THIS IS ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42. I REMIND ALL THOSE IN THE CHAMBER THAT NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.
THANK YOU. UH, MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM?
I'M SORRY TO HEAR THAT YOUR. COUNCILOR DURKAN. . SO I CAN HEAR COUNCILOR FITZGERALD ON FITZGERALD HERE. COUNCILOR FLYNN? YEAH. >> COUNCIL FLYNN HERE.
COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE. COUNCILOR MEJIA. COUNCIL. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. COUNCIL. PUPPET PRESIDENT. COUNCIL. SANTANA. FRANCIS. ANTONIO. YEAH.
COUNCILOR WEBER ON SEVERAL. WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UM, I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE TRIP THAT THERE IS A QUORUM PRESENT. UM, WE WILL NOW RECITE THE
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. OH, PARDON. OH, YOU YOU CAME BY. UH, MR. CLERK, UH UH, MADAM CLERK IS GOING TO DO AN INVOCATION THIS MORNING.
UM, OUR STRATEGY WHERE UNAVAILABLE AND, UH, THE CHURCH WAS UNAVAILABLE, SO HERE WE ARE, MADAM CLERK. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, WITH. >> IS IT NECESSARY TO. UH, BENCH?
STAND EVERYONE? GOD IS. GOD OF CREATION WHOM WE TRY AGAIN AND AGAIN TO MAKE INTO OUR OWN IMAGE AND ENABLE US TO
DESIRE RIGHTLY AND TO BE THE USE OF IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS . BE WITH THESE BOSTON CITY COUNCILORS. GRANT THEM THE WISDOM TO CREATE WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
KEEP WITHIN EACH OF THEIR HEARTS A LOVE FOR THE CAUSE OF THE HUMAN WELFARE AND A DEDICATION TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF ALL PEOPLE. GUIDE THEM IN THEIR LABOR TO
MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN OUR PUBLIC LIVES. AND REMIND THEM TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE GIFT OF LIFE. AMEN. AMEN. >> THANK YOU.
REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU.
>> UH, WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS TODAY. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND COUNCILOR CULPEPER ARE RECOGNIZING INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY. UH, SO I'LL INVITE COUNCILOR CULPEPER TO COME UP
AND INTRODUCE OUR OUR GUESTS AND THEN THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY COUNCILOR FLYNN WHO'S RECOGNIZING THE MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION WHO WILL COME UP NEXT. SO, UM, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. TODAY COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND I ARE HONORED TO INVITE CANFIELD
AND FABIOLA MENDEZ OF JAZZ BOSTON TO THE DAIS. UH, KEN WILL SAY A FEW WORDS. UH, AND THEN FABIOLA WILL HONOR US WITH, UH, IT SAYS SHORT
PERFORMANCE, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO SAY A PERFORMANCE IN RECOGNITION OF APRIL 30TH AS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. JAZZ IS A UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART
FORM THAT GREW FROM THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, BLENDING MUSICAL TRADITIONS WITH GLOBAL TECHNIQUES TO CREATE SOMETHING TRULY TRANSCENDENT. BOSTON HAS LONG BEEN A VITAL
PART OF THAT STORY FROM THE LEGENDARY STAGES OF THE HI HAT AND WIGWAM TO THE ENDURING LEGACY OF WALLY'S WHICH STILL BRINGS LIVE MUSIC TO OUR CITY
EVERY SINGLE DAY ON MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE IN MY DISTRICT. WE MUST LOOK FORWARD METAPHORICALLY AND SPECIFICALLY AS THE OPENING OF THE JAZZ
ALBUM OPENS IN NUBIAN SQUARE NEXT MONTH. AND ALSO BECAUSE WE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE JAZZ NOT JUST AS HISTORY BUT AS A LIVING
BREATHING FORCE FOR CREATIVITY. I CAN NOW COME AND SAY A FEW WORDS AND FOLLOWED BY FABIOLA. THANK YOU. >> YOU.
>> THANKS TO, UH, PRESIDENT BREADON AND COUNCILORS LUCIEN AND CULPEPER FOR GIVING ME A FEW MINUTES TO SPEAK. I'M KEN FIELD. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF JAZZ BOSTON SINCE 2006.
WE'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR THE BOSTON AREA JAZZ COMMUNITY OF MUSICIANS, AUDIENCES, VENUES AND MEDIA. WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVER 4700 MEMBERS AND ABOUT 60% OF THEM OPEN OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS ON
A REGULAR BASIS. THEY'RE ENGAGED. THEY'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT MUSIC AND I ALWAYS SAY THIS IS IMPORTANT MUSIC. IT'S NOT JUST MUSIC WE PLAY OR ENJOY.
JAZZ WAS CREATED IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY. WE THINK IT'S VALUABLE TO SHINE AN ONGOING SPOTLIGHT ON THAT HISTORY. JAZZ IS A SOMEWHAT UNIQUE MUSICAL STYLE IN THAT IT FOCUSES ON SPONTANEOUS
IMPROVIZATION. BOSTON HAS PLAYED AND CONTINUES TO PLAY AS THE COUNCILOR MENTIONED A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE HISTORY OF JAZZ AND THIS MUSIC HAS SPREAD ACROSS FROM THE US ACROSS THE GLOBE
AND JAZZ. BOSTON IS PROUD TO BRING YOU THIS AFTERNOON A SHORT INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY PERFORMANCE BY THE PUERTO RICAN BORN COUNTRY STAR FABIOLA MENDEZ. DID I SAY THAT RIGHT? OKAY.
>> UM, FABI WILL TELL YOU ABOUT HER GUITAR LIKE INSTRUMENT THE CUATRO. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT SHE'S PERFORMED AT VENUES SUCH AS NPR'S TINY DESK CONCERT, THE
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON, THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND MANY OTHERS. HER COLLABORATIONS HAVE INCLUDED UH WITH BAD BUNNY, UH, THE PUERTO RICO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA WITH DANNY RIVERA, THE CHICAGO SUN HARMONIC AND THE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA AMONG OTHERS. PLEASE GIVE HER A WARM WELCOME AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO BE INFORMED ABOUT JAZZ BOSTON'S ACTIVITIES, YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR
FREE MEMBERSHIP AT JAZZ BOSTON.ORG AND ONE MORE THING. UH, FABIOLA IS GOING TO BE DOING A PERFORMANCE AT, UH, WGBH TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7 P.M.
AND IT'S A, UH, TICKETED EVENT . BUT IF ANY OF THE COUNCILORS WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, TALK TO ME OR SEND ME AN EMAIL AT INFO AT JAZZ BOSTON.ORG AND WE'LL MAKE IT HAPPEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
FABIOLA. YEAH. >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. I AM SO HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY I WILL SHARE MY INSTRUMENT AND OF COURSE THE THREE DAYS OF JAZZ.
THIS IS A CUATRO AND IT'S A PUERTO RICAN FOLK GUITAR. THAT'S TRADITIONALLY USED IN THE COUNTRY MUSIC OF PUERTO RICO. BUT I HAVE HAD THE BLESSING OF ATTENDING BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND EXPLORING HOW THIS
INSTRUMENT CAN ALSO BE MERGED WITH JAZZ AND OTHER GENRES OF MUSIC. SO I'M GOING TO PLAY AN ORIGINAL SONG OF MINE ENTITLED DEDICATED AREA IN SPANISH BUT CELEBRATING THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE THAT HAVE BEEN
INSPIRATION. HOPE YOU ENJOYED. >> AND I WILL. UH. >> THE MORE I LOVE AND UM UM.
I. MADRE FOR THAT I MEAN I KNOW I'LL LET. I SEE LET ME OUT BUT I CAN SEE
ALL THESE LATINO MEN UM AND ALL THE IT IS NOT. YOU.
COMING.
HERE. UM YEAH.
WELL, UH, THE. THOUGHT OF THE THE UM. MOTHER. >> DAY WHEN THAT I MEAN, I GOTTA.
THAT. >> YOU KNOW. WE ARE ONE. OF US YOGI BERRA NUMBER. FOUR LOVE YES I. TO LET LEGAL MONEY ON THE.
TABLE RIGHT. >> AND THE I'M THE ONLY ONE. WHAT DO I NEED TO PAY FOR MY MEDICAL? UM WHO I GOT OUT OF THE UM.
WHAT LOT. >> OF THEM DID? THAT BUT I SEE, UM THEY.
FABIOLA. >> COME ON, JOIN US UP HERE. OFFERED BY COUNSELOR RUTH Z. LOUIJEUNE AND MINYARD CULPEPPER .
THE CITY OF BOSTON CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING APRIL 30TH, 2026 AS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY.
JAZZ IS A UNIQUE ART THAT EMBODIES THIS UNIQUE BLEND OF CREATIVITY, CULTURAL HERITAGE, INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION AND COMBINING ELEMENTS OF BLACK
MUSICAL TRADITIONS WITH GLOBAL MUSICAL TECHNIQUES AND FORMS. THE JAZZ PRESERVATION ACT OF 1987, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL ACT STATES JAZZ
HAS ACHIEVED PREEMINENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS AN INDIGENOUS AMERICAN MUSIC AND ART FORM, BRINGING THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD AS UNIQUELY
AMERICAN MUSICAL SYNTHESIS AND CULTURE THROUGH THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE AND JAZZ HAS PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
OF BOSTON, INFLUENCING AND BEING INTEGRATED INTO THE CITY'S EDUCATION, ARTS AND COMMUNITY LIFE AND BOSTON HAS
BEEN HOME TO MANY LEGENDARY JAZZ MUSICIANS SUCH AS MEL HALLETT, LEO RAISMAN, DON REDMAN, JOHNNY HODGES, HARRY
CARNEY, DEAN EARLE, SLAM STEWART, ROY HAYNES, ALLEN DAWSON AND SO MANY OTHERS AND HAS FOSTERED A VIBRANT JAZZ SCENE THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE
CITY'S REPUTATION AS A CULTURAL HUB AND IN THE 1940S AND 50S BURTON THRIVED WITH WELL-KNOWN JAZZ CLUBS LIKE THE HI HAT, THE
WIGWAM, SAVOY AND WALLY'S FREQUENTED BY JAZZ GREATS AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTH BEND AND ROXBURY WHILE IT IS STILL OPERATING TODAY OFFERING
LIVE MUSIC 365 DAYS A YEAR AND NEW CLUBS LIKE JAZZ ARE BEING SET TO OPEN IN MAY 2026. IN NUBIAN SQUARE SHOWCASING
JAZZ'S LONG STANDING ENDURANCE AND FRESHNESS AND INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY HIGHLIGHTS THE POWER OF JAZZ AS A FORCE FOR ENRICHMENT AND CREATIVITY,
PROMOTING EXPRESSION AND DIALOG THROUGH MUSICAL ART, SPONTANEITY AND VITALITY AND THE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
JAZZ DAY SUPPORTS THE CULTURAL VIBRANCY OF BOSTON, ENRICHING THE LIVES OF RESIDENTS AND VISITORS ALIKE THROUGH PERFORMANCES, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.
NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON CITY COUNCIL HEREBY RECOGNIZES APRIL 30TH 2026 AS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ
DAY AND ENCOURAGES ALL CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS CELEBRATING THE RICH HERITAGE OF JAZZ MUSIC, THEREBY
ENHANCING CULTURAL APPRECIATION AND FOSTERING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SIGNIFICANT ARTFORM. KEN AND FABIOLA I PRESENT YOU
WITH THIS RESOLUTION ON THIS 2030 DAY OF APRIL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ TO. THANK YOU SO. THANK YOU. UH, WITH MY COLLEAGUES I HAD TO
COME UP FOR A PHOTOGRAPH. TO COME UP HERE. YES. THANK YOU. STAND TO STAND HERE. WE WILL COME TO THE STAND. OH, YEAH. DON'T HIT IT. DON'T HURT ANYBODY. >> WITH THAT.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU YOU. >> OH, THAT'S OKAY.
NO YOU DON'T. GET US. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
THANK YOU THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU. SO IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE IT. OH THANK YOU. UM.
TONIGHT. AND I INVITE, UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN TO COME FORWARD WITH HIS PRESENTATION. THAT'S OKAY. YES. AND OUR FRIENDS FROM THE M&A
YOU WANT TO COME UP? THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU .
THANK THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT, FOR GIVING ME A COUPLE OF MINUTES. I'M HERE WITH CITY COUNCILOR. DURKAN AND, UM, COUNCILOR BRIAN WORLD AS WELL.
BUT WE HAVE A RESOLUTION LATER IN THE PROGRAM IN SUPPORT OF THE MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION. BUT WITH US TODAY IS MYLES
MATTHEW AND SARAH BEST. WELL AND SARAH IS A WOMEN'S HEALTH NURSE AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMAN. I WANT TO EXTEND MY DEEP APPRECIATION AND A WARM WELCOME
TO THE MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE THEM WITH US TODAY. YOU REPRESENT THE VERY BEST OF OUR COMMUNITY. PROFESSIONALS PROFESSIONALS.
WHO SHOW UP EVERY DAY WITH SKILL, COMPASSION, UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO CARE FOR OTHERS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT NURSING IS MORE THAN A PROFESSION IT IS A CALLING.
HOWEVER, WE ALSO KNOW THAT THESE ARE CHALLENGING TIMES. AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, THE NURSES AND NURSE PRACTITIONERS AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL COMPROMISED A
WORKFORCE OF MORE THAN 4000 DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY, LIFESAVING CARE TO PATIENTS LITERALLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THESE NURSES HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS SINCE OCTOBER 25TH. WHAT ARE THEY ADVOCATING FOR FAIR WAGES, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE?
SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS CURRENT MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS INCLUDE A 0% WAGE INCREASE FOR MOST NURSES NURSE PRACTITIONERS. WE'RE ADVOCATING HERE ON BEHALF
OF THE CITY COUNCIL IS JUSTICE A LITTLE BIT A LITTLE BIT OF RESPECT, DIGNITY, COMPASSION FOR THE NURSES I THINK I THINK THEY'VE EARNED IT AND I THINK
WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LATER TODAY IS. TALK ABOUT A. RESOLUTION VOTE ON A RESOLUTION THAT STANDS WITH THE NURSES, UH ,DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES.
HAVING SAID THAT, I DO WANT TO ASK SARAH FROM THE MASS NURSES ASSOCIATION FROM THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL UM, IF SHE'D LIKE TO COME UP, SAY A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE
NURSES AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. UM, IT'S. COUNCILOR FLYNN SAID I'M SARAH WHEEL. ,UM, A REGISTERED NURSE AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.
I'M THE SECRETARY OF THE M&A UH ,BARGAINING COMMITTEE THERE. AND I ALSO SET UM AS THE SECRETARY OF THE M&A BOARD OF DIRECTORS. I WANT TO START BY THANKING
QUASI BOSTON CITY COUNCILORS ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR FLYNN DURKAN AND WELL, THANK YOU UM FOR PASS OR FOR TALKING AND HOPEFULLY PASSING THIS RESOLUTION TODAY RECEIVING THIS
SUPPORT ON THE SAME DAY WE'RE HOLDING OUR INFORMATIONAL PICKET OUTSIDE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL MEANS A LOT TO US BRIGHAM NURSES. IT SHOWS THAT THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS WHAT'S AT STAKE HERE.
WE'RE PICKETING TODAY BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT OUR PATIENTS AND THE FUTURE OF BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL . UNFORTUNATELY, MORE AND MORE WE'RE SEEING DECISIONS BY EXECUTIVES AT MASS GENERAL
BRIGHAM THAT ARE MOVING THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. THEY'RE CLOSING PROGRAMS LIKE THE WEINER CENTER THREATENING THE BRIGHAM BURN UNIT AND CUTTING PROGRAMS THAT HELP
COORDINATE CARE. BRIGHAM NURSES SEE THE IMPACT OF THESE DECISIONS EVERY SINGLE DAY. THEY AFFECT CONTINUITY OF CARE, HARM PATIENT OUTCOMES AND PUT
MORE STRAIN ON THE STAFF THAT ARE HOLDING EVERYTHING TOGETHER . AT THE SAME TIME, TELLING NURSES WERE WORTH 0% RAISES WHILE TRYING TO INCREASE OUR HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS.
MGM'S APPROACH WOULD MAKE IT HARDER TO KEEP EXPERIENCED NURSES AT THE BEDSIDE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO RECRUIT NEW NURSES. WE ALL. >> KNOW THAT MGP HAS ENORMOUS RESEARCH RESOURCES THEY PAID
CEO AND CLAYBOURNE SKI $8.4 MILLION IN 2020 FOR AND THEIR TOP 14 EXECUTIVES $35.9 MILLION
15 PEOPLE INSTEAD OF GIVING MILLIONS TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR WAY AROUND A PATIENT BED, MGP NEEDS TO INVEST IN NURSES WHO PROVIDE DIRECT CARE AND KEEP OUR HOSPITAL RUNNING.
WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS FOR SIMPLE WE'D LIKE A FAIR UNION CONTRACT THAT SUPPORTS FIRST AND FOREMOST SAFE PATIENT CARE, PROVIDES COMPETITIVE WAGES AND AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE AND
RESPECTS THE ESSENTIAL CARE WE GET WE PROVIDE EVERY SINGLE DAY. THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION SHOWS WE'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. THE COMMUNITY IS PAYING ATTENTION AND STANDING WITH US.
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP SHOWING UP FOR OUR PATIENTS, FOR US AND FOR THE FUTURE OF BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COULD COULD I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE JOIN?
OH, YEAH. UM THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNSELOR FRIEND, FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF WORKING PEOPLE TO THE NURSES AND NURSE PRACTITIONERS FROM BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING. AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE
COUNCILOR FLYNN. IT'S LIKE THERE IS NOT A PICKET LINE THAT THIS MAN WILL NOT JOIN. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF UM AND UM THESE NURSES DESERVE FAIR COMPENSATION, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE AND A
CONTRACT THAT SUPPORTS SAFE STAFFING LEVELS AND A WORKPLACE WHERE THEY CAN CONTINUE DELIVERING THE LEVEL OF CARE FOR THEIR PATIENTS THAT THEY RELY ON EVERY DAY. A CITY COUNCILOR FOR DISTRICT EIGHT URGED MASS GENERAL
BRIGHAM AND THEIR LEADERSHIP TO REACH A FAIR AGREEMENT THAT REFLECTS THE VALUES OF THESE PROFESSIONALS AND RESPONSE TO CONCERNS THEY HAVE BEEN RAISING SINCE OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR. BOSTON'S COMMITMENT TO SUPPORTING WORKERS IS WHAT
MAKES OUR CITY STRONG. I'VE BEEN PROUD TO UPHOLD THAT COMMITMENT AND STAND IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AS THEY ADVOCATE. I'M ALSO A BEACON HILL RESIDENT UM AND REPRESENT MISSION HILL SO I'M IN LINE WITH PEOPLE AND
THEIR CROCKS GETTING TO WORK. I SEE THE HARD WORKING YOU KNOW GOING TO GET YOUR CAFFEINE FIX. IT'S LIKE YOU ARE MY NEIGHBORS, YOU'RE MY FRIENDS AND UM I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TODAY THAT WE STAND IN SUPPORT
OF THESE WORKERS BECAUSE WHO'S THE PERSON WHO MAKES SURE THAT YOU GET GREAT CARE WHEN YOU'RE IN THE HOSPITAL WHEN YOU'RE IT'S NURSES. UM, I YOU KNOW, YOU GET FIVE SECONDS WITH THE DOCTOR AND LIKE THESE ARE THE
PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE DOING THE ACTUAL WORK AND SO LIKE WE'VE STOOD WITH UNION LABOR AND EVERY YOU KNOW, EVERY SINGLE CHANCE WE GET AT THE CITY COUNCIL WE'RE A UNION CITY . THEY DESERVE A FAIR CONTRACT.
WE HAVE TO DEMAND THAT AND WE HAVE TO DEMAND IT AT THIS PLATFORM AND IN THIS ROOM. BUT ALSO WE NEED TO DEMAND IT ON THE PICKET LINE. SO WE'LL BE OUT THERE AND I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO EVERY SINGLE DAY TO MAKE
SURE THAT THE STANDARD OF CARE IS HIGH. UM, WHEN YOU'RE RAISING THE ALARM WE NEED TO REALLY RAISE THE ALARM FOR YOU. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COULD OUR. >> COLLEAGUES PLEASE JOIN US
FOR A PHOTO? YES. >> FOR ME I WOULD LIKE TO 242. TO OUTSIDE. AND MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES
MIGHT BE ON THE PICKET LINE TODAY FROM 2 TO 4 AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN. THANK YOU 2 TO 4.
THANK YOU SO. >> MUCH. FOR WATCHING AND THANK. THANK YOU SO MUCH I APPRECIATE. >> IT. I'LL SEE. YOU THERE. >> YOU'LL BE GREAT TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU THANK. >> YOU I MIGHT SEE YOU LATER OKAY OKAY. I'LL MEET YOU THERE OKAY.
OKAY. THANK YOU I LOOK. THANK YOU GUYS. THANK YOU EVERYONE.
>> MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT COUNCILORS UH, WEBER AND WORRELL HAVE JOINED US.
OH, OKAY. NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM
THE MEETING OF APRIL 15TH, 2026 . ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. ALL OPPOSED. >> SAY NAY. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE MINUTES OF THE APRIL 15TH MEETING HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS FROM HER HONOR THE MAYOR. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0850 AND 8051 TOGETHER?
DOCKET 0850 MESSAGE TRANSMITTED CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F REGARDING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCHOOL BUS AUTO LIABILITY INSURANCE COVERAGE
INCLUDING THE NON-RENEWAL OF THE PRIOR POLICY AND PROCUREMENT OF A NEW INSURANCE PROVIDER AND ALL RELATED SAFETY CLAIMS AND COST DATA.
DOCKET 0779 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON APRIL 8TH, 2026. DOCKET 0851 MESSAGE AND CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F
RELATIVE TO THE CITY OF BOSTON INSURANCE AND LIABILITY COVERAGE DOCKET 0817 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON APRIL 15TH, 2026. THANK YOU. >> DOCKET 085018051 WILL BE
PLACED ON FILE. WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORT TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS. MADAM CLERK, UH, CAN YOU PLEASE
READ DOCKET 0852 THROUGH 0863? DOCKET 0852. NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF RODNEY MARSHALL AS FIRE
COMMISSIONER AND CHIEF OF THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT EFFECTIVE MAY 1ST, 2026. DOCKET 0853 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
APPOINTMENT OF MARK HUDSON AS A MEMBER OF THE TASK FORCE ON THE STUDY UPON THE CITY OF BOSTON REPARATIONS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
DOCKET 0854 NAUGHT THAT WAS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DORIAN JOHNSON AS A MEMBER OF THE TASK FORCE ON THE STUDY OF CITY OF BOSTON REPARATIONS EFFECTIVE
IMMEDIATELY NO. DOCKET 0855 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM NICHOLAS ARI ANELLO, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF THE APPOINTMENT OF CAROLYN, KNOWN
AS THE ASSISTANT ASSESSOR EFFECTIVE APRIL 10TH, 2026. DOCKET 0856 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE TRUSTEE OF THE BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD SEEKING AN
INDIVIDUAL TO FOLLOW THE VACANT OF FIVE MEMBER BOARD POSITION DUE TO THE VACANCY. THIS TERM SHALL EXPIRE ON JANUARY 15TH 2027.
DOCKET 0857 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM TIMOTHY SMITH, EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD REGARDING FY
20 2027 RETIREE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT BASED VOTE DOCKET 0858 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979.
WE GOT AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON JANUARY 28TH, 2026, DOCKET
0859 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979 REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY
COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 2026, DOCKET 0860 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES
OF 1979. WE GOT AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON FEBRUARY 25TH 2026, DOCKET
0861 NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979. WE GOT AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON MARCH 18TH, 2026, DOCKET 0862 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNSELOR FRIEND
REQUESTING A RESPONSE ON DOCKET 0220221 RELATING TO VHA ROUTE BERKELEY ELEVATOR'S DOCKET 0863 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM
COUNCILOR FLYNN. WE GOT ANY PUBLIC RECORD REQUESTS RELATED TO DRINK SPIKING IN BOSTON. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. DOCKET 085230863. >> WILL BE. PLACED ON FILE.
WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 02600760 THROUGH
0761 TOGETHER. DOCKET 0260 THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RESILIENCY AND POP TWO WHICH WAS REFERRED TO ON FEBRUARY 4TH
2026 DOCKET OR 260 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF SAMARA ARMANI AS A MEMBER OF THE BELGIAN EMISSION REDUCTION AND
DISCLOSURE ORDINANCE REVIEW BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING MAY 22ND, 2026. SUBMIT A REPORT RECOMMENDED THAT DISAPPOINTMENT OR TO BE TAKEN.
FROM DOCKET 0760. THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RESILIENCY UNPACKED THE WHICH WAS REFERRED TO ON APRIL 8TH, 2026.
DOCKET 07660 MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND APPROPRIATION ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF 806 $60,000 FOR THE
CEMETERY DIVISION OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND THE TRUST OFFICE OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO BE FUNDED FOR THE CEMETERY TRUST FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER CHAPTER
13 OF THE ACTS OF 1961. SUBMITTED REPORT RECOMMENDED ON THE ORDER OR TO PASS DOCKET 0761 THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
RESILIENCY UNPACKED TO WHICH WAS REFERRED TO ON APRIL 8TH, 2026 DOCKET 0761 MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
THE AMOUNT OF $375,000 IN THE FORM OF A GRANT RED SOX ARTS AND PARKS PROGRAM GRANT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON RED SOX TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE, SUBMIT A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE ORDER OR TO PASS. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE VALE, THE CHAIR OF UH, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
RESILIENCY AND PARKS. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL. JUSTICE RESILIENCY AND PARKS HAD A HEARING ON TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST AT 10:00 AM VIRTUALLY
DISCUSS DOCKETS 0260 WATER REVIEW BOARD, 0760 CEMETERY GRANT AND 0761 RED SOX GRANT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. TESTIMONY WAS PROVIDED BY SAMARRA.
I'M A NOMINEE TO THE BERTO REVIEW BOARD, TOM SULLIVAN, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CEMETERY DIVISION MARGARET DYSON, DIRECTOR TRUST FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
YEAH, UH, COLOGNE UH DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF AND STRATEGIC PLANNING AND FROM THE CITY COUNCIL WE HAD COUNSELORS FITZGERALD, LOUIJEUNE AND DURKAN IN ATTENDANCE FOR DOCKET NUMBER 0260.
THE DISCUSSION FOCUS ON THE NOMINATION OF SAMIR AHMADI TO THE BERTO REVIEW BOARD. MISS AHMADI, A BOSTON RESIDENT AND FOUNDING PRINCIPLE OF ENVY UH ENERGY STUDIO LLC BRINGS
OVER 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTING WITH A FOCUS ON SUPPORTING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS INCLUDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND MEETING BERTO COMPLIANCE AND ADVANCING
ENERGY EFFICIENCY. THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED HER EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS BROADER CHALLENGES RELATED TO DECARBONIZATION IMPLEMENTATION OF BROADER REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DOCKET NUMBER 0760, THE DISCUSSION SENT AROUND AN APPROPRIATION OF $860,000 FROM THE CEMETERY TRUST FUND TO THE CEMETERY DIVISION OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT. FUNDING WILL SUPPORT LONG TERM
BURIAL PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, LANDSCAPING, SIGNAGE, DIGITAL ACCESS OF RECORDS AND TREE CARE ACROSS MOUNT HOPE, FAIRVIEW AND EVERGREEN CEMETERIES. THE DIVISION CURRENTLY OVERSEES
19 CEMETERIES SPANNING 265 ACRES AND MANAGES APPROXIMATELY THREE 600 TO 800 BURIALS ANNUALLY FOR DOCKET NUMBER 0761 . THE DISCUSSION FOCUSED ON A
375,000 GRANT FROM THE BOSTON RED SOX, PART OF AN EIGHT YEAR AGREEMENT DESIGNATED FOR THE FENWAY NEIGHBORHOOD. THE FUNDING WILL BE USED TO MITIGATE IMPACTS FROM LARGE EVENTS AT FENWAY PARK, SUPPORT
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES THE DEPUTY CHIEF STATED THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WILL COLLABORATE WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS AND THE CITY COUNCIL TO IMPLEMENT A FINALIZED SPENDING PLAN. I CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESILIENCY AND PARKS.
I RECOMMEND THAT THESE MATTERS OUGHT TO PASS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CONSTABLE. WELL, UH, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESILIENCY AND PARKS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE REPORT
AND THE PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0260. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. UH. >> ALL OPPOSED. >> SAY NAY. THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 0260 HAS PASSED. THIS APPOINTMENT IS IS
CONFIRMED. UM. >> THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RESILIENCY AND PARKS SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE PASSAGE. >> OF DOCKET 0760. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY. THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 0760 HAS PASSED. THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,
RESILIENCY AND PARKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0761. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED. SAY NAY. THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 0761 HAS PASSED. MADAM CLERK, UH, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0569 AND
0758 TOGETHER? DOCKET 0569. THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT TO WHICH WAS
REFERRED TO ON MARCH 18TH, 2026 DOCKET 0569 MESSAGE ON OR APPROVING AN APPROPRIATION OF $32,600,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR
2026 COMMUNITIES PRESERVATION FUND REVENUES FOR COMMUNITY PRESERVATION PROJECT AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY OF BOSTON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, THE
UPCOMING PROJECT WOULD AIM TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS. PLAN INCLUDES RENOVATING PLAYGROUNDS AND ENHANCING AND CREATING RECREATIONAL SPACE
SUCH AS PARKS, COMMUNITY GARDENS AND URBAN FARMS. AN ADDITIONAL THESE PROJECT WOULD PLANT TREES TO GROW IN THE CITY TREE CANOPY PRESERVE
HISTORICAL BUILDING AND ARTIFACTS SUPPORT A PROGRAM AFFORDABLE FIRST TIME HOMEBUYERS AND CONSTRUCT NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS FOR RESIDENTS. TOGETHER THESE EFFORTS ARE
EXPECTED TO DELIVER A MEANINGFUL AND LASTING POSITIVE IMPACT ON CITY ON BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES. SUBMIT A REPORT THAT THE ORDER
OR TO PASS DOCKET 0758 THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT TO WHICH WAS REFERRED TO ON APRIL 8TH, 2026
DOCKET 0758 MESSAGE AN ORDER APPROVING AN APPROPRIATION ORDER IN THE AMOUNT IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000,763 AND
$63,090 FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION EXPENSE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027 AND IF AND AND
IF FOR THEM APPROPRIATION ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $39,587,798 FROM THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION FUND.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL REVENUES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2027 TO BE APPROPRIATED AND RESERVED FOR FURTHER APPROPRIATION. SUBMIT A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT ORDER OR TO PASS.
THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION. UH, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. LAST TUESDAY THE COMMITTEE ON
COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT HELD A HEARING TO DISCUSS THE PROJECTS THAT THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED ALL TO BE FUNDED FROM THE FY 26 APPROPRIATIONS AS WELL AS THE APPROVAL
OF FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027 FROM HISTORICAL PRESERVATION PROJECTS, NEW GREEN SPACES AND RENOVATIONS TO PARKS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND BENEFICIAL PIECES
OF LEGISLATION THAT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR BOSTONIANS, THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING FOR 42 PROJECTS, INCLUDING OVER $16
MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, OVER $8 MILLION FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION PROJECTS AND OVER $8 MILLION FOR OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION PROJECTS. AS FOR THE FUNDING INTO FY 27,
THE FUNDS ARE SPLIT INTO TWO APPROPRIATIONS BASED ON ESTIMATED REVENUES FOR THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION FUND. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL
$1,763,090 AND COVERING EMPLOYEE COST AND CONTRACTED SERVICES UNDER THE 5% MAXIMUM OF THE FUNDS TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUE ELIMINATE IMPOSED BY
LAW A SECOND APPROPRIATION TOTALING $39,587,798 REPRESENTS THE REST OF THE ESTIMATED REVENUES AND REPRESENTS FUTURE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FUTURE
RECOMMENDATION BY THE COMMUNITY BY THE PRESERVATION COMMITTEE WHICH WILL FUND THE FUTURE PROJECTS. MY AS CHAIR OF THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL IS THAT BOTH OF THESE
MATTERS ARE TO PASS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> UH, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0569. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE.
ALL OPPOSING. UH. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0569. ROLL CALL. VOTE ON DOCKET 0569,
COUNCILOR BREADON. YES ON SEPARATE ON YES CONCEPT. LET US ABOUT. >> YES COUNCIL. AT A SEPARATE COUNCILOR CULPEPER. COUNCIL CALLED. >> THE PLACE COUNCILOR DURKAN. I SAID OKAY YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. ONE SO. >> FITZGERALD AS. >> COUNCILOR FLYNN.
YES I'M SO FINE. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR MEJIA. COUNCILOR MEJIA YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCIL MURPHY AS CONCEPT PROPONENT. >> COUNCILOR. PREPAREDNESS COUNCILOR SANTANA
YES. CONSISTENT. AND I HAVE COUNCILOR WEBER AND SO WHEN I ASK COUNCIL WORRELL. COUNCIL ROLL YES TO VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU.
AND THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 0569 HAS PASSED. THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY PRESERVATION SEEKS UH SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE
OF DOCKET 0758. ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY I ALL OPPOSED. SAY NAY. THANK YOU MADAM. MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0758 ROLL.
>> CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0758 COUNCILOR BREADON. YES MR BREADON? YES, COUNCILOR CLARA'S ABOUT. I WANTED TO LET US THE PARISH COUNCIL CULPEPER. COUNCILOR.
DUNCAN. COUNCILOR. DUNCAN. YES, COUNCILOR. FITZGERALD. FITZGERALD. YES. COUNCILOR. FLYNN. COUNCIL. >> FRIEND LOUIJEUNE. COUNCILOR. MEJIA. THAT'S A MEJIA YES.
CONCERNING MURPHY. I SEE MURPHY AS COUNCIL WEAPON. YES. I AS COUNCILOR SANTANA. YES. CONSISTENTLY. YES. COUNCIL. WEBER. YES. COUNCIL WEBER. YES. CONSOLE AROUND.
YES, COUNCILOR. UH YES 12 VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. UH, THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 05850758 HAS PASSED.
MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0771. DOCKET 0771 THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION TO WHICH WAS
REFERRED TO ON APRIL 8TH, 2026 . DOCKET 0771 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED BY THE CITY CLERK FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR THE CITY COUNCIL ACTION
ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER ONE FOR 7.89 THE COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL BACK BAY IN EFFECT AFTER APRIL
30TH, 2026 IF NOT ACTED UPON, SUBMIT A REPORT RECOMMENDED THAT THE DESIGNATION OR. TO BE APPROVED. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION.
WELL, WE'VE. GOT ONE DAY TO APPROVE THIS LANDMARK SO I'M SO HAPPY WE'RE HERE TODAY. UM. >> LAST TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST I CHAIRED A HEARING IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THE COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL.
I WAS JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILORS FLYNN AND LOUIJEUNE. THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY FROM ELIZABETH CHEVAL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AT THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION. JENNIFER GOGLIA, THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN AT THE
BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION. THE PANELISTS HIGHLIGHTED THE HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COFFEE PLAZA HOTEL AS A PROMINENT NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTION SINCE IT OPENED IN 1912 THAT WE ALSO SPOKE TO THE CIVIC IMPORTANCE OF THE UM
RIVER BEING THE CORNERSTONE OF COPLEY SQUARE, WHICH HAS EMERGED AS A MAJOR CITY CENTER BY THE 1870S. ARCHITECTURALLY, THE BUILDING IS ALSO AN EXAMPLE OF ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE REVIVAL STYLE CHARACTERIZED BY ITS PALAZZO INSPIRED DESIGN, PALE BRICK AND LIMESTONE FACADE AND ITS DISTINCTIVE SWELL FRONTS AND FLANKING WINGS. THE PROPOSED LANDMARK DESIGNATION BOUNDARY
CORRESPONDS TO THE HOTEL CASTLE ,AND THE PANELIST NOTED THAT THE INTERIOR PROTECTIONS WERE CAREFULLY LIMITED TO PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES. THESE INTERIORS ARE NOTABLE FOR THEIR DECORATIVE FINISHES,
THEIR PAINTED MURALS AND ORNATE CEILINGS. THERE WERE OTHER AREAS IN THE HOTEL THAT HAD BEEN CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY, AND THOSE WERE NOT PART OF THE INTERNAL DESIGNATION FOR MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, THE ROOMS I VISITED WITHIN THIS BUILDING ARE AMONG
SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPACES WE HAVE IN BOSTON. I KNOW SOME MOST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS FAMOUS ESTABLISHMENT UM BECAUSE WE'VE ALL HAD MANY MEMORIES IN THE COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL. UM, IT'S IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
AND IT'S WORTHWHILE, UM, TO VISIT UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT PRESERVING THIS HISTORY, I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE BACK BAY YESTERDAY AND LOOKING UP AT, UM AT THE HOTEL. UM, I JUST REALIZED HOW
SIGNIFICANT WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE TODAY IS AND HOW IMPORTANT UM, AS WE'RE GOING INTO MAY, WHICH IS PRESERVATION MONTH, HOW IMPORTANT ALL THIS WORK IS AND AS WE'RE GOING INTO THE 50TH YEAR OF THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
UM, SO I WANT TO THANK UM THOSE THAT WORK ON PRESERVATION IN OUR CITY. I ALSO WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES WHO ATTENDED THE HEARING. UM, AS CHAIR OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, I RECOMMEND THIS THIS MATTER OUGHT TO BE APPROVED.
I DO WANT TO GIVE A CHANCE TO THE DISTRICT COUNSELOR TO TO SPEAK UM TO RIGHT TO THE HOTEL AS WELL. THANK YOU. UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR HOLDING THIS IMPORTANT HEARING. IT WAS AN INFORMATIVE HEARING. I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT THIS HOTEL IS KIND OF IN THE HEART
OF DISTRICT TWO AND AT THE OPPORTUNITY ON THE WAY BACK FROM THE BOSTON MARATHON THE OTHER DAY WITH WITH KRISTEN TO WALK THROUGH THE HOTEL AND LOVE GOING IN THERE.
BUT WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE HEARING IS IT GAVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK DIRECT QUESTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION TEAM THAT WAS THERE AND THEY
WERE VERY ENGAGING, VERY PROFESSIONAL, KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE UM KNEW EXACTLY ABOUT ALL OF THE ISSUES AND IT'S IT'S REALLY A REASON WHY IT'S WE'RE
HERE IS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT IMPACT THIS WOULD HAVE ON RESIDENTS, WHAT IMPACT IT WOULD HAVE ON THE HOTEL. UM, HOW DO WE IMPROVE ACCESS
FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES? UM, WHAT DOES DESIGNATING A LANDMARK ACTUALLY MEAN? SO IT WAS AN INFORMATIVE DISCUSSION AND WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKAN
FOR HOLDING THIS AND REALLY EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THIS HISTORIC HOTEL AND THE HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE IT'S HAD FOR SO MANY YEARS UM, IN THE CITY
OF BOSTON. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILOR FLYNN, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE REPORT AND APPROVAL OF DUNCAN'S 0771.
ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. MADAM CHAIR. COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0771. ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0771
COUNCILOR BRIGHTON. YES. COUNCIL BRIGHTON AS COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PARA. YES. THAT'S A LOT OF SUPPORT AS COUNCIL CULPEPER. YES. COUNCIL CULPEPER IS COUNCIL DURKAN. IT'S A DURKAN.
YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCIL FITZGERALD AS COUNCILOR FLYNN. YES. COUNCIL FINALLY AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR. MEDIA. COUNCIL MEDIA AS COUNCILMAN MURPHY.
COUNCILOR MURPHY. YES. COUNCIL ON COUNCIL. YES. COUNCILOR. SANTANA. COUNCILOR. SANTANA. YES. COUNCIL. WEBER. YES. ONCE A WEBER. YES. AND COST OVERALL. YEAH.
COUNCIL WHERE? I GUESS 12 VOTES IN THE FORMATIVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. UH, THE COMMITTEE REPORT UH, FOR DOCKET 0771 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
WE'RE ON TO NO ON TO MATTERS RECENTLY HEARD. MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0733 THROUGH 0757?
DOCKET 07332 ADOPTED 0735 ORDER FOR THE FY 27 OPERATING BUDGET INCLUDE AN ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR DEPARTMENTAL OPERATION FOR THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND FOR
OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. DOCKET 0736 THE DOCKET 0737 ORDER ORDERS FOR THE CAPITAL FUND TRANSFER APPROPRIATIONS
DOCKET 0738 TO DOCKET 0740. ORDER FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING LOAN ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS AND DOCKET
0757 MESSAGE AN ORDER APPROVING AN APPROPRIATION OF $3,600,000 FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FUND, ALSO KNOWN AS A PUBLIC, EDUCATIONAL
OR GOVERNMENTAL ACCESS AND CABLE RELATED FUND PURSUANT TO SECTION 53 F34 OF THE OF CHAPTER 44 OF THE GENERAL LAWS.
THE FUND MAY BE USED TO SUPPORT PEG ACCESS SERVICES TO MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE CABLE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT AND FOR THE PREPARATION OF RENEWAL OF FRANCHISE LICENSE.
THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER, THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS. DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH, LAST WEDNESDAY THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS BEGAN HEARING DIRECTLY FROM
DEPARTMENT HEADS AND CABINET CHIEFS ON THEIR PROPOSED BUDGETS FOR FY 27. I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, LAST WEEK WE HEAR FROM CHIEF SWETT AND DIRECTOR WASSERMAN
FROM THE ENVIRONMENT CABINET. DEPUTY CHIEF SUGARMAN BROUGHT IN FROM WORKER EMPOWERMENT AND MIKE FIRESTONE FROM CORPORATION COUNCILOR AS WELL AS DIRECTOR COSTELLO FROM THE OFFICE
OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING. UH, I'D LIKE TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN HEARINGS WE HELD UH, LAST WEEK. UM, I WOULD JUST NOTE THAT, UH, THE THE UH, OFFICE OF UH LABOR
,UH, COMPLIANCE AND WORKER PROTECTIONS WILL START, UH, GEARING UP TO ENFORCE THE HEAT UH, ILLNESS PREVENTION ORDINANCE THAT THIS BODY PASSED LAST YEAR AND WILL GO INTO
EFFECT THIS SUMMER TO PROTECT. WORKERS, UH, FROM THE HEAT. UH, AND THAT PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING WHILE THEIR BUDGET IS GOING DOWN, UH, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THEY ARE PLANNING
ON HAVING THE SAME AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO. FOLKS TO VOTE ON NEXT YEAR AS THIS YEAR IT'S ABOUT, YOU. >> KNOW, JUST OVER $2 MILLION. UM. >> UH, SAY SO. AND SO. FAR THIS WEEK, UH, THE COMMITTEE HAS HELD AN
ADDITIONAL THREE HEARINGS AND A PUBLIC TESTIMONY. SESSION ON DOCKET 073307 UH THREE FIVE AND.
07360737 AS WELL AS DOCKET 073820740. UH, ALL RELATED TO THE. UH PROPOSED FY 27 BUDGET. JUST SO THIS WEEK ON MONDAY WE HEAR FROM THE DEPARTMENT
OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ON THEIR PROPOSED BUDGET OF $57.5 MILLION, WHICH IS DOWN FROM. $58 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 26. UH, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL UH.
>> OR. GOVERNMENTAL UH UH FUND WHICH IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PEG ACCESS AND UH AND CABLE RELATED FUND. UM, THE UH DUE ITS BUDGET IS GOING DOWN BY.
ABOUT 1%. UH. >> AND WE HEARD HOW. UH, THEY ARE UH, FACING SOME CHALLENGES IN. HIRING, UH. FILLING THEIR VACANCIES, UH, FOR HIGH UH.
LEVEL POSITIONS. WHICH THEY FACE A LOT OF. COMPETITION FROM THE PRIVATE TECH INDUSTRY WHICH, UH, NO SURPRISE CAN. OFFER THEIR CANDIDATES A LITTLE MORE. COMPENSATION, UH, THAN THE CITY
. UM, CHIEF GARCIA SAID A SENIOR STAFF GAVE US SEVERAL UPDATES ON CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS DUE IT HAS MADE TO THE DIGITAL PLATFORMS THE SERVICES THE CITY OFFERS TO RESIDENTS AND CITY EMPLOYEES.
INCLUDING FOR THINGS LIKE. REPORTING ISSUES, UH, REQUESTING PERMITS AND ACCESSING DATA. WE HEARD HOW THE SWITCH TO THE BOSTON BASED RATIO PLATFORM, UH IS GOING TO HELP AND ABOUT
WORTH THAT TOO IT IS DOING TO MOVE MORE OF THEIR SERVICES IN-HOUSE TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND SECURITY. AND ALSO HELP THEM OPERATE ON A . >> TIGHTER BUDGET. IN FACT UH, THE THEIR THE AMOUNT OF THEIR BUDGET IS
DECREASING IS ALMOST ENTIRELY COMING FROM CONTRACTUAL SERVICES, UH, WHICH IS GOING FROM 9.6. >> MILLION. TO. 8.8. MILLION ON MONDAY. WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. >> OF HOUSING ON. >> THEIR PROPOSED UH, OPERATING
BUDGET OF 49.2 MILLION. CHIEF DILLON STATED UH THAT DESPITE HOW CHALLENGING IT HAS BEEN FOR HER DEPARTMENT WITH THE CURRENT FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION, THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 27 PRESERVES UH,
A VAST MAJORITY OF CITY FUNDING IN. ORDER FOR HER AND HER TEAM TO CONTINUE IMPORTANT HOUSING. COMMUNITY DEVELOPED WORK. UH, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, JOE. UH, WILL.
UH, WAS ALSO HERE UH, FROM THE BAR UH, TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IN REGARDS. TO FUNDING FOR PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. UM, MY COLLEAGUES AND I, UH, RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE
REMOVAL OF THE AFFORDABLE COMMERCIAL ASSISTANCE FUND AND CUTS TO SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS, MANY OF WHICH, UH. UH, WERE. BASED ON OUR. AMENDMENTS FROM LAST YEAR.
WE'RE LOOKING AT CUTS, UH, TO THE ACCESS TO COUNCIL UH, PILOT PROGRAM OF $450,000 UH, WHILE CITY HOUSING VOUCHER SUPPORT IS THERE, UH, THE AMOUNT THAT
WE'VE AMENDED OF $1.6 MILLION IS CUT BECAUSE THERE'S CUTS OF $300,000 FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP VOUCHERS AND. STAFFING. >> UH, AS WELL AS A CUT OF $50,000 TO THE TENANT STABILIZATION FUND. UH, IN ADDITION, THERE WAS A
$400,000. CUT FOR THE. GROW BOSTON INITIATIVE. AND AT THE HEARING WE HAD UH, CONSIDERABLE PUBLIC TESTIMONY ASKING THAT WE RESTORE FUNDING .
UH, FOR UH, YOU KNOW, UH. GROW BOSTON AND OUR COMMUNITY GARDENS ACROSS THE CITY. ON TUESDAY THE. COMMITTEE HEARD FROM UH. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CABINET. INCLUDING UH.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND THE DIRECTOR. >> OF BOSTON 311. UH, THEY PRESENTED A $5.9 MILLION BUDGET WHICH UH WHICH WILL SUPPORT. UH PROGRAMS UNDER THE COMMUNITY
,UH, AND UNDER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCLUDING THE OFFICE OF CIVIC ORGANIZING. AND SPARK BOSTON. AS WELL AS ALL THE. COMMUNITY LIAISONS THAT WE RELY ON. WE'RE TOLD THAT WHILE THE PERSONNEL SERVICES LINE ITEM IS
INCREASING BY ROUGHLY 200,000 TO COVER WAGE INCREASES, THEY ARE NOT ADDING POSITIONS. IN FACT, THEY ARE REMOVING A ONE LONG. TERM VACANCY THE CUT GRANTS. UH THEY AND WHILE THEY ARE CUTTING GRANTS NEXT YEAR FOR
THE SUMMER BLOCK. PARTY AND SPOOKY STREET UH INITIATIVES. UM. INSTEAD THEY'RE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH UH, PRIVATE. UH, FUNDERS FOR THOSE GRANTS. AND FOR A 27.
FINALLY LAST NIGHT WE HELD THE THIRD OF FOUR PUBLIC LISTENING SESSIONS. WE HAVE TESTIMONY FROM YOUNG PEOPLE, MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON PEOPLE'S RESPONSE CAMPAIGN ASKING FOR US TO FULLY FUND A
COMMUNITY BASED MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE PILOT FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA ASKING THAT WE WE UH, SORRY THAT WE PRIORITIZE PUBLIC RESTROOMS IN THE BUDGET.
AND ADVOCATES FOR FUNDING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR YOUTH JOBS PROGRAM. IN ATTENDANCE UH, LAST AND I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK. PEOPLE WHO SHOWED UP. WE HEARD UH, WE HAD COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCILOR,
COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR. PAPIN WAS THERE IN. THE CHAMBER AS WELL. UH, I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK, UM I THINK EVERYONE WHO. >> CAME AND TESTIFIED. WE DID RECEIVE ABSENCE LETTERS FROM COUNCILORS SANTANA. AND HERE THE.
FOURTH AND FINAL LISTENING SESSION WILL BE HELD ON MAY 26TH HERE IN THE CHAMBER AT 6 P.M.. AND WE'RE WORKING TO. SECURE INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN SPANISH, HAITIAN CREOLE AND CANTONESE.
UH, WHILE WE SHOULD OF COURSE BE ENGAGING OUR RESIDENTS OUTSIDE OUR CITY HALL IN OUR DISTRICTS AND ACROSS THE CITY. I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES TO ATTEND THESE LISTENING SESSIONS. IT'S A WAY. WE CAN.
ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH, UH. OUR RESIDENTS. THAT BEING SAID, AS THE CHAIR OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THESE DOCKETS. REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. UH, MADAM PRESIDENT, I SEE YOU
ALSO. UH, CALLED DOCKET. NUMBER ZERO FIVE. UM. >> 057, WHICH IS. UH. >> AN APPROPRIATION. >> OF $3.6 MILLION. TO, UH, FROM THE 21ST CENTURY FUND. I JUST I'D ASK THAT. THIS MATTER REMAIN IN COMMITTEE
. THAT'S IT. >> OKAY. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. DOCKET 0733 THROUGH 0757 WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. WE'RE NOW ON.
WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS. REMINDER THAT UNDER RULE 39 REMARKS ON NEW MATTERS NOT UP FOR A VOTE TODAY WILL BE LIMITED TO. THREE MINUTES FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR AND TWO MINUTES FOR THE
CO-SPONSORS. MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET. 0864 DOCKET 0864 COUNCILORS CLARISSA POTTER AND WEBER ALL FOR THE FOLLOWING AN ORDINANCE
INCREASE IN TENANT PROTECTION AND RENTAL INSPECTION CODE VIOLATIONS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A POWDER COUNCIL. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'M GOING TO SIT DOWN.
FOR I FOR. THE REMAINDER. OF THE COUNCIL MEETING. UM, I WANT TO SUSPEND RULE 12 AND AD COUNCILOR SANTANA. UH, THE ORIGINAL SPONSOR HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTIONS UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
SO OTHERS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, COLLEAGUES, AS WE KNOW, BOSTON IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A HOUSING, UH, CRISIS. RENTS ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY. VACANCY IS TIGHT. AND FOR NEARLY TWO THIRDS OF OUR RESIDENTS WHO RENT.
THAT REALITY HAS CREATED A REAL IMBALANCE OF POWER. WHAT THAT MEANS IN PRACTICE IS SIMPLE TOO MANY TENANTS ARE LIVING WITH UNSAFE CONDITIONS. SO THIS IS MOLD HEAT ISSUES, BROKEN SYSTEMS AND ARE AFRAID
TO SPEAK UP AND IF THEY DO SPEAK UP AND CALL 311 OR IF THEY ASK FOR REPAIRS AND ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS THEY COULD FACE RETALIATION, EVICTION OR DISPLACEMENT AND WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
SMALL ISSUES BECOME MAJOR ONES. FAMILIES ARE PUSHED OUT AND THE CITY ULTIMATELY PAYS THE COST THROUGH HOUSING INSTABILITY, PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS AND A STRAIN ON OUR SHELTER SYSTEM.
THIS ORDINANCE IS ABOUT INTERRUPTING THAT CYCLE AND AT ITS CORE THIS LEGISLATION DOES THREE THINGS. FIRST, IT STRENGTHENS ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. AND SO WE'RE UPDATING FEES AND
PENALTIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN MEANINGFULLY ADJUSTED SINCE 1984. SO REGISTRATION FEES INCREASED FROM $25 TO $75 AND ANNUAL RENEWALS FROM $15 TO 50.
INSPECTION FILING FEES INCREASED FROM $15 TO $150 AND CRITICALLY WE CHANGE THE PENALTY STRUCTURE FOR NONCOMPLIANCE FROM $300 PER MONTH TO $300 PER DAY AS
ALLOWABLE THROUGH STATE LAW BECAUSE MONTHLY PENALTIES SIMPLY DO NOT CREATE URGENCY OR DETERRENCE IN TODAY'S MARKET. SECOND, IT IMPROVES COORDINATION AND PROACTIVE
SUPPORT FOR TENANTS RIGHT NOW, TOO OFTEN A TENANT FILES A COMPLAINT WITH ISED AND THERE'S NO CONSISTENT SYSTEM TO CONNECT THAT TENANT TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING STABILITY OR OTHER SUPPORTS.
THIS CREATES A SHARED DATA SET BETWEEN ESD AND US, ENSURING THAT WHEN A UNIT HAS SERIOUS VIOLATIONS, WHEN A PROPERTY IS FLAGGED AS A PROBLEM PROPERTY
OR WHEN ENFORCEMENT ESCALATES, TENANTS ARE PROACTIVELY CONNECTED TO RESOURCES GUIDANCE IN CASE MANAGEMENT WITHIN DAYS NOT WEEKS. AND THIRD, IT STRENGTHENS PROTECTIONS AGAINST RETALIATION
AND CLARIFIES TENANTS RIGHTS. WE DEFINE RETALIATION AS MORE THAN MERELY UM MORE MERELY AND MORE CLEARLY IN CODE. EXCUSE ME WHETHER IT'S ILLEGAL LOCKOUTS, HARASSMENT, SUDDEN
RENT INCREASES OR INTERFERENCE WITH BASIC SERVICES AND WE ENSURE TENANTS HAVE A PATHWAY TO REPORT AND BE REFERRED TO THE APPROPRIATE PROTECTIONS. AND SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN
PRACTICE FOR OUR RESIDENTS? IT MEANS THAT A TENANT WHO CALLS ABOUT HEAT IN THE WINTER DOESN'T JUST GET AN INSPECTION. THEY GET CONNECTED TO SOMEBODY WHO CAN HELP THEM STAY HOUSED.
IT MEANS A LANDLORD WHO IGNORES VIOLATIONS FACES REAL CONSEQUENCES AND QUICKLY. IT MEANS BETTER DATA, BETTER COORDINATION AND A SYSTEM THAT ACTUALLY FOLLOWS THROUGH AND IT
MEANS WE ARE INVESTING IN THE BASICS SAFE HABITABLE HOUSING AND AT A TIME WHEN EVEN MINOR ISSUES CAN SPIRAL INTO DISPLACEMENT. THIS ORDINANCE IS PRACTICAL.
IT'S IMPLEMENT IT'S UH, EASY TO IMPLEMENT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU IN THE ADMINISTRATION TO MOVE THIS FORWARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR COLLETTE, AS A PART OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER. COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. OKAY.
I THINK I'M MORE NERVOUS WATCHING COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PILOT, UH. THAN JAYSON TATUM. UH. >> JUST SO. WATCHING YOUR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OPENING. UH, YOU KNOW, LABOR. STARTS BUT, UH, OKAY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FILING THIS. UH. >> COUNCILOR CARLOTA ZAPATA SHORTLY AFTER, UH, YOU KNOW, SWORN IN A CONSTITUENT, THOMAS PELKEY CAME TO MY OFFICE TO TALK ABOUT HIS STRUGGLES AS A RENTER. IN JAMAICA PLAIN. INCLUDING A DISPUTE WITH HIS
LANDLORD THAT STRETCHED INTO ITS FOURTH YEAR WITHOUT RESOLUTION. UH, HE BROUGHT A PROPOSAL FOR. A HOUSING. OVERSIGHT BODY THAT WOULD FILL. >> A. GAP BETWEEN CODE. ENFORCEMENT AND THE COURTS.
UH, HE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED, UH, THAT THIS BODY, UH, COULD BE FUNDED BY A REASONABLE, REASONABLE INCREASE IN ANTIQUATED RENTAL REGISTRATION FEES WHICH WERE SET IN 1983.
UH, THE CURRENT. ANNUAL REGISTRATION FEE FOR APARTMENTS IS $15. THAT, UH THAT, UH AND A FINE FOR A VIOLATION IS ALSO $15. THESE AMOUNTS.
AGAIN WERE SET. IN 1983 FOR CONTEXT IN 1983. FILMS LIKE WARGAMES. AND RISKY BUSINESS RULED THE BOX OFFICE AND THE AVERAGE. RENT FOR. >> A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT IN BOSTON. HOVERED AROUND $400.
THE AVERAGE RENT NOW IS, UH, CLOSER TO $3,400. LANDLORDS SHOULD BE PAYING A REASONABLE FEE AND THIS ORDINANCE RAISES UH, THE THE, UH, REGISTRATION AMOUNTS.
AND THE PENALTIES FOR FINES CONSERVATIVELY. TO ALLOW US. TO PROTECT, UH, TENANTS. UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THIS ORDINANCE UH, AS DRAFTED BUILDS ON, UH,
MR PELOSI'S PROPOSAL CREATES A SHARED DATA SET BETWEEN ISD AND OHSU TO ENSURE THAT WHEN A UNIT FAILS INSPECTION, THE CITY REACTS APPROPRIATELY, CREATES A NEW FUNDING AND THE PENALTY
MODEL THAT YET AGAIN REASONABLY INCREASES REGISTRATION FEES AND FINES FOR. NONCOMPLIANCE. >> AND IT CREATES A PROACTIVE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES OUTREACH WITHIN TEN DAYS OF A VIOLATION TO ENSURE TENANTS. UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS AND
HAVE A CLEAR PATH. >> TO RESOLUTION IN ADDITION. PROTECTS THEM FROM. RETALIATION WHEN THEY. STICK UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING ON THIS WITH ALL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL. SANTANA CONTRAST SANTANA YOU
HAVE THE SHAW. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND UM I WANT TO THANK UM COUNCILOR CLEANSER FATHER FOR UM YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS AND FOR FOR THIS FILING. UM, I RISE TODAY AS A PROUD
CO-SPONSOR OF THIS ORDINANCE TO STRENGTHEN TENANT PROTECTIONS DURING RENTAL INSPECTION QUOTA VIOLATIONS AT A TIME WHEN BOSTON'S HOUSING MARKET CONTINUES TO PUT IMMENSE PRESSURE ON WORKING FAMILIES.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT THAT THE BASIC RIGHT TO SAFE AND HABITABLE HOUSING IS NOT CONDITIONAL OR OUT OF REACH. TOO OFTEN TENANTS ARE FORCED INTO SILENCE, AFRAID THAT
REPORTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS COULD LEAD TO RETALIATION OR DISPLACEMENT. UM AND I THINK THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE. THIS ORDINANCE TAKES AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD. IT STRENGTHENS ENFORCEMENT, IMPROVES COORDINATION BETWEEN
DEPARTMENTS AND ENSURES THAT TENANTS ARE NOT NAVIGATING THESE CHALLENGES ALONE BY CREATING A MORE PROACTIVE SYSTEM ONE THAT CONNECTS RESIDENTS TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING INSTABILITY AND PROVIDES CLEAR PROTECTIONS
AGAINST RETALIATION. WE ARE SHIFTING FROM A REACTIVE APPROACH TO ONE CENTERED ON PREVENTION AND SUPPORT. UM THIS IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST CODE ENFORCEMENT.
IT'S ABOUT STABILITY. IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH AND IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT EVERY BOSTON RESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF INCOME OR BACKGROUND CAN LIVE WITH DIGNITY UM, IN THEIR HOME. I WON'T THINK AGAIN
COUNCILOR CARLOS ABOUT THAT AND COUNCILOR WEBER UM FOR INCLUDING ME IN THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO UM, CONVERSATIONS UM AND THE WORKING SESSIONS AHEAD . THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. UM, CONCERT TONIGHT AS IF I
KNOW YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHTS ON, SO I. I'M SORRY I NORMALLY DON'T DO THIS, BUT I TOTALLY FORGOT TO THANK, UM, THOMAS PELKEY FOR HIS WORK ON THIS AND THE STAFF OF MY OFFICE, UM, COUNCIL WEBER AND COUNCILOR SANTANA.
THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR TWO YEARS AND I JUST LOOK. >> FORWARD TO WORKING THROUGH THIS. >> SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY. >> THANK YOU. UM. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR DURKAN.
CULTURAL FITZGERALD. UH COUNCILOR MCCARTHY. UH COUNCILOR. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. >> COUNCILOR. >> UH WORRELL. >> AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR. THANK YOU. DOCKET 0864. BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET. 0865, DOCKET 0865 COUNCIL PEPEN OR FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR
HEARING TO EXPLORE THE USE OF PARKING STRUCTURES. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PEPEN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'M SURE THAT ALL MY COLLEAGUES WILL AGREE THAT PARKING IS AN
ISSUE MANY RESIDENTS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SQUARES AND MAIN STREETS. LOOKING INTO PARKING STRUCTURES, PARTICULARLY ON EXISTING MUNICIPAL LOTS CAN HELP US CHANGE OUR APPROACH TO
STORING CARS WHILE MAINTAINING ACCESS AND SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS BUILDING. THE IDEA OF BUILDING GARAGES OVER THESE LOTS BALANCES THE NEED FOR PARKING WITH THE GOAL OF CREATING MORE LIVABLE PEOPLE FACING STREETS AND
NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS IS A DISCUSSION THAT I'M VERY INTERESTED IN HAVING WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN. UM IT'S JUST IT'S UH FOR ME AND MY DISTRICT I HAVE THREE THREE MAIN STREET CORNERS.
YOU HAVE ROSSI SQUARE, CLEARY SQUARE, MATTAPAN SQUARE LUCKILY NOT THREE. THERE ARE MUNICIPAL LOTS AND IT'S A WAY FOR US TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN BE MORE CREATIVE TO ENSURE THAT IF IF IT'S BUILDING
A STRUCTURE ON TOP OF IT, IF IT'S TO BE MORE INTENTIONAL WITH HOW WE USE THOSE SPACES. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING AND UM I'M HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WANTED TO
BE A CO-SPONSOR BUT SHE'S I. THINK IF SHE'S NOT NOT HERE I. >> CAN'T OUT HER. OKAY. SO THANK YOU. CAN I CAN I ADD COUNCILOR MUTILATION AS A AS A SECOND? AS A SECOND? YES.
MADAM. IF WE HAVE SECOND COMMISSIONER . UM, NO. OKAY. >> OKAY.
THANK YOU. UM, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD. >> THEIR NAME? COUNCILORS. >> DURKAN. UH, COUNCILOR. CULPEPER. COUNCILOR. FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR. MEJIA. COUNCILOR. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. SANTANA.
COUNCILOR. WEBER. COUNCILOR. WILL REALM. AND PLEASE HAVE THE CHAIR. THANK YOU. DOCKET 0865. >> WILL BE. REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT.
MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 08660866 COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR THE FOLLOWING WATER FREIGHT HEARING TO DISCUSS THE CITY OF BOSTON PLANNING DEPARTMENT PERFORMANCE
ON 2026 ANNUAL REPORT. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNTRY. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES. UM, AND ADD COUNCILOR CLETA ZAPATA AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. CONTRACT LETTER. SUPPORT WAS ADDED AND SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS. UH COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IS ADDED AS A THIRD. THANK YOU.
AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE, THE MAYOR SIGNED AN ORDINANCE PASSED BY THIS BODY IN APRIL 2024 THAT TRANSFERRED MANY OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO THE NEWLY CREATED PLANNING DEPARTMENT. AS PART OF THAT ORDINANCE, WE
INCLUDED A PROVISION AND I SHOULD SAY WE BUT COUNCILOR CLOUD AS A PARTNER WHO WAS THE UM GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CHAIR UM, DID A GREAT JOB WITH THE ORDINANCE AND SOMETHING THAT THE CITY
COUNCIL ADDED WAS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD HOLD AN ANNUAL HEARING TO REVIEW THE REPORT AND EVALUATE THE DEPARTMENT'S PERFORMANCE. UM, THE DATE IN THE ORDINANCE IS MAY 31ST OF EACH YEAR. UM THIS REQUIREMENT WAS
INTENDED TO ENSURE THAT TRANSPARENCY AND OVERSIGHT DURING A PERIOD OF TRANSITION WOULD SUNSET AFTER FIVE YEARS. LAST YEAR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT DID PRODUCE AN ANNUAL REPORT. HOWEVER THEY HAVE NOT PRODUCED
ONE YET THIS YEAR. SO WE CREATED THIS HEARING ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HAVE A HEARING ONCE WE HAVE THE REPORT IN HAND. UM GIVEN THE TRANSITION IS STILL IN EARLY STAGES. UM, THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING
ORIGINALLY THAT THE HEARING REQUIREMENT WOULD BE WAIVED. BUT NOW WE ARE READY TO TALK AND I KNOW WE'RE ENTERING BUDGET SEASON AND THERE WILL BE A PLANNING DEPARTMENT UM BUDGET BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
THAT MY COLLEAGUES KNEW THAT WE WOULD HAVE THIS HEARING THAT IS REQUIRED UNDER THE ORDINANCE, UM, AND EVALUATING THE DEPARTMENT'S PERFORMANCE AND ADVANCING THE CITY'S GOALS FOR AFFORDABILITY, RESILIENCE, EQUITY AND ZONING AND PLANNING
ALONG WITH REVIEWING ITS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE FINANCIAL TRANSFER MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT IS AN OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS COUNCIL. WHILE SOME OF THIS REVIEW WILL OCCUR DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, I LOOK FORWARD TO A
MORE IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION AS PART OF THIS HEARING ORDER AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR JOINING ME IN THIS. UM, AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR MEJIA WHO ASKED TO BE A THIRD CO-SPONSOR. BUT UM, I ENDED UP GIVING IT TO
THE GUY WHO WORKED AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT FOR A DOZEN YEARS. SO, UM, GRATEFUL UM, THAT WE ARE, UH, HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AND, UM, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. THANK YOU. >> UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
COUNCIL AS A PARTNER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR. UM, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THIS COUNCIL DID IN PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER TO ADD IN
SOME OF THESE PROTECTIONS AND OVERSIGHT MECHANISMS BACK IN 2024. WE THERE WAS A LOT THAT WAS MISSING IN TERMS OF WHAT UM, AGAIN, WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY WE
WOULD HAVE WHEN WE WERE MOVING PLANNING TO UH THE CITY AS A CORE FUNCTION. SO JUST AS A REMINDER, IT REQUIRES THIS ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BPA THAT
DOESN'T JUST DESCRIBE ACTIVITY BUT IT EVALUATES PERFORMANCE. AND SO I KNOW THE WORD AUDIT HAS BEEN THROWN AROUND. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THAT UM, HOW WE ARE ACTUALLY ADVANCING AFFORDABILITY, HOW WE ARE EMBEDDING RESILIENCE INTO OUR
BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HOW WE ARE DELIVERING EQUITABLE OUTCOMES ACROSS NEIGHBORHOODS. SECOND, IT REQUIRES THIS COUNCIL TO HOLD AN ANNUAL HEARING AS COUNCILOR DEREK IN MEDICINE UH MENTIONED UM IT
ESTABLISHES A ROBUST FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENT. WE NOW WILL RECEIVE DETAILED REPORTING ON REVENUES AND EXPENSES, ASSETS AND GROUND LEASES, DEVELOPER MITIGATION FUNDS, VENDOR PAYMENTS,
SALARIES, YEAR TO DATE SPENDING AND ANY MAJOR BUDGET SHIFTS BOTH FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THE BDA. AND THEN FINALLY WE REQUIRE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AND PUBLIC REPORTING. AND SO I'M PROUD OF WHAT WE BUILT INTO THIS ORDINANCE. THIS IS WHAT THIS HEARING IS ABOUT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO A PRODUCTIVE HEARING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCIL FOR CHANGE.
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH, AND I WOULD LIKE. >> TO. THANK COUNCILOR. DURKAN FOR HAVING ME AS A THIRD GIVEN I'VE. SPENT BY MY FIRST AND HOPEFULLY LONGEST TENURE. IN ANY JOB UH. >> WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND UH.
IT IS THE ECONOMIC ENGINE OF NEW ENGLAND REALLY IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT WITH BOSTON BEING THE CAPITAL OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SPREADING IT FORTH FROM THERE. UH, SO IT'S VITAL THAT WE MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND HOW IT'S OPERATING BECAUSE ITS IMPACT
GOES WELL BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. AND SO, UH, IT IS BEHOOVES UPON US, UH, TO MAKE SURE IT'S RUNNING PROPERLY AND EFFICIENTLY. SO I'D LIKE AGAIN TO THANK CONSIDER GOING TO HAPPY TO BE A CO-SPONSOR. THANK YOU.
>> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR CULPEPPER? UM. COUNCILOR FLYNN, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. COUNCIL. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. COUNCILOR. SANTANA. HUNTER. WAGNER. COUNCIL OF REAL.
AND PLEASE, UH, THE CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> DOCKET 0866. >> WOULD BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING. ,DEVELOPMENT. >> AND TRANSPORTATION. MADAM CHAIR, COULD. >> YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET
08670867 COUNCILOR FLYNN OR FOR THE FALLEN ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS A MORATORIUM FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA CENTERS IN BOSTON. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN.
COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS A SECOND CO-SPONSOR AND AD
COUNCILOR CULPEPER AS A THIRD CO-SPONSOR? >> PLEASE CONSIDER MURPHY'S. ADDED AS A SECOND. UH, NO. >> NO. I'M SORRY. COME TO MEJIA. COME TO ME ONCE TO ME HE IS ADDED AS A SECOND. AND COUNCILOR. CULPEPER. >> HEARING AND SEEING NO. OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
IS ADDED AS. >> A THIRD. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. OVER THE LAST YEAR MUNICIPALITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE HEARD FROM CONSTITUENTS CONCERNED ABOUT
THE IMPACTS OF AI DATA CENTERS ON ELECTRICITY UTILITY BILLS, FRESHWATER CONSUMPTION, SUSTAINABILITY, CONTAMINATED SOIL NEWS, NOISE POLLUTION.
THE CITY OF BOSTON MUST EXERCISE TRANSPARENCY AND CAREFULLY CONSIDER IMPACTS ON EMPLOYMENT, COST OF LIVING, THE ENVIRONMENT. THE POWER AND WATER NEEDED TO DO THIS HAS TO COME FROM
SOMEWHERE. WE WANT TO LEAD ON TECHNOLOGY BUT IT CANNOT BE A RACE TO THE BOTTOM DURING A NATIONWIDE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS, RESIDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE
REPORTED UTILITY AND ELECTRIC BILLS BEING HIGHER THAN THEIR CAR PAYMENTS EVEN ON PAR WITH THEIR MORTGAGE AT TIMES. WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN A SITUATION WHERE UTILITY BILLS ARE GOING TO WHERE UP UTILITY
BILLS ARE GOING UP BECAUSE WE ARE SUBSIDIZING THE WEALTHIEST CORPORATIONS. DATA CENTERS ALSO REQUIRE COOLING SYSTEMS AND CONSUME SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF FRESH
WATER. CONSUMPTION FROM DATA CENTERS REACHED AN ESTIMATED 211 BILLION GALLONS IN 2023. DATA CENTERS ALSO GENERATE GENERATE NOISE POLLUTION FROM
COOLING SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT. NEARBY RESIDENTS REPORTING PERSISTENT HUMMING THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACTS THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. PUBLIC HEALTH. THIS MONTH A BYPASS.
BY PASSED BIPARTISAN BILL. PASSED THE MAINE LEGISLATURE TO IMPOSE AN 18 MONTH MORATORIUM ON NEW DATA CENTERS. OTHER CITIES ARE FOLLOWING. IN MARCH, THE CITY OF BOSTON
ANNOUNCED A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP WITH UMASS. BOSTON BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO IMPROVE. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ADDITIONALLY, THE CITY HAS INDICATED. INTEREST IN PARTNERING WITH.
SILICON VALLEY, REFERENCING THE . OVERLAP IN HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES. WHILE BOTH. MASSACHUSETTS AND BOSTON HAVE BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF AI DNA CENTER DEVELOPMENT DUE TO
COMPETITIVENESS IN THE INNOVATION ECONOMY. CONCERNS REGARDING. COMMUNITY IMPACT IN. ELECTRICITY COSTS REMAIN. WE'RE SEEING THAT IN LOWELL AT A DATA CENTER AS WELL.
IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS WITH THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL, WE DON'T HAVE A SAY OVER THE. MIRACLES OF MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS. THIS MAN LOCKE. >> OR THE PERILS IF IT GOES WRONG. >> LIKE. MISINFORMATION AND DANGERS TO DEMOCRACY.
HOWEVER, WE DECIDE WHAT IMPACT THESE. COMPANIES WILL HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITIES ON THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. ON PUBLIC HEALTH, ON PUBLIC SAFETY.
BOSTON DESERVES TRANSPARENCY, SET OF GROUND RULES AND SAFETY STANDARDS. WE DO HAVE A SAY IN WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR CITY. AND I. THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO
EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ESPECIALLY. BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE A LOT. >> OF. RESIDENTS DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW ABOUT DATA CENTERS AND MAYBE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EXPLAIN IT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA CASTRO. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN, UH, FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS CONVERSATION AT A MOMENT WHERE POLICIES ARE STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP WITH THE PACE AND SPEED AND SCALE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. WE'VE SEEN UM, THIS FIRSTHAND
WHERE INNOVATION MAKES MOVES QUICKLY AND PROTECTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES COME MUCH LATER. NOW WE'RE FACING THE SAME CHALLENGES WITH AI DATA CENTERS . UM, THESE ARE NOT NEUTRAL
DEVELOPMENTS. UH, THESE THEY BRING IMPACTS ON ELECTRICITY DEMAND ON WATER USAGE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
RESIDENTS ARE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT RISING UTILITY COSTS, ENVIRONMENTAL STRAIN AND CONSTANT NOISE AND WE NEED TO BALANCE AI EQUITY WITHOUT CREATING MORE HARM.
AND I THINK THAT THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION BECAUSE WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO, UM, IS UH, LOOK AT UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. AND SO WE'RE SEEING THIS PLAY OUT ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
IN MISSOURI OUR RESIDENTS VOTED OUT HALF OF THEIR CITY COUNCIL AFTER A DATA CENTER WAS APPROVED AGAINST PUBLIC WILL. IT IS A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT WHEN PEOPLE DON'T FEEL HEARD THEY
ORGANIZE AND RESPOND. UM AND THAT LEVEL OF BACKLASH TELLS US SOMETHING IMPORTANT. COMMUNITIES WANT TO BE A PART OF THESE DECISIONS, NOT AN AFTERTHOUGHT. THIS HEARING IS NOT ABOUT
STOPPING INNOVATION. IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS BEFORE DECISIONS ARE MADE THAT COULD HAVE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES ON OUR RESIDENTS.
IT'S ABOUT TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND MAKING SURE BOSTON'S GROWTH IS ALIGNED WITH OUR VALUES ESPECIALLY AROUND SUSTAINABILITY, AFFORDABILITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH.
WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO BE PROACTIVE AND NOT REACTIVE. UM, AND TO LEARN FROM WHAT'S HAPPENING ELSEWHERE AND ENSURE THAT ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TRULY REFLECTS THE NEEDS AND VOICES OF OUR COMMUNITIES.
I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING THIS HEARING AND I THANK COUNCIL FLYNN FOR ADDING ME. THANK YOU. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN.
FOR THIS HEARING ORDER. THERE ARE OTHER CONCERNS. AROUND THE COUNTRY. MADAM PRESIDENT FACED SIGNIFICANT SCRUTINY OVER THE EXTREME RESOURCE CONSUMPTION
SPECIFICALLY REGARDING IMMENSE ENERGY USAGE, HIGH WATER CONSUMPTION FOR COOLING WHICH CONSTRAINED LOCAL POWER GRIDS AND WATER SUPPLIES. MANY ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
INCLUDE CARBON EMISSIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL RELIANCE AND NOISE POLLUTION. OTHER KEY CONCERNS INCLUDE INCREASED ELECTRICITY RATES AND I'M BEGINNING TO WONDER WHEN
THOSE RATES WENT UP AND NO ONE KNEW WHY THOSE RATES WENT UP, WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE DATA SOME. AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S REALLY CONCERNING IS WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
WE KNOW THAT HERE. WE KNOW THAT USING A LOT OF ENERGY BUT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. WE DON'T KNOW THE IMPACT THAT THEY'RE HAVING ON US. I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK
COUNCIL ONCE AGAIN FOR RAISING THIS ISSUE IN A WAY THAT WE CAN ALL BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR ENVIRONMENT AROUND US AND WITH OUR ELECTRICITY AND DO A THANK YOU,
MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR. UH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. COUNCILOR. SANTANA. >> COUNCILOR. >> WEBER, COUNCILOR WORRELL. >> AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR.
DOCKET 0867 REFER. >> TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION. MADAM CHAIR, COULD. >> YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 08680868? COUNCILOR CULPEPER OR FOR THE
FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO EXPLORE ESTABLISHING A UNIVERSITY SMALL BUSINESS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
MADAM PRESIDENT, MY REQUEST DOCKET 0868 AND 0869 BE READ AT THE SAME TIME. CERTAINLY, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU ALSO. READ DOCKET 086980869
COUNCILOR CULPEPER OR FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ESTABLISHING A UNIVERSITY SMALL BUSINESS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
COUNCILOR CULPEPER. MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL MEMBER HERE AS A SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR TO BOTH DOCKETS. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO VOTE
ON PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0869. BUT SMALL BUSINESSES ARE THE BACKBONE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE CITY HAS MADE INVESTMENTS TO THE OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH AND LONG TERM
SUCCESS. AT THE SAME TIME, BOSTON IS UNIQUELY POSITIONED AS A HUB OF WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES WHERE BUSINESS STUDENTS ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN CONSULTING
PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE REAL WORLD SUPPORT TO BUSINESSES. HOWEVER, THESE OF THESE EFFORTS OFTEN OPERATE IN PARALLEL RATHER THAN IN COORDINATION. THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO
BETTER ALIGN THE CITY'S EXISTING RESOURCES WITH THE CAPACITY AND TALENT WITHIN OUR UNIVERSITIES. SMALL BUSINESSES, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN NEIGHBORHOOD
COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS AND IN SECTORS LIKE RETAIL, FOODSERVICE AND PERSONAL SERVICES CONTINUE TO NAVIGATE REAL CHALLENGES TIED TO A DIFFICULT ECONOMY, CHANGING
COMMUTER PATTERNS AND EVOLVING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY, CONSISTENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CAN MAKE A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE IN HELPING THESE BUSINESSES ADAPT
AND THRIVE. THIS IS A CHANCE TO BETTER CONNECT THE ASSETS WE ALREADY HAVE IN BOSTON AND ENSURE THAT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES ARE FULLY SUPPORTED WITH THE TOOLS, GAINS
AND EXPERTISE THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSERVATIVE MEDIA. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPPER FOR ADDING ME, UH, AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. BOSTON IS RESOURCE RICH. AND AS I ALWAYS SAY TOO OFTEN COORDINATION POOR. WE HAVE AN OFFICE OF SMALL
BUSINESS NEIGHBORHOODS BASED SUPPORT WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENTS READY TO PROVIDE CONSULTING BUT THESE EFFORTS ARE NOT FULLY ALIGNED. THIS HEARING IS ABOUT CLOSING THAT GAP. IT'S ABOUT BEING INTENTIONAL IN
HOW WE CONNECT WHAT ALREADY EXISTS. SO SMALL BUSINESSES ESPECIALLY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CORRIDORS CAN ACTUALLY ACCESS AND BENEFIT FROM THESE RESOURCES. AND AT THE SAME TIME AS WE
CONTINUE CONVERSATIONS AROUND. PILOT CONTRIBUTIONS, THE ROLE UNIVERSITIES PLAY IN OUR LOCAL ECONOMY, UM SHOULD BE A CONCRETE WAY FOR INSTITUTIONS TO DEEPEN THEIR IMPACT.
BUT IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY MEETING THEIR EXPECTED. PILOT CONTRIBUTIONS. UM, THERE ARE STILL MEANINGFUL WAYS TO SHOW UP BY DIRECTLY SUPPORTING THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT SUSTAIN OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND SINCE THESE WERE BOTH, UH, READ TOGETHER, I'LL JUST STATE IN REGARDS TO THE RESOLUTION. UM, THIS FEELS LIKE FOR US A REALLY NEXT STEP. THE PREVIOUS DOCKET HEARING,
UM, OPENS UP THE CONVERSATION IN THIS RESOLUTION AFFIRMS OUR COMMITMENT AROUND IT. UM, WE HEAR ALL THE. >> TIME. FROM SMALL BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT IS HARD TO NAVIGATE OR INCONSISTENT. THIS IS A WAY TO BE CLEARER
ABOUT WHAT THE CITY IS OFFERING AND WHO'S A PART OF DELIVERING IT. IT ALSO SPEAKS TO THE ROLE THAT UNIVERSITIES PLAY HERE IN BOSTON. THEY BENEFIT FROM BEING HERE AND THIS IS ONE WAY FOR US TO BE MORE DIRECTLY CONNECT FOR
THEM TO BE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND THEM, ESPECIALLY AS WE CONTINUE TO BROADEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT PILOT AND INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. SO THANK YOU. PEPPER EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL CULPEPPER FOR YOUR
LEADERSHIP. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? I'M SURE, UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCILOR MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN
CONTRA SANTANA CONTRA WEBER, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, COUNSELOR ORAL. >> AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR. UM. >> THAT'S FOR DOCKET 0868. UM, DOCKET 0868 WILL. >> BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT. UH, AND DOCKET 0869. UH, THIS IS THE RESOLUTION. UH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME TO THE RESOLUTION? UM.
YES. >> I JUST WANTED TO GET SOME. FLAHERTY AS TO THESE TWO DOCKETS. NO, I UNDERSTAND. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT, UM, WHERE THE COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT. THE COMMITTEE WENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT. BECAUSE IT'S A SMALL BUSINESS. I WAS JUST WONDERING IS. THAT INCLUDE SMALL BUSINESS? OH, I THOUGHT THERE WAS A SEPARATE COMMITTEE. >> NO. IT'S BEEN MERGED AND. >> OH, YOU GUYS. MERGED IT? YES. >> YEAH. LATE BREAKING NEWS. I MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN. UH. >> WELL, AS THE CHAIR OF.
>> THAT COMMITTEE. AND SO WE'LL GO ON TO THE RESOLUTION. 860869. >> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO EITHER NAMED THE RESOLUTION? UH. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR MURPHY.
COUNCILOR. PEPEN CONSCIOUS SANTANA. QUESTION OF WHETHER. CONSTABLE WARREN PLEASE OUT THE CHAIR. COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND COUNCILOR. MEJIA SUSPENSION. >> OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF. DOCKET 0869. ALL IN FAVOR. >> SAY AYE.
MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE. >> TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON. DOCKET 0869 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0869. ,COUNCILOR BRIGHTON. YES ON SEPARATE ENOUGH
COUNCIL COLOR AS A PARA COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YES. COUNCIL DURKAN. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. FITZGERALD. YES. COUNCILOR. FLYNN. YES.
COUNCIL FLEMING AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR MEJIA. YES. ON SOMETHING HERE? YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY. LISA MURPHY. YES. COUNCIL. PAPA. YES. YES. COUNCIL. SANTANA.
COUNCIL. SANTANA. YES. COUNCIL. WEBER. YES. THAT'S A WEAPON. YES, CONSOLE. YES. ONTO RAILROAD. YES. FROM 6789 TEN INTO. AFFIRMATIVE.
THANK YOU. >> DOCKET 0869 HAS BEEN ADOPTED . MADAM CLERK, COULD. >> YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0870 ? DOCKET 0870 COUNCILOR CULPEPER OH FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR
HERE AND TO EXAMINE THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING AND CUSTODY DEATH AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTION ON SYSTEMATIC FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO MORTALITY IN CUSTODY.
THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL MEMBER HERE IS THE SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND
REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AT COUNCIL AS WELL AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. CANCER MONEY IS. ADDED AS A SECOND AND HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTIONS COUNCIL WERE ALSO ADDED AS A THIRD.
THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. DEATHS IN CUSTODY RAISED SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS WITHIN
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 20 DEATHS ACROSS SUFFOLK COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES A CONCERNING PATTERN PATTERN THAT DEMANDS URGENT
CARE AND ATTENTION. THE DEATH OF SIR COVID KENNY IN DECEMBER 2025 FOLLOWING AN ALTERCATION WITH CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS RAISES SIGNIFICANT
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE USE OF FORCE STAFF CONDUCT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE, INADEQUACY OF EMERGENCY AND MEDICAL CARE THAT INMATES RECEIVE.
REPORTING AND LEGAL FILINGS HAVE HIGHLIGHTED CONCERNS RELATED TO UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS. ACCESS TO TIMELY AND APPROPRIATE MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND WHETHER
SYSTEMIC FAILURES MAY BE CONTRIBUTING TO PREVENTABLE DEATHS. PEOPLE IN CUSTODY, MADAM PRESIDENT, OUR PEOPLE AND CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM MUST BE
HELD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF CARE. DIGNITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS HEARING IS A STEP TOWARD UNDERSTANDING WHAT WENT WRONG AND HOW WE CAN PREVENT FUTURE
TRAGEDIES. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE COMES FROM HERE. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND UM, AS AN ORIGINAL. CO-SPONSOR, I WANT. >> TO THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPPER
FOR FILING THIS HEARING ORDER. THIS IS. >> ABOUT OVERSIGHT AND FLAHERTY . OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE IN-CUSTODY DEATHS ACROSS SUFFOLK COUNTY FACILITIES INCLUDING THE SUFFOLK COUNTY UM
HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS. THAT ALONE WARRANTS A CLOSER LOOK AT TRENDS, CONDITIONS AND SYSTEMS IN PLACE. THE DEATH OF JACOBY KENNEDY KENNY WAS. BROUGHT UM. >> HAS BROUGHT ADDITIONAL
ATTENTION TO QUESTIONS AROUND USE OF FORCE, EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE. THIS HEARING IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND BOTH INDIVIDUAL INCIDENTS AND BROADER PATTERNS. THAT INCLUDES.
LOOKING AT. >> POLICY, STAFFING, TRAINING AND HOW MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ARE DELIVERED WITHIN THE FACILITY. THE GOAL HERE IS TO GET A FULLER PICTURE, IDENTIFY WHERE THERE MAY BE GAPS AND
UNDERSTAND WHAT STEPS ARE BEING TAKEN TO ADDRESS THEM. I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS HEARING AND I LOOK FORWARD TO A PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION GROUNDED IN FACTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES
COUNCILOR WIRRAL COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH THANK. >> YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. >> I WANT TO THANK MY. CO-SPONSORS COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND ALSO COUNCIL MEET MEJIA ON THIS. UH, MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILIES OF COVID
KENNY AND FOLLOWING THIS INCIDENT AROUND AND I, UH, MET DIRECTLY WITH SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND WE ALSO PUT OUR CONCERNS IN WRITING. UH, WHAT WE SAID THEN, UM, I WANT TO REITERATE TODAY IS.
THERE NEEDS TO BE FULL TRANSPARENCY. UH, THAT MEANS FULL. DETAILS INCLUDING VIDEO FOOTAGE AND MAKING SURE THIS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE NOT JUST FOR THIS CASE BUT FOR ALL IN-CUSTODY DEATHS WE'VE SEEN IN
SUFFOLK COUNTY IN RECENT YEARS. I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ALSO WROTE STATEMENTS AND LETTERS. UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA AND ALSO SENATOR MIRANDA. UM, I BELIEVE COUNT MEJIA AS WELL.
UM, THE 20 DEATH IN OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS IS SOMETHING WE CANNOT OVERLOOK. CALLED FOR THEN AND CALL FOR NOW A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF USE OF FORCE PRACTICES AND FOR THE RELEASE RELEASE
OF COMPLAINTS AND DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS INVOLVING ALL STAFF. UH, AGAIN, ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS. AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT INCIDENTS LIKE THIS ARE TRAUMATIC FOR OUR COMMUNITY. FAMILIES ARE LEFT SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS AND COMMUNITIES ARE
LEFT QUESTIONING SYSTEMS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU COUNCILOR WORRELL. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO. >> UNDER NAME? I'M SURE DURKAN. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR. FLYNN HUDSON. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. HUNTER.
SANTANA COUNCILOR. WEBER AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR. UM. >> THANK YOU. >> DOCKET 0870. >> BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON. PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. MADAM CHAIR, COULD. >> YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0871?
DOCKET 0871. COUNCILOR CULPEPER OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION CALLING FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE IN-CUSTODY THAT OF COVID COUNTY AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE
OF CORRECTION. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. MADAM PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNCILMEMBER HERE AS A SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND
REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. COUNCILMEMBER HERE. SO ADD IT. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. ANY CORRECTIONAL STAFF DIRECTLY
INVOLVED IN THE DEATH OF COVID KENNY SHOULD BE PLACED ON A TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION FOR THE DURATION OF THE INVESTIGATION. THIS IS NOT A DETERMINATION
OF GUILT. IT IS A NECESSARY STEP TO PROTECT IN-CUSTODY WITNESSES FROM POTENTIAL RETALIATION OR INTIMIDATION, ENSURE THEIR SAFETY AND PRESERVE THE
INTEGRITY OF THE INVESTIGATION . THERE IS NO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CONFLICT WHEN PLACING CORRECTIONAL STAFF ON AN ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION DURING AN INVESTIGATION.
THIS IS AN ESTABLISHED AN APPROPRIATE TOOL DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. AT ITS CORE THIS IS ABOUT CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR A CREDIBLE AND THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IT IS ABOUT PROTECTING THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE IN THIS SITUATION AND ENSURING THAT WITNESSES ARE SAFEGUARDED AND FREE FROM
PRESSURE OR INTIMIDATION IS ESSENTIAL TO THEM COVERING THE FULL TRUTH AND DEMONSTRATING THAT ACCOUNTABILITY WILL BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME TO MEJIA. COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR CULPEPPER FOR ADDING ME YET AGAIN. UH, THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT
INTEGRITY OF THE PROCESS WHEN, UH, THERE IS DEATH IN CUSTODY, THE INVESTIGATION HAS TO, UM, NOT ONLY BE THOROUGH BUT CLEARLY INDEPENDENT. AND THAT'S WHAT BUILDING TRUST
UM IS ALL ABOUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT OUTCOMES IN THE CASE OF COVID KENNY, UM, AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS, THERE'S STILL AN OPEN QUESTIONS LOTS OF THEM
ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. THIS RESOLUTION IS FOCUSED ON HOW THOSE QUESTIONS ARE EXAMINED. CALLING FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR IS A WAY TO ENSURE
THAT, UM THE REVIEW IS CONDUCTED WITHOUT OVERLAP OR PERCEIVED CONFLICT AND THAT ALL ASPECTS INCLUDING STAFF ACTIONS, MEDICAL RESPONSE AND FACILITY POLICIES ARE LOOKED AT
WITH FULL TRANSPARENCY. THIS IS NOT ABOUT DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AHEAD OF TIME. IT IS ABOUT MAKING. SURE THAT THE PROCESS ITSELF IS CREDIBLE AND THAT THE FINDINGS ,WHATEVER THEY MAY BE, CAN STAND ON THEIR OWN.
I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE CLEAR INDEPENDENT REVIEW IS ESSENTIAL TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUBLIC TRUST . THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MAYHEW.
UM, COUNCILOR UH, CULPEPER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. WE ARE ACTUALLY READING 0872 WHEN WE SHOULD BE ON. 071 AS WELL. YES.
I THINK WE SHOULD BE ON 0871. I THINK THAT WAS A. >> PHEASANT WHEN I READ. THAT'S THE ONE SHE WROTE. NO I UNDERSTAND THAT. YEAH BUT WE READ 0872 EVEN
THOUGH SHE READ 0871. YOU FOLKS READ. WE DID WE DID. MADAM PRESIDENT, I'M CALLING YOUR ATTENTION TO MY MISTAKE. UM, THOSE APPARENTLY.
THEY'RE JOKES BUT. THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT. SO LET'S JUST FOCUS. >> DO YOU NEED TO. REPHRASE YOUR COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO SET? OH NO. >> I DON'T. MADAM PRESIDENT WELL I IN SOME
WAYS I DO BECAUSE 0871 IS CALLING FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. MHM. 0872 IT'S CALLING FOR THE STAFF TO BE SUSPENDED THAT WERE
INVOLVED IN THE ALTERCATION. SO THE CHAIR TRAINED 0871 YES. YOUR REMARKS PERTAINED TO A DIFFERENT DOCKET. YES. UM I. THINK UM.
03087 DO. >> YOU READ OR WE WAIT. I READ THE REMARKS REGARDING. JUMPING AHEAD. >> I JUMPED AHEAD OF MYSELF MOTION. TO LAY ON THE TABLE. YES. >> WELL WE. WILL WILL THEY? UH 0872 YES.
UM THE TABLE. IT'S JUST YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING THE OTHER WAY ROUND TWO WE'VE ALREADY READ. AND I. >> SAID HOLD ON.
JUST TAKE A BRIEF RECESS.
BACK IN SESSION AGAIN. I THINK. >> THIS THE SOLUTION, COUNSELOR CULPEPER IS FOR YOU, UM, TO UH, READ YOUR COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO DOCKET. 0871 AND WE WILL VOTE ON THAT AND.
>> THEN WE WILL PROCEED AND HAVE THE THIRD READ THE NEXT TOPIC. >> WITHOUT THE. REMARKS AND THEN WE'LL VOTE ON THAT ACCORDINGLY. YEAH. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. MADAM PRESIDENT I WOULD LIKE TO COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A SECOND
ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES THAT COUNCILOR FLYNN AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR, I'D LIKE TO REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO VOTE ON THE PASSAGE
OF THIS DOCKET. SO THIS IS TALK AT 0871. UH, YOU'VE ASKED TO HAVE CONTROL MEJIA. UH, AND COUNCILOR FLYNN. UM. >> COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
OH. YES. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I DO. WE'RE COMING UP ON SIX MONTHS SINCE THE TRAGIC IN-CUSTODY DEATH OF CHICOPEE KENNY AT THE
SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTION. AND THAT TIME THERE HAS BEEN NO PUBLICLY CONFIRMED CAUSE OF DEATH AND NO MEANINGFUL UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION.
THAT ABSENCE OF INFORMATION HAS ONLY DEEPENED CONCERN AND ERODED PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING MR KENNY'S DEATH INCLUDING REPORTS OF AN ALTERCATION WITH
CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS, RAISES URGENT CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF FORCE STAFF CONDUCT AND WHETHER THE CURRENT INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS CAN DELIVER ANSWERS THE PUBLIC CAN
TRUST. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR SHOULD BE APPOINTED TO CONDUCT A FULL, TRANSPARENT AND IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION OF WHAT HAPPENED ENSURING
ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION IS A NECESSARY STEP TOWARD UNCOVERING THE FULL TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED RESTORING PUBLIC TRUST AND PREVENTING 2
TO 2 TRAGEDIES. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. UM, CONSTABLE CULPEPER, YOU ASKED TO SUSPEND. >> THE RULES AND THAT CONTRA. FLYNN IS A THIRD. SO HEARING. >> AND SEEING NO.
OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR. FLYNN SO OTHER IS A THIRD COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND YES BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU THANK. >> YOU. MADAM CHAIR. AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
COUNCIL AT COLE. PEPPA FOR REVEREND COLE PEPPA FOR ADDING ME. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO REVEREND. CULPEPER AND COUNCIL. WE'RE ALL FOR. BRINGING THESE ISSUES FORWARD.
WHAT HAPPENS IN. >> THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS? WHAT HAPPENS AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL HAVE A. SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE CITY OF.
BOSTON ON THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CONTROVERSIAL . ISSUES. >> YES. >> BUT REVEREND COLE. PEPPER AND COUNCIL WERE ALL. UH, STANDING UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN AND.
ADVOCATING FOR JUSTICE. SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE REVEREND COLE PEPPER AND COUNCIL ROWE FOR. >> THE IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP THAT PLAYING ON THIS ISSUE AND UM, AND OTHER ISSUES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FIELD.
I ALSO SUPPORT A. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER AND REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU'RE IN JAIL OR REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU'RE. IN PRISON.
OR WHAT YOU DID OR DIDN'T DO OR YOUR. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND. YOU DESERVE TO BE IN A. SAFE ENVIRONMENT. YOU DESERVE TO BE.
TREATED WITH RESPECT AS WELL. I SPENT IN MY LIFE I SPENT. 13 MONTHS INSIDE A DETENTION FACILITY WHEN I WAS STATIONED AT THE JOINT TASK. FORCE GUANTANAMO. AND I UNDERSTAND.
>> HOW IMPORTANT. THESE ISSUES. ARE OF. ENSURING DETAINEES. UM, ARE TREATED ARE TREATED FAIRLY. UM SO UM. SO I'M HERE. >> TO SAY.
THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES. I WANT TO SEE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. I I DO WANT TO MAKE ONE. DISTINCTION BUT. >> I'M GOING TO MAKE THAT AT THE NEXT DOCKET BECAUSE MY TIME IS UP. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, I'VE NOTICED YOUR LIGHTS ON. DO YOU HAVE A, UM FOR THE. NEXT ONE? THE NEXT ONE? THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, WE'RE GOING TO GET. >> ALL OUR ALL OUR. DOCKETS IN THE. >> CORRECT ORDER HERE. UM. >> THIS IS DOCKET 0871.
UH, THE RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF. ESTABLISHING ON. UH, THE RESOLUTION CALLING. >> FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. INTO THE IN-CUSTODY DEATH OF COVID KENNY. UH, SO WE ARE CLEAR ON WHAT
WE'RE VOTING ON. WOULD ANYONE LIKE. >> TO ADD. >> THEIR NAME? CONSIDERED DEREK AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR PEPEN CONTRA SANTANA . CONSTABLE WEBER, CONSTABLE REALM.
AND PLEASE, UH, THE CHAIR. COUNCILORS COLE. PEPPER, MEJIA AND FLYNN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND. ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0871. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY. UH, OKAY. MADAM. MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE. >> A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET. 0871 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0871 COUNCIL. BREADON.
YES. IN TERMS OF PARA. COUNCIL PROUD PAPA. YES, PAPA. PRESS COUNCIL DURKAN YES I DO IT THEN YES. COUNCIL. FITZGERALD. YES. COUNCIL. FITZGERALD. YES. COUNCIL.
FLYNN. YES ON SOFTWARE COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE. COUNCILOR. MEJIA ON SOME. MEJIA. YES. COUNCIL. MURPHY. COUNCIL. MURPHY. YES. COUNCIL. PAPA. YES.
COUNCIL. SANTANA. COUNCIL. SANTANA. YES. COUNCIL. WEBER. YES. THAT'S A WEBER. YES. COUNCIL. RURAL. COUNCILOR WORRELL YES. MORNING TO.
6789 1011 UNDER AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. DOCKET 0871 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF
FIVE MINUTE RECESS.
GOOD 0872. COUNCILOR CULPEPER OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE TEMPORARY SUSPENSION SUSPENSION OF CORRECTIONAL STAFF INVOLVING 2ND DECEMBER
2025 IN CUSTODY OF COBY KELLY AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I WOULD LIKE TO ADD
COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND REQUEST SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. THANK YOU. UM, COUNCILOR MEJIA IS A WHAT
IT IS A SECOND. MADAM PRESIDENT, TO MY COLLEAGUES, ANY CORRECTIONAL OFFICER DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN
THE DEATH OF COVID KENNY SHOULD BE PLACED ON A TEMPORARY TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION FOR THE DURATION OF THE INVESTIGATION. THIS IS NOT A DETERMINATION
OF GUILT. IT IS A NECESSARY STEP TO PROTECT IN-CUSTODY WITNESSES. LET ME JUST SAY THAT AGAIN. THIS IS NOT A DETERMINATION OF GUILT.
IT IS A NECESSARY STEP TO PROTECT THE IN-CUSTODY WITNESSES FROM POTENTIAL RETALIATION OR INTIMIDATION TO
ENSURE THEIR SAFETY AND PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE INVESTIGATION. THERE IS NO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CONFLICT WHEN PLACING CORRECTIONAL STAFF ON AN ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION
DURING AN INVESTIGATION. THIS IS AN ESTABLISHED AND APPROPRIATE TWO DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. AT ITS CORE THIS IS ABOUT CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR A
CREDIBLE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IT IS ABOUT PROTECTING THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE IN THIS SITUATION. ENSURING THE WITNESSES ARE
SAFEGUARDED AND FREE FROM PEST PRESSURE OR INTIMIDATION IS ESSENTIAL TO UNCOVERING THE FULL TRUTH AND DEMONSTRATING THAT ACCOUNTABILITY WILL BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I RAISED THIS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HEARING OVER AND OVER THAT THE CURRENT INMATES, POTENTIAL WITNESSES,
EYEWITNESSES THAT SAW THIS ALTERCATION ARE NOW AFRAID TO COME FORWARD BECAUSE THESE OFFICERS CONTINUE TO BE ON DUTY EVERY DAY.
AND I THINK WHENEVER THERE'S A DEATH JUST LIKE WE DO WITH THE BOSTON POLICE OFFICER, THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY SUSPENDED PENDING THE INVESTIGATION. WE CANNOT HOLD DIFFERENT STANDARDS.
SO WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, THESE WITNESSES THESE WITNESSES DON'T EVEN WANT TO TESTIFY. THEY SEE THOSE SAME CORRECTION OFFICERS WALKING UP AND DOWN
EVERY DAY LOCKING THEM UP, UNLOCKING THEM AND THEY'RE AFRAID TO TESTIFY. SO I MOVE AND I ASK THIS BODY TO VOTE TO SUSPEND THESE
CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS PENDING THE INVESTIGATION. IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY, BUT AT LEAST IT WILL GIVE THE INMATES THAT ARE POTENTIAL WITNESSES THE FEELING THAT THEY'RE BEING
PROTECTED IN THE COURSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. >> UH, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER. I LOST TRACK OF THE, UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
YOU'RE THE SECOND, UH, SPONSOR. DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? SEE THESE ALL THESE LIGHTS LIGHTING UP. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I GET CUED UP. MADAM PRESIDENT AND I DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND. OKAY.
UM, SO I JUST WANT TO THANK MADAM PRESIDENT AND I AND COUNCILOR CULPEPPER. UM, AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY IN THIS MOMENT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
HOW, UH, SO MUCH TRUST, UM, HAS ERODED IN GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL . AND I THINK WHEN IT COMES TO RETALIATION AND INTIMIDATION, UM, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY
OF THIS PROCESS WHILE THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. IN THE CASE OF JACOB KENNY AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY HOUSE CORRECTION THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY HAVE WITNESSED OR HAVE INFORMATION
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND THEY REMAIN IN THE SETTINGS WHERE THEY ARE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE SAME INSTITUTION. SOMETIMES THAT'S HOW IT FEELS LIKE HERE ON THE COUNCIL.
THIS RESOLUTION SPEAKS TO THAT DYNAMIC PLACING STAFF UH DIRECTLY INVOLVED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE DURING THE INVESTIGATION IS A STANDARD STEP IN MANY CONTEXTS. IT IS NOT THE CONCLUSION OF OF
ABOUT WRONGDOING. IT'S A WAY TO ENSURE THAT WITNESSES CAN COME FORWARD. THAT INFORMATION CAN BE GATHERED WITHOUT PRESSURE AND THAT THE PROCESS IS ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH FLAHERTY.
IT ALSO HELPS MAINTAIN CONFIDENCE THAT THE INVESTIGATION IS BEING HANDLED IN A WAY THAT IS FAIR AND CREDIBLE. AND I THINK AND WHILE I KNOW,
UM, THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE JURISDICTION THIS IS A RESOLUTION. SO I JUST WANT TO MANAGE EVERYBODY'S EXPECTATIONS THAT THIS IS REALLY A RESOLUTION WHICH IS NON-BINDING. IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE
OUTCOME, BUT IT'S REALLY A DECLARATION ABOUT OUR VALUES AND WHAT WE BELIEVE. UM, AND ESPECIALLY IN THESE MOMENTS WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID. UM. >> TO SPEAK UP EVERYWHERE
INCLUDING HERE. THANK YOU. FROM HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THEN WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH CONTRADICTING. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND THANK YOU TO THANK YOU TO
REVEREND COLE PEPPER FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I'M TORN. UM, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU ON THIS BECAUSE I CERTAINLY
SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR TO THE DEATH LEADING UP TO THE DEATH. THE THE DEATH OF THE INMATE AND
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER? I THINK THERE SHOULD BE AS WE VOTED ON AN INVESTIGATION AND PROBABLY A FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION IN MY OPINION. BUT IT COMES BACK TO SHOULD THE PEOPLE BE SUSPENDED ON THAT WERE INVOLVED IN IT AND IN WHAT
HAPPENED UM IN THE DEATH OF COVID KENNY. AND I'M TORN ON THIS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS INVOLVED.
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY COMMUNICATION OR READ ANY COMMUNICATION FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS. I DON'T KNOW THE FACTS.
I DON'T KNOW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THE THE OFFICES THAT WERE OR WERE NOT INVOLVED. I DON'T WANT TO VOTE ON SOMETHING TO SUSPEND SOMEONE
THAT I HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT HAPPENED. I THINK I NEED TO DO MY DUE DILIGENCE IN FINDING OUT WHAT HAPPENED AND THAT WOULD BE
THROUGH AN INVESTIGATION. I JUST CAN'T SUPPORT SUSPENDING SOMEONE THAT I HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO I'M ASKING TO BE SUSPENDED.
IS IT ONE PERSON? IS IT FOR FOUR PEOPLE FOR OFFICES? I DON'T KNOW. UM, SO AGAIN I'M TORN ON THIS. TREMENDOUS RESPECT, AS YOU
KNOW, FOR REVEREND CULPEPER BECAUSE REALLY THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'RE BRINGING UP THESE ISSUES AND THESE ISSUES ARE IMPORTANT. I DO BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
THE WHAT I SHOULD BE VOTING IS VOTING PRESENT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ALL THE FACTS BUT I DON'T LIKE VOTING PRESENT. NEVER VOTED PRESENT IN EIGHT YEARS. UM I EITHER VOTE YES OR I VOTE
NO. BUT THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCIL. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. >> SO MUCH. UM, CHAIR AND, UM. SO.
WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT ISSUES OF EMPLOYMENT MANY TIMES ON THE COUNCIL SO AND I THINK AS A CITY COUNCILOR, UM, I OFTEN GO BACK TO THE CITY CHARTER TO
FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WITHIN OUR JURISDICTION, WHAT IS NOT WITHIN OUR JURISDICTION. AND SO 17 OF THE CITY CHARTER I'VE ACTUALLY READ THIS PROBABLY 3 OR 4 TIMES STANDING
UP HERE. I'VE READ 17 OF THE CITY CHARTER. UM, IT'S FROM THE ACTS OF 1951. NEITHER THE CITY COUNCIL NOR ANY MEMBER, COMMITTEE OFFICER
OR EMPLOYEE THEREOF SHALL DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ON BEHALF OF THE CITY TAKE PART IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOR NOR IN THE CONDUCT OF THE EXECUTIVE OR ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS OF THE
CITY OR COUNTY, NOR IN THE EMPLOYMENT OR REMOVAL OF ANY CITY OR COUNTY EMPLOYEE. I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME IN VOTING PRESENT TODAY. UM BECAUSE THIS IS OUTSIDE
OF OUR JURISDICTION AND NOT ONLY IS OUT IT'S IT'S WAS SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT THAT WE CANNOT BE INVOLVED IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOR IN THE TERMINATION UM, OF ANY CITY OR
COUNTY EMPLOYEE. 17 G OF THE CITY CHARTER. SO PLEASE JOIN ME IN VOTING PRESENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM. FIRST A TECHNICAL QUESTION, BUT I DO WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON WHAT COUNCILOR DURKAN JUST SAID. UM, ARE YOU CALLING FOR.
THIS LEAVE BECAUSE TEMPORARY SUSPENSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS. IS IT ONE EMPLOYEE THAT WE'RE AWARE OF AS EVERYONE WHO WAS WORKING THAT SHIFT AND WOULD HOW LONG IS THIS SUSPENSION WE'RE.
ASKING FOR AND. IS IT PAID? I COULD ASK THOSE QUESTIONS. PLEASE THROUGH THE CHAIR TO THE MAKER. UM, COUNCILOR UM, CULPEPER,
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CLARIFY THOSE QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU FOR THE INQUIRY. COUNCILOR MURPHY, IT WOULD BE TEMPORARY AS IS STATED IN THE
UH RESOLUTION. IT WOULD ALSO BE A PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE AND SO I CAN'T TELL YOU, UH, SPECIFICALLY WHO WAS INVOLVED.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING. THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TO DETERMINE. BUT I DO SAY THAT WHEN THERE IS A DEATH AND WE HAVE ONE IN THIS
CASE THAT OFFICERS WERE INVOLVED WITH THE ALTERCATION AND EVEN THOUGH MY BROTHER COUNCILOR FLYNN SAID HE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT, HE DOES
KNOW THERE'S A DEATH HE DOES KNOW THESE OFFICERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ALTERCATION AS A RESULT OF THAT DEATH. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO
SUSPEND THESE OFFICERS PENDING THE INVESTIGATION WITH PAY? UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER. I'D JUST LIKE TO CONTINUE. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY
THE SHERIFF HIMSELF HAS NOT SUSPENDED THEM ALREADY. AND IF THERE IS A REASON BECAUSE I DON'T SEE THEY MUST HAVE AND THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE INFORMATION WE DON'T HAVE.
SO THAT INFORMATION FOR ME WOULD BE HELPFUL TO WEIGH IN FEELING LIKE I HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY I THINK GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A AN ORDER FOR A HEARING
TO EXAMINE EXAMINE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE IN-CUSTODY DEATH THAT SUFFOLK COUNTY, I FEEL THAT WE'VE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK MORE IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS. UH, AND WHEN THIS HEARING COMES
BEFORE THE BOARD WHEN WE HAVE THIS HEARING. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR YOUR QUESTIONS. UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. OH. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
AND I WILL REITERATE FOR THE RECORD THAT THESE RESOLUTIONS ARE NON-BINDING. IT'S LITERALLY A VIBE CHECK. IT IS REALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
US TO STAND ON SOME VALUES THAT WE BELIEVE IT. AND SO THAT IS WHAT. THIS RESOLUTION IS. CALLING FOR. UM OR AT LEAST MY INTERPRETATION OF IT.
I MAY NOT HAVE THE CHAPTER OF 53,963 CHAPTER LAW IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I WILL JUST SAY THAT WHEN I UNDERSTAND THE RESOLUTIONS AS THEY ARE HERE
THEY ARE NON-BINDING. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING. IT IS REALLY A DEMONSTRATION OF OUR VALUES AND OUR BELIEFS
AND LITERALLY A VIBE CHECK Y'ALL. SO FOR THOSE WHO ARE TUNING IN ,WE'RE NOT GOING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE GOING TO SUSPEND THESE OFFICERS.
ALL WE'RE DOING IS STANDING ON VALUES THAT WE BELIEVE THAT IF FOLKS FEEL INTIMIDATED AND THEY ARE AFRAID, THEN WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO CREATE THE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT
IN WHICH PEOPLE FEEL SAFE TO BE ABLE. TO FULLY SPEAK AND IF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION WOULD ADD A LEVEL OF COMFORT THEN WE BELIEVE THAT
TO BE THE CASE. I DON'T THINK IS THAT DEEP? IT IS A BAD CHECK. LET'S JUST TAKE IT. I'M CALLING FOR A VOTE AND LET'S KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING. SO I'M CALLING FOR A VOTE. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER. UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA, BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME TO THIS RESOLUTION? COUNCILOR SANTANA, CONSTABLE
AROUND COUNCILOR PEPEN. THANK YOU FOR COMING. I'M ABOUT TO LEAVE A MOVE TO A VOTE. ON THE HAVE. OKAY. >> THANK YOU. COUNCILOR CULPEPER, WE'RE ABOUT
TO GO TO A VOTE BUT YES, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND I JUST WANTED TO RESPOND TO THE COMMENTS MADE BY, UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN REGARDING 17 G
. AND THERE'S A CASE IN POINT. THERE'S A CASE IN POINT, MADAM CHAIR, THAT DEALS WITH THE EXACT ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL COULD
PREVENT THE MAYOR FROM MAKING A DECISION WITH REGARD TO ACTION BY THE COUNCIL IN TERMS OF HIRING. AND LET ME JUST READ SOME OF THIS FOR YOU. PLANNING AT THE CITY OF BOSTON BY JAMES KELLY, CITY
COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THIS ACTION AGAINST THOMAS MENINO, HIS CAPACITY AS A MAYOR OF CITY ALLEGING THAT THE MAYOR HAS UNLAWFULLY INTERFERED WITH THE OPERATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH AND THEREBY
PREVENTED THE CITY COUNCIL FROM PERFORMING ITS LAWFUL FUNCTION ALL TO THE PEOPLE AT CITY OF BOSTON. THE CITY NOW MOVES FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION SEEKING TO RESTRAIN THE MAYOR FROM PREVENTING THE CITY
COUNCIL FROM ADDING A PAID ATTORNEY TO ITS STAFF AS CITY COUNCIL MAYOR MENINO OPPOSES THIS MOTION ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL FAILS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IT IS LIKELY
TO SUCCEED ON THE MAYOR OF THE CITY COUNCIL WILL SUFFER NO IRREPARABLE HARM AND I REALLY HOLD THAT OUT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL BY PASSING THIS RESOLUTION WILL SUFFER NO
IRREPARABLE HARM EVEN IF IT IS GRANTED AND THE RELIEF WHICH THE CITY COUNCIL SEEKS IS ADVERSE TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF JUSTICE. SO MADAM CHAIR, I POINT OUT TO YOU WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS RESOLUTION THERE'S NO
IRREPARABLE HARM. THAT'S WHAT THE CASES SAY. AND SO I WOULD ADD. GOT A HOLD ON A SECOND. CAN YOU FINISH YOUR COMMENTS BECAUSE ARE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE AND. >> I WOULD ASK THE COUNCIL TO
VOTE TO APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION . AS COUNCILOR MEJIA SAID IT'S NOT BINDING BUT I THINK WHAT IT DOES TO IS SPEAKS TO THE VALUES
WHEN THERE'S A DEATH INVOLVED MAY NOT BE THE BOSTON POLICE BUT THE SAME THING WOULD HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY WITH THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN THERE'S A POLICE OFFICER INVOLVED DEATH.
THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. UM, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO A VOTE AND CONSENT. UH. NO. >> NO. >> COUNCILOR DURKAN. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
THAT, UM, MY REMARKS WERE ACTUALLY ABOUT WHETHER WE WERE WEIGHING IN ON THE EMPLOYMENT OR TERMINATION OF A CITY OR COUNTY EMPLOYEE WHICH, UM, IT'S 17 G OF THE CITY CHARTER SAYS
WE CANNOT DO THAT AND THERE'S ACTUALLY CONSEQUENCES IN THE CITY CHARTER FOR WEIGHING IN ON THAT. SO UM SO I WILL BE VOTING PRESENT AND FOR THOSE OF US THAT FOLLOW THE CITY CHARTER I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU DO THE
SAME. THANK YOU. UM, WE'RE WE'RE NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO A VOTE UM, ON DOCKET UH, COUNCILORS.
ALTHOUGH THIS TYPE MAKING NO NO. NO CONCERN ME WE'VE YOU ASKED TO MOVE TO A VOTE WE'RE MOVING. NO NO. WE'RE MOVING TO A VOTE.
COUNCILORS CULPEPER AND MAYOR SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0872. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. UH OH. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0872 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0872. COUNCILOR BURTON PRESENT. I'M AFRAID I'M PRESENT. COUNCILOR TO. >> LET US ABOUT. >> A. COUNCILOR CULPEPER. YES. >> YES.
>> COUNCILOR DURKAN. ,ONCE I DO, I CAN PRESENT. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. ON SUCH. UH, NO. COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCIL FLYNN NO. COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
COUNCILOR MEJIA YEAH. ON TO MEJIA. YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY. THAT'S A MURPHY. NO. COUNCIL. >> PEPEN. >> YES. >> YES. >> COUNCILOR SANTANA. YES. FRANCIS SANTANA. YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. THAT'S A WEBER. YES.
COUNCIL AROUND? YES. >> ON SEVERAL. YES 123456 VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE. I DIDN'T. PASS THIS.
UH, DOCKETS IS. IT THE WORK? SO YOU. >> WANT ME TO READ WHO VOTED? >> YES. OKAY. SO I.
HAVE UM 123456. >> IN THE FORMATIVE. 1 TO 3. >> NO AND TWO PRESENT. DOCKET DOCKETS 0872 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. AND I'M PRESIDENT.
IT'S NOT. OH THANK YOU PROBLEMS AT SEVEN. YEAH IT HAS BEEN DONE. 606 BEG YOUR PARDON. DOCKET 0872 HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
READ DOCKET 0873. DOCKET 0873 COUNCILOR MURPHY OH FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F REGARDING ALL GRANTS, PROGRAMS,
CONTRACTS. AND FUNDING. PROVIDED TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND EXTERNAL PARTNERS AND FISCAL YEAR 2026
AND FISCAL YEAR 2027 INCLUDING ALL REDUCTION, ELIMINATIONS AND CHANGES IN FUNDS. THANK YOU. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES FROM MURPHY. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU.
SO I FILED THIS. HEARING UM. THIS 17 F TWO WEEKS AGO IT WAS BLOCKED. IT WAS NOT UM VOTED ON PRESENT BUT BLOCKED SO WE COULDN'T BRING IT UP.
BUT I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU AFTER MADAM PRESIDENT THAT YOU WOULD WORK ON GETTING THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DIDN'T AGREE IT SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE TO A VOTE OR PASSED KNOWING THAT WE HAD TO WAIT TWO MORE WEEKS.
BUT I DO JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS 17 F THAT I FILED WAS ORIGINALLY FILED BACK ON MARCH 18TH. AND SO EVEN THOUGH THE CITY CHARTER CLEARLY STATES THAT THE
ADMINISTRATION HAS SEVEN DAYS TO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS, IT HAS NOW BEEN 42 DAYS AND STILL HAS NO ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. THESE QUESTIONS WHICH ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE.
A FEW. QUESTIONS ALL OF THEM ARE VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD AND WE SHOULD BE GETTING ANSWERS FOR THEM. SO NOW WE'RE 40 DAYS OUT ON A 17 OUT. SO I'M HOPING THAT WE GET THESE
ANSWERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNTRY MURPHY SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0873. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. ALL RIGHT.
UH, ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. COUNCILOR DURKAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M PREFERRED TO VOTE YES ON THE 17 F AS I DO WITH ALL BUT ONE IN MY WHOLE TIME ON THE
CITY COUNCIL. UM, BUT I DO THINK IT UNDERMINES THE POWER OF 17 F WHEN WE CONTINUE TO VOTE ON THE SAME 17 F INFORMATION OVER AND OVER AGAIN BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY
STATE LAW SAYS THAT THEY HAVE TO RESPOND TO OUR 17 F REQUESTS . SO BY CONTINUING TO FILE THE SAME 17 FS YOU'RE BASICALLY ESSENTIALLY MAKING 17 F UM
YOU'RE YOU'RE ASSUMING THAT THEIR RESPONSE IS OPTIONAL WHICH THE RESPONSE IS NOT OPTIONAL. SO THAT'S JUST MY TAKE. UM AND YEAH PREPARE TO VOTE. YES. THANK YOU I I AM IN ERROR.
WE SHOULD JUST MOVE STRAIGHT TO A VOTE ON THIS ONE. >> BUT I JUST. WANT TO FOLLOW UP EVEN OUT OF RESPECT. FOR THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID SHE WOULD WORK ON IT AND I KNOW I'VE SPOKEN WITH OTHERS AND WE COULD SUSPEND ALL OF THE
BUSINESS BEFORE THE MEETING FOR IF YOU LOOK AT THE GREEN SHEETS. I THINK THERE'S 11. MAYBE ONE WAS INTO TEN OUTSTANDING 17 FS WHICH ARE LATE. SO I AGREE AND I SAY THIS EVERY TIME WE SHOULD WORK
COLLECTIVELY TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET ANSWERS ON THESE QUESTIONS. SO NEXT TIME MAYBE THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO. BUT OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENT I DID WHAT SHE ASKED. THANK YOU TO UH, CONSUMER
REPORTS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0873. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE I THANK YOU. DOCKET 0873 HAS PASSED. MADAM CHAIR, CAN YOU PLEASE
READ DOCKET 0874. DOCKET 087 FOR COUNCILOR MURPHY AND FLYNN OR FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F
REGARDING THE CITY OF BOSTON EFFORTS TO ADDRESS DRINK SPIKING AND DRUG FACILITATED SEX ASSAULT AND I IN NIGHTLIFE ESTABLISHMENTS INCLUDING SAFETY
TRAINING PROGRAMS, PREVENTION INITIATIVES, COMMUNICATIONS WITH LICENSED VENUES AND RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE CITY RELATED TO THESE EFFORTS. THANK YOU. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY.
UM THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'LL BE BRIEF. THIS AGAIN WAS FILED UM SEVERAL WEEKS AGO STILL WAITING FOR ANSWERS. THIS ALONG WITH GRANTS HAVE BEEN ALSO ASKED THROUGH. HEARINGS THAT.
>> WE'VE HAD THROUGH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. SO OUR OFFICES ARE STILL OUTSTANDING AND HOPING THAT WE DO GET THESE ANSWERS. QUICKLY AND THAT THEY ACTUALLY
ARE THOROUGHLY ANSWERED SO WE CAN USE THEM TO GO FORWARD DURING THE BUDGET SEASON. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU COACH MURPHY COMES FROM THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY FLYNN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. . >> THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR I ALSO WANT TO GET THIS INFORMATION I
HAVE MANY RESTAURANTS AND BARS IN MY DISTRICT. I WANT TO PROVIDE THE SAFEST ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERY PERSON THAT GOES IN THERE. UM, SPIKING DRINKS IS A
CRITICAL PROBLEM. I'VE TALKED TO TWO SURVIVORS OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS OVER ZOOM ABOUT BOSTON'S INACTION, BOSTON'S INACTION ON THIS ISSUE
. TWO SURVIVORS SAID TO ME AND WHEN ARE WE GOING TO UH WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START DOING THE TRAINING ON PROVIDING THE
TRAINING TO THE RESTAURANTS AND BARS, UM, ON THIS ISSUE AND WASTE WE DO NEED TO PROVIDE THAT TRAINING ON HOW PEOPLE CAN
PREVENT SPIKE DRINKING OR AT LEAST REDUCE IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS. HOW MUCH TRAINING HAS ACTUALLY TAKEN PLACE OVER THE LAST I
DON'T KNOW, FOUR YEARS? RESTAURANTS AND BARS AND BOSTON RESIDENTS ARE ASKING US THESE QUESTIONS. SURVIVORS ARE ASKING US THESE
QUESTIONS AND THEY DON'T WANT US TO STONEWALL THEM. THEY WANT US TO BE PROACTIVE TO PREVENT TO PREVENT ANY TYPE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT IS
TAKING PLACE TO REPORT IT. A LOT OF THESE CRIMES GO UNREPORTED. A LOT OF THE REASON OR SOME OF THE REASON I SHOULD SAY IS SURVIVORS DON'T HAVE FAITH IN
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BUT US NOT PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC IS NOT HELPFUL TO SURVIVORS. THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING ABOUT DRINK SPIKING IN
BOSTON. THEY DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING. THEY WANT TO LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
THIS IS A 17 F AND WE DON'T USUALLY HAVE COMMENTS APART FROM THE TWO LEAD SPONSORS. SO, UH, WE WILL. IT'S CUSTOMARY.
IT'S CUSTOMARY. TO PLAY A BLOCK. I'M GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF RECESS.
HOLD ON.
I'D LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES. UM, COUNCILOR CLAIRE, THIS PAPER WAS THE LEAD SPONSOR OF A HEARING THAT WAS HELD TWO WHICH IT WE'VE DONE A LOT WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THIS SPACE.
UM, AND I THINK YOUR INSIGHTS WOULD BE VALUABLE IN THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE. SO I. KNOW YOU'RE A COUNSELOR COLORED AS A FATHER WAS AN. ERROR. >> NO.
JUST JUST HOLD ON. I'M GOING TO LET COUNSELOR COLOR THERE'S A PART TO START AND THEN I'M GOING TO GO MR DURKAN AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
UM, I JUST UH SO THIS IS THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT AS EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR QUITE A LONG TIME. UM, AND NO ONE DISAGREES THAT DRINK SPIKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ARE SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES.
BUT HERE'S THE REALITY I THINK THAT TRYING TO JUST GATHER INFORMATION ALONE TO THE 17 F DOES NOT ULTIMATELY KEEP PEOPLE SAFE. THIS IS JUST ONE COMPONENT OF THE WORK AHEAD. UH, WHAT KEEPS PEOPLE SAFE ARE
SUSTAINED, IMPLEMENTED POLICY WORK THAT SUPPORTS SURVIVORS AND A WILLINGNESS TO DO THE HARD. WORK OF PREVENTION. AND SO AS A VICTIM MYSELF, MY OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH THOSE MOST IMPACTED INCLUDING SURVIVORS DEMANDING TANGIBLE CHANGE IN ACTION. WE'VE HELD HEARINGS. WE'VE PARTNERED WITH ADVOCATES IN SEXUAL SURVIVORS, THE BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER WE'VE HELD COUNTLESS MEETINGS WITH
THE SEXUAL ASSAULT UNIT TO CHANGE WHOLE REPORTING SYSTEMS, WORKING WITH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGE POLICE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION. YOU WERE AT THE HEARING? UH, THEY DID TALK ABOUT THE
TRAINING THAT HAPPENED AND UH, THERE HAS BEEN TRAINING THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE. I DON'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND UM, UH WHY THERE'S AN OVERSIGHT OF THAT WHEN YOU CAN CLEARLY GO
BACK TO THE VIDEO AND LOOK AT IT. AND SO THIS ISSUE IS BEING FRAMED AROUND URGENCY, BUT IT COMES AFTER YEARS WHERE THERE WAS LITTLE ENGAGEMENT IN THE ACTUAL POLICY WORK OR THE ADVOCACY NEEDED TO MOVE THIS
FORWARD. AND SO MY MESSAGE TO ANYBODY LISTENING WHO IS A SURVIVOR OR AN ADVOCATE IS TO DEMAND EFFECTIVENESS AND TO DEMAND ACTUAL RESULTS.
IF MY COLLEAGUES WANT TO ENGAGE MEANINGFULLY ON THIS ISSUE, I WELCOME THAT PARTNERSHIP BUT GET INVOLVED IN THE WORK WE OWE IT TO SURVIVORS TO FOCUS ON OUTCOMES AND NOT OPTICS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL DURKAN YOU GOT TWO MINUTES AND THEN I WILL COME BACK TO COUNCIL FLYNN AND THEN WE'LL GO TO A VOTE. SO LAST WEEK WHEN THIS WAS LATE
FILED UM I FELT LIKE THIS WAS ACTUALLY LATE FILED BECAUSE I AM A SURVIVOR AND BECAUSE MY COLLEAGUES DIDN'T THINK I WOULD BLOCK SOMETHING ON SOMETHING THAT HAD BEEN SO PERSONAL TO ME.
SO I FEEL LIKE IT WAS WEAPONIZED TO WEAPONIZED A LATE FILE FOUR WEEKS AFTER A HEARING ABOUT DRINK SPIKING WHEN I AM A SURVIVOR OF DRINK SPIKING UM,
IT'S UH I THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE BY THE CITY IS INCREDIBLE. THE WORK THAT WAS DONE BEFORE I WAS A COUNCILOR BY COUNCILOR CLAUDE ZAPATA HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE. UM, I FEEL SEEN BY HER
LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE AND FOR ME, UM, I DON'T BELIEVE IN LAY FILES. I DON'T THINK THAT THEY THERE SHOULD BE LATE FILES. UM, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD USE OPEN MEETING LAW AND APPLY OPEN
MEETING LAW TO EVERY SINGLE MEETING AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DELIVERING FOR CONSTITUENTS AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S TRANSPARENCY IN THIS BODY. AND SO THE FACT THAT I WAS PUT
IN THE POSITION FOR WEEKS AFTER A HEARING, UM, TO BLOCK SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUSLY IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I FELT LIKE MY COLLEAGUES WANTED THAT TO HAPPEN THAT WAS VERY UPSETTING TO ME.
AND SO I JUST NEED TO CALL THAT INTO THIS CONVERSATION AND I CARE A LOT ABOUT THIS ISSUE. I'VE EXPERIENCED IT. I'VE SPOKEN WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I'VE WORKED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COUNCILOR CLAUDE ZAPATA.
UM, THIS WORK COULDN'T BE MORE IMPORTANT. UM, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LATE FILING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, NOT FOR, YOU KNOW, NOT TAKING YOU NOT EVEN FILING SOMETHING 40 HOURS BEFORE OUR
REGULAR DEADLINE. SO I'LL BE VOTING IN SUPPORT OF THIS TODAY. BUT, UM, THE PERFORMATIVE NESS NEEDS TO STOP. TOUCHING DURKAN. COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND THEN I'M GOING TO VOTE. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
WHAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. WE NEED TO PROVIDE A SAFER ENVIRONMENT IN RESTAURANTS AND BARS.
WE NEED TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN RESTAURANT MANAGERS, PERSONNEL BARTENDERS. WE ALSO NEED TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND THAT'S SOMETHING I'M COMMITTED TO
CONTINUING TO DO AS AS A CITY COUNCIL THAT REPRESENTS A LARGE AREA WITH MANY OF THESE RESTAURANTS AND BARS. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR EIGHT YEARS. I'M ALSO TRYING TO PROVIDE A
SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE COMING OUT OF RESTAURANTS AND BARS THAT ARE USING UBER AND LYFT. UM, I THINK THAT'S ALSO PART
OF THE SOLUTION IS HOLDING UBER AND LYFT ACCOUNTABLE OR RIDESHARE AS I SHOULD SAY. UM THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN. THANK YOU.
I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF EMOTION AROUND THIS ISSUE. IT'S AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT ISSUE. I WANT TO CALL OUT MY COLLEAGUES COUNCIL COLLETTE AS A PARTNER FOR HER LEADERSHIP IN THIS. SHE'S BEEN. LEADING ON THIS IN THIS ISSUE
FOR YEARS. UM I ALSO WANT TO RESPECT MY COLLEAGUE'S UH, RIGHT TO ASKED FOR A FILE A 17 F AND ASK FOR INFORMATION THAT THEY FEEL
IMPORTANT. SO I KNOW WE ALL AGREE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE AND I REALLY WANT US TO GET PAST THIS INFIGHTING AND TRY AND WORK COLLABORATIVELY. IT TAKES ALL OF US TO WORK
TOGETHER TO HELP SOLVE AND ADVANCE THIS THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. SO AT THIS MOMENT I'M GOING TO ASK COUNCILORS MURPHY AND FLYNN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES
AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0874. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON 0874. DOCKET 0874 COUNCILOR BREADON.
YES. >> ONCE A BRITA LET US. ABADA COUNCIL LET US ABOUT TO PRESENT COUNCIL CULPEPER FROM COUNCILOR DURKAN. YES. COUNCIL DURKAN IS
COUNCIL FITZGERALD CONTRA FITZGERALD AS COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL FOR ME AS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MEJIA WANTS A MEJIA YES
COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL MURPHY HAS BEEN SPONSORED BY FINANCE COUNCILOR SANTANA QUINCY SANTANA YES. COUNCIL WEBER ONCE AGAIN BY US
CONTROVERSIAL ON SEVERAL YES 123456789 1011 IN THE FORMATIVE . THANK YOU. >> DOCKET 0874 HAS PASSED. I AM INFORMED BY THE WORK THAT DOCKET 0875 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. YEAH.
>> MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0876. AND I'LL GET 0876? COUNCILOR COLOR IS ABOUT TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION. AH. FROM THE CITY OF BOSTON
OPPOSITION TO THE USE OF THE CHARLESTOWN FOR EVERETT STADIUM EVENT. PARKING. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLOR THE SUPPORT. DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UM, I, UH I'M PROUD TO PUT THIS
RESOLUTION FORWARD TO MAKE ONE POINT. CHARLESTOWN IS NOT A PARKING SOLUTION FOR THE PROPOSED EVERETT STADIUM. THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS ALREADY NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CRAFT GROUP THAT SETS CLEAR EXPECTATIONS AROUND TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING.
AND THAT AGREEMENT CONTEMPLATES A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN REVIEWED THROUGH NEPA WITH THE EXPLICIT GOAL OF MINIMIZING VEHICLE TRAFFIC IMPACTS ON CHARLESTOWN AND INCLUDES COMMITMENTS TO LIMIT CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND MONITOR
CONGESTION. UH DEPLOY ENFORCEMENT TO PREVENT NONRESIDENTIAL PARKING AND REQUIRE ADDITIONAL MITIGATION IF THRESHOLDS ARE EXCEEDED. THAT'S WHY A RECENT PRESENTATION TO THE CHARLESTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL IS SO
CONCERNING A CONCEPTUAL PLAN THAT IDENTIFIES HALF OF CHARLESTOWN AS A POTENTIAL PARKING ZONE IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCONSISTENT WITH BOTH THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT OF WHAT THE CITY HAS ALREADY NEGOTIATED. IT CONTRADICTS THE CORE PREMISE
THAT THIS WOULD BE A TRANSIT ORIENTED PROJECT, AND IT RISKS UNDERMINING PUBLIC TRUST IN THE PROCESS. CHARLESTOWN RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN CLEAR SINCE DAY ONE TRAFFIC AND PARKING ARE AMONG THEIR MOST SERIOUS CONCERNS, AND THEY WERE
TOLD EXPLICITLY THAT THIS PROJECT WOULD NOT RELY ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO ABSORB THOSE IMPACTS. THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT HOLDING THE LINE ON THAT COMMITMENT, AND IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT WHAT WAS PROMISED IN FORMAL AGREEMENTS IS NOT
WORKED. WALKED BACK. THROUGH INFORMAL PROPOSALS OR SHIFTING PLANS. SO TODAY WE'RE SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE AND A PROPOSAL THAT DIRECTS STADIUM RELATED PARKING INTO CHARLESTOWN IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE CITY'S AGREEMENT AND SHOULD BE REJECTED.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> UM, CHAIR RECOGNIZES, UH, COUNCILMAN MEJIA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. >> MADAM PRESIDENT. AND SO BEFORE I EVEN BEGIN MY REMARKS, I JUST WANT TO STATE
FOR THE RECORD THAT I AM GOING TO BE, UH, SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION. HOWEVER. >> I ALSO JUST WANT TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT A LOT OF FOLKS HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON ARE ALWAYS PAYING ATTENTION TO WHEN
WE STAND UP AND WHEN WE FALL BACK. AND I JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT MY SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION IS
BECAUSE I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY VOICE AND WHEN COMMUNITY OPPOSES SOMETHING I STAND ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY. AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO NOTE
FOR THE RECORD THAT AS IT RELATES TO WHITE STADIUM AND THE OPPOSITION THAT WE'VE HEARD AND THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE ADVOCATED ON BEHALF OF COMMUNITY RESIDENTS, THE MAJORITY OF COMMUNITY RESIDENTS
THAT ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE SURROUNDING AREA THE MAJORITY OF WHICH WHO HAPPEN TO BE BLACK AND OR BROWN UM THAT THERE ARE ISSUES REGARDING WHITE STADIUM
AND THOSE AND THE OPPOSITION REGARDING PARKING AND HEALTH AND EQUITY AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE SAY WE CARE ABOUT. UM, THIS COUNCIL HAS YET TO UH,
STAND UM IN SUPPORT OF THE OTHER SIDE OF BOSTON. AND SO I JUST WANT TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT WHILE I'M SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION IT WOULD BE. NOT IT'D BE VERY UNLIKELY NOT
TO STAND UP AND SPEAK UP AND UTILIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO UPLIFT ALL OF THE ADVOCACY THAT HAS LITERALLY FALLEN ON DEAF EARS HERE ON THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AS IT RELATES TO
OPPOSITION TO WHITE STADIUM. SO THE MAYOR DID A REALLY GREAT JOB AT ADVOCATING FOR AN AMAZING COMMUNITY BENEFITS PACKAGE FOR UM, THE RESIDENTS
OF CHARLESTOWN AND THE RESIDENTS OF DORCHESTER, ROXBURY, MATTAPAN NOT SO MUCH SO SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE FOLKS WHO FOLLOW ME KNOW THAT I'M SUPPORTING THIS BECAUSE I REPRESENT ALL
AND ANYBODY WHO'S AN OPPOSITION ABOUT SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IN I'M GOING TO SUPPORT. BUT IT WOULD NOT BE LOST ON ME NOT TO UPLIFT THAT. THANK YOU. >> UH, COMES FROM HERE. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES. CAN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU.
I JUST WANT TO JUST STAND BESIDE MY DISTRICT COUNCIL COLLEAGUE. UM, AND I KNOW THAT OUR, UM, DISTRICTS ABOUT EACH OTHER BUT ALSO, UM, I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS, UM, REPRESENTING TD
GARDEN AND FENWAY PARK, UM, THAT THE TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENTS THAT ARE MADE BY THESE GROUPS, YOU KNOW, ARE ACTUALLY FOLLOWED AND SO I APPRECIATE, UM,
COUNCILOR CLAUDIA ZAPATA'S LEADERSHIP AND I'M PLAN TO VOTE YES. UM I'M GRATEFUL UM, TO TO HAVE THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH HER BECAUSE WE WE DEFINITELY BOTH SHARE IN THE IMPACTS OF TD
GARDEN AND WHEN AND UM AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS STADIUM IS GOING TO HAVE IMMENSE IMPACTS UM ON THE CITY OF BOSTON I ACTUALLY TESTIFIED UM AT THE STATE HOUSE UM WHEN
THIS WAS SEEKING UM, UH, SEEKING RELIEF FROM THE STATE HOUSE. SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL TO HER FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND I THINK WE HAVE WORK TO DO. UM, BUT I THINK THAT THE CITY
IS MOVING IN A GREAT DIRECTION ON THIS PROJECT AND, UM, AND I KNOW JUST HOW IF WHEN YOU COME AGAINST A PROJECT LIKE THIS ONE LIKE I DID TWO YEARS AGO, I
KNOW THAT SOCCER FANS WILL REVOLT. SO UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY LIKE I'M HAPPY IT'S HAPPENING NOW BUT IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITH THE RIGHT UM WITH WITH THE RIGHT THINGS IN PLACE AND I'M
GRATEFUL TO, UH, BOTH REP DANNY RYAN'S LEADERSHIP AND ALSO, UM, COUNCILOR CLOUD AS PART OF THE LEADERSHIP IN THIS. THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILORS. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
UM, I'M GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION. ALTHOUGH, UH, I WISH WE HAD THE SAME DETERMINATION AS WE HAD AT
WHITE STADIUM IN WORKING ON TRAFFIC ISSUES OR PARKING ISSUES OR AN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OR TRAFFIC STUDY AT WHITE
STADIUM, I THINK WE SPENT MORE TIME ON THE CHARLESTOWN AND THE EVERETT UH, COMMUNITY PACKAGE THAN THAN WE DID ON THE ONE ON THE WHITE STADIUM QUALITY
OF LIFE ISSUES AND PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES, TRAFFIC, ENVIRONMENT, PARKING I'M STILL CONCERNED ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE GETTING TO TO WHITE STADIUM UM
AND WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO PARK FOR THIS UM THE SOCCER STATIONS, SOCCER STADIUM THE PRIVATIZATION OF IT REALLY OF UM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PARK IN BOSTON. BUT AGAIN I'M SUPPORTING I'M
SUPPORTING THIS PROPOSAL. I JUST WE I JUST WISH WE HAD THE SAME COMMITMENT TO, UM, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN THE ROXBURY AREA IN THE JAMAICA PLAIN AREA. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
UM. ATTENTION TO MY VOTE. UH, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND THEN WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL AROUND. IT'S UP TO YOU. OKAY. >> SORRY. >> THEN THAT'S OKAY. COUNCILOR ROSE, UH, BEAT ME TO IT, BUT, UH, NO.
>> THAT'S FINE. UM, YOU KNOW, I I'M GOING TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. I JUST SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WEIGHT STADIUM UH, I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE SOME IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES HERE FOR THE EVERETT STADIUM.
THE MAYOR NEGOTIATED COMMUNITY BENEFITS IN TERMS OF MONEY AND, UH, OTHER THINGS FOR THE COMMUNITY WHITE STADIUM IN ADDITION TO FUNDS FOR FRANKLIN PARK, THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS
THE CREATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL, UH, FACILITY FOR USE BY ALL OF OUR KIDS. SO I JUST I JUST DON'T AGREE, UH, WITH THE NARRATIVE THAT THAT SOMEHOW A DIFFERENT
STANDARD IS APPLYING THE CREATION OF A FACILITY THAT EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR, INCLUDING ON GAME DAYS CAN BE USED BY THE PUBLIC OF BOSTON. UH, WHEREAS THAT IS NOT THE
CASE IN EVERETT. THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC FACILITY IS NOT GOING TO BE USED BY OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. UH, SO YOU KNOW, I JUST UH I DON'T I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S INCONSISTENT TO, UH, SUPPORT
THIS RESOLUTION AND SUPPORT WHITE STADIUM, WHICH IS GOING TO CREATE A FACILITY FOR OUR KIDS 15 NIGHTS A YEAR. IT'LL BE USED BY THE TEAM TO
PLAY THEIR GAMES IN A STADIUM WITH A CAPACITY OF ROUGHLY 10,000, WHICH IS AGAIN DIFFERENT THAN EVER. IT PROVIDES UH DIFFERENT ISSUES TO SOLVE AND UH, YOU KNOW, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH MY
COLLEAGUES ON THE COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS AND ALL THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE TO BE IMPACTED BY THAT . UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A YEAR OR SO BEFORE THE TEAM MOVES THERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. >> COUNCIL WEBER.
UH, CANTRELL, I APOLOGIZE FOR GETTING OUT OF ORDER, BUT YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. YEAH. >> NO WORRIES. >> MADAM PRESIDENT. UM, I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. UH, THE CONCERNS COMING OUT OF CHARLESTOWN ARE VALID. RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO ABSORB THE PARKING AND TRAFFIC
IMPACTS OF A PROJECT THAT IS NOT EVEN IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, AND THERE ARE CLEAR EXPECTATIONS AROUND TRANSPORTATION MITIGATION ENFORCEMENT. AND I COMMEND THE
ADMINISTRATION, UH, FOR SECURING THOSE PROTECTIONS. UM, AT THE SAME TIME, I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR, UM, THAT THERE ARE STILL CONCERNS AROUND PARKING AND TRAFFIC AROUND WHITE
STADIUM AND I DO WANT TO JUST LIFT THAT UP, UM, IN THIS CONVERSATION AND I DO HEAR, UH, COUNCIL WEBER ON HIS POINT OF UH, YOU KNOW, THE THE STADIUM AS A COMMUNITY BENEFIT
BUT THAT DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE CONCERN AROUND PARKING ,UM, THAT RESIDENTS STILL HAVE AROUND WHITE STADIUM. UM, AND IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW ,THE PARKING THIS IS QUALITY
OF LIFE ISSUES AND ACCESS. UH, SO I AGAIN I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. I DO BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, HAS FLAHERTY ON IT THE SAME LEVEL
OF ATTENTION AND PROTECTION, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY AROUND WHITE STADIUM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER AROUND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES, UH, COUNCILOR UH, MEJIA A MINUTE. NOPE. SORRY. I BEG YOUR PARDON.
COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PANELIST FIRST COUNCIL. >> HERE CAN GO. TO GO NEXT. UH, COMES FROM A YEAR. AGO. >> YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. YOU KNOW. UH, MADAM PRESIDENT, I HAVE BEEN REALLY WORKING HARD AT,
UM, HAVING. EMOTIONAL DISCIPLINE. IN THIS CHAMBER AND I WANT TO JUST NOTE FOR THE RECORD HERE.
THAT I FIND I FIND IT INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN WE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING RACE
RELATIONSHIPS AND HOW WE TALK. ABOUT PEOPLE. WHEN WE ARE EXPRESSING. OURSELVES AND HOW WE ADVOCATE FOR THE. PEOPLE THAT WILL PUT. >> US IN THESE SEATS.
AND NOW I AM STRUGGLING RIGHT WITH THE NOTION AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE CONSISTENTLY THAT IT'S DIFFERENT. STROKES FOR. DIFFERENT FOLKS. CONSISTENTLY WHEN IT COMES DOWN
TO ISSUES OF WHITE STADIUM AND HOW WE SHOW UP FOR BLACK AND BROWN. >> PEOPLE. OKAY, THAT STADIUM WHITE STADIUM IS NOT GOING TO BE THE
VISION OF WHAT WE'RE ALL TRYING TO SELL PEOPLE ON. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO HAVE AN EVENT AT WHITE STADIUM, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK. FOR A. PERMIT IF YOU WANT TO.
PARK. >> YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK FOR A PERMIT FOR GUEST PARKING ON DAYS OF THE EVENT. DON'T TRY TO. YOU KNOW, GASLIGHT PEOPLE WHEN WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
THE HOOD. AND ROXBURY, DORCHESTER AND MATTAPAN RESIDENTS. FEEL UNHEARD. AND UNDER VALUED AS IT RELATES
TO THIS AND SO I AM HAPPY TO SUPPORT CHARLESTOWN RIGHT? BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY BOTH OF THESE CONVERSATIONS NEED TO BE HAPPENING. BUT I JUST I JUST WANT PEOPLE
TO RECOGNIZE RIGHT THAT WE'RE NOT GOING. >> TO CONTINUE TO. DISREGARD BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES IN THIS CHAMBER AND THINK THAT WE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. THANK YOU. >> CATCH MEJIA COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PART OF YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALL. >> OF. THEIR, UM, THOUGHTFUL REMARKS. I THINK COMPARING THE EVERETT STADIUM TO WHITE STADIUM IS AN AWFUL OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF THE CONTEXT THAT EACH IS IN.
I MEAN, WE HAVE THE ONCOR CASINO IN EVERETT. UH, WE HAVE THE TD GARDEN IN CHARLESTOWN IS A PENINSULA. THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE WAYS AND A COUPLE WAYS OUT IT'S ONE SQUARE MILE. UM, ANOTHER CITY SAID
EMPHATICALLY YES TO THIS WE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS. AND SO I THINK THERE ARE THERE ARE A COUPLE KEY DETAILS HERE WHERE I CAN SEE THE PARALLELS. UM, AND I THINK EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO ADVOCATE ON THEIR
OWN UH, ON BEHALF OF THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR SUPPORT ON THIS. I JUST FELT. >> LIKE IT WAS IMPORTANT. >> TO. CALL THAT OUT AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR CULPEPER. COUNCILOR DURKAN.
COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILMEMBER HERE. CONSTANT. MURPHY. PEPEN. CONCHA. SANTANA. CANCEL. WEBER PUNCH LIBERAL AND PLEASE. >> OF THE CHAIR. COUNCILOR COLLETTE HAS THE POWER TO SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE
RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0876. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0876 ROLL.
CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0876 COUNCIL BURDEN. YES. >> ONCE A BURDEN HAS COME TO US ABOUT A ONCE POLARIS CONCEPT CULPEPER HOUSING DUNCAN ALSO DURKAN IS COUNCIL FITZGERALD.
COUNTY FITZGERALD FLYNN ANSWER FOR MR LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MEMBER ME AS COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL MURPHY HAS OPEN CONCEPT
COUNCIL SANTANA SANTANA IS. A LITTLE BIT CONTROVERSIAL. UNTIL THE. >> LAST 12 VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU DOCKET 0878 NAUGHT
ONE DOCKET 0876 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. UH, MADAM VICE CHAIR, COULD YOU TAKE THE PODIUM FOR A FEW MINUTES?
UM, FOR MY NEXT TWO DOCKET? UH, MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0878?
08 7708 7777? >> EXCUSE ME. >> 080877 COUNCILOR BREADON FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SAFEGUARDING STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING ARE ALLOCATED FOR TRANSPORTATION
AND STREETS PROJECT DOCKET 0878 COUNCILOR BREADON OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE REESTABLISHING A POST OFFICE LOCATION IN ALLSTON.
THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BRETON COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. UM, MADAM CHAIR, UH, I'D LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR PEPEN IS A
SECOND ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. SO SEEING HEAR NO OBJECTIONS COUNCIL SO ADDED. EARLIER THIS WEEK ON APRIL 23RD ALONGSIDE COUNCILOR DURKAN AND COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCILOR WEBER IS HEARING
ORDERS. THE CITY COUNCIL HELD A HEARING TO DISCUSS STALLED TRANSPORTATION AND STREET PROJECTS. WE LEARNED THAT MULTIPLE PROJECTS LARGE AND SMALL ARE NOW BEHIND SCHEDULE AND THAT
STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS HAVE RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE CITY'S DELAYS. COLLEAGUES THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT SAFEGUARDING THE STATE AND FEDERAL DOLLARS THAT BOSTON HAS ALREADY FOUGHT HARD TO
SECURE FUNDING THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR. SAFETY. >> MOBILITY AND EQUITY ACROSS OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS IS A TIGHT BUDGET YEAR AND WE CANNOT AFFORD TO. LOSE OR DELAY THIS. FUNDING THAT HAS BEEN SECURED.
IT WOULD MEAN. DELAYING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, STALLING CLIMATE AND MOBILITY GOALS AND BE A REAL HARM TO PUBLIC TRUST. WE ARE RELYING ON THOSE PROJECTS AS CRITICAL
INVESTMENTS IN OUR STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND. TRANSIT CORRIDORS. IT WOULD WEAKEN BUT ALSO WEAKEN BOSTON'S CREDIBILITY THAT WE SEEK FUTURE WHEN WE GO TO SEEK
FUTURE COMPETITIVE GRANTS. THIS RESOLUTION IS NOT ABOUT ASSIGNING BLAME OR DEBATING THE MERITS OF ANY. SPECIFIC PROJECT. IT IS ABOUT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENSURING
THAT THE CITY MEETS THE DEADLINES ATTACHED TO THESE GRANTS. I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION SO THAT WE CAN SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE. BOSTON MUST PROTECT THE DOLLARS
WE'VE SECURED, DELIVER THE PROJECTS OUR RESIDENTS WERE PROMISED AND MAINTAIN OUR STANDING AS A RELIABLE APARTMENT PARTNER TRUST STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCIL PREVENTED YOU WANT TO SAY IF YOU WOULD? YES. >> UH CHAIR AND THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AS A PUBLIC TRANSIT AND SAFE STREETS ADVOCATE, I STRONGLY URGE THE STREETS
CABINET AND BTD TO MOVE FORWARD ON THE LARGE NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT CAN ONLY HAPPEN WITH THIS EXTERNAL FUNDING. WE KNOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS UNPREDICTABLE AND WILL TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO STOP PROGRESS IN OUR CITY IF
WE GIVE THEM ANY REASON TO. I KNOW SOME OF THESE PROJECTS UM MAY NOT BE FULLY UM COMPREHENDED BUT STOP. BUT TO STOP ANY ONE THING STOPS. EVERYTHING IN OUR RESIDENTS
DESERVE BETTER SAFER STREETS AND TRANSIT. I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND CONTINUE LISTENING TO YOUR RESIDENTS PLEADING FOR THESE CHANGES AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN I
APOLOGIZE I DON'T KNOW WHO PUT THEIR LIGHT ON FIRST. UM UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN YOU'RE BEFORE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, CHAIR AND I FEEL LIKE THIS RESOLUTION IS ASKING REALLY
HARD QUESTIONS. IS GRASS GREEN? IS THE SKY BLUE? SERIOUSLY? IT FEELS LIKE, YOU KNOW, I I I AM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THIS. UM, I'M IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE
HEARING WE HAD. UM, OBVIOUSLY WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS THAT MOVE IN AND OUT OF OUR DISTRICT AND WHAT PRIORITY LEVEL THEY SHOULD HAVE. BUT WHEN MONEY FALLS FROM THE
FEDERAL SKY WE SHOULD ACCEPT IT. WE PASSED UM, GRANT MONEY THROUGH UH, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE LAST YEAR, THE ROXBURY RESILIENT CORRIDORS GRANT.
UM WE PASSED THE GRANT AND THEN IT WAS YANKED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. UM, AND I GOT A CALL I FOUND OUT NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE FROM THE MAYOR'S ADMINISTRATION TOLD ME NOT BECAUSE BUT BECAUSE OUR
REPORTER FROM NPR CALLED ME ABOUT IT. SO IT'S, UM I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE THE THESE THREATS ARE REAL AND, UM, THEY'RE IMPORTANT AND ALL OF THESE PROJECTS ARE
IMPORTANT. UM, AND THEY YEARS OF WORK GO INTO EVEN SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION UM, TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. UM, AND THERE ARE CERTAIN SPECIFICITIES THAT NEED TO BE
MET AND SO WHATEVER WE CAN AVOID DOING TO AVOID LOSING FEDERAL MONEY IS IT BEHOOVES THE CITY IN A HARD FINANCIAL TIME TO SAY LIKE SCRATCH SHOULD
WE TAKE $125 MILLION OR NOT? SO I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL ACT THAT WAY IN THEIR DISTRICTS AND I HOPE THAT WE WILL HONESTLY UM, PUT YOU KNOW, PUT
THE CITY FIRST IN A FINANCIAL WAY ON ON ALL OF THESE PROJECTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCIL FUNDING OFFICER. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND UM, I'M I'M SUPPORTING THIS
PROPOSAL. I DO WANT TO MAKE A NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT THERE WERE MANY SENIOR OFFICIALS AT THE, UH, CHIEF OF STREETS DEPARTMENT UM,
THAT LEFT INCLUDING SOME POLICY IMPLEMENTATION PEOPLE THAT WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE UM A LOT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ON MANY OF THESE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
THEY LEFT AT A AT A CRITICAL PERIOD OF TIME. I'M NOT PLACING BLAME ON ANYONE ,BUT I DO KNOW THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE LEFT OUT THIS DEPARTMENT
UH, THERE WAS A SLOW DOWN IN DECISION MAKING ABOUT WHERE TRANSPORTATION WOULD GO AND WHAT UH WHAT THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE. I STILL THINK WE'RE IN THAT SITUATION RIGHT NOW.
BUT I DO THINK EVEN IF IT IS FEDERAL THE FEDERAL MONEY THAT IS STILL TAXPAYER MONEY AND WE HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT. WE HAVE TO BE FISCALLY
DISCIPLINED, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC FEDERAL FUNDS, UH, TAXPAYER MONEY. IT'S NOT OUR MONEY. IT'S THE RESIDENTS.
AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE SPEND IT, IT HAS TO BE SPENT APPROPRIATELY AND WE CAN'T BE MAKING MISTAKES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
COUNCILOR CULPEPER. THANK MADAM CHAIR AND I BELIEVE THESE SHOULD. BUT I ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR FOR THE RECORD THAT.
WE DO WANT THE MONEY TO COME. IN THIS CASE TO BLUE HILL AVENUE OR WHEREVER. BUT WE DON'T WANT IT TO COME FOR THIS IN A BUSTLING THERE'S BEEN DISINVESTMENT IN THE
COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS. AND IF YOU WRITE A BLUE LAB YOU'LL SEE A STREET, A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE THAT HAS BEEN IGNORED THAT HAS BEEN UH, DISREGARDED AND EXCLUDED.
WE DO WANT. >> THE MONEY TO COME BUT WE WANT IT FOR BLUE AVENUE BEAUTIFICATION, NOT PUT US IN A BUS LANE. I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT SAYING THE MONEY SHOULD GO BACK.
WE DO WANT THE MONEY TO COME, BUT. >> WE. WANT IT TO COME FOR WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN REQUESTING FOR YEARS. AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A DISTINCTION FOR THE
RECORD OF WHAT THE MONEY SHOULD BE USED FOR AND THE. MONEY SHOULD REALLY BE. USED FOR WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN ASKING. THAT HAPPENED FOR YEARS THAT
BLUE AVENUE BE BEAUTIFIED AND THAT BLUE AVENUE WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT'S NOT EVEN ADA. COMPLIANT AND SO WE DO WANT THE MONEY TO COME BUT WE WANT THE MONEY TO COME FOR WHAT THE
COMMUNITY THINKS THE MONEY SHOULD BE USED FOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER. COUNCILOR MEJIA. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND, UH, I. WANT TO THANK, UH,
COUNCIL PRESIDENT UH BREEDEN FOR HER LEADERSHIP IN THIS SPACE AND BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I JUST WANT TO GO ON THE RECORD THAT I WILL BE, UH, SUPPORTING ,UH, THIS RESOLUTION. AND I WILL ALSO JUST LIKE TO
NOTE THAT FOR THE RECORD, I THINK THAT MY COLLEAGUES, UH, HERE HAVE MADE VERY PASSIONATE REMARKS REGARDING THE, UH, THE
NO BRAINER SITUATION HERE. SO I APPRECIATE THAT. UH, AND I WILL JUST ADD THAT, YOU KNOW, TO COUNCILOR COLE PEPPERS, UH, REMARKS IN REGARDS TO HOW WE DO THINGS THAT IS THE
PROBLEM THAT WE ARE FINDING OURSELVES IN HERE IN THIS CHAMBER. IT IS HOW WE GET TO DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT UM, TRANSPORTATION NEEDS LOOK LIKE.
THAT'S WHERE I BELIEVE THAT THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF WORK ON ALL OF US. UM, SO WHILE I'M SUPPORTING THIS, I THINK I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THAT. UM, WE NEED TO.
UH. >> FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO START LEARNING HOW TO LISTEN. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER HERE. UH, WHEN ANYONE ELSE LIKE SPEAK ON THIS MATTER. OH, COUNCILOR WORRELL THROUGH THE FLOOR. UH THANK YOU, VICE PRESIDENT.
I DO SUPPORT THE FEDERAL FUNDS THAT ARE COMING IN. HOWEVER, I DO THINK IT NEEDS TO BE ALIGNED, UH, WITH COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND CURRENTLY IN THIS RESOLUTION, UH, THE BLUE HILL
LAB TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, WE HAVE HEARD FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT THE CURRENT DESIGN UH, DOES NOT MEET UM, WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS OR NEEDS.
UH, SO WHAT I WOULD BUT I WANT TO REQUEST UH, FROM UH THE SPONSOR MADAM PRESIDENT IS BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY ONE UH FROM WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS
THAT DOES NOT HAVE CONSENSUS FROM THE COMMUNITY UM, AS OF NOW AND THAT'S ALSO BASED OFF OF THE HEARING OR MEETING THAT COUNCIL CULPEPER AND I HAD
WITH OVER 200 PEOPLE SHOWED UP. UM, IT'S ALSO REFLECTIVE OF THE 2000 PLUS SIGNATURES ON A PETITION THAT SAYS NO TO A CENTER RUNNING BUS LANE IF THAT WE CAN MAKE A SUGGEST A
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT UH, TO REMOVE THE BLUE HILL LAB TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, FROM THIS RESOLUTION. SO. OKAY. >> UM, COUNCILOR BREADON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I THINK MY RESOLUTION DOESN'T
NAME ANY SPECIFIC PROJECT. THESE ARE CITYWIDE PROJECTS THAT, UM, INVOLVE THE GREEN LINE, THE INVOLVE UM, HYDE PARK AVENUE. THEY INVOLVE PROJECTS ALL ACROSS THE CITY.
UH, SO I WASN'T WE WE WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS NOT TO UH, SPECIFICALLY NAME UH, INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOZENS OF PROJECTS.
SO I FEEL THAT UM, I'LL RESPECTFULLY DECLINE TO, UH, ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AT THIS POINT BECAUSE IT REALLY WANT TO KEEP THE CONVERSATION VERY GENERAL. THANK YOU. UM, COUNCILOR BURTON.
UM. >> WE HAVE, UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA AND THEN COUNCILOR MURPHY. I'M SORRY, WHO WAS FIRST? OKAY. >> COUNCILOR MEJIA. JESUS. >> OKAY.
UM, SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE LAUREL. AND WHILE I DO APPRECIATE THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS REGARDING WANTING TO KEEP IN GENERAL
THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID AROUND CONSENSUS BUILDING AND I DO THINK THAT AT THE VERY LEAST IF THE AMENDMENT COULD BE UM,
MAYBE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE ONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE CONSENSUS UH ,I THINK THAT THAT COULD BE A WAY TO FIND A WIN WIN TO GET US TO A VOTE.
SO UM. YEAH, I THINK THAT IS THE FAIR THING TO DO AND I DO BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER AT
LEAST UH, MAYBE A WHEREAS WHEREAS IN THE CASE OF THE BLUE HILL LAB UH CENTRAL BUS LANE GIVEN THE STAUNCH OPPOSITION
OF 2000 SIGNATURES, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT MAY NOT I DON'T KNOW, SOMETHING THAT COUNCILOR OR I WILL FEEL LIKE WE'RE LISTENING AND PAYING ATTENTION AND AT LEAST TRYING TO FIND A MIDDLE GROUND HERE.
UH, I DON'T KNOW. COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON, IF YOU COULD CONSIDER FINDING SOME MIDDLE GROUND HERE SO THAT THOSE WHO DON'T FEEL
COMFORTABLE WITH THE WAY IT'S PRESENTED NOW COULD FEEL MORE. UH. >> GUNG ABOUT IT BECAUSE HERE'S THE DEAL. HERE'S THE DEAL. SO FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE
PAYING ATTENTION HERE, THERE'S A LOT OF TENSION IN THIS CITY AS IT RELATES TO ROXBURY, DORCHESTER AND MATTAPAN IN PARTICULAR.
AND SO WE HAVE TO MOVE VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT DECISIONS THAT IMPACT THE CITY AS A WHOLE. AND WHILE THERE'S 13 OF US, THERE'S ONLY FOUR THAT ARE.
>> AT LARGE. EVERYONE ELSE IS A DISTRICT COUNCILOR. AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING HERE AS A CITY AS A WHOLE REGARDING DECISIONS THAT
IMPACT VERY SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS. SO I JUST THINK OUT OF THE FAIRNESS OF THIS EXERCISE THAT WE THINK ABOUT HOW THIS WILL
LAND FOR BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR. THANK YOU COUNCIL ME HERE UM I'M GOING TO HAVE COUNCILOR MURPHY AND THEN COUNCILOR ENRIQUE PRESENT AND THEN COUNCILOR ROWE AND THEN
COUNCILOR UM BREADON GO UM AS THE FINAL WORD. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY. THANK YOU. >> MADAM CHAIR. UM, I AM JUST. RISING TO SUPPORT COUNCILOR UM
,YOUR REQUEST AND NO, AS A RESIDENT OF MATTAPAN, MY SQUARE NOW IS MATTAPAN SQUARE. I DO HERE, UM, AND JUST KNOW MYSELF THAT. BEING VAGUE AND NOT LIFTING UP
THE VOICES OF A COMMUNITY THAT ALWAYS. FEELS LIKE WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO THEM AND WE'RE NOT WILLING TO REALLY DIE ON THAT HILL FOR THEM. SO ALTHOUGH YOUR OFFICE DID WORK AND I RESPECT THAT. UM. >> COUNCIL BREADON, THAT YOU
TRIED TO KEEP IT VAGUE THERE ARE TIMES. AND THE IDEA OF. WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE MONEY. THERE'S MANY TIMES IN MY. LIFE LIKE SOMETIMES MONEY IF SOMEONE'S WILLING TO GIVE IT TO YOU IF IT'S NOT FOR THE RIGHT
REASONS YOU SHOULD ALWAYS SAY NO. MONEY IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST THING AND. >> IN THIS CASE. >> IF THEY'RE GOING TO FOR SOMETHING THAT THE RESIDENTS AND THE NEIGHBORS DON'T WANT AND WHAT HAPPENS ON BLUE HILL AFFECTS WHAT HAPPENS IN EAST
BOSTON, WHAT AFFECTS WHAT HAPPENS IN SOUTH BOSTON, IN CHARLESTOWN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE. NO INDIVIDUAL IN MANY WAYS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE NEED TO MAKE SURE AND I THINK IT WOULD
SHOW RESPECT TO. UH. >> MANY OF THE RESIDENTS WHO DO NOT FEEL LIKE WE RESPECT THEM. SO I AM ASKING THAT YOU ADD THAT. >> BECAUSE I WOULD. >> NOT WANT TO VOTE NO. BUT LIKE COUNCILOR. FLYNN I'M. >> NOT WILLING TO VOTE PRESENT . BUT IF THERE. >> IS ANY.
RESIDENTS IN THE CITY WHO FEEL AS THOUGH WE'RE IGNORING THEIR CRY TO BE HEARD, THEN WE SHOULD DO WHAT WE CAN. SO I AM RESPECTFULLY ASKING YOU TO ADD THAT THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL MURPHY I'LL
GO TO COUNCILOR TATUM. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS WHEN I WAS WORK WITH MY OFFICE WAS WORKING WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRADEN'S OFFICE IS THAT THIS RESOLUTION ISN'T NECESSARILY
ABOUT SUPPORTING EVERY PROJECT AS IT IS, ESPECIALLY ONE ON BLUE HILL AVENUE. THIS IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE SAFEGUARDING THE FUNDING THAT IS COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATION
LEFT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE MBTA AND THE ADMINISTRATION ON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ON BLUE WAVE AND AROUND THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE THAT ARE AT RISK OF BEING OF LOSING THAT
FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING. THAT'S WHY UM, I FEAR THAT BY SAYING OH, AN EXEMPTION TO BLUE WAVE, IT'S A MESSAGE THAT WE'RE
SAYING WE DON'T CARE IF WE LOSE THE FUNDING COMPLETELY BECAUSE THIS ISN'T SAYING WE APPROVE OF THE DESIGNS AS THEY ARE. IT'S JUST SAYING WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOSE THE.
FUNDING BECAUSE WHAT WE'VE HEARD COUNCILOR CULPEPER COUNCIL WHERE OF MYSELF WHO WE SPLIT BLUE WHO I WAS THAT PEOPLE WANT INVESTMENT INTO BLUE AVENUE. YES THERE'S A SPLIT BETWEEN PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT US ON A
RUNNING BUS LANE AND THOSE THAT DO BUT AT LEAST THEY WE ALL KNOW THAT THEY DO WANT AN INVESTMENT IF IT'S IF IT'S EITHER FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION OR FOR THE UM FOR SAFER FOR
SAFER TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE ALL OF THAT AND WE'VE LEARNED THAT 70% OF THE MONEY THAT IS ALLOCATED FOR THAT PROJECT IS GOING TO THOSE SPECIFIC THINGS .
SO THAT'S WHY I WOULD I WOULD I'M A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED ABOUT THAT SUGGESTION BECAUSE THIS IS AGAIN THIS ISN'T ABOUT SAYING OH WE SUPPORT THE PROJECT AS IT IS. IT'S JUST SAYING LET'S NOT LOSE
THE MONEY AND LET'S COME TO AN AGREEMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THAT'S WHY I, I WOULD I WOULD TELL MY COUNCILS TO HESITATE. TO TO NOT DO THAT FOR JUST
BECAUSE IT WOULD THEN CREATE A LOT MORE CONFUSION THAN WHAT THIS IS ACTUALLY ABOUT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR. THEN UM JUST IN FAIRNESS TO OTHERS I WILL GO TO UM THOSE WHO'VE HAD THEIR THEIR LIGHT ON
COUNCILOR BREADON, I THINK YOU'RE BEFORE DURKAN BUT AS THE LEAD SPONSOR, DO YOU WANT TO GO LAST? OKAY. UH, COUNCIL DIRECTION AND THEN COUNCILOR WEBER. I WAS GOING TO HAVE MOTION FOR A VOTE BUT IF. IF THE LEAD SPONSOR. >> WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. OKAY.
>> UM, COUNCILOR WEBER. I JUST UM I WANTED TO CLARIFY I BELIEVE COUNCILOR CULPEPER HAS FILED. >> A BLUE HILL HOUSE RESOLUTION THAT WAS. OBJECTED TO THAT THERE WILL. >> BE A HEARING ON I DON'T KNOW
IF I HAVE THAT RIGHT. UM. IF COUNCILOR CULPEPER. WANTS TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT AND I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WE DON'T WE DON'T WANT TO CONFLATE THAT ISSUE HERE AND
IT'S SORT OF HAVE A RESOLUTION ON BLUE HILL HAVE SO UH, IF THERE IS GOING TO BE A HEARING ON A ON A BLUE HILL RESOLUTION
,UH, MAYBE WE JOIN THIS TOGETHER FOR A HEARING UH, IN THE FUTURE I HAVE JUST MY SUGGESTION. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER. UM, COUNCILOR BOYLE AND THEN COUNCILOR BRITTON.
UH, THANK YOU. AND AGAIN, LIKE I'M NOT I'M IN SUPPORT OF THE TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURES AND DESIGNS AND INVESTMENT WHERE WE HAVE BUILT
RIGHT CONSENSUS WITH THE COMMUNITY WITH THE COMMUNITY HAS SEEN A DESIGN THAT THEY WANT TO GET BEHIND CURRENTLY THERE'S TOO MANY CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE STILL HAPPENING AROUND
BLUE HILL LIVE AND THAT MONEY RIGHT NOW THAT FEDERAL FUNDING IS TIED TO A SPECIFIC DESIGN. UH, SO I I WHEN I HEAR ADVANCING RIGHT IT'S ADVANCING
UM BY THE CURRENT APPLICATION THAT WE HAVE SUBMITTED UH, TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THESE FUNDS WHICH IS AROUND THE CENTER RIGHT THE BUSTLING WHICH
WE DO NOT HAVE FULL SUPPORT OR MAJORITY OPPOSITION FROM THE VOICES OF MY COMMUNITY AND AND EVERY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL THAT I HAVE SPOKEN TO OR DONE
THE SURVEY THAT THEY ARE NOT COMFORTABLE THE RESIDENTS ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE CURRENT CIP CURRENT DESIGN THAT IS ON THE APPLICATION FOR THIS FUNDING. SO UM I AM NOT AGAINST ANYTHING
ELSE THAT HAS AGAIN RECEIVED CONSENSUS IN ANYONE ELSE'S DISTRICT. I GUESS I'M JUST SAYING THAT IN BLUE ALIVE WHERE IT'S TIED TO A DESIGN THAT THE CONSTITUENTS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD ARE NOT
COMFORTABLE WITH AND AS CONVERSATIONS CONTINUE TO PROGRESS CAN WE JUST REMOVE IT AS OF NOW? THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WORRELL UM COUNCILOR BURTON AND. THEN WE'LL. >> MOVE FOR A VOTE. THANK YOU. >> I REALLY DO APPRECIATE, UM.
THE CONCERNS AROUND BLUE HILL LOVE. UM, AND AND UM, DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN THERE. THE REALITY IS THAT IN OUR
DISTRICT WE'VE ALREADY LOST $350 MILLION UH, FOR A THE I-90 UH, REALIGNMENT UH, WE'VE LOST FUNDING FOR UH REPLACEMENT OF THE CAMBRIDGE STREET BRIDGE WHICH IS IN DISREPAIR AND BAD
SHAPE. UH, WE'VE LOST FUNDING FOR THE FRANKLIN STREET UH, PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE WHICH CAN RECONNECT. IT WAS A GRANT FOR RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE PIKE. THE RAILROAD AND THE PIKE HAVE
CUT THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD JUST LIKE THEY DID IN CHINATOWN . AND, UH, THOSE GRANTS WERE IN THE OBAMA AND NOT THE OBAMA, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THE
RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES GRANTS WERE MEANT TO RECONNECT, UH, COMMUNITIES THAT WERE CUT AND BISECTED BY THE MEADOWS BY THAT RAILROAD. UM AND IT WAS TORN OUT BECAUSE
OF AN EQUITY ISSUE BECAUSE IT WAS TALKING ABOUT UH COMMUNITIES THAT WERE IMPACTED, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES. SO I REALLY I DON'T WANT TO
LOSE UM, THE THREAD HERE I REALLY APPRECIATE PEOPLE'S CONCERNS BUT THIS IS REALLY A RESOLUTION TO URGE THIS, YOU KNOW, TO URGE US TO MOVE FORWARD IN A IN A IN A TIMELY
WAY SO THAT WE DON'T ACTUALLY LOSE MORE FUNDS. THIS IS $300 MILLION FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD. THE REALIGNMENT OF THE GREEN LINE PROJECT IS TO PREPARE THE TRACKS FOR.
NEW CARS. WE MIGHT GET THE CARS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TRACKS ARE READY AND THAT WOULD REALLY BE AN EGG ON THE FACE FOR BOSTON. SO I REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT GOES
BEYOND UH IT'S A BIG QUESTION AND ALL OF THIS MONEY LIKE CONSTRUCTION LED US APART THAT HAS THE RUTHERFORD OF I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT IS IMPACTED BY THIS ALL ACROSS THE CITY WE HAVE PROJECTS.
SO UH. I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S CONCERN BUT I REALLY DO WANT US TO KEEP IT GENERAL AND JUST URGE THE THE CITY TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND UTILIZING THESE FUNDS. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. UM, I SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO MOVE FOR A VOTE I THINK IN AGAIN IN FAIRNESS EVERYONE'S BEEN I HOLD UP YEP. ONE SECOND COUNCILOR CULPEPPER I'M GOING TO SAY THAT PEOPLE
FOR ONE SECOND. SO I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ONCE OR TWICE ON THIS. I'VE ALREADY ALLOWED UH FOR TWICE OR SOMEBODY TO SPEAK ON THIS TWICE. SO I'LL GO TO COUNCIL CULPEPER AND YOU WERE ALSO NAMED SO COUNCIL.
THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I WAS JUST RESPONDING TO COUNCILOR WEBER THAT WE DID FILE A HEARING ORDER ON BLUE HILL AVENUE AND I EVEN THINK COUNCIL WEBER MENTIONED THAT
DURING THE BUDGET HEARINGS HE HAD WEDNESDAY MORNING POSSIBLY POSSIBLY OPEN. AND SO I WOULD SAY WE SHOULD DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THIS HEARING ON BLUE HILL AVENUE IF THERE'S A WEDNESDAY MORNING. WE CAN. >> WORK TO.
>> TRY THROUGH THE CHAIR TO TRY AND GET IT SCHEDULED. BUT I THINK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET THE ISSUE DISCUSSED AND RESOLVED. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. COUNCIL MEMBER. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY. UM WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR VOTE. EVERYBODY WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FOR A VOTE. UH COUNCIL WAS BROUGHT IN AND AND THE SUSPENSION OF THE.
RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0877. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. UH, MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THIS DOCKET. OH. >> ROLL CALL. VOTE ON.
DOCKET 0877 COUNCIL. BREDON. >> YES. >> WHAT IS CONCEPT US? YES. >> COUNCIL CULPEPER. NO. IT'S PROBABLY COUNCILOR DURKAN. YES, YES. YEAH. >> COUNTER FITZGERALD. YES. >> IT'S JUST IT'S SHALLOWEST
COUNCILOR FLYNN AND JUST LETTING YOU KNOW CONCLUSION. COUNCILOR MEJIA. COUNCILOR MURPHY. I'M. >> COUNCILOR MEJIA. UM WHAT.
CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? YES OR NO PRESENT. COUNCILOR MEJIA. PRESENT COUNCIL MURPHY. NO NO. OKAY. >> COUNCIL MURPHY.
NO CONCEPT OPEN. YES. YES. COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCIL. SANTANA. >> COUNCILOR WEBER. THAT'S WHEREBY. >> YES, COUNCILOR. RALPH NO. IT'S ALL AROUND. NO.
1234567 AND AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. DOCKET 0877 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0878? IT IS READY.
I'LL DO IT AGAIN. TALK GOOD. >> 0878 COUNCIL BREDON OR FOR THE FOLLOWING. RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE REESTABLISHING A POST OFFICE LOCATION IN ALLSTON.
COUNCILOR BRIGHTON, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. YOU PUT A LIGHT ON THERE. GOT IT. >> THANK YOU. UM, THIS RESOLUTION, UH, SPEAKS TO A BASIC SERVICE.
UH, RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO RELY ON THAT. EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL POSTAL SERVICES. ALLSTON HAS GONE SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT LOCAL POSTAL SERVICE
AFTER THE UH WITH THE LOCAL FROM THE LOCAL POST OFFICE AFTER THE 2019 CLOSURE DUE TO STRUCTURAL ISSUES WITH THE BUILDING, APPROXIMATELY 87,000
RESIDENTS OF ALLSTON, BRIGHTON HAVE HAD TO RELY SOLELY ON THE BOSTON POST OFFICE IN BRIGHTON CENTER ON APRIL 23RD APRIL 23RD WE LEARNED FROM THE USPS BACK
THAT USPS HAD BACKED OUT OF THE PROJECT DESPITE A FULLY NEGOTIATED LEASE AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS AND DESPITE AN EXPLICIT LETTER OF COMMITMENT THAT THEY HAD SENT IN 2025, AUSTIN'S
IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY SMALL BUSINESSES, SENIORS AND RESIDENTS WITHOUT RELIABLE INTERNET ACCESS DEPEND ON USPS FOR DAILY NEEDS LIKE SECURE MAIL DELIVERY MEDICATIONS,
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, PASSPORT SERVICES AND THE BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF CIVIL LIFE. SEVEN YEARS AGO SEVEN YEARS IS TOO LONG FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD OF THIS SIZE AND DIVERSITY TO
GO WITHOUT A LOCAL BRANCH. THE COMMUNITY DESERVES FLAHERTY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND A FIRM COMMITMENT FROM THE USPS TO RESTORE THE SERVICES IT PREVIOUSLY PROMISED.
THIS RESOLUTION URGES THE USPS TO REESTABLISH A POST OFFICE IN ALLSTON AND RESTORE THE ESSENTIAL SERVICES THAT OUR RESIDENTS RELY ON. I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES JUST COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT ME IN
THIS RESOLUTION AND THAT THE BOSS THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL CALLS UPON USPS TO REESTABLISH A POST OFFICE LOCATION IN ALLSTON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BRANNAN.
COUNCILOR DURKAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WANT TO SUPPORT, UM OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON IN THIS UM WE HAD A SIMILAR THING IN MISSION HILL WHERE IT WAS
POSTED ON THE DOOR THAT THE UM THAT THE POST OFFICE WAS CLOSING AND WHEN WE ACTUALLY GOT TO THE BOTTOM OF IT IT WAS HUD HOLDING UP A LEASE. I WORKED WITH SENATOR MARKEY AND WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE THE
POST OFFICE THAT UM WHAT WHAT WE FOUND WHEN WE DID A HEARING ON THE MAIL DELAYS UH, LAST YEAR WAS THAT UH, USPS IS DOING THIS ALL OVER THEY ARE TREATING
UH, MAIL SERVICE AS IF IT'S OPTIONAL AND NOT PUBLIC SERVICE. SO I'M GRATEFUL AND UM I, I HAVE JOKED WITH THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT BEFORE I DO HAVE TWO PRECINCTS OF ALLSTON THAT WE DON'T OFTEN TALK ABOUT
. UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE MOSTLY THEY'RE MOSTLY BE USED CAMPUS BUT UM BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY I WILL JOIN YOU IN SUPPORT AS THE OTHER ALLSTON CITY COUNCILOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DEREK AND
COUNCILOR MURPHY. UM, I. RISE IN. >> SUPPORT OF. THIS. >> BUT JUST. HAVE A QUESTION THROUGH THE CHAIR TO THE MAKER. UM. WHERE IS THE. CLOSEST POST OFFICE? IS THE ONE IN BROOKLINE OR. >> OVER THE LINE IN THE CITY
BECAUSE. OBVIOUSLY THE POST OFFICE DOESN'T. >> JUST STAY WITH. TO STOP. YEAH. SO I THINK. THROUGH THE CHAIR UH THE NEAREST UH POST OFFICE IS A BRIGHTON CENTER.
UM AND AS A AS ONE WHO USES THAT POST OFFICE VERY OFTEN YOU GO IN AND YOU WANT TO GET IN AND GET YOUR BUSINESS DONE AND GET OUT AND VERY OFTEN THERE'S A LINE WITH ABOUT 20 PEOPLE WAITING AND WAITING TO GET TO
THE COUNTER FOR SERVICE. SO UH BUT GIVEN THAT WE HAVE A HUGE POPULATION OF 87,000 PEOPLE IT'S IT'S REALLY. NO I. >> AGREE WITH THE PREVIOUS ONE. YES. YEAH. IF THERE WAS ONE IN BROOKLINE OUTSIDE OF THAT THAT WAS
CLOSER. I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE ONE IN BROOKLINE WOULD BE. OKAY JUST KNOWING THAT YOU KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY WITHIN CITY LIMITS TO USE THE POST OFFICE. SO I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WAS ONE CLOSER TO ALLSTON I CAN DO
THAT RESEARCH BUT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MADAM CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE
ADD COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL ME HERE COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCILOR PREPARED AND COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCILOR UH WEBER AND COUNCILOR WORRELL PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
AND PLEASE HAVE THE CHAIR. UH, I DID NOT NOT SEE YOUR HAND. I'M SORRY. COUNCILOR CULPEPER AS WELL. UM, COUNCILOR BURTON SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0878.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL? >> VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 087. THE COUNCIL. BREADON. YES. IT'S APPROVING.
COUNCIL COLLETTE AS OPERA. YES. >> THAT'S A LIST. COUNCIL. >> YES. COUNCIL. >> PAPA I WANT TO. THANK THE FIRST COUNCILOR DURKAN. ONCE IT TOOK IN THIS COUNTRY FITZGERALD INTO SUCH AS
COUNCIL FLYNN WANT TO FIND COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MEMBER HERE. FOR ME HE HAS COUNCIL MURPHY DON'T YOU? YES, COUNCILOR PEPEN YES. NANCY PEPPERONI AS COUNCIL SANTANA.
COUNCIL. SANTANA. YES. CONSOLE WEBER ALSO. WEBER. YES. COUNCIL WILL RUN. YES. THANK YOU. WERE AROUND? YES. 12 VOTE NO FORMATIVE. THANK YOU. DOCKET 0878 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0879. DOCKET 0879 COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE ELIMINATION
FOR SUMMER BLOCK PARTY GRANTS. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. BOSTON IS CURRENTLY OFFERING
$750 GRANTS FOR SUMMER BLOCK PARTIES. THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS HISTORICALLY PROVIDED THESE GRANTS TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND CONNECT WITH NEIGHBORS.
HOWEVER, BOSTON IS ALSO CURRENTLY FACING DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES. IN MY OPINION WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE TO AFFORD
PAYING FOR PARTIES OR PAYING FOR UM, UNNECESSARY PROGRAMS WHILE WE'RE CUTTING SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WHILE WE'RE
CUTTING TEACHERS. WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION DURING THESE CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES, IT'S CRITICAL THAT BOSTON ELIMINATE THE SUMMER BLOCK PARTY GRANT AND
EVALUATE THE PROGRAM'S EFFECTIVENESS IN LONG TERM SUCCESS. WE MUST DEMONSTRATE FISCAL DISCIPLINE, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. FISCAL DISCIPLINE REQUIRES US
TO IMMEDIATELY ELIMINATE ANY PROGRAM THAT IS UNNECESSARY DURING THESE CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES. WE MUST ACCOUNT FOR EVERY DOLLAR WE RECEIVE AND WE SPEND .
AND WHEN TEACHERS ARE GETTING LAID OFF AND WE'RE CUTTING SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, I NEED TO DO MY DUE DILIGENCE TO FIND WHERE CUTS CAN BE MADE IN CITY GOVERNMENT AND THIS IS ONE
OF THEM. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU COUNCIL OFTEN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY CAPTAIN COUNTRY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM, I RISE TO SAY THAT I AM
OPPOSED TO THIS RESOLUTION AND PLANNING ON VOTING NO. UM, YESTERDAY WE WERE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CABINET AND ESPECIALLY FROM THE OFFICE OF CIVIC ORGANIZING WHERE THESE
GRANTS LIVE. AND WE WERE ABLE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MONEY ABOUT THE MONEY FROM WHERE WE GET THESE GRANTS FROM. AND WE LEARNED THAT THE MONEY THAT THEY'RE GETTING FUNDED NOT ONLY FOR THIS YEAR BUT IN
CONTINUING YEARS THEY'RE NOT FUNDED BY THE OPERATIONAL BUDGET. THEY'RE ACTUALLY BEING FUNDED BY PARTNERS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACTIVATING OUR SPACES.
UM, SO THE ONE THAT CLARIFIES THAT THIS IS NOT BEING OPERATIONAL MONEY IS NOT BEING USED FOR THESE GRANTS. TWO I HAVE NOTHING BUT GREAT EXPERIENCES IN MY DISTRICT WITH
THESE GRANTS BECAUSE WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE IS THE ACTIVATION OF RESIDENTS THAT DON'T USUALLY INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER. AND I HAVE TWO EXAMPLES OF TWO DIFFERENT BLOCK PARTIES IN
ROSLYN AND HYDE PARK THAT AS A RESULT OF THE ACTIVATION OF THE RESIDENTS BASED ON THESE GRANTS THERE HAS BEEN UM NEW CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS BE FUNDED BECAUSE
OF IT AND ONE I SEE THE PURPOSE OF THIS UM TO I THINK THAT THEY'RE VERY EFFECTIVE IN THREE UH, WE HAVE ELIMINATED THE CONCERN THAT THIS IS NOT COMING FROM THE OPERATIONAL BUDGET.
SO THAT'S WHY I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST THIS AND I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES TO. >> ALSO DO SO AS WELL. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM. >> I'M ALSO PRESENT TODAY. IN OPPOSITION TO THIS
RESOLUTION. UM. >> YOU KNOW, I THINK COUNCILOR PAPAD JUST MENTIONED UM, THE SOURCE OF THE FUNDING. UM, BUT ALSO SHE'S JUST AS CHAIR OF PUBLIC SAFETY ON THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL I THINK, UM, THE THE WEIGHT OF THESE
GRANTS TO TO PROVIDE BLOCK PARTIES TO BRING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER I THINK REALLY ADDS TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, ESPECIALLY DURING OUR SUMMER TIMES IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS TO GET TOGETHER FOR OUR NEIGHBOR,
FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TO KNOW WHO LIVES, UM WHO LIVES AROUND THEM, WHAT YOUTH ARE THERE ELDERLY ARE THERE. UM AND I THINK UM, AS WE'RE HEADING INTO A SUMMER WITH MANY ACTIVITIES UM I THINK UM THESE GRANTS ARE CRUCIAL TO OUR
PUBLIC SAFETY HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO I WILL BE VOTING UM, UM, IN OPPOSITION TO THIS RESOLUTION UM, TODAY AND I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO DO THE SAME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR UH DURKAN AND THEN WE'LL GO TO MARK HERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. UM, I'VE HAD SOME GREAT EXPERIENCES AT SOME OF THESE BLOCK PARTIES. UM, THE NORTH OF BEACON HILL
HAD NEVER HAD A PUBLIC EVENT UM BEFORE. AND THIS NEW NEIGHBOR GRACE ORGANIZED THIS BLOCK PARTY THAT WAS INCREDIBLE. IT WAS ALL YOUNG PEOPLE, ALL
RENTERS. UM, THEY THEY UM, SHUT DOWN UM, TWO BLOCKS AT PHILLIPS STREET AND UM IT WAS INCREDIBLE. THEY STARTED AN EMAIL LIST. THEY STARTED A WHATSAPP CHAIN.
THEY THE FRIENDSHIPS THAT WERE MADE UM, THE GRANT DIDN'T PAY FOR MUCH. UM BUT WHAT IT WHAT IT CREATED WAS COMMUNITY SAME ON KESWICK STREET AND SORT OF UN
CIRCLE UM WHERE NEIGHBORS CAME TOGETHER THE AUDUBON CIRCLE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ACT NOW I KNOW A LOT OF YOU KNOW THEM. THEY'RE A WELL KNOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND HOSTED THEIR FIRST EVER BLOCK PARTY ON
KESWICK STREET UM WITH THE SPOOKY STREETS GRANT UM WHILE I AM THE FIRST TO SAY FISCAL CONSERVATISM IS IMPORTANT, I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM FROM OUR COLLEAGUE
AND I UM I JUST WANT TO RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE, UM, WITH USING LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS IN THIS WAY BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE AS COUNSELORS WE HAVE POWER THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS TO REALLOCATE MONEY AND
MAKE DECISIONS AS A BODY. AND SO I THINK THIS JUST FEELS A LITTLE PREMATURE. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUDGET PROCESS AND WE EACH HAVE A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN. UM, BUT I DO WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE FOR HIS IDEAS AND HIS
THOUGHTS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE RESPECT EACH OTHER, THAT WE WORK TOGETHER AND THAT UM AND THAT WE ACTUALLY JUST VOTE, YOU KNOW, ON THE YOU KNOW, OUR CONSCIENCE MY EXPERIENCES IS
THAT, UM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CAME TO THIS NORTH END I'M SORRY, NORTH OF BEACON HILL PARTY. UM, THE FIRE TRUCK CAME, PEOPLE TOUCHED UH, TRUCK FOR THE FIRST
TIME I SAW KIDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I HAD NEVER MET BEFORE. I THINK IT'S FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING. IT'S FAMILY BUILDING. IF WE WANT TO BE A CITY THAT REALLY REPRESENTS EVERYONE AND AND IS GREAT FOR FAMILIES, THIS
IS PART OF THAT. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE COUNCILOR HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM, YOU KNOW. IT'S REALLY INTERESTING.
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE ARE. UTILIZING A. LOT OF THEATER. UH, LATELY. >> AND POLITICS AND UTILIZING OPPORTUNITIES TO BASH PEOPLE. AND I THINK AS IT.
RELATES TO THE BLOCK PARTIES, THERE'S A NARRATIVE THAT WE'RE BEING IRRESPONSIBLE IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE UTILIZING OUR MONEY. THERE'S A. >> LOT OF IRRESPONSIBILITY HAPPENING HERE AS IT RELATES TO BUDGET AND IF WE'RE NOT LOOKING
AT HOW WE'RE SPENDING MONEY ON A STADIUM BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BLOCK. PARTY GRANTS, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE OUR PRIORITIES ARE. BUT I WILL SAY I AM GOING TO BE
UM, OPPOSING THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION BECAUSE OF THE INTENT. UM, I THINK THAT IF WE'RE REALLY. SERIOUS ABOUT BEING. FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WHEN IT'S TIME FOR US TO TAKE VOTES ON
THE THINGS THAT PROVIDE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL, UH, WELL-BEING TO OUR RESIDENTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ENTIRE BUDGET. NOT JUST PICKING AND CHOOSING THINGS THAT FEEL LIKE FLUFF
WHEN IN REALITY THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF OUR RESIDENTS IS A PUBLIC SAFETY TACTIC. IT BUILDS COMMUNITY BECAUSE I
KNOW I GREW UP HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I KNEW ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS WHEN I GREW. UP HERE. >> BECAUSE WE USED TO HAVE BLOCK PARTIES AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A DINER TO PUT TOGETHER ONE, BUT WE STILL GOT TOGETHER AND ORGANIZED AS A COMMUNITY.
SO THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT THE CITY UTILIZING RESOURCES TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH TRAUMA THAT
WE'RE ALL EXPERIENCING TODAY. SO EVEN IF IT'S. JUST FOR THE SAKE OF BUILDING COMMUNITY SO PEOPLE CAN ORGANIZE AROUND THE ISSUES THAT THEY. CARE ABOUT, MAYBE IT'S A BLOCK
PARTY BUT WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU'RE DOING IT WITH A TWIST. WE'RE ORGANIZING AROUND FIXING SOMETHING THAT. IS BROKEN IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. SO THEN THAT.
WAY WE CAN STILL GATHER AS A COMMUNITY. AND DO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS US TOGETHER AND LET'S JUST STOP ALL THIS DIVISIVE POLITICS BECAUSE NOBODY'S WINNING HERE. WE JUST LIKE.
EVERYBODY JUST STOP WITH. ALL OF THE DRAMA. THANK YOU CROSS MEDIA. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CANADA'S APPAREL. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
UM, I'M RESPECTFULLY I WILL BE VOTING NO ON THIS. I THINK THESE, UH THESE GRANTS AS COUNCILOR PRESENT HAD POINTED OUT IS BEING FUNDED BY PARTNERSHIP PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS. WE HAVE A LARGE COLOMBIAN AND
MOROCCAN COMMUNITY, UH, IN EAST BOSTON AND UM, I KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE UTILIZED IN A WAY THAT, UH, ONLY STRENGTHENS OUR COMMUNITIES. I CANNOT WAIT TO LITERALLY SHARE THIS WITH MY NEIGHBORS
WHO ARE PUTTING THIS ON. IT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER. UM, IT'S GOING TO CREATE A SAFE SPACE. UH, SO THAT PUBLIC SAFETY LENS WAS WELL TAKEN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR FOR BRINGING THAT FORWARD AS WELL.
SO UM AND WE DID SEE IN COPA AMERICA WHEN COLOMBIA WAS IN UM I. >> KNOW. THAT'S THAT'S A TOUGH SUBJECT FOR COLOMBIAN FANS INCLUDING MY HUSBAND BUT WHEN THEY WERE IN COPA AMERICA WE SAW AN OVERRUN OF BARS AND RESTAURANTS AND IT
REALLY WAS UNTENABLE. AND SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO TRY TO MANAGE THE SITUATION, MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE ENGAGING IN FAMILY FRIENDLY AND COMMUNITY SAFE ONE THANK YOU. THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I RESPECT MY COLLEAGUES UM, OPPOSITION TO THIS AMENDMENT UH TO THIS RESOLUTION I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT I DON'T I
DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL I DON'T I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THOUGH THAT I AGREE WITH THEM. PEOPLE DO HAVE A GOOD TIME AT THESE BLOCK PARTIES AND IT DOES BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE FUN TO GO TO. I JUST THINK DURING THIS CHALLENGING TIME WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR IT. LET ME BE CLEAR THIS IS CITY MONEY.
ANY DOLLAR THAT COMES INTO THE CITY IN THAT IS SPENT BY THE CITY WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR UH WE RAISE TAXES.
WE RAISE PROPERTY TAXES THE LAST TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS DOUBLE DIGITS IT DOES SET IT DOES LEAVE A BAD TASTE IN
PEOPLE'S MOUTHS THAT GET THEIR PROPERTY TAX RAISED 13% OR 10%. AND THEN WHEN THEY SEE THE LET'S SEE THE CITY OF BOSTON SPENDING MONEY ON ON PARTIES,
WE HEAR THE CRITICISM FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES. I'M TRYING TO WORK ON GETTING PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR HOMEOWNERS. ,BUT. >> I I DO BELIEVE IT SETS THE
WRONG EXAMPLE WHEN THE ECONOMY OF BOSTON IS STRUGGLING, WHEN WE'RE CUTTING SERVICES TO RESIDENTS IN NEED. DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT THE CUTTING THE VETERANS TO BUDGET
BUDGET 40% THAT EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE'RE CUTTING THE CITY OF BOSTON VETERANS BUDGET 40% A LOT OF THE FUNDING IS GOING TO VETERANS IN NEED.
UM, I'M GOING TO FIGHT TO TRY TO KEEP THAT UM KEEP THAT CUT FROM HAPPENING. BUT HOW COULD I VOTE FOR BLOCK PARTIES AND ON THE OTHER HAND
CUT THE BUDGET FOR THE VETERANS DEPARTMENT? WE HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT. WE HAVE TO DETERMINE WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT SERVICES FOR
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FOR VETERANS OR FOR BLOCK PARTIES. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. UH, CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. YEAH. >> UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM PRESIDENT, I JUST DO WE
DID HAVE THIS DISCUSSION. I KNOW COUNCILOR PEPEN MENTIONED IT BRIEFLY IN A WAYS AND MEANS UH, HEARING YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WERE TOLD WAS THAT THERE IS NO MONEY BEING USED
THIS FISCAL YEAR FOR OR THE SUMMER BLOCK PARTIES THAT MAY BE HELD, UH, YOU KNOW, IN JUNE AND THAT IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR YOU KNOW, ANY UH, BLOCK PARTIES SUMMER IN THE SUMMER
SPOOKY HALLOWEEN RELATED BLOCK PARTIES WOULD BE COMING FROM, YOU KNOW, PARTNERSHIPS AND PRIVATE GRANTS. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT IS THAT INFORMATION WE WILL, YOU KNOW,
INFLUENCES HOW I'M VOTING ON THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. >> OKAY. >> UM, COUNTRY. YEAH. YOU HAD YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I DO HAVE. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM. >> SO I'M NOT SURE IF YOU.
GUYS AND. >> I'M SURE THAT YOU HEARD RIGHT THAT UH THAT BPD RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE A BUDGET OF $55.6 MILLION AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CUTTING BUDGETS AND WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT REALLOCATING RESOURCES. >> WE HAVE. AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAP INTO OTHER BUDGETS IF WE'RE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF EVERYBODY AND ALSO IF WE REALLY WANT TO BE
PROBLEM SOLVERS, COMMUNITY POLICING AND THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ALSO HAS A FUND WHERE THEY ALSO UTILIZE THEIR DOLLARS TO
PROVIDE ENTERTAINMENT TO COMMUNITY. SO WHY DON'T WE JUST. BRIDGE THESE TWO GROUPS TOGETHER AND MAYBE THEY CAN HAVE BLOCK PARTIES TOGETHER AND THEN THAT WAY EVERYBODY WINS
LIKE HELLO EVERYBODY LET'S GET TO A PLACE WHERE EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE WE'RE WINNING. THANK YOU GUYS WE'RE HERE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE MURPHY AND THEN WE'LL GO TO CONSTABLE
WORRELL YES CONSTABLE RAEL. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO RISE BECAUSE MOST TIMES NOT ALL. BUT MOST TIMES WHEN WE FILE RESOLUTIONS WE ARE REMINDED EITHER BY THE FILER OR OTHER
PEOPLE WHO STAND. >> UP AND SPEAK. >> IS THAT THESE ARE NON-BINDING, THAT IT IS JUST A. STATEMENT EITHER. OF OUR VALUES OR A MESSAGE WE WANT TO SEND A VOTE YES. >> OR. NO OR. BLOCKING THIS IS NOT GOING TO
TOUCH OR. CHANGE WHAT. THE OFFICE OF CIVIC ORGANIZING IS DOING THIS SUMMER, WHAT THEY'RE PLANNING. >> ON DOING IN THE FALL. AND LIKE MANY. DEPARTMENTS UNFORTUNATELY THEY'RE TELLING US THAT. MANY OF THE.
GRANTS AND FUNDING THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO GIVE OUT WILL NO LONGER BE THERE. THEY'RE HOPING TO FIND NEW FUNDING. >> AND THAT IS ADMIRABLE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME I DO RESPECT COUNCIL FLYNN'S INTENT
TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE RESIDENTS AND AS AN AT LARGE CITY COUNCILOR AND ALL OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS I HEAR IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN IS THAT IT'S JUST SO EXPENSIVE TO LIVE HERE. OUR TAXES CONTINUE. TO BE. >> RAISED AND THEY'RE
QUESTIONING WHAT. >> ARE. WE ACTUALLY SPENDING OUR MONEY ON? ONE OF THE REASONS WHY COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I DID CALL FOR AN AUDIT WHICH WAS JUST LOOK CLOSELY AT ARE WE. BEING THE MOST.
FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WE CAN AT EVERY LEVEL ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON? SO FOR. >> ME. THIS IS. >> JUST A MESSAGE THAT A SUMMER BLOCK PARTY NO MONEY SHOULD BE GOING TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND MANY OF US KNOW THAT ALMOST
ALL OF THE EVENTS AND BLOCK PARTIES. WE GO TO ARE NOT. FUNDED THROUGH. THESE GRANTS IS A SMALL NUMBER OF ACTUAL BLOCK PARTIES THAT WE HAVE AND ON THAT MOST OR ALL
OF THEM AROUND THE CITY MYSELF OR MY TEAM AND ENJOY THEM AND KNOW THE VALUE THEY GIVE. SO FOR ME THIS IS NOT ABOUT SAYING THAT THE INTENT TO BLOCK PARTIES. >> AND. GRANTS AREN'T A GOOD IDEA. IT'S SAYING THAT WE REALLY DO. WE'RE HALFWAY.
>> IT. SEEMS THROUGH THE BUDGET. SEASON BEN MIGHT SAY WE'RE NOWHERE NEAR HALF, BUT I KNOW WE'RE GETTING. TO A. >> PLACE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO START MAKING HARD DECISIONS. WE HAVEN'T EVEN TALKED ABOUT AMENDMENTS. WE KNOW LIKE COUNCILOR FLYNN
SAID, THE VETERANS DEPARTMENT A VERY. SMALL BUDGET IS BEING CUT 14% TO ME THAT'S JUST UNACCEPTABLE . SO ANY WAY WE CAN. >> SAY TO THE RESIDENTS WE HEAR YOU. >> WE CARE, WE WILL BE. FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSTABLE WORRELL. UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I, UH, DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND THE INTENT, UM, AROUND WHAT COUNCILOR FLYNN IS
LOOKING TO DO BUT ALSO JUST UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE A LARGE PORTION OF THESE, UH, BLOCK PARTIES ARE COMING FROM EXTERNAL GRANT. UH, AND WE CANNOT REALLOCATE
THOSE EXTERNAL GRANTS TO, UH, BACKFILL UH, ANY OTHER CUTS WITHIN THE OPERATING BUDGET. SO, UH, KNOWING THAT INFORMATION I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE. BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THE INTENT,
UM, THAT WE HAVE TO BE FISCAL RESPONSIBLE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING BASIC CITY SERVICES, UM, AT THIS TIME WHERE REVENUES ARE NOT GROWING OR THE PROJECTED REVENUE, UM,
IN THE BUDGET HAS NOT GROWN UM ,AS FAST AS, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS YEARS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> I WILL SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT BLOCK PARTIES. UM, I THINK UM, MY EXPERIENCE
WAS NEW. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A BLOCK PARTY WAS BEFORE I CAME TO BOSTON, BUT UM, IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WE HAVE A FEW REALLY GOOD BLOCK PARTIES WHERE FOLKS WHO LIVE IN GROUP HOMES
AND FOLKS WHO WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE, UH, ENGAGED WITH THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY ALL ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE AND COME AND JOIN THE FUN AND I JUST FEEL IT'S AN INCREDIBLE
OPPORTUNITY. MANY OF YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO THE BENEFITS OF OF BLOCK PARTIES AS A WAY TO BUILD COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION AND HAVE PEOPLE FEEL SEEN AND RECOGNIZED IN THEIR
NEIGHBORHOOD. SO UM I, I AM A BIG PROPONENT OF BLOCK PARTIES, UH, FULLY UNDERSTANDING COUNCILOR FLYNN'S CONCERNS ABOUT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY BUT ALSO WITH
THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CLARIFIED THE OTHER DAY WHEN WE HAD A HEARING THAT, UH, THERE'S EXTERNAL FUNDS THAT ARE BROUGHT IN TO UH HOPEFULLY UM, SUPPORT UH, CONTINUING UH, THESE
OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD COMMUNITY ACROSS THE CITY. SO I AM NOW GOING TO UH MOVE TO UH ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER, COUNCILOR MURPHY.
COUNCILOR FLYNN SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0879. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0879. >> ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 087
. I'M KIND OF CELEBRATING. NO, I SUPPORT AND COUNCIL. COLOR PARA CHOCOLATE ISABELLA FONSECA PEPPER. AND TO. >> CONFIRM DUNCAN. IT'S A DUCK.
AND COUNCIL FITZGERALD. COUNCIL FLYNN. ONCE A 14. YEARS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MEMBER HERE WE SHOULD MOVE HERE. NO. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCIL MURPHY. YES.
CONCEPT PROPOSED. NO COUNCIL. SANTANA. COUNCIL. SANTANA. NO COUNCIL. WEBER. I'M SO GLAD. >> I COUNCIL WILL ARRIVE. UNTIL OUR UM. NO. ,THIS DID NOT PASS.
>> I'VE GOT THREE. VOTES AND AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. DOCKET 0879. >> HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0880.
DOCKET 0880 COUNCIL FITZGERALD OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DECLARING POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRA FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD, UH. COUNCILOR FLYNN AS. >> A SECOND CO-SPONSOR. UM, COUNCILOR FRIEND SO ADDED. THANK YOU. UH, AND MAY 3RD. 1791 THE. FIRST MODERN CONSTITUTION IN
EUROPE WAS MADE. IT WAS THE POLISH UH UH CONSTITUTION UH AND THEREFORE. UH I'D LIKE TO DO THIS RESOLUTION. DECLARING POLISH. CONSTITUTION DAY. >> WE ARE DOING THE. POLISH FLAG RAISING NEXT WEEK. UH I'VE GOT. POLISH FOR TWO.
DAYS, MIKE AND COMING IN BEFORE. >> THE BEFORE OUR. UH, COUNCIL MEETING. SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL. >> DO A NICE FLAG. RAISING, COME BACK, HAVE SOME GREAT POLISH. >> FOOD AND CELEBRATE THE. POLISH COMMUNITY. UH, AS I REPRESENT THE POLISH TRIANGLE IN DISTRICT THREE. UH AND POLISH FEST WILL BE
COMING UP AS WELL. UH, SO FOR ALL MY AT-LARGE. COUNCILORS BUT DISTRICT AS WELL IT'S ACTUALLY A GREAT. IT'S A GREAT TIME. UH AND I RECOMMEND ANYONE COME CHECKING IT OUT. UH, AND COME CHECKING OUT. THE POLISH CLUB AS WELL.
CHEAP MEMBERSHIP, CHEAP BEER. WHAT ABOUT PIEROGIES? I'M GOING TO HAVE SOME. OKAY, I GOT YOU. OKAY. YOU, UM, CHAIR. RECOGNIZES CONSOLATION COUNCIL FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCIL FITZGERALD FOR ADDING ME. I LIVE NEAR THE POLISH TRIANGLE OFF OF ANDREW SQUARE. I LIVE NEAR ON DORCHESTER, UH,
DORCHESTER STREET AND UM F STREET AREA UM, WHICH IS JUST A SHORT WALK FROM THE POLISH TRIANGLE. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE POLISH TRIANGLE. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE
POLISH PEOPLE, THE CULTURE, THE HISTORY UH THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT POLAND IN 1980 UH SEVEN
WITH WITH MAY HAVE FUN. UM THAT'S WHEN THE UM SHIPYARD WORKERS AND GRANTS WERE ON STRIKE AND WE WENT IN TO SEE
UM, WALESA, WALESA UM IN THE SHIPYARD WAS CALLED THE GOOD ON SHIPYARD OR AT THAT TIME WAS CALLED THE LENIN SHIPYARD. ACTUALLY AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET UM WITH THE
SOLIDARITY TRADE UNION. THESE WERE THESE WERE MEN AND WOMEN THAT WERE FIGHTING THE COMMUNISTS THAT REALLY CHANGED HISTORY. THEY CAME IN DEFEATED DEFEATED
COMMUNISM, UH THE COLD WAR BUT THEY CONTRIBUTED SO GREATLY HERE IN BOSTON AND CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE AND SO MANY WONDERFUL CITIES ACROSS AMERICA LARGE UM
POLISH AND POLISH AMERICAN UM CITIES AND WE RECOGNIZE THEM FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, THEIR SACRIFICES, THEIR DEDICATION, THEIR COMMITMENT TO OUR NATION.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE ON ACTIVE DUTY WITH MANY POLISH AMERICANS. I SAW THEIR INCREDIBLE BRAVERY . I SAW THEIR HEROISM. I SAW THEIR DEVOTION TO THE UNITED STATES. BUT KNOW WHAT I LOVED ABOUT
ABOUT THEM AS WELL. WE WOULD BE ON THE ON A NAVY SHIP UM, REGARDLESS OF WHERE WE WERE WOULD BE SITTING AROUND TALKING AND HAVING COFFEE.
THEY WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THEIR UH, GRANDPARENTS LIVING IN POLAND OR SOME OF THE STORIES ABOUT THEIR CULTURE. I LEARNED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT FROM MY SAILORS FELLOW SAILORS
BUT ALSO I LEARNED A LOT FROM RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE POLISH TRIANGLE AT THE UH POLISH CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND MY FATHER ACTUALLY WAS BORN ON BOSTON
STREET WHICH WAS RIGHT NEXT TO THE POLISH TRIANGLE WHICH IS AND WHICH IS IN DORCHESTER. UM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. UH, CONSTABLE. FITZGERALD, YOU. >> HAVE THE FLOOR. CAN I SUSPEND THE RULES. >> THAT COUNCILOR MURPHY PRESENT? UM. >> THANK YOU.
>> HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTIONS. COUNCILOR MURPHY'S IS AT IT. COMES TO MURPHY. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. >> THANK YOU. >> COUNCIL. FITZGERALD FOR ADDING ME. I ALSO REPRESENT THE POLISH TRIANGLE BUT. UM. >> HAVE BEEN.
>> THERE MANY TIMES. SHOUT OUT TO THE POLISH CLUB. IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, I HAVE BEEN TO THE MASS THERE AND. >> I KNOW EVERY YEAR WHEN. >> WE HAVE THE FLAG RAISING. >> SO MANY OF THE COMMUNITY COME AND THEY REALLY ENJOY. THAT DAY. >> IT'S A IT'S. >> PROBABLY. ONE OF MY FAVORITE. >> FLAG.
RAISINGS DURING THE YEAR MANY COME. DRESSED IN THEIR. RED IN THEIR. CULTURAL OUTFITS BUT I DO JUST WANT TO UPLIFT UM. I OFTEN FEEL THERE'S. COMMUNITIES IN. BRIGHTON THAT I SEE THIS IN
OTHER PLACES AROUND THE CITY BUT WHEN. SO MANY OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS REALLY TRY TO MAKE SURE IN OUR BUSY SCHEDULES TO SHOW UP TIME AND TIME AGAIN WHEN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES REACH OUT.
AND NOT JUST MYSELF, COUNCIL FITZGERALD AND COUNCILOR FLYNN WHO ARE OFTEN. THERE AT THE UM POLISH CLUB OR JUST UM EVENTS AROUND THERE ALSO STATE REPRESENTATIVE MORAN, STATE REPRESENTATIVE
BILL AND SENATOR COLLINS ARE OFTEN THERE AND I THINK THAT JUST SHOWS THE. CONNECTION THEY HAVE. AND THEIR ADVOCACY TO. UPLIFT AND KNOW. THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH US AND.
IN MANY WAYS, UM, YOU KNOW, AND CALL US OUT IN A GOOD WAY TO. ADVOCATE AND MAKE SURE. >> THAT THEIR COMMUNITY THAT. NEEDS OUR VOICES IS HEARD. SO LOOKING FORWARD. >> TO THE FLAG RAISING ALL THE EVENTS THAT THEY HAVE YEAR ROUND. BUT THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. >> FOR. ADDING ME.
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PEPEN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. I THINK IN MY FIRST YEAR AS COUNCILOR I WAS ABLE TO JOIN
COUNCILOR FITZGERALD HASN'T PIEROGIS AND HAD FUN. UH, BUT. >> I ALSO KNOW THAT A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT FIVE IS SITTING BEHIND ME STEVE POFF TECH WHO IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE UM THE POLISH AMERICAN CITIZENS CLUB IN DORCHESTER.
SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE MY UM, RESIDENT A SHOUT OUT FOR ALL THE WORK THAT. >> HE DOES. AND UH. >> YEAH, JUST. LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING IN SUPPORT OF THIS. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME COUNCILOR CULPEPER,
COUNCILOR DURKAN? UH. COUNCILOR PEPEN, COUNCILOR. SANTANA, COUNCILOR. WEBER, COUNCILOR WERE AROUND. PLEASE HAVE THE CHAIR. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FLYNN AND
MURPHY SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0880. UH, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0880 ROLL.
CALL VOTE ON DOCKET. 0880 COUNCIL BURDEN. YES, IT'S A BURDEN. >> THAT'S COUNCIL COLOR BOROUGH CONCEPT CALLED PEPPER. IT'S. >> CONSIDERED TOKEN CONCEPT OPEN AS COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IS
FITZGERALD IS JOCELYN. YES TO. FROM LOUIJEUNE ON SOMEWHERE HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY THAT'S A MONTHLY YES CONCEPT MAP ON.
COUNTY COUNCIL SANTANA YES AS THE SANTANA SPONSOR WHOEVER. WANTS A WEB BASED CONTENT BUREAU. YEAH I SAW ARABIANS. 24 56789.
TEN VOTE IN THEIR FORMATIVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. DOCKET 0880 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0881. DOCKET 0881
COUNCILOR FITZGERALD OR FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING NATIONAL TEACHER. APPRECIATION WEEK. UH COUNCILOR UH THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FITZGERALD . I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A PERSONAL INTEREST IN RECOGNIZING
TEACHERS. I DO. I DO THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH, COULD I ALSO. >> ADD COUNCILOR MEJA. AND SUSPEND THE RULES OF THAT COUNCILOR MURPHY? UH, COUNCILMEMBER HE IS ADDED AND SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS COUNCILMEMBER MURPHY
IS ADDED AS A THIRD. THANK YOU. >> YES. UH COUNCIL PRESIDENT YOU CORRECT UH, USUALLY WHEN I DO THIS EACH YEAR IT ENDS. >> UP BEING AN ODE. TO MY. >> WIFE AND UH BUT I WILL. >> SAY THAT, UH, THE PASSION AT WHICH I SPEAK TO HER WORK I KNOW THERE ARE MANY OTHER PEOPLE. >> OUT THERE. EITHER THE SPOUSES. OF TEACHERS.
OR HAVE KIDS. >> THAT ARE BEING TAUGHT BY THEIR TEACHERS OR. A FAMILY. THAT ARE TEACHERS AND SO IT REALLY DOES IMPACT ANYONE. SO I HOPE I CAN. DO JUSTICE FOR ALL UH. WHEN I TALK ABOUT IT. BUT UH, WHEN I SEE THE WORK
THAT MY WIFE PUTS IN EVERY. DAY UH, FOR THE KIDS, UH, TEACHING AT A. >> PUBLIC SCHOOL. THAT, UH. SHE PUTS HER HEART INTO IT INTO HELPING THE KIDS LEARN, HELPING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES, HELPING KIDS WITH PROBLEMS, HELPING
KIDS WITH THEIR HOME PROBLEMS THAT THEY BRING INTO SCHOOL WITH THEM. UH. >> AND THE AMOUNT IT TAKES. >> OUT OF YOU TO DO THAT? I MEAN, SHE'S NOT JUST RAISING MY THREE KIDS. SHE'S RAISING A WHOLE COMMUNITY'S WORTH OF KIDS. UM, AND I KNOW HOW MUCH THREE KIDS TAKES OUT OF ME.
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE MULTIPLYING THAT TENFOLD OVER. RIGHT. UH, AND SHE DOES IT. SHE'S BEEN DOING IT FOR 20 YEARS, UH, WITH SO MUCH. LOVE. >> SO MUCH CARING. UM, AND IT REALLY IS AS MUCH AS WE NEED MORE MALE TEACHERS TO
BE THERE FOR FOR A LOT OF OUR KIDS, IT'S THE CARE THAT COMES FROM. THE WOMAN. THAT REALLY IS WHAT MAKES A TEACHER A TEACHER AND IT'S VERY HARD TO REPLICATE. I DON'T KNOW IF IT CAN BE UM
AND SO IT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT TO OUR FEMALE EDUCATORS I'D LIKE TO CALL OUT THE MOST UH, JUST BECAUSE IT'S THEY'RE NOT IN IT FOR THE MONEY. UM, AND THAT I THINK SHOWS THE TRUE SIGN OF WHO THEY ARE, UH,
AND KNOWING THAT NEVER MIND NOT IN FOR THE MONEY. THEY'RE NOT IN IT FOR THEIR OWN MONEY BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY HALF THE TIME FOR ALL. THE STUFF. IN THEIR CLASSROOM. WHICH WAS MIND BLOWING TO ME WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THAT THAT SCHOOLS DON'T PAY. FOR THE STUFF THAT.
GOES INTO A TEACHER'S CLASSROOM BUT IT COMES OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET. UM, AND SO THAT WAS A HARSH REALITY UH, WHEN I DATED MY THAT MY NOT WIFE UM. BUT UH.
ALL TO SAY UH, IT'S TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK. THEY SHOULD BE THE HIGHEST PAID PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE CITY. UH, AND I WILL. >> ALWAYS CONTINUE. >> TO. ADVOCATE FOR THAT. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. UH, CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE COMES FROM
ME. HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. >> AND I. >> WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, UH, FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOMENTS
WHERE I THINK WE CAN PAUSE AND RECOGNIZE SOMETHING THAT WE ALL KNOW BUT DON'T ALWAYS SAY ENOUGH AND THAT'S THANK YOU TO OUR TEACHERS, UM, ACROSS BOSTON IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CHARTERS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND
EARLY EDUCATION CENTERS, TEACHERS ARE SHOWING UP EVERY DAY FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO JUST TO TEACH BUT TO SUPPORT, GUIDE AND RESPOND TO WHATEVER STUDENTS ARE CARRYING INTO THE CLASSROOM. AND IN THAT SAME BREATH WE HAVE
TO BE HONEST ABOUT. WHAT EDUCATORS ARE UM, DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW WE'RE HEARING DIRECTLY FROM TEACHERS ABOUT CLASSROOMS WITH MULTIPLE STUDENTS WITH IEPS AND ONLY 1
OR 2 ADULTS IN THE ROOM. WE'RE SEEING THE IMPACT OF BUDGET DECISIONS ON STAFFING AND SUPPORT. EDUCATORS ARE RAISING ALARM ABOUT THE THE MEANS FOR STUDENTS AND FOR THEIR ABILITY
TO DO THEIR JOBS WELL. THEY'RE NOT JUST ASKING FOR APPRECIATION. THEY'RE CALLING ON US TO LISTEN AND RESPOND. THIS IS THIS WORKFORCE. LARGELY IS MADE UP OF WOMEN
WHOSE LABOR AND CARE OFTEN GOES UNRECOGNIZED. SO THIS WEEK IS ABOUT GRATITUDE BUT IT'S ALSO ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY AND ALIGNMENT. AND I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND I'LL JUST. WHATEVER TIME I. >> HAVE.
LEFT I JUST MEAN QUICKLY AND I WISH I COULD REMEMBER HER NAME BUT ALL I REMEMBER WAS THAT SHE WAS MY SIXTH GRADE TEACHER AT THE DONALD MCKAY AND.
UM SHE. LITERALLY TOOK ME IN. UM FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND I JUST WANT TO JUST THANK HER. BECAUSE SHE LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE. UM. >> AND SO TEACHERS DO I MEAN,
BACK THEN THEY PROBABLY GOT INTO TROUBLE AND I HOPE I DON'T GET IN TROUBLE NOW, BUT BUT ANYWAYS, IT WAS AN INTERVENTION . I GOT TO STAY WITH HER. UM, IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I
NEEDED AND TEACHERS DO SO MUCH MORE OF THAT WORK STILL HERE TODAY WITH SO MANY KIDS WHO ARE IN HOMES THAT ARE. USUALLY NOT SAFE. . >> THANK YOU. CATCH ME IN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY,
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UM, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT . THANK YOU. COUNCIL FITZGERALD. FOR ADDING ME AS A. I GUESS YOU'D NEVER. >> STOP BEING AN EDUCATOR. BUT FOR A TEACHER FOR 20 SOMETHING YEARS I'M ALSO NOW
THE MOTHER I GUESS FOR FIVE YEARS NOW MY DAUGHTER. IS A. TEACHER SO I. CONTINUE TO SEE. FIRSTHAND THE DEDICATION. >> THAT IS PUT INTO IT. I ALWAYS SAY IT'S NOT A PROFESSION, IT'S A CALLING AND
FOR THOSE WHO. DO IT WELL WHICH. ALMOST ALL OF THEM DO YOU KNOW THEY REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN. WHEN I AM. OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UM AND.
IF I'M VISITING SCHOOLS WHICH ARE. >> MY. FAVORITE THINGS TO DO, I'M OFTEN ASKED BY THE STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU DO? MANY OF US PROBABLY GET THAT QUESTION LIKE. WHAT DO YOU DO? WHAT DOES THE CITY COUNCIL DO? AND UM, I OFTEN SAY THAT YOU
KNOW, I GO TO WORK TO FIGHT FOR MAKING SURE YOUR CITY IS LIKE. YOU KNOW, BUT YOU. HAVE THE BEST CITY TO LIVE IN AND THEN AS YOU GROW OLDER THAT THE CITY IS WORKING. >> FOR YOU. BUT MY FAVORITE TIME IS WHEN I'M ABLE TO VISIT OUR STUDENTS
AND SEE THEM OUT IN THE. COMMUNITY AT SPORTING EVENTS OR AT SCHOOL EVENTS. SO THANK YOU FOR UM. THIS BODY FOR ALWAYS RECOGNIZING AND UPLIFTING THE WORK. EVERY TIME. UH, WE. >> KNOW.
NOT JUST DURING BUDGET CUTS. I KNEW AS AN EDUCATOR. YOU ARE ALWAYS. SPENDING YOUR. >> OWN. MONEY LIKE. COUNCIL. >> FITZGERALD SAID. >> BUT NOT. JUST FOR. THE EXTRAS. >> YOU ARE. BUYING REAMS OF PAPER TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN MAKE COPIES. YOU ARE DOING THINGS THAT MOST
PEOPLE WOULDN'T BELIEVE. YOU KNOW YOU ARE BUYING THE CLOROX WIPES. YOU ARE BUYING THE HEALTHY SNACKS AND ALTHOUGH OUR SCHOOL BUDGET DOES SHOW THOSE THINGS ARE THERE, WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE NOT THERE ALL THE TIME IN EVERY
CLASSROOM. AND SO THANK YOU TO THE TEACHERS WHO ARE DOING THAT AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE SACRIFICING KNOWING THAT MANY TIMES TEACHERS. >> ARE. BUYING SNEAKERS, ARE BUYING A
JACKET OR A SCHOOL BAG FOR A STUDENT WHICH MEANS THEIR CHILD MAY NOT BE GETTING SOMETHING. SO NO, EVEN THOUGH. I'M A STRONG UM ADVOCATE AND OFTEN AM ASKING TOUGH QUESTIONS OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
>> IT IN NO WAY HAS EVER. MEANT THAT I DON'T CARE AND UPLIFT THE TEACHERS IN OUR CITY. SO THANK YOU TO ALL THE TEACHERS IF YOU WORK AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL, A PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, PRIVATE OR CHARTER. WE APPRECIATE. >> YOU. .
>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY. UM, WOULD ANYONE, UM, LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR CULPEPER, COUNCILOR DURKAN. COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCILOR. UM. >> PEPEN. >> COUNCILOR. SANTANA. COUNCILOR.
WEBER. CONSTABLE REDMOND, PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR. COUNCILORS FITZGERALD, MEJIA AND MURPHY SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0881.
ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I. MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0881. ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET. 0881 COUNCIL. BREADON. >> YES. COUNCIL.
POTTER. CULPEPER. YES. >> ONCE I'VE. GOT THAT CONCEPT OPEN. CONCEPT OPEN. IT'S GOING TO FITZGERALD. WHY DON'T YOU. PUT YOUR LAST POINT OFFLINE? YES. >> WHICH IS FINISHED. SO LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR MEJIA.
COUNCIL MEMBER HERE? YES. COUNCIL MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS CONCEPT OPEN. . >> THUMBS UP THE. FABULOUS CONCEPT SANTANA. MONTESSORI DEVICE COUNCIL WEBER
COUNCIL WHERE I STAND SEVERAL. YES SO SAW BEING 123456. 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. UH, DOCKET 0881 HAS BEEN
ADOPTED. UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0882088. TO COUNCILOR? I'LL OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZE AND MAY
1ST, 2026 AS DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE DAY. IN THE CITY OF. BOSTON. CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WIRRAL COUNCIL. MEMBER OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I LIKE TO ADD CONCILOR MEJIA HERE AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR .
UH COUNCILMEMBER HERE SO AND AND. >> I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD UH COUNCILOR. CO PEPPER AS A THIRD ORIGINAL. CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND HEARING NO UH, OBJECTION. COUNCILOR CULPEPER IS OUT OF THIS. THIRD UH, THANK YOU, MADAM
PRESIDENT. I'M PROUD TO STAND IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 1ST AS DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, DOCTOR MAGUIRE'S WORK. HAS SHAPED THE TRAJECTORY
OF THIS CITY IN WAYS THAT ARE BOTH HISTORIC AND DEEPLY FELT ACROSS GENERATIONS. FOR MANY OF US AND ME PERSONALLY, IMPACT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CARRY WITH US EVERY DAY. AS A MEDICAL STUDENT, I'M A
DIRECT REFLECTION OF THE OPPORTUNITY SHE FOUGHT TO CREATE AT A TIME WHEN ACCESS WAS NOT GUARANTEED. DOCTOR MAGUIRE WAS AMONG THE LEADERS WHO MADE SURE YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE ME WERE GIVEN A
REAL CHANCE TO SUCCEED. THAT KIND OF LEADERSHIP DOES MORE THAN JUST OPEN DOORS. IT CHANGES THE COURSE OF PEOPLE'S LIVES. THROUGH HER LEADERSHIP WITH METCO AND HER SERVICE ON THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SHE
WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN ELECTED TO, SHE HELPED REDEFINE WHAT EDUCATIONAL ACCESS COULD LOOK LIKE IN THIS CITY. HER WORK CREATED PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR TO STEP INTO
SPACES THAT HAVE BEEN LONG OUT OF REACH AND TO DO SO WITH THE SUPPORT AND EXPECTATION THAT SUCCESS AND HER LEGACY IS NOT SOMETHING WE LOOK BACK ON IS SOMETHING WE ARE STILL CALLED TO LIVE UP TO.
WE KNOW THE WORK AND PROVEN EDUCATED EDUCATED EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES IS FAR FROM DONE. BUT DOCTOR MCGUIRE'S WORK REMINDS US OF WHAT IT TAKES TO MOVE THAT WORK FORWARD COMMITMENT, FLAHERTY AND A
BELIEF IN THE POTENTIAL OF EVERY YOUNG PERSON IN THIS CITY. I'M HONORED TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND TO RECOGNIZE DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE FOR A LASTING IMPACT SHE'S HAD ON THE CITY ON SO MANY LIVES.
I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A TIME TO CELEBRATE AND ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF MECO. UM AND ALSO UH THIS YEAR, UH, DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE TURNED 95.
UH, AND IT'S A LEGACY UH IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO UPLIFT EVERY YEAR AND WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THE SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR.
WELL, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE COMES FROM HERE. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL WORRELL. FOR ADDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL
CO-SPONSOR. I AM SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED. UM, TO SUPPORT, UH, THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE AND HER LEGACY. DOCTOR MCGUIRE'S IMPACT ON
BOSTON IS DEEP AND LASTING. AS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED TO THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND A FOUNDING FORCE BEHIND METCO, SHE HELPED OPEN DOORS FOR GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS WHO HAD LONG BEEN
DENIED ACCESS TO EQUITABLE EDUCATION. AND AS SOMEONE WHO GREW UP HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON DURING THE BUSSING ERA, HER LEADERSHIP HAD A LASTING IMPACT ON MY OWN EDUCATION DURING THE FIGHT FOR
THIS. UH, WHILE UM THE FIGHT I STILL BELIEVE OUR SCHOOLS ARE STILL SEGREGATED. UM. HER COMMITMENT WASN'T JUST ABOUT POLICY IT WAS ABOUT
CHANGING WHAT OPPORTUNITIES LOOK LIKE IN THE CITY AND WHAT STANDS OUT UM, WAS HER WORK DID NOT STOP THERE. TO THIS DAY SHE'S STILL SHOWING UP RIGHT HERE STILL FIGHTING FOR STUDENTS. AND WE'VE SEEN HER CONTINUED
ADVOCACY, INCLUDING HER EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT SPACES LIKE WHITE STADIUM REMAIN CENTERED ON PUBLIC ACCESS AND NOT PRIVATIZED IN WAYS THAT WOULD LIMIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UM
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. AND THAT TRULY MATTERS. IT REMINDS US THAT FIGHTING FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY IT'S NOT SOMETHING IN THE PAST IT IS ALL GOING.
RECOGNIZING DOCTOR MCGUIRE IS NOT JUST ABOUT HONORING HISTORY . IT'S ABOUT GROUNDING OURSELVES IN THE WORK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE MAY 1ST
AS DOCTOR JEAN MCGUIRE DAY HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE LAST TIME WE HONORED SOMEBODY. THERE WAS. >> A WHOLE HOOPLA BECAUSE WHEN I DID THE CARDI B SITUATION, IT WAS THE SAME DAY THAT WE ALLEGEDLY BLOCKED A VOTE FROM
HAPPENING AND IT WAS ABOUT THE BUDGET AND THE US BEING A RESPONSIBLE. SO I WANT TO KNOW FOR THE RECORD THAT UM I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN THIS TIME AROUND. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. IN ADDITION TO, UH, CHIEF MCGUIRE, UH, BEING THE FIRST
BLACK WOMAN ELECTED TO THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE, BEING CO-FOUNDER OF MCPS THOUGH SHE ALSO SERVED AS A BOARD MEMBER ON VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS IN
BOSTON INCLUDING THE BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. THE COMMUNITY CHANGE INCORPORATED ENCAMPMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP, MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN POLITICAL CAUCUS AND THE
BLACK EDUCATORS ALLIANCE OF MASSACHUSETTS. WHEN SHE WAS INTERVIEWED ABOUT UH THE DOCUMENTARY EYES ON THE PRIZE, SHE LOOKED AT THE KEYS
TO THE KINGDOM AND LOOKED AT EDUCATION AS THE KING KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. IN 19 AND 24 SHE WON THE BOSTON
ETHICAL ME TWO HUMANITARIAN AWARD. SHE WAS AWARDED A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM THE COMMUNITY, CHANGED HER WORK AND EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE
SEGREGATED COMMUNITIES IN 2012 AND SHE RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE FROM TUFTS UNIVERSITY IN 2017. THIS IS WHAT JIM MCGUIRE SAID
DOCTOR JIM AND QUITE THE REALLY STAYED WITH ME AS ONE OF MY MENTORS. SHE ALWAYS SAID THAT WE ALL HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO SOME GOOD. SO I STAND HERE TODAY WORKING
TO LIVE OUT THE LEGACY THAT SHE CONTINUES TO LEAVE US TO DO SOME GOOD. ALL OF US. THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR CULPEPER. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR
NAME COUNCILOR DURKAN FITZGERALD UH, COUNCILOR UM FLYNN. COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR PEPEN. CONCHA SANTANA AND SO WEBER COUNCIL WILL ROUND PLEASE
OF THE CHAIR COUNCILORS MORRELL, MEJIA AND CULPEPER SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0882. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. HAVE THE VOTE.
MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0882 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET 0882 COUNCIL. BURTON. YES. AND SEPARATE COUNCIL COLOR ISABELLA.
CONCHA. CULPEPER. YES. I'M COUNCIL DUNCAN HUNTER DOPING. YES. COUNCIL. FITZGERALD ONTO FITZGERALD SPONSOR FLYNN YES AND JUST
AWARENESS COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MAYOR WANTS TO MAKE YEAH. YES. COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL MURPHY AS CONCEPT WEAPON. YES. YES. COUNCIL SANTANA COUNCIL SANTANA .
CONSOLE WEBER COUNCIL. WEBER. YES. THANK SEVERAL POINTS OVERALL. YES 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR DUNCAN 0882 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
DOCKET. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0883? DOCKET 0883 COMES TO MEJIA OR FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION. RECOGNIZING ME AS MENTAL HEALTH
AWARENESS MONTH CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM, AND SO I AM REALLY EXCITED
TO UM GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING ON THE NATIONAL SCALE AND EVEN HERE LOCALLY WE ARE DEALING WITH A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS HERE. UM. >> AND I THINK IT'S AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY RECOGNIZE THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE ON THE FRONTLINES DOING THIS WORK. UH, MENTAL HEALTH TOUCHES ALL OF US. IT SHAPES HOW WE SHOW UP IN OUR FAMILIES, OUR WORKPLACES AND OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND I ALSO SAY THAT THIS IS PERSONAL. UM, FOR ME, I'VE BEEN FORTHCOMING ABOUT MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING UP AND I SHARE THAT BECAUSE I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BREAK THE
CYCLE OF SILENCE AND STIGMA THAT TOO OFTEN KEEP PEOPLE FROM SEEKING THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED. HERE IN BOSTON WE HAVE ORGANIZATIONS DOING CRITICAL WORK EVERY DAY AND I WANT TO SHOUT OUT THE LUCY BROWN PEACE
INSTITUTE, THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS, UM, AS WELL AS UH, JOHN UM SMITH WHO IS DOING A LOT OF WORK WITH YOUNG BLACK BOYS AROUND SUICIDE
PREVENTION AND SO MANY OTHER COMMUNITY BASED AND CULTURALLY ROOTED MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES THAT ARE. MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE, ESPECIALLY IN COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY OVERLOOKED.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S STILL GAPS, BARRIERS, TIGHT COST, LANGUAGE. CULTURAL ACCESS CONTINUE TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING THE CARE THAT THEY NEED. AND THE PAST FEW YEARS UM, FROM
THE PANDEMIC TO ECONOMIC STRESS TO COMMUNITY VIOLENCE HAVE ONLY MADE THAT MORE CLEAR. SO THIS MONTH IS ABOUT AWARENESS BUT IT'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACT. IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT
CARE IS ACCESSIBLE, CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE AND GROUNDED IN COMMUNITY. IT'S ABOUT INVESTING IN EARLY SUPPORT IN SCHOOLS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BASED SERVICES AND
IN PROGRAMING THAT UPLIFTS THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF OUR COMMUNITIES. AND PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS WORK EVERY DAY. I AM PROUD TO FILE THIS RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE MENTAL
HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH, AND I HOPE WE CARRY THIS BEYOND MAY BECAUSE WE KNOW UM, THAT UH, MENTAL HEALTH DOESN'T JUST UH,
DICTATE A MONTH BUT WE HAVE UH, 365 DAYS A YEAR IN WHICH WE NEED TO UPLIFT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER HERE AND I. ASK FOR SUSPEND. AND PASSAGE. THANK YOU.
WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNSELOR. CULPEPER. COUNSELOR. DURKAN. COUNTRY. FITZGERALD. COUNSELOR. FLYNN. COUNTRY. MURPHY. COUNCILOR. PEPEN. COUNSELOR. SANTANA. COUNCILMEMBER ROUND AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.
COUNSELOR MEJIA SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0883 UH, ALL IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU.
DOCKET 0883 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE AND DOCKET 0883 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET. 0883 COUNSELOR BREADON.
YES. WHAT'S UP WITH A PRINCIPAL ADDIS ABABA PAPA? PLACE COUNSELOR OKAY, THANK YOU BOTH. AND YES, COUNTERFEIT ZERO. COUNTERFEITS SHOW.
YES, IT'S A FINE YES, COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE. COUNCIL ON MY HERE. ONCE I MEET COUNCIL MURPHY. THAT'S A MOVE. YES. CONCEALED WEAPON. YES. THAT'S IT. THAT COUNCIL SANTANA.
SANTANA AS COUNCIL MEMBER. COUNCIL WEBER. YES. CONTROVERSIAL. YES. CONSOLE AROUND. YES 11. VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. UM.
UM, DOCKET 0883 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 0884 CONDUCTED. 088 FOR COUNCIL? MY HERE ARE FOR THE FOLLOWING
RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING. NATIONAL NURSES MONTH AND NATIONAL. NURSES WEEK. CHAIR RECOGNIZES FROM MEJIA YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD
COUNSELOR FITZGERALD AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. . >> COUNCILOR FITZGERALD THE SO ADDED. AS THE FAILURE OF THIS RESOLUTION I'M PROUD TO RECOGNIZE NATIONAL NURSES MONTH AND NATIONAL NURSES WEEK AND I
ALSO WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN. UM FOR UH SUPPORTING AND STANDING WITH THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S NURSES UM, TODAY AND UPLIFTING THEM HERE ON THE
COUNCIL. UH, IN THEIR ADVOCACY, UH, NURSES ARE THE CENTER OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ACROSS BOSTON AND HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS. SCHOOLS. >> SHELTERS AND IN PEOPLE'S HOMES THEY'RE OFTEN THE FIRST
POINT OF CARE. UM, A STUDY PRESENTS THAT PATIENTS AND FAMILIES CAN RELY ON AND THEIR WORK GOES FAR BEYOND THE CLINICAL CARE. NURSES ARE EDUCATORS, ADVOCATES AND PROBLEM SOLVERS. THEY'RE NAVIGATING COMPLEX
SYSTEMS SUPPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT MOMENTS OF THEIR LIVES AND MAKING SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEIR CARE AND THEIR OPTIONS. WE SAW THIS CLEARLY DURING THE
PANDEMIC, BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THIS LEVEL OF COMMITMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE AND IN A CITY LIKE BOSTON WHERE WE CONTINUE TO CONFRONT DEEP HEALTH INEQUITIES, THE NURSES. >> ON THE. FRONTLINES OF THAT WORK THEY'RE
HELPING TO CLOSE THE GAP IN ACCESS BUILDING TRUST IN COMMUNITIES AND DELIVERING CARE IN WAYS THAT ARE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE AND GROUNDED IN REAL RELATIONSHIPS. AT THE SAME TIME, WE KNOW THIS
WORK IS NOT EASY NURSES ARE WORKING LONG. HOURS FACING STAFFING CHALLENGES AND OPERATING IN HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENTS. THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
APPRECIATION HAS TO INCLUDE HOW WE SUPPORT THEM, HOW WE INVEST IN SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS AND HOW WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO CONTINUE DOING THIS WORK SUSTAINABLY.
SO THIS MONTH IS ABOUT RECOGNITION AND ALSO MOVING WITH INTENTIONAL UM, POLICY MAKING AND UTILIZING OUR PLATFORM TO SUPPORT OUR NURSES BEYOND WORDS.
I'M PROUD TO FOLLOW THIS RESOLUTION AND HONOR UM TO RECOGNIZE THE NURSES WHO CONTINUE TO CARE FOR BOSTON EVERY DAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FITZGERALD .
THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH THANK YOU COUNCIL ME HERE FOR HAVING ME AS A UH CO-SPONSORS AS WELL. UH, WITH MY MOM BEING A NURSE, I THOUGHT GROWING UP THAT UH, HAVING A MOM UH, THAT WAS A NURSE WAS THE BEST.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED IS HAVING A MOM AS A GRANDMOTHER. UH, HAVING A NURSE AS THE GRANDMOTHER TO YOUR KIDS IS ACTUALLY WAY MORE BENEFICIAL, UH, TO FOR ME, BUT, UM, YEAH,
THEY'RE ON THEIR FEET 10 TO 12 HOURS A DAY DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE AT THEIR ABSOLUTE WORST. SO IT'S IT'S PHYSICALLY UH, TOLL MENTALLY AT ALL. UM, AND THEY DO IT AND UH, WITH THE SMILE AND PROVIDING THE
BEST CARE IN THE WORLD AND SO UH, IT'S REALLY JUST UH TO TO TO MY MOM AND TO ALL THE NURSES OUT THERE UH, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND RECOGNIZE THEM, UH, THIS MONTH AND THIS WEEK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
. I ALSO, UM I HAVE A MOTHER WHO WAS, UH, A NURSE, A WHOLE FAMILY OF NURSES. SO YES, I JOIN YOU IN APPLAUDING AND SUPPORTING OUR NURSES.
UM, WHY WAS I WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO OTHER NAME? COUNCILOR CULPEPER, CONSTANT DURKAN, COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR. PEPEN CONSCIOUS AND TOWN
OF COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE OF THE CHAIR COUNCILOR COUNCILORS MEJIA AND FITZGERALD UH SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0884.
ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. I I'LL SAY NAY. THANK YOU. DOCKET 0884 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
READ DOCKET 08850885 COUNCILORS FLYNN AND DURKAN OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION AND SUPPORT OF NURSES AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. THANK YOU.
THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES UM THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN. OH, SORRY. I'M GETTING THESE NEW FOLKS OUT OF ORDER, COUNCILOR FLYNN. AND, UH, THEN CONSIDER A SECOND THANK YOU THAT YOU.
>> HAVE. THE FLOOR AND. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD COUNCIL RULE? UM, SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTION. COUNCILOR WAS ALSO ADDED. MADAM CHAIR.
I WE HAD AS YOU KNOW, THE NURSES FROM UM THE HOSPITAL THAT WERE HERE EARLIER UH FROM BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR DURKAN THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL IS IN
COUNCILOR DOCKETS DISTRICT. UM I HIGHLIGHTED SOME OF MY COMMENTS EARLIER. I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF AS POSSIBLE. UM, MEMBERS OF THE NURSES AND
NURSES PRACTITIONERS OF BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, THEIR WORKFORCE IS 4000 DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS. THEY PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL, HIGH QUALITY LIFESAVING CARE TO
PATIENTS IN BOSTON, ACROSS NEW ENGLAND REALLY ACROSS THE WORLD . UM, WE MENTIONED EARLIER. THE CURRENT MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL, UH, FOR A NEW
CONTRACT THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING INCLUDES A 0% WAGE INCREASE FOR MOST NURSES AND NURSE PRACTITIONERS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PROPOSING A SIGNIFICANT
INCREASE IN HEALTH CARE. COSTS EFFECTIVELY RESULTING IN A REDUCTION IN TAKE HOME PAY FOR NURSES. FAIR COMPENSATION ACCESSIBLE
HEALTH CARE BENEFITS ARE ESSENTIAL TO RETAIN RE TAINING EXPERIENCED NURSES MAINTAINING SAFE STAFFING LEVELS ENSURING THE CONTINUED DELIVERY OF HIGH
QUALITY PATIENT CARE. WE ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE UM MY COLLEAGUE JOHN FITZGERALD SMOTHER BEING AN OUTSTANDING NURSE AS WELL. UM.
I ASK THAT MY COLLEAGUES SUPPORT THE NURSES AND NURSES PRACTITIONERS AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL IN THEIR EFFORTS TO RECEIVE A WAGE, FAIR WAGE, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE,
SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS AND THE RESPECT AND DIGNITY THEY DESERVE. WE WE HAD A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION THIS MORNING ACTUALLY THIS AFTERNOON UH,
WITH THE NURSE FROM BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL NAMED UM SARAH AND WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO SARAH AND MILES AND MATTHEW FOR BEING HERE. THEY DID HAVE A DEMONSTRATION
OUT FRONT OF THE HOSPITAL TODAY FROM 2 TO 4. UH, UNLIKELY WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE IT, BUT, UM, WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROFESSIONAL WORK THAT THEY DO.
WE STAND WITH THEM AND AS THEY ADVOCATE FOR A FAIR WAGE DECENCY, RESPECT IN IN THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILY AS WELL. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO THANK COUNCILOR FUND FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS RESOLUTION. I THINK WE HEARD IT BEST FROM THE NMA. UM, I'M A MEMBER THAT WAS HERE
TODAY. BOSTON IS FORTUNATE TO BE HOME TO WORLD CLASS HOSPITALS AND A HIGH STANDARD OF PATIENT CARE. BUT NURSES ARE THE BACKBONE OF THAT AND IF WE DON'T SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR FIGHT FOR A FAIR
WAGE, UM, WE YOU KNOW, IT WILL BE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. I'M HOPING WORLD WILL BE ABLE TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR EFFORTS TO SECURE A FAIR CONTRACT DIGNITY
THAT INCLUDES WAY HIGHER WAGES UM AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT UM THEY DESERVE DIGNITY IN THE WORK THAT THEY DO. AND I THINK WHEN THE CITY COUNCIL STANDS WITH WORKING
PEOPLE UM THAT THAT IS WHAT WE DO BEST AND IT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT POLITICAL. UM AND YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE, YOU KNOW, GOTTEN KICKED OFF OF A FEW SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS IN MY DISTRICT BECAUSE OF MY SUPPORT
OF LABOR AND I'M PROUD OF THAT . THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN. UH, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WORRELL. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT . I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR SPAIN
AND DURKAN FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AND AS CHAIR OF, UH, LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ,UH, STAND WITH OUR NURSES AND DEMANDING FAIR WAGES, FAIR BENEFITS AND FAIR TREATMENT
BECAUSE WHEN YOU CARE FOR YOUR COMMUNITIES EVERY DAY, UH, YOU DESERVE TO BE CARED FOR TOO. UH, WE SIMPLY CAN'T TALK ABOUT QUALITY HEALTH CARE WITHOUT SUPPORTING THE PEOPLE WHO DELIVER IT. SO I STAND WITH OUR NURSES IN THEIR FIGHT FOR A CONTRACT THAT
REFLECTS, UH, THEIR VALUE AND THEIR IMPACT. I JUST WANT TO GIVE A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO, UH, MY SISTER IN LAW SUZANNE, WHO'S ALSO A NURSE. THANK YOU. UM, ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
COUNCILOR? UH, CULPEPER COUNCILOR. FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR. MEJIA COUNCILOR. UH, PEPEN COUNCILORS SANTANA COUNCIL.
WILL WEBER AND PLEASE ARE THE CHAIR COUNCILORS DURKAN, FLYNN AND MORRELL SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0885. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.
UH THE VOTE. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0885 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET. 0885 COUNCILOR BREEDEN. YES, IT'S A PRESENT AS
COUNCIL COLLETTE AS A PARA COUNCILOR. CULPEPER. YEAH AS COUNCIL DURKAN ONCE I DO AGAIN YES. COUNCIL FITZGERALD ONCE OFFERED SHALL I GUESS COUNCIL FLYNN.
YES I JUST LEARNED THIS. COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR MEJIA. ONCE I'M HERE YES. >> COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCIL MURPHY AS. >> CONCEPT WEAPON. COUNCILOR BACK THEN YES. COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
COUNCILOR SOMETIMES I YES COUNCIL MEMBER YES WHATSOEVER COUNCIL AROUND TOWN. SO UH YES 11. VOTES IN THE. >> FORMATIVE THANK YOU. DOCKET 0885 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
READ DOCKET 0886. ,DOCKET 0886 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION. RECOGNIZING JEWISH. AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. THANK YOU. >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER.
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, UH, AS THE. BOSTON BULLETIN REPORTED LAST WEEK, THERE WAS UH, UH, SOME
PAPERS STREWN ACROSS LAGRANGE UH STREET AND IN WEST ROXBURY THAT SAID BOYCOTT THE JEWS. UM, NOW YOU KNOW, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN JUST YOU KNOW, SORT
OF WHO KNOWS WHAT IT WAS BUT YOU KNOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UH, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL UH, IT COULD HAVE BEEN JUST FLAT OUT ANTI-SEMITIC
. IT COULD HAVE JUST YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE THE REALITY IS IN OUR COUNTRY NOW, UH, VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS IS A REAL
THREAT JUST IN THE LAST, UH, SIX OR MONTHS OR SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE THERE WERE THREE SYNAGOGUES IN TORONTO THAT UH, WERE THE TARGETS OF GUNFIRE.
UH, THERE WAS UH A VEHICLE DRIVEN INTO A SYNAGOGUE OUTSIDE DETROIT. UH, YOU HAD A FIREBOMBING OF A SYNAGOGUE IN MISSISSIPPI. UM, AND YOU JUST GO BACK A FEW
YEARS AND YOU'VE GOT A MASSACRE AT THE TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE IN PITTSBURGH. UH, AND YOU HAVE A RABBI WHO WAS STABBED HERE IN BOSTON. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS SAYS
ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN AMERICA TODAY? UM, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON OUR SYNAGOGUES, UH, IT JUST AND TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL IS JUST.
IT'S IT'S MISGUIDED WHEN YOU GO INTO THESE SYNAGOGUES, PEOPLE HAVE ALL KINDS OF FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD. IN FACT, IN WEST ROXBURY A TEMPLE SO I'VE BEEN A TORAH,
YOU KNOW, RABBI, PENSIONER AND RABBI ELIZA SCHWARTZ HAVE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB MAKING SPACE FOR EVERYONE'S VOICE IN THESE PLACES. UM, AND YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT
IT IS TO GATHER IN THESE PLACES IS SOMETHING THAT KIDS GROW UP WITH NOW WHICH I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED AS A KID. NOW EVERY SYNAGOGUE HAS TO SPEND RESOURCES ON ARMED GUARDS.
UH, YOU KNOW WHEN WHEN I WAS GROWING UP THERE WAS NOT SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, WITH A GUN GUARDING YOUR SYNAGOGUE. NOW IT'S PART OF EVERYDAY REALITY HERE IN AMERICA.
UH, YOU KNOW, OUR COUNTRY HAS BENEFITED. UH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE GOT RIGHT, UH, WAS WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED WE ALLOWED FREEDOM OF RELIGION, UH, AND ESPECIALLY FREEDOM FOR JEWS TO PRACTICE
HERE. I THINK THE COUNTRY HAS BENEFITED AND THIS, UH, JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH GIVES US A CHANCE TO REFLECT ON THE THE ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT JEWS HAVE DONE IN THE FIELDS
OF, YOU KNOW, MUSIC, UH, FILM, UH, SCIENCE, UH, AND BASKETBALL . UM, YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM WITH RED AUERBACH? YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TALK TO ME OUTSIDE.
UH, BUT WE, UH YOU KNOW, JEWS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COUNTRY. UH, I LOOK FORWARD UH, YOU KNOW, UH, THE RED SOX ARE HAVING JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE NIGHT I THINK IT'S MAY 27TH
WHEN THEY HOST THE BRAVES AT 645. I LOOK FORWARD, UH, TO TO GATHERING WITH FOLKS TO JUST. YOU KNOW, UH UH. SORT OF REFLECT ON THE
CONTRIBUTION THAT JEWS HAVE MADE TO THIS COUNTRY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO RECOGNIZING JEWISH AMERICAN. >> HERITAGE. MONTH AND I AM YOU KNOW, I'M SUBMITTING THIS RESOLUTION. WHAT'S THE WHAT ARE THE MAGIC WORDS TO UH FOR OUR APPROVAL,
UH, SUSPEND THE RULES AND VOTE ON THIS AD. SORRY. AND, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD COUNSELOR DURKAN AS A SECOND. CONSTANT TALKING TO SO I DON'T UM, COUNSELOR JEFF AND YOU HAVE
THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, AND I STAND, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH TALL, UH, SHOES HERE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I I GET TO WALK INTO MY
OFFICE AND I HAVE JOSH JACOBS MEZUZAH, UH, WELCOMING ME, UM, INTO MY OFFICE AND FORMER COUNSELOR MIKE ROSS. UM, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY JEWISH COUNSELORS OR AT LEAST TWO
OF THIS DISTRICT AND, UM, I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO I'M NOT PART OF THE TRIBE. MY GRANDFATHER WAS JEWISH. UM, BUT I FEEL A DEEP CONNECTION WITH THE JEWISH
PEOPLE. UM, I, UH THIS, UH, JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IS CELEBRATED EVERY MAY. UM AND IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2006 AND IT FIGHTS PREJUDICE
AND ANTI-SEMITISM. UM, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS UM, AND THE DIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH PEOPLE. UM, IN DISTRICT EIGHT WE'RE LUCKY, UH, TO HAVE TEMPLE
ISRAEL, THE VILNA SHUL, THE BOSTON SYNAGOGUE, THE CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE, ELI'S AL CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT BU, THE HIGH BAR IN KENMORE, THE WEST END MUSEUM WHICH REPRESENTS UM AND
HAS A LOT ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE UH, THE HARVARD AND NORTHEASTERN AND UH SOON THERE WILL BE A HARVARD IN MISSION. UM I UM WOKE UP ONE MORNING TO
UH, CALLS ABOUT UM, UNFORTUNATELY ANTI-SEMITIC GRAFFITI ALL OVER MICHIGAN. AND WHEN I CALLED FORMER COUNSELOR JOSH SAGAN, HE SAID THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN MY TIME ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND SO, UM, WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE AS A NATION RIGHT NOW. AND SO I THINK IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO CELEBRATE JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. UM, I WANT TO THANK RABBI MAYOR
ZAKI UM AND WHO WAS IN MY DISTRICT HE HOSTED LAST YEAR OUR CONVERSATION ABOUT SAFETY AND SECURITY IN THE BACK BAY, UM, FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND I JUST WANT TO THANK HIM BECAUSE
IT REALLY OPENED UP MY EYES TO HOW JEWISH PEOPLE PEOPLE JEWISH PEOPLE FEEL TRAVELING THROUGH OUR CITY AND UM, AND ALL THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THEM FEEL SAFER. UM, SO UM SO I'M GRATEFUL TO
OUR UH MY JEWISH COLLEAGUE, UM, COUNCILOR WEBER FOR INCLUDING ME UM, AND TO ALL THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND UM, LEADERS IN DISTRICT EIGHT THAT UH, MAKE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY UM THAT
YOU KNOW, MAKE UM, YOU KNOW, ARE MAKING AN IMPACT AND UM, I KNOW WE HAVE SO MANY JEWISH LEADERS THAT SERVE IN OUR CITY AS WELL. SO, UM, SO GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS DOCKET.
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN. UM, ANYONE ELSE WANT TO SPEAK? I'LL SPEAK VERY BRIEFLY. I I REALLY WANT TO ECHO COUNCILOR WEBERS. UM. >> COMMENTS ABOUT RELIGIOUS
PREJUDICE AND AND THAT RELIGIOUSLY UH OR. ISOLATING PEOPLE BECAUSE BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION AND AND VICTIMIZING THEM UM I I
I'VE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE STABBING OF OF A RABBI. UM, I'M I'M RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF RIGHT AND CENTER. UM, WE HAVE UH, A GROWING JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ALLSTON,
BRIGHTON AND UH, THEY THEY BRING SO MUCH TO OUR COMMUNITY . UM, AND IT PAINS ME THAT, UH. THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN FEAR
ALL THE TIME AND THAT SECURITY AND HAVING GUARDS OUTSIDE THEIR SYNAGOGUES AND TIMES WHEN THEY'RE HAVING GATHERINGS IS IS A IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT. UM I ALSO WANT TO HOLD UP THAT
IN ALLSTON BRIGHTON AND THE WE HAVE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY DID A WOMEN'S HERITAGE TRAIL AND ONE OF THE WOMEN THAT WAS HONORED ON OUR WOMEN'S HERITAGE TRAIL IS JEANNIE LIGHTMAN BARON
. SHE WAS AN AMERICAN LAWYER AND JUDGE. UM, UH SHE WAS A SUFFRAGIST, A LAWYER AND A JUDGE. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PRESENT EVIDENCE OF THE GROUND TO A GRAND JURY IN
MASSACHUSETTS AND THE FIRST TO PROSECUTE A MAJOR, MAJOR CRIMINAL CASES. UH, SO, UM, WE WE SHE'S ON OUR WOMEN'S HERITAGE TRAIL. UH, AN INCREDIBLE JURIST AND AN
INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTOR TO WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES. SO WE WANT TO JUST CELEBRATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL OF HER ,UM, JEWISH NEIGHBORS AND THE AND THE LONG HISTORY OF, UH,
THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND CIVIC LIFE, ETC.. UM, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCIL WEBER FOR BRINGING THIS
FORWARD. PROUD TO STAND HERE AND SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL. I WANT TO ALSO RECOGNIZE THE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS JEWISH UM RESIDENTS HAVE MADE TO OUR
CITY AND TO OUR NATION AND COUNCIL. WEBER MENTIONED THEM. BUT I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE INCREDIBLE HEROIC SERVICE THEY HAVE ALSO MADE SERVING IN
OUR U.S. ARMED FORCES AS WELL. I ALSO AGREE ANTI-SEMITISM IS PREVALENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS WE SEE HATE CRIME
HAS GONE UP AGAINST UM JEWISH JEWISH COMMUNITY AND OTHER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS AS WELL. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILOR FLYNN. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? COUNCILOR? UH, CULPEPER. COUNCILOR.
FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR. FLYNN. COUNCILOR. MEJIA. COUNCILOR. MURPHY CONTRA PEPEN CONTRA SANTANA. CANCER. WHOEVER CULTURAL AROUND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR.
COUNCILORS WEBER AND DURKAN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0886. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL AGAINST SAY ALL OPPOSED. SAY NAY.
THANK YOU. THE DOCKET 0886 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO PERSONNEL ORDERS. UM, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ THE PERSONNEL ORDERS.
DOCKET 0887 COUNCILOR. BREADON FOR. >> COUNCILOR MURPHY, DOCKET. 8888 COUNCIL BRIGHTON. UM COUNCIL BRIGHTON. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE
OF DOCKETS 0887 AND 0888. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THE AYES HAVE IT. PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE BEEN PASSED. WE'RE NOW ON TO GREEN SHEETS. UH, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO GREEN
SHEETS, DID ANYONE WISH TO ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET THAT THEY HAVE MISSED? UH, START WITH COUNCILMEMBER HEAR YOU. YES. >> UM, CAN YOU. PLEASE ADD, UH, AN AFFIRMATIVE
RESPONSE FOR ME FOR DOCKET 080? THAT WAS COUNCILOR FITZGERALD'S OFFER FOR THE RESOLUTION DECLARING POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY. I'D LIKE TO BE AT IT. UM. >> AND ALSO, UH, VOTING YES. OKAY. >> ANYONE ELSE SO SPEAK.
VERY GOOD. UH, WE'RE NOW ON TO GREEN SHEETS. IS ANYONE LOOKING AT ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS? COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MAY I PULL DOCKET 0302, PLEASE? 0302. >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT PAGE OF THIS ON YOU OKAY. UH, YEAH. UH, PAGE 15.
PAGE 15. THE CHAIR.
ABSENT. OBJECTION. THE MOTION OF THE, UM, COMMITTEE CHAIR IS ACCEPTED AND DOCKET 0302 IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY.
UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 03020302. RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE REAR, THE REPLACEMENT OF. CONCURRENT TRAFFIC SIGNALS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS ONE OF THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES THAT WE FACE IN BOSTON. A CRITICAL COMMON COMPONENT
OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS INCLUDING OUR SENIORS, PERSONS WITH. DISABILITIES. >> YOUNG FAMILIES WITH STROLLERS. IN 2019, TWO PEDESTRIANS WAS STRUCK BY A VAN AT THE
INTERSECTION OF MELCHER AND SUMMER STREET IN THE FOUR POINT AND ONE OF THEM PASSED AWAY DUE TO HER INJURIES WAS THE SITE OF A CONCURRENT PHASE IN TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
WITH BOTH PEDESTRIANS AND CARS HAVE THE SIGNAL TO WALK AND DRIVE AT THE SAME TIME. AFTER THIS TRAGEDY. BTTV FIX THE LIGHT ON THE SUMMER STREET SIDE SO WHEN THE
WALK SIGNAL IS THERE CARS HAVE A RED LIGHT BUT ON THE MELCHER STREET SIDE WE STILL HAVE A SITUATION WHERE CARS HAVE A GREEN LIGHT WHILE PEDESTRIANS ALSO HAVE A WALK SIGN.
I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS SAFE AND NEITHER DO RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY. FOLLOWING THAT TRAGEDY THERE WERE REPORTS OF HUNDREDS OF 311 CASES ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DUE
TO THESE CONCURRENT FACING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND THAT THIS PRACTICE ACTUALLY GOES BACK TO THE 1970S IN BOSTON WITH OVER 319 INTERSECTIONS AT A TIME
OF INCREASED SPEEDING, DISTRACTED DRIVING, WALKING UBER AND UBER AND LYFT RIDESHARES THIRD PARTY FOOD DELIVERY THIS SIGNAL IS NOT
SAFE IN BOSTON. RESIDENTS DO NOT TRUST THAT THE MOTOR VEHICLE WILL YIELD TO THE PEDESTRIAN IN THE CROSSWALK AFTER THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT, I
HELD A CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON CONCURRENT PHASING PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC SIGNALS. I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER TO HAVE CARS AND PEDESTRIANS HAVING A
RIGHT TURN GREEN ARROW IN A PEDESTRIAN WALK SIGN AT THE SAME TIME WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT THE WITH THE EXPECTANT EXPECTATION THAT THE MOTOR VEHICLE WILL YIELD TO THE
PEDESTRIAN IN THE CROSSWALK. IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE ADDRESS THIS PRACTICE OF CONCURRENT PEDESTRIAN PHASE AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES TO FOCUS
ON IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY . IN BOSTON, ALL PEDESTRIANS, OUR SENIORS, PERSONS WITH. DISABILITIES. >> YOUNG FAMILIES WITH
STROLLERS MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY IF A CAR HAS TO WAIT AN EXTRA 30S IF A CAR HAS TO WAIT AN EXTRA ONE MINUTE SO BE
IT. THE RIGHT OF WAY SHOULD BE WITH THE PERSON IN THE SIDEWALK AND THAT PERSON MIGHT BE SOMEONE'S GRANDMOTHER. IT MIGHT BE SOMEONE'S MOTHER.
IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE A LITTLE CHILD GETTING TO SCHOOL WITH HIS OR HER PARENT OR GUARDIAN. LET'S PROVIDE A SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL OUR
RESIDENTS AND TOURISTS ALIKE, AND LET'S DO WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN PUBLIC SAFETY. CAN'T WAIT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
WE. >> THANK YOU. UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, UH, I THINK TO, UH TO BRING THIS BEFORE THE BODY.
UM, WE NEED TO PULL THE PUBLIC THE COMMITTEE. IS IT PLANNING? YEAH. >> SORRY. THANK YOU. >> I'M SORRY. IF IN THIS.
SORT OF COMMITTEE NOW.
SO WE'RE GOING TO, UM. COUNCILOR FLYNN HAS, UH, ASKED THAT WE OF. DOCKET 0302.
UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN UH. HANG ON. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. UM, I WAS JUST WANTING TO SPEAK ON THE DOCKET. YES. UM, AND I I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS DOCKET IS PROPERLY BEFORE
THE BODY. UM, SO, UM, SO I THE LAST TIME THAT THIS WAS BROUGHT FORWARD, UM, MY OBJECTION WAS NOT TO THIS IDEA.
MY OBJECTION WAS BECAUSE NOTHING HAS COME OUT OF LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS ON THIS TOPIC. SO I WOULD LIKE US TO HAVE A COMMITTEE HEARING ON THIS SUBJECT.
I AM PREPARED TO VOTE YES ON THIS TODAY AS I HAVE DONE IN PREVIOUS YEARS, BUT I DO TAKE ISSUES WITH COLLEAGUES GOING ON FACEBOOK AND SUGGESTING THAT IF WE HAD VOTED ON THIS RESOLUTION
THAT SOMEONE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HAD I THINK THAT THE PANDERING AND AND PRAYING TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR WHEN UM ESSENTIALLY TRANSPORTATION SAFETY IS ALL OF OUR BIGGEST
CONCERNS RIGHT NOW. WE HAD A HEARING LAST WEEK UM I HAVE A DISTRICT FULL OF CONSTITUENTS THAT UM THAT ARE PEDESTRIANS. IT IS MY TOP ISSUE ON THE CITY COUNCIL IS TRANSPORTATION AND
SAFETY. AND SO THE IDEA THAT ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD GO ON LINE AND SAY THAT SOMEONE WAS HERE AND IT'S BECAUSE WE DIDN'T VOTE ON
A RESOLUTION THAT IS PANDERING AND THAT IS CREATING, UM, AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE'RE PRETENDING THAT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS STOP PEOPLE FROM BEING HIT IN THE CITY AND THAT
IS NOT THE CASE. AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT. I DON'T WANT TO BE A CITY COUNCILOR THAT FILE SOMETHING WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG I
WANT TO BE A PROACTIVE CITY COUNCILOR THAT IS CONTINUING TO WORK ON ISSUES IN WAYS THAT ARE EFFECTIVE. SO WE NEED A LIST OF PLACES WHERE AND HIGH CRASH ZONES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED
IN OUR CITY AND WE NEED TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TOWARDS VISION 2030 GOALS VISION ZERO GOALS OF MAKING SURE THAT THERE ARE
ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND ZERO PEOPLE HIT IN OUR CITY LIKE THAT IS THE GOAL AND SO THE IDEA THAT WE ARE SOMEHOW VOTING ON A RESOLUTION IS GOING
TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET INJURED IN OUR CITY. IT'S IT'S JUST IT'S REALLY UPSETTING AND LIKE I, I DO THINK I NEED TO BRING IT INTO THE CHAMBER TODAY THAT I'M PLANNING TO VOTE YES.
BUT WHAT WILL THIS DO FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY? WHAT WILL THIS DO FOR PEDESTRIANS? WHAT WILL THIS DO FOR AND BY THE WAY THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT. PEDESTRIANS ALWAYS HAVE THE
RIGHT OF WAY AND A CROSSWALK. SO THE IDEA THAT UM YEAH IF A CAR NEEDS TO WAIT A CAR NEEDS TO WAIT IF ANYONE IS IN A CROSSWALK AT ANY TIME. SO EVEN THE FACT THAT THAT WAS SAID TODAY NO IT'S PEDESTRIANS
ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY IN A CROSSWALK. UM, COUNCILOR DURKAN AS THE CHAIR OF UM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION
TRYING TO DEVELOP A TRANSPORTATION UM DO WE HAVE YOUR CONSENT TO JUST MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS? AND I KNOW YOU SAID IT'S PROBABLY BEFORE THE BOARD. YES. THANK YOU. SO WE'LL CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION. THE NEXT UP IS
COUNCILOR COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. UM. COUNCILOR FLYNN FROM PULLING THIS FROM THE GREEN SHEET SO WE CAN TAKE A VOTE LAST TERM I FILED A RESOLUTION TO HAVE A
MEETING IN THE RULES COMMITTEE TO TALK ABOUT RESOLUTIONS AND THE FACT THAT NONE OF THEM ARE BINDING OR IT'S ALWAYS JUST A STATEMENT. AND IT IS. TRUE THAT.
PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY IN A GREEN LIGHT. BUT IT'S ALSO TRUE THAT CARS HAVE A RIGHT OF WAY WHEN THEY'RE TURNING. SO IT IS OFTEN AND ALWAYS CONFUSING FOR MYSELF I'VE MAYBE SHARED IT HERE ON THE FLOOR BUT
I KNOW WHEN THAT YOUNG MAN WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED AT THE INTERSECTION IN ANDREW SQUARE AND WE WERE GATHERING UM, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE MONTHS LATER FOR IT AND PEOPLE WERE DRIVING TO
PARK THEIR CAR. TWO PEOPLE ALMOST GOT HIT BECAUSE THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN AND CARS WERE TURNING. SO IT'S JUST NOT INHERENTLY A HABIT FOR DRIVERS.
SO IT'S NOT THAT IN MANY CASES DRIVERS ARE TRYING TO NOT BE RESPONSIBLE. IT IS JUST CONFUSING TO MANY PEOPLE AND WHAT I OFTEN SEE IS THAT ACCIDENTS MAY NOT HAPPEN
BUT PEOPLE ARE UPSET. THEY FEEL AS THOUGH THE CARS GOT CLOSED, CARS FEEL BAD THAT THEY TURN BUT THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THEY NEEDED TO STOP. SO I THINK IT UM NEEDS TO BE JUST VOTED ON.
IF YOU DON'T AGREE YOU CAN VOTE NO. JUST THE OTHER DAY COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I WERE WALKING DOWN WASHINGTON STREET TO AN EVENT A VETERAN EVENT AND WE SAW AN E-BIKE WHICH WAS
GOING AS FAST AS THE CARS AND TURNED AT A GREEN LIGHT AND HIT A PEDESTRIAN AND THERE WERE UM YOU KNOW, THERE WAS POLICE AND EMS THERE TO SUPPORT. SO WE I SEE THIS HAPPENING ALL
ACROSS THE CITY AND I WILL BE VOTING YES NOT TO CHANGE ANY POLICY BECAUSE IT'S NOT WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO BUT TO MAKE THE STATEMENT THAT I SEE IT HAPPENING IT'S DANGEROUS AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THIS.
THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY. UM THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMEMBER HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. UH, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I, I. APPRECIATE THE SPIRITED DEBATE
THAT WE HAVE BEEN ENGAGING IN THIS SESSION. UM. SO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T. KNOW OR MAYBE UH, IF YOU'VE BEEN PAYING ANY ATTENTION BUT
OUR OFFICE CREATED A PUBLIC SAFETY TASK FORCE DEDICATED TO WORKING WITH COMMUNITY ACROSS ALL NINE DISTRICTS TO TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. AND WE'VE BEEN MEETING CONSISTENTLY. UM. . AND I KNOW COUNCILOR BAIN AND COUNCILOR FLYNN JOINED ME IN
THAT QUEST A YEAR OR TWO AGO. AND SO WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT. WORK BECAUSE THE GOAL REALLY IS MOST OF THE WORK SHOULD REALLY BE HAPPENING OUTSIDE OF THIS CHAMBER BUT IN DEEP COMMUNITY WITH FOLKS WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT
THEIR NEEDS ARE. AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK OUR PUBLIC UM AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY TASK FORCE PUBLICLY FOR THEIR WORK. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW IS UH,
DATA UM, INTERSECTION DATA. CRASH DATA FATALITY DATA 2911 SO THAT WE COULD GET A BETTER HANDLE ON THESE CONVERSATIONS. RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT IN THE SPIRIT
OF DOING THIS WORK, WHILE WE CAN WAIT AND HOPE AND PRAY THAT OTHER PEOPLE WILL CATCH UP AT SOME POINT WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND . DO THE WORK. AND SO THAT WORK REQUIRES US,
YOU KNOW, FIGHTING FOR IN THE BUDGET. FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, YOU KNOW ,THAT REQUIRES US WORKING WITH THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND IDENTIFYING THE DATA AND WHERE MOST OF THESE ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING. RIGHT. LIKE ALL OF THIS IS PART OF THE BIGGER CONVERSATION AND I'LL
END WITH WHAT WE. CAN'T KEEP DOING. IS PITTING. US AGAINST EACH OTHER AND OUR CONSTITUENTS. THAT HAS TO END. I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED.
OF ALL OF. >> THE. SHENANIGANS THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING IN THIS CHAMBER BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS INSTEAD OF SITTING.
DOWN AND DOING THE WORK AND THAT WORK REQUIRES US. TO SHOW UP. IN WAYS THAT PEOPLE COULD STOP THINKING THAT WE'RE JUST A
BUNCH OF RUBBER STAMPS OR JUST LAME DUCKS AND WE'RE JUST SITTING HERE OCCUPYING SPACE AND COLLECTING A CHECK AND YOU KNOW. I WAS I. >> WAS AWAY WITH MY DAUGHTER FOR SCHOOL VACATION WEEK AND I PUT. IN MORE TIME, YOU KNOW.
EVEN THOUGH I WAS AWAY LIKE THIS WORK DOES IT NEVER ENDS FOR US AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS BUT. >> AT. SOME POINT, YOU KNOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET TIRED. WELL, PEOPLE ARE ALREADY TIRED OF US. THEY'RE TIRED OF US.
ALL OF US. AND SO LET'S STOP UTILIZING THESE POLITICAL TACTICS TO TARGET EACH OTHER. LIKE I AM GOING TO TRY TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. I KNOW.
I AM ALL ABOUT MY TEE TIME AND I'M GOING TO KEEP DROPPING THE TEA BECAUSE I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. ABSOLUTELY. >> AND BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF DYNAMICS AND SHENANIGANS HAPPENING AND PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. ABOUT THOSE THINGS.
THANK YOU COUNCILOR HERE UM, COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAD TO WANT TO ADD ADDITIONAL COMMENT. YES. >> THANK YOU. I'LL BE QUICK. UM, FOR THOSE LISTENING, I DO JUST WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT WEDNESDAY STARTING AT 12 TODAY
WILL BE GOING PAST FIVE IS THE TIME FOR THE COUNCIL TO BE HERE AND TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS. SOMETIMES THEY MAY SEEM HEATED . SOMETIMES COLLEAGUES MAY JAB AT EACH OTHER. YES I SEE IT, I HEAR IT BUT
THIS IS NOT THE ONLY TIME EVERY EVENING ALL THE OTHER DAYS OF THE WEEK WE ARE OUT THERE IN COMMUNITY I WOULD SAY ALL. >> OF US. OR MOST OF US EVEN BEFORE THIS MEETING STARTED PROBABLY WENT TO 2 OR 3 EVENTS AND LOTS OF US
KNOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT HOME AND WE'LL BE AT EVENTS TONIGHT. SO MAYBE THEY'RE LISTENING AND MAYBE COLLEAGUES WANT TO SAY THAT WE'RE JUST PLAYING POLITICS SO WE SHOULD REALLY GO DO THE REAL WORK. BUT THE WEDNESDAY IS THE DAY
WHERE ALL OF THIS COMES TOGETHER. WE FILE THINGS, WE TALK ABOUT THEM AND ALL OF THE OTHER HUNDREDS OF HOURS A WEEK THAT MOST OF US PUT IN IS WHEN THE REAL WORK HAPPENS. SO JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY. UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, I WAS HOPING TO MOVE TO A VOTE. ARE YOU, UM, DO YOU HAVE AN ADDITIONAL COMMENT? YEAH. >> MADAM CHAIR, I'LL BE, UM, LESS THAN 30S. UM, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT
ONE ASPECT OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY THAT I DID NOT INCLUDE, WHICH I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED IS TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BY BOSTON POLICE. WE NEED TO PRIORITIZE BOSTON
PLACE TO DO MORE WORK ON TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PULLING OVER SPEEDING CARS VEHICLES UM THAT ARE THAT ARE BREAKING THE LAW. UH, WE MUST ENFORCE THE RULES AGGRESSIVELY.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. >> UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET 0302. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY I, UH, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU
PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL? VOTE ON DOCKET 0302 ROLL CALL VOTE ON. DOCKET 0302. COUNCILOR BREDON YES. ON SEPARATE AND AS COUNCIL COLOR AS A BOROUGH COUNCIL. CULPEPER. YES. ONCE A.
>> PROPER PLACE. COUNCILOR DURKAN CONCEPT OPEN. YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, LET'S SHOW OUR COUNCILOR FLYNN ONCE I AS A SOLUTION COUNCILOR MEJIA
WANTS A MEJIA. YES, COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS PREPARED YES. COUNCIL SANTANA ALONSO SANTANA HAS CANCER. WEBER. YES. BONZO WEBB CANCER.
UM, YES. OH IT'S A LITTLE YES 11 VOTES AND UH. I THINK THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND DOCKET 0302 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. ANY OTHER GREEN SHEETS CALLS? NO.
>> UH, WE'RE NOW ON TO LATE FILES. UM. OH, THE. CONSENT AGENDA. OH. >> THANK YOU. I ALMOST FORGOT TO PUT. UM WE'RE WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT OR HER. UM HMM. ANY ADDITIONS? ANY ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA? NOT THE ONE THAT IS. AND, UH, AGENDA. SO WE JUST HAVE TO GET APPROVAL. OKAY. >> UH, THE QUESTION NOW COMES FROM APPROVAL ON APPROVAL
VARIOUS MATTERS CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I THE THANK YOU. THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
UH, WE NOW MOVE ON TO LEAD FUNDS. UH, WHAT HAVE WE GOT? IN AS MARSHALL SYMPHONY ONE? >> I'M SO GLAD. I KNOW RESOLUTION. FOR PERSONNEL ORDERS, ONE ABSENT LETTER AND ONE
RESOLUTION. UH, MADAM CHAIR, I WILL START WITH THE UM UH, ABSENT. UH. UH OH. WE'LL START. HOLD ON.
WE'LL JUST HANG ON TO START ABSENT OBJECTION. WE START WITH PERSONNEL ORDERS. UH. >> WE BREAK THEM OUT INTO PERSONNEL ORDERS. MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ THE, UH, LIT FILE?
PERSONNEL PERSONAL ORDER, COUNSELOR BREADON SECOND UM PERSONAL ORDER COUNSELOR BREADON THE UM PERSONAL ORDER COUNSELOR BREADON FOR COUNCIL SANTANA FOR PERSONAL
ORDER COUNSELOR BREADON FOR COUNSELOR SANTANA. UH. >> THANK YOU. THE CHAIR MOVES TO PASSAGE OF THESE MATTERS. PERSONNEL ORDERS. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU.
UM, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ UM THE ABSENCE THE LATE FILE ABSENCE LETTER. AND ABSENT LETTER NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE REGARDING HER ABSENCE
FROM THE APRIL 29TH, 2026 CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THANK YOU. ABSENT OBJECTION, THE SLATE FILE. UH, THIS THIS FILE. UM. >> THE THIS FILE WILL BE PLACED
ON THIS LETTER ABSENCE THAT WILL BE PLACED ON FILE. UH, THEN ON TO THE RESOLUTION. >> UM. >>, UM. I AM. >> UM THERE'S BEEN THERE'S BEEN
AN OBJECTION WHEN IT'S UM BUT. >> THE OBJECTION CAME AFTER THE COURT ORDER FOR. WE ALL HAVE OUR. I'M GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF
RECESS.
WE'RE ON TO THE NEXT. IS TO YEAH. THANK YOU. JUST WAIT. >> THAT'S FINE. SO TAKE YOUR TIME.
COUNSELOR MURPHY, YOU HAD A POINT OF ORDER. POINT OF ORDER? YES. THANK YOU. I WAS JUST GOING TO CALL. >> A POINT OF ORDER IN. THAT THE HERE, UM, THE LATE FILE WOULD BE BLOCKED JUST TO
REITERATE THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OPEN MEETING LAW VIOLATION. IT IS A PROCESS WE CAN USE AND WHEN WE USE IT IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED AND IF PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT IT OR IF THEY
WANT TO BLOCK IT AFTER THE CONVERSATION HAPPENS, THAT IS THEIR PREROGATIVE. BUT TO JUST ALLOW THINGS TO BE BLOCKED BEFORE COLLEAGUES AND ALSO I'M GOING TO REITERATE WE ONLY MEET IN THIS CHAMBER 32
TIMES A YEAR. THAT MEANS THERE'S FIVE MONTHS. 20 WEEKS OUT. >> OF THE YEAR. WE'RE NOT HERE. THE WEDNESDAY IS THE ONLY DAY WE GET TO DO OUR BUSINESS. AND SO THINGS DO HAPPEN ON
MONDAY. THINGS DO HAPPEN ON TUESDAY. THINGS DO HAPPEN ON WEDNESDAY MORNING SO LATE FILE SHOULD ALWAYS BE WELCOME. IT MEANS OUR COLLEAGUES ARE WORKING HARD TO BRING FORWARD THINGS WE NEED TO WORK ON.
SO I'M JUST GETTING FRUSTRATED THAT WE CAN THANK YOU TO BLOCK AND THAT YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW IT TO NOT EVEN BE HEARD. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY CONSTITUENT YOU HAD A YOU HAD A POINT OF ORDER. YEAH. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
UM, MADAM CHAIR, BEFORE WE DISCUSS THIS, ARE WE ABLE TO WE'RE. NOT GOING TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT MATTER. WE'RE JUST GOING TO WHAT WAS. YEAH. COULD WE READ THE LATE FILE INTO THE RECORD? NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT UNTIL WE
DECIDE TO MOVE ON. UM, MY MY ONLY CHALLENGE OR CONCERN. MADAM. MADAM CHAIR, IS. THIS ISSUE THAT I'VE WORKED ON. I WANT TO ENSURE THAT MY RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY UM,
RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN THE FORT POINT AND DOWNTOWN BOSTON, THE WHARF DISTRICT, UM AND SOUTH BOSTON AND OTHER AREAS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY FLOOD INSURANCE RELATED ISSUES.
I DO WANT TO DO MY DUE DILIGENCE TO ADVOCATE FOR THEM. I APPRECIATE THAT. OH NEXT MAYOR HERE COMES FROM ME. HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. OH, UM.
>>. >> ALL RIGHT. SO PRESIDENT GRAYDON. I IT. >> WILL BE HELPFUL TO ME MOVING . FORWARD FOR US TO HAVE A STANDARD. BECAUSE THERE WAS ONCE UPON A
TIME IN A VERY DIFFERENT ITERATION OF THIS DYNAMIC THAT WE ARE OPERATING UNDER THESE CONSTRUCTS IS THAT. BEFORE A.
UM A LATE FOUL WAS OBJECTED TO AT THE VERY LEAST FROM MY UNDERSTANDING IT WAS READ INTO THE RECORD. NOW IF THINGS HAVE CHANGED BECAUSE YOU KNOW CHANGE IS
POSSIBLE IN THESE DAYS. THEN THAT'S DIFFERENT. I THINK THAT WE NEED TO START BEING MORE CONSISTENT. I THINK IT. >> WOULD. BE HELPFUL TO ME TO HAVE A A
RULES MEETING ON RESOLUTIONS A RULES MEETING ON WHAT WHEN YOU OBJECT AND WHEN YOU DON'T OBJECT AND HOW YOU OBJECT. AND I ALSO.
THINK GIVEN THE CLIMATE AND THE UH, LEVEL OF DISTRESS THAT SO MANY OF US BRING INTO THIS. CHAMBER. >> I THINK THAT WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT. HOW WE.
ARE WHAT. WHAT MAYBE PEOPLE NEED THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION SO THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR ROLES ARE AND YOU KNOW. WHAT OUR JOB TITLES NEED TO LOOK LIKE BECAUSE THIS IS
GETTING RIDICULOUS. WE'RE NOW WHAT, 4 OR 5 MONTHS INTO THIS. TERM AND I'VE HEARD MORE OBJECTIONS THAT I HAVE IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THIS COUNCIL.
RIGHT. IT'S I I'M CONFUSED ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING BUSINESS. SO I THINK OUT OF RESPECT FOR
THE PROCESS IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO ME IF YOU CAN CALL A MEETING OF THE BODY SO THAT WE CAN RESET AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE
GOING TO CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS A BODY BECAUSE WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW IS NOT WORKING FOR ANYBODY. THANK YOU. AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO UH,
DOING JUST THAT FOR. I'M GOING TO GO TO CONSTABLE WEBER. CONSTABLE WEBER YOU HAVE THE FOR SURE. UH YEAH IN COURT USUALLY WHEN YOU WHEN YOU MAKE A LATE FILE
SOMETHING LIKE THIS I THINK THAT THE SUPERIOR COURT RULE NINE EIGHT HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS UM, YOU YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT THE REASON WHY YOU'RE FILING IT IN THIS WAY IS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THE
RELIEF YOU'RE SEEKING IF YOU FILE IT ON TIME. I THINK A CHANGE TO THE RULES WHERE WE JUST LEAVE IT UP TO THE CLERK IS LIKE A SEVEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE A RULE 15 SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THESE DEBATES.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK JUST GENERALLY YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S AN ADEQUATE REASON LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE THING IS GOING TO COME AND PASS. BY BY, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT MEETING THEN MAYBE WE WE
DISCUSS IT ON A LAY FILE BASIS. OTHERWISE YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST AN OBJECTIVE RULE AND WE'RE YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL STUCK WITH IT SO I CAN DRAFT SOMETHING AND SUBMIT IT, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES.
BUT THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER. UM, I HAVING LISTENED TO EVERYONE, I HAVE DECIDED THAT THIS LATE FILE WILL NOT GO FORWARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MOVE ON. NO.
>> UM, WE'RE MOVING ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS. PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANNOUNCEMENTS ?
ANYONE HAVE ANNOUNCEMENTS? PEPEN. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, MADAM PRESIDENT, I HONESTLY JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO, UM, ONE OF MY STAFF
MEMBERS, SHERRY WHO? TODAY'S HER ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THE TEAM. AND. >> UM, HAS BEEN SHE'S MY COMMUNICATIONS, UM, COORDINATOR. JUST WANTED TO GIVE HER A SHOUT OUT AND ALSO WANTED TO, UM, LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT TODAY, UM,
TODAY IS THE SECOND DAY FOR CHIARA OSTERGAARD. SHE'S MY INTERN FROM BIANCA HIGH SCHOOL SO IF YOU SEE. HER AROUND PLEASE SAY HI. THIS IS HER FIRST INTERNSHIP OUTSIDE OF SO, UM, WANTED TO
MAKE SURE THAT SHE FEELS WELCOMED. THANK YOU. >> ENOUGH. UH UH, WE WANT TO WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO. OH. >> SORRY I DIDN'T SEE YOUR LIGHT ON THERE. NO. >> THAT'S RIGHT. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UH.
NOT SO MUCH A CITY EVENT, BUT, UH, SHE WOULD CERTAINLY PREFER IT BE UH, MY DAUGHTER REESE TURNED FIVE THIS WEEK AND SHE IS MY YOUNGEST AND, UH, SO THE FACT THAT SHE'S NOW FIVE MEANS I'M JUST THAT MUCH OLDER.
UH, BUT SHE. >> IS THE BOSS OF THE. HOUSE AND I JUST WANT. TO MAKE SURE I CAN SHOW THIS AND SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY RECIPES. I LOVE YOU BIBS. THANK YOU. >> WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. UH, COUNCILMEMBER, HERE YOU
HAVE THE FLOOR. OH HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS.. OKAY. >> SO I LOVE THAT. UM. >> BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER YOU KNOW, SHE'S STILL 16 AND I FEEL LIKE SHE'S STILL MY BABY. SO UM.
ALL RIGHT, SO TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS TOMORROW. IN THE SPIRIT OF BEING DISRUPTIVE KNOW BEING COLLABORATIVE. OUR OFFICE IS HOSTING OUR
EDUCATION ACTIVATION, UM, AT THE BRUCE BOLAND BUILDING AND CULTURE CULPEPER DISTRICT IF YOU WANT TO ROLL THROUGH. UH, WE'RE DOING, UM, A AN EVENT
FOR PARENTS, STUDENTS, EDUCATORS ALL TO COME TOGETHER AROUND EDUCATIONAL ISSUES. UM, FROM. 4 TO 630 UH, WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSING JUST ON YOUTH RELATED
ISSUES AND THEN UM, FROM 6 TO 8 WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON ADULT ISSUES. UM BUT THERE'LL BE TIME FOR BOTH SO IT'LL BE AT THE BRUCE BOWLING BUILDING. IT'S OUR EDUCATION ACTIVATION
EVENT SO PLEASE COME THROUGH IF YOU ARE, UH, INTERESTED. AND THEN ON SUNDAY OUR OFFICE IS HOSTING A SELF-CARE DAY. UM, FOR MOMS PARTICULARLY MOMS
WHO ARE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS. UM, WOMEN WHO ARE TRANSITIONING OUT OF UM DTA UM. OR OR WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
TRAUMA AND WE ARE DOING THIS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS TO UPLIFT MOMS WHO NEED A DAY OF CARE. THERE'LL BE UM, SPEAKERS TALKING ABOUT VIOLENCE.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN AN UPTICK OR THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN UM, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ,PARTICULARLY WOMEN OF COLOR. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE GATHERING ON SUNDAY FROM 1 TO 5
AT THE BRUCE BOWLING BUILDING. IT'S OUR UM, MOTHER'S DAY UH, SELF-CARE EXPO. SO, UM, IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, STOP BY ON SUNDAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
ANYONE ELSE? UH, WE WANT TO WISH A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO ALEX ROCHA FROM OUR, UH, MY OFFICE, UH, AS WELL AS THE FOLKS WHOSE BIRTHDAYS WE MISSED LAST WEEK
BECAUSE WE WERE NOT IN COUNCIL. UH, WE HAD MEGAN CALL. COME. ROGELIO. GOOD OF THE OTHER MEG.
CANDACE MORALES FOR CENTRAL STAFF AND JULIAN MAYOR FROM COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE OFFICE AND BONNIE DILLON, THE UP AND
MELISSA BELTRAN FROM COUNCILOR WEBBER'S OFFICE. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EVERYONE. I HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS PAST WILL BE A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION. UH WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO
MEMORIALS. I WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF SOMEONE WHO HAS PASSED CONSTRUCTION. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. >> I WANT TO. MENTION A FRIEND OF MY BEST FRIEND GROWING UP.
HIS BROTHER PASSED AWAY. UM BARRICHELLO WAS A GRADUATE OF SOUTH BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL AND WORKED UM AT THE BOSTON EDISON
COMPANY FOR SO MANY YEARS. HE WAS A WONDERFUL FATHER. HE WAS A WONDERFUL HUSBAND, A NEIGHBOR, SOMEONE I SOMEONE I KNOW AND RESPECTED MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I WAS ALWAYS CLOSE WITH BARRY BUT ALSO WITH HIS BROTHER KEITH WHO WAS MY BEST FRIEND GROWING UP AND THE ENTIRE CASWELL FAMILY, WONDERFUL SOUTH BOSTON
FAMILY AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACKNOWLEDGE BARRY'S PASSING AND NOT KNOW THAT HE WILL BE MISSED HERE BUT HIS CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HE MADE
IN HIS MEMORY WILL LIVE ON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> ANYONE ELSE. AND THE CHAIR? I JUST HOLD ON TO THE MIC THERE. LAURA MORRIS.
ONE WHO REACHED IN HER LATE 90S. HER MEMORIAL TOMORROW ACTIVE IN THE BLESSING AND CREATION
OF MEDICAL DAYS AND SO JUST ONE TO DETERMINED THE TWO DAUGHTERS WITH SIMPLE FAMILY. THANK YOU MISS.
UH ON BEHALF OF UM WE'RE MOVING MEMORIALS UH, ON BEHALF OF CANCER AS A PARTY ONLY CHARI SHE UH OUR ANGLE ON BEHALF OF,
UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN BARRY CARROLL AND ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR CULPEPER NORA MARSH ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR
BREADON JACK UH, JOHN FRANCIS JACK SNEDEKER AND ALSO, UM, THIS IS MY MOM'S ANNIVERSARY. UH, MYRTLE FRANCIS MONAHAN. BRITAIN.
UH, SHE PASSED AWAY IN 1989 2020, 2013. SO, UH, JUST REMEMBER MY MOM TODAY. THE CHAIR MOVES AT WHEN THE COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY IT DOES
SO IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS. A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE. THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN AND THE I AND I THE
CHAMBER. ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 6TH, 2026. AT 12 P.M.. THANK YOU TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES
CENTRAL STAFF SO. THANK YOU TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES AND ALL THE STAFF. MADAM CLERK AND THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND THE
COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. YOU'RE STANDING IN FOR ELLEN. UH, ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT, PLEASE SAY AYE. UH. >> THIS COUNCIL MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
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