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From YouTube: Committee on Government Operations on January 30, 2023
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Government Operations Hearing Docket #0100 - Message and order for your approval an Ordinance establishing the Office of Participatory Budgeting, amending the City of Boston Code V, with the insertion of a new Section 5-1.11
B
A
C
Council
Ricardo
Arroyo
I
am
chair
of
the
committee
on
government
operations.
It
is
Monday
January,
30th
2023,
and
we
are
here
today
for
a
virtual
hearing
on
docket
number
100100
message
in
order
for
your
approval
and
ordinance
establishing
the
office
of
parts
of
the
Corey
budgeting
amending
the
city
of
Boston
code,
chapter
5
referred
to
the
committee
on
December
14th
2022.
C
This
docket
was
sponsored
by
mayor
Michelle
Wu,
in
accordance
with
the
chapter
with
chapter
107,
2022
modifying
certain
requirements
of
the
open
meeting
law,
we're
leaving
public
bodies
with
certain
requirements,
including
the
requirement
that
public
bodies
conduct
its
meanings
in
a
public
place
that
is
open
and
physically
accessible
to
the
public.
The
city
council
will
be
conducting
this
hearing
remotely
and
is
being
recorded.
This
enables
the
city
council
to
carry
out
its
responsibilities
while
ensuring
public
access
to
deliberations
through
adequate
affirmative
alternative
needs.
C
The
public
may
watch
this
hearing
via
live
stream
at
www.faustin.gov
city
council
TV
or
on
Xfinity
hrcn82
FiOS
964
written
comments
may
be
sent
to
the
committee
email
at
ccc.go
at
boston.gov
and
will
be
made
a
part
of
the
record
and
available
to
all
counselors.
If
you
wish
to
provide
public
testimony,
I'm
not
and
have
not
signed
up
to
do
so,
please
email,
Christine,
O'donnell
at
christine.odonnell
boston.gov
for
those
giving
public
testimony.
Please
make
sure
that
your
name
is
visible,
so
that
I
may
call
on
you.
C
Members
of
the
public
will
be
promoted
to
pen
list
when
your
name
is
called.
Please
make
sure
that
you
click
yes
when
prompted
to
join
as
a
panelist.
This
afternoon,
I
am
joined
by
my
Council
colleagues,
councilor
Mejia
councilor,
Lucy,
Liu,
Jen
and
counselor
Ed
Flynn
I
will
also
be
joined
by
several
other
counselors.
So
let
me
know
that
they'll
be
arriving
shortly.
C
This
matter
was
sponsored
by
mayor
Wu
following
the
2021
Boston
municipal
election,
where
Boston
voters
overwhelmingly
supported
creating
an
office
of
participatory
budgeting,
which
would
be
further
charged
with
continuing
public
engagement
on
how
the
city's
budget
is
created
and
how
our
tax
dollars
are
spent.
This
ordinance
establishes
the
office
of
respiratory
budgeting,
which
will
include
a
director
and
external
oversight
board
made
up
of
residents
and
leaders
from
across
the
city.
C
The
office,
in
partnership
with
the
external
oversight
board,
will
establish
and
manage
the
participatory
budgeting
process
for
residents
to
engage
with
the
city's
annual
budget
process
and
make
recommendations
for
projects
to
include
in
the
budget.
This
hearing
is
an
opportunity
for
counselors
to
hear
from
the
administration
as
well
as
advocates
on
the
impact
of
this
ordinance,
as
well
as
to
listen
to
public
testimony.
C
It's
also
my
understanding
that
there's
two
PowerPoint
presentations
and
so
the
order
of
that
will
be
the
administration
followed
by
The
Advocates,
and
then
we
will
go
to
all
of
the
other
panelists
to
speak,
and
then
we
will
go
to
my
hope
is
to
go
to
counselor
questions,
but
we
may
mix
in
some
public
comment
in
between
the
presentations
and
counselors
with
that
I'm
gonna
go
in
order
of
arrival,
so
councilor
Mejia.
The
floor
is
yours.
D
So
I
wanted
to
just
give
a
shout
out
to
the
administration
for
making
sure
that
you
have
a
seat
at
this
table
and
I
also
just
wanted
to
uplift
The
Advocates,
who
actually,
we
would
not
be
having
this
conversation
had
not
been
for
those
who
have
been
doing
this
work.
I've
been
really
trying
to
fight
for
to
ensure
that
those
who
are
living
the
realities
and
are
doing
the
work
here
in
the
city
of
Boston
are
at
front
and
center
making
the
decisions
that
we
need.
D
Allocate
is
part
of
that
conversation
so
looking
for
forward
to
unpacking
this
and
and
working
alongside
my
Council
colleagues
to
make
sure
that
this
process
is
reflective
of
the
people,
and
so
just
wanted
to
thank
everyone
for
being
here
and
thank
you,
the
chair
for
bringing
us
through
this
process
so
quickly,
because
we
have
on
the
timeline,
so
I
will
defer
the
rest
of
my
comments
to
my
colleagues.
Thank
you.
C
E
Thank
you,
Mr,
chair
and
I'll.
Be
brief.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
everyone
for
participating,
I,
think
this
was
born
out
of
in
a
desire
by
folks
here
in
the
city,
to
have
more
direct
democracy
and
to
have
deeper
democracy.
That
really
brings
folks
into
the
fold
to
hold
us
accountable
to
what
the
budget
looks
like
and
to
have
a
direct
say
what
the
budget
is
used
for.
You
know
oftentimes
budget
conversations.
E
And
you
know
many
of
us
have
said
on
repeat
that
our
budget
is
a
moral
document,
and
so
it's
time
for
us
to
bring
in
the
people
to
really
have
a
direct
say
on
what
that
budget
looks
like
so
I'm,
looking
forward
to
the
conversation
to
seeing
how
we
can
make
sure
that
the
ordinance
lives
up
to
what
people
voted
for
and
really
gives
people
a
direct
say
and
sort
of
how
we're
allocating
funds
in
the
city
so
I'm.
Looking
forward
to
this
discussion,
thank
you
to
all
the
advocates
kits.
E
A
You
Mr
chair,
I'll,
be
very
brief.
I
don't
want
to
speak
because
the
the
administration
and
panelists
are
here
other
than
to
say
thank
you
to
the
interpreters
that
are
here,
Spanish
and
Cantonese
incredibly
important
for
this
discussion
and
also
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Jim
and
Henry
that
are
here
as
well.
They
do
an
excellent
job
for
mayor
will,
but
also
for
the
residents
of
Boston.
Thank
you.
Mr
chip.
C
F
Thank
you
chair
and
thank
you
for
everybody
for
being
here
today
to
have
this
incredibly
important
conversation
I,
think
that
the
people
who
are
most
directly
impacted
by
the
decisions
that
we're
making
should
always
have
a
voice
and
what
those
decisions,
what
those
decisions
are
excuse
me
and
I,
think
that
making
decisions
about
where
our
tax
dollars
go
and
how
that
is
further.
Supporting
our
communities,
particularly
our
most
vulnerable
and
marginalized
communities
in
the
city
of
Boston,
is
incredibly
important.
In
my
previous
role
as
director
of
radical
philanthropy
at
resist.
F
We
transformed
our
foundation
from
being
a
foundation
that,
where
our
board
made
decisions
about
where
our
grant
making
went
to
giving
power
to
our
grantees
to
actually
make
decisions
about
where
the
money
went,
because
ultimately
they
were
the
ones
on
the
ground
doing
the
work.
They
understood
the
realities
of
the
communities,
and
so
we
are
board
relegated.
F
You
know
relinquish
their
power
and
gave
it
back
to
the
people,
and
so
I
think
that
the
participatory
budget
office
is
getting
us
one
step
closer
into
giving
more
power
to
the
people
of
the
city
to
make
these
kinds
of
decisions
and
I'm
excited
to
hear
from
everyone
about
how
this
ordinance
and
this
office
can
be
reflective
of
that
intention.
Thank
you.
C
G
C
G
You
chair
and
I'll
keep
it
brief,
I'm
very
proud
to
be
here
a
part
of
this
conversation
and
helping
to
craft
an
ordinance
that
ultimately
gives
residents
the
ability
to
directly
influence
how
Municipal
funds
are
spent.
We
are
expanding
economic
democracy
in
real
time
and
empowering
residents
and
their
needs,
so
I
just
want
to
give
a
shout
out
to
those
who
were
there
in
2020
and
2021,
including
my
former
boss,
now
Senator
Edwards
for
her
leadership
during
this,
the
yes
on
one
folks,
the
better
budget,
Alliance
all
applicants
on
the
call.
G
Thank
you
so
much
for
making
this
conversation
today
a
reality.
Just
in
this
conversation
in
this
discussion,
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
giving
decision-making
power
to
the
people
and
communities
largely
excluded
from
Municipal
budgeting
processes,
and
we
don't
have
to
rehash
what
happened
in
past
years.
I
think
we
all
know-
and
we
know
now
how
to
move
forward,
and
so
I
am
looking
forward
to
this
discussion
and
ensuring
that
the
spirit
of
the
charter
amendment
is
fully
reflected
in
this
ordinance
as
we
move
forward.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you,
and
so
with
that
we
are
going
to
go
to
our
panelists
I'm,
going
to
introduce
our
panelists
really
quickly,
and
then
we
will
go
to
the
administration's
PowerPoint.
The
Advocates
I
believe
have
a
PowerPoint,
and
then
we
will
sort
of
go
through
each
Advocate.
Give
them
a
chance
to
speak
before
we
go
to
counselors.
To
make
this
a
lot
more
effective
counselors
will
have
access
to
everyone
for
questions.
So
please
direct
your
question
to
an
individual
or
a
particular
group.
C
If
you
don't
know
what
individual
should
should
be
addressed
to
I
am
seeing
just
now
before
we
go
to
the
Powerpoints
that
we
have
been
joined
by
councilor
Tanya,
Fernandez
Anderson,
so
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
allow
her
to
give
an
opening,
and
then
we
will
go
directly
to
the
administration
for
that
PowerPoint.
So
if
we
can
tee
that
up
in
the
background,
thank
you
counselor
Anderson.
The
floor
is
yours.
C
It
thank
you.
Thank
you.
Councilor
Fernandez,
Anderson
I
would
just
remind
folks
because
we
have
folks
joining
late
and
counselor
joining
late.
There
is
a
working
session
to
go
over
language
that
will
be
February
7th
at
2
pm.
It
will
also
be
virtual
so
that
we
can
get
maximum
participation
and
so
again,
February
7th,
2
p.m
will
be
the
working
session
on
this,
and
so,
if
we
can
tee
up,
whoever
is
going
to
do
that
presentation
or
PowerPoint
for
the
city
I'm,
going
to
run
through
the
name.
C
As
healing
Andres
del
Castillo,
director
of
development
for
City,
Life,
theater,
Urbana,
James,
Van
boy,
chief
of
staff
for
community
and
culture,
ujima
project
Boston
and
Johnny
Shively,
Master's,
student
of
urban
and
environmental
policy
and
finance
House,
University
and
I
believe
he
will
be
Leading,
The
Advocate
sides
panel
or
PowerPoint.
Rather,
if
the
admin
PowerPoint
can
go
up
in
whoever
is
ready
to
present
on
that.
J
K
I
Beautiful
well,
thank
you
so
much
chair,
Arroyo
and
all
the
other
counselors
joining
us
at
all
of
The,
Advocates
and
public
testimony
who
will
be
speaking
today,
I'm
here
with
my
colleague,
Henry
Santana
from
the
office
of
the
organizing
today
representing
the
the
finance
office
in
the
Wu
Administration,
with
all
of
the
the
the
context
that
this
this
that
you
chair
had
talked
about.
This
was
passed
overwhelmingly
by
ballot
initiative
to
create
the
office
of
participatory
budgeting
in
the
it's.
I
I
I
So,
just
to
get
into
the
details
of
the
office
of
participatory
budgeting,
you
know,
as
defined
in
the
ordinance
and
we'll
be
further
built
out
through
a
rule
book
that
will
be
is
made
reference
to
in
the
ordinance
that
will
be
created
by
the
office.
In
conjunction
with
the
external
of
the
psychoid
you'll,
be
headed
by
a
director.
You
know
housed
in
the
finance
cabinet
it
shall
administer.
I
These
are
just
some
of
the
efforts
that
are
engagement
that
have
preceded
the
office
of
participatory
budgeting,
I
I,
to
basically
get
folks
who,
who
may
not
be
as
engaged
in
the
budget
process,
to
be
aware,
at
least
of
the
of
the
process.
You
know
to
have
a
communication
of
how
the
process
flows
and
also
areas
where
they
can
and
how
opportunities
for
them
to
influence
the
budget.
So
these
are
just
some
of
the
different
things
we
had
a
collaboration
with
a
new
office
of
government
mechanics.
I
L
Thank
you
Jim
good
afternoon,
Mr
chair
Lots
of
city,
councilors,
Advocates
members
of
the
public
I'm
extremely
excited
to
be
testifying
in
front
of
you
all
to
talk
about
the
vital
importance
of
this
office
and
this
ordinance
that
will
further
proactively
engage
our
city
of
Boston
residents
and
the
budget
process.
That,
historically,
very
honestly,
it
has
been
you
know.
L
Many
people
have
been
left
out
of
my
name
again
is
Henry
Santana
I'm,
director
of
The
Office
of
Civic,
organizing
Civic
organizing,
is
the
continuous
process
of
engaging
with
our
communities,
empowering
people
to
take
action
in
their
neighborhoods
and
creating
resources
and
Pathways
for
residents
to
be
actively
involved
with
City
Hall,
as
you
can
see
through
the
slide.
Some
of
our
staple
initiatives
that
we
have
through
our
office
is
the
Civic
power
pledge
City
Hall
to
Gold
truck
and
the
loveya
block,
just
to
name
a
few.
L
L
Actually,
three
times
at
times,
but
at
least
once
a
month
since
last
March
of
2022
in
those
meetings
and
throughout
the
year
we
talked
about
the
role
of
the
office
overall,
the
oversight
board
and
the
process
of
hiring
the
director
and
those
were
just
some
of
the
themes
throughout
those
conversations
throughout
that
extensive
process.
The
ordinance
that
you
did
not
see
in
front
of
you
was
developed.
L
I
always
wanted
to
come
on
here
and
acknowledge
that
you
know
I'm
very
excited
to
be
working
with
the
office
and
look
forward
to
be
working
with
the
office
of
participatory
budgeting,
I'm
very
excited
to
have
residents
and
Community
residents
to
just
be
part
of
this,
this
budget
process.
So
thank
you
now
turn
my
time
back,
Mr
chair
appreciate
it.
C
Thank
you,
and
so
one
really
brief
interlude
before
we
go
over
to
The
Advocates
panelists,
if
my
interpreters,
if
we
can
start
with
my
Spanish
interpreter
and
my
Chinese
interpreter
Cantonese
interpreter
if
we
can
get
into
just
so
folks
who
are
listening,
know
how
to
access
the
interpretation.
There
is
a
button
at
the
bottom
of
the
screen.
M
M
C
N
Thank
you,
Mr
chair,
we
should
be
brief.
Just
happy
to
join
on
I've
had
an
opportunity
to
speak
with
The
Advocates
a
week
or
so
ago,
so
looking
forward
to
kind
of
finding
out
what
the
plan
is
and
next
steps
moving
forward
and
give
folks
an
opportunity
to
be
great
and
to
participate
as
fully
as
possible.
N
As
you
know,
we're
a
representative
government,
and
so
hopefully
they'll
continue
to
reach
out
to
the
district
and
at
large
colleagues
and
council
is
with
respect
the
budget
concerns,
but
it's
obviously
a
case
of
first
impression
for
us
as
a
council
and
looking
forward
to
seeing
how
this
now
this
process
plays
out.
Thank
you,
Mr
chairman
thank.
C
C
C
Okay,
so
it
sounds
like
we
can
confirm
that
the
interpretation
is
happening,
even
though
for
some
reason
you're
not
able
to
speak
during
this
portion,
and
so
we're
going
to
go
over
to
the
panelists
for
their
PowerPoint
and
then
we'll
go
to
the
panelists
period.
And
then
we
will
go
over
to
counselors
or
questions.
So
if
we
can
set
up
the
PowerPoint
for
The
Advocates.
J
C
J
J
I
think
it
would
all
right
go
ahead
right
on
well.
Thank
you,
chair
Arroyo
council
president
Flynn
members
of
the
city
council,
Administration
honored,
to
be
with
you
all
today
on
this
hearing
on
participatory
budgeting,
which,
as
a
side
note,
we
call
PB
for
short
because
it's
a
little
bit
of
a
tongue
twister.
J
J
So
PB
first
took
off
in
1989
in
Porto
Allegra
in
Brazil,
which
at
the
time
had
three
million
people
and
at
its
height
Community
groups
partnered
with
the
city,
to
engage
close
to
30
percent
of
its
voters
to
allocate
20
percent
of
the
city's
total
budget.
So
in
Boston
terms,
that
would
be
close
to
800
million
dollars
a
year
that
voters
in
Brazil
were
actually
allocating
and
since
then
PB
spread
across
the
globe,
including
in
the
U.S
started
in
Chicago.
J
In
2009,
it's
been
the
New
York
Vallejo
San
Francisco,
our
friends
in
Cambridge
and
actually
in
Boston
in
2013,
former
counselor
Tito
Jackson
actually
posted
the
first
public
hearing
on
PB
10
years
ago
in
this
chamber
and
then
later
that
year.
As
many
of
you
know,
Mayor
Menino
actually
allocated
a
million
dollars
as
a
parting
gift
to
establish
PB
for
our
City's
Youth
and
I
actually
had
the
privilege
of
working
with
the
participatory
budgeting
project
on
this
process.
J
So
to
briefly
explain
the
process
PB
in
its
most
effective
form,
establishes
City
Partnerships
with
trusted
neighborhood
organizations
to
bring
residents
together
in
large
community
meetings
that
we
call
Neighborhood
assemblies
and
through
a
series
of
these
assemblies
each
with
various
activities
and
discussion
topics.
Residents
can
voice
and
prioritize
their
greatest
unmet
needs,
and
then
they
can
brainstorm
and
refine
these
proposals
to
actually
meet
these
needs.
J
Then,
ultimately,
they
vote
on
which
proposals
to
fund
mayor
Wu's
ordinance
correctly
calls
for
Boston's
PB
process
to
advance
racial
and
social
justice,
and
our
recommendations
are
meant
to
uplift.
This
intent
by
incorporating
many
of
the
research
best
practices
in
this
Arena.
So
we
have
lots
of
different
proposals,
but
five
key
areas
for
Amendment
include
One
require
that
the
people's
budgeting
process
is
dedicated
at
least
one
percent
of
the
city's
annual
budget.
J
As
you
all
could
imagine,
PB
processes
without
real
money
can
be
frustrating
and
disillusioning
for
residents
who
are
asked
to
spend
their
precious
time
on
allocating
budgetary
scraps
and
Boston
cannot
and
should
not
repeat.
This
mistake
two
require
a
inclusive
oversight:
Board
of
at
least
18
members
with
a
majority
who
come
from
underrepresented
communities,
three
mandate
stipends
for
oversight
board
members.
So
these
people
of
all
incomes
can
actually
participate
in
this
critical
role.
J
J
So
we've
heard
a
lot
of
support
from
many
of
you
on
the
council
for
these
ideas,
and
we
thank
you
for
your
leadership.
However,
for
those
of
you
who
might
see
PB
as
an
encroachment
on
your
powers
as
elected
officials,
I'd
invite
you
to
Envision
a
well-funded
office
whose
sole
goal
was
to
help
your
residents,
learn
about
the
budget
and
propose
innovative
solutions
and
a
fun
and
accessible
way
as
a
counselor.
You
can
learn
more
about
the
needs
and
dreams
of
your
constituents.
J
You'll
share
what
you're
already
working
on
and
doing,
and
you
might
even
find
inspiring
proposals
from
your
residents
that
you
can
still
Champion
within
the
three
billion
plus
dollar
budget,
that
the
that
the
council
and
the
mayor
still
will
completely
control
for
too
long.
Boston's
budget
has
felt
like
the
product
of
a
shadowy
backroom
deal
between
unaccountable
Elites,
but
in
2021
Boston
voters
rejected
the
old
way
of
doing
business
and
reformed
our
constitution
to
bring
all
voices
to
the
budgetary
table.
J
C
O
Thank
you,
hello.
Everybody.
Thank
you
again
for
this
chance
to
to
speak.
My
name
is
Francesco
tunna
I'm,
the
founder
of
pipeline
to
power,
an
organization
dedicated
to
building
digital
infrastructure
for
direct
democracy
across
North
America
I
also
helped
lead.
Youth
lead
the
change
in
Boston
with
young
people
deciding
how
to
spend
a
million
dollars
of
the
city's
budget
and
four
parts
of
participatory
budgeting
project
on
dozens
of
PB
processes
across
North
America,
as
well,
I'm
recognized
locally
nationally
and
internationally
for
the
Innovations
I
brought
to
this
space.
O
But
I
want
to
go
a
little
bit
towards
the
beginning,
I
to
This
Moment
In
My
Life,
when
I
was
at
English
High
School
when
it
was
a
community
center,
clad
in
a
red
and
black
Karate,
uniform
bowing
into
the
dance
studio
there.
I
was
12.
I
just
got
promoted
to
an
advanced
Rank,
and
my
karate
teacher
for
the
first
time
asked
me
to
teach
the
adult
class.
O
This
can't
be
a
good
idea.
I
remember
thinking,
I
thought
I
was
too
young
and,
as
I
was
warning,
Folks
up
with
jumping
jacks
I
looked
to
the
back
of
the
broom
and
my
karate
teacher
just
walks
out
and
leaves
in
that
moment,
I
was
like
okay,
I
guess,
we'll
see
how
this
goes,
but
in
that
vacuum
it
gave
space
for
a
young
person
like
me
to
really
step
into
my
leadership,
I
realize
now
that
he
wasn't
being
irresponsible.
O
My
karate
teacher
knew
the
difference
between
me
performing
under
his
Direction
and
actually
putting
me
in
the
driver's
seat.
I
always
say
that
participatory
budgeting
isn't
something
residents
do
because
they
love
their
city.
It's
what
cities
do
when
they
love
their
residents
in
2020,
in
collaboration
with
the
New
York
City
Civic
engagement,
commission
I
ran
the
people
scholarship
15
young
people
leading
PB
in
the
summer
of
2020..
It
was
totally
remote.
We
were
two
months
removed
from
the
murder
of
George
Floyd.
O
Young
people
had
identified
mental
health
far
and
away
as
the
number
one
issue
plating
young
people,
in
addition
to
their
preparedness
for
the
future
in
a
very
uncertain
time,
and
the
lack
of
voice
and
decisions
that
affect
them,
some
quotes
from
that
process
are
I.
Think
young
people
are
stressed
out
do
not
know
what
is
stressing
them
out.
O
O
Our
young
people
held
over
30
virtual
sessions
in
two
months
had
50
youth
organizations
submit
proposals
to
be
voted
on
and
we
had
five
wonderful
winners.
We
had
a
great
map
of
the
issues,
a
wonderful
proposal,
thoughtful
and
Innovative
Innovative
engagement
strategies,
a
brand
new
digital
platform
and
guess
how
much
money
was
at
stake.
O
Two-Thirds
of
New
Yorkers
voted
to
establish
participatory
budgeting
city-wide
in
2018.
2019,
nothing
happened
in
2020.
We
had
a
100
000
process
that
I
was
referenced
earlier,
1.3
million
dollars
in
2021
and
are
now
doing
New
York
is
now
doing
a
five
million
dollar
process
in
2023
five
years
after
the
vote.
O
All
this
to
say,
New
York
City
did
not
establish
any
floor
for
the
pot
of
money
that
is
to
be
decided
by
PB.
Sharing
power
is
inherently
a
vulnerable
Act.
I've
heard
a
lot
of
folks
on
this
call
talking
about
the
importance
of
Community
Voices
being
heard
and
I'd
like
to
offer
an
alternative,
Community
power
being
exercised.
O
It's
one
of
the
hardest
moments
to
do
this
work
and
then
just
having
to
keep
saying
we
don't
really
have
that
much
money
to
work
with,
or
we
got
to
get
creative
with
it,
because
the
pot
of
money
is
not
enough
to
make
a
dent
on
the
issues.
Folks
care
about
what
stories
are
we
telling
ourselves
about?
Why
we're
the
ones
who
are
fit
to
decide
and
influence
the
budget?
What
stories
are
we
telling
ourselves
about
our
constituents
about
why
they
are
not
fit
to
share
that
same
power?
O
That's
the
difference
between
this
being
simply
a
nice
press
release
and
as
being
a
transformative
step
in
governance
between
signaling
that
you're
listening
to
community
and
actually
empowering
folks
to
make
a
dent
in
what
they
care
about
and
again,
just
want
to
repeat.
I
strongly
recommend
that
counselors
amend
this
ordinance
to
include
a
minimum
two
percent
of
the
City
operating
funds,
approximately
80
million
dollars
as
a
floor
for
the
annual
PB
pod
amount.
C
Thank
you,
Francisco
Tana
I
just
want
to
be
clear.
I
think
that
that's
the
total
budget,
not
the
operation
budget
when
you
get
that
number
but
who
who
is
next
on
that
and
we
will
obviously
I,
would
ask
folks
to
advocate
for
all
of
the
things
that
they
would
like
here
at
this
panel,
because
when
we
get
working
session,
that
is
when
we
will
start
to
drill
in
on
that
language.
And
so
who
is
next
in
the
preferred
order.
Before
we
get
to
that
presentation.
P
Thank
y'all
so
much
my
name
is
christania
De
Leon
you
share
pronouns
and
I
serve
as
an
executive
director
co-executive
director
with
the
participatory
budgeting
project,
and
here
is
a
national
content
expert
on
participatory
budgeting
or
PB.
It's
implementation
and
advocacy
and
I'm
grateful
to
be
with
you
all.
Today,
we
like
to
just
start
by
acknowledging
the
ways
that
Aaron
really
grounded
PB
in
the
context
of
This
Global
practice.
P
It's
a
proven,
effective
impactful
process,
but
we're
also
seeing
breakthroughs
in
not
just
that
it's
being
practiced,
but
how
it's
being
practiced
in
the
United,
States
and
really
moving
beyond
a
consideration
of
any
PB
is
good
PB,
which
he
would
strongly
disagree
with,
how
we
implement
it,
how
we
situate
our
values
in
how
we
run
these
processes.
It's
incredibly
critical
on
this
area,
where
we
see
a
lot
of
expansion
in
the
country,
and
it's
why
we
support
the
recommended
updates
to
the
ordinance
language
that
are
being
advocated
by
Community
Partners.
P
We
see
this
in
areas
with
stronger
resourcing,
so
in
cities
like
Seattle
we're
looking
at
27
million
dollar
pop
with
a
2.7
million
dollar
implementation
budget
alone.
That
includes
resourcing
for
Community
Partners
and
adequate
representation
of
community
members
in
different
parts
of
the
city.
They're
deeply
impacted
by
the
core
issues
at
hand.
Deeply
Equitable
processes
like
in
Grand
Rapids
and
in
Los
Angeles,
where
we're
seeing
processes
run
with
strong
attention
to
our
equity
and
mobilization
of
community
spaces
that
are
not
typically
reflected
in
other
decision-making
spaces
like
formal
elections,
for
example.
P
One
element
for
consideration
today
is
whether
or
not
to
fund
the
process.
With
the
commitment
of
at
least
one
percent
of
the
budget
allocated
towards
the
PB
fund.
I'll
acknowledge
that
our
experience
we've
absolutely
seen
and
learned
through
our
work,
that
there
is
a
direct
and
deeply
positive
correlation
between
the
size
of
the
PB
pot,
that's
being
allocated
or
the
per
capita
investment
with
the
impact
of
participation
and
the
impact
of
the
efficacy
of
the
process
to
be
beneficial.
P
We
Believe
PB
needs
to
be
Equitable,
it
needs
to
be
accessible
and
it
has
to
be
significant
if
the
pot
selected
does
not
appeal
to
the
populations
you
seek
to
engage
if
it
is
an
amount
that
does
not
feel
it
can
create
real
change,
and
it's
generally
not
seen
as
worth
it
by
the
instituting
body.
Protested
alluded
to
this
all
the
labor
that's
put
in
to
allocating
smaller
amounts
of
funds,
you'll
likely
put
in
similar
amounts
of
time
and
funding
to
allocate
fifty
dollars
as
50
million
dollars,
but
also
the
impact
on
communities.
P
P
So
since
2014
we've
seen
over
2500
projects
implemented
in
the
city
like
Paris
when
they
began
their
process,
they
also
complement
PB
by
guaranteeing
at
least
30
percent
of
their
budget
goes
to
what
they
call
working-class
areas
of
the
city.
It's
an
integrated
part
of
an
equitable
budget
strategy
that
deeply
impacts
the
communities.
P
All
all
I'll
also
acknowledge
that,
as
we've
seen
scaling
in
areas
as
I
mentioned,
like
in
Los
Angeles
and
in
Seattle,
there's
also
a
connected
commitment
to
also
compensate
volunteers
and
Community
experts
for
their
time
and
their
knowledge
as
a
really
critical
piece.
I
will
encourage
folks
to
look
at
unincorporated
King
counties
process.
They
paid
their
committee
volunteers
75
dollars
an
hour
for
months
to
run
that
process
further
deepening
their
experience
and
commitment
to
continuing
it.
P
Engagement
is
generally
much
broader
across
the
board.
We
all
know
this
when
we're
looking
at
Civic
engagement,
it's
more
than
just
voting.
We
see
increase
in
participation
in
feedback
loops,
Civic
engagement
overall
in
these
cities,
which
allows
for
the
process
not
just
in
the
outcome
of
the
vote,
but
in
the
process
of
collecting
ideas
to
really
equip
decision
makers
with
the
information
they
need
can
make
Equitable
impactful
decisions
for
communities
that
actually
meet
their
needs.
P
Aaron
alluded
to
this
earlier
when
we
do
robust
idea
collection,
whether
or
not
that
leads
to
what
ends
up
on
the
ballot.
That
information
is
critical
in
understanding,
not
just
what
voters
need,
but
what
your
broader
constituency
is
an
equitable
perspective
actually
can
gain
from
deeper
collaboration
with
their
electives
and
government
spaces
and
you'll
notice.
I'll
just
lift
up
quickly.
P
C
Q
Great,
thank
you
very
much
well
good
afternoon.
Everyone,
it's
a
pleasure
to
be
here.
My
name
is
Johnny
Shively
and
I
am
a
graduate
student
in
the
urban
and
environmental
policy
and
planning
program
at
Tufts
University,
where
my
research
focuses
on
participatory
budgeting.
Last
spring
I
worked
with
a
group
of
four
other
graduate
students
to
produce
a
set
of
recommendations
for
Boston's
participatory
budgeting
process,
which
I'll
refer
to
today
as
pde
or
the
PB
process.
Next
slide,
please.
Q
Thank
you,
so
our
team's
research
sought
to
understand
how
Boston's
PB
process
can
be
used
as
a
tool
for
racial
and
economic
Justice.
This
goal
for
Pb
has
been
articulated
by
mayor
Wu,
multiple
City
councilors
and
numerous
Community
organizations
involved
in
the
yes
on
one
campaign
that
mobilized
thousands
of
Voters
to
pass
the
charter
reform
ballot
question
in
2021.
in
recent
years,
as
some
of
the
other
panelists
have
already
mentioned.
Several
cities
across
the
United
States
have
also
named
racial
and
economic
justice
as
core
goals
for
their
PB
processes.
Q
Building
off
this
theme,
our
research
was
Guided
by
an
extensive
body
of
literature,
which
demonstrates
how
working-class
people
of
color
are
commonly
excluded
from
policy
making
processes,
including
Municipal
budgeting.
We
use
the
term
budget
Justice
to
describe
how
PB
might
begin
to
remedy
some
of
these
historic
wrongs.
Next
slide,
please,
so
to
understand
how
Boston's
PB
process
can
operate
as
a
tool
for
Budget
Justice.
We
completed
case
studies
of
12
PB
processes,
conducted
interviews
with
over
20
PB
experts
and
performed
a
thorough
literature
review.
Q
Q
You
can
go
one
more.
Thank
you
our
first
finding
is
the
importance
of
PB
rulebook
as
a
tool
for
Budget
Justice
simply
put
the
rulebook
is
a
guiding
document
that
outlines
how
Boston's
PD
process
will
work
in
nearly
all
of
the
cases
We
examined.
Rule
books
were
used
to
define
the
stages
of
the
PB
process,
including
needs
collection
solution,
development
proposal,
development,
public
assemblies
and
voting.
The
rulebook
can
also
Define
how
PB
funds
are
allocated
across
neighborhoods.
For
example,
the
PB
process
in
Los
Angeles
focuses
explicitly
on
neighborhoods
impacted
by
structural
and
historic
racism.
Q
If
Boston's
PB
process
aims
to
invest
Municipal
funds
equitably
into
working
class
neighborhoods
of
color,
it
is
essential
that
this
be
codified
in
the
rulebook,
because
the
rule
book
is
so
influential
for
realizing
budget
Justice.
It
also
matters
greatly
who
is
involved
in
writing.
This
document
next
slide,
please
foreign.
Q
This
leads
me
to
our
team's
second
finding,
which
highlights
the
importance
of
recruiting
and
paying
an
oversight
board
which
reflects
Boston's
working-class
communities
of
color.
The
oversight
board
is
a
body
of
individuals
appointed
by
the
mayor
and
responsible
for
overseeing
multiple
aspects
of
the
PB
process,
including
the
creation
of
the
PB
rulebook
for
Boston's
PB
process
to
operate
as
a
tool
for
Budget
Justice.
The
oversight
board
must
include
individuals
with
direct
lived
experience
of
systemic
racism,
as
well
as
other
forms
of
Oppression.
Q
The
lived
experience
of
these
board
members
will
carry
through
into
every
aspect
of
the
PB
process,
from
the
accessibility
of
public
assemblies
to
which
projects
are
actually
able
to
succeed
at
the
end
of
the
PB
cycle.
However,
our
team's
research
also
indicates
that
board
members
who
do
not
receive
compensation
have
a
harder
time
engaging
consistently
in
the
PB
process.
We
observe
that
a
municipality
is
where
board
members
were
not
paid
for
their
time
board
attendants
suffered
significantly,
and
these
PP
processes
regularly
fell
short
of
their
stated
goals.
Q
For
these
reasons,
we
suggest
that
Boston
compensate
its
PB
oversight
board
appropriately
for
the
amount
of
work
being
asked
of
board
members.
Cities
such
as
Denver
and
Seattle,
which
are
currently
implementing
PB
processes
with
explicit
racial
Justice
goals.
Both
compensate
steering
committee
members
for
their
work
next
slide,
please.
Q
So
the
third
finding
which
I'd
like
to
highlight
is
the
importance
of
evaluation
in
the
PD
process.
Our
team's
research
revealed
that
several
cities,
including
New
York,
City
and
Chicago
Implement
robust
evaluations
as
part
of
their
PB
efforts.
These
evaluations
are
vital
to
helping
stakeholders,
including
the
city
government,
the
oversight
board
and
Community
organizations
understand
where
the
process
is
meeting
its
goals
and
where
there
is
room
for
improvement.
For
example,
several
municipalities
found
that
projects
in
affluent
neighborhoods
consistently
received
the
greatest
number
of
votes,
an
outcome
that
conflicts
directly
with
the
goal
of
budget
Justice.
Q
In
order
for
Boston's
PB
process
to
improve
over
time
as
a
tool
for
Budget
Justice,
it
is
vital
for
Pb
stakeholders
to
know
who
is
participating
in
the
process
and
how
their
voices
are
translating
or
not
into
tangible
budgeting
outcomes.
Our
research
shows
that
a
diverse
and
inclusive
oversight
board,
as
well
as
collaboration
with
Community
groups,
can
also
serve
to
create
more
impactful
evaluations.
Last
slide,
please.
Q
In
conclusion,
our
team's
Research
indicates
that
PB
can
be
a
powerful
tool
for
Budget
Justice.
If
a
few
important
conditions
are
met
for
Boston's
process
to
fulfill
its
core
Equity
goals,
we
believe
it
must
have
a
rule
book
which
incorporates
racial
Justice
into
each
stage
of
the
process,
including
a
needs
collection
stage.
It
must
also
establish
an
empowered
and
well-compensated
oversight
board
which
prioritizes
working-class
people
of
color.
Finally,
it
must
incorporate
evaluation
in
order
to
understand
where
PB
is
meeting
its
goals
and
where
it
can
be
improved.
C
Thank
you
so
much
I
believe
we
only
have
a
few
left
and
then
we're
gonna
go
I
know
we
have
some
folks
on
time
constraints
specifically
I
know.
Senator
Lydia
Edwards
is
with
us
and
has
a
3
30..
So
I
want
to
give
her
a
moment
when
we
get
through
the
remaining
panelists
to
just
speak
her
piece,
and
then
we
will
go
to
questions
from
counselors
Sashi
James,
the
director
of
reimagining
communities,
I,
believe,
is
here.
K
All
right
cool.
Thank
you
very
much,
so
my
name
is
Sashi
James
I'm,
a
resident
of
Roxbury
working
in
my
community
to
create
what
different
looks
like
following
the
leadership
of
formerly
incarcerated
and
directly
impacted
women
and
girls
I'm.
Also
the
daughter
of
formerly
incarcerated
parents
and
I
represent
families
for
justice,
as
healing
and
the
National
Council
for
incarcerated,
informally,
incarcerated
women
and
girls
as
the
Director
of
reimagining
communities,
one
of
our
five
components
of
reimagining
communities,
infrastructure,
which
grew
out
of
years
of
organizing
on
the
ground
and
asking
people
what
they
need.
K
Instead
of
what
the
system
is
currently
offering
is
participatory
budgeting.
We
believe
all
communities
impacted
by
the
budget
should
have
a
voiceover
dollars
are
spent
in
our
neighborhood
when
we
voted
yes
on
a
better
budget,
community
members
of
Roxbury
showed
excitement
and
becoming
more
involved
in
building
a
better
budget
for
their
neighborhood
residents
have
shown
a
large
interest
in
being
a
part
of
the
board
ensuring
that
each
district
is
represented
in
a
diverse
manner.
K
Funding
this
process
is
a
key
component
to
addressing
poverty,
substance,
use,
Mental,
Health
and
so
many
more
unadjusted
issues
in
the
community.
Simply
because
of
lack
of
funding
and
resources,
we
have
an
opportunity
to
support
the
voices
of
communities
most
impacted
by
incarceration
and
over
policing
as
a
humble
Ave
resident
living
in
the
most
living
in
the
middle
of
the
most
incarcerated
Court
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts.
It
is
important
that
we
begin
to
shift
the
power
of
the
budget
to
the
people
where
it
belongs.
K
Community
members,
including
myself,
know
what
we
need
to
create
a
better
neighborhood
for
our
current
residents
and
future
Generations,
including
my
daughter,
who
lives
also
in
the
most
incarcerated
Corridor
of
the
Commonwealth
in
our
home
of
five
generations.
In
closing,
FJ
has
a
small
budget
that
does
not
reflect
one
percent
of
the
one
percent.
K
We
are
asking
to
be
allocated
to
the
participatory
budgeting
process,
yet
families
for
justice,
as
healing
and
the
National
Council,
have
been
able
to
provide
basic
income,
guaranteed
basic
housing,
Mutual
Aid,
a
community
Pantry,
a
hydroponic
Farm
to
the
neighborhood
of
Roxbury.
This
is
an
example
of
communities,
knowing
what
we
need
and
building
the
needs
out.
If
we
are
given
the
opportunity,
imagine
what
could
be
created
if
we
had
access
to
40
million
dollars
from
the
city
plus
50
million
dollars
at
the
state
intends
to
use
to
build
the
new
women's
prison.
R
Yep
good
afternoon,
thank
you
so
much.
My
name
is
Mallory
henora
and
I'm,
also
with
families
for
justice
as
healing
and
the
National
Council
for
incarcerated
and
formally
incarcerated
women
and
girls,
and,
as
you
heard,
Sashi
James
describe
our
director
of
reimagining
communities.
Our
mission
is
to
end
the
incarceration
of
women
and
girls.
Asashi
said
our
work
is
led
by
incarcerated,
formally
incarcerated
and
directly
at
impacted
women.
We
do
policy
and
litigation
work.
R
We
lead
a
Statewide
campaign
to
stop
the
new
women's
prison
and
pass
a
jail
in
prison
construction
moratorium
and
again,
as
you
heard,
the
heart
of
that
work
is
hyper.
Local,
organizing
called
reimagining
communities,
reimagining
communities
is
about
shifting
power
and
resources
to
create
healing
well-being
and
thriving
communities.
R
For
years
we
have
been
pushing
for
a
people's
budget
in
Boston.
This
demand
came
out
of
a
listening
tour.
We
LED
with
directly
affected
women,
interviewing
150,
formally
incarcerated
women
about
their
experiences,
dreams
and
Visions
for
thriving
communities.
Then,
in
2020
we
convened
months
of
meetings
with
formally
incarcerated
and
directly
affected
women
to
talk
about
what
women,
our
children
and
our
neighborhoods
most
needed.
At
that
time
we
were
demanding
41
million
dollars
to
be
distributed
through
a
participatory
process.
R
Years
later,
the
demand
Remains
the
Same,
meaningful
funding
and
a
process
that
centers
residents
who
are
enduring
structural
racism,
income
inequality
and
generations
of
economic
Devastation
due
to
over
policing
and
incarceration.
We
know
that
giving
residents,
especially
black
and
brown
community
members,
the
power
and
a
people-led
process
to
both
imagine
solution
and
fund
those
Community
projects
is
essential
to
improving
the
quality
of
life
for
everybody
in
Boston.
R
We
also
serve
on
the
steering
committee
for
the
better
budget
Alliance
and
have
been
part
of
deep
research,
research
and
conversation
about
how
to
bring
to
life
and
sustain
a
participatory
budgeting
process
that
matches
the
hope
and
vision
of
residents
who
voted
yes
on
one.
Our
goal
is
to
ensure
that
participatory
budgeting
is
an
independent
and
people-led
process
that
is
meeting
meaningfully
funded.
R
We're
imagining
vibrant
people's
assemblies
in
multiple
language,
with
neighbors
breaking
bread
together
with
our
children
in
the
room
playing
with
child
care
providers.
So
parents
can
be
fully
present
and
part
of
the
process.
We're
imagining
Community
oversight
board
members
who
are
at
all
the
meetings
in
their
districts,
so
neighbors
can
come
up
to
and
ask
them
questions
and
share
concerns
and
get
support
to
be
part
of
the
process.
We're
imagining
conversations
that
may
be
charged
with
emotion,
yet
grounded
in
community
agreements
or
imagine,
people
finding
and
feeling
their
power
and
working
together
on
Project
proposals.
R
We're
imagining
people
learning
about
and
being
more
in
touch
with
the
on
the
ground.
Organizing
that
may
already
be
happening
in
their
neighborhood
and
that
they
might
want
to
help
grow
and
expand,
we're
imagining
people
voting
proudly,
maybe
for
the
first
time,
regardless
of
their
status
for
project
that
they
truly
believe
will
help
their
family,
their
children.
Their
block
we're
imagining
a
community
oversight
board
that
listens
big
and
continues
to
work
to
strengthen
the
process
year
after
year.
We're
imagining
fundamentally
Shifting
the
culture
in
Boston.
R
Participatory
budgeting
is
not
something
a
city
office
can
do
alone.
We
have
the
opportunity
to
do
something,
truly
different
and
be
a
model
for
the
rest
of
the
country.
By
incorporating
incorporating
lessons,
we
have
learned
from
people
all
over
the
world.
We're
used
to
being
a
strong
mayor,
City
right
now.
Our
entire
city
government
needs
to
support
an
ordinance
that
will
preserve
the
power
of
residents,
to
make
decisions
about
our
resources
and
to
be
empowered
to
bring
solutions
to
the
table
and
bring
build
them
with
our
neighbors.
R
This
is
an
ordinance
that
will
live
beyond
any
one
individual's
tenure,
so
it
must
have
the
key
tenants
to
ensure
PB
is
well-funded,
Equitable
engaging
and
led
by
the
community.
To
be
clear,
we
support
increasing
the
number
of
oversight
board
members
from
9
to
18,
so
that
each
district
has
two
representatives
to
help
ensure
diversity
is
represented
and
there's
sufficient
members
to
do
this
work.
We
support
paying
oversight
board
members
for
their
time
to
ensure
that
these
roles
are
feasible
for
low-income
and
working-class
residents.
R
We
support
prioritizing
the
selection
of
oversight
board
members
who
are
directly
impacted
by
incarceration.
We
support
public
nominations
for
the
oversight
board,
so
people
can
see
and
work
with
Representatives.
They
know
and
trust.
We
support
ensuring
that
the
office
of
participatory
budgeting
partners
with
community-based
organizations
and
pays
Community
groups
for
their
work
and,
of
course,
we
support
fully
funding
participatory
budgeting
with
a
minimum
of
one
percent
of
the
city
budget.
Thank
you.
C
S
All
right
good
afternoon,
I'd
like
to
thank
chair
Arroyo
council
president
at
Flynn
and
the
administration,
as
well
as
all
the
staff.
That's
helping
to
bring
this
hearing
together.
I'd
also
like
to
thank
all
the
organizations
from
across
our
city,
as
well
as
the
residents
and
neighbors,
who
successfully
organized
to
bring
participatory
budgeting
mandate
to
the
City
of
Austin.
S
My
name
is
Andres
del
Castillo
I'm,
a
long
time
advocate
and
organizer
in
the
city
of
Boston,
currently
I'm,
the
director
of
development
for
City
Life,
theater
Urbana
I
also
served
as
co-director
of
rights
of
the
city
Boston,
as
the
alliance
chaired
the
effort
to
get
this
ordinance
passed
in
the
first
place.
I'm
very
proud
of
my
contributions
to
that
effort
and
I
remain
deeply
committed
to
a
meaningful
PB
process
in
the
city
of
Boston.
S
I've
had
the
privilege
of
speaking
before
the
city
council
on
a
range
of
issues
supporting
the
DREAM
Act,
establishing
safe
communities
and
ending
the
abusive
BPD
ice
relationship
that
led
to
harm
in
our
communities,
supporting
necessary
reforms
and
strengthening
IDP
and
establishing
tenant
protection
zones.
These
have
been
incredible
moments
to
push
our
city
towards
repairing
Farms
done
to
work
in
class
by
bostonians
by
a
history
of
well
documented,
harmful
policies.
We
must
remember
our
context
so
that
we
may
be
grounded
in
a
shared
purpose.
S
Bostonians
voted
decisively
to
bring
a
mayoral
Administration
and
the
city
council
that
was
committed
to
deep
transparency
and
accountability
in
local
government,
as
well
as
transforming
how
accessible
government
was
to
them.
However,
it
wasn't
just
the
administration
or
the
council.
Voters
also
voted
decisively
to
bring
participatory
budget
and
mandate
to
our
city,
as
well
as
the
symbolic
but
decisive
vote
towards
having
an
elected
school
committee.
I
believe
this
shows
a
deep
desire
for
bostonians
to
have
a
more
more
Civic
access
to
the
ways
local
government
moves.
S
I
believe
this
Council
should
hear
that
and
support
shaping
a
PB
process
that
does
all
it
can
to
achieve
that,
specifically
by
stipends
for
residents
on
the
board.
Ensuring
ordinance
language
makes
it
clear
and
unambiguous
directive
toward
the
Shoring
member
diversity
of
background
and
experience
such
that
they
reflect
out
of
Boston
and
the
public
nomination
process
of
these
members
I
also
support
all
the
recommendations
by
the
panelists
before
me.
These
three
recommendations
are
critical
and
interconnected.
S
We
as
members
of
the
community
who
come
from
a
working
class
experience
of
our
own,
can
tell
you
from
our
direct
experience
as
well
as
from
what
we
hear
in
community
that
resourcing
residents
on
the
board
is
necessary
in
order
to
ensure
that
they
they
can
meaningfully
engage
in
this
process.
I've
heard
I
have
heard
that
some
on
this
console
have
shared
concerns
over
the
precedent
it
would
set
respectfully
such
concerns
are
misplaced.
This
is
not
the
first
board
commission
or
committee
to
be
compensated
for
their
time
and
contribution
as
such
I
would
argue.
S
A
precedent
has
already
been
set
that
this
is
possible.
The
question
is:
will
we
do
it?
Here
is
a
participatory
budgeting
process
that
will
allocate
public
funds
important
enough
that
it
merits
such
a
focus
on
ensuring
participation
it
does.
Experts,
residents,
residents
and
community
members
have
stepped
up
today
to
say
as
much
it
all.
It
also
is
critical
to
ensuring
board
diversity
of
experience
and
background.
S
If
we
are
serious
about
ensuring
that
those
most
impacted
by
the
issues
facing
our
city
and
our
neighborhoods,
then
we
must
be
committed
to
meaningful
engagement
and
that
and
that
we
must
reasonably
facilitate
such
an
outcome.
If
our
residents
are
struggling
to
pay
for
rent,
groceries
and
transportation
and
more
then
the
one
thing
we
know
they
don't
have
is
free
time
residents
most
impacts
that
are
constantly
on
the
grind,
because
they
have
to
be
they
have
to
be
so
that
they
can
pay
rent
feed
their
families
and
more.
S
We
must
be
deeply
committed
to
having
a
board
with
deep
lived
experience
in
these
issues
facing
bostonians.
We
must
make
this
that
purpose
explicit
and
clear,
and
we
must
ensure
that
every
reasonable
effort
is
made
to
ensure
it.
Lastly,
we
must
acknowledge
Boston's
demand
for
a
deep
Democratic
process
and
allow
for
bostonians,
as
well
as
the
council,
to
nominate
members
to
this
board.
We
are
asking
for
this
process.
What
we
are
asking
of
this
process
excuse
me,
is
no
small
fee.
S
We
are
asking
this
board
to
annually,
create
and
update
a
rule
book
that
lays
out
the
details
of
the
PB
process,
develop
the
Outreach
plan,
a
10
PB
engagements
in
their
neighborhood
oversight
of
the
PB
office.
Oversight
of
the
budget
and
more
a
larger
board
ensures
that
that
there
are
enough
board
members
to
take
on
all
the
tasks
working
a
working
board
will
have.
We
need
enough
board
members
to
ensure
the
work
moves
forward.
This
is
not
a
full-time
job,
so,
understandably,
certain
members
may
not
be
able
to
carry
certain
parts
of
the
work.
S
A
larger
body
allows
for
flexibility
in
moving
the
work
forward.
Having
a
larger
number
of
nominees
from
the
city
council
ensures
a
level
of
independence
from
the
mayor's
Administration
that
was
laid
out
in
the
charter
reform.
This
is
not
about
the
current
Administration.
This
is
about
the
future
of
Boston
and
ensuring
that
a
PV
process
has
clear
continuity
and
cohesiveness,
regardless
of
the
administration
that
exists
at
any
one
point.
S
T
Hi
everyone,
my
name,
is
James
Fanboy
and
I
serve
as
the
chief
of
staff
communion
culture
with
the
Boston
regime
project.
Yujima
is
here
as
a
seasoned
local
practitioner,
Boston
human
project
is
the
black
LED
Democratic
member-run
organization,
building
a
Cooperative
business
arts
and
investment
ecosystem
in
Boston,
with
a
mission
to
return
wealth
to
working
class
communities
of
color
Boston
ajima
project
is
bringing
together
neighbors
workers,
business
owners,
investors,
organizers
and
artists
to
create
a
community
controlled
economy
in
our
city,
founded
in
2017.
T
We
are
the
first
democratically
governed
investment
Fund
in
the
country,
Jima
Swahili
for
Collective
work
and
responsibility,
We
Believe
through
Community
governance,
deep
relationship
building
cultural
development
and
resource
sharing.
We
have
everything
we
need
to
create
the
community
we
want.
Boston
Chima
has
been
operating
under
the
notion
that
decision
making
that
impacts
us
should
be
made
by
us
that
within
our
community
lives,
experience
and
expertise
to
make
those
decisions
and
that
we
have
the
capacity
to
learn
and
build
skills
need
make
any
decision
in
our
community.
T
We
are
the
primary
users
and
we
will
be
impacted.
It
should
be
us
for
the
last
seven
years.
We've
organized
three
neighborhood
assemblies
and
eight
city-wide
assemblies
as
a
central
vehicle
for
engaging
community
members
and
the
ideation
planning
and
coordination
of
regime's
collective
Investments
during
the
ujima
assemblies
through
thoughtful
facilitation.
Our
members
to
nominate
businesses
for
investment
participate
in
political
and
financial
education
workshops
and
elect
Key
Community
boards
and
or
vote
on
Key
Community
issues.
Our
Quorum
is
50,
plus
one
of
all
voting
phone
numbers,
which
is
ambitious,
considering
our
400
plus
voting
membership.
T
We
hold
to
that
and
produce
a
new
voter
eligibility
list
for
every
vote
to
make
sure
we
have
the
most
up-to-date
account
of
voting
members
in
our
ecosystem.
We
want
our
decisions
to
be
fully
reflective
of
our
membership
to
have
to
say
and
true
decision-making
power.
Our
assemblies
and
Community
decision
making
processes
have
yielded
16,
separate
Community
decisions
and
included
five
investment
votes
to
support
bipac
businesses
in
Boston,
one
vote
to
decide
on
our
top
Community
needs
or
investment
priority
areas
and
two
cultural
assemblies
that
directly
support
17
artists
and
cultural
investment
proposals.
T
Our
ability
to
gather
Community
connect
with
them
and
make
impactful
decisions
on
a
recurring
basis
has
been
a
result
of
deep
relationship,
building
with
local
peers,
culturally
relevant
and
stylistic
Communications
and
responsive,
responsive
program
development
with
community
members.
Since
our
reception,
our
members
are
co-equal
to
the
voting
process
from
the
nomination
stage
to
ratification
and
capital
disbursement,
our
community
is
consulted
with
at
every
stage
the
process
our
Democratic
investment
process
begins
and
ends
with
Community
input,
Eugene
members
name
and
local
businesses,
they
believe
in
at
our
assembly
or
through
our
businesses.
T
We
love
online
form
from
there.
We
aggregate
a
list
of
all
name,
businesses
and
members
that
members
can
ratify
as
an
investment
plan
from
there.
Our
fund
management
team
reaches
out
to
businesses
named
business
plan,
inviting
them
to
join
our
good
business.
Alliance
businesses
nameless
plan
and
are
invited
to
join
our
good
business.
T
Alliance
businesses
must
adhere
to
our
good
business
standards
to
be
admitted
to
the
alliance
and
businesses
interested
in
investment
we'll
meet
with
our
our
fund
team
for
standard
due
diligence,
but
in
the
end
we
only
invest
in
businesses
that
are
our
voting.
Members
approve.
Nothing
happens
without
their
say
cell.
After
every
vote
we
debrief
the
experience
at
ujima.
We
ask
direct
feedback
from
the
vote
in
our
ballot
after
the
community
decision.
T
Gmail
staff
directly
respond
to
all
member
comments
and
questions
raised
at
during
that
road
and
cycle,
we'll
organize
live
meetings
and
share
the
trends
and
themes
of
that
vote
with
our
membership
members
have
full
access
to
the
original
feedback.
During
the
last
session
and
after
we
have
learned
that
co-equal
Partners
doesn't
doesn't
co-equal
partners,
partners
don't
need
to
hide
information,
we
benefit
from
having
the
same
information,
so
we
can
appropriately
assess
and
participate
after
the
live
session,
our
staff
holds
an
internal
degree
to
evaluate
our
performance
and
express
changes
and
opportunities
for
improvement.
T
Lastly,
we
update
our
online
pipeline
status
page
by
detail
and
devoting
performance
and
total
Investments
made
by
ujima.
Through
our
experience
leading
this
work
in
the
region,
we've
learned
the
most
from
executing
the
set
process
in
person
and
virtually
just
doing
it
and
practicing
deeply
listening
to
people
that
experience
the
process
and
hold
it
and
iterating.
Shortly
after
informed
by
the
diligent
feedback.
Our
community
shares
our
model
and
approach
has
been
successful
in
meeting
Community
needs.
T
We
fully
support
the
better
budget
lines
and
the
recommendations
and
their
pursuit
to
put
decision
making
rights
in
the
hands
of
residents
in
the
city.
As
a
steering
committee
member,
we
will
ensure
that
cultural
values
rigor
and
transform
transparency
that
informs
the
leguma
process
is
honored
here,
as
well
as
we
build
a
new
opportunity
for
all
community
members
to
co-create
an
environment
that
meets
their
basic
needs
and
one
where
they
feel
safe
and
loved
in
the
city.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you
very
much
and
then
Eliza
Barack.
Before
we
go
to
I'm
going
to
allow
Senator,
Lydia,
Edwards
I
know
she
has
a
330
to
speak
after
Eliza
Brad
and
then
we'll
go
to
counselors
for
questions
and
I.
Just
want
to
note
that
councilor
Braden
has
been
here
and
has
joined
us
a
while
ago,
but
just
to
keep
the
flow
going.
We
have
not
gone
to
her,
but
I
want
to
thank
Council
Braden
for
joining
us.
Eliza
brought.
U
Again
I
am
the
director
of
Municipal
democracy
at
the
center
for
economic
democracy,
I'm,
primarily
responsible
for
coordinating
the
better
budget
Alliance,
the
Coalition
of
now
33
Community
organizations
from
all
nine
districts
of
the
city
I'm
also
a
Jamaica,
Plain
resident
and
I
wanted
to
just
start
with
a
short
story
that
last
year,
at
my
daughter's
school
shortly
after
mayor
Wu
was
elected.
She
sent
a
mission
to
to
my
daughter's
school.
She
goes
to
BPS
school.
U
Perhaps
she
sent
it
to
all
schools
asking
for
student
ideas
about
how
to
make
the
city
a
better
place
for
all
of
us,
my
daughter
and
her
classmates,
who
were
just
five
and
six
years
old,
spent
months
talking
to
their
families
talking
to
their
friends
and
coming
up
with
like
ideas
and
planning
and
working
on
these
projects.
They
came
up
with
animal
shelters,
new
hospitals,
free
clothing
exchange
locations,
so
many
creative
ideas,
I,
was
blown
away
by
these
little
people.
U
I
had
a
similar
experience
recently
when
I
met
with
about
30
leaders
from
New
England
United
for
justice
in
Dorchester,
who
brainstormed
ideas
for
community
health
centers
in
each
neighborhood,
but
that
were
focused
on
holistic
health
and
alternative
healing
I
know
that
in
Boston's
first
round
of
Youth
lead
the
change.
There
were
450
ideas
from
young
people
between
12
and
22
just
about
how
to
spend
one
million
dollars
it's
clear
time
and
again
that
residents
from
5
to
80
years
old.
Everyone
has
big
ideas
and
they
know
what
they
need
to
thrive
in
the
city.
U
These
projects
are
not
cheap,
I
know,
City,
councilors
know
this,
but
also
for
the
public,
just
as
some
examples.
There's
18
million
dollars
in
the
budget
in
the
capital
budget
to
build
a
new
Adam,
Street
Library
right
now,
one
million
to
design
a
new
school
yard
at
the
Henderson
Upper
School,
12
million
to
upgrade
19
BPS
kitchens
for
fresh
food
programs
and
a
Park
renovation
in
Mattapan
for
over
five
million
dollars.
U
Just
to
note
that
currently
only
three
out
of
the
18
winning
projects
listed
on
that
site
are
listed
as
being
completed
and
over
time
since
youth
lead,
the
change
has
existed.
Participation
has
declined
with
Community
organizations,
one
of
the
key
learnings
from
that
project
came
from
a
case
study
after
the
first
couple
of
years.
U
At
the
time
when
youth
lead,
the
change
won
an
international
award,
a
report
about
it
says
one
obstacle
that
was
faced
during
this
initiative
was
Community
Trust
in
government
composing,
a
steering
committee
of
youth
organizations
provided
the
community
Liaisons
and
created
an
Avenue
of
trust
between
community
members
and
government
after
the
steering
committee
was
dissolved.
The
coordination
both
with
organizations
and
with
residents
with
youth
across
the
city
has
declined.
U
So
we
have
an
example.
We
can
learn
from
in
our
own
City
about
how
important
it
is
to
do
this.
In
deep
partnership
with
Community
organizations
when
60
67
sorry,
a
voters
approved
a
ballot
Charter
reform
in
2021,
they
voted
for
an
independent
process.
Other
panelists
have
brought
this
up
and
we
see
the
partnership
with
Community
organizations
as
being
one
of
those
critical
ways
to
ensure
that
the
process
continues
to
have
some
level
of
Independence.
U
In
my
17
years,
working
in
Boston's
nonprofits
I
have
seen
City
collaboration,
deep
collaboration
to
preserve
and
develop
affordable
housing,
to
establish
Birdo,
to
establish
Community
Gardens
and
bring
more
food
Justice
to
our
neighborhoods.
Every
aspect
of
city
government
is
done
in
collaboration,
and
it's
something
that
mayor
Wu
and
this
Council
I
know,
and
particularly
value
and
I,
see
it
done
over
and
over
again.
U
So
what
we're
asking
is
that
the
ordinance
has
clear
language
that
establishes
that
that
lays
out
how
important
we
know
that
City
and
Community
organization
partnership
is
so
that
it
sets
it
up
for
Success
into
the
future,
and
so
that
that
is
part
of
the
law
in
and
also
that
those
Community
organizations
are
compensated
for
their
work.
Although
this
is
not
in
the
ordinance
we,
you
know,
we
imagined
that
there
would
be
a
public
process
to
select
some
Key
Community
Partners
to
run
this
process.
U
There
are
many
examples
to
point
to
of
community
organizations
working
with
cities
to
run
participatory
budgeting
and,
according
to
a
report
by
people
powered
in
April
of
2022
research
from
processes
across
Canada
and
U.S
show
that
the
districts
who
worked
closely
with
community-based
organizations
saw
greater
turnout
to
their
processes
from
traditionally
underrepresented
groups.
Low-Income
residents
and
communities
of
color
were
more
likely
than
white
and
higher
income
residents
to
report
that
they
heard
about
the
process
from
a
community-based
organization.
U
New
York
City
this
past
summer
shifted
to
paying
82
Community
organizations
to
hold
523
engagement.
Events,
Chicago
has
21
Community
organization
partners
and,
since
we
all
I
think
share
the
goal
of
having
as
many
bus
in
residents
as
possible
participate
in
the
process,
we
need
our
Community
Partners.
U
C
Thank
you
so
much,
and
so
that
concludes
panelist
presentations.
I
want
to
go
to
Senator
Lydia
Edwards
Who
as
a
counselor
worked
incredibly
hard
on
this
I
know
she
wants
to
join
us
to
speak
and
so
I'm
going
to
go
to
you,
Senator
Edwards
and
then
I'm
going
to
go
to
my
Council
colleagues
to
give
them
a
chance
to
ask
questions
of
anybody
on
the
panel
or
from
the
administration
so
Senator
Edwards.
The
floor
is
yours.
V
Thank
you
very
much.
Just
confirming
you
can
hear
me
excellent
I
appreciate
the
the
shout
out
for
the
prior
work.
I
I,
you
were
part
of
the
council,
as
many
other
other
folks
were
on
here
today,
who
helped
make
that
come
to
fruition
and
desperate
I
wanted
to
give
a
historical
context,
to
really
speak
to
the
legislative
intent
and
then
also
make
some
suggestions
specifically
in
language
in
terms
of
historical
context.
V
We,
as
a
council
new
and
in
speaking
with
Advocates,
we
knew
we
were
doing
more
than
just
coming
up
with
ways
to
move
money
around
the
city.
We
were
trying
to
come
up
with
structural
and
foundational
change,
and
that
is
why
we
went
to
the
Charter
specifically.
So
when
I
look
at
the
language
of
the
of
this,
of
the
draft
of
this
participatory
budgeting,
I
am
hoping
to
see
a
little
bit
more
of
that
structural
and
foundational
change
the
breath
and
the
amount
that
we
I
know.
V
We
campaigned
on
and
worked
hard
to
get.
It
still
needs
to
be
baked
into
certain
aspects
of
this
legislation.
The
legislative
intent
I.
Think
of
the
one
of
the
folks.
We
spoke
with
was
no
longer
with
us
Chuck
who
who
did
think
in
such
great
visions
that
I
don't
know
that
right
now,
in
this
current
draft,
we
have
really
included
or
even
really
come
close
to
the
the
vastness
of
his
vision.
V
I
was
the
original
drafted
of
the
charter.
Amendment
I
researched
researched.
It
we
filed
it
and
the
city
council
supported
it
and
ultimately
we
went
into
illegal
battles
the
event
Administration,
as
we
as
the
city
council
believe
we
did
not
need
the
mayor's
permission
to
go
directly
to
the
people
of
Boston
and
I'm
going
to
come
back
to
that
thing.
Going
directly
to
the
people
of
Boston,
we
ultimately
won
that
battle
and
found
the
Attorney
General's
office.
If
you
would
like
to
do
that
opinion
I'm
happy
to
send
it
to
you
again.
V
We
came
back
that
there
was
one
caveat.
The
Attorney
General
said
that
the
one
percent
that
we
intended
to
have
as
the
original
draft,
like
it's
in
the
original
draft,
that
this
city
council
passed
one
percent
of
the
budget.
Unfortunately,
due
to
chapter
44,
a
direct
allocation
and
a
charter,
amendment
of
City
funds
was
not
constitutional.
All
that
meant
is
therefore
it
couldn't
be
in
the
final
draft
of
the
charter.
Amendment.
V
What
it
didn't
mean
is
that
the
intent
and
the
goals
of
all
of
us
to
have
one
percent
of
the
budget
be
part
of
this.
Discussion
went
away.
It's
still
there
for
me
and
I
know,
for
as
many
of
The
Advocates
testified
that
one
percent
was
vital
because
we
wanted
to
have
a
minimum,
a
minimum
to
assure
that
no
mayor,
not
any
particular
person,
but
men,
there
are
no
Administration
could
shrink
the
vision,
the
vastness
or
the
structural
or
foundational
change
that
we
were
proposing
to
the
people
of
Boston.
V
So
I
think
it's
very
important
that
whatever
version
you
have
and
I
will
I
I,
don't
I
won't
be
speaking
specifically
to
percentages,
but
whatever
version
that
ultimately
leaves
the
city
council
and
and
the
sign
by
the
mayor
should
have
a
a
firm
number.
It
should
have
something
that's
very
clear
that
firm
number
again
lives
beyond
this
Administration
and
into
other
ones,
and
by
the
way,
the
charter
language
that
I
have
probably
yes
or
physical
responsibility.
So
this
is
not
going
to
bankrupt
the
city
of
Boston.
V
It
is
if
the
funds
are
available
by
the
way.
I
want
to
also
make
sure
that
people
understand
that
overall
I
I
completely
commend
the
mayor.
For
starting
this
conversation,
it
was
vital
to
have
a
ticking
time
baked
into
the
charter.
We
wanted
to
do
that,
so
there
could
be
no
delay
and
necessary
delay
going
forward.
So
I
appreciate
this
I
think
a
lot
of
the
structural
setup
within
it
is
very
necessary
and
good
for
the
office.
So
I
do
commend
the
mayor
for
doing
that.
I
do
offer.
V
I
did
want
to
thank
also
some
people
who
are
with
in
the
in
the
trenches,
my
former
staffer
Joel
wolf,
and
also
my
former
staffer
Dusty
purpose.
I
want
to
thank
councilor
Bach
as
well,
and
Alex
papali
and
Armani
white
were
individuals
that
I
work
a
great
deal
with
to
make
sure
that
we
got
this
on
on
the
to
the
people
of
Boston,
but
here's
some
friendly
amendments
that
I
think
is
worth
I
hope
for
your
consideration.
V
One
is
that
there
needs
to
be
an
actual
definition
of
what
is
the
participatory
budgeting
process
like
it
needs
to
be
carved
out
and
needs
to
be
explained
directly
what
we
mean
when
we
say
this.
It's
referred
you
several
times
after
this
after
this
process
and
the
process,
but
it's
not
actually
defined,
and
that
process
needs
to
be
defined
to
be
as
the
Democratic
choice
of
the
residents
of
Boston,
I
think
I
hope.
V
We
understand
the
incredible
opportunity
that
this
charter
member
is
giving
to
us
in
Boston
and
that
is
to
literally
engage
in
Democratic
experimentation
and
to
really
imagine
what
it
means
for
everybody
who
is
possible
and
wants
to
participate
to
participate
just
by
being
a
resident
of
Boston.
That
includes
those
who
are
incarcerated
in
Suffolk
County
Jail.
That
includes
those
who
are
undocumented.
That
includes
our
youth.
That
includes
people,
it
just
includes
so
many
people
in
Residence
at
Boston.
V
It
puts
them
first,
as
one
of
the
previous
teachers
said
so,
users
and
your
user
created
creativity
to
what
that
looked
like
a
traditional
election.
We've
learned
actually
isn't
as
inclusive
as
we'd
like
it
to
be
so
start
something
online.
Try
so
many
different
ways
to
allow
people
to
participate
and
have
direct
participation.
I
think
we
used
to
do
this
for
the
opportunity.
It
is
it's
extremely
exciting.
V
Also
I
would
want
to
for
some
of
the
guardrails
that
are
already
in
the
bill.
I
would
add
to
them
that
the
board
members,
whoever
they
are
and
I,
have
no
opinion
about
the
number
of
them,
but
I
do
think
that
there
should
be
a
conflict
of
interest
training
and
also
the
requirement
that
they
fill
out.
M
V
V
I
would
also
like
to
just
make
sure
that
there
that,
while
this
current
version
is
setting
out
essentially
for
the
board
to
go
around
the
community
and
in
different
Community
areas
to
get
feedback
and
then,
ultimately,
all
the
rule
book,
which
really
sets
up
a
way
for
us
to
get
projects
and
ideas.
It
seems
to
be
then
there's
a
discussion.
I
don't
know
with
who,
but
ultimately
it
just
then
moves
the
mayor
to
make
the
decision
again.
V
There
needs
to
be
a
move
to
the
people
to
make
the
decision
and
then
making
sure
it's
ratified
by
the
city
council
or
and
or
in
the
mayor.
I
also
just
finally
wanted
to
make
sure
that
if
this
version
I
understand,
if
we
were
trying
to
move
as
soon
as
possible
because
of
the
the
charter
amendment
to
have
some
sort
of
structure
up
to
have
some
sort
of
participatory
budgeting.
If,
then,
the
language
could
be
changed
to
at
least
Crescendo
into
direct
participation
that
would
I
think
well.
V
That
would
be
something
I
would
suggest
if
you
cannot
do
it
right
now,
for
this
year
by
this
fiscal
year,
to
have
a
process
up
and
running
then
have
the
process
that
you
have
right
now,
with
the
understanding
that
you're
going
to
go
directly
to
the
people
of
Boston,
and
that
should
be
part
of
the
art
ordinance
of
the
timeline
I.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
these
to
allow
me
to
offer
these
family
amendments.
V
C
Thank
you,
Senator
Edwards
I
do
have
one
question
while
you're
still
here,
I
was
I
know
that
you
did
the
process
between
the
council
and
the
Attorney
General's
office
about
what
the
amendment
itself
could
say
and
how
it
could
be
framed.
I
know
one
of
their
objections
was
to,
as
you
noted,
that
one
percent
designation.
V
Based
on
my
regulation,
I
wanted
to
say
it
through
it.
It
was
through
the
referendum
process
that
you
couldn't
just
allocate
General
funds
specifically
to
any
one
thing
due
to
corruption
in
other
cities
and
towns,
but
that
you
would
State
a
certain
amount
again.
The
budgetary
process
that
you
go
through
now,
especially
now
that
you
have
increased
hours.
V
As
you
know,
you
you're
allowed
to
increase
to
certain
limits
and
you're
allowed
to
also
set
those
guidelines
through
that
process,
but
I
believe
I
and
I
will
give
you
the
language
directly
chairman
that
has
had
to
do
with
the
process
that
people
couldn't
just
vote
to
say.
The
money
goes
to
a
specific
thing.
Unless
it
was
outlined
in
chapter
44,
I
forgot
the
section
number
where
there
are
specific
outlines
entities
that
specific
funds
could
go
to
from
the
general
fund.
V
That
was
one
of
the
Amendments
I
will
say
to
the
to
my
to
The
Advocates
that
we
have
thought
about
filing
Statewide
to
just
include
participatory
budgeting
as
one
of
those
things,
but
we
haven't
done
that
I
hope
that
answers
your
question.
I
can
actually,
before
after
my
3
30
around
six
I
can
send
you
the
language
and
the
Attorney
General's
opinion
actually
specifically
as
well.
C
Perfect,
thank
you
as
long
as
I
get
it
before
February
7th,
then
we're
good.
Thank
you
senator
thank
you.
I
know.
Councilor
Flaherty
is
I'm.
Gonna
go
to
him
first
out
of
order
because
I
know
he
has
to
address
a
issue
as
the
chair
of
Public,
Safety
and
so
I'm
gonna
go
to
you
counselor
Flaherty
out
of
order
just
so
you
can
let
folks.
N
Know,
thank
you.
Mr
chairs.
It
was
great
to
see
our
former
colleague
of
my
former
colleague,
the
new
Senator
Edwards
and
I've,
been
paying
attention
and
listening
so
look
forward
to
working
with
you
as
the
chair.
Obviously,
as
the
budget
team,
the
mayor's
office,
as
this
again
continues
to
roll
out
in,
let's
identify
you
know
best
practices
how
this
is
going
to
work
and
how
we
can
make
it
the
best
model
here
in
Boston.
N
So
with
that
any
other
questions,
I'll
direct
them
through
the
chair
or
reach
out
to
folks
individually
and
appreciate
everyone's
time
and
attention.
And
unfortunately
we
had
an
incident
to
check
Boston
where
two
kids
have
been
stabbed
and
I.
Think
the
someone
brandished
a
gun
and
it's
a
scary
scene
over
there
so
is
chair
of
Public
Safety
I'm
gonna
head
over
to
to
the
scene
and
see
if
I
can
be
of
any
help
so
good
to
see
everybody
and
sorry
I
have
to
jump.
C
Thank
you,
Council
clarity.
Thank
you.
We're
going
to
go
in
order
of
arrival
for
questions,
so
that's
councilmania,
followed
by
councilman,
followed
by
councilor
Flynn,
followed
by
councilor
Lara,
followed
by
councilor
Coletta,
followed
by
Council
Fernandez
Anderson,
followed
by
councilor
Braden,
and
then
myself.
If
there's
anything
that
hasn't
been
covered
and
so
I'm
gonna
go
to
counselor
Mejia,
followed
by
Council
Regen.
D
D
Community
I
just
have
one
one
specific
question,
and
it
relates
to
the
percentage
of
how
many
dollars
we're
allotting
and
I'm
just
curious
if
the
administration
could
just
share
with
us
some
of
their
reactions
in
terms
of
the
one
percent
that
is
being
asked
and
kind
of
how
that's
landing.
And
what
are
we
going?
You
know
what's
that,
looking
like
for
you
all.
I
I
I
can
I
can
take
a
step
at
it.
So
thank
you
counselor,
so
we
we
certainly
recognize.
As
the
Senator
Edward
said,
the
intent
and
the
goal
of
the
original
ballot
initiative
was
to
set
aside
certain
percentage.
We
have
not
been
able
to
get
past
that
sort
of
legal
impediment
that
that
prevents
that
kind
of
the
it
would
be
in
conflict
with
with
State
Law
chapter
44
I
think
it's
section
53
that
we're
being
conflict
with.
C
D
But
so
just
just
to
kind
of
push
a
little
bit,
because
the
way
the
you
know,
there's
always
the
interpretation
of
how
things
are
written
and
then
there's
also
the
interpretation
from
how
it's
you
know
the
intention
behind
it
and
I'm
just
curious.
You
know
at
this
point:
how
can
we
grapple
with
that
in
a
way
that
also
uplifts
community.
I
Yeah
I
think
it
would
would
be
this
office
certainly
would
be
part
of
the
budgeting
process
that
both,
which
obviously
can
have
the
full
participation
of
of
of
the
public.
You
know
through
the
council,
and
we
we
actually
as
part
of
some
of
the
budget
engagement
that
we
went
through.
We
did
to
hear
some
direct
feedback
from
folks,
so
I
think
that's,
that's
probably
the
next
opportunity
to
to
shape
the
the
budget
that
will
be
available
for
just
very
much.
C
E
J
J
Basically,
because
this
bill
is
being
originated
by
the
mayor.
Who
has
budgeting
Authority,
and
so
you
have
the
ability
to
amend
this
ordinance
and
it
should
be.
We
should
be
able
to
assert
a
minimum
percentage,
but
you
know
I
think
that's
that's
part
of
the
diligence
that
we
should
be
engaging
in
over
the
next
week.
C
E
Because,
as
Senator
Edwards
say
to
Jesse,
Purvis
was
in
our
offices.
Now
in
my
office,
worked
a
great
deal
on
this,
and
we
are.
My
offices
also
have
the
belief
that
we
can
establish
a
floor
here.
So
I
I'd
also
be
interested
in
getting
the
administration's
legal
like
the
legal
interpretation
of
chapter
44,
section
53
that
says
otherwise
just
so
that
we
can
sort
of
understand
where
the
discrepancy
is
coming
from.
E
And
we
don't
do
that
unless
we
have
some
sort
of
allocated
percentage
of
floor,
that
we're
working
from
so
I
think
have
having
that
analysis
to
make
sure
that
we
are
what
I
think
operating
within
the
right
proper
legal
framework,
but
also
to
really
make
sure
that
this
is
a
meaningful
participatory
budgeting
process.
That
I
believe
Aaron
spoke
to
about
building
Community
power,
and
so
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are.
We
are
doing
that
I
guess
I,
you
know.
E
So
that's
my
main
question
and
the
second
question
is
about
this
oversight
committee
and
the
importance
of
making
sure
that
it's
not
just
folks
who
have
experience
doing
budgeting
is
that
it's
really
about
bringing
in
voices
that
have
been
historically
excluded
from
the
budgeting
process.
That
is
often
made
to
seem
as
though
it's
this
impre
impenetrable
Byzantine
process.
Where
it's
really
about
you
know.
E
How
are
we
making
sure
that
our
dollars
are
being
used
for
the
purpose
that
we
want
and
so
want
to
get
more
of
a
sense
from
the
administration?
What
the
thought
process
is
around
with
the
oversight
committee
looks
like
and
to
see
how
we
can
adjust
that
language
to
make
sure
that
it's
really
about
centering,
diverse
Community
voice
in
the
city.
I
Absolutely
thank
you.
Counselor
and
I
will
communicate
that
additional
sort
of
legal
sort
of
interpretation
to
the
cooperation
council's
office
and
I
might
have
sort
of
oversimplified
that
that
we're
not
necessarily
looking
for
an
oversight
panel
that
has
any
necessarily
expertise
in
budgeting
per
se.
It
was
just
a
broad
range
of
Boston
residents
that
can
that
have
different
different
sort
of
expertise.
F
Thank
you
chair,
my
questions,
I
think
are
for
James
and
Aaron
I
believe
can
or
anybody
else
who
can
really
answer
the
question
about
the
ujima
project.
Can
you
talk
a
little
bit?
You
said
that
you
have
400
members
and
I'm
curious
about
how
much
you've
been
able
to
invest
or
redistribute
with
the
ujima
fund,
how
many
investors,
how
many
businesses
have
you
been
able
to
support,
and
how
do
you
make
the
collective
decisions
about
the
investment.
T
T
I
think
at
total
right
now
we're
at
around
525
000
I,
think
we've
invested
in
bypop
businesses
since
we
started,
and
that
has
been
an
amount
and
that
has
been
I.
Think
390
investors
in
total
have
supported
that
pot
and
that's
inclusive
of
individuals,
largely
individuals,
but
as
well
as
other
institutions
like
foundations
and
yeah
other
other
foundations
and
I.
Think
your
question
was
just
sort
of
how.
How
has
the
process
been?
Is
that
am
I
understand?
T
Yeah
you
know
this
last
couple
years
has
been
particularly
interesting
because
they've
been
all
virtual,
but
we've
have
we've
in
the
last
few
years
have
gone
to
a
pattern
of
having
them
twice
a
year,
so
they
happen
in
April
and
they
also
have
in
October
and
as
I
noted
before
they're,
you
know,
they're
really
an
effort
or
there's
an
announcement
to
sort
of
convene
members
to.
Let
them
know
that
this
is
happening
to
not
let
them
know
what
we'll
be
voting
on.
T
Specifically
the
theme,
the
focus
and
Beyond
voting.
There
is
within
our
financial
and
political
education,
Workshop
space
to
better
understand
the
issues
and
if
we
have
an
assembly,
if,
during
the
assembly,
there
is
an
opportunity
to
nominate
businesses,
folks
come
to
that
assembly
to
share
sort
of
the
businesses
that
they
want
to
receive
investment,
and
so
they
are
then
sort
of
like
added
into
an
investment
list
that
we
eventually
ratify
our
members
to
eventually
ratify
and
right
now
we
are
currently
engaged
in
three
investment
plans.
T
J
Yeah,
no,
those
thank
you
James,
oh
just
no,
so
the
total
pull
that's
been
raised
by
James
five
million
dollars.
So
that's
what
the
you
know.
Approximately
400
members
are
responsible
for
allocating.
So
you
know
you
could
extrapolate
that
to
the
city,
but
if
that
was
proportional,
there
would
be
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
or
more
if
it
was
equipment.
J
Just
another
quick
sort
of
description
of
some
of
these
assemblies,
like
so
with
ajima,
it's
different
from
what
the
city
PB
process
would
be
because
ujima
is
investing
in
local
businesses,
but
we
have
a
process
called
that'll,
be
sort
of
survey
and
and
engage
members
around
thinking
of
what
businesses
they
love,
what
businesses
they
need
and
what
businesses
they
want
to
replace
and
so
we'll
have
a
whole
love
list
of
all
the
companies
that
people
think
that
they
really
want
to
support
in
their
neighborhood.
You
know
dot
voting.
J
Will
people
look
at
the
list
on
the
wall
and
go
and
say:
oh
yeah,
this
one
too,
like
I,
I
love
this
company
people
also
talk
about
businesses
that
they
didn't
depend
on,
but
don't
like
how
they're
treated
or
don't
like
their
products
and
services
and
will
you
know,
start
engaging
around?
What
could
the
alternative
be?
And
so
you
know
we
use
all
kinds
of
activities
we
use
like
spectrums.
You
know,
standing
on
one
side
of
the
room.
Agree
disagree
hearing
from
people
about
what
their
opinions
are.
J
All
kinds
of
you
know:
mobile
voting
and
poll
systems,
we've
created
like
maps
on
the
ground,
where
community
members
could
sort
of
walk
through
their
own
day
in
their
in
their
neighborhood.
To
think
about,
you
know
where
all
the
places
that
they
engage
with
and
what
could
they
invest
in
and
you
know
within
PB,
there's
all
kinds
of
really
exciting
participatory
activities
that
take
a
lot
of
skill
and
art.
But
if
done
well,
can
really
create
really
generative
spaces
for
people
to
think
about
what
they
want
to
see
in
their
own
neighborhoods.
F
O
I
could
speak
to
2014
to
about
2017.
over
the
year.
The
the
amount
of
young
people
grew.
We
housed
it
in
the
mayor's
youth
Council
eventually,
and
so
that's
a
when
I
was
running
the
mayor's
youth
Council,
a
group
of
between
85
and
120
young
people
across
the
city
of
Boston.
We're
facilitating
this
process
engaging
various
amounts
throughout
the
process.
O
F
Wow,
thank
you
and
you
know
the
reason
why
I'm
asking
this
question
is
because
we
have
this
particip.
We
have
examples
of
what
participatory
decision-making,
particularly
financial
decision
making
and
Community
looks
like,
and
there
are
some
worries
or
concerns
about
how
much
power
we
give
back
and
I
think
that
you
all
spoke
very
clearly
about
and
debunk
some
of
those
concerns.
F
And
then
you
know
good
luck
after
that
kind
of,
like
advocating
through
your
counselors,
particularly
in
municipal
government,
and
so
you
know
when
I
just
wanted
to
highlight.
For
my
colleagues,
particularly
we're
making
decisions
about
who
leads
is
that
there
are
experts
here,
and
we
are
not
the
experts
here
in
terms
of
experience
and
even
sheer
volume
of
money
that
we
are
managing
with
participatory
budgeting
processes.
So
thank
you,
Aaron
and
James
for
answering
those
questions.
I
have
no
further
questions
right
now.
Thank
you,
chair.
G
Thank
you
so
much
Sharon
and
I
have
been
listening
in
and
I
do
appreciate,
where
this
discussion
has
gone
and
appreciate
the
the
points
that
largely
The
Advocates
have
touched
upon.
I
will
just
say
so:
there's
no
sunlight
between
where
I
stand
and
and
and
some
of
the
things
that
have
been
proposed.
I
am
generally
supportive
of
things
that
we've
already
discussed
and
would
love
to
get
the
reaction
from
you
know.
G
G
Well,
thank
you
and,
and
just
to
The
Advocates.
Do
you
have
a
sense
of
hourly
what
this
would
look
like
for
folks
who
are
serving
on
the
board
just
so
we
can
have
a
good
comparison
of
what
that
looks
like
say
for
the
sewing
board
of
appeals
or
the
school
committee,
or
anything
like
that.
Has
that
already
been
explored
and
researched.
U
U
U
So
if
we
calculated
that
that
would
be
about
seven
thousand
dollars
a
year
for
stipends
for
what
we
anticipate
in
Boston,
you
know
we
aren't
100
certain
about
how
many
hours
it's
going
to
be
or
what
it's
going
to
look
like.
So
those
are
the
two
models.
We
propose
a
monthly
stipend
for
each
month.
People
are
on
the
board
so
that
the
city
doesn't
have
to
be
tracking
hours.
It's
a
lot
easier
to
manage
just
to
just
have
a
monthly
stipend
for
every
month.
U
W
G
That
did
incredible
work
that
are
the
experts
that
have
have
this
experience
and
then
many
other
experiences
looping
in
the
community
and
in
culturally
appropriate
ways.
So
I
do
think
that
having
that
is
going
to
be
key
in
this
ordinance,
but
then
also
making
sure
that
we
we
set
a
floor
for
that
as
well
of
how
much,
how
much
money
and
just
the
level
of
grant
funding
we're
willing
to
put
up
within
the
office.
So
that's
my
comment:
share
I'll,
pass
it
to
whoever
whoever's
next.
Thank
you.
C
H
L
H
I
guess
not
The
Advocates,
but
my
constituents
have
been
calling
and
writing
in
and
voicing
concerns
that
what's
been
filed
removes
some
of
what
the
people
have
been
asking
and
advocating
for
and
so
I
I'm
wondering.
How
does
the
administration
feel
about
that
and
I
guess?
We
can
go
deeper
into
the
questions
so
that
we
can
take
it
step
by
step
in
figuring
out
what
has
been
stripped
from
what
the
people
asked
for
and
that's,
okay,
if,
if
you'd
like
to
come
back
to
that
question.
L
H
Thank
you
along
those
lines.
I
guess
you
know
it
feels
like
it's
there's
a
top-down
approach
which
centers
Administration
in
this
filing
so
like
I,
guess
I
want
to
understand
what
was
the
thought
process
as
you
made
these
adjustments
from
what
the
community
has
been
asking
and
the
community
and
Advocates
have
been
very
expressive
in
communicating
well
and
profusively
of
all
of
their
research
and
what
best
practices
look
like
and
what
community
is
asked
for.
So
what
was
the
administration's
thought
process
in
making
those
adjustments
to
this
filing.
L
L
L
We,
you
know
piled
something
and
we
worked
with
the
law
Department
as
well,
especially
the
budget
office
work
with
the
law
Department
to
to
legalize
the
actual
ordinance
so
yeah.
If
you
want
to
add
anything,
but
you
know
that
was
that
was
part
of
the
concept
that
we
had
after
the
ordinance
was
created.
We
went
back
to
the
you
know
to
The
Advocates.
L
We
presented
to
them
our
ordinance
and
we
actually
had
multiple
meetings
out
of
there
as
well
to
kind
of
just
hear
their
thoughts
here,
where
you
know
what
they
want
to
see
prioritize.
And
then
you
know
on
my
offensive
role,
was
to
bring
that
back
to
the
administration
and
to
the
Law
Department
into
the
budget
office
and
see
where
we
get
made
in
the
middle.
H
H
L
H
L
Yeah
I
know
I
would
refer
to
the
budget
office.
I
mean
gym
on
how
to
you
know,
make
sure
that
I
definitely
want
to
make
sure
those
happen.
I
don't
want
to
say
anything,
that's
not
correct.
So
I'll
defer
to
the
budget
office
but
I'll
definitely
be
a
big
Advocate
on
making
sure
that
those
conversations
do
happen.
Counselor.
I
Sure,
thank
you,
Council
that
this
is
excellent.
Feedback
from
our
suite,
as
Henry
had
had
mentioned,
there's
been
a
lot
of
ongoing
dialogue
with
a
lot
of
The
Advocates
on
on
the
call,
and
it's
good
to
hear
you
know:
Trump
elected
officials,
like
yourself
springing
also
just
other
very
constituent
information
to
this
dialogue,
because
it
that
is,
that
is
critical
to
making
this
a
successful
program.
I
Obviously
I
I'm,
not
privy
to
our
I,
don't
know
how
much
thought
has
been
around
on
the
exact
Outreach
process
to
to
identify
those
perspective
board
members,
and
then
the
counselors
will
will
also
be
offering
a
City
councils
will
be
offering
so
I
think
you
know
at
its
at
its
core.
This
external
oversight
board
is,
is
the
is
the
structure
to
ensure
that
the
ratchet
goals
of
the
of
the
process
meet
the
the
intent
of
the
of
the
folks
who
voted
for
him?
You
know.
H
I
guess
we'll
get
right
to
it
then
and
I
don't
know.
If
the
thank
you
so
much
Jim
I
wonder
then,
if
the
advocates
in
the
room
can
speak
to
this
or
maybe
the
administration
May,
you
please
State
specifically
what
was
removed
from
this
file
that
people
initially
asked
for
or
requested,
can
we
get?
Can
we
delineate
that
so
we
can
understand
exactly
what's
missing?
H
R
Sure,
counselor
I
can
get
started
so
as
a
person
that
was
involved
in
meetings
with
with
the
better
Boston
Alliance
and
the
City
like
we've
sat
there
was
there
were
times
that
we
worked
together
and
we
appreciate
that
the
administrators,
Wu
Administration
seems
supportive
of
participatory
budgeting
in
concept
and
like
you've,
underscored
and
other
counselors.
Have
it's
really
the
details
that
are
going
to
bring
this
to
life
in
the
way
that
voters
and
constituents
imagined
it
when
they
voted?
R
Yes
on
one,
so
I
would
say
that
what's
missing
and
where
the
gaps
were
and
sort
of
where
the
questions
were
remaining
that
we
had
for
the
city
and
then
the
ordinance
got
filed
without
that
being
resolved.
What
we
were
asking
for
is
in
the
list
of
the
Amendments
and
and
I
can
read
those
again
for
you,
so
I'll
just
want
to
bring
that
back
up
on
my
screen.
R
Originally
we
were
envisioning
even
larger
than
that,
and
also
we
know
that
you
know
we
want.
We
want
to
have
a
board
that
folks
can
come
together
and
work
and
we
can
have
a
quorum,
but
our
vision
is
two
Representatives
per
District
again.
They're
gonna
need
to
not
only
really
have
a
discussion
about
what
the
the
frame
of
the
participatory
budgeting
process
is
going
to
look.
Look
like
Based
On
A
needs
assessment
that
they
should
be
leading.
R
We
also
feel,
like
the
oversight
board,
is
an
essential
piece
to
balance
out
the
power
of
the
city
office
right,
a
liaison
between
the
city
office
and
and
the
community
something
to
to
have
governance
over
this
rule
book.
That's
really
gonna
shape
how
the
assemblies
feel
and
like
what
the
culture
of
participatory
budgeting
feels
like
and
again
be
a
voice
for
residents,
so
that
residents
can
be
as
fully
engaged
as
possible.
So
that
was
a
gap
against.
H
I
H
Would
you
agree
with
me
that
black
and
brown
and
Working,
Class,
People
or
Advocates
should
be
paid
or
compensated
predominantly
because
you're
asking
to
build
equity?
Essentially
that's
what
PB
is
about,
and
would
you
agree
that
folks
in
this
class
should
be
compensated
for
their
time
and
respected.
I
Yeah
I
mean
I
agree
with
the
concept
of
a
working
class.
Folks,
you
know
being
compensated
for
for
work,
I
just
I.
Don't
this
board
is
a
little
bit
different
than
than
other.
So
it's
it's
definitely.
There's
lots
of
boards.
Lots
of
participation,
I
think
there's
been
some
language
included
to
try
to
make
sure
that
that
work.
In
fact,
not
working
class
folks
can
participate
and
not
be
undo
the
environment,
with
some
reimbursement
for
expenses
related
to
participation,
yeah.
H
Yeah,
thank
you.
Mr,
chair,
I,
really
appreciate
you
indulging
me
as
chairways
and
means
you
can
just
appreciate
why
I
I've
taken
an
interest
in
so
many
questions,
but
I'll
heat
here
out
of
respect
for
you
and
my
colleagues
and
everyone
else,
I
have
a
thousand
other
questions.
I
hope
this
is
not
it
I
really
will
want
to
emphasize
that
we
can.
We
should
not.
We
should
not
rush
it
to
the
point
that
we
are
not
doing
it
properly.
H
H
So
I
have
very
strong
feelings
about
that,
but
if
we're,
if
we're
doing
a
second
round
or
a
second
hearing,
I'm
looking
forward
to
that
and
I
appreciate
you
allowing
me
the
time
to
share
and
thank
you
for
those
who's
answering
the
questions,
Mallory
I
know
that
the
question
that
I
asked
needed
more
answering:
do
you
mind
completing
that?
Please
so
we
can
wrap
that
up.
R
Sure
the
the
comparison
counselor
of
the
the
two-
yes
okay,
so
the
other
parts
that
were
important,
is
well
I.
Think
I
should
start
with
like
the
biggest
thing,
which
is,
of
course
not
the
the
city,
doesn't
have
any
floor
for
a
minimum
investment
and
so
we've
we,
the
city,
did
say
that
they
did
not
see
that
there
was
a
legal
Avenue
to
do
that
and
we
all
of
our
research
sort
of
says
differently.
R
So
I,
just
I
want
to
emphasize
again
that,
most
importantly,
across
the
board
of
research
and
from
around
the
world,
we've
said
that
the
most
important
thing
to
increase
real
engagement
and
participation
and
also
make
this
meaningful
and
transformation
transformational
is
to
fund
it.
So
again
we
want
a
floor,
a
minimum
investment
of
one
percent
and
then
I
think
there's
some
other
pieces
of
the
administration's
ordinance
that
are
about
sort
of
the
selection
of
oversight
board
members,
which
is
sort
of
consolidating
power
in
the
mayor's
office.
R
To
do
that,
so
we're
really
hoping
for
there
to
be
some
type
of
public
process
so
that
the
community
members
can
share
names
of
people
who
they
know
and
trust,
and
that
also
the
mayor's
ordinance
has
a
little
bit
more
limited
of
description
of
what
people
should
have
in
terms
of
being
on
the
oversight
board.
So
like
knowledge
or
expertise,
and
we
really
want
to
like
lift
up
experience
that
people
are
living
through
and
and
and
that
their
experience
is
shaping
the
solutions
that
they
know
are
needed
in
their
communities.
R
And
so
talking
about
experiences
of
surviving
incarceration,
experiences
of
being
impacted
by
gentrification
and
displacement.
Experiences
enduring
and
navigating
structural
racism
as
being
critical
components
of
who
people
want
to
see
on
the
oversight
board.
Not
necessarily
just
people
who
have
experienced
prior
experience
in
city
government
and
several
counselors
spoke
to
that
and
sort
of
echoed
where
we
were
coming
from
that.
R
So
I
think
we
feel
heard
on
that,
and
we
also
want
there
to
be
a
place
in
the
ordinance
where
it's
named,
that
there's
a
role
for
community-based
organizations
and
we
even
in
our
suggestions
for
the
language,
are
offering
that
they
may
be
compensated
so
that
it's
not
too
prescriptive.
But
this
is
not
work
that
that
the
city
can
do
by
itself.
R
It's
absolutely
going
to
require
dozens
and
dozens
and
dozens
of
hours
from
organizations
across
the
city,
working
on
the
ground,
doing
deep
relationship,
building,
doing
door,
knocking
training
and
building
up
the
power
of
our
people,
to
learn
about
this
process
and
learn
about
how
we
can
grow
into
full
participation.
And
it's
not
something
that
a
staff
of
five
or
six
or
even
10
in
an
office
can
do
that.
Those
relationships
are
really
going
to
come
from
people
already
working
on
the
ground.
R
So
we
wanted
it
to
be
articulated
that
there's
a
role
for
community-based
organizations.
Doing
this
work
and
I
think
that
I
can
also
defer
to
my
colleagues
to
make
sure
I've
hit
all
the
important
points.
But
I
think
those
were
the
major
ones
where
there
was
gaps
between
sort
of
what
we
were
seeing
in
our
vision
and
then
the
the
how
to
fill
that
in
in
the
ordinance
that
came
out
of
the
the
mayor's
office.
H
C
You
councilor
Fernandez,
Anderson
and
I
just
want
to
note
that
we
will
have
a
working
session
on
this
February
7th
at
2PM.
That
is
when
we
will
be
suggesting
amendments
or
edits
to
the
language
of
the
mayor's
proposal,
and
so
hoping
my
Council
colleagues
can
join
us
on
that,
because
this
will
be
going
for
a
vote.
January
February
8th
because
it
has
a
February
10th
deadline.
C
So
I
just
want
to
make
sure
folks
are
aware
of
that
for
Amendment
purposes,
councilor
Braden,
followed
by
councilor
Bach
and
then
I
will
ask
my
questions
and
then
I
will
release
our
panel.
Thank
you.
So
much
I
know
some
folks
have
run
over
their
time,
specifically
from
the
administration.
So
I
appreciate
you
staying
for
these
questions.
X
C
X
Thank
you,
Mr,
chair,
I,
think
a
few
just
a
few
things
are
more
logistical
implementation
questions
in
terms
of
the
selection.
How
would
the
District
board
members
be
chosen
or
will
they
be
nominated?
Who
gets
to
nominate
I?
Think
Mallory
already
spoke
to
some
of
these
concerns
and
we'll
be
thinking
about
training
and
looking
at
experience
and
knowledge
of
facilitating
group
processes,
because
you're
really
trying
to
mobilize
and
get
feedback
from
a
broad
sweat
of
your
community
in
some
neighborhoods
are
better
equipped
to
do
that
than
others.
O
Thank
you,
I'm,
happy
to
speak
more
to
the
the
latter
of
your
question
on
best
practices
and,
and
the
devil
certainly
is
in
the
details,
but
really
makes
participatory
budgeting.
This
practice
that
can
be
that
can
happen
around
the
globe.
Is
the
fact
that
so
many
processes
don't
start
with
collecting
ideas?
Don't
start
with
saying
all
right?
What
do
we
do
with
this
money?
It
starts
with.
O
Some
of
the
questions
and
I
think
some
of
the
more
infrastructure
level
questions
are
important
to
be
discussed
at
this
point,
but
what
this
has
looked
like
in
Boston
has
been
meetings
with
youth
organizations
who
work
with
young
people
and
any
young
people
having
open
meetings
where
we
decide
what
the
rules
of
the
process
are
figure
out.
The
by
what
metrics
we'll
measure
success
in
this
project,
we
figure
out
how
we'll
be
conducting
Outreach.
What
messages
you
want
to
send
out
and
through
what
channels
those
messages
are
sent
out.
O
We
set
goals
for
ourselves
in
terms
of
idea,
collection
in
terms
of
voting
metrics,
and
then
we
partner
and
collaborate
with
folks
again
to
figure
out
the
details
of
where
we're
going
to
collect
votes.
What
type
of
what
does
the
ballot
even
look
like?
What
does
design
need
to
be
like
in
order
to
meet
residents
where
they
at
so
that
this
isn't
just
we're
not
just
rebuilding
the
existing
power
structures
that
exist
in
a
lot
of
Elections,
but
we're
actually
really
interrupting
them.
O
Designing
first
for
folks
who
have
been
traditionally
marginalized
and
denied
access
to
these
types
of
systems,
and
so
that
happens
in
before
we
even
start
to
collect
ideas.
It's
called
writing
the
rules
in
terms
to
answer
your
question.
I
hope
someone
else
can
jump
in
on
what's
in
the
ordinance
in
terms
of
the
selection
process,
but
that
is
in
like
how
we
figure
out
the
details
of
Any
Given
process.
It's
it's
the
first
thing
we
do
when
we
work
with
community
and
it's
something
we
do
iterative
iteratively.
O
P
For
example,
they
make
very
clear
recommendations
on
the
criteria
that
set
forward,
but
they're
able
to
utilize
their
existing
networks,
relationships
to
get
those
applications
in
the
hands
of
folks
who
they
Trust
and
Believe
will
be
best
to
serve
in
that
space,
and
we
always
recommend
a
sort
of
decision-making
space
or
an
acceptance
process
that
includes
Community
voice
as
a
part
of
appointing
folks
to
that
body
and
I'll
emphasize
a
growing
space
of
practice.
It's
emphasized
that
folks
are
interested
in
Seattle
and
they've
actually
outlined
a
jury
selection
process.
P
So
highly
eligible
highly
qualified
individuals
are
able
to
appoint
other
highly
qualified
individuals
to
their
steering
committee,
based
on
existing
criteria
that
was
established
by
A
needs
assessment
that
they
ran
within
their
city.
So
the
role
of
Equitable
voice
that
represents
Community
as
much
as
possible
in
making
a
decision
about
who
sits
on.
In
this
case,
an
oversight
board
or
other
decision-making
bodies
within
the
process
is
really
important
and
and
as
allowable
it's
different
in
different
cities.
P
The
approach
it
has
to
work
to
honor
the
role
and
relationships
between,
for
example,
in
mayoral,
Administration,
the
city,
council
and
Community
Advocates,
but
to
the
extent
possible
that
you
can
center
community
voice
and
making
those
appointments.
That
is
certainly
a
best
practice
for
this
framework.
Thank.
Y
Z
Thank
you
so
much
Mr,
chair
and
I
I
just
want
to
apologize
to
you
and
all
the
panelists,
both
The
Advocates
and
administration,
that
I
wasn't
able
to
be
on
at
the
start
of
this.
So
I'm
just
gonna
make
a
few
comments
I
think
today
and
not
ask
questions
that
people
have
probably
already
answered
in
their
prior
comments,
but
really
looking
forward
to
the
working
session
on
the
seventh
and
I
feel
strongly
like.
There's
this
real
balance
just
strike
here,
where
you
know
we
want
to
get
this
right.
Z
Z
Z
That
would
make
sense
to
me
to
be
controlling.
But
it
seems
like
these
folks
are
also
we're
going
to
want
them
to
be
folks
who
are
like
liaising
with
our
community-based
organizations,
like
maybe
have
some
experience
in
this
kind
of
like
deep,
organizing
work.
Obviously,
in
the
same
way
that
we
have
at-large
counselors
we're
going
to
want
people
to
be
thinking
about
interest
that
credit
cut
across
the
city
geographically.
So
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we
aren't
jumping
to
a
district-only
model.
Z
Z
Z
You
know
actually
one
of
the
reasons
that
I
backed
and
helped
organize
the
community
preservation
act.
Campaign
back
in
2016
was
that
it
had
a
participatory
element
and
I
think
that
we've
really
seen
that
be
successful.
In
Boston
like
this,
this
sense
that
people
can
really
see,
like
oh
I,
said
I,
want
some
of
my
money
to
go
into
these
types
of
projects,
and
now,
like
me,
and
my
neighbors
can
propose
projects
of
that
type,
and
then
we
can
talk
about
them
with
fellow
community
members
and
then
they
can
get
funded.
Z
I
think
it's
really
important.
This
kind
of
like
cycle
for
really
like
building
that
muscle
of
Civic
democracy
and
importantly,
like
a
lot
of
suit
yourself
alluded
to
making
people
feel
like
their
their
input,
isn't
just
like
going
into
a
black
hole.
It's
actually
resulting
in
change
in
their
community
and
kind
of
urgent
things
that
they
see.
I.
Z
The
board
is
ultimately
kind
of
like
voting
on
the
awards
and
so
I
I
do
want
us,
like
it
sounds
great
to
say
we're
going
to
have
18
and
make
it
double
and
bigger.
But
of
course
what
I
hear
the
community
voice
is
really
saying
is
like,
of
course,
that
we
want
this
process
to
be
a
lot
bigger
than
18.
People
like
the
point
of
this
process
is
to
be
like
hundreds
and
thousands
of
bostonians
participating.
Z
If
we
start
from
what
kinds
of
perspective
and
capabilities
do
we
need
on
the
board,
we
can
get
to
the
right
number
and
and
I
agree
just
in
general,
with
the
idea
that,
like
you
know,
stipending
is
an
important.
It's
an
important
piece
of
the
puzzle
for
like
really
making
sure
that
everybody
can
access
so
yeah
and
then
obviously
Community
compensating
community-based
organizations
for
work
is
also
a
piece
of
the
same
thing,
so
just
wanted
to
kind
of
voice.
Z
C
C
But
it
was
2016
when
it
was
announced
in
that
fiscal
year
that
translated
into
1.7
million
in
funding
for
public
art
and
so
I'm
trying
to
figure
out
where
the
administration
draws
that
line
of
legality.
If
the
administration
prior
to
this
was
able
to
publicly
announce
and
sort
of
champion
that
they
were
dedicating
a
percent
for
the
art
program
directly
from
it's
right
here,
it
says,
devotes
funding
to
public
art
equal
to
one
percent
of
the
city's
annual
Capital
part
or
in
Project.
C
What
the
difference
between
that
kind
of
announcement,
an
initiative
from
the
administration
is
as
opposed
to
us
formally
putting
it
into
an
ordinance,
but
it
is
a
commitment
that
was
made
by
the
administration
prior
to
to
a
specific
thing,
based
stop
of
a
specific
percentage
of
the
budget
and
I
think,
even
if
we
get
to
a
place
where
we're
not.
Let's
say
that
I'm
not
seeding
this,
but
let's
say
that
legally,
we
can't
put
in
an
ordinance.
C
C
So
that
stood
out
to
me
as
well,
but
I
guess
the
question
that
I
would
then
have
is.
Does
this
Administration
not
share
as
a
policy
objective
participatory
budgeting,
getting
a
specific
stipend
of
money?
It
would
strike
me
as
since
it's
a
policy
goal
as
we
put
it
I.
Think
in
my
tenure
on
the
council.
We
actually
always
met
the
percent
for
the
art
program.
I
think
we
never
did
not
reach
that
funding
level.
C
I
know
Joyce
Linehan
was
a
large
Champion
for
it,
so
I
think
it
was
actually
met
every
budget.
But
what
is
keeping
the
administration
for
making
a
similar
commitment,
whether
it's
on
the
operations
budget,
whether
it's
similarly
from
a
capital
budget,
whether
it's
from
I,
mean
I,
think
the
education
budget
stands
on
its
own,
but
whether
if
it's
from
the
operations
budget
specifically
or
the
capital
budget,
specifically
or
some
merger
of
the
two?
C
What
is
to
stop
this
Administration
from
making
a
similar
policy
statement,
knowing
that,
if
there
are
changes
in
our
fiscal
health
or
in
sort
of
emergency
sort
of
situations
where
she
may
not
be
able
to
stick
to
that
percentage,
it's
actually
less
binding
than
an
ordinance?
Is
this
Administration
willing
to
or
open
to
making
a
similar
policy
statement
as
the
Walsh
Administration
was
towards
Arts
and
public
Arts?
C
You
don't
have
to
answer
that
now,
because
you
can't
speak
to
the
administration,
but
I
guess
I
guess.
The
question
is:
is
that
something
that
you
can
bring
back
to
the
administration?
I'm
sure
they're
watching
this,
but
I
think
there's
a
it
just.
It
raises
a
question
for
me
about
the
level
of
commitments
for
Respiratory
budgeting
if,
if
even
in
the
form
of
sort
of
soft
descent,
which
is
this
is
a
policy
goal
not
this
is
mandated
now
we
are
definitely
required
to
do
this.
This
is
a
policy
goal.
C
We
can't
specifically
say
some
percentage
or
some
amount
of
money
is
going
to
destroy
budgeting,
especially
when
the
city
has
a
precedence
of
doing
that
for
something
like
public
art.
And
so
you
know,
if
you
could
just
take
that
back.
I
know
that
you're
not
you're,
not
here,
to
speak
on
behalf
of
the.
C
Specifically
in
that
way
and
make
those
commitments,
but
I
am
asking
essentially
why
we're
not
receiving
similar
commitments
and
maybe
on
February
7th.
When
we
have
that
working
session,
we
can
differentiate
between
why
we
would
have
to
put
them
into
an
ordinance
which
I
think
we
should
do
if
it's
legally
binding
I
do
think.
C
Part
of
the
budget
that
I
think
we
can
follow
for
this
and
I
think
the
only
thing
that
keeps
us
from
doing
that
is
buying
from
the
administration
and
I
know
that
the
Administration
has
told
me
you
know
we
would
give
we're
going
to
fund
this.
This
is
an
important
priority
to
us,
but
I
have
not
received
the
number
I.
Don't
believe
anybody
here
who
received
the
number
and
I
do.
Z
C
It's
incredibly
important
and
just
picking
up
from
what
I'm
hearing
from
Council
colleagues
incredibly
important
to
them
as
well,
that
we
know
what
kind
of
commitment
is
going
into
this,
and
so
I
just
want
to
flag
that
for
the
administration
moving
forward,
because
I
am
aware
that
the
percent
for
arts
program
exists.
And
so
it's
it's
difficult
for
me
to
try
to
figure
out
why
this
would
be
any
different.
I
Thank
you,
Council,
that's
excellent
feedback
and
it's
not
unprecedented
I
feel
like
we've.
Had
you
know,
advocacy
groups
asking
for
commitment
or
floor
on
affordable
housing
or
open
space.
You
know
support
and
you
know
Public
Health
initiatives.
So
it's
not
it's
not
an
unprecedented
ask.
So
I
and
I
completely
respect
people's
advocacy
and
desire
to
have
goals
set.
C
That
is
spoken
out
loud,
and
so
that
is
certainly
what
I'm
looking
for
there.
Secondly,
so
that
to
the
side,
I
think
we've
had
a
we're
at
a
weird
time
when
it
comes
to
pay
for
boards.
I
know
that
this
has
come
up
a
bunch
of
times
and
the
reason
why
I
think
it's
weird
is
I
think
people
should
be
compensated
on
boards
and
I.
C
Think
the
city
has
a
long-standing
structure
that
predates
this
administration
of
sort
of
having
volunteer
boards
for
the
most
part
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
have
seen
I
like
in
this
to
internships.
We
don't
do
unpaid
internships,
because
we've
seen
studies
and
data
that
that
closes
off
doors
for
folks
to
participate,
and
it
changes
the
the
sort
of
voices
in
the
room
where
it
happens.
C
If
you
will
to
quote
Hamilton
and
so
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
we
got
to
kind
of
figure
out
and
I
haven't
heard
it
here
from
the
city.
I
certainly
have
heard
no
justification
for
not
paying
people
for
their
time
and
I.
Think
that's
because
it's
difficult
to
come
up
with
justification
to
not
pay
people
for
their
turn,
and
so
I
would
also
just
ask
not
be
the
city
to
come
to
to
some
kind
of
understanding
of
where
we
want.
Z
C
Go
with
this
because
I
think
I
think
that
time
has
probably
come
and
gone
the
time
where
you
can
expect
people
to
just
volunteer
their
time
to
the
library
board
or
the
environmental
board
or
whatever
and
I
would
just
say.
I
actually
did
a
17
F
on
board
composition
under
Marty
Walsh.
It
was
one
of
the
very
first
things
I
did
and
I
got
that
list
and
to
the
surprise
of
nobody,
it
turns
out
that
unpaid
boards
have
similar
fall,
fall,
bruises,
unpaid
interns,
which
is
very
white.
C
It
was
from
a
very
specific
economic
class,
and
so
when
we're
talking
about
how
we
move
forward
with
an
equity
lens
in
practice,
I
think
the
difficult
part
of
that
is.
We
have
to
figure
out
how
we
set
aside
money
to
pay
people
to
create
that
Equity
lens
when
we're
talking
about
boards-
and
so
I
will
say,
I
think
the
number
that
I
have
heard
is
a
thousand
per
month
per
individual,
but
I
think
what
I
would
like
to
see
clarify
is
what
we
believe
the
time
commitment
really
is.
C
Is
this
going
to
be
a
situation
where,
during
budget
season
there's
a
lot
of
work,
but
then,
during
the
time
after
the
budget
passes
and
before
that
next
budget
cycle
starts,
there's
no
work.
What
what
are
we
looking
at?
Is
it
a
sort
of
I,
I
kind
of
need
to
know
what
we're
expecting
people's
commitment
to
V2?
Is
this
a
once
a
month
thing?
Is
this
a
once
a
week
thing?
What
are
the
commitments
we
are
actually
looking
at?
Is
it
tiered?
C
Are
some
people
going
to
have
more
sort
of
requirements
to
do
stuff
than
other
folks,
and
in
that
case,
I
think
we
should
be
looking
at
how
we
compensate
that
and
how
we
make
sure
that
we
tie
that
in
I
will
say
that
one
of
the
concerns
about
board
sizes,
I
support
sort
of
growing
from
nine
I
will
say
that
I
actually
think
this
is
one
of
those
situations
where
they're
valid
concerns
both
ways.
I
think
that
when
you
put
a
lot
of
folks
on
a
board,
it
can
be
unwieldy.
C
It
could
be
hard
to
get
to
a
forum
when
you
put
fewer
people
on
boards.
They
tend
to
be
more
structured,
but
they
also
tend
to
be
less
diverse
because
of
the
size
of
the
board
right.
So
I
think
this
is
one
of
those
situations
where
I
would
based
on
what
we're
trying
to
do
here
from
a
community
participation.
C
So
my
hope
is
that
we
do
all
of
that,
and
so
that
is
a
another
conversation
that
I
think
we
will
have
on
the
seventh
I
also
want
to
note
on
that
pay
I
think
a
thousand
a
month
is
actually
more
than
our
school
committee,
which
either
speaks
to
how
low
we
pay
our
school
committee
or
how
we
should
be
looking
at
all
of
that.
But
one
of
the
questions
that
I
was
asked
by
a
council
colleague
and
I
think
it
makes
sense
to
just
have
it
answered
here.
I
A
lot
of
proposals
will
result
in
interaction
with
City
agencies
to
execute
the
projects
but
depending
on
the
construct
of
the
organization
and
the
rest
of
the
organizations
that
also
are
involved
in
you
know
Grant
making,
although
it
requires
an
infrastructure
to
be
able
to
manage
and
manage
compliance
and
oversight
of
a
grantmaking
program,
but
so
it's
really
to
be
determined
and
I.
Think
I
think
some
of
the
when
you
step
back
from
it.
C
Absolutely
and
just
a
quick
question
on
the
rule
book
I,
don't
think
we
talk
about
it.
That
way
for
anything
else
that
the
city
does
is
that
essentially
bylaws?
Is
that
some
combination
of
bylaws
and
sort
of
rules
for
moving
forward
as
a
city
and
so
that
question
and
then,
secondly,
who
is
going
to
be
involved
in
the
creation
specifically
of
that
rule
book?
Obviously
the
city
council
is
involved
right
now
in
the
the
establishment
of
the
office,
but
who's
involved
in
the
establishment
of
that
rule
book.
C
Perfect
I
don't
know
that
I
have
any
other
questions
that
won't
just
be
answered
during
the
working
session.
We're
getting
into
the
actual
language
of
it.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you.
I
know
you
had
a
315.
We
have
blown
right
past
that
so
thank
you
to
you
for
your
time,
as
well
as
Mr
Santana
from
the
city
and
all
of
our
Advocates
I
want
to
give.
C
Basically,
if
there's
any
closing
statement
that
you
would
like
to
make
as
an
Administration
to
this,
and
if
there's
any
closing
statement
that
I
can't
go
through
all
of
The
Advocates,
but
if
there's
anybody
who
feels
so
modest
can
make
a
closing
statement.
I
would
like
to
let
you
make
one
as
well
before
we
adjourn.
So
is
there
anything
from
the
administration
side
before
we
release
you.
I
C
O
Thank
you.
It's
Francesco
by
the
way,
all
good
I,
think
one
of
the
things
that
I
I
just
want
to
name
is
that
it
I
think
how
we're
talking
about
this
seems
to
me
like
we're,
trying
to
discover
what
the
perfect
way
to
do.
Participatory
budgeting
is
and
the
practice
the
rule
book,
the
steering
committee,
the
spaces
of
a
process
change
depending
on
context
and
I
go
back
and
forth
with
other
practitioners
when,
when
I
hear
them
say
like
PB,
is
hard
from
a
technical
perspective.
I'm
like
PB
is
voting
on
budget
items.
O
It's
actually
pretty
simple
to
understand
what
is
PB
and
what's
not
PP,
but
what
is
harm
is
that
it
challenges
a
lot
of
what
we
think
of
as
governance
as
what
steering
companies
look
like
is
what
it
looks
like
to
create
a
space
And.
So
there's
a
lot
of
adaptive
change
that
we
have
to
reckon
with
that.
There
is
not
precedence
for
that.
O
We
need
to
find
the
exact
way
to
to
do
something
before
we
move
forward.
I
would
I
would
challenge
folks
to
recognize
that
and
not
let
that
impede
doing
what
is
good
enough
now,
what
is
safe
and
and
what
feels
good,
because
that's
part
of
the
spirit
of
participatory
budgeting.
It's
really
trusting
that
we're
creating
a
space
for
folks
to
come
in
and
express
their
power,
and
it's
going
to
look
really
different
and
feel
really
different
than
what
we've
done
in
the
past.
P
Thanks
I
will
plus
one
my
colleague
Francesco
and
his
Reflections,
and
we'll
also
just
want
to
offer
a
building
off
of
the
conversation
that
came
up
around
the
differences
between
the
two
versions
of
this
ordinance.
Language
I
will
say
that,
from
the
perspective
of
PVP,
a
lot
of
the
original
ordinance
language
was
really
intentionally
built,
based
on
best
practice,
with
existing
precedent
from
other
spaces
and
cities
to
justify
those
demands
and
responding
specifically
to
the
contextual
native
Boston.
P
And
so,
as
we
start
to
look
at
some
of
the
discrepancies
and
some
of
the
needs
we'll
offer
that
I
think
for
almost
all
of
the
demands
that
have
been
made
at
the
community
level.
There
are
examples
of
other
cities
in
the
United
States
other
government
structures.
Other
areas
where
this
has
been
accomplished
and
are
now
considered
really
inherent
in
standard
paying
cbo's
and
partnering
in
specific
ways
is
very
standard
for
Pb
now,
particularly
in
the
U.S.
P
Compensating
community
members
right
become
something
more
and
more
essential
and
baked
in
thinking
about
how
the
composition
of
this
the
sort
of
bores
the
oversight
boards.
The
other
bodies
in
this
group
how
they
operate
and
function
are
all
already
deeply
steeped
in
the
recommendations
that
are
building
off
of
best
practice,
and
so
we'll
also
just
offer
that
where
there
might
be
discrepancies
or
differences
or
gaps,
we're
very
happy
and
able
to
point
folks
towards
other
technical
experts
or
implementers
or
other
examples
where
this
is
standard
and
best
practice
and
really
steeped.
P
E
So
I
just
wanted
to
uplift
that,
as
as
something
that
I
I
think
is
going
to
be
a
benefit
of
this
PB
process
and
I.
Don't
know
if
folks
are
here
for
public
testimony
to
that
have
spoken
to
me
about
that,
but
really
really
excited
to
see
the
possibility
of
how
PB
will
impact,
how
we
think
about
funding
our
schools
and
thank
you
again
to
the
administration
and
to
all
the
advocates
for
being
here.
C
Thank
you
and
so
I'm
now
going
to
go
to
the
public.
Testimony
I
see
that
we
have
12
people
listed
though
I
don't
know
that
we
have
12
attendees,
so
I'm
going
to
go
in
the
order.
That
your
hand
is
up
that
I
see
you
on
this
list,
so
Pam
culture,
culture.
If
you
can
be
joined
up
as
a
panelists,
so
that
we
can
give
you
your
time.
C
C
AA
AA
AA
It's
been
proposed
for
moving
this
initiative
forward,
whether
we
agree
or
disagree
about
the
size
of
the
bucket
of
funding
that
should
be
provided
to
set
up
and
move
forward
the
projects
of
this
participatory
budgeting
proposal.
There
are
a
couple
of
things
about
the
structure
of
this
program
that
I
think
would
be
useful
to
go
over
anyway.
AA
AA
That
we
expect
would
be
necessary
and
also
very
important
to
execute
effectively
so
that
this
can
truly
be
a
community
process,
as
some
folks
have
spoken
to
either
eat.
Earlier.
One
comment
about
managing
the
program.
We
do
think
it's
important
for
a
program.
The
program
to
provide
opportunities
for.
AA
AA
As
the
importance
of
reporting
and
accountability
and
this
as
in
many
other
types
of
programs,
there
is
language
here
regarding
the
office's
responsibility
to
report
on
the
use
of
funds,
including
the
geographic
distribution
of
funded
projects.
The
economic
and
demographic
breakdown
of
areas
of
the
city
that
are
benefiting.
We
suggest
the
office
also
identify
areas
that
do
not
receive
benefits
of
the
first
year
participatory
budgeting,
and
perhaps
there
would
be
an
adjustment
to
the
program,
therefore,
to
provide
benefits
that
could
in
some
way
reach
across
all
neighborhoods
of
the
city.
AA
Something
else
to
think
about.
We
also
want
to
make
sure
that
that
office
of
participatory
budgeting
provides
additional
transparency
by
making
all
analysis
and
underlying
data
available
on
a
city
of
Boston
website
and
at
least
an
annual
basis,
and
provide
an
in
public
hearing
held
by
the
oversight
board
as
part
of
evaluating
the
first
year
program,
whatever
whatever
that
program
ends
up
shaping
up
for
the
first
year,
so
always
the
opportunity
for
evaluation
and
looking
at
how
the
program
could
be
adjusted
to
be
more
effective
and
more
useful
for
the
entire
Community.
AA
For
the
second
year
of
the
program,
and
that's
about
it
for
recommendations
that
we
keep
in
mind
and
continue
implementing,
regardless
of
again
the
size
of
the
budget
that
this
program
gets
so
that
we
can
have
a
successful
and
Equitable
and
substantial
Community
engagement
as
part
of
implementing
this
type
of
program.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time
and
consideration.
AB
Thank
you.
Thank
you
councilor,
Royal
and
councilman
here
today.
My
name
is
Karen
Chen
I'm,
the
executive
director
with
the
Chinese
Progressive
Association
for
the
record,
we're
located
at
20,
Ash
Street
in
Chinatown
CPA
is
a
45
year
old,
community-based
organization.
We
serve
Chinese
Americans
in
the
Greater
Boston
area.
We
are
part
of
the
Coalition
for
better
budget,
and
you
know
we.
We
have
been
supporting
participatory
budgeting
for
over
a
decade
because
we
think
it's
important
to
democracy,
Justice
and
equity,
which
is
what
we
do
day
in
day
out.
AB
AB
AB
We
think
it's
important
to
expand
the
number
of
numbers
and
that
the
number
of
members
reflect
the
city
and
that
you
know,
while
transparency
and
accountability
is
important,
prioritizing
the
most
disenfranchised
communities
and
neighborhoods
should
be
done,
should
be
number
one
should
be
the
number
one
priority,
and
because,
as
a
city,
when
we're
talking
about
progress,
it
isn't
just
you
know,
progress
in
general.
You
know
that
the
city
is
doing
better
when
the
most
vulnerable
are
doing
better.
So
that
should
be.
You
know.
AB
A
number
one
priority
is
that
are
the
neighborhoods
and
communities
that
are
most
disenfranchised
are.
Are
they
in
a
better
place?
So
we
need
to
think
about.
This
is
not
the
only
program
that
actually
we
are
looking
at,
but
that
should
be.
This
should
be
definitely
one
of
the
programs
that
really
truly
look
at
it,
and
that's
why
it's
also
it's
so
important
for
board
members
to
be
compensated
to
allow
diversity
so
that
you
know
low-income
residents
can
participate,
because
you
know
expertise.
Some
comes
in
many
different
forms.
AB
It
could
be
a
budget,
expertise
or
moster.
People
actually
have
expertise
in
our
community.
A
Community
member
and
lastly,
I
want
to
mention
is
that
partnership
with
Community
organizations
community-based
organizations
in
compensating
them
just
like
today's
hearing,
I
was
listening
to
the
Chinese
translation,
probably
about
only
five
percent
was
a
get
through
the
translation,
so
you
know-
and
this
is
why,
if
you
want
true
democracy
and
true
participation,
this
is
where
actual
community-based
organization
can
really
see
a.
AB
C
Y
Y
What
is
being
spent
in
their
in
the
idea
of
housing
or
anything
else
that
would
come
out
of
them
to
have
them
at
the
table,
not
merely
as
Speaker
heads,
not
merely
as
low
numbers
are
representation.
The
gmnc
beginning
this
month,
coming
month
in
February,
has
a
new
sitting
committee
committee
on
Boston
Public
Schools.
We
have
mandated
that
half
of
the
board
students
from
the
ages
of
16
to
18
representative
of
Boston
public
high
schools
that
are
within
greater
Madison.
That
means
that
it
was
eight
of
the
sitting
board.
Y
We
expected
they
would
go
and
make
recommendations
to
us
as
a
borderful
and
also
to
the
Boston
city
council,
because
in
order
to
make
real
change,
we
believe
that
the
students
are
the
ones
they
have
the
most
at
risk
and
we
have
to
start
listening
to
what
their
needs
are.
Not
simply
the
needs
of
adults
as
a
person
who's
because
teach
you
know
raised
two
daughters
of
her
own.
My
husband,
I'm,
the
oldest
of
a
family
of
eight
children
and
say
a
Boston.
Y
My
father,
served
over
30
years
are
working
as
a
person
in
the
city
of
Boston
without
stated,
I.
Think
that
as
we're
forming
our
ideas-
and
there
are
plenty
of
great
ideas
for
the
city,
but
if
we're
really
going
to
be
building
participation,
a
real
democracy,
we
have
to
go
and
remember
that
those
who
actually
oftentimes
do
not
have
the
right
to
vote
do
not
have
the
right.
Municipal.
Elections
do
not
have
the
right
to
even
speak
up,
but
are
asked
to
go
to
Bear.
Y
M
AC
M
I'm
from
east
Boston,
according
to
the
census
in
2020,
there
are
43
000
residents
there,
but
we're
more
than
that.
We're
about
50
000.
residents,
because
a
lot
of
people
did
not
file
the
census
and
we're
also
are
about
51
of
immigrants
there
and
that's
why
we
see
this
participatory
budgeting
as
an
opportunity
for
us.
M
AC
AC
AC
M
AC
AC
AC
M
M
C
AD
Yes,
I
do
greetings.
Thank
you,
chair
Arroyo,
and
our
fellow
Advocates
here
I
am
Kendra
Patterson
resident
of
Jamaica
Plain
and
field
director
with
the
Massachusetts
voter
table
and
democracy
hubs
Coalition
here
today
in
Alliance,
with
the
better
budget
Alliance
support
of
the
proposed
amendments,
the
mayor's
ordinance
for
one
percent
of
the
operating
budget,
additional
paid
opportunities
for
board
positions
and
a
public
nomination
process.
AD
Here
in
Boston,
our
organizations
represent
the
neighborhoods
of
East
Boston,
Roxbury,
Dorchester,
Hyde,
Park,
Mattapan
and
Chinatown,
and
our
groups
were
first
on
grounds,
knocking
doors
and
carrying
very
important
conversations
and
Community
to
vote
Yes
for
a
better
budget
in
question.
One
in
conversation.
AD
The
voters
were
very
excited
to
learn
about
the
city
budgeting
process
and
have
a
say
on
how
their
dollars
were
spent,
but
also
with
this
excitement
also
came
fear
that
if
the
initiative
passed,
they
would
never
see
the
dollars
come
to
their
communities,
and
so
we're
asking
the
city
to
allocate
one
percent
of
the
operating
budget
for
participatory
budgeting
and
increase
the
oversight
board
to
have
at
least
two
community
members
per
District.
The
Board
needs
to
reflect
the
diverse
lived
experiences
of
the
city
of
Boston,
the
residents
of
Boston.
AD
C
C
W
You
good
afternoon,
thank
you
for
holding
this
hearing.
My
name
is
George
Lee
and
I'm,
an
organizer
with
youth,
Justice
and
power
Union,
and
want
to
speak
on
a
few
themes.
One
is
just
about
how
much
is
at
stake
with
the
city
budget
and
with
participatory
budgeting
I
know.
Sometimes
people
speak
about
a
budget
as
reflecting
values,
but
I
think
sometimes
what
gets
some
spoken,
which
I
think
people
know,
but
just
don't
speak.
W
W
From
what
was
then
what
is
then
called
The
Hope
line
and
for
years,
a
number
of
youth
organizations
most
recently
Justice
and
power
Union
in
the
past
decade.
But
many
youth
organizations
before
that
organized
year
in
and
year
out,
to
get
that
money
restored
and
it's
sad
to
say.
But
it
wasn't
until
the
past
three
years
that
we
were
actually
able
to
do
that.
W
W
But
it
shouldn't
take
years
and
it
shouldn't
depend
on
where
the
mayor
or
just
the
city.
Councilors
are
that's.
Why
we
need
residents
to
be
able
to
who
know
the
issues
the
most
to
see
the
impact
it
has
and
who
know
the
solutions
to
be
much
more
involved
in
the
process,
because,
even
as
elected
officials
trying
to
represent
your
your
communities
and
your
districts
and
your
constituents,
there's
still
a
lot
of
political
limitations?
I
mean
also
as
another
example.
W
W
They
know
that
there's
overspending
on
police,
they
know
there's
an
under
investment
and
youth
jobs
and
youth
opportunities
and
affordable
housing.
There's
a
call
now,
for
example,
for
a
community-led
mental
health
crisis
response,
and
these
are
things
that
would
probably
take
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
in
affordable
housing
alone,
for
example,
to
really
make
the
Investments
that
are
needed.
W
W
So
please
do
make
sure
there's
a
bottom
line
number
that
should
increase
over
time
and
it's
been
great
to
hear
some
examples
from
folks,
who've
looked
nationally
and
globally
at
how
much
money
has
been
given
to
to
communities
that
have
power
over
and
again
make
sure
you
work
with
Community
groups
and
really
help
support
a
big
enough
community
board
and
oversight
committee
with
those
stipends.
When
we've
turned
out
for
meetings,
we've
been
able
to
get
people
out
or
organize
our
own
meetings
when
the
city
just
runs
their
own
meetings.
W
Often
people
don't
come
out
unless
you
really
have
that
that
participation
and
I
appreciated
folks
pointing
out
how
the
lack
of
Community
Partners
has
really
affected,
for
example,
made
less
youth
participate
in
the
youth
lead.
The
change
project
compared
to
one
Francesco
was
first
running
it
back
in
the
day
and
how
important
that
is
in
other
neighborhoods
in
other
cities
to
partner
with
communities.
Thank
you
take
care.
C
Thank
you,
Mr
Lee,
that
is
it
for
Community
comment.
I
will
see
most
of
you
February
7th
at
2
p.m.
That
is
not
open.
The
public
comment
because
it
is
a
working
session,
but
I
do
look
forward
to
making
actual
language
changes
and
amendments
and
making
sure
that
we
come
up
with
something
that
works
for
everybody
involved.
So
thank
you,
everybody
for
your
time
for
making
space
for
these
conversations,
and
we
are
now
adjourned.
Thank
you.