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Description
Dockets #0524-0526
Orders for the FY22 Operating Budget, including annual appropriations for departmental operations, for the School Department, and for other post-employment benefits (OPEB).
Dockets #0527-0528
Orders for capital fund transfer appropriations.
Dockets #0529-0531
Orders for the Capital Budget, including loan orders and lease-purchase agreements.
A
A
This
budget
review
process
encompasses
about
35
working
sessions
and
hearings.
We
are
about
halfway
through
at
the
moment
and
in
this
process.
Yes,
the
council,
scrutinizes
all
kinds
of
departments
ask
questions
and
it's
an
opportunity
for
the
public
as
well
to
testify,
and
so,
if
you're
interested
in
testifying,
encourage
you
to
go
to
boston
council
dash
budget,
where
you
can
find
the
whole
schedule
and
if
you
go
to
boston.com
budget,
testify
that'll
explain
how
to
testify.
A
That's
cccc.wm,
boston.gov,
there's
also
a
way
on
the
site
to
upload
a
video
of
yourself,
so
we
can
actually
attach
that
to
the
recording
of
the
relevant
the
relevant
hearing,
and
then
we
have
two
remaining
hearings
that
are
going
to
be
dedicated
purely
to
public
testimony.
So
there's
one
on
may
25th
at
6
p.m,
focused
on
this
bps
budget
and
one
on
june
3rd
at
6
p.m,
about
any
aspect
of
the
budget.
So
we
do
hope,
you'll
come
along
and
testify
or
tweet
us
your
questions,
informally
using
the
hashtag
bossbudget,
that's
bos
budget.
A
Today's
hearing
is
on
docket
zero,
five,
two
four
to
zero:
five:
two:
six
orders
for
the
fy
22
operating
budget,
including
annual
appropriations
for
departmental
operations
for
the
school
department
and
for
other
post-employment
benefits,
dockets
zero,
five
dockets0527-0528
orders
for
capital
fund
transfer
appropriations
and
dock
at
0-529-0531
orders
for
the
capital
budget,
including
loan
orders
and
lease
purchase
agreements,
and
that
that's
the
whole
sum
of
budget
orders
that
are
before
the
council.
But
the
actual
focus
of
this
hearing
today
will
be
a
bunch
of
our
smaller
but
mighty
departments.
A
A
So
you
know,
I
think
these
are
all
departments
that
punch
above
their
weight
that
have
been
very
central
in
the
pandemic
crisis
and
ones
where
the
council
as
a
whole
is
pretty
interested
in
kind
of
the
expansion
of
overall
service
and
missions,
and
so
they're
all
small
enough
that
they
don't
generally
get
a
budget
hearing
before
us.
And
so
we
wanted.
A
So
that
is
kind
of
the
theory
behind
today's
hearing
and
we're
joined
by
personnel
from
a
number
of
the
of
the
department
so
we're
joined
by,
and
I
will
be
going
first
to
selena,
barrios
milner,
our
chief
of
equity
and
inclusion,
who
has
several
of
these
departments
under
her
remit
and
then
we're
also
joined
by
catalina
lopez.
Ospina.
A
The
director
of
the
office
of
food
access
by
jennifer,
vivar,
wong
who's,
the
interim
director
of
the
language
and
communications
access
office.
Yusuf
ivali,
the
director
of
our
office
of
immigrant
advancement,
evandro,
carvalho,
the
executive
director
of
the
human
rights
commission
and
emily
shea.
Our
age
strong
commissioner,
along
with
francis
thomas,
the
deputy
commissioner
from
her
team.
So
we're
grateful
for
all
of
them.
A
B
Well,
I
just
want
to
thank
you
all
for
for
having
us
here
today
having
the
departments
of
the
equity
cabinet
here
and
for
your
continued
partnership
in
supporting
all
of
boston's
residents
and
ensuring
that
we
not
only
recover
and
go
back
to
where
we
were
pre-pandemic,
but
that
we
we
come
back
better
and
stronger
and
in
the
departments
that
you
see
here
from
immigrant
advancement,
language
and
communications
access
and
the
human
rights
commission.
Those
are
from
the
equity
cabinet.
B
I'm
a
big
fan
of
all
the
departments
here
and
work
in
close
partnership
with
all
of
them.
But
these
departments
are
crucial
to
making
sure
that
boston
residents
have
access
to
information
and
resources
and
prosperity
as
we
move
forward.
So
just
thank
you
for
for
having
us
here
today
and
for
your
continued
partnership.
A
C
Good
morning,
everyone
thank
you
to
counterpart
for
having
me
here
and
of
the
city
council.
My
name
is
catalina
lopez
ospina,
I'm
the
director
of
the
mayor
office
of
food
access,
the
mission
of
the
mayor
official
food
access
is
to
improve
equitable
access,
nutritional
food
with
respect
to
affordability,
physical
accessibility
and
cultural
relevance
for
the
last
for
the
past
30
months.
We
have
done
everything
in
our
course
to
fulfill
this
mission.
In
the
first
week
with
the
first
24
hours,
the
bpa
is
closed.
C
C
We
serve
all
the
referrals
that
came
through
our
office
to
the
other
departments,
city
councillors,
partners.
Three
one
one
line
by
the
end
of
april.
We
have
a
citywide
food
distribution
system
in
place
so
that,
if
everyone
called
to
our
office
311
edgestrong,
we
we
will
providing
food
to
them
in
40,
48
hours
or
sooner.
If
they
need
it.
We
set
up
a
test
message
system
where
people
could
let
us
know
if
they
need
additional
food
and
we
deliver
to
them.
C
In
april,
we
activate
the
adult
meal
sites,
door-to-door
delivery
for
all
the
adult
populations,
people
with
chronic
disease
and
those
infected
with
covenanting.
We
also
coordinate
the
distribution
of
the
food
provided
by
the
state
and
the
federal
government
by
the
early
summer.
We
provide
technical
assistance
and
funding
to
farmers
market
organizations,
so
they
could
safely
operate
the
farmers
market.
In
additional,
we
coordinate
food
distribution
network
with
organizations
that
direct
serve
the
immigrant
community
across
the
city.
We
provide
enough
food
to
serve
approximately
9
000
households.
Each
week
we
are
currently
providing.
C
We
are
currently
serving
approximately
3
000
seniors
with
food
distribution
on
door-to-door.
In
addition,
we
provide
food
deliveries
to
all
coordinating
individuals
to
come
to
our
office
through
hospitals,
health,
centers,
social
workers,
school
principals
or
their
call
to
the
city.
We
are
working
with
14
non-profit
organizations
that
mainly
serve
the
immigrant
population,
providing
fresh,
healthy
and
cultural
relevant
food
food
that
is
obtained
through
14
minority
owned
businesses
in
the
city
of
boston.
C
We
are
coordinating
the
federal
food
boxes
in
diseases
in
the
boston
that
we
currently
are
getting
around
fifteen
thousand
boxes
a
week
in
additional.
We
are
investing
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
farm
market
coupons.
With
this
initiative,
we
allow
all
boston
residents
to
participate
in
the
farmers
market,
buy
fruit
and
vegetables,
eggs,
dairy
baked
goods,
things
that
are
not
covered
through
the
heap
program
or
a
snack.
But
this
this
program
or
this
coupon
initiative,
is
not
tied
to
a
snap.
So
everyone
is
eligible
to
use
the
coupons.
C
Our
response
to
this
emergency
has
evolved,
as
the
need
has
changed
at
the
beginning
of
the
public
health
crisis.
Our
priority
was
provide
food
to
make
sure
that
no
one
went
to
bed
hungry.
We
support
the
food
pantries
in
the
city
by
making
sure
they
have
the
food
and
the
ability
to
keep
their
doors
open
for
the
people
that
needed
these
services,
and
even
more
than
before,
I
will
respond
to
as
we
responded
to
the
emergency.
C
C
C
C
I
am
very
proud
of
the
city
works
for
this
response
to
respond
to
this
crisis
and
I'm
even
more
proud
of
my
team.
Their
dedication,
compassion,
love,
resilience,
endurance
that
they're
showing
and
they
keep
showing
every
day
our
work.
Now
that
we
are
looking
to
recover
to
an
equity
record,
we
want
to
continue
removing
barriers
for
people
to
access
the
food
they
need
they
want
and
they
satisfy
the
cultural
preference.
We
want
to
strain
it
at
full
access
point
that
offer
cultural,
appropriate,
free,
healthy
and
affordable
food.
C
We
want
to
connect
people
with
sustainable
resources
that,
in
addition
to
food,
provide
relief
and
tranquility
during
these
difficult
times,
we
will
empower
and
support
communities
that
know
better
than
us.
What
are
the
solutions
for
these
challenges
that
are
facing
the
fiscal
year?
2022
budget
will
allow
us
to
begin,
build
a
better
system
to
empower
and
give
choices
to
support
businesses
that
are
access.
Point
of
food
for
people
that
they
need
and
want.
C
This
new
budget
include
funding
for
boston,
double
up
program
that
we
currently
have
14
stores
in
marapan,
jamaica,
plain
rose,
perry,
the
chestnut
and
east
boston.
We
also
work
to
de-estimate
size,
safety,
net
programs
and
food
and
emergency
programs.
We
want
to
provide
accurate
information,
change,
the
way
that
we
all
speak
and
perceive
these
programs,
so
everyone
who
needs
them
feel
empowered
to
use
them
without
any
shame.
C
A
Great,
thank
you
so
much
catalina
like
I
said
I
think
we'll
we'll
run
we'll
run
to
each
of
these
and
then
do
questions
just
because
I
think
otherwise
we'll
run
long
and
also.
I
know
that
counselors
have
interrelated
questions
as,
as
you
mentioned,
catalina.
There
was
a
lot
of
collaboration,
for
instance
between
age,
strong
and
food
and
such
so
so
in
my
order
I'll
go
next.
I
think
it's
sorry
just
pulling
this
up
yeah
to
language
access
jennifer,
if
you're,
if
you're
ready.
D
D
We
work
closely
with
city
departments
and
their
lc
liaison
to
ensure
services
and
information
is
accessible.
We
also
create
and
host
trainings
and
provide
city
departments
with
resources,
including
funding
to
provide
lca
accommodations
and
we
engage
with
community-based
organizations
to
inform
them
of
the
lca
services
available
to
them
and
their
members
and
hear
their
concerns
and
feedback
around
language
and
communications
access
within
the
city
in
fiscal
year.
21.
D
The
copa
19
pandemic
highlighted
the
importance
of
language
and
disability
access,
and
the
city
acted
quickly
to
ensure
resources
and
information
and
services
were
available
and
accessible
to
all.
During
this
time,
our
office
focused
on
three
main
areas:
cover
19
response,
engagement
and
outreach,
and
our
internal
facing
work
cover
19
responses.
D
In
partnership
with
h,
strong,
do
it
and
press
and
many
other
departments.
We
are
also
able
to
provide
funding
and
support
the
coordination
of
robocalls
with
important
covet.
19
information
in
the
top
10
languages,
with
the
use
of
three
community
based
vendors
and
multilingual
staff.
These
were
sent
to
older
adults
across
the
city
via
telephone
and
are
also
available
online
in
partnership
with
moya
and
disability
commission,
as
well
as
h,
strong.
D
In
addition
to
that,
we
also
worked.
We
supported
health
and
human
services,
cabinet
and
transiting
cover
19
outreach
flyers
for
testing
centers,
as
well
as
providing
access
to
the
city's
language
line
for
over
the
phone
interpretation
and
our
vri
service
for
the
centers
for
virtual
asl
interpretation
under
engagement
and
outreach.
D
Our
office
really
wanted
to
begin
building
intentional
relationships
with
community-based
organizations,
and
we
were
able
to
host
one-on-one
meetings
which
are
ongoing
with
our
goal
of
not
only
creating
relationships
and
trust
between
our
office
and
their
organizations,
but
ultimately
their
members
as
well,
and
we
were
able
to
provide
them
with
information
about
our
office
lca
resources.
We
also
heard
feedback
and
concerns
while
connecting
around
language
access
within
the
city
or
disability
access
and
we're
able
to
connect
them
to
existing
resources
in
the
city.
D
During
our
internal
facing
work,
we
were
able
to
create
a
partnership
with
the
university
of
massachusetts,
boston,
which
our
office
was
then
joined
by
four
and
new
interns
who
are
actively
supporting
our
office's
work.
Around
engagement
community
outreach,
as
well
as
helping
our
internal
work
with
training,
finance
and
data
collection.
D
In
trainings,
we
were
able
to
transform
two
of
our
trainings
into
online
virtual
trainings
that
can
be
completed
at
any
time
by
staff.
We
also
created
a
series
of
virtual
how-to
trainings,
which
focus
on
simple
steps
to
acquire
lca
accommodations
such
as
interpretation,
translation,
asl,
interpretation,
cart,
services
and
much
more,
and
we
additionally
created
resources
to
help
departments
and
support
the
city's
efforts
of
making
program,
services
and
information
accessible.
D
Lastly,
we
engage
practically
with
lca
liaisons
hosting
monthly
meetings,
as
well
as
one-on-one
meetings
as
needed
to
share
not
only
new
resources
and
information
with
departments,
but
also
to
provide
support
as
needed
to
any
existing
projects
within
a
department
in
the
upcoming
years.
Lca
will
continue
working
with
city
departments
such
as
moya
and
the
disability
commission
to
create
additional
trainings
and
resources
for
the
city
employees
and
continue
working
alongside
departments
and
their
lca
liaisons
to
ensure
that
we
are
creating
an
accessible
city
for
all
estonians.
D
E
The
last
year
has
been
very
hard
for
a
number
of
our
immigrant
communities,
particularly
our
working
class
immigrant
residents
and
as
hard
as
as
that
has
been
I've
been
so
proud
of.
So
many
of
our
partners
on
this
call,
as
well
as
our
team
in
getting
us
through
this
crisis,
and
we
have
certainly
a
lot
more
work
to
continue
doing
just
as
the
crisis
unfolded.
E
You
know
my
office,
my
team
worked
to
help
establish
the
massachusetts
massachusetts,
immigrant
collaborative
working
with
casey
brock,
wilson
of
the
boston
resiliency
fund.
We
we
were
able
to
put
in
money
in
this
collaborative
and
then
help
them
raise
over
four
million
dollars
that
went
directly
into
the
hands
for
basic
needs.
Assistance
of
our
most
vulnerable
immigrant
residents,
we
then
work
to
organize
a
number
of
bi-weekly
webinars
to
connect
our
cbo's,
who
are
connected
to
our
immigrant
residents
to
a
number
of
different
resources
at
these
webinars.
E
We
have
folks
from
these
departments,
but
also
state
government
and
federal
government,
come
to
present
any
resources
that
our
immigrant
residents
can
can
make
use
of.
We've
we've
advised
on
the
rental
relief
fund
and
ensuring
that
that
piece
is
accessible
to
our
immigrant
residents.
We
worked
with
our
amazing
ofa
director
catalina
on
the
immigrant
serving
food
work
and,
more
recently,
we've
been
working
on
vaccination
webinars
in
multiple
languages,
as
well
as
working
with
hhs
to
establish
pop-up
sites.
E
We've
done
that
work
of
responding
to
the
crisis
and,
at
the
same
time,
holding
to
our
strategic
plan.
So,
in
the
midst
of
this
crisis,
we
were
able
to
launch
immigrants
lead
boston,
which
was
our
civic
integration
program
for
where
we
we
are
now
really
touching
communities
and
residents
from
communities
that
did
not
have
much
access
to
city
government.
We
put
18
folks
through
this
program
on
how
the
city
works,
how
the
budget
works
and
are
delighted
that
there's
going
to
be
additional
investment
in
this
program.
E
So
we
have
continued
working
on
our
strategic
plan
and
now,
as
we
head,
you
know
into
the
future
while
we're
continuing
to
focus
on
our
short-term
needs.
The
department
and
my
team
is
really
looking
at
the
long-term
equitable
recovery,
and
how
do
we
really
help
residents,
particularly
build
wealth
and
a
life
for
them
and
their
families
in
boston?
E
E
E
So
we
will
continue
looking
at
again
the
long
term,
and
how
can
we
continue
building
wealth
and
wages
for
our
immigrant
residents
as
we
come
out
of,
hopefully,
this
crisis.
The
other
piece
I
do
want
to
mention
is
that
legal
services
is
going
to
be
another
big
focus
area
for
us,
while
because
of
the
change
in
the
presidential
administration,
many
immigrants
in
boston
are
hopeful
instead
of
fearful
and
we've
certainly
seen
an
increase
in
calls
for
our
legal
services
and
and
really
excited
that.
E
Not
only
do
we
have
this
constituent
services
coordinator
on
board
to
help
on
this
piece
and
and
be
for
our
immigration
clinics,
but
also
we
are
putting
100k
into
the
greater
boston
immigrant
defense
fund.
Let
me
just
end
by
saying
that
has
grown
from
five
to
11
staff.
In
the
last
year
and
a
half
we
had
had
a
very
pre
a
great
had
a
very
supportive
mayor
and
our
previous
mayor,
and
we
have
a
really
supportive
mayor
on
immigration
with
with
mayor
janie.
E
So
we're
really
excited
about
the
future.
There's
a
lot
of
work
to
do
to
be
done.
Our
immigrant
residents
are
are
still
in
very
difficult
positions.
So
we're
excited
that
I,
if
that
mayor,
jamie's
gonna,
continue
supporting
this
work
and
grow.
This
work-
and
I
know
each
one
of
you-
are
very
passionate
about
this
work
as
well.
With
that
I'll
hand,
it
back
over
to
council
block.
F
F
Unlike
most
of
this,
these
other
departments,
the
human
rights
commission,
is,
is
sort
of
been
born
out
of
this
cover
19
space
and
in
fact,
the
mayor
mayor
washington,
in
2019,
late
2019
august
of
2019,
reinstated
the
commission
and
appointed
me
as
the
commission,
as
the
director
of
the
commission
in
january
2020
right
before
covert
19
hit
the
mayor
appointed
seven
commissioners
who
you
know
are
all
appointed
by
the
mayor
and
are
volunteers,
individuals
from
the
city
of
boston,
I'll
name
them
just
in
case.
You
do
not
know
them.
F
These
are
across
the
city
of
boston,
a
diverse
team
of
folks
that
came
in
again
in
light
of
cove
to
try
to
get
just
popping
up
and
running
and
in
fact
our
first
meeting,
unfortunately,
because
of
covert
particularly
didn't
happen
until
june
30th
of
2020
and
the
meetings
all
have
been
on
zoom
like
these
meetings,
but
in
that
time,
space
up
until
now,
we've
had
eight
public
meetings
on
a
monthly
basis.
If
you
will,
as
well
as
one
public
hearing
which
happened
last
month.
F
In
fact,
two
days
from
today
on
the
19th
we'll
have
a
second
public
hearing.
Now
the
up.
Until
now,
the
mission
the
commission
has
been
to
work
to
include
that
includes
public
community
and
pro
and
private
private
partners.
We
provide
outreach
and
information,
education
and
technical
help.
We've.
We
refer
discrimination,
complaints
to
the
to
the
right
entities
for
resolution.
F
Okay,
so
I'll
at
this
point
I'll
take
a
few
minutes
to
kind
of
go
into
some
of
the
issues
that
we
identified,
that
we
wanted
to
work
on
these
again
systematic
issues
to
put
one
digital
divide
to
which
the
hearing
on
on
on
wednesday.
We
focus
on
this
we're
also
focusing
on
the
marginalization
of
black
men
in
america.
F
F
You
know
you
know
how
elder
populations
are
oscillating
during
discover,
19,
space
and
and
last
last
month,
as
I
indicated,
we
had
a
hearing
in
which
we
had
a
public
hearing
and
had
several
people
testify
folks
from
the
immigrant
community,
folks
from
age,
strong
space,
folks
from
the
disability
community
and
so
on.
So
this
was
a
very
in
fact.
F
It
was
a
well
attended
event,
at
least
I
believe,
30
people
that
came
and
testified
in
this
issue,
and
certainly
we
had
plenty
of
written
testimony,
including
video
action,
testimony
on
this
space
in
terms
of
the
marginalization
of
black
males
in
the
city
of
boston
and
in
america
we
had
an
event
on
january
14th
of
2021,
which
would
be
a
few
months
from
now
and
and
this
this
was
a
panel
event
in
which
focus
on
the
marginalization
trauma
and
healing
of
black
man.
We
had
a
guest
speaker
who's.
F
For
now
another
black
man
to
kind
of
share
the
experiences
in
the
city
of
boston,
we'll
continue
to
work
on
this
space
to
build
partnerships,
including
mbk
boston,
which
is,
is
another
city
hall
department
that
we're
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
support
black
man
and
particularly
in
the
healing
space
going
forward
in
the
mississippi
bus
in
terms
of
the
the
police
reform
task
force.
We
we
have,
obviously
you
know
followed
through
follow.
F
You
know
the
work
of
the
task
force,
I'm
sure
you
all
are
familiar
with
task
force,
work
and
once
they
they
they
put
forth
the
15
page
recommendations
we
review
them.
We
dissected
them.
If
you
will,
we
also
had
conversations
with
the
with
the
commission
with
the
appointed
task
force
members,
including
chair
of
the
commissioner
wayne
mr
wayne
budd,
and
to
follow
up
early
january
of
this
year,
tuesday,
that
is
january
19th.
F
You
know
in
terms
of
what
goes
on
in
in
in
this
police
department,
to
figure
out
how
we
follow
up,
but
we
also
do
know
that
you
know
mayor
kim
jones
appointed
attorney
stephanie
everett
to
to
oversee
the
work,
so
we're
gonna
be
reaching
out
to
her
to
continue
to
work
in
that
space
in
the
in
the
space
of
securing
immigrant
rights.
As
I
mentioned,
we've
worked
with
lucifer
valley
in
a
number
of
issues,
both
informally
and
formally.
F
But
more
importantly,
one
of
the
things
that
the
commission
has
been
a
leader
on
is
in
the
space
of
combating
issues
of
hate
against
the
our
aapi
community
in
the
city
of
boston.
In
that
space,
again,
we've
worked.
We
use
if
you
use,
if
else,
keep
saying
your
name
work.
The
lca
jennifer
has
been
in
that
space
with
us
as
well,
and
a
number
of
the
city
departments,
including
office
of
neighborhood
services,
and
so
on.
F
They
are
reluctant
to
go
to
the
police
and
often,
unfortunately,
when
they
go
to
the
police,
they
don't
feel
that
they
get
out
of
the
services.
So
we
are
working
with
the
ppd
to
to
hopefully
simplify
the
way
that
they
that
folks
can
re
report
incidents
to
them,
but
also
position
the
commission,
as
potentially
to
be
a
place,
a
neutral
place
where
people
can
come
and
just
excuse
me
not
justify
them
report
incidents
of
hate
and
in
that
space
we
are
finalizing
a
a
anonymous.
F
What
we
call
an
anonymous
report,
anonymous
incident
report
form
which
we're
gonna
upload
on
our
website
and
again
share
with
the
partners,
both
internally
and
externally,
to
to
get
the
community
to
know
that
they
can
come
to
us
to
to
report
incidents
of
hate
and
again
kudos
to
all
of
the
folks
in
this.
In
this
space,
particularly
the
city
hall
departments,
have
been
very
involved
in
this
space.
F
Finally,
in
that
space
and
I'll
stay
again
in
this
asian
american
hate
incident,
another
thing
that
we're
hoping
to
accomplish-
and
I
is
to
hopefully
have
a
conversation-
internal
conversation
within
city
hall-
to
support
our
aapi
residents.
Excuse
me,
not
residents,
but
employees
where
we
are
planning
a
a
webinar
in
this
space
like
this
and
to
kind
of
have
them
sort
of
express
how
they
feel
and
see.
F
F
Unfortunately,
we
know
that
there
was
a
double
homicide,
not
too
far
from
here
on
dorchester,
in
which
a
known
prominent
member
of
the
lgbtq
community,
transgender
right
activist
johara,
was
killed
by
staff
and,
unfortunately
down
the
street,
and
so
in
that
space.
You
know
where,
in
the
right
now
assembling
and
I've
had
a
couple
meetings
in
the
space
with
city
hall,
internal
city,
hall
departments,
including
bpd,
they
have
a
liaison
for
the
lgbtq
community.
F
Women's
advancement
and
certainly
chief
chief
barrows,
were
has
been
in
that
space
with
us
as
well
and
many
other
departments
to
figure
out
how
we
can
help
them.
We
know
that
next
month
is
it's
lgbtq
pride
a
month.
The
several
events
that
they're
doing
that
we're
going
to
support
and
we're
also
trying
to
do
a
listening
session,
obviously
to
weapon
up
to
a
webinar
like
this
to
support
that
community.
F
That's
it
in
terms
of
some
of
the
major
things
that
we're
working
on
right
now,
but
I
will
end
by
saying
that,
obviously
you
know
that
that
the
department
is
a
two
to
two
team
member
department
at
this
point,
but
we
have
uploaded
or
put
online.
The
position
of
I'm
gonna
blank
down,
I'm
looking
for
my
notes.
Thank
you
here.
F
I
see
manager
of
education
and
outreach,
okay,
which
is
critical
to
to
make
sure
that
the
commission
gets
out
there
and
whether
it's
through
webinars
or
certainly
in
person,
as
we
open
up
to
make
sure
that
folks
know
what
we're
doing
and
we're
listening
to
what
people
need
in
the
city
of
boston.
So
that's
the
key
position,
that's
that
in
fact,
we
have
about
60
people
that
that
already
applied
we're
gonna
to
proceed
with
the
process
of
hiring
an
individual
masterpiece.
We're
also
uploading
today
the
investigatory
or
investigation
investigator.
F
And
finally,
a
program
manager
he's
all
been
approved,
we're
just
sort
of
pacing
ourselves
to
make
sure
that
we
do
adequate
job,
getting
the
appropriate
people
to
help
us
out.
But
this
is
what
three
three
three
more
positions
that
should
be
coming
on,
live
hopefully
for
the
next
a
few
few
months
our
website
is
up
website,
is
up
and
and
has
an
intake
form
on
there,
it's
much
more
sort
of
alive
and
updated
than
it
was
before
so
and
finally,
I
know
there
were
some
questions
about.
F
F
F
I
want
to
make
sure
that
the
next
person
comes
in
and
has
an
office
that
they
continue
to
to
to
uplift
and
continue
to
serve
the
people
in
the
state
of
boston.
Happy
to
answer
any
questions.
Hopefully
I
answered
some
of
them.
I
know
there
were
a
ton
of
questions
in
in
from
various
counselors
but
happy
to
be
engaged
as
well
further.
Thank
you.
A
G
Great,
thank
you.
Thank
you
so
much
chairperson
bach
and
members
of
the
council.
So
I'm
really
glad
to
be
here
today
with
our
deputy
commissioner
of
finance,
francis
thomas
who's.
Here
with
me,
the
money
man
to
talk
about
the
age,
strong,
commission,
our
work
and
the
proposed
budget
investment
that
we
have
in
this
upcoming
budget
and
I'd
also
like
to
say,
happy
older
americans,
month
to
everybody.
G
The
theme
for
older
americans
month
this
year
is
communities
of
strength,
particularly
appropriate.
I
think
after
the
past
year
I
want
to
take
a
minute
before
we
start
to
thank
my
entire
team.
Their
strength
and
commitment
over
this
past
year
has
been
nothing
short
of
amazing
and
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
the
older
adults
we
work
with.
G
Both
the
boston
city,
council
members
and
my
fellow
departments
who
are
in
this
hearing
as
well
in
as
isolated
as
we
all
needed
to
be
over
this
past
year,
it's
also
a
year
that
we
really
needed
each
other,
and
so
thanks
for
all
that,
you've
done
throughout
the
pandemic.
We
fielded
over
25
000
calls
in
our
office
and
with
the
help
of
volunteers,
proactively
called
over
fifty
five
thousand
older
adults
across
the
city.
G
We
kept
our
shuttle
running
throughout
the
pandemic
and
did
over
10
000
medical
rides
and
hundreds
of
trips
to
the
grocery
store.
We
hosted
fun.
Virtual
events,
moved
our
arts
programming
online
and
provided
support
to
a
network
of
senior
centers
across
the
city
as
they
supported
our
older
residents.
G
G
The
majority
of
the
funding
that
we
received
was
for
the
elder
nutrition
program,
with
grab-and-go
meals
and
meals
on
wheels
and
also
for
caregiver
services,
and
supports
two
critical
areas
of
need.
Over
the
past
year,
we
also
were
able
to
make
further
investment
in
housing
search,
support
our
senior
centers
in
their
transformation
to
remote
programs
and
make
further
investments
in
partner
organizations
focused
on
reducing
social
isolation
and
since
january,
we've
helped
over
three
thousand
older
residents,
get
connected
to
vaccines,
including
making
appointments
and
coordinating
the
transportation
and
assistance
necessary
to
make
it
a
successful
appointment.
G
And
now
we
look
forward
to
a
new
year.
We
have
a
proposed
five
million
two
hundred
and
five
thousand
two
hundred
and
seventy
seven
operating
budget,
a
17.1
percent
increase
from
the
previous
years,
and
we
have
a
total
budget
of
15.7
million.
53
percent
of
these
funds
are
passed
through
for
us.
So
as
boston's
area
agency
on
aging,
we
receive
boston's
older
americans,
act
funds
and
work
with
a
network
of
24
community-based
organizations
to
serve
the
day
to
serve
boston's
diverse
older
residents.
G
These
funds
support
some
critical
services,
including
a
portion
of
the
city's
elder
nutrition
program,
so
better
known
as
meals
on
wheels,
caregiver
services
elder
legal
services,
senior
programming,
housing
supports
and
more.
We
retain
43
percent
of
our
total
budget
in-house
to
support
our
operations.
G
I
wanted
to
highlight
a
couple
of
things
that
we
do
hope
to
do
this
year
with
our
operating
dollars.
So,
first
of
all,
we
will
be
getting
the
taxi
coupon
program
back
up
and
running
with
a
goal
of
june
1st.
I
know
that
there
are
a
lot
of
people,
including
us
that
want
to
want
that
out
there
in
the
community.
G
This
will
be
a
partnership
model
with
covet
safety
restrictions
and
limited
sites
at
first,
and
we
will
continue
to
add
sites,
as
public
health
guidance
allows.
In
addition,
we
are
entering
our
next
phase
of
our
age
friendly
work
and
we
will
be
digging
deep
into
three
important
areas:
elder
economic
security,
dementia
and
social
isolation,
with
an
efforts,
emphasis
on
equity
and
expanding
access
to
programs.
G
A
G
We
will
be
continuing
our
expanded
work
around
benefits
access
recently
becoming
a
snap
outreach
partner
which
will
allow
us
to
better
target
older
adults
who
could
benefit
from
the
program.
And
finally,
we
are
excited
about
the
opening
of
the
new
east
boston
senior
center
expected
to
open
this
fall
and
to
making
that
a
special
and
welcoming
place
for
all
of
the
all
east
of
the
full
east
boston
community.
G
G
It
provides
two
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
dollars
in
funding
for
the
city's
first
comprehensive
hoarding
program,
a
collaborative
initiative
between
six
city
departments,
which
will
help
people
remain
safely
housed,
and
there
is
a
one
thousand
dollar
one
hundred
thousand
dollar
investment
made
in
the
city's
taxi
coupon
program.
The
first
step
in
a
modernization
initiative
that
will
improve
program
management,
expand
access
and
enhance
the
experience
of
both
users
and
drivers.
So
more
details
on
each
of
these
investments
can
be
found
in
the
answers
we
submitted
to
your
questions
prior
to
this
hearing.
G
A
Great,
thank
you
so
much,
commissioner
shea,
and
thank
you
to
everyone
for
your
presentations
and
for
the
the
answers
that
we
got
back
over.
Hopefully
counselors
have
those
and
can
use
them
to
inform
their
questions
as
well.
We
were
joined
during
the
presentations
earlier
by
counselor,
andrea
campbell
from
district
four
and
counselor
lady
edwards
from
district
one.
H
H
As
counselor
bach
mentioned,
you're
out
you're
punching
above
your
your
weight
class,
and
that's
what
I
like.
You
guys,
do
a
lot
of
tremendous
outreach
with
often
limited
supplies
or
funding,
and
you
go
the
extra
mile.
So
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
that.
One
thing
I
wanted
to
make
sure
of
is
that
these
departments-
and
I
think
that
the
most
important
department's
agencies
in
the
city
that
they
have
the
right
resources,
so
I
think
it's
important
that
every
department
is
increased
here
and
the
services
are
increased
as
well
food
access.
H
D
We're
happy
to
increase
the
amount
of
full-time
employees
and
you
know,
recruit
folks
who
have
multilingual
skills.
The
folks
who
are
contracted
out.
We
also
work
with
community-based
organizations,
so
we
actually,
there
are
some
community-based
organizations
who
serve
as
vendors
as
well
for
the
city
who
provide
interpretation
and
translation
services,
and
we
also
work
closely
with
those
organizations
to
pinpoint-
and
you
know
also
recommend
to
us
interpreters
and
translators,
who
they
trust
for
the
city
to
also
be
able
to
leverage
as
well.
D
H
H
Human
rights
commission
avandro,
thank
you
for
the
work
that
you're
doing.
This
is
also
another
important
agency
department.
It
was
established
by
mayor
flynn,
as
you
mentioned
in
84..
I
know
you're
increasing
the
number
of
personnel
there.
I'm
also
troubled,
like
you
are
about
the
rise
in
violence
against
immigrants
and
in
particular
the
asian
community
as
well.
H
What
what
type
of
outreach
public
awareness
outreach?
Are
we
doing
to
residents
about
violence
against
the
against
the
immigrant
community
communities
of
color,
the
asian
community?
But
do
we
have
an
aggressive
marketing,
marketing
or
outreach
campaign
about
what
hate
crimes
they're
all
about,
or
violence
or
intimidation
or
elder
about.
F
Counselor
I'll
say
this,
as
I
mentioned
in
my
in
my
remarks.
We
are
engaged
with
the
with
the
leaders
of
the
community
right
now,
particularly
the
aaa
valley
community,
and
come
up
with
several
things
or
buckets
of
of
work
that
we
want
to
accomplish.
That
includes
outreach
on
to
to
the
aapi
community,
and
I
will
say,
though,
that
you're
familiar
with
this.
F
We,
the
commission,
received
an
additional
hundred
thousand
dollars
this
for
this
next
fiscal
year
that
we're
hoping
to
sort
of
go
into
that
space
that
you
talked
about,
perhaps
of
doing
a
campaign,
we've
discussed
even
a
video
campaign
right
that
will
that
will
hopefully
accomplish
some
of
the
things
that
you're
talking
about.
More
importantly,
the
key
position
that
that,
hopefully,
we're
gonna
hire
within
the
next
few
months
is
the
position
of
pro
not
program.
Education
and
outreach
manager,
who's
sort
of
going
to
lead
this
effort.
H
We
work
together
on
a
lot
of
issues,
yusuf
what
what
are
we
seeing,
whether
maybe
it's
not
necessarily
in
boston,
but
what
are
we
seeing
in
greater
boston
or
massachusetts
on
you
know,
intimidation
or
bullying
against
the
immigrant
community,
using
them
as
a
scapegoat?
Maybe
during
this
pandemic
and
what
type
of
outreach
is
your
team
doing
to
make
the
city
more
welcoming
to
immigrants.
E
Thanks
counselor,
and
I
really
always
appreciate
you
bringing
up
this
issue
and
your
focus
on
our
immigrant
communities.
You
know
the
reality
is
that
I
am
concerned
about
anti-asian
attacks.
You
know
really
across
the
region.
We
thankfully
haven't
seen
you
know
any
significant
incidents
here
in
boston,
but
you
know
we
know
that
there's
under
reporting.
E
That's
why
I'm
really
excited
for
what
our
my
colleague,
ivana
cavalho
at
the
hr
commission
is
doing,
which
is
creating
that
you
know
hate
kind
of
incident
report
that
can
go
to
the
human
rights
commission.
As
you
mentioned,
we've
been
in
conversation
with
our
asian
community
leaders
really
excited
to
share
that.
E
You
know,
and-
and
this
is
really
for
commissioner
shay
to
share-
but
a
couple
of
our
asian
partners
asked
for
a
self-defense
class
for
our
seniors
and
the
asian.
The
h
strong
commission
is
is
working
to
to
fund
some
with
that
piece.
So
we
are
in
conversation,
continually
we're
taking
this
very
seriously
counselor
and-
and
you
know
I
will
say
as
it
as
far
as
the
broader
immigrant
community
right.
E
I
think
that
we
have
to
continue
to
tell
the
right
story
about
our
immigrants,
the
the
honest
story
that
they
are
critical
to
boston,
they're,
critical
to
our
economy.
They
make
prostate
their
contributions.
Cultural,
civic
contributions
make
boston
the
great
place
that
it
is,
and
I
I
think
the
challenge
is:
how
do
we
tell
that
story
to
not
people
that
are
already
listening,
but
to
the
audiences
that
maybe
aren't
listening
right
and
that's
something
that
we're
exploring
in
the
future?
We
did
suitcase
stories
this
year.
E
We
had
over
800
people,
but
the
reason
we
decided
to
pivot
away
from
this
program
actually
is
because
we
didn't
feel
it's
actually
getting
to
that
audience.
That
is
really
the
one
that
we
need
to
target
to
bring
on
board
to
understand
the
importance
of
our
immigrants
so
I'll
leave
it
at
that
counseling.
Thank
you.
H
Thank
you
yusuf
thank
you
to
the
food
access
program,
especially
during
this
year,
providing
so
much
food
to
families
in
need.
Thank
you
to
the
h,
strong
commission.
Thank
you,
commissioner.
Shea
I've
seen
you
at
so
many
events.
You
were
also
your
team
was
also
working
with
veterans
as
well
working
with
rob
santiago's
team.
So
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
everybody
here,
that's
doing
incredible
work.
I
just
wanted
to
follow
up
once
on
yusuf's
comments
as
in
in
jennifer.
H
You
know
they're
willing
to
die
for
our
country
in
harm's
way,
but
then,
when
they
come
back
to
big
cities
in
the
united
states,
they're
not
treated
with
respect
or
dignity,
other
families
aren't
either.
So
we
have
a
lot
of
work
to
do
in
our
country
on
racism,
against
immigrants
and
against
communities
of
color.
But
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
everybody
here.
That's
doing
exceptional
work
on
these
issues.
Thank
you.
Council
book.
A
I
Very
much
it's
always
a
delight
to
hear
all
the
great
work
that
all
these
that
you're
all
doing
I
in
the
midst
of
covid,
it
was
great
to
know
that
you
were
working
so
hard
to
help
support
our
immigrants
and
our
elders
across
the
city
and
making
sure
people
our
families
are
are
fed,
and
I
had
a
few
questions.
I
sent
some
questions
in,
but
there's
a
few
things
just
in
terms
of
immigrant
advancement.
I
The
question
I
had
was:
I
asked
this
every
year,
money's
for
a
basic
level,
english
language
classes
for
our
new
immigrants
or
even
older
immigrants,
who
basically
do
not
have
very
little
english,
but
they're,
not
they're,
not
really
at
the
level
where
they
can
benefit
from
some
of
the
other
asl
classes.
That
would
be
geared
more
towards
employment
targets
and
very
goal-oriented
employment
targets.
These
folks
are
just
at
the
very
basic
level
within
very
little
english.
I
don't
know
if
we
have
allocated
any
more
money
to
that
those
programs.
I
We
I
heard
about
a
an
elder
who
got
a
call
the
other
day
from
someone
who
appeared
they
had
their
wits
about
them,
so
they
didn't
give
them
any
information,
but
they
were
representing
themselves
as
a
representative
of
optum
pharmacy
and
they
were
very
persistent
and
asking
for
the
the
elders
social
security
number
and
their
and
their
medicare
number,
and
it
they.
Basically,
you
know
they
hung
up
on
them,
but
this
is
probably
one
of
many
instances
where
it
might
appear
that
this
is
a
scam
and
that
elders
we
need
to
do.
I
What
are
we
doing
to
educate
our
elders
about
specific
instances
like
this?
It
appeared
to
be
very
legitimate,
like
optimum
optimum
optum
is
a
pharmacy
that
delivers
medications
to
people's
homes
so,
but
for
somebody
to
ask
for
their
an
unsolicited
call
to
ask
for
a
social
security
number
and
the
medicare
number
is,
is
very,
very
problematic.
I
I
had
a
question
about
caregiver
supports.
Many
of
our
elders
are
actually
taking
care
of
other
elders
or
family
members,
and
especially
during
coven
that
that
have
been
increasingly
isolated.
I
don't
know,
maybe
any
any
formal
programs
to
support
caregivers
and
the
other
question
that
came
up
recently
as
well.
Is
there
any
education
for
elders
about
unsolicited
cash
offers
for
homes,
they're
getting
letters
and
calls
from,
I
would
say,
speculative
investors
who
want
to
offer
them
cash
for
their
home?
It's
particularly
problematic.
I
If,
if
the
elder
doesn't
speak,
english,
english
is
not
their
first
language.
So
if
somebody
comes
and
offers
you
a
huge
amount
of
money
for
your
home,
it's
really
a
dicey
situation
and,
and
they
may
be
entering
into
a
contract
that
they
don't
necessarily
understand
all
the
implications
of
the
horning
question
very
complex
issue.
I
was
wondering
what
agencies
we're
working
with
to
help
support
folks
who
have
a
hoarding
problem.
I
It
is
it's
a
complicated
mental
health
issue
and
I
don't
know
what
other
agencies
we're
working
with
to
support
those
folks
and
I
had
a
question
about
the
cultural,
culturally
appropriate
food
access.
Again,
a
recent
outreach
to
what
outreach
are
we
doing
to
with
snap
to
elders
or
families
with
who
maybe
are
in
religious
minorities,
who
maybe
use,
need
halal
or
kosher
foods?
I
And
then
you
know
we
have
140
languages
in
boston
and
it's
great
that
we
have
a
rapid
response
team,
but
I
know
out
here
in
austin
brighton
we
have
russian,
portuguese
and
portuguese
are
two
of
them,
two
of
the
red,
the
languages
that
don't
fall
fall
in
that
threshold.
So
it's
particularly
important
that
we
we
we
have
access
to
those
translation
services
and
I
think
that's
a
lot
for
now.
Thank
you
very
much.
G
Okay,
I
can
take
it.
I
can
take
a
crack
at
that
counselor.
Thank
you.
I
get
all
your
all
your
things
so
scams,
obviously
a
hugely
important
issue,
and
I
think
you
know
great
to
use
this
platform.
If
there's
anyone
out
there
listening,
you
should
never
ever
give
your
social
security
number
over
the
telephone
to
anybody.
Nobody
will
ask
you
for
that
over
the
phone
who's
doing
legitimate
business,
we
are
so
we
do
promote
scams
both
on
social
media
and
in
our
magazine
we
also
partner
with
bpd.
G
So
that
will
be
a
new
thing
for
this
year,
but
certainly
a
really
important
issue
that
we
need
to
do
more
work
around
for
caregiver
supports,
I'm
so
glad
you
mentioned
this
counselor,
because
we
should
take
a
minute
to
talk
about
the
family
caregiver
program.
So
this
is
a
program
that
is
funded
through
the
older
americans
act.
We
put
it
out.
We
do
an
rfp
and
the
the
organization
that's
been
running
it
for
the
past
few
years,
for
us
is
boston,
senior
home
care.
G
They
do
a
great
job.
The
program
recently
got
a
lot
more
money
through
the
cares,
act
and
they'll
get
an
additional
investment
through
the
american
rescue
plan
act,
and
so
certainly
for
the
program
supports
people
who
are
care
providing
caregiving
for
people
over
the
age
of
60..
There
is
a
sister
program
that
we
also
support
with
those
funds
that
is
a
program
for
people
over
the
age
of
60,
who
are
grandparents
or
or
providing
kinship
care
to
grandchildren,
and
so
there
are
there's
programs
for
both
for
both
things.
G
They're
great
programs
for
people
to
access
they
can.
They
can
help
to
assess
a
situation.
Provide
supports,
connect
you
with
resources,
really
really
fabulous
fabulous
programs
out
there.
One
thing
that
the
family
caregiver
program
at
boston
senior
is
doing
with
some
of
their
karzak
dollars
is
actually
we've
approved
an
initiative
to
promote
the
program.
There's
not
usually
enough
funding
to
do
things
like
that.
G
G
Around
unsolicited
cash
offers
for
homes,
we
don't
do
a
lot
around
that
beyond
kind
of
telling
people
to
watch
out
for
scammers,
but
certainly
something
we
could
talk
about
with
our
partners
at
d
d
and
the
home
center.
I
you
know,
I
think
it's
it's
a
great
idea,
and
we
should.
We
should
be
talking
about
that.
There's
a
lot
of
that,
and
there
has
been
a
lot
of
that
going
on
throughout
any
neighborhood.
G
So
this
hoarding
investment
will
allow
us
to
put
out
an
rfp
for
a
clinical
partner
for
and
and
bring
on
board
a
partner
to
provide
the
array
of
clinical
services
that
you
need
for
a
comprehensive
hoarding
program.
In
the
past,
we've
only
had
clean
out
partners,
but
but
you
know
that
just
cleaning
someone's
home
out
doesn't
really
work.
You
need
to
have
that
clinical
piece
as
well
to
really
address
address
the
issues
and
the
reasons
that
people
are
hoarding,
so
so
looking
forward
to
putting
that
out.
G
There
are
a
number
of
organizations
out
there
that
do
focus
on
hoarding
and
so
looking
forward
to
bringing
a
partner
on
board
through
an
rfp
process,
and
I
will
say
for
now,
you
know
tpp
certainly
does
good
work
around
hoarding
their
one
partner.
That
does
some
work
around
hoarding
there's
a
hoarding
program
up
on
the
north
shore.
That
does
some
good
work
around
hoarding.
So
there
are
programs
out
there
in
this
pro.
G
This
program
is
actually
modeled
on
one
up
in
the
north
shore,
that's
specifically
for
older
adults
and
then
for
culturally
appropriate
access
to
food.
Certainly,
for
for
snap,
we
will
be
targeting
outreach
to
people
from
all
cultural
backgrounds.
We
actually
are
doing
some
work
over
this
summer
with
umass,
which
we're
really
excited
about
it's
part
of
our
economic
security
work
and
will
help
to
feed
into
help
to
provide
some
information
as
we
develop
a
citywide
elder
financial
security
plan.
G
I
A
J
Thank
you,
councillor
bach
and,
of
course,
thank
you
to
all
of
the
folks
on
the
zoom
for
the
incredible
work
you
guys
do
every
day
and
not
only
through
covet
covet
george
floyd,
of
course,
rising
attacks
against
immigrants
across
the
country
transitioned
from
the
last
four
years.
There's
a
lot
going
on
so
just
really
wanted
to
express
my
gratitude
to
each
and
every
one
of
you
not
just
the
chiefs
and
commissioners,
but
your
all
of
your
employees
who
work
really
hard.
I
will
I'll
jump
right
in
just
being
mindful
of
time.
J
I
guess
I'll
start
first
with
just
some
questions
for
the
age,
strong,
commission
and
just
some
of
the
work
there.
Thank
you,
commissioner,
shea
and
francis
thank
you
both
for
the
work
you're
doing
your
team.
A
few
questions.
One
is
what
neighborhoods,
and
this
could
be
an
information
quest
that
you
could
send
later
on.
You
don't
have
to
sort
of
answer
it
right
now,
but
what
neighborhoods
have
the
highest
percentage
of
seniors
just
sort
of
an
updated
list
there,
and
do
we
have
this
data
by
council
district?
J
What
na
in
the
fourth
is,
what
neighborhoods
is
the
department
most
successful
at
reaching
in
which
neighborhoods
or
senior
populations
by
race
or
ethnicity?
Are
we
struggling
to
reach,
and
I
had
a
question
around
the
senior
home
repair
program,
but
I'm
going
to
save
that
for
d
and
d
and
then
two
other
questions.
What
are
we
doing
to
improve
senior
access
to
transportation
in
general,
particularly
medical
appointments?
J
This
comes
up
quite
a
bit,
but
also
just
for
other
types
of
appointments
and
then,
lastly,
how
does
the
department
partner
with
the
office
of
veteran
services?
Sometimes
we
feel
responding
to
cases
as
a
disconnect
between
veterans
seniors
when
clearly,
there
are
folks
who
fit
both
those
categories
and
I'll
stop
there
and
then
save
questions
for
the
departments.
For
the
next
round,
as
I'm
sure
that
will
take
up
all
my
time,
thank
you.
G
G
I
do
not
have
it
based
on
council
district,
I
in
terms
of
a
rebate
for
senior
parking
for
the
longwood
medical
area.
We
have
never
looked
into
a
rebate
for
senior
parking,
so
that's
certainly
something
we
could
explore
if
you
had
kind
of
more
more
thoughts
on
that,
I'm
happy
to
hear
them,
but
parking
is
is
not
something
that
I
think
that
we've
had
kind
of
an
age-based
rebate
on.
G
G
You
know,
I
I
think
I
like
to
think
that
we
serve
all
neighborhoods.
Well,
although
I
don't,
I
don't
think
that
any
one
department
is
the
be
all
and
end
all
of
of
anything,
and
I
think
we
really
also
rely
on
our
the
24
organizations
that
we
partner
with
to
expand
our
reach
into
into
all
of
the
boston
neighborhoods.
G
We
certainly
have
good
relationships
in
matapan,
dorchester
and
roxbury,
and-
and
you
know,
I-
I
think
that
the
target
a
lot
of
our
funds
are
older.
Americans
act,
funds
and
the
target
of
those
funds
are
kind
of
our
lower
income,
lower
income
populations,
and
so
that
tends
to
be.
I
think,
where
a
lot
of
our,
where
we
build
a
lot
of
our
bridges,
but
certainly
certainly
our
our
work
should
be
touching.
G
Should
we
be
touching
all
of
the
older
residents
that
that
need
us
in
terms
of
transportation
we,
so
the
h,
strong
shuttle
does
provide
free
medical
appointments
for
people
over
60..
We
we
brought
on
some
new
scheduling
software
that
we
had
about
six
months
with
prior
to
the
pandemic,
hitting
and
right
now
on
our
shuttles,
we're
still
with
covert
restrictions,
so
we're
still
doing
one
person
per
van
with
the
driver.
G
G
The
ultimate
goal
is
to
get
to
a
place
where
we
can,
where
we
can
do
more
than
just
medical
and
grocery
shopping
rides,
because
because
that's
it's
important
to
you
know,
health
is
about
the
full
person
not
just
getting
to
the
doctor,
and
then
certainly
we
have
partnerships
with
the
office
of
veterans,
services
and
and
work
collaboratively
with
them.
But
if
your
office
is
is
sensing
anything
like
you're,
not
sure
where
to
refer,
we
can
refer.
G
J
No
that's
very
helpful
and
I
the
question
around-
and
I
guess
just
demonstrate
some
areas
where
we
could
be
a
little
bit
more
innovative
frankly
right
to
to
expand
services
for
our
seniors.
The
question
around
just
where
we
do
it
well
in
terms
of
reaching
seniors
in
certain
neighborhoods
or
by
race,
ethnicity,
and
where
there
are
barriers.
J
It's
just
that
to
identify
to,
of
course
suggest
that
we
do
a
bad
job,
but
just
to
suggest
where
we
need
greater
resources
or
where
we
may
need
greater
partnerships
with
community-based
organizations
to
reach
our
seniors
in
certain
parts
of
the
city
who
feel,
for
example,
disconnected
from
from
getting
services.
So
I
will
save
my
questions
for
other
departments
in
the
next
round.
Thank
you,
commissioner,
and
thank
you.
Of
course.
J
Your
team
and
I
got
to
give
a
special
shout
out
to
my
girl
cheryl,
who
is
my
senior
advisor,
has
been
with
me
since
the
very
beginning
who,
through
covet
and
a
whole
bunch
of
things,
continues
to
show
up
every
day
to
support
our
seniors
in
our
district.
So
I
always
want
to
lift
her
up.
Thank
you
and
thank
you.
Councillor
bach,.
K
Yes,
thank
you.
Thank
you
all
to
all
your
hard
work.
I
have
to
say
these
are
one
of
some
of
my
favorite
departments,
especially
during
covet.
You
have
been
on
the
front
lines,
so
I
just
have
a
few
questions.
This
I'm
going
to
start
with
language
access.
You
know:
we've
been
working
with
you
on
a
new
language,
access
ordinance
that
would
likely
require
changes
in
funding.
K
Can
you
speak
to
how
your
funding
needs?
Would
change,
should
the
ordinance
pass
and
how?
Oh
sorry,
you
guys
already
answered
that
one?
Sorry,
I'm
catching
up
here!
So
in
our
okay.
Here
we
go
okay
in
our
meetings
and
working
sessions
on
our
language
access
ordinance.
We
identify
that
the
city
is
currently
not
equipped
to
fully
implement
broad
systems
change
to
help
people
who
cannot
read
or
write
in
any
language.
K
K
K
E
Thanks
councilman
here,
and
I
always
appreciate
you
being
such
a
champion
for
immigrant
residents,
you
know
it's
it's
a
great
question
I
mean
the
transparent
answer
is
that
we
obviously
are
very
well
connected
to
bps,
but
it's
not
a
particular
issue
that
we've
kind
of
leaned
into,
but
it's
certainly
something
I'm
absolutely
willing
to.
You
know
look
into
we're.
E
Yeah,
so
we
certainly
certainly
work
with
that.
Actually
one
of
my
staff
members
is
on
their
advisory
board,
so
we're
very,
very
well
connected.
You
organized
the
meeting
for
us
as
well
for
for
us
to
speak
to
a
number
of
their
students
so
and-
and
you
know,
as
you
know-
counselor
really
excited
that
we're
going
to
have
the
dreamers
fellowship
program
this
this
year,
200
young
people
who've
never
had
an
opportunity.
E
K
Excellent,
so
I'm
going
to
go
to
the
human
rights
commission
on
folks.
Can
you
just
speak
a
little
bit
about
your
efforts
around
addressing
the
digital
divide
beyond
the
publication
of
your
upcoming
study
and
what
action
items
do
you
plan
to
take
to
make
an
impact
on
municipal
broadband
in
the
city.
F
F
We
do
intend,
as
you
said,
to
produce
a
report,
and
you
know
the
report
will
hopefully
be
sort
of
like
a
what
we
call
a
live
sort
of
document
right,
so
we
can
continue
to
follow
up
with
the
providers
continue
to
follow
up
with
city
hall.
You
know,
do
it
in
bps
and
bha
and
others
to
figure
out
how
to
continue
to
to
close
that
gap,
and
so
I
guess
the
short
answer
is
that
you
know
we're
going
to
produce
the
document.
The
report
and
we're
going
to
keep
working
on
the
issue.
K
And
who
made
the
decision
to
change
the
function
to
the
human
rights
commission
to
move
away
from
individual
cases
instead
of
focus
on
systems?
Do
the
people
know
about
the
change
that
was
made?
I
think
a
lot
of
people
look
at
the
human
rights
commission
and
think
that's
a
place
where
people
can
help
me.
F
F
The
the
decision
by
and
large
was
made
by
the
commissioners
that
are
on
on
the
board
now
to
say.
Obviously
we
know
that
there
are
different
departments,
not
only
within
city
hall,
but
other
state
agencies,
including
mcad,
because
the
hud
right
there's
the
eoc
many
other
agencies
that
are
currently
providing
direct
services
and
doing
you
know,
complaint
sort
of
driven
work
it
it
sort
of
it
wasn't
their
wisdom
to
say.
Okay,
let's
us
find
the
gaps.
F
If
you
will
right
to
work
not
only
in
systematic
issues,
but
also,
I
should
mention
that
we're
gonna
do
and
we
may
do
direct
sort
of
complaint
driven
work
if,
if
the
other
agencies
are
not
handling
them
right,
as
you
can
imagine
you
know,
all
the
the
the
commission
was
appointed
right.
They
volunteered
up.
People
in
you
know
busy
lives.
F
So
I
think
it
was
a
sort
of
executive
decision
to
say
let's
focus
on
the
gap
and
and
particularly
because
we
started
right
in
the
middle
of
covert
19
right
all
these
issues
that
that
that
we
just
spoke
about
and
continue
to
speak
about.
I
think
it
was
a
good
decision
to
say,
let's
not
sort
of
focus
on
individual
claims,
particularly
because
you
know
the
commission
does
not
have
the
adequate
staff
at
this
point.
F
K
Yeah
absolutely
thank
you.
I
just
wanted
to
say
I
have
13
questions
for
age
strong
now,
I'm
just
joking,
so
I
just
wanted
to
say
we
absolutely
have
no
questions
because
they
did
such
a
great
job
at
answering
all
of
our
questions
and
they
were
very
thorough.
So
we
really
do
appreciate
you
all.
I
was
just
joking.
You
get
the
a
plus,
for
I
mean
you,
everybody
get
an
a
plus
for
all
the
hard
work
that
everyone
is
doing
to
serve
our
most
vulnerable.
K
L
Thank
you
so
much,
and
I
echo
the
compliments
of
my
colleagues
for
every
single
one
of
your
departments.
You
really
are
have
led
the
way
and
have
done
your
best
honestly
to
make
sure
that
all
of
our
services
are
as
inclusive
as
possible
and
are,
I
think,
reflective
of
the
true
diversity
of
boston.
I
just
want
to
pick
up
on
some
of
the
questions,
starting
with
the
human
rights
commission.
L
L
L
Right,
so
what
I'd
like
to
do
is
just
kind
of
like
pinpoint
a
couple
questions
and
then
turn
it
over
to
you
then
pinpoint
a
couple
questions
turn
over
to
the
next
department.
So
again
you,
how
are
you
expect
to
get
systemic
complaints?
Are
you
getting
several
pinpoints
from
people
and
then
thinking?
Oh,
there
might
be
a
systemic
problem.
We
have
to
respond.
L
There
are
parts.
There
are
individual
rights
that
the
city
of
boston
are
protections
that
only
the
city
of
boston
has
the
state
and
other
agencies
don't
have.
So
what
do
you
expect
to
do
for
those
like
parental
parental
status?
It's
a
protected
status
here,
it's
not
at
the
state
level.
So
it's
like
union
membership
and
we
have.
We
have
actually
we're
more
progressive
in
some
places
than
the
state
is
so
do
you
expect
to
do
something
with
those
individual
cases
and
then?
L
Finally,
I
I
was
wondering
if
the
if
the
hrc
would
help
to
lead
on
those
areas
of
discrimination,
for
example,
the
credit
checks
and
credit
background
checks.
I
remember
the
office
came
out
somewhat
ambivalent
about
whether
that
should
be
a
protected
class
or
not,
and
it
was
a
little
concerning
considering
I
would
think
hrc
should
be
leading
in
the
protected
category
in
classes,
and
we,
you
know,
statistics
are
very
clear.
L
Credit
is
a
oftentimes
used
as
a
precursor
or
as
a
real
as
a
fake
attempt
to
really
discriminate
based
on
race
and
other
other
categories,
so
that
was
for
hrc
for
age.
Strong.
Thank
you
for
the
updates
on
east
boston.
I
think
the
the
senior
center
this
fall.
I
understood
and
thank
you
so
much
for
bringing
back
the
cab
vouchers.
L
You
know
the
north
end
we're
particularly
concerned
about
having
that
that's
june
1st,
would
you
have
a
list
of
your
areas
first
and
then
how
you
know
in
a
timeline
for
each
of
the
parts
of
the
city
that
are
eventually
going
to
get
them
I'd
like
that,
so
we
can
make
that
announce.
We
get
a
lot
of
requests
about
that
and
then
also
the
nazaro
center.
L
Just
confirming
that
as
it's,
the
community
center
in
the
north
end
is
going
to
grow
at
a
different
location
and
there's
always
a
space
for
our
seniors
there
at
the
nazaro
center
and
then
for
immigrant
advancement.
I
want
to
thank
you
so
much
for
your
incredible
work.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your,
I
think,
and
sometimes
it's
sad
brave
work
because
of
the
so
much
anti-immigrant
bias
in
some
parts
of
our
city.
L
I
did
want
to
ask
about
the
I
think
it's
this
new
fund
or
the
dreamers
fellowship
fund
and
just
get
more
information
on
the
program
and
how
many
youth
were
employed
or
planned
to
be
employed
and
also
could
you
coordinate
with
bps
high
schools
and
guidance.
Counselors
start
identifying
kids
a
little
earlier.
L
F
I'll
I'll
go
first,
so
you
see
go
for
it.
Okay,
the
and
I'll
try
to
assess
each
so
the
intake
form
it's
designed
twofold
right.
One
it'll
help
us
sort
of
you
know.
If
anyone
comes
in
there
with
a
complaint
that
perhaps
should
go
or
incident
that
should
go
to
mcad,
we'll
find
a
way
to
try
as
you
to
mca
but
over
time.
F
Hopefully,
if
we
get
in
cases
of
particular
situations,
say,
for
instance,
as
we
talk
about
immigrants
and
and
hate
incidents
and
discrimination
against
aaa
beyond
community,
if
we
continue
to
see
it
and
see
it
from
you
know
from
a
particular
industry
or
see
it
from
a
particular.
Business,
then
is
is
where
the
systematic
investigation
comes
in
okay.
So
hopefully
that
answers
your
question
constantly
in
terms
of
what
the
intake
form
is
designed
to
do,
but
in
terms
of
complaints
and
not
I'm
not
called
I'm
not.
It's
not
necessarily
complaints.
F
It's
it's!
It's
sort
of
issues,
the
the
things
that
are
aligned
earlier,
for
instance,
whether
it's
digital
divide.
You
certainly
know
that
the
reform
within
boston
police
department
is
a
systematic
issue
right.
The
health
inequities
is
a
systematic
issue,
the
issue
of
of
of
housing
discrimination.
That's
a
systematic
issue
that
would
potentially
look
at
right,
particularly
in
light
of
the
suffolk
university
study
that
came
out
last
year.
F
Excuse
me,
we
have
the
ordinance
right
now
right.
How
is
it
designed
and
what
is
it
that
the
city
intends
it
to
do
in
the
future?
Certainly,
as
you
mentioned,
credit
history
is,
should
should
be
a
protected
class,
and
you
know
I've
seen
other
cities,
for
instance,
where
folks
that
have
hair
like
you
and
I
are
protected
right
because
hair
becomes
an
issue.
Has
become
issues
in
other
parts
of
the
country
and
even
actually
locally,
I
don't
think
in
boston
but
across
across
the
bridge.
F
If
you
will
right
so
there's
different
things
that
we
should
look
at
in
general,
I
think
to
see
how
do
we
update
the
ordinance-
and
you
know
the
commission
is
certainly
willing
and
able
to
help
drive
that
conversation
and
make
recommendations
to
to
you
all
in
terms
of
what
we
should
do.
And
finally,
what
I'll
say
is
that
the
the
the
spaces
in
which,
as
juniper
councillor,
that
the
people
do
not
have
they're
not
protected?
They
are
not
protected
classes.
We
say
on
the
state
or
federal
level.
F
Those
are
the
spaces
that
the
commission
is
looking
to
do
investigations
in
right.
So
if
there's
not
agency,
as
you
said,
I
think
you
said,
parental
rights
are
not
protected
at
the
at
the
state
level.
If
we
get
incidents
of
those,
those
will
take
it
sort
of
from
to
nazi
people
right.
So
those
are
the
three
points
that
are
hopefully
will
answer
your
question
council
happy
to
follow
up
it
any
further
and
talk
offline,
certainly
particularly
in
terms
of
the
ordinance
and
what
we
should
do
in
that
space.
G
Great,
I
can
go
next,
I
would
be
very
speedy,
so
we
are
still
awaiting
the
final
approval
from
the
city
workforce
and
operations
team
for
the
taxi
coupons.
We
believe
it
will
be
june
1st
and
as
soon
as
we
have
that
final
approval,
and
we
will
make
sure
that
the
list
of
sites
gets
shared
with
chantel,
so
she
can
share
it
with
all
of
you,
because
I
know
that
people
want
to
access
those
and
then
for
the
nazarro
center.
Thank
you.
G
E
And
I'll
go
next
counselor
diversity.
First
of
all,
thank
you
so
much
for
your
kind
comments
and
there's
no
exaggeration
for
me
to
say
that
part
of
the
reason
that
we're
able
to
do
the
work
that
we
have
been
able
to
do
is
because,
for
years,
you've
been
an
advocate
and
really
courageous
in
raising
a
lot
of
the
issues
around,
particularly
our
immigrant
residents
without
status.
E
Stipended,
you
know
program
and
the
application
actually
due
date
for
the
entity
that
would
kind
of
work
on
it
would
would
be
is
today,
we've
had
two
pilots
throughout
the
year
with
50
and
now
150
folks,
where
it's
basically
been
one
coordinate
organization
that
gets
the
grant
and
they
work
with
anywhere
between
five
to
you
know,
ten
immigrant
serving
non-profit
partners
that
are
really
connected
to
a
lot.
Many
of
our
immigrant
youth,
regardless
of
status,
totally
agree
that
we
we
need
to
target
our
schools.
E
We
delighted
to
share
in
our
last
pilot
we
actually
had
binka.
That
was
a
part
of
it,
so
I
think
there's
a
huge
opportunity
opportunity
to
grow
this
piece
out,
and
my
hope
is
that
you
know
we've
got
the
summer
program
now
year
after
year,
because
we've
got
public
funding
dollars
for
it
and
and
obviously
moya's
putting
and
it's
in
our
budget
for
this
year.
E
A
A
So
I
think
I
I
mainly
wanted
to
kind
of
run
through
with
people
like
sort
of
budget
increase
type
stuff,
and
thank
you
for
all
the
answers
to
our
questions
that
we
got
as
as
counselor.
He
said
it
definitely
makes
makes
it
more
efficient
here
in
the
hearing.
So
if
andre,
I
wonder
if
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
too
so
hrc
right
now,
you've
got
two
people.
There's
this
plan
in
the
works
to
expand
a
six.
A
F
Yes,
it
would
yes
a
lot
of
the
outreach
work
that
we're
talking
about
here.
You
know,
certainly
keep
going
so
with
two.
It's
two
of
us
primarily
right
now,
and
we
get
support
from
a
lot
of
the
departments
here.
But
having
certainly
an
outreach
coordinator
as
well
as
one
of
the
other
positions.
We're
gonna
hire
is
a
research
director
of
research
analysis
that
would
be
helpful.
A
A
There's,
there's
sort
of
regular
intake
that
the
hrc
is
going
to
keep
doing,
and
hopefully
you
know,
with
more
staff,
be
able
to
be
more
robust
and
specifically
in
those
spaces
that
there
isn't
another
agency
covering
and
then
there's
some
of
these
kind
of
like
convening
task
force,
type
things
like
like
focusing
on
the
anti-asian
hate
issue
and
the
lgbtq
violence
issue
right.
You
raise
both
of
those
then
there's
stuff.
F
F
Finally,
you
know,
if
you
will,
we
got
a
full-time
staff
in
in
in
opec
right
and
that's
going
to
hopefully
build
that
office
out
and-
and
you
know,
make
sure
that
all
the
recommendations
are
not
are
being
implemented
right
in
the
time
that
they
were
said
to
be
implemented.
But
you
know
initially,
obviously,
when
we
started
looking
at
this,
this
was
under
mayor
walsh.
Right
you
know,
things
were
not
moving
as
at
least
as
the
commissioners
thought
as
progressively
as
they
needed
to
be.
F
So
we
sent
a
letter
out
to
the
commissioner
in
january
and
said:
tell
us
what's
what's
been
done
so
far
right,
but
it's
all
going
to
be.
You
know
dependent
on
the
issue.
I
think
the
work
that
we
devised
will
sort
of
be
you
know
specific
to
the
issue,
but
hopefully
over
time,
there'll
be
model
situations
in
terms
of
how
we
execute
things.
Does
that
make
sense.
A
Yep,
no
that's
helpful
and
then
jennifer.
If
I
move
over
to
you
so
similarly
right
now,
you
have
am
I
right
like
right
now
you've
got
two
staff
at
language
access.
I
know
you
said
that
earlier,
but
you
were
financially
authorized
for
three
right
and
then
and
then
now
we're
adding
two
more.
Is
that
right,
so
we're
going
up
to
five?
A
D
Yeah
so
there's
a
one
position:
that's
currently
posted,
which
is
for
a
learning
and
development
coordinator,
which
would
focus
on
the
internal
training
of
departmental
staff
within
the
city
and
creating
more
resources,
so
it'll
focus
on
ensuring
that
we're
increasing
the
numbers
staff
trained
on
not
only
how
to
provide
lca
accommodations,
but
also
the
resources
that
are
available
to
them
and
then
the
other
two
positions.
One
is
a
research
analyst
which
would
focus
on
kind
of
that
community
research.
D
Seeing
what
kind
of
additional
information
we
have
around
language,
access
or
disability
access
needs
within
the
city
and
also
focusing
on
internally.
You
know
working
through
all
the
internal
reports
from
departments
analyzing
those
reports
and
then
another
staff
position
is
executive
assistance
or
an
administrative
assistant
position
which
would
help
support.
I
think,
kind
of
that
additional
projects,
support
to
departments
and
their
liaisons,
and
not
only
internally
with
finances,
but
also
seeing
how
we
can
support
departments
even
further.
A
Got
it,
and
in
terms
of
I
mean
one
of
the
questions
I
had
asked
is
I
mean
so
I
think
it's
great
that
you
guys
are
gonna,
have
a
dedicated
point
person
to
work
with
the
departments.
I
have
thought
for
a
long
time
that
a
limitation
of
our
language
access
approach
is
that
we
ask
every
department
to
designate
a
person,
but
we
don't
ask
every
department
to
give
that
person
any
time
in
their
day
to
focus
on
language
access.
A
So
so
I
guess
I'm
I'm
curious
whether
whether
in
the
conversations
about
bulking
up
the
office
itself-
and
you
know-
which
is
completely
necessary
for
the
new
protocols
that
have
been
put
out-
whether
there's
also
been
conversations
about
kind
of
increased
allocations
across
all
departments
to
make
that
kind
of
and
half
an
fte
or
an
fd
or
whatever
possible.
That's
one
of
you
talk
to
speak
to
that.
D
A
Right
yeah,
so
I
mean
it's
obviously
longer
a
bigger
conversation
with
me
and
obm
and
all,
but
I
just
wanted
to
highlight
that,
and
I
think
the
hopefully
it
sounds
like
your
research
analyst
and
your
person
working
with
them
will
also
help
help
us
understand
where
we
need
that
more
capacity
at
the
department
level
can
you
and
in
terms
of
the
the
large
contracted
services,
increase
that
300
000?
Is
that
doing
more
of
what
we
do
or
is
that
doing
things
differently?.
D
So
that
is
doing
more
of
what
we
do
so
so
how
the
I
know
that
I
saw
a
question
around
kind
of
how
those
contracted
services
are
leveraged
within
the
city.
So
it's
additional
funding,
as
you
saw,
there's
changes
within
the
language
and
communication
access
policy
and
we're
also
anticipating
changes
with
this
new
ordinance.
A
A
A
It
okay
right
right,
which
makes
me
think
that
that's
gonna
need
to
continue
to
grow.
What
and
what's
the
scale
of?
I
know
that
we
kind
of
we
bulked
up
interpretation
during
the
pandemic.
You
spoke
to
it
because
so
much
of
so
much
of
what
we
were
doing
on
the
city
services
side,
sort
of
felt
like
vital
documents
right
in
a
way
that
it
hadn't
always
it's
different.
A
When
you're
I
mean
we
want
everybody
in
all
languages
to
know
if
we're
having
a
pizza
party
right,
but
it's
a
little
bit
different
than
telling
it
telling
seniors
like
this
is
how
we're
going
to
eat
food
because
you're
homebound
now
right
and
so-
and
I
know
we
also
spent
a
bunch
of
federal,
cares
and
fema
and
stuff
money
on
that.
So
do
you
have
a
sense
of
what
the
scale
of
our
kind
of
utilization
of
interpretive
contractual
services
was
last
year?
If
you
include
external
funds
and
federal
fund
sources,.
A
Okay,
that
would
be
great.
That
would
be
wonderful
to
understand.
Okay,
I
do
have
questions
like
this
for
the
other
departments,
but
I'm
gonna
first
give
my
colleagues
a
chance
to
get
in
any
second
round
questions,
because
I
used
my
time
so
I'll
just
go
back
up
to
the
top
counselor
braden,
I
think
you're,
one
sec
yeah,
I
think
you're,
the
first
top.
So
do
you
have
any
second
round
questions
for
the
departments
all
right!
J
Thank
you,
mr
bach.
Many
of
my
questions
that
I
had
were
asked
by
other
council
colleagues,
so
thank
you
particularly
around
office
of
language
access
and
then
not
just
immigrant
advancement,
but
the
human
rights
commission,
but
going
back
to
the
human
rights
commission
and
thank
you
avandro
for
those
updates,
looking
forward
to
your
team,
frankly
being
expanded,
so
that
you
guys
can
do
the
work
of
this
incredible
body.
And
so
one
question
I
had
was
on
so
someone
right
now
were
to
go
online.
Fill
out
an
intake
form.
F
Yes,
thank
you
for
that
question.
Council
campbell,
I
I
will
say
that
you
know,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
the
first
position
now
we
we
have
out
there
now
and
it's
we
have
60
people
at
least
that
who
are
interested
in
working.
That
space
is
the
outreach
coordinator
and
education
manager.
So,
yes,
that's,
that's
hinder
by
and
large
because
as
the
head
of
department,
I'm
sort
of
having
to
do
both
management
and
be
in
the
weeds,
and
you
know
and
work
on
flyers
with
susan.
F
You
know
attend
every
meeting
that
that
people
need
with
the
department,
and
so
it's
sort
of
it's
hard
to
do
everything
at
the
same
time,
if
you
right
and
and
then
come
to
appearance
like
this
or
or
and
so
on,
so
that's
one
of
the
the
barriers
but
in
terms
of
but
we
are
keeping
you
know,
we
keep
going
we're
still.
Obviously
the
website
is
up
where
we've
engaged
the
the
a
api
community
will
continue
to
do
that.
F
We're
planning
an
event,
as
I
said
with
hopefully
with
the
within
the
transgender
community
space.
In
you
know,
the
fact
that
we
have
a
lot
of
city
departments
as
partners
have
been
very
helpful,
but
in
terms
of
to
go
back
to
the
first
question
in
terms
of
the
intake,
the
intake
was
just
uploaded
a
week
or
two
ago,
but
essentially
you
know
it
asks
people
questions
to
try
to
figure
out.
What
is
it
that
they
need
help
with
right,
and
you
know,
depending
on
what
they
say,
essentially
the
ques.
F
The
next
step
is
for
us
to
get
in
touch
with
them
right
and
determine
what
actually
the
first
step
is
to
determine.
Where
perhaps
you
know
the
incident
happened.
Did
it
happen?
The
city
of
boston?
Is
this
something
that
can
go
to
mcd?
Is
this
something
that
is
housing?
Is
this
something
that
you
know
it's
eoc?
F
Is
this
something
that
we
can
potentially
just
send
to
the
ag's
office
right,
because
it's
consumer
protection
so
determine
essentially
what
we
call
you
know
it's
it's
what
we
call
it
consider
nothing
right,
civil
procedure,
jurisdiction
right:
where
is
this,
could
potentially
land
and
then
follow
up
with
the
person
right
and
if
it's
you
know
a
discrimination
complaint
say
you
will
from
state
street
right.
It's
called
individuals,
say:
okay,
you
see
that
you're
all
this
this
and
this
happened
in
your
workplace.
F
F
So
you
know
if,
if,
if
the
short
version
of
it
is
this
fits
into
the
mcad-
and
you
know
we'll
just
kind
of
put
a
package
together
and
help
them
and
push
it
into
ncaa,
essentially
right
and
the
mcd
at
that
point,
hopefully
we'll
take
it
from
there
if
it's
an
official
complaint
and
so
on,
to
determine
what
goes
on
with
the
case
and-
and
we
sort
of
done
with
that,
but
certainly
the
individual
can
come
to
us.
If
they're,
not,
you
know
getting
any
feedback
from
them
tv
of
their.
F
F
The
whole
process
is
that
in
the
situations
that
the
the
state
or
federal
agencies
do
not
cover
in
in
the
space,
for
instance,
as
council
edgewood
said,
I
think
parents
in
pregnant
women-
don't
quote
me
on
this
I'll-
have
to
look
at
the
ordinance
again.
But
if
this
space
is
essentially
that
that
the
the.
F
J
F
You
know,
sort
of
investigation
by
and
large
we
have
had
incidents
come
in,
you
know,
certainly
in
fact
we
have
one
right
now
that
perhaps
involve
the
housing
discrimination.
Where
you
know
I've
talked
and
there
may
be
lawyers
involved.
So
I'm
talking
to
sort
of
different
parties
to
figure
out
what
the
commission
do.
Do
I
send
it
to
them
cad.
You
know,
do
I,
you
know,
there's
videos
involved
so
sort
of
just
doing
what
I
said
earlier,
gathering
and
information
about
what
would
be
to
help
the
individual.
J
Okay,
we'll
definitely
stay
in
contact
with
you
guys
and
as
your
team
expands,
because
absolutely
of
course
look
forward
to
to
getting
this
fully
off
the
ground.
I'm
really
happy
with
the
additional
investments,
of
course,
particularly
the
human
capital,
because
this
the
hrc
is
a
game
changer
in
many
ways
and
then
we'll
definitely
follow
up
on
the
credit
checks.
Legislation
was
really
proud
to
spearhead
that,
of
course,
with
their
with
janie
as
well
and
getting
that
passed
a
second
time
around.
J
A
K
Yeah,
so
I
just
really
quick
to
avondro.
If
you
could
talk
just
a
little
bit
to
help
us
understand
from
the
moment
that
someone
logs
on
and
files
for
support,
is
there
a
way
for
us
to
track
kind
of
like
the
progress?
Do
you
keep
like?
Is
there
a
way,
a
dashboard
of
sorts,
I'm
always
like
the
dashboard
queen?
I
want
a
dashboard
for
everything
you
know
like
elizabeth
warren
has
a
plan
for
everything.
I
want
a
dashboard
for
everything.
K
I'd
be
curious,
just
to
kind
of
if
there
was
a
way
for
us
to
kind
of
monitor
the
the
progress
of
something
and
if
something
that
could
be
done
more
publicly,
so
that
there's
that
transparency-
and
I
guess
I'll,
ask
the
same
thing
to
jennifer
in
terms
of
just
kind
of
like
would
love
to
know
in
terms
of
accountability
and
transparency
perspective.
How
are
we
holding
ourselves
accountable
to
these
deliverables
and
what
public
facing
information
exists
so
that
we
can
continue
to
improve
on
those
systems.
F
F
We
saw
this
much
incident
about
this
particular
issue
and
we
saw
this
in
dorchester
right.
So
we
all
collected
data
right
in
terms
of
what
we
hope
to
accomplish
long
term
but
in
terms
of
sort
of
case
tracking
online.
You
know
to
be
honest:
just
I'm
not
techy
enough
to
have
thought
through
that,
but.
D
D
Thank
you
concert
here
so
from
so
when
it
comes
to
accountability
and
dashboards,
we
are
very
excited.
You
know
that
we
are
is
still
in
these
working
sessions
with
you
in
council,
edward
around
the
ordinance,
and
there
has
been
internal
work,
especially
conversations
on
as
this
work
continues,
with
the
ordinance
how
we
can
make
that
possible
to
have
dashboards,
specifically
the
ones
that
you
mentioned
around
having
multilingual
dashboards.
D
So
conversations
have
started
to
see
how
that
can
be
created
with
do-it
and
also
as
well
as
I
know,
there
was
also
mention
of
having
vital
documents
lists
up
and
available,
and
so
a
lot
of
that
work
that
you
know
we
work
together
within
the
ordinance.
Those
conversations
have
begun
to
see
how
we
can
make
things
more
transparent
and
more
accessible
on
the
website.
K
Yeah,
because
the
reason
why
I
ask
before
I
get
the
gavel
is
just:
I
just
think
that
more
and
more
people
are
looking
to
the
city
to
figure
out
how
we're
doing
and
what
we
could
be
doing
differently
to
lean
in.
I
think
the
more
information
that
we
can
share,
even
if
we
like
had
500,
calls
around
this
and
we
were
able
to
address.
K
You
know
just
high-level
stuff
that
by
the
numbers
I
think,
or
we
had
five
complaints
from
the
bpda
that
or
whatever
the
case
is
that
they
didn't
show
up
with
translation
and
interpretation.
I
just
think
it'd
just
be
a
good
way
for
us
to
measure
and
to
hold
ourselves
accountable
to
this
work
so
yeah.
Thank
you
looking
forward
to
that,
I
don't
have
any
more
questions
other
than
just.
Thank
you
so
much
for
all
your
hard
work.
These
are
one
of
my
favorite
departments,
oh
and
I'm
being
recorded
so
everybody's
gonna
rewind.
L
L
So
that's
a
concern
for
me
not
that
it's
for
your
lack
of
effort
or
expertise,
it's
more
of
a
concern
for
your
your
department's
independence
and
ability
to
be
able
to
hold
other
departments
accountable
right.
Your
colleagues
right
are
on
the
bpda
and
they
didn't
even
reach
out
to
you
to
help
come
up
with
a
response
to
a
complaint
file
that
directly
involves
both
of
you.
L
L
No,
it
was
well.
Let
me
explain
that
to
you
affh
is
we
just
put
that
in
our
zoning,
but
it's
actually
a
civil
rights
standard
that
can
apply
to
any
and
all
departments,
and
it's
basically
taking
meaningful
actions
to
remove
obstacles
to
opportunity.
It's
a
huge
lift.
It
was
one
finally
filled
out
by
the
obama
administration,
but
this
community
action
committee
made
recommendations
for
the
entire
city,
all
departments,
and
it's
about
making
sure
that
we
do
not
enhance,
continue
or
go
on
a
route
of
continuing
systemic
discrimination.
L
L
So
I
just
want
to
say
that,
but
again
I
think
it
comes
back
to
the
real
concern
I
have
of
your
autonomy
and
your
ability
to
say
to
another
department.
You
are
messing
up,
you
are
violating
the
law
or
the
the
the
ordinance
that's
created
my
department
and
your
ability
to
do
that
is
is
a
or
inability
I
mean.
What
I
can
hear
and
see
is
you
weren't
even
invited
to
the
table?
L
L
Right
but
hud
was
head
was
enforcing
civil
rights
law,
specifically
around
the
exclusion
of
immigrants
through
the
process.
So
I
I
mean
I'm
not
saying
that
that's
anyone's
fault.
I
just
think
that
again,
if
we're
moving
in
silos
like
this-
and
we
have
a
whole
department
dedicated
to
civil
rights,
there's
got
to
be
a
baseline
of
eeoc.
If
hud
and
ncad
walks
in
to
hold
the
city
of
boston
accountable,
you
should
be
cc.
F
That's
correct,
that's
correct,
and
then
you
know
we're
continuing
to
sort
of
get
up
to
speed
in
that
space.
As
you
know,
particularly
coming
from
you
know,
state
or
federal
agencies,
it's
not
easy
to
sort
of
tell
them.
You
know
include
us
right
and
so
we're
threatening
lightly
we're
pushing,
and
hopefully
you
know,
as
we
continue
to
build
capacity,
we'll
get
more
and
more
in
those
spaces
that
you
allude
to
council.
But
thank
you
for
your
concerns
loud
and
clear,
and
I
agree
a
thousand
percent.
B
Also
edwards,
if,
if
I
can
jump
in
to,
I
think
that
the
creation
of
the
equity
cabinet
itself-
that's
that's
the
idea
behind
it
is
that
we
operationalize
equity
and
we're
looking
at
everything
from
you
know:
policy,
design,
program,
delivery,
language,
accessibility,
hiring
spending
like
that.
We're
looking
at
all
of
that,
together
with
with
my
appointment
to
the
role
we've
also
brought
over
the
supplier,
diversity
work,
and
so
I
just
want.
I
would
love
to
partner
with
you
and
the
rest
of
the
council.
B
We
are
developing
a
way
to
do
that,
so
that
it's
not
like
after
the
fact,
and
also
wanted
to
point
out
that
bpda
has
as
a
quasi
agency,
they
have
their
own
language
access
plan
and
personnel
working
on
that,
but
we
certainly
collaborate
with
with
them
and
all
qualities
on
our
equity
efforts.
So
just
wanted
to
lift
that
up.
L
G
A
Got
it
that's
cool
and,
and
so
it's
that
and
then
there's
the
hoarding
program,
which
sounds
great
and
then
there's
the
taxi
coupons
and
with
the
with
the
special
events,
social
isolation,
all
that
programming
investment
you're
hiring
a
programming
coordinator.
That's
the
proposal
right
is
that
the
only
new
fde
in
this
year's
budget.
G
G
So
we
were
we've
proposed
and
have
been
funded
for
a
four-part
series
around
to
bring
together
to
bring
older
adults
together,
to
celebrate
our
cultural
diversity
in
boston,
and
we
would
be
hiring
a
consultant
to
help
us
to
to
put
those
those
pieces
together.
Just
because
we
want
to.
We
have
a
lot
of
other
work.
We
need
to
get
done
as
well.
A
So
got
it
okay
and
just
to
be
clear
with
the
fte.
So
the
idea
is
that
the
money
to
pay
for
that
programming
coordinator
is
in
this
budget.
But
technically
you
haven't
gotten
it
through
the
committee
that
authorizes
new
positions,
and
so
it's
not
on
the
fte
side
in
the
proposed
budget.
Correct,
but
is,
is
that
somebody
who
you
would
anticipate
that
being
like
an
ongoing
thing.
A
Okay,
great,
wonderful
and
then
the
taxi
vouchers.
Can
you
just
I
agree
with
counselor
edwards.
We
can't
get
them
back
fast
enough.
I
do
just
want
to
understand
a
little
bit
and
and
I'm
I'm
sympathetic
to
the
need
to
modernize
the
program
having
having
run
around
with
taxi
vouchers
for
bha
folks,
quite
a
bit
in
my
prior
job.
But
what
do
we
mean
by
modernizing
the
program-
and
I
guess
in
particular,
sort
of
how
are
our
folks
going
to
get
access
to.
G
Them
sure
sure
so
so
I'll
say
I'll,
say
two
things
so,
first
of
all,
we're
looking
at
we're
working
with
the
administration
and
finance
folks
to
see,
if
there's
a
kind
of
a
part,
way
step.
We
can
take
this
year
to
allow
people
to
potentially
purchase
online
or
we're
just
exploring
exploring
other
options
for
that
right
now.
It
is
only
a
cash
exchange.
G
G
G
A
We've
noticed
it
like
that
grant
that
external
grant
has
gone
to
zero
across
the
budget
book
in
like
four
different
departments
like
it's,
it
appears
as
an
external
fund,
I
think
also
for
bcyf
and
also
for
something
else,
and
I
I
just
it
looked
to
me
from
your
description
like
it's
a
question
of
timing
like
it's,
it's
elapsing
for
the
end
of
fy21
and
we're
applying
for
it,
but
we
don't.
We
don't
technically
know
if
we're
gonna
get.
It
is.
Am
I
right
in
understanding
that.
C
So
we
have
at
this
moment
enough
resources
that
we
will
be
running
boston
it's
the
summer
without
any
interruption
and
we
actually
are
looking
to
host
even
more
sites
in
previous
years
and
the
boston
double
lab
is
the
same.
We
are
the
funding
is
ending
in
july.
We
have
the
funding
in
our
budget
and
with
the
new
investment
from
the
city
to
continue
the
pro
the
the
program
as
it
is
for
the
next
fiscal
year,
but
we
have
applied
to
the
gas
nib
grant.
That
is
the
usda
grant
to
ex
to
expand
the
program.
A
A
Got
it-
and
I
guess
my
one
question
would
be
that
makes
sense
to
me
that
transition,
but
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that,
because
I
think
one
of
our
goals
with
that
money
last
year
was
to
help,
like
I
mean,
help
food
access
in
the
sort
of
sheer
kind
of
operational
side.
Just
because
you
guys
have
been
running
so
many
more
operations
and
at
such
greater
scale
and
grant
we're
moving
away
from
emergency
food.
But
do
you
feel
like
if
you
lose
that
person,
even
if
our
programs
are
changing
like
do?
A
A
Okay,
so
that's
also,
that
is
a
new
position.
That's
starting
yeah,
okay,
and-
and
I
mean
I'm
really
really
glad
to
see
us
doing
this
sort
of
safety
net
programs
awareness
campaign.
I
mean,
I
think
you
know
the
snap
gap
in
boston,
as
you
know,
is
huge
and-
and
I
know
it's
more
than
just
the
snap
gap,
but
I
do
we
do
we
have
metrics
on
like
what
we
would
feel
like
success.
A
Looked
like
I
mean,
that's,
not
it's
a
pretty
modest
amount
of
money
we're
putting
into
that
fifty
thousand
dollars,
and
I
guess
it
would
obviously
be
a
huge
benefit
to
the
people
of
boston
if
like
if
a
higher
proportion
were
using
the
federal
funds
for
food,
so
just
like
yeah.
How
are
you
thinking
about
about
approaches
and
metrics
on
that.
C
C
So
in
this
moment
we
have
like
71
000
boston
residents
that
are
in
the
snap
gap,
so
we'll
be
like
half
of
those
71
000
on
snap,
but
that
number
chain
every
day.
So
I
feel
like
closing
code
like
perm,
like
closing,
closes,
say
zero
pair
people
is
not
to
be
possible
because
things
change
every
day,
but
we
want
to
see
the
number
going
down,
and
I
know
emily
from
edge
strong
is
also
like
working
and
have
a
team
member
that
is
going
to
be
working
on
the
snap
gap
in
the
portion
of
the
seniors.
C
C
We
yeah
we
are
working
with
the
hhs
and
other
ways
that
we
can
do
that
and
maybe
bring
more
funding,
but
I
think
that
we
wanted
to
to
tracks
intervention.
One
is
pr
and
education
at
a
city
level
and
the
other
one
is
more
like
hands-on,
like
community
level,
because
you
know
that
all
these
benefits
that
are
very
personal
and
very
difficult
to
talk
in
open
settings.
So
we
really
want
to
leverage
those
relationships
that
the
partners
have
with
the
constitution.
That
can
do
the
work
and
the
education
and
connecting
so.
A
Okay,
all
right
well
keep
us
posted
here
at
the
council
because
yeah,
it
just
seems
to
me
like
something
we
should
be
putting
more
into
and
then
okay.
I
think
I
think
those
are
my
questions
for
you
catalina
and
then
used
to
see.
But
before
I
ask
you
these
questions,
my
last
question
for
everybody
is
just
there's
a
big
conversation
going
on
about
the
federal
funding.
A
Oh
well,
the
departments
that
that
are
close
to
our
constituents
to
catalina's
point
right
might
have
some
instincts
on
what
are
the
things
that,
like
people,
really
need,
whether
we're
talking
about
direct
grant
programs
to
people
right
in
certain
situations
or
we're
talking
about
work
that
we
do
in
the
city,
but
that
might
need
to
be
scaled
up
more.
So
you
know,
without
without
asking
anybody
to
go,
put
a
number
on
something
that
you
know
they
haven't
cleared
with
obm
or
whatever.
A
It
would
be
great
for
me
to,
and
I
think
for
the
public
to
understand,
like
kind
of
some
of
the
like,
if
there's
anything,
that's
in
the
hopper,
from
the
perspective
of
what
your
department
sees
on
the
ground
as
we
have
those
conversations,
because
I
think
I
think
that
the
the
public
and
the
council,
you
know,
would
appreciate
having
that
perspective.
So
if
everyone
thinks
on
that,
I'm
going
to
go
to
ucp,
can
you
just
walk
through
a
little
bit
for
those
watching?
A
E
Yeah
yeah
I'm
happy
too,
and
I
just
want
to
say
that
all
that
money
should
just
go
to
immigrant
advancement
by
the
way
people
coming
for
government.
So
just
that's
my
plug,
not
joking,
so
in
fy
2019,
which
I
think
when
I
got
here,
we
were
at
five
ft's
within
that
fiscal
year.
We
added
two
more
positions.
E
A
E
Yeah,
so
the
three
that
we
added
for
fy21
was-
and
I
may
be
getting
this
wrong-
it
may
have
been
in
the
past
fiscal
year,
but
our
comms
manager,
our
communications
manager,
was
one
of
them.
The
second
person
is
was
our
constituent
services
coordinator,
which
was
really
great,
because
what
used
to
happen
is
each
one
of
my
staff
used
to
have
to
do
five
hours
of
constituent
services
so
now
that
we
actually
have
a
full-time
person
focused
on
that
it's
actually
increased
capacity
and
a
whole
other.
E
A
A
Got
it
and
sorry,
can
you
remind
me
again
so
the
foreign
trained
immigrant
professionals
pilot
program,
which
seems
exciting,
is
that
something?
Where
is
the
goal
like
for
us
to
have
like?
Basically,
I
feel
like
with
workforce
type
stuff?
I
always
have
to
ask
like
what's
the
piece
where
we
connect
people
into
an
actual
job?
Have
you
talked
to
owd?
E
Yeah
I
mean
first
of
all
this
this
this
model
that
we're
building
off
is
is,
is
a
tried
and
tested
model,
so
it
it's.
You
know
the
welcoming
center
in
philadelphia
has
used
this
model.
Some
other
cities
have
used
this
model,
and
so
you
know
that
that's
why
I
was
excited
to
pursue
this
piece.
We're
definitely
partnering
with
ow
d,
in
fact
they're
paying
for
the
stipends
for
the
half
of
the
stipends,
for
the
internships
that
would
be
placed
and
we're
also
in
conversation
with
our
area,
hospitals,
so
boston.
E
Children's,
for
instance,
has
absolutely
expressed
interest.
As
you
probably
know,
there
are
labor
shortages
in
the
medical
industry,
and
so
so
you
know
yeah.
So
this
would
be
internships
in
the
pilot.
It's
gonna
be
focused
on
the
medical
field
and
we
we
feel
like
there's
a
really
good
shot
at
it's
gonna
lead
to
a
job,
because
that's
kind
of
the
conversation
we're
having
with
an
abn
the
african
bridge
network
is
having
with
these
employers.
E
A
Got
it
okay,
great
and
and
the
immigrant
lead
boston.
I
obviously
had
the
pleasure
absolute
pleasure
of
speaking
at
the
graduation
for
that
program
and
it
just
seemed
like
a
fantastic
cohort.
What
what
was
the
learning
from
that
in
terms
of
so
we're
bringing
the
leadership
of
it
internal
rather
than
contracted?
Is
there
anything
else
about
it?
That's
sort
of
shifting
from
the
pilot
go
around.
E
You
know
about
city
government
through
we
had
a
civic
engagement
project
that
was
part
of
this,
that
it
was
a
capstone
project
that
you
know,
we
didn't
feel
like
led
to
the
results
that
we
wanted.
So
we
need
to
experiment
with
that
part
of
it
and
then
there's
also
clear
in
the
evaluation
piece.
Just
thinking
about
how
to
integrate
strategies
to
increase
the
participation
in
public
meetings
so
that
in
to
ensure
participants,
become
more
civically
involved
and
understand.
E
So
how
can
they
be
part
of
city
council's
hearing,
as
part
of
you
know
the
program
which
we
didn't
really
do
and
then
and
then
obviously
it's
just.
How
can
we
do
a
spanish
speaking
cohort
and
a
asian
creole,
chord
and
kind
of
build
that
pieces
out
and
bu
is
the
one
that
was
doing
our
evaluation
for
this
through
our
partner
on
it.
So
those
were
the
findings
and
that's
what
we
wanted.
The
ilb
coordinator
to
focus
on.
E
So
certainly
the
basic
needs
assist
assistance
that
we
provided,
which
was
a
form
and
frankly,
in
some
ways
of
you
know,
providing
cash
assistance
to
our
immigrant
residents.
I
I
hope,
there's
a
way
to
continue
doing
that.
As
long
as
our
our
communities
are,
our
immigrant
residents
aren't
able
to
get
back
to
work
right,
and
we
know
there's
going
to
be
a
period
of
time
for
that,
particularly
our
most
vulnerable
legal
needs,
I
think,
is
another.
You
know
piece
that
is
really
you
know.
E
C
I
can
go
so
and
cancer
book,
I
was
mentioning
the
snap
and
I've
reached.
I
think
that's
one
other
thing
that
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
can
do
is
connect
people
with
their
services
and
decrease
the
stigma
around
the
services
and
provide
correct
information,
so
everyone
feel
like
entitled
to
you
to
do
it.
So
that's
one
of
the
things
we
want
to
do.
I
only
want
to
try
to
find
ways
that
we
can
increase
like
food
services,
people
be
able
to
grow
and
get
the
food
that
they
they
deserve.
C
What
they
want,
and
also
probably
this
is
spaces
for
healing
through
the
days
of
time.
Another
thing
that
I
would
like
we
would
like
to
do
is
keep
giving
power
and
resources
to
the
community
to
execute
the
and
the
the
responses
that
they
are
more
appropriate
for
them.
So
we
want
to.
We
want
to
push
that
forward
and
also
we
want
to
be
able
to
support
better
our
immigrant
population
and
working
with
you
to
be
very
closely
because
they
are
the
ones
who
can
now.
C
I
can't
qualify
for
any
of
the
safety
net
programs
so
that
we
are
putting
a
lot
of
effort
to
make
everyone
on
a
snap,
but
we
still
have
a
pocket
that
doesn't
qualify
for
that
and
need
support.
So
we're
gonna
try
to
like
move
forward
with
some
of
those
initiatives,
and
I
think
that's
the
idea
that
we
have
so
far.
G
That
piece
we
do
need
to
work
on,
and
so
I
think
that
that
is
a
potential
area
for
investment.
We
certainly
are
looking
at
social
isolation
and
any
creative
things
we
can
do
around
social
isolation,
to
break
down
barriers
and
I'll
just
add,
as
we
as
we
think
about
this
about
funds.
You
know
we
will
also
be
getting
additional.
G
American
rescue
plan
act,
funds
into
our
office,
and
we
are
we're,
certainly
also
looking
for
ideas,
we're
awaiting
guidelines
on
what
we
can
use
those
funds
for,
and
that
will
certainly
make
the
conversation
about
what
we
do
with
them.
A
lot
a
lot
easier,
but
looking
at
that
and
then
in
terms
of
aging
services,
as
we
think
about
funds,
as
certainly
the
increased
f
map
for
home
and
community
based
services,
there's
really
a
lot
of
conversation
going
around
around
on
that
in
the
community.
G
A
G
Yeah,
I
mean,
I
think
a
lot
of
it
will
be
passed
through,
but
I
think,
as
we
look
at
you
know,
having
cares
act
and
then
having
this
funding
and
the
regular
title
three
funding
I
mean
it
will
all
be.
It
will
all
be
title
three
funding
and
we
can
make
a
ask
of
elder
affairs
in
terms
of
how
much
we
keep
in-house
and
what
we
keep
that
in-house
for
and
what
we
use
that
on
in
terms
of
putting
it
out
through
grants.
G
So
we
have
to
stay
within
certain
guidelines,
but
I
I
think
you
know,
I
think
it.
I
think,
there's
lots
of
conversations
ahead,
because
you
know
we
will
we'll
pass
money
out
for
if
our
partners
have
good
uses
for
those
funds
and
there's
a
certain
point
in
time
when
they'll
have
to
expand
the
types
of
things
that
they're
doing
in
order
to
be
able
to
utilize
the
funds
in
a
good
way.
And
so
so
I
think
I
think,
unlike
the
cares
act
this
this
next
investment
is
going.
G
A
No
no,
but
cares
act
was
like.
Oh,
my
gosh,
there's
all
these
emergency
things
on
top
of
us
like
we're
dealing
with
them
yeah,
and
this
is
more
like
yeah,
there's
more
strategic
need
to
yeah.
What
and
and
what
is
the
top
line
number
for
a
strong
stuff
from
arp?
Do
you
guys
have
that?
We
don't
have
it
yet?
A
G
G
I
I
think
I
I
it
I
mean
there
were
large
investments
on
the
on
the
federal
level,
but
those
funds
come
to
us
very
specifically
in
buckets
a
lot
of
money
that
goes
to
home,
delivered
meals
and
that
program
across
the
city
has
increased
by
40
percent
since
the
start
of
code.
So
that's
you
know
that
will
be
well
used.
G
There'll
be
another
big
investment
in
caregiver
funds
and
then
there'll
be
a
smaller
investment
in
title
3b,
which
is
really
our
more
flexible
pot
of
money
where
we
can,
where
we
can
look
to.
We
just
did
a
needs
assessment,
so
kind
of
look
at
those
needs
have
some
conversations
and
be
a
little
more
strategic
about
where
we
use
those
dollars.
A
All
right,
it's
fair
enough.
Well,
thank
you
and
yes,
I
think
there
will
be
ongoing
conversation
with
the
council
about
all
that,
but
that's
exciting
and-
and
I
assume
emily-
that
I
shouldn't
be
too
worried
about
the
we
did.
We
did
get
slightly
concerned
about
sort
of
the
I
mean
catalina
referred
to
the
sun
setting,
but
the
kind
of
you
know
seniors
who
are
still
getting
the
weekly
groceries
and
who
you
know
that.
Might
that
might
go
away
in
the
future,
like
kind
of?
How
are
you
thinking
through
that
piece.
G
G
There's
another
set
of
about
400
that
our
asap
partners
will
be
will
be
working
with
because
they
already
have
asap
services.
So
we
will
be
working
to
connect
people
to
other
existing
food
resources
and
also
listening
for
what
those
gaps
may
be
as
we
call
through
people
and
as
we
look
towards
how
we
spend
future
funds.
A
Okay,
well,
I
just
would
say
I
think,
that's
going
to
be
an
important
place
for
you
know
if,
if
there's
a
tranche
of
that,
where
people
really
still
need
some
kind
of
support
right,
that's
where
we
all
want
to
want
to
spend
money,
because,
while
we've
had
this
hearing,
the
governor
has
announced
the
emergency
is
going
to
be
officially
over
in
massachusetts
as
of
the
15th
of
june,
which
is
the
day
after
your
sunset.
So
you
know,
but
we
all
know
that
people's
lives
don't
follow
these
these
these
date
lines.
A
A
F
I'm
all
set
as
well,
but
I
do
think
that
you
know
equity
digital
divide,
that
emily
highlighted
used
to
be
highlighted,
funded
for
to
try
to
build
wealth.
You
know
to
to
reduce
the
wealth
cap
is
important,
the
other
one
that
maybe
someone
didn't
no
one
mentioned
was
housing.
Housing
is
a
big
one
right,
so
a
lot
of
funding,
hopefully
towards
that.
But
that's
all
I
have
thank
you.
A
B
No
again,
thank
you
for
for
your
focus
on
these
issues
and
for
for
lifting
up
the
work
of
the
these
small,
but,
as
you
have
all
noted,
very
mighty
departments,
we
really
appreciate
the
dialogue
and
your
support
and
and
really
look
forward
to
moving
forward
with
expanding
our
services
in
the
new
fiscal
year
with
with
the
increases
in
the
budgets
that
we've
gotten.
So,
as
you
know,
we've
talked
about
language
accessibility,
the
the
complaints
process
for
the
human
rights
commission,
supporting
immigrants
throughout
the
city
of
boston.
A
Great
excellent,
well,
thank
you
and
thank
you
to
the
whole
team
and
thanks
for
sticking
through
a
long
hearing
and
being
patient
as
we
ask
each
all
of
you
questions.
I
really
do
appreciate
it
and
very
much
all
the
work
that
you
do
so
I
just
have
to
check.
There's
a
natasha
in
the
waiting
room
who
might
be
part
of
somebody's
team
but
might
be
he's
our
chief
of
staff
for
the
equity
coverage.
There
we
go
so
we
won't
be
taking
public
testimony
from
natasha
but
but
yeah.