Disability Commission Advisory Board the open meeting law requires that I notify the public that this meeting is recorded therefore please be aware that an audio and visual recording of this meeting is being made by Boston City TV, a part of the city of Boston
Office of Cable Communications and is being broadcast on Xfinity Channel twenty six RCN Channel 13, Fayose Channel nine and six to as well as live streamed on YouTube where recording will be posted. I will turn it over to the
board's new vice chair who is chairing today's meeting Olivia Richard hi welcome to the March meeting of the Disability Commission Advisory Board.
We're going to call the order and do some introductions. We'll start with myself. I am Olivia Richard.
I am a member of the board and the vice chair from Brighton and I have blue headphones a
glasses and I am white female with a red shirt on the wall of who I me, me everybody.
My name is David and this is the man section of Boston. I'm an older black male wearing black glasses in a row shirt thank Carl.
Good evening everybody. My favorite color Britney I have a part of the girl I got the black hair Purple Heart recently.
Oh hi my name is Paul Karen Identifiers a white male with short hair and serve as a mental health advocate for the city whereas I have a family members and close friends families that are reached to me for assistance through grassroots advocacy work in
mental services. The Treasurer and on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board. I live in the Western of Boston and work in the planning department as a supervisor and also serve as a Labor
Department for local one fifty one Labor is union the oldest Labor is in New England. Thank you Wesley. Hi there everybody.
This is Wes Ireland signing. I am a white male with a beard and I'm wearing a red sweatshirt and I had to email sign language interpreters working with me this evening. So you hear voices but I'm a
male member of the advisory board and I live in the north end. Thank you Juan-Carlos. Yes, hello everyone.
This is going to go for me this this is a Hispanic male with a spinal cord injury. I live in South End and also a of board member.
I'm. Are there any other members here tonight? I miss now seeing OK, Olivia, I
can just jump in if that's OK. Oh I'm sorry. Of course I had no thought no best. I'm a quasi member of the advisory committee. Good evening everybody. I'm Kristen MacLeish on the Disability Commissioner in to
coordinator for the city Boston . And Olivia, this is Andrea. That time allowed Elizabeth Clower to hop on who would be our seventh member making us have a quorum.
Yeah, OK, Elizabeth, I I'm here I was but can you introduce
yourself where you're from, what neighborhood you're from and the description? Sure. I'm Elizabeth Clattenburg. I'm of an advisory board member.
I live in Dorchester. Oh, I now that we or do we have
a motion for approval of the minute I make the motion sacher
this is one I take on the motion all in favor. I only oppose motion motion
moves. Olivia once had his hand up western you favor or opposed in favor by saying I'm sorry I'm voting in favor. Oh OK.
Um the motion moves approve each minute so now we're going to have a presentation from the Office of Green Infrastructure Flood Mapping you can take it
away. Hello everybody. My name is Cleveland and I'm the director of the Office of Green Infrastructure for the city of Boston. I am a white female with red hair in a ponytail and I'll let
Julie introduce herself before we start our presentation. Good evening everyone. My name is Julie. Would I work for Charles River Watershed Association. We're a partner on the project.
Kate is going to talk about. I am also a woman brown hair. I have green glasses and a pink sweater on tonight and I will pass it to my colleague Joanna
to introduce her self. Hello everyone. My name is Joanna Arguido. I am the climate resilient engagement associate for the Charles River Watershed Association and I am a woman with brown hair and brown
glasses and I'm wearing a gray sweater very thank you both. Julie, are you OK to screen? Yes. Can I just hit Cher?
Andrea, you should ask us to have that ability but let me know if it doesn't allow you know, looks good. Thanks for letting us talk at today's meeting. We are doing a project that we're very excited about and
that we wanted to share with everyone in this group. It has the possibility the potential to result in some really wonderful improvements to accessibility in the city of Boston.
And so we're going to talk a little bit about the project and what our goals are and what we're what the project entails and then we will also provide information about how individuals on the cushion as well as the Earth because we
have this committee as well as people watching can can submit information to this work to help add to what we're trying to do. So the project that we're talking about today is called the flood mapping and green infrastructure Planning Project. It's a bit of a mouthful.
So we've been calling it the flood survey due to my clicking to the next slide. The project requires a little bit of context because you know, we're we're doing a lot of public education around what is stormwater and green
infrastructure. So I'm going to go through our slides and talk a little bit about what is stormwater, what is green infrastructure and then we'll talk a little bit more about the project and what we're trying to accomplish decide on the screen right now shows a rain garden in one
of the Boston public school yards. The David Ellis Elementary School in Roxbury which you might look into the next. So what is storm water when? Well, we're all most of us live
in urban areas so we've probably seen storm water. We maybe didn't know that's what it was. And when it rains or snows or sleeps or wintery mixes in the city of Boston and that precipitation falls on a hard
surface that doesn't allow water to pass through it, that water runs off and becomes storm water runoff and the way that we manage storm water in cities is we have drains in the roadway and pipes underground
that capture that water and transport it underground to our water bodies. Next slide please. So we wanted to share a printout of what it used to be the climate ready Boston viewer
and now it has shifted over to the Office of Climate Resilience viewer. But what we're seeing on the screen is a map of Boston that shows areas that we expect to see flooding in the city and those areas are showing with
teal highlighted and what we are seeing is a coverage for the city of Boston that shows flooding in all of our neighborhoods, not everywhere across the whole city but there's occurrence of flooding in each of our neighborhoods.
The storm that we are showing in this image is actually not even particularly large storm. This is a storm that we expect to see with some regularity very in the next ten years and just wanted to point out that this affects everybody in the
city of Boston but not everybody feels the effects of flooding in the same way. Next slide. So the slide the screen now shows some examples of types of green infrastructure. The city of Boston uses green
infrastructure which uses plants and soils and other natural materials to capture water and allow that water to absorb into the ground. You may have heard a rain garden or a bio swale.
These are shallow, depressed areas that allow water to flow into them and absorb slowly into the ground. They're typically planted with native plants and wildflowers and grasses and shrubs and they're often pretty.
We also have tree pits and tree trenches. We have a lot of these in the city of Boston you may have walked or rolled over them and realized that that's what they that's what you were looking that's what they were the tree picks and tree infiltration
trenches are essentially a tree is planted in a large underground stone reservoir that allows water to to collect and to absorb to the ground. But it also allows trees to uptake that water which feeds
them. And because trees are getting the water and the nutrients that they need underground rather than having to reach for it towards the surface treatments and tree infiltration trenches also help to reduce keeping and tree
roots busting through our sidewalks. So these kinds of systems are great for trees but they're also great for keeping our sidewalks intact and not or unleveled. We have constructed wetlands which are very much what they sound like.
They are human made systems that function very much like a natural wetland and we also have green roofs and living walls which are plants that are installed on top of buildings or on the sides of buildings that can capture rain as it
falls allowed water to absorb into soil media or to be taken by plants which reduces flooding down at street level. These but we have talked a little bit about storm water
and water management but green infrastructure does so much more than just help reduce flooding. So we call green infrastructure co benefits the many things that are green infrastructure features do that that are not
directly related to water so they can help increase green space in urban areas. They help support our tree canopy. They can reduce urban heat island effect by increasing the amount of trees and plants but also by reducing the amount of pavement they can help with
slower streets and improved pedestrians and cyclists safety day as you can see in the image on the slide here there's a bio swale which is a long linear green strip that is separating the pedestrian zones from the
vehicle zone. So individuals for on the pedestrian side of the screen infrastructure feature have a physical barrier between your fast moving traffic and where pedestrians and cyclists and others are trying to move through the space.
They also are great for increasing biodiversity and pollinator habitat. So we need all of these insects and pollinators in our city. So having additional flowers helps with that. They can reduce energy usage and improve some of our environmental justice issues so
they help with air quality. They provide better access to nature in our neighborhoods and they can help with food security and they also provide great opportunities for environmental education which we will excitement's just a couple of examples of some
green infrastructure that we have in the city of Boston. The slide is showing a few pictures of New England Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. What you're seeing on the screen is plants that are planted in rain gardens and
along the linear green strip of bio swale and these plants are native to Massachusetts. Some of them are flowers. Some of them are shrubs and then some of them are native grasses that will grow up to three to four feet tall when they're mature.
Xigris this slide has an image of the Rafael Hernandez to eight dual language school in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. This is a large rain garden that has a number of native plants as well as some
educational signage for the teachers and staff on site to use with students. There are a series of numbered small wooden blocks that are spread throughout the rim garden and the numbers on those
blocks correspond to the number on a sign that tells the the children at the school but also the staff and family members and others the type of plant shows some photos of that plant and also talks about types
of soil and sun conditions and things of these plants like next slide please. And this slide it has an image of the constructed wetland in Harambee Park, Harambee Park is in the Dorchester neighborhood
of Boston. The slide is showcasing the the kind of expansive native natural you wetland vegetation that is common in these constructed features you're
seeing cattails and there are some trees along the sides of this wetland area and small stones that are delineating the edge of this feature. The in the background you can
see playing field soccer fields as well as a playground to the the right side as well. Next slide please. So the project that we are
doing again we're affectionately referring to it as our flood survey has a couple of different goals. This project is funded by the state of Massachusetts MBP program which is the Municipal
Vulnerability Preparedness Program. So all the projects funded under this program have a climate resilience lends to them and our project is specifically focusing on collecting information from
residents of Boston from people who live, work and play in Boston to get a better understanding of where is the city already experiencing flooding. But more importantly, how is that flooding affecting humans?
So most of what we have right now comes from the what we know about flooding right now comes from models which are computer generated models that show where we expect flooding to be but they're not around Troost in the same way that data that's coming from humans is. So we're hearing stories from individuals who are directly interacting with flooding in
the city and we're getting more information from them about how it impacts their lives. So for example, there was a puddle that made a ramp unusable and I was not able to cross the street safely. So information that is important to us when we are
thinking about where we prioritize our work to install green infrastructure to help fix some of these flooding issues, additional pieces of this project include we're going to create a data display so a viewer online that shows
the information that we've collected from the public the after we collected all that information we are going to be doing a site prioritization and initial design and what that means is we are going to look at where we are seeing lots
of flooding in the city and we are going to work with our community members who have engaged with us in this process to figure out what kinds of green infrastructure we'd like to install, what it should look like and how it can help
us to deal with some of the problems that we are seeing. And then we're also going to do some concept designs for that green infrastructure, which means that once we pick certain locations where we decided that we're going to install gray gardens of course paving and
other things we are going to mockup renderings of what that green infrastructure could look like and what types of space it could take up and she it have trees and should have flowers and all of these different things that allow us to kind of show people what we mean
when we're talking about green infrastructure and then at the very end we're going to have an interactive display as well as some resources where we are going to be able to share all of this out with the public and people will be able to engage with it and then use the
resources that we've created in their own work. So a community group, for example, would like to create green infrastructure. They'll have resources to use slide this slide is showing our our project team the city
of Boston is in the middle. You know the city's Office of Green Infrastructure is leading this work. My role as a director of the Office of Green Infrastructure and kind of our project lead. We also have support from other city offices including Office
of Neighborhood Services, Community Engagement, Cabinet General and we are now engaging in additional city offices including our Disabilities Commission, a strong and others and Boston Water and Sewer Commission is also engaged in
this work from the kind of city government side of things and then on the left side of the slide you're seeing that the public is that is a key member of our project team. So its residents, commuters, students and people who visit the city and then on the right side of the screen you're
seeing our community partners. So Julie and Joanna are here from the Charles River Watershed Association. But we also have the other watershed associations in the city, the Neponset River Watershed Association and the Mystic River Watershed Association as well as a number
of community organizations like Visit Nubian Square, Aardman Square and see who are part of this team and are helping us to gather this information from the public. And we also have a consultant working with us. Westermann and Sampson is a local engineering firm who is
doing a lot of the data analysis and helping us to prioritize locations to do this to do the green infrastructure conceptual design and future installations like this. So just wanted to flag for everybody just flooding looks different to different people.
So the there are three images on the screen. They show very different sales or levels of flooding. The first image that you're seeing here on the left shows, you know, just a little bit of standing water in the street, small puddles but still water that's collecting and
potentially causing slips and falls. The middle image is a puddle that is has stuck around after the rain has stopped. So again a puddle that is maybe making people change their path
of travel when they're trying to move through the city and the third image on the right is showing large flooding event where there's a large amount of water that is covering what appears to be sidewalks and pathways as well as creeping
very close to a building and so there's again large scale flooding but there's also small flooding that just causes people to change their path of travel all this is important to us in all of this information is is what we're trying to collect from people.
So we have a couple of images on the screen that show concept level green infrastructure. So things that we would like to create with community after we've collected data from everyone. So the image on the left shows there's there's an aerial image
of the city that has it looks like shapes have been drawn on top of that aerial image to show where you could place green infrastructure in your neighborhood. It shows there are call outs, little labels that talk about different types of green
infrastructure constructed wetlands or stream restoration and then there are labels in the bottom corner that show the color coding that you're seeing on the image is explained in a color coded legend and then the second image on the right is a
little bit more it's a little bit more detailed and it shows where individual trees or rain gardens could be placed. Again, this is a sketch that's been done on top of an aerial image. So there's an image of the city from above and then you're
seeing, you know, a new way to visualize the street once some green infrastructure has been added like and lastly for me I believe so just some examples of the data we've already collected.
So the flood survey is fundamentally it's a survey and it's it's something that can be completed on a phone on your computer and the primary ask that we have are are submitters
are people who are responding is please just submit a photo. So even if you're not sure about any of the questions on the survey, they're only there about five questions even if you're not sure about any of the questions, just attach a survey photo to the survey hit
submit. So what you're seeing are photos from real people who have filled the survey again. There are three photos on the slide. The first one on the left is a large puddle that's in in the roadway. The sidewalk is seems to be unaffected. But if you were for example,
trying to exit a vehicle to get on to a sidewalk, you would have to walk through or move through a large amount of water . The second photo is also in the roadway. You can see a very large puddle that is in the crosswalk of the
roadway and it's clearly going to make it difficult to get to the MTA. But you can see a photo of the train that runs down the middle of Commonwealth Avenue and getting over to the train is you'd have to move through quite a bit of standing water and then the third image is
from the Mary Ellen Welsh Greenway in East Boston, which is a green a linear green way that people use to commute. They use it for leisure and it's it's a park as well and there's quite a bit of water and debris that you can see
that has clearly washed down from a large storm event is making it very difficult to use the pathway through the Greenway. So real reports that we've received from people. So just wanted to give everybody an example of what we're looking for.
OK, I'm going to pass it over to Julie and apologize. I think I probably went a little bit longer than I should have successfully. No problem I think will wrap up pretty quickly here with these last few slides.
So Kate already mentioned this but why is crowdsourced flood impact data so important? Because hearing from residents visitors tells us where flooding is a problem to some
extent flooding is a natural occurrence. It happens and it's our natural systems can adapt to it. What we need to know is where is it a problem? Where is it causing damage?
Where is it interrupting your day? Where is it making areas impassable? As Kate showed in those photos so computer models are great for street data on where water
might cool but it doesn't give us that human impact piece that we want and need to make our cities more functional for those of us that live there. We can also get real time on
the ground reports in a way that we never could if we were trying to do some sort of data collection ourselves. So these are coming in in real time from all over the city. We have access to local and
historical knowledge if there is an area of flooding that has been persistently causing you issues, feel free to submit the survey and report that I will note we do have historic data
from some other three one one cease fire reports and that will have included in the data viewer Kate mentioned. So we have access to pass data but you're welcome. You don't have to be observing experiencing flooding right in
that moment to report past issues. I mentioned comes from all over the city and then it's also a way to get people thinking about flooding what it means for them, what it means in their neighborhood, what does it mean today and what it might
mean as our climate changes where we do expect flooding will be worse as Kate showed us on the map. OK, so we have a draft of the survey. I'm going to walk through it. We would like to make it more
accessible so advice on that is very welcome or we'd like to make it as accessible as possible. One way we've already done that is it is available in seven languages so when you go in you can select your language if you
want to be included on the project email list you can provide your email address but that's not required. So first question is regarding the location of flooding.
Where did you see it? You can type in an address or place that the map will find and then this pin should go to
the location you type in the date the flooding was observed. Again, this is a historic report you're putting in approximate doesn't have to be exact. We've recently not had a lot of rain where this survey is
going to be open for a while. Presumably we'll get some rain but it has been slow. So past reports as I said, are welcome to the briefly describe the flooding again, this is
really up to your interpretation but this is one of the few open ended questions where folks can give their take on what was observed, what their experience was with the
flooding and impact, how deep or how deep is or was the water. We're definitely looking for more inclusive language on this one specifically around deaths
important safety caveat on this one do not go into flood waters. I think that's well known. But just to be clear on that, that's the expectation here is
the water moving or still recommended attach a photo are not required but a photo is very helpful. Again, not a required question
but what caused the flooding? If it's obvious you can answer this one if you don't know, just skip it in Boston being a coastal city, obviously we do have flooding that comes from
the ocean even in dry weather. So you know, when it's not raining we see that we are focused more on rain for this project. That said, we want as much data as we can get so please feel
free to submit if you know how often does it flood here? Don't know. Just skip it was flooded in this location there's various options.
You know, was it was it a home or a building or basement? Is it the road like the photos we saw obviously that's common. Was it the sidewalk parking area public space or just at anything else you observe being
flooded and then this key question how did the flooding impact you? You know, damage impacts to transportation roads could not access where you were going
without access to your home, maybe damage your socks or shoes or other personal injury . It didn't impact me is also a fine answer if you just observe it and want to report it great
,great. And then we've already heard feedback that could not access the sidewalk ramp would be a good addition to this question and so we will make that addition as well as that's a common concern we've already
heard and then hit submit and that data will go to this team and it will be used for the process described. So thank you again for giving us time in your meeting tonight
and thank you in advance for reporting some of your observations and experiences and I'm going to take the slideshow down for the question and answer. All right.
OK, thank you for questions from the board this area I see
where as a stand up go ahead w thank you very much. This is where speaking I really appreciate his presentation. I think it's critical information that you shared with us because as I mentioned I live in the north end and I
see flooding all the time, particularly in the worst district around I would say in the north end and then in the seaport as well as well as East Boston. I see it constantly. It's a regular occurrence and it's very dangerous and I also
don't see a lot of green infrastructure that you were speaking about as well that would help to mitigate that particularly in the worst district. And I've always wondered if you know, there's some sort of an update potentially you might be able to share with us about that as well as the Boston
Harbor. And I also have another question but it's a separate issue so why don't you answer the first question and I'll ask my second question at it's absolutely so we we're aware
of certain neighborhoods that experience pretty consistent or regular flooding and appreciate any photos or specific locations that are particularly bad. That information is going directly into our planning
efforts for installing green infrastructure. So we're creating a plan of attack if you will. But when we say we're creating a plan, we don't mean something that's going to be enacted ten years from now.
We mean we're planning for this year's designs and installations. So to take the information that we are receiving from the public and then be able to quickly turn it around, you know, integrating green infrastructure into existing
projects that are happening within these neighborhoods as well as doing a new project, separate projects that are just green infrastructure installation is the kind of primary goal of our office. Using this information from people gives us the support
that we need to get funding to encourage people to include flood mitigation and green infrastructure in their project . It essentially it gives us data that supports what what we know to be the case which is that
flooding is happening everywhere today we show that these maps and these models that show what we're expecting in ten years but we know that a lot of this is already happening right now and so being able to to look at
specific locations and move quickly to start installing green infrastructure, whether it's a rain garden at the surface or something underground that allows water to absorb into the ground and not sit on the street or not sit on properties is is essentially what we're trying
to do now. So we do have projects that are that are designed that are going into construction. Construction season is about to start up again for the spring in Boston and there are some locations in the neighborhoods
that you mentioned that do have green infrastructure in their plans that are going to be built this spring and then the sites that come out of this effort, the conceptual planning
are going to be working on this summer and into the fall and we've requested capital funding to build some of the the sites that come out of this work in another planning study that we're doing I'm starting as early as late fall this early next year. So we're hoping to be able to turn around this information
pretty quickly and to use it for for speedy implementation. I know trials for Watershed Association and other watershed groups are also really looking to to build small scale green infrastructure throughout watersheds and we have a number of other community groups that
are part this project that are doing similar work in their neighborhoods and we hope to be able to bring more green infrastructure to to you all to a public increasingly quickly over the next several years. So hopefully this spring people
will be able to to start to notice more more green infrastructure peering in their neighborhoods are being built in their neighborhoods. Thanks for that. I appreciate that information. Before I ask the second question that I had are are
there particular Sibos on the Boston Harbor that are involved the center but we below Julie mentioned that we are trying to prioritize precipitation based
flooding and so our community organizations that are on the coast tend to be very focused on coastal flooding. So we have a strong partnership with the Office of Climate Resilience who is focusing more of their efforts on coastal
flood mitigation, putting in features and nature based infrastructure to try to reduce flooding from coastal from sea level rise from storm surge and the Work District Council and other groups have been have been heavily engaged in in the
work that's being done specifically for the coastal area neighborhoods and then the majority of the CDOs that we have working on the flood survey project are from there from Chinatown, Dorchester,
Mattapan, downtown Boston from many from Dorchester, several from S-T. So if you have all that is to say if you have a suggestion for KBIO who could be involved
in this we would happily add them. We're still in a place where we can continue to add partners to this work and just understanding that a lot of what we're trying to prioritize is flooding that is coming from precipitation as opposed to just focusing on flooding that's coming in from
the from the ocean because we already have some department and others who are doing a good amount of work in that sector already. So we're trying to complement their work as and Mike also over an area that wasn't sufficiently covered before.
I don't know if that's helpful . Sometimes it's hard to work well through a city like city of Boston. I was trying to figure out who is doing what I understand. So my second question if I may is I'm going to be really honest here.
This is the first time I've learned anything about the survey. I haven't heard of it prior the data collection that you're talking about. Like I said, it sounds really important as a resident of the North End, I think it's interesting that I haven't heard about this before. So I'm wondering what sorts of advertising efforts you've been involved and what tools where it's been posted because
I haven't heard anything at all and I sort of living in in the danger zone here so I might certainly interest in filling out the survey. But anything else I can do to help sort of get a word out where are you advertising? What efforts have you made in Harrisburg? That's an excellent question.
I'm Julie mentioned. So the survey was an issue it's only been out for you so it hasn't actually been open for very long and unfortunately unfortunately but we chose to launch it during the winter when we weren't getting a lot of precipitation.
So the city's digital team, which is the team that puts advertisements on bus shelters, transportation infrastructure the city's like the trash and and so like all the city's digital boards and the
community centers and all of that, all of those postings are going up this month. So they're going to you're going to start seeing the survey and the QR code for the survey across the city on all of those and it's typical city advertising locations and
platforms. We've also done but currently we're doing social media and newsletters and getting the word out through digital means. But because we were in a part
of the year where it wasn't raining as much, we were getting some snow, some sleep we to push it as much in the first couple of months. But now that we're moving into spring the goal is for us to send out reminders before any
major rain event or any rain event as well as again have all of the city's advertising in the city's platforms are going to be promoting as well. And then our Office of Neighborhood Services liaisons have just started
putting all this in their newsletter starting in March and April and then we'll also be pushing it out at the mayor's office coffee hours and other things which are coming up this spring. So we're using a lot of the city's communication channels
this this group is actually a really great example. You all have your own communities that you're part of and now that you know, now that we've shared this information with you, we hope that you'll pass it on to others as well. And then the watershed associations and the community based organizations are also
communicating with their constituents to encourage folks to submit survey responses around storm events. But again, more work to be done ,especially now that we're moving into spring when we're expecting precipitation to be
much more regular, much more consistent and one of our key activities will be going into the community and going to community events and we have not identified all those available opportunities so we
would love invitations or just a heads up about hey, this is a good event in my neighborhood so that we can those are also mostly warm weather but so we
can start to plan ahead. OK, thank you. Are there any other questions from the board? This is Andrea Olivia, AC1 Processor's hand.
Go ahead Oneko. Yes, I think that this is fun. Thank you so much. Julie and I were on the team for cheering all this information. I guess my goal is just a little extension of what you just recently discussed based
on Waislitz question and I wanted to go along with the survey you created be available to provide feedback. This is something just temporary. It's going to be here to stay for a long time and I wonder
until that is it connected to the city where one up in some conceding that some users also provide people with a platform ? So I would imagine that it would be helpful if users were A.P. reporting issues already on one one could be directly
linked to the survey to provide more detailed so you don't want to lose of information from especially from people who are already active and knowledgeable using that platform. So yeah, that's it. And thank you so much again for sharing. Yeah, that's great.
And so to your first question, we're planning on leaving it open indefinitely so it just will always be available for people to submit information. The work that we're doing that was funded by the BP grant in June of this year we're going
to be looking at the data that we've collected and starting that planning process. But we're going to continue to collect data ongoing for as long as people keep submitting it. And your question about the three on one actually came up in a meeting yesterday that we
had with three one one. So they we've been told that they are going to add a link to the flood survey. This is news to you to the three one and so the we had a meeting yesterday specifically to talk about people who are
submitting the storm water or flooding related issues to three one one we want to make sure that that information is getting to our project team so we can use it for the work that we're doing, the planning that we're doing. And so every month three one
one is going to send us an expert or an output from the three one one system. Any cases that have stormwater flooding and ponding in them anywhere will get sent to our project team. So in addition to the survey
responses from people who are using our survey link, we are also going to be getting three one one cases that have flooding mentioned in them. And then we're also working with the Boston Water Sewer Commission to get their information for when people
call the Boston Water and Sewer Commission about flooding. So we're setting up a system for regularly sharing that information across departments that are collecting it so that we can all have more information about how we can improve conditions in the city.
Thank you so much. Yeah, okay. Anyone else hearing seeing you
undergo double check things with me? I am not seeing any hands raised or comments in the chat. OK, thank you for your presentation. We will look forward to filling out your survey for all the
flooding you see in Boston. Thank you all very much. Thank you. We appreciate your time. Right. So we move on to the chairs here for Jerry is all available
this month for this meeting. So are yeah, the report is that the executive committee met on
we've honed in on a couple of priorities for this year in areas that we think we can make a bigger impact.
One of them is on food, justice and food access for people with disabilities in the city of Boston and another in in housing and public housing.
Olivia, do you want me to read some of Jerry's report or yes, please. I didn't receive it. No worries. Yeah, happy too. OK, so first of all let me say that I am humbled to be asked to lead such a wonderful group of advocates for people with
disabilities in City. I'm sorry that I cannot lead this first meeting as I had planned a trip before being nominated as chair. I look forward to actively leading the group in the year ahead to the end. As Olivia mentioned, the executive committee recently
met and brainstormed the following priorities that we hope will guide our work over the next year or even more. First, access to housing particularly through addressing housing housing accessibility
and availability, food justice ,ensuring equitable access to healthy and affordable food, transportation investigating and improving accessible transportation options. PCAs addressing issues
surrounding access to and quality of PC services mental health promoting access to quality of mental health services for individuals with disabilities. This is by no means an
exhaustive list and the Executive Committee welcomes the input of fellow board members and the community to help refine our priorities and adjust them as needed. We envision that tackling the issue of food justice may be a
multi month if not multi year endeavor. Thank you to Tara for bringing this issue to our attention. Thank you Olivia for highlighting the issue of housing. I mentioned the issues of transportation and PCAs which impact so many of us on the board and other
constituents in the city and Paul has been a long time advocate for addressing mental health disparities for city residents. The executive committee hopes that each board member will engage in the areas above that mean the most to them and areas
that mean the most to them that may not be listed above. We hope that each board member will bring to our monthly board meetings one thing that they have done to engage their communities in the prior weeks since we last met.
That is why as you may have noticed in the agenda we are changing the announcement section to more of a board engagement section. It is not meant for each of us on the spot but as a way to highlight the ways in which each of us engage our
communities. In addition, it is my hope that each one of us one possible will share our extensive personal and professional experience as people with disabilities through engagement with other city boards,
committees, departments and at public meetings. And let us not forget that in this charged political climate we need to be more vigilant than ever in doing what we can to continue to advocate for and
protect the rights of all persons with disabilities at the city, state and federal levels. So thank you again for the opportunity to lead our work for the next year and I look forward to working with each of you on continuing to make
Boston a more accessible and inclusive city for all its residents and visitors to you next month Dary. Thank you. I'm but move on to the
commissioner or take it away. Thanks, Olivia. Thank you, everybody. I'm glad to be here with you tonight. I was in the meeting Jerry and the executive committee and
Andrea and I think we had a really good discussion. We really picked up where we left off last year as was including this time as a board chair. People had asked certain board members had asked about priorities and different things
that we could be moving forward and WS put it in the hands of the new executive committee and I feel like they really took that charge seriously and had a really good discussion and I will go to some of the points that Olivia mentioned and that Jerry mentioned in my report tonight.
So we'll go to the next slide to begin. I noticed that Jerry's report mentioned the charged political climate that we are in today. So I do just want to acknowledge that Mayor testified in Congress last week
it was all over the TV and online. So I'm sure many of you saw it . But I just wanted to emphasize her message that Boston is still strong. Boston is home for everyone in Boston is a so just to reassure residents and anyone else who was watching that our work
continues despite what happens on the federal level. We are a local government and we are here to enforce our local government rules, regulations and mandates I am told to coordinate for the city which is a federal law but it's really meant to be enforced on
the ground in local government structures such as the city of Boston government. So that's what we work on every day and that work will continue despite what happens at the federal level. So maybe we'll do a great job. We were really proud and continue to echo her directives to us that Boston is a home for
everyone. On that note, I'd like to welcome our new executive committee members. Jerry Boyd was elected chairperson. He served as chair previously and was elected in February. So we're excited to have Jerry back as chair Olivia as she mentioned, she's vice chair and
has also served in the past. So we have two very experienced people at the helm of the executive committee this year terrorist alert our secretary and she's a new board member and couldn't make it tonight. She did a great job in the
first meeting she attended the executive committee meeting and Paul is our treasurer who has been on the executive committee for years now. So one thing that Jerry called out in his report one thing we discussed at the executive committee meeting was that we'd
love in this year each board member could really pick an area of focus to concentrate their advocacy efforts on and I listened some of the priorities that people have expressed and these are by no means limiting or prescriptive. It's just really what people have expressed to us that they
are interested in. As Jerry mentioned, he's very interested in interested in transportation and Cascais he has always been a strong advocate for housing, especially housing. Tara mentioned that she'd like to work like justice.
As we know, Paul is really the biggest mental health. Charlie is always looking forward to Boston public schools. Accessibility and education can't always upstage us on legislation and what's happening in the world of the status at the state level.
So like I said, these are just some areas expressed interest in in expertize so we would love it if those board members continue to kind of drill down and take some ownership on those issues when they come up outside of our meetings and then other board members have
expressed interest in a variety of things. So I didn't want to assign anybody an area of interest but Juan Carlos Twist's Richard Paulett Elizabeth, if there are certain things you would like to focus on, we would love to support you with that and that
could be expressed in things like the new section that Jerry had mentioned on the agenda instead of announcements it's going to be it will offer opportunity for board members to report out on things they've done. So for instance, if someone is particularly interested in environmental issues on climate
change, they may have emailed the information about the survey to like a couple of groups that they're involved in, things like that. So we would love it if you really do take this information and spread it the information that you get at our board meetings and share with your communities, your friends, your networks because that's really
how it's going to how we make systemic changes if we get the word out to everybody. We met with the group before the presentation and we pointed out some areas that they hadn't thought of . So when they get that lens of disability it really helps everybody. So asking board members to think about the areas they'd
like to focus on and we can come back to that next one next slide. So we do have some events coming up our state of the City address mayor whose state of the city address is next
week. It is Wednesday, March 19th at 7:00 pm in person at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. It will be on TV and will be live streamed live streamed on Boston Ducos. So hoping that board members have RSVP and put in a note if
they need any accommodations are RSVP were technically due today but if you haven't responded would still like to go. You can still answer the email and let the mayor's team know that you're interested in attending. I'll be on vacation unfortunately so I won't see
you there but I'll try to tune in virtually from my vacation. Our Disability Community Forum is coming up again in May. It's going to be Thursday, May 8th from two to three thirty again a hybrid event at Suffolk University Law School on
Tremont Street and on do so on the note I mentioned earlier about everybody picking an area of interest that they'd like to hone in on this year. I would love to have advisory board members participate in presenting the annual report if anyone is interested.
I usually write the report and I break it down into categories of work we've done over the past year and things like housing is something that we may have made some strides in or done some work in. So for example, maybe Olivia will be interested in listing all the work that we've done in
housing and if we've done work on transportation, Jerry may want to take that piece of it and present it to the people at the forum. So I would love to use it as a way to get board members more involved in the actual discussions at the forum. But also to give you some ownership of the work that we
do at the commission because really you are linked to the community and I hope that it will, you know, encourage people to pursue their areas of interest and really become specialists in those areas that really like I said, help spread systemic access throughout the city.
So we'll talk more about that next month. But just something to think about until at thirty five we'll be different this year we'll be having our information fair on City Hall Plaza. It will be more of a march and rally to celebrate the thirty
fifth anniversary of the ADA on the big year I was like a twenty and twenty thirty thirty fifth. We usually do a collaborative event with Bisio and other organizations so again we will do that this year it's going to be a little bit different. It will be a rally on City Hall Plaza.
We're trying to get a flag raising event in the morning and then it will be a march to Boston Common in a rally by the Embrace Statue Memorial to MLK Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta so more information to
come on that we don't have a time yet but that's the rough idea right now. And then an update on another project we've talked for a while. We're calling it the pit blues project pedestrian pedestrian bike lane user experience study . So as we all know, curb use in
the city of Boston has changed significantly over the past few years. We've seen things like bike lanes like Uber and Lyft drop off areas outdoor dining, bustling serve and so many changes that it's really kind of crowded the city streets and
sidewalks. So Mayor, who has put a temporary pause I think thirty days on curbside infrastructure changes and she really wants to get feedback from different communities about what works and what doesn't work. So we had some funding to put towards a small project that would collaborating on with
each CD and we're going to begin meeting them this week to look at different areas of where bike lanes intersect with intersection and have different configurations whether it's a sidewalk level
bike lane or street level bike lane and where there could be potential conflicts with pedestrians particularly where it would impact pedestrians disabilities. So what we're going to do is gather information to try to identify some best practices for designs we're expressing at
all that we don't want bike lanes because we don't bike lanes can actually improve pedestrian safety because it keeps bikes off the sidewalk. Some out of the street gives them their own dedicated space to be traveling. And so while we know there are some safety issues for people with disabilities, we want to
help improve the process. But not stop it. So we will keep you updated as our work progresses. I will be just documenting different interactions between people with different disabilities and different configurations of bike lanes.
So we're excited to get that work and next slide. OK, so I just wanted to some opportunities for our advisory board members Colleen Flanagan, our outreach engagement specialist has started what
she's calling disability outreach tour at Boston Public Library neighborhood Frenches. She's going to visit every BPL branch and all the neighborhoods to meet with residents where they are because we know a lot of residents with disabilities come to our events. They come to our meetings, we
see them. They're part of the advocacy community. But there are a whole lot of residents who have disabilities that don't identify as having a disability or they're not necessarily advocate it just going along living their life like working or going to school or whatever they may be doing to enjoy
their family and they may not know what services are available to them. So we're trying to get out into the neighborhoods to be people where they are. So calling again February and she'll be working on this throughout the year visiting about two libraries per month. So that will be in our
newsletter. If any of you haven't signed up for our newsletter, please do so it comes out weekly to email and we always have information about upcoming events that we're working on or city council hearings maybe. And these are all things like I said, if we see a city council
hearing on housing and that's your particular interest you may want to attend you can attend most meetings virtually nowadays. So it wouldn't have to be your transportation taking extra time to get to city hall. You can do most things personally.
I had mentioned last month in my report that the city has a project called Participatory Budgeting this allocates I think it's two million dollars every year that residents can weigh in on and suggest projects that could be spent on
and then for which ones they like best. So I had mentioned last month that you could vote on the final project. You didn't get involved in this. We didn't have time to propose any projects last year but I'm really hoping we can get
together and propose some projects for this company. Yeah, and they could be anything from things that improve access to people disabilities like to projects. Last year I didn't have room to put them on the slide but one of them was good access and one
of them was inventions that I did put in the link and would you be able to complete them? And so this is a cycle one
of the winning proposals expanding access access to fresh fruits, Boston prevention initiatives, intensive residential areas, programs to support incarcerated formerly incarcerated youth rental assistance for young adults and community gardens in Boston's
neighborhood with limited access to food and I already seeing a trend of bench trend emerging with access which is something that we want to work on with Ford and then installing benches at high ridership public transit stops in Boston on that and you'll
see that this project got one hundred thousand dollars to increase accessibility for those who may have difficulty standing such as older adults, individuals with disabilities and others who take the team. I may have physical
disabilities mobility impairments so they can do this like this in the same think of things that you may want to propose because this is a real city money that you can actually direct towards projects. So I really hope that you'll think of some ideas we composed and then we can always go on
like know which campaign to spread the word those ideas into action and this is a way that the boy can really impact the work that the city does and actually have a say and see budget. So he's just at that link when you have Steven and then the
last one you have to go back to my slides is one that I go back
to the mayor's office of Housing Housing is doing a survey and this is minimum wage is creating a one year plan for spending housing development funds. So they really want input from the community but especially with disabilities you can give
input in person online or writing is a zone hearing Thursday the 13th just the day after tomorrow is in person hearing next week on Wednesday and you can submit written comments to April 15 again if
you want to really see systemic access we need your voices to be heard so please consider clicking on Link to learn more about this plan and giving input on how you would like to see the money spent. On that note I'm going to turn it over to Kai our training
specialist and then I will jump back on after it give their report. This is great. Thanks and hi everyone again my name is Kai. My pronouns are they them? I don't have my that on but my photo is of me.
I'm going be presenting a black person with large glasses and dark like black colored hair and I am accessibility and inclusion training specialist for our office so I wanted to give a little bit of time or take a little bit of time to
talk about some of the highlights of things that I've done since I started working for the city in the summer of twenty twenty three and give some information on how you can tap into me as a resource so just some quick statistics highlights I've done over
twenty one training since October of twenty twenty three . Those trainings cover topics like titles one, two and three of the ADA service starts language etiquette just any and everything that you can think
of that pertain specifically to the disability community. I have given these trainings to elementary schools support groups, offices within the city of Boston and continue to do that and I have also developed some one pager's that we can
pass out to folks specifically on the first one I can think of off the top of my head is our on-street accessible parking program on pager that just gives kind of guided information that you can find on our website in a paper form for how to apply for it on
street accessible parking spot there's also eleven prerecorded videos on our YouTube channel and that is a clickable link. So if you have the slide you are welcome to and I encourage you to click the link to visit that playlist so that you can see what prerecorded videos are
there different topics again such as service dogs, language and etiquette. Some find information about the overlap between black history and disability history including the Black Panthers. Well, and if I go or sit in and things like that and then finally how to request the
training again another applicable link this is a full Web page and actually ended up we can go to it so we can see what it looks like when you click the link it'll take you to the Boston Globe Web page on how to request a training this page kind of outlines one
of the guidelines that I consider when we're looking at the request. So I encourage folks to request these 30 days in advance making sure that you have an accessible location if the training is in person noting escalator access is not a
substitution for elevators. I do prioritize the Boston entities or entities within Boston city limits so that does include any of your social groups you know schools etc. things like that as long as they are within the Boston city limits.
I prioritize those and then I do specifically more so for the city of Boston departments. But ask that there's at least ten attendees at no more than thirty and then you can fill out the training request form which Milwaukee through providing certain information
like what organization is or what group you're part of , what the training topic is that you would like a number of attendees event venue, location if it's in person and there is also some suggestions for different topics that are in your training request form.
So if you have any questions on that, my contact information is below. My direct line is six one seven six three five three five six six and you can email me my seem quite like a dot my last
name K e and and Eddie why that Boston dot gov and I'm happy to help you with any training requests. I really really encourage folks to go ahead and request trainings for smaller groups if you have, you know, a support
group or even just one you know friends and family I know that we have board members who are particularly interested in public schools and how we can better serve our disabled students. So if you are part of a study group or anything of that nature, these are all places
that I feel very comfortable with. I would love to do a training on any topic that you think is important for folks to know. So thanks Commissioner for giving me a little bit of time and I'll pass it back to you. Great. Thank you. And all board members have received a copy of my board
report in your materials the email from last week. So please take a few minutes to go through it and click on some of the links and let us know if you have questions or if you want to set up any of the training Slicky mentioned. I can honestly say I was on the
YouTube channel a few weeks ago and it's extremely impressive the number of videos the guys put together and they all have really good information. So like I said, the more we can spread the word the more access and inclusion will spread throughout the city which improves the lives of all people with disabilities. So thank you so much for all
your hard work. We have a few other sites now with a program that we wanted to highlight also and I was going to ask Andrea if she could go through these slides if you don't mind. Absolutely. Thanks, Commissioner. So you may recall I think we've
talked about this at a previous meeting but it's a program that was successful last year and is coming back. It's an E bike incentive program. So the city of Boston felt hey, if their state and federal incentives for you to buy electric vehicles cars, why not
incentives to buy electric bikes? So it's a program where you can qualify if you are one of the following you don't have to be all three just one a senior the person with the disability or chronic illness or low income you can be all three but you
only have to be one to qualify and applications are open in the month of April so April 1st through April 30th there are two different sort of pathways and two different vouchers that are in this program. The first is if you can ride a
traditional bike you apply and are entered into a lottery for that vouchers range from eight hundred to fifteen hundred to help reduce the cost of a standard bike or cargo bike. But if and if you're a resident with a disability who can ride
a traditional bike, you get into that program. But if you're disability or chronic illness requires an adaptive bike that's a separate process that is not a lottery. It's just you just get it if you apply we expect 50 vouchers
to be available and it will actually cover higher costs so the base amount you will get at least two thousand dollars or you can get up to 50 percent of the cost of the adaptive bike up to about five thousand dollars whichever is greater.
So if you buy a two thousand you get two thousand dollars free bike but if you buy a ten thousand dollar bike you get a five thousand dollar voucher half the price of the bike if you buy over that twelve thousand dollars you still only
get five thousand. But you know that will will pay off a significant portion of the bike. This slide is a bit of a complicated table but I'm not going to read out but it basically gives you all of the possible amounts of money you
could get depending on how you qualify and what kind of bike you're getting so that's here for you to look at if you're interested, particularly if you're interested. I want to make sure you get the more information. So Boston Dagi Bikes is the
program page if you want to go read more about it there's a virtual info session happening Thursday March twenty seventh at 12:00 p.m. It's Zoome ACEL and other language interpretation have already been booked and a recording will be posted.
If you're not sure about all these things and you want to like Seyoum and feel them and touch them and try them there actually try amoebic them which will have some of the adaptive like cycle stuff so they'll be one in Mattapan two on City
Hall Plaza one in Roxbury and then another in City Hall Plaza in April and May. One thing I want to note is that last year the standard bike voucher program twenty percent of people who bought a standard bike want people with disabilities.
So that's a pretty good representation statistic given the numbers that we have in the city of folks with disabilities. So I my understanding is these are folks with maybe asthma or Frida's we're walking pretty
far is is paying for motor bike helps them increase their mobility and and we also helped purchase hand cycle attachments for chairs, traits for people who need the additional stability and other adaptive
bikes for folks who went through the adaptive program, great. So that is the end of my report but happy to take questions. Sorry I see you have your hand
up. Yes, thank you very much. My my concern about the lack of bike what if plenty
of bidding is involved in making the right choice? I mean I'm sure a lot of people I mean I mean oh I love that one but at the same time I'm not sure what would be the
right one because there are many different types of adapted bike. So that was you suggest that as far as making that determination this is Andrea I'd recommend going to one
of the Trion bike sessions or honestly just applying because part of the process is so what happens if you get it is you get a voucher and you take that voucher to one of the partners that the city has partnered
with and they have every kind of adaptive bike you can imagine and so you go to the bike shop and work with them. So that includes a location in the city in J-P that will come
to city hall and do fittings for you on City Hall Plaza. That's easier for you to get do than Jamaica Plain. There's also one in Rhode Island. So they're pretty difficult potentially to get to but that is their job. They sell bikes and they will work with you to find the thing
that works for you. You don't have to know when you apply for the voucher exactly what kind do you want just a you know you can't use a traditional bike.
Thank you. Hi. This is Swiss and the question
I had was yes, I have a question about the bike incentive program. No, one moment please. My child was here.
I just so suppose someone wants to apply for a new bike under the incentive program and they realize they don't have the storage space for a new there
may be some people that may not be able to apply because of the storage. Is there a storage program within the city for these new bikes? Great question. This is Andrea. No, that is not part of the
program. There is additional I think one hundred and fifty dollars for like helmets and lights and safety equipment like that. But my understanding is that there is not any storage
because everyone's home is going to be different. A lot of new construction buildings. Our building is like storage. I don't know if you've if you live in the larger building if you've ever looked into that but I don't plans nowadays that
they are building is like storage. A lot of new condo and apartment buildings in the city but that is definitely an issue .
Any other questions for a question? Go ahead. So in terms of adaptive bike comes up and down with the bike
for people with disabilities, don't you know Tim puddled people with mobility issues but they do have the bike for them to have visually impaired and get to ride with the partner things. Carl, this I remember you asked
this question last year. Let me see what my answer was at the time. Yes. So yes, the voucher could be applied and I think that would count in the adaptive bikes category.
We can triple check so I can put you directly in touch with the bike program manager but she was pretty sure that that
would count under the program. I'll make sure you get the application. Carl might as well apply see what happens right.
Anyone else. All right.
Hearing none will move to a board member engagement. Cheryl so anyone have anything
that they've done this month? Yeah, go ahead. Call it.
I actually attended the PTA rally today union eleven ninety nine the State House and it was really very inspiring to hear the testimonies from not only the Pistons but some of the
customer Clines and so I'm glad that people are rallying around that issue early because I see a battle for them in the future . Yes, Thank you for sharing your
follow up. Yeah, that's great. Thank you, Paula. That's exactly what I want to hear for I don't think I recognize you.
I did work at the state house. Oh OK. Well you go with the group that I saw but that report is exactly what we're hoping to hear this year from board members. Anything like that that you've done. Let us know. Olivia, were you there at the rally?
No, no, I couldn't make it so people know a couple of upcoming events that I'm will they go over the next few months? They will be double because but don't you feel like advocacy group advocating for their priorities?
But one thing I know off the top of my head people came in on behalf the equity argument will be advocating and then people know it's one that I'm very much involved with the
gambling community where we want to get one to win the day and both have to have this big help both be low, bring real people hate to people that
point down carwash. What do you off a I know in the chat go ahead. You can class maybe wrangling
child I don't see him on camera so unless he pops off oh yeah. Oh so I'm happy to read out. Yeah please do. He said I attended the neighborhood meeting about the new community center that will
replace Nazarro that's one of the city's community centers . The new community center will be next to the BCI Mirabela pool. There are some issues about whether or not to shrink the pool size or not. Many people want to keep the original size of the pool so
definitely keep us in the loop. We do review those projects for access but we wouldn't need for example, getting into the pool . We would review things like hieroglyphs or zero entry but the size of the pool that's definitely a community process.
Yeah, that's great. Yes, it's good to know you're involved in that. We have seen some of the plans regarding that renovation that you built. So glad to know that you're in on a two from the community Hankel and Zori I see your
question to Carl about fliers for those statehouse days. I know I have a link to the Autism Day. I don't think I have a link to the deaf blind day so I'll send you that. But Carl, if you have a link about the deaf blind day I'll
share it around your thanks. Anybody. Thanks Paul.
Where are you going to say something to the but or what BORBON Is it the oh you're breaking up.
We're having trouble hearing you maybe you can put it in the jack.
Oh all right. I think we lost all our
literally yeah. Can you hear me now is that any better? That's much better. Yeah sorry about that. I was in a different location. I don't know what this
backgrounders that showed up it's like green grass so to use that you know what that is I want to say to Olivia doing a great job tonight as chairperson will great meeting but I was able to speak to
so-called community members of the Blackstone in the west end of the mental health advocacy this afternoon and our community outreach the board that was able to give out my city of Boston emails what anyone that has any questions or needs assistance and they're
very they were very grateful and thankful so that anything that needs to be reached the commissioner or injury you know, they know that Bill always been more than willing to help also and just just to
clarify power preservation of affordable housing, is that right? Yes, it is a civil locations around the city whereas my brother lives up the one of the West End and they have about three hundred residents so they're very grateful for the
time and the connections including the management team also which I've given my phone number and email.
Thank you COFCO oh okay. I see any old business oh
business nothing showing on my radar new business we have a piece of new business we want our bridal planner to the
Abilities Expo to come back to Boston since they've come under new new leadership and I was
wondering how the board feels about this. Hi is Kristen can I just add a little context? Yes, please. I raised this issue to the executive committee because I remember several years ago a lot of you may remember fondly
the Abilities Expo. We always had a table there and pretty much everybody from the disability community in Boston would go they had a lot of you staples. The people need the wheelchair repair. They sold things that gave things away. It was a three day expo and they go to different cities
around the country. So they stopped coming to Boston maybe five, six, seven years ago. And at the time the board wrote a letter to see if they would come back and the owner was not able to do so because of the scheduling at the convention center. But now there is new ownership
of the Abilities Expo. So I know they have the schedule built out at least for the next year or two but I just wanted to raise it as an issue because I know the board had been interested that in the past so I give it to the executive committee for Olivia
to move forward. I support the idea that yes, I
I on so I'm advertising at about I don't know live with TV or Internet. I don't but that might have been a mistake.
You should go and get I got an email from them and it is out there on online but it's not coming to Boston. The closest one is in New York and and other than that it's like L.A. Chicago, Dallas I
think you should definitely look for it. I know it wasn't great. You can do event so I would support it. What we could do for your
mother during the day and the week that letter everyone was just looking for her now. I mean I can try to find a little if not go after people
call your brother want I support the idea of getting the ability to get back to the box that I am. Do you support it enough to make a motion call? Oh OK. I think very thoroughly yeah.
Come I think that we were delivered to the ability to come back to work. I said and Escutia all right
let's put it up for a vote all in favor by any post. All right.
The motion carries we're going to write a letter to the about these expo and try to get them to come back to Boston. Well, look for the old letter and send it to you all to review for next great.
I wonder does anybody have any other new business they want to raise?
OK, seeing none hearing none of it is no time for public employee and go ahead and lay the ground rules. Thanks so much Olivia. So some of the ground rules are
on this slide. For example, we are now at the public input section that is at the end of the meeting. Please use the zoom ways hand function if you wish to speak and wait to be recognized to begin. We do have ASL interpreters so
if you would like to sign your question again please resume hand function and I will continue for the interpreters to find you. Please identify yourself before speaking. Public input is limited to two
minutes. Olivia, this is Andrea. I am not seeing raised hands or
comments in the chat. OK having given sufficient time for folks to find that handbrakes function is time to
make a motion. Olivia Yeah call her absolutely .
And in seconds I see WSW always my oh OK. Meeting ended at seven Love
Girl Olivia thank you things
everyone good to see you