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From YouTube: Boston City Council Meeting on June 23, 2021
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Boston City Council Meeting on June 23, 2021
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Boston
city
council
is
hereby
called
to
order
good
afternoon
everyone.
My
name
is
matt
o'malley.
I
am
the
city
council
president
pro
tempore
and
today
is
june
23
2021.
We
are
meeting
live
in
person
in
the
christopher
ionella
chamber.
However,
viewers
can
also
watch
this
council
meeting
streaming
it
on
boston.gov,
slash
city
council.
Madam
clerk,
would
you
please
call
the
role
to
ascertain
the
presence
of
a
quorum.
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C
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C
You
very
much
madam
clerk
counselor
kenzie
bach
will
introduce
our
clergy
member
today
and
after
the
invocation
is
delivered.
Counselor
bach
will
lead
us
all
in
reciting
the
pledge
of
allegiance.
Our
invocation
today
will
be
delivered
by
amanda
grant
rose
executive
director
at
common
cathedral.
Thank
you
for
being
with
us,
ms
grant
rose
and
counselor
bach.
The
floor
is
yours.
D
Thank
you
so
much
counselor
o'malley
and
I'm
delighted
today
to
introduce
amanda
and
the
ministry
that
she
works
on
behalf
of
common
cathedral
is
a
ministry
to
boston's
unhoused
and
it
actually
meets
every
sunday
for
church
in
the
boston
common
continued
to
meet
throughout
the
pandemic,
but
also
amanda
and
her
work
extends
to.
Many
of
you
know
about
boston.
Warm
counselor,
savvy
george,
has
done
a
lot
of
fundraising
on
their
behalf.
D
D
What
often
we
spend,
we
spend
much
larger
sums
of
money.
Unsuccessfully
I'm
trying
to
do
and
and
to
me
there
there
is
no
picture
of
god
in
the
midst
of
the
city.
That
is
more
real
than
a
community
centered
on
love
and
relationship
between
our
folks
in
the
city.
Who
are
you
know
my
unhoused
constituents,
so
amanda
is
an
inspiration
to
me.
The
whole
organization
is,
and
I'm
very
grateful
that
she's
agreed
to
do
our
benediction
today.
So
thank
you,
mr
president.
Thank.
C
D
E
Thank
you.
It's
an
honor
and
a
joy
to
be
with
you
all
today.
Thank
you
for
those
kind
words.
I
am
greeting
you
from
the
basement
of
emmanuel
church
I
have
found.
Hopefully
what
is
the
quietest
place
to
be
here,
but
there's
good
work
being
done
above
me
and
around
me,
and
so,
if
you
hear
some
noises,
some
bangs
know
that
common
art,
our
open
art
studio,
is
right.
Above
me,
and
good
work
is
being
done,
but
let
us
continue.
E
For
this
end,
we
must
be
knit
together
in
this
work
as
one
man
and
one
woman.
We
must
entertain
each
other
in
brotherly
and
sisterly
affection.
We
must
delight
in
each
other,
make
other
conditions
our
own
rejoice.
Together.
Mourn
together
and
suffer
together
that
men
and
women
shall
say
of
succeeding
settlements.
The
lord
make
it
like
that
of
new
england,
for
we
must
consider
that
we
shall
be
a
city
upon
a
hill,
the
eyes
of
all
people
upon
us.
E
The
homeless,
my
beloved
community,
the
warmth
of
shelter,
the
ill,
the
touch
of
healing
the
lonely,
the
blessing
of
common
table
god
wherein
the
hearty
are
brought
low
and
the
lowly
are
raised
up
and
the
abrasions
of
racism,
class
division
and
social
sexual
bigotry
are
banished
god
who
was
present
challenging
pressing
when
the
light
of
the
city
was
first
lit
upon
a
hill
light,
our
path
and
our
city's
path.
In
this
hour
and
all
of
the
people
say,
amen.
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C
Thank
you
again.
We
are
doing
our
first
in-person
presentation
now
and
before
I
bring
up
our
guest
of
honor,
I
wanted
to
acknowledge
another
guest
of
honor
bridget
walker,
edwards,
the
mother
of
our
own
counselor
lydia
edwards,
has
joined
us
of
the
united
states
air
force
is
that
right,
air
force.
So
thank.
F
C
G
Thank
you,
mr
president,
and
on
behalf
of
all
of
us
here
at
the
city
council,
we're
so
happy
to
be
able
to
honor
tom
callahan
in
the
chamber.
Today.
Tom
has
been
with
the
massachusetts
housing
alliance
for
34
years
and
has
been
the
executive
director
for
30
years.
He's
done
a
fantastic
job
at
mahar.
G
I
had
the
pleasure
working
alongside
him
to
help,
along
with
our
colleagues
here,
to
help
pass
the
community
preservation
act
which,
to
date,
has
raised
92
million
to
fund
200
projects
across
our
city.
So
we
labored
through
the
pains
of
sort
of
the
first
attempt,
came
up
a
little
short,
but
we're
able
to
go
back
to
the
drawing
board
working
alongside
so
many
partners
here
in
the
city
to
get
that
done.
G
Then
during
tom's
tenure
at
mahar
he
has
led
so
many
community
campaigns
successfully,
including
the
soft
second
one
program,
the
nation's
longest
running
community
reinvestment
act,
mortgage
program
serving
over
23
000
home
buyers,
also,
a
groundbreaking
education-based
property
insurance
discount
plan
for
homeowners,
a
first
in
the
nation,
matched
savings
program
for
first
generation
home
buyers
and
also
expanding
state
level.
Cra
coverage
to
independent
mortgage
companies
under
tom's
leadership,
major,
has
opened
the
sheraton,
hagens
home
ownership
center,
a
home
for
maha's
operations
in
their
civic
engagement
efforts,
and
then
also
has
was
the
founder.
G
I
guess
is
the
first
taste
of
dorchester.
That's
a
signature,
fundraising
event
that
we're
all
very
familiar
with
now
in
its
13th
year.
He
leads
the
organization
in
solid
financial
standing
with
a
diverse
board
and
staff,
both
of
which
majority
female
and
majority
persons
of
color
maher
has
also
established
herself
as
a
leading
nonprofit
in
massachusetts,
in
reaching
low
to
moderate
income,
home
buyers
and
homeowners.
This
year
it
will
surpass
40
000
graduates.
G
Maha's
homebuyer
union
has
developed
a
mobilization
capacity
of
a
thousand
or
more
and
employed
that
many
for
rallies
and
community
leaders,
elected
officials
and
corporate
leaders.
I
just
want
to
take
this
opportunity
on
behalf
of
all
of
us
here
on
the
council
in
the
city
to
thank
tom
for
his
years
of
dedication
and
leadership
on
the
affordable
housing
issue.
Your
leadership
and
effort
has
made
boston
a
better
city,
and
we
know
that
whatever
the
next
chapter
brings
for
you,
that
you
will
continue
to
be
of
service
to
your
community
and
others.
G
H
Thank
you,
councillor,
flaherty.
That
was
too
kind,
but
very
appreciated.
It's
very
humbling
to
be
recognized
by
this
this
body,
and
particularly
this
group
of
city
councilors.
You
have
led
on
progressive
policies
in
housing
in
in
many
other
areas,
but
we're
pleased.
Maha
has
been
very
pleased
to
be
a
collaborator
with
all
of
you
on
issues
that
council
flaherty
just
mentioned.
H
The
community
preservation
act,
one
plus
boston,
which
is
the
first
and
best
new
mortgage
program
launched
in
30
years
in
this
city,
that
is,
reaching
home
buyers
as
we
speak,
increasing
linkage
fees,
our
stash
first
gen
program,
which
is
expanding
daily
thanks
to
the
guidance
of
simone
crawford,
a
firmly
firm,
firm,
furthering
fair
housing
guidelines,
which
has
been
historic
and
put
boston
in
the
leadership
nationally.
So
we
are
pleased
to
collaborate
with
you
on
progressive
housing
policies,
and
we
thank
you.
H
As
counselor
flaherty
said
this
year
we
will
pass
40
000
graduates
from
our
home,
buyer
and
homeowner
classes.
Our
homebuyers
union
is
stronger
than
ever
our
expand.
The
pie
campaign
is
continuing
to
try
to
increase
the
resources
going
to
affordable
home
ownership
because,
as
we
all
know,
it's
difficult
to
buy
a
house
in
in
boston,
given
affordability
concerns.
H
H
I
would
particularly
want
to
call
out
simone
crawford
who's
here,
representing
our
staff
today,
simone
many
of
you
know
is
a
matapan.
Homeowner
has
been
involved
in
every
aspect
of
maha
since
2004
and
maha's
in
really
good
hands.
Thanks
to
simone
and
her
team
and
our
team,
I
guess
it's
still
our
team,
but
going
forward.
H
So
thank
you,
simone
and
last,
but
certainly
not
least,
I
want
to
thank
my
other
family,
my
my
my
family
eileen,
my
wife
and
I
have
two
daughters,
brenna
who's
here
today
and
devin
who's
in
philadelphia.
Doing
some
good
work
down
there
and
they
give
me
the
support
every
day
to
wake
up
and
keep
fighting
for
justice.
Keep
fighting
for
giving
us
a
chance
at
narrowing
the
racial
homeownership
gap,
and
I
thank
you.
H
C
C
C
Of
that
great
program,
thank
you
tom.
Thank
you,
michael
we're.
Now
moving
on
to
the
first
order
of
the
business,
which
is
approval
of
our
minutes.
Seeing
and
hearing
no
discussion
on
the
match
her,
I
moved
for
suspension
for
approval
of
the
minutes
from
the
last
meeting
as
presented
all
those
in
favor,
please
indicate
by
saying
aye
opposed,
nay
the
eyes
have
it.
The
meetings
minutes
of
the
last
meeting
stand
as
approved.
C
D
You
so
much,
mr
president,
as
folks
know,
today,
we've
got
the
resubmission
and
from
the
administration
on
the
budget,
and-
and
you
know,
I
think
there
are
a
lot
of
good
things
that
came
out
of
the
hearings
that
we've
held
over
the
last
three
months
that
are
reflected
in
this
recent
mission.
You
know
everything
from
more
fire
coverage
for
west
roxbury
to
a
doubling
of
the
neighborhood
slow
streets
team,
so
that
we
can
really
process
the
need
for
safer,
slower
streets
in
our
districts.
D
D
That
said,
I
have
been
hearing
a
lot
of
concern
from
counselors.
Obviously,
some
of
it
was
reflected
in
the
press
this
morning,
but
over
the
last
few
weeks
about
a
sense
that
this
budget
may
not
yet
be
meeting
the
moment
in
terms
of
the
urgent
crises
of
the
city,
and
I'm
very
mindful
of
the
uniqueness
of
this
moment,
bracketing
the
entire
political
situation,
the
uniqueness
of
a
moment
in
which
we
are
coming
back
from
coveted
recovery.
D
You
know
digital
equity,
our
worries
about
summer,
violence,
how
we
get
our
youth
jobs,
I
mean
our
main
streets
vacancies.
How
do
we
get
local
businesses
into
them?
I
mean
these
are
the
things
that
are
coming
up
and,
and
it
is
clear
that
not
all
of
those
things
can
wait
for
five
months
and
for
a
political
campaign,
and
it
is
important
to
me
that
we
figure
out
how
to
make
sure
that
this
budget
is
a
piece
of
the
solution.
D
Is
you
know
to
these
critical
issues,
and
so
the
way
that
I
feel
as
your
ways
and
means
chair
is
that
if
the
acting
mayor
isn't
getting
us
there,
that
it
may
be
that
this
council
needs
to
take
it
into
our
own
hands
and
think
about
what
is
it?
What
are
the
supplemental
appropriations?
What
are
the
things
that
get
this
council
to
an
ability
to
provide
the
city
with
an
operating
budget
before
the
beginning
of
the
fiscal
year
on
first
july,
and
I
you
know
the
whole
the
whole
way
that
our
charter
works?
D
Is
that
the
reason
that
the
council
president
becomes
the
acting
mayor
is
because
the
charter
look
the
the
framers
of
our
charter.
We
have
a
number
of
issues
with
them,
but
I
think
one
thing
that
that
I
do
understand
about
it
is
they
looked
at
the
situation
in
which
your
elected
mayor
is
is
gone
and
they
say
well
if
the
elected
mayor
is
gone.
Where
is
the
democratic
authorization
of
the
people
of
boston?
Where
is
that
lodged?
Where
can
we
find
that
and
it
finds
it
in
this
room
right?
D
The
like
this
room,
the
13
counselors,
including
the
acting
there
right?
We
are
the
folks
who
have
been
elected
by
the
people
of
boston,
to
represent
them
and
to
fund
a
budget
that
serves
their
interests
and
meets
their
urgent
needs,
and
so
I
really
I
want
to
suggest
that
this
council
really
engage
today
and
over
the
week
ahead
with
the
question
of
what
gets
us
there.
D
What
gets
us
to
a
budget
that
that
we
can
all
feel
like
is
meeting
that
that
moment
and
is
and
is
living
up
to
what
we've,
what
we've
been
elected
to
do,
and
personally,
I
have
a
lot
of.
I
have
a
lot
of
faith
in
this
body
and
I'm
proud
to
represent
it
in
this
ways
and
means
capacity,
and
so
I
want
us
to
talk
today
about
like
what
are
those
things
that
feel
like.
D
We
don't
have
them
yet
in
the
budget-
and
I
I
am
mr
madam
chair
going
to
all
of
this-
is
a
preamble
to.
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
today
to
suspend
and
pass
the
operating
budget.
I'm
aware
that
that
may
not
have
unanimous
consent.
That's
the
I,
as
my
remarks
have
noted,
in
which
case
it
will
continue
in
committee,
but
I
want
us
to
figure
out
where
we
are
today
and
start
to
lay
out
a
road
map
for
where
we
can
get
over
the
coming
days.
D
D
I
C
C
While
I've
been
here,
11
years
sat
through
and
voted
on,
11
budgets
you're
only
my
second
ways
and
means
chair,
and
while
I
have
great
regard
for
your
predecessor
in
that
spot,
former
counselor
mark
siomo,
I
think
he
would
agree
that
you've
really
taken
it
to
a
new
level
in
terms
of
not
only
oversight
but
also
hearing
from
one
another
and
really
building
a
communal
approach,
and
that's
the
most
important
thing
of
this
budget
coming
together.
Finding
common
ground
we're
not
going
to
agree
on
everything.
C
Lord
knows
we
don't
and
we're
certainly
not
going
to
agree
with
the
acting
mayor
on
everything,
but
to
have
an
opportunity
to
come
together.
Put
out
our
ideas.
Listen
to
one
another
engage
with
the
community
is
so
crucial
to
what
a
budget
ought
to
be.
As
I
said,
this
is
my
11th
and
final
budget.
I
voted
yes
on
budgets
in
the
past.
I
voted.
No
on
budget
in
the
past,
this
is
a
there
are
some
good
things
in
this
budget,
but
there
can
be
more
and
we're
up
against
a
fiscal
deadline.
C
C
C
Those
two
notions
are
not
in
conflict
with
one
another
and
we
need
to
have
a
budget
that
reflect,
reflects
and
respects
both,
and
I
believe
we
can
get
there
and
then
the
third
part
of
the
budget
that
we're
before
us
right
now
is
the
operating
budget.
So
this
pays
for
how
the
city
runs
and
it
began
under
former
mayor
marty,
walsh.
C
He
and
his
team
sort
of
began
assembling
it
and
then,
when
he
left,
the
acting
mayor
has
put
her
her
mark
on
it
as
well
and
again,
there
are
some
good
things
that
I
see,
but
we
haven't
gone
far
enough
and
we'll
get
some
more
specifics
on
housing
on
public
safety,
on
education,
certainly
on
small
business
development
on
how
we
look
to
come
out
of
this
pandemic.
And
surprisingly,
I
think
when
many
of
us
went
through
last
year's
budget,
there
was
a
real
concern
that
this
year's
budget
would
be
dire.
C
We've
actually
seen
the
economy
in
boston
be
pretty
resilient,
although
it's
not
to
suggest
that
we
don't
have
deep
poverty
and
a
deep
income
inequality.
We
do
we've
also
seen,
thankfully,
with
a
democratic
president
and
democratically
controlled
congress.
We've
seen
some
good
federal
funds
as
well.
So
that's
part
of
what
we're
discussing
and
that's
one
of
the
reasons
why
I
set
up
the
new
kovat
committee
with
council.
C
Flaherty
is
the
chair,
so
we
could
include
that
oversight,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
as
we
talk
about
these
issues,
I
want
to
keep
my
remarks
focused
on
the
environment,
no
surprise
to
many
of
you
and
what
we
ought
to
be
doing
as
a
coastal
city.
There's
some
good
things
that
we
talk
about
sort
of
broad-based
themes
in
this
resubmitted
budget,
but
it
doesn't
get
to
the
crux
of
what
we
need
to
be
focusing
on
heat
islands.
C
There
was
a
wonderful
article
yesterday
in
the
boston
globe
that
talked
about
a
place
in
my
district.
We've
talked
about
all
of
our
districts
where
we
can
see
we
talk
about
the
tree
canopy,
it's
just
not
because
we
all
love
trees
and
they
look
good,
but
they
actually
serve
a
real
purpose
as
it
talks
about
how
we
pick
up
trash
and
collect
trash
and
dispose
of
trash.
That's
something
that
again,
we
tangentially
talk
about
in
this
budget,
but
we
need
more
specifics.
We
need
more
plans.
C
We
need
a
better
course
of
action
to
go
the
resiliency
of
a
city,
a
coastal
city
that
has
seen
enormous
floods
in
the
chairs
district
in
district
2
as
well
other
waterfront
districts.
We
need
to
be
doing
more
to
make
sure
that
we
are
a
resilient
city
as
we
combat
climate
change.
So
I
am
hopeful
that
in
the
days
and
week
ahead,
we'll
be
able
to
have
some
more
serious
conversations
put
forth
some
other
ideas.
C
You
know
we
are
working
very
strongly
on
building
standards
and
that's
something
that
I
know
the
acting
mayor
is
passionate
about
as
well
look
forward
to
partnership
there,
but
there's
other
things
that
we
can
do
as
an
operating
mechanism
to
make
sure
that
we
meet
this
moment
on
so
many
issues,
but
certainly
not
the
least
of
which
on
climate
change.
So
I
look
forward
to
hearing
from
my
colleagues.
I
look
forward
to
working
together
and
again
it's
absolutely
crucial.
I
you
know,
we've
often
talked
about
that
this.
C
Among
the
most
important
roles
we
have,
as
members
of
this
body
is
to
be
financial
stewards
of
the
city
of
boston.
That
is
absolutely
true
and
because
of
the
leadership
of
the
chair
and
others,
we've
been
able
to
put
forth
a
referendum
in
this
year's
budget,
which
I
hope
passed,
which
will
even
further
that
oversight
and
control
and
collaborative
approach
as
it
comes
to
how
we
write
our
budgets,
how
we
run
our
budgets
and
how
we
vote
on
our
budgets.
C
But
at
the
end
of
the
day,
this
is
our
our
moment
to
really
make
sure
that
we
can
work
together
and
that's
another
thing.
There's
always
inherently
tension
between
the
executive
and
the
legislative
branch
of
any
government,
certainly
of
local
government.
But
the
fact
of
the
matter
is:
is
I'm
the
biggest
optimist
in
boston
and
I
am
very
confident
that
we
can
work
together
and
work
well
with
the
administration
and
I'm
going
to
make
sure
that
this
body
is
able
to
have
a
seat
at
that
table
as
well,
because
we
need
to
work
collaboratively.
C
We
need
to
find
that
common
ground
we're
not
going
to
agree
on
everything,
but
we
can
certainly
make
things
better
and
that's
what
I'm
prepared
to
work
every
every
minute
of
the
next
week
to
get
there
and
beyond,
if
necessary.
So
thank
you,
madam
chair.
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
look
forward
to
my
colleagues.
J
Councillor
sabi
george,
thank
you
very
much.
Madam
chair.
We
often
say
when
we
talk
about
our
budget
process.
We
often
say
that
that
budget
is
a
value
statement
and
for
it
to
truly
be
a
value
statement
of
what
we
hold
dear.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
we
have
the
opportunity
to
work
on
this
budget.
That's
before
us,
and
certainly
this
resubmitted
budget.
J
That
is
not
done
yet
around
the
opioid
crisis
and
the
opportunity
that
is
before
us
and
then,
when
we
think
about
our
schools.
I'm
not
going
to
speak
again
to
this
as
we
look
at
the
school's
budget,
but
as
our
kids
return
to
the
classroom
full
time
in
september.
We
know
the
next
crisis
before
us
is
a
mental
health
crisis,
and
we
know
that
26
of
our
boston,
public
schools
do
not
have
the
full-time
supports
that
they
need
in
place
to
make
sure
that
that
adjustment
to
the
classroom
is
one
that
is
done.
J
Not
just
so.
The
child
can
succeed
academically,
but
that
that
child
has
the
social
and
emotional
supports
in
place
as
they
readjust
and
deal
with
loss
and
deal
with
trauma
and
deal
with
the
impacts
of
not
just
what's
happened
over
this
last
year
and
a
half
but
the
impacts
of
what
continues
to
happen
in
community
and
in
home,
and
that
we
are
working
towards
making
sure
that
we
have
a
library
and
a
librarian
in
our
schools
and
that
we
are
working
towards
making
sure
that
madison
park.
J
Vocational
technical,
high
school
has
the
things
in
place
to
make
sure
that
the
workforce
of
tomorrow
is
prepared
and
has
access
to
those
opportunities
and
that
we
are
doing
inclusion
right
in
all
of
our
schools.
So
as
we
go
through
this
process
over
the
next
couple
of
days
and
weeks
or
week,
hopefully
not
weeks
that
we
are
meeting
those
most
urgent
needs
and
that
this
budget
that
is
before
us,
is
truly
a
statement
of
what
we
value
as
a
body
and
as
a
city.
J
C
K
Thank
you,
mr
president.
So
I
do
have
a
question,
maybe
through
you
to
the
chair.
This
is
the
second
time
in
the
last
few
weeks
that
we've
had
motions
put
on
here.
You
know,
usually
it's
just
by
a
surprise,
and
so
we
haven't
had
a
chance
to
kind
of
like
unpack
what
this
means.
I
came
here
ready
to
understand
that
we
were
voting
on
this
on
the
30th
so
now
we're
voting
on
it
today
just
to
reject
it,
I'm
going
to
assume,
but
I
just
think
for
those
who
are
following
us
along.
K
K
Because
last
year,
if
I
remember
there
was
a
lot
of
energy
around
pushing
the
mayor
to
some
vital
police
reform
issues.
But
I
didn't
see
that
energy
from
the
body
to
listen
to
the
voices
of
the
people.
So
I'm
just
curious
in
terms
of
process.
If
you
can
help
explain
to
me
how
in
this
moment
in
time
is
different
than
last
year,
and
then
I
have
some
recommendations.
D
Thank
you,
mr
president,
and
counselor
mejia,
so
I
think
a
couple
of
things
to
say
here,
so
there
was
obviously
there's
been
considerable
reports
in
the
press
last
night
this
morning
about
people's
reluctance
about
this
budget.
As
everyone
knows,
I
was
ways
and
means
chair
for
the
first
time
this
year.
I
am
the
ways
and
means
chair
for
a
second
time
this
year,
and-
and
you
know,
we
all
hope
that
we
learn
along
the
way
in
these
roles
and
a
huge
frustration
of
mine
last
year
was.
L
D
As
you
say,
there
was
considerable
public
pressure,
but
the
public
pressure
was
mainly
focused
on
a
no
vote,
because
the
budget
was
not
adequate
right
and
then
it
was
like
okay
and
then
we
got
down
to
the
wire
and
it's
like
well,
but
the
problem
with
a
no
vote
is
that
you
send
us
to
a
112..
We
lose
a
lot
of
things
that
we
care
about.
D
To
me,
it's
like
I
don't
want
to
be
in
the
same
play
a
second
time.
So
yes,
it's
a
change
from
last
year.
I
would
say
for
me
that
reflects
a
learning
on
my
part
that
just
wait
in
right
until
the
day
of,
and
is
not
it's
not
the
way
to
be
constructive
and
for
us
to
move
forward
together
collectively.
So
I
I
totally
understand
the
question
about:
what's
the
difference
and
and
to
me,
the
difference
is
kind
of
trying
to
learn
how
to
how
we
can
collectively
do
this
better.
K
You
thank
you
for
that.
So
I'm
gonna
continue,
mr
president,
is
that
cool
okay?
So
I
I
do
appreciate
the
opportunity
for
us
to
really
fight
for
the
things
that
we've
been
advocating
for
so
counselor
bach.
I
really
am
grateful
because
we've
been
hearing
from
a
lot
of
advocates
that
we
haven't
gone
far
enough
around
some
of
the
issues
around
police
reform
right
last
year
we
were
screaming
for
10.
K
We
came
to
five
this
year
and
I
think
that
there's
still
some
room
for
us
to
push
the
conversation
in
that
space
advocates
have
also
have
been
fighting
for
deep
police
reform.
We
we're
look
we're
dealing
with
a
system
that
has
traditionally
been
there's
a
lot
of
racial
tension,
and
I
think,
instead
of
adding
more
police
officers
at
this
point,
we
need
to
fix
the
system
so
that
we
can
receive
people
ready
to
do
the
work.
K
So
I
I
am
not
in
support
of
what
is
being
presented
at
this
moment
in
terms
of
those
issues,
and
while
I
do
appreciate
the
250
that
we
were
able
to
get
for
municipal
broadband,
we
actually
want
municipal
broadband
and
while
we
appreciate
the
study,
I
just
don't
think
it
goes
far
enough.
We
ask
for
more
youth
jobs,
we're
not
there
where
we
need
to
be,
and
I
think
that
if
this
is
going
to
give
us
an
opportunity
to
advocate
for
the
things
that
we
need,
then
I'm
willing
to
to
do
that.
K
Work
because
that's
what's
going
to
get
us
there,
and
I
also
think
the
other
piece
is
that
the
boston
public
schools,
we
have
schools
that
don't
have
hvac
systems.
I
mean
there's
just
a
lot
and
I
I
think
that
an
opportunity
to
pause
and
and
regroup
and
and
readjust
these
numbers
to
fit
the
realities
is
exactly
what
we
need
to
be
doing.
And
so
at
this
point
I'm
not
ready
to
support
the
budget
as
is
and
look
forward
to
the
conversation
so
that
we
can
get
to
where
we
need
to
be.
C
I
We
have
that
in
council
bach.
We
have
that
and
president
pro
10
council
o'malley
and
their
leadership
is
pushing
us
to
rise
to
the
occasion
and
try
to
get
to
a
common
ground.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
leadership
council
block.
You
have
worked
the
hardest,
probably
for
this
budget,
in
going
back
and
forth
with
anybody
else.
I
I
I
I
I
I
This
budget
doesn't
reflect
that
moral
call
and
then
on
housing
as
a
human
right.
You
want
to
talk
about
being
bold.
The
mayor
of
boston
in
the
state
of
the
city
proposed
a
half
a
billion
dollars
for
housing.
Now
I'm
not
going
to
sit
here.
I
promise
councillor
bach
and
say
if
this
budget
doesn't
have
a
half
billion
dollars,
I'm
not
going
to
vote
for
it,
but
I
would
expect
this
budget
emerging
from
a
crisis
would
be
more
than
just
taking
federal
dollars
and
saying
so.
I
I
I
We
should
be
in
this
game
and
purchasing
and
moving
and
demanding
more.
This
budget
doesn't
reflect
that.
It's
not
good
enough
to
be
okay
right.
Now,
it's
not
good
enough
to
be
normal
right.
Now,
it's
not
good
enough,
and
I
I
echo
what
council
box
said
when
the
mayor
is
no
longer
here,
then
we
as
the
elected
collectively,
should
be
running
moving
and
be
guiding
the
moral
compass
of
this
city.
I
I
I
invite
the
acting
mayor
to
be
part
of
passing
the
council's
budget,
that
is
reflected
of
the
of
the
people
who
elected
us
to
do
this
job,
and
I
invite
all
of
us
to
put
the
egos
aside
political
ambitions
to
the
other
side
and
get
this
done,
but
with
standards
and
guidelines
that
we
will
not
waver
from,
because
we
are
the
elected
body
for
this
city.
Thank
you.
C
M
Thank
you
miss
thank
you,
mr
chia
well
said
counselor,
so
I
take
the
budget
seriously.
I
am
concerned
about
our
aaa
bond
rating.
Now.
Last
year
we
almost
hold
the
budget
down.
I
think
we're
in
a
much
different
time
now
I
think
last
year
we
could
potentially
still
be
in
a
1
12.
Now,
if
we
voted
the
budget
down
last
year,
there
were
some
people
that
say
we'll
have
it
done
in
july
in
august
or
whatever.
M
M
You
know
I've
asked
for
through
the
task
force
and
again
I
use
the
word
treadmill
all
the
time.
I
feel
like
I'm
on
a
treadmill,
whether
it's
long
island,
whether
it's,
what
are
we
doing
down
there?
We
need
to
change
up
what
we're
doing,
because
the
open
drug
use
the
open
drug
dealing.
I
believe
we're
not
doing
the
people
down
on
mass
and
castle
service.
I
believe
it's
the
devil
at
work
down
there.
I
believe
that
that
being
said,
we
need
to
look
at
the
way
our
jails
are
now
our
jails
are
both
half
empty.
M
Why
can't
we
repurpose
one
of
those
as
a
hospital
facility
take
in
detox
beds,
take
in
section
35s.
I
know
people
are
scared
of
a
section
35..
I've
probably
done
it
more
than
everybody
here
in
the
room
and
people
that
I
brought
into
section
35
they're,
not
here
now,
but
some
of
them
are-
and
I
think
if
we
have
an
opportunity
for
people
to
be
able
to,
they
can
self-admit
in
a
section
35.
M
If
you're
putting
people
in
a
detox
for
10
12
days
forget
about
it
they're
on
that
treadmill,
that's
what
my
mother
used
to
say.
It's
a
treadmill
of
going
into
detox,
coming
right
out
running
into
the
same
sorts
of
friends,
so
things
that
I
would
advocate
for
is:
if
we're
talking
about
policing
in
a
different
way
and
how
we're
going
to
go
after
this
sort
of
problem,
I
would
like
to
see
police
and
fire
and
ems
and
public
works
and
public
health
under
one
one
roof
somewhere
down
around
mass
and
cass.
M
I
would
call
it
a
command
center,
maybe
that's
too
militarized.
Maybe
it's
a
recovery
whatever
it
is,
but
everybody
in
that
room
responds
to
our
three
one
ones
and
in
in
in
san
francisco,
they
call
out
the
homeless
encampment
drug
addicted.
So
all
of
those
311
calls
go
to
a
command
center.
Again,
we
can
call
it
whatever
we
want.
I
know
it's
all
about
words
these
days.
I
don't
normally
have
the
words.
M
We
can
call
it
whatever
we
want,
but
we
need
one
of
those
and
we
need
a
real
section,
35
program
and
drug
diversions.
There's
another
thing:
we're
not
talking
about
council
flaherty
talked
to
me
about
the
porch
pirates.
That's
mostly
that
porch
pirates
people
are
sealing
all
your
all
your
amazon
packages.
That's
all
run
by
people
on
drugs
that
are
desperate.
We
need
to
put
those
people
in
front
of
judges,
and
that
judge
is
going
to
say
well.
You've
been
shooting
poison
in
your
arm
for
10
years.
So
how
good
is
your
thought
process?
M
That's
another
section
of
people
that
we're
not
is
just
out
in
the
street
now
low-level
drug
offenses
when
they
go
in
front
of
our
judges
here
in
massachusetts,
they're
going
to
say
we're
not
putting
you
away
we're
not
putting
you
in
a
jail
center,
we're
going
to
give
you
help
and
that's
what
I
think
we
need
to
start
doing
as
a
city
and
another
thing
beyond
the
budget
and
there's
people
in
this
room
that
could
potentially
be
the
next
mayor.
What
is
it
that
we're
going
to
do
with
this
fed
money?
M
What
are
we
going
to
build
for
infrastructure?
We
have
a
falling
down
at
frontage
road
falling
down.
We
need
infrastructure
there.
We
talk
about
grain
jobs
till
we're
blue
in
the
face.
What's
the
real
plan
for
the
green
jobs,
you
and
I
have
talked
about
anaerobic
digesters
for
10
years
now-
is
that
another
treadmill
we're
on
mr
chair?
What
is
the
infrastructure
we're
going
to
buy
with
this?
Are
we
just
going
to
take
all
this
fed
money
and
dole
it
out
politically?
M
We
need
to
build
things.
I
have
lots
in
my
district
that
I
can
tie
on
to
right
now
concert
edwards,
I'm
looking
at
you.
I
can
tie
it
on.
Let's
get
30
million
bucks
into
this
lot
here
and
build
60
units
and
work
with
mahara
and
have
people
buy
those
units,
that's
how
we're
gonna
that's
how
we're
gonna
stabilize
fields
going
on
in
places
like
that,
if
we're
building
the
properties
and
we're
controlling
them,
we
now
sell
to
who
we
want
to
sell
to.
M
We
tie
on
mahara
and
that's
how
we
do
it
all
those
things
aren't
being
spoken
to
there's.
No,
it's
all
political
here
and
I'm
very
concerned
about
our
city.
I
think
we
have
major
major
opportunities
in
front
of
us
and
I
feel
like
a
little
mouse
on
a
treadmill.
Quite
frankly,
I'm
sick
of
it.
That
being
said
still
quite
undecided
on
the
budget
would
love
to
see
some
of
these
big
ticket
items.
They
may
come
10
years
after
I'm
dead.
I
don't
know
long
island's
a
whole
nother
thing
if
we
had
a
long-term
solution.
M
So
that's
my
two
cents
here
today.
You
know
but
take
this
budget
seriously.
If
we
go
it,
you
know
if
we
go
from
a
triple
a
to
a
double
a
what's
that
happen
or
if
we
go
to
a
triple
a
to
an
a
what's
that
reaction
to
us
in
the
banks
and
the
way
the
financial
world
looks
at
the
city
here.
So
there's
a
lot
at
play.
I'm
glad
we're
talking
about.
It
feels
like
a
family
that
we're
talking
about
so
thank
you.
C
N
Thank
you.
I
too
am
glad
as
a
family.
We
were
talking
about
it.
I
made
it
clear
yesterday
that
I
was
a
no
on
on
this
budget,
but
I
also
want
to
stress
that
I've
been
extremely
consistent.
I
was
a
no
on
the
bps
budget
for
the
last
two
years.
I
was
know
on
this
budget
last
year
my
record
hasn't
changed
and,
frankly,
for
similar
reasons,
I'm
a
no
on
this
budget
and
it
actually
has
to
do
with
three
particular
reasons.
Number
one
is
absolutely
the
policing
reform
conversation
we
had.
N
It's
a
400
million
dollar
budget
with
a
70
million
dollar
overtime
budget
that
continues
to
rise,
not
sustainable,
and
I
say
the
same
thing
for
any
other
department:
boston,
public
schools,
I'm
concerned,
and
so
this
budget
does
not
in
any
meaningful
way,
and
I've
been
in
numerous
hearings,
of
course,
including
with
the
police
department
and
other
public
safety
agencies
meet
this
moment
in
time.
I've
been
consistent
on
that.
N
I
said
it
last
year:
it's
the
same
message
this
year
and
if
anything,
our
acting
mayor
was
one
of
those
no
votes
last
year,
so
I
expected
frankly
an
opportunity
to
negotiate
with
her
along
with
the
administration,
particularly
on
policing
reform.
I
never
got
an
opportunity
to
negotiate
when
it
came
to
this
recent
middle.
That's
actually
a
difference
from
last
year.
N
The
second
piece
is
mass
and
cass.
I
know
councilor
baker.
Councillor
flynn
have
been
working
on
this
tirelessly.
It's
a
section,
that's
currently
outside
of
my
district,
but
of
course,
is
the
main
topic
of
discussion
in
the
city
of
boston,
because
it
is
the
other
public
health
crisis
we
are
dealing
with
and
it's
becoming
more
of
a
public
safety
crisis
as
well,
and
one
south
in
resident
recently
remarked
in
his
words.
This
is
a
humanitarian
crisis,
because
it
is
that
bad
in
the
region
we're
seeing
an
uptick
in
sexual
assaults.
N
We
are
seeing
an
uptick
in
human
trafficking,
an
uptick
in
the
number
of
tents
in
the
area,
and
yet
I've
sent
correspondence
to
the
previous
administration
to
our
acting
mayor
when
she
was
counsel
president
stressing
that
we
needed
a
new
approach
as
a
collective,
all
working
in
partnership,
we're
not
all
experts
but
working
in
partnership
to
deal
with
that
issue
along
with
providers,
mental
health,
clinicians
residents
who,
of
course
been
on
the
forefront
with
respect
to
these
issues.
So
many
different
stakeholders
coming
together.
N
How
many
responses
have
I
received
to
that
correspondence?
Absolutely
none!
No
response
to
the
emails,
no
response
to
the
letters,
nothing
and
when
I
was
reached
out
to
by
the
administration,
I
stressed
the
number
one
concern
that
I
was
frustrated
around
was
mass
and
cats,
and
I
still
thought
that
maybe
there
would
still
be
an
opportunity
to
be
able
to
have
a
deeper
conversation
with
residents
on
those
particular
issues.
So
that
is
the
next
reason.
I've
chosen
to
vote
no
on
this
budget.
Lastly,
is
boston?
Public
schools
and
the
message
is
completely
consistent.
N
I've
always
said
that
this
district
can
continues
in
many
ways
to
fail
families
I'm
a
product
of
bps.
I
went
to
five
boston,
public
schools
and
I
often
stress
that,
but
for
the
grace
of
god
and
the
education
I
got
in
this
system,
I
would
not
have
been
successful.
We're
not
going
to
solve
poverty
overnight,
we're
definitely
not
going
to
eradicate
it
overnight.
We're
not
going
to
reduce
trauma
in
neighborhoods
that
are
grappling
with
that.
We're
not
suddenly
going
to
bring
families
back
together.
N
We're
not
going
to
give
you
everything
they
would
need,
but
this
one
thing
in
terms
of
boston,
public
schools:
we
can
do
and
I've
been
disappointed
at
the
lack
of
transparency,
accountability
within
the
overall
system,
the
lack
and
terrible
family
engagement.
All
of
us
were
on
a
call
yesterday
around
just
how
we
have
to
do
better
on
family
engagement.
N
I
still
have
questions
on
how
this
money
is
going
to
be
used.
I
absolutely
think
it
should
be
used
for
infrastructure.
Yes,
we
I'm
going
to
be
at
the
sarah
greenwood
school
on
friday,
or
at
least
a
team
member.
They
have
asbestos
in
their
building.
They've
been
fighting
for
years
for
new
infrastructure.
N
These
are
the
projects
we
need
to
be
accelerating
right
now,
also
using
it
as
an
opportunity
to
provide
jobs,
climate
projects,
other
projects,
yes
build
things
create
jobs.
We
can
do
that
in
this
moment
in
time,
and
we
can
do
it
through
boston,
public
schools.
That
is
not
necessarily
reflected,
and
I
will
say
it.
N
I
continue
to
be
a
no.
I
made
it
crystal
clear
yesterday
for
the
same
reasons
I
said
last
year
and
years
before,
and
so,
if
anything,
I'm
excited
for
the
possibility
of
being
able
to
reset
and
to
have
a
renewed
conversation
that
will
in
fact
use
this
opportunity
to
create
a
budget
that
will
meet
the
needs
of
our
residents
but,
most
importantly,
also
meet
the
needs
of
our
city,
employees,
who
also
have
been
stressing.
They
might
need
greater
investments
in
certain
departments.
They
have
major
concerns
about
coming
back
to
work
with
no
flexibility,
no
hybrid.
N
C
F
Thank
you,
mr
chair,
and
thank
you
to
the
council.
Frankly
for
the
passion
and
the
very
obvious
care
for
what
I
believe
is
the
city
of
boston.
I
don't
think
anybody
here
who
is
sitting
at
one
of
these
chairs
isn't
thinking
about
their
constituencies.
In
my
instance
my
neighborhoods
or
the
city
as
a
whole.
If
that's
that's
your
charge,
and
so
you
know,
I
just
want
to
kind
of
get
into
what
I
see
as
pretty
key
differences.
F
Unlike
mr
chair,
this
is
only
my
second
budget
and
wow
from
the
standpoint
of
having
two
budgets.
This
is
two
completely
very
different
processes
thrown
right
into
the
deep
end,
and
what
I
will
just
say
is:
I
voted
no
on
last
year's
budget
and
I,
I
don't
recall
a
single
conversation
with
the
mayor
of
the
city
at
that
time.
F
So
I
hope
that
folks,
who
are
paying
attention,
do
vote
for
it
that
allows
the
city
council
to
have
more
say
in
what
that
budget
process
looks
like,
but
the
birth
of
that
was
a
very
broken
budget
process
last
year
that
I
don't
believe
centered
the
needs
of
the
city
and
my
ass
were
pretty
consistent,
they're
still
pretty
consistent.
I
wanted
a
ten
percent
cut
mbpd
reallocated
to
specifically
services
for
our
communities,
and
so
I
want
to
get
into
that
last
year
and
I've
been
clear
on
this.
This
isn't
news.
F
F
I
will
say
as
well
that
this
year's
budget,
as
far
as
bpd
goes,
is
smaller
by
last
year's
budget
by
some
amount,
not
not
a
large
amount.
But
if
you
take
out
opat,
which
I
was
proud
to
be
a
lead
co-sponsor
on
with
councillor
campbell
and
councillor
mejia,
if
you
take
out
the
money
allocated
for
opat,
you
do
get
very
close
to
10,
which
is
what
I
was
seeking
and
obviously
that's
not
the
end-all
be-all
of
where
we
are
with
police
reform.
F
There
are
other
places
the
gang
database
city,
councilor
edwards,
brought
up
the
911
response
system
that
was
filed
last
year
and
wasn't
refiled
this
year,
and
I
do
hope
to
see
that
we
do
some
action
on
this
body
on
in
regards
to
that.
In
terms
of
the
budget,
I've
had
a
pandemic
just
like
everybody
else.
Over
the
last
year
that
has
really
devastated
my
community.
Specifically,
I
represent
high
park,
matapan
roslindale.
If
you
go
look
at
covent
infection
rate
throughout
this
pandemic.
F
Those
two
neighborhoods
were
two
and
three
at
different
points
in
time
for
total,
the
the
first
place
being,
of
course,
councillor
edwards
is
east
boston
in
terms
of
total
infections,
and
so
we've
really
experienced
that
inequity
in
in
terms
of
how
it's
been,
how
the
impact
has
impacted
our
neighborhoods,
both
from
a
health
perspective,
but
also
from
a
business
perspective
perspective.
I
have
businesses
that
have
really
struggled
to
survive
and
many
have
not
and
that
that's
shared
throughout
the
city
throughout
this
pandemic.
F
One
of
my
major
concerns
as
chair
of
public
health
was
access
to
testing
access
to
vaccines,
things
that
I
did
not
believe
that
the
last
administration
was
adequately
covering
high
park,
specifically
on
until
about
the
end
of
it
when
we
got
the
vaccine
centers
through
the
y.
This
budget
creates
an
allocation
that
I'm
very
glad
for
that.
I
fought
really
hard
for
for
a
community
health
center
in
high
park.
That's
that's
a
first
they've
not
had
one.
F
Those
are
the
kinds
of
things
that
I'm
weighing
this
budget
creates
some
conservation
conservation,
core
money
puts
money
aside
for
participatory
budgeting.
These
are
good
things.
These
are
also
things
that
I
will
add,
have
been
things
that
have
been
advocated
for
by
this
body,
and
so
when
we
talk
about
the
budget
as
sort
of
the
council's
budget
or
the
mayor's
budget,
this
is
the
city
of
boston's
budget,
and
I
echo
counselor
baker
in
that
I'm
deeply
concerned
about
where
we
are
as
a
city
we're
coming
out
of
a
pandemic.
We
are
reopening.
F
I
don't
have
a
mask
on
right
now.
Neither
do
does
anybody
else
at
these
tables
we're
vaccinated,
we're
in
a
very
different
place
than
we
were
last
year
at
this
time
and
what
I
would
say
is
as
we
reopen
as
we
try
to
instill
confidence
in
the
economic
sector
and
the
faith
and
guidance
of
our
bond
ratings
and
the
faith
and
guidance
of
our
city
as
it
moves
forward
in
opening
up
in
the
way
that
it
needs
to.
F
The
idea
of
transitioning
different
mayors
show
that
they
care
about
that,
and
I
think
that
in
the
terms
of
how
we
do
this,
I'm
glad
that
councilor
bach
madam
chair
of
ways
and
means
who
has
done
excellently.
I
think
in
shepherding
two
budgets
in
two
very
difficult
situations
through
I
like
that,
we
have
a
chance
to
speak
on
the
floor
and
to
speak
to
this
budget.
I
will
say
specifically
that
there
are
places
I've
not
seen
a
perfect
budget.
I'm
not
sure
folks,
who
have
seen
more
than
me,
have
seen
a
perfect
budget.
F
F
For
me,
it
is
not
a
perfect
budget.
It
has
places
where
I
will
be
looking
for
things
specifically
on
a
constituent
services
level
in
my
district,
but
I
think
that
this
budget
has
made
a
lot
of
progress,
and
I
will
just
be
on
the
record
of
saying
that
the
process
for
this
budget
and
how
we've
gotten
here
has
been
much
better
than
the
process
that
I
had
last
year
with
mayor
walsh
and
so
as
we're
here
now
under
this
leadership.
F
I
look
forward
to
seeing
what
we
do
next
week
and
hearing
from
the
rest
of
my
colleagues
who
have
yet
to
speak,
but
I,
as
far
as
this
budget
is
constructed
now
I
am
a
yes
and
hope
to
see
some
tweaks
in
some
small
areas,
but
I
do
think
that
this
budget
meets
the
needs
of
the
city
of
boston.
Thank
you.
C
O
O
O
The
climate
crisis,
as
you've
already
mentioned,
is
a
is
a
real
and
present
threat
to
our
city,
and
we
really
need
to
not
wait,
and
you
know,
I
think,
there's
a
center.
I
really
would
like
to
see
a
greater
sense
of
urgency
to
really
build
resilience
across
our
communities
to
work
on
our
wetlands
initiatives
and
really
expand
that
and
go
really
deep
and
invest
some
serious
money
into
addressing
our
climate
resiliency,
and
that
also
ties
into
the
need
for
those
green
jobs
and
the
training
for
our
young
people.
O
Baker
speaks
to
the
pressures
on
the
artist
community
in
his
district
in
austin
brighton,
every
block
that
gets
developed
every
every
formerly
industrial
space
that
gets
developed
drives
a
whole
cohort
of
our
artists
into
a
smaller
space,
or
they
drive
them
right
out
of
our
community,
and
our
creative
community
are
really
important
to
our
neighborhoods
and
really
important
to
our
city.
So
you
know
I'd
like
to
see
some
investment
in
trying
to
stabilize
the
artist
community
and
really
see
it
as
a
vital
asset
in
our
neighborhoods
in
our
in
our
city.
O
The
biotech
in
the
news
today
we're
hearing
about
the
need
from
biotech
manufacturing
we're
building
labs
all
across
our
city.
Those
are
the
the
the
highly
trained
specialist
scientists
and
researchers
who
are
developing
all
these
new
new
new
new
drugs
and
new
treatments,
new
therapies,
but
all
those
therapies
have
to
be
manufactured
and
we
they
need
workers
to
do
that.
O
Work
and-
and
you
can
get
those
jobs
coming
out
of
high
school
and
do
a
certificate
course
to
enable
you
to
get
advanced,
take
advantage
of
those
lab
jobs,
not
at
the
higher
research
level,
but
basically
the
lab
tech
technology
like
lab
technician,
level
and
there's
thousands
of
jobs
in
the
making,
and
I
feel
that
it's
really
important
for
us
not
to
hang
around
and
wait
for
that.
We
have
as
we
had.
O
We
had
a
resolution
called
for
a
hearing
last
week
on
this
issue,
but
to
really
be
really
drive
this
and
be
proactive
and
not
go.
Oh
shucks.
We
missed
the
boat
here
we
are
and
those
jobs
have
gone
somewhere
else.
We
have
a
moment
to
try
and
seize
that,
and
I
feel
that
this
in
this
budget,
we
we
should
be
bold
in
our
neighborhood.
O
We
are
12
months
away
from
losing
a
vital
facility,
the
jackson
man
community
complex.
We
have
a
school
for
the
deaf,
an
elementary
school
and
a
community
center,
our
only
bcyf
cooling
center,
only
emergency
heating
center
in
the
neighborhood
that
shuts
down.
If
the
ac
goes
down,
you
know,
once
again
we
talk
about
infrastructure,
the
jackson
man,
community,
the
complex
is
a
is
an
essential
piece
of
our
community
infrastructure
that
needs
to
be
replaced
in
short
order.
It
is
a
polling
place
for
five
precincts
when
it
closes
next
year.
Where
are
we
going
to
vote?
O
There's
lots
of
big
questions
that
I
really
feel
in
this
moment
when
there
is
some
extra
cash
coming
into
our
city,
that
we
should
be
looking
at
those
those
opportunities
and
thinking.
How
can
we
use
these
this
additional
funding
to
help
address
some
of
these
underlying
issues?
Planning
and
development
is
a
huge
issue
in
our
neighborhoods.
Some
of
us
are
getting
impacted
more
than
others.
East
boston's,
deeply
impacted
south
boston.
Also
in
brighton
at
the
moment,
has
six
million
square
feet
of
in
under
review
six
million
square
feet
of
development
under
review.
O
O
You
know:
how
will
we
we
need
a
budget
that
will
prioritize
anti-displacement
a
budget
that
will
prioritize
acquisition
opportunities
will
mitigate
the
impacts
of
speculative
investment.
That
is
basically
coming
people
turning
up
with
cash
and
buying
family
homes
in
our
neighborhoods,
so
that
ordinary
families
can't
even
get
in
the
door
to
live
and
stay
in
the
neighborhoods
that
they
grew
up
in.
We
need
a
community
oriented
planning
initiative
that
really
looks
holistically
at
what
the
needs
of
a
community
are
our
schools.
O
Our
libraries
are
our
transit
systems,
we
build
build,
build
and
we
don't
think
how
are
workers
going
to
get
back
and
forward
to
work?
We
need
to
look
at
institutional
uses
and
our
relationship
with
our
big
institutions,
and
we
need
to
try
and
build
in
some
permanent
affordability
into
us
into
our
neighborhoods,
so
that
our
people,
who
are
workers
and
our
boston
residents,
can
live
and
work
and
play
in
our
neighborhoods
and
stay
for
the
long
haul.
O
C
P
Thank
you,
mr
president,
and
thank
you
to
my
colleagues
that
have
previously
spoken.
I
learned
a
lot
from
you
and
I
know
each
person
that
spoke
is
dedicated
to
this
city
and
to
the
residence,
regardless
of
they're,
putting
their
politics
aside
and
they're
doing
what's
in
the
best
interest
of
the
the
people
of
boston.
P
I
was
mentioned
in
one
of
the
news
news
articles
as
being
undecided
at
this
time
on
the
budget
and
I'm
undecided
at
this
time
for,
for
many
reasons,
including
city
services,
quality
life
issues,
I
like
to
focus
on
the
nuts
and
bolts
of
city
government.
What
impact
does
city
government
have
on
on
residents?
P
P
Baker
continue
to
advocate
for
a
reduction
in
the
speed
limit
from
25
to
20,
with
strict
enforcement
from
boston,
public
boston
police.
On
on
this
as
well,
resources
for
youth
resources
for
youth
after
school
are
also
an
important
part
of
basic
city
services.
Do
we
have
enough
staffing
at
isd
to
deal
with
these
airbnb
issues?
P
These
late
night
parties
that
have
taken
place
across
our
city
after
hours,
construction
as
well
isd
plays
a
critical
role
in
our
city.
One
issue
that
I've
focused
on
with
other
counselors
here
is
the
human
rights
commission.
I've
talked
to
the
mayor,
and
I've
talked
to
my
colleagues
about
that.
It
was
established
under
mayor
flynn
in
1984
and
we've
seen
over
the
year.
The
increase
in
hate
crimes
we've
seen
over
the
last
year
increases
of
assaults
against
immigrants
right
here
in
our
city,
especially
the
aapi
community,
across
greater
boston
across
across
the
country.
P
With
that
in
mind,
I
continue
to
study
the
budget.
I
want
to
see
what's
in
the
best
interest
of
of
my
constituents
in
district
2.,
I
represent
the
largest
district
that
has
the
most
residents
living
in
public
housing,
which
I'm
proud
of.
What
impact
does
this
budget
have
on
bha
residents
impact?
Does
this
budget
have
on
persons
with
disabilities?
P
C
K
Yeah,
thank
you,
mr
chair,
and
I
am
incredibly
like
in
awe
of
all
of
my
colleagues
here
today.
I
am
so
appreciative
of
the
passion
that
I
saw
and
I
hope
that
we
continue
to
lead
with
that
fire
every
year
all
day
every
day,
because
that
is
what
our
constituents
expect
of
us
when
they
elect
us
to
serve
them
at
all
times,
not
just
in
times
when
it's
convenient
or
comfortable
to
do
so.
K
What
I
see
having
graduated
from
the
boston,
public
schools
and
now
as
a
bps
parent,
is
that
we
talk
a
lot
about
representation,
but
yet
we're
not
pouring
our
resources
into
that
space.
So
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
I'd
like
to
advocate
for,
if
you're
going
to
get
a
yes
from
me,
is
ethnic
studies
in
the
boston,
public
schools,
community,
hub
schools
with
bps
btu
representation,
and
I
also
believe
that
there
are
a
lot
of
programs
out
there.
In
particular,
I
can
think
of
st
stevens.
K
K
We
have
advocates
screaming
putin,
hollering
and
yelling
about
the
things
that
they
want
and
then
once
a
year
we
have
this
zoso
opportunity
to
fight
for
the
things
that
we
want,
but
oftentimes
that
fight
doesn't
seem
to
have
a
lot
of
will
and
I'm
hoping
that
my
colleagues
this
time
around
really
rise
up
and
listen
to
the
people
that
put
them
in
office
and
fight
for
the
type
of
budget
that
we
have
all
been
fighting
for,
or
at
least
some
of
us
have
been
fighting
for
since
last
year.
So
this
is
not
about
politics.
K
K
While
I
really
do
appreciate
it
and
does
give
us
an
opportunity
to
fight
and
gives
our
advocates
an
opportunity
to
prepare
themselves
for
the
battle
that
is
ahead.
We
also
have
to
be
super
mindful
that
this
is
a
battle,
but
the
war
has
yet
to
be
won,
and
so
I'm
here
for
all
of
it,
because
everybody
knows
I
like
a
good
fight.
So
let's
get
it.
C
D
Thank
you
so
much
counselor
o'malley.
Thank
you
sincerely
to
colleagues
for
voicing
all
those
thoughts
and
and
real
goals
for
the
work
that
we
might
do
together
in
the
next
week.
I
want
to
say
before
I
make
the
motion
that
my
intention
is
for
us
to
have
a
working
session.
The
soonest
I
can
notice
one
is
friday
afternoon.
D
I
think
that
you
know
the
hope,
for
the
hope
would
be
to
get
the
council
to
a
kind
of
sense
of
consensus
around,
like
you
know,
what's
a
supplemental
appropriation
order
that
could
really
get
us,
as
counselor
edward
said,
to
sort
of
a
council's
budget
of
city
of
boston
budget
that
we
feel
comfortable
passing.
I
think
there
will
I
I
was
planning
to
hold
the
hearing
on
monday.
D
D
D
C
Before
you
make
that,
are
you
making
the
motion
just,
but
I
will
call
on
you,
but
there's
one
more
speaker,
I'm
sorry
that
I
neglected
so
before
you
make
a
motion
that
I
will
get
you
after
the
next
speaker,
the
district
council
from
district
council
from
dorchester
council
baker.
The
floor
is
yours:.
M
Sorry
about
that,
mr
chair,
I
just
want
to
make
a
couple
more
points
so
being
in
10
at
10
years.
This
is
my
10th
budget
and
10
years
ago
it
was
about
advocating
for
improvements
in
in
my
district.
In
my
for
lack
of
a
better
term.
My
10
blocks
you
know
in
in
in
10
years
ago
it
was
adam's
corner
library.
It
was
down
down
a
park
playground.
M
It
was
the
hancock
street
stairs,
it
was
garvey
park
and
mcconnell
park
and
and
different
libraries
advocating
for
lower
mills
fields,
corner
oppam's
corner
and
ten
years
later,
I
can
look
back
and
see
how
some
of
that
stuff
is
done.
So
you
lay
out
your
future
of
asks.
Your
ass,
that
happens
now
isn't
going
to
happen
next
year.
My
ass
took
eight
years
or
ten
years.
You
know,
you've
been
you've,
been
here,
it's
10
years
before
something
comes
to
fruition,
so
I'm
actually
sitting
on
10
years
worth
of
jeez
that
quite
done
that
got
done.
M
That
could
have
done.
So
that's
a
little
bit
about
how
I've
worked
at
advocating
in
this
budget.
I
wanted
to
talk
briefly
about
brick,
also
because
you
had
taught
I
shouldn't
we're
not
supposed
to
call
people
up,
but
there
was
a
comment
about
brick
and
we
want
to
reform
them
and
there's
lots
of
brick
that
we
should
be
talking
about,
and
I
think
we
got
communication
on
the
on
the
gang
database.
But
brick
stands
for
boston,
regional
intelligence.
M
It's
not
boston,
regional,
dumb,
cops,
it's
intelligent
police
officers,
it's
data
collection,
it's
analyzing
trends
of
what's
going
on,
and
I'm
really
concerned
that
if
we
have
an
eye
on
getting
rid
of
brick,
then
we
do
a
disservice
to
the
entire
region.
I
have.
I
have
family
that
are
that
are
on
braintree
that
are
on
quincy,
that
are
on
randolph,
there's
something
that
happens
in
randolph.
M
It's
absolutely
collect
connected
to
some
place
in
boston,
or
vice
versa,
and
a
lot
of
those
towns
on
it,
and
that's
a
lot
of
the
work
that
the
brick
does
connecting
on
connecting
on
different
towns.
So
so
they're
not
being
blindsided,
and
it's
not
just
gang-related
violence.
It
can
be
terrorism,
it
can
be
anything
formed
around
9
11
when
the
when
law
enforcement
was
widely
criticized
for
not
talking
to
each
other.
M
This
is
our
unit
that
talks
to
other
agencies,
so
I
just
wanted
to
speak
to
that
without
without
beating
it
too
much
chief
of
workforce
development
is
something
that's
really
good
for
us.
We
need
to
be
looking
at
brick
and
mortar
job
training.
Also,
my
good
colleague
talked
talked
about
brick
and
mortar
job
training,
and
also
we
need
to
figure
out
what
these
jobs
are.
So
those
are
my
last
oh
and
my
last
thing:
a
lot
of
people
talking
about
charter
amendments
and
participatory
budgeting.
M
I
think
a
little
bit
different
than
I
think
most
of
my
colleagues
do
here,
I'm
elected
as
the
representative
of
district
three
to
go
after
the
best
best
budget
for
them,
I'm
elected
to
listen
to
their
to
their
to
their
needs
and
what
I
think
is
best
for
them.
That
being
said,
if
we
want
to
do
participatory
budgeting,
I
would
say
we
should
do
a
line
item
and
every
council
gets
a
couple
hundred
grand.
M
However,
you
want
to
spend
it,
but
you
run
the
participatory
budgeting
the
way
you
want
to
run
it
and
spend
it
in
your
district,
whatever
that
is,
that
could
be
200
000
towards
a
study
for
a
senior
housing
development
or
something
that
you
would
commit
your
200
000
to.
However
many
years,
I'm
concerned
about
bringing
the
public
into
our
job
here,
we're
elected
to
do
the
job,
so
I
think
we
need
to
keep
the
budget
within
our
our
power.
That's
the
last.
I
have
to
say
today
thank
you,
mr
chia,
for
allowing
me.
C
D
You
councillor
baker
accounts.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
councillor
o'malley,
and
thank
you
councilman
those
comments.
They
reminded
me
of
two
other
things
I
wanted
to
say.
One
is
that
I
I
do
not
labor
under
the
notion,
and
I
don't
think
that
others
on
this
council
do
that
all
of
our
disagreements
with
each
other.
As
elected
officials,
we
are
going
to
settle
in
order
to
get
to
a
budget
that
we
can
support
in
a
week.
D
But
I
just
wanted
to
say
to
councilman
hill's
point
that
if
there
are
things
that
come
up
after
the
meeting,
just
like
that,
that's
where
that's
what
we
should
be
doing
is
pulling
them
together
and
discussing
and
yeah
and
now
counselor
o'malley.
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
to
suspend
and
pass
docket
0801.
C
There's
a
motion
before
the
body
to
suspend
and
pass
stalking
zero
eight
zero
one
which
is
the
operating
budget.
Do
I
hear
a
second
on
that
motion
seconded
by
counselor
edwards,
so
to
be
clear?
What
we're
I'm
gonna
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role.
This
is
just
whether
or
not
we
can
indeed
vote
on
the
budget,
and
this
is,
I
think,
a
good
indicator
to
follow
that
very
healthy
and
spirited
debate.
Everyone
clear
on
what
is
before
us
right.
C
D
So
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
have
a
sense
of
you
know
when
we're
there
and
when
we're
not
there,
and
it
certainly
feels
to
me
that
we're
not
there.
Obviously,
I
think
the
comments
in
the
room
today
reflected
that
the
things
that
I
was
reading
in
the
press
and
hearing
from
some
of
you
reflected
all
of
that.
D
However,
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
actually
end
up
with
a
docket
still
in
committee,
so
that
we
can
have
the
hearing
that
the
public
deserves
that
we
can
have
the
conversation's
going
to
happen,
he's
working
on
his
appearance
over
the
next
few
days.
So
this
is
a
procedural
vote.
As
councillor
o'malley
alluded
to
the
you
know,
obviously
a
suspension
of
the
rules.
D
It
takes
unanimous
consent,
and
so
I
I
I
would
encourage
counselors
to
vote
on
this
procedural
motion
as
though
you
are
voting
on
the
substantive
motion
today,
which
is
the
question
of
whether
or
not
today
you
are
comfortable
passing
the
operating
budget
for
all
of
our
conversation,
as
I've
said
like
if
like
for
me,
that's
a
yes
today
like
I
think
that
there's
been
a
lot
of
things
that
were
put
in
the
resubmission
that
has
reflected
council
conversation
and
I'm
concerned
about
us.
You
know
about
the
future
of
the
fiscal
city.
D
So
for
me
it's
going
to
be
a
yes.
I
know
that
for
a
lot
of
folks
today,
it's
a
no,
and
I
think
that
and
that's
all
right
and
that's
why
we've
that's.
Why
we've
had
this
family
conversation
and
that's
why
we're
going
to
have
a
week
ahead
of
work,
but
so
I
am
making
the
procedural
motion,
mr
chair,
but
I
I
would
ask
folks
to
think
about
it
as
a
way
of
registering
on
the
substantive
motion.
Okay,.
M
M
C
Correct
so
the
vote
right
now
is
to
whether
or
not
this
comes
to
the
floor.
If,
if
at
least
one
counselor
votes
no-
and
I
I
am-
will
be
a
no
vote
on
bringing
it
before
the
floor,
it
means
we
will
not
vote
on
it
today,
but
we
will
of
course
vote
on
it
next
wednesday
before
the
end
of
the
fiscal
year.
Okay,
okay,
so.
M
L
K
C
No,
I
mean
I,
I
would
argue
that
we
should
not
suspend
the
rules.
This
is.
This
is
unorthodox
apologies
for
speaking
from
the
deus,
but
I
would
argue
that
we
not
suspend
the
rules
to
vote
on
the
budget
today
because
it
was
just
received
today
and
I'm
hopeful
that,
through
an
extended
process
of
a
working
session
friday,
hearing
monday,
possibly
hearing
tuesday
we'll
be
able
to
have
a
better
thing
better
better
product
before
us,
when
we
do
vote
next
wednesday.
C
C
D
Councillor
mejia,
I
I
guess
the
way
to
think
about
it
is.
If
everybody
in
this
room
were
ready
to
pass
the
operating
budget,
then
they
would
vote
to
suspend
the
rules
right
and
then
vote
to
pass
the
budget.
I
I
don't
expect
people
to
be
there.
Obviously,
I
think
that
I
I'm
trying
to
offer
this
procedural
vote
as
a
proxy
for
registering
where
people
are
right
now
today
on
the
budget.
So,
if
you're,
not,
if
you're
not
ready
today
to
pass
the
mayor's
operating
budget,
then
I
would
vote
no
on
this.
D
For
me,
if
it
were
just
me
like
I,
you
know,
I
think
that
there's
a
lot
of
things
that
that
are
of
concern
and
as
the
ways
and
means
chair,
I
want
us
to
get
to
yes
collectively
in
this
way
that
I
think
we're
gonna
work
in
the
week
ahead.
But
you
know
I
want
us
to
get
to
yes,
so
I'll
vote
yesterday,
but
I
you
know,
that's
the
the
goal
is
really
to
show.
The
goal
is
to
make
it
clear
where,
where
we
are.
C
F
C
I
P
I
L
N
C
N
Have
to
call
on
every
counselor,
because
we've
done
it
in
the
past.
Only
one
counselor
has
to
object
and
if
one
objects
then
it
goes
to
committee
and
it
solves
that
you
don't
need
a
vote
of
all
counselors
once
one
person
objects.
So
I
would
urge
you,
mr
president,
to
if
there
was
a
motion
on
the
floor
to
suspend
the
rules.
N
C
Q
N
C
G
Foreign
from
the
previous
speaker,
maybe
just
an
offer
of
a
compromise,
is
that
we
do
a
voice
vote
all
in
favor,
say
I'll
post.
They
know
and
then
we'll
sort
of
get
an
indication
as
to
who's.
I
who's
they
and
that'll
probably
trigger
previous
speakers,
comment
that
there'd
be
an
a
you'd
hear,
an
a
which
would
then
suspend
obviously
would
prevent
the
suspension.
C
Now
I
appreciate
that
it
is
my
it
is
the
opinion
of
the
chair
that
he
or
she
can
call
a
roll
call
vote
if,
if
needed,
on
any
motion,
which
is
what
I
would
proceed
to
do
out
of
a
deference
of
collaboration,
I
I
guess
I
would
defer
to
the
clerk
who
also
served
admirably
as
the
council
president.
Madam
clerk,
on
a
motion.
Can
the
chair
compel
a
roll
call
vote.
C
G
C
C
F
Mr
chair,
I
would
just
say
this:
the
suspended
pass
is
always
done
on
the
moment.
There's
nothing
unique
about
this
suspended
pass
comparatively
to
any
other
suspended,
pass
on
a
resolution
or
emotion.
They
all
come
to
the
floor
the
same
exact
way.
So
I
don't
know
what
the
uniqueness
here
would
be.
I
I'm
going
to
object
because
it's
very
clear
that
the
rest
of
the
body
objects.
I
don't
think
we
need
to
take
all
of
this
time
to
get
to
an
objection.
That's
that's
that's
my
that's
my
overarching
point.
C
C
C
C
C
D
Thank
you,
mr
president.
I
just
wanna.
I
know
that
a
number
of
counselors
already
commented
on
the
bps
budget.
I
did
want
to
create
an
opportunity
for
counselors
to
to
comment
on
it.
Who
didn't-
and
you
know
I'll
just
say.
Obviously
the
bps
budget
reflects
some
considerable
additional
staffing
in
terms
of
social
workers
across
the
district
and
a
number
of
other
things
we've
discussed
in
10
or
so
hearings,
but
yeah.
I
I
will
recognize.
D
Yeah,
obviously,
since
the
council,
as
was
just
demonstrated,
doesn't
really
want
to
take
a
procedural
vote
as
a
substantive
vote.
I
won't
I.
I
won't
insist
on
that
for
the
for
the
bps
budget,
I'll
I'll,
technically
make
a
motion
to
suspend
and
pass
just
to
give
people
the
space
to
make
a
comment.
Mr
chair,
but
after
that,
if
in
if
you
think
it's
better
off
refer
to
committee,
I'm
happy
to
defer
to
you
on
it.
C
Okay,
thank
you.
Is
there
any
further
discussion
on
zero,
eight,
zero,
two
seeing
and
hearing
none?
Are
you
making
a
motion
counselor
buck?
No,
that's
why
I
just
sent
it
too
many.
Okay,
dockett0802
will
be
referred
to
the
committee
on
ways
and
means.
Madam
clerk,
please
read
doc
at
zero.
Eight,
zero,
three:
three:
zero:
eight
zero
five.
B
Docket,
zero
eight
zero
three
message
and
order
proving
the
appropriation
of
40
million
dollars
to
the
other
post
employment
benefits
known
as
opeb
liability
trust
fund
established
under
section
20
of
massachusetts,
general
laws,
chapter
32b
files
in
the
office
of
the
clerk
on
june
18,
2021.,
docket,
number
0804
message
in
order
approving
an
appropriation
of
twelve
million
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
the
city's
capital
grant
fund.
In
order
to
provide
funding
for
various
transportation
and
public
realm
improvements.
B
These
projects
are
aligned
with
the
goals
of
the
go
boston,
2030,
the
city's
transportation
master
plan.
The
funds
shall
be
credited
from
the
capital
grant
fund
from
the
parking
meter
fund
filed
in
the
office
of
city
clerk
on
june
2021,
docket
number,
zero,
eight,
zero
five
message
and
auditor
approving
an
appropriation
of
two
million
dollars
from
the
city's
capital
grant
fund
to
address
the
impact
of
transportation,
network
services
on
municipal
roads,
bridges
and
other
transportation
infrastructure,
or
any
other
public
purpose,
substantially
related
to
the
operation
of
transportation
network
services
in
the
city.
C
B
Thank
you.
Docket
number,
zero,
eight,
zero,
six
messaging
order
authorizing
the
appropriation
of
one
million
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
the
income
of
the
john
I'm
sorry,
george
frances
pachmann
fund.
The
funds
are
to
be
expended
under
the
direction
of
the
commissioner
of
pax
and
recreation
for
the
maintenance
and
improvement
of
boston,
common
and
pacs
in
existence.
Since
january,
12,
1887.
B
Pursuant
to
section
53f
and
three-quarters
of
chapter
44
of
the
general
laws
to
the
peg,
access
and
cable
related
grant
for
cable
related
purposes,
consistent
with
the
franchise
agreement
between
the
cable
operator
and
the
city,
including,
but
not
limited
to
one
supporting
public
educational,
governmental
access,
cable
television
service,
two
monitoring,
compliance
of
cable
operator
with
the
franchise
agreement
or
three
preparation
of
renewal
of
the
franchise
license
and
docket
number
zero.
Eight
zero.
B
Eight
message
in
order
approving
the
appropriation
of
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
the
city
of
boston's
equity
fund
to
create
a
special
revenue
project
grant
in
order
to
support
equity
applicants
and
licensees,
as
defined
by
the
equity
program,
and
to
establish
and
operate
a
cannabis
business
in
the
city
of
boston.
The
fund
shall
be
credited
to
the
special
revenue
grant
fund
from
the
city
of
boston's
equity
fund
established
pursuant
to
the
city
of
boston's
ordinance,
chapter
8,
section
13,
establishing
the
equitable
regulations
of
the
cannabis
industry
in
the
city
of
boston.
C
D
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
Here
I'm
actually
going
to
be
asking
for
council
suspension
and
passage
hoping
for
support.
I
mentioned
at
our
meeting
on
june
9th
that
for
these
three
funds,
they're
all
funds
where
we
get
in
the
money
to
a
trust
fund
that
can
only
be
used
for
a
very
specific
dedicated
purpose,
and
then
what
we
do
is
appropriation
orders
to
actually
like
actually
send
that
money
out
the
door,
and
I
would
have
moved
for
their
passage
along
with
the
revolving
funds
on
june
9th,
except
that
we
didn't
yet
have
from
the
administration.
D
D
That's
designed
to
really
support
our
cannabis
entrepreneurs
so
because
these
are
funds
that
we
would
not
in
a
broader
budget
conversation
redirect
because
they
really
are
for
this
dedicated
purpose,
and
they
just
need
the
appropriation
order
from
the
council
and
since
we've
received
the
kind
of
background
information
that
makes
me
comfortable
recommending
it
as
chair.
I
know,
mr
president,
we
need
to
vote
on
each
of
these
separately,
but
I
would
motion
to
suspend
and
pass
stock
at
zero.
Eight,
zero,
six,
zero,
seven
and
zero
eight.
C
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
any
further
discussion
on
these
dockets
trish.
Do
you
want
to
call
the
roll?
Oh
here
she
is.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
madam
clerk.
We
are
now
counselor
block
chair
of
the
committee
of
ways
and
means
seek
suspension
of
the
rules
and
passage
of
docket
zero.
Eight
zero.
Six,
all
those
in
does
this
need
to
be
a
roll
call.
Madam
clerk,
can
this
be
voice
vote
roll
call?
Madam
clerk,
would
you
please
call
the
roll
on
docket
zero?
Six
excuse
me:
zero.
Eight,
zero,
six.
B
Thank
you,
mr
president,
and
thank
you
one
and
all
on
docket
zero.
Eight
zero
six
arroyo;
yes,
council
arroyo,
council
baker,
aye
councillor
baker,
aye,
council
block,
aye,
council
block
aye
council,
braden,
aye,
council
braid
and
I
counselor
campbell
council
campbell,
yes,
councilor,
edwards
councillor,
edward
gs,
councilor
sabby,
george
councillor,
savvy
george,
has
council
of
flaherty
council
flaherty
as
council
flynn
council
flynn;
yes,
council,
mejia
councilman;
here,
yes,
councillor
o'malley,
yes,.
L
B
C
B
Thank
you,
docket
number,
zero,
eight,
zero,
seven
for
suspension
and
passage
council
arroyo;
councillor
arroyo;
yes,
councillor;
baker,
aye,
council
baker,
aye,
council
book
council,
black
guy
council,
braden,
aye,
councillor
brayden
and
I
councillor
campbell
councillor
campbell,
yes,
councillor,
edwards,
council,
edward,
yes,
councillor,
sabi,
george
councillor
savvy
george,
has
council
flaherty,
I'm
so
flaherty.
Yes,
council
flynn,
council
flynn,
yes
councilman
here
councilman
here,
yes,
councillor,
o'malley,.
C
C
B
C
B
C
C
B
Thank
you,
docket0812
message
and
auto
authorizes
the
city
of
boston
to
accept
and
expand
an
amount
of
239
thousand
dollars
in
the
form
of
a
grant
for
the
2021
transportation
construction
grant
awarded
by
the
massachusetts
gaming
commission
to
be
administered
by
the
transportation
department.
The
grant
will
fund
the
lost
village
project
in
the
charlestown
in
in
the
charlestown
neighborhood
docket
number:
zero.
B
Eight
one
three
message
in
order
authorizing
city
of
boston:
to
accept
an
amount
of
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
the
form
of
a
grant
for
the
2021
transportation
planning
grant
awarded
by
the
massachusetts
gaming
commission
to
be
to
be
the
transpo
transportation
department.
The
grant
will
fund
a
portion
of
the
design
and
cost
under
the
tetra
tech
contract
for
the
sullivan
square,
rutherford
avenue
project
and
docket
number
zero.
B
Eight
one
four
message
and
order
for
your
approval:
an
order
authorizing
the
city
of
boston
conservation
commission
to
receive
a
property
located
at
morrison
street,
unnumbered
in
the
roslindale
neighborhood
of
boston
and
identified
by
the
city
of
boston,
assessing
department,
possible
identification.
Number.
C
C
C
I
Thank
you
very
much
and
again
I
would
like
to
thank
the
sponsors
of
that
matter
yourself
and
councillor
bach.
We
had
a
very,
I
think,
great
conversation
honestly
about
the
what
the
change
would
mean:
the
impact
on
affordable
housing,
and
why,
honestly,
we
as
a
city
need
to
make,
to
a
certain
extent
a
decision
on
how
we're
going
to
and
how
we're
going
to
zone
and
how
we're
going
to
house
people.
I
want
to
thank
the
my
colleagues
who
came
to
that
hearing.
I
I
think
it
was
well
attended,
councillor,
wu
councillor
flynn,
councillor
baker,
council,
brave
and
concert
royale
councilmember,
who
all
came
and
spoke
specifically
about
parking
and
housing.
I
also
want
to
thank
the
many
advocates
who
showed
up
as
well,
who
also
had,
I
think,
great
opinions
and
thoughts
for
now.
I
think
I'd
like
to
keep
the
soding
amendment
in
committee.
While
we
work
on
some
of
the
language
and
making
sure
we're
very
clear
of
the
impacts
and
also
allow
for
more
of
the
public
to
come
and
talk
about
those
impacts
at
10
o'clock.
I
C
B
C
P
Thank
you,
mr
president.
Mr
president,
I'm
glad
to
partner
again
with
council
campbell
on
this
important
hearing,
we've
partnered
on
it.
In
the
past
several
times,
we
recently
had
a
hearing
on
domestic
violence.
We
worked
with
northeastern
university
law
school.
We
had
an
excellent
hearing
city
council
hearing
at
that
site
with
survivors
with
domestic
violence,
educators
and
providers,
and
the
community
as
well.
P
Some
states
such
as
massachusetts,
one
in
two
women,
are
a
victim
of
domestic
violence
or
sexual
assaults,
and
even
men
are
victims.
One
in
four
men
are
a
victim
of
domestic
assaults
as
well.
So
it's
important.
We
continue
this
conversation
to
make
sure
we
let
survivors
know
that
there
are
services
available
to
them,
including
services
in
many
languages,
including
services
that
are
for
immigrant
communities.
P
I
do
some
work
with
the
asian
task
force
against
domestic
violence
and
when
I
met
with
the
director-
and
I
continue
to
meet
with
the
executive
director,
I
always
ask
her
what
her
number
one
challenges
and
she
always
tells
me
it's
language
access,
making
sure
that
someone
that's
a
victim
of
domestic
violence
when
they
come
to
their
facility
to
seek
services
that
they're
able
to
partner
with
them,
so
that
victim
does
have
the
ability
to
communicate
back
and
forth.
That's
their
number.
P
One
challenge
is
language
access,
and
also
myself
and
counselor
campbell
have
also
talked
with
survivors
that
have
difficulty
getting
the
necessary
housing
services
as
well.
So
we're
going
to
hopefully
use
this
opportunity
as
an
as
an
opportunity
to
let
survivors
know
about
services
that
are
available
and
to
continue
to
advocate
for
funding
that
increases
domestic
violence.
P
Services
throughout
our
city
again
want
to
say
thank
you
to
council
campbell.
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
all
of
my
colleagues
and
also
to
the
the
partners
that
we've
communicated
with
in
the
past
and
that
we'll
continue
to
work
with.
I
want
to
say
thank
you
for
their
tremendous
leadership
on
this
very
difficult
issue.
Thank
you,
mr
president,.
C
N
Thank
you,
mr
president,
and
thank
you
councillor
flynn
for
the
continued
partnership
on
this
issue.
I
also
want
to
thank
and
continue
to
thank
northeastern
law
school,
their
domestic
violence
clinic
where
we
held
our
powerful
hearing.
Now
I
guess
a
couple
of
years
ago,
where
they've
been
doing
the
work
in
an
intersectional
way
and
intimately
with
a
whole
range
of
providers.
N
They've
been
a
great
partner
to
both
of
us,
particularly
during
covid,
where
there
has
been
an
uptick
in
cases
where
we
have
a
place
to
go
to
help
folks,
get
resources
and
even
creative
solutions,
if
you're,
obviously
living
with
your
abuser,
it's
difficult
to
report,
they've,
developed
technology
and
all
kinds
of
incredible
tools
in
the
midst
of
covet
for
folks
to
get
help
and
resources.
So
I
want
to
thank
them
and
margot
who
leads
that
institute.
I
also
want
to
thank
all
the
providers
and
we've
held
other
hearings.
N
So
I
want
to
thank
the
providers
for
the
work
they
do.
I
also
want
to
thank
the
providers
not
only
for
the
work
they've
done
in
covid,
but
their
intersectionality
in
lifting
up
the
fact
that
the
cases
with
respect
to
our
lgbtq
plus
community
immigrant
community
are
often
unreported
or
they
just
don't
have
any
data
whatsoever.
N
So
this
hearing
was
designed
to
really
center
the
providers,
but,
most
importantly,
the
survivors
and
in
our
hearing
at
northeastern,
we
were
blessed
to
actually
have
survivors,
come
forward
in
a
public
way
and
share
their
stories
on
the
the
first
panel
to
introduce
the
conversation
and
it
was
powerful
and
we
had
a
range
of
folks
subsequent
to
that
who
identify
as
someone
in
the
lgbtq
plus
community
or
in
other
communities.
Immigrant
communities
also
come
forward
and
share
stories
with
us.
N
So
this
is
an
opportunity
to
have
another
hearing
to
talk
about
how
we
continue
to
invest
in
these
innovative
tools.
How
we
continue
to
do
better
with
respect
to
collection
of
data
transparency
around
data,
how
we
do
better
with
just
coordinating
across
so
many
different
players,
not
only
to
make
sure
folks
have
access
to
resources,
can
easily
report,
but
also
have
access
to
housing,
which
continues
to
be
a
major
concern.
Have
access
to
workforce
development
opportunities,
mental
health
supports?
We
talk
about
homelessness.
N
The
providers
spoke
to
how
domestic
violence
is
a
lead
cause
of
homelessness,
the
intersectionality
of
those
issues.
So
we
learned
a
great
deal
and
there's
still
more
work
to
do,
and
this
is
the
time
to
do
it
so
again,
councilman
flynn.
Thank
you
for
the
partnership.
Thank
you
to
the
providers
who
are
doing
the
work
every
single
day
into
the
survivors
who
push
us
to
center
them
in
this
work,
who
also
push
us
to
acknowledge
the
solutions
we
put
forward
would
be
ineffective
if
they
weren't
at
the
table.
Thank
you.
C
J
I
would
ask
that
we
add
as
a
guest
health
care
for
the
homeless,
as
they
do
a
critical
amount
of
outreach
when
we
think
about
women
and
those
that
are
unfortunately
dealing
with
sexual
assault
and
sexual
violence,
who
are
unfortunately,
also
participating,
often
in
survival
sex
that
they
be
included
for
their
work
and
their
continued
efforts
to
provide
resources
and
support
and
care
for
women
who
are
dealing
with
this
and
who
are
often
also
dealing
with
substance,
use,
disorder
and
homelessness.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
Thank.
C
G
Thank
you,
mr
president.
Please
add
my
name
and
just
want
to
thank
the
lead
sponsors
in
particular
for
adding
the
eighth
and
final,
whereas
and
recognizing
the
work
that
I've
done
in
that
space.
As
a
former
assistant
district
attorney
working
with
my
former
boss
district
attorney,
ralph
martin
led
efforts
in
identifying
a
significant
number
of
underreported.
G
What
they
did
was
trained
assistant
district
attorneys
to
be
able
to
spot
that,
while
they're
in
the
first
session,
when
an
arraignment's
taking
place
as
well
as
training
for
their
victim,
witness
advocates,
as
well
as
their
trauma
response
support,
and
it
led
to
great
efforts
in
terms
of
being
able
to
reach
out
to
those
victims
and
put
hopefully
them
on
a
path
of
of
of
recovery
and,
most
importantly,
safety.
So
thank
you
and
look
forward
to
this
hearing.
C
Thank
you,
madam
clark.
Please
add
counselor
michael
flaherty
is
a
co-sponsor
as
well
any
further
discussion
on
docket
zero,
eight
one
six
would
any
counselors
wish
to
add
their
name.
Madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
baker,
counselor
bach
counselor,
braid
and
counselor
royal
counselor,
edwards,
counselor
mejia,
please
add
the
chair,
counselor
wu
and
docket
0816
will
be
referred
to
the
committee
on
public
health.
B
C
J
Thank
you
again,
mr
president.
This
resolution
is
is
in
support
of
house
bill
2121,
which
would
create
an
assisted
outpatient
treatment
program
for
those
dealing
with
severe
mental
illness.
Connecticut,
maryland
and
massachusetts
are
the
only
three
states
without
an
aot
program.
Aot
essentially
diverts
people
with
severe
mental
illness
out
of
the
criminal
justice
system
and
into
into
treatment
programs
where
they
are
able
to
receive
the
care
they
need
after
implementing
aot
states
with
these
programs
have
seen
a
reduction
in
incidence
and
duration
of
hospitalization
homelessness,
arrests
and
incarcerations,
as
well
as
victimization
and
violent
episodes.
J
C
F
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
have
questions
that
I
think
might
be
best
addressed
by
the
maker.
This
bill
is
put
forward
by
republican
matthew
moratore
regarding
assisted
outpatient
therapy.
As
a
former
public
defender
who
dealt
with
section
12s
and
involuntary
section
12s,
which,
for
folks
who
don't
know
section
35s,
were
brought
up
earlier,
section
12s
are
when
somebody
in
your
family
or
someone
you
know,
is
having
a
mental
breakdown
or
a
mental
emergency.
You
can
involuntarily
get
them
processed
at
a
hospital
and
those
are
heartbreaking
moments
when
you
have
them.
F
However,
this
looks
like
this
goes
a
step
further
and
I
just
want
clarification
as
to
aot
itself,
because
I
know
that
matthew,
moratore
who's,
putting
it
forward
but
in
terms
of
aot
itself,
is
a
as
an
act
of
decriminalization
of
mental
health.
It
seems
to
me
that
this,
what
this
actually
does
is
it
forces
involuntary
treatment,
involuntary
taking
a
medication
and
if
they
refuse
to
take
that
medication
or
to
take
that
treatment
that
they
are
then
involuntarily
held,
whether
it's
at
a
hospital
or
somewhere
else.
C
J
Thank
you
chairman,
and
thank
you
to
the
counselor
for
the
question.
We
look
forward
to
actually
understanding
that
at
a
deeper
level
on
monday.
I
think
it's
so
important
to
note,
though,
how
incredibly
important
it
is
that
we
have
systems
in
place
to
care
for
those
that
are
in
the
greatest
need
and
happy
to
speak
to
that,
as
I
offer
my
public
testimony
on
monday
before
this
hearing.
F
C
I
You
very
much-
and
I
just
wanted
to
thank
council
royale
for
bringing
up
some
of
the
points
of
the
organization,
but
I
also
know
councillor
sabe,
george's
heart
and
dedication
to
mental
health
issues.
So
if
I
may
like
to
note
or
condition
or
note
my
vote,
I
will
support
this
resolution
with
the
understanding
that
my
support
is
not
if
this
bill
is
going
to
enact
as
the
way
council
royale
discussed
it
as
a
means
to
subvert
or
to
lower
due
process
standards
and
or
to
criminalize
mental
health.
I
So
I
agree
with
counselor
sabe
george,
and
if
that
is
the
message
you're
going
to
take
to
the
state
house,
that
is
something
I'm
supporting
you
on,
but
I
do
want
to
know
that
when
I
go
to
support
this
is
because
I
trust
her
heart,
her
knowledge
and
her
dedication
to
this.
But
yes,
bills
well,
they're
like
sausage
and
they
will
be
rectified
and
taken
care
of.
And
I
just
again
thank
you,
council
royal,
for
highlighting
that
concern.
C
J
I
appreciate
colleagues
questions
and
and
thoughts
and
possible
concerns
about
this
bill.
What
I'm
happy
to
do
is
table
this
or
withdraw
it
resubmit
it
next
week,
following
the
hearing
with
a
with
a
more
detailed
update
on
the
bill
as
it's
presented
and
share,
perhaps
an
update
and
announcements
next
week
on
or
through
this
presentation
on
what
transpired
at
the
hearing
on
monday.
C
Fair
enough,
I
will
leave
it
to
the
sponsor.
If
you
do
not
withdraw
it,
we
will
refer
it
to
the
committee
on
public
health.
I
don't
think
there's
a
need
necessarily
for
a
hearing,
but
if
you
feel
comfortable
and
bringing
this
up
to
pull
from
the
green
sheets
next
week,
if
the
sheriff
everyone
seems
that
would
be
my
suggestion.
C
Madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
baker,
counselor
bach
counselor,
braden,
councillor
flynn,
please
add
the
chair's
name
as
well
and
docket0817
will
be
referred
to
the
committee
on
public
health
for
probably
a
likely
vote
or
potential
vote
at
next
wednesday's
council
meeting
for
the
green
sheets.
Moving
on
madam
clerk,
would
you
please
read
doc
at
zero?
Eight
one,
eight.
C
Q
You,
mr
president,
and
thank
you
to
councilmember
for
partnering
on
this.
This
is
just
to
make
sure
that
the
city
council
is
officially
getting
on
record
in
support
of
what
is
already
happening
out
in
the
community.
Thanks
to
the
boston
black
hospitality
coalition.
I
want
to
give
a
special
shout
out
to
some
leaders.
There
are
many
involved,
but
especially
royal
smith,
of
district
seven
nia
grace
from
daryl's
and
farooq
sahabdeen.
C
K
You,
mr
president,
and
thank
you
to
councilor
wu
for
co-sponsoring
this
resolution.
As
a
chair
of
small
business
and
workforce
development
during
covet,
I
have
realized
that
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
do
to
support
our
businesses.
Here
we
found
out
early
in
the
pandemic
that
one
in
five
restaurants
in
massachusetts
was
shut
down
as
a
result
of
covet
19.
K
K
That
number
is
real
rio
now,
as
it
was
in
march
of
2020,
black
restaurants
across
the
city
are
still
struggling
to
reopen,
with
some
facing
devastating
utility
bills,
back
rent
and
other
operating
costs
that
make
opening
backup
nearly
impossible.
We
need
to
offer
support,
not
just
with
our
words
but
with
our
dollars.
K
K
It
was
written
by
robert
roberts,
a
free
black
bostonian
and
a
fierce
abolitionist.
His
work
goes
to
show
that
food
is
not
just
nourishment.
Food
is
liberation,
and
that
is
why
we
need
to
support
our
black
restaurants,
not
just
during
june,
but
every
day,
all
day,
200,
actually
24,
7
365
days
a
year.
We
would
not
be
here
if
it
weren't,
for
the
amazing
advocates
in
the
black
boston
hospitality
coalition,
people
like
near
grace
who
have
pushed
us
to
do
more
for
our
black
businesses.
K
C
Thank
you,
counselor
mejia.
Is
there
any
further
discussion
on
docket
zero?
Eight
one
eight
would
any
counselors
wish
to
add
their
name.
Madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
arroyo,
counselor
baker,
counselor
bach
counselor,
braden,
councillor
campbell,
councillor,
edwards,
counselors,
ivy,
george
council
of
flaherty
councillor
flynn,
please
add
the
chair's
name
as
well,
and
counselors
woo
and
mejia
seek
suspension
of
the
rules
and
adoption
of
docket
zero.
Eight
one,
eight,
all
those
in
favor,
please
indicate
by
saying
aye,
I
oppose
nay
the
eyes.
Have
it
congratulations.
C
The
docket
is
adopted
now
moving
on
to
late
files,
I'm
informed
by
the
clerk
that
we
have
two
late
file
matters.
They
are
two
resolutions
sponsored
by
councillor
edwards,
all
those
in
favor
of
adding
the
late
file
matters
into
to
the
agenda.
Please
indicate
by
saying
I
I
opposed
the
eyes
have
it
they
are
hereby
added.
Madam
clerk,
would
you
please
read
the
first
and
last
paragraph
of
the
first
late
file
matter
into
the
record.
B
Therefore,
be
it
results
of
the
boston
city
council.
Go
on
reckon
in
support
of
house
bill,
2201
a
petition
relative
to
the
zoning
board
of
appeals
to
further
and
sound
administrating
zoning
administration
of
zoning
and
to
protect
the
general
welfare
of
the
public
and
public
good
filed
on
june
23.
2021.
C
I
L
I
I
I
just
the
reason
why
this
was,
I
felt
necessary
that
we
do
this
today
is
because
yesterday
was
the
hearing
in
the
state
house
about
our
homeworld
petition.
We
passed
this
unanimously
and
it
came
from
our
body.
It
was
part
of
a
compromise
of
a
back
and
forth
to
hold
the
zba
accountable.
I
don't
know
a
counselor
in
here
district
or
at
large,
who
hasn't
had
someone
scream
at
them
about
what
the
heck
just
happened
at
the
zba.
I
Why
did
that
just
happen?
They
didn't
listen
to
me
as
of
late.
They
didn't.
Let
me
talk,
they
didn't
even
hear
from
me.
They
said
if
I
say
what
someone
says
in
front
of
me.
I
can't
even
speak.
Let
alone
before
that.
We
have.
There
seems
to
be
an
understanding
that
they're
going
to
get
a
variance
and
a
developer
can
walk
up
there
and
say:
well,
I
don't
meet
the
profit
margins,
so
I
need
to
make
it
bigger.
I
The
standards
for
variance
have
nothing
to
do
with
your
profit
or
your
bottom
line,
and
so
last
year,
in
a
back
and
forth
with
the
walsh
administration,
we
came
up
with
compromise
legislation
in
part,
a
home
repetition
for
legal
things
that
we
could
not
do
in
the
other
part,
which
was
an
executive
order,
things
we
wanted
to
do
would
have
to
go
to
the
state
house
and
I'll
just
say
this
again.
Unlike
other
cities,
we
have
to
go
to
the
state
house
for
our
zoning
reform.
I
We
would
be,
we
would
be
putting
an
environmentalist
and
an
urban
planner
on
the
zba.
We
have
to
go
to
the
state
house
for
that
setting
term
limits
for
the
board
mem
for
the
board
members
requiring
members
to
recuse
themselves
from
projects
they've
been
involved
with
in
the
last
five
years,
requiring
quarterly
reports
on
variances
and
conditional
use
permits.
I
I
personally
testified
yesterday
at
the
hearing
and
I
would
love
for
it
to
go
further.
I
think
that
we
should
also
consider
removing
that
was
taken
out,
but
removing
real
estate
interest
from
the
zba
that
can
be
put
back
in.
I
think
we
should
also
seriously
consider
lowering
the
term
limits,
which
we
compromise,
that
three
to
two
three-year
terms,
but
most
importantly,
I
know
that
that
body
at
the
state
house
is
going
to
look
to
what
this
body
thinks
about
a
humble.
Yes,
we
now
initially
passed
it,
but
that
was
a
year
ago.
I
So
I'm
hoping
you
guys
support
this
resolution,
saying
we
still
stand
by
what
we
did
and
I'd
love
to
be
able
to,
by
the
end
of
this
week,
send
our
hopefully
unanimously
class
resolution
up
to
the
state
house
saying
all
of
us
still
stand
there
and
also
to
our
brothers
and
sisters
in
the
boston
delegation.
That
is
the
goal,
and
I
hope
you
will
stand
with
me.
Thank
you.
C
G
Thank
you,
madam
president,
was
that
lydia
laid
five
with
a
y,
very
good.
So
please
add
my
name,
mr
president,
and
and
kudos
to
our
colleague
for
staying
on
top
of
this.
One
of
the
things
that
obviously
continues
to
to
bother
me
with
the
process
is
that
when
someone
gets
a
deferral,
the
proponents
are
not
required
to
sort
of
re-notice
the
director
butters,
and
so
you
have
sort
of
this
little
cat
mouse
game.
G
Seeing
one
concert
front
and
eyes
district,
where
it's
a
you
see
it
with
multiple
deferrals
and
then
they
wait
for
people
to
be
kind
of
caught
off
guard,
maybe
away
for
the
summer
etc,
and
then
the
next
thing
you
know
it
seems
like
it's
fast
tracked
and
folks
feel
that
the
cake
is
baked
and
the
fix
is
in
it.
Just
it
has
a
bad
sort
of
a
smell
and
taste
and
tone
to
it.
G
The
fiery
is
happening,
so
that
said,
obviously
making
sure
that
we're
paying
close
attention
to
the
activities
up
there
and
making
sure
that,
whether
the
requirements
that
we're
requiring
for
their
for
the
for
the
process
in
terms
of
the
individual
members
and
the
skill
set
that
they
bring
to
be
recognizing
that
it's
you
know
it's
a
sort
of
a
volunteer
process,
we're
asking
a
lot
of
them
they're,
giving
up
time
to
participate
in
the
process.
Clearly,
we
need
that
acumen,
particularly
also
from
the
community
seat
perspective.
C
M
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
Let
me
first
sign
on,
and
I
also
want
to
just
throw
something
out
there.
Maybe
if,
if
we
made
board
members
actual
city
workers,
whether
they're,
part-time
or
full-time,
it
would
allow
them
to
spend
more
time
with
the
projects
that
are
in
front
of
them.
I
I
for
the
life
of
me,
trying
to
figure
out
how
someone
sitting
on
a
board
can
take
a
plans
for
a
50
story,
or
even
even
just
a
small
addition.
M
How
in
depth,
can
you
get
into
those
and
how
much
of
the
understanding
is
there?
So
that's
something
I
think
we
should
be
talking
about
is:
should
those
people
be
actually
full-time
employees,
so
they
get
to
spend
more
time
with
the
plans
and
with
how
the
process
went.
So
just
a
thought
and
again
sign
my
name
on.
Thank
you
and
thank
the
maker
for
bringing
this
up
again.
C
P
P
You
know.
Sometimes
they
have
to
jump
on
the
bus
at
ellen
broadway.
They
have
to
take
the
bus
to
broadway
station,
they
have
to
get
off
at
broadway
station.
If
they
go
to
park
street
to
spend
an
hour
at
city
hall
to
find
out
it's
deferred,
then
they
have
to
go
back.
You
have
to
take
the
train
back
and
then
take
the
bus
back.
So
my
point
is,
residents
are
frustrated
about
it
and
they
want
some
transparency
in
how
this
process
works.
Thank
you,
mr
president,
thank.
C
You
councillor
flynn,
madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
ed
flynn
is
a
co-sponsor
any
further
discussion
on
this.
Seeing
no
takers
would
any
counselors
wish
to
add
their
name.
Madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
arroyo,
counselor
bach
counselor,
brayden,
councillor
campbell,
counselors,
ivy,
george
councillor
mejia,
please
add
the
chair,
counselor
wu
as
well,
and
the
author,
counselor
edwards,
seeks
suspension
of
the
rules
and
adoption
of
the
first
late
file
resolution,
which
of
course,
is
the
resolution
support
of
h.2201
petition
relative
to
the
zoning
board
of
appeals.
C
B
Support
house
bill
3863
because
using
updated
census,
data
to
craft
state
and
federal
districts,
rather
than
already
already
drawn
local
precincts,
will
allow
for
more
equal
political
boundaries
that
keep
ethnic
and
racial
communities
together
and
therefore
be
it
resolved
that
the
boston
city
council
go
on
record
in
support
of
house
bill.
3863
and
act
relative
to
representing,
because
adjusting
the
timeline
for
representing
is
a
prudent
and
responsive
act
of
governance
in
response
to
coven
19
pandemic
that
we
will
only
apply
to
the
current
decennial
redistricting
process.
C
I
Thank
you-
and
this
is
another
bill
pending
at
the
state
house,
that
is
moving
actually
quite
favorably,
and
it's
really
trying
to
make
sure
that
our
process
for
redistricting
doesn't
get
ahead
or
doesn't
ignore
the
practical
realities
of
our
ability
to
collect
data
and
actually
reflect
districts
that
are
diverse
and
inclusive,
which
we
do
have
a
lot
of.
It's
also
to
make
sure
that
we
have
representatives
from
those
diverse,
inclusive
districts.
I
This
is
asking
for
an
extended
deadline
to
december
15th
to
allow
for
additional
data
to
come
in
from
the
census
to
make
sure
we
meet
the
deadline,
but
also
are
inclusive,
so
we're
changing
the
deadline.
I
understand
that
the
secretary
of
state
either
opposes
this,
or
has
some
questions
about
this,
but
that
so
far
is
the
only
real
opposition.
I
have
heard
about
this
again.
I
There
are
a
lot
of
friends
and
colleagues
who
supported
our
inclusive
democracy
and
local
levels,
local
efforts
here
who
are
also
supportive
of
this,
as
mentioned
in
the
resolution,
aclu
common
cause
and
drawing
democracy
coalition,
which
includes
I,
I
don't
even
have
a
list
of
how
many
people
around
the
state.
So
again,
this
would,
and
it's
also
finite.
It
is
not
for
forever
change.
This
is
really
just
trying
to
get
to
a
specific
time
and
it
would
only
apply
to
the
current
decennial
redistricting
process.
I
C
F
Thank
you
miss
chair.
As
the
chair
of
redistricting.
I
support
this.
I
we've
been
dealing
with
the
budget.
Some
folks
here
may
have
noticed
today,
but
july
september
october
november.
This
is
really
the
next
big
thing
we're
going
to
be
dealing
with
is
redistricting
and
doing
that
equitably,
and
I
think,
there's
folks
in
this
room.
I
think
everybody
in
this
room
has
had
some
significant
changes
to
their
neighborhoods
and
their
precincts
since
2009-2010.
F
I
know.
Certainly
the
population
explosion
in
south
boston
is
not
reflected
in
these
most
recent
precincts
and
the
ways
in
which
we
do
things,
and
certainly
not
the
diversity
in
the
ways
in
which
the
city
has
changed,
and
so
waiting
for
those
numbers
making
sure
that
we
have
the
dates
to
actually
use
the
real
data.
The
real
numbers
that
we
have
is
not
only
appropriate,
but
because
this
is
a
process
that
takes
10
years
before
we
get
to
do
it
again.
It's
really
important.
F
We
get
it
right,
the
first
time
and
without
those
those
numbers,
I
don't
think
we're
doing
an
adequate
job
of
that.
So
I
support
this.
I
support
the
bill
and
I
look
forward
to
engaging
with
everybody
here,
moving
forward
until
july
august
september
october,
about
what
redistricting
looks
like
in
the
city
of
boston.
So
thank
you.
C
D
Thank
you,
mr
president.
Please
add
my
name.
I'd
like
to
go
on
record
in
support.
I
you
know.
Ordinarily,
the
cities
and
towns
present
the
precincts
first
and
but
ordinarily,
the
rest
of
the
cities
and
towns
have
to
actually
draw
those
to
be
equal.
Boston
has
an
80,
maybe
going
on
a
90-year
exemption
from
that
which
has
resulted
in
a
situation
where
you
know,
as
has
been
covered
in
the
press
lately,
but
I
know
which
many
of
us
have
dealt
with
firsthand
for
a
long
time.
D
You
can
have
a
precinct
like
the
one
in
councillor,
bakers
with
one
voter,
and
then
you
can
have
precincts
I'll.
Let
counselor
flynn
speak
to
them.
He
has
probably
the
most
intensive
here,
but
precincts
were
really
there.
Just
isn't
enough
facilities
for
the
number
of
people
who
are
trying
to
vote
and
it's
heartbreaking.
D
When
you
see
somebody
leave
a
line
in
a
presidential
election,
I
mean
it's
just
wrong
and
what
I'm
encouraged
by
in
this
case
is
that
actually,
the
fact
that
we're
pushing
the
deadline
for
the
precincts
gives
us
boston
a
chance
to
actually
seriously
talk
about
re-precincting,
because
generally
what's
happened,
is
we
hit
this
deadline?
That
would
be
coming,
and
we
just
say:
oh
yeah
leave
all
the
precincts
the
same,
because
we
don't
have
to
change
them.
Unlike
everybody
else,
and
it's
understandable,
you
know
we
have
long-term
community
familiarity
with
certain
polling
places.
D
D
I
to
council
arroyo's
point
spent
some
time
in
may
with
spreadsheets
trying
to
think
about
which
precincts
you
have
to
change,
to
make
it
more
fair
before
realizing
that
I
couldn't
do
that
during
budget.
But
I
do
think
that,
like,
if
we've
been
talking
about
it
for
a
long
time
and
other
counselors
on
this
body
have
led
on
it.
D
When
I
was
the
chair
of
the
ward
5
democrats
before
this
role,
we
repeatedly
pushed
in
ward
5
for
reform
on
this,
because
ward
5
precinct
1
is
one
of
the
largest
ones
in
the
city
and
repeatedly
sees
lines.
So
I'm
I'm
in
favor
of
this,
and
I
think
it
gives
us
the
opportunity
to
solve
some
problems
in
our
own
house
in
the
year
ahead.
So
thank
you,
mr
chair.
C
P
You,
mr
president,
please
please
add
my
name.
Mr
president,
I
just
wanted
to
highlight
the
the
important
role
of
representing
redistricting,
but
even
last
year
and
the
year
before
the
important
work,
so
many
residents
did
and
our
colleagues
did
on
the
census.
That
was
a
critical
part
of
it
and
during
this
pandemic,
a
lot
of
civic
organizations,
neighborhood
organizations,
human
rights
organizations
such
as
chinese,
progressive
association
or
the
castle
square
tenants
organization.
P
They
did
a
lot
a
lot
of
tremendous
work
across
the
city
in
actually
having
people
counted.
So
I
want
to
highlight
the
incredible
work
of
so
many
people
in
organizations
throughout
the
city
of
boston
and
the
mayor,
walsh's
team,
as
well
in
my
colleagues
in
government,
but
that
was
an
important
part
of
the
representing
that
we're
going
to
be
doing
now,
but
hats
off
to
all
the
community
activists
across
the
city.
Thank
you,
mr
president.
C
M
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
Thank
you.
Matt
of
putting
this
forth
re-precincting
is
a
heavy
heavy
lift,
and
I
don't
know
if
we
are
going
to
be
able
to
get
it
all
done
in
time
to
have
the
lines
in
september
and
november
shorter
than
what
you
know.
So
my
question
is
maybe
here
does
this
discussion
include
subpressing
sub
precincting,
where
we
can
just
split
precincts
and
allow
two
separate
voting
locations?
M
It's
a
little
bit
more
simple
where
we
could
talk
to
it
this
year
and
and
have
the
lines
be
less
and
some
sort
of
throw
wrench
in
this
works
here,
mr
mr
chair,
but
just
a
thought.
I
know
we
always
get
back
to
representing
sub-precinct
in,
but
I
do
want
to
sign
on
to
this
and
support
this.
Thank
you.
Can.
C
I
Brief
response,
it
doesn't
go
that
granular.
As
you
recall,
we
had
a
good
conversation
with
sabino,
pallante
and
anaya
tavares,
specifically
about
the
sub
precincts
and
what
they
were
looking
at,
and
that
was
at
the
city
level.
But
that
follows
this
conversation
and
that
conversation
can
really
only
happen
as
we're
all
saying
until
we
get
the
real
data.
M
C
Fair
point:
thank
you.
Any
further
discussion
on
this
second
lay
file
matter.
Seeing
none
would
any
counselors
who
haven't
already
added
their
name
wish
to
do
so.
Madam
clerk,
please
add
counselor
braden
councillor
campbell,
counselor,
sybi
george
councillor
mejia
councillor
wu.
Please
add
the
chair's
name
as
well.
Excuse
me,
I'm
sorry.
The
chair
recognizes
the
at-large
costs
from
south
boston.
Councilor
florida.
Is
that
my
name?
C
All
those
in
favor,
please
indicate
by
saying
aye
aye
opposed,
nay
the
eyes
have
it.
The
second
light
file
matter
has
been
adopted.
Thank
you,
councillor,
edwards,
congratulations.
Anybody
wishing
to
remove
a
matter
from
the
green
sheets
may
do
so
at
this
time.
Seeing
no
takers.
Thankfully
we
are
now
moving
on
to
the
consent
agenda.
I've
been
informed
by
the
clerk
that
there
are
zero
additions
to
the
consent
agenda.
Well
done.
The
chair
moves
for
adoption
of
the
consent
agenda
as
presented
all
those
in
favor.
Please
indicate
by
saying
aye
aye
opposed,
nay.
C
J
Thank
you,
mr
president,
very
much
for
two
brief
announcements.
I
wanted
to
take
a
quick
moment
to
let
you
all
know
that
through
that
consent
agenda,
we
filed
a
resolution
recognizing
friday
as
the
10th
annual
world
vitiligo
awareness
day
this
day
seeks
to
raise
awareness
of
this
autoimmune
disorder
that
imp
impacts
approximately
70
million
people
around
the
world,
including
members
of
my
own
family.
J
While
this
only
the
only
physical
symptom
of
vitiligo
is
loss
of
skin
pigmentation,
the
emotional
and
psychological
impact
is
great,
due
to
others
lack
of
awareness
and
prejudice
in
boston.
We
are
very
lucky
to
have
the
ligo
care
clinics
at
the
brigham
at
umass
medical
school
and
at
tufts,
as
well
as
a
very
engaged
local
community.
I
hope
that
this
world
vitiligo
day
continues
to
raise
awareness
of
the
condition
and
to
celebrate
those
who
live
with
this
autoimmune
disorder.
J
I
also
want
to
note
that
on
december
31st
governor
baker
signed
into
law
the
massachusetts
police
reform
bill.
This
bill
was
far-reaching,
had
far-reaching
referral
reforms
that
go
into
effect
next
week.
This
has
caused
some
uncertainty
with
specialized
police
officers
like
our
school
police
officers,
bha
housing
officers,
constables,
private
security,
environmental
police
officers
and
more
statewide.
There
are
specific
about
2500
specialty
police
officers
and
approximately
400
in
the
city
of
boston.
While
many
of
these
reforms
are
long
overdue,
the
officers
themselves
need
clarity
about
the
next
steps
for
compliance.
J
C
I
I
I
am,
I
have
to
make
this
announcement
because
I
just
you
have
been
there
gabriella
through
my
divorce
you're
losing
my
partner
and
you
were
there
even
when
your
mother
was
in
a
coma
due
to
covet
and
it's
I
love
you
so
much.
I
love
you
enough
to
let
you
go
because
I
want
you
to
be
more
than
I
can
ever
think
of,
and
it
was
the
hardest
phone
call
to
have
when
the
aquarium
called
and
said
we'd.
I
Like
a
reference
for
her,
and
I
said,
you're
not
going
to
pay
her
enough
is
so
we
begin
to
negotiate
how
much
more
they're
gonna
have
to
pay
her.
In
order
for
me
to
feel
comfortable,
oh
yeah,
that's
what
I,
when
I
ride
or
die
for
somebody.
I
was
like
if
you're
taking
her
you're,
taking
her
for
no
less
than
and
you're
gonna
give
her
this
and
you
better.
You
better
recognize
the
value
you
have
in
her
and
you
better
treat
her
right.
N
I
F
C
You
here,
but
I
hope
to
be
able
to
campaign
for
you
someday
in
the
not
too
distant
future,
any
further
announcements
seeing
hearing
none
we're
now
moving
on
to
memorials
today,
we
will
adjourn
our
meeting
memory
of
the
following
individuals
for
counselors
flynn,
flaherty
and
baker,
joseph
fisher
for
councillors,
assaibi
george
and
baker,
charles
chuck,
o'donnell,
a
moment
of
silence.
Please.