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Dockets #0480-0486 - Fiscal Year 2023 Budget: Immigrant Advancement, Women's Advancement
Held on May 19, 2022
A
For
the
record,
my
name
is
tania
fernandez
anderson,
the
district
7
city
councilor.
I
am
the
chair
of
the
boston
city
council
committee
on
ways
and
means
this
hearing
is
being
recorded
as
being
live,
streamed
at
boston,
dot,
gov
for
slash
city
dash,
council
dash
tv
and
broadcast
on
xfinity
channel
8,
rcn,
channel
82
and
fios
channel
964..
A
The
council's
budget
review
process
will
encompass
a
series
of
public
hearings
beginning
in
april
and
running
through
june.
We
strongly
encourage
residents
to
take
a
moment
to
engage
in
this
process
by
giving
public
testimony
for
the
record.
You
can
do
this
in
several
ways
attend
one
of
the
hearings
and
give
testimony.
A
We
will
take
public
testimony
at
each
department
of
hearing
and
also
add
two
hearings
dedicated
to
public
testimony.
The
full
schedule
is
on
our
website
at
boston.gov
for
slash
council
dash
budget.
Our
scheduled
hearings,
dedicated
to
public
testimony
were
was
on
april
26th
at
6
pm,
and
the
following
will
be
on
june,
2nd
at
6
pm.
You
can
give
testimony
in
person
here
in
the
chamber
or
virtually
via
zoom
for
in-person
testimony.
A
A
Boston.Gov,
when
you
are
called
to
testify,
please
state
your
name
and
affiliation
or
address
and
limit
your
comments
to
two
minutes
to
ensure
that
all
comments
and
concerns
can
be
heard.
Email.
Your
written
testimony
to
committee
at
ccc.wm
and
boston.gov,
submit
a
two-minute
video
of
your
testimony
through
the
form
on
our
website
for
more
information
on
city
council
budget
process
and
how
to
testify.
Please
visit
the
city
council's
budget
website
at
boston.gov
for
slash
council
dash
budget.
A
The
hearing
today's
hearing
is
on
docket
zero.
Four,
eight
zero,
two
zero
four
eight
two
orders
for
the
fy23
operating
budget,
including
annual
appropriations
for
departmental
operations
for
the
school
department
and
for
other
post
employment
benefits,
opeb
docket,
zero.
Four,
a
three
orders
for
capital
fund
transfer
appropriations
stock
is
zero.
Four,
eight
four:
two
zero
four:
eight
six
orders
for
the
capital
budget,
including
loan
orders
and
lease
purchase
agreements.
A
A
note
for
my
colleagues
and
those
listening
during
our
budget
review.
We
try
to
listen
to
many
departments
as
possible,
and
occasionally
this
will
mean
hearing
from
multiple
departments
in
one
hearing,
since
we
are
going
to
be
covering
two
departments
in
this
hearing,
we'll
be
attempting
to
manage
in
the
following
way.
A
A
B
Our
office
has-
and
I
think
I
can
get
this
yeah
our
office-
has
four
areas
of
focus
that
really
guide
how
we
approach
our
work
and
achieve
our
mission,
of
course,
recognizing
that
immigrants
who
live
in
boston
have
a
range
of
experiences
needs
and
contributions
to
make
to
our
communities.
These
four
buckets,
which
you
see
up
on
the
screen,
I
really
see
as
kind
of
keys
of
success
for
our
immigrant
residents.
B
Immigrants
residents
have
to
feel
safe
and
stable
here
and
that's
why,
for
instance,
having
immigration
status
is
just
so
important
for
them
to
thrive.
Economic
integration
being
able
to
have
a
good
paying
job
and
increase
in
in
their
wages
and
wealth
is
obviously
another
really
important
key
to
success.
Social
integration.
B
The
idea
that
you
can
integrate
your
home
identity
with
your
boston,
identity
and
really
feel
at
home
here
in
boston
being
who
you
are
from
back
home,
is
really
important
and
also
when
we
think
about,
for
instance,
mental
health
needs,
which
you
know
every
resident
faces
right.
But
how
is
that
delivered
in
a
culturally
sensitive?
You
know
way
such
that
they
they
really
can
socially
be
stable
and
integrate,
and
then
the
last
piece
is
civic
ownership.
B
Now
our
we
address
these
four
buckets
by
really
as
moya
playing
the
following
four
roles
within
the
city
of
boston,
so
the
first
is
being
a
liaison,
a
really
bridge
between
city
hall
and
our
immigrant
communities.
So
when
and
if
an
immigrant
resident
sees
a
particular
need
or
a
challenge
on
the
ground,
we
want
them
to
connect
with
us
or,
if
they're,
having
challenges
with
a
particular
department
connecting
there.
Then
we
can
be
that
conduit
to
that
department
and
really
help
that
department
get
better
at
serving
our
immigrant
residents.
B
The
third
role
we
play
is
as
an
advocate
and
that's
really
to
publicly
lend
our
voice
the
mayor's
voice,
the
city's
voice
to
our
immigrant
communities
and
recommend
policies
affecting
immigrants
to
the
mayor.
So
a
great
example
of
this
is
the
driver's
license
bill,
which
I
know
so
many
of
you
and,
of
course,
mayor
wu
has
been
a
huge
advocate
for
and
and
I'm
excited
that,
hopefully
it's
going
to
get
passed
soon
and
then
the
last
area
that
we
do
play
a
role
in
is
as
as
a
direct
programmer.
B
But
our
programs
are
really
meant
to
be
designed
in
such
a
way
that
they
are.
We
design
the
program
and
they're
meant
to
create
a
change
reaction
such
that
there's
transformative
change
for
our
immigrant
communities
and
a
great
example
of
that
is
our
immigrant
lead
boston
course.
We've
put
now
39
immigrant
residents
through
this
over
two
years,
and
this
is
a
12-week
course
on
how
the
city
works,
how
the
budget
works
and
they
get
to
meet
with
different
directors
and
chiefs
and
and
and
my
real
hope
is
five
years
down
the
line.
B
We
have
a
bunch
of
100
immigrant
leaders,
many
of
them
serving
on
commissions,
many
of
them
perhaps
applying
for
jobs
and
and
all
of
them
really
communicating
how
city
hall
works
with
their
within
their
own
immigrant
community,
such
that
this.
This
body,
the
city
government,
is
really
in
a
transformative
way
serving
all
of
our
immigrant
residents.
B
In
a
way.
That's
that's,
culturally
competent.
Now,
the
one
thing
our
department
is
not
meant
to
be
is
a
one-stop
shop
and
you
know
for
for
me.
Actually
success
would
be
when
we
didn't
need
a
moya
in
city
government,
because
every
every
department
would
be
amazing
at
being
able
to
serve
all
of
our
immigrant
residents.
B
So
that's
moya's
role.
I
just
want
to
take
a
moment
to
acknowledge
my
staff.
I
really
feel
I
have
the
best
staff
in
city
hall.
You
can
see
their
faces
right
there
over
11
full-time
one
employment
agreement,
one
person,
unemployment
agreement
between
us.
We
have
11
different
ancestries
over
16,
different
languages,
representative
of
our
staff,
and
these
folks
put
in
incredibly
hard
work
for
our
residents,
and
I
just
want
to
thank
them
as
well
as
so
many
of
our
city,
colleagues,
that
have
been
amazing
partners,
as
well
as
community
partners
on
the
ground.
B
But
the
one
thing
I'll
just
say
is
that
we
are
still
recovering
and
our
particular
low-income
immigrants
are
recovering
from
covet,
and
so
the
one
I'll
just
point
out
that
we
did
use
a
million
dollars
of
arpa
money
to
provide
basic
needs
assistance
to
particularly
folks
that
did
not
get
any
federal
benefits
you
know
during
during
covet
and
and,
like
I
said,
there's
a
number
of
other
programs.
I
know
so
many
of
the
counselors
have
been
to,
for
instance,
citizenship,
day
counselor.
I
know
we
recently
counselor
anderson.
B
B
You
know
the
big
storyline
is
that
our
budget
is
going
to
be
growing
by
1.1
million
dollars,
and
that
is
the
most
growth
in
the
history
of
moya,
and
I'm
grateful
to
mayor
wu
for
making
the
largest
investment
into
this
this
office.
Now
I'll
talk
about
specifically
our
three
investments
that
we're
we're
proposing
here
and
the
first
one
is
around
expanding
access
to
immigration,
legal
services
and
here's
the
context
to
that.
B
First
and
foremost,
the
number
one
immigration
legal
help
is
the
number
one
issue
that
our
office
gets
contact
about,
contacted
about
for
constituent
services.
Number
two:
is
you
all
know
about
the
greater
boston
immigrant
defense
fund,
we're
proud,
as
the
city
put
in
100
000,
we're
the
only
public
funder
to
that
fund.
B
A
half
a
million
dollar
investment
and
what
it
would
do
is
essentially
give
grants
to
hire
culturally
competent
attorneys,
hire
paralegals
case
coordinators
and
pay
for
the
doj
accreditation,
training
processes
and,
like
I
said,
building
that
capacity
right
within
the
cbo's
as
opposed
to
the
bigger
legal
aid
organizations.
So
that's
the
first
investment.
The
second
investment
is
our
immigrant
professionals
fellowship.
B
This
is
in
the
medical
industry
at
four
of
the
best
hospitals
in
the
world
to
give
them
the
experience
and
the
pathway
to
enter
into
this.
We
had
10
folks
that
were
part
of
this
pilot.
Five
of
them
have
already
gotten
jobs,
and
we
we're
very
confident
the
rest
will
as
well,
and
what
we're
doing
is
expanding
this
program.
We've
actually
brought
some
other
private
funders
to
it
to
25
folks
now
15
of
them
funded
the
city
of
boston.
B
B
C
C
So,
a
little
bit
over
the
what
the
office
of
women's
advancement
do,
I
wanted
to
bring
just
a
little
bit
of
overview
sort
of
a
refresher
of
what
of
what
we
do.
Our
mission
is
to
promote
gender
equity
by
empowerment
and
empowering
women
and
removing
systematic
barriers
to
their
advantage.
The
way
that
we
do
work
in
the
office
of
women's
advancement
is,
we
focus
in
different
buckets,
one
of
them
being
economic,
equity,
safety
and
empowerment.
C
C
In
that
same
bucket,
we
include
also
our
child
care
survey,
which
our
the
survey
has
helped
us
shape.
The
way
that
we
do
programming
when
it
comes
to
child
care
in
the
city
of
boston
and
of
some
upcoming
projects
that
we
have
is
reshaping
the
the
mayor's
office
of
women's
advancement.
And
how
do
we
see
the
office
moving
forward
in
those
fiscal
year,
but
also?
C
A
little
bit
of
our
work
in
economic
equity,
like
I
mentioned
earlier,
closing
the
wage
gap
in
order
to
solve
complex
problems.
We
must
apply
a
multi-program
approach
and
we
make
sure
that
we
do
that
by
working
with
the
women's
workforce
council,
the
boston
model
is
made
up
of
three
parts,
which
is
employers,
individual
women
and
legislation.
C
The
console
overseas
100
talent,
compact,
a
pledge
business,
is
signed
to
commit
to
access
their
own
data
to
see
the
wage
gap
exists,
and
this
data
helps
us
allow
to
be
able
to
gain
information
as
to
what
are
employers
doing
to
help
us
close
the
gender
wage
gap.
And
what
are
we
as
a
city
and
employers,
doing
to
also
help
and
make
sure
that
we
are
providing
the
appropriate
information
and
also
benefits
to
be
able
to
close
that
gap.
C
C
Recently,
in
collaboration
with
the
women's
workforce
council,
we
have
been
able
to
launch
and
create
the
employer
wage
gap
calculator.
This
has
been
such
an
amazing
project
to
work
on
throughout
the
year
and
also
our
partners
at
bu
and
everyone
from
the
workforce
council
and
the
team
at
women's
advancement
to
help
us
create
this
tool.
C
Some
of
the
data
through
the
women's
workforce
council.
This
are
the
2021
data
findings.
Women
on
average
working
full-time
in
the
greater
boston
area,
make
zero
70
cents
on
the
man's
dollar
30
cents.
An
increase
from
2017
2029
sample
represented
13.5
percent
of
the
workforce,
which
titles
to
150
55
000
employees
happy
to
also
provide
and
send
the
full
report
of
the
women's
workforce
council
and
the
data
to
be
able
to
get
forth.
A
Excuse
me,
miss
valley
feel
free
to
slow
down
a
bit
so
that
the
people
at
home.
You
have
a
lot
of
sometimes
people
that
you
know
with
hearing
issues
or
it's
kind
of
hard
to
listen
to
data
when
you're
going
like
really
fast
like
that,
yeah,
don't
worry
about
the
time!
I'll!
Give
you
more
time.
Thank.
C
Some
of
the
data,
the
numbers
that
I'm
going
to
mention
is
based
on
the
2021
data
findings
from
this
workforce
council
report
that
was
just
released,
0
70
cents
on
a
man's
dollar,
the
average
wage
gap
is
36
cents,
six
cents
increase
from
2017..
Again.
These
reports
are
all
public
and
happy
to
share
with
anyone
who
might
need
access
to
them.
2021
sample
represented
that
13.5
of
the
workforce,
which
is
155
000
employees.
C
I
move
on
to
one
of
the
great
engagements
and
program
that
currently
the
office
do
is
our
sally
negotiations
harvard
policy
analysis.
As
we
all
know,
in
the
past,
the
office
of
women's
advancement
has
been
very
lucky
to
offer
free
salary
negotiations
to
all
women
and
those
who
identify
as
in
the
city
of
boston
and
helping
us
through
that
process.
C
One
of
the
reasons
why
I
wanted
to
come
in
and
look
into
how
do
we
reimagine
our
salary
negotiation
classes
is
to
make
sure
that
we
are
being
accepted,
make
sure
that
we
are
being
supportive
in
all
aspects
and
not
just
focus
on
salary.
We
all
know
that
not
every
single
woman
and
those
who
identify
as
women
are
salary
workers
in
the
city
of
boston.
C
It's
a
little
bit
about
the
program.
It's
a
two-part
program
that
supports
small
women
and
minority-owned
family
child
care,
businesses
in
the
city
of
boston.
It
enhances
child
care,
access
to
boston
families,
and,
like
I
mentioned
before
and
fy23,
the
program
is
moving
to
the
new
office
of
early
childhood
under
human
services.
C
The
program
helps
stabilize
and
assist
new
family
child
care
through
businesses,
offering
a
3
500
grant
and
also
helps
empower
family
child
care,
educators
with
business
skills
for
their
sector
through
a
six
workshop
curriculum,
including
budgeting
contracts
and
record
keeping.
I
do
say
that
the
the
beginning,
when
we
first
started
the
classes
for
the
child
care
entrepreneur
fund,
and
I
thank
all
of
you
for
the
ingo
and
support
and
investment
in
the
program.
C
C
As
to
continue,
why
is
needing,
as
of
september,
2021
boston
lost
13.6
percent
of
its
licensed
child
care
programs
that
were
open
pre-pandemic,
it's
about
72,
family,
child
care
providers
and
20
centers
from
december
2017
to
march
2021.
The
number
of
seats
available
for
children
zero
to
five
years
fell
by
11.3
percent
boston.
Child
care
providers
are
amongst
the
most
vulnerable
workers,
92
percent
are
women.
62
women
of
color
and
39
are
immigrants
and
an
average
earning
of
thirty
three
thousand
a
hundred
and
twenty
dollars.
C
And
a
little
bit
of
the
childcare
entrepreneur
fund
by
the
number,
so
we
have
an
idea
of
exactly
where
the
funds
and
how
many
family
care
products
we
have
helped
and
I'll
go
through
this
in
fy
20
21
participants
participated
in
the
winter
cohort,
which
allowed
us
to
give
73
500
in
grants.
Funding
fy
22
to
date,
22
participants,
summer
fall
cohort,
2021,
47
participants
in
a
spanish-only
winter
cohort
2022,
65
childcare
entrepreneurs
graduated
and
allowed
us
to
give
66
500
in
grant
funding
and
and
total
of
161
to
be
awarded
soon.
C
There's
currently
a
cohort
as
we
speak,
that
is
currently
finishing.
Their
classes,
fy21
50
participants,
participated,
fall
in
the
summer,
fall
35
participate
in
winter
spring,
which
allowed
us
77
child
care.
Entrepreneurs
graduated
in
and
20
in
spanish,
and
that
was
a
full
awarding
of
269
500,
just
in
grant
funding
and
in
fy
22,
which
is
currently
34.
Participants
18
in
spanish
is
currently
ongoing.
C
This
is
a
great
time
for
the
office
as
we
are
looking
to
reimagine
and
reshape
what
the
what
does
our
office
look
like,
and
what
will
our
mission
focus
on,
and
I
really
hope
that
I
can
count
and
work
with
all
of
you
all
when
it
comes
to
when
I
change
in
that
mission
and
working
together,
and
I
look
forward
to
all
your
questions.
Thank
you.
D
Thank
you
for
being
here
thanks
to
the
administration.
I
am.
I
think
that
the
work
you
do
is
incredibly
incredibly
important
as
a
daughter
of
haitian
immigrants.
As
a
woman,
I
know
that
you
all
are
providing
very
vital
services.
So
ms
valdez
I'll
start
with
you
and
question
I
have
is
have
and,
and
apologies-
I
don't
think
you
said
this,
but
if
you
said
this
and
I
missed
it,
apologies
has
there
been
an
internal
study
done
on
city
hall
in
terms
of
the
pay
gap,
any
pay
gap.
D
C
D
Then
the
next
questions
I
have
are
for
yusufi
and
thanks
for
all
the
incredible
work
that
you
do,
it
says
that
we're
there's
a
half
half
a
million
dollars
that
we're
going
to
be
allocating,
in
addition
for
fiscal
year,
23
to
do
capacity
building
and
then
they
would
we'd
have
one
full-time
employee.
What
would
that
full?
Who
would
that
full-time
employee
be
yeah.
B
D
B
We're
also,
at
this
point
considering
a
rocket
docket
workshop
because,
as
you
know,
there's
a
number
of
haitians
brazilians
coming
up
here
and
the
federal
government
is
doing
a
rocket
docket
here
in
the
area,
which
is
basically
a
judge.
That's
processing
these
asylum
cases
in
a
much
much
quicker
way.
E
B
E
E
B
Yeah,
you
know,
we've
actually
explored
that
counselor
and-
and
I
think
the
I
know
previously
when
we'd
spoken
to
legal.
I
think
the
issue
is
the
liability
side
of
it,
which
is
why
we've
instead
decided
on
a
strategy
of
granting
monies
to
the
cbos,
where
they
can
actually
bring
in
lawyers
from
their
particular
backgrounds
right
into
you
know
the
organization.
B
B
B
It's
we're
certainly
looking
at
different
cities
and
what
they've
done
you
know
it's
dependent
on
pro
bono
lawyers.
So
that's,
I
think,
the
big
challenge
with
that
program
right
and
again
for
liability
reasons.
The
city
can't
really
be
in
a
position
to
pay
private
attorneys
to
you
know,
contract
directly
for
that,
but
we're
very
open
to
any
other
ideas
of
how
to
you
know,
begin
to
meet
that
need
because
I
totally
agree
with
you.
It's
it's
the
biggest
need,
and
I
appreciate
you
raising
it.
B
So
for
this
year
and
I'll
get
you
the
exact
numbers.
But
so
let's
don't
quote
me
on
this,
but
I
I
believe
it's
about
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
this
past
year,
but
the
private
funders
have
been
really
clear
that
the
coming
year
there's
not
going
to
be
that
same
amount
of
support,
and
so
I
expect
it
to
dwindle
to
two
to
three
hundred
thousand
dollars.
D
B
I
just
think
we
need,
as
a
city
a
real,
clear
road
map
around
that
such
that
there's
no
one
on
a
waiting
list
that
would
be
the
north
star,
I'd
love
to
shoot
for,
but
we
need
a
real,
clear
plan
and
strategy
around
that.
So
I
personally
don't
feel
like
we're
ready
for
funding
on
that,
but
I
do
think
we
can
spend
this
coming
year.
B
B
You
know
for
this
grant
as
well
and
depending
on
what
we
learn
from
this.
This
process
we're
hoping
to
make
a
couple
of
recommendations
to
bphc
that
get
rolled
up
into
its
mental
health
strategy,
so
that
we
can
also
begin
to
provide
a
more
holistic
way
of
supporting
our
immigrant
residents
around
the
mental
health
issues.
I
think
I
will
say
that
you
know
my
amazing
colleague
miss
waldos
noted
about
child
care
being
a
huge
issue
which
you
know.
I
think
it's
it's.
D
D
B
B
B
This
is
a
collaborative
of
15
immigrant
orgs
that
work
with
the
population
that
you
know
did
not
get
those
federal
benefits
and
they
publicized
the
application,
and
we
publicized
certainly
in
the
in
the
media
and
anyone
was
able
to
contact.
You
know
these
different
orgs
to
to
get
that.
Many
folks
contacted
us,
but
what
I
liked
about
this
program
was
because
it
was
really
these
immigrant
serving
orgs
running
it.
The
application
was
in
their
particular
languages.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
and
thank
you
alex.
Thank
you
for
being
here
a
few
questions,
the
the
child
care
entrepreneurial
fund,
how
many
it's
a
great
program
and
I
really
appreciate
it
and
how
important
it
is,
and
the
family
child
care
providers
are
really
sort
of
the
the
backbone
of
our
system
and
allowing
culturally
competent
and
accessible
child
care
for
many
of
our
immigrant
jobs
for
immigrant
and
and
cr
and
business
opportunities
for
immigrants,
but
also
child
care
for
immigrants.
C
So
we're
doing
a
little
bit
of
both
the
grants
are
titled
to
those
who
are
currently
opening
child
care
providers.
During
our
last
funding,
we
were
able
to
grant
I'm
not
mistaken
and
about
two
who
were
just
opening.
We
have
seen
more
of
the
larger
numbers
for
continuing
supporting,
currently
open
family
child
care
providers
who
are
using
the
funds
specifically
to
help
rebuild
from
covet.
F
Yeah-
and
I
think
you
know
some
of
the
the
help
with
budgeting
and
record
keeping
and
and
developing
good
contracts,
and
it
really
helps
them,
streamline
their
processes
and
and
make
sure
that
they
get
paid
for
the
services
that
they
deliver
in
terms
of
the
salary
negotiation
workshops
they've
been
going
since
about
29
2015,
I
understand,
have
you
been
tracking
the
outcomes
and
do
you
follow
up
with
the
participants
and
who?
Who
enrolls?
In
those
workshops.
C
Yeah
so
the
fam,
the
salary
negotiations
once
and
I'll
backtrack
a
little
bit
once
we
were
during
covet.
They
were
fully
online
and
we
did
see
a
huge
spike
in
the
numbers
of
those
who
actually
took
the
classes,
and
I
think
the
numbers
are
on
the
packet,
but
I'm
I
can
look
at
them
and
re-read
them
again.
C
I
attended
myself
some
of
the
sally
negotiations
and
the
way
that
the
office
follow-up
was
sort
of
in
regards
to
thanking
them
for
coming
and
seeing
how
else
the
office
of
women's
advancement
can
be
supportive
to
those
who
attended,
which
is
something
that
we
are
looking
forward
to
continuing
doing
once
we
restart
the
new
negotiations
in
the
fall.
Okay.
F
And
then
you
sophie,
I
really
appreciate
the
work
and
your
partnership
with
the
gardner
pilot
academy
and
their
adult
education
program
for
our
immigrant
families
to
help
them
learn
english.
So
many
of
our
do
we
have
any
metrics
on
the
number
of
and
the
breakdown
of
english
language
classes
and
whether
the
folks
that
I'm
always
concerned
about
are
the
folks
who
don't
speak
little
or
no
english
and
they're
they're
new
to
the
country.
And
you
really
need
to
be
able
to
get
some
of
those
skills.
B
Yeah
I
mean
right
now,
you
know
counselor
and
I
know
you've
been
championing.
This
somewhere
contributes
fifty
thousand
dollars
to
emb
and
that's
what
we
did
in
2022
and
that
funding
partly
has
helped
not
fully,
of
course,
but
helped
fund
18
esl
programs
serving
approximately
900
immigrants
in
the
city.
B
In
terms
of
the
the
exact
data
that
you're
asking
me,
I
need
to
go
back
to
the
nba
and
exactly
get
that,
but
that's
a
big
reason
that
if
I
were
staying
in
my
position,
I'd
want
to
really
create
that
eosl
roadmap
and
really
get
clear
on
some
of
that
data
kind
of
moving
forward.
But
we'll
we'll
work
to
get
that
for
you.
F
Very
good-
and
I
I
really
appreciate
your
your
commitment
to
what
you
say,
a
clear
plan
and
strategy
for
decreasing
the
waiting
list
for
esl
asol
classes.
Like
I,
I
went
to
a
community
meeting
way
back.
I
think
it
was
a
town
hall
with
congressman
capian
capuano
well
20
years
ago,
and
that
was
the
big
issue
was:
how
do
we
get
english
language
classes
for
folks
who
speak
very
little
english,
so
they
can
really
advance
and
make
progress
as
quickly
as
possible.
F
So
really
appreciate
your
work
and
anything
we
can
do
to
help
elevate
that
plan
and
strategy
and
decreasing
those
waiting
lists
is
really
just.
Let
us
know
what
we
can
do
to
help
the
other.
You
know
I'm
interested,
you
know
the
professional,
the
folks
who
come
in
with
professional
healthcare
backgrounds
and
I'm
a
I
came
as
an
immigrant,
but
I
speak
english
and
I
was
able
to
get
a
job
right.
You
know
I
was.
I
was
hired
from
overseas
to
come
and
work.
F
How
many
folks
are
we
able
to
help
get
get
get
transition?
I
think
you
said
it
in
your
in
your
in
your
presentation
and
and
which
this
is
the
center
for
excellence
and
edu
medical
education
and
care
in
in
the
world
here
in
boston.
How
many
folks
are
managing
to
segue
into
jobs
in
in
the
healthcare
sector
and
and
which,
if
you're,
able
to
share
which
which
healthcare
institutions
are
partnering
with
you
on
that.
B
Yeah,
so
we
had
ten,
we
piloted
a
program
with
ten
folks
right,
four
were
haitian,
one
was
ghanaian,
one
was
ghanaian,
one
was
arab
sudanese
one
was
cameroonian
and
there's
two
nigerians
and
we
so
five
of
them
have
landed
a
job.
I
don't
know
exactly
which
hospital
I
can
figure
that
out
yeah
and
we're
actually
really
confident
with
that.
B
How
do
we
expand
that
to
even
other
industries-
and
I
was
just
talking
to
john
regan
at
associate
industries
of
massachusetts,
and
he
is
saying
that
there's
such
a
labor
shortage
in
a
number
of
different
industries
and
the
key
thing
to
understand
and
why
this
program,
I
think,
is
really
successful.
Is
that
the
the
work
experience
piece
is?
What
really
is
the
limiting
factor
for
most
books?
B
B
F
Really
appreciate
that-
and
you
know
you
hear
anecdotally-
you
hear
stories
of
of
judges
from
some
country.
There
were
a
judge
in
their
own
country
and
they're
here
and
they're
they're
janitors
here
or
you
hear
of
you,
know,
surgeons
working
and
you
know
we
have
a
lot
of
talent
and
a
lot
of
experience
and
finding
ways
to
utilize
that
experience
is
really
really
wonderful.
B
G
G
B
Brazilian
workers
center,
but
no
council,
we
we
we
would
need
to
do
an
an
rfa
process.
Okay,
for
that
those
are
like
we
would
want
to
fund.
I
think
legal
capacity
in
organizations
like
that
only
because
the
most
recent
immigration
into
the
city
has
been-
and
I
shouldn't
most
recent
immigration
in
the
city
with
the
most
vulnerable
needs,
I
should
say-
are
haitians
brazilians
and
central
americans.
B
G
One
one
issue
I
wanted
to
bring
up,
and
I
certainly
support
that
one
issue
I
wanted
to
bring
up
is
is
what
I'm
seeing
frequently
I
was
talking
to
a
gentleman
yesterday.
Actually,
council
flaherty
knows
him
as
well
he's
he
works
with
a
cop
in
his
union,
richard
petey,
richard,
petty
and
he's
he's
he's.
Calling
me
he's
talking
to
me
about
wage
theft
and-
and
I
know
wage
theft
is
a
critical
issue,
especially
impacting
immigrant
workers
into
being
exploited
for
various
reasons,
but
one
of
the
reasons
is
because
of
their
immigration
status.
G
At
times,
I
think
one
of
the
worst
things
you
could
do
in
in
life
is
steal
someone's
wages,
especially
when
that
person
needs
those
wages
just
to
support
a
family,
but
anyway,
I
know
counts.
I
know
attorney
general
maura
healey
has
been
doing
a
lot
of
work
on
this.
I've
been
working
with
the
chinese
progressive
association
on
this
issue
as
well.
B
I
think
it's
such
a
good
question
and
such
an
important
error
in
need.
So
thank
you,
council
for
kind
of
raising
this.
You
know
I
I
think
our
team
can
do
a
little
bit
more
investigation
on
what
we
can
as
a
city
do
around
this.
I
know
when
the
human
rights
commission
was
being
established.
I
was
very
excited
for
that,
because
I
do
think
it
has
the
power
to
call
people
into
hearings,
and
you
know
those
employers
that
are
practicing
these
unscrupulous
practices.
B
G
Be
great
and
that's
something
that's
that's
very
important
and
what
I
know.
What
I
I
also
know
is
a
lot
of
immigrant
workers
are
exploited
not
just
by
refusal
refusal
to
pay
them
their
decent,
their
their
salary
or
their
wage,
but
they're
not
giving
them
the
same
safety
conditions
protections
on
the
job.
So
that's
also
a
major
concern.
So
it's
important
that
we
work
with
businesses
and
in
organized
labor
and
organized
labor
really
advocates
for
all
workers,
regardless
of
their
if
they're
in
a
union
or
not
in
a
union.
G
G
E
G
Okay,
yeah.
That
would
be
helpful
because
I
I
would
like
to
see
that
when,
when
I
look
at
stats,
I
always
see
how
boston
is
measuring
up.
You
know.
I
encourage
businesses
to
hire
returning
citizens
with
the
cory
and
then
but
then
I
also
ask
the
city
of
boston.
What
are
you,
what
are
we
doing
in
terms
of
hiring
returning
citizens
with
the
cory?
So
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
also
you
know
living
up
to
our
our
whatever.
The
word
is.
B
Counselor,
if
I
may
have
wage
theft
issue
right,
I
just
want
to
say
that
that's
why
getting
people
immigration
status
is
such
an
important
strategy
as
well,
because
when
they
don't
have
status,
is
when
they're
really
vulnerable
to
the
wage
staff
issue
as
well.
So
just
and
that's
where
I
think,
the
investment
that
we're
putting
in
here
around
immigration
legal
services
is
actually
a
really
solid
one.
Just
just
that.
Add
to
that.
Okay.
G
Yeah
and
well,
the
other
point
I
was
going
to
make
is
it
actually
impacts
the
women's
bureau
and
immigrant
immigration
advancement,
but
domestic
violence
is
an
issue.
I've
focused
on
especially
in
the
immigrant
community,
and
it
impacts
the
immigrant
community
in
in
high
numbers
in
a
lot
of
especially
women
that
have
that
are
survivors
of
domestic
violence.
Domestic
violence.
Don't
report
the
this
to
the
proper
authorities
because
of
the
immigration
status
of
of
of
maybe
her
or
or
the
or
her
spouse?
G
The
other
issue
as
and
I
do
some
work
with
the
asian
task
force
against
domestic
violence.
The
other
issue
is
language
access.
I've
I
visited
the
asian
task
force
against
domestic
violence
and
their
big
biggest
challenge
is:
is
language
access?
You
know
they
would.
The
executive
director
was
telling
me
they
don't
have
enough
interpreters
or
someone
to
translate
for
them.
G
C
I
can
talk
if
I
may.
We
have
we
partner
very
closely
with
the
public
safety
office,
the
boston
police
department,
human
rights,
commission,
emma
coalition
and
local
survivors
in
in
the
community
specific
to
to
domestic
violence
and
a
lot
of
the
work
that
we
do
around.
That
is
when
it
comes
to
race
awareness
during
the
pandemic,
and
we
and
a
couple
of
months
ago
we
were
able
to
host
a
series,
a
lot
of
webinars
and
speaking
with
survivors
and
speaking
with
the
different
organizations
as
to
coming
together
and
convening.
C
And
what
are
we
doing
to
be
able
to
tackle
this
issue
and
when
it
comes
to
finding
best
practices
right
and
when
it
comes
to
the
language
access
a
lot
of
the
work?
Most
of
the
work
that
we
do
in
the
office
is
very
transparent
when
it
comes
to
language
all
of
our
information
and
when
it
comes
to
our
applications
and
everything
that's
distributed
is
pretty
much
translated
in
top
10
languages.
G
G
She
was
assaulted
really
by
by
a
male,
which
I
I
made
sure
the
boston
police
knew
about
it
and
the
human
rights
commission
knew
about
it,
but
we're
still
seeing
a
lot
of
violence
against
immigrants,
we're
seeing
a
lot
of
violence
against
aapi
community
hate
crimes,
but
the
human
rights
commission
can
play
a
critical
role.
There's
two
ways
to
report
the
incidents
to
the
human
rights
anonymously
or
well
with
your
name.
H
H
H
You
know
based
on
obviously
their
faith
and
relationships
that
they
built
in
their
new
country
and
they
got
involved
they
volunteered.
They
served
our
country
in
in
the
armed
forces
they
got
on
boards
in
commissions
and
they
started
civic
associations.
They
ran
for
public
office,
they
organized
labor
activities
and
joined
the
union.
H
So
again,
I
just
want
to
note
that
it's
been
a
pleasure
to
work
with
you
in
this
capacity
and
look
forward
to
working
with
you
in
your
new
capacity
and
and
with
that
I'll
transition
into
just
a
couple,
quick
questions
and
alex,
obviously
to
the
role
that
you're
playing,
and
I
wanted
to
dovetail
on
my
colleague,
council
braden,
particularly
around
the
child
care.
Clearly,
child
care
is
critical
for
working
families,
it's
increasingly
very
difficult
to
access
and
it's
becoming
more
expensive.
H
Clearly,
the
pandemic
impacted
that
sector
tremendously,
arguably
almost
decimated
it
in
some
respects.
I
guess
the
question
is:
are
the
funds
intended
to
help
bring
back
the
licensed
care
providers
or
to
help
providers
that
may
have
been
on
the
brink
of
closure
or
were
forced
to
close
because
of
the
pandemic?.
C
Yeah,
the
phones,
the
funds
are
used
for
both
right.
The
providers
or
those
who
are
licensed
can
use
the
funds
as
to,
however,
they
see
fit
that
will
best
support
their
their
program
and
through
the
classes
that
they
take
the
six
workshops
and
they're
able
to
analyze
from
from
start
to
finish
as
to
when
it
comes
to
creating
that
business
plan.
When
it
comes
to
creating
that
pipeline
of
helping
them
re,
restructure,
reframe
their
small
business.
C
But
it's
helped
them
to
be
able
to
come
back
from
covet
help
them
to
be
able
to
support
when
it
came
to
purchasing
a
lot
of
the
ppe
that
was
from
covet
and
now,
as
we
are.
Stepping
away
that
we
are
more
enjoying
being
outside
and
the
kids
are
able
to
go
outside
is
helping
them
support
to
create
that
recreational
space
for
the
children
in
their
care.
H
And
so
I
also
noticed
from
our
budget
books
that
the
child
care
is
moving
away
from
you
right
into
the
office
of
early
childhood
with
respect
to
fiscal
year
23..
So
maybe
your
initial
thoughts
on
that
is
sort
of
that
is
it
sort
of,
I
guess,
a
better
and
more
appropriate
home
for
that.
Or
is
that
something
that
you
would
prefer
sort
of
see
where
you're
at
in
your
in
your
capacity
and
as
as
the
director
of
women's
advancement.
C
H
The
outreach
for
the
childcare
workers
can
you
just
sort
of
explain
sort
of
what
that?
What's,
that
process
been
like
in
terms
of
or
what
what
outreach
efforts
have
been
made,
whether
they're
still
up
and
running
or
whether
they
we
might
have
a
good
one
that
had
to
close?
How
are
we
communicating
with
those
folks
and
maybe
trying
to
get
them
back
up
and
running
and
that
3500
all
is
sort
of?
C
Yeah,
so
it's
an
application
process,
which
is
it
opens
every
time
that
the
fund
is
available.
All
our
our
applications
are
in
the
top
10
languages
for
the
city
and,
if
obviously,
there's
a
language,
that's
not
represented,
we
are
more
than
happy
to
translate
if
it's
not
within
those
10
languages,
the
outreach
process
is
very
intense.
C
We
pretty
much
leave
it
as
they
are
the
experts
in
their
own
business
and
they
know
what's
best
and
what
fits
best
in
in
their
own
business
plan.
So
we
assure
that,
throughout
the
six
classes,
they
have
all
the
tools
needed
to
create
that
working
plan
as
to
what
they
will
use
the
funds
for
right.
That's.
H
Good
and
thank
you
for
the
work
that
you
do
and
look
forward
to
working
with
you
forward
and
just
lastly,
hello
pine,
my
colleague,
who's,
who
had
just
stepped
out
council
louisiana.
She
talked
about
having
sort
of
a
in-house
legal
services
which
makes
sense.
I
obviously
hear
your
argument
on
sort
of
incurring
the
liability
with
that,
or
at
least
having
someone
in
it
just
struck
me
that
you
know
our
boston
public
school
system.
We
had
a
situation
over
at
the
mission
school
and
they
took
it
upon
themselves.
H
They
didn't
call
911
or
reach
out
to
the
boston
police
sexual
assault
unit.
They
didn't
call
the
da's
office
to
talk
about
the
child
abuse
unit.
They
engaged
a
private
law
firm
and
spent
over
a
quarter
of
a
million
dollars.
I
think
252
000
dollars,
based
on
their
budget
money
that
would
have
been
frankly,
would
have
been
better
spent.
They
didn't
need
to
spend
their
money.
They
just
needed
to
call
the
boston
police
sexual
assault
unit,
they
needed
to
call
the
da's
child
abuser
or
they
could
have
just
dialed
in
for
a
51a.
H
Instead,
they
had
a
private
law
firm
with.
I
guess
their
own
discretionary
funds,
if
you
will,
but
they
didn't
come
to
this
body
asking
for
the
expenditure,
and
so
your
your
department,
obviously
that
it's
doing
sort
of
significant
and
meaningful
work
for
for
residents
new
bostonians,
you
know
would
have
been
you
know.
Could
you
imagine
what
you
could
have
done
with
250
2
000
of
legal
services
and
answering
those
questions?
So
again?
That's
you
know.
H
That's
me
opining
about
it,
but
I
just
want
to
let
you
know
when
you
have
a
budget
this
big
or
in
that
instance
the
school
department,
where
the
bureaucracy
is
just
so
big
and
bloated,
that
you
know
these
extra
funds
just
kind
of
pop
up
out
of
nowhere.
They
sort
of
come
here
hat
in
hand,
so
sort
of
begging,
scratching
a
car
and
asking
that
they
need
more
money.
But
then
you
learn
that
they
spend
the
money.
So
foolishly
like
that,
so
but
again
best
of
luck
in
your
new
endeavors.
H
Thank
you
both
for
your
time
and
attention
and
your
experience
here
and
hopefully
whoever
your
replacement
is,
will
be
cut
from
the
same
cloth
and
will
have
your
same
passion
and
energy
and
willingness
to
work
with
members
of
the
council,
but
also
work
with
every
corner
of
the.
I
see
you
everywhere.
I
mean
you're
everywhere
all
across
the
city.
Here
at
one
point
I
thought
you
might
be
running
for
city
council
at
large
right.
I
see
you
some
places
right
so.
E
H
B
No,
but
I
I
unders
thank
you
so
much
for
your
kind,
words
and,
and
I've
just
been
really
blessed
to
have
an
amazing
team
and
and
frankly,
really
supportive
mayors
and
a
really
supportive
council,
and
so
it's
a
real.
The
work
is
a
real
credit
to
you
all
and
a
testament
to
you
all,
and
so
I
just
really
thank
you
all
for
your
support
and
and
you've
been
a
big
supporter
since
our
days
at
the
mosque
as
well.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
I
So
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
helping
me
when
I
was
here
in
the
council
as
a
staffer
and
helping
my
community,
especially
east
boston,
alex
it's
so
good
to
see
you
shining
you're,
doing
an
excellent
job,
and
I
love
shouting
out
staffers,
where
I
can,
and
your
office
in
particular
has
some
incredible
people.
I
just
want
to
name
out
ronaldo
carol
on
everybody,
they're,
just
amazing
individuals
who
are
doing
incredible
work
on
behalf
of
this
city,
so
shout
out
to
them.
I
I
hope
they're
listening
in
and
just
you
know,
representing
a
district
that
does
include
east
boston,
but
just
in
general,
as
an
elected
official.
Now
I
want
to
utilize
every
opportunity
just
to
say
publicly
that
it's
a
priority
that
we
ensure
just
in
welcoming
city
for
everybody,
especially
our
immigrant
and
undocumented
brothers
and
sisters-
and
you
know-
east
boss
in
particular,
as
we
all
know,
rich
immigrant
history,
where
many
people
came
to
live
out,
the
american
dream
and
east
boston's
diversity
and
in
differences
of
cultures
and
perspectives.
I
I
I
am
grateful
to
all
of
my
council
colleagues
for
asking
these
questions,
because
now
I
don't
have
anything
to
ask.
I
do
I'm
just
kidding,
but
my
questions
around
the
greater
boston
immigrant
defense
fund
were
so
poignantly
asked
by
councillor
jen.
I
echo
the
calls
of
counselor
brayden
to
do
everything
we
can
to
lessen
the
waitlist
for
es
esol
classes.
I
know
that
the
wait
list
in
east
boston
is
extremely
long.
I
B
So
I'll
take
that-
and
I
just
have
to
congratulate
you-
and
I
understand
this-
is
your
first
hearing,
counselor
seconds
or
second
hearing
and
just
delighted
to
to
be
that
and
with
that.
I
also
want
to
congratulate
our
madam
chair
for
leading
this
whole
process
and,
of
course,
our
the
first
time,
president
flynn,
as
well
so
on
the
on
the
eslps.
B
B
It's
not
an
easy
problem
to
solve,
and
it's
not
just
one
that
you
throw
resources
at,
because
we
also
need
the
appropriate
human
capital.
So
the
appropriate
teachers
at
the
different
levels
to
be
able
to
teach-
and
you
know
it
can
be
very
costly,
because
people
are
coming
from
very
different
backgrounds
and
have
different
needs
right.
And
so
I
think
there
is
a
way
to
solve
this
problem.
B
But
it
is
a
really
complex
problem
because
of
that-
and
so
you
know,
enb
does
amazing
work,
but
they
just
because
of
the
needs
being
so
very
varied
and
people
have
different
interests
with
the
esl
as
well.
Some
want
to
just
get
a
job
right,
others
want
to
socially
integrate,
and-
and
so
it's
just
that-
that's
why
this
problem
is
a
challenge.
But
it's
a
challenge
that
certainly,
if
I
were
staying
in
that
position,
I'd
really
want
to
think
carefully
through,
and
you
know
come
back
to
this
council
with
a
real
planner.
I
I
I
have
done
a
lot
of
thinking.
I
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
civic
associations
yeah
my
that
was
my
job.
I
feel
like
I've
gone
to
over
300
400
at
this
moment
in
time
I
probably
will
go
to
more
now.
I
know
I
will
go
to
more
actually
and
a
large
part
of
advocating
for
your
community
to
city
hall
is
through
these
civic
associations,
like
it's
a
very
concentrated
source
of
power.
E
I
B
Well,
such
a
great
and
an
important
point
by
your
counselor-
and
you
know,
one
thing
I'll
say-
is
that
the
teams
really
open
the
feedback
and
continue
to
learn
and
shift
the
program
around.
So
I
will
say
that
we,
even
during
our
current
cohort,
we
do
really
encourage
people
to
get
engaged.
We
have
a
pretty
large
definition
of
civic
civic.
You
know
ownership
if
you
will
and
while
of
course
kind
of
our
focus
is
how
do
we
get
them
right
into
the
city
engaged
there?
You
know
we.
B
We
do
try
to
really
engage
to
support
them
in
their
growth,
either
in
immigrant
non-profits,
which
also
end
up
having
a
lot
of
power
and
and
push
and
pull
in
the
city
or
these
civic
associations,
but
I
think
because
you've
been
to
over
400
of
them,
and
and
you
know
I
we
would
really
welcome
your
idea
and
and
your
contribution
into
you
know
how
to
shape
that
piece.
More.
I
Absolutely
I
look
forward
to
meeting
everybody.
These
are
just
my
poor
people,
the
dreamers,
the
dreamers
fellowship
another
incredible
program,
I'm
just
looking
through
so
because
they're
not
able
to
apply
through
the
success
link.
What
is
the
process
to
apply?
Only
because
I
do
know
that
there
are
some
wonderful
young
individuals
in
my
community
that
would
be
perfect
for
this
and
who
does
the
processing
and
then
also
what
is
the
major
expense
in
the
program
that
accounts
for
the
481
000
yeah.
B
So
I
let
me
take
that
in
steps
so
first,
how
do
they
apply?
So
this
is
a
program
for
a
variety
of
reasons
which
I'm
happy
to
share.
You
know
just
to
spare
everyone
in
my
new
show,
but
I
I
the
way
it
works.
Is
it's
a
grant
out
program?
Okay,
so
y
e
puts
out
an
and
an
rfa
and
different
providers.
You
know
apply
for
it
now
that
it
does
require
one
fiscal
coordinator.
B
You
know
kind
of
clientele
that
was
200
folks,
now
we're
expanding
to
480..
It's
a
huge
opportunity,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we're
building
into
our
application
process,
for
whoever
gets
it
is,
is
that
they
publicize
this
so
that
it's
accessible
to
exactly
the
young
people
that
you're
talking
about
this
spring.
B
We
did
another
iteration
of
that,
although
we
had
to
get
private
funding
for
it,
and
that
was
actually
the
the
fiscal
coordinator
was
and
is
right
now
is
caribbean
youth
club
and
so
and
but
they're
partnered,
with
very
similar
organizations
like
center
presented
bank
brazilian
worker
center,
et
cetera,
et
cetera,
and
so
to
your
second
question
in
terms
of
the
funding
piece
of
it.
So
the
the
the
stipends
that
the
young
people
get
from
this
program
comes
from
yee
and
that
funding
is
covered.
B
What
our
funding
covers
is
really
for
the
fiscal
coordination
and
the
program,
coordination
of
that
the
evaluation
of
the
program
so
really
ensuring
that
there's
high
quality
for
that
the
feedback
off
of
the
previous
years.
We've
gotten
is
that
this,
just
by
the
nature
of
how
complex
just
making
doing
this
program
is
because
of
some
of
the
you
know.
We
can't
pay
these
youth
right,
but
some
of
those
kind
of
challenges
and
the
coordination
around
the
partners
just
requires
a
number
of
resources.
B
B
B
So
binka
is,
is
a
he
one.
East
boston,
high
school
is
absolutely
inquired
about
the
program.
You
know
some
of
the
schools
have
capacity
actually
run
the
program
there.
So
binka
has
that
capacity.
Some
don't,
but
we've
actually
prioritized
in
the
spring,
how
to
make
sure
bps
students
are
the
ones
that
really
get
you
know
enrolled
in
this,
and
that's
that's
a
big
part
of
with
these
480
folks.
We
really
want
to
target
the
bps
children.
I
B
B
Yeah,
I
know
that
patricia
does
a
number
of
just
honestly
a
number
of
important
programs
and
by
the
way,
when
it
comes
to
legal
services,
I
mean
they
were
one
of
the
programs
that
we
organizations
we've
piloted
with
on
this,
and
also
the
dreamers
is
another
program
that
they
have
been
a
really
key
on
this.
So
yeah.
I
couldn't
agree
with
you
more
and
and
now
have
so
much
to
learn
from
patricia.
A
C
So
the
budget,
it's
the
decreases
through
because
the
program
is
transferring
to
the
new
child
care
office,
and
that
puts
and
that
chunk
of
the
budget
includes
our
child
care
entrepreneur,
fund
funds,
and
it
also
includes
our
child
care
survey
funds
as
well.
So
that's
why
we
see
sort
of
that
disproportionate
decrease
in
the
budget
when
it
comes
to
our
own
programming.
This
is
going
to
be
such
an
exciting
year
for
moa
and
we're
really
looking
forward
to
to
creating
new
programming
into
creating
new
initiatives.
A
C
So
we
are
able
to
look
at
an
overall
arching,
but
when
it
comes
to
our
own
salary,
we
have
the
amazing
tool
of
the
diversity
dashboard.
What,
in
that
dashboard
would
be?
We
were
able
to
see
those
numbers
based
on
the
information.
That's
currently
uploaded
on
the
diversity
dashboard
that
the
city
currently
hosts.
A
A
Yes,
yeah,
thank
you
and
that's
across
all
departments.
If
you
don't
mind
yeah,
thank
you
and
then,
as
far
as
salary
negotiation
workshops,
we
I
mean
it's
a
it's.
It's
a
good
thing
to
have
interventive
sort
of
programs
to
teach
women
or
to
support
us
in
something
that
is
needed
right.
Not
that
not
that
we
don't
know
how
to
do
that,
but
that
it's
a
conversation
that
needs
to
be
had
and
I'm
happy
that
you're
you
provide
that
platform.
E
A
C
Right
yeah,
I
mean
it's
a
longer-ended
questions
I
mean
the
salad
negotiation
classes
are,
are
helping
in
our
sort
of
help,
and
this
is
why
we're
reshaping
them
in
a
way
where
we
are
able
to
help
close
those
gaps
in
a
way
where
we
are
able
to
help.
Those
who
are
many
marginalized,
specifically,
like
I
mentioned
earlier,
when
it
comes
to
those
who
are
not
celerial
workers
and
who
are
not.
C
A
C
Right,
I
mean,
I
think
it
brings
up
a
lot
of
questions
right
and
there
it
starts
with
employers,
and
how
can
we
engage
employers
and
ensuring
that
they're
helping
us
close
that
gender
wage
gap,
and
this
is
where
a
lot
of
the
conversations
that
we
are
having
with
these
employers
through
the
women's
workforce
councils,
are
very
important.
And
so
what
are?
C
Our
employees
are
100
being
transparent
with
that,
and
this
is
where
these
type
of
conversations
with
these
compact
signers,
like
we
call
them,
are
very,
very
important
to
have
them
and
answer
these
questions
that
help
us
raise
these
questions
and
they're
allowing
us
to
get
there
as
women
and,
specifically
speaking
of
myself
as
a
woman
of
color.
When
I
first
started
to
work,
I
never
even
thought
about
the
fact
that
I
was
able
to
negotiate.
My
salary,
nevertheless,
to
think
that
I
was
able
to
push
back
and
ask.
C
C
As
of
right
now
full-time
department,
we
have
our
communications
director,
we
have
our
program
manager
who
focuses
on
our
child
care
work.
We
have
our
office
manager
and
we
currently
are
hosting
the
economic
mobility
lab
fellow
and
we
are
currently
hiring
and
sort
of
extending
an
offer
to
a
policy
manager,
but,
as
you
can
see
in
our
budget,
our
policy,
our
sorry,
our
program
manager,
role
for
the
child
care
is
also
transferring
over
into
the
child
care
into
the
early
childhood
education
office.
A
C
A
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
everything
you're
doing
in
your
beautiful
presentation,
although
it
took
some
work
for
me
to
keep
up
with
your
fast
talking
brother
yusofi,
your
thank
you
for
being
here
in
your
amazing
work.
The
one
of
the
interesting
thing
that
I
saw
in
your
top
salary
earners,
though,
is
that
it
does
not
include
anyone.
A
B
Yeah,
so,
first
of
all
on
that
data,
there's
someone
that
identifies
both
as
hispanic
and
black
but
they're
counted
as
hispanic
in
that
data.
The
other
thing
I'll
just
say
is
that
we've,
since
my
time
being
there,
we've
actually
brought
on
two
black
staff
and,
as
you
know
how
the
the
pay
scale
works
is
you
know
we
we
come
in
at
different
grades
and
steps,
and
I
think,
given
enough
time
so
some
of
the
other
folks
have
been
on
the
staff
for
longer,
but
given
enough
time
they
would
actually
climb
up.
B
A
B
The
good
news
is
the
biden
administration
was,
is
trying
to
roll
that
bla
back
and
so
there's
a
whole
comment
period,
that's
required,
and
so
we
as
a
city
working
with
the
bpda
research
center,
submitted
a
full
report
to
the
federal
government
suggesting
why
this
is
such
a
bad
bad
rule
and
why
we
need
to
go
to
a
far
more
progressive
understanding
of
public
charge.
So
that's
an
example.
Another
example
is
when
we
saw
the
haitian
rivals
coming
here
in
the
border
over
the
summer.
B
They
were
coming
here
with
just
irregular
permits
with
terrible.
You
know,
irregular
paperwork
that
we
just
haven't
seen
you
know
in
previous
previous
year
I
mean
we
did
see
that
in
the
trump
years,
but
not
before
that,
and
so
we
used
the
mayor's
marawus.
You
know
a
power
and
and
relationships
as
a
city
of
boston,
to
really
begin
to
push
the
department
of
homeland
security
to
see
how
we
can
get
some
regular
paperwork
and
and
really
kudos
to
unlay
on
my
team
to
to
lead
that
work.
B
So
those
are
a
couple
examples
of
how
you
do
that
and
other
times.
It
is
just
simply
putting
out
a
statement
when
there's
a
policy
that's
enacted,
and
we
did
that
again
a
lot
during
the
trump
years
right,
whether
it
was
the
use
of
ice
to
go
after
communities,
thankfully
not
in
boston
but
outside
when
you
know
trump
would
threaten
raids.
We
would
then
make
sure
that
the
mayor
is
out
there.
You
know
assuring
our
residents
that
the
city
is
going
to
protect
them.
A
B
You
know
we
we
actually
feel
like
we've
got
resources
already
built
into
our
budget,
to
be
able
to
lead
this
new
strategic
planning
process,
and
basically,
I
think
the
most
important
thing
about
the
strategic
planning
process
is
we're
going
to
be
doing.
Focus
groups
with
our
immigrant
communities
and
we've
already
done
two
three
of
them.
They've
been
so
so
enlightening
one
actually
with
the
latino
community
by
the
way
in
east
boston.
B
B
A
I
Thank
you
so
much,
and
I
am
I
could
not
attend
this
hearing
without
asking
questions
of
you
alex.
The
women's
advancement
is
something
that
I've
worked
on.
You
know
my
entire
career,
either
electing
women
or
just
building
a
pipeline
of
leadership.
So
this
work
is
incredibly
important
to
me
and
just
know
you
have
a
partner
in
me
in
this
work
and
I
actually,
when
coming
out
of
college,
when
I
graduated
in
2016
from
from
umass
boston,
I
took
a
pay
equity
workshop
and
I
was
offered
a
job
for
35
000.
I
We
all
know
that
that
is
nothing
in
this
day
and
age
and
I
negotiated
a
10
000
increase
directly
because
of
the
work
that
this
program
does
and
what
I
learned.
So
I
am
a
case
study
if
you
ever
need
one
and
a
testimonial,
but-
and
I
am
pleased
to
hear
that
the
classes
are
working
to
be
more
inclusive
of
low-income
workers
and
informing
them
of
their
rights.
I
I
would
also
throw
domestic
workers
in
there
as
well
too
they're
largely
unseen
and
underpaid,
but
they
are
the
the
folks
who
keep
working
women
in
their
positions.
So
I
would
shout
them
out
and
recognize
them
and
when
you're
thinking
about
next
steps
in
reshaping
the
office,
pay,
equity
and
closing
the
gap
is
important.
I
I
think
it
also
speaks
to
what
we
can
do
to
build
and
maintain
wealth
so,
and
that
includes
financial
literacy,
and
you
know
how
to
create
a
budget
understanding,
how
credit
works,
saving
for
retirement
understanding,
financial
instruments
like
bond
stocks
and
creating
an
investment
plan,
so
that
could
be
the
next
step.
I
already
know
women
in
this
area
that
are
doing
this
work,
so
you
could
hire
you
know
small
businesses
who
are,
or
even
just
contractors
or
consultants
who
are
in
this
space.
I
C
A
C
Yeah
we,
like
I
mentioned
earlier,
we
we
started
doing
some
research
in
regards
to
that
space,
and
specifically,
we
have
done
some
work
in
regard
to
other
nonprofit
organizations.
We're
really
looking
forward
to
the
opening
in
the
the
new
executive
director
for
the
office
of
lgbtq
advancement,
that's
going
to
allow
us
to
also
tap
into
that
work
as
well,
and
also
tap
into
working
with
that
population
as
well.
C
C
Definitely
a
lot
of
the
work
that
we
do
is
it's
fundamental
based
on
on
community
feedback
and
community
support,
and
none
of
it
would
be
possible
if
it
wasn't
for
all
the
feedback
that
we
received
for
all
of
our
program,
follower
programming.
We
do
offer
spaces
and
currently
offer
that
space
within
the
child
care
sector,
and
this
is
why
we're
definitely
looking
to
expand
that
moving
forward.
B
A
Thank
you
for
that.
I
think
I
think
that's
phenomenal.
Obviously
speaking
from
personal
experience,
I
know
that
you
know
this.
I
spent
17
years
in
the
u.s
without
any
documentation,
and
I
just
recently
became
a
citizen
in
2019
and
so
understanding
that
immigrant
experience,
I
really
have
a
deep
appreciation
for
civic
engagement.
A
A
B
B
I
think
you
know
this
mayor
and
yourself
and
city
council
is
just
in
a
historic
moment,
and
I
just
want
to
say
I
think,
on
behalf
also
my
colleague
just
really
a
privilege
and
an
honor
to
address
this
council,
and
I
know
I'm
going
to
be
telling
my
daughter
about
this,
and
certainly
hopefully,
if
I'm
privileged,
to
have
grandkids
by
the
fact
that
we're
in
this
historic
moment.
So
thank
you.
C
Thank
you.
It's
definitely
when
we
look
at
representation
when
we
look
at
other
shapes
and
form
throughout
city
hall,
it's
definitely
something
to
be
proud
of
something
to
be
engaged
of,
that
we
are
able
to
serve
and
be
able
to
be
surrounded
by
so
many
amazing,
and
so
many
great
people
like
yourself.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
having
us.