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From YouTube: Committee on Ways & Means FY23Budget: Public Testimony
Description
Dockets #0480-0486 - Fiscal Year 2023 Budget: Public Testimony Session
Held on June 2, 2022
A
A
It
is
being
live
stream
at
boston.gov
for
slash
city
dash
council
dash
tv
in
broadcast
on
xfinity
channel
8,
rcn,
channel
82
and
files
channel
964.
The
council's
budget
review
process
will
encompass
a
series
of
public
hearings
beginning
in
april
and
running
through
june.
We
strongly
encourage
residents
to
take
a
moment
to
engage
in
this
process
by
giving
testimony
for
the
record.
You
can
do
this
in
several
ways:
attend
one
of
the
hearings
and
give
public
testimony.
A
We
will
take
public
testimony
at
each
departmental
hearing
and
also
at
two
hearings
dedicated
to
public
testimony.
The
full
hearing
schedule
is
on
our
website
at
boston.gov
for
slash
council
dash
budget.
Our
scheduled
hearings,
dedicated
to
public
testimony
was
on
april
26
at
6
pm
and
tonight
june,
2nd
at
6
00
pm
when
you
are
called
to
public
testimony
your
name
and
affiliation.
Please
give
your
state
your
name,
affiliation
and
or
residence
and
limit
your
comments
to
two
minutes
to
ensure
that
all
comments
and
concerns
can
be
heard.
A
Email
you
can
email
or
your
written
testimony
to
the
committee
at
ccc.wm
boston.gov,
submit
a
two-minute
video
of
your
testimony
through
the
form
on
our
website
for
more
information
on
the
city
council
budget
process
and
how
to
testify.
Please
visit
the
city
council's
budget
website
at
boston.gov
for
slash
council
dash
budget.
Today's
hearing
is
on
dockets0480.
A
20482
dockets
order
for
the
fy23
operating
budget,
including
annual
appropriations
for
departmental
operations
for
the
school
department
and
for
other
post-employment
benefits.
Opeb
dockets
0483
orders
for
capital
fund
transfer
appropriations,
dockets
0484
to
0.86
orders
for
the
capital
budget,
including
loan
orders
and
lease
purchase
agreements.
Our
focus
area
for
this
hearing
will
be
public
testimonies.
A
A
I
have
a
list
of
members
of
the
public
who's
signed
up
for
testimony
and
we
will
go
in
the
order
of
arrival
and
I
just
again
just
to
reiterate
that
you
have
two
minutes
to
testify
and
possibly
I
can
extend
a
little
bit
of
grace,
but
just
keeping
in
mind
that
we
have
to
allow
everyone
to
testify.
So
everyone's
concerns
are
heard,
and
this
is
just
a
public
testimony
or
listening
session.
So
we
won't
be
answering
questions.
A
I
can
give
clarifying
statements
on
the
process
and
where
we
are
in
the
budget
season
or
the
budget
process,
but
not
to
answer
each
specific
question
that
may
be
posed
today
without
further
ado,
we'll
go
right
into
public
testimony.
I
look
forward
to
hearing
from
you.
We
will.
We
are
taking
notes,
we'll
be
writing
them
down.
Everything
that
you
say
will
be
put
on
record
without
further
ado.
I
have
first
on
the
list.
Miss
fatima
ahmed
welcome,
thank
you
and
whenever
you
are
ready,
your
name
and
affiliation
and
or
address.
B
So
I'm
here
to
say,
you
know
that
for
many
years
many
community
folks,
especially
from
communities
of
color
who
are
overly
policed
and
surveilled,
have
said
that
we
need
to
move
money
from
the
police
budget
to
things
that
actually
keep
us
safe.
I
know
that
you
know.
Many
counselors,
for
example,
have
raised
concerns
about
mental
health
and
there's
actually
a
really
great
way
that
you
can
support
that
this
year.
B
There
is
a
community-led
design
process
that
was
funded
by
the
city
last
year
and
the
model
that
they
come
up
with
is
going
to
need
money
to
actually
be
implemented
in
this
current
fiscal
year.
That
is
something
that
you
know.
Community
folks
are
doing
because
the
best
team,
co-response
and
all
of
the
other
responses
to
crises
don't
work.
They're
not
meeting
community
needs
and
they
don't
keep
people
safe,
and
that
is
one
thing
that
can
be
moved
from
the
police
to
another
place.
B
So
many
of
the
things
that
we've
talked
about
year
after
year
can
actually
create
other
jobs
like
the
office
for
construction
details
that
counselor
lara
has
has
introduced
as
an
idea.
You
know,
according
to
citizens,
for
juvenile
justice,
about
75
percent
of
what
the
boston
police
department
responds
to
is
not
violent
in
any
way.
It
ranges
from
people
concerned
about
their
neighbor's
dog
to
fireworks,
to
mental
health
response
to
traffic
enforcement.
B
Those
are
all
things
that
other
people
could
do
and
actually
create
jobs
for
other
people
in
our
community
and
actually
promote
safety
and
wellness
for
communities
who
do
not
feel
safe
when
the
police
show
up
so
we're
here
again,
urging
you
to
actually
do
something
different
this
year.
Hopefully
with
you
know
a
new
counselor
leading
us
this
year,
maybe
we'll
see
something
different
and
I
think
there
will
be
a
number
of
people
tonight.
Speaking
to
the
same
thing,
thank
you.
A
C
Thank
you
to
the
boston
city
council
committee
on
ways
and
means
especially
the
chair,
councilor
fernandez
anderson,
for
this
opportunity
tonight
to
share
testimony.
My
name
is
amy
takanami.
I
you
she
her
hers
and
I'm
speaking
tonight
on
behalf
of
boston
liberation,
health,
a
group
of
social
workers,
social
service
workers
and
health
and
mental
health
care
users
advocating
for
social
justice
and
liberation
here
in
boston
and
around
the
world.
C
Boston
liberation
health
was
started
nearly
20
years
ago
by
a
group
of
clinical
social
workers
in
boston
and
now
has
over
2,
400
members
worldwide,
blh
or
boston
immigration.
Health
is
joining
the
chorus
of
voices,
including
muslim
justice
league,
who
we
just
heard
from
demanding
mayor
wu
and
the
city
council,
divest
120
million
dollars
from
the
400
million
dollar
boston
police
budget,
including
a
real
cap
on
overtime
spending.
C
We
also
think
the
120
million
dollars
should
be
invested
into
programs
that
mitigate
poverty,
which
is
the
root
cause
of
behavior.
That
is
criminalized,
such
as
youth
jobs,
truly
affordable
housing,
universal
health
care
and
free
and
equitable
public
pre-k
through
college
education,
and
while
we
recognize
that
some
of
these
things
are
outside
the
direct
purview
of
the
city,
let's
take
action
during
this
unprecedented
moment
to
make
transformational
changes
and
reject
the
continued
policing,
surveillance
and
impoverishment
of
our
communities.
C
D
D
I
too
demand
that
mayor
wu
and
the
city
councillors
divest
120
million
from
the
400
million
boston
police
budget,
including
real
cap
over
time,
spending
and
freezing
of
new
hiring
and
instead
use
that
money
in
the
community
for
housing,
mental
health
response,
contract,
construction
details
and
youth
jobs.
As
an
elementary
school
teacher,
I
also
want
more
money,
obviously
put
into
education.
D
I
will
say
the
mental
health
and
social
emotional
needs
of
my
students
are
great
and
that
need
will
continue
as
they
grow
in
age
and
divesting
and
reallocating.
This
120
million
will
assist
in
setting
up
a
society
that
best
benefits
the
children
I
teach
when
they
grow
up
and
become
adults,
and
I
thank
you
again
for
listening
to
my
share.
A
E
Yes,
it's
win!
Thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
hearing
testimony
today,
I'm
elizabeth
wynn
and
I'm
a
volunteer
with
the
boston
immigration,
justice
accompaniment
network.
I'm
also
a
member
of
the
clergy,
and
I
want
to
use
this
time
to
lift
up
lift
up
the
story
of
maria
who
I
have
known
for
five
years.
I'm
resident
of
jp
she's,
a
resident
of
east
boston
and
she's,
not
here
today,
because
she's
busy
doing
emergency
planning
after
her
son
was
arrested
by
boston
police
on
may
27th.
E
E
E
Beyond's
connected
immigration
bond
fund
has
raised
over
a
million
dollars
to
help
bond
people
out
of
ice
cages
over
the
past
five
years,
mostly
through
faith
groups.
Community
members,
as
community
members,
we're
doing
what
we
can
and
we're
asking
the
city
council
to
do
what
you
all
can
for
real
safety
for
people
like
maria.
Thank
you
so
much.
Thank.
A
F
Hi
everyone
thank
you
to
the
committee
on
me
for
hearing
testimonies
today.
My
name
is
miami
strike,
my
pronouns,
they
she
and
then
I'm
one
of
the
folks
like
elizabeth
who
just
testified
sharing
testimony
on
behalf
of
beyond
boston
immigration,
justice
accompaniment
at
work,
we're
a
network
of
immigrants,
families
and
community,
supporting
each
other
and
fighting
against
the
criminalization
of
migration.
F
So
our
immigrant
community,
particularly
undocumented
and
bipac
folks,
is
one
community
group
that
is
most
harmed
by
the
systemic
violence
of
policing,
both
through
bpd
and
ice,
and
so,
instead
of
spending
more
than
a
million
dollars
a
day
on
the
boston
police,
we
should
instead
be
investing
in
community
groups
and
resources
that
truly
support
community
members,
mental
health
and
overall
well-being
such
as
affordable
housing,
the
new
community,
mental
health
crisis,
response
proposal,
health
care
and
youth
jobs.
So
for
the
fy
2023
budget,
please
shift
funding
away
from
the
police
into
community.
G
Hello,
everyone,
my
name,
is
nicholas
arthur.
I
am
a
current
resident
of
boston
and
I
am
a
proud
family,
member
and
team
member
of
the
phoenix.
So
for
those
that
don't
know
the
phoenix
is
a
sober,
active
community
that
looks
to
engage
people
in
recovery
services
and
in
the
in
boston,
in
the
greater
greater
area
of
boston,
and
so
I'd
like
to
just
talk
a
little
bit
about
my
story.
G
I
learned
a
lot
about
myself
in
the
last
year,
not
just
physically.
I
lost
70
pounds,
but
I
also
learned
a
lot
about
myself.
I
learned
a
lot
about
the
traits
that
I
have
that
I
can
work
on
and
both
you
know
excel
at
and
the
sense
of
community
that
I
found
was
welcoming.
It
was
loving,
it
didn't
have
to
just
be
working
out.
You
know
I
had
a
lot
of
opportunities.
G
G
A
H
Hi
good
evening,
good
evening,
city
council
in
ways
and
means
I'm
so
pleased
to
be
joining
you.
My
name
is
janice
hamilton,
I'm
a
lifelong
resident
of
the
city
of
boston
and
currently
living
in
the
parkway
area.
I
am
representing
all
the
seniors
and
I'm
here
to
request
that
funding
be
included
in
the
2023
budget
for
a
site
study
to
determine
the
best
location
for
a
senior
center
in
the
parkway
area.
H
We
currently
have
very
limited
locations
for
any
summer
activities.
Additionally,
the
activities
offered
by
the
senior
services
are
extremely
limited
due
to
the
lack
of
a
permanent
location
for
seniors
senior.
Centers
are
recognized
by
the
older
americans,
act
as
a
community
focal
point
and
have
become
one
of
the
most
widely
used
services
among
america's
older
adults.
H
H
So
none
of
these
locations,
needless
to
say,
are
realistically
accessible
to
this
reticence
of
to
the
residents
of
west
roxbury,
roslindale
or
hyde
park,
or
what
is
termed,
I
believe
it's
current
term
southwest
boston
of
the
the
on
the
map.
When
you
look
at
the
map
where
we're
considered
southwest
boston,
a
study
to
determine
the
best
site
for
a
senior
center
in
the
parkway
area
is
the
first
crucial
step
toward
ensuring
that
all
of
boston
seniors
have
access
to
the
life
enhancing
services
that
these
facilities
provide.
H
A
Thank
you
so
much
miss
janice.
I
appreciate
your
statements.
A
very
valid
one
seniors
should
be
a
priority
for
us
all.
I
look
forward
to
speaking
with
the
other
counselors
and
see
where
we
go
with
that.
I
I
can't
remember
off
the
top
of
my
head
if
there's
already
a
proposal
for
what
you're
suggesting,
but
please
email
me
for
any
follow-up
or
questions.
I.
I
Hi,
yes,
thank
you
all
so
much.
My
name
is
vince
perrino
and
I'm
a
dorchester
resident.
I
am
here
today
to
testify
or
to
to
advocate
that
the
city
of
boston,
divest,
120
million
from
the
boston
police
department's
budget
in
order
to
fund
new
community
mental
health
responses,
community-led
safety
programs
and
affordable
housing.
I
I've
been
working
in
the
city's
homelessness
services
for
about
a
year
now,
and
what
I've
learned
from
my
experience
serving
boston's
most
vulnerable
population
is
that
poverty
drives
people
to
commit
petty
misdemeanors
in
order
to
survive,
often
without
the
income
to
provide
themselves
with
consistent
meals
and
a
change
of
clothes.
Folks
experiencing
homelessness
turn
to
means
of
survival
that
are
illegal
once
caught.
The
records
are
tarnished,
which
then
creates
barriers
to
jobs
and
affordable
housing
in
boston.
I
The
system
we
have
is
set
up
in
such
a
way
to
keep
people
at
a
disadvantage
and
in
poverty
which
reproduces
cycles
of
trauma.
The
most
vulnerable
in
the
city
have
not
benefited
from
the
police,
but
they
will
benefit
from
community
mental
health
responses,
community-led
safety
programs
and
affordable
housing.
We
can
invest
in
harm
reduction
and
mental
health
response
that
can
assist
folks
who
struggle
with
substance,
use
or
mental
health
conditions
that
need
medical
care.
We
can
invest
in
affordable
housing
so
that
folks,
experiencing
homelessness
can
find
a
secure
and
permanent
place
to
live.
I
I
work
very
closely
with
the
folks
who
were
swept
out
of
their
tents
this
winter,
and
I
know
that
the
city
has
recently
invested
in
rapid
re-housing
programs.
This
is
a
short-term
solution
to
a
long-term
issue
that
the
city
does
not
have
enough.
Affordable
housing
for
its
disadvantaged
population,
boston
needs
to
expand
and
better
fund,
affordable
housing
in
the
city.
I
J
A
K
K
Okay,
thank
you.
Thank
you,
everybody!
So
probably
one
of
the
very
few
people
here
that
that
has
a
mask
on,
but
I
but
I'm
around
other
people
and
I've
been
feeling
a
bit
under
the
weather.
I
don't
I
didn't,
have
a
rep.
I
didn't
have
a
prepared
statement,
but
I
was
involved
in
these
meetings
going
back
to
2020.
K
You
know
right
after
right
after
that
that
day,
which
we
know
was
may
25th
now
I
I
might
be
a
bit
out
of
the.
I
might
be
a
bit
out
of
the
loop,
but
I
am
very,
but
I
am
very
much
concerned
that
you
know
you
know
the
promises
that
were
made.
You
know-
and
you
know
once
when
it
came
when
it
comes
to
taking
money
out
of
the
bpd
budget
and
using
that
or
applying
it.
K
K
You
know
another
thing
that
also
has
me
concerned
too
is
just.
I
think
I
think
what
more
money
and
research
should
be
should
be
devoted
to
away
from
just
like,
I
think,
adding
more
adding
more
police
is
the
roots
of
a
lot
of
these
a
lot
of
the
mass
shootings
I
mean.
Let
me
just
look,
I
mean,
let's
just
look
at
the
last
two
that
occurred
within
this
past
week.
I
mean
we
haven't,
there's
none
that
I
know
of
here.
K
But
that's
not
to
say
that
we
won't
have
that
we
can't
or
we
will
not
have
one.
That's
just,
but
you
know
that's
just
that's
just
you
know
my
my
food
for
thought.
I
hope
that
you
know,
and
I
I
do
hope
that
we
never
you
know
we
never
have
a.
We
never
have
a
jewish
food.
We
never
have
any.
We
never
have
another.
We
never
have.
Excuse
me
a
ash.
K
L
L
That,
though,
with
good
intention,
you
know
we
need
to
move
away
from
this
kind
of
crisis
management
that
is
ineffective,
that
we
need
to
move
more
towards
preventative
measures
for
our
youth
and
it's
in
the
city
as
well
as
yeah,
just
really
being
able
to
use
some
of
the
resources
that
will,
you
know,
create
sustainable
change.
So
I'm
asking
I'm
urging
the
city
council
to
cut
the
120
million
dollars
from
the
police
budget
and
move
those
funds
to
investments
that
actually
keep
the
community
safe
and
healthy.
Thank
you.
A
F
M
Bless
evening,
hi
sophia
you're
gonna
call
me
on
me
tonight.
I
just
wanted
to
come
on
tonight.
I'm
also
part
of
a
program
called
smart
from
the
start,
so
my
name
is
sophia
michelle
and
I'm
a
mother
of
three
and
I'm
resigned
from
the
roslindale
area
boss,
and
I
just
wanted
to
share
that.
I
wanted
to
let
the
city
knows
that
this
program
is
a
successful
program.
M
A
dad
for
our
children-
and
I
feel
like
this
program-
is
a
family
not
just
a
program
they
made
us
feel
it
as,
as
is
a
home
and
it's
at
peace,
where
we
find
all
these
programs.
That's
out
there
they're
all
over
the
place.
Smart
from
the
start
has
given
us
given
us
a
connection
to
be
under
one
umbrella,
and
we
would
like
to
continue
that
one
umbrella
to
reach
out
to
all
the
families
across
boston
throughout
anywhere
to
make
all
our
families
feel
at
home
and
also
to
know
where
to
go.
M
When
there's
a
need
or
a
problem,
I
feel
like
smart
from
the
start
had
helped
my
children.
I
have
a
14
year
old,
11
year
old
and
eight
year
old,
with
many
gaps
where
my
son,
at
four
years
old,
didn't,
speak
and
smartphone
start
put
that
that
pilot
that
pilot
up
there
for
my
kids
to
speak
to
know
where
to
go
and
get
help
and
speak
to
what
you
call
it
therapists
go
to
different
schools
and
have
speak
for
them
and
we
are
our
children's
advocate.
M
Our
kids
are
our
futures,
it's
not
as
a
plant,
so
we
would
like
to
continue
and
have
them
grow
and
make
sure
that
they
have
the
funding
in
this
community
to
get
them
where
they
need
to
be
there's
so
much
going
on
gun
violence.
All
these
other
things
parents
are
who
needs
help?
Who
can't
find
housing.
Smartphones
start
done,
then
all
that
for
us
find
housing,
I'm
a
cancer
survivor.
They
help
me
out
with
my
housing.
They
help
me
out
finding
programs
for
my
kids
activities
and
everything
and
all
so.
M
I
would
like
for
you
guys
to
help
out
with
any
program
any
fundings
that
you
guys
have
for
this
program,
because
it's
as
a
family
and
we
would
like
to
continue
to
grow
because
families
don't
know
where
to
go
when
you
know
all
these
things.
So
thank
you
so
much
appreciate
it.
I
didn't
know
you
were
going
to
call
me
today,
so
I
didn't
have
everything
prepared,
but
thank
you
so
much
for
listening
and
I
go
smartphone.
A
N
N
Instead
of
spending
more
than
a
million
dollars
a
day
on
the
boston
police,
we
should
be
investing
in
community
groups
and
resources
that
support
support
and
safety,
such
as
affordable
housing
licenses
for
all
the
new
community,
mental
health
crisis,
response
proposal,
health
care
and
new
jobs.
That's
all
I
wanted
to
say
thank
you
for
hearing
me.
A
O
We
still
do
it
because
that's
how
we're
trained
to-
and
I
feel
like,
we
should
untrain
ourselves,
because
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
how,
a
few
years
ago,
during
the
police
budget
hearing
the
police
were
talking
about
their
mental
health
and
had
and
how
they
had
so
much
on
their
plate
to
handle,
and
I
completely
agree
with
them.
But
what
I
don't
agree
with
is
how
they
want
to
solve
the
solution.
They
want
to
solve
the
solution
by
adding
more
police,
and
I
don't
think
that's
what
we
need.
O
I
think
we
need
to
stop
adding
people
that
don't
have
the
capacity
to
do
what
needs
to
be
done.
We
need
to
invest
into
our
community
to
lighten
the
load
that
the
police
currently
carry.
We
can
invest
by
divesting
from
the
police.
So
because
of
this,
I
demand
that
mayor
wu
that
invests
120
millions
from
the
police
budget,
and
I
demand
that
we
cap
the
police
over
time
budget.
O
I
demand
that
we
freeze
hiring
because
again
hiring
more
people
that
don't
know
what
they're
doing
is
just
filling
a
sinking
ship
and
at
the
end
of
the
day,
it's
still
going
to
sink.
So
I
wanted
to
take
that
money
instead
and
invest
into
our
new
community
health
responses.
I
wanted
to
fund
more
community-led
safety
programming.
O
I
want
to
manage
initiatives
because
people
have
already
said
that
they
don't
feel
safe
with
the
police
around,
and
I
also
want
us
to
increase
the
youth
budget
to
26
million
dollars
and
I
feel
like
we
should
create
and
protect
the
affordable
housing
that
we
currently
have.
That's
my
demands,
and
I
hope
mr
joe
miller
will
can
also
listen
to
me.
Thank
you.
Q
P
P
Q
Q
Q
As
for
myself,
I
can't
thank
smart
from
the
start
enough
for
helping
me
with
my
social
and
emotional
well-beings.
It
was
in
a
time
when
my
I
had
to
talk
about
my
son.
It
was
with
smart
with
my
divorce.
It
was
with
smart
as
now
as
a
family
leader
for
the
mattapan
division.
I
take
my
full
role
seriously
to
help
other
parents
to
come
on
out
to
join
this
amazing
family
and
to
get
rid
of
the
stigma
that
we
face
on
a
daily
basis.
Q
Overall,
they
help
improve
my
family
access
to
a
better
home,
better
education
and
presently
to
be
the
best
mom
to
my
three
sons
raising
in
this
area.
There
are
lots
more
family,
like
mines
across
boston
who
need
the
same
services.
That's
smart
from
the
starts
provide
and
then
in
so
means
I
am
asking
you
guys
please
just
to
in
so
means.
I'm
asking
you
guys
to
consider
smart
from
the
start.
As
part
of
your
funding,
smart
has
received
the
same
amount
of
funding
from
the
city
of
boston
for
the
last
14
years.
Q
Despite
growing
tremendously
as
an
organization,
we
are
asking
for
an
increase
to
reach
more
families.
Please
refer
to
the
writing,
testimony
that
was
submitted
from
smart
from
the
start
about
the
programs
and
all
the
different
activities
that
we
offered.
Thank
you
for
your
time
and
all
that
you
do
on
behalf
of
children
and
families
like
mine
in
and
around
the
city
of
boston,.
A
R
Welcome,
thank
you,
hello.
My
name
is
mr
adan.
I'm
part
of
yjpu
and
I
live
in
district
7.
in
2022
in
2020
mayor
michelle
wu
committed
to
cutting
the
police
budget
by
10
percent
down
to
370
million
dollars
in
2021.
She
committed
to
reinvesting
police
funding
in
the
community
and
agreed
in
a
youth
forum
that
we
should
decrease
the
number
of
officers,
but
now
she's
only
cutting
the
budget
to
396
million,
and
there
will
be
more
police
officers.
R
This
makes
me
feel
upset
because,
if
mayor
will
promise
something,
she
should
fulfill
her
promise
cutting
the
budget
by
less
than
one
percent,
who
should
keep
her
promise
and
stay
by
her
word.
If
you
are
going
to
make
a
promise
stick
by
it
this
year,
the
city
council
can
pass
the
elements
to
the
budget.
I
urge
the
city
council
to
cut
120
million
from
the
police
budget
and
move
these
funds
to
investments
that
actually
keep
the
community
safe
and
healthy.
R
This
includes
mental
health
response,
youth
jobs
and
affordable
housing
and
having
an
office
for
construction
details.
Investing
money
into
youth
jobs
gives
you
much
more
opportunities
for
them
to
be
engaged
in
their
community,
realizing
responsibility,
money
and
time
management,
but
also
having
them
realize
the
importance
of
responsibilities.
Thank
you
very
much.
R
R
A
P
S
S
S
Sure
the
mayor's
currently
funding
12.6
million
and
we're
trying
to
get
that
up
to
26
million,
which
would
actually
fund
the
number
of
jobs
that
the
mayor
has
said.
She
wants
to
do
also
definitely
agree
that
over
time,
both
needs
to
be
cut
in
this
year's
budget
as
a
way
to
get
money
for
reinvesting
in
things
as
well
as
long-term.
Some
some
more
serious
reforms,
it's
possible
to
get
the
police
to
cut
it
now,
but
there's
more,
but
also
the
number
of
positions
right
now.
S
S
For
example,
there's
10
more
mobile
officers,
there's
more
k-9
officers
bomb
squad
officers.
We
could
really
cut
down
the
number
of
positions
as
well
as
over
time,
also
hoping
that
some
counselors
will
introduce
an
amendment
to
fully
fund
a
community
mental
health
response.
The
mayor's
appointed
a
group
working
on
that,
but
there
needs
to
be
money
to
go
behind
that
as
well
as
making
sure
that
none
of
the
79
million
dollars
in
collective
bargaining
reserves
is
used
to
retroactively,
increase
the
police
budget
when
folks
have
been
working
hard
to
decrease
it.
A
T
Hello,
sorry,
I
was
having
some
trouble
with
audio
there.
Thank
you.
My
name
is
mario
paredes,
I'm
a
resident
of
west
roxbury
in
district
6..
I
also
work
in
the
city
of
boston
as
a
civil
rights
attorney
in
defense,
in
support
of
immigrants
across
the
state.
It's
imperative
that
mayor
wu
and
the
city
councilors
divest
120
million
from
the
400
billion
police
budget,
including
a
real
cap
on
overtime
spending.
T
Those
120
million
should
instead
be
invested
into
projects
that
strengthen
communities
such
as
community
mental
health
response
teams,
youth
jobs,
affordable
housing
and
an
office
for
construction
details.
Further
boston
should
freeze
all
hiring
for
the
boston
police.
As
an
attorney,
I
often
get
behind
the
scenes.
Look
at
the
ways
that
police
interactions
disproportionately
harm,
low-income
residents
and
people
of
color.
These
community
members
are
burdened
with
heightened
surveillance
and
harassment
often
results
in
punitive
measures
such
as
cumbersome
fees,
jail
time
and
possible
immigration.
Consequences
that
drive
these
communities
further
into
poverty.
T
For
too
long
policing,
police
budgets
have
functioned
as
an
endless
hamster
wheel
that
fails
to
address
root
causes
of
community
harm.
The
issues
that
policing
tends
to
solve
through
surveillance
and
criminalization
stem
from
underfunding
of
other
support
systems
and
each
dollar
applied
towards
policing
is
a
dollar
taken
away
from
direct
community
investment.
I
will
go
out
on
a
limb
here
and
guess
that
most
of
our
budgets
at
home
look
nothing
like
the
boston
budget.
T
We
probably
invest
most
of
our
personal
money
on
housing,
food,
transportation,
education,
health
and
recreation,
because
we
know
those
are
the
drivers
of
healthy
and
vibrant
homes
for
ourselves,
our
children,
our
parents
and
our
loved
ones.
Imagine
living
in
a
home
where
one
of
the
largest
line
items
was
security
and
punishment.
Imagine
thinking
that
each
year
you
have
to
give
up
the
largest.
T
You
have
to
give
up
more
of
your
paycheck
towards
security
when
your
children
are
suffering
from
lack
of
nutrition
or
your
parents
or
health
is
deteriorating
or
your
rent
is
increasing.
That
is
not
the
type
of
home
most
of
us
would
want
to
live
in.
Yet,
as
a
city,
that's
exactly
what
we
are
doing
yesterday
as
I
was
driving
through
hyde
park,
I
counted
six
police
officers
on
foot
within
a
four
block
radius.
Four
of
them
were
directing
traffic.
Two
of
them
were
standing
off
to
the
side,
probably
alternating
with
their
colleagues.
T
An
additional
police
car
happened
to
be
driving
in
front
of
me
stuck
in
traffic
and
decided
to
cut
ahead
of
the
car
in
front
of
them
and
run
a
red
light,
a
move
that
would
have
resulted
in
at
least
a
fine
for
any
of
the
civilians
who
were
also
in
traffic.
A
few
blocks
from
there
was
a
man
experiencing
homelessness
where
we
invest.
Our
money
says
a
lot
about
our
priorities
and
I
hope
that
boston
reinvest
money
where
most
matters.
Thank
you.
So
much.
A
Thank
you
so
much
attorney
paredes.
I
appreciate
your
advocacy
and
your
work.
If
you
shall
need
any
follow-up,
please
email
me!
Thank
you.
That
is
everyone
we
have
signed
up.
We
do
see
someone
logged
in
as
yjpu,
so,
if
you
wish
to
testify,
please
raise
your
hand
your
zoom
hand,
so
that
we
can
allow
you
in.
A
U
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
for
conducting
this
meeting.
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
for
the
important
work
that
you're
doing
being
available
tonight.
Listening
to
the
concerns
of
residents
across
the
city,
informative
discussion
from
firm
residents,
I
also
want
to
say
thank
you
to
city
council,
central
staff
for
helping
coordinates
tonight
tonight's
meeting
as
well,
and
to
attorney
michelle
goldberg.
A
V
V
V
V
W
Hello,
my
name
is
shannon
malloy
and
I
am
recording
a
testimony
for
presentation
during
the
city
council
legislation
meeting
on
june,
2nd
public
testimony.
So
a
couple
of
things
I
just
wanted
to
pledge
support
for
are
the
crane,
ledge
woods
project,
it's
an
important
project
to
preserve
inland
urban
wild
land
and
also
essential
greenscape
in
environmental
justice
communities,
and
so
we
I'd
like
to
recommend
an
increased
commitment
in
natural
woodland,
urban
tree
canopy,
which
will
impact
heat
and
flooding
and
other
impacts
of
climate
change.
W
And
so
I
would
like
to
support
that.
The
budget
supports
the
purchase
of
this
area
of
land.
I'd
also
like
to
support
staffing
for
the
building
emissions
reduction
and
disclosure
ordinance.
It's
an
extremely
important
and
widely
celebrated
achievement.
It's
going
to
hold
big
buildings
accountable
for
their
large
contribution
to
climate
change,
but
these
goals
won't
happen.
If
there's
not
enough
staff
in
eeos
to
track
the
emissions
calculate
the
data,
support,
building
owners
as
a
transition
and
ensure
that
enforcement
occurs.
W
I'd
also
like
to
advocate
for
bps
retrofits,
so
advocating
for
more
money
being
allocated
towards
deep
retrofitting
and
non-fossil
fuel
based
hvac
for
bps
schools,
also
retrofitting
for
housing,
and
also
more
funds
allocated
towards
new
homeowner
acquisition
opportunities
and
establishment
of
anti-displacement
areas.
So.
A
All
right,
that's
all
of
the
people
that
we
have
signed
up
for
today.
I'd
like
to
thank
you
to
thank
everyone
for
your
testimony,
just
a
brief
summary
or
summary
of
what
or
update
of
what
has
been
happening.
Thus
far
in
the
budget
process,
we
have
held
close
to
approximately
28
hearings
or
close
to
that
and
on
different
departments
and
basically
departments
come
in
and
we've
talked
to
them.
We've
asked
questions.
A
We've
held
work
in
sessions
where
we
discuss
the
different
ideas
or
questions
or
concerns
or
suggestions
that
we
have.
We
moved
into
the
working
sessions
where
we
would
apply
our
amendments
and
then
we
next
in
the
following
week.
We
will
present
to
the
administration
or
the
mayor's
office,
our
amendment
recommendations
and
we
she
will
have,
or
the
administration
will
have
one
week
to
reach
respond.
A
Meanwhile,
we
are
basically
almost
at
the
conclusion
of
the
budget
process.
If
you
have
any
other
inputs.
I
welcome
you
to
send
any
emails
either
to
myself
or
attorney
goldberg
for
ways
means
committee
and
where's.
We,
we
would
certainly
read
and
put
them
into
record
and
for
considerations.
I
encourage
you
to
continue
to
advocate
and
to
contact
us
to
write
us
and
to
lobby
us
and
look
forward
to
giving
you
any
updates.
A
Our
console
hearing
next
council
hearing,
of
course,
is
on
wednesdays,
where,
where
we
will
vote
on
the
recommended
amendments
and
you're
welcome
to
attend
to
that
as
well.
So
if
I
look
forward
to
I
look
forward
to
so,
if
you
have
any
additional
remarks
again,
any
statements
if
you'd
like
to
contact
me
feel
free
to,
and
I
look
forward
to
talking
with
each
and
every
one
of
you.
A
I
thank
you
and
I'd
like
to
thank
my
counselor
colleague,
president
council,
president
flynn,
from
district
two,
who
is
always
supportive
and
always
present
and
advocating,
and
I'd
like
to
thank
every
single
one
of
you
who
testified
today
again.
So
many
strong
positions
and
advocacy
great
work
in
the
community
and
again
I
look
forward
to
working
with
each
and
every
single
one
of
you.