2026-10-07 - City Council

01:13FORWARD SLASH CITY COUNCIL TV.

01:16AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

01:17COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

01:18AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

01:19THEIR PHONES AND ELECTRONIC

01:21DEVICES.

01:21ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42, I

01:24REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER THAT

01:26NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

01:27DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

01:28PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

01:30THANK YOU, MR CLERK.

01:31WE PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO

01:33ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A

01:34QUORUM.

01:38YOU'RE MY HATE TO BE TURNED

01:39OFF.

01:41THANK YOU.

01:45COUNCIL AGREED.

01:46COUNCIL COLOR AS OPPOSED HERE.

01:48COUNCIL.

01:48CULPEPER.

01:49COUNCILOR DURKAN.

01:51COUNCILOR.

01:51FITZGERALD.

01:52COUNCILOR FLYNN.

01:53YES.

01:54>> COUNCIL.

01:55COUNCIL.

01:55MEJIA.

01:56COUNCILOR MURPHY.

01:58COUNCILOR.

01:58PIPPIN.

02:00COUNCILOR.

02:00SANTANA.

02:01YEAH.

02:02>> COUNCILOR WEBER.

02:02HERE AND COUNCIL.

02:03WE'RE ALL HERE.

02:04THE QUORUM.

02:06THANK YOU.

02:06>> I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE

02:07CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

02:09>> AND COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

02:10AND COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE AND

02:13COUNCILOR PEPEN.

02:14I THINK WE.

02:15ACCEPTED THAT.

02:16NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO CALL

02:17ON THE CLERK TO OFFER SOME

02:19BRIEF REMARKS AS AN INVOCATION.

02:32TO.

02:35>> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

02:36LET'S PLEASE STAND.

02:40BLESSED ARE THE JUST FOR THEY

02:42HAVE THEIR REWARD AND AN

02:44INDESTRUCTIBLE INTEGRITY.

02:45BLESSED ARE THE BLESSED ARE

02:47THEY WHO LABOR IN THE VINEYARDS

02:49OF THE PUBLIC REALM FOR THEY

02:50SHALL BE REMEMBERED.

02:52BLESSED ARE THEY WHO LOVED THE

02:54NATION ENOUGH TO PRAISE ITS

02:55STRENGTHS AND CRITICIZE ITS

02:58WEAKNESSES.

02:58FOR THEY SHALL BE MADE WISE.

03:00BLESSED ARE PUBLIC OFFICIALS

03:02WHO ARE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS

03:05OF THESE THE LEAST OF THE

03:05PEOPLE, FOR THEY SHALL BE

03:07DEPUTIES OF THE COMMUNITY.

03:09BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO SERVE THE

03:10PUBLIC GOOD.

03:11FOR THEIR REWARD IS IN BEING

03:13USED.

03:14BLESSED ARE THE POWERFUL WHO

03:16ACKNOWLEDGE THAT POWER IS BOTH

03:17GIFT AND RESPONSIBILITY.

03:19FOR THEY KNOW THE BINDING

03:21OBLIGATIONS OF THEIR BOUNTY.

03:24WE ESPECIALLY ASK FOR YOUR

03:26BLESSINGS UPON THE MEMBERS

03:27OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AS

03:29THEY CONTINUE THEIR GOOD WORK

03:31ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS

03:33CITY ON A HILL.

03:36AMEN.

03:37AMEN.

03:37>> THANK YOU.

03:38>> WILL NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE

03:39OF ALLEGIANCE.

03:39I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

03:42OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

03:44.

03:44TWO FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE

03:47NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE,

03:50WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR

03:52ALL.

03:57WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS

03:59TODAY.

03:59FIRST WE'LL CALL UP

04:00COUNCILOR DURKAN RECOGNIZING

04:02OPENING OUR DOORS FESTIVAL AND

04:04THEN COUNCILOR FLYNN

04:05RECOGNIZING THE MASSACHUSETTS

04:06NURSES ASSOCIATION.

04:08COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE

04:09FLOOR FOR FIVE MINUTES.

04:12THANK YOU SO MUCH.

04:13UM, AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE.

04:14EVERYONE WHO'S HERE UH, FROM

04:15THE OPENING OUR DOORS UH,

04:17COMMITTEE.

04:18UH.

04:18GOOD MORNING.

04:19THIS YEAR MARKS 25 THE 25TH

04:22ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OUR

04:23DOORS AN ALL DAY FESTIVAL

04:25OF FREE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES IN

04:26THE FENWAY FROM ARTS EXHIBITS

04:28AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.

04:29UM, I'VE I'VE INVITED MANY

04:31OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WHO MAKE

04:32THIS INCREDIBLE EVENT POSSIBLE

04:34.

04:34UM, AND I KNOW WE HAVE THE

04:35FENWAY ALLIANCE HERE BOSTON

04:37SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE

04:38CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, COZY

04:40ACCESS STUDIOS.

04:41I'M GOING TO KEEP MY REMARKS

04:43BRIEF BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A

04:44LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE

04:45INTERESTED IN SAYING A FEW

04:46WORDS, BUT I WANT TO TAKE A

04:48MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE HOW SPECIAL

04:49THIS IS.

04:50THE FENWAY ALLIANCE STARTED AND

04:52COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, PLEASE GET

04:54UP HERE WITH ME IF YOU CAN.

04:55SO SORRY.

04:56UM.

04:58UH, RECOGNIZE WHAT A SPECIAL

05:00TRADITION THIS IS.

05:01THE FENWAY ALLIANCE STARTED

05:02OPENING OUR DOORS IN 2001.

05:04UM, AND THEY'VE STARTED

05:05BEGINNING AND THEY OFFERED

05:07CULTURAL OFFERINGS TO THE

05:08BROADER PUBLIC.

05:09UM, ACTUALLY LAST, UH, A FEW

05:12YEARS AGO THE MAYOR ACTUALLY

05:13SAID THIS WAS HER INSPIRATION,

05:15UH, FOR THE FREE SUNDAYS

05:17PROGRAM.

05:17SO, UM, SO THIS IS REALLY, UH,

05:20THE INSPIRATION FOR A LOT OF,

05:22UH, THE CULTURAL OFFERINGS THAT

05:23OUR INSTITUTIONS OFFER.

05:24UM, AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN

05:26POSSIBLE WITHOUT KELLY AND NOW

05:28GENEVIEVE AND JUST EVERYONE WHO

05:30IS A PART OF THE FENWAY

05:31ALLIANCE.

05:31UH, IT'S AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE

05:33OF WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

05:34CAN ACCOMPLISH.

05:36UM, AND, UH, THE FESTIVAL TAKES

05:39PLACE EVERY YEAR ON INDIGENOUS

05:40PEOPLES DAY, WHICH ORGANIZERS

05:42ARE INTENTIONAL ABOUT

05:43ACKNOWLEDGING.

05:44IT'S ALSO A DAY WHEN THESE

05:45INSTITUTIONS MIGHT OTHERWISE BE

05:47CLOSED.

05:47SO OPENING OUR DOORS CREATES A

05:48BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR

05:49RESIDENTS TO COME TOGETHER AND

05:51EXPERIENCE AND APPRECIATE THE

05:52ARTS AND CULTURE THAT THEY

05:53MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS

05:54TO.

05:55UM, THIS AND SO, UH, I WANT TO

05:58THANK UH, COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE

05:59AND SANTANA FOR PARTNERING WITH

06:00ME ON THIS AND I'M SO EXCITED

06:02TO BE PART OF THIS YEAR'S EVENT

06:04AND I ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY

06:05COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME.

06:06UM, IT'S 10:00 AM.

06:07THEY START RIGHT ON THE DOT I

06:09BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY

06:10ORCHESTRAS THIS YEAR.

06:11UM ON OCTOBER 12TH.

06:14UM BUT TODAY I HAVE A

06:16RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 25TH

06:18ANNIVERSARY AND NAMING

06:19OCTOBER 12TH, 2026 AS OPENING

06:21OUR DOORS DAY IN THE CITY

06:23OF BOSTON AND THIS DOES NEED TO

06:24BE VOTED ON.

06:25SO I'M READING IT NOW BUT I'M

06:27WITH MY COLLEAGUES HELP UM,

06:28HOPING THAT WE CAN VOTE ON THIS

06:30TODAY.

06:31UM WHEREAS OPENING OUR DOORS

06:32FESTIVAL BOSTON'S LARGEST DAY

06:33OF FREE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

06:35WAS STARTED BY THE FENWAY

06:36ALLIANCE IN 2001 WITH THE

06:38MISSION OF OPENING OUR DOORS

06:39OF BOSTON'S ICONIC AND HISTORIC

06:41INSTITUTIONS GROWING FROM 12

06:42LOCATIONS IN 2001 TO FESTIVAL

06:45THAT SPANS THE FENWAY

06:46NEIGHBORHOOD AND WELCOMES MORE

06:47THAN 10,000 AND, UH, ATTENDEES

06:50ANNUALLY.

06:50UM, THIS PARTNERSHIP I MEAN

06:52THIS EVENT IS ONLY POSSIBLE

06:54THANKS TO THE FENWAY ALLIANCE,

06:55ITS MEMBER INSTITUTIONS AND ALL

06:57PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS,

06:58CORPORATE SPONSORS, COMMUNITY

07:00PARTNERS, LOCAL ARTISTS AND

07:01PERFORMERS.

07:02NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED

07:03THAT THE BOSTON CITY

07:05COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS GRATITUDE

07:06TO THE FENWAY LIONS FOR

07:07OFFERING THIS ALL DAY FESTIVAL

07:09WHICH BRINGS COMMUNITIES

07:11TOGETHER TO ENSURE OUR CULTURAL

07:12OFFERINGS IN THE FENWAY FOR

07:13FREE AND WE CELEBRATE THEIR

07:1525TH ANNIVERSARY.

07:16UM, AND IT WAS INTERESTING

07:17KELLY REMINDED ME THAT MIKE

07:20ROSS ACTUALLY BROUGHT THE

07:21FENWAY ALLIANCE AND SO ALL GOOD

07:23IDEAS COME COME ALL THE WAY

07:25BACK TO ALL THE OTHER DISTRICT

07:26EIGHT COUNCILORS WHO HAVE DONE

07:27AMAZING THINGS.

07:28BUT UM, IT FENWAY IS A CULTURAL

07:31UH, AREA AND A CULTURAL

07:33DISTRICT AND UH, THAT PROVIDES

07:35THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOT

07:37OF PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER.

07:38SO I WANT TO INVITE MY

07:40COLLEAGUE COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE TO

07:41SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN WE

07:42WILL HAVE UH, KELLY AND

07:44GENEVIEVE AND WE ALSO HAVE UH,

07:46KEITH ELDER WHO IS THE

07:48PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON

07:48SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS HERE WITH

07:50US.

07:51THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

07:53AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK

07:53YOU TO THE FENWAY ALLIANCE.

07:55IT'S BEEN GREAT TO, UH, MEET

07:57WITH YOU AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT

07:58IDEAS.

07:59AND IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT, UH,

08:01THERE WAS LIKE A NOR'EASTER

08:02LAST LAST YEAR THE DAY OF THE

08:05OPENING OUR DOORS AND MY OFFICE

08:06HAS A TRADITION OF ON A IT HAS

08:08A TRADITION ON INDIGENOUS

08:09PEOPLES DAY BUT WE COULDN'T DO

08:10IT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER.

08:11AND SO I ENDED UP AT THE

08:12WONDERFUL OPENING OUR DOORS

08:13FESTIVAL UH, LISTENING AT THE

08:15BACK.

08:16SO LISTENING TO SOME OF THE

08:17YOUNG MUSICIANS WHO INCREDIBLE

08:19OUR YOUNG TALENT HERE IN THE

08:20CITY IS INCREDIBLE MADE ME VERY

08:22EMBARRASSED THAT MY MOM PAID

08:23FOR PIANO LESSONS BECAUSE I

08:24DON'T KNOW WHAT IT NETTED.

08:25BUT THE KIDS ARE SO TALENTED

08:27AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE ALL

08:29THESE AMAZING CULTURAL

08:29INSTITUTIONS IN THE FENWAY IT'S

08:31GREAT.

08:31THANK YOU FOR COMING TOGETHER

08:32TO CREATE THIS COLLABORATION

08:33AND IF ANYONE IS ABLE TO ON

08:35MONDAY, IT'S A REALLY GREAT

08:36ACTIVITY TO BRING YOUR FAMILIES

08:37TO ON DAYS OFF.

08:38YOU DON'T EVEN GOT TO BE YOU

08:39DON'T HAVE THE NETS YOUR

08:40COUNSELOR JUST GO WITH YOUR

08:41FAMILIES AND HAVE A REALLY GOOD

08:42TIME AND UM, AS ALL OF OUR

08:44INSTITUTIONS OPEN THEIR DOORS.

08:45SO THANK YOU.

08:45THANK YOU TO KELLY AND

08:47GENEVIEVE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

08:47AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S

08:48A PART OF THE ALLIANCE.

08:52THANK YOU.

08:53>> UM, I'M KELLY.

08:55BRILLIANT CO-DIRECTOR OF THE

08:56FENWAY ALLIANCE.

08:57I WANT TO SAY I'M HONORED AND.

08:58DELIGHTED TO.

08:59>> BE HERE.

08:59UM, TODAY.

09:01I WANT TO THANK UM, COUNCILOR.

09:03AND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

09:06COUNCILOR SANTANA.

09:07AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE

09:09ALL THE OTHER COUNCILORS IN THE

09:10ROOM FOR GIVING US THIS

09:12INCREDIBLE HONOR.

09:13UM.

09:14>> I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE

09:15OUR.

09:16CHAIR, COUNCILOR.

09:17ZAPATA FOR OPENING UP THE

09:18MEETING TODAY.

09:19UM.

09:20>> THE OUR, UH, CHAIR OF THE

09:22FENWAY ALLIANCE IS JOHN TOBIN.

09:24HE'S A FORMER CITY COUNCILOR.

09:26AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, HE WAS HE

09:27WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN

09:28HERE.

09:29HE HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING

09:30TODAY.

09:30BUT HE SENDS HIS REGARDS TO

09:32EVERYONE.

09:33WE THANK JOHN FOR HIS

09:34INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP AND

09:36MAKING US SMILE.

09:37WHILE HE'S HELPING DIRECT THE

09:40ORGANIZATION.

09:41UM I JUST WANT TO SAY A COUPLE

09:43BRIEF WORDS ABOUT THE FENWAY

09:44ALLIANCE.

09:45AS COUNCILOR DURKAN SAID WE

09:46WERE STARTED IN 1977 EVEN

09:49BEFORE MY TIME THERE AND THE

09:51PURPOSE OF THE FENWAY ALLIANCE

09:53WAS INITIATED TO BETTER OUR

09:56COMMUNITY.

09:57THAT PURPOSE IN 2026 STILL.

09:59REMAINS AND WE DO THAT THROUGH

10:02A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES.

10:04WE WORK IN PUBLIC HEALTH.

10:05WE WORK TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY

10:07GREENER.

10:07WE WORK TO STEWARD THE MUDDY

10:09RIVER, THE.

10:10OLMSTED UH.

10:11HISTORIC PARKWAY AND WE ALSO DO

10:14A FREE FOOD.

10:14WE JOIN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND

10:16FREE FOOD DISTRIBUTION.

10:18BUT THE INITIATIVES THAT ARE

10:20THE CLOSEST TO.

10:22MY HEART.

10:22ARE THE ONES THAT INVOLVE

10:24ACCESS TO CULTURE IN THE ARTS

10:26FOR ALL BOSTONIANS.

10:29I CONCEIVED OF OPENING OUR

10:30DOORS 25 YEARS AGO JUST FOR

10:33THAT PURPOSE, AND I PERSUADED

10:36ALL OF THESE OTHER PARTNERS TO

10:38JOIN ME IN THAT DREAM.

10:39UH, THEY ARE THE INSTITUTIONS

10:42OF THE FENWAY ALLIANCE,

10:43INCLUDING THE ONES THAT ARE

10:45HERE WITH US TODAY THE FIRST

10:46CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST,

10:48BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY

10:50ORCHESTRA, MASS ART SCHOOL

10:52OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS K.J.

10:54ALSO STUDIO AND APOLOGIES IF

10:57I'M FORGETTING ANYONE HERE BUT

10:59PLEASE KNOW THERE'S A WHOLE

11:01BUNCH OF OTHERS WHO WORK IN

11:02THIS SPACE TO MAKE THIS DAY THE

11:04FREE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THAT

11:06IT IS FOR CHILDREN'S AND

11:08CHILDREN AND FAMILY IN BOSTON.

11:10UM SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FROM

11:11THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.

11:13THEY DONATE.

11:14TONS OF TALENT.

11:16>> THEY BRING THEIR A-GAME

11:17CULTURAL.

11:17PROGRAMING.

11:18>> TIME, TALENT AND MONEY.

11:21IS PUT.

11:21INTO THIS DAY.

11:22FROM THE FENWAY ALLIANCE

11:24INSTITUTIONS AND FROM ALL

11:25OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

11:26OF WHICH WE NOW WORK WITH 20

11:29COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

11:29SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU

11:31FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

11:32THIS WAS AN IDEA.

11:33YOU MADE IT.

11:34WORK.

11:34>> SO THANK YOU.

11:36UM, I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT, UH

11:39,OPENING OUR DOORS IS A

11:42TRIBUTE THE NAME TO WHEN UM WAY

11:44BACK WHEN WHEN DIRECTOR MALCOLM

11:46ROGERS OPENED THE DOORS OF THE

11:47MFA ON HUNTINGTON AVENUE AND I

11:50DON'T KNOW IF MANY OF YOU HERE

11:51ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, BUT

11:53THAT FRONT DOOR HAD BEEN

11:54SHUTTERED FOR YEARS BEFORE HE

11:56MADE THE.

11:57FIGURATIVE AND SYMBOLIC GESTURE

11:59OF OPENING THAT.

12:00DOOR TO THE PUBLIC.

12:01THAT'S HOW I THOUGHT OF THE

12:02NAME.

12:03OPENING OUR DOORS.

12:04FOR OUR EVENT AND THAT'S REALLY

12:06WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT OPENING

12:07THESE DOORS TO AMAZING

12:10CULTURAL.

12:10GIFTS THAT THE.

12:11FENWAY HAS TO EVERYONE IN

12:13BOSTON.

12:13UM, I WANT TO NOW, UM, JUST

12:17BRING UP MY PARTNER IN CRIME,

12:19UH, GENEVIEVE DAY WHO HAS

12:22REALLY BROUGHT.

12:23OPENING OUR DOORS TO ITS.

12:262.42.0 ERA AND IS BRINGING IT

12:28INTO THE FUTURE IN THE

12:30LOVELIEST, GRANDEST AND MOST.

12:32ORGANIZED WAY.

12:33SO I'D LOVE HER TO COME UP.

12:35>> AND JUST SAY A FEW.

12:36WORDS, BUT WE REALLY THANK YOU.

12:38THIS IS A HIGH POINT.

12:39>> OF OUR LIVES.

12:40A LOT OF THE WORK WE DO IS

12:41UNGLAMOROUS.

12:41THIS IS A GLAMOROUS MOMENT FOR.

12:44US SO THANK YOU ALL.

12:51THANK YOU KELLY UM I'M

12:54GENEVIEVE DE I'M THE

12:55CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

12:56FENWAY ALLIANCE AND WE ARE THE

12:58PRODUCERS OF OPENING OUR DOORS

13:00ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY.

13:02UM, IT'S AN HONOR AND A

13:04PRIVILEGE TO RECEIVE THIS

13:05RECOGNITION OF OPENING OUR

13:06DOORS ON ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

13:10YEAR.

13:10UM, AND THANK YOU TO THE ENTIRE

13:12CITY COUNCIL AND ESPECIALLY.

13:14COUNCILOR DURKAN, UH,

13:17COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

13:18COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR BRINGING

13:19.

13:19FORTH THIS RESOLUTION.

13:21UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE

13:22MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ART AND

13:24CULTURE, UM AND MAYOR WU FOR

13:26THEIR ONGOING AND.

13:27CONTINUED SUPPORT.

13:29OF OPENING OUR DOORS.

13:30IT MEANS A LOT TO US.

13:31UM, OPENING OUR DOORS WELCOMES

13:33ALL BOSTONIANS TO CELEBRATE ART

13:36IN ALL OF ITS INDIVIDUAL AND

13:37VARIED FORMS PRACTICED BY YOUNG

13:39AND OLD WITH ARTISTS AND

13:41PERFORMERS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS

13:43WORKING IN ALL ARTISTIC MEDIUMS

13:46ART, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE DANCE

13:49CONNECTS US TO EACH OTHER IN

13:51BOTH EPHEMERAL AND LASTING WAYS

13:54ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN THIS

13:55MOMENT WHERE TECHNOLOGY IS

13:57THREATENING TO COMMODIFY AND

13:58CO-OPT ART AND THE ARTISTIC

14:01PRACTICE.

14:02WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS THAT THIS

14:04CAN NEVER HAPPEN.

14:06IN THE WORDS SHARED RECENTLY BY

14:08POPE LEO ON THE IMPORTANCE

14:10OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND

14:11CREATIVITY, ART NURTURES THE

14:14FUNDAMENTAL POSTURE

14:16OF LISTENING THROUGH WHICH WE

14:17CAN LEARN ABOUT HUMANITY'S

14:20ASPIRATIONS AND WOUNDS OUR

14:21THIRST FOR BEAUTY, JUSTICE AND

14:23PEACE AND OUR SEARCH FOR

14:25MEANING OR SIMPLY TO BORROW

14:27FROM WALTER BENJAMIN REAL ART

14:30HAS AURA SO PLEASE COME TO

14:32OPENING OUR DOORS ON

14:34OCTOBER 12TH IN THE FENWAY AND

14:36EXPERIENCE THE MAGNIFICENT AND

14:38TRANSITORY YET LASTING AURA

14:41OF ART, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND

14:42DANCE THROUGHOUT THE FENWAY

14:44CULTURAL DISTRICT.

14:46PRACTICE AND INSTRUMENT AT

14:47SYMPHONY HALL.

14:48GO BACKSTAGE AND TOUR THE

14:50HUNTINGTON'S NEW PRODUCTION

14:51OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

14:53VISIT THE MFA AND GARDNER

14:54MUSEUM FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S

14:56DAY PERFORMANCES AND ART MAKING

14:57.

14:58LISTEN TO A CONCERT ON ONE

15:00OF THE LARGEST CHURCH ORGANS IN

15:02THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.

15:03MAKE ART AT A GIANT COMMUNITY

15:05ART INSTALLATION AT NEW EDGE

15:07PLAZA AND MUCH MUCH MORE.

15:11WE THANK ALL BOSTON ARTISTS,

15:13PERFORMERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS

15:14WHO HAVE SHARED THEIR ARTISTRY

15:16WITH US OVER SO MANY YEARS.

15:18WE CELEBRATE THIS HONOR WITH

15:20THEM WITH OUR ARTISTIC AND

15:22CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE

15:23FENWAY AND WITH THE OPENING OUR

15:25DOORS PLANNING COMMITTEE, SOME

15:27OF WHOM ARE HERE WITH US TODAY.

15:29SO THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR.

15:30IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

15:34AND WE ARE.

15:35SO EXCITED ALSO TO HAVE UM SOME

15:37PEOPLE CALL IT BY SO SOME

15:39PEOPLE CALL IT BY I SO KEITH

15:41ELDER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

15:42BEING HERE FOR SAYING A FEW

15:44WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE

15:44COMMITTEE.

15:45THANK YOU.

15:46UH, GOOD.

15:47AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU FOR THE

15:48OPPORTUNITY TO CONGRATULATE THE

15:50FENWAY ALLIANCE OF THE 25TH

15:51ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OUR

15:53DOORS FESTIVAL, BOSTON YOUTH

15:55SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN OUR YOUTH

15:57CENTER FOR MUSIC ARE SO PROUD

15:59TO BE PART OF THIS BOSTON

16:00NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY.

16:02BESO IS MORE THAN A MUSIC

16:04PROGRAM.

16:05IT'S A PLACE WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE

16:06LEARN CONFIDENCE, DISCIPLINE,

16:09TEAMWORK AND THE VALUE

16:10OF LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER.

16:12EVERY REHEARSAL TEACHES OUR

16:13STUDENTS THAT THEIR INDIVIDUAL

16:14VOICE MATTERS, BUT THERE'S

16:16SOMETHING EVEN MORE POWERFUL

16:18HAPPENS WHEN THEY CREATE

16:19SOMETHING TOGETHER.

16:21OPENING OUR DOORS ILLUSTRATES

16:24JUST THAT COMING TOGETHER AND

16:26CELEBRATING THE IMPACT WE HAVE

16:28AS A CREATIVE COMMUNITY.

16:30IT IS WHAT MAKES BOSTON

16:32SPECTACULAR AND ON BEHALF

16:34OF OUR NEARLY 600 YOUNG

16:36MUSICIANS, WE WOULD LIKE TO

16:37THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATE THE

16:39FENWAY ALLIANCE ON THE 25TH

16:41ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OUR

16:42DOORS.

16:44AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE MY

16:46COLLEAGUES TO COME AND TAKE A

16:48PHOTO WITH US.

16:51EVERYBODY IN THE SCHOOL.

17:01ARE YOU 23 YEARS?

17:30I WANT TO DO YOU WANT ME TO

17:31GIVE THIS TO YOU AGAIN?

17:33OH.

17:41OH MY.

17:48THANK YOU.

17:50YEAH.

17:50SO DO.

17:50YOU WANT TO TAKE US HERE?

17:51YOU WANT ME TO BRING IT?

17:52OKAY OKAY OKAY.

17:54>> IT'S LIKE YOU SAY TO.

17:55>> GIVE OR TAKE BACK.

17:56I I I'M NOT.

17:59OKAY LIKE THIS IS NOT LIKE.

18:01THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT NO.

18:03SOMEBODY ELSE IS NOT.

18:05OKAY HERE I'M GOING TO GIVE US

18:06TO YOU.

18:06YEAH THERE YOU GO.

18:12THANK YOU.

18:14THANK YOU VERY.

18:18THANK YOU SO MUCH OF THE FENWAY

18:20LIONS.

18:20WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO

18:21TO UPLIFT CREATIVES HERE IN THE

18:23CITY AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO ARTS

18:25AND CULTURE IN OUR CITY.

18:26TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD IS MY

18:27FAVORITE NOVEL, SO I LOOK

18:28FORWARD TO GOING TO THE

18:29HUNTINGTON THEATER TO SEE THAT.

18:30THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CALLING

18:31THAT OUT.

18:31OKAY.

18:32I UH I WOULD NOW LIKE TO BRING

18:34UP, UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN WHO

18:35WILL BE RECOGNIZING THE

18:37MASSACHUSETTS NURSE NURSES

18:38ASSOCIATION.

18:39COUNCILOR FLYNN, I HAVE.

18:41>> FIVE MINUTES.

18:41JUST GIVE ME THE.

18:45OKAY.

18:46>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

18:47AND MAY.

18:49I INVITE, UH, RICH KEN LAUDER,

18:51WHO'S A 28 YEAR NURSE AT THE

18:54BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL TO

18:55COME.

18:56BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK, UH,

18:59COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

19:00COUNCILOR MURPHY IF THEY'D LIKE

19:01TO PLEASE JOIN ME AS WELL.

19:14THANK YOU.

19:14THANK YOU.

19:15RICH AND RICH FROM THE MASS

19:17NURSES ASSOCIATION AND THE

19:19OTHER NURSES THAT THAT ARE HERE

19:21AND THAT CALLED AND ADVOCATED

19:23FOR UM FOR.

19:25DIGNITY FOR WORKERS.

19:27UM I WANT TO THANK THE NURSES

19:28AND CLINICIANS WHO ARE HERE

19:30TODAY FOR CONTINUING TO

19:32ADVOCATE.

19:32FOR THEIR PATIENTS, THEIR

19:34COLLEAGUES AND URGING BRIGHAM

19:36AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL TO

19:37IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO THE TABLE

19:39.

19:40NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH.

19:42.

19:43>> NURSES AND HEALTH CARE

19:44WORKERS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE

19:46HEALTH AND SAFETY.

19:47>> OF BOSTON.

19:47AND OUR NATION.

19:50IN APRIL.

19:50>> THIS.

19:51BODY THE BOSTON CITY

19:52COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A

19:53RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF NURSES

19:55AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

19:57.

19:57ISSUES INCLUDED AT THE

19:59BARGAINING TABLE INCLUDED

20:01PATIENT SAFETY, SAFE WORKLOADS

20:05,RECRUITMENT RETENTION,

20:06AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR

20:08CAREGIVERS BUT ALSO DECENT

20:10WAGES.

20:11DIGNITY IN RETIREMENT.

20:13UM WE STAND HERE WITH.

20:15THE NURSES WITH THE UH MASS

20:18NURSES ASSOCIATION AND

20:20ENCOURAGE THE HOSPITAL TO GET

20:21BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE

20:24IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE A FAIR

20:26CONTRACT.

20:26IT'S ABOUT DIGNITY AND RESPECT

20:28AND THIS IS ABOUT SOCIAL AND

20:30ECONOMIC JUSTICE AS WELL FOR

20:31NURSES AND PATIENTS.

20:33I DO WANT TO GIVE MY COLLEAGUES

20:34AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO OFFER

20:36BRIEF REMARKS AND THEN I'M

20:38GOING TO ASK RICH IF I'D LIKE

20:40TO RESPOND AS WELL, UM, WITH

20:42COMMENTS.

20:43BUT UH, REVEREND CULPEPER.

20:47THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

20:49I TOO WANT TO WELCOME THE

20:52MASSACHUSETTS NURSES

20:54ASSOCIATION TO THE COUNCIL AND

20:57AS COUNCIL FLYNN I URGE

21:00MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

21:03AND BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S TO GET

21:05BACK TO THE TABLE, NEGOTIATE A

21:09FAIR CONTRACT AND A FAIR WAGE

21:12FOR THESE NURSES.

21:14THIS IS NOT NEW TO ME.

21:17UH, MY MOTHER WAS A LICENSED

21:20PRACTICAL NURSE AND AND THOSE

21:23DAYS IT WAS A BIG THING.

21:26I TWO KNOW WHAT 11 TO 7 IS ALL

21:29ABOUT.

21:30UH, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU KNOW

21:33WHAT 11 TO 7 ME.

21:34WHEN I SAY 11 TO 7.

21:38BUT I WATCHED MY MOTHER EVERY

21:39NIGHT, UH, PUT US TO BED AND

21:43THEN HEAD OUT TO WORK AT 11 AND

21:49THEN TO SEE HER COME IN AT 7

21:52A.M. IN THE MORNING TO GET US

21:54READY FOR SCHOOL AND, UH.

22:00I NEVER UNDERSTOOD HOW MY

22:01MOTHER DID IT, BUT SHE DID IT.

22:05AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT THE

22:07NURSES ARE DEALING WITH TODAY,

22:09WE DON'T SEE THE ACTUAL

22:12CHALLENGES THAT THEY HAVE TO GO

22:13TO.

22:14WE DON'T SEE THEM LEAVING HOME

22:17AT 11 P.M. AND COMING BACK AT 7

22:20A.M. TO GET THEIR YOUNG FOLKS

22:21AND THEIR CHILDREN READY FOR

22:23SCHOOL.

22:23AND SO I SALUTE THE NURSES

22:26TODAY FOR ALL THAT THEY DO FOR

22:29ALL OF US.

22:31FOR WHAT WOULD HOSPITALS BE

22:33WITHOUT NURSES?

22:35WHAT WOULD DOCTORS BE WITHOUT

22:37NURSES?

22:38AND SO TODAY I I LIFT THE

22:41NURSES NURSES UP IN A WAY THAT

22:45WE REALIZE THE VALUE AND THEIR

22:49SIGNIFICANCE AND THEIR

22:50IMPORTANCE AND THE GOOD THAT

22:51THEY DO.

22:55SO NURSES WE FIGHT RIGHT ALONG

22:56WITH YOU AND WITH YOU 100% AND

23:00I HOPE THAT THE HOSPITAL COMES

23:02TO THE TABLE IN GOOD FAITH TO

23:05WORK ON A FAIR CONTRACT.

23:06THANK YOU.

23:08THANK UH COUNCIL CALL UP.

23:09UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

23:11THANK YOU.

23:12UM.

23:13>> I OFTEN.

23:14REALIZE PERSONALLY.

23:15>> YOU.

23:15NEVER THINK ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.

23:17OR A LOVED ONE'S HEALTH UNTIL

23:18YOU DON'T HAVE IT IN YOU ARE

23:20NEEDING HEALTH CARE.

23:22SO I JUST.

23:22>> WANT TO THANK.

23:23ALL OF THE NURSES AND THEIR

23:25FAMILIES OUT THERE JUST LIKE

23:26OUR FIRST.

23:27RESPONDERS AND.

23:28COUNSELOR CULPEPER SAID IT.

23:30HE LIVED.

23:30>> IT WITH HIS MOM.

23:31UH.

23:32>> WORKING YOU KNOW, 24 HOUR A

23:34DAY SHIFTS.

23:34NOT ALL.

23:35>> MISSING FAMILY EVENTS.

23:37BUT ALWAYS WHEN I'M.

23:38ON THE PICKET LINE WITH THE

23:40NURSES AND THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR

23:41JUST DIGNITY.

23:42ALL THEY WANT IS WHAT IS BEST

23:44FOR THEIR PATIENTS.

23:46IT'S NOT SELFISH.

23:47>> AT ALL.

23:47SO WE.

23:48NEED TO MAKE SURE.

23:48AND WHEN BIG CORPORATIONS

23:50AREN'T WILLING TO COME TO THE

23:51TABLE THAT JUST TELLS YOU THEY

23:53KNOW THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO

23:55TALK TO THE ORGANIZERS.

23:57SO THANK YOU TO THE M&A.

23:58AND THE OTHER.

23:58UNIONS WHO I KNOW ARE FIGHTING

24:00ACROSS THE CITY.

24:01SO MANY OF OUR HOSPITALS.

24:02AND THE NURSES ARE GOING OUT ON

24:04STRIKE.

24:04THAT'S A SCARY THING TO DO AND

24:06THEY DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE THEIR

24:08PATIENTS WITHOUT THE CARE THEY

24:09KNOW THEY PROVIDE.

24:10SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THAT

24:12RISK.

24:12KNOW THAT OURSELVES AND I KNOW

24:13THIS BODY IS BEHIND YOU AND

24:15WE'LL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO

24:17MAKE SURE YOU GET WHAT YOU

24:18DESERVE.

24:18SO THANK YOU.

24:20THANK YOU.

24:20UH, RICH, A.

24:2128 YEAR NURSE.

24:22AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S

24:24HOSPITAL.

24:25HELLO EVERYONE.

24:26MY NAME.

24:26>> IS RICHARD LOT.

24:27I AM.

24:27>> A.

24:28NURSE AT THE BRIGHAM.

24:28I'VE BEEN IN THE ER THERE FOR

24:3028 YEARS.

24:31UM, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO

24:34US.

24:34THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US.

24:35UH, WE'RE BASICALLY HERE, UH,

24:38TO GET SAFE CARE FOR OUR

24:41PATIENTS AND BY THAT WE NEED

24:43THE BRIGHAM MASS GENERAL

24:44BRIGHAM TO COME TO THE TABLE

24:46AND AT LEAST NEGOTIATE WITH US

24:48.

24:48THEY'RE REFUSING TO, UH, REALLY

24:51TALK TO US ABOUT ANYTHING

24:52UNLESS WE CONCEDE ALL POINTS

24:54THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.

24:55AND TO ME, THAT'S NOT

24:57NEGOTIATING.

24:58THEY CLAIM, UM, FROM WHAT I'VE

25:00HEARD, THEY SEND OUT AN EMAIL

25:02TO ANYONE THAT HAS GATEWAY

25:03THAT'S A PATIENT THERE

25:05YESTERDAY OR TODAY STATING THAT

25:07BUSINESS NEXT WEEK WILL BE THE

25:08SAME AS IT IS CURRENTLY.

25:10UM WE HAVE 4000 HIGHLY SKILLED

25:12NURSES THAT WORK THERE THAT

25:13PROVIDE CARE TO ALL OF OUR

25:14PATIENTS AND I DON'T SEE THEM

25:16GETTING 4000 NURSES TO REPLACE

25:19US AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND

25:20THE LAST STRIKE DID NOT GO WELL

25:22IN THE HOSPITAL.

25:23THEY BASICALLY CLOSED THE ED.

25:25THERE WERE NOT A LOT

25:26OF PATIENTS THERE.

25:26THE VOLUME WAS SIGNIFICANTLY

25:28LOWER.

25:28THE CARE WAS NOT THE SAME.

25:30AND I THINK THAT WHEN WE LOOK

25:32YOU KNOW TOWARDS NEXT WEEK AND

25:34GOING DOWN ON WEDNESDAY NONE

25:36OF THE NURSES REALLY WANT TO DO

25:38THIS.

25:38WE DON'T WANT TO BE PUT IN THIS

25:40UH PREDICAMENT WHERE WE HAVE TO

25:41YOU KNOW, EITHER CHOOSE YOU

25:43KNOW, TAKING WHATEVER THE

25:45BRIGHAM IS OFFERING US WHICH

25:46ISN'T A LOT OR GOING OUT ON

25:48STRIKE AND NONE OF US WANT TO

25:50GO OUT ON STRIKE.

25:51THAT'S NOT GOING TO PROVIDE

25:52SAFE CARE FOR OUR PATIENTS.

25:53IT'S NOT GOING TO YOU KNOW,

25:54IT'S NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR

25:56ANYONE HERE IN THE CITY.

25:56AND SO WE'RE ASKING THAT THE

25:58BRIGHAM AT LEAST COME TO THE

25:59TABLE AND ACTUALLY TRY TO

26:01NEGOTIATE WITH US INSTEAD OF UH

26:03OFFERING US UH NO NO AND NO FOR

26:06THEIR RESPONSES.

26:08UM, THAT IS PROBABLY THE

26:09BIGGEST THING THAT WE HAVE HERE

26:11HERE TODAY.

26:12UM, AND WE JUST FEEL THAT THEY

26:15NEED TO BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE IN

26:17GOOD FAITH WITH YOU KNOW, ON ON

26:19MY SIDE OF THE TABLE FIELDS

26:20THAT THEY'RE DOING WHEN ALL THE

26:22RESPONSES UM NO.

26:24UH THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO

26:25US.

26:25I HOPE THAT WE CAN GET A

26:27RESOLUTION SOON AND GET BACK TO

26:29DOING THE THINGS THAT WE DO AND

26:30I LOVE BEING A NURSE.

26:32I LOVE TAKING CARE OF PATIENTS

26:33AND ALL MY COLLEAGUES FEEL THE

26:35SAME WAY AND ALL OF US REALLY

26:36WANT TO DO THIS AND IT'S VERY

26:38EMOTIONAL FOR A LOT OF US.

26:39SO I.

26:40DO APPRECIATE IT.

26:41THANK YOU.

26:42THANK YOU.

26:43RICH COULD.

26:44COULD COULD I ASK MY

26:46COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE

26:46JOIN US FOR A PHOTO?

26:48WE WILL BE VOTING ON A

26:49RESOLUTION LATER UM IN THE

26:51AGENDA.

26:52BUT I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

26:53TO THE MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION

26:55AND THE NURSES THAT ARE

26:56PRESENT.

26:58I KNOW.

27:00>> THINK.

27:04OH WE CANNOT WE CAN.

27:06>> HAVE SIGNS.

27:06I'M SORRY.

27:07SOMETIMES.

27:28>> IT WAS LIKE OH THANK YOU.

27:36THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE

27:37MASSACHUSETTS NURSES

27:38ASSOCIATION AND THANK YOU TO

27:39ALL NURSES WHO UH, WORK EVERY

27:41DAY TO KEEP US HEALTHY AND

27:42SAFE.

27:42I JUST WANT TO THANK UM, UH,

27:45BRIGHAM ESPECIALLY MY MY MOTHER

27:47DURING COVID, UM, WAS INTUBATED

27:49AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC

27:50AND, UH, YOU ALL WERE THERE BY

27:52HER SIDE WHEN WE COULD NOT BE

27:53THERE.

27:53SO THANK YOU.

27:54AND WE STAND WITH YOU AS YOU

27:55CALL FOR ECONOMIC DIGNITY

27:56INSURANCE.

27:59MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE.

28:00AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT

28:02COUNSELORS.

28:04FITZGERALD AND HERE ARE

28:06PRESENT.

28:12NOW ON.

28:12TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS

28:13WHICH IS APPROVAL OF THE

28:14MINUTES FROM.

28:15>> THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER

28:1630TH, 2026.

28:17ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

28:19ALL THOSE OPPOSED NAY, NAY.

28:21THE AYES HAVE IT.

28:22THE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 30TH

28:23MEETING ARE APPROVED.

28:25WE ARE NOW ON TO.

28:26COMMUNICATIONS FROM HER HONOR.

28:27>> THE MAYOR.

28:28MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

28:29DOCKET 1883?

28:30DUCKY NUMBER 1883 MESSAGE NOT

28:33AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

28:35TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

28:39OF $3,250,220 IN THE FORM OF A

28:41GRANT BOSTON MPO SURPLUS FISCAL

28:43YEAR 26 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

28:46GRANT PROGRAM AWARDED BY THE

28:48MISS METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING

28:50COUNCIL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

28:51THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

28:53TO GRANT WITH FUNDS SUPPORT FOR

28:55NEW E-BIKES AND SPARE BATTERIES

28:57FOR THE BIKE SHARE SYSTEM.

29:00THANK YOU.

29:00>> DOCKET 1883 WILL BE REFERRED

29:02TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,

29:03DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

29:04.

29:05MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

29:06DOCKET 1884 AND 1885 TOGETHER.

29:09TALKING NUMBER 188 FOR

29:11MESSAGING ON AUTHORIZING THE

29:13CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND

29:14EXPAND THE AMOUNT

29:19OF $103,239.10 IN THE FORM OF A

29:20GRANT THE FISCAL YEAR 27 LOCAL

29:23CONSUMER AID FUND GRANT AWARDED

29:25BY THE MASS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO

29:27BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

29:29OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND

29:30LICENSING.

29:30THE GRANT WILL FUND STAFF

29:32COSTS, OUTREACH MATERIALS AND

29:34OPERATIONAL EXPENSES TO CONDUCT

29:36THE CONSUMER AFFAIRS PROGRAM.

29:39DOCKET NUMBER 1885 MESSAGE IN

29:41ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY

29:43OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND

29:45THE AMOUNT OF $14,272.98 IN THE

29:51FORM OF A GRANT WAGNER PACER

29:54PROGRAM SUPPLEMENTAL AWARDED BY

29:56THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

29:58OF LABOR PASSED TO THE MASS

29:59HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER

30:01SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

30:02THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

30:04DEVELOPMENT.

30:05THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE

30:06INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT NEEDS

30:09OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

30:10CLAIMANTS AS WELL AS PREVENT

30:12AND DETECT IMPROPER BENEFIT

30:14PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION

30:16ASSISTANCE FOR TRAINING AND

30:17EDUCATION RESOURCES AND

30:19PROGRAMS.

30:19THANK YOU.

30:20THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

30:22COUNCIL WORRELL THE CHAIR

30:23OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

30:24ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

30:25YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

30:26UH THANK YOU CHAIR.

30:27UM, THE LOCAL.

30:28CONSUMER AID FUND.

30:29OH, DOCKET NUMBER 184 UM, IS

30:32OUR LOCAL CONSUMER AID FUND,

30:35UM, THAT'S AWARDED BY THE

30:37MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY

30:38GENERAL'S OFFICE.

30:39THE GRANT SUPPORTS THE

30:40OPERATIONS OF BOSTON'S CONSUMER

30:41AFFAIRS PROGRAM INCLUDING

30:43SALARIES AND PERSONNEL COSTS,

30:44CONSUMERS AFFAIRS, EDUCATION

30:46AND OUTREACH AND CONSUMER

30:47RIGHTS PROTECTION AND RESOURCES

30:49AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND

30:50OPERATIONAL NEEDS.

30:52UH THE CONSUMER FARE PROGRAM

30:53PROVIDES DIRECT ASSISTANCE TO

30:55BOSTON RESIDENTS.

30:56CONSUMER COMPLAINTS ARE

30:57INITIALLY RECEIVED AND MANAGED

30:59BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S

30:59OFFICE, WHICH REFERS CASES TO

31:01THE CITY'S CONSUMER AFFAIRS

31:03PROGRAM FOR INVESTIGATION AND

31:05RESOLUTION WHEN APPROPRIATE.

31:06UM, AT THIS TIME I'M

31:08RECOMMENDING THAT DOCKET NUMBER

31:10184 UM UM OUGHT TO PASS AND

31:13THEN DOCKET NUMBER 1885 IS A

31:16SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT.

31:17GRANT UM IT'S A LITTLE OVER

31:20$14,000.

31:21UM IT'S A GRANT THROUGH MASS

31:22HIRE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER

31:23SERVICES WHICH IS ALSO

31:25ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

31:26OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WHICH

31:28WOULD FUND THE REEMPLOYMENT

31:30NEEDS OF OUR RESIDENTS.

31:31THESE FUNDS ARE FEDERAL FORMULA

31:33DOLLARS MEANT TO SUPPORT

31:34EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AT ONE-STOP

31:35CAREER CENTERS SUCH AS OUR TWO

31:38MASS HIRE CENTERS IN BOSTON AND

31:40THEN ALSO CONNECTING JOB

31:41SEEKERS TO OPEN POSITIONS AND

31:43EMPLOYERS TO INDIVIDUALS

31:45SEEKING WORK.

31:45AND AT THIS TIME I ALSO

31:46RECOMMEND THAT DOCKET NUMBER

31:491885 UM OUGHT TO BE SUSPENDED

31:50AND PASS.

31:51THANK YOU THANK YOU.

31:52WE WILL.

31:52VOTE ON THESE ONE AT A TIME

31:54COUNSELOR FUN.

31:54WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE

31:55REMARKS?

31:56YES, MADAM.

31:57MADAM CHAIR, MAY I SPEAK ON

31:58DOCKET 1884?

32:00>> YOU MAY.

32:01UM.

32:01>> THANK YOU.

32:03I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE

32:05MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL

32:06ANDREA CAMPBELL, UM, AND HER

32:08TEAM FOR THE WORK THEY ARE

32:10DOING ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS

32:12THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH BUT

32:13ALSO HERE IN BOSTON.

32:15I DO SUPPORT THIS AWARD THAT

32:17BOSTON IS RECEIVING.

32:20CONSUMER SUPPORTING CONSUMERS

32:21AND THE PUBLIC IS A CRITICAL

32:23PART OF CITY GOVERNMENT

32:25OF STATE GOVERNMENT AS WELL.

32:26I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR

32:28OFFICIALS HERE IN THE CITY BUT

32:30ALSO TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S

32:31OFFICE AS WELL.

32:32THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

32:33THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

32:36COUNCILOR MORALES.

32:36SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

32:38PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1884.

32:39ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

32:41ALL THOSE PERSONS THE AYES HAVE

32:44IT.

32:44THANK YOU.

32:45DOCKET 1884 HAS PASSED.

32:47>> MR.

32:47COOK.

32:48>> EXCUSE ME, COUNCILOR WORRELL

32:49SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

32:51PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1885.

32:53ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

32:55ALL THOSE MOST IN THE VOTE.

32:57UH, MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE.

32:59CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE?

33:02COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR

33:04COLLETTE AS OPPOSED?

33:04YES, COUNSELOR COLLETTE AS

33:06PROBABLY YES, COUNSELOR.

33:07CULPEPER.

33:07YES, COUNSELOR.

33:08CULPEPER.

33:09YES, COUNSELOR.

33:10DURKAN.

33:10COUNSELOR.

33:11DURKAN.

33:11YES.

33:12COUNSELOR.

33:12FITZGERALD.

33:12YES.

33:13COUNSELORS.

33:14SHOW.

33:14YES, COUNSELOR.

33:14FLYNN.

33:15YES, COUNSELOR.

33:15FLYNN.

33:16YES.

33:16COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

33:17COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

33:18YES, COUNSELOR.

33:19MEJIA.

33:19COUNSELOR.

33:20MEJIA.

33:20YES, COUNSELOR.

33:21MURPHY.

33:22COUNSELOR.

33:22MURPHY.

33:23YES, COUNSELOR.

33:23THE PEN.

33:24COUNSELOR PEN.

33:25YES.

33:26SANTANA.

33:26YES, COUNSELOR.

33:27SANTANA.

33:27YES.

33:28COUNSELOR.

33:28WEBER.

33:28YES.

33:29COUNCILOR.

33:30ABSENT COUNCILOR.

33:31WORLD COUNSELOR.

33:32OH, YES.

33:32TALKING 1885 HAS RECEIVED 12

33:35VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

33:36THANK YOU.

33:37>> DOCKET 1885.

33:38HAS PASSED.

33:40MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

33:42DOCKETS.

33:43188631888 TALKING NUMBER 1886

33:46MESSAGE IN AUTHORIZING THE CITY

33:48OF BOSTON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

33:50DEPARTMENT TO ENTER IN A

33:51CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO

33:5320 YEARS TO MANAGE, MAINTAIN,

33:55EXPAND AND MODERNIZE THE CITY'S

33:57ADVERTISING SUPPORTED

33:58COORDINATED STREET FURNITURE

34:00PROGRAM INCLUDING BUS SHELTERS,

34:02PUBLIC TOILETS, INFORMATION

34:04PANELS, DISPLAY DIGITAL

34:06DISPLAYS, BENCHES AND RELATED

34:08PUBLIC REALM AMENITIES.

34:09THE NEWLY REIMAGINED PROGRAM IS

34:13INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE

34:14ATTRACTIVENESS OF PUBLIC

34:15TRANSIT AS A COMMUTING

34:17COMMUTING OPTION ALONG WITH

34:19COMFORT, ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY

34:21,REAL TIME INFORMATION AND

34:23MAINTENANCE ACROSS BOSTON'S.

34:24STREET STREETSCAPES WHILE

34:28INCREASING ADVERTISING REVENUE

34:30AND STRENGTHENING CITY

34:32OVERSIGHT.

34:32THE INITIAL CONTRACT TERM WOULD

34:34BEGIN IN MAY 2027 AND END ON

34:38APRIL 30TH 2037 WITH TWO FIVE

34:39YEAR EXTENSIONS POSSIBLE AT THE

34:42CITY'S SOLE OPTION NUMBER 1887

34:46MESSAGE IN ORDER PURSUANT TO

34:48GENERAL LAWS CHAPTER 40 SECTION

34:5015 A THAT CERTAIN PORTIONS

34:52OF HBO AND STREET BRAIN

34:54DISCONTINUE BY A VOTE OF THE

34:56PUBLIC APPROVED IMPROVEMENT

34:58COMMISSION ON MAY 22ND 2025 AS

35:01SHOWN ON A SET OF PLANS CITY

35:03OF BOSTON PUBLIC WORKS

35:04DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION

35:07DISCONTINUANCE PLAN H BOURNE

35:08STREET, BRIGHTON AND BOSTON IN

35:11THE BRIGHTON NEIGHBORHOOD ONE

35:14SHEET DATED AUGUST 29TH, 2023

35:17IS TRANSFERRED FROM

35:18DISCONTINUED STREET PARCEL TO

35:20SALE PARCEL DOCKING NUMBER ONE

35:22880 MESSAGE IN ORDER THAT

35:25PURSUANT TO GENERAL LAWS

35:26CHAPTER 40 SECTION 15 THAT

35:28CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CONGRESS

35:30STREET AND SLEEPER STREET AND

35:32SOUTH BOSTON DISCONTINUE BY

35:33WILL OF THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT

35:35COMMISSION ON JUNE 25TH 2026 AS

35:39SHOWN ON A SET OF PLANS CITY

35:41OF BOSTON PUBLIC WORKS

35:42DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION

35:45VERTICAL DISCONTINUANCE PLAN

35:47CONGRESS AND SLEEPER STREET

35:503083 16 CONGRESS STREET SOUTH

35:52BOSTON TWO SHEETS DATED MARCH

35:5623RD 2026 IS TRANSFER FROM

35:58PURPOSE OF DISCONTINUE STREET

36:00PARCEL TO SALE PARCEL.

36:03THANK YOU DOCKETS.

36:06188631888 WILL BE.

36:07REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON.

36:08PLANNING.

36:09>> DEVELOPMENT AND

36:09TRANSPORTATION.

36:10WE ARE NOW.

36:11>> ON TO REPORTS OF PUBLIC.

36:12OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

36:13MR CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ

36:14DOCKETS.

36:151889 THROUGH.

36:191916 TALKING 1889 NOTICE

36:21RECEIVED FROM ME OR THE

36:23APPOINTMENT OF REGGIE L COUNTS

36:25AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A2S

36:28PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

36:31COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

36:32A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

36:352028.

36:35TALKING NUMBER 1890 NOTICE

36:37RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

36:40APPOINTMENT OF GARY DEVON IS A

36:41MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ AS TWO AS

36:45PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

36:47COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

36:49A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH

36:522028.

36:52TALKING TO 891 1891 NOTICE WAS

36:56RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

36:57APPOINTMENT OF ALEX EBERHARDT

36:59AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ I TO S

37:03PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

37:05COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

37:07A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

37:102028.

37:10DOCKET NUMBER 1892 NOTICE

37:12RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

37:14APPOINTMENT OF JACK AND

37:15BERGAMOT AS A MEMBER OF THE

37:18LGBTQ I AA TWO AS PLUS

37:22ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

37:23COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

37:24A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

37:272028.

37:28TALKING OF A1893 NOTICE, WAS HE

37:31FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

37:32APPOINTMENT OF MICKEY JONES AS

37:33A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ UH A TO

37:37AS PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

37:39COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

37:40A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

37:432020 TALKING NUMBER 1894 NOTES

37:46RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

37:47APPOINTMENT OF MERCEDES LOVING

37:49MANLEY AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ

37:54IE2S PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

37:56COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

37:58A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

38:002028.

38:01DOCKET NUMBER 1895 THOSE

38:03RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

38:05APPOINTMENT OF RICARDO MARTINEZ

38:07AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A TO

38:10US PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

38:12COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

38:14A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

38:172028.

38:17TALKING NUMBER 1896 NOS.

38:19RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR

38:21EMPLOYMENT OF GABRIEL RIVAS FOR

38:23ORELLANA AS A MEMBER OF THE

38:25LGBTQ IA2 AS PLUS ADVANCEMENT

38:30ADVISORY COUNCIL STEERING

38:31COMMITTEE FOR A TERM EXPIRING

38:34SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2028.

38:36DOCKET NUMBER 1897 NO.

38:38AS RECEIVED THE MAYOR THE

38:39APPOINTMENT OF LILY ROSE BYLAW

38:41AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ I TO

38:44LES PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

38:46COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

38:48A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH,

38:512028.

38:51THE NUMBER 1898 NOTES RECEIVED

38:54FROM THE MAYOR THE APPOINTMENT

38:55OF GRETCHEN VAN NESS AS A

38:57MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ A TO US

39:00PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

39:03COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

39:04TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 28TH

39:082028 DOCKET NUMBER 1899 THOSE

39:10RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR UH THE

39:13APPOINTMENT OF FINN GARDNER AS

39:15A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ UH TO US

39:18PLUS ADVANCEMENT ADVISORY

39:20COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR

39:21A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 1ST

39:242028 TALKING ABOUT 1900 NOTICE

39:28RECEIVED FOR THE MAYOR OF THE

39:30REAPPOINTMENT OF JOANNE

39:30FRIEDMAN FAN FINN AS A MEMBER

39:32OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE

39:35NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM

39:36EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028

39:39DOCKET NUMBER 1901 NOS.

39:42RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

39:43REAPPOINTMENT OF DOCTOR MARY

39:44GRANT AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

39:46SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING

39:47PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING ON

39:49SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028, DOCKET

39:52NUMBER 1902 NO.

39:54THIS WAS SEE FROM THE MAYOR THE

39:56APPOINTMENT OF JERRY HOLLAND AS

39:58A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL

39:59COMMITTEE NOMINATING PANEL FOR

40:01A TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER

40:0330TH, 2028 DOCKET NUMBER 1903

40:06NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR

40:08OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DORY

40:10MORIKAWA AS A MEMBER OF THE

40:11BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE

40:13NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM

40:14EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027,

40:17DOCKET NUMBER 1904 NOTICE

40:20RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

40:21APPOINTMENT OF TIFFANY BENSON

40:22AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

40:24SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING

40:26PANEL FOR A TERM EXPERIENCED

40:29SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.

40:30DUCKY NUMBER 1905 KNOWN AS SEE

40:32FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

40:34APPOINTMENT OF ESO BUSTAMANTE

40:36AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

40:38SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING

40:39PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRES ON

40:42SEPTEMBER 30TH 2020 TALKING

40:46A19069 AS RECEIVED FROM THE

40:47MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT

40:49OF COLLEEN COFFEY AS A MEMBER

40:50OF THE BUS SCHOOL COMMITTEE

40:52NOMINATING POUND FOR A TERM

40:55EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.

40:57TALKING NUMBER 1907 THOSE

40:59RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

41:01APPOINTMENT OF JASON GALLAGHER

41:02AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

41:03SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING

41:05PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING

41:07SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028.

41:09DUCKY NUMBER 1908 NO.

41:11AS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR

41:12OF THE APPOINTMENT OF SHAMIKA

41:14MARINO AS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS

41:16OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

41:17NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM

41:21EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028.

41:23DUCKY NUMBER 1909 NOTICE

41:26RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR THE

41:27APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM THOMAS

41:28AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON

41:30SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING

41:31PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING

41:35SEPTEMBER 30TH 2028 TALKING

41:36ABOUT 1910 NOT AS RECEIVED FROM

41:39COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRAIN OH FOR

41:41ABSENCE FROM THE OCTOBER 7TH,

41:432026 PLUS THE CITY

41:45COUNCIL MEETING TALKING ABOUT

41:471911 NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE

41:50CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH

41:51CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES

41:54OF 1979 REGARDING ACTION TAKEN

41:57BY THE INDIAN PAPERS, ACTED

41:58UPON THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS

42:00MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2026

42:03TAKEN UP ON THAT 1912 NOTICE

42:06RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN

42:07ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX

42:09OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979

42:12REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE

42:13MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY

42:15THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING

42:19OF SEPTEMBER 23RD 2026 DOCKET

42:20NUMBER 1913 COMMUNICATION WAS

42:23RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL OFFLINE

42:25TRANSMITTING THE 2026 DOWNTOWN

42:27BOSTON PUBLIC SAFETY SURVEY

42:30DOCKET NUMBER 1914

42:32COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM

42:34COUNCIL REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY

42:36IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON.

42:37TALKING NUMBER 1915 CAN YOU SEE

42:40FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY SETTING

42:41THE RECORD STRAIGHT REGARDING

42:43HER WORK IN THE COUNCILS LEAGUE

42:45FILING PRACTICE AND DOCKET

42:47NUMBER 1916 COMMUNICATION

42:50RECEIVED FROM TIMOTHY J.

42:51SMITH, EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE

42:53BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD

42:55REGARDING RESULTS OF THE

42:56ELECTION.

42:57KAREN T CROSS AND SEAN F KELLY

42:59WERE ELECTED TO SERVE AS

43:02TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON RETIRING

43:03BOARD FOR A THREE YEAR TERM.

43:05THANK YOU.

43:06>> DOCKETS 1889 THROUGH 1916

43:09WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.

43:12MR CLERK, WE.

43:13>> ARE NOW ON TO.

43:14REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

43:14MR CLERK.

43:15>> WOULD YOU PLEASE READ.

43:15DOCKET 1805.

43:17CAN HAVE A1805 THE COMMITTEE ON

43:20SENSES REDISTRICTING AND

43:21ELECTIONS TO WHICH WAS REFERRED

43:25ON SEPTEMBER 23RD 2026 DOCKET

43:26NUMBER 1805 RESOLUTION IN

43:29SUPPORT OF QUESTION FOR TO

43:31ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY VOTER

43:33REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS

43:35SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING

43:36THAT THE RESOLUTION OUGHT TO BE

43:38ADOPTED.

43:39THANK YOU.

43:40>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE

43:41CHAIR OF THE.

43:41COMMITTEE ON CENSUS,

43:42REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS

43:44COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

43:44THE FLOOR.

43:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

43:47UM, AND I WANT TO THANK CENTRAL

43:50STAFF, UH, TO START WITH FOR

43:51THIS COMMITTEE REPORT, WE HELD

43:53THIS HEARING ON TWO DOCKETS ON

43:55A DOCKET ABOUT ELECTION

43:56PREPAREDNESS AND ACCESSIBILITY,

43:58ENSURING THAT OUR ELECTIONS

44:01DEPARTMENT IS ABLE AND READY TO

44:03MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE

44:04EVERYTHING UNDER OUR BELT FOR

44:05THE UPCOMING.

44:05ELECTION AND ELECTIONS TO

44:06FOLLOW TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, UM,

44:09ENSURING ACCESS TO DEMOCRACY

44:10FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND ALSO ON A

44:12RESOLUTION ON QUESTION FOR UH

44:14THE COMMITTEE ON SUCH AS

44:15REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS

44:16WERE REFERRED THAT THIS DOT

44:18DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1805

44:20RESOLUTION SUPPORTIVE QUESTION

44:21FOUR TO ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY

44:23VOTER REGISTRATION IN

44:24MASSACHUSETTS.

44:24THE OTHER DOCKET REMAINS IN

44:26COMMITTEE.

44:26SO THIS, UH, COMMITTEE REPORT

44:27IS JUST GOING TO BE ABOUT THE

44:29RESOLUTION.

44:29THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

44:31COUNCIL RESOLUTION AND THE

44:32STREET AND WAS REFERRED TO THE

44:33COMMITTEE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD

44:342026.

44:35SUMMARY OF LEGISLATION DOCKET

44:37NUMBER 1805 RESOLVES THAT THE

44:39BOSTON CITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS

44:40BALLOT QUESTION FOUR TO TO

44:42ESTABLISH SECURE AND.

44:42ACCESSIBLE ELECTION DAY VOTER.

44:44REGISTRATION THROUGHOUT THE

44:45COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

44:47QUESTION FOUR.

44:48>> AS IT.

44:49APPEARS ON THE NOVEMBER 3RD,

44:502026 STATEWIDE BALLOT WOULD

44:51ALLOW ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS TO

44:53REGISTER OR UPDATE THEIR

44:55ADDRESS AT THEIR POLLING PLACE

44:56FOR THE PRECINCT.

44:57>> IN WHICH THEY.

44:57RESIDE ON ELECTION DAY BY

44:59PROVIDING PROOF OF RESIDENCY

45:00AND SIGNING AN OATH AFFIRMING

45:01THEIR CITIZENSHIP, AGE

45:02ELIGIBILITY AND THAT THEY HAVE

45:04NOT VOTED AND WILL NOT VOTE

45:05ELSEWHERE IN THE SAME ELECTION.

45:07IF APPROVED, QUESTION FOUR.

45:09>> WOULD TAKE EFFECT ON JANUARY

45:101ST, 2028, PROVIDING THE

45:11COMMONWEALTH AND ITS

45:12MUNICIPALITIES TIME TO

45:13ESTABLISH PROCEDURES, TRAN POLL

45:15WORKERS EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND

45:17PREPARE FOR EFFECTIVE

45:18IMPLEMENTATION AND IT WAS GREAT

45:19TO HEAR.

45:20FROM THE CITY COUNCIL.

45:21ALUM, NOW HEAD OF THE ELECTIONS

45:22DEPARTMENT CAREY JORDAN ABOUT

45:24HIS BELIEF IN THE ELECTIONS

45:26DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO UH,

45:29EXECUTE ON ELECTION DAY UH

45:31ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

45:32SHOULD IT BECOME THE LAW IN THE

45:34COMMONWEALTH.

45:35MASSACHUSETTS WON AGAIN.

45:36CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE ROLE

45:37AND THANK HIM FOR HIS

45:38LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY.

45:40I THINK THAT WAS HIS FIRST

45:41HEARING IN FRONT OF US AS THE

45:42CHAIR OF THE AS THE NEW HEAD

45:43OF THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT, UH

45:46,THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY

45:47FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WHICH

45:48INCLUDED KERRY JORDAN,

45:49EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

45:50BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT,

45:51PAUL CHUNG, COMMISSIONER CITY.

45:53RECORDS AND SABINA MONTY, HEAD

45:55ASSISTANT REGISTRAR OF VOTERS,

45:56BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

45:58THE COMMITTEE ALSO HEARD FROM

45:59COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INCLUDING

46:01TRACY GRIFFITH, DIRECTOR OF THE

46:02RACIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AT THE

46:03ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS BROOKE

46:05SIMMONS, STAFF ATTORNEY AT

46:07LAWYER FOR THE LAWYER FOR CIVIL

46:08RIGHTS CELIA CANAVAN, EXECUTIVE

46:11DIRECTOR OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN

46:12VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND

46:13CHERYL CLYBURN, UH, CHERYL

46:15CLYBURN CRAWFORD EXECUTIVE

46:17DIRECTOR OF MAST VOTE, CHAIR

46:19OF QUESTION FOR BALLOT

46:20COMMITTEE AND EXECUTIVE

46:20COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE NAACP

46:24BOSTON BRANCH.

46:24WE ALSO HEARD TESTIMONY FROM

46:26RAHSAAN HALL, EXECUTIVE

46:27DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN LEAGUE

46:29OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

46:30I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THEM,

46:31ESPECIALLY CHERYL, WHO'S

46:32DEVOTED SO MUCH OF HER TIME TO

46:34ENSURING THAT ELECTION DAY

46:35REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS

46:36COULD BE I COULD IT COULD

46:38HAPPEN AND IS GOING TO UH, DO

46:40THAT ALL THE WAY UNTIL ELECTION

46:41DAY.

46:41I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES

46:42WHO ATTENDED COUNCIL.

46:44PRESIDENT BREADON.

46:46COUNCILOR FLYNN,

46:47COUNCILOR WEBER,

46:47COUNCILOR MEJIA, COUNCILOR ORAL

46:49AND ALSO RECEIVED AN ABSENTEE

46:51LETTER FROM COUNCILOR PIPPEN.

46:53UH THE COMMUNITY PANELISTS

46:55EXPRESSED THE URGENT NEED FOR

46:56ELECTION REFORMS TO REMOVE

46:57BARRIERS AND MAKE DEMOCRACY

46:58MORE INCLUSIVE.

46:59THEY DISCUSSED THIS REPORT FOR

47:00QUESTION FOUR STATING THAT

47:01ENABLING SAME DAY VOTER

47:02REGISTRATION WOULD SECURE

47:04INCREASED PARTICIPATION,

47:05ESPECIALLY AMONG MARGINALIZED

47:06GROUPS VOTERS OF COLOR, RENTERS

47:08,TRANSIENT POPULATIONS UH, OUR

47:11RESIDENTS WHO ARE UH WITHOUT

47:14HOMES.

47:14THE EVIDENCE OF THIS WAS SHOWN

47:15BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE 24 STATES

47:17PLUS WASHINGTON D.C. THAT

47:18CURRENTLY HAVE AND ALLOW SAME

47:20DAY REGISTRATION.

47:21THE COMMUNITY PANELISTS STATED

47:22THAT THESE MEASURES HAVE ALSO

47:23RESULTED IN NO INCREASE IN

47:25FRAUDULENT VOTING.

47:26THEY ADDED THAT THE PROPOSED

47:28IMPLEMENTATION DELAY UNTIL 2028

47:29ALLOWS FOR COMPREHENSIVE

47:30TRAINING ADMINISTRATIVE

47:32ADAPTATION.

47:32THE ADMINISTRATION STATED THAT

47:34OKAY, I ALREADY SAID THAT WHEN

47:36I WAS CONGRATULATING KERRY THAT

47:37THEY'D BE READY.

47:38YOU KNOW.

47:39THEY'RE READY.

47:40>> UM COMMITTEE CHAIR

47:40RECOMMENDED ACTION AS CHAIR

47:42OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEE

47:43ON CENSUS AND ELECTIONS ARE

47:45MOVING THE LISTED DOCKET FROM

47:47THE COMMITTEE TO THE FULL

47:48COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR

47:49ELECTION AT THIS TIME MY

47:51RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL

47:51COUNCIL WOULD BE THIS

47:52RESOLUTION OUGHT TO BE ADOPTED.

47:53I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES,

47:55UM, FOR COMING AND FOR ADDING

47:57TO A RICH CONVERSATION.

47:58NOT JUST ABOUT.

47:59QUESTION FOUR BUT REALLY ABOUT

48:00WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE UM

48:02ELECTIONS MORE UH, ATTRACTIVE

48:05BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

48:07ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO

48:09GET THE WORD OUT TO ALL OF OUR

48:11NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO ALL OF OUR

48:12RESIDENTS ABOUT VOTING.

48:13VOTING IS NOT GOING TO.

48:14SOLVE EVERYONE'S PROBLEMS, BUT

48:15IT IS DEFINITELY A PART OF THE

48:16SOLUTION.

48:16AND WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO TO

48:18BRING MORE PEOPLE INTO THE WORK

48:19OF DEMOCRACY.

48:19AND SO I WANT TO THANK

48:21EVERYONE.

48:21UM, I YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT AS

48:24AN ELECTED ELECTIONS MEAN ONE

48:25THING BUT JUST AS A PERSON WHO

48:27CARES DEEPLY ABOUT DEMOCRACY,

48:28UH, AND ABOUT GOVERNMENT

48:29WORKING FOR PEOPLE AS AN

48:30ATTORNEY WORKING ON ELECTIONS,

48:31THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT WE

48:33CAN BE.

48:33DOING AS A CITY.

48:34AS A COMMONWEALTH TO MAKE

48:36ELECTIONS UH, LESS LABORIOUS

48:40FOR RESIDENTS WE'VE TALKED EVEN

48:41ABOUT UH ADVOCATE TALKED ABOUT

48:43UH MAKING ELECTION DAY A

48:45HOLIDAY.

48:45WE TALKED ABOUT UH OTHER WE

48:47TALKED ABOUT EXAMPLES IN OTHER

48:48COUNTRIES THAT REQUIRE VOTING

48:50AND SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE

48:51THAT WE CAN BE DOING UH,

48:53ALONGSIDE OUR ADVOCATES AND

48:54MAKING DEMOCRACY REAL FOR EVERY

48:56PERSON IN THE CITY.

48:57AND QUESTION FOR IS ONE STEP.

48:58SO I HOPE THE COUNCIL UH.

48:59HOPEFULLY UNANIMOUSLY PASSES

49:01THIS.

49:01RESOLUTION AND I HOPE THAT IT

49:04THAT RESIDENTS VOTE FOR IT ON

49:06ELECTION DAY.

49:07THANK YOU.

49:08>> THANK YOU

49:08COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

49:09COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

49:09FLOOR.

49:10THANK YOU MADAM.

49:11THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

49:16I ALSO WANT US TO FACTOR IN AS

49:18PART OF THE CONVERSATION AND TO

49:21ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE CITY

49:22OF BOSTON ELECTION DEPARTMENT

49:24IS CURRENTLY UNDER THE

49:25RECEIVERSHIP OF THE SECRETARY

49:26OF STATE.

49:29WHY?

49:30DURING THE DURING THE 2024

49:33PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, POLL

49:34WORKERS.

49:35REPORTED ISSUES.

49:36>> OF.

49:37CITYWIDE BALLOT SHORTAGES,

49:38BALLOTS IN THE INCORRECT

49:40LANGUAGE AND CALLS TO THE

49:41ELECTION DEPARTMENT THAT WENT

49:43UNANSWERED.

49:44THIS CAUSED UNNECESSARY AND

49:47UNREASONABLE WAIT TIMES FOR

49:49RESIDENTS AND MANY WHO LEFT

49:50WITHOUT CASTING A VOTE.

49:53ON FEBRUARY 8TH.

49:542025, FOLLOWING AN

49:55INVESTIGATION INTO THESE ISSUES

49:56,THE SECRETARY OF STATE

49:57ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT OF A

49:59STATE RECEIVER AS ELECTION DAY

50:02VOTER REGISTRATION LATE MAY

50:04PLACE ADDITIONAL

50:06RESPONSIBILITIES ON POLL

50:07WORKERS.

50:08WE NEED TO ENSURE TO REQUIRE

50:10ADDITIONAL TRAINING

50:11COORDINATION IN THE RESOURCES

50:13TO ENSURE THE PROCESS IS

50:15IMPLEMENTED.

50:16ACCURATELY AND EFFICIENTLY.

50:18I BELIEVE.

50:18THAT'S WHAT OUR PANELISTS ALSO

50:20CALLED FOR.

50:21WE NEED TO.

50:22WORK HARD AND BOSS TO ENSURE

50:23ELECTION OFFICIALS AND POLL

50:25WORKERS HAVE THE NECESSARY

50:27RESOURCES AND SUPPORT THEY

50:28NEED.

50:28FROM US.

50:30AS MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS.

50:33LAST WEEK I WENT TO A A

50:36COMMUNITY EVENT SPONSORED BY

50:38THE JEREMIAH GROUP WITH UM AND

50:41I TALKED WITH.

50:41RUSS REPRESENTATIVE.

50:43RUSSELL HOMES AND THE MOSTLY

50:44WOMAN THAT WERE THERE AND WE

50:46WENT AND DISCUSSED.

50:49EACH QUESTION.

50:50IN LENGTH PROBABLY FOR ABOUT

50:52TWO HOURS WAS A WONDERFUL

50:53CONVERSATION.

50:54I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE RUSSELL

50:55RUSSELL HOLMES AND EXPLAINING,

50:57UM, ALL THE BALLOT INITIATIVES

50:59INCLUDING THIS ONE WHICH

51:01GENERATED A LOT OF UM A LOT

51:03OF SUPPORT.

51:04I SUPPORT EXPANDING ACCESS TO

51:05VOTING, BUT LET'S ALSO CONTINUE

51:08TO FOCUS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO

51:09ENSURE THAT OUR ELECTIONS ARE

51:11ADMINISTERED EFFECTIVELY.

51:13GIVEN THE RECENT CHALLENGES IN

51:15OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT, OUR.

51:16TOP PRIORITY MUST.

51:18BE TO.

51:18>> CONTINUE TO.

51:19>> MAKE SURE EVERY.

51:20PERSON THAT IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

51:22CAN CAST THEIR BALLOT WITHOUT.

51:24UNNECESSARY DELAYS, CONFUSION

51:29OR BARRIERS.

51:30FINALLY, LET US ALSO

51:32ACKNOWLEDGE.

51:32THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE U.S.

51:35MILITARY THAT GAVE US THE RIGHT

51:37TO VOTE.

51:38THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

51:39THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

51:41COUNCILOR.

51:42HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

51:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

51:47UM.

51:47AND I WANT TO THANK MY

51:49COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

51:50UH, AND COUNCILOR BRAEDEN FOR

51:52HOSTING UM IN SPONSORING THIS

51:54UH, HEARING, UM, AS SOMEONE WHO

51:57ONE BY ONE VOTE I AM THE POSTER

51:59CHILD FOR HOW IMPORTANT IT IS

52:02TO GIVE PEOPLE ACCESS TO THE.

52:03BALLOT AND SOMETIMES RIGHT ON

52:05THE SPOT.

52:05UM, WHEN I RAN IN 2019 I CAME

52:08ACROSS SO MANY PEOPLE UM WHO

52:10FELT DISENFRANCHIZED AND WHEN

52:12THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY UH, TO

52:15REGISTER AND TO VOTE FELT LIKE

52:18THEIR VOTE MATTERED.

52:19BUT THEN I ALSO CAME ACROSS

52:20PEOPLE ON ELECTION DAY THEY

52:22WERE LIKE OH MY.

52:23GOD.

52:24>> I DIDN'T.

52:25>> EVEN REGISTER.

52:25I DON'T EVEN.

52:26>> KNOW WHERE I WHERE WHERE I

52:27LIVE BECAUSE I MOVED SO MANY

52:29TIMES.

52:30BECAUSE I'M HOUSING INSECURE.

52:33UM AND WE'RE SO MANY BARRIERS

52:35FOR PEOPLE PARTICULARLY LOW

52:36INCOME PEOPLE WHO THE DECISIONS

52:38THAT WE MAKE IMPACT THEIR LIVES

52:40THE MOST.

52:41AND SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY

52:43FOR US TO REALLY DEMONSTRATE

52:45WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO SUPPORT

52:47DEMOCRACY, UM, AND GIVING

52:48PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

52:50REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT THEN AND

52:51THERE IS GIVING PEOPLE AGENCY

52:53OVER THEIR LIVES AND THAT'S

52:56WHAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON

52:57HERE ON THIS COUNCIL IS

52:59CREATING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

53:00PEOPLE, UM, TO FEEL LIKE THEIR

53:03VOTE MATTERS AND THAT THEY HAVE

53:05MANY PATHWAYS, UM, TO BEING

53:08ABLE TO DO THAT.

53:09SO I'M VERY EXCITED TO VOTE IN

53:12FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION.

53:13AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO

53:15ACKNOWLEDGE UM THAT YOU KNOW,

53:17OFTENTIMES WE PRESENT

53:19RESOLUTIONS HERE ON THE FLOOR

53:20AND THEN SOMETIMES WE OBJECT TO

53:22THEM AND THEN THEY GO INTO

53:23COMMITTEE BECAUSE THERE'S AN

53:25OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THEM

53:26FURTHER.

53:27I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO START

53:28GETTING INTO THE HABIT OF IS

53:30IDENTIFYING WHAT IS A

53:32RESOLUTION THAT IS A NO BRAINER

53:34AND WHAT IS A RESOLUTION THAT,

53:35UH, YOU KNOW, REQUIRES.

53:37MORE UH, DISCUSSION.

53:40AND I THINK THAT THAT IS

53:42SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO

53:43ENCOURAGE US TO REALLY START

53:44THINKING ABOUT AS WE CONTINUE

53:46TO MOVE IN THIS, UH, WORK.

53:48AND SO THIS RESOLUTION WAS A NO

53:50BRAINER WHEN IT WAS PRESENTED

53:53AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A NO

53:55BRAINER.

53:55UM, AS WE UH, MOVE FORWARD WITH

53:58A FAVORABLE VOTE.

53:59SO UH, THANK YOU CHAIR.

54:02>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA

54:03COUNCIL BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE

54:04FLOOR.

54:05THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

54:06THANK YOU TO THE MAKERS OF THIS

54:08RESOLUTION.

54:09I AM FULLY IN SUPPORT OF IT

54:10BECAUSE OF WHAT IT STANDS FOR.

54:12IT'S ABOUT VOTER ACCESS.

54:13IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR

54:15RESIDENTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY

54:17THAT ON AN ELECTION DAY THAT IF

54:19THEY WANT TO VOTE AND WE'RE NOT

54:21AWARE THEY STILL HAVE THE

54:22OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE.

54:23I KNOW VERY WELL WHAT IT IS TO

54:26SPEAK TO A RESIDENT THAT ON

54:27ELECTION DAY, IF IT'S ON EITHER

54:29THE PRELIMINARIES OR THE FINAL

54:31GENERAL ELECTION THAT YOU GO UP

54:33TO THEM AND THEY'RE ON THE

54:34STREET AND YOU HAND THEM YOUR

54:36CARD SAYING HEY, WELL IF YOU'RE

54:38TO GO VOTE AND THEY'RE NOT

54:40REGISTERED AND THEY MENTION

54:41THAT TO YOU AND THEY ARE SIMPLY

54:45JUST YOU KNOW, THEY THEY FORGOT

54:46IT WAS ELECTION DAY OR THEY

54:48FORGOT ABOUT THEIR REGISTRATION

54:49OR MAYBE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE

54:50REGISTERED AND THEY'RE NOT

54:51REGISTERED AND THEY WANT TO

54:53STILL VOTE.

54:53THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR

54:55THEM.

54:56THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO CHANGE

54:58THIS ACROSS THE STATE NOT JUST

55:00HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

55:02UM I REALLY BELIEVE IN QUESTION

55:04FOUR AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR AND

55:05I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

55:06HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON IN

55:08THE CITY COUNCIL WE STAND TO

55:09MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO GO

55:11OUT TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY.

55:12AND THAT'S WHY I WANT TO

55:13SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND I

55:14THANK THE MAKERS FOR BRINGING

55:16IT FORWARD.

55:16THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

55:17THANK YOU COUNCIL AND

55:18COUNCIL DEREK CAN YOU HAVE THE

55:19FLOOR?

55:19THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR.

55:21UM THERE HAVE UM BEEN SO MANY

55:24CONSTITUENTS OF MINE THAT HAVE

55:25BEEN DISENFRANCHIZED BY THE

55:27CURRENT SYSTEM.

55:28UM AND IT MATTERS DEEPLY TO

55:30ME ESPECIALLY AS SOMEONE WHO

55:31REPRESENTS A YOUNG POPULATION

55:33WHO REPRESENTS UM, UH DISTRICT

55:36THAT TOUCHES 12 COLLEGES AND

55:39UNIVERSITIES.

55:39UM, THIS LAST ELECTION

55:42COMPLETELY DISENFRANCHIZED MY

55:44DISTRICT.

55:44UM AND I DO THINK THERE ARE

55:46SOME ELECTION RESULTS THAT

55:47WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF

55:48THERE HAD BEEN SAME-DAY VOTER

55:50REGISTRATION.

55:50SO I THINK IT UM IT DEEPLY

55:53MATTERS AND UM I KNOW THERE'S

55:55BEEN A LOT OF EVOLUTION AT THE

55:56STATE HOUSE ON THIS AS WELL AND

55:58A LOT OF EVOLUTION UH, WITH THE

56:01UM SECRETARY OF STATE AS WELL.

56:02SO I THINK UM AND WITH THOSE

56:04THAT WORK IN CITIES AND TOWNS

56:06ACROSS UH ACROSS THE STATE, UM,

56:09SO I'M STRONGLY IN SUPPORT

56:10OF THIS AND UH, LOOK FORWARD TO

56:12VOTING.

56:12YES.

56:14THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

56:15WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK

56:16ON THIS MATTER?

56:18UH, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

56:19ON CENSUS, REDISTRICTING AND

56:20ELECTIONS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE

56:22OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

56:23ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1805.

56:26ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

56:29MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

56:30CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

56:32COUNCILOR BRIEF.

56:34COUNCIL COLOR.

56:34YES.

56:35>> COUNCIL COLOR.

56:36PUT ZAPATA.

56:36YES, COUNSELOR.

56:37CULPA.

56:38COUNSELOR.

56:38CULPEPER.

56:39YES, COUNSELOR.

56:39DURKAN.

56:40YES, COUNSELOR.

56:41DURKAN.

56:41YES.

56:42COUNSELOR.

56:42FITZGERALD.

56:43COUNSELOR.

56:43FITZGERALD.

56:44YES, COUNSELOR.

56:44FLYNN.

56:45YES.

56:45COUNSELOR.

56:46FLYNN.

56:46YES.

56:46COUNCILOR.

56:47ILLUSION.

56:48COUNSELOR.

56:48LOUIJEUNE.

56:48YES, COUNSELOR.

56:49MEJIA.

56:50COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

56:51YES.

56:51COUNCIL.

56:51MURPHY.

56:52COUNSELOR.

56:52MURPHY.

56:53YES.

56:53COUNSELOR.

56:53PEN.

56:54COUNSELOR.

56:55PIN.

56:55YES.

56:55COUNCIL.

56:56SANTANA.

56:56COUNSELOR.

56:57SANTANA.

56:58YES.

56:58COUNSELOR.

56:58WEBER.

56:59COUNSELOR.

56:59WEBER.

57:00YES AND COUNSELOR.

57:01WORLD.

57:01YES.

57:01COUNSELOR.

57:02WELL, YES.

57:03DOCKET NUMBER 1805 HAS RECEIVED

57:06.

57:0612 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

57:08THANK YOU.

57:09THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

57:10ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1805 HAS

57:12BEEN ADOPTED.

57:13WE'RE NOW ON TO MATTERS

57:14RECENTLY HEARD.

57:16MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ

57:17DOCKET 1829 THROUGH 1838?

57:23DOCKET NUMBER 1829 MESSAGE IN

57:25ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27

57:28APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE

57:29FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

57:34$268,887 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

57:35THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

57:37FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

57:39CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

57:41BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

57:41THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

57:43THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE

57:45PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION TALKING

57:47NUMBER 1830 MESSAGE IN ORDER

57:50FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

57:51APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR THE

57:52BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

57:53DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 27,

57:56THE AMOUNT OF $268,887 TO

58:01COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

58:03ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

58:04COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

58:06BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL

58:07COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL

58:09POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

58:11THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE

58:13SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH

58:17AUGUST 31ST 2027.

58:18THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

58:19CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

58:21INCREASE OF 2% IN OCTOBER OF

58:242024, 2025 AND 2026 AND A FLAT

58:28DOLLAR AMOUNT INCREASE OF $250

58:31,$900 AND $800 TO BE ADDED TO

58:35ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

58:37OF 2025, 2026 AND 2027

58:41RESPECTFULLY DOCKET NUMBER 1831

58:44MESSAGE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE

58:47FISCAL YEAR 27 APPROPRIATION

58:48FOR THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

58:50BARGAINING BY $111,802 TO

58:54PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

58:55PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL

58:57YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED

58:59WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

59:00BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

59:02THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE IN

59:03THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE

59:05SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION

59:08DOCKET NUMBER 1832 MESSAGE IN

59:10ORDER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL

59:12APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR BOSTON

59:14PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

59:1627, IN THE AMOUNT OF $111,802

59:20TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27

59:22COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN

59:24COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

59:25BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL

59:26COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON SCHOOL

59:29POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS

59:30FEDERATION.

59:31THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT AT

59:35JULY 1ST 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH

59:36OF 2027.

59:37THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

59:39CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

59:40INCREASE OF 2% IN OCTOBER OF

59:432024, 2025 AND 2026 AND A FLAT

59:47DOLLAR AMOUNT INCREASE OF $250,

59:51$900 AND $800.

59:53TO BE ADDED TO ANNUAL SALARIES

59:55IN JANUARY OF 2025, 2026 AND

1:00:002027 RESPECTIVELY.

1:00:02DOCKET NUMBER 1833 MESSAGGERO

1:00:05TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27

1:00:07APPROPRIATION OF THE RESERVE

1:00:08FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

1:00:12$85,879 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

1:00:13THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

1:00:15THE FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

1:00:18CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

1:00:19BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

1:00:21THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:00:23SEIU LOCAL 880 PROFESSIONAL

1:00:25EMPLOYEES CHAPTER, DEPARTMENT

1:00:28OF PLANNING AND ENGINEERING

1:00:29DOCKET NUMBER 1834 MESSAGE IN

1:00:32ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

1:00:33APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR BOSTON

1:00:34PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR

1:00:3627, THE AMOUNT OF $85,879 TO

1:00:40COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

1:00:43ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

1:00:44COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

1:00:46BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL

1:00:48COMMITTEE AND SEIU LOCAL 880

1:00:50PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES CHAPTER

1:00:52THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND

1:00:53ENGINEERING THE TERMS OF THE

1:00:55CONTRACT AS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026

1:00:58THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027, THE

1:01:00MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

1:01:02CONTRACT CONTRACT INCLUDES A

1:01:03BASE WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN

1:01:06SEPTEMBER OF 2026 AND A FLAT

1:01:09DOLLAR AMOUNT OF $800 AT ANNUAL

1:01:11SALARIES IN JANUARY OF 2027.

1:01:15TALKING ABOUT 1835 MESSAGE IN

1:01:17ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 27

1:01:21APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE

1:01:22FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

1:01:25$40,365 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

1:01:27THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

1:01:29FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

1:01:31CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

1:01:33BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

1:01:33THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:01:35THE BOSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

1:01:38PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

1:01:39ASSOCIATION DOCKET NUMBER 1836

1:01:42MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

1:01:44SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

1:01:45ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:01:47SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 27, THE

1:01:49AMOUNT OF $40,365 TO

1:01:52COVER FISCAL YEAR 27 COST ITEMS

1:01:54CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

1:01:56BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

1:01:57THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:01:59THE BUS AND SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

1:02:00PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

1:02:01ASSOCIATION THE TERMS OF THE

1:02:04CONTRACT OF SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026

1:02:07THROUGH AUGUST 31ST 2027.

1:02:09THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

1:02:11CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

1:02:13INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

1:02:15OF 26, 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

1:02:18AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

1:02:21ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

1:02:23OF 2027.

1:02:25DOCKET NUMBER 1837 MESSAGE IN

1:02:28ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL 27

1:02:30APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE

1:02:32FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

1:02:34$10,320.

1:02:35PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON

1:02:37PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL

1:02:38YEAR 27 INCREASES CONTAINED

1:02:40WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

1:02:41BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

1:02:42THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:02:44THE AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL

1:02:482814 STORE KEEPERS AND STORES

1:02:50DELIVERY MEN UNION NUMBER 1838

1:02:55MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A

1:02:56SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

1:02:58ORDER FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:02:59SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 27, IN

1:03:02THE AMOUNT OF $10,320 TO

1:03:05COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 27 COST

1:03:07ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE

1:03:08COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

1:03:10BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL

1:03:11COMMITTEE AND AFL CIO

1:03:14COUNCIL 93 LOCAL 2814 STORE

1:03:17KEEPERS AND STORES DELIVERY

1:03:18MEN'S UNION THE TERMS OF THE

1:03:21CONTRACT OF SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026

1:03:25TO AUGUST 31ST 2027.

1:03:26THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE

1:03:28CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE

1:03:29INCREASE OF 2% IN SEPTEMBER

1:03:32OF 2026 AND A FLAT DOLLAR

1:03:34AMOUNT OF $800 TO BE ADDED TO

1:03:37ANNUAL SALARIES IN JANUARY

1:03:39OF 2027.

1:03:41THANK YOU.

1:03:42CLERK PLEASE GET SOME WATER.

1:03:43YES.

1:03:43UM, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE

1:03:45CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

1:03:47MEANS.

1:03:48COUNCIL MEMBER YOU HAVE THE

1:03:49FLOOR.

1:03:49THANK YOU.

1:03:51>> YEAH.

1:03:52THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:03:53UH, ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH,

1:03:55THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

1:03:56HELD A HEARING ON DOCKET

1:03:57NUMBERS 1829 TO 18 38 TO.

1:04:01>> 10.

1:04:01APPROPRIATION ORDERS THAT.

1:04:02WOULD REDUCE THE.

1:04:03RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE

1:04:04BARGAINING UH, IN ORDER TO

1:04:06APPROPRIATED APPROXIMATELY

1:04:08$517,000 TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:04:10SCHOOLS.

1:04:11THIS APPROPRIATION WOULD

1:04:12COVER FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

1:04:14CONTAINED WITHIN CBAS BETWEEN

1:04:17THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:04:19THE BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE

1:04:20PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION, THE

1:04:22BOSTON SCHOOL POLICE SUPERIOR

1:04:24OFFICERS FEDERATION, THE BOSTON

1:04:25SCHOOL DEPARTMENT PLAN

1:04:27ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION, THE

1:04:29STORE KEEPERS AND STORES

1:04:31DELIVERY UNION WHO ARE PART

1:04:33OF THE AFL CIO COUNCIL 39 LOCAL

1:04:37UH 2814 AND PLANNING AND

1:04:38ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS WHO

1:04:40ARE PART OF SEIU LOCAL 888 UH

1:04:42THE PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES

1:04:43CHAPTER.

1:04:44THE COMMITTEE UH ON TUESDAY WAS

1:04:46JOINED BY COUNCILORS MURPHY,

1:04:48FLYNN LOUIJEUNE FITZGERALD,

1:04:50CULPEPER AND MORRELL AS WELL AS

1:04:52THE OFFICE OF BUDGET MANAGEMENT

1:04:53DIRECTOR JIM WILLIAMSON, OFFICE

1:04:56OF LABOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR

1:04:58JEREMIE HASSAN UM OUR HASSEN

1:05:01SORRY, UH, OFFICE OF UH SAFETY

1:05:03SERVICES CHIEF AND EXECUTIVE

1:05:05DIRECTOR FOR BP'S IZZY MARRERO

1:05:08AND BP'S CHIEF OPERATING

1:05:10OFFICER UH, BRIAN FORD.

1:05:12UH, THE THE HEARING CENTERED

1:05:13AROUND THE APPROVAL OF THESE

1:05:15TEN APPROPRIATION ORDERS TIED

1:05:17TO FIVE RECENT UNION CONTRACTS

1:05:19,UH, MOSTLY ONE YEAR

1:05:20AGREEMENTS PROVIDING A 2%

1:05:22GENERAL WAGE INCREASE AND AN

1:05:24ADDITIONAL, UH, AMOUNT OF, YOU

1:05:27KNOW, AROUND $800 TO BE ADDED

1:05:29TO BASE WAGES.

1:05:30UH, MOVING FORWARD, THE

1:05:32PANELISTS UH, YOU KNOW, UH,

1:05:35INCLUDED THE LABOR RELATIONS

1:05:37STAFF PROVIDED EXPLANATIONS

1:05:39OF THE COSTS, THE CONTRACT

1:05:40TERMS, OPERATIONAL STATUS

1:05:41HELPING TO CLARIFY ISSUES, UH,

1:05:43AND SUPPORT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE

1:05:46PATH TOWARD OUR APPROVAL.

1:05:47WE HEARD THAT THIS THESE

1:05:49CONTRACTS COVER ROUGHLY THE 50

1:05:51MEMBERS OR COVERED BY THE

1:05:53PATROLMEN'S CONTRACT.

1:05:54ABOUT 19 UH, INDIVIDUALS ARE

1:05:57COVERED BY THE SUPERIOR

1:05:58OFFICERS CONTRACT.

1:05:59ABOUT 37 INDIVIDUALS ARE

1:06:01COVERED IN THE PLANNING

1:06:02ENGINEERING CONTRACT AND UH, 16

1:06:06BY THE PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

1:06:07CONTRACT AND ANOTHER SIX UNDER

1:06:08THE STOREKEEPERS CONTRACT.

1:06:10UM, AS DIRECTOR WILLIAMSON

1:06:12STATED AT THE HEARING THERE WAS

1:06:14APPROXIMATELY THERE WAS

1:06:15APPROXIMATELY $22 MILLION FOR

1:06:17COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE

1:06:18RESERVES AT THE START OF THE

1:06:19FISCAL YEAR.

1:06:20UH, AND UH SINCE THE START

1:06:22OF THE YEAR THIS BODY IS

1:06:23APPROVED AROUND 3.3 MILLION TO

1:06:25BE TAKEN FROM THE RESERVES, UH,

1:06:27FOR SEPARATE CBAS THE

1:06:29COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

1:06:29AGREEMENTS DISCUSSED ON TUESDAY

1:06:31REQUIRE US TO TAKE AN

1:06:32ADDITIONAL $517,000 OUT

1:06:34OF RESERVES TO SATISFY THE

1:06:35CONDITIONS CONTAINED WITHIN UH

1:06:37,COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

1:06:38AGREEMENTS.

1:06:39UM, UH AND SO WE WE DID HAVE A

1:06:43REQUEST AT THE HEARING FROM

1:06:44SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR A

1:06:45MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

1:06:46BETWEEN THE UH I BELIEVE IT'S

1:06:49BETWEEN DPS AND THE BOSTON

1:06:50POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH,

1:06:53GOVERNING, YOU KNOW, THEIR

1:06:54INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOLS.

1:06:55UH, WE I AS THE CHAIR WE

1:06:57REACHED OUT FOR THAT MEMORANDUM

1:06:58OF UNDERSTANDING.

1:06:59WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE IS NO

1:07:00EXECUTED MEMORANDUM

1:07:02OF UNDERSTANDING TO PROVIDE US.

1:07:04SO I DON'T HAVE THAT UH, FOR

1:07:07FOR FOR YOU TODAY.

1:07:08UH, ALSO, YOU KNOW, HAVING

1:07:11LOOKED INTO IT, UH, YOU KNOW, I

1:07:14I THINK WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO

1:07:15ASK FOR FOR DOCUMENTS AND AND

1:07:18AND FOR AS MUCH INFORMATION AS

1:07:19WE CAN GET FROM THE

1:07:20ADMINISTRATION.

1:07:21UH, I'M NOT SURE IT'S DIRECTLY

1:07:24RELEVANT.

1:07:24UH, THE MOU TO OUR DISCUSSION

1:07:26TODAY ABOUT WHETHER TO TO GIVE

1:07:28THESE INCREASES FOR THAT

1:07:29REASON, YOU KNOW, AS THE

1:07:30COMMITTEE CHAIR, I'M GOING TO

1:07:32SEEK ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:07:33COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

1:07:34OF THESE DOCKETS BEFORE YOU

1:07:36TODAY.

1:07:36THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:07:37THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNSELOR

1:07:38WEBER.

1:07:38UM, I APOLOGIZE I KNOW THAT

1:07:40COUNCILOR MURPHY HAD HER LIGHT

1:07:41ON FIRST AND THEN IT WAS

1:07:44COUNCILOR MEJIA AND THEN FLYNN.

1:07:45UM, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:07:47AND THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR THE

1:07:49COMMITTEE.

1:07:49UM, LOOKING.

1:07:50FORWARD TO VOTING IN FAVOR

1:07:51OF ALL OF THESE.

1:07:52THANK YOU.

1:07:53CLERK UM, FOR READING THEM ALL

1:07:55.

1:07:55I DID JUST WANT TO STAND AS

1:07:57SOMEONE WHO WORKED IN OUR

1:07:58SCHOOLS FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES

1:08:00.

1:08:01IT IS A VILLAGE I KNOW WE HERE,

1:08:03WE ARE HERE AND WE ADVOCATE FOR

1:08:04OUR TEACHERS ALL OF THE TIME

1:08:07BUT THERE'S SO MANY OTHER

1:08:09INDIVIDUALS THAT SHOW UP EVERY

1:08:10DAY MAKING SURE THAT THE HEAT

1:08:12TURNS ON THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE

1:08:14FED, THAT OUR SCHOOL YOU KNOW

1:08:15THE SCHOOL BUSSES HAVE DRIVERS

1:08:17SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAN

1:08:19JUST WHAT GOES ON INSIDE THE

1:08:20CLASSROOM.

1:08:21SO ALWAYS THANK YOU TO OUR

1:08:22TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS.

1:08:23BUT ALL OF THESE CONTRACTS JUST

1:08:25SHOW HOW MUCH IT REALLY DOES

1:08:27TAKE TO HAVE A SCHOOL

1:08:29DEPARTMENT RUN SMOOTHLY.

1:08:31SO LOOKING FORWARD.

1:08:32>> TO.

1:08:32SUPPORTING THEM.

1:08:33>> THANK YOU THANK YOU

1:08:34COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:08:36COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU HAVE THE

1:08:36FLOOR NOW.

1:08:39UM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:08:40AND I WANT TO THANK.

1:08:42CHAIR WEBER.

1:08:42FOR, UH, YESTERDAY'S HEARING.

1:08:44AND ALTHOUGH I WAS UNABLE TO

1:08:46ATTEND MYSELF, MY TEAM WATCHED

1:08:49AND THEN REVIEWED WITH ME THE

1:08:50HEARINGS.

1:08:51UM, AND TYPICALLY ALL OF THESE

1:08:54DOCKETS, UM, WOULD JUST PASS.

1:08:57BUT THERE ARE A FEW OUTSTANDING

1:08:58QUESTIONS ABOUT SOME OF THESE

1:09:00CONTRACTS THAT, UM, ARE IN

1:09:03OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS THAT

1:09:04ARE CURRENTLY BEING

1:09:05INVESTIGATED BY THE OFFICE

1:09:08OF INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT

1:09:09ON DPS THAT CAME OUT IN LATE

1:09:12AUGUST AND WE NEED TO DO.

1:09:13OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

1:09:14AND ENSURE THAT BP'S OFFICES

1:09:16AND DEPARTMENTS UH, IN THE OIG

1:09:19REPORT, ARE FOLLOWING PROPER

1:09:22CONTRACTING PROTOCOLS, POLICIES

1:09:24AND PROCEDURES AND UNTIL THAT

1:09:26IS DONE I AM UNCOMFORTABLE

1:09:28VOTING IN FAVOR OF THESE

1:09:31CONTRACTS, HOWEVER.

1:09:32>> AND I.

1:09:33>> WANT.

1:09:33TO BE.

1:09:33REALLY CLEAR.

1:09:34>> FOR THE RECORD.

1:09:34I DO SUPPORT OUR UNIONS AND OUR

1:09:36WORKERS.

1:09:36AND I DO NOT WANT TO VOTE.

1:09:38AGAINST THEIR CONTRACTS.

1:09:40UM AND THEY WORKED REALLY HARD

1:09:42TO NEGOTIATE.

1:09:43AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE REALLY

1:09:44CLEAR THAT FOR ME, UH, THIS I

1:09:47I'M FEELING CONFLICTED IN

1:09:49REGARDS.

1:09:50TO THE UM, WHAT WE'RE

1:09:52COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC.

1:09:53CAN WE GUARDS TO SOME OF THESE

1:09:55THINGS THAT ARE STILL

1:09:56OUTSTANDING?

1:09:57UM AND THEREFORE I WILL BE

1:09:59VOTING PRESENT ON DOCKETS UM.

1:10:021833 THROUGH 188 UM 1838.

1:10:08UM JUST.

1:10:09>> FOR THE RECORD.

1:10:10UM SO FOLKS KNOW WHY NOW YOU

1:10:13KNOW.

1:10:14THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

1:10:16COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

1:10:17FLOOR.

1:10:18THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:10:21I I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THESE

1:10:23DOCKETS ALTHOUGH.

1:10:27THERE'S A LOT OF OUTSTANDING.

1:10:28ISSUES THAT WE HAVEN'T

1:10:31ADDRESSED AS.

1:10:32COUNCILMEMBER HERE MENTIONED I

1:10:33AGREE WITH HER.

1:10:37AS WELL AS THE $900,000.

1:10:40MISAPPROPRIATION OF.

1:10:42CITY FUNDS THAT BOSTON.

1:10:43PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, THERE.

1:10:45>> WAS A DEVASTATING REPORT

1:10:47ISSUED BY THE.

1:10:48STATE UM INSPECTOR GENERAL.

1:10:52ON MISAPPROPRIATION.

1:10:52BASICALLY OF.

1:10:53CITY FUNDS.

1:10:55AND WHAT IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE

1:10:57ON.

1:11:00UH STUDENTS ON TEACHERS.

1:11:02>> ON A PUBLIC EDUCATION.

1:11:03ON ON.

1:11:04THESE COLLECTIVE.

1:11:05BARGAINING CONTRACTS?

1:11:07WE REALLY DON'T KNOW.

1:11:08I DID ASK SOME OF THOSE

1:11:10QUESTIONS, UH, BUT DID NOT GET

1:11:14THE RIGHT ANSWERS.

1:11:15BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE VOTING

1:11:17ON.

1:11:17THESE DOCKETS WITHOUT.

1:11:20,UM.

1:11:21>> ADEQUATE INFORMATION.

1:11:24WHICH IS DISCOURAGING.

1:11:25I SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF LAST

1:11:27NIGHT WITH.

1:11:28THE SAINT.

1:11:28STEPHEN'S YOUTH GROUP.

1:11:30IN THE SOUTH END.

1:11:31UM, LISTENING TO.

1:11:33UH, PARENTS AND GUARDIANS

1:11:35STUDENT OF STUDENTS WITH.

1:11:38DISABILITIES.

1:11:39>> ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.

1:11:40IMMIGRANT STUDENTS ASKING A LOT

1:11:43.

1:11:43>> OF A LOT OF ISSUES THAT WE.

1:11:45FOCUS ON HERE.

1:11:47UH, WE SHOULD BE.

1:11:48FOCUSING ON ON THE CITY.

1:11:50COUNCIL.

1:11:51>> BUT THESE PARENTS.

1:11:53>> WERE ASKING.

1:11:53US ASKING ME QUESTIONS.

1:11:55ABOUT WHAT IMPACT.

1:11:57DOES THE.

1:11:58RECENT LAYOFF

1:12:01OF PARAPROFESSIONALS HAVE?

1:12:03AND THEY'RE EXPLAINING.

1:12:04TO ME.

1:12:04THAT THERE IS A LOT

1:12:06OF PARAPROFESSIONALS NOW.

1:12:07THAT ARE NOT IN CLASSROOMS AND

1:12:09IT'S IMPACTING THE.

1:12:10QUALITY OF LIFE IN PUBLIC.

1:12:11EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILD.

1:12:14UM, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND SUPPORT

1:12:16THESE CONTRACTS.

1:12:17AND WE ALL WILL.

1:12:19UM, BUT WE'RE DOING A

1:12:21DISSERVICE.

1:12:23TO STUDENTS.

1:12:24>> AND TEACHERS WHEN WE HAVE

1:12:25WE'RE AFRAID.

1:12:26TO ASK DIFFICULT.

1:12:28QUESTIONS TO HOLD THE

1:12:29ADMINISTRATION AND THE

1:12:31DEPARTMENT.

1:12:32ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE POOR.

1:12:35PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT IS

1:12:36HAPPENING IN BOSTON.

1:12:38STUDENTS DESERVE BETTER.

1:12:39THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT FROM THE

1:12:41BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

1:12:42THANK YOU.

1:12:42YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN, WOULD

1:12:44ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON

1:12:45THIS MATTER, COUNSELOR

1:12:45DIRECTING IT BEFORE.

1:12:47THANK YOU.

1:12:48>> UM, I STAND WITH AND FOR

1:12:50COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SO I WILL

1:12:52BE VOTING YES.

1:12:52THANK YOU.

1:12:54THANK YOU.

1:12:55COUNCILOR DURKAN, THE CHAIR

1:12:58OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

1:12:59MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:13:00COMMITTEE REPORT AND WE'RE

1:13:02GOING TO DO THIS INDIVIDUALLY

1:13:04AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1829.

1:13:06ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:13:09ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAY NAY.

1:13:11MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:13:12CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:13:13ROLL CALL VOTE AND DOCKET 1829

1:13:16COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR

1:13:18AS OPPOSED.

1:13:18YES, COUNSELOR.

1:13:19CLOSE BUDDY.

1:13:20YES, COUNSELOR.

1:13:21CULPEPER.

1:13:22COUNSELOR.

1:13:22CULPEPER.

1:13:23YES, COUNSELOR.

1:13:24DURKAN.

1:13:24COUNSELOR.

1:13:25DURKAN.

1:13:25YES.

1:13:25COUNCIL HAS GENERAL COUNCILOR.

1:13:28VISIO.

1:13:28YES.

1:13:28COUNSELOR.

1:13:28FLYNN.

1:13:29YES.

1:13:29COUNSELOR.

1:13:30FLYNN.

1:13:30YES.

1:13:30COUNSELOR.

1:13:31LOUIJEUNE.

1:13:31YES.

1:13:32COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:13:33YES.

1:13:33COUNSELING HERE COUNTS FOR

1:13:34MEJIA.

1:13:35YES, COUNSELOR.

1:13:35MURPHY.

1:13:36COUNSELOR.

1:13:36MURPHY.

1:13:37YES.

1:13:37COUNCIL.

1:13:38PIPPIN.

1:13:38YES, COUNSELOR AND YES.

1:13:40COUNCIL.

1:13:40SANTANA.

1:13:40YES, COUNSELOR.

1:13:41SANTANA.

1:13:42YES.

1:13:42COUNCIL.

1:13:43WEBER.

1:13:43YES.

1:13:44COUNCIL.

1:13:44WEBER.

1:13:44YES AND COUNCIL.

1:13:45WORLD.

1:13:46YES.

1:13:46COUNCIL.

1:13:47WORLD.

1:13:47YES.

1:13:47TALKING NUMBER ONE 8 TO 9 AS WE

1:13:50SEE 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

1:13:51.

1:13:52THANK YOU.

1:13:53>> THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

1:13:54ON WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS

1:13:55ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

1:13:55REPORT AND PASSENGER DOCKET

1:13:571830.

1:13:58ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I, UH,

1:14:00MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:14:01CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:14:03COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR

1:14:04AS A.

1:14:05YES COUNSELOR.

1:14:06COLORS A YES COUNSELOR CULPA.

1:14:09COUNSELOR.

1:14:09CULPEPER.

1:14:10YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:10DURKAN.

1:14:11YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:12DURKAN.

1:14:12YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:13FITZGERALD.

1:14:14COUNSELOR.

1:14:14SHOW.

1:14:14YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:15FLYNN.

1:14:15YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:16FLYNN.

1:14:17YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:17LOUIJEUNE.

1:14:18YES.

1:14:18COUNSELOR.

1:14:19LOUIJEUNE.

1:14:19YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:20MEJIA.

1:14:20COUNSELOR.

1:14:21MEJIA.

1:14:21YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:22MURPHY.

1:14:23COUNSELOR.

1:14:23MURPHY.

1:14:24YES.

1:14:24COUNCIL.

1:14:24PIPPIN.

1:14:25COUNSELOR.

1:14:26THE PEN.

1:14:26YES.

1:14:27COUNCIL.

1:14:27SANTANA.

1:14:28COUNSELOR.

1:14:29SANTANA.

1:14:29YES.

1:14:29COUNSELOR.

1:14:30WEBER.

1:14:31COUNSELOR.

1:14:31WEBB'S AND COUNSELOR.

1:14:32WORLD.

1:14:33YEAH.

1:14:33COUNSELOR.

1:14:34OH, YES.

1:14:34TALKING NUMBER 1830 HAS

1:14:36RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE

1:14:38AFFIRMATIVE.

1:14:38THANK YOU.

1:14:39THE CHAIR OF WAYS MEANS SEEKS

1:14:40ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

1:14:41REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

1:14:431831.

1:14:44ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:14:45MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:14:46DOCTOR ROLL CALL.

1:14:46VOTE COUNSELOR BRIEF COUNSELOR

1:14:48COLLETTE AS A PILOT.

1:14:49YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:50COLOR AS A BODY.

1:14:51YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:52CULPEPER.

1:14:52COUNSELOR.

1:14:54CULPEPER.

1:14:54YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:55DURKAN.

1:14:55COUNSELOR.

1:14:56DURKAN.

1:14:56YES, COUNSELOR.

1:14:57FITZGERALD.

1:14:58COUNSELOR FOR SO.

1:15:00YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:00FLYNN.

1:15:01YES.

1:15:01IT'S A FLYNN.

1:15:02YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:03LOUIJEUNE.

1:15:03COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:15:05YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:05MEJIA.

1:15:06COUNSELOR MEJIA.

1:15:07YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:08MURPHY.

1:15:08YEAH.

1:15:09COUNSELOR.

1:15:09MURPHY.

1:15:09YES.

1:15:10COUNCIL.

1:15:10PIPPIN.

1:15:11COUNSELOR.

1:15:12VAN.

1:15:12YES.

1:15:13CONSTANTIN.

1:15:13YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:14SANTANA.

1:15:15YES.

1:15:15COUNSELOR.

1:15:15WEBER.

1:15:16YES.

1:15:16COUNCIL.

1:15:17WEBER.

1:15:17YES AND COUNSELOR.

1:15:18YES.

1:15:19COUNCILOR WORRELL.

1:15:20YES.

1:15:21TALK NUMBER 1831 HAS RECEIVED

1:15:2312 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:15:25THANK YOU.

1:15:26>> THE CHAIR ON WAYS AND MEANS

1:15:27SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:15:27COMMITTEE REPORT AND POSITIVE

1:15:28DOCKET 1832.

1:15:30MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:15:31CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:15:33COUNSELOR BREAK.

1:15:34COUNSELOR COLADAS A PARTY?

1:15:35YES, AS A PARTY.

1:15:36YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:37CULPEPER.

1:15:38COUNSELOR.

1:15:39CULPEPER.

1:15:39YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:40DURKAN.

1:15:41COUNSELOR.

1:15:41DURKAN.

1:15:42YES.

1:15:42COUNSELOR.

1:15:42FITZGERALD.

1:15:43COUNSELOR.

1:15:44FITZGERALD.

1:15:44YES.

1:15:45COUNSELOR.

1:15:45FLYNN.

1:15:45YES.

1:15:46COUNCILOR.

1:15:46FLYNN.

1:15:47YES.

1:15:47COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:15:48COUNSELOR.

1:15:49LOUIJEUNE.

1:15:49YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:50MEJIA COUNSELING MEJIA.

1:15:52YES.

1:15:52COUNSELOR.

1:15:52MURPHY.

1:15:53COUNSELOR.

1:15:53MURPHY.

1:15:54YES.

1:15:54COUNSELOR.

1:15:55PIPPIN.

1:15:56COUNSELOR.

1:15:56PEN.

1:15:56YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:57SANTANA.

1:15:58YES, COUNSELOR.

1:15:59SANTANA.

1:15:59YES.

1:16:00COUNCILOR.

1:16:00WEBER.

1:16:01COUNSELOR.

1:16:02WEBER.

1:16:02YES AND COUNSELOR.

1:16:03WORLD COUNSELOR.

1:16:04OH, YES.

1:16:06TALKING A1832 IS RECEIVED 12

1:16:08VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:16:10THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

1:16:11WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE

1:16:12OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

1:16:13PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1833.

1:16:15MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:16:16CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:16:18COUNSELOR BRAIN CANCER.

1:16:20COLLETTE.

1:16:20YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:21CLOSET.

1:16:22>> YES.

1:16:22COUNSELOR.

1:16:23CULPEPER.

1:16:23COUNSELOR.

1:16:24CULPEPER.

1:16:25YES.

1:16:25COUNSELOR.

1:16:25DURKAN.

1:16:26COUNSELOR.

1:16:27DURKAN.

1:16:27YES.

1:16:28COUNSELOR.

1:16:28FITZGERALD.

1:16:28YES.

1:16:29COUNCILOR.

1:16:30FITZGERALD.

1:16:30YES.

1:16:30COUNSELOR.

1:16:31FLYNN.

1:16:31YES.

1:16:31COUNSELOR.

1:16:32FLYNN.

1:16:32YES.

1:16:33COUNSELOR.

1:16:33LOUIJEUNE.

1:16:34YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:34WHO'S IN?

1:16:35YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:35MEJIA.

1:16:37YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:40MEJIA.

1:16:40PRESENT.

1:16:42COUNSELOR.

1:16:42MURPHY.

1:16:43COUNSELOR.

1:16:44MURPHY.

1:16:44YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:45PEN COUNSELOR PENNY HAS

1:16:46COUNSELOR SANTANA.

1:16:48YEAH.

1:16:48COUNSELOR.

1:16:48SANTANA.

1:16:49YES, COUNSELOR.

1:16:50WEBER.

1:16:50COUNSELOR LIVES AND COUNSELOR.

1:16:52WORLD COUNSELOR.

1:16:53OH, YES.

1:16:55TALKING OF A1833 HAS RECEIVED

1:16:5811 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND

1:16:59ONE PRESENT.

1:17:01THANK YOU.

1:17:02UH, THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS

1:17:04SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:17:05COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE

1:17:06OF DOCKET 1834.

1:17:07MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:17:08CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:17:09COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR COLOR

1:17:11AS A PARTNER?

1:17:12YES, COUNSELOR.

1:17:13CLOSE BODY.

1:17:14YES.

1:17:14COUNCILOR.

1:17:15CULPEPER.

1:17:16COUNSELOR.

1:17:16CULPEPER.

1:17:17YES, COUNSELOR.

1:17:17DURKAN.

1:17:18COUNSELOR.

1:17:19DURKAN.

1:17:19YES.

1:17:19COUNSELOR.

1:17:20FITZGERALD.

1:17:21COUNSELOR.

1:17:21SHOW.

1:17:22YES.

1:17:22COUNSELOR.

1:17:22FLYNN.

1:17:23YES.

1:17:23COUNCILOR.

1:17:24SUN.

1:17:24YES.

1:17:25COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:17:26COUNSELOR.

1:17:26LOUIJEUNE.

1:17:27YES, COUNSELOR.

1:17:28MEJIA.

1:17:29COUNSELOR.

1:17:30>> MEJIA.

1:17:30PRESENT.

1:17:31COUNSELOR.

1:17:32MURPHY.

1:17:32COUNSELOR.

1:17:33MURPHY.

1:17:33YES.

1:17:34COUNCILOR.

1:17:34PIPPIN.

1:17:35COUNSELOR.

1:17:35PEN.

1:17:35YES.

1:17:36COUNCILOR.

1:17:36SANTANA.

1:17:37YEAH.

1:17:37COUNSELOR.

1:17:38SANTANA.

1:17:38YES.

1:17:38COUNSELOR.

1:17:39WEBER.

1:17:39COUNSELOR.

1:17:40WEBER.

1:17:40YES AND COUNSELOR.

1:17:41WORLD COUNSELOR.

1:17:42ORAL.

1:17:43YES.

1:17:44DOCKET NUMBER 1834 IS RECEIVED

1:17:4711 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND

1:17:48ONE PRESENT.

1:17:49THANK YOU.

1:17:50THE CHAIR OF WAYS MEANS THE

1:17:51ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

1:17:52REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

1:17:541835.

1:17:54MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:17:56CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

1:17:57COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR

1:17:58COLLETTE AS A PUBLIC YES,

1:17:59COUNSELOR.

1:18:00CLOSE BY.

1:18:01YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:01CULPEPER.

1:18:02COUNSELOR.

1:18:03CULPEPER.

1:18:03YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:04DURKAN.

1:18:05COUNSELOR.

1:18:05DURKAN.

1:18:06YES.

1:18:06COUNSELOR.

1:18:07FITZGERALD.

1:18:07COUNSELOR.

1:18:08FITZGERALD.

1:18:08YES.

1:18:09COUNSELOR.

1:18:09FLYNN.

1:18:09YES.

1:18:10COUNSELOR.

1:18:10FLYNN.

1:18:11YES.

1:18:11COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:18:13COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:18:13YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:14MEJIA.

1:18:15COUNSELOR.

1:18:16MEJIA.

1:18:16PRESENT.

1:18:17COUNSELOR.

1:18:17MURPHY.

1:18:19COUNSELOR.

1:18:19MURPHY.

1:18:19YES, COUNCILOR.

1:18:20PUT PEN.

1:18:20COUNSELOR.

1:18:21PEN.

1:18:21YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:22SANTANA.

1:18:23COUNSELOR.

1:18:24SANTANA.

1:18:24YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:25WEBER.

1:18:25YES.

1:18:26COUNSELOR.

1:18:27BUT YES.

1:18:27AND COUNSELOR.

1:18:28WORLD.

1:18:28YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:29OH, YES.

1:18:30TALKING OF THE 1835 HAS

1:18:33RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

1:18:34AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.

1:18:36THANK YOU.

1:18:37I SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT

1:18:38EACH COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

1:18:39ACCEPTED AND, UH, THIS DOCKET

1:18:411835 HAS PASSED AS UH.

1:18:43WORD 1834 AND 1833.

1:18:45I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MATTERS,

1:18:46MR CLERK.

1:18:47UM, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

1:18:48ON WAYS AND MEANS SEEKS

1:18:49ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE

1:18:50REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

1:18:511836.

1:18:53COUNSELOR GREAT COUNSELOR

1:18:55COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.

1:18:55YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:56CLOSE BY.

1:18:57YES, COUNSELOR.

1:18:57CULPEPER.

1:18:58COUNSELOR.

1:18:59CULPEPER.

1:18:59YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:00DURKAN.

1:19:00YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:01DURKAN.

1:19:02YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:02FITZGERALD.

1:19:03COUNSELOR OF HIS SHOW.

1:19:04YES.

1:19:05COUNSELOR.

1:19:05FLYNN.

1:19:06COUNCIL.

1:19:06FLYNN.

1:19:07YES.

1:19:07COUNSELOR.

1:19:07LOUIJEUNE.

1:19:08COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:19:09YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:09MEJIA.

1:19:11COUNSELOR.

1:19:11MEJIA.

1:19:12PRESENT.

1:19:13COUNSELOR.

1:19:13MURPHY.

1:19:14COUNSELOR.

1:19:14MURPHY.

1:19:15YES, COUNCILOR.

1:19:15PUT PEN.

1:19:16COUNSELOR.

1:19:16PEN.

1:19:17YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:17SANTANA.

1:19:18YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:19SANTANA.

1:19:19YES.

1:19:20COUNSELOR.

1:19:20WEBER.

1:19:21YES.

1:19:21COUNCIL.

1:19:21WEBER.

1:19:22YES AND COUNSELOR.

1:19:23WORLD COUNSELOR.

1:19:24YES.

1:19:25TALKING NUMBER 1836 AS WE SEE

1:19:2811 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND

1:19:30ONE PRESENT.

1:19:30THANK YOU.

1:19:31THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

1:19:32ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1836 HAS

1:19:34PASSED.

1:19:34THE, UH THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND

1:19:36MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE

1:19:37COMMITTEE REPORT AND PATCHES

1:19:38OF DOCKET 1837.

1:19:39MR CLERK, PLEASE CONDUCT ROLL

1:19:40CALL.

1:19:40VOTE COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR

1:19:42COLETTE AS A PARTNER.

1:19:43YES.

1:19:43COUNCIL GOES BUTTER.

1:19:44YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:45CULPEPER.

1:19:46COUNSELOR.

1:19:47CULPEPER.

1:19:47YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:48DURKAN.

1:19:48YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:49DURKAN.

1:19:50YES.

1:19:50COUNSELOR.

1:19:51FITZGERALD.

1:19:52COUNSELOR.

1:19:52FISHER.

1:19:52YES.

1:19:53COUNSELOR.

1:19:53FLYNN.

1:19:54YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:55FLYNN.

1:19:55YES.

1:19:56COUNSELOR.

1:19:56LOUIJEUNE.

1:19:57COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:19:58YES, COUNSELOR.

1:19:59MEJIA.

1:19:59COUNSELOR.

1:20:00MEJIA.

1:20:00PRESENT.

1:20:01COUNSELOR.

1:20:02MURPHY.

1:20:03COUNSELOR.

1:20:03MURPHY.

1:20:03YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:04THE PEN COUNSELOR FOR PEN.

1:20:06YES.

1:20:06COUNCIL.

1:20:06SANTANA.

1:20:07YEAH.

1:20:08COUNSELOR.

1:20:08SANTANA.

1:20:08YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:09WEBER.

1:20:10YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:11WEBSITE AND COUNSELOR.

1:20:11EARL.

1:20:12COUNSELOR.

1:20:13WELL, YES.

1:20:14TALKING NUMBER 1837 HAS

1:20:16RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

1:20:18AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.

1:20:19THANK YOU.

1:20:20>> THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS

1:20:21BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1837

1:20:23HAS PASSED.

1:20:24MR. CLERK, UM, EXCUSE ME.

1:20:26THE CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON WAYS

1:20:27AND MEANS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE

1:20:28OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND

1:20:28PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1838.

1:20:30IT'S KIRK.

1:20:30PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL

1:20:32VOTE.

1:20:32COUNSELOR BRAIN COUNSELOR

1:20:34COLLETTE AS A PARTNER?

1:20:35YES.

1:20:35I SUPPOSE BUT A YES.

1:20:36COUNSELOR.

1:20:37CULPEPER.

1:20:37COUNSELOR.

1:20:38CULPEPER.

1:20:38YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:39DURKAN.

1:20:40COUNSELOR.

1:20:41DURKAN.

1:20:41YES.

1:20:42COUNCILOR IS CHERYL.

1:20:43COUNSELOR.

1:20:44SO YES.

1:20:44COUNSELOR.

1:20:45FLYNN.

1:20:45COUNSELOR.

1:20:46FLYNN.

1:20:47YES.

1:20:47COUNSELOR.

1:20:47LOUIJEUNE.

1:20:48YES.

1:20:49SUZANNE.

1:20:49YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:50MEJIA.

1:20:51COUNSELOR.

1:20:51MEJIA.

1:20:51PRESENT.

1:20:52COUNSELOR.

1:20:52MURPHY.

1:20:53YES, COUNSELOR.

1:20:54MURPHY.

1:20:54YES.

1:20:54COUNCIL.

1:20:55PIPPIN.

1:20:55COUNSELOR.

1:20:56PEN.

1:20:56YES.

1:20:57COUNCIL.

1:20:57SANTANA.

1:20:58COUNSELOR.

1:20:59SANTANA.

1:20:59YES.

1:21:00COUNSELOR.

1:21:00WEBER.

1:21:00YES, COUNSELOR.

1:21:01YES AND COUNSELOR.

1:21:02EARL.

1:21:03COUNSELOR.

1:21:03ROLL.

1:21:04YES.

1:21:04TALKING NUMBER 1838 HAS

1:21:07RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

1:21:08AFFIRMATIVE AND ONE PRESENT.

1:21:10THANK YOU.

1:21:11THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN

1:21:12ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 1838 HAS

1:21:14PASSED.

1:21:15WE ARE NOW ON TO MOTIONS,

1:21:16ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS A

1:21:17REMINDER THAT UNDER RULE 39

1:21:19REMARKS ARE NEW MATTERS NOT UP

1:21:21FOR VOTE TODAY SHALL BE LIMITED

1:21:22TO THREE MINUTES FOR THE LEAD

1:21:23SPONSOR AND TWO MINUTES FOR THE

1:21:25CO-SPONSORS.

1:21:25MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

1:21:27DOCKET 1917.

1:21:28TALKING 1917 COUNSELORS FOR

1:21:31MURPHY AND FLYNN FOR THE

1:21:33FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:21:34REGARDING CITY FUNDING FOR

1:21:36HEALTH SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS

1:21:38SUPPORT FOR BOSTON'S.

1:21:39FIRST RESPONDERS.

1:21:40THANK YOU.

1:21:41>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:21:42COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL YOU

1:21:43HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:21:44THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:21:46COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I ARE

1:21:47BRINGING THIS HEARING ORDER

1:21:49FORWARD BECAUSE OUR FIRST

1:21:50RESPONDERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO

1:21:51ORGANIZE GOLF TOURNAMENTS OR

1:21:53SPEND UNION FUNDS TO OBTAIN

1:21:55ESSENTIAL HEALTH SCREENINGS.

1:21:58AT A RECENT HEARING.

1:21:59PRESIDENT GRIFFIN EXPLAINED

1:22:01THAT THE DETECTIVES UNION

1:22:02RAISES MONEY AND USES ITS OWN

1:22:04FUNDS TO PROVIDE THESE

1:22:05SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS

1:22:06SUPPORT.

1:22:07WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY THESE

1:22:09SERVICES DEPEND ON FUNDRAISING

1:22:11AND WHAT THE CITY CAN DO TO

1:22:12PROVIDE DEPENDABLE SUPPORT.

1:22:15I HAVE PUBLICLY SUPPORTED

1:22:16EFFORTS TO PRESERVE

1:22:18CANCER SCREENINGS AND WELLNESS

1:22:19SUPPORT FOR OUR FIREFIGHTERS

1:22:21THAT IS IMPORTANT WORK OUR

1:22:23POLICE OFFICERS, DETECTIVE

1:22:25SUPERIOR OFFICE AND OUR EMS

1:22:26PERSONNEL NEED ACCESS TO

1:22:28APPROPRIATE SCREENINGS AND

1:22:30WELLNESS SERVICES AS WELL.

1:22:32THESE EMPLOYEES TAKE CARE

1:22:33OF BOSTON EVERY DAY.

1:22:35TAKING CARE OF THEIR HEALTH

1:22:36SHOULD BE PART OF OUR

1:22:38RESPONSIBILITY TO THEM.

1:22:39THIS HEARING WILL EXAMINE

1:22:41EXISTING SERVICES GAPS AND

1:22:43ACCESS COSTS AND OPTIONS FOR

1:22:46SUSTAINABLE CITY FUNDING.

1:22:48OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTIONS CAN HELP,

1:22:50BUT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS SHOULD

1:22:52NOT HAVE TO FUNDRAISE FOR

1:22:53ESSENTIAL PREVENTIVE CARE.

1:22:55I ASK THAT THIS SORT OF BE

1:22:56REFERRED TO FOR A HEARING SO WE

1:22:58CAN IDENTIFY THESE NEEDS AND

1:23:00WORK TOWARDS PERMANENTLY

1:23:01FUNDING THEM.

1:23:02>> THANK YOU.

1:23:03THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

1:23:04COUNCIL FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

1:23:04FLOOR.

1:23:06THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:23:08DURING THE.

1:23:10DURING LAST YEAR'S.

1:23:11BUDGET DEBATE I PROPOSED.

1:23:15AMENDMENTS TO SUPPORT OUR FIRST

1:23:17RESPONDERS.

1:23:18WITH HEALTH AND WELLNESS

1:23:20PROGRAMS WITH SCREENINGS.

1:23:22FOR POLICE, FOR.

1:23:24FIRE.

1:23:24>> FOR EMS.

1:23:26.

1:23:27THE CITY.

1:23:28COUNCIL HERE AGREED WITH ME.

1:23:30ON SUPPORT FOR.

1:23:31EMS PERSONNEL AND.

1:23:33I'M GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL FOR

1:23:34THAT.

1:23:36BUT I ALSO.

1:23:36BROUGHT FORWARD.

1:23:38AMENDMENTS TO SUPPORT HEALTH.

1:23:40>> AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND

1:23:42SCREENINGS FOR.

1:23:43>> OUR POLICE OFFICERS.

1:23:45AND FIREFIGHTERS.

1:23:49THE CITY.

1:23:50>> COUNCIL VOTED AGAINST IT.

1:23:54LET ME SAY THAT.

1:23:55AGAIN THE.

1:23:57BOSTON CITY COUNCIL WENT ON

1:23:59RECORD VOTING AGAINST HEALTH.

1:24:01>> AND.

1:24:02WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND

1:24:03SCREENINGS, SCREENINGS, FUNDING

1:24:05.

1:24:06FOR POLICE OFFICERS.

1:24:08AND FIREFIGHTERS.

1:24:12WE ALSO.

1:24:13KNOW THAT.

1:24:14POLICE OFFICERS.

1:24:15ARE FUNDRAISING.

1:24:19TO MAKE.

1:24:20UP THAT MONEY.

1:24:21SO THAT THEY CAN.

1:24:22>> GET.

1:24:22THE NECESSARY.

1:24:24SCREENINGS SO THAT IT.

1:24:25>> CAN BE.

1:24:26HEALTHY.

1:24:27>> PRODUCTIVE ON THE JOB AND AT

1:24:31HOME.

1:24:33BUT IS THAT.

1:24:34REALLY WHAT THIS CITY IS.

1:24:36ABOUT IS.

1:24:38NOT FULLY.

1:24:39FUNDING HEALTH AND WELLNESS

1:24:41PROGRAMS AND SCREENINGS.

1:24:43VARIOUS SCREENINGS FOR POLICE

1:24:45OFFICERS.

1:24:46AND FIREFIGHTERS.

1:24:49THAT'S NOT.

1:24:50>> THE BOSTON I KNOW.

1:24:54WE CAN'T BALANCE THE BUDGET ON

1:24:56THE BACKS OF.

1:24:57>> OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.

1:24:59WE CAN'T BALANCE THE BUDGET ON

1:25:01THE BACKS OF.

1:25:02CITY EMPLOYEES AND WE CERTAINLY

1:25:04CAN'T.

1:25:05BALANCE THE BUDGET ON THE BACK

1:25:07OF VETERANS AND OUR MILITARY

1:25:08FAMILIES AS WELL.

1:25:09THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:25:10THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:25:12UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

1:25:15ADD THEIR NAME?

1:25:18MR CORRECTLY SAID

1:25:19COUNCIL CULPEPER

1:25:20COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:25:21COUNCIL FITZGERALD

1:25:21COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:25:22COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL BUT

1:25:23THEN COUNCILOR SANTANA

1:25:25COUNCIL WHETHER THAT'S ALL

1:25:26AROUND PLEASE AT THE CHAIR

1:25:28THANK YOU DOCKET 1917 WILL BE

1:25:30REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:25:32WAYS AND MEANS.

1:25:34MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

1:25:36DOCKET 1981918.

1:25:38TALKING OF A1918

1:25:40COUNCIL OFFLINE OFF OF THE

1:25:42FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:25:44TO DISCUSS THE DEDICATION

1:25:46OF HERO SQUARES AND BLUE

1:25:47SQUARES THAT HONOR VETERANS AND

1:25:49MILITARY FAMILIES BEING PLACED

1:25:52SOLELY UNDER THE PURVIEW

1:25:54OF BOSTON VETERANS SERVICES.

1:25:56THANK YOU.

1:25:56>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:25:57COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:25:58YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:25:59THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:26:00MADAM CHAIR, MAY I HAD

1:26:02COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AN

1:26:03ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND

1:26:05THE RULES AND ADD

1:26:06COUNCILOR MURPHY AS WELL.

1:26:07SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:26:08OBJECTIONS.

1:26:08THEY ARE SO ADDED.

1:26:10THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:26:12A HERO SQUARE IS A DESIGNATED

1:26:13SQUARE OR INTERSECTION.

1:26:15HONORING THE MEMORY.

1:26:16>> OF.

1:26:17A SERVICE.

1:26:17MEMBER WHO CELEBRATE THEIR.

1:26:19SACRIFICE AND EDUCATE LOCAL

1:26:20COMMUNITIES ABOUT THE HISTORY

1:26:23OF.

1:26:23SERVICE IN.

1:26:24>> OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:26:25TODAY I.

1:26:25WANT TO.

1:26:26>> FOCUS ON BLUE SQUARE

1:26:27DEDICATION.

1:26:27THAT HONOR OUR VETERANS

1:26:29MILITARY FAMILIES.

1:26:31.

1:26:31>> BOSTON AS A HAS HISTORICALLY

1:26:33.

1:26:33ESTABLISHED BLUE SQUARES TO

1:26:34DEDICATE A CITY SQUARE IN.

1:26:36HONOR OF.

1:26:37NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE LEFT.

1:26:40A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THEIR

1:26:42COMMUNITY.

1:26:42RECENTLY IN SOUTH.

1:26:43BOSTON, MY NEIGHBOR.

1:26:45A MILITARY.

1:26:46FAMILY REQUESTED TO ESTABLISH A

1:26:48BLUE SQUARE.

1:26:49TO HONOR THE MEMORY.

1:26:50SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF.

1:26:52>> A NAVY CORPSMAN.

1:26:53WHO SAVED MANY.

1:26:54LIVES IN THE IRAQ WAR FOR MANY

1:26:57YEARS A.

1:26:57FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN HIS

1:26:59NAME WORKED TIRELESSLY TO BOTH

1:27:02RAISE AWARENESS OF.

1:27:03>> THE HIDDEN WOUNDS OF.

1:27:04WAR, POST-TRAUMATIC.

1:27:05STRESS AS WELL AS RAISING.

1:27:07TENS OF THOUSANDS OF.

1:27:08DOLLARS TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS

1:27:10TO OUR LOCAL YOUTH.

1:27:12SINCE AUGUST, BOSTON VETERANS

1:27:14COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO OFFERED

1:27:16HIS FULL SUPPORT TO BOTH

1:27:18COORDINATE AND.

1:27:19CONDUCT A CEREMONY WITH.

1:27:20MILITARY HONORS FOR THIS BLUE

1:27:22SQUARE.

1:27:22CEREMONY AS TRADITIONALLY DONE

1:27:24FOR BLUE SQUARE DEDICATION.

1:27:26TO VETERANS AND SERVICE

1:27:27MEMBERS.

1:27:28HOWEVER.

1:27:29THE FAMILY WAS NOTIFIED.

1:27:31THAT THIS REQUEST WAS GOING TO

1:27:33BE HANDLED BY THE OFFICE

1:27:34OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

1:27:36THE FAMILY WAS THEN.

1:27:37ASKED BY AND ASKED TO COLLECT

1:27:38200 SIGNATURES.

1:27:39CANNOT CONDUCT AN ABUTTERS.

1:27:41MEETING.

1:27:42>> RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM.

1:27:43>> THE.

1:27:43LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD CIVIC

1:27:44ASSOCIATION.

1:27:45REMEMBER AT THE SAME TIME

1:27:48COUNCILOR.

1:27:48CULPEPER, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:27:50.

1:27:50AND I.

1:27:51HAVE AN ORDINANCE TO CODIFY BUT

1:27:52AS MEETINGS BECAUSE AWARENESS

1:27:55HAS ALSO INFORMED DISTRICT CITY

1:27:57COUNCILORS THAT THE CITY WILL

1:27:58NOW DECIDE WHAT CVA CASES NEED

1:28:01COMMUNITY PROCESS IN WHICH

1:28:03DON'T ALSO A MILITARY FAMILY IS

1:28:06BEING ASKED FOR 200 SIGNATURES

1:28:08BUT RESIDENTS MAY BEGIN A

1:28:10PETITION FOR BOSTON LANDMARKS

1:28:12WITH TEN SIGNATURES TO ENSURE

1:28:15THAT MILITARY FAMILIES ARE.

1:28:16NO LONGER.

1:28:17BEING UNFAIRLY HELD TO A

1:28:19DIFFERENT.

1:28:19STANDARD OF.

1:28:20COMMUNITY PROCESS.

1:28:21IT'S CRITICAL THAT THIS PROCESS

1:28:22BE UNDER THE PURVIEW OF BOSTON

1:28:25VETERANS SERVICES.

1:28:26AS A RETIRED VETERAN WHO SERVED

1:28:2925 YEARS IN THE NAVY, IT'S

1:28:30BEYOND SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL TO

1:28:32ME THAT WITH THE LIMITED TO

1:28:34ALMOST NO DEVELOPMENT IN BOSTON

1:28:36AND VIRTUALLY ABOUT HIS

1:28:37MEETINGS CONDUCTED QUICKLY OVER

1:28:39ZOOM, A CITY DEPARTMENT THAT

1:28:41CONSIDERED ITSELF TOO BUSY TO.

1:28:43CONDUCT A COMMUNITY MEETING ON

1:28:44.

1:28:44DEVELOPMENT IS.

1:28:46NOW ABLE TO HOLD DEDICATIONS

1:28:49FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY

1:28:50FAMILIES TO A MORE EXTENSIVE

1:28:52PUBLIC PROCESS.

1:28:54OWENS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND

1:28:56MILITARY FAMILIES.

1:28:57AND VETERANS THAT NEEDS TO BE

1:28:59UNDER THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:29:00VETERANS SERVICES.

1:29:01DEPARTMENT ARE.

1:29:03>> MORE RESPECTFUL.

1:29:03THEY KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE

1:29:05WITH VETERANS.

1:29:06AND I'M SO UPSET AND ANGRY

1:29:08ABOUT HOW OWENS IS TREATING

1:29:10THIS MILITARY FAMILY.

1:29:11IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD OF.

1:29:13>> SOUTH BOSTON.

1:29:14THANK YOU.

1:29:14THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:29:16COUNCILOR SANTANA MURPHY, WOULD

1:29:17YOU LIKE TO, UH,

1:29:19COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE.

1:29:19THE MICROPHONE.

1:29:21THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:29:23UM, AND THANK YOU,

1:29:24COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR HAVING

1:29:25ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

1:29:26AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY

1:29:29ON BEHALF OF BOSTON'S VETERANS

1:29:30COMMUNITIES.

1:29:31BLUE SQUARES JUST LIKE HEROES

1:29:33SQUARES ARE A WAY OF HONORING

1:29:34OUR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE SERVED

1:29:35OUR COUNTRY.

1:29:36THEIR FAMILIES SHOULD BE

1:29:37TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND

1:29:38RESPECT, NOT GIVEN THE

1:29:40RUNAROUND AND FORCED TO HOLD

1:29:42AND ABUTTERS MEETINGS.

1:29:44CONSISTENCY IS KEY.

1:29:45,ESPECIALLY IN MATTERS

1:29:46OF GOVERNMENT AND POLICY.

1:29:47THE OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD

1:29:49SERVICES HAS A LOT OF CONCERNS,

1:29:50AND THE OFFICE OF VETERANS

1:29:51SERVICES ALREADY HAS A PROCESS

1:29:53AND THE NECESSARY LIVED

1:29:54EXPERIENCE TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:29:56THE BLUE SQUARES NAMING PROCESS

1:29:57CONTINUES TO RUN SMOOTHLY.

1:29:59I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING

1:30:00EVERYONE TOGETHER TO DISCUSS

1:30:01HOW WE CAN BEST STREAMLINE THIS

1:30:03PROCESS.

1:30:04THANK YOU.

1:30:04THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:30:05COUNCILOR MURPHY BEFORE.

1:30:07THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:30:08THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:30:10AND I'M SORRY THAT.

1:30:13YOU HAD TO BRING THIS FORWARD.

1:30:14THAT'S MORE SIGNATURES THAN A

1:30:16DISTRICT COUNSELOR NEEDS.

1:30:17>> TO GET TO.

1:30:18>> GET ON THE BALLOT TO BE

1:30:19ELECTED.

1:30:19SO I THINK IT IS EXTREMELY

1:30:22DISRESPECTFUL.

1:30:23UM.

1:30:24CLOSING.

1:30:25UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR ADDING MY

1:30:28NAME TO THIS HEARING ORDER HERO

1:30:30SQUARES AND BLUE SQUARES CARRY

1:30:33NAMES AND STORIES THAT BOSTON

1:30:35HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO

1:30:37PRESERVE.

1:30:38THESE DEDICATIONS MEAN A GREAT

1:30:39DEAL.

1:30:40TO THE VETERANS MILITARY

1:30:42FAMILIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS

1:30:43WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED.

1:30:45AND IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES UM

1:30:47HAVE BEEN I SAY IT OFTEN THAT

1:30:50SOUTH BOSTON DOES AN

1:30:52OUTSTANDING.

1:30:52JOB REMEMBERING AND RESPECTING

1:30:54THEIR VETERANS.

1:30:56I SUPPORT EXAMINING WHETHER

1:30:57BOSTON VETERANS SERVICES SHOULD

1:30:59LEAVE THIS WORK.

1:31:00I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD, BUT I

1:31:01THINK A CONVERSATION IS NEEDED

1:31:03TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL

1:31:05CLEAR THAT IT SHOULD BE AND

1:31:07SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN THE

1:31:09VETERANS SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

1:31:11FAMILIES SHOULD HAVE A CLEAR

1:31:13POINT OF CONTACT.

1:31:14THE PROCESS SHOULD BE

1:31:15RESPECTFUL, CONSISTENT AND

1:31:17ACCURATE FROM THE FIRST REQUEST

1:31:18THROUGH THE DEDICATION IN THE

1:31:21ONGOING CARE OF THE SQUARE.

1:31:22AS THE MOTHER OF A SON SERVING

1:31:24IN THE ARMY, I KNOW HOW MUCH IT

1:31:26MATTERS WHEN A CITY RECOGNIZES

1:31:28MILITARY SERVICE AND REMEMBERS

1:31:30THAT FAMILIES ARE BEHIND THEM.

1:31:33SO THANK YOU TO COUNCIL FLYNN

1:31:34FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND

1:31:35I'M LOOKING.

1:31:36FORWARD TO.

1:31:37>> HAVING A HEARING.

1:31:37SOON SO WE CAN GET THIS

1:31:39STRAIGHT.

1:31:39THANK YOU.

1:31:39THANK YOU.

1:31:40COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:31:40WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

1:31:42THEIR NAME?

1:31:45UH, MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD

1:31:47COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR.

1:31:48DURKAN COUNCILOR.

1:31:49FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.

1:31:50COPAN COUNCILOR WEBER

1:31:52COUNCIL ORAL COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:31:53AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:31:55THANK YOU.

1:31:56DOCKET 1918 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:31:58THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS,

1:31:59MILITARY FAMILIES AND MILITARY

1:32:02AFFAIRS.

1:32:03MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

1:32:04DOCKET 1919.

1:32:05TALKING NUMBER 1919

1:32:07COUNCILOR FLYING OFF OF THE

1:32:08FOLLOWING.

1:32:09FLORIDA FOR A HEARING TO

1:32:10DISCUSS STALKING AND

1:32:11RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE AT

1:32:13COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN

1:32:15THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:32:18UH THANK YOU MR.

1:32:20MISTER COUNCILMAN, YOU NOW HAVE

1:32:21A QUESTION.

1:32:22THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:32:24MADAM CHAIR, MAY I.

1:32:25>> ADD COUNCIL.

1:32:26SANTANA AS AN ORIGINAL.

1:32:27CO-SPONSOR PLEASE?

1:32:30UH SO ADDED.

1:32:31THANK YOU.

1:32:33RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE DESCRIBES

1:32:35A PATTERN OF ABUSIVE AND.

1:32:37CONTROLLING BEHAVIORS.

1:32:38AGAINST A CURRENT.

1:32:39OR FORMER PARTNER TO OBTAIN

1:32:41THEM AND MAINTAIN.

1:32:43POWER AND THE RELATIONSHIP.

1:32:44WITH KINSHIP VIOLENCE CAN

1:32:46INCLUDE PHYSICAL.

1:32:47AND EMOTIONAL.

1:32:48ABUSE.

1:32:49>> SEXUAL ABUSE.

1:32:50STALKING AND DIGITAL ABUSE.

1:32:53ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL

1:32:55COALITION.

1:32:55AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,

1:32:57ROUGHLY.

1:32:581 IN 5 COLLEGE STUDENTS.

1:32:59SO THEY HAVE BEEN.

1:33:00ABUSED BY A PARTNER.

1:33:02WOMEN ARE AT A HIGHER RATE RISK

1:33:04RATE THAN ANY OTHER SURVEY

1:33:06GROUP, ACCORDING TO THE JUSTICE

1:33:08DEPARTMENT.

1:33:10STALKING IS A WIDESPREAD

1:33:11PROBLEM ACROSS COLLEGES AND.

1:33:13UNIVERSITIES IN OUR COUNTRY.

1:33:15ACCORDING TO THE STALKING.

1:33:18PREVENTION AWARENESS AND.

1:33:19RESOURCE CENTER.

1:33:21UP TO 40% OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

1:33:24REPORT BEING STALKED.

1:33:24SINCE STARTING.

1:33:26COLLEGE STUDENTS AT HIGHER RISK

1:33:28FOR EXPERIENCE.

1:33:30STALKING INCLUDE WOMEN.

1:33:32STUDENTS OF COLOR, STUDENTS IN

1:33:34THE LGBTQ PLUS.

1:33:35COMMUNITY AND.

1:33:37STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

1:33:39THE CLEARY ACT IS A FEDERAL

1:33:41CONSUMER PROTECTION.

1:33:42LAW THAT WAS ENACTED IN 1990.

1:33:45AFTER A COLLEGE STUDENT WAS

1:33:46SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.

1:33:47AND MURDERED.

1:33:48IN HER.

1:33:48COLLEGE DORM.

1:33:49THE LAW REQUIRES COLLEGES AND

1:33:51UNIVERSITIES TO TO DISCLOSE

1:33:53CAMPUS CRIME STATS AND SECURITY

1:33:56POLICIES.

1:33:57THE CAMPUS SAFE ACT, CAMPUS

1:33:59SEXUAL.

1:34:00VIOLENCE ELIMINATION ACT

1:34:03FURTHER.

1:34:04AMENDS THE.

1:34:04>> QUERY ACT BY IMPROVING

1:34:06TRANSPARENCY, SURVIVOR SUPPORT,

1:34:09PREVENTION EDUCATION.

1:34:10RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL.

1:34:12VIOLENCE EDUCATION AS WELL.

1:34:16IT'S CRITICAL THAT OUR COLLEGES

1:34:18AND UNIVERSITIES HERE IN BOSTON

1:34:20ARE ACTUALLY ACCURATELY

1:34:22REPORTING EVERY INCIDENT.

1:34:24OF RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE.

1:34:25AND STALKING.

1:34:28THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE

1:34:29BOSTON POLICE TO SUPPORT OUR

1:34:31COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AS

1:34:33WELL.

1:34:34IN PREVENTING.

1:34:35RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE.

1:34:36AND STALKING AND ENSURE THAT

1:34:38ANY INDIVIDUALS.

1:34:39FOUND TO.

1:34:39>> COMMIT A CRIME.

1:34:40AGAINST THEIR PARTNER ARE

1:34:42PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY.

1:34:44IN THE CRIMINAL.

1:34:45JUSTICE SYSTEM.

1:34:46THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:34:47THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:34:49COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW HAVE

1:34:49THE FLOOR.

1:34:51THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:34:53AND UH, THANK YOU

1:34:54COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR INCLUDING

1:34:56ME AS A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

1:34:57HEARING ORDER RIGHT NOW ALL

1:34:59EYES ARE ON THE COLLEGE

1:35:01CAMPUSES BECAUSE OF THE

1:35:02HORRIFIC SITUATION AT CORNELL.

1:35:04BUT LET'S BE ENTIRELY CLEAR

1:35:06THIS CRISIS DIDN'T START WITH

1:35:07THE LATEST LATEST HEADLINES

1:35:10RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE AND

1:35:11STALKING ARE KNOWN.

1:35:13THIS HAS BEEN A QUIET

1:35:15SYSTEMATIC CRISIS BURNING ON

1:35:17OUR CAMPUSES FOR YEARS.

1:35:18IT HAPPENS OUT IN THE OPEN

1:35:20EVERY SINGLE DAY.

1:35:22LOOK AT THE NUMBERS.

1:35:23LOOK AT THE REALITY.

1:35:25COLLEGE AGE VICTIMS ACCOUNT FOR

1:35:27NEARLY ONE THIRD OF ALL RAPES

1:35:29REPORTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ONE

1:35:31THIRD.

1:35:33THAT ISN'T JUST A STATISTIC

1:35:34THAT IS A MASSIVE STRUCTURAL

1:35:36ALARM BELL.

1:35:381 IN 4 STUDENTS SAY SEXUAL

1:35:39ASSAULT AND MISCONDUCT ARE

1:35:40DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC AT THEIR

1:35:42SCHOOLS.

1:35:43STUDENTS ARE TELLING US

1:35:44DIRECTLY THEY DO NOT FEEL SAFE

1:35:46WHERE THEY LIVE AND LEARN.

1:35:48AND IF WE'RE GOING TO CONFRONT

1:35:50THE CRISIS, WE HAVE TO FIGHT

1:35:52FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT,

1:35:53ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE

1:35:54ROUTINELY LEFT OUT OF THE ROOM

1:35:56WHEN DECISIONS ARE MADE, DATA

1:35:58FROM THE NETWORK SHOW SHOWS

1:36:01THAT ONE OF EVERY FOUR LGBTQ

1:36:03PLUS YOUTH WILL EXPERIENCE

1:36:04ABUSE FROM A DATING PARTNER 1

1:36:07IN 4 THAT IS A DEVASTATING

1:36:10REALITY AND WE CANNOT AND WILL

1:36:11NOT ALLOW OUR LGBTQ TOWARDS

1:36:14PLUS STUDENTS TO BE SIDELINED,

1:36:16IGNORED OR LEFT TO NAVIGATE

1:36:18DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS ON THEIR

1:36:20OWN.

1:36:21I'M NOT GOING TO STAND HERE AND

1:36:22PRETEND THAT A SINGLE HEARING

1:36:24ORDER IS GOING TO MAGICALLY

1:36:26ERADICATE TEMPLE CAMPUS SEXUAL

1:36:28VIOLENCE OVERNIGHT.

1:36:29IT WON'T BUT WE HAVE TO START

1:36:31MOVING THE NEEDLE.

1:36:33WE NEED UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP,

1:36:35CITY OFFICIALS AND MOST

1:36:36IMPORTANTLY IMPACTED YOUTH

1:36:38SITTING IN THE EXACT SAME TABLE

1:36:40HAVING HONEST, UNCOMFORTABLE

1:36:42CONVERSATIONS AND WORKING

1:36:43TOGETHER.

1:36:44THIS IS HOW WE DRIVE REAL

1:36:46SYSTEMATIC CHANGE AND THAT IS

1:36:47HOW WE TAKE A NECESSARY STEP

1:36:49TOWARDS MAKING OUR COLLEGE

1:36:51CAMPUSES ACTUALLY SAFE.

1:36:52THANK YOU.

1:36:53THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

1:36:54COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU WANTED TO

1:36:55PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REMARKS?

1:36:56YEAH.

1:36:57>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:36:58UM, MADAM CHAIR, I FEEL TO UM.

1:37:00UM, MENTIONED THAT

1:37:02COUNCILOR MURPHY UM, WOULD.

1:37:04>> BE.

1:37:04ADDED FOR.

1:37:05A AS.

1:37:06>> AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:37:06>> MAY I MAKE THAT REQUEST?

1:37:07UH, YES.

1:37:08SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:37:09OBJECTION.

1:37:09SHE HAS HER ADDED COUNCIL.

1:37:10MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:37:12THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:37:13UM, AND THANK YOU,

1:37:15COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR FILING THIS

1:37:16IMPORTANT HEARING ORDER THE

1:37:19DISTURBING.

1:37:20SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS AT

1:37:22CORNELL AND THE SERIOUS

1:37:23QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE

1:37:25UNIVERSITY RESPONDED SHOULD

1:37:27MAKE EVERY COLLEGE COMMUNITY

1:37:28EXAMINE WHETHER ITS STUDENTS

1:37:29ARE BEING PROTECTED.

1:37:32WOMEN DESERVE TO BE SAFE.

1:37:33ALL PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE SAFE

1:37:35ON CAMPUS IN THEIR HOMES AND

1:37:37THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.

1:37:38WHEN SOMEONE REPORTS STALKING

1:37:40THREATS, RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE

1:37:42OR SEXUAL ASSAULT THEY DESERVE

1:37:43TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND

1:37:45RECEIVE TIMELY PROTECTION AND

1:37:47SUPPORT.

1:37:48BOSTON WELCOME STUDENTS FROM

1:37:50ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND

1:37:51THE WORLD.

1:37:52THEY LIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS,

1:37:53WORK IN OUR BUSINESSES AND OUR

1:37:55PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.

1:37:56OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THE

1:37:58PEOPLE OF BOSTON INCLUDES THEM

1:38:00.

1:38:01IT DOES NOT STOP AT THE

1:38:02ENTRANCE TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS.

1:38:04WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

1:38:06HAPPENS AFTER A STUDENT ASKS

1:38:08FOR HELP WHO RESPONDS HOW

1:38:11QUICKLY.

1:38:11WHAT PROTECTION IS AVAILABLE?

1:38:13HOW DO COLLEGES COORDINATE WITH

1:38:15THE BOSTON POLICE AND

1:38:16ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT

1:38:18SURVIVORS?

1:38:20I KNOW FAMILIES SEND THEIR

1:38:21CHILDREN TO COLLEGE EXPECTING

1:38:23THEM TO BE SAFE.

1:38:24I DID WHEN MY CHILDREN WENT OFF

1:38:26.

1:38:27STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO

1:38:28CHOOSE BETWEEN CONTINUING THEIR

1:38:30EDUCATION AND PROTECTING

1:38:31THEMSELVES.

1:38:32SO THANK YOU AGAIN TO

1:38:34COUNCILOR FLYNN AND

1:38:35COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR

1:38:36PARTNERING AND FOR BRINGING

1:38:37THIS FORWARD AND LOOKING

1:38:39FORWARD TO A HEARING.

1:38:40AND I DO JUST WANT TO ALSO

1:38:42SHOUT OUT THE COLLEGES THAT I

1:38:44KNOW MANY OF US WORK CLOSELY

1:38:45WITH AND I KNOW IN DOWNTOWN WE

1:38:47HAVE SUFFOLK AND EMMANUEL AND

1:38:49ALL OF THE COLLEGES HERE IN THE

1:38:51CITY AND I KNOW THAT THEY WILL

1:38:52UM WELCOME THIS.

1:38:54CONVERSATION SO.

1:38:54>> LOOKING FORWARD TO SPEAKING

1:38:55WITH THEM ALSO AND BEING PART

1:38:57OF THE SOLUTION.

1:38:57THANK YOU.

1:38:58THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:38:59WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

1:39:00THEIR NAME?

1:39:02MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:39:03STATE COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:39:04COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:39:05COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:39:06COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL THAT

1:39:06THEN COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE

1:39:08ADD A CHAIR.

1:39:10UH THANK YOU.

1:39:10DOCKET 1919 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:39:12THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

1:39:13AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:39:15MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ?

1:39:17I'M SORRY.

1:39:17PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR.

1:39:18I DON'T KNOW IF I SAID THAT.

1:39:19YES.

1:39:20I THINK YOU, UH, MR. CLERK, CAN

1:39:21YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 1920.

1:39:23DARK AND NUMBER 1920

1:39:26COUNCILOR MURPHY OVER THE

1:39:27PHONE.

1:39:27ORDER FOR A HEARING REGARDING

1:39:29DPS TRANSPORTATION PERFORMANCE

1:39:31AT THE OPENING OF THE 2026 2027

1:39:35SCHOOL YEAR CONTRACTOR

1:39:37ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRECTIVE

1:39:38ACTION.

1:39:39THANK YOU.

1:39:39>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:39:40COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:39:41YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:39:42THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:39:43UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:39:44COUNCILOR FLYNN, PLEASE.

1:39:45SO ADDED.

1:39:46THANK YOU.

1:39:48AN 80% ON-TIME RATE IS

1:39:51UNACCEPTABLE FOR A SCHOOL

1:39:52TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM COSTING

1:39:54CLOSE TO $200 MILLION.

1:39:57RIDERSHIP CONTINUES TO DROP,

1:39:58BUT THERE ARE STILL CLOSE TO

1:40:0020,000 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

1:40:01WHO DEPEND ON OUR SCHOOL BUSSES

1:40:03EVERY DAY DURING THE FIRST WEEK

1:40:06OF SCHOOL THIS YEAR, A 20%

1:40:09OF OUR BUSSES ARRIVED TO SCHOOL

1:40:12LATE.

1:40:12THAT IS 4000.

1:40:14CHILDREN WHO WERE.

1:40:15STRANDED AT BUS STOPS FOR HOURS

1:40:18OR NOT GETTING PICKED UP AT ALL

1:40:20IN MANY OF THEM AT THE END

1:40:22OF THE SCHOOL DAY ALSO WAITING

1:40:23AT SCHOOL TO GO HOME.

1:40:24IT IS UNACCEPTABLE WHEN

1:40:26STUDENTS ARE MISSING IMPORTANT

1:40:27CLASSROOM TIME AND FAMILIES ARE

1:40:30SCRAMBLING FOR ALTERNATIVES SO

1:40:31THEY CAN GET TO WORK AND MANY

1:40:34OF US.

1:40:34FEEL THOSE.

1:40:35CALLS WHEN MANY FAMILIES DON'T

1:40:37EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVES.

1:40:39I CONTINUOUSLY HEAR FROM

1:40:40FAMILIES AND TEACHERS ABOUT

1:40:42THESE FAILURES AT ONE SCHOOL,

1:40:44STUDENTS DISMISSED AT 210 ARE

1:40:47STILL THIS WEEK WAITING FOR

1:40:49TRANSPORTATION WELL PAST 430

1:40:51MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER

1:40:53DISMISSAL.

1:40:53WE ARE NOW INTO THE SECOND

1:40:55MONTH OF SCHOOL AND THIS IS

1:40:56STILL HAPPENING.

1:40:57CHILDREN ARE STUCK AT SCHOOL

1:40:59OFTEN FAR ACROSS THE CITY FROM

1:41:01HOME.

1:41:01PARENTS CANNOT SIMPLY LEAVE

1:41:03WORK TO PICK THEM UP.

1:41:05TEACHERS AND STAFF STAY WELL

1:41:07PAST THE END OF THEIR WORK DAY

1:41:08TO KEEP THEM SAFE.

1:41:09WE ALREADY FACE SERIOUS

1:41:11CHALLENGES EDUCATING OUR

1:41:13CHILDREN.

1:41:13CAN WE AT LEAST GET THEM TO

1:41:15SCHOOL ON TIME AND GET THEM

1:41:16HOME SAFELY WHEN THEIR FAMILIES

1:41:18ARE EXPECTING THEM?

1:41:20KNOWS THESE PROBLEMS EXIST.

1:41:22FAMILIES HAVE REPORTED THEM

1:41:24REPEATEDLY.

1:41:25WE NEED CORRECTIVE ACTION.

1:41:26FIRM DEADLINES AND CONSEQUENCES

1:41:29WHEN THE CONTRACTOR FAILS TO

1:41:30DELIVER.

1:41:31THIS HEARING WILL EXAMINE

1:41:33CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE, THE

1:41:34CHANGES NEEDED NOW AND THE

1:41:37CONTRACTUAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE

1:41:38IF SERVICES DOES NOT DO NOT

1:41:39IMPROVE.

1:41:40OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

1:41:42DESERVE BETTER AND I DO WANT TO

1:41:44UPLIFT.

1:41:45I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO OUR.

1:41:46FAMILIES BUT ALSO UPLIFT STAFF

1:41:48WHO I KNOW ARE STAYING VERY

1:41:49LATE INTO THE EVENING AND

1:41:52MISSING THEIR OWN FAMILY EVENTS

1:41:54TRYING TO GET THEMSELVES HOME.

1:41:55SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

1:41:57>> IT SHOULD NOT.

1:41:57>> BE.

1:41:58UNNECESSARY THOUGH.

1:41:58THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:42:00COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

1:42:00FLOOR.

1:42:03THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

1:42:05AS I MENTIONED EARLIER LAST

1:42:06NIGHT.

1:42:07>> I WAS.

1:42:07AT SAINT STEPHEN'S YOUTH GROUP.

1:42:08LISTENING TO.

1:42:09PARENTS TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE

1:42:13AMONG.

1:42:13MANY UM MANY STUDENTS.

1:42:17MOSTLY STUDENTS OF.

1:42:18COLOR, MANY STUDENT, MANY

1:42:20PERSONS.

1:42:20>> WITH DISABILITIES.

1:42:22UM CONTINUING TO WAIT TO GET

1:42:25PICKED UP.

1:42:26TO BE DROPPED OFF.

1:42:28ONE MOTHER WAS.

1:42:29TELLING ME A STORY ABOUT.

1:42:30HER HER CHILD.

1:42:32THAT IS CONSTANTLY LATE IN HER

1:42:35AFTER.

1:42:36SCHOOL PROGRAM.

1:42:37SOMETIMES THE CHILD GETS THEIR

1:42:38HALF LATE FRO.

1:42:40SOMETIMES THE CHILD DOESN'T GET

1:42:41THERE AT ALL.

1:42:43BUT IS.

1:42:43>> THAT FAIR TO THE CHILD?

1:42:45IS THAT FAIR TO THEIR.

1:42:47DEVELOPMENT.

1:42:48>> THEIR EDUCATION.

1:42:52PROVIDING A GOOD AND HEALTHY

1:42:53LIFE?

1:42:55WE WANT CHILDREN.

1:42:56>> TO BE ENGAGED IN AFTERSCHOOL

1:42:58PROGRAMS BUT WHEN THE BUS IS

1:43:01LATE.

1:43:01FOR THEM TAKING THEM HOME

1:43:05THAT'S TERRIBLY UNFAIR.

1:43:08FAMILIES WITH ACCESS.

1:43:09THAT HAVE MONEY HAVE THE

1:43:11ABILITY.

1:43:12TO PICK THEIR CHILDREN.

1:43:13>> UP.

1:43:13WELL OTHER.

1:43:15FAMILIES DON'T.

1:43:16AND THEY.

1:43:17RELY ON.

1:43:17PUBLIC EDUCATION,

1:43:19TRANSPORTATION THEY DESERVE

1:43:22RESPECT.

1:43:23AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT.

1:43:25I BELIEVE.

1:43:26>> THIS IS A RACIAL JUSTICE

1:43:27ISSUE.

1:43:29I THINK WE ARE DOWNPLAYING THE

1:43:32SIGNIFICANCE OF.

1:43:32THIS ISSUE.

1:43:34WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO PARENTS

1:43:36.

1:43:36WE'RE NOT SUPPORTING.

1:43:38THESE CHILDREN.

1:43:43AND WE'RE PROVIDING A

1:43:46DISSERVICE TO.

1:43:46THEM AND.

1:43:47TREATING AND.

1:43:48>> TREATING THEM SO.

1:43:50DISRESPECTFULLY BY.

1:43:52CONSTANTLY HAVING THEM WAIT FOR

1:43:53THE.

1:43:53BUS TO TAKE THEM TO.

1:43:55SCHOOL OR TAKE THEM TO AN

1:43:56AFTER.

1:43:56SCHOOL PROGRAM IT'S UNFAIR.

1:43:59IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE.

1:44:01THANK YOU.

1:44:02THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:44:04UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

1:44:05ADD THEIR NAME?

1:44:08MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE ADD

1:44:09COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

1:44:11COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

1:44:12COUNCILOR MEJIA.

1:44:12COUNCILOR FOR BEND.

1:44:13COUNCILOR WEBER

1:44:15COUNCILOR ARROYO PLEASE ADD THE

1:44:16CHAIR.

1:44:16UH, DOCKET 1920 WILL BE

1:44:23REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:44:24EDUCATION.

1:44:26MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

1:44:27DOCKET 1921.

1:44:29DOCKET NUMBER 1921 COUNCIL SIGN

1:44:31OFF FOR THE FOLLOWING

1:44:33RESOLUTION URGING A MASS

1:44:34GENERAL PROGRAM BOARD

1:44:36OF DIRECTORS TO RETURN TO THE

1:44:37TABLE AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD

1:44:39FAITH IN LIGHT OF HISTORIC

1:44:41STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

1:44:43COUNSELOR FUNDING NOT BEFORE.

1:44:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:44:46MADAM CHAIR, UM, MAY I ADD

1:44:49COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER.

1:44:50AS AN.

1:44:51>> ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:44:52AND, UH, SUSPEND THE RULES AND

1:44:54ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS WELL.

1:44:56UH, SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:44:57OBJECTIONS.

1:44:58THEY ARE SO ADDED.

1:45:00THAT THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:45:02WE HAD THE.

1:45:03OPPORTUNITY TODAY.

1:45:06TO HAVE A MEMBER OF THE.

1:45:08THE HOSPITAL AND THE NURSES.

1:45:10MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION.

1:45:12UM WITH.

1:45:13US UM.

1:45:14TO TALK ABOUT THE ONGOING.

1:45:16THE UPCOMING STRIKE AND HOW.

1:45:19NEGOTIATIONS ARE.

1:45:20GOING WELL.

1:45:21BETWEEN THE.

1:45:22BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.

1:45:24AND THE.

1:45:25DEDICATED AND.

1:45:26PROFESSIONAL NURSING.

1:45:27STAFF THERE.

1:45:29.

1:45:29WHAT THIS RESOLUTION WOULD

1:45:31CALL.

1:45:31FOR IS ADVOCATING.

1:45:35FOR BRIGHAM.

1:45:36AND WOMEN'S.

1:45:37>> HOSPITAL TO GET BACK TO THE

1:45:38NEGOTIATING TABLE TO NEGOTIATE

1:45:42FAIRLY RESPECTFULLY.

1:45:45TO TREAT THE NURSES.

1:45:46FAIRLY, TO TREAT THEM

1:45:47RESPECTFULLY.

1:45:49IT'S ABOUT COLLECTIVE

1:45:50BARGAINING.

1:45:51IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER,

1:45:54IRONING OUT YOUR DIFFERENCES.

1:45:55BUT YOU WANT WE CAN DO THAT.

1:45:57WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ACROSS.

1:45:58FROM SOMEONE TALKING NOT

1:46:00THROUGH THE MEDIA, NOT BY.

1:46:02IGNORING PEOPLE PRETENDING

1:46:04THERE'S NOT A PROBLEM SITTING.

1:46:06DOWN AND HAVING A MEANINGFUL

1:46:08DISCUSSION ABOUT A CONTRACT.

1:46:10NURSES JUST.

1:46:12NURSES DESERVE A FAIR CONTRACT.

1:46:14THEY DESERVE DIGNITY.

1:46:15THEY DESERVE JUSTICE.

1:46:17I THINK.

1:46:18>> THEY'VE EARNED IT.

1:46:19I SAW DURING.

1:46:21>> THE PANDEMIC WHEN I WAS.

1:46:22YOU KNOW.

1:46:22>> IN THE CITY COUNCIL I WOULD

1:46:25GO TO WORK EVERY DAY BUT I

1:46:26WOULD SEE NURSES ALSO.

1:46:28THEY'D BE GOING.

1:46:29>> TO WORK.

1:46:29EVERY DAY.

1:46:30>> WHETHER THEY WERE TAKING THE

1:46:31TRAIN, TAKING THE BUS OR OUT

1:46:32THE HOSPITAL.

1:46:33THEY DIDN'T MAIL IT IN.

1:46:34THEY WERE THERE CARING FOR

1:46:36PEOPLE PATIENTS.

1:46:38IN NEED.

1:46:40THEY ALSO FOUGHT FOR A SAFE.

1:46:42UH.

1:46:43>> PATIENT BALLOT.

1:46:44INITIATIVE THAT WAS THAT FILLED

1:46:47SEVERAL YEARS.

1:46:48AGO THROUGHOUT.

1:46:50>> THE COMMONWEALTH.

1:46:52UH NURSES ARE.

1:46:52OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID.

1:46:54OFTENTIMES THEY'RE ASSAULTED

1:46:56TOO BY PATIENTS.

1:46:59IT'S ABOUT RESPECT FOR THE

1:47:00NURSES.

1:47:01IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT THEY.

1:47:02CAN RETIRE WITH DIGNITY,

1:47:05PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.

1:47:06>> FOR THEM.

1:47:07THE ABILITY TO EARN A DECENT

1:47:08WAGE, CONTINUING WITH THEIR

1:47:11EDUCATION.

1:47:12>> AND TRAINING.

1:47:12IT'S ABOUT JUSTICE.

1:47:14IT'S A.

1:47:14SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC.

1:47:15JUSTICE ISSUE AND WE'RE HERE TO

1:47:18SAY.

1:47:18AND TO ENCOURAGE THE.

1:47:21UM THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S

1:47:22HOSPITAL AND THE MASS NURSES.

1:47:25ASSOCIATION TO IMMEDIATELY GO

1:47:27BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE

1:47:31AND.

1:47:32TO IRON OUT A.

1:47:32CONTRACT THAT IS FAIR TO BOTH

1:47:35SIDES, BUT WE NEED TO ENSURE.

1:47:37THAT OUR NURSES ARE TREATED

1:47:39WITH RESPECT.

1:47:40>> AND DIGNITY BECAUSE THEY'RE.

1:47:41NOT RECEIVING.

1:47:42>> IT FROM THIS HOSPITAL.

1:47:44THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:47:45THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:47:47COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU NOW

1:47:48HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:47:50THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:47:52THANK YOU.

1:47:53COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR ADDING

1:47:55ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:47:57UH.

1:47:58ALONG WITH MY.

1:48:00COUNCILOR UH.

1:48:02FLYNN, I ALSO AM URGING THE

1:48:05MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM HOSPITAL

1:48:07TO RETURN TO NEGOTIATE SHIFTS

1:48:10IN A MEANINGFUL WAY AND TO

1:48:11SETTLE A FAIR CONTRACT THAT

1:48:14RESPECTS NURSES AND PROTECTS

1:48:16PATIENT CARE.

1:48:17AND HERE'S WHAT'S INTERESTING

1:48:20WE UNDERSTAND THAT MEDICINE FOR

1:48:21HIM IS A NONPROFIT, BUT ITS

1:48:24BOARD INCLUDES DIRECTORS AND

1:48:25INCLUDES BILLIONAIRES, PRIVATE

1:48:28EQUITY EXECUTIVES, CORPORATE

1:48:30CEOS INCLUDING PEOPLE WHOSE

1:48:32BUSINESS ACTUALLY INTERSECT

1:48:33WITH IN GP.

1:48:36SO WE CALL ON MGP AND THE BOARD

1:48:42TO RETURN TO THE TABLE AND TO

1:48:45REALLY LOOK AT THE PURPOSE FOR

1:48:48WHICH THIS HOSPITAL WAS

1:48:50ESTABLISHED AND THE ROLE THAT

1:48:52THE NURSES PLAY IN THE DAY TO

1:48:55DAY OPERATION OF THE HOSPITAL.

1:48:57I SAID THIS MORNING THAT

1:49:00HOSPITALS COULDN'T EXIST

1:49:01WITHOUT NURSES, WE COULDN'T

1:49:04EXIST WITHOUT NURSES.

1:49:05AND SO I CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON

1:49:08THE VALUE THE NURSES PLAY.

1:49:11I MENTIONED THAT MY MOTHER WAS

1:49:12A NURSE.

1:49:13I SAW THE WORK THAT SHE PUT IN

1:49:16AND I SAW HOW CONCERNED SHE WAS

1:49:20ABOUT OUR PATIENTS.

1:49:22I SAW HOW PAINSTAKING EVEN WHEN

1:49:24SHE CAME HOME CONCERNED ABOUT

1:49:26HER PATIENTS AND THE

1:49:28RELATIONSHIPS THAT SHE FORMED

1:49:29WITH THEM.

1:49:30AND UH, MY MOTHER WAS A

1:49:33BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND IT'S REALLY

1:49:34FUNNY.

1:49:35MY MOTHER WOULD COME HOME

1:49:36SOMETIME.

1:49:37SHE WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT

1:49:38HAPPENED TODAY?

1:49:39SHE SAID, UH, SOMEONE ASKED

1:49:43ME TO MARRY THEM.

1:49:45BUT MY POINT IS HOW SIGNIFICANT

1:49:48THE ROLE THEY PLAY IN THE LIFE

1:49:51OF THEIR PATIENTS.

1:49:52LET'S JUST ENCOURAGE THE BOY TO

1:49:54GIVE THEM A FAIR CONTRACT SO

1:49:56THAT THEY WON'T HAVE TO GO

1:49:58ASTRAY SO THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO

1:50:00GO THROUGH WHAT WE WENT THROUGH

1:50:01SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WHEN THEY

1:50:02WERE ON STRIKE.

1:50:03THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:50:04THANK YOU.

1:50:05>> COUNCILOR MURPHY OF THE

1:50:06FLOOR.

1:50:07THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:50:09UM.

1:50:10>> SO AND THANK YOU TO M&A WHO

1:50:13WAS HERE WITH US EARLIER AND WE

1:50:15WERE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THEM

1:50:17DIRECTLY.

1:50:18BUT I'VE PUBLICLY SUPPORTED ON

1:50:20NURSES AND I CONTINUE TO STAND

1:50:22WITH THEM.

1:50:23NURSES CARE FOR US AND OUR

1:50:25FAMILIES DURING SOME OF THE

1:50:26MOST DIFFICULT MOMENTS OF OUR

1:50:28LIVES.

1:50:28THEY DESERVE SAFE WORKING

1:50:31CONDITIONS, AFFORDABLE HEALTH

1:50:32INSURANCE AND A CONTRACT THAT

1:50:34RESPECTS THEIR WORK.

1:50:35THAT'S ALL THEY'RE ASKING FOR.

1:50:37STAFFING AND WORKING CONDITIONS

1:50:39DIRECTLY AFFECT PATIENT CARE.

1:50:41WHEN NURSES RAISE CONCERNS,

1:50:43HOSPITAL LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO

1:50:44LISTEN AND WORK TOWARDS AN

1:50:46AGREEMENT.

1:50:47I URGE MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM TO

1:50:49RETURN TO THE BARGAINING TABLE

1:50:50AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH.

1:50:53PATIENTS NEED TO DEPENDABLE

1:50:54CARE AND NURSES NEED THE

1:50:55SUPPORT PROVIDE IT.

1:50:57I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT THE OTHER

1:51:00HOSPITALS THAT MANY NURSES ARE

1:51:02UNDER DIFFERENT UNIONS.

1:51:04BUT YESTERDAY BMC.

1:51:07TOLD THEIR.

1:51:08NURSES THAT THEY'RE REFUSING TO

1:51:09GO BACK TO THE TABLE WHERE CITY

1:51:11OF WORLD CLASS COLLEGES,

1:51:15UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS AND

1:51:17HOSPITALS PEOPLE NOT JUST US

1:51:18HERE IN THIS RESIDENTS IN THE

1:51:20CITY BUT PEOPLE COME HERE FROM

1:51:22AROUND THE WORLD TO GET THE

1:51:23WORLD CLASS CARE.

1:51:24SO WE SHOULD GIVE THE SUPPORT

1:51:25THAT OUR NURSES PROVIDE THOSE

1:51:27PATIENTS EVERY DAY.

1:51:29SO I FULLY SUPPORT AND KNOW

1:51:30THAT THIS RESOLUTION ALTHOUGH

1:51:33IS NON-BINDING.

1:51:34I THINK THIS MESSAGE ALONG WITH

1:51:36OUR SUPPORT NOT JUST ON THE

1:51:38PICKET LINE BUT JUST REALLY

1:51:39URGING THE HOSPITALS TO

1:51:41CONTINUE CONVERSATIONS SO THAT

1:51:43WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN A

1:51:45SITUATION WHERE OUR NURSES HAVE

1:51:46TO WALK OUT BECAUSE WE KNOW

1:51:47THEY DON'T WANT TO THANK YOU.

1:51:49THANK YOU.

1:51:50COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:51:51WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

1:51:53THEIR NAME?

1:51:56PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR.

1:51:57UH, CULPEPPER.

1:51:58DURKAN.

1:51:58COUNCILOR.

1:51:59FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:52:00COUNCILOR I'M HERE.

1:52:00COUNCILOR.

1:52:01PREPEND.

1:52:01COUNCILOR.

1:52:02SANTANA.

1:52:02COUNCILOR.

1:52:03WEBER.

1:52:03COUNCILOR.

1:52:04ROYAL, PLEASE.

1:52:04AT THE CHAIR.

1:52:06COUNCILOR FLYNN IS SEEKING

1:52:07SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:52:08ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1921.

1:52:10ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

1:52:12THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

1:52:14MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

1:52:15CONDUCT A ROLL CALL?

1:52:16>> VOTE COUNCILOR BREADON,

1:52:17COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.

1:52:18YES, COUNCILOR.

1:52:19CLOSE BUDDY.

1:52:20>> YES, COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:52:21COUNCIL.

1:52:22CULPEPER.

1:52:22YES, COUNCILOR.

1:52:23DURKAN.

1:52:24COUNCILOR.

1:52:24DURKAN.

1:52:25YES.

1:52:25COUNCILOR.

1:52:25FITZGERALD.

1:52:26COUNCIL.

1:52:27FITZGERALD.

1:52:27YES.

1:52:27COUNCILOR.

1:52:28FLYNN.

1:52:28YES.

1:52:29COUNCILOR.

1:52:29FLYNN.

1:52:29YES.

1:52:30COUNCIL.

1:52:30LOUIJEUNE.

1:52:31YES.

1:52:31COUNCIL.

1:52:32LOUIJEUNE.

1:52:32YES.

1:52:32COUNCILOR.

1:52:33MEJIA.

1:52:34HERE.

1:52:34YES.

1:52:35COUNCILOR.

1:52:35MURPHY.

1:52:36YES.

1:52:36COUNCILOR.

1:52:36MURPHY.

1:52:37YES, COUNCILOR.

1:52:38PIPPIN.

1:52:39COUNCILOR.

1:52:39PEN.

1:52:40YES.

1:52:40COUNCIL.

1:52:40SANTANA.

1:52:41YES.

1:52:41COUNCILOR SANTANA IS

1:52:43COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:52:43YES.

1:52:44COUNCIL.

1:52:45WEBB'S AND COUNCIL.

1:52:46WORLD COUNCILOR.

1:52:47OH, YES.

1:52:48TALKING OF A1921 AS WE SEE 12

1:52:50VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:52:52THANK YOU.

1:52:52>> DOCKET 1921 HAS BEEN ADOPTED

1:52:54.

1:52:55MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

1:52:56DOCKET 1922?

1:52:57DUCKY NUMBER 1922

1:53:00COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE

1:53:01FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

1:53:03OF THIS GROWTH CENTRAL AND AN

1:53:06INCLUSIVE SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH

1:53:07IN BOSTON.

1:53:08THANK YOU.

1:53:09>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:53:10COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

1:53:10THE FLOOR.

1:53:12THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:53:14I'D LIKE TO ADD

1:53:16COUNCILOR MORALES A SECOND

1:53:17ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SO ADDED

1:53:19THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO

1:53:21REQUEST AS HAS BEEN THE RULES

1:53:22AT CONCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD

1:53:23ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:53:24SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:53:25OBJECTIONS SHE SAW ADDED.

1:53:26THANK YOU.

1:53:26AND I'D LIKE TO REQUEST FOR

1:53:28SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

1:53:29DOCKET.

1:53:29THIS IS A RESOLUTION THAT

1:53:31RECOGNIZES THE INVESTMENT IN

1:53:32BOSTON SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY

1:53:34.

1:53:35AS WE ALL KNOW SMALL BUSINESSES

1:53:36CREATE JOBS, BRING LIFE TO OUR

1:53:37NEIGHBORHOODS AND HELP FAMILIES

1:53:39BUILD WEALTH.

1:53:40UH, BUT STARTING AND SUSTAINING

1:53:41A BUSINESS IS REALLY HARD AND

1:53:43REQUIRES RESOURCES THAT ARE

1:53:45OFTEN DIFFICULT OR EXPENSIVE TO

1:53:46OBTAIN.

1:53:47I WANT TO COMMEND THE LAWYERS

1:53:48FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UH, WHOSE

1:53:50BACKGROUND PROGRAM HAS PROVIDED

1:53:51FREE LEGAL AND TECHNICAL

1:53:52ASSISTANCE FOR 25 YEARS AND

1:53:54I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE

1:53:55OF ATTENDING BIGGER EVENTS AND

1:53:56SEEING FIRSTHAND HOW THEY ARE

1:53:59REALLY HANDS ON WITH

1:54:00ENTREPRENEURS AND WITH BUSINESS

1:54:02OWNERS WITH GIVING THEM THE

1:54:03ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED.

1:54:04THAT WORK HAS SUPPORTED

1:54:06ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR,

1:54:06IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND PEOPLE

1:54:07WITH LOW INCOME WHO TOO OFTEN

1:54:09FACE ADDITIONAL BARRIERS TO

1:54:10BUSINESS OWNERSHIP OFTEN NOT

1:54:11HAVING THE CAPITAL NECESSARY TO

1:54:14REALLY UM, GET STARTED OR TO

1:54:16ENSURE OR TO TAP INTO WHEN

1:54:19PROBLEMS ARISE NOT HAVING THE

1:54:21SOCIAL CAPITAL NECESSARY TO

1:54:23MANEUVER THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

1:54:24SO BIZ GROW IS A REALLY HANDS

1:54:27ON UH ASSISTANCE FOR BUSINESSES

1:54:29RECOGNIZED BY THE BOSTON

1:54:30BUSINESS JOURNAL, RECOGNIZED BY

1:54:32THE BOSTON GLOBE.

1:54:33BIZ GROWTH CENTRAL IS SCHEDULED

1:54:34TO OPEN OCTOBER 19TH ACROSS

1:54:37FROM BOSTON COMMON.

1:54:38IT WILL ESTABLISH A PERMANENT

1:54:39DOWNTOWN HOME WHERE

1:54:40ENTREPRENEURS CAN FIND

1:54:41RESOURCES AND BUILD CONNECTIONS

1:54:43THAT THE HUB WILL BRING

1:54:44TOGETHER FREE LEGAL SUPPORT,

1:54:46BUSINESS GUIDANCE, SKILL

1:54:47BUILDING PROGRAMS, TECHNOLOGY

1:54:50WORKSPACE AND MENTORSHIP.

1:54:51HAVING THOSE RESOURCES IN ONE

1:54:53PLACE CAN HELP AN ENTREPRENEUR

1:54:55MOVE AN IDEA TO A BUSINESS WITH

1:54:56A STRONGER FOUNDATION.

1:54:57THEY'VE OFTEN DONE POP UPS POP

1:54:59UPS ON THE GREENWAY AND ACROSS

1:55:01THE CITY AND HAVING A PERMANENT

1:55:02HOME WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL

1:55:03HERE.

1:55:04EXPANDING ACCESS TO BUSINESS

1:55:05OWNERSHIP IS PART OF AN

1:55:06EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

1:55:07.

1:55:08I'M PLEASED TO WELCOME

1:55:10ESSENTIAL UM AND RECOGNIZED

1:55:11LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS FOR

1:55:12HELPING MOVE BOSTON.

1:55:13MORE BOSTON RESIDENTS

1:55:15PARTICIPATE IN AND BENEFIT FROM

1:55:16OUR CITY'S ECONOMY.

1:55:18SO AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS TO THE

1:55:20ENTIRE TEAM TO YVONNE.

1:55:21TO EVERYONE AT BIZ GROW TO THE

1:55:23SMALL BUSINESSES THAT WILL NOW

1:55:24BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE.

1:55:26AND TO THEM THEMSELVES.

1:55:27BEING A NEW HUB AND HAVING A

1:55:29NEW SPACE IN OUR CITY.

1:55:30THANK YOU.

1:55:31THANK YOU.

1:55:31THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR.

1:55:32EARL CASWELL YOU AT FOR.

1:55:34THANK YOU.

1:55:35UH, CHAIR.

1:55:36AND THANK YOU TO

1:55:37COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING

1:55:38ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AND ALSO

1:55:39THANK YOU TO, UH,

1:55:40CONCILOR MEJIA HERE FOR ALL HER

1:55:41WORK AROUND SMALL BUSINESS, UH,

1:55:43THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AS A SMALL

1:55:45BUSINESS OWNER.

1:55:46I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS WHEN

1:55:47YOU'RE FIRST TRYING TO GET

1:55:48STARTED.

1:55:49UH, FOLKS WHO TELL YOU JUST ONE

1:55:50FORM IS JUST ONE FILING JUST

1:55:52NEED TO DO THIS.

1:55:53UM, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A LAWYER.

1:55:54SOMEONE WHO IS KNOWLEDGEABLE

1:55:56ABOUT HOW TO NAVIGATE THE

1:55:57SYSTEM.

1:55:58UH, THAT COULD FEEL LIKE A

1:55:59WHOLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE.

1:56:00UH, AND A LOT OF TIMES IT IS

1:56:01NOT THAT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE GOOD

1:56:03IDEAS.

1:56:04IT'S THAT THEY DON'T HAVE

1:56:05ACCESS TO THE SAME NETWORKS

1:56:06LEGAL HELP OR GUIDANCE THAT

1:56:08OTHER FOLKS MAY ALREADY HAVE.

1:56:10I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME

1:56:11TO SHOUT OUT THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:56:12AND ALL THEIR WORK UH, AROUND

1:56:14SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT UH, FOR

1:56:16PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

1:56:17IN THEIR MOST RECENT PROGRAM

1:56:18WHICH I'M A BIG FAN OF WHICH IS

1:56:21ON UNLOCKED.

1:56:22UM I WANT TO ALSO APPLAUD

1:56:23LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

1:56:24UH, STARTING THIS AND AS WE CUT

1:56:27THE RIBBON UH, LATER THIS

1:56:28MONTH.

1:56:29THE NEXT STEP IS ALWAYS

1:56:31ENSURING THAT OUR ENTREPRENEURS

1:56:32AND OUR RESIDENTS KNOW THAT

1:56:33THIS IS AVAILABLE TO THEM.

1:56:34UH, BECAUSE IN OUR

1:56:36NEIGHBORHOODS WE HAVE THE

1:56:37IDEAS.

1:56:37WE HAVE THE TALENT.

1:56:38WE HAVE THE HUSTLE.

1:56:39BUT SOMETIMES ALL WE NEED IS

1:56:40THE SUPPORT.

1:56:41UH THANK YOU AND

1:56:42CONGRATULATIONS TO LAWYER FOR

1:56:44CIVIL RIGHTS IN THIS NEW

1:56:45ORGANIZATION.

1:56:45THANK YOU.

1:56:46THANK YOU CONCILOR MEJIA HERE

1:56:47YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:56:48THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:56:50UM.

1:56:50>> IF YOU DON'T MIND, I STAY

1:56:52SEATED.

1:56:53I HAVE A REALLY BAD HEADACHE.

1:56:54THANK YOU.

1:56:55>> UM, I WANT TO THANK

1:56:57COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:56:58FOR ADDING ME TO THIS DOCKET.

1:56:59AND I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT

1:57:01COUNCILOR EARL UM FOR HIS

1:57:03STEADFAST ADVOCACY, UM, AND

1:57:04SUPPORTING ALL THINGS SMALL

1:57:06BUSINESSES OUT IN THESE STREETS

1:57:08.

1:57:08UM, SMALL BUSINESSES ARE THE

1:57:09HEART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:57:10THEY PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT, BOOST

1:57:12OUR ECONOMY, CREATE UM,

1:57:15COMMUNITY AND SO MUCH MORE.

1:57:16BUT OFTEN THEY ARE THE.

1:57:18THERE ARE BARRIERS TO SMALL

1:57:19BUSINESSES SUCCESS AND THAT IS

1:57:21WHY LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

1:57:22BUSINESS GROW PROGRAM IS SO

1:57:24IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT FILLS THE

1:57:25GAP AND LEGAL AND TECHNICAL

1:57:27ASSISTANCE FOR OUR SMALL

1:57:28BUSINESS OWNERS INCLUDING

1:57:30ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR,

1:57:31IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN, UM AND

1:57:33PEOPLE OF LOW INCOME.

1:57:35AND WE'RE EXCITED THAT THIS

1:57:36PROGRAM IS OPENING THIS GROWTH

1:57:37CENTRAL IN ALL ITS IN ITS NEW

1:57:39DOWNTOWN HOME THIS MONTH AS A

1:57:41AS A CHILD I GREW UP AS THE

1:57:43OFFICIAL TRANSLATOR FOR MY MOM

1:57:45AND MY ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD SO I

1:57:47WOULD BE A DOCTOR'S

1:57:48APPOINTMENTS.

1:57:49YOU KNOW, THE WELFARE OFFICE

1:57:50AND NAVIGATING OTHER UM

1:57:52PROCESSES THAT WERE VERY

1:57:53DIFFICULT EVEN AT THE AGE

1:57:55OF NINE.

1:57:55AND TODAY I CONTINUE TO SERVE

1:57:57AS A TRANSLATOR FOR RESIDENTS

1:57:58ACROSS THE CITY WHO HAVE THE

1:57:59WHO HAVE THE VISION AND WORK

1:58:01ETHIC TO START A SMALL BUSINESS

1:58:03BUT FACE COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND

1:58:05BARRIERS THAT CAN MAKE IT

1:58:06INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT FOR THEM

1:58:07TO OPEN UP THEIR DOORS.

1:58:09UM, WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO DO

1:58:11TO MAKE THESE PROCESSES EASIER

1:58:13TO NAVIGATE AND ENSURE THAT

1:58:15STARTING A BUSINESS IN OUR CITY

1:58:16DOES NOT FEEL OUT OF REACH

1:58:18SIMPLY JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT

1:58:19KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SYSTEM

1:58:21AND UM, OUR CONTENT OUR OFFICE

1:58:23CONTINUES TO UPLIFT AND

1:58:24ADVOCATE UM, FOR SMALL

1:58:26BUSINESSES AND WE APPRECIATE

1:58:27LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THIS.

1:58:29GIRL'S WORK AND DEDICATION TO

1:58:31OUR SMALL BUSINESSES.

1:58:31AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO THANK

1:58:33UM, THIS COUNCIL BECAUSE A FEW

1:58:36YEARS AGO, UH, I ADVOCATED TO

1:58:38HAVE.

1:58:39A UM, IMMIGRANT LIAISON IN THE

1:58:42OFFICE OF WORKFORCE.

1:58:43UM, I THEY KEEP CHANGING THE

1:58:45NAME BUT IT WAS UH, THE OFFICE

1:58:47OF ECONOMIC UM EMPOWERMENT AND

1:58:50THAT PARTICULAR POSITION HAS

1:58:52HELPED SO MANY SMALL BUSINESSES

1:58:54PARTICULARLY IMMIGRANT UM,

1:58:55SPANISH SPEAKERS NAVIGATE THE

1:58:57SYSTEM.

1:58:57SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE

1:58:59CITY FOR THEIR CONSTANT UM,

1:59:01SUPPORT UM AND

1:59:02COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ALL HER

1:59:04POP UP UM UH ALL THOSE POP UPS

1:59:07THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING ACROSS

1:59:08THE CITY OF BOSTON, UM, TO HELP

1:59:10SMALL ENTREPRENEURS.

1:59:11SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO

1:59:13SPEAK AND ADDING ME AS A

1:59:14CO-SPONSOR AND FOR.

1:59:15>> YOUR LEADERSHIP.

1:59:16THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA

1:59:18COUNCILOR.

1:59:18THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:59:20THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:59:21I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES

1:59:22FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

1:59:24I ALSO WANT TO THANK IVAN FROM

1:59:26THE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

1:59:27FOR INVITING ME TO THE BIZ GROW

1:59:29CENTRALS RIBBON CUTTING GRAND

1:59:31OPENING ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH

1:59:34.

1:59:34LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE

1:59:36BEEN DOING OUTSTANDING

1:59:37EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR YEARS TO

1:59:39HELP SMALL BUSINESSES

1:59:41ENTREPRENEUR ENTREPRENEURS

1:59:43NAVIGATE THE LEGAL PRACTICAL

1:59:45CHALLENGES THAT COME WITH

1:59:46STARTING AND GROWING A

1:59:47BUSINESS.

1:59:48WHAT MAKES THIS GROW CENTRAL

1:59:51ESPECIALLY EXCITING IS THAT IT

1:59:52BRINGS MANY OF THESE RESOURCES

1:59:54TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE.

1:59:56ENTREPRENEURS WILL HAVE ACCESS

1:59:57TO LEGAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE,

2:00:01MENTORSHIP, TECHNOLOGY,

2:00:02WORKSPACE TRAINING ALL AT NO

2:00:05COST.

2:00:06HAVING A SPACE LIKE THIS IN THE

2:00:07HEART OF BOSTON MAKES THESE

2:00:09RESOURCES MORE ACCESSIBLE TO

2:00:12PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT OTHERWISE

2:00:14HAVE THE SUPPORT, WHAT

2:00:16CONNECTIONS THEY NEED TO GROW

2:00:17THEIR BUSINESS.

2:00:19CONGRATULATIONS TO LAWYERS FOR

2:00:20CIVIL RIGHTS ON THIS NEW SPACE

2:00:22AND ON THE WORK THEY'RE DOING

2:00:24TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.

2:00:25I LOOK FORWARD TO THE UPCOMING

2:00:28RIBBON CUTTING, BUT I ALSO LOOK

2:00:29FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK

2:00:31WITH LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

2:00:33THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:00:34THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:00:35UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:00:37ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE ADD UH,

2:00:39MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD

2:00:39COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR.

2:00:40DURKAN.

2:00:41COUNCILOR.

2:00:41FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR.

2:00:43UH.

2:00:43FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:00:44MEJIA.

2:00:44COUNCILOR.

2:00:45AND COUNCILOR.

2:00:45SANTANA.

2:00:46COUNCILOR WEBER, PLEASE ADD THE

2:00:48CHAIR.

2:00:49COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SEEKS

2:00:50SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:00:51ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1922.

2:00:53ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:00:54ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:00:56MR. CLERK, PLEASE CONDUCT A

2:00:57ROLL CALL.

2:00:58VOTE ON DOCKET 1922.

2:01:01COUNCILOR BREAK COUNCIL COLETTE

2:01:02AS A PILOT.

2:01:03YES.

2:01:03COUNCIL BECAUSE.

2:01:04BURR.

2:01:04YES.

2:01:05COUNCILOR.

2:01:05CULPA.

2:01:05COUNCILOR.

2:01:07CULPEPER.

2:01:07YES.

2:01:07COUNCILOR.

2:01:08DURKAN.

2:01:08COUNCILOR.

2:01:09DURKAN.

2:01:09YES.

2:01:10COUNCIL.

2:01:10FITZGERALD.

2:01:10YES.

2:01:11COUNCIL THIS SHOW.

2:01:12YES.

2:01:12COUNCILOR.

2:01:12FLYNN.

2:01:13COUNCIL.

2:01:13SON.

2:01:14YES.

2:01:14COUNCILOR.

2:01:15LOUIJEUNE.

2:01:15YES.

2:01:15COUNCILOR.

2:01:16LOUIJEUNE.

2:01:16YES, COUNCILOR.

2:01:17MEJIA.

2:01:18COUNCILOR.

2:01:18MEJIA.

2:01:18YES, COUNCILOR.

2:01:19MURPHY.

2:01:20COUNCIL.

2:01:21PIPPIN.

2:01:22COUNCILOR.

2:01:22BEND.

2:01:23YES.

2:01:23COUNCILOR.

2:01:23SANTANA.

2:01:24COUNCILOR.

2:01:25SANTANA.

2:01:25YES.

2:01:26COUNCILOR.

2:01:26WEBER.

2:01:26YES.

2:01:27COUNCIL MEMBER.

2:01:28YES.

2:01:28AND COUNCILOR.

2:01:29WORLD.

2:01:29YES, COUNCILOR.

2:01:30WELL, YES.

2:01:31SO I CAN NUMBER ONE 9 TO 2 AS

2:01:34WE SEE THE 11 VOTES IN THE

2:01:35AFFIRMATIVE.

2:01:36THANK YOU.

2:01:36>> DOCKET ONE 9 TO 2 HAS BEEN

2:01:38ADOPTED.

2:01:39MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:01:41DOCKET 1923.

2:01:43SO I CAN HAVE A1923

2:01:45COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE

2:01:46FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

2:01:48OF THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

2:01:50CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SENATE 3308,

2:01:53HOUSE 6356.

2:01:55THANK YOU.

2:01:56>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:01:57COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW

2:01:58HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:01:58THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:01:59I'D LIKE TO ADD CONCILOR MEJIA

2:02:01HERE AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:02:02SO ADDED.

2:02:03AND I'D LIKE TO REQUEST TO

2:02:04SUSPEND THE RULES THAT

2:02:06COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD

2:02:07ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:02:07SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION

2:02:08SEE IS ALSO SO ADDED.

2:02:10AND I DO SEEK SUSPENSION AND

2:02:11PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION.

2:02:12THIS RESOLUTION ADDRESSES US A

2:02:15RIGHTS ISSUE THAT INCREASINGLY

2:02:16AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE.

2:02:17MY OFFICE HAS BEEN IN DEEP,

2:02:18DEEP CONVERSATION AND IN

2:02:20PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ACLU

2:02:21AROUND LEGISLATION HERE IN THE

2:02:23CITY AND ONE EVENING I RAN INTO

2:02:26CHRISTOPHER HOPE, WHO'S BEEN

2:02:27DOING THIS WORK IN CAMBRIDGE

2:02:28AND SOMERVILLE AND WORKING

2:02:29ALONGSIDE SENATOR MARKEY'S

2:02:30OFFICE.

2:02:31HE HAS THE LOOP LAB UM TO GET

2:02:33THESE RESOLUTIONS IN SUPPORT

2:02:35OF THIS BILL.

2:02:36UM AND SO I WANT TO THANK

2:02:37CHRISTOPHER HOPE FOR HIS WORK

2:02:38AND FOR STOPPING ME AND FOR US

2:02:40ENGAGING IN THIS CONVERSATION

2:02:41ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN

2:02:42DOING AS WE KNOW IT'S BEEN IT'S

2:02:44IT'S BEEN A TOPIC

2:02:45OF CONVERSATION.

2:02:46BUT EVEN BEFORE THEN FOLKS HAVE

2:02:47BEEN WORKING ON THIS AND

2:02:50ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND

2:02:50AUTOMATED SYSTEMS THEY HELP

2:02:52SHAPE FOR BETTER OR WORSE

2:02:53DECISIONS ABOUT JOBS, HOUSING,

2:02:55EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, CREDIT,

2:02:57PUBLIC BENEFITS, PUBLIC SAFETY

2:03:00SOMETIMES WITHOUT THE EFFECTIVE

2:03:01PERSON UNDERSTANDING HOW THIS

2:03:02IS HOW UH A DECISION IS MADE

2:03:04AND OFTEN AS WE ARE SEEING WHEN

2:03:06IT COMES TO A NUMBER

2:03:07OF DECISIONS INCLUDING

2:03:08EMPLOYMENT WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE

2:03:09BEEN WORKING ON IN PART UH, IT

2:03:11LEADS TO DISCRIMINATION.

2:03:13WHEN THOSE SYSTEMS REPRODUCE

2:03:15DISCRIMINATION, THEIR

2:03:16COMPLEXITY CAN MAKE THE HARM

2:03:18DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY AND

2:03:19CHALLENGE.

2:03:21RESIDENTS DESERVE CLEAR

2:03:22PROTECTIONS, MEANINGFUL

2:03:24ACCOUNTABILITY AND A WAY TO

2:03:25SEEK REVIEW WHEN A

2:03:25CONSEQUENTIAL DECISION IS

2:03:27UNFAIR, RACIST, DISCRIMINATORY

2:03:29OR UNJUST.

2:03:30I WANT TO RECOGNIZE SENATOR ED

2:03:32MARKEY AND REPRESENTATIVE

2:03:33YVETTE CLARKE, WHO INCLUDE AND

2:03:34WILL INTRODUCE THE ARTIFICIAL

2:03:36INTELLIGENCE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

2:03:37AND REPRESENTATIVE AYANNA

2:03:38PRESSLEY IN ORIGINAL HOUSE

2:03:39CO-SPONSOR THEIR LEGISLATION

2:03:41WOULD ESTABLISH PROTECTIONS

2:03:42AGAINST ALGORITHMIC

2:03:44DISCRIMINATION, REQUIRE

2:03:46EVALUATIONS AND IMPACT

2:03:47ASSESSMENTS AND PROVIDE

2:03:48ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS.

2:03:49THE PROPOSAL ALSO ADDRESSES

2:03:51NOTICE TRANSPARENCY AND HUMAN

2:03:53ALTERNATIVES AND APPROPRIATE

2:03:55CIRCUMSTANCES.

2:03:55THOSE SAFEGUARDS MATTER BECAUSE

2:03:57A PERSON'S ABILITY TO SECURE

2:03:58HOUSING, RECEIVE CARE OR OBTAIN

2:04:00EMPLOYMENT SHOULD COME WITH AN

2:04:02UNDERSTANDABLE PROCESS AND

2:04:04MEANINGFUL RECOURSE.

2:04:05WE ALSO SEE THE TOLL AND

2:04:07EFFECTIVE AI AND DATA CENTERS

2:04:09ON OUR COMMUNITIES AND ARE

2:04:11REALLY COGNIZANT OF WHAT THEY

2:04:12MEAN IN REAL TERMS FOR

2:04:14COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY

2:04:15BEEN HARMED, THAT WERE ALREADY

2:04:17SUFFERING FROM THE REALITIES

2:04:20OF THE PERSISTENT AND

2:04:21PERNICIOUS RACIAL WEALTH GAP.

2:04:23AI IS ONLY GOING TO HARDEN THAT

2:04:25IF WE DON'T TAKE THESE

2:04:27SAFEGUARDS AND IT'S GREAT TO

2:04:28SEE IT HAPPENING ON THE FEDERAL

2:04:29LEVEL AND WE NEED NEED IT TO

2:04:30HAPPEN ON ALL LEVELS.

2:04:31BUT UM, WE WE DO WANT TO SEE

2:04:33THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S

2:04:34LEADERSHIP HERE BOSTON WE AS A

2:04:36CITY WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN UM,

2:04:38STEPS THROUGH ITS RESTRICTIONS

2:04:39ON FACE FACIAL SURVEILLANCE AND

2:04:41GUIDANCE ON GENERATIVE AI.

2:04:42THIS RESOLUTION URGES CONGRESS

2:04:44TO ACT AND ENCOURAGES AH THE

2:04:45STATE IN BOSTON TO ADVANCE

2:04:48COMPLEMENTARY CIVIL RIGHTS

2:04:48SAFEGUARDS AS THESE

2:04:49TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO

2:04:50DEVELOP WORK THAT WE WANT TO

2:04:51CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN.

2:04:52AND I WANT TO THANK AGAIN THE

2:04:54SENATOR AND ALL OF THOSE WHO

2:04:55HAVE ENDORSED THIS FROM THE

2:04:56LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL

2:04:57RIGHTS TO THE LEADERSHIP

2:04:58CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN

2:04:59RIGHTS WAS GRATEFUL TO BE ON A

2:05:01PANEL WITH THEM YESTERDAY TO UM

2:05:02THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON WOMEN

2:05:04COLOR OF CHANGE, UH, NAACP,

2:05:07ACLU, ELECTRONIC PRIVACY

2:05:09INFORMATION CENTER EPIC.

2:05:11YOU GET THE POINT.

2:05:12SO REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEIR

2:05:13LEADERSHIP AND THEIR

2:05:14PARTNERSHIP AND TO CONTINUE TO

2:05:15WORK IN THIS SPACE.

2:05:16THANK YOU.

2:05:16THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:05:18UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA, YOU KNOW

2:05:20BEFORE.

2:05:21THANK YOU, MADAM.

2:05:23PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU TO

2:05:24COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ADDING

2:05:25ME TO THIS DOCKET.

2:05:27THIS BILL AT.

2:05:28AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IS ABOUT

2:05:29CREATING SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT

2:05:30OUR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CIVIL

2:05:32RIGHTS DURING A TIME WHEN

2:05:33ALMOST NO SAFEGUARDS EXIST TO

2:05:35REGULATE AI.

2:05:37AI MODELS ARE TRAINED ON ON

2:05:39EXISTING DATA AND FROM

2:05:41INFORMATION AND OTHER INPUTS WE

2:05:43NEED TO CONFRONT UM AND HOWEVER

2:05:47THAT THESE BIASES ARE BAKED

2:05:48INTO THE INPUT UH FED TO AI

2:05:51MODELS FOR THEIR TRAINING WHICH

2:05:53HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ONLY

2:05:54WORSEN EXISTING INEQUITIES AND

2:05:56CAUSE UNPRECEDENTED HARM IF WE

2:05:58DO NOT ACT NOW THIS BILL

2:06:00REQUIRES DISCLOSURES

2:06:02EVALUATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER

2:06:04IMPLEMENTATION AND PROHIBITS

2:06:05DISCRIMINATION UM BY

2:06:08COVERED ALGORITHMS ON THE BASIS

2:06:09OF PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS.

2:06:11WE ARE ALL FEELING THE IMPACTS

2:06:13OF AI AND AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY

2:06:15WITH WAYMO INCREASING THE USE

2:06:17OF AI SURVEILLANCE TOOLS AND

2:06:19CONCERN ABOUT AI REPLACING

2:06:21HUMAN JOBS AS AI CONTINUES TO

2:06:24EVOLVE, WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT

2:06:25IT DOES SO RESPONSIBLY AND IN A

2:06:28WAY THAT BENEFITS ALL

2:06:29OF HUMANITY.

2:06:30WE CAN NOT PUT OUR COMMUNITIES

2:06:31AT RISK AND LET THEM BE

2:06:33STEAMROLLED BY AI ADVANCEMENT

2:06:36THAT WILL HARM THEM IF NOT UM,

2:06:38REGULATE IT.

2:06:39SO THANK YOU.

2:06:40UM, TO OUR OUR COLLEAGUES ON

2:06:42THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHO ARE

2:06:44LEADING THE CHARGE AND THANK

2:06:45YOU TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH

2:06:47LOUIJEUNE FOR HOLDING IT DOWN

2:06:49HERE LOCALLY.

2:06:50THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:06:52COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW

2:06:53BEFORE.

2:06:54THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:06:55I AM SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN

2:06:57TECHNOLOGY.

2:06:58I BELIEVE IN.

2:06:58INNOVATION AND I BELIEVE IN

2:07:00PROGRESS.

2:07:00UM, EMERGING AI TOOLS HAVE THE

2:07:02POWER TO SOLVE SOME OF OUR MOST

2:07:04COMPLEX CHALLENGES.

2:07:06HOWEVER, WE MUST NOT FALL FOR

2:07:07THE DANGEROUS MYTH THAT

2:07:09TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS NEUTRAL,

2:07:11OBJECTIVE OR INHERENTLY FAIR.

2:07:13AND OUR GOT AN ALGORITHM HAS NO

2:07:15NO LIVED EXPERIENCE.

2:07:17IT CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR HUMAN

2:07:18CONTEXT, NUANCE OR RESILIENCE

2:07:20AND IT HAS BIASES JUST LIKE YOU

2:07:22AND ME, AUTOMATED SYSTEMS ARE

2:07:24ONLY AS GOOD AS THE DATA WE

2:07:26FEED IT AND UNFORTUNATELY MOST

2:07:28AI IS TRAINED ON DECADES

2:07:29OF HISTORICAL DATA THAT HAS

2:07:30SYSTEMATIC RACISM, SEXISM AND

2:07:33INEQUALITY BACK INTO ITS

2:07:35FOUNDATION.

2:07:36WHEN YOU TRAIN A SYSTEM ON A

2:07:38BIASED PAST YOU DON'T GET

2:07:39NEUTRAL DECISIONS.

2:07:40YOU GET AUTOMATED

2:07:41DISCRIMINATION OPERATING ON A

2:07:43SCALE.

2:07:43FOR JUST ONE EXAMPLE, LOOK AT

2:07:45HOUSING AI BASED MORTGAGES

2:07:48LENDERS ARE 80% MORE LIKELY TO

2:07:50REJECT BLACK APPLICANTS, 40%

2:07:52MORE LIKELY TO REJECT LATINO

2:07:53APPLICANTS AND 70% MORE LIKELY

2:07:56TO DENY NATIVE AMERICAN

2:07:57APPLICANTS.

2:07:58IMAGINE IF THOSE STATISTICS

2:07:59WERE APPLIED NATIONWIDE AND IF

2:08:01THE VICTIMS OF THAT ALGORITHM

2:08:04ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION HAD

2:08:06NO UM, RECOURSE.

2:08:08HOMEOWNERSHIP IS JUST THE

2:08:09START.

2:08:10AUTOMATED SYSTEMS ARE

2:08:11INCREASINGLY MAKING LIFE

2:08:13ALTERING DECISIONS ABOUT

2:08:14RESIDENTS DETERMINING WHO GETS

2:08:16A JOB, WHO GETS HEALTH CARE,

2:08:17WHO RECEIVES PUBLIC BENEFITS

2:08:19AND HOW PUBLIC SAFETY IS

2:08:21MANAGED.

2:08:22IN MOST CASES, THE PERSON

2:08:23AFFECTED HAS NO IDEA THAT THE

2:08:25DECISION WAS REACHED AND HAS NO

2:08:26WAY TO CONTEST THE WE CANNOT

2:08:29ALLOW ALGORITHM AND ARTIFICIAL

2:08:31INTELLIGENCE TO QUIET TO

2:08:33QUIETLY DISMANTLE CIVIL RIGHTS

2:08:34UNDER THE GUISE OF EFFICIENCY

2:08:36AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS.

2:08:38THANK YOU TO

2:08:39COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:08:40BRINGING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.

2:08:42WE ARE URGING CONGRESS TO ENACT

2:08:44STRONG, ENFORCEABLE CIVIL

2:08:45RIGHTS PROTECTIONS FOR ANY

2:08:47AUTOMATED SYSTEMS MAKING UM

2:08:49CONSEQUENTIAL DECISIONS.

2:08:50INNOVATION SHOULD OPEN DOORS

2:08:52FOR OUR COMMUNITIES BY CLOSED

2:08:53THEM BY PROGRAMING SYSTEMATIC

2:08:55BIAS INTO OUR FUTURE.

2:08:56THANK YOU.

2:08:57>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR SANTANA

2:08:58.

2:08:58WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

2:09:00THEIR NAME?

2:09:01MR CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS

2:09:03CULPEPPER, DURKAN.

2:09:05FITZGERALD.

2:09:05FLYNN.

2:09:07UH, MURPHY.

2:09:09BUT BEN WEBER WELL, PLEASE ADD

2:09:12THE CHAIR.

2:09:15COUNCILORS.

2:09:15UH, I'M SORRY WE'RE ON DOCKET

2:09:191923.

2:09:19OKAY.

2:09:20UM, COUNCIL REGION MEJIA AND

2:09:22SANTANA SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

2:09:23RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:09:241923.

2:09:25ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

2:09:27THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:09:29UH, MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:09:30CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

2:09:33COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL CALL

2:09:34THAT AS A YES.

2:09:36COUNCIL GOES WELL.

2:09:36YES.

2:09:38COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:09:38YES.

2:09:39COUNCIL.

2:09:39CULPEPER.

2:09:40YES.

2:09:40COUNCILOR.

2:09:41DURKAN.

2:09:41COUNCILOR.

2:09:42DURKAN.

2:09:42YES.

2:09:42COUNCILOR.

2:09:43FITZGERALD.

2:09:44COUNCILOR THIS SHOW.

2:09:44YES.

2:09:45COUNCILOR.

2:09:45FLYNN.

2:09:46COUNCILOR.

2:09:46FLYNN.

2:09:46YES.

2:09:47COUNSELOR.

2:09:47LOUIJEUNE.

2:09:48COUNCILOR.

2:09:48LOUIJEUNE.

2:09:49YES.

2:09:49COUNCIL.

2:09:50MEJIA.

2:09:51COUNCIL.

2:09:51MEJIA.

2:09:51YES.

2:09:52COUNCILOR.

2:09:52MURPHY.

2:09:53COUNCILOR.

2:09:53MURPHY.

2:09:53YES.

2:09:54COUNCIL.

2:09:54BEN.

2:09:55COUNCIL.

2:09:55PEN.

2:09:56YES.

2:09:56COUNCIL.

2:09:56SANTANA.

2:09:57YEAH.

2:09:57COUNCILOR.

2:09:58SANTANA.

2:09:58YES.

2:09:59COUNCIL.

2:09:59WEBER.

2:10:00YES.

2:10:00COUNCIL.

2:10:00WEBER.

2:10:01YES AND COUNCIL?

2:10:01WORLD COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.

2:10:03TALKING NUMBER 1923 HAS

2:10:06RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE

2:10:07AFFIRMATIVE.

2:10:08THANK YOU.

2:10:08>> DOCKET 1923 HAS BEEN ADOPTED

2:10:10.

2:10:10MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:10:11DOCKET 1924.

2:10:13TALKING NUMBER 1924 COUNCILORS

2:10:16LOUIJEUNE AND MEJIA FOR THE

2:10:18FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:10:20CONGRATULATING BISHOP JOHN M

2:10:22BORDERS THE THIRD ON HIS

2:10:23RETIREMENT AND HONORING 45

2:10:25YEARS OF SERVICE TO MORNING

2:10:27STAR BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE CITY

2:10:28OF BOSTON.

2:10:29THANK YOU.

2:10:30>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:10:30COUNCIL REGION.

2:10:31YOU HAVE THE FLOOR QUICKLY.

2:10:34SORRY.

2:10:35>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:10:37UM, AND I'D LIKE TO SEEK

2:10:38SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

2:10:39DOCKET.

2:10:39I'M SAYING THAT BECAUSE I

2:10:40ALWAYS FORGET TO SAY THAT

2:10:41SOMETHING TO GET BETTER.

2:10:42UM, AND I'M PRESENTING THIS

2:10:44RESOLUTION.

2:10:44UH, YOU KNOW, IT COULD HAVE

2:10:46BEEN ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND

2:10:47I THOUGHT ABOUT SHOULD I, YOU

2:10:48KNOW, NUMBER OF RESOLUTIONS

2:10:49SHOULD THIS BE ON THE MAIN

2:10:51AGENDA?

2:10:51AND I JUST THINK THAT FOR THE

2:10:53EXTENT OF THE WORK THAT BISHOP

2:10:54BORDERS HAS DONE IN OUR CITY, I

2:10:55THINK IT'S WORTHY OF HIS WORK

2:10:57AND A TESTAMENT TO HIS WORK TO

2:10:59HAVE IT BE BEFORE THIS BODY AND

2:11:01TO HAVE AND TO SPEAK ON IT NOT

2:11:02ONLY BECAUSE IT IS UM.

2:11:05UH MY PLACE OF WORSHIP BUT

2:11:07MOSTLY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE

2:11:08WORK THAT HE HAS DONE HERE FOR

2:11:10THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:11:11SO I, I OFFER THIS TO THANK HIM

2:11:13FOR HIS 45 YEARS OF SERVICE,

2:11:14UM, TO THE CITY OF BOSTON AND

2:11:15TO THE MORNINGSTAR COMMUNITY.

2:11:17UH, HIS LEADERSHIP HAS TOUCHED

2:11:18GENERATIONS OF CONGREGANTS AND

2:11:20NEIGHBORS.

2:11:20UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP,

2:11:22MORNINGSTAR GREW FROM 75

2:11:23MEMBERS TO SEVERAL THOUSANDS

2:11:24AND BUILT A SANCTUARY SANCTUARY

2:11:27ON BLUE HILL AVENUE.

2:11:28HE'S ALSO MENTORED AND HELPED

2:11:29PREPARE MORE THAN 50 MINISTERS.

2:11:31I WAS AT A CHURCH A MONTH AGO,

2:11:34UM, IN OUTSIDE OF BOSTON FOR

2:11:36THE FUNERAL.

2:11:37UH WAS IN NEWTOWN FOR THE

2:11:39FUNERAL OF DENICE WASHINGTON

2:11:42AND UH TO HEAR THAT PASTOR

2:11:44THERE WE HAD NO IDEA TALK ABOUT

2:11:46BISHOP BORDERS AND HOW CENTRAL

2:11:48OF A FIGURE THAT HE AND DENICE

2:11:51WERE TO HIM WAS JUST THE DEPTHS

2:11:54OF HOW MUCH HE HAS MENTORED

2:11:56OTHERS IS JUST SO PALPABLE.

2:11:58UM.

2:11:58>> HE'S A SPIRITUAL FATHER TO

2:12:00MANY I KNOW TO TO MYSELF I KNOW

2:12:02TO COUNCILOR ME HERE.

2:12:03I KNOW TO OTHERS HERE ON HIS

2:12:05BODY TO THE MOST VULNERABLE

2:12:07AMONG US, TO GOVERNORS, UH,

2:12:09PRESENT AND PAST.

2:12:11AND HE YEARS PRAYED UH, FOR

2:12:13NATIONAL LEADERS SEEKING

2:12:14PRAYERS, WISDOM AND COUNCILOR.

2:12:16HIS SERVICES INCLUDED A

2:12:17CHAPLAINCY AT THE SUFFOLK

2:12:18COUNTY JAIL.

2:12:20MOST OF EARLY FOR ME IS, UM,

2:12:21TRYING TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO

2:12:22FAITH.

2:12:23MORE THAN A DECADE AGO HE WAS,

2:12:26UH, YOU KNOW, GOING TO

2:12:28MORNINGSTAR AND SITTING IN THE

2:12:29BALCONY WITH MY SISTER TRYING

2:12:31TO GO UNNOTICED UH, WAY BEFORE

2:12:33ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS.

2:12:35UM, HE MADE ME FEEL SAFE.

2:12:36UM, AND HE MADE ME FEEL SAFE AT

2:12:38MORNINGSTAR AND I'M REALLY

2:12:39GRATEFUL FOR HIM AND FOR HIS

2:12:41WORD AND FOR MAKING IT FEEL

2:12:43LIKE SUCH A WELCOMING AND OPEN

2:12:45COMMUNITY TO ANYBODY WHO NEEDED

2:12:48A PLACE, UM, OF HEALING BECAUSE

2:12:50THAT'S WHAT, UM, THE CHURCH IS

2:12:52.

2:12:53HIS RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE HERE

2:12:54IN THE CITY HELPED BRING CLERGY

2:12:55TOGETHER AND WORK THAT GAVE

2:12:56RISE TO THE BOSTON TEN POINT

2:12:58COALITION DURING THE PANDEMIC.

2:13:00IT WAS A CENTRAL PLACE FOR

2:13:01MATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH

2:13:02CENTER AND BOSTON MEDICAL

2:13:03CENTER TO SERVE AS A VITAL

2:13:04COMMUNITY VACCINATION SITE FOR

2:13:06BOSTON'S BLACK AND BROWN

2:13:08COMMUNITY.

2:13:09UH AND TO EVERYONE ANOTHER

2:13:10EXAMPLE OF THE CHURCH MEETING

2:13:11ITS NEIGHBORS NEEDS.

2:13:12SO AS IT PREPARES TO RETIRE AT

2:13:14THE END OF THIS YEAR, I EXTEND

2:13:16MY GRATITUDE.

2:13:16MY FAMILY EXTENDS OUR

2:13:17GRATITUDE.

2:13:18MY FRIENDS EXTEND OUR

2:13:19GRATITUDE.

2:13:20MY GODDAUGHTER WAS JUST

2:13:21BAPTIZED THERE UM TWO WEEKS AGO

2:13:24DURING THE MIDDLE OF A STORM.

2:13:26UM THE BISHOP'S LEGACY IS ONE

2:13:29FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS AND HE'S,

2:13:31UH I'M THANKFUL FOR HIS FAMILY

2:13:33FOR THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SHARE

2:13:35SO MUCH OF THEIR FATHER, THEIR

2:13:37HUSBAND AND THEIR GRANDFATHER

2:13:39WITH US AND WITH THE ENTIRE

2:13:40CITY OF BOSTON.

2:13:42SO CONGRATULATIONS TO BISHOP

2:13:43ORDERS.

2:13:44THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:13:46COUNCILOR.

2:13:46UM, HERE DID YOU WANT TO SAY A

2:13:47FEW WORDS.

2:13:48UH.

2:13:48>> BEFORE I JUST ALSO WANT TO

2:13:50INVITE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES

2:13:51THIS SUNDAY AS WE CELEBRATE HIS

2:13:5445 YEARS TO, UM WHEN YOU START

2:13:56BAPTIST CHURCH ON SUNDAY AT 10

2:13:59A.M..

2:13:59THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

2:14:00EXCUSE ME.

2:14:01>> THANK YOU.

2:14:02UM, I APOLOGIZE I ACCIDENTALLY

2:14:03TURNED OFF COUNCILOR FLYNN'S

2:14:04MIC.

2:14:04UM, THAT WAS ON PURPOSE

2:14:06COUNCIL ME YOU NOW HAVE THE

2:14:07FLOOR.

2:14:07THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:14:08AND I WANT TO THANK

2:14:09COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR ACADEMY

2:14:10TO THIS DOCKET.

2:14:12UM, BISHOP BORDERS HAS SERVED

2:14:13BOSTON FOR OVER FOUR DECADES

2:14:15AND HAS BEEN A PILLAR IN OUR

2:14:17COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT HIS

2:14:17SERVICE.

2:14:18AND FOR THOSE.

2:14:19FOLKS WHO DON'T KNOW, HE WAS A

2:14:20ROCK STAR BEFORE HE WAS A

2:14:21PRIEST.

2:14:22I MEAN, EXCUSE ME.

2:14:23UH UH, A BISHOP AND I'M NOT

2:14:27GOING TO GO INTO HIS UH, MUSIC

2:14:28DAYS BUT HE OFTEN TALKS ABOUT

2:14:31THE MOVES THAT HE BUSTED

2:14:32BEFORE.

2:14:33>> HE.

2:14:33WAS, UM, INSIDE THE WALLS

2:14:35OF OUR BELOVED MORNING

2:14:37MORNINGSTAR.

2:14:38AND THAT SPEAKS, UH, TO HIS

2:14:40INVESTMENT AND INVOLVEMENT IN

2:14:41OUR CITY.

2:14:42UM, HE IS A SPIRITUAL LEADER,

2:14:44COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AND CIVIC

2:14:46PARTNER IN ADVANCING THE

2:14:47WELL-BEING OF BOSTON'S

2:14:48FAMILIES.

2:14:49HIS MINISTRY HAS GROWN

2:14:51MORNINGSTAR OUR CONGREGATION

2:14:52DEVELOPING GENERATIONS

2:14:53OF MINISTERS UM, ADVANCING

2:14:55PEACE AND BUILDING MEANINGFUL

2:14:57COLLABORATIONS AND ONE OF HIS

2:14:58EFFORTS STANDS OUT AS

2:15:00COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE POINTED OUT

2:15:01WAS THE VACCINATION SITE DURING

2:15:03THE COVID PANDEMIC AS WELL AS I

2:15:05JUST WANT TO, UH, ALSO

2:15:07ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BISHOP BORDERS

2:15:10MYSELF AND VOGUE HOSTED THE

2:15:12FIRST UM WE'LL HAVE TOWN HALL

2:15:16UM CONVERSATION IN JANUARY

2:15:18OF 2022 AND HE OPENED UP HIS

2:15:20DOORS AND CREATED SPACE FOR

2:15:21PEOPLE TO BE HEARD.

2:15:23UM, REGARDING THIS PARTICULAR

2:15:24ISSUE, HE ALSO UM IS MY

2:15:27SPIRITUAL FATHER AND WHEN I RAN

2:15:29FOR OFFICE IN 2019 HE

2:15:31LITERALLY.

2:15:33PROPHESIZED I DON'T KNOW HOW TO

2:15:34SAY THAT WORD, BUT HE SAID THAT

2:15:36I WAS GOING TO WIN AND IT WAS

2:15:39GOING TO BE BAPTISM UNDER FIRE

2:15:42AND THAT YEAR WAS COVID AFTER I

2:15:44GOT UM, YOU KNOW, INAUGURATED

2:15:48INTO THIS UM WORK.

2:15:50SO IT WAS DEFINITELY BAPTISM

2:15:51UNDER FIRE.

2:15:52SO HE ALSO KNOWS WHAT IS

2:15:54HAPPENING AND SPEAKS TRUTH TO

2:15:55IT.

2:15:56UM, AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I

2:15:59DID NOT UPLIFT THAT WHENEVER

2:16:01I'VE HAD TO TAKE DIFFICULT

2:16:02VOTES.

2:16:04IT IS.

2:16:04>> UM, BISHOP WATERS THAT I'VE

2:16:06CALLED UPON AND I REMEMBER MY

2:16:07FIRST VOTE HERE ON THE

2:16:10COUNCIL THAT I KNEW WOULD HAVE

2:16:11A BIG CONSEQUENCE IN MY LIFE

2:16:13AND HOW I SHOW UP HERE WAS THE

2:16:152020 BUDGET.

2:16:17UM, AND IT WAS HIM THAT

2:16:19PROVIDED ME THE GUIDANCE AND

2:16:20THE SPIRITUAL.

2:16:22UH.

2:16:23>> TO KNOW THAT I WAS FOLLOWING

2:16:25MY HEART AND LEADING WITH

2:16:27CONVICTION.

2:16:27AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THE

2:16:28BISHOP FOR ALL HIS LOVE AND

2:16:31CONGRATULATE HIM AND HIS ENTIRE

2:16:33FAMILY.

2:16:33AND I LOOK FORWARD TO

2:16:35CELEBRATING HIM ON THE 10TH.

2:16:36THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

2:16:37COUNCIL MAYOR COUNCIL.

2:16:37FLYNN YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:16:41THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

2:16:42HONORED TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES

2:16:44IN RECOGNIZING BISHOP JOHN

2:16:46BORDERS BUT RECOGNIZING THE

2:16:49INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTION HE HAS

2:16:51MADE TO NOT JUST THE

2:16:53MORNINGSTAR BAPTIST CHURCH IN

2:16:55MATTAPAN BUT REALLY THROUGHOUT

2:16:57MASSACHUSETTS THROUGHOUT

2:17:00THROUGHOUT THE NATION AS WELL.

2:17:02I DO RECALL DURING DIFFICULT

2:17:04TIMES, UM, IN THE 1970S AND THE

2:17:071980S ESPECIALLY.

2:17:08BUT BISHOP BORDERS WAS ALWAYS

2:17:10THERE FOR THE RESIDENTS

2:17:12OF BOSTON NEVER GAVE UP ON THE

2:17:14PEOPLE ALWAYS BRINGING PEOPLE

2:17:16TOGETHER, IMPROVING RACE

2:17:19RELATIONS IN BOSTON.

2:17:20HE'S HE'S REALLY AN UNSUNG HERO

2:17:22AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED SOMEONE

2:17:24I RESPECTED AND ADMIRED AND

2:17:26LOOKING FORWARD TO THE UM

2:17:30SERVICE ON SUNDAY MORNING AS

2:17:31WELL ON BLUE HILL AVENUE.

2:17:32THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:17:33THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN,

2:17:35COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU NOW HAVE

2:17:36THE FLOOR.

2:17:36THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:17:37I'D LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF

2:17:38WITH THE REMARKS PREVIOUSLY

2:17:40MADE BY THE COUNCILORS.

2:17:42BUT I ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT I

2:17:44GREW UP WITH, UH, BISHOP JOHN

2:17:46BORDERS.

2:17:47AND I REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS AND

2:17:49THE GROUP CALLED THE ENERGETICS

2:17:55HE AND, UH.

2:17:58I'VE HEARD JOHN TALK ABOUT, UH

2:18:01,HIS CALLING WHILE HE WAS

2:18:02SINGING.

2:18:04UH, THEY WERE IN SWITZERLAND

2:18:08AND UH, IN THE 70S AND HE HE

2:18:11HEARD THE CALL WHILE HE WAS OUT

2:18:14SINGING UH, ONE OF HIS

2:18:16INTERNATIONAL TOURS BEEN A GOOD

2:18:18FRIEND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

2:18:20UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SUPPORTED

2:18:23EACH OTHER IN THE MINISTRY.

2:18:24WE'VE BEEN IN THE MINISTRY

2:18:26QUITE A LONG TIME TOGETHER,

2:18:28ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CITY CITY'S

2:18:31YOUTH FOR AND RATHER THAN THE

2:18:34PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST

2:18:36VIOLENT TIMES WE'VE SEEN IN

2:18:38BOSTON UH, BISHOP WATERS AND I

2:18:40WERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

2:18:41EVEN HAD A SCARE AT HIS CHURCH

2:18:43AND A FUNERAL WHERE A SHOOTING

2:18:46ALMOST TOOK PLACE.

2:18:48SO WE'VE BEEN IN THE MIDST

2:18:49OF THE FIRE AND WE WERE

2:18:50LAUGHING ON THE PHONE THIS

2:18:52MORNING ABOUT HOW LONG WE'VE

2:18:54BEEN IN THE MINISTRY AND UH,

2:18:56HE'S HAVING A BANQUET THIS

2:18:57WEEKEND AND UH, YOU KNOW, I

2:19:02LOOK AT THE WORK THAT HE'S

2:19:03DONE, I LOOK AT THE WORK THAT

2:19:05HIS WIFE, HIS PARTNER SANDRA

2:19:08HAS DONE IN THIS CITY AND HOW

2:19:11WITHOUT THEIR MINISTRY BEING

2:19:13INVOLVED IN THE CITY, BOSTON

2:19:15WOULDN'T BE THE CITY THAT IT IS

2:19:18TODAY.

2:19:18SO I LIFT BISHOP WATERS UP AS

2:19:21ONE WHO HELPED SHAPE AND CHANGE

2:19:23THE CITY OF BOSTON INTO THE

2:19:25NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

2:19:27ACCLAIM CITY IT IS MADE LORD

2:19:30BLESS BISHOP WATERS AND

2:19:32CONGRATULATE HIM ON HIS

2:19:34RETIREMENT FROM THE MINISTRY.

2:19:36I'M SURE HE WON'T GO FAR FROM

2:19:37THAT CHURCH BUT HE WILL TAKE

2:19:39TIME.

2:19:39THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:19:41THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:19:42UH, I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THE

2:19:44CHORUS OF CONGRATULATIONS TO

2:19:45BISHOP WATERS.

2:19:45WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

2:19:47THEIR NAME?

2:19:48COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:19:49COUNCIL.

2:19:50FITZGERALD.

2:19:50COUNCILOR.

2:19:51FLYNN.

2:19:51COUNCILOR.

2:19:52MURPHY COUNCILOR.

2:19:52PIPELINE COUNCILOR.

2:19:54SANTANA, COUNCILOR.

2:19:54WEBER, COUNCILOR.

2:19:55WELL, AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR

2:19:57AND OH I APOLOGIZE,

2:19:59COUNCILOR CULPEPER I APOLOGIZE

2:20:02UM COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

2:20:03MEJIA SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE

2:20:05RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:20:061924.

2:20:07ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:20:08UH, ALL THOSE OPPOSED?

2:20:09NAY, NAY.

2:20:11MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:20:12CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

2:20:13DOCKET 1924?

2:20:15COUNCILOR BREADON

2:20:17COUNCILOR COLOR IS A POWDER.

2:20:18YES.

2:20:18COUNCIL OPPOSED BY YES.

2:20:20COUNCILOR.

2:20:20COPPER.

2:20:21YES.

2:20:21COUNCILOR.

2:20:21COPPER.

2:20:22YES.

2:20:22COUNCILOR.

2:20:23DURKAN.

2:20:23YES.

2:20:23COUNCILOR.

2:20:24DURKAN.

2:20:24YES.

2:20:25COUNCILOR.

2:20:25FITZGERALD.

2:20:26COUNCILORS SHOW.

2:20:27YES.

2:20:27COUNCIL FLYNN IS

2:20:28COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:20:29YES.

2:20:29COUNCILOR.

2:20:29LOUIJEUNE.

2:20:30YES.

2:20:31COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:20:31YES.

2:20:32COUNCILOR.

2:20:32MEJIA.

2:20:33CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

2:20:33YES.

2:20:34COUNCILOR.

2:20:34MURPHY.

2:20:35COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS

2:20:36COUNCILOR PIN COUNCILOR PENNY

2:20:39SANTANA.

2:20:40COUNCILOR.

2:20:40SANTANA.

2:20:41YES.

2:20:41COUNCILOR.

2:20:41WEBER.

2:20:43COUNCIL MEMBER.

2:20:43YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:20:44WORLD COUNCILOR WORRELL YES CAN

2:20:46NUMBER 1924 HAS RECEIVED 12

2:20:50VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:20:51THANK YOU.

2:20:52>> DOCKET 1924 HAS BEEN

2:20:53ADOPTED.

2:20:54MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:20:56DOCKET 1925.

2:20:58TALKING NUMBER 1925

2:21:01COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR THE

2:21:01FOLLOWING RESOLUTION URGING THE

2:21:03CITY OF BOSTON AND THE

2:21:04COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

2:21:06TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER

2:21:08FOR DISPLACED FORMATION

2:21:09TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS

2:21:12HOLDERS.

2:21:13THANK YOU.

2:21:14>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:21:15COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCIL YOU

2:21:16HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:21:16AND PRESIDENT MADAM PRESIDENT,

2:21:19I WOULD LIKE TO ADD

2:21:20COUNCILOR UH LOUIJEUNE.

2:21:22UH, AS A SECOND ORIGINAL

2:21:24CO-SPONSOR, I WOULD LIKE TO

2:21:26REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

2:21:27TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A

2:21:30THIRD ORIGINAL COUNCIL.

2:21:31SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION

2:21:32.

2:21:33I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK

2:21:34COUNCILMEMBER HERE FOR THE WORK

2:21:36SHE'S DONE ON THIS ISSUE AND

2:21:37HER INTEREST IN THIS RESOLUTION

2:21:39AND IF I COULD I WOULD ADD HER

2:21:42AS AN HONORARY ORIGINAL

2:21:43CO-SPONSOR.

2:21:45I THINK UH, THE WORK THE WORK

2:21:47THAT SHE DID IN FACT WHEN WE

2:21:49HAD THAT HEARING UH, IT WAS

2:21:52COUNCILMEMBER HERE WHO TALKED

2:21:54ABOUT UH, THE CITY SETTING

2:21:58ASIDE UH, PLACES LIKE WE DID AT

2:22:02UH MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD

2:22:04WHEN THE HAITIANS CAME HERE

2:22:06THEY WERE STUCK AT THE AIRPORT

2:22:08AND WE THE GOVERNOR MADE THE

2:22:11DECISION THAT WE WOULD PUT THEM

2:22:12UP ON THE UH, FACILITY ON

2:22:15MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD.

2:22:17COUNCILMEMBER HERE AT THAT

2:22:18HEARING RAISED THE SAME ISSUE.

2:22:21WHY CAN'T WE PUT THEM UP IN

2:22:23PUBLIC FACILITIES?

2:22:25SO I WANT TO JUST LIFT HER UP.

2:22:28UH, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO

2:22:29REQUEST THE SUSPENSION OF THE

2:22:31RULES TO VOTE ON THE PASSAGE

2:22:32OF THIS DOCKET.

2:22:35THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:22:38THIS RESOLUTION FOLLOWS A

2:22:40HEARING THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL

2:22:41RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUITY AND

2:22:43IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT HELD ON

2:22:46SEPTEMBER 25TH BECAUSE OF THE

2:22:48TERMINATION OF HAITIAN TPS.

2:22:51DURING THAT HEARING WE HEARD

2:22:53THAT OUR RESPONSE CANNOT STOP

2:22:55AT LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND

2:22:57EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT.

2:22:58WE ALSO HAVE TO ADDRESS

2:23:00IMMEDIATE IMMIGRANT

2:23:03HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OF RESIDENTS

2:23:04WHO MAY ALSO LOSE THEIR HOUSING

2:23:06AND HAVE NOWHERE SAFE TO GO.

2:23:09THE LOSS OF WORK AUTHORIZATION

2:23:11,INCOME AND HOUSING STABILITY

2:23:14PUTS FORMER TPS HOLDERS AND

2:23:15THEIR FAMILIES AT GREATER RISK

2:23:18OF EVICTION, OVERCROWDING,

2:23:19DISPLACEMENT AND HOMELESSNESS.

2:23:22WITH COLD WEATHER APPROACHING,

2:23:24WE NEED TO BE PROACTIVE RATHER

2:23:25THAN WAIT UNTIL FAMILIES ARE

2:23:27ALREADY SLEEPING OUTDOORS OR

2:23:29FACING UNSAFE LIVING CONDITIONS

2:23:31.

2:23:31THIS RESOLUTION CALLS ON THE

2:23:33CITY AND THE COMMONWEALTH

2:23:35OF MASSACHUSETTS TO IDENTIFY

2:23:38VACANT OR UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC

2:23:40FACILITIES THAT CAN SAFELY AND

2:23:42LAWFULLY PROVIDE TEMPORARY

2:23:43EMERGENCY SHELTER.

2:23:45IT ALSO CALLS FOR AN ACTION

2:23:47PLAN IDENTIFYING THE AVAILABLE

2:23:49FACILITIES, CAPACITY FUNDING,

2:23:52RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES AND A

2:23:54TIMELINE FOR MAKING THAT

2:23:55SHELTER AVAILABLE.

2:23:57BOSTON'S HASTE AND COMMUNITY

2:23:59HAS CONTRIBUTED ENORMOUS,

2:24:01ENORMOUS, ENORMOUS AND

2:24:04ENORMOUSLY TO OUR CITY FOR MANY

2:24:07,MANY GENERATIONS AT A TIME

2:24:09WHEN SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS ARE

2:24:11FACING EXTRAORDINARY

2:24:13UNCERTAINTY THROUGH NOT DOING

2:24:14THEM THEIR OWN.

2:24:15WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO

2:24:17ENSURE THAT NO FAMILIES LEFT

2:24:19WITHOUT A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE.

2:24:21THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:24:22THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER

2:24:25COUNCILOR REGINA COUNCILWOMAN

2:24:26HERE WITH OUR EXCUSE ME,

2:24:27COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:24:28WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE

2:24:28REMARKS?

2:24:29COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, YOU HAVE

2:24:30THE FLOOR.

2:24:32UH.

2:24:33>> THANK YOU.

2:24:37YOU KNOW, BEING AN AT LARGE

2:24:38COUNCILOR, YOU'RE ALWAYS

2:24:39EVERYWHERE.

2:24:40EVENINGS ARE ALWAYS FULL.

2:24:41I THOUGHT YESTERDAY WOULD BE A

2:24:42DAY.

2:24:43I WAS READY TO GO HOME.

2:24:44BE HOME AT 7 P.M..

2:24:46GOT A CALL ABOUT A CRISIS

2:24:50SITUATION AT AN AIRPORT AT THE

2:24:53AIRPORT.

2:24:55AND I DIDN'T GET HOME UNTIL 1

2:24:58A.M. LAST NIGHT.

2:25:02PEOPLE ARE REALLY SUFFERING AND

2:25:06I.

2:25:06>> TRY TO.

2:25:13I TRY TO ARTICULATE HOW MUCH

2:25:15PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.

2:25:17I DON'T TALK ABOUT IT.

2:25:18>> ALL THE TIME.

2:25:19BUT PEOPLE ARE REALLY

2:25:21SUFFERING.

2:25:24AND SO WHATEVER WE CAN DO.

2:25:27TO HELP PEOPLE.

2:25:28WHO ARE SUFFERING WHETHER IT'S

2:25:32SHELTER THAT THEY NEED, WHETHER

2:25:34IT'S MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

2:25:37PEOPLE ARE IN CRISIS AND THEY

2:25:41NEED.

2:25:42OUR HELP.

2:25:43>> THANK YOU.

2:25:44THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:25:46.

2:25:47COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:25:48UH, PRESIDENT.

2:25:53I'M SORRY, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:25:56THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:25:57UM, AND THANK YOU TO

2:25:59COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR

2:26:00INCLUDING ME IN THIS.

2:26:01UM, AND I JUST WANT TO, UM,

2:26:02THANK COUNCILOR UM LOUIJEUNE

2:26:05FOR THE ONGOING NEVER ENDING

2:26:08WORK UM, AND ADVOCACY, UM, THAT

2:26:12SHE DOES EVERY SINGLE DAY.

2:26:13UM.

2:26:14>> YOU KNOW, THE ENDING

2:26:16OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS

2:26:17HAS ALREADY INFLICTED IMMENSE

2:26:19TRAUMA ON OUR HAITIAN NEIGHBORS

2:26:21.

2:26:21AND AFTER EVERYTHING THESE

2:26:23FAMILIES HAVE ENDURED TO BUILD

2:26:25A LIFE IN OUR CITY WORRYING

2:26:27ABOUT LOSING THEIR HOUSING OR

2:26:28HAVING THEIR FAMILIES DISPLACED

2:26:29SHOULD NOT BE ANOTHER FEAR

2:26:31FORCED ONTO THEIR SHOULDERS.

2:26:34WE CANNOT CONTROL FEDERAL

2:26:35POLICY BUT WE CAN CONTROL WHAT

2:26:36WE DO WITHIN OUR OWN RESOURCES

2:26:39.

2:26:39RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

2:26:40AND THE COMMONWEALTH HAVE AN

2:26:42ABUNDANCE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS

2:26:43AND FACILITIES SITTING VACANT

2:26:44AND UNDERUTILIZED.

2:26:46THESE PROPERTIES.

2:26:47REPRESENT AN IMMEDIATE

2:26:50PRACTICAL OPPORTUNITY TO TO BE

2:26:52SAFELY CONVERTED INTO TEMPORARY

2:26:53EMERGENCY EMERGENCY SHELTER

2:26:55WHILE MEETING EVERY HOUSE FIRE

2:26:58BUILDING AND ACCESSIBILITY

2:26:59STANDARD.

2:27:00PUBLIC ASSETS SHOULD SERVE THE

2:27:02PUBLIC GOOD.

2:27:04FACILITIES THAT NO LONGER SERVE

2:27:05THEIR ORIGINAL PURPOSE SHOULD

2:27:07BE OPENING THEIR DOORS TO THE

2:27:08PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM MOST.

2:27:10WE ARE CALLING ON THE CITY AND

2:27:11THE COMMONWEALTH TO DEPLOY

2:27:13THESE AVAILABLE FACILITIES

2:27:14RIGHT NOW TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY

2:27:16SHELTER FOR OUR DISPLACED

2:27:18HAITIAN NEIGHBORS, UM AND TPS

2:27:20HOLDERS.

2:27:22OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE SUFFERED

2:27:23ENOUGH.

2:27:24IT'S TIME WE STEP UP TO KEEP

2:27:25OUR NEIGHBORS SAFE AND HOUSED.

2:27:27THANK YOU.

2:27:28THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:27:29CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YOU HAVE

2:27:30THE FLOOR.

2:27:33UM, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:27:34AND, UM, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:27:39,UM, COUNCIL LUIS JONES PAYNE.

2:27:44UM.

2:27:45>> AND I HOPE THAT WE ALL

2:27:46DEEPLY FEEL IT'S AND UNDERSTAND

2:27:49THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE

2:27:51HAVE.

2:27:52UM, TO.

2:27:56LEAD WITH MORE COMPASSION AND

2:27:59HUMANITY.

2:28:03SO I THINK.

2:28:06I'VE HAD LOTS OF LESSONS THIS

2:28:09PAST YEAR ABOUT WHAT THAT

2:28:11REALLY LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THIS

2:28:13CHAMBER AND I'M HOPING TO MODEL

2:28:15THAT AS I CONTINUE ON THIS

2:28:20JOURNEY.

2:28:20UM.

2:28:24>> UM AND I JUST WANT TO THANK,

2:28:25UH, COUNCIL CULPEPPER FOR

2:28:27ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I WAS HOPING

2:28:28TO BE A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

2:28:29DOCKET AND I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT

2:28:31THIS RESOLUTION IN SOLIDARITY

2:28:33WITH OUR HAITIAN NEIGHBORS.

2:28:35THE TERMINATION OF TPS FOR

2:28:37HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS HAS

2:28:38CREATED REAL UNCERTAINTY AND

2:28:40STABILITY AND FEAR FOR

2:28:41RESIDENTS IN OUR CITY.

2:28:42FAMILIES HAVE BEEN PLACED IN

2:28:44HARM'S WAY AND OUR

2:28:45NEIGHBORHOODS ARE BEING

2:28:47DESTABILIZED.

2:28:48THESE ARE OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS

2:28:50WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR LIVES IN

2:28:52BOSTON AND DESERVE FLAHERTY,

2:28:54SECURITY AND PROTECTION.

2:28:57AT THE HEARING ON SEPTEMBER THE

2:28:5825TH ON DOCKET 0299, I

2:29:00HIGHLIGHTED ALL THE DIFFERENT

2:29:01CITY DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES

2:29:03THAT COULD BE PART OF THE

2:29:04CONVERSATION ABOUT SUPPORTING

2:29:05OUR HAITIAN RESIDENTS,

2:29:08ENCOURAGING US TO THINK ABOUT

2:29:09ALL PATHWAYS TO SUPPORT THE

2:29:11BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION

2:29:13BP'S HOUSING.

2:29:15ALL OF THIS IS INTERCONNECTED

2:29:16WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

2:29:18AND I THINK AND THIS IS WHAT I

2:29:20ALWAYS SAY THAT BOSTON IS

2:29:21RESOURCE RICH FOR COORDINATION

2:29:23POOR AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY

2:29:25FOR US TO USE BOSTON RESOURCES

2:29:27TO HELP FULFILL THE POTENTIAL

2:29:28TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS AND FILL

2:29:30THE GAP.

2:29:31UM, THAT INCLUDES OCCUPYING

2:29:33EMPTY SPACES.

2:29:35UM, TO SUPPORT AS AN IMMIGRANT

2:29:37WHO.

2:29:38HAS SEEN MY COMMUNITY.

2:29:39SUFFER UM AND FACED ATTACKS

2:29:41ESPECIALLY FROM AND AT THE

2:29:43HANDS OF THE FEDERAL

2:29:43GOVERNMENT.

2:29:44I KNOW HOW HEAVY THIS THIS

2:29:46WEIGHS ON ALL OF OUR HEARTS AND

2:29:48MINDS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO

2:29:49STAND.

2:29:50IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HAITIAN

2:29:51COMMUNITY.

2:29:52UM, AND THIS RESOLUTION AFFIRMS

2:29:54THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO

2:29:55PROTECT AND SUPPORT IMPACTED

2:29:57RESIDENTS.

2:29:57AND SO WE'RE URGING THE

2:30:02COUNCIL TO STEP UP AND MAKE

2:30:03SURE WHEN IT'S TIME FOR BUDGET

2:30:04SEASON THAT THE RHETORIC THAT

2:30:06WE SPEAK REFLECTS THE BUDGET

2:30:08VOTES THAT WE TAKE.

2:30:11THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:30:12COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU NOW HAVE

2:30:13THE FLOOR.

2:30:14THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

2:30:15UM, I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:30:17COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

2:30:18COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:30:18BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:30:20UM, I I THINK WE CAN ALL SENSE

2:30:23THE WAY THAT, UM,

2:30:24COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IS THE

2:30:25FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN.

2:30:26UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IN THIS BODY

2:30:29UM, FEELS AND I JUST THINK THAT

2:30:31WE ALL NEED TO APPROACH A LOT

2:30:32OF THESE ISSUES WITH THE SAME

2:30:33URGENCY.

2:30:34UH, WE MIGHT NOT BE GETTING THE

2:30:36SAME PHONE CALLS, BUT WE'RE ALL

2:30:37ONE CITY DEALING WITH, UM, AND

2:30:40ONE COMMUNITY IN OUR CITY IS

2:30:41DEALING WITH, UM WITH THIS, UM

2:30:44,SO URGENTLY.

2:30:45SO I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:30:46COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR HER

2:30:47LEADERSHIP.

2:30:48IT'S NOT EASY TO BE THE FIRST.

2:30:50UM, IT'S NOT EASY TO FEEL THE

2:30:51WEIGHT ON OUR SHOULDERS.

2:30:52BUT WE STAND WITH YOU AND WE'RE

2:30:54GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

2:30:55AND ALL THAT YOU DO.

2:30:57THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:31:00WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

2:31:02THEIR NAME?

2:31:03MR CHAIR PLEASE.

2:31:04UH, COUNCILOR.

2:31:05DURKAN.

2:31:06COUNCILOR.

2:31:06FITZGERALD.

2:31:06COUNCILOR.

2:31:07FLYNN.

2:31:07COUNCILOR.

2:31:08MEJIA.

2:31:08COUNCILOR.

2:31:09MURPHY.

2:31:10COUNCILOR PYBURN.

2:31:10COUNCILOR.

2:31:11WEBER.

2:31:11COUNCIL WHILE AND PLEASE ADD

2:31:12THE CHAIR.

2:31:15COUNCILOR.

2:31:15CALL PEPPER LOUIJEUNE AND

2:31:17SANTANA SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

2:31:18RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:31:191925.

2:31:20ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:31:21AYE.

2:31:22THOSE OPPOSED NAY, NAY.

2:31:24MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:31:25CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

2:31:27DOCKET 1925.

2:31:29COUNCILOR BREAK.

2:31:29COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PERSON.

2:31:31YES.

2:31:31COUNCILOR COVE.

2:31:31UH, YES.

2:31:32COUNCILOR.

2:31:32COPA.

2:31:34COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

2:31:35YES.

2:31:35COUNCILOR.

2:31:36DURKAN.

2:31:36COUNCILOR.

2:31:36DURKAN.

2:31:37YES.

2:31:37COUNCILOR.

2:31:38FITZGERALD.

2:31:39COUNCILOR.

2:31:39SHOW.

2:31:39YES.

2:31:40COUNCILOR.

2:31:40FLYNN.

2:31:40YES.

2:31:41COUNCIL.

2:31:41FLYNN.

2:31:42YES.

2:31:42COUNCILOR.

2:31:42LOUIJEUNE.

2:31:43COUNCILOR.

2:31:44LOUIJEUNE.

2:31:44YES, COUNCILOR.

2:31:45MEJIA.

2:31:46COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:31:46YES.

2:31:47COUNCILOR.

2:31:47MURPHY.

2:31:48YES.

2:31:48COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:31:49YES.

2:31:49COUNCIL.

2:31:50PUT PEN TO A PEN.

2:31:51YES.

2:31:51COUNT SANTANA.

2:31:52YES.

2:31:53COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:31:54YES.

2:31:54COUNCIL.

2:31:54WEBER.

2:31:55YES.

2:31:55COUNCIL.

2:31:55WEBER.

2:31:56YES AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:31:57YES.

2:31:58COUNCILOR ZERO YES.

2:31:59SO I CAN NUMBER ONE 9 TO 5 HAS

2:32:01RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE

2:32:02AFFIRMATIVE.

2:32:03THANK YOU.

2:32:05DOCKET 1925 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:32:08MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:32:09DOCKET 1926.

2:32:11THE NUMBER 1926 COUNCILORS

2:32:13LOUIJEUNE AND FITZGERALD OFF

2:32:15WITH THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:32:17RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 2026 AS

2:32:20NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT

2:32:22AWARENESS MONTH.

2:32:24THANK YOU.

2:32:25>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:32:25COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

2:32:26YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:32:27THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

2:32:28THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR

2:32:30THE KIND WORDS.

2:32:30IT'S OBVIOUSLY ALL VERY, VERY.

2:32:33HEAVILY ON ME.

2:32:33AND MY.

2:32:34OFFICE AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK

2:32:36ON THE SITUATION.

2:32:38UM UM.

2:32:38BUT FOR THIS THIS IS A

2:32:41RESOLUTION UM I OFFER THIS OH.

2:32:42AND IF I COULD, UM, SUSPEND.

2:32:45>> THE RULES.

2:32:46TODD COUNCILOR YOURSELF, MADAM

2:32:48CHAIR COUNCIL.

2:32:48>> COULD.

2:32:49IT'S UP TO.

2:32:49THE THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:32:51HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTION

2:32:52I AM SO ADDED.

2:32:53AND I'D LIKE TO, UM, SUSPEND

2:32:55THE RULES.

2:32:56AT, UH.

2:32:57SEEK SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE

2:32:58OF THIS DOCKET.

2:32:59UM, AND I WANT TO THANK UM,

2:33:01ANDREA FROM WORK INC. FOR HER

2:33:03WORK HERE AND FOR.

2:33:05UM.

2:33:06>> OUR PARTNERSHIP IN THIS

2:33:08WORK.

2:33:08I REMEMBER GOING TO WORK INC

2:33:10AND AFTER GOING TO WORK AND

2:33:12GOING TO GO SEE THE SITE SOME

2:33:13OF MY FORMER EMPLOYERS TO SEE

2:33:16THE WORK THAT UH, EMPLOYEES

2:33:18WITH WORKING.

2:33:19>> ARE DOING.

2:33:19>> AND.

2:33:19IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE.

2:33:20>> I KNOW THAT IT'S IN.

2:33:21UM COUNCIL.

2:33:21FITZGERALD'S DISTRICT.

2:33:22>> AND SO GRATEFUL.

2:33:23>> FOR THE WORK HERE.

2:33:26UM OCTOBER IS NATIONAL

2:33:27DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS

2:33:28MONTH.

2:33:29IT BEGAN IN 1945 AND 81 YEARS

2:33:32LATER IT'S CALL FOR EQUAL

2:33:34OPPORTUNITY REMAINS ESSENTIAL.

2:33:36UH WORKERS.

2:33:37>> WITH DISABILITIES CONTRIBUTE

2:33:38TO.

2:33:38EVERY PART OF.

2:33:39>> BOSTON'S ECONOMY IS

2:33:40EMPLOYEES.

2:33:40ENTREPRENEURS.

2:33:41>> PUBLIC SERVANTS AND

2:33:42COMMUNITY LEADERS UM THEY BRING

2:33:44TALENT, EXPERIENCE AND

2:33:45PERSPECTIVES THAT MAKE OUR

2:33:47WORKPLACE AND OUR CITY

2:33:48STRONGER.

2:33:48TOO OFTEN PEOPLE STILL

2:33:50ENCOUNTER BARRIERS BEFORE THEY

2:33:51EVEN.

2:33:52>> HAVE.

2:33:52AN OPPORTUNITY TO.

2:33:53DEMONSTRATE THEIR ABILITIES.

2:33:55UM THOSE BARRIERS CAN INCLUDE

2:33:57INACCESSIBLE APPLICATIONS,

2:33:59TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY AND

2:34:00WORKPLACE.

2:34:02UM AND.

2:34:02>> TECHNOLOGY AND WORKPLACES

2:34:04ALONGSIDE DISCRIMINATION AND

2:34:06MISCONCEPTIONS.

2:34:07UH WE.

2:34:07>> MUST ALSO RECOGNIZE PEOPLE

2:34:09WITH DISABILITIES THAT HAVE

2:34:11VISIBLE DISABILITIES AND

2:34:13INVISIBLE DISABILITIES.

2:34:14I WANT TO THANK AGAIN I THINK I

2:34:16MENTIONED THIS RECENTLY BUT WAS

2:34:17RECENTLY AT.

2:34:18>> THE.

2:34:19UM UH NATIONAL BRAILLE CENTER

2:34:21HERE IN THE FENWAY AS THEY'VE

2:34:23JUST WON VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION

2:34:24FOR THEIR UNION AS THEY

2:34:26THEMSELVES.

2:34:27UM.

2:34:28>> LIVE WITH DISABILITIES, UH,

2:34:31BLINDNESS AND ARE SEEKING TO

2:34:32SERVE THOSE NATIONALLY WHO ARE

2:34:33BLIND.

2:34:34SO I WANT.

2:34:35>> TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS WELL.

2:34:36UM, ACCESSIBLE.

2:34:37RECRUITMENT, REASONABLE

2:34:39ACCOMMODATIONS, INCLUSIVE

2:34:40TRAINING AND FAIR OPPORTUNITIES

2:34:42FOR ADVANCEMENT SHOULD BE PART

2:34:44OF EVERYDAY WORKPLACE PRACTICE

2:34:45.

2:34:45MEANINGFUL INCLUSION MEANS

2:34:47BEING ABLE TO ENTER A

2:34:48WORKPLACE, CONTRIBUTE FULLY

2:34:49EARNED FAIR WAGES AND BUILD A

2:34:51CAREER AT THE CITY OF BOSTON AS

2:34:53AN EMPLOYER AND AS A PARTNER TO

2:34:55BUSINESSES, EDUCATIONAL.

2:34:56INSTITUTIONS.

2:34:57>> LABOR AND COMMUNITY

2:34:58ORGANIZATIONS HAS AN IMPORTANT

2:34:59ROLE TO PLAY.

2:35:00RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

2:35:01MUST HELP SHAPE THAT WORK AND

2:35:02OUR COMMITMENT MUST EXTEND

2:35:04BEYOND OCTOBER.

2:35:05WE KNOW HERE THE CITY UM

2:35:07PARTNERS DEEPLY WITH UH, THOSE

2:35:09.

2:35:10WHO ARE DISABLED.

2:35:12UM, AND WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE

2:35:13AND STRENGTHEN THAT WORK.

2:35:14I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER.

2:35:15MCCOURT FOR ALL THE WORK.

2:35:17>> THAT SHE DOES.

2:35:18UH, FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVING

2:35:19WITH DISABILITIES AND JUST

2:35:21ENCOURAGE US AS A CITY AND AS

2:35:24INDIVIDUALS HERE AND AS LEADERS

2:35:25TO BE MORE THOUGHTFUL.

2:35:26>> AND MORE INCLUSIVE OF THOSE,

2:35:28UM.

2:35:29WHO ARE LIVING AND WORKING AND

2:35:31DESERVE TO HAVE DIGNIFIED

2:35:32EMPLOYMENT UH, AS THEY LIVE

2:35:34WITH DISABILITIES WHETHER IT'S

2:35:35PEOPLE IN YOUR OWN FAMILY, UM,

2:35:37LIKE MINE OR WHETHER IT'S

2:35:38PEOPLE.

2:35:40UH.

2:35:40>> WHO WE MEET EVERY DAY.

2:35:41WHO ARE WORTHY OF HAVING

2:35:43EMPLOYMENT, MAY WE BE MORE

2:35:45INTENTIONAL.

2:35:45>> ABOUT.

2:35:45THAT WORK HERE IN THE CITY

2:35:46OF BOSTON.

2:35:46THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:35:48THANK YOU, COUNCILOR JEN.

2:35:49THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:35:50COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:35:51UH NOT BEFORE.

2:35:52THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:35:53AND THANK.

2:35:53>> YOU TO.

2:35:54COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR REACHING

2:35:54OUT AND OFFERING TO HAVE ME AS

2:35:56A CO-SPONSOR.

2:35:57>> ON THIS.

2:35:57UH.

2:35:58EACH YEAR COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:36:00AND I GET TO CO-HOST THE

2:36:01WORKING, UH, ANNUAL FUNDRAISER

2:36:03.

2:36:03UH, AND THERE WE SORT OF GET TO

2:36:06READ THE STORIES AND PRESENT

2:36:07AWARDS TO UH, SOME OF THE

2:36:09DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE

2:36:10ON TO PROVIDE GREAT WORK AT

2:36:12THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.

2:36:13UH, AND OFTEN THOSE WITH

2:36:15DISABILITIES BECOME THE ONES

2:36:16WITH THE GREATEST UH, PRIDE IN

2:36:18THEIR WORK AND AND TYPICALLY

2:36:19ALSO PROBABLY PRODUCE THE MOST

2:36:22UH THEY UH THEY TAKE A LOT

2:36:24OF PRIDE AND SO UH, YOU KNOW,

2:36:26WITH WORKING AND THE WORK THEY

2:36:27DO WE'RE HAPPY TO SEE THEM

2:36:29EXPAND IN THE DORCHESTER

2:36:30COMMUNITY, WHICH JUST MEANS

2:36:31THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WITH

2:36:33DISABILITIES WILL BE PLACED IN

2:36:34POSITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT SO THAT

2:36:35THEY CAN GAIN, UH, A FAIR WAGE,

2:36:38UH, AND LIVE THE LIFE THAT THEY

2:36:39SEE FIT.

2:36:40AND SO UH, REALLY JUST STAND IN

2:36:42THIS UH, DISABILITY MONTH HERE

2:36:44UH, DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT

2:36:45MONTHS UH AND AGAIN UH, THANK

2:36:47YOU TO COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR

2:36:48OFFERING TO ME.

2:36:49THANK YOU,

2:36:50COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:36:50COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

2:36:51FLOOR.

2:36:52THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:36:56I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IN

2:36:592019, UM, THEN CITY

2:37:01COUNCILOR EDWARDS AND I WE

2:37:02FILED A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

2:37:04OF STATE LEGISLATION THAT

2:37:06CALLED FOR CONTRACTS ISSUED FOR

2:37:08SERVICES IN THE COMMONWEALTH

2:37:10OF MASSACHUSETTS THAT RECEIVED

2:37:13UM APPROPRIATED FUNDS FROM THE

2:37:14STATE TO HAVE AT LEAST 10%

2:37:18OF PEOPLE HIRED FOR THE

2:37:19CONTRACT FOR INDIVIDUALS

2:37:20PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

2:37:23IT'S PROBABLY THE ISSUE

2:37:25OF FOCUSED ON MOST AS A CITY

2:37:28COUNCIL OVER THE LAST NINE

2:37:30YEARS IS ENSURING THAT PERSONS

2:37:33WITH DISABILITIES HAVE EQUAL

2:37:35ACCESS, ARE TREATED WITH

2:37:36RESPECT AND DIGNITY.

2:37:38THAT ALSO STARTS AS STUDENTS

2:37:41STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

2:37:43ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE THE

2:37:44RIGHT EDUCATION, THE RIGHT

2:37:46RESOURCES SO THAT THEY CAN BE

2:37:48SO THAT THEY CAN GROW UP TO BE

2:37:50HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE UM IN

2:37:52THE WORKFORCE IF THAT'S WHAT

2:37:54THEY CHOOSE.

2:37:55OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT

2:37:56THE CITY OF BOSTON INCLUDING

2:37:58THE HORACE MANN SCHOOL THAT I'M

2:38:00VERY ACTIVE WITH IN

2:38:01CHARLESTOWN.

2:38:02BUT I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS

2:38:04A AS A PERSON WITH DISABILITIES

2:38:06UM, I CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR

2:38:11VETERANS AS WELL, UM, AT THE

2:38:14CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL

2:38:16THROUGH THE DISABLED AMERICAN

2:38:17VETERANS ORGANIZATION AND THEY

2:38:20DO EXCEPTIONAL WORK ON CITY

2:38:24LEGISLATION, STATE LEGISLATION

2:38:25,FEDERAL LEGISLATION BUT

2:38:27ENSURING THAT RETURNING

2:38:28VETERANS THAT HAVE DISABILITIES

2:38:30HAVE THE RESOURCES, SUPPORT AND

2:38:33ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT SO THAT

2:38:36THEY CAN WORK SO THAT THEY CAN

2:38:38LIVE A PRODUCTIVE LIFE SO THAT

2:38:40THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY

2:38:42.

2:38:42I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:38:44COMMISSIONER MCCOSH WHO'S AN

2:38:46OUTSTANDING, DEDICATED

2:38:48PROFESSIONAL LEADER HERE IN THE

2:38:50CITY OF BOSTON.

2:38:51BUT IT'S ABOUT ENSURING ALL

2:38:54PEOPLE ESPECIALLY PERSONS WITH

2:38:56DISABILITIES.

2:38:57ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND

2:38:58DIGNITY.

2:38:59>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:39:00THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:39:01COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

2:39:02FLOOR.

2:39:02THANK YOU.

2:39:03FOREIGN THANK YOU TO THE FILERS

2:39:05FOR UPLIFTING THIS IMPORTANT

2:39:08RESOLUTION AND RECOGNIZING NOT

2:39:09ONLY THIS MONTH BUT EVERY MONTH

2:39:12THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THE

2:39:14IMPORTANCE AS A MOTHER OF A.

2:39:15DISABLED SON, I DO.

2:39:17KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW IMPORTANT IT

2:39:19IS TO MAKE SURE WE ADVOCATE FOR

2:39:21DIGNIFIED.

2:39:22EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL OF OUR

2:39:23RESIDENTS.

2:39:24I DO IT IT'S BEEN.

2:39:26SAID I WANT TO UPLIFT WORK INC

2:39:28AND ALL THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

2:39:30WHO.

2:39:30PROVIDE THESE OPPORTUNITIES BUT

2:39:32ALSO THE.

2:39:33EMPLOYERS WHO STEP UP.

2:39:34AND MAKE SURE.

2:39:35THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING THESE UM

2:39:39INDIVIDUALS WHO.

2:39:40WORK AND WHO SHARE SUCH AMAZING

2:39:42STORIES.

2:39:42>> AND MANY.

2:39:43>> OF US WHEN WE'RE OUT IN THE

2:39:44COMMUNITY, SEE THEM.

2:39:45AT DIFFERENT.

2:39:46ORGANIZATIONS WORKING.

2:39:47AND WE ALL KNOW THAT.

2:39:48WORK EQUALS.

2:39:49INDEPENDENCE BUT ALSO

2:39:51SOCIALIZATION.

2:39:52SO I WANT TO ALSO UPLIFT

2:39:54ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE SOUTH

2:39:55BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS.

2:39:56I KNOW COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I

2:39:58WERE JUST.

2:39:59AT THEIR BOWLING EVENT THE

2:40:01OTHER DAY.

2:40:01THEY OFFER UM OPPORTUNITIES IN

2:40:03MANY NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE

2:40:05CITY.

2:40:05HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR.

2:40:07DISABLED UM YOU.

2:40:09KNOW.

2:40:09>> OUR.

2:40:10RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO.

2:40:11HAVE FUN AND TO.

2:40:12HAVE RELATIONSHIPS.

2:40:14>> AS ISOLATION IS ALSO

2:40:15SOMETHING THAT.

2:40:16IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE

2:40:17COME BACK TO THAT.

2:40:18SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING.

2:40:20>> THIS RESOLUTION FORWARD AND

2:40:21LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING

2:40:22IT.

2:40:22THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:40:24UM I JUST WANT TO UH, RECOGNIZE

2:40:27WORKING AS WELL.

2:40:28I HAD WORKED WITH THEM AS A

2:40:29STAFF MEMBER, UM, TRYING TO BE

2:40:30VERY INTENTIONAL AT THE

2:40:31DIRECTION OF MY PREDECESSOR TO

2:40:32PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS

2:40:34INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING AND

2:40:36REALLY APPRECIATE.

2:40:36THEIR WORK THAT THEY'VE.

2:40:37>> BEEN DOING SINCE 1965 AND

2:40:39THEY'VE SERVICED OVER 5000

2:40:40INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

2:40:42SO I WANT TO THANK THEM AND ALL

2:40:43THOSE WHO ADVANCE UM,

2:40:45DISABILITY INCLUSION AND

2:40:46AWARENESS ACROSS ALL OF OUR

2:40:48NEIGHBORHOODS IN BOSTON.

2:40:49UM.

2:40:50>> AND JUST ECHO ALL THE

2:40:51COMMENTS THAT MY

2:40:52COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE HAVE

2:40:53MADE ON THIS UM, WOULD ANYONE

2:40:55ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

2:40:57COUNCILOR.

2:40:57CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

2:40:58DURKAN.

2:40:59COUNCILOR.

2:40:59UH.

2:41:00FLYNN.

2:41:00COUNCILOR.

2:41:00MEJIA.

2:41:01COUNCILOR.

2:41:01MURPHY COUNCILOR.

2:41:02PYBURN COUNCILOR.

2:41:03SANTANA, COUNCILOR WEBER AND

2:41:05COUNCILOR WORRELL PLEASE ADD

2:41:05THE CHAIR UH

2:41:07COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FITZGERALD

2:41:08AND MYSELF SIX SUSPENSION

2:41:09OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

2:41:10OF DOCKET 1926.

2:41:12ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:41:13ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:41:16MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE A

2:41:17ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 1926.

2:41:21COUNCILOR BREADON

2:41:22COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPONENT.

2:41:23YES, COUNCILOR FIRST PER YES.

2:41:25COUNCILOR.

2:41:25CULPA.

2:41:27COUNCILOR.

2:41:27CULPEPPER.

2:41:27YES.

2:41:28COUNCILOR.

2:41:28DURKAN.

2:41:28YES.

2:41:29COUNCILOR.

2:41:29DURKAN.

2:41:30YES.

2:41:30COUNCILOR.

2:41:30FITZGERALD.

2:41:31YES.

2:41:31COUNCIL THIS SHOW.

2:41:32YES.

2:41:33COUNCIL.

2:41:33FLYNN.

2:41:34COUNCILOR.

2:41:34FLYNN.

2:41:34YES.

2:41:35COUNCIL.

2:41:35LOUIJEUNE.

2:41:36COUNCILOR.

2:41:37LOUIJEUNE.

2:41:37YES, COUNCILOR.

2:41:37MEJIA.

2:41:38CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

2:41:39YES.

2:41:39COUNCILOR.

2:41:40MURPHY.

2:41:40YES.

2:41:41COUNCILOR.

2:41:41MURPHY.

2:41:41YES, COUNCILOR.

2:41:42PIPPIN.

2:41:43COUNCIL.

2:41:44PEN.

2:41:44YES.

2:41:44COUNCIL.

2:41:45SANTANA.

2:41:45COUNCILOR.

2:41:46SANTANA.

2:41:46YES.

2:41:47COUNCIL.

2:41:47WEBER.

2:41:47YES.

2:41:48COUNCIL.

2:41:48WEBER.

2:41:49YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:41:50WORLD COUNCIL.

2:41:51WELL, YES.

2:41:52TALKING NUMBER 1926 HAS

2:41:54RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE

2:41:56AFFIRMATIVE.

2:41:56THANK YOU.

2:41:57>> DOCKET 1926 HAS BEEN

2:41:58ADOPTED.

2:41:59MR. CLERK CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE

2:42:01READ DOCKET 1927.

2:42:03TALKING NUMBER 1927

2:42:05COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE

2:42:06FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:42:08RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 2026 AS

2:42:11CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.

2:42:15THANK YOU.

2:42:16>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:42:17COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

2:42:19YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:42:19THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:42:20I'D LIKE TO.

2:42:21ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AS AN

2:42:23AS AN ORIGINAL, UH, CO-SPONSOR

2:42:26AND I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE.

2:42:27RULES AD COUNCILOR DURKAN AS A

2:42:28THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:42:30HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTION

2:42:31SHE HAS HER.

2:42:32ADDED THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO

2:42:33SEEK SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE

2:42:34OF THIS RESOLUTION.

2:42:35UM, OCTOBER.

2:42:37TO MEANS A LOT OF MONTHS.

2:42:38UM AND.

2:42:39>> THERE'S A LOT OF AWARENESS

2:42:40TO BE RAISED IN CANCER IS ONE

2:42:41OF THEM.

2:42:42LAST YEAR WE HAD A PRESENTATION

2:42:44I WAS ABLE TO HONOR THE FUND

2:42:45AND JUST WANT TO CONTINUE DOING

2:42:47THAT.

2:42:47UM.

2:42:48>> PEOPLE LIVING WITH

2:42:49CANCER CELEBRATE SURVIVORS

2:42:50REMEMBER THOSE WE HAVE LOST AND

2:42:51STAND WITH THE FAMILIES,

2:42:52CAREGIVERS AND LOVED ONES WHO.

2:42:54SUPPORT THEM.

2:42:55UM.

2:42:55MY GRANDMOTHER WHO I NEVER GOT

2:42:57THE CHANCE.

2:42:58>> TO.

2:42:58MEET SHE DIED THE YEAR.

2:42:59>> THAT.

2:42:59I WAS BORN AND MY FATHER'S

2:43:00MOTHER, UM, DIED OF CANCER.

2:43:02AND SO I WANT TO BRING HER INTO

2:43:03THE SPACE.

2:43:04>> AS WELL.

2:43:04IMMACULATE.

2:43:05UH, CANCER TOUCHES FAMILIES IN

2:43:07EVERY BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD.

2:43:09TIMELY SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS.

2:43:10TREATMENT AND FOLLOW UP CARE

2:43:11CAN MAKE A.

2:43:11PROFOUND DIFFERENCE.

2:43:12AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO

2:43:14ACCESS THAT CARE REGARDLESS

2:43:15OF THEIR.

2:43:15INCOME OR CIRCUMSTANCES.

2:43:17WE HAVE TO ALSO, UH, CONFRONT

2:43:18THE INEQUITIES IN ACCESS AND

2:43:20OUTCOMES INSURANCE GAPS.

2:43:22TRANSPORTATION COSTS, LANGUAGE

2:43:23.

2:43:23BARRIERS, CAREGIVER

2:43:24RESPONSIBILITIES AND TIME AWAY

2:43:25FROM WORK CAN MAKE IT HARDER TO

2:43:27RECEIVE CARE AND I CONSIDERABLE

2:43:28STRESS DURING TREATMENT MADE

2:43:29WORSE.

2:43:30FOR UH, BLACK WOMEN FOR.

2:43:31WHOM UH WHEN WE ALREADY LOOKING

2:43:33AT THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

2:43:34DISPARITIES THAT EXIST.

2:43:35I ESPECIALLY.

2:43:36WANT TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK

2:43:37ALLISON AND THAT'S REALLY THE

2:43:38REASON WHY I FILED THIS

2:43:40RESOLUTION BECAUSE I WAS

2:43:41RECENTLY WITH THEM IN COMMUNITY

2:43:43AS THEY WERE DOING UH,

2:43:44CANCER AWARENESS AND TALKING

2:43:45TO.

2:43:46PEOPLE ABOUT CANCER AND I WAS

2:43:47TELLING THEM.

2:43:48ABOUT MY OWN FAMILY.

2:43:50ALLISON IS A WE AND WE WERE

2:43:51ABLE TO WE YOU KNOW, RIGHT AT

2:43:53THE TIME THAT WE WERE HONORING

2:43:54THEM WE HAPPENED TO HAVE A

2:43:56CONSTITUENT IN HYDE PARK WHO

2:43:57WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH

2:43:58CANCER AND ELLIE FUND CAME CAME

2:44:00THROUGH FOR THEM

2:44:01WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

2:44:02AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:44:03ELLIE FUND AND ALSO JUST MAKE

2:44:05PEOPLE AWARE THAT THE ELLIE

2:44:05FUND IS AVAILABLE UH.

2:44:07>> FOR.

2:44:08FOLKS UH FOR FOR ANYONE WHO HAS

2:44:10UH IS LIVING WITH THE DIAGNOSIS

2:44:12OF CANCER OR WAS RECENTLY

2:44:13DIAGNOSED THAT THE ELLIE FUND

2:44:14IS THERE TO.

2:44:15SUPPORT THEM.

2:44:16SO I WANT TO ALSO THANK

2:44:17BOSTON'S HEALTH CARE.

2:44:18>> WORKERS, HOSPITALS, NURSES

2:44:19UM, IN.

2:44:20>> THIS.

2:44:20MOMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS UM

2:44:22AND ORGANIZATIONS AND

2:44:23ADVOCATES.

2:44:24UH.

2:44:25>> WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GET

2:44:26YOUR MAMMOGRAMS GOT MY FIRST.

2:44:27ONE UM, RECENTLY AND UH, TO

2:44:31DISCUSS INDIVIDUAL RISK AND

2:44:32APPROPRIATE.

2:44:32SCREENINGS WITH THE HEALTH CARE

2:44:33PROVIDER AND.

2:44:34>> TO.

2:44:35OFFER MEANINGFUL.

2:44:35SUPPORT TO NEIGHBORS FACING

2:44:36CANCER.

2:44:37THANK YOU.

2:44:37THANK YOU.

2:44:38COUNCIL REGION CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:44:40COUNCILOR SANTANA YOU NOT

2:44:41BEFORE.

2:44:41THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:44:42THANK YOU, COUNCILOR TO

2:44:44COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR PUTTING

2:44:45ME UM ON THIS RESOLUTION.

2:44:47UM, CANCER IS AN ISSUE THAT

2:44:49AFFECTS EVERY PERSON IN OUR

2:44:51CITY.

2:44:51WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS

2:44:53BEEN IMPACTED BY

2:44:54CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND CANCER IS

2:44:55ONE OF THE MOST PREVALENT FORMS

2:44:57OF CANCER ONE THAT UM, THAT

2:44:59IMPACTS MARGINALIZED GROUPS AS

2:45:02MY OWN FAMILY CONFRONTS THE

2:45:03CHALLENGES OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS,

2:45:04I UNDERSTAND DEEPLY THE IMPACT

2:45:06IT CAN HAVE ON MY FAMILY.

2:45:08MY HEART GOES OUT TO EVERYONE

2:45:09IN BOSTON WHO IS DEALING WITH

2:45:10THAT SAME STRUGGLE RIGHT NOW.

2:45:12SINCE THE FIRST

2:45:14CANCER AWARENESS MONTH MORE

2:45:15THAN 40 YEARS AGO, CANCER HAS

2:45:17DEATH RATES IN THE US HAVE

2:45:19DROPPED BY 44%.

2:45:21IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT

2:45:22GREATER AWARENESS INCREASES IN

2:45:24EARLY DETECTION AND

2:45:25ADVANCEMENTS IN TREATMENTS HAVE

2:45:28UM CONCEDED WITH THE RISE OF UM

2:45:31BODY CAM INCREASED AWARENESS

2:45:32CAN CAN AND DOES SAVE LIVES.

2:45:36AS WE OBSERVE THIS

2:45:38CANCER AWARENESS MONTH WE HONOR

2:45:39SURVIVORS, UPLIFT THOSE

2:45:40CURRENTLY BATTLING CANCER AND

2:45:42COMMIT OURSELVES TO ENSURING

2:45:44THAT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO

2:45:45LIFESAVING HEALTHCARE.

2:45:46THANK YOU.

2:45:48>> THANK YOU COUNCIL SANTANA

2:45:49COUNCIL DR. KING I HAVE THE

2:45:50FLOOR.

2:45:51THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU

2:45:53COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND SANTANA

2:45:54FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.

2:45:56UM I, I THINK ABOUT CAROL MATIC

2:45:58IN MY DISTRICT TWO AS PART

2:45:59OF THE NATIONAL

2:46:01CANCER COALITION.

2:46:02UM AND.

2:46:02>> ALSO THE CHAIR OF THE WEST

2:46:04CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

2:46:04AND I THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE

2:46:06WOMEN IN THEIR LIFE THAT HAVE

2:46:07DEDICATED THEMSELVES, UH, TO

2:46:10ADVOCACY ONCE THEY'VE

2:46:11EXPERIENCED AND SURVIVED AND

2:46:12BEEN PART OF UH, THIS, YOU

2:46:14KNOW, GROUP OF SURVIVORS FROM

2:46:16CANCER, 1 IN 8 WOMEN IN THE

2:46:18UNITED STATES WILL BE DIAGNOSED

2:46:19WITH CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME.

2:46:20AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:46:21RAISE AWARENESS, PREVENTATIVE

2:46:23SCREENINGS, TIMELY DIAGNOSIS

2:46:24AND QUALITY CARE AND TREATMENT

2:46:26SAVE LIVES DISPARITIES AND

2:46:28OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN OF COLOR.

2:46:29UH, AND BLACK AND BROWN WOMEN

2:46:31DEMONSTRATE THE NEED TO KEEP

2:46:32GOING AND DISMANTLE BARRIERS TO

2:46:34COST INSURANCE GAPS,

2:46:36TRANSPORTATION AND EDUCATION

2:46:36AND CULTURAL BARRIERS SO THAT

2:46:39EVERY RESIDENT CAN ACCESS

2:46:39SCREENINGS AND THE TREATMENT

2:46:40THEY DESERVE.

2:46:42UM, LAST NIGHT I ACTUALLY HEARD

2:46:43FROM MICHAEL CURRY AND SOME

2:46:45MEMBERS OF.

2:46:45THE UM HEALTH EQUITY COMPACT,

2:46:48UH, WHICH IS A REALLY UNIQUE UM

2:46:51A UNIQUE SET UP OF BASICALLY

2:46:54COMPETITORS WHO HAVE COME

2:46:55TOGETHER TO TO SOLVE SOME

2:46:56OF THE HEALTH INEQUITIES IN OUR

2:46:58CITY IN OUR STATE, UM, WE HAVE

2:47:01HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL

2:47:01INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE UM THAT

2:47:03THAT THAT ARE DRIVING FORWARD

2:47:06TO TO SOLVE ISSUES BUT UM,

2:47:08WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE

2:47:10INEQUITIES OF CARE IN OUR CITY

2:47:11AND OUR STATE, UH, WE CAN'T

2:47:13REALLY GET AT THE ROOT OF WHAT

2:47:14WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE, WHICH

2:47:16IS DRIVE AWARENESS AND UM AND

2:47:19CONVERSATION AND UM, I THINK

2:47:20ABOUT CAROL MOTUEKA WHO'S ABOUT

2:47:22FIVE FEET MAYBE 411 STANDING UP

2:47:25AGAINST STANDING YOU KNOW, NEXT

2:47:27TO STEPHEN LYNCH AND OTHER

2:47:28LEGISLATORS.

2:47:29UM, AND UM THERE'S A PICTURE

2:47:31OF HER WITH I THINK IT WAS ROB

2:47:33RICHIE NEIL POINTING AT HIM

2:47:35ABOUT CANCER AND HOW IMPORTANT

2:47:36IT IS.

2:47:37AND I JUST THINK ABOUT ALL

2:47:38OF THOSE ADVOCATES WHO GO TO

2:47:40WASHINGTON AND AND DEMAND MORE

2:47:42AND DEMAND UM, DEMAND THAT THIS

2:47:46BE TAKEN AS SERIOUSLY AS IT

2:47:47SHOULD.

2:47:48UM, AND I'M GRATEFUL TO

2:47:49COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR SHARING

2:47:50HER PERSONAL STORY.

2:47:51WE ALL HAVE UH, WOMEN IN OUR

2:47:53LIVES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE AND

2:47:54MEN IN OUR LIVES THAT HAVE

2:47:55EXPERIENCED UM, AND UH I THINK

2:47:58IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE

2:48:00UM, AS A CITY AND AS A STATE

2:48:02AND AS A HEALTH AS A HEALTH

2:48:04CARE SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE IN

2:48:04OUR CITY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

2:48:06FIGHTING BACK AT.

2:48:06ABOUT THE.

2:48:07UNEQUAL NATURE.

2:48:08>> OF TREATMENT, UH, IN OUR

2:48:10CITY AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE

2:48:12UM, COLLABORATION AND THE NEW

2:48:15CANCER HOSPITAL THAT BI AND

2:48:16DANA FARBER ARE PUTTING

2:48:18TOGETHER.

2:48:18BUT IT'S NOT ONE WE NEED ALL

2:48:20THE COMPETITORS TO COME

2:48:21TOGETHER AND SAY NOT ONE MORE

2:48:23AND AND POUR MONEY INTO

2:48:24RESEARCH AND UM THANK.

2:48:26>> YOU CHAIR.

2:48:26THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:48:28UH, I WANT TO THANK MY

2:48:29COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS

2:48:30FORWARD AND JUST THANK THE

2:48:31ORGANIZERS JUST THIS WEEKEND

2:48:32OF, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

2:48:33THEY ORGANIZED THE, UH THE PINK

2:48:34RIBBON BOWL, WHICH IS A POWDER

2:48:36GAME.

2:48:36I'M INCLUDING ONE OF MY GOOD

2:48:37FRIENDS JUPITER'S YELLOW.

2:48:38UM, AND THEY RAISE MONEY FOR

2:48:40THE L.A. FUND.

2:48:41SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL FOR, UM,

2:48:42THEIR WORK AND AGAIN, MY

2:48:44COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS

2:48:45FORWARD AND RAISING AWARENESS

2:48:46AND DO WHAT WE CAN TO FIND A

2:48:47CURE.

2:48:48UH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO

2:48:50ADD THEIR NAME?

2:48:51COUNCILOR.

2:48:52CULPEPER.

2:48:52COUNCILOR.

2:48:53FITZGERALD.

2:48:53COUNCILOR.

2:48:54FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:48:54LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

2:48:55MEJIA, COUNCILOR.

2:48:56MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

2:48:57PIPPEN, COUNCILOR.

2:48:58WEBER, COUNCILOR.

2:48:58AROUND PLEASE I'M CHAIR

2:49:00COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IS SEEKING

2:49:01SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:49:02ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1927.

2:49:04ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:49:05ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:49:08THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:49:09THANK YOU.

2:49:09DOCKET 1927 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:49:12MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:49:13DOCKET 1928.

2:49:15DOC NUMBER 1928

2:49:17COUNCILOR FITZGERALD OFFER THE

2:49:18FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:49:20RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 4TH THROUGH

2:49:2110TH, 2026 AS FIRE PREVENTION

2:49:24WEEK.

2:49:29THANK YOU.

2:49:29>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZED

2:49:30COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:49:30YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:49:33THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:49:35I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

2:49:36RULES AND ADD UH I'M SORRY I'D

2:49:38LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL RULES AND

2:49:39ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND

2:49:40THE RULES AND HEAD

2:49:41COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD

2:49:42ORIGINAL.

2:49:45I'M SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:49:46OBJECTIONS THERE SO I ADDED

2:49:47SORRY.

2:49:48THANK YOU.

2:49:49>> GO AHEAD.

2:49:50UH, THIS WEEK WE RECOGNIZE THE

2:49:51DEDICATED MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON

2:49:53FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ALL BFD

2:49:54PERSONNEL WHO WORK EVERY DAY TO

2:49:56PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS,

2:49:57NEIGHBORHOODS, BUSINESSES AND

2:49:58VISITORS.

2:49:58THEIR WORK GOES FAR BEYOND

2:50:00RESPONDING WHEN A FIRE OCCURS.

2:50:02BFD PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN

2:50:04PREVENTION INSPECTIONS,

2:50:05EDUCATION, CODE ENFORCEMENT AND

2:50:07COMMUNITY OUTREACH.

2:50:09SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS LIKE A

2:50:10WORKING SMOKE.

2:50:11>> AND.

2:50:11CARBON MONOXIDE.

2:50:12ALARMS, HAVING AN ESCAPE PLAN

2:50:14AND KNOWING WHAT TO DO IN AN

2:50:15EMERGENCY CAN MAKE THE

2:50:16DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND

2:50:18DEATH.

2:50:18FIRE PREVENTION IS ESPECIALLY

2:50:20IMPORTANT AS WE HEAD INTO THE

2:50:21COLDER MONTHS WHEN HEATING

2:50:22EQUIPMENT CAN INCREASE THE RISK

2:50:23OF FIRES.

2:50:25WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THE COURAGE,

2:50:27PROFESSIONALISM AND SACRIFICE

2:50:28OF BOSTON'S FIREFIGHTERS WHO

2:50:29PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY TO

2:50:31PROTECT OTHERS.

2:50:32THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT

2:50:33THANKING THE BOSTON FIRE

2:50:34DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL WHILE ALSO

2:50:36ENCOURAGING EVERY BOSTON

2:50:37RESIDENT TO TAKE FIRE

2:50:38PREVENTION SERIOUSLY AND MAKE

2:50:40SURE THEIR HOME AND FAMILY ARE

2:50:42PREPARED.

2:50:42I'M PROUD TO OFFER THIS

2:50:44RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FIRE

2:50:45PREVENTION WEEK AND HONORING

2:50:46THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR

2:50:47THEIR CONTINUED SERVICE TO OUR

2:50:49CITY.

2:50:50I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER

2:50:51RODNEY MARSHALL, LOCAL 718

2:50:53PRESIDENT SAM DILLON AND ALL

2:50:54THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS

2:50:56OF THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT

2:50:57FOR THEIR HARD WORK THIS WEEK

2:50:59AND EVERY DAY.

2:51:00I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT

2:51:01THERE IS THE BOSTON FIREFIGHTER

2:51:03FIVE K AND TEN K MEMORIAL ROAD

2:51:05RACE THIS SUNDAY WHICH STARTS

2:51:07AND ENDS AT FLORIAN HALL IN

2:51:08DORCHESTER AND YOU CAN FIND THE

2:51:10LINK FOR THAT AT BFD

2:51:13RELIEF.ORG.

2:51:14UH I'M LOOKING TO SEEK

2:51:15SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS

2:51:17DOCKET TODAY.

2:51:17THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:51:18THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:51:19COUNCILOR WELL YOU KNOW BEFORE.

2:51:21THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:51:23UH, I WANT TO THANK

2:51:24COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FATEMI, UM

2:51:25,AS A ORIGINAL.

2:51:27CO-SPONSOR AND INTRODUCING THIS

2:51:28RESOLUTION, I ALSO WANT TO

2:51:29THANK, UH, OUR BRAVE

2:51:31FIREFIGHTERS FOR THEIR

2:51:32PROFESSIONALISM AND THEIR

2:51:33BRAVERY.

2:51:33UH, HERE TO THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:51:35UM, WE WERE ALSO TREATED TO A

2:51:37PERFORMANCE BY THE ACROBATICS

2:51:38TEAM ON CITY HALL PLAZA UH,

2:51:40EARLIER THIS WEEK.

2:51:41UM, AND DURING THAT UH, UM.

2:51:43PERFORMANCE.

2:51:44>> THE DEPARTMENT ALSO TOOK THE

2:51:45OPPORTUNITY TO REMIND RESIDENTS

2:51:48OF IMPORTANT FIRE SAFETY

2:51:49MEASURES WE SHOULD ALL BE

2:51:50TAKING.

2:51:51UH, JUST WANT TO UPLIFT.

2:51:52A FEW, UM, OF THOSE SAFETY

2:51:54MEASURES.

2:51:55UH, ONE IS THAT THE FIRE

2:51:57DEPARTMENT ALSO PROVIDES FREE

2:51:58FIRE PREVENTION BED SHAKERS A

2:52:00LIFE SAVING ALERT DEVICE WHICH

2:52:03PROVIDES AN ACCESSIBLE

2:52:04ALTERNATIVE TO SMOKE ALARMS BY

2:52:05USING VIBRATION FLASHING LIGHTS

2:52:08AND LOW FREQUENCY ALARMS TO

2:52:09WAKE PEOPLE UP DURING THE FIRE

2:52:11EMERGENCY.

2:52:11I ALSO WANT TO POINT RESIDENTS

2:52:13TO THE.

2:52:14UM.

2:52:15>> FIRE BOSTON FIRE PREVENTION

2:52:17EDUCATION UNIT WEBSITE UM IF

2:52:19THEY'RE LOOKING TO SCHEDULE AN

2:52:21INSTALLATION OR TO RECEIVE ANY

2:52:22MORE INFORMATION AROUND UH,

2:52:24FREE SERVICES THAT THE FIRE

2:52:26DEPARTMENT PROVIDES.

2:52:27I ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT UH

2:52:30LOCAL UH 718 UM AND ALSO UM THE

2:52:33FIRE DEPARTMENT LIEUTENANT

2:52:35HENRY PERKINS WHO PROVIDES SO

2:52:37MUCH CRUCIAL.

2:52:39RESOURCE FOR INFORMATION TO

2:52:40CIVIC GROUPS, UM, THROUGHOUT

2:52:42THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:52:43I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME

2:52:45TO REMIND RENTERS AND RESIDENT

2:52:47HOMEOWNERS TO PLEASE GET

2:52:48RENTER'S INSURANCE.

2:52:50UM, YOUR HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE

2:52:52DOES NOT COVER YOUR RENTERS.

2:52:53SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

2:52:54THAT ALL OF OUR RENTERS KNOW TO

2:52:56PLEASE GET RENTER'S INSURANCE

2:52:58IN CASE, UH, SOMETHING LIKE A

2:53:00FIRE TRAGICALLY SO HAPPENS TO

2:53:02YOU.

2:53:02AND THEN, UM, THERE'S AN EVENT

2:53:04HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 14TH, UH,

2:53:06WHERE, UH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:53:08AND I ARE PARTNERING UH, TO TO

2:53:10DISTRIBUTE THREE CARBON AND

2:53:13SMOKE DETECTORS.

2:53:14UM, THAT'S HAPPENING AT LEAHY

2:53:16UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.

2:53:18UH, AND ALSO A BIG SHOUT OUT TO

2:53:20AMERICAN RED CROSS.

2:53:21THANK YOU.

2:53:21THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:53:23COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU NOW HAVE

2:53:24THE FLOOR.

2:53:25THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:53:27I WANT TO THANK OUR FITZGERALD

2:53:28FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS AND

2:53:29FOR FILING THIS RESOLUTION.

2:53:32UM.

2:53:33>> FIRE SAFETY AND PREVENTION

2:53:34IS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT

2:53:35OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

2:53:36THE FIRE LAST WEEK IN NUBIAN

2:53:38SQUARE HISTORIC EDISON BUILDING

2:53:40DEMONSTRATED THE SUDDEN WAY A

2:53:41FIRE CAN WREAK HAVOC ON A

2:53:43COMMUNITY.

2:53:44IT IS NON-NEGOTIABLE THAT WE

2:53:46EDUCATE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT

2:53:47FIRE SAFETY IN CASE

2:53:49OF EMERGENCY.

2:53:50PARENTS, DON'T FORGET TO BRING

2:53:51FIRE SAFETY HOME FROM SCHOOL

2:53:53AND ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE A FIRE

2:53:54SAFETY PLAN FOR YOUR HOME.

2:53:56HAVE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER OR A

2:53:58FIRE BLANKET.

2:53:59MAKE SURE YOU REPLACE THE

2:54:00BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE

2:54:01DETECTOR AND HAVE AN EXIT PLAN.

2:54:03UM I WANT TO THANK UM, BOTH

2:54:06COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND

2:54:07COUNCIL.

2:54:07WELL, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON

2:54:08THIS AND LOOKING FORWARD, UM,

2:54:09TO THE WORK AHEAD.

2:54:10THANK YOU.

2:54:11THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:54:13YOU KNOW THE FLOOR.

2:54:15THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:54:17AND I RISE.

2:54:17>> TO SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT

2:54:19RESOLUTION.

2:54:20HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO

2:54:22MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FIRE

2:54:24DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK ON CITY

2:54:25HALL PLAZA AS THEY DEMONSTRATED

2:54:28.

2:54:29UM, VARIOUS TECHNIQUES THAT

2:54:31THEY WERE USING DEVELOPING UH

2:54:34TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM FROM

2:54:36VARIOUS SITUATIONS.

2:54:39UM WANT TO ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE

2:54:41LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONALISM

2:54:44OF UH LOCAL 718 AND SAN DILLON

2:54:47BUT ALSO THE THE NATIONAL

2:54:49PRESIDENT EDDIE KELLY AS WELL.

2:54:53ONE OF THE ISSUES I WILL

2:54:54CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON IS

2:54:56EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON FIRE

2:54:58PREVENTION.

2:54:59AND UH, I WAS PART OF THE UH,

2:55:02SIMILAR PROGRAM AND SPONSORING

2:55:05A UM UPGRADES TO UH, VARIOUS

2:55:09EQUIPMENT IN PEOPLE'S HOMES.

2:55:10UH, FIRE ALARMS IN PEOPLE'S

2:55:11HOMES.

2:55:12I SHOULD SAY, UH, IN THE SOUTH

2:55:14END AND WANT TO THANK THE UH,

2:55:16FIRE DEPARTMENT BUT THANK LOCAL

2:55:18718.

2:55:19AND THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO'S A

2:55:21GOOD FRIEND OF MINE WHO

2:55:22RECENTLY RETIRED WHO BECAME A

2:55:24JUDGE.

2:55:24CONNIE WANG WAS PART OF THE

2:55:26OUTREACH PROCESS AS WELL.

2:55:28SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE JUDGE

2:55:31CONNIE WANG WHO I WHO I WORK

2:55:33WITH AT SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT

2:55:35.

2:55:36UM, WHO WAS UM WHO.

2:55:37WORKED AS A I BELIEVE HER TITLE

2:55:40WAS DEPUTY FIRE COMMISSIONER IN

2:55:42CHARGE OF UM LEGAL AFFAIRS

2:55:44MAYBE.

2:55:45UM BUT I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

2:55:47THE IMPORTANCE AS WE APPROACH

2:55:49THE BUDGET SEASON HOW IT IS,

2:55:51HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR ALL

2:55:54OF US TO SUPPORT THE HEALTH AND

2:55:56WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND

2:55:59CANCER SCREENINGS THAT ARE

2:56:00CRITICAL FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND

2:56:03THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL.

2:56:04THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:56:05THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:56:07COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW

2:56:08HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:56:09THANK YOU.

2:56:09>> I WANT TO THANK THE FILERS I

2:56:11REALLY WANT I JUST WANTED TO

2:56:12RISE IN COUNCIL AROUND

2:56:13MENTIONED TIME BUT HENRY

2:56:14PERKINS HANK I DON'T KNOW BUT

2:56:16ONE COMMUNITY EVENT THAT WE

2:56:18HAVE WHERE I DON'T SEE ANY

2:56:19PRESIDENT, UH, DOING THE WORK

2:56:20OF FIRE EDUCATION AND FIRE

2:56:22SAFETY.

2:56:22SO REALLY JUST YOU KNOW I KNOW

2:56:24THERE ARE MANY NAMES AND MANY

2:56:25LOCAL 718 VULCANS.

2:56:27UH, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE TO

2:56:29THINK UM, BUT I I'VE SEEN HIM

2:56:32CONSISTENTLY SINCE I STARTED

2:56:33OFF HERE JUST VERY PRESENT AND

2:56:35COMMUNITY AND JUST MY HAT'S OFF

2:56:38TO RANDY.

2:56:38IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE HIM TO

2:56:39SAY A THANKS TO HIM BECAUSE, UM

2:56:42,THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST

2:56:43LIKE WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE

2:56:45WORK AND IT JUST SHOWS.

2:56:46SO I JUST WANTED TO RISE TO

2:56:48THANK HANK AND ALSO CINDY JUST

2:56:50JUST JACOB IN MY OFFICE WHO

2:56:52PARTNERED WE PARTNERED WITH THE

2:56:54AMERICAN RED CROSS AND WITH BE

2:56:56WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

2:56:57UM AND THEY CANVASED WENT

2:56:59KNOCKING DOOR TO DOOR IN

2:57:01MATTAPAN AND IN HYDE PARK TO

2:57:02MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAD UM

2:57:05THE.

2:57:06CARBON MONOXIDE.

2:57:06AND UH INVITED EXTRAS THAT THEY

2:57:10NEEDED OF COURSE ON EVERY DOOR

2:57:11BUT REALLY DOING THAT WORK AND

2:57:13I KNOW CINDY IT WAS UH IT WAS A

2:57:15VERY IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR HER

2:57:16AND JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:57:18OUR LEADERSHIP IN OUR OFFICE

2:57:19FOR GETTING THAT DONE.

2:57:20THANK YOU.

2:57:21THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

2:57:22AND THANK YOU, CINDY FOR THAT.

2:57:24COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:57:25THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

2:57:26UM, MY SISTER MY BEST FRIEND

2:57:29TORI UM, LOST EVERYTHING IN A

2:57:31FIRE UM, LESS THAN TEN YEARS

2:57:34AGO AND WAS ABLE TO REBUILD HER

2:57:36LIFE.

2:57:37BUT IT'S LIKE THIS MATTERS SO

2:57:38DEEPLY.

2:57:39UM, MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE

2:57:40KNOW ABOUT FIRE PREVENTION KNOW

2:57:43WHAT THEY CAN DO TO PREVENT

2:57:44FIRES.

2:57:44UM, SHE HAPPENED TO LIVE IN AN

2:57:46APARTMENT COMPLEX AND IT WAS AN

2:57:48ELECTRICAL ISSUE, BUT, UM, BUT

2:57:50KNOWING THAT MANY FIRES CAN BE

2:57:52PREVENTED, UM, AND GETTING THE

2:57:54WORD OUT ABOUT RENTERS

2:57:55INSURANCE AND WHAT PEOPLE CAN

2:57:56DO TO PROTECT THEMSELVES UM, IT

2:57:59THIS MATTERS SO DEEPLY TO OUR

2:58:01COMMUNITIES AND WE'VE HAD MANY

2:58:03UM, REALLY UM, REALLY INTENSE

2:58:06FIRES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS

2:58:08AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

2:58:09THAT WE GET THE WORD OUT AND I

2:58:11KNOW AS WE'RE HEADING INTO THE

2:58:12WINTER SEASON IT'S EVEN MORE

2:58:14IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT

2:58:15HEATERS AND UM, ELECTRICAL

2:58:18OUTLETS AND MAKING SURE THAT

2:58:19WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN

2:58:20TO LET RESIDENTS KNOW HOW THEY

2:58:22CAN BE SAFE.

2:58:22I WANT TO THANK THAT ALL OF THE

2:58:24FIREFIGHTERS FROM THE BOSTON

2:58:25FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO SERVE WITH

2:58:27SUCH DISTINCTION EVERY SINGLE

2:58:28DAY UM, AND MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW

2:58:31AND IN THE HARDEST MOMENTS

2:58:33OF BOSTONIANS LIVES THEY ARE

2:58:34THERE UM AND I WANT TO ALSO

2:58:36THANK AND I KNOW

2:58:37COUNCILOR CLAUDE ZAPATA HAS

2:58:38WORKED ON THIS BUT UM, JUST THE

2:58:41UH, OUTREACH THAT HAPPENS AFTER

2:58:43A FIRE THAT YOU'RE NOT LEFT,

2:58:45YOU KNOW, WITHOUT SOMEWHERE TO

2:58:46STAY WITHOUT SOMEWHERE TO BE.

2:58:47AND I KNOW THAT

2:58:48COUNCILOR CLAUDE AS A PART HAS

2:58:50WORKED DEEPLY ON UM, YOU KNOW,

2:58:51THAT RESPONSE TO UH TO THAT AND

2:58:54UH, WORKING IN UH IN

2:58:55PARTNERSHIP WITH OFFICE

2:58:56OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

2:58:58SO I JUST WANT TO THANK OUR

2:58:59FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, UM, THIS

2:59:01IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING.

2:59:02SO THANK YOU TO

2:59:03COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FOR

2:59:03PUTTING THIS FORWARD.

2:59:04THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:59:06COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:59:07THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:59:08UM.

2:59:09JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD.

2:59:10VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THIS

2:59:12RESOLUTION.

2:59:12VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE FIRE

2:59:14DEPARTMENT AND THE WORK THAT

2:59:15THEY DO.

2:59:15SOME OF THE MOST MEANINGFUL

2:59:17WORK THAT I'VE DONE AS A CITY

2:59:18EMPLOYEE WAS WHEN I WAS WORKING

2:59:19FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND

2:59:21SHOWING UP WHENEVER THERE WAS A

2:59:22FIRE OVERNIGHT OR ANY TIME

2:59:25OF THE DAY AND THERE'S A

2:59:26SPECIFIC UNIT FOR THE FIRE

2:59:27DEPARTMENT THAT I'M ALWAYS

2:59:28GRATEFUL FOR IS THE UM IS THE

2:59:31CITY FIRST I'M NOT BLANKING ON

2:59:34THE NAME BUT GARY CALLING IN,

2:59:35GARY CALLING IN WHO LEADS THE

2:59:38THAT UNIT?

2:59:38THEY ALWAYS ARE THE ONES THAT

2:59:40SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT

2:59:42PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED AND THEY

2:59:44ARE THE UNIT THAT CONNECTS

2:59:47RESIDENTS WITH THE RED CROSS

2:59:48AND WORKS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD

2:59:49SERVICES AND MAKE SURE THAT THE

2:59:51FAMILY IS OKAY.

2:59:52AND I'VE JUST BEEN ABLE TO SEE

2:59:54THE IMPACTFUL WORK THAT OUR

2:59:55FIREFIGHTERS DO WHENEVER A

2:59:57FAMILY IS IMPACTED.

2:59:58SO I'M JUST VERY GRATEFUL FOR

2:59:59THEM AND ALL THE WORK.

3:00:00THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:00:01THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:00:03UM AND THANK YOU TO GARY

3:00:04CALLING OF THE EMERGENCY

3:00:04ASSISTANCE DEPARTMENT.

3:00:06UM, WHAT I DID WAS WHEN ANYONE

3:00:09ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME

3:00:12COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:00:12COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:00:14COUNCILOR FLYNN

3:00:15COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:00:16COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL MURPHY

3:00:17COUNCILOR FOR THEN

3:00:19COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE ADD

3:00:20THE CHAIR COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

3:00:22WE'RE ALL IN SATANAS SUSPENSION

3:00:24OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION

3:00:25OF DOCKET 1928.

3:00:27ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:00:28ALL THOSE OPPOSED?

3:00:29NAY.

3:00:30MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

3:00:31CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

3:00:32DOCKET 1928.

3:00:35COUNCILOR BREADON

3:00:36COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

3:00:37PARTNER.

3:00:37YES, COUNCILOR GOES BY.

3:00:38YES.

3:00:39COUNCILOR.

3:00:39COPA COUNCILOR CULPABLY AS

3:00:41COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:00:42COUNCILOR.

3:00:42DURKAN.

3:00:43YES.

3:00:43COUNCILOR.

3:00:44FITZGERALD.

3:00:44YES.

3:00:45COUNCIL.

3:00:45PURCELL.

3:00:45YES.

3:00:46COUNCILOR.

3:00:46FLYNN.

3:00:47YES.

3:00:47COUNCIL PLAN.

3:00:48YES.

3:00:48COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:49COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:00:50YES.

3:00:50COUNCIL.

3:00:50MEJIA.

3:00:51COUNCIL ME HERE.

3:00:52YES.

3:00:52COUNCILOR.

3:00:53MURPHY.

3:00:54COUNCILOR MURPHY IS

3:00:55COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:00:56COUNCILOR KENYA HAS COUNCIL.

3:00:58SANTANA COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.

3:01:00COUNCIL.

3:01:00WEBER.

3:01:01COUNCIL.

3:01:01WEBB YES AND COUNCIL.

3:01:02WORLD COUNCIL ROLL YES.

3:01:04DOCKET NUMBER 1928 AS RECEIVED

3:01:0712 VOTES ANY FURTHER?

3:01:08THANK YOU.

3:01:08>> DOCKET 1928 HAS BEEN

3:01:10ADOPTED.

3:01:11MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

3:01:12DOCKET 1929.

3:01:15DOCKET NUMBER 1929 COUNCIL IS.

3:01:17LOUIJEUNE AND MEJIA FOR THE

3:01:19FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

3:01:21RECOGNIZING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

3:01:23DAY.

3:01:24THANK YOU.

3:01:24>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:01:25COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL YOU

3:01:26NOW BEFORE.

3:01:27THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:01:28I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES.

3:01:29I'D LIKE TO REQUEST TO SUSPEND

3:01:31THE RULES I COUNCIL WHEREAS THE

3:01:32THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

3:01:33SEEING AND HEARING NO

3:01:34OBJECTIONS HERE SO ADDED.

3:01:35THANK YOU AND I'D LIKE TO I'D

3:01:37LIKE TO SEEK SUSPENSION AND

3:01:38PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION UM

3:01:41SINCE 2021 OCTOBER 6TH, 2021

3:01:44UNDER THEN UM EXECUTIVE AND

3:01:46THEN ACT MAYOR KIM JANEY UH IT

3:01:49WAS RECOGNIZED AS WE RECOGNIZE

3:01:53OCTOBER 6TH, 2021 THEN AS

3:01:55INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY.

3:01:56AND SO I WANT TO THANK MAYOR

3:01:57JANEY FOR HER LEADERSHIP ON

3:01:58THAT.

3:01:59UM, AND TODAY WE OFFER THIS

3:02:01RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE

3:02:02COMMEMORATING THAT IN

3:02:03RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS

3:02:04PEOPLES DAY AND IN HONOR OF THE

3:02:06INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHOSE

3:02:08HISTORIES, CULTURES AND

3:02:10CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WOVEN INTO

3:02:12BOSTON'S IDENTITY, WE

3:02:14ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BOSTON STANDS

3:02:15ON THE TRADITIONAL TERRITORY

3:02:16OF THE MASSACHUSETT

3:02:18MASSACHUSETT PUNK APART

3:02:20WAMPANOAG, NIPMUC AND OTHER

3:02:22NATIONS AND TRIBES WHOSE

3:02:23MEMBERS REMAIN A CONTINUING

3:02:24PRESENCE AND CARETAKERS OF THIS

3:02:26LAND THIS DAY ASKS US TO SPEAK

3:02:28HONESTLY ABOUT THE

3:02:29DISPOSSESSION OF INDIGENOUS

3:02:30HOMELANDS AND THE POLICIES THAT

3:02:31SOUGHT TO SUPPRESS INDIGENOUS

3:02:33CULTURES, RECOGNIZING THAT

3:02:34HISTORY IS PART OF BUILDING A

3:02:35CITY THAT RESPECTS THE PEOPLE

3:02:37WHO WERE HERE LONG BEFORE

3:02:38BOSTON BOARD'S PRESENT NAME,

3:02:39IT'S ALSO A DAY TO CELEBRATE

3:02:41THE STRANGE SURVIVAL AND

3:02:42THRIVING CULTURES OF INDIGENOUS

3:02:44COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLES BOSTON

3:02:46AND ITS COMMUNITIES AND MANY

3:02:48OTHER NATIONS, UH, DESERVE OUR

3:02:50RESPECT AND TO BE UM AND FOR US

3:02:53TO TELL ON STORIES ABOUT THIS

3:02:56COUNTRY I PARTICULARLY WANT TO

3:02:57RECOGNIZE THE NORTH AMERICAN

3:02:59INDIAN CENTER OF BOSTON

3:03:00NIGHTCLUB FOUNDED IN 1969.

3:03:03FOR DECADES IT HAS PROVIDED

3:03:04SERVICES, ADVOCACY, CULTURAL

3:03:06PROGRAMING AND A GATHERING

3:03:07PLACE THAT STRENGTHENS NATIVE

3:03:09FAMILIES AND CONNECTS PEOPLE

3:03:11ACROSS GENERATIONS.

3:03:13I ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO USE

3:03:14THIS DAY TO LEARN ABOUT THE

3:03:15INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AROUND

3:03:16US, SUPPORT THEIR INSTITUTIONS

3:03:18AND LISTEN TO INDIGENOUS VOICES

3:03:20.

3:03:20THEIR LEADERSHIP AND

3:03:21CONTRIBUTIONS DESERVE

3:03:21RECOGNITION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

3:03:23AND AGAIN WE DESERVE OUR

3:03:25CHILDREN DESERVE THE NEXT

3:03:26GENERATIONS DESERVE TO

3:03:27VERSATILE, HONORED STORIES

3:03:28ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTRY

3:03:30BECAUSE UNTIL WE CAN TELL THOSE

3:03:32STORIES WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD

3:03:34UM WITH THE WORK THAT WE HAVE

3:03:35TO DO TO BE THE MULTIRACIAL

3:03:38MULTI-CLASS DEMOCRACY THAT WE

3:03:39ALL DESERVE.

3:03:40THANK YOU.

3:03:40THANK YOU COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

3:03:41COUNCIL MAY HEAR YOU NOW ON THE

3:03:43FLOOR.

3:03:43THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND

3:03:45I WANT TO THANK OUR SOLUTION

3:03:46FOR ADDING.

3:03:46ME, UM, AS AN ORIGINAL

3:03:48CO-SPONSOR AND I WANT TO START

3:03:50BY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT BOSTON IS

3:03:52ON THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF THE

3:03:54MASSACHUSETTS PAWTUCKET WHEN WE

3:03:56COME AND NEED MARK PEOPLES AS

3:04:00WELL AS OTHERS WHO HAVE SHAPED

3:04:01THE SURROUNDING REGION, WE

3:04:03ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR

3:04:04STEWARDSHIP OF AND CONNECTION

3:04:06TO THESE LANDS FOR GENERATIONS.

3:04:07INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY HONORS

3:04:10THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND

3:04:11CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE INDIGENOUS

3:04:13PEOPLES.

3:04:14IT ALSO SERVES AS A REMINDER

3:04:15OF THE INJUSTICES INDIGENOUS

3:04:17PEOPLE HAVE FACED BOTH PAST AND

3:04:20PRESENT.

3:04:20WE MUST FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT

3:04:22OUR ABOUT SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION,

3:04:24GENOCIDE AND FORCED MIGRATION

3:04:25WHILE ALSO UPLIFTING INDIGENOUS

3:04:28COMMUNITIES STRENGTH,

3:04:29RESILIENCE AND PRESERVATION

3:04:31OF VALUES AND CULTURE.

3:04:32THIS RECOGNITION MUST BE PAIRED

3:04:34WITH ACTION BY AMPLIFYING

3:04:36INDIGENOUS VOICES, INVESTING IN

3:04:38RESOURCES, BUILDING

3:04:39PARTNERSHIPS AND ENSURING

3:04:40INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ARE

3:04:41VALUED.

3:04:42WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE

3:04:44ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE NORTH

3:04:45AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER

3:04:46OF BOSTON AND JP.

3:04:48WHICH SERVES OUR COMMUNITIES

3:04:49WITH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AND

3:04:51CONTINUES ITS ADVOCACY UM AND

3:04:53WHOSE ESTABLISHMENT IS ROOTED

3:04:55IN SOCIAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS UM

3:04:56IN THE LATE 60S.

3:04:58WE APPRECIATE THE ORGANIZATIONS

3:04:59AND ADVOCATES WHO CONTINUE TO

3:05:00UPLIFT AND SUPPORT OUR

3:05:01INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES.

3:05:02AND I LOOK FORWARD TO PASSING

3:05:04THIS RESOLUTION TODAY AND I'LL

3:05:06END WITH WHEN I USED TO WORK AT

3:05:07MTV, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

3:05:10GO TO I THINK IT WAS SOUTH

3:05:11DAKOTA AND I GOT SO EXCITED

3:05:13BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO BE

3:05:14INTERVIEWING SOMEONE WHO LIVED

3:05:16IN THE RESERVATION AND I WAS SO

3:05:18IGNORANT THAT I THOUGHT WHEN I

3:05:20WENT TO THE RESERVATION IT WAS

3:05:22GOING TO BE LIKE TPS AND

3:05:24TURQUOISE AND LIKE INDIGENOUS

3:05:25PEOPLE REALLY LIVING IN THE

3:05:27LAND.

3:05:27AND WHEN I GOT THERE I WAS SO

3:05:31DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THE

3:05:33CONDITIONS THAT THE INDIGENOUS

3:05:35PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN UM IN RAT

3:05:38INFESTED SPACES AND PLACES AND

3:05:40JUST THE POVERTY AND IT BROKE

3:05:42MY HEART TO SEE.

3:05:43THAT AND I KNOW I CANNOT

3:05:45BELIEVE THAT I JUST ACKNOWLEDGE

3:05:46HOW IGNORANT I WAS BUT UM, IT

3:05:49WAS A RUDE AWAKENING ABOUT THE

3:05:52INJUSTICES THAT SO MANY OF OUR

3:05:53INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FACE HERE IN

3:05:54AMERICA.

3:05:55THANK YOU.

3:05:56THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERE

3:05:58COUNCILMEMBER.

3:05:59UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:06:01I JUST WANT TO THANK COUNCILORS

3:06:02UH LOUIJEUNE AND.

3:06:03HERE FOR UH, ADDING ME AS A

3:06:05THIRD SPONSOR.

3:06:06UH, AS YOU KNOW, I'M, UH, PROUD

3:06:08TO, UH, HAVE NIQAB.

3:06:10>> IN MY DISTRICT.

3:06:12UM, AND IN JUNE I WAS HONORED

3:06:15TO ATTEND A HISTORIC LANDMARK

3:06:17DEDICATION FOR NIQAB AT.

3:06:19ITS BUILDING AT 105.

3:06:20SOUTH HUNTINGTON AVENUE.

3:06:21LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING, UM,

3:06:24YOU KNOW, JEAN, JEAN-LUC AND

3:06:25REGGIE AND AND EVERYONE ELSE AT

3:06:27NIQAB, UH, YOU KNOW.

3:06:29OVER UH ON MONDAY AND

3:06:31THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE

3:06:32YEAR.

3:06:33UM, I SO I JUST THANK YOU FOR

3:06:36HIGHLIGHTING THIS AND I THINK

3:06:36IS.

3:06:37AS COUNCILOR MEJIA HIGHLIGHTED

3:06:38,IT'S LIKE YOU KNOW, WE AS A

3:06:41COUNTRY WE'VE.

3:06:41TRIED TO.

3:06:42ERASE AN ENTIRE PEOPLE UH, YOU

3:06:45KNOW, ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND

3:06:47AND UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S UP TO US

3:06:48TO STAND UP TO THAT AND AND YOU

3:06:50KNOW, CONTINUE THAT FIGHT

3:06:51TODAY.

3:06:52MAKE SURE YOU.

3:06:52KNOW, EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT OUR

3:06:54INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE GONE

3:06:56THROUGH AND AND WHAT THEY'VE

3:06:57CONTRIBUTED.

3:06:58>> UH, HERE.

3:06:58SO THANK YOU.

3:06:59THANK YOU.

3:07:00COUNCIL WEBER WHEN ANYONE ELSE

3:07:01LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME IT'S

3:07:04CLERK PLEASE ADD

3:07:05COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:07:05COUNCIL DURKAN.

3:07:07COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

3:07:07COUNCILOR FLYNN

3:07:08COUNCILOR MURPHY

3:07:09COUNCIL PREPARED

3:07:10COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL ROW

3:07:11AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR UH

3:07:14COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE AND MARIA

3:07:15AS WELL AS WEBER SIX MENTIONED

3:07:17THE RULES AND ADOPTION

3:07:18OF DOCKET 1929.

3:07:20ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

3:07:22THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:07:24PLEASE START THE VOTE,

3:07:25MR. CLERK.

3:07:30COUNCILOR BREADON,

3:07:31COUNCILOR COLLETTE.

3:07:32YES, COUNCILOR GOES BY.

3:07:33YES, COUNCILOR.

3:07:34CULPEPPER.

3:07:35COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

3:07:35YES.

3:07:36COUNCILOR.

3:07:36DURKAN.

3:07:37YES.

3:07:37COUNCILOR.

3:07:38DURKAN.

3:07:38YES.

3:07:38COUNCILOR.

3:07:39FITZGERALD.

3:07:40COUNCILOR.

3:07:40FITZGERALD.

3:07:40YES.

3:07:41COUNCILOR.

3:07:41FLYNN.

3:07:42YES.

3:07:42COUNCILOR.

3:07:43FLYNN.

3:07:43YES.

3:07:43COUNCIL.

3:07:44LOUIJEUNE.

3:07:45COUNCILOR.

3:07:45LOUIJEUNE.

3:07:45YES.

3:07:46COUNCILOR.

3:07:46MEJIA.

3:07:47CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

3:07:48YES.

3:07:49COUNCILOR.

3:07:49MURPHY.

3:07:50COUNCILOR.

3:07:50MURPHY.

3:07:51YES.

3:07:51COUNCIL.

3:07:51THE PEN.

3:07:52YES.

3:07:52COUNCIL OF A PEN.

3:07:53YES.

3:07:54SANTANA.

3:07:56COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:07:56YES.

3:07:56COUNCIL.

3:07:57WEBER.

3:07:57YES.

3:07:58COUNCIL.

3:07:58LEVY.

3:07:58YES AND COUNCILOR.

3:07:59WORLD.

3:08:00YES, COUNCILOR.

3:08:01OH YES.

3:08:01SO I CAN NUMBER 1929.

3:08:03YES.

3:08:04WE RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE

3:08:05AFFIRMATIVE.

3:08:06THANK YOU.

3:08:06DOCKET 1929 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

3:08:08MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

3:08:09DOCKET 1930.

3:08:11DOCKET NUMBER 1930.

3:08:14COUNCILORS DURKAN AND LOUIJEUNE

3:08:15OFFERED THE FOLLOWING

3:08:17RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 25TH

3:08:19ANNIVERSARY IN NAMING

3:08:21OCTOBER 12TH, 2026 AS OPENING

3:08:23OUR DOORS DAY IN THE CITY

3:08:24OF BOSTON.

3:08:25THANK YOU.

3:08:26THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:08:26COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:08:27YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:08:28THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.

3:08:30UM, WE HAD A GREAT PRESENTATION

3:08:31THIS MORNING AND I JUST WANT TO

3:08:33THANK MY COLLEAGUES WHO STOPPED

3:08:34BY OUR RECEPTION.

3:08:36UM, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR COLE

3:08:37PEPPER FITZGERALD.

3:08:38UM, SANTANA.

3:08:39UM, UH AND LOUIJEUNE UH, FOR

3:08:44YOUR, UM, SUPPORT AND REALLY

3:08:46GREAT AND YEAH, THANK YOU SO

3:08:47MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR

3:08:48HONORING UM, I KNOW KELLY

3:08:51BRILLIANT AND UM, GENEVIEVE DE

3:08:54UH, THEY HAVE WORKED REALLY

3:08:55HARD UM, AND KELLY HAS WORKED

3:08:56REALLY HARD OVER THE PAST 25

3:08:58YEARS TO KEEP THIS GOING.

3:08:59UM, AND IT'S BEEN THE

3:09:01INSPIRATION UH, FOR A LOT OF,

3:09:03UH OF OTHER THINGS THAT THESE

3:09:05CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE DONE

3:09:06TO OPEN UP THEIR DOORS.

3:09:07UM, SO I JUST WANT TO READ OUT

3:09:09THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE

3:09:10PARTICIPATING AND I WANT TO

3:09:11GIVE COUNCILOR SANTANA I WANT

3:09:13TO ADD HIM AS A THIRD, UH,

3:09:14CO-SPONSOR AND I WANT TO GIVE

3:09:16HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON

3:09:17THIS.

3:09:18UM, BUT I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL

3:09:20ON MONDAY AT 10 A.M..

3:09:21UM, IT STARTS RIGHT ON THE DOT.

3:09:23SO IF YOU WANT TO COME, UM,

3:09:24JUST MAKE SURE YOU'RE THERE ON

3:09:26TIME.

3:09:26UM, SO MASS ART ART MUSEUM,

3:09:28MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

3:09:30SOCIETY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS THE

3:09:32FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

3:09:33SCIENTIST THE HUNTINGTON

3:09:36THEATER, FENWAY STUDIOS, BESO

3:09:38ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

3:09:41BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS,

3:09:43BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, THE

3:09:46YMCA ON HUNTINGTON AVE, THE

3:09:47TRANSOM GALLERY AT SIMMONS

3:09:48UNIVERSITY, TUFTS U.

3:09:50UM TUFTS UNIVERSITY, THE

3:09:51SYMPHONY CACI ALSO STUDIO AND

3:09:54EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY UH

3:09:56UM CONSERVANCY JUST WANT TO

3:09:57THANK YOU ALL UM ALL OF THESE

3:09:59GROUPS UH FOR OPENING THEIR

3:10:02DOORS AND FOR BEING PART

3:10:03OF THIS UM THIS YEAR IS THE

3:10:0525TH YEAR AND WE'RE ALL SO

3:10:06EXCITED.

3:10:06SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES

3:10:07FOR FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY

3:10:09I WANT TO GIVE UM THANK YOU TO

3:10:11COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR UM AND

3:10:12WANT TO GIVE COUNCILOR SANTANA

3:10:14A CHANCE TO SPEAK AS WELL.

3:10:15COUNCILOR JOHN OH, UM,

3:10:19COUNCILOR DURKAN, ARE YOU

3:10:20SEEKING TO ADD

3:10:21COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD

3:10:22CO-SPONSOR?

3:10:22OKAY.

3:10:22SEEING AND HEARING NO

3:10:23OBJECTION.

3:10:23YES, BUT SO ADDED

3:10:25COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:10:25UH, YOU'RE GOOD

3:10:28COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:10:28YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:10:29AND AND.

3:10:29AND THANK YOU.

3:10:32UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

3:10:33INCLUDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL

3:10:35CO-SPONSOR WHEN I WAS A KID IN

3:10:37MISSION HILL AND THE MISSION

3:10:38WHOLE SUMMER PROGRAM, I SPENT A

3:10:39LOT OF TIME VISITING BOSTON'S

3:10:40PARKS AND MUSEUMS.

3:10:41I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT OPEN SPACE

3:10:43IS FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS,

3:10:44AND BOSTON HAS WON SOME OF THE

3:10:46FINEST IN THE WORLD.

3:10:47THE OPENING OUR DOORS FESTIVAL

3:10:49A CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC ACCESS

3:10:50AND KEEPS THESE INSTITUTIONS

3:10:52FROM BECOMING IVORY TOWERS

3:10:54CLOSED OFF PART OF OUR CITY.

3:10:56I APPLAUD THE HARRINGTON

3:10:58THEATER, BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL

3:11:00AND ALL THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS

3:11:01UM, THAT COUNCILOR DURKAN

3:11:02MENTIONED I DON'T HAVE THEM

3:11:04HERE IN MY LIST BUT UM I THINK

3:11:05I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS LAST

3:11:06YEAR.

3:11:07UM, JUST AN INCREDIBLE,

3:11:08INCREDIBLE DAY.

3:11:09UM, IT'S FILLED WITH, UM,

3:11:11INCREDIBLE YOUTH WHO HAVE SO

3:11:12MUCH TALENT.

3:11:13UM, AND I ENCOURAGE MY

3:11:15COLLEAGUES IF YOU HAVE SOME

3:11:16TIME ON MONDAY, UM, TO STOP BY

3:11:18AND SUPPORT.

3:11:19UM, YEAH.

3:11:21THANK YOU.

3:11:22THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

3:11:23WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD

3:11:25THEIR NAME?

3:11:27MR. CLERK, PLEASE ADD

3:11:28COUNCILOR CULPEPER,

3:11:29COUNCILOR FITZGERALD,

3:11:30COUNCILOR.

3:11:31FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

3:11:32MEJIA COUNCILOR.

3:11:32MURPHY COUNCIL COUNCILOR.

3:11:33WEBER COUNCILOR AROUND PLEASE

3:11:35ADD THE CHAIR

3:11:36COUNCILOR STRICKEN LOUIJEUNE

3:11:37AND SANTANA SIX OF THE RULES

3:11:39AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 1930.

3:11:41ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL

3:11:44THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:11:46MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

3:11:47CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

3:11:49DOCKET 1930.

3:11:51COUNCILOR BREAK.

3:11:51COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPONENT.

3:11:53YES.

3:11:53COUNCIL OPPOSED BUT YES.

3:11:55COUNCILOR.

3:11:55CULPEPER COUNCILOR.

3:11:56YES.

3:11:57COUNCIL DURKAN.

3:11:58COUNCILOR.

3:11:59DURKAN.

3:11:59YES.

3:12:00COUNCIL.

3:12:00FITZGERALD.

3:12:01COUNCIL FOR SHOW.

3:12:01YES.

3:12:02COUNCILOR.

3:12:02FLYNN.

3:12:03YES.

3:12:03COUNCIL.

3:12:03PHINEAS.

3:12:04COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

3:12:05COUNCILOR.

3:12:06LOUIJEUNE.

3:12:06YES.

3:12:07COUNCILOR.

3:12:07MEJIA.

3:12:08COUNCILOR.

3:12:08MEJIA.

3:12:09YES.

3:12:09COUNCILOR.

3:12:10MURPHY.

3:12:10COUNCILOR.

3:12:11MURPHY.

3:12:11YES.

3:12:11COUNCIL.

3:12:12EVENT.

3:12:13COUNCILOR PENELAS COUNCIL.

3:12:14SANTANA.

3:12:14YES.

3:12:14COUNCILOR.

3:12:15SANTANA.

3:12:16COUNCILOR.

3:12:16WEBER.

3:12:16YES.

3:12:17COUNCIL MEMBER.

3:12:18YES AND COUNCILOR.

3:12:18WORLD.

3:12:19YEAH.

3:12:19COUNCIL.

3:12:20WELL YES.

3:12:21SO I CAN NUMBER 1930 HAS

3:12:23RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN.

3:12:24THE AFFIRMATIVE.

3:12:26THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

3:12:27UM, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO GREEN

3:12:29SHEETS, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE

3:12:30WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD THEIR

3:12:30NAME TO THE DOCKET THEY MAY

3:12:31HAVE MISSED COUNCILOR MOREAU.

3:12:36YES.

3:12:37>> GIVE ME ONE SECOND.

3:12:42UH, DOCKET NUMBER 1919.

3:12:50THANK YOU.

3:12:51THANK YOU.

3:12:52UM, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

3:12:54YES.

3:12:55>> UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD MY NAME

3:12:58TO THE DOCKET TO, UH, 18.

3:13:01UH OH MY GOD, IT WAS THE ONE

3:13:04WITH THE SORRY CLICK THE UM THE

3:13:08VETERANS THE HERO SQUARE.

3:13:10YEAH.

3:13:12>> 1918 1918 1918.

3:13:14THANK YOU.

3:13:15THANK YOU.

3:13:16UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

3:13:20UM 1919 1918.

3:13:25CLARK DO YOU HAVE THOSE?

3:13:27YES.

3:13:27OKAY, GREAT.

3:13:32WE'RE NOW ON MOVING ON TO LATE

3:13:34FILES.

3:13:36TWO PERSONNEL.

3:13:37TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:13:39OKAY.

3:13:41>> I'M A FOUR BY THE CLERK THAT

3:13:44THERE ARE TWO PERSONNEL.

3:13:46PERSONNEL ORDERS ABSENT.

3:13:49OBJECTION.

3:13:49THE PERSONNEL ORDERS WILL BE

3:13:51ADDED.

3:13:51MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ

3:13:53THE PERSONNEL ORDERS INTO THE

3:13:55RECORD.

3:13:55FIRST PERSONNEL.

3:13:57FIRSTLY FILE MANAGER THE.

3:14:00PERSONNEL ORDER.

3:14:01COUNSELOR BREEN FOR COUNSELOR

3:14:03MEDIA.

3:14:04AND SECOND PERSONNEL ORDER.

3:14:06COUNSELOR BRAIN FOR COUNSELOR.

3:14:07WE'RE UP.

3:14:08THANK YOU.

3:14:09>> THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE

3:14:10OF THESE PERSONNEL ORDERS.

3:14:12ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:14:13ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

3:14:15THE AYES HAVE IT.

3:14:16THANK YOU.

3:14:16THE LATE FILE PERSONNEL ORDERS

3:14:18MATTERS HAVE BEEN PASSED.

3:14:21OKAY.

3:14:22WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

3:14:23CONSENT AGENDA.

3:14:27I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK

3:14:28THAT THERE'S ONE ADDITION TO

3:14:29THE CONSENT AGENDA.

3:14:30THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON

3:14:32APPROVAL OF VARIOUS MATTERS

3:14:33CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

3:14:34AGENDA.

3:14:35ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:14:36RIGHT.

3:14:37THANK YOU.

3:14:38THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN

3:14:39ADOPTED.

3:14:40WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:14:42PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR

3:14:44UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.

3:14:46DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

3:14:47ANNOUNCEMENTS?

3:14:50OH I MISS GREEN SHEETS I

3:14:51APOLOGIZE.

3:14:53SORRY EVERYONE.

3:14:56>> WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

3:14:57GREEN SHEETS.

3:14:58IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL

3:14:59ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS?

3:15:02YEAH.

3:15:03>> OKAY, GREAT.

3:15:04THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

3:15:06HAVE YOUR, UM, MICROPHONE ON.

3:15:10>> UH.

3:15:10MADAM CHAIR FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:15:13OKAY, GREAT.

3:15:13>> UM.

3:15:16UH, NO, WE DO ANNOUNCEMENTS

3:15:17FIRST.

3:15:18WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:15:19PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR

3:15:21UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.

3:15:22UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU NOW

3:15:23HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:15:25THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:15:26MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANTED TO

3:15:28RECOGNIZE A CLOSE FRIEND

3:15:30OF MINE WHO I HAVE GREAT

3:15:31RESPECT FOR.

3:15:32UM, AS IT RELATES TO

3:15:34ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUT ON

3:15:35OCTOBER 17TH, UH, PASTOR BRUCE

3:15:37WALL IS RETIRING.

3:15:39AFTER 33 YEARS AS PASTOR

3:15:42OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES CHRISTIAN

3:15:43.

3:15:43CHURCH AND MORE THAN FIVE

3:15:45DECADES OF MINISTRY AND

3:15:47COMMUNITY SERVICE AS WELL.

3:15:49TOGETHER PASTOR WALL AND KAREN

3:15:52WALL PASTOR KAREN WALL HAVE

3:15:54DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO

3:15:55SERVING OTHERS, STRENGTHENING

3:15:58FAMILIES, MENTORING YOUNG

3:15:59PEOPLE, BRINGING PEOPLE

3:16:01TOGETHER ACROSS BOSTON.

3:16:03I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR

3:16:04MANY YEARS OF SERVICE AND

3:16:06CONGRATULATE THEM AS THEY BEGIN

3:16:09THIS NEXT CHAPTER.

3:16:10WHAT I WHAT I MOST RESPECT

3:16:14ABOUT PASTOR BRUCE WALL IS NOT

3:16:18JUST HIS SERVICE AS A AS A

3:16:20MEMBER OF THE CLERGY BUT WHO IS

3:16:23A CLERK MAGISTRATE IN THE COURT

3:16:25SYSTEM.

3:16:26HE WAS STILL ALWAYS BRINGING

3:16:28PEOPLE TOGETHER.

3:16:28HE NEVER GAVE UP ON ANYBODY.

3:16:31HE ALWAYS PROVIDED ENCOURAGING

3:16:33WORD.

3:16:34HE ALWAYS PROVIDED COMPASSION,

3:16:36PROVIDED HOPE.

3:16:38AND DURING BOSTON'S DIFFICULT

3:16:40DAYS UM PASTOR WALL WAS THERE

3:16:43ALONG WITH REVEREND CULPEPER

3:16:45AND SO MANY OTHERS JOHN WATERS

3:16:49SUPPORTERS.

3:16:49,UM.

3:16:50>> REVEREND MICHAEL HAYNES.

3:16:52BUT THE CLERGY.

3:16:54CONTRIBUTED GREATLY.

3:16:56>> AND THEY STILL CONTRIBUTE

3:16:57GREATLY TO THE CITY OF BOSTON

3:16:58AND JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY

3:17:01FRIEND AND A WONDERFUL,

3:17:03WONDERFUL MEMBER OF THE

3:17:04COMMUNITY, PASTOR BRUCE PAUL

3:17:06AND HIS AND HIS WONDERFUL WIFE

3:17:08AS WELL.

3:17:08THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:17:09THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:17:11COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU NOW

3:17:11HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:17:12I WANT TO ANNOUNCE.

3:17:13THIS MORNING WE CELEBRATED.

3:17:15THE OPENING.

3:17:16>> OF THE.

3:17:17CVS AND NUBIAN SQUARE.

3:17:19WHAT A GREAT.

3:17:20ACCOMPLISHMENT AND ADDITION TO

3:17:22.

3:17:23THE ROXBURY MAIN.

3:17:23STREET KNOW THE WORK THAT

3:17:26THEY'VE BEEN DOING NUBIAN

3:17:27SQUARE I ALSO WANT TO ASSOCIATE

3:17:29MYSELF WITH THE REMARKS BY

3:17:32COUNCILOR FLYNN WITH REGARD TO,

3:17:33UH, REVEREND BRUCE WALL

3:17:35RETIRING LONGTIME FRIEND EVEN

3:17:38BEFORE HE WAS IN THE MINISTRY

3:17:41BEFORE WE WERE BOTH IN THE

3:17:43MINISTRY HE WAS A PROBATION

3:17:45OFFICER.

3:17:45I WAS A YOUNG LAWYER UH, EVEN

3:17:48BEFORE THAT AND WHEN WE WERE

3:17:49JUST YOUNGER, YOUNGER FOLKS,

3:17:52UH, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE

3:17:53BRUCE FOR ALL THAT HE'S DONE

3:17:55OVER THE YEARS BUILDING UP HIS

3:17:58RADIO TELEVISION STATION, UH,

3:18:01OVER THE YEARS IN THE CHURCH

3:18:03AND JUST HAVING A GREAT CAREER

3:18:04IN THE MINISTRY I HIS

3:18:06RETIREMENT PARTY IS COMING UP

3:18:08AS IS BISHOP BORDERS THIS

3:18:10SATURDAY UH, THE 10TH UH AND SO

3:18:15JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE THEM

3:18:17WHO REALLY MISS THEM AND THE

3:18:19MINISTRY FOR ALL THEY DO.

3:18:21WHO DO YOU CALL NOW WITHOUT UH

3:18:24,BISHOP OR WITHOUT REVEREND

3:18:26LAW?

3:18:26SO I JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE

3:18:28THEM AND, UH, WISH THEM A VERY

3:18:32,VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL AND,

3:18:34UH, FUN RETIREMENT.

3:18:36THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:18:38THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:18:39.

3:18:40COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU KNOW

3:18:41BEFORE.

3:18:42THANK YOU.

3:18:42>> I JUST WANT TO ECHO MY

3:18:43COLLEAGUES AND UH, A LOT OF, UH

3:18:45.

3:18:45>> THE.

3:18:46PASTORS AND BISHOPS ARE

3:18:48RETIRING THIS YEAR.

3:18:49I JUST WANT TO ALSO ECHO.

3:18:51UH.

3:18:52>> UH, PASTOR BRUCE WALL AND

3:18:53EVERYTHING THAT HE'S GIVEN THE

3:18:54COMMUNITY AND UH, YOU KNOW,

3:18:57GALA PLANNING IS A LOT OF WORK

3:18:58AND SO I WANT TO JUST UPLIFT

3:19:00EVERYONE WHO'S CELEBRATING, UM

3:19:01AND PLANNING HIS A GALA

3:19:03CELEBRATION NEXT WEEKEND

3:19:05PARTICULARLY, UH, MY FELLOW

3:19:06HYDE PARK RESIDENT MARCELLA KIM

3:19:07JACKSON.

3:19:08THANK YOU.

3:19:08THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

3:19:11UH, WE'RE WISHING A VERY HAPPY

3:19:13BIRTHDAY TO DEBBIE GLENNON

3:19:14OF COUNCILOR BRADEN'S OFFICE.

3:19:15HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:19:16UM, I ALSO WANT TO REMIND

3:19:18EVERYBODY TO JOIN US FOR THE

3:19:192026 CITY COUNCIL HISPANIC AND

3:19:21LATINX HERITAGE MONTH

3:19:22CELEBRATION.

3:19:22THE CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD IN

3:19:24THE IRON CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY,

3:19:26OCTOBER 14TH AT 12 P.M. TAKING

3:19:28PLACE AFTER THE HISPANIC THAT

3:19:29FLAG RAISING AT 11 A.M. ON

3:19:31CITY.

3:19:31HALL PLAZA.

3:19:32WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

3:19:33MEMORIALS.

3:19:34WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT A

3:19:36NAME?

3:19:36UM I SAW COUNCILOR WEBERS UH,

3:19:39LIGHT ON FIRST AND THEN WE'LL

3:19:40GO TO COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:19:43OKAY.

3:19:44>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:19:45UM.

3:19:45TODAY MARKS THREE YEARS SINCE

3:19:47THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK BY HAMAS

3:19:49ON ISRAEL THAT KILLED

3:19:50APPROXIMATELY 12,000 PEOPLE IN

3:19:53ISRAEL AND WHERE 251 CIVILIANS

3:19:56AND SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE

3:19:58MANY, UH, NEVER TO BE SEEN

3:20:00ALIVE AGAIN.

3:20:01UH IN RESPONSE, ISRAEL LAUNCHED

3:20:04A COUNTERATTACK THAT ACCORDING

3:20:05TO RECENT COUNTS RESULTED IN

3:20:0877,000 PALESTINIAN DEATHS AND

3:20:10OVER 150,000 INJURIES IN GAZA.

3:20:13UH, THE EVENTS OF OCTOBER.

3:20:15>> 7TH AND ITS AFTERMATH WILL

3:20:17BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE

3:20:18MOST TRAGIC CHAPTERS IN OUR

3:20:20SHARED.

3:20:20HISTORY AND UH, MANY OF US, YOU

3:20:23KNOW, MYSELF INCLUDED, STRUGGLE

3:20:25TO DEAL WITH THE SCOPE OF THE

3:20:27TRAUMA AND COMPLEXITY

3:20:29OF OCTOBER 7TH TODAY.

3:20:31UH, YOU KNOW MY THOUGHTS AND

3:20:33AGAIN, UH, I I'M SURE MANY

3:20:35OF MY COLLEAGUES JOIN ME OR

3:20:36WITH ALL THOSE WHO LOST LOVED

3:20:38ONES AND WHO HAVE SUFFERED AS A

3:20:40RESULT OF THE EVENTS OF THAT

3:20:42TERRIBLE DAY IN 2023.

3:20:44THANK YOU.

3:20:45THANK YOU.

3:20:46>> COUNCIL WEBER.

3:20:47COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU KNOW FOR

3:20:49THAT.

3:20:49THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:20:51UM, THERE WAS SEVERAL PEOPLE IN

3:20:55MY COMMUNITY THAT RECENTLY

3:20:57PASSED AWAY.

3:20:58I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM

3:21:00BRIEFLY IF I MAY, BUT ONE

3:21:03PERSON, LARRY DWYER, WHO

3:21:07DEDICATED HIS CAREER TO SERVING

3:21:08BOSTON, WAS A YOUTH WORKER AT

3:21:11THE D STREET MULTI-SERVICE

3:21:12CENTER, LATER SERVED AS THE

3:21:14BOSTON, PA COMMISSIONER,

3:21:16COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND

3:21:18HOSPITALS.

3:21:18BEYOND HIS PROFESSIONAL

3:21:20ACCOMPLISHMENTS, LARRY WAS

3:21:21SOMEONE WHO WAS DEEPLY, DEEPLY

3:21:23COMMITTED TO HIS FAMILY, HIS

3:21:25FRIENDS, HIS COMMUNITY WAS A

3:21:26COACH AND SOFTBALL.

3:21:28HE PLAYED DRUMS WITH GOOD

3:21:30FRIENDS, SPENDING TIME IN HIS

3:21:32GARDEN ENJOYING ENJOYING A

3:21:34ROUND OF GOLF.

3:21:35HE BROUGHT ENERGY AND WARMTH TO

3:21:38EVERYTHING HE DID.

3:21:39HE WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE

3:21:41INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING

3:21:43IN SOUTH BOSTON CHARLESTOWN AS

3:21:45WELL UM ANOTHER SOUTH BOSTON.

3:21:52FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR WAS JOE LEE

3:21:56,A DORCHESTER NATIVE.

3:21:58HE SPENT MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE

3:22:00IN SOUTH BOSTON.

3:22:01HE WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER.

3:22:03HE BECAME THE PRINCIPAL OF THE

3:22:04GAVIN'S SCHOOL COMES FROM A

3:22:07LARGE FAMILY UM HIS WIFE NANCY.

3:22:10THEY THEY SHARED.

3:22:1355 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.

3:22:13THEY RAISED SEVEN CHILDREN.

3:22:16UM I EXTEND MY DEEPEST

3:22:18CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND

3:22:20MUCH OF THE WAKE LAST NIGHT FOR

3:22:24JOSEPH LEE AND AND LARRY DWYER

3:22:27AS WELL.

3:22:28I'M GOING TO MISS BOTH OF THEM.

3:22:29AND FINALLY UM ANOTHER ANOTHER

3:22:32WONDERFUL FRIEND FROM

3:22:34DORCHESTER WAS BOBBY.

3:22:36BOBBY AND.

3:22:38I WENT TO THE WAKE THIS MORNING

3:22:40NOW A RESIDENT OF CHARLESTOWN.

3:22:43UM BUT HE LIVED A REMARKABLE

3:22:45LIFE UM, AS A YOUTH WORKER, AS

3:22:48A TEACHER, UM, RUNNING HIS OWN

3:22:51BUSINESS, SERVING IN LEADERSHIP

3:22:52ROLES, THE FLYNN

3:22:54ADMINISTRATION.

3:22:55HE WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CIVIC

3:22:57POLITICAL LIFE.

3:22:59HE HAD MANY FRIENDS THROUGHOUT

3:23:00THE CITY.

3:23:01HE WAS DEVOTED TO HIS FAMILY,

3:23:03HIS ESPECIALLY PROUD OF HIS

3:23:05DAUGHTER ALEXIS WHO MANY PEOPLE

3:23:07KNOW HERE IN THIS I KNOW A

3:23:09CHAMBER AND HIS GODSON JOHN

3:23:12MCNAMEE SHARED COUNTLESS

3:23:14ADVENTURES AROUND BOSTON.

3:23:16HE WAS A READER.

3:23:18HE LOVED HISTORY, SPORTS NEVER

3:23:21NEVER FORGOT A BIRTHDAY.

3:23:23I EXTEND OUR DEEPEST

3:23:26CONDOLENCES TO ALEXIS JOHN BOB

3:23:30SIBLINGS, EXTENDED FAMILY UH

3:23:32BOB BY HIS GENEROSITY,

3:23:35CURIOSITY, HUMOR, COMMITMENT TO

3:23:36THE PEOPLE HE CARED ABOUT WILL

3:23:38BE DEEPLY MISSED AND I KNOW MY

3:23:41OTHER COLLEAGUES WILL PROBABLY

3:23:43MENTION, UM JUDGE HOUSTON A

3:23:47LIFE LIVED WELL THAT

3:23:50CONTRIBUTED.

3:23:50GREATLY NOT ONLY TO THE

3:23:52RESIDENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS BUT

3:23:54HELPING BRING THE CITY TOGETHER

3:23:59AND.

3:24:00MADE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON RACE

3:24:02RELATIONS AND UH, NEVER GIVING

3:24:05UP ON PEOPLE AS WELL.

3:24:06THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:24:07THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:24:08AND WAS IT LARRY DWYER?

3:24:09YES.

3:24:10THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:24:13.

3:24:13THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:24:14I'D ALSO LIKE TO UM AND TODAY'S

3:24:17MEETING IN HONOR OF BOBBY

3:24:18FINNERAN.

3:24:19UH, HE WAS JUST A GREAT GUY.

3:24:21GREGARIOUS, JUST CARED ABOUT

3:24:24REGULAR PEOPLE ALL TYPES

3:24:26OF PEOPLE, ALL TYPES OF THINGS.

3:24:28I WILL NEVER FORGET FIRST

3:24:29MEETING HIM.

3:24:29I WILL NEVER FORGET HIS WARMTH

3:24:31,UH, THE WARMTH OF HIS

3:24:33DAUGHTER ALEXIS.

3:24:34AND SO I KNOW THAT SHE HER

3:24:36DAD WAS HER BEST FRIEND AND I

3:24:38CAN'T IMAGINE THE PAIN THAT

3:24:39SHE'S EXPERIENCING.

3:24:40SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE, UM, MY

3:24:43CONDOLENCES TO UH UM.

3:24:46UH, BOBBY.

3:24:48VETERAN'S FAMILY, ALL OF HIS

3:24:49SIBLINGS WHO WERE THERE THIS

3:24:51MORNING TO ALEXIS AND TO HIS

3:24:55GRANT TO ALEXIS, HIS HUSBAND,

3:24:57UH, KEVIN AND TO.

3:25:00UM JOHN ROBERT FITZGERALD, HIS

3:25:02GRANDSON WHO DEEPLY, DEEPLY

3:25:03LOVED HIS GRANDAD.

3:25:04THANK YOU.

3:25:04>> THANK YOU,

3:25:06COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

3:25:06COUNCILOR EARLE.

3:25:09THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:25:10AND I ALSO LIKE TO REMEMBER,

3:25:12UH, BOBBY FENNER AND I ALSO

3:25:13WANT TO UM, UH, REMEMBER THE

3:25:16LIFE OF RAHIM UH MUHAMMAD AS

3:25:18WELL WHO PASSED AWAY ON

3:25:20SEPTEMBER 26TH AFTER BATTLING

3:25:23UH, CONCILOR BREADON CANCER FOR

3:25:2416 MONTHS.

3:25:26THANK YOU.

3:25:27>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL

3:25:28.

3:25:28UM, I ALSO JUST WANT TO UPLIFT

3:25:30THE NAME OF, UM, BOBBY FINNERAN

3:25:31WHEN YOU'RE A STAFFER, PEOPLE

3:25:34TYPICALLY LOOK PAST YOU AND

3:25:35AND, UM, DON'T PAY ATTENTION.

3:25:37BUT HE WAS ALWAYS SOMEBODY IN

3:25:39CHARLESTOWN THAT WOULD ASK

3:25:40ME HOW I'M DOING AND PROVIDE,

3:25:42UH, WORDS OF ADVICE,

3:25:43ENCOURAGEMENT AND WISDOM.

3:25:44AND I LOVED HIS HUMOR AND, UM,

3:25:47APPRECIATED HIS SUPPORT AND UM,

3:25:49MY HEART GOES TO ALEXIS AND THE

3:25:51ENTIRE FINNER AND FAMILY.

3:25:52UM, PLEASE ACCEPT MY DEEPEST

3:25:54CONDOLENCES.

3:25:54THE LAST TIME I SAW BOBBY HE

3:25:56WAS WITH HIS GRANDSON AND HE

3:25:57WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH HE

3:25:58LOVED SPENDING TIME WITH HIS

3:25:59WITH HIS GRANDSON.

3:26:01SO UM, MY HEART TO HIS TO HIS,

3:26:03UH, GRANDSON AND, UM, ALL

3:26:04MEMBERS OF THE CENTER AND

3:26:06FAMILY.

3:26:12OKAY, SO ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR

3:26:15FLYNN LOUIJEUNE AND MYSELF,

3:26:18ROBERT BOB FINNERAN ON BEHALF

3:26:21OF COUNCILOR FLYNN, JOSEPH JOE

3:26:24LEE, LARRY DWYER AND JUSTICE

3:26:28JULIAN HOUSTON ON BEHALF

3:26:30OF COUNCILOR WORRELL RAHIM

3:26:32MUHAMMAD ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR

3:26:35FITZGERALD THERESA F TERRY

3:26:39NORTON DOWNEY WHO IS UM PAUL

3:26:41FLAHERTY'S MOM FROM THE CLERK'S

3:26:42OFFICE ON BEHALF OF MYSELF

3:26:45GERALD A JERRY DONNARUMMA AND

3:26:49ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR WEBER

3:26:51AND THE ENTIRE COUNCIL ALL

3:26:53THOSE LOST ON SEPTEMBER UH

3:26:55EXCUSE ME OCTOBER 7TH AND IN

3:26:57THE SUBSEQUENT WEEKS, MONTHS

3:26:58AND YEARS THEREAFTER.

3:26:59A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

3:27:08THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE

3:27:10COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY DOES SO

3:27:11IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED

3:27:12INDIVIDUALS.

3:27:13THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

3:27:15MEET AGAIN IN THE I KNOW THE

3:27:16CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY

3:27:19OCTOBER 21ST 2026 AT £0.12 PM.

3:27:21UM IT WAS AN HONOR AS AN SD

3:27:22CARD TO PRESIDE OVER THIS

3:27:24COUNCIL MEETING TODAY I WANT TO

3:27:25THANK MY COLLEAGUES, CENTRAL

3:27:26STAFF, THE CLERK AT THE CLERK'S

3:27:27OFFICE AND THE

3:27:28COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER ALL THOSE

3:27:29IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENTS I THE

3:27:32COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.

3:27:32THANK YOU EVERYBODY.