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Video-Count: 2
Video-1: youtube.com/watch?v=-Ij4MOIuup4
Video-2: youtube.com/watch?v=QSy-HY2Yml4

NOTE
MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: -Ij4MOIuup4):
- 00:11:01: Meeting Call to Order and Docket Introductions
- 00:16:11: Budget Director Williamson explains the financial transactions
- 00:18:15: Renee explains agreement similarities to the BPA
- 00:19:30: Councilor Flynn questions Name Tags and Hazardous Duty Pay
- 00:22:03: Councilor Murphy expresses support and asks about contract improvements
- 00:24:37: Councilor Fitzgerald expresses support for the contract
- 00:25:17: Chair Weber questions contract timing and details of summer vacation
- 00:30:36: Councilor Flynn questions detective staffing shortage and overtime
- 00:36:43: Chair Weber Adjourns the Hearing Thanking All Participants

Part 2 (Video ID: QSy-HY2Yml4):
- 00:01:08: Call to Order, Roll Call, and Invocation by Pastor
- 00:08:43: Lu Xen Recognizes Haitian Heritage Month, Ipsy Band Performs
- 00:20:22: Santana Presentation: Internet Access and Digital Rights
- 00:22:17: Evan Greer: Progressive vision of regulating abusive corporations
- 00:26:09: Attendance Amendment and Murphy: Unanswered 17F Orders
- 00:28:52: Flynn: Motion to Suspend Order for Overdue 17F Orders
- 00:31:48: Approval of Minutes and Mayor's Office Communications
- 00:35:14: Council Luen: Suspension for Arts and Culture Grant
- 00:37:55: Council Durkin: Commercial Acquisition Assistance Program Grant
- 00:42:13: Council Murphy: Suspension for Senior Nutrition Grant
- 00:44:27: Council Santana: Violence Against Women Act Grant
- 00:47:58: Council Leanne: Boston Family Day donor support grant
- 00:50:11: Sustainable Materials Recovery Program Grant Discussion
- 00:50:43: Council Murphy: Grant for Art Program for Aging
- 00:52:22: Docket 0979 referred to Public Safety and Justice
- 00:53:13: Council Orel: Route Resiliency and Water Efficiency Grant
- 00:55:06: Council Orel: ACLS Grant for Adult Learners
- 00:57:42: Council Murphy: Small Youth Programming Grant
- 00:58:46: Review of White Stadium MWBE, Local Business Participation
- 01:00:12: Public Officers and Others Reports Placed on File
- 01:03:25: Matters Recently Heard- Discussion of Budget Hearings
- 01:13:49: Weber: Final Public Budget Session, Dockets Stay in Committee
- 01:14:07: Police Benevolent Collective Bargaining Agreements
- 01:27:15: Council Pepen: School Bus Violation Ordinance Refiled
- 01:29:09: Council Co Pepper: Firearm Trafficking Hearing Order
- 01:32:53: Council Kalpa: Mental Health Crisis Support Hearing
- 01:35:23: Council Kalpa: Community-Based Mental Health Pilot
- 01:38:54: Council Flynn: 17F Information on City Commissioner Contracts
- 01:40:47: Council Flynn: 17F Large Projects Denied due to Parking
- 01:44:23: Council Flynn: Resume In-Person Work Four Days Weekly
- 01:55:17: Council Mahia: Pause White Stadium Construction
- 02:06:31: Council Santana: African-American Military Veterans Memorial Day
- 02:53:01: Council Santana: Restricting LGBTQIA+ online resources
- 03:03:54: Council Luen: Recognizing Haitian Heritage Month
- 03:06:03: Council Flynn: Resolution in Support of Right Safe Act
- 03:13:39: Council Braden Personnel Order
- 03:14:14: Council Flynn Pulls Docket 0623 Christopher Osgood Confirmation
- 03:16:21: Council Flynn Pulls Docket 0307 Resolution for Elevator Safety
- 03:24:05: Closing Remarks and Memorials


Part: 1

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--------- YEAH. >> YEAH.

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BUT. THAT'S COMING ON THE COMPUTER.

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JUST JUST GIVE ME ONE SECOND. I'M GOING TO HANG UP HERE ON MY

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PHONE TO TRY TO PROMOTE.

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NO. >> UM. >> UH, EVERYONE. UH. GOOD MORNING. UH, FOR THE RECORD, UH, MY NAME IS BEN WEBER AND THE CHAIR OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

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AND THE DISTRICT SIX CITY COUNCILOR. UH, AND. OKAY. UM, UH, TODAY IS MAY 13TH, 2026

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AND EXACT TIME IS 9:37 A.M.. UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER TWO OF THE ACTS OF 2025 MODIFYING CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF OPEN MEETING LAW AND RELIEVING PUBLIC BODIES

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OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING THE REQUIREMENT THAT THEY CONDUCT THEIR MEETINGS IN A PUBLIC PLACE THAT ARE OPEN AND PHYSICALLY ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE CONDUCTING THIS HEARING VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM.

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THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED. IT'S ALSO BEING LIVE STREAMED AT BOSTON.GOV/CITY COUNCIL TV AND BROADCAST ON IT'S CHANNEL EIGHT RCN CHANNEL 82 AND FIVE CHANNEL 964.

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WRITTEN COMMENTS MAY BE SENT TO THE COMMITTEE AT SIX M AT BOSTON.COM AND WILL BE MADE PART OF THE RECORD AND AVAILABLE TO ALL COUNCILORS. PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN AT THE END OF THE HEARING.

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INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON THE ORDER WHICH THEY'VE SIGNED UP AND HAVE TWO MINUTES TO TESTIFY. IF YOU WISH TO SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY PLEASE EMAIL OUR CENTRAL STAFF LIAISON

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KARISHMA JOHN AT CHARISMA DOT C H O U N@BOSTON.GOV FOR THE. ZOOM LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL BE ADDED. >> TO THE LIST. THIS MORNING'S HEARING IS ON FOR DOCKETS RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BETWEEN

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THE CITY AND BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES, BENEVOLENT SOCIETY AND SUPERIOR OFFICERS. I WILL NOW READ THE FOUR DOCKETS INTO THE RECORD. JUST CHECKING THAT PEOPLE CAN STILL HEAR ME RIGHT NOW.

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OKAY, GREAT. UH UM OKAY, SO DOCKET NUMBER 0909 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE

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FY 26 APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY $1,951,894, UH, TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE

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BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE FY 26 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

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UM. OR BPD THE UH B.S WHICH IF I REFER TO THAT IS THE DETECTIVES PLAN ON SOCIETY OKAY. DOCKET NUMBER 0910 MESSAGE IN

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ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FY 26 AND THE AMOUNT OF $1,951,894

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TO COVER THE FY 26 COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BPD PBS UH THE TERMS OF THE

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CONTRACT ARE JULY 1ST, 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2026. THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY 2025.

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CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY AND AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND SICK TIME BUYBACK AND RETIREMENT. DOCKET NUMBER 0911 MESSAGE IN

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ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL, UH, IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE FY 26 APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY

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1,366,090 $93 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE FY 26 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY

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OF BOSTON AND THE UH BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIT DOCKET NUMBER 0912 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL

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APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FY 26, IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,366,093 TO COVER THE FY 26 COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE

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BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY SUPERIORS OFFICERS YOU THAT THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT OR JULY 1ST

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2025 THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2026. THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE A BASE WAGE INCREASE OF 2% IN JULY 2025. THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS AN

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UPDATE TO HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY AND AMENDED LANGUAGE AROUND PAY DETAILS AND SUMMER VACATION SCHEDULES. THESE MATTERS WERE SPONSORED BY MAYOR MICHELLE WILL REFER TO

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THE COMMITTEE ON MAY 6TH, 2026 AND JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL COUNCILOR ED FLYNN, COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR JOHN FITZGERALD. WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY OUR

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PANELISTS. UH, WE HAVE UH THE BUDGET DIRECTOR JIM WILLIAMSON, UH, DIRECTOR OF LABOR RELATIONS FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON, RENE BUCCI, LABOR COUNCILOR FOR THE BOSTON

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POLICE DEPARTMENT JOHN WILTON AND DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICE OF LABOR RELATIONS. UH, JAMES. MILLER UH, LET'S SEE HERE.

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SO UM LET'S UH I DON'T KNOW UH DO YOU HAVE A UH, PRESENTATION? WE'LL JUST GET TO IT AND THEN WE'LL GET TO QUESTIONS. UH. YOU KNOW, COUNCIL I USUALLY JUST, UH, INTRODUCED WHAT THE

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TRANSACTION THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US. SO THANK YOU. UH, CHAIR WEBER AND OTHER MEMBERS TO THE COUNCIL. UH, AS YOU SAID, MY NAME IS, UH, JIM WILLIAMSON. I'M THE BUDGET DIRECTOR HERE AT THE CITY BOSTON AND I'M JOINED

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BY MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE LABOR RELATIONS DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO UH TO UH, SPEAK FOR THESE UH FOR APPROPRIATION, UH, ORDERS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU UM, WE

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APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH UH UH, EXPLAIN, UH, THE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS THEY REPRESENT AND, UM, THE IMPACT TO THE LABOR FORCE AND, UH, ASK

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FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN APPROVING THESE DOCKETS AT YOUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. UH, SO, UH, I THINK YOU ARTICULATED THE THE DOCKETS THERE'S ONE, UH, TWO SETS

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OF DOCKETS MOVING UH, $1.9 MILLION FROM THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RESERVE INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET FOR THE THE POLICE DETECTIVES UNION, UH, AND THEN ADDITIONAL

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TWO DOCKETS UH, MOVING UH APPROXIMATELY $1.4 MILLION UH AGAIN FROM THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RESERVE IN UH FOR THE POLICE DETECTIVE SUPERIORS INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET.

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SO THE TOTAL OF THESE THESE FOUR DOCKETS IS $3.3 MILLION. UH, JUST TO UH, GO OVER UH, THE UH WHAT'S HAPPENED DURING THE COURSE OF THIS FISCAL YEAR?

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UH, THE FY 26 BUDGET FINALIZED IN JUNE OF 2025, INCLUDED A $102.7 MILLION COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RESERVE. UM, THERE'S BEEN 11 CBAS

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APPROVED UH UH, BY THE CITY COUNCIL TODAY UH, TOTALING $86.3 MILLION. UH, AND UH, THIS UM UH, WITH

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THESE SUPPLEMENTALS OF $3.3 MILLION THERE'LL BE A TOTAL UM DOLLARS UH APPROPRIATED OF $89.6 MILLION UH, WITH THAT UH I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY ELSE ON THE ON THE CITY TEAM HAS ANY

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OTHER STATEMENTS THAT I CAN MAKE BEFORE QUESTIONS. UM, I'LL I'LL JUST ADD UM GOOD MORNING COUNCILORS. THANK YOU. UM, THESE ARE TWO ONE YEAR

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AGREEMENTS FOR THE DETECTIVES AND THE DETECTIVE SUPERIOR UNITS THEY LARGELY MIRROR UM, THEY'LL THEY'LL BE UP UM, NEXT MONTH JUNE 30TH. UM, THEY LARGELY MIRROR WHAT

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HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED FOR THE BPA WITH THE 2% IN THE 1% AND HAZARDOUS DUTY SOME OF THE CHANGES IN THE DETAIL RATES, THE WORKED OUT TIME, THE GYMS

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UM AND THE UM NAMETAGS SO THOSE IT'S LARGELY A ONE YEAR SORT OF CATCH UP CONTRACT MIRRORING WHAT THE BPA HAS ALREADY RECEIVED. UM YOU KNOW WE WERE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THESE THINGS

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WITH BEING WORKOUT TIME AND GYMS FOR THE OFFICERS INVOLVED. UM, AND WE'D ASK YOUR APPROVAL ,UH, FOR THESE CONTRACTS. OKAY. >> UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH. I MEAN, THE, UH THIS WAS FILED

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LAST WEEK. >> AND, UH, HOPING TO. HAVE A HEARING AND. >> BRING UP FOR. >> A VOTE TODAY. UH. SO, UM, I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT TO MY. COLLEAGUES HERE. COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU'RE UP FIRST. UM, UM, TO.

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SIX MINUTES. >> UH. AND YOU'LL I'LL COME ON CAMERA WITH, UH, A MINUTE TO GO. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. UM, I HEARD BRIEFLY ABOUT THE

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NAME TAG UM, BEING MENTIONED. CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT TO ME, PLEASE? DAN, YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT? SURE. >> UM. >> SO SUPERIOR OFFICERS UNIFORM SUPERIOR OFFICERS HAVE FOR

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ABOUT, UH, TEN OR SO YEARS HAD NAME TAGS. ,UM. >> MOST RECENTLY IN THE LAST ONE YEAR CONTRACT THE PATROL OFFICERS UM THE CITY NEGOTIATED A BARGAINING WAIVER FOR NAME

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TAGS. NOW WE ARE NEGOTIATING A BARGAINING WAIVER FOR DETECTIVES AND DETECTIVE SUPERIORS TO WEAR NAME TAGS WHILE IN UNIFORM. AND, UH, GEAR.

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JOHN. >> UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THAT THAT IT IT, UM, ADDS ANOTHER LEVEL OF. TRANSPARENCY AND IT SIMPLY PUTS A NAME WITH A FACE AND IT'S KIND OF THE GOAL OF IT. THANK YOU JOHN.

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UH THANK YOU JAMES CAN YOU, UM, JUST GIVE ME THE PERCENTAGES AGAIN? IT'S 2% AND 1% BUT CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT AGAIN TO ME? UM, YOU KNOW, IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.

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? >> I MEAN THE 2% IS JUST THE COMPENSATION RAISE AND THEN THERE'S 1% ADDED ON FOR THE SAME YEAR TO THEIR HAZARDOUS DUTY RATE. AND AND I'M I'M FAMILIAR WITH

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THE HAZARDOUS DUTY UM, RATE I'M I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM HAZARDOUS DUTY BUT CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN EXPLAIN THAT TO THE PUBLIC PLEASE. UM.

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>> IT'S ANOTHER STIPEND I THINK THAT'S BEEN IN THE CONTRACTS FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME RECOGNIZING SOME OF THE, UM, YOU KNOW, CONDITIONS THAT OFFICERS FACE IN THEIR WORK.

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SO EACH ADDITIONAL COMPONENT OF PAY UM, THAT ARE IN BOTH OF THESE CONTRACTS WORKING, YOU KNOW, IN RECOGNITION HISTORICALLY OF SOME OF THE DIFFICULT CONDITIONS THAT THE OFFICERS AND THE DETECTIVES

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FACE IN THEIR WORK. THANK YOU, I SUPPORT THAT. I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE. UM I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. I WILL VOTE FOR THIS CONTRACT. UM I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE JIM

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WALLACE WILLIAMSON THAT DOES DOES A VERY GOOD JOB AS WELL. UM, MR. CHAIR. >> I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. OKAY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH COUNCILOR MURPHY. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I'LL JUST TURN MY CAMERA ON WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP.

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THAT'S SO. >> UM THANK YOU ALL FOR HOPPING ON BEFORE OUR NOON MEETING SO WE CAN VOTE TODAY IN SUPPORT. JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING AND SUPPORT COUNCIL OPS. WHEN ASKED A COUPLE OF THE

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QUESTIONS UH, SEEING THAT YOU MENTIONED RENEE THAT IT WAS VERY SIMILAR TO THE ONE WITH THE BPA, THE ONLY QUESTION MAYBE TO JANEY OR UM, JOHN, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THESE

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UNIONS FELT THESE MEMBERS FELT WAS LEFT OUT OR. SOMETHING MORE THAT YOU HAD WANTED? WELL, UH, COUNSELOR BOTH BOTH

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SIDES UM, I THINK ALWAYS LEAVE A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, PIECES ON THE TABLE WHEN COMING TO AN AGREEMENT. BUT, UH, I THINK BOTH SIDES ARE ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH WHERE THINGS ENDED UP. UM.

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THE THERE ARE A COUPLE ADDITIONAL TERMS HERE IN ADDITION TO THE BPAS UH, CONTRACT. WE HAVE UM. UH AND IN PARTICULAR I THINK THE BIGGEST ONE THAT WE'RE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THESE

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TWO BARGAINING UNITS ARE THE ABILITY TO UM, USE HAVE DAYS COMP DAYS, UH, WHEN IT DOES NOT CREATE REPLACEMENT OVERTIME OR OPERATIONAL CONCERN.

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UM, SO WHERE WE'RE HOPING THAT UH THAT WILL BE ANOTHER ELEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND UH TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM GIVE THESE UH BARGAINING MEMBERS, DETECTIVES AND DETECTIVE

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SUPERIORS A LITTLE BIT OF MORE FAMILY TIME BACK AND UH, THE ABILITY TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY WITH THE BPA WAS BROUGHT UP ABOUT

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ONE MINUTE OF SICK OR PERSONAL DAYS THAT COULD BE CARRIED OVER. WAS IT CAPPED AT 100? HAS THAT BEEN LIFTED OR IS THAT CHANGED?

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UH SO COUNCILOR, I THINK IN THE LAST UH CONTRACT THE BPA WE RAISED THE LIMIT OF SICK DAYS THAT THEY COULD UM, REDEEM AT RETIREMENT UH, FROM 200 TO 250.

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UM AND WE ARE DOING THE SAME HERE FOR THE DETECTIVES. THE DETECTIVE SUPERIORS ALREADY HAVE THEIR LIMIT AT UH 200 AND UH 60. AND IT WILL STAY. UH, YEAH.

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SO THE DETECTIVES LIMIT WILL WILL GO UP TO 250 UM, WITH THIS NEW CONTRACT. OKAY. >> THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. THANK YOU. UM, I JUST WANT TO ALSO THANK

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BOBBY AND JENNY AND THE UNIONS FOR AND THEIR LEADERSHIP TEAM FOR SUPPORTING AND ADVOCATING OUR POLICE ALL DETECTIVES. AND SUPERIOR. OFFICERS AND JUST THANK YOU. LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING IN

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SUPPORT OF IT. OKAY. >> THANK YOU. UM, UH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. THANK YOU CHAIR. UH, AND UH, THANK YOU. >> TO EVERYBODY UH, ON ZOOM TODAY, UH, REGARDING THIS CONTRACT, UH, ALL THE QUESTIONS

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WERE ASKED BY MY COLLEAGUES THAT I THAT REALLY CONCERNED ME. SO, UH, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, HERE IN SUPPORT AND THANK YOU GUYS FOR DOING GOOD WORK AND UH, A GOOD BACK AND FORTH TO GET TO THIS POINT TODAY AND TO KEEP UH TO KEEP

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FOLKS GREATLY PAID AWAY. UM. >> IN A IN A FAIR WAY. SO UH, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP ANY MORE TIME. I KNOW WE ALL GOT BUSY DAYS, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. >> THANK YOU. UH, SO JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS FROM THE CHAIR.

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UM, UH, CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THE TIMING OF THIS? SO, UH, THIS IS PAY BACK TO LAST JULY, YOU KNOW, UH, SO THIS THIS NOW JUST FILLS IN

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BENEFITS. AND WHEN WERE THEY NEGOTIATED? UH, AND YOU KNOW, AND IT'S I GUESS LIKE WHY OR WHY IS THIS COMING FOR US NOW AS OPPOSED TO. UM. >> MONTHS AGO.

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. >> SO I MEAN WE DID UM, START NEGOTIATING THIS UM FAIRLY QUICKLY AFTER THE BPA AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED. UM, IT JUST YOU KNOW, THE BACK

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AND FORTH AND SCHEDULES I THINK TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. SO MOST OF THESE INCREASES WILL BE RETROACTIVE TO UM, JULY 1ST, 2025. UM AND THEN THE INCREASES WILL

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START GOING FORWARD. UM. >> YOU KNOW IT'S GOING FORWARD AS WELL AND SO IT OKAY NOT TO BE RETROACTIVE UM I DON'T THINK EITHER PARTY WAS DELAYING IT JUST WAS SORT OF THE NATURE

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OF THE NATURE OF NEGOTIATIONS THAT IT TOOK A LITTLE TIME TO GET FINALIZED. YEAH. >> SO WHEN WAS THIS AGREEMENT REACHED? UM. >> ALONG WITH THE WAS. UM THE DETECTIVES WAS APRIL

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8TH, 2027 AND THE DETECTIVE SUPERIORS APRIL 13TH, 2026. OKAY. >> UM. ,OKAY. UH, JUST A COUPLE OTHER QUESTIONS.

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UH, SO THE THE UM THE SUMMER UH I GUESS THERE'S VACATION TIME AVAILABLE NOW DURING THE SUMMER VACATION IF YOU CAN JUST EXPLAIN WHAT THE CONDITIONS

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WHAT THAT'S ADDRESSING AND. YET, UH, SO WE HAVE A, UM, SUMMER VACATION PERIOD BUILT INTO THE CONTRACT. IT USED TO BE, UM, UH, DEPUTY,

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CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK IT'S 16 WEEKS DURING THE SUMMER OR EIGHT VACATION PERIODS. UM, THE IDEA IS, UH, TO EXPAND

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THE NUMBER OF VACATION PERIODS FOR THE OFFICERS TO BID ON WHICH, UM, SPREADS OUT THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS OFF AT ANY GIVEN TIME. UM, ADMITTEDLY IT'S GOING TO

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HAVE IT IT, UH, SHOULD HAVE A LARGER EFFECT ON THE PATROL FORCE THAN THE DETECTIVES AND DETECTIVE SUPERIORS. BUT UM, THE IDEA IS TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF OFFICERS OFF AT

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ANY GIVEN TIME DURING THE SUMMER, WHICH IN TURN REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF REPLACEMENT OVER TIME. THE SIMILAR TO THE FIREFIGHTERS CONTRACT I THINK WAS THERE A LIKE A OR THERE'S SOME UH

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TRYING TO EXTEND THE PERIODS WHERE PEOPLE COULD TAKE VACATIONS I THOUGHT. ANYWAY THAT RANG. >> A. BELL UH SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT IN THE FIRE CONTRACT. >> YEAH IT WASN'T SUMMER BUT IT WAS UM THEY MAYBE SCHOOL VACATION PERIODS. >> OR. SOMETHING THAT.

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>> YOU KNOW. ANYWAY. UH, OKAY. AND THEN JUST UH LASTLY IN TERMS OF UH, POLICE OVERTIME, YOU KNOW, THAT'S BEEN AN ISSUE THE AMOUNT BEING SPENT I MEAN,

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HOW WILL THIS CONTRACT IMPACT UH WILL IT HAVE AN IMPACT ON POLICE OVERTIME? WILL IT LOWER IT WILL IT INCREASE IT? I MEAN. >> BUT YOU GO AHEAD GO AHEAD

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JOHN. YEAH I MEAN WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THE SUMMER VACATION PERIOD WILL UM HAVE A HAVE A UM AN EFFECT THAT WOULD REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF OVERTIME HOURS WORKED.

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UM ALTHOUGH AS I MENTIONED, IT WILL PROBABLY HAVE A GREATER EFFECT FOR THE PATROL FORCE THAN THE DETECTIVES AND THE TECHNICAL SUPERIORS JUST BECAUSE THERE'S, UM, MUCH FEWER DETECTIVES AND DETECTIVE

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SUPERIORS. UM, SO THAT'S THAT'S THE PRIMARY UM, METHOD THROUGH THIS ONE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REDUCE OVERTIME THROUGH THE CONTRACT. UH, I WILL SAY THAT POLICE

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DEPARTMENT IS ALSO TAKING, UM, A NUMBER OF MANAGEMENT STEPS TO REDUCE OVERTIME THROUGHOUT THE DAY. I'M JUST JOHN, CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN SORT OF THE BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE TAKING OVER TIME

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IT'S NOT REPLACEMENT TIME FOR SOMEONE WEARING A HAT. YOU JUST EXPLAINED HOW IT REDUCES OVERTIME PAY. SURE. >> UM WELL OVER TIME. OVERTIME HOURS. YEAH. >> YES. UM IT IF THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS

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OR DETECTIVES OFF AT ANY GIVEN WEEK DURING THE SUMMER UM IS LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF UM TIMES THAT YOU HAVE TO REPLACE

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THAT DETECTIVE OR PATROL OFFICER ON OVERTIME DURING THE SUMMER IS LESS UM, REPLACEMENT OVERTIME DURING THE SUMMER I THINK IS ONE OF OUR LARGEST, UM ,DRIVING FACTORS OF OVERTIME.

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OKAY, ANYTHING IN THE CONTRACT THAT'S GOING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF OVERTIME HOURS THAT YOU WANT TO SHADOW. OR HIGHLIGHT. OR ANYTHING? UH, I. >> THINK WE WERE CAREFUL TO, YOU KNOW, BE BE CONSIDERATE

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OF THAT. YOU KNOW, WE WE TALKED ABOUT THE WORKOUT TIME BUT WE MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THAT WASN'T IS THAT WASN'T ALLOWED TO INCREASE OVERTIME. SO UM WE WERE VERY CONCERNED

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ABOUT NOT INCREASING UM THE OVERTIME BUDGET IN THE PROVISIONS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO OFFER THE OFFICERS. OKAY. >> THANK YOU. THAT'S IT FOR ME. I SEE COUNCILOR FLYNN'S HAND IS UP. COUNCILOR FLYNN. YEAH. >> THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

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UM, MY QUESTION I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON, UM, WE'RE SHORT STAFFED WITH DETECTIVES. IS IS THAT ACCURATE TO SAY? YES I. >> WOULD YES.

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HOW HOW MANY DETECTIVES ARE WE SHORT STAFFED? I THINK WE'RE, UM BELOW OUR

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ALLOCATION BY AROUND UM IS IT 45 OR 50 DEPUTY. I WOULD. >> SAY IT'S ABOUT. 45 RIGHT NOW. JOHN I THINK THERE'S SOME RECENTLY. UH, APPOINTED DETECTIVES. THAT'S A THAT'S A CONCERN I

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HAVE. UM SO LET ME ASK WE TALK ABOUT WORK LIFE BALANCE AND THEN SUPPORTING OUR COLLEAGUES FAMILIES. UM, IF A DETECTIVE NEEDS TO

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SPEND SOME TIME WITH HIS FAMILY ,UH, HE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A VACATION. TAKE A DAY OFF. AND WE'RE ALREADY SHORT STAFFED WITH WITH WITH DETECTIVES.

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UM, HOW HOW ARE WE BALANCING SUPPORTING THAT DETECTIVE AND THEIR FAMILY BUT ALSO BALANCING PUBLIC SAFETY AND AND MANNING

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LEVELS? UH, I THINK COUNCIL THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TAKEN SOME DELIBERATE. ACTIONS TO. UH, STEM THE OVERTIME A BIT BUT

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UM, ALSO I THINK THE FOR OUR WILL UH, PROVISION IS GOING TO UH HOPEFULLY ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE OVERTIME AND ALSO ADD SOME FAMILY TIME TO THE DETECTIVES. I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO MAYBE

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NOT CALL IN SICK AS MUCH OR TAKE FULL VACATION TIME IF THEY CAN TAKE A FOUR. >> HOUR. UH, OR A TIME ON A SATURDAY TO CATCH A COOKOUT OR A BASEBALL GAME OR WHATEVER FOR THE CHILDREN AND SKEPTICAL OF ALL

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TIME THAT WOULD THAT WOULD REQUIRE US TO BACKFILL. >> FOR. THEM WHEN WHEN WE'RE SHORT STAFFED SIGNIFICANTLY WITH DETECTIVES AND THEN WE'RE

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ASKING A DETECTIVE THAT'S WORKING THE REGULAR SHIFT TO TO STAY ON TO WORK THE SECOND SHIFT THAT'S OVERTIME. UM THAT'S NOT THAT'S NOT

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NECESSARILY WHAT THE DETECTIVE DETECTIVE WANTS. THAT'S WHAT THE THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS. UM, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, MY COLLEAGUES ON THE CITY

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COUNCIL ARE CALLING CALLING OUT THE, UM ALMOST THE DETECTIVES FOR THE WORK FOR FOR MAKING THIS THIS MONEY.

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UM AND AND IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT AND THEY'RE PLACED IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY'RE ALMOST FORCED TO WORK A DOUBLE SHIFT AND, YOU KNOW, GIVING UP

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PRECIOUS TIME WITH THEIR FAMILY AND THEN AND THEN CRITICIZING THEM. UM, AND AND AND CALLING OUT CALLING OUT OVERTIME.

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THE ISSUE IS WHY AREN'T WE PROMOTING AND GETTING PEOPLE INTO THE NEW DETECTIVE ROLES PROMOTING DETECTIVES AND THEN AND THEN THAT REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF OVERTIME THAT IS

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NEEDED. I THINK WE'RE CRITICIZING UM CRITICIZING THE SYSTEM AND WE'RE NOT DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN TERMS OF PROMOTING TWO

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DETECTIVE IN AND HIRING MORE POLICE OFFICERS, WHICH I HAVE CONSISTENTLY ADVOCATED FOR SINCE I GOT ON. UM, I THINK WE NEED TO HIRE 300 POLICE OFFICERS EVERY YEAR

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CONSISTENTLY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS. UM, DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO TO TO YOU GUYS? UM, JOHN AND JAMES WHAT I MENTIONED. COULD I JUST POINT OUT.

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NO, I DON'T KNOW RENEE. IT'S MORE OF A POLICE ISSUE. I DO WANT TO. PRESENT THE POLICE THIS YEAR AND I'LL LET THEM FOLLOW UP ON IT. I KNOW, BUT. RENE RENE IS RENE. IS IT OKAY. IF I ASK THE BOSTON POLICE, UM,

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TO RESPOND? I THINK I THINK IT WAS A FAIR QUESTION. I THINK THIS IS A LABOR CONTRACT AND I JUST WOULD LIKE. NO, I. I UNDERSTAND THAT. WE'VE BEEN ON IT. I HAVE NO OVERTIME. NO I UNDERSTAND RENE. >> OVERTIME THAT'S NOT ME. I UNDERSTAND.

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THAT I AGREE IT'S. IT'S ABOUT. STAFFING LEVELS IN THE BOSTON POLICE I DO I DO WANT TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND. I WOULD GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY YEAH I KNOW. A SECOND POINT THERE'S A.

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NO NO I I DO I UNDERSTAND BUT I. THAT'S THE PLAN. IF A PANELIST IS ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION PLEASE. NO MR CHAIR I, I DID ASK A SPECIFIC. QUESTION OR IS A RESPECTFUL QUESTION.

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I WANTED TO GIVE THE PANEL AN OPPORTUNITY. TO GO AHEAD AND HEAR JOHN RESPOND. IS THAT OKAY, MR CHAIR? I AGREE. >> YOUR QUESTION IS RESPECTFUL. YOU HAVE TO BE RESPECTFUL OF THE PANEL. THIS IS A I MR CHAIR.

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I SPECIFICALLY ASKED A QUESTION. >> FOR JAMES AND JOHN IF THE IF THEY WOULD WANT TO RESPOND BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE UH WORKING IN THE BOSTON POLICE KNOWING THE STAFFING LEVELS

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IT'S ABOUT STAFFING. I BELIEVE RENE HAS VALUABLE. ALSO KNOWLEDGE. ABOUT THAT STUFF IN THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ITSELF. BUT MR CHAIR, I. WAS AT. MY LINE.

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I WITHDRAW MY COMMENT JOHN CAN . MR CHAIR MY QUESTION. MY QUESTION WAS SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOSTON POLICE. MR CHAIR, I THINK YOU'RE MISSING MY POINT. UH, WE COULD MOVE ON. OKAY. >> ANY OTHER PANELISTS WANT TO

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RESPOND? UM, I THINK I CAN RESPOND TO THAT. UH, COUNCILOR, UM, ANYTIME WE MAKE DETECTIVES OR PROMOTE SERGEANTS OR LIEUTENANT OR SO ON WHERE WE'RE TAKING AWAY FROM

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THE PATROL FOR US. SO WE HAVE TO KEEP THAT BALANCE IN MIND AND, YOU KNOW, RECRUIT OUR EFFORTS TO GET MORE POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE ONGOING AND WE

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WE CONTINUE TO MEET TO STRIVE TO GET MORE POLICE OFFICERS. THANK YOU. >> OKAY. >> OKAY. IS THAT A, UH THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN? UM, OKAY.

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UH, RENEE, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO ADD ON THAT. JUST HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING. OKAY, GREAT. UH, OKAY. UH, WELL, UH, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM

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MY COLLEAGUES. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO WAS HERE THIS MORNING AND I WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THANK CENTRAL STAFF FOR BEING WILLING TO HAVE THIS HEARING ON. SHORT NOTICE, UH, AND OTHERWISE

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BUSY WEDNESDAY SO WE COULD GET THIS UP FOR A VOTE IS, UH, YOU KNOW, IN A PROMPT MANNER AND THAT THAT WAS THAT REQUIRES HAVING THIS HEARING ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. SO AGAIN THANK YOU TO CENTRAL

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FOR DOING THAT. THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU TO THE PANELISTS. UH, THIS MORNING'S HEARING IS NOW ADJOURNED. >> AND. ABLE TO GET. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.

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Good afternoon everyone. Everyone, I call to order today's meeting of the Boston City Council. Viewers can watch the meeting live on YouTube at boston.gov/c city-counsel-tv. At this time, I ask my colleagues and

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those in the in the audience to please silence their cell phones and electronic devices. Also, pursuant to rule 42, I remind all in this chamber that no demonstration of approval or disapproval from members of the public will be permitted. Thank you.

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Madame clerk, would you please call the role to ascertain the presence of a quorum? Councelor Braden here. Council Braden here. Councelor Kleta Zapata. Council Kalpa. Council Durkin. Council Durkin. Council Fitzgerald here.

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>> Council Fitzgerald here. Council Flynn >> here. >> Council Flynn here. Council Luan >> here. >> Council Lian here. Council Mahia. Council Mahia here. Council Murphy. >> Councelor Murphy here. Council Pep.

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>> Councelor Pepen here. Council Santana. Council Santana here. Councelor Weber. >> Councelor Weber here. Council Rural. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. We have a call on. >> Thank you. I've been informed by the

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clerk that a quorum is present. Uh it is now my pleasure to invite councelor Lu Xen forward to introduce today's clergy, Pastor Joseph Muset. Thank you uh madam chair. Um I have the esteemed honor of welcoming pastor

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Joseph Mette to the das. Pastor Joseph Mette currently uh serves as a spiritual leader of the first Haitian Baptist Church of Boston, a multicultural and multilingual multilingual congregation founded in October 1969 and located at 397 Blue

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Hill Avenue in the heart of Dorchester Roxberry. This is actually the church where I grew up. First Haitian Baptist Church and it's an honor to be the first Haitian elected on the Boston City Council and to be doing this in celebration of what May is, which is Haitian Heritage Month. And so I'm so

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proud that I get to welcome Pastor Museette here. The church's home was originally constructed in 1906. It's actually a historical landmark. It was founded as congregation adafath jasherun, a prominent Jewish synagogue and was added to the national register of historic places in 1999 recognizing

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its architectural, cultural and community significance and obviously because of the way communities have changed. Uh it used to be a Jewish synagogue and is now home to a black church, a Haitian community, but you can still see the Hebrew on the church. Um and so I grew up in Grove Hall going to

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that church and I'm very grateful for Pastor Musett's leadership. Under his leadership, the First Haitian Baptist Church continues its mission of exalting the Lord, inspiring believers in their walk with God and welcoming people of all backgrounds through ministry in English, Haitian Crayol, and French.

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With faith, humility, and dedication to God's calling, Pastor Muset guides the church as a place of worship, prayer, biblical teaching, fellowship, and spiritual growth while honoring its rich legacy as a landmark of faith and community in Dorchester. I'm so lucky to have two Haitian pastors here with us.

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Pastor Kiki and Pastor Mus uh pastor Kiki is basically a city council now. So I wanted to make sure that pastor Mus could come here and give the invocation and also want to welcome his son who does a lot of work with him in the church um here with us today. You have

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the mic. >> Good afternoon everyone. >> Let's wait. I will bless the Lord at all all time and his praise will always be in my lips.

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Heavenly Father, Almighty God, we come before you today with our hearts filled with love and gratitude for all you have done for us. We bless your name and praise you for

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the life you give us. We praise and thank you for the breath of life. Thank you Lord for the opportunity we have to be in your presence with our brothers,

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sisters and the leaders of the Boston city. Yes Lord, you are great. You are wonderful. No one can compare himself to you. You are the almighty God and we know

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everything is under your control. Therefore, oh God, we pray that you take charge of everything that will take place during this gathering. Almighty God,

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we lift up before you the leaders of Boston city. You had chosen them to steer the city safely in the right direction of progress, prosperity.

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And we ask you to grant them wisdom, integrity, and justice and their decision making because they need discernment. discernment with fairness and compassion in order to prioritize

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the well-being of all citizen. We pray for the ceremony for the economy and the progress of our city. As the protector god, we pray you for the safety and security of our

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communities. We ask for your divine protection over all citizen. Protect them from crime, violence and accident. Oh Lord, we present to you the

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mayor of the city, Michelle Wu, and her staff. Thank you, Lord, for your presence in this ceremony. We ask you to bless all of us. bless everything that is about to be

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done in this time. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Um, we have two presentations today. uh councelor uh Luigi is

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recognizing uh Haitian Heritage Month honores and then we'll be followed by councelor Santana. Before you sit down, council Lian, would you like to come back up again? >> Um councelor Santana has a has a resolution, but he also has a

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presentation related to that resolution this afternoon as well. So contrary vision and your guests. Thank you again, Madame President. Um I'm here again in honor of Haitian Heritage Month, which is the month of May. And it's an honor to get to

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represent this community and to every year celebrate uh Haitian Heritage Month. I always say that May uh is so important. It's one of the busiest times of the year and that so many people in the H community carry a PhD,

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have a PhD and what it means to hold grief and joy at the same time. Given everything that's happening with temporary protected status, given everything that's happening back home where 90% of uh 90% of the capital is

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controlled by gangs, given the violence uh from this administration when we talk about um the harm to our uh immigrant communities. Uh it is hard to find moments and times to celebrate, but there's so much happening here, whether it be the first time in 52 years that

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Haiti is in the World Cup and the first game happening in Boston is Haiti versus Scotland. And to see the Haitian Haitian and the Scottish communities coming together is amazing. Whether it's last Saturday, the first Haitian night at the New England Revolution game or next Friday the third Haitian night at the

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Red Sox, um we are carrying a lot of a lot of pain and a lot of joy. And I am so grateful to be a daughter of this community both in a a figurative sense uh the Haitian community. I grew up uh wu and his wife basically um there's

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something that you say in cry balas balas suja I grew up balancing on his knee and in um uh him doing work at teleol at Boston neighborhood news with my father who is here and always here. And so I'm I'm just grateful that I grew up with parents who taught me how

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important it is to be proud of who I am as an American, as a Haitian, and as a black woman. And so I'm grateful that during this month of May, we have a lot of celebrating, and we'll be continuing that celebrating through June. So there's an official resolution that is on um that is on the docket that we will

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be voting on later. And I hope that my colleagues will uh join me as you do every year in voting unanimously for this resolution recognizing May as Haitian Heritage Month. will also be continuing the tradition of raising the Haitian flag on Friday and I hope my colleagues will join us uh because of the weather. It's likely going to be

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mostly inside, but I'm grateful. I'm going to have uh Pastor Kiki say a few words and then we're going to have the Ipsy band perform uh national an Haitian national anthem and it Sherry for us. So, Pasiki, if you'd like to say a few words.

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>> Uh thank you so very much. Uh my uh counselor with the illusion, I call her my daughter. She called me the second dad because her dad is right here. Want to thank all of you elected officials who always stand uh alongside of the

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Haitian community. We thank you for all the contributions that you bring uh to us and connecting us as well with all the resources and we pray that you continue to keep us in your prayers as we about to face the challenges especially our TPS recipients. We do not

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know what going to happen in July, but we pray and hope that the Supreme Court will definitely rule in our favor so that 350,000 people can remain in this country to contribute tremendously in this economy. Thank you so much.

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>> Thank you. And also just a reminder, Pasiki serves as chair of Haitian Americans United. annual Haitian parade, a Haitian unity parade with W and Marie Shepard will be this Sunday starting at 12:30 in Madapan Square. So I'm going to turn it over to members of the Ipsy

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band. We have with us today Kevin Gabaua Paul. They both started as young children with Ipsy and now they're in college and they continue to embody the spirit of our community and of service. Um and they just came from college yesterday and today they're here with us. So, thank you so much for coming and

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and sharing in our rich culture. And we are also joined by Maestro Mley and Stanley Vernett playing saxophone tenner. So, thank you so much for being with us. Maybe it makes uh we'll move and you can come up here and perform. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Thank you for joining. Open resolution. Father, >> you got to go. >> You're the boss of this. Thank you. She's ready to >> Thank Thank you, Councelor Luen,

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and thank you to the musicians and all of you for being here today. It's such an honor. Uh, someone once said, I think it's Toy Delicott, that said that joy is an act of resistance. So, I think it's really

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important to celebrate and have joy in our lives as well. Thank you. Um, I now invite councelor Santana forward to uh for your presentation. >> Thank you, Madam President. Good afternoon, everyone.

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trying to hear with councelor Mahia as well. Um you can come right up. So access to information and the right to privacy are the foundations of a free society and for marginalized voices they are vital

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lifeline. Yet we are currently facing legislation that threatens to dismantle this lifeline and threaten the privacy of neighbors. We refuse to let our digital rights be dismantled. Today, alongside with um councelor Mahia, we

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filed a resolution in partnership with Fight for the Future to ensure that the internet remains a tool for liberation, not surveillance. No one understands the stakes of this legislation better than our next guest.

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Um before um I I let um the director of Fight for the Future, Evan Greer, um speak, I I do want to give um Councelor Mahia Okay. All right. So, Evan, >> so Evan, well, thank you for being here. Um, and um, thank you for all that you

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do on behalf of our communities. >> Thank you, counselor. So, again, my name is Evan Greer. I am the director of Fight for the Future, which is a national digital rights organization based here in Boston. We have more than 60,000 members here in Massachusetts. But I'm not just here

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representing Fight for the Future. I want to give a special shout out to Burhan from III Labs who worked with councelor Santana's office originally on this resolution. and we're here representing a growing coalition of LGBTQIA,

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human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice groups across the state who are urging our lawmakers and policy makers to address the harms of big tech companies, to crack down on the predatory business practices of large

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corporate social media firms, but to do that in a way that does not throw the most vulnerable people in our state under the bus. And so what this resolution does is it really points the path for a progressive vision here in

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Massachusetts for regulating the abusive business practices of these corporations rather than punishing families. and what we've seen put forth at the federal level with legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act, but also what has recently come here to Massachusetts in

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misguided proposals from the House and from the governor's office is legislation that rather than cracking down on these companies practices would force every single person in the state of Massachusetts to upload a government ID or submit to a discriminatory facial

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recognition scan in order to post online. that violates the First Amendment rights of every adult in the state, but it also keeps young people away from life-saving online resources. Things like the Trevor Project, suicide prevention hotlines, and other online

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resources that we know are a matter of life and death, particularly for LGBTQ youth in our city. And so we are here asking the Boston City Council to in one voice urge our policy makers to listen to experts to listen to undocumented

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families who may or may not have ID or be too afraid to upload their ID in order to post online. We know many undocumented folks in our communities are using social media right now to organize to monitor the activity of the federal government to raise money for

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family members who are facing deportation or for young people whose parents have been deported. These are access the access to these tools is essential. It's not a luxury. And so we want to urge our policy makers here in the state to listen to experts and to

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craft policies that crack down on these companies harmful practices without kicking young people off of tools that they use to organize and without undermining our privacy, human rights and civil liberties. So, thank you to councelor Santana, thank you councelor Mahia, and thank you to everyone for

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being here today and particularly to the broad coalition which includes Mass Equality, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, the Sierra Club of Massachusetts, and dozens of other civil liberties, human rights, and racial justice groups here in the state. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you, Evan. Um and later on today during today's council meeting we will be um voting uh uh we will be voting on this resolution and I really encourage my um colleagues to vote in support of of this resolution um for for the very

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reasons that Evan just described. So um really appreciate Madam President you giving us the time um to this to do this presentation today. Thank you. >> Take a picture. >> Invite our colleagues to come up for a photograph. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thanks very much. Come on, top to the Madame clerk, could you please amend the uh attendance to reflect that councelor uh co pepper has joined us? >> Okay.

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And councelor will >> Yes. Now on to the first order of business, which is >> Councelor Murphy, you have the floor. >> Um, thank you, Madam President. I rise today to briefly follow up on the point

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I raised last week regarding unanswered section 17F orders. Last week, I moved to suspend the regular order of business because there were multiple outstanding 17F requests sitting before this body. I allowed the meeting to move forward

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after we were told that answers would be coming. Here we are one week later and there are still 12 outstanding 17F orders that have not been answered. I just want to highlight a few of the unanswered orders still before us.

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We still do not have answers on elevator access, life safety, and disability compliance. We still do not have answers regarding the release of certain body warn cameras. And we still do not have answers regarding the grant programs, contracts, funding provided to nonprofit

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organizations, which we've been hearing a lot during the budget hearing these last few weeks. If section 17F is going to mean anything, then it has to be respected. The council cannot conduct meaningful oversight if our formal requests for information are ignored,

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delayed, or left unanswered week after week. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you, Council. >> We would we would I would like to move on. I'd like to move on with the meeting. Councelor Flynn, I I

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>> We haven't started the meeting yet. Okay. Councelor Councelor Flynn. >> Thank you, Madam Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, pursuant to rule 46, I move to suspend the regular order of business for the limited purpose of addressing overdue and unanswered section 17F

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orders currently pending before this body. Under rule 17, the council operates under a defined order of business. Under rule 8, questions relating to the priority of business are properly before the chair. I believe this matter

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directly impacts the council's ability to carry out its oversight responsibilities. Before we pursue proceed further with the regular order of business, I am requesting that the city council address the outstanding 17F request currently

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pending on the green sheets and elsewhere. These are not informal requests. These are orders formally passed by the Boston City Council pursuant to our oversight authority. When those orders go un unanswered, it limits the council's ability to conduct

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oversight, ask informed questions, evaluate policy decisions, properly represent our residents. I also believe we need to be honest about accountability. When SE 17F orders are routinely delayed, and I have one, Madam Chair, that's been delayed since

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January, ignored or left unanswered without consequences, it weakens the oversight authority. Accordingly, I move that the council suspend the regular order of business to require answers to all outstanding 17F orders. Last week,

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Councelor Murphy called for the same thing and she followed the business. She allowed the business to go forward under the promise that all 17Fs would be in full compliance by this week's meeting. That didn't happen. >> Thank you, Councelor Flynn. Uh, is that

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a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Yes. Yes, it is. >> Uh, have you got a second? >> Second. Uh, madame clerk, could you take a uh roll call vote on councelor Flynn's motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Councelor Braden,

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>> no. Councelor Braden, no. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Kalpa, >> Council Col Peppa, no. Council Durken, >> Councelor Dun, no. Council Fitzgerald, >> no. >> Council Fitzgerald, no. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Lian,

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>> no. >> Council Lian, no. Council Mahia. >> No. >> Council Mahia. Council Mahia. No. Council Murphy. >> Yes. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> No. >> Council Pep. No. Council Santana.

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>> No. >> Council Santana. No. Council Weber. >> No. >> Council Weber. No. Council War. >> Council War. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 votes for a not to adjourn the meeting

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and two yeses and one non-present. >> Thank you uh madame clerk. Councelor Flynn's motion to adjourn has been overruled. Uh we're now on to approval of the first order of business which is the approval of the minutes from the meeting of May 6th, 2026. All in favor

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say I. >> All oppose say nay. The eyes have it. The minutes of the May 6th meeting are approved. We are now on to communications from our honor the mayor. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0968? Docket 0968,

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message and order authorizing the city of Boston acting through its mayor's office of housing to accept and expand payments in the amount of $30 million given to the city of Boston inclusionary depart development policy fund. the city

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of Boston executive order in February 2000 to support the production and preservation of affordable housing and new market rate housing developments. The IDP required all developers of

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residential development project within 10 or more units to include affordable units in their project as a condition of receiving re relief from the Boston zoning code. Further, the executive order provide the option for developers

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to make contribution to the IDP fund in lie of providing on-site affordable units subject to approval of the Boston planning and development agency. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Docket 0968 will be referred to the committee on planning, development, and transportation.

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Madame clerk, could you please read dockets 0969 and 0970 together? Doc 0969 message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the

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amount of 12 million 573,64 in the form of a grant 2026 FIFA World Cup grant program awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency passed through the Mass Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be

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administered by the Office of Emergency Preparing. The grant would fund support to the safety and security needs of our Massachusetts state and local entities directly involved with providing services for the Boston 2026 World Cup

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event. Docket 0970, message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of 1 million73,239.34 in the form of a grant the FY26 Senator Charles E. Shannon J. Community

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Safety Initiative awarded by the Mass Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be administered by the police department. The grant would fund regional and multidisciplinary approaches to combat giving violence through coordinated prevention and

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intervention, law enforcement, persecution and resignation program. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Docket 0969 and 0970 together will be referred to the committee on public safety and criminal justice.

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Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0971? >> Docket 0971. message and order authorizing the city of Boston to ac accept and expend the amount of $35,600

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in the form of a grant FY26 local cultural council program awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council to be administered by the Office of Art and Culture. The grant will fund innovations, art, humanities and in

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preventive science program that enhance the quality of life in the city. Thank you. The chair uh recognizes councelor Luen. Councelor Luen, you have the floor. >> Thank you so much. Uh madam chair, as the chair of the arts, culture, entertainment, uh tourism, and special

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events committee, I move for us to suspend and pass and accept this grant. It's a grant that we uh yearly annually receive from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support the work of art uh and art programming in our city uh for everything from innovative arts, humanities, interpretive sciences

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programming. We are now obviously in an environment where we should be accepting grants with haste, especially to support the work that a lot of our organizations are doing. Um when we're talking about the grants here, we're talking about a lot of grants that are helping us transform STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math to steam so that

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we are incorporating more of an arts um influence into the work of of of science programming. Um and so I I just ask this body to vote in favor of a suspension and passes so that we can accept this grant so the Office of Arts and Culture can get to dispersing them. Thank you so much. Thank you. Councelor Lu Jen seeks

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suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0971. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose say nay. >> Vote. >> Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0971? >> Roll call vote on docket 0971. Councelor Braden. >> Yes.

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>> Councelor Braden. Yes. Councelor um Kleta Zapata. Council Kalpa. >> Yes. >> Council Kp. Council Durkin. >> Yes. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald. >> Yes. Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes.

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>> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Yes. >> Council me. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> Council Pep. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. Council War. >> Yes.

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>> Council Warel. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not present. >> Thank you. Docket 0971 has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0972? Docket 0972 message and order

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authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $250,000 in the form of a grant 35-75 Morsy Boulevard mitigation funds awarded by the Boston Planning and Development Agency to be administered by the Office

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of Economic Opportunities and Inclusion. The grant would fund mitigation funds from the development project located at 35-75 Moresy Boulevard to the B PDA community benefits fund which will be given via

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MOA to OEI for use of commercial acquisition assistant program. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor Durkin the chair of planning and development. You have the floor. >> Thank you chair. The Commercial Acquisition Assistance Program is a city- administered program designed to

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support small, locallyowned businesses in acquiring commercial properties they occupy. This program helps address pressing challenges in our neighborhoods, focusing on stabilizing commercial corridors, reducing displacement risks, and creating long-term pathways to commercial ownership for small businesses. On April

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3rd, I chaired a hearing in the Planning, Development, and Transportation Committee on a CAP grant, which this body later passed. the hearing. We were joined by Chief Donald Wright, uh, uh, Filamania Faluchi,

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um, senior adviser for CAP, um, from the Office of Opportunity and Inclusion, who shared more about the origins and the goals of this initiative. CAP was created in response to consistent feedback from small business owners that access to capital was a significant barrier to owning their storefronts. CAP

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provides targeted capital tools and technical assistance and advisory services to help businesses overcome barriers to commercial real estate acquisition, particularly in neighborhoods experienced significant development pressure. Boston has already seen the success of pilot programs through two local businesses, a hair

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salon and a brewery. This body passed the 500,000 grant we discussed at the hearing to create a down payment assistance pool to support at least five additional businesses. Today, I'm requesting that we allow a vote to allow OEOI to accept and expend $250,000 in

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mitigation funds from the Boston Redevelopment Authority to be deployed through CAP. These metigation funds originate from the development project located at 35 to75 Moresy Boulevard in Dorchester and are intended to support independent locallyowned businesses in

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the neighborhood. The funds must be used um to improve access to commercial to affordable commercial space as part of a CAP program and must be deployed to support small businesses in Dorchester with a requirement that at least 50% be deployed in the Columbia Point Savin

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Hill area. I checked in with district counselor councelor Fitzgerald and he supports the passage of this grant today. Um, since the body recently learned about the program and approved funding for it, I respectfully request that we suspend the rules and pass this docket to allow these mitigation funds

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to support CAP and Doorchester and promote long-term economic stability and vital vitality in the neighborhood. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor Durkin. Councelor Durkin seek suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0972. All in favor say I.

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>> All oppose say nay. Madame Clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0972? >> Roll call vote on docket 0972. Councelor Braden, >> yes. >> Council Braden, yes. Councelor Kleta Sapata. Council Kpa,

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>> yes. >> Council Kepa, yes. Councelor Durken, >> yes. >> Councelor Durkin, yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Len, >> yes. >> Council Lian, yes. Council me here.

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>> Council me here. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Councelor Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> Council Pepen. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. And council war. >> Yes.

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>> This um docket 0972 had 12 votes in the affirmative and one nonpresent. >> Thank you. Docket 0972 has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0973? >> Docket 0973. Message and order

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authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $194,38828 cents in the form of a grant federal FY26 nutrition service incentive program awarded by the US Department of Health and Human Services passed through the

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mass executive order of Eldere to be administered by eight strong commission. The grant would fund incentives to state and illeible tribal organization and efficient delivery of nutrition nutritious meals to individual age 60

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and older with the outreaching goal of promoting health, reducing hunger and food insecurity and supporting the ability of older individuals to remain independent and in their own communities. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes

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Councelor Murphy, the chair of the committee on human services. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. I rise to ask my colleagues to suspend and pass this grant. Any funds we can get to our seniors for nutritious needs and connection is important. So, I'm asking for a vote. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Councelor Murphy seeks suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0973. All in favor say I. >> I. Doubt the vote. >> Um, Madame Clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0973? >> Docket. Roll call vote on docket 0973.

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Council Braden, >> yes. >> Council Braden, yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Kalpa, >> yes. >> Council call Peppa, yes. Council Durkin, >> yes. >> Council Durkin, yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Lian,

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>> yes. >> Council Lian, yes. Council Mahia, >> yes. >> Council Mia, yes. Council Murphy, >> yes. >> Council Murphy, yes. Council Pepen, >> yes. >> Council Pepen, yes. Council Santana, >> yes. >> Council Santana, yes. Council Weber, >> yes. >> Council Weber, yes. Council Warell,

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>> yes. >> Council Warell, yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one vote not present. >> Thank you. Docket 0973 has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0974?

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Doctor0974 message an order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $150,000 300 300 12 327.96

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in the form of a grant. The FY25 Violence Against Woman Act, a stop grant awarded by the United States Department of Justice, passed through the Mass Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund

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a civilian domestic violence advocate to provide services for victims in Jamaica plane and East Boston as well as a Spanish-sp speakaking victims citywide and is supporting overtime for civilian domestic violence advocates citywide.

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>> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor Santana, the chair of the committee on public safety criminal justice. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. Last month on April 13th, we held a hearing on the Boston Police Department's grants that were in committee and upcoming,

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including this specific grant. During the hearing, we heard from Deputy Superintendent Sean Martin, Assistant Bureau Chief um of the Bureau of Field Services. Um Superintendent Alita Cain, Bureau Chief um Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis. Um from Ryan Walsh,

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director of um the Bureau of Regional Intelligence Center. Um and Maria achievers, director of the office of research and development. Um we were also joined by my colleagues by councelor Flynn, councelor Murphy, councelor Lou Jen, councelor Fitzgerald, um councelor co pepper, counselor Weber,

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and we received a letter of absence from councelor Pepen. Um intimate partner violence continues to be a significant issue here in Boston with thousands of calls for service and high case load for the domestic violence unit. This grant will provide essential resources to

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support victims through safety planning, referrals, and assistance in navigating the criminal justice system, particularly when within our underserved and diverse communities. Continued funding is vital to ensure that victims receive culturally responsive support and that services are accessible

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citywide. This is a crucial um for enhancing safety, holding offenders accountable, and providing comprehensive support to all residents affected by domestic violence. U I would like to suspend and pass um this today. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you, Councelor Santana.

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Councelor Santana seeks suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0974. All in favor say I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0974?

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Roll call vote on docket 0974. Councelor Braden, >> yes. >> Councelor Braden, yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Kalp Peppa. >> Yes. >> Council Kalp Peppa. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn.

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>> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> Council Pepen. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber.

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>> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. Council War. >> Yes. >> Council War. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not present. >> Thank you. Docket 0974 has passed. Madame clerk, can you please read docket

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0975? >> Docket 0975. Message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $150,000 in the form of a grant. Boston family day 2026 donor support awarded by the

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pilot house filler trop to be administered by the office of art and culture the grantwood fund 2026 flexible programmic support and Boston family day formerly known as BPS Sunday during the

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pilot program from Amos and Brabra Husta via pilot house. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor Leanne. You have the floor. Thank you. On behalf of the arts, culture, entertainment, tourism, and special events committee, I move that this council suspend and pass this grant amount and the nominal amount of

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$150,000 that is help support our more than 70,000 Boston students and families access the arts uh through our uh this the program BPS formerly known as BPS Sundays, now known as Boston Family Day. So, I just ask this body to accept this grant. Thank you.

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>> Thank you, Council Luan. Council Luen seeks a suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0975. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Vote. >> Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0975? >> Roll call vote on docket 0975. Council

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Braden. >> Yes. >> Council Braden? Yes. Councilor Kleta Zapata. >> Council Col Peppa. >> Council Col Peppa. Yes. Councilor Durkin. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Councilor Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian.

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>> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Council Pepen. >> Council Pep. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Councelor Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. Council War.

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>> Yes. >> Council War. Yes. 12 voting affirmative and one non not present. Thank you. Docket 0975 is passed. Madame Clerk, could you please read Docket 0976? >> Docket 0976. Message and order

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authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $60,000 in the form of a grant sustainable materials recovery program grant awarded by Mass Department of Environment Protection to be administered by the public works

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department. The grant would fund programs implemented by the city to maximize reuse, recycling, and waste reduction. >> Thank you. Docket 0976 be referred to the committee on city services. Madame clerk, could you please read

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dockets 0977 and 0978 together? Docket 0977. Message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $50,000 in the form of a grant

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creating aging program awarded by the Godard House Assisted Living to be administered by eight strong commission. The grant would fund bring an arts programming to older adults in Boston. Docket 0978, message and order, authorizing the city of Boston to accept

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and expend the amount of $50,000 in the form of a grant roach youth and senior programs awarded by the donor group to be administered by Boston Centers for Youths and Family. >> Thank you. Uh the chair recognizes councelor Murphy, the chair on the

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committee of human human services. you have. >> I rise to suspend and pass both if we could take a vote on each individually to get this money to the BCF centers for our seniors, please. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, Councelor Murphy, the

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chair of the committee on human services, seek suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0977. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh, do 0977 has passed. Uh, councelor Murphy, the chair of the

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committee on human services, seeks suspension of the rules and passage of zero docket number 0978. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Thank you. Um, all all against say nay. Uh, thank you. Dockets docket 0978

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has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0979? >> Docket 0979. message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $49,476

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in a form of a grant, the FY26 firefight firefighters safety equipment grant program awarded by Massachusetts Department of Fire Services to be administered by the fire department. The grant would fund the purchase of the necessary personal protection and safety

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equipment to comply with National Fire Protection Association and Occupational Safety and Health Administrations standards to enhance firefighters safety. >> Thank you. Docket 0979 will be referred to the Committee on Public Safety and

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Criminal Justice. >> Madame Clerk, could you please read docket 0980? Doc0980, message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $44,300

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in the form of a grant um route resiliency and water efficiency grant program awarded by the executive office of energy and environmental affairs to be administered by the office of climate resiliency. The grant would fund the

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outdoor water use efficiency improvements and program in distributing rain barrels and engage with public on with public on the importance of drought management. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor Orel the chair of the committee on environmental justice

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resiliency and parks. Councelor you have the floor. >> Thank you madam president. This grant is a response to strong resident interest and builds upon the success of two previous rain barrel giveaways held in Boston since 2024. Grants funds will be used to purchase,

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distribute, and help install 300 rain barrels to Boston residents home. Rain barrels are a simple tool to reduce storm water runoff, offset demand on portable water for outdoor watering, and support a more sustainable, resilient city. From helping to care for more vibrant gardens to preparing for our

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long stretches of drought or our quick burst of rains, these barrels can fill the gap for many residents or community gardeners. This program is also an important opportunity to engage with residents about the importance of water conservation and storm water management. I'm asking the suspension and passage of this docket. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Uh, councelor Warel, the chair on the committee on environmental justice, resiliency and parks, seeks suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0980. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. The eyes have it. Docket 0980 has

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passed. Uh, madame clerk, could you please read docket 0981? Docket 0981 message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend the amount of 28,671.98 in the form of a grant the ACLS grant

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awarded by Mass Hire Department of Career Services to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The Groundwood The Groundwood Fund efforts to work in partnership with local adults education programs to identify and develop career pathway opportunities for

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adult learners. Chair recognizes councelor Orel, you have the floor. Chair of the Committee on Labor and Economic Development. Oops. Got it. >> Thank you, Madam President. The adult and community learning services is a

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unit of the department of elementary and secondary education that focuses on providing highquality nocost adult education to learners across the Commonwealth. Services include English English langu language classes, job training, GED and high set preparation

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and completion for adult learners. With these funds, representatives from the local workforce system are expected to support the development of new career pathways for adult learners and to support DESI staff in the monitoring and selection of new funding partners for delivering services. In Boston, staff

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from the Mass Hire Boston Workforce Board, the Office of Workforce Development, and the two Mass Hire career centers collaborate jointly to support these goals. These funds are combined with other pass through funds from the state. Each of our local career

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centers, the Mass Hire downtown Boston Career Center and the Mass Hire Boston Career Center oper operating in Roxbury receive a share of these funds. The city's collaboration with DESIE allows OWD to understand the type and number of seats available for adult education with

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state funded. From there, the city can work to address gaps. The city also convenes all desunded adult education organizations through the adult literacy initiative to provide ongoing technical assistance and ensure that Boston residents are receiving highquality

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researchbased adult ed services. As chair of the committee, I'm acting for suspension and passage of this docket. Thank you. >> Thank you, chair of the labor u committee on labor and economic development seek suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0981. All in favor

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say I. All oppose say nay. The eyes have it. Dr. Docket 0981 has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0982? Docket 0982, message and order authorizing the city of Boston to accept

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and expend the amount of $2,500 in the form of a grant, the Roach Kids 360 grant awarded by Kids 360 charity to be administered by the the Boston Centers for Youth and Family. The grant would fund the youths program to the

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Roach Community Center. Thank you. The chair recognizes Councelor Murphy, the chair on the committee on human services. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. I rise to suspend and pass this small grant so that we can have this youth programming at the Roach Center in West Roxbury.

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Thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor Murphy. The chair of the committee on human services seeks suspension of the suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0982. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose say nay. The eyes have it.

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Docket 0982 has passed. Madame clerk, could you please read dockets 0983 through 0985? Docket 0983 message transmitting certain information

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under section 17F regarding MWBE participation, local business inclusion, workforce impact, and procurement practices associate associated with the White Stadium project. Docket number 0700 passed by the city council on April 1st,

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2026. Docket 0984, message transmitting certain information under section 17F regarding White Stadium. Docket number 0637 passed by the city council on March 25th, 2026. Docket 0985.

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message transmitting certain information under section 17F regarding environmental impact, transportation planning and resiliency considerations associated with Franklin Park and the White Stadium project docket numbers 0699 passed by the city

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council on April 1st, 2026. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Docket 08 983 through docket 0985 will be placed on file. We are now on to reports of public officers and others. Madame clerk, could

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you please read dockets 0986 through 09 uh 997. Docket 0986. Notice was received from the mayor of the reappointment of Joseph Borman as a member of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a term expiring

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May 1st, 2030. Docket 0987. Notice was received from the mayor of the reappointment of Jose Maso III as a member of the Boston of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a term expiring May 1st, 2031. Docket

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0988. Notice was received from the mayor of the reappointment of Michael Rush as a member of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a term expiring May 1st, 2030. Docket 080989 notice received from the mayor of the

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appointment of of Mata Danva as a member of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a term expiring May 1st, 2028. Docket 0990. Notice received from the mayor of the appointment of Meredith Dit as a member

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of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a for a term expiring May 1st, 2028. Docket 0991. Notice was received from the mayor of the reappointment of Paul Lee as a member of the Boston Public Library

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Board of Trustees for a term expiring May 1st, 2030. Doc 0992 notice was received from the mayor of the reappoint of Alexander Lahal as a member of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees, a term expiring May

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1st, 2030. Docade 0993 notice was received from the mayor of the appointment of Wadi Muhammad as a member of the Boston Public Library Board of Trustees for a term expiring May 1st, 2030, docked 0994.

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Notice was received from the mayor of the appointment of Diana Fernandez Bau as a commissioner of the parks and recreation department effective June 1st, 2026. Docket 0995 notice was

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received from the city clerk in accordance with chapter 6 of the ordinances of 1979 regarding action taken by the mayor on papers acted upon by the city council at its meeting of May 1st 2026. Docket 0996 notice was

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received from the city clerk in accordance with chapter 6 of the ordinances of 1979 regarding action taken by the mayor on papers acted upon by the city council at its meeting on May 15, 2026. Docade 0997.

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Communication was received by the city clerk of the filing by the Boston Residency Compliance Commission regarding the updated annual report January through December 2025. >> Thank you. Uh docket 0986 through docket 0997 will

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be placed on file. We're now on to matters recently heard. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0733 through 0756? Docket um 0733

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to 0 to docket 0735 orders. Orders for the FY27 operating budget, including annual appropriation for departmental operations for the school department and for others

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postemployment benefits. Docket um 0736 to 0737 order for the CP capital fund transfer appropriations. Docket 0738 to 0740 order for the capital budget

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including loans orders and lease purchasing agreement. Docket 0756 message and order approving an order appropriating 1,400,000 from the income of the George Francis

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Pacman fund. The funds the funds are to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of parks and recreation for the maintenance and improvement of the Boston common and park in existent as of January 12th, 1987 file in the office of

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the city clerk on April 6, 2026. >> Thank you, Madam Cler. The chair recognizes Councelor Weber, the chair of um the committee on ways and means. You have the floor. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Since last week's uh council meeting, we've had six ways and means hearings. Two with the

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police department, one with the fire department, one with parks and recreation, and two with the equity cabinet. Uh beginning last Thursday, we heard uh twice from leadership of the Boston Police Department. heard from Commissioner Michael Cox, chief of staff Nicole Ta, Chief of the Bureau of

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Administration Technology, uh, Lisa O'Brien, Superintendent of the Bureau of Field Services, John Brown, Superintendent of the Bureau of Investigative Services, Paul Mclofflin, and Superintendent of the Bureau of Intelligence Analysis, uh, Lenita Kolin.

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Um, before I uh review Thursday's hearings, I just want to acknowledge that as a city and community, we've experienced uh several uh frightening and tragic incidents of of violence uh across the city in a way that's rare for Boston. I I just want to express my appreciation. I know my colleagues will

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join me uh for the work of the Boston Police Department and our public safety cabinet as well as the Boston Public Health Commission in uh helping ensure everyone in our city uh keeps safe. Um, the Boston Police Department's operating budgets increasing by $444,000

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um or 0.09% with an overall change that's a combination of a $4 million increase to personnel services which compromises uh 89% of the BPD budget and a $3.6 million decrease in non-personnel items. The Thursday morning hearing focused on

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mental health and substance abuse response, community policing, firearms, homicides, the crime lab, and the K9 uh revolving fund and fitness center revolving fund. And was that morning hearing was attended by counselors Murphy, Co Pepper, President Braden, Vice Chair Fitzgerald, counselors Flynn,

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Pepen, Durkin, Louis Jen, and Santana, included a letter of absence from councelor Mahia. The topics we discussed included uh BPD's uh 368 vacancies, moving cadets through the academy, uh diversity in hiring in the Boston Police Department, and promotions. We learned

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that there's uh not a substantial um recruitment pool for new patrol officers. Uh and we talked about the staffing structure of the brick. The afternoon hearing focused on overtime, the detail system officer mental health and uh and diversity and recruiting and

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was attended by counselors Flynn, Fitzgerald, Murphy, Pepen, uh Durkin, Louis Jen, Santana, Braden, and Co Pepper with a letter of absence from councelor Mahia. Uh we discussed spending on police overtime. The fiscal year 2027 budget uh has uh set uh set

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aside $55.6 million for police overtime. recent average historical overspends uh are over a hundred million uh for the fiscal year. Um we talked about uh measures that the department is taking to reduce the amount of overtime last

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three years they've eliminated about $300,000 in overtime hours. We also spent some time talking about uh mass and CASS where because of the way it's classified the department uh uh spends about or that racks up about 160,000

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hours a year of overtime pay for work done at mass and cass uh and uh my my understanding was that the department is going to continue looking at ways to reduce the amount of overtime hours. Um on uh Monday morning we heard from the Boston Fire Department which was

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represented by our new commissioner Rodney Marshall who is accompanied by Chief of Operations for Field Services Patrick Ellis Diversity recruitment officer Michael Gaskins and Deputy Commissioner of Administration and finance Kevin Coin. Uh the hearing was attended by councilors Flynn Louie Jen

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Murphy Braden Fitzgerald and Co Pepper with a letter of absence from councelor Santana. The fire department's budget is increasing by $7.9 million or 2.4% to a total of $336 million. Like the police department, that increase is driven uh

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almost entirely by personnel costs being raised pursuant to contractually uh uh uh CBA uh bargaining. Um the fire department is cutting their contractual services by approximately $2.2 million.

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They're also losing a $1.4 $4 million grant from the state for cancer screening at a time when the Boston firefighters are living an average of only five years postretirement due to extremely high rates of cancer. Uh we also learned that the department is improving their recruitment of diverse

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classes. Um we uh lastly we did talk about uh uh miscellaneous supplies which traditionally over the last five or six fiscal years has been budgeted around $3.6 6 million in which they have an average under spend of $900,000

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a year. Um uh Monday afternoon we heard about the parks and recre uh we heard from the parks and recreation department. Um and we talked about the parkman fund department was represented by our new incoming commissioner of parks and recreation Diana Fernandez

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Bibo. Uh, interim commissioner Kathy Baker Eclipse, Chief of Energy, Environment, Open Space, Brian Sweat, Director of Finance and Procurement Tracy Lee, Director of Parks Maintenance, Nate Hinchcliffe, Director of Human Resources and Payroll, Darlene

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uh, Buffford, and Director of Franklin uh, the new director of Franklin Park, Luis Perez Dearizi. We uh, the hearing was attended by counselors Durkin, Flynn, Pepen, Fitzgerald, Santana, Braden, Warell, and Co Pepper. The parks department's proposed budget is down

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1.4% or $524,000. 416,000 of that uh is coming from contracted services. They'll be re-evaluating priority projects as they manage these costs. The department is also planning to temporarily shift some

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funding from the fiscal year 27 operating budget to external funding sources to consider alternative uh processes with lower upfront costs. On the capital side, they've added seven new projects, including uh ball field, playground, and accessibility

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improvements. Finally, um yesterday, uh we had two hearings with the equity cabinet. Uh thank you to Chief Solus Sea for being uh at both the morning and the afternoon hearings where we heard about the loss of grant uh grants from eight

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offices in the uh in in the inclusion cabinet, totaling more than $3 million in contractual services. We're joined by counselors Flynn, Santana, Warell, Louis Jen, Fitzgerald, Murphy, Braden, and Co Pepper. Uh um just I've got a little I'm

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going to dive a little bit into the data and then I'll be finished. Um you know, we heard uh I'm just going to go through what's happening and how much contractual services and what that's covering. You know, we heard from um the mayor's office of immigrant advancement that they'll be losing approximately $1.7 million in contractual funds. Those

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funds were used for grants including uh 375,000 for legal access and training uh 225,000 for English speakers of other languages and 150,000 uh for uh weaving well-being grants. Um, we heard from uh

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Mhola uh that they are losing approximately $280,000 in contracts that they won't be will not be able to uh give out grants including um $275,000 for Beyond Pride grants. Uh $100,000 for family and individual legal

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support grants and $70,000 for gender affirming identity document and emergency assistance grants. Uh we heard from the office of blackmail advancement uh uh which is uh losing approximately $520,000 in contra in in in contract uh funds

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that they primarily have used for the community empower grant empowerment grants uh that won't be g given out you know uh in fiscal year 27. We heard from the office of women's advancement that's losing approximately $240,000 in contractual services uh which which they

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have used for community-based miniigrants. We heard from the office of equity overall which is losing approximately $357,000 in uh contracts uh contractual funds which they've used for community based grants um

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uh you know throughout the city. Um and that that encompasses uh both hearings. We did hear from uh about 40 or so uh members of the community for yesterday's yesterday afternoon's

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hearing uh about restoring uh grants for all of those offices and how important those services they provide are. Um uh so I just I uh that that's it for you know sort of recounting the hearings. Uh, I just want to remind my colleagues that we'll be hosting a final public

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testimony listening session on Tuesday, May 26 at 6 PM right here with interpretation in Haitian, Creole, Spanish, and Cantonese. As chair of the committee on ways and means, I ask that all these dockets remain in committee. Thank you. >> Thank you. Dockets 0733

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through 0756 will remain in committee. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0909 through 0912? >> Docket 0909. Message in order for your approval and order to reduce the FY26

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appropriation for the reserve of collective bargaining by 1,951,894 to provide funding for the Boston Police Department. the FY26 increase contained within the collective bargain agreement between the city of Boston and the

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Boston Police Detective Ben Society filed in the city filed in the office of the city clerk on May 4th, 2026. Docket 0911. Message and order for the supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Police Department FY26

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in the amount of 1,951,894 to cover the FY26 cost item contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Boston and the Boston Police Detective Beethovenant Society. The terms of the contract are

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July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. The major provision of the contract include base wage increase of 2% in July of 2025. The contract also contain an updated har um hazardous duty pay and

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amended language around sick time back pay at retirement. Docket 0911 message and order for the approval an order to reduce the FY26 appropriation for the reserve of collecting bargaining by 1,366,93

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to provide funding for the Boston Police Department for the FY26 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Boston and the Boston Police Detective Bertan Society. superior officer unit filed in the city

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filed in the office of the city clerk on May 4th, 2026 and docket 012 message on order for the supplemental appropriation order of the Boston Police Department for FY26 in the

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amount of 1,366,93 to cover the FY um 26 cost item contained within the collective bargain. agreement between the city of Boston and the Boston Police Detective Beethoven Society Superior Officers Unit. The the

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terms of the contract are July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. The major provisions of the contract include a base wage increase of 2% in July of 2025. The cont the contract also contained an updated her um hazardous

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duty pay and amended language around pay details and summer vacation schedules. Thank you. The chair recognizes the chair and the comm of the committee on ways and means. Councelor Weber, you have the floor. >> Thank you very much. Uh this morning, the committee on ways and means held a

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virtual hearing on four dockets encompassing a collective bargaining agreements between the city of Boston and the Boston Police Detectives Benevolence Society and the Boston Police Detectives Detective, I'm sorry, and the Boston Police Detective Benevolence Society

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Superior Officers Unit. I'd like to thank our four panelists who included Jim Williamson, the director of the office of budget management, director of labor, uh Renee Bushy, uh James Miller, the deputy superintendent of labor relations for the Boston Police Department, and John Wilton, labor

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council for the Boston Police Department's Office of Labor Relations. I'd also like to thank my colleagues who attended, councilors Flynn Murphy and Vice Chair Fitzgerald. Um these uh contracts uh similar to the patrol

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officers contracts were uh negotiated a a bargaining waiver for name tags for detectives and detective superiors to wear name tags while in uniform adding another level of transparency and as they said being able to put a name with a face. um a two this is also

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in the collective bargaining agreement is a 2% increase for uh compensation wage and 1% added for the same year to their hazardous duty rate. Hazardous duty referring to some of the conditions that officers face in their work. Uh so this would provide an additional

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component of pay for uh these contracts in recognition of some of the difficult conditions that the officers and detectives face in their work. Uh unlike uh the the patrol officers agreement, uh this uh the these agreements give the two bargaining units the ability to use

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half days, comps uh that they can redeem at retirement. I'm sorry. Uh it ups that amount from 200 to 250 for detectives. Detective superiors already have their limited 260. So the detectives will go up to uh

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uh 250 uh half days and comp days that they can redeem a retirement. Um they this contract was negotiated in uh in or these contracts were negotiated in April primarily uh as retroactive. They've been out of contract since uh last July.

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So, uh, this I think around $3 million total will be for compensation for these detectives and the superior officers unit going back from now to last July and for the rest of this uh, fiscal year. Uh, one other thing and I I I brought up and I think we should be

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asking these questions in these uh, hearings is what the impact is on uh, overtime uh, hours and overtime spending. Uh we were told that by expanding the amount of time uh vacation periods that are available to police officers or these bargaining units, the

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idea is actually to reduce the amount of hours who will be off at any given time during the summer, which in turn reduces the amount of replacement overtime, which is a large source of overtime. So that's an added uh cost benefit, I think, for the city. Um uh and so uh for

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all those reasons uh and we did this hearing on a Wednesday because again these are retroactive uh pay benefits that have been negotiated uh by the uh the detectives unions and the city uh as the chair of the ways and means committee uh you know here today I'm

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accept I'm seeking acceptance of the committee report and passage of these dockets. >> Thank you councelor Weber. The chair recognizes councelor Murphy. You have the floor. Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, chair, for holding this hearing this morning so we could vote on this

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today. I do want to thank the Boston Police Benevolent Society. I know President Bobby Griffin and Vice President Rick Morardi are here. I also want to thank the Superior Officers Union Leadership. I know they've put hundreds of hours in to work diligently and advocate for their members to make

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sure that they have a fair contract. and also just want to take a moment to thank all their members for the hard work they do and looking forward to passing this and making sure they get their retro pay soon. Thank you. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Flynn. Councelor, you have the floor.

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>> Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to Chair Weber for holding an important hearing this morning on this on these dockets. I'm I'm voting in favor of this um collective bargaining agreement. Um, one issue I did want to highlight, Madam

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Chair, is there's still many um, we're we're low on the detectives in terms of getting detectives um, high promoted. That's concerning concerning of me. I addressed

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this during during the uh, hearing. Part of the solution, I believe, is hiring more police officers. I think we are dramatically understaffed and police officers are working 16 hours

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a day consistently. I don't think that's healthy for the city, for the police officers and their families. Um I think we need to hire 300 police officers for the next 10 years. But I also think we need to um promote uh more detectives

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into the rank into those ranks as well. I want to thank the detectives union. I want to thank the superior officers union as well for um bargaining in good faith. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you. >> Um we will take these votes separately

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for each docket. Uh we'll start with docket 0909. Uh the chair of the committee on ways and means seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of docket 0909. All those in favor say I. Madame clerk, could you please take a

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roll call vote on docket 0909? >> Roll call vote on docket 0909. Council Braden, >> yes. Council Braden, yes. Council Kleta Sapata. Council Kalpa, >> yes. >> Council Kalpa, yes. Council Durkin.

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Council Durkin, yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Lian, >> yes. >> Council Lian, yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Yes. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen.

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>> Yes. >> Council Pepen. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. Council War. >> Yes. >> Council War. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one nonpresent. Not present. Thank you. Docket 0909 has

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passed. Madame clerk, could you please take a note? The chair of the way the committee on ways and means seeks suspension of the rules and acceptance of the committee report for docket 0910. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay.

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>> Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0910? Roll call vote on docket 0910. Councelor Braden, >> yes. Council Braden, yes. Council Kleta Zapata. >> Council Kalpa, >> yes. >> Council Kpa, yes. Council Durkin.

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>> Yes. >> Council Durkin, yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Lian, >> yes. >> Council Lian, yes. Council Mahia, >> Council Mahia, yes. Council Murphy, >> yes. >> Council Murphy, yes. Council Pep,

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>> yes. >> Council Pep, yes. Council Santana, >> Council Santana, yes. Council Weber, >> yes. >> Council Weber, yes. Council Warel, >> yes. >> Council Warel, yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not present.

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>> Thank you. Docket 0910 has passed. The chair of the committee in Wes and main acceptance of the committee report and passage of docket 0911. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. >> Madame clerk, could you please uh take a

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roll call vote on docket 0911? >> Roll call vote on docket 0911. Council Braden. >> Yes. Council Braden. Yes. Councelor Kleta Zapata. Council Kalpa. >> Yes. >> Council Kalpa. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Yes. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald.

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>> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pep. >> Council Pep. Yes. Council Santana.

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Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. Council Weber. Yes. Contoell Council Warel. Yes. 12 votes in affirmative and one not present. >> Thank you. Docket 09 911 has passed. The chair of the committee on Wes and Mean seats acceptance of the committee report

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and passage of docket 0912. Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 0912? >> Roll call vote on docket 0912. Councelor Braden. >> Yes. >> Councelor Braden. Yes. Councelor Kleta Zapata. >> Councelor Co Peppa.

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>> Yes. Council Peppa. Yes. Council Durkin. Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzro. Yes. >> Council Fitz. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pep.

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>> Council Pep. Yes. Council Santana. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes. Council Warel. >> Council War. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not present. Thank you. Docket 0912 has passed. We're now

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on to motions, orders, and resolutions. A reminder that under rule 39, remarks on new matters not up for a vote today shall be limited to three minutes for the lead sponsor and two minutes for the co-sponsors. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0998?

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>> Docket 0998. Council Pepen and Fitzgerald off for the following ordinance for the use of school bus violation detection monitoring system devices. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes uh councelor Pepe. Councelor, you have the floor.

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>> Thank you, Madam President. This is a refile ordinance. And so in January 2025, the council voted to adopt the local law for Massachusetts House Bill 4940, an act concerning the safety of school children embarking and disembarking school buses, which empowers municipalities to enforce vi

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violations of a school bus stop sign. To quickly implement this enforcement technology, council officer and I first introduced his ordinance to better define the enforcement structure here at the city level. Throughout last year, we were we were able to meet and met with questions from BPS and Boston Police

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Department about the use of cameras and surveillance among other school bus related conversations. And after last week's hearing with the Boston Police Department, we are refining this ordinance to push this technology forward. I look forward to my colleagues continued support as we work with the administration to finalize the program

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and start holding the people accountable. Thank you. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes Councelor Fitzgerald. You have the floor. Thank you, Madam President, and thank you to Council Pepen uh for adding me as a as a co-sponsor here. Uh living on a street with a school on it, there are

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bus uh buses that come by my house very often, and there are other times where there it creates an issue whether I'm walking my kids to school or just simply trying to come to and from uh and we see incidences of people driving around. And so, uh, not just for the safety of my own kids, but for the safety of everybody out here in the city of

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Boston, uh, it's important to hold these folks accountable that think that they are more important than a child's life. And, uh, we should hold them accountable for that. So, thank you, Council Pen. >> Thank you. Would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Co Pepper, Councelor Durkin, Councelor Flynn, Councelor Luen, Councelor Mahia,

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Councelor Murphy, Councelor Santana, Councelor Weber, Councelor Warel, and please add the chair. Thank you. Docket 0998 will be referred to the committee on government operations. Madame clerk, could you please read

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docket 0999? Docket 0999. Councelor Co Pepper offer the following. Order for a hearing to examine fire firearms trafficking, gun violence hotspot and concentration or firearms

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violation in Boston Police District B2 and B3. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor Co Pepper. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. I would like to add council well as the second original co-sponsor and request suspension of the rules to

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add counselor Flynn as the original co-sponsor. >> Uh councelor Warel is added as a second and seeing and hearing no objections, councelor Flynn is added as a third. >> Thank you, Madam President. The Boston Police Department's 2025

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firearm tracking report highlights the serious and ongoing impact of gun violence in our city, particularly in neighborhoods within police departments B2 and B3, which includes Roxbury, Mission Hill, Matipan, and parts of

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Dorchester. The report documents continued concentration of shootings. We've heard over the last two days for shootings, firearm recoveries, illegal gun trafficking, and increasing

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juvenile firearm arrest in communities that have long carried a dis disproportionate share of this violence. Madame President and my colleagues, we need to take a closer look at both the data and the deeper issues driving these

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trends. We need to examine the role of illegal firearm trafficking, including ghost guns, the rise in youth firearm involvement, and the broader conditions that contribute to cycles of violence. At the same time, we must continue

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supporting community violence intervention efforts and targeted public safety strategies in neighborhoods comp most impacted by this gun violence. By bringing together the Boston Police Department, violence prevention workers,

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community organizations, and other stakeholders, this hearing can help identify opportunities for a more coordinated and effective response that prioritizes both public safety and long-term community investment,

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especially in the neighborhoods that need it the most. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Warell. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. Thank you to Councelor Copeper uh for adding me as original co-sponsor. And I just want to

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also shout out the work that councelor Flynn and I did in two in 2023 where we worked on an ordinance that established a requirement for BPD to u produce a annual study and report the reviewing of illegal firearms u making their way into

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the city. uh this data um which we um um was intended to not only inform how we create regional strategies but how we deploy not simply police um into these neighborhoods but other resources that can address the root causes of firearm

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and firearm violence. Uh, so I'm looking forward to diving into this conversation uh where we could learn um as a body about the strategies um and other resources used uh to get legal firearms off of our streets and prevent violence across our communities. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. The chair recognizes Councelor Flynn. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to say thank you to council co pepper for your leadership in adding me as an original co-sponsor. I want to say

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thank you to council war as well. November 2023, council war and I as he mentioned u passed an ordinance amending the city of Boston code relating to the study in report on the trafficking of illegal firearms. This passage of this

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ordinance now requires the Boston police to publish an annual report on the trafficking of legal firearms in Boston. Gun trafficking and illegal the illegal flow of firearms is a major contributor to gun violence with the Boston police recovering more

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than 900 firearms in 2022 alone. Having a study and data of firearms into the city of Boston helps our law enforcement and policy makers better understand the impact of illegal guns um and help us develop strategies on

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violence prevention. As councelor Co Peppa mentioned, gun violence is an important issue not only in our city uh but also our nation as well. We need to address gun violence on multiple fronts. It's critical that we work together to stop the illegal flow of firearms into

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our neighborhoods. And I know myself and councelor council and probably councelor co pepper um with that 2025 report, we're probably going to have call for a hearing order um next week and probably have the hearing itself sometime after

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um after the budget is over. But I do think we have to also hold people that are selling illegal firearms, hold them accountable. We must have zero tolerance for um gun activity in the city of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you. Um would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Durkin, Councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Luen, Councelor Mahia, Councelor Murphy, Councelor Pepen, Councelor Santana, Councelor

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Weber, and please add the chair. Thank you. Docket 0999 will be referred to the committee on public safety and criminal justice. Madame clerk, could you please read docket zero, no 10,000

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0. Councelor Kalpa offered the following. Order for hearing to examine how the city of Boston can strengthen support, training, and resource and resource coord coordination for first responders and dispatchers responding to

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mental health crisis. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Co Pepper. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to add councel war as the second original co-sponsor and I'd like to request suspension of the rules that councelor

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Mahia as a third original co-sponsor. >> Uh councelor war is added as a second and hearing and seeing no objections. Councelor Mahia is added as a third. Madame President, dispatchers, police officers, firefighters, EMS

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personnel, and other first responders are often the first people called or on scene when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis. These situations can be incredibly complex and the way we respond to those critical moments can

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have a lasting impact on the safety and the well-being of everyone involved. Dispatchers in particular, play a vital role as a first point of contact, helping assess situations, coordinating resources, and guide responses in real

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time. We need to understand how Boston can strengthen training, coordination, and support system for those responding to behavioral health emergencies. That includes looking at the crisis intervention team training, coordination

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between 911 and 988 systems, responder wellness, deescalation practices, and partnerships with behavioral health professionals. As mental health related emergency calls continues to increase, we need to ensure that our first

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responders and dispatchers have the tools, resources, training, and support necessary to respond effectively and connect individuals in crisis with the appropriate care. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor

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Warel. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Uh, thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councelor Co Pepper, for introducing this hearing order. Uh we have seen cases of officer involved uh shootings involving individuals who have documented mental health illnesses across New England. Um so Boston is not

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alone in this challenge. Uh we have made strides in our response. Uh we have the best team at BPD with service providers uh right along with the Boston police officers on calls. But we also have crucial agencies like the Boston Public Health Commission as well as community-based organizations like the

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City School and Boston Liberation Help that have been looking to start a nonofficer involved mental health crisis response pilot for some time. Uh this is a great opportunity um for us to review our current practices, hear directly from the best team um the Boston Police Department and organizations,

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nonprofits, community based organizations such as Torch Light to improve what do we do in these spaces here in Boston alongside community partners and leaders in public safety and healthcare. So I'm looking forward to this conversation so we can improve uh the e ecosystem that responded to

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these mental health crisises. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh, chair recognizes councelor Mahia. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Um, thank you, Madam President, and I'd like to thank councelor Co Pepper for adding me. I'm proud to co-sponsor this hearing order because mental health

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crisises are increasingly becoming part of what our first responders, dispatchers, firefighters, EMS personnel, and police officers are expected to navigate every single day. Too often, our emergency systems are asked to fill in gaps um that are created by underinvestments in

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behavioral health infrastructure. And while our first responders continue stepping up in these difficult situations, we have a responsibility as a city to ask whether um they have uh the support necessary to respond effectively and safely. Our office has

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be um has also met with the um Boston people's response who have already been doing this work directly in community. They shared that roughly $4 million would allow them to effectively launch a real pilot program at scale and begin

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demonstrating what is possible when we invest in community-based crisis response models. The reality is that we cannot continue talking about alternatives without also talking about the resources. We need to take a hard look at the Boston Police Department

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budget and examine how funds are uh funding can support behavioral health response services, civilianled crisis intervention, and preventative care models that reduce harm before situations escalate. I want to thank the lead sponsors for bringing this forward

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and I look forward to uh the conversation and I also just want to note that you know we always talk about the people having the power and I think these are the opportunities for us to uh share some of that power that we have in this council um to do everything in our

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power to give people the tools that they need to make this happen. Thank you. >> Thank you. Would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Durkin, councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Flynn, Councelor Louisen, Councelor Murphy, Councelor Santana, Councelor Weber, Councelor Warel, and

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please add the chair. Thank you. Docket 0 1 0 0 will be referred to the committee on public health, homelessness, and recovery. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 010001? >> Docket

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10001. Council Kalpa offer the following order for a hearing to examine establishing a community-based mental health crisis respond pilot. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes councelor co pepper. You have the floor. >> Madame president, I would like to add

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councelor war as a second original co-sponsor and request suspension of the rules to add councelor Louis as a third original co-sponsor. Uh, councelor Warel is added as a second and seeing and hearing no objections, councelor Luen is added as a third.

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>> Thank you, Madam President. As I just mentioned in my remarks for the previous filing, we need to better understand how we can support improve training, coordination, and resources for dispatchers and first responders responding to mental health crisis. But

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we also need to be honest with ourselves. The current system is not working for everyone and we need to explore every possible solution. Not only improving what already exists, but also examining new approaches such as

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the potential community-based mental health crisis response pilot in Boston. Community advocates, mental health workers, and public health health organization had called for a model staff by trained community responders.

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Cities across the country have already implemented similar models that have helped divert mental health calls away from law enforcement, connect people to care, and reduce unnecessary criminalization, hospitalization. How we respond to mental health crisis

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is a public safety issue. Madam President, I want to thank all of those that have been doing this work. I want to thank the Boston People's Response Campaign, the City School, and the Boston Liberation Health Group, and for the advocacy that they have done and

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continue to do with the city and with my colleagues. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor uh councelor Warel. You have the floor. >> Uh thank you, Madam President, and again, thank you, councelor Co Pepper, for adding me as a original co-sponsor. Uh there's a lot of energy to explore

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how we as a city is responding to mental health crisises. Uh the Boston people's response campaign is just one example that included at least 14 organizations with deep interests in exploring these options. We know that policing and mental health crisises statistically

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impacts vulnerable communities the most. We have many people with expertise in mental health care and trauma response who are equipped to respond to these complex scenarios. I believe we we would benefit from seeing the results of this pilot um hearing about the status from

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the Boston Public Health Commission um and also hearing from other organizations who might have uh other initiatives that we can establish. So look forward to this conversation and thank you again uh councilor co pepper for adding me. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes council you have the floor. >> Thank you and I want to thank councelor

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Copa for offering this. I want to thank all of the advocates that my office has met with on this issue. It's incredibly important that we create, I know that there have been attempts and there have been some pilots, but really think about how we create a model that um puts mental health first. Um and I think it's going to be an all hands-on deck

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conversation. So, I look forward to the continued work. Thank you. Thank you. Would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Durkin, Councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Flynn, Councelor Mahia, Councelor Murphy, Councelor Santana, Councelor Weber, and please add the

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chair. Um, thank you. Docket 0 100001 will be referred to the committee on public health, homelessness, and recovery. Madame Chair, could you please read

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docket 0, no one 02? Docket 10002. Councelor Flynn offer the following order requesting certain information under section 17F regarding employment contracts for various commissioners in the city of Boston.

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>> Thank you, chair. recognizes councelor Flynn. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I am requesting uh basic information uh to find out more about employment contracts for commissioners in the city of Boston. Thank you, Madam Chair.

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>> Thank you. Um councelor Flynn seek suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0112. All in favor say I. >> 1 02. Thank you. Docket 0112 has passed.

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>> One 02. >> Madam chair, I think someone >> ded the vote. >> Uh, madam madame clerk, could you take a roll call vote on docket this uh 17F7

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uh docket 01? No, one 02. >> Roll call vote on docket one 02. Councelor Braden. Yes. Council Braden. Yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Cal Peppa. >> Yes. >> Council Kalp Pepper. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Yes.

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>> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Flynn. Yes. Council Len. >> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pep. >> Yes.

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>> Council Pep. Yes. Council Santana. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> Council Weber. Yes, council. >> Yes, >> council war. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one um not present.

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>> Thank you. Docket Z 100002 has passed. Madam clerk, could you please read docket 10003? Docket 10003. Councelor Flynn offer the following order requesting certain information under section 17F regarding

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article 80 large project review and small project review denial at the zoning board of appeal due to packing relief. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Flynn. You have the floor. >> Thank Thank you, Madam Chair. And the um assistant clerk said it perfectly. I

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filed a 17F to find out how many article 80 large project review and article 80 small project review proposals that have been denied at the zoning board of appeals since 2020 since 2020 that required a variance for park and relief. Thank you, Madam Chair.

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>> Thank you. Uh councelor Flynn seek suspension of the rules and passage of docket 0103. I'm having difficulty with my numbers today. All in favor say I. Uh, madame clerk, could you please take

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a roll call vote on docket 10003? >> Roll call vote on docket 10003. Council Braden, yes. Council Braden, yes. Council Ker Zapara. Council Peppa. >> Yes. >> Council Peppa. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald.

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>> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes. >> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Yes. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> Yes. >> Pepan. Yes. Council Santana.

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>> Yes. >> Council Santana. Yes. Council Weber. >> Yes. >> We council. >> Yes. >> Council. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not present. >> Thank you. Docket 01 1 03 has passed.

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Madame clerk. Could you please read docket 104? >> Docket 10004. Councelor Flynn offer the following resolution urging the city of Boston to resume in person work for a minimum of four days per week. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes

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Councelor Flynn. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. This is an issue I've been focused on for a number of years getting people back to work. Fidelity recently announced that employees would be required to return to the office 5 days a week starting in September.

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The CO 19 pandemic began in March 2020. The majority of us got our vac vaccinations in the spring of 2021 when our city council president we carefully made decisions to open city hall up for business. Hybrid and in-person hearings

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um also took place. The pandemic officially ended May 2023. But since that time, we know that many city employees continue to re rem work remotely multiple days per week. 2023, foot traffic was down 33%

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and office vacancies were over 20% downtown Boston. I have held hearings on this so many times to bring city employees back to work. I want to bring not only city employees but also the thousands of visitors we

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get every week to our city boards back to downtown to support small businesses to get a coffee, grab lunch, purchase clothing or some other goods. The ZBA, the licensing board and about meetings are important, but

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since that time only the BPDA board has reserved resumed true hybrid meetings of both in-person and virtual, while the others remain only virtual. Virtual only has excluded many of our seniors and those lacking digital equity and access

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for several access for several years now. At some point, we have to face reality. We can't be afraid, whether it's politically popular or not. The city of Boston is struggling economically because our downtown

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businesses are struggling. The financial district is struggling. The financial district is looking for Boston to lead. City employees need to get back to work. Yes, I understand city employees will be

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disappointed at you and me, but the pandemic is over. We have to get people back to work. The restaurant on the eighth floor closed. The coffee shop on the third floor closed. I said to both owners, "Why did

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you close?" He said, "What do you mean, Ed? Why did we close? This place is a ghost town around here. How are you going to make a profit?" The money that comes in from downtown Boston from businesses pay our bills. They pay our school teachers. They

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support our students. They help our elderly. They pay for our first responders. We have to demonstrate positive leadership and lead by example. We need to be back to work at least four days a week, if not five. But I'll settle I'll

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settle for four. Everybody should be back to work. Uh thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Murphy. Councelor, you have the floor. Um, >> thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Councelor Flynn, for filing this hearing order. I think it's overdue to

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have this conversation and really encourage that we get city workers back here in city hall and across the city. I do want to say when I'm at community meetings and out in all of the neighborhoods, I'm often asked by people. They're just confused why we

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still only hold like a Butters meeting remotely and of a lot of things that continue to be remote. But I do want to give um you know a shout out to many city employees, many departments, not just our first responders and teachers that never got the opportunity to work

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remotely. many here in this building down at records and the transportation department. So if you're a city worker who's taking in revenue and you're at a window, you never got that opportunity. And I know that many of them have to use

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personal days and others where the data is showing that this remote work has allowed many of our city workers on their days at home to be, you know, doing things that others that aren't given that um I would say luxury. So, I think it's really time to look at what

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we've offered and I think many of it has been written into some of their current contracts, but to see how we can get workers back here. Thank you. >> Thank you. Would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Durkin, counselor uh Councelor

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Co Pepper, councelor Durkin, counselor Fitzgerald, counselor uh Mahia, counselor Murphy, councelor Pepen, Conor Santana, counselor Weber, counselor war, councelor for suspension of the rules

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and adoption of docket 0 one. So start over again. Docket 0 one >> dock at one 044. Uh, all in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. >> Thank you. Madame chair, could Madame

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Clerk, sorry, I'm the chair. Madame clerk, could you please uh uh take a roll call vote on docket 10004? Councelor Braden present. Councelor Ka Zapata.

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Council Kalpa. >> Yes. >> Council Kalpa. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Yes. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Councelor um Lian, >> yes. >> Council Lian, yes. Council Mahia,

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>> yes. >> Council Mia, yes. Council Murphy, >> yes. >> Murphy, yes. Council Pepen, >> Council Pepen, yes. Council Santana, >> yes. >> Council Santana, yes. Council Weber, >> yes. >> Council Weber, yes. Council Orurel, >> yes.

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>> Council Warel, yes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 11 in the affirmative, one present and one not present. Thank you. Docket 10004 has been adopted.

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Madame clerk, could you please read docket 10005? >> Docket 100005. Council Mahia or for the following resolution calling for a temporary pause of vertical construction activities at White Stadium pending the

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jural by the Massachusetts Supreme Jural Court. >> The chair recognizes councelor Mahia. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madame President. I feel like a broken record and the little engine that could, but I'm going to keep on choo chooing away till we get justice.

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So, I rise as the original filer of this resolution calling for a temporary pause on the new vertical construction at White Stadium while the case is still pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. What um sense does it make for the city to continue moving forward with

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permanent construction while the highest court in the Commonwealth is still deciding whether this project even have has um authority um to properly move uh forward. This is a 3 25 million project

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involving public funds, a private partnership, and a long-term consequences for Franklin Park, BPS students, taxpayers, and the surrounding communities. The SG, the the SJC

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heard arguments on April the 8th. Um the court is being asked decide major legal questions including whether this project requires legislative approval under article 97 and whether the current structure of the deal is even lawful. So

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why are we continuing to build as if the outcome is still already decided because maybe chances are it has already been. Um and so while we're playing um and paying for construction um that uh we may have to undo putting

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us back at square one after hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars have already been wasted if we are serious about fiscal responsibility. We must be serious about this temporary pause. We're asking the administration

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to stop acting like the legal process is a formality. It is not. The city should not be racing ahead with while the court is still deciding the rules of the road. A temporary pause on the new vertical construction is the bare minimum. It

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protects the city. It protects the taxpayers. It preserves options and it shows basic respect for the pending decision of the SJC. For 2 years, residents have raised concerns about this project, the rising

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cost, the lack of transparency, the use of public land, and the public private structure, and the impact on Franklin Park communities. And now, even with the case before the state's highest court, the city is still doing what it does

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best, pushing through. That should concern every one of us. You do not keep permanent um building uh structures while the legality of the project is still under review. You wait for a decision understanding the ruling and then determine the responsibable

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path forward. I urge my colleagues to support this resolution. And while I know the push back will be which I already know, I look forward to just moving this forward to a vote um and letting the chips fall where they may.

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>> Thank you, Councilman. The chair recognizes councelor co pepper. >> Madame president, I appreciate the intent of the original co-sp original original sponsors of this filing, but now is not the time to reverse course or part of this project. One who lives

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across the street from the park, one who grew up across the street from the park, one who grandparents bought the house across the street from the park years ago. When I look at what happens and I look at this investment, the largest

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investment in my community in my lifetime, I have supported this project. And I've supported it because of the real economic opportunity it can bring to the community and to black and brown businesses, not only during

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construction, but through the long-term operations of the stadium. I fought for the commitment even before taking office, including securing an agreement to award the South Crescent and Grove development to a nonUN to a non-UN local

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black general contractor. But these commitments are only meaningful if the city builds infrastructure necessary to support MWBE participation. I understand and share the frustration that progress in awarding contracts to MWBE firms has

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not moved as quickly as many of us would like, myself included. This is exactly why I filed the minority business enterprise pilot program in collaboration with the district 7 white stadium task force to create a real

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pipeline for MWBEs through technical assistance and capacity building so local businesses are ready pursue contracts of this project size and on this scale. Rather than pausing the project, we should be using the remaining phases of construction,

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including the Grove and South Crescent portions of the project, as opportunities to secure as many contracts for minority businesses as possible. When we secure contracts for minority businesses, minorities

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>> continue. >> Thank you, your honor. The Supreme Court will issue its decision in due course and until then construction should continue to move forward. Delaying this project now risk slowing economic opportunities and undermining momentum

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at a time when we should be focused on ensuring that the promised benefits actually reach the communities and businesses they were intending support. I am going to vote no on this resolution. Madam President, >> thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Weber. Councelor, you have the floor.

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>> Okay. Uh, Reverend Co Pepper. Amen. That's all I have to say. >> And the chair recognizes Councelor Flynn. Uh, Councelor Flynn, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. And I agree with

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much of what Council Mia has said. Um, although I'm I'm not going to be voting in favor of this for for different reasons. I probably should vote present. Um but in eight years I've never voted present.

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I I I I don't want to vote present. Um but the reason I'm voting against this proposal is the city is struggling financially, economically. We do need economic development taking place in the city. I was the one even though I had

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major concerns about um about the project and how it was um rolled out to the community um and no community engagement. Um, I was the one that really called for community standards in a project labor agreement to be part of

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this and I would have a difficult time right now asking for economic development uh to be stopped in the s in the city especially when there's no economic development or little economic development taking place. So, I'm going

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to be voting no. Um, I I do understand the concerns councelor Mahia highlighted, but I do believe we have to continue economic development even even though it's the the community process has been lousy

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on this project. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you, Councelor Flynn. The chair recognizes Councelor Durkin. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you so much, Council President Breeden. It does feel like at times this council has done the work of those suing the city versus the work of the BPS kids

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that will benefit from this project and the community members that will benefit from this project moving forward. Um I understand it's complicated. Um but I just think it's important to read into the record that the city has won in court. Um and right now um the lawsuit

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going on is an appeal to the decision that's already been made. Um, so I think to stop construction um when we actually already have one in court um is is it doesn't well it doesn't make sense but also I think the resolution to this

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effect um I don't think is doing the work of the people which um I think is really important and then I also want to share that um this is this is a really um you know for a lot of us uh we take these decisions and these votes on

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resolutions, though they may mean nothing. We take these votes um and decisions that we make on resolutions very seriously. So, I'll be voting no. And I think it's important to state my position. Um I think it's really important as a city councelor that I um ethically not platform those that are

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suing the city and I've taken that position many times and I just want to read that into the record here. Thank you, Chair. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes Councelor Warel. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Uh thank you, Madam President. Um, I just want to start by recognizing the opportunity that we have in front of us.

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Uh, White Stadium is not just a construction project. It's a chance to show what public investments can do when we are intentional and when we use public dollars to build facilities, strengthen local businesses, create jobs, and open doors for Boston residents. I do appreciate uh the work

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around supplier diversity that has been made part of this project. I appreciate the goals that have been set uh the outreach that has happened and the efforts to track progress publicly. Uh those are important steps and they reflect the kind of city Boston is working to become. But our

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responsibility, I believe, as a council to make sure that we are building on that progress. And I do believe that this hearing or this resolution could serve as another way to bring the administration to report on uh the the diversity numbers and to see what more

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we can do. uh when public dollars are involved, we should not only ask that we meet the goal, we should ask how far can we go, how much opportunity can we create, how many local businesses can grow, and how many workers can build careers because of this project. Uh to

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answer that, we need to be we need a clear and consistent information. We need to know that the unduplicated total going to MWBEs and local businesses so we understand the full impact and the data. Uh we need to know what is unders under signed contract, what is still a

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commitment and what has actually been paid to date. Uh we need to know whether diverse businesses are receiving meaningful scopes of work that can help them build capacity and compete for future projects. And we need to connect supplier diversity to workforce diversity, making sure that Boston

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residents, people of color, women apprentices, uh journey and level workers are all seeing real opportunity. So, I would love to see if this resolution could be a hearing to have that conversation. So, my request to the maker is to see if we can have a hearing

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to go over more in depth on the uh contract dollars. Thank you. >> Thank you, councelor Urell. Uh chair recognizes councelor Mahia. >> Thank you, Madam President. And I want to thank uh my colleague Council Roel

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for his fierce advocacy um and uh recommendation. And I just want to note for the record for those folks who are tuning in is that everything and anything that deals with processes, protocols, and procedures, we always find ways to um kick the can down the road. And so I would just like to

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acknowledge um we've had hundreds of hearings as it relates to White Stadium. Um and we have not received the the type of answers and uh information as you've seen from my other colleagues who have been fighting around 17F regarding some

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of these outstanding questions. And the question really is, you know, I would love to put everything that you just said in a resolution and let us vote on that. So, I would like to amend this resolution to everything that you just said and call for a vote on what you

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just proposed as a resolution instead of a hearing order because what is happening is that time is ticking and what we're doing is passing the can. And so I would like to take a fiveminut recess to amend my resolution to utilize

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all of the beautiful language that council rall just uh presented here and have us vote on that resolution to see where the political will stands and whether or not we have the courage to stand with that. >> No, I would like Well, no, I'm changing

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it up. It's a resolution. >> It's a resolution, but I'd like to I'd like to call for a recess to amend my uh sec my current resolution to substitute the language to the beautiful dissertation that my colleague council

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war just presented and have us then vote on that as a resolution. >> Let me go back to councelor Warel. Councelor Warel, would you like to offer a friendly amendment to ask? >> Yes, I'll offer the friendly amendment. >> Second. Let's do that. We will take a brief recess and if you could um Oh, can

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we have a second second for that? >> She we heard that Murphy's a second. >> So, let's go. We'll take a brief recess. We're now back in session. Amendment. >> Uh, councelor Roy has offered a friendly amendment. Uh, it should be in front of you at this time. Has anyone everyone

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got their friendly amendment? Councelor Mahia has accepted uh the amendment. Hearing and seeing no objections. This docket is properly properly before the body. You putting your light on.

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You haven't got the docket. >> No. >> Oh. >> Um. So, uh, let's go back to the council war offered a friendly amendment. We had a second from councelor Murphy. Councelor

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Mahia accepted the uh the the amendment. Uh and then we're at as anyone objecting to the amendment. >> Madam Chair, Councelor Co Pepper, >> I have a point of information.

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Um because I did think uh council warwell was articulate in what he had to say, but I also thought I heard council war said say this must I'd like to see this become a hearing order to have a hearing order on everything he said. I

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don't see anything in here asking for this to be hearing order. And I'm trying to figure out and understand how you can take a resolution that's being amended to become a hearing order. And I think my question to council wells, didn't you

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ask say I'd like to see this become a hearing order that's through the chair. My question is I think he said and I'm just remembering >> we're just dealing with the issue of the the resolution right now. >> Well, if it's being amended,

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my question to council well is did he say he'd like to see this be a hearing order? >> I think there's gen speak for everyone else. I think there's consensus that yes, this this this issue uh would have a hearing or I I would benefit from a

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hearing >> resolution though. It says resolution >> and from here you have the floor. >> Um thank you madame chair and I just want to thank my colleagues for their patience. Um I'd like to clarify that I'm no longer requesting a suspension

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and pass. Instead, I'm requesting that this matter be sent to committee. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Specifically, I'm requesting referral um to the labor committee given the growing concerns regarding procurement bidding practices and whether the opportunities promised to minority owned businesses

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and local residents are actually being realized. So, I am uh sending requesting that this get sent to committee as opposed to passing. >> Thank you, Council Mahia. Councelor Co Pepper. the what what we're going to do is we're going to accept the amendment

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the addition of the the >> I don't think I'm not sure if she's saying that she wants to proceed with >> she and my my understanding is that the the sponsor is requesting that this goes

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to uh be sent to committee. >> So my question is can you do that It's called the resolution. >> We have done it before. We send resolutions to committee. >> Well, yeah, we haven't voted on the amendment yet. So, yes, we're going to

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vote on the amendment if it's if there's no objection >> for your information. >> I just want to be clear what I'm doing. >> Yeah. Councelor Councelor Durkin >> for um for public records and transparency reasons. Can councelor Cole Pepper through the chair read what he

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just said into the record so that the public that is viewing from home can listen to what his comments were? >> So we start over. Councelor Warel offered a friendly amendment to councelor Mahia's uh uh uh resolution. >> Oh, beg your part. I I did have his

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light on but did I So you asked me to clarify councelor Durkin. Councelor Whale offered a friendly amendment. You've all got it before you. Councelor Mahia has accepted that amendment. And as the lead sponsor, she

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uh we we have and this hearing and seeing no objections to this amendment to the docket. Uh it's been seconded. We are we will there's an there's an a motion to accept the amended amended

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docket. Uh I haven't heard any objection. So we'll go to a vote to accept the amended docket and then councelor Mahia has asked that that docket go to to go to a committee. So basically

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my question >> if it's if we go to a vote >> I think we have we we we we have we're sort of talking across purposes right now. So we're going to take a brief recess. Just please stay in this chamber and we're going to have we're going to

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sort this out. Thank you. Awesome. We're back again. So, absent objection, this docket is probably before the body. Uh, councelor Mahia has asked that she is not going to ask for a vote on this resolution and therefore it will be sent

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to the committee on labor and workforce development. Thank you. >> Madame clerk, could you please read docket 10006? Docket 10006. Council Santana offer the following resolution recognizing the

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contributions of AfricanAmerican military veterans and afroamerican military heritage day. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes Councelor Santana. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh Madame President, I would like to add Councelor Flynn as an original co-sponsor.

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>> Councelor Flynn is so added. >> Great. Thank you, Madam President. I I do want to thank Councelor Flynn um for your leadership in this space. Um this term I have been the veterans um I'm chair of veterans committee and

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councelor Flynn has been a great mentor um to me uh on how to step up into this new world. So I really appreciate your leadership. Um every veteran deserves to know that their sacrifices are lasting part of our city's history. They should feel assured that their services is

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honored not only during moments of crisis, but also through the enduring story and identity of our city. For generations, African-American service members have stood on the front lines of every conflict since the re Revolutionary War. They fought for a

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democracy that did not always fight for them. They defended a home front that often met met their return with discrimination rather than dignity. Their contributions in spite of these battles are inseparable from the story of our country and the story of our

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city. This resolution recognizes the legacy by honoring African-American military heritage day and the role of the General Edward O. Garden AfricanAmerican Veterans Memorial Park in preserving that history and educating future generations. I am proud to have

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filed this legislation, but more importantly, I am humbled by the legacy it honors. I look forward to continuing our work to ensure the service, sacrifice, and leadership of African-American veter veterans are fully recognized across our city. Thank you. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes Councelor

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Flynn. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. And I want to say thank you to Council Santana for adding me as an original co-sponsor for his work as chair of the U Veterans Committee. Since the founding of our country, African-Americans have played a

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significant role in our country's history. As Council Santana mentioned, despite racial discrimination that they faced here during the Civil War, the 54th Mass Volunteer Infantry Regiment, first

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military unit consisting of free black soldiers fighting for the Union Army with with integrity, with honor. World War II Tuskegee airmen, all black army airore aviation unit based out of

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Tuskegee trained black pilots, navigators, bomaders, personnel, a well-known Tuskiggee airman from Boston was a good friend of mine was the former Boston police superintendent Willis Saunders

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who received a congressional gold medal. I think council co pepper you knew Willis Saunders as well. We are proud of the historic 12th Baptist Church in Roxbury for their outreach and support of African-American veterans throughout greater Boston,

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especially those aged 60 and over. The church has many notable pastors over the years, including Reverend George Washington Williams, who is a Civil War veteran. the Kata Post, the oldest African-American post in American in the American Legion,

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Matapan. Proud to say I'm a member of that post. It recognizes the work of black veterans, their bravery, self-sacrifice, their commitment. The city of Boston Veteran Services hosts a black veterans appreciation

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brunch every every year where we celebrate the service sacrifices of black veterans. But we also recognize the racism and discrimination still faced by these same veterans in America.

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In fact, I believe there's a federal legislation proposed in Washington. Maybe Congressman um Presley may have offered it or or been part of it, but it's for World War II veterans, their their uh sons or daughters that maybe

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they weren't necessarily veterans, but they would re have received if this passes, they would receive some type of veteran services, which I support, even though they're not necessarily veterans, but based on the discrimination their father or their grandfather,

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grandmothers even received. Um, maybe it's time to implement that federal legislation. Maybe it's time for us to take a to take a look at it and maybe even vote on it. Proud to support this important resolution. Let's support our veterans. Let's support our military families. Thank you, Madam Chair.

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>> Thank you, Councelor Flynn, and thank you as always for your incredible advocacy for our veteran community. Uh, chair recognizes Councelor Murphy. Counselor, you have the floor. Um, thank you, Council Santana, for filing this resolution and for all that you both

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already said. I do just want to add and give a shout out to Meredith to it at the Carter Post and all she does for not just our African-American but our female veterans and the services fighting all the time for them. So looking forward to supporting this resolution. >> Thank you. Would anyone else would

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anyone like to add their name? Councelor Co Pepper, Councelor Durkin, Councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Louisen, Councelor Mia, Councelor Murphy, Councelor Pepe, Councelor Weber, councelor Warel, and please add the chair. Councelor Santana and Flynn seek suspension of the rules

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and adoption of docket 06. All in favor say I. >> Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 106? Roll call vote on docket 106. Council Braden. >> Yes.

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>> Council Braden. Yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Col Peppa. >> Yes. >> Council Col Peppa. Yes. Council Durkin. >> Council Durkin. Yes. Council Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Council Lian. >> Yes.

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>> Council Lian. Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> Yes. >> Conor Pepen. Yes. Council Santana. >> Yes. >> Con Santana. Yes. Conber. >> Yes. >> Con. Yes. Council Warel. >> Yes. >> Council Warel. Yes. 12 votes in the

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affirmative, one not present. >> Thank you. Docket 106 has been adopted. Madam clerk, could you please read docket 10007? >> Docket 100007. Council Santana offer the

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following resolution opposing federal and state legislation that would censor and restrict life saving online resources for 2 SLGBTQIA+ communities and other marginalized groups. >> Thank you. The chair recognizes

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councelor Santana. Counselor, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um, we did a a um presentation at the top of this hearing at at the top of this meeting alongside with um councelor Mahia. Um,

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so of course I would I would I would like to add counselor mah as an original um co-sponsor to this but um I'll refer to my remarks at the top of the meeting and I'm looking for suspension and passage of this. >> Councelor Mah is added as a second. >> Thank you, Madam President. Councelor

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Mah uh you have the floor. Uh >> thank you madam president and I want to thank councelor Santana for his leadership and for adding me. Um we all know the importance of protecting youth on social media. However restricting access in this matter matter is not the way to go. It does not seek to actually

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hold big tech accountable and instead pretends to fix the problem by limiting access on the user end. Additionally, cutting off access to social media will not meaningfully educate our youth on how to have healthy engaged um

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techniques on with social media. There are two major issues with this piece of legislation. One is limiting access to resources and two is privacy and data security concerns. We know that social media provides LGBTQI A2S plus community members with access

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to information, resources, and supportive communities that may not have access to otherwise. Lack of available resources in their local area, fear of personal safety, and much more can prevent individuals from accessing life-saving and affirming resources.

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individuals such as survivors of abuse, um people seeking reproductive health care, and others um rely on social media as a safe way to access resources, information, and support. We should be increasing access to these resources, not restricting it. Verification via ID

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uploads and biometric data is concerning for all um as big tech continues to um be irresponsible. potential data security be breaches put everyone and their private information at risk. Most um especially our LGBTQ IA2S

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plus communities, undocumented um residents and those who are other marginalized individuals, especially considering all the types of surveillance we um may see from the current federal government. We need to ensure that we are protecting our loved ones, not putting them at further risk

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as a sanctuary city. um for the trans LGBTQ um um immigrant communities. Boston must stand um strong in its values and oppose these pieces of legislation. We must protect civil rights, privacy, and digital freedom. I urge my colleagues to

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uphold our values and vote in favor of this resolution. Thank you. Thank you, councelor Mahia. Uh would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Co Pepper, Councelor Durkin, Councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Louisen, Councelor Mah, Councelor Mur, Councelor Murphy,

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Councelor Pepen, Councelor Weber, Councelor Warel, and please add the chair >> and councelor Flynn. Sorry, councilors Santana and Mia seek suspension of the rules and adoption of docket uh 10007.

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All in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh thank you. Docket number 107 has been adopted. Madame clerk, could you please read docket 108? Docket 100008, consolution

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off for the following resolution recognizing May as Haitian Heritage Month and May 18th as Haitian flag day. >> Thank you. Chair recognizes councelor Louisian. You have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I spoke about this in the beginning. May is Haitian Heritage Month and I just want to thank

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everyone who has helped us um elevate everything going on this month. Want to thank my incredible staff, uh, Cindy Jus, Jacob, our constituent services director, and other resident Haitian in our office, Emily, who is basically at this point Haitian as well. But the work

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that we've been doing um, not only this month, but around the year and with the World Cup coming um, and Haiti making its first appearance, there's just a lot going on. And I just want to thank my incredible team and I want to thank the incredible Haitian community that allows me to um, represent and advocate

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alongside them. Again, just want to repeat that this Friday we're going to have the Haitian flag raising. Have a a good number of folks coming. So, I hope that my colleagues can make it. Want to thank our senator's office for the they'll be present and grateful to have them um here with us as well. Um in the

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council general's office. Um I also uh want to again highlight that this Saturday there's a Haitian-American business expo uh run by the US Haitian Chamber of Commerce. It's happening from 12:00 to 2 at Boston Prep. And on Sunday is the Haitian-American Unity Parade. Um, and that's beginning around 12:30 in

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Madapan Square. And there's so much more happening in May. Uh, next Friday is the match at at the Red Sox. And so, um, I just want to say Messi, thank you to our Haitian community for the resilience that you teach me every day. Thank you. And I'm looking for suspension and passage. >> Thank you. Would anyone like to add

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their name? Councelor Co Pepper, Councelor Durkin, Councelor Fitzgerald, Councelor Flynn, Councelor Mahia, Councelor Murphy, Councelor Pepen, Councelor Santana, Councelor Weber, Councelor Warel, and please add the chair. Councelor Luen

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seeks suspension of the rules and adoption of docket 108. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. Thank you. The docket 108 has been adopted. Madame clerk, could you please read

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docket 100009? >> Docket 100009. Councelor Flynn offer the following resolution in support of the Right Safe Act. >> Councelor Flynn, you have the floor. >> Thank Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, may I add Councelor Co Pepper as

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an original co-sponsor? >> Uh, yes. Councelor Co Pepper is added as a second. >> Thank you. In February of this year, I filed an ordinance to regulate all ebikes. At that time, the Boston Cyclist Union said my

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legislation was urgently needed and addressed a gray zone in the city's transportation regulation. My ordinance remains in the government operations committee. I also spoke this week with the Mass Highway Association um and they asked me to go down to

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Worcester County to testify and to talk about my proposal. I want to begin by thanking Governor Healey for her leadership on this issue. Last week, she filed an act to enhance the safe use of microability devices, a first in the nation bill attempting to regulate

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ebikes, moped, scooters. Cities and towns, including Boston, have experienced a significant increase in concerns related to unsafe operation of both motorized devices, delivery vehicles, including speeding, riding on sidewalks, ignoring traffic signals. In

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November, there was a traffic death of a 13-year-old when an ebike collided with the vehicle in Stoneham. And last August, a man was hit by an ebike and third party food delivery driver in a crosswalk on Boilston Street. tragically passed away le week

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weeks later in September. Improving road safety is critical to protecting all pedestrians, including our seniors, persons with disabilities, young families, including drivers, delivery workers alike, while ensuring that emerging

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transportation technologies operate responsible responsibly within local communities. The act proposed by governor go the governor governor hilly um seeks to establish clearer accountability measures, improve enforcement,

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strengthen registration identification requirements, promote safer operation of motor vehicles throughout Massachusetts. It would restrict high-speed devices from sidewalks, bike lanes in other high-risk areas, very similar to what I

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proposed. The streets of Boston have become less safe due to mopeds frequently traveling down um through red lights and stop signs, operating on sidewalks, driving the wrong way on oneway streets. Boston can no longer be

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the wild, wild west. All of this has worsened over the last several years, but Governor Healey is providing strong leadership. The Ride Safety Act attempts to help address our city and state's public and pedestrian

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safety crisis. And I hope my colleagues can support the governor's work on this. Yes, I attempted to be the first person practically in the country to regulate this industry, but I'm I'm glad the governor is taking um taking this responsibil responsibility very

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seriously and um implementing critical pedestrian safety issues that need to be addressed. Boston needs to be safe for everybody, not just our streets, but also our sidewalks, too. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you, Councelor Flynn. The chair

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recognizes councelor uh co pepper. >> You have Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councelor Flynn, for adding me as an original co-sponsor. Thank you for your leadership on this issue. We've been doing what we can at the city level

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to bring attention to these growing public safety concerns, but meaningful regulation and enforcement will require strong partnership from the state. One of the issues that gets raised most often when I'm out in the community

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speaking with constituents is how unsafe mopeds, ebikes, and electric scooters have become for both pest pedestrians and the motoring public. Residents regularly talk about vehicles speeding through red lights and stop signs,

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operating on sidewalks. Let me just say that again. operating on sidewalks, traveling the wrong way down one-way streets, and creating dangerous situations in our busiest neighborhoods. The Ride Safe Act is an important step

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toward addressing these concerns by establishing clearer rules, accountability measures, and safety standards for higher speed micromobility devices. This legislation recognizes that while these devices can play a role

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in our transportation system, they must operate safely and responsibly. Supporting this legislation is about improving safety for everyone who uses our streets. I urge my colleagues to support this resolution to send a clear

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message to the state house of Boston is ready for meaningful action to address this growing public safety issue. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Uh chair recognizes councelor Durkin. Councelor, you have the floor. >> Thank you so much, chair. Um I'm really proud to support uh the ride safe act.

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Um what folks have been asking for since the beginning of this has been uh clarity and classification of devices. And I think this takes a big step. Uh it's not all of the steps that need to be taken. Um but it's definitely what came out of the micromobility report and

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committee that's been working on this. So I'm grateful. um to the governor and um and the legislators who have been working deeply on this. I want to thank specifically Rep. Jay Livingstone, my state rep, who I know has been in uh a lot of collaboration with the

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administration on both the micromobility um aspect of the report that came out, but also just in general, I think he's a great leader in our in my district and um has been working on a lot of these concerns. So, um thank you, chair.

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>> Thank you. Would would I let's see would anyone like to add their name? Councelor Durkin, councelor Fitzgerald, councelor Luigen, councelor Mahia, councelor Murphy, councelor Pepen, councelor Santana, councelor Weber, councelor Warel, and please add the chair.

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Councilors Flynn and Co Pepper seek suspension of the rules adoption of docket 10009. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote on docket 100009? >> Roll call vote on docket 10009. Council

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Braden, >> yes. >> Council Braden, yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Peppa, >> yes. >> Council Col Peppa, yes. Council Durkin, >> Council Durkin, yes. Council Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Council Fitzgerald, yes. Council Flynn, >> yes. >> Council Flynn, yes. Council Lian,

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>> yes. >> Yes. Council Mahia. >> Council Mahia. Yes. Council Murphy. Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. Yes. >> Council Pepen. Council Santana. >> Council Santana is council Weber. Weber. Yes. Council War.

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>> Council War. Yes. 12 votes in the affirmative and one not not present. Thank you. Thank you. Docket 10009 has been adopted. We're now on to personnel order orders. Madame clerk, could you please read uh the personnel orders?

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>> Docket 10. Personnel order council Braden for council pep. Um the chair moves for passage of the personnel order. All those in favor say I. >> Uh the eyes have it. Person the personnel order has passed. Uh before we

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move on to green sheets, is there anyone who'd like to add their name to a docket that they may have missed? Okay. Uh uh we uh we're now on to green sheets. Is anyone looking to pull a green sheet?

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Um councelor Flynn. >> Uh go ahead. You have the floor. >> Uh thank you, Madam Chair. I'm actually I actually have two, but let me let me start with the first one, which is docket 0623, which is on page three.

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Abs. Hang on. Uh, docket 0623. Madam clerk, could you please read docket 0623? >> Docket 0623. Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of

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Christopher Ogoods as a member of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission for a term expiring March 30th, 2023. >> Absent objection, the motion of the committee chair is accepted and docked 0623 or properly before the body. Councelor, the floor is yours.

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>> Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I I do know that it's customary to have a hearing on it, but based on timing, um it it is important for me to go forward without without a hearing. And I do that because I have had an opportunity to

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work with Chris Osgood for over eight years. And over the 8-year period of time, in my opinion, he's demonstrated positive leadership, dedication, transparency, accountability as a manager in city government. I think he'll bring that

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same level of professionalism as a member of the board of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission. I respectfully urge my colleagues to pass this docket today. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you, Councelor Flynn. Councelor Flynn, the chair of uh city services,

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seeks uh seeks passage of docket 0623. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh thank you. Docket 0623 has passed. Council Flynn, you mentioned you had a second. Uh >> yes. Thank you, Madam Chair.

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>> Madam Chair, may I pull 0307 on page 10, please? Uh, councelor uh 0 >> 0307 page 10. >> 0307.

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Madame clerk, could you please read docket 0307? >> Docket 0307. Resolution in support of the Boston Housing Authority Elevator Safety Commission. >> Absence of objection. The motion of the committee

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council. Uh there's an objection. >> Uh we need to pull the um so there's we will councelor Flynn. Uh we will madame clerk could you pull the committee on uh city services uh to um approve bringing this

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motion to the floor? service. >> Um, councelor Flynn, is which committee was that? How >> I I believe it's in my committee. >> City services. >> City services. >> Hold on. Take a brief recess. Okay.

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Sometimes We'll take a short recess. what the timeline is. This document was referred to the housing committee. Uh it's 90 days after the matter was referred to committee. It may be called by seven members of the

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council. So, we will take a roll call vote to uh to move that this uh docket comes before the body. >> In in order to vote, I'd like to hear from the committee chair.

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>> No, it's not that's not the way it goes. So, uh, madame madame clerk, would you take a roll call vote to, uh, bring this matter from committee to the floor. Uh, it's a 90 days after the

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matter was referred to the committee and it, uh, we need a seven members of the city council to approve. Councelor Braden, >> point of information. >> Yes. Can you read the docket again? >> One second.

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>> We we'll read the docket when we get it to the we bring it to the floor. It's in the it's in the um it's housing and community development resolution in support of the Boston Housing Authority Elevator Safety Commission

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and it's docket 07 0307 on page 10. Madame clerk, could you please take a roll call vote of the members of the council to bring this forward to the floor? Um doc councelor Braden.

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>> Yes. Council Braden. Yes. Council Kleta Zapata. Council Kepa. >> Yes. >> Council call Peppa. Council Durkin. >> No. >> Council Durkin. No. Council Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Council Fitzgerald. Yes. Council Flynn. >> Yes. >> Council Flynn. Yes. Consusian. No

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>> council. No councelor Mahia. >> No. >> Council Mahia. No. Council Murphy. >> Yes. >> Council Murphy. Yes. Council Pepen. >> No. >> Council Pepen. No. Council Santana. >> No. >> Council Santana. No. Council Weber.

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>> Council Weber. No. Council Vorel. >> Yes. >> Council Warel. Yes. One, two, three, four, five, six. No. Um, six yes. >> One, two, >> six no

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and and um one not present. So we don't uh so the motion uh to bring this body this issue to the floor has failed. Thank you. We are now on to late files.

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Madam clerk, >> I think you're doing I'm informed by the clerk that the we have one late file. Um absent objection, these late file matters will be added. Madame clerk, would you please please

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please councelor Durkin? >> Councelor Durkin objects. >> Uh we will move on. >> No, we don't read it. No, there's two ways to do it. I'm not reading it into the record if it's not properly before the body.

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We're now on to moving to the consent agenda. I've been informed by the clerk that there are No additions to the consent agenda. The question now comes before the comes on approval of the various matters contained within the con consent agenda. All those in favor say I.

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>> I. >> Thank you. The consent agenda has been adopted. We are now on to announcements. Please remember these are for upcoming dates and events. Uh, councelor uh

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Murphy, you have the floor for uh announcements. >> Um, so my announcement is that we are in a few weeks going to be taking votes on the budget and I filed a late file. >> Announcement. >> Yes, it is coming up. I can read

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something. So, this was an emergency hearing regarding immediate replacement for funding for the Boston Firefighter Cancer Screening, health screening, mental health supports, and wellness program. Myself and Councelor Fitzgerald and Councelor Flynn were hoping to get

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this scheduled sooner than later. And now we're going to have to wait another week and firefighters health are on the line and the screening and the data is showing that >> councelor Murphy. >> It's just a shame that this is where the

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body has gone to. >> We all can have a cheat sheet about Robert's rules of order or we could just work as a body. >> Please everyone calm down. >> This is not an announcement. I'm done. I'm done. Move on. Thank you. Councelor

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Luen, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President, and I just want to thank you because sometimes uh pe I just want to give you the respect that is due to you as chair. So, I just want to thank you for trying to move this meeting along. I know that it can be difficult and sometimes personalities

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do. Um but I just want to thank you because I know that there's a lot thrown at you and it's hard to manage and so I just want to thank you in this moment. I also wanted to um elevate and just say a big big congratulations to our colleague Gabriella Kleta Zapata who just gave

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birth. She gave uh her mother's day present uh to our new council baby uh Waqin uh Zapata and so I'm looking forward to Waqen coming here and her bringing him to Chambers. So congratulations to our colleague and I hope to see everyone this weekend for Asian Heritage Month events. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Um, councelor Mahia, you have the floor. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um, and I want to just echo and rise and to thank you publicly. I know it has not been easy. Um, and I know that sometimes I make it harder for you as well, but I am

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also trying to balance all the drama and trauma that uh you have had to experience here in the chamber. And I think um what I'm looking forward to is the hearing that we're going to have on the rules and making sure that we all get the memo and understand the

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assignment that the work here is for us to move the city forward. Um and we really need to start uh addressing the way that we have been using procedural tactics to um impact the way this body function. So I just want to say thank you for your

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leadership. >> Thank you councelor uh councelor Mahia. Anyone else with announcements? I I think I share everyone's joy and excitement at the little addition um to the Zapata family. Councelor Fitzgerald, you have the floor. >> Thank you. Yeah. No, I absolutely would

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like to echo our colleague, uh Council Kleta Zapato and her birth. And uh with that, uh my middle guy turns seven tomorrow. So, uh you'll see me do this one more time in June for my oldest as we're in the birthday month. But I want to look at the camera, say happy birthday to my Mac turning seven. He's a math wiz. doesn't listen to his dad too

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much at the moment, but uh he's a fa fantastic kid that asks unbelievable philosophical questions that we wonder at every day like hey dad do roads end uh what's more important hand or feet right these are the thing and questions

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that we just sit there and go man I don't know where you came from but uh I hope he never continue I hope he never loses that ability and always questions everything and so happy birthday Magadoo >> thank you as you ponder the difficult questions of those the youngs can give

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you. Um, anyone else with announcements? Um, we're also wishing a happy birthday to Wilmer Kona Kones of Council Santana's office. Uh, big month for birthdays, but um, we're now moving on

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to memorials. Would anyone like to uplift the name of someone who has passed? Uh, please put your light on if you'd like me to call on you. Councelor Luigen, you have the floor. >> Thank you. I'd just like to uplift the

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memory of uh Joyce King, one of the daughters of Mel King. I'm not sure if she um I was absent at the meeting two weeks ago, so I'm not sure if she was memorialized, but just today was the services at Morning Star. And I just want to uh give my entire love,

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condolences to the King family as they um pay their final respects today to the memory of Joyce King who lived out the legacy of her father um and her mother and um as much as her other siblings. So just wanted to pay my respects to Pamela

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to the entire King family. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Councelor Cold Pepper, you have the floor. Madame President, I wanted to lift up the passing of Reverend Franklin Murray, the pastor of the Bethl Baptist Church. Uh, Reverend Murray was a

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faithful servant, devoted leader, and beloved member of the community. Reverend Murray touched countless lives through his unwavering wisdom, faith, kindness, dedication to the work of the Lord. uh his church

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along with family and friends were mourning the loss of the man a true man of God whose legacy of love, service and spiritual leadership will forever remain in the hearts of those who knew him. We pray for the Murray family and for the

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Beth Baptist Church family. >> Thank you. On behalf of councelor Kleta Zapata, Mario Degrio Lam Lam Lammo Del Russo on behalf of councelor Luen Hazel T

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Williams and Joyce King on behalf of councelor Murphy Mr. Rean and on behalf of uh councelor Co Pepper, the reverent reverend Franklin Murray. The chair moves that when the council

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adjourns today, it does so in memory of the aforementioned individuals. A moment of silence, please. The council is scheduled to meet again in the Ionella Chamber on Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Thank you to my

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colleagues, central staff, the clerk, the clerk's office, and this council stenographer. Welcome back, Ellen. Uh uh all those in favor, please say I. I. >> The council is adjourned. Thank you, everyone.