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Docket #1101 - Hearing regarding a City- Level Conservation Corps for Boston
A
Oh
connection
today,
so
I
just
want
to
make
sure
I
see
the
order.
Well,
I
don't
see
any
of
the
concerts,
so
I
guess
I'll
just
try
to
keep
an
eye
on
the
order
of
arrival.
So
having
said
that,
I
will
raise
the
ceremonial
meat
tenderizer
good
morning
and
welcome
to
the
boston
city
council.
My
name
is
matt
o'malley,
I'm
the
city
council
representing
district
six,
I'm
also
the
chair
of
the
committee
on
environment,
resiliency
and
parks.
A
I
am
joined
today
by
city
councilor,
kenzie
bach,
to
discuss
her
really
wonderful
initiative.
It
is
docket
1101
a
hearing
order
on
creating
conservation
corps
for
the
city
of
boston.
We
will
be
joined
by
some
incredible
panelists,
some
great
city
officials,
some
great
activists,
including
chief
chris
cook,
commissioner
ryan
woods,
trinwen.
Sarah
anderson
from
the
mayor's
administration,
as
well
as
ms
anderson,
is
a
senior
manager
of
career
pathways
at
american
forests.
A
I
will
also
hear
from
some
wonderful
colleagues
and
great
advocates
in
this
space,
including
jesse,
scott
iii,
david
meshalam,
pat
alvarez
and
david
queeley,
and
then
equally
important,
looking
forward
to
hearing
some
great
public
testimony
from
a
number
of
great
tree
advocates
and
environmental
warriors,
such
as
sarah
freeman,
laura
holmes
and
caroline
reeves
among
others.
A
This
public
hearing
is
being
recorded
and
live
streamed
at
boston.gov
city
council
dash
tv.
It
will
be
rebroadcast
on
xfinity
channel
8,
rcn
82,
as
well
as
verizon
fios
964..
A
I
will
take
public
testimony
at
the
end
of
this
hearing
and
if
you
wish
to
testify
via
video
conference,
please
email
ron,
cobb
our
city
messenger,
at
r-o-n,
dot
c-o-b-b.
That's
two
b's
at
boston.gov
to
sign
up
on
the
interest
of
time.
We
will
forego
counselors
opening
statements
today,
with
the
exception
of
counselor
bach.
Who
would
like
to
make
a
couple
of
remarks
upon?
My
concluding,
I
also
did
want
to
acknowledge
the
counselor
at
large,
michael
flaherty's
joined
us
as
well
welcome
counselor,
flaherty
and
just
very,
very
briefly,
wanted
to.
A
If
you're
watching
this
hearing,
you
either
care
deeply
about
environmental
initiatives
or
follow
the
city
council
closely
and
I've
been
so
really
honored
to
work
with.
So
many
incredible
colleagues
through
the
years
pushing
some
really
innovative
and
exciting
environmental
initiatives,
and
this
is
certainly
among
them.
So
count
me
among
the
many
supporters
and
acolytes
of
this
idea,
obviously
we're
coming
on
the
end
of
the
council's
calendar
year,
which
means
our
dockets
will
close
so
likely.
A
There
won't
be
action
taken
on
this,
but
looking
forward
to
continuing
the
work
next
year
and
certainly
company
as
an
eager
willing,
partner
and
participant
in
making
this
a
reality.
I
did
want
to
say
from
the
offset.
I
am
on
day
two
of
my
paternity
leave,
so
there
may
be
a
case
where
I
have
to
hand
the
reins
over
to
the
lead,
sponsor
counselor
bach,
to
run
this
hearing.
A
But
right
now
my
little
margot
is
is
napping
peacefully,
so
we'll
see
how
long
this
lasts
delighted
to
be
with
all
of
you.
Thank
you
again.
Councillor
liz
braden
has
joined
us
from
district
nine
and
we
will
forego
counselors
opening
statement.
But
for
the
lead
author
on
this
counselor
block,
if
you
had
any
brief
opening
remarks,
counselor
block
the
floor
is
yours.
B
Great,
thank
you
so
much,
mr
chairman,
and
thank
you
everyone
for
being
here
today.
This
is
very
much
the
beginning
of
a
conversation
in
some
ways.
It
well
in
some
ways.
It's
continuing
a
conversation.
It's
long
been
in
the
works.
B
Actually
counselor,
o'malley
and
counselor
wu
co-sponsored
a
resolution
with
where
the
council
supported
the
federal
green
new
deal
now
several
years
ago
and
the
one
of
the
cornerstones
of
that
is
the
idea
of
a
conservation
corps
and
the
idea
itself
comes
to
us
from
the
original
new
deal,
a
time
in
which
we
planted
more
than
you
know.
B
Half
the
trees
that
have
ever
been
planted
in
the
us
were
planted
in
that
time,
and
it
was
really
a
marriage
of
you
know
key
work
that
we
needed
for
our
green
public
realm
and
also
a
jobs
program,
and
I
think
that
the
moment
for
that
has
come
again
and
and
that,
while
we
look
for
federal
leadership
on
this
front,
we
don't
have
to
wait
as
a
city
and
so
the
the
conception
behind
this
hearing
order
today
was
really.
B
How
do
we
start
thinking
about
tying
together
some
of
the
existing
threads
that
we
have
in
the
city
working
on
sort
of
new
frontiers
when
it
comes
to
tree
planting
when
it
comes
to
green
infrastructure
when
it
comes
to
building
retrofits
and
really
sees
the
reins
and
and
think
about
how
we're
going
to
scale
up
a
public
workforce?
How
we're
going
to
scale
up
opportunities
as
we
sort
of
help
to
create
and
drive
demand
for
new
industries
in
the
city?
B
How
how
we
actually
create
training
pathways
and
job
opportunity
pathways
for
our
boston
residents
for
residents
of
color?
There
are
several
promising
programs
that
have
launched
on
this
front.
There's
a
I'm
really
strong
green
infrastructure,
one
in
philadelphia,
there's
one
working
with
folks
who
have
lost
their
jobs
from
covet
and
austin,
one
working
with
unhoused
folks
in
seattle,
one
working
with
youth
in
la
so
this
is
a.
B
This
is
a
thing
where
we
are
not
alone
and
one
of
the
things
we're
looking
forward
to
doing
in
the
new
year
is
having
some
of
the
other
cities
in
that
are
working
on
this
type
of
stuff
and
talking
through
the
nuts
and
bolts
of
their
programs,
because
I'm
really
trying
to
drive
us
in
the
direction
of
how
we,
how
we
make
budgetary
and
capital
commitments
towards
actually
hitting
our
targets.
In
so
many
of
the
plans
from
urban
forestry
to
green
infrastructure,
to
building
retrofits
that
the
city
is
pursuing.
B
B
What
my
team-
and
I
found
as
we
started
to
dig
into
this-
is
how
much
promising
work
is
being
done
in
boston
already
things
that
are
often
small
and
at
a
pilot
scale,
but
really
have
the
opportunity
to
scale
up,
and
so
we
wanted
to
hold
this
hearing
today,
both
to
hear
from
chief
cook
and
and
commissioner
woods
and
our
director
from
the
office
of
workforce
development,
trinwyn
about
the
existing
city
stuff
and
then
the
many
sort
of
non-profit
actors
who
are
in
the
space
already
and
we
did
decide
to
bracket.
B
We've
bracketed
the
building
retrofits
piece,
because
it's
so
big
and
we're
going
to
need
a
whole
nother
hearing
related
to
that.
So
today,
talking
mainly
about
the
opportunities
for
a
conservation
corps
when
it
comes
to
urban,
forestry
and
green
infrastructure.
But
I'm
thrilled
to
start
getting
these
threads
out
on
the
table
so
that
we
can
pull
them
together
and
really
really
re-envision
in
the
coming
year.
B
A
Thank
you
so
much
counselor
bach,
and
thank
you
to
my
colleagues
for
acknowledging
that
we're
gonna
suspend
opening
statements,
we're
going
to
hear
from
the
administration
panel.
First
then
we'll
get
into
counselors
questions
and
opening
statements.
The
order
will
be-
and
I
want
to
thank
everyone
who
has
arrived.
A
Several
more
have
joined
us
boston
city
councilor
at
large,
michael
flaherty
of
south
boston
will
be
first
followed
by
city
councilor,
liz
braden
of
austin
brighton,
followed
by
city,
councillor,
frank
baker
of
dorchester,
and
then
city
council
at
large,
anissa,
assabe
george.
So
thank
you,
colleagues
and
obviously,
as
more
colleagues
join
now
you
will
be
added
to
there.
They
will
be
added
to
the
queue
chief
cook.
Did
you
want
to
introduce
your
panel
and
then
take
it
away.
C
Thanks
for
the
opportunity,
we'll
be
brief,
because
I
think
the
most
important
thing
to
hear
from
is
the
non-profit
partners,
as
well
as
the
community
activists
who'd
like
to
testify
on
this
issue,
but
I
do
think
it's
important
to
have
some
sort
of
context
as
to
what
the
city
does
already
and
a
lot
of
this
work
is
represented
by
chief
marty,
martinez
and
his
cabinet,
as
well
as
chief
john
barros,
and
some
of
the
numbers
that
I'm
going
to
talk
about
now
are
the
direct
results
of
the
hard
work
of
rashad
cope
and
the
director
of
youth
engagement
and
employment
and
the
hard-working
people
over
there.
C
C
Roughly
half
of
youth
participating
in
boston's
summer
jobs
indicate
that
they
help
pay
for
one
or
more
household
bills
and
one
in
five
report
that
they
are
saving
for
college
tuition,
so
that
you
see
that
these
jobs,
you
know,
in
addition
to
learning
life
skills,
they
actually
have
an
economic
impact
in
the
families
that
are
represented.
But,
of
course,
the
climate
crisis
itself
is
the
biggest
challenge
of
our
lifetime
and,
as
we
see
with
covet
19
how
socially
vulnerable
populations
are
the
most
affected.
C
That's
going
to
be
the
exact
same
case
with
the
climate
crisis
and
we're
already
seeing
that
we
see
that
with
the
effects
of
heat
island
effect,
we
see
that
with
storm
water
management
and
we
see
that
with
sea
level
rise,
and
so
how
can
we
get
young
people
trained
in
jobs
of
climate
adaptation
that
will
most
benefit
the
communities
they
come
from,
and
I
think
that's
really
the
opportunity
here
something
an
important
context
about
how
2020
in
2020
was
different
for
a
lot
of
reasons,
but
obviously
youth
jobs
were
different
as
well.
C
You
know
this
summer.
Youth
job
program
was
different
because
of
coronavirus,
but
it
also
highlighted
the
dedication
we
have
to
provide
these
important
opportunities
and
make
sure
that
they're
really
strongly
connected
to
these
life
skills
in
a
very
substantive
way.
So,
mayor
walsh,
in
partnership
with
the
council,
committed
an
additional
4.1
million
dollars
to
the
mayor's
youth
summer
job
program
and
we
supported
those
youth
aged
14
to
29
in
attaining
those
summer
jobs.
C
You
know
that
made
the
total
funding
for
youth
engagement,
employment
this
year
to
11.9
and
all
of
those
jobs
had
to
be
adapted
to
the
pandemic.
So,
as
we
talked
about
a
conservation
corps
for
the
city
of
boston
in
another
port,
that
was
the
broad
view
of
youth
jobs
in
the
city
of
boston.
I
think
it's
important
to
hear
from
commissioner
woods
about
the
exact
programs
that
are
happening
in
partnership
with
the
parks
and
recreation
department.
C
D
Thank
you
chief.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
We
are
very
fortunate
in
our
boston
parks
department
to
have
30
urban
wilds
across
the
city
under
our
jurisdiction
that
make
up
for
approximately
about
200
acres
of
our
public
open
space.
D
This
past
covert
year,
we
had
50
hours,
so
a
big
drastic
difference
in
the
amount
of
work
that
usually
happens,
and
the
need
is
still
there.
We
currently
partner
with
our
urban
wilds
at
the
southwest
boston,
cdc
noaa
in
corporate
groups.
In
the
past,
a
lot
of
work
was
done
with
the
boston
natural
areas
network
we
also
partner.
More
recently,
we
speak
for
the
trees
on
some
tree
identifications
and
finding
future
potential
locations
and
empty
tree
pits
that
need
to
be
filled.
D
Currently
we
have
jobs
in
the
city
overall
related
to
this
work.
We
do
a
lot
of
work
at
the
golf
course.
Training,
youth
with
these
landscaping,
jobs,
ground
maintenance,
irrigation
that
we're
teaching,
as
well
as
the
blue
shirts
program
that
the
chief
mentioned
we
put
out.
The
parks
department
has
a
staffer
that
puts
out
a
seven
to
eight
week
program
for
youth.
These
youth
are
14
to
25
years
old.
D
As
mentioned
with
the
blue
shirts.
We
were
trying
to
find
a
program
that
would
allow
for
social
distancing
and
out
in
the
outdoors,
so
we
were
able
to
come
up
with
a
system
with
six
different
regions
of
work,
each
region
getting
25
to
40
youth,
and
that
was
all
dependent
on
where
the
youth
lived
and
their
their
ability
to
get
to
the
work
site.
D
But
in
addition
to
the
regular
work
that
they're
doing,
whether
it
be
at
the
golf
courses
or
in
the
urban
wilds
or
out
in
general
parks,
there's
a
lot
of
lessons
that
are
being
taught
through
this.
So
job
skills,
for
example.
For
many,
this
is
their
first
job,
so
they're
learning
how
to
report
to
a
work
site,
signing
in
and
signing
out,
leadership,
development
and
work
and
the
importance
of
working
as
a
team,
ecology,
math
and
science
work.
D
D
Another
one
a
group,
a
youth
group,
was
building
a
bioswale
with
rocks
and
they
had
to
figure
out.
How
big
does
this
swill
have
to
be
and
how
much
water
will
it
be
able
to
to
hold
the
climate
change
lessons,
resiliency
projects,
plant
and
wildlife,
literacy,
uber
culture
and
some
of
the
youth
have
taken
these
lessons
home
so
the
stuff
that
they've
learned
they
come
in
the
next
day
telling?
D
This
is
what
we
were
able
to
do
in
our
backyard,
or
this
is
what
we
did
at
our
own
home,
so
we're
teaching
the
general
work.
The
landscaping
work
the
important
conservation
work,
but
the
life
lessons
and
the
job
skills
are
very
important
to
us
and
we're
very
grateful
for
that.
4.1
million
dollar
source
of
funding
that
we
have
this
summer
to
put
additional
youth
to
work
in
these
jobs,
that'll
pass
it
back
to
chief
cook.
C
Thank
you,
counselor
and,
if
possible,
I
think
it
would
be
good
for
trinwen
to
highlight
a
few
programs
as
well
of.
E
You
and
good
morning,
thank
you,
commissioners.
I
do
have
to
leave
at
9
30,
but
I'm
going
to
back
a
hop
back
on
at
10
to
answer
additional
questions.
E
We
also
have
learn
and
earn
models
with
our
community
colleges
in
the
green
and
jobs
core
industries
within
our
tuition
free
community
college.
There
are
six
schools
in
which
we
pay
for
tuition
and
student
support
for
and
in
addition,
we
do
have
summer
industry
interns
with
actual
employers
in
the
field
in
climate
action
fields,
so
that
young
people
can
get
not
only
credits
for
their
academic
learning,
while
they're
working
at
the
same
time
so
happy
to
talk
more
about
that
in
details
and
the
results
on
that.
E
A
Thank
you,
miss
win.
Thank
you
chief
cook.
Before
we
get
to
questions,
I'm
also
going
to
ask
miss
anderson,
we're
gonna.
If
you
would
mind
making
your
opening
statement,
we're
gonna
include
even
though
you're
not
part
of
the
administration.
We're
gonna
include
you
in
the
first
panel
for
counselors
questions
and
answer
so
you'll
be
counsellor.
C
I'd
just
like
to
say,
for
the
purposes
of
this
council
hearing,
she
is
a
honorary
member
of
the
administration
today,.
A
Fantastic
fantastic,
well,
congratulations.
Miss
anderson,
make
sure
the
chief
shares
his
parking
spot
with
you
in
the
executive
garage.
It's
the
best
perk
of
the
job
and
the
floor
is
now
yours.
Thank
you.
F
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
Thank
you
good
morning,
members
of
the
environment,
resiliency
parks
and
parks
committee,
and
I'm
thrilled
to
be
here
on
behalf
of
the
american
forest,
and
my
work
is
exactly
encompassing
of
what
you're
doing
is
to
build
career
pathways
into
urban
forestry
and
our
allied
professions
across
the
country,
and
so
we
are
thrilled
that
the
city
is
considering
the
development
of
a
city
conservation
corps.
These
kinds
of
pre-employment
programs
are
critical
to
actually
fill
what
is
indeed
a
shortage
of
folks
in
our
field.
F
F
We
have
8
000
annual
job
openings
across
the
country
that
we
already
know
about,
and
many
many
more
in
other
employers
that
we
we're
constantly
getting
getting
asked
about
to
fill
in
both
the
private
sector,
as
well
as
the
nonprofit
sector
and
even
in
the
public
sector.
We
need
as
many
skilled
trained
qualified
tree
care
and
green
industry
professionals
as
we
can
get,
and
so
programs
like
these
are
critical
to
help
fill
that
gap.
F
F
That's
where
we're
hoping
to
focus
our
work
and
hoping
to
help
you
build
capacity
in
any
way
that
we
can.
So
thank
you
again
for
for
having
us.
I'm
excited
to
give
a
little
bit
more
context
about
the
work
that
we
have
been
doing
to
build
the
capacity
of
cities
across
the
country
and
in
these
kinds
of
job
training
programs
to
to
get
more
folks
in
the
field
a
little
bit
later
on.
So
thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much,
miss
anderson
to
begin
the
questioning
appreciate
all
for
that
great
overview,
we're
going
to
go
to
the
lead,
sponsor
counselor
bach.
You
are
up
followed
by
counselor
flaherty.
Thank
you.
B
Great,
thank
you
so
much,
mr
chairman,
and
thank
you
to
all
the
panelists
I
I
guess
and
and
thank
you
also
chief
cook,
for
talking
about
the
youth
jobs
program.
I
think
it's
so
important
success
link
and
I
was
really
glad
that
we
had
more
money
in
it
this
summer,
and
I
think
I
think
to
me
I'm
thinking
about
what
director
wins
said
about
the
sort
of
existing
community
college
programs
and
then
we
think
about
our
existing
summer.
B
Jobs
like
it
seems
to
me,
like
we
have
a
bunch
of
not
to
use
an
infrastructure
analogy,
but
a
bunch
of
disconnected
pieces
of
a
pipe
right,
and
we
sort
of
we
need
to
connect
them,
weld
them
together
to
to
make
a
straighter
pipeline
into
into
these
jobs,
because
for
our
youth,
so
that,
like
what
I
want
to
see,
is
how
do
we
go
from
a
summer
where
folks
learn
about
urban
wilds
to
a
systematic
program
across
the
city
that
supports
having
more
urban
wilds
or
how
are
we
gonna
supplement
as
we
think
about
it?
B
The
urban
forestry
plan
that
was
funded
in
the
budget
this
summer,
I'm
interested
if
you
or
or
commissioner
woods,
could
just
talk
about
sort
of
the
beginnings
of
how
you
would
think
about
scaling
up
to
actually
meet
the
need
there,
because
we
we
talked,
we
were
talking
last
night
with
boston,
water
and
sewer,
and
they
were
talking
about
how
they've
piloted
a
bunch
of
green
infrastructure
in
a
couple
places.
B
Audubon
circle,
east
boston
and
it
seems
like
we're
learning
more
and
more
about
what
what
these
things
look
like
on
the
ground,
but
still
in
sort
of
these
tiny
instances,
and
when
you
think
about
the
scale
of
what
we
would
need
to
do
to
transform
the
city
for
climate
justice.
It's
it's
it's
overwhelming,
and
so
I
just
I
wonder
if
the
city
has
looked
at
all
at
what
other
places
are
doing
from
a
job
training
perspective.
B
If
and
and
also
well
I
don't
know-
and
this
is
I
don't
mean-
to
put
trend
on
the
spot,
but
whether
there's
any
other
instance
of
something
where
the
city
itself
has
started
to
create
more
demand
for
a
type
of
job.
And
so
then
we
think
about
proactively.
How
do
we
meet
that
demand
with,
as
miss
anderson
alluded
to
you,
know
the
types
of
candidates
we
would
like
to
give
more
opportunities
to,
rather
than
having
it
all
go
to
low
bid
contractors
who
are
maybe
coming
in
from
out
of
state
and
such?
B
So
that's
it's
a
sort
of
broad
set
of
questions,
but
that
was
what
everybody's
comments
sort
of
made
me
think
of
is
how
we
join
up
and
and
broaden
this
pipeline.
C
E
Yes,
that
is
I
I
do
have
responses
and
answers
and
resources.
Some
action
steps
that
we're
already
taking
to
counselors
box
questions.
Okay,.
E
Yes,
I
apologize.
I
have
another
child
care,
workforce
development
call
at
9
30,
but
I'll
hop
back
on.
You
know
what
counselor
bach.
I
really
appreciate
your
questions
around
aligning
systems
for
a
more
smooth
transition
on
the
continuum
of
this
internship
high
school
matriculation
into
post-secondary
education
in
urban
forestry.
That's
something
that
we're
working
with
chief
cook
on
in
terms
of
building
the
infrastructure,
so
that
we
can
meet
the
demand
of
the
upcoming.
What
we
call
green
jobs
in
the
climate
action
plans.
E
A
couple
of
examples
in
which
we're
already
doing
that
is
one
is
that
this
summer
we
had
pilot
a
fourth
track
in
our
summer.
Youth
program,
as
chief
cook
had
talked
about,
and
that
track
is
a
pipeline.
A
bridge
program
from
the
success
link
into
post-secondary
education,
so
460
young
people
in
success,
link
and
in
the
city
of
boston
got
to
experience
post-secondary
education
in
any
of
the
six
tuition-free
community
college
programs
that
our
partners
were
offering.
E
In
addition
to
that,
we
paired
it
with
success-linked
career
coaches
to
help
young
people
not
only
take
courses
but
think
about
post-secondary
education
and
then
their
careers
as
their
receiving
stipends
and
working
in
the
summer,
so
that
we
know
that
this
summer,
six
to
eight
weeks
summer,
youth
program
isn't
enough.
So
we're
building
a
vision
for
them
to
look
at
post-second
ed
as
soon
as
they
transition
after
the
youth
programs.
Now
the
one
area
that
we
are
building
to
design
our
industry,
so
we
didn't
want
to
pigeonhole
young
people
to
take
certain
courses.
E
E
We
also
have
specific
examples
in
our
building
pathways
program,
which
is
in
a
pre
registered
pre-apprenticeship
program
in
the
building
trades
that
was
initiated
in
2016
by
mayor
walsh
and
that
helps
young
people
or
boston
residents
to
learn
more
about
getting
into
any
of
the
18
building
trades.
Apprenticeships
such
as
electrician
plumber,
carpenter
sheet
metal
and
worker,
etc,
and,
while
they're
working
into
these
trades,
we
provide
them
with
a
green
maintenance
or
green
construction
management
context,
so
that
they're
learning
the
credentialed
skills
but
then
providing
them
with
the
context
and
climate
change
as
well.
E
So
we're
already
thinking
about
and
have
those
vision,
but
you're,
absolutely
right,
counselor
that
we
need
to
start
building
these
nuts
and
bolts
to
provide
this
seamless,
smooth
transition
that
you're
talking
about
I'm
happy
to
talk
more
about
other
specific
examples.
E
I
do
want
to
caveat
by
saying
that
you're
you're
right
again
counts
off
by
saying
that
you're
we're
seeing
smaller
pockets
of
these
good
efforts
and
best
practices,
and
the
challenge
is
trying
to
get
all
the
partners
in
place
to
look
at
and
create
mousse
articulated
agreements
with
the
state
and
then
also.
E
C
Counselor,
I
I
don't
have
much
to
add,
except
for
just
on
that
last
scale
component,
which
I
think
was
the
part.
The
first
part
of
your
question
is
you
know
how
do
we
scale
up
to
meet
the
challenge
and
our
climate
adaptation
efforts
are
going
to
require
a
workforce
that
is
larger
than
we
have
the
one
we
have
in
green
infrastructure
right
now,
which
presents
a
huge
opportunity
to
connect
to
communities
of
color,
which
is
the
work
that
trend
does
every
single
day
on
behalf
of
the
city.
So
it's
really
just
matching.
C
You
know
the
need
and
the
opportunity
to
our
kids
to
make
sure
that
they're
participating
in
this
this
new
job
sector
that
we're
creating
with
these
plans.
It's
not
the
capitalization
of
these
projects.
That
is
the
issue.
It's
the
operations
and
maintenance
associated
with
these
systems.
The
green
infrastructure
that
commissioner
woods
is
putting
into
parks
the
bios
whales,
the
storm
water
management
that
water
and
sewer
is
employing.
You
know
the
permeable
sidewalks
that
public
works
is
is
using
all
that
requires
operations
and
maintenance.
B
Great,
thank
you
so
much
chief
cook
and
I'm
mindful
I'm
sure
I've
gone
over
my
time.
I
only
wanted
to
just
ask
if
miss
anderson
wanted
to
add
anything
any
concrete
example
of
seeing
any
of
this
kind
of
actually
be
figured
out.
F
You
know,
planting
and
maintenance
is
actually
through
the
contracts
through
the
contracting
process
so
and
making
sure
that
who,
whatever
qualified
contractors
are
bidding
on
city
contracts,
to
do
the
actual
maintenance
and
planting
work
that
is
necessary
to
build
a
more
resilient
boston,
making
sure
that
the
requirements
for
those
contractors
include
or
or
maybe,
there's
preferential
treatment
given
to
small
minority
women-owned
businesses,
businesses
that
are
founded
by
folks
from
the
re-entry
population,
businesses
that
hire
and
employ
city
residents
or
folks
who
are
opportunity,
youth
who
are
facing
barriers
to
employment
and
veterans.
F
I
mean
there
are
many
many
different
ways
that
the
city
can
require
that
the
folks
who
are
actually
doing
this
work
are
representative
of
the
communities
that
you'd
like
to
engage
and
can
holding
those
contractors
to
a
high
standard.
I've
seen
that
work
very
well
in
washington
dc.
I've
seen
set-asides
work
very
well
for
local
core
groups,
so
set
aside
to
say:
okay,
we're
not
gonna.
F
Have
the
youth
who
are
being
trained
on
on
this
kind
of
work,
climb
the
trees
right,
but
we're
gonna
have
them
do
early
maintenance
and
kind
of
low
level
kind
of
safer,
hands-on
maintenance
activities
in
in
other
kinds
of
green
infrastructure.
F
Besides
just
trees,
you
know
bile,
swells
and
rain,
gardens
and
other
kinds
of
green
infrastructure
maintenance.
We're
going
to
set
aside
those
kinds
of
projects
for
these
types
of
core
groups
who
are
getting
their
feet
wet
and
getting
that
that
necessary
training.
So
lots
of
opportunities
here
for
the
city
to
kind
of
intervene
and
prioritize
these
communities
and
get
that
work.
B
G
Morning,
mr
chairman,
thank
you
for
hosting,
obviously
thank
the
lead
sponsor
counselor
bach
and
it's
great
to
see
our
chief
and
our
commissioner
in
sarensen
as
well
and
others
that
are
attending,
and
you
folks
know.
I've
been
a
long
time
supporter
establishing
expanding
the
city,
sponsored
training,
opportunities
for
youth
and
and
particularly
as
it
pertains
to
our
underserved
populations.
For
years,
I'm
on
record,
probably
like
around
the
mid
2000s.
G
The
previous
administration
had
this
hair
brained
idea
about
moving
city
hall
out
to
dry
dock
4,
where
no
one
could
get
to
it,
and
so
I
challenged
that
and
also
talked
about
the
the
need
to
clean
city
hall
and
to
start
creating
green
sector
jobs
and
to
start
to
train
our
youth.
So
I'd
say
that's
probably
around
2006
2007..
G
So
long-time
supporter,
I
get
three
basic
questions
I
think
trent
may
have
answered
one
of
them
and
the
first
of
which
is
how
can
we
expand
current
partnerships
with
the
mayor's
office?
You
know
of
youth
development
in
particular.
You
know,
we've
known
as
the
green
shirts,
we've
known
him
as
the
red
shirts,
we've
known
him
as
the
blue
shirt.
So
there
may
be
an
opportunity,
through
the
mayor's
office
of
youth
development,
to
to
kind
of
connect
folks
to
green
sector
jobs.
G
G
And
I
appreciate
all
the
work
that
you
guys
do
day
in
and
day
out
to
to
put
our
city's
best
foot
forward
and
I'm
appreciative
of
the
this
administration's
attention
to
detail.
They
get
it
and
there's
been
a
renewed
focus
on
on
exactly
this.
I
think
the
previous
administration
was
a
little
slow
to
come
around
on
it,
but
we're
here
today
and
let's
continue
to
push
forward
and
and
again
I
appreciate
the
efforts
of
the
lead
sponsor
in
in
our
chair.
G
Our
chair
has
been
on
it
from
day
one
since
he
joined
the
council
and
the
environment
has
been
a
huge
priority
of
his.
So
it's
been
a
welcome
addition
to
the
council
and
he's
been
a
great
voice
and
a
leader
for
all
of
us
to
to
continue
to
sort
of
push
the
envelope
on.
You
know
how
we
can
do
better
and
how
we
can
be
more
sustainable
and
how
we
could
open
up
doors
in
the
green
sector
for
for
our
underserved
communities.
G
C
C
I
would
say
that
largely
the
park
management
and
operations
field
is
changing,
though,
to
adapt
to
the
climate
adaptation
features.
You
know
we're
no
longer
the
traditional
landscaping
of
mow
the
grass
and
clean
the
trash.
Now,
there's
a
lot
more
care
that
has
to
go
into
these
systems
that
are
just
adjusting
to
our
climate
reality,
and
so
there
is.
C
There
is
still
that
existing
workforce
opportunity,
but
there
are
also
non-profits
in
the
city
that
are
already
training
these
kids
in
the
fields
of
the
future,
so
whether
it's
southwest
cdc
or
the
emerald,
necklace,
conservancy
or
others
who
employ
youth
in
these
techniques,
those
the
existing
partnerships
that
we
have
to
scale
up
to
meet
the
challenge.
Commissioner,
woods,
I
don't
know,
if
there's
any
other
programs
you
want
to
highlight,
I
know
in
the
second
panel
david
quilly
will
be
talking
specifically
on
this
issue.
D
I
would
just
add,
in
the
terms
of
the
blue
shirts,
our
outreach
efforts.
Obviously
this
year
constrained
bringing
this
program
back
with
not
having
school
in
session,
so
trying
to
really
work
filter
through
the
non-profits
to
get
that
work
out
to
the
neighborhoods,
as
well
as
the
mayor's
office
of
neighborhood
services,
but
really
trying
to
engage.
And
that's
something.
We
want
to
continue
to
strengthen
by
trying
to
get
that
opportunities
out
there
in
in
the
hands
of
these
kids.
D
And
that
was
the
the
challenge
this
year,
with
the
program
put
together
and
not
having
kids
in
schools
to
get
that
to
them,
but
continuing
to
find
new
ways
to
get
this
reach
into
the
hands
and
have
the
proper
engagement.
G
A
Here
here,
thank
you,
counselor,
flaherty
and
and
well
done
well
done,
commissioner,
woods
it
was
great
terrific
job,
counselor,
braden
you're
up.
H
Thank
you
very
much,
I'm
I
have
to
say
I'm
very,
very
excited
about
the
prospect
of
having
a
conservation
corps
in
boston.
I
think
it's
just
what
we
need
to
develop
those
career
pathways
for
our
young
people
into
the
green
infrastructure
space,
and
I'm
just
wondering
in
terms
of
a
timeline
like
can
we
can
we,
I
think
it's
a
great
idea,
can
have
you
have
you
folks
thought
about?
H
C
Chief
cook
yeah,
so
counselor
I
mean
we.
We
would
really
welcome
a
conversation
with
the
council,
especially
around
the
budget
development
for
the
upcoming
year.
I
will
say
that
it's
it's
not
so
much
a
lack
of
resources,
I
mean.
Obviously
in
partnership
with
the
council,
you
saw
the
amount
of
resources
that
the
mayor
allocated
towards
youth
jobs.
A
lot
of
this
work
is
about
that
very
complicated
and
direct
connective
tissue
that
can
be
provided
to
the
supervision
of
this
work.
H
C
These
industries,
you
want
them
to
sort
of
fall
in
love
with
this
and
recognize
that
these
are
jobs
of
the
future.
I
mean
nationwide
right
now,
but
especially
acutely
in
massachusetts.
There's
a
there's,
a
shortage
of
arborists
of
trained
arborists.
I
mean
it's
a
huge
field
and
it's
good
paying
jobs
and
it's
jobs
that
will
last
for
decades
of
work,
because
urban,
forestry
and
forestry
in
general
is
becoming
more
and
more
critical
to
state
and
local
governments.
H
Yeah,
you
know,
I
think,
also
in
terms
of
curriculum,
like
I
think,
thinking
out
outside
the
immediate
box,
with
curriculum
development
in
our
high
schools,
so
that
there
might
be
a
environmental
science
or
green
infrastructure
curriculum
that
would
tie
into
climate
change.
That
would
that
would
that
they
could
get
some
high
school.
They
can
get
some
credits,
college
credits
or,
whatever,
I
think,
pairing
it
with
trying
to
identify.
H
I
think
turn
on
turning
kids
off
by
having
a
bad
experience
is
probably
a
big,
a
big
big
concern,
so
it
wouldn't
be
about
numbers
but
more
about
about
quality
and
and
a
really
constructive
and
and
valuable
experience
is
probably
the
best
way
to
go
so
you're
talking
to
the
right
person
here.
Counselor
bach
is
a
big
proponent
here,
so
she's
in
charge
of
working
with
the
western
means
committee.
So
I
sir,
I
personally
think
this
would
be
money
well
spent.
H
You
know
it'll
pay
dividends
in
the
long
term,
because
they're
good
paying
potential
to
be
good,
long,
stable
long,
well,
good,
paying
jobs
in
in
the
city
that
there's
obviously
a
demand
for
so
I
I
certainly
would
love
to
continue
the
conversation
with
councillor
bach
and
yourselves
to
figure
out
what
what
what
we
can
do
to
support
this
work.
I
Hi,
sorry,
sorry,
I
think
that
I
think
that
this
is.
I
think
that
this
is
a
really
good
idea.
Thank
you,
counselor
bach,
so
I've
talked
to
people
in
new
york.
They
have
10
000
people
are
that
are
available
for
day
labor
and
it's
mostly
for
snow
removal
and
storms.
Would
there
ever
be
a
way
that
we
could
maybe
create
some
kind
of
fun
for
for
for
a
labor
fund
and
then
and
then
just
pick
out
particular
parts
in
in
in
in
pay
that
way,
so
it's
not
contracts.
I
I
I
I'm
not
really
into
more
contracts,
because
just
because
I'm
not,
I
very
much
think
that
we
should
be
bringing
some
more
people
in
house
and
if
we
do
the
day,
labor
route,
we're
able
to
figure
out
through
the
people
that
come
through
come
through
our
projects,
we're
able
to
figure
out
who's,
gonna
be
well
suited
to
work
and
work
in
the
parks
or
or
or
work
or
wherever,
like
as
ryan
knows.
I
have
a
park
out
behind
my
house
that
I
could
put
20
people
to
work
for
the
entire
summer
summer.
I
That's
just
from
me
walking
around
the
pockets
sort
of
a
sort
of
an
urban
wild
that
there's
no
real
play
structures
or
anything
like
that.
But
you
know
it's
a
lot
of
bramble
bush.
That's
over
over
crowding
trees.
It's
it's
trimming,
trees,
it's
getting
rid
of
getting
rid
of
old
old
underbrush,
it's
it's
taking
care
of
runoff,
so
I
just
want
to
you
know
pledge
not
pledge
my
support,
but
but
you
know
voice
my
support
here.
I
I
think
this
is
something
that's
long
overdue
that
we
we
should
be
using
our
own
people,
meaning
people
that
are
in
the
streets
in
dorchester
and
south
boston
and
roxbury
instead
of
contracting
the
last
contract
that
happened
up
here,
chris
you
and
I
walked
around
those
trees
are
all
dead.
Every
one
of
them
that
they
planted
are
all
dead
because
the
contractors
come
in,
they
see
the
number
on
the
contract
they
plant,
they
do
the
bare
minimum
and
then
they're
gone.
I
I
think
if
we
use
this
as
a
as
a
real
like,
maybe
it's
it's
something
where
we
figure
out
a
couple
contracts
that
we
use,
that
we
might
be
able
to
do
with
with
with
an
organization
you
have
an
organization
and
give
them
the
scope
of
work
for
a
couple
parks.
Dorchester
park
franklin
park,
seven
hill
park
behind
me,
and
I
think
we
just
try
it
as
a
as
a
pilot
and
as
best
we
can.
I
You
know
let
your
training
you're
teaching,
but
but
also
someone
that's
working
with
the
land
has
to
love
the
land.
It's
not
like
we're
gonna,
be
able
to
just
okay
we're
gonna,
bring
a
thousand
kids
in
out
of
those
thousand
kids.
750
of
them
aren't
going
to
want
to
pick
up
a
shovel
they're
not
going
to
want
to.
You
know
they're
going
to
want
to
do
something
else,
they're
going
to
want
to
be
on
my
computer.
I
That's
working
just
on
our
infrastructure-
and
I
know
that's
that's
a
little
broad
and
just
thrown
out
there.
But
that's
where
my
head
is:
my
head
is
in
a
in
a
in
a
sort
of
a
day,
labor
sort
of
program
in
the
wintertime,
we're
shoveling
out
hydrants
and
we're
shoveling
our
bus
stops
in
the
summertime,
we're
going
around
and
we're
and
we're
doing
real
intensive
work
in
our
parks
that
that
need
them.
I
So
I
appreciate
I,
I
appreciate
council
block
for
for
coming
up
with
this
and
and
having
us
talk
about
it.
It's
something
that
I've
been
mentioning
to
chris
cook
for
probably
about
seven
or
eight
years
that
day
labor
program
and
again
the
day
labor
is
to
identify
people
that
want
to
work
and
want
to
come
into
our
system,
the
city
of
boston
system.
I
Just
statements,
but
I
I
I
chris,
I
appreciate
the
work
that
that
that
you
do
and
ryan
you
you've
been
great
and
and
of
course
I
work
with
trent
on
on
the
jobs,
trust
also
there's
opportunities
in
the
job
trust.
I
Here
we
need
to
start
thinking
a
little
differently
and
get
away
from
the
I
think,
going
back
administrations
back
to
white
back
to
even
collins
before
that,
when
we
privatized
the
the
the
trash
the
trash
collected
and
we
privatized
a
lot
of
stuff,
because
city
workers
had
a
bad
rap,
we
still
do
have
a
bad
rap.
But
I
don't
think
the
city
worker
today
is
the
same
city
worker
from
1970.
C
C
C
You
know
whether
it's
cleaning
our
streets
or
cleaning
our
parks,
while
there's
a
pandemic
raging.
I
I
agree
with
you
that
you
know
this
is
there's,
there's
a
new
appreciation
for
the
city
worker
and
I
think,
if
there's
opportunities
to
show
kids,
that
they
can
have
a
fulfilling
career
with
the
city,
then
we
should
expand
on
that.
B
Great
thanks
so
much
councilor
baker,
counselor
sabi,
george.
J
Thank
you,
everyone
for
being
here,
I'm
just
really
learning
more
than
anything
else
today.
My
only
comment
would
be
the
you
know
when
we
think
about
our
young
people.
In
particular,
many
of
our
young
people
across
the
city
in
the
boston
public
schools
are
taking
ap
environment
studies
courses,
and
you
know
this
is
maybe
protect
possibly
through
this
core,
a
way
to
engage
young
people
who
have
an
interest
in
this
work.
J
So
you
know
I
would
just
say
if
we
could
make
sure
that
we
are
connected
to
that
programming,
especially
in
one
of
the
challenges
within
bps
with
ap
programming.
Is
there
isn't
a
a
really
strong
on-ramp
to
that
course
of
study,
but
adding
this
interest
may
help
promote
that.
So
that's
all.
I
really
have
to
add
to
the
conversation,
because
I
am
just
sort
of
learning
more
about
this
and
look
forward
to
the
next
panel
as
well.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
K
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Council
bark
in
council
o'malley,
it's
been
a
very
informative
hearing.
This
is
a
proposal
that
I
support.
Thank
you
to
chief
cook
and
commissioner
ryan
woods
as
well
and
the
panelists
I
see
sarah
anderson
here
as
well
trend
was
on.
I.
I
especially
liked
trends
comments
and
I
think
maybe
chris
talked
about
it
also,
but
the
I'd
like
to
get
a
little
bit
more
import
or
update
on
the
incredible
role
the
community
colleges
play
in
our
city.
I
have
great
respect
for
bunker
hill
community
college.
K
I
have
great
respect
for
roxbury
community
college,
but
I
I
wanted
to
know
you
know
if
this
was
such
a
program.
What
would
the
partnership
be
urban
college
as
well,
which
is
in
my
district
in
charlestown
buck
hill
community
college?
We
have
a
satellite
office
as
well
in
the
south
end,
but
what
type
of
partnership
could
we
think
about
in
terms
of
adding
community
colleges
and
possibly
getting
some
college
credits
for
participants.
C
So
counselor
I
I
will
do
a
poor
trend
impersonation,
because
trent
is
at
another
meeting
right
now,
but
that
is
potentially
the
opportunity
to
solve
the
problem
that
councilor
braden
was
alluding
to
with
the
supervision
of
the
students
and
providing
a
robust
experience
and
also
it
relates
to
counselor
savvy
george's
point
that
this
really
needs
to
be
connected
to
curriculum
and
instructional
practices
in
order
for
it
to
have
a
meaningful
payback
down
the
road.
C
Job
has
interest
in
it
continues
that
study
at
boston,
public
schools
and
then
has
the
opportunity
to
get
certification
or
further
levels
of
study
at
the
community
college,
either
through
a
two-year
or
a
four-year
program.
You
know
whether
it's
urban
college
or
boston-
I
know
mike
taylor's,
really
invested
in
this
work
or
roxbury
community
college
or
bunker
hill
community
college.
These
are
the
opportunities
where,
in
a
very
relatively
short
period
of
time,
kids
could
be
receiving
a
very
pop
excuse
me.
C
Young
people
could
be
receiving
a
very,
very
livable
wage
and
a
career
path
for
them
just
because
they
had
some
exposure.
So
I
think
that
is
a
critical
part
of
the
not
only
the
supervision
but
the
career
path
that
we
would
have
to
establish.
I
will
say
it
is
much
more
defined
in
the
work
of
the
solar
industry
of
building
retrofits
we've
already
started
those
conversations.
We've
started
that
work
and
trend
is
already
engaged
in
some
of
those
career
pathways
in
green
infrastructure.
This
is
a
place
that
we
can
learn
from
other
cities.
C
We
can
learn
from
other
programs.
We
have
to
adapt
as
a
city
to
our
climate
reality
and
how
wonderful
would
it
be
if
our
most
socially
vulnerable
kids
were
actually
getting
degrees
from
these
universities
to
learn
the
job
opportunities
of
the
climate
crisis?
I
mean
that's,
it's
a
very
strong
opportunity
and
it
connects
with
you
and
the
other
counselors
we're
talking
about.
K
Thank
you,
yeah.
Thank
you
chief,
though.
That's
good
good
comments-
and
I
appreciate
that
is
you
know
I
always
say
the
best
social
program
is
a
job
in
you
know.
Getting
a
job.
Part
of
that
process
is
getting
a
good
training
educational
program
and
what
what
was
a
step
or
what
is
proposed
here,
I
think,
is
a
is
a
great
plan.
K
You
know
connecting
connecting
community
colleges
and
you
know
I
was
at
I
go
to
the
urban
college
graduation
every
year
I
think
90,
95
percent
of
the
of
the
graduates
are
women
in
mostly
women
of
color,
and
they
work
hard
all
day
long,
many
in
the
healthcare
industry,
and
then
they
study
at
night
and
they
have
they
have
their
children.
But
you
know
you
admire
these
young
people.
K
Some
of
them
are
not
so
young,
but
you
admire
them
because
nothing
was
ever
given
to
them,
but
they're
working
working
as
hot
as
they
possibly
can
for
their
family,
so
that
they
can
get
a
a
good
job.
So
I
I
would
like
to
see
this
type
of
program
expand
a
little
bit
on
that.
But
having
said
that,
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you
to
the
sponsor
council
box.
K
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
councillor
o'malley
the
commissioner
woods
and
commissioner
cook
chief
cook
and
the
panelists
here
as
well,
and
my
colleagues
thank
you,
colin
o'malley,
for
giving
me
the
time.
A
Of
course,
thank
you
counselor
flynn.
Thank
you,
counselor
bach,
for
pitch,
hitting,
as
I
had
to
step
out
momentarily.
I
believe
we
will
begin
the
second
panel
shortly,
but
counselor
bach.
I
believe
you
had
one
more
question
for
this
panel
and
then,
if
any
other
counselor
has
one
more
question
for
these
panels,
please
raise
your
virtual
hand
counselor
block
the
floor.
Is
yours.
B
I
just
wanted
to
ask
before
miss
anderson
had
to
go
just
because
I
think
that
I
think
you
have
some
experience
with
what
kind
of
certification
and
pre-apprenticeship
programs
can
look
like
in
the
urban
forestry
world,
and
I
feel
like
to
chief
cook's
point,
we
sort
of
know
what
that
looks
like
in
the
trades
world,
but
we
haven't
quite
gotten
there
on
the
forestry
side,
so
I
just
wondered
if
you
could
speak
to
that
a
little
bit
and
also
any
of
the
pieces,
I
know
that
you
guys
are
involved
in
a
baltimore
program.
B
F
Definitely
definitely
thank
you
so
much
because
so
we,
oh
gosh
such
great
commentary
today.
L
F
Morning,
it's
very
exciting
to
have
all
this
enthusiasm
around
urban
forestry
positions
and
and
getting
folks
into
the
field
so
first
off
our
stock.
I'll
start
with
that
topic
of
credentialing
right.
So
in
our
field
in
urban
forestry,
the
designation
of
somebody
who
the
mostly
well-recognized
designation
is
someone
who
is
a
certified
arborist,
and
there
are
pre-apprenticeship
programs
and
apprenticeship
programs
in
arboriculture
to
be
able
to
certify
folks
to
become
arborists.
F
The
qualifications
include
several
years
of
experience,
so
it's
not
something
you
can
go
through
in
six
months
and
become
a
certified
arborist.
You
need
years
of
experience
and
classroom
learning
as
commissioner.
What's
it's
not
in
his
head?
Yes,
so
there's
lots
of
experience
and
and
knowledge
that's
required,
and
it's
a
high
standard,
but
the
massachusetts
arborist
association
is
a
fantastic
resource.
They
are.
They
certify
folks
help
certify
folks
both
to
become
statewide
certified
arborists
as
well
as
internationally
certified
arborists
as
well.
F
So
they
are,
would
be
a
probably
the
logical
partner
here
to
help
design
a
curriculum
that
would
be
of
an
existing
pre-apprenticeship
program,
which
you
know
from
director
when
that's
probably
the
the
route
right
is
making
sure
that
whatever
core
program
you
all
create,
is
a
pre-apprenticeship
program
and
then
can
feed
help
feed
folks
into
either
apprenticeships
our
risk,
apprenticeships
or
right
into
other
kinds
of
entry-level
positions,
afterward,
and
so
that
they
can
get
the
wraparound
services
that
they
might
need,
but
being
becoming.
F
A
certified
arborist
is
ideal
in
lieu
of
that
getting
certifications
in
chainsaw
safety
in
tree
id
osha
10,
osha,
30,
cpr.
First
aid:
these
are
the
kinds
of
qualifications
and
certifications
that
employers
in
our
field
are
looking
for
and
will
make
the
youth
very
competitive.
Quick
two
other
points,
if
I
can
one
is
that
we've
also
been
in
talks
with
so
american
force.
F
Actually,
incubated
speak
for
the
trees,
boston
and
so
david,
who
will
be
on
the
next
panels
very
exciting
that
he's
continuing
his
work
to
train
youth.
I
think
they
had
a
summer
successful
summer,
cohort
of
youth
training
them
in
entry
care
and
exposing
them
to
different
true
careers,
which
is
exciting
and
there's
a
great
great
program
for
community
college.
The
community
college
topic
out
of
springfield
massachusetts.
We've.
L
F
F
Finally,
if
you're
looking
to
grow
in-house,
I
know
I
threw
out
the
opportunity
of
growing
via
contract,
but
if
you're
looking
to
go
in-house
thinking
about
first,
the
sustainable
sources
of
revenue
that
are
going
to
be
able
to
fund
that
expansion
are,
of
course,
very
important,
and
so
I
know
that
in
other
cities,
some
sometimes
those
funds
can
come
from
developers
who
have
to
cut
down
trees
and
have
to
pay
fines
and
fees
to
to
then
supplement
with
planting
and
other
kinds
of
maintenance.
F
So
just
one
idea,
but
there's
there's
many
different
ways
to
go
about
this.
We
are
happy
at
american
forest
to
continue
to
be
a
resource
for
you
all,
as
you
continue
to
ideate
and
move
this
topic
forward
and
just
very
excited
to
see
this
momentum
and
and
help
show
you
all
on.
So
thank
you
for
having
us.
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
sarah
and
yeah.
No,
I
think
it
would
be
amazing
if
we
could
really.
You
know
if
we
could,
if
we
had
a
real
elite,
arborist
core
or
really
a
set
of
elite
arborists
employed
by
the
city
in-house,
and
then
that
creates
also
a
job
for
a
young
person
in
a
core
to
sort
of
look
forward
to,
and
then
we
would
hope
that
that
would
also
look
like
our
city
right
and
that
I
know
that
you
know
the
the
arborist
world.
We
really
want
to
see
more
black
arborists.
F
B
All
the
pieces
here
in
massachusetts,
we
have
the
best
programs
like
at
the
university
level,
so
yeah
don't.
I
think
that
would
be
great
for
us,
and
I
guess
my
I'm
totally
cheating,
mr
chairman,
because
we're
also
about
to
lose
commissioner
woods
and
chief
cook.
I
just
wonder
if
either
could
speak
at
all
too.
It
does
feel
like
we
have
these
signature
parks
in
the
city,
I'm
thinking
about
the
big
effort
at
moakley,
I'm
thinking
about
franklin
park.
B
Obviously,
on
my
end,
there's
the
common
and-
and
I
just
I
wonder-
about
the
opportunity
to
kind
of
like
hub
youth
crews,
out
of
those
and
and
how
you
guys
are
are
thinking
about.
That
is
again.
We
think
about
scaling
up
the
work.
C
D
I
lost
you
at
the
end
field,
houses
and
how
work
crews
worked.
Is
that
what
it
was
okay
yeah?
So
especially
on
those
projects,
I
mean
we're
having
some
exciting
designs
for
moakley,
particularly
that
I've
seen
so
far
and
we're
in
the
process
for
both
the
common
and
franklin
park,
as
you
mentioned
counselor,
so
we're
gonna
have
a
lot
more
resources
at
these
sites,
therefore,
being
able
to
have
more
youth
employed
at
them
so
having
stuff
such
as
public
bathrooms
and
amenities,
something
where
we're
usually
a
traveling
roadshow.
D
Where
you
go
park
to
park
to
park
where
now
we
can
have
people
all
day
be
assigned
to
certain
units
and
have
certain
parks,
I
should
say,
are
open
spaces,
and
since
we
have
the
resources
there,
so
we
really
can
have
more
programming
for
those
youths
at
those
spaces
and
whether
it's
having
some
sort
of
a
conservancy
or
having
some
sort
of
a
friends
group
but
having
some
sort
of
training
program.
That's
out
of
those
individual
parks.
D
Now
that
there
are
amenities
that
would
allow
us
to
employ
and
have
youth
be
there
for
a
whole
day
instead
of
packing
everybody
up
in
the
12
passenger
van
and
going
to
the
next
site.
So
I
think
in
our
design
we're
adding
those
amenities
and
those
features
to
give
the
opportunity
more
opportunities
for
youth
to
be
in
those
spaces
and
to
learn
the
skills
needed.
C
The
only
thing
I
would
add
to
that
counselor
is:
it
builds
on
success,
which
is
really
what
we
need
to
do
is
we
need
to
scaffold
on
the
successful
programs,
so
we
run
very
successful,
free
day
camps
out
of
east
boston,
stadium
and
white
stadium
in
franklin
park
in
off
hours.
You
know:
could
those
also
be
job
hubs
for
youth
who
are
organized
and
working
in
the
parks.
B
Great
thanks
so
much
and
thank
you
trent.
I
see
you've
just
rejoined
us,
but
I'll
I'll
stop
my
questions
now,
because
I'm
mindful
of
our
second
panel,
so,
mr
chairman,
I
don't
know,
give
it
back
to
you.
Thank.
A
You
thank
you
councilor
bach.
Thank
you
all,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
and
for
your
great
work.
We
really
do
appreciate
it
and
a
shout
out,
particularly
to
commissioner
woods
team
out
there
who
have
particularly
amid
pandemic,
who
you
know
our
parks,
have
become
safe
spaces
and
refuge
for
all
of
us,
certainly
for
me
and
my
family.
So
thank
you
for
your
team,
specifically
this
air,
particularly
this
year,
not
seeing
any
blue
hands
from
counselors
for
further
questions
for
this
panel.
A
A
B
I
think
pat
may
be
speaking
on
behalf
of
dave
as
well,
because
I
think
his
he's
had
a
family
thing
come
up
so.
D
A
Okay,
great,
thank
you
for
that
counselor
box.
So
just
in
order
of
my
notes,
jesse
we're
gonna.
Have
you
sort
of
give
a
brief
opening
statement
followed
by
david
and
then
pat?
If
you
want
to
speak
for
both
southwest
boston,
cdc
and
cladman
square,
that
would
be
great,
so
jessel,
scott
iii.
You
are
up
first.
M
Thank
you,
sorry
about
that
and
again
good
morning.
Everyone.
I
really
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you.
My
name
is
jesse
scott,
I'm
with
the
usda
forest
service.
I
actually
work
in
boston
and
I
run
a
program
called
the
urban
connections
program
and
we
really
focus
on
connecting
people
to
nature
whether
or
not
that's
jobs,
education
and
everything
in
between
the
forest
service.
M
We've
been
in
the
city
in
this
particular
program
for
probably
15
or
so
years,
and
working
with
local
partners
and
some
of
the
things
that
we've
done
really,
I
think,
complement,
complements
the
work
that
you're
looking
to
do
with
a
conservation
core,
and
so
we
definitely
want
to
be
a
part
of
that
conversation
definitely
want
to
be
working
alongside.
M
You
definitely
want
to
be
looking
at
ways
to
engage
young
people,
because
the
the
environmental
careers
that
are
out
there
are
and
and
the
ones
that
are
being
developed
are
so
important
and
I
think
a
lot
of
people
don't
really
see
environmental
jobs
as
real
jobs.
They
don't
take
it
seriously.
M
You
know
really
develops
them
to
be
able
to
really
engage
civically
and
develop
their
communities
in
a
way.
We
all
want
our
communities
to
be,
and
so
the
forest
service,
although
I
can't
commit
us
to
anything
specific,
we
really
want
to
be
there
working
with
you
and
want
to
have
that
conversation.
M
Keep
that
conversation
going
so
that
you
know
we
can
bring
the
resources
from
the
federal
level.
You
know
to
the
city
and
work
with
communities
directly.
A
Terrific,
thank
you
very
much.
Mr
scott
appreciate
you
being
now
with
us
this
morning.
Benny
meshalam
from
spit
for
the
excuse
me
david
michelle
benny
is
your
brother
david.
Do
you
have
any
opening
statement.
N
Thank
you,
mr
o'malley.
Council.
O'malley.
Congratulations.
I
don't
think
I've
seen
you
since
fatherhood.
It's
suiting
you
well
and
thank
you
counselor
bach,
for
inviting
me
and
sharing
in
this
conversation.
I
think
it's
quite
a
critical
juncture
right
now,
not
only
locally
but
nationally,
to
start
thinking
about
some
of
these
issues
and
I'm
I'm
honored
to
be
here
for
the
opportunity
I
wanted
to
before.
I
begin
just
thank
the
chief
chief
cook
and
commissioner
woods.
N
N
And
of
course,
none
of
this
would
have
been
possible
without
the
mayor's
success
link
program
and
the
hard-working
staff
there
at
the
boston,
youth,
engagement
and
employment
office-
and
you
heard
from
sarah
anderson
earlier
and
the
incubation
and
support
that
american
forest
has
provided
us.
So
I
think
we
we
are
right
now
well
positioned
to
think
about
how
to
grow
our
teen
urban
tree
core
program
and
I'll,
be
speaking
later
on
about
how
we
see
that
happening.
N
N
They
really
understand
issues
sophisticated
issues
and
this
past
summer
we
provided
them
with
some
scaffolds
and
some
tools
to
talk
about
and
explore
the
urban
forest
in
their
community,
and
I
invite
you
to
go
on
our
website
and
hear
directly
from
them
about
why
they
care
so
much
about
trees
and
sort
of
the
history
of
inequity
in
our
urban
forests
and
a
path
forward.
So
firsthand
voices
and
I
think,
just
to
frame
our
conversation
a
little
bit.
N
I
think
we're
at
a
juncture
not
only
nationally,
but
also
with
the
leadership
of
the
mayor
and
the
chief
and
the
commissioner
embarking
on
an
urban
forest
master
plan,
and
it's
really
an
opportune
time
to
think
about
how
all
these
pieces
connected
connect-
and
I
just
want
to
do
one
more
framing
here.
I
think
sarah
shared
with
us
a
little
bit
about
springfield,
there's,
also
programs.
Umass
amherst
has
a
very,
very
strong
forestry
program.
It's
a
land-grant
university.
N
They
recently
purchased
mount
ida
college,
which
is
just
outside
of
boston,
and
I
know,
there's
been
conversation
around
expanding
their
forestry
program
locally,
using
mount
ida
as
a
site
for
engaging
boston,
youth
and
and
young
students
around
thinking
about
forestry
as
a
career,
there's
also
the
dcr
greening
the
gateway
cities
program
which
works
in
gateway,
cities
in
and
trains
local
youth
and
employs
them
to
do
urban
forestry
work.
And
then
we
have
one
of
the
best
arboretums
in
the
country,
if
not
the
world.
That
does
a
lot
of
youth
education
and
outreach.
N
So
I
think
it's
a
matter
of
trying
to
find
a
way
to
connect
all
these
resources
and
to
really
build
a
robust
program
and
and
later
on.
I
can
share
with
you
what
we've
seen
happen
in
other
cities
across
the
country
and
what
those
partnerships
look
like,
but
I
think
counselor
bach.
This
is
really
the
the
right
conversation
for
the
right
time
and
trying
to
frame
out
what
this
might
look
like
for
the
city
of
boston.
So
thank
you.
A
Thank
you
david
and
miss
alvarez.
Mr
creely
has
joined
us,
so
you
don't
have
to
give
an
overview
for
both.
Welcome
mr
creely,
we're
going
to
have
miss
alvarez,
speak
and
then
it'll
be
your
opportunity
for
a
brief
opening
statement.
Then
we'll
open
up
for
counselors
questions.
So
ms
alvarez,
the
floor
is
yours.
L
Thank
you.
Thank
you
to
counselor
bachan
and
everyone
in
the
city
who's
championing
the
idea
of
a
youth
conservation
corps
that
then
leads
to
future
future
careers.
I
think
this
is
amazing
and
so
long
overdue.
I'm
here
to
briefly
describe
kind
of
give
you
an
in-depth
look
of
what
it
takes
to
run
a
youth
conservation
corps.
I
work
for
the
southwest
boston
cdc
for
the
past
12
years.
L
We've
employed
well
over
150
youth,
doing
environmental
stewardship
and
receiving
life
skills
and
job
readiness,
training,
so
guided
by
paul
sutton
from
the
parks
department,
our
youth
build
and
restore
walking
trails.
They
remove
trash
construction
to
be
debris,
invasive
plants
they
clean,
perimeters
and
entrances
around
urban
wilds
they
plant
native
species
prune
trees,
create
swales
for
water
runoff
and,
as
importantly,
they
educate
the
community
about
the
value
of
the
urban
wilds
and
how
to
properly
use
and
care
for
them.
L
So
that's
why
our
work
is
so
important,
but
how
the
work
benefits
you
specifically
is.
It
provides
them
with
much
needed
income.
It
prepares
them
for
long-term
success
because
we
provide
extensive
life
skills
and
job
readiness
training
each
summer.
It
also,
this
is
something
that's
not
often
talked
about.
L
L
There's
been
a
lot
of
research
in
this
area,
so
in
our
program,
what
you've
learned
are
concrete
landscape
escaping
skills.
They
learn
proper
and
safe
use
of
tools.
They
learn
the
causes
of
climate
change
and
how
it's
going
to
impact
the
community.
They
learn
how
conservation
land
helps
mitigate
those
impacts.
They
learn
proper
workplace
conduct.
They
learn
teamwork,
problem
solving
conflict
resolution.
L
They
learn
how
to
write,
resumes
and
conduct
interviews.
They
learn
how
to
open
bank
accounts,
do
budgeting
and
learn
about
credit.
They
talk
with
colleges,
two-year
and
four-year
colleges
and
professionals
in
the
green
building
trades
and
they
get
involved
in
civic
engagement,
identifying
and
addressing
issues
that
affect
them.
L
This
year
the
green
team
hosted
a
candidates
forum
for
our
state
representative
primary
race,
and
they
asked
questions
about
the
environment,
about
food
insecurity
about
housing,
so
it
was
a
real
opportunity
for
them
to
learn
even
more
than
they
usually
do
and
again
the
idea
of
this
being
a
first
step
toward
a
longer
career
and
certification
for
the
kinds
of
programs
that
dave
is
going
to
talk
about
is
critical.
The
last
thing
I
want
to
say-
and
I
cannot
stress
this
enough-
is
that
staff
capacity
makes
or
breaks
a
youth
jobs
core.
L
We
have
seen
that
because
youth
are
using
sharp
tools,
they're
working
outside
in
the
heat
and
in
the
rain,
the
work
is
demanding,
they
need
constant
motivation
and
support
close
supervision,
and
they
often
come
with
their
own
emotional
problems.
Behavioral
problems
that
impact
the
team
dynamics
and
those
all
have
to
be
addressed
be
addressed
properly.
L
Because
of
that
you
need
really
skilled
crew
leaders
and
you
need
a
ratio
of
no
more
than
four
to
five
youth
per
crew
leader.
So
you
need
that
many
staff-
and
this
has
been
an
issue
we've
had
with
dye
every
year-
is
that
they
provide
us
for
15
youth,
one
staff
person,
that's
not
enough.
We
raise
money
to
hire
additional
staff
and
it's
not
a
job
that
interns
can
do.
L
They
can
help,
but
you
really
need
qualified
staff
and
you
also
need
staff
to
manage
the
program
to
do
the
hiring
and
the
program,
development
and
the
day-to-day
management
and
the
program
evaluation.
So
it
is
not
an
inexpensive
operation
to
do
it
right.
So
the
last
thing
I'll
say
is
that
we
rely
on
dye
to
pay
youth
salaries.
The
usda
forest
service
has
been
an
amazing
friend
to
us
providing
tools
and
interns
parks,
department,
field
staff
are
what
it's
all
about.
L
They
determine
the
scope
of
work,
they
provide
on-site
landscape
training
and
they
oversee
the
work,
and
so
we're
really
happy
to
hear
that
the
in
after
january,
there'll
be
more
park
park
management
field
staff
because
we
can't
do
our
work
without
them.
So
thank
you
very
much
and
please
come
and
visit
the
green
team
this
summer.
A
All
right,
you
can
keep
visiting
the
green
team
this
summer.
Miss
albert,
thank
you
for
that,
mr
queeley.
You
had
an
opening
statement,
then
we'll
get
into
questions.
Welcome.
O
Thank
you
morning
I
want
to
thank
chair,
o'malley
counselor
bach,
her
staff
and
the
counselors
for
asking
me
to
speak
today.
I'm
dave
creely
director
of
eco
innovation,
the
codman
squaring
dc
a
community
development
corporation
in
in
dorchester,
boston's
largest
and
most
diverse
neighborhood.
We've
served
this
neighborhood
for
over
40
years.
Our
mission
is
to
build
a
cohesive,
resilient
community
in
common
square
in
south
dorchester,
develop,
affordable
housing
and
commercial
spaces
that
are
safe
and
sustainable
and
promote
economic
stability
for
low
and
moderate
income
of
all
residents
of
all
ages.
O
We
have
a
strong
record
of
building
new,
affordable
and
mixed
income,
housing,
creating
development
opportunities
and
developing
avenues
to
foster
resident
and
youth
leadership.
As
someone
who's
been
certified
by
the
national
green
infrastructure
certification
program.
As
a
green
infrastructure
practitioner
and
instructor,
we've
just
completed
our
first
certification
class
that
consisted
entirely
of
local
residents
of
color.
We
focused
our
efforts
on
recruiting
men
of
color,
re-entry
citizens
and
others
that
have
been
disenfranchised
from
the
workforce.
O
In
partnership
with
the
nature
conservancy,
we
recently
completed
a
green
paper
that
lays
out
the
case
for
robust
screen
infrastructure,
training
and
certification
programs
that
would
help
the
city
and
private
developers
of
green
infrastructure
to
ins,
construct,
inspect
and
maintain
green
infrastructure
around
the
city
to
nationally
accepted
standards.
I
think
there
are
something
like
2600
public
and
private
green
infrastructure
facilities
in
the
city.
O
Already,
we've
also
already
established
a
partnership
with
the
mass
clean
energy
center,
where
participants
in
our
program
can
get
six
to
ten
week
paid
internships
with
green
infrastructure
companies
such
as
green
roof
companies.
The
green
core
could
be
a
critical
part
of
this
effort
by
providing
a
pipeline
of
local
certified
people,
ages,
18
or
older,
with
the
opportunity
to
learn,
build
skills,
enhance
their
resumes
and
hopefully
pursue
careers
in
a
needed
and
growing
field.
O
A
Thank
you
very
much
david
appreciate
it
we're
going
to
start
with
the
counselors
questions
and
it
will
begin
with
the
lead,
sponsor
counselor
block,
followed
by
counselor.
Bach,
I
believe,
will
be
counselor
baker.
Oh
yes,
I
believe
counselor
baker
and
then
counselor
side
b,
george.
But
if
I
have
that
order
incorrectly,
I
will
remedy
that
so
counselor
box
explores
you.
B
Great,
thank
you
so
much
thanks
to
all
the
panelists
it's
so
it's
so
encouraging
to
know
about
the
work
that
is
happening
already
in
the
city
and
and
like
I
say
I
mean
obviously
the
work
ahead
of
us
is:
how
do
we?
B
How
do
we
join
things
up
and
scale
things
up,
and
how
do
we
use
the
city's
mechanisms
as
a
driver
of
that,
but
you
have
to
you
have
to
have
you
know
these
pilots
in
the
first
place
in
order
to
be
having
this
conversation,
so
really
grateful
to
you
all
I'll
start
with
a
couple
of
questions
and
then
be
mindful
of
my
colleagues.
One
is
just
dave.
I
was
wondering
if
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
on
green
infrastructure.
B
I
feel
sometimes
like
people
here
watch
the
hearing
at
home
and
they're
like
well.
What
is
green
infrastructure
is,
you
know,
is
it
great
a
green
infrastructure?
Do
we
change
the
paint
color
right
like,
and
I
just
I
wonder
if
you
could
could
speak
a
little
to
just
to
help
folks
know
like
what
that
what
that
entails
and
what
the
types
of
certifications
you're
talking
about
are,
because
I
totally
agree
with
you.
B
We've
got
a
a
piece
of
this
that
we
haven't
talked
about
a
lot
today,
but
we
need
to
be
talking
about,
is
sort
of
how
how
we
build
this
into
madison
parks
curriculum.
How
we,
how
we
just
seize
a
competitive
advantage
right
in
a
market
that
we
know
we're
gonna
drive
demand
in,
but
I
would
love
if
you
could
just
speak
a
little
bit
more
about
what
green
infrastructure
really
looks
like.
O
Yeah
just
to
speak
to
that
last
point,
I
think
that
competitive
advantage
is
critical,
because
you
know
you're,
seeing
kids
from
outlying
vocational
technical,
high
schools
kind
of
so
to
speak,
eating
our
lunch
in
terms
of
getting
the
jobs
that
our
kids
locally
should
be
should
be
getting.
So
I
think
it's
great
to
build
that
pipeline.
O
The
natural
water
cycle,
much
more
quickly
streets
and
sidewalks
and
hardscapes
that
funnel
water
down
into
the
storm
water
system,
we're
all
number
one
paying
for
that
storm
water
system
to
process
that
water
and
clean
it,
and
it's
a
lot
cheaper
to
create
nature-based
solutions
like
green
roofs
and
rain,
gardens
to
basically
clean
that
water,
not
for
free,
but
it's
a
lot
cheaper
to
do
it
than
putting
in
a
new
pipeline
system
or
new
vaulter
recreating
the
existing
gray
water
system.
That's
out
there
now.
O
I
know
boston,
water
and
sewer
has
some
mandates
that
it
has
to
meet
for
the
next
30
years
in
terms
of
stormwater
reduction.
I
think
phosphorus
is
the
focus
of
that
of
that
epa
mandate,
that
ms4
mandate
and
so
they're
already
doing
some
green
infrastructure
facilities.
I
know
they've
partnered
with
some
schools
and
puts
them
in
and
and
other
private
entities
are
putting
some
in,
but
really
we
need
to
begin
to
measure
the
impact
of
those-
and
I
know
they've
started
that
so
does
that
answer
your?
Does?
That
answer
your
question
or.
B
Yeah,
no,
that's
really
helpful.
I
think
just
I
think
we
have
to
to
your
point
we're
under
that
epa
decision,
but
the
reality
is:
we've
got
our
own
10
20
year
and
30
year,
timelines
right
when
it
comes
to
our
climate
adaptation
plans
and
it
feels
like
the
types
of
things
you're
describing
we
don't
we're
not
doing
at
scale,
and
we
don't
have
the
workforce
right
now.
So
yeah.
O
And
I
know
there's
no,
as
far
as
I
know,
there's
no
kind
of
broad
green
infrastructure
plan
that
cuts
across
departments
in
the
city
and
I
think
that's
going
to
be
needed
as
well.
You
know
parts,
btd,
boston,
water
and
sewer
and
probably
public
works
are
the
key
agencies
in
terms
of
creating
a
cohesive
or
comprehensive
plan
to
address
green
infrastructure.
So
I
can
see
the
need
for
that.
B
Great
and
then
a
question
for
jesse
jesse,
I
was
wondering
if
you
could
speak
to
you
know,
obviously
we're
thinking
about
what
we
can
do
at
the
city
level,
and
we
really
appreciate
the
the
fact
that
you've
been
partnering
from
the
federal
u.s
forest
level
with
a
lot
of
the
programs
that
we're
also
partnering
with
at
the
city
level.
But
I
wonder
you
know
if,
obviously,
if
we
were
training
more
arborists
in
the
city,
we
would.
B
We
would
hope
that
some
of
those
would
be
folks
who
could
stay
with
us
long
term.
Like
I
mentioned,
I
think
it
would
be
great
if
we
had
more
of
an
elite
arborist
workforce
inside
of
the
city,
but
obviously
for
a
pipe,
a
workforce
development
pipeline
to
be
to
scale.
B
We
need
for
those
young
people
to
have
lots
of
opportunities,
also
outside
of
being
employed
by
the
city
of
boston,
and
and
so
I
wonder
if
you
could
just
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
that
landscape
of
jobs
in
forestry
urban
forestry
kind
of
is
since
you've
come
from
a
more
national
perspective
and
also,
I
know
that
when
you
and
I
talked
before
you
talked
a
little
bit
about
there's
a
sort
of
21st
century
service
corps
that
allows
allows
us
to
affiliate.
B
You
know
potential
programs
with
this
federal
effort
so
that
the
young
people
who
work
in
it-
I
mean
not
just
young
people
right,
also
veterans,
and
I
think
dave
referred
to
the
fact
that,
like
thinking
about
could
we
could
we
create
a
pathway
for
folks
to
come
out
of
incarceration.
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
different
options
here,
but
I
think
with
that
federal
program,
it
creates
the
opportunity
to
be
more
to
be
in
the
mix
for
non-competitive
hiring
for
some
federal
agency
jobs.
M
Oh,
absolutely
absolutely
so,
as
far
as
the
different
careers
and
and
opportunities
within
urban
forestry
and
beyond,
you
know,
there
are
actually
quite
a
few.
If
you're
looking
at
a
young
person
who
has
a
college
degree,
you
know
or
the
arborist
training,
you
know
they
can
work
with
well
really
more
on
the
state
level
when
it
comes
to
our
city,
our
local
level,
when
it
comes
to
specifically
urban
forestry,
we
do
have
urban
and
urban
forestry
program
within
the
agency
that
really
works
across
states
to
engage
in.
M
You
know
whether
it's
it's
forest
health
infrastructure,
research,
development
and
so
those
those
types
of
jobs
are
quite
limited
in
the
forest
service.
At
the
federal
level,
however,
you
know
similar
positions
do
do
occur
across
federal
agencies,
so
so
you
know
there
are
those
opportunities
I
think,
where
the
the
biggest
bang
for
the
buck.
As
far
as
the
pipeline
is
concerned,
really
it's
going
to
be.
M
You
know
those
local
opportunities,
whether
it's
with
the
cities
or
state
jobs,
dcr
municipalities,
but
then
also,
you
know
when
you
look
at
the
the
broader
picture
of
related
jobs
to
urban
forestry.
You
know
again
once
you
have
that
training.
The
training
really
is
the
key.
Once
you
have
the
training,
it
opens
the
door
to
so
many
different
opportunities.
Whether
or
not
that's
the
climate
adaptation
work.
That's
going
on
whether
or
not
that's
you
know
again
the
forex
health
public
engagement.
M
You
know
it
really
kind
of
runs
a
a
pretty
broad
spectrum
of
opportunities,
and
we
really
are
interested
in
seeing
those
those
pipelines
created.
You
mentioned
the
21st
century
conservation
service
corps,
which
is
a
federal
effort
that
was
created
a
number
of
years
ago
to
really
work
with
communities,
local
organizations
that
are
hiring
young
people
who
are
working
really
doing
any
sort
of
work
that
benefits
the
environment,
whether
or
not
it's
mowing
lawns
planting
trees.
M
M
This
is
supposed
to
be
a
modern
day,
take
on
it,
so
that
you
know
we
are
employing
young
people
16
to
25
years
old
and
veterans
up
to
the
age
of
35,
who
are
again
giving
back
to
our
communities
working
to
working
in
stewardship
environmental
stewardship
and
there's
a
piece
of
that
that
allows
them
to
actually
use
those
hours
that
they're
being
paid
to
count
towards
a
special
hiring
certificate
to
to
apply
for
a
job
with
a
land
management
agency
like
the
forest
service
or
park
service,
fish
and
wildlife
service.
M
And
so
those
opportunities
are
there
and
again,
you
know
once
they
have
that
training
once
they
have
the
education
there's
a
whole
broad
spectrum
of
environmental
jobs
that
are
available
available
to
them,
and
you
also
mention
it's
gonna
mention
the
worcester
tree
initiative,
which
was
a
program
that
was
started
around
the
asian
longhorn
beetle
outbreak
that
really
looked
at
taking
people
who
were,
in
course
incarcerated
at
some
point
system
involved
and
training
them
giving
them.
The
training
to
you
know
do
that.
M
B
Fantastic,
mr
chairman,
I
have
questions
for
pat
and
david,
but
I
can
hold
them
and
allow
colleagues
to
go.
A
Okay,
thank
you.
We
will
we'll
come
back
to
you,
counselor
bach
jesse.
Thank
you
for
mentioning
the
asian
longhorn
beetle
outbreak.
I
just
want
to
take
this
opportunity
so
for
those
who
may
not
be
aware
of
what
had
happened,
it
was
probably
two
months
after
I
was
elected,
so
this
is
back
in
2010
where
the
alb
was
discovered
in
the
arnold
arboretum
and
it
could
have
been
absolutely
disastrous.
I
mean
literally
the
entire
arboretum.
A
The
the
entire
park
could
have
had
been
decimated,
but
it
was
quick
work
with
some
really
great
coordination
with
the
federal
state
and
city
government
and
wanted
to
give
special
kudos
to
the
u.s
department
of
forestry,
forestry
for
really
some
nimble,
great
work
that
saved
tens
of
thousands
of
trees.
Because
of
that
I
mean
it
was
just,
it
was
just
remarkable.
So
thank
you
for
bringing
that
up.
Counselor
braden.
You
have
the
floor
next
up
for
questions.
H
This
this
whole
discussion
is,
is
very
wide-ranging
and
very
exciting.
I'm
just
curious
as
well.
We
have
some
eminent
centers
of
higher
education
and
all
in
in
boston.
Are
there
partnerships
with
like
harvard
or
the
arbor
arnold,
arboretum
and
and
other
university
level
level
programs
in
the
city,
and
are
they
doing
anything
to
support
this
work
because
they
do
have
significant
land
holdings
in
the
city
and
I'm
sure
they
need?
H
H
Are
we
working
on
partnerships
with
with
other
large
nonprofits
in
the
city
to
or
is
that
something
that's
been
thought
about?
Thank
you.
N
Clearly,
you
know
a
well-established
organization,
that's
affiliated
and
owned
by
harvard
and
harvard
actually
also
runs
harvard
forest,
which
is
about
an
hour
west
of
boston
that
that's
a
research
forest,
and
I
know
that
both
those
institutions
do
have
an
education
and
outreach
arm
to
them,
and
I
I
just
discovered
the
other
week
that
that
the
arboretum
does
have
a
summer
program
with
norfolk
aggie,
where
they
train
high
school
students
on
abort
culture
and
and
forestry
boston's
vo-tech
program
does
not
have
a
green
focus
at
all.
N
They
focus
on
other
things
and-
and
I
think
would
be
interesting
to
think
about
opportunities
to
expand
the
voc
tech
or
or
be
more
inclusive.
To
to
mr
queeley's
point
around,
you
know
the
these
other
folk
tech
programs
outside
of
the
city
are
coming
in
and
taking
these
jobs.
N
How
does
bps
fit
into
this
and
then
how
do
we
leverage
the
resources
to
your
point,
councilwoman
that
are
already
in
boston
to
to
really
create
something
that
is
homegrown,
and
that
takes-
and
I
know
bu,
for
example-
has
a
very
strong
environmental
urban
forestry
focus
more
on
research
than
on
practice,
but
there
are
plenty
of
resources
and
opportunities
here
across
the
city,
and
you
know
things
to
explore.
Get
you
know
these
these
nested
eggs?
Yes,.
H
I
agree,
I
think
this
and
we
have
a
lot
of
resources
that
are
being
left
on
the
table
and
to
your
point,
I
think,
of
the
volk
tech
high
school,
from
out
of
you
know
in
norfolk.
County
has
taken
advantage
of
of
the
infrastructure
here
in
the
city
then
begs
the
question:
why
is
our
not
are
volk
tech
high
school
not
doing
the
same,
and
why
do
we
not
have
a
an
urban
forestry
strand
in
in
that
high
school?
H
So
there's
obviously
some
work
to
do
in
that
area
that
could
that
could
prove
very
fruitful.
I
think
that's
the
only
the
only
question
I
had
for
now.
Thank
you.
B
So
I
I
think
some
of
the
folks
on
here
might
know
a
bit
about
the
umass
involvement.
I
mean
both
in
boston
and
amherst
in
this
space,
and
I
didn't
know
if
anyone
wanted
to
comment
on
that.
M
I
know
very
little,
but
I'll
I'll
give
it
a
try.
I
do
know
that
the
forest
service
works
actually
has
researchers
at
umass
boston,
amherst,
working
with
with
the
university
there,
especially
around
urban
forestry,
and
engaging
the
communities
out
that
way
we
have
worked
a
little
bit
with
umass
boston,
their
school
for
the
environment,
and
we
were
in
the
process
of
developing
a
partnership
with
them
to
connect
the
university
with
the
white
mile
national
forest.
M
Unfortunately,
through
attrition,
we
lost
those
contacts
at
the
university
where
we
lost
one
of
their
main
professors
and
the
dean
in
one
one
swoop,
so
we're
in
the
process
of
rebuilding
those
connections.
N
I
just
want
to
quickly
put
a
plug
for
umass
amherst
and
we've
actually
applied
for
a
grant
to
work
with
some
of
their
professors.
N
This
summer,
to
you,
know
layer
on
to
our
teen
urban
free
core
program,
a
more
robust
training
program,
so
we're
mindful
of
the
expertise
there
and
the
work
they
do
in
forestry
and
in
urban
forestry
and
and
the
partnerships
between
the
u.s
forest
service
staff
there
and
the
work
they
do
across
the
state.
So
we're
mindful
of
that
and
look
forward
to
finding
ways
to
incorporate
on
our
own
program
and
then
think
about
how
that
might
fit
with
the
city.
H
A
B
Yeah
I'll
be
brief.
I
know
we've
also
got
public
testimony,
but
I
just
wanted
to
I
wanted
well,
I
wanted
to
ask
pat
if
she
could
speak
a
little
bit
to
again.
This
is
a
little
bit
in
the
in
the
realm
of
kind
of
making
these
things
real
for
folks.
I
think
that
I
think
there
really
are
there's
really
like
a
twin
goal
here.
There's
the
workforce,
development
and
then
there's
also
just
the
scale
of
of
you,
know.
B
Work
and
support
that
are
our
green
spaces
need
our
trees,
our
urban
wilds,
our
our
green
infrastructure,
and
so
I
wondered
if
you
could
just
tell
people
a
little
bit
about
what
the
green
team
I
mean,
you
talked
about
what
they
did,
but
you
were
talking
more
kind
of
conceptually
and
if
you
could
just
give
people
a
sense
of
like
what
that
looks
like
on
the
ground
and
what
it
would
mean
like
to
scale
up
in
terms
of
the
types
of
projects
that
that
the
young
people
are
able
to
get
done.
L
So
we
what
we
have
very
small
urban
wilds
and
very
large
open
wild
denied
park.
We've
had
small
ones
where
they
were
just
hadn't
been
touched
in
years.
So
it's
a
question
of
clearing
away
dead
trees,
dead
plants,
planting
new,
taking
away
invasives,
planting
new
thing
plants
which
require
watering.
L
We
would
engage
neighborhood
residents
in
helping
to
water
during
the
spring
and
the
fall
when
the
green
team
wasn't
operating
and
the
green
team
would
do
the
watering
they
would
do
without
you
know,
during
non-covered
years,
they'd
go
door-to-door,
knock
on
doors,
talk
any
residents
about
the
urban
wild.
Why
it's
important,
how
to
use
it
properly,
how
to
care
for
it
and
then
at
the
larger
sites.
We've
done.
You
know:
we've
built
trails
through
the
woods.
We've
we've
restored
trails
that
were
deteriorated.
L
We've
taken
an
area
that
needed
to
be
cleaned
out,
we've
taken
out
all
the
again
all
the
debris,
all
the
invasives
and
planted
all
new.
You
know
native
plants
and
trees,
we've
created
swales
and
improved
on
existing
soils
for
water,
runoff.
We've
you
name
it
I
mean
we.
We
learn
how
to
identify
invasive
plants
and
how
to
properly
remove
them,
so
they
don't
come
back.
We
learn
how
to
cultivate
native
plants
that
help
that
help
the
urban
wild
stay
safer.
L
We
remove
lots
of
construction
debris,
it
gets
dumped,
we
remove
trash,
we
take
residents
on
tours,
so
they
understand
the
woods.
We
engage
volunteers,
we
engage
corporate
volunteers,
we
had
a
training
one
year
with
a
charles
river
watershed
association
because
believe
it
or
not
the
there's.
The
stony
brook,
runs
under
our
sharon
woods,
urban,
wild
and
hyde
park
and
empties
into
the
charles
river.
So
they
had
an
interest
in
working
with
us
and
we
came
together.
Our
youth
taught
them
about
the
woods,
taught
them
about
what
we're
doing
and
they
got
involved.
L
So
the
youth
were
teaching
the
adults,
I'm
not
sure
what
else?
What
other
kind
of
detailed
questions
can
I
answer
about
our
about
our
stewardship
work?
I
think
that
kind
of
covers-
and
you
know
the
actual
on-the-ground
work
that
gets
done.
B
L
B
That's
amazing
and
I
think
the
sky's,
the
limit
I've
I've
been
privileged
to
know
a
bit
about
what
the
emerald
necklace
does
in
a
sort
of
parallel
program,
and
I
just
think
that,
but
I
want
to
make
sure
we
always
use
these
hearings
to.
Let
people
know
about
work,
that's
happening
in
the
city
and
give
a
real
a
real
tactile
sense
of
what
it
would
be
to
scale
this
up.
My
question
for
for
david
was
just
if
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
too.
B
I
mentioned
we
sort
of
bracketed
having
our
our
sister
cities
come
in
and
speak
with
us
to
another
time,
because
it's
the
second
to
last
day
of
council
session,
and
we
have
four
hearings
today.
But
I
wondered
if
you
could
just
speak
briefly
about
sort
of
in
your
work.
Looking
at
what
other
cities
are
doing
in
terms
of
the
scale
of
of
arborist
staff,
and
just
you
know,
programs
like
what
what's
what's
the
world
out
there,
that
we
should
be
looking
at
on
the
tree
side.
N
You
know
when,
when
we
were
founded
a
couple
of
years
ago,
I
didn't
realize
that
there
is
a
whole
world
out
there
around
urban
forestry
and
it's
really
amazing
to
see
what
other
cities
are
doing
and
we're
lucky
enough
to
partner.
You
met
miss
anderson
this
morning
with
american
forest
and
also
with
the
arbor
day
foundation,
so
there's
a
rich
network
of
both
national
and
then
local
organizations
that
we've
learned
from
and
I'll
just
highlight
a
couple
that
I
I
did.
Some
research
on
at
tree.
N
Atlanta
has
the
youth
tree
team,
which
is
a
summer
program
that
employs
high
school
students
and
they
learn
about
pruning
mulching,
weeding
and
planting
friends
of
the
urban
forest.
We've
modeled
in
san
francisco
has
a
program
called
the
green
teens
program
that
prepares
teens
for
green
jobs,
and
that
is
a
one
or
two
year
program:
jesse
scott
partnered,
with
us
with
the
greeting
youth
foundation
out
of
atlanta,
and
they
supported
one
of
our
team
leaders.
N
They
run
the
youth
urban
core
program
that
trains,
inner
city,
youth
from
17
to
25
in
the
field
of
conservation
lands
in
chicago.
I
spoke
to
my
colleague
yesterday
at
the
arbor
day
foundation,
they
have
a
forestry
training
program
and
I
believe
that
they're
right
now
developing
a
partnership
with
the
u.s
department
of
labor.
Around
training,
keep
indianapolis
beautiful
kibby,
as
they're
known
runs
the
youth
tree
team,
which
is
a
seven
week
summer
job
program
and
then
there's
also
one
in
iowa
here.
Trees
forever
runs
a
growing
futures
program.
N
So
I
think
again
to
your
point.
The
sky
is
the
limit.
We
have
a
lot
to
learn
from
what
other
cities
and
states
are
doing,
and
I
think
this
is
a
great
sort
of
leaping
off
point
for
us
to
to
think
about
how
this
might
work
locally
and
we
don't
have
to
reinvent
the
wheel.
The
wheel
is
out
there.
We
just
sort
of
have
to
adapt
it
to
the
local
circumstances.
L
And
can
I
just
mention
something
else
about
scaling
up?
I
mean
what
some
of
the
things
that
are
required
are
tools,
equipment
supplies
sheds
to
store
things
in
transportation
our
except
for
covid.
This
year
our
youth
use
bicycles.
We
give
everyone
bicycles
to
to
get
around
their
works
to
their
work
sites,
all
the
training
and
their
job.
Readiness
training
is
done
by
pro
bono
trainers,
so
either
that
means
finding
more
trainers
like
from
the
local
colleges
or
paying
people
to
do
training
and
job
readiness
and
life
skills,
and
it
requires.
L
L
Okay,
can
I
mention
one
other
thing
related
to
the
whole
world
of
environmental
stewardship
that
it
doesn't
get
talked
about
and
that
to
educate-
and
this
is
something
that
I
think
youth
could
also
do
help
do.
Is
educating
the
community
about
the
urban
wilds
that
are
their
yards
about
the
tree
canopy
in
their
yards.
About
the
grass
and
the
bushes
and
the
shrubs,
because
I
see
more
and
more
and
more
throughout
the
city,
people
just
clear
cutting
the
greenery
in
their
own
yards,
which
is
disastrous.
L
It's
creating
heat
island
effect.
It
causes
all
kinds
of
health
problems,
it's
terrible
for
the
environment
and
many
people,
especially
newcomers.
Don't
don't
know
this,
and
I
don't
see
that
the
city
is
doing
any
education
on
this
at
all
and
it's
critical.
N
And
pat
to
your
point,
the
the
tree
canopy
assessment
that
the
city
released
earlier
this
year
shows
exactly
that
is
that
al
most
of
the
loss
on
the
tree
canopy
came
from
private
space,
not
public
space.
So
I
think
that's
a
point
well
taken
yeah.
A
You
and
thank
you,
you
know
one
of
the
reasons
why
I
love
having
these
hearings
is.
That
really
is
more
of
a
conversation,
so
I
appreciate
all
the
sort
of
the
feedback
and
the
great
give
and
take
among
our
panelists
and
counselors.
So
I
don't
have
any
further
questions:
counselor
baca,
council
braden,
if
you
don't
have
any
further
questions
for
this
panel.
A
Thank
you.
We
are
going
to
now
work
onto
public
testimony.
I
have
three
hoods
signed
up:
sarah
freeman,
laura
holmes
and
caroline
reeves.
I
say
I've.
We've
admitted
sarah
and
lore.
I
don't
see
caroline
reeves,
I
know
karen
monty
broderick
from
the
enc
is
with
us,
so
I
don't
know
if
she
was
wanted
to
speak
as
well,
but
just
raise
your
hand
if
any
of
there's
karen
eddie.
So
there
are
four
individuals,
two
of
whom
may
be
karen
in
the
attendees.
A
So
just
raise
your
hand
if
you
would
like
to
speak-
and
I
will
admit
you
and
we
will
now
begin
with
a
woman
who
always
blushes
when
I
refer
to
her
as
such,
my
favorite
constituent
sarah
freeman
great,
to
see
you,
I
don't
margo.
This
may
be
a
hint
of
red
in
her
hair,
her
hair,
so
she
may
join
us,
but
sarah
great
to
see
you
virtually
and
the
floor
is
now
yours.
P
Thank
you
quite
an
introduction.
Yeah
her
hair
does
look
like
it's.
Has
some
tints
in
it,
so
that'll
be
fun
to
watch.
Is
this
her
first
hearing
no
she's.
A
Actually
had
quite
a
few,
and
even
some
council
meetings,
so
she's
an
old
pro,
so
thank
you
awesome
we'll
get
her
vested
before
this
is
over.
P
P
You
may
not
know
I'm
a
former
teacher
and
I
love
the
idea
of
the
youth,
jobs
and
career
paths
and
those
of
you
who
remember
sam
sherwood
who's
no
longer
with
us.
He
used
to
say
we
ought
to
have
a
equivalent
of
civilian
conservation
corps,
but
we
never
got
around
to
doing
anything
about
it.
So
really
appreciative
a
few
quick
comments.
Counselor
baker
really
hit
a
nerve
when
he
pointed
out
that
trees
have
gotten
planted
but
don't
survive.
P
I
think
way
too
many,
whether
it's
street
trees
or
whatever
it
really
is
painful
to
to
see
them
not
survive,
and
even
if
they're
under
warranty
and
get
a
replacement
tree,
you
never
end
up
with
a
mature
tree,
I
won't
say
never,
but
all
too
often
and
things
like
invasives
removal,
that's
a
lot
of
specialized
work
and
the
park
maintenance
staff
they've
worked
hard
and
it's
been
pointed
out
today.
P
P
P
We
had
those
loops
where,
if
you
water
it,
the
water
goes
down
into
the
underground
right
to
the
roots,
but
we
needed
volunteers
to
do
the
watering
and
some
neighbors
volunteered,
but
in
the
areas
where
there
weren't
houses
nearby,
we
hired
those
urban
youth
and
it
was
a
really
feel-good
opportunity
that
we
got
to
know
some
of
the
kids
and
that
at
the
end
of
the
summer,
they
held
a
joint
program
where
they
made
certificates
for
everyone
who
had
been
watering
and
they
baked
cookies
and
more
to
the
point,
it
hopefully
gave
those
young
people
a
a
sense
of
importance
that
that
they
were
helping
the
community
and
I'll
leave.
P
You
with
one
anecdote
about
the
emerald
necklace
who
has
it's
come
up
earlier
today.
Has
the
green
team.
We
tend
not
to
know
what
becomes
of
those
kids,
but
this
winter
I
had
or
fall
had
some
insulation
done
in
my
attic
and
through
one
of
those
mass
safe
programs
and
they
left
one
little
bit
undone.
And
so,
when
I
got
the
survey,
I
reported
that
and
the
supervisor
came
as
a
follow-up
appointment
and
when
he
walked
in
he
said.
P
A
Thank
you,
sarah,
and
that
that's
a
great
story
how
things
really
just
how
the
green
economy
is
growing
and
to
see
to
see
these
young
people
get
terrific
careers
and
well-paying
and
needed
careers
as
well.
So
thank
you
for
that
laura
holmes.
Another
dear
friend
from
cerro
corporation
the
floor
is
now
yours
and
then
karen
you
will
be
after
laura,
so
laura
welcome.
Q
We
applaud
you
councillor
bach
and
this
committee
for
taking
the
lead
to
establish
the
conservation
corps
and
glad
to
see
the
non-profit
speakers
collaborating
on
this
too.
It's
important
also
to
recognize
that
there's
deep
expertise
in
the
community
private
sector
as
well
responsible
mbe
contractors
want
to
grow
with
qualified
employees
and
they
should
be
involved
in
building
the
career
ladders
too.
Q
People
like
david
hurst,
who
started
his
landscaping
business
in
mattapan
26
years
ago
in
the
community
where
he
was
born
and
raised.
Mr
hurst's
dream
has
always
been
to
help
local
young
entrepreneurs
learn
sustainable
landscaping
and
business
skills
that
will
prepare
them
to
build
bid
on
contracts
and
perform
them
well,
building
and
maintaining
green
infrastructure
in
boston.
Q
So,
while
job
youth
job
training
is
great,
let's
also
find
ways
to
help
small
businesses
like
hearst
landscaping,
scale
and
support
green
small
business
development
that
can
address
adult
and
re-entering
citizens.
Employment
too.
These
are
communities,
as
we
know,
affected
by
environmental
injustice,
as
well
as
deep
unemployment,
especially
now
last
year,
soto
teamed
up
with
mr
hurst
and
other
partners
to
propose
a
green
new
deal:
innovation
center
in
matapan,
where
david
could
grow
his
dream
in
a
training
center
designed
to
prepare
community
members
and
re-entering
citizens
for
green
jobs
of
the
future.
Q
A
You
thank
you
very
much
laura.
I
see
we
have
been
joined
by
carolyn
reeves.
Welcome,
we're
gonna,
go
to
karen
amani
brodick
from
the
emerald,
necklace,
conservancy
and
then
miss
reeves.
You
will.
You
will
have
the
floor
karen.
The
floor
is
yours.
R
Hello,
can
you
hear
me?
Oh
great,
okay,
hi,
I'm
karen
money,
brodic
from
the
emerald
knuckles
conservancy,
I'm
really
really
thrilled
that
this
conversation
is
happening.
You
know
one
of
the
things
that
I
have
enjoyed
most
about
the
work
that
we
do
with
the
emerald
necklace
conservancy
is
our
green
team.
Where
and
I'm
this
is
my.
This
is
my
version
of
sharing
screen.
This
is
a
picture
of
the
kids
out
there
planting
our
summer
youth
program,
which
we
call
our
green
team.
R
Over
the
last
several
years,
we've
had
hundreds
of
kids
go
through
our
summer
program
and
then
also
our
after
school
program
during
the
school
year
when
it
gets
dark.
So
we
do
a
lot
of
you
know
things
that
involve
more
teaching
and
you
know,
classroom
type
education.
I
want
to
just
really
stress
the
thoughtful
comments
of
particularly
pat
alvarez,
who
is
a
strong
partner
of
ours,
of
the
southwest
cdc.
R
I
think
that
the
points
that
she
was
making
about
the
need
to
make
sure
we,
every
year
we
fundraise
for
for
the
staff
that
we
hire
to
work
with
the
the
youth.
It
is
really
important
that
there's
a
really
good
supervision
ratio,
so
that's
really
important
point
that
that
pat
is
making-
and
I
really
hope
that
that's
taken
to
heart,
you
know-
and
I
think
the
concepts
that
have
come
up
today
about
going
to
scale
and
trying
to
be
bigger
is
is
important.
You
know
this
summer.
R
We
wanted
to
have
as
many
as
100
kids
in
our
program,
but
instead
only
30
spots
were
filled,
and
so
this
this
points
to
the
fact
that
there
might
be
some
real
opportunities
to
think
about
where
are
the?
Where
is
the
bottleneck,
is
the
bottleneck
in
finding
the
kids
in
the
for
the
program?
Is
it
about
interesting
them
in
the
work?
Is
it
about
some
something
else?
I
you
know
is
it
about
additional
resources?
R
I'm
not
sure
what
this
is
something
that
I'm
really
hoping
we
can
look
into,
because
I
do
think
it
would
be
good
to.
You
know
have
the
opportunity
to
scale
up.
For
example,
this
fall
we've
been
trying
to
start
our
program
also
with
the
city,
and
we
we
we
have
interviewed.
R
We
had
over
100
applicants,
we
interviewed
30
students
and
we
have
now
understood
that
we
are
able
to
have
six
slots.
So
there's
I
don't
know
if
that's
funding
or
if
it's
hiring
capacity
or
staffing
capacity.
So
I
think
these
are
all
important
questions
to
ask
as
we
go
forward
where,
where
are
the
where,
where
have
been
the
the
factors
that
have
limited
us
in
the
past
and
how
can
can
those
be
changed?
Also,
jesse
scott
has
been
a
great
partner.
R
I
just
want
to
respond
to
a
couple
of
questions
that
were
brought
up
before
counselor
braden.
Yes,
the
arnold
arboretum
does
have
a
youth
education
program.
We
partner
with
them
our
youth,
go
to
the
arboretum
and
get
really
great
training
from
the
amazing
experts
there
every
year.
I
think
these
we
have
so
many
resources
in
this
city
this
summer.
R
So
I
think
that
everybody
wants
to
do
this,
it's
about
the
time
and
the
resources
and
knowing
in
advance
how
many
youth
we
can
place
and
when
that
date
will
start,
those
things
have
sometimes
been
a
little
bit
of
a
shifting,
a
shifting
landscape
for
us
and
it's
hard
to
plan
and
make
a
really
robust
curriculum.
I
think
that
it
is,
I
think,
commit
chief
cook
chief
cook's
point
earlier
about
making
sure
it's
a
really
high
quality
program
is
really
important.
R
Just
you
know,
you
know
unleashing
a
bunch
of
wonderful
excited.
Interested
kids
into
the
environment
is
good,
but
it's
not
going
to
interest
folks
in
careers
unless
we
give
them
exciting,
stimulating
things.
We
have
sophisticated
smart
kids
in
the
city,
so
we
need
to
make
sure
that
that
we
we
challenge
them
and
we
show
them
that
there
is
this
opportunity.
I
am.
R
R
It
is
clear
to
me
that
if
we
can
start
people
young
in
these
fields
that
they
do
find
a
path,
but
I
think
the
analogy
about
needing
to
fix
the
pipe
is
so
important,
because,
right
now
we
don't
always
have
the
opportunity
to
to
like
we
give
students
resume,
writing
job
interview,
training
all
of
those
things,
but
we
don't
like
check
in
with
them
again
in
six
months
and
say:
hey:
do
you
need
help
finding
an
internship
or
hey?
R
If
you
found
out
about
the
city
college
program
like
there's
ways
that
we
can,
I
think,
be
bridging
those
divides
that
are
not
that
are
not
happening
happening
now.
I
there's
there's
so
much
more
to
say,
and
I
know
that
there's
like
limited
time
for
you
to
hear
from
all
of
us,
but
you
know
I'm
very
excited
about
these
conversations.
R
Our
urban
forestry
program,
which
you
know
we
partner
with
the
city
and
the
state
and
others
to
to
hire
you
know
certified
arborists,
you've
heard
so
much
about
to
do
all
the
tree
work.
You
know
there's
definitely
a
limited
number
of
those
folks
in
massachusetts.
R
We
when
we
bid
contracts,
unfortunately,
sometimes
we
don't
always
get
the
most
competitive
prices.
So
by
bringing
more
people
in
this
field,
not
only
will
we
be
training,
people
for
good
jobs,
but
we
potentially
be
saving.
You
know
the
city
and
the
private
sector
and
the
donate
the
sector
that
raises
money
through
donations.
Funds
by
you
know
having
a
greater
pool
of
people
that
can
do
this
work
and
and
and
do
it
better
for
all
of
us.
I
wanted
to
just
mention
two
one
program
that
I
okay.
I
know
I'm
scared.
A
Thank
you,
miss
reeves.
You
have
the
floor.
S
Thank
you
so
much
for
giving
me
this
opportunity
to
speak
to
you
all.
My
name
is
carolyn
reeves,
I'm
with
the
muddy
water
initiative.
In
august
of
this
year,
with
the
help
of
the
city
we
launched
our
water
go,
which
is
a
trash
removal
device.
We
launched
it
in
the
charles
gate
fence,
part
of
the
emerald
necklace
and
every
week
since
august
5th,
we
have
had
teams
of
volunteers
down
on
the
river
cleaning
out
trash
from
the
river.
It's
been
a
huge
success.
We've
had
over
a
hundred
volunteers
down
there.
S
What
I
wanted
to
mention
today
is
that
the
the
creation
of
a
boston
conservation
corps
will
harness
the
kind
of
energy
and
enthusiasm
and
can
do
spirit
that
our
boston
communities
really
exhibit
when
they're
down
on
the
river
with
us.
This
is
something
that
makes
people
excited
they
want
to
do
it.
It
builds
goodwill
working
for
a
positive
cause,
making
a
change
in
something
that
seems
intractable.
Environmental
degradation
is
something
that
moves
people
most
of
our
volunteers
come
back
more
than
once.
Sometimes
they
come
back
every
week,
they
want
to
be
involved.
S
S
People
feel
good
about
doing
this
work,
so
I'm
so
excited
to
hear
that
a
boston
conservation
corps
is
is,
is
an
idea
and
something
that
might
happen
because
I
know
it's
something
that
makes
boston
residents
excited.
We've
had
urban
youth
we've
had
retirees,
we've
had
professional
people,
we've
had
students
of
of
all
ages
down
on
the
river
and
all
of
them
love
getting
their
hands
dirty
to
do
work
that
they
know
will
make
their
future
brighter.
Please
make
this
happen.
City
of
boston.
S
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Miss
reeves
appreciate
your
great
work
as
well
as
karen's
great
work,
not
seeing
any
other
opportunities
for
public
testimony.
Individuals
looking
to
make
a
public
testimony,
counselor
braden
and
we're
going
to
close
with
council
blocker
council
brave.
Did
you
have
any
concluding
thoughts
or
comments.
A
Oh,
I
do
apologize.
Yes,
h,
parker
james,
I
apologize.
I
missed
that
I
am
going
to
promote
you
to
panelist
and.
A
T
I
just
want
to
speak
very
briefly:
I'm
parker
james.
I
work
for
the
charles
gate
alliance,
we're
associated
both
with
the
muddy
water
initiative
and
with
the
emerald
necklace.
T
I
just
want
to
speak
to
one
issue,
which
is:
we
are
extremely
enthusiastic
about
the
creation
of
a
boston
conservation
corps,
but
in
charles
gate
and
in
the
muddy
river
and
along
the
charles
river.
That's
there's
land
that
is
part
of
the
city
of
boston,
but
is
in
is
part
of
the
dcr
and
therefore
in
the
control
of
the
commonwealth.
T
It
would
be
so
wonderful
if
the
boston
conservation
corps
could
be
framed
in
a
manner
that
the
workers
could
work
on
dcr
land
as
well
as
boston
city
land,
but
regardless
of
that,
all
of
us
are
very
strongly
in
favor
of
of
doing
this,
and
thank
you
both
councillor
bach
and
councillor
o'malley
for
sponsoring
this
legislation.
T
A
It
thank
you,
mr
james
and
well
said,
certainly
think
the
partnership
between
the
state
and
the
city
is
crucial
for
this,
particularly
dcr,
which
is
such
a
vital
part
of
our
park
system
and
park
ecosystem
in
boston.
A
So
I
I'm
just
double
checking
I
don't
see
any
other
blue
hands
raised
so
again,
counselor
bach,
the
lead
sponsor
is
going
to
have
the
final
word,
but
before
we
get
to
her
counselor
braden,
did
you
want
to
finish
your
concluding
thoughts?
Yeah.
H
I
just
want
to
thank
counselor
park
and,
and
and
your
self
mr
chair,
for
your
leadership
in
this
area
and
to
bring
this
suggestion
forward.
I
think
it's
got
huge
potential
not
only
in
developing
our
green
workforce
in
boston,
but
also
in
protecting
and
strengthening
and
expanding
our
our
urban
forest
and
our
tree
canopy
and
protecting
our
urban
wild.
So
I'm
very,
very
excited
and
cut
me
in
when
it
comes
to
trying
to
develop
this
and
and
get
the
boat
into
the
water,
so
to
speak.
H
A
Thank
you,
council,
braden,
counselor
bach,
before
I
turn
it
over
to
one
wanted
to
again.
Thank
you
for
your
incredible
leadership.
I
love
this
idea,
I'm
so
excited
to
see
how
we
can
not
only
flesh
it
out
but
make
it
a
reality
for
next
year,
and
I'm
glad
that
we're
able
to
have
this
as
the
final
hearing
for
the
environment
committee
and
really
appreciate
your
leadership
and
really
excited
about
this
opportunity.
A
So
thank
you
for
for
being
the
visionary
here
and
thank
you
to
the
mayor's
team
and,
more
importantly,
thank
you
to
the
incredible
advocates
who,
day
in
and
day
out,
trudge
in
the
trenches,
often
for
little
or
no
money
to
make
this
reality.
It's
great
continuing
to
work
with
you
and
really
excited
to
see
the
urgency
of
our
work
continue
next
year
and
even
heightened
pace
so
counselor
bach
for
concluding
remarks.
The
floor
is
yours.
B
I
got
it.
Thank
you,
thank
you
so
much
counselor
o'malley
and
for
all
your
leadership
on
this
very
much
following
in
your
footsteps
on
this
front,
and
I
really
do
want
to
thank.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
the
the
advocates
we
could
have
had
a
whole
panel
of
folks.
B
We've
got
with
karen
at
the
emerald,
necklace,
conservancy
and
the
muddy
water
initiative
and
charles
gate,
and
I
think
a
lot
about
how,
in
my
district,
the
muddy
river
really
is
sort
of
an
original
case
of
green
infrastructure
in
boston
and
and
so
it's
it's
important
to
note
that
this
isn't
just
some
new
fangled
thing
that
we're
inventing
it's
something
that
that
we
need
to
go
back
to
and
and
deepen
and
yeah.
And
I
really
appreciate
all
the
advocates
being
on
here.
B
I
think
the
whole
point
of
of
pilot
programs
is
to
learn
from
them,
and
so
it's
really
important
for
us
to
hear
from
all
of
you.
You
know
from
from
pat
and
david
and
dave
and
jesse,
and
also
sarah
who's
on
our
first
panel
about
like
what
works
and
what
doesn't
and
what
the
key
components
are
here.
I'm
very
aware
that
as
counselors
we,
you
know
it's,
it's
not
our
job,
nor
is
it
necessarily
our
competency
to
figure
out
all
the
best
details
of
a
program.
B
What
what
is
our
job,
I
think,
is
to
like
see
when
we've
got
a
kind
of
disconnected
landscape
in
the
city
like
this
and
also
just
like
a
a
strong
mandate
right
for
us
to
actually
meet
our
climate
goals
through
a
totally
ramped
up
urban
forestry
program.
Grain
infrastructure
program,
as
I
said,
we
sort
of
bracketed
it
for
today,
but
building
retrofit
program
to
an
urban
wild
program
right
to
just
really
like
transform
all
this
in
our
city
and
to
say:
okay.
B
Well,
how
are
we
going
to
take
these
disconnected
pieces
and
and
help
help
build
that
connective
tissue
so
that
we've
really
got
a
system
that
works
and
it
gets
us
where
we're
trying
to
go.
So
I
appreciate
the
administration
being
on
this
morning
and
all
their
work,
and
I
think
this
is
definitely
going
to
be
a
tactile
conversation
in
the
year
ahead
in
the
coming
months
to
figure
out
like
what
what
are
the
concrete.
You
know
budgeting
and
programmatic
steps.
B
We
need
to
take
to
go
in
this
direction
and-
and
my
hope
would
be-
that
boston
could
become
a
model
both
for
how
to
tackle
climate
change
and
also
how
to
use
this
opportunity
not
to
just
do
the
same
old,
but
to
actually
create
a
real
pathway
for
bostonians,
especially
bostonians
of
color,
who
are
too
often
shut
out
of
the
jobs
that
get
funded
through
city
funds
like
just
totally
turn
that
on
its
head
right
and
make
and
to
jesse's
point
about
all
the
jobs
available.
B
Also
in
other
municipalities,
right
like
what
we
wanted
to
train
a
bunch
of
folks
in
boston
and
then
and
then
let
let
other
folks
employ
the
ones
that
we're
not
able
to
and
that
that
to
me
is
a
a
vision
that
should
be
a
reality
here.
So
I'm
really
grateful
for
everyone's
advocacy
and
I'm
looking
forward
to
sort
of
refiling
this
and
continuing
to
work
on
it
in
the
new
year.
So
thank
you,
mr
chairman.
Thank.
A
You
councilor
bach,
thank
you.
Everybody
round
of
applause,
rn
is
in
order,
and
this
hereby
concludes
this
hearing.
I
look
forward
to
continuing
the
work
and
partnership
next
year.
The
hearing
is
now
adjourned
have
a
great
day,
everybody
and
happy
holidays.
All
right
nice
to
see
you
all.