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Description
Dockets #0825-0826, 1011 -
A hearing regarding the authorization of various grants
B
We
will
take
public
testimony
at
the
end
of
the
year
of
this
hearing.
If
you
wish
to
testify
via
video
conference,
please
email,
shane,
dot,
pac
pac
boston.gov
to
sign
up
when
then
you'll
be
when
you
will
be
called.
Please
state
your
name
and
affiliation
or
residence
and
limit
your
comments
to
no
more
than
two
minutes
to
ensure
that
all
comments
can
be
heard.
B
The
first
is
docket
number
zero,
eight
two
five
message
and
order
authorizing
the
city
of
boston
to
accept
and
expand
the
amount
of
six
hundred,
seventy
two
thousand
six
hundred
and
eighty
five
dollars
and
sixty
cents
in
the
form
of
a
grant
from
the
f
financial
year.
22
youth
works
awarded
by
the
massachusetts
executive
office
of
labor
and
workforce
development
passed
through
the
economic
development
and
industrial
corporation
of
boston
to
be
administrated
by
the
administered
by
the
youth,
engagement
and
employment.
B
B
B
B
C
Absolutely
so
good
afternoon,
council
greeting
I'll
go
ahead
and
just
jump
into
just
an
overview
of
the
youth
works
grant
here
within
our
department.
Thank
you
for
having
our
office
here
today.
I'm
actually
joined
by
malena
saha,
who
is
the
career
development
coordinator
for
our
office.
Malena
helped
manage
the
implementation
of
this
youth
works
funding
this
year.
C
What
I'll
aim
to
do
is
just
to
provide
a
very
high
level
understanding
of
the
youth
works
program
and
then
molina
will
be
available
to
answer
any
questions
specific
to
the
implementation
of
the
program.
I'm
here
in
boston,
we
have
provided
an
overview
of
the
youth
works
grant
for
2021,
which
I
believe
you
should
have
I'm
counseling
reading.
It's
just
a
one,
maybe
like
a
two-page
document.
C
Please
note
that
this
grant
is
a
reimbursement
grant
and
as
the
program,
the
services
for
which
this
funding
is
intended
and
has
already
been
provided.
So
that's
an
important
note
as
well.
So
I'll,
just
jump
right
in
the
the
city
of
boston
has
been
receiving
pretty
much.
Youth
works,
funding,
youth
work,
state
funding
for
for
over
10
plus
years
to
ensure
youth
jobs
and
opportunities.
C
Youth
works
is
a
subsidized
youth,
employment
program
that
is
administered
by
the
massachusetts
commonwealth
corporation,
and
it
is
really
designed
to
provide
low-income,
teens
and
young
adults
between
the
ages
of
18
14
to
21
years
of
age,
with
their
first
employment
experiences,
work,
readiness,
training
and
the
skills
to
find
and
keep
an
unsubsidized
job.
I'm
here
in
boston,
the
mayor's
office
of
workforce
development.
C
They
administer
a
portion
of
the
youth
works
grant
across
the
state
and
distributes
this
funding
here
in
boston
across
four
boston
summer:
job
providers,
that
is
abcd
boston,
private
industry,
council,
our
department
of
youth
engagement,
employment
and
youth
options.
Unlimited,
I'm
specifically
here
within
our
office.
We
incorporate
this
funding
as
a
part
of
our
4
000
youth
jobs.
That's
offered
through
the
mayor's
success
link
youth
jobs
program.
C
This
funding
is
used
to
ensure
that
these
disadvantaged
youth,
vulnerable
youth,
youth,
with
identifying
risk
barriers
have
access
to
employment
opportunity.
This
year
we
we
had
a
pretty
successful
youth
work
summer.
The
total
funding
allocated
to
this
program
was
roughly
around
672,
000,
of
which
93
went
directly
towards
personnel
cost,
largely
youth
wages
in
career
coaches
as
well,
and
then
the
remaining
roughly
about
seven
percent
was
used
for
non-personnel
programmatic
and
operational
costs.
C
We
consider
eligible
youth
as
youth
who
self-identified
as
youth
works
participants
through
the
completion
of
the
youth
works,
data
form
that
was
provided
as
a
part
of
their
onboarding
on
hiring
process.
On
this
summer.
Of
that
372
eligible
youth,
250
of
those
youth
were
considered.
Completers
and
completers
met
those
young
people
fulfilled
15
hours
of
the
mandated
signal
success,
curriculum,
which
is
the
work,
readiness
curriculum
required
by
youth
works,
and
they
worked
at
least
110
or
so
hours
throughout
the
duration
of
the
summer.
C
Some
of
those
organizations
consisted
of
acetone
the
learn
and
earn
program
which
was
managed
by
office
of
workforce
development
saw
boston
which
is
under
bcyf
boston
police
department
had
a
few
different
programs
through
the
community
engagement
bureau
bay,
heck,
which
is
through
boston,
public
health,
commission
and
then
the
calculus
project,
young
people's
project
becoming
a
man
zoo,
new
england
and
so
forth,
and
so
on.
Those
are
just
a
handful
of
the
organizations
that
were
considered
participants
for
the
program
this
summer.
C
Some
of
the
highlights
council,
breedon
and
others
for
the
youth
works
program
this
summer
were
really
just
centered
around
first
the
tiers,
so
youth
works
in
commonwealth
corporation
for
the
second
straight
summer.
They
use
a
three-tier
model
when
administering
youth
work,
funding
tier
one
was
starting
off
strong
tier
2
was
building
a
professional
self
and
tier
3
was
crafting
a
career
path.
C
Our
department
participated
in
tier
2
in
tier
3,
which
is
building
a
professional
self
which
is
based
on
early
and
career
trajectory,
employment
for
young
people
and
then
creating
a
career
path
is
based
on
career
pathway,
training
and
support.
The
with
tier
2,
youth
works,
participants
and
partners
participated
in
weekly
live
signal.
Success
sessions
with
instructors.
C
The
the
signal
success,
training
again,
which
is
15
hours,
that's
mandated
for
each
youth
works
participants.
It
offered
work,
readiness,
training
and
young
people
participated
in
workshops
around
expanding
initiatives,
professionalism
and
evaluation,
communication
and
collaboration
working
around
the
occupational
goals
and
also
just
learning
how
to
be
self-advocates
and
advocating
for
themselves.
C
C
B
No
thank
you
rashad.
I
really
appreciate
your
overview
and
I
was
reading
along
with
your
notes
that
you
sent
earlier
one
ques
and
and
thank
you
for
their
work,
because
this
was
the
second
summer
that
we
had
covered
and
I'll
be
curious
to
know
how
how
the
program
went
this
year
compared
to
last
year,
with,
I
think,
with
slightly
more
more
freedom
with
regard
to
group
work
and
whatever
was
was
it
all,
mostly
virtual,
or
in
hybrid
or
in
person?
How
did
it
work
out
with
cover
this
year?.
D
Yes
sure
so
this
year
we
did
mostly
virtual.
There
was
a
handful
of
sites,
the
zoo,
new
england,
one
of
them
where
we
were
able
to
deliver
signal
success
in
person,
but
other
than
that
everything
was
delivered,
virtually
all
the
offerings
from
comcore.
As
far
as
signal
success,
the
lunch
and
learns
and
the
career
chats,
everything
was
done.
Virtually.
B
Good-
and
I
also
noticed
from
your
numbers,
your
eligible
youth
and
your
completers
and
your
20
122
participants,
those
folks
who
didn't
fulfill
the
whole
requirement.
Did
you
get
any
metrics
on
what
what
barriers
they
might
have
been
experiencing,
that
that
got
in
the
way
of
them
completing
the
program
or
was
that
just
a
natural?
D
D
Some
youth
just
go
on
vacation,
so
they
don't
get
the
actual
signal
success
or
be
able
to
fill
the
requirements
that
way
and
then
there's
other
youth
that
there's
online
modules
that
they
have
to
do
that
are
self-paced,
and
so
some
youth
just
opt
out
of
doing
them,
no
matter
how
much
incentive
that
we
try
to
give.
So
it
is
pretty
in
line
with
what
we
see
every
year
as
far
as
people
who
are
completers
and
participants.
B
D
B
Excellent
well,
this
is
act.
This
is
very
good.
We
will,
since
this
is
reimbursement
from
for
monies,
that
already
been
spent
on
a
very
worthwhile
program,
and
we
would
be
recommended
that
this
would
be
accept
and
that
this
this
will,
this
docket
will
pass
when
recommended
it
passes
in
our
next
not
this
week,
but
in
the
near
future.
B
B
Commissioner
shea
is
that
okay,
one
zero
one,
one
an
order
to
accept
and
expend
one
million
seven
hundred,
sixty
eight
thousand
three
hundred
and
seventy
six
dollars
and
fifty
six
cents.
I
always
laugh
when
you
get
millions
of
dollars
and
then
you
get
56
cents
stuck
on
to
the
end
of
it.
It's
enough
to
go
for
a
half
a
cup
of
coffee
right.
B
E
E
E
Oh
duck
it
one
zero
one,
one,
the
state
elder
lunch
is
from
a
state
line
item,
so
it's
part
of
a
state
line
item
that
helps
to
support
the
elder
nutrition
program
that
comes
to
us.
We
put
it
together
with
the
federal
title
three
dollars
that
we
receive
and
something
called
nsip
which
will
be
coming
to
you
through
through
this
committee.
E
At
another
point
in
time
we
put
all
these
pieces
together
and
then
we
rfp
them
out
and
the
vendors
that
currently
work
with
us
for
the
for
the
elder
nutrition
program
for
this
portion
of
its
funding
are
ethos
and
the
chinese
golden
age
center.
I
will
just
say
so
that
there's
kind
of
a
complete
picture.
The
funds
that
come
through
us
are
a
piece
of
this
program.
There
are
then
additional
funding
streams
that
come
into
both
ethos
and
chinese
golden
age,
not
through
us
to
make
one
big
one
big
program.
F
E
Boston,
so
so
something
this
complex
can
only
have
many
many
funding
streams,
so
this
and
then
the
the
other
one,
the
docket
826,
that's
just
some
extra
money.
That
came
our
way
for
this
program.
That's
why
it
says
supplemental
on
it.
We
were
excited
to
see
that
last
year
surprised
and
excited
that
there
was
extra,
that
there
was
extra
money
that
was
coming
from
the
federal
government
through
the
state
to
us
for
the
elder
nutrition
program.
E
E
The
funding
that
all
the
pieces
of
the
funding
together
that
we
rfp
out
supports
about
2,
700,
older
resident,
older
adults
in
the
city
of
boston,
and
then
there
are
other
more
people
supported
through
other
the
other
funding
streams
that
the
program
gets.
This
program
is
exciting
because
it's
not
just
meals,
it's
meals,
it's
delivery
of
meals.
It's
also
nutrition
assessment,
which
is
really
important
so
that
we
can
make
sure
people
are
getting
the
right
things.
E
B
Thank
you,
commissioner.
It's
a
very
comprehensive
review
of
of
the
program
and-
and
I
know
it's
vitally
important
for
our
elders
to
get
adequate
nutrition.
The
one
question
I
had
is
you
know:
if
with
we
have,
we
have
a
very
doubt,
we
have
a
diverse
community
in
boston.
Do
we
have
culturally
appropriate
meals
for
folks
of
different
religious
faith
that
maybe
have
dietary
dietary
requirements,
or
you
know
how
do
you,
how
do
you
handle
that.
E
E
So
there
there
is
a
vegetarian
meal
that
people
can
access
and
that
I
think
a
lot
of
the
people
who
a
lot
of
the
folks
who
maybe
would
have
had
halal
meals
are
eating
will
eat
the
vegetarian
meal.
We
would
love
to
get
another
halal,
another
caterer
up
and
running.
I
think
we
talked
in
the
last
in
when
we
were
talking
about
the
arpa
funds.
Ethos
will
be
going
out
to
bid
for
the
meals
portion
for
the
meals
and
delivery
portion
of
this.
E
I
think
in
the
spring
and
the
there
there
are
some
challenges
around
caterers
and
these
meals,
so
there
are
very
specific
requirements
that
the
state
and
the
feds
have
in
place
for
kitchens
and
also
for
what
can
go,
what
the
pieces
that
need
to
make
up
this
meal
and
like
how
much
sodium
there
can
be,
and
so
it's
not
just
every
kitchen
that
can
do
these
meals,
and
so
we
want
to
get
a
meeting
together.
Where
interesting
caterers
could
get
on,
could
learn
more
about.
E
This
program
could
learn
what
the
requirements
would
be
for
both
the
meals
and
for
the
kitchens
ahead
of
the
bidding
period
so
that
they,
if
they're
interested
they
can
kind
of
do
whatever
prep
work
might
be
necessary
to
put
in
a
good
bid
when
ethos
goes
out
to
bid
for
for
meals.
The
chinese
golden
age
center,
on
the
other
hand,
does
not
go
out
to
bid
for
meals
because
they
have
their
own
kitchen,
so
they
actually
cook
the
meals
themselves.
E
B
E
We
have,
and
unfortunately
we
have
a
couple-
we'll
probably
be
before
you
again
talking
about
a
couple
more
pieces
of
it,
but
no,
I
think
you,
oh
francis
francis,
is
back
on.
He
was
having
some
technical
challenges,
but
I
just
want
to
say:
counselor,
it's
it's
been
wonderful
to
work
with
you
and
I'm
so
lucky
to
have
melissa
and
francis
on
my
team.
Here
you
can
see.
E
I
turn
to
them
for
all
the
detail,
questions
because
these
they
know
these
programs
like
inside
and
out
and
and
spend
so
much
time
working
with
them
and
with
our
partners
and
just
to
thank
our
partners
publicly
here
as
well,
because
it's
in
partnership
that
we
do
this
work
and
we
can't
do
it
alone.
So
I
think
that's
about
it.
E
E
E
E
You
know
both
tackle.
I
think
food
insecurity,
as
well
as
social
isolation,
which
is
nice,
and
then
I
will
say
on
the
meals,
the
meals
on
wheels
piece
oftentimes,
the
meals
driver
might
be
the
only
person
to
really
see
the
person
they're
delivering
a
meal
to
every
day,
and
so
there's
a
huge
social
piece
to
that
program
as
well.
B
E
Yeah
it
was
hard
during
during
covet
our
meals
on
wheels.
Drivers
did
at
kind
of
a
contactless
delivery
right,
so
they
would
knock
on
the
door
make
sure
they
heard
somebody
step
back
and
have
the
person
come
and
get
the
meal,
but
you're
right
that,
just
even
having
that
that
kind
of
connection,
even
in
a
safe
way
was,
was
important.
B
Good,
well,
I
I
don't
have
any
other
questions
and
I
don't
see
any
I'm
just
just
going
to
check
if
anyone
else
has
been
able
to
join
us
this
afternoon.
It
doesn't
look
like
anyone
else
is
here
of
mine
for
my
colleagues,
so
I
will
be.
I
recommend
that
we
accept
and
expand
these
two
grants
and
thank
you
all
for
your
great
work
and
don't
hesitate
to
be
in
touch.
If
there's
anything,
I
can
do
wonderful.