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From YouTube: Committee on Community Preservation Act on June 3, 2019
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Docket #0803 - Message and order for an appropriation order in the amount of One Million Two Hundred and Two Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven Dollars ($1,202,337.00) for the administrative and operating expenses of the City of Boston Preservation Committee (“CPC”) for Fiscal Year 2020, and a further appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty-Four Million Three Hundred and Nine Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen Dollars ($24,309,813.00) from the Community Preservation Fund's ("the Fund") estimate annual revenues for Fiscal Year 2020, to be appropriated and reserved for future appropriation
A
By
my
colleague,
city
councilor,
Edie
Flynn,
we're
here
today
to
discuss
dog,
is
zero.
Eight
zero,
three,
a
message
in
order
for
the
appropriation
order
in
the
amount
of
1
million
two
hundred
and
two
two
thousand
three
hundred
and
thirty
seven
dollars
for
the
administrate,
with
administrative
and
operating
expenses
for
the
City
of
Boston,
Preservation,
Committee,
PCP
CPC
for
the
fiscal
year
2020,
and
also
a
further
appropriation
in
the
order
of
the
amount
of
twenty
four
million.
A
Three
hundred
and
nine
thousand
eight
hundred
and
thirteen
dollars
from
the
Community
Preservation
fund
estimate
estimated
revenues
for
the
fiscal
year
2020
to
be
appropriated
and
reserved
for
future
appropriation.
This
matter
was
sponsored
by
our
mayor,
Martin,
J
Walsh
and
referred
to
the
Committee
back
on
May
15
2019.
A
Annual
revenues
in
the
sword
of
the
appropriation
amount
of
1
million,
two
hundred
two
thousand
three
hundred
and
thirty
seven
dollars
for
administrative
and
operating
expenses,
equal
to
four
point:
seven
percent
of
the
fiscal
year:
twenty
Community
Preservation
program
expenses,
just
housekeeping
note
here,
there's
hearing
is
being
recorded.
Broadcast
live
on
Comcast,
eight
RCN
80
to
Verizon
1964,
as
well
as
Boston
gov,
slash,
City,
council
TV,
we're
joined
here
by
the
administration's
chief
financial
officer
and
collector
treasurer
and
mehandi,
and
also
the
Community
Preservation
Director
for
the
City
of
Austin
Kristine
Poff.
B
Thank
You
counsel,
fire,
T
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
administration
for
your
great
work
on
CPA
related
issues.
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Christine
and
to
Emma
for
providing
great
leadership
on
CPA
and
for
your
involvement
in
the
community
in
Christine
I
know
you
speak
frequently
to
various
community
groups
and
provide
real
hands-on
leadership.
So
I
want
to
acknowledge
that
and
say.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
as
well.
B
I
think
this
is
one
of
the
best
opportunities
that
we
have
as
CPA
on
historic
preservation,
housing,
green
space,
our
parks,
it's
providing
invaluable
resources
to
our
city,
especially
some
of
our
neighborhoods.
That
really
need
some
assistance.
It's
benefiting
every
neighborhood
across
the
city,
I'm,
proud
of
the
CPA
program,
I'm
proud
of
the
funds
we're
getting
into
into
my
district,
so
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
and
continue
to
work
closely
with
the
administration,
with
Christine
and
with
Emma
on
this
important
project
and
also,
as
Christine
knows,
knows.
Well,
the
the
opening
of
mountains.
B
Park
is
another
two
weeks
from
today,
two
weeks
from
now,
and
it's
benefiting
also
from
the
CPA
funding.
So
we
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Mayor
Walsh
and
his
administration
for
a
beautiful
park
and
its
accessibility
for
persons
with
disabilities,
which
is
a
very
important
issue
for
me.
But
the
important
issue
for
the
city
administration
in
providing
providing
so
many
young
children
with
an
opportunity
to
learn
and
to
use
this
park,
especially
our
children
with
disabilities.
B
So
I
want
to
say
thank
you
Christine
and
Emery
into
the
mayor's
administration
as
well,
and
thank
you
to
council
authority
for
being
one
of
the
first
elected
officials
to
support
CPA,
funding
and
I.
Think
under
your
leadership
council
clarity.
We're
also
have.
We
also
have
strong
leadership
and
making
sure
that
every
neighborhood
is
benefiting
from
cpa
funding.
So
Thank
You
council
authority
as
well.
D
You
good
afternoon,
chairman
Flaherty,
sir
Flynn
Madam
President.
We
are
here.
My
name
is
Emma,
handy
chief
financial
officer
for
the
City
of
Boston
I'm
joined
by
Christine
puff
who's,
the
CPA
director
for
the
city,
as
well
as
the
CPA
team
who's
here.
I
just
want
to
thank
them
all
for
their
hard
work.
You
all
mentioned
in
your
opening
remarks,
what
a
great
job
that
they
do
and
that's
certainly
true.
D
D
We
have
had
two
successful
rounds.
We
look
forward
to
another
round,
as
I
mentioned,
and
that
will
really
begin
in
earnest
in
the
fall.
We
and
I
also
should
thank
the
members
of
the
CPC
Commission,
who
spent
an
amazing
amount
of
time,
reviewing
just
a
huge
amount
of
applications
and
coming
up
with
very
I,
think
sound
and
reasoned
and
fair
approaches
to
how
to
fund
those
applications
and
really
to
distribute
these
resources
across
the
city.
D
E
Am
thank
you
so
much
councillors
and
I
do
want
to
recognize
that
TPA
staff
are
here.
Allyson
Quinn,
who's
been
doing
all
the
complicated
work
with
the
budgets
and
awards
and
paperwork,
and
they
didn't
brown
who,
oh,
she
just
ran
out,
but
she
is
really
it's
fair
heading.
A
lot
of
the
community
relations
community
outrage
that
we
recognize
I
think
one
important
thing
to
note,
which
is
that
this
past
round
that
we
did
this
fall.
E
The
second
round
of
funding
was
a
combination
of
fiscal
year,
18
and
$19,
because
we
did
just
a
pilot
round
to
kick
things
off
in
fiscal
year
18,
and
so
it
was
probably
the
biggest
amount
of
money
we're
going
to
have
to
give
out
for
the
next
ten
years.
So
this
will
be
a
little
bit
of
a
smaller
amount
this
year,
but
we're
settling
into
a
regular
annual
routine
last
fall.
We
gave
out
thirty
four
million
dollar
or
this
winter
we
gave
out
thirty
four
million
dollars
of
fiscal
year.
E
Nineteen
buns
and
in
the
coming
year,
it'll
be
about
twenty
four
million
and
that's
what
we
can
expect
to
see.
With
a
little
bit
of
increases,
we
were
really
thrilled
that
the
mayor's
advocacy
at
the
State
House
for
an
elevated
state
match
has
been
really
successful.
Both
the
House
and
Senate
have
voted
to
support
it,
which
will
get.
E
This
time
for
this
fall,
we've
kind
of
recognized
that
some
of
the
outlying
neighborhoods
will
be
a
little
tougher
every
time
they're
they
have
their
newer
neighborhoods
like
West
Roxbury,
High,
Park,
Matapan
Rosendale.
They
have
fewer
as
newer
neighborhoods
or
less
historic.
They
tend
to
have
homes
with
more
backyards,
and
so
there
there
may
not
be
as
many
you
know,
neighborhood
parks,
the
way
you
find
neighborhood
parks
scattered
in
the
more
downtown,
dense
neighborhoods,
but
we'll
just
keep
working
at
that
and
hopefully
identify
projects.
A
Thank
you
well,
thank
you
very
much.
Both
in
Christine,
the
VRA
was
down
the
other
day
in
front
of
us
with
respect
to
their
to
the
budget
process
and
and
director
golden
had
referenced.
All
of
the
new
stuff.
That's
gonna
be
coming
online
as
well
as
future
stuff
coming
online
to
the
tune
of
tens
of
millions
of
new
growth
and
I
expect
that
those
numbers
should
be
moving
north
relatively
soon
quick
question
on
the
on
the
matching
state
funds.
A
E
Can
answer
that
we're
we're
thing
stands
is
the
budget?
Is
the
state
budget
is
in
conference
committee
right
now,
but
because
the
hopeful
part
is
because
the
both
the
House
and
the
Senate
voted
the
exact
same
increase,
which
will
it
will
raise
right
now
the
state
matches
at
11:00
present
and
it
will
raise
it
to
almost
30%,
not
just
a
percentage
point
or
two
under
that,
and
what
happened
this
past
year
is.
It
was
11
percent,
but
the
governor
put
an
extra
10
million
of
that
surplus
yeah.
E
Thank
you
consolidated
net
surplus
into
the,
and
that
gave
that
increased
the
amount
to
give
us
I
think
it
was
an
extra
Oh.
I
said
no.
This
anyway
got
it.
It
got
the
match
to
19%,
which
is
great,
and
we
hope
so.
We
hope
that
it
will
be
regularly
30%
with
the
additional
governor's
you
know,
input
and
the
governor
did
commit
to
signing
a
budget
with
the
CPA
increase.
E
D
On
totals
the
FY
19
budget
that
you
adopted
on
Community
Preservation
for
the
City
of
Austin,
assume
two
point:
two:
six
million
dollars
of
state
match:
we've
received
3.6
million
in
FY
19.
That's
our
estimate
as
well,
so
I
think
that
speaks
to
what
Christine
talked
about
about
the
additional
resources
that
the
state
contributed
to
this
in
FY
19,
we're
still
carrying
the
lower
estimate
for
FY
2008
today,
because
we'll
well
obviously
wait
to
see
the
governor's
action,
which
is
the
final
formal
part
of
that
process.
But
because
Christine
said,
looks
good
and.
D
I
think
it
depends
a
little
bit
on
the
year,
so
in
FY
18
surplus,
which
was
really
city's
surplus.
At
that
point
it
got
carried
over
and
that's
why.
As
Christine
said,
we
had
such
a
large
round
and
FY
19,
I.
Think
I.
Think
the
plan,
as
of
now
is
to
spend
everything
that
we're
that
we
will
receive
in
FY
20.
D
But
it's
certainly
that
could
we
sort
of
get
a
better
feel
for
what
the
the
fall
around
looks
like,
and
you
know
we
always
sort
of
have
this
open
question
about
whether
we
should
do
one
singular
large
fall
around
or
try
to
spread
it
out
a
little
bit
into
the
air
because
of
the
the
large
projects
with
parks
and
DND.
Those
are
really
important
to
plan
in
the
fall,
and
so
we're
still
not
sure
about
whether
it
makes
sense
to
do
two
rounds.
A
C
A
Saw
things
happening
in
their
neighborhood
mm-hmm
sort
of
in
real
time,
which
was
encouraging,
and
also
that
led
to
obviously
the
second
round
of
funding
which
allowed
us
to
do
sort
of
more
with
more
so
there
are
any
folks
that
have
applied
and
received
the
grant,
but
have
not
received
all
their
funds.
I
know
we
had
some
issues
with
some
folks
on
em
and
some
paperwork
and
some
glitches.
There
was
some
holdbacks,
but
that's
a
concern
of
mine
only
because
if
that
word
gets
out
there,
then
that
may
deter
people
from
applying.
A
A
Of
September,
then
you
just
got
to
make
sure
that
when
folks
are
put
the
application
and
put
their
best
foot
forward,
they've
lined
up
contractors
or
vendors
right
that
everyone's
gonna
get
the
check
in
they're,
paying
everybody
no
time
so.
I
know
that
we've
had
some
some
small
issues
from
time
to
time.
Is
that.
D
Sure
so
I'll
just
say
globally.
Christine
can
definitely
speak
better
to
the
details
than
I
can
first
you're,
absolutely
right,
councilor
that,
as
we've
stood
up
a
brand
new
program,
it's
taken
us
a
little
bit
of
time
to
make
sure
that
we
sort
of
understand
how
to
pick
up
speed
in
terms
of
executing
contracts.
I
would
say
globally.
D
Two
reasons
why
an
organization
today
might
not
have
all
of
the
funds
from
that
first
round
would
be
either
because
they
haven't
fulfilled
the
totality
of
what
they're
responsible
for
fulfilling
as
part
of
the
contract
that
they
signed
with
us.
Obviously,
we
put
benchmarks
in
there
to
make
sure
that
the
the
taxpayer
money
that
funds
cpa
is
paid
for
paying
for
what
what
they've
said
that
they're
they'll
deliver.
So
that's
one
issue
and
then
the
other
issue
is
that
in
that
Christine's
team
has
been
working
on
sort
of.
D
How
do
we
make
sure
that,
when
we
fund
something
with
CPA,
that
the
the
good
that
we've
funded
is
is
permanent
or
at
least
protected?
And
so
we've
landed
on
a
clawback
provision
that
basically,
if
the
use
of
the
funds,
if
the
use
of
the
the
land
in
the
case
of
a
park
or
something
like
that,
changes
over
the
course
of
many
years,
that
some
of
that
CPA
money
would
be
need
to
be
repaid
to
the
city.
D
And
so
we've
had
to
reissue
some
contracts
to
make
sure
that
that
language
is
in
there
correctly,
and
so
those
two
things
have
in
some
cases
meant
that
we
needed
to
resize
some
contracts
or
that
we've
needed
to
make
sure
that
the
organization
understands
what
is
required
of
them
before
we
issue
that
final
check.
There
are
certainly
some
cases
where
the
city
just
needs
to
do
about
our
job,
making
sure
that
we're
getting
things
done
as
quickly
as
possible,
and
we
continue
to
work
on
that
process.
Yeah.
A
New
program
growing
pains
to
be
expected,
but
also
it
needs
to
be
a
two-way
street
with
with
deliverables
but
expectations
from
those
receiving
funds.
Obviously
it's
very
precious
funds
and
it's
very
competitive
process.
We've
seen
it
very
open,
very
transparent,
we've
participated.
I
know
the
folks
at
this
table
and
participate
along
with
that,
colleagues,
that
those
open
meetings
and
hearings
and
it's
but
it's
exciting
to
see
but
I,
know
how
spirited
and
how
how
competitive
it
is.
B
You
council
priority
I
just
want
to
Christine
just
want
to
follow
up
on
Council
of
clarity,
question
he
had
or
comment
yet.
The
first
round
was
kind
of
shovel-ready
projects.
The
second
round
was
more
of
housing.
A
lot
of
money
went
towards
housing.
Is
there
a
theme
for
the
the
next
round
that
you
you
want
to
focus
on?
No.
E
Not
necessarily
yeah
I
think
we
were
concerned
that
so
little
housing
was
funded
in
that
pilot
round,
that
we
put
out
the
emphasis
on
housing,
but
in
in
fact
we
had
many
more
historic
preservation
and
open
space
project
applications
and
we
still
made
significant
investments
in
both
of
those
categories.
The.
D
The
preprocessor
with
eligibility
forms
I
think
sometimes
helps
to
set
the
theme
as
well,
because
Christine's
team
gets
a
feeling
for
sort
of
who's
out
there
and
who's
who's
ready
for
funding
and
who
might
need
if
they
can
do
some
hand-holding
sort
of
right,
then,
and
there
to
get
them
ready
versus
who
might
need
to
wait
for
another
round.
So
we
should
know
more
in
the
coming
months
to
about
what
this
round
will
look
like
ahead
of
the
formal
sort
of
application
deadline.
D
B
You
Emma
and
thank
you
Christine
I,
another
question
I
know
a
reference
referenced
it
in
my
opening
comments
about
Mountains
Park,
but
access
for
persons
with
disabilities.
What
what
else
are
you
doing?
Citywide
for
young
people,
people
with
disabilities?
How
how
were
you
doing
some
of
the
outreach?
What
are
you
looking
for
and
how
are
you
making
our
parks
as
a
be
a
accessible
as
you
possibly
can
so.
E
It's
probably
a
little
bit
easier
to
talk
about
that
in
terms
of
specific
projects
like,
for
instance,
the
West
Roxbury
community
garden
for
veterans
is
going
to
be
fully
accessible.
We
have
a
really
exciting
partnership
with
what
Wirth
and
their
construction
management
team
is
building
the
raised
beds
and
if
that
goes
smoothly,
we're
hoping
to
to
have
them
build
raised
beds
for
a
lot
of
other
projects,
there's
all
kinds
of
garden,
planting
groups
that
would
like
to
partner
with
Wentworth.
E
There
are
some
other
you
know
with
the
Charlestown
Memorial
Hall
we're
doing
the
exterior
and
the
front
of
the
facade
of
that
building
and
that
will
include
and
historically
appropriate
ramp
and
access
to
the
building
because
they
provide
veterans
services
there.
There
are
several
other
playgrounds
in
the
works
that
will
have
accessible
features,
some
of
them
like
the
Joseph,
Lee,
school
and
Dorchester.
A
third
of
the
children
at
that
school
are
on
the
autism
spectrum,
so
they're
really
designing
a
playground
that
will
meet
the
needs
of
their
student
population.
E
The
same
with
the
Early
Learning
Center
in
East
Boston,
all
the
Early
Learning
Center's
have
the
k0
program
and
special
needs
students
in
in
the
in
the
program.
So
it's
you
know
we're
really
looking
at
all
the
playground
projects
and
most
of
them
have
some
form
of
accessibility
and
then,
which
is
great
and
then
we're
also
working
and
most
of
the
community
garden
projects
do
also
so
specifically
in
terms
of,
and
then
there's
a
park
project
with
new
paths
and
that's
particularly
so.
B
E
E
There
are
a
few
projects
which
have
really
the
best
one
to
point
to
is
the
mill
dirt
Haley
tenants
task
force,
we're
building
a
playground
there
in
a
really
visible
location
that
is
surrounded
by
senior
housing
and
even
though
it's
a
playground
for
children-
and
it's
also
next
to
the
martha,
elliot
health
care
center.
They
were
very
insistent
that
special
features
go
in
for
all
ages,
and
so
they
have
benches
and
game
tables
for
seniors.
E
They
have
some
fitness
equipment
that
could
be
for
all
ages,
even
for
a
senior
who
has
it's
not
fully
able-bodied,
some
things
that
are
gentle
and
easy.
Some
things
for
teenagers
and
also
play
structures
for
children,
so
I
mean
those
kind
of
projects
really
rise
to
the
top
for
the
committee
and
for
all
of
us,
because
they
are
really
trying
to
be
as
public
as
possible.
B
As
possible,
Thank
You,
Christine
I
know
it's
I
know
you're
doing
great
work,
especially
on
outreach
and
funding
for
our
seniors
for
persons
with
disabilities,
for
all
young
people,
providing
great
open
space
and
Parks
and
Recreation
for
them
and
I
guess.
My
final
question
may
be
Emmer.
If
you
could
walk
us
through
a
little
bit
as
it
relates
to
the
property
tax.
Could
you
just
provide
a
little
bit
of
background
we're
the
we're
the
money
directly
goes
to
when
someone
pays
their
property
tax
in?
How
would
it
eventually
ends
up
into
CPA
funds
in
Boston?
B
C
D
So
we
call
it
a
surcharge
because
it's
not
sort
of
technically
property
tax
and
it's
not
treated
as
property
tax.
It
really
does
you
know
when
you
get
your
property
tax
bill.
There
is
a
separate
line
for
CPA
and
the
collecting
Department
and
the
Treasury
Department
really
do
sort
of
hold
those
funds
separately
and
the
CPA
dollars
go
directly
into
the
CPA
fund
and
are
available
for
appropriation
by
the
council
and
then
then
award
by
the
CPC.
D
A
C
You,
ladies
and
of
course,
Thank
You
Christine
and
your
team
for
the
hard
work
you
guys
are
doing
in
community.
It's
not
an
easy
process,
but
it
is
exciting
and
people
are
just
always
excited
to
hear
the
possibility
of
more
cpa
projects
coming
to
their
neighborhood.
So
this
is
a
good
thing.
I
just
had
a
quick
question:
when
is
the
next
round
of
applications?
Sometime
September?
Do
you
know
when
yeah.
E
We're
hoping
the
application
will
be
available
by
mid
summer,
mid
July.
If
all
goes
well
and
then
the
deadline
will
be
the
end
of
September
and
we
have
a
whole
series
of
information
sessions
and
application
assistance
scheduled
awesome
and
we
usually
try
to
make
develop
some
kind
of
relationship
with
an
applicant
so
that
they
can
come
in
for
help.
Yeah
and
I
means
back
in
in
the
room,
but
they
gene
Brown
has
been
doing
a
lot
of
community
outreach
and
and
shares
a
lot
of
that
support
of
applicants.
This.
C
A
A
If
you
think
we
need
additional
staffing
and
or
if
we
have
to
have
that
conversation
in
the
future,
just
because
the
the
volume
of
applications,
if
they
continue
to
increase
as
well
as
hopefully
get
some
additional
funding
that
may
give
us
some
flexibility
to
allow
you
as
the
director
to
service.
You
grow
your
your
capable
staff,
as
you
have
right
now,
between
Allison
and
teenie,
so
I'm
sure,
they're,
okay,
where
can
extremely
hot
and
they're
getting
pulled
in
a
thousand
different
directions
so
and
it's
the
whole
city.
A
So
it's
I
can
relate
as
a
citywide
city
council
going
all
over
the
city.
But
so,
if
that
ever
becomes
a
point
where
that
the
administrative
and
operating
expenses
are
becoming
restrictive,
then
we
should
be
having
those
conversations
sort
of
sooner
rather
than
later,
to
see
what
we
can
do
at
a
level
two
to
make
sure
that
you
have
the
tools
that
you
need
and
obviously
with
with
Emma
in
her
department
as
well,
so
I
think
that's
it.
A
My
colleagues
have
anything
additional
to
add
so
alright
appreciate
your
time
and
attention
to
this
matter
and
look
forward
to
continued
working
together,
as
we
continue
to
move
this
CPA
program
forward.
So
with
respect
to
docket
zero,
eight
zero.
Three,
the
Committee
on
government
operations
is
adjourned.
I'll
get
a
committee
report
turned
around
and
we'll
be
we're
meeting
this
week.
So
if
Michelle
is
amenable
to
that,
we
could
have
this
before
the
floor
run
of
the
Council
on
Wednesday.
Thank
you
have
a
great
afternoon.