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From YouTube: Committee on Ways & Means FY23Budget: Environment/ Parks
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Dockets #0480 - 0486 - Fiscal Year 2023 budget: Environment, Parks & Recreation
Held on May 26, 2022
A
For
the
record,
my
name
is
tania,
fernando
anderson,
the
district
7
city
councilor.
I
am
the
chair
of
the
boston
city
council
committee
on
ways
and
means
this
hearing
is
being
recorded.
It
is
being
live
stream
at
boston.gov
for
slash
city
dash,
council
dash
tv
and
broadcast
on
xfinity
channel
8,
rcn,
channel
82
and
files
channel
964..
A
The
council's
budget
review
process
will
encompass
a
series
of
public
hearings
beginning
in
april
and
running
through
june.
We
strongly
encourage
residents
to
take
a
moment
to
encourage
to
engage
in
this
process
by
giving
public
testimony
for
the
record.
You
can
do
this
in
several
ways
attend
one
of
our
hearings
and
give
public
testimony.
A
We
will
take
public
testimony
at
each
departmental
hearing
and
also
at
two
hearings
dedicated
to
public
testimony.
The
full
hearing
schedule
is
on
our
website
boston.gov
for
slash
council
budget.
Our
scheduled
hearings,
dedicated
to
public
testimony
was
on
april
26
at
6
pm
and
the
following
on
june,
2nd
at
6
pm.
Virtually
you
can
give
testimony
in
person
here
in
the
chamber
or
virtually
via
zoom
for
in-person
testimony.
Please
come
to
the
chamber
and
sign
up
on
the
sheet
near
the
entrance
for
virtual
testimony.
A
Boston.Gov,
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you
are
called
to
testify,
please
state
your
name
and
affiliation
and
or
residence
and
limit
your
comments
to
two
minutes
to
ensure
that
all
comments
and
concerns
can
be
heard.
Email,
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written
testimony
to
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committee
at
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boston.gov
or
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a
two-minute
video
of
your
testimony
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the
form
on
our
website
for
more
information
on
the
city
council
budget
process
and
how
to
testify.
Please
visit
the
city
council
budget
website
at
boston.gov
forward,
slash
council
dash
budget.
Today's
hearing
is
on
docket
zero.
A
A
A
B
B
I
also
want
to
just
take
a
quick
moment
to
acknowledge
that
we
will
be
focusing
mostly
on
parks
and
environment,
but
that
our
cabinet
also
includes
historic
preservation,
which
is
proposed
to
be
its
own
new
office
within
our
cabinet,
beginning
in
the
new
fiscal
year.
The
office
of
food
justice,
which
was
previously
in
hhs
and
has
joined
our
cabinet
as
well
as
animal
control,
cemeteries.
B
Golf
courses
the
park
rangers
and
the
recreation
division
which
all
sit
within
parks,
while
we
will
focus
on
the
specific
things
within
the
budget
I
wanted
to
maintain.
I
wanted
to
mention
each
of
these
groups
because
they
are
important
and
they've
made
a
significant
accomplishments
this
year
and
in
the
interest
of
the
20
minutes
that
we
have,
we
won't
be
able
to
go
into
great
detail
on
them.
With
that,
I
will
hand
it
off
to
commissioner
brzezias.
C
Thanks.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Thank
you
chief
white
hammond
good
afternoon.
My
name
is
ryan
woods
and
I
proudly
serve
as
the
parks
commissioner
for
the
city
of
boston
joining
me
today,
as
our
director
of
the
capitol
plan,
kathy
baker,
eclipse
director
finance,
stephanie
mcmanus
and
our
general
superintendent
of
maintenance,
josh
altador,
I'd
like
to
thank
the
councillor
council
for
their
support
of
our
department.
The
parks
department
is
more
inclusive
and
accessible
because
of
the
council
support
and
leadership.
C
So
we
thank
you
for
your
past
support
and
as
we
look
forward
to
working
together
in
this
future
fiscal
year,
our
department
focuses
on
four
main
areas:
access
equity
excellence
and
adaptability
access.
We
are
the
first
city
on
the
east
coast,
where
all
residents
are
within
a
ten
minute,
walk
from
their
front
door,
but
now
we
need
to
focus
on
it,
taking
additional
steps
to
not
only
be
ada
compliant
but
strive
for
universal
accessibility
when
possible,
equity
in
our
investment,
maintenance
services
and
renovation
of
capital
projects
throughout
the
city.
C
C
I
would
especially
like
to
call
out
our
maintenance
staff
who
clean
and
maintain
our
parks,
our
animal
care
and
control
staff
that
have
been
responding
to
animal
emergencies
and
operate
our
shelter
daily.
Our
park
ranges
to
ensure
park,
rules
are
enforced
and
park,
users
remain
safe
and
our
cemetery
staff,
who
assist
with
final
preparations
and
assist
grieving
families
throughout
this
pandemic
parks,
have
been
that
one
place
where
everyone
can
go,
whether
for
rest,
relaxation,
recreation
respite
or
rejuvenation
a
lot
of
ours
there.
C
Our
parks
continue
to
be
that
space
where
people
can
go
safely,
go
outside
distance
themselves
in
nature
and
bring
some
mental
wellness
to
their
lives
in
this
year's
budget,
we're
proposing
an
increase
of
1.6
million
in
operating
budget
to
go
to
29.9
million.
This
includes
the
addition
of
non-standard
tree
pits:
preservation
of
enhanced
open
space
preservation
of
our
urban
tree
canopy
and
expanded
athletic
court
access
investment
and
specialized
equipment,
and
three
new
ftes
for
our
urban
forestry
division.
C
We're
also
proposing
a
capital
budget
of
56.6
million,
which
is
16.8
million
dollars
over
the
fiscal
year.
22
budget
I'd
like
to
quickly
share
some
of
our
highlights.
From
this
past
year,
recreation
programming
returned
with
over
19
000
residents,
taking
participating
in
our
programs
with
six
park.
Openings
and
ground
breakings
82
000
rounds
of
golf
were
played.
That's
a
10
increase
of
pre-pandemic
times.
C
Thirty
thousand
two
hundred
attendees
took
part
in
cultural
programming
with
a
hundred
and
free
events
and
the
mayor's
mural
crew
celebrated
its
30th
anniversary
working
with
youth.
This
week,
we'll
rededicate
the
shaw
54th
regiment
memorial
and
last
month
we
broke
ground
on
the
king,
boston,
memorial
and
coming
up
this
month.
We're
gonna
have
the
completion
of
the
boston,
common
master
plan,
our
animal
care
and
control,
division
issued,
10
779
dog
licenses
and
the
shelter
provided
care
for
859
cats
and
dogs
and
got
70
different
pets
adopted.
C
We
had
4
328
permits
for
weddings,
athletics
and
special
events,
which
is
2300
more
than
the
previous
year,
and
our
cemetery
division
provided
burial
services
for
464
boston,
families
that
lost
a
loved
one
as
we
go
into
fiscal
year.
23
our
goals
are
to
complete
the
urban
forestry
plan,
also
complete
the
franklin
park
action
plan
which
is
on
par
for
this
fall
fully
staff,
our
urban
forestry
division,
add
water
features
to
capital
projects,
especially
in
urban
heat.
Islands,
extend
the
season
for
athletic
field
and
court
lighting.
C
We
realized,
as
the
temperatures
get
warmer
with
climate,
we
were
ending
our
courts
around
halloween
and
we
need
to
extend
into
november
and
early
december
as
the
weather
permits.
So
people
can
still
access
these
important
open
spaces
and
using
new
equipment
to
bring
more
maintenance
services
in-house
the
boston
parks
department
always
strives
to
do
better,
adapt
to
the
times
and
ensure
our
public
spaces
are
safe
and
welcoming
to
all.
Thank
you
and
I'll
pass
it
off
to
commissioner
brizias
from
environment.
D
Counselors,
thank
you
for
having
me
here
today.
My
name
is
alison
brizias
and
I'm,
commissioner
of
the
environment
department.
I
am
excited
to
be
here
today
to
discuss
the
mayor's
proposed
budget
for
the
environment
department.
Our
team
supports
mayor
wu's
vision
of
accelerating
climate
action
while
enhancing
environmental
justice
and
improving
quality
of
life
in
boston.
D
There
are
many
concerning
factors
that
we
must
prepare
for,
though,
addressing
climate
change
is
a
defining
challenge
of
our
time.
We
can
choose
to
create
from
it
one
of
the
most
significant
opportunities
to
realize
an
equitable
future
for
our
city
focused
on
supporting
communities
most
vulnerable
to
its
impacts.
D
The
past
year
has
seen
many
advances
in
our
work.
To
mention
just
a
few
highlights:
we've
worked
closely
with
the
city
council
and
residents
across
the
city
to
pass
the
building
emissions
reduction
and
disclosure
ordinance
in
october
of
2021,
setting
a
pathway
to
carbon
neutrality
for
boston's
largest
buildings.
D
Our
internal
energy
efficiency
initiatives
have
achieved
their
first
fuel
year
of
savings
and
work
in
phase
tier
2
is
nearing
completion
with
savings
for
the
first
two
phases
combined
reaching
almost
1.1
million
dollars
a
year.
And
finally,
the
historic
preservation
team
has
worked
to
designate
the
shirley
eustace
house
and
slave
quarters
as
a
historic,
landmark
and
complete.
The
study
report
for
our
new
soon-to-be,
hopefully
newly
proposed
highland
park,
architectural
conservation
district,
and
I'm
pleased
to
tell
you
that
mayor
wu's,
proposed
budget
for
this
coming
year
will
enable
us
to
accelerate
our
work.
D
It
includes
major
new
investments
towards
carbon
neutrality
in
the
form
of
supporting
and
implementing
birdo
2.0.
Our
most
recent
birdo
and
helping
building
owners
achieve
their
carbon
targets.
It
accelerates
our
efforts
to
decarbonize
our
municipal
assets
with
an
additional
more
than
52
million
dollars
of
investment
in
renew
boston
trust,
and
it
proposes
significant
investments
for
climate
resilience
and
conservation,
including
two
and
a
half
million
dollars
in
a
new
partnership
with
the
public
works
department.
We're
calling
climate
ready
streets
is
an
initiative
to
enhance
cooling
strategies
and
increase
deployment
of
green
infrastructure
across
our
city
streets.
D
An
additional
three
million
dollars
is
added
to
the
climate
resilience
reserve,
enabling
the
city
to
support
the
implementation
of
climate
adaptation
measures
and
a
new
350
000
investment
in
an
urban
wilds
conservation
and
land
management
plan
to
prioritize
land
acquisition,
renovations,
mana
and
management
for
existing
properties
combined.
This
represents
more
than
62
million
dollars
of
increase
in
our
capital
funds
over
the
last
year.
D
It
also
includes
some
major
changes,
namely,
as
the
chief
mentioned,
the
creation
of
a
new
office
of
historic
preservation,
which
has
currently
sat
in
the
environment
department,
as
well
as
moving
several
key
initiatives
from
last
year
into
new
and
deeper
investments
to
expand
out
what
was
once
a
pilot
program
into
real
initiatives
in
capital
and
arbor
dollars,
including
green
youth
jobs
and
our
healthy
places.
Initiative.
D
Marawu's
commitment
to
a
green
new
deal
for
boston
is
demonstrated
through
our
entire
budget
proposal.
It's
an
all-of-government
investment
that
can
be,
and
it
can
be
seen
in
the
work
of
many
departments
in
collaboration
across
the
city,
not
the
environment,
department
alone,
but
before
I
pass
it
back
to
the
chief
I'd
just
like
to
take
a
moment
to
express
my
deep
gratitude
to
the
staff
of
the
environment
department.
None
of
this
work
would
be
possible
without
their
dedication
to
boston
and
making
our
city
and
our
planet
a
healthier
and
a
more
equitable
place.
B
B
Diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
are
a
major
priority
in
the
department
and
when
I
came
in,
I
was
one
of
the
only
senior
staff
of
color
and
across
the
cabinet.
We
definitely
have
some
inequities,
and
that
is
clear,
but
over
the
last
year,
from
2021
to
2022,
particularly
I
know
in
the
environment
department,
we
were
able
to
double
the
rate
of
hiring
of
bypoc
folks
and
in
the
parks
department.
We've
really
leaned
in
on
how
we
are
setting
apart
charting
a
path
for
people
into
senior
leadership
roles.
B
We've
looked
at
this
in
terms
of
the
way
we
post
the
way
we
reach
out
to
people
and
make
it
accessible.
So
I'm
not
sure
that
everybody
can
see
this
line,
but
I
know
the
council
does
get
to
see
it
and
you're
able
to
see
that
top
line
is
the
percentage
of
white
staff,
and
the
bottom
is
all
of
the
different
communities
of
color
we've
seen
rises
across
all
and
as
you've
seen
a
somewhat
of
a
decline
in
the
concentration
of
our
white
staff.
B
Our
goal
is
to
get
to
the
place
that
we
are
reflective
of
the
city
of
boston
and
in
this
next
slide,
you'll
see
also
the
trends
in
parks
again
been
making
progress.
There.
Also,
there
was
a
higher
level
of
equity
in
parks
already
in
terms
of
the
full
workforce,
and
the
conversation
in
parks
is
much
more
around
how
we
move
people
into
leadership,
because
the
numbers
are
closer
to
actually
what
the
city
looks
like,
but
not
when
you
look
at
how
folks
are
distributed
across
different
levels
of
income
categories
within
the
department.
B
So
I
will
share,
because
I
know
I'm
running
up
against
my
time,
so
I'm
open
to
having
even
more
conversations.
But
I
want
to
make
sure
that
I
match
our
time
that
one
of
our
big
interventions
to
continue
accelerating
this
work
around
equity
and
inclusion,
but
also
to
accelerate
our
work
to
deepen
our
commitment
to
climate
resilience
and
climate
medication
is
power
core
boston,
one
of
the
initiatives
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
fun
working
on
and
they
are
planning
a
january
a
june
15th
start.
B
We've
also
had
some
other
opportunities
that
have
come
along
that
we're
going
to
be
introducing
people
to
in
terms
of
urban
agriculture,
green
roofs
and
smart
building
technology
that
they'll
get
exposure
to
with
not
the
same
level
of
intensity
as
urban
forestry
in
the
park
rangers.
So
we've
also
done
a
lot
of
work
around
equitable
procurement.
B
B
If
any
counselor
is
interested
because
I'm
30
seconds
from
time,
I
can
talk
more
deeply
about
where
we
see
deep
challenges.
But
I
will
say
the
investment
is
not
equal
across
all
neighborhoods
and
you'll
notice.
A
couple
neighborhoods
that
we've
highlighted
a
zero
investment
in
part
because
there
are
some
of
them
are
our
heat
islands.
B
We
want
to
talk
more
deeply
about
how
we
think
about
acquisitions
and
where
we
need
more
open
space,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
that's
an
alignment
what
we
have
found
already
about
climate
impacts
so
that
we
are
investing
in
the
neighborhoods
that
need
open
space
the
most.
There
are
a
couple
of
things
we
will
look
to
provide
in
the
future
that
we
didn't
yet
have,
which
is
really
thinking
about
how
we
break
this
down
per
capita
to
really
think
about.
B
Obviously,
if
dorchester
is
our
largest
neighborhood,
it
is
likely
that
we
will
spend
more
there,
but
we
want
to
look
where
there
are
per
capita
in
equities
and
also
looking
at
things
like
neighborhoods
that
have
the
level
of
decent
density
that
they
do
not
have.
Backyards
like
chinatown,
like
east
boston,
where
a
lot
of
people
don't
have
backyards,
so
our
parks
are
their
backyard.
We
believe
that
we
should
be
even
deeper
investments
in
communities
where
there
is
not
as
much
open
space
attached
to
individual
homes
etc.
B
So
I
will
in
there
trying
I
am
a
preacher,
but
I'm
still
on
time.
So
that's
the
first
miracle
of
this
above
this
hearing,
but
we
are
open
to
any
questions
that
allow
us
to
go
into
greater
deep
detail
of
the
things
that
we're
working
on.
Thank
you
for
creating
this
space
and
time
look
forward
to
answering
your
questions.
A
A
So
my
first
question
is:
we
know
that
quality,
or
at
least
air
quality
varies
from
neighborhood
to
neighborhood
and
how
this
perpetuates
in
different
levels
of
different
health
inequities,
especially
you
know
where
black
and
brown
people
are
condensely
populated.
Can
you
tell
me
specifically
in
terms
of
your
proposal
in
the
project
for
this
year?
How
you're
thinking
about
changing
that.
B
Yeah
so
I'll
be
transferring
that
we
have
not
mapped
air
quality
data
on
top
of
the
things
that
we're
already
looking
at
where
we
did
really
map
was
heat,
but
there's
often
an
alignment
between
those
heat
issues
and
the
air
quality
issues.
We
have
what
mapped
our
heat
islands
looking
at
red,
redlining
maps
for
the
city
of
boston
in
the
past,
and
unfortunately,
there
is
a
deep
alignment
between
redlining
of
the
past,
where
we
have
heat
islands
and
often
there's
a
deep
correlation
with
those
same
things
in
terms
of
air
quality.
B
So
a
number
of
neighborhoods
that
we've
spent
some
deeper
dive
into
the
five
neighborhoods
we
leaned
into
the
most
are
chinatown
as
our
hottest
city,
and
we
also
happen
to
know
some
of
the
worst
air
quality
because
of
the
concentration
of
highway,
90
and
93
running
so
close
to
the
neighborhood
and
all
the
other
traffic
that
goes
there.
We
also
looked
at
roxbury
with
a
heavy
focus
on
nubian
square
and
grove
hall
as
two
areas
where
there
are
a
lot
of
hard
there's
a
lot
of
hardscape,
which
exacerbates
some
of
the
same
challenges.
B
East
boston,
which
I
mentioned
earlier,
which
again
not
a
lot
of
open
space
around
so
folks,
are
often
using
parks,
and
then
there
is
a
beautiful,
mitigating
factor
of
the
water,
but
that
poses
this
other
level
of
risk
in
terms
of
flooding
and
finally
matapan
with
the
heaviest
location
being
the
matapan
station
area.
So
we
have
not
pulled
all
of
the
data
together
for
every
place,
but
those
are
the
five
communities
that
we
looked
in
the
deepest
starting
from
where
was
where
was
hottest
and
connecting
it
with
all
the
other
factors.
B
B
We
also
have
the
air
pollution
control
commission,
which
sits
in
the
environment
department
and
is
in
the
process
right
now.
Looking
at
how
we
do
some
mapping
around
air
air
pollution
in
relation
to
some
of
the
heat
zones
and
on
a
deeper
level,
we
are
trying
to
figure
out
both
doing
it
externally,
so
to
know
what's
happening
in
neighborhoods,
and
then
what
a
pilot
project
might
look
like
to
map
it
within
people's
homes,
a
little
bit
more
complicated
in
figuring
out
how
to
make
that
that
work.
B
And
finally,
we
did
fund
a
project.
This
was
a
community
driven
project,
particularly
in
east
boston,
to
really
look
at
air
quality
in
relationship
both
to
people's
homes,
but
particularly,
I
think
one
of
the
interesting
and
worthwhile
things,
although
it's
a
little
depressing
to
think
about,
but
particularly
working
with
child
care
providers,
to
look
at
the
impact
of
this
air.
These
air
quality
issues
on
our
children
and
what
we
can
do
to
mitigate
that.
A
B
B
Roxbury
and
matapan
are
also
included
in
that
because
they
have
heat
impacts.
But
in
this
case
they
don't
have
coastal
flooding
impacts
and
the
third
phase
will
need
to
be
looking
at
rainwater
flooding
and
we
are
already
in
conversation
with
with
boston,
water
and
sewer,
because
that
also
overlaps
with
them
and
the
work
that
they're
doing
so.
B
A
Thank
you.
Can
you
tell
me
what
is
the
process
to
which
the
administration
receives
or
communicates
with
you
in
planning
capital
proposals
for
parks?
What
what
is
that
process?
How
do
you,
how
do
you?
How
do
you
propose?
Is
there
an
application
that
you
fill
out
and
say
these
are
the
parks
that
we
want,
or
these
are
the
projects
that
we
want
to
work
on.
C
Sure
so
we
work
hand
in
hand
with
the
mayor's
capital
budget
office,
and
we
also
look
at
all
the
parks
and
try
to
renovate
all
the
play.
Lots,
for
example,
every
15
years
things
go
out
of
code,
so
we
need
to
make
sure
they're
up
to
code
and
that
they're
safe
for
everybody,
but
we're
doing
regular
inspections.
C
A
C
It's
a
shared
spreadsheet
that
kathy
who's,
a
head
of
our
capital
program,
shares
with
the
mayor's
budget
office
and
lists
all
the
concerns
and
what
we
hear
and
then
starts
a
community
process
and
sometimes
the
budget's
a
little
smaller.
But
then
we
hear
the
community
process
and
realize
this
has
to
be
a
larger
project.
What
we
thought
might
just
be
a
drainage
issue
is
now
also
pathways
and
courts
and
everything
so
it
goes
larger,
but
there's
not
a
set
application.
It's
more
communication
and
spreadsheets
back
and
forth,
and.
C
It
is
so,
and
we
prioritize
those,
so
we
know
ones
that
we
got
this
year
and
if
we
didn't
get
them
this
year,
they're
the
priorities
for
the
very
next
season.
Usually
so
we
put
everything
in
all
at
once,
sometimes
there's
30
to
31
projects
that
we
get
assigned
a
year
to
go
through
and
just
with
four
staff
overseeing
them.
We
get
through,
you
know
15
or
16,
and
then
it
goes
into
the
next
capital
cycle,
but
always
trying
to
prioritize
on
safety
and
making
sure
the
parks
are
welcoming
for
everyone
to
use.
E
A
F
F
There's
also
park
grants
coming
from
the
state
that
we
typically
apply
for.
So
when
I'm,
when
we're
putting
together
the
overall
list,
that's
going
to
be
submitted
to
to
the
budget
office,
I've
kind
of
thought
about
what
might
be
good
fits
for
each
of
those
projects,
knowing
some
of
each
of
those
grants
knowing
some
of
the
specific
requirements
of
them
and
then,
as
other
opportunities
come
along
throughout
the
year.
F
A
Okay,
I
guess
I'm
thinking
about
diversity,
inclusion,
racial
equity,
climate
injustice
for
black
and
brown
people,
condensely
populated
areas,
whether
or
not
it's
predominantly
white
or
black
and
brown
people
it
it
like
it.
It
makes
sense
right
if
we
understand
exactly
the
priorities,
because
the
council
we've
been
talking
a
lot
about
projects
that
get
proposed.
A
For
example,
like
you
could
look
at
roxbury
and
say
you
know,
it
looks
pretty
equitable
because
in
areas
or
neighborhoods
that
are
densely
populated
by
black
and
brown
people,
they're
getting
proposed
a
hundred
million
dollars,
for
example,
and
for
a
real
example.
You
look
at
last
year's
and
although
111
million
were
proposed,
2
million
was
actually
spent
and
then,
when
you
compare
the
projects
that
are
city
funded
and
the
projects
that
have
to
heavily
rely
on
grants,
then
you
we
noticed
that
70
over
70
of
those
of
that
was
in
roxbury
relying
on
grant.
A
But
then
in
other
areas
that
are
less
black
and
brown
people
were
prioritized
for
city
funds.
This
meant
that
the
money
was
more
readily
available,
and
so,
when
you
compared
how
much
money
was
spent
in
areas
in
affluent
areas,
they
were
spent
way
more
about
56
million,
and
I
won't
name
neighborhoods,
because
I
don't
want
my
counselor
colleagues
to
fight
with
me.
But-
and
I
want
all
neighborhoods
to
have
everything
right.
A
It
doesn't
necessarily
mean
that
those
communities
are
actually
going
to
get
those
projects
completed
right
right
away
or
in
the
next
year
or
two,
and
so
every
year,
you'll
see
money
being
proposed
for
roxbury
for
mattapan
for
dorchester
areas
where
mostly
black
and
brown
people
live.
But
if
they're
not
being
prioritized.
If
the
money
is
coming
directly
from
the
city,
then
they
have
to
wait
and
those
projects
take
way
longer.
B
I'm
I'm
glad
that
you
are
raising
these
questions.
Let's
see,
as
folks
may
know,
these
issues
were
issues
that
I
worked
on
before
I
entered
government
they've
always
been
important
to
me
and
it's
conversations
that
I've
had
with
everyone
at
this
table.
Early
on,
when
I
came,
we've
been
trying
to
figure
out
what
is
the
metric.
We
want
to
look
at
once
a
quarter.
I
do
look
at.
B
So
you
know
where
I've
tried
to
look
is
as
we
are
as
people
transition
and
we
have
open
positions.
How
are
we
aggressively
looking
at
who
we're
recruiting
and
who
we're
giving
opportunity
to
even
be
seen
for
those
positions?
So
I
think
yeah,
I'm
glad
that
the
questions
are
being
asked,
they're
questions
we're
asking
internally.
It
will
take
time
to
move
the
needle,
but
I
think
the
first
important
step
to
moving
the
needles
to
making
sure
that
everybody
is
clear
about
where
we
are.
B
I
think
from
your
question
about
about
land
acquisition
in
terms
of
what
new
parks
were
going
to
add
and
and
renovation,
I
have
heard
staff
say
similar
values
as
we've
sat
and
talked.
I
think
we
need
to
figure
out,
and
we've
talked
about
this,
both
in
the
malcolm
x
process
and
all
we
need
to
be
upfront,
transparent
and
lead
with
our
value,
so
everybody
knows
what
they
are
and
we
need
to
have
a
clear
set
of
metrics.
So
these
are
some
of
the
metrics
that
we're
using
to
look
at
them
consistently.
B
Look
at
them
historically
and
then
ask
how
do
we
move
the
needle
this
this
year
to
next
year
and
then
next
year
to
the
year
after
until
we
get
to
the
place
where
the
metrics
we're
looking
at
match
what
we
believe
they
should
be
given
what
we
know
and
things
like
we
haven't
yet
figured
out
how
to
do
this.
How
do
you
note
that
some
neighborhoods
don't
have
backyards,
because
it
really
does
make
a
difference?
B
We
should
have
more
public
parks
in
places
where
people
cannot
have
a
cookout
in
their
backyard,
where
the
only
space
are
the
spaces.
We
provide
we
need
to
think
about
that
more
deeply.
We've
also
opened
conversations
with
the
state
because
there's
a
lot
of
neighborhoods,
where
the
state
owns
some
of
those
park
lands.
B
But
I
I
will
say
I
am
asking
those
questions
and
I
have
found
that
on
the
whole
staff
have
been
responsive
and
creative
as
we
try
to
figure
out.
How
do
we
navigate
many
things
that
are
built
on
decisions,
some
of
them
that
predate
our
time
there,
but
nonetheless
we're
serious
about
making
an
impact?
We've
got
to
ask
those
questions
and
then
we've
got
to
figure
out
where
we
can
push
and
where
we
can
shift.
A
G
G
I
H
G
We
you
all
knew
before
I
knew
before,
but
I
think
we
have
a
better
understanding
as
a
city
as
a
nation
that
our
open
spaces
and
our
parks
are
so
important
to
our
physical
and
mental
health
and
through
this
pandemic,
making
sure
that
the
parks
were
open
and
accessible
was
so
important
to
us.
I
know
we
have
to
continue
to
keep
that
going,
but
thank
you
for
that,
and
also
I
do
have
to
give
a
shout
out
to
the
park
across
the
street
from
me.
Thank
you
for
replacing
the
yellow
slide.
G
I
know
it's
not
yellow
anymore,
but
I'm
across
the
street
at
the
hemi
park.
I
can
hear
the
kids
happily
back
sliding
down
the
slide
and
playing
in
the
park
there.
So
thank
you
for
that,
and
also
you
mentioned
about
the
neighborhoods
that
don't
have
backyards
and
we
were
together
at
the
kickoff
to
the
boston,
harbor
islands,
and
thank
you
for
always
speaking
about
that.
We
know
representative
michael
witts
mentioned
you
know
the
north
end,
we
don't,
they
don't
have
backyards
in
different
neighborhoods.
G
We
have
to
make
sure
that
we're
making
our
parks
and
open
spaces
equitable
and
accessible.
So
thank
you.
I
know
that
you're
committed
to
that
and
we
can
see
that
across
the
city
as
an
at-large
city
councilor.
I
know
I
always
like
to
shout
out
my
neighborhood
of
dorchester,
but
I
do
see
across
the
city
that
we're
doing
a
good
job
and
looking
and
happy
about
you
know
the
investments
I
see
in
this
budget.
So
I
have
a
couple
questions.
G
So
how
are
we
prioritizing
in
this
budget
for
our
recreational
spaces
and
activities
like
swimming
and
boating?
Is
there
you
know
public
outdoors?
Is
there
a
goal
to
get
an
outdoor
swimming
pool
in
every
neighborhood,
and
maybe
we
have
to
work
with
bcyf
around
water
safety
and
swimming
lessons,
but
is
that
something
that
your
office
and
your
department
would
like
to
see
and
we
off,
I
often
talk
how
we're
a
coastal
city,
but
we
have
so
many
children
and
adults
who
you
know,
aren't
able
to
swim
on.
B
B
Hopefully,
because
they're
here
someday,
some
of
them
will
be
sitting
in
some
of
these
seats
taking
responsibility
for
these
questions
themselves.
They
also
do
for
any
of
the
counselors
who
are
interested
we'll
share
it.
On
june
9th
they'll
be
doing
the
presentations
based
on
what
they
learned
in
their
time
at
city
hall,
sharing
their
ideas
and
thoughts
about
climate
impact
and
how
we
can
shift
things.
So,
if
you're
interested
we'll
make
sure
you
know
we're
looking
forward
to
some
really
great
ideas
coming
out
of
the
team.
C
So
I
think,
council
we
are
going
to
partner
with
our
colleagues
at
bcyf.
They
do
have
the
pools
across
the
city.
However,
we
are,
as
the
chief
mentioned,
continuing
to
add
more
water
play
in
our
parks.
We
certainly
have
the
frog
pond,
that's
out
there
that
kids
can
splash
around
and
we
also
have
the
creation,
thanks
to
cpa
in
east
boston,
there's
going
to
be
a
dock
over
by
lopresti
to
give
more
access
to
the
water
and,
of
course,
at
jp
pond.
B
Yeah,
I
think,
most
of
the
things
that
most
of
the
pools
that
exist
in
the
city
now
are
owned
by
the
state
as
well
as
most
of
the
beaches
are
maintained
there.
So
last
year
I
was
engaged
with
some
conversations
with
the
state
around
this,
particularly
as
there
were
a
number
of
unfortunate
major
tragedies
that
happened
throughout
the
summer.
I'd
be
more
than
interested.
B
If
there's
someone
willing
to
lead
it,
I
am
myself
a
scuba
diver,
and
so
I've
participated,
particularly
with
a
group
of
women
of
color
who
are
looking
at
these
issues
and
how
we
can
grow
that
I
I
will
be
honest
from
a
budget
and
scope.
I
think
it
would
be
hard
for
parks
to
take
this
on
in
a
major
way,
but
we
are
making
sure
that
people
have
access
to
water
cooling
features
just
not
ones
where
they
can
drink.
We
could
partner
with
the.
G
Boston
public
schools
also
as
a
kindergarten
teacher
for
many
years
at
the
murphy.
They
didn't
offer
the
swimming
lessons
for
the
younger
children.
They
offered
it
only
to
the
older
who
most
times
chose
not
to
swim,
and
I
always
said
my
kindergarteners
would
swim
twice
a
day:
let's
teach
these
young
kids
swimming,
so
we
could
work
alongside
the
schools
also
to
support
that,
and
I
do
want
to
say.
I
know
your
cabinet
includes
animal
control
and
I
know
that
the
shelter
needs
a
lot
of
love.
G
I
toured
the
facility
and
saw
you
know
the
dedication
and
great
work
of
the
staff
there,
and
but
the
conditions
are
really
poor
for
the
workers
and
also
the
animals
there,
and
I
know
it's
in
the
master
plan.
If
we
are
able
to
at
some
point,
you
know
build
it,
but
what
does
that
timeline
look
like
and
is
there
anything
we
can
do
in
that
meantime?
If
it's
going
to
take
a
while
to
support
that.
C
Sure
so,
in
this
capital
budget
there
is
money
allocated
for
the
design
of
a
new
and
improved
animal
shelter,
which
is
much
needed.
It
is
very
loud
working
over
there.
I
give
all
the
credit
to
the
staff.
You
hear
barking
non-stop
during
lunch
breaks
all
day
day
and
night.
Very
dedicated
group
of
hard-working
employees
there,
but
we're
looking
for
and
engaging
into
that
design
process
and
making
sure
we
have
state
of
the
art
features
features
inside
there,
whether
it
and
also
maybe
some
community
space
for
people
to
engage.
C
B
While
we're
on
it,
our
long-term
vision
is
to
do
a
full
redesign
of
the
what
is
currently
the
maintenance
yard
space
in
the
at
franklin
park
to
move
animal
control
there
and
to
also
upgrade
our
greenhouses,
which,
in
some
instances,
literally,
are
being
held
together
by
tape
and
plastic
sheeting
and
all
of
the
facilities
there.
We
also
have
our
horses
there
and
so
yeah
that,
but
we
see
animal
control
as
the
most
immediate
near-term
need,
but
an
investment,
hopefully
on
the
larger
redesign
and
renovation
process.
G
J
C
Sure
so
our
planting
seasons
are
in
the
spring,
so
starting
around
april
through
the
end
of
june
and
then
start
up
again
in
october
and
go
through
the
beginning
of
december.
So
those
are
our
two
planting
seasons
where
we
can
get
trees
in.
So
we
are
right
now
trying
to
get
2
000
to
2500
trees
a
year
into
the
ground.
So
sometimes
we
are
filled
up
for
the
spring,
but
we're
still
looking
for
locations
going
into
the
fall,
so
it
takes
about
a
season
or
so
a
year.
C
C
It's
within
a
year
with
the
pandemic,
there
was
a
shortage
where
we
couldn't
get
trees
from
nurseries,
and
there
was
a
shutdown
of
logging
trucks
that
were
delivering
said
trees
to
the
nurseries.
So
there
was
a
season
where
we
didn't
get
as
many
street
trees
in
the
ground
as
we
would
have
hoped.
But
now
it's
back
on
track,
and
especially
since
we
increased
the
amount
of
trees
that
are
being
planted
each
year
we
went
from
having
a
thousand
trees
or
so
planted
now
we're
climbing
up
to
2000
trees.
So.
J
That's
great
the
other
issue.
You
know
I
just
want
to
flag
up
the
whole
urban
heat
island
issue
I
think
alston
is,
is
really
it's
one
of
those
neighborhoods
with
very
dense
population,
a
lot
of
hardscape
and
very
few
trees,
and
it's
just
every
there's
a
lot
of
development
happening.
So
whenever
we
can,
we
advocate
that,
if
you're
creating
something
that
was
formerly
industrial,
let's
create
some
green
space
and
plant
some
trees.
J
F
Yeah,
so
smith
is
going
to
be
wrapping
up
construction
this
spring,
the
sod
is
down
in
two
of
the
fields.
The
third
one
is
going
to
be
installed
next
month.
So
once
those
are
in
it's
just
final
final
touches
throughout
the
month
of
june
and
then
the
ringer
we
haven't
made
a
lot
of
progress
on
due
to
staffing
issues
and
similar
with
pennamon.
F
J
F
J
F
There's
no
there's
no
there's
no
expiration
date
on
it.
I
think
the
information
that
we
got
from
the
master
planning
process
was
good
and
I
think
all
those
same
the
same
principles
apply,
I
think,
creating
a
multi-purpose
field
with
lighting
renovating
the
play
area,
adding
a
walking
path
and
pedestrian
lighting.
Those
are
all
principles
that
that
we'll
be
looking
to
implement
whenever
as
soon
as
possible.
J
B
I
mean,
I
think
the
conversations
are
much
bigger.
We're
also
looking
at
bus
stops,
we're
also
looking
at
I
mean
the
goal
is
to
actually
our
streets
are
one
of
our
major
sources
of
hardscape
and
throughout
the
city,
yeah
and
they're.
Also,
you
know
wanting
to
look
at.
Are
we
looking
at
flooding?
Are
we
looking
at
heat
and
how
we
mitigate
them,
and
it
is
also
true
and
to
your
point-
is
that
sometimes
we're
designing
things
in
such
a
way
that
there's
a
pipe?
B
As
that
work
is
moving
forward
and
we'd
like
to
extend
that
on
into
warren
street
mailing
cass,
we
want
to
get
these
large
quarters.
I'm
really
excited
we're
really
excited
to
hear
about
the
the
artery
work
that
counselor
fernandez
anderson
is
proposing
along
that
quarter,
and
so
we
think
there's
an
opportunity
to
actually
also
put
some
arts
and
culture
in
alignment
with
this
amp
it
up,
so
that
people
will
know
and
understand
it.
B
So
a
lot
of
it
is
about
doing
the
work
we
do
slightly
differently
and
then
there
are
some
key
floodplains
that
we
would
like
to
address
down
the
line.
Once
we
get
our
our
sort
of
coordination
together
to
figure
out,
you
know,
we
know
where
the
climate
dramas
are
coming.
How
can
we
be
working
together
to
look
at
street
design
as
a
part
of
the
tool
to
to
adapt
to
the
realities.
J
A
big
storm
that
just
slips
over
and
drops
a
lot
of
rain.
You
know,
are
you
talking
with
like
inspectional
services
about
about
how
to
I
think
people
yeah
in
in
ignorant,
they're
ignorant
of
the
rules
and
they
do
it
and
then
I
think,
all
down
the
road
we're
going
to
have
a
big
problem,
because
we
just
keep
doing
this.
B
B
We
do
use
our
back,
what
would
have
been
our
backyard
for
parking
and
there
has
been
a
battle
for
six
years
between
me
and
my
neighbors,
who
everybody
wants
to
pave
it
over,
and
I
want
to
just
leave
the
gravel,
because
I
think
that
was
still
better.
It's
not
perfect.
I'd
love
to
have
grass,
but
so
I
think
you're
absolutely
right
there.
It
is
a
pressure.
It
is
a
real
thing,
we're
not
yet
at
the
point
where
we're
ready
to
like
launch
a
public
campaign.
D
This
will
also
so
not
well,
let's
see
that
hi
counselor
in
addition
to
what
the
chief
said,
also
through
our
local
wetlands,
ordinance
where
we'll
be
tackling
environmental
justice
and
climate
resilience.
Regulations
in
this
coming
year
and
there'll
be
great
opportunity
there
to
look
at
within
those
areas
that
are
with
climate
resilience
zones
across
the
city.
What
are
the
reasonable
standards
for
imperial
surface
and
improving
green
and
open
space?
And
those
conversations
are
in
that
aspect
very
closely
connected
to
isd
inspectional
services.
J
B
Well,
I
think
they're
looking
at,
but
I
know,
there's
two
huge
things
and
we
and
it's
two
things
that
power
core
is
actually
specifically
set
up
to
address.
So
one
is,
we
are
building
and
designing
new
parks
that
we
have
not
always
trained
our
maintenance
staff
to
be
able
to
maintain.
So
in
some
instances
we
are
contracting
outside
firms
to
do
that
maintenance
work.
We
want
to
change
that
and
it
won't
happen
overnight,
but
we
plan
to
change
that
and
then
the
second,
the
one
of
the
main
sources
is
the
tree
budget.
B
And
what
I'm
excited
about
is
we
are
know
already.
We
have
a
source
of
funds
that
we
could
hire
people
if
we
had
the
people
to
bring
in
so
we're
going
to
grow
our
own
and
get
to
the
point
where
we
can
bring
more
of
that
in-house,
because
we
have
the
talent
to
do
it
right
now.
We
struggle,
as
I
think
you
you
know,
to
hire.
B
B
B
By
the
way,
if
you
the
power
core
recruitment,
applications
are
up
on
the
website
and
I'm
going
to
look
it
up
so
that
you
know
exactly
what
it
is,
but
applications
are
open
right
now.
So,
if
you
know
a
young
person
that
you
think
gosh
they'd
really
love
to
be
outside,
they
may
not
know
yet
how
to
work
with
a
chainsaw.
But
I
think
if
they
got
the
training
they'd
be
interested,
please
let
them
know
there's
a
few
slots
still
remaining
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
every
slot
is
full
very
exciting.
K
L
Your
particular
cabinet
is
literally
vital
to
my
district.
The
work
that
you're
doing
now
is
saving
lives
right,
20,
50
years
down
the
line.
It's
not
news
to
anybody
here
or
might
be
so
I'll
set
the
stage
for
everybody
for
my
district
right,
so
east
boston,
charlestown
in
the
north
end
are
all
coastal
communities.
L
We
face
unique
challenges
and
we
bear
the
burden
of
intentional
and
generational
environmental
injustices,
east
boston.
In
particular,
we
are
uniquely
vulnerable.
We've
breathed
I've
breathed
ultra
fine
particulates.
My
entire
life
from
airplanes
passing
over
my
friends
still
have
airport
inhalers
is
what
they
call
them.
So
it's
very
real
for
me
and
we
know
that
black
and
latinx
communities
bear
these
burdens
more
so
than
anybody
else.
L
So
I
felt
like
it
was
necessary
for
me
to
say
that,
and
just
let
you
know
that
this
is
something
that
is
near
and
dear
to
my
heart,
and
I
will
always
be
a
strong
advocate
with
you
all,
and
I
know
you're
doing
incredible.
Work
so
just
want
to
make
sure
that
I
always
like
to
shout
out
my
people
that
do
incredible
incredible
work:
chief
white
hammond,
you
are
amazing
and
you've
brought
this
sense
of
urgency
that
we
need
that
my
district
needs.
So
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
that,
commissioner.
Woods.
L
Thank
you
for
being
so
responsive
literally
anytime.
I
text
you.
I
email
you
you're
on
it.
Dirty
playground
in
charlestown.
Sprinklers
are
we're
on
the
next
day.
So
thank
you.
I
also
want
to
shout
out
catherine
carlock,
jack,
chavink
and
leo
voucher,
and
I
think
luchanka
is
still
with
you
too.
Those
are
my
people
in
district.
L
Okay,
let's
see,
I
have
so
many
things
so
many
things.
So
let's
do
let's
do
coastline
resiliency.
So,
first
of
all,
lo
presti
park
access
to
the
water.
That's
the
first
time.
I'm
hearing
that-
and
I
love
that
because
we
used
to
have
to
hop
the
fence
to
dive
into
the
harbor.
So
I'm
happy
to
hear
that
there's
going
to
be
some
sort
of
access
there.
Can
you
talk
a
little
bit
more
about.
F
That
yeah
so
a
few
years
ago,
the
I
think
it
was
the
piers,
the
group
at
pierce
park
sailing
applied
to
cpa
for
a
floating
dock
at
the
presti.
It's
going
to
be
off
the
fishing
pier,
that's
already
out
there.
So
we've
we've
done
some
initial
investigation.
We
had
we've
done
some
testing.
We
have
a
preliminary
design,
we're
going
to
be
presenting
to
concom
next
week
and
we're
hoping
we'll
be
able
to
to
get
that
bid
and
out
to
construction.
This
fall.
L
L
I
was
pleased
to
see
mayor
wu
and
your
department
announce
the
mhp
process
in
east
boston.
Would
you
be
able
to
speak
more
on
this
and
if
there
are
any
updates,
what
do
you
see
other
next
steps
and
then
what
city
resources
will
you
provide
specifically
for
this
program
if
there
are
any
additional
resources
beyond
climate,
ready,
east
boston
or
even
plan
east
boston,.
B
Yeah,
so
we
we
have
been
having
conversations
our
department,
particularly
with
bpda,
to
really
think
about
how
we
do
this
in
a
strong,
equitable
way,
centering
equity
and
resilience.
We
could
talk
in
greater
depth,
we
don't
we
don't
really
have
like
a
full
update.
I
can
tell
you
the
things
that
we're
looking
at,
and
the
state
obviously
has
some
of
the
power
around
how
this
moves
forward.
L
B
I
think
the
thing
that
I
think
we,
the
reason
why
we're
focusing
on
east
boston,
is
that,
as
we
know
that
the
mayor
has
brought
a
pretty
clear
mandate
to
shift
the
way
we
do
development.
So
I
think,
since
both
of
these
were
already
moving,
this
is
the
place
where
the
mayor
is
leaning
into
a
new
approach
to
how
boston,
centers,
equity
and
resilience.
L
And
more
broadly,
with
our
climate
resiliency
goals,
it
sounds
like
well.
I
think
you
already
answered
this
question,
but
if
you
have
anything
else
to
add
how
are
you
collaborating
with
bpda
planners
to
align
the
vision
they're
getting
from
the
community
the
vision
they're
getting
from
the
community
with
our
long-term
resiliency
goals,
so
things
that
we're
finding
through
climate
readiness,
boston
or
climate-ready
charlestown?
So,
for
example,
liberty
plaza
was
identified,
as
you
know,
first
and
worst
in
my
district
and
there's
already
developers
that
are
salivating
over
it.
L
B
Yes,
we've
heard
from
the
community
bpda
has
heard
from
the
community
now
bbta
and
environment
are
working
together
to
figure
out
what
tools
do
we
have
already?
What
how
can
we
look
at
how
people
have
done
this
around
the
country
to
make
sure
that
the
city
speaks
clearly
about
what
its
priorities
are
and
there's
other
considerations?
B
So
we
would
be
more
than
willing
to
sort
of
sit
down
and
have
a
deeper
conversation,
but
we
are
trying
to
facilitate
that
dialogue
back
and
forth
and
figure
out
how
to
send
very
clear
signals
that
we'll
do
the
best
we
can
to
mitigate
against
sort
of
the
speculation
that
often
bless.
You
makes
these
process
it.
If
people
are
speculating
and
spending
in
a
speculative
way,
it
can
often
close
off
options,
and
so
we're
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
prevent
that
from
happening.
B
Yes,
there
is
a
delicate
balance
between
moving
fast,
getting
everyone
on
the
same
page
and
making
sure
that
the
right
things
are
in
place.
So
I
I
think
we're
trying
to
hold
to
juggle
a
few
different
balls
at
the
same
time,
but
sure
yes,
urgency
is
this.
Urgency
is
certainly
there
both
to
move
quickly
and
to
get
it
right.
L
Less
than
a
minute,
okay,
all
right,
I'm
gonna
have
to
come
back
a
second
round.
Well,
why
don't
I
wait
on
that
and
then
just
call
out
air
quality
in
my
first
round,
because
that
is
a
huge
thing
in
my
district
tree
canopy
next
to
chinatown,
lowest
tree
canopy
in
the
city.
I
live
in
eagle
hill,
that
is
a
heat
island
and
a
lot
of
people
of
color
and
low
income.
Folks
live
there.
C
Right
now,
the
year
is
four
people
in
the
tree
division.
Two
of
them
are
arborists
and
two
are
what
I
call
chainsaw
experts
that
know
how
to
go
in
and
take
care
of
tree
emergencies
at
all
hours
of
the
day.
That
are
there
right
now
you
can,
if
you
get
on
a
tree
list
and
it
passes
all
the
check
marks
of
like.
C
I
said
it
can't
be
too
close
to
a
utility
too
close
to
a
stop,
sign,
etc,
and
it's
ada
accessible
it's
about
a
season
so
about
a
year
for
that
and
a
tree
trimming
is
anywhere
between
six
months
and
a
year.
They
just
do
one
neighborhood
at
a
time.
So,
if
you're
looking
at
tree
maintenance,
if
your
neighborhood's
the
next
one
up,
you
know
you
could
get
service
in
two
weeks
or
if
it's
they
just
finished
east
boston.
L
K
M
Thank
you,
council
bark
and
thank
you
to
the
panel
for
being
here
and
for
the
important
work
you're
providing
the
residents
of
the
city,
it's
good
to
be
with
you,
reverend
hammond
and
your
team.
I
also
want
to
highlight
that
I
speak
frequently
to
commissioner
woods
on
over
the
phone
or
in
text
and
and
you
and
your
team
at
the
parks
have
been
very
responsive
to
the
to
the
needs
of
my
constituents.
M
So
I
want
to
acknowledge
that,
commissioner,
in
in
the
parks
team,
let
me
let
me
highlight
a
couple,
a
couple
of
issues.
Let
me
start,
let
me
start
with
chinatown
the
highest
asthma
rate.
We've
worked
on
that
reverend
hammond
and
recently,
and
we
continue
to
work
on
it.
I
was
with
mayo
city
council
who,
at
the
time
when
the
united
scientist
association,
labeled
chinatown
the
highest
asthma
rate
of
any
neighborhood
in
massachusetts,.
M
B
So
I
think
well
so
there's
a
couple
of
things
that
we're
doing.
I
just
want
to
note
really
quickly.
On
heat,
there
are
a
number
of
the
heat
interventions
that
we're
looking
at.
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
shout
out
the
rose
kennedy
greenway
in
chin
park.
They've
installed,
some
cooling
features
in
the
park
that
include
a
water
bottle,
fill
machine
and
including
one
on
the
bottom
for
your
pets
that
you
can
put
push
a
little
handle
and
it
will
put
out
some
water
for
the
dogs
and
and
also
a
mister.
B
B
If
there
are
parcels
that
could
could
allow
us
to
create
new
open
space-
and
that's
what
I
can
say
at
this
moment
as
we're-
do
in
our
due
diligence
phase,
but
we
can
certainly
talk
about
where
there
might
be
some
possibilities
and
then
I
think
we've
been
approached.
I
think
lydia
lowe
is
here
about
what
we
can
do
in
terms
of
reggie
wong
park
and
what
opportunities
there
might
be.
B
B
B
As
we
look
at
to
add
more,
I
think
the
boston
common
is
one
I
think
getting
folks
more
regular
access
to
the
waterfront
is
another
because
that's
another
place,
that's
a
little
bit
cooler
and
within
walking
distance.
But
I
know
in
many
instances-
or
at
least
my
experience-
the
downtown
waterfront
can
fail
miles
away,
even
when
it's
not
too
far
away.
M
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
reverend
hammond,
and
you
are
right.
I
was
with
you
at
you
and
may
were
with
the
rose
kennedy
greenway
recently
for
that
some
of
the
improvements
improvements
there
and
the
park
really
made
significant
improvements
with
chris
cook.
As
the
executive
director.
My
goal
has
always
been
over
the
last
five
years
to
make
sure
the
greenway
in
chinatown
looks
good
as
the
greenway
in
the
north
end
in
the
downtown
area.
M
M
There
was
a
building,
a
wall
collapsed,
and
I
asked
the
city
and
I
asked
suffolk
construction
to
do
a
equality
of
the
air
in
and
around
the
the
boston
edison,
which
is
on
east
1st
street,
but
it
goes
into
meadow
havana
park
where
a
lot
of
young
families,
young
families,
play
there
and
received
a
recent
report
from
suffolk
construction
saying
there
has
been
no
impact
to
the
air
quality
in
and
around
the
neighborhood.
Just
want
to
check
with
you.
If
you
have
any
thoughts
or
feedback
feedback
on
anything
you're.
Hearing
on
that
issue
as
well.
B
Well,
that
work
is
actually
overseen
by
the
boston
public
health
commission,
but
I,
as
it
turns
out
not
in
correlation
with
this
meeting,
but
just
because
I
did
have
a
meeting
with
dr
ojukutu
earlier
this
week,
where
we
were
really
talking
about
how
we
coordinate
our
work
around
environmental
justice.
Some
of
it
sits
in
our
office.
Some
of
it
sits
in
her
office.
We're
really
trying
to
think
through
how
we
consolidate
the
work
and
sometimes
we're
collecting
data.
B
B
I
also
want
to
note
that
a
number
of
these
items
are
handled
by
the
state
and
so
then
there's
the
other
question
of
how
we
coordinate
one
to
make
sure
that
they
know,
because
sometimes
they
don't
know-
and
we
would
like
to
get
to
the
point
where
they
at
least
have
the
information.
And
then
the
question
is
how
we
can
partner
with
them
to
move
a
little
bit
more
expeditiously,
sometimes
once
these
things
are
identified
to
actually
address
them,
but
I
think
it
is
about
coordinating
increasing
the
coordination
between
government
entities.
B
M
M
100
percent,
I
supported
a
thousand
percent
and
it's
critical
that
we
provide
the
residents
of
chinatown
in
the
leather
district
with
the
opportunity
to
engage
in
a
in
a
park
and
we
make
improvements
to
the
park,
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
able
to
work
together
with
the
state
to
make
that
into
a
beautiful
park
and
area
people
can
play
volleyball
and
in
basketball
as
well
and
plays
a
critical
role
in
the
neighborhood.
As
you
know.
So.
Thank
you.
I
M
Can
we
do?
Can
we
do
a
little
bit
of
testing
in
and
around
that
area?
I
just
would
like
to
know
how
the
air
quality
is.
It's
a
high
traffic
area
for
trucks,
buses,
trains
and
there's
many
intersections
they're
cutting
to
various
parts
of
parts
of
the
city,
but
would
like
to
see
if
we
can
do
even
a
brief
study
on
air
quality
in
and
around
the
andrew
square
area.
B
So
that
is,
is
I
thank
you
for
the
suggestion
we
would
need
to
coordinate
with
the
state
dep,
but
I
think
that
is
similar
to
some
of
the
work
that
has
happened
around
cummins
highway,
which
had
some
similar
challenges.
So
there
is
a
precedent
for
that
to
be
able
to
happen,
we'd
love
to
talk
with
you
and
partner
with
you
to
have
that
conversation
with
dep
about
how
we
do
some
monitoring
and
then
have
some
some
ability
to
mitigate
those
impacts,
because
a
lot
of
them
are
related
to
93
bit.
M
K
Great,
thank
you
so
much
president
flynn
I'll
now
ask
my
questions.
Just
starting
with
a
few
quick
ones.
Speaking
of
broken
water
features,
edgerly
road
playground.
I
think
that
water
feature
has
been
broken
on
and
off,
and
maybe
just
kind
of
off
for
a
while,
and
my
impression
is
that
it
may
be
so
bad
that
we
need
to
swap
it
out
with
a
different
water
feature
which
I'm
fine
with,
but
the
idea
that
we
just
don't
have
one
for
years
on
end.
K
C
This
is
on
our
radar.
It
was
made
clear
at
the
coffee
hour
the
other
day
we've
tried
replacing
it
with
parts,
and
I
think
it's
worked
for
a
week
at
a
time
and
then
it
fails
for
the
rest
of
the
year.
So
we
are
looking
at
what
else
could
go
in
there
and
we
know
the
importance
of
adding
water
to
that
park.
K
C
Yes,
I
know
mission
hill,
so
kathy
can
get
her
mic
on
for
the
next
one,
but
mission
hill.
We
are
under
a
grant
deadline,
so
we
are
going
to
be
done
before
the
end
of
the
june,
hopefully
having
a
july
celebration
opening,
we
will
still
have
some
fencing
on
the
smith
street
side
as
the
establishment
of
the
the
natural
turf.
The
other
grass
needs
some
more
time
to
establish,
but
the
top
two
tiers
will
be
open
this
summer
and
we'll
have
a
large
celebration
for
that
great
excellent.
K
K
This
coming
fall
in
some
programming
to
kind
of
build
on
the
student's
sense
of
ownership
of
the
park,
because
I
think
the
fact
that
they
were
part
of
that
planning
process
and
then
they've
been
watching
it
go
in
right
next
to
them
is
making
them
really
feel
like
it's
theirs,
and
so
I
think,
opportunities
to
build
on
that.
Maybe
it's
talking
about
tree
care
in
the
park.
Maybe
it's
like
you
know,
just
different
activities,
but
I
just
want
to
fly
for
parks
that
we
think
that
could
be
a
really
exciting
kind
of
civic
parks.
F
Clarendon,
so
we
were
asked
to
prioritize
construction
over
the
summer,
so
we've
missed
this
summer.
Oh
no,
because
we're
looking
at
some
of
the
outstanding
design
issues
and
working
through
some
of
the
regulatory
processes
with
the
historic
district
so
we're
targeting
next
summer
for
construction,
so
finishing
everything
up,
wrapping
it
up
and
then
bidding
over
the
winter,
so
we're
everything's,
ordered
and
ready
to
go
for
the
summer.
Okay,.
I
K
That
it's
used
so
heavily
by
so
many
schools
in
the
area
that
yeah
it
does
need
to
be
on
a
summer
timeline
and
then
on
the
copley
square
redesign.
Obviously
there
was
a
lot
of
folks
in
my
district,
particularly
interested
in
preserving
the
fountain
and
kind
of
the
question
of
how
to
how
to
while
redesigning
that
park,
also
preserve
the
historic
elements
of
it
and
not
take
out
things
we
didn't
have
to,
and
I
know
that
I
have
obviously
heard
a
bit
about
about
the
kind
of
updated
design.
K
C
K
C
Yeah,
so
I
think
we've
made
some
great
progress,
working
with
the
friends
at
copley
square
and
nab
over
the
past
six
months
on
trying
to
preserve
the
current
fountain.
That's
there
in
doing
that,
you
know
we
have
to
replace
all
of
the
underground
subsurface
and
guts
underneath
for
lack
of
better
term
to
make
that
work,
and
it's
going
to
cost
several
millions
of
dollars.
But
in
doing
that
we
are
able
to
preserve
the
current
fountain.
C
That's
there
just
raise
the
base
in
a
little
put
in
some
curbing
add
additional
grass
in
front
of
it,
as
you
mentioned,
have
seats
and
benches
that
face
the
fountain
as
the
community
wanted
nobody
likes
to
have
their
back
to
the
water
in
in
one
of
the
designs
we
had.
So
we
were
able
to
prioritize
that,
and
then
we
found
that
underneath
the
pavement,
that's
there
when
it
was
designed
in
the
80s,
it's
all
done
with
tar.
So
there's
a
lot
of
dips
and
stuff
underneath.
C
So
when
we
do
renovate
that
park,
you
know
there's
some
substantial
cost
of
millions
of
dollars
to
rip
out
the
asphalt
that's
under
there
put
in
a
cement
layer
before
we
put
on
whether
it
be
pavers
or
another
top
surface
on
that.
So
you
know
just
before
adding
anything
new
to
the
park,
we're
already
looking
at
seven
or
eight
million
dollars
and
just
preserving
the
important
materials
that
are
already
there.
C
K
Yeah
no-
and
I
really,
I
really
appreciate
you
guys
going
back
to
the
well
a
few
times
on
the
community
engagement
process
there,
because
it
is
obviously
super.
It's
just
a
super
crucial
space
that
we
ask
to
do
so.
Many
things
right
both
in
terms
of
city-wide
celebrations,
the
farmers
market,
hookups
the
events
and
then
just
people
having
their
lunch
and
passing
through
the
park,
and
it
just
it's.
K
Certainly,
I
feel,
like
all
all
of
your
department
challenges
on
the
parks
side
have
to
do
with
how
well-loved
your
assets
are
by
all
of
us,
the
kenmore
block
of
the
comm
ave
mall.
Do
we
still
not
have
a
project
manager
for
that?
I
was
with
the
seniors
who
live
across
the
street
for
again
folks,
don't
always
know
you
know
kenmore
square.
K
You
may
not
think
of
this,
but
there's
200,
elderly,
low-income
folks,
living
straight
across
from
this
last
block
of
the
comet
mall,
mainly
I'd,
say
about
a
third
chinese
speaking,
russian,
spanish
and
whole
mix,
and
I
was
with
them
last
week
and
they
would
love
to
see
that
developed
and
especially
more
senior
friendly
seating
and
the
ability
to
actually
have
a
conversation
with
each
other
in
that
park.
So
just
I'm
curious,
it's
been
on
the
capitol
plan
for
a
while.
I
K
Okay,
on
the
topic
of
surveys,
just
a
little
flag
that
I
got
from
a
constituent,
I
thought
was
actually
a
good
one.
You
guys
have
some
survey
about
like
what
would
people
like
to
see
more
of
in
the
park
and
it
has
like
a
whole
bunch
of
options.
It
doesn't
actually
have
trees
on
the
list,
at
least
for
this
one
that
somebody
and
so
just
flat.
K
You
know
it's
like
passive
elements,
active
elements
like
all
these
things,
but
I
think,
like
I
heard
a
little
bit
of
like
hey,
that's
one
of
the
things
I
want
more
of
in
the
parks
from
people
so
just
a
flag,
and
then
I
guess
in
the
last
of
the
sort
of
district,
eight
capital
e
things.
Just
I
think,
I'm
aware
I
know
your
department's
aware
of
this
opportunity
to
actually
deal
with
the
phragmites,
the
sort
of
remaining.
K
So
I
just
want
to
I've
said
this
in
a
few
settings
now,
but
just
it
because
of
how
they
spread.
It
would
seem
crazy
to
me
for
us
to
leave
a
portion
and
then
have
them
spread
into
the
places
where
we
had
cleared
them,
and
I'm
well
aware
that
when
the
army
corps
pulls
up,
sticks
they're
not
coming
back.
So
just
I
don't
know.
If
we've
made
any
progress
on
that
or
we're
working
on
it.
K
Building
that
is
great
news,
okay,
and
then
I
think
just
the
one
other
thing
that
all
well
I'll
have
to
come
back
in
a
minute,
but
I
want
to
take
at
least
some
of
our
public
testimony.
We've
got
a
lot
of
folks
waiting,
but
I
so
obviously
I'm
thrilled
about
power
core,
and
we
will,
if
we
still
got
some
slots,
we'll
we'll
spread
the
word
we
gotta
gotta
make
sure
it's
a
full
class.
K
You
need
more
staff
for
this
urban
forestry
world
that
we're
talking
about
right,
like
really
growing.
We
want
to
bring
some
of
that
contracted
work
in,
as
you
were
already
discussing
with
colleagues
the
you
know.
We
also.
We
need
to
redesign
the
rangers
program
in
part
because
of
how
the
regulatory
environment
has
changed
or
whatever,
but
we're
constantly
getting
requests
for
rangers
to
be
on
site
and
things
right
and
so
in
a
world
in
which
they're
a
great
ambassadorial
asset,
we're
gonna
need
more
of
those.
K
So
I
guess
like
how
are
you
thinking
and
how
are
you
talking
with
the
administration
about
a
like
long-term
plan
that
really
actually
grows
this
budget
to
support
more
staff?
In
addition,
because
I
get
that
we
can
bring
the
contracts
in
and
obviously
I'm
like,
like
totally
paid
up
on
the
and
we
need
to
train
the
workforce
so
that
our
young
people
are
getting
these
jobs
and
there's
a
great
path
for
them.
K
On
that
note,
I'm
a
little
bit
curious
whether
we
should
be
thinking
about
putting
sort
of
tree
climber
roles
in
between,
like
under
the
arborist
sort
of
so
that
there's
again
a
kind
of
step
ladder
for
people,
I'm
not
sure
how
much
we
have
that
in
this
year's
budget
so
far,
but
but
I'm
just
trying
to
like
think
about
how,
like
I
know,
we're
gonna
hear
in
public
testimony
from
a
bunch
of
folks
who
say:
hey
we.
Why
are
we
not
at
one
percent
and
I
feel
like
at
a
minimum?
B
We'll
start
by
saying,
I
believe,
in
the
power
of
each
part
of
our
community
to
do
its
to
contribute
its
role.
I
think
my
role
at
this
moment
is
to
figure
out
the
right
way
to
spend
money
effectively
and
efficiently,
and
I
will
say
obviously,
if
I
had
more
resources,
we
would
figure
out
effective
and
efficient
ways
to
spend
them.
I
think
it's
a
challenge,
because
I
think,
as
we
look
at
this
particular
budget,
I
don't.
B
I
know
that
whatever
additional
resources
will
come
to
us
have
to
come
from
somewhere,
and
so
I
do,
you
know,
want
to
be
careful
to
think
through
sort
of
what
everybody
has
put
in
and
the
needs
of
all
the
different
folks.
If
you
ask
me
sort
of
what
I
think
our
growth
could
be
over
time.
The
truth
is
that,
like
we
have
some
spaces
where
we've
had
trouble,
even
filling
those
jobs,
the
power,
the
the
rangers
is
one
of
them.
B
Where
we've
had
a
lot
of
open
positions,
it
puts
a
lot
of
stress
and
burden
on
the
folks
who
are
already
in
those
roles,
and
so
my
focus
right
now
is
making
sure
that
we're
clear
about
the
roles.
What
the
rules
are
really
thinking
about,
how
we
redefine
the
vision
for
the
rangers
in,
in
light
of
the
fact
that
their
408
powers
were
taken
away
as
part
of
the
police
reform,
so
really
reimagining
and
then
bringing
folks
in
under
that
new
vision.
B
Next
year
will
be
the
40
years
since
the
rangers
got
started
and
when
we're
really
actually
leaning
in
on
a
process
to
rethink-
and
I
asked
you
know
of
the
current
rangers-
what
do
you
think
the
mix
of
things
should
be
between
enforcement
and
ambassadorships
and
and
programs,
and
how
do
we
design
something
that
gets
us
there?
So
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
focus
right
now
on
making
sure
that
we
can
fully
staff
all
of
the
roles
that
we
have.
B
B
There's
the
there
are
ways
that
things
are
divided,
that
some
people
throw
away
trash
and
somebody
pick
up
trash
and
we
opened
a
conversation
last
week
with
the
union
to
really
say:
there's
a
larger
vision
and
we'd
like
you
to
be
part
of
helping
us
think
through
how
we
achieve
that
vision
and
where
are
there
places
in
the
contract
that
enable
us
to
get
there?
Where
are
there
places
that
are
hindering
us
from
getting
there
and
where
are
there
places?
B
We
need
to
add
things
that
allow
us
to
retool
and
retrain
our
staff,
and
then
I
think
I
I
cannot
deny
if
we
continue
to
expand
the
number
of
parks,
retooling
and
retraining
doesn't,
by
itself
create
more
unit
hours
to
do
the
work
that
needs
to
be
done,
but
I
can
name
what
we're
doing
in
this
cycle.
We
are
looking
at
opportunities
like
how
much
we're
spending
on
outside
companies
and
how
much
we
could
be
bringing
that
in-house.
B
But
I
I
I
cannot
deny
that
at
some
point.
We
will
reach
a
limit
of
effectiveness
in
the
things
we're
doing
to
be
tighter
in
our
working,
and
we
will
need
to
expand
the
number
of
folks.
I
think
what
we
have
in
the
budget
for
this
year,
particularly
around
the
urban
forestry
moves
us
along,
expands
that
department
in
a
way
that
gets
us
closer
to
probably
where
the
long-term
vision
needs
to
be,
and
we
wouldn't
want
to
go
from
four
to
fifteen
overnight.
B
That
might
be
too
big
of
a
growth,
and
so
you
know
we
do
the
you
know.
Administration
has
worked
with
us
to
sort
of
figure
out.
How
much
can
we
grow
in
a
healthy
way
but
transparently?
What
we're
doing
this
year
doesn't
finish
that
conversation.
It
does
get
us
well
on
the
path
and
we're
grateful
to
have
more
resources
to
be
moving
on
that
path.
K
K
J
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
so
I
had
a
quick,
a
couple
of
questions.
Landmarks,
commission.
I
I
know
that
we
had
a
backlog
with
you
know,
studies
on
things.
Where
are
we
at
with?
I
know
it's
so
distressing
when
in
our
neighborhood,
something
a
well-loved
building
or
or
gets
is
tagged
for
demolition
and
it's
a
90-day
demolition
delay
and
really,
I
think,
when
we
get
to
that
stage,
the
heart
of
the
horses
out
of
the
barn.
We
need
to
do
a
lot
more
proactive
work
and
preserve,
preserving.
J
I
J
B
The
ordinance
that
counselor
bach
introduced
has
gone
to
the
state
legislature
and
is
moving
through
there,
and
it
actually
is
moving,
which
we
all
know
is
not
a
foregone
conclusion
when
something
goes
up
to
the
state
house.
But
that
will
be
really
key
because
that
will
give
landmarks
another
tool.
There
have
been
a
number
of
places
where
people
have
applied
this
year
or
wanted
to
use
the
tool
and
have
been
unable
to
do
so
because
we
could
not
trace
a
clear
state
or
national
significance
to
the
particular
building.
B
I
will
say
that
in
many
ways
we
haven't
made
a
ton
of
progress
on
the
backlog.
We
have
moved
some
things
that
were
on
the
backlog,
but
we've
gotten
in
more
applications
in
this
year
than
we
moved
things
off.
So
that's
a
bit
of
a
challenge.
We
did
move
some
pretty
significant
things
off
and
that
were
pretty
that
were
really
exciting
one
of
the
exciting
things
and
I
look
forward
to
having
deeper
conversations
with
council
fernandez
anderson
like
to
give
her
a
heads
up,
but
it's
now
official
on
may
10.
B
The
landmarks
commission
voted
to
move
highland
park
into
our
most
recent
architectural
district,
our
first
architectural
district
in
the
community
of
roxbury,
and
really
highlighting
an
important
area
that
has
multiple
layers
of
history,
including
history,
back
to
the
early
founding
of
the
of
the
city,
but
also
of
a
vibrant
black
community
that
has
been
in
that
area.
So
we
have
moved
some
pretty
big
things
across
the
finish
line.
We've
also
received
significantly
more
applications,
so
we're
going
to
have
to
figure
that
out
in
this
budget
there
is.
B
While
someone
else
would
sort
of
over
see
management
of
the
office
and
the
commemoration
commission
and
sort
of
where
things
are
going
because
having
to
juggle
all
of
that
has
meant
that
she's,
she
is
paying
attention
to
the
back
leg,
but
she's
also
paying
attention
to
what
this
group
needs
and
that
group
needs
to
like.
And
so
we
had
a
long
conversation
about
sort
of
which
of
those
roles.
She
was
interested
in
and
we're
looking
forward.
B
J
B
Yeah,
so
the
the
office
of
food
justice
did
move
into
our
our
cabinet
mid
mid
year
that
we,
I
think
we
announced
it
officially
in
february.
There
are
a
number
of
reasons
at
one
point.
This
was
in
the
environment
department
in
the
past
and
then
moved
out,
and
so
we're
happy
to
welcome
it
back
home.
But
I
also
think
that
the
approach
that
we're
taking
around
food
justice
is,
in
collaboration
with
grow
boston,
which
it
sits
under
the
mayor's
office
of
housing.
B
We're
really
wanting
to
look
at
a
food
systems
approach.
How
are
we
thinking
about
everything
from
how
food
is
grown
to
the
way
it
hits
the
table
and
really
thinking
about
it
from
an
economic
justice
and
a
climate
justice
perspective?
And
so
we
are
right
now
in
the
process
of
hiring
a
new
director
of
that
office.
B
It
has
the
same
growing
getting
your
hands
dirty
because
some
of
the
same
benefits
that
we
see
and
people
being
able
to
be
out
in
the
parks
and
recreate
in
the
parks
and
finally,
we're
really
excited.
We've
been
working.
Our
our
maintenance
team
has
been
working
with
viet
aide
in
dorchester
to
put
up
raised
beds
in
town
field.
That
is
a
down
payment
on
what
we
hope
will
be
more
opportunities
for
community
gardens
within
our
park.
Space.
We're
also
excited
the
same
thing
is
happening
at
moakley
park.
J
B
I
L
Yeah
I'll
be
very
quick,
then
thank
you,
everybody
again.
I
I'm
gonna
go
back
to
the
tree
canopy
line
of
questioning.
I
know
that
there
are
some
folks
who
have
identified
breakdowns
in
kind
of
the
the
mechanisms
to
get
a
tree,
so
between
parks
and
public
works.
So
public
works
is
the
one
that
breaks
down
the
concrete
and
they're
sometimes
slow
to
do.
B
This,
so
that's
actually
a
key
component
of
our
climate
ready
streets
initiative
to
really
lean
in
on
our
design
standards
on
our
approach
and
our
communication.
So
all
of
those
things
will
be
highlighted.
We've
already
sent
a
letter
to
public
works,
to
sort
of
name
some
of
the
things
we
want
to
discuss,
and
then
we
need
to
lean
in
on
on
how
we
begin
to
address
them.
So,
yes,
we
are
aware.
L
L
D
I
don't
believe
that
anyone
has
moved
so
high,
so
I
don't
believe
that
anyone
has
moved
the
whole
way
forward
to
contract
yet,
but
we've
had
at
least
several
dozen
last
time.
I
checked
expressions
of
interest
that
are
moving
their
way
through
the
process
great
and
I
can
get
you
exact
numbers.
Thank
you.
Yeah.
L
Through
the
vice
chair
and
then
last
but
not
least
so
massport
massport,
if
we're
going
to
be
a
green
new
deal
city,
we
really
need
to
bring
them
in
to
the
conversation,
I'm
sure
you've
already
been
there.
You
don't
have
to
you
know,
say
it
here,
but
they
are
the
largest
polluter
that
we
have
in
our
city.
So
I
would
love
to
kick-start
those
conversations
be
involved
it's
time.
Yes,
thank.
K
K
K
I
shall
we'll
definitely
do
so.
I'm
so
just
really
grateful
for
all
your
work
and
the
attention
to
detail
on
so
many
details.
I
really
appreciate
it
on
the
landmarks
front.
Just
wanted
to
say
thank
you
for
that
additional
staffing.
Obviously,
the
commemoration
commission
is
only
really
going
to
work
with
staff
in
capacity,
so
it
means
a
huge
lot.
I
also
think
this
move
to
make
it
an
office
of
historic
preservation,
kind
of
give
it
its
own
thing.
K
I
mean
you
see
the
fact
that
both
council
braden
and
I
had
to
kind
of
get
to
landmarks
in
our
second
round
of
environment
parks.
Hearing,
like
I
think
giving
it
its
own
standing
is
going
to
be
important
for
that
work.
So
I
just
really
appreciate
that
and
I
wanted
to
flag
up
and
because
of
time
constraints,
it's
something
I
can
chase
offline,
but
just
we
have
recently
been
getting
a
lot
of
questions
from
constituents
about
sort
of
landmarks,
like
enforcement
issues
like
dynamics
when
we
have
a
somebody
who's,
just
in
clear
violation.
E
B
I
would
want
to
lean
in
this
is
the
first
time
hearing
about
this
particular
concern,
so
I
don't
want
to
speak
out
of
turn
without,
like
really
leaning
in
and
looking
at
it.
But
yes,
I
mean
I
I
know
of
people
with
whom
there
are
back
and
forth
contentious
conversations
going
on,
I'm
not
sure
of
anyone,
I'm
not
aware
of
someone
where
there
are
no
conversations
and
it's
just
being
left.
B
K
We'll
follow
up
on
that
just
a
flag.
You
mentioned
the
sort
of
third
round
of
plans,
the
the
rain
water-
and
just
you
know,
thinking
about
it's
really
true,
also
for
the
first
round
of
the
coastal
stuff,
like
thinking
about
how
you
know
how
I
care
about
this,
how
environment
can
partner
with
water
and
sewer
and
think
about
how
we
have
more
green
storm
water
infrastructure
as
a
default?
K
How
we,
how
you
know?
How
can
the
department
kind
of
lead
on
guidelines
there?
I
think
about
places?
Even
you
know,
thorough
path
is
a
very
beloved
place
in
the
middle
of
the
west
end,
and
it's
interesting
when
you
start
to
understand
it's
also
a
sort
of
storm
water,
conduit
and
actually
some
of
the
ways
that
trees
are
dying
is
because
you've
got
runoff
running
into
them
and
like,
and
so
it's
just
everywhere.
K
I
look
you
find
that
there
are
these
kind
of
like
stormwater
infrastructure
problems
that
seem
like
they're
inflected
by
the
work
you
all
are
doing.
So
just
you
know
putting
on
the
record
that
it's
very
important
to
me
that
environment
not
be
off
on
the
side
doing
this
work.
Thinking
about
what
a
resilient
city
looks
like
and
then,
meanwhile,
with
public
works-
and
I
said
this
to
them
as
well.
I
said
this
at
bwsc's
last,
commissioner
hearing
like
that
that
the
folks
actually
putting
in
infrastructure
are
still
just
putting
in
kind
of
gray,
hardscape
infrastructure.
K
So
just
just-
and
I
know
that
that
involves
maintenance
when
we
talk
about
greenstorm
infrastructure
and
so
again
it's
back
to
growing
staff,
but
I
just
really
want
to
flag
how
important
that
is,
I
think
and
yeah,
and
then
I
think,
excited
about
the
birdo
regs.
That's
like
we
could
have
a
whole
hearing
on
that.
K
So
we
won't
make
that
this
hearing,
but
super
important
super
important
to
so
many
constituents
of
mine
that
we
have
those
go
in
in
ways
that
encourage
actual
compliance
and
not
sort
of
cause
people
to
default
to
paying
the
payments
as
alternative
compliance
right
like
how
do
we?
How
do
we
really
push
people
on
a
true
compliance
pathway
since
we're
actually
trying
to
achieve
the
climate
goals?
K
And
then
you
know
a
chief
just
that
I
wanna,
I
think
we've
had
a
pretty
flatline
budget
for
a
long
time
on
the
groundwater,
trust,
we're
kind
of
working
on
the
understanding
that
budget
and
the,
and
we
passed
an
ordinance
last
year
in
the
council,
so
sort
of
lining
all
that
up.
That's
my
own
time,
but
just
one
of
their
super
important
stewards
of
a
really
important
shared
resource,
the
groundwater
level
in
my
district.
So
just
we'll
want
to
follow
up
on
that.
K
Great
excellent,
well,
thank
you
all
and
oh
yeah.
We
have
a
project
manager
at
pfd
on
the
tool
shed.
So
that's
one
question
I
didn't
have
to
ask:
okay,
no
seriously,
we're
really
grateful
for
all
of
your
work,
and
now
I
am
going
to
go
to
members
of
the
public
have
been
waiting
very
patiently.
So
I
have.
K
I
have
both
folks
here
in
the
chamber
and
folks
online
and
while
we
get
the
online
folks
queued
up,
I'm
going
to
go
to
the
ones
here
in
the
chamber,
but
at
the
top
of
my
online
list
just
for
the
staff.
I've
got
melissa,
hamill,
kaliga
and
claire
corcoran,
so
those
will
be
the
first
three
online,
but
first
I'm
going
to
go.
I've
got
lydia
lowe
and
sarah
friedman,
if
you
guys,
can
come
up
and
testify
and
then
karen
you
should
wave
at
me
if
you
want
to
be
on
this
list.
K
And
yeah-
and
I
want
to
say
I
appreciate
you
know
if
there's
some
element
of
the
department
that
can
stay
and
listen
but
also
totally
understand
that
it's
four
o'clock
and
some
people
might
have
four
to
five
o'clock
thing.
So
if
we
have
some
people
need
to
peel
off.
That's
fine,
all
right,
lydia
lowe
from
chinatown
clt.
You
have
the
floor.
N
Community
land
trusts
remove
land
from
the
speculative
market
to
preserve
important
resources
for
the
common
good
like
affordable
housing
parks
or
urban
farms.
With
a
membership
and
decision-making
structure
that
focuses
on
community
governance,
we
believe
it's
important
that
we
use
city
dollars
to
stabilize
our
communities,
prioritizing
both
long-term
sustainability
and
resilience,
as
chinatown
has
undergone
a
development
boom,
nearly
doubling
its
population
in
the
last
two
decades.
The
lack
of
open
space
and
permeable
surfaces
has
only
gotten
worse.
N
Central
boston,
including
chinatown,
has
2.17
acres
of
open
space
per
1000
residents,
which
is
less
than
a
third
of
the
city-wide
average,
and
to
the
chief's
point
about
neighborhoods.
Without
backyards,
not
only
does
chinatown
not
have
backyards,
but
families
are
doubled
and
tripled
up
in
apartments
tree.
Canopy
coverage
in
chinatown
is
also
about
a
third
of
the
city-wide
average,
with
few
trees
large
enough
to
offer
shade
new
luxury
development
has
increased
inequality.
N
We
think
that
the
city
of
boston
could
encourage
this
type
of
initiative
by
establishing
a
grant
program
to
incentivize
resilience.
So
to
summarize,
we
ask
that
you
invest
in
our
future
by
investing
in
long-term
approaches
to
community
stability
and
resilience
and
investing
in
systems
change.
Thank
you.
K
H
Hi
everyone,
sarah
freeman
from
jamaica,
plain,
I
feel
like
I'm
preaching
to
the
choir
about
the
importance
of
parks
much
more
than
beautification,
but
the
importance
of
nature.
During
coved
we
all
saw
physical
health,
mental
health,
environmental
health,
stress
reduction,
plus
all
the
urban
heat
islands,
pollution
mitigation,
storm
water
wildlife.
H
H
At
a
cpa
meeting
this
year,
I
learned
that
if
the
city
continues
to
grow
at
the
rate
expected
by
2050,
we
would
need
to
let
something
like
50
000,
more
people.
We
would
need
to
add
something
like
600
acres
of
open
space,
to
keep
our
ratio
now
and
just
encourage
people
here
to
think
about
how
they
might
do
that.
I
know
city
wide
people
are
fighting
for
park
land
and
for
trees
and
open
space,
whether
it's
malnia
cass
boulevard,
malcolm
x
park,
crane
lodge
woods
morton
street
canopy.
H
H
The
rangers
I'm
glad
to
hear
they
came
up
repeatedly.
It's
still
an
ongoing
mystery
to
some
of
us
how
they
fit
into
the
budget.
I
tried
I'm
not
a
budget
expert,
but
it
would
be
nice
to
be
able
to
find
you
know
here
they
are
they
get
this
amount.
This
year
I
see
the
jobs,
but
not
the
program
expenses.
H
Some
of
you
got
this
in
an
email.
The
establishment,
by
government
of
great
public
grounds
for
the
free
enjoyment
of
the
people
under
certain
circumstances,
is
thus
justified
and
enforced
as
a
political
duty.
So
I
encourage
you
all
to
do
your
duty
and
keep
it
seems
like
the
parkland's
just
there.
You
know
you
don't
need
to
do
anything,
but
we
need
to
do
something.
Thank
you.
K
Thank
you
so
much
sarah
and
now
I'll
ask
the
team
to
queue
up
melissa
hamill,
while
we're
just
getting
melissa
on
the
screen.
Two
people
have
reminded
me
to
also
put
a
plug
in
for
this.
These
bpda
parcels
adjacent
to
the
urban
wild
and
mclaughlin
park,
they're
like
very
steep,
and
we
want
to
affect
a
combination,
but
you
guys
know
about
this
and
I
think
we're
gonna
move
on
it.
So
just
reminded
me
all
right,
sorry,
melissa.
I
had
to
get
my
own
little
plug
in
there
now.
K
O
A
floor
all
right,
thank
you.
My
name
is
melissa
hamill
and
I
live
in
jamaica,
plain
and
I
represent
the
friends
of
jp
dog
parks,
which
is
a
an
organization
of
about.
We
have
over
a
thousand
followers
on
facebook.
We
have
about
300
active
members
and
we
recently
just
collected
700
signatures
on
a
petition
to
create
a
dog
park
in
jamaica
plain.
O
We
have
benefited
from
having
friendships
grow
throughout
the
coveted
period,
because
many
people
adopted
dogs
and
we
socialize
our
dogs
together.
Unfortunately,
we
have
to
find
and
make
our
own
spaces,
and
it's
often
difficult
to
do
so-
that
having
a
designated
dog
park
and
in
perhaps
shared
view
spaces,
we
can
actually
make
it
beneficial
and
safer
for
everyone.
O
We're
excited
about
this
proposal,
but
we
also
feel
that
one
park
per
neighborhood
is
probably
not
enough,
but
it's
a
good
start.
We
would
love
to
work
with
the
city
council
and
with
the
state,
including
the
dcr,
which
thank
you,
chief
white
hammond,
for
for
bringing
up
this
issue
of
state
parkland,
which
is
one
of
the
the
largest
green
spaces
in
jp.
O
O
O
K
Great,
thank
you
so
much
melissa.
Next
up,
I'm
gonna
jump
to
claire
corcoran
because
I
think
kaliga.
If
you're
there
we're
having
trouble
with
you
not
accepting
the
offer
to
unmute.
So
if
you
can
try
to
do
that,
but
in
the
meantime
we'll
go
to
claire
corcoran
and
then,
if
we
aren't
able
to
solve
it
with
clicko
we'll
be
going
to
james
michelle
claire.
P
P
P
If
we
are
to
achieve
the
vision
of
a
more
equitable
canopy
distribution
and
a
more
resilient,
greener
city,
we
are
going
to
need
to
scale
up
our
investment
in
both
planting
new
trees
and
maintaining
existing
trees
in
other
cities
that
have
achieved
these
goals.
Public-Private
partnerships
have
been
integral
to
the
success
of
such
efforts
in
providence,
pittsburgh,
atlanta
and
new
york
city,
to
name
just
a
few.
P
Robust
partnerships
between
municipalities
and
non-profits
have
enabled
these
cities
to
leverage
private
dollars,
engage
and
educate
citizens
to
care
for
and
steward
their
urban
forests
and
freed
up
other
funding
for
required
maintenance
such
as
regular
pruning
insect
and
disease
treatment
and
watering
trees.
During
times
of
drought.
P
Successful
partnerships
like
these
have
been
nurtured
over
many
years
and
require
ongoing
commitment,
dedicated
funding
and
support
and
constant
communication
and
collaboration
here
in
boston.
There
are
significant
philanthropic
resources
available
to
support
these
goals
from
the
private
sector,
particularly
in
education,
around
stewardship
and
tree
planting.
P
Robust
public-private
partnerships
can
leverage
philanthropic
dollars
here
too,
but
will
require
an
increased
investment
in
staffing,
as
well
as
leadership
and
commitment.
We
can
reverse
the
current
level
trend
and
increase
our
canopy
cover
equitably,
but
it
is
going
to
be
expensive
and
require
all
the
resources
available
from
both
the
city
and
the
private
sector.
To
achieve
these
goals,
we
look
forward
to
the
urban
forest
plan,
release
and
hope
to
see
a
renewed
commitment
to
leveraging
all
available
resources
as
we
move
forward
together.
Q
Sorry
about
that,
I
I
am
a
pet
care
provider,
a
dog
trainer
and
they
acted
up,
but
also
I
was
born
in
boston.
I
have
been
an
rn.
I
was
a
sitting
nurse
for
over
44
years.
I
have
been
a
business
owner
for
over
32
and
almost
30
years.
I've
been
a
property
owner,
and
I'm
here
also
as
a
member
of
jp
dog
parks
group.
I
want
to
say
that
we
are
advocating
for
jp
dog
parks
to
get
at
least
one.
Q
Since
for
one
zip
code
we
have
the
most
registered
dogs
of
any
part
of
the
city
and
zero
dog
parks,
but
also
you
need
to
know
that
boston
is
75th
or
worst
in
major
cities
in
terms
of
dog
parks.
Dog
parks
are
an
amenity
that
helps
all
people
out.
I
have
many
clients,
because
I'm
from
the
interceding
group
from
roxbury,
I
have
many
clients
from
all
walks
of
life
and
almost
everybody
loves
their
dogs.
So
it
is
something
that
everybody
needs.
Q
The
benefits
to
dogs,
of
course,
are
exercise
socialization
and
a
well-exercised
dog
is
going
to
behave
better.
However,
for
humans,
outdoor
exercise
is
a
benefit,
and
just
if
you
don't
even
have
a
dog,
but
you
watch
the
joyful
play
of
dogs,
I
can
tell
you.
Studies
have
shown
that
people
release
happy
hormones,
serotonin
and
endorphins
watching
dogs
that
play.
It
is
a
great
activity
for
the
community
at
large
in
areas
where
many
people
and
their
dogs
congregate.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
K
You
thank
you.
Thank
you.
So
much
cleo
all
right
next
up
is
that
james
michelle
and
then
it
will
be
then
we'll
go
to
carla
villarre
and
then
lisa
beetman.
Just
we've
been
trying
to
advance
you
and
it
hasn't
been
working
so
again,
if
you
may
have
to
press
an
accept
button
on
your
side,
but
we'll
go
first
to
james.
R
R
And
to
all
the
council
for
the
care
which
is
demonstrated
here
today,
I'd
like
to
speak
on
behalf
of
one
of
the
coalitions
in
which
I
participate.
That
would
be
the
crane
ledge
woods
coalition,
which
is
comprised
of
over
six
neighborhood
associations
in
the
hyde
park,
matapan
roslindale
area
with
50
supporting
organizations,
and
we
have
4
000
individuals
who
have
signed
over
four
thousand
who
signed
our
our
petition,
which
seeks
to
our
mission,
is
to
fully
conserve
a
24
acre
urban
woodland
bordering
hyde
park,
matapan
and
roslindale.
R
Now
we've
sent
to
the
mayor
and
two
councillors
a
budget
letter.
Hopefully
you've
received
it
I'll
summarize
our
main
our
main
communication.
The
first
is
that
the
proposed
budget
includes
funding
for
climate
and
environmental
justice
and
several
line
item
categories
which
hopefully
will
allow
for
the
acquisition
of
crane
ledge
woods.
Should
we
reach
that
point?
We're
really
happy
that
the
administration
has
taken
these
important
initial
steps
to
address
climate
and
environmental
justice
and
is
focused
not
only
on
coastal
flooding,
but
on
our
inland
neighborhoods.
K
E
Hi,
my
name
is
paula,
vilari
zusad
and
my
pronouncer
shive.
I
am
here
also
supporting
any
dog
park
initiatives
that
there
might
be
with
the
jp
dog
group,
and
I
won't
add
anything.
That's
already
been
said,
or
I
won't
repeat
anything
that's
been
said,
but
I
would
just
like
to
add
that
it
seems
like
there
might
be
areas
that,
where
there
could
be
some,
you
know
coalition
formed
and
some
support
from
what
I
understood
from
what
I
was
listening.
E
I
imagine
that
people
who
support
dog
parks
would
also
be
willing
to
figure
out
ways
to
you
know,
support
the
needs
of
animals
and
support
the
departments
that
actually
provide
those
services.
So
aside
from
obviously
co-signing
with
what
every
everyone
said
about
the
need
for
our
parks
to
just
continue
to
improve
and
for
dog
parks
to
be
part
of
that
projected
future
or
for
more
parks.
E
To
be
part
of
the
productive
future,
I
think
it's
also
important
to
think
about
potentially
how
there
can
be
some
just
multiple
partners
that
can
that
can
support
multiple
efforts,
not
just
through
the
funding
and
the
money,
but
also
again
through
just
the
people
power
and
the
coalition
making
to
ensure
that
these
measures
actually
go
through.
Because
one
of
the
challenges
that
I
found
and
I'm
a
transplant,
I'm
not
a
residue
from
boston.
E
I'm
trying
to
establish
myself
here,
one
of
the
challenges
that
I
found,
obviously
especially
due
to
cobit,
but
just
in
general,
it
feels
like
there
is
still
a
lot
of
work.
That
needs
to
be
done
in
terms
of
who
shows
up
for
these
events
seeking
community
input.
I
know
I've
been
to
a
few
and
and-
and
I
think
there
needs
to
be
a
little
bit
more
effort-
put
out
there
to
try
to
get
a
wider
coalition
of
community
members.
E
It's
actually
part
of
the
small
business
that
I
run
I'd
like
to
make
it
a
part
of
the
business
that
I
run,
and
I
look
forward
to
seeing
what
more
we
can
do,
and
I
certainly
hope
that
there
is
also
room
to
continue
to
create
coalition
and
expand
their
reach
so
that
more
community
members
know
that
you
know
we
can
engage
with
the
parks
department
and
try
to
improve
things.
That's
it.
Thank
you.
K
S
I
am
a
resident
of
eastern
roslindale,
a
member
of
the
mount
hope,
canterbury,
neighborhood
association,
and
I
applaud
mayor
wu's
administration's
focus
on
proactively
comment,
combating
the
climate
crisis
and
related
public
health
and
safety.
We
are
here
today
to
put
muscle
dollars
towards
realizing
those
goals.
I
also
applaud
her
commitment
to
inclusive
club,
public
participation
and
decision
making
that
affects
us.
S
The
climate
crisis
is
a
public
health
crisis.
The
crisis
is
greatest
in
environmental
justice.
Neighborhoods
such
as
mine,
which
is
74
of
the
census
block,
are
low
to
moderate
income
people
of
color.
My
neighborhood,
is
on
the
border
of
hyde
park
and
matapan.
Many
of
my
neighbors
are
seniors.
Many
are
children
with
a
high
incidence
of
respiratory
illness
is
like
asthma,
there's
also
a
flood
zone
being
at
the
lowest
point
in
the
estonia
brook
valley.
So
there
are
mold
issues.
S
There
is
a
great
and
immediate
need
to
fund
climate
resilience
infrastructure
not
only
along
the
coast
but
inland
as
well,
where
there
are
more
environmental
justice
communities
park.
Equity
is
another
factor.
The
only
walking
distance
protected
park
in
my
neighborhood
is
a
4
000
foot
square
foot
patch
of
grass
on
busy
congested
hyde
park
avenue,
but
there
are
still
several
unprotected
areas
with
mature
tree
canopy
that
could
be
and
must
be
protected
before
it's
too
late.
S
I'm
grateful
I'm
very
grateful
that
mayor
rule
has
restored
the
land
acquisition
line
item
which
had
been
in
place
for
many
years.
Constituents
never
asked
for
it
to
be
removed
in
the
past
several
years.
Vast
acreage
of
natural
green
infrastructure
has
been
decimated
by
insufficiently
regulated
development
that
has
not
been
aligned
with
the
changing
and
accelerating
climate
needs.
S
There
are
many
critical
needs
in
the
city,
some
of
which
will
still
be
around
to
ameliorate
next
year.
There
are
beautiful
parks
in
other
neighborhoods
that
will
still
be
there
for
upgrades
in
future
years,
but
that
is
not
the
case
with
the
unprotected
green
spaces
that
are
under
immediate
threat
of
destruction.
S
T
T
I'd
like
to
address
three
elements:
first
of
all,
crane
ledge
woods,
and
there
is
a
connection
between
crane
ledge
woods
and
the
back
bay,
which
is
perhaps
not
obvious
but
nevertheless
worthwhile
pointing
out-
and
it
also
is
a
matter
of
equity.
We
in
back
bay
are
very
blessed
with
access
to
wonderful,
open
spaces.
T
The
people
around
crane,
ledge
woods
are
not,
and
yet
this
area
is
an
imminent
danger
of
being
destroyed
by
a
proposal
to
establish
luxury
apartments
which
are
not
in
short
supply
in
boston,
unlike
affordable
housing.
So
we've
observed
that
copley
square,
which
is
also
a
very
important
space
for
us.
There's
a
budget
of
some
15
and
a
half
million
dollars
has
been
set
aside
for
basically
a
complete
redesign
of
this
square
and
probably
its
proposed
use
to
host
a
number
of
additional
number
of
major
events
which
we
feel
could
be
better
hosted
elsewhere.
T
So
it
seems
to
me
that,
since
in
back
bay,
we
have,
if
anything
I
won't
say,
a
surplus,
but
an
abundance
of
wonderful
open
spaces
and
the
people
around
crane
ledge
woods
do
not.
That
is
the
sheer
amount
of
equity.
It
would
make
sense
to
transfer
some
money
to
help
pay
for
the
purchase
of
crane
edgewoods
to
preserve
it
as
a
public
open
space,
because
otherwise
it
will
be
irrevocably
destroyed.
T
U
U
These
parks
are
the
neighborhood
parks
for
over
60
000
people
back
bay,
beacon,
hill
chinatown
bay,
village,
kenmore
square
and
the
increasingly
residential
downtown,
but
they
are
more
than
that
much
more
than
that.
They
belong
to
the
entire
city.
Boston
common,
in
particular,
is
the
city's
most
intensively
used
green
space
used
by
over
87
million
people
a
year
for
play.
Relaxation
protest
celebration,
so
these
are
very
important
and
very
heavily
used
parks.
U
We
know
what
lifesavers
our
parks
were
over
these
past
two
years
of
a
pandemic.
We
always
knew
that
parts
were
essential
to
our
physical,
mental
and
ecological
health.
It
was
never
more
clear
than
these
past
two
years
how
vital
our
green
spaces
are
as
places
of
respite
and
renewal
to
every
one
of
us,
and
they
saw
historic
levels
of
use.
U
I'm
also
here,
speaking
on
behalf
of
boston
park,
advocates,
we
are
a
network
of
over
100
community
organizations
that
that
advocate
for
our
parks
throughout
the
city
of
boston,
very
important
to
think
about
the
whole
ecosystem.
The
green
lungs
of
our
entire
city,
as
well
as
the
mission
that
we
have
at
friends
of
the
public
farm,
which
is
our
three
free
parks
downtown.
U
U
This
25.9
million
dollars
is
spread
across
2,
300
acres
and
332
properties
and
35
000
street
freeze
the
trust
for
public
land
just
published
its
park
score
his
2022
park
score.
Looking
at
the
nation's
hundred
most
populous
cities,
we
rank
number
19
on
investment
as
a
major
urban
center.
We
should
be
doing
better.
We
need
to
increase
the
park
department's
budget
and
yes,
councilor
bach.
How
is
what
does
that
patch
look
like
and,
yes,
chief?
U
We
want
to
be
sensitive
to
all
the
needs
of
the
city
and
all
the
money
that
needs
to
be
spent
in
so
many
different
places,
but
other
highly
ranked
u.s
park.
Cities
spend
one
percent,
including
minneapolis,
saint
paul,
san
francisco,
seattle
as
a
major
city,
the
kind
of
city
that
we
want
to
be
a
world-class
city.
We
should
be
doing
the
same
point.
Two
five
percent
would
be
11
million
dollars
which
could
buy
more
equipment
and
maintenance,
fit
vehicles
and
importantly
hire
staff
at
the
pay
levels.
U
If
it
would
begin
to
compete
with
the
job
market,
we
have
heard
the
difficulty
of
getting
people
to
to
apply
for
for
projects
or
poor
positions
in
the
in
the
department.
We
are
excited
that
there
are
four
positions
in
the
tree:
division
that
are
in
this
budget.
That's
just
wonderful,
but
we
need
to
make
sure
that
the
challenges
are
not
not
unable
to
be
overcome
because
of
the
of
the
pay
scale
that
the
department
is
required
to
to
support
the
downtown
parks.
U
We
applaud
the
inclusion
of
funds
to
renovate
the
tadpole
playground
on
the
common,
which
is
heavily
used
and
overdue
for
improvements,
as
well
as
inclusion
of
money
to
fund
necessary
repairs
of
the
public
garden
legumes
surround
you
also
heard
from
councilor
bach
about
kenmore
square.
The
friends
in
collaboration
with
the
parks
department,
did
a
master
plan
for
the
block
in
kenmore
square,
very
diverse
neighborhood.
U
As
you
said,
men's
share.
There
is
a
large
population
of
elderly.
This
is
a
really
important
green
space
for
them
and
a
very
busy
thoroughfare
surrounded
by
busy
thoroughfares,
and
you
also
heard
from
kathy
baker
clips
about
the
fact
that
there
are
projects
that
the
department
wants
to
do
and
doesn't
have
project
manager,
staffing
or
hours
to
to
do
that.
This
is
one
of
those
the
money
has
been
in
the
budget
for
two
years,
but
we
really
need
to
find
more
project
managers
or
more
time
for
the
project
managers.
U
We
were
excited
to
have
the
public
guard
maintenance
facility
project
moved
forward.
After
my
testimony
of
the
pfd's
hearing
before
this
committee
on
april
25th,
it
is
in
dire
shape.
We
welcome
this
that
this
renovation
will
proceed
quickly.
I
hear
that
there
has
been
a
project
manager
assigned
at
pfd,
which
is
terrific
news.
We
need
to
make
sure
there's
construction
funding
in
next
year's
fiscal
budget.
U
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
commitment
to
boston's
green
space.
Each
of
you
city
councillors,
know
the
power
of
public
space
in
your
lives,
your
family's
lives
and
the
lives
of
your
constituents,
and
it
has
been
inspiring
whenever
I
come
to
these
hearings
and
hear
counselors
speak
every
year
about
the
importance
of
parks
in
in
these
hearings.
U
K
Thank
you
so
much
liz
next
up,
I'm
I'm
going
to
go
to
roberta
hentgen
and
then
emmanuel
de
barros,
because
we've
been
able
to
get
them
into
the
zoom
room.
I
just
want
to
flag
for
rick,
yoder
and
nancy
aleo
that
we're
not
able
to
get
you
in.
So
again
you
have
to
press
a
button
to
accept
the
offer
to
kind
of
come
into
the
testifying
space
so
rick,
sorry
and
nancy.
If
you
do
that,
we
will
get
you
back
in
the
line.
V
Thank
you
very
much,
so
my
name
is
roberta
hantkin
and
I
live
in
jamaica,
plain,
I'm
a
relatively
new
resident
of
jamaica
plain,
I'm
also
a
member
of
the
friends
of
jp
dog
parks
and
you've,
you've
heard
from
kaliga
and
from
melissa
already.
So
I
don't
want
to
repeat
what
they've
already
said,
but
I
do
want
to
make
a
couple
of
more
points.
V
V
Availability
of
dog
designated
spaces
becomes
especially
important
to
senior
citizens
and
to
families
with
small
children
who
might
not
have
the
ability
to
travel
long
distances
far
from
their
home
base
in
order
to
exercise
their
dogs
and
another
issue
that
hasn't
been
mentioned,
but
is
more
and
more
frequent,
especially
as
we
get
into
the
summer
months.
We're
hearing
of
dogs
getting
sick
from
ingesting
human
waste
that
reveals
dog
drug
content
within
that
waste
that
they've
ingested,
and
this
needs
to
be
addressed
as
well.
V
V
Our
group
has
analyzed
the
availability
of
many
viable
spaces
in
our
neighborhood,
in
which
we
could
site
safe
dog
park
areas
and
we're
working
towards
that
end,
so
that
our
vision
can
become
a
reality,
and
we
ask
that
the
needs
of
dog
owners,
not
just
in
jp
but
throughout
the
city
in
all
of
our
neighborhoods,
be
addressed
and
that
our
voices
be
heard,
as
you
all
make
fy23
decisions
regarding
the
budget
allocations
in
boston
and
we're
happy
to
collaborate
with
you
in
this
endeavor.
Thank
you
very
much
for
this
time.
K
B
However,
usually
when
we
use
the
term
equity,
we
mean
racial
equity
and
dealing
with
the
decades
of
racism,
and
it
could
be
triggering
for
many
of
us
who
worked
on
that
issue
to
hear
the
needs
of
dogs
which
are
definitely
important
equated
with
the
needs
for
racial
justice.
For
those
of
us
who've
sort
of
lived
with
those
issues.
I
know
that
is
not
the
intention.
W
W
This
can
be
attendees
of
many
of
your
advisory
boards
workshops
and
office
hours.
Make
sure
you
count.
Those
numbers
of
participants
also
communicate
among
many
city
departments
from
the
transportation
department,
public
works
and
many
of
the
neighborhood
services
team
and
civic
organizing
team
with
this.
This
was
on
support
your
metrics
of
engagement
for
these
programs
and
others
such
as
the
community
choice,
electricity
program
and
also
on
supporting
the
heat
missile
state
study
and
also
even
supporting
your
building
emissions
reduction
and
diesel.
W
On
disclosure
ordinance
loan,
where
businesses
with
the
workshop,
make
sure
you
have
those
encountered,
but
also
making
sure
you
have
the
funding
and
technical
support
and
staff.
So
you
can
do
this
with
the
review
board
and
also
enforcement
for
parks
and
rec
and
department.
I
love
the
missions.
You
have
to
maintain
these
parks
and
making
sure
people
have
access
equity
and
mostly
excellence
well
throughout
the
park
system,
but
for
we
would
just
like
to
see
more
I'll
mention
of
the
street.
W
I
mean
street
trees
on
measurements
program,
but
also
increasing
the
canopy
and
maintain
the
park
spaces,
also
having
the
additional
funding,
as
also
having
additional
funding
for
and
support
on,
staff
support
to
help
you
with
this
on
department,
but
also
set
support,
such
as
the
program
management
and
also
staff
support
throughout
the
parks
we
can
prevent.
We
can
prevent
or
reduce
numerous
issues
that
can
affect
many
residents
in
these
environmental
justice
areas.
W
W
Also,
having
the
increased
from
increase
of
household
carbon
footprints,
I
know
that's
my
time
just
up
on
two
key
points
that
were
on
a
few
questions
from
the
counselors
on
for
hotter
temperatures
interact
with
pollution
in
the
air,
perhaps
increasing
small
levels
from
the
ground
level.
Ozone
heart
firing,
lung
disease
disorders
such
as
heart,
attacks,
strokes
and
asthma
can
be
increased
due
to
hot
humid
and
air
pollutants,
and
also
planting
more
trees
can
make.
A
big
difference
enables
with
a
lot
of
pavement
and
lack
of
tree
space.
W
Trees,
can
improve
air
quality
and
provide
shade
and
cooling
on
hot
days,
decreasing
cooling
costs
to
residents
and
reduce
overall
attempts
and
in
the
neighborhood
and
with
the
neighborhood.
With
these
many
payments,
and
mostly
we
talk
about
most
talk
about,
have
a
dancer
development
areas
and
fewer
trees
to
absorb
the
heat
during
hot
days,
and
don't
have
that
as
much
as
coolant
centers
in
the
area.
W
W
K
X
Yes,
thank
you,
ricky,
oder
from
eastern
roslindale,
co-chair
of
the
mount
hope,
canterbury,
neighborhood
and
a
member
of
the
crane
ledge
woods
coalition.
Of
course,
I
you
know,
I
have
a
written
statement,
but
everybody
before
me
speaking
on
this
has
already
said
everything,
so
I'm
going
to
wing
it
a
bit.
I
I
want
to.
It
has
been
a
very
interesting
testimony.
X
The
solution
to
that
is
for
the
budget
for
environment
to
be
increased
so
that
all
the
city
neighborhoods
needs
can
be
taken
care
of.
Otherwise
we
get
into
who's,
got
it
worse.
You
know,
and-
and
that's
just
not
the
right
way
to
go
and
speaking
about
our
neighborhood
here
in
the
southern
part
of
the
city
again
and
thinking
about
these
urban
wilds.
These
you
know
beautiful
places
once
they're.
X
Bought
over
that's
the
end
of
it,
we'll
never
see
them
again.
We're
going
to
get
an
opportunity
to
have
them.
They'll
be
gone.
It's
unlike
you
know.
If
you
have
a
bad
roadway
and
it's
upgraded,
you
can
wait
a
year
if
the
money
isn't
there
it'll
be
there
the
next
year,
you
can
fix
it.
It's
not
true.
You
cut
that
with
or
even
while
you
cut
the
trees
down.
They're
gone,
that's
it!
X
It's
a
working-class
neighborhood
and
an
environmental
justice
name
mostly
people
of
color,
and
if
you
check
out
the
the
parks
department,
has
a
great
new
maps
called
a
walk
shed.
I
think
it's
something
like
rock
shed
parks
and
open
space
map,
and
I
think
someone
spent
a
lot
of
time
on
that.
I
can
see
they
they.
It
shows
the
different
colors
about
who
has
you
know
where
anywhere
on
the
map?
Are
you
within
a
walking
a
reasonable
walking
distance
of
a
map
of
a
park?
X
One
zero
parks,
one
park,
two
park:
three
park,
much
of
the
area
around
crane,
ledge
woods,
it's
a
desert.
There
are
no
walking
parks
and
actually
a
lot
of
south
southern
part
of
the
city.
That's
true
other
parts
of
the
city.
There
are
smaller
sections
and
I
started
analyzing
and
I
realized
some
of
them
are
like
logan
airport.
Well,
I
don't
think
that
really
should
count
in
the
southern
part,
particularly
again
around
crane
ledge
woods,
it's
all
residential,
and
so
there
is
another
argument.
I
think
we
haven't
spoken
over.
X
X
It's
I'm
somebody
transformed
out
of
this
city,
it's
a
it's
a
gem
and
I
really
help
hope
we
can
find
a
way
to
save
it.
The
alternative
that
is
forward
now,
which
admit,
does
make
this
more
complicated,
is
a
development
for
being
proposed
going
through
the
dpa
of
270
units
of
luxury
housing,
a
two-bedroom
apartment
for
3
400
that
most
people
in
that
surrounding
neighborhood
are
not
their
kids
can't
afford
that?
X
X
Y
Y
So
this
would
allow
the
buildings
participating
to
retain
power
when
the
main
grid
suffers
an
outage,
and
then
it
would
bring
them
energy
savings
when
the
main
grid
is
operational
and
so
for
communities
to
flourish
and
local
economies
to
thrive.
We
really
need
to
push
for
reliable,
affordable
and
accessible
energy
sources.
Y
So
you
know,
while
the
city
has
taken
a
lot
of
promising
steps
and
allocating
funds
for
renewable
energy
development-
and
you
know
addressing
the
urban
heat
island
effect,
we
really
think
that
further
action
could
be
taken
to
invest
in
climate
resilience
and
building
a
more
resilient
electric
grid.
Thanks.
Z
Thank
you,
I'm
carolyn
reeves,
I'm
the
co-founder
with
jackie
royce
of
the
muddy
water
initiative
based
in
the
fenway.
I
live
in
the
back
bay
and
I
I
am
truly
proud
to
join
so
many
of
my
environmental
climate
and
parks
heroes
today,
but
I'm
here
to
insist
that
as
proud
bostonians,
we
must
combat
climate
doomsaying
and
create
positive
community
and
coalition.
As
carla
said
earlier,
today,
kenzie
spoke
about
young
students,
ownership
of
our
parks.
Z
Z
K
K
I
AA
We
are
hoping
that
the
fiscal
year
23
budget
includes
funds
to
acquire
the
peace
garden
as
a
permanent
city
park
and
we
are
committed
to
working
partnering
with
the
city
so
that
it's
a
successful
project.
This
is
the
only
green
space
in
the
heart
of
our
main
street
district.
It's
seen
countless
community
celebrations,
concerts
domino
games,
film
screenings
and
volunteer
cleanups,
it's
surrounded
by
black
and
latino-led
small
businesses
and
youth
organizations
that
have
not
only
used
the
space
but
have
also
put
decades
of
labor
and
resources
into
it.
AA
AA
K
K
AB
Can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
I
am
I'm
sorry,
okay,
I
couldn't
figure
it
out,
I'm
in
the
car,
my
okay
I'll,
be
quick.
Thank
you
for
putting
this
together
and
thank
to
all
the
people
from
the
community
and
and
boston
overall
for
saying
all
those
really
important
things.
I
just
want
to
talk
about
the
heat,
because
I
think
everyone
agrees
that
extreme
heat
is
a
you
know,
a
public
health
hazard
today
and
will
likely
only
get
worse
in
the
near
future.
AB
I
was
in
charlestown
at
the
la
crosse
fields
last
week
on
that
hot
day,
and
I
brought
an
infrared
thermometer
to
measure
the
the
temperature
of
the
field
versus
the
grass
next
to
it
at
2
45
in
the
afternoon,
the
plastic
field
was
147
degrees
and
the
grass
just
just
beside
it,
was
74.
and
of
course
I
got
all
this
documented
with
my
gps.
You
can
see
where
I
am
and
the
time
it
was.
You
know
the
temperature
outside,
but
I
guess
what
I'm
trying
to
say
is.
AB
AB
It's
really
not
good
for
any
of
us,
but
especially
when
it
comes
to
the
heat.
It
also
can't
be
recycled.
There's
nowhere
in
this
country,
where
you
can
take
acres
of
this
plastic
carpet
and
put
it
where
it
will
be
recycled
and
I'm
not
making
that
up
so
there's
nowhere
to
recycle
it
ever
anytime.
It's
made,
it
creates
pfas
the
forever
chemicals
that
you
know.
Healey
just
said
she
was
gonna
outlaw.
So
I
think
the
curve
thing
needs
to
be
looked
at
very
closely.
AB
AC
You
know,
thank
you
so
much
for
this
time
that
we
we
take
every
year
to
focus
on
parks
and
environment,
which
of
course,
is
one
of
the
most
powerful
tools.
Do
we
have
to
do
so
many
things
in
our
in
our
country
and
in
our
city
and
our
neighborhoods,
both
environmentally
and
from
a
health
and
environment
perspective,
focusing
on
the
people
in
our
communities
that
need
it
the
most
often
for
visibility.
AC
I
wear
green
because
I
work
for
the
emerald,
necklace,
conservancy
and
I
like
to
rock
the
brand,
but
today
I'm
feeling
like
we,
I
really
need
to
be
bright,
and
so
I'm
wearing
the
color
of
a
caution.
Sign.
It's
pretty
important
to
me
that
we
talk
about
how
much
we
have
the
opportunity
to
invest
with
green
space
and
take
this
time
to
do
a
lot
more
than
we've
been
able
to
do
in
the
past.
We
have
a
long.
We
have
a
long
road
to
get
back
to
where
we
need
to
be.
AC
Chief
white
hammond
mentions
this
a
lot
when
she
talks
about
the
way
that
the
red
lining
map
and
the
heat
maps
overlap.
So
we
have
a
tremendous
distance
to
travel.
I'm
super
excited
about
the
increases
in
the
budget
this
year
for
the
arborists
and
the
other
departments
that
need
other
units
that
need
resources,
but
I
feel
like
we
have
a
lot
more
of
a
way
to
go
and
I
wonder
how
we
can
over
the
coming
years.
AC
I
hope
we
can
make
tremendous
strides
right
now
from
a
federal
and
state
level,
there's
more
money
than
ever
for
infrastructure.
It's
not
going
to
solve
everything.
It's
right
now,
I
think
mainly
focused,
unfortunately,
on
only
the
capital
side
of
the
equation.
We
know
that's
not
the
whole
story.
We
know
maintenance
is
so
important.
This
team
works
extremely
hard
with
very
little
compared
to
what
they
should
have
and
the
the
operation
staff
need
more
people.
The
salaries
need
to
go
up,
so
they
can
compete
with
the
private
sector
and
fill
open
positions.
AC
We
have
this
happening
in
the
plumber
position.
We
have
this
happening
in
the
project
manager's
position.
There
is
more
funding
that
they
have
to
spend
than
they
can
spend
because
the
limitations
of
staffing-
and
so
I
I
look
to
the
creativity
of
the
staff
of
the
city
council
of
the
mayor's
office,
to
think
about
ways.
AC
We
can
increase
capacity
because
parks
is
one
of
the
few
departments
and
the
few
teams
that
really
touch
every
block
of
the
city
and
if
they
don't
because
there's
not
a
tree
there,
and
there
should
be
so-
then
they
should
touch
it.
So
I
really
I
I
applaud
the
work
so
far,
but
we
have
a
lot
more
to
go
as
president
of
the
emerald
necklace
conservancy,
I'm
thrilled
that
we've
been
able
to
partner
as
much
as
we
have
on
the
trees
within
the
emerald
necklace.
AC
But
we
know
that
while
people
need
to
get
to
water,
there's
not
just
the
water
along
the
coast,
but
there's
the
water
of
the
muddy
river,
there
is
the
emerald
necklace
that
I
don't
think
is
as
easy
to
connect
with
the
rest
of
the
city
as
it
should
be.
I
think
we
have
the
southwest
corridor.
We
have
the
emerald
necklace
and
there
are
ways
we
can
connect
these
things
better.
It
requires
that
we
don't
just
work
within
the
silos
of
one
department.
AC
We
need
to
work
beyond
jurisdictional
boundaries,
work
with
dcr
and
others
very
excited
that
dcr's
budget
also
seems
to
be
increasing
this
year,
but
we
still
have
more
to
do.
I'm
sure
I'm
going
to
run
out
of
time
before
I
get
to
all
of
my
points,
but
I
I
do
appreciate
this
forum.
I
know
people
here
are
working
really
hard
to
move
this
forward,
but
we
do
have
a
long
ways
to
go
and
I
hope
we
can
be
creative
in
the
coming
years
to
find
ways
to
do
that
in
a
larger,
more
ambitious
way.
K
K
Klipsch
all
stayed
for
this
whole
time
to
hear
everybody's
testimony,
so
I
just
really
want
to
shout
out
the
department
for
staying
and
everybody
who
testified.
We
really
appreciate
it,
and
I
know
we'll
have
many
things
to
follow
up
on
but,
as
I
said
before,
it's
all
characterized
by
a
lot
of
care
for
the
work
that
parks
and
recreation
and
environment
and
also
landmarks
all
due
together.
So
with
that
this
hearing
of
the
boston
city
council's
ways
and
means
committee
is
adjourned.
Thank
you.
All.