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From YouTube: Ways & Means FY21Budget: Admin & Finance Overview
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Docket #0588-0596, FY21Budget: Administration & Finance - Overview Presentation - One of a series of hearings to review the FY21 Budget. The focus of this hearing is an overview of the FY21 Budget, including the impact of COVID-19 to date
A
B
For
the
record,
my
name
is
kensey
Bock,
the
district
8
city,
councilor
I'm,
the
chair
of
the
Boston
City
Council
Committee
on
ways
and
means
joined
here
today
by
my
colleagues,
councillor
Flynn
of
district
2,
councillor
Edwards
of
district
1,
councillor
clarity
at
large
councillor
mejia
at
large
councillor,
O'malley
of
district
6
council
president
Janey
of
district
7
councillor
asabi
George
at
large
councillor,
Liz
Breeden
of
district
9,
councillor
Arroyo
of
district
8
five,
my
apologies
I,
believe
that's
everyone,
who's,
Oh,
councillor,
Frank,
Baker
of
district,
3
and
I.
Believe
that's
everyone.
B
B
This
hearing
this
hearing
represents
the
launch
of
the
council's
at
FY
21
budget
review
process
and
that
will
encompass
approximately
27
hearings
over
roughly
six
weeks
because
it's
the
first
such
hearing
I
would
like
to
make
a
few
or
anting
remarks
for
everyone
watching
back
at
home.
This
year's
budget
process
is
coming
in
the
midst
of
great
uncertainty
as
our
city,
grapples
with
the
challenges
of
kovat
19.
B
This
crisis
will
have
enormous
impacts
on
the
budget
for
next
year
and
the
years
to
come,
both
in
terms
of
government
revenues
and
in
terms
of
the
needs
we
must
meet
for
the
people
of
Austin
already
the
needs
for
food
access,
housing
support
and
business
assistance
are
huge
and
only
growing
so
more
than
ever
before.
We
can
expect
this
year's
budget
to
be
a
work
in
progress,
one
that
may
have
to
significantly
change
over
the
next
few
months.
B
Nonetheless,
the
ongoing
situation
makes
a
public
budgeting
process
all
the
more
important
to
the
extent
that
we
need
to
shift
resources
to
address
urgent
problems
or
make
car
decisions
because
of
more
limited
revenues
or
take
action
on
longstanding
inequities
and
gaps
exposed
by
this
crisis.
We
need
a
diversity
of
voices
involved
in
those
decisions
both
here
on
the
council
and
from
the
public.
So
we
strongly
encourage
Boston
residents
and
stakeholders
to
engage
in
this
process
by
giving
testimony
for
the
record,
you
can
do
this
in
several
ways.
B
B
You
can
attend
also
one
of
our
virtual
hearings
like
this
and
give
public
testimony
we'll
be
taking
public
testimony
at
the
end
of
each
hearing
when
you
are
called
please
state
your
name
and
affiliation
or
residents,
and
limit
your
comments
to
a
couple
minutes
to
ensure
that
all
comments
and
concerns
can
be
heard.
The
Zoom
link
can
be
found
in
the
public
notice
for
each
earring.
B
You
can
also
come
to
one
of
the
three
hearings
dedicated
only
to
public
testimony,
so
the
first
of
these
will
actually
be
this
Thursday
April
16th
at
6
p.m.
which
will
be
aimed
at
testimony
about
any
questions
you
may
have
regarding
the
FY
21
budget
and
then
will
be
holding
a
hearing
on
May
26
at
6
p.m.
for
testimony
about
the
bps
budget.
After
all,
the
bps
hearings
have
concluded
and
on
May
28th
at
6
p.m.
for
testimony
on
any
aspect
of
the
city
budget.
B
After
all,
other
hearings
have
concluded,
although
it
won't
count
as
formal
public
testimony.
You
can
also
informally
tweet
us
your
questions
or
comments
using
the
hashtag
BOS
budget
boss
budget
members
of
my
staff
will
be
tracking
that
hashtag
throughout
this
process.
Again
that's
vos
budget
and
for
more
information
on
the
city
council
budget
process
and
how
to
testify.
B
Please
visit
the
city
council's
budget
website,
ww
Boston,
gov,
/,
Department,
/,
City,
Council
/
budget
just
wanted
to
lay
all
those
out
we'll
be
repeating
ways
to
get
involved,
but
we
definitely,
as
everyone
is
at
home,
want
your
involvement.
We
will
need
to
exercise
strong
collective
judgment
over
the
coming
months
about
what
is
the
best
way
to
budget
for
this
pivotal
year
ahead
and
we
need
your
voices
in
that
process.
So
thank
you
for
getting
involved.
B
B
Our
focus
this
morning
will
be
a
budget
overview
presentation
from
administration
and
finance,
including
some
discussion
of
the
impacts
of
Cobie
19
so
far,
and
to
that
end,
we'll
be
hearing
from
Emmitt
handy,
the
chief
financial
officer
and
collector
treasurer
for
the
city
of
Boston
and
Justin
stare
at
the
budget
director
for
the
city
of
Boston.
Before
we
begin,
I
would
like
to
publicly
thank
them
both
for
their
work,
thus
far.
B
The
budget
that
is
now
before
us
was
substantially
rewritten
at
great
speed
over
the
past
few
weeks
by
a
Budget
Office
operating
remotely
in
the
middle
of
a
public
health
emergency.
The
City
Council
will,
as
usual,
be
scrutinizing
this
mayoral
budget
and
suggesting
alterations
and,
as
I
said,
there
are
many
unknowable
factors
that
will
influence
how
it
may
need
to
change
over
the
next
two
months.
B
But
the
current
situation
makes
it
all
the
more
important
that
we
have
a
fully
worked-out
set
of
budget
proposals
from
which
to
begin
this
process,
and
we
are
grateful
to
them
for
providing
the
council
with
that
material
despite
the
present
crisis.
So
with
that
I'd
like
to
recognize
a
mehandi,
the
city's
CFO
and
collector
treasurer.
C
Good
morning
councillors,
thank
you
for
freeing
this
year
this
morning,
I
also
to
start
with
a
thank
you.
The
chair
wound
back.
This
is
her
first
budget
hearing
as
chairwoman,
not
how
I'm
sure
she
envisioned
when
she
took
on
the
responsibilities
of
ways
and
means,
and
certainly
not
how
this
could
have
been
planned
for
early
on
in
this
process.
C
But
I
want
to
thank
her
thoughtfulness,
both
in
general
thinking
about
how
Mississippians
all
will
approach
budgeting
for
FY
21,
but
also
obviously,
and
adapting
to
our
new
reality
today
in
terms
of
suitum
council
hearing
in
the
satans,
all
of
the
need
to
make
and
information
with
us
together
about
what
the
city's
fiscal
reality
looks
like
in
the
light
inverse
and
our
response
to
the
virus
pandemic.
I
will
be
very
brief
this
morning.
C
Let
Justin
do
a
very
healthy
presentation
that
he
in
his
together
that
what
is
in
the
mirrors-
and
you
shall
have
y21
budget
filing
I-
just
want
to
make
two
points
that
have
put
this
guide.
How
we
about
where
we
are
for
today
in
terms
of
what
we
know
and
what
we
don't
know
about
the
impact
of
coronavirus
on
the
FY
21
budget.
The
first
is
that,
obviously,
as
you
all
know,
because
you
have
been
part
of
this,
the
city
has
a
strong
record
of
financial
management.
C
C
Those
decisions
in
the
past
have
set
us
up
for
the
strongest
footing
that
we
could
have
going
into
this
today
and
I.
Think
it's
important
that
we
acknowledge
that
and
acknowledge
that
those
were
important
decisions,
then
that
continue
to
pay
dividends
today
in
terms
of
how
we
will
respond
to
coronavirus
and
how
it
will
impact
our
budgeting
in
FY,
21
and
beyond
the
second
key
tenant.
That
I
think
is
important.
C
It
stands
in
juxtaposition
to
that,
though,
is
that,
obviously
this
is
an
unprecedented
crisis
for
the
city
of
Boston
and
globally,
and
it
is
really
difficult
for
us
to
understand
today
what
that
exactly.
That
will
mean
for
us,
obviously,
more
generally
in
terms
of
the
city
of
Boston's
response,
but
specifically
in
terms
of
how
it
will
impact
our
finances
in
the
medium
and
long
term.
Fy
21
is
a
somewhat
clearer
picture
for
us,
because
some
most
of
that
information
is
based
on
estimates
that
we
are
very
familiar
with.
C
You
know
the
counselor
mentioned
that
the
budget
process
is
important
and
particularly
in
this
time
and
I
have
to
agree
with
her
I
think
the
reason
that
we
chose
to
move
forward
with
submitting
the
budget
on
time
and
and
sort
of
moving
through
this
process,
even
though
there
is
a
degree
of
uncertainty
about
what
FY
21
will
look
like
is
because
it's
important
for
us
to
set
a
framework
for
how
we
will
respond
and
move
forward.
The
city
of
Boston
will
get
through
this.
C
We
will
come
out
the
other
side
of
this
pandemic,
and
when
we
do,
we
would
like
to
have
a
fiscal
framework
in
place
that
protects
that
financial
management
and
provides
for
the
residents
of
the
city
of
Boston,
and
so
that
is
what
the
plan
before
you
does
and
at
this
point,
I
want
to
pause
for
just
a
second
to
think
Justin
starett
and
the
budget
team.
The
counselor
mentioned
that
they
did
a
lot
of
late
in
the
game.
C
Work
I
think
it's
important
first
to
thank
them
for
the
fact
that
they
put
together
an
entire
budget.
That
was
basically
done
and
we
were
putting
the
final
final
touches
on
it
when
we
realized
that
it
needed
to
be
significantly
changed
in
order
to
be
responsive
to
the
reality
on
the
ground
because
of
coronavirus,
and
so
they
did.
Some
amazing
work
in
very
short
order
to
make
sure
that
this
budget
reflected
the
best
information
that
we
had
about
what
the
impacts
of
coronavirus
might
be
on.
C
Fy
21
and
some
of
that
work
yes
was
done
remotely,
and
so
I
think
it's
a
testament
to
his
leadership
into
the
just
brains
and
grit
of
that
team
that
they
were
able
to
pull
this
together
on
short
order.
So
I
want
to
thank
them,
and
I
also
want
to
thank
my
colleagues
across
city
government,
who
have
been
just
incredible
throughout
this.
C
And
it's
just
been
an
amazing
experience
to
watch
the
city's
collective
leadership
come
together
to
to
put
this
plan
in
place,
and
so
I'd
like
to
thank
everybody
who
was
involved
in
that,
and
thank
you
all
for
your
time
and
attention
as
we
move
forward
through
the
hearing
process,
I
look
forward
to
hearing
what
questions
you
have
and
being
able
to
help
answer
them
with
that.
I
will
turn
it
over
to
Justin
so
that
he
can
begin
that
way.
21
presentation.
D
All
right,
coming
through,
okay,
hey
thanks!
Everyone
thanks
Emma
for
that
then
introduction
very
kind.
A
big
heartfelt
thank
you
to
my
team,
who
I
know
is
watching
at
home
right
now
on
YouTube.
This
didn't
take
a
lot
of
work
to
put
together
at
the
last
minute,
but
we
feel
very
strongly
about
its
recommendations
and
I
want
to
thank
councillor
Bob
president
Janey
and
the
entire
council
for
the
sort
of
the
work
to
date
and
then
the
work
that's
gonna
happen
over
the
next
couple
months.
D
D
But
before
we
dive
into
sort
of
the
specifics
about
it,
we
thought
it
would
be
helpful
to
send
a
little
bit
of
a
context
that
Emma
started
to
to
discuss
about
four.
What
are
the
major
emerging
themes
that
we
see
in
this
year's
budget,
obviously
today
and
and
sort
of
for
the
foreseeable
future,
the
response
that
coronavirus
remains
our
top
priority,
but
we
know
that-
and
you
know
that
there
will
be
considerable
economic
impact
that
will
happen
to
because
of
it.
But
sort
of
our
focus
today
remains
on
reacting
to
the
news
on
the
ground.
D
But
thankfully,
as
I
mentioned
after
a
sort
of
years
of
strong
fiscal
management,
Boston
is
well-positioned
to
do
that.
In
addition
to
the
sort
of
six
years
earlier,
triple-a
bond
rating
Moody's
actually
had
a
report
come
out
about
three
months
ago.
The
facility
was
in
one
of
the
best
positions
in
the
entire
country
to
handle
the
type
of
recession
that
and
they
come
out
of
the
coronavirus.
D
So
we
didn't
think
that
that
would
have
been
so
soon,
but
we
definitely
feel
strong
about
our
position
going
into
this
I
think
that
sort
of
the
the
big
picture
items
and
they
will
get
into
these
in
specific,
but
the
budget
is
projected
to
grow
next
year
and
I.
Think
that
that's
the
first
thing
that
will
start
with
the
budget
has
grown
every
year
since
the
early
1980s
and
that's
been
through
ups
and
downs
in
the
economy.
But
things
like
the
Great
Recession
bubble
and
it's
doing
some
loans
all
the
different
recessions.
Over
the
year.
D
D
Tax
is
remain,
start
sort
of
stable
and
consistent
tax
revenue,
collection
mechanism
and
that's
what
we
fund
the
majority
of
cities
over
on
on
the
lending
side,
non-essential
spending
is
limited,
but
we
do
fund
the
major
commitments
to
education,
housing
and
fixed
costs
that
are
included
in
the
plan
this
year.
So
we're
excited
to
talk
about
those,
but
really
mindful
that
those
are
really
but
sort
of
small
areas
that
we
were
able
to
increase
for
next
year,
and
that's
it's
definitely
something
that
we
wanted
to
prioritize.
D
So,
starting
with
revenue.
As
you
all
know,
the
city
collects
different
revenue
to
fund
attainable
operations.
These
include
property
taxes,
state
revenue,
fees,
fines
and
permits
permits,
which
we
call
it
departmental
revenue
and
excise
tax
revenue.
Each
one
of
these
reflects
a
different
portion
of
the
budget.
Some
are
much
larger
than
others
will
get
into
and
then
finally,
the
city
is
required
to
produce
a
balanced
budget
every
year,
so
revenue
it
must
be
both
expenses
and,
as
I
mentioned,
while
we're
learning
more
about
the
coronavirus,
everyday
and
the
effects
on
the
local
economy.
D
We
know
that
those
are
gonna
take
shape
over
the
couple
over
the
next
couple
months,
but
the
budget
that
we're
submitting
and
submitted
last
week
is
balanced
and
sustainable.
So
starting
big
picture
on
revenue.
As
you
can
see,
the
overall
FY
21
budget
is
three
point:
six
four
seven
billion
that's
about
154
million
or
about
four
percent
higher
than
last
year.
This
is
among
the
smallest
increases
over
the
past
five
years.
D
D
Departmental
revenue
is
expected
to
be
flat
between
FY,
20
and
21
and
represents
about
10%
of
city
revenue,
but
even
flat
revenue
is
actually
a
reduction
where
we
were
expected
to
be
just
a
few
short
weeks
ago.
That's
an
area
we
were
originally
projecting
growth
and
that
we've
already
begin
to
begin
to
reduce
for
next
year.
You
know
pending
some
of
the
effects
of
it
19
and
then.
Finally,
excise
tax
revenue
at
about
188
million
or
five
percent
of
city
revenue
is
projected
to
fall
next
year
by
seventeen
million
dollars.
D
Property
taxes,
as
you
know,
is
governed
by
proposition
two
two
and
a
half
which
came
into
existence
in
the
early
1980s
every
year
since
1981,
when
property
of
Japan
was
introduced.
The
property
taxes
in
the
city
of
Boston
have
gone
up
on
the
baseline
by
two
and
a
half
percent
that
has
made
it
a
very
safe
and
stable
revenue
source
for
the
city
over
the
past
thirty
years.
D
We're
projecting
a
total
of
2.6
billion
for
next
year,
or
about
161
million
more
than
FY
25
percent
amost
important
and
consistent
revenue
source
update
X's
in
Boston,
especially
residential
property
taxes,
remain
low.
This
chart
shows
the
slow
growth
of
the
actual
tax
levy
in
blue
versus
the
maximum
tax
levy
in
red
since
prop
two-and-a-half
was
introduced.
D
The
other
major
factor
in
property
taxes
is
the
new
construction
that
has
come
into
the
city
over
the
previous
year,
otherwise
known
as
new
growth
in
the
red
box
on
the
right
you
can
see
we
are
projecting
65
million
in
new
growth
FY
21.
This
projection
reflects
a
strong
economy
and
FY
in
2019,
but
not
quite
the
unprecedented
heights.
We
have
seen
over
the
last
four
years,
look
back
at
new
growth
patterns
over
the
past
20
or
so
years,
especially
during
economic
downturns.
You
can
see
significant
fluctuations
during
the.com
and
Great
Recession.
D
The
city
saw
ups
and
downs
with
new
growth
in
the
city,
which
is
why
we
are
expressing
some
caution
for
next
year
and
placing
that
number
at
65.
We
do,
however,
think
the
FY
21
number
of
65
million
is
achievable
because
it
reflects
changes
during
calendar
year
2019
before
the
onset
of
the
coronavirus,
but
it
is
definitely
something
we
will
continue
to
monitor
and
evaluate
for
future
years.
If
we're
saying
if
a
sustained
recession
affects
Boston
development
and
construction,
this
will
likely
make
itself
known
in
fiscal
years,
22,
23
and
beyond.
D
So
while
we
may
have
risk
when
it
comes
to
state
aid
and
federal
government,
there
is
also
potential
opportunity,
similar
to
in
2008
and
2009,
with
the
American
Recovery
Act.
The
era
funding
that
came
to
the
city
I'll
offset
a
lot
of
the
cuts
that
we
saw
at
the
state
and
federal
level.
So
while
there
is
risk
associated
with
it,
there
is
also
potential
opportunities
that
we
will
be
monitoring
as
they
come
down.
D
We
know
that
the
House
and
the
Senate
and
the
governor
are
meeting
actually
tomorrow
on
new
state
revenue
numbers
for
next
year,
which
will
certainly
be
lower
than
what
they
projected
back
in
January,
and
we
will
continue
to
monitor
those
developments
at
the
Statehouse
and
make
adjustments
in
the
resubmission
as
needed.
For
now,
though,
the
best
available
information
is
the
governor's
proposed
budget,
which
was
actually
very
positive
for
Boston,
mostly
because
it
included
the
first
year
of
the
student
Opportunity
Act
funding.
D
Despite
the
uncertainty
with
state
aid
and
it
representing
thirteen
percent
of
our
revenue,
it's
actually
a
much
smaller
percent
of
the
city
budget
than
it
was
20
years
ago.
In
2002,
state
aid
was
30
percent
of
the
city
budget,
so
changes
at
the
state
level
affect
us
much
more
then
than
they
do
now.
The
other
major
categories
which
we'll
get
into
detail
in
a
moment
include
Department
revenue
and
excess
revenue
have
been
relatively
consistent
as
a
portion
of
the
overall
budget
rolling
over
the
last
20
years.
D
Moving
on
to
the
third
largest
category
of
departmental
revenue,
this
category
covers
fees,
fines
licenses
and
permits
issued
by
the
city.
While
these
somewhat
follow
the
economy,
they
have
been
very
stable
over
both
down
and
help
economies.
Over
the
last
20
years,
the
blue
and
red
line
bars
below
showed
our
current
revenue,
like
fines
and
fees
over
the
past
20
years.
As
you
can
see,
we
are
collecting
roughly
the
same
amount
as
we
did
in
FY
it,
and
only
slightly
more
overall
than
FY
2002.
D
It
shows
that
there's
not
a
lot
of
fluctuation
on
a
year-to-year
basis,
whether
it's
a
good
economy
or
a
bad
economy.
So
that's
one
of
those
things
where
you
know
we
were
probably
projecting
more
revenue
for
next
year
in
these
two
categories,
but
because
of
some
of
the
uncertainty,
we've
level
funded
those
between
FY
20:41,
while
we
were
projecting
this
category
to
be
flat
overall,
this
is
actually
reduction
from
where
we
were
a
few
weeks
ago.
D
D
At
the
same
time,
121
a
B
and
C
tax
agreements
have
dropped
considerably
down
to
about
31
million
for
next
year
from
a
high
of
67
million
in
2000,
the
last
revenue
category
we'll
go
over
is
excise
tax
revenue
at
5%
of
the
city
budget
or
about
187
million
for
next
year.
This
is
where
we
are
projecting
a
17
million
dollar
or
8
percent
decrease
in
revenue
from
FY
20.
D
To
that
point,
the
biggest
component
of
excise
taxes
at
nearly
50
percent
is
room
occupancy
taxes,
which
is
a
six
and
a
half
percent,
add
on
to
the
nightly
rate
for
both
hotels
and
short-term
rentals.
The
second
biggest
category
at
27
percent
is
motor
vehicle
excess.
This
is
an
annual
payment
to
have
a
car
registered
in
Boston
of
$25
per
$1,000
per
vehicle
value.
D
So,
as
you
all
know,
excise
taxes
are
traditionally
very
elastic
to
the
local
economy,
the
more
people,
the
more
money
people
have,
the
more
they
go
out
to
eat
more.
They
stay
in
hotels.
What
makes
this
potential
downturn
different
is
the
current
public
health
measures
have
put
some
of
those
normal
activities
completely
on
hold
in
the
Great
Recession
in
a
8
through
12
and
dot-com
bubble.
D
Restaurants
are
still
open,
hotels
were
still
open
and
there's
the
with
travel
that
makes
projecting
this
change
very
difficult,
but
we've
tried
to
address
the
economic
uncertainty
by
making
the
adjustments
that
were
proposing
today
for
each
of
these
projections.
For
next
year
we
reviewed
the
current
data.
We
have
so
basically
we're
three
or
four
weeks
into
sort
of
what
a
shutdown
economy
looks
like
and
we're
trying
to
predict
when
the
economy
reopens
how
quickly
things
will
get
back
to
normal,
and
what
does
that
new?
D
Normal
look
like
and
that's
how
we
came
up
with
these
assumptions
for
next
year.
Room
occupancy
is
obviously
the
biggest
category
because
its
biggest
risk
category,
because
it's
the
largest
source
and
for
FY
21
we're
projecting
87
million
we're
about
a
10
million
or
10
percent
cut
from
FY
funny.
Motor
vehicles
are
somewhat
less
elastic
because,
while
people
may
forgo
buying
in
the
car,
if
the
economy
is
contracting,
they
still
will
register
their
existing
cars,
so
we're
projecting
a
relatively
modest
4%
reduction
or
about
2
million
dollars
less
meals.
D
Tax
are
another
high
risk
categories
who
are
projecting
15%
reduction
or
about
5%
of
5
million
I,
should
say,
and
finally,
for
aircraft
fuel
we're
projecting
a
3
million
dollar
reduction,
we're
about
13
percent,
because
even
as
effects
in
Boston
may
lift
in
FY
21.
This
is
obviously
an
international
crisis
and
Boston
relies
on
the
International
Travel
for
our
tourism,
but
also
our
schools
and
all
the
other
institutions
that
that
come
from
Boston.
While
an
8%,
17
million
dollar
reduction
is
overall,
pretty
severe
or
ready.
D
D
So
moving
on
to
spending.
As
you
all
know,
the
city's
operating
budget
covers
the
services
and
programs
that
resident
that's
rely
on
including
education,
Public,
Safety
transportation
and
much
more.
The
FY
21
budget
is
a
responsible
and
balanced
budget
and
invests
in
our
core
needs
and
fun.
Several
investments
in
targeted
areas
like
housing,
education.
This
level
of
spending
will
allow
us
to
begin
to
account
for
the
effects
of
the
virus.
Endemic
also
ensure
a
well
resourced
city
government
next
year.
D
Getting
into
the
specifics
overall.
Spending
for
FY
21
is
slated
to
rise
by
that
same
154
million
about
3.6
5
billion
total
the
made
the
four
major
categories
of
spending,
our
city
departments,
Boston,
Public,
Health,
Commission,
public
education
and
scoffs
earning
with
city
departments.
Whilst
some
individual
city
departments
will
see
increased
budgets
for
FY
21
overall,
the
total
of
city
departments
are
proximately
level.
Funding
between
FY
20
in
FY
21
on
the
public
health
side
to
ensure
a
continued
response,
robots
continued
response
to
Cove
in
nineteen
BPA.
D
She
is
slated
to
receive
a
nine
million
dollar
or
nearly
ten
percent
increase
to
about
a
hundred
and
three
million
for
next
year.
Public
education
will
see
the
single
largest
increase
about
98
million
or
seven
percent
ya,
of
an
increase
to
nearly
1.5
billion
total
and
finally,
fix
costs
like
pensions
and
debt
service
will
seem
to
increase
them
about
forty
five
million
for
about
exercise.
D
This
chart
looks
at
the
overall
skinny
spending
and
how
much
each
category
makes
up
of
the
total
budget.
The
largest
single
slice
continues
to
be
public
education
at
nearly
1.5
billion
or
41
percent.
City
departments
reflect
the
next
biggest
grouping,
including
690
million
or
19
percent
on
safety,
335
million
or
9
percent
on
City
departments,
264
million
or
7
percent
on
transportation,
including
fatigue
and
7%,
or
260
million
dollars
on
city,
employee
health
care,
which
all
departments
access.
D
D
So
the
first
98
million
of
our
new
funding,
Hormats
63%,
goes
towards
increases
in
public
education,
both
for
VPS
and
charter
schools,
fix
costs
like
pension
and
debt
service
are
up
about
27
million
and
19
million
perspective
for
about
46
million
dollars
total.
Finally,
that
last
increase
is
about
9
million
more
for
the
Boston
Public
Schools
mission,
so,
starting
with
a
little
bit
more
detail
on
fixed
costs,
pensions
are
up
27
million
to
292
million.
This
keeps
us
on
pace
with
our
current
schedule.
D
I
think
the
big
note
on
that
is
that,
while
the
broader
equities
market
are
obviously
in
flux
right
now,
and
the
city
is
gonna
continue
to
monitor
the
economic
climate
for
effects
on
our
pensions,
we're
seeing
really
wild
swings
in
both
the
stock
market
and
the
progress
market.
We
spy
they're
pretty
bad
month
of
March,
followed
by
one
of
the
best
weeks
ever
last
week,
so
I
think
it's
something
that
we're
continuing
to
track
and
we're
gonna
make
adjustments
going
forward.
But
it's
not
going
to
affect
this
year's
pension
schedule.
D
Debt
service
is
projected
to
go
up
by
about
19
million
dollars
next
year
to
about
206
million
total
debt
service
is
crucial
to
maintain
our
three
billion
dollar
capital
plan,
which
funds
all
of
the
roads,
bridges,
arts
and
schools
in
all
of
our
neighborhoods.
All
the
really
important
projects
that
we
have
throughout
the
city
are
funded
because
of
this
debt
service,
so
maintaining
that
into
next
year
is
a
really
important
factor.
D
The
next
biggest
category
was
the
biggest
cutter.
They
were
with
city
departments
which,
when
you
group
them
together,
represents
about
1.5
billion
salary,
personnel
and
health
benefits,
reflect
about
75%
of
all
costs
incurred
by
the
department's
contracts
and
special
appropriation,
like
aid
to
veterans,
represent
about
20%
of
the
city,
department,
budgets
and
finally,
supplies
and
expenses
make
up
the
remaining
5%.
D
These
savings
include
the
eight
point:
six
million
dollar
eight
point:
six
million
through
the
recently
negotiated
public
employees
mission
insurance
agreement,
FY
21
through
25.
We
want
to
thank
our
unions
and
public
public
unions
for
their
work
over
the
last
couple
months
and
I
know.
The
council
was
very
helpful
in
passing
that
couple
months
ago,
so
we
really
appreciate
everyone's
work
on
that.
D
That
really
is
coming
in
really
important
right
now,
as
we
look
for
savings,
we
have
about
three
million
dollars
in
savings
through
a
mandatory
one
percent
cut
to
all
departments
from
their
non
personnel
budgets.
And
finally,
we
have
a
few
other
savings
like
750,000
through
eliminating
some
long-term
vacant
positions.
Seven
hundred
six
hundred
and
twenty
five
thousand
from
savings
from
the
first
year
of
their
new
Bostic
trust
in
about
five
hundred
fifty
thousand
in
savings
from
recent
debt
service
refi.
D
We
financing
that
week
is
the
public
health
commission
is
one
of
the
few
areas
that's
going
to
see
an
increase
for
next
year
and
it's
vital
that
we
do
that
to
maintain
a
sort
of
fully
funded
BPHC.
The
FY
21
budget
proposes
a
nine
million
dollar
or
nine
percent,
a
nine
point.
Seven
percent
increase
to
about
a
hundred
and
three
million
total
for
next
year.
This
investment
builds
on
years
of
investment
at
V
PhD
up
over
50%
since
FY
2014.
D
This
level
of
investment
will
ensure
a
well
resourced
bphc
emergency
medical
service
and
office
of
recovery
services
for
next
year,
as
we
continue
to
fight
the
effects
of
the
coronavirus
and
then
address
the
the
obvious
needs
on
the
public
health
side.
That
will,
after
that,
this
level
investment
will
also
include
new
funding
to
address
violence
prevention,
improving
health
data,
purchase,
essential
VMs
equipment
and
pursue
a
low
threshold
housing
respite
program
good
times
and
in
times
of
economic
uncertainty.
D
Public
education
continues
to
be
the
top
priority
for
the
city
budget,
the
FY
21,
one
investment
of
1.5
billion
for
the
Boston
Public
Schools
and
charter
schools
reflects
long
and
continued
commitment
to
investing
in
students
ups
for
next
year,
we'll
see
an
80
million
dollar
increase
and
charter
schools
will
see
a
17
million
dollar
increase
since
FY
14
on
an
annual
basis.
Bps
is
up
about
320
million
and
charter.
D
Schools
are
up
about
120
million
or
about
440
million
since
FY
14
and
then
finally
per
pupil
spending
is
up
over
22,000
at
bps
up
from
16
thousand
now,
as
many
of
you
know,
at
the
mayor's
state
of
the
city
address
this
year,
he
announced
a
100
million
dollar
investment
in
new
additive
funding
over
the
next
three
years
above
and
beyond.
Standard
cost
increases
this
three-year
commitment
to
BPS,
to
provide
new
resources
above
and
beyond.
Standard
costs
allows
for
significant
new
resources.
D
So
this
divided
a
little
bit
more
specific
on
the
FY
21
bps
budget,
the
FY
21
City
investment
of
one
point:
two,
six
billion
MVPs
of
the
80
million
dollar
increase
about
44
million,
covers
the
baseline
cost
increases
for
EPS,
including
student
services,
the
cost
of
the
collective
bargaining
contracts,
transportation
and
other
operations.
The
remaining
36
million
is
dedicated
towards
new
investments
directly
in
classrooms,
especially
targeting
the
33
transformation
schools
identified
by
the
district.
D
The
other
major
announcement
and
the
other
major
funding
commitment
in
this
year's
budget
is
all
aligned
with
the
mayor's
500
million
dollar
transformational.
Investment
in
housing
announced
at
the
stateÃs
fee.
This
investment
starts
with
a
100
million
dollar
investment
in
city
funding
and
would
be
supplemented
with
new
dedicated
funding
from
the
sale
of
a
Lafayette
garage
in
downtown
Austin
in
the
state
passing
the
real
estate
transfer
tax.
D
This
investment
will
create
and
preserve
hundreds
of
new
units
next
year,
including
new,
affordable
homeownership
opportunities,
preserving
rental
opportunities,
looting,
the
first
city
funded
voucher
program,
redoing,
VHA
senior
and
disabled
housing
units
and,
finally,
an
infrastructure
fund
to
help
support
large-scale
housing
developments,
increased
airport
ability,
so
the
last
part
on
the
operating
budget
is
in
addition
to
the
housing
and
education
investments.
The
city
identified
over
14
million
dollars
worth
of
savings
that
could
be
redirected
towards
small
targeted
investments
but
impactful
in
certain
area.
Other
areas
of
the
budget.
D
They
include
about
1.9
million,
to
provide
rapid
rehousing
for
youth
and
young
adults
and
expending
efforts
to
end
chronic
and
family
homelessness
is
gonna,
be
especially
important.
Coming
out
of
return
of
iris,
a
million
for
a
targeted
citywide
campaign
around
youth
violence,
630,000
to
expand
zero-waste
initiatives,
including
a
meaningful
composting
pilot
education
and
more
support
for
the
zero
waste
initiative.
D
1.3
million
for
new
staff
maintenance
and
nearly
doubling
the
annual
street
tree
plantings
through
the
capital
plan
and
900,000
in
new
funding
for
some
of
our
most
vulnerable
residents,
including
the
Human
Rights
Commission
Boston,
saves
the
immigrant
Defense
Fund,
but
language
and
food
access,
childcare,
entrepreneurs
and
financial
security
for
seniors,
all
of
which
will
be
more
important
in
the
coming
weeks
and
months
ahead.
So
I
know
that
was
a
lot
on
the
operating
budget.
I
just
want
to
quickly
touch
on
the
capital
plan.
D
This
plan,
as
you
all
know,
covers
two
major
construction
projects
that
the
city
is
undertaking
and
stretches
over
a
five
year
period
to
allow
for
the
city
to
plan
design
and
build
complex
projects
across
every
neighborhood.
This
is
just
going
to
focus
on
the
high
level
details
of
the
capital
plan
and
we'll
be
back
in
a
week
or
so
to
get
into
some
of
the
more
nitty-gritty
detail
about
specific
projects
with
our
colleagues
over
in
the
on
the
facilities
Department,
but
as
a
sort
of
broad
strokes.
D
The
capital
plan
is
the
city's
plan
to
maintain
our
inventory
of
assets
like
roads,
bridges,
schools
parks,
the
city
uses
a
combination
of
general
obligation,
bonds,
which
are
funded
through
debt
service
and
federal
and
state
grants
to
fund
the
plan.
The
capital
plan
invest
consistent
with
the
imagine,
Boston
2030
plan
and
all
of
the
unbell
aplan
that
fall
underneath
it
like
Phil
bps,
go
Boston,
2030
and
many
more,
but
this
year,
90%
of
the
capital
plan
is
invested
consistent
with
IV
20
priorities.
D
So
that's
the
net
were
excited
about.
Since
FY
14,
we
thought
it'd
be
helpful
to
give
a
little
bit
of
a
history
of
the
capital
plan
and
sort
of
the
the
relative
funding
levels.
Since
FY
14,
the
city
has
grown
the
size
of
the
capital
plan
by
over
1
billion
or
about
70
percent.
You've
seen
this
through
new
investments
in
schools,
new
neighborhood
libraries,
new
parks,
new
transportation
infrastructure
throughout
the
state.
The
seat
has
also
increased.
D
The
city
is
also
starting
to
see
the
impact
of
planning
efforts
through
a
considerable
amount
of
new
projects.
Moving
into
designing
construction
phases
in
this
year's
capital
plan
of
FY
21
through
25
City
is
growing.
A
capital
plan
to
reflect
these
projects
will
reach
the
3
billion
dollar
threshold.
The
first
time
on
this
chart
you
will
see
the
breakdown
of
the
entire
plant
and
by
imagine
Boston
2030
category.
D
So,
moving
on
to
the
new
funding
for
FY
21
through
25,
the
plan
proposes
to
add
about
five
hundred
thirty-eight
million
in
general
obligation
funding
over
the
next
five
years
of
that
new
funding
about
a
hundred
and
forty
million
is
for
schools
about
a
hundred
and
forty
four
million
goes
towards
streets
about.
79
million
goes
towards
public
safety,
55
million
towards
Health
and
Human
Services,
57
million
towards
parks,
environment
and
open
space,
and
about
48
million
goes
towards
civic
space,
as
I
mentioned
before.
D
When
we
build
the
capital
plan,
the
city
has
a
seven
percent
cap
on
debt
service
as
a
percent
of
the
city,
but
operating
budget.
As
you
can
see
here,
this
plan
assumes
we
increase
our
borrowing
over
the
next
five
over
the
next
five
years
to
get
closer
to
that
7%
app.
We
think
that's
important
for
two
reasons.
One
investing
in
a
potentially
down
economy
will
not
only
create
an
economic
stimulus
in
the
local
economy
will
also
result
in
better
prices
for
the
city.
D
B
Alright,
thank
you
so
much
Justin
I
I'd
like
to
also
recognize
councillor
Wu
and
councillor
Campbell,
who
I
think
I
didn't
mention
at
the
beginning.
So
thank
you
for
to
the
whole
council
for
being
present
today.
So
we're
gonna,
move
into
questions
now
and
we'll
be
doing
I'll,
be
recognizing
colleagues.
In
the
order
of
arrival
and
we'll
be
doing
questions
for
five
minutes,
each
I
will
tap
my
makeshift
gavel.
B
So
with
that
I'll
start
and
I
promise
to
keep
myself
to
five
minutes,
let
me
set
a
timer,
so
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you
again,
Justin
and
Emma
for
the
presentation
and
say
you
know,
I
think
from
my
perspective,
I'm
glad
that
we're
keeping
the
commitments
to
housing-
albeit
maybe
a
little
scaled
back
from
where
we
might
have
wanted
to
be.
B
I
also
agree
that
capital
projects
right
now
are
a
very
good
form
of
counter
cyclical
spending
for
the
city
to
be
engage
and
I.
Think
you
know
the
biggest
questions
that
I
want
to
ask.
You
are
really
around
Koba
19,
related
adjustments.
I
think
we've
already
seen
that
in
FY
2010
funds
on
the
city
side
towards
food,
access
towards
housing
supports
towards
small
business
assistance,
and
some
of
that
has
come
in
through
external
grants.
B
Some
of
that
you
know,
is
money
from
in
FY,
2010
repurpose,
but
I
only
imagine
that
those
kinds
of
needs
are
going
to
grow
in
FY
21
and
besides
the
position
in
the
Office
of
Emergency
Management
to
coordinate
volunteers
I,
don't
see
a
lot
of
that
baked
into
the
budget,
yet
so
I'm
just
curious.
How
you
all
are
thinking
about
moving
moving
money
to
address
those
issues
in
advance
of
the
resubmission
that
we'll
all
be
talking
about
in
two
months
and
kind
of
oh,
how
the
council
should
proceed
in
thinking
about
those
things
as
well.
D
D
Working
on
Cove
in
98,
you
know
whether
it's
from
our
economic
development
partner
departments,
to
our
housing
departments,
to
our
online
public
state,
everything
is
just
currently
geared
towards
that.
So
I
think
there's
certainly
as
needs
emerge
over
the
next
couple
of
months,
especially
needs
that
we
know
are
gonna
persist
into
FY.
21
I
could
definitely
see
that
that
would
be
an
area
we
might
need
to
come
back
from
the
resubmission
and
shift
some
funding,
especially
around
restarting
the
economy,
and
definitely
about
how
we
deal
with
you
know
getting
businesses
back
up
and
running.
D
Certainly
an
area
that
is
gonna
continue
to
evolve
and
continue
to
persist,
but
I
would
say
in
FY
21
on
you
know,
landing
the
plane
so
to
speak
in
terms
of
identifying
areas
that
we
need
to
spend
money
on
immediately.
You
mentioned
that
some
of
the
food
access
stuff,
certainly
the
EPS-
is
working
to
identify
all
their
inter
courses
to
redirect
or
above
us-
and
you
know,
working
with
outside
partners
on
implementing
distance
learning.
Those
are
definitely
areas
that
are
sort
of
hired
and
right
now
in
FY
21,
as
needs
emerge,
I
think
the
best.
B
Okay,
can
you
speak
quickly
to
the
the
youth
related
adjustments,
because
I
think
if
one
is
reading
a
council
they're
there
across
several
different
bins,
there's
money
in
the
mayor's
office?
There's
money,
youth
engagement,
employment,
there's
a
move
of
some
of
that
out
of
EC
YF
and
into
this
new
office
of
Health
and
Human
Services,
so
I
think,
given
its
so
cross-departmental,
it
would
be
helpful
for
you
to
walk
through
that
a
little
yeah.
D
Definitely
so
I'll
start
with
the
I'll
take
through
those
each
individually,
so
ye
they're,
seeing
I
think
about
an
eight
hundred
and
twenty
seven
thousand
dollar
increase,
or
about
twelve
percent
that
it's
to
both
maintain
D.
We
actually
increase
the
number
of
school
year,
students
that
we
had
in
this
current
year.
D
Basically,
a
lifting
up
and
anis
over
a
separation
of
the
HS
cabinet,
so
chief
Marty
Martinez
had
he
and
his
staff
had
been
funded
out
of
the
BC
YF
budget
over
the
last
four
or
five
years.
This
was
because
they've
sort
of
taken
all
more
work
and
they've
taken
on
a
lot
more
problem,
almost
D
priority.
If
there
is,
we
felt
it
was
time
to
sort
of
elevate
them
to
their
homes
and
blowing
department.
So
it's
really
just
a
swamp
funding
of
about
a
million
dollars
between
DCYF
and
HHS.
D
Those
are
that's
kind
of
with
that
that
sort
of
decrease
in
bc,
o
YF
is
and
the
increase
in
the
other
one.
I
would
say
that,
in
addition
to
that,
there's
a
million
dollar
spent
in
a
citywide
youth
violence
strategy
that
really
hits
a
lot
of
different
departments,
whether
it's
the
mayor's
office
or
yee,
or
it
just
there
are
different
programs
within
each
of
those
around
you
know:
investments
in
the
soar
program
and
pathways
investments
in
the
police
department
around
the
Community,
Engagement
Bureau
and
expanding
their
summer
programming
I,
would
say
a
lot.
D
B
C
So
councillor
this
is
Emma,
handy
I
would
just
say
the
city
does
not
have
a
formal
rainy
day
fund,
but
we
we
sort
of
count
two
different,
two
related
sources
of
essentially
cash
as
our
reserves
for
a
rainy
day.
C
Things
like
that.
That
would
be
very
problematic
and
impact
our
ability
to
perform
our
core
service
delivery.
At
this
point
for
FY
21,
the
things
that
we
paired
back
in
our
budget
to
be
responsive
to
a
virus
were
really
new
investments
that
we
had
planned.
There
are
no
service
reductions
because
of
coronavirus.
There
are
some
things:
some
savings,
as
Justin
mentioned
that
were
already
pre-planned
or
that
had
come
about
because
of
other
initiatives
that
we
had
planned
like
through
a
new
Boston
trusts
sort
of
taking
off
this
year
and
gleaning
our
first
energy
savings.
D
Only
thing,
I
would
add,
is
I.
Think
that's
exactly
right.
The
funding
of
new
programs
with
reserves
is
a
dangerous
game,
because
those
reserves
are
sort
of
constantly
dwindling,
so
we
would
be.
We
would
be
sort
of
I
think
reticent
to
want
to
expand
a
lot
of
programs
using
reserves,
because
next
year
they
won't,
they
won't
be
there.
So
I
think
that's
kind
of
our
approach
right
now.
This
budget
does
not
oppose
any
new
rainy
day
fund
with
Charles.
D
C
D
So
I
say
to
echo
at
this
point:
there's
no
baseline
city
services
or
change
of
delivery
that
we're
projecting
and
next
year's
budget
I
think
the
areas
that
we
had
to
scale
back
on
some
of
our
ambition,
where
I
think
no
council
brought
mentioned
the
the
environment,
so
I
think
we
would
have
loved
to
triple
the
sort
of
investment
in
street
trees
every
year,
but
we
were
only
able
to
double
it.
I
think
we
would
have
loved
to
add.
D
You
know
some
additional
public
safety
officers
across
the
board,
but
I
think
that
given
Emma's
point,
those
are
sort
of
fixed
costs
that
will
be
with
us
forever
moving
forward.
We
were
able
to
make
some
small
targeted
increases
for
those
departments,
but
I
think
we
were
forced
to
scale
back
on
some
of
our
ambition.
D
I
think
that
the
clearest
way
to
say
is
basically,
we
probably
had
a
budget
that
was
closer
to
about
187
million
dollars
no
as
of
three
weeks
ago,
but
we've
sort
of
had
to
take
about
thirty
million
dollars
or
so
of
revenue.
Adjustments
down
and
those
were
really
gonna
be
focused
on
some
new
programming
and
I.
Think
that
we're
really
trying
to
focus
on
maintaining
the
sort
of
the
commitments
we've
already
made.
Obviously
the
school
department
had
already
gone
through
their
budget
process
over
the
past
two
and
a
half
months.
E
And
my
final
question
is
relating
to
the
language
access
program.
I
know
during
this
pandemic,
language
access
has
been
a
critical
part
of
the
of
each
12
residents,
especially
our
immigrant
neighbors.
Can
you
talk
a
little
about
the
increase
you're
looking
at,
and
does
that
mean
you're
bringing
on
more
staff?
Are
you
bringing
more
staff
on
that
speak
various
languages?
How
are
you
going
to
do
that?
What
languages
are
you
looking
for
in?
How
will
this
benefit
the
department.
D
Sure
so
we
are
proposing
to
increase
the
language
access
budget
by
$50,000
for
next
year
up
to
a
total
of
about
five
hundred
and
twenty
thousand.
Now
that
five
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
dollar
budget
is
centered
in
the
office
of
the
neighborhood
services,
which
includes
both
staffers
so
Bernard,
is
the
director
over.
There
does
a
fantastic
job
of
running
that
program.
D
The
majority
of
the
funding,
however,
goes
to
in
ends
up
getting
used
by
individual
departments
to
idle
access,
translation
materials,
or
you
know,
language,
access
or
folks
who
speak
different
languages
to
come
on
for
a
specific
event
or
contractor.
So
this
medicine
is
an
increase,
but
it
certainly
helps
to
support
an
already
pretty
robust
language
access
program.
I
think
the
department's
have
found
that
sort
of
stand-alone
translators
are
better
used
on
a
one-off
basis
through
contractors.
D
So
I
think
that's
the
approach
that
we're
taking
I
think
we're
always
trying
to
expand
how
we
can
get
the
word
out
in
multiple
different
languages,
and
this
budget
will
help
support
that.
But
as
far
as
the
overall
scope,
we
weren't
able
to
mean
a
ten
percent
increase
in
one
year.
For
that
program
is
pretty
significant,
but
we
weren't
able
to
do
much
more
than
that,
given
the
kind
of
fiscal
realities.
D
F
Mm
Bob,
can
you
hear
me
great,
so
thank
you
so
much
to
Justin
and
chief
candy
for
your
steadfast
commitment
to
making
sure
that
we
get
all
the
information
as
soon
as
possible.
I
just
wanted
to
follow
up
on
the
as
I
understand
it.
You
do
not
anticipate
any
particular
cuts
so
much
as
the
additional
investments
that
we
had
hoped
for.
F
What
is
it
short-term
rentals
to
also
look
at
the
housing
voucher
program
to
also
do
and
increase
the
effective
advocacy?
Excuse
me
of
the
Human
Rights
Commission.
All
those
things
are
also
extra,
so
I'm
wondering
if
I'm
one
of
those
things
you're
going
to
be
tampering
down
or
unable
to
fulfill
the
commitments
it's
actually
bringing
about
because
we're
having
to
tamp
down
some
of
those
budget
reforms.
That's
one
question
and
I'll
just
move
on
to
the
next
one,
so
you
can
just
do
it
on
one
response.
F
If
you
could
go
through
the
housing
numbers
again,
specifically
I
as
I
understood,
it's
much
of
that
budget
is
dependent
on
the
state.
House
passed
a
transfer
fee,
so,
let's
assume
it
doesn't
pass
now
we
have
coded
and
you're
tampering
down.
So
how
much
of
that
budget
is
going
to
be
tampered
down
really
in
terms
of
our
commitment
to
the
housing?
F
F
Honestly,
this
is,
you
know,
might
remind
my
colleagues
who
have
been
here
longer
than
me.
I.
Think!
That's
councillor
O'malley
councillor
Baker
and
councillor
Flaherty,
especially
talk
about
the
leanest
times
in
the
city
and
what
happened
in
those
times
and
I
am
curious.
Honestly
in
the
leanest
times
of
the
city.
F
What's
the
budget?
What's
the
minimum
budget
we
can
have
as
a
city
to
function.
I,
don't
know
what
that
number
is
I,
think
a
counselor
film
was
kind
of
hinting
at
looking
at
the
reserves
and
so
on
and
so
forth,
so
Thank
You
counselor
fund
for
that
line
of
questioning
I'm
curious.
What's
the
skeletal
city
budget
look
like
to
function
so
there's
a
three
major
buckets
of
my
questions
and
I
think
that's
it
so
I'll
wait
for
your
answer.
Thank
You,
Chancellor,
Bock,.
D
D
Yep
so
around
in
the
Human
Rights
Commission,
we
do
have
an
investment
of
about
$250,000,
that's
four
for
staff
at
the
HRC.
So,
while
we've
certainly
you
know
in
a
perfect
world
that
could
have
been
eight
or
ten
Dorp
or
more
that's
sort
of
what
we
can
do
to
get
them
started
for
next
year
to
start
taking
pieces
around
the
CBA,
we
do
have
an
investment
of
three
staffers
or
about
120,000
dollars
on
the
CPA
and
some
accompanying
technology.
D
Rentals
is
one
through
more
technology,
so
they
are
working
through
right
now,
with
they're
sort
of
there,
they've
actually
reprioritized
some
of
their
sort
of
housing
inspectors
to
be
more
data
analysts,
and
that's
something
that
we
support
in
this
budget
by
transferring
basically
two
positions
to
better
support
them
to
understand
the
data,
because
it's
a
much
more
effective
tool
for
them
to
manage
short-term
rentals
through
the
information
we're
getting
from
online
as
opposed
to
sort
of
random
checks
and
then
on
housing.
So
the
housing,
the
housing
investment,
is
a
two-fold.
F
D
Dollars
coming
from
city
resources
and
then
a
combination
of
the
real
estate
transfer
tax
and
the
sale
of
the
lafayette
garage
in
downtown
boston
would
make
up
the
remaining
four.
So
the
stickies
intent
was
always
to
put
a
hundred
million
dollar
city
money
over
the
next
five
years
and
this
budget
proposes
to
you
to
do
16
million
dollars
from
that
100
million
and
that's
pretty
consistent
with
what
we
were
planning
already
and
the
reason
why
it's
not
exactly
20
million
is
because
these
programs
ramped
up
over
time.
D
You
mentioned
the
housing
voucher
program,
so
we
do
have-
and
we
did
maintain
me
to
two
and
a
half
million
dollar
investment
and
rental
vouchers.
But
the
idea
is
that
that
program
start
on
January
1st
and
would
become
a
full
five
million
dollar
program
for
FY
22.
Now,
obviously,
you
don't
have
a
crystal
ball,
but
that's
the
intense
sort
of
moving
forward
over
the
next
six
months.
D
So
we
we
do
feel
like
that's
a
program
that
will
ramp
up
over
time
and
get
us
closer
to
that
twenty
million
dollar
number
that
we're
trying
to
get
to
every
year.
The
challenge
with
the
real
estate
transfer
tax
and
the
Lafayette
Square
garages
is,
you
know,
has
has
functionally
come
to
a
stop
on
anything.
That's
not
encoded
related,
and
you
know
we
are
still
pursuing
the
sale
of
a
garage.
We
think
we
need
to
time
it
correctly,
because
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we're
getting
the
best
price
for
that
asset.
D
So
we
are
evaluating
our
options
before
we
I'm
sort
of
formally
release
it,
but
we
think
that
those
two
are
carriers
we're
still
pursuing,
but
they
were
never
gonna
really
be
reflected
in
this
year's
budget
unless
the
state
and
already
acted
on
the
transfer
tax
or
next
year,
which,
as
of
now
they
have
and
then
for
the
the
sort
of
the
skeleton
budget,
I
think
it
we're
probably
a
little
bit
ahead
away
from
understanding
what
that
looks
like
completely.
But
it's
definitely
something
that
you
know
we're
always
doing.
D
Contingency
planning,
I,
think
Green,
Day
money,
other
resources,
other
things
that
we
have
I
think
the
big
unknown
factor
here,
which
is
really
gonna.
It's
gonna
make
a
break
a
lot
of
other
cities
a
lot
worse
than
Boston.
His
federal
fund,
so
in
2008,
2009
2010
and
when
the
recession,
the
worst
recession.
Since
you
know
the
19.
G
D
Government
came
in
with
hundreds
of
billions
of
dollars
for
Massachusetts
and
tens
of
millions
for
the
city
of
Boston.
This
is
something
that
at
least
in
initial
size
and
scale
is
gonna,
require
some
sort
of
federal
investment
to
that
level.
But
we
haven't
seen
it
come
through
through
either
the
three
or
three
and
a
half
stimulus
packages
that
have
come
through
so
far
and
we're
hopeful
again
we're
hopeful
to
advocate,
with
our
state
and
federal
delegation,
sure
that
that
gets
back
to
us.
C
Just
add
sorry,
go
ahead.
I
was
just
gonna
add
serve
time.
Your
first
question
on
your
third
question.
Together
that
I
think
you
know
one
of
that
we've
said
and
that
you
all
correctly
pointed
out
is
that
we
have
a
pleadin
right
now
for
FY
21
and
that
we
expect
that
throughout
the
budget
process
and
through
the
mayor's
race,
we
will
know
more
about
what
that
looks
like,
and
so
it
was
very
important
to
us
in
FY
2009
to
prioritize
the
things
get
committed
to
do,
whether
that
was
a
work.
C
In
that
process,
is
that
that
very
process
that
you
talked
about
in
terms
of
sort
of
understanding,
what
are
the
continuous?
What
do
we
need
to
be
worried
about
the
future,
both
for
the
coming
fiscal
year?
There's
beyond?
What
can
we
control
them
not
have
control
over
book-learning
didn't
reflect.
Thank.
B
H
Morning,
madam
chair,
thank
you
for
your
efforts
on
behalf
of
the
council,
sort
of
streamlining
the
budgeting
process
and
look
forward
to
working
with
Emma
and
Justin
in
the
in
the
weeks
ahead.
I
just
want
to
sort
of
pick
up
where
my
where
my
colleague,
our
the
previous
speakers,
spoke
about
the
housing
piece
and
the
tax
transfer.
Obviously
this
is
an
important
time
for
all
of
us,
and
the
focus
on
housing
will
be
of
paramount
importance.
H
They
also
don't
have
a
district
chief
at
a
time
when
we're
in
a
pandemic,
our
hospitals
are
busting
at
the
seams
over
there
and
so
I
didn't
see
either
of
those
in
the
budget.
We
have
some
concerns
about
it
again:
I
guess
that
you
know
there's
gonna,
be
there
were
things
that
were
discussed,
that
I
guess
the
wish
list
in
this
budget.
Those
are
off
the
table
Clelia
in
light
of
the
Cova
19,
but
these
are
public
health,
public
safety
and
housing
issues.
H
That
I
think
need
to
need
to
be
addressed
in
this
and
and
finally
I
also
don't
see
chiropractic
services
on
on
our
healthcare
formulary,
something
that
would
save
us
a
lot
of
money
and
also
get
our
our
city,
employees
back
to
work
quicker
in
the
long
run,
which
would
again
help
save
us
money.
So
that's
more!
Those
are
those
are
the
areas
that
would
like
to
be
addressed.
Housing,
public
health,
public
safety
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
everyone
moving
forward,
I.
D
Can
start,
maybe
in
just
you
to
maybe
start
with
housing
first
and
we'll
jump
into
the
other
stuff,
so
I
think,
but
the
transfer
tax
we're
definitely
gonna
have
to
come
back
to
the
council
and
file
an
order
to
sort
of
implement
what
the
new
number
would
be
and
sort
of
I.
Think
that
would
be
definitely
the
opportunity
to
talk
about
some
of
the
specific
programs.
D
I
think
that,
but
in
terms
of
getting
up
to
speed,
I
think
we
so
that
we're
ready
to
go
I
think
I
completely
agree,
which
is
why
some
of
the
programs
that
we
have
in
here
right
now,
like
increasing
downpayment
assistance
or
one
plus
mortgage
program
or
vouchers
or
PHA
units.
Those
are
all
things
that
we
can
ramp
up
very
quickly
if
no
new
resources
are
made
available.
D
On
the
community
health
centers,
and
certainly
something
I
would
need
to
look
into
a
little
bit
more.
The
my
knowledge
are
only
formal
relationship
with
some
of
our
community
health
centers
is
really
currently
through
the
bphc
and
some
of
the
youth
violence
and
sort
of
baseline
health
data
testing
work
that
goes
on
between
them,
so
I
think
we'd
have
to
explore
it
now.
My
final
agenda
and
sort
of
non-expert,
actually
I
was
probably
the
expert
on
it.
D
The
majority
of
Health
Center
funding
probably
comes
from
the
state
through
programs
like
MassHealth
and
Medicare,
but
I
definitely
I
think
we
need
to
dig
in
a
little
bit
deeper
to
see
where
a
city
city
investment
might
make
sense
and
then
not
too
I.
Think
to
your
point,
counselor
we'd
have
to
see
what
area
what
other
areas
in
the
city
we'd
have
to
reduce
in
order
to
fund
something
like
that,
because
I
do
not
I
think
to
everyone's
point.
C
So
I
would
just
add,
I,
think
chief
Martinez
and
the
team
at
BPHC
I
think
every
day
is
staying
in
very
close
coordination.
Community
health
centers
in
terms
of
how
the
city
can
support
them
through
a
variety
of
ways,
including
access
to
personal
protective
equipment,
supports
sort
of
clearing
hurdles
to
make
sure
that
they're
able
to
stand
up
the
programs
that
they
need
throughout
rona
virus
and
so
I
think
the
focus
of
our
efforts
has
really
been
around
that
Justin's
correct.
C
We
don't
really
have
much
of
a
funding
relationship
with
the
CHCs
that
is
heavily
from
the
state
and
obviously
they
are
clearly
looking
at
what
they
can
do
for
health
care
providers
as
they
move
through
this
crisis
and
I.
Think
that
will
be
an
important
source
of
funding.
I.
Think
in
general,
the
city
is
going
to
identify
a
great
number
of
needs.
C
As
we
move
through
this
response
and
in
every
case,
we
have
to
really
look
hard
at
whether
that's
something
that
we
are
currently
in
the
business
of
funding
and
supporting
as
a
municipal
government
or
whether
that
is
sort
of
outside
of
the
lane
that
we
are
able
to
function
in,
because
we
have
a
much
more
limited
budget
than
either
federal
or
state.
And
so
so
much
of
the
need
of
what
of
what
we
are
being
asked
to
respond
to
are
really
places
where
typically
have
been
supported
through
a
federal
stimulus
or
state
funding.
C
And
so
when
we
do
make
those
decisions
that
we
need
to
step
in.
We
have
to
do
it
very
carefully
and
make
sure
we
understand
the
impacts
on
the
city
budget,
as
Justin
said,
and
so
much
of
our
work.
Moving
forward.
I
think
it's
going
to
be
advocating
at
both
the
federal
and
the
state
level
to
ensure
that
our
partners
in
the
communities,
whether
they're
CH
C's
or
you,
know
the
work
that
we're
doing
with
rental
assistance
or
small
businesses.
C
A
lot
of
that
work
is
really
in
order
to
be
impactful
on
the
scale
that
we
need.
It
is
gonna
have
to
come
from
federal
or
state
partners,
and
so
we
will
be
looking
for
those
opportunities
and
try
and
identify
what
they
need.
Is
there
and
and
figure
out
what
we
can
do
on
the
city
side
to
help
further
support
that
work.
C
C
C
C
H
I
Good
morning,
Thank
You,
chair,
Kosar
Bach,
for
hosting
this
I
just
have
a
few
questions
in
regards
to
the
process.
I'm
curious
and
right
now,
I'm
just
wondering
I
have
several
questions.
Most
of
my
questions
pertain
to
more
the
process
in
terms
of
how
we
got
about
coming
to
these
numbers
and
then
I
have
some
very
specific
questions
about
some
of
the
budget
items.
One
is
I'm
wondering
what
role
and
did
you
all
engage
stakeholders
in
in
deciding
what
line
items
you
were
gonna
be
focusing
on?
Did
you
consult
with
with
nonprofit
organizations?
I
D
Absolutely
so
I
would
say
that
public
engagement
has
actually
been
a
really
big
focus
of
our
office
over
the
last
two
or
three
years,
the
the
concrete
waves
we
did
them
over
the
last
year
so
was
at
the
mayor's
coffee
hours
and
that
all
sort
of
citywide
public
events
we
started,
sending
a
budget
Roadshow,
basically
to
engage
with
constituents.
Answer
questions
a
lot
of
what
we
we
heard
from
folks
was
just
kind
of
understanding
the
process
and
really
teaching
them
about.
D
When
was
the
time
to
advocate
the
vast
majority
of
the
sort
of
stakeholder
interaction
actually
happens
between
frontline
city
departments
and
those
organizations
that
they
work
with
every
day.
So,
for
instance,
if
there's
a
friend's
group
or
a
Parks
Group
that
is
interested
in
a
certain
program.
They
usually
work
through
that
specific
department
and
then
that
department
will
then
submit
request
to
us.
D
I
D
I
In
knowing
what
we've
learned
through
kovat
19
and
what's
been
happening
here,
you
know
language
access
and
it's
not
just
around
translation,
it's
really
about
being
culturally
confident
and
being
able
to
speak
in
ways
that
people
could
actually
understand
it.
You
know
we
focus
a
lot
of
the
conversation
around
social
distancing
and
flattening
the
curve,
and
we
communities.
D
All
right
so
yeah
I
think
the
vast
majority
of
City
departments
go
through
the
language
access
department
to
get
their
their
yearly
funding
for
what
services
they
need,
whether
it's
translation
or
community
or
literature,
all
those
different
things.
If
you
work
on
I,
think
from
a
budget
perspective,
the
thing
that
we
tried
to
focus
on
was
getting
everything
to
a
seventh
grade
reading
level
on
all
of
our
written
materials
on
the
website.
D
We
can
get
engaged
I
honestly
found
that
the
best
way
to
do
it
was
we
had
a
great
analyst
Natasha
white,
who
really
piloted
a
program
out
in
the
neighborhoods
to
get
analysts
since
we're
some
of
our
our
core
staff
on
that
on
sort
of
the
frontlines
to
these
different
community
meetings
to
kind
of
talk
through
each
of
the
different
issues.
I
think
the
one
thing
that
always
comes
up
is
we
don't
fund
the
tea
at
the
end
of
the
day
or
we
don't
pay
for
the
tea.
I
You
for
that,
and
then
I
have
two
questions
in
regards
to
just
you
know,
right
now,
we've
been
hearing
a
lot
about.
Everyone
has
to
wear
a
mask
if
they're
gonna
go
to
the
supermarket,
if
they're
gonna
go
out.
If
we're
thinking
about
what
life
is
gonna,
look
like
post
hope
with
19.
How
are
we
planning
for
that
to
ensure
that
all
those
residents
in
the
city
of
Boston
have
the
the
tools
and
resources
they
need
to
protect
themselves
so.
E
C
You
can
so
I
think
you
know.
The
chairwoman
asked
a
good
question
the
beginning
of
this,
which
is
sort
of
like
how
we're
planning
for
these
costs
in
FY
21
and
a
lot
of
the
costs
that
we've
experienced
to
date
have
really
been
somewhat
one-time
in
nature,
meaning,
obviously
we
bought
a
whole
lot
of
Chromebooks
that
we
weren't,
anticipating
we
would
buy
in
this
fiscal
year.
A
great
deal
of
the
personal
protective
equipment
that
we
are
buying
is
obviously
sort
of
around
the
surge
and
around
the
coming
months.
C
We
expect
that
some
of
that
those
purchases
will
continue
into
FY
21,
but
I.
Think
part
of
the
nature
of
this
is
that
a
lot
of
the
upfront
cost
has
been
somewhat
one-time
in
nature
and
therefore,
we've
been
able
to
sort
of
account
for
it
in
fy2012
lying
on
what
we
think
that
might
mean
in
terms
of
adjustments
for
FY
21.
C
That
is
actually
the
PPE
the
personal
protective
equipment
for
the
rest
of
our
city
of
Boston
employees,
that
are
that
those
are
cloth
or
other
types
of
face
coverings,
making
sure
that
people
have
access
to
hand
washing
and
sanitizer,
and
things
like
that,
and
so
that
we
are,
we
are
focused
on
and
really
getting
that
new
information
out
to
our
employees,
who
the
vast
majority
of
our
also
Boston
residents.
We
are
also
through
the
coordinated
effort
of
coronavirus
response
working
on
what
types
of
information
is
going
out
to
neighborhoods.
C
C
I
I
So
I
guess,
if
I
had
to
choose
one
of
the
other.
My
biggest
ask
is:
if
we're
thinking
about
our
engagement
and
community
accessibility
to
to
public
hearings,
that
I
would
really
push
in
terms
of
this
budget
process
to
build
in
the
infrastructure
for
real,
meaningful
engagement.
As
we
see
that
zoom
hearings
are
now
in
play,
people
have
been
become
more
engaged,
I'm
gonna,
be
pushing
for
support.
I
The
City
Council
staff
I
see
that
we
have
thirty
nine
thousand
dollars
that
have
been
that
was
receiving
from
lack
here,
I
guess
and
I'm,
just
hoping
that
we
can
increase
that
budget.
And
so
then
we
could
ensure
that
we're
engaging
all
folks
in
these
conversations
and
thank
you,
council
box
for
giving
me
the
opportunity.
B
Thank
you
so
much
councillor,
Mejia
councillor
O'malley,
is
up
next
and
then
he'll
be
followed
by
council
president
Janey
and
councillor
asabi
George.
Thank.
J
You
Thank
You,
Justin
and
I'm
up
for
your
great
work
during
these
obviously
and
imagine
unimaginably
difficult
times:
Justin
you're
forecasting,
65
million
of
new
growth
for
fiscal
year
21,
which
is
about
a
35
percent
decrease
from
this
current
fiscal
year,
which
obviously
makes
sense.
Given
the
uncertainty,
what
was
the
original
forecast
for
FY
21?
It
was
less
than
the
99
million
that
came
in
so.
D
Yeah,
that's
that's
a
great
point.
So
there's
two
things
going
on
one
new
growth
looks
back
retroactively
Li
for
things
like
construction
and
new
buildings
and
all
that
at
different
types
of
stuff.
So
I
was
actually
looking
at
a
time
period
before
the
coronavirus
started
to
hate
I.
Think
this
last
year
correct
this
year,
the
FY
2099
million
was
sort
of
unprecedented
in
the
city's
history.
D
So
I
think
that
that
is
a
combination
of
some
very
big
buildings
and
then
a
lot
of
private
investment
and
personal
property
in
the
sense
of
utilities
investing
in
some
of
the
core
infrastructure
through
their
wires
through
their
sewer
tunnels.
There
all
the
different
things
that
we
count
as
a
new
growth,
but
it's
very
difficult
for
the
city
to
predict.
I
would
say
that
we,
because
this
number
is
retroactive.
Looking
we
saw
that
the
economy
was
still
strong
in
2019.
D
We
need
to
express
a
ton
of
conservatism
going
forward
because
a
real
impact
on
new
growth
actually
going
to
be
F
by
22,
because
that
number
could
plummet
basically
over
for
the
next
couple
of
months,
because
that's
the
time
period
that
it's
gonna
be
looking
at
the
rest
of
this
calendar
year.
So
we
needed
to
express
a
lot
of
conservatism
with
that,
because
that's
gonna
be
something
that's
gonna
trickle
into
the
next
next
couple
years
agreed.
J
J
Okay,
so
we
saw
obviously
a
thirty
five
million
dollar
increase
recognizing
a
lot
of
bad
guys,
but
I
think
it
reinforces
your
correct
calling
in
setting
a
lower
number
for
let
next
year
with
the
property
tax
delayed
to
June
1st
and
then
likely.
We
will
probably
one
would
assume
see
a
record
number
of
unpaid
or
park
property
tax
accounts
in
arrears
going
into
the
foot,
which
is,
of
course,
the
final
quarter
that
we
played
at
a
month.
Has
that
been
taken
into
account
as
you
talk
about
sort
of
what
our
you
know,
the
budget
together.
J
C
I'll
just
take
a
stab
at
that
one,
so
a
tax
payment
for
the
city
of
Boston's
about
650
million
dollars,
obviously
a
huge
portion
of
our
annual
revenue.
The
delay,
as
you
mentioned,
counselor
from
May
1
to
June
1,
has
no
impact
on
the
budgeted
number,
because
it's
still
within
the
fiscal
year
obviously
has
a
small
cash
flow
impact
cash
matters
to
us
too,
because
we
have
to
actually
get
cash
out
the
door
to
do
things
like
pay
people.
C
J
C
Numbers
on
what
that
looks
like
in
the
Great,
Recession
and
obviously
the
work
that
people
are
doing
with
mortgage
companies
and
landlords
and
such
are
is
helping
I
think
to
offset
some
of
that.
But
it's
certainly
a
place
where
we
state
law
around
property
taxes
is
very
specific
and
the
collections
methods
are
really
very
clearly
written
and
very
strongly
written
because
it
is
the
lifeblood
of
cities,
towns
in
Massachusetts,
there's
no
other
major
city
in
the
u.s.
that
relies
on
property.
C
Taxes
like
we
do,
and
so
that's
why,
when
we
think
about
property
taxes
and
dates
that
bills
are
new
and
what
that
cash
flow
and
also
budget.
A
number
looks
like
it's
really
important
that
we
just
consider
our
ability
to
execute
on
providing
the
services
that
we
need
to
throughout
this
crisis
as
well,
because
the
two
are
inextricably
linked.
Great.
J
D
It
was
more
to
illustrate
a
trendline
so
that
the
three
dates
and
the
three
numbers
that
we
looked
at
men
have
you
happy
to
circulate
the
deck
again
was
basically
since
2002.
You
know.
Pilot
agreements
have
basically
doubled
in
that
time
period
and
that's
a
function
of
sort
of
working
with.
You
should
also
working
with
that
and
then,
since
2002
in
a
high
watermark
in
2010
is
the
overall
number
of
121
agreements
that
we
have
have
dropped
by
about
half.
D
J
Enough
and
and
as
someone
who
has
had
you
know,
came
in
in
the
midst
of
FY
11
I'm
delighted
to
see
the
capital
budget
will
have
doubled
in
my
time
on
that
body,
to
knit
to
the
my
time
on
this
body
to
nearly
3
billion.
Obviously,
once
we
get
into
the
capital
I,
my
number
one
priority
is
Billings
field
and
West
Roxbury.
We
can
talk
offline
and
get
into
that
at
the
appropriate
time,
but
it
is
exciting
to
see
that
increase
in
how
important
it
is,
particularly
during
what
will
likely
be
an
economic
downturn.
J
Similarly,
real
investments
in
education
and
housing
and
resiliency,
particularly
the
composting
in
the
trees,
is
something
that
I'm
very,
very
excited
about.
My
last
question,
so
my
colleagues
can
continue,
is
we've
been
very
aggressive
with
our
pension
with
our
debt
services
were
looking
to
pay
that
off
in
2020
for
2025.
J
Is
that
correct
what
we
need
to,
or
will
we
have
the
opportunity,
although
those
are
fixed
costs,
to
perhaps
increase
that,
if
need
be,
if
a
financial,
if
our
biggest
fears
come
to
realization
and
and
the
economy
just
completely,
is
much
more
sluggish
than
we
even
fare?
Is
there
an
opportunity
that
could
help
be
a
lifeline
to
the
city
to
delay
payments
or
maybe
renegotiate
the
extended
terms
for
our
engines
and
other
liabilities,
so.
C
It
obviously
does
not
take
into
account
the
impacts
of
coronavirus,
and
so
we
are
gonna
have
to
have
a
discussion
about
what
that
looks.
Like
market
returns
are
obviously
always
rolling,
and
so
one
concern
when
you
have
to
do
something
like
this.
It's
just
when
you
snap
the
line
we
are
going
to
have
negative
impacts
from
coronavirus
and
market
returns.
We've
already
seen
that
it's
been,
you
know
obviously
awful
for
anybody
who
has
any
invested
funds,
and
yet
you
know
there
is
a
time.
C
Marches
on
and
returns
continue
to
evolve,
and
so
you
just
have
to
be
mindful
of
where
you
snap
the
line
and
look
at
what
those
returns
mean
for
what
our
schedule
will
look
like
going
forward.
So
we
will
update
with
an
evaluation
and
a
new
schedule.
This
year's
bunch
of
numbers
are
B,
it's
not
in
the
last
schedule.
C
J
Just
suggesting
at
all
that
we
delay
unless
it's
an
absolute
necessity,
but
it
does
Mike
evaluation
would
potentially
affect
the
schedule
of
payment
as
well.
I,
like
all
of
us
I'm
excited
that
we
are
so
close
literally
years
away
from
having
this
fully
funded
fully
paid
for,
but
it
sounds
to
me
that
it
comes
there
are
being
have
our
being
had
to
on
every
potential
outcome
that
well,
that
will
occur
from
this
I.
C
C
Now
those
are
nominal
in
terms
of
what
our
total
unfunded
liability
is,
but
I
think
it
shows
our
commitment
to
the
schedule
and
also
just
helps
to
soften
the
blow
a
bit,
and
so
we
will
continue
to
both
I
think
hold
that
as
a
priority
in
terms
of
making
sure
that
we
can
achieve
the
schedule
and
whatever
way
possible.
That
being
said,
what
the
city
of
Boston
is
facing
in
terms
of
our
returns
is
being
felt
globally.
C
B
K
You
so
much
Thank
You
councillor,
your
masterful,
sharing
of
this
first
Ways
and
Means
hearing.
Certainly
thank
you
to
Emma
and
Justin
for
your
work
into
the
mayor
for
these
investments.
For
me,
you
know
a
lot
of
my
questions
continue
to
be
around
economic
development.
Around
education,
as
they
always
are,
and
Kovan
19
I
think
is
really
magnifying.
K
Many
of
the
challenges
that
we
already
had
in
our
city
in
terms
of
disparities
and
my
questions,
I
guess
for
the
FY
21
budget,
really
is
how
we
utilize
this
budget
to
close
some
of
those
gaps
as
a
value
statement
of
our
city
and
so
I'm,
particularly
interested
in
ways
that
we
use
this
FY
21
budget
to
begin
some
of
the
recovery
around
the
economic
piece
for
small
business.
I
see
that
there
is
additional
investment
in
education
would
love
to
understand.
K
The
education
piece
I
wish
you
could
and
I
know
we'll
have
a
series
of
Education
hearings,
but
it's
just
you
know
top-level
big
picture
kind
of
talk
about
what
that
increase
is
and
whether
or
not
we
have
to
be
worried
about
additional
spends
coming
up,
particularly
like,
in
my
mind,
I'm
thinking
we
they'll
be
talks
around
summer
learning
opportunities
that
might
cost
additional
money
that
we
weren't
anticipating
because
of
the
shut.
So
I
want
to
understand.
K
If
this
budget
is
reflecting
those
types
of
things
on
that
and
then
I
noticed
also,
the
increase
on
the
public
health
would
like
to
understand
how
we're
building
up
our
infrastructure.
So
god
forbid,
we
are
faced
with
this
again,
that
we
won't
be
caught
off
guard
and
that
we
will
be
better
prepared,
so
I
think
I'll
in
that
in
case,
I
have
some
follow-up
questions
based
on
your
presentation
and
then
I'm,
looking
forward
to
future
hearings
where
we
can
really
dive
in
a
little
deeper.
Thank
you.
D
I'll
take
those
in
someone
out
of
order,
because
some
of
my
brain
is
working
right
now,
so
on
the
bps
side
of
things,
I
would
say.
The
headline
investment
of
eighty
million
dollar
increase
is
really
an
investment
in
equity,
I.
Think
of
that
new
funding
that
we're
dedicating
36
million
of
it
almost
all
of
the
new
sort
of
new
investments,
and
there
are
going
to
be
targeted
towards
our
transformation
schools
as
identified
by
the
district.
D
So,
as
you
may
know,
and
as
the
superintendent
has
undertaken
so
far,
a
really
robust
community
process
around
the
strategic
plan
and
that
sort
of
dovetailed
into
a
need
to
address
the
sort
of
structural
barriers
at
some
of
our
lowest
performing
schools
and
at
36
million
dollars.
That's
all
new
service
is
whether
they're
resources
for
families
through
family
liaisons
in
each
of
those
schools
through
additional
coaching
and
teaching
for
those
teachers
in
those
schools
and
then
making
sure
that
those
classrooms
and
those
learning
environments
are
up
the
stuff.
D
Those
are
sort
of
pure
36
million
dollars
worth
of
new
investments
in
educational
equity
in
our
lowest
reporting
school.
So
I
think
that
that
is
certainly
something
that
we
prioritize
on
the
economic
development
front.
I
would
say:
there's
three
areas
to
focus
on:
we
did
set
up
the
million
dollar
cannabis
equity
fund
in
this
budget,
so
that
is
included
so
as
soon
as
birth
life
gets
back
to
normal,
though
that
will
sort
of
funding
will
start
being
directed
towards
that.
D
The
other
two
areas
I
would
just
mention
quickly
around
equitable
procurement,
because
while
while
the
city
is
sort
of
limited
in
our
ability
to
fund
new
programs
and
services,
we
do
still
spend
about
3.6
billion
dollars
annually.
So
we
have
two
new
staffers
one
in
the
a.m.
departments
and
one
in
economic
development
to
focus
on
implementing
the
new
equitable
procurement
coordinates
through
both
new
technology
and
a
new
budgeting
form.
D
A
new
budgeting
and
procurement
form
that
those
two
folks
will
manage,
but
it
actually
is
a
sort
of
a
revamping
of
the
entire
structure
by
which
we
procure
goods
and
services.
So
that's
both
from
a
budgeting
perspective
and
then
also
from
an
implementation
perspective
and
then
on
economic
development
you're
exactly
right.
There
is
an
evolving
need
around
economic
development
that
is
continuing
to
show
itself,
I,
think
chief
barrows
and
a
lot
of
other
folks
last
week.
D
Obviously
working
through
the
small
business
fund
I
think
that
that's
the
immediate
way
we've
been
able
to
identify
I
think
they're
still
working
through
what
the
demand
is
for
those
services.
But
we
know
it
is
great,
so
that
is
certainly
something
that
we're
gonna
continue
to
find
other
resources
for
whether
it's
the
city,
budget
or
other.
D
You
know
whether
it's
federal
stimulus,
money
or
other
funding
that
we're
able
to
access
that
is
that
is
definitely
top
of
mind,
but
we
just
don't
know
what
that
demand
is
yet
then
the
last
thing
on
public
health,
I
would
say
a
lot
of
the
a
lot
of
the
savings
that
we
were
able
to
identify
in
other
departments.
I
know
we
mentioned
a
sort
of
cuts
across
the
board
to
sort
of
non-personnel,
but
it's
small
but
meaningful
cuts.
D
We
tried
to
protect
the
Boston
Public
Health
Commission
from
so
that
they
have
a
sort
of
fully
resourced
and
fully
staff
ready,
Services
Department
office
of
recovery
services
and
then
all
of
the
bureau's
that
deal
with
infectious
disease,
environmental,
health,
youth
violence,
all
the
different
types
of
bureaus.
We
felt
like
we
needed
to
prioritize
increasing
the
bphc
budget
and
I
think
it's
very
tantamount
that
the
bphc
budget
is
going
up.
9
point,
you
know
nine
point,
seven
percent,
or
about
nine
million
dollars
and
the
rest
of
City
departments
are
basically
on
a
whole
level
funding.
D
K
So
I
would
just
say
this
I
know
my
time
at
the
end
of
my
time,
I'm
sure
and
I'm
grateful
for
the
investment
in
public
health
I
think
that's
certainly
important.
I
want
to
be
mindful
that
we
have
public
safety
departments
within
the
city
of
Boston.
That
certainly
need
new
funding,
and
there
have
been
concerns,
certainly
in
just
my
short
two
years
on
this
body
around
whether
we
are
investing
enough
and
whether
we
have
enough
in
terms
of
personnel
or
Public
Safety
officials
I'll.
K
Just
in
there
I
know,
we
will
have
the
opportunity
to
go
deeper
on
a
number
of
these
issues,
I'm
grateful
again
for
all
the
work
that
is
taking
place,
I
think
for
us.
This
is
an
opportunity
to
continue
to
raise
the
issues
of
equity
and
making
sure
that
we
are
doing
everything
to
leverage
this
budget
to
ensure
that
everyone
in
Boston
can
can
live
and
thrive.
Thank
you.
So
much
thank.
L
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
madam
chair
and
I'd
like
to
just
start
by
congratulating
councillor
Bach
on
chairing
and
leading
us
through
this
budget
process.
Virtually
I
also
want
to
thank
the
administration
for
their
continued
work,
especially
admit
this
pandemic,
and
chief
handy
and
director
Skerritt.
Thank
you
for
the
work
and
the
effort
you
and
your
teams
have
put
into
this
as
a
city
councillor
at
large
I'm,
proud
to
represent
the
entire
city
of
Boston
and
use
the
budget
season
to
assess
and
make
improvements.
L
We
use
the
budget
process
to
really
assess
and
make
improvements
to
how
the
city
is
responding
to
the
needs
and
issues
of
all
of
our
residents.
As
chair
of
the
Committee
on
education,
as
well
as
vice
chair
of
the
Committee
on
Public
Health,
as
well
as
ways
and
means
it's
incredibly
important
that
we're
responsible
and
ensuring
that
all
of
our
resources
are
used
responsibly
and
that
we're
very
thoughtful
with
our
spending
and
this
budget
presented
before
us
today.
I
think
really
achieves
that
and
I
know.
L
Justin
used
the
phrase,
no
Palin
sustainable,
and
it's
really
important
through
this
process
that
we
have
a
balanced
budget.
And
it's
a
sustainable
budget,
so
I
appreciate
that
focus
as
the
city
and
the
rest
of
the
world
navigates
this
global
health
pandemic.
We've
learned
a
lot
about
the
city
of
Boston's
capabilities
and
being
prepared
and
responding
to
this
emergency
situation
and
I
appreciate.
At
the
same
time,
and
one
of
my
questions
will
be
about
you
know
we're
going
through
this
budget
process
and
we're
thinking
about
this
work.
L
That's
before
us,
but
we're
also
adjusting
in
our
response
to
this
pandemic
that
caught
many
of
us
unprepared
and
while
we're
doing
this
in
responding
to
the
immediate
crisis
at
hand,
I
am
curious
about
the
work
that's
being
done
and
the
investments
that
were
thinking
about
both
financial
investments
as
as
well
as
human
capital,
investments
and
being
prepared
for
the
future.
So
when
we
think
about
best
practices
and
mining
and
I
know,
mayor
Walsh
has
brought
in
a
team
to
evaluate
our
work.
We
have
to
think
about
this
process
holistically,
so
I'm
curious.
L
Eighty
and
squad
ATS
continued
efforts
around
their
response
to
the
opioid
crisis
because,
as
a
city
we're
dealing
with
this
pandemic,
but
we
know
that
the
opioid
pandemic
continues.
So
that's
a
quick,
quick
summary
of
some
of
what
my
work
will
focus
on,
but
I
am
curious
about
thinking,
not
just
in
the
here
and
now,
but
about
preparing
for
the
future.
Thank
you.
D
D
You
know
in
as
much
trouble
because
they're
gonna
we're
also
gonna,
be
dealing
with
attorney
to
restart
the
economy,
restarting
society.
So
our
role
sort
of
with
this
budget
is
to
sort
of
stability
and
making
sure
we
are
a
a
point
of
you
know,
sort
of
a
focal
point
or
folks
to
look
to
when
everything
else
is
so
unstable,
so
I
think
that's
kind
of
the
message.
I
think
we
could
agree
that
going
forward.
We
need
to
make
sure
our
public
safety
is
sort
of
funded
at
the
level
that
it
means
I.
D
Think
I
didn't
mention
it
in
the
budget,
but
we
do
have
a
proposal
to
increase
the
size
of
the
sworn
police
force
by
25
officers.
Now
it
may
seem
small,
but
that's
a
you
know
a
pretty
big
increase
year
over
year
for
the
city,
so
I
think
that's
one
of
the
areas
that
we're
trying
to
definitely
make
sure
is
ready
and
I.
Think
it's
it's
gonna
be
a
little
bit
of
an
evolving
process.
D
I
think
the
economic
development
side
of
things,
the
housing
side
of
things
and
the
schools
are
gonna,
be
in
flux
over
the
next
three
months
in
terms
of
what
decisions
need
to
be
made
around
restarting
you
know
the
economy
or
restarting
schools,
restarting
housing
and
how
we,
how
we,
how
we
are
able
to
manage
it.
The
one
caveat
I
would
say
is
this:
is
this:
was
a
robust
investment
in
schools
and
I
think
we're
very
proud
of
the
investments
that
we
made,
but
definitely
mindful
that
is
an
ongoing
discussion
on
housing
in
the
economy.
D
D
We're
gonna
have
to
be
relying
on
our
state
and
federal
partners
to
come
people
with
real
resources
in
order
to
help
us
get
through
this,
because
I,
don't
I,
don't
think
this
city
of
Boston
is
gonna,
be
able
to
solve
all
the
problems
just
because
we're
not
the
same
way.
New
York
City
is
or
Denver
where
they
have
the
types
of
resources
available
to
them
to
to
really
make
meaningful
impacts
on
on
getting
things
back
up
to
speed.
But
we're
gonna
do
as
much
as
we
can
within
our
kind
of
smaller
pie.
L
They
appreciate
that.
Thank
you
in
my
question
really
emphasizes.
I
think
the
need
for
us
to
not
plan
for
here
and
right
now
on
a
regular
day
and
the
regular
budget
process,
but
the
hearing
right
now
dealing
with
this
pandemic
in
this
crisis,
but
also
about
future
planning
and
that
we're
prepared
both
for
a
crisis,
but
we're
also
prepared
for
the
work
that
continues,
because
our
kids
will
still
need
to
go
to
school.
Our
first
responders
still
need
the
equipment
that
they
need
to
get
through
their
day
and
respond
to
the
needs
of
our
residents.
L
B
You
councillor
asabi
George
councillor
Breeden,
to
be
followed
by
councillor
Arroyo
and
then
councillor,
Baker
Thank.
A
A
C
Things
counselor
for
the
question,
so
I
guess
I
would
say
one.
We
have
extended
the
deadline
for
pilot
payments
from
institutions
to
June
1
to
match
the
new
property
tax
payment
deadline
to
ensure
that
we're
sort
of
being
consistent
across
the
board.
With
our
expectations
there
I'll
see
I,
guess
a
couple
of
things
about
pilot
generally.
C
But
you
know
we've
leveraged
relationships,
forms
and
how
we
can
support
hospitals
and
things
like
that,
and
so
I
think
that
that
spirit
of
collaboration
and
I'm
trying
to
get
through
this
together,
because
we
were
all
in
it
together.
Certainly
what
is
driving
I
think
everyone's
response
across
the
board
across
all
institutions.
C
C
A
You
with
Nelson
with
regard
to
the
eight
strong
and
our
support
for
elders
in
our
neighborhoods,
and
we
have
an
increasing
number
of
retirees
and
aging
population
at
this
point
in
time.
Are
there
any,
and
these
people
are
maybe
the
most
vulnerable
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
in
this
present
crisis?
Are
there
any
plans
to
increase
funding
for
the
Aged
strong
Commission
at
this
point
in
time,.
D
D
Advisors,
but
basically
allow
connecting
seniors
who
can
call
in
to
aid
strong
and
connecting
them
with
the
type
of
resources
that
are
out
there
already,
whether
it's
through
the
state
or
the
federal
government
I
think
especially
around
housing
unemployment,
no
Medicare.
Those
are
all
big
issues
that
a
big
financial
decisions
for
a
lot
of
people,
and
these
were
prioritizing
a
$200,000
investment
to
increase
the
staff
and
aid
strong
to
help
folks
now
to
get
those
those
oftentimes
very
complicated
and
burden
systems.
Thank.
A
You
and
also
our
small
business
community
are
absolutely
getting
hammered
in
this
crisis
and
they
will
be
instrumental
in
our
recovery
because
they
employ
a
lot
of
folks
and
in
the
neighborhoods,
and
is
there
a
proactive
plan
to
put
some
money
into
increasing,
get
those
folks
up?
Get
those
businesses
up
and
going
again.
D
So
I
think
the
entire
sort
of
chief
barrows
and
the
entire
economic
development
cabinet
has
small
businesses
at
the
top
of
their
list.
Right
now,
like
I,
think
that
the
vast
majority
of
their
resources
on
an
on
an
annual
basis
go
towards
small
businesses.
This
would
sort
of
be
a
very
much
focusing
on
it.
I
think
we're
learning
a
lot
right
now
from
the
small-business
fund
that
was
released
week
or
two
ago.
D
I
can't
remember
about
what
the
demand
is
out
there
we're
going
to
sort
of
dedicate
as
many
of
our
resources
as
we
can
to
that
fund.
The
challenge
is
and
much
like
housing
we're
trying
to
solve
a
very
big
problem
with
sort
of
a
limited
number
of
tools
in
our
tool
belt,
and
we
really
need
to
look
to
the
state
federal
government
for
stimulus
support
at
some
point
to
to
help
support
them
even
more.
A
B
M
You,
madam
chair
I,
think
one
of
the
things
about
going
close
to
last
is
a
lot
of
people
have
covered
territory
that
I
expected
to
cover,
so
this
will
probably
be
a
little
quicker
I
guess.
One
of
my
questions
is
we
move
the
property
tax
collection
to
June
first,
what
impact,
if
any,
does
that
have
on
the
budget
and
our
bond
rating
analysis
and
what
happens
if
we
have
to
push
that
further
back
yeah.
C
Great
question,
and
so
quarterly
tax
payment
for
the
City
of
Austin
is
about
650
million
dollars.
On
our
you
know,
3.4
billion
dollar
base
in
FY
2008
chose
to
move
it
from
May,
1
or
April
1.
In
some
circumstances.
To
June
1
is
because
it
will
not
affect
cities
and
towns
budgeted
revenue
numbers
by
moving
it
back
that
one
month.
It
is
really
a
cash
flow
issue,
so
the
revenue
will
still
come
in
in
the
current
fiscal
year
and
instead
it
is
about
sort
of
how
much
cash
do.
C
We
have
on
hand
to
pay
our
liabilities
fortune
for
most,
which
is
just
payroll
of
our
city,
employees,
which
we
are
obviously
continuing
to
do
through
this
crisis,
and
so
it
has
no
budget
impact
on
us.
For
now.
If
it
was
pushed
out
into
the
next
fiscal
year,
it
would
have
a
catastrophic
budget
impact
on
us.
We
cannot
absorb
a
hit
of
650
million
dollars
and
there
we
don't
have
a
that.
C
Doesn't
it
far
exceeds
our
reserves
that
we
on
hand
there's
really
nothing
that
we
could
do
to
absorb
a
impact
of
a
missed
property
tax
payment
as
a
whole
to
the
City
of
Boston?
But
a
move
of
one
month
within
the
existing
fiscal
year
is
something
that
we
are
able
to
absorb
from
a
cash
perspective.
That
may
not
be
true
for
every
city
and
town
in
Massachusetts,
and
so
I.
M
C
Think
that's
true.
So
the
end
of
the
fiscal
year
is
June
30th.
So
by
making
it
June
1st,
you
really
give
people
that
full
month
to
get
their
payment
in
you
know,
obviously
it's
still
late
if
it's
be
on
June
1st,
but
it
gives
us
that
time
to
ensure
that
the
payment
is
received
in
the
fiscal
year.
Thank.
M
D
D
We
start
to
take
a
look
at
on
what
we
have,
but
it
certainly
we
feel
good
about
where
we
are
right
now,
but
I
think
Emma's
point
earlier
in
the
meeting
any
time
you
you
and
you
take
funding
out
of
the
rainy
day
fund.
It
sends
up
red
flags
with
rating
agencies
because
it
basically
means
something's
off
track
and
well.
You
know
we
do
that
so
that
we
can,
you
know,
fix
it
when
it
does
go
off
track.
D
M
M
N
You,
madam
chair
mo,
so
you
would
talk
a
little
bit
about
our
open,
so
if
the
if
the
market
doesn't
perform
on
them,
we
don't
think
the
market
is
going
to
perform.
Well
that
cause
our
our
I
think
we
do
40
40
million
a
year
towards
our
pension,
where
we
need
to
pay
more
to
stay
on
track,
or
do
we
just
keep
that
40
million,
and
maybe
it
gets
pushed
out
a
couple
years-
is
that
based
on
the
performance
of
the
market,
so.
C
C
We
do
I
think
have
made
great
progress
on
open
to
through,
as
Justin
mentioned,
forty
million
dollars
of
our
reserves
every
year
are
planned
for
for
old,
hub
many
cities
and
towns
and
states
are
sort
of
not
even
yet
at
the
point
where
they
are
investing
in
tackling
their
open
liability.
It's
the
next
great
liable
cuckold,
once
Buddhists
get
feed
on
pension,
but
because
we
I
think
for
a
long
time
have
been
responsibly
managed.
C
Chen
we've
also
over
many
many
years,
been
contributing
this
40
million
dollars
annually
to
sort
of
make
a
down
payment
on
what
we
know.
We
will
need
to
do
on
ok
in
the
future,
so
that
the
market
market
returns
certainly
impact
our
overall
liability,
no
peb,
but
they
don't
necessarily
in
the
near
term
impact
how
much
we
will
need
to
fund
a
hope
if
that
makes
any
sense.
C
N
C
Yeah
I
think
Justin
did
a
good
job,
explaining
that
really
the
things
that
we
had
to
pare
back
on
we're
sort
of
the
level
of
investment.
Many
of
the
investments
that
are
in
the
budget
before
you
today
would
have
been
of
a
greater
magnitude
if
we
had
continued
to
have
the
resources
that
we
originally
anticipated.
As
we
were
planning
the
budget-
and
you
know
I
I'll,
say
it
I'm
sure
a
hundred
times
during
the
course
of
this
process.
C
This
is
I
think
what
we
expect
as
of
today
and
we
are
closely
monitoring
revenue
and
what
sort
of
unintended
consequences
the
coronavirus,
responsible
and
and
economic
impact
might
have
on
our
ability
to
perform
services.
The
budget
today
does
not
include
reductions
to
service
or
layoffs,
or
things
like
that.
We
will
obviously
be
working
closely
with
you
all
through
the
next
few
months
to
understand
where
things
are
headed
and
to
the
extent
that
anything
takes
a
turn.
We
will
certainly
be
in
contact
so
that
we
can
adjust,
as
we
see
but
I
think.
C
The
budget
today
is
baseline
of
the
services
were
provided
last
year,
plus
those
additional
investments,
primarily
around
education
and
housing.
Some
of
the
other
items
that
they
can
councillor
Edwards
and
some
other
folks
mentioned
that
sort
of
work.
Commitments
that
the
mayor
and
the
City
Council
has
made
have
made
at
some
point
over
the
past
year
that
are
now
reflected
in
our
planning
for
next
fiscal
year.
So.
N
C
As
of
now,
we
do
not
see
the
need
to
do
layoffs,
as
you
know,
I
think
we
have
made
a
great
deal
of
adjustment
to
our
workforce
today
to
ensure
that
we're
able
to
promote
social
distancing,
a
great
number
of
our
city
employees,
are
partially
are
fully
working
from
home
today
and
for
our
employees
that
continue
to
be
necessary.
As
frontline
employees,
we
have
implemented
a
number
of
shift.
C
There
are
none
in
this
budget.
I.
Think
the
concerning
thing
about
this
particular
economic
crisis
is
that
it
is
certainly
unprecedented,
of
course,
in
our
lifetime,
but
for
a
long
time
before
that
as
well,
and
so
it
is
difficult
for
us
to
have
a
full
grasp
of
exactly
what
this
will
mean
for
us.
The
backward-looking
nature
of
our
property
tax
numbers
helps
to
insulate
us
a
little
bit
from
that
uncertainty,
but
certainly
there's
every
week
that
goes
by
I
think
we
learn
new
information
about
what
the
impacts
are
of
grown
of
IRS.
C
N
D
7%
number
is
how
much
of
the
city's
total
budget
we
can
use
to
borrow
money
from
basically
so
in
this
year,
twenty
twenty
twenty
one,
we're
gonna
borrow
about
two
hundred
and
ten
million
dollars
in
order
to
fund
the
capital
plan.
The
seven
percent
number
basically
grows
over
time
as
the
rest
of
the
city
budget
time.
So
we're
able
to
add
new
general
obligation
bond
funding
over
the
next
five
years
and
it
gets
us
out
to
a
place.
D
N
Thank
you
and
we
had
established
that
property
tax
makes
up
72
percent
of
our
budget.
It's
concerning
that
we're
talking
about
a
transfer
fee
up
the
up
the
Statehouse
as
future
revenues
when
honestly
I,
don't
think
the
transfer
taxes
is
going
to
pass.
So
what
happens
when
that,
when
that
does
not
pass,
do
we
are
we
still
going
to?
We
still
gonna
stay
true
to
those
commitments,
so.
D
What
the
city
has
in
its
in
its
ability
to
fund
is
right
now
the
hundred
million
dollars
worth
of
city
money
that
we
committed
to
the
five
hundred
million
right,
so
just
refresher
hundred
million
of
city
money
and
then
four
hundred
million
of
transfer
tax
and
Lafayette
garage,
the
FY
21
budget
at
the
sort
of
first
down
payment
about
a
hundred
million
dollars
from
the
city
coffers,
and
it's
about
sixteen
million
dollars.
But
we
a
pro
plan
in
the
operating
budget
plan.
So
we
feel
good
about
that.
D
What
we
can't
do
and
what
we
haven't
we
haven't
done
yet
it
and
to
counselor
by
Arnie's
point
earlier.
Is
we
haven't
ramped
that
up
to
get
up
to
the
full
five
hundred
million
over
the
next,
because
we
we
don't
have
the
transfer
tax
and
yet
not
so
a
Lafayette
garage?
Those
are
two
conversations
that
are
gonna
sort
of
dictate:
whether
we
can
sort
of
meet
a
500
million
dollar
commitment,
but
the
city's
commitment
of
our
own
resource,
100
million
we
are
gonna,
be
we
are
on
track
to
do
that.
With
this
money.
N
Okay,
because
I
think
we
have
to
be
I,
think
we
have
to
be
very
careful
all
up
on
it
into
people's
pockets,
especially
in
this
next
two
years,
when
people
aren't
gonna
want
to
come
here
and
build
we're
gonna
happen,
we're
going
to
have
to
figure
out
ways
to
keep
it
to
keep
the
building
going
and
I.
Think
things
like
transfer
taxes
will
not
help
us
and
that's
it
on
that
and
I
like
the
is
it
1.5
million
for
tree
maintenance,
yeah.
D
I
think
it's
sorry,
I
put
up
its
a
1.5
million
dollar
increase
I.
Think
it's
one
point
a
two
point:
five
million
dollars
total
that
we
added
to
the
capital
plan
for
tree
plantings.
We
also
have
about
a
five
hundred
thousand
dollar
investment
in
the
parks
department
to
maintain
said
trees
when
we,
when
we
plant
them,
because
that's
as
as
important
as
planting
them
as
making
sure
that
they
stay
alive
and
they
stay
healthy.
What.
D
So
that's
the
entire
entire
tree
portfolio.
We
have
so
that's
both
sort
of
the
maintenance
and
the
watering
of
our
existing
trees
and
then
also
approving
of
pruning
in
maintenance
of
our
urban
wilds
and
our
urban
forests.
Because
it's
always
said
we
got
a
plant
and
we
got
a
build
as
may
be,
and
we
got
to
maintain
as
many
trees
as
possible
in
order
to
hit
some
of
our
carbon
goals
around
I'm
ready,
Boston,
yeah.
N
And
I
saw
I
saw
a
plan
for
a
a
compost,
a
compost,
pilot
and
again
I
think
we
should
be
looking
at
building
rail
compost,
infrastructure
in
the
city
of
Moss
and
I.
Think
it's
the
only
way
that
we
can.
We
can
have
surety
in
a
cost
moving
into
the
future,
because
if
it's,
if
it's
two
dollars
now
on
a
contract,
it's
gonna
be
twelve
dollars
in
two
years,
so
we
should
definitely
be
looking
at
building
our
own
infrastructure.
N
D
So
the
current
and
it's
still
an
iterative
process
that
we
are
working
right
now
and
contract
with
someone
to
pick
and
dispose
of
compost
a
much
more
aggressive
way
than
we
had
been
envisioning
before
I
think
this
amount
of
funding
we
have
in
there
recover
about
a
household
would
be
much
more
and
we're
doing
currently
and
sort
of
because
right
now,
it's
all
done
on
the
private
side.
I
think
it
is,
however,
an
evolving
concept
of
what
the
final
vision
of
what
compost
looks
like
I
think
very
much
at
the
outset.
D
It
has
to
be
around
education
and
getting
people
used
to
compost
because
right
now
it's
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
people
to
start
familiar
with
it.
So
we
need
to
kind
of
build
a
customer
base
edge.
We'll
know
we
need
to
then
work
with
either
internal
or
external
partners
to
scale
it
up,
and
this
first
year
is
really
about
education
and
getting
some
sort
of
some
testing
done
to
make
sure
that
people
are
gonna,
do
and
then
sort
of
transition
into
how
what's
the
most
efficient
way
to
do
it.
D
D
B
You
thank
you.
Cancer
Baker
councillor,
woo,
followed
by
councillor
Campbell.
G
Thank
you,
madam
chair
come
and
thank
you
for
running
such
a
a
great
first
hearing
for
this
budget
season.
I
apologize
I
had
to
jump
out
a
little
bit
and
be
in
the
middle,
so
I.
Let
me
know,
who's
been
covered
and
I'm
happy
to
just
watch
the
tape
and
get
the
answers.
I
just
wanted
to
start
and
two
questions.
One
is
on
the
timing.
G
So
obviously
a
lot
of
what
we
will
experience
in
terms
of
the
budget
impacts
will
come
in
later
years,
or
you
know
we
won't
know
until
a
little
bit
further
down.
The
line
with
the
support
might
look
like
at
what
point
you
know
what
are
the
kind
of
major
milestones
that
will
help
clarify
the
sort
of
scale
of
what
the
city
budget
might
have
to
absorb.
D
I
think
the
first
milestone
is
really
dependent
on
the
public
health
ads.
We
get
from
the
CDC
I
think
this
budget
assumes
that
we
get
back
to
some
normal
in
FY
21
and
the
areas
that
are
most
impacted
by
that
are
excise
taxes
and
probably
state
revenues.
So
those
two
are
very
much
dependent
on
the
CDC
and
the
sort
of
City
Public
Health
Commission
and
the
state
guidelines
around
when
we
can
reopen
the
economy.
D
The
question
we
won't
know
until
sort
of
later
down
the
line
is
what
that
new
normal
looks
like
it's
sort
of
what
is
the
new
baseline
level
of
revenue
that
we're
collecting,
because
either
businesses
have
closed
or
some
businesses
grow
and
some
businesses
of
shrunk?
Oh,
that's,
really
gonna
be
a
moving
target.
The
big
no
but
those
are
are
really
concentrated
on
our
smaller
revenue
sources.
D
G
C
That
I
would
echo
FY
22
as
being
the
year
where
that
we
will
have
more
information
that
feeds
the
sort
of
statutorily
set
analysis
of
what
those
property
taxes
look
like
specifically
around
I
think
the
summer
real
estate
calendar
this
summer
and
where
we
are
in
terms
of
a
merger
emerging
from
you,
know,
sort
of
self
quarantine
and
restrictions
on
businesses.
It
will
I
think
we
will
have
some
interesting
at
least
anecdotal
data,
if
not
more
than
that
this
summer
about
what
is
happening
to
real
estate
transactions,
because
those
will
directly
impact
the
underlying
analysis.
C
But
there
are
I
think
a
few
things
coming
up
over
the
course
of
the
next
few
months
that
are
just
going
to
start
to
give
us
an
insight
in
terms
of
what
we
can
expect
for
the
following
fiscal
year
and
just
to
add
to
Justin's
point
about
revenues
that
are
sort
of
receivable
that
we
received
through
the
state.
We
get
those
quarterly,
and
so
we
will
be
obviously
looking
at
those
quarterly
payments
to
see
what
they
tell
us
about.
What
to
expect
and
where
we're
headed.
G
Thank
you
both
my
second
question
kind
of
follows
now,
based
on
your
answers.
It
was
about
the
intersection
of
our
public
health
budget
considerations
and
then,
when
the
economy,
you
know
basically
that
we
have
an
influence
in
when
we
might
open
up-
and
you
know,
I
would
encourage
everyone.
I
think
this
is
conversations
I,
consulars,
Arroyo
and
me
he
and
I
especially
have
been
having
us
when
thinking
about
how
to
plan
for
our
hearing
order
our
hearing
on
an
equitable
recovery,
and
it
had
to
start
that
conversation
that
it
won't
necessarily
be
just
one.
G
You
know
back
to
put
unquote
normal
and
what
is
that
normal,
look
like,
but
likely
several
phases
of
normal
depending
on
you
know
where
we
are
in
the
various
Peaks
and
how
come
confident.
We
feel
that
testing
and
or
contact
tracing
is
effective.
So
it's
not
just
the
impacts
on
excise
and
state
support,
but
also
when
the
when
there
will
stop
being
kind
of
this
extraordinary
need
for
cities
to
step
into
the
void,
because
there
is
so
much
financial
instability
on
the
kind
of
general
societal
level
and
the
more
that
the
city.
G
You
know,
for
example,
if
the
city
were
to
invest
more
resources
in
staffing
up
for
testing,
widespread
testing
and
contact
tracing,
maybe
that
would
allow
us
to
feel
more
comfortable
opening
at
the
economy
sooner
to
a
certain
degree.
You
know
not
open
open
by
at
least
more
businesses
opened
and
people
still
following
certain
distances:
physical
distancing
requirements.
So
how
have
you
thought
about
that?
G
Interaction
of
you
know
not
just
what
we
have
to
spend
for
the
Health
Commission
to
be
doing
more,
but
it
is
there
a
kind
of
feedback
loop
where
we
are
setting
timelines
for
how
we
open
up
at
different
phases.
That
then,
will
may
be
less
than
the
pressure
on
a
city
budget,
because
we're
also
allowing
the
economy
to
kind
of
come
back
a
little
bit
to
oh
I'll.
C
At
this
point,
what
we
need
to
do
to
be
responsive
to
the
ever-evolving
facts
on
the
ground
in
terms
of
what
this
looks
like
for
Boston
and
so
I
think,
certainly
whatever
the
path
forward
looks
like
Public,
Health
guidance
will
be
at
the
heart
of
that,
because
I
think
that
that's
why
we
are
where
we
are
and
so
much
of
what
we
will
need
to
do
when
we
are
emerging
from
this
is
figure
out.
You
know
by
letting
the
public
health
guidance
lead.
C
What
is
the
economic
impact
of
that,
and
where
does
the
city
have
a
role
in
addressing
that
and
where
do
we
need
to
lean
on
our
partners
at
the
state
and
the
federal
government
to
come
in
and
help
because
of
a
scale
that
is
really
just
not
a
service?
That
is
something
that
the
municipal
government
can
provide
Justin.
What
did
I
miss
no.
D
I
think
that's
exactly
right.
The
only
thing-
I
wouldn't
sorry
I,
always
been
the
back
to
what
I
know.
So
the
city
revenue
that
we
are
projecting
for
next
year
assumes
a
staggered
opening
over
the
first
six
months
of
fwrite
21.
Basically,
it
assumes
you
know
X
percent
Neels
taxes
collected
in
July
and
then
that
kind
of
ramped
up
over
time.
D
O
O
Most
of
my
questions
were
asked
and
answered,
and
so
I
will
wait
to
ask
my
questions
during
specific
budget
hearings
with
respect
to
larger
education,
of
course,
public
safety
agencies,
community
health
centers,
has
come
up
quite
a
bit
also
our
small
businesses,
so
I'll
just
wait
and
do
it
during
those
times
and
then
I
can
just
email
any
other
questions
just
to
be
respectful.
You
guys
this
time.
So
thank
you
and
thank
you
I
councillor
bak,
and
congratulations
on
your
first
ring.
Thank.
B
You
so
much
councillor
Campbell
and
thank
you
also
to
to
Emma
and
Justin
for
staying
through
the
full
round
of
council
questions.
Folks
know
that
we
have
another
hearing
that
was
scheduled
for
noon.
Obviously,
the
start
timer
that's
been
pushed
back
before
we
move
to
that.
I
do
want
to
take
public
to
I'll,
just
say
to
councillors
that
we're
I'm,
hoping
that
people
can
hold
further
questions
for
the
rest
of
our
hearings,
just
so
that
we
can
continue
on
that.
B
I'm
gonna.
First
just
go
to
public
testimony
from
Pam
culture
from
the
BMRB
who
the
boss,
Municipal,
Research,
Bureau
I've,
just
admitted
to
this
and
well
she's.
Getting
logged
on
I
just
want
to
say
for
folks
watching
at
home,
but
I
mentioned
this
up
at
the
top,
but
we're
actually
having
a
public
testimony.
Hearing
this
Thursday
at
6
p.m.
B
that's
gonna
be
explicitly
focused
on
kind
of
you
know
what
are
people's
questions
for
this
process
going
forward
things
that
you're
hoping
the
council
will
raise
and
dig
into
so
I
would
encourage
folks
to
mark
that
on
your
calendar
and
also
will
be
taking
further
public
testimony
in
the
hearing
to
follow
with
assessing,
but
now
that
she's
on
I'm
going
to
recognize
and
coach
her
from
the
boss,
Municipal
Research
Bureau
am.
Are
you
there
I.
P
P
Intentional
or
shall
I
put
it
on
there
we
go
good
morning
hi.
My
name
is
Pam
Coker
I'm,
the
president
of
the
Boston
municipal,
Research,
Bureau
and
I'm,
also
a
city
resident
many
thanks
to
the
City
Council
to
the
lavash
administration
and
to
city
employees,
for
all.
You
are
doing
for
our
community,
particularly
at
this
uncertain
and
challenging
time,
Thank
You,
chairman
Wolk
and
members
of
the
Ways
and
Means
Committee
for
this
opportunity
to
speak
to
the
administration's
proposed
fiscal
year,
21
budget
and
the
context
in
which
you
approach
this
budget
season.
P
So
a
couple
of
things
initially,
as
we
as
you
all,
are
just
very
much
aware
of
the
rapid
change
that
has
happened.
The
extent
of
the
change
that
has
happened
so
rapidly
and
the
dramatic
results
that
we've
seen,
particularly
around
unemployment
in
our
community
and
broader.
We
know
that
the
longer
this
public
health
crisis
lasts
the
greater
the
impact
on
city
finances,
particularly
as
we
seek
to
address
the
impacts
on
our
community
now
and
in
the
coming
years.
P
The
first
question
that
we're
thinking
about
or
step
one
of
the
this
process
under
how
long
the
uncertainty
will
last
is
what
I'm
will
life
get
back
to
normal
and
clearly.
The
first
thing
that
needs
to
happen
is
that
hope
in
nineteen
will
no
longer
be
a
risk
to
the
general
population,
and
the
public
health
crisis
will
be
officially
declared
over
step.
P
Two
is,
of
course,
then
people
in
the
community
feeling
comfortable
to
return
to
in-person
shared
activities,
and
that
includes
school
work
and
community
engagement,
but
the
big
question
as
we're
already
speaking
to
how
to
address
it.
The
big
question
is
how
much
of
those
activities
will
resume
and
how
soon
one
of
the
some
of
the
things
that
we
are
thinking
about
as
we
look
at
what
happens
when
people
are
able
to
resume
work
and
those
activities,
how
many
people
will
be
worse
off
than
they
were
before?
P
We
are
hearing
today
how
the
city
plans
to
address
those
needs.
We
agree
it's
very
important
for
the
city
to
be
looking
at
that,
both
in
terms
of
fiscal
year,
2015,
21,
22
and
possibly
beyond,
and
as
Justin
starett
mentioned,
you
all
are
looking
to
do
very
much
that
I
want
to
speak
just
a
little
bit
to
city
revenue.
As
I
mentioned,
the
city
has
seen
consistent
revenue
growth
from
a
variety
of
sources
in
recent
years,
driven
by
the
strong
local
economy.
P
The
researcher
believes
that
overall,
the
city
has
been
a
good
steward
of
those
resources
by
making
investments
in
our
city
for
today
and
for
long
term
sustainability.
So
the
city
can
do
what
it
needs
to
do
and
wants
to
do
now
and
going
forward.
But
again,
there's
always
that
caveat.
This
is
unprecedented
unchartered
waters
for
all
of
us
in
even
including
the
best
economists
state
locally
and
nationally.
P
Doing
so
will
free
up
city
resources
to
meet
retiree
health
care
costs
and
other
long
term
commitments
and
then
further
we
note
the
dynamics
of
capital
project
funding,
allows
the
city
to
move
forward
with
key
projects,
even
in
challenging
economic
times.
Those
projects,
of
course
include
bill.
Bps
go
boston,
2030,
the
transportation
projects
and
climate
resiliency,
and
we
support
the
city
increasing
their
borrowing
and
closer
to
the
7%
affordability
cap
in
order
to
take
advantage
of
those
capital
investments.
P
Or
devout
the
state
implementation
of
the
student
Opportunity
Act
and
whether
the
state
will
be
making
its
full
commitment
to
get
that
funding
underway
in
fiscal
year.
2021
we're
also
thinking
about
the
impact
on
the
sales
tax,
given
that
it
supports
state
funding
for
local
school
building
programs
and
also
keeping
in
mind
that
we've
got
bill
BPS
and
much
school
renovations
and
building
to
do.
P
We
wonder,
as
we've
already
discussed
today,
what
happens
if
the
feds
and
the
state
can't
step
up
to
the
degree
we
need
to
and
if
so,
how
can
the
city
address
continued
challenges
or
increasing
challenges?
We
know
that
during
the
Great
Recession,
the
federal
response
for
cities
and
towns
included
substantial
financial
resources,
including
funds
focused
on
infrastructure
initiatives
and
education,
and
so
we'd
certainly
hope
to
see
such
substantial
investments
from
the
federal
government
in
the
coming
weeks
months
years.
P
So
as
we
wrap
this
up,
there
was
so
much
recovery,
work
ahead
and
I
think
back
to
Hurricane
sandy
and
the
conversations
about
the
recovery
had
to
happen
because
of
that.
So
if
it
was
infrastructure,
some
of
it
was
people
putting
their
lives
back
together,
and
so
we
were
I'm
thinking
in
that
context
of
a
that
kind
of
crisis.
B
Alright,
does
anyone
have
any
questions
for
now
all
right,
seeing
none.
Thank
you
so
much
for
that
testimony.
Thanks
for
in
your
time,
everyone
and-
and
we
do
have
one
more
person
in
the
waiting
room
I'm
for
public
testimony,
so
I'm
gonna
allow
Mark
Wright
to
testify
and
then,
as
I
said,
we'll
be
moving
on
to
the
next
hearing.
B
All
right,
I'll
wait
for
one
more
minute
just
to
see
if
he.
B
All
right,
I
think
Marcus
dropped
off,
so
we're
now
going
to
we're
now
going
to
conclude
this
hearing,
seeing
no
further
public
testimony
again.
I'll
just
remind
folks
that
there
is
a
City
Council
budget
website
which
provides
a
list
of
the
hearings
that
we're
gonna
be
having
and
also
ways
for
you
to
get
involved
with
public
testimony.
So
we
are
so
we
are
taking
videos
that
people
record
to
CCC
WM
at
Boston
gov.
B
You
can
also
send
written
testimony
or
you
can
come
to
one
of
these
future
hearings
and
testify,
live
we're
really
looking
forward
to
public
involvement
in
this
whole
process.
I
want
to
thank
the
administration
again
for
kicking
this
off.
We're
gonna
be
going
next
to
the
hearing
with
the
assessor's
office
and
talking
more
granularly
about
revenue
and
the
property
tax
side
of
things.
So
it's
1238
right
now,
I'll
be
gaveling.