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Ways & Means Hearing-Dockets #0760-0768 FY24 Budget: Age Strong, Women's Advancement, and Office of Early Childhood
A
A
A
For
the
record,
my
name
is
Tanya
Financial
Anderson,
the
district
7
City
councilor
I
am
the
chair
of
the
Boston
city
council
committee
on
ways
and
means
his
hearing
is
being
recorded.
It
is
being
live
streamed
at
boston.gov
forward,
slash
City,
Dash,
Council,
Dash
TV,
the
broadcasts
and
broadcasts
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.
A
We
strongly
encourage
residents
to
take
a
moment
to
engage
in
this
process
by
giving
public
testimony
for
the
record.
You
can
do
this
in
several
ways
attend
one
of
our
hearings
and
give
public
testimony.
We
will
take
public
testimony
at
each
departmental
hearing
and
also
adhering
dedicated
to
public
testimony.
A
A
If
I'm,
not
if
I'm
not
mistaking
it's
going
to
be
at
the
First
Parish
Church
in
community,
you
can
give
testimony
in
person
here
in
the
chamber
or
virtually
via
Zoom
for
in-person
Testimony.
Please
come
to
the
chamber
and
sign
up
on
the
sheet
near
the
entrance
for
virtual
testimony.
You
can
sign
up
using
our
online
form
on
our
Council
budget
review
website
or
by
emailing
the
committee
at
ccc.wm
boston.gov,
when
you
are
called
to
testify.
A
Please
state
your
name,
an
affiliation
or
residence
and
limit
your
comments
to
two
minutes
to
ensure
that
our
comments,
All
comments
and
concerns
can
be
heard.
Email
written
test,
your
written
testimony
to
the
committee
at
CCC,
dot,
WM
boston.gov,
submit
a
two-minute
video
of
your
testimony
through
the
Forum
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
forward,
slash
Council,
Dash
budget.
Today's
hearing
is
on.
A
A
A
A
Is
it
Alejandra
Valdez
director
office
of
women's
advancement,
oh
she's,
not
here
yet.
A
Thank
you,
commissioner.
Shea
and
Kristen
McSwain
director
office
of
early
childhood
I
am
joined
today
by
my
colleagues
counselor
at
large
Aaron
Murphy
council
president
Flynn
and
counselor
Liz
Braden.
A
For
our
format
for
this
here
and
also
joined
we're
joined
here
today
by
councilor
Julia
Mejia
at
Large.
A
For
our
format,
today,
we
will
First
Take,
just
30.
Second
30.
A
30
seconds
opening
statements
for
my
Council
for
my
Council
colleagues,
then
I'll
turn
to
the
administration.
Each
person
about
10
minutes.
Then
we'll
go
straight
to
round
one
of
questioning.
Each
Council
will
receive
five
minutes.
Then
two
public
testimony
and
back
to
round
two.
What
we'll
do
for
just
to
keep
the
conversation
cohesive?
We
will
do
each
department
and
hopefully
narrow,
that
to
an
hour
each
department
and
wrap
it
up.
A
If
we
are
able
to
be
done
with
your
department,
then
you
can
be
relieved
or
dismissed
from
this
hearing
without
further
Ado
I'll
go
to.
In
order
of
arrival.
Go
to
my
Council
colleagues
for
opening
statements,
councilor
Murphy,
you
have
the
floor.
B
Thank
you
chair
and
thank
you
to
these
three
departments.
I
would
arguably
say
three
of
the
most
important
departments
in
the
city.
We're
going
to
be.
You
know
talking
today
about
advocating
for
not
just
our
youngest
but
our
oldest
and
then
also
women
and
who
we
saw
during
covid
the
percentages
of
women
who
had
to
quit
their
jobs
because
we
found
out
that
they
couldn't
juggle
working
and
taking
care
of
their.
B
You
know
their
young
children
when
daycares
were
shot
or
the
homeschooling
that
extended
you
know
another
year
in
Boston
and
then
also
taking
care
of
their
elderly
parents,
which
is
a
growing
population.
So
here
to
support
all
the
work
you
do
and
we'll
looking
forward.
Also
to
talking
with
you
know,
Alexander
Valdez
I
know
that
The
Early
Childhood
was
part
of
her
department
and
we
did
speak
a
few
weeks
ago
about
how
you
know
as
we
grow
like
and
I.
B
Think
of,
like
the
lgbtq
advancement
when
you
become
your
own
Department,
it's
great,
but
sometimes
it
does
take
away
from
where
you
were
so
to
make
sure
that
we're
fully
funding
the
women
advancement.
At
the
same
time,
we
need
to
continue
your
numbers
are
great
and
the
number
of
children
that
are
increasingly
able
to
get
seats
in
early
childhood
seats
is,
you
know,
needed
and
exciting.
So,
looking
forward
to
this
conversation
and
making
sure
that
we're
advocating
for
fully
funding
all
of
your
departments,
thank
you,
chair.
A
Thank
you,
Council
Murphy
councilor,
president
Flynn.
You
have
four.
C
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
to
the
important
work
you
are
doing.
Madam
chair
age,
strong
does
tremendous
work
with
our
seniors
and
persons
with
disabilities
ensuring
that
they
have
the
resources
needed
to
live
in
aids
with
dignity
in
this
city
and
should
be
treated
with
respect.
It's
great
to
be
with
you,
commissioner.
Shea
I
have
a
large
number
of
seniors
in
my
district.
I
have
deep
respect
for
the
work
that
the
staff
at
age
strong
is
doing
every
day
in
our
city,
including
weekends.
C
They
work
hard,
they're
professional
office
of
women
advancement,
indispensable
part
of
our
city
in
Department.
They
are
a
critical
part
of
our
Workforce,
yet
oftentimes
of
a
woman
workers
face
pay
and
equities.
The
U.S
Department
of
Labor
estimates
that,
on
average
woman
working
full-time
year-round,
I
paid
83
percent
of
what
men
are
paid.
This
inequity
is
even
greater
for
Black
and
Hispanic
woman
office
of
early
early
childhood
education.
C
Child
Care
is
critical
issue
for
so
many
families,
Child
Care
is
very
expensive
in
our
city
in
spots,
fill
up
quick
quickly
because
of
child
care.
Many
women
also
end
up
staying
at
home
to
care
for
their
children,
which
also
impacts
their
professional
life
and
pay.
I
have
specific
questions
on
each
of
these
three
departments,
but
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
important
work
these
leaders
play
in
running
and
managing
their
Department
effectively
and
working
with
residents
across
the
city
and
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
these
wonderful
and
dedicated
professional
city
employees.
A
President,
we
are
having
technical
difficulties
with
our
televisions.
So
if
you
don't
have
your
paper
copies,
we
have
them
ready
for
you
and
you
can
follow
them
physically
and
just
instruct
our
Tech
director
to
go
to
the
next
slide.
Do
you
would
you
like
for
me
to
provide
you
with
those
copies
or
do
you
have
them.
D
A
Okay,
commissioner,
needs
a
copy.
E
A
A
F
Madam,
chair
I'll,
keep
it
brief
in
the
interest
of
time.
Thank
you
all
for
being
here
this
morning.
I
know
that
the
work
that
we
do
for
our
families,
our
elders
and
our
seniors
right,
seniors
and
children
right
across
the
lifespan,
is
critically
important
to
how
our
city
is
able
to
work
and
our
Workforce
stability.
F
Our
older
women
are
particularly
vulnerable
because
they
have
had
broken
employment
histories
because
they're
they're,
the
folks
that
take
time
away
for
their
job
to
do,
take
care
of
Elders
and
to
raise
children,
and
we
are
one
of
my
big
concerns-
is
really
just
looking
at
housing.
The
housing
challenges
of
our
older
population
I
know.
That's,
maybe
not
what
we're
going
to
talk
about
today,
but
I
want
to
raise
it
as
a
very
important
issue
that
we
need
to
pay
some
attention
to
all
of
these
different
issues.
F
Intersect
or
access
to
Affordable,
Health
Care
is
critically
important.
Support
for
our
elders
and
the
housing
issue
may
be.
You
know
that
they're
all
there
are
a
lot
of
our
elders-
are
retired,
they're,
living
on
a
fixed
income,
now
they're,
not
able
they're
and
maybe
living
in
more
house
than
they
need,
but
there's
nowhere
for
them
to
go.
F
We
are
not
creating
enough
housing,
that's
affordable
for
for
those
middle
class,
sort
of
retirees
who
need
to
move
into
a
smaller
place,
but
there's
nothing
available
that
within
their
communities
and
that
and
really
that
cohesion
of
community
and
how
people
stay
together
and
support
each
other
is
critically
important.
So
just
want
to
raise
that
issue
is
a
really
really
critical
concern
all
across
the
city,
but
we
see
it
in
in
my
district
in
District.
F
Nine
I
also
want
to
thank
you
for
the
great
work
we
are
pushing
the
envelope
in
the
child
care
space
and
in
the
and
age
strong
has
been
pivotal
in
really
supporting
our
elders
during
covert
and
now
we're
emerging
from
that
that
situation.
Thankfully,
it's
strong
provided
a
lifeline
for
folks
who
were
isolated
Elders
during
the
during
the
covert
pandemic,
and
I
really
appreciate
all
that
great
work,
and
you
know
I'm
really
interested
to
hear
what
I
have
to
say
and
strategize
about
how
we
can
move
forward.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
G
Morning,
chair
good
morning,
everyone
happy
to
be
here
with
you
all
I'm,
looking
forward
to
listening
and
learning
just
wanted
to
uplift
a
few
things.
G
What
I'd
like
to
lean
into
in
regards
to
age,
strong
or
two
very
specific
issues
around
parenting,
grandparents
and
the
supports
issues
of
Elders
who
are
on
fixed
incomes
and
really
struggling
to
make
their
ends
meet
and
how
we're
being
an
all-inclusive
type
of
City,
really
supporting
our
lgbtq
plus
Elders
in
regards
to
women's
advancement,
I'm,
really
excited
to
learn
a
little
bit
more
about
the
work
that
you
are
doing.
G
I'm
really
excited
to
see
you
here,
Alex
I
am
curious
more
around
issues
of
when
we
talk
about
advancement,
I
love
to
lean
in
a
little
bit
more
about
like
women
who
are
in
their
second
careers,
who
are
a
little
bit
older,
40
plus
who
struggle
in
the
workplace.
I'd
love
to
hear
kind
of
like
what
we
do.
What
are
we
doing,
too,
help
bridge
that
gap
for
that
a
group
of
women
and
then,
in
terms
of
early
childhood
and
education?
G
So,
as
you
continue
to
expand,
would
love
to
hear
kind
of
your
Outreach
plan
and
how
we
are
engaging
and
reaching
and
getting
that
communication
out
to
folks
that
these
opportunities
exist
because
folks
are
excited,
but
they
don't
know
how
to
navigate
so
we'd
love
to
hear
a
little
bit
more
about
your
timeline.
So
those
are
the
big
ticket
items
for
me
and
thank
you
so
much
for
all
your
hard
work
looking
forward
to
building
alongside
each
of
you.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
Councilman
here
we've
been
joined
by.
A
Miss
Alejandra
Valdez,
who
is
the
executive
director
for
office
of
women's
advancement,
a
quick
disclaimer,
is
that
here
in
City
Hall
our
elevators
are
broken
down,
so
all
of
you
in
at
home,
miss
Valdez
is
timely,
just
had
to
figure
out
how
to
get
to
the
stairs
to
the
fifth
floor.
It's
a
maze
here
and
we
all
know
that.
Thank
you
for
joining
us.
A
I
I
think
I'll
go
to
age
strong
first
and
then
are
we
going
to
Early,
Childhood
or
women's
advancement?
Do
you
have
a
preference
okay
in
that
case,
then
we'll
just
go
in
that
direction.
A
Commissioner,
did
you
want
me
to
acknowledge.
A
We've
been
joined
by
Council
bludgeon
console
Chen
has
fans
here.
Thank
you
for
joining
us,
commissioner.
H
Shea
great,
thank
you
so
much
chairperson,
Fernandez,
Anderson
and
members
of
the
council.
I'm
really
glad
to
be
here
today
to
talk
about
the
age,
strong,
commission,
our
work
and
our
proposed
budget.
Investments
and
I
want
to
wish
everybody
a
happy
older
Americans
month,
because
it's
May
thank
you.
H
So
Boston
Boston's,
older
residents
have
grown
from
88
000
in
2010
to
120
000
folks
today,
and
given
that
the
Leading
Edge
of
baby
boomers
is
only
77
years
old,
our
older
population
will
continue
to
increase
for
many
years
to
come
as
a
city.
We
need
to
respond
to
that.
Demographic
change
and
I
believe
that
this
budget
does
just
that.
H
I
want
to
take
a
minute
before
I
start
to
thank
my
entire
team,
I'm
very
lucky
to
have
the
team
that
I
have
and
I
know
that
and
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
the
older
adults
and
partners
that
we
work
with
Chief
maso
and
the
Human
Services
team,
mayor,
Wu
and,
of
course,
all
of
you.
It
certainly
takes
a
village
to
make
communities
that
we
all
want
to
live
in
and
aging.
So
it's
really
just
all
of
us
working
together.
H
That
makes
a
difference
and
a
very
special
acknowledgment
today
to
my
colleague
and
my
friend,
our
Deputy
Commissioner
of
Finance,
oh
I'm,
getting
a
little
choked
up
Francis
Thomas
who's
here
with
me
today,
after
many
years
with
us
to
age
strong.
This
is
his
last
budget.
Hearing
I
didn't
know:
I'd
get
a
little
choked
up
about
that.
Sorry
about
sorry,
everyone,
but
he's
retiring
next
week,
which
is
fantastic
for
him.
H
H
So
the
h-tron
commission
is
the
city
of
Boston
department
and
Boston's
is
a
city
of
Boston
Department
in
Boston's
Council
on
Aging
and
Area
Agency
on
Aging.
Our
mission
is
to
enhance
the
lives
of
Boston's
older
residents
with
meaningful
programs,
resources
and
connections
so
that
we
can
all
age
strong
in
Boston.
Together
we
have
a
proposed
7.69
million
dollar
operating
budget,
a
27.2
percent
increase
from
previous
years.
We
have
a
total
budget
of
21.28
million
and
just
under
half
of
this
and
I
really
love
this.
H
Just
under
half
about
10
million
dollars
is
given
out
in
contracts
and
grants
to
our
partner
organizations
who
help
to
make
up
Boston's
Aging
Services
Network.
We
provide
Direct
Services
such
as
Transportation
connection
to
aging
and
City
resources,
information
and
benefits
opportunities
to
connect
with
others
and
stay
engaged
and
active
in
community
and
volunteer
programs.
H
We
are
committed
to
an
age
and
dementia
friendly
Boston
and
work
in
partnership
with
others
to
ensure
that
Boston's
systems,
structure,
programs
and
policies
take
our
older
residents
into
account,
and
we
can't
do
this
work
alone,
especially
given
the
diversity
of
Boston's
older
population.
This
next
slide
shows
all
of
our
Community
Partners
that
we
fund,
with
our
federal
title,
III
funding
and
also
now
our
operating
dollars
as
Boston's
Area
Agency
on
Aging.
It's
our
responsibility
to
assess
local
needs
and
craft.
The
city's
plan
for
people
over
the
age
of
60..
H
H
My
team
has
worked
hard
over
the
past
year
and
I'm
very
proud
of
all
that
we've
done.
We
expanded
social
engagement
and
reduced
social
isolation,
opening
a
new
senior
center
in
East
Boston
and
working
with
bcyf
to
begin
regular
senior
programming
at
the
Mildred
in
Mattapan.
In
addition,
we've
started
to
partner
with
the
bcyf
programs
in
Hyde
Park
and
the
North
End
to
increase
programming
in
those
locations.
At
the
end
of
the
last
fiscal
year,
we
reallocated
360
thousand
dollars
to
fund
16
grants
to
community
organizations
who
are
on
that
list.
H
Throughout
this
year,
the
grantees
we
funded
have
been
targeting
underserved
populations
to
socially
engaged
folks
and
reduce
social
isolation,
and
we
are
in
the
process
of
reviewing
applications
to
issue
our
next
set
of
grants
in
this
area.
We
also
expanded
our
work
in
mental
health
and
wellness.
We
launched
a
behavioral
health
unit
to
provide
assessment,
brief
intervention
and
connection
to
long-term
resources
and
supports
for
older
adults.
H
The
team
also
is
coordinating
workshops
and
groups
to
enhance
mental
health
and
mental
health
and
wellness
of
our
older
residents.
In
addition
to
that,
we
engaged
a
consultant
to
help
us
plan
for
the
future
of
our
work
and
are
in
the
process
of
making
Community
grants
to
organizations
to
partner
with
us
in
serving
the
behavioral
health
needs
of
our
older
residents.
H
We're
partnering
with
a
consultant
to
help
us
create
a
city
of
Boston
plan
for
our
hoarding
disorder.
This
is
a
significant
and
yet
challenging
issue,
often
impacting
housing
stability,
and
it
needs
a
comprehensive
approach
with
a
mental
health
component.
So
we're
grateful
to
be
able
to
move
this
work
forward
and
our
team
is
working
hard
to
end
the
public
health
emergency,
helping
older
adults
with
Mass
health
and
snap,
we're
focused
on
economic
security
and
undoing
everything
that
we
possibly
can
to
partner
across
departments
and
help
our
older
residents
make
ends
meet.
H
And
we're
very
excited
about
the
year
to
come
in
our
budget
Investments.
So,
first
of
all,
we
have
been
working
with
the
administration
to
finalize
a
reorganization
and
have
completed
a
class
in
comp
review
in
this
budget.
There
is
funding
for
a
department
structure
that
will
support
all
the
work
that
we
need
to
and
hope
to
accomplish,
including
some
new
staff
positions.
H
Our
job
descriptions
now
appropriately
reflect
the
work
that
people
are
doing
and,
most
importantly,
we
have
worked
with
Ohr
to
review
and,
if
necessary,
re-grade
all
of
our
jobs,
so
that
our
salary
scales
are
reflective
of
the
important
work
that
our
team
is
doing.
We
also
have
an
investment
in
this
budget
focused
on
the
Direct
Care
Workforce
direct
care
workers
are
critical
to
keeping
older
adults
where
they
want
to
be
in
their
homes
and
in
their
neighborhoods.
H
But
there
are
many
Workforce
challenges,
including
Recruitment
and
wages
and
benefits.
The
city
has
done
incredible
things
around
the
child
care,
Workforce
I
know,
Kristin
is
going
to
speak
to
that
and
we
hope
to
expand
our
impact
across
the
lifespan.
This
investment
will
help
us
identify
what
we
can
do
as
a
city
to
support
the
Direct
Care
Workforce
and
will
fund
a
pilot
program
so
that
we
can
have
immediate
impact
in
this
area.
H
In
addition,
this
budget
proposal
heeds
the
call
of
our
older
residents
from
across
the
city
for
more
dedicated
space
and
programming
for
their
age
group.
We
know
this
is
extremely
important,
as
social
isolation
has
the
same
health
impact
as
smoking
15
cigarettes
a
day
and
the
pandemic
was
particularly
isolating
for
this
age
group.
The
antidote
to
isolation
is
programming
and
a
space
for
making
Community
connections.
H
I
know
that
the
older
adults
of
West
Roxbury
have
been
especially
urgent
in
their
request
for
a
senior
center
and
as
a
strong
commissioner
I
think.
It's
really
important
that
our
older
residents
are
able
to
advocate
for
the
resources
that
they
need
to
live
our
best
lives,
but
we
know
that
West
Roxbury
is
far
from
the
only
neighborhood
that
has
raised
space
and
programming
as
an
issue
in
the
last
year
alone,
I
and
I.
H
Think,
probably
many
of
you
have
also
heard
from
older
adults
in
Roxbury
in
Mattapan,
the
North
End,
the
West
End
Hyde
Park
Roslindale
Jamaica
Plain,
that
they
too
see
an
urgent
need
for
dedicated
space
and
additional
programming
for
seniors
in
their
neighborhoods,
and
we
need
to
think
about
specific
populations
as
well.
Are
we
doing
the
programming
that
we
need
to
do
for
our
populations
that
speak
a
second
language
for
our
lgbtq
plus
population?
So
there's
a
lot
of
work
that
needs
to
be
done
in
this
area.
H
H
In
addition,
we
will
continue
work
started
this
year
by
working
more
intentionally
with
our
sister
agencies
in
the
Human
Services
cabinet.
In
fy24,
bcyf
has
over
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
senior
programming
in
their
budget
and
together
we
will
make
sure
that
community
centers
are
serving
seniors
in
the
neighborhoods
with
unmet
demand,
and
we
will
work
in
Partnership
to
bring
even
more
senior
programming
to
the
libraries
in
the
fy24
library
budget.
There
is
the
first
ever
age,
strong
librarian,
who
will
be
dedicated
to
programming
for
older
people
and
will
be
housed.
H
Second,
our
budget
includes
funding
for
a
city-wide
senior
programming
needs
assessment,
which
will
identify
projected
numbers
of
older
adults
where
they
are
living
and
where
there
might
be
the
need
for
additional
programming.
The
study
will
enable
the
city
to
make
investments
based
on
need,
ensuring
there
is
equity
and
fairness
in
the
process
and
focusing
on
uplifting
the
needs
of
all
of
the
city's
older
adults,
including
those
that
have
been
traditionally
marginalized.
H
It
is
clear
that
investment
is
needed
in
senior
programming,
which
is
not
surprising,
giving
our
aging
population
I
actually
think
the
Baby
Boomers
have
changed
every
every
place,
they've
gone
through
right
as
they've
aged
and
as
a
city.
We
need
to
heed
this
call,
but
I
strongly
believe
that
taking
a
neighborhood
by
neighborhood
approach
to
this
need
will
result
in
Greater
inequities
and
lead
to
a
costly
duplicative
process
that
increases
cost
for
the
city
as
well
as
increased
time
and
opportunity
costs.
In
addition
to
examining
programming
needs.
H
This
assessment
that
we've
proposed
could
also
identify
where
additional
space
may
be
required
to
meet
projected
needs.
So
many
many
exciting
things
to
come
and
I
want
to.
Thank
you
all
for
your
support
of
our
office
and
for
our
older
residents,
you're,
all
so
good
around
that
we
look
forward
to
continuing
our
work
in
partnership
with
all
of
you
and
with
Boston's
older
residents
and
I'd,
be
happy
to
take
any
questions
that
you
have.
Thank
you.
A
Commissioner
I'd
like
to
ask
my
Council
colleagues
if
they
feel
the
need
to
break
down
the
budget
in
a
secondary
presentation
from
our
budget
analyst
or,
if
not,
we'll,
just
proceed
by
show
of
hands.
Yes,
you
sure:
do
you
want
a
copy?
A
You
have
it
with
you?
Yes,
yeah
I'll
vote.
It
sorry,
all
right,
all
right!
So
we'll
go
to
our
first
round
of
questions.
Council
Murphy!
You
have
the
five
minutes
for
your
question.
Thank.
B
You
and
thank
you
for
your
service
to
the
city.
Congratulations
on
your
retirement.
You
clearly
will
be
missed.
Yes,
big
shoes
to
fill,
but
thank
you
and
thank
you
Emily.
For
that.
You
know
a
lot
of
things
you
touched
on.
I
know
we
just
want
to
continue
to
uplift.
One
of
the
things
I
hear
a
lot
about
is
the
transportation
piece.
B
So
maybe,
if
we
could
talk
about
making
sure
that
we
do
have
enough
in
the
budget
or
we're
connecting
with
MBTA
or
other
services
to
make
sure
that
our
seniors
are
able
to
get
to
the
events.
I
know
sometimes
like
the
senior
shuttle
in
South,
Boston
and
other
places.
Communities
have
stepped
up
to
support,
which
is
great
and
needed,
but
just
making
sure
that
we're
putting
enough
money
and
resources
to
the
transportation
part
would.
H
Sure
sure
so
I
can
I
can
speak
to
that
a
little
bit
so
I.
You
know
we
probably
will
never
have
enough
money
in
the
budget
to
get
everybody
where
they
need
to
go
all
the
time,
but
we
right
now
we
have
21
driver
positions
right.
We
have
one
unfilled.
H
Currently
we
have
done
some
work
over
the
years
and
we
have
a
lot
more
planned
to
do
around
our
shuttle
and
we
actually
have
a
woman
who's
going
to
come
in
and
help
us
to
look
at
some
of
our
transportation.
Just
before
the
pandemic.
We
implemented
new
scheduling
software
and
we
think
that
this
new
scheduling
software
can
help
us
be
more
efficient
with
our
scheduling
and
our
our
program.
So
as
we
kind
of
come
out,
post
post
covid
we'll
be
looking
at
how
we
more
fully
utilize
that
software.
H
In
addition,
we
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
want
to
expand
the
number
of
places
that
we're
driving.
So
right
now
we
prioritize
medical
rides,
but
we
know
that
there
are
lots
of
other
types
of
rides
that
are
really
important
as
well,
and
actually
that
social
engagement
rides
have
a
huge
impact
on
on
folks
Health
as
well,
and
so
we're
going
to
be
looking
at
potentially
seeking
outside
funding,
potentially
from
health
and
health
and
hospitals
to
cover
some
of
the
medical
rides
that
we're
doing
in
an
attempt
to
expand
in
other
ways.
B
But
I
would
like
to
say
lots
of
work
in
that
area
too,
but
I'm
glad
to
hear
that
you're
like
thinking
about
it
and
then
maybe
leaning
on
our
hospitals
or
community
centers,
to
help
with
those
rides
that
would
free
up
because
I
do
hear-
and
you
mentioned
which
we
all
know
here-
that
isolation
at
all
age
groups.
But
it
is
a
health,
a
negative
health
impact
on
our
seniors
and
getting
them
out
into
events.
B
I
know
they're
very
when
I
see
them
at
events,
they're
very
happy
to
be
gathering
and
there
so
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
able
to
transport
if
needed
is
important
and
you
did
speak
about
you
know
the
different
neighborhood
needs.
B
West
Roxbury
has
the
most
seniors,
but
not
really
a
question,
but
just
do
appreciate
that
we're
keeping
that
lens
of
making
sure
that
we're
looking
at
every
neighborhood
across
the
city
and
seniors
who
may
not
in
communities
that
may
not
be
or
even
know
to
speak
up
that
you
know,
there's
a
population
that
we
need
to
make
sure
we're
advocating
for
in
the
programming.
I
know
that
myself
and
others
advocated
in
the
Opera
funds
to
have
programming
for
seniors
specifically,
but
making
sure
that
that
continues
that
it's
not
just
an
opera.
B
You
know
that
we're
continuing
to
put
the
programming
into
our
budgets.
You
know
when
it
was
the
memory
Cafe
over
at
Grove
fall
last
week
was
great
with
the
seniors,
and
you
talked
about
you
know:
Barbara
quicklow's
programming
at
that,
so
just
making
sure
we're
expanding
our
programming
into
our
bcyf
centers,
which
were
always
built
in
mind
of
the
intergenerational,
not
just
our
teens
or
our
youth,
but
they
were
built
to
make
sure
our
seniors
also
had
places
to
gather.
So
just
looking
forward
to
supporting
you
in
that.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
chair.
That's.
A
B
C
Thank
you,
madam
chair
I
have
maybe
one
question.
One
comment
to
commissioner
Shea.
We
have
seen
over
the
last
several
years.
Scams
that
are
targeting
our
seniors.
Unfortunately,
seniors
are
getting
calls
on
the
telephone,
even
pretending,
to
be
a
senior's
loved
one.
As
you
know,
asking
asking
for
money.
C
Some
seniors
have
gone
up
to
the
bank
as
in
and
taken
out
cash
and
sent
cash
to
someone
that
they
thought
was
a
loved
one,
but
really
was
a
person
trying
to
scam
a
senior
very
discouraging,
very
probably
the
worst
worst
possible
thing
you
could
do
to
someone
especially
a
senior
on
fixed
income
is
to
steal
their
money.
C
I
know,
you're
working
on
this
I
know
you've
had
programs
on
this
in
the
past.
What
what
are
you
focused
on
in?
What
is
your
team
doing
about
this
challenge
facing
many
seniors.
H
Yeah,
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
raising
that
council
president
Flynn
I
mean
I
think
that
scams
is
a
huge
issue
in
our
seniority
magazine.
We
make
sure
to
highlight
them
in
in
every
issue
to
highlight
a
different
scam.
I
know
we
also
partner
with
the
Boston
Police
Department.
Their
community
service
officers
do
a
lot
of
presentations
around
scams
and
we
actually
have
in
our
volunteer
programs
our
volunteer
programs
that
we
run
at
the
Americorps
seniors
programs
for
folks
55
and
over.
C
C
H
H
I'm
more
in
Partnership
right,
it's
I
think
that
that's
that's
how
you
get
the
work
done
and
I
would
say.
Not
only
is
it
critical
across
City
departments,
but
the
work
that
we
do
around
food.
We
work
with
a
lot
of
Community
Partners
on
as
well
at
the
large
majority
of
our
federal
older
Americans
act.
H
Dollars
are
actually
dedicated
to
nutrition,
to
the
Meals
on
Wheels
and
Community
Cafe
program,
and
we
work
with
Community
Partners
around
around
those
funds
that
kind
of
come
into
us
and
and
go
out
to
them,
and
we
have
a
funding
and
monitoring
role
around
that,
but,
yes,
very
important
to
work
across
departments.
Thank
you.
C
F
You,
madam
chair
and
thank
you,
president
Flynn,
has
already
asked
some
of
my
questions
with
regard
to
the
scams
and
a
a
really
our
elders
are
so
vulnerable
and,
and
we
have
had
several
instances
of
folks,
you
know
the
idea
of
fishing,
the
the
checks
out
of
the
mailbox
and
people
having
thousands
of
dollars
transferred
out
of
their
bank
accounts.
F
F
You
know
the
extent
of
the
financial
literacy
and
that
program,
because
I
think
we're
increasingly
vulnerable
with
scams,
and
you
know
reverse
mortgage
packages
that
are
sound
too
good
to
be
true
because
they
probably
are
too
good
to
be
true.
And
what
what
extent
we're
able
to
scaffold
that
out
and
the
other
area
that
is
very
prevalent
is,
is
the
community
electricity
aggregation?
F
The
Boston
Community
Choice
program
is
a
very
effective
way
to
lower
your
your
energy
costs
in
the
city,
but
our
elders
and
our
folks
who
English
is
not
the
first
language,
are
very
vulnerable
to
scams
and
I.
Wonder:
are
we
addressing
that
in
in
through
our
work
with
Elders
in
the
neighborhoods
and
then
also
with
regard
to
the
the
rides
I?
Don't
know
just
an
awesome
Brighton
how
men
do
we
have
do?
We
have
a
do.
We
have
a
van
and
what?
What
is
the
use
of
the
utility
of
that?
F
How
many
folks
are
using
it?
That
might
be
a
question
you
can't
answer
today,
but
it's
not
just
medical
appointments,
but
increasingly
our
elders
are
having
to
travel
a
distance
to
get
access
to
Affordable
food.
We
have
food
deserts
in
in
our
city
and
also
Brighton
or,
as
someone
I
think,
congresswoman
Presley
talks
with
food
apartheid.
There's
a
wonderful
Whole
Foods
across
the
street,
but
our
elders
can't
afford
to
buy
there.
F
So
I
know
when
I
go
I've
seen
you
know,
I've
seen
vans
from
Brookline
in
Waltham,
with
her
senior
they're
they're
they're,
bringing
their
seniors
to
Waltham
to
Market
baskets.
So
that's
another
issue
that
we're
really
concerned
about,
because
inevitably
we
need
to
have
affordable
food
in
the
neighborhood
for
our
folks
and
then
also
the
other
issue.
It's
more
of
an
advocacy
issue.
I
think
our
elders,
those
who
are
fortunate
enough
to
own
their
own
homes
very
often
they're,
seeing
an
incredible
increase
in
the
value
of
their
homes
and
they're.
F
Not
the
knock-on
effect
of
that
is
an
increase
in
their
real
estate
taxes,
but
they're
living
on
a
fixed
income
of
I
I've
had
several
cases
recently
of
folks
who
are
living
on
20
to
25
000
they're
in
their
real
estate,
taxes
are
going
up
every
year
and
they're
finding
an
increasingly
difficult
to
make
ends
meet
and
the
consequence
is
as
I
mentioned
earlier.
They
they
don't
have
very
few
options:
their
houses
there's
constantly
under
barrage
of
folks
seeking
to
buy
their
homes,
but
there's
nowhere
in
the
neighborhood
for
them
to
live.
F
If
your
house,
you
know
very
often
they're
living
in
homes
that
they
have
put,
you
know
the
home,
they
haven't
invested,
how
many
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
in
improving
your
home,
but
the
value
has
gone
up
nonetheless,
because
of
our
very
hot
real
estate
market-
and
you
know
it's
an
increasing
source
of
distress
for
those
folks
who
are
fortunate
enough
to
actually
live
and
live
in
their
own
home
in
the
community.
So
those
are
really
just
the
sort
of
top
level
questions
and
you
may
not
have
the
answers
today.
H
But
let
me
let
me
see
what
I
can
do
with
those
all
right,
so
that
I
had
mentioned
the
money
smarts
for
older
adults
program
that
that
we
are
rolling
out
across
the
city.
H
Given
that
covid
covid
really
challenged
I
would
say
our
Americorps
seniors
programs
and
we
are
but
we've
been
building
our
volunteer
core
back
up,
and
so
we
hope
to
do.
You
know
we're
currently
recruiting
if
anyone
out
there
wants
to
be
a
volunteer
and
we
hope
to
do
more
of
those
programs
across
the
city.
H
I
think
it's
really
important,
but
I
will
also
just
flag
that
for
people
that
are
caught
in
scams
or
or
financial
exploitation,
that
there
is
an
elder,
Protective
Services
program
that
we
should
be
reporting
those
cases
to
and
and
so
when
we
send
the
council
information.
We
can
actually
forward
that
information
to
the
council
and
we'd
be
happy
to
talk
more
about
that
program
at
any
time.
But
it's
for
abuse,
neglect,
Financial
exploitation
for
our
older
adults
around
the
Vans.
H
So
if
there's
a
particular
building
that
you
think
would
need
a
ride
to
a
more
affordable
grocery
store,
we
may
be
able
to
arrange
something
like
that
and
again
we're
going
to
be
doing
some
work
over
the
next
year
or
two
to
really
see
if
we
can
expand
the
work
that
we're
doing
with
our
shuttle,
with
some,
hopefully,
external
funds
and
more
efficiency
in
our
in
our
scheduling
and
then
finally,
for
real
estate
taxes,
part
of
the
a
few
things
part
of
the
transfer
tax,
Homeworld
petition
that
I
know
the
council
passed
and
thank
you
for
that
is
a
senior
property
tax
piece
and
so
that
legislation,
if
passed
at
the
State
House,
would
increase
asset
income
level
and
the
amount
of
the
41cl
early
exemption
for
the
senior
circuit
breaker
tax
credit,
which
is
another
fabulous
credit
that
people
should
be
applying
for
I.
H
Think
it's
very
underutilized
out
there.
That
is
a
state
tax
credit.
So
we
need
to
advocate
for
the
state,
with
the
state
for
expanding
eligibility
around
that
I.
Think
the
some
of
the
tax
proposals
at
the
state
level
are
looking
to
double
the
credit,
but
I
haven't
seen
anything
expanding
the
eligibility
for
that
and
then
finally,
I
would
just
remind
folks
that
we
have
a
fabulous
property
tax
work-off
program
that
older
adults
can
take
advantage
of
where
they
can
volunteer
in
a
city
Department.
G
Know
that's
right,
girl
and
I
will
never
let
that
happen.
I
work
too
hard
to
get
up
in
the
seat.
All
right.
So
thank
you,
commissioner.
So
I
just
have
a
few
questions.
I'm
curious
and
counselor
Breeden
has
asked
some
of
my
questions
in
regards
to
the
fixed
income
issues
that
we
know
a
lot
of
our
elders
have
brought
up
to
us.
So
would
love
to
hear
how
you
are
interacting
with
other
departments,
to
help
support
our
elders
when
they
do
reach
out
to
you.
What
does
that
coordination?
G
Look
like
I'm,
just
curious
if
you
can
talk
a
little
bit
about
your
culturally
responsive
programming,
both
for
lgbtq
plus
seniors
and
recent
arrivals.
I
know
that
when
we
think
about
those
who
are
immigrating
to
Boston,
we
usually
just
think
about
younger
parents
and
and
children,
but
we
also
have
Elders
that
are
coming
in
so
I'm
just
curious
about
how
you're
wrapping
your
arms
around
some
of
our
recent
arrivals,
who
are
a
little
bit
older,
I'm
curious.
G
If
you
can
just
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
you
know,
I've
been
hearing
from
some
Elders
around
domestic
violence
issues
and
I'm,
not
sure
if
you
have
heard
of
any
of
that
little
uptick
and
curious
and
I'm
not
sure
how
much
of
it
has
to
do
with
covet.
But
I've
been
hearing
from
some
Elders
who
are
experiencing
domestic
violence
and
I
just
wanted
to
note
that
that
is
something
that
we
want
to
Monitor
and
keep
an
eye
on
and
then
I
would
love
to
know.
G
There
is
a
line
on
the
budget
where
we're
spending
I
believe
I'm,
not
sure
if
it
says
2
million
for
Contract
Services
is
that?
Can
you
just
help
me
understand
what
type
of
Contract
Services
you
are
referring
to
and
there's
a
13
000
allowance
for
clothing?
G
Is
that
accurate
just
want
to
make
sure
that
I
have
that
right?
And
then,
if
you
could
just
tell
me
a
little
bit
more
about
your
collaboration
with
the
Boston
Community
Youth
and
families
community
centers,
which
ones
aside
from
Mildred?
Are
there?
Are
there
others
that
you're
looking
to
expand
and
what
does
that
programming?
Look
like.
H
So
so,
certainly
our
our
collaboration
with
City
departments
around
Economic
Security.
We
have
been
working
with
other
City
departments
to
put
together
an
elder,
a
plan
for
Elder
Financial
Security
that
will
be
rolling
out
over
the
next
few
years.
It's
a
critical
area.
We
have
74
of
our
people
65
and
older
living
alone,
who
can't
make
ends
meet
based
on
their
income
without
accessing
benefits
and
programs
and
40
44
of
our
Elder
couples.
So
we're
very
focused
on
that
area.
H
So
so
I
I
would
say
that
it's
about
what
we
can
do
as
a
city
to
make
some
changes.
So,
for
example,
we
could
there
there's
a
lot
of
different
pieces
to
it
and
I'd
be
happy
to
brief
the
council
at
another
point,
but
in
our
department
will
be
increasing
the
amount
of
work
that
we're
doing
around
benefit
its
enrollment.
H
There's
also
things
that
we
want
to
do
advocacy
work
that
we
want
to
do
around.
You
know
the
property,
tax,
property,
taxes
or
other
ways:
health
insurance,
like
other
costs,
that
we
could
bring
down
for
older
adults,
I
think
in
terms
of
culturally
responsive
programming.
H
We
do
this
in
a
number
of
different
ways,
so,
as
I
said
as
we're
thinking
about
increasing
the
amount
of
programming
across
the
city,
we
are
going
to
be
very
cognizant
of,
and
our
plan
will
take
into
account
what
population,
what
languages
we
need
to
be
providing
programming
in,
as
we
look
across
the
city
and
across
the
neighborhoods
I
think
that's
really
critical.
H
H
So
we
do
some
programming
with
lgbtq
plus
seniors
will
be.
We
have
a
pride
event
that
will
be
coming
up
in
June
that
you
all
will
get
an
invitation
to.
We
don't
have
a
a
date
yet,
but
we
do
a
large
Pride
event
at
the
at.
J
G
Aside
from
programming,
which
I
think
is
really
important,
I'm
just
curious
about
more
deeper
impacts
around
socializing
and
building
relationships
around
lgbtq
plus
seniors
because
they
also
feel
isolated.
So,
aside
from
events,
can
you
talk
to
me
to
me
a
little
bit
more
about
deeper
work
with
that
community.
H
Yeah,
so
so
in
terms
of
deeper
programming
work,
I
only
have
a
programming
staff
of
four
that's
programming
for
the
whole
city,
so
we're
not
doing
very
deep
work.
H
I
would
say
around
around
that
population,
specifically
in
terms
of
programming
we
do
have,
and
we
do
have
a
one
of
our
Advocates
who
is
a
liaison
to
the
lgbtq
plus
community,
and
so
we
are
building
those
bridges
and
making
those
connections
and
making
sure
that
that
population
feels
comfortable
kind
of
accessing
all
of
our
other
programs
and
services
that
are
available
and
linking
into
kind
of
everything
that
we're
doing.
H
We
also
make
sure
that
our
staff
is
specifically
trained
in
being
lgbtq
plus
friendly,
so
that
kind
of
all
of
the
events
and
programs
that
we
do,
hopefully
people
feel
welcome
with
and
and
that
we're
building
those
relationships,
but
I
would
say
for
kind
of
any
population
we're
not
doing
in-depth
ongoing
programming,
because
we
don't
have
that.
The
Staffing
for
thank
you
I
would
for
the
contracted
services
for
the
clothing
line.
We
do
have
some
requirements
in
our
Union
contracts,
for
for
clothing,
right.
K
G
A
Counselor
illusion
you
have
the
floor,
we'll
go
shortly
if
there
are
any.
So
if
there
are
any
people
here
or
on
on
virtually
they
want
to
testify
we'll
go
to
that
next
come
solution.
You
have
four.
L
Thank
you,
madam
chair
I.
Thank
you,
commissioner
Shea
for
your
dedication
to
our
Elder
residents
and
thank
you
director
for
all
of
the
work
that
you
have
given,
and
your
commitment
to
the
city
and
congratulations
on
your
retirement.
I
have
a
clarification
question,
commissioner.
You
said
something
about
per
neighborhood.
Has
the
highest
number
of
seniors
and
I?
Think
I
may
have
missed
the
sentence
that
came
before
that
or
their
neighborhood?
Could
you
just
clarify
just
for
the
records
that
I
haven't?
Yes,.
H
Sure
so
what
I
said
was
West
Roxbury
has
the
highest
percentage
of
seniors
Dorchester,
as
always
has
the
highest
number
of
of
older
adults.
Okay,.
L
Important
distinction.
Thank
you
question
about.
Okay,
and
this
is
also
just
a
general
question.
You
have
your
total
appropriated
budget
at
just
above
6
million
dollars.
When
will
we
know
if
you've
used
that
entire
appropriation,
or
are
you
on
track
to
use
that
entire
appropriation?
Are
you
going
to
come
under?
Will
you
come
right
at
it?
A
little
over.
K
H
So
what
I
would
say
to
that
is
that,
because
we've
been
doing
a
because
we've
been
doing
a
reorganization
and
the
class
and
comp
review
and
re-grading
all
of
our
and
redoing
all
of
our
job
descriptions.
We
have
a
number
of
Staffing
positions
that
are
held
up
by
that
process,
because
that
needs
to
be
implemented
first.
So
because
of
that
we
have
a
number
of
open
staff
positions,
we
have
a
num.
We
have
some
money
that
hasn't
been
spent.
H
Because
of
that,
however,
we
are,
we
have
done
some
work
to
kind
of
get
that
back
so,
for
example,
we're
funding
our
expanding
engagement
grants
that
we're
currently
doing.
We
have
360
000
that
will
be
going
out
in
community
grants.
That
will
be.
That
was
not
in
our
budget,
but
we'll
be
utilizing
that
we're
able
to
utilize
because
of
the
the
unspent
funds
so.
L
I
asked
because
your
budget
request
increase,
which
I
really
like,
but
I,
always
want
to
make
sure
that
you
are
using,
what's
been
appropriated
to
you,
so
that
we
could
be
the
fiscal
stewards
that
we're
supposed
to
be
in
in
and
and
and
have
the
correct
oversight,
and
so
I
I
just
want
to
say
that
I
am
encouraged
by
the
increase,
especially
regarding
programming,
the
increase
of
nearly
50.
As
you
know,
in
last
year's
budget,
especially
with
respect
to
arpa,
my
office
fought
for
additional
funding
for
active
senior
programming.
L
H
Sure
so
so
we
have
not
spent
all
of
those
funds,
and-
and
a
piece
of
that
is
a
piece
of
that-
is
that
we,
our
director
position
for
our
events
and
programs,
is,
is
currently
vacant
and
will
be
filled
after
it's
re-graded.
H
But
but
we
have
started
a
bunch
of
planning
work
around
that
which
we're
really
excited
about.
So
we
have
a
number
of
programs
that
are
about
to
launch
across
the
city.
We
are
are
doing
a
number
of
different
programs
in
Hyde
Park.
H
We
at
the
Hyde
Park
Community
Center
there
I'm
looking
for
my
page,
because
I
actually
brought
that
information
and
I
think
I'm,
not
finding
it.
It's.
L
Okay,
commissioner
I'm
I'm
I
I'm,
just
again
I,
should
have
sent
you
an
email
but
I'm
going
to
make
a
formal
request
to
the
chair
that
you
give
us
an
accounting
of
of
that
money
of
the
balance
and
how
much
has
been
spent
just
so
that
we,
we
know
and
I
know
that
you
have
a
longer
a
longer
tale
to
spend
that
money,
which
is
great
so
we're
not
under
the
same
time
pressure
as
we
are,
but
I'd
like
to
get
an
accounting
just
so
that
we
know
when
we
could
talk
to
the
really
the
elders,
our
Elder
residents
at
Foley,
building
in
Dorchester,
the
ones
who
brought
this
to
my
attention
and
made
us
advocate
for
it
so
I'd
like
to
give
them
and
counting
of
what
their
advocacy
did.
L
And
so
it
would
appreciate
an
update
from
you
and
so
I
guess
connected
to
that
question
is
there's
going
to
be
a
significant
expansion
because
of
an
increased
budget
and,
like
my
colleagues
have
stated-
and
we've
heard
a
lot
of
advocacy
from
our
lgbtq
plus
Elders,
especially
around
virtual
programming,
so
more
assistance
there
and
a
lot
of
attention,
especially
to
our
Elder
migrant
immigrant
populations.
I
think
is
really
important
as
well.
L
Think
councilor
Braden
spoke
to
something
that
my
office
has
been
really
interested
in
and
Council
Braden
has
been
in
on
well
as
well
our
seniors
who
we
want
to
age
in
place
with
dignity,
but
for
whatever
reason,
can't
pay
the
property
taxes
or
don't
have
someone
to
pass
the
property
on
to
working
with
Community
Land
Trust
as
a
way
to
transition
ownership
or
to
think
of
alternative
models
for
ownership,
so
that
our
elders
can
age
in
place,
and
so
we
can
protect
our
communities
from
gentrification.
L
I've
heard
that
from
a
number
of
Elders
who
don't
even
know
that
there's
a
there's
a
third
option,
you
don't
have
to
call
back
a
developer
that
is
constantly
sending
you
letters
or
calling
your
home
like
they're
doing
to
my
parents,
all
the
time
to
sell,
sell,
sell.
There
are
alternatives
and
I
just
want
us
to
be
more
intentional.
It's
a
lot
for
your
office
that
isn't
really
just
about
housing,
but
at
the
Nexus
of
the
issues
that
our
elders
face.
H
Great
and
counselor
I
would
just
like
if,
if
you
have
someone
that
is
looking
for
adult
diapers
or
hygienic
products,
some
of
those
things
can
be
paid
for
through
health
insurance,
depending
on
the
health
insurance.
Somebody
has
so
feel
free
to
send
them
our
way
to
our
office
and
we'll
try
and
help
them
navigate.
Thank
you.
A
Only
because
we
have
someone
in
with
public
testimony
and
then
two
other
departments,
so
let's
just
get
through
this
and
then
we'll
come
back
to
you.
The
I
just
wanted
to
on
record
read
a
letter
from
councilor
Brian
Morrell
dear
chair
for
Fernandez,
Anderson
and
Council
colleagues.
I
will
unfortunately
be
unable
to
attend
today's
hearing.
A
My
staff
will
be
in
attendance
and
we'll
review
the
video
for
hearing
of
the
hearing
when
it
comes
to
available
sincerely
councilor
O'brien
rural
also
I
I
have
some
questions
for
you
for
the
age,
strong
Department,
there
are
some
in
the
program
and
Partnerships
area.
You
had
the
largest
increase
of
spending
over
time
by
program
since
2021
or
fy21
in
comparison
to
Administration
operations
and
transportation.
A
In
program
and
Partnerships
since
2021,
it's
the
largest
increase
overall.
H
It's
talking
about,
you
know
the
400
yep.
H
A
Okay,
yeah
no
events
I've
been
to
events.
There
are
big
events,
please
I
guess
elaborate
in
writing.
Thank
you.
The
programs
and
Partnerships
mentioned
that
there
is
a
regular
assessment
performed
to
assess
the
needs
of
Boston,
older
adults
and
creating
Boston's
area
plan
for
people
over
to
60.
I.
Guess
specifically,
can
you
elaborate
on
how
this
assessment
is
done
or
how
often
sure.
H
So
we
do
the
assessment
every
four
years
and
it's
very
driven
by
what
the
federal
government
requires
of
us,
because
it's
it's
a
requirement
for
the
federal
funds,
and
so
we
work
with
our
state
Partners
around
that
assessment.
It
involves,
on
the
ground
a
whole
bunch
of
community
focus
groups.
H
I
would
say
that
we
have
a
vision
of
expanding
the
way
that
we
do
that,
so
that
it's
a
more
useful
plan
for
our
office
and
for
the
city
and
our
new
Department
structure
and
kind
of
capacity
within
that
is
going
to
give
us
the
ability
to
be
a
little
more
expansion
expansive
with
the
way
that
we're
thinking
about
our
planning,
work.
Sure.
A
Could
you
submit
a
copy
of
the
last
one
of
the
previous
year
or
the
most
recent
one
you
have
and
then
in
terms
of
Need
for
Elder
space
spaces,
I
know
that
I
passed
a
resolution
asking
for
Elder
recreational,
not
just
Bingo
and
I,
don't
know,
meeting
space
or
eating
space
or
reading
space,
but
actually
like
a
recreational
center,
where
Elders
can
again
retire
with
dignity,
be
able
to
engage
in
activities
or
exercise
or
physical,
health
and
I
know
that
I
myself
have
surveyed
my
community,
my
district,
obviously
to
understand
this
and
I
partnered
with
Northeastern
students
who
canvas
G7
and
took
an
inventory
of
this
need
and
there's
a
there's,
a
huge
need
and
although
West
Roxbury
may
have
the
largest
or
highest
number
of
seniors
not
to
we
don't.
A
Obviously,
to
your
point,
commissioner,
we
don't
want
to
argue
the
point
of
who
deserves
it
or
who
needs
it
or
who
takes
priority,
but
in
generally
generally,
black
and
brown
communities
disenfranchised
historically
disenfranchise
communities
obviously
have
a
greater
need
in
terms
of
their
socioeconomic
class,
of
having
less
programs
less
funding
or
less
supports
for
our
seniors.
A
So
I
guess
encouraging
one
that
you
share
what
you
have
and
I
share,
what
I
have
and
hopefully
an
amendment
to
contract
to
do
the
an
actual
study
to
be
able
to
assess
the
need
across
the
board
instead
of
us
just
saying
you
know
here
here.
We
know
that
there
is
a
bunch
of
seniors,
but
there
may
be
that
that
Community
has
more
resources
or
this
community
and
again
we
don't
want
to
do
that.
My
next
question
is
more
about
your,
your
Staffing
and
I.
A
Guess,
because
you're,
a
majority
I
would
say
a
majority
by
POC
I,
don't
like
that
term
honestly,
because
it
doesn't,
it
feels
like
it's
you're,
just
missing
someone
and
I,
just
don't
like
terms
period
like
who
came
up
with
the
word
black
or
people
of
color
or
colored.
Anything.
So,
but
in
terms
of
specifically
that
demographics,
the
people
that
are
historically
disenfranchised,
your
department
actually
has
a
higher
percentage
of
bypoc
population,
but
in
your
managerial
you
have
a
higher
percentage
of
female.
A
We
know
why,
because
we
take
care
of
our
seniors,
but
we
but
a
higher
percentage
of
white
population.
And
so
what
do
you
have
any
programming
in
terms
of
like
career
or
upper
Mobility
plan,
for
your
staff
to
be
able
to
get
into
management.
H
Yeah
sure
so
I
I
mean
I
would
say
that
it's
really
critical,
that
we're
reflective
of
the
diversity
of
Boston
across
all
levels
of
our
department,
and
that
is
an
area
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
focus
in
the
12
years
that
I've
been
here.
H
We
we've
done
a
number
of
different
things
which
I'm
not
going
to
go
into
all
the
detail,
but
one
of
them
being
bringing
folks
in
on
the
ground
level,
providing
a
lot
of
training
and
promoting
from
within
so
we've.
We
have
three
directors
of
color,
one
of
which
actually
was
in
school
and
has
left
us
and
now
has
an
even
better
job.
But
two
of
our
directors
of
color
now
started
kind
of
I
would
say,
entry
level
positions
in
our
office
and
worked
their
way
up
into
director
level.
H
A
Thank
you.
Your
answer
sounds
like
you
gave
me
numbers
of
people
of
color
in
managerial,
but
I
see
that
here
in
this
response.
I
guess,
if
you
don't
have
a
plan
specifically
and
how
to
train
or
bring
people
from
your
60th
percentile
by
population
to
managerial,
because
the
the
response
then
I
would
say.
Well,
you
have
seven
people
white
people
in
management
management
and
you
have
three
bypoc
with
one
retiring,
so
I
guess
you
know
I'd
be
interested
in
a
conversation
about
looking
at
sorry,
just
looking
at
the
responses.
A
H
Yeah
for
sure
we
I
I,
do
have
two
Deputy
commissioners
of
color
and
an
additional
three
at
least
three
directors
of
color.
H
But
but
yes,
training
is,
is
critical
and
we
do
pay
for
training
and
we'll
continue
to
pay
for
training,
because
it's
important
that
people
have
not
only
on
the
ground
training
but
also
kind
of
more
formalized
training.
And
so
we
we
do
seek
to
provide
that.
For
folks.
A
Thank
you.
Sorry.
The
the
graph
that
I
got
looks
different
from
what
you
just
told
me,
but
you
you
would
know
better
now.
I
can't
find
the
page,
but
there's
a
graph
that
16.
A
You
so
much
yeah.
Here
we
go
yeah.
It
looked
like
three
to
three
comparison
to
four
comparison
to
seven,
but
whatever
I
guess
you
are
updating.
Whatever
you
sent
me.
A
H
Level,
we
have
three
directors
of
color
and
we
have
two
Deputy
commissioners
of
color
I.
A
Understand
now,
thank
you.
Thank
you.
Your
Department
certainly
does
amazing
work.
I
saw
firsthand
at
an
event
where
it
was
it
was.
It
was
like
some
sort
of
like
synchronized
swimming
going
on
in
the
back
of
the
curtains,
and
everyone
worked
so
beautifully
together
and
obviously,
but
that
I
did
notice
that
there
was
a
lot
of
folks,
particularly
Cape,
Verdean
women,
that
worked
with
your
department
and
we,
as
as
an
African
woman.
A
We
have
a
large
it's
embedded
in
our
culture
in
our
tradition,
to
take
care
of
our
elders
and
when
I
saw
that
I
went
to
the
back
and
I
was
like
talking
to
them,
and
everything
and
I
just
thought.
It
was
a
beautiful
thing
that
everyone
sort
of
just
knew
to
like
support
each
other
and
help
each
other.
So
I
appreciate
the
work
that
you
do.
I
do
have
more
questions,
but
I'll
yield
my
time
to
be
fair
to
my
colleagues,
I
like
to
call
David
arnstein
to
testify
at
this
time.
A
Yes,
as
our
sign,
if
you
could
state
your
name
affiliation
residence
for
the
record,
you
have
a
few
minutes.
Yes,.
M
My
name
is
David
arenstein
I
live
in
Jamaica,
Plain
I'm
70
years
old,
I'm,
a
volunteer
leader
of
a
new
organization
called
outstanding
life,
we're
a
virtual
Senior
Center
for
lgbtq,
older
adults
in
Boston.
I
want
to
say
that
age
strong
has
been
very
supportive
of
a
number
of
different
efforts
to
reach
out
to
the
LGBT
community
and
I've
spoken
with
a
number
of
counselors
about
about
the
need
for
such
a
thing
and
we're
meeting
with
President
Flynn
and
councilor
Coletta
this
week.
Also
this
really
is
about
and
is
an
equity
issue.
M
I
think
the
city
does
invest
in
bricks
and
mortar
senior,
centers
and
programs
at
bcyf,
as
well
as
Transportation.
However,
LGBT
seniors
really
do
not,
for
the
most
part,
feel
comfortable
attending
events
at
at
this
neighborhood
senior
centers,
the
LGBT
population
is
dispersed
throughout
the
city
in
every
neighborhood,
so
it
wouldn't
actually
probably
make
sense
to
have
one
Senior
Center
for
LGBT
people
at
this
point,
because
what
neighborhood
would
it
be
in
and
how
accessible
it
would
be
so
we're
creating
a
virtual
Senior
Center.
M
We
have
programming
that
includes
Tech
help
health
and
wellness
series,
support
groups,
legal
planning,
author
readings
and
discussions
relevant
to
older
LGBT
folk,
we're
doing
Outreach
to
the
trans
community
and,
what's
really
important
about
our
platform,
also
is
that
members
will
be
able
to
to
create
their
own
intentional
spaces.
So
we
may
not
have
a
program
all
about
gardening,
but
if
there's
a
member
who
is
excited
about
gardening,
they
could
create
a
space
and
create
a
discussion
with
their
their
fellow
members.
M
So
we're
hoping
that
in
the
budget
negotiations
that
an
amendment
can
be
made
to
support
outstanding
life
or
an
LGBT
senior
virtual
Senior
Center,
so
the
Mi
emphasis
here
is
that
bricks
and
mortar
versus
at
the
bricks
and
mortar
and
transportation
that's
needed
to
make
senior
centers
work
is
expensive.
A
virtual
Senior
Center
is
not
expensive
in
comparison
and
has
a
broad
reach,
Beyond
specific
neighborhoods.
M
A
Thank
you
so
much
Mr
arnstein
for
your
testimony,
I
appreciate
your
advocacy
for
the
lgbtq
seniors
and
in
Boston,
looking
forward
to
learning
more
about
your
program,
I'm
very
interested,
especially
because
in
the
lgbtq
population
or
plus
population,
there's
like
all
of
this
racism,
but
then,
when
it
comes
to
the
elder
population,
it's
even
worse
because
there's
like
some
unworked
stuff
that
needs
to
be
revealed
and
worked
on
and
some
healing
to
do.
A
What
an
amazing
opportunity
for
some
reconciliation
for
some
healing
and
I
can
imagine
especially
like
with
older
seniors,
how
like
feeling
safe,
especially
with
like
religious
populations.
A
How
do
we
talk
about
being
open
to
the
lgbtq
plus
population,
but
also
understand,
but
also
sort
of
creating
that
cross-culture
opportunity
for
learning
between
people
of
color,
lgbtq,
plus
people
of
color
and
lgbtq,
plus
whites,
so
I
think
it's
amazing
opportunity
for
healing
certainly
presents
some
conflicts
and
I
believe
conflicts
that
are
opportunities
so
looking
forward
to
learning
about
that,
I'm
very
excited
about
the
whole
virtual
idea.
Although
I
see
that
some
senior
seniors
like
to
be
in
person,
but
the
accessibility
component
of
it
is
beautiful.
Thank
you
again,
counselor
Braden.
F
F
F
Diverse
cultural
backgrounds
and
I
do
know
that
many
Elders
who
are
identify
as
lgbtq
do
feel
fearful
about
especially
there's
an
increasing
level
of
intolerance
of
of
lgbtq
folks
across
the
country,
and
many
of
our
elders
feel
threatened
and
feel
like
they
have
to
go
back
into
the
closet
again,
and
it's
not
a
don't
feel
safe,
so
I
think
support
for
a
virtual
Senior
Center
is
something
that
certainly
would
be
give
us
a
lot
of
bang
for
our
buck
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
as
Boston
we
do
lead.
F
We
step
out
we're
ahead
of
the
head
of
the
curve
in
many
ways
and
I
think
this
would
be
an
initiative
that
would
help
continue,
that
tradition
of
being
Innovative
and
supportive
of
new
ideas
and
I
just
want
to
add
my
support
to
this.
This
request,
let's
see
where
my
notes
are
the
I'd
love
to
know
a
little
more
about
the
the
the
hoarding
program
and
who
we
partner
with
for
that
I
think
it's
We
have
dealt
with
the
future
again.
F
We've
dealt
with
a
few
cases
of
folks
who
were
in
danger
of
losing
their
homes
because
they
had
a
holding
problem
because
their
house
was
filled
with
flammable
materials
and
their
their
La.
Their
landlord
was
saying
you
know
we
can't
do
this
anymore
and
it
is
a
mental
health
issue,
but
I'd
love
to
hear
some
more.
Commissioner.
Thank
you.
So.
H
H
We
did
it
some
work
with
Partners
we
put
out
actually
two
rfps
and
had
no
one
bid
on
them,
which
is
why
we've
engaged
a
consultant.
Their
name
is
Airbus,
Consulting
and
they're.
Looking
at
how
we
can
how
a
program
can
work
in
the
city
who
the
partners
might
be
and
and
what
the
amount
of
funding
is
going
to
needs
to
be
in
order
to
support
a
program
like
that,
I
would
say
at
the
current
time.
H
There
are
many
hoarding
cases
and
we
work
really
closely
with
our
inspectional
services
department,
with
the
mayor's
office
of
housing,
with
our
ASAP
Partners,
at
kind
of
our
our
partners
that
are
in
the
community
and
with
the
Adult
Protective
Services
Program,
to
support
people
as
best
we
can
with
that.
But
we
need
to
create
a
program
in
Boston
that
has
a
clinical
component
to
it,
so
that
so
that
we
can
stop
recidivism.
G
Chair
I'm
just
curious
about
that
two
million
dollar
contractual
services,
and
if
you
can
also
tell
me,
how
are
you
allocating
those
dollars
for
minority
owned
businesses
and
women
just
kind
of
give
me
a
landscape.
H
Let
me
try
and
remember
what
what
is
made
up
in
our
contracted
Services
line,
because
it's
a
bunch
of
different
buckets.
H
This
is
the
first
year.
Fy
23
is
the
first
year
that
that
money
was
in
the
budget
and
we
are
actually
about
to
issue
grants
and
we'll
be
doing
the
same
thing
next
year.
H
In
addition
to
that,
we
have
a
a
bunch
of
our
events
and
programs.
Money
is
also
in
that
line.
Sorry
Prince
I'm
blinking
on
what
it
is
petition.
H
So
so,
like
all
of
the
buses
that
we
take,
that
we
transport
people
to
to
events-
and
actually
that
was
a
a
a
large
cost
increase
for
us
this
year
and.
G
Can
just
tell
me
before
my
time
gets
goes
up.
I'm
sorry,
commissioner,
around
how
you're
allocating
those
resources
to
minority
and
women-owned
businesses?
How
are
you
sharing.
H
Them
well
sure
sure,
so,
when
we
so
the
majority
of
funding
that
we
give
out,
we
give
out
through
grants
or
or
our
older
Americans
act
dollars
our
RFP
dollars,
and
we
have
a
number
of
a
number
of
programs
that
we
contract
with
that.
We
have
for
a
long
time
that
our
minority
and
women-owned
businesses
I
think
I've
mentioned
some
of
them
before
in
this
I'll,
just
add
to
the
list
kind
of
mass
Association
for
the
Blind
and
Visually
Impaired,
deaf
Inc.
Thank
you,
but
we're
seeking
those.
Whenever
we.
G
Can
I
have
one
more
question
before
my
timer
goes
off?
When
was
the
last
time
you
surveyed
Elders
in
regards
to
your
services
and
just
wanted
to
go
on
the
record,
also
in
support
of
the
outstanding
virtual
community,
as
you
can
see
by
my
opening
remarks
and
my
line
of
questions,
I
am
already
all
in.
H
Laughs
so
the
last
time
that
we
surveyed
so
so
was
during
the
last
time
we
did
our
area
plan
and
that
was
unfortunately,
during
the
pandemic
we
had
to
survey.
That
was
a
real
challenge.
We
had
to
do
a
lot
by
phone
and
it
was.
It
was
hard,
but
I
think
that
was
20.
21
2021
are.
H
H
Yeah
for
sure
the
the
surveying
I
think
was
done
in
the
fall
of
21
and
the
the
plan
was
submitted
in
March
of
22.
G
Thank
you
that
will
be
all
counselor
chair,
Madam
Madam,
chair.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
commissioner.
Thank
you
to
your
team
for
your
hard
work.
Thank.
A
You
councilman
here,
commissioner
Shea.
Do
you
mind
providing
breakdown
in
writing
of
your
MBA
contractors?
Please.
Thank
you.
Councilor
Lucian.
You
have
the
floor.
Oh.
L
I,
thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
again,
commissioner,
for
all
of
your
answers.
Like
I
said
earlier
in
I.
Think
you
want
to
thank
David
for
your
testimony
and
support
of
the
virtual
Senior
Center
and
the
programming
like
the
chair
stated.
We
know
that
our
seniors
like
to
Gather
in
person,
but
also
as
counselor
Braden
stated,
lgbtq
plus
seniors,
are
scattered
really
throughout
the
city
and
even
when
they
were
concentrated
in
a
certain
area.
L
It
was
you
know,
we're
only
talking
about
white,
lgbtq,
plus
residents
and
so
really
I
think
this
is
a
phenomenal
idea
and
and
support
well
so
I'm
uplift,
the
work
that
we
can
do
to
continue
to
support
the
pride
in
High,
Park
and
lgbtq,
plus
friendly
building
so
and
I,
know
that
you
have
and
will
continue
to,
and
so
whatever
we
can
do
on
this
Council
to
further
support.
L
I
guess
the
question
I
have
is
actually
just
a
brainstorming
question,
commissioner,
because
you
do
so
much
great
work
and
you're
allowed
in
almost
every
Space
by
how
you
show
up
for
our
seniors,
and
you
also
know
the
seniors,
probably
more
most
intimately
the
struggles
that
they
face
on
a
day-to-day
basis.
How
so
many
of
them
lived,
live
on
a
fixed
income
and
I
know
that
you
have
your
jurisdiction
and
your
jurisdiction
is
Boston,
but
sometimes
I,
don't
believe
in
jurisdictions.
L
If
you,
if
there's
something
that
you
could
do,
or
a
policy
change
or
a
resource
change,
then
maybe
you
are
not
in
full
control
of,
but
that
would
really
be
transformative
in
the
lives
of
our
seniors,
based
on
the
calls
that
you
get,
whether
it's
based
in
finances
or
resources
or
interactions
with
SSI
or
whatever
it
is
like.
What
would
that
one?
One
policy
change
be
that
would
have
an
Inc
like
transformative
effect
on
the
lives
of
our
seniors.
L
Sometimes
we
think
things
than
our
purview
and
working
in
partnership
with
our
state
and
federal
officials
or
just
creating
space
for
a
brainstorming
can
help
us.
J
H
Really
quick
ones,
I
think
that
are
possible.
I!
Think
right
now,
there's
probably
a
thousand
others
that
we
can
think
of,
but
the
two
largest
part
of
an
older
adults
budget
are
housing
and
health
care
and
so
I
think
in
housing.
Getting
this
transfer
tax
passed
is
going
to
give
so
much
money
for
housing,
which
we
need
more
affordable
housing
for
older
adults,
and
we
also
need
to
to
make
people
more.
H
A
larger
number
of
folks
eligible
for
the
elderly
exemption,
so
I
think
that
would
do
both
of
those
things
in
the
healthcare
realm.
Our
Mass
senior
Action,
Council
friends,
have
been
advocating
for
changes
to
the
Medicare
Savings
programs,
that
is
a
I
get
I.
Can't
it's
be
hard
for
me
to
speak
to
like
how
impactful
some
of
the
changes
they're
advocating
for
would
be
for
those
programs
and
they're
also
starting
to
advocate
for
to
make
to
bring
Equity
to
the
mass
health
eligibility
for
older
adults
and
for
people
under
65.
H
J
H
For
the
Medicare
Savings
programs,
they
would
help
people
cover
the
Medicare
Part
B
premium
and
it
could
cover
thousands
of
dollars
of
health
care
costs.
If
we
can
just
expand
that
eligibility.
L
A
Thank
you
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
that
we've
been
joined
by
my
Council
colleague,
Council
Flaherty
and
Council
Lara,
Council,
Flaherty
and
counselor
we've
been.
We
were
wrapping
up
I'll,
give
you
three
minutes
each
for
questions
or
comments.
Consularity
you
have
the
floor.
Thank.
N
You
managers:
are
we
just
dealing
with
age
strong?
Are
we
dealing
with
thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
to
the
commissioner
and
in
the
budget
director
as
well
as
obviously
we're
Our
Guest
here,
executive,
director,
Valdez
and
executive
director
McSwain
for
the
work
that
you
guys
do
in
your
respective
departments.
Commission
just
want
to
go
on
the
record
in
support
of,
and
we've
talked
about
this.
N
Obviously
the
past,
we
had
a
very
good
hearing
that
both
Council
Lara
and
I
had
co-sponsored,
along
with
our
colleagues,
with
respect
to
a
senior
center
over
in
West
Roxbury,
it's
the
neighborhood
that
has
the
largest
concentration
of
seniors
and
whatever
we
can
do
to
continue
that
discussion
and
and
get
that
into
the
capital
I.
N
Have
it
has
my
full
support
on
that
and
also
I
heard
testimony
and
I've
met
with
the
folks
from
from
the
LGBT,
with
respect
to
the
ask
which,
from
the
if
I'm
not
mistaken,
it's
going
to
be
from
the
participatory
budgeting
side
of
the
house,
so
I
outstanding
life,
a
great
organization
and
they've
got
long
time
tentacles
into
I,
think
ethos
and
other
organizations,
so
I
I'm,
confident
that
they
know
what
to
do
and
I
think
that'd
be
a
great
compliment
to
the
work
that
you're
doing
at
age.
N
Strong
and
then
a
quick
question
on
our
senior
events
is
the
biggest
challenge.
Is
it
transportation
and
then
is
there
something
we
can
do
to
give
you
those
resources
so
that
we
can
actually
have
more
events
for
the
seniors?
I
know
that
they
enjoy
getting
out
and
there's
a
number
of
events
that
you
obviously
and
your
team
put
together
for
our
seniors,
but
always
seems
to
be
that
it's
sort
of
transportation
is
the
linchpin
whereby
we
could
potentially
maybe
invite
more
seniors
to
attend.
N
H
Yeah,
thank
you.
Thank
you.
For,
for
the
counselor
and
and
I
know
we
did,
we
did
speak
a
little
bit.
I
did
speak
in
in
our
opening
statement
to
kind
of
events
and
programs
across
the
city.
We
know
the
the
investment
there.
The
need
for
investment
is,
is
really
critical,
which
isn't
unexpected,
given
that
our
baby
or
the
oldest
baby
boomers
are
now
77.
H
and
and
there's
money
in
this
budget
to
bring
my
programming
team
city-wide
programming
team
from
four
people
to
nine
people
also
to
do
a
city-wide
assessment
of
where
seniors
are
living.
What
programming
is
needed?
H
Kind
of
the
makeup
and
mix
of
all
the
seniors
and
all
the
different
neighborhoods,
and
to
create
a
plan,
a
city-wide
plan
for
how
we
invest
in
in
programming
across
the
city,
which
we
think
is
really
critical
because,
yes,
West
Roxbury
has
the
highest
percentage
of
older
adults,
but
a
lot
of
neighborhoods
actually
have
more
older
adults
in
West,
Roxbury
and
I'm
I'm,
not
saying
that
I
made
rest.
We
need
to
give
West
Roxbury
what
they
need.
H
H
We
can
really
think
critically
about
about
how
we
make
those
those
Investments
and
then
in
terms
of
arpa
dollars
in
the
city
arpa
dollars
that
we
kind
of
had
we
had
125
000
dollars
from
those
Investments,
a
hundred
thousand
four
city-wide
programming
and
twenty
five
thousand
for
the
nazaro
center,
so
those
will
be
spent
by
the
end
of
June
and
and
hopefully
we'll
be.
H
You
know
we
have
programming
Investments
moving
forward
that
so
that
won't
be
too
big
of
an
impact
in
terms
of
our
older
Americans
act
funds.
There
were
a
significant.
We
had
millions
of
dollars
of
older
Americans
act,
funds
that
went
out
to
partner
agencies
with
that
and
those
will
be
ramping
down
in
the
end
of
the
end
of
September
of
2024..
H
We
shouldn't
see
we'll,
probably
see
the
impact
of
that,
maybe
a
year
later,
because
we'll
have
some
carryover
funds
that
will
help
to
bridge
and
we're
we're
working
at
the
federal
level.
To
advocate
for
additional
older
Americans
act
dollars
which
will
be
needed
as
we
move
forward.
A
Thank
you
Council
priority
Council
Lara.
You
have
before.
O
A
It
submit
them
to
to
me
the
chair
and
now
I
am
happy
to
get
them
to
you
as
well.
We're
gonna
probably
wrap
up
at
this
time.
Unfortunately,
we
have
two
other
departments
and
it
looks
like.
A
Yeah
we
only
have
an
hour
and
a
half
of
two
departments,
so
we'll
wrap
up
here.
Council
are:
do
you
think
five
minutes
is
enough.
Five
minutes
is
better
yep.
Okay,.
A
No
just
cut
it
out.
Mike,
you
guys
have
the
same
question.
Yes,
you
get
two
more
minutes:
we'll
wrap
up;
okay,
let's
wrap
up
two
minutes
and
then
go
back
to
five
minutes,
and
only
because
I
know
that
you
filed
something-
and
this
is
incredibly
important
to
you
so
but
you
did
come
extra
late,
Council
Friday,
two
minutes.
N
The
commissioner
obviously
we've
seen
an
increase
in
The
Adult
Day,
Care
Centers
popping
up
in
different
neighborhoods
I,
don't
know
if
they're
sort
of
private
Public,
Partnerships
or
there's
and
then
whether
or
not
you
have
the
ability,
obviously,
as
the
as
the
commissioner
of
hron,
to
create
some
Partnerships
with
those
Adult
Day
kids,
they
do
great
work,
they're
very
popular,
particularly
for
our
seniors,
who
have
the
capacity
one
to
participate.
N
You
know
the
necessary
paperwork,
I
guess
to
join
so,
and
then
those
outfits
obviously
have
transportation
capacity
as
well
to
potentially
maybe
bring
some
of
those
seniors
to
some
of
the
city-wide
events
or
maybe
even
participate
in
when
they
drop
off
seniors
from
their
Adult
Day
Care
Center.
They
can
maybe
assist
in
getting
some
other
scenes
from
again
my
head's
always
sort
of
spinning
to
find
ways
to
create
more
opportunities
for
our
seniors
in
the
city.
So
just
quick
synopsis.
How
do
you
feel
about
these?
H
Sure
quickly
answer
that
so
I
love,
Adult,
Day,
Health,
Centers
I
started
my
career
in
adult
day
Health
when
I
was
18
doing
activities
my
first
job
working
with
older
adults.
We
have
a
lot
of
them
in
the
community,
those
there's
those
are
licensed
by
the
Department
of
Public,
Health
and
funded
by
Mass
health
and
other
insurances
and
private
pay,
and
so
there's
a
certain
level
of
need.
A
medical
need
that
you
need
to
have
to
qualify
for
an
adult
day.
H
Health
program
and
and
the
funding
is,
is
kind
of
insurance
based
and
private
pay,
I
think
they're
great.
They
serve
an
important
role
kind
of
in
the
spectrum
of
programs,
but
not
everybody
qualifies
for
them
and
very
interesting
idea
to
leverage
their
transportation
in
off
hours
so
yeah
interesting.
Thank
you.
A
Is
that
is
that
all
I'm,
sorry,
all
right,
councilor
Lara,
you
have
the
floor.
Thank.
O
You,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
so
much,
commissioner,
and
the
folks
for
being
here
today.
I
know
that
we've
been
in
conversation
obviously
about
the
senior
center.
The
Southwest
Boston
Senior
Center
I
know
that
our
hearing
order,
when
it
was
filed
very
early
on
last
year,
focused
on
West
Roxbury.
But
the
truth
is
that
it
was
meant
to
be
a
Southwest
Boston,
Senior
Center,
because
Jamaica
Plain,
Roslindale
and
Hyde
Park
also
don't
have
any
senior
centers.
O
That
Southwest
Boston
has
a
gap
and
that
that
that
that
study
is
going
to
show
that
there's
a
gap
in
that
neighborhood
and
they
will
end
up
with
something
there
eventually
and
we
obviously
have
made
with
ethos
and
the
funding
that
we've
been
gone
from.
The
state
made
arrangements
to
make
sure
that,
at
least
for
the
next
two
years
they
do
have
a
location
and
days
where
they're
going
to
have
they're
going
to
be
able
to
centralize
their
programming,
and
so
I'm
really
grateful
for
councilor
Flaherty.
For
lifting
that
up.
O
As
my
co-sponsor
so
I.
One
of
the
questions
that
I
have,
though,
is
that
there
was
an
increase
in
the
budget
for
age
strong,
and
there
are
other
things
that,
while
we
are
doing
the
city-wide
study,
there
are
other
things
that
are
necessary
to
make
sure
that
the
current
programming
that
exists
is
accessible.
O
H
Yeah,
so
so
that's
a
that's
a
really
good
point,
counselor
and-
and
certainly
we
are
hearing
about
the
need
for
transportation
to
senior
programming
across
the
city,
and
it's
going
to
have
to
be
I
think
a
key
piece
of
this
plan,
because
why
have
a
program
that
people
can't
get
to
right?
H
I
I
did
speak
a
little
bit
in
in
our
opening
statement
about
some
of
the
work
that
we're
hoping
to
do
around
our
age.
Strong
shuttle
seeking
potentially
other
sources
of
income
for
our
medical
rides
and
being
able
to
kind
of
expand
our
capacity
that
way
to
do
some
kind
of
social
programming.
More
social
programming
rides.
That
is
our
Our
Hope
in
the
future.
We
can
do
it
in
a
very
limited
way.
Right
now
is
the
limitations
because
of
funding.
So
so
the
limitations
are
because
of
our
current
capacity.
H
Yes,
okay,
and
what
is
our
relationship
to
the
ride?
So
we
help
people
we
can
help.
People
apply
for
the
ride,
there's
a
certain
level
of
need
to
apply
for
the
ride,
but
we
can
certainly
help
people
apply
for
the
ride.
We
also
have
a
volunteer
program
that
serves
as
travel
trainers,
our
our
RSVP
volunteer
service,
travel,
trainers
and
help.
People
learn
how
to
navigate
public
transportation
and
we
are
working
to
modernize
our
our
City's
taxi
coupon
program
in
collaboration
with
do
it.
O
Mejia
and
councilor
Arroyo
and
I
held
a
budget
assembly
for
the
Latino
Community
specifically,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
heard
there,
particularly
about
these
Boston
Senior
Center,
was
that
they
were
like.
We
have
this
beautiful
Senior
Center,
but
we
there
are
people
from
our
neighborhood
who
cannot
get
to
it
and
it
looks
like
the
budget
for
the
East
Boston
Senior
Center
has
dropped.
H
So
so
so
I
think,
what's
shown
in
in
some
of
that,
that
information
is
external
funds
coming
in
so
the
way
that
the
East
Boston
Senior
Center
was
created.
O
H
With
mass
port
funding
and
that
funding
comes
in
every
other
year,
based
on
the
based
on
them
hitting
certain
yeah,
certain
thresholds
in
the
work
that
they're
doing
is
because
it
was
a
community
mitigation.
Great.
O
So
that
number
will
fluctuate,
depending
on
how
much
funding
is
coming
from
Mass
portal,
correct,
okay,
those
are
all
the
questions
that
I
have
I
just
wanted
to
make
a
quick
note
in
support
of
outstanding
life.
As
you
can
see
my
constituents,
the
seniors
in
my
district
are
really
active
and
I'm
really
happy
to
be
working
without
sending
life
on
this
amendment.
For
the
possibility
of
this
online
virtual
lgbtq
kind
of
access
to
senior
programming
and
I'm
curious
does
age
strong
have
any
places
for
Grant
making?
Do
you
have
any?
H
O
A
No
problem
to
counselor
of
Flaherty
and
Council
are
I.
Don't
know
your
reasons
for
being
late,
that
wasn't
appropriate.
I
shouldn't
have
said
that
you
were
super
late,
I
think
I
was
making
light
out
of
the
situation.
You
could
have
had
anything
important
and
we
all
have
important
things
and
I
know
that
I'm
certainly
late
all
the
time
with
our
busy
schedule.
So
I
do
apologize,
because
when
we
make
mistakes
publicly
we
should
correct
them
publicly.
So
there
you
have
it.
A
Hopefully,
if
you
forgive
me
and
we're
wrapping
up
the
eight
strong
Department
Mr
Thomas.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
service
and
dedication
and
happy
retirement.
Commissioner.
A
All
right,
we'll
take
one
two
minute
recess:
I
just
want
to
stretch
and
grab
a
cup
of
water
and
we'll
be
back
foreign.
J
A
A
Office
of
early
childhood,
the
format
Remains
the
Same
to
my
casa
colleagues,
you'll,
be
given
five
minutes
for
questioning
and
then
second
round
is
three
minutes
with
public
testimony
in
between
just
for
the
public
people
who
are
watching
from
home.
If
you
plan
on
coming
into
City
Hall,
we
are
having
issues
with
that
elevators.
So
there.
If
you
have
accessibility
issues,
we
you
can
sign
up
to
testify
virtually
into
the
exact
same
thing
as
if
it
was
a
virtual
hearing.
So
there's
no
need
for
us
to
switch
it
to
all
virtual.
A
So
please
sign
up
virtually
if
you
have
accessibility
issues
and
you
plan
to
coming
into
city
hall,
probably
not
a
good
idea.
The
elevators
are
not
working
today,
all
right
for
the
office
of
early
childhood,
we're
joined
today
by
Kristen
McSwain,
director
of
Early
Childhood.
You
have
the
floor
for
your
presentation.
Thank.
E
You
very
much
chair
and
thank
you
to
the
counselors
for
having
us
here
today
to
talk
about
the
budget
and
the
office
I'm,
going
to
try
to
keep
my
comments
as
short
as
possible,
so
that
you
all
have
time
to
ask
questions.
E
E
Over
the
course
of
this
year,
we've
added
two
additional
staff
and
are
on
track
to
add
a
third.
Together,
we
have
over
38
years
of
experience
in
early
childhood
and
operations,
as
well
as
language
capacity
in
Spanish
and
in
Arabic.
I
want
to
talk
about
the
work
that
we're
planning
to
do
and
also
the
work
that
we're
we've
done
this
past
year,
combining
a
little
bit
of
our
operational
budget
and
our
arpa
funding,
because
together
that
has
helped
us
to
create
our
strategic
engagement
with
Community.
E
The
first
thing
I
want
to
talk
about
is
family
engagement
in
that
area
of
our
goals.
We've
done
two
primary
things.
This
year,
one
is
partner
with
families
first
to
be
really
working
closely
with
our
community,
particularly
the
organizations
who
engage
parents
as
Leaders
across
the
city.
So
over
the
past
year
we
engaged
with
30
individuals,
15
of
them
parents,
and
really
talk
to
them
about
what
should
be
the
frame
framework
for
family
engagement
for
our
office.
How
should
we
be
getting
information
out?
E
So
that's
that's
really
a
piece
of
the
work
that
we've
done
this
year
that
we're
hoping
to
build
on
in
the
coming
year
in
terms
of
our
partnership
with
families.
First,
as
an
organization,
we've
also
been
able
to
sponsor
three
family
leaders
who
are
working
with
us
to
complete
a
six-month
Community
impact
project.
I
think
this
really
gets
to
some
of
what
councilor
Mejia
was
asking
about
in
terms
of
how
we
get
the
word
out.
That
is
what
they
are
focused
on.
E
The
other
piece
of
our
family
engagement
work
has
really
been
working
in
coordination
and
collaboration
with
countdown
to
kindergarten
which,
as
you
know,
is
based
at
Boston
Public
Schools,
but
during
covid
really
retracted.
A
lot
of
their
work
in
family
engagement
focused
on
other
things
and
are
looking
this
year
again
at
how
they
can
work
on
re-engaging
families,
thinking
about
play
groups
and
how
to
host
them
where
to
host
them
and
materials
for
play
groups
in
the
coming
year.
We're
going
to
be
working
with
them
to
launch
a
book
called
made
to
play.
E
So
that's
really
on
the
family
engagement
side
on
the
supporting
high
quality,
affordable,
Early,
Education
and
Care.
That
is
where
a
lot
of
our
arpa
money
has
gone,
but
it
is
also
where
our
operating
budget
has
a
significant
investment.
We
are
looking
at
three
different
ways
of
supporting
Child
Care.
The
first
is
through
our
work
with
family
child
care,
and
we've
been
building
out
what
started
in
MOA
as
a
child
care
entrepreneur
fund
to
really
be
an
entire
set
of
initiatives
that
are
offered
to
individuals
who
want
to
be
doing
family
child
care.
E
As
you
all
know,
it
is
primarily
a
female
driven
set
of
social
entrepreneurs.
Many
of
them
are
immigrants
to
this
country,
and
many
of
them
are
people
who
identify
as
women
of
color,
and
so
we've
done.
Four
different
things.
First
is
we've
invested
funding
in
recruiting
75
new
family
child
care
providers
to
the
city?
E
We've
done
our
first
cohort
of
15
and
are
working
on
our
tax
cohort
and
we'll
be
doing
those
over
the
next
two
years
with
arpa
funding
once
you've
established
your
business
and
gone
through
that
licensing
program
and
gotten
settled,
we
offer
a
financial
training
because
a
lot
of
people
who
enter
family
child
care
enter
it
with
a
lot
of
Early
Childhood
experience
and
maybe
not
as
much
business
experience.
So
how
do
we
help
set?
E
You
be
set
you
up
to
be
successful
with
six
weeks
of
Financial,
Training
and
coaching,
and
then
a
mini
Grant
when
you've
successfully
completed
that
you
can
use
to
invest
in
your
business.
What
we've
also
seen
from
that
first
group
of
entrepreneurs
and
we've
trained
350
individuals
over
the
past
four
years
in
English
Spanish
and
in
Mandarin,
is
that
they
need
a
little
bit
more
after
that
initial
Financial
coaching,
and
so,
with
our
arpa
funding,
we
launched
a
marketing
and
Communications
module.
It
is
also
six
weeks.
It
is
also
with
coaching
it.
E
It
comes
with
a
computer,
not
a
Chromebook,
because
when
you
are
actually
looking
at
setting
up
your
own
website,
you
actually
need
a
little
more
computing
power,
and
so
each
participant
receives
a
laptop.
When
they
are
done,
they
will
have
completed
their
own
website.
I,
encourage
you
to
go
to
our
website
and
check
them
out.
E
E
E
So
each
of
those
courses
is
taught
in
English
and
in
Spanish
and
is
focused
on
both
creating
a
plan
for
how
you
improve
nutrition
and
food
access
within
your
family
Child
Care
Program,
as
well
as
how
you
increase
movement,
really
thinking
about
local
playgrounds
places
to
go
out
particular
things
to
do
in
our
winter
months.
So
there
are
young
people,
stay
healthy
and
establish
good
patterns
when
they're
young.
E
How
to
do
that
and
use
that
information
in
their
family
child
care
setting,
so
that
they
can
be
working
with
our
young
people,
who
might
need
some
additional
support
in
different
areas
and
so
that
they
can
also
be
connecting
families
who
may
need
a
further
evaluation
based
on
those
results,
so
that
we're
catching
our
young
people
as
they
need
support
as
early
as
possible
That's
All
in
the
Family
Child
Care
space
in
the
center
space.
That's
where
a
large
part
of
our
arpa
funding
has
been
centered.
We
have
done
wage
support.
E
We
are
currently
working
with
centers,
through
training
and
technical
assistance,
to
increase
their
salary
to
22
dollars
an
hour
by
2025
and
also
to
have
a
Compensation
Plan
that
scales
that
up
for
people
who've
been
there
longer
and
also
takes
into
account
our
teacher
classroom
support
folks,
who
maybe
make
less
so
that
they
have
a
compensation
plan
centered
on
22
an
hour
and
a
sustainability
plan,
for
how
they're
going
to
maintain
that
moving
forward.
E
When
our
arpa
funding
is
no
longer
available,
we,
hopefully
you
will
have
seen
on
the
T
and
in
our
bus,
stops
our
recruitment
campaign.
One
of
the
biggest
pain
points
we
hear
from
our
early
childhood
providers.
Right
now
is
they
cannot
open
all
of
their
classrooms
or
they
can't
fully
open
a
classroom
that
they
do
have
open
because
of
their
huge
Staffing
constraints.
And
so
we
are
really
working
with
them
to
try
and
bring
in
the
workforce
that
is
necessary
for
them
to
open
up
all
of
their
classrooms.
E
We
know
it's
important
for
parents
and
caregivers
to
be
able
to
get
to
work,
but
you
can
only
be
fully
opened
if
you
actually
have
the
staff
that
you
need
to
be
at
capacity,
and
so
part
of
that
is
not
only
the
recruitment
campaign,
but
we
also
used
arpa
funding
to
buy
800
credentials
for
individuals
in
the
city
of
Boston
or
who
will
commit
to
working
in
the
city
of
Boston
to
participate.
E
The
last
thing,
and-
and
this
is
the
biggest
increase
you
will
see
in
the
requests
for
the
office
of
Early
Childhood-
is
four
million
dollars
for
our
upk
program.
As
you
know,
upk
is
portfolio
program,
so
a
big
piece
of
it
is
in
BPS,
so
our
k0
and
our
K1
classrooms,
but
another
portion
has
been
through
our
mixed
delivery
system.
E
So
in
our
community-based
setting
and
that's
where
this
four
million
dollars
will
be
spent,
we
will
add
capacity
for
another
335
children,
it'll,
add
10
classrooms
at
community-based
organizations
across
the
city
and
that
I
it's
a
bid.
So
it's
not
an
RFP
I,
don't
want
to
get
the
letters
wrong,
but
it's
an
I
I
keep
forgetting
it
closed
on
last
Friday.
It's
an
IRB
Maybe
of
course
anyway.
So
that
closed,
it
also
adds
family
child
care.
E
Our
third
goal,
as
I
mentioned
before,
is
thinking
about
healthy
connections
across
all
of
our
community
spaces
and
in
that
space
we're
doing
two
primary
things.
This
year,
one
is
you'll
see
in
the
child
care
survey
that
goes
out
with
the
census
that
this
year
we've
asked
about
public
spaces.
We
want
our
families
to
be
weighing
in
on.
Do
they
have
proximity
to
our
libraries,
our
playgrounds,
our
parks
and
our
BC
wife
centers?
Are
they
appropriately
programmed?
E
And
then
the
second
is:
we've
been
stewarding
the
mayor's
commitment
to
young
children,
I
hope.
All
of
you
have
seen
Boston's
commitment
to
young
children,
but
that
by
the
time
they're
eight
we
should
be
providing
the
resources
so
that
young
children
can
learn
to
swim.
They
can
learn
to
bike,
they
can
play
a
sport
or
emphasis
on
playing.
E
They
can
have
opportunities
to
participate
in
the
Arts
and,
lastly,
we
can
be
growing
a
green
generation
so
really
thinking
about
how
are
our
public
spaces
and
our
public
Investments,
providing
opportunities
for
families
to
do
those
activities
and
for
young
children
to
learn
them
by
the
time
they're
in
third
grade
so
I'm
going
to
leave
it
there
because
I
know
that
we're
pressed
for
time-
and
you
all
will
surely
have
questions.
Thank.
A
E
G
G
Let's
just
talk
a
little
bit
more
though
I
have
a
particular
interest
for
immigrant-owned
child
care
providers
and
really
expanding
this
whole
notion,
like
back
in
the
day
being
bilingual,
was
like.
Oh
my
God,
don't
tell
anybody,
you
speak
a
different
language.
Not
everybody
wants
their
kids
to
learn
how
to
speak
two
languages,
because
there's
been
studies
that
show
the
brain
development
and
how
important
that
is.
So.
G
E
So
right
now
all
of
the
courses
that
we're
offering
for
entry
level
for
family
child
care
are
available
in
English
and
Spanish.
We've
asked
for
them
also
to
be
available
in
Haitian
Creole,
and
we
did
try
to
provide
them
in
Portuguese.
We
did
not
actually
have
any
response
to
that
request.
E
So
you
know
those
that's
the
entry
into
this
space,
one
of
the
things
that
we're
really
thinking
about
and
supporting
in
the
family
child
care
space
is
continuing
within
language
supports
for
families
that
want
to
have
their
children,
particularly
the
infants
and
toddlers
in
a
a
home
or
family
language,
primarily
at
that
age.
Then
we're
also
beginning
to
think
in
partnership
with
bu
and
upk
about.
When
do
we
start
integrating
bilingual
education
at
what
point?
And
how
do
we
then
think
about
that
transition
into
BPS
and
into
our
our
bilingual
programs?
G
And
what
is
the
partnership
between
the
office
of
Early
Childhood
on
the
bcyf
child
care
and
Auto
School
time
services?
Are
there
any
Partnerships?
Do
you
find
ways
to
collaborate?
Are
there
opportunities
there
so.
E
I
think
there's
a
a
lot
of
opportunities.
Moving
forward,
I've
been
in
conversations
with
commissioner
Rivera,
particularly
around
the
biking
that
we're
thinking
about
this
summer,
but
then
that
has
led
us
into
you
know.
How
are
we
thinking
about
after
school?
And
how
are
we
thinking
about
some
of
our
centers?
Because
not
only
do
we
have
the
center
here,
but
some
of
our
other
child
care
centers.
They
are
a
partnership
that
bcyf
has
with
a
non-profit.
D
G
Thanks,
and
can
you
just
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
how
you're
making
sure
that
our
dollars
are
strategically
in
the
budget?
There
is
only
personnel
and
non-personal
expenses
listed,
so
I'm
just
curious.
Is
there
any
way
that
we
can
access
the
specifics
of
either
category
I
didn't
see
that
in
the
in
the
budget-
and
you
know
it
would
be
helpful
to
know
in
terms
of
programming
I
mean.
G
E
Yes,
so
we're
actually
partnering
with
BPS
and
the
Early
Childhood
Department
to
be
thinking
about
two
things
and
they're
a
little
bit
further
behind
that
I
would
like.
So
please
if
this
doesn't
sound
like
a
good
plan.
The
plan
is
still
in
process.
We
are
thinking
about
one.
E
How
do
we
structure
Community
conversations
around
what's
already
happening
in
the
early
childhood
Years
Around
literacy,
both
the
focus
curriculum
and
then
moving
out
of
the
focus
curriculum
into
the
older
grades
in
terms
of
how
those
align
and
the
work
that
we're
trying
to
do
both
around
Fidelity
of
of
implementation,
as
well
as
expanding
implementation
focus
is
not
in
every
school.
E
It's
in
a
lot
of
them,
it's
not
in
all
of
them,
and
so
how
do
you
think
about
the
research
that
has
come
out
of
our
implementation
of
focus
and
what
it
means
that
we
need
to
do
for
literacy
moving
forward,
so
we're
planning
on
spending
time
with
our
with
Community
talking
about
what
we
actually
already
know
about
what
has
worked
the
areas
that
we
know
need
to
be
improved
and
the
plan
for
getting
there
so
that
we
are
doing
that
in
Partnership.
Great,
thank
you
and.
A
L
Floor,
thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
director
McSwain
for
all
of
your
work,
especially
most
recently
when
we
were
getting
a
bunch
of
questions
from
parents
in
West
Roxbury.
The
way
in
which
you
responded
rapidly
and
also
owned,
like
we
just
sometimes
got
to
get
better
at
communication,
we're
doing
great
things
and
we
have
plans
just
communicating
those
really
important.
It
looks
like
for
this
upcoming
school
year.
L
There
are
going
to
be
about
40,
4,
800
seats,
pre-upk
seats
available
to
families
does
that
meet
the
full
need
and
how
many
seats
would
meet
the
full
need,
if
not
so,.
E
L
E
E
So
right,
right
now,
if
you
wanted
a
seat
for
a
four-year-old
in
the
city
of
Boston,
I
could
get
you
one,
but
it
might
not
be
where
you
want
it
to
be,
and
so
those
are
the
things
we're
trying
to
figure
out
in
terms
of
need.
We
know
that
there
are
about
twelve
thousand
three
and
four-year-olds
in
the
city
of
Boston,
and
so
we're
serving
about
a
quarter
of
them,
and
so
we're
going
to
get
you
better
math
in
terms
of
our
best
guess
in
terms
of
how
many
young
people
that
would
be.
L
That's
a
pretty
good
marketing
idea
in
comms
idea
and
I
think
we
don't
do
a
good
enough
job
of
highlighting
what
we're
doing
well
I
had
the
pleasure
of
visiting
the
Alice,
Early,
Learning,
Center
and
really
learning
from
the
provider.
Is
there
both
the
classroom,
assistance
on
the
family
Navigators
just
about
the
non-stop
work
that
they
do
and
how
I
I
applaud
you
talking
about
how
much
more
we
need
to
pay
people
who
are
doing
that
work?
L
Who
could
be
doing
work
that
requires
less
use
of
their
brain,
less
full
of
the
use
of
their
full
attention
elsewhere?
But
we
need
folks
in
this
Early
Education
space,
so
whatever
we
can
do
to
help
these
Early
Childhood
centers
provide
more
pay
and
more
incentives
to
people
so
that
they
not
only
can
get
these
jobs,
but
stay
in
these
jobs.
I
think
is
incredibly
important,
so
shout
out
to
all
of
our
early
Educators
it.
L
The
the
goal
post
continues
to
move
right,
so
the
goal
post
at
one
point
was
Universal
Pre-K
we
get
there,
but
then
it
needs
to
start
earlier
if
we're
really
trying
to
address
the
education
disparities
that
really
obviously
started
in
the
home
of
our
young
kids,
beginning
at
the
age
before
they're,
even
one
years
old,
and
so
it's
important
for
us
to
really
be
investing
in
early
childhood.
We
know
that
childhood
and
child
care
is
infrastructure.
It
allows
our
families.
L
It
allows
a
particularly
our
woman
to
be
able
to
have
careers
women
of
color
to
be
able
to
have
careers,
and
so
we
both
service
families
and
serve
our
young
people,
our
youngest
people,
when
we
invest
in
Early
Child
in
early
childhood
care.
You
know
this
hearing
has
been
been
wonderful
so
far,
because
we've
been
addressing
our
oldest
adults
and
our
youngest
ones
and
want
to
highlight
how
incredible
countdown
to
kindergarten
programming
has
been
in
terms
of
getting
the
word
out.
L
When
credits
do
we
obviously
have
a
lot
more
work
to
do
in
both
our
upk
and
our
early
childhood,
but
I
wanted
to
put
that
on
the
record
one
of
the
hardest
things
that
I
think
you
spoke
to
this
as
well
for
new
film
is,
is
finding
the
available
child
care
and
early
childhood
childhood
care
options
are,
and
it
is
one
of
the
more
difficult
questions
that
when
I
get
in
my
office,
it's
like,
we
don't
have
a
centralized
place
where
we
can
send
folks
to
both
look
for
Early,
Childhood,
Early,
Child,
Care
or
summer
camp
options
or
things
of
that
nature.
L
What
are
we
doing
to
better
centralize
how
we
centralize
information
and
offer
it
to
our
families?
Is
there
a
common
app?
Is
there
something
that
we
can
use
like
colleges
to
make
it
more
accessible
and
more
and
less
competitive?
We
also
know
there's
information,
asymmetry
for
families
with
more
means
and
and
resources.
Yes,.
E
So
that's
actually
one
of
the
things
I
didn't
cover
in
my
comments
and
it's
primarily
in
our
arpa
funding.
So
we
have
two
million
dollars
set
aside
in
our
arpa
funding
to
create
a
One-Stop,
enrollment
program
platform-
and
you
know
we
took
this
past
year
to
do
a
lot
of
the
discovery
work,
because
there
are
three
platforms,
none
of
which
fully
do
the
the
job
and
they're
all
owned
by
different
people.
E
So
one
is
owned
by
Boston
public
schools
for
the
welcome
center,
one
is
upks
for
just
three
and
four-year-olds,
and
then
one
is
the
states,
and
so
what
we've
been
trying
to
do
is
work
with
both
our
providers
and
those
three
entities
to
outline
the
specs,
because
those
systems
also
sometimes
are
causing
our
providers
to
re-enter
the
same
information
about
the
same
child
in
three
different
places.
E
So,
while
I
thought
we
were
going
to
move
forward
on
that
very
quickly
this
year,
it's
actually
ended
up
being
much
more
of
a
process
and
Discovery,
because
whatever
we
create
needs
to
both
serve
the
needs
of
our
families,
but
also
of
our
providers,
and
so
we're
going
to
hopefully
be
issuing
an
RFP
soon.
That
outlines
all
of
the
different
criteria
that
we
want
from
that
system.
But
I
think
the
other
thing
to
know
is
that
the
online
system
is
not
going
to
be
enough
right.
E
It
needs
to
be
coupled
with
the
things
that
our
family
engagement
work
is
telling
us
about
how
families
find
information,
some
of
them
find
it
on
WhatsApp.
Some
of
them
find
it
at
the
library,
some
of
them.
So
what's
our
holistic
plan
to
ensure
that
I
find
the
information
and
then
know
that
I
can
go
to
the
website
and
that
I
have
the
tools
available
to
me
or
can
find
the
tools
available
to
actually
be
able
to
maneuver
through
those
systems.
So
it
is
coming.
We
are
working
on
it.
E
O
O
So
I
will
I
will
ask
those
two
so
there's
Neighborhood,
Child,
Care
Center,
that's
like
ran
called
First
Steps
child
care
in
West
Roxbury,
it's
Ran
by
A,
really
an
incredible
constituent,
Persian
woman,
and
a
lot
of
the
conversations
that
we're
having
I
think
are
about
where
these
Investments
that
you've
outlined
are
going
to
support
at
home
child
care
providers.
O
E
Care
workers
are
you
talking
specifically
about
Center
workers
or
family
child
care,
I
think
both
so
on
the
family
child
care
space.
A
lot
of
our
work
is
actually
focused
on
their
financial
infrastructure.
So
talking
about
things
like
business
building,
business
building,
but
also
things
like
Are
You
full.
Are
you
actually
invoicing
your
families
on
time?
So
a
piece
of
what
happens
in
that
space
is
sometimes
and-
and
we
might
generalize
this
to
women,
but
sometimes
we're
a
little
bit
more
forgiving.
E
If
people
don't
tell
us
exactly
when
they're
coming
and
going
or
if
they
don't
tell
us
exactly
if
they
don't
pay
us
on
time,
necessarily
we
give
a
little
more
grace,
perhaps
so,
really
working
with
our
entrepreneurs
on
those
skills
and
building
their
own
capacity
to
be
able
to
address
those
kinds
of
issues.
So
that's
what
the
child
care
entrepreneur
fund
101
does.
Scott
did.
O
E
We
have
some
anecdotal
when
we
run
an
RFP
process
or
when
we
run
a
grants
process.
We
ask
them
a
set
of
questions,
but
we
haven't
to
the
whole
470
some
given
them
the
same
set
of
survey
questions
primarily
because
what
we
experienced
during
covet
is
that
they
feel
over
surveyed
by
all
their
different
funding
mechanisms.
We
do
know
some
things
from
the
state,
but
we
could
we
could
be
probably
asking
them
more
than
we
are
right
now
and.
O
In
the
survey
that
you
send
out
to
the
families
you
mentioned
that
you
were
now
asking
questions
about
kind
of
the
public
third
spaces.
Can
you
tell
me
what
you
found
in
like
what
were
what
were
the?
What
were
the
findings
of
the
surveys?
Do
you
feel
like
people
are
connected?
Are
they
aware
of
them?
Are
they
using
them
so.
E
That
survey
went
out
with
the
Boston
census.
First
starts
out
in
January
I.
Think
I
got
mine
last
week,
so
they're
on
that
rolling,
but
we
also
have
created
a
set
of
bookmarks
and
distributed
them
to
libraries,
we're
going
to
be
giving
them
to
bcyf
so
that
people
can
actually
go
online.
It
has
a
QR
code
and
you
can
scan
it
and
it's
available
in
all
of
our
city
languages
so
that
you
can
respond
to
it.
It
will
close
in
September.
D
O
Rate,
thank
you,
and
so
my
last
question
is
about
surround
care.
Yes,
particularly
for
students
with
special
needs.
I
know
that,
typically,
if
you
have
a
diagnosis,
you
go
from
early
intervention
into
k0
at
BPS.
You
have
a
seat
and
I
know
that
as
a
parent,
because
my
child
got
a
seat
up
in
k0,
but
a
lot
of
the
before
and
after
care
that
we
see
at
BPS
comes
through
collaborations
with
community-based
organizations
and
other
nonprofits
that
provide
it.
O
There
is
a
gap
there
where
these
organizations
provide,
before
and
after
care,
particularly
for
younger
Elementary
School
students,
but
don't
provide
it
for
students
with
special
needs,
so
can
I
don't
know,
and
this
might
not
even
be
under
your
purview.
But
can
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
how
some
of
this
early
childhood
care
education
funding
is
going
to
families
and
places
that
really
service
students
and
families
that
have
children
with
special
needs?
Sure.
E
So
in
BPS,
the
before
and
after
care
is
done
through
BPS.
So
what
we're
trying
to
do
is
partner
with
them
on
the
before
and
after
care
issue,
because
right
now
there's
a
lot
of
differentiation
across
our
74
schools
that
have
young
people
that
are
three
and
four-year-old
in
them
between
who
has
access
to
care,
even
if
they
have
to
pay
for
it
and
who
doesn't.
E
There
are
many
schools
that,
where
it
is
not
actually
available,
so
our
first
step
is
actually
been
trying
to
find
out
who
has
it
available,
even
if
you
have
to
pay
for
it
is
it
offered
by
the
school?
Is
it
offered
by
a
community
partner?
A
barrier
for
for
many
of
those
programs
is
licensing.
Our
buildings
still
have
lead
pain
to
them
and
so
we're
putting
together
a
plan
to
remediate
that
challenge
so
that
those
spaces
can
be
licensed
before
and
after
school
right
now,
there
are
many
places
where
they
are
not
available.
F
Braden
you
have
the
floor.
Madam,
chair,
I'm,
sorry
I
had
to
step
out
earlier
to
talk
to
a
constituent.
Let
me
see
landlords
the
Family
Daycare.
F
We
have
many
families
who
would
be
interested
in
doing
it,
but
they
had
the
barrier
that
their
landlord
is
not
happy
to
have
a
daycare
in
their
building.
What
sort
of
progress
are
we
making
in
that
space?
So.
E
What
the
actual
there's
a
set
of
perceived
challenges
that
property
managers
bring
in
around
challenges
that
might
come
up,
and
so
many
of
them
default
to
no,
instead
of
seeing
we're
going
to
help
them
get
to
yes
and
that's
going
to
be
what
this
new
employee's
job
is
going
to
be
working
in
partnership
with
BHA
and
the
mayor's
office
of
housing.
F
F
You
can't
raise
a
family
in
a
studio,
I'm,
sorry
to
say
you
could
try,
but
it's
not
not
happy
situation
so
working
with
the
bpda
to
try
and
you
know
really
flag
up
that
we're
trying
to
build
a
15-minute
sort
of
accessible,
supportive,
neighborhoods
and
Community
across
the
city
for
families,
and
that
includes
that
includes
play
spaces
appropriately
sized
apartments
and
then
availability
of
daycare.
F
E
E
D
E
F
Another
portion
of
very
good
and
then
the
other
question
I
had
was
just
about
photo
day
phone
day
care
and
the
sense
of
not
everyone
is
access.
Access
to
like
before
and
after
care,
but
in
family
day
cares.
They
tend
to
be
some
of
the
folks
who
actually
do
provide
food
daycare.
Is
there
because
I
do
I,
do
hear
that
there's
gaps
in
that
system
and
what's
the
sort
of
status
on
that
you
know,
drop
off
pick
up
the
whole
day?
E
So
in
schools,
what
we're
doing
is
6.5
hours,
which
is
not
enough,
and
so
that's
why
we're
working
to
make
sure
that,
there's
before
and
after
school
care,
that's
licensed
in
all
of
our
buildings
for
young
children,
so
that
that's
sort
of
One
Piece.
The
piece
that
we've
got
in
our
community-based
space
is
that's.
That's
where
the
Staffing
crisis
is
when
I
talk
to
folks
who
are
our
partners
right
now
they
can
only
staff
9
to
4.
they
they
cannot.
E
They
have
not
been
able
to
go
back
to
their
pre-covet
hours
because
they
don't
have
the
staff,
and
so
it's
it's
both
number
of
classrooms,
open
number
of
kids
in
a
classroom
and
then
the
amount
of
hours
that
they're
able
to
be
open-
and
some
of
them
are
a
little
bit
better.
Some
of
them
like
8
30
to
4,
but
they're,
not
able
to
do
that.
Full
spectrum,
never
mind
our
non-traditional
shift
hours,
so
so
that
is
the
piece
that
we're
working
on
them
with
and
then
for
family
child
care.
F
E
In
the
last
year
or
two,
we've
brought
in
27
new
family
child
care,
we're
also
working
with
the
office
of
Economic,
Development
and
opportunity
on
the
space
grants
to
help
some
of
our
family
child
care
providers
become
centers.
Many
of
them
would
like
to
do
that,
so
the
space
Grant
will
walk
them
through
that
process
and
we're
going
to
be
documenting
it
so
that
we
can
then
use
that
information
with
other
family
child
care
providers
to
help
them
go
through
that
process.
E
G
My
opening
remarks,
I
I,
asked
about
the
Outreach
and
engagement
and
I
think
that
Council
Louisiana,
you
know,
prompted
a
little
bit
more
of
that,
but
I
want
to
go
back
to
it,
because
I
find
that
and
I'm
going
to
focus
a
little
bit
on
recent
arrivals
people
who
have
just
come
to
this
country,
they're
still
trying
to
acclimate
and
learn
about
the
American
education
system.
So
I'm
curious
what
kind
of
Outreach
you're
doing
to
that
very
specific
population.
Sure.
E
Two
different
ways
that
we're
working
with
that
specific
population,
one
is
through
countdown
to
kindergarten
and
our
partnership
with
them.
I
think
that
you
had
to
step
out
during
my
initial
comments
and
one
of
the
things
that
we're
working
with
them.
Them
is
not
only
recruiting
and
re-establishing
our
play
groups
across
the
city,
because
a
lot
of
them
had
to
close
during
covid,
but
also
thinking
about
using
those
spaces.
G
No
I
appreciate
that,
because
I
know
when
you're
struggling
to
make
your
ends
meet,
you
don't
have
the
luxury
of
going
to
a
play
group
and
all
the
time
or
the
in
many
ways.
That's
a
low
priority.
So
I'm,
you
know
and
I'm
happy
to
hear
that
they're
going
to
be
doing
a
Capstone.
G
But
beyond
that,
what
what
data?
And
what
information?
Do
you
know
about
different
types
of
techniques
for
retail
arrivals
like
to
engage
those
who
have
just
arrived
here
like
come
down
to
kindergarten
happens
at
a
very
specific
time.
These
folks
are
coming
in
after
the
enrollment
season,
so
I'm
really
curious
about
that
catchment
area.
D
G
Support
some
of
our
more
newly
arrived
families,
because
the
more
we
see
people
in
the
migration
you
know
situation.
These
are
the
folks
who
are
coming.
Sometimes
they
are
giving
birth
on
their
way
here
right.
So
I
just
think
that
there's
something
for
us
to
get
ahead
of
yep
and
I
would
be
happy
to
work
with
your
office
around.
How
do
we
engage
the
specific
population
because
I
see
so
many
moms
who
are
young
and
have
no
idea
that
they
have?
You
know
access
to
this
as
an
opportunity
for
child
care
that.
E
Would
be
fantastic,
we
also
will
be
coming
to
you,
probably
in
September,
with
an
acceptance
spend
request.
We
Ayanna
Presley's
office
was
able
to
get
us
a
million
dollar
earmark
in
last
year's
budget
and
that
money
is
to
use
primarily
for
homeless
families
to
ensure
that
they
receive
the
funding
that
they
need
immediately
to
put
their
children
in
early
childhood
programs.
E
It
takes
about
30
days
to
get
a
voucher
processed,
even
though
our
homeless
families
are
our
number
one
priority,
and
so
we're
going
to
be
working
with
a
group
of
providers
to
try
and
match
families
as
they
arrive
and-
and
this
is
an
area
that
we're
going
to
actually
have
some
extra
Federal
funding
to
be
able
to
focus.
G
On
I'm
excited
about
that,
because
what
I
have
seen
in
the
education
space
is
that
those
who
have
access
to
information
are
always
the
ones
who
get
all
the
resources
and
those
who
need
it.
The
most
are
the
last
to
find
out.
So
this
is
an
area
of
interest
for
me
and
I'm
excited
to
work
alongside
your
office
to
help
amplify.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
your
hard
work,
really
looking
forward
to
this
year's
partnership.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Let's
see
what
I've
got
my
long
list
of
things
here.
F
The
again
I
think
it's
back
to
that
sort
of
idea
about
the
about
how
we
have
this
tapestry
of
of,
like
let's
call
it
a
quote:
that's
more
of
a
quilting
than
a
tapestry
of
of
services
across
the
city,
and
one
thing
that
is,
that
intersection
between
BPS
and
bcyf
and
and
then
early
early
childhood,
and
then
the
connection
between
our
our
providers
is
there.
Are
there
ways
that
we
can
actually
improve
the
sort
of
I
know
cancer
from
here
talks
a
lot
about.
F
E
One
of
the
ways
that
we're
working
on
the
navigation
is
definitely
with
our
enrollment
platform.
We
also
have
put
on
our
website
all
of
the
different
city
resources
from
a
family
perspective,
and
this
is
where
the
advisor
group
that
councilor
Mejia
just
referenced
was
really
helpful.
They
helped
us
think
about
what
are
all
the
city,
things
that
as
a
parent
or
a
caregiver
I
might
want
to
find
in
one
place
and
then
point
to
them,
because
you
don't
have
time
when
you
have
young
children
in
particular
to
be
curating
your
own
set
of
resources.
E
So
if
you
could
go
somewhere
where
they've
been
curated
for
you,
or
at
least
the
ones
that
are
the
most
important,
so
housing
education,
Medical
Care
things
like
car
seat
installing
you
know
the
things
that
that
families
have
top
of
mind.
So
we've
tried
to
start
curating
that
and
then
that's
really
what
this
family's
first
group
of
folks
is
going
to
help
us
with,
which
is
what
are
the
kinds
of
things
that
families
need
to
have
access
to?
E
How
do
we
tell
them
about
them
and
put
them
in
one
place
so
that
they
can
find
them
and
then
come
back
to
it
as
their
needs
change,
because
your
needs
as
a
family
do
change
over
time?
Sometimes
we
we
have
young
people
who
have
special
needs.
Sometimes
our
children
just
get
older
like
things
change,
and
so
you
need
different
resources.
F
And
then
the
other,
the
other
question
I
had
was
related
to
councilor
nara's
question
about
you
know:
children
with
special
needs,
children
with
disabilities
in
terms
of
access
to
play
groups
and,
and
just
so
that
they're
not
treated
as
honor
that
they
a
more
integrated
model
are.
Are
we?
Is
there
a
focus?
You
know
we're
talking
about
a
smaller
group,
obviously,
but
how
are
we
addressing
that
issue?.
E
Yeah,
so
we've
been
working
with
countdown
to
kindergarten
and
the
office
of
Early
Childhood
special
education,
which
is
its
own
special
unit
at
BPS,
to
be
thinking
about
co-locating
play
groups
so
that
children
have
the
same
spaces
to
begin
playing
together.
As
I
mentioned
earlier,
we
are
working
on
building
out
an
inclusion
pathway
within
our
community-based
setting,
so
really
thinking
about
keeping
young
people
in
community.
E
A
A
O
You
Council
I
already
have
four.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
My
only
question
I
think
we
in
the
vein
of
the
surround
care
for
special
needs
students,
I
kind
of
heard,
a
little
bit
about
what
you're
thinking
in
terms
of
the
de-letting
and
what
are
some
of
the
structural
things
that
need
to
happen.
But
programming
wise.
Is
there
anything
that's
happening
on
the
programming
level?
Aside
from
what
you
just
mentioned,
to
councilor
Braden's
answer.
E
O
E
So
there's
two
things
legislatively
at
the
state
level:
we've
partnered
with
Marjorie
Decker
to
be
focused
on
increasing
access
for
homeless
families.
So
there's
the
funding
that
we're
getting
from
the
federal
government
to
expedite
that
process.
But
we're
also
really
working
with
the
state
house
and
with
eec
to
actually
remove
those
procedural
barriers
so
that
families
are
getting
access
to
care
that
it
is
easier
to
get
that.
It
feels.
O
O
A
You
thank
you
so
much
Madam
director
I
think
that
our
time
here
is
up.
If
my
colleagues
don't
have
any
other
questions,
we'd
like
to
relieve
you
and
move
on
to
women's
advancement
to
my
colleagues,
do
you
have
any
any
final
questions?
A
A
We'll
go
straight
to
their
need
for
a
break,
we're
good
all
right
to
the
city
of
Boston
women's
advancement.
We
are
joined
by
Alejandra
Valdez.
You
have
the
floor
for
your
presentation.
I
Thank
you
so
much.
My
remarks
says
morning,
but
now
I
have
to
change
them
to
actually
it's
no
longer
morning.
I
Thank
you
so
much
Sherwin
Anderson
and
all
the
counselors
who
are
here
present.
It's
my
pleasure
today
to
be
here
today
and
present
and
specifically
talk
about
MOA
and
our
fy24
and
for
those
at
home,
MOA
stands
for
mayor's
office
of
women's
advancement.
As
you
will
hear
me
say,
those
acronyms
throughout
my
presentation
want
to
make
sure
that
I
stayed
at
the
beginning.
I
What
they
stand
for
I
would
like
to
take
this
moment
to
thank
my
team
for
the
overall
support
of
putting
this
budget
together
and,
most
of
all,
everything
that
they
do
to
make
sure
that
we
are
running
every
single
day
and
for
all
of
you
and
our
mayor
for
continuing
support
in
our
office.
This
year
our
office
has
taken
a
new
Focus,
which
I
will
go
a
little
bit
into
depth
a
little
bit
later,
as
I
get
into
the
details,
specifically
around
health,
which
I'm
something
that
I'm
really
excited
about.
I
I
I
As
we
specifically
focusing
on
a
salary
negotiations,
there
was
a
lot
of
questions
at
the
beginning
and
specific,
a
lot
of
focus
on
this
issue:
moa's
continuous
efforts
to
financially
Empower
and
educate
and
train
women.
From
all
year
this
fiscal
year
we
have
partnered
with
the
worker
empowerment
cabinet
to
continue
to
elevate
our
workshops
and
offer
one
in
person
and
three
virtual
wage
negotiation
workshops
this
spring,
while
at
the
same
time
we
are
continuing
to
host
and
we
have
hosts,
in
the
past
credit
building
workshops
and
a
retirement
workshop
with
Center
for
work
and
families.
I
As
we
continue
to
tackle
this
issue,
we
are
also
continuing
our
developer
education
program
to
assure
that
we
are
educating
our
residents
and
just
to
dive
a
little
bit
more
into
our
salary
negotiation
workshops
and
it'll
last
budget
cycle.
One
of
the
things
that
I
focused
a
lot
and
I
spoke
of
was
I
really
wanted
to
look
into
what
it
will
look
like
for
us
to
break
the
Sally
negotiations
down
into
sectors
and
specifically
focus.
And
how
do
we
look
into
those
who
are
going
from
that?
I
Second
job,
like
Council
of
Mejia
asked
earlier,
and
those
who
are
looking
into
a
second
type
of
career
path
and
that's
exactly
the
work
that
we're
focusing
on
with
the
the
cabin
of
worker
empowerment
is.
How
do
we
look
at
that?
I
Language
is
a
big
Focus
as
well
to
making
sure
that
in
language
is
not
a
barrier
for
anyone
to
not
take
one
of
our
classes
and
our
Focus.
Specifically,
we
have
an
amazing
partnership
with
the
Boston
women's
Workforce,
Council
short
for
bwwc,
which
is
a
public
partnership
to
continue
to
allow
as
engagement
with
private
employers,
and
then
this
year
alone,
we,
the
BWC,
has
been
able
to
sign
a
little
bit
over
200
or
just
in
total.
Over
200
employers.
I
Not
just
give
some
very
high
level
numbers
that
they
shared
with
us
in
preparation
for
the
hearing
compact
science,
as
of
July
1st
2022
to
June
30th
2022.,
a
total
of
115
employees
and
I'll
break
it
down
by
sector
of
companies.
I
Technology
salary.com
has
is
a
new
compact
signer,
which
has
115
employees,
public
sector,
Commonwealth,
Corporation,
Mass
Commission
in
the
status
of
women,
Massachusetts
political
caucus,
Finance
being
Capital
architecture,
construction,
engineering
and
real
estate,
pay
it
to
seeking
the
bullfish
companies
and
overall
we're
a
totals.
11
new
compact
sign
is
representing
2
900
employee
four
employees
across
five
different
Industries.
I
Support
group
that
was
just
recently
launched
and
is
this.
Is
this
program
is
being
facilitated
by
love,
your
menses,
which
is
a
local
nonprofit
in
the
city,
and
that
focused
a
lot
on
postpartum
health
education,
as
well
as
menstrual
education
in
Boston,
but
also
International,
as
well
the
program
and
support,
and
specifically
to
educate
Boston
residents,
particularly
black
and
brown
women
who
have
recently
given
birth
or
are
expecting
to
give
birth,
and
is
there
to
create
a
safe
space
for
people
experiencing
pregnancy
and
postpartum?
I
A
little
bit
of
breakdown
of
the
current
participants
that
we
have
in
the
pilot,
mainly
from
Dorchester
High,
Park,
Mattapan
and
JP,
primarily
black
or
African-American,
Hispanic,
latinx
or
Asian.
55
of
the
participants
are
currently
pregnant.
55,
sorry
and
45
are
in
the
postpartum
period.
Every
week
is
a
different
topic.
This
week
is
about
healthy
eating
and
healthy
practice.
I
Last
week
it
focused
very
much
on
sleeping
patterns
and
the
week
before
it
was
focused
a
lot
on
self-care
and
how
to
move
forward
and
find
support
system.
We
are
really
much
looking
forward
to
continuing
this
work
is
something
that
we're
starting
new
about
video.
We
have
received
a
lot
of
great
feedback
from
the
community
and
moving
on
to
our
representation
Focus
our
extraordinary
women,
which
we
do
every
year
during
women's
history
month
and
I.
Thank
all
of
you
for
all
your
support
during
the
event
and
during
that
whole
month,
as
well.
I
This
year
in
March,
we
received
over
200
nominations
from
residents
and
over
50
nominees
were
selected
from
various
neighborhood
Industries
and
backgrounds.
That
highlighted
and
celebrated
our
first
annual
extraordinary
women
event
in
the
city
and
almost
every
neighborhood
was
represented.
I
Not
every
neighborhood,
but
I
wanted
to
mention
that
the
neighborhoods
that
were
not
represented
with
a
village,
Beacon,
Hill,
downtown
west
end
and
and
the
reason
why
wasn't
there
was
no
nomination
forms
from
residents
as
this
is
all
nomination
German
and
we
had
the
chance
to
also
host
a
women's
round
table
which
was
so
amazing
to
be
able
to
connect
with
community
members
and
just
talk
about
everyday
issues.
Women
face
in
our
city
and
Main
topics
and
conversations,
including
mental
health,
child
care
and
safety,
and
then
to
finish
my
work.
I
It's
our
domestic
violence
and
training
for
vet
clinics.
This
was
a
line
item
that
was
in
our
budget
last
year
and
questions
were
asked
as
to
what
what
are
we
focusing
on
when
it
comes
to
specific
funding.
I
am
happy
to
come
and
report
that
the
fundings
are
be
used
that
we're
partnering
with
the
office
of
animal
care
and
control,
we're
going
to
be
offering
an
hour
one
on-site
training
to
assist
veterinarians
and
staff
to
understand,
potentially
recognized
domestic
violence
and
Veterinary
clinical
settings
and
connect
them
with
safety
and
support
services.
F
I
I
had
a
particular
question
really
about
the
postpartum
education.
I
know
this
is
a
pilot,
the
post
as
a
pilot
Workshop
that
you're
developing
the
are
we
working
with.
F
You
know
the
Boston
Public,
Health,
Department
and
and
other
organizations
to
help
with
input
on
that,
because
we
do
hear
you
know,
we
hear
these
extraordinary,
extraordinarily
tragic
incidents
of
all
women
with
postpartum
depression
who
commit
suicide
and
also
bring
a
children
with
them
when
they're
going
that
doing
that,
how
what
sort
of
Partnerships
do
we
have
and
then
the
other
question
was
really
with
our
incredible
medical
institutions.
We
had
a
recent
conversation
about
Partnerships
and
Community
benefits
in
relation
to
Pilot,
with
all
these
ads
and
meds
in
our
city.
F
Are
we
exploring
ways
to
partner
with
with
medical
institutions
to
help
bolster
the
the
actual
structure
of
support
for
women,
postpartum,
pre
and
postpartum
women,
and
then
also
the
those
early
days
when
a
young
family,
a
mom,
has
a
young
child
at
home
and
it
can
seem
overwhelming
and-
and
you
know,
follow-up
care
like
we
don't
have
a
model
for
what
we
call
a
health
visitor
in
Boston
or
and
it's
sort
of
rare
where,
where
the,
when
the
care
would
follow
the
mom
home
for
a
period
of
a
month
or
two
to
make
sure
everything's
going
well
and
then
also
well,
baby,
screening
etc,
for
we
tend
to
focus
a
lot
of
that
in
in
the
pre
in
the
pediatric
office.
F
But
it's
very
difficult
to
get
access
to
Pediatric,
Care
and
primary
care
of
All
Sorts
at
the
moment.
So
your
thoughts
on.
I
That
yeah,
no,
of
course,
I,
will
start
with
your
first
question
on
partnership
with
bphc
we.
This
is
a
before
we
even
initiated
the
pilot.
We
made
sure
that
we
connected
in
meetings
and
I
will
partner
with
them
to
make
sure
that
we
are
aligned
together
and
what
we're
offering
in
the
service
being
offered.
Since
we
know
that
Boston
Public
Health
commission
also
have
Healthy
Babies
initiatives
and
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we're
aligned.
I
So,
yes
to
the
to
the
answer
that
we
are
connected
in
partnership
with
the
Boston
Health
commission
and
then
to
the
other
comment,
it's
something
that
we
have
conversations
with:
Austin
medical
specifically,
whether
they're
in
the
myth,
light
unit
and
now
they're,
offering
a
program
specifically
for
black
and
brown
women
in
the
city
of
Boston
to
get
Doula
services
and
cares,
and
we
initiated
conversations
with
them
as
well
as
other
groups
that
Focus
specifically
on
this
on
your
point
and
offering
those
services
and
having
opportunities
to
be
able
to
have
that
support
system.
I
F
And
oh,
yes,
the
wage
inequity
like
are
we
making
any
progress
on
I,
know
script
that
we
have
this
compact
with
with
these
private
employers?
Are
we?
What
are
we
at
in
terms
of
the
wage
comparisons
for
men
and
women,
and
then
also
women
of
color
in
where,
where
are
we
at
progress.
I
Unfortunately,
not
not
right,
I
think
that's
something
that
every
day
and
I
and
I
make
a
lot
of
emphasis
on
the
compact
centers,
because
there's
a
lot
of
private
institutions
that
hold
up
a
lot
of
our
residents
who
work
in
them
and
the
importance
to
be
able
to
assure
that
we
are
engaging
and
actually
diversifying
by
sector,
to
making
sure
that
we
have
different
focuses
on
different
sectors
and
companies
that
are
assigned
to
be
compact
signers.
I
This
is
something
that
and
not
just
in
partnership
with
the
Boston
warm
Workforce
Council,
but
every
Equity
cabin
as
a
whole.
We
have
those
conversations
as
to
what
else
can
we
be
doing
to
focus
on
the
gender
racial
wage
Gap,
but
also?
What
are
we
doing
to
close
it
right?
I
We
can
focus
on
hosting
our
style
negotiation
classes
and
focusing
on
educating
residents
and
providing
more
information
and
how
to
make
sure
that
we're
building
our
residents
and
building
those
who
identify
as
women
to
make
sure
they
have
the
power
in
their
hands
to
negotiate
their
salaries,
to
help
us
close
that
wage
Gap,
but
also
looking
at
overall.
What
are
lawyers
doing
to
help
us
also
do
this
so
I
think
this
is
also
a
broader
conversation
as
to
how
do
we
bring
in
employers
to
the
table?
To
also
have
these
conversations
as
well
we're.
F
In
a
very
tight
tight
labor
market
at
the
moment,
so
people
are
really
sick
of
going
out
looking
for
staff
all
over
the
place,
you
know.
Are
we
having
a
conversation,
because
one
of
the
key
issues
is
child
care
and
many
women
reduce
their
hours
because
they've
got
Child
Care
committed
commitments?
Are
we
exploring?
You
know
talking
to
employers
about
providing
on-site
child
care
in
their
if
they
have
a
large
number
of
women
in
their
Workforce.
I
Yeah
we
have
some
employers
that
we
have
been
picking
their
brains
from
the
compact
signers
that
actually
do
offer
Child
Care
on
site.
It's
something
that
we're
very
much
exploring
and
see
the
difference
if
an
employer
does
offer
Child
Care.
Does
that
increase
the
amount
of
women
who
apply
or
who
are
in
other
positions
in
that
company?
So
it's
definitely
something
that
we're
looking
into
very.
A
G
Madam
chair
and
thank
you
Alex
for
all
your
hard
work.
It
is
deeply
appreciated.
I'm,
just
curious
if
you
can
explain
why
the
analytics
team
did
not
submit
an
FY,
23
projections
or
fy24
targets
for
these
measures
like
was
there
for
which
measures
I'm
sorry
for
some
of
the
I,
don't
know
what
this
is
about
in
regards
to
like
the
specifics
around
some
of
the
out
the
lines
of
okay.
G
I
That
so
it's
a
team
effort
from
OBM
to
the
cabinet
as
a
whole
and
us
as
an
individual
office.
That's
how
we
work
all
year,
along
with
our
budget
analysts
and
OBM,
to
be
able
to
come
up
with
this
budget.
So
obviously
it's
definitely
a.
D
I
Yeah
we
hosted
our
a
series
of
listening
sessions
in
the
fall
to
be
able
to
receive
feedback
from
community
members
as
to
what
what
do
they
think
from
our
current
stake
of
work?
What
can
we
do?
What
can
we
be
doing
better?
What
new
initiatives
can
we
do,
and
this
is
where
a
lot
of
the
work
focused
specifically
on
that
bucket
of
health
and
their
rearranging
our
science
negotiations,
came
from
one
of
the
things
that
again
my
opinion
that
we
think
of
is
we
did
host.
We
did
share
a
survey
Citywide.
I
The
survey
only
received
a
little
bit
over
500
responses.
In
my
opinion,
it
was
not
very
much
reflective
of
anyone
who
identified
as
a
woman
Institute
of
the
city,
so
we
are
going
to
be
relaunching
that
to
be
able
to
make
sure
that
we
are
getting
enough
data
to
be
able
to
reflect
the
program
that
we
have
in
our
office.
That's
great,
that's
great.
Can.
G
You
just
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
I
used
to
be
on
the
women's
commission.
Is
that
still
functioning?
Unfortunately?
No,
it's
not
okay.
I
didn't
that's
not
my
fault.
I
just
want
you,
but
I
I
am
curious
about
just
in
terms
of
who
are
your
key
stakeholders
in
terms
of
what's
trending
and
how
you
define
what
your
goals
and
objectives
are.
G
I
know
you
have
Community
input,
but
I
I
think
about
some
of
these
areas
that
are
not
so
traditional,
like
I,
think
about
domestic
violence,
I
think
about
issues
of
not
just
financial
literacy,
but
also
kind
of
like
stability,
social
and
emotional
and
mental.
You
know
well-being.
What
are
you
doing
around
some
of
those
issues?
Yeah.
I
I
Conversations
like
with
love
your
menses
or
Sasha,
a
good
friend
from
reproductive
Equity,
now,
and
also
focusing
on
Partners,
like
on
the
Boston
Health,
commission
and
other
internal
Partnerships
as
well,
is
so
important
to
have
those
conversations.
And
there
are
so
many
areas
that
we
can
definitely
start
thinking
and
focusing
from
that's.
Why
it's
so
important
to
making
sure
that
we
are
only
not
not
just
doing
the
work
but
also
listening
right
and
then
thinking
how
we're
going
to
develop
that
and
develop
programming
around
it
and.
G
I
Star
specific,
with
our
training,
so
you
would
look
like
in
the
number
of
women
that
we
are
able
to
train
through
this
High
negotiation
workshops.
As
you
all
know,
our
side
negotiation
workshops
have
basically
they
sort
of
been
slowed
down
since
the
pandemic.
Since
we
switched-
and
we
are
no
longer
with
our
the
first
initial
partner
that
initiated
the
work
now
is
basically
that
we
are
starting
to
revamp
that.
I
So
a
success
specifically
on
that
line
would
look
like
on
the
number
of
women
who
are
able
to
train
by
the
end
of
these
classes,
specifically
on
our
new
sector
of
health,
and
our
postpartum
will
be
the
amount
of
pile
or
amount
of
programs
that
we're
able
to
offer
and
the
amount
of
women
that
were
able
to
help
and
support,
as
well
as
when
it
comes
to
our
work
with
the
Boston
women's
Workforce
Council.
G
G
A
Thank
you,
Consular.
You
have
before.
O
O
Well,
actually,
I
have
two
things
now,
just
mostly
because
in
your
initiatives,
economic
equity
is
one
of
your
focuses
and
I'm
really
excited
about
salary,
new
wage
negotiation,
the
women's
Workforce
Council,
even
the
extraordinary
women,
but
what
I
find
and
what
I
found
at
least
when
I
was
a
young
professional
as
a
woman
was
that
a
lot
of
these
spaces
that
were
meant
for
economic
equity
or
like
economic,
economic
Mobility
for
women
were
focused
on
women
that
were
maybe
already
in
the
workforce
and
already
connected,
and
so
I
find
myself
being
like.
O
O
The
data
that
we
pulled
was
that
the
largest
concentration
of
people
who
are
living
under
the
poverty
line
are
women
between
ages
to
18
to
35.,
and
so
how
are
we
reaching
women
who
live
in
public
housing,
women
who
are
poor
and
working-class
women
who
maybe
are
not
connected
to
these
professional
networks
of
women
who
are
kind
of
like
you
know,
on
the
already
on
the
upward
Mobility?
When
you
talk
about
economic
equity,.
I
O
As,
as
you
know,
I
am
a
home-birthing
mother
and
have
really
through
my
work
at
the
Boston
Public
Health
commission,
with
the
reach
Coalition
and
now
with
the
neighborhood
birth
center,
been
really
really
trying
to
push
this
conversation
about
black
maternal
Health
infant
mortality
in
the
city
of
Boston,
you
came
to
visit
the
future
location
of
the
neighborhood
birth
center,
which
I
was
really
excited
about,
but
I
am
curious
about
a
lot
of
the
funding
that
you
have
here
is
for
your
own
programming.
O
In
terms
of
capacity
with
Staffing,
would
it
look
like
what
what
is
your
capacity
I
know
you
have
five
ftes.
So
can
you
tell
me
a
little
bit
about
what
those
five
ftes
cover
and
if
you
wanted
to
maybe
have
a
grant
program
that
came
out
of
the
office
of
women
advancement
for
these
kind
of
organizations?
What
would
you
need
in
terms
of
Staffing
yeah.
I
Currently,
I'll
do
a
quick
rundown
of
our
ftes.
We
have
an
office
manager
Lobby,
which,
right
now
she
is
on
maternal
leave,
we're
really
excited
for
her.
We
have
our
Communications
and
Outreach
manager.
We
are
currently
hiring
we're
looking
at
resumes
right
now
for
a
policy
director
and
we
have
a
job
post
and
please
share
for
program
manager
for
our
office
and
then
me,
so
that's
sort
of
our
Focus
as
our
office
tackles
on
more
issues
and
more
initiatives.
O
Thank
you.
That's
that's
really
helpful
I!
Think
for
for
me,
the
most
important
part
of
having
this
conversation
is
that
one
black
and
brown
women
have
an
incredible
amount
of
wisdom
when
it
comes
to
child
birth
and
particularly
what
they
need,
knowing
the
experience
that
they
have
in
hospital
birth.
O
But
there's
not
a
lot
of
information
out
there
about
what
options
are
available
for
them
in
terms
of
out
of
Hospital
birth,
and
there
is,
if
we're
going,
to
provide
right
like
there's
a
lot
of
conversation
that
says
that
if
we
build
it,
they'll
come
right,
there's
going
to
be
a
first
freestanding,
neighborhood
birth
center,
and
that
means
that
the
black
and
bright
is
going
to
be
in
Roxbury.
The
black
and
brown
women
obviously
are
going
to
go.
But
there
is
a
lot
of
work
that
we
have
to
do.
Programming
wise
to
kind
of
shift.
O
The
Narrative
around
out
of
Hospital,
birth
and
I.
Think
that
there's
an
opportunity
here,
particularly
when
you're
talking
about
postpartum
education
and
the
support
group,
to
add
some
programming
that
really
focuses
on
shifting
perceptions
about
birth
and
birthing
for
birthing
people
in
the
city.
I
have
no
other
questions.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
L
Have
before
thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
director
Valdez
for
all
of
the
work
that
you
do
I.
My
first
question
really
was
just
going
to
say
thank
you
for
the
work
that
you
do,
especially
around
Metro
Equity.
As
you
know,
captain
and
I
held
a
hearing
about
how
we
can
continue
to
build
out
that
work
and
provide
more
products
in
our
municipal
buildings
and
our
schools
to
address
menstrual
Equity
to
address
period.
Poverty
love
the
partnership
that
your
office
has
been
doing
with
love
your
menses.
L
So
can
you
talk
a
bit
about
how
that
budget
expands,
how
this
budget
expands
upon
that
work
of
providing
more
mental
products
in
our
municipal
buildings
to
our
neighborhoods,
especially
as
we
think
about
period,
poverty
and
low
income,
black
and
brown
neighborhoods
yeah.
I
Of
course
So.
Currently,
we
are
still
working
on
sort
of
what
what
they
look
like
we
right
now.
That
part
is
not
included
in
our
in
our
new
in
our
FY
24
budgeting
ass
as
we're
looking
to
launch
the
program
and
gather
data
to
see
how
it
goes
if
we
are
in
the
needs
of
looking
for
more
funding
for
that
specific
program,
it's
something
that
we
are
always
looking
in
and
they've
been
looking
for,
grant
opportunities,
other
opportunities
to
bring
in
more
fun
for
that
specific
area.
I
I
We're
expecting
within
I
don't
want
to
give
you
an
exact
date,
but
fairly
soon
we're
just
we're
tying
some
some
knots
on
deliveries
on
installation
that
we
want
to
make
sure
that
they're
ready
to
go
before
we
do
a
full
announcement.
L
Okay,
so
soon,
but
not
soon
enough
for
it
to
be
a
budget,
ask
I'm
sorry,
so
you're
gonna
launch
it
soon,
but
it's
not
soon
enough
for
it
to
be
a
budget
ask
in
this
fiscal
year
in
this
fiscal
year.
So
it
wouldn't
be
something
that
you
would
launch
in
this
calendar
year,
for
example,
because
you
don't
have
it
in
the
budget.
L
Previous,
oh,
yes,
okay,
okay,
all
right!
Thank
you
and
then,
with
respect
to
the
the
domestic
violence,
training
for
vet
clinics.
I.
Think
that's
amazing.
You
know
we
uplifted
the
work
of
a
lot
of
our
non-profits
doing
a
domestic
violence
work
like
Casa,
Mirena,
Shakira's
story,
essential
representative
woman
of
Boston,
a
lot
of
coalition
to
prevent
gun
violence,
a
lot
of
great
organizations
addressing
domestic
violence
and
office,
things
that
this
is
critical
of.
L
When
we're
thinking
about
how
do
we
tackle
the
issue
of
violence
generally
often
times
the
root
cause
is
when
we
look
at
domestic
violence?
So
can
you
can
you
look
at?
Can
you
talk
to
us
a
bit
more
about
what
this
DV
training
is
going
to
look
like
yeah
and
whether
it's
something
that
the
women's
advancement
office
has
done
in
Prior
years?
So.
L
That's
what
I
thought
so
yeah
very
excited
to
hear
about
this
and
that
you're
doing
this
work.
I
It
was
in
line
item
that
was
in
our
budget,
if
I'm
not
mistaken
from
a
couple
budgets
ago,
but
from
having
conversations
with
our
Animal
Care
Unit
and
some
veterinarians
and
community
members.
So
we
really
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we
were
able
to
give
the
funding
really
good
use.
And
specifically,
how
do
we
train
the
vets
in
order
to
make
sure
that
we're
focusing
on
determining
domestic
violence
via
our
pets?
We
are
still
finalizing
final
details
with
our
Animal
Care
units
and
veterinarians.
I
L
Thank
you,
director,
Valdez
I,
look
forward
to
us
expanding
our
project
generally,
because
I
think
there's
important
and
critical
work
that
we
can
do
that.
We've
been
doing
really
to
really
help
support
organizations
that
are
really
addressing
domestic
violence
and
seeing
how
we
can
be
more
useful
with
our
resources.
L
The
last
thing
that
I
want
to
say
on
the
work
that
you've
been
doing
is
whether
your
office
has
done
it
any
work
with
the
state
with
respect
to
or
the
Boston
Public
Health
commission,
with
respect
to
crisis,
pregnancy,
centers
and
related
to
that,
the
work
that
we're
doing
to
make
you
know
we
have
the
hearing.
It
was
both
supposed
to
be
about
menstrual
products
and
about
abortion
care
access
to
abortion.
Medication.
I
A
specifically
that
we
have
now,
but
it's
definitely
something
that
we
would
love
to
explore.
Okay,.
L
I
believe
that
was
the
same
position
that
we
had
during
the
hearing,
so
look
forward
to
continue
working
with
your
office
when
it
comes
to.
You
know
ensuring
that
we
are
active,
doing
what
we
can
to
make
abortion
care
reality
for
more
of
our
families
and
to
get
at
the
issue
of
deceptive
practices
by
our
cpcs,
which
we
also
filed
a
hearing.
L
Order
on
and
have
been
working
with,
the
state
on
so
would
love
to
really
work
with
your
office
to
build
out
what
we
can
do
here
in
the
city
of
Boston
yeah,
director.
A
A
I
Yeah
so,
as
you
can
remember,
our
child
care
work
was
moved
over
which
lived
under
contracted
services,
so
that
was
what
made
the
the
decrease
on
our
contracted.
Services
specifically.
A
And
and
then
can
you
explain
why
there's
an
inconsistency
in
operating
budget
from
FY
21
to
fy24
and
a
few
if
it
was?
This
was
anything
previous
to
your
time.
Obviously,
please
enlighten
me,
given
that
it
went
from
466
thousand
three
hundred
and
fifty
four
dollars
up
to
749
and
sorry.
Forty
nine
thousand
two
hundred
and
eight
dollars,
then
back
to
475
to
and
now
582
in
terms
of
operating
is
this
in
decrease
in
increase
of
Staffing
or
moving
of
programs.
I
Yeah,
it's
more
mainly
on
moving
of
programs.
As
you
can
see
from
last
year's
budget,
there
was
a
huge
decrease
because
of
the
program
moving
over
and
then
now
sort
of
when
we're
at
a
at
a
balance
at
a
stable
budget.
But
I
am
sorry.
I
can't
speak
on
21
and
22,
but
from
my
understanding
is
that,
at
least
in
the
last
two
years,
two
and
a
half
years
it
has
been
due
to
program
moving
out
of
our
office
into
a
new
creation
of
a
new
office.
Thank.
A
You
and
then
your
budgeted
for
five
FTS,
but
can
you
tell
me
currently
presently
what
how
many
do
you
actually
have.
I
Currently,
we
without
Lobby
just
went
on
leave
so
as
of
right
now
is
myself
and
our
Communications
and
Outreach
manager,
and
we
are
hiring
for
two
positions
so.
I
I
A
No
problem,
thank
you
in
your
programming
or
initiatives
you
Encompass
economic
equity,
representation,
safety
and
health.
Can
you
tell
me
how
you
reach
that
conclusion
that
those
are
the
four
priorities
for
now
yeah.
I
I
Obviously,
we
know
that
economic
equity
specifically
broken
down
to
our
salary
negotiation
workshops
and
our
partnership
with
the
women's
Workforce
Council
that
sort
of
been
battles,
our
economic
equity
and
also
how
we're
teaching
specifically
focus
on
focus
on
teaching
women.
Those
identifies
one
and
the
importance
of
economic
equity
in
our
City
Health
came
out
of
a
lot
of
the
conversations
that
we
had
during
our
listening
sessions.
I
Part
of
our
surveys,
and
also
conversations
with
different
Community
Partners
and
organizations
that
sort
of
and
our
focus
on,
postpartum
education
around,
as
well
as
menstrual
equity
and
Iran
I
work
on
representation
is
really
focused
on.
How
are
we
really
uplifting
the
everyday
women
in
our
city
and
representing
them,
and
making
sure
that
they're
being
uplifted
in
our
city
and
the
same
for
safety,
which
is
why
it's
broken
down
into
domestic
violence?
Our
partnership
with
the
Boston
Police
Department
and
cease?
So
that's
sort
of
the
way.
I
But
it's
not
something
that,
like
I
mentioned
earlier,
we're
really
looking
into
relaunching
that
survey
and
refocusing
our
areas
to
making
sure
that
these
buckets
of
work
are
being
representative,
but
those
that
come
in
new
based
on
the
response
are
also
going
to
be
fully
representative
they're.
The
residents
who
live
in
our
city.
Thank.
A
You
you
sort
of
answered
this
second
part,
I,
guess
if
you
are
doing
surveys,
that
is
there
a
need
to
do
a
new
one
and
then
obviously,
who
do
they
represent
so
collecting
demographics
of
the
people
answering
the
surveys.
Of
course,
economic
equity,
health,
safety
and
representation
is
important.
It
would
seem
that
these
are
top
issues
that
are
being
lobbied
and
a
majority
of
people
representing
those
issues
also
may
not
Encompass
all
of
the
demographics
or
representative
of
all
demographics
in
Boston.
A
A
I
think
it's
super
important
so
looking
forward
to
if,
if,
if
in
any
way
that
I
can
support
and
in
terms
of
my
district
but
overall
with
that
conversation
or
that
work
I'm
happy
to
to
do
that
and
I
guess
in
terms
of
economic
equity,
have
we
surveyed
or
have
we
do?
We
have
a
study,
I
guess
the
current
study
that
shows
the
pay
for
the
city,
employees.
I
So
we
personally
have
nod
done
an
internal
survey,
but
I
do
know
that,
based
on
metrics
and
our
our
city
dashboards,
the
information
are
there,
but
we
have
been
definitely
having
conversations
with
the
people's
cabinet
early
on
in
the
year.
As
of
what
it
will
look
like
for
us
to
work
together
and
tackle
some
of
those
questions
and
some
of
those
issues.
A
Not
sure
if
you've
heard
but
there's
been
a
decline
of
people
of
color
and
particularly
women,
black
women
in
the
city
of
Boston
either
getting
fired
or
laid
off
and
wondering
in
different
departments.
I've
received
several
complaints
and
issues
over
the
year.
Actually,
when
I
first
started
and
up
to
now
of
folks
feeling
unfairly
let
go
or
just
just
different
levels
of
I
guess:
communication.
Does
the
city
Implement
anything
to
support
women
of
color
in
mitigating
or
intervening
in
situations
where
there's
conflict.
I
I
think
this
is
something
that
I
mean
I
personally.
Do
want
to
do
not
want
to
give
the
current
the
wrong
information.
I
I
would
definitely
think
this
is
something
that
we're
happy
to
go
back
to
talk
to,
or
people's
cabinet
and
HR,
to
see.
If
there
is
something
there
is
a
program
that
is
being
offered
currently.
A
A
And
so
yeah
I
guess
just
sharing
that
with
you
and
interested.
If
you
are
doing
Equity
economic
equity
work
then
eating
in
all
of
this
salary
negotiation.
How
are
we
being
preventative
and
how
are
we
looking
at
after
our
own
here
in
the
city
departments,
looking
at
the
pay
scale
and
everything
else?
So
if
we,
if
you,
if
you
have
that
or
if
you
don't
have
it
you've
said
you
don't
have
it?
Is
there
an
interest
to
do
that
work?
So
you
can
find
out
how
what's
what
the
numbers
are.
Yeah.
I
I
would
love
to
I
mean
focusing
on
our
own
internally
in
the
area
of
policy
that
we're
definitely
very
interested
in
as
we
expand
our
capacity
and
we
bring
in
our
policy
director
is
definitely
something
that
we
very
much
interested
to
tackle
and
focus
on.
A
Can
you
break
down
in
contracts
what
exactly
you
spend
on
yeah.
I
So
if
I'm
not
mistaken
in
our
contract,
Goods
Services
right
now,
there
should
be
a
total.
If
not
budgeted.
We
have
available
a
hundred
and
three
thousand
nine
ninety
one
dollars
that
we
are
on
track
of
spending
and
focusing
on
on
that
103.
It
was
previously
invested.
50
000
is
that
focusing-
and
there
are
some
pending
charges
on
that
as
well
on
our
wage
Gap
calculator.
I
That
is
our
partnership
with
the
women's
Workforce
Council,
to
help
us
create
a
tool
how
we
can
get
more
companies
and
those
who
are
not
compact,
centers
to
help
calculate
their
data
and
their
employers.
And
then
the
the
rest
of
the
funding
is
specifically
going
to
focus
on
the
creation
of
the
new
salary
negotiation
classes
and
us
being
able
to
pay
for
that
as
well.
As
we
finish
the
fiscal
year.
A
In
the
interest
of
your
mission
to
advance
and
Advocate
and
equal
opportunity
and
Equity,
then
would
you
would
you
say
that
that's
sufficient
in
terms
of
looking
at
different
program,
ideas
to
build
equity
for
women
advancement.