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From YouTube: Committee on Boston's COVID-19 Recovery on May 27, 2022
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Dockets #0503, 0504, 0436 - This hearing is one in a series to discuss American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding proposals from the Mayor and from Councilors.
This hearing will focus on Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, Arts and Culture, and Early Childhood
A
We
will
be
taking
public
testimony
at
the
end
of
this
hearing.
So
if
you're
interested
in
testifying
with
us
here
in
the
chamber
and
welcome
to
those
who
I
see
here
in
the
chamber,
please
sign
up
at
the
sheet
near
the
door
and
if
you
are
watching
this
at
home
and
you're
interested
in
testifying
virtually
please
email,
ccc.covid19
boston.gov
for
the
link,
that's
ccc.cov,
ccc.covid19
boston.gov
and
if
you're
watching
this.
After
the
fact
you
can
still
submit
written
testimony
to
us
at
that
address.
A
Today's
hearing
is
on
docket0503
message
and
order
authorizing
the
city
of
boston
to
accept
and
expend
the
amount
of
349
million
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
the
form
of
a
grant
awarded
by
the
united
states
department
of
treasury
to
be
administered
by
the
city
of
boston's.
Chief
financial
officer,
collector
treasurer
from
the
coronavirus
state
and
local
fiscal
recovery
fund
in
the
treasury
of
the
united
states,
established
by
section
9901
of
the
american
rescue
plan
act
of
2021
arpa
and
pursuant
to
the
requirements
of
the
arpa.
A
The
grant
payment
would
fund
coven,
19
response
and
recovery
efforts
and
accelerate
a
green
new
deal
for
boston
through
once
in
a
generation
transformative.
Investments
that
address
the
systemic
health
and
economic
challenges
in
the
areas
of
affordable
housing,
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion,
behavioral,
health,
climate
and
mobility,
arts
and
culture
and
early
childhood.
A
A
couple
more
of
these
to
read
docket
0504
message
and
order
authorizing
the
city
of
boston
to
accept
and
expend
the
amount
of
40
million
in
the
form
of
a
grant
awarded
by
the
united
states
department
of
the
treasury
to
be
administered
by
the
city
of
boston's.
Chief
financial
officer
collector
treasurer
from
the
coronavirus
state
and
local
fiscal
recovery
funds
in
the
treasury
of
the
united
states,
established
by
section
9901
of
the
american
rescue
plan
act
of
2021
and
pursuant
to
the
requirements
of
the
arpa.
A
I
also
want
to
note
that
we've
been
joined
by
councillor
liz
braden
of
district
9
and
I
did
get
a
note,
informally
from
councillor
gabriella
coletta
district
1,
just
saying
that
she
is
on
her
way
in,
but
she
is
listening
to
us
so
for
the
panelists
just
to
know
that
she's
she's
going
to
come
in
fully
informed
we're
joined
here.
So
let
me
explain
a
little
bit
for
anybody
watching
about
kind
of
this
hearing.
In
context
of
other
hearings.
A
But
it's
a
lot
of
information
to
get
through
and
then
also
counselors
have
been
filing
proposals
related
to
things
they'd
like
to
see
funded
with
these
funds,
and
so
what
we're
trying
to
do
is
create
some
more
hearing
space
for
everybody
to
kind
of
really
get
into
the
weeds
and
not
try
to
bite
off
everything
in
one
hearing.
So
that
said,
it's
still
going
to
feel
like
we're
biting
off
a
fair
bit
today,
because
we're
going
to
be
hearing
about
the
proposals
from
the
administration
side
in
economic
inclusion,
child
care
and
arts
and
culture.
A
So
we've
got
a
variety
of
chiefs
with
us
to
talk
through
that
and
I'll
introduce
them
in
a
moment.
But
I
think
collectively,
the
proposals
that
they're
talking
about
today
are
about
69
million
worth
of
that
that
overall
350
proposal
and
then
and
you'll
notice,
there's
also
a
docket
from
counselor
braden.
That's
co-noticed
on
this
docket,
because
it's
about
it
was
we've
already
talked
about
it
and
had
panelists
on
it
at
a
prior
hearing.
But
it's
sort
of
particularly
concerned
with
things
related
to
some
of
the
sectors
that
we're
talking
about
today.
A
So
we
co-noticed
it
next
week,
there's
going
to
be
one
on
june
1st
at
2pm
focused
on
housing,
which
is
where
the
bulk
of
the
proposal
is
placed
and
we're
going
to
have
that
co-noticed
with
a
couple
of
counselor
dockets
that
are
specifically
on
housing
and
then
on
friday,
the
3rd
and
I'm
sorry
for
all
these
friday
hearings.
But
with
the
budget
hearings,
they
were
the
only
dates
left
friday
morning.
A
We're
going
to
talk
about
climate
mobility
and
a
council
proposal
on
the
digital
equity
front
and
then
in
the
afternoon
we're
going
to
focus
on
public
and
behavioral
health.
So
for
those
of
you
tuning
in
that's
kind
of
how
we've
chunked
it
for
discussion,
the
idea
is
that
by
the
third,
we
will
have
at
least
kind
of
gotten
all
the
live
proposals
that
people
put
forward
so
far
out
on
the
table.
A
This,
the
arpa
funds,
do
not
need
to
move
in
conjunction
with
the
budget.
So
it's
not
a
question
of
moving
towards
a
vote
as
soon
as
june
8th.
But
because
there's
been
so
much
intertwined
conversation
about
arpa
and
budget,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we
had
had
a
chance
to
kind
of
dive
into
the
meat
of
these
proposals
together
as
a
council
before
the
budget
timeline
vote,
which
is
on
which
is
on
the
8th
of
june.
A
So
that's
just
a
little
bit
of
context
about
where
we
are
and
now
I'm
going
to
go
to
the
panel.
I
I
had
asked
that
the
because
there's
so
much
to
get
through
that
the
administration
send
us
back,
responds
to
our
info
request
in
advance
of
this
hearing.
So
we
sent
that
out
to
counselors
on
wednesday
and
that
we
kind
of
try
to
not
spend
a
lot
of
time
on
a
long,
powerpoint
presentation
today
and
instead
sort
of
refer
to
that
and
jump
right
into
the
weeds.
A
So
I
think
the
administration's
going
to
have
opening
remarks,
but
then
we're
going
to
be
referring
to
that.
So
this
is
just
a
reminder
to
counselors
and
staff
that
if
you
don't
have
that
material
in
front
of
you
it'd
be
great
to
get
it
in
the
next
few
minutes,
and
now
I
will
go
to
our
panel,
so
we're
joined
today
by
the
chief
of
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion.
A
Sorry,
my
apologies
think
it
anyways
I'll.
Let
you
pronounce
it
shigan,
I'm
sorry,
director
of
workforce
development,
trin,
win,
direct
chief
of
arts
and
culture,
cara,
elliott,
ortega
and
director
of
early
childhood
education,
kristin
mcswain.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
and
and
I
think
we
will
start
with
chief
adobe.
You
have
the
floor.
B
Thank
you
good
morning,
madam
chair
chief
of
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion
no
need
to
apologize.
It
took
me
two
years
all
good,
so
it's
a
pleasure
to
come
before
you
to
discuss
this
important
topic
of
investing
responsibly
in
the
economic
recovery
and
future
of
our
communities.
Utilizing
federal
funds
from
the
american
rescue
plan.
B
I'm
joined
by
my
colleagues
from
mayor
shelby's
cabinet,
as
you've
mentioned
earlier,
and
together
we're
here
to
make
a
formal
request
that
this
committee
and
the
larger
council
body
approve
the
expenditure
of
69
million
dollars
for
projects
under
the
heading
of
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion
and
I'll
be
sharing
investments.
Investment
requests
specific
to
my
department,
which
despair
bears
the
same
name
that
our
requests
fall
under
before
discussing
our
proposal
for
further
transformative
investments.
I'm
going
to
share
brief
details
on
our
responsible
stewardship
of
arpa
funds
awarded
to
our
office.
B
In
the
current
fiscal
year
in
fy
22,
the
office
of
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion
received
investments,
totaling
23.7
million
dollars
in
federal
arpa
funds.
We've
leveraged
our
funds
to
launch
innovative
programs
that
address
the
devastating
economic
harm
caused
by
the
covet-19
pandemic
and
support
our
micro
and
small
business
community
tourism
industry,
hard
hit
industries,
our
workforce
and
our
local
economic
recovery
and
growth
efforts.
These
investments
fell
into
seven
programmatic
categories.
B
The
small
business
relief
fund,
which
we
have
shared
some
details
in
previous
council
hearings,
and
look
forward
to
sharing
more
at
our
budget
hearing
next
week,
originally
launched
in
september
of
20
of
21,
with
an
8
million
dollar
investment
received
an
additional
5
million
in
january
2022,
with
the
approval
of
the
council
and
to
date
we
have
funded
close
to
1
000
businesses,
58
of
which
were
women
owned.
18
percent
of
those
who
voluntarily
identified
as
immigrant
owned
and
68
percent
were
minority
owned.
B
The
commercial
rental
relief
fund
has
issued
over
3
million
dollars
in
grant
funding
to
landlords
to
cover
tenant
rent
and
prevent
the
displacement
of
nearly
300
small
businesses
across
the
city.
The
high
roads,
kitchen
restaurant
relief
fund
done
in
partnership
again
with
the
office
of
workforce
development
allocated
funding
for
the
administration
of
tuition
assistance
for
restaurant
workers
as
part
of
the
larger
restaurant
revitalization
fund
program.
85
businesses
participated
in
this
program.
589
restaurant
workers
were
hired
or
retained
and
153
expressed
interest
in
the
tuition
assistance
program.
B
Based
on
our
successful
efforts
to
support
boston,
small
businesses
in
a
responsible
and
equitable
way.
We
are
making
the
following
requests
to
invest:
28
million
dollars
in
federal
arpa
funds
for
the
following
six
programs:
10
million
dollars
to
support
the
strengthening
of
the
small
business
ecosystem,
better
coordination
of
resources
and
pipeline
development
of
bipoc
women
and
veteran-owned
businesses
and
critical
sectors
relevant
to
the
future
of
boston's
economy.
B
Nine
million
dollars
to
stand
up
a
commercial
rent
rebate
program
that
will
help
defray
the
cost
of
rent
for
small
businesses
and
to
help
increase
the
diversity
of
storefront
businesses
in
high
traffic
commercial
areas.
Four
million
dollars
to
support
the
capacity
of
our
existing
main
streets
organizations
and
to
increase
their
ability
to
beautify
their
local
commercial
districts.
B
Three
million
dollars
to
provide
immediate
support
to
200
struggling
immigrant
households
by
providing
cash
assistance
for
one
year
connecting
participants
to
immigrant
friendly
banks
and
savings
matching
and
providing
workforce
readiness
training
to
enter
the
formal
labor
market,
one
million
dollars
to
extend
and
enhance
the
b
local
application
and
one
million
dollars
to
extend
the
all-inclusive
boston
campaign
across
nationwide
markets.
Thank
you
for
your
consideration
and
I'm
looking
forward
to
discussing
the
details
further.
So
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
my
colleague,
trent.
C
Great
thank
you.
Thank
you,
chief
edu
for
your
leadership
and
your
vision
and
your
meticulous
direction
to
moving
us
forward.
My
name
is
tren
nguyen
I'm
the
director
of
the
office
of
workforce
development.
Thank
you
councillor,
bach,
for
leading
and
listening
to
the
work
in
the
hearing
that
we
have
right
now.
I
also
want
to
thank
all
the
city
council
members
who
are
here.
C
Owd
is
an
innovative
agency
within
mayor
woos
and
chifiduwu's
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion
cabinet
that
seeks
to
ensure
the
full
participation
of
all
boston
residents
in
the
city's
economic
fatality
and
future.
Our
office
works
with
community
partnership
and
research
institutions
and
community
resident
groups
to
fund
and
oversee
programs
that
promote
workforce
development
through
education,
career
training,
apprenticeships,
financial,
coaching
and
credit
building
and
career
pathways
that
lead
to
great
paying
jobs
in
the
city.
Please
visit
our
website
at
owd.boston.gov
to
learn
more
about
my
our
work.
C
Good
jobs,
as
chief
edu
had
mentioned,
specifically
creating
good
paying
jobs
with
career
ladders
and
benefits
and
retirement
plans
for
our
residents
in
growing
industries
is
one
of
the
key
values
and
effort
from
mayor
wu
and
chiefy.
Do
you
do
plan
for
transformative
investments,
workforce
development
and
career
training
are
embedded
within
many
of
the
proposed
programs
from
growing
early
education
and
care
for
workforce,
as
my
colleagues
will
elaborate
stem
preparation
and
life
science
workforce
development
programs
and
these
proposed
investments
will
ensure
that
bostonians
can
benefit
from
these
emerging
and
growing
industries
as
well.
C
Therefore,
while
there
there
are
many
efforts
that
we're
doing
with
federal
and
state
grants,
the
three
areas
that
we
like
to
expand
investments
on
that
I'd
like
to
highlight
here
are
the
expanding
tuition-free
community
college.
As
you
know,
the
economy
recovers,
students
are
looking
for
short-term
high-value
credentials
that
can
help
them
find
work.
C
C
The
careers
that
will
develop
in
the
field
over
the
next
two
to
five
years,
the
life
sciences
initiative,
will
include
k-12
pathways
career,
technical
education
pathways
and
short-term
job
training,
with
incumbent
worker
training
for
upward
mobility.
For
current
adults.
The
last
is
the
digital
workforce,
development
building
on
chief
edu's
statement
on
investing.
C
There
are
other
initiatives
that
you
will
hear
that
cross
that
intertwines
with
our
department
we're
working
closely
with
various
departments
such
as
the
scaling
of
youth,
green
jobs,
initiative,
the
center
for
behavioral
health
and
wellness,
and
also
the
growing
early
education
and
care
workforce,
we're
happy
to
help
and
support
and
leverage
federal
state
and
other
city
funding
as
well
happy
to
answer
additional
questions
now
I'll
turn
it
over.
To
my
colleague
kristen.
D
The
nonprofit
cultural
sector
alone
reported
losses
of
over
780
million
and
individual
cultural
workers
and
artists
cited
over
30
million
in
lost
personal
income,
and
we
know
that
those
numbers
are
much
higher.
Now
our
own
surveying
of
boston
workers
showed
that
more
than
half
were
not
able
to
make
up
that
lost
personal
income,
and
we
know
that
nationally.
These
losses
represent
30
percent
of
all
creative
occupations,
even
as
venues
reopened,
and
we
were
officially
able
to
gather
not.
D
In
fact,
last
year,
85
percent
of
greater
bostonians
said
that
they're
looking
to
the
arts
to
create
an
emotional
outlet
and
opportunities
for
connection
and
learning
and
73
percent
of
bipocrater
bostonians,
specifically
said
that
arts
and
cultural
organizations
strongly
matter
to
them
personally.
So
this
is
the
context
for
the
proposal
in
front
of
you,
which
is
15
million
dollars
for
elevating
and
investing
in
bipolar
cultural
work
and
organizations,
and
five
million
dollars
for
creative
neighborhood
and
downtown
activation
with
the
15
million
dollars.
D
We
would
create
a
new
investment
in
the
future
cultural
anchors
and
cultural
work
that
we
want
to
see
thriving
in
the
city.
This
would
take
the
form
of
multi-year
grants
for
organizations
grants
for
cultural
facilities
and
venues
and
contracts
with
festivals
and
event,
producers
and
support
for
individual
creative
workers,
all
with
the
focus
on
addressing
the
systemic
lack
of
investment
and
bipac
and
immigrant
cultures
in
boston.
D
Lack
of
public
and
philanthropic
funding
for
cultural
infrastructure
in
black
and
brown
communities
creates
barriers
to
creative
innovation,
sustainability
and
growth.
So
we
propose
these
once-in-a-generation
funds
as
the
opportunity
to
give
these
organizations
a
foothold
in
our
city
so
that
years
from
now,
when
we
look
around,
there
is
an
ecosystem
of
bipoc
own
lead
and
serving
cultural
spaces
and
work
in
every
neighborhood.
D
The
five
million
dollars
for
creative,
neighborhood
and
downtown
activation
would
fund
place-based
activations
around
the
city
for
artists,
cultural
workers
and
communities
addressing
the
challenge
of
reactivating
our
public
spaces
and
meaningfully
connecting
people
to
their
communities.
At
a
time
when
local
economies
have
shifted,
creative
workers
have
lost
years
of
income
and
communities
need
places
and
spaces
to
come
together
in
person.
D
We
can
shape
this
in
a
way
that
creates
efficiencies
and
clarity
for
a
city,
public
realm
strategy
or
what
we
might
refer
to
as
place
keeping
and
just
to
say
that
we
have
a
track
record
in
the
mayor's
office
of
arts
and
culture
of
distributing
federal
funds,
successfully
upwards
of
four
million
dollars
in
artist
relief,
workforce
development
and
professional
development.
Support
for
artists,
as
well
as
organizational
support,
I'm
zooming
back
out
to
the
big
picture.
D
This
20
million
dollar
investment
across
three
years
would
put
boston
closer
to
other
american
cities
when
it
comes
to
per
capita
funding.
For
the
cultural
sector,
this
is
a
unique
opportunity
to
invest
in
boston's,
artists
and
creative
economy
as
a
crucial
step
to
creating
a
healthier,
more
vibrant
and
welcoming
city.
So
I
look
forward
to
talking
with
the
counselors
about
this,
having
discussion
and
answering
any
questions,
and
with
that
I
will
pass
it
to
you.
Kristin.
A
F
That
said,
we
have
a
child
care
shortage
in
boston,
there's
a
35
percent
gap
between
the
number
of
children
that
we
have
and
the
number
of
available
child
care
seats
in
the
city.
That's
in
the
aggregate.
It
varies
greatly
across
our
neighborhoods.
It
also
varies
greatly
across
our
children,
so
the
biggest
gap
is
for
our
infants
and
toddlers
which
is
80
percent.
F
We
know
that
we
have
a
gap
in
licensed
care,
but
we
also
know
that
we
have
a
gap
in
the
number
of
educators
that
are
available
to
fill
those
classrooms.
So
if
you
speak
with
any
child
care
provider
in
the
city
who's
running
a
center,
they
will
tell
you
that
they
have
classrooms
on
a
daily
basis
that
are
dark
because
they
do
not
have
enough
staff
to
cover
them.
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
are
looking
at
in
investing
this
funding
is
to
really
beef
up
our
workforce
in
child
care.
F
Two
things
I
think
that
are
important
to
remember
about
childcare
is:
it
makes
all
other
types
of
work
possible
for
families.
So
it's
one
of
the
critical
workforce
issues
in
boston.
It's
also
an
equity
issue
in
boston.
Women
make
up
92
percent
of
our
child
care.
Workforce,
62
percent
of
them
are
women
of
color
and
39
percent
are
immigrants.
F
How
are
we
going
to
invest
this
funding
in
three
primary
ways?
The
first
is
by
investing
in
our
early
education
and
care
workforce
by
building
sustainable
pathways,
so
we're
looking
to
create
education
pathways
that
allow
new
educators
to
enter
and
to
upskill,
current
educators,
debt
free,
while
increasing
the
availability
of
early
education
and
care.
We
also
are
looking
to
work
with
our
providers
to
identify
their
to
address
their
immediate
compensation
needs,
but
to
identify
long-term
plans
for
moving
towards
a
more
just
salary
structure
for
our
workers.
F
F
Over
a
million
and
a
half
has
gone
towards
family
child
care
providers
in
the
form
of
assistance
to
them
that
helps
them,
keep
their
doors
open,
keep
serving
kids
and
creating
a
sustainable
future.
The
other
portion
of
it
will
be
invested
in
providing
ongoing
training
and
technical
assistance
to
family
child
care.
A
G
I
would
like
to
request
if
the
district
city
councilors
especially,
can
also
be
part
of
the
at
least
the
process
of
of
notifying
nonprofits
in
the
in
the
various
neighborhoods
about
this
opportunity.
I
know
district
councillors
know
that
their
neighborhoods
very
well,
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
they
are
included
as
well
in
this
process.
G
G
B
B
Oh
yes,
yes,
so
there
are
five
different
categories.
I
would
say
that
for
the
first
I'll
talk
for
two
of
them,
so
for
the
ecosystem
recommendation
we're
making
for
the
10
million
dollars.
Veteran-Owned
businesses
would
be
part
of
a
group
where
this
money
would
focus
specifically
on
growing
those
businesses,
as
well
as
veteran
or
non-profit
serving
veteran-owned
businesses
and
then
for
our
commercial
rent
rebate
program.
Additionally,
veteran-owned
businesses
would
be
able
to
apply
for
those
grants.
Yes,
sir.
G
B
Yes,
so
specific
to
this
category
of
business,
at
least
two
of
these
proposals,
the
rebate
program,
which
focuses
on
commercial
rent
relief.
This
is
one
of
the
largest
obstacles
and
operational
expenses
facing
small
businesses
across
the
city,
particularly
immigrant-owned
women-owned,
minority-owned
businesses.
This
would
be
something
that
could
help
address
that
particular
concern,
also
our
be
local
app.
So
this
was
a
pilot
program
that
was
launched
last
year
ended
in
december
of
2021.
B
G
H
You
thank
you
chair
and
thank
you
to
the
panelists.
I
know
it's
been
said
a
lot.
You
know
this
is
a
once-in-a-lifetime
investment,
we're
sitting
here
during
budget
season,
so
we're
seeing
all
of
you
for
also
the
operational
budget
money
so
and
now
we're
here
for
this
opportunity
it
seems
like
a
lot
of
money,
but
it
will
go
quickly.
We've
already
committed
as
a
council-
and
I
know
the
mayor's
office
to
spend
200
million
of
this
on
housing
and
with
just
these.
Your
three
departments
here
we're
already
at
305
million
now.
H
H
My
question
to
you
about
the
early
childhood
more,
so
this
money
can
come
from
lots
of
different
budgets
like
bps,
can
pick
up
for
our
k0
k2,
our
youngest.
I
know
daycare
is
a
different
issue
and
what
is
the
long-term
plan?
Because
when
this
money's
gone
it's
gone
and
then
how
are
we
going
to
make
sure
like
in
that
year,
two
year?
Three,
that
the
systems
we
put
in
place
and
the
supports
we
have
for
these
women
fathers
families
that
do
need
this
child's
care
to
go
forward.
F
When
there
is
right
now
a
critical
shortage,
those
folks
are
going
to
be
in
the
system
after
the
money
has
been
spent
and
continue
to
move
on,
as
well
as
thinking
about
upskilling
some
of
our
current
workforce,
so
that
they
can
move
from
being
teachers,
assistants
into
being
teachers,
and
things
like
that.
So
could.
F
There's
two
different
mechanisms
that
we're
trying
to
employ
one
is
to
get
people
in
classrooms
and
to
do
it
so
that
they
don't
have
debt
because
part
of
the
challenge
in
a
low
paying
wage
is
that
you
not
only
are
paid
a
low
wage.
But
if
you
come
in
with
debt,
you
then
actually
have
to
service
that
debt
as
well.
So
that's
part
of
it,
but
part
of
it
is
also
continuing
to
work
with
the
state.
H
Okay,
that's
good
and
on
the
arts
and
culture,
and
also
the
grants
that
are
coming
out
of
your
office,
which
are
amazing.
How
are
we
getting
those
to
the
people
and
making
sure
what
I
hear
a
lot
when
I'm
in
all
the
different
neighborhoods
is
they're
like?
Oh,
I
didn't
know
about
that
or
how
do
I
access
that
grant
and
is
there
an
easy
place
to
share
out
that's
this
information,
so
people
can
take
advantage
of
it.
D
Sure
on
arts
and
culture
grants
you
know
we're
always
trying
new
ways
to
make
sure
that
we're
reaching
people.
I
think
we
would
love
to
collaborate
with
each
counselor
in
their
district
about
the
best
way
to
get
that
word
out,
especially
to
those
who
might
not
have
as
much
access
to
everything
that
we're
putting
out
digitally.
D
We
have
had
some
really
good
success
with
being
targeted
about
who
we're
reaching
so
even
with
we
just
did
a
round
of
grants
through
the
opportunity
fund
to
individual
artists,
and
we
had
target
neighborhoods
and
target
populations
and
77
percent
of
the
artists
we
granted
were
in
those
target.
Neighborhoods
and
86
of
the
events
were
in
the
target
neighborhood,
so
we
feel
like
we
have
a
good
track
record,
but
we
could
always
be
doing
more,
and
I
feel
like
in
person
is,
is
the
way
to
go
to
reach
people.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you
for
that
question,
and
I
know
this
is
something
that's
come
up
in
previous
hearings
as
well,
how
we're
getting
the
word
out,
and
so
in
addition
to
even
you
know,
building
on
this
point
of
engaging
people
in
person,
we've
done.
13
business
walks
already
engaged
150
businesses
to
share
resources,
but
there
was
one
recommendation
that
was
brought
up
previously.
I
think
from
you
counselor
mejia
around
using
utilizing
whatsapp,
because
we
know
that
a
lot
of
particularly
immigrant
populations
use
this
feature.
I
A
J
J
A
L
A
J
J
J
I
don't
see,
I
don't
see
any
actual
dollars
going
towards
units,
I'm
not
you
know,
and
that's
all
the
way,
it's
kind
of
worded
in
this
document
here.
I
would
like
to
see
before
we're
voting
on
all
of
these,
whether
it's
a
69,
that's
here,
whether
it's
a
205,
that's
coming
in
this
all
feels
like
a
waltz
that
we
aren't
involved
in.
Let
me
just
speak
for
myself
that
I
am
not
involved
in
so
it
doesn't
feel
like
we're.
Really,
you
know,
there's
there's
different
ways.
You
can
look
at
things.
J
You
know
we're
building
business,
we're
building
job
training,
which
is
good
we're
building
early
education,
which
is
good
we're
investing
in
the
arts,
which
is
good,
but
we
also
need
to
build
infrastructures.
We
also
need
to
build
places
where
we
can
train
people.
We
also
need
to
build
pieces
places
where
we
can
bring
kids
into
and
actually
give
them
positive
reinforcement
and
good
things
in
their
life
and
we
need
spaces
for
arts.
Also
with
that
being
said,
why
is
there
talk
in
this
package
here
about
money?
J
That's
going
to
be
invested
in
the
schools,
don't
they
have
their
own
money
that
we're
not
going
to
get
a
look
at
either
and
there's
really
this
isn't
the
panel
to
answer
that.
So
that's
a
question
that
I
have,
and
you
know
I'm
not
looking
for
you
to
answer
it,
but
the
school
department
has
800
million
and
and
we're
talking
about
electrifying
buses
with
the
cities.
J
Well,
if
you
separate
calling
our
opera
money
the
cities
and
then
you
call
the
schools,
the
schools,
the
schools
has
800
million,
can't
they
spend
whatever
it
is
on
electrifying
their
own
buses,
can't
they
even
early
education
here.
Why
is
this
coming
out
of
the
cities
when
early
education
should
be
coming
out
of
the
schools
just
a
little
bit
a
little
bit
of
frustration,
and
let
me
talk
to
trent
a
little
bit
about
about
your
job
training.
You
know
that
I'm
passionate
about
it
you've
seen
the
beat
chagoon
you've
seen
the
beat.
J
Can
you
talk
about
what
the
path,
what
your
money
is
going
to
be
spent
on?
How
much
and
like
so
like?
How
is
all
this
gonna
come
together?
How
is
this,
you
know,
maybe
biotech
industry
coming
here
in
the
next
10
years?
Are
we
going
to
be
able
to
get
on
the
same
page
and
start
job
training?
Will
you
talk
about
that?
A
little
bit,
please
trent.
A
C
So
in
terms
of
the
job
training,
I
think
I
agree
you
all
are
correct.
I
mean
here
we
have
a
pot
of
money
at
a
given
time
and
what
we
do
is,
as
you
know,
leverage
the
usdol
grants,
the
workforce
investment
opportunity
act
that
comes
through
the
state
and
the
city
and
then
also
the
mass
hires
career
center
line,
items
that
come
from
the
state
and
into
the
city
of
boston
and
what
we
try
to
do
is
kind
of
map
out
where
these
fundings
are
and
then
leverage
the
current
ecosystem.
C
C
C
One,
I
think
that
they
are
looking
for
spaces
and
we're
trying
to
work
with
them
in
partnership
so
that
they
can
expand
their
space
at
their
theirs.
Their
training
slots
their
train,
their
training
slots
then
has
ties
to
emplacement
job
placements
with
employers,
and
then
we
use
these
funds
not
to
re,
create
the
wheel
but
to
ask
them
to
give
10
to
12
additional
slots,
and
we
take
these
funds
so.
C
Exactly
but
life
sciences
is
only
one
industry
and
which
we're
focusing
on
healthcare.
Obviously
is
a
big
one,
because
it
is
the
largest
growth
industry
in
new
england
and
in
the
in
this
in
the
city
as
well.
Construction
is
the
other
one.
I.T
is
is
something
that
we
are
investing
in
and
also
clean
energy
jobs
and
so
there's
various
industries.
They
come
at
different
stages.
C
I
also
want
to
highlight
that
these
funds
are
leveraged
with
other
federal
and
state
dollars.
As
I
stated
earlier.
So,
for
example,
under
chief
eduwu's
leadership,
we
were
able
to
submit
a
29.4
million
dollar
grant
to
the
federal
government
economic
development
agency
to
leverage
the
current
funds
that
we
have
and
those
funds
pay
for
training,
but
they
don't
pay
for
stipends.
So
we
use
these
funds
to
help
29
million.
You
said
you
got
from
the
department
of
labor.
No,
no,
we
submitted
a
grant
application.
C
J
C
These
are
more
like
gap
funding
to
help
us
go
to
scale
and,
as
my
colleague
kristen
said,
there,
they
really
leverage
the
current
ecosystem,
post-secondary
education
and
current
training
programs
and
which
is
already
in
place
and
here's
this
huge
infusion
of
funds
that
can
help
them
go
to
scale
improve
capacity
so
that
they
can
sustain
themselves
way
after
the
grant.
These
grants
have
been
invested.
J
J
Chief
of
you
going
through
the
the
working
session
we
had.
Some
of
the
questions
were
answered,
and
one
of
the
questions
that
I
had
asked
was
with
you
know,
basically
to
get
straight
at
it
is.
Where
is
this
administration
on
on
the
proposal
that
I
put
forth
for
the
for
the
field
house
and-
and
it's
almost
worded
as
well
we're
looking
at
we're
talking
about?
But
nobody
came.
J
Nobody
from
the
administration
came
to
the
the
hearing
that
we
had
to
actually
look
at
the
proposal
and
meet
the
people
that
are
gonna
not
only
be
there
and
build
it,
and
and
and
be
there
long
after
the
city's
10
million
dollars,
if
we're
lucky
enough
to
get
it
has
been
spent
in
the
building
is
built.
Nobody
came
to
look
at
it.
Nobody
came
to
so
it
feels
to
me
like.
J
Maybe
I
could
just
be
talking
about
wall
over
there.
So
I'm
going
to
ask
you:
can
you
sit
with
proponents
and
people
that
are
that
are
trying
to
bring
this
forth
and
you
look
at
it
and
see
how
it
how
it
can
fit
into
job
training,
early
education,
arts
and
culture,
and
even
for
that
matter,
if
you're
making
families
healthier.
J
It
adds
more
to
like
your
economic
economic
opportunities
if
you're
coming
from
a
healthy
family
in
a
healthy
environment.
So
so
again
our
proposal-
and
I
call
it
our
proposal
because
I'm
part
of
the
team
is
to
work
on
multiple
fronts
of
what's
happened
to
us
after
this
pandemic.
Here
you
know
our
kids,
our
kids
are
having
a
really
really
difficult
time,
and
this
is
an
opportunity
to
build
something
that
can
add
a
lot
connect
again:
art
spaces,
early
education.
J
We
could
do
training
for
we
we,
it
would
be
spaces
where
you
could,
where
you
could
run
programming
to
show
people
how
what
you
need
to
do
to
open
your
business,
your
business
plan,
we
could
potentially
do
job
training
there,
but
right
at
the
site,
right
across
from
the
site
is,
is
across
where
the
beat
is
we're.
Building
infrastructure
here
help
me
build
for
the
future.
I
just
think
that
we're
going
to
get
through
this
and
and-
and
I
say
this,
every
chance
I
get-
I
think,
we're
going
to
get
through
this
billion.
J
Whatever
we
had,
we
had
and
have,
and
not
be
able
to
point
to
anything
that
we
that
that
is
going
to
give
back
to
us
for
50
and
60
years.
I
mean
we
talk
about.
We
talk
about.
Okay,
we
talk
about
roosevelt
in
the
in
the
and
the
wpa
and
all
that
they
built
parks.
They
built
bridges,
they
planted
trees,
they
did
things.
There
was
things
we
could
point
to.
I'm
concerned
we're
not
able
to
point
to
anything
so
a
request.
J
B
A
B
Well,
I
will
also
note
before
answering
that
question
that
the
federal
reserve
is
reviewing
that
particular
report
and
putting
out
a
second
iteration
because
there's
some
questions
about
the
numbers
in
the
report.
But
the
first
iteration
of
this
report
indicates
that,
for
that
the
average
net
worth
for
white
families
in
greater
boston
is
247
500,
the
median
net
worth
for
black
families
being
at
eight
dollars.
N
It's
zero
and
I'm
just
curious,
as
we
start
talking
about
recovery
and
support
that
zero
is
astonishing,
and
it
was
pointed
out
to
me
recently
that
we
talk
a
lot
about
supporting
businesses,
but
when
it
comes
to
immigrant
owned
businesses,
we
fall
short,
and
so
I'm
curious
about
how
some
of
these
dollars
are
going
to
support
native
language
speaking
businesses
so
that
they
can
prosper.
Can
you
talk
to
me
about
what
your
I
know?
N
B
Well,
so
for
immigrant
well
I'll
start
with
the
three
million
since
that's
more
concrete
in
this
pro.
In
this
proposal,
I
believe
on
from
the
office
of
immigrant
advancement
is
here.
This
is
actually
proposal
that
they
put
together
but
is
put
under
the
office
of
economic
opportunity
and
inclusion.
So
if
I
invite
him
to
answer
that
question.
B
O
A
N
Sorry
so
businesses
specifically,
so
the
reason
why
I
ask
is
because
we
hosted
a
budget
pop-up
with
immigrant-owned
businesses,
cape
verdeans,
you
know
dominicans
haitian
creole,
like
the
whole
nine
yards,
and
we
did
it
in
native
land.
We
we
focused
on
making
sure
that
we
were
able
to
do
so
in
the
language
that
people
speak
and
so
that
our
goal
is
to
really
get
at
the
core.
B
A
little
bit
about
so
so
there's
one
proposal
here
and
then
I
guess
next
week
at
our
operating
budget
conversation
we'll
talk
more
about
what
we're
going
to
do
in
the
operating
budget.
To
address
this
question
this
first
investment,
this
10
million
investment
in
an
ecosystem
is
created
exactly
to
address
what
you're
talking
about.
N
I
know
this
is
a
new
administration,
so
I'm
just
looking
to
you
all
to
really
think
about
return
on
investment
and
what
those
quarterly
updates
will
look
like,
because
I
will
be
looking
at
that
to
and
also
to
support
you
all
and
making
sure
that
those
who
are
struggling
out
here
get
a
piece
of
that
pie.
So
thank
you
for
that.
I'm
going
to
turn
to
child
care,
really
quick
kristin.
F
So
it's
a
great
question:
there's
a
couple
of
things
right
now
that
they
are
not
part
of
this
arpa
funding
request,
although
the
information
that
we're
learning
from
them
is
going
to
inform
what
we
do
as
we
create
our
rfps
and
things
moving
forward.
So
one
is:
we
have
funded
through
a
partnership
with
bpda,
a
exploration
with
community
labor,
united
around
family
child
care
and
non-traditional
hours.
We're
going
to
take
what
we've
learned
from
that
and
included
in
our
conversation
with
family
child
care,
as
we
expand
upk
to
be
thinking
about.
F
N
Thank
you
for
that,
and
just
one
more
question
on
the
child
care
front
and
I'm
on
an
immigrant
tangent
today,
so
just
bear
with
them.
Okay,
if
you
could
just
talk
to
me
a
little
bit
about
kind
of
some
of
the
supports
that
you're
offering
immigrant
owned
native
language,
there's
there's
an
opportunity
there.
F
Sure
so
in
the
previous
package
of
arpa
funding
that
came
through
the
mayor's
office
of
women's
advancement
when
we
built
that
phase
two
for
the
work
that
we're
doing
with
family
child
care,
that's
available
in
english
and
in
spanish,
and
so
that
will
be
meeting
that
immediate
need.
We
are
looking
at
offering
it
in
other
languages
as
well,
but
right
now
we're
able
to
offer
it
in
spanish
yeah
and
that's
not
translated,
that's
actually
offering
in
the
nation
in.
N
The
native
language
yeah
hold
on
one
quick.
Second,
because
I
know
you
gave
frank
a
little
bit
more
time,
so
so
I'm
happy
to
to
hear
that.
I
do
think
that
there
is
an
opportunity
there
to
really
expand
haitian
creole
in
other
languages,
because
that
is
definitely
an
emerging
market
and
then
I'm
just
going
to
ask
trent
if
you
could
just
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
you
know.
Mental
health,
we
know
is
the
next
crisis,
but
it
has
been,
and
I'm
just
curious
in
terms
of
workforce
development.
C
Absolutely
thank
you,
and
I
agree
with
you.
That's
such
a
huge
issue
topic
that
crosses
many
industries,
so
I
I
can't
speak
for
this
directly,
but
the
boston
public
health
commission,
with
their
center
for
behavioral,
health
and
wellness,
will
have
a
separate
hearing
for
that
training
for
their
workers
so
that
they
can
integrate
that
in
workforce
development.
So
I
would
defer
to
the
health
commission
to
talk
more
elaborately
about
the
design
of
that
work.
C
A
P
P
I
share
councillor
baker's
concern
about
you,
know,
really
making
sure
we
stand
up
the
the
job,
training
piece
and
making.
We
have
all
this.
We
have
millions
of
square
feet
of
new
labs
coming
into
our
district
and
we
really
need
to
make
sure
we
have
the
workforce
lined
up
to
to
to
work
there
and
to
get
a
slice
of
the
pie
and
not
be
have
our
workforce
traveling
in
on
the
highways,
through
our
neighborhoods
to
work
in
in
facilities
in
our
neighborhoods
that
our
our
neighbors
can't
work
in.
P
I
think
90,
where
immigrant
owned
businesses
so,
and
that
was
we
only
got
to
see
a
small
number
of
them.
So
I
I
really
feel
supporting
our
immigrant
owned.
Businesses
is
critically
important
and
our
women-owned
businesses.
So
I
applaud
that
that
work.
The
one
issue-
and
I
know
we
had
a
big-
we
had
a
demonstration
out
here
the
other
day
in
support
of
you,
know,
uber
and
lyft
drivers
and
the
whole
issue
around
having
them
recognized
as
as
employees
rather
than
contractors.
P
For
the
you
know,
there's
a
whole
big
ballot
measure
coming
up.
I
think
we
mentioned
in
a
conversation
some
time
ago
about
the
opportunity
to
look
at
the
taxi
business
in
boston.
We
have
probably
got
hundreds
of
medallions
that
are
massively
devalued
in
their
in
their
value,
and
we
have
all
these
uber
and
lyft
drivers.
P
It
might
be
an
opportunity
for
them
to
actually
become
owners
of
their
own
businesses
and
be
self-employed
immigrant
businesses
and
driving
taxis
and
there's
now
an
app
that
they
can
use
an
app
that
you
can
heal
a
taxi
on
not
just
an
uber
or
a
lift.
So
I
really
feel
that
you
know
it
might
be
just
this
moment
in
time
that
we
should
really
explore
that
and
see
if
we
can
offer
offer
that
as
a
potential
way
to
have
the
mostly
immigrant
women
and
immigrants
own
their
own,
their
own
businesses.
P
We
talk
about
the
arts
district,
nelson
brighton
all
the
time.
It's
been
absolutely
hammered,
decimated
by
the
and
the
amount
of
development
in
the
last
decade,
spaces
that
were
maker
spaces
and
rehearsal
spaces.
Everything
is
just
being
developed
right
in
front.
So
I
really,
you
know,
want
to
keep
that
on
the
on
the
horizon
that
this
the
arts
district
in
austin
is.
Is
it's
going
to
disappear
completely?
P
It's
going
to
be
gone,
and
you
know
austin
was
a
an
affordable,
neighborhood
and
there's
gone
by,
but
it's
not
anymore,
so
they've
been
artists
are
being
displaced
and-
and
we
really
want
to
see
what
we
can
do
to
try
and
stabilize
that
situation
and
think
even
within
the
arts
community.
I'm
sure
this
maybe
applies
all
across
the
city
is
the
the
the
ability
for
the
arts
current
to
be
organized
and
to
build
capac
and
with
capacity
building
to
form
artists,
cooperatives
and
things,
I
think,
maybe
in
terms
of
stabilizing
our
artist
community.
P
P
P
Like
to
start
working
with,
you
know,
we
have
affirmatively
furthering
fair
housing,
which
is
talk
and
thin.
You
know
you
can't
discriminate
against
families
if
you're
building
a
new
building,
you
have
to
build
family
size
units,
but
also
thinking
about
child
care
facilities.
That
could
be
run
as
a
small
business
in
a
facil
in
a
building.
F
We
have
not
started
talking
to
isd
and
bbda.
We
have,
however,
been
talking
to
bha
and
also
have
begun
to
have
conversations
with
property
managers
for
low
income
and
affordable
housing,
because
that's
a
lot
of
the
places
where
we
see
family
child
care
has
been
started,
and
there
are
some
of
our
property
managers.
F
Who've
become
a
little
bit
more
restrictive
of
late
and
we're
trying
to
work
through
that
with
them,
so
that
some
of
the
businesses
that
were
closed
during
covet
are
able
to
open
up
again,
particularly
in
chinatown
and
in
other
neighborhoods,
where
we
see
a
decline
in
the
number
of
family
chair
child
care.
But
I
will
put
isd
and
bpda
on
the
list.
Yeah
that'd
be
good.
B
Well
I'll
just
say:
first
of
all,
we're
going
to
be
back
in
your
district,
hopefully
this
summer,
so
I
hope
to
visit
many
more
of
the
businesses
in
your
district.
This
is
in
terms
of
helping
taxi
drivers,
uber
lyft
drivers
own
their
own
businesses.
I
think
that
is
a
wonderful
idea.
We
already
have
programming
that
helps
folks,
either
in
startups
or
understanding
how
to
start
their
business.
B
P
D
Yeah,
so
a
few
things
on
that
point.
One
is
that
part
of
the
reason
that
we
wanted
to
frame
the
investments
in
the
cultural
sector
as
grants
and
contracts
is
that
we
would
really
like
to
explore
with
cultural
districts
specifically
what
it
looks
like
to
contract
with
districts
to
do
the
kind
of
on
the
ground.
You
know,
like
asset
mapping,
getting
the
word
out
about
opportunities
that
kind
of
work
that
really
is
in
the
service
of
the
arts
community
in
the
city.
D
So
that's
something
that
we're
definitely
thinking
about
as
a
part
of
the
investments,
of
course,
with
the
arpa
funding,
one
of
the
first
things
you
know
we
thought
of
was
oh.
This
is
a
lot
of
funding
coming
to
the
city
like
what
can
we
actually
do
to
secure
some
of
these
spaces,
and
there
are
so
many
limitations
around
using
the
funds
for
certain
capital
costs,
and
that
kind
of
thing
that
the
you
know
dream
of
just
kind
of
making
the
artist
building
stand-alone
building
happen.
P
The
lab
thing,
I'm
just
concerned
that
I
think
we
need
an
interdisciplinary.
We
need
an
interdepartmental
and
and
like
involve
bps
as
this
as
well,
because
we
need
to
be
developing
the
stem
pipeline
right
from
pre-preschool,
almost
and
and
working
in
capital
investments
in
lab
spaces
in
our
schools
as
well
like
teaching
labs.
But
you
know:
where
are
we
at
with
with
the
workforce
development
piece?
So.
C
We
have
several
tracks
that
we're
working
on
one
in
terms
of
the
lab
space,
I'm
going
to
defer
to
my
colleagues
at
the
bpda,
where
they
have
been
working
us
in
the
last
nine
months
to
do
a
scan
of
lab
space.
That's
currently
up
and
running
lab
spaces
per
square
footage
that
has
been
permitted
and
then
the
last
is
conversations
about
lab
spaces.
C
So
I
would
defer
to
them
in
terms
of
clarifying
that
the
workforce
piece
on
life
sciences
to
me
personally
is
a
bit
tricky,
because
when
we
pulled
up
bls
data
burning
glass
analytics
data
on
job
vacancies,
we
have
a
workforce
investment
blueprint,
a
regional
one,
with
greater
boston
and
also
with
the
governor's
office
executive
workforce
development
office.
We
pulled
up
every
single
data
and
we
found
that
life
jobs
within
this
life
science
industry
is
scant
for
those
who
don't
have
a
bachelor's
degree.
C
So,
let's
I'd
like
to
be
clear
on
on
that,
and
so
the
majority
of
jobs
that
have
been
floated
around
is
around
those
who
have
a
bachelor's
degree
and
or
I
would
argue
a
graduate
degree
when
we
pulled
up
the
data.
The
entry-level
jobs
that
we
see
in
life
sciences
unfortunately
has
intertwined
with
the
industry
that
is
growing,
which
is
health
care.
So
there
are
lab
technicians
in
healthcare
and
hospitals
that
have
been
used
to
identify
vacancies
in
life
sciences.
C
So
we
have
to
be
careful
that
we're
not
double
counting
those
vacancies,
if
we're
counting
them
in
healthcare,
and
so
one
is
that
we
are
dissect
carefully
dissecting
of
the
labor
market
data
that
we're
seeing.
But
we
know
that
the
data
itself
is
only
on
paper,
and
so
we
have
been
working
with
mass
bio
to
do
a
very
in-depth
dive
on
employer
surveys,
working
with
higher
hiring
managers
to
understand.
C
Where
are
the
jobs
and
what
are
hiring
managers
hiring
for
so
we
need
to
be
very
specific
before
we
invest
millions
of
dollars
into
training
and
then,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
there's
no
jobs
for
our
people.
We
don't
want
that,
and
so
mass
bio
will
release
their
findings
this
early
june,
on
where
the
exact
jobs
are,
and
we
are
particularly
interested
in
jobs
that
don't
have
a
bachelor's
degree.
C
We've
also
been
working
with
northeastern
dukakis
center.
On
unfolding
some
of
that
data,
and
in
june
we
will
be
releasing
with
northeastern
two
qualitative
surveys
for
employers
to
really
ask
the
question:
what
are
you
hiring
for
and
what
competencies
do
you
need
very
specific
qualitative
tools.
The
second,
which
is
equally
important,
is
that
we
pulled
up
graduates
from
our
community
colleges
and
industry
recognized
certification
programs,
and
we
want.
We
know
that
there
are
graduates
in
that
life
sciences
field.
The
question
is:
why
are
they
not
being
hired
into
that
pipeline?
C
C
We
just
have
to
do
a
careful
study
of
how
to
design
bridges
and
close
those
gaps
and
align
those
systems
so
that
we
can
get
the
diverse
pipeline
from
k
to
12
and
community
colleges
too,
because
we
paid
a
lot
of
money
for
it
yeah
and
then
giving
employers
what
they
need,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
those
systems
are
aligned,
because
we
do
not
want
to
waste
our
residents
time
and
training
for
something
that
doesn't
exist.
Yeah.
Thank
you.
L
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
to
the
pin
of
all
the
great
work
that
you
guys
doing
here
in
the
city.
As
we've
all
heard,
this
is
a
once
in
a
lifetime
moment
that
you
know
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we're
building
infrastructure,
giving
communities
that
have
been
disinvested
the
opportunity
to
to
now
thrive
and
to
make
sure
that
those
metrics
are
being
met
and
evaluated
and
validated
council
braden.
L
B
L
And
then,
when
we're
picking
those
businesses,
is
there
any
any
assessment,
there's
anything
that
we're
looking
on
the
balance
sheet
on
the
on
their
experience
on
the
technical
side,
are
we
providing
any
support
front
end
and
back
end,
because
my
my
only
concern
is
when
we
put
them
in
that
situation,
we
want
to
make
sure
that
they're
that
they
survive
and
they're
thriving
and
able
to
you
know,
stay
there
in
a
long
period
of
time.
That's
absolutely
right!
I'm
sorry!
I'm
sorry.
B
To
me
so
yeah
go
ahead,
but
you're
right.
Yes,
so
you
know,
one
of
the
things
we
are
focused
on
doing
is
creating
something
holistic.
So
this
would
be
one
piece
of
our
continued
efforts
to
support
small
businesses.
We
already
have
our
our
regular
technical
assistance
program
to
support
businesses,
but
part
of
the
application
process
will
be
assessing
you
know
where
they
stand.
You
know,
could
they
benefit
from
this
and
after
a
period
of
three
years
which
this
money
is
available
for,
would
they
be
able
to
sustain
themselves
there?
L
F
I
Hi
good
afternoon,
everybody
apologies
for
being
late.
I've
tried
to
listen
in,
but
I
thank
you
for
your
patience.
If
my
questioning
is
is
repetitive,
I
just
want
to
thank
you
all
again
for
being
here
chief,
I
adobe
calling
your
chief,
so
first
question
is
very
similar
to
counselor
morrell,
but
it's
more
place
based
focused,
so
I'm
pleased
to
see
the
commercial
rent
relief
fund
to
cover
the
displacement
or
to
prevent
displacement
of
of
businesses.
I
I
B
Unfortunately,
in
january
of
2022,
the
federal
government
said
that
we
cannot
use
arbor
money
for
that
particular
purpose
which
stymied
efforts
to
fund
such
a
program,
and
so
we're
exploring
other
ways
to
make
that
happen.
But
you're
absolutely
right.
I
mean
whatever
we
do
on
the
rent
side.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
you
know
folks
are
still
going
to
face
that
huge
hurdle
of
that
expense
because
they
don't
own
the
land.
B
B
It's
the
end
of
the
chapter.
I
do
want
to
come
back
and
open
my
business,
but
I
want
to
do
it
where
there's
a
lot
of
people
and
not
forsaking
the
area
that
he
was
in,
but
to
say
that
he
believed
that
his
business
would
would
have
survived
with
more
foot
traffic,
and
there
are
other
things
we're
focused
on
in
our
investments
and
main
streets
and
others
to
redirect
that
foot
traffic,
but
that's,
for
instance,
a
desire
of
his
zazz.
B
You
know
in
hyde
park
now
they're
here
in
city
hall,
in
the
city
hall,
building
on
the
eighth
floor.
We're
very
excited
about
that
and
it
is
an
example
of
how
we
can
focus
on
helping
businesses
expand
rather
than
just
moving
to
another
location,
so
we'll,
hopefully
the
rebate
program
will
focus
on
that
as
well,
but
anyway,
long
wouldn't
answer
to
your
question
about
database.
So,
yes,
there
are,
our
main
streets.
B
Directors
are
collecting
that
and
our
small
business
team
gets
requests
almost
every
day
from
folks
on
that
and
then
in
east
boston.
You
know,
cdbg
is
determined
that
the
areas
are
determined
by
the
federal
government.
Parts
of
east
boston
fall
outside
of
that
zone,
and
yet
that's
where
a
lot
of
our
businesses
who
need
support
fall
in,
and
so
we
did
not
want
to
be
hampered
by
that
and
so
used.
I
Awesome,
thank
you
and
this
this
next
line
of
questioning
does
have
to
go
to
trends
with
eso
esol
classes.
So
this
is
something
that
I
had
brought
up
in
the
moya
hearing
as
well.
Just
knowing
and
identifying
that
there
is
a
wait
list,
a
really
really
long,
wait
list
right
now
in
my
community
for
folks
to
get
to
these
classes.
So
I
was,
you
know
wondering
just
how
we
can
loosen
the
bottleneck
on
this
right,
like
they're,
incredible
community
organizations.
C
Absolutely,
I
think,
that's
a
very
good
question
and
thank
you
for
asking
it.
You
know
to
respect
everyone's
time.
I
am
happy
to
do
an
offline,
longer,
in-depth
overview
of
our
work
with
esol
and
adult
basic
education
work
with
the
state,
but
to
quickly
answer
your
your
question
is
that
earlier,
when
we
had
opened
up
for
remarks,
I
talked
about
the
two
million
dollar
digital
investment
on
the
9.7
million
dollar,
annual
investment
from
the
state.
So
that
doesn't
come
to
us
and
that
does
not
come
from
us.
C
That
comes
from
the
state
line
item
which
we
work
on
a
year-round
basis
to
inform
stakeholders
of
how
important
esl
investments
are,
and
so
we
do
that
year
round
to
make
sure
that
that
line
item
remains
very
competitive
and
or
more
to
address
the
wait
list,
and
so
we
do
that
on
a
year
round,
not
just
arpa.
So
we've
been
doing
that
work
for
quite
some
time
and
so
happy
to
talk
to
you
about
it
off
offline
and
in
terms
of
the
9.7
million
dollar
annual
investments.
C
We
have
a
map
with
the
adult
literacy
initiative
that
we
can
sit
down
with
you
to
tell
you
where
around
the
city
are
these
abe
and
esol
programs
and
we
can
pull
up
the
wait
list,
the
capacity
and
the
the
numbers
that
we
need
to
address,
and
so
that
is
ongoing
in
terms
of
your
question
for
additional
investments,
I
think
we
need
more.
You
know
I
mean
the
the
2
million
is
not
chunk
change,
but
it's
not
something
that
the
that
can
meet
the
immediate
needs
for
building
the
capacity
and
increasing
the
seats.
C
So,
for
example,
we
took
that
2
million.
We
also
analyzed
the
state's
regulations
and
learning
gains
in
a
variety
of
outcomes,
and
then
we
assessed
on
the
ground,
25
agencies
capacity,
we're
doing
that.
We
did
that
in
phase
one.
We
have
phase
two
and
three
in
this
round
of
funding
for
three
million,
and
then
we
look
at
the
needs
and
we
found
that
teachers
and
school
in
classes
didn't
have
the
technology
to
meet
the
changing
needs
of
hybrid
classrooms.
C
K
I
A
Thank
you
so
much
counselor
coletta.
I
actually
wanted
to
ask
if
our
if
the
moya
folks
could
just
come
down
briefly
and
speak
to
you,
I
saw
in
your
proposal
a
reference
to
compensating
folks
for
time
spent
in
esl
classes.
So
I'll
ask
you
in
my
time
more
about
the
whole
proposal,
so
not
looking
for
that
now,
but
I
just
think
as
a
dovetail
on
councillor
coletta's
question,
it
would
probably
be
good
to
understand
that
piece.
A
K
Hello,
yes,
my
name
is
natalia
espinoza
tokoma,
I'm
the
economic
integration
specialist
here
at
moya
and
part
of
our
proposal
includes
an
incentive
for
individuals
to
enroll
in
work
readiness
programs
so
for
every
month
that
they're
enrolled
they'd
receive
a
cash
incentive
and
that
would
include
esl
classes
but
also
work.
Readiness
training
that
we've
worked
on
with
the
office
of
workforce
development,
as
well
as
like
financial
coaching.
A
Great
thanks
so
much
just
wanted
to
get
that
in
before
I
do
my
questions.
I
made
a
timing
guarantee
to
a
couple
of
people
that
we
are
way
off
of
so
I'm
just
gonna,
I'm
going
to
take
four
people
for
public
testimony,
so
community
labor
united,
if
I
can
have
sarah
jimenez,
come
up
and
then
and
then
she'll
be
followed
by
joanne,
freeman,
lauren
cook
and
then
kate,
burandt
and
we'll
just
do
those
four
for
now.
A
Q
All
right,
thank
you,
counselor
bach.
This
is
this
little
too
loud
sounds
loud.
My
name
is
sarah
jimenez,
I'm
here
representing
care
that
works
coalition,
I'm
a
senior
researcher
with
community
labor
united.
Thank
you
so
much
councillor
bach,
for
leading
this
process
and
to
the
mayor
and
to
director
mcswain
for
your
leadership
and
lifting
of
child
care
in
the
city
of
boston
care
that
works.
Q
We
are
grassroots
community
groups
and
labor
unions
that
organize
working
class
parents
and
child
care
workers,
including
family
child
care
providers
and
assistants,
family
friend
and
neighbor
caregivers,
early
education,
teachers
and
domestic
workers
paid
or
unpaid
and
counted
or
uncounted.
Our
labor
keeps
our
communities
moving
forward
every
day.
Q
Q
Let's
transform
the
locus
of
leadership
and
control,
let's
empower
caregivers
as
the
architects
of
the
new
system
and
not
just
the
inputs
based
on
our
partner
and
member
experiences
and
the
childcare
pilots
that
we
have
launched
together.
We
want
to
share
our
priorities
for
an
asset-based
approach
to
building
this
caregiver
capacity
we
need.
Four
priorities
are
for
investment
and
three
are
for
oversight:
first,
invest
in
caregivers
in
across
all
settings,
home-based
providers,
classroom
teachers,
informal
caregivers
and
domestic
workers.
That
means
recognizing
and
respecting
all
care
work
as
work.
Q
Q
Fourth:
invest
in
local
infrastructure
that
can
support
the
smallest
and
most
emergent
operations,
for
example,
a
city
operated
transportation
services
service
for
home-based
providers
and
for
small
neighborhood
centers
fifth
established
standards
and
requirements
for
all
city
grant
recipients
to
adopt
high
road
workforce
practices
to
incorporate
workers
into
governance,
including
decision-making.
That
concerns
the
use
of
city
resources
and
to
respect
workers
right
to
organize.
A
R
R
R
I
want
to
share
a
story,
one
that
is
not
well
known
and
one
that
is
being
ignored.
We
are
here
to
talk
about
an
unseen
workforce
and
underground
resource
for
our
children
and
families.
I'm
taking
I'm
talking
about
ffn
care,
family
friend
and
neighborhood
care.
Ffm
care
is
a
part
of
the
child
care
system.
R
R
R
Ff
and
caregivers
should
have
their
application
expedited
so
that
families
can
have
the
care
they
need
through
this
alternative
system.
So
we
can
remain
working
and
or
have
the
ability
to
back
to
go
back
to
work.
There
are
many
barriers
to
why
residents
do
not
use
ffn
care.
One
example
is
the
quarry
and
sorry
background
checks.
R
R
We
see
this
as
an
opportunity
for
us
to
explore
new
models
in
ways
of
being
for
being
for
the
future
of
our
city,
while
putting
families,
workers
and
our
best
our
elders.
First,
we
stand
with
the
coalition
when
we
say
one
do:
invest
across
all
the
sub-sectors
of
our
of
care
economy,
family,
child
care,
center-based
care,
family
friend
and
neighbor
care
and
domestic
care.
R
We
cannot
talk
about
the
road
to
recovery,
as
kobe
continues
to
impact
our
community
without
thinking
about
new
ways
of
being
a
new
model,
we
can
uplift
to
help
communities
strengthen
their
families,
homes
and
workplaces.
We
look
forward
to
continuing
our
work
with
the
coalition
with
the
city.
We
hope
we
can
develop
an
ffn
care
pilot
to
show
the
state
that
it
is
possible
in
boston
and
beyond.
I
thank
you
for
your
time.
A
Great,
thank
you
so
much
joanne.
Thank
you
to
new
england,
united
for
justice
and
community
labor,
united
and
thanks
everybody
for
your
patience,
kate.
We
weren't
able
to
advance
you
so
if
you're
able
to
get
advanced
into
the
zoom
I'll,
let
you
go
right
after
my
questions,
but
I
want
to
turn
to
those.
Now.
I
have
questions
on
all
13
proposals.
A
I
know
I'm
not
going
to
get
through
them
all
in
my
first
round,
so
I'll
jump
first
to
chief
edu
super
excited
about
the
commercial
rental
rebate
idea,
it's
actually
something
councilor
mahia
and
I
were
working
on
all
last
year
and
we
tried
to
get
it
into
the
arpa
supplemental
last
summer
and
I
think
the
administration
was
just
not
ready
to
figure
this
out
and
one
of
the
reasons
in
fairness
that
they
that
they
were
hesitant
was
this
kind
of
question
about.
How
does
the
city
figure
out?
A
What
like
reasonable
lease
like
prices
are,
so
that
we
don't
get
gouged
right
because
part
of
our
goal
is
we
get
these?
We
get
like.
You
know
our
local,
black
and
brown
businesses,
as
was
mentioned
in
your
proposal.
Folks
who
live
in
the
qualified
census
tracts
we
get
them
into
these
downtown
core
vacancies.
I
think
it's
something
councilor
me
and
I
are
both
really
excited
about,
but
part
of
what
we
heard
back
was
well.
A
We
don't
want
to
end
up
in
a
situation
where
we
then
get
quoted
at
like
astronomically
high
rents
that
we,
the
city,
are
subsidizing
and
then,
when
the
subsidy
goes
away,
they're
in
trouble
so
and
councillor
warwell
talked
about
business
viability,
but
I
think
there's
also
this
separate
issue
of
landlords
potentially
playing
it.
So
how
are
you
thinking
about
that
piece?
So.
B
A
couple
of
ways,
one
is
that
we're
bringing
the
landlords
to
the
table
to
talk
about
that
exact
issue
and
as
we're
developing
this
program.
Thinking
about
how
you
know,
if
someone's
going
to
take
advantage
of
this,
that
we
are
negotiating
a
price
that
is
low
enough,
that
when
this
program
runs
out
that
it's
you
know
that
we
are
keeping
that
affordable
for
when
the
business
is
still
in
that
building.
But
you
know
we're
continuing
to
talk
with.
B
B
You
know
their
money
back
on
the
loans
that
were
given
to
them
anyway,
we're
taking
all
these
things
into
consideration,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
in
order
for
a
landlord
to
take
advantage
of
this
program,
where
it's
a
guaranteed
income
that
they're
getting
the
city's
paying
this
rent
for
x
number
of
years,
we
would
be
negotiating.
The
terms
are
at
a
favorable
rate
for
the
city
and
for
the
business,
but
also
including
in
that
negotiation
that
that
affordable
rent
will
stay
that
way
for
x
number
of
years.
A
Okay,
great
well,
it
would
be
great,
would
love
to
be
in
conversation
on
that.
I'm
sure
councilman
haywood
as
well
and-
and
you
know
one
of
the
things
that
we
also
learned
in
that
process-
was
that
assessing
does
have
they
can't
sort
of
share
it
with
us
directly,
but
they
do
have
a
lot
more
intel
on
commercial
lease
realities
than
everyone
else,
because
they
get
that.
There's
a
state
law
exemption
that
lets
them,
get
it
in
a
privileged
way.
A
That
again,
they
can't
then
share
except
kind
of
in
aggregate,
but
they
might
be
able
to
also
help
us
so
just
flagging
that
internally
and
then
I'd
love
to
have
the
moya
folks
come
up
and
just
speak
a
little
bit.
I
do
think
you
know
it
comes
up
again
and
again
the
idea
of
sort
of
direct
cash
assistance
to
our
residents,
especially
when
we're
talking
about
income
inequality
and
obviously
I
think
yours
is
the
proposal
amongst
all
of
these.
That
is
proposing
something
along
those
lines.
A
So
I
was
hoping
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
about
it
and
then
also
just
tell
me
a
little
bit.
I
was
excited
about
it,
but
I
was
also
a
little
bit
like
does.
Moya
have
the
capacity
to
run
something
like
this,
because
it's
not
the
type
of
thing
that
moya
has
historically
done
and
it's
the
type
of
thing
where
I
think
in
the
pandemic
moya
supported
sending
grants
to
partners.
A
O
Sure,
thank
you
councilor
bach,
my
name
is
unley.
I'm
the
senior
policy
advisor
at
the
mayor's
office
for
immigrant
advancement,
so
we
know
that
our
immigrant
communities
were
disproportionately
affected
by
the
pandemic,
both
as
overrepresented
workers
in
essential
industries
who
were
suffering
greater
rates
of
exposure
to
cobit
19,
while
also
being
denied
many
of
the
social
safety
net
programs
that
were
created
to
help
people
recover
economically.
O
So
what
we're
proposing
is
actually
based
off
of
what
we've
learned
from
the
previous
round
of
arpa
funding.
We
had
a
one
million
dollar
program
that
gave
cash
assistance
on
a
one-time
as
needed
basis
to
our
immigrant
community
members
for
basic
needs.
A
lot
of
it
went
towards
rent
and
utility
bills
and
groceries
as
well,
and
what
we
learned
from
that
was
that,
yes,
our
communities
needed
this
sort
of
financial
crisis
assistance
now,
but
we
wanted
to
also
build
towards
long-range
transformational
change.
O
So
what
we're
proposing
here
is
for
a
12-month
program
where
there
would
be
monthly
cash
assistance.
Given
with
this
additional
two
pieces,
two
sort
of
incentive-
additional
dollar
amounts,
one
for
workforce
development,
training,
esol,
social
capital,
growth
and
the
like,
and
the
other
for
actual
savings
in
u.s
based
financial
institutions
to
build
financial
resiliency
and
so
to
answer
your
question
about
moya's
capacity.
To
administer
this
program.
O
Our
plan
is
to
provide
a
grant
to
an
external
organization
that
has
experience
providing
something
in
this
direction
to
actually
administer
the
program,
as
well
as
to
have
a
program,
design
and
evaluation
consultant
to
guide
us
in
how
to
shape
this
properly.
To
best
respond
to
immigrant
communities.
A
Got
it
and
in
terms
of
that,
like
evaluation
piece,
have
you
guys
thought
about
there's?
Obviously,
this
tension
between,
on
the
one
hand,
I
think,
like
everybody's
looking
for
opportunities
to
really
document
what
direct
assistance
can
mean
and
do
for
families,
and,
on
the
other
hand,
we
all
know
that
we've
tried
to
avoid
designing
programs
that
could
be
used
for
sort
of
surveillance
on
our
immigrant
communities
by
the
various
forces.
So
how
are
we
thinking
about
that
piece?.
O
A
Okay,
great,
thank
you.
My
next
questions
are
for
cara
cara.
We
just
heard
about
this
issue
of
kind
of
like
how
do
we
use
these
dollars
to
transform
the
care
work?
World
and
I'll
have
questions
for
you
in
the
next
round,
kristen
on
that,
but
when
we
think
about
like
the
money
that
you're
proposing
spending
on,
for
instance,
like
arts
interventions
in
our
public
realm,
how?
A
How
are
you
thinking
about
sort
of
like
setting
standards
so
that
we're
hiring
local
artists
and
we're
also
encouraging
those
groups
to
pay
good
wages
to
like
you
know,
make
sure
that
as
a
city,
because
there's
always
going
to
be
a
temptation
as
a
city?
Oh,
we
could
do
more
art
for
less
if
people
are
not
really
making
anything
but
at
the
same
time
again
it's
an
ecosystem
that
we
want
to
build
up
so
like.
How
are
you
thinking
about
that.
D
Yeah,
I
think
this
is
the
exciting
part
of
being
able
to
have
funding
for
contracts
for
these
services.
I
think,
as
a
city,
we're
still
sort
of
transitioning
out
of
this
idea,
that
artists
will
show
up
and
do
things
for
free,
and
so
I
think,
really
setting
some
funds
in
place
to
say
this
is
really
what
it
looks
like.
D
These
are
the
kinds
of
wages
that
we
would
pay
for
these
services
and
communicating
that,
even
just
as
a
city
buying
these
services
more
and
more
frequently
is
a
really
helpful
standard
to
set
and
then
sector-wide
they're
like
with
any
sector
right
now.
I
think
there
are
a
lot
of
concerns
about
wages,
about
how
people
are
being
compensated,
even
seeing
who
was
laid
off
first
during
covet
and
that
primarily
being
contractors
and
not
kind
of
full-time
administrators
in
arts
and
culture
nonprofits.
D
So
we
are
having
conversations
right
now
about
how
grant
funds
could
support
organizations
really
thinking
about
how
they
restructure
themselves
to
not
just
be
kind
of
right
size
for
the
moment,
but
really
thinking
about
in
the
long
run?
How
are
they
making
sure
that
they
are
paying
their
workers
enough
so
that
this
work
is
actually
sustainable
and
people
are
going
to
keep
wanting
to
come
into
these
jobs
locally?
D
So
I
think
on
a
couple
of
fronts,
we'll
be
thinking
about
that,
but
this
is
also
partially
why,
in
our
in
the
actual
written
information
that
you
have,
we
talked
about
an
advisory
group
to
help
oversee
the
arts
and
culture
arpa
spend.
This
is
one
of
those
kind
of
deep
issues
where
I
think
we
would
really
want
feedback
from
representatives
from
the
cultural
sector
about
how
we
actually
embed
that
into
this
process.
A
Okay,
great
yeah,
I
just
yeah.
I
think
this.
The
labor
piece
of
this
is
very
important
to
this
committee,
like
the
kind
of
good
jobs
coming
out
of
this,
and
how
do
we
help
lead,
transformative
change
in
some
of
our
sectors
and
and
my
other
question
for
you
and
then
I'll
cut
myself
off
is
just
so.
You
talk
about
this
15
million
for
arts,
4
million
you're
envisioning,
going
into
our
existing
programs.
11
million
you
kind
of
characterize
us
these,
like
multi-year
grants.
Can
you
just
talk
a
little
bit
about
that?
A
I
mean
it's
exciting.
I've
already
had
you
know,
there's
a
there's,
a
group
in
my
district
that
is
going
to
be
opening
a
black
box
theater
that
they
think
is
going
to
end
up
being
the
largest
like
bipac
lgbtq,
controlled
theater
space,
maybe
in
the
world,
and
so
like.
That's
an
example
of
I
know
like
an
entity.
That's
excited
about
this,
but
I'm
kind
of
curious.
What
we're
thinking
as
a
city
about
what
it
would
mean
to
provide
this
kind
of
like
multi-year
support.
D
That's
the
kind
of
opportunity
that
we're
looking
for
in
order
for
this
to
be
something
that
has
long-term
impact-
and
I
think
also
it's
important
to
mention
here-
that
there
are
ways
that
we
can
contract
with
organizations
to
provide
also
arts
and
culture
access
around
the
city.
So
that's
kind
of
another
line,
similar
to
what
I
was
saying
to
councillor
braden's
question
about
cultural
districts.
D
A
S
Thank
you
very
much
hello.
My
name
is
kate
grant
and
I'm
the
ceo
of
horizons
for
homeless
children
in
roxbury.
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
in
support
of
a
transformative
investment
in
early
education
in
boston
we've
all
learned
early
education
is
essential
infrastructure
for
a
healthy
economy,
and
I
don't
think
it's
ever
been
more
evident
that
early
education
is
vital
to
a
vibrant
engaged
workforce,
and
yet
it
has
been
consistently
underfunded
and
resourced
in
our
city
and
in
our
state.
S
Access
to
early
education
is
an
equity
issue
both
for
those
served
and
those
serving
study
after
study
has
demonstrated
the
positive
impact
of
high
quality
early
education,
particularly
from
children,
from
marginalized
communities
and
living
in
deep
poverty,
of
which
boston
has
a
considerable
population
for
these
communities.
High
quality
early
education
with
comprehensive
wraparound
services
in
mental
health,
nutrition
and
early
intervention
can
give
our
youngest
and
most
at-risk
citizens
an
opportunity
to
thrive
and
an
equal
opportunity
to
thrive.
S
Boston's
early
education
programs
are
part
of
a
complex
mixed
delivery
system
that
are
largely
privately
funded.
Small
businesses
that
include
family-based
care,
center-based
care
and
the
public
school
system.
I
would
like
to
point
out
that,
while
bps
is
part
of
this
important
infrastructure,
it
currently
provides
only
18
percent
of
the
existing
seats
in
early
education.
S
S
There
was
a
significant
shortage
of
seats
prior
to
the
pandemic,
with
an
estimated
11
543
seats
unavailable
in
our
city
for
children.
The
pandemic
made
this
considerably
worse,
with
a
14
decline
in
center-based
care
and
a
23
decline
in
family
child
care.
Family
child
care
is
absolutely
critical
to
the
city
of
boston
because
it
provides
a
flexible
option,
particularly
for
families
in
poverty,
with
non-traditional
working
hours.
It
is
a
vital
element
of
our
infrastructure.
S
There
is
a
significant
workforce
shortage
as
well,
because
the
this
has
been
a
chronically
underpaid
workforce.
Despite
the
documented
evidence
of
the
importance
of
their
roles.
Early
educators,
who
are
largely
minority,
women
in
our
city,
are
paid
37
percent
less
than
their
peers
in
k
through
12..
They
earn
an
average
salary
of
30
000
a
year
and
roughly
a
third
of
them
are
on
government
assistance
themselves.
S
These
are
people
in
our
classrooms,
building
the
brains
of
the
future
children
that
will
be
the
workforce
in
our
city.
You
only
get
one
chance
to
build
that
brain.
It
needs
to
be
strong
at
its
foundation,
so
we
now
have
classrooms
all
over
our
city
that
remain
empty
today,
due
to
lack
of
educators
to
serve
those
children.
The
system
needs
a
significant
funding
increase
and
this
is
a
historic
opportunity
to
make
such
an
investment.
S
These
investments
need
to
go
towards
the
chronically
underpaid
workforce
in
the
sector.
It
needs
to
support
those
interested
in
entering
the
field
with
a
means
to
attain
a
degree
and
credentials
without
coming
out
with
burdensome
debt.
It
also
needs
to
be
used
to
build
capacity
in
this
mixed
delivery
system,
with
a
particular
focus
on
family-based
care.
S
A
J
Thank
you,
madam
chief
trend,
so
you
had
talked
a
little
bit
about
you
know
my
mask
bio,
doing
some
some
background
work
and-
and-
and
I
get
your
point-
that
we
can't
be
investing
if
we
don't
know
where
the
the
jobs
are,
but
I
do
think
that
and
again
build
it,
build
something
we
know
we
we're
going
to
need
spaces.
We
do
you
think
we're
in
a
good
space
as
far
as
identifying
the
jobs
and
and
the
background
information
that
we're
going
to
need
to
to
move
forward.
C
J
For
a
second
trend,
sorry
to
be
rude,
but
I
think
you
had
you
had
mentioned
earlier
about
hiring
managers,
I
think,
and
from
talking
to
people
in
the
industry,
they
don't
think
that
some
of
the
jobs
in
question
we're
going
to
need
batches
like
we
we're
going
to
be
able
to
identify
people
and
say
okay
come
into
this
pathway,
then,
and
then
maybe
it
goes
on
to
be
a
bachelor's
on.
You
know
for
the
company
that
invests
in
whoever
the
person
is
that
you
know
that
we're
giving
those
we're
training
in
those
certificates.
J
So
I
think
that's
just
my
opinion
on
it.
I
think
we're
gonna
once
we
start
scratching
the
cover,
we're
gonna
see
things
like.
Do
we
really
need
a
bachelor's
for
this
here
and
if
and
if
so,
let's
train
towards
it
and
then
send
them
to
umass
or
send
them
someplace
else
on
the
company's
dime,
so
that
that's
just
a
a
point
that
I
wanted
to
make
kristen?
How
are
you
today?
So
you
are
you're
with
office
of
human
services,
new
office.
J
Okay,
so
you're
coming
right
out
of
the
mayor's
office.
You
don't
report
to
a
cabinet
or
anything
correct
in.
I
do
have
concerns
that
your
partner
department
is,
is
a
public
school.
So
I
think,
madam
chair,
I
think
the
public
schools
has
their
own
money
and
also
a
lot
of
this
money.
You
know
it's
100
contracts,
100
contracts,
100
percent
contracts.
You.
J
F
A
Think,
council,
I
think
council
and
I
don't
want
us
to
dwell
on
it
just
because
of
time.
I
think
councillor
baker's
point
is
that
specifically
setting
up
the
upk
enrollment
pro
like
project
is
something
that
in
principle,
bps
could
be
putting
asser
dollars
towards
instead
of
arpa
dollars
appropriated
by
the.
So
I
think
that
point
is
taken
on
board
and
I
think
it's
a
further
conversation
to
have,
but
let's
not
spend
a
lot
of
your
minutes
on.
I
mean
well.
J
J
Okay,
no,
I
have
real
concerns
about
about
bps,
taking
something
else
on
it.
After
what
we've
seen
the
last,
however,
however
long
you
want
to
go
back,
you
won't
go
back
a
year
and
go
back
back
10
years.
You
want
to
go
back
40
years,
bps
being
a
partner
in
on
this,
where
another
13,
it's
eight
five
and
two.
K
J
J
You
know,
and
you
don't
have
to
answer
that,
but
but
but
every
not
every
bit.
But
if
I
go
down
the
list
here:
15
million
95
contracts,
10
million
90
contracts,
9
million
100
contracts,
8
million
98.8
contracts,
5
million
hundreds
of
contracts,
see
what
I'm
getting
at.
What
are
we
building
for
infrastructure
for
us?
It's
all
contracts
that
are
going
to
give
us
a
good
feeling,
a
high.
J
Maybe
oh,
we're
pretty
we're
coming
out
of
this
on
a
high,
but
we're
going
to
crash
into
the
economy
in
a
year
or
even
we're
crashing
into
it.
Right
now
can't
make
the
point
enough.
I
I
think
we're
I
think,
we're
short
on
building
actual
things
that
we're
going
to
be
able
to
do
our
programming
in
and
and
those
sorts
of
things
and
not
to
get
on
you.
You
know,
we've!
Never
met,
but
how
are
you
you
know.
F
J
F
J
F
Thinking
about
new
investments
that
are
happening
at
the
federal
level
for
not
only
child
care
but
universal
pre-kindergarten
and
helping
them
think
about
what
the
leverage
is
for
that.
The
other
thing
it
would
be
doing
for
us
as
a
city
is
providing
us
with
actual
numbers
about
the
kinds
of
investments
that
would
be
needed
to
be
made
by
the
state
and
the
federal
government
in
order
to
transition
us
to
a
sustainable
child
care
system,
and
we
could
use
that
for
our
advocacy
efforts.
J
J
That
way,
because,
if
you're
going
in
and
we're
talking
about,
okay,
you
go
into
a
place
and
they
were
able
to
ascertain
that
the
they're
not
paying
enough
or
they're
unable
to
pay
enough,
like
you
have
that
information
and
some
of
those
places
they're
not
going
to
be
able
to
pay
more
or
pay
what
they
should
be
paying.
So
how
does
that?
F
Yes,
it
would,
it
would
also
help
at
the
state
level
as
we're
thinking
about
the
future
investments
that
could
be
coupled
with
the
law
that
is
currently
being
going
through.
The
process
that
just
came
out
of
the
house
and
the
senate,
with
senator
lewis
and
representative
paich,
we're
hoping
that
it
will
be
passed
before
the
deadline
in
july.
That
sets
up
the
process
for
for
the
kinds
of
information
that
we're
talking
about.
Yes,.
J
J
A
A
A
Yes
exactly
so
I
do
think
that
I
know
that
there
is
a
lot
of
counselors,
hoping
that
when
bps
shows
up
on
tuesday
to
speak
to
us
about
their
capital
plan
that
they
are
also
prepared
to
speak
to
us
about
their
esser
plan,
which
they
said
was
going
to
be
public
several
weeks
ago.
So
I'm
just
filing
that
now,
councillor
mahia,
you
have
the
floor.
N
So,
just
a
few
follow-up
questions
in
regards
to
the
strand:
theater
we've
been
getting
a
lot
of
advocacy
around
how
we
can
utilize
that
space
to
really
build
culture
and
arts.
So
I'm
just
curious
what
opportunities,
if
any,
are
you
exploring
to
support
the
arts
in
that
neighborhood
and
specifically
strand
theater.
D
To
be
able
to
put
aside
funding
for
grants
for
to
help
producers
and
local
artists
and
local
groups
who
want
to
do,
shows
at
the
strand
but
need
to
close
a
funding
gap
and
just
need
some
more
resources.
In
order
to
do
that.
So
we'll
be
we're
starting
that
now
actually
and
we'll
be
doing
it
again
next
fiscal
year.
D
We're
also
going
to
be
doing
an
audit
of
the
operations
of
the
theater
and
part
of
that's
also
going
to
be
a
market
study
to
understand
how
we
can
better
attract
some
more
commercial
work
to
the
theater.
That
can
further
subsidize
it
for
the
community
and
that's
really
coming
off
of
what
we
learned
from
having
the
van
gogh
experience
in
this
space
and
seeing
that
it
is
actually
possible
to
have
a
thousand
people
coming
through
the
door
every
day
or
whatever.
D
The
final
numbers
were,
but
that
we're
not
really
set
up
operationally
to
support
that
on
an
ongoing
basis
and
also
there's
things
to
think
about
in
terms
of
having
something
like
that
in
the
space
and
wanting
to
make
sure
that
it's
still
open
and
available
to
the
community
in
an
affordable
and
accessible
way.
So
we're
going
to
be
looking
at
that
this
year
in
order
to
inform
future
investments
as
well.
N
Okay,
sometimes
local
could
be
a
greater
boston
area
and
then
it's
a
whole
bunch
of
other
folks,
taking
advantage
of
the
resources
that
we
have
here.
So
I'm
excited
to
to
hear
that
and
then
I
have
another
question,
a
question
in
regards
to
the
arts.
I'm
just
curious
what,
if
any
opportunities
exist
to
work
with
restaurants
and
other
vendors,
to
kind
of
literally
open
up
their
doors
to
artists,
to
showcase
their
art
and
and
sell
like
what?
D
N
I'm
going
to
say
one
more
thing
on
the
arts
and
culture,
and
then
I
have
two
things
for
business
and
workforce
development,
but
this
is
more
just
something
kind
of
like
it's,
not
so
much
a
question
but
more
something
for
us
to
consider.
As
we
start
thinking
about
the
pandemic
and
all
the
social
and
emotional
and
mental
toll
that
it's
taken
on
communities,
there's
22
neighborhoods
across
the
city
of
boston
and
there's
so
much
racial
tension
that
exists,
and
I'm
just
curious.
N
You
know,
as
we
start
thinking
about
these
funds,
if
there's
ways
for
us
to
create
programming
that
brings
the
city
together
across
their
differences
and
utilizing
the
arts
as
a
way
to
heal
and
and
to
come
to
terms
with
our
own
social
and
emotional
mental
well-being.
I
just
think
that
there
is
an
opportunity
when
we
think
about
this
funding
to
be
super
intentional
about
the
intersection
of
art
and
culture
and
bringing
people
together
across
their
differences.
N
N
The
reason
why
I'm
pushing
back
on
that
is
because
a
lot
of
immigrant
businesses
don't
see
themselves
within
that
umbrella
and
they
have
very
specific
needs
around
language
access
and
really,
you
know
how
to
start
and
build
your
business
here
successfully
here
in
the
city
of
boston,
so
people
in
terms
of
their
identity-
they
just
don't
see
themselves
reflected
in
that
bucket.
So
I
want
to
kind
of
just
push
it
a
little
bit
more
in
terms
of
what
the
vision
is
for
immigrant
owned
native
language
speakers.
B
Sure-
and
I
will
say
that
our
current
programming,
you
know
so
I'll
start
first
with
even
the
staffing
of
the
small
business
department,
which
includes
a
whole
host
of
native
language
speakers.
Our
own
director
is,
you
know.
The
daughter
of
haitian
immigrants
speaks
haitian
creole,
spanish
speaking.
B
Others,
who
cover
a
wide
range
of
the
immigrant
population
here
in
the
city
who
themselves
on
a
daily
basis,
are
engaging
with
immigrant
business
owners
who
may
not
voluntarily
describe
themselves
in
that
way,
but
fit
the
characteristics
that
you
were
describing
on
the
council
floor
today,
and
then
at
least
since
you
know
our
start
145
days
ago.
All
of
the
applications
that
we're
putting
out
in
other
programming
are
in
multiple
languages
to
ensure
that
we
are
reaching
these
populations.
B
I
will
say
it
would
be
great
to
partner
with
your
office
beyond
this
conversation
today,
especially
if
you're
engaging
these
business
owners
that
we
may
not
be
reaching
to
ensure
that
we're
not
missing
out
on
that.
I
know
that
you're
collecting
data
for
the
purposes
of
your
office,
but
it
would
be
great
to
make
sure
that
we
are
connected
with
them
to
ensure
that
we
are
getting
these
resources
to
folks
that
we're
not
reaching
yeah.
N
Thank
you
for
that.
We
would
love
and
take
you
up
on
that
invitation
and
then
I
I
have
one
question
for
just
kind
of
workforce
development.
If
you
could
just
talk
to
me
a
little
bit
about
the
developing
that
pipeline
and
counselor
baker
was
talking
about,
you
know
life
sciences
and
I'm
just
curious,
I
think,
about
madison
park.
I
think
about
all
our
alternative
high
schools.
I
think
about
you
know.
N
C
C
I
mean
I,
I
the
the
hardest
part
about
workforce
development
and
my
personal
opinion
is
guaranteed
or
direct
hires,
and
so
what
we
want
to
do
at
the
end
of
the
day
and
at
the
end
of
the
the
training
program
or
whether
or
not
that
resident
completed
the
associate
degree,
whether
or
not
they're
going
to
get
the
job
of
their
choice
in
in
life
sciences,
I
would
love
to
to
see
like
real
labor
market
data
and
job
vacancies
that
don't
require
a
bachelor's
degree.
I
share
that
enthusiasm
with
you
and
those
value
statements.
C
I
I
think
that
there
are
conversations
with
direct
hiring
managers
to
look
at
different
ways
in
which
they're
hiring
and
do
not
necessarily
use
up
credentialing.
That
means
using
a
ba
as
a
proxy
for
direct
hires.
So
all
these
great
applicants
from
boston
who
live
here
go
to
school,
born
and
bred,
went
to
various
training
programs
and
two-year
colleges
and
still
don't
get
a
shot
of
that.
C
Can
we
use
that
work
experience
and
articulate
that
as
credits
into
an
associate
degree,
so
that
way
that
student's
already
halfway
and
then
we
pay
for
that,
and
I
think
that's
important.
However,
the
employer
needs
to
sign
a
commitment
stating
that
they
will
hire
that
and
that's
the
biggest
question
and
they
need
to
be
at
that
table
with
a
signed
document
saying
that
they're
willing
to
hire
if
they
were
going
to
come
here
and
do
business
with
the
city.
N
Thank
you,
and
I'm
just
going
to
say
one
last
thing
just
for
us
to
consider.
You
know
there
are
a
lot
of
amazing
mutual
aid
organizations,
doing
work
across
the
city
and
working
on
issues
of
economic
empowerment,
arts
and
culture
and
even
providing
child
care.
So
I
think,
as
we
all
start
thinking
about
how
we
utilize
some
of
these
dollars,
some
of
them
are
registered
501
c
3s,
and
some
of
them
are
not
so
that
is
an
emerging
workforce
right.
If
we
really
start
thinking
about
how
do
we
build
their
capacity?
N
So
it's
just
something
for
all
of
us
to
consider
what
we
can
be
doing
with
these
opera
funds
to
help
these
groups
really
meet
the
moment
in
ways
that
help
address
a
lot
of
the
things
that
you
all
are
working
on.
So
I
just
want
to
just
encourage
that
out
of
the
box.
Thinking
for
these
groups
as
well.
A
P
One
one
question
I
had
was:
are
we
sure,
are
we
clear
that
all
of
these
programs
that
we're
suggesting
all
these
initiatives
are
consistent
with
the
requirements
of
the
federal?
Are
we
fitting
in
them
in
the
boxes?
We
don't
want
to
launch
something
and
then
oops
sorry.
I
understand
from
your
conversation
that
you've
you've
taken
some
things
off
the
table
because
it
doesn't
so
we're
we're
being
pretty
judicious
about
making
sure
that
that's
the
case.
P
That's
good
and
then
the
other.
The
other
question
I
had
was
with
regard
to
our
non-profit
sector
like
very
often
there
are.
They
are
doing
the
work
at
the
coal
face
and
how
are
we
working
to
identify
non-profit
partners
who
would
would
help
us
carry
this
forward?
Like
are
those
the
groups
that
are
going
to
take
up
some
of
these
contracts,
or
are
we
working
with
those
folks
ahead
of
time
and
how's
that
all
going
to
fall
together.
P
I
think
we
had
a
hearing
recently
with
her
the
non-profit
sector
and
how
they
were.
We
tagged
on
to
one
of
the
countrybox
hearings.
You
know
just
they.
The
non-profit
sector
is,
is
in
the
hiring
crisis,
just
like
everyone
else,
and
they
were
deeply
impacted
by
covent.
So
I
think
figuring
out,
if
there's
ways
that
we
can
apply
some
of
these
resources
to
help
support
the
recovery
of
our
non-profit
sector
would
be
something
I'd
advocate
strongly
for.
B
B
P
Yeah
very
important
to
be
able
to
afford
to
live
here
and
one
last
question.
I
I
really
wonder:
are
we
exploring
the
model
like
the
cooperative
model,
and
I
know
we've
spoken
about
co-ops
for
child
care,
but
also
co-op,
worker-owned
businesses
to
try
and
as
another
way
to
insulate
our
small
business
sector
from
the
ups
and
downs
of
recessions
and
boom
and
bust
cycles?
P
I
think
we
have,
I
think
democracy
brewing
is
a
is
a
co-op
that
that
have
weathered
the
weather.
There
was
this
crisis
pretty
well
and
the
same
in
the
in
the
housing
sector,
the
co-ops
tend
to
be
stabilizing
and
democratizing
influence
in
our
workforce
and
then
home
ownership
spaces.
So
we
work.
Are
we
looking
at
co-ops
as
another
place
where
we
might
be
able
to
put
some
investment.
B
A
piece
of
this
is
making
sure
that
we're
focused
on
helping
to
build
those
cooperatives,
not
just
existing
businesses
and
encouraging
them
to
work
together
in
that
way
and
form
those
cooperatives
by
building
new
cooperatives
in
different
industries
across
the
city
on
our
ownership
piece
that
I
mentioned
earlier
to
to
counselor
caledonia's
question.
You
know
when
we're
looking
at
ownership
of
commercial
property,
we're
going
to
be
encouraging.
B
If
there
are
multiple
commercial
businesses
there
that
we're
helping
them
create
their
own
cooperative
to
go
in
to
own
the
land,
but
also
to
be
a
cooperative
themself
and
then
on
the
small
business
front.
You
know
there
used
to
be
a
partnership
with
a
cooperative
building
organization
here
in
the
city,
we're
looking
at
where
that
partnership
is
right
now,
so
that
we
can
revitalize
it
and
make
sure
that
we're
enhancing
our
capacity
to
again
provide
those
those
resources
to
individuals
looking
to
form
cooperatives.
P
Yeah-
and
I
really
feel
you
know
the
ability
to
build
capacity
and
strengthen
our
infrastructure,
our
business
and
community
infrastructure,
so
that
when
the
money
goes
away,
we'll
be
in
a
much
stronger,
better
place
than
we
are,
we
don't
want
to
just
blow
the
wad
and
and
go
what
happened
and
what
have
we
got
to
show
for
it.
We
want
to
have
some
seriously
significant
investment
that
will
have
long-term
positive
influences
over
a
long
long
time,
absolutely
yeah.
Thank
you.
So
much.
I
Awesome
so
I
have
two
two
lines
of
questioning
for
kristin
and
chief
elliot
ortega.
I
hope
I
said
that
right,
dude,
okay,
good
awesome,
so,
first
for
kristen,
congratulations
and
welcome
to
the
city.
I
know
you've
been
here
for
a
little
bit,
but
this
is
the
first
time
that
you
and
I
have
met
so
just
wanted
to
be
sure
to
say
that
the
labor
component-
I
forget
exactly
what
her
name
was.
I
I
think
it
was
kate,
but
she
uplifted
this
and
it
was
what
I
was
going
to
ask
in
this
space,
but
the
the
salary
structure
for
workers
and
child
care
workers
when
we're
thinking
about
you
know-
and
I
take
councillor
baker's
point
very
seriously-
where
we
need
to
have
something
to
point
to
in
terms
of
physical
and
built
infrastructure,
but
there's
also
that
human
infrastructure
too,
and
investing
in
people
and
their
skills
and
preventing
that
providing
that
foundational
support
for
them
and
for
child
care
workers.
In
particular,
I
mean
I've.
I
Had
people
tell
me
that
they
make
forty
thousand
dollars
per
year,
which
will
not
cover
rents
in
east
boston,
and
these
are
women.
These
are
majority
women
of
color.
I
know
you
know
that,
but
earlier
you
had
mentioned
chief
about
tuition,
payment
assistance
for
restaurant
workers,
I'm
wondering
if
that's
something
that
we
can
explore
in
the
city,
if
you're
already
exploring
that
and
when
we're
thinking
about
utilizing
this
money
for
long-term
investments,
I
really
see
education
for
child
care
workers
as
a
priority.
F
And
that
really
is
about
the
pathways
and
it's
twofold.
One
is
attracting
new
family
child
care
providers
to
the
space
which
includes
helping
those
folks
who
are
perhaps
operating
unlicensed
care
to
become
licensed
as
well
as
attracting
attracting
new
folks
and,
and
that
would
be
support
from
the
beginning
of
the
licensure
process
and
into
the
child
care
entrepreneurship
fund.
So
that.
F
F
F
I
I
do
also
want
to
say
a
little
bit
about
this
enrollment
platform,
which
is
not
just
focused
on
bps,
but
also
would
include
three
to
five-year-olds
outside
of
those
structures,
because
one
of
the
things
that
has
been
identified
as
a
key
driver
in
not
being
able
to
be
profitable
is
when
a
seat
is
empty
in
a
center,
so
that
every
moment
where
there
isn't
a
child
who's
being
served.
Those
are
dollars
that
the
center
is
missing.
F
So
how
can
we
help
make
those
connections
between
an
open
seat
and
the
seat
that
the
family
needs
in
order
for
them
to
be
able
to
go
and
actually
participate
in
the
workforce,
so
that
that's
actually
one
of
the
core
goals
of
the
enrollment
system?
From
a
provider
perspective,
we
wrote
it
from
the
family
perspective,
which
is
just
being
able
to
actually
find
care,
because
that
is
the
feedback
we've
gotten
from
families,
but
it
also
has
a
tangential
effect
for
providers
in
that
that
will
ensure
that
they
are
actually
fully
enrolled.
F
I
Thank
you
and
then
my
second
line
of
questioning
is
for
for
the
chief
and
I'm
so
I'm
pleased.
I
think
this
is
the
first
time
it's
going
to
be
public,
but
I'm
pleased
to
be
the
new
chair
of
arts
and
culture
here
in
the
in
the
council.
So
look
forward
to
working
with
you
in
your
department
and
other
community-based
organizations
just
to
make
sure
that
we're
protecting
the
vibrancy
of
our
communities
through
arts.
I
I
really
love
the
fact
that
we're
going
to
be
empowering
individuals
to
create
joy
in
their
own
neighborhoods
and
bring
people
out
of
their
homes
into
the
main
streets.
So
that's
something
I
look
forward
to
one
thing
that
I
have
heard
from
certain
organizations
in
the
community
is
that
getting
these
cultural
festivals
up
and
running
is
very
difficult
for
them.
They
don't
have
a
501c3,
so
they
got
to
find
a
financial
sponsor
or
it's
not
in
their
native
language,
or
the
permitting
process
is
very
opaque
for
them.
I
D
And
that's
that's
a
really
great
point.
I
think
this
goes
back
to
where
this
investment
can
also
better
connect,
resources
and
programs
that
might
already
exist
in
different
departments
to
different
communities
that
are
having
issues
accessing
that.
So
we
would
definitely
be
looking
at
how
we
can
make
sure
that
that
it's
really
like
hitting
the
ground
in
a
way
that
makes
sense
for
people-
and
I
think
the
language
access
issue
is
a
really
big
one.
Permitting
is
also
one
that
we
hear
about.
D
I
know
a
couple
of
us
hear
about
on
an
almost
daily
basis,
so
I
think
the
way
to
think
about
the
place
making
our
place
keeping
funds
is
to
really
think
about.
What
are
we
going
to
learn
over
these
years
that
we
can
start
actually
trying
to
reform
internally
so
that
this
is
as
easy
as
possible,
because
at
the
end
of
the
day,
even
if
it's
city
produced
and
facilitated
events,
it
should
be
like
our
goal
should
be
that
community
members
can
have
the
agency
to
do
what
it
is
that
they
want
to
do.
A
Great,
thank
you.
Thank
you
all.
Thank
you
so
much
counselor
coletta.
I
I
had
heard
ahead
of
time
that
director
dwin
was
going
to
need
to
leave
in
five
minutes.
So
I
just
I'm
gonna,
put
two
questions
on
the
record
for
you
and
I'm
fine
for
follow-up
afterwards
and
then
just
ask
counselor
fernandez
anderson.
If
you
have
any
questions
for
trend
to
put
them
at
the
front
of
your
questions
and
we'll
let
her
answer
and
then
go,
but
if
you
don't
have
questions
for
her,
that's
fine
and
we'll
just
let
her
go.
A
My
two
questions
on
the
record
are
just
if
you
could
get
us
like
and
I'm
sure
you
already
have
it
kind
of
like
the
full
backup
of
what
the
tuition-free
community
college
like
to
date
has
been
doing
since
that's
a
place.
We're
proposing
to
expand
a
program,
obviously
there's
a
sort
of
summary
reference
to
the
types
of
students
we're
serving,
and
I
think
we
all
think
of
it
as
a
really
important
investment.
A
But
I
just
I
would
love
to
have
the
kind
of
latest
report
on
what
we
feel
like
the
delta
is
from
that
free
tuition
and
just
would
be
great.
And
then
you
got
lots
of
questions
from
colleagues
about
the
lab
workforce
and
I
totally
agree
the
job
guarantees
are
the
name
of
the
game
and
don't
train
anyone
for
imaginary
jobs.
I
was
on
that
note
like
a
little
bit
unsure
in
this
like
digital
side
that
there's
a
proposal
for
like
what
exactly
we're
doing.
A
I'm
always
a
little
nervous
that
we
not
just
sort
of
send
money
to
like
you
know.
We've
got
these
computer
labs
all
over
the
city
that
were
sort
of
the
effort
at
digital
training
back
in
the
day
and
then
often
they're,
sitting
locked
and
like.
Is
it
really
providing
people
with
like
workforce
related
like
training,
so
just
really
understanding
what
the
gap
is,
we're
filling
there
and
and
our
sort
of
confidence
about
it
being
connected
to
like
metrics
and
real
jobs?
A
T
C
I
apologize
I,
I
did
have
a
prior
commitment,
a
bus
to
to
catch,
so
I
don't
think
they're
going
to
wait
for
me.
So
one
is
that
the
tuition-free
community
college
is
also
called
tfcc
right
now
we
have
850
students
in
it
and
we
have
an
evaluation
from
northeastern
about
the
impact
and
the
duration,
behavioral
economics
model
that
that
gets
students
not
only
enrolled
but
to
complete
successfully
as
well
so
happy
to
follow
up.
C
On
that
note,
this
was
the
three
million
plus
another
million
from
the
usdol
that
would
be
coming
to
leverage
it.
So
we
have
about
four
million
to
expand
the
the
eligibility
of
tfcc,
so
one
you
just
have
to
be
a
boston
resident
and
not
necessarily
a
bps
graduate.
So
that's
the
expansion
of
eligibility.
The
second
expansion
is
that
the
traditional
conventional
eligibility
only
allows
for
one
gap
year.
C
The
two
last
eligibility
requirements
that
have
been
on
our
wish
list
that
we
were
not
able
to
do
it
due
to
previous
funding.
So
one
is
that
students
may
not
want
to
commit
to
an
associate
degree
yet.
But
if
we
fund
short-term
training
in
the
desired
emerging
industries,
then
that
would
get
folks
into
the
door
and
then
they
would
have
matriculated
credit
into
an
associate
degree
which
we
will
pay
for.
So
even
if
you
wanted
to
go
to
any
of
the
six
schools
for
short-term
training,
we
will
pay
for
that.
C
And
last
but
not
least,
I
think
the
immigrant
student
population
and
daca
students
is
really
key,
which
has
been
on
our
wish
list
for
a
very
long
time.
And
so
we
will
not
ask
various
pal
eligible
questions
that
if
you
want
to
sign
up
for
short
term
or
any
of
the
tuition
free
six
schools,
we
will
fully
pay
for
that
and
it
will
become
a
first
first-come,
first-served
kind
of
application
process
until
the
funds
run
out.
But
that
would
be
a
good
problem
for
the
city
to
have.
C
C
Oh,
I'm
sorry,
the
yes,
we!
Yes,
it's!
We
do
have
conventional
workforce
funding
which
we
use
for
workforce
training,
but
the
digital
funds
that
you
see
here
are
gaap
funding,
so
students
and
esl
participants
for
for,
for
example,
do
not
have
laptops
and
wi-fi
for
a
year
to
finish
their
coursework.
The
state
has
opened
up
a
hybrid
high
set
test
and
some
students,
a
lot
of
students,
won't
be
able
to
access
that
online
test
if
they
don't
have
the
support
nor
the
equipment.
C
T
C
C
T
C
A
T
Right
now
I
can
just
beat
up
on
the
three
years
left,
so
thank
you
so
much
for
I
came
late
and
thank
you
for
hanging
in
here,
so
I
can
ask
you
the
little
bit
of
questions
and
I
it's
the
same.
We're
not
going
to
get
too
much
talked
about
here,
but-
and
I
also
look
forward
to
working
with
you
guys
my
questions
I'll
start
with
arts,
and
I
guess
it
is
bc.
Hi
chief.
How
are
you.
T
D
So
only
a
small
portion
of
the
funds
would
go
towards
augmenting
what
the
bcc
approves
and
then
the
vast
majority
of
the
funds
that
we
we
proposed
for
grants
would
go
through
the
office
and
likely
would
turn
to
the
advisory
group
that
we
mentioned
as
a
part
of
helping
to
outline.
What
that
review
looks
like
sorry.
D
Yeah,
so
we
don't
have
it
formed
yet
right
now,
it's
just
a
part
of
the
proposal,
but
we
would
really
like
to
have
an
advisory
group,
that's
representative
of
the
cultural
sector
and
from
around
the
city
that
can
help
kind
of
advise
but
also
hold
us.
I
think
accountable
to
how
we're
shaping
these
programs
so
that
they
really
are
doing
what
we've
put
here
in
words-
and
that
includes
thinking
about
the
best
kind
of
application
and
review
process
for
those
large
transformative
grants,
which
is
the
bulk
of
that
15
million
right.
T
I
do
have
some
questions
about
you
know
in
terms
of
like
the
leftover
monies
I
read
something
in
there
about.
You
know,
there'll
be
like
sort
of
grants
that
later
will
be
decided
upon
as
you
go,
but
I
don't.
I
don't
have
enough
time
to
talk
about
that
and
I'll
reach
out
to
you
later.
But
can
you
tell
me
a
little
bit
about
the
neighborhood
place,
making
funds
yeah.
D
So
the
neighborhood
and
downtown
place
making
funds
are
really
looking
to
augment
existing
programs,
but
also
make
sure
that
they
are
really
connecting
with
neighborhood
residents,
and
so
we've
outlined
in
the
proposal,
a
few
different
kinds
of
projects
that
we
would
look
at,
including
the
art
corridor,
and
also
really
thinking
about
how
we're
hiring
local
creatives,
local
businesses,
local
organizations
as
a
part
of
that
activation.
But
also,
how
are
we
really
learning
about
how
we
do
public
realm
activity
as
a
city
so
that
we're
not
just
kind
of
in
our
different
silos
of
offering
programs?
D
T
Yeah,
thank
you.
I
I'm
I'm
really
excited
that.
The
mayor
is
committed
to
the
our
corridor
that
we've
met
and
we've
talked
about
it.
I'm
looking
forward
to
it,
I'm
looking
forward
to
all
the
council
like
doing
a
whole
tour,
hopefully
in
a
year
or
two
down
the
corridor,
and
really
exemplifying
that
tangible
example
of
what
art,
space
and
activation
could
look
like
a
potential
for
the
all
of
the
city.
I'm
wondering,
though,
how
do
you
know
how
much
of
that
you'll
be
spending
in
downtown.
D
T
T
T
B
Oh,
so
the
one
million
is
in
addition
to
the
all-inclusive
campaign
all-inclusive
boston
campaign,
which
is
a
campaign
meant
to
show
the
diversity
of
the
city,
but
also
connect,
whether
it
be
tourists
or
residents
to
our
local
businesses
in
our
neighborhoods.
So
this
million-dollar
investment
would
extend
the
campaign
nationwide.
T
Yeah,
I
always
said
you
know,
bring
the
duct
tour
to
the
hood
right
like
we.
We
need
to
be
able
to
connect
to
the
tourist
market,
considering
it's
one
of
the
highest
drivers
of
revenue
in
the
city
of
boston,
and
so
you
know
there
are
smaller
companies
and
I'm
sure
you
know
right
of
black
owned
or
black
and
brown
owned
companies
that
are
looking
to
do
tourism.
T
U
T
F
No,
it
would
cover
the
entire
tuition
and
what
we'd
be
looking
to
do
is
partner.
We've,
we've
already
begun
conversations
with
bunker
hill
and
with
urban
college
and
then
are
looking
at
our
fcc
pilot
in
conjunction
with
the
department
of
early
education
and
care
that
the
united
way
is
actually
contracted
to
run
right
now,
okay,
great
each.
T
400
is
a
lot
I
I'm
I'm
really
excited
about
that
in
terms
of
total
childhood
providers
and
then
do
we
know
I
mean
we
know
that
postnatal
trauma
is
a
thing.
Prenatal
and
postnatal
trauma
is
an
issue
and
I'm
wondering
if
we
would
consider
understanding
the
curriculums
that
we
are
trying
to
implement
in
these
new
child
cares.
I
think
20
centers
reproduce
and
then
yeah
compensation
plans
and
move
towards
yep.
So
I
wonder
if
we
talk
if
disney
talks
on
about
curriculums.
F
So
there's
a
couple
of
different
spaces:
none
of
them
are
in
the
arpa
funding,
but
those
are
things
that
we're
thinking
about
and
we're
also
working
in
partnership
with
vital
village.
That
right
now
is
focusing
on
birthing
families,
both
prenatal
and
postnatal.
So
up
to
18
months
and
they're
going
to
be
starting
a
coalition
to
be
thinking
about
in
the
city
how
we
meet
the
needs,
particularly
for
black
maternal
health
and
black
mothers,
but
also
all
different
populations.
T
Yeah,
I
guess
you
know
one
of
my
concerns
when
I
like
not
concerned
with
the
idea
proposed,
but
rather
in
in
thinking
through
implementation.
I
I'm
concerned
about
one
the
demographics
that
serves
our
children
in
the
city
of
boston.
Being
that
you
know,
bps
is
over
60
white
providers
and
then
in
also
in
early
child
child
care.
We
know
that
it's
majority
immigrant
and
people
of
color,
yes,
but
in
terms
of
recruiting
new
ones
and
then
supporting
the
already
existing
ones
and
a
lot
of
them
undocumented.
T
How
are
we
won?
You
know
in
terms
of
their
campaign
that
you're
going
to
do,
and
that's
that's
beautiful.
I
love
campaigns
right
like
we
want
to
access
people.
I
wonder
how
we're
thinking
about
recruiting
intentionally
one
black
providers,
two
immigrant
and
accommodating
non-undocumented
providers
or
supporting
them
in
you
know.
T
I
guess
I
don't
want
to
say
legitimizing
their
business,
but
yes,
and
then
also
in
terms
of
curriculum.
Not
just
you
know,
prenatal
postnatal
in
that
sense,
but
I'm
talking
about
the
trauma
that
children
exist
in
their
mom's
belly
right
prenatal
trauma.
I'm
talking
about
the
fact
that
we
have
a
lot
of
postnatal
early
intervention
needs
in
disenfranchised
communities.
How
are
we
thinking
about
that?
In
terms
of
providers.
F
If
that's
necessary,
working
with
family
ties,
so
families
who
are
feeling
a
little
bit
nervous
about
that
kind
of
assistance,
can
have
contact
with
a
culturally
appropriate
person
to
walk
them
through
the
process,
what
it
means
how
they
become
engaged.
So
we've
been
thinking
about
those
things
more
holistically.
F
This
plan
is
just
really
for
how
are
we
supporting
child
care?
Given
the
crisis?
That's
happening
in
that
part
of
the
infrastructure
and
I'd
be
happy
to
have
longer
conversations
with
you
about
how
we
should
be
working
to
move
all
that
together,
because
it
is
a
piece
of
the
work
that
we're
going
to
be
focusing
on.
T
Yeah
happy
too.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Just
one
last
question
is
that
okay
sure
thank
you
for
all
three
on
the
panel.
Can
you
have
you
thought
about
some
sort
of
dashboard
or
monetization
of
all
of
that
you're
going
to
implement?
I
saw
the
proposal
of
five
million
dollars
going
into
race
and
inclusion,
and
I
think
you
know
the
biggest
question
for
chieferu
is:
how
does
all
that
you're
proposing
specifically
address
racial
equity?
T
Not
you
know
diluting
the
conversation
of
what
you
know:
equity
is,
and
this
population
and
that
population
we
know
that
the
priority
is
the
most
vulnerable,
which
is
black
people
to
be
specific
black
american
people
one.
So
then,
across
the
board.
How
are
we
actually
implementing
metrics
to
say
this
is
how
we're
monitoring
this
thing,
ensuring
that
there
is
progress
and
we
know
we're
being
effective.
B
So
I'm
happy
to
start
that
so
in
terms
of
a
public
dashboard
happy
to
look
into
how
we
can
put
that
on
the
website
or
anything,
we
do
track
internally,
how
we're
meeting
our
metrics
and
reshaping
and
reforming
if
it's
not
going
the
right
way
in
terms
of
how
these
programs
are
addressing
at
first
I'll
just
say.
I
agree,
and
I
appreciate
your
saying-
the
term
racial
equity,
because
you
know
a
lot
of
times.
B
You
know
two
days
ago
we
were
acknowledging-
and
you
know
the
two-year
anniversary
of
watching
a
lynching
on
all
of
our
screens,
and
you
know
people
keep
adding
this
invisible
word
before
equity
when
what
we've
been
talking
about
for
the
last
two
years
or
should
have
been
is
racial
equity.
So,
just
stating
that
I
appreciate
that
being
acknowledged,
I
will
say
that
for
our
cabinet,
that
is
our
focus.
Racial
equity
and
the
programs
that
we're
developing
are
through
that
lens.
So
I
mean
I'm
happy
to
go.
B
B
The
whole
idea
behind
that
is
a
focus
on
supporting
the
scaling
and
growth
of
minority-owned
businesses
and
yes,
of
course,
women
and
veteran-owned
businesses.
But
a
lot
of
the
partners
on
this
are
folks
with
that
racial
equity
lens,
to
ensure
that
the
majority
of
this
funding
is
going
to
disadvantaged
groups
and
communities.
A
F
So
if
somebody's
new
in
an
fcc
we're
going
to
be
looking
at,
how
do
you
get
through
the
licensure
process?
If
somebody
is
wanting
to
grow
their
business
and
already
has
a
business
plan?
How
do
we
connect
them
to
some
of
chief's
additional
supports
in
a
way
that
meets
them
where
they
are?
We've
we've
heard
feedback
that
some
of
the
processes
that
we
have
are
really
difficult
like,
instead
of
saying
sign
up
for
a
vendor
id.
Perhaps
we
could
say
you
know.
Direct
deposit
is
really
important.
F
If
you
do
that,
we
can
pay
you
electronically.
How
about
you
get
a
vendor
id
because
they
don't
sort
of
understand
what
it
means
to
be
a
vendor
of
the
city
because
they're
not
selling
anything
and
so
really
thinking
about
what
are
the
language
that
we
use
in
terms
of
metrics?
We
actually
have
know
where
all
of
the
fcc's
are.
F
T
T
D
Racial
equity
is
embedded
across
everything
that
is
in
the
proposal,
and
we
also
have
internal
metrics,
and
I
think
it's
just
very
clear
that
when
we're
public
and
clear
about
who
the
funds
are
for,
and
then
we
report
on
that,
that
also
benefits
the
relationship
between
the
people
we're
serving
in
the
city.
So
I
think,
being
part
of
that
process
of
also
creating
transparency
and
trust
is
important.
D
I
would
also
just
make
a
point
that,
in
addition
to
metrics
or
a
dashboard
across
arpa
funds,
something
that
might
be
harder
for
individual
departments
or
cabinets
to
make
an
argument
for
would
be
more
like
qualitative
evaluation
of
what's
happening
over
three
years.
So
I
might
just
flag
that
as
something
for
all
of
us
to
think
about,
because
you
know
when
we're
talking
about
arts
and
culture
and
like
making
a
culture
shift
in
the
city,
there's
a
lot
that
we
can
show
through
metrics
and
kind
of
telling.
T
And
in
real
time
right
so
like
the
dashboard
populating
that,
in
real
time,
I
think,
is
the
transparency
and
trust
that
we're
trying
to
build
with
community
and
saying
so
far.
We've
done
this
much
with
this
population
with
this
sex
or
with
this,
whatever
identity-
and
I
think
that's
that's
transparency
in
real
time,
so
that
people
are
not
playing
the
catch-up
game
right.
I
appreciate
that
you
have
those
metrics
we'd
love
to
move
forward
in
how
we
can
actually
make
that
public.
A
Great,
thank
you
so
much
counselor
fernandez,
anderson.
All
right,
I'm
gonna
ask
my
questions.
So
a
couple
for
you
chief,
all-inclusive
boston
and
then
also
be
local.
I
just
wondered
if
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
to
like
data
or
metrics.
This
is
to
copy
a
phrase
from
counselor
mejia
sort
of
about
return
on
investment.
I
saw
you
guys
describing
sort
of
the
amount
of
traffic
that
ran
through
be
local,
but
obviously
there's
always
a
question
of
like.
Would
people
have
spent
their
money
there
anyways
or
like?
A
Is
there
any
way
that
we
have
a
sense
of
like
a
delta
that
having
the
app
and
showcasing
the
businesses
has,
so
that
was
sort
of
the
deeper
question
on
data
for
be
local
and
then
on
all
inclusive
boston?
I
I
guess
like
I
know
we
all
love
it,
because
it's
just
it's
a
great
showcase
of
the
city
and
I
think
of
the
city,
as
we
all
see
it
with,
like.
A
B
So
I'll
start
with
b
local
and
I'm
not
sure
if
this
is
the
data
you
were
referencing
and
asking
for
more
information
on,
but
so,
in
addition
to
number
of
businesses
that
we
had
on
there
and
folks
utilizing
the
application.
You
know
this
app
generated,
two
million
dollars
worth
of
economic
activity
throughout
our
neighborhoods,
and
I
think
at
our
hearing
next
week
on
the
operating
budget,
we
have
kind
of
more
broken
down.
B
Statistics
to
show
that
impact
and
users,
on
the
other
hand,
earned
377
000
on
their
end,
and
you
know,
because
of
the
intentionality
of
this
pilot
of
focusing
on
or
amplifying
women
and
minority-owned
businesses.
7
of
spending
went
to
those
categories
through
this
app
in
terms
of
be
local,
as
you
mentioned,
there's
a
number
of
metrics
related
to
this
campaign,
so
the
first
iteration
of
this
got
1.16
million
video
impressions.
The
website.
B
The
website,
which
is
housed
on
the
greater
boston
convention
of
visitors
bureau
website,
saw
a
400
percent
increase
in
website
traffic
and,
in
the
first
quarter
of
of
this
year,
the
cvb
reported
of
4
000,
new
visits
to
boston
related
to
the
all-inclusive
boston
campaign
and
then
the
second
iteration
of
this
campaign,
which
launched
a
few
weeks
ago.
This
is
the
boston
axe
that
the
the
twist
on
the
boston
accent.
A
Okay
and
then
on
this
ecosystem,
like
funding,
you
know,
because
we
talked
about
it
yesterday.
I'm
super
interested
in
this
I'm
very
tired
of
when
we
talk
about
a
contracting
space
and
we
just
say
well
the
right
people
aren't
there
like
you
know,
and
it's
like
well.
How
do
we
create
them
right
and
my
the
specific
instance
I
always
bang
on
about
is
that
with
these
msba
grants
we
know
that
we're
going
to
keep
doing
boiler
window
and
roof
projects
in
bps
till
kingdom
come
so
like.
A
Why
do
we
not
have
just
like
you
know?
Why
are
we
not
seeding
a
more
diverse
contractor
base
to
really
do
that
work,
but
I'm
curious
it's
one
thing
to
say:
we
would
love
to
spend
this
money
on
plugging
ecosystem
gaps
and
it's
another
thing
to
sort
of
like
know
what
we're
gonna
do
with
it.
So
I'm
just
curious
if
you
could
speak
a
little
with
a
little
more
texture.
B
One
is
to
create
a
database
first
of
all,
of
compiling
the
small
businesses
that
we're
you
know
trying
to
help
scale,
because
right
now
and
I'll
bring
this
to
my
experience
at
becma,
you
have
multiple
providers
who
are
supporting
businesses
but
aren't
sharing
information
with
one
another.
So
what
we
see
happening
is
you
know:
there'll
be
15
different
technical
assistance
providers
that
are
helping
really
the
same
business,
but
they
don't
know
what
kind
of
information
they're
sharing
or
how
they're
helping
that
business.
B
B
What
we're
hoping
to
do
with
this
is
to
have
that
database,
where
we're
tracking
everyone
will
have
access
to
that
the
participating
organization,
so
we're
aware
of
who's,
helping
and
providing
what
service,
but
also
providing
assessments
of
these
businesses
to
help
them
scale
so
kind
of
utilizing
the
model
the
foundation
for
business
equity,
which
takes
businesses,
provides
an
assessment
and
then
determines
how
much
money
needs
to
be
invested
to
scale
that
business.
What
are
the
knowledge
gaps
in
the
business,
whether
it's
on
the
accounting
side
or
tech,
side,
etc?
B
So
these
are
the
things
that
we're
that
we're
trying
to
do.
But
I
will
say
this
is
not
the
only
investment
we're
seeking
in
this
type
of
program.
This
is
what
the
city
is
going
to
be
putting
on
the
table.
But
what
we're
seeking
to
do
is
to
leverage
this
money
to
get
other
players
in
this
field,
whether
it
be
london
against
commercial
lending,
institutions,
vcs
philanthropic
organizations,
etc,
to
also
put
money
on
the
table
to
carry
this
program
forward
once
the
arpa
money
is
no
longer
available
and.
A
A
Okay,
great
thanks
and
then
on
main
streets.
I
actually
had
a
question
that
I
said
I
would
ask
on
behalf
of
counselor
warrell,
who
had
to
run
to
a
in
district
meeting.
Can
you
just
talk
about?
I
mean
he
saw
obviously
you're
going
to
focus
this
on
the
main
streets
districts.
There
was
a
list
of
all
the
main
streets
districts,
but
can
you
talk
about
how
you're
going
to
make
this
process
equitable
based
on
need
and
where
each
main
main
street
district
is
in
terms
of
like
beautification
foot,
traffic
funds,
etc?
A
A
Got
it
and
I'll
just
say,
I
think
it's
so
important
that
we
compensate
our
mainstream
directors
reasonably,
that
we
provide
them
with
funds
to
actually
do
things.
I
mean,
on
the
one
hand,
they're
very
creative
individuals
and
they
sort
of
have
to
currently
figure
out
ways
to
beg,
borrow
and
steal
in
order
to
do
the
work
of
their
job.
But
I
don't
think
that
should
be
the
case
for
a
for
a
city
entity,
and
I
will
also
just
flag
and
it's.
It
may
be
an
operating
conversation,
but
just
you
know,
I
do
think
one.
A
B
B
They're
literally,
are
little
city
halls
already,
and
the
current
funding
that
the
city
is
able
to
provide
57
500
for
the
operating
budget,
which
is
nowhere
near
adequate
to
meet
not
only
the
work
that
they're
doing
but
again
to
afford
to
live
in
the
city.
So
you
know
this
funding
is
going
to
help
double
that
funding
on
the
operating
side
for
our
main
streets.
B
But
what
I
said
is
I
don't
want
to
add
wood
to
a
burning
fire
right,
and
you
know
if
the
system
is
already
not
working.
I
don't
want
to
create
more
things
in
a
program
that
is
not
working,
the
way
that
it
should
be,
and
so
the
hope
is
that
you
know,
while
we
support
our
main
streets
through
this
funding
this
year.
At
the
same
time,
we
are
determining
what
the
program
should
look
like
moving
forward,
so
that
places
like
in
your
district.
B
There
are
large
stretches
of
blue
hill
ave
that
are
not
covered
by
main
streets
and
they
have
tons
of
businesses
along
that
corridor
and
have
no
support
through
those
programs,
except
for
the
work
that
our
neighborhood
business
managers
do
to
to
walk
up
and
down
the
street
to
support
businesses.
But
it's
it's
at
that
point
that
I
would
love
to
create
a
whole
whole
lot
more
main
streets
across
the
city,
east,
boston
of
council.
B
A
A
A
F
F
You
know
it's
interesting,
I
think
we're
gonna
have
to
work
with
our
workforce.
They,
the
providers,
we've
been
in
conversation
with
them.
They
have
a
every
other
week
call,
and
so
this
is
one
of
the
things
that
they
said
would
really
be
helpful
to
them
that
they
need
somebody
to
run
a
campaign
or
some
kind
of
visibility
to
address
this
particular
need
in
terms
of
attracting
people.
F
We
know
from
our
conversations
with
universities
that
there
are
actually
people
who
are
entering
the
child
care
space,
and
so
how
do
we
let
them
know
that
they
could
be
entering
it
debt-free
by
participating
in
these
programs.
So
you
know,
I
think
that
is
the
piece
that
we're
going
to
be
working
directly
with
the
constituents
and
the
stakeholders
to
say
what
should
this
look
like
in
terms
of
the
family
child
care.
F
F
We
have
actually
right
now
in
the
city
and
say
you
know:
how
can
we
be
giving
you
information
to
share
with
your
networks
about
becoming
a
family
child
care
provider
and
then
the
last
piece
I
think
I
alluded
to
a
bit
before,
which
is
that
the
state
has
a
number
of
folks
who
are
either
participating
in
family
friend
and
neighbor
care
and
have
expressed
a
desire
to
become
family.
Child
care
providers
or
they've
been
notified.
F
That
someone
is
running
a
child
care
program
in
their
home
that
isn't
licensed,
and
they
would
like
to
connect
those
folks
with
the
city
so
that
they
can
become
licensed
as
an
asset
based
approach
rather
than
a
punitive
based
approach
when
those
folks
are
brought
to
their
attention.
So
I
think
there's
multiple
ways
that
we're
thinking
about
attracting
new
people
that
we
put
together
holistically.
D
Yeah
so
workforce
development
and
professional
development
for
creative
workers-
and
we
sometimes
put
them
together
because
we're
talking
about
people
who
are
sole
proprietors
or
entrepreneurs
or
gig
economy
workers.
So
it's
not
kind
of
the
traditional
like
we're
trying
to
land
this
person
in
a
full-time
job
approach,
but
it
includes
a
whole
range
of
services
and
supports
that
we've
heard
directly
from
artists
and
creative
workers
during
the
pandemic,
and
so
a
lot
of
this
is
also
about
how
to
navigate
one's
career.
D
You
know
in
a
world
where
now
everything
is
online
right,
so
there's
business
development,
support,
there's
portfolio,
review,
there's
actual
work
on
help,
helping
people
with
presenting
their
creative
products
or
services
or
work
for
grants
and
contracts
and
rfps
there's
skill
development.
So
one
area
of
work
where
we've
done
some
kind
of
a
deeper
dive
on
this
is
with
arts,
educators,
and
so
that's
professional
development
and
support
specifically
for
teaching
artists
and
full-time
arts
educators.
A
Okay
got
it
that
makes
sense.
Okay.
What
I'm
gonna
do
now
is.
I
don't
have
any
third
round
questions.
I'm
gonna,
let
counselor
mejia
ask
a
third
round.
If
you
can
we're,
we've
got
a
number
of
public
testimony
and
I
really
feel
bad
about
not
having
gotten
to
them.
Yet
so,
just
essential
questions.
Do
you
have
any
third
round.
A
A
N
B
B
Yeah,
so
for
the
ecosys
and
that's
a
great
question
on
the
ecosystem
piece
and
I
apologize,
I
know
for
the
materials
we
had
to
submit
it
had
to
be
condensed,
which
I
know
you
want
my
responses
to
be
as
well,
but
the
the
larger
memo
that
talks
about
this
identifies
a
number
of
organizations
that
are
in
in
these
spaces.
That
would
support
this
project,
so
it
would
be
through
partnership.
I
guess
that's
the
condensed
version.
N
B
So
I
really
appreciate
this
question
because,
literally
two
days
ago,
we
were
talking
about
how
we
could
support
undocumented,
in
particular
communities,
with
any
of
the
funding
that
we
have.
I
don't
have
an
answer
right
now,
only
because
of
what
it
means
for
on
the
government
side
to
provide
funding
and
the
different
materials
that
you
have
to
have,
which,
through
the
processes
that
are
set
up,
it
requires
things
that
undocumented
peoples
do
not
have,
but
we
are
looking
at.
B
N
Great,
thank
you.
I'm
happy
to
hear
that
kristen
I've
heard
from
a
lot
of
students
who
and
teachers
that
a
lot
of
young
people
it's
been
hard
to
get
them
back
into
school
and
some
of
the
things
that
we've
heard
are
from
students
who
have
child
care
needs,
and
so
I'm
just
curious.
What,
if
any,
have
you
given
any
consideration
to
like
bringing
helping
to
support
teen
parents
in
the
child
care
space.
D
Lgbtq
identified
people
were
one
of
the
target
groups
for
the
last
round
of
the
opportunity
fund
that
we
just
did
so.
We've
been
really
intentional
about
naming
who
we're
trying
to
prioritize
and
it
seems
to
be
going
well.
You
can
always
do
more
for
older
adults.
We
actually
have
we're
into
maybe
now
the
fourth
year
of
partnership
with
age,
strong,
specifically
to
create
sequential
arts,
learning
opportunities
for
older
adults
and
we've
been
doing
each
time.
We've
done
that
we've
done
one
class
entirely
in
spanish
and
they're
at
different
sites.
D
We
just
did
a
video
version
during
covid,
so
that
could
be
accessible
to
people
on
their
tvs.
So
that's
been
a
really
successful
program.
That's
continuing
to
get
investment
and
then
with
youth
working
directly
with
youth
is
something
that
we
actually
just
want
to
do
a
lot
more
of.
We
don't
do
it
directly
too
much
right
now.
Outside
of
programs
like
the
youth,
poet,
laureate
and
alondra
was,
I
know
she
partnered
with
you.
She
was
amazing
at
reaching
other
young
people.
D
N
N
A
Yeah,
thank
you
so
much
counselor
me.
I
agree.
I
think
accountability
is
really
important
to
the
whole
council
here
and
the
sense
of
one
time,
and
so
you
can't
just
make
sort
of
tweaks
along
the
way
you
find
out
later
that
you
didn't
didn't,
execute
well,
and
then
it's
done
so
I
yes,
I
strongly
agree.
I
am
going
to
go
to
public
testimony
now
I'll
just
emphasize.
We
have
a
large
number
of
people
still
waiting
who
have
stayed
with
us
for
more
than
three
hours.
So
I'm
going
to
ask
everybody
to
really.
A
You
know,
try
to
stick
to
the
two
minute
I'll
give
you
that
extra
minute
grace,
but
like
really
try
to
stick
to
the
two
minutes
so
that
everybody
can
get
in.
I
know
everybody
is
thinking
about
the
holiday
weekend,
but
I
really
appreciate
all
the
folks
have
stuck
with
us,
so
we
go
on
first
to
bob
skinnell,
sorry
bob.
I
think
I
mispronounced
your
name
and
then
quinet
santos
and
then
carly
auselio.
M
M
Those
are
really
right
now
whale
house,
so
these
are
programs
we've
been
doing,
for
you
know
almost
50
years
now,
we've
been
in
the
community,
so
so
we're
very
excited
to
say
that
this
is
a
really
good
investment.
These
opera
funds,
in
these
types
of
topics
that
you're
discussing
today,
the
more
funding
for
us,
for
example,
the
more
we
can
do.
We
have
significant
capacity
to
do
more.
M
We
run
three
boys
and
girls
clubs
throughout
dorchester
right
now,
council
baker
alluded
to
the
new
facility
that
we've
got
on
the
drawing
board
and
well,
along
with
the
plans
but
more
facilities.
More
space
gives
us
more
opportunity
to
enhance
and
improve
and
increase
the
services
we
offer
the
children
and
families.
Right
now
we
have
4
000
kids,
who
belong
to
our
boys
and
girls
clubs.
V
Hello,
hello,
everyone.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
speak
for
these
couple
of
minutes,
I'm
going
to
try
to
stay
true
to
the
couple
of
minutes.
I
just
want
to
say
I've
been
with
the
boys
and
girls
clubs
of
dorchester
for
a
very,
very,
very
long
time.
I'm
super
excited,
as
I
sat
here
today,
for
these
three
hours
it
was.
It
was
so
impactful.
I
learned
so
much.
I
actually
seen
our
club
sitting
at
the
table
doing
work
for
us
working
with
families
working
with
the
community.
V
We
have
parents
that
are
starting
businesses,
and
this
is
like
really
important
early,
ed
and
the
arts.
I
just
can't
say
enough
about
it,
but
I
truly
believe
when
we
start
talking
about
money,
we're
stronger
together
and
we're
all
looking
for
the
same
goals.
You
know
for
our
younger
for
our
older.
Our
teams
now
that
are
in
the
workforce
and
working
most
of
them
are
head
of
households
in
their
homes.
So
jobs
mean
a
lot.
V
U
I
thank
you
so
much
tara
bach
and
thank
you
to
the
members
of
city
council
for
the
thoughtful
engagement
today
I
am
carly
osielo.
I
am
the
head
of
impact
at
united
way
and
a
resident
of
district
four,
and
I
speak
today
to
really
share
the
challenges
the
early
childhood
sector
continues
to
face
and
to
underscore
the
needs
for
the
arpa
funds.
The
city
of
boston
proposes
to
invest
in
child
care.
U
The
15
million
proposal
will
ensure
that
high
quality,
early
education
and
care
is
developed,
delivered
by
a
well-compensated
and
prepared
workforce
and
provides
boston
residents
with
accessible
and
affordable
care.
United
way
has
been
a
longtime
supporter
and
funder
of
the
early
childhood
sector
and
we
believe
greater
access
to
affordable
quality
care
for
kids
will
allow
families
and
child
and
caregivers
to
remain
in
the
workforce,
reduce
the
percent
of
household
income
spent
on
care
and
connect
children
with
enriching,
developmentally
appropriate
learning
and
supports
through
our
partnerships
with
the
city
of
boston,
bps
and
early
education.
U
The
proposed
investments
from
the
office
of
early
childhood
are
going
to
go
a
long
way
to
solving
the
challenges
that
we
face.
The
investment
to
bring
new
family
child
care
providers
into
the
field
is
incredibly
important.
Family
child
care
entrepreneurs,
primarily
women
and
immigrants,
are
an
integral
part
of
the
child
care
ecosystem.
U
U
Many
speak
a
primary
language
other
than
english,
which
increases
their
ability,
ability
to
provide
culturally
responsive
child
care,
but
decreases
their
access
to
support,
providing
them
with
pre-licensure
support
in
their
primary
language.
Apprenticeship
opportunities
and
help
in
earning
their
associate's
degree
is
going
to
allow
them
to
start
strong,
financially
sound
businesses
and
serve
more
families.
In
the
community,
this
will
also
bring
economic
stability
to
neighborhoods,
with
more
parents
working
and
spending
money
in
the
communities.
These
educators
serve
through
united
way's
shared
services
program.
U
Our
trainer,
trainers
and
coaches
are
native
language
speakers
and
fcc
providers
ensuring
that
people
enter
the
fcc
sector
with
the
skills
needed
to
serve
their
families
and
kids
will
strengthen
care
and
increasing
availability
where
it's
needed
at
this
crucial
moment
when
transformative
investment
is
within
reach,
I
request
that
you
ensure
that
child
care
is
included
in
the
arpa
investment
package
and
that
it
is
fully
funded.
Thank
you.
So
much.
A
W
Good
morning,
thank
you,
my
thanks
to
chair
bach
for
holding
this
important
hearing.
I
also
want
to
thank
council
of
arc
and
the
other
councillors
on
the
boston
city
council's
committee
on
boston's
covert,
19
recovery
for
giving
me
the
opportunity
to
offer
testimony
today.
My
name
is
heishan
to
silva
wieramuni.
W
Pca
supports
working
artists
to
create,
perform
and
exhibit
new
works,
develops
new
audiences
and
connects
the
arts
to
community,
and
since
our
founding,
in
1970,
bca
has
for
over
five
decades
engaged
creative
communities
for
public
good.
While
the
organization's
physical
residence
can
be
found
in
the
historic
south
end
boston
center
for
the
arts
touches
every
part
of
boston's
cultural
ecosystem.
W
It
serves
thousands
of
individual
artists,
small
arts
and
cultural
organizations
and
performing
arts
companies.
It
is
especially
by
park
artists,
the
boston
center
for
the
arts
seeks
to
support,
through
our
many
residencies
exhibitions,
subsidised
and
free
studio,
space,
rehearsal,
space
and
performance
space
and
our
dynamic
popular
events.
This
funding
is
key
to
unlocking
and
celebrating
the
cultural,
vibrancy
and
artistic
prominence
of
so
many
boston
artists,
especially
from
predominantly
bipol
communities.
W
As
you
well
likely
know,
the
arts
and
culture
section
sector
was
among
the
first
to
close
and
one
of
the
last
to
be
able
to
reopen.
As
a
result,
the
economic
outlook
for
the
entire
arts
and
culture
section
has
continued
to
be
perilous
since
march
2020,
404,
non-profits
and
arts
and
cultural
organizations
in
great
boston
reported
544
million
dollars
in
lost
revenue
which
impacted
over
14
000
jobs
and
since
march
2020,
artists
and
culture,
creative
workers
in
greater
boston
have
reportedly
lost
due
to
a
staggering
2
25
000,
cancelled
events
and
related
jobs.
W
W
We
have
heard
chief
eliot
ortega,
for
example,
mention
boston's
arts
and
culture.
Section
contributes
some
2
billion
to
greater
boston's
economy,
but
beyond
dollars
and
cents.
The
arts
and
culture
section
sector
not
only
provides
a
valuable
connection
and
sense
of
community
to
countless
members
of
our
communities.
W
W
A
X
Good
afternoon,
thank
you.
I
just
wanted
to
reiterate
what
my
colleagues
queenette
and
bob
have
said,
I'm
at
boys
and
girls,
clubs
of
dorchester,
as
I
sat
and
listened
to
the
information
presented
at
the
hearing
today.
It
was
it
addressed.
So
many
of
the
issues
that
we
are
looking
at
at
boys
and
girls,
clubs
of
dorchester-
and
I
somewhat
felt
like
it-
was
like
a
staff
meeting
at
boys
and
girls
club.
These
are
the
issues
we
are
looking
at.
We
reopened
in
july
of
2020.
We
reopened
the
day.
X
We
could
the
day
we
were
allowed
to,
because
the
majority
of
families
we
serve
work
in
industries
out
where
they
can't
work
from
home
where
they
needed
to
be
at
work.
They
are
immigrants,
they
are
undocumented
and
they
are
parents
who
needed
safe
and
supportive
space
for
their
children
to
be
our
doors,
have
remained
open
ever
since,
and
and
so
all
of
the
programs
in
all
of
the
the
presentations
today,
I
think,
speak
to
the
needs
reflected
in
the
community.
X
I
am
I'd
like
to
commend
the
city
of
boston,
because
the
newly
developed
office
of
early
childhood
is,
I
think,
an
innovative
way
and
an
approach
that
is
so
desperately
needed
for
the
children
and
the
families
of
boston.
So
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you.
I
also
just
wanted
to
mention
too
that
at
our
boys
and
girls
club,
as
bob
alluded
to,
we
have
a
very
deep
commitment
to
children
of
all
abilities
serving
children
of
all
abilities
and
inclusion
in
general
and
in
relation
to
the
mental
health
we
just
announced.
X
Y
Hey
there,
it's
just
going
to
be
me:
sean
had
to
step
away,
hi
everyone.
My
name
is
karthik
subramanian,
my
pronouns.
Are
he
him
his,
and
I
am
one
of
the
co-executive
directors
at
company,
one
theater,
thank
you,
counselor
bach
and
the
council
for
letting
us
share
our
testimony.
I'd
also
specifically
like
to
thank
chief
cara
and
the
office
of
arts
and
culture
for
their
fight
in
our
sector
over
the
past
few
years.
Y
Y
Y
A
big
deal,
as
you
can
imagine,
in
the
post
covet
climate.
So
of
course
we
applied
of
the
250
organizations
that
applied
nationally.
We
were
one
of
36
organizations
to
make
it
to
the
final
round.
Not
only
were
we
the
only
organization
to
make
it
to
the
final
round
from
massachusetts,
we
were
the
only
organization
to
make
it
from
new
england,
despite
all
that,
despite
meeting
all
their
criteria
and
despite
being
told
that
our
application
had
no
real
weakness,
we
didn't
get
the
grant
as
it
turns
out.
Y
Y
They
hadn't
really
considered
that
a
private
foundation
in
new
york
had
invested
125
million
to
aid
the
recovery
of
the
new
york
arts
sector,
and
this
was
in
addition
to
the
51.4
million
investment
from
the
department
of
cultural
affairs.
They
also
hadn't
considered
that
in
philadelphia,
private
philanthropy
had
invested
close
to
20
million
this.
On
top
of
the
regular
two
to
three
million
dollar
investment
from
the
philadelphia
cultural
council
in
comparison,
boston
had
only
seen
a
one-time
covenant,
flux
of
3.4
million,
and
that
was
from
the
boston,
cultural
council.
Y
It
was
also
clear
that
they
hadn't
considered
the
2016
boston
foundation
report,
which
indicated
that
boston
receives
the
lowest
amount
of
government
funding
per
capita
among
comparison
cities
or
that
boston
has
relatively
few
foundations
making
grants
to
the
arts
and
what
funding
is
available
is
skewed
towards
larger
organizations,
also
relative
to
other
cities.
Boston,
small
and
mid-sized
arts
organizations
do
not
receive
significant
foundation
support.
Y
Y
Organizations
like
ours
that
serve
majority
bipark
communities
know
that
we
can't
rely
on
private
philanthropy
to
sustain
us.
We
know
that
through
research
and
lived
experience,
we
also
cannot
change
our
free
ticketing
pay.
What
you
want
pay
structure,
because
we
are
ultimately
a
mission-driven
non-profit
to
see
our
boston
to
see
our
vision,
realized
of
a
boston
defined
by
justice,
equity
and
artistic
animation
means
we
necessarily
need
to
continue
serving
those
communities
that
can't
financially
afford
arts
experiences.
Y
Otherwise,
so
how
do
we
survive
through
public
funding
and
why
we're
here
we
received
52
000
through
that
3.4
million
that
was
distributed
by
the
boston
city
council.
That
is
five
percent
of
our
budget.
In
the
past
two
years,
we
also
received
public
funding
by
the
way
of
the
paycheck
protection
program
and
the
employee
retention
tax
credit.
This
kind
of
public
funding
is
how
we
manage
to
retain
our
employees
while
serving
our
mission
and
vision.
Public
funding
is
how
we
made
the
kind
of
theater
that
we
hope
builds.
Y
Community
helps
desilo
the
city,
connect
individuals
and
amplify
the
voices
of
the
marginalized
and
the
unheard
public
funding
is
why
we
were
able
to
offer
free
to
the
public
experience
of
our
production
of
black
superhero
magic
mama
in
the
boston
public
library
earlier
this
month,
and
why
we're
doing
the
same
thing
in
the
world
premiere
of
a
local
writers
called.
Can
I
touch
it
at
the
strand
theater
in
oppam's
corner
this
summer,
where
we
hope
to
see
1400
people
every
night,
the
arts
and
performing
center
in
boston.
Y
The
arts
and
performing
arts
define
culture
in
boston
without
serious
investment
in
our
arts
and
culture
sector
and
investment
in
the
office
of
arts
and
culture.
Our
city
falls
short
so
of
what
it
can
be
a
place
where
creatives
can
thrive
where
the
narratives
and
stories
of
our
diverse
communities
are
celebrated
center
stage
in
the
spotlight.
We
strongly
urge
the
20
million
of
arpa
funds
to
be
preserved
for
the
arts
and
cultural
recovery
and
the
economic
development
of
the
city
of
boston's
fi
23
budget.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Z
Z
Z
So,
like
all
of
my
fellow
providers,
we
have
weathered
quite
a
storm
and
are
doing
everything
we
can
to
open
up
more
spaces
for
families
and
to
support
our
workforce
so
nurturing
early
education
operates
three
centers
in
the
city
of
boston,
two
in
roxbury,
one
in
jamaica,
plain,
equally
important
and
I'll
speak
that
today
we
support
a
network
of
140
family
child
care
providers,
micro
businesses
exclusively
female-led,
and
in
nurturist
case
every
network
is
different.
Ours
is
predominantly
latina.
Z
It's
exclusively
latino-led
and
predominantly
spanish-speaking
and
our
family
child
care
support
staff
are
also
native
spanish
speakers
and
fully
bilingual
to
support
our
providers,
and
I
want
to
come
back
to
the
importance
of
fcc,
which
I
know
has
been
mentioned
quite
a
bit.
So
I
want
to
thank
the
many
counselors
have
who
have
pointed
to
this
as
well.
Z
I'm
here
to
support
the
the
request
for
15
million
and
also
really
applaud
the
creation
of
the
office
of
early
childhood
at
city
hall.
I
want
to
thank
mayor
wu
for
that.
I
want
to
thank
the
many
counselors.
I
can't
see
the
room,
so
I
don't
know
if
my
counselor
counselor
lara
is
on
today,
but
the
many
counselors
that
I
have
heard
today
speaking
to
the
importance
of
child
care,
purple
money
is
bridge
money
and
the
child
care
sector
has
been
hit
incredibly
hard
and
has
not
yet
fully
recovered.
Z
Z
Z
That
is
the
rub
in
solving
these
workforce.
Investment
and
pay
questions
nurturing,
has
gone
out
on
a
limb
using
one-time
funds
to
continue
to
raise
our
wages,
and
so
I
just
want
to
put
that
front
and
center,
because
all
of
us,
as
providers
are
scrambling
to
find
ways
to
make
our
wages
competitive
and
then
sustain
them,
and
sustainability
will
require
state
and
federal
legislation,
but
the
city
can
play
a
crucial
role
right
now
and
by
right
now
I
need
I
mean
the
next
one
and
a
half
to
two
years.
Z
I
also
just
want
to
quickly
before
my
time
runs
out
mention
an
important
point
that
was
brought
up
by
kate
brand
one
of
my
colleagues
from
horizons.
I've
heard
some
references
today
about
child
care
should
be
bps's
problem.
They
should
take
care
of
it.
I
just
want
to
underscore
that
early
education
is
zero
to
five
and
that
the
zero
to
three
and
particularly
infant
toddler
care
is
the
hardest
to
come
by
a
pernicious
challenge
for
families
and
very
difficult
of
our
22
vacancies
in
teacher
vacancies.
Z
Z
Our
traditional
public
school
schedule
cannot
do
that
and
zero
to
three
should
not
be
in
a
k-12
system
and
even
three-year-olds
are
on
the
bubble
for
many
families.
So
I
just
want
to
underscore
that
this
is
a
city
issue.
This
should
be
a
city
priority
bps
has
a
role
to
play,
but
for
all
of
the
families
with
children
under
the
age
of
five.
A
J
A
J
Along
thank
you
for
the
presentation
today
in
in
largest,
had
mentioned
about
where
she
thought
that
this
I
don't
have
a
dog
in
the
fight.
It's
you
guys.
It's.
It's
obviously
good
good
work
there,
but
there
are
things
within
here
that
are
that
are
school
department
stuff
when
we're
talking
about
retrofitting
school
buses,
so
where
it
where
it
where
it
actually
sits.
I
don't
know
I
don't.
You
know.
This
is
a
15
million
I
think
well
spent,
but
the
two
two
million.
J
F
What
we're
trying
to
figure
out
is
what
is
the
best
platform
or
portal
for
families
to
be
able
to
find
child
care
and
to
enroll
and
will
start
with
three
to
five-year-olds
that
is
separate
and
distinct
from
bps.
So
to
laura's
previous
point,
the
majority
of
children
in
child
care
are
not
in
the
bps
system,
but
we
wrote
about
aligning
the
bps
system
with
it
so
that
families
don't
have
to
go
to
three
places.
F
J
When
I
think
asset,
I
don't
necessarily
think
portal
or
website,
and-
and
just
thank
you
again
for
your
for
your
presentations
in
the
the
field
house-
bpda,
they
have
approvals
there.
They,
the
the
project,
went
from
30
million
to
55
million,
because
one
of
the
criticisms
where
there
wasn't
a
youth
voice
in
there,
so
we
formed
a
whole
youth
task
force
to
redesign
it
that
caused
the
project
to
go
up
to
55
million
we've
raised
close
to
10
million.
Up
to
now
we're
ready
to
go
dorchester
is
we're.
J
Looking
at
doing
a
there
was
a
feasibility
study
a
couple
years
ago.
They,
I
think,
are
settling
on
some
place
up
on
talbot
ave.
That's
still
gonna
take
us
probably
five
years
to
build
we're
in
a
crisis
right
now,
if
money
gets
funded
in
here
now,
two
years,
this
thing
is
built
and
we're
serving
families
in
two
years
at
columbia-
point
which
is
one
of
the
probably
most
difficult
neighborhoods
for
a
long
time.
But
if
anybody
knows
the
history
around
columbia,
point
5,
000
families
over
there,
no
resources
for
anything.
It's
an
opportunity
zone.
J
T
Thank
you
to
the
panelists,
all
chiefs
and
directors.
I
think
you
know
the
ideas
are
amazing
and
I
really
love
the
racial
justice
component
and
the
fact
that
we
are
looking
at
it
through
a
racial
justice
lens
not,
and-
and
I
kept
saying
this-
that
I
was
tired
of
hearing
the
word
equity
or
the
word-
you
know,
how
are
we
being
transformative
or
how
are
we
being
intentional
and
all
of
these
jargons
that
we
hear
through
campaigns
and
I've
used
them?
T
Everybody
uses
them,
but
that
we
are
more
intentional
in
defining
what
that
means,
and
to
your
point,
chief,
that
invisible
word
before
the
word
equity.
We
need
to
define
that
and
be
very
intentional.
I
would
say
that
you
know
it's
going
to
be
sort
of
a
difficult
like
back
and
forth
in
terms
of
the
programs
that
you
guys
have
proposed
here
today,
like
I'm
all
for
it,
like
amazing
programs
and
the
back
and
forth.
T
I
think
is
that
you
know
there
are
some
proposals
from
counselors
that
are
on
the
table
and
to
my
council
colleagues,
frank's
point
there.
You
know
his
idea
to
support
the
field.
House
is
also
a
good
one,
but
it'll
be
interesting
to
see
how
the
one
the
council
votes
moving
forward
on
frank
baker's
proposal
as
well
as
how
we
are
collaborating
as
a
council
as
a
whole
with
the
ideas
on
the
table.
So
I
think
there's
an
opportunity
here
for
us
to
get
together
with
departments
as
well.
T
As
you
know,
just
administration,
meaning
the
mayor
to
look
at
these
ideas
and
some
of
these
residual
as
emotional.
You
know
responses
that
you
may
get,
maybe
that
you
know
we're
getting
the
presentation
or
the
proposals
from
the
administration
while
we've
been
working
for
months
at
on
projects,
you
know
on
the
ground
right,
so
that
seems
disconnected,
but
then
being
that
it's
a
new
mayor,
new
administration
moving
fast,
and
how
do
we
piece
it
together?
T
So
I
think
that's
what
I
would
have
to
say
and
then,
if
in
in
and
moving
forward
anything
that
we
do,
I
I
I
the
only
thing
about
the
five
million
dollars,
and
this
is
not
for
you
guys
necessarily,
but
the
only
thing,
the
five
million
dollars
to
measure
equity,
post
spending
or
while
to
go
to
rate
equity
department.
I
think
I
have
a
little
issue
with
that
and
I
think
I
would
I'm
interested
in
looking
at
how
we
can
implement
these
metrics
or
dashboards.
T
While
we're
doing
it
or
prior,
as
opposed
to
after
the
fact-
and
I
think
that's
how
the
city
traditionally
has
responded,
reactionary
to
the
people
that
can
lobby
more,
that
have
access
more
to
affluent
communities
and
you
see
it
with
parks,
you
see
it
how
people
with
access
and
money
and
resources
can
advocate
more
loudly
than
those
impacted,
and
those
are
my
concerns
and
I'm
just
here
to
make
sure
that
I
hopefully
advocate
and
we
can
actually
spend
these
dollars
responsibly.
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
I
also
have
a
meeting
at
two
o'clock.
I'm
sorry.
A
Thank
you
so
much
council
fernandez,
anderson
and
thank
you
to
the
administration.
I
know
that
you
have
to
go
to
two
o'clock.
I
am
going
to
continue,
but
I
also
wanted
to
say
for
everyone:
listening,
we've
got
administration,
folks
listening
to
the
entire
hearing,
and
I'm
going
to
go
now
back
into
public
testimony
to
laurel
radwin
and
then
it'll
be
harold,
steward
and
cheyenne
miri
laur.
If
we
can
pull
up
laurel.
AA
My
name
is
hi.
I
have
the
four
thank
you
so
much.
Although
it's
been
four
hours,
I've
learned
a
great
deal
and
I'm
grateful
to
the
counselors
for
repeating
thematically
that
monitoring,
measuring
and
looking
at
goals
are
critically
important
and
I'm
also
glad
that
the
topic
of
main
streets
was
brought
up
because
that's
the
subject
of
my
testimony.
AA
Before
finalizing
any
individual
main
streets
contract,
they
should
be
asked
how
they've
operationalized
these
responsibilities
of
accountability
being
equitable
and
transparent
and
inclusive
before
the
funding
is
awarded
and
a
commitment
to
that
funding
going
forward.
Here's
some
examples:
what
of
commitment
include
small
business
owners
before
a
board
member
or
board
members
represent
the
business
community
to
city
of
boston
departments
or
represent
the
business
community
to
property
developers.
AA
A
community-inclusive
check-back
tool
was
found
in
the
main
street
literature.
It
quote
is
intended
to
be
used
to
minimize
unintended
consequences
that
may
have
an
impact
on
various
groups
and
demographics
within
the
community.
End
quote
considering
demographics
should
enhance
equity.
I
think
we've
heard
all
four
hours
long
along
with
inclusiveness
using
the
tool
could
decrease
the
likelihood
of
gentrification
of
our
main
street
areas.
AA
AA
Rarely
hold
board
executive
sessions
make
board
executive
sessions
a
rare
event,
because
minutes
from
such
sessions
are
not
necessarily
made
public
and
last
produce
and
make
publicly
available
each
main
street's
annual
goals,
slash
work
plan
and
good
governance
report.
This
is
found
in
at
least
one
main
street
contract.
The
obligation
to
do
so,
but,
as
has
been,
has
been
mentioned,
we
don't
wait
till
the
end
of
the
year
to
take
a
look,
how
the
goals
and
plans
are
going
along.
AA
They
should
be
revisited
regularly
so
that
mid-course
adjustments
can
be
made
in
some
a
lot
of
competition
for
arbor
dollars,
and
there
should
be
consistency
when
arpa
money
is
awarded
to
main
street
programs.
So
each
demonstrates
its
responsibility
to
be
maximally,
inclusive,
equitable,
transparent
and
accountable,
and
I
thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
speak
today.
G
A
Next
up,
I've
got
so
I've
got
I've,
got
harold
stewart
and
then
also
cheyenne
miri,
I'm
slightly.
I
don't
know
if
you're,
both
here
or
if
you're
here
under
one
account
or
what
I
see.
I
think
it's
cheyenne
who's
speaking
for
harold.
So
if
we
can
bring
cheyenne
up,
that
would
be
great
and
my
apologies.
If
I
mispronouncing
that.
AB
Thank
you
and
thank
you
to
the
committee
on
copenhagen
recovery
for
the
opportunity
to
share
today.
My
name
is
cheyenne
myrie,
my
pronouns.
Are
she
her
and
I'm
the
director
of
institutional
advancement
for
the
theater
offensive,
I'm
speaking
today
on
behalf
of
harold
stewart
without
sick,
the
theater
offensive
or
tto
as
we
call
it
is.
Our
mission
is
to
present
liberating
art
by
for
and
about
queer
and
trans
people
of
color
that
transcends
artistic
boundaries,
celebrates
cultural
abundance
and
dismantles
oppression.
AB
AB
The
theater
offensive
is
encouraged
to
know
that
15
million
of
those
funds
will
be
allocated
to
elevating
and
investing
in
bypass-like
cultural
organizations.
This
will
provide
opportunities
for
organizations
like
tto
to
continue
to
support
boston's
black
artists
and
communities,
who
have
been
disproportionately
impacted
by
copenhagen.
AB
Tto
has
been
a
local,
regional
and
national
leader
and
lgbtq
plus
performing
arts
for
over
30
years.
During
the
pandemic,
we
have
continued
to
serve
our
community
by
pivoting
our
signature
youth
programming
to
colors.
To
virtual,
we
launched
a
queer
family
series
which
supports
the
youngest
and
eldest
of
our
queer
community,
and
we've
been
distributing
mutual
aid
micro
grants
to
date,
which
amounts
to
sixteen
thousand
dollars
and
are
continuing
to
distribute
those
grants.
AB
This
space
will
create
jobs
for
bostonians,
to
drive,
foot
traffic
and
economic
growth
to
the
neighborhood
and
be
a
landmark
destination
for
audiences
from
across
the
region
and
nationally
it
will
provide
affordable
and
accessible
gathering
space
to
community
members
and
artists
who
struggle
with
skyrocketing
rental
costs
in
boston.
We
will
also
maintain
our
reduced
cost
ticketing
structures
and
free
ticketing
structures
so
that
we
can
keep
the
arts
and
culture
accessible
to
all
people
throughout
boston.
AB
As
an
advocate
for
tto,
I
also
advocate
for
the
individual
artists
and
organizations
we
partner
with,
as
we
try
to
rebuild
a
local
arts
community
post,
kofi
19.
We
must
work
together
to
disrupt
old
patterns
where
the
most
established
and
highly
visible
organizations
garner
the
lion
share.
Funding
now
is
the
time
for
the
city
of
boston
to
help
ensure
that
smaller
emergent
organizations
are
given
the
opportunity
they
need
to
develop
and
thrive,
and
major
multi-year
funding
will
make
an
enormous
difference
in
that
work.
AB
By
investing
20
million
of
our
funds
in
arts
and
culture,
the
city
of
boston
can
make
an
unprecedented
investment
in
the
industry.
That
was
once
the
first
to
close
and
the
last
to
open,
as
we
have
heard,
having
access
to
these
funds
as
we
work
towards
our
ambitious
goal
of
opening
the
black
box.
Theater
will
be
transformative
for
us.
AB
Our
work
invests
deeply
in
the
entire
boston
community
and
youth
artists,
lgbtq
people
of
color
of
all
ages
and
audiences,
as
well
as
technicians,
arts,
administrative
service
members,
it's
really
impactful,
and
by
investing
in
arts
and
culture.
Through
this
proposal,
the
city
will
also
invest
in
boston's
qtpoc.
Community
rebuilding
and
recovery
must
be
holistic
and
equitable,
and
I
urge
you
to
maintain
this
proposed
investment
and
truly
support
queer
trans
people
of
color
in
the
arts
and
culture.
I'm
happy
to
answer
any
questions
and
thank
you
so
much
for
your
time.
A
Thank
you
so
much
cheyenne,
and
obviously
I
alluded
to
it
earlier,
but
I'm
super
excited
about
the
idea
of
having
the
theater
offensive,
taking
up
our
residence
in
such
a
significant
way
in
my
district,
so
looking
forward
to
furthering
introductions
to
other
counselors
and
chasing
that
endeavor.
So
thank
you
for
testifying
today.
I
know
we've.
I
think
next
up
is
andrea,
howard
and
then
just
a
flag
for
justin
pascariello
we're
trying
to
advance
you,
but
we
need
you
to
accept
the
advancement.
AC
AC
While
we
provide
programs
in
many
of
these
priority
areas,
specifically
arts
and
culture,
behavioral
health,
workforce
development,
we
are
often
left
out
of
funding
opportunities,
because
our
mission
does
not
focus
solely
in
one
area.
We
ask
you
to
trust
our
sector
to
receive
and
deploy
funds
efficiently
and
effectively
against
these
priorities.
You
have
highlighted,
but
also
do
it
in
partnership
with
the
communities
with
whom
we
are
deeply
connected.
AC
I
remind
or
inform
you
that
it
was
the
youth
development
sector
that
did
not
hesitate
to
step
up
and
transform
themselves
in
march
of
2020
to
do
whatever
it
takes
to
support
our
communities
disproportionately
impacted
by
the
dual
pandemics
organizations
like
mine,
the
west
end
house,
as
well
as
bcnc
boys
and
girls,
for
the
dorchester
boys
and
girls
with
the
boston
uses
sportsmen's
and
the
ymca
are
just
some
of
the
after-school
and
summer
programs
for
school-aged
children
and
teens.
That
immediately
became
food
banks,
cova
testing
and
vaccine
sites.
AC
AC
So
to
that
end,
in
response
to
docket
number
0436,
we
ask
that
funding
is
prioritized
to
those
organizations
who
remained
open
and
in
person
since
march
of
2020
and
expanded
services
to
meet
the
ever-changing
needs
in
our
community,
all
while
keeping
children
and
our
staff
and
our
facilities,
coveted
free
organizations
like
ours
need
funding
too.
First
expand
the
salaries
and
benefits
of
a
workforce
that
was
willing
to
put
their
own
personal
health
needs
aside
to
serve
our
youth.
AC
We
must
retain
and
support
them,
as
they
are
the
ones
our
young
people,
trust
and
turn
to
and
will
prove
essential
to
helping
our
young
people
heal
support.
The
deferred
maintenance
needs
our
facilities
have
incurred
as
the
result
of
changing
use
and
increasing
use.
Most
centers
went
from
being
open
six
hours
a
day
to
12
hours
a
day
and
being
open
five
days
to
week
to
six
to
seven
days
per
week
and
finally
sustain
the
programs
we
initiated
over
the
last
two
years
to
address
behavioral
health
and
food
insecurity
by
example.
AC
AC
Too
often,
their
contributions
are
rarely
recognized
with
the
same
respect
and
support
as
the
teachers
in
our
public
schools
make
sure
it's
both
and
rather
than
either
or
when
discussing
the
caring
trusted
adults
who
are
essential
to
helping
our
young
people
recover
and
secure
a
bright
future.
Thank
you.
AD
A
AD
Okay,
great
so
I'm
justin,
pascarello,
executive,
director
of
east
boston,
social
centers.
For
more
than
100
years,
we've
been
cultivating
community
belonging
and
joy
for
people
of
all
ages
in
east
boston
and
surrounding
communities.
An
important
part
of
our
work
is
early
education
and
school
age.
Programming
like
that
that
andrew
was
just
speaking
about.
We
can
support
up
to
161
children
in
early
education
and
159
in
school
age
programs
and
historically,
more
than
90
percent
of
our
children
come
from
families
receiving
a
subsidy
or
voucher
based
on
family
income
or
other
need.
AD
So
as
recent
research
highlights
care
provided
in
purpose-built,
early
education
facilities
like
ours
can
provide
the
longest
lasting
developmental
benefits
for
children.
Our
center-based
and
family-based
providers
play
a
critical
role
in
supporting
child
development
and
also
uniquely
positioned
to
meet
the
needs
of
working
families
with
full-day,
year-round
care
and
enhanced
wraparound
supports.
AD
I
mentioned
that
we
can
support
161
kids
in
early
education.
Our
programs
are
as
fully
enrolled
as
possible
and
we
have
a
wait
list,
like
others
who
have
testified.
I
frequently
talk
to
parents
of
infants
and
toddlers
who
are
reaching
out
everywhere.
They
can
to
find
child
care,
but
are
stuck
on
long
wait
lists.
We
want
to
do
our
part
to
meet
this
need.
However,
we
aren't
currently
reaching
161
children,
because
we
need
to
hire
to
fully
open
our
new
second
infant
classroom
and
fully
stop
a
toddler
classroom.
AD
So
I
want
to
join
my
colleagues
in
praising
the
mayor
for
prioritizing
early
education
and
care
and
want
to
say
that
kristen
mcswain
is
doing
an
excellent
job
leading
up
this
office
of
early
childhood.
The
mayor's
proposed
investments
in
early
education
and
care
are
desperately
needed
in
this
time.
We've
increased
our
pay
skill
as
much
as
possible.
AD
With
recent
state
and
rural
investments,
but
even
with
those
investments,
I'm
sorry
just
one
second,
just
a
second,
please
sorry,
I
have
my
children
here
as
well,
but
even
with
those
investments,
we
aren't
able
to
pay
our
teachers,
the
sustainable,
equitable
wages
that
they
deserve
and,
like
lord
larpro
we've
gone
as
far
as
we
can
and
kind
of
taken
a
risk,
and
so
we
need
funding
to
sustain
the
investments.
We've
made,
we're
struggling
to
recruit
new
teachers
into
the
workforce.
AD
The
mayor's
proposed
investments
in
wages
and
compensation
for
child
care
will
make
an
important
difference,
helping
us
bring
staff
in
to
meet
the
needs
of
working
families
and
their
children.
I
spoke
with
my
staff
this
morning
about
the
investments
we're
seeking
to
make
and
they
were.
They
were
really
excited
to
hear
about
the
support
that
we're
bringing
so
over
the
long
term.
A
A
A
As
I
mentioned
at
the
start
of
this
hearing,
we're
going
to
have
a
series,
more
hearings
on
the
arpa
funding,
and
it's
not
like
moving
to
like
an
imminent
vote
next
week,
so
people
should
feel
like
if
you
read,
if
you
see
this
later
and
you
wanted
to
add
your
voice,
you
should
feel
free
to
reach
out
to
the
committee
with
that.
I'm
going
to
go
to
mr
ball.
AE
Thank
you
good
afternoon.
I
was
about
to
say
good
morning,
but
good
afternoon
is
the
case.
My
name
is
gregory
ball.
I'm
the
director
excuse
me
of
digital
strategy
and
production
over
at
king
boston,
and,
as
many
of
you
may
know,
we
are
working
with
the
city
currently
to
build
the
embrace
memorial,
a
tribute
to
dr
mrs
king
and
their
time
here
in
the
city
of
boston,
and
what
I
wanted
to
do
today
was
to
come
and
add
my
voice
to
the
chorus
of
voices
that
are
in
support
of
the
arts.
AE
Funding
that
you're
we're
currently
discussing
you
know,
20
million
dollars
in
injected
into
our
art
ecosystem
is,
is
very,
very
important.
As
many
of
you
know.
You
know
king
boston
and
visions
of
radically
inclusive
in
equitable
boston
worthy
of
all
the
members
of
the
city
grounded
in
joy,
love
and
well-being
and
fulfillment
of
this
vision.
King
boston
dismantled
structural
racism
and
partnership
with
an
ecosystem
at
the
intersection
of
arts,
culture
and
research.
AE
AE
What
we
hope
will
be
an
annual
celebration
of
culture
and
thought
that
we
bring
to
the
city
of
boston
and
with
the
funding
that
we're
discussing
today,
that
allows
organizations
like
us,
but
many,
many
more-
that
are
struggling
to
be
able
to
get
off
the
ground
to
be
able
to
to
give
us
the
one
thing
that
we
really
needed,
which
is
connection
through
culture.
You
know
when
we,
we
went
through
the
whole
pandemic
and
we're
still
dealing
with
the
after
aftermath
of
that.
AE
It
is
something
that's
essential
to
us,
because
that
same
culture
that
we
that
we
were
looking
at
and
trying
to
intake
through
our
phones
is
the
same
thing
that
I
think
will
revitalize
the
city
as
we
uplift
and
build
the
culture
businesses
throughout
throughout
the
entire
throughout
the
entire
system.
So
I
think
that
you
know
with
king
boston.
We
we
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
counted
amongst
those
people
that
are
in
support
of
the
arts
funding
and
we
hope
to
see
more
and
more
of
support
in
that
sector.
A
A
So
again
you
can
email
after
the
fact,
your
testimony,
ccc.covid19
boston.gov,
I
just
want
to
emphasize
you
know,
as
as
has
been
evident
from
obviously
both
the
administration
presentations,
the
many
rounds
of
counselor
questions
and
the
interested
public
testimony
that
I
think
we
all
feel
the
weight
of
this
moment
and
recognizing
that
this
is
one-time
funding
from
the
federal
government
and
it
needs
to
be
transformative,
funding
right
and
so
we're
thinking
about.
You
know
how
do
we
meet
our
urgent
needs
in
the
city,
but
then
how
do
we
do
them?
A
Do
it
in
ways
that
like
participate
in
these
systemic
solutions,
so
you've
heard
people
today
talking
about
you
know
how
something
could
set
a
new
standard
for
an
industry,
etc.
Right
and
that's
like
part
of
the
framework
we
have
to
be
thinking
about,
because
at
the
end
of
the
day,
we
got
to
think
about
like
what
lasts
after
this
money
is
spent,
and
I
think
that
sense
of
needing
to
have
an
enduring
impact.
It's
it's
both
driving
that
conversation
about
transforming
industries,
whether
it's
the
cultural
industry
or
the
child
care
industry.
A
Or
you
know
our
potential
suppliers
for
city
contracts
who
are
bipolar
or
whether
you're
talking
about
real,
like
permanent
literal
infrastructure,
as
councilor
baker
brought
up
several
times.
So
I
think
that
that
sense
from
the
council.
This
needs
to
be
something
that
lasts
that
we
need
to
be
making
sure.
A
So
in
the
morning
we'll
be
talking
specifically
about
climate-related
mobility,
interventions
and
digital
equity
and
then
in
the
afternoon
we'll
be
talking
about
public
health
and
behavioral
health.
So
that's
just
kind
of
a
preview
of
the
week
ahead
and
just
want
to
flag
for
folks.
If
any
of
those
topics
in
particular
interest
you,
you
can
come
at
the
june,
1
2
p.m.