE TO BE

1:29:55ERECTED ON THE WEST BROADWAY

1:29:56MUNICIPAL LOT.

1:29:57IN SOUTH BOSTON.

1:29:59AND NOW AN APPROVED PROJECT AT

1:30:01THE VACANT.

1:30:02FORMER BANK BUILDING NEXT DOOR

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

1:30:07COURTHOUSE OFFICE AND SUPPORT

1:30:10SPACE FOR USE BY THE TRIAL

1:30:11COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH, A

1:30:13PLACE FOR OUR TRIAL COURT AND

1:30:15CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS.

1:30:16CRITICAL IN SOUTH BOSTON.

1:30:18I SUPPORT THAT.

1:30:19AND I.

1:30:19>> ALSO HAVE BEEN ACTIVE

1:30:21ENGAGED AS.

1:30:22>> A PROBATION OFFICER IN.

1:30:23NIGHT REPORTING.

1:30:24AND RECOVERY SERVICES.

1:30:26>> FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING

1:30:28.

1:30:28DURING THE DAY BUT STILL.

1:30:29>> HAVE TO.

1:30:29MEET THEIR PROBATION.

1:30:30OFFICER NIGHT.

1:30:31BUT NEIGHBORS AND I REMAIN.

1:30:33CONCERNED THAT.

1:30:34>> THE DEMANDS FOR THE EXISTING

1:30:35PARKING LOT.

1:30:35MAY NO LONGER BE.

1:30:36SUFFICIENT AND REQUIRE

1:30:38ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO

1:30:40HELP ADDRESS THE DEMAND FOR

1:30:42VISITORS.

1:30:43AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC TO WEST

1:30:44BROADWAY RESTAURANTS AND

1:30:45ESTABLISHMENT TO.

1:30:46POTENTIAL NEW CONSTRUCTION

1:30:48NEARBY THAT MAY IMPACT THE

1:30:50EXISTING MUNICIPAL ON.

1:30:51AND SOUTH.

1:30:52BOSTON'S PUBLIC.

1:30:54UM PARKING CRISIS.

1:30:56AS I MENTIONED.

1:30:57IT IS APPROPRIATE TO BEGIN

1:30:58DISCUSSION.

1:30:59ON CONSTRUCTING A PARKING.

1:31:00GARAGE AT THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:31:02MUNICIPAL.

1:31:02PARKING LOT.

1:31:03ON WEST BROADWAY.

1:31:04AND SOUTH BOSTON AND THERE ARE

1:31:07NEARBY EXAMPLES.

1:31:08>> FOR US TO LOOK AT INCLUDING

1:31:09THE SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT

1:31:12TRANSPORTATION CENTER.

1:31:13AT MASSPORT.

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

1:31:16CURRENTLY OFFERS COMMUNITY

1:31:17BENEFITS.

1:31:18INCLUDING RESIDENTIAL PARKING.

1:31:21DURING SNOWSTORM I.

1:31:22BELIEVE THERE ARE PARKING LOTS

1:31:23NEAR QUINCY CENTER AS WELL THAT

1:31:26MAY PROVIDE DISCOUNTED RATES

1:31:27FOR RESIDENTS.

1:31:28AND SOMETHING WE SHOULD.

1:31:29CERTAINLY LOOK AT AND RESEARCH

1:31:32AT WITH OUR EXISTING PARKING

1:31:34ISSUES.

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

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

1:31:40TO SUPPORT THEM INSTEAD.

1:31:42OF HAVING CARS DRIVE AROUND.

1:31:4545 MINUTES A NIGHT.

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

1:31:46NEIGHBORHOOD IT'S.

1:31:47OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS.

1:31:47>> THE CITY.

1:31:48THE RESIDENTS REPORT.

1:31:49DRIVING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1:31:51LOOKING FOR A.

1:31:51PARKING SPOT.

1:31:52THIS IS A POSSIBILITY.

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

1:31:56AND I.

1:31:57>> HOPE THE.

1:31:57>> CITY WILL SUPPORT MY

1:31:58RECOMMENDATION.

1:31:58THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:32:00THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:32:01>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:32:03THEIR NAME?

1:32:06COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:32:07COUNCILOR PEPEN.

1:32:08COUNCILOR.

1:32:08WIRRAL COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

1:32:11COUNSELOR.

1:32:11UM.

1:32:11HERE.

1:32:13COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:32:14CANCER COLOR DISSIPATED.

1:32:16COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM, PLEASE

1:32:17HAVE THE CHAIR.

1:32:19OH, AND COUNCILOR SANTANA AND

1:32:21COUSIN WEBER.

1:32:22THANK YOU.

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

1:32:26DOCKET 1849 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:32:29THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES.

1:32:31THANK YOU.

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

1:32:35READ DOCKET 1850.

1:32:37TALKING ABOUT 1850

1:32:39COUNCILOR CULPEPER OF THE

1:32:40FOLLOWING.

1:32:41ORDER FOR A HEARING TO EXAMINE

1:32:43THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS

1:32:45OF IMMIGRANT FARE FLIGHT AND

1:32:46FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

1:32:48IN BOSTON.

1:32:49THANK YOU.

1:32:50>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:32:51COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:32:52YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:32:53THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:32:54MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

1:32:56TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A

1:32:58SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:33:00I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST

1:33:02SUSPENSION OF THE RULES THAT

1:33:04COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS A THIRD

1:33:06ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

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

1:33:09SECOND AND SEEING AND HEARING

1:33:10NO OBJECTION COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

1:33:12THAT IS A THIRD.

1:33:13THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:33:15AN ISSUE THAT BECAME

1:33:17INCREASINGLY CLEAR DURING LAST

1:33:19FRIDAY'S COMMITTEE ON CIVIL

1:33:21RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUITY AND

1:33:23IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT HEARING

1:33:25REGARDING THE TERMINATION

1:33:28OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS

1:33:29FOR HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT

1:33:31THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEDERAL

1:33:33IMMIGRATION POLICY EXTENDED FAR

1:33:35BEYOND IMMIGRATION STATUS.

1:33:37THEY ARE INCREASINGLY AFFECTING

1:33:39BOSTON'S ECONOMY BOTH AND

1:33:42WORKFORCE AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS

1:33:45IMMIGRANTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO

1:33:46BOSTON'S WORKFORCE SMALL

1:33:48BUSINESSES, NEIGHBORHOODS AND

1:33:49TAX BASE.

1:33:50WITHOUT IMMIGRATION,

1:33:53MASSACHUSETTS WITH AN

1:33:54EXPERIENCED POPULATION DECLINE

1:33:55OVER THE LAST CENTURY AND

1:33:57GREATER BOSTON WOULD HAVE LOST

1:33:59APPROXIMATELY 100,000 RESIDENTS

1:34:02IN THE PAST DECADE ALONE.

1:34:04WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT

1:34:05INCREASED FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT

1:34:07AND FEAR OF DETENTION OR

1:34:09DEPORTATION MAY BE CAUSING

1:34:11IMMIGRANTS RESIDENTS TO LEAVE

1:34:13MASSACHUSETTS, STAY HOME FROM

1:34:14WORK, AVOID BUSINESSES AND

1:34:17PUBLIC SPACES OR OTHERWISE

1:34:19WITHDRAW FROM ECONOMIC LIFE.

1:34:21A RECENT WHARTON STUDY

1:34:23EXAMINING MORE THAN 5000

1:34:25IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

1:34:27FOUND THAT ENFORCEMENT REDUCED

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

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

1:34:36WITH IMPACTS EXTENDING BEYOND

1:34:39IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.

1:34:40WE NEED TO EXAMINE HOW THESE

1:34:42TRENDS ARE AFFECTING BOSTON'S

1:34:44RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES,

1:34:46WORKFORCE, NEIGHBORHOODS AND

1:34:48TAXPAYERS AND WHAT THE CITY CAN

1:34:49DO TO MEASURE AND MITIGATE

1:34:51THESE HARMS IF FEAR IS DRIVING

1:34:54RESIDENTS AWAY OR CAUSING THEM

1:34:56TO WITHDRAW FROM OUR ECONOMY

1:34:57THAT IS NOT ONLY AN IMMIGRANT

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

1:35:02LONG TERM ECONOMIC STABILITY.

1:35:06THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:35:08THANK YOU.

1:35:10>> COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:35:10THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRA

1:35:11SANTANA COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE

1:35:13FLOOR.

1:35:14THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:35:15I WANNA THING COUNCILOR PEPPER

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

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

1:35:20ORDER.

1:35:21AS AN IMMIGRANT, I KNOW

1:35:22FIRSTHAND THAT OUR IMMIGRANT

1:35:23NEIGHBORS ARE THE BACKBONE

1:35:24OF BOSTON SUCCESS FROM EAST

1:35:26BOSTON AND DORCHESTER TO

1:35:27MATTAPAN AND AUSTIN RIGHT NOW

1:35:30FEAR IS PARALYZING OUR

1:35:32COMMUNITIES.

1:35:32NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED

1:35:34WHILE SIMPLY DOING THEIR JOBS A

1:35:36CALCULATED EFFORT TO INSTILL

1:35:37TERROR AND MAKE FAMILIES AFRAID

1:35:39TO STEP OUTSIDE WITH THE

1:35:41ONGOING ICE SURGE IN NEW

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

1:35:45OUR DOORSTEP AND DRIVING A WAVE

1:35:47OF FEAR.

1:35:47FLIGHT RESIDENTS ARE LEAVING

1:35:50BOSTON AVOIDING LOCAL

1:35:52STOREFRONTS, UM AND SKIPPING

1:35:54ESSENTIAL DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS

1:35:55FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR

1:35:56CHILDREN OUT OF FEAR THE

1:35:58ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DAMAGE IS

1:35:59IMMEDIATE.

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

1:36:02POLICY AND POWER AND POLITICS

1:36:04INSTITUTE FOUND THAT AN ICE

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

1:36:08NEARBY BUSINESSES.

1:36:09>> TO LOSE.

1:36:1046,000 VISITS AND ABOUT $3.16

1:36:13MILLION IN JUST TWO WEEKS HERE

1:36:15IN BOSTON, FEAR OF FLIGHT

1:36:16DIRECTLY THREATENS OUR SMALL

1:36:18BUSINESSES PUBLIC HEALTH,

1:36:19HOUSING STABILITY, TAX REVENUE

1:36:21AND CRITICAL INDUSTRIES.

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

1:36:25PICTURE OF WHAT THAT LEVEL

1:36:27OF ENFORCEMENT IS DOING TO OUR

1:36:28CITY.

1:36:28WE MUST LEARN THE FULL EXTENT

1:36:30OF THIS IMPACT HERE DIRECTLY

1:36:32FROM BOSTON'S IMMIGRANT

1:36:33COMMUNITIES, AND TAKE CONCRETE

1:36:34STEPS TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS

1:36:35.

1:36:36WE MUST REMAIN COMMITTED TO

1:36:38CREATING A BOSTON WHERE EVERY

1:36:39RESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF STATUS

1:36:41CAN LIVE, WORK AND THRIVE

1:36:42WITHOUT FEAR.

1:36:43THANK YOU.

1:36:44THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:36:46CONTRIBUTION YOU HAVE THE

1:36:47FLOOR.

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

1:36:48THE MAKER FOR ADDING ME AND

1:36:49LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED

1:36:51WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC.

1:36:52UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF THE

1:36:55ANTI-IMMIGRANT NATURE OF THIS

1:36:56ADMINISTRATION.

1:36:57THANK YOU.

1:36:57THANK YOU.

1:37:00WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:37:02NAME?

1:37:03COUNTRY CANADA.

1:37:04ZAPATA.

1:37:05COUNCILOR.

1:37:05DURKAN.

1:37:06COUNCILOR.

1:37:06FITZGERALD.

1:37:07COUNTRY.

1:37:07FLYNN.

1:37:07COUNTRY.

1:37:08MURPHY.

1:37:08COUNTRY.

1:37:09PEPEN.

1:37:10COUNCILOR WEBER CONSTANT

1:37:11WARRANT PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:37:13THANK YOU.

1:37:14DOCKET 1850 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:37:16THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS,

1:37:17RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

1:37:19ADVANCEMENT.

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

1:37:22READ DOCKET 1851.

1:37:25TALKING NUMBER 1851 HAS BEEN

1:37:27WITHDRAWN.

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

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

1:37:32DOCKET 1852.

1:37:34TALKING NUMBER 1852

1:37:36COUNCILOR MURPHY OFFERED THE

1:37:37FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING

1:37:39CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER

1:37:40SECTION 17 OF REGARDING

1:37:43RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS.

1:37:44REMOTE WORK CONTRARY TO A

1:37:46CLASSIFICATION AND PAYMENTS TO

1:37:48A FORMER SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL

1:37:50ENGINEER.

1:37:52THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:37:54UH, CONCERN MURPHY.

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

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

1:38:00OKAY.

1:38:00COUNTRY MURPHY SIX SUSPENSION

1:38:02OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE

1:38:03OF DOCKET 1852.

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

1:38:07SAY NAY.

1:38:07THE AYES HAVE IT.

1:38:09DOCKET 1852 HAS PASSED,

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

1:38:14TALKING NUMBER 1853

1:38:16COUNCILOR MURPHY OFF OF THE

1:38:17PHONE ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:38:20INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17

1:38:23OF REGARDING BOSTON PUBLIC

1:38:24SCHOOLS.

1:38:24PROCUREMENT.

1:38:25>> CONTRACTING, PAYMENT

1:38:26CONTROLS AND IMPLEMENTATION

1:38:28OF THE STATE INSPECTOR

1:38:29GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

1:38:31THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY SIX

1:38:33SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:38:34PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1853.

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

1:38:38SAY NAY.

1:38:39THE AYES HAVE IT.

1:38:41DOCKET 1853 HAS PASSED.

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

1:38:45READ DOCKET 18546.

1:38:47NUMBER 1854 COUNCILOR MURPHY OH

1:38:49FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER

1:38:51REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION

1:38:52UNDER SECTION 17 OF REGARDING

1:38:55RULE, ROADWAY ALTERATIONS AND

1:38:57THE CITY'S RESPONSE AT

1:38:59TREATMENT STREET AND PARKER

1:39:00STREET.

1:39:01THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY SIX

1:39:03SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:39:04PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1854.

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

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

1:39:10A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET

1:39:121854.

1:39:14COUNCIL AGREED?

1:39:15YES.

1:39:16>> COUNCIL.

1:39:16BREADON.

1:39:17>> YES.

1:39:17COUNCILOR COLLETTE OSIPOV.

1:39:19YES.

1:39:19COUNCIL OCCURS ABOUT A YES.

1:39:21COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:39:22YES.

1:39:22COUNCILOR.

1:39:23CULPEPER.

1:39:23YES.

1:39:24COUNCILOR.

1:39:24DURKAN.

1:39:25COUNCILOR.

1:39:25DURKAN.

1:39:26YES.

1:39:26COUNCIL.

1:39:27FITZGERALD.

1:39:27YES.

1:39:27COUNCIL.

1:39:28FISCAL.

1:39:28YES.

1:39:29COUNCILOR.

1:39:29FLYNN.

1:39:29YES.

1:39:31COUNCIL.

1:39:31FLYNN.

1:39:31YES.

1:39:32COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

1:39:34MEJIA.

1:39:35COUNCILOR.

1:39:35MURPHY.

1:39:36COUNCILOR.

1:39:37MURPHY.

1:39:37YES.

1:39:37COUNCIL.

1:39:38PIPPIN.

1:39:39COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.

1:39:40SANTANA.

1:39:40YES.

1:39:41COUNCIL.

1:39:41SANTANA.

1:39:42YES.

1:39:42COUNCILOR.

1:39:43WEBER.

1:39:43YES.

1:39:43COUNCIL.

1:39:44WEBER.

1:39:44YES AND COUNCILOR.

1:39:45WORLD.

1:39:46YES.

1:39:46COUNCIL.

1:39:46ORAL.

1:39:47YES.

1:39:47TALKING NUMBER 1854 AS WE

1:39:49RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

1:39:51AFFIRMATIVE.

1:39:51THANK YOU.

1:39:53DOCKET 1854 HAS PASSED.

1:39:55MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:39:56READ DOCKET 1855I.

1:39:58NUMBER 1855 COUNCILOR, CALL

1:40:00PEPPER OFF OF THE FOLLOWING

1:40:02ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:40:04INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17

1:40:06OF REGARDING THE STATUS OF THE

1:40:08BOSTON REPARATIONS TASK FORCE.

1:40:11RESEARCH REPORTS AND FUTURE

1:40:12WORK.

1:40:13CONSTRUCTION CULPEPER.

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

1:40:15THESE.

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

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

1:40:19THAT'S COUNCILOR CULPEPPER SIX

1:40:22SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:40:23PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1855.

1:40:24ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:40:26AYE.

1:40:26ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

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

1:40:31PASSED.

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

1:40:34DOCKET 1856.

1:40:36DOC NUMBER 1856 COUNCIL IS

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

1:40:40FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

1:40:42OF QUESTION SIX TO CREATE A

1:40:44NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION

1:40:45FUND.

1:40:46THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:40:48COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY YOU

1:40:48HAVE THE.

1:40:49FLOOR THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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

1:40:52COUNCILOR AS WELL FOR JOINING

1:40:52WITH ME ON THIS.

1:40:53I RISE TODAY TO INTRODUCE A

1:40:55RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

1:40:56OF QUESTION SIX WHICH WOULD

1:40:57CREATE A NATIONAL RESOURCE

1:40:58CONSERVATION FUND.

1:40:59OUR NATURAL RESOURCES ARE

1:41:01PRECIOUS AND SUPPORTING

1:41:03CONTINUED PUBLIC USE AND

1:41:04CONSERVATION OF THESE SPACES

1:41:05ARE IMPORTANT PRIORITIES.

1:41:07QUESTION SIX ON THE NOVEMBER

1:41:083RD STATEWIDE BALLOT WOULD

1:41:09CREATE A FUND KNOWN AS THE

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

1:41:13$100 MILLION ANNUALLY FROM

1:41:14EXISTING SALES OF OUTDOOR

1:41:16RECREATION EQUIPMENT.

1:41:17THIS WOULD PROVIDE A STABLE

1:41:19LONG TERM FUNDING TO PROTECT

1:41:20AND MAINTAIN OUR PARKS AND

1:41:22RECREATIONAL SPACES, PLAN FOR

1:41:23CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND CONSERVE

1:41:25NATURAL RESOURCES WHILE

1:41:27EXPANDING ACCESS TO OUTDOOR

1:41:28RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES

1:41:29WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.

1:41:30RELIABLE FUNDING IS ESPECIALLY

1:41:32IMPORTANT WHEN CONSERVATION OR

1:41:33CLIMATE PROGRAMS ARE

1:41:35JEOPARDIZED BY STATE TIGHT

1:41:36STATE BUDGETS AND LIMITED

1:41:38FEDERAL RESOURCES.

1:41:39IT WOULD ALLOW COMMUNITIES TO

1:41:41PLAN PROJECTS IN ADVANCE THAT

1:41:43WOULD OTHERWISE.

1:41:43NOT BE POSSIBLE.

1:41:44THE STATE MANAGES MORE PARKLAND

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

1:41:47FUNDING COULD HELP MAINTAIN

1:41:48TREASURED OUTDOOR SPACES IN OUR

1:41:50COMMUNITIES INCLUDING THE

1:41:51ESPLANADE, STONY BROOK

1:41:53RESERVATION AND THE SOUTHWEST

1:41:54CORRIDOR PARK.

1:41:55UM AS A DISTRICT EIGHT CITY

1:41:57COUNCILOR UM WE HAVE A LOT

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

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

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

1:42:05AUTHORING THIS.

1:42:06UM, MASSACHUSETTS HAS STRONG

1:42:08OUTDOOR RECREATION INDUSTRY AND

1:42:10OTHER SIMILAR MODELS

1:42:11OF DIRECTING SALES REVENUE FROM

1:42:12SPORTING EQUIPMENT TO

1:42:13CONSERVATION AND RECREATION.

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

1:42:16PRIORITIES TO CONSERVE NATURAL

1:42:18RESOURCES AND EXPAND ACCESS TO

1:42:19GREENSPACE AND OUTDOOR

1:42:20RECREATION FOR BOSTON RESIDENTS

1:42:22,ESPECIALLY FOR FROM OUR LOW

1:42:23INCOME RESIDENTS AND

1:42:24COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

1:42:25I URGE OUR COMMUNITIES TO JOIN

1:42:26ME IN VOTING YES.

1:42:27UM AND I ALSO URGE MY

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

1:42:30PUSHING FOR A SUSPEND AND PASS

1:42:31TODAY.

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

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

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

1:42:37OF PEOPLE HAVE LEFT THIS

1:42:38QUESTION BLANK AND I THINK IT

1:42:40WOULD MEAN A LOT FOR THE

1:42:40BOSTON.

1:42:41>> CITY.

1:42:41COUNCIL TO STAND UP IN SUPPORT

1:42:43OF THIS QUESTION.

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

1:42:46THANK YOU.

1:42:47>> CONSIDER CONCUR RECOGNIZES

1:42:48CONSTABLE ORAL CONSTABLE YOU

1:42:49HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:42:50THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:42:51THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

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

1:42:55CO-SPONSOR.

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

1:42:59SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION.

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

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

1:43:04I BELIEVE SUCH A DEDICATED

1:43:05FUNDING UM, SOURCE WOULD GROW

1:43:07QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY FOR

1:43:08THESE PURPOSES.

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

1:43:10STORY HERE IN ORDER I FOUND

1:43:12RECENTLY TO EXPLORE INCREASING

1:43:14THE PERCENTAGE OF CPA FUNDS

1:43:15THAT ARE DEDICATED TO

1:43:17AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

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

1:43:19SOURCE FOR CONSERVATION AND

1:43:21GREENSPACE, IT COULD CREATE A

1:43:23WAY FORWARD FOR US TO DIRECT

1:43:24MORE CPA FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE

1:43:26HOUSING NEEDS WHILE ENSURING WE

1:43:27CAN MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL

1:43:29OF FUNDING FOR OPEN SPACE AND

1:43:30PRESERVATION EFFORTS.

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

1:43:33EASY YES ON QUESTION SIX IN

1:43:35NOVEMBER AND WORKING WITH

1:43:36COUNCILOR DURKAN AND OUR

1:43:37COLLEAGUES ON THIS FURTHER IN

1:43:38THE FUTURE AND TO MAKING SURE

1:43:40THAT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS ARE

1:43:41ALSO VOTING YES ON SIX.

1:43:43THANK YOU.

1:43:43THANK YOU COUNCILOR ELLEN.

1:43:45ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME

1:43:47COUNTRY COLOR TO SIBANDA

1:43:48COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:43:50COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.

1:43:51FLYNN.

1:43:51COUNTRY.

1:43:51MURPHY COUNTRY PEPEN CONSCIOUS

1:43:53AND TURNER CULTURAL WEBER

1:43:54PLEASE UH THE CHAIR COUNCILORS

1:43:57DURKAN GENERAL SEEK SUSPENSION

1:43:59OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

1:44:011856.

1:44:03ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:44:04AYE.

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

1:44:07A ROLL CALL?

1:44:07VOTE ON DOCKET 1856.

1:44:10COUNCILOR.

1:44:11BRAIN.

1:44:11YES, COUNCILOR.

1:44:12BRAIN.

1:44:12YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:44:13PERSON.

1:44:14YES, COUNCILOR CARLOS.

1:44:15BUT YES, COUNCILOR CARTER.

1:44:18COUNCIL.

1:44:18YES.

1:44:19COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:44:20YES.

1:44:21COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:44:21YES.

1:44:22COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:44:22YES.

1:44:23COUNCIL TO SHOW.

1:44:24YES.

1:44:24COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:44:26COUNCIL.

1:44:26FLYNN.

1:44:26YES.

1:44:27COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:44:27YES.

1:44:28COUNCIL.

1:44:28HUSSAIN.

1:44:28YES.

1:44:29CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:44:30COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:44:31COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:44:32COUNCIL PUT PEN.

1:44:33HAS BEEN.

1:44:34YES.

1:44:35SANTANA.

1:44:35YES.

1:44:36COUNCIL.

1:44:36SANTANA.

1:44:37YES.

1:44:37COUNCIL.

1:44:37WEBER.

1:44:38YES.

1:44:38COUNCIL WILL BE YES AND

1:44:40COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.

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

1:44:42ABOUT 1856 AS WE RECEIVED 12

1:44:45VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:44:46THANK YOU MR TRACK DOCKET 1856

1:44:49HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

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

1:44:53DOCKET 1857.

1:44:55SO I CAN NUMBER 1857

1:44:57COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART

1:44:58OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

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

1:45:03OF ENGINEERS BOSTON HARBOR

1:45:04COASTAL STORM RISK MANAGEMENT

1:45:07COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM PLAN AND

1:45:09THE CITY OF BOSTON'S

1:45:10APPLICATION OF FEDERAL

1:45:12AUTHORIZATION.

1:45:13THANK YOU.

1:45:14THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:45:15COUNCILOR COLOR.

1:45:15YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:45:16THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:45:17I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:45:18COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS A

1:45:19CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND THE

1:45:20RULES.

1:45:20UH, ROUTE 12 AND AD

1:45:22COUNCILOR SANTANA AS.

1:45:24COUNCILOR FITZGERALD DECIDED AS

1:45:25A SECOND AND SEEING AND HEARING

1:45:27NO OBJECTIONS COUNTRIES AND

1:45:28THEN COUNTRY FITZGERALD ADDED

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

1:45:32ADDED AS A THIRD.

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

1:45:34JUST CALL IT COUNCILOR FLYNN AS

1:45:36AN HONORARY FOURTH UM SPONSOR

1:45:37FOR THIS.

1:45:38I RISE TODAY TO ASK MY

1:45:40COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS

1:45:40RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE

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

1:45:43BOSTON HARBOR COASTAL STORM

1:45:44RISK MANAGEMENT COMPREHENSIVE

1:45:46SYSTEM PLAN AND IMPORTANTLY THE

1:45:48CITY OF BOSTON'S PURSUIT

1:45:49OF FEDERAL AUTHORIZATION.

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

1:45:52THE ALARM THAT PLANNING FOR

1:45:53CLIMATE RESILIENCE IS NOT

1:45:54ENOUGH.

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

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

1:45:57THE WATER'S COMING.

1:45:58WE KNOW WHICH NEIGHBORHOODS,

1:45:59HOMES, BUSINESSES,

1:46:00TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND

1:46:01CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE

1:46:02VULNERABLE.

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

1:46:04ACTUALLY PAY TO PROTECT THEM?

1:46:06THIS HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO MY

1:46:07ADVOCACY AND HAVE CONSISTENTLY

1:46:09PUSHED TO MOVE BEYOND PLANNING

1:46:11AND TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION,

1:46:12PARTICULARLY TOWARD CREATING A

1:46:14REAL FINANCING STRATEGY FOR THE

1:46:15BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN

1:46:16RESILIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE

1:46:18BOSTON WILL NEED.

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

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

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

1:46:24BILLION.

1:46:24BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE

1:46:25ARMY CORPS PROCESS IS SUCH AN

1:46:27EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY.

1:46:29FEDERAL AUTHORIZATION COULD

1:46:30MAKE ELIGIBLE PROJECTS WITHIN

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

1:46:3465% FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COST

1:46:36SHARE THAT FUNDAMENTALLY

1:46:38CHANGES WHAT IS FINANCIALLY

1:46:39POSSIBLE FOR BOSTON.

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

1:46:43THE WORK UNDERWAY WITH THE

1:46:44GREEN RIBBON COMMISSION ON A

1:46:46COASTAL RESILIENCE FINANCIAL

1:46:47BLUEPRINT FOR THE REMAINING

1:46:5035%.

1:46:50THEY ARE EXAMINING PUBLIC AND

1:46:51PRIVATE FUNDING SOURCES, THE

1:46:53FINANCING GAP, GOVERNANCE AND

1:46:55HOW COST CAN BE SHARED

1:46:56EQUITABLY.

1:46:57I LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING THE

1:46:58GREEN RIBBON COMMISSION BEFORE

1:47:00US FOR A CITY COUNCIL BRIEFING

1:47:01WHICH IS ON THE CALENDAR SO

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

1:47:04AND UNDERSTAND WHAT A

1:47:05SUSTAINABLE FINANCING MODEL FOR

1:47:06BOSTON COULD ACTUALLY LOOK

1:47:07LIKE.

1:47:08AND WHILE I REPRESENT SOME

1:47:09OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE

1:47:10FRONT LINES EAST BOSTON,

1:47:12CHARLESTOWN, THE NORTH END AND

1:47:13OUR DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT THIS IS

1:47:14NOT A WATERFRONT ISSUE SIMPLY A

1:47:16WATERFRONT ISSUE WHEN A MAJOR

1:47:18STORM FLOODS OUR TUNNELS,

1:47:20TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, OUR

1:47:21AIRPORTS, HOSPITALS, POLICE

1:47:22STATIONS, FIRE STATIONS,

1:47:24ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE HOMES

1:47:26THE CONSEQUENCES DO NOT STOP AT

1:47:28A NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY.

1:47:29CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T CARE

1:47:30ABOUT DISTRICT LINES.

1:47:31WATER DOES NOT CARE ABOUT

1:47:32POLITICAL DIFFERENCES.

1:47:33AND THE SCALE OF THIS THREAT

1:47:35DEMANDS THAT WE COME TOGETHER

1:47:36AROUND A GENERATIONAL SOLUTION

1:47:37TO A GENERATIONAL PROBLEM.

1:47:39WE CAN AND SHOULD CONTINUE

1:47:40DEBATING THE DETAILS WHERE

1:47:41PROTECTION PROTECTIONS GO, HOW

1:47:43THEY ARE DESIGNED AND HOW WE

1:47:44PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESS AND

1:47:46NATURAL SYSTEMS AND CRITICALLY

1:47:48WHO PAYS FOR IT.

1:47:48BUT ON THE.

1:47:49>> FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION

1:47:50OF WHETHER BOSTON SHOULD

1:47:51POSITION ITSELF TO RECEIVE THE

1:47:53LARGEST POSSIBLE FEDERAL

1:47:54PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT OUR

1:47:55CITY, I BELIEVE THE PATH

1:47:57FORWARD IS CLEAR THIS

1:47:58INFRASTRUCTURE THIS IS

1:47:59INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL

1:48:00PROTECT GENERATIONS

1:48:01OF BOSTONIANS WE WILL NEVER

1:48:03MEET.

1:48:03I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT

1:48:05THIS RESOLUTION AND STAND

1:48:06TOGETHER IN PURSUING THE

1:48:07FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP NECESSARY

1:48:08TO PROTECT ALL OF BOSTON FOR

1:48:10FUTURE GENERATIONS.

1:48:11THANK YOU.

1:48:12>> THANK YOU.

1:48:13>> COUNCILOR COLLETTE, AS A

1:48:13PART OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:48:15COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE

1:48:16THE FLOOR.

1:48:17THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:48:18I FIRST JUST.

1:48:18>> WANT TO THANK.

1:48:19COUNCIL COLLETTA SUPPORTIVE FOR

1:48:20HER STEADFAST ADVOCACY.

1:48:21AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL.

1:48:23ISSUES FROM COASTAL FLOODING TO

1:48:25RESILIENCE AND SHE'S.

1:48:27ALWAYS BEEN.

1:48:27>> A LEADER.

1:48:28>> IN THAT.

1:48:28>> AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO

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

1:48:31HELPING HER DO THAT.

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

1:48:34PROBABLY WROTE A LETTER.

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

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

1:48:39FOLKS UP AT THE STATEHOUSE DID

1:48:40AS WELL.

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

1:48:42CHIEF SWETT YESTERDAY AND HE

1:48:43SAID SOMETHING THAT SORT OF,

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

1:48:46DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE

1:48:47I ASKED HIM A QUESTION.

1:48:48HEY.

1:48:48>> LOOK.

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

1:48:49ON THE TABLE.

1:48:50THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF.

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

1:48:53NOT SURE WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING

1:48:55TO BE BUILT WHERE AND OBVIOUSLY

1:48:57THAT CAUSES A LITTLE BIT

1:48:58OF TREPIDATION FOR SOME FOLKS

1:49:00AND HOW THEY COULD BE IMPACTED

1:49:01FROM THIS.

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

1:49:04MOST.

1:49:05IMPORTANT THING.

1:49:06IS THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND

1:49:07THAT BOSTON'S BEEN SORT

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

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

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

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

1:49:15FROM A MEDICAL STANDPOINT, FROM

1:49:17AN EDUCATIONAL STANDPOINT AND

1:49:18REALLY JUST THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

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

1:49:22FORCE IS GREATER THAN CITY

1:49:23COUNCIL OR THE MAYOR ARE

1:49:25LOOKING AT BOSTON AND SAYING

1:49:26THIS IS A CITY WE SHOULD

1:49:27PROTECT.

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

1:49:29RIGHT?

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

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

1:49:32THAT WAY.

1:49:33SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING

1:49:34WITH COUNCIL AS PART OF UH

1:49:36CHIEF SWEAT UH, AND

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

1:49:40IMPACTS ARE GOING TO UH NOT

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

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

1:49:45BURDENSOME ON THE COMMUNITY AS

1:49:46WELL.

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

1:49:47IT.

1:49:48THANK YOU.

1:49:49>> COUNCILOR FITZGERALD CHAIR

1:49:50RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:49:51YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:49:52THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

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

1:49:55SUPPORT THAT UH, FOR INCLUDING

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

1:50:00COUNCILOR FITZGERALD MENTIONED

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

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

1:50:04SAY SINCE DAY ONE.

1:50:05SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR

1:50:06LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

1:50:07UM, AND UH, ENVIRONMENTAL

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

1:50:11OF BOSTON.

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

1:50:13ECHO ALSO COUNCIL TO SUPPORT

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

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

1:50:17BOSTONIANS TO DO EVERYTHING

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

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

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

1:50:25WELL WE NEED THESE FEDERAL

1:50:26PARTNERSHIPS AS IS CRITICAL.

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

1:50:29THE CONVERSATION AND PARTNERING

1:50:30WITH BOTH.

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

1:50:32PATTERN UM,

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

1:50:34MOVE THIS FORWARD.

1:50:35THANK YOU.

1:50:35THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:50:38WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:50:39NAME?

1:50:40COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

1:50:41COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:50:42CONTRA FLYNN.

1:50:43COUNCILOR.

1:50:43MEJIA.

1:50:44COUNCILOR.

1:50:44MURPHY.

1:50:45I'M SURE PEPEN.

1:50:47COUNCILOR WEBER.

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

1:50:49THE CHAIR.

1:50:52UM COUNCILORS THE PATTER

1:50:53FITZGERALD AND SANTANA SEEK

1:50:55SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:50:57ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1857.

1:51:00ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:51:02ALL OPPOSED?

1:51:02SAY NAY.

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

1:51:06TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:51:06VOTE ON DOCKET.

1:51:081857.

1:51:09>> COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:51:09YES.

1:51:10COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:51:10>> YES.

1:51:11COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:51:12PARTNER.

1:51:12COUNCILOR.

1:51:13CLOSED.

1:51:13BUDDY.

1:51:14YES.

1:51:14COUNCILOR.

1:51:14CULPEPPER.

1:51:15COUNCILOR.

1:51:16CULPEPER.

1:51:16YES.

1:51:16COUNCILOR.

1:51:17DURKAN.

1:51:18COUNCILOR.

1:51:18DURKAN.

1:51:19YES.

1:51:19COUNCILOR.

1:51:19FITZGERALD.

1:51:20YES.

1:51:20COUNCILOR.

1:51:21FITZGERALD.

1:51:21YES.

1:51:21COUNCILOR.

1:51:22FLYNN.

1:51:22YES.

1:51:23COUNCIL.

1:51:23FLYNN.

1:51:23YES.

1:51:24COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:51:25COUNCILOR.

1:51:25MEJIA.

1:51:26COUNCILOR.

1:51:27MEJIA.

1:51:27YES.

1:51:28COUNCILOR.

1:51:28MURPHY.

1:51:29COUNCILOR.

1:51:29MURPHY.

1:51:30YES.

1:51:30COUNCIL.

1:51:30PIPPIN.

1:51:31COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.

1:51:32SANTANA.

1:51:33YES.

1:51:33COUNCILOR.

1:51:34SANTANA.

1:51:34YES.

1:51:35COUNCIL.

1:51:35WEBER.

1:51:36COUNCILOR.

1:51:36WORTHY.

1:51:37YES AND COUNCILOR.

1:51:38WORLD.

1:51:38YEAH.

1:51:38COUNCILOR.

1:51:39WELL, YES.

1:51:39CAN NUMBER 1857

1:51:43COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE TO LIKE TO

1:51:46VOTE ON.

1:51:47THE COASTAL.

1:51:51.

1:51:51>> UH, YES.

1:51:52HI.

1:51:52MY NAME IS.

1:51:55COUNCILOR LOUISIANA'S TALKING

1:51:57NUMBER 81857 AS WE SEE THE

1:51:59UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

1:52:00AFFIRMATIVE.

1:52:01THANK YOU.

1:52:03>> MR CHAIR OF DOCKET 1857 HAS

1:52:04BEEN ADOPTED.

1:52:08THAT COUNCILOR CLOSES THE

1:52:10BATTLE.

1:52:13SO.

1:52:14>> UM, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, IF

1:52:15YOU WOULD MIND.

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

1:52:39PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 1858

1:52:42.

1:52:43DOC NUMBER 1858 CANCEL PLAY NOW

1:52:45FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

1:52:47SUPPORT OF HOUSE 1544 SENATE

1:52:51998 AN ACT TO GUARANTEE A

1:52:55TENANTS FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL

1:52:56.

1:52:57THANK YOU.

1:52:58THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:53:00COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

1:53:01MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

1:53:02FLOOR.

1:53:03THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

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

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

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

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

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

1:53:14SAME.

1:53:15>> NO OBJECTING COUNCIL THAT

1:53:17THAT'S THEIR ORIGINAL

1:53:20CO-SPONSOR.

1:53:20IT ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

1:53:21THAT WE HAD UH

1:53:24COUNCIL RESOLUTION AND ALSO US

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

1:53:28UH, MASSACHUSETTS FACES A

1:53:30SEVERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:53:31SHORTAGE LEAVING EXISTING

1:53:32RENTAL UNITS VULNERABLE TO

1:53:34CONVERSION, REDEVELOPMENT AND

1:53:36STEEP RENT INCREASES THAT

1:53:37DISPLACED RESIDENTS.

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

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

1:53:47OF FIRST REFUSAL.

1:53:48RIGHT OF REFUSAL GIVES TENANTS

1:53:50THE FIRST CHANCE TO BUY THE

1:53:52RESIDENTIAL BUILDING THROUGH A

1:53:53TENANT ASSOCIATION WHEN THE

1:53:55PROPERTY GOES UP UH, COMMONLY

1:53:57REFERRED TO AS A TENANT

1:54:00OPPORTUNITY.

1:54:01>> TO.

1:54:01PURCHASE ACT TOPA THIS

1:54:04LEGISLATION SAFEGUARDS

1:54:05NATURALLY.

1:54:06OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:54:08WHICH CONSISTS OF UNSUBSIDIZED

1:54:10RENTAL HOMES THAT REMAIN

1:54:12NATURALLY AFFORDABLE DUE TO

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

1:54:16PROPERTY.

1:54:16TENANTS CAN ORGANIZE TO

1:54:19INDEPENDENTLY.

1:54:20OR COLLABORATE COLLABORATE.

1:54:21WITH NONPROFIT.

1:54:22COMMUNITY NONPROFITS, COMMUNITY

1:54:24DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS AND

1:54:26AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:54:29DEVELOPERS OR COMMUNITY LAND

1:54:31TRUST TO SECURE FINANCING AND

1:54:33COMPLETE THE PURCHASE.

1:54:34THE BILL DOES NOT FORCE OWNERS

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

1:54:39TENANTS MUST MATCH THIRD.

1:54:40PARTY MARKET OFFERS.

1:54:42WITHIN DEFINED TIMELINES WITH

1:54:44EXEMPTIONS FOR SMALL.

1:54:45PROPERTY OWNERS.

1:54:46FAMILY TRANSFER AND NEW

1:54:48CONSTRUCTION GIVING TENANTS A

1:54:51MEANINGFUL.

1:54:52OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THEIR

1:54:53HOMES.

1:54:54SERVES AFFORDABILITY.

1:54:55PREVENTS DISPLACEMENT AND

1:54:57MAINTAINS NEIGHBORHOOD

1:54:59CONTINUITY.

1:55:00ACROSS BOSTON.

1:55:01THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO.

1:55:03PROTECTING OUR RESIDENTS.

1:55:04STABILIZING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:55:06AND ENSURING THAT LONG TIME

1:55:08BOSTONIANS.

1:55:08ARE NOT PRICED OUT OF THE

1:55:10COMMUNITIES.

1:55:11>> THAT.

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

1:55:13THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL URGES

1:55:15AND SUPPORTS THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:55:17LEGISLATURE TO PASSAGE 1544 AND

1:55:21S998.

1:55:23TO PROTECT.

1:55:23>> OUR.

1:55:23RESIDENTS AND EXPAND.

1:55:25AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS

1:55:26STATEWIDE.

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

1:55:29MY COLLEAGUES TO.

1:55:30SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION.

1:55:32THANK YOU.

1:55:32THANK YOU.

1:55:37CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:55:39COUNCILOR SANTANA'S

1:55:41COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:55:41YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:55:43THANK YOU.

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

1:55:45COUNCIL, UM, PRESIDENT BREADON

1:55:47FOR SPONSORING THIS TALK IN AND

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

1:55:50COMBAT THE UNPRECEDENTED

1:55:52HOUSING CRISIS THAT THREATENS

1:55:53THE FABRIC OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

1:55:55.

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

1:55:57TOOLBOX HOUSE BILL 1544 AND

1:56:01SENATE BILL UM 998 EMPOWERS

1:56:05TENANTS WITH THE FIRST

1:56:06OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THEIR

1:56:07RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WHEN THE

1:56:09OWNER DECIDES TO SELL

1:56:10SAFEGUARDING THE NATURALLY

1:56:12OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

1:56:12THAT KEEPS OUR COMMUNITIES

1:56:14INTACT RATHER THAN FORCING LONG

1:56:16TERM RESIDENTS AND WORKING

1:56:18FAMILIES OUT WHENEVER A

1:56:19PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS.

1:56:20THIS LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS

1:56:22PARENTS TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN

1:56:23AND STABILITY AND ENSURES

1:56:25NEIGHBORS CAN REMAIN ROOTED IN

1:56:27THEIR COMMUNITIES BY GIVING

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

1:56:30WE PROTECT BOTH A HUMAN

1:56:31CONNECTION THAT BINDS OUR CITY

1:56:33TOGETHER AND BOSTON'S RAPIDLY

1:56:35SHRINKING SUPPLY

1:56:37OF UNSUBSIDIZED AFFORDABLE

1:56:38HOUSING.

1:56:38I'M CALLING UPON MY

1:56:40COUNTERPARTS IN STATE HOUSE TO

1:56:41ALSO SUPPORT THIS BILL TO

1:56:43PROVIDE TENANTS INCREASED

1:56:45ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

1:56:46THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:56:49COUNCILOR MAHI.

1:56:50THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:56:51COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL OVER

1:56:52HERE.

1:56:53YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:56:55THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT.

1:56:57UM.

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

1:57:00COUNCIL PRESIDENT UH.

1:57:01BREADON FOR ADDING ME AS WELL

1:57:04AS COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR HIS

1:57:05LEADERSHIP IN THIS SPACE.

1:57:06AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

1:57:07MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR LUCY

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

1:57:11ADVOCATE AND ALL THINGS THAT

1:57:13DEAL WITH HOUSING.

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

1:57:16BEFORE.

1:57:16YOU DID, BUT.

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

1:57:21OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ACTS

1:57:22ARE.

1:57:22ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY

1:57:23SUPPORT HOUSING STABILITY BY

1:57:25SEEKING TO REDUCE DISPLACEMENT.

1:57:27THIS BILL AT THE STATE HOUSE

1:57:29SPECIFICALLY GIVES EACH CITY OR

1:57:30TOWN THE CHOICE TO ADOPT THIS

1:57:32POLICY THAT ALLOWS FOR TENANTS

1:57:35OF MULTI-UNIT BUILDINGS UM

1:57:36PROPERTIES TO HAVE THE

1:57:37OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THE PROPERTY

1:57:39IF THE OWNER IS SELLING.

1:57:41FIRST BEFORE AN OUTSIDE PARTY

1:57:43CAN BUY IT.

1:57:43TENANTS CAN CREATE TENANT

1:57:45ASSOCIATIONS OR PARTNER WITH

1:57:46NONPROFIT CTCS, LAND TRUST AND

1:57:49MORE TO SUPPORT THEIR PURCHASE

1:57:51OF THE PROPERTY AT MARKET RATE

1:57:52.

1:57:53THE SEVERAL PATHS TO PURCHASING

1:57:55GIVES TENANTS THE FLEXIBILITY

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

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

1:58:00FITS ALL APPROACH TO THESE

1:58:01EFFORTS.

1:58:02CREATING PATHWAYS FOR

1:58:03HOMEOWNERSHIP MEANS CREATING

1:58:04PATHWAYS FOR FINANCIAL

1:58:05STABILITY AND GENERATIONAL

1:58:07WEALTH.

1:58:07AS THE FIRST PERSON IN MY

1:58:09FAMILY TO ACHIEVE HOMEOWNERSHIP

1:58:11HERE IN BOSTON, I UNDERSTAND

1:58:12THIS WELL.

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

1:58:15HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY THAT

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

1:58:18FAMILY.

1:58:19IT MEANS FINALLY FILLING STABLE

1:58:21BUILDING, BUILDING WEALTH AND

1:58:22HAVING GREATER CONTROL OVER

1:58:24YOUR OWN FUTURE.

1:58:25WE SHOULD BE CREATING MORE

1:58:26OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORKING.

1:58:27FAMILIES TO EXPERIENCE THAT

1:58:28SAME SENSE OF SECURITY.

1:58:30I SUPPORT THIS BILL AND I

1:58:31SUPPORT ADOPTING IT IN BOSTON

1:58:34ONCE IT PASSES, TENANT

1:58:36OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE SHOULD

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

1:58:39PROGRAM THAT THE CITY SHOULD BE

1:58:42IMPLEMENTING WITH COMMUNITY

1:58:43PARTNERS AS WELL AS FINANCIAL

1:58:44AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS.

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

1:58:48A WAY THAT CENTERS CULTURALLY

1:58:49COMPETENCY.

1:58:50THIS POLICY MUST BE SUPPORTED

1:58:51WITH ADDITIONAL INITIATIVES

1:58:53THAT STRENGTHEN TENANT RIGHTS

1:58:55INCLUDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION

1:58:56,TENANT ORGANIZING AND

1:58:57ALTERNATIVE.

1:58:58HOMEOWNERSHIP MODELS LIKE

1:58:59CO-OPS.

1:59:00EMPOWERING TENANTS IS A KEY TO

1:59:02BUILDING STABILITY, EQUITY AND

1:59:04COMMUNITY CONTROL IN OUR

1:59:04HOUSING SYSTEM.

1:59:05THANK YOU.

1:59:06THANK YOU.

1:59:07WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:59:08NAME AS THE POTTER

1:59:12COUNCILOR DURKAN?

1:59:12STOP IT CHERYL COUNCIL THANK.

1:59:14COUNCIL SHE OR.

1:59:16SCUSE ME THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:59:19COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE LOUIJEUNE

1:59:22YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:59:23THANK YOU.

1:59:23UH.

1:59:26THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

1:59:27I WANT TO THANK THE.

1:59:28SPONSORS FOR FILING THIS.

1:59:29UM, TOPA IS SO INCREDIBLY

1:59:31IMPORTANT TO TRYING TO.

1:59:36PULL THE.

1:59:37>> LEVER CLOSER.

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

1:59:40CITY.

1:59:41THIS BILL HAS BEEN.

1:59:42FLOATED ABOUT AND TALKED ABOUT

1:59:43FOR QUITE.

1:59:44SOME TIME.

1:59:44I KNOW THAT THIS.

1:59:45>> IS.

1:59:45NOT THE FIRST TIME.

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

1:59:47THAT WE FILED A RESOLUTION IN

1:59:49SUPPORT OF TOPA.

1:59:51UM BUT.

1:59:52IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET THE

1:59:54UH IT IS IT IS.

1:59:55TENANTS HAVE VERY LITTLE.

1:59:58POWER AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT

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

2:00:03DISPLACEMENT.

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

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

2:00:07BUILDING FEEL LIKE.

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

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

2:00:12OFTENTIMES THE TENANTS WHO LIVE

2:00:13THERE ARE FORCED OUT.

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

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

2:00:18ON SUNDAY EVENING IN JAMAICA

2:00:21PLAIN FOR.

2:00:22A COMMUNITY.

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

2:00:24OWNER.

2:00:24OF HIS BUILDING.

2:00:25AND THE OWNER.

2:00:27IS DOUBLING THE RENT AND.

2:00:30THERE WAS NO REAL.

2:00:31OPPORTUNITY FOR THE.

2:00:32PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE

2:00:34BUILDING TO.

2:00:34ORGANIZE AND WORK.

2:00:36TOGETHER ON FINDING.

2:00:37>> A SOLUTION.

2:00:39UM, AND.

2:00:40IF SOMETHING LIKE TOPA WAS IN

2:00:42EFFECT.

2:00:43THAT ALLOWS TENANTS TO.

2:00:45ORGANIZE AND TO.

2:00:46>> WORK WITH OUTSIDE ENTITIES

2:00:47AND TO WORK WITH COMMUNITY LAND

2:00:49TRUST.

2:00:49AND TO WORK WITH.

2:00:50UH, WHOEVER.

2:00:52>> IT MAY.

2:00:52>> BE NONPROFIT DEVELOPERS.

2:00:53TO WORK WITH THE CITY AND

2:00:54ACQUISITION.

2:00:55OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM.

2:00:57IT WOULD ALLOW IT WOULD IT

2:00:58WOULD HELP TO PREVENT

2:00:59DISPLACEMENT.

2:00:59IT WOULD.

2:01:00GIVE OUR TENANTS.

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

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

2:01:06TOWARDS THOSE WHO.

2:01:07ACTUALLY OWN.

2:01:08THE LAND AND OWN PROPERTY.

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

2:01:11AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

2:01:12IS SO IMPORTANT.

2:01:12THERE ARE OTHER AREAS IN WHICH

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

2:01:15IN WHICH MY OFFICE IS LOOKING

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

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

2:01:20MARKET THAT CARES MOSTLY ABOUT

2:01:22AND PRIMARILY ABOUT PROFIT THAT

2:01:24WE NEED TO BE DOING EVERYTHING

2:01:25WE CAN TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT

2:01:27TENANTS, TO PREVENT

2:01:28DISPLACEMENT AND TO DISRUPT

2:01:30WHAT IS AN EXTRACTIVE REAL

2:01:32ESTATE MARKET.

2:01:32THANK YOU.

2:01:33THANK YOU.

2:01:34>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:01:36THEIR NAME?

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

2:01:39AND GENERAL COUNCIL PLAN?

2:01:41ABSOLUTELY JOHN.

2:01:44COUNCILOR MURPHY,

2:01:45COUNCILOR PEPPER AND

2:01:48COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCILOR.

2:01:50>> WELL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:01:55COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON SEEKS

2:01:56SUSPENSION OF THE.

2:01:57RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:02:011858.

2:02:02ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:02:04AYE.

2:02:05>> ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:02:08THE AYES HAVE IT.

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

2:02:12COUNT THE VOTE?

2:02:15COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL.

2:02:16BREADON.

2:02:17YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

2:02:18PART OF COUNCILOR PAULETTE AS A

2:02:20PARTNER.

2:02:20YES.

2:02:21COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:02:21YES.

2:02:22>> COUNCILOR.

2:02:22>> CULPEPER.

2:02:23YES.

2:02:24COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:02:25COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:02:26YES.

2:02:26COUNCILOR.

2:02:26FITZGERALD.

2:02:28COUNCIL OFFICIAL.

2:02:28YES.

2:02:29COUNCIL.

2:02:29FLYNN.

2:02:30COUNCILOR.

2:02:30FLYNN.

2:02:30YES.

2:02:31COUNCIL.

2:02:31ILLUSION.

2:02:32YES.

2:02:32COUNCIL.

2:02:32LOUIJEUNE.

2:02:33YES.

2:02:33COUNCIL.

2:02:33MEJIA.

2:02:35COUNCIL ME HERE.

2:02:35YES.

2:02:36COUNCILOR.

2:02:36MURPHY.

2:02:37COUNCILOR.

2:02:37MURPHY.

2:02:38YES.

2:02:38COUNCIL PEN COUNCIL A PEN.

2:02:40YES.

2:02:40COUNCIL.

2:02:41SANTANA.

2:02:41YES.

2:02:42COUNCILOR.

2:02:42SANTANA.

2:02:42YES.

2:02:43COUNCIL.

2:02:43WEBER.

2:02:44YES.

2:02:44COUNCIL.

2:02:45OBVIOUS AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:02:46YES.

2:02:47COUNCIL ORAL.

2:02:47YES.

2:02:48DOCKET NUMBER 1858 AS RECEIVED

2:02:51A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:02:52AFFIRMATIVE.

2:02:52THANK YOU DOCTOR.

2:02:54DOCKET NUMBER 1858 HAS BEEN

2:02:58ADOPTED.

2:03:00MR CLERK, CAN.

2:03:02>> YOU PLEASE CALL PLEASE READ

2:03:04DOCKET 1859.

2:03:06DOC NUMBER 1859 COUNCILOR BRAY

2:03:08NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING

2:03:10RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING TWO

2:03:12HISPANIC DEAD PLAGUED.

2:03:15THANK YOU.

2:03:15>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:03:18COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

2:03:19MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

2:03:20FLOOR.

2:03:27THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

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

2:03:32THIS RESOLUTION ON BEHALF.

2:03:33>> OF THE ENTIRE CITY

2:03:35COUNCIL AHEAD OF OCTOBER 14TH

2:03:37AND RECOGNIZED IN RECOGNITION

2:03:39OF HISPANIC DAD.

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

2:03:43HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.

2:03:44I LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING MY

2:03:46COLLEAGUES AND COMMUNITY

2:03:47MEMBERS AND HONORING A RICH

2:03:48CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND

2:03:50HERITAGE.

2:03:51OF HISPANIC AND LATINX

2:03:52COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY.

2:03:54AND I LOOK FORWARD TO.

2:03:55UM.

2:03:56>> JOINING OUR.

2:03:57>> COLLEAGUES AND HAVING.

2:03:58>> A.

2:03:58WONDERFUL CELEBRATION AND LOOK

2:04:00FORWARD TO YOUR SUPPORT FOR

2:04:01THIS RESOLUTION.

2:04:02THANK YOU.

2:04:04WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:04:06NAME COUNCILOR DURKAN?

2:04:09COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:04:10COUNCIL FLARING UP FOR THE

2:04:11ALWAYS ON THE HERE

2:04:13COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL CAPPING

2:04:15OFF SANTANA WEBER

2:04:17COUNCILOR WORRELL AND PLEASE

2:04:19ADD THE CHAIR.

2:04:28COUNCIL BREADON SIX SUSPENSION

2:04:29OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

2:04:32OF DOCKET NUMBER 1859.

2:04:34ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE

2:04:36AYE.

2:04:36AYE THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:04:40MR CLERK PLEASE COUNT THE VOTE

2:04:41.

2:04:43COUNSELOR.

2:04:44>> BRAIN.

2:04:44YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:45BRAIN.

2:04:46YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:46COLOR AS OPPOSED COUNSELOR

2:04:49CULPEPER.

2:04:49YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:50CULPEPER.

2:04:50YES, COUNSELOR.

2:04:51DURKAN.

2:04:52COUNSELOR FITZGERALD.

2:04:53COUNCILOR FOR SHELL.

2:04:54YES.

2:04:55COUNSELOR.

2:04:55FLYNN.

2:04:56COUNSELOR FLYNN.

2:04:57HE HAS COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE

2:04:58COUNCILOR.

2:04:59COLLUSION.

2:04:59YES, COUNSELOR.

2:05:00MEJIA.

2:05:01COUNSELOR.

2:05:01MEJIA.

2:05:01YES, COUNSELOR.

2:05:02MURPHY.

2:05:02COUNSELOR.

2:05:03MURPHY.

2:05:03COUNSELOR.

2:05:04PEN.

2:05:05COUNSELOR.

2:05:06OPINIONS.

2:05:06COUNCIL.

2:05:07SANTANA.

2:05:07YES.

2:05:07COUNSELOR.

2:05:08SANTANA.

2:05:08YES.

2:05:09COUNSELOR.

2:05:09WEBER.

2:05:10COUNCILOR IS AND COUNSELOR.

2:05:11WORLD.

2:05:12YES.

2:05:13COUNSELOR.

2:05:13OH, YES.

2:05:14TALKING NUMBER 1859 AS WE THE

2:05:1711 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:05:18THANK YOU.

2:05:19DOCKET NUMBER 1859 HAS BEEN

2:05:23ADOPTED.

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

2:05:24DOCKET NUMBER 1860.

2:05:27SO I CAN NUMBER 1860 COUNSELOR

2:05:29BRAID NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING

2:05:31RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE

2:05:32103RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE

2:05:35DECLARATION OF THE REPUBLIC

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

2:05:38BOSTON TURKISH ARTS AND

2:05:40CULTURAL FESTIVAL.

2:05:41THANK YOU.

2:05:42THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:05:44COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON.

2:05:45MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE

2:05:47FLOOR.

2:05:47THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:05:49I SUBMITTED.

2:05:50>> THIS RESOLUTION ON.

2:05:51BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY

2:05:52COUNCIL.

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

2:05:54ANNUAL BOSTON TURKISH ARTS AND

2:05:56CULTURAL FESTIVAL.

2:05:57AND THE TURKISH.

2:05:58FLAG RAISING CEREMONY ON

2:06:00OCTOBER 29TH.

2:06:00THIS RESOLUTION CELEBRATES THE

2:06:02RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND.

2:06:04CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE TURKISH

2:06:06AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND

2:06:08RECOGNIZES THE ENDURING

2:06:09FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED

2:06:10STATES AND TURKEY.

2:06:11I LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING MY

2:06:13COLLEAGUES.

2:06:13>> AND.

2:06:13COMMUNITY MEMBERS MEMBERS IN

2:06:15HONORING THESE IMPORTANT

2:06:16TRADITIONS AND CELEBRATING THE

2:06:18VIBRANT TURKISH AMERICAN

2:06:19PRESENCE IN BOSTON.

2:06:20THANK YOU.

2:06:21>> MR CHAIR.

2:06:21THANK YOU.

2:06:22WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:06:23NAME COUNCILOR FLYNN,

2:06:27COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:06:28COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:06:29COUNCILOR HERE.

2:06:29COUNCILOR MURPHY THAT'S A

2:06:31PERFECT COUNCIL.

2:06:32SANTANA SO WHEREVER

2:06:34COUNCILOR WU, PLEASE.

2:06:37AND THE CHAIR.

2:06:42COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON SEEKS

2:06:44TO KNOW THE RULES AND ADOPTION

2:06:47OF DOCKET NUMBER 186.

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

2:06:51.

2:06:52AYE.

2:06:52>> THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:06:54THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:06:56THANK YOU DHAKA NUMBER 186.

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

2:07:02MR. CLERK AND PLEASE READ

2:07:04DOCKET NUMBER 1861.

2:07:06DOG NUMBER 1861 COUNCIL IS

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

2:07:10FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:07:12RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 1ST 2026 AS

2:07:15NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY.

2:07:17THANK YOU.

2:07:18>> MR. CLERK CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:07:20COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE.

2:07:21THE FLOOR.

2:07:21THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

2:07:24THE RULES AND ADD

2:07:26COUNCILOR COBB AS A THIRD

2:07:27ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:07:28?

2:07:28>> COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:07:29SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:07:30OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:07:31SO.

2:07:32THANK YOU.

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

2:07:34PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET TOMORROW

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

2:07:39CELEBRATION OF.

2:07:40INDEPENDENCE DAY OF NIGERIA.

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

2:07:43STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS WE HAVE

2:07:45A LARGE NIGERIAN POPULATION.

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

2:07:49SISTERS WOULD ATTEND NYU A

2:07:50COMMUNITY EVENTS AND SO UH,

2:07:53ENJOY CELEBRATING AND UPLIFTING

2:07:54.

2:07:55OUR NIGERIAN COMMUNITY IS ONE

2:07:56OF THE LARGEST SOURCES

2:07:57OF AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE

2:07:58UNITED STATES.

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

2:08:00COMMUNITY WHERE FAMILIES ARE

2:08:03UH, ENTREPRENEURS ARE LEADERS

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

2:08:07IN HIGH PARK WHERE THERE ARE

2:08:08NIGERIAN OWNED BUSINESSES AND

2:08:09THERE ARE UM UH A LOT

2:08:11OF LEADERS.

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

2:08:13THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE

2:08:14WITH OUR NIGERIAN COMMUNITY

2:08:16HERE.

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

2:08:18NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TRIBES AND

2:08:20PEOPLES AND HAS HAD A NUMBER

2:08:21OF DIFFERENT UM, STRUGGLES IN

2:08:24BECOMING ONE COUNTRY.

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

2:08:28CELEBRATING THEIR FLAG A SYMBOL

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

2:08:34UH IN PROGRESS BUT ONE THAT

2:08:36WHERE WE THE COMMUNITY COMES

2:08:37TOGETHER AND CELEBRATES THE

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

2:08:39AND TOMORROW I LOOK FORWARD TO

2:08:41BEING WITH OUR NIGERIAN

2:08:42COMMUNITY AND.

2:08:43>> TO.

2:08:43BE IN CONTINUED CELEBRATION

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

2:08:45AS THEY CELEBRATE NIGERIAN

2:08:47INDEPENDENCE DAY.

2:08:47THANK YOU.

2:08:48THANK YOU COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:08:49CHAIR.

2:08:50RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:08:52COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:08:53THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND

2:08:55THANK YOU TO COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

2:08:56FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:08:58CO-SPONSOR.

2:08:58UH ALSO THANK YOU TO.

2:09:00COUNCILOR COKE PEPPER.

2:09:00>> AS WELL.

2:09:01UM LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:09:02CELEBRATING UH NIGERIA'S

2:09:03INDEPENDENCE DAY TOMORROW.

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

2:09:06OUT UH TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

2:09:08AND BUSINESSES INVOLVED WITH

2:09:09TOMORROW'S FLAG RAISING.

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

2:09:13ALSO THE NY AND WILD NIGERIAN

2:09:16YOUTH ORGANIZATION OF BOSTON.

2:09:18UH THAT ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN

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

2:09:21PROVIDED IMPORTANT GUIDANCE AND

2:09:22SUPPORT AS WELL AS FUN EVENTS

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

2:09:26IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON.

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

2:09:29HELPING COORDINATING UH THE UH

2:09:32THE FLAG RAISING ALL THE EVENT

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

2:09:35PLACE AROUND NIGERIAN

2:09:35INDEPENDENCE DAY AND JUST

2:09:37LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

2:09:38CELEBRATION.

2:09:38THANK YOU.

2:09:39THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

2:09:40WORRELL THE.

2:09:41>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:09:42COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:09:42YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:09:43MADAM PRESIDENT, I THANK

2:09:45COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING

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

2:09:49TO JOIN WITH A COMFORTABLE WELL

2:09:51AND CELEBRATING OCTOBER 1ST IS

2:09:54NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE DAY AND

2:09:56ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT MY

2:09:59BROTHER IN LAW I HAVE NIGERIAN

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

2:10:03CELEBRATING WITH TOMORROW AND

2:10:05TO THE ENTIRE NIGERIAN

2:10:07COMMUNITY WE CELEBRATE THIS

2:10:10GREAT DAY.

2:10:10THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:10:11THANK YOU.

2:10:12>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE.

2:10:14TO ADD.

2:10:15>> THEIR NAME COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:10:18COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:10:18COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:10:20COUNCILOR.

2:10:20UM.

2:10:20MURPHY.

2:10:21COUNTRY.

2:10:21PEPEN.

2:10:22>> COUNTRY SANTANA CONTRA WEBER

2:10:24PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

2:10:26UM.

2:10:30CONTRIBUTION ORAL.

2:10:31>> AND CULPEPER SUSPENSION OF.

2:10:33>> THE RULES.

2:10:33ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1861.

2:10:35ALL IN.

2:10:35FAVOR SAY AYE UNOPPOSED.

2:10:38SAY NAY.

2:10:39THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:10:41DOCTOR.

2:10:41>> DOCKET 1861.

2:10:43>> HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

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

2:10:46READ DOCKET.

2:10:4918621862?

2:10:50>> COUNCIL HAS PUT PEN AND

2:10:51DURKAN OFF OF THE FOLLOWING

2:10:53RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

2:10:55OCTOBER AS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

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

2:10:58CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:11:00COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:11:00YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:11:01THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:11:03TOMORROW IS THE BEGINNING

2:11:05OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MONTH.

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

2:11:08EVERY SINGLE DAY.

2:11:10THIS IS WHEN WE GET TO

2:11:11ACKNOWLEDGE THE SAFETY OF OUR

2:11:13PEDESTRIANS THOSE WHO WALK

2:11:13THOSE OR USE OUR STREETS EVERY

2:11:15SINGLE DAY THROUGHOUT OUR

2:11:16COMMUNITY.

2:11:17IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE

2:11:19AWARENESS, PROMOTE SAFER

2:11:21STREETS AND REMIND EVERYONE

2:11:23THAT PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS A

2:11:24SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.

2:11:26PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS THE REASON

2:11:28WHY YOU GUYS CONSISTENTLY HEAR

2:11:30ME SPEAK ABOUT JUST SAFER

2:11:32CROSSWALKS, SAFER SCHOOL ZONES

2:11:34SUPPORTING OUR CROSSING GUARDS

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

2:11:36BETTER VISIBILITY FOR THOSE

2:11:38TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET.

2:11:39IT'S UM.

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

2:11:43TWO TOPICS THAT MY OFFICE HEARS

2:11:45ABOUT EVERY SINGLE DAY IS THAT

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

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

2:11:49ABOUT SOMEONE SPEEDING DOWN THE

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

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

2:11:55TO SIDE STREET IN A

2:11:56NEIGHBORHOOD.

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

2:11:58TAKES VERY SERIOUS ALSO BECAUSE

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

2:12:02OF CASUALTIES AS A RESULT

2:12:04OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST THEIR

2:12:05LIVES AND FAMILIES ARE IMPACTED

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

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

2:12:10PROJECTS THAT ARE FOR SAFER

2:12:12STREETS WHEN PEOPLE SIMPLY ARE

2:12:14REQUESTING FOR MORE SPEED

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

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

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

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

2:12:23BIGGER MEANING BEHIND IT THAT

2:12:25IS GOING TO MAKE OUR STREETS

2:12:26SAFER.

2:12:27AND THROUGHOUT THIS MONTH

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

2:12:30THINGS.

2:12:31AND I HOPE THAT ALSO CONTINUE

2:12:33TO GET THE SUPPORT FOR THE

2:12:35ORDER THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:12:37AND I PUT FORWARD FOR JUST

2:12:39ADVANCING SAFER STREET PROJECTS

2:12:40AND OTHER INITIATIVES THAT

2:12:42OTHER COUNCILORS HAVE PUT

2:12:43FORWARD.

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

2:12:45TO BE SAFER IN THE CITY

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

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

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

2:12:51CORRECTLY AND WHAT WE NEED TO

2:12:52WORK ON MOVING FORWARD.

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

2:12:55THANK YOU.

2:12:56COUNCILOR PEPEN CHAIR

2:12:57RECOGNIZES.

2:12:58COUNCIL DURKAN YOU HAVE THE

2:12:59FLOOR.

2:12:59THANK YOU SO MUCH

2:13:00COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU

2:13:02TO COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR

2:13:03INCLUDING ME ON RECOGNIZING

2:13:04OCTOBER AS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

2:13:05MONTH JUST YESTERDAY.

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

2:13:11CRITICAL CONDITION, A

2:13:12PEDESTRIAN THAT WAS HIT IN MY

2:13:13DISTRICT.

2:13:14UM, OUR RESIDENTS DESERVE

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

2:13:18PRIORITY.

2:13:19BOSTON IS COMMITTED TO VISION

2:13:20ZERO AND WHEN WE COMMITTED IN

2:13:222015 AND WHILE OVERALL

2:13:25FATALITIES IN CRASHES MAY HAVE

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

2:13:27WAY TO GO.

2:13:28ONE FATALITY IS TOO MANY.

2:13:30WE MUST REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT

2:13:31TO SAFER STREETS BY

2:13:32IMPLEMENTING TRAFFIC CALMING

2:13:34MEASURES AND ROBUST PEDESTRIAN

2:13:36INFRASTRUCTURE AND USING DATA

2:13:38TO INFORM WHERE WE CAN

2:13:39IMPLEMENT THESE PROVEN

2:13:40STRATEGIES.

2:13:41WE NEED TO CONTINUE DEDICATING

2:13:42RESOURCES TO INSTALLING MORE

2:13:43HIGH SPEED HUMPS, RAISED

2:13:45CROSSWALKS AND BIKE

2:13:46INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEDICATING

2:13:47OUR STREETS AND TRAFFIC

2:13:48PATTERNS TO SERVE THE NEEDS

2:13:50OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

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

2:13:53HEARING ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE

2:13:54ENFORCEMENT OF BLOCKED BIKE

2:13:55LANES AND CROSSWALKS BECAUSE

2:13:57ENFORCEMENT AND ADDRESSING

2:13:59DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIOR IS

2:14:01AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS

2:14:02CHALLENGE.

2:14:02I FREQUENTLY HEAR FROM CIVIC

2:14:04AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, RESIDENTS

2:14:05AND ADVOCATES ABOUT HOW WE CAN

2:14:07MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER.

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

2:14:10OF THE RESIDENTS WHO REACHED

2:14:11OUT AND FOR DRAWING ATTENTION

2:14:13TO THE ISSUES IN THE STREETS

2:14:14AND FOR ADVOCATING FOR

2:14:15YOURSELF, YOUR NEIGHBORS AND

2:14:16YOUR COMMUNITY.

2:14:17EVERYONE IN BOSTON REGARDLESS

2:14:19OF WHAT MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

2:14:20YOU ARE OR REGARDLESS OF WHAT

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

2:14:23WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD YOU LIVE IN,

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

2:14:26TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSE AND TRAVEL

2:14:28TO THE CITY AND FEEL SAFE

2:14:29GETTING TO AND WHERE THEY NEED

2:14:31TO GO.

2:14:32THAT INCLUDES RESIDENTS THAT

2:14:33COME IN FROM CAMBRIDGE AND

2:14:34SOMERVILLE.

2:14:35I OFTEN HEAR UH ELECTED

2:14:36OFFICIALS SAY WELL WHERE IS

2:14:38THAT PERSON FROM SOMERVILLE?

2:14:39SOMEONE FROM SOMERVILLE DIED IN

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

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

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

2:14:46YOU DESERVE TO GET AROUND

2:14:48BOSTON SAFELY.

2:14:48PERIOD.

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

2:14:52KNOW, THE DIRECT ABUTTERS

2:14:54OF SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE.

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

2:14:57WE HAVE TO MOVE TOWARDS SAFETY

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

2:15:01RESIDENTS IN MIND.

2:15:02UM, BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE PERSON

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

2:15:07SPEEDING CARS.

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

2:15:10HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE TIMES WHERE

2:15:13UM PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT AND

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

2:15:16AND THEN MONTHS LATER SOMEONE

2:15:18HAS HEADED THAT EXACT LOCATION

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

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

2:15:24CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK

2:15:25AND CONTINUE TO MOVE AS QUICKLY

2:15:27AS POSSIBLE ON THESE

2:15:28INITIATIVES.

2:15:28THANK YOU.

2:15:29THANK YOU.

2:15:30>> COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:15:31UM.

2:15:31CHAIR RECOGNIZES

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

2:15:33GO TO COUNCILOR FRIEND.

2:15:34COUNCILMEMBER FOR YOU HAVE THE

2:15:35FLOOR.

2:15:36YES.

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

2:15:38COUNCILOR PEPEN ADD A THIRD

2:15:39ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR FIRST IF

2:15:41THAT'S OKAY.

2:15:41>> MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:15:42SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:15:44OBJECTIONS.

2:15:44UM.

2:15:46>> COUNCILOR COUNTRY PEPEN, YOU

2:15:47HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:15:47THANK YOU.

2:15:48>> THANK YOU, MEMBER FOR.

2:15:52UH OH.

2:15:55GOOD TO.

2:15:56>> GIVE YOU.

2:15:56THE MIC.

2:15:56THERE YOU GO.

2:15:57THANK YOU.

2:15:57>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:15:58FOR THE.

2:15:59>> KINDNESS I JUST FAILED TO

2:16:00ADD.

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

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

2:16:04WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST TO

2:16:05SUSPEND.

2:16:05>> THE RULES AND I.

2:16:06CAN SEE YOU.

2:16:07>> CAN HEAR HIM.

2:16:08>> NO OBJECTIONS COMES FROM

2:16:08WEBER IS ADDED AS A THIRD

2:16:10CO-SPONSOR.

2:16:11THANK YOU.

2:16:13>> UH COUNCILMEMBER.

2:16:14>> FOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:16:15THANK YOU.

2:16:16>> JUST WANTED TO RISE AND

2:16:18THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

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

2:16:21DOING.

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

2:16:23MAKE SURE.

2:16:24OUR STREETS.

2:16:25ARE SAFE.

2:16:25>> FOR EVERYONE.

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

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

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

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

2:16:34CRITICALLY INJURED UM, YOU

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

2:16:39IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE

2:16:40CITY PEOPLE WHO ARE INJURED ON

2:16:42OUR STREETS.

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

2:16:44OUR STREETS SAFER.

2:16:45SO LOOKING FORWARD TO ALWAYS

2:16:47CHAMPIONING AND WORKING

2:16:48ALONGSIDE WITH THIS BODY TO

2:16:50MAKE SURE OUR STREETS, OUR

2:16:52SIDEWALKS AND OUR

2:16:53INFRASTRUCTURE IS SAFE FOR

2:16:53EVERYONE.

2:16:54THANK YOU.

2:16:54THANK YOU.

2:16:55COUNCILOR MURPHY.

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

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

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

2:16:59GO TO COUNSELOR FRIEND

2:17:00CONSTABLE WEBER.

2:17:00YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:17:01OKAY.

2:17:01THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:17:03UH.

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

2:17:05THANK, UH, COUNCILORS.

2:17:06PAPIN AND.

2:17:07DURKAN FOR FILING THIS JUST

2:17:09THIS MORNING.

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

2:17:12AS A CROSSING GUARD AT THE

2:17:13CORNER OF WESTMOUNT AND

2:17:15LAGRANGE IN WEST ROXBURY.

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

2:17:18VERY DANGEROUS INTERSECTION

2:17:20WHERE KIDS ARE CROSSING

2:17:22LAGRANGE STREET TO GO TO SCHOOL

2:17:23AT THE LINDEN.

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

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

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

2:17:31SHORTAGE OF CROSSING GUARDS AND

2:17:32WHILE THEY'RE THERE.

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

2:17:35ASSIGN A CROSSING GUARD EVERY

2:17:36DAY THERE TODAY THERE WAS A

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

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

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

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

2:17:45AN ISSUE WITH THE CROSSING

2:17:46GUARD UH, QR CODE APPLICATION

2:17:49THAT HAS BEEN FIXED.

2:17:50PEOPLE CAN APPLY TO BE CROSSING

2:17:52GUARDS.

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

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

2:17:55OUR DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS

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

2:17:58THERE WHO CAN HELP PEOPLE HELP

2:17:59THESE KIDS CROSS THE STREET.

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

2:18:03FILERS AND I SUPPORT THIS

2:18:04RESOLUTION.

2:18:05THANK YOU.

2:18:06>> COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR

2:18:07RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN

2:18:08COUNTER YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:18:10THANK YOU.

2:18:11THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:18:12>> AND I.

2:18:12JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:18:14COUNCILOR WEBER FOR

2:18:15ACKNOWLEDGING THE.

2:18:16UH.

2:18:17>> CROSSING GUARDS AND TO WANT

2:18:19TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR UM.

2:18:20PEPEN FOR HIS WORK IN

2:18:23SUPPORTING CROSSING GUARDS

2:18:25ACROSS THE CITY AS WELL.

2:18:26UM.

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

2:18:30FILED AND WORKED ON THIS ISSUE

2:18:32PEDESTRIAN SAFETY INCLUDING

2:18:35HAVING RECOMMENDING ACTUALLY A

2:18:3712 POINT PEDESTRIAN PLAN.

2:18:39UM, I ADVOCATED FOR RAISE

2:18:42RAISED.

2:18:43TRAFFIC CALMING INFRASTRUCTURE

2:18:44SUCH AS RAISE.

2:18:45CROSSWALKS.

2:18:45>> SPEED HUMPS, TEST FREE AND

2:18:48CROSSING ISLANDS WITH RAPID

2:18:49FLASH BEACONS, CLAWBACKS AND

2:18:52EXTENSIONS AND MORE.

2:18:55UM INCLUDING.

2:18:56I THINK IS A.

2:18:56CRITICAL PART OF THIS IS

2:18:58REDUCING THE SPEED.

2:18:59LIMIT FOR VEHICLES.

2:19:0125 MILES AN HOUR.

2:19:02CERTAINLY IT'S 20.

2:19:03MILES AN HOUR NEAR SCHOOLS.

2:19:05I DO THINK.

2:19:06THAT'S EXCESSIVE.

2:19:0825 MILES AN HOUR DRIVING DOWN A

2:19:11A NARROW.

2:19:11CITY STREET.

2:19:13UM THERE'S.

2:19:14BARELY THERE'S BARELY ENOUGH

2:19:15ROOM TO.

2:19:15PASS NEVER MIND GOING.

2:19:17IN AN EXCESSIVE SPEED AT 25

2:19:20MILES AN.

2:19:20HOUR SHOULD.

2:19:21BE REDUCED.

2:19:22WE NEED MORE SUPPORT FROM

2:19:23BOSTON POLICE AS WELL.

2:19:26TO FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

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

2:19:29.

2:19:30UM.

2:19:32>> I.

2:19:33>> I DO WANT TO SUPPORT AND

2:19:36HIGHLIGHT.

2:19:37THE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS BUT

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

2:19:42LIKE THE WILD WILD WEST OUT

2:19:44THERE.

2:19:45WE HAVE TO BE AGGRESSIVE WITH

2:19:47TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BUT ALSO

2:19:48PROVIDING A SAFE AND HEALTHY

2:19:51CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD AND

2:19:53STREETS AND SIDEWALKS UM AND BE

2:19:57RESPECTFUL TO PERSONS WITH

2:19:59DISABILITIES.

2:20:00BE RESPECTFUL TO OUR SENIORS

2:20:01WHEN WE SEE PEOPLE IN

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

2:20:07AROUND THEM.

2:20:08BE RESPECTFUL AND GIVE THEM

2:20:09THEIR OPPORTUNITY ACROSS THE

2:20:11STREET ALMOST EVERY.

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

2:20:15THE SOUTH BOSTON LIBRARY, THEY

2:20:16COME BACK AND TELL ME THAT

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

2:20:19.

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

2:20:21SOMEONE WILL DRIVE RECKLESSLY

2:20:23RIGHT BY THEM.

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

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

2:20:27PEOPLE THROUGHOUT OUR CITY WE

2:20:29ALSO SEE YOUNG FAMILIES.

2:20:31IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC AWARENESS

2:20:33ALSO AND BEING RESPECTFUL TO,

2:20:35UM, ALL NEIGHBORS.

2:20:37THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:20:39THANK YOU.

2:20:39COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:20:41UM, AND.

2:20:41>> I ALSO.

2:20:42>> WANT TO THANK THE.

2:20:43SPONSORS FOR THIS REALLY

2:20:44IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.

2:20:45UM.

2:20:46>> PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

2:20:48IS A HUGE.

2:20:49ISSUE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN

2:20:50ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

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

2:20:54INJURIES.

2:20:55>> WE'VE HAD FATALITIES ON

2:20:56CROSSWALKS.

2:20:57AN UNTOLD.

2:20:58>> NUMBER OF NEAR-MISSES TO

2:20:59YOUR POINT, CONSTANTLY ABOUT.

2:21:00UM, UH.

2:21:02AN ELDER CROSSING A CROSSWALK

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

2:21:05THEM WITH THE RIGHT WING MIRROR

2:21:06AND THEY BREAK AN ARM.

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

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

2:21:11>> IT IS IT HAS.

2:21:12GOT LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES.

2:21:14IN ONE CASE.

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

2:21:17CROSSWALK.

2:21:18SHE SURVIVED THANKFULLY.

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

2:21:22WEIGHT BEARING FOR THREE MONTHS

2:21:23AND THEY ENDED UP.

2:21:24HAVING TO.

2:21:25>> SPEND MONTHS IN AN ASSISTED

2:21:26LIVING FACILITY AND UNABLE TO

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

2:21:29THESE THINGS HAVE GREAT IMPACT

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

2:21:32OUR.

2:21:33COMMUNITIES.

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

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

2:21:38WAY TO.

2:21:38WORK AT.

2:21:39>> SAINT ELIZABETH'S A FEW

2:21:40YEARS AGO.

2:21:41UM SO ALL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE

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

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

2:21:46AND SPEED.

2:21:47ENFORCEMENT ALL OF IT WILL SAVE

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

2:21:51WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND IN SUPPORT

2:21:53OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT

2:21:54RESOLUTION.

2:21:56WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:21:57NAME AS A PART OF COUNCILOR

2:22:01CULPEPER CONSIDER

2:22:02COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:22:03COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNTRY

2:22:04LOUIJEUNE TO MEJIA.

2:22:05COUNCILOR MURPHY CONSCIOUS.

2:22:07>> AND TYLER.

2:22:07AND COUNCILOR WORRELL AND

2:22:09PLEASE ARE THE CHAIR COUNCILORS

2:22:11DURKAN OH.

2:22:13CONSCIOUS PEPEN.

2:22:14DURKAN AND WEBER SEEK.

2:22:16SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:22:18ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1862.

2:22:19ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:22:21AYE.

2:22:21ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:22:23THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:22:24DOCKET 1862 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

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

2:22:30READ DOCKET 1863.

2:22:31DOCKET NUMBER 1863 COUNCILORS

2:22:33LOUIJEUNE AND COLLETTE IS A

2:22:35PART OF THE FOLLOWING

2:22:37RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING

2:22:40OCTOBER 2026 AS DOMESTIC

2:22:41VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.

2:22:42CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:22:44COUNCIL DIVISION.

2:22:44COUNCIL.

2:22:45YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:22:46THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

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

2:22:50THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:22:51SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:22:52OBJECTIONS.

2:22:52COUNCILMEMBER HAZEL TO THE

2:22:54THIRD.

2:22:54THANK YOU.

2:22:55>> AND UH, SEEKING A.

2:22:56SUSPENSION AND.

2:22:56>> PASSAGE OF THIS.

2:22:58>> UH, RESOLUTION UH, TOMORROW

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

2:23:02DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS

2:23:03MONTH.

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

2:23:07OUT ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN

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

2:23:12SOCIETY WE REALLY DO HAVE TO

2:23:14START WHERE VIOLENCE REALLY

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

2:23:17THE HOME, UM.

2:23:19IN DIFFERENT.

2:23:19KINDS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

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

2:23:23THIS RESOLUTION AS AN

2:23:25OPPORTUNITY.

2:23:26>> TO.

2:23:26STAND WITH SURVIVORS UH,

2:23:27REMEMBER THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE

2:23:29BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM US.

2:23:31DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WE

2:23:33AFFIRM OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO

2:23:34PREVENT, UM, ABUSE.

2:23:37UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECTS

2:23:39FAMILIES ACROSS OUR CITY.

2:23:41IT AFFECTS PEOPLE BEYOND

2:23:42PHYSICAL.

2:23:43INJURY TO.

2:23:44>> A.

2:23:44PERSON'S MENTAL HEALTH.

2:23:45>> AND WE'RE JUST.

2:23:46COMING OFF OF SEPTEMBER WHICH

2:23:48IS SUICIDE AWARENESS MONTH

2:23:50HOUSING.

2:23:50STABILITY, FINANCIAL.

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

2:23:53OF.

2:23:54CHILDREN IN A HOME WHO.

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

2:23:57DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:23:58SURVIVORS DESERVE SAFETY.

2:24:00DIGNITY AND SUPPORT WITHOUT

2:24:02JUDGMENT.

2:24:02IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:24:03RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE

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

2:24:07OFTEN.

2:24:08DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE.

2:24:09UH, SITUATIONS OF DOMESTIC

2:24:11VIOLENCE AND INTIMATE PARTNER

2:24:12ABUSE.

2:24:13UH.

2:24:13THERE'S A.

2:24:14>> NUMBER OF BARRIERS THAT

2:24:15PEOPLE FACE WHEN IT COMES TO

2:24:16ACCESSING RESOURCES WHETHER IT

2:24:17BE LANGUAGE BARRIERS THERE BE

2:24:19RACISM, FINANCIAL.

2:24:20DEPENDENCY.

2:24:21>> DISABILITY AND FEAR RELATED

2:24:22TO IMMIGRATION STATUS THAT CAN

2:24:24MAKE SEEKING HELP MORE

2:24:25DIFFICULT.

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

2:24:29IN SENSITIVE IMMIGRATION CASES

2:24:31WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO SEEK

2:24:33HELP.

2:24:36UM OUR.

2:24:36RESPONSE FOR EACH PERSON MUST

2:24:38BE TO REACH OUT WHEN THOSE

2:24:39CIRCUMSTANCES UM FIND THEM.

2:24:42SO WHEN PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES

2:24:44ISOLATED IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES

2:24:46AWARENESS HAS TO BE BACKED BY

2:24:47RESOURCES.

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

2:24:49HAVE IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH

2:24:51COMMISSION THAT DOMESTIC SEXUAL

2:24:52AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

2:24:54PREVENTION INITIATIVE LED BY

2:24:56KIM MENDOZA ARATA AND RIGHT NOW

2:24:58THEY'RE HOLDING.

2:24:59TRAININGS TRAININGS FOR THOSE

2:25:00FOR PROVIDERS WHO INTERACT WITH

2:25:03FAMILIES AND.

2:25:03CHILDREN AND PEOPLE.

2:25:04WHO COULD.

2:25:05BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:25:05.

2:25:06THEY HAVE THREE TRAININGS IN

2:25:07ROXBURY STARTING IN THIS MONTH.

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

2:25:11PEOPLE TO SEEK OUT THAT

2:25:12INFORMATION.

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

2:25:15THAT TO SURVIVORS THAT PEOPLE

2:25:16THAT THEY KNOW THAT WE.

2:25:17SEE THEM.

2:25:18THAT THAT YOU DESERVE TO BE

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

2:25:20CHERISHED AND TO FEEL SAFE.

2:25:22I WANT TO THANK ALL THE

2:25:23ADVOCATES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

2:25:24WHO STAND ALONGSIDE IN THIS

2:25:25WORK.

2:25:26UM, IF YOU KNOW ANYONE

2:25:27EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:25:29OR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE,

2:25:30CALL THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC

2:25:31VIOLENCE HOTLINE AT ONE 807

2:25:36997233 OR TEXT 88788 FOR FREE

2:25:39CONFIDENTIAL SUPPORT 24 HOURS A

2:25:41DAY.

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

2:25:43NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS

2:25:44INVOLVED.

2:25:45IN HELPING TO.

2:25:45STEM THE TIDE OF DOMESTIC

2:25:47VIOLENCE THAT.

2:25:47INCLUDES THE MASSACHUSETTS

2:25:48OFFICE FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE,

2:25:50THE BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS

2:25:52CENTER, THE ASIAN TASK FORCE

2:25:53AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,

2:25:55SAFELINK ELIZABETH STONEHOUSE

2:25:56FOR SUPPORT GROUPS SHAKIRA

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

2:26:01INCORPORATED MANY OF WHOM THAT

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

2:26:04COUNCIL HEARINGS ON DOMESTIC

2:26:05VIOLENCE AND WE WILL DO

2:26:07CONTINUE TO HAVE THEM HERE AS

2:26:08THE WORK CONTINUES ESPECIALLY

2:26:10UM, AS WE LOOK.

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

2:26:14SEEING IN CERTAIN AREAS.

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

2:26:17HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES JOIN

2:26:18ME IN PASSING THIS RESOLUTION.

2:26:19THANK YOU.

2:26:19>> THANK YOU.

2:26:20COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE CHAIR.

2:26:21RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTE

2:26:22AS A PARTNER.

2:26:23YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:26:24THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:26:24AND I WANT TO THANK

2:26:25COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND HER

2:26:26LEADERSHIP.

2:26:27>> UH, AND ADDING.

2:26:28>> ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:26:29CO-SPONSOR.

2:26:29AND JUST THANK YOU.

2:26:30FOR, UH, OUTLINING.

2:26:31>> ALL OF THOSE RESOURCES.

2:26:32YOU NEVER KNOW.

2:26:32WHO IS.

2:26:33LISTENING AND WHAT THEY'RE

2:26:33GOING THROUGH.

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

2:26:35COMPREHENSIVE LIST.

2:26:35UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:26:37TEACHERS UH.

2:26:39IT TOUCHES EVERY COMMUNITY.

2:26:40AND REGARDLESS OF.

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

2:26:43>> NEIGHBORHOOD THIS MONTH IS

2:26:44ABOUT CENTERING.

2:26:44SURVIVORS BELIEVING.

2:26:45AND SUPPORTING.

2:26:46>> THEM.

2:26:46AND MAKING.

2:26:46>> SURE THEY.

2:26:47>> HAVE THE RESOURCES AND

2:26:48SAFETY THEY NEED.

2:26:48TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

2:26:50AWARENESS ALSO MEANS.

2:26:51PREVENTION AND.

2:26:51THAT MEANS RECOGNIZING.

2:26:54SIGNS.

2:26:54>> INTERVENTION AND ADEQUATELY

2:26:55FUNDING.

2:26:56ORGANIZATIONS DOING.

2:26:57THIS IMPORTANT WORK.

2:26:58EVERY DAY.

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

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

2:27:04TALK ABOUT UM DRINK SPIKING.

2:27:05>> BUT IN THAT HEARING SHE HAD

2:27:06TALKED.

2:27:07ABOUT HER WORK WITH.

2:27:09UM SURVIVORS OF.

2:27:10DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SHE WAS

2:27:11REALLY DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB.

2:27:12SO I JUST WANT TO.

2:27:13>> GIVE HER HER FLOWERS.

2:27:13AND HER.

2:27:14>> KUDOS FOR IT.

2:27:14UM, NO SURVIVORS SHOULD EVER

2:27:16FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO.

2:27:17NAVIGATE ABUSIVE ALONE.

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

2:27:20COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:27:20PARTNERSHIP AND EVERY ADVOCATE

2:27:22AND SURVIVOR WHO CONTINUES TO

2:27:23PUSH US FORWARD.

2:27:24UM.

2:27:24>> FOR A SAFER BOSTON.

2:27:25YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

2:27:26>> WE'RE HERE TO.

2:27:26>> HELP YOU.

2:27:27THANK YOU.

2:27:28>> THANK YOU.

2:27:28>> COUNCIL AS A PANEL.

2:27:29CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

2:27:30>> THIRD CO-SPONSOR CONSUMER

2:27:31HERE YOU COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE

2:27:33FLOOR.

2:27:35COUNCILMEMBER MEJIA YOU THIRD

2:27:38CO-SPONSOR.

2:27:40I AM.

2:27:41>> YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

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

2:27:44THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:27:47THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND

2:27:48THANK YOU TO MY

2:27:50COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

2:27:51COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

2:27:52COUNCILOR CLAIRE FOR ADDING

2:27:53ME TO THIS RESOLUTION AS A

2:27:55SURVIVOR THIS ISSUE IS CLOSE TO

2:27:58MY HEART.

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

2:28:00UNFORTUNATELY DV IS FAR TOO

2:28:02COMMON.

2:28:03DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IMPACTS

2:28:05INDIVIDUALS REGARDLESS

2:28:06OF GENDER, RACE, SOCIOECONOMIC

2:28:08STATUS, CLASS, SEXUAL

2:28:11ORIENTATION AND MORE.

2:28:12BUT CERTAIN GROUPS SUCH AS

2:28:13BLACK INDIGENOUS WOMEN

2:28:15EXPERIENCE HIGHER RATES

2:28:16OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURING

2:28:18DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS

2:28:18MONTH WE RAISE AWARENESS UM

2:28:21SUPPORT SURVIVORS, UPLIFT

2:28:22RESOURCES, INVEST IN PREVENTION

2:28:24AND INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION.

2:28:27WE ALSO MUST ENSURE THAT

2:28:28DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCES ARE

2:28:30EQUITABLE, ACCESSIBLE AND

2:28:31CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE.

2:28:32THIS WORK IS NOT JUST.

2:28:34IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER BUT

2:28:35THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

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

2:28:38PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS

2:28:39LIKE SHAKIRA STORY THAT ARE LED

2:28:41BY THOSE WHO ARE LIVING THE

2:28:42REALITIES AND OR DOING THE.

2:28:43WORK AND WHO ARE ON THE

2:28:45FRONTLINES UM, ALWAYS

2:28:47ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF THOSE

2:28:48WHO ARE STILL STRUGGLING.

2:28:50THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE

2:28:51COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS,

2:28:52HOTLINES AND SOCIAL WORKERS,

2:28:53HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

2:28:54AND OTHERS WHO.

2:28:55SUPPORT SURVIVORS.

2:28:57WHO ARE EXPERIENCING DV BY

2:29:00RAISING AWARENESS.

2:29:01SURVIVORS AND THOSE

2:29:02EXPERIENCING DV ARE AFFIRMED

2:29:04THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND

2:29:06HOPEFULLY ARE MORE LIKELY TO

2:29:07REACH OUT FOR HELP.

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

2:29:09YOU NEED ANY WITH THIS

2:29:11RESOLUTION THE BOSTON CITY

2:29:12COUNCIL RECOGNIZES OCTOBER 2026

2:29:14AS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:29:16AWARENESS MONTH AND SUPPORTS

2:29:18FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL

2:29:19INITIATIVES THAT ALLOCATE MORE

2:29:21RESOURCES, FUNDING AND AID FOR

2:29:22PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES THAT

2:29:24ADDRESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

2:29:25AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO

2:29:26ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, YOU KNOW,

2:29:27THERE ARE LIKE THIS TEEN DATING

2:29:28VIOLENCE AS WELL.

2:29:29YEAH.

2:29:30UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT

2:29:31DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS USUALLY UM

2:29:33HAS A LAYER OF JUST SOMETHING

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

2:29:37THERE'S RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE

2:29:38HAPPENING AND A LOT A LOT

2:29:40OF DIFFERENT SPACES AND PLACES

2:29:41AND VERBAL EMOTIONAL MENTAL ALL

2:29:45OF THOSE.

2:29:46>> ARE FORMS OF ABUSE.

2:29:47THANK YOU.

2:29:48>> COUNCILMEMBER HERE THE CHAIR

2:29:49RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR FLYNN.

2:29:50COUNSELOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:29:52THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

2:29:55REQUESTED.

2:29:55TO BE AN ORIGINAL.

2:29:57CO-SPONSOR ON THIS.

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

2:30:00CITY COUNCIL IS THAT WERE.

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

2:30:05I UNDERSTAND THAT.

2:30:05IN OVER.

2:30:06>> EIGHT YEARS ON THE CITY

2:30:07COUNCIL I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY

2:30:08INVOLVED WITH THIS ISSUE

2:30:10OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL

2:30:11ASSAULT HOLDING A NUMBER

2:30:13OF CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS ON

2:30:15THIS FOR MANY YEARS ESPECIALLY

2:30:18WORKING WITH UM NOW

2:30:20MASSACHUSETTS.

2:30:20ATTORNEY GENERAL ANDRE CAMPBELL

2:30:21.

2:30:22AS WELL AS WELL AS OTHER

2:30:24COLLEAGUES.

2:30:26.

2:30:26>> I WORK CLOSELY WITH A NUMBER

2:30:28OF ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE

2:30:29ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST

2:30:30DOMESTIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASA

2:30:32MYRNA TO TRY TO CONTINUE THE

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

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

2:30:38TOP ISSUE WAS UM DOMESTIC

2:30:40VIOLENCE SUPPORTING SURVIVORS

2:30:42OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE

2:30:43CITY OF BOSTON.

2:30:44UM.

2:30:48>> THIS ISSUE.

2:30:49RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2:30:51AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ARE OFTEN

2:30:54UNDERREPORTED BY IMMIGRANT

2:30:55NEIGHBORS, MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ

2:30:58PLUS COMMUNITY IN THE MONTH

2:31:00OF OCTOBER AND THROUGHOUT THE

2:31:01YEAR.

2:31:01IT IS CRITICAL WE CONTINUE TO

2:31:03WORK.

2:31:04TO BREAK.

2:31:05>> THIS STIGMA AND REMIND

2:31:07SURVIVORS THAT THEY ARE NOT

2:31:08ALONE.

2:31:09I ALSO BELIEVE WE HAVE TO

2:31:10CONTINUE TO WORK IN THE BOSTON

2:31:12PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM TO HELP

2:31:15SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS THAT.

2:31:20MAYBE THEY.

2:31:21>> HAVE THEIR PARENT OR THE

2:31:22GUARDIAN MIGHT.

2:31:22BE A.

2:31:23A SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT.

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

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

2:31:31THEIR MOTHER OR FATHER OR A

2:31:32GUARDIAN AS A VICTIM OR A

2:31:35SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT,

2:31:38WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THAT

2:31:40YOUNG PERSON DOES NOT BECOME A

2:31:42FOLLOWER OF THAT OF THAT

2:31:45PRACTICE.

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

2:31:48CRITICAL UH SUPPORT AND

2:31:51SERVICES FROM US.

2:31:53THE THE.

2:31:55CRIME OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND

2:31:57SEXUAL ASSAULTS IS UP IN THE

2:31:59CITY OF BOSTON.

2:32:00THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:32:00THANK YOU.

2:32:01>> COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:32:02.

2:32:03>> UM.

2:32:03COMES FROM A FAN NOTICED YOUR

2:32:04LIGHT ON EARLIER.

2:32:05YOU KNOW I OKAY.

2:32:06THANK YOU.

2:32:07>> AND WOULD ANYONE.

2:32:08>> LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

2:32:11COUNCILOR?

2:32:11UH, CULPEPER.

2:32:12COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:32:13UH, COUNTERFEITS.

2:32:14JONES.

2:32:15COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:32:16COUNSELOR PEPPER IN CONTRAST

2:32:17INTERNAL CONTROL WEBER

2:32:19COUNCIL ROWLAND, PLEASE.

2:32:19I HAVE THE CHAIR CONSCIOUS

2:32:21LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL COLLETTE AS

2:32:23THE PATTERN HERE SEEKS

2:32:25SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:32:26ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1863.

2:32:28ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:32:30ALL OPPOSED.

2:32:31SAY NAY.

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

2:32:34A ROLL CALL?

2:32:34VOTE ON DOCKET 1863.

2:32:37COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:32:38YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:32:39YES, COUNCILOR.

2:32:40CALL AS A OF COUNCILPERSON

2:32:42BURNEY.

2:32:42YES.

2:32:42COUNCILOR.

2:32:43CULPEPER.

2:32:44COUNCILOR.

2:32:44CULPEPER.

2:32:45YES.

2:32:45COUNCILOR.

2:32:46DURKAN.

2:32:47COUNCILOR.

2:32:47DURKAN.

2:32:47YES.

2:32:48COUNCILOR.

2:32:48FITZGERALD.

2:32:49YES.

2:32:49COUNCILOR.

2:32:49FISCAL.

2:32:50YES.

2:32:50COUNCILOR.

2:32:51FLYNN.

2:32:51YES.

2:32:52COUNCILOR.

2:32:52FLYNN.

2:32:53YES.

2:32:53COUNCILOR.

2:32:54LOUIJEUNE.

2:32:54YES.

2:32:54COUNCIL.

2:32:55LOUIJEUNE.

2:32:55YES, COUNCILOR.

2:32:56MEJIA.

2:32:57CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

2:32:58YES.

2:32:58COUNCILOR.

2:32:58MURPHY.

2:32:59COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS

2:33:01COUNCILOR PIN COUNCIL HAVE A

2:33:02PEN.

2:33:03YES.

2:33:03SANTANA COUNCIL.

2:33:05SANTANA.

2:33:05YES.

2:33:06COUNCIL.

2:33:06WEBER.

2:33:06YES.

2:33:07COUNCIL.

2:33:07WEBER.

2:33:08YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:33:08WORLD.

2:33:09YES.

2:33:09COUNCIL.

2:33:10ORAL.

2:33:10YES.

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

2:33:13THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:33:15AFFIRMATIVE.

2:33:15THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:33:16GOOD.

2:33:17DOCKET 1863 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:33:21UM, BEFORE.

2:33:22WE MOVE ON.

2:33:23>> TO.

2:33:23GREEN SHEETS, IS THERE.

2:33:24ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD

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

2:33:26>> MAY HAVE MISSED?

2:33:27I WILL.

2:33:28START WITH COUNCILOR MURPHY AND

2:33:30PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON AND

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

2:33:32COUNCILOR MURPHY?

2:33:33YES?

2:33:33>> COULD YOU PLEASE ADD.

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

2:33:36ORDER ABOUT, UM, RESIDENT

2:33:39PARKING DOCKET 1848.

2:33:42OKAY.

2:33:43>> THANK YOU.

2:33:44COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE

2:33:46FLOOR.

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

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

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

2:33:55TO VOTE ON THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:33:58AND I.

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

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

2:34:04FOR 1856.

2:34:05OKAY.

2:34:07>> THANK YOU.

2:34:08>> ONE SECOND.

2:34:09I BEG YOUR PARDON?

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

2:34:11AND MR. CLERK.

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

2:34:141856 IN A YES VOTE.

2:34:15YES PLEASE.

2:34:29OKAY.

2:34:29>> GOOD TO RECOGNIZE.

2:34:31COUNSELOR AND AND YOU.

2:34:32HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:34:33>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

2:34:36DOCKET 81857 AND 1847?

2:34:41THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

2:34:43OKAY.

2:34:44>> ANYONE ELSE?

2:34:46185771847.

2:34:50>> GOOD.

2:34:51>> YEP.

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

2:34:53SHEETS.

2:34:54IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL A

2:34:56DOCKET FROM THE GREEN SHEETS

2:34:58TODAY.

2:34:59?

2:34:59>> NO NO.

2:35:02NO.

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

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

2:35:10HOW MANY FILES?

2:35:13>> ONE.

2:35:16THANK YOU.

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

2:35:18THAT WE HAVE TWO FILES ONE

2:35:20EMERGENCY RESOLUTION.

2:35:22AND, UH.

2:35:23ONE LATE FILE HEARING ORDER.

2:35:25ABSENT OBJECTION.

2:35:26THESE LEAD FILE MATTERS WILL BE

2:35:28ADDED.

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

2:35:30THE FIRST LATE FILE MATTER?

2:35:32FIRSTLY FILE OFFERED BY

2:35:34COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND SANTANA

2:35:36.

2:35:37EMERGENCY RESOLUTION CALLING

2:35:38FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR

2:35:41BUSINESSES DEVASTATED BY THE

2:35:42SIX ALARM FIRE AT THE HISTORIC

2:35:45EDISON BUILDING IN NEW BEING

2:35:46SQUARE.

2:35:50THANK YOU.

2:35:50>> UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

2:35:54UM, THIS LATE.

2:35:55FILE MATTER.

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

2:35:57BODY.

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

2:36:00LEAD SPONSOR COUNSELOR.

2:36:01UM, CULPEPER.

2:36:03>> YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:36:04THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:36:07FIRST I WANT TO EXPRESS MY

2:36:09DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO THE BOSTON

2:36:11FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONER

2:36:14MARSHAL AND EVERY FIREFIGHTER

2:36:16FIRST RESPONDER WHO SPENT HOURS

2:36:19AND DAYS BATTLING THIS FIRE

2:36:21UNDER EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

2:36:23CONDITION.

2:36:24SEVERAL FIREFIGHTERS SUSTAINED

2:36:26MINOR INJURIES BUT THANKFULLY

2:36:28NO OCCUPANTS WERE REPORTED TO

2:36:30HAVE BEEN INSIDE THE BUILDING

2:36:32WHEN THE FIRE WAS DISCOVERED.

2:36:34BUT THE DEVASTATION TO THE

2:36:36BUSINESSES INSIDE THIS BUILDING

2:36:38IS CATASTROPHIC.

2:36:39THESE BUSINESSES LOST THEIR

2:36:41WORKPLACE EQUIPMENT INVENTORY

2:36:44RECORDS AND THEIR ABILITY TO

2:36:46OPERATE.

2:36:47.

2:36:48THESE BUSINESSES WILL

2:36:48ESSENTIALLY HAVE TO START OVER

2:36:50FROM SCRATCH.

2:36:52MANY OF THESE ARE BLACK AND

2:36:53BROWN OR OPERATED BUSINESSES

2:36:56THAT HAVE INVESTED IN ROXBURY

2:36:58EMPLOYED OUR RESIDENTS,

2:37:00PROVIDED ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND

2:37:02CONTRIBUTED TO THE ECONOMIC AND

2:37:04CULTURAL VIABILITY OF NUBIAN

2:37:06SQUARE.

2:37:07WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO FACE

2:37:10THIS RECOVERY ALONE.

2:37:12THAT IS WHY THIS RESOLUTION

2:37:14CALLS ON THE ADMINISTRATION TO

2:37:16PROVIDE THE FULLEST POSSIBLE

2:37:18ASSISTANCE INCLUDING EMERGENCY

2:37:21FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TEMPORARY

2:37:23RELOCATION SUPPORT,

2:37:26RECOVERY PLANNING, TECHNICAL

2:37:28ASSISTANCE AND COORDINATION

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

2:37:34,NONPROFIT, FILM THEME FROM

2:37:36PHILANTHROPIC AND PRIVATE

2:37:37RESOURCE.

2:37:38IT ALSO CALLS FOR A COORDINATED

2:37:40EFFORT TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE

2:37:43OF THIS HISTORIC BUILDING AND

2:37:45TO GIVE DISPLACED BUSINESSES A

2:37:47MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITY TO

2:37:49RETURN TO NUBIAN SQUARE THESE

2:37:51BUSY BUSINESSES.

2:37:52MADAM PRESIDENT AND MY

2:37:54COLLEAGUES NEED HELP NOW NOT

2:37:57MONTHS FROM NOW I ASK MY

2:37:59COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT PASSAGE

2:38:00UNDER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

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

2:38:05THAT THE CITY STANDS WITH THE

2:38:06BUSINESSES.

2:38:07THE WORKERS COMMUNITY AFFECTED

2:38:09BY THIS DEVASTATING FIRE IN

2:38:12NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:38:13THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:38:15THANK YOU.

2:38:15>> COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

2:38:16THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:38:17COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:38:18YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:38:19THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:38:20AND I WANT TO THANK.

2:38:23UM MY DISTRICT

2:38:24COUNCILOR COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:38:25FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND

2:38:27CONTINUED WORK ON THIS ISSUE.

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

2:38:31COMMISSIONER RODNEY MARSHALL

2:38:32AND ALL OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS

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

2:38:36THE EDISON BUILDING.

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

2:38:38EVERYONE WHO WAS AFFECTED BY

2:38:39THE FIRE AT THE EDISON BUILDING

2:38:41WHERE SO MANY SMALL BUSINESSES

2:38:43WERE ANCHORED A HANDYMAN TEAM

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

2:38:48ATHLETICS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, UM

2:38:50AND MANY MORE.

2:38:51LOSING A SMALL BUSINESS CAN BE

2:38:53DEVASTATING.

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

2:38:56AND THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

2:38:58NUBIAN SQUARE IS THE HEART

2:39:00OF ROXBURY AND THE HEART

2:39:01OF BLACK BOSTON.

2:39:02AND THE EDISON BUILDING WAS,

2:39:05WAS AND WILL REMAIN A

2:39:06CORNERSTONE OF THE COMMUNITY.

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

2:39:10PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY TO

2:39:11ASSESS THAT NUBIAN SQUARE

2:39:12COMMUNITY AND RECOVERING FROM

2:39:13THE STRATEGY AND CONTINUING UM

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

2:39:17HISTORIC LEGACY.

2:39:19THIS MORNING WE HAD A GREAT

2:39:20MEETING WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS,

2:39:22INCLUDING THE BOSTON FIRE

2:39:23DEPARTMENT TO DISCUSS HOW TO

2:39:24WORK TOGETHER ON THE IMPACTS

2:39:26THIS INCIDENT HAS CAUSED TO OUR

2:39:28COMMUNITY.

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

2:39:31MONITOR THE SITUATION.

2:39:33THE FIRE IS STILL AN ACTIVE

2:39:34INCIDENT AND AN INVESTIGATION

2:39:36WILL BEGIN ONCE AN EMERGENCY

2:39:38RESPONDERS ARE ABLE TO SECURE

2:39:39THE SCENE NEXT WEEK IN

2:39:41PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ELECTED

2:39:42OFFICIALS, WE WILL CONVENE A

2:39:44MEETING WITH THOSE MOST

2:39:45AFFECTED TO ASSESS THE IMPACT

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

2:39:48BUSINESSES, OWNERS, EMPLOYEES

2:39:50AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

2:39:51FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MEETING

2:39:53WILL BE SHARED SOON.

2:39:54I CALL THE RESOLUTION IS CALLED

2:39:56TO PROVIDE THE FULLEST POSSIBLE

2:39:57ASSISTANCE TO EVERY DISPLACED

2:39:59UM OR DAMAGED BUSINESS AND

2:40:01PROVIDE THEM WITH A MEANINGFUL

2:40:02OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN TO NUBIAN

2:40:04SQUARE NUBIAN SQUARE WE CAN NOW

2:40:06REPLACE WHAT WE LOST IN EDISON

2:40:08BUILDING, BUT WE SHOULD DO

2:40:09EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE

2:40:11THAT THAT WHAT RISES IS EVEN

2:40:13STRONGER.

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

2:40:15THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPER, UM,

2:40:18FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

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

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

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

2:40:26HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER.

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

2:40:27TO BOTH.

2:40:28UM, REPRESENTATIVE.

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

2:40:31SENATOR LIZ MIRANDA WHO ARE UP

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

2:40:34STATE SIDE.

2:40:35THANK YOU.

2:40:35THANK YOU.

2:40:36CATCH YOU SEND IT.

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

2:40:38THIS COUNTRY MURPHY COUNTRY.

2:40:39>> YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:40:40THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:40:41THANK YOU TO THE FILERS AND

2:40:43COUNCIL.

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

2:40:46WAS GOING TO SAY?

2:40:46UM, MANY TIMES OUR RESOLUTIONS

2:40:49ARE JUST CEREMONIAL WHICH ARE

2:40:50IMPORTANT ALSO.

2:40:51BUT YOU ALREADY SPOKE TO THE

2:40:52WORK YOU'RE DOING.

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

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

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

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

2:41:01ALONGSIDE THE BUSINESSES YOU

2:41:02ALREADY MENTIONED.

2:41:03BUT THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER

2:41:05MARSHALL, THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO

2:41:06WERE THERE, THE FIRST

2:41:07RESPONDERS AND WE KNOW SO MANY

2:41:09CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT OWN US.

2:41:10OFTEN ORGANIZERS SHOW UP WHEN

2:41:12THIS HAPPENS BUT THIS IS

2:41:14DEVASTATING TO OUR BUSINESS

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

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

2:41:19THEM WHAT THEY NEED WHICH WILL

2:41:21BE MORE THAN MONEY.

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

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

2:41:25SLEEVES.

2:41:25SO THANK YOU.

2:41:26THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

2:41:27CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL FLYNN

2:41:29YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:41:32THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

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

2:41:36COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

2:41:38COUNCILOR SANTANA AND SENATOR

2:41:40MIRANDA AND REPRESENTATIVE

2:41:42TYLER.

2:41:43UM, OUTSTANDING LEADERS IN THE

2:41:46CITY.

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

2:41:49ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED.

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

2:41:54CITY HAVE AN OBLIGATION AS IT

2:41:55RELATES JUST TO KNOW BEING

2:41:58SQUARE AND TO THE RESIDENTS ARE

2:42:00THE WORKERS THEY ARE.

2:42:01>> THE SMALL BUSINESSES THERE.

2:42:02YES.

2:42:03>> IT MIGHT NOT BE PARTICULARLY

2:42:05IT MIGHT.

2:42:05>> NOT.

2:42:05NECESSARILY BEEN IN OUR

2:42:06DISTRICT BUT I THINK WE ALL

2:42:08HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE

2:42:11THAT.

2:42:11THE WORKERS THE BUILDING, UM

2:42:14THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:42:15GET THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT

2:42:17FROM THE CITY.

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

2:42:21PRIORITY.

2:42:22AND AS A.

2:42:23DISTRICT CITY COUNCILOR I

2:42:24STRONGLY SUPPORT MY MY FELLOW

2:42:26DISTRICT COUNCILOR AND KNOW THE

2:42:30IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP.

2:42:31>> HE IS.

2:42:32PROVIDING ON IT.

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

2:42:35THE INCREDIBLE ROLE AS ALREADY

2:42:37MENTIONED BUT FROM OUR FIRST

2:42:39RESPONDERS BUT ESPECIALLY OUR

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

2:42:42BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.

2:42:44UH THEY RESPONDED.

2:42:45THEY DID EVERYTHING IN A

2:42:48PROFESSIONAL MANNER.

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

2:42:51WE SUPPORT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS

2:42:53AS WELL, ESPECIALLY DURING

2:42:55CHALLENGING TIMES.

2:42:56THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:42:57THANK YOU.

2:42:58>> COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:42:58CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME TO MEJIA.

2:43:00COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:43:01THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:43:04I ALSO RISE TO.

2:43:05SUPPORT MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

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

2:43:08RESOLUTION AND ANYTHING THAT MY

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

2:43:13THE BUSINESSES AND THE OVERALL

2:43:15COMMUNITY JUST LET ME KNOW.

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

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

2:43:21ORDER QUESTION TO ASK.

2:43:24GO AHEAD.

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

2:43:25AND THEN.

2:43:27WE WOULD.

2:43:28HAPPY TO DO THE.

2:43:29VOTE HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN.

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

2:43:33>> DO.

2:43:33THE VOTING DOES NO.

2:43:34THANK YOU.

2:43:35>> GO AHEAD.

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

2:43:38RECEIVED TWO LATE.

2:43:39FILES TODAY.

2:43:41AND THEY BOTH SAY EMERGENCY AND

2:43:45THEN ONE SAYS AND PURSUANT TO

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

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

2:43:52PARTICULAR RESOLUTION ON NUBIAN

2:43:54SQUARE FEELS LIKE AN EMERGENCY.

2:43:56IT JUST HAPPENED.

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

2:43:59ISSUES THAT I THINK THE

2:44:01COUNCIL CAN UH NOT ONLY AFFIRM

2:44:02AND SUPPORT BUT ALSO JUST BE

2:44:04REALLY MINDFUL OF THE ROLE THAT

2:44:05WE CAN ALL PLAY IN.

2:44:07SUPPORTING UM.

2:44:08NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:44:09>> AT.

2:44:09THIS MOMENT.

2:44:09AND THEN I RECEIVED ANOTHER ONE

2:44:14REGARDING FUNDING FOR HEALTH

2:44:16SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS SUPPORT

2:44:17FOR BOSTON FIRST RESPONDERS.

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

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

2:44:23THE EMERGENCY WAS AS IT RELATES

2:44:24TO THIS PARTICULAR ONE.

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

2:44:27QUESTION TO YOU, COUNCILOR.

2:44:29UH, PRESIDENT.

2:44:30UM BREEDEN IS THAT YOU.

2:44:32KNOW.

2:44:32>> THE USE OF LATE FILES HAVE

2:44:34BECOME UH.

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

2:44:37AND IT'S VERY.

2:44:39CONFUSING AS TO WHAT

2:44:41CONSTITUTES.

2:44:42>> AS AN.

2:44:42EMERGENCY AND WHAT IS NOT AN

2:44:44EMERGENCY.

2:44:44AND THEN WHAT IS HAPPENING IS

2:44:46THAT THESE EMERGENCIES BECOME,

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

2:44:52CREATES AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH

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

2:44:55SUPPORTING CERTAIN THINGS

2:44:56BECAUSE WE'RE ALLEGEDLY

2:44:57BLOCKING THEM.

2:44:59SO OUT OF THE.

2:45:02OUT OF MY HEART.

2:45:03I AM ASKING FOR SOME FLAHERTY

2:45:06BECAUSE IT IS.

2:45:08BECOMING TO.

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

2:45:11YOU AS THE PRESIDENT OF THIS

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

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

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

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

2:45:20HERE BECAUSE.

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

2:45:23FOR US TO CONTINUE TO UTILIZE

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

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

2:45:31SO THANK YOU.

2:45:31COACH MADE.

2:45:33MY POINT.

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

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

2:45:36TO BE MOVING FORWARD.

2:45:37BECAUSE THESE LATE FILES.

2:45:40OCCUPY A LOT OF OXYGEN AND

2:45:42SPACE AND TIME AND POLITICAL.

2:45:45UM, THEATER.

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

2:45:49REAL ABOUT WHAT THE BUSINESS

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

2:45:53>> WE'RE HERE.

2:45:54>> TO.

2:45:55DO IS.

2:45:55>> THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.

2:45:56I'M NOT.

2:45:57QUESTIONING THE TOPIC.

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

2:45:59TACTIC.

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

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

2:46:04TO HANDLE LATE FILES MOVING.

2:46:05FORWARD IN.

2:46:07THIS MOMENT.

2:46:09UM I UH INQUIRED.

2:46:10>> FROM COUNCILOR FROM

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

2:46:13>> TWO FILES.

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

2:46:16UH, AN EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER

2:46:18AND.

2:46:19WE HAD AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION,

2:46:21BOTH.

2:46:21OF WHICH.

2:46:21ARE ON.

2:46:22>> EVERYBODY'S DESK.

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

2:46:26OBJECTION THESE NO ONE OBJECTED

2:46:28TO THEM BEING PLACED BEFORE THE

2:46:29BODY.

2:46:30SO.

2:46:30UM.

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

2:46:34MEAN I DON'T.

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

2:46:39BOTH.

2:46:39THESE DOCTORS ARE PROPERLY

2:46:42BEFORE THE BODY RIGHT NOW.

2:46:44AND WHEN WE COME TO.

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

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

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

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

2:46:52BEFORE YOU.

2:46:53OBJECT TO.

2:46:53>> IT.

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

2:46:55BEEN DONE.

2:46:56>> HERE BEFORE.

2:46:57THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES.

2:46:58WHEN YOU GUYS HAVE SAID YOU

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

2:47:02THE RECORD BEFORE YOU CAN

2:47:04OBJECT.

2:47:04TO IT.

2:47:05>> SO I'M CONFUSED.

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

2:47:08WE HAVEN'T.

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

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

2:47:12>> WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

2:47:13BOTH OF THEM ARE PROPERLY IN

2:47:13FRONT OF THE BODY.

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

2:47:14WHEN WE WANT ONE AT.

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

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

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

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

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

2:47:22TO.

2:47:24I'M TRYING TO.

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

2:47:27UNDERSTAND WHAT IS.

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

2:47:30>> ALL.

2:47:30THE TIME.

2:47:31>> TO.

2:47:31MAKE.

2:47:31SURE.

2:47:32>> YEAH, I THINK TO.

2:47:34I THINK YOU.

2:47:35KNOW, WHAT CONSTITUTES

2:47:37EMERGENCY IS NOT CLEARLY

2:47:38DEFINED IN THE RULES.

2:47:40SO UM.

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

2:47:43GOT TWO DOCKETS BEFORE US.

2:47:45UM.

2:47:46WE ARE.

2:47:46>> IN THE.

2:47:47MIDST OF.

2:47:48DISCUSSING THE EMERGENCY

2:47:50RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE.

2:47:53UH THE THE.

2:47:53DEVASTATION THAT WAS CAUSED TO

2:47:55BUSINESSES IN NUBIAN SQUARE.

2:47:56THAT IS AN EMERGENCY.

2:47:58YEAH.

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

2:48:00DEFINE.

2:48:01EMERGENCIES, BUT.

2:48:03UH, THIS.

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

2:48:05PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY RIGHT

2:48:07NOW.

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

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

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

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

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

2:48:17WE WILL ADDRESS THE SECOND ONE

2:48:19WHEN WE COME TO.

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

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

2:48:23IT WOULD BE.

2:48:23HELPFUL TO ME.

2:48:25TO UNDERSTAND WHAT CONSTITUTES

2:48:27.

2:48:28>> AS.

2:48:28AN EMERGENCY IN REGARDS TO THIS

2:48:30PARTICULAR SECOND ONE JUST

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

2:48:32>> GET TO IT, WHEN.

2:48:33>> WE GET TO IT AND.

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

2:48:37DEFINE AN EMERGENCY BUT IF

2:48:39FOLKS OBJECT TO IT BEEN BROUGHT

2:48:41BEFORE THE.

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

2:48:44>> CAN.

2:48:45CLOSE IT DOWN.

2:48:45YOU CAN YOU CAN.

2:48:47OBJECT ONE.

2:48:48>> MORE PERSON WE MIGHT WANT.

2:48:49>> TO.

2:48:51I WANT TO.

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

2:48:53RECESS.

2:48:54IT'S ALREADY.

2:54:23THANK YOU EVERYONE.

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

2:54:30YEAH.

2:54:34ONE MORE.

2:54:36OKAY.

2:54:43YEAH.

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

2:54:48WE HAVE ONE LAST FILE.

2:54:49UM.

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

2:54:54UM, EMERGENCY RESOLUTION FROM

2:54:59COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND SANTANA

2:54:59.

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

2:55:03TWO TOGETHER.

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

2:55:06FIRST LIT FILE MATTER IS AN

2:55:08EMERGENCY RESOLUTION FROM

2:55:09COUNCILMAN BERNARD UH, CULPEPER

2:55:11AND COUNCILMAN HENRY SANTANA.

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

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

2:55:17THIS MATTER.

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

2:55:20THE SECOND PHONE MATTER.

2:55:21WHEN WE HAVE A PRESIDENT.

2:55:23>> COUNCILOR.

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

2:55:25MAY SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

2:55:28COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE AS, A.

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

2:55:34SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:55:35OBJECTIONS.

2:55:36LOUIJEUNE HAS ADDED A THIRD

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

2:55:40UM, RESOLUTION.

2:55:44>> RESOLUTION.

2:55:44THANK YOU.

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

2:55:52COUNCILOR.

2:55:53UH LOUIJEUNE.

2:55:53YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:55:55THANK YOU.

2:55:56VERY MUCH.

2:55:57>> AND THANK YOU TO

2:55:58COUNCILOR CULPEPPER FOR ADDING

2:55:59ME ON THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION

2:56:02GIVEN THE FIRE RECENTLY

2:56:04OCCURRED.

2:56:05AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILORS

2:56:07SANTANA AND CASAS CULPEPER FOR

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

2:56:10THAT IS BOTH REQUIRED BY THIS

2:56:13COUNCIL WHICH UH UH WHICH IS

2:56:15UNDER THE RULES FOR AN

2:56:17EMERGENCY UH FILING AND ALSO UH

2:56:19MAKING SURE THAT THE ROXBURY

2:56:21COMMUNITY IN THE IN THIS

2:56:22HISTORIC BUILDING GET THE

2:56:24ATTENTION THAT THEY NEED.

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

2:56:28UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND

2:56:29EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED TO THIS

2:56:31FIRE.

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

2:56:33LOT OF THE BUSINESSES THERE ARE

2:56:34ONES THAT ARE HELD VERY

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

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

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

2:56:40COLLEAGUES KNOW, UH, ALONGSIDE

2:56:42SENATOR MIRANDA AND ROB TYLER

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

2:56:47SUPPORT OF THIS BODY AND MAKING

2:56:48SURE THAT THE BUSINESSES IN THE

2:56:50COMMUNITY IN ROXBURY GETS WHAT

2:56:51THEY NEED IN RESPONSE TO THIS

2:56:52FIRE.

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

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

2:56:55THIS COUNCIL.

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

2:56:58TO UH, MYSELF INVOLVED IN

2:57:00MAKING SURE THAT WE WERE HAVING

2:57:02WE COULD RESPOND MATERIALLY

2:57:03WHEN PEOPLE HAVE FIRES BOTH

2:57:05PEOPLE AND ENTITIES AND HOW

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

2:57:07THEY HAVE SUPPORT DURING THIS

2:57:08TIME.

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

2:57:10AND TO THE MAKERS FOR THEIR

2:57:11RESPONSE HERE.

2:57:12THANK YOU.

2:57:12THANK YOU AND GOOD COUNSELOR

2:57:13DURKAN COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

2:57:15FLOOR.

2:57:15THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:57:16AS SOMEONE WHO CARES DEEPLY

2:57:17ABOUT PRESERVATION I KNOW THIS

2:57:19IS A LANDMARK BUILDING.

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

2:57:21MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:57:23UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, THAT

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

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

2:57:28THE WAY THAT WE SHOULD THINK

2:57:29ABOUT EMERGENCIES IS SOMETHING

2:57:31UNEXPECTED, UNPLANNED AND A

2:57:34CRISIS WHICH I BELIEVE THIS IS

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

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

2:57:39AND FOR HIS ONGOING SUPPORT

2:57:41OF PRESERVATION THROUGHOUT THE

2:57:42CITY.

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

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

2:57:46A POLITICIZATION OF LATE FILES

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

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

2:57:52ARE ACTUALLY IN MY DMS RIGHT

2:57:53NOW FROM SOMETHING THAT

2:57:54HAPPENED LAST WEEK.

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

2:57:57IMPORTANT THAT WE ACTUALLY

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

2:58:00STOP TRYING TO MAKE VILLAINS

2:58:01OF CERTAIN PEOPLE.

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

2:58:04AND I WANT TO THANK

2:58:06COUNCILOR MICKEY, UH, FOR

2:58:07STANDING UP BECAUSE I DO THINK

2:58:09THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICIZATION

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

2:58:13SO IMPORTANT TO ME THAT

2:58:15EVERYONE KNOW THAT ANY TIME I

2:58:17HAVE BLOCKED A LATE FILE

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

2:58:19THE PERSON WHO IS PUTTING IT

2:58:21FORWARD.

2:58:21IT HAS BEEN ABOUT THE CONTENTS

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

2:58:24EMERGENCY.

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

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

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

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

2:58:34THAT RELIES ON TRANSPARENCY AND

2:58:36ACCESSIBILITY, OUR LIGHT FILE

2:58:37MATTERS SHOULD HAVE THE UTMOST

2:58:40UM WE SHOULD BE MAKING SURE

2:58:41THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING TO

2:58:43BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AND

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

2:58:46ARE LATE FILED TODAY ARE

2:58:49OF CONSEQUENCE TO THE PUBLIC

2:58:50AND THEY WOULD PROBABLY LIKE TO

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

2:58:53AND THAT IS WHAT OPEN MEETING

2:58:54LAW IS ALL ABOUT.

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

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

2:59:00OPEN OF THE UH OF EMERGENCY

2:59:04HEARING ORDERS AND EMERGENCY

2:59:06FILINGS, ONE PERSON HAS FILED

2:59:0850% OVER THE PAST YEAR.

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

2:59:11BECAUSE I THINK THAT

2:59:12TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESSIBILITY

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

2:59:15EVERYONE IN THIS BODY.

2:59:16THANK YOU.

2:59:18THANK YOU.

2:59:21>> SO THE MATTER BEFORE US IS

2:59:23THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION.

2:59:25I'M CONSCIOUS CULPEPER SANTANA

2:59:28AND RACINE LOUIJEUNE UM.

2:59:34THE CHAIR MOVES.

2:59:36OH, YES.

2:59:37DOES ANYONE OUT PLEASE?

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

2:59:39COUNSELOR?

2:59:40COUNSELOR COLLETTE AS A PART

2:59:42OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRA

2:59:43FITZGERALD.

2:59:43COUNCILOR FLYNN CONSUMER HERE

2:59:45COUNCIL MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN

2:59:47COUNSELOR WEBER CONSTABLE RAIL

2:59:49AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

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

2:59:53TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:59:54VOTE ON THIS EMERGENCY

2:59:56RESOLUTION.

2:59:59COUNSELOR BRAIN.

3:00:00>> YES.

3:00:01>> COUNCIL BRAIN.

3:00:01YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:02COLOR AS A OF COUNSELOR.

3:00:04CLOSE BUDDY.

3:00:04YES.

3:00:05COUNSELOR.

3:00:05CULPEPER.

3:00:06COUNSELOR.

3:00:06CULPEPER.

3:00:07YES.

3:00:07COUNSELOR.

3:00:08DURKAN.

3:00:08COUNSELOR.

3:00:09DURKAN.

3:00:09YES.

3:00:10COUNSELOR.

3:00:10FITZGERALD.

3:00:11COUNSELOR.

3:00:11VISTO.

3:00:12YES.

3:00:12COUNSELOR.

3:00:13FLYNN.

3:00:13YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:14FLYNN.

3:00:14YES.

3:00:14COUNSELOR.

3:00:15LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:15YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:16LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:17YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:17MEJIA.

3:00:18COUNSELOR.

3:00:18MEJIA.

3:00:19YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:20MURPHY.

3:00:20COUNSELOR MURPHY AS COUNCILOR.

3:00:23PIPPIN.

3:00:23COUNCILOR.

3:00:24PIPPIN.

3:00:24YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:25SANTANA.

3:00:26YES, COUNSELOR.

3:00:26SANTANA.

3:00:27YES.

3:00:27COUNCILOR.

3:00:28WEBER.

3:00:28YES.

3:00:29COUNCILOR.

3:00:29WEBER.

3:00:29YES AND COUNSELOR.

3:00:30WORLD.

3:00:31YES.

3:00:31COUNCILOR.

3:00:32WELL, YES.

3:00:32THE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION ON THE

3:00:36HISTORIC ADDISON BUILDING FIRE

3:00:37AND NUBIAN SQUARE HAS RECEIVED

3:00:39A UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

3:00:41AFFIRMATIVE.

3:00:41THANK YOU.

3:00:42THIS EMERGENCY RESOLUTION IS

3:00:43PASSED.

3:00:46COUNSELOR MURPHY.

3:00:47THANK YOU.

3:00:48>> UM.

3:00:49I WOULD.

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

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

3:00:54READ IT.

3:00:55BUT IT DOES SAY THAT.

3:00:57THE EMERGENCY.

3:00:59NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN INTO

3:01:00ANYTHING VIOLATE.

3:01:02PER OPEN MEETING LAW UNDER

3:01:04CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE SUCH FILING

3:01:06ONE WAS UNABLE TO BE

3:01:08ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO THE FILING

3:01:10DEADLINE.

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

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

3:01:15THAT YOU COULD NOT ANTICIPATE

3:01:17IT.

3:01:17THIS HEARING ORDER IS CLEARLY

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

3:01:21OTHERS IN THE PAST WHERE

3:01:22INFORMATION YOU FIND OUT AFTER

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

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

3:01:26READ INTO THE RECORD.

3:01:28BUT BEFORE YOU.

3:01:29UM READ THAT RULE PLEASE CLERK

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

3:01:33THAT IT.

3:01:33TAKES TWO MINUTES.

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

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

3:01:40PERSON WHO FILED IT GETS ONLY

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

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

3:01:45COMMITTEE AND WE MOVE ON.

3:01:46THAT'S ALL.

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

3:01:48DRAG OUT.

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

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

3:01:52MY FIRST TERM ON THIS BODY

3:01:53SOMETIMES WE HAD 15 LATE FILES

3:01:56WHICH I THINK IS EXCESSIVE BUT

3:01:58A WEEK NEVER WENT BY EITHER

3:01:59FROM CENTRAL STAFF WITH

3:02:01COLLEAGUES FILING LATE FILES

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

3:02:05WAS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT OF THE

3:02:07COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO RING THAT

3:02:09IN USE THE WORD EMERGENCY

3:02:10REALLY BE THOUGHTFUL OF IT.

3:02:13I WILL EXPLAIN IF NEEDED.

3:02:15THANK YOU.

3:02:15WHEN MY HEARING ORDER IS READ

3:02:16INTO THE RECORD WHY I BELIEVE

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

3:02:19BUT IF THE CLERK COULD JUST

3:02:20READ RULE 46 INTO THE RECORD

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

3:02:23THANK YOU.

3:02:24THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY,

3:02:26THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME TO

3:02:27MEJIA COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

3:02:28FLOOR.

3:02:30THANK YOU.

3:02:31>> UM, A.

3:02:37YES I DO APPRECIATE MY

3:02:38COLLEAGUES A COMMENTS REGARDING

3:02:42WHAT RULE 46 STATES AND.

3:02:44ADDING EMERGENCY TO A HEARING.

3:02:47ORDER OR RESOLUTION WHEN

3:02:51IMMEDIATE BECAUSE THE

3:02:53COUNCIL IS NOT GOING TO TAKE

3:02:54IMMEDIATE ACTION.

3:02:56ON THE SECOND.

3:02:57UH.

3:02:58>> DOCKET THAT.

3:02:59>> WE'RE ABOUT.

3:02:59TO HEAR ABOUT.

3:03:01SO BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT

3:03:05COUNCIL MEETING.

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

3:03:07UNDERSTAND HOW AND.

3:03:08WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN THAT

3:03:12CONSTITUTES AS AN EMERGENCY.

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

3:03:15OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO DEFINE

3:03:17FOR OURSELVES MOVING FORWARD.

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

3:03:22EMERGENCY HEARING, THEN THERE

3:03:23HAS TO BE SOME EXPECTATION THAT

3:03:25A HEARING WILL BE HELD BETWEEN

3:03:28NOW AND NEXT WEDNESDAY'S

3:03:30COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE WE'RE

3:03:31GOING TO BE TAKING SOME ACTION

3:03:32.

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

3:03:35NEED SOME FLAHERTY.

3:03:36REGARDING RESOLUTIONS AND

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

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

3:03:42PARTICULAR HEARING THAT WE'RE

3:03:43NOT PROBABLY EVEN GOING TO.

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

3:03:46HEARING ORDERS.

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

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

3:03:49DECISION IF THIS HEARING IS

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

3:03:53ON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS NEXT

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

3:03:57UNDERSTAND IT BEING AN

3:03:59EMERGENCY.

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

3:04:01ANY COUNCIL ACTION AS A RESULT

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

3:04:07UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS AN

3:04:10EMERGENCY AND THAT IS THE

3:04:12QUESTION THAT I FEEL LIKE WE

3:04:13NEED TO GET A BETTER

3:04:15UNDERSTANDING IN THIS BODY SO

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

3:04:20REGARDING THE.

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

3:04:22THANK YOU.

3:04:23POINT OF ORDER.

3:04:26COUNCIL MURPHY UM.

3:04:27I'M JUST.

3:04:27>> GOING TO ASK AGAIN IF THE

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

3:04:31YES, PLEASE READ THAT.

3:04:33THANK YOU.

3:04:37SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

3:04:38RULE 46 ALL PORTIONS OF THE

3:04:40RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

3:04:42THEY REQUIRE COMPLIANCE WITH

3:04:43THE OPEN MEETING LAW, PORTIONS

3:04:46OF THE RULES MANDATED BY CITY

3:04:48CHARTER AND THE PORTIONS OF THE

3:04:49RULES IN ENUMERATING OR DO

3:04:52DESIGNATING THE AUTHORITY

3:04:53OF THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL

3:04:54NOT BE SUSPENDED.

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

3:04:59SUSPENDED ONLY BY UNANIMOUS

3:05:02CONSENT.

3:05:02ALL OTHER RULES SHALL NOT BE

3:05:04ALTERED, AMENDED, SUSPENDED OR

3:05:05REPEALED AT ANY TIME EXCEPT BY

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

3:05:10MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL PROVIDED

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

3:05:13SUSPENDED TO INTRODUCE A MATTER

3:05:16SUBMITTED BY A COUNCIL A

3:05:18CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE

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

3:05:22ONLY IN THE CASE OF AN

3:05:23EMERGENCY AND THE FILING

3:05:25INCLUDES A DECLARATION

3:05:26EXPLAINING SUCH EMERGENCY WHICH

3:05:28PER THE OPEN MEETING LAW WOULD

3:05:30BE UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE

3:05:32SUCH FILING WAS UNABLE TO BE

3:05:35ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO THE FILING

3:05:37DEADLINE AND REQUIRES AN

3:05:39IMMEDIATE RESPONSE BY THE CITY

3:05:41COUNCIL.

3:05:42THANK YOU.

3:05:42THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

3:05:45>> POINT OF ORDER FIVE.

3:05:49COUNCIL OFFLINE.

3:05:49YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:05:52COUNCILOR FLYNN'S LIGHT GOES

3:05:53ON.

3:05:53SORRY, COUNCILOR FLYNN TO.

3:05:56COUNCILOR DURKAN TO DO HAVE

3:05:57SOMETHING TO SAY.

3:05:58NOPE NOPE.

3:05:59NO CROSSTALK.

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

3:06:01OKAY.

3:06:02UM.

3:06:04>> THE I BELIEVE THE REASON

3:06:06THAT THIS IS AN.

3:06:07EMERGENCY HEARING ORDER AND

3:06:09IT'S.

3:06:10CERTAINLY SPELLED.

3:06:11OUT IN THE FIRST.

3:06:12PARAGRAPH THIS IS NOT A POINT

3:06:14OF ORDER.

3:06:15UM WE HAVEN'T.

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

3:06:18THAT INTO THE.

3:06:19MADAM CHAIR.

3:06:19HAVE EVERYONE HAD AN

3:06:21OPPORTUNITY TO TO DISCUSS WHY.

3:06:22WHY IT SHOULDN'T.

3:06:23BE AN EMERGENCY AND.

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

3:06:26UH, PROVIDE A.

3:06:27LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION WHY

3:06:28IT IS AN EMERGENCY, BUT

3:06:29EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

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

3:06:33PLEASE CONTINUE.

3:06:33>> PLEASE CONTINUE.

3:06:34OKAY.

3:06:37>> MADAM.

3:06:37>> MADAM CHAIR, THE REASON I

3:06:39THINK IT'S A.

3:06:40IT'S AN.

3:06:41EMERGENCY ON ON MONDAY AFTER

3:06:44AFTER THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT

3:06:46SOMETHING IN FOR THE AGENDA THE

3:06:48CITY COUNCIL WAYS AND MEANS

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

3:06:53ON.

3:06:54A ISSUE RELATED TO THE BOSTON

3:06:57POLICE COURT.

3:07:02ON ON THE RELEASES.

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

3:07:06INTERRUPTING.

3:07:06NO POLICE ARE NO CROSSED.

3:07:08>> CROSSTALK.

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

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

3:07:10>> YOU KNOW.

3:07:10SIT DOWN PLEASE.

3:07:13COUNCILOR FLYNN IS SPEAKING.

3:07:15COUNCILOR.

3:07:16THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:07:17OKAY.

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

3:07:20THERE WAS A HEARING TO DISCUSS

3:07:24A CONTRACT FOR THE BOSTON

3:07:26POLICE AND IT WAS CONDUCTED BY

3:07:28THE WAYS AND MEANS CHAIR.

3:07:30AT THAT TIME IT WAS DETERMINED

3:07:33THAT THE BOSTON POLICE MANY

3:07:35BOSTON POLICE.

3:07:36OFFICERS ARE.

3:07:38PAYING THEIR OWN HEALTH AND

3:07:40WELLNESS AND SCREENING AND OR

3:07:42THE UNION THAT REPRESENTS THEM

3:07:45IS PAYING THEIR HEALTH AND

3:07:46WELLNESS SCREENING.

3:07:50IS THAT AN EMERGENCY THAT THE

3:07:51BOSTON THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:07:53IS NOT SUPPORTING POLICE

3:07:55OFFICERS WITH HEALTH AND

3:07:56WELLNESS SCREENING UM AND AND

3:08:01MEDICAL CARE IS THAT I DO

3:08:03BELIEVE THAT IS IT IT THAT

3:08:05MADAM CHAIR IF SOMEONE KEEPS

3:08:07INTERRUPTING ME UM.

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

3:08:11IT'S JUST DISTRACTING.

3:08:12>> THERE'S NO CROSSTALK.

3:08:14SOMEONE KEEPS YELLING OUT.

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

3:08:19BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS ARE

3:08:22PAYING MUCH OF THEIR HEALTH AND

3:08:25WELLNESS AND SCREENINGS.

3:08:27AND IT.

3:08:28WAS DETERMINED THAT THE CITY

3:08:30OF BOSTON IS NOT PAYING

3:08:31ANYTHING.

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

3:08:35EMERGENCY?

3:08:36SHOULD THE BOSTON POLICE

3:08:37OFFICERS BE PAYING THEIR OWN

3:08:39HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND

3:08:40SCREENINGS UM OR OR SHOULD THE

3:08:44CITY OF BOSTON BE SUPPORTING

3:08:45OUR POLICE OFFICERS AND THEIR

3:08:47FAMILIES WITH HEALTH AND

3:08:49WELLNESS AND SCREENINGS?

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

3:08:53WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE NOT

3:08:54PAYING FOR THE HEALTH AND

3:08:55WELLNESS AND THE SCREENINGS AND

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

3:09:00FILED A AN AMENDMENT DURING THE

3:09:03AMENDMENT PROCESS FOR HEALTH

3:09:05AND WELLNESS SCREENING DURING

3:09:07THE BUDGET DEBATE.

3:09:08AND IT WAS.

3:09:09BLOCKED BY CITY COUNCIL.

3:09:12THANK YOU.

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

3:09:13CHAIR.

3:09:13THIS IS AN.

3:09:13EMERGENCY ORDER.

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

3:09:17YEAH.

3:09:18NO THAT'S ALL.

3:09:20COUNCIL MEMBERS NEXT AND THEN I

3:09:22REALLY WANT TO MOVE.

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

3:09:24THE DOCTOR BEFORE IN THE BODY

3:09:25AND DEAL WITH IT IN WHICHEVER

3:09:27WAY WE CHOOSE.

3:09:29>> APPROPRIATE.

3:09:29BUT I GUESS MADAM PRESIDENT AND

3:09:32THE.

3:09:32CLERK I THINK.

3:09:33>> THE RULE SAYS THAT THIS THAT

3:09:34THE EMERGENCY FILING HAS TO

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

3:09:38EMERGENCY THERE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3:09:54ARE WHO NEED OUR HELP.

3:09:55THAT'S WHY.

3:09:56WE SUPPORTED THE RESOLUTION FOR

3:09:58NUBIAN SQUARE.

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

3:10:01POLITICIZATION OF THIS FOR

3:10:03WEAPONIZATION OF THE EMERGENCY

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

3:10:05OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND

3:10:07MONTHS.

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

3:10:10LIKE JUST TO REQUIRE PEOPLE TO

3:10:12SAY IN THEIR EMERGENCY WHAT THE

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

3:10:16EXPLAIN IT IN A SENTENCE THEN

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

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

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

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

3:10:24THE CLERK AND THE AND MADAM

3:10:26PRESIDENT.

3:10:26INTERPRET THAT SECTION OF THE

3:10:27RULE.

3:10:28THANK YOU.

3:10:30>> THANK YOU EVERYONE.

3:10:33CONCERNED AND YOU HAVE THE

3:10:35FLOOR.

3:10:36>> THANK YOU.

3:10:36THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST RELATED

3:10:37POINT OF INCREASE ACTUALLY UM

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

3:10:40CENTRAL STAFF AND MEGAN

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

3:10:44MULTIPLE TIMES WHERE PEOPLE AND

3:10:45THIS HAPPENED LAST TERM AS WELL

3:10:47WHERE PEOPLE JUST SAY POINT

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

3:10:50OF ORDER AND IT'S NOT A POINT

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

3:10:53OF INFORMATION.

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

3:10:55SENDING OUT TO CITY COUNCIL.

3:10:56IT NEVER HAPPENED.

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

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

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

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

3:11:03POINT OF ENTRY.

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

3:11:05INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE BEST

3:11:06SHARED WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

3:11:07THANK YOU.

3:11:08THANK YOU FOR THAT

3:11:08RECOMMENDATION.

3:11:09SO RIGHT NOW.

3:11:13WE HAVE AN ORDER FOR AN

3:11:15EMERGENCY HEARING OFFERED BY

3:11:18COUNCILORS ERIN MURPHY AND ED

3:11:20FLYNN.

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

3:11:26THE OTHER MATTER SEPARATELY.

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

3:11:28MATTER.

3:11:29UH, ABSENT OBJECTION THIS

3:11:31SECOND IT MATTER.

3:11:33WILL COUNCILOR UH, DURKAN

3:11:36OBJECTS THIS DOCKET WILL BE

3:11:38REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

3:11:39PUBLIC SAFETY.

3:11:40THANK YOU.

3:11:41>> OH, NO.

3:11:45>> OH OBJECTED.

3:11:46WE NEED A SECOND POINT.

3:11:48>> IT'S NOT.

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

3:11:51THAT WOULD GIVE US.

3:11:53OKAY.

3:11:54>> THANK YOU.

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

3:11:58CONSENT AGENDA.

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

3:12:01SHERIFF THAT THERE ARE NO

3:12:04ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA

3:12:05.

3:12:06THIS QUESTION NOW COMES ON

3:12:08APPROVAL OF VARIOUS MATTERS

3:12:09CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

3:12:10AGENDA.

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

3:12:14YOU.

3:12:14THE CONSENT AGENDA IS ADOPTED.

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

3:12:19PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE

3:12:20FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENT.

3:12:22DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

3:12:25ANNOUNCEMENTS?

3:12:26I SEE COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:12:26YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:12:27THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

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

3:12:32THE 87TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

3:12:36CHURCH THAT MY GRANDFATHER

3:12:38BUILT IN 1941.

3:12:40WE WILL HAVE SERVICES AT 11

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

3:12:45COUNSELORS ARE INVITED TO COME.

3:12:47AND PARTICIPATE IN THE WORSHIP

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

3:12:54YOURS TRULY WILL BE SPEAKING AT

3:12:5711 A.M. AT 4 P.M. UH, REVEREND

3:13:00DAVID BULLOCK FROM METROPOLITAN

3:13:01BAPTIST CHURCH.

3:13:02>> IN WEST.

3:13:03VIRGINIA WILL BE A FEATURED

3:13:05SPEAKER.

3:13:06I INVITE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES

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

3:13:11SHOUTING SUNDAY MORNING AFTER

3:13:13WHAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH.

3:13:15THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:13:16THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:13:19UM, GOING TO COUNTRY MURPHY

3:13:20NEXT COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE

3:13:21FLOOR.

3:13:23THANK YOU.

3:13:24JUST ANTICIPATE.

3:13:25ALL OF YOU.

3:13:26>> PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON IF

3:13:27YOU WISH TO SPEAK.

3:13:28OKAY.

3:13:28>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

3:13:30TOMORROW IS OCTOBER SO I RISE

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

3:13:34GRANDSON BRIAN, COLIN, MICHAEL

3:13:36MY SONS AND MY GRANDSON CADEN

3:13:38HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY.

3:13:40SO LOOKING FORWARD TO LOTS

3:13:41OF CELEBRATIONS IN THE NEXT

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

3:13:45KNOW THAT 27 MINUTES AGO WE

3:13:47WOULD HAVE JUST PLACED THAT

3:13:48HEARING ORDER INTO THE WAYS AND

3:13:50MEANS COMMITTEE AND WE WOULD

3:13:51HAVE MOVED ON.

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

3:13:53CITY EMPLOYEE HAS TO PUT THEIR

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

3:13:57CANCER SCREENING FOR WELLNESS,

3:13:58OUR EMS WORKERS ARE BEING

3:14:00ATTACKED AND I CARE ABOUT THAT

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

3:14:04THANK.

3:14:05>> YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

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

3:14:06ANNOUNCEMENT.

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

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

3:14:11COUNCIL.

3:14:12YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:14:14UH THANK.

3:14:15>> YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:14:17THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT

3:14:18THIS.

3:14:19SUNDAY IT IS THE 50TH

3:14:21ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROSLINDALE

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

3:14:24PARADE HONORING MY

3:14:25NEIGHBORHOOD.

3:14:26UM.

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

3:14:27BEAUTIFUL WHEN THE ROUTE IS

3:14:28CHANGING THIS YEAR AND I JUST

3:14:30ENCOURAGE ALL MY AT-LARGE

3:14:33COUNCILORS.

3:14:33NO OTHER DISTRICT COUNCILORS

3:14:34ARE INVITED.

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

3:14:38UM.

3:14:38I'M KIDDING.

3:14:39EVERYONE'S INVITED.

3:14:40BUT.

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

3:14:42BEAUTIFUL DAY.

3:14:42HOPEFULLY THE RAIN HOLDS OFF

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

3:14:45WISH MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE A VERY

3:14:46HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:14:47TODAY IS HER BIRTHDAY.

3:14:49SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND.

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

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

3:14:53GET HOME TO CELEBRATE SO.

3:14:54>> THANK YOU.

3:14:56.

3:14:56>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:14:59UM COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE

3:15:01THE FLOOR?

3:15:02YES.

3:15:03>> THE THE NEW ROUTE FOR THE

3:15:04PARADE IS THROUGH NEW DISTRICT

3:15:05SIX.

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

3:15:07SEEING IT.

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

3:15:09JEEP FIGHTS BACK IS HAVING A

3:15:11FUNDRAISER SPONTANEOUS

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

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

3:15:17FOR YOUTH PROGRAMS AT THE SOUTH

3:15:18SHORE YOUTH CENTER AND HEAL THE

3:15:20HOOD AS WELL AS ORGANIZATIONS

3:15:21SUPPORTING THOSE IMPACTED BY

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

3:15:25PROTECTED STATUS.

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

3:15:29THE FUNDRAISER.

3:15:30I'M NOT I CAN'T I DON'T KNOW IF

3:15:32IT WOULD BE A SURPRISE.

3:15:32UH, BUT SHOW UP AND UH, I

3:15:35THINK, UH, IT'LL BE A GOOD

3:15:36TIME, SO.

3:15:36THANK YOU.

3:15:37>> THANK YOU.

3:15:38COUNCIL MEMBER THE CHAIR

3:15:39RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:15:41YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:15:42UM.

3:15:43>> THANK YOU.

3:15:43THIS, UH, SUNDAY IS THE 40

3:15:45WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 40TH

3:15:47BIRTHDAY OF JOHN AMICI AND HE

3:15:49WAS MY LOCKER.

3:15:50ME UM, IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HE

3:15:53PASSED AWAY IN THE NINTH GRADE

3:15:54AND IT WAS, UH, A VERY TRAGIC,

3:15:57UM, INCIDENT FIRST AND PASSING

3:15:59AND DEATH FOR SO MANY OF US

3:16:01INCLUDING HIS FAMILY, I AND

3:16:03FAMILY AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS

3:16:04A, UH, BIG YEAR FOR THEM TO

3:16:06REMEMBER.

3:16:06SO WE JUST WANTED TO, UH, PAY

3:16:08MY RESPECTS TO THE SCION FAMILY

3:16:10OF WEST ROXBURY AND LET THEM

3:16:11KNOW THAT, UM, I THINK OF DOM

3:16:13AND THEIR SON ON EVERY

3:16:16OCTOBER 4TH BUT ESPECIALLY THIS

3:16:16YEAR.

3:16:17UM, AND SO, UH, I KNOW THAT

3:16:20IT'S I KNOW WE'RE DOING

3:16:21MEMORIALS BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD

3:16:23HAVE BEEN A MEMORIAL SO BUT UM,

3:16:24BECAUSE THE DATE IS ON SUNDAY

3:16:26SO I APOLOGIZE IF IT SHOULD

3:16:27HAVE BEEN IN THE NEXT SECTION,

3:16:28BUT UM AND I ALSO WANTED TO SAY

3:16:29CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY OWN

3:16:31CANDACE AND, UM, HER NOW FIANCE

3:16:34CESAR AND I WISH THEM THE BEST.

3:16:35YES.

3:16:36>> CONGRATULATIONS TO CANDACE.

3:16:38UM, THANK YOU,

3:16:42COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:16:43UH, WE WANT TO WISH A VERY

3:16:45HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CONTRA

3:16:47SANTANA THIS WEEK.

3:16:49HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:16:50MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY.

3:16:53UM, WE ALSO FROM ALLSTON

3:16:55BRIGHTON WE HAVE ALLSTON OPEN

3:16:57STREETS.

3:16:57WE HAD A COMPLETE WASHOUT

3:16:58OF OUR UH, PARADE OUR STREET

3:17:01FAIR UM FAIR FIVE K ROAD RACE

3:17:03AND OUR PARTY IN THE PARK LAST

3:17:05WEEKEND BUT I THINK WE MIGHT

3:17:07HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR THE

3:17:08CELEBRATIONS AND AT AUSTIN OPEN

3:17:10STREETS THIS UM THIS WEEKEND

3:17:13SUNDAY FROM 10 TO 2 AND I HOPE

3:17:15MY COLLEAGUES AND ALSO A VERY

3:17:16BUSY WEEKEND OTHER OTHER

3:17:18PRIORITIES, OTHER NEEDS.

3:17:19BUT UH, WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU IN

3:17:21ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

3:17:21WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

3:17:23MEMORIALS.

3:17:24UM, COUNCILOR UM UH,

3:17:28COUNCILOR UH, WE'LL START WITH

3:17:30COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

3:17:31PARTNER.

3:17:32THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

3:17:33PRESIDENT.

3:17:33I RISE TO.

3:17:35UM, MEMORIALIZE.

3:17:36MICHAEL SMOKEY KANE FROM

3:17:37CHARLESTOWN.

3:17:38WE LOST.

3:17:38A BELOVED.

3:17:39>> AND DEEPLY ADMIRED LIGHT IN

3:17:40CHARLESTOWN.

3:17:42HE SPENT HIS.

3:17:42LIFE AS A LIGHTHOUSE FOR OTHERS

3:17:44GUIDING PEOPLE.

3:17:44THROUGH SOME OF.

3:17:45>> THE ROCKY WATERS OF THEIR

3:17:46LIVES, PARTICULARLY THOSE

3:17:47STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION,

3:17:48GRIEF AND LOSS.

3:17:49HE HAD.

3:17:50>> AN EXTRAORDINARY GIFT FOR

3:17:51SEEING PEOPLE, MAKING THEM FEEL

3:17:52LIKE THEY MATTERED AND

3:17:53REMINDING THEM THAT THERE WAS

3:17:55ALWAYS HOPE.

3:17:56I FIRST MET SMOKEY IN.

3:17:562017 WHILE WORKING ON HIS

3:17:58CAMPAIGN AND I QUICKLY.

3:17:59REALIZED WHY.

3:18:01UM TOWNEES.

3:18:01LOVED HIM AND WHAT THEY ALREADY

3:18:02KNEW.

3:18:03HE WAS FUNNY.

3:18:04HE WAS LOYAL, RELIABLE AND A

3:18:05STRONG ANCHOR IN PEOPLE'S

3:18:06LIVES.

3:18:07IF HE.

3:18:08>> SAID HE WOULD BE THERE HE

3:18:08WAS THERE AND USUALLY BROUGHT

3:18:09MUSIC.

3:18:10LAUGHTER AND.

3:18:10>> A HELPING HAND WITH HIM.

3:18:12HE WAS.

3:18:12>> A STAPLE AT OUR UH, RECENT

3:18:14EQUITY DIALOGS IN CHARLESTOWN.

3:18:16DISCLOSING HIS.

3:18:16LIFE STORY WHICH WAS.

3:18:17REMARKABLE AND VULNERABLE.

3:18:19MOMENTS IN HIS LIFE ALL TO

3:18:20PROVIDE AN IMPORTANT

3:18:21PERSPECTIVE IN LIFE LESSONS.

3:18:22TO THE YOUTH IN ATTENDANCE.

3:18:24AND EVENTUALLY.

3:18:24ALL OF.

3:18:25>> THEM UM.

3:18:26>> GREW TO.

3:18:27RESPECT HIM AND LOVE HIM AS AS

3:18:28WE ALL DID.

3:18:29CHARLESTOWN WILL SOUND.

3:18:31A LITTLE QUIETER WITHOUT SMOKEY

3:18:32BEHIND THE DJ BOOTH.

3:18:34BUT I'M COMFORTED HE'S REUNITED

3:18:36WITH HIS SON MICHAEL, HIS

3:18:37BROTHERS AND HIS PARENTS.

3:18:39UM HE WAS A DEAREST.

3:18:40FRIEND OF MY STAFF MEMBER

3:18:41ELAINE DONOVAN SO MY HEART IS

3:18:42ESPECIALLY WITH HER LISA,

3:18:44MELANIE, SHEENA, JACOB,

3:18:46JACQUELINE AND HIS

3:18:47GRANDCHILDREN AND EVERYONE THAT

3:18:48LOVED HIM.

3:18:48HIS LEGACY WILL LIVE LOUDLY IN

3:18:51EVERY PERSON HE HELPED.

3:18:52REST EASY SMOKEY WE ALL LOVE

3:18:54YOU.

3:18:55THANK YOU.

3:18:55>> THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:18:58COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE

3:18:59FLOOR.

3:18:59MADAM PRESIDENT, I WAS INFORMED

3:19:02EARLY SUNDAY MORNING THAT

3:19:04BROOKE WOODSON HAD PASSED A

3:19:07TRUSTED ADVISOR MEMBER NINO AND

3:19:10HIS ROLE OF ADVISOR FOR MAYOR

3:19:12MENINO AND THE COC.

3:19:13HE WAS AN ADVISOR IN EVERY

3:19:16MAJOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FROM

3:19:201993 TO 2013 U.S. PRESIDENT,

3:19:23SENATOR, CONGRESS PERSON EVERY

3:19:25LOCAL CAMPAIGN GOVERNOR,

3:19:28DISTRICT ATTORNEY, STATE

3:19:29SENATE, STATE REP AND CITY

3:19:33COUNCILOR ESPECIALLY MINE HIS

3:19:34ROLE AS AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

3:19:36OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

3:19:37OF MINORITY WOMEN AND BUSINESS

3:19:39ENTERPRISE.

3:19:40HE FOUGHT FOR JOBS AND

3:19:42CONTRACTS, ENSURED THAT THE

3:19:43CITY MET OR EXCEEDED THEIR GOAL

3:19:46ON HIRING PEOPLE OF COLOR AND

3:19:47CITY PROJECTS NOT JUST ON CITY

3:19:50PROJECTS BUT ON ALL PROJECTS IN

3:19:51THE CITY OF BOSTON.

3:19:52BROOKE WAS ONE OF THOSE SPECIAL

3:19:54PEOPLE YOU COULD YOU WOULD EVER

3:19:57MEET, WORK AND ASSOCIATE WITH.

3:19:59THROUGH HIS WORK HE QUIETLY

3:20:00HELPED CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE AND

3:20:02THE CULTURE OF BOTH AND

3:20:04ESPECIALLY THE COMMUNITIES

3:20:06OF COLORS OF BOSTON.

3:20:08WE COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A

3:20:09BETTER PERSON WHO WENT INTO THE

3:20:11LION'S DEN OF CITY HALL EVERY

3:20:13SINGLE DAY AND FOUGHT FOR THE

3:20:16PEOPLE OF BOSTON.

3:20:17MY CONDOLENCES TO HIS FAMILY.

3:20:19AND TO ALL THOSE THAT KNEW AND

3:20:21LOVE.

3:20:22GREG MAY REST IN PEACE.

3:20:24AMEN.

3:20:25>> THANK YOU.

3:20:26>> COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THE

3:20:27CHAIR UM COUNCILOR AT HOLD ON

3:20:29CULTURALLY CONSIDER THIS.

3:20:31TO TELL YOU.

3:20:32THIS HOMEGOING WILL BE A

3:20:34MONDAY.

3:20:35UH, OCTOBER 5TH AT 10 A.M. THE

3:20:38VIEWING THE 11 A.M. SERVICE AT

3:20:41CHARLES STREET A.M.E. 551

3:20:43WARREN STREET IN ROXBURY.

3:20:47THANK YOU.

3:20:48>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:20:49COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

3:20:50THE FLOOR.

3:20:51THANK YOU.

3:20:51>> I WANT TO JOIN

3:20:53COUNCILOR CULPEPER IN UPLIFTING

3:20:53THE MEMORY OF BROOKE WOODSON

3:20:55WHO.

3:20:56WAS UH, CITY HALL EMPLOYEE UH,

3:20:59POLITICO AND WHO WAS OFTEN

3:21:01ACTUALLY BEFORE THIS BODY.

3:21:03I KNOW I HAD HIM HERE TWICE UH,

3:21:05TO TALK ABOUT THE BOSTON

3:21:06RESIDENT'S JOB POLICY.

3:21:07AND SO MY CONDOLENCES TO

3:21:09BROOKE, HIS HIS BROTHER, HIS

3:21:11MOTHER, UM, AND THE ENTIRE

3:21:13WOODSON FAMILY ON THE LOSS

3:21:15OF BROOKE.

3:21:15I ALSO WANTED TO UPLIFT THE

3:21:16MEMORY OF JANET JONES.

3:21:18UH, DORCHESTER, UM, RESIDENT

3:21:21ADVOCATE.

3:21:22UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES

3:21:24UM, SHE'S HELD COURT IN ONE

3:21:26FAMILY DINER ON BOWDOIN STREET

3:21:27AND, UM, HELD ME AND MY STAFF

3:21:30TO TASK.

3:21:30SO I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THEM

3:21:32AT HER MEMORY AND MY

3:21:34CONDOLENCES TO HER WIFE DAVIDA

3:21:35.

3:21:36UM, WHO IS MOURNING NOW.

3:21:37UM, THERE WILL ALSO BE A

3:21:39CELEBRATION OF LIFE AT ONE

3:21:40FAMILY DINER TO REMEMBER JANET.

3:21:42UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UH, WANT

3:21:44TO UH UH, REMEMBER MIGHTY

3:21:47SPARROW.

3:21:48,UH, A.

3:21:49>> FAMOUS CALYPSO ARTIST FROM

3:21:51TRINIDAD WHO UM ONE OF MY

3:21:53FAVORITE SONGS IS A MIGHTY

3:21:55SPARROW SONG AND HE WAS A

3:21:57LEGEND UH, TO SO MANY AND IT

3:21:59WAS SAD NEWS TO HEAR OF HIS

3:22:00PASSING THIS WEEK.

3:22:02THANK YOU.

3:22:03CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:22:05COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:22:05YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:22:06UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:22:08JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE, UH,

3:22:09PINEY CASTING LONG TIME JAMAICA

3:22:11PLAIN RESIDENT.

3:22:12UH.

3:22:13>> WHO UH.

3:22:16UM UH, HAD, UH, DID A LOT IN

3:22:19HER LIFE UH, FOR THE

3:22:21PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

3:22:22SHE CAME UH, JUST BEGINNING AS

3:22:24A COLLEGE STUDENT, 1970S

3:22:26VISITING UM, PALESTINIAN

3:22:27REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON.

3:22:29SHE SPENT A LIFETIME, UH,

3:22:32WRITING ABOUT AND ORGANIZING

3:22:33AID FOR UH, PALESTINIANS, UH,

3:22:37THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND,

3:22:38UH, I KNOW SHE'LL BE SORELY

3:22:40MISSED.

3:22:40THANK YOU.

3:22:42>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:22:43COUNCILOR WORRELL.

3:22:43YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:22:44YEAH.

3:22:45>> I'D LIKE TO JOIN MY

3:22:46COLLEAGUES IN RECOGNIZING.

3:22:47UM, THE LIFE AND THE WORK

3:22:49OF BROOK WOODSON.

3:22:50UH, SOMEONE THAT I WOULD REACH

3:22:51OUT TO REGARDING, UH, DIVERSITY

3:22:55AND CITY CONTRACTS OR BOSTON

3:22:56RESIDENTS DOT POLICY.

3:22:57UH, SO MY HEART AND MY

3:22:59CONDOLENCES GO OUT TO THE

3:23:00FAMILY ALSO UH, JANET JONES AND

3:23:02DAVIDA ALDERMAN UM CIVIC

3:23:06LEADERS UM INSIDE OF THE

3:23:07DISTRICT UM THEY HAVE ALWAYS

3:23:10BEEN FIERCE ADVOCATES FOR UM

3:23:12QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES UM

3:23:15BETTER CITY SERVICES IN THE

3:23:16AREA.

3:23:17UH SO MY HEART UM AND PRAISE

3:23:19ALSO GOES OUT TO TO BEAT OUT A

3:23:20MAN UM AND I ALSO WANT TO

3:23:22REMEMBER THE LIFE OF JANET

3:23:23JONES AND THEN ALSO SLINK

3:23:25OF FRANCISCO WHO IS KNOWN TO

3:23:27THE WORLD AS MIGHTY SPARROW UH

3:23:29,GAVE GENERATIONS OF CARIBBEAN

3:23:31PEOPLE A VOICE UH THROUGH

3:23:32CALYPSO TOLD OUR STORIES,

3:23:34CHALLENGE JUSTICE AND GAVE US A

3:23:37REASON TO LAUGH, DANCE AND HOLD

3:23:38OUR HEADS HIGH.

3:23:39UH, JUST WANT TO REMEMBER

3:23:41FRANCISCO ALSO KNOWN TO THE

3:23:43WORLD AS MIGHTY SPARROW.

3:23:46THANK YOU.

3:23:47UM, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A

3:23:49MOMENT TO REMEMBER MY SISTER

3:23:50HEATHER.

3:23:51HER BIRTHDAY IS OCTOBER 2ND.

3:23:53UH, SHE PASSED AWAY WAY TOO

3:23:55YOUNG AT 55 YEARS OLD IN

3:23:58SEPTEMBER 8TH YEARS AGO.

3:23:59SO, UM, THIS IS A BITTERSWEET

3:24:01TIME.

3:24:03THE CHAIR MOVES US WHEN THE

3:24:05COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY IT ALSO

3:24:06IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED

3:24:08INDIVIDUALS.

3:24:09A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

3:24:19THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

3:24:21MEET AGAIN IN THE IRON CHAMBER

3:24:23ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 2026

3:24:26AT 12 P.M. THANK YOU TO MY

3:24:28COLLEAGUES CENTRAL STAFF.

3:24:29THE CURB CUTS, THE CLERK'S

3:24:32OFFICE AND OUR GUEST UM

3:24:34STENOGRAPHER TODAY.

3:24:35THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

3:24:36ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT

3:24:37PLEASE SAY AYE.

3:24:39THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.

3:24:41THANK YOU.