2026-11-04 - City Council

00:55GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

00:57IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE SUCH A

00:59FULL, UH, CHAMBER.

01:00>> THIS AFTERNOON.

01:02UM, I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S

01:03MEETING OF THE BOSTON CITY

01:04COUNCIL.

01:05VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE

01:07COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON

01:09[email protected] BACKSLASH

01:10CITY COUNCIL TV.

01:13AT THIS TIME I ASK MY

01:14COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE

01:16AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE

01:16THEIR CELL PHONES AND

01:18ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

01:19ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42 AND

01:21REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER THAT

01:24NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR

01:25DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE

01:26PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.

01:27THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

01:29COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

01:30CALL TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE

01:32OF A QUORUM?

01:38COUNCILOR BREADON HERE.

01:40COUNCIL COLORED AS OPPOSED TO

01:41COUNCIL CULPEPER.

01:42COUNCILOR DURKAN HERE.

01:44COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

01:45COUNCIL.

01:45FLYNN.

01:47COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

01:47HERE.

01:48COUNCILOR.

01:48MEJIA.

01:50COUNCILOR MURPHY.

01:50YES.

01:51COUNCILOR.

01:52PEPEN.

01:54COUNCILOR.

01:54SANTANA.

01:55COUNCILOR WEBER HERE.

01:58COUNCILOR.

01:58WIRRAL COUNCIL.

01:59CULPEPER.

02:01A QUORUM IS PRESENT.

02:02I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE

02:04CHURCH THAT A QUORUM IS

02:05PRESENT.

02:07UM.

02:09BEFORE WE GET.

02:10BEGIN, UH, I'D LIKE TO INVITE

02:12THE SHADOW AWARDEES UP FOR A

02:14PHOTOGRAPH.

02:15UH, WE HAD AN AMAZING, UH,

02:19GALA.

02:19TWO WEEKS AGO.

02:20TO CELEBRATE AND HONOR OUR

02:22SHADOW, UH, PUBLIC SERVICE

02:24AWARDS.

02:24UH, IT IS THE 41 FIRST 41ST

02:27ANNIVERSARY OF THIS AWARD

02:28CEREMONY AND I JUST LIKE TO

02:30INVITE THE AWARDEES TO COME UP

02:32FOR A BRIEF.

02:33PHOTOGRAPH WITH OUR COLLEAGUES.

02:39I'M DOING IT OUT OF ORDER.

02:45YES.

02:50COME ON UP.

02:51DON'T BE SHY.

02:54YEAH.

02:55>> UP HERE.

02:55DOWN THERE.

02:56YEAH.

02:58COME ON UP.

03:01>> YOU CAN HAVE.

03:06>> TAKE A.

03:09MISS AND, UH, STEVE, WOULD YOU

03:14LIKE TO COME UP AS WELL?

03:17YEAH, I'M UP THE.

03:29GROUP.

03:32SO THANK YOU.

03:36THANK YOU.

03:38THANK YOU.

03:38>> THANK YOU.

03:39THAT'S A PRETTY.

03:51>> THANK YOU EVERYONE.

03:53IT IS NOW MY PLEASURE TO ASK

03:56COUNCILOR MURPHY TO INVITE HER

03:57TO, UH, FORWARD FOR AN

03:59INVOCATION.

04:01UH, RABBI, UM, IF YOU'D LIKE TO

04:03COME UP AND COUNCILMAN MURPHY

04:04WILL INTRODUCE YOU AND THEN

04:06FOLLOWING THAT WE'LL WE'LL DO

04:07THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

04:10THANK YOU.

04:13GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

04:15UM.

04:16>> SO RABBI CORFE IS NO

04:19STRANGER HERE TO THE CHAMBER OR

04:22TO MANY OF US HERE IN THE CITY

04:23OF BOSTON.

04:24AND I TOLD HIM I WAS JUST GOING

04:26TO LET HIM SPEAK.

04:27BUT FOR ANY OF YOU WHO DON'T

04:28KNOW HIM, I DID WANT TO GIVE

04:29HIM HIS WELL-DESERVED

04:31INTRODUCTION.

04:32SO IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME

04:35TODAY RABBI CORFE WHO IS THE

04:38CHAPLAIN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

04:40AND HE WILL BE OPENING US UP

04:41TODAY IN PRAYER.

04:43RABBI CORFE HAS SERVED OUR CITY

04:46FOR DECADES PROVIDING SPIRITUAL

04:48GUIDANCE TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.

04:50ME PERSONALLY BUT I KNOW MY

04:52COLLEAGUES ALSO HERE ON THE

04:53CITY COUNCIL, THE POLICE AND

04:55FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ALL OF THE

04:57OTHER CITY AGENCIES.

04:58AND IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR.

04:59WAS IT YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER

05:01OR YOUR GRAND.

05:01UNCLE AND MY GRANDFATHER?

05:02HIS UNCLE AND HIS GRANDFATHER

05:04DID THIS ROLE MANY YEARS BEFORE

05:06HIM.

05:07BUT ONE THING ABOUT RABBI CORE

05:09TO ME, UM, HE IS A FRIEND.

05:12HE IS SOMEONE WHO HE DOESN'T

05:14USE A PHONE SO YOU CAN'T CALL

05:16HIM.

05:16BUT IF YOU EMAIL HIM HE WILL

05:18REPLY WITHIN SECONDS OF YOU.

05:20HE'S ALWAYS JUST AN EMAIL AWAY.

05:23HE HOLDS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN

05:25JEWISH EDUCATION FROM HEBREW

05:28COLLEGE, A BACHELOR'S DEGREE

05:29FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, A LAW

05:32DEGREE FROM BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL

05:34,TWO MASTER'S DEGREES AND A

05:36DOCTORATE FROM FLETCHER SCHOOL

05:38AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND A

05:40MASTER OF LAW FROM BU.

05:41ALL OF THAT I THINK IS

05:43IMPRESSIVE BUT I KNOW THAT HE

05:45HE THINKS THAT'S PROBABLY THE

05:46LEAST IMPRESSIVE.

05:47HE HAS A WONDERFUL FAMILY HIS

05:49CHILDREN AND I JUST SEE HIM

05:50AROUND THE CITY ESPECIALLY WHEN

05:52OUR FIRST RESPONDERS NEED HIM

05:54THE MOST.

05:54HE'S THERE.

05:55UM SO RABBI CORE, THANK YOU FOR

05:57ALL YOU DO FOR THE CITY AND FOR

05:59BEING ABLE TO COME AND OPEN US

06:02IN PRAYER TODAY.

06:03THANK YOU.

06:05>> IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T LIKE

06:07THE TELEPHONE.

06:08IT'S JUST THAT I WOULD BE

06:11SWAMPED AND IT'S RESERVED FOR

06:12BOSTON FIRE, BOSTON POLICE AND

06:14EMS.

06:23LET US PRAY.

06:28GRACIOUS AND LOVING GOD ON THIS

06:32DAY.

06:32FOLLOWING AN ELECTION WE PRAY

06:37OUR VOTER WHO ART IN HEAVEN THY

06:40WILL BE DONE.

06:42WE GIVE THANKS FOR THE

06:44PRIVILEGE OF CIVIC

06:45PARTICIPATION AND FOR ALL THOSE

06:47WHO TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE THEIR

06:49VOICES HEARD.

06:51WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE

06:52DEDICATED POLL WORKERS OF OUR

06:54CITY, ELECTION OFFICIALS,

06:58VOLUNTEERS AND COUNTLESS

06:59RESIDENTS WHO HELP SUSTAIN OUR

07:02DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

07:04AS WE GATHER IN THIS CHAMBER,

07:05WE ARE REMINDED THAT WHILE

07:07ELECTIONS MAY DETERMINE WHO

07:09HOLDS OFFICE, OUR SHARED

07:12RESPONSIBILITY TO ONE ANOTHER

07:13NEVER CHANGES.

07:15THE HOPES AND CONCERNS OF OUR

07:17RESIDENTS DO NOT END WHEN THE

07:19BALLOTS ARE COUNTED.

07:21THE WORK OF BUILDING A STRONG

07:23FAIR, A SAFE AND COMPASSIONATE

07:25BOSTON CONTINUES.

07:28WE PRAY FOR WISDOM FOR EVERY

07:29MEMBER OF THIS COUNCIL.

07:31HUMILITY IN MOMENTS

07:34OF DISAGREEMENT.

07:35COURAGE IN THE FACE

07:37OF DIFFICULT DECISIONS.

07:39AND GRACE TO LISTEN TO THOSE

07:40WHOSE EXPERIENCES AND

07:42PERSPECTIVES DIFFER FROM THEIR

07:44OWN.

07:45MAY THOSE WHO CELEBRATE AN

07:47ELECTORAL VICTORY DO SO WITH

07:49GRATITUDE AND A RENEWED

07:50COMMITMENT TO SERVE.

07:52MAY THOSE WHO ARE DISAPPOINTED

07:54FIND COMFORT IN KNOWING THAT

07:56THEIR VOICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS

07:59STILL MATTER.

08:01AND MAY ALL OF US REMEMBER THAT

08:02PUBLIC SERVICE IS NOT ABOUT

08:04PARTY POSITION OR PERSONAL

08:07RECOGNITION, BUT ABOUT THE

08:09WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE

08:11ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARE.

08:14DEAR LORD, AS ALWAYS WE PRAY

08:15THAT YOU GUIDE THIS COUNCIL AS

08:17IT ADDRESSES THE NEEDS OF OUR

08:19NEIGHBORHOODS.

08:20SUPPORTS OUR FAMILIES.

08:22EXPANDS OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR

08:24YOUNG PEOPLE.

08:25CARES FOR OUR ELDERS AND WORKS

08:27TO ENSURE THAT EVERY BOSTONIAN

08:29FEELS SEEN.

08:31HEARD.

08:32>> RESPECTED AND VALUED.

08:34MAY THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY

08:36INSPIRE US NOT MERELY TO

08:37COMPETE BUT TO COOPERATE NOT

08:40MERELY TO SPEAK BUT TO LISTEN

08:43NOT MERELY TO LEAD BUT TO

08:45SERVE.

08:45DEAR LORD, LET US MOVE FORWARD

08:48TOGETHER UNDER YOUR HOLY

08:50SHELTER AND GUIDANCE.

08:51MINDFUL THAT ALTHOUGH OUR

08:53PERSPECTIVES MAY DIFFER, OUR

08:55FUTURE IS SHARED AND LET US SAY

08:57AMEN.

09:01PLEDGE OF CANDIDATES BY THE

09:04UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE

09:07REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS

09:08ONE NATION UNDER GOD,

09:12INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND

09:13JUSTICE FOR ALL.

09:22THANK YOU RABBI.

09:24AND THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

09:26SEATED.

09:27UH, BEEN INFORMED BY THE TRUCK

09:29THAT COUNCILOR SANTANA HAS

09:31JOINED US.

09:36UM, WE.

09:36>> HAVE TWO.

09:37PRESENTATIONS TODAY.

09:39COUNCILOR PEPEN IS REC IS COME

09:40IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME FORWARD

09:42CONTRA PEPEN UH, IS RECOGNIZING

09:44BOSTON BY FOOT'S 50TH

09:46ANNIVERSARY AND WE'RE ALSO

09:48RECOGNIZING THE FAMILY

09:49OF LOUISA GAGS WITH

09:51COUNCILOR PEPEN.

10:11GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

10:14TODAY I'M VERY.

10:14EXCITED TO HONOR AND RECOGNIZE

10:17THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

10:19CITY'S FIRST WALK INTO OUR

10:20COMPANY BOSTON BY FOOT.

10:23BOSTON BY FOOT IS UNIQUE

10:25COMPARED TO OTHER TOUR

10:27COMPANIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS

10:29THEIR TOURS ARE LED BY

10:30BOSTONIANS AND BOSTON

10:32ENTHUSIASTS.

10:33EVERY YEAR LOCAL VOLUNTEERS

10:35APPLY AND ARE SELECTED IN THE

10:37BBC'S SEVEN WEEK TRAINING

10:38PROGRAM TO BECOME DOCENTS

10:40LEADING POPULAR HISTORIC AND

10:43ARCHITECTURAL TOURS.

10:43I'M NOT JUST THERE FREEDOM

10:44TRAIL BUT HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS

10:46IN THE CITY AND OUR BELOVED

10:49NEIGHBORHOODS.

10:49THIS FRIDAY AT CITY HALL THEY

10:51WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH THEIR

10:5350 YEARS WITH THEIR FOUND

10:55MEMBER POLLY LANDSBERG AND WILL

10:57CHEER TO 50 MORE.

10:59I WILL ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO

11:01WELCOME TO THE PODIUM.

11:02UM BEFORE I INTRODUCE THE

11:04EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

11:05COUNCILOR DIRK, IN CASE YOU

11:06HAVE ANY ANY WORDS TO SAY.

11:08THANK YOU SO MUCH

11:10COUNCILOR PEPEN AND I'M EXCITED

11:11TO SHARE WITH YOU AND

11:13CELEBRATING THIS HISTORIC

11:14MILESTONE BOSTON BY FOR ITS

11:1550TH ANNIVERSARY.

11:17I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

11:18SAMANTHA LAURIE AND THE REST

11:19OF THE TEAM FOR ALL THEIR WORK

11:20AND LEADERSHIP AS WELL AS THE

11:22DOCENTS WHO HAVE JOINED US THIS

11:23MORNING.

11:24UH, THIS ORGANIZATION RUNS ON

11:25THE COMMITMENT OF THE

11:26INDIVIDUALS WHO VOLUNTEER THEIR

11:27TIME TO SERVE US AND HELP SHARE

11:29OUR CITY'S CITY'S EXTRAORDINARY

11:31HISTORY, WHICH IS TRULY A NOBLE

11:33CAUSE.

11:34I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT, UH,

11:36BOSTON BY FOOT'S OFFICE IN

11:37DISTRICT EIGHT, WHICH IS HOME

11:38TO BOSTON'S RICH HISTORY.

11:39BUT REALLY IT AND THEY DO SO

11:42MUCH WORK IN ALL OF OUR

11:43NEIGHBORHOODS AND THIS

11:44ORGANIZATION TAKES GREAT CARE

11:46IN TELLING THE COMPLEX AND

11:47DIVERSE STORIES OF OUR PAST.

11:49AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO GET THOSE

11:50STORIES RIGHT TO HELP US SHAPE

11:51OUR BETTER FUTURE.

11:53UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO

11:54COUNCILOR PEPEN.

11:55UM, AND, UH.

11:57DO YOU.

11:58>> WANT TO, UH.

11:59OH, YEAH.

12:00PERFECT.

12:00SAMANTHA, UH, THANK YOU FOR

12:02YOUR LEADERSHIP.

12:02UH, WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE HERE

12:04FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY.

12:08WELL, THANK YOU.

12:09AND ON BEHALF OF BOSTON BY

12:11FOOT, THANK YOU TO THE CITY

12:14COUNCIL FOR THIS WONDERFUL

12:14HONOR.

12:15WE'RE ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL TO

12:16COUNCILORS PEN AND DURKAN AND

12:18CHAIR FOR WELCOMING US HERE

12:20TODAY AND TO ALL THE COUNCILORS

12:21FOR RECOGNIZING OUR

12:22ORGANIZATION AND THE WORK THAT

12:24WE DO.

12:24BOSTON BY FOOT WAS ESTABLISHED

12:2650 YEARS AGO IN 1976.

12:29OUR FOUNDER POLLY LANDSBERG WAS

12:32INSPIRED BY THE ENTHUSIASM

12:33SURROUNDING THE AMERICAN

12:34BICENTENNIAL.

12:35BUT SHE WAS ALSO EXCITED BY THE

12:38OPTIMISM AND VISION FOR A NEW

12:39BOSTON THAT HAD EMERGED IN THE

12:41PRECEDING YEARS, INCLUDING THE

12:42DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THIS

12:44FERRY BUILDING HERE BOSTON CITY

12:46HALL.

12:47POLLY BELIEVED THAT THE BEST

12:49WAY TO APPRECIATE A CITY WAS TO

12:51GET OUT AND EXPLORE IT BY FOOT

12:53.

12:53SHE WANTED PEOPLE TO BETTER

12:55UNDERSTAND BOSTON'S

12:56ARCHITECTURE, ITS HISTORY AND

12:58THE STORIES OF ITS PEOPLE.

13:00AND 50 YEARS LATER OUR TOUR

13:01OFFERINGS HAVE EXPANDED

13:03TREMENDOUSLY.

13:03OUR PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS THE

13:05CITY HAVE DEEPENED AND THE

13:07RANGE OF STORIES WE TELL HAS

13:09GROWN.

13:10OUR TOURS TAKE PEOPLE INTO

13:11NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS BOSTON

13:13SHARING THE STORIES THAT

13:14REFLECT THE EXTRAORDINARY

13:16DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE, PLACES AND

13:18EXPERIENCES THAT MAKE OUR CITY

13:19WHAT IT IS.

13:21BOSTON BY FOOT IS AN

13:22ORGANIZATION BUILT BY AND FOR

13:23PEOPLE WHO LOVE BOSTON.

13:25OUR 200 PLUS VOLUNTEER TOUR.

13:27GUIDES SEVERAL.

13:28OF WHOM ARE HERE WITH ME TODAY.

13:30THEY'RE AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE

13:31DO.

13:32THEY BRING EXTRAORDINARY

13:33KNOWLEDGE, CURIOSITY,

13:35ENTHUSIASM TO THEIR TOURS AND

13:37THEY KNOW THAT EXPLORING AND

13:38SHARING THE CITY'S STORIES

13:40TOGETHER CAN STRENGTHEN OUR

13:42CONNECTIONS TO OUR

13:43NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO ONE

13:44ANOTHER.

13:46AND I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE

13:47WHO JOINED US ON A TOUR OF CITY

13:49HALL THIS MORNING.

13:49WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE

13:51PARTNERING WITH THE CITY TO

13:53OFFER WEEKLY TOURS OF CITY HALL

13:56FOR FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

13:57AND I SHOULD MENTION THAT YOU

14:00OUR CITY COUNCIL YOU'RE A STOP

14:01ON THE TOUR.

14:03WE'VE INTENTIONALLY SELECTED

14:05THIS TIME NOON ON WEDNESDAYS TO

14:08DO THIS TOUR SO THAT

14:11PARTICIPANTS CAN SEE THE

14:12COUNCIL CHAMBER AND SEE YOU

14:13THEIR CITY GOVERNMENT IN

14:15ACTION.

14:15AND SO WE WANT PEOPLE TO

14:17UNDERSTAND NOT THE HISTORY, NOT

14:18JUST THE HISTORY AND

14:20ARCHITECTURE OF THIS BUILDING

14:21WHICH IS SOMETIMES DIVISIVE.

14:24BUT WE ALSO WANT THEM TO

14:26UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANT WORK

14:27THAT HAPPENS HERE AND THE ROLE

14:29THAT IT PLAYS IN THE LIFE

14:30OF THE CITY.

14:32UM, AND BEFORE I CLOSE I DO

14:35WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MANY

14:37PARTNERS, ADVOCATES AND

14:39NEIGHBORS WHO ARE HERE TODAY

14:42CALLING FOR SAFER STREET

14:43INFRASTRUCTURE AS AN

14:46ORGANIZATION THAT HAS

14:47ENCOURAGED ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO

14:48WALK.

14:49>> THE.

14:49STREETS OF BOSTON FOR 50 YEARS.

14:51WE ARE ACUTELY AWARE OF THE

14:53DANGERS OF TRAFFIC VIOLENCE AND

14:55THE NEED FOR SAFER

14:57INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EVERYONE,

14:58ESPECIALLY OUR MOST VULNERABLE

15:00ROAD USERS.

15:02OUR HEARTS ARE WITH THE FAMILY

15:05AND WE STAND WITH THE MANY

15:07ADVOCATES AND NEIGHBORS HERE

15:08TODAY CALLING FOR SAFER STREETS

15:10FOR EVERYONE.

15:12SO THANK.

15:13YOU AGAIN FOR THIS WONDERFUL

15:14HONOR.

15:14THE RECOGNITION REALLY MEANS SO

15:16MUCH TO ALL OF US AT BOSTON BY

15:18FOOT.

15:18WE ARE.

15:19>> VERY PROUD TO BE PART OF A

15:21COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO CARE SO

15:23DEEPLY ABOUT OUR CITY.

15:26THANK YOU.

15:38AT THIS MOMENT I WOULD LIKE TO

15:40HONOR UM BOSTON BY FOOT DAY, UM

15:43,WITH A RESOLUTION ON BEHALF

15:45OF THE ENTIRE BOSTON CITY

15:46COUNCIL.

15:46I'M JUST GOING TO BE THE TITLE.

15:48UM.

15:48WE'LL WILL VOTE ON IT LATER.

15:50UM, THE RESOLUTION.

15:51SAYS RECOGNIZING THE 50TH

15:54ANNIVERSARY OF BOSTON BY FOR

15:55THE NAMING OF NOVEMBER 6TH,

15:582026 AS BOSTON BY FOOT DAY IN

15:59THE CITY OF BOSTON.

16:00CONGRATULATIONS.

16:05TO.

16:09>> CAN I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES

16:10FOR A PICTURE WITH THE

16:13ORGANIZATION?

16:34YEAH, IT'S.

16:39UNDER MY NAME.

16:51IT'S ALL RIGHT.

16:53THANK YOU.

16:55SO.

17:02THANK YOU SO MUCH.

17:04YES.

17:05FOUR WILL BE FOR THE CITY.

17:09YES.

17:10YES.

17:18UM I WILL UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN,

17:21UM, YOU.

17:22STILL HAVE.

17:23>> THE FLOOR?

17:24OKAY.

17:28>> OKAY.

17:29AT THIS MOMENT, MAY I PLEASE

17:31CALL UP STEVE, LAURA AND EMILY.

17:35TO JOIN ME?

17:49>> OKAY.

17:51>> FIRST I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M

17:53OVERWHELMED.

17:54WITH EMOTIONS WITH THE SHOWING.

17:55>> OF SUPPORT TODAY.

17:56IT'S REALLY.

17:56>> BEAUTIFUL TO SEE SO MANY

17:58ADVOCATES AND COWORKERS IN THIS

17:59ROOM.

18:01TODAY I HAVE THE HONOR

18:03OF WELCOMING THE FAMILY

18:04OF LOUISA GAG TO ADDRESS THE

18:07CITY COUNCIL AS WE CANNOT AND

18:10SHOULD NOT FORGET, LOUISA WAS

18:12TRAGICALLY KILLED IN A VEHICLE

18:13ACCIDENT ON.

18:14JULY 9TH.

18:15>> LOUISA WAS WAS MORE THAN

18:17JUST A CITY STAFFER AND A

18:19FRIENDLY KIND COLLEAGUE BUT A

18:22TRANSIT ADVOCATE DEDICATING HER

18:24LIFE TO SAFER STREETS.

18:27I NOW IMPLORE MY COLLEAGUES TO

18:29LISTEN INTENTLY TO LOUISA AS

18:33FAMILY.

18:34>> THANK YOU.

18:36GOOD AFTERNOON.

18:39FOR THOSE.

18:39>> WHO DON'T KNOW.

18:40ME I AM EMILY GAG LOUISA SISTER

18:42AND.

18:42>> I'M HERE.

18:42TODAY WITH LAURA.

18:43>> AND STEVE, OUR PARENTS.

18:45THANK YOU FOR INVITING US TO BE

18:46HERE.

18:47>> WITH.

18:47YOU TODAY AND FOR.

18:48HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY

18:50OF LOUISA IN THIS WAY.

18:50AND THANK.

18:51YOU, COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR

18:53EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND

18:55CONTINUE TO DO TO SUPPORT OUR

18:56FAMILY ON THE MORNING OF JULY

18:589TH OUR LIVES WERE CHANGED

19:00FOREVER.

19:01WE LOST LOUISA AND WE JOINED A

19:03COMMUNITY OF THOUSANDS

19:04OF FAMILIES IN MASSACHUSETTS

19:06WHO WILL FOREVER BE CHANGED BY

19:07THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE TO

19:09TRAFFIC VIOLENCE IN THE WAKE

19:11OF LOUISE'S DEATH.

19:12THE RUSH OF SUPPORT AND.

19:14CALLS TO ACTION FROM.

19:16THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SOME WHO WE

19:18KNOW WELL AND MANY OTHERS WHO

19:20WE HAVE NEVER MET WAS BOTH

19:22OVERWHELMING AND INSPIRING.

19:24WE FELT THE COUNCIL SUPPORT TO

19:26YOU EXPRESS YOUR CONDOLENCES TO

19:29US PERSONALLY AND ON SOCIAL

19:30MEDIA.

19:31YOU INDIVIDUALLY MADE CALLS FOR

19:33SWIFTER ACTION FOR SAFER

19:35STREETS.

19:36ALMOST ALL OF YOU CAME TO THE

19:38VIGIL FOR LOUISA ON CITY HALL

19:41PLAZA AND YOU RAISED YOUR HANDS

19:43WHEN ASKED TO PICK UP WHERE SHE

19:45LEFT OFF TO CARRY HER LEGACY

19:47FORWARD.

19:48WE RAISED OUR HANDS TOO.

19:50TODAY WE WANT TO SHARE THE

19:51FIRST CONCRETE STEPS WE ARE

19:53TAKING TO CARRY LOUISE'S WORK.

19:55FORWARD IN THE WAKE OF HER

19:58DEATH THIS SUMMER.

19:59HER FRIENDS, FAMILY, COWORKERS

20:01AND THE BIKE COMMUNITY AT LARGE

20:03RAISED OVER $100,000 IN HER

20:06HONOR.

20:07WE PLAN TO DISTRIBUTE THIS

20:09MONEY TO TEN BOSTON BASED

20:11ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN

20:12PART OF THE VISION ZERO

20:14COALITION.

20:15AS YOU MAY KNOW, VISION ZERO

20:16WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF HER

20:18WORK AS A TRANSPORTATION

20:20ADVOCATE AND PLANNER.

20:21AND NEXT WEEK TO COINCIDE WITH

20:24WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, WE

20:25WILL BE SHARING MORE DETAILS

20:27ABOUT A SET OF LEGISLATIVE

20:29PRIORITIES.

20:29WE WILL BE INTRODUCING AT THE

20:32STATEHOUSE TO HONOR LOUISA AND

20:34HELP FINISH THE WORK SHE

20:35STARTED NEXT YEAR.

20:38WE ARE HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO

20:42TURN THAT SUPPORT INTO ACTION

20:44AND MAKE GOOD ON YOUR

20:45COMMITMENTS TO YOUR PUBLIC

20:48STATEMENTS.

20:48SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AND HEARING

20:51ORDERS HAVE BEEN WELL

20:52INTENTIONED BUT THEY ARE NOT

20:54CONCRETE STEPS AND THEY HAVE

20:56NOT PRODUCED MEANINGFUL ACTION

20:58TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE CITY'S

21:00VISION ZERO GOALS.

21:03ACHIEVING THESE GOALS IS NOT AN

21:05IMPOSSIBLE TASK.

21:06SOMERVILLE HAS GONE FOUR YEARS

21:09WITHOUT A SINGLE TRAFFIC

21:11FATALITY AND THEY HAVE

21:12DRAMATICALLY REDUCED SERIOUS

21:14INJURY CRASHES.

21:16BOSTON CAN ACHIEVE THIS TOO.

21:19SOMERVILLE'S CITY.

21:20>> COUNCIL PASSED A SAFE

21:20STREETS ORDINANCE THAT TRACKED

21:22PROGRESS AND PROVIDED

21:24ACCOUNTABILITY.

21:25THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY REASONS

21:27THAT THEY ACHIEVED FUNCTIONAL

21:29VISION ZERO.

21:31COUNCILOR PEPEN HAS SUBMITTED A

21:32SIMILAR ORDINANCE FOR BOSTON

21:34AND THERE WAS A HEARING ON THE

21:35ORDINANCE ON NOVEMBER 19TH.

21:37WE ARE ASKING THAT YOU ATTEND

21:39THAT HEARING AND PASS THIS

21:41ORDINANCE.

21:42BY THE.

21:42>> END OF THE.

21:43CALENDAR YEAR.

21:44THIS IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL AND

21:47HAS WORKED IN NEIGHBORING

21:48CITIES.

21:49THIS IS THE KIND OF SPECIFIC

21:51CONCRETE ACTION WE ARE SEEKING

21:53FROM YOU.

21:56WE ALSO WANT YOU TO ENSURE THAT

21:57THE STREETS CABINET IS

21:59APPROPRIATELY RESOURCED THIS

22:00YEAR.

22:01LAST YEAR DURING THE BUDGET

22:03SEASON WE WATCHED AS YOU NEARLY

22:04CUT SEVERAL STAFF POSITIONS

22:06THAT WOULD HAVE DIRECTLY

22:08IMPACTED LOUISA AND HER

22:09TEAMMATES.

22:10SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED

22:12DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT THE SAFETY

22:14IMPROVEMENT AT THE SITE WHERE

22:15LOUISA LOST HER LIFE WOULD HAVE

22:17BEEN IMPACTED TOO.

22:18YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE LIKE

22:20THIS AGAIN.

22:22IF YOU MOVE ON THESE ACTION

22:23ITEMS IT WILL BE A GOOD START.

22:26WE KNOW ALL OF YOU WANT TO MAKE

22:27SURE NO OTHER FAMILY IN BOSTON

22:29HAS TO SUFFER THE LOSS.

22:31WE HAVE.

22:32SO WE ARE EXPECTING YOU TO TAKE

22:33ACTION ON THESE ITEMS AND TO

22:36BRING OTHER IDEAS TO THIS

22:37CHAMBER AS WELL.

22:39THE BEST WAY TO HONOR LOUISE'S

22:41LEGACY IS TO DO WHAT SHE WOULD

22:42HAVE DONE.

22:44ONE SET A GOAL FOR US.

22:46THE GOAL IS ACHIEVING VISION

22:48ZERO TO MAKE A PLAN.

22:51THIS IS.

22:52>> THE ADMINISTRATION'S

22:53RESPONSIBILITY, BUT YOU CAN USE

22:55YOUR POWER TO HOLD THEM

22:56ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PLAN.

22:58AND THREE GET TO WORK WITH A

23:01SPIRIT OF JOY AND

23:02COLLABORATION.

23:03THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY PUT YOU

23:05IN THOSE SEATS BECAUSE THERE IS

23:06A JOB TO DO AND THEY BELIEVE

23:08YOU CAN DO IT.

23:09THEY ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO

23:11KEEP EVERYONE SAFE ON BOSTON

23:12STREETS INCLUDING PEDESTRIANS,

23:15CYCLISTS, PEOPLE WITH

23:16DISABILITIES, CHILDREN WAITING

23:18FOR THE BUS AND DRIVERS.

23:19THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM ARE

23:21COUNTING ON YOU.

23:22WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU.

23:24LOUISA WAS.

23:25>> COUNTING.

23:26ON YOU.

23:27>> THANK YOU.

23:38>>

24:32THANK YOU.

24:38WE HAVE A CALL TO ACTION.

24:41I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYONE

24:42KNOW THAT TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT

24:442 P.M. THERE WILL BE A HEARING

24:45ON CONNECTED BICYCLE

24:47INFRASTRUCTURE.

24:48IS THAT CORRECT?

24:48YES.

24:49AND WE ENCOURAGE THAT THE WORK

24:52IS AHEAD OF US.

24:53WE HAVE A LOT TO DO AND UH, I

24:55CERTAINLY YOU CERTAINLY HAVE MY

24:56COMMITMENT TO UM LEAD AND

24:58CONTINUE THIS VERY IMPORTANT

25:00AND ESSENTIAL LIFESAVING WORK.

25:12WE'RE NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER

25:14OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE

25:15APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

25:16THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 28TH,

25:192026.

25:20ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

25:21UH OH.

25:22SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

25:24SAY NAY.

25:25THE AYES HAVE IT.

25:27THE MINUTES OF OCTOBER 28TH

25:30MEETING ARE APPROVED.

25:31LET'S GET.

26:00IT.

26:16I'M JUST GIVING OUR, UH,

26:19FRIENDS A FEW MINUTES TO LEAVE

26:20THE CHAMBER.

26:22THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.

26:40JUST.

26:43>> IT WAS QUITE A WHIRLWIND.

27:16WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS

27:18FROM AROUND THE MAYOR.

27:19MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

27:21DOCKETS 2080 AND 2081 TOGETHER

27:25.

27:25SO I CAN THE.

27:26NUMBER 2080 MESSAGE IN ORDER TO

27:29REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR 27

27:31APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE

27:32FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

27:37$787,501 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR

27:38THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR

27:40FISCAL YEAR 27 INCREASES

27:42CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

27:43BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

27:45THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

27:46LOCAL UNION NUMBER 1952

27:50INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS

27:51AND NOW TRADES DISTRICT

27:53COUNCIL 35 CUSTODIANS FILED IN

27:56THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON

27:59NOVEMBER 2ND 2026 TALKING

28:00OF NUMBER 2081 MESSAGE IN ORDER

28:02FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL

28:04APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON

28:06PUBLIC.

28:06SCHOOLS DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL

28:08YEAR 27, IN THE AMOUNT

28:14OF $787,501 TO COVER THE FISCAL

28:14YEAR 27 COST ITEMS CONTAINED

28:18WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

28:19BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN

28:20THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

28:22LOCAL UNION 1952 PAINTERS AND

28:25ALLIED TRADE DISTRICT

28:27COUNCIL NUMBER 35 CUSTODIANS

28:28THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ON

28:32SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026 THROUGH

28:35AUGUST 31ST 2027, THE MAJOR

28:36PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACT

28:38INCLUDES CODE BASE WAGE

28:40INCREASE OF 2% AND THEN A FLAT

28:42DOLLAR AMOUNT OF $800 BE ADDED

28:45TO ANNUAL SALARIES BOTH IN

28:47SEPTEMBER OF 2026.

28:49THANK YOU.

28:51DOCKET 2080 AND 2081 WOULD BE

28:55REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

28:56WAYS AND MEANS.

28:57MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

28:58READ DOCKET 2082.

29:01DOC NUMBER 202 MESSAGE NOT

29:04AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

29:05TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

29:10OF $1,112,383 IN THE FORM OF A

29:11GRANT WAGNER PEYSER PROGRAM

29:15AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES

29:16DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASS

29:17THROUGH THE MESSIAH DEPARTMENT

29:18OF CAREER SERVICES TO BE

29:20ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

29:22OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

29:23THE GRANT WILL FUND THE

29:24INDIVIDUAL REEMPLOYMENT NEEDS

29:26OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

29:28CLAIMANTS AS WELL AS PREVENT

29:30AND DETECT IMPROPER BENEFIT.

29:31PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION

29:33ASSISTANCE FOR TRAINING AND

29:36EDUCATION RESOURCES AND

29:37PROGRAMS.

29:39THANK YOU.

29:40>> DOCKET 0282 WILL BE REFERRED

29:42TO THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND

29:44ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

29:46MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

29:47READ DOCKET 2083.

29:49TALKING MA203 MESSAGE NOT

29:52AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

29:53TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

29:57OF $798,000 IN THE FORM OF A

29:58GRANT MASSDOT MICRO TRANSIT AND

30:00LAST MILE TRANSIT GRANT PROGRAM

30:03AWARDED BY THE MASS

30:04METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING

30:06COUNCIL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

30:07THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

30:09THE GRANT WILL FUND SUPPORT FOR

30:12E-BIKE SUBSIDIES FOR THE SYSTEM

30:14UNDER MASSDOT CONTRACT.

30:16THANK YOU.

30:18DOCKET UH 0283 WILL REFER TO

30:21THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,

30:22DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

30:23.

30:24MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

30:26READ DOCKET 2084 THROUGH 2086.

30:30DUCKING IN A2084 MESSAGE AND

30:32AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

30:35TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

30:39OF $95,773 IN THE FORM OF A

30:40GRANT WAGNER PEYSER ADMIN

30:43AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES

30:44DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASS

30:45THROUGH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

30:47OF CAREER SERVICES TO BE

30:48ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

30:50OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DOCKET

30:52NUMBER 2085 MESSAGE AND

30:55AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

30:57TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT

30:59OF $95,000 IN THE FORM OF A

31:01GRANT THE WORKFORCE TRAINING

31:02FUND GRANT AWARDED BY MASS FIRE

31:04DEPARTMENT CAREER SERVICES TO

31:07BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

31:08OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

31:09THE GRANT WILL FUND PROGRAMING

31:11TO HELP ADDRESS BUSINESS

31:13PRODUCTIVITY AND

31:14COMPETITIVENESS BY PROVIDING

31:16RESOURCES TO MASSACHUSETTS

31:18BUSINESSES FOR TRAINING CURRENT

31:20AND NEWLY HIRED EMPLOYEES.

31:22NUMBER 2086 MESSAGE IN ORDER

31:26AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

31:27TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE GRANT

31:29IN THE AMOUNT OF $70,000, THE

31:32FRIENDS OF YOUTH OPPORTUNITY

31:34BOSTON STATE STREET GRANT

31:35AWARDED BY THIS STATE STREET

31:37GLOBAL ADVISORS TO BE

31:39ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE

31:41OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

31:42THE GRANT WILL FIND OUT

31:43OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

31:45AGES 14 THROUGH 24 TO WORK AND

31:47LEARN ALONG WITH INTENSIVE

31:50STAFF SUPPORT AND CASE

31:51MANAGEMENT.

31:52THANK YOU.

31:53>> UM.

31:56>> THANK YOU.

31:57DOCKET 208422086 WILL BE

32:00REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

32:01LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

32:04MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

32:05READ DOCKET 2087 THROUGH 2088?

32:12TALKING TO HAVE A2087 MESSAGE

32:14NOT AUTHORIZING THE CITY

32:15OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND

32:19AN IN-KIND DONATION

32:20OF BASKETBALL REFEREE SERVICES

32:22VALUED AT $5,760 AND AWARDS FOR

32:27LEAGUE PARTICIPANTS VALUED AT

32:30$240 TOGETHER VALUED AT $6,000

32:34DONATED BY BALLERS AND.

32:36>> BOOKWORMS, THE.

32:37PURPOSE OF THIS DONATION IS TO

32:39SUPPORT PROGRAMING AT BOUQUET

32:41OF CURTIS HALL COMMUNITY CENTER

32:43FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE JAMAICA

32:45PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD AND DOCKING

32:46IN THE 2088 MESSAGE IN ORDER

32:49AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

32:51TO ACCEPT AN EXPANDED IN-KIND

32:53DONATION OF NINE SMALL GRAY

32:55MESH TASK OFFICE CHAIRS VALUED

32:58AT $630 DONATED BY TUFTS

33:01MEDICAL CENTER.

33:02THE PURPOSE OF THIS DONATIONS

33:04TO SUPPORT PROGRAMING AT

33:06BOUQUET OF QUINCY COMMUNITY

33:07CENTER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE

33:09CHUNG CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD.

33:12THANK YOU.

33:13>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

33:14COUNCILOR MURPHY I'M YOU HAVE

33:16THE FLOOR.

33:17THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

33:18AND I WANT TO THANK THE DONORS

33:21FOR THESE SMALL DOLLAR

33:22DONATIONS BUT WILL MAKE A BIG

33:24IMPACT.

33:24SO I WANT TO HAVE MY COLLEAGUES

33:26SUSPEND AND PASS THE MONEY THAT

33:28WILL MAKE SURE OUR BASKETBALL

33:30GAME TO OUR YOUTH AND JP HAVE

33:32REFEREES AND JUST THANK THE

33:33GREAT NEIGHBOR OF TOUGH MEDICAL

33:36TO THE ENTIRE CHINATOWN

33:37COMMUNITY.

33:38>> BUT DONATING.

33:39$630 WORTH OF CHEER SO I HOPE

33:41MY COLLEAGUES WILL SUSPEND AND

33:42PASS TODAY'S.

33:43THANK YOU.

33:44>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

33:45WE'LL TAKE EACH OF THESE DOCKET

33:47SEPARATELY.

33:48I WILL START WITH DOCKET 02087.

33:52COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR

33:52OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN

33:54SERVICES SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

33:55RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET

33:582087.

33:58ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

33:59ALL OPPOSED.

34:00SAY NAY.

34:02MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

34:03TAKE A ROLL CALL?

34:04VOTE ON DOCKET 2087.

34:07COUNCILOR BROOM.

34:08YES.

34:09COUNCILOR BREADON?

34:10YES.

34:10COUNCIL AS A POWDER.

34:12CONSTABLE AS A YES.

34:13COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

34:14YEAH.

34:14COUNCILOR.

34:15CULPEPER.

34:15YES.

34:16COUNCILOR.

34:16DURKAN.

34:17COUNCILOR.

34:17DURKAN.

34:17YES.

34:18COUNCILOR.

34:18FITZGERALD.

34:19COUNCILOR.

34:20SHELL GAS.

34:20COUNCILOR.

34:21FLYNN.

34:22COUNCILOR.

34:22FINANCE COUNCILOR.

34:23LOUIJEUNE.

34:23YES.

34:24COUNCILOR.

34:24LOUISIANA.

34:25YES.

34:25COUNCIL.

34:25MEJIA.

34:26COUNCILOR.

34:26MURPHY.

34:27COUNCILOR.

34:28MURPHY.

34:28YES.

34:29COUNCILOR.

34:29PEPEN.

34:30COUNCILOR A PEN.

34:30YES.

34:31COUNCIL.

34:31SANTANA.

34:32COUNCILOR.

34:32SANTANA.

34:33YES.

34:33COUNCIL.

34:34WEBER.

34:34YES.

34:34COUNCILOR.

34:35YES AND COUNCILOR.

34:36WORLD.

34:36YES.

34:37COUNCIL ZERO.

34:37YES.

34:38TALKING NUMBER 2087 AS RECEIVED

34:4112 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

34:42THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

34:43DOCKET 2087 HAS PASSED PUNCHEON

34:47MURPHY, THE CHAIR OF THE

34:48COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES SIX

34:49SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

34:49PASSAGE OF DOCKET 2088.

34:52ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE ON

34:53OPPOSED.

34:54NAY.

34:56MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

34:57TAKE A ROLL CALL?

34:58VOTE ON DOCKET 2088.

35:00COUNCILOR BREADON?

35:01YES, COUNCILOR.

35:02VERY NICE COUNCIL COLORS.

35:03OPPONENT COUNCILOR COMES UP.

35:05UH, YES.

35:06COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

35:07COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

35:08YES, COUNCILOR.

35:08DURKAN.

35:09COUNCILOR DURKAN.

35:10YES.

35:10COUNCILOR.

35:11FITZGERALD.

35:12COUNCILOR.

35:13SHOW.

35:13YES.

35:14COUNCILOR.

35:14FLYNN.

35:15YES.

35:15COUNCILOR.

35:15FLYNN.

35:16YES.

35:16COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL.

35:17LOUIJEUNE.

35:18YES.

35:18COUNCIL.

35:19MEJIA.

35:19COUNCILOR.

35:20MURPHY.

35:21COUNCILOR.

35:21MURPHY.

35:22YES, COUNCILOR.

35:22PIPPIN.

35:23CHANCE OF A PEN.

35:23YES, COUNCILOR.

35:25SANTANA.

35:25COUNCILOR.

35:26SANTANA.

35:26YES.

35:27COUNCILOR.

35:27WEBER.

35:28COUNCILOR.

35:28WEB.

35:29YES AND COUNCILOR.

35:29WORLD COUNCILOR.

35:31OH, YES.

35:32SO I CAN HAVE A2088 AS RECEIVED

35:3412 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

35:37THANK YOU.

35:38UH, DOCKET 2088 HAS PASSED,

35:41MR CHAIR.

35:42OH, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

35:44RECORD THAT THE SUPPORTERS

35:46JOINED US?

35:48THANK YOU.

35:52MR TRUMP, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

35:53DOCKET 2089 THROUGH 2091.

35:57DUCKING NUMBER 2089 MESSAGE

36:00TRANSMITTED USER INFORMATION

36:01UNDER SECTION 17 UM REGARDING

36:04INCREASED WHITE STADIUM COSTS

36:05AND THEIR EFFECT ON OTHER

36:07BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL

36:09PROJECTS, DOCKET NUMBER 0433

36:11PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON

36:15FEBRUARY 25TH 2026 DUCKING

36:16NUMBER 2090 MESSAGE

36:18TRANSMITTING CERTAIN

36:19INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F

36:21REGARDING THE NUMBER OF PARKING

36:23METERS AND ANNUAL REVENUE

36:25GENERATED IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

36:26.

36:27TALKING ABOUT 1108 PASSED BY

36:30THE CITY COUNCIL ON JUNE 3RD,

36:332026 AND NUMBER 2091 MESSAGE

36:37TRANSMITTING CERTAIN

36:38INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F

36:40REGARDING BEEPS RESIDENCY

36:42REQUIREMENTS, REMOTE WORK

36:43CONTRACT CLASSIFICATION AND

36:46PAYMENTS TO A FORMER SENIOR

36:47ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER IN

36:50REGARDING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

36:51PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING TEAM

36:53AND CONTROLS AND IMPLEMENTATION

36:55OF THE STATE INSPECTOR

36:56GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

36:58TALKING NUMBERS 1852 AND 1853

37:02PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON

37:05SEPTEMBER 30TH 2026.

37:07THANK YOU.

37:08DOCKET 2089 THROUGH 2091 WILL

37:11BE PLACED ON FILE.

37:13WE'RE NOW ON TO REPORTS

37:15OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

37:17MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

37:18READ DOCKET UH, 2092 THROUGH

37:232095.

37:23TALKING THEM A2092 NOS RECEIVED

37:26FROM THE CITY CLERK IN

37:28ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX

37:29OF THE CITY ORDINANCES OF 1979

37:32REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE

37:33MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY

37:35THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING

37:39OF OCTOBER 21ST 2026 TALKING

37:40NUMBER 2093 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED

37:43FROM THE CITY CLERK AND

37:44ACCORDING TO CHAPTER SIX OF THE

37:46ORDINANCES OF 1979 REGARDING

37:49ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR AND

37:51PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY

37:53COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING

37:56OF OCTOBER 28TH.

37:57>> 2026.

37:57DOCKET NUMBER 2094

38:00COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

38:01THE MAYOR TRANSMITTING THE

38:03FISCAL YEAR 27 ANNUAL OPERATING

38:06BUDGET FIRST QUARTER REPORT TO

38:08JULY FOR SEPTEMBER 30TH 2026

38:11TALKING NUMBER 2095

38:14COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

38:15COUNCILOR FLYNN SEEKING LEGAL

38:17FLAHERTY ON THE CLOSURE OF THE

38:19BOSTON CITY COUNCIL ON ELECTION

38:20DAY.

38:21THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

38:22DOCKET 209 UH 2089 THROUGH 2091

38:29WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.

38:33OH YES.

38:34SORRY, THOSE ARE THE WRONG

38:35NUMBERS.

38:38209222095 WILL BE PLACED ON

38:39FILE.

38:40WE NOW ON TWO MATTERS RECENTLY

38:42HEARD.

38:43MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

38:44DOCKET ONE UH 1711.

38:47TALKING ABOUT 17112 ORDINANCE

38:49AMENDING AND EXTENDING

38:51PROTECTIONS FOR TENANTS FACING

38:53DISPLACEMENT BY CONDOMINIUM ON

38:55CORPORATE CONVERSION.

38:58THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

39:01COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS YOU HAVE

39:02THE FLOOR.

39:02THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM

39:04PRESIDENT.

39:04>> UH, THE.

39:05>> COMMITTEE HELD A WORKING

39:06SESSION ON.

39:06MONDAY.

39:07>> NOVEMBER 2ND, UH, TO REVIEW

39:08AND DISCUSS THE PROPOSED

39:09AMENDMENTS TO THE CONDO

39:10CONVERSION ORDINANCE.

39:11UH.

39:12>> THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

39:14UM.

39:15COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRYDEN AND

39:16MYSELF AND REFERRED.

39:17>> TO COMMITTEE ON SEPTEMBER

39:1816TH, 2026.

39:19I APOLOGIZE THAT I DON'T HAVE A

39:21UH A LIST OF FOLKS THAT WERE

39:22THERE, BUT I DO REMEMBER

39:24COUNCILOR FLYNN BEING THERE

39:25COUNCILOR MURPHY

39:25COUNCILOR WORRELL,

39:26COUNCIL WEBER AND

39:28COUNCILOR FITZGERALD I

39:28APOLOGIZE IF I MISSED ANYBODY

39:29ELSE.

39:30COUNCILOR CULPEPER WAS ALSO

39:31THERE AND OBVIOUSLY

39:31COUNCILOR BRIGHTON UM, WE WENT

39:33LINE BY LINE UH, AND HAD A

39:36REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED

39:37ORDINANCE.

39:37UM, WE HEARD FROM CHAIR UH

39:40EXCUSE ME CHIEF OF HOUSING

39:41SHEILA DILLON AND KARINA OLIVER

39:44MILKMAN, DIRECTOR OF POLICY

39:45DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH FROM

39:46THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING.

39:47UM, WE WORK THROUGH A NUMBER

39:49OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE

39:51EXISTING ORDINANCE THAT DATES

39:53ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1979.

39:54THERE'S BEEN MULTIPLE

39:55ITERATIONS OF AMENDMENTS OR

39:58CONSIDERATIONS THAT THIS

39:58COUNCIL HAS REVIEWED.

40:00UM, FIRST FOLLOWED BY

40:01COUNCILOR JOSH UM AND THEN UH

40:03MY PREDECESSOR

40:04COUNCILOR EDWARDS.

40:05UM WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE IN A

40:06STRONG POSITION NOW TO MOVE

40:07FORWARD ON SOME OF THE

40:08AMENDMENTS THAT WE DISCUSSED.

40:10UH, AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.

40:11THIS DOCKET, HOWEVER, WILL

40:12REMAIN IN COMMITTEE AS WE WORK

40:14THROUGH THE FORMATTING OF THIS

40:15ORDINANCE.

40:16UM, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY

40:17QUESTIONS FOLKS MAY HAVE, BUT

40:18MY GOAL IS TO HAVE A COMMITTEE

40:19REPORT, UH, FILED FOR FOLKS AS

40:21FOLKS REVIEW UM WITHIN THE NEXT

40:23COUPLE OF WEEKS.

40:24BUT FOR NOW THIS MATTER WILL

40:25STAY IN COMMITTEE.

40:26THANK YOU.

40:26>> THANK YOU,

40:27COUNCILOR COLLETTE.

40:27AS A PART OF UN DOCKET 1711

40:30WOULD REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.

40:33MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

40:35DOCKET 1920.

40:37LIKE A NUMBER 1920 ORDER FOR A

40:39HEARING REGARDING

40:41TRANSPORTATION PERFORMANCE AT

40:43THE OPENING OF THE 2026 2027.

40:45SCHOOL YEAR.

40:46CONTRACT OR ACCOUNTABILITY AND

40:49CORRECTIVE ACTION.

40:50THANK YOU.

40:51>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

40:52COMMENTS FROM HERE CONCERNING

40:53THAT CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON

40:54EDUCATION.

40:55YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

40:56UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

40:58UM.

40:59>> THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

41:00HELD A HEARING.

41:00>> ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER THE 2ND

41:01ON.

41:01DOCKET 1920.

41:03IN ORDER FOR A HEARING

41:04REGARDING TRANSPORTATION

41:06PERFORMANCE AT THE OPENING

41:07OF THE 2026 2027.

41:09SCHOOL YEAR.

41:10CONTRACT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND

41:12CORRECTIVE ACTION, WHICH WAS

41:13SPONSORED BY UH COUNCILORS

41:15MURPHY AND COUNCILOR FLYNN.

41:16WE WERE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES

41:18COUNCILOR FLYNN MURPHY BURBANK,

41:19BREADON WEBER, BURRELL,

41:21FITZGERALD AND CULPEPER.

41:23THE PANELISTS WERE DANIEL

41:24ROSENGARD, THE EXECUTIVE

41:25DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSPORTATION

41:27DEPARTMENT.

41:28JACKIE HAYES, DEPUTY DIRECTOR

41:29OF THE TRANSPORTATION

41:30DEPARTMENT AND JAMES FALCK, THE

41:33AREA GENERAL MANAGER FOR

41:34TRANSDEV NORTH AMERICA AT THE

41:36REQUEST OF THE LEAD SPONSOR AND

41:38TO GROUND US IN THE LIVED

41:39EXPERIENCE OF COMMUNITY PUBLIC

41:41TESTIMONY WAS TAKEN FIRST WE

41:42HEARD FROM PARENTS, STUDENTS,

41:44BUS MONITORS, UM AND OTHER

41:46COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

41:48MAIN CONCERNS RAISED UM BY

41:49COMMUNITY INCLUDED ISSUES WITH

41:51THE ZOOM APP UM AND

41:53COMMUNICATIONS WITH FAMILIES

41:54DISTRESS LATE BUSSES CAUSE

41:56STUDENTS RUSHING INTO SCHOOL

41:58AND HOW LATE BUSSES IMPACT

41:59THEIR ABILITY TO GET BREAKFAST

42:01AND SOCIALIZE IN THE MORNING

42:02BEFORE STARTING ACADEMICS FOR

42:04THAT DAY.

42:05THE LACK OF ACCURATE UM AMOUNT

42:08OF BUS MONITORS, DIFFICULTY

42:09WITH CALLING THE HOTLINE AND

42:11TICKETS AND THE SIGNIFICANT

42:12DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MORNING AND

42:15AFTERNOON ROUTES THAT FAMILY'S

42:17EXPERIENCE UH, INCLUDING SAFETY

42:19CONCERNS ON THE BUS UM, FROM

42:21SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PHYSICAL

42:23ASSAULT AND SO MUCH MORE SINCE

42:26PARENTS HAD REAL QUESTIONS THAT

42:27THEY HAD NOT RECEIVED OR

42:28ANSWERS TO TIME AND TIME AGAIN

42:31AND WITH ISSUES OF BUSSES AND

42:32THE ZOOM OUT HAPPENING IN REAL

42:34TIME DURING THE HEARING WE HAD

42:36UM THE PANEL DIRECTLY RESPOND

42:38TO SOME OF THE MEMBERS

42:40QUESTIONS UM FROM THE PUBLIC

42:41HEARING UM, I KNOW IT WAS

42:43NONTRADITIONAL BUT I THINK THAT

42:44PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF COMING INTO

42:45THIS CHAMBER AND NOT GETTING

42:47ANSWERS.

42:48SO WE CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY

42:49FOR UM, OUR CONSTITUENTS TO DO

42:52JUST THAT.

42:53UM, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO WE ARE

42:55OUR FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS.

42:56WE HAVE TO START.

42:57SOMEWHERE AND WE'RE TRYING TO

42:59ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS IN REAL

43:00TIME.

43:00AND THAT IS THE FIRST STEP AT

43:02THE.

43:02ENDING OF.

43:03>> THE HEARING, I RECOMMENDED

43:04THAT WE PUT TOGETHER A WORKING

43:05GROUP WITH TRANSDEV CAREGIVERS,

43:08STUDENTS, BUS MONITORS AND

43:09OTHER STAKEHOLDERS TO PRACTICE

43:12ADDRESSING THESE ISSUES AS THEY

43:13POP UP IN REAL TIME TO HAVE ALL

43:16PERSPECTIVES REPRESENTED WHILE

43:17CREATING SOLUTIONS.

43:19THIS CAN HELP US DEVELOP A

43:20STRONGER RESPONSE BLUEPRINT FOR

43:22BUS ISSUES THAT HELP UM DEVELOP

43:25UH AND STRENGTHEN OUR TRUST

43:27BUILDING EXERCISES THAT WE HAVE

43:29WITH THE DISTRICT BY USING

43:30WORKING GROUPS, UM, THAT CREATE

43:32SPACES FOR CASE STUDIES

43:34INDIVIDUALS TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS

43:35THEM.

43:36THE ADMINISTRATION UM SHARED

43:38DATA TO DEMONSTRATE THE

43:40IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN

43:41MADE BUT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE

43:43ARE SIGNIFICANT ISSUES AND

43:45CONCERNS THAT STILL NEED TO BE

43:46ADDRESSED.

43:47COUNCIL QUESTIONS FOCUS ON

43:48DAMAGE UM DAMAGES CURRENT

43:50PROCESSES AND HOW OUTSTANDING

43:52ISSUES WILL BE IMPROVED AND

43:54HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR

43:56ITS ROLE IN SERVICE PROVISION

43:57AND HOLDING ITS DRIVERS

43:59ACCOUNTABLE AS WELL AS THE

44:01CHAIR OF EDUCATION.

44:03I'M RECOMMENDING THAT THIS

44:04DOCKET STAY IN COMMITTEE AND UM

44:07,WITH THE PRESIDENT'S

44:09PERMISSION, I'D LIKE TO GIVE

44:11THE LEAD CO-SPONSOR,

44:13COUNCILOR MURPHY AN OPPORTUNITY

44:14TO SAY A FEW WORDS.

44:15THANK YOU.

44:16COUNCILMEMBER HERE, CATCHER

44:16MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

44:18THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

44:19THANK YOU COUNCIL ME HERE FOR

44:22THE HEARING JUST THE OTHER DAY

44:23AND I WANT TO THANK THE

44:25FAMILIES, STUDENTS AND

44:28ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS WHO

44:29HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO

44:30ME PERSONALLY BUT ALSO WHO

44:32SHOWED UP IN THIS CHAMBER THE

44:34OTHER DAY.

44:34I THINK IT WAS A TESTAMENT TO

44:37THEIR FRUSTRATION THAT THEY

44:38CAME HERE AND SPENT OVER THREE

44:41HOURS TO REALLY SHARE THEIR

44:42CONCERNS, WHICH WE KNOW ARE

44:44REAL.

44:44SO I KNOW THIS IS WORK WE NEED

44:47TO CONTINUE ON BUT WHEN WE HAVE

44:49THE HEAD OF TRANSPORTATION HERE

44:51IN THE CHAMBER AND WE'RE SEEING

44:53FAMILIES IN REAL TIME WATCHING

44:55THE ZOOM CRASH AND NOT WORK FOR

44:58THEM AND ALL OF THE PROCEDURES

45:02THAT WE HAVE PUT INTO PLACE TO

45:03TRY TO GET OUR KIDS TO SCHOOL,

45:05WE KNOW THAT WE SPEND CLOSE TO

45:08$200 MILLION A YEAR BUSSING OUR

45:09CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.

45:11WE NEED TO GET THEM THERE

45:12SAFELY.

45:12WE NEED TO GET THEM THERE ON

45:14TIME.

45:14WE HEARD DIRECTLY FROM A

45:16STUDENT.

45:16WHO SAYS EVEN WHEN THE BUS IS

45:18LATE TEN MINUTES IT REALLY

45:20DISRUPTS HIS DAY.

45:21BUT THAT'S ALSO 30 HOURS

45:23OF INSTRUCTION LOST IN.

45:24A SCHOOL YEAR.

45:25AND WE KNOW MANY OF THESE BUS

45:26ROUTES ARE CONTINUOUSLY LATE.

45:30THEY'RE NOT FIXING INDIVIDUAL

45:31BUS ROUTES.

45:32IT WAS ONE BUS ROUTE LAST YEAR

45:33ALONE THAT LOST OVER 1900

45:37MINUTES IN JUST BEING LATE

45:38EVERY.

45:39DAY FOR.

45:39>> THE WHOLE YEAR.

45:40SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

45:42CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO OUR

45:43STUDENTS AND WE KNOW THAT WE

45:44HAVE TEACHERS WHO ARE STAYING

45:46AN HOUR, 2 OR 3 HOURS AFTER

45:48SCHOOL BECAUSE BUSSES ARE NOT

45:49SHOWING UP AT THE END OF THE

45:50DAY TO GET OUR KIDS HOME, WE

45:52NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HOLD

45:54BP'S ACCOUNTABLE AND ANOTHER

45:56QUESTION WILL CONTINUE WHEN

45:57THANK YOU FOR LEAVING IT IN.

45:58COMMITTEE WE DID START FINDING

46:00TRANSDEV SOMETHING WE ALWAYS

46:01HAD IN THE CONTRACT BUT DIDN'T

46:03DO AND LAST YEAR BECAUSE

46:05OF LATE FINES JUST FROM MARCH

46:08UM APRIL, MAY AND JUNE THE LAST

46:10FOUR MONTHS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

46:11OVER $400,000 IN FINES BUT THAT

46:14MONEY DOES NOT STAY IN THE

46:17TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

46:18THAT MONEY THEN WENT INTO THE

46:19GENERAL FUND AND BPA.

46:20SO I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A

46:22BIGGER CONVERSATION ABOUT

46:23MAKING SURE THAT WHEN WE DO

46:25FIND TRANSDEV THAT WE KEEP THAT

46:27MONEY FOR HIRING MORE BUS

46:28MONITORS AND OTHER WAYS TO MAKE

46:31SURE THAT FAMILIES GET RELIABLE

46:33BUS SERVICE.

46:34THANK YOU.

46:34THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

46:36DOCKET 1920 WE REMAIN IN

46:39COMMITTEE.

46:44I'M I'M.

46:46OH, YES.

46:47MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

46:48CORRECT THE ATTENDANCE RECORD

46:49THAT, UH, COMES FROM?

46:50HE HAS, UM, JOINED US AS WE

46:53ALREADY KNOW.

46:54BEEN HERE.

46:55THANK YOU.

46:56UH, WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS,

46:57ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS A

46:59REMINDER THAT UNDER UH UH, RULE

47:0239 REMARKS ON NEW MATTERS NOT

47:04UP FOR A VOTE TODAY SHALL BE

47:05LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES FOR

47:06THE LEAD SPONSOR AND TWO

47:08MINUTES FOR THE CO-SPONSORS.

47:10MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

47:11READ DOCKET 2096.

47:13DUNCAN NUMBER 2096

47:15COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND WEBER

47:16THE FOLLOWING PETITION FOR A

47:19SPECIAL LAW AND AGE WAIVER FOR

47:21THE MAXIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR

47:23JEAN MILLER'S TO JOIN THE

47:26BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.

47:332092 UH.

47:35CONTINUATION CHAIR RECOGNIZES

47:37COUNCILMAN ARE WE READY FOR THE

47:41UH 2096 YES.

47:42IS THE, UH, PETITION FOR A

47:44SPECIAL LAW?

47:45YES.

47:46>> OKAY.

47:46CHAIR RECOGNIZES AND

47:49CONCENTRATION AND YOU HAVE THE

47:49FLOOR.

47:50THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

47:51>> AND I'D LIKE TO SEEK

47:52SUSPENSION.

47:52>> AND.

47:53PASSAGE OF THIS.

47:54>> PETITION.

47:54THIS IS A.

47:55PETITION FOR, UH, JANEY LEWIS,

47:57A RESIDENT OF WEST ROXBURY.

47:58THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR PEPPER

47:59EVER TO COUNCILOR WEBER.

48:01FOR BEING ON.

48:02THIS WITH ME.

48:02WE WERE BOTH WORKING ON IT AT

48:03THE AT THE SAME TIME AND

48:04REALIZE THAT AND SO SOME IN

48:06THIS TOGETHER I'M HAS A DESIRE

48:08TO SERVE AS A BOSTON POLICE

48:09OFFICER.

48:10HE'S COMPLETED FOUR YEARS

48:11OF COLLEGE EDUCATION AND HE'S

48:13ALREADY REALLY STARTED.

48:14UH.

48:15>> PUTTING EVERYTHING INTO

48:16MOTION.

48:16HE WOULD MAKE UH, AN INCREDIBLE

48:18POLICE OFFICER HERE IN THE CITY

48:19OF BOSTON.

48:20HE TOOK THE CIVIL SERVICE EXAM

48:21LAST YEAR AND HE'S ATTENDED

48:23ORIENTATION HERE AND UH, HE'S

48:25MADE UH.

48:27MULTIPLE UH, TAKING MULTIPLE

48:28STEPS.

48:29IN HIS PURSUIT.

48:30TO UH FOR A CAREER IN LAW

48:31ENFORCEMENT AND HIS COMMITMENT

48:32TO SERVING THE RESIDENTS

48:33OF BOSTON.

48:34HE BRINGS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE

48:35KNOWLEDGE OF CPR, FINGER CURL

48:37LANGUAGE SKILLS THAT WOULD HELP

48:39HIM COMMUNICATE WITH OUR

48:40RESIDENTS AND SERVE BOSTON'S

48:41DIVERSE COMMUNITIES.

48:42UM, I WOULD BE REALLY HONORED

48:44TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE

48:45HIM AS AN ADDITION TO OUR

48:47BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.

48:48SO I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL

48:49JOIN ME IN SUSPENDING IN.

48:49PASSING THIS FORMAL PETITION.

48:51>> THANK YOU.

48:52THANK YOU.

48:53CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE

48:54WEBER YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

48:55THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

48:56AND THANK YOU TO

48:58COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR FILING

48:59THIS.

48:59UH, UM, YOU KNOW, I SAT DOWN

49:01WITH JOHN IN WEST ROXBURY AND

49:03UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK HE'S UH

49:05THE CERTAINLY SEEMS TO HAVE THE

49:08QUALIFICATIONS AND HIS HEART IS

49:09IN THE RIGHT PLACE SO I THINK

49:10HE'D BE A WONDERFUL ADDITION TO

49:12OUR.

49:12POLICE DEPARTMENT.

49:13SO, UH, I JOINED

49:15COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND ASKING

49:16FOR YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS, UH,

49:18PETITION.

49:20THANK YOU.

49:21>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

49:22THEIR NAME, COUNCILOR COLLETTE

49:24AS A POWDER COUNCILOR.

49:25CULPEPER COUNCILOR DURKAN

49:27FITZGERALD CONTRA FLYNN COMES

49:29FROM A MURPHY MONSTER MARYLAND,

49:31PLEASE.

49:32UH.

49:32THE CHAIR.

49:35THANK YOU.

49:35UM.

49:36UH.

49:36HOPEFULLY, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

49:39HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON.

49:40YES, MADAM CHAIR.

49:41I'VE HAD IT ON FOR A WHILE.

49:42UM.

49:43>> I WAS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

49:44.

49:44UH, DOCKET 1920.

49:47,THE, UH, SCHOOL BUS.

49:53YES.

49:54>> UM UH OH.

49:57OKAY.

49:59NORMALLY.

50:00>> SO I DON'T WANT TO MAKE SURE

50:01THAT I VIOLATE ANY LAWS HERE.

50:02NORMALLY YOU JUST HAVE THE LEAD

50:04SPONSOR.

50:04SO I SHOULD HAVE SAID BOTH

50:06BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW.

50:07I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO

50:08SAY BOTH.

50:08THANK YOU.

50:09>> FROM HERE.

50:10I THINK IT'S THE LEAD SPONSOR.

50:12>> OKAY.

50:12I JUST WANT TO MAKE.

50:13THANK YOU.

50:14YEAH.

50:15>> AND WHEN IT'S NOT UP FOR A

50:16VOTE, WE JUST.

50:16YEAH.

50:17>> THANK YOU.

50:20THANK YOU.

50:22UM, COUNCILORS.

50:25LOUIJEUNE AND COUNCIL WEBER

50:27SEEK.

50:27SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

50:29PASSAGE OF DOCKET 2096.

50:31ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

50:33ALL OPPOSED?

50:34SAY NAY.

50:35MISTER CHAIR.

50:36>> COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL

50:37CALL?

50:37VOTE ON DOCKET 2096.

50:41COUNCILOR BREADON.

50:42YES.

50:43>> COUNCILOR BREADON.

50:43YES.

50:44COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A FURTHER

50:45COUNCILOR.

50:45CLOSE BUDDY.

50:46YES.

50:46COUNCILOR.

50:47CULPEPER.

50:47YES.

50:48COUNCILOR.

50:48CULPEPER.

50:49YES.

50:49COUNCILOR.

50:50DURKAN.

50:50COUNCILOR.

50:51DURKAN.

50:51YES.

50:52COUNCILOR.

50:52FITZGERALD.

50:53COUNCILOR.

50:53FITZGERALD.

50:54YES.

50:54COUNCILOR.

50:55FLYNN.

50:55COUNCIL.

50:56FLYNN.

50:56YES.

50:57COUNCILOR.

50:57LOUIJEUNE.

50:57YES.

50:58COUNCILOR.

50:58LOUIJEUNE.

50:59YES, COUNCILOR.

51:00MEJIA.

51:00CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

51:01YES.

51:01COUNCILOR.

51:02MURPHY.

51:03COUNCILOR.

51:03MURPHY.

51:03YES.

51:04COUNCIL.

51:04THE PEN.

51:07COUNCILOR SANTANA.

51:07YES.

51:08COUNCILOR SANTANA.

51:08YES.

51:09COUNCILOR.

51:09WEBER.

51:10YES.

51:10COUNCIL.

51:11WEBER.

51:11YES.

51:11AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

51:12YES, COUNCILOR.

51:13OH YES.

51:14TALKING NUMBER 2096 AS RECEIVED

51:1712V IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

51:18THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

51:19DOCKET 2096 HAS PASSED.

51:22MISTER CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

51:23READ DOCKET 2097.

51:27?

51:27>> DUCHENE NUMBER 2097

51:29COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART

51:30OFF OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR

51:32A HEARING TO EXAMINE THE

51:34PROPOSED CLOSURE OF CHARLESTOWN

51:36HIGH SCHOOL AND THE FUTURE

51:37OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN

51:39CHARLESTOWN.

51:40THANK YOU.

51:41THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

51:42COUNCILOR COLLECTS.

51:43DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR?

51:43THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

51:44I'D LIKE TO ADD CONCILOR MEJIA

51:46HERE AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

51:47AND SEE, UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA SO

51:49IT.

51:49THANK YOU.

51:50UM, I RISE TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT

51:52THE.

51:52PROPOSED CLOSURE

51:53OF CHARLESTOWN.

51:53HIGH SCHOOL A DECISION THAT HAS

51:55HAS UNDERSTANDABLY RAISED

51:56SERIOUS CONCERNS.

51:57AMONG STUDENTS, FAMILIES,

51:59EDUCATORS AND THE BROADER

52:00CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY WITH

52:02APPROXIMATELY 500 STUDENTS,

52:04MANY OF WHOM ARE MULTILINGUAL

52:05LEARNERS, NEWCOMERS TO.

52:06THIS COUNTRY OR STUDENTS WITH

52:08DISABILITIES.

52:08THIS IS A SCHOOL SERVING SOME

52:10OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE YOUNG

52:12PEOPLE.

52:12ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF ITS

52:14STUDENT POPULATION FALLS WITHIN

52:15THESE GROUPS, AND WE HAVE A

52:16RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THEY

52:18RECEIVE THE RESOURCES, ACADEMIC

52:19RIGOR AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY

52:21DESERVE.

52:21WITH THE EXISTING 200 SENIORS

52:23GRADUATING THIS YEAR THAT WOULD

52:25LEAVE APPROXIMATELY 300 KIDS

52:27LEFT IN A BUILDING SUITED FOR

52:29WELL OVER 1000.

52:31WHILE WE CAN.

52:32ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME ASPECTS

52:32OF THE STATUS QUO HAVE NOT BEEN

52:34WORKING FOR EVERY STUDENT.

52:35WE MUST.

52:36>> ALSO RECOGNIZE THE

52:37INCREDIBLE WORK HAPPENING

52:38INSIDE THAT BUILDING EVERY

52:39SINGLE DAY.

52:40AND I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO

52:42RECOGNIZE THE STUDENTS

52:43THEMSELVES THROUGH OUR MONTHLY

52:45RACE AND EQUITY DIALOGS.

52:46WE'VE ORGANIZED AND

52:47PARTNERSHIPS WITH CHARLESTOWN

52:48HIGH STUDENTS AND HAVE HAD THE

52:50PRIVILEGE OF HEARING DIRECTLY

52:51FROM THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT

52:52THEIR EXPERIENCES, THEIR

52:54ASPIRATIONS AND THE CHALLENGES

52:55THEY FACE AND I AM GENUINELY.

52:58SO PROUD OF THEM AND UH, PROUD

53:00OF THEIR COURAGE, THEIR

53:01THOUGHTFULNESS AND THEIR

53:03WILLINGNESS TO STAND UP AND

53:04ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES AND

53:04THEIR CLASSMATES.

53:06WHILE I AM ENCOURAGED BY

53:09PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT

53:10ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL OPERATING

53:11AT THIS SITE MEANING THAT THERE

53:13WILL BE UH, ANOTHER SECONDARY

53:15EDUCATION FACILITY IN

53:16CHARLESTOWN WHICH IS WHAT FOLKS

53:17ARE CALLING FOR ANY NEXT

53:19ITERATION OF CHARLESTOWN HIGH

53:20SCHOOL MUST DELIVER SOMETHING

53:21THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY BETTER

53:23FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WALK

53:24THROUGH THOSE DOORS.

53:25THAT MEANS STRONGER ACADEMIC

53:27PROGRAMING, BETTER STUDENT

53:28SUPPORT, A REAL PATHWAY TO

53:30COLLEGE CAREER AND ECONOMIC

53:33OPPORTUNITY.

53:33AND I WANT IT TO THINK BOLDLY

53:35ABOUT WHAT THAT COULD LOOK

53:36LIKE.

53:36CHARLESTOWN IS SURROUNDED BY

53:37SOME OF BOSTON'S LARGEST

53:39EMPLOYERS AND INSTITUTIONS.

53:41WHY SHOULDN'T WE BE BUILDING

53:43PARTNERSHIPS THAT PROVIDE

53:44STUDENTS WITH GUARANTEED

53:45INTERNSHIPS, HANDS ON CAREER

53:48DEVELOPMENT, EARLY COLLEGE

53:49OPPORTUNITIES AND A DIRECT

53:50PATHWAY INTO GOOD PAYING JOBS?

53:52THAT IS THE KIND OF AMBITIOUS

53:54WORLD CLASS EDUCATION THAT I

53:56WILL BE ADVOCATING FOR.

53:57BUT AS WE LOOK TOWARDS THE

53:59FUTURE, WE CAN'T LOSE SIGHT

54:00OF THE STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS

54:01WHO ARE THERE TODAY.

54:02I'M PARTICULARLY CONCERNED

54:04ABOUT THE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN

54:05THE LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM WHO

54:07DEPEND ON SPECIALIZED

54:09INSTRUCTION, CONSISTENCY AND

54:10TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS.

54:12WE NEED CLEAR ASSURANCES THAT

54:13EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE

54:14STUDENTS HAS AN APPROPRIATE

54:16PLACE TO LAND WITH THE SERVICES

54:17AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO

54:19SUCCEED.

54:20MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT

54:21STUDENTS WHO LIVE IN

54:22CHARLESTOWN WILL HAVE ACCESS TO

54:23POTENTIALLY NEW PROGRAM, NEW

54:25PROGRAMING AT EAST BOSTON HIGH

54:26SCHOOL WHILE STUDENTS LIVING IN

54:27DORCHESTER AND MATTAPAN AND

54:29OTHER PLACES AROUND THE CITY

54:31WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES.

54:32CLOSER TO HOME.

54:33THOSE TRANSITIONS MUST BE

54:34CAREFULLY COORDINATED WITH

54:35FAMILIES AND WE NEED ASSURANCES

54:37THAT NO CHILD AND NO STUDENT

54:39FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS.

54:40THE SAME GOES FOR OUR DEDICATED

54:41TEACHERS, PARAPROFESSIONALS AND

54:43SCHOOL STAFF.

54:43THEY HAVE INVESTED THEIR CAREER

54:45IN THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEY

54:46DESERVE TRANSPARENCY,

54:47MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT AND CLEAR

54:49ANSWERS ABOUT THEIR

54:50PROFESSIONAL FUTURES.

54:51AND AS A DISTRICT CITY

54:53COUNCILOR, I EXPECT THE

54:54CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY TO BE

54:55INCLUDED IN SHAPING WHAT COMES

54:56NEXT.

54:56DECISIONS OF THIS OF THIS

54:59MAGNITUDE SHOULD NOT HAPPEN

55:00WITHOUT MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION

55:01WITH THE PEOPLE MOST DIRECTLY

55:03AFFECTED.

55:03THAT'S WHY I FILED THIS HEARING

55:04ORDER TO EXAMINE THIS PROPOSAL.

55:06ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS

55:07AND STAFF AND THE FUTURE

55:09OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN

55:10CHARLESTOWN.

55:10AND MY GOAL IS TO HOLD THAT

55:12HEARING IN CHARLESTOWN ITSELF

55:13WHERE STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND

55:15EDUCATORS CAN PARTICIPATE

55:16DIRECTLY.

55:16AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO

55:18WORKING WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

55:19THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A REALLY UM,

55:20DIFFICULT TIME IN THE

55:22CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY, BUT I

55:23REMAIN COMMITTED TO LISTENING

55:24TO OUR STUDENTS AND ADVOCATING

55:26FOR THEM, ADVOCATING FOR

55:27EDUCATORS AND HOLDING DPS

55:29ACCOUNTABLE TO ANY COMMITMENTS

55:31THAT THEY PROVIDE US.

55:32AND I LOOK FORWARD TO REVIEWING

55:34A PROPOSAL I HAVE YET TO SEE A

55:36REPORT ON.

55:36SO THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT

55:38FOR ALLOWING ME SOME ADDITIONAL

55:39TIME.

55:40AND AGAIN I LOOK FORWARD TO THE

55:41HEARING.

55:42THANK YOU.

55:42THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

55:43AS A PART OF THE CHAIR

55:45RECOGNIZES FROM HERE YOU HAVE

55:46THE FLOOR.

55:48THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

55:50AND I WANT TO THANK

55:51COUNCIL COLLETTA FOR HER

55:52LEADERSHIP.

55:53UH, QUALITIES ABOUT THAT FOR

55:55HER SWIFT UH, ACTION AS WELL.

55:57I WAS TROLLING YOU ON INSTAGRAM

55:59.

55:59SAW THAT YOU WERE.

56:00DOING THE.

56:01>> GOOD WORK.

56:02>> OF THE PEOPLE.

56:02SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR

56:04HOW QUICKLY YOU STOOD.

56:05YOU STOOD UP AND SPOKE OUT.

56:06AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU

56:08FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.

56:10WE'RE DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY

56:11THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CLOSE

56:13CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, A

56:14SCHOOL WHOSE MADE STUDENT

56:15BODIES MAKE UP A 56% LATINO,

56:192,826% BLACK, 92% HIGH NEEDS

56:22AND 37% ENGLISH LANGUAGE

56:24LEARNERS.

56:24DECLINING ENROLLMENT SHOULD NOT

56:26BE THE ONLY CONSIDERATION WHEN

56:27DECIDING TO CLOSE A SCHOOL,

56:29ESPECIALLY WHEN A SCHOOL SERVES

56:31BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES AND

56:32THE STUDENTS WITH THE HIGHEST

56:34NEEDS.

56:35EQUALLY TROUBLING IS THE LACK.

56:37OF TRANSPARENCY.

56:38SURROUNDING THIS RECOMMENDATION

56:39.

56:39THE PUBLIC, BOSTON CITY

56:41COUNCIL.

56:42LEADERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS

56:44WERE NOT INFORMED WHEN THE

56:45CLOSURE WAS BEING CONSIDERED

56:46AND ONLY ONCE THE

56:49RECOMMENDATION WAS FINALIZED.

56:51AND UNTIL THAT POINT WE GOT AN

56:53EMAIL AFTER 6:00 ON A FRIDAY.

56:55THIS RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS

56:57ABOUT THE DECISION MAKING

56:58PROCESS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

57:00AND THE ROLE COMMUNITY

57:02ENGAGEMENT AND DECISIONS PLAY

57:03IN THIS TYPE OF MAGNET AND IN

57:05THIS SPACE.

57:06THESE CONCERNS WILL ALSO EXTEND

57:07TO THE MORE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED

57:09CLOSURES OF EAST BOSTON EARLY

57:11CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER, THE

57:13GREATER EGGLESTON HIGH SCHOOL

57:16UM AS WELL AS GREAT

57:17CONFIGURATIONS AND SCHOOL UH

57:20RELOCATIONS.

57:21AS THE CHAIR OF EDUCATION, I'M

57:22COMMITTED TO GETTING TO THE

57:23BOTTOM OF HOW THIS

57:24RECOMMENDATION WAS REACHED AND.

57:26WHAT DATA WAS USED TO.

57:27JUSTIFY IT AND WHETHER

57:29ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WERE

57:30MEANINGFULLY EXPLORED.

57:32AS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS HEARING

57:33ORDER, WE ALSO NEED TO GAIN A

57:35BETTER.

57:35UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE.

57:36FUTURE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

57:38IN CHARLESTOWN LOOKS LIKE.

57:39AS A LONGTIME DPS AGITATOR, I

57:42HAVE SEEN THIS PLAYBOOK YEAR.

57:44>> AND YEAR AFTER.

57:45YEAR AND IT IS.

57:46OUR DUTY AS THE BOSTON CITY

57:48COUNCIL TO HOLD THE.

57:49DISTRICT ACCOUNTABLE AND TO

57:51PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING AND

57:53ANY OTHER SCHOOL COMMUNITIES.

57:55WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT, MY

57:56PRIORITY REMAINS ENSURING THAT

57:58CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL AND

57:59OTHER SCHOOLS UM ACROSS THE

58:02CITY AND EDUCATORS ARE HEARD

58:04AND THE CONCERNS ARE BEING

58:05ADDRESSED.

58:05AND THEIR EDUCATIONAL.

58:07FUTURES ARE PROTECTED.

58:08SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HOSTING

58:09THIS HEARING IN CHARLESTOWN.

58:10AND GIVING PEOPLE.

58:12BACK THE POWER.

58:13THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.

58:14WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

58:16NAME?

58:17COUNCILOR.

58:18CULPEPER.

58:18COUNCILOR.

58:19FITZGERALD.

58:20COUNCILOR.

58:20FLYNN CULTURAL DIVISION

58:23COUNCILOR.

58:24MURPHY, COUNCILOR.

58:24PEPEN, COUNCILOR.

58:25SANTANA, COUNCILOR.

58:26WORRELL AND PLEASE THE CHAIR.

58:29THANK YOU.

58:30DOCKET 2097 WILL BE REFERRED TO

58:34THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

58:36MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

58:37READ DOCKET 2098.

58:39TALKING IN A2098

58:41COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR THE

58:42FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

58:44TO DISCUSS THE EL NINO CLIMATE

58:47PHENOMENON.

58:47CHAIR RECOGNIZES, UH, CONSCIOUS

58:49SANTANA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

58:51THANK YOU.

58:52MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE

58:55TO ADD COUNCILOR PATTERSON,

58:56ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

58:58UM, COUNCILOR LET US ABOUT A SO

58:59ADDED.

59:00THANK YOU.

59:01EVERY FEW YEARS WARMING ACROSS

59:03THAT OF CORAL WATERS IN THE

59:05PACIFIC OCEAN ALTERS UH, UM,

59:08CURRENTS AROUND THE GLOBE

59:10REDIRECTING, UM, STORM TRACKS

59:11FROM CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT TO NEW

59:13ENGLAND.

59:14BUT WHILE METEOROLOGISTS ARE

59:15TRACKING THIS SEASON, IT'S NOT

59:18NORMAL.

59:18OCEAN TEMPERATURES HAVE ALREADY

59:20ECLIPSED THE RECORD SET DURING

59:21THE 2015 EVENT AND HAS BEEN

59:24DEEMED A SUPER EL NINO ONE THAT

59:26COULD REGISTER AMONG THE

59:28STRONGEST IN 150 YEARS

59:29OF RECORD KEEPING FOR BOSTON.

59:31THIS BRINGS A WETTER, MORE UM

59:35BUT VITAL UM WINTER WITH HEAVY

59:37RAIN, SLUSH AND DAMAGING FREEZE

59:40CYCLES.

59:41THIS WILL UM UH OUR SIDEWALKS

59:44WILL BE SLIPPERY.

59:45MORE POTHOLES AND MORE STRAIN

59:47IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.

59:48MORE IMPORTANTLY, STRONGER NINO

59:50PATTERNS.

59:51THE INTENSE, UM, EASTERS UP THE

59:52ATLANTIC COAST WHEN THOSE

59:55STORMS COLLIDE WITH HIGH TIDE

59:56AND RISING SEA LEVELS.

59:58EAST BOSTON, EAST BOSTON

1:00:00CHARLESTOWN THE SOUTH AND AND

1:00:02DORCHESTER FACING IMMEDIATE

1:00:03FLOOD RISK.

1:00:04FLOOD RISK DURING THE LAST

1:00:07SUPER EL NINO IN 2015.

1:00:08FEDERAL AGENCIES DEDICATED

1:00:10SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES TO CLOSE

1:00:12RANGE MODELING AND FORECASTING

1:00:14AND RECOMMENDED A SIMILAR OR

1:00:16LARGER EFFORT DURING THE NEXT

1:00:17EVENT.

1:00:18THIS YEAR, FEDERAL MONITORING

1:00:20EFFORTS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY

1:00:21SMALLER.

1:00:22WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LET THE GAP

1:00:24COMPROMISE OUR LOCAL RESPONSE.

1:00:26EFFECTIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

1:00:28HAPPENS AHEAD OF THE STORM.

1:00:28THIS HEARING AIMS TO BRING CITY

1:00:31DEPARTMENTS, CLIMATE EXPERTS

1:00:33AND RESIDENTS TOGETHER TO GIVE

1:00:34US A CLEAR VISIBILITY INTO OUR

1:00:37OPERATIONAL READINESS.

1:00:39WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE OUR FLOOD

1:00:40BARRIERS STAND, HOW OUR

1:00:41INFRASTRUCTURE HANDLES RAPID

1:00:43FREEZE THAW CYCLES AND HOW WE

1:00:45WILL PROTECT OUR MOST

1:00:46VULNERABLE NEIGHBORS WHEN STORM

1:00:48WATER SURGE.

1:00:49THANK YOU.

1:00:50THANK YOU.

1:00:51>> COUNCILOR UM SANTANA, THE

1:00:53CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:00:54COUNCIL OPPONENT AS A PART

1:00:55OF YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:00:56THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:00:57I WANT TO THANK

1:00:58COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR BRINGING

1:00:59THIS HEARING ORDER FORWARD.

1:01:00I REPRESENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES

1:01:01AND SO I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW

1:01:03VULNERABLE WE ARE TO FLOODING

1:01:04AND EXTREME WEATHER.

1:01:05WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THE IMPACT

1:01:06OF COASTAL FLOODING IN OUR

1:01:07NEIGHBORHOODS AND WITH RISING

1:01:09SEA LEVELS, INCREASINGLY

1:01:10INTENSE STORMS AND AGING

1:01:13INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:01:14WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE

1:01:15REACTIVE.

1:01:15AND SO WHILE THE PRECISE

1:01:17IMPACTS OF EL NINO ON ANY GIVEN

1:01:19WINTER REMAIN UNCERTAIN, THIS

1:01:20HEARING PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY

1:01:22TO ASSESS OUR PREPAREDNESS AND

1:01:23THEN WITH THE US ARMY CORPS

1:01:25OF ENGINEERS UM BOSTON COASTAL

1:01:27STORM RISK MANAGEMENT STUDY, WE

1:01:29NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT

1:01:30IMMEDIATE PROTECTIONS.

1:01:31UH, EMERGENCY RESPONSE

1:01:32OF ACTION, EVACUATION ROUTES

1:01:34AND.

1:01:34>> THE CRITICAL.

1:01:35INFRASTRUCTURE THAT OUR

1:01:36RESIDENTS UH, DEPEND ON.

1:01:38UM, SHOULD THIS BE WORSE THAN

1:01:39WE EVER IMAGINED?

1:01:41WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR

1:01:42AIRPORT?

1:01:42WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE

1:01:43BLUE LINE?

1:01:43WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO ALL

1:01:45OF OUR HIGHWAYS, OUR HOSPITALS

1:01:46.

1:01:46POLICE STATIONS?

1:01:47UM, THESE ARE REAL, UH, IMPACTS

1:01:49THAT UM, UH, COULD BE SEEN IF

1:01:53WE DON'T, UM, ACT SOON.

1:01:55AND SO CLIMATE RESILIENCE IS

1:01:56NOT JUST ABOUT BEING PREPARED

1:01:57FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS.

1:01:58IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING OUR

1:02:00RESIDENTS FROM THE NEXT STORM

1:02:01WHICH COULD BE AT ANY POINT.

1:02:02SO THANK YOU TO

1:02:03COUNCIL SANTANA.

1:02:03I LOOK FORWARD TO THE HEARING.

1:02:04THANK YOU.

1:02:05THANK YOU.

1:02:05WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:02:07NAME?

1:02:08COUNCILOR CULPEPPER?

1:02:11COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:02:12UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:02:13COUNTRY FITZGERALD.

1:02:14COUNCILOR IN THE REGION COUNTRY

1:02:15HERE COMES FROM MURPHY.

1:02:17PEPEN AND SO WEBER CULTURAL AND

1:02:20PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:02:22DOCKET 209 IT WILL BE REFERRED

1:02:24TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:02:25ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

1:02:26RESILIENCY AND PARKS.

1:02:28MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:02:29READ DOCKET 2099.

1:02:31LOCKING IN WITH 2099 COUNCIL TO

1:02:33SIGN OFF OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER

1:02:35FOR HEARING TO DISCUSS THE

1:02:37COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS

1:02:38RELATED TO THE PROPOSED ZONING

1:02:40REFORMS FOR RESTAURANTS IN THE

1:02:42CITY OF BOSTON.

1:02:43CHAIR RECOGNIZES CATHERINE

1:02:44COUNTRY.

1:02:44YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:02:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:02:46MADAM CHAIR, MAY I.

1:02:48COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:02:48AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:02:50OF MURPHY SO.

1:02:51THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:02:53ON OCTOBER.

1:02:54>> 27TH.

1:02:54THE CITY ADMINISTRATION.

1:02:55ANNOUNCED A SERIES.

1:02:56>> OF.

1:02:57PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE.

1:02:58BOSTON ZONING CODE THAT.

1:02:59WOULD IMPACT THE.

1:03:00PERMITTING AND TRANSFERRING.

1:03:02OF RESTAURANT OWNERSHIPS.

1:03:04THERE ARE A LOT.

1:03:05>> OF RESTAURANTS IN MY IN

1:03:06DISTRICT TWO.

1:03:08REPORTS INDICATE.

1:03:09THAT THE CITY IS PROPOSING

1:03:10MULTIPLE UPDATES TO THE ZONING.

1:03:11CODE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL

1:03:13MONTHS.

1:03:13THESE CHANGES.

1:03:14INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

1:03:16CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF A

1:03:18RESTAURANT AND ELIMINATING THE

1:03:19NEED FOR ADDITIONAL ZONING

1:03:22REVIEW.

1:03:22FOR TAKEOUT SERVICES.

1:03:24RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED

1:03:26CONCERNS ABOUT.

1:03:27>> THE CITY'S IMPLEMENTATION

1:03:29OF THESE ZONING CHANGES.

1:03:30AS THE ANNOUNCEMENT DID NOT

1:03:31MENTION THE TIMELINE AND

1:03:33OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY

1:03:34ENGAGEMENT.

1:03:35I SPOKE TO TWO PEOPLE.

1:03:36THIS MORNING ABOUT THE

1:03:37IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY

1:03:38ENGAGEMENT.

1:03:39ONE WAS.

1:03:40IN THE BAY VILLAGE.

1:03:40ONE WAS IN THE SOUTH END.

1:03:42IT'S STANDARD PRACTICE FOR

1:03:43MAJOR ZONING CHANGES TO GO

1:03:45THROUGH THE COMMUNITY PROCESS,

1:03:47INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOOD AND

1:03:48CITYWIDE MEETINGS.

1:03:49WHERE RESIDENTS.

1:03:50CAN BE UPDATED ON THE PROPOSAL.

1:03:52ASK QUESTIONS AND PROVIDE.

1:03:55CONSTRUCTIVE INPUT.

1:03:56TO THE CITY.

1:03:58BOSTON MUST CONTINUE TO

1:03:59PRACTICE.

1:04:01TRANSPARENCY, REQUIRE.

1:04:03>> ALL.

1:04:03PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS TO

1:04:05FOLLOW THE COMMUNITY.

1:04:06ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND SHOULD

1:04:07HAVE RESIDENTS.

1:04:08CONTINUE TO BE INCLUDED IN WHAT

1:04:11TAKES PLACE IN THEIR OWN

1:04:12NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:04:13I KNOW DISTRICT COUNCILS LIKE

1:04:14TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE

1:04:16DISCUSSIONS AS WELL.

1:04:18IN BOSTON IT'S IMPORTANT THAT

1:04:20WE SET AN EXAMPLE MAKE SURE

1:04:21THAT WE ALWAYS GOVERNED BY THE

1:04:23SAME VALUES THAT AND.

1:04:25INCLUDE RESIDENTS.

1:04:25AND IN THE DECISION MAKING

1:04:27PROCESS I ALWAYS BELIEVE THE

1:04:29BEST DECISIONS ARE NOT MADE AT

1:04:31CITY HALL.

1:04:32THE BEST DECISIONS ARE MADE IN

1:04:34THE NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:04:35>> THANK YOU.

1:04:35MADAM CHAIR.

1:04:37I DO THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:04:38CONSTANCE MURPHY.

1:04:39YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:04:40THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:04:42AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:04:43FOR ADDING ME.

1:04:44I HEARD ABOUT THIS.

1:04:46FROM A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE

1:04:47MAYOR'S OFFICE.

1:04:48NOT ANYTHING THAT WAS SENT TO

1:04:51ME DIRECTLY BEFORE AND DID HEAR

1:04:53DIRECTLY FROM RESTAURANT OWNERS

1:04:55ASKING ME QUESTIONS ABOUT IT

1:04:56AND I DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWERS SO

1:04:58I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING

1:05:00THIS HEARING.

1:05:01I HOPE WE CAN HAVE IT BEFORE

1:05:02THE YEAR ENDS SO WE CAN GET

1:05:04SOME ANSWERS TO SEND BACK TO

1:05:06OUR COMMUNITY.

1:05:08UM IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE

1:05:09CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR SMALL

1:05:11BUSINESSES.

1:05:11OUR RESTAURANTS ARE IN MANY

1:05:14NEIGHBORHOODS THE ANCHOR IN

1:05:15THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS SO SUPPORT

1:05:17THESE CHANGES IF WE KNOW WHAT

1:05:19THEY ARE AND WE KNOW WHAT

1:05:20IMPACTS THEY HAVE AND MAKE SURE

1:05:22THAT WE CAN ROLL THIS OUT

1:05:23FAIRLY AND EQUITABLY SO OUR

1:05:25RESIDENTS AND RESTAURANT OWNERS

1:05:27KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.

1:05:28SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.

1:05:29THANK YOU.

1:05:30THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:05:32WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:05:33NAME?

1:05:36COUNCILOR UH, COUNCILOR.

1:05:37CULPEPER.

1:05:38COUNCILOR.

1:05:38FITZGERALD.

1:05:39CANCER.

1:05:40PEPEN.

1:05:40COUNSELOR.

1:05:41WEBER.

1:05:42CONSTANT AND TOWN COUNCIL ORAL

1:05:44CANCER.

1:05:45UH.

1:05:45MEJIA.

1:05:47UM.

1:05:48>> PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR.

1:05:51AND COUNCILOR.

1:05:52UH, SORRY.

1:05:53COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

1:05:54PARTNER.

1:05:55THANK YOU.

1:05:56DOCKET 2099 WILL REFER TO THE

1:05:58COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,

1:05:59DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

1:06:00.

1:06:02MR COOK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:06:03DOCKET 2100.

1:06:06DOC AND NUMBER 2100

1:06:08COUNCILOR FLYNN OFF OF THE

1:06:09FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING

1:06:11TO DISCUSS THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:06:13FORENSIC OVERSIGHT BOARD'S

1:06:14REVIEW OF THE BOSTON POLICE

1:06:15CRIME LABORATORY.

1:06:17THANK YOU.

1:06:18CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY FLYNN

1:06:19YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:06:20THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:06:22ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, THE

1:06:24COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

1:06:25CRIMINAL JUSTICE HELD A HEARING

1:06:27REGARDING RESOURCES TO THE

1:06:28BOSTON POLICE CRIME LABORATORY.

1:06:3030 MINUTES BEFORE THE HEARING,

1:06:32THE CHAIR AND I WERE INFORMED

1:06:33THAT NEITHER THE BOSTON POLICE

1:06:36DEPARTMENT NOR THE CRIME LAB

1:06:37WOULD ATTEND.

1:06:38GIVEN THEIR FAILURE TO APPEAR

1:06:39AND UNRESOLVED CONCERNS AND

1:06:41QUESTIONS, THERE IS AN URGENT

1:06:43NEED FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:06:44FORENSIC SCIENCE BOARD TO

1:06:46REVIEW THE OPERATIONS OF THE

1:06:47BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB.

1:06:49FOLLOWING THE HEARING, I SENT A

1:06:51LETTER TO THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:06:53FORENSIC SCIENCE BOARD

1:06:54OUTLINING MY CONCERNS AND THE

1:06:56CRIME LAB WHICH WAS DISCUSSED

1:06:57AT THE MEETING ON THAT SAME

1:06:59FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH.

1:07:02I TESTIFIED AT THAT MEETING AND

1:07:04THEY DETERMINED THAT THEY WOULD

1:07:05REVIEW THE CRIME WITH BOSTON

1:07:07POLICE AND THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT

1:07:09SAID THEY WOULD INFORM THE

1:07:11BOARD ABOUT UPDATES IN PROGRESS

1:07:13MADE FROM THE 2025 STATUS

1:07:15UPDATE.

1:07:18UM FROM THE FSB AT A LATER

1:07:21DATE.

1:07:22BUT BOSTON POLICE ALSO

1:07:23TESTIFIED THAT THEY WERE NOT

1:07:25INVITED TO THE OCTOBER 26TH

1:07:27HEARING AT THE CITY COUNCIL.

1:07:30AS SANTANA AND CENTRAL STAFF

1:07:31KNOW, I EMAILED THEM RIGHT

1:07:33AFTER THE STATE FSB HEARING ON

1:07:37OCTOBER 30TH RESPECTFULLY

1:07:39REQUESTING THE INVITES THAT

1:07:40WERE SENT FOR THE HEARING TO

1:07:42THE BOSTON POLICE COMMISSIONER

1:07:43CLOCKS IN THE CRIME LAB.

1:07:45I NEED TO KNOW WHETHER THEY

1:07:47WERE INVITED OR NOT.

1:07:49WE CANNOT HAVE HEARINGS HELD

1:07:50AND THE ADMINISTRATION NOT

1:07:52BEING INVITED OR UNAWARE FOR

1:07:54WHATEVER REASONS.

1:07:56IN 2018, THE STATE MANDATED

1:07:58THAT SEXUAL ASSAULT KITS BE

1:07:59TESTED WITHIN 30 DAYS.

1:08:01IN ORDER TO BRING JUSTICE FOR A

1:08:03SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR.

1:08:06AT A CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON

1:08:07THE BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB IN

1:08:102024, BOSTON POLICE TESTIFIED

1:08:12THAT TESTING WITHIN 30 DAYS IS

1:08:14VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE CRIME

1:08:15LAB DUE TO STAFFING SHORTAGES.

1:08:19THAT'S NOT AN OPTION.

1:08:20THAT'S THE LAW.

1:08:21THEY HAVE TO TEST SEXUAL

1:08:22ASSAULT KITS WITHIN 30 DAYS.

1:08:24QUESTIONS REMAIN ON LEADERSHIP

1:08:26OF THE CRIME LAB AS THE FORMER

1:08:28DIRECTOR LEFT ON PAID LEAVE UM

1:08:31IN 2022 AND SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS

1:08:33HAVE SERVED AS INTERIM DIRECTOR

1:08:35SINCE DURING THE BUDGET CYCLE

1:08:38IN 2024, THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED

1:08:40ON AN AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE

1:08:43$1 MILLION TO THE BOSTON POLICE

1:08:44TO SUPPORT THE CRIME LAB.

1:08:47IN 2025, POLICE TESTIFIED THAT

1:08:49THEY WERE UNAWARE IF THE $1

1:08:52MILLION WAS EVER ACTUALLY

1:08:54REALLOCATED WITHIN THE

1:08:55DEPARTMENT.

1:08:56IT'S ALSO UNCLEAR IF BOSTON

1:08:58POLICE IS NOW USING WHY

1:08:59SCREENING A DNA TESTING

1:09:01TECHNIQUE THAT IS UTILIZED BY

1:09:03THE MASS STATE POLICE NEW YORK

1:09:05CITY POLICE IT'S THE MOST

1:09:07ADVANCED WAY TO TEST SEXUAL

1:09:09ASSAULT KITS AFTER SEVERAL

1:09:11YEARS OF UNRESOLVED ISSUES WITH

1:09:13LEADERSHIP STAFFING, TECHNOLOGY

1:09:15CONCERNS PREVENTING THE BOSTON

1:09:16POLICE CRIME LAB FROM BEING

1:09:18COMPLIANT WITH STATE LAWS.

1:09:20SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

1:09:21DESERVE UPDATES ON UNANSWERED

1:09:24QUESTIONS.

1:09:24AS A RESULT, IT'S APPROPRIATE

1:09:26TO REVIEW THE FINDINGS OF THE

1:09:27MASS FORENSIC SCIENCE OVERSIGHT

1:09:29BOARD AND THE OPERATION OF THE

1:09:31BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB.

1:09:33SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

1:09:35DESERVE RESPECT.

1:09:36THEY'RE NOT RECEIVING IT AT

1:09:37BOSTON CITY HALL.

1:09:38THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:09:39THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SMITH.

1:09:41WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:09:43NAME?

1:09:46COUNCILOR.

1:09:46CALLENDER'S.

1:09:47COUNCILOR.

1:09:48CULPEPER.

1:09:48COUNCILOR.

1:09:49FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:09:51COMES FROM HERE TO MURPHY

1:09:53PEPPER UNCONSCIOUS AND TIMER

1:09:55COUNCILOR WEBER AND CONSTABLE

1:09:56MORRELL.

1:09:58AND PLEASE.

1:09:58>> THE CHAIR.

1:10:03SEE DOCKET 2100.

1:10:06UH WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:10:08COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

1:10:09CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:10:11MISTER CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:10:12READ DOCKET 2101.

1:10:15DUCKY NUMBER 2101 COUNCIL FLYNN

1:10:18AND MURPHY OFFER THE FOLLOWING

1:10:20ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS

1:10:21THE OCTOBER 27TH BOMB THREATS

1:10:24AT BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND

1:10:26SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES

1:10:28AND NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS IN

1:10:30BOSTON.

1:10:30THANK YOU.

1:10:31>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:10:32COUNCILMAN FLYNN.

1:10:33YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:10:34>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:10:34AND ON OCTOBER 27TH MANY BOSTON

1:10:37PUBLIC SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND

1:10:39UNIVERSITIES NONPROFITS

1:10:41REPORTED BOMB THREATS THAT WERE

1:10:42RECEIVED VIA PHONE CALLS

1:10:45INCLUDING SEVERAL THAT WERE IN

1:10:46MY DISTRICT.

1:10:47INCLUDING THE.

1:10:47DESIRE QUINCY ELEMENTARY

1:10:49SCHOOL.

1:10:50OTHERS WERE A NEW ENGLAND

1:10:52CONSERVATORY, THE BLACKSTONE

1:10:53ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE SOUTH

1:10:54END, SAMUEL ADAMS AND BOSTON

1:10:57UNIVERSITY, BOSTON PUBLIC

1:10:59SCHOOLS, BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1:11:01SAFETY SERVICES AND THE BOSTON

1:11:03POLICE DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY

1:11:04COORDINATED TO INVESTIGATE THE

1:11:05THREATS AND SUPPORT TO THE

1:11:07IMPACTED SCHOOLS.

1:11:08POLICE REPORTED AN

1:11:11INVESTIGATION UM AND DETERMINED

1:11:13THAT THE THREATS WERE UNFOUNDED

1:11:15AND THAT ALL IMPACTED LOCATIONS

1:11:17WERE DEEMED SAFE.

1:11:18THE INCIDENT IS UNDER

1:11:20INVESTIGATION BY THE BOSTON

1:11:21REGIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER.

1:11:23GIVEN THE BROAD NUMBER

1:11:25OF INSTITUTIONS IMPACTED IN THE

1:11:27IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE SAFETY

1:11:28OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY, THIS

1:11:30MATTER REQUIRES URGENT AND

1:11:32IMMEDIATE REVIEW BY CITY

1:11:34OFFICIALS INCLUDING THE CITY

1:11:36COUNCIL.

1:11:37THESE THREATS RAISED SERIOUS

1:11:39CONCERNS REGARDING THE SAFETY

1:11:40AND SECURITY OF BOSTON STUDENTS

1:11:42,EDUCATORS FAMILIES.

1:11:44MANY CITY COUNCIL HAS RECEIVED

1:11:46CALLS FROM PARENTS.

1:11:48I CERTAINLY DID WHEN PARENTS

1:11:50CONTACTED ME ON THIS ISSUE,

1:11:52OBVIOUSLY UPSET AND ALARMED

1:11:54ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN UM IN

1:11:56SEVERAL SCHOOLS I TOLD THEM

1:11:58THAT I WOULD CALL FOR A HEARING

1:12:00TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT

1:12:01HAPPENED, WHAT WAS THE

1:12:03NOTIFICATION PROCESS?

1:12:05WHAT HOW DO WE GET CHILDREN OUT

1:12:07OF THE SCHOOL SAFELY?

1:12:08WHERE DO THEY GO?

1:12:10HOW ARE THEY PICKED UP?

1:12:12HOW WAS THE TRANSPORTATION

1:12:14THOSE IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR US

1:12:17TO DISCUSS?

1:12:18I THINK THEY ARE.

1:12:20HOWEVER, THIS ISSUE WAS BLOCKED

1:12:23LAST WEEK.

1:12:26SOMETHING IS AS SERIOUS AS

1:12:28IMPACT ON THE CHILDREN AND

1:12:29BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FAMILIES

1:12:31WAS NOT CONSIDERED AN EMERGENCY

1:12:33BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

1:12:37RESIDENTS AND FAMILIES DESERVE

1:12:39BETTER AND THEY NEED ANSWERS

1:12:42AND THEY NEED LEADERSHIP FROM

1:12:44CITY COUNCILORS AND THAT'S OUR

1:12:46JOB.

1:12:47IT MIGHT NOT BE POLITICALLY

1:12:48POPULAR POLITICALLY CORRECT

1:12:50WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT WE

1:12:52HAVE TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR

1:12:54CONSTITUENTS, ESPECIALLY OUR

1:12:57FAMILIES.

1:12:57THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:12:59THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:13:01WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:13:02NAME?

1:13:04OH, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY

1:13:05.

1:13:06UM THANK YOU.

1:13:08THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:13:09AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:13:10.

1:13:11I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING

1:13:12ON THIS WITH YOU.

1:13:13I ALSO GOT MANY CALLS THAT DAY

1:13:16AND CONCERNS AND ALSO THE

1:13:18FOLLOW THROUGH OF THE

1:13:20COMMUNICATION.

1:13:20SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:13:21HOLDING THIS HEARING.

1:13:22I HAD HOPED WE'D ALREADY HAVE

1:13:23IT.

1:13:24I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THAT MANY

1:13:26TIMES LEFT BEFORE THIS YEAR

1:13:28ENDS, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BE

1:13:30CREATIVE AND MAKE SURE WE GET

1:13:31ALL THESE IMPORTANT HEARINGS IN

1:13:33TO GET ANSWERS.

1:13:34I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING MORE

1:13:36IMPORTANT THAN MAKING SURE

1:13:37WE'RE KEEPING OUR STUDENTS SAFE

1:13:38AND OUR STAFF SAFE AT OUR

1:13:41SCHOOLS, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD

1:13:42TO THIS HEARING.

1:13:43THANK YOU.

1:13:43THANK YOU.

1:13:44>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

1:13:45THEIR NAME COUNCILOR COLLETTE

1:13:47AS A POWDER COUNCILOR.

1:13:48CULPEPER COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:13:49COUNTRY FITZGERALD CULTURAL

1:13:51REGION.

1:13:51CULTURE.

1:13:52MEDIA.

1:13:53UH COUNCILOR PEPEN CONSCIOUS

1:13:54AND TOWN OF CONTROL WHETHER

1:13:56CULTURAL REALM PLEASE OF THE

1:13:57CHAIR.

1:14:03OH COME TO ME.

1:14:04YOU CAN'T FOR MEJIA TODAY.

1:14:06YES, AS.

1:14:07THE CHAIR.

1:14:08I'M SORRY.

1:14:08>> CAN YOU HEAR ME?

1:14:09YOU HAVE YOUR FEET.

1:14:10THANK YOU.

1:14:11YES.

1:14:12AS THE.

1:14:12>> CHAIR OF EDUCATION I WANT TO

1:14:14KNOW FOR THE RECORD THAT THE

1:14:15CALENDAR IS FULL.

1:14:17SO IF WE'RE UNABLE TO.

1:14:18BOOK I JUST.

1:14:19>> WANT TO PUT IT ON THE PUBLIC

1:14:20RECORD.

1:14:20>> HERE.

1:14:20JUST BECAUSE THIS IS THE

1:14:22CLIMATE THAT WE'RE IN IS THAT I

1:14:23WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:14:24EVERYBODY KNOWS I'M GOING TO DO

1:14:26WHATEVER POSSIBLE TO BOOK ALL

1:14:28OF.

1:14:28>> THE.

1:14:28HEARINGS, BUT WHEN WE'RE DOING

1:14:29THINGS IN THIS LATE STAGE

1:14:31OF THE.

1:14:32GAME, THEN.

1:14:33OPPORTUNITIES FOR.

1:14:34HEARINGS LIKE THIS.

1:14:35SO I JUST.

1:14:36WANT MY COLLEAGUES TO HAVE A

1:14:37LITTLE BIT OF GRACE AND A.

1:14:39>> LITTLE BIT OF PATIENCE AND.

1:14:39IT'S NO, UH.

1:14:42REFLECTION OF THE FACT THAT I

1:14:42DON'T WANT TO HAVE A JUST, YOU

1:14:43KNOW, A DIFFICULT CONVERSATION.

1:14:44I ACTUALLY ENJOY DIFFICULT

1:14:46CONVERSATIONS BUT I JUST WANT

1:14:46FOR THE FOLKS WHO ARE TUNING

1:14:47IN.

1:14:48TO KNOW THAT THE CALENDAR.

1:14:50IS LITERALLY ALMOST BOOKED.

1:14:52FOR THIS, UH, END OF THE

1:14:53LEGISLATIVE CYCLE.

1:14:55SO I.

1:14:56JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT

1:14:57PRESIDENT UM, BRAYDEN SO.

1:14:59IN CASE.

1:15:00THERE'S ANY CONCERN FOR

1:15:02SOMETHING.

1:15:03>> THAT I HAVE NOT.

1:15:03UH, PUBLICLY NOTICED IS

1:15:05BECAUSE.

1:15:05THAT'S THE REASON.

1:15:07THANK YOU.

1:15:08COUNCILOR MEJIA.

1:15:09UH, DOCKET 2101 UH, THAT'S 2101

1:15:15WILL BE REFERRED TO THE

1:15:16COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND

1:15:18CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:15:20MR. CLERK ONCE REFERRED.

1:15:24YOU MAY I.

1:15:25RESPOND BRIEFLY TO COUNCILOR?

1:15:27IT IS UM, CERTAINLY.

1:15:29UM I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

1:15:31TO COUNCILOR HERE.

1:15:31I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE

1:15:33SCHEDULE IS IS BOOKED BECAUSE

1:15:35I.

1:15:36>> TRIED TO BOOK SOMETHING.

1:15:37AND WASN'T ABLE TO.

1:15:39GET ANYTHING BOOKED.

1:15:40SO I RESPECT THAT AND WANT TO.

1:15:42>> SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR.

1:15:43HERE MAYBE OFFERING A FRIENDLY

1:15:46A FRIENDLY UH, RECOMMENDATION

1:15:49MAYBE WE CONTINUE OUR

1:15:52LEGISLATIVE PROCESS FOR THE

1:15:54INTO DECEMBER SO WE CAN GET

1:15:56SOME HEARINGS SCHEDULED.

1:15:58BECAUSE THERE.

1:15:59>> ARE SOME STUFF IN MY

1:16:01COMMITTEE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO

1:16:03,UM, GET ON Q HAVE A HEARING

1:16:05BUT SINCE THERE'S NO MORE ROOM

1:16:07IN THE DOCKETS AND THE SCHEDULE

1:16:09UM, I CAN'T SCHEDULE THEM.

1:16:11BUT WOULD OUR COLLEAGUES LIKE

1:16:13TO GO, UH, FOR AN EXTRA WEEK?

1:16:15UM, I THINK I THINK RESIDENTS

1:16:17OF BOSTON WOULD LIKE TO SEE US

1:16:18TO MORE WORK AND, UH, FOCUS

1:16:20MORE ON THESE ISSUES THAT COME

1:16:22UP.

1:16:22>> JUST THANK YOU,

1:16:23COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:16:24DOCKET 2101 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:16:26THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

1:16:27AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:16:30MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:16:30READ DOCKET TWO?

1:16:34COUNCILOR I'M HERE.

1:16:37I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY.

1:16:39I THOUGHT IT WAS.

1:16:39YOU KNOW, KIND OF COME TO MIND,

1:16:42BUT.

1:16:42NOT THAT OTHERS ACTUALLY.

1:16:44>> DON'T.

1:16:44KNOW THAT I THINK THE ANYTHING

1:16:48THAT HAS WORDING REFERENCES

1:16:50BOMB THREATS IT GOES TO PUBLIC

1:16:53SAFETY.

1:16:54THANK YOU.

1:16:55NO IT'S IT'S GOING TO PUBLIC

1:16:57SAFETY.

1:16:59MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:17:01READ DOCKET?

1:17:052122 102?

1:17:08THANK YOU.

1:17:09DOCTOR NUMBER 2102

1:17:11COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR THE

1:17:12FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HUMAN TO

1:17:14REVIEW DELIVERY TRIP DATA IN

1:17:16THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ROAD

1:17:18SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR

1:17:20DELIVERY PROVIDERS ORDINANCE.

1:17:22THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:17:24COUNCIL DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE

1:17:25FLOOR.

1:17:25THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:17:27UM, COUNCILOR BREADON AND I'D

1:17:28LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR COLLETTA

1:17:29ZAPATA TO THIS HEARING ORDER.

1:17:32COUNCILOR ZAPATA SEWELL.

1:17:33THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:17:34I'D LIKE TO UM AND TWO YEARS

1:17:36AGO I RECOGNIZED WE NEEDED TO

1:17:38HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW

1:17:40TO ADDRESS THE GROWING CONCERNS

1:17:41ASSOCIATED WITH ONLINE DELIVERY

1:17:42AND MICROMOBILITY SERVICES AND

1:17:44THE DANGEROUS DRIVING ON OUR

1:17:45STREETS AT THAT TIME,

1:17:47THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY COMPANIES

1:17:48WERE OPERATING WITH ZERO

1:17:50ACCOUNTABILITY AND.

1:17:51DURING MY HEARING, WHICH I.

1:17:52CALLED THE RULES OF THE ROAD.

1:17:54HEARING, I CALLED ON THESE

1:17:55COMPANIES TO SHARE OUR DELIVERY

1:17:56DATA WITH STREETS SO WE COULD

1:17:58BETTER UNDERSTAND AND MITIGATE

1:17:59THEIR IMPACTS.

1:18:00UH THAT WORK LATER BECAME THE

1:18:02ROAD SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:18:04DELIVERY ORDINANCE PROVIDERS

1:18:06ORDINANCE WHICH WAS AUTHORED BY

1:18:07THE MAYOR WHICH WE PASSED LAST

1:18:09APRIL UM THROUGH GREAT WORK

1:18:10WITH.

1:18:10COUNCILOR CLODAGH ZAPATA AS

1:18:12THE.

1:18:12CHAIR OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

1:18:13THIS ESTABLISHED A FRAMEWORK TO

1:18:15HOLD THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY

1:18:16PROVIDERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR

1:18:17UNSAFE DRIVING BEHAVIOR

1:18:19OF MOTORBIKES, SCOOTERS AND

1:18:20MOPEDS.

1:18:21IT REQUIRES COMPANIES LIKE

1:18:23DOORDASH, UBER EATS AND GRUBHUB

1:18:24TO OBTAIN PERMITS TO OPERATE IN

1:18:26BOSTON, MAINTAIN UMBRELLA

1:18:28INSURANCE COMPANIES AND SHARE

1:18:29ANONYMIZED.

1:18:30QUARTERLY DELIVERY TRIP DATA

1:18:32WITH THE.

1:18:32CITY TO HELP US PURSUE

1:18:34PROACTIVE SAFETY AND CONGESTION

1:18:36MANAGEMENT, INFORMED POTENTIAL

1:18:38REGULATORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

1:18:40IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPPORT

1:18:40TARGETED ENFORCEMENT.

1:18:41THESE COMPANIES BUSINESS MODELS

1:18:43CAN INCENTIVIZE SPEED OVER

1:18:45SAFETY, JEOPARDIZING THE SAFETY

1:18:46OF DELIVERY DRIVERS, RESIDENTS

1:18:48AND PEDESTRIANS.

1:18:49THE GOAL OF THIS ORDINANCE IS

1:18:51TO HELP UNDERSTAND, ADDRESS

1:18:53THOSE RISKS AND GIVE THE CITY

1:18:54THE TOOLS IT NEEDS TO

1:18:55UNDERSTAND.

1:18:57UM SO ALL THREE QUALIFYING

1:18:59DELIVERY PROVIDERS OBTAINED

1:19:01PERMITS WHEN THE ORDINANCE WENT

1:19:02INTO EFFECT ON JANUARY 1ST.

1:19:03AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT

1:19:05WE NOW HOLD A HEARING TO ASSESS

1:19:06WHETHER THE ORDINANCE IS

1:19:08ACHIEVING ITS GOALS, WHAT MORE

1:19:09WE CAN DO AND ALSO WE NEED TO

1:19:11REVIEW THE DELIVERY.

1:19:12DATA THAT.

1:19:13>> THE CITY HAS.

1:19:13COLLECTED, ASSESS WHETHER THESE

1:19:15COMPANIES ARE COMPLYING WITH

1:19:16THE REQUIREMENTS AND INCLUDING

1:19:18THEIR INCLUDING THEIR INSURANCE

1:19:20COMPANIES UH COVERAGE,

1:19:21QUARTERLY REPORTING AND ANNUAL

1:19:23PERMIT RENEWALS.

1:19:25UM THIS SHOULD WE SHOULD

1:19:26IDENTIFY ANY BARRIERS TO

1:19:28ENFORCEMENT AS WELL.

1:19:29UM GIVEN THE CONVERSATION WE

1:19:30JUST HAD THERE'S NOT A LOT

1:19:32OF DATES ON THE CALENDAR.

1:19:33UM, BUT I KNOW THIS IS A REALLY

1:19:35IMPORTANT UH, WE NEED TO GO

1:19:36OVER THIS DATA.

1:19:37WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE

1:19:38PROBLEMS ARE HAPPENING.

1:19:39UM, ULTIMATELY THIS IS AN

1:19:41OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE STOCK

1:19:42OF THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN

1:19:43MADE AND UNDERSTAND WHERE THERE

1:19:45ARE GAPS.

1:19:46UM, AND THERE ARE GAPS.

1:19:47I MEAN, OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE

1:19:50DEALING WITH TOTAL ROAD MANIA

1:19:52RIGHT NOW.

1:19:52I ALMOST GOT HIT BY A MOPED A

1:19:54DELIVERY SCOOTER ON CAMBRIDGE

1:19:56STREET A FEW DAYS AGO.

1:19:58I MEAN IT WAS SCARY AND I THINK

1:20:00A LOT OF US ARE EXPERIENCING

1:20:01THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE

1:20:02EXPERIENCING IT.

1:20:03UM, AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT

1:20:04IF THIS ORDINANCE GOING INTO

1:20:06EFFECT HAS HAD ANY PROGRESS.

1:20:08AND I THINK THE DATA COMPONENT

1:20:10PARTICULARLY IS GOING TO BE

1:20:11HELPFUL.

1:20:12I CALL THAT THE DURKAN

1:20:12AMENDMENT SO HOPEFULLY.

1:20:13WE CAN.

1:20:14TALK ABOUT IT.

1:20:15THANK YOU COUNCILOR DURKAN THE

1:20:16CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL.

1:20:17HOW DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR?

1:20:19THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT I

1:20:20WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:20:21FOR HER LEADERSHIP.

1:20:22UM, AND LOOK FORWARD TO

1:20:23REVIEWING THAT AMENDMENT AGAIN.

1:20:24UM, YEAH.

1:20:26WE UH DOORDASH, GRUBHUB AND

1:20:27UBER EATS THAT WE GAVE THEM

1:20:29HOMEWORK TO DO WHEN WE PASSED

1:20:30THIS THEY WERE THEY EACH HAD

1:20:31VARYING DEGREES

1:20:32OF TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

1:20:33THAT WOULD CAPTURE THIS TYPE

1:20:34OF DATA.

1:20:35AND SO THEY WERE GRANTED THESE

1:20:36PERMITS AND SO PRESUMABLY

1:20:38THEY'VE DONE THAT.

1:20:39BUT IT IS ON US TO PROVIDE THAT

1:20:41LEVEL OF OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE

1:20:43THAT THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY

1:20:44NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO OPERATE

1:20:46HERE AND UM, AND BE A GOOD

1:20:48NEIGHBOR SO TO SPEAK.

1:20:49SO I'M JUST REALLY LOOKING

1:20:50FORWARD TO UNDERSTANDING WHERE

1:20:51THE GAPS ARE, AS

1:20:52COUNCILOR DURKAN SAID AND

1:20:53UNDERSTANDING HOW WE NEED TO

1:20:54RIGHTSIZE UM, WHAT WE PUT

1:20:56FORWARD UH, EITHER

1:20:57PROGRAMMATICALLY OR

1:20:59LEGISLATIVELY HERE IN THE

1:20:59COUNCIL TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE

1:21:01CAN MAKE SURE THAT IF FOLKS ARE

1:21:02DELIVERING UM THROUGH THESE

1:21:04APPS THAT THEY'RE DOING SO

1:21:05SAFELY AND NOT PUTTING UM

1:21:08ANYBODY AT RISK FOR THEIR

1:21:09SAFETY.

1:21:09SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:21:10I LOOK FORWARD TO THE

1:21:11CONVERSATION.

1:21:12THANK YOU.

1:21:12>> THANK YOU.

1:21:13WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:21:14NAME?

1:21:16COUNCILOR COOK.

1:21:17UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:21:19I'M SORRY.

1:21:19>> I JUST WANTED TO SUSPEND THE

1:21:20RULES.

1:21:21>> AND ADD.

1:21:21COUNCILOR PEPPER.

1:21:22>> ON US.

1:21:22UM.

1:21:23>> SEEING AND HEARING NO

1:21:24OBJECTION.

1:21:24CANTRIP HAPPENS AND DOES A

1:21:25THIRD, UM.

1:21:29CONTRA PEPEN ANY.

1:21:30OKAY.

1:21:31WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:21:32NAME?

1:21:34COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:21:35COUNCILOR.

1:21:35FITZGERALD.

1:21:36COUNCILOR.

1:21:36FLYNN.

1:21:37COUNCILMAN LOUIJEUNE CONSUMER

1:21:37HERE.

1:21:38COUNCIL.

1:21:38MURPHY.

1:21:39CONSCIOUS SANTANA CONTROL.

1:21:41WEBER.

1:21:41CONTROL WORRELL.

1:21:42AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR.

1:21:44THANK YOU.

1:21:45DOCKET 2102 WILL BE REFERRED TO

1:21:47THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING AND

1:21:49PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND

1:21:50TRANSPORTATION.

1:21:52MR CRAFT, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:21:54DOCKET 2103.

1:21:55AND THEN WITH 2103 COUNCIL ARE

1:21:57FLYING OFF OF THE FOLLOWING

1:21:59ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:22:00INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17

1:22:03OF REGARDING FUNDS USED TO

1:22:05PLAN, DESIGN, CONSTRUCT A BIKE

1:22:07LANE AS WELL AS FUNDS SPENT ON

1:22:09ITS SUBSEQUENT REMOVAL AND RE

1:22:11PAVEMENT ON O'CONNOR WAY AND

1:22:13SOUTH BOSTON.

1:22:15CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:22:16COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

1:22:17FLOOR.

1:22:17THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

1:22:19I AM SEEKING TRANSPARENCY AND

1:22:21ACCOUNTABILITY REGARDING THE

1:22:22USE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS,

1:22:25PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE DECISION

1:22:26TO INSTALL A BIKE LANE IN FRONT

1:22:28OF A SENIOR HOUSING BUILDING ON

1:22:31O'CONNELL WAY.

1:22:32THIS TOOK PLACE IN AUGUST 2026

1:22:36ALMOST IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY

1:22:38AFTER THE ITEM ABOUT A MONTH

1:22:39LATER IT WAS REMOVED THANKS TO

1:22:44THE ADVOCACY OF RESIDENTS AT

1:22:45O'CONNELL WAY SENIOR HOUSING

1:22:47ANDREW SQUARE CIVIC ASSOCIATION

1:22:50IN THE SOUTH BOSTON ELECTED

1:22:51OFFICIALS WHEN THE CITY OF CITY

1:22:55OF BOSTON ADMINISTRATION, THE

1:22:57OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES

1:22:58AND BOSTON TRANSPORTATION UM

1:23:01THEY HELD A MEETING WITH

1:23:04RESIDENTS AND UM RESIDENTS

1:23:06OF O'CONNELL WAY BUT THEY

1:23:08DIDN'T INCLUDE THE ANDREW

1:23:10SQUARE CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

1:23:11THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE THE SOUTH

1:23:12BOSTON ELECTED OFFICIALS AS

1:23:14WELL.

1:23:15UM, BUT THEY ALSO THEY ALSO

1:23:17DISREGARDED THE FEEDBACK UH,

1:23:19THEY RECEIVED UM AT THAT

1:23:21PRIVATE MEETING TO BUILD UM TO

1:23:24NOT BUILD A BIKE LANE BECAUSE

1:23:27IT IMPACTED PUBLIC SAFETY

1:23:29ALMOST IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEY

1:23:30PUT THE UM INFRASTRUCTURE AND

1:23:33THERE WAS AN AMBULANCE AND A

1:23:35FIRETRUCK THAT COULDN'T GET

1:23:36DOWN AND IT TOOK THEM A WHILE

1:23:38JUST TO NAVIGATE IN.

1:23:40IN REVERSE AND TRY TO GET OUT

1:23:42OF THERE SAFELY.

1:23:43AND THEN THE CITY THE CITY

1:23:46BASICALLY SAID YES, THIS WAS A

1:23:48MISTAKE.

1:23:48WE NEED TO TAKE THIS BIKE CLEAN

1:23:50UP.

1:23:50UM, BUT THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON

1:23:53IN MY OPINION THEY DESERVE TO

1:23:56KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY WAS

1:23:57SPENT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:24:00MUST LEARN TO RESPECT THE

1:24:01RESIDENTS BY GETTING BACK TO

1:24:03THE VALUES OF TRANSPARENCY,

1:24:06ACCOUNTABILITY, COMMUNITY

1:24:08PROCESS.

1:24:09RESIDENTS OF A NEIGHBORHOOD

1:24:11DESERVE A SAY IN WHAT TAKES

1:24:12PLACE THEN I ALSO BELIEVE THERE

1:24:14WAS A SIMILAR CASE IN UM IN

1:24:17OTHER DISTRICTS AS WELL ON ON

1:24:19ON THIS RELATED ISSUE.

1:24:21BUT WHEN YOU PUT WHEN YOU SPEND

1:24:24UM SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND

1:24:26THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON A

1:24:27PARTICULAR INFRASTRUCTURE

1:24:29PROJECT AND THEN A COUPLE WEEKS

1:24:30LATER OR A MONTH LATER YOU HAVE

1:24:32TO RIP IT UP.

1:24:33THAT DOES SEND A MESSAGE THAT

1:24:35THE PLANNING OF A PARTICULAR

1:24:38PROJECT WAS NOT DONE OR THE

1:24:40COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS

1:24:42WASN'T EFFECTIVE.

1:24:43THIS IS NOT ABOUT CRITICIZING

1:24:45ANYONE IT'S ABOUT LEARNING FROM

1:24:47THESE MAJOR MISTAKES.

1:24:48BUT TAXPAYERS DO DESERVE

1:24:51TRANSPARENCY FROM THEIR ELECTED

1:24:53OFFICIALS.

1:24:54WE JUST CAN'T SPEND SEVERAL

1:24:55HUNDRED THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON

1:24:58ON A ROAD TEAR IT UP AND REDO

1:25:01IT.

1:25:02RESIDENTS DESERVE TO KNOW HOW

1:25:03MUCH WE SPENT, WHAT MISTAKES

1:25:04WERE MADE AND IF WE'RE GOING TO

1:25:06LEARN FROM THOSE MISTAKES AS

1:25:08WELL.

1:25:09THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:25:10THANK YOU.

1:25:12>> CONTRAST FLYNN SIX

1:25:13SUSPENSION THE RULES AND

1:25:14PASSAGE OF DOCKET 2103.

1:25:16ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:25:17AYE.

1:25:18OPPOSED?

1:25:18SAY NAY.

1:25:21MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:25:22TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:25:23VOTE ON 2103.

1:25:25COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:25:26YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

1:25:27YES.

1:25:28COUNCIL COLORED AS OPPOSED.

1:25:29COUNCILOR.

1:25:29KOSOVO.

1:25:30YES.

1:25:30COUNCILOR.

1:25:31COPA.

1:25:31YES.

1:25:31COUNCILOR.

1:25:32CULPEPER.

1:25:32YES.

1:25:33COUNCILOR.

1:25:33DURKAN.

1:25:35COUNCILOR.

1:25:35TALK AND PRESENT.

1:25:36COUNCILOR.

1:25:37FITZGERALD.

1:25:38COUNCILOR FOR SHOW.

1:25:39YES.

1:25:39COUNCILOR.

1:25:40FLYNN.

1:25:40YES.

1:25:41COUNCILOR.

1:25:41FLYNN.

1:25:41YES.

1:25:42COUNCILOR.

1:25:42LOUIJEUNE.

1:25:42YES.

1:25:43COUNCIL.

1:25:43HUSSAIN.

1:25:43YES.

1:25:44COUNCIL.

1:25:44MEJIA.

1:25:45CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:25:46YES.

1:25:46COUNCILOR.

1:25:47MURPHY.

1:25:47COUNCILOR.

1:25:48MURPHY.

1:25:48YES.

1:25:48COUNCIL.

1:25:49PIPPIN.

1:25:50COUNCILOR A PEN.

1:25:50YES.

1:25:51COUNCIL.

1:25:51SANTANA.

1:25:52COUNCILOR.

1:25:52SANTANA.

1:25:53YES.

1:25:53COUNCILOR.

1:25:54WEBER.

1:25:54YES.

1:25:55COUNCIL MEMBER.

1:25:55YES.

1:25:56AND COUNCIL.

1:25:56WELL, TALKING ABOUT TWO ONE ALL

1:26:00THREE HAS RECEIVED UH.

1:26:0811 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND

1:26:09ONE PRESENT.

1:26:10THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

1:26:12DOCKET 2103 HAS PASSED.

1:26:14MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:26:15READ DOCTOR 210 FOR.

1:26:17DOCUMENT TALKING NUMBER 2104

1:26:20COUNCILOR THING OFF OF THE

1:26:22FOLLOWING OR REQUESTING CERTAIN

1:26:23INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F

1:26:26REGARDING ALL WRITTEN

1:26:27COMMUNICATION EMAILS, TEXTS AND

1:26:30OTHER CORRESPONDENCE AND

1:26:31PERMITS ISSUED RELATED TO THE

1:26:32APPROVAL OF A BLOCK PARTY

1:26:34OF OLD STREET IN SOUTH BOSTON

1:26:37ON OCTOBER 24TH, 2026.

1:26:39CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:26:40COUNCILOR FLYNN CULTURE YOU

1:26:41HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:26:42THANK YOU.

1:26:43I AM SEEKING TRANSPARENCY

1:26:45ACCOUNTABILITY REGARDING THE

1:26:46APPROVAL PROCESS FOR A RECENT

1:26:48EVENT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

1:26:49INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENTS

1:26:50INVOLVED, PERMITS ISSUED,

1:26:52COMMUNICATIONS LEADING UP TO

1:26:54THE EVENT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND

1:26:56HOW THE EVENT WAS AUTHORIZED

1:26:58AND APPROVED AND WHETHER ALL

1:27:00APPROPRIATE.

1:27:00PROCEDURES BUT ESPECIALLY

1:27:02PUBLIC SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS

1:27:04WERE ADDRESSED.

1:27:04THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:27:06THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN SIX

1:27:09SUSPENSION OF PROMOTION AND

1:27:11PASSAGE OF DOCKET TWO ONE UM

1:27:142104.

1:27:15ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:27:16AYE AYE.

1:27:17OPPOSED.

1:27:17SAY NAY.

1:27:18MR. CLERK, COULD YOU, UH COULD

1:27:19YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL?

1:27:21VOTE ON DOCKET 210 FOR.

1:27:24COUNCILOR BREADON?

1:27:25NO COUNCILOR BREADON NO

1:27:27COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARTNER

1:27:29COUNCILOR CALLS ABOUT A NO

1:27:31COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:27:32COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:27:33YES.

1:27:33COUNCILOR.

1:27:33DURKAN.

1:27:34COUNCILOR.

1:27:35DURKAN.

1:27:35NO.

1:27:35COUNCILOR.

1:27:36FITZGERALD.

1:27:36YES.

1:27:37>> COUNCIL FOR HIS SHOW.

1:27:38YES.

1:27:38COUNCILOR.

1:27:39FLYNN.

1:27:39YES.

1:27:39>> COUNCILOR.

1:27:40>> SUN.

1:27:41YES.

1:27:41COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:27:42CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:27:44COUNCIL ME HERE.

1:27:45PRESENT.

1:27:46COUNCILOR.

1:27:46MURPHY.

1:27:47COUNCILOR.

1:27:47MURPHY.

1:27:47YES.

1:27:48COUNCIL.

1:27:48PIPPIN.

1:27:49COUNCILOR.

1:27:49BENTON.

1:27:50NO.

1:27:50COUNCILOR.

1:27:50SANTANA.

1:27:53COUNCILOR.

1:27:53WEBER.

1:27:54COUNCILOR.

1:27:54WEAPON NO AND COUNCILOR L.

1:27:58DOCKET NUMBER 2104 HAS RECEIVED

1:28:021 TO 4 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

1:28:04.

1:28:05FIVE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE AND

1:28:07ONE PRESENT.

1:28:08DOES NOT PASS.

1:28:11THANK YOU.

1:28:12UM, DOCKET 2104 HAS NOT PASSED.

1:28:17MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:28:19TAKE I WILL UM, MR TRUMP, COULD

1:28:20YOU PLEASE READ, UH, DOCKET

1:28:232105.

1:28:25DUCKING HIM A2105 COUNCIL.

1:28:28SO OFF OF THE PHONE ORDER AND

1:28:30CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER

1:28:31SECTION 17 F REGARDING ANY

1:28:34DRAFTED, EXISTING OR EXPIRED

1:28:36MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING

1:28:38BETWEEN THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:28:39SCHOOLS AND THE BOSTON POLICE

1:28:40DEPARTMENT.

1:28:41THANK YOU.

1:28:42>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:28:43CONSTRUCTION.

1:28:44YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:28:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:28:46MADAM CHAIR, I'M SEEKING THE

1:28:48MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING I

1:28:50I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS ISSUE

1:28:51FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

1:28:53I HAVE ASKED TO PROVIDE IT TO

1:28:55ME.

1:28:56UM, BUT IT'S BASICALLY A

1:28:57MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING NOT

1:29:00SIGNED BETWEEN THE BOSTON

1:29:02PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE BOSTON

1:29:03POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT HAS BEEN

1:29:05DRAFTED UM FOR SEVERAL FOR

1:29:08SEVERAL YEARS NOW.

1:29:09UM.

1:29:10>> ACCORDING TO THEY ARE.

1:29:12BASICALLY RESPECTING THE MOU

1:29:16ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT SIGNED AND

1:29:18IT IS NOT PUBLIC.

1:29:20I WOULD LIKE TO GET A COPY

1:29:21OF THAT.

1:29:21THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:29:22THANK YOU.

1:29:25UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN SIX

1:29:27SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

1:29:28PASSAGE OF DOCKET 2105.

1:29:31ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

1:29:33SAY NAY.

1:29:36MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

1:29:37A ROLL CALL?

1:29:38VOTE ON DOCKET 2105.

1:29:41COUNCILOR BRIEF.

1:29:42YES.

1:29:42COUNCIL.

1:29:43BREADON.

1:29:43YES.

1:29:43COUNCILOR COLIN AS OPPOSED.

1:29:44YES, COUNCILOR.

1:29:45CLOSE BUDDY.

1:29:46YES.

1:29:46COUNCILOR.

1:29:47CULPEPPER.

1:29:48COUNCILOR.

1:29:48CULPEPPER.

1:29:48YES.

1:29:49COUNCILOR.

1:29:49DURKAN.

1:29:50COUNCILOR.

1:29:51DURKAN.

1:29:51YES.

1:29:51COUNCIL.

1:29:52FITZGERALD.

1:29:53COUNCILOR.

1:29:53FITZGERALD.

1:29:53YES.

1:29:54COUNCIL.

1:29:54FLYNN.

1:29:54YES.

1:29:55COUNCIL.

1:29:55THIN.

1:29:56YES.

1:29:56COUNCIL.

1:29:57LOUIJEUNE.

1:29:58COUNCILOR.

1:29:58MEJIA.

1:29:59COUNCILOR.

1:29:59MEJIA.

1:30:00YES.

1:30:00COUNCILOR.

1:30:01MURPHY.

1:30:01COUNCILOR.

1:30:02MURPHY.

1:30:02YES.

1:30:02COUNCIL.

1:30:03PIPPIN.

1:30:03YEAH.

1:30:04COUNCILOR.

1:30:04PEN.

1:30:04YES, COUNCILOR.

1:30:05SANTANA.

1:30:07COUNCILOR.

1:30:07WEBER.

1:30:08COUNCILOR.

1:30:08WEBER.

1:30:10YES.

1:30:10AND COUNCILOR.

1:30:11WORLD.

1:30:14NUMBER 2105 HAS RECEIVED TEN

1:30:17VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

1:30:18THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

1:30:20DOCKET 2105 HAS PASSED.

1:30:25MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:30:26DOCKET 2106.

1:30:28DUCKING IN A2106 COUNCIL?

1:30:30I'M HERE FOR THE FOLLOWING

1:30:33RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE

1:30:34POSTPONEMENT OF THE DECEMBER

1:30:352ND, 2026 BOSTON SCHOOL

1:30:38COMMITTEE VOTE ON PROPOSED

1:30:40CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL CLOSURE

1:30:42AND ANY VOTES ON ANY OTHER

1:30:44CLOSURES, MERGERS AND

1:30:46CONSOLIDATIONS.

1:30:47THE PUBLIC HAS NOT YET BEEN

1:30:48NOTIFIED OF DUE TO THE LACK

1:30:50OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,

1:30:52TRANSPARENCY AND SUFFICIENT

1:30:53TIME IN THE DECISION MAKING

1:30:55PROCESS.

1:30:57TO RECOGNIZE MEDIA CULTURE.

1:30:59YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:31:00THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:31:01AND I.

1:31:02JUST WANT TO KNOW, UH.

1:31:04IF YOU DON'T.

1:31:05MIND, UH.

1:31:06GOING IN A QUICK.

1:31:08>> LITTLE RECESS.

1:31:08>> WE NEED TO UH.

1:31:10THERE IS A.

1:31:11FRIENDLY AMENDMENT THAT A

1:31:13COLLEAGUE WOULD LIKE TO READ

1:31:15INTO THE RECORD ANALOGY.

1:31:16UH.

1:31:17>> LIKE FOR THE, UM.

1:31:20THE AMENDMENT TO BE PASSED OUT

1:31:21TO.

1:31:21>> MY COLLEAGUES.

1:31:22FOR CONSIDERATION.

1:31:23SO AND SO THEY HAVE THAT IN

1:31:25FRONT OF THEM.

1:31:25I DON'T WANT TO.

1:31:26WE TAKE A BRIEF RECESS.

1:31:26THANK YOU.

1:31:28SO.

1:31:50>> COUNCIL FROM HERE WITH YOUR

1:31:54PERMISSION TAKE WE TAKE UM TAKE

1:31:56IT OUT OF ORDER AND WE'LL COME

1:31:58BACK.

1:31:59PUNCH MEJIA.

1:32:02CONSIDER MEJIA WITH YOUR

1:32:05PERMISSION, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE

1:32:06IT OUT OF ORDER AND COME BACK

1:32:07TO THIS, OKAY?

1:32:07SO WE CAN KEEP MOVING.

1:32:09THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:32:11WELCOME BACK TO DOCKET UM 2106.

1:32:16MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ

1:32:17,UM, DOCKET 2107.

1:32:23DOC AND I'M A2107

1:32:26COUNCILOR FINN FLYNN OFFERED

1:32:27THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN

1:32:29SUPPORT OF WAIVING THE

1:32:30RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR THE

1:32:33POSITION OF BOSTON POLICE CRIME

1:32:34LAB DIRECTOR.

1:32:36CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:32:38COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:32:38COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:32:41THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:32:44ACCORDING TO THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:32:46CAREER CENTER, THE BOSTON

1:32:47POLICE DEPARTMENT IS NOW HIRING

1:32:50A DIRECTOR OF FORENSIC LAB.

1:32:51THE DIRECTOR WOULD WORK UNDER

1:32:53THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF THE

1:32:55COMMANDER OF THE FORENSIC LAB,

1:32:57ALSO KNOWN AS THE CRIME LAB.

1:32:59THE DIRECTOR WOULD AUTHORIZE,

1:33:01APPROVE, COORDINATE, SUPERVISE

1:33:03ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL

1:33:05OPERATIONS OF THE CRIME LAB.

1:33:06ADDITIONALLY, THE DIRECTOR

1:33:07WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

1:33:09OBJECTIVES AND COMMUNICATED TO

1:33:11STAFF, ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH

1:33:13STATE REGULATIONS AND ENSURE

1:33:14THAT PROCEDURES ARE FOLLOWED

1:33:16FOR HANDLING AND PRESERVING

1:33:17EVIDENCE CASE RECORDS LAB

1:33:20SECURITY AND SAFETY THE

1:33:22APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITION

1:33:22MUST BE A CITY OF BOSTON

1:33:24RESIDENT, HAVE A MINIMUM OF A

1:33:26BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NATURAL OR

1:33:27FORENSIC SCIENCE SO A MASTER'S

1:33:30DEGREE A PHD IS PREFERRED.

1:33:32HAVE AT LEAST TEN YEARS

1:33:33OF FORENSIC LABORATORY

1:33:35EXPERIENCE.

1:33:35THE CURRENT SALARY LISTED FOR

1:33:38THE POSITION IS AROUND 117,000

1:33:43TO 153,000 ANNUALLY AT LAST

1:33:45WEEK'S MASS FORENSIC SCIENCE

1:33:47OVERSIGHT BOARD MEETING THAT I

1:33:48TESTIFIED, MEMBERS QUESTIONED

1:33:50IF THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS TAKEN

1:33:52THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A

1:33:542025 STATUS UPDATE OF THE

1:33:57BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB TO

1:33:58WAIVE THE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT

1:34:00FOR THIS POSITION.

1:34:02ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, FSB

1:34:04NOTES THAT THE CITY'S TEN YEAR

1:34:06RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT MAKES IT

1:34:08MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO ATTRACT

1:34:10THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATES

1:34:12DUE TO THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

1:34:14AND COMPETITION AGAINST PRIVATE

1:34:16LABS IN BIOTECH FIRMS.

1:34:18I AGREE WITH THEM.

1:34:20CONCERNS REMAIN THAT THE BOSTON

1:34:21POLICE CRIME LAB HAS NOT HAD A

1:34:23STABLE LEADERSHIP FROM A

1:34:25DIRECTOR IN SEVERAL YEARS

1:34:26INTERIM DIRECTORS HAVE STEPPED

1:34:28IN.

1:34:29HOWEVER IT'S UNCLEAR HOW MANY

1:34:30PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HAVE TAKEN

1:34:32OWNERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:34:34FOR OPERATIONS AT THE CRIME LAB

1:34:36FOR MANY YEARS.

1:34:37IT'S CRITICAL THAT THE CITY

1:34:40OF BOSTON ADOPT THE

1:34:41RECOMMENDATION OF THE FORENSIC

1:34:42SCIENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD AND

1:34:45WAIVE THE TEN YEAR RESIDENCY

1:34:46REQUIREMENT FOR THE BOSTON

1:34:48POLICE CRIME LAB DIRECTOR TO

1:34:50ENSURE THAT THE LAB HAS THE

1:34:51MOST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TO

1:34:53FILL THIS POSITION.

1:34:55THAT'S THE THAT'S THE

1:34:57RECOMMENDATION OF EXPERTS IN

1:34:58THIS FIELD FOR US TO GET THE

1:35:00BEST QUALIFIED FORENSIC LEADER

1:35:03WE POSSIBLY CAN.

1:35:04OUR RESIDENCY LAW IS NEGATIVELY

1:35:07IMPACTING US.

1:35:08WHILE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES MAY

1:35:10SAY IT'S INAPPROPRIATE TO GET

1:35:11INVOLVED IN PERSONNEL ISSUES,

1:35:14PREVIOUSLY I ADVOCATED FOR UM

1:35:18MANY ISSUES PERSONNEL ISSUES AS

1:35:21IT RELATES TO A POLICE OFFICER,

1:35:23SOMEONE IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

1:35:25UM BUT IT'S NOT THE TIME FOR

1:35:28POLITICS.

1:35:28IT'S ABOUT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL

1:35:30ASSAULT AND US NOT MEETING

1:35:32STATE LAW FOR YEARS.

1:35:34LET'S ADDRESS LONGSTANDING

1:35:36ISSUES AND PROVIDE STABLE

1:35:39LEADERSHIP AT THE CRIME LAB

1:35:41STAFFING TECHNOLOGY ISSUES AS

1:35:43WELL.

1:35:45RESIDENTS OF VIOLENT CRIME

1:35:47DESERVE TO HAVE A STEADY LEADER

1:35:50IN THE CRIME LAB.

1:35:52WE DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT NOW.

1:35:53HAVING A WAIVER WILL HELP US

1:35:55AND THAT PUT US ON THE RIGHT

1:35:57PATH.

1:35:57THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

1:35:58THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:36:00CONSUMER HERE COUNCIL YOU HAVE

1:36:01THE FLOOR.

1:36:03THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:36:06UM THIS IS A RESOLUTION RIGHT?

1:36:08SO I CAN SPEAK ON IT.

1:36:09YES.

1:36:10>> JUST FROM.

1:36:11I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT

1:36:14WE.

1:36:14>> DON'T HAVE TALENT.

1:36:15>> IN.

1:36:16THE CITY OF BOSTON THAT COULD

1:36:17FILL.

1:36:17>> THIS POSITION AND I FIND.

1:36:18>> THAT TO BE HIGHLY OFFENSIVE

1:36:20.

1:36:21SO I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL

1:36:22ABOUT HAVING.

1:36:23TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE CITY

1:36:24OF BOSTON TO FIND SOMEONE TO DO

1:36:26THIS AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.

1:36:28AND SO I'M.

1:36:31JUST CURIOUS.

1:36:34IF YOU DON'T MIND TO THE MAKER

1:36:37THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY BOSTONIAN

1:36:39.

1:36:39THAT IS ELIGIBLE TO FULFILL

1:36:43THIS.

1:36:43ROLE THAT WE HAVE FROM OUTSIDE

1:36:45BOSTON.

1:36:46MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:36:49IT'S ALARMING TO.

1:36:51>> ME TO BELIEVE THAT WE DO NOT

1:36:52HAVE ONE.

1:36:53SINGLE BOSTONIAN ELIGIBLE,

1:36:56CREDENTIALED, READY AND ABLE.

1:36:59>> TO ASSUME SUCH A ROLE.

1:37:01AND BEFORE I.

1:37:02SIGN ON TO SUPPORTING.

1:37:03ANY SUCH WAIVER, I JUST WANT TO

1:37:06MAKE SURE THAT CITY JOBS FOR

1:37:07CITY BOSTON UM RESIDENTS IS MY

1:37:10NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.

1:37:11SO BEFORE.

1:37:12>> WE MOVE FORWARD I JUST NEED

1:37:14TO UNDERSTAND WHAT.

1:37:15>> WE HAVE DONE.

1:37:16UM.

1:37:17>> TO ENSURE THAT.

1:37:18>> WE HAVE.

1:37:18DONE OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

1:37:20AND ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A

1:37:22BOSTON RESIDENT.

1:37:23FILL THAT ROLE.

1:37:25THANK YOU.

1:37:26>> CUSTOMER HERE KUTCHER FLYNN

1:37:27,WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND TO

1:37:28THAT QUERY?

1:37:30YES MA'AM.

1:37:32THIS MANAGER PERSON.

1:37:36YES MADAM CHAIR I DO I DO THANK

1:37:39UM COUNCIL MAYOR HERE I DO

1:37:40THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT

1:37:41QUESTION.

1:37:42AND AN APPROPRIATE QUESTION.

1:37:44THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF BOSTON

1:37:46RESIDENTS THAT HAVE APPLIED FOR

1:37:49THAT POSITION.

1:37:52BUT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO HIRE

1:37:55AND AN EXCEPTIONAL LEADER WITH

1:37:57THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION

1:38:00AND BACKGROUND.

1:38:01BECAUSE THE PAY IS IS LOW.

1:38:03I THINK IT STARTS OFF AT 1/17

1:38:06AND IT GOES UP TO 150 AND

1:38:08THAT'S ALL THAT IT'S NOT THAT

1:38:11MUCH MONEY AS IT WAS EIGHT TO

1:38:13THE THE FORENSIC FIELDS IN

1:38:17BOSTON WHERE THAT WHERE THEY'RE

1:38:21COMPETING WITH THE WITH THEIR

1:38:23COLLEAGUES FOR HIGHER PAID

1:38:24JOBS.

1:38:25YES I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE

1:38:27SOMEONE IN THIS POSITION THAT

1:38:28IS A.

1:38:29BOSTON RESIDENT BUT WE HAVE

1:38:31STRUGGLED FOR A LONG PERIOD

1:38:33OF TIME FOR YEARS WITHOUT THE

1:38:35PROPER LEADER IN THIS POSITION

1:38:38.

1:38:39EVEN THE STATE BOARD SAID TO

1:38:42BOSTON THAT YOUR RESIDENCY FOR

1:38:46THE CRIME LAB DIRECTOR IS

1:38:47HAVING A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON YOU

1:38:50HIRING THE MOST EFFECTIVE

1:38:52LEADER POSSIBLE.

1:38:54THERE IS A RESIDENCY

1:38:55COMMISSION.

1:38:57I THINK YOU'VE ANSWERED THE

1:38:59QUESTION.

1:39:00THANK YOU.

1:39:01APPRECIATE THAT.

1:39:02UM, COUNCILOR UM, HERE I'D LIKE

1:39:04TO GO ON TO SOME FOLKS WHO

1:39:06HAVEN'T SPOKEN YET.

1:39:07I GO ON TO COMES FROM MURPHY.

1:39:09I'LL COME BACK TO MURPHY.

1:39:10SURE.

1:39:11I WANT TO JUST PUT ON THE

1:39:12RECORD THAT WE HAD THIS HEARING

1:39:15SCHEDULED TWO WEEKS AGO TO ASK

1:39:17THESE VERY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

1:39:19WITH THE CRIME LAB IN THE

1:39:20BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT IN

1:39:21FRONT OF US AND THEY DIDN'T

1:39:23SHOW UP.

1:39:24THEY DID NOT SEND ANYONE.

1:39:25SO THESE.

1:39:25>> WOULD HAVE BEEN QUESTIONS WE

1:39:26COULD HAVE ASKED AND GOT SOME

1:39:28BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

1:39:29SO WE ARE HERE NOW FILING A

1:39:31RESOLUTION.

1:39:32AND I JUST.

1:39:33>> WANT TO MAKE.

1:39:33>> SURE THE PUBLIC AND WE'RE ON

1:39:35RECORD TO SAY THAT THE

1:39:36COUNCIL DID THEIR DUE

1:39:37DILIGENCE.

1:39:38>> WE FILED THIS PROPERLY.

1:39:40WE CALLED FOR A HEARING.

1:39:42WE GAVE THEM MONTHS.

1:39:42NOTICE TO COME IN FRONT OF US.

1:39:44THIS HEARING WAS IN JUNE.

1:39:46WE WAITED.

1:39:47FILED BEFORE JUNE.

1:39:48WE WAITED TILL THE BUDGET

1:39:49SEASON WAS OVER AND THEY STILL

1:39:51DIDN'T SHOW UP.

1:39:52THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.

1:39:54COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE

1:39:55FLOOR OKAY.

1:39:57>> YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:39:57UH, I, UM AND I APOLOGIZE TO

1:40:00THE FILER IF I'M GETTING THIS

1:40:02WRONG.

1:40:03SO FEEL.

1:40:03>> FREE.

1:40:04TO CORRECT ME.

1:40:05I'M ON THE RESIDENCY COMPLIANCE

1:40:06COMMISSION.

1:40:07THE, UH THE ISSUE WE WE HIRE

1:40:10PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN THE

1:40:11CITY.

1:40:11PEOPLE CAN.

1:40:12APPLY FOR.

1:40:12JOBS AND GET THEM IN THE CITY

1:40:14AND WE WE DO GRANT SHORT

1:40:16WAIVERS WHILE THEY MOVE THEIR

1:40:18MOVE MOVE TO THE CITY.

1:40:20UH, AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW,

1:40:22IN TERMS OF FILLING THIS

1:40:24POSITION IT IS PEOPLE CAN APPLY

1:40:25WHO DON'T LIVE HERE.

1:40:27UH, AND UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY

1:40:29IF THERE ARE WAIVERS AVAILABLE

1:40:31AT THE RESIDENCY COMPLIANCE

1:40:33COMMISSION USUALLY I THINK FOR

1:40:35A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, YOU

1:40:37KNOW, WHILE THEY MOVE INTO THE

1:40:38CITY, THEY'RE IF THEY HAVE KIDS

1:40:40IN SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, I THINK

1:40:41THAT WE WANT QUALIFIED PEOPLE

1:40:43HERE I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW,

1:40:45GIVEN THAT THAT WE NEED THIS

1:40:47BROADER, YOU KNOW, FOR ALL

1:40:49PEOPLE AND TO WAIVE THE

1:40:50EXEMPTION UH, AND JUST YOU

1:40:52KNOW, IT'S JUST AND I DON'T

1:40:54KNOW IF I'M CONFLATING I KNOW

1:40:55THE THE MAKERS ALSO FILE FOR

1:40:57WAIVERS OF RESIDENCY FOR

1:40:59GENERAL IN THE POLICE

1:41:00DEPARTMENT AND UH, YOU KNOW, I

1:41:02THINK YOU KNOW THAT, UH, WE

1:41:05WANT PEOPLE TO YOU KNOW, THIS

1:41:06IS A GREAT CITY.

1:41:07I KNOW IT'S A HARDSHIP TO HAVE

1:41:08TO LIVE HERE.

1:41:09UH, CERTAINLY WE WANT TO

1:41:10QUALIFY PEOPLE IN THE CRIME LAB

1:41:12AND I MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT

1:41:13JUST NOT LIVING HERE IS NOT A

1:41:15BAR TO APPLYING.

1:41:16YOU KNOW, THEY.

1:41:17JUST HAVE TO COME HERE

1:41:19EVENTUALLY, WHICH I SEE AS A

1:41:20BONUS NOT AS, UH IT'S AS A

1:41:22REASON WHY.

1:41:22SOMEONE WOULD STAY AWAY.

1:41:24>> THANK YOU.

1:41:25THANK YOU.

1:41:25>> UM, WHERE AM I, UH,

1:41:29COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAD I

1:41:30WOULD COME BACK TO YOU.

1:41:34UH, WELL, SURE.

1:41:34>> I LIKE TO GET UP AND TALK.

1:41:35.

1:41:36>> YOU KNOW.

1:41:38>> I JUST I DO.

1:41:39APPRECIATE THE MAKER AND I DO

1:41:41APPRECIATE, UM, MY COLLEAGUE

1:41:42FROM DISTRICT SIX IN TERMS

1:41:44OF THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE

1:41:46IS A PATHWAY.

1:41:47SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:41:48THAT.

1:41:48WHATEVER WE DECIDE TO DO, WE DO

1:41:51SO.

1:41:51WITH CONSISTENCY.

1:41:53I JUST FEEL LIKE THESE SORT

1:41:54OF THINGS KEEP POPPING UP.

1:41:56SO WE JUST NEED TO HAVE SOME

1:41:57STANDARDS IN TERMS OF WHAT THIS

1:41:58LOOKS LIKE.

1:41:59SO MOVING FORWARD.

1:42:00SO THANK YOU THANK.

1:42:00YOU COUNCIL MURPHY.

1:42:03THANK YOU UM AND THANK YOU

1:42:05COUNCIL WEBER FOR REITERATING

1:42:07THAT FACT THAT PEOPLE CAN APPLY

1:42:09AND GET HIRED AND HAVE TO MOVE

1:42:11IN.

1:42:12BUT IT IS MY BELIEF THAT THE

1:42:13INTENT OF THE MAKER WAS THAT

1:42:14THEY WOULDN'T THEN HAVE TO MOVE

1:42:16IN AND WE KNOW THAT WHAT WHEN

1:42:18WE DID LATERAL TRANSFERS MANY

1:42:20PEOPLE APPLIED AND ONCE THEY

1:42:21REALIZED THAT THEY WOULD THEN

1:42:23HAVE TO MOVE INTO THE CITY

1:42:24OF BOSTON, THEY DIDN'T TAKE UP

1:42:26THE OFFER.

1:42:26SO WE ONLY GOT 1 OR 2 LATERAL

1:42:28TRANSFERS.

1:42:29SO THE INTENT FOR THIS ISN'T

1:42:31LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT EVERYONE

1:42:32ALREADY KNOWS YOU CAN APPLY AND

1:42:34IF YOU DO GET THE JOB YOU HAVE

1:42:36A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME I

1:42:37THINK IT'S SIX MONTHS.

1:42:38IT MAY BE DIFFERENT MONTHS

1:42:39DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF JOB,

1:42:41BUT THIS INTENT IS TO OPEN IT

1:42:43UP FOR SOMEONE WHO THEN DOESN'T

1:42:44HAVE TO UP THEIR FAMILY AND

1:42:46MOVE IN.

1:42:48THANK YOU.

1:42:49>> TO RECOGNIZES

1:42:51COUNCILOR FLYNN WHEN WE GET

1:42:52BACK TO THAT OKAY.

1:42:53YEAH THANK YOU THANK YOU, MADAM

1:42:54CHAIR.

1:42:55I THINK THIS CRIME LAB ISSUE IS

1:42:58UNIQUE FROM ALL OTHER CITY

1:43:00ISSUES.

1:43:02I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS IS

1:43:03A RECOMMENDATION FROM STATE

1:43:06REGULATORS ON WHAT BOSTON NEEDS

1:43:08TO DO TO HAVE THE BEST CRIME

1:43:10LAB IN THE CITY TO HAVE THE

1:43:12BEST CRIME LAB IN THE STATE

1:43:13RATHER, UM, WE'RE NOT THERE.

1:43:15WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT

1:43:16LEADERSHIP AT THE BOSTON CRIME

1:43:18LAB.

1:43:19WE HAVE STRUGGLED FOR YEARS.

1:43:20WE'RE NOT USING THE RIGHT

1:43:22TECHNOLOGY.

1:43:23WE HAVE PERSONNEL CHALLENGES.

1:43:25UM, BUT HAVING THE RIGHT LEADER

1:43:27AT THE RIGHT TIME WILL WILL PUT

1:43:30US BACK ON TRACK.

1:43:31THIS IS A UNIQUE ISSUE.

1:43:33IT'S ABOUT SUPPORTING SURVIVORS

1:43:36OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

1:43:37IT'S ABOUT SUPPORTING SURVIVORS

1:43:41OF VIOLENT CRIME.

1:43:41THEY DESERVE TO BE HEARD, TO BE

1:43:45RESPECTED, TO KNOW ABOUT THE

1:43:49DATA THAT IS COLLECTED FROM ANY

1:43:51ASSAULT IS THOROUGHLY

1:43:54INVESTIGATED, IS DOCUMENTED AND

1:43:55THEN SENT TO THE APPROPRIATE

1:43:57COURT OFFICIALS.

1:43:58BUT TO DO THAT WE NEED THE

1:44:00RIGHT LEADERSHIP.

1:44:01I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO PUT

1:44:04POLITICS ASIDE AND THINK

1:44:06OF SURVIVORS OF VIOLENT CRIME.

1:44:07THANK YOU.

1:44:08THAT'S WHAT THIS THAT'S WHAT

1:44:09THIS ISSUE IS ABOUT, MADAM

1:44:10CHAIR.

1:44:10THANK YOU.

1:44:11THANK YOU.

1:44:14>> UM, I HAVE TO SAY I'M NOT AN

1:44:17EXPERT ON THIS ISSUE, BUT WE'RE

1:44:19ASKING FOR SOMEONE WITH A

1:44:20MASTER'S FROM A PHD IN FORENSIC

1:44:23SCIENCE.

1:44:23UH, THIS THE SALARY OF $117,000

1:44:27SEEMS LOW FOR THAT LEVEL

1:44:30OF EXPERTISE.

1:44:30SO, UH, I THINK IT'S NOT JUST A

1:44:32QUESTION OF RESIDENCY.

1:44:33>> I THINK.

1:44:34>> THERE HAS TO BE SOME

1:44:35CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO THE FACT

1:44:36OF THE PAY SCALE AS WELL.

1:44:37SO, UM, I WILL ANYONE LIKE TO

1:44:42ADD THEIR NAME?

1:44:44COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:44:45THANK YOU.

1:44:46I THINK IT'S REALLY AS A

1:44:48SURVIVOR I THINK IT'S REALLY

1:44:49OFFENSIVE TO FRAME THIS ISSUE

1:44:52UM, IN A WAY THAT IS ABOUT US

1:44:56BEING CARING ABOUT THE VICTIMS

1:44:59OF VIOLENCE.

1:44:59UM, I'D LIKE TO OBJECT TO A

1:45:01VOTE TODAY.

1:45:02THANK YOU.

1:45:06COUNCILOR DRUNKENNESS OBJECTED

1:45:07TO DOCKET 2107.

1:45:09UM, WE WILL MOVE ON.

1:45:12UM, UM.

1:45:14IT WILL GO TO THE COMMITTEE ON

1:45:16PUBLIC SAFETY.

1:45:17UH, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

1:45:22MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

1:45:23READ DOCKET 2108.

1:45:24DUCKING NUMBER 2108 COUNSELOR

1:45:27DURKAN OFFER THE FOLLOWING

1:45:29RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF HIRING

1:45:30MORE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:45:32OFFICERS.

1:45:33CHAIR RECOGNIZES.

1:45:34CONSIDER CONFESSION.

1:45:35YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:45:36WOULD YOU MIND?

1:45:36I NEED A SECOND.

1:45:37WOULD YOU MIND?

1:45:38>> I BEG YOUR PARDON?

1:45:39WE'RE MOVING ALONG RATHER FAST.

1:45:40UM.

1:45:42UM.

1:45:46WE'D LIKE TO GO BACK TO, UH,

1:45:49COUNCILMEMBER HIS RESOLUTION.

1:45:50ARE WE READY?

1:45:52UM.

1:45:53SO CONSTABLE HERE.

1:45:56FEELS.

1:45:59>> ARE WE ARE WE ALL SET?

1:46:01MR.

1:46:02MR. CLERK, I.

1:46:02GUESS WE HAVE SOME SUBSTITUTE

1:46:04LANGUAGE COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:46:06UM, YOU OFFER THE SUBSTANCE

1:46:08INSTITUTION?

1:46:09NO I DIDN'T SOMEBODY ELSE DID.

1:46:10OKAY, I'M NOT TAKING

1:46:12RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT.

1:46:14UM.

1:46:15>> I SHOULD BE HERE.

1:46:15YOU'RE WITH THE FLOOR?

1:46:16YEAH.

1:46:17>> THANK YOU.

1:46:17>> UM, SO THANK YOU, MADAM

1:46:20PRESIDENT.

1:46:21UH.

1:46:21SO WHAT SHOULD I DO FIRST?

1:46:23>> HOW DOES THIS WORK?

1:46:23BECAUSE.

1:46:24UM, SHE.

1:46:25>> HAS ASSOCIATES.

1:46:25OKAY.

1:46:26>> CAN YOU, UM DO YOU AGREE

1:46:28YOU'RE AGREEING TO THE

1:46:29SUBSTITUTE LANGUAGE?

1:46:30I AM.

1:46:31>> AGREEING TO.

1:46:32ALLOW THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO

1:46:34READ THE SUBSTITUTION LANGUAGE

1:46:36INTO THE RECORD AND AS THE

1:46:38CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE.

1:46:39AND THE LEAD.

1:46:41SPONSOR.

1:46:42>> I WANT TO.

1:46:43SHARE RESPONSIBILITY.

1:46:45AND LEADERSHIP.

1:46:45AND SO.

1:46:46>> I LIKE TO DO THINGS

1:46:47DIFFERENTLY.

1:46:48I'D LIKE TO DEFER TO THE.

1:46:51CO-SPONSOR SO THAT SHE CAN

1:46:52READ.

1:46:53INTO THE RECORD.

1:46:54HER AMENDMENT.

1:46:55SO FOR THE RECORD,

1:46:56CONCILOR MEJIA HERE WHO IS YOUR

1:46:58CO-SPONSOR.

1:46:59COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.

1:47:00ABOUT THE ISSUE.

1:47:02AND YOU'RE THE.

1:47:03>> THIRD YOU ARE YOU ARE YOU

1:47:04FORMALLY ADDING RECORD AS A

1:47:07CO-SPONSOR?

1:47:07YEAH.

1:47:08SO ALL RIGHT SO LET ME JUST

1:47:08START FROM THE TOP.

1:47:09LET ME JUST.

1:47:10BECAUSE YOU'RE ASKING ME TOO

1:47:11MANY QUESTIONS HERE SO I JUST

1:47:13CLAIRE CAN YOU TAKE CONTROL.

1:47:14TELL ME WHAT NO NO NO I'M IN

1:47:16CHARGE.

1:47:17PRESIDENT OKAY.

1:47:17FOR ME IN ORDER YOU NEED TO ADD

1:47:20COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART

1:47:21OF YOUR ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

1:47:23SO PLEASE DO THAT AND THEN WE

1:47:24CAN MOVE ON.

1:47:25OKAY, GREAT.

1:47:26THANK YOU.

1:47:26>> BUT THEN.

1:47:27>> YOU'RE ASKING ME TO READ

1:47:28INTO THE RECORD SOME SUBSTITUTE

1:47:30.

1:47:30>> LANGUAGE SO.

1:47:31LIKE YOU'RE SO YOU ADD

1:47:35COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART

1:47:36OF FIRST SECOND YOU HAVE A

1:47:39MOTION YOU ARE A MOTION TO

1:47:41SUBSTITUTE.

1:47:43IS THIS A RESOLUTION.

1:47:45THIS NEW WORDING.

1:47:47SO ALL RIGHT.

1:47:49THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:47:50I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR.

1:47:52COLLETTA SUPPORTER AS A SECOND

1:47:55CO-SPONSOR AND.

1:47:56I WOULD ALSO.

1:47:56>> LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES

1:47:57AND I COUNCILOR MURPHY AS AN

1:47:59ORIGINAL THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

1:48:01CONTRACT AND COLLECTOR SUPPORT

1:48:03SO ADDED AND CONSIDER SEEING

1:48:04AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS

1:48:05COUNCILOR MURPHY IS ADDED AS A

1:48:07THIRD.

1:48:08NO A MOTION.

1:48:10AND NO.

1:48:11WE DO LIKE TO OFFER A MOTION TO

1:48:12SUBSTITUTE THIS.

1:48:14WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO, PRESIDENT.

1:48:17BREADON.

1:48:18>> IS THAT I'D LIKE.

1:48:20BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION

1:48:21DIDN'T COME TO SPEAK TO

1:48:22ME DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS

1:48:24PARTICULAR SITUATION.

1:48:25>> AND RICARDO, SINCE YOU'RE

1:48:26HERE IN THE CHAMBER, I JUST

1:48:27WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT MY

1:48:28DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN.

1:48:29SO IF YOU NEED.

1:48:29ANYTHING YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST

1:48:30KNOCK AND TALK TO ME AS THE

1:48:32ORIGINAL LEAD AND SPONSOR OF A

1:48:35RESOLUTION OUT OF RESPECT I

1:48:36WOULD APPRECIATE THAT COURTESY

1:48:38.

1:48:39NOW I.

1:48:40>> WOULD LIKE TO GIVE.

1:48:41THE UM.

1:48:43SO HAVE YOU YOU'RE THE LEAD.

1:48:44YOU'RE THE LEAD.

1:48:45.

1:48:45>> I HAVE TO READ.

1:48:46INTO SOMETHING.

1:48:46>> YOU.

1:48:47KNOW YOU NEED.

1:48:47YOU NEED A MOTION TO

1:48:49SUBSTITUTE.

1:48:49I'M GOING TO CREATE I'M GOING.

1:48:51>> TO.

1:48:52ASK A.

1:48:52MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE THE

1:48:53LANGUAGE.

1:48:54AND SHOULD.

1:48:54>> WE HAVE A.

1:48:55SECOND FOR THAT?

1:48:55AND THEN I'M GOING TO.

1:48:56ASK THE.

1:48:57PERSON WHO WANTS TO.

1:48:59ADD THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO

1:49:01RISE UP AND DECLARE HER

1:49:03AMENDMENT AND THE REASON WHY

1:49:05AND THEN I'LL SPEAK.

1:49:06ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.

1:49:07ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE

1:49:09SUBSTITUTE.

1:49:10LANGUAGE I.

1:49:11THANK YOU OKAY.

1:49:12NOW OKAY.

1:49:14NO THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:49:15COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS THE

1:49:16POTTER.

1:49:16YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:49:17THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:49:18AND SORRY I'M IN REAL TIME

1:49:19TRYING TO, UM.

1:49:20UH, IDENTIFY I HAVE MY

1:49:23AMENDMENT WHICH I'M HAPPY TO

1:49:24READ AS WELL.

1:49:25UM, AND THEN I WAS TRYING TO

1:49:26LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.

1:49:27I THINK THERE MAY BE SOME, UM,

1:49:30LANGUAGE THAT.

1:49:31WAS ALSO ADDED BY YOUR I'M JUST

1:49:34TRYING TO.

1:49:34FIGURE OUT BUT FOR THE FOR NOW

1:49:36I WILL TALK ABOUT MY AMENDMENT.

1:49:37HAPPY TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

1:49:39THE OPPORTUNITY.

1:49:39COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

1:49:41UM SO I UM I WANTED TO TIE THIS

1:49:45HEARING ORDER AND THE

1:49:46RESOLUTION SORRY MY HEARING

1:49:47ORDER FOR CHARLESTON HIGH

1:49:48SCHOOL IN THIS RESOLUTION I

1:49:49SUPPORT THE INTENT OF THIS

1:49:50RESOLUTION, BUT I WANTED TO

1:49:51QUALIFY MY SUPPORT THAT TIES,

1:49:54UM, THE HEARING ORDER THAT I

1:49:55JUST PUT OUT.

1:49:56UM, REGARDING CHARLESTOWN HIGH

1:49:57SCHOOL, I FIGURED IT WOULD BE

1:49:59GOOD IN THIS.

1:49:59IT'S NOT, UM, TO, UH,

1:50:03BURDENSOME, BUT I HAD FIGURED

1:50:04THAT WE NEED TO GUARANTEE AND

1:50:05AT LEAST HAVE IT IN THE

1:50:06LANGUAGE HERE.

1:50:07A PUBLIC HEARING IN THE.

1:50:08CITY COUNCIL BEFORE THE SCHOOL

1:50:10COMMITTEE VOTES WITH ENOUGH

1:50:12TIME FOR COMMUNITY FEEDBACK TO

1:50:14ACTUALLY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME

1:50:15,WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT I

1:50:16THINK WE'RE ALL, UH, ASKING FOR

1:50:18.

1:50:18AND I IN MY OPINION I THINK

1:50:20THAT THIS STRENGTHENS THE

1:50:22RESOLUTION AND OUR OVERSIGHT

1:50:24RESPONSIBILITIES AS A COUNCIL.

1:50:25I'M ALSO TRYING TO BE MINDFUL

1:50:28OF UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE

1:50:29DECISIONS THAT WE'RE TAKING

1:50:31HERE.

1:50:32UM, THERE'S THERE'S THERE'S

1:50:35SOME TALK ABOUT AND AGAIN, I

1:50:36DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION

1:50:37RIGHT NOW BUT WE NEED TO BE

1:50:40MINDFUL ABOUT REGISTRATION.

1:50:41I KNOW THAT REGISTRATION

1:50:42HAPPENS.

1:50:43IN THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.

1:50:46UM AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:50:47THAT UM AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD

1:50:49AND WE'RE DEMANDING MEANINGFUL

1:50:50ENGAGEMENT, UM, THAT WE SHOULD

1:50:52ALSO JUST THINK ABOUT

1:50:53PROTECTING POTENTIAL ENROLLMENT

1:50:55TIMELINES FOR STUDENTS WHO NEED

1:50:56IT THE MOST WITH ENROLLMENT,

1:50:58UM, COMES PREDICTABILITY FOR

1:51:01FAMILIES WHO NEED WHO NEED IT

1:51:02THE MOST.

1:51:03SO THAT HAS TO DO WITH

1:51:04TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.

1:51:05UM, JUST A CONTINUITY OF CARE.

1:51:08CONTINUITY OF CARE.

1:51:09EXCUSE ME.

1:51:09AND SO UM AGAIN, I JUST I THINK

1:51:12THAT WE CAN DEMAND MEANINGFUL

1:51:13ENGAGEMENT WHILE PROTECTING

1:51:14POTENTIAL ENROLLMENT TIMELINES

1:51:16FOR STUDENTS WHO NEED IT THE

1:51:17MOST.

1:51:17AND THAT'S WHY I JUST FIGURED

1:51:18THIS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WOULD

1:51:20ALLOW FOR US TO TIE THE HEARING

1:51:21ORDER AND THE RESOLUTION, UM,

1:51:23AND STRENGTHEN BOTH OF THEM.

1:51:24AND THAT'S WHY I'M SEEKING THIS

1:51:25AMENDMENT.

1:51:26UH, AND WITH THE INCLUSION

1:51:27OF IT I'M PREPARED TO VOTE YES

1:51:28ON IT.

1:51:29>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:51:30CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:51:31COUNCIL MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

1:51:32FLOOR.

1:51:32UM, DO YOU WANT NO.

1:51:34THAT WOULD.

1:51:38TURN AFTER SHE'S.

1:51:40IRRITATED.

1:51:41>> YOU'RE SMALL ENOUGH ALREADY

1:51:42.

1:51:42BUT I FEEL THAT SO

1:51:44COUNCIL MEETING HERE ONLY

1:51:45PASSED IT OFF FOR THE CHANGE IN

1:51:47THE AMENDMENT AND DIDN'T GO

1:51:48BACK AND SPEAK OF WHY SHE FILED

1:51:50IT.

1:51:50SO CAN WE JUST CHECK WITH THE

1:51:52LATEST ON CANCER?

1:51:53YEAH WE WILL CERTAINLY

1:51:54CERTAINLY COUNCILMEMBER HERE

1:51:55YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:52:00HAVE ALL THESE ADVOCATES HERE.

1:52:02THANK YOU SO VERY.

1:52:03MUCH I APPRECIATE IT I KNOW

1:52:05THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT ALL

1:52:07COUNCILORS CARE ABOUT AND I

1:52:08WANT TO NAME THAT THIS BODY IS

1:52:10MODELING.

1:52:11BEHAVIOR BY WORKING TOGETHER

1:52:13ACROSS OUR DIFFERENCES.

1:52:15I KNOW UM THAT I ALSO WANT TO

1:52:17NAME THAT UH THAT BASED ON

1:52:19MONDAY'S EVENING EMAIL THAT

1:52:21WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT THREE

1:52:22SCHOOL CLOSURES, FOUR GRADE

1:52:25CONFIGURATIONS AND THREE SCHOOL

1:52:27UH, LOCATIONS, THE LACK

1:52:28OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,

1:52:30TRANSPARENCY AND SUFFICIENT

1:52:31TIME TO REVIEW THIS

1:52:33RECOMMENDATION IS DEEPLY

1:52:34CONCERNING.

1:52:35AS THE CHAIR OF EDUCATION, I

1:52:37BELIEVE OUR BODY, UH, SHOULD

1:52:39HOLD ITS INDEPENDENT ROLE AND

1:52:41HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

1:52:42PROPERLY REVIEW THESE

1:52:44RECOMMENDATIONS BEFORE THE

1:52:45BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE TAKES

1:52:47ITS VOTE IN A SYSTEM THAT IS

1:52:49ALREADY SO UNDEMOCRATIC AND

1:52:52LACKS MEANINGFUL CIVIC

1:52:53ENGAGEMENT, ONE WOULD THINK

1:52:55THAT THERE THE BARE MINIMUM

1:52:56WOULD BE TRANSPARENCY SO THAT

1:52:58THE PUBLIC CAN AT LEAST

1:53:00UNDERSTAND HOW THE POWERS THAT

1:53:01BE MADE, THE DECISIONS AND HOW

1:53:03THEY WERE MADE.

1:53:05WE HAVE ALSO RECEIVED NOTHING

1:53:08SO FAR AND THE LACK

1:53:09OF COMMUNICATION WITH AND

1:53:11INVOLVEMENT OF COMMUNITY IN

1:53:13THESE MAJOR DECISIONS HIGHLIGHT

1:53:14THE NEED FOR DEMOCRACY.

1:53:17UH, MAKING THE LIKE THE SCHOOL

1:53:19COMMITTEE A LITTLE BIT MORE

1:53:20DEMOCRATIC AND TO ALSO REALLY

1:53:22LOOK AT HOW WE'RE REVAMPING OUR

1:53:24COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES

1:53:26FULL STOP.

1:53:27I ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE

1:53:28I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS

1:53:30RESOLUTION YOU KNOW OUR

1:53:31RESOLUTIONS ARE BINDING, THERE

1:53:34ARE FIVE CONCRETE ASK IN THIS

1:53:36FILING AND WE ENCOURAGE THE

1:53:38DISTRICT TO FULFILL THESE

1:53:39REQUIREMENTS IN THESE REQUESTS

1:53:41TO BEGIN ADDRESSING THE MAJOR

1:53:42CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS,

1:53:44POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AROUND

1:53:45DECISION MAKING.

1:53:46LIKE MANY BOSTONIANS, I HAVE

1:53:48LIVED THROUGH COUNTLESS SCHOOL

1:53:49CLOSURES AND OTHER CHANGES AND

1:53:52NOTHING HAS CHANGED OVER TIME.

1:53:54THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGES ARE

1:53:55THE CHARACTERS AND THE OUTFITS

1:53:57THAT THEY'RE WEARING.

1:53:58COMMUNITY HAS UH BEEN UH DEALT

1:54:01THIS PLAYBOOK FOR DECADES AND

1:54:03WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE'RE

1:54:04DOING BUSINESS AND I JUST WANT

1:54:06TO MAKE SURE THAT JUST WITH

1:54:08WHATEVER LITTLE TIME I HAVE

1:54:09LEFT IS THAT WE'RE ASKING THE

1:54:11BOSTON SCHOOL, UH, TO COMMIT TO

1:54:15PUBLICLY RELEASING THE DATA AND

1:54:17CRITERIA USED TO INFORM CURRENT

1:54:19AND PAST CLOSURE MERGERS,

1:54:21CONSOLIDATION AND

1:54:22CONFIGURATIONS.

1:54:23WE WANT THEM TO PUBLISH CLEAR

1:54:25TRANSITION PLANS FOR ANY

1:54:26PROPOSED SCHOOL CHANGES TO

1:54:28ENSURE CONTINUITY OF ACADEMIC

1:54:30PROGRAMING, SPECIAL EDUCATION

1:54:32SERVICES, MULTILINGUAL

1:54:33INSTRUCTION AND STUDENT SUPPORT

1:54:35SERVICES AS WELL AS HOW

1:54:36STUDENTS, FAMILIES, EDUCATORS

1:54:38AND STAFF WILL BE SUPPORTED.

1:54:39WE WANT RELEASE OF THE DATA TO

1:54:42BE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE FOR THE

1:54:43LONG TERM MASTER'S FACILITY

1:54:45PLAN WITH A DEFINED COMMUNITY

1:54:47CENTERED ENGAGEMENT PROCESS FOR

1:54:49ANY FUTURE CLOSER UM CLOSINGS

1:54:50AND CONSOLIDATION POST.

1:54:53WE WANT THEM TO POSTPONE THE

1:54:55DECEMBER 2ND UH VOTE BY THE

1:54:57BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND

1:54:59THAT THAT WILL BE PROPOSED UH

1:55:01FOR THE CHARLESTOWN CLOSURE TO

1:55:03BE POSTPONED AS WELL AS ANY

1:55:05OTHER CLOSURES, UM AND

1:55:08CONSOLIDATIONS.

1:55:09AND WE ALSO WANT TO ESTABLISH

1:55:12UH A CLEAR AND CONSISTENT AND

1:55:14TRANSPARENT PROTOCOLS FOR

1:55:15FUTURE SCHOOL CLOSURES

1:55:17DECISIONS AND TO ENSURE

1:55:18FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND

1:55:19STUDENTS ARE ENGAGED IN THE

1:55:21PROCESS.

1:55:22AND AT THE VERY LEAST WE WANT

1:55:23THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE

1:55:26BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE

1:55:27DISTRICT AND THE ELECTED SCHOOL

1:55:29COMMITTEE TO START RESPECTING

1:55:30THE BOSTON CITY COUNCILORS.

1:55:33THANK YOU.

1:55:33>> COUNCILOR MEJIA, THE CHAIR

1:55:34RECOGNIZES COMES FROM MURPHY.

1:55:35YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:55:37THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:55:38AND I WANT TO THANK

1:55:40COUNCIL MEDIA FOR BRINGING THIS

1:55:42RESOLUTION FORWARD AND I'M

1:55:43PROUD TO JOIN YOU AS AN

1:55:45ORIGINAL SPONSOR.

1:55:46I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE

1:55:47CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY FOR

1:55:49ORGANIZING SO QUICKLY AND

1:55:50STANDING UP FOR YOUR STUDENTS,

1:55:52FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS.

1:55:53YOU HAVE MADE IT CLEAR HOW MUCH

1:55:55THIS SCHOOL MEANS TO YOUR

1:55:56NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:55:56YOUR VOICES DESERVE TO BE

1:55:58HEARD, YOUR QUESTIONS DESERVE

1:56:00ANSWERS AND YOU DESERVE A

1:56:01MEANINGFUL ROLE IN DECISIONS

1:56:03ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE IN

1:56:05YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:56:06FUTURE CLOSING A SCHOOL IS ONE

1:56:08OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL

1:56:10DECISIONS A DISTRICT CAN MAKE.

1:56:12FAMILIES DESERVE TIME TO

1:56:13UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING

1:56:14PROPOSED, GET ANSWERS TO THEIR

1:56:16QUESTIONS AND HAVE A MEANINGFUL

1:56:18VOICE BEFORE A VOTE TAKES

1:56:19PLACE.

1:56:20I HAVE VISITED CHARLESTOWN HIGH

1:56:22ON MANY OCCASIONS AND SEEN THE

1:56:23PRIDE STUDENTS TAKE IN THEIR

1:56:25WORK, INCLUDING IN THEIR

1:56:27STUDENT RUN CAFE AND AS A

1:56:29FORMER TEACHER I KNOW HOW MUCH

1:56:32WORK GOES INTO HELPING STUDENTS

1:56:34BUILD SKILLS, INDEPENDENCE AND

1:56:36CONFIDENCE.

1:56:36THOSE RELATIONSHIPS MATTER AND

1:56:38THE IMPACT OF DISRUPTING THEM

1:56:40NEEDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

1:56:42SOME STUDENTS MOVED TO

1:56:44CHARLESTOWN HIGH AFTER THE

1:56:45HENDERSON SCHOOL PROGRAM ENDED

1:56:47IN DORCHESTER.

1:56:48NOW THEY FACE ANOTHER MOVE

1:56:49BEFORE THEY HAVE EVEN FINISHED

1:56:51HIGH SCHOOL.

1:56:52FOR THESE STUDENTS, MOVING

1:56:54SCHOOLS MEANS MUCH MORE THAN

1:56:55CHANGING BUILDINGS IT MEANS

1:56:58REBUILDING TRUST, LEARNING NEW

1:57:00ROUTINES AND ADJUSTING TO NEW

1:57:01TEACHERS AND SERVICES AND ALSO

1:57:03GOING FROM A FIVE MINUTE

1:57:05COMMUTE TO MANY DAYS OVER AN

1:57:07HOUR COMMUTE.

1:57:08I HAVE FILED HEARING ORDERS IN

1:57:10THE PAST AND HAVE HAD FORMAL

1:57:12REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION.

1:57:13COUNSELOR WE'RE ALL IN I LAST

1:57:16JANUARY 2025 FILED A HEARING TO

1:57:18GET ANSWERS ON THE MASTER PLAN

1:57:20THE DISTRICT'S FULL PLAN FOR

1:57:21THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:57:22SCHOOLS INCLUDING FUTURE

1:57:24CLOSES, CLOSURES, STUDENT

1:57:26PLACEMENTS AND THE USE

1:57:27OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS ESPECIALLY

1:57:28AFTER WE CLOSED THEM.

1:57:30WE STILL NEED CLEAR ANSWERS.

1:57:32MY FATHER GRADUATED FROM

1:57:34CHARLESTOWN HIGH BACK IN 1952.

1:57:37I UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY THE

1:57:38SCHOOL HOLDS BUT MY CONCERN

1:57:40TODAY IS FOR THE STUDENTS WHO

1:57:41ARE NOW UPSET AND HAVE LOTS

1:57:43OF QUESTIONS AND IF ANY OF US

1:57:45HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG THEY

1:57:46HAVE ALREADY BEEN ORGANIZING

1:57:48AND ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS.

1:57:49BUT I DO THINK THIS RESOLUTION

1:57:51ALONG WITH THE HEARING ORDER IS

1:57:53GOING TO SEND A MESSAGE TO

1:57:54THOSE WHO FAIL AS THOUGH

1:57:55THEY'RE BEING IGNORED RIGHT NOW

1:57:56THAT WE DO CARE AND THAT WE'RE

1:57:58GOING TO WORK ALONGSIDE THEM.

1:57:59THANK YOU.

1:58:00THANK YOU.

1:58:00>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:58:01COUNCILOR FLYNN CONSIDERING YOU

1:58:03HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:58:05THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:58:06I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

1:58:08COUNCILOR HERE FOR BRINGING

1:58:09THIS IMPORTANT RESOLUTION

1:58:10FORWARD.

1:58:13I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE

1:58:16AS A FORM OF SUBSTITUTE SCHOOL

1:58:18TEACHER AT CHARLESTOWN HIGH

1:58:19SCHOOL.

1:58:20I KNOW THE INCREDIBLE WORK THE

1:58:21TEACHERS DO THERE AND

1:58:23SUPPORTING SO MANY STUDENTS

1:58:26LIKE ALL OF US.

1:58:27I'M DISAPPOINTED THE BOSTON

1:58:29PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE CITY

1:58:31OF BOSTON DID NOT INFORM THE

1:58:32SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

1:58:34THE CHARLESTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD

1:58:36AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY

1:58:39COUNCIL OF ITS DECISION TO

1:58:40CLOSE THE SCHOOL.

1:58:42TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY

1:58:43POSITIVE LEADERSHIP CAN'T BE

1:58:45IGNORED BY EITHER THE CITY OR

1:58:48SCHOOL LEADERS.

1:58:49BOSTON RESIDENTS MUST BE

1:58:51INCLUDED IN MAJOR DECISIONS

1:58:53THAT IMPACT THEIR

1:58:54NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:58:55TAKE THEM OUT TO.

1:58:56THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:58:58WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:58:59NAME?

1:59:01OH NO THANK YOU.

1:59:02YES.

1:59:02WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

1:59:03NAME?

1:59:04COUNCILOR CULPEPER

1:59:05COUNCILOR FITZGERALD PATRICK

1:59:06FLYNN, COUNCILMAN DIVISION

1:59:08COUNCILOR.

1:59:09PEPEN.

1:59:09COUNCILOR.

1:59:10WEBER COUNCIL BURRELL.

1:59:11PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.

1:59:15COUNCILORS.

1:59:16UM HERE COLLETTE IS A PARTNER

1:59:17AND MURPHY SIX SUSPENSION

1:59:19OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

1:59:212106.

1:59:21ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

1:59:23ALL OPPOSED.

1:59:24SAY NAY.

1:59:25MR TRIP, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

1:59:27A ROLL CALL?

1:59:27VOTE ON DOCKET 2106.

1:59:30COUNCILOR.

1:59:31>> BRAIN.

1:59:31YES, COUNCILOR.

1:59:32BRAIN.

1:59:32YES, COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPOSED

1:59:35COUNCILOR COLOR AS OPPOSED TO

1:59:36YES, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:59:38COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

1:59:39YES.

1:59:39COUNCILOR.

1:59:39DURKAN.

1:59:40COUNCILOR DURK AND PRESENT

1:59:42COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCILOR.

1:59:44SO YES.

1:59:45COUNCILOR.

1:59:45FLYNN.

1:59:45YES.

1:59:46COUNCIL.

1:59:46FLYNN.

1:59:46YES.

1:59:47COUNCIL.

1:59:47LOUIJEUNE.

1:59:47YES.

1:59:48COUNCIL.

1:59:48LOUIJEUNE.

1:59:49YES, COUNCILOR.

1:59:49MEJIA.

1:59:51CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

1:59:52YES.

1:59:52COUNCILOR.

1:59:53MURPHY.

1:59:54COUNCILOR.

1:59:54MURPHY.

1:59:55YES.

1:59:55COUNCILOR TO BEND.

1:59:56YES, COUNSELOR.

1:59:57PEN.

1:59:57YES, COUNCILOR.

1:59:58SANTANA.

1:59:59COUNCILOR.

1:59:59WEBER.

2:00:00YES.

2:00:01COUNCIL.

2:00:01WEBER.

2:00:01YES.

2:00:02I'M COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:00:03YES.

2:00:04SO ARROYO YES.

2:00:05TALKING 2106 HAS RECEIVED 11

2:00:09VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND

2:00:10ONE PRESENT.

2:00:10THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:00:12DOCKET 2106 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:00:17WE MOVE ON.

2:00:18UM, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:00:21READ DOCKET 2108.

2:00:23DOCKET NUMBER 2108

2:00:25COUNCILOR DURKAN OFF OF THE

2:00:26FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

2:00:28OF HIRING MORE PARKING

2:00:30ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

2:00:31CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:00:32COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE

2:00:33FLOOR.

2:00:34THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREEDEN.

2:00:35UM, TWO WEEKS AGO ON

2:00:37OCTOBER 22ND I CHARITY HEARING

2:00:38IN THE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT

2:00:39AND TRANSPORTATION.

2:00:39COMMITTEE ABOUT.

2:00:40>> HOW WE CAN IMPROVE

2:00:41ENFORCEMENT OF BLOCKED BIKE

2:00:42LANES AND CROSSWALKS.

2:00:43THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IMPACTS

2:00:45RESIDENTS DAILY AND UM AND

2:00:47THEIR SAFETY AND IT WAS A

2:00:49RESOUNDING CONCLUSION THAT WE

2:00:50NEED MORE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:00:52OFFICERS AND THAT WOULD HELP

2:00:54STRENGTHEN OUR CITY AND OUR

2:00:55PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

2:00:56PARKING REGULATIONS SUPPORT

2:00:57PUBLIC SAFETY IN MORE WAYS THAN

2:00:59ONE, AND OUR PARKING

2:01:00ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS PLAY AN

2:01:01ESSENTIAL ROLE IN UPHOLDING

2:01:02THESE.

2:01:03NOT ONLY.

2:01:04>> DOES IT HELP PROTECT OUR

2:01:05MOST VULNERABLE ROAD USERS ON

2:01:06THE STREETS, THEIR WORK ALSO

2:01:07PRESERVES ACCESS FOR EMERGENCY

2:01:09VEHICLES AND PROTECTS

2:01:10ACCESSIBILITY FOR RESIDENTS

2:01:11WITH DISABILITIES AND MOBILITY

2:01:13CHALLENGES THEIR JOB AND

2:01:14ENSURING THAT OUR STREETS

2:01:15FUNCTION THE WAY THAT THEY ARE

2:01:16INTENDED IS NOT SOMETHING THAT

2:01:18WE CAN OVERLOOK AND AS WE HEARD

2:01:20FROM THE TESTIMONY OF MANY

2:01:22RESIDENTS, IT CAN BE LIFE

2:01:23SAVING.

2:01:24THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

2:01:25HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON RECRUITING

2:01:27MORE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:01:28OFFICERS FOR SOME TIME AND

2:01:29THEY'VE HAD SUCCESS.

2:01:30THE CITY NOW HAS 139 PARKING

2:01:32ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, THE

2:01:34HIGHEST NUMBER WE'VE HAD IN

2:01:35NEARLY A DECADE AND TIC

2:01:37ISSUANCES UP 9%.

2:01:39THAT SAID, CITY OFFICIALS MADE

2:01:40IT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE STILL

2:01:42GAPS AND OFFICERS ARE SPREAD

2:01:43THIN.

2:01:44UH THE OTHER ISSUE THAT WE

2:01:45TALKED ABOUT WAS AUTOMATED

2:01:47ENFORCEMENT.

2:01:47I KNOW COUNCILOR PEP AND I HAVE

2:01:49BEEN CHATTING WITH THE STATE

2:01:50HOUSE.

2:01:51I KNOW THEY'RE WORKING ON

2:01:52SOMETHING AND UM, SO ALL OF THE

2:01:54THINGS THAT WE CAN DO UM,

2:01:56ISSUING UM, A UH A

2:01:59RECOMMENDATION ON BEHALF OF THE

2:02:00CITY COUNCIL I THINK IS

2:02:01IMPORTANT.

2:02:02OH, AND I FORGOT I'D LIKE TO

2:02:03ADD COUNCILOR IF I CAN AS A

2:02:04SECOND CO-SPONSOR.

2:02:06COUNCILOR PEPEN IS SO AT IT.

2:02:08UM.

2:02:08WHILE WE'VE DISCUSSED THE

2:02:10POTENTIAL OF AUTOMATED

2:02:10ENFORCEMENT CAPABILITIES AND

2:02:11OTHER TECHNOLOGIES, WE ARE

2:02:13STILL WAITING ON PERMISSION

2:02:14FROM THE STATE HOUSE.

2:02:15PARKING VIOLATIONS ARE

2:02:16CONSISTENTLY THE MOST

2:02:17FREQUENTLY REPORTED CATEGORY ON

2:02:19311 EACH YEAR, AND CIVIC

2:02:21ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMUNITY

2:02:21MEMBERS HAVE LONG SHARED THEIR

2:02:23FRUSTRATIONS WITH LACK

2:02:24OF PARKING ENFORCEMENT.

2:02:25IT IS ABOUT SAFETY.

2:02:27IT'S ABOUT HELPING OUR CITY

2:02:28OPERATE SMOOTHLY.

2:02:29RESIDENTS WITH CARS NEED TO BE

2:02:30ABLE TO ACCESS THEIR PARKING

2:02:31SPACES, JUST.

2:02:32AS BUSINESSES RELY ON THESE

2:02:33SPACES TO BRING CUSTOMERS INTO

2:02:34THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, IT IS ALSO

2:02:36A SIGNIFICANT REVENUE SOURCE

2:02:38FOR THE CITY.

2:02:39LAST YEAR, PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:02:40GENERATED ALMOST $60 MILLION.

2:02:43UM AND SO THEY EARNED THEIR

2:02:44KEEP I'LL SAY THAT JUST SAY

2:02:46THAT UM I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK

2:02:47THE ENTIRE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:02:49TEAM FOR THEIR WORK.

2:02:49IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND

2:02:51WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

2:02:52THEM AS IN HIRING MORE OFFICERS

2:02:55,THESE ROLES HELP PAY FOR

2:02:56THEMSELVES AND I THINK IT'S

2:02:57COMMON SENSE FOR US TO HELP

2:02:58CREATE MORE FUNCTIONAL AND

2:02:59SAFER STREETS.

2:03:00I'VE SPOKEN WITH ME AND I KNOW

2:03:02THAT THEY ARE IN SUPPORT

2:03:03OF THIS.

2:03:03UM I DO BELIEVE IN ADVOCATING

2:03:05FOR MORE STAFF TO STRENGTHEN

2:03:06OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAM.

2:03:08I HAVE HEARD FROM A COUPLE

2:03:10OF UM, MY COLLEAGUES THAT THEY

2:03:12DO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW

2:03:13THIS WOULD IMPACT UM, SO I'M

2:03:15NOT ACTUALLY ASKING FOR

2:03:17SUSPENSION IN PASSAGE TODAY,

2:03:18BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE MY

2:03:20CO-SPONSOR, COUNCILOR PEPPER A

2:03:21CHANCE TO SPEAK ON THIS DOCKET.

2:03:23JUSTICE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:03:25COMFORT PEPPER, YOU HAVE THE

2:03:26FLOOR.

2:03:27THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:03:28THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR

2:03:30HAVING ME AS A SECOND, THE

2:03:32PARKING ENFORCEMENT DIVISION

2:03:33TEAM AT THE TRANSPORTATION

2:03:34DEPARTMENT IS SIGNIFICANTLY

2:03:36UNDERSTAFFED.

2:03:37THEY HAVE A LOT OF OPENINGS BUT

2:03:39THEIR JOBS ARE EXTREMELY

2:03:40IMPORTANT AND THAT'S TO MAKE

2:03:41SURE THAT THE OUR TRAFFIC IS

2:03:44MOVING, THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT

2:03:45VIOLATING THE LAWS THAT WHEN

2:03:47YOU SEE A DOUBLE PARKED CAR OR

2:03:50SOMEONE BLOCKING A FIRE HYDRANT

2:03:51OR BLOCK OR PARKING IN A

2:03:53HANDICAPPED SPOT OR BLOCKING

2:03:54THE DRIVEWAY THAT THEY'RE HELD

2:03:56ACCOUNTABLE UM AND THAT IS THE

2:03:58JOB OF A PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:03:59OFFICER.

2:04:00I THINK.

2:04:01>> I MENTIONED THIS PREVIOUSLY

2:04:02THAT I WAS ABLE TO GO ON A RIDE

2:04:03ALONG WITH THE PARKING

2:04:04ENFORCEMENT TEAM TO GET A SENSE

2:04:06OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH

2:04:06AND WHAT I WAS ABLE TO LEARN

2:04:08FROM THEM AND PICK THEIR BRAIN

2:04:10ON IS THAT THEY'RE DEFINITELY

2:04:11OVERWORKED.

2:04:11IT'S A DIVISION THAT I REMEMBER

2:04:15MY VERY FIRST HEARING THAT I

2:04:16CHAIRED AND AS A CITY

2:04:18COUNCILOR WHEN I WAS A CHAIR

2:04:19CITY SERVICES WAS WHEN IT WAS

2:04:21THE OF THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

2:04:23OFFICER THAT WAS BEAT UP BY A

2:04:25RESIDENT BECAUSE THEY WERE SO

2:04:26MAD THAT THEY.

2:04:27>> GOT.

2:04:27A TICKET FOR.

2:04:28SOMETHING THAT THEY DID THAT

2:04:29THEY BEAT THIS.

2:04:30PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER UP.

2:04:32HE HAD TO RETIRE UNFORTUNATELY

2:04:33.

2:04:34AND YOU JUST SEE DAVID DE THE

2:04:36VERBAL ABUSE, THE PHYSICAL

2:04:38ABUSE, THE MENTAL ABUSE THAT

2:04:40THESE.

2:04:41UM CITY EMPLOYEES GO THROUGH UM

2:04:43AND YET THEY DON'T HAVE THE

2:04:46SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED AND

2:04:47THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT THIS

2:04:48RESOLUTION.

2:04:48THIS IS WHY I ASKED

2:04:49COUNCILOR DURKAN TO BE A SECOND

2:04:50ON THIS BECAUSE I KNOW AND I

2:04:52THANK THEM FOR THE WORK THAT

2:04:53THEY DO.

2:04:54MY DISTRICT DEPENDS ON THEIR

2:04:55WORK WHENEVER THERE IS A LARGE

2:04:57GATHERING, IF IT'S A IF IT'S

2:04:58SOFTBALL GAMES AT ROSS FIELD OR

2:05:00HEALY FIELD, I'M CALLING THEM

2:05:02TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE

2:05:03COMING TO HELP OUT MY

2:05:04RESIDENTS.

2:05:04SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE A PUBLIC

2:05:05SHOUT OUT TO JOHN ROMANO, TO

2:05:07ROCCO CORIGLIANO, TO ANGEL

2:05:09BRASS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE

2:05:12TRANSPORTATION ENFORCEMENT TEAM

2:05:13WHO.

2:05:13KEEP OUR CITY RUNNING AND

2:05:15MOVING A LOT.

2:05:16SO THANK YOU COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:05:17FOR OUT OF ME.

2:05:18I HOPE MY CAN SUPPORT THIS.

2:05:20THANK YOU.

2:05:21>> UH, THE THE PROPONENT UM WHO

2:05:23OFFERED THIS THE LEAD SPONSOR

2:05:25HAS UM WANTS THIS TO GO

2:05:27DIRECTLY TO COMMITTEE SO WILL

2:05:29WILL NOT HAVE A VOTE ON THIS

2:05:30TODAY IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING?

2:05:33SO THANK YOU.

2:05:34UH, DOCKET 210.

2:05:36IT WILL BE SENT TO THE

2:05:37COMMITTEE.

2:05:38OH, YES.

2:05:39BEG YOUR PARDON?

2:05:40ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?

2:05:42COUNCIL COLOR AS A PART OF, UH

2:05:45,COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:05:46COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:05:47CONSTABLE LOUIJEUNE

2:05:48COUNCILOR MURPHY I'M NOT SURE

2:05:49WHETHER COUNCILOR WORRELL

2:05:52COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:05:52AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET

2:05:55210.

2:05:55IT WILL BE SENT TO THE

2:05:57COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES.

2:06:03NO SUCH.

2:06:04OH HANG ON.

2:06:04THANK YOU.

2:06:05UPON WHAT WAS.

2:06:11YES, THIS.

2:06:12>> WILL BE SENT TO A PLANNING

2:06:14DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

2:06:15SO I MUST READ THAT.

2:06:18MR TURNER, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:06:19READ DOCKET 2109..

2:06:22NUMBER 2109 COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR

2:06:24THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS

2:06:26CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY AND

2:06:28HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED OUR

2:06:29COUNTRY.

2:06:30CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:06:31COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:06:32YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:06:33THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:06:34I HAD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS AN

2:06:36ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

2:06:38COUNCILOR MURPHY SO ADDED.

2:06:40EVERY YEAR NOVEMBER 11TH MARKS

2:06:42VETERANS DAY A DAY WHEN WE

2:06:44HONOR VETERANS AND THEIR

2:06:46FAMILIES.

2:06:47THERE'S PROUD HISTORY OF THIS

2:06:49STATE GOING BACK TO, UH,

2:06:52PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

2:06:54INCLUDING UM, PROCLAIMING

2:06:56NOVEMBER 11TH AS ARMISTICE DAY.

2:07:00UM IT WAS A IT WAS MADE A LEGAL

2:07:02HOLIDAY TO THE ACT.

2:07:03>> OF CONGRESS.

2:07:04DECEMBER OF 1941 U.S. CENTERED

2:07:07WORLD WAR TWO, THE KOREAN WAR

2:07:11AS WELL IN 1954, AFTER THE

2:07:13RETURN OF SERVICE PERSONNEL

2:07:14FROM BOTH WORLD WAR TWO AND

2:07:16KOREA, PRESIDENT EISENHOWER

2:07:18SIGNED A BILL LEE DEDICATING

2:07:19THE NAME AND RENAMING NOVEMBER

2:07:2211TH FROM ARMISTICE DAY TO

2:07:24VETERANS DAY.

2:07:26IT CONTINUED IN 1968, UNIFORM

2:07:28HOLIDAY DAY WAS PASSED TO

2:07:30ENSURE THAT SOME FEDERAL

2:07:31HOLIDAYS, INCLUDING VETERANS

2:07:32DAY WOULD BE CELEBRATED ON

2:07:34MONDAY, PRESIDENT FORD SIGNED

2:07:36IT INTO LAW THAT VETERANS DAY.

2:07:40AS WE MARK MARK ON NOVEMBER

2:07:4211TH WE MUST WE COMMIT

2:07:43OURSELVES TO SUPPORTING ALL

2:07:45VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES

2:07:47.

2:07:47OUR VETERANS ALSO INCLUDE.

2:07:50LGBTQ PLUS VETERANS, VETERANS

2:07:52OF COLOR, WOMEN VETERANS,

2:07:55VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES,

2:07:58FAMILIES OF VETERANS.

2:08:00WE THANK THEM AND THEIR

2:08:01FAMILIES FOR THEIR SERVICE EACH

2:08:03AND EVERY DAY.

2:08:05BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST TO SAY

2:08:06THANK YOU TO A VETERAN ON

2:08:08VETERANS DAY.

2:08:10WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT, HOW

2:08:11WE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN AS A

2:08:13CITY, AS A STATE, AS A FEDERAL

2:08:17GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT VETERANS

2:08:19AND MILITARY FAMILIES ARE WE

2:08:21PUTTING THE MONEY INTO THE

2:08:22BUDGET HERE IN THE CITY

2:08:24OF BOSTON LAST YEAR THE CITY

2:08:27OF BOSTON CUT THE VETERANS

2:08:28BUDGET.

2:08:30I HAD A PROTEST OUT IN FRONT

2:08:31OF THE VA HOSPITAL IN WEST

2:08:33ROXBURY WHEN TRUMP CUT SO MANY

2:08:36JOBS AT THE VA MEDICAL HEALTH

2:08:38CENTER.

2:08:41SO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE

2:08:42SAY HAPPY VETERANS DAY.

2:08:44AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU'RE

2:08:45GOING TO CUT VETERANS SERVICES

2:08:47AND YOU'RE GOING TO CUT SUPPORT

2:08:49FOR WOMEN VETERANS.

2:08:51WE CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

2:08:53I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES NOW

2:08:56AND IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE NOT

2:08:58TO CUT THE VETERANS BUDGET THIS

2:09:00YEAR.

2:09:02WE WERE EMBARRASSED LAST YEAR

2:09:04WHEN IT WAS CUT.

2:09:05I HAD TO ADVOCATE.

2:09:07WITH BRIGHTON MARINE AND THEY

2:09:08PUT SOME MONEY INTO THE BUDGET

2:09:10ALMOST $1 MILLION BUT WE

2:09:13SHOULDN'T HAVE CUT $0.05 FROM

2:09:15THE VETERANS BUDGET.

2:09:17IT SENDS A MESSAGE THAT

2:09:18VETERANS ARE NOT RESPECTED,

2:09:20MILITARY FAMILIES ARE NOT

2:09:21RESPECTED AND THE OUTCRY FROM

2:09:25LAST YEAR AND WHEN THE CITY

2:09:27COUNCIL ALSO CUT THE VETERANS

2:09:29BUDGET WE CAN'T GO AND CONTINUE

2:09:32THAT LEGACY AGAIN.

2:09:34WE NEED TO STRONGLY STAND IN

2:09:37SUPPORT OF VETERANS IN MILITARY

2:09:38FAMILIES AT THE CITY LEVEL, AT

2:09:40THE STATE LEVEL AND AT THE

2:09:42FEDERAL LEVEL.

2:09:42THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:09:44THANK YOU.

2:09:45>> COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:09:45CHAIR RECOGNIZES YOUR

2:09:46CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:09:48THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:09:50AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:09:52I'M A VETERAN YOURSELF.

2:09:54SO HAPPY VETERANS DAY TO YOU

2:09:55AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

2:09:57AND AS A BLUE STAR MOM, A

2:09:59MOTHER OF A SON WHO IS A IN THE

2:10:03ARMY NOW I DO KNOW HOW

2:10:05IMPORTANT IT IS.

2:10:06AND AS A DAUGHTER OF A MARINE

2:10:08AND A NAVY VETERAN, IT'S A DAY

2:10:12TO HONOR AND ALSO REMEMBER THE

2:10:14SACRIFICES SO FEW DO TAKE THE

2:10:17OATH TO STAND UP AND SERVE OUR

2:10:19COUNTRY.

2:10:20SO IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME TO.

2:10:26TO HONOR OUR VETERANS.

2:10:28SO I HOPE ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES

2:10:29WILL.

2:10:30SUPPORT THAT.

2:10:30>> THANK YOU.

2:10:31>> THANK YOU.

2:10:32CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:10:33COUNCILOR PEPPER AND YOU HAVE

2:10:34THE FLOOR.

2:10:35THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:10:36I JUST WANTED TO RISE IN

2:10:37SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION IN

2:10:39SUPPORT OF OUR OUR VETERANS.

2:10:40UH, WE HAVE A TON OF RESIDENTS

2:10:42THAT ARE VETERANS IN DISTRICT

2:10:44FIVE, BUT I WANT TO I CANNOT

2:10:46SPEAK ABOUT VETERANS WITHOUT

2:10:47CONGRATULATING MALIKA WHITLEY,

2:10:49WHO HAS OFFICIALLY RETIRED FROM

2:10:52HER ARMED SERVICES UM.

2:10:54DUTIES AND WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL

2:10:56CELEBRATION FOR HER NOT TOO

2:10:57LONG AGO.

2:10:58JUST WANTED TO PUBLICLY

2:10:59CONGRATULATE HER AND TO SAY

2:11:00THAT YOU KNOW LAST YEAR WE HELD

2:11:02THE FIRST.

2:11:02VETERAN'S DAY.

2:11:04DINNER IN DISTRICT FIVE IN HYDE

2:11:06PARK AND WE'RE ACTUALLY TEAMING

2:11:07UP THIS YEAR WITH CONGRESSWOMAN

2:11:09PRESSLEY TO BRING THAT AGAIN

2:11:10THIS YEAR.

2:11:11UH, SO I'LL MAKE SURE TO SHARE

2:11:12THAT WITH MY COLLEAGUES HERE TO

2:11:14CELEBRATE VETERANS IN THE HYDE

2:11:16PARK AND MATTAPAN AREA.

2:11:17THANK YOU.

2:11:18>>, THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:11:21COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:11:22COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:11:24THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:11:25I WANT TO THANK UM THE MAKERS

2:11:28OF OF THIS RESOLUTION AND WE

2:11:30OFTEN SPEAK ABOUT MILITARY

2:11:31SERVICE IN TERMS OF DUTY AND

2:11:32GRIT BUT REALLY IT'S CORE IT'S

2:11:35AN ACT OF PROFOUND,

2:11:36OF COMPASSION.

2:11:37IT TAKES AN EXTRAORDINARY LOVE

2:11:38FOR YOUR COMMUNITY TO PUT

2:11:40YOURSELF IN HARM'S WAY SO THAT

2:11:42PEOPLE BESIDE YOU CAN LIVE IN,

2:11:44UM, SAFETY CAN LIVE IN SAFETY

2:11:46AND PEACE.

2:11:48THE COMPASSION HAS ALWAYS COME

2:11:50FROM EVERY CORNER OF BOSTON

2:11:51INCLUDING OUR BLACK AND OUR

2:11:53LGBTQ TO US PLUS VETERANS WHO

2:11:54HAVE STEPPED FORWARD TO PROTECT

2:11:55THIS COUNTRY EVEN THE COUNTRY

2:11:57THAT THEY DON'T ALWAYS EXTEND

2:11:59THE SAME PROTECTION AND DIGNITY

2:12:00TO THEM CHOOSING TO DEFEND YOUR

2:12:02NEIGHBORS UNDER THOSE

2:12:03CIRCUMSTANCES AND SERVICE UM IT

2:12:06IS THE PUREST, MOST SELFLESS

2:12:07FORM.

2:12:07THIS VETERAN'S DAY WE HONOR

2:12:09THAT PROFOUND DEVOTION UPLIFT

2:12:11THE MILITARY FAMILIES WHO SHARE

2:12:12IN THAT SACRIFICE AND THANK OUR

2:12:15SERVICE MEMBERS.

2:12:15FIRST FOR SHOWING US WHAT

2:12:18UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR OUR

2:12:18COMMUNITY TRULY LOOKS LIKE.

2:12:19THANK YOU.

2:12:21THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.

2:12:24WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:12:26NAME?

2:12:27COUNCILOR COLETTA ZAPATA,

2:12:29COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCIL.

2:12:31DURKAN COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:12:32COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COME TO MEJIA

2:12:33.

2:12:34PEPEN COUNCIL SANTANA COUNCIL.

2:12:36WEBER CULTURAL.

2:12:37PLEASE OF THE.

2:12:38CHAIR COUNCILORS FLYNN AND

2:12:41MURPHY SIX SUSPENSION OF THE

2:12:42RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET 2109.

2:12:45ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:12:46AYE.

2:12:47OPPOSED.

2:12:47SAY NAY.

2:12:49MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:12:50TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:12:50VOTE ON DOCKET 2109.

2:12:54COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:12:55YES.

2:12:55COUNCILOR BREADON?

2:12:56YES, COUNCILOR COLORED AS.

2:12:57>> A FATHER COUNCILOR.

2:12:58PILLOWS PER YES.

2:12:59COUNCILOR.

2:12:59CULPEPER.

2:13:00COUNCILOR.

2:13:01CULPEPER.

2:13:01YES.

2:13:02COUNCILOR.

2:13:02DURKAN.

2:13:03COUNCILOR.

2:13:04DURKAN.

2:13:04YES.

2:13:04COUNCILOR.

2:13:05FITZGERALD.

2:13:06COUNCILOR FOR SHOW.

2:13:06YES, COUNCILOR.

2:13:07FLYNN, COUNCILOR.

2:13:08FERN.

2:13:08YES.

2:13:09COUNCILOR.

2:13:09LOUIJEUNE.

2:13:09YES, COUNCILOR.

2:13:10LOUIJEUNE.

2:13:11YES.

2:13:11COUNCIL.

2:13:12MEJIA.

2:13:12COUNCILOR.

2:13:12MEJIA.

2:13:13YES.

2:13:13COUNCILOR.

2:13:14MURPHY.

2:13:14COUNCILOR.

2:13:15MURPHY.

2:13:15YES.

2:13:16COUNCIL.

2:13:16PIPPIN.

2:13:17COUNCILOR.

2:13:17HAVE BEEN.

2:13:18YES.

2:13:18COUNCILOR.

2:13:19SANTANA.

2:13:19YES.

2:13:19COUNCILOR.

2:13:20SANTANA.

2:13:20YES.

2:13:21COUNCILOR.

2:13:21WEBER.

2:13:22COUNCIL MEMBER YES AND

2:13:23COUNCILOR ZERO.

2:13:24YES.

2:13:24COUNCILOR.

2:13:25OH YES.

2:13:26TALKING NUMBER 2109 HAS

2:13:28RECEIVED THE UNANIMOUS VOTE IN

2:13:30THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:13:31THANK YOU.

2:13:31DOCKET 2109 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:13:34MR COOK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ

2:13:36DOCKET 2110.

2:13:38DOCTOR NUMBER 2110

2:13:41COUNCILOR DURKAN OFF THE

2:13:42FOLLOWING RESOLUTION

2:13:43RECOGNIZING NOVEMBER 15TH, 2026

2:13:46AS WORLD REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR

2:13:48ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS.

2:13:50CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:13:51COUNCIL DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE

2:13:52FLOOR.

2:13:53THANK YOU.

2:13:54UM, I HAD A LOT OF, YOU KNOW,

2:13:55UM, WORDS TO SAY ABOUT WORLD

2:13:58REMEMBRANCE DAY BUT, UM, I

2:14:00THINK THAT LOUISA SISTER EMILY

2:14:02DID IT BEST.

2:14:03UM, SHE ASKED US TO PASS THE

2:14:04STREET SAFETY ORDINANCE SIMILAR

2:14:07TO NEIGHBORING CITIES.

2:14:08UM, SHE ASKED US TO ATTEND A

2:14:10HEARING ON NOVEMBER 19TH.

2:14:12WE ALSO HAVE A HEARING TOMORROW

2:14:14IN MY COMMITTEE.

2:14:14UM, AND SHE ASKED US TO ENSURE

2:14:17THAT THE STREETS CABINET IS

2:14:18APPROPRIATELY RESOURCED THIS

2:14:19YEAR.

2:14:20UM, SHE ALSO ASKED US TO SET A

2:14:22GOAL AND HER GOAL IS TO ACHIEVE

2:14:24VISION ZERO AND IT SHOULD BE

2:14:26ALL OF OUR GOAL.

2:14:26SHE ASKED US TO HOLD THE

2:14:28ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE, UH,

2:14:29TO A PLAN TO ACHIEVE THIS.

2:14:31I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN

2:14:32DOING THAT AND SHE TOLD US TO

2:14:34GET TO WORK WITH A SPIRIT

2:14:36OF JOY AND COLLABORATION.

2:14:37WE CAN'T HAVE COLLEAGUES

2:14:39OF OURS THAT ARE VOTING AGAINST

2:14:40BLUE BIKES AND VOTING AGAINST

2:14:42STREET INFRASTRUCTURE AND

2:14:44VOTING AGAINST PEOPLE'S ABILITY

2:14:45TO MOVE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

2:14:47TWO WEEKENDS AGO UM I JOINED

2:14:49RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS

2:14:51ON A RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE A RIDE

2:14:53TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE LOST

2:14:54IN BOSTON AND ACROSS THE

2:14:55COMMONWEALTH AND TO RALLY FOR

2:14:57CHANGE.

2:14:58IT WAS INCREDIBLE TO BE WITH

2:14:59THOSE FAMILIES AND TO SEE THEIR

2:15:01STRENGTH UM IN HONOR AND IN

2:15:04HONOR OF WORLD REMEMBRANCE DAY

2:15:05,I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO

2:15:07TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE

2:15:09INDIVIDUALS THAT WE'VE LOST IN

2:15:10DISTRICT EIGHT AND JUST TO

2:15:12HONOR THEIR LEGACIES AND TO

2:15:14SHOW RESPECT AND TO CARRY THEIR

2:15:15MEMORIES MOVING FORWARD.

2:15:16UM, WE'VE LOST THOMAS ROSE.

2:15:19UM SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2026 WE SAID

2:15:21GAG JULY 9TH, 2026 JOHN AXELROD

2:15:27JANUARY 3RD 2026 MENDING AUGUST

2:15:316TH, 2025 DIVA HELENA PINA DE

2:15:34CARVALHO DECEMBER 18TH, 2024

2:15:38ERIN PASCAL DECEMBER 25TH 2019

2:15:42GEORGE CLEMMER JULY 13TH, 2022

2:15:45RICHARD ARTHUR MAY 2ND 2017 A

2:15:49MOTHER AND THEIR CHILD OUTSIDE

2:15:51OF ROXBURY CROSSING MBTA

2:15:52STATION ON FEBRUARY 18TH, 2016

2:15:55DOCTOR ANITA KERMAN.

2:15:59UM AUGUST 7TH, 2015.

2:16:00THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME AND

2:16:02TAKING A MOMENT TO HONOR THESE

2:16:04INDIVIDUALS.

2:16:05UM IT'S TIME THAT WE SAY NO

2:16:07MORE TO TRAFFIC DEATHS THAT,

2:16:10UM, WE NEED TO WORK EVERY DAY

2:16:12TO BUILD SAFER STREETS.

2:16:12AND AS ELECTED OFFICIALS WE

2:16:14HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR

2:16:15CONSTITUENTS TO WORK EVERY DAY

2:16:17TO ACHIEVE VISION ZERO.

2:16:18THAT MEANS ADVOCATING FOR MORE

2:16:20STREETS SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:16:21VEHICLE SAFETY.

2:16:22FEATURES AND PROVEN STRATEGIES

2:16:23TO SLOW SPEEDS AND PROTECT

2:16:25PEDESTRIANS AS WE MUST CONTINUE

2:16:28TO INVEST IN SOLUTIONS THAT

2:16:30PREVENT THESE TRAGEDIES.

2:16:32UM WE ALSO MUST IN OUR

2:16:33COMMUNITIES PUSH BACK AGAINST

2:16:35VIOLENT NARRATIVES ABOUT DIRECT

2:16:37ABOUT OUR SUBPROJECTS.

2:16:39UM, I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE

2:16:41SHOWN THOSE MOMENTS

2:16:43OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP.

2:16:44WE NEED EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON

2:16:45THE CITY COUNCIL TO DO THAT.

2:16:47I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN

2:16:49COUNCILOR PEPEN AND I IN

2:16:50SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION AND

2:16:52RECOGNIZING NOVEMBER 15TH, 2026

2:16:54AS WORLD REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR

2:16:56ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS.

2:16:57AND I'D LIKE TO ADD

2:16:59COUNCILOR PREPAREDNESS SECOND

2:17:00CO-SPONSOR WE HAD A PROBLEM AND

2:17:02A STAR BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR

2:17:03ALL OF YOUR LEADERSHIP.

2:17:04THANK YOU COUNCILOR BROKENSHIRE

2:17:06RECOGNIZE THIS CONCERT PEPEN

2:17:07YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:17:09THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:17:11I THINK THAT COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:17:12SAID IT PERFECTLY AND AS WE

2:17:14HEARD FROM LOUISA GAGA'S FAMILY

2:17:16THIS MORNING AND FROM ALEXA

2:17:17LUMBERG AND SHERRY ARLINGTON

2:17:19WITH RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE AT THE

2:17:21OCTOBER 21ST MEETING, THE

2:17:22NUMBER OF FATALITIES TWO

2:17:24TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS SHOULD AND

2:17:25MUST BE ZERO WE AS A BODY

2:17:27ALWAYS A GAG IN THE THOUSANDS

2:17:29OF OTHER LIVES LOST TO ROAD

2:17:31TRAFFIC.

2:17:31OUR ACTION TO SAFE STREETS FOR

2:17:33ALL MODES OF TRANSIT.

2:17:35LET'S WORK NOT TO ADD ANOTHER

2:17:37NAME TO THOSE IN HONOR OF WORLD

2:17:39REMEMBRANCE DAY.

2:17:40THANK YOU.

2:17:42>>, THANK YOU.

2:17:45>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD

2:17:47THEIR NAME?

2:17:48COUNCILOR CANADA ZAPATA

2:17:49COUNCILOR.

2:17:50CULPEPER COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:17:51COUNCIL FLYNN CULTURAL DIVISION

2:17:52CONSUMER HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY

2:17:55SANTANA COUNCILMAN WEBER

2:17:57COUNCIL WILL PLEASE UH THE

2:17:59CHAIR.

2:18:01COUNCILORS DURKAN AND PEPEN

2:18:03SEEK A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

2:18:05AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET UH 2110.

2:18:09ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED.

2:18:12SAY NAY.

2:18:14MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:18:15TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:18:15VOTE ON DOCKET 2110.

2:18:18COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:18:19YES, COUNCILOR.

2:18:19BREADON.

2:18:20YES, COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PART

2:18:22COUNCILOR COLIN AS A PARTY.

2:18:23YES.

2:18:23COUNCILOR CULPA.

2:18:25COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:18:25YES.

2:18:27COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:18:28COUNCILOR.

2:18:28DURKAN.

2:18:29YES.

2:18:29COUNCILOR.

2:18:29FITZGERALD.

2:18:30COUNCILOR.

2:18:31FITZGERALD.

2:18:31YES.

2:18:31COUNCILOR.

2:18:32FLYNN.

2:18:32COUNCILOR.

2:18:33FINN.

2:18:33YES.

2:18:34COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND SUSAN.

2:18:35YES, COUNCILOR.

2:18:36MEJIA.

2:18:37COUNCILOR.

2:18:37MEJIA.

2:18:38YES.

2:18:38COUNCILOR.

2:18:39MURPHY.

2:18:39COUNCILOR.

2:18:39MURPHY.

2:18:40YES.

2:18:40COUNCIL.

2:18:41GRIFFIN.

2:18:41COUNSELOR.

2:18:42PEN.

2:18:42YES.

2:18:42COUNCIL.

2:18:43SANTANA.

2:18:44COUNCILOR.

2:18:44SANTANA.

2:18:45YES.

2:18:45COUNCIL.

2:18:45WEBER.

2:18:46YES.

2:18:46COUNCILOR.

2:18:47YES AND COUNCILOR.

2:18:48WORLD.

2:18:48YES.

2:18:49COUNCILOR.

2:18:49WORLD.

2:18:50YES, DOCTOR.

2:18:51NUMBER 2110 HAS RECEIVED A

2:18:53UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:18:54AFFIRMATIVE.

2:18:55THANK YOU.

2:18:55DOCKET 2110 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:18:58I'LL JUST ASK MY VICE CHAIR,

2:19:00UM, TO TAKE THE PODIUM FOR A

2:19:02FEW MOMENTS.

2:19:14MR CLERK.

2:19:14CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET

2:19:162111.

2:19:18DUCKING IN A2111 COUNCIL?

2:19:19I'M HERE FOR THE FOLLOWING

2:19:21RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING NOVEMBER

2:19:2320TH, 2026 AS TRANSGENDER DAY

2:19:27OF REMEMBRANCE.

2:19:29THANK YOU.

2:19:30>> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:19:31COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCIL.

2:19:32>> MEMBER FOR.

2:19:39AD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS AN

2:19:40ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AS WELL AS

2:19:43COUNCILOR UH BRIGHTON.

2:19:46UH COUNCILOR SANTANA SO ADDED

2:19:47AS A SECOND CO-SPONSOR AND HERE

2:19:49SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:19:49OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR BURTON SO

2:19:51ADDED.

2:19:51YES SO.

2:19:52YES THANK YOU SO TRANS.

2:19:56GENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE HAS

2:19:57DEEP ROOTS HERE IN THE CITY

2:19:59OF BOSTON.

2:19:59>> AS.

2:19:59IT.

2:19:59WAS BORN OUT OF THE LOSS

2:20:00OF BOSTON'S OWN RITA HESTER.

2:20:03IT BEGAN IN 1999 TO MEMORIALIZE

2:20:05THE MURDER OF RITA HESTER, A

2:20:07BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMAN UM AND

2:20:10HAS SINCE BECOME AN

2:20:12INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED A

2:20:14REFLECTION AND ACTION WHILE WE

2:20:15CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR AND

2:20:17UPLIFT OUR TRANSGENDER AND

2:20:19GENDER DIVERSE COMMUNITIES, WE

2:20:20MUST ALSO HONOR THE LIVES

2:20:22OF THE LOVED ONES WE HAVE LOST

2:20:24TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND

2:20:25ESPECIALLY TRANSGENDER WOMEN.

2:20:26OF COLOR.

2:20:27FACE SIGNIFICANT VIOLENCE,

2:20:29ABUSE AND DISCRIMINATION AND

2:20:31SYSTEMIC BARRIERS.

2:20:32THIS RESOLUTION REAFFIRMS OUR

2:20:34COMMITMENT TO UPHOLDING THE

2:20:35DIGNITY, SAFETY.

2:20:36AND FULL INCLUSION OF ALL

2:20:38RESIDENTS INCLUDING.

2:20:38TRANSGENDER AND NON-BINARY,

2:20:41BINARY AND GENDER DIVERSE

2:20:42INDIVIDUALS AND RECOGNIZES

2:20:44TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

2:20:45AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE

2:20:47TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY IN

2:20:48MOURNING REMEMBRANCE RENEWED

2:20:50COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE AND

2:20:53UPLIFTING ALL OF THE WORK THAT

2:20:54STILL NEEDS TO BE, UH, DONE.

2:20:57I JUST WANT TO GO, UH, AND

2:20:59UPLIFT QUICKLY GISELLE, UM AND

2:21:01CHASTITY WHO WORKED ALONGSIDE

2:21:03OUR OFFICE LAST YEAR UM AND

2:21:06HAVE CONTINUOUSLY UH, WORKED

2:21:08ALONGSIDE US TO NOT ONLY HOLD

2:21:11OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO THIS

2:21:12WORK UM, BUT FIGHTING LITERALLY

2:21:14FOR OUR LIVES.

2:21:15THANK YOU.

2:21:17THANK YOU.

2:21:18>> COUNCIL MEMBER CHELSEA

2:21:18SANTANA.

2:21:19>> YOU HAVE.

2:21:19THE FLOOR.

2:21:20YOU MADAM PRESIDENT, UM, AND I

2:21:23WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR MY HERE

2:21:25FOR WELCOMING ME AS A

2:21:26CO-SPONSOR AND FOR YOUR

2:21:27LEADERSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP IN

2:21:29ADVOCATING FOR BOSTON

2:21:29TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY.

2:21:31TRANS TRANSGENDER DAY

2:21:33OF REMEMBRANCE IS A SOLEMN CALL

2:21:35TO HONOR THE LIVES STOLEN BY

2:21:37ANTI-TRANSGENDER BIGOTRY AND

2:21:39VIOLENCE.

2:21:39FOR THOSE OF US IN THIS

2:21:40CHAMBER, IT IS OUR DUTY TO

2:21:42CONTINUOUSLY FIGHT FOR, PROTECT

2:21:44AND UPLIFT TRANS VOICES.

2:21:46THAT RESPONSIVE RESPONSIBILITY

2:21:48IS ROOTED IN OUR OWN HISTORY.

2:21:51AS COUNCILOR MEJIA UM STATED IN

2:21:52HER REMARKS IN 1999 THE FIRST

2:21:55OF SERVANTS WERE HELD IN ONLY

2:21:56TWO CITIES BOSTON AND SAN

2:21:58FRANCISCO FOLLOWING THE MURDERS

2:22:00OF RITA HESTER AND UM IN AUSTIN

2:22:02AND PICK IN WATERTOWN.

2:22:04ADVOCATE UM GWENDOLYN AND SMITH

2:22:07ORGANIZED THAT FIRST VIGIL AND

2:22:08FOUNDED THAT FOUNDED

2:22:10REMEMBERING OUR THAT PROJECT

2:22:11BECAUSE THE TRANS COMMUNITY

2:22:13REFUSED TO LET THEIR NAMES BE

2:22:14ERASED.

2:22:15NEARLY THREE DECADES LATER,

2:22:17THAT CRISIS STILL PERSISTS.

2:22:19TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE FOUR

2:22:21TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS

2:22:23OF VIOLENT CRIME, WITH BLACK

2:22:24AND BROWN TRANS WOMEN BEARING

2:22:25THE HEAVIEST, MOST DEADLY

2:22:27BURDEN.

2:22:29ANTI-TRANSGENDER VIOLENCE IS

2:22:30ALSO ON THE RISE, ACCORDING TO

2:22:32A RECENT STUDY RELEASED BY THE

2:22:34UCLA HATE CRIMES TARGETING

2:22:36TRANSGENDER AND GENDER

2:22:38NON-CONFORMING PEOPLE HAVE

2:22:39TRIPLED SINCE 2013.

2:22:42BOSTON IS NOT EXEMPT FROM THIS

2:22:43SUFFERING.

2:22:44VIOLENCE IS PHYSICAL, BUT IT'S

2:22:46ALSO THE QUIET, DEVASTATING

2:22:48WEIGHT OF REJECTION AND

2:22:49ISOLATION.

2:22:51ON APRIL 7TH OF THIS VERY YEAR

2:22:53WE LOST 2425 YEAR OLD MORGAN

2:22:56SUAREZ SALAZAR TO SUICIDE.

2:22:58IT'S UP TO US ALONGSIDE HER

2:23:00CHOSEN FAMILY TO HONOR WHO SHE

2:23:02TRULY WAS SHARP, FIERCELY LOYAL

2:23:06AND DEEPLY LOVED, MORGAN

2:23:09ENJOYED MARIO KART AND COMPUTER

2:23:11GAMES UM AND SPENDING TIME

2:23:14MESSING WITH AND HAVING DEEP

2:23:16CONVERSATIONS WITH HER FRIENDS.

2:23:17HER LOSS IS AN URGENT REMINDER

2:23:19OF THE TOLL ANTI-TRANS

2:23:21HOSTILITY TAKES EVERY DAY TODAY

2:23:24BOSTON MEMBERS ARE TRANSGENDER

2:23:26,NON-BINARY AND GENDER

2:23:27EXPANSIVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO

2:23:29HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES TO

2:23:31VIOLENCE.

2:23:31WE SAY THEIR NAMES AND WE

2:23:32REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT TO

2:23:34STAND WITH OUR TRANSGENDER

2:23:35NEIGHBORS NOT ONLY IN MOMENTS

2:23:37OF GRIEF BUT IN HOW WE GOVERN

2:23:39EVERY SINGLE DAY.

2:23:39THANK YOU.

2:23:40>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BURTON.

2:23:41YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:23:44THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:23:46UH, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK

2:23:47COUNCIL MEMBER HERE FOR HAVING

2:23:48ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR

2:23:49AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED

2:23:50LEADERSHIP AND ALSO THAT

2:23:52OF COUNCILOR SANTANA ON THIS

2:23:53VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE.

2:23:55I'M VERY HONORED TO BE

2:23:56REFLECTING ON AND REMEMBERING

2:23:58OUR TRANSGENDER SIBLINGS WHO

2:23:59ARE NO LONGER WITH US.

2:24:01AS MANY OF YOU KNOW TRANS I'VE

2:24:03ALREADY MENTIONED THIS BY MY

2:24:04COLLEAGUES HAVE REFERENCED THIS

2:24:05THE TRANSGENDER DAY

2:24:06OF REFERENCE A REMEMBRANCE HAS

2:24:09A HISTORY DEEPLY ROOTED IN

2:24:10BOSTON AND ALLSTON BRIGHTON.

2:24:12IT HONORS THE LIFE AND LEGACY

2:24:13OF RITA HESTER, A TRANSGENDER

2:24:15WOMAN LIVING IN ALLSTON WHO WAS

2:24:17TRAGICALLY KILLED IN NOVEMBER

2:24:18OF 2020.

2:24:191998 REMEMBERING OUR

2:24:22DEAD PROJECT ESTABLISHED BY

2:24:23FRIENDS OF RITA AND TRANSGENDER

2:24:24ACTIVISTS IN THE WAKE OF HER

2:24:26DEATH.

2:24:26LAID THE SEEDS FOR THE

2:24:28TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

2:24:29WE COMMEMORATE ON NOVEMBER 20TH

2:24:32AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN

2:24:34ELECTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND

2:24:36I KNOW FOR A FACT I'M NOT THE

2:24:38FIRST GAY PERSON TO BE ELECTED

2:24:40TO BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.

2:24:41I LOVE THE LGBT COMMUNITY,

2:24:44LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY AND THE

2:24:46CELEBRATIONS OF PRIDE THAT WE

2:24:48HAVE EVERY DAY, EVERY YEAR,

2:24:49EVERY DAY.

2:24:51I LOVE ALL OF THE PRIDE PARADES

2:24:53AND THE FESTIVALS, BUT

2:24:54TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

2:24:56IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE FUN

2:24:57EVENTS THAT WE CELEBRATE IN

2:24:59JUNE.

2:25:00TO ME IT'S MORE IMPORTANT

2:25:01BECAUSE IT SERVES AS A STARK

2:25:03REMINDER OF HOW MUCH FIGHTING

2:25:04THERE IS LEFT TO DO.

2:25:06WE KNOW THAT VIOLENCE AGAINST

2:25:08TRANS PEOPLE IS RISING

2:25:10SIGNIFICANTLY.

2:25:10VIOLENCE TARGETING TRANSGENDER

2:25:12WOMEN OF COLOR UH IS IS UH

2:25:16PARTICULARLY ALARMING.

2:25:17WE KNOW THAT THE FEDERAL

2:25:18ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON IS

2:25:19OPENLY HOSTILE TO THE MERE

2:25:22EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENDER

2:25:23AMERICANS.

2:25:24UH, AND AND WE AS COUNCILOR UH

2:25:27,FLYNN JUST REFERENCED UH,

2:25:29VETERANS DAY AND HONORING OUR

2:25:31VETERANS UH, THE UM TRANS UH

2:25:36SERVICE MEMBERS ARE A

2:25:38PARTICULAR FOCUS OF THIS

2:25:41ADMINISTRATION'S.

2:25:42UH.

2:25:43>> CRUELTY NOW MORE THAN EVER,

2:25:45IT'S IMPORTANT TO HONOR THE

2:25:47MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE

2:25:48DIED FAR TOO YOUNG AND AND TO

2:25:52ANTI-TRANS, UH, TRANSGENDER AND

2:25:55WITH ANTI-TRANSGENDER VIOLENCE

2:25:57AND WE MUST COMMIT OURSELVES TO

2:25:58CONTINUE TO FIGHT.

2:25:59THANK YOU.

2:26:01THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:26:03COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:26:04THANK YOU.

2:26:05THANK YOU, THANK YOU, MADAM

2:26:07CHAIR.

2:26:07AND I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

2:26:09TO COUNCIL BRATTON FOR BRINGING

2:26:10UP.

2:26:10THE LGBTQ.

2:26:11PLUS VETERANS.

2:26:13UM, AN IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT AND

2:26:17RESPECTED UH, VETERANS THAT

2:26:19HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT

2:26:22CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR NATION BUT

2:26:24NOT TREATED WITH THE RESPECT

2:26:26THAT THEY'VE EARNED.

2:26:27AND I MENTION THAT BECAUSE I DO

2:26:30WANT TO MENTION VETERANS

2:26:32COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO.

2:26:33WHO IS WORKING WITH ME ON THIS

2:26:38ISSUE BUT UNDER UNDER A LOT

2:26:40UNDER PRESIDENT BIDEN, UM.

2:26:44LGBTQ VETERANS WERE TREATED

2:26:46WITH RESPECT.

2:26:47BUT THERE WAS A PROCESS WHERE

2:26:49IF YOU GOT.

2:26:50A UM DISCHARGE FROM THE

2:26:52MILITARY BASED ON YOUR SEXUAL

2:26:55SEXUALITY, YOU DIDN'T GET THE

2:26:57FULL BENEFITS.

2:26:59UM, AND THEY AND IN THAT

2:27:03PROCESS UNDER PRESIDENT BIDEN.

2:27:05LGBTQ PLUS VETERANS WERE ABLE

2:27:07TO GET THEIR DISCHARGE

2:27:09UPGRADED.

2:27:09IT'S A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

2:27:11UM, BUT WE KNOW UNDER PRESIDENT

2:27:14TRUMP IT BASICALLY STOPS AND

2:27:17LGBTQ PLUS VETERANS WERE

2:27:19BASICALLY PUSHED OUT OF THE

2:27:21SERVICE.

2:27:22I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE

2:27:23IMPORTANT ROLE COMMISSIONER

2:27:25SANTIAGO HAS PLAYED CONTINUES

2:27:27TO PLAY ON THIS ISSUE AND I'M

2:27:29COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO WORK

2:27:31WORKING WITH HIM TO ENSURE.

2:27:34LGBTQ PLUS VETERANS, UH,

2:27:36RECEIVE THE PROPER DISCHARGE

2:27:38THAT THEY HAVE EARNED SO THAT

2:27:40THEY CAN GET THE BENEFITS THAT

2:27:42THEY'RE ENTITLED TO AND THAT

2:27:44THEY EARNED AS WELL.

2:27:45THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:27:46THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:27:47ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:27:49NAME?

2:27:50MR. CLERK.

2:27:51WOULD YOU PLEASE ADD COUNSELOR

2:27:52CULPEPER, COUNSELOR.

2:27:53DURKAN.

2:27:53COUNSELOR.

2:27:54FITZGERALD.

2:27:54COUNSELOR.

2:27:54FLYNN.

2:27:55COUNSELOR.

2:27:56LOUIJEUNE.

2:27:57COUNSELOR.

2:27:57MURPHY.

2:27:57COUNSELOR.

2:27:58PATTON.

2:27:58COUNSELOR.

2:27:58WEBER.

2:27:59COUNCILOR.

2:27:59WHIRL AND.

2:28:00PLEASE ADD CHAIR.

2:28:01COUNSELORS HERE.

2:28:04BREADON AND SANTANA SEEK

2:28:05SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND

2:28:07ADOPTION OF DOCKET 2111.

2:28:09ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:28:11ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:28:14MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:28:15CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON

2:28:16DOCKET 2111.

2:28:18.

2:28:19>> COUNSELOR BRAIN.

2:28:19YES, COUNSELOR.

2:28:20BREADON.

2:28:20YES, COUNSELOR COLOR AS OPPOSED

2:28:22YES.

2:28:23YES, COUNSELOR.

2:28:24CULPEPPER.

2:28:25COUNSELOR.

2:28:25BELL.

2:28:26PEPPER.

2:28:26YES.

2:28:26COUNSELOR.

2:28:27DURKAN.

2:28:27COUNSELOR.

2:28:28DURKAN.

2:28:29YES.

2:28:29COUNSELOR.

2:28:29FITZGERALD.

2:28:30FITZGERALD.

2:28:31YES, COUNSELOR FLYNN IS

2:28:32COUNSELOR.

2:28:33FUNNIEST COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:28:34COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:28:36YES, COUNSELOR.

2:28:36MEJIA.

2:28:37COUNSELOR.

2:28:37MEJIA.

2:28:38YES, COUNSELOR.

2:28:39MURPHY.

2:28:39COUNSELOR.

2:28:40MURPHY.

2:28:40YES, COUNCILOR.

2:28:41PUT THEM.

2:28:42COUNSELOR.

2:28:43PEN.

2:28:43YES.

2:28:43COUNCIL.

2:28:44SANTANA.

2:28:44COUNSELOR.

2:28:45SANTANA.

2:28:45YES.

2:28:46COUNCILOR.

2:28:46WEBER.

2:28:47YES.

2:28:47COUNCIL.

2:28:48YES AND COUNSELOR.

2:28:49WORLD COUNSELOR.

2:28:50WELL, YES.

2:28:51TALKING OF A2111 HAS RECEIVED A

2:28:53UNANIMOUS VOTE IN THE

2:28:55AFFIRMATIVE.

2:28:56THANK YOU.

2:28:57>> DOCKET 12111 HAS BEEN

2:28:59ADOPTED.

2:29:00MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ

2:29:01DOCKET 2112.

2:29:03SO I CAN HAVE A2112 COUNSELOR

2:29:05MEJIA FOR THE PHONE RESOLUTION

2:29:08RECOGNIZING NATIONAL SURVIVORS

2:29:11OF HOMICIDE VICTIMS AWARE

2:29:12OF MARKET AWARENESS MONTH IN

2:29:13THE CITY OF BOSTON FROM

2:29:16NOVEMBER 20TH TO DECEMBER 20TH.

2:29:18THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:29:19COUNCIL MEMBER HERE.

2:29:20COUNCIL.

2:29:21YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:29:22UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:29:23I'D LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL A AS AN

2:29:27ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND I WANT

2:29:28TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD

2:29:31COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AS AN

2:29:32ORIGINAL THIRD CO-SPONSOR.

2:29:34CONSTABLE IS SO ADDED AND

2:29:36SEEING AND HEARING NO

2:29:37OBJECTIONS LOUIJEUNE IS ADDED

2:29:38AS A THIRD.

2:29:40UH SO I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT AND

2:29:42RECOGNIZE LEWIS THE BROWN PEACE

2:29:44INSTITUTE FOR THEIR WORK.

2:29:45UM AS SOMEONE WHO UM IN THE 90S

2:29:48WORKED IN THE VIOLENCE

2:29:49PREVENTION SPACE UM, LEWIS WAS

2:29:53UH A NEIGHBOR OF MINE AND UM,

2:29:55TO SEE TINA AND HER FAMILY

2:29:58REALLY SEIZE THAT MOMENT TO

2:29:59TURN THEIR ANGER INTO ACTION

2:30:01WAS SUPER INSPIRING.

2:30:03IN FACT, TINA CHERRY WAS A

2:30:06CLEMENTINA.

2:30:07CHERRY WAS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT

2:30:10A CONFERENCE THAT I HOSTED IN

2:30:111996.

2:30:12MANY OF YOU PROBABLY WEREN'T

2:30:13EVEN BORN THEN BUT NONETHELESS

2:30:16UM, SHE WAS UH, INCREDIBLY

2:30:19PASSIONATE, UH, ABOUT THE WORK,

2:30:22UH, FOLLOWING HER SON'S PASSING

2:30:25AND CREATED SPACE FOR YOUNG

2:30:27PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THEIR

2:30:28POWER AROUND ORGANIZING.

2:30:31UM, AND I WANT TO ALSO UPLIFT

2:30:32REPRESENTATIVE UH, OUR

2:30:34CONGRESSWOMAN, OUR BELOVED

2:30:35CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY AND, UM

2:30:37,SENATOR MARKEY FOR THEIR WORK

2:30:38AT.

2:30:39>> THE.

2:30:39FEDERAL LEVEL IN REGARDS TO

2:30:41HOMICIDE AWARENESS, UM, WORK

2:30:44HOMICIDES HERE IN THE CITY

2:30:45OF BOSTON HAVE A DEEP IMPACT IN

2:30:48OUR COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS THE

2:30:50VICTIMS OF HOMICIDE ARE BOTH

2:30:51THE LOVED ONES AND THE ONES

2:30:52THAT HAVE COMMITTED THE CRIME.

2:30:55AND SO I THINK EVERYONE IS

2:30:57IMPACTED BY HOMICIDE AND

2:30:59RECOGNIZING NATIONAL SURVIVORS

2:31:00OF THE HOMICIDE VICTIMS

2:31:02AWARENESS MONTH.

2:31:03WE NOT ONLY RAISE AWARENESS BUT

2:31:04WE ALSO ADVOCATE FOR SURVIVING

2:31:06FAMILY MEMBERS WHO NEED

2:31:07HOLISTIC, COORDINATED,

2:31:09COMPASSIONATE AND CONSISTENT

2:31:10SUPPORT AND SERVICES IN THE

2:31:12IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF A

2:31:14HOMICIDE AND ONGOING

2:31:16OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALING IN

2:31:17THE MONTHS AND YEARS, UH, TO

2:31:19COME.

2:31:19AND YOU KNOW, AS SOMEONE WHO

2:31:20HAS LOST.

2:31:21MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY

2:31:23TO VIOLENCE TO THE STREETS

2:31:24OF BOSTON IN PARTICULAR UM THIS

2:31:27IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ME AND I

2:31:29UNDERSTAND THAT NOTHING THAT WE

2:31:31FILE OR SAY HERE ON THIS

2:31:33COUNCIL CAN ERASE CAN ERASE THE

2:31:35PAIN THAT SO MANY FAMILIES ARE

2:31:36STILL LEFT FEELING, ESPECIALLY

2:31:39THOSE WHO STILL HAVE UNSOLVED

2:31:41HOMICIDE UM, ISSUES IN TERMS

2:31:43OF NOT KNOWING AND HAVING THE

2:31:45CLOSURE THAT THEY NEED.

2:31:47SO TO ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES WHO

2:31:48ARE STILL WAITING.

2:31:48>> FOR.

2:31:49ANSWERS WE SEE YOU, WE AFFIRM

2:31:50YOU AND WE'RE HERE FOR YOU.

2:31:52THANK YOU.

2:31:53.

2:31:54>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR MEJA THE

2:31:55CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WU

2:31:56YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:31:57UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:31:58THANK YOU TO COUNCIL ME HERE

2:31:59FOR ME AS AN ORIGINAL

2:32:01CO-SPONSOR.

2:32:02UM, AND I JUST WANT TO

2:32:03EMPHASIZE COUNCILMAN HIS POINT

2:32:06THAT SURVIVED AND LOVED ONES

2:32:07OF VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE NEED

2:32:09COORDINATED CONSISTENT SUPPORT

2:32:11AND SERVICES AS WELL AS ONGOING

2:32:13OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALING.

2:32:14UH, BECAUSE THERE'S NO

2:32:16TIMELINE, UH, FOR THE KIND

2:32:17OF PAIN THAT, UH, YOU GET WHEN

2:32:19YOU LOSE A LOVED ONE TO GUN

2:32:20VIOLENCE, UH, THE MORE WE'RE

2:32:22ABLE TO ADDRESS THE UNIQUE

2:32:23NEEDS OF AFFECTED FAMILIES, THE

2:32:25BETTER WE BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO

2:32:27THE IMPACTS OF VIOLENCE IN OUR

2:32:28COMMUNITIES TO BREAK THE CYCLE

2:32:30OF VIOLENCE THAT TAKES

2:32:32COORDINATED EFFORTS AND BY AND

2:32:34ACROSS MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS.

2:32:35THAT'S WHY I ADVOCATED A FEW

2:32:37YEARS AGO TO MOVE THE OFFICE

2:32:38OF VIOLENCE INTERVENTION

2:32:39PREVENTION TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC

2:32:40HEALTH COMMISSION TO CENTER OUR

2:32:43CITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION

2:32:44EFFORTS THROUGH A PUBLIC HEALTH

2:32:46LENS.

2:32:46WE'RE FIGHTING AT THIS.

2:32:47WE'RE FIGHTING THIS AT THE

2:32:50ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL AND WE

2:32:51HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD OFF

2:32:52OF THESE EFFORTS STRATEGICALLY.

2:32:54I ALSO WANT TO JUST LIFT UP,

2:32:55UH, THE LUCY BROWN INSTITUTE

2:32:58DOWN LUCY BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE

2:33:00AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

2:33:01LIKE THE BOLD STREET TASK FORCE

2:33:03,MATT'S MOM, UH, VIP UH

2:33:06STUDENT SUPPORT THE GROWTH TO

2:33:08GROVE HALL TASK FORCE THE

2:33:1010,000 FAMILIES AND I KNOW

2:33:11WE'VE MISSED A FEW OTHER

2:33:13ORGANIZATIONS, BUT I JUST WANT

2:33:14TO LIFT UP ALL THE

2:33:15ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN THIS

2:33:17SPACE AND JUST THANK THEM FOR

2:33:18ALL THEIR SERVICE.

2:33:18THANK YOU.

2:33:20THANK YOU.

2:33:21>> COUNCILOR WORRELL THE CHAIR

2:33:22RECOGNIZES COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

2:33:23YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:33:24THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

2:33:25THANK YOU TO COUNCIL I'M HERE I

2:33:27KNOW YOU FILE THIS.

2:33:27EVERY YEAR AND I JUST WANTED TO

2:33:29STAND UP IN SUPPORT.

2:33:30UH, WE LOSE WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE

2:33:33A YEAR TO UH, HOMICIDES, UH,

2:33:3622,000.

2:33:37AND WE KNOW THAT FOR EACH

2:33:38PERSON THAT IS LOST IT HAS A

2:33:40RIPPLE EFFECT ON THE AVERAGE

2:33:42OF ABOUT TEN PEOPLE AND WE'RE

2:33:44TALKING ABOUT, UH,

2:33:46INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA.

2:33:48INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA THAT

2:33:49IS OFTEN PASSED DOWN.

2:33:51UM, AND AND IT'S REALLY

2:33:53DIFFICULT TO HELP, UM, PEOPLE

2:33:54HEAL, BUT I THERE ARE A NUMBER

2:33:57OF ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE

2:33:58OF COURSE THE PEACE INSTITUTE

2:33:59THAT STARTED THIS RECOGNITION

2:34:01IN 2000 BUT SO MANY OTHERS AND

2:34:03SO I WANTED TO JUST TAKE THE

2:34:04TIME AND UM TO UPLIFT THEM BUT

2:34:06ALSO JUST HOLD SPACE FOR THE

2:34:08NUMBER OF FAMILIES WHO LIVE

2:34:10WITH.

2:34:11UH.

2:34:13>> UNSOLVED HOMICIDES.

2:34:14AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THEM

2:34:15INCLUDING MY SISTER'S AUNT JEFF

2:34:17AND HER SON JEFFREY SHERRY MAY

2:34:19REST IN PEACE.

2:34:20WHEN 2015.

2:34:21UM.

2:34:22>> LOST HIS LIFE SENSELESSLY

2:34:24HERE IN THE CITY.

2:34:25AND SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT

2:34:27MORE WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO,

2:34:28ESPECIALLY TO PROVIDE HEALING

2:34:29TO THOSE WHOSE HOMICIDES GO

2:34:31UNSOLVED AND TO THE FAMILIES

2:34:32AND THE NETWORKS WHO ARE

2:34:34AFFECTED BY THE LOSS OF THEIR

2:34:35DAD.

2:34:35THEY ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT OUR

2:34:37OWN CITY EMPLOYEES HERE,

2:34:39WHETHER IT BE AT YOU OR AT VIP

2:34:41AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO WHEN

2:34:42THEY'RE WORKING WITH OUR YOUNG

2:34:44PEOPLE UM, AND WITH THOSE WHO

2:34:46ARE UM AT RISK THEY WHEN WE

2:34:48LOSE ANYONE THEY FEEL THOSE

2:34:50LOSSES VERY, VERY DEEPLY AND

2:34:51THEY RECENTLY EXPERIENCED A

2:34:52REALLY, REALLY DEEP LOSS WITH

2:34:54THE YOUNG PERSON THAT THEY

2:34:55WORKED WITH VERY CLOSELY.

2:34:55JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THE TEAM

2:34:57AND ALL THAT THEY UM DO FOR OUR

2:34:59YOUNG PEOPLE.

2:35:00UM, AND UH.

2:35:02EVERYONE WHO WORKS IN THIS

2:35:04SPACE BECAUSE WHENEVER WE LOSE

2:35:05SOMEONE TO HOMICIDE AS I SAID,

2:35:07THE RIPPLE EFFECT IS NOT JUST

2:35:09ON THE FAMILY, IT'S ON AN

2:35:11ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

2:35:12SO, UM, THANK YOU COUNCIL ME

2:35:13FOR THIS.

2:35:14REALLY THANK YOU.

2:35:16CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:35:17COUNCILOR FRIEND COUNCIL YOU

2:35:18HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:35:19THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:35:20I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:35:21COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR RAISING

2:35:23AWARENESS ON THIS IMPORTANT

2:35:24ISSUE.

2:35:25I FILED A HEARING ORDER TO

2:35:27EXAMINE SERVICES PROVIDED BY

2:35:28THE CITY OF BOSTON TO FAMILIES

2:35:31AND VICTIMS OF HOMICIDES.

2:35:33UH, THAT WAS IN AUGUST.

2:35:35IT'S UNLIKELY I'LL BE ABLE TO

2:35:37HAVE A HEARING ON MAYBE MAYBE

2:35:38IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY.

2:35:40UM, BUT FAMILIES WHO LOST A

2:35:42LOVED ONE TO VIOLENCE DESERVE

2:35:44TO BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY,

2:35:46RESPECT AND COMPASSION

2:35:47THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CRIMINAL

2:35:49JUSTICE SYSTEM.

2:35:50IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE AS

2:35:52ELECTED OFFICIALS, CITY

2:35:53OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS THAT

2:35:55WE COMMUNICATE.

2:35:56WITH VICTIMS FAMILIES IN THE

2:36:00FOCUS ALSO ENSURING THAT A

2:36:02FAMILY KNOWS BEFORE A PAROLE

2:36:04HEARING.

2:36:05OR PUBLIC.

2:36:05RELEASE DATE IS SCHEDULED.

2:36:07UM I THINK FAMILIES WANT

2:36:09JUSTICE AS WELL.

2:36:09FAMILIES HAVE A RIGHT TO BE

2:36:11INFORMED, TO HAVE THEIR VOICES

2:36:13HEARD AND TO PRESENT TESTIMONY

2:36:16AS THEY CONTINUE TO PURSUE

2:36:18JUSTICE FOR THEIR LOVED ONES.

2:36:19THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:36:20THANK YOU.

2:36:21WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR

2:36:23NAME COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:36:26COUNCILOR DURKAN.

2:36:26COUNCILOR.

2:36:27FITZGERALD.

2:36:27COUNCILOR.

2:36:28FLYNN COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL.

2:36:29PEPEN COUNCIL.

2:36:30WEBER AND PLEASE UH THE CHAIR

2:36:34COUNCILORS MAHIRA WARREN AND

2:36:37LOUIJEUNE SEEK SUSPENSION

2:36:38OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET

2:36:412112.

2:36:41ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED

2:36:44.

2:36:44SAY NAY.

2:36:45MR COOK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:36:47A ROLL CALL?

2:36:47VOTE ON DOCKET 2112.

2:36:50COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:36:51YES, COUNSELOR.

2:36:51BREADON.

2:36:52>> YES, COUNCILOR COLETTE AS

2:36:53OPPONENT COUNCILOR.

2:36:54CULPEPER, COUNCILOR.

2:36:56CULPEPER.

2:36:57YES, COUNCILOR.

2:36:57DURKAN.

2:36:58COUNCILOR.

2:36:59DURKAN.

2:36:59YES.

2:37:00COUNCILOR.

2:37:00FITZGERALD.

2:37:01COUNCILOR.

2:37:02VISTO.

2:37:02YES COUNCILOR.

2:37:02FLYNN.

2:37:03YES.

2:37:04COUNCIL.

2:37:04THIN.

2:37:04YES.

2:37:05COUNCILOR.

2:37:05LOUIJEUNE.

2:37:05YES.

2:37:06COUNCIL.

2:37:06LOUIJEUNE.

2:37:07YES.

2:37:07COUNCIL.

2:37:07MEDIA CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

2:37:09YES.

2:37:09COUNCILOR.

2:37:10MURPHY.

2:37:11COUNCILOR.

2:37:11MURPHY.

2:37:11YES.

2:37:12COUNCIL.

2:37:12PIPPIN.

2:37:13COUNCILOR.

2:37:13PEN.

2:37:14YES.

2:37:14COUNCILOR.

2:37:15SANTANA.

2:37:16COUNCILOR.

2:37:16WEBER.

2:37:17YES.

2:37:17COUNCILOR.

2:37:17WEBER.

2:37:18YES.

2:37:19COUNCILOR.

2:37:19WORLD.

2:37:20YES.

2:37:20COUNCIL.

2:37:21WELL YES I CAN NUMBER 2112 HAS

2:37:24RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE

2:37:26AFFIRMATIVE.

2:37:27THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:37:28DOCKET 2112 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

2:37:31WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

2:37:32PERSONNEL ORDERS.

2:37:34MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:37:35READ THE PERSONNEL ORDERS?

2:37:36UM, IT'S DOCKETS 2113 AND 211

2:37:39FOR.

2:37:40PERSONNEL ORDERS.

2:37:41DUCKY NUMBER 2113

2:37:43COUNCIL READING FOR

2:37:44COUNCIL ZERO AND DOC NUMBER 211

2:37:46FOR COUNCILOR BREADON FOR

2:37:48COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:37:49THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE

2:37:51OF THE PERSONNEL ORDERS.

2:37:52ALL IN FAVOR SAY I YEAH.

2:37:55UH.

2:37:55ALL OPPOSED.

2:37:55SAY NAY.

2:37:56THE AYES HAVE IT.

2:37:57PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE PASSED

2:37:59BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO GREEN

2:38:00SHEETS.

2:38:01IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE

2:38:02TO ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET

2:38:03THAT THEY MAY HAVE MISSED?

2:38:04PLEASE PUT YOUR LIGHT ON IF YOU

2:38:06WANT TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT.

2:38:08IN ADDITION, COUNCILOR WEBER,

2:38:10YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:38:13THANK YOU.

2:38:14UM, YEAH.

2:38:16UH, DOCKET UH, NUMBER 2097.

2:38:21OH, NO, I GUESS, UH YEAH THAT

2:38:24THAT THAT THAT HEARING ORDER

2:38:25UH, DOCKET TWO.

2:38:28>> ZERO AND I.

2:38:28DON'T.

2:38:28LIKE TO ADD MY NAME.

2:38:33OKAY.

2:38:34>> UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

2:38:37WERE NEXT.

2:38:38YEAH.

2:38:39>> MADAM CHAIR, UM.

2:38:41IS THIS THE TIME I JUST WANT TO

2:38:44REVISIT, UM.

2:38:45>> AN.

2:38:45OPPORTUNITY TO.

2:38:47UM, MAKE MY CASE ABOUT DOCKET

2:38:522108 AND PLACING IT IN CITY

2:38:54SERVICES.

2:38:55COMMITTEE IF IT'S IF IT'S LATER

2:38:58DURING THE MEETING, I CAN MAKE

2:39:00THE CASE, BUT I.

2:39:01UM I'M.

2:39:06NOT BECAUSE THAT'S.

2:39:09IT'S TRANSPORTATION.

2:39:11PARKING ENFORCEMENT IS

2:39:12TRANSPORTATION.

2:39:13UH, MADAM CHAIR.

2:39:14THE YES.

2:39:16THANK YOU.

2:39:16I'M GOING TO STICK BY MY

2:39:17DECISION.

2:39:17NO, NO.

2:39:18I UNDERSTAND THAT, MADAM CHAIR

2:39:19.

2:39:20IT IS, UH, TRANSPORTATION IS

2:39:22CLEARLY THIS ISSUE IS CLEARLY

2:39:24ABOUT, UH, PERSONNEL AND

2:39:26HIRING, WHICH IS IN THE

2:39:28TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

2:39:29IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO

2:39:31WITH INFRASTRUCTURE OR, UH,

2:39:33ROADS.

2:39:34IT'S ABOUT THE CITY EMPLOYEES

2:39:35THAT WORK FOR THE

2:39:37TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

2:39:38THAT'S WHY IT'S IT'S CLEARLY

2:39:39SAID STATED IN THE UM IN THE

2:39:42RULES THAT THAT WOULD BE UNDER

2:39:45UM CITY SERVICES.

2:39:46I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU YOU MAY

2:39:48NOT WANT IT THERE BUT IT'S

2:39:49CLEARLY A CITY SERVICES ISSUE.

2:39:52EVEN COUNCILOR PÉPIN AND I

2:39:53BELIEVE COUNCILMEMBER HERE UM

2:39:56REFERENCED IT AS WELL.

2:39:58COULD I MAKE COULD I ASK TO FOR

2:40:00THAT TO.

2:40:01UH FOR RECONSIDERATION OF THAT?

2:40:03ARE YOU UM I HAVE A MOTION TO.

2:40:05THE MOTION.

2:40:06TO UH.

2:40:08REVISIT IT.

2:40:09SO IT COULD BE NO NO NO.

2:40:11>> ARE YOU ARE YOU APPEALING

2:40:12THE DECISION?

2:40:13>> YES YES YES.

2:40:14UM, MOTION.

2:40:15TO RECONSIDER.

2:40:16UM.

2:40:22>> SO.

2:40:28SO YOU'RE IT'S INVOKING RULE

2:40:31FIVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER.

2:40:35DO YOU HAVE A SECOND?

2:40:36SECOND?

2:40:39>> UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU MAY

2:40:41PROCEED.

2:40:41THANK YOU.

2:40:42>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:40:43I JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY READ AND

2:40:44I'LL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE, MADAM

2:40:46CHAIR.

2:40:46UH.

2:40:47>> KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITY

2:40:48SERVICES.

2:40:49THE COMMITTEE COLLABORATES WITH

2:40:51CITY DEPARTMENTS TO MANAGE COST

2:40:52AND ENHANCE SERVICES LIKE URBAN

2:40:54PARKING, BROADBAND DATA

2:40:56INFRASTRUCTURE AND UTILITY

2:40:58OPERATION.

2:40:59IT PROVIDES OVERSIGHT FOR MAJOR

2:41:00MUNICIPAL ENTITIES INCLUDING

2:41:02THE PUBLIC WORKS AND

2:41:04TRANSPORTATION.

2:41:04DEPARTMENT, THE WATER.

2:41:05>> AND.

2:41:06SEWER COMMISSION, PUBLIC

2:41:06IMPROVEMENT, DISABILITIES AND

2:41:08INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY

2:41:09NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, THE

2:41:11BROWN FUND.

2:41:12CHARGE ROBERT WHITE FUND BUT.

2:41:14>> IT CLEARLY.

2:41:14STATES IT'S IT'S UM

2:41:17TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

2:41:18IT'S NOT ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:41:20IT IS ABOUT.

2:41:21SUPPORTING THE UM.

2:41:22THE WORKERS AT THAT PARTICULAR

2:41:24DEPARTMENT.

2:41:25THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:41:27THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:41:29SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, UM, ARE

2:41:31YOU UM ARE YOU MOVING TO, UH,

2:41:36APPEAL THE DECISION OF THE

2:41:37CHAIR, PLEASE?

2:41:38DO YOU HAVE A SECOND.

2:41:41TO TWO 30S.

2:41:44UM.

2:41:47>> SO THE QUESTION BEFORE THE

2:41:49BODY IS SHALL THE DECISION

2:41:50OF THE CHAIR STAND IN THE

2:41:51JUDGMENT OF THE COUNCIL?

2:41:52A YES VOTE KEEPS THE DOCKET IN

2:41:54THE COMMITTEE.

2:41:55THE CHAIR IS DECIDED.

2:41:57A NO VOTE CHANGES THE COMMITTEE

2:41:58ASSIGNMENT.

2:41:59UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU WERE

2:42:01THE LEAD SPONSOR ON THIS

2:42:02DOCKET.

2:42:02I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO

2:42:03SPEAK.

2:42:03THANK YOU.

2:42:04>> CHAIR, I WAS JUST LETTING MY

2:42:06COLLEAGUES KNOW AND REMINDING

2:42:07THEM SINCE WE'RE GOING OUT

2:42:09OF ORDER, UM, HERE THAT I WAS

2:42:11THE LEAD SPONSOR AND I.

2:42:13I, UM AND I ALSO AM THE

2:42:15COMMITTEE CHAIR THAT IT WAS PUT

2:42:16IN.

2:42:16SO I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES

2:42:18TO, UM TO VOTE YES TO HAVE THE

2:42:22COMMITTEE OH, SORRY TO VOTE NO

2:42:25TO UM YES SHALL THE SO IT'S

2:42:28SHALL THE SHALL THE DECISION

2:42:29OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIR STAND SO

2:42:31THE ANSWER IS YES THE COMMITTEE

2:42:32CHAIR SHOULD STAND.

2:42:34SO I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE

2:42:35YES.

2:42:37UM THIS IS MY FILING AND UM

2:42:39WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT IN MY

2:42:41COMMITTEE AS IT WAS PLACED.

2:42:42THANK YOU.

2:42:43>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:42:45.

2:42:46SO THE QUESTION BEFORE THE BODY

2:42:48IS SHALL THE DECISION OF THE

2:42:49CHAIR STAND AS THE JUDGMENT

2:42:50OF THE COUNCIL?

2:42:51A YES VOTE KEEPS THE DOCKET IN

2:42:53THE COMMITTEE.

2:42:53UH, THE CHAIR HAS DECIDED A NO

2:42:56VOTE CHANGES THE COMMITTEE

2:42:58ASSIGNMENT.

2:42:59MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

2:43:00TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:43:01VOTE COUNSELOR BRAIN.

2:43:03YES.

2:43:05>> COUNCIL GREATNESS COUNSELOR

2:43:06COLON AS OPPOSED COUNSELOR

2:43:08COAT AS WELL.

2:43:09YES, COUNSELOR.

2:43:09CULPEPER.

2:43:11COUNSELOR.

2:43:11CULPEPER.

2:43:12PRESIDENT.

2:43:12COUNSELOR.

2:43:13DURKAN.

2:43:13COUNSELOR.

2:43:14DURKAN.

2:43:14YES.

2:43:15COUNSELOR.

2:43:15FITZGERALD.

2:43:16COUNSELOR.

2:43:17>> FITZGERALD.

2:43:17>> NO.

2:43:18COUNSELOR.

2:43:18FLYNN.

2:43:18COUNSELOR.

2:43:19FLYNN.

2:43:19NO.

2:43:20COUNSELOR.

2:43:20LOUIJEUNE.

2:43:21YES.

2:43:21COUNSELORS AND YES.

2:43:22COUNSELOR.

2:43:23MEJIA.

2:43:24COUNSELOR.

2:43:25MURPHY.

2:43:25COUNSELOR.

2:43:26MURPHY.

2:43:27NO.

2:43:27COUNSELOR.

2:43:27THE PIN COUNCIL.

2:43:29YES.

2:43:29COUNCIL.

2:43:30SANTANA.

2:43:31COUNSELOR.

2:43:31WEBER.

2:43:32YES.

2:43:32COUNSELOR.

2:43:33WEBER.

2:43:33YES AND COUNSELOR.

2:43:34EARL.

2:43:34YES, COUNSELOR.

2:43:35OH, YES.

2:43:38SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE,

2:43:41THREE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE AND

2:43:42ONE PRESENT.

2:43:44.

2:43:44>> THE, UH THE DOCKET.

2:43:47REMAINS NUMBER 2108 REMAINS IN

2:43:50THE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND

2:43:53TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.

2:44:02ANYONE ELSE DO WE COMPLETE THE

2:44:03THE ANY THE PEOPLE CHANGING

2:44:06THEIR VOTES OR RECORDING

2:44:07ANYTHING THAT'S ALL DONE?

2:44:10UM UH, OKAY.

2:44:12WE'RE NOW ON THE GREEN SHEETS.

2:44:14UH, IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL

2:44:16FROM THE GREEN SHEETS?

2:44:18COUNSELOR FLYNN CHAIR

2:44:20RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:44:21THE COMMITTEE ON THE CHAIR

2:44:22OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY

2:44:23SERVICES.

2:44:24THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:44:28MADAM CHAIR, MAY I PULL, UM,

2:44:30DOCKET 1772, PLEASE?

2:44:32THANK YOU.

2:44:33UM, MR CHAIR, UM, MR. CLERK,

2:44:37COULD YOU READ DOCKET 1772 AND

2:44:40THIS PAGE PAGE 11 OF THE GREEN

2:44:42SHEETS.

2:44:43FROM THE COMMITTEE AND CITY

2:44:45SERVICES DOC NUMBER 1772

2:44:47MESSAGE NOT AUTHORIZING THE

2:44:49CITY BUS TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND

2:44:50THE AMOUNT OF $1,361,182 IN THE

2:44:56FORM OF A GRANT METROPOLITAN

2:44:58AREA PLANNING COUNCIL AWARD BY

2:44:59THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

2:45:01OF THE TREASURY PASS THROUGH

2:45:02THE MASS METROPOLITAN AREA

2:45:04PLANNING COUNCIL TO BE

2:45:05ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT

2:45:07OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY.

2:45:09THE GRANT WOULD FUND EQUIPMENT

2:45:11AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR

2:45:13THE EXPANSION OF THE CITY'S

2:45:15BROADBAND NETWORK THROUGH TWO

2:45:17BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

2:45:19CAMPUSES.

2:45:20THANK YOU.

2:45:21>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:45:22COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:45:22YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:45:23THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:45:26I DO REALIZE THIS IS A

2:45:28SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY.

2:45:30UM, AND SHOULD HAVE A HEARING.

2:45:32BUT WITH CITY CITY

2:45:35COUNCIL CLOSING DOWN, UM, I

2:45:37WASN'T ABLE TO GET THIS ON THE

2:45:39SCHEDULE.

2:45:40UM, BUT THIS INVESTMENT WOULD

2:45:42BE AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS

2:45:43IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY AND

2:45:46ENSURING OUR RESIDENTS HAVE

2:45:46GREATER ACCESS TO RELIABLE

2:45:48BROADBAND SERVICES.

2:45:50I ALSO WANT TO THANK

2:45:52COUNCILOR HEFFERNAN AS WELL FOR

2:45:53HIS ADVOCACY.

2:45:54I WANT TO WANT TO THANK THE

2:45:56RESIDENTS OF THE WEST BROADWAY

2:45:58TASK FORCE, INCLUDING MY FRIEND

2:46:00CLAUDIA.

2:46:01UM.

2:46:01>> FOR.

2:46:02REACHING OUT FOR HER ADVOCACY.

2:46:04UM URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO

2:46:05SUPPORT AND APPROVE THIS

2:46:07DOCKET, HELP ENSURE THOSE

2:46:08RESOURCES REACH OUR.

2:46:10NEIGHBORS AND PUBLIC HOUSING.

2:46:14UM.

2:46:15>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:46:19THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:46:20THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:46:21COUNCILOR PEPEN.

2:46:22YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:46:22MAY I SPEAK ON THIS?

2:46:24UM, YES.

2:46:25IT'S COMING UP FOR A VOTE, SO

2:46:26YES, YOU MAY SPEAK ON IT.

2:46:27THANK YOU.

2:46:27I JUST WANT TO THANK

2:46:28COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR PULLING US

2:46:29OUT OF THE GREEN SHEETS.

2:46:30THE TWO BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING

2:46:32DEVELOPMENTS THAT WOULD IMPACT

2:46:34BENEFIT BENEFIT AND SUPPORT.

2:46:35AH, IN HIS DISTRICT.

2:46:37IN MY DISTRICT THE ONE IN MY

2:46:38DISTRICT IS THE ARCH ARE PUBLIC

2:46:39HOUSING IN ROSLINDALE.

2:46:40THIS IS TO IMPROVE THE INTERNET

2:46:42ACCESS TO OUR RESIDENTS.

2:46:44UM.

2:46:45,MISS.

2:46:45MISS IVORY IN HARTSDALE WAS

2:46:47VERY ADAMANTLY ASKING ME IF

2:46:48THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND

2:46:50THIS WILL IMPROVE THEIR

2:46:52CONNECTIVITY OVER THERE.

2:46:53AND AS YOU KNOW, I AS A FORMER

2:46:54RESIDENT OF AS A KID I GREW UP

2:46:56THERE.

2:46:57I KNOW HOW MUCH SOMETHING LIKE

2:46:58THIS COULD MEAN.

2:46:59SO I THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR

2:47:00PULLING OUT OF GREEN SHEETS AND

2:47:01I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE

2:47:02SUPPORT THIS TODAY.

2:47:03THANK YOU THANK YOU CHAIR

2:47:06RECOGNIZES COUNTRY MURPHY YOU

2:47:06HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:47:08THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

2:47:09AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN

2:47:10.

2:47:10I KNOW THIS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU

2:47:12NORMALLY DO, BUT I KNOW THAT

2:47:14RESIDENTS DID REACH OUT

2:47:16DIRECTLY AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT

2:47:17THIS IMPORTANCE AND THANK YOU

2:47:19COUNCIL STAFF AND FOR ALSO

2:47:20UPLIFTING THE RESIDENTS WHO

2:47:22HAVE ADVOCATED AND I JUST THINK

2:47:23THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR

2:47:24ANYONE WHO'S WATCHING THAT YOU

2:47:26CAN, YOU KNOW, REACH OUT AND

2:47:28TALK TO US AND CALL US.

2:47:29THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET

2:47:31THINGS THROUGH.

2:47:31SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS

2:47:33UP FOR A VOTE TODAY BEFORE THE

2:47:35TERM ENDS WE'RE OFF ON DECEMBER

2:47:379TH.

2:47:37IT SEEMS A BIT EARLY TO ME, BUT

2:47:39THE LAST HEARING WE CAN HAVE

2:47:41WILL BE DECEMBER 8TH AND

2:47:43THERE'S NOT MANY SLOTS

2:47:44AVAILABLE IF ANY AT ALL TO GET

2:47:46THESE IMPORTANT ISSUES

2:47:48ADDRESSED.

2:47:49THANK YOU.

2:47:50THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY

2:47:52COUNCILOR FLYNN MOVES FOR

2:47:52PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 1772.

2:47:55ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:47:57ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:47:59MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:48:01A ROLL CALL?

2:48:01VOTE ON DOCKET 1772.

2:48:04COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:48:05YES.

2:48:05COUNCIL BRAIN.

2:48:05YES, COUNCIL AS A COUNCIL AS A

2:48:08PARTY.

2:48:08YES.

2:48:09COUNCILOR.

2:48:09CULPEPER.

2:48:10COUNCILOR.

2:48:11CULPEPER.

2:48:11YES.

2:48:11COUNCILOR.

2:48:12DURKAN.

2:48:13COUNCILOR.

2:48:14DURKAN.

2:48:14YES.

2:48:14COUNCIL.

2:48:15FITZGERALD.

2:48:16COUNCILOR.

2:48:16FITZGERALD.

2:48:17YES.

2:48:17COUNCILOR.

2:48:17FLYNN.

2:48:18YES.

2:48:19COUNCIL.

2:48:19FLYNN.

2:48:20YES.

2:48:20COUNCILOR.

2:48:20LOUIJEUNE.

2:48:21YES.

2:48:21COUNCILOR.

2:48:22LOUIJEUNE.

2:48:22YES.

2:48:23COUNCIL.

2:48:23MEJIA.

2:48:24COUNCILOR.

2:48:25MURPHY.

2:48:26COUNCILOR.

2:48:26MURPHY.

2:48:26YES.

2:48:27COUNCIL.

2:48:27PUT PEN.

2:48:28COUNCILOR.

2:48:28PEN.

2:48:29YES.

2:48:29COUNCIL.

2:48:29SANTANA.

2:48:30COUNCILOR.

2:48:31WEBER.

2:48:31YES.

2:48:32COUNCILOR.

2:48:32WEBER.

2:48:33YES, COUNCILOR.

2:48:33WORLD COUNCILOR.

2:48:35WELL, YES.

2:48:36TALKING NUMBER 1772 AS RECEIVED

2:48:4011 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:48:41THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:48:42DOCKET 1772 HAS PASSED.

2:48:45COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOUR LIGHT IS

2:48:47STILL ON.

2:48:48DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER DOCKET YOU

2:48:49WANT TO CALL IT?

2:48:52>> YES, MADAM CHAIR.

2:48:52MADAM CHAIR, MAY I CALL?

2:48:53UM.

2:48:56DOCKET 1788?

2:48:59UM WE WE WE WEREN'T INFORMED.

2:49:03DO YOU WISH TO CALL A SECOND?

2:49:06YES.

2:49:06DOCKET 1788, PLEASE.

2:49:09MR 12 CAN CAN WE, UH.

2:49:11WHAT PAGES.

2:49:12UM WHAT PAGE IS IT ON THIS?

2:49:14UM, DOCTOR MR FLYNN.

2:49:19SO ON.

2:49:20PAGE 11.

2:49:23THE OTHER ONE WAS ON PAGE 11.

2:49:28SAME PAGE.

2:49:29PAGE.

2:49:30PAGE 11.

2:49:33FROM THE COMMITTEE ON CITY

2:49:34SERVICES DOCKET NUMBER 1788

2:49:38MESSAGING ON AUTHORIZING THE

2:49:39CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND

2:49:40EXPEND THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 ON

2:49:43A FORM OF A GRANT ELEVATE

2:49:45CITIES PROGRAM AWARD BY ELEVATE

2:49:48CITIES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY

2:49:49THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.

2:49:50THE GRANT WILL FUND SERVICES TO

2:49:52SUPPORT THE NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK

2:49:55PARTY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVATION

2:49:56STIPENDS AND THE GOOD

2:49:58NEIGHBORHOOD DAY EVENT.

2:50:01THANK YOU.

2:50:01>> ABSENT OBJECTION, THE MOTION

2:50:02OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS

2:50:03ACCEPTED AND THE DOCKET NUMBER

2:50:05178 IT IS UH BEFORE THE

2:50:07PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY FOR

2:50:10ENCLOSURES.

2:50:11THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:50:12MADAM CHAIR, IT'S IT'S NOT ALL

2:50:13THAT MUCH MONEY $25,000.

2:50:16BUT I DON'T SUPPORT THE CITY

2:50:18OF BOSTON GIVING GRANTS TO

2:50:21RESIDENTS FOR THIS TYPE

2:50:23OF ENGAGEMENT FOR A BLOCK PARTY

2:50:25FOR POT, FOR BLOCK PARTY.

2:50:28UM, IT'S JUST SOMETHING I I

2:50:30DON'T FEEL RIGHT ABOUT GIVING

2:50:33TAXPAYER MONEY.

2:50:34ALTHOUGH I KNOW IT WAS COMING

2:50:35INTO THE CITY TREASURY FROM A,

2:50:38UM ANOTHER FOUNDATION.

2:50:40BUT I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE TO BE

2:50:42ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY NICKEL

2:50:44THAT COMES IN TO THE CITY

2:50:45OF BOSTON.

2:50:46UM, AND TO SPEND IT WISELY.

2:50:48I DON'T THINK THIS PROGRAM, UM

2:50:52,IS COORDINATED EFFECTIVELY,

2:50:54BUT I DON'T WANT TO HOLD UP THE

2:50:56GRANT.

2:50:58UM, BECAUSE I MIGHT DISAGREE

2:51:00WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

2:51:02I RESPECT MY COLLEAGUES ENOUGH

2:51:04TO MOVE SOMETHING FORWARD EVEN

2:51:06THOUGH I DISAGREE WITH THEM ON

2:51:08THIS MATTER.

2:51:09I DO THINK WE NEED TO

2:51:10DEMONSTRATE FISCAL DISCIPLINE,

2:51:12FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY,

2:51:14TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY

2:51:16BUT GIVING CASH TO RESIDENTS IS

2:51:18NOT THE ANSWER.

2:51:19THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:51:21COUNCILOR FLYNN MOVES TO

2:51:22PASSAGE OF DOCKET 1788.

2:51:25ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:51:27ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY.

2:51:29MR TOOK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE

2:51:31A ROLL CALL?

2:51:31VOTE ON DOCKET 1788.

2:51:34COUNCILOR BREAK.

2:51:35YES, COUNCILOR.

2:51:35BRING YES, COUNCILOR COLLETTE

2:51:37AS OPPOSED COUNCILOR GO AS A

2:51:39BODY.

2:51:39YES, COUNCILOR.

2:51:40CULPEPER.

2:51:40COUNCILOR.

2:51:41CULPEPER.

2:51:41YES.

2:51:42COUNCILOR.

2:51:43DURKAN.

2:51:43COUNCILOR.

2:51:43DURKAN.

2:51:44YES.

2:51:44COUNCILOR.

2:51:45FITZGERALD.

2:51:45COUNCILOR.

2:51:46FITZGERALD.

2:51:46YES.

2:51:47COUNCILOR.

2:51:47FLYNN.

2:51:48COUNCILOR.

2:51:49FLYNN.

2:51:49NO.

2:51:49COUNCILOR.

2:51:50LOUIJEUNE.

2:51:50YES.

2:51:51COUNCILOR.

2:51:51LOUIJEUNE.

2:51:52YES.

2:51:53CONCILOR MEJIA HERE, COUNCILOR.

2:51:54MURPHY.

2:51:56COUNCILOR.

2:51:56MURPHY.

2:51:57YES.

2:51:57COUNCIL.

2:51:58PIPPIN.

2:51:58YEAH.

2:51:58COUNCILOR.

2:51:59COUNCIL.

2:52:00SANTANA.

2:52:01COUNCILOR.

2:52:01WEBER.

2:52:02YES.

2:52:02COUNCIL.

2:52:02WEBER.

2:52:03YES.

2:52:03COUNCILOR L.

2:52:04YES.

2:52:05COUNCIL.

2:52:05YES.

2:52:09TALKING OF A1788 AS WE RECEIVED

2:52:11TEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

2:52:12AND ONE NEGATIVE ONE.

2:52:14NO VOTE.

2:52:15THANK YOU.

2:52:16>> DOCKET 1788 HAS PASSED.

2:52:19ANYONE ELSE WITH GREEN SHEETS?

2:52:21WE DIDN'T HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED

2:52:22OF ANY OTHERS.

2:52:23THANK YOU.

2:52:25OH, COUNCILOR COLLETTE IS ABOUT

2:52:27.

2:52:27YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:52:28THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:52:29I'D LIKE TO PULL DOCKET UM,

2:52:310976 OUT OF COMMITTEE 0976.

2:52:36WHICH COMMITTEE?

2:52:38UM.

2:52:39>> WE WEREN'T NOTIFIED.

2:52:40>> IT WAS.

2:52:41EXCUSE ME, I HAVE I BELIEVE

2:52:42IT'S A RECYCLING.

2:52:43>> DIVIDEND.

2:52:43PROGRAM, SO.

2:52:46YEAH, I THINK IT'S CITY

2:52:47SERVICES.

2:52:52NUMBER THEM 09709760976.

2:53:04THAT'S WHAT.

2:53:05>> THE COMMITTEE ON.

2:53:06>> THE.

2:53:06CITY SERVICES DOCKET NUMBER

2:53:090976 MESSAGE YOU NOT

2:53:10AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON

2:53:12TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT

2:53:14OF $60,000 IN THE FORM OF A

2:53:15GREEN SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

2:53:18RECOVERY PROGRAM GRANT AWARDED

2:53:19BY THE MASS DEPARTMENT

2:53:21OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TO

2:53:23BE ADMINISTERED BY THE PUBLIC

2:53:24WORKS DEPARTMENT.

2:53:25THE GRANT WILL FUND PROGRAMS

2:53:26IMPLEMENTED BY THE CITY TO

2:53:29MAXIMIZE REUSE, RECYCLING AND

2:53:30WASTE REDUCTION.

2:53:32CHAIR RECOGNIZES UM

2:53:35COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A

2:53:36PATTERN.

2:53:36THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:53:37UH, THIS.

2:53:38IS A MESSED UP.

2:53:39GRANT THAT FUNDS MUNICIPALITIES

2:53:41WHICH HAVE IMPLEMENTED SPECIFIC

2:53:43PROGRAMS AND POLICIES PROVEN TO

2:53:44MAXIMIZE REUSE, RECYCLING AND

2:53:45WASTE REDUCTION.

2:53:46GRANT AWARDS WERE DETERMINED BY

2:53:49A POINT SYSTEM UH MASTER HAS

2:53:51DEFINED CHARACTERISTICS OF A

2:53:52MODEL WASTE REDUCTION PROGRAM

2:53:53AND ASSIGN POINT VALUES FOR

2:53:55MEETING SPECIFIC CRITERIA.

2:53:56THE POINTS ARE BASED ON THAT

2:53:58INCOME THAT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN

2:53:59DEMONSTRATED TO MAKE ON WASTE

2:54:01REDUCTION.

2:54:01THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS AWARDED FOR

2:54:03EACH POINT EARNED IS DETERMINED

2:54:04BY THE MUNICIPALITY'S

2:54:05POPULATION SIZE AND

2:54:06ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STATUS.

2:54:08BOSTON'S FUNDING GRANT UNDER

2:54:09CONSIDERATION IS $60,000, AND

2:54:12SO RECIPIENTS OF THIS GRANT

2:54:13WILL BE REQUIRED TO SPEND THE

2:54:14FUNDS ON DESIGNATED ACTIVITIES

2:54:15AND EQUIPMENT THAT WILL ENHANCE

2:54:17THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR WASTE

2:54:18REDUCTION PROGRAMS.

2:54:19A FULL LIST OF SPENDING

2:54:20CATEGORIES UM CAN BE FOUND

2:54:22ONLINE UH BUT A FEW EXAMPLES

2:54:24INCLUDE ORGANICS DIVERSION

2:54:26WHICH UH IS ELIGIBLE COST COULD

2:54:29UM INCLUDE COMPOST BINS KITCHEN

2:54:30SCRAP BUCKETS COMPOSTABLE

2:54:32LINERS UH ORGANICS CARTS

2:54:34COLLECTION TRANSPORTATION AND

2:54:36PROCESSING, NEW PROGRAM

2:54:38DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORTING

2:54:39RESIDENT EVENTS SUCH AS COMPOST

2:54:40GIVEAWAYS EXPENSES FOR HANDLING

2:54:42HARD TO RECYCLE MATERIALS AND

2:54:44OR HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS USES UM

2:54:46REUSE UH EXCUSE ME HAZARDOUS

2:54:48ITEMS REUSE INITIATIVES SUCH AS

2:54:50LIBRARY OF THINGS SWAP SHOPS

2:54:53PURCHASING POST-CONSUMER

2:54:54RECYCLED CONTENT PRODUCTS ZERO

2:54:56WASTE PROGRAMING OUTREACH

2:54:57EDUCATION ON WASTE.

2:54:58REDUCTION UM THE PLANS FOR THIS

2:55:00PARTICULAR SPENDING UH FROM

2:55:01PUBLIC WORKS WASTE REDUCTION

2:55:02TEAM WILL BE TO DESIGN A

2:55:04PORTION OF THESE FUNDS FOR

2:55:05OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS THAT EDUCATE

2:55:06BOSTON RESIDENTS ON HOW TO

2:55:08RECYCLE RIGHT AND PROMOTE

2:55:09BOSTON'S CURRENT ZERO WASTE

2:55:11PROGRAMS.

2:55:11CRITICALLY, THESE FUNDS WILL

2:55:13ALSO.

2:55:13>> BE.

2:55:13USED TO SUPPORT COST INCURRED

2:55:15ON UH ON ACCOUNT OF INCREASING

2:55:16COMPOSTING ACCESS FOR BOSTON

2:55:18RESIDENTS INCLUDING BUT NOT

2:55:19LIMITED TO ADDING NEW PROJECT

2:55:21OSCAR BINS AND EXPANDING

2:55:22CURBSIDE ENROLLMENT.

2:55:23UM SO WITH THAT INFORMATION I

2:55:25RESPECTFULLY ASK MY COLLEAGUES.

2:55:26>> TO UH, VOTE ON THE THANK

2:55:28YOU, COUNCILOR CLAIRE.

2:55:30UM, I'M A COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:55:33YEAH.

2:55:34>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, I.

2:55:38I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A

2:55:39COUNCIL QUOTE AS A PART

2:55:40OF THAT.

2:55:41THIS IS A CITY SERVICES GRANT.

2:55:43YES.

2:55:44>> UM, IT'S IN.

2:55:45>> THE CITY SERVICES.

2:55:45UH, COMMITTEE.

2:55:47UM, I WOULD HAVE HELD A HEARING

2:55:49ON IT.

2:55:50UM, I'M IN THIS, UM IN THE

2:55:52BUILDING FIVE DAYS A WEEK.

2:55:54UM, 8 OR 9 HOURS A DAY.

2:55:56IT'S EASY.

2:55:57FOR ME TO HAVE THE HEARING.

2:55:58I'D GLADLY HOLD THE HEARING.

2:56:01I WAS NEVER CONTACTED TO BY BY

2:56:04COUNCIL QUITE AS FAR TO TO HOLD

2:56:06A HEARING.

2:56:06IF SHE DID ASK FOR IT I WOULD

2:56:08HAVE DONE THAT.

2:56:09BUT AS THE CHAIR OF A COMMITTEE

2:56:13I DO THANK.

2:56:14THANK YOU CONSERVATION UM I AM

2:56:18AWARE OF THE FACT THAT YOU ARE

2:56:19THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE AND

2:56:21I COMMITTED UH, TO UH TO DEAL

2:56:24WITH THIS, UH, AHEAD OF TIME.

2:56:27UH, THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN UH,

2:56:29REFERRED TO 120 DAYS PLUS.

2:56:32UM, SO MR. CLERK, COULD YOU

2:56:34PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL, VOTE

2:56:36ON UM.

2:56:36I'M BRINGING THIS PROPERLY

2:56:38BEFORE THE BODY.

2:56:40I THINK WE NEED, UM, PROPERTY

2:56:42AND CONSENT TO BRING THIS UP

2:56:43FOR A VOTE.

2:56:48COUNCIL AGREED?

2:56:49YES.

2:56:49>> COUNCIL.

2:56:50>> GRAYDON.

2:56:50YES.

2:56:51COUNCIL COLOR AS A PUBLIC NO

2:56:52SUPPOSED BUT YES, COUNCILOR.

2:56:54CULPEPER.

2:56:54COUNCILOR.

2:56:55CULPEPER.

2:56:56YES.

2:56:56COUNCIL.

2:56:56DURKAN.

2:56:57COUNCIL.

2:56:57DURKAN.

2:56:58YES.

2:56:58COUNCILMAN.

2:56:59SHOW.

2:56:59YES.

2:57:00CONSTABLE.

2:57:00SHOW.

2:57:00YES.

2:57:01COUNCILOR.

2:57:01FLYNN.

2:57:01NO.

2:57:02COUNCILOR.

2:57:02FLYNN.

2:57:03NO.

2:57:03COUNCIL.

2:57:03LOUIJEUNE.

2:57:04YES.

2:57:04COUNCILOR.

2:57:05LOUIJEUNE.

2:57:05YES.

2:57:06COUNCIL.

2:57:06MEJIA.

2:57:08COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:57:09COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:57:11NO COUNCIL.

2:57:11COUNCILOR.

2:57:11PEN.

2:57:12YES.

2:57:12COUNCIL.

2:57:12SANTANA.

2:57:13COUNCIL.

2:57:13WEBER.

2:57:14YES.

2:57:15THAT'S ALL.

2:57:15YES AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.

2:57:18>> YES.

2:57:18SO WE'RE ALL YES.

2:57:21NINE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:57:23TWO IN THE NEGATIVE.

2:57:25THANK YOU.

2:57:25>> UH, THIS THIS MATTER DOCKET

2:57:28076 IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE

2:57:29BODY.

2:57:29WE'LL MOVE ON TO A UM A VOTE.

2:57:34UM, COUNCILOR.

2:57:37I HAVE A QUESTION IF I'M

2:57:40READING IT CORRECTLY.

2:57:40CLERK IT WAS SPONSORED BY THE

2:57:42MAYOR.

2:57:43IS THAT CORRECT?

2:57:44YES THAT'S CORRECT.

2:57:45AND DID THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

2:57:47REACH OUT TO THE CHAIR OF THIS

2:57:49COMMITTEE ASKING THEM TO EITHER

2:57:50SUSPEND AND PASS OR HOLD A

2:57:53HEARING.

2:57:55?

2:57:55>> THIS THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN IN

2:57:56THE WORKS FOR A LONG TIME.

2:57:57I KNOW.

2:57:57EXACTLY AND.

2:57:58>> I KNOW THE.

2:57:58RULES FOR HOW MANY DAYS THAT

2:57:59CAN PASS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE

2:58:00NEED TO AND.

2:58:01>> THERE WERE OPPORTUNITIES

2:58:02BUT.

2:58:02THAT WASN'T MY QUESTION, MADAM

2:58:03PRESIDENT.

2:58:04MY QUESTION WAS IT WAS

2:58:05SPONSORED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

2:58:06AND DID IGA OR THE MAYOR

2:58:08HERSELF REACH OUT TO THE CHAIR

2:58:10OF THIS COMMITTEE AND ASK

2:58:11BECAUSE IN MY COMMITTEE IF YOU

2:58:13NOTICE I OFTEN SUSPEND AND PASS

2:58:16BUT THEY REACH OUT, I TALK TO

2:58:18THE CHAIRS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS

2:58:20.

2:58:21WE TALK ABOUT THEM.

2:58:22MY MY UNDERSTANDING.

2:58:23THEY ASK ME IF I'M WILLING TO

2:58:25GO FORWARD AND IT SEEMS AS

2:58:26THOUGH THE CHAIR WAS JUST

2:58:27IGNORED.

2:58:28THANK YOU.

2:58:29>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:58:30MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE

2:58:31WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUSPENDED

2:58:32THIS IN THE PREVIOUS I KNOW

2:58:34COUNT SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

2:58:35ON.

2:58:36BUT YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY

2:58:37QUESTION.

2:58:37>> YOU KNOW, I SAID I

2:58:38UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE'S BEEN A

2:58:39COMMUNICATION FROM THE MAYOR'S

2:58:41OFFICE TO BRING THIS UP AS A

2:58:43SUSPEND THE CHAIR.

2:58:44YES TO THE CHAIR AND WRITTEN

2:58:47COMMUNICATION.

2:58:48SO MONTHS AGO IT'S NOT

2:58:49HAPPENING.

2:58:50IT'S NOT LAST WEEK.

2:58:51IT'S A LONG TIME AGO.

2:58:52THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN IN FOR 120

2:58:54DAYS.

2:58:54I KNOW EXACTLY HOW LONG.

2:58:56YOU'RE NOT CATCHING MURPHY.

2:58:59WE BRING IT UP FOR A VOTE.

2:59:02COUNCILOR COLLINS IS A MOTION

2:59:03PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0976.

2:59:06ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

2:59:08THANK YOU.

2:59:09THE VOTE.

2:59:10MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

2:59:11TAKE A ROLL CALL?

2:59:12VOTE ON DOCKET 0976.

2:59:16COUNCILOR BREADON.

2:59:17>> YES.

2:59:17COUNCIL BREAK.

2:59:18>> YES, COUNCILOR.

2:59:18KILOS.

2:59:19UH, COUNCILOR KOSOVO.

2:59:20YES.

2:59:21COUNCILOR.

2:59:22CULPEPPER.

2:59:23COUNCIL COUNCILOR.

2:59:24CULPEPER.

2:59:24YES.

2:59:25COUNCILOR.

2:59:25DURKAN.

2:59:26COUNCILOR.

2:59:26DURKAN.

2:59:27YES.

2:59:27COUNCILOR.

2:59:28FITZGERALD.

2:59:28YES.

2:59:28COUNCIL.

2:59:29YES.

2:59:30COUNCILOR.

2:59:30FLYNN.

2:59:31YES.

2:59:31COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:59:32YES.

2:59:33COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:59:33YES.

2:59:34COUNCILOR.

2:59:34LOUIJEUNE.

2:59:35YES.

2:59:35COUNCILOR.

2:59:35MEJIA.

2:59:37COUNCILOR MURPHY.

2:59:38COUNCILOR.

2:59:38MURPHY.

2:59:39YES.

2:59:39COUNCIL.

2:59:40PIPPIN.

2:59:40YEAH.

2:59:40COUNCIL.

2:59:41PIPPIN.

2:59:41YES.

2:59:41COUNCILOR.

2:59:42SANTANA.

2:59:43COUNCIL MEMBER.

2:59:44COUNCIL MEMBER.

2:59:45YES.

2:59:45AND COUNCIL.

2:59:46ARROYO.

2:59:47COUNCIL.

2:59:47WELL YES.

2:59:48TALKING NUMBER 0976 AS RECEIVED

2:59:5311 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

2:59:54THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:59:56DUNCAN 0976 HAS PASSED.

3:00:01WE ARE NOW, UH MOVING ON TO THE

3:00:03FILES.

3:00:04I'M INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT

3:00:06WE HAVE.

3:00:08MR PRESIDENT.

3:00:09WE HAVE ONE EMERGENCY

3:00:11RESOLUTION.

3:00:13UH, WE WILL TAKE, UH, THESE

3:00:17MATTERS ONE AS IT THERE'S ONLY

3:00:18ONE MATTER.

3:00:20SO, UM.

3:00:24WE TAKE THIS LATE FILE MATTER.

3:00:26UH, ABSENT OBJECTION, THIS

3:00:28EMERGENCY RESOLUTION WILL BE

3:00:30ADDED.

3:00:32MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE

3:00:33READ THE LATE FILE MATTER.

3:00:36OFFERED BY COUNCIL?

3:00:37UH, BEN WEBER, THE EMERGENCY

3:00:40RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE

3:00:42MAYOR'S DECISION TO EXPEL.

3:00:44THE ENGLISH.

3:00:45>> HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NEW

3:00:46MISSION HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

3:00:47TEAM FROM THE STATE TOURNAMENT.

3:00:50THANK YOU.

3:00:51>> UH, THE TERM.

3:00:57THE CHAIR CHAIRMAN TO PASS IT.

3:00:58I GOT JUST I'VE GOT A LOT

3:01:01OF COUNSELOR COUNSELOR, UH,

3:01:03COUNCIL WEBER, YOU HAVE THE

3:01:04FLOOR.

3:01:05OKAY.

3:01:05>> YEAH.

3:01:05THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:01:06AND THANK YOU.

3:01:06>> TO MY COLLEAGUES.

3:01:07UH, BUT I BELIEVE, UH, THIS

3:01:09THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ISSUE.

3:01:11UH, THE, UH THERE'S, UH, A

3:01:14COMBINED FOOTBALL TEAM ENGLISH

3:01:16HIGH SCHOOL AND NEW MISSION

3:01:17HIGH SCHOOL.

3:01:18UH, THEY ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE

3:01:20STATE TOURNAMENT BY THE UH,

3:01:22MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC

3:01:23ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

3:01:24UH, I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS

3:01:26ALONG WITH A BUNCH OF MY

3:01:27COLLEAGUES, UH, YESTERDAY AND,

3:01:30UH, THERE IS AN APPEAL.

3:01:32UH, I THINK THE CITY'S PURSUING

3:01:33THEIR PLAYOFF START I THINK ON

3:01:35SATURDAY.

3:01:36SO, UH, THIS THIS WOULD BE AN

3:01:37EMERGENCY ISSUE.

3:01:38I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNSELOR

3:01:40PIPPIN AS A AS.

3:01:42>> A CO-SPONSOR.

3:01:43COUNCILOR PEPEN SO OKAY.

3:01:45>> AND I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE

3:01:46RULES AND ADD COUNCILOR MORALES

3:01:47AS A THIRD.

3:01:48I'M SEEING NO OBJECTIONS,

3:01:50COUNSELOR.

3:01:50WHAT ELSE ADDED IS A THIRD?

3:01:51OKAY.

3:01:52>> AND I JUST I WOULD LIKE TO

3:01:54ADD MORE PEOPLE.

3:01:55I JUST WANT TO REALLY THANK

3:01:56COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE UH, WHO UH

3:01:59ACTUALLY FIRST FLAGGED THIS FOR

3:02:00ME YESTERDAY.

3:02:01UH, AND COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:02:03WHO'S REACHED OUT TO SUPPORT

3:02:04YOU JUST A LITTLE SLOW OFF THE

3:02:06LINE.

3:02:07UH, THERE, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

3:02:09UM, BUT, UH UH, SO JUST TO

3:02:12EXPLAIN, UM, THE THE

3:02:15MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC

3:02:16ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION THE MIA IS

3:02:18A NONPROFIT, UH, THAT IS

3:02:20EMPOWERED BY STATE LAW TO, UH,

3:02:22RUN OUR SPORTS LEAGUES FOR FOR

3:02:24HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE.

3:02:26UH, THEY'RE THEY DESIGN RULES,

3:02:29UH, YOU KNOW, SUPPOSED TO YOU

3:02:30KNOW, THAT MAKE THESE GAMES

3:02:31HAPPEN AND HAVE OUR KIDS

3:02:33PARTICIPATE IN SPORTS SAFELY.

3:02:34UM, ONE OF THEIR RULES IS THAT

3:02:38GAMES THAT ARE SCHEDULED BY A

3:02:40SCHOOL ALSO HAVE TO BE ADDED

3:02:42INTO A STATEWIDE SYSTEM IS

3:02:44CALLED ARBOR OF LIFE.

3:02:45UH, AND THOSE GAMES SO NEED TO

3:02:48BE LOGGED IN BY MID-SEPTEMBER

3:02:50OR SEPTEMBER 18TH.

3:02:51UH, HERE UH YOU KNOW AND THE

3:02:54OTHER RULE IS YOU NEED A

3:02:55CERTAIN NUMBER OF GAMES TO

3:02:57QUALIFY FOR THE STATE

3:02:58TOURNAMENT.

3:02:58THEY HAVE TO BE OFFICIAL GAMES.

3:02:59SO HERE UH, YOU KNOW THE

3:03:02ENGLISH HIGH WAS GOING TO

3:03:03ENGLISH HIGH A NEW MISSION WAS

3:03:04GOING TO PLAY THE O'BRIEN UH ON

3:03:06LAST FRIDAY.

3:03:07UH, AND THAT GAME HAS BEEN

3:03:09SCHEDULED IN THE SYSTEM SINCE

3:03:11LAST DECEMBER FOR WHATEVER

3:03:14REASON SOMEONE IT BEEPS

3:03:16IMPROPERLY OR FAILED TO

3:03:18PROPERLY INPUT THAT GAME INTO

3:03:19THE MIA'S ARBITER LIVE SYSTEM.

3:03:23UH, SO UM, YOU KNOW, UH,

3:03:26ANOTHER SCHOOL UH, FLAGGED THIS

3:03:29FOR THE MIA WHICH UH YOU KNOW,

3:03:32I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS LAST

3:03:33WEEK THEY KIND OF THEY HAD

3:03:34THREE OPTIONS.

3:03:35ONE IS THEY COULD HAVE, UH,

3:03:37SAID OKAY, WELL, THIS GAME

3:03:38ISN'T PROPERLY IN THE SYSTEM.

3:03:40WE COULDN'T ALLOW IT TO BE JUST

3:03:42LOGGED INTO THE SYSTEM.

3:03:43IT'S OBVIOUSLY BEEN ON THE

3:03:44SCHEDULE FOR NEARLY A YEAR.

3:03:46EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS A LEAGUE

3:03:48GAME THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR.

3:03:49SO, UH, THEY COULD HAVE ALLOWED

3:03:51THEM TO JUST CURE THAT THAT

3:03:53OVERSIGHT.

3:03:54THEY DIDN'T DO THAT.

3:03:55AND ANOTHER OPTION WAS THEY

3:03:56COULD HAVE CLASSIFIED THE GAME

3:03:58AS A FORFEIT.

3:03:59UH, AND THEY BOTH TEAMS COULD

3:04:01HAVE LOST I GUESS BECAUSE IT

3:04:02WASN'T PROPERLY.

3:04:03>> AND.

3:04:03PUT IT INTO THE SYSTEM WHICH

3:04:05WOULD ALLOWED WHICH WOULD HAVE

3:04:06ALLOWED ENGLISH A NEW MISSION,

3:04:08A VALID GAME, A RECORDED GAME

3:04:10THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO

3:04:11PROCEED TO THE STATE.

3:04:12TOURNAMENT AT MY AGE AND CHOOSE

3:04:14THAT OPTION INSTEAD THEY CHOSE

3:04:16TO THAT THEY WOULD ONLY ALLOW

3:04:17THE GAME TO PROCEED AS A

3:04:18SCRIMMAGE WHICH MEANT IT WAS AN

3:04:19GAME WHICH NOT ENGLISH AND NEW

3:04:22MISSION HIGH OUT OF THE STATE

3:04:23TOURNAMENT.

3:04:24UM YOU KNOW I THIS IS A TEAM

3:04:27THAT STARTED OUT ONE AND TWO.

3:04:29THEY WON THEIR LAST FOUR GAMES

3:04:30INCLUDING HANDILY BEATING THE

3:04:32O'BRIEN ON ON FRIDAY.

3:04:33SORRY COUNSELOR PAPIN BUT UM UH

3:04:36BUT UH YOU KNOW THESE ARE THESE

3:04:38ARE KIDS WHO'VE WORKED.

3:04:39HARD TO 2023 THEY WENT THEY

3:04:42WENT WINLESS.

3:04:42THEY THESE ARE REAL KIDS WHO

3:04:44ARE STILL ON THE TEAM WHO

3:04:45PLAYED BACK THEN.

3:04:46UH, THIS WEEK THE NEW ENGLAND

3:04:48PATRIOTS RECOGNIZED COACH

3:04:49CONWAY AS AS A COACH.

3:04:51>> OF THE WEEK.

3:04:52FOR THE STATE.

3:04:53UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF HIS

3:04:54GREAT WORK WITH THESE KIDS MIA

3:04:56LIKE THEY HAD A CHOICE.

3:04:58UH, AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN

3:05:01ORGANIZATION THAT'S SUPPOSED TO

3:05:02HELP OUR KIDS, UH, MAKE SURE

3:05:04THEY'RE COMPETING SAFELY HERE.

3:05:05THERE WERE THERE ARE CLEARLY

3:05:07LESS DRACONIAN WAYS TO ENFORCE

3:05:09THESE RULES.

3:05:11UH UH, AND I YOU KNOW, I THINK

3:05:14I I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES

3:05:15WHO ARE HERE.

3:05:16I HOPE YOU'LL SUPPORT ME IN

3:05:17THIS RESOLUTION TO CALL OUT THE

3:05:20FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THIS

3:05:22INSTANCE THE MIA GOT IT WRONG.

3:05:23YOU KNOW THAT HOPE THEY'RE YOU

3:05:25KNOW, THEY HAVE A RED FLAG AND

3:05:26THEY CAN HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE

3:05:27BOOTH REVIEW THIS BECAUSE I

3:05:29THINK JUST CALMER HEADS TAKE A

3:05:31LOOK AT THIS.

3:05:32THEY'LL SEE THAT THERE WAS NO

3:05:34HARM HERE.

3:05:35THEY PLAYED A GAME THAT HAD

3:05:37BEEN ON THE SCHEDULE SINCE

3:05:38DECEMBER.

3:05:38AND YOU KNOW I JUST WANT TO.

3:05:40>> THANK.

3:05:40MY COLLEAGUES FOR STANDING BY

3:05:41OUR KIDS UH, WHO WORK HARD AND

3:05:44THEY DESERVE TO PLAY IN THE

3:05:45STATE TOURNAMENT.

3:05:46THANKS.

3:05:47>> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

3:05:48CONCERT PEPPER AND YOU HAVE THE

3:05:49FLOOR.

3:05:51THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:05:52AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER

3:05:53FOR ADDING ME AS A SECOND

3:05:54CO-SPONSOR.

3:05:55UH, YEAH.

3:05:56ONCE I GOT THIS EMAIL YESTERDAY

3:05:58FROM THE COACHES IT REALLY

3:05:59CAUGHT MY ATTENTION AND IT FELT

3:06:00VERY DEFEATING FOR THOSE

3:06:02STUDENTS WHO WORK SO HARD TO

3:06:04PUT THEIR EFFORT OUT THERE ON

3:06:05THE GRIDIRON AND TO PLAY IT'S

3:06:07VERY TOUGH SPORTS THEN GET THIS

3:06:09VERY UNFORTUNATE NEWS FROM THE

3:06:11MIA SAYING THAT THEY CAN'T PLAY

3:06:13IN THE PLAYOFFS AND THAT.

3:06:16REALLY HURTS THAT OUR STUDENTS

3:06:19DESERVE BETTER.

3:06:21I OBVIOUSLY REPRESENT HYDE PARK

3:06:22THAT IS HOME TO NEW MISSION

3:06:23HIGH SCHOOL AND IT IS THE PRIDE

3:06:26AND GLORY OF HIGH PARK RIGHT

3:06:27NOW.

3:06:28THOSE STUDENTS ARE VERY PROUD

3:06:29OF THEIR SCHOOL.

3:06:30UM AND THE FACT THAT THEY GET

3:06:32TO MERGE WITH ENGLISH HIGH

3:06:33SCHOOL TO PLAY FOOTBALL UM I

3:06:35KNOW IT'S A IT'S A BIG

3:06:36COMPONENT OF THEIR PROGRAM SO I

3:06:38WISH I HOPE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO

3:06:40DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HAVE THE

3:06:42MIA REVIEW THEIR DECISION AND

3:06:44HELP THESE STUDENTS AND THESE

3:06:46ATHLETES PLAY IN THE STATE

3:06:47TOURNAMENT.

3:06:48THANK YOU.

3:06:49>> THANK YOU.

3:06:50COUNCILOR PEPEN CHAIR

3:06:51RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WARDELL

3:06:52YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:06:54THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:06:55THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR WEBER

3:06:56AND COUNSELOR PEPEN FOR ADDING

3:06:58ME AS THE ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.

3:06:59AND UH, WE RECEIVED A SIMILAR

3:07:02EMAIL JUST STATING HOW UPSET

3:07:04OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OUR

3:07:05COACHES WERE AROUND THIS

3:07:07DECISION FROM THE MEDIA AND,

3:07:09UH, WE KNOW THAT SPORTS TAKES A

3:07:12LOT OF SACRIFICE, A LOT

3:07:12OF EFFORT.

3:07:13UM, AND YOU KNOW, THIS

3:07:15DEVASTATING NEWS FROM THE MEDIA

3:07:17TO OUR STUDENTS, UM, IS IS

3:07:20HEARTBREAKING UH, TO TO KNOW

3:07:21THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY SACRIFICE

3:07:23UH, THEY PUT IN A LOT OF EFFORT

3:07:25INTO THIS SEASON AND NOW THIS

3:07:26ONE DECISION BASED ON A

3:07:28TECHNICALITY.

3:07:29UM, IT FEELS LIKE THEY CAN

3:07:31ENJOY THE REST OF, UM, THEIR

3:07:33SEASON AND GO TO THE PLAYOFFS.

3:07:34SO I THINK IT'S, UH, OUR

3:07:37RESPONSIBILITY TO DO EVERYTHING

3:07:38THAT WE CAN, UH, TO STAND UP

3:07:39FOR OUR STUDENT AND TO MAKE

3:07:41SURE THAT THE MEDIA KNOW THAT

3:07:42WHERE WE STAND AS A BOSTON CITY

3:07:45COUNCIL IN TERMS OF THEIR

3:07:47DECISION.

3:07:47UM, SO I STAND WITH COUNCILORS,

3:07:49UM, AND A NEW MISSION AND

3:07:51ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

3:07:51TEAM.

3:07:52THANK YOU.

3:07:53THANK YOU.

3:07:53CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES FROM

3:07:54MURPHY WITH THE FLOOR.

3:07:56THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND

3:07:57THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS FOR

3:07:59PUTTING THIS FORWARD.

3:08:00I FULLY SUPPORT THIS BUT I DO

3:08:03JUST WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO OUR

3:08:05STUDENTS, TO THE COACHES AND

3:08:06THEIR FAMILIES WHO WHEN THEY

3:08:08HEARD THAT MADE AN ERROR.

3:08:10I KNOW THIS HAPPENED A COUPLE

3:08:11TIMES BEFORE AND WE HELD

3:08:13HEARINGS ON THIS ISSUE MAKING

3:08:15SURE THAT ALL THE PAPERWORK IS

3:08:17FILED PROPERLY.

3:08:18UM AND MIA THEY HAVE RULES,

3:08:20THEY'RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THEM

3:08:21BUT WE'RE ASKING AND I HOPE

3:08:23THEY DO LISTEN THAT THEY TAKE

3:08:24THE RIGHT DECISION, MAKE THE

3:08:26RIGHT DECISION SO THAT THESE

3:08:28STUDENTS CAN PLAY.

3:08:29SO LOOKING FORWARD TO CHEERING

3:08:30THEM ON AND HOPING THAT THEY'RE

3:08:32PLAYING AN ACTUAL GAME AND NOT

3:08:33JUST A SCRIMMAGE GAME.

3:08:34THANK YOU.

3:08:35THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY THE

3:08:36CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:08:37COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE

3:08:38FLOOR.

3:08:38THANK YOU.

3:08:39>> I JUST RISE IN SUPPORT

3:08:40OF THIS RESOLUTION AND WANT TO

3:08:41THANK COUNCILOR WEBER FOR

3:08:42TAKING SWIFT ACTION TO MAKE

3:08:44SURE THAT THE COUNCIL COULD

3:08:44SPEAK IN ONE VOICE IN SUPPORT

3:08:48OF OUR KIDS PLAYING IN THE

3:08:49GAMES IN THE PLAYOFFS THIS

3:08:51WEEKEND I'VE HAD A LOT OF GREAT

3:08:53INTERACTIONS WITH THE ENGLISH

3:08:54UH, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM.

3:08:56UM, EVEN THOUGH THEY BEAT MY

3:08:58HIGH SCHOOL'S FOOTBALL TEAM

3:08:59LAST YEAR, IT'S ALL GOOD.

3:09:01UM, I WANT THEM TO CONTINUE

3:09:02SHOWING SORT OF HOW GREAT THEY

3:09:04ARE AND THEIR PROWESS ON THE

3:09:05FIELD.

3:09:06AND SO I REALLY JUST RISE TO

3:09:08SUPPORT ENGLISH HIGH, THE TEAMS

3:09:09THAT NEW MISSION RIGHT IN MY

3:09:11BACKYARD IN HYDE PARK.

3:09:12SO I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE

3:09:14THAT OUR KIDS CAN PLAY AND CAN

3:09:15COMPETE.

3:09:16THEY WORK SO HARD TO DO SO AND

3:09:18THIS WOULD JUST BE A TRAVESTY

3:09:19IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PLAY.

3:09:21SO I JUST HOPE THE MEDIA IS

3:09:22PAYING ATTENTION.

3:09:23I HOPE THAT WE CAN SEND THIS

3:09:24RESOLUTION AND CAN'T FLY THEM

3:09:25WITH CALLS TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:09:27THEY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT OUR

3:09:28CITY KIDS WANT TO PLAY.

3:09:29THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

3:09:30CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:09:32COUNCILOR CULPEPPER YOU HAVE

3:09:32THE FLOOR.

3:09:33THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:09:35I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE

3:09:37COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:09:38BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT

3:09:39RESOLUTION BEFORE THE COUNCIL.

3:09:41UH, HE KNOWS THAT WE SHARE THAT

3:09:44PART OF THE DISTRICT.

3:09:46I'M STANDING HERE AS A PROUD

3:09:48GRADUATE OF ENGLISH HIGH

3:09:49SCHOOL.

3:09:50HE TOLD ME, UH, WE SWITCH.

3:09:53HE NOW HAS ACADEMY HOMES IN HIS

3:09:55DISTRICT.

3:09:55ENGLISH HIGH IS NOW IN MY

3:09:57DISTRICT AT LEAST FOR PURPOSES

3:10:00OF THIS RESOLUTION.

3:10:01JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO,

3:10:03MADAM PRESIDENT, THAT I SIT

3:10:05ALONGSIDE GENERATIONS FROM

3:10:07ENGLISH GRADUATES TO IN REUNION

3:10:10WHO'VE GONE ON TO DO

3:10:11EXTRAORDINARY THINGS UM,

3:10:14TUSKEGEE AIRMEN IS ALSO A

3:10:17LAWYER TO ARTISTS, ATHLETES AND

3:10:19EVEN POLITICIANS.

3:10:21SO WHEN I LEARNED THAT THE

3:10:22PEOPLE THE YOUNG PEOPLE

3:10:23OF ENGLISH HAD A NEW MISSION

3:10:25BEING DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO

3:10:27COMPETE IN THE STATE TOURNAMENT

3:10:29BECAUSE OF A CLERICAL AREA

3:10:31ERROR.

3:10:32I WAS DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED.

3:10:34THESE YOUNG PEOPLE DID

3:10:36EVERYTHING WE ASKED OF THEM.

3:10:38THEY SHOWED UP, THEY PRACTICED

3:10:41.

3:10:41THEY WORKED HARD, THEY OVERCAME

3:10:43ADVERSITY AND THEY FOUGHT THEIR

3:10:45WAY TO A LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP IN

3:10:47MIND YOU MADAM PRESIDENT, IN

3:10:492023 THIS WAS A TEAM THAT WAS

3:10:51ZERO AND TEN AND NOW BECAUSE

3:10:55OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR BY

3:10:57ADULTS THESE YOUNG MEN BEING

3:10:59TOLD THEY CANNOT COMPETE WE

3:11:01SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME IN

3:11:03THIS CHAMBER TALKING ABOUT

3:11:05INVESTING IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.

3:11:07WE TELL THEM IF THEY WORK HARD,

3:11:09STAY DISCIPLINED AND DO THE

3:11:11RIGHT THING, OPPORTUNITIES WILL

3:11:13FOLLOW WELL WHAT LESSON ARE WE

3:11:15TEACHING THEM TODAY THAT YOU

3:11:18CAN DO EVERYTHING RIGHT?

3:11:19STILL HAVE YOUR OPPORTUNITY

3:11:21TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE SOMEONE

3:11:23FAILED TO ENTER INFORMATION

3:11:25INTO A COMPUTER SYSTEM AND FOR

3:11:28SOME OF THESE YOUNG MEN THIS

3:11:29MAY BE THEIR LAST OPPORTUNITY

3:11:32TO COMPETE ON A SCALE LIKE THIS

3:11:34.

3:11:34WE CANNOT GIVE THEM THIS SEASON

3:11:36BACK.

3:11:37WE CANNOT GIVE OUR SENIORS

3:11:38ANOTHER SENIOR YEAR AND WHEN

3:11:40ADULTS MAKE MISTAKES, A DOE

3:11:42SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

3:11:44CORRECTING THEM.

3:11:45WE SHOULD ASK WE SHOULD NOT ASK

3:11:48CHILDREN TO PAY THE PRICE

3:11:51OF WHAT ADULTS DID.

3:11:52SO TODAY I JOIN MY COLLEAGUES

3:11:54IN CALLING ON THE MEDIA TO

3:11:57RECONSIDER THIS DECISION.

3:11:59I WORK WITH THE BOSTON PUBLIC

3:12:00SCHOOLS TO CORRECT THIS

3:12:01ADMINISTRATIVE AREA ERROR AND

3:12:04RESTORE THESE YOUNG MEN THE

3:12:06OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE.

3:12:07I WANT THESE YOUNG MEN TO KNOW

3:12:09THAT THE CITY STANDS BEHIND

3:12:11THEM.

3:12:11YOU EARNED YOUR PLACE, YOU

3:12:14DESERVED YOUR SHOT AND NO

3:12:16ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNICALITIES

3:12:18SHOULD TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU.

3:12:20SO I SAY TO THE MEDIA LET THE

3:12:23YOUNG MEN PLAY.

3:12:24THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:12:26CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:12:27COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL YOU

3:12:28HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:12:29THANK YOU.

3:12:30UM, MADAM CHAIR, UM, MAY I MAKE

3:12:34A BRIEF STATEMENT BUT ALSO ASK

3:12:36COUNCILOR UH, WEBER A QUESTION.

3:12:39YOU MAY ASK USHER.

3:12:41UM, YES.

3:12:41YOU MAKE YOUR STATEMENT AND YOU

3:12:42MAY ASK MAY DIRECT A QUESTION.

3:12:44>> TO I SUPPORT ME I SUPPORT

3:12:45THIS ONE THIS PROPOSAL 100%.

3:12:47THESE STUDENT ATHLETES DESERVE

3:12:49THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY SPORTS

3:12:52TO COMPETE.

3:12:53THEY DID EVERYTHING THAT WAS

3:12:54ASKED FOR THEM AND MORE.

3:12:56THEY'RE TRYING THEIR BEST TO BE

3:12:58GOOD STUDENTS, GOOD ATHLETES TO

3:13:00WORK HARD AND THEY'RE DOING

3:13:02EVERYTHING TO MAKE THIS CITY

3:13:03BETTER.

3:13:04THEY JUST DESERVE THE

3:13:05OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY.

3:13:09FOR THEM WELL.

3:13:10COUNCILMEMBER WHAT WAS THE

3:13:12ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE?

3:13:14I DIDN'T HEAR IT.

3:13:15WHAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED AT BEEPS

3:13:17THAT IS BLOCKING THESE YOUNG

3:13:19PEOPLE FROM PLAYING FOOTBALL?

3:13:20I'M SURE WHATEVER YOU ANSWER.

3:13:22YEAH I KNOW IT'S THROUGH THE

3:13:25CHAIR.

3:13:25>> OKAY COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:13:31YEAH YEAH I BETTER LET YOU HAVE

3:13:33THE MIC UP, COUNCILOR, WHEREVER

3:13:35YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:13:36YEAH I MEAN I I I'M I'M WORKING

3:13:40UH WITH WHAT I KNOW, WHICH IS

3:13:42THAT MIA'S MADE THIS DECISION.

3:13:44I BELIEVE THAT SOMEBODY'S AN

3:13:47ADULT AT DPS FAILED TO PROPERLY

3:13:50ENTER THIS GAME INTO THE

3:13:51SYSTEM.

3:13:51UH, I THINK THAT'S A DISCUSSION

3:13:53THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AGAIN LIKE

3:13:55THAT THAT MIA'S PENALIZING

3:13:56THESE KIDS BECAUSE OF OF AN

3:13:59ERROR BY AN ADULT.

3:14:01UH, THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I

3:14:02BELIEVE.

3:14:03I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW WHAT'S

3:14:05GOING TO SO I I DON'T KNOW WHAT

3:14:08THE ANSWER IS.

3:14:09OKAY.

3:14:09YEAH.

3:14:10>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:14:11MY MY ONLY CONCERN IS AGAIN I

3:14:13SUPPORT THIS 1,000%.

3:14:15BUT WILL THIS MISTAKE HAPPEN

3:14:17AGAIN?

3:14:17AND THAT'S MY CONCERN.

3:14:19IF WE DON'T DEAL WITH IT WE

3:14:21DON'T ADDRESS IT.

3:14:22IT CAN CONTINUE TO HAPPEN AGAIN

3:14:23BECAUSE I THINK THIS HAPPENED

3:14:24BEFORE IN THE PAST.

3:14:26UM I REMEMBER THIS ISSUE ON THE

3:14:27CITY COUNCIL.

3:14:28YEAH.

3:14:28THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:14:29THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

3:14:31>> YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ADD A

3:14:33LITTLE LIGHT TO THIS THE

3:14:34SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT THE, UH,

3:14:38TEAMS PUT THE SCHEDULE IN FOR

3:14:40THE YEAR SO THAT EVERYONE CAN

3:14:42SEE THAT IN MY SCHEDULE A WHEN

3:14:45THE TEAMS ARE PLAYING WHO

3:14:46THEY'RE PLAYING AGAINST, THAT'S

3:14:47HOW THEY QUALIFY.

3:14:49THEY NEED SEVEN GAMES TO

3:14:50QUALIFY FOR THE STATE

3:14:52TOURNAMENT.

3:14:52THEY HAVE SIX.

3:14:54THIS GAME WAS NOT PUT IN THE

3:14:56SYSTEM.

3:14:58SO IT LOOKS AS IF THEY ONLY

3:15:00PLAYED SIX AND NOT A SEVEN TO

3:15:02QUALIFY FOR THE TOURNAMENT.

3:15:05SO COUNCILOR IF THEY PUT THIS

3:15:06IN UH ADMINISTRATIVELY THEY

3:15:08WOULD HAVE THE SEVEN GAMES TO

3:15:10QUALIFY FOR THE TOURNAMENT.

3:15:11THANK YOU FOR THAT

3:15:13CLARIFICATION.

3:15:13THANK YOU COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:15:14CONSTRUCTOR CAN YOU HAVE YOUR

3:15:16FLOOR?

3:15:16I JUST LIKE TO SUPPORT THE

3:15:18ENGLISH GRAD UM TO MY RIGHT AND

3:15:21.

3:15:21NOT JUST KIDDING BUT ALSO

3:15:22COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:15:23UM I.

3:15:23>> DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS A

3:15:25FORMER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE LIKE

3:15:27I NEVER GOT TO GO ANY HIGHER

3:15:30THAN THAT AND I KNOW THAT

3:15:31PLAYOFFS AND BEING ABLE TO PLAY

3:15:33UH, IT'S TANTAMOUNT TO PEOPLE.

3:15:35BEING ABLE TO LIKE LEARN

3:15:37TOGETHER AND I THINK THERE'S A

3:15:38LOT OF PRIDE IN MAKING THE

3:15:40PLAYOFFS.

3:15:40SO I HOPE THAT THE MAYOR

3:15:43LISTENS TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND

3:15:44THAT WE UNANIMOUSLY SEND THEM A

3:15:46MESSAGE THAT WE HOPE THAT JUST

3:15:48LET THEM PLAY.

3:15:50,JUST LET THEM PLAY.

3:15:51THANK YOU.

3:15:52COUNCILOR WEBER, I GIVE YOU THE

3:15:53LAST WORD HERE.

3:15:54>> I JUST UH THANK YOU VERY

3:15:55MUCH.

3:15:55I JUST, UH, ALSO LIKE TO

3:15:56RECOGNIZE ANOTHER ENGLISH HIGH

3:15:57ALUM AND.

3:15:58CLARK CLARK HERE.

3:16:00SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:16:01UH, SO WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU'RE

3:16:03CAST YOUR VOTE WAS TWO ENGLISH

3:16:04I.

3:16:05GO ENGLISH GO ENGLISH.

3:16:06UM.

3:16:07THANK YOU.

3:16:08THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE

3:16:10OF THIS UH, LEAGUE FILE

3:16:11RESOLUTION.

3:16:12ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:16:14MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE

3:16:15TAKE A ROLL CALL?

3:16:16VOTE ON THIS.

3:16:16UH, LET'S FIND RESOLUTION.

3:16:19COUNCILOR BREAK.

3:16:20YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.

3:16:21YES, COUNCILOR COLORS UPON THE

3:16:23COUNCIL OPPOSED?

3:16:24YES.

3:16:24COUNCIL CULPEPER.

3:16:25COUNSELOR.

3:16:26CULPEPER.

3:16:26YES, COUNSELOR.

3:16:27DURKAN.

3:16:27YES, COUNSELOR.

3:16:28DURKAN.

3:16:29YES.

3:16:29COUNCIL.

3:16:29FITZGERALD.

3:16:30COUNSELORS.

3:16:31CHO.

3:16:31YES.

3:16:31COUNSELOR.

3:16:32FLYNN.

3:16:33COUNCIL.

3:16:33FLYNN.

3:16:33YES.

3:16:33COUNSELOR.

3:16:34LOUIJEUNE.

3:16:34YES.

3:16:35COUNCIL.

3:16:35LOUIJEUNE.

3:16:36YES.

3:16:36COUNCIL.

3:16:36MEJIA.

3:16:37COUNSELOR.

3:16:37MURPHY.

3:16:38COUNSELOR.

3:16:39MURPHY.

3:16:39YES.

3:16:39BUT THEN COUNCIL.

3:16:41BUT THEN YES, COUNSELOR.

3:16:42SANTANA.

3:16:43COUNSELOR.

3:16:43WEBER.

3:16:44YES.

3:16:44COUNCIL WEB.

3:16:45YES AND COUNSELOR?

3:16:46WORLD COUNSELOR AS WELL.

3:16:48YES.

3:16:48SO I CAN NUMBER, UH, THE LEAGUE

3:16:50FILE AS WE SEE 11 VOTES IN THE

3:16:53AFFIRMATIVE.

3:16:54THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.

3:16:55THE LATE FILE MATTER HAS PASSED

3:16:57.

3:16:58WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE

3:16:59CONSENT AGENDA.

3:17:00I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK

3:17:02THAT WE HAVE ZERO, UH,

3:17:05ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT

3:17:06AGENDA.

3:17:06THE QUESTION NOW COMES IN

3:17:08APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS

3:17:09CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT

3:17:10AGENDA.

3:17:11ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

3:17:13THANK YOU.

3:17:14THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN

3:17:17ADOPTED.

3:17:17WE'RE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:17:19PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR

3:17:21UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.

3:17:23UH, DOES ANYONE PLEASE PUT YOUR

3:17:24LIGHTS ON?

3:17:25UM, AND ANYONE WITH ANY

3:17:28ANNOUNCEMENTS LET'S START WITH

3:17:31LOOKS LIKE COUNCILOR ANYONE

3:17:33ELSE?

3:17:36NO ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:17:36WE WANT TO WE WANT TO WISH A

3:17:38VERY, VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

3:17:40BEATRICE.

3:17:41UH, AND, UH, COUNCILMEMBER

3:17:43HAYES OFFICE THIS WEEK.

3:17:44HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

3:17:46UM, THEN WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO

3:17:50MEMORIALS.

3:17:50WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT A

3:17:52NAME?

3:17:52COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

3:17:53FLOOR.

3:17:55UM, THANK THANK YOU, MADAM

3:17:56PRESIDENT.

3:17:58IT'S BEEN, UM, A VERY SAD FEW

3:18:02DAYS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I

3:18:04JUST WANT TO UPLIFT MATT

3:18:07SWEENEY AND HIS FAMILY HIS WIFE

3:18:10JILL, HIS SON CONNOR AND RYAN,

3:18:14THEIR NEW WIVES, THE ENTIRE

3:18:18FAMILY AND ALL THEIR FRIENDS

3:18:20WHO ARE MOURNING DEEPLY HIS

3:18:22LOSS.

3:18:23SO JUST WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT

3:18:25WE'RE SENDING LOVE AND PRAYERS

3:18:27AND I'LL BE WITH THEM THROUGH

3:18:29THE NEXT WEEK AND INTO THE

3:18:31FUTURE MAKING SURE THEY HAVE.

3:18:32EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED.

3:18:33SO THANK YOU.

3:18:34THANK YOU.

3:18:35CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:18:36COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

3:18:37THE FLOOR.

3:18:38THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:18:39I WANT TO UPLIFT THE NAME AND

3:18:41THE MEMORY OF GERARD BELL WHO.

3:18:43UH.

3:18:44>> PASSED AWAY A FEW WEEKS AGO

3:18:45AND WHOSE DEATH HAS IMPACTED A

3:18:48NUMBER OF PEOPLE INCLUDING

3:18:49THOSE WHO KNEW HIM WHO WORK

3:18:52HERE ON THE CITY COUNCIL.

3:18:53UH, A RESIDENT OF HYDE PARK.

3:18:56UH.

3:18:57>> BURGEONING RAPPER BUT

3:18:58BELOVED BY SO MANY PEOPLE IN

3:19:00THIS CITY AND SO, UM, HE WAS

3:19:03LAID TO REST LAST FRIDAY AND I

3:19:05JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:19:07HIS FAMILY KNOWS THAT WE'RE

3:19:09THINKING OF THEM IN THIS MOMENT

3:19:11AND THIS TRAGIC.

3:19:12LOSS AND ALL OF THOSE WHO KNEW

3:19:13AND LOVED HIM.

3:19:14THANK YOU.

3:19:14THANK YOU.

3:19:15CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:19:16COUNCILOR FLYNN.

3:19:17COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:19:18THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:19:20I KNOW COUNCIL OF MURPHY

3:19:22MENTIONED, UM, MR SWEENEY, BUT

3:19:24I ALSO WANT TO, UM, OFFER MY

3:19:27CONDOLENCES TO HIM AND HIS

3:19:29FAMILY ORIGINALLY FROM SOUTH

3:19:32BOSTON MOVED TO DORCHESTER BUT

3:19:34VERY ENGAGED AND ACTIVE IN THE

3:19:36YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND IN

3:19:38DORCHESTER AND JUST WANT TO

3:19:40OFFER OUR PRAYERS AND UH, TO

3:19:42THE SWEENEY FAMILY DURING THIS

3:19:44DIFFICULT TIME.

3:19:45I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE UM

3:19:48COUNCIL FITZGERALD MENTIONED

3:19:49EILEEN RUMBOLD WHO WAS A

3:19:50COLLEAGUE OF JOHN'S BUT I ALSO

3:19:53WANT TO UM ACKNOWLEDGE EILEEN

3:19:57UM HER PASSING UM I'M FRIENDS

3:19:59WITH HER HUSBAND RONNIE, UM,

3:20:02ACTIVE AND SOUTH BOSTON

3:20:04COMMUNITY UM, CLOSING DOWN AT

3:20:06THE CURLEY RECREATION CENTER.

3:20:08UM, BUT EILEEN WAS ALWAYS

3:20:11GIVING BACK AND SUPPORTING

3:20:13VARIOUS CHARITIES AS JOHN

3:20:15MENTIONED.

3:20:15BUT OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH, UM,

3:20:18HER FAMILY DURING THIS

3:20:19CHALLENGING TIME.

3:20:20THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:20:21THANK YOU.

3:20:22>> CHAIR RECOGNIZES

3:20:23COUNCILOR CULPEPER

3:20:24COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

3:20:25MADAM PRESIDENT ONE LEFT THE

3:20:26NAME OF UH YOU ASKED ME WHO

3:20:29PASSED ON OCTOBER 9TH UNDER AND

3:20:34IT READS YOUR LIFE WAS A

3:20:36BLESSING YOUR MEMORY A TREASURE

3:20:38YOUR LOVE BEYOND WORDS AND MISS

3:20:41BEYOND MEASURE.

3:20:42CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE ASK

3:20:44ME FAMILY.

3:20:45THANK YOU.

3:20:49THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE

3:20:50COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY IT DOES

3:20:52SO.

3:20:55OH THANK YOU PARDON, COUNCILOR.

3:20:57CONCERN FOR YOUR FLIP YOUR

3:20:59LIGHTEST.

3:20:59THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.

3:21:01NO I DID PRESS I'M SORRY.

3:21:03UH.

3:21:03>> JUST WOULD LIKE MY ADD UH MY

3:21:04NAME ADDED UH FOR MATTHEW

3:21:06SWEENEY AS WELL.

3:21:07UH, HE WAS A VERY GOOD MAN AND

3:21:09A NEIGHBOR.

3:21:09THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:21:09THANK YOU.

3:21:12>> THE CHAIR MOVES AT WHEN THE

3:21:14COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY IT DOES

3:21:15SO IN THE MEMORY OF THE

3:21:17AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS

3:21:18UPLIFTED BY MY COLLEAGUES.

3:21:22A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

3:21:32THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO

3:21:33MEET AGAIN IN THE IRON CHAMBER

3:21:36ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER.

3:21:4118TH, 2026 AT 12 P.M. THANK YOU

3:21:45TO MY COLLEAGUES, CENTRAL

3:21:46STAFF, THE CLERK CHECKS OFFICE

3:21:49AND A COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER.

3:21:51ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT

3:21:52PLEASE SAY I THANK YOU.

3:21:56THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.

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