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From YouTube: Committee on Government Operations February 16, 2017
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Docket #0181- An Act Relative to an imposed surcharge to finance the Boston Exhibition & Convention Center
A
Eight
to
discuss
docket
0181
message
in
order
approving
a
home-rule
petition
to
the
General
Court,
entitled
an
act
relative
to
surcharges
imposed
to
finance
the
Boston
Convention
Center
convention
in
exhibition
center.
This
matter
was
sponsored
by
Mayor
Walsh
referred
to
the
committee
on
government
operations
back
on
january,
twenty
fifth
and
basically
doctored
0181
is
a
home
rule
petition
that
would
redirect
revenue
to
the
city's
general
fund
from
to
search
ads
generates
to
search
ads
that
are
generated
from
the
Boston
Convention
and
Exhibition
Centre
fund
under
state
law.
A
There
was
a
five
percent
surcharge
on
the
price
of
sightseeing
tours
conducted
in
the
city,
as
well
as
a
ten-dollar
surcharge
on
each
rental.
Car
transaction
in
the
city
surcharges
are
credited
to
the
convention
center
fund
to
help
pay
for
costs
related
to
the
bcec,
including
directing
project
expenditures
and
debt
service.
A
According
to
the
mayor's
transmittal
letter,
there
is
a
surplus
fund
each
year,
which
would
be
able
to
be
used
for
important
city
initiatives
such
as
pre,
universal
pre-kindergarten,
pre-k,
so
docket
0181
would
require
the
state
treasurer
to
segregate
the
revenues
into
a
separate
fund
and
then
distribute
to
the
city
on
a
quarterly
basis.
So
that's
sort
of
it
in
a
nutshell,
and
my
colleague
has
any
opening
statement.
A
We
can
get
right
into
it
with
the
administration,
so
we're
joined
here
today
by
chief
financial
officer,
Dave
Sweeney,
he's
joined
by
chief
education
from
the
Dorsey
and
merry
McCoy
revenue
manager
and
just
brought
to
my
attention
as
a
reference
that
it
does
require
that
the
state
treasurer
ask
to
segregate
fun.
So,
let's
be
aware
that
when
this
goes
up
the
beacon
hill,
so
that
said,
I'll
turn
it
over
to
Dave
Sweeney.
Pointing
opening
comments
and
thoughts.
I
think
you
guys
may
have
a
presentation
of
some
sort.
Yeah.
B
Thank
You
counselor,
we
Dave
Sweeney
I'm
chief
financial
officer
for
the
city
of
Boston.
We
have
a
very
brief
presentation
that
I'm
going
to
you
threw
if
you
allow
and
then
run,
has
some
statements
to
make
providing
some
context
as
relative
to
the
overall
universal
pre-k
issue
in
the
city
and
the
work
that's
done
over
the
last
few
years.
So
this
is
one
this
home
row
petition
would
be
one
component
of
an
education
finance
reform
package
that
the
mayor's
put
together
this
legislative
session.
B
This
particular
piece
would
accounts
for
about
16
and
a
half
million
of
that
35
million.
Additionally,
we
have
supported
legislation
filed
by
Senator
chang-diaz,
which
is
a
modification
of
legislation
that
was
passed
in.
The
Senate
last
session
would
be
more
beneficial
to
Boston
the
previous
iterations.
That
legislation
would
have
a
monumental
impact
on
the
city's
finances
and
bps
and
that
it
would
free
up.
It
would
get
us
about
an
additional
150
million
dollars
per
year.
B
So
they're
generally
categorized
by
this
proposal
that
we're
here
to
speak
specifically
about
today,
would
provide
every
Boston
four
year
old,
with
a
high-quality
pre-k
seat.
We
have
legislation
that
would
fix
the
broken
charter,
school
transition
funding
model.
We
would
modify
the
state
circuit
breaker
reimbursement
as
well.
That
would
gain
the
city
about
six
million
dollars
a
year
in
additional
revenue.
They
would
go
directly
to
Boston
Public
Schools
and,
as
I
referenced,
we
could
make
transformational
education.
Funding
available
for
Boston
of
the
state
identifies
new
education
revenue
source.
B
All
these
are
aimed
at
making
research-driven
targeted
investments
to
close
the
achievement
gap.
We
have
fully
extended
the
school
day
to
six
and
a
half
hours
for
kindergarten
through
eighth
grade
for
23,000
students
as
adding
120
hours
of
learning
that
will
be
fully
implemented
or
it
is
envisioned
that
that
will
be
fully
implemented.
Next
year's
bps
budget
we're
now
serving
725
additional
students
in
high
quality,
full-day
pre-k
at
vbf
and
in
community-based
settings
compared
to
three
years
ago.
B
We've
also
launched
excellence
for
all
in
13
schools
to
provide
enriching
academic
experiences
to
fourth
grade
students,
in
addition
to
the
advanced,
where
a
class
that
was
already
in
place.
We've
we've
expanded
on
the
early
hiring
program
to
provide
school
leaders
with
flexibility,
to
put
effective
teachers
in
every
classroom
and
then
sort
of
outside
of
VPS.
But
then
the
overall
city
and
citi
related
entity
umbrella,
offering
tuition
free
community
college
to
eligible
from.
B
These
rev
related
proposals
and
funding
formula
related
proposals
in
some
ways
grew
out
of
the
work
done
on
the
bps
long-term
financial
plan,
which
members
of
BPS
other
interested
groups
in
the
city
worked
on,
so
that
the
plans
major
and
plans
major
findings
can
be
synthesized
into
10
big
ideas.
Many
of
them
are
inward-looking
and
and
call
for
reforms
for
the
way
that
dps
does
business
in
order
to
get
itself
on
a
sustainable
financial
fact,
and
some
of
those
are
already
underway.
B
So,
for
instance,
this
year
we've
attempted-
and
this
is
continuing
into
the
next
fiscal
year-
we've
attempted
to
curb
the
increasing
transportation
costs,
the
DPS
as
as
experienced
over
the
last
several
years
years,
that
diverts
funding
out
of
the
classrooms
and
onto
the
streets.
We're
also
negotiate
attempting
to
negotiate
a
responsible,
collective
bargaining
agreement.
B
Think
as
as
everyone
here
knows,
one
of
the
challenges
with
state
funding
to
Boston
traditionally
has
been
that
we
are
forced
into
funding
formulas
that
are
that
are
made
to
fit
351
cities
and
towns,
and
sometimes
that's
for
the
benefit
of
Boston
but
oftentimes.
It
isn't
because
we
are
in
a
unique
situation
relative
to
our
peers.
B
So
the
long-term
financial
plan
identified
that
state
education
revenue
has
been
stagnant.
Our
our
charter
assessments
are
growing
and
even
with
the
failure
of
question
2
to
pass
our
our
charter
assessments
will
continue
to
rise
rate
much
faster
than
our
revenue,
so
that
brought
us
to
these
proposals
just
really
quickly,
though
this
is
again.
This
is
an
updated
version
of
a
slide
that
I
think
we've
seen
in
the
past.
B
The
bottom
line
shows
our
charter.
Reimbursement
is
actually
declined
from
35
million
dollars
in
fiscal
year,
14
to
21
million
dollars
in
fiscal
year
17.
At
the
same
time,
our
charter
assessment
grew
from
110
million
dollars
to
157
million
dollars,
so
our
charter
reimbursement
is
actually
declined
by
twenty
five
percent
during
that
period.
In
our
chapter
70
has
the
aid
has
only
grown
by
slightly
less
than
four
percent
during
the
period
shown
on
the
chart.
B
These
two
charges
are
generated
exclusively
in
Boston
and
none
of
the
other
three
hundred
fifty
cities
and
towns
and
go
into
the
convention
center
and
the
convention
center
has
recently
run
how
the
surplus
every
year
indicating
that
they
do
not
need
16
and
a
half
million
dollars
currently
to
operate.
In
fact,
the
state
has
swept
surpluses
to
balance
their
own
budget
in
recent
years,
and
last
year
swept
60
million
dollars
from
the
convention
center
fund,
and
these
are
funds
of
which
about
85
to
90
percent
are
generated
in
total.
B
In
Boston
of
about
140
million
dollars
in
revenue,
so
we
would
be
attempting
to
segment
off
two
of
the
charges
that
go
into
the
fund.
We
believe
that
this
allows
the
convention
center
to
operate,
aboard,
which
we
sit
on
and
have
knowledge
of
convention
center
operations.
We
believe
that
this
amount
of
money
is
sustainable
to
be
diverted
from
their
fund
back
to
the
city's
fund
in
order
to
carry
out
the
work
of
the
UPK
task
force
and
successor
organizations
and
units
that
may
be
set
up.
So
with
that
I
turn
it
over
to
Ron.
A
Should
it
go
ahead,
as
today,
we've
also
been
joined
by
a
colleague,
City
Council,
Frank,
Baker,
City
McCarthy,
and
did
just
a
quick
question
on
your
presentation
here:
the
weather
ebbs
and
flows
in
the
surplus.
So
you
indicated
as
sort
of
a
roughly
16
million
so
say
next
year.
It's
only
eight
now
so
next
year,
it's
40.
A
B
B
So
the
can
Center
fund
balance.
I
believe
at
the
moment,
is
it's
in
the
88
million,
so
they
they
do
have
some
some
offer
there.
I
think,
in
the
most,
the
convention
center
has
also
begun
an
initiative
to
close
the
gap
to
to
make
themselves
self
a
self-sufficient
effectively.
They
have
their
most
successful
year
ever
in
that
regard
last
year,
and
only
had
a
net
operating
loss
of
five
million
dollars,
so
that
88
million
could
potentially
laughs
along
a
long
time.
How.
A
C
B
Think
it
could,
in
in
theory,
I,
don't
think
a
decisions
been
made
and
not
a
lot
of
discussion
lately
about
that.
The
staffs
of
the
expansion,
but
I
should
add
that
we've
we
have
anticipated
in
the
legislation
that,
if
expansion
were
back
on
the
table,
that
this
funding
could
revert
to
the
convention
center
to
expand
so
I
think
part
of
our
thinking
here
is.
B
This
fund
had
been
earmarked
for
convention
center
used
for
a
long
period
of
time,
with
the
understanding
that
essential
expansion
was
coming.
We
don't
know
that
that's
going
to
occur
at
this
point
in
time.
If
it
does
occur
and
I
think
we
would
be,
we
would
try
and
we
would
be
fine
within
the
law,
would
allow
for
funds
to
be
used
for
expansion.
But
if,
if
funds
are
not
necessary
for
expansion,
because
expansion
isn't
occurring,
then
we
believe
that
Boston
has
a
strong
claim
on
this
revenue.
If.
D
E
About
20
25
that
that
would
be
six
thousand
four-year-old,
potentially
demanding
high
quality
k1
feet
just
to
get
started.
Chief
Sweeney
has
described
what
we
think
is
a
creative
and
workable
solution
for
very
important
education.
Investment
I
want
to
give
a
little
bit
of
background
on
what
we've
been
working
on
to
improve
access
to
high-quality
seats
and
I
want
to
underscore
on
quality.
E
1
seat
so
I've
been
leading
a
working
group
for
the
past
several
months,
probably
going
on
a
year
now
that
is
comprised
of
BPS
the
state's
early
education
and
care
department,
the
children's
museum
community
providers
and
philanthropy
to
first
of
all
identified
the
pre-k
access
and
quality
gap.
Secondly,
to
develop
some
potential
strategies
to
expand
access
to
high-quality
seats
and
to
estimate
the
cost
for
doing
this.
E
A
couple
of
headlines
that
I
want
to
share
with
you
so
that
you
have
an
understanding
of
where
Boston
is
in
terms
of
being
able
to
provide
the
access
that
we
intend
to.
First
of
all,
Boston
does
not
have
an
access
problem
per
se
and
I
think
we
just
talked
about
the
number
of
four-year-olds,
but
Boston
has
roughly
7,000
903
k,
seats
between
Boston
Public
Schools,
community
providers,
Catholic
schools
and
charter
schools.
E
So
the
supply
of
feet
outstrips
the
number
of
four-year-olds
who
may
be
seeking
those
seats,
and
so
nearly
every
family
that
wants
a
pre-k
see
in
Boston
has
access
to
one.
But
while
we
don't
face
an
access
challenge,
there
is
a
quality
gap,
and
so
the
number
of
high-quality
pre-k
seats
in
Boston
fall
short
of
demand,
and
when
we
talk
about
quality,
what
we
mean
is
that
it
is
a
classroom
in
a
setting
that
uses
a
formal
curriculum
employees
be
a
level.
Teachers
are
higher,
the
program
is
accredited
or
it
meets.
The
state.
E
Qi
is
standards
and
there
are
four
levels
to
the
QRIs
and
we
are
expecting
that
a
setting
these
level
three
of
the
QRIs.
We
expect
that
there
is
rigorous
and
consistent
proficient
professional
development
and
coaching
being
provided
and
that
the
program
is
using
program,
data
and
student
outcomes
for
continuous
improvement
purposes.
So
when
we
did
a
scan
of
the
city,
we
conducted
a
survey
of
about
200
community
providers.
This
summer
we
followed
this
up
with
a
handful
of
quality
observations.
E
We
think
that
there
is
a
1350
quality
seat:
gas
in
Boston,
1350
quality,
see
gaps
differ
in
Boston
by
neighborhood,
so
neighborhoods
like
Dorchester
High,
Park,
West,
Roxbury,
Roxbury,
East
Boston
in
roslindale
have
among
the
highest
quality
seat
gaps
in
the
city,
neighborhoods
like
South,
Boston,
Brighton,
Charlestown,
Austin
and
JP
either
have
negligible
gaps
or
surpluses
and
quality
feet.
We
think
that
the
way
to
close
these
gaps
on
a
neighborhood
basis
is
by
investing
in
both
the
expansion
of
BTS
seats,
as
well
as
community
providers
feet
in
some
neighborhoods.
E
It
will
be
the
case
that,
even
if
we
expand
bps
and
expand
currently
high
quality
cbo's,
we
still
won't
meet
the
demand
gap
there,
and
so
what
we
will
have
to
do
is
take
a
look
at
the
next
tier
of
community-based
providers,
who
may
be
a
couple
of
elements
short
of
achieving
our
quality
threshold
and
make
investments
in
those
organizations
as
well.
Among
these
strategies
that
we
are
looking
at
first
is
a
set
of
citywide
investments
that
need
to
be
made
because
we
do
need
to
be
concerned
about
investing
in
equitable
ways.
E
So
we're
looking
at
investing
in
equalizing
teacher
compensation.
So
if
you
are
a
bpsk
one
teacher,
you
make
significantly
more
than
a
teacher
in
a
CBO
setting
with
equal
credentials.
If
we
do
not
start
to
close
that
gap,
it
will
create
certainly
some
labor
market
inequities,
but
could
really
be
a
barrier
to
establishing
the
citywide
quality
that
we're
looking
for.
We
also
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
assisting
teachers
to
earn
advance
credentials
where
they
do
not
have
a
minimum
BA
and
to
provide
tuition
assistance
in
our
community
based
settings.
E
We
want
to
sustain
the
got
the
ground
that
we've
gained
through
the
pre
expansion
grant
program,
which
is
our
federal
program.
If
we
do
not
sustain
this,
then
we
lose
about
700
quality
seats
in
the
city,
and
so
that
backs
us
up
to
a
2,000
feet
gap.
If
we
don't
sustain
the
work
that
we've
already
done
again,
we're
looking
at
strategically
expanding
BPS,
see
strategically
expanding
seats
in
community-based
organizations
and
investing
improving
quality
and
improving
quality
and
community-based
organizations
that
are
just
short
of
our
quality
threshold.
E
Lastly,
we're
looking
to
establish
a
citywide
oversight
system
for
a
pre-k
expansion
in
Boston
and
right
now
we
are
thinking
that
this
is
a
partnership
between
City
Hall,
particularly
my
office
in
the
early
education
department
in
Boston
Public
Schools.
But
this
would
be
a
governance
unit
that
looks
at
the
disbursement
of
funding
and
investment
to
community-based
organizations.
The
expansion
of
BPS,
as
well
as
quality
monitoring,
citywide.
A
B
That,
if
I
could
just
we
just
add
one
more
slide
if
people
are
interested
in
more
information,
we've
been
trying
to
put
out
some
of
the
more
information
about
some
things
we
filed
and
impacts
of
some
public
policy
issues.
So
if
you
have
a
medium
page
under
under
by
day,
ms
people
aren't
learning
more
about
the
comprehensive
education
finance
reform
proposal
and
its
entire.
F
Welcome,
as
always,
just
a
couple
questions,
let's
just
say
this
goes
through
treasure:
Goldbergs
has
the
money
aside
we're
ready
to
go
with
2,500
2,500
seats
we'd
be
putting
in
for
pre-k.
Where
would
they
go
as
far
as
the
building
capacity,
because
I
know
when
I
look
at
district
5
I
know
my
school's
very,
very
well,
they're
they're
pretty
back,
so
we
waiting
for
the
master
plan
still.
How
is
that
going
to
work
so.
E
The
master
plan
will
inform
some
of
this,
but
let's
take
one
neighborhood
scenario:
not
your
neighborhood,
but
East
Boston.
So
easy
Boston
is
a
neighborhood
where
we
know
the
footprint
of
public
schools
is
very
constrained
there.
We
don't
have
many
options
for
expanding
buildings.
We
also
know
that
we
don't
have
very
many
operating
CB
CB
o--'s
in
East
Boston,
so
to
the
degree
that
we
can
eke
out
more
seats
through
Boston
Public
Schools
will
take
a
look
at
that.
E
We
need
to
think
about
what
does
the
investment
in
those
CBO's
look
like
and
how
much
more
can
they
expand?
I
think
preliminary
data
from
our
master
plan
analysis
is
telling
us
that
East
Boston
may
be
one
of
the
places
that
is
a
candidate
or
perhaps
a
new
facility,
because
we
are
so
constrained
and
so
in
a
neighborhood
by
neighborhood
basis,
we're
going
to
have
to
look
at
in
relation
to
the
master
plan.
E
How
do
we
expand
footprint
for
BPS,
either
through
major
upgrades
or
new
school
buildings,
and
whom
are
we
working
with
from
a
CBO
standpoint
that
is
already
providing
great
service
and
who
can
provide
great
service
with
additional
investment?
But
we
think
that
in
every
neighborhood,
where
a
gap
exists
is
going
to
take
the
combination
of
investing
in
schools
and
community
based
organizations.
Okay,.
F
F
E
F
E
So
we'd
be
looking
at
equalizing
teacher
compensation
for
equivalent
degree
status
as
well.
We
still
have
to
think
about
the
mechanisms
by
which
to
do
this.
I'm
encouraged
by
speaker
de
Leo's
recent
statement
that
he
also
recognizes
this
gap
in
that
this
is
a
place
where
the
state
should
perhaps
step
in
and
help
through,
eec
or
other
means
to
close
that
gap.
But
it's
important
to
achieve
an
equitable
investment.
Okay.
B
I
do
to
dance
with
you
might
miss
a
DJ
on
Sergio,
so
those
are
all
really
good
and
complicated
questions
that
we're
going
to
have
to
work
through
and
that
so
I
would
just
clarify
that
this
particular
piece
of
legislation
would
only
get
us
the
16
and
a
half
million
dollars
here,
at
which
point
we
would
need
to
set
up
a
governance
structure,
room
work
through
the
council
kind
of
tackle
some
of
these
issues
that
you're
raising
in
the
long
term.
It's
like
the
bargaining.
A
B
A
B
Not
sure
that
we
do
have
a
model
I
can
tell
you
the
rationale,
though,
that
the
rationale
for
having
the
treasure
play
a
part
is
just
to
to
placate
people
who
may
have
concerns
about
expansion,
centers
ability
to
meet
its
debt
service
requirements.
If
funds
are
diverted,
so
we
we
made
a
modification
to
our
initial
draft
of
of
our
proposal
that
we
had
internally
and
put
the
treasure
in
the
middle
of
that
to
mitigate
that
risk
that
the
convention
center
could
be
put
in
at
some
risk
relative
to
its
existing
bonds.
Wait.
A
G
Recognizes
City
Council's
guys
for
having
to
step
out,
and
if
you
cover
this
I
apologize,
simple
question:
how
reliable
is
this
revenue
going
to
be
and
how
consistent
is
it
going
to
be
like
I
know,
you
mentioned
the
16.5
is
kind
of
where
we're
going.
What
we're
going
after
is
that
consistent
like
16.5,
recurring
revenue
or
it's.
B
It's
been
fairly
consistent,
so
going
back,
I
have
in
front
of
me
the
data
from
2003
2016,
the
vehicle
rental
surcharge
has
grown
from
9.6
million
dollars
in
2010
to
13.8
million
in
2016
and
that's
grown
every
year
and
I
think
that,
just
generally
speaking,
we
would
expect
that
to
continue
to
grow
every
year.
The
sightseeing
surcharge
has
also
grown
from
about
2
million
to
2.7
million
over
that
period
of
time
and
has
been
on
a
similar
trajectory
with
going
up
every
year.
G
B
C
C
B
And
these
are
two
of
those
charges
and
these
two
in
particular
generated
solely
in
boston
yeah,
and
we
spoke
a
little
bit
about
this.
But
traditionally
what
has
happened
is
because
of
these
extraneous
surcharges
that
are
unrelated
to
the
operations
of
the
convention
center.
The
convention
center
has
built
up
a
balance
and
fund
over
time
and
then,
when
the
balance
has
gotten
high
and
the
state
has
had
trouble
balancing
its
budget,
the
state
has
swept
the
portion
of
the
balance
of
that
fun.
To
balance
its.
B
D
B
These
two
sources
are
generated
exclusive
lee
in
boston,
though
so
what's
happening
is
they're
they're
running
up
very
large
surpluses
and
then
it's
being
spread
statewide.
Yes,
most
of
the
revenue
is
being
generated
in
boston,
so
we
believe
they
could
sustain
the
diversion
of
these
two
particular
sources
and
still
run
a
surplus,
and
we've
attempted
to
account
for
the
possibility
of
expansion
as
well
in
the
legislation.
So
if
there's
a
decision
to
expand
the
convention
center
and
the
financing
is
necessary,
if
the
revenues
are
necessary
for
financing
that
this
would
allow
for
that
as
well.
B
B
I
think
our
general
philosophy
on
this
is
if
the
money,
if
a
surpise
surplus,
is
being
run
up
on
revenues
generated
in
Boston
and
being
used
for
purposes
that
are
unrelated
to
the
convention
center
and
unrelated
to
Boston.
We
have
an
equally
strong
claim
on
that
revenue
as
well,
and
I
should
also
add
that,
with
with
many
legislative
processes
with
many
pieces
of
legislation,
it's
a
long
process
up
at
the
state
outs
from
the
envision
is
potentially
being
a
starting
point
for
discussion
about
how
to
how
to
finance
this.
B
But
we
think
it's
a
good,
creative
starting
point
in
that
it
doesn't
raise
taxes
with
some
existing
surcharge.
It's
really
a
Boston
centric
charge
and
it's
for
a
stated
need
that
I
think
there's
a
general
consensus
that
we
need
to
address
and
that
a
lot
of
leg
work
has
already
been
done
on
in
the
last
couple
and.
C
B
We're
hopeful
we've
received
some
received
some
feedback
from
convention
center
fund.
Obviously,
as
at
the
convention
center,
has
a
lot
of
questions
but
I
think
we're
opening
to
listen.
Listening,
open
to
listening
to
us
yeah
same
thing
with
the
governor's
administration
I
think
he
called
it
publicly
interesting
I.
He
would
need
to
look
into
further
Ron
reference
speaker
dillio,
coming
up
with
his
own
early
EDD
plan,
so
I
think
it's
encouraging
to
think
that
there
will
be
some
action
on
the
alley
ed
and
yeah.
This
could
be
a
part
of
that
discussion.
Good.
A
H
Just
want
to
just
one
question
very
much
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
increase
access
and
also
appreciate
the
underscoring
of
the
need
for
access
to
be
quality.
And
so,
in
that
vein,
an
issue,
a
constituency
that
we've
been
working
with
here,
and
we
thank
the
senate
president
for
his
leadership,
as
well
as
one
of
the
ways
that
we
ensure
that
those
seats
are
quality
and
the
education
being
provided
as
quality
is
to
stabilize
that
workforce
and.
E
E
Of
daughters
been
put
into
this,
and
it
has
been
primary
among
our
consideration,
so,
in
addition
to
investing
in
the
quality
of
individual
centers
there,
a
set
of
citywide
investments
that
we
want
to
make
one
and
teacher
salary
equalization
so
that
we
make
sure
that
you
aren't
making
a
disproportionate
amount
in
as
a
bps
teacher
vs,
a
CBO
teacher,
wonderful.
We
also
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
providing
tuition,
assistance
and
incentives
for
teachers
to
get
advanced
degrees.
So
our
quality
threshold
is
a
minimum,
be
a
level
teacher
in
all
settings.
E
If
there
is
a
teacher
in
a
community-based
setting,
who
does
not
have
that,
we
want
to
provide
the
resources
for
that
teacher
to
get
that
as
well.
We
are
exploring
partnerships
with
some
of
our
University
and
College
partners
to
see
if
there
might
be
some
cost
sharing
opportunities
on
that
as
well,
and
certainly
we
will
need
to
rely
on
them
for
the
educated
component.
All.
A
All
of
my
colleagues,
so
they
work
on
your
behalf.
I
think
you
fight
it's
not
play
with
the
council.
Your
flights
gonna
be
up
at
Beacon
Hill,
trying
to
convince
rich,
they
reps
and
senators
from
across
the
Commonwealth
that
it
makes
sense
for
the
City
of
Boston
to
happen
to
the
surplus
funds
of
the
convention
center.
So
I'll
leave
that
up
to
you
folks,
as
we
transition
out.
A
If
there's
anyone
here
wishing
to
offer
a
public
testimony
now
is
the
time
to
do
so,
seeing
an
earring,
no
desire
for
public
testimony
from
those
that
were
in
the
gallery,
I'll
be
including
the
hearing
at
this
point
with
respect
to
dr.
0181
message
in
order
approving
Home
Rule
petition
to
the
General
Court
entitled
an
act
relative
to
surcharges
imposed
to
finance
the
Boston
Convention
and
Exhibition
Center
sponsored
by
Mayor
Walsh
into
this
panic,
video
and
governments
is
adjourned.
Thank
you.