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City of Boston Human Rights Commission Public Meeting 11-18-20
A
Meeting
online
and
to
ensure
public
access
to
the
discussions
of
the
bus
of
this
boston,
human
rights,
commission,
the
public
may
access
this
call
through
telephone
and
video
conferencing.
Members
of
the
public
will
have
the
opportunity
to
provide
comments
at
the
end
and
this
meeting
is
being
recorded.
A
B
A
A
C
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
As
usual,
I
want
to
welcome
the
commissioners
it's
great
to
see
all
of
you
here
today.
You
know,
and
it's
called
wednesday-
that's
already
hot,
it's
already
nighttime
out.
So
I'll.
Be
brief
with
my
remarks
as
usual,
you
know
it's
hard
to
sort
of
discuss
or
figure
out
in
my
mind
what
to
update
you
and
what
to
kind
of
flag
to
all
of
you
for
the
future.
But
you
know
I
figured
there's
a
couple
things
that
I
can
mention.
C
Obviously
we
we
have
an
agenda
that
we're
gonna
dive
into.
We
have
some
some
some
great
guest
speakers
to
sort
of
dig
further
into
the
digital
divide
stuff.
We
also
are
going
to
have
a
discussion
later
on
about
december
10th,
which
is
international
human
rights
day
and
summer,
and
what
we're
trying
to
accomplish
there,
but
some
of
the
things
to
flag
for
you
that
we're
not
going
to
discuss
today
is
one
which
we
have
discussed
in
the
past.
C
Is
the
bpd
reform
task
force
report
last
time
we
talked
about
it
briefly,
some
of
the
steps
that
we've
taken
since
then
is
the
chairwoman
and
myself
actually
susan.
As
well,
we
met
with
the
chair
of
the
commission
of
the
task
force
wayne
blood.
This
was
a
couple
weeks
back
and
had
a
very
good
conversation
with
him,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
found
out
was
that
in
fact,
the
the
task
force
role.
C
If
you
will
their
job
was
completed,
they
were
not
staying
on
on
a
rolling
basis
if
you
will
to
deal
with
with
the
recommendations,
but,
as
you
probably
have
seen
in
the
news,
the
mayor
and
the
city
has
taken
further
steps
to
to
to
implement
those
those
recommendations.
We
have
briefed
august
outlined
the
the
recommendations
and
we'll
be
sure
to
send
it
to
you.
C
Hopefully,
tomorrow
we
have
the
out
the
timeline
of
the
recommendations
and
pretty
much
the
whole
parameters,
but
that
I
think
last
week,
if
I
remember
correctly,
the
mayor
had
a
press
conference
with
the
task
force
members.
He
announced
that
they're
gonna
start
to
do
an
executive
order
to
get
an
ordinance
to
get
the
old
pet
office
going,
and
so
many
of
the
other
things
that
they
want
to
do.
C
You
know
we're
gonna,
call
and
try
to
talk
to
some
of
the
task
force
members
going
forward-
and
I
know
margaret
would
add
some
to
that
as
well.
The
other
thing
that
we
did
do
on
a
different
topic
is
the
other
task
force,
which
is
the
health
inequity
task
force
which
again
you're
familiar
with,
which
is
relating
primarily
with
the
cover
19
inequities,
particularly
in
the
data
showing
that
you
know,
black
and
brown.
People
are
dispro,
desperately
impacted
by
the
kova
19
pandemic.
C
C
Those
are
the
couple
things
that
again
that
I
wanted
to
flag
the
last
one,
actually
that
I've
mentioned-
and
this
is
ongoing
conversations
with
us.
I
know
some
members
of
the
public
have
been
interested
in
this,
as
well
as
the
additional
staffing
and
the
hiring
of
staff
and
up
to
susan
and
I
and
including
chairwoman
mckenna.
C
The
publicity
is
going
to
focus
on
going
to
meetings
in
the
communities.
That's
going
to
put
a
outreach
plan.
If
you
will,
that
gets
us
on
the
map.
If
you
will
right
and
increase,
hopefully
increase
participation
in
our
meetings
and
increase
public
awareness
of
what
we're
trying
to
do
accomplish
it.
The
program
manager.
C
This
is
actually
a
new
position
that
kind
of
came
about
from
this
customer
budget
to
help
us
as
it
sounds
it's
more
of
a
more
of
a
administrative
position,
it's
gonna
help
us
sort
of
keep
tabs
on
all
the
different
things
that,
as
we
we
just
starting
to
discuss
now,
particularly
as
we
go,
things
are
going
to
start
getting
piling
up
to
try
to
figure
out.
How
do
we
stay
afloat
and
coordinate
all
the
various
projects
that
we're
doing
this?
This
position
was
suggested
to
us.
A
Is
that
we
be
the
sort
of
eyes
of
the
public.
So
I
think
we
were.
We
were
in
the
right
place
on
that.
I
think
the
only
thing
I
would
say
about
marty
martinez
was
he
he
wanted
to
make
clear
that
the
task
force
concentration
was
on
covid,
a
response
to
cogan
and
what
kova
did
is
highlight
systematic
racism
in
health
care,
but
the
task
force
was
not
on
systematic
racism
in
health
care.
A
A
Food-
and
I
won't
spend
a
lot
of
time
talking
about
it,
because
I
susan
and
evandro
I
wore
them
out
this
afternoon.
Talking
about
food.
You
know
food
is
health
and
massachusetts.
I
don't
know
whether
you
know
this,
but
massachusetts
has
had
the
largest
increase
in
hunger
than
any
state
in
the
united
states
over
the
last
six
months.
That
does
not
mean
we
have
more
people
who
are
hungry.
A
It
just
means
we
have
had
the
largest
increase
in
hunger,
and
I
I've
already
talked
to
catherine
d'amato
at
the
greater
boston
food
bank,
and
I
am
going
to
follow
up
with
her
and
I
I
will
just
say
this
is
when
I
ran
the
walmart
foundation.
Our
number
one
signature
program
was
food
and
hunger,
and
I
will
say,
there's
enough
food
in
the
united
states
to
feed
every
human
being.
A
B
A
It
saves
huge
amounts
of
money
in
the
health
system
when
people
go
eat,
good
and
healthy
food
so,
and-
and
one
of
the
statistics
is
if
people
leave
the
hospital
after
being
in
the
hospital
and
they
get
a
prescription
for
food
and
community
servings
or
people
like
that-
deliver
food
to
their
homes.
They
cut
the
readmission
rate
by
50.
A
So
it's
a
really
interesting
health
issue
anyway.
Okay,
I
I
won't
honestly
ivandro
and
susan-
I
won't
talk
about
it.
Anymore
is
one
of
my
favorite
topics,
though,
because
it
seems
so
you
know
so
rational
to
me
is
why
don't
we
do
this
right
anyway?
So
we
are
really
pleased
today
to
welcome
our
guests
to
continue
the
discussion
on
the
digital
divide.
A
And
what
I'm
going
to
ask
you
to
do
is
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
organizations
you
come
from
and
then
the
challenges
you've
had
and
also
suggestions
about
you
might
do,
and
then
I
think
we'd
like
to
have
a
discussion
with
all
of
us.
So
briefly
about
your
organization
and
and
then
about
you
know
the
challenge
you've
had
like
I,
I
jerry
rubin,
talked
my
era
about
air
off
about
jvs
and
what
happened
when
you
had
to
go
to
remote
learning.
A
So
I
I
I
think
I've
learned
a
lot
about
that
from
jerry,
so
we
have
bob
rogana
who's,
the
vp
for
academic
services
of
jps,
barbara
and
theo
higginson
hana
who's,
the
co-ceo
with
qj.
She
was
the
chief
program
officer
at
tech
goes
home
who
runs
it
very.
They
run
a
very
interesting
program
and
emily
shea
of
age.
Strong.
C
C
E
Sure,
hi
everybody
nice,
I
I
see
some
faces.
I
know
here
so
nice
to
see
you
all
again
and
and
to
be
on
here.
I
really
appreciate
this
opportunity
and
I
also
look
forward
to
hearing
what
our
our
partners
have
to
say
on
this
call
as
well,
but
obviously
so
we're
I'm
from
the
h
strong
commission,
I'm
the
commissioner
there
and
we
are
boston's
council
on
aging
and
also
the
area
agency
on
aging
for
boston.
E
E
That
level
of
connection
is
really
important,
and
so,
as
as
we
think
about
tech
access
it
really
in
our
minds.
It
really
means
three
different
things:
it
means
not
only
having
the
device
so
being
able
to
afford
a
device
and
knowing
what
device
to
get
it
also
means
access
to
the
internet
and
being
able
to
afford
that
internet
for
a
long
period.
You
know
for
ongoing
purposes
and
then
it
means
access
to
training,
and
I
think
that
piece
is
really
critical.
E
We
know
that
many
many
of
our
older
residents
in
the
city
are
up
and
running
on.
Computers
have
no
issue
with
computers,
but
we
also
know
for
our
population.
That's
over
the
age
of
75
that
the
older
you
get,
the
less
likely
you
are
to
have
tech
access
or
to
know
how
to
use
a
computer,
and
we
also
know
that
when
we
look
at
that
for
our
lower
income
communities,
which
tend
to
be
our
communities
of
color,
that
access
is
even
less
likely
in
in
those
communities.
E
So
so
we've
been
thinking
a
lot
about
this,
and
I
know,
we've
talked
to
tech-
goes
home
in
partnership
with
our
our
the
doit,
which
is
the
department
of
innovation
and
technology.
At
the
city,
we
were
able
to
get
550
550
tablets
with
three
months
of
a
paid
modem
that
we
were
able
to
get
out
to
our
partner
organizations
and
then
for
some
of
our
programs.
E
E
E
E
We
know
that
being
socially
isolated
is
like
has
a
similar
health
impact
to
smoking
15
cigarettes
a
day,
so
anything
we
can
do
to
break
down
that
isolation
is
really
really
important,
and
then
I
I
the
they're
also
going
to
things
like
we
do
memory
cafes,
so
these
are
places
for
people
with
dementia
and
their
care
partners
to
get
together
to
connect
to
get
support.
We
have
we've
given
tablets
out
to
folks
who
couldn't
get
on
to
those
cafes
without
them
caregiver
respite
support
to
give
support
to
caregivers.
E
So
those
are
some
of
the
things
that
we're
doing
with
with
our
tablets.
We
also
have
allocated
about
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
of
our
cares:
act:
money
to
further
tech
access,
we're
trying
to
figure
out
still
what
we're
doing
with
those
dollars.
I
know
we
we
were
trying
to
figure
that
out
before
when
we
talked
to
you
theo,
but
we're
we're
still
trying
to
figure
that
out
and
what
is
the
best
way
to
use
those
dollars
so
that
we
can
have
the
best
impact.
E
We
did
do
a
tech
survey
asking
organizations
like
senior
housing
groups,
aging
organizations,
neighborhood
associations,
religious
organizations.
You
know
how
many
older
adults
that
you're
connected
to
have
access
to.
You
know
the
three
types
of
access
that
I
talked
about
and
how
many
would
like
access
and-
and
certainly
there
is
a
large
need
out
there
in
the
community
and
a
lot
of
people
see
that
so
we
have
we
had
those
survey
results.
We
can
share
at
a
later
point
in
time,
but
I
know
you
have
other
folks
to
get
to
yeah.
A
F
Okay
and
margaret,
if
I
say
something
that
totally
contradicts
jerry,
don't
tell
them,
I
won't
so
jvs
is
a
workforce
development
agency,
we're
located
we're
located
in
the
financial
district,
although
of
course
in
smart
we've
been
working
from
home,
we've
approximately
160
staff
members.
We
serve
greater
boston,
satellite
offices
and
hyde
park,
east
boston,
lynn,
lawrence
and
framingham.
F
F
Only
51
or
minority
are
more
intensive
services.
We've
served
3
000
3291
from
when
I
pulled
the
data
high-touch
services
of
those
72
percent
or
non-native
english
speakers,
96
or
low-income
79
or
minority
and
of
those
43
percent
are
boston
residents.
And
I
don't
know
if
this
is
happening
in
the
other
boston
agencies.
F
So
the
point
of
our
services
is
to
enable
clients
to
build
family
sustaining
careers,
so
they
and
we
have
many
ways
in
which
to
get
there.
One
is
direct
placement
into
jobs
and
that's
like
a
one
by
one
by
one.
It's
not
just
here.
Look
at
the
computer
do
a
resume,
try
to
find
a
job.
It's
we
connect
with
employers
and
we
connect
clients
with
them.
F
In
that
sense,
it's
closer
to
like
a
placement
service,
but
we
probably
we
often
have
to
do
a
lot
of
kind
of
coaching
on
how
one
gets
and
sustains
a
job
to
be
successful
and
then
but
then
we
also
have
you
know
so
many
of
our
clients
don't
speak
english
well
enough,
either
to
get
a
job
or
to
feel
confident
to
get
a
job.
So
we
have
many
many
clients
taking
english
as
a
second
language
courses,
we
have
our
high
school,
we
have
skills
training.
F
F
A
F
That
we're
proud
of
is
that
over
the
weekend,
we
pivoted
and
our
classes
were
up
and
running,
and
our
services
were
running,
if
not
tuesday,
wednesday
by
thursday,
and
we
have
a
just
as
our
students
are
very
varied.
So
is
our
staff,
so
some
they
mostly
the
younger
staff,
are
like.
Okay
got
this,
but
other
staff
that
hadn't
spent
as
much
time
on
computers
in
their
lives.
F
F
The
phone
is
the
most
widely
held
piece
of
digital
equipment,
it's
true
everywhere
right
and
then
we
started
a
technology
access
project
to
give
out
laptops
and,
I
have
to
say,
we've
been
partnering
with
techco's
home
for
years.
We've
run
lots
of
classes.
In
fact,
one
of
our
esl
sites
ran
a
program,
this
fall
and
there
some
of
your
trainings
are
fabulous,
so
they
are
a
great
partner,
but
we
needed.
We
realized
we
needed
to
address
this
ourselves.
F
F
F
You
know
I'm
embarrassed
to
say
I
haven't
priced
yeah,
a
laptop,
I'm,
not
a
purchasing
person,
but
tech
goes
home.
They
know,
let
me
know,
I'm
sure
250
laptops
to.
Basically
we
asked
our
programs
give
us
the
prius
version,
people
that
absolutely
need
them
versus
the
cadillac
version,
though
I
then
I
realized.
F
Closer
to
chromebooks,
they're
called
surface
goes
so
they're
not
surface
pros
which
are
bigger,
they're
smaller,
but
they
have
keyboards
and
we
have
connected
them
into
our
icloud
network.
Because
our
our
high
school
program,
the
students,
have
to
submit
all
kinds
of
papers
and
things,
so
they
it's
not
just
a
and
like
an
esl
class.
It's
like
practicing
writing,
but
you
don't
have
to
create
a
body
of
work
well,
but
one
thing
about
the
hot
spots.
This
is
proved
to
be
a
not
very
useful,
no
solution
because
they
don't
hold
and
they're
very
wobbly.
F
She
was
back
they're,
unstable
and
they're
slow,
we're
in
talks
with
comcast
to
see
if
we
can
get
some
kind
of
deal
to
because
it
could
bring.
You
know
250
to
500
people
to
them,
and
can
we
get
some
kind
of
deal
and
then,
when
the
student
graduates
and
they
return
their
stuff,
can
comcast
try
to
sell
them
the
service
at
a
very
low
rate.
But
I
also
want
to
second
emily's
comment
about
the
it's,
not
just
the
equipment.
F
It's
the
knowledge
and
imagine
I
don't
I
don't
know
who
have
you
had
to
work
in
a
second
language,
but
imagine
if
you're,
not
real,
fluent
and
someone's
trying
to
tell
you
something
like
over
the
phone,
how
to
work
something
and
to
say
to
the
left.
No
up
there
see
the
green
one,
it's
really
hard
to
learn
at
a
distance
right.
Second
language,
when
you
have
kids
running
around
and
you
don't
have
a
quiet
space
to
work
in.
F
A
They
have
just
adopted
boston,
adult
ed.
They
went
bankrupt
basically
or
was
going
to
shut
down.
They
have
a
program
bridge
to
college.
They
also
have
a
program
to
kids
with
disabilities.
They
do
a
lot
of
different
things
for
the
city
and
beyond.
So
you
know
they.
They
fulfill
a
lot
of
needs
here
in
the
city
and
beyond
and
also
have
unmet
needs
which
theo
fills
and
if
she
had
you
know,
100
million
dollars,
I'm
sure
she
could
fill
them
all
so
theo
honor,
you
tech,
goes
home.
A
G
So,
first
of
all,
thank
you,
chairwoman
and
commissioners
for
the
chance
to
talk
and
join
this
meeting.
We're
really
excited
to
be
here
and
be
sharing
our
work
and
see
friendly
faces.
Like
emily
and
barbara
we've
been
working
with
age
strong
for
more,
you
can
count.
So
it's
wonderful
to
see,
but
we
prepared
a
quick
deck
to
just
give
you
an
idea
of
what
we
do
and
then
we'd
be
happy
to
go
more
into
our
covet
response
and
any
questions.
So
to
start.
This
is
our
mission
really
simply
put.
G
We
help
bring
computers,
internet
and
training
to
those
without
so
that
students
can
do
homework,
adults
can
find
jobs,
manage
finances
and
seniors
can
connect
with
loved
ones,
and
everyone
can
access
telehealth,
which
has
become
so
critical
during
covid.
This
picture
is
actually
one
of
our
amazing
instructors
delivering
devices
to
a
family
because,
as
as
we've
talked
about
it,
you
can't
you
can't
participate
in
schooling.
You
can't
participate
in
jobs,
you
can
apply
for
unemployment
benefits
order,
necessities,
access
to
all
health,
if
you
don't
have
computers,
internet
and
training.
G
G
Really,
as
we've
talked
about
already
in
this
meeting
a
computer,
you
really
need
a
computer
and
a
keyboard
if
you're
going
to
fully
participate
in
the
digital
world
and
then
16
of
households
lacking
an
internet
subscription
at
home
so
below.
You
can
see
kind
of
what
that
means,
but
I
it's,
I
won't
reiterate
it.
G
So
our
formula
for
impact
is
really
bringing
together
those
three
components:
the
new
device
connectivity
and
so
for
anyone
who
needs
who
doesn't
have
affordable
quality
internet.
We
provide
it
for
a
year
that
it
our
first
choice,
is
comcast
internet
essentials,
as
barbara
was
talking
about.
That's
the
most
reliable
low
cost
option,
but
our
second
choice
is
hot
spots,
so
we're
shipping
out
hot
spots
and
connecting
people
to
comcast
and
then
the
third
is
training
15
hours
of
basic
internet
skills.
How
do
I
sign
up
for
an
email
account?
G
How
do
I
apply
to
a
job?
How
do
I
access?
How
do
I
communicate
with
my
child's
teacher
and
that's
where
our
partners
come
in,
because
we
have
a
train
the
trainer
model,
where
we
partner
with
amazing
organizations
around
our
footprint,
schools,
community,
centers,
libraries
aged
strong
jvs
and
we
teach
we
teach
staff
members
there
to
run
the
program
and
support
them
on
the
back
end.
So,
basically,
we
consider
it
a
pathway
program
where
we
can
support
amazing,
nonprofits
and
organizations
doing
incredible
work.
G
D
Yeah
so
hi
everyone,
my
name
is
qj.
I'm
the
chief
program
officer
at
tech
goes
home.
I
was
actually
right
before
this
meeting.
I
was
giving
a
a
webinar
to
our
instructors
on
how
to
use
zoom
and
teaching
and
learning
on
zoom.
So
it
is
something
that
we
are
continuing
to
learn
and
I
think
a
lot
of
folks
who
are
in
educational
spaces
are
continuing
to
learn
how
to
execute
so
anyway.
I
just
perhaps.
D
D
We
have
four
different
programs,
two
of
which
are
family-based
programs,
so
those
are
held
within
schools
and
with
early
childhood
families
and
those
are
really
heavily
focused
on
family
engagement,
because
we
really
believe
that,
in
order
for
a
child
to
be
successful,
the
family
unit
has
to
have
access
to
technology
internet
skills
so
that
they
can
apply
for
jobs
so
that
they
can
sustain.
You
know
the
families,
so
85
of
our
graduates
are
people
of
color.
91
live
in
very
low
income.
D
Households
33,
don't
have
internet
at
home
at
the
time
that
they
enrolled
in
tech
goes
home.
We
do
have
about
half
of
our
learners
are
english
language,
learners
and
the
staff
for
unemployment
rate
actually
was
before
covid
and
we've
seen
for
those
entering
a
program.
It's
increased
14,
the
folks
who
are
now
unemployed.
D
So
just
a
quick
snapshot
of
who
we're
working
with,
because
we
I
mean
all
the
work
that
we've
done
is
really
the
work
of
our
partners
and
the
the
wonderful
staff
of
the
organizations
who
work
with
the
communities.
We
are
a
team
of
eight
right
here.
We
there's,
I
mean
we
really
rely
on
folks
who
understand
the
communities
that
they
serve
really
have
the
relationships
we
have
about
150
partner
sites.
We
do
have
quite
a
bit
waiting
because
we
don't
have
infinite
resources.
D
Unfortunately,
we
have
about
300
certified
instructors.
So
these
are
the
folks
who
are
teaching
the
15.
Hours
of
tech
goes
home,
but
they
do
so
much
more
than
that
they're
figuring
out.
You
know
how
to
get
the
devices
to
the
families,
they're
figuring
out
how
to
plan
the
lessons.
That's
going
to
work
with
the
folks
that
they
serve
because
every
community
we
work
with
has
a
different
need
in
terms
of
digital
skills.
Some
are
workforce
focused
some,
are
you
know,
academic
focused?
Some,
are
you
know
social
de-isolation?
D
D
D
D
97
of
them
had
the
option
to
work
from
home
during
the
pandemic
because
of
tech
goes
home
and
then
66
percent
have
been
able
to
use
telehealth
during
covid
because
of
techno's
homes
as
well,
and
I
want
to
share
a
little
bit
about
the
work
that
we've
been
doing
in
covid,
because
I
think
we've
done
a
tremendous
job.
Just
our
team
has
been
working
faster
than
we've
ever
worked
before,
and
we
were
fast-paced
organization
before
covid,
so
we
all
of
our
programs
are
now
in
distance
learning.
D
G
And
just
to
touch
on
one
other
thing
that
qj
mentioned
in
terms
of
the
pivot
to
distance
learning.
So
we
had
about
a
thousand
people
in
techosome
courses
as
of
march,
and
we
have
never
done
any
any
remote
courses.
It's
always
been
in
a
computer
lab.
You
know,
next
to
each
other
in
person
and
the
program
team
did
an
incredible
job.
Designing
a
distance
learning
program,
piling
testing
that
and
ramping
that
up
over
the
summer.
A
H
Well,
first,
I
would
like
to
say,
I
think,
emily
and
barbara
is
being
extremely
modest,
because
the
work
that
emily
does
in
her
department
is
is
it's
god's
work
and
she
does
and
her
team
has
done
some
pretty
amazing
things
with
the
seniors
expanding
their
their
knowledge
and
accessibility
to
technology
and
food.
It's
been
utterly
amazing.
I
just
wanna.
I
know
I'm
not.
She
didn't
pay
me
to
say
this,
but
what
I'm
saying
is
the
work
you've
been
doing.
It's
been
absolutely
amazing
and
for
you,
barbara
davies,
jewish
vocational
services.
H
I
mean
you
guys
have
been
everywhere,
I'm
going
back
20
years
when
I
was
running
abcd
and
and
the
partnerships
that
were
developed
and
second
speakers
on
second
english
speakers
and
pulling
folks
up
by
the
bootstraps
like
no
other.
The
work
has
been
utterly
amazing.
I
just
want
to
commend
both
of
you
all
on
that
and
now
techno's
home
is
very
personal
to
me.
H
Oh
my
god.
I
just
want
to
commend
all
three
of
you
guys
because
I'm
very
familiar
with
your
work
very
upfront
and
personal,
and
it
really
warms
my
heart
to
see
the
dedication
and
work
and
and
the
fruit
that
you
guys
have
heard
over
the
years.
It's
just
amazing-
and
I
just
wanted
to.
I
just
wanted
to
clap
a
little
harder
for
you
all,
because
the
work
you've
been
doing.
B
B
D
That's
a
that's
a
really
great
question
and
we
recently
have
done
something
that
goes
home
with
the
carol
center
for
the
blind.
As
you
know,
they
they
do
fantastic
work,
but
we
recently
received
a
grant
from
them
where
they
looked
at
our
website
and
our
website
actually
houses
all
of
our
curriculum
for
digital
learning.
We
have
tutorials
on
there,
we
have
materials
for
instructors
and
they
trained.
D
D
We
I
mean
we
had
no
idea
how
much
work
is
put
into
making
a
website
accessible.
So
I
think
we're
learning
as
well
in
doing
that,
we
have
worked
with
organizations
that
serve
the
populations
that
you're
describing,
and
I
think
we
really
rely
on
their
expertise.
And
that's
that's
you
know
the
beauty
of
partnering
or
with
organizations
with
that
expertise
of
working
with
the
folks
that
we
want
to
serve.
We've
worked
with
the
horace
mann
school.
D
And
we've
also
worked
with
folks
who
are
working
with
seniors.
So
one
example
is
we
have
one
group,
that's
working
with
seniors
who
you
know
the
chromebook
keyboard
really
is
not
going
to
work
for
them,
so
we're
actually
using
ipads,
which
has
significantly
more
accessibility
features
so
that
that
would
accommodate
their
needs.
A
So
so
I
can
add
to
this:
just
from
my
leslie
days
is
that
there
are
programs
and
accommodations
for
almost
everything.
The
problem
is
integrating
them
and
training
people
who
are
delivering
the
product
whatever
it
is.
The
curriculum
not
easy,
so
you
know
you
have
to
learn
how
to
do
it,
so
it
they
are
available,
but
you
know
you
you've
got
to
find
them
and
you've
got
to
train
people
how
to
use
them.
You
know
I
have
somebody
now
who's
teaching
a
course
and
one
of
her
students
was
blind.
It's
the
first
time.
A
She
have
a
tour,
of
course
online
with
anybody
who's
blind.
So
how
am
I
going
to
do
that
and
sure
enough?
There's
a
toolbox-
and
you
know
she
hasn't
been
that
difficult
because
she
had
a
toolbox
and
but
they're
there,
it's
a
matter
of
knowing
they're
there
and
having
training.
So,
but
it's
like
it,
it's
like
a
first
instance
for
everybody.
A
If
you
know
what
I
mean,
it's
it's
like
one
of
the
things
I'm
as
I
see
with
this
group,
even
though
you
guys
all
know
each
other,
emily
and
barbara
and
teco's
home
folks
is,
is
sort
of
everybody's
dealing
with
comcast
everybody's
trying
to
figure
out
these
things.
You
know
everybody's
buying,
chromebooks
everybody.
You
know
you
know
it
seems
to
me.
There's
got
to
be
a
better
way
to
make
this
happen.
City-Wide
somehow
yeah.
F
I
world
dead
world
education,
which
is
a
private
non-profit,
has
had
a
digital
kind
of
institute
for
years
and
they're
ahead
of
the
game.
They
we
are
working
with
them
on
the
digital
navigator
project,
which
is
basically
how
do
you
support
people?
I
I
I
will
say
jvs
doesn't
have
a
lot
of
hearing
or
imperative
or
blind
people,
although
we
literally
just
graduated
the
person
with
the
most
visual
impairment
that
we
have
from
our
high
school
about
two
weeks
ago,
and
he
is
not
able
most
of
his
work
was
done.
F
While
we
were
in
class.
So
we
could
blow
things
up
in
much
bigger
sizes
and
we
could
read
to
him
and
then
he
could
answer
the
test.
Questions
which
might
not
have
been
the
state-of-the-art
approach,
but
it
was
our
work
around,
but
he's
hesitating
to
go
to
college
because
he's
not
sure
how
that's
going
to
work
online.
F
So
I
totally
see
the
issue,
and
I
also
think
that
if
we
mastered
it,
we
would
draw
in
a
lot
more
clients
with
those
issues
the
it
would
be
useful
to
to
take
a
look
at
the
digital
programs
of
world
education
and
see
if,
as
a
city
we
can
hook
in
with
them,
they
bring
together
a
lot
of
resources
because
they're
working
with
people
across
the
country
on
how
do
you
get
people
online?
Who
don't
know
how
to
use
these
things?.
H
A
have
a
quick,
quick
one,
as
we
know,
with
kovic
and
with
new
americans,
who
have
a
fear
of
just
learning
to
be
new
americans.
Then
you
throw
in
the
tech
access
trying
to
break
down
those
barriers
there,
but
then
you
throw
and
covet
and
everything
has
to
be
remote.
It
brings
up
all
these
other
new
challenges,
not
only
to
touch
the
technology
but
also
to
afford
it.
H
I
know
in
the
early
days
there
were
a
lot
of
god
folks
out
there
trying
to
make
the
internet
free
for
all
and
a
bunch
of
groups
out
in
cambridge
and
in
california,
was
really
pushing
forward
back
in
the
day,
so
that
everyone
could
have
free
access
to
the
internet,
and
I
guess
I'm
posing
this
question.
Basically
the
deal
and
qj
around
have
they
been
able
to
touch
and
find
folks
like
that
or
have
they
all
died
out.
G
Yeah
we
we
hear
that
conversation,
it
definitely
hasn't
died,
but
there
certainly
isn't
as
much
momentum
as
we'd
like
to
see
not
nearly
as
much
momentum
as
we'd
like
to
see,
I
mean
we're,
we're
actually
going
to
be
hiring
a
director
of
advocacy,
our
own
policy
person.
I
know
you
all
are
too
but
to
work
on
that
particular
issue,
basically
trying
to
influence
legislation
in
some
way
and
be
at
the
table
when
these
conversations
are
happening
to
push
internet
towards
being
a
utility
and
available
to
all.
G
A
Yes
and
because
he
thought
it
would
create
competition
in
low
of
the
fees,
but
instead
the
fees
went
up
and,
and
it
used
to
be
that
it's
utility
you
had
to
provide
it
for
everybody
and
instead
the
fees
went
up
and
we
don't
have
you
know
provided
for
everybody.
I
mean
I,
I
have
a
basic
question.
Just
like
I
have
a
hunger,
I
mean:
how
can
we
live
in
a
city
that
doesn't
provide
internet,
the
15
of
the
kids,
who
are
learning
remotely.
A
Mean
we
we'll
all
answer
for
that
us?
We
should
answer
it
you're
right,
you're
right,
but
it
shouldn't
happen.
There's
no
reason
for
it.
This
is
not.
This
is
not
outrageously
expensive
and
we've
got
three
organizations
here
who
are
all
dealing
with
comcast
who
are
all
trying
to
find
chromebooks
our
other
devices
acting
independently
plus
we've
got,
you
know,
do
it
and
you
guys
sound?
I
have
to
say
you
you
sound,
you
know
like
you,
you
have
more
urgency,
but
you
know
there
should
be
an
answer
here.
B
A
When
I
first
started
doing
this.
The
comcast
people
came
to
me
when
they
heard
I
was
involved
and
said,
tell
us
what
we
need
to
do.
Okay,
so
then
you
know
I
heard
about
do
it
and
whatever
and
chief
crockett
and
whatever,
and
you
know
honestly
any
reason
why
I
don't
go
back
and
say:
okay,
here's
what
we
need
you
to
do.
G
To
our
learners-
and
I
I
think
I
remember
comcast-
saying
that
they
do
that
with
plenty
of
cities.
So
in
I
mean
there
are
definitely
logistical
headaches,
as
we've
learned
quite
well
of
signing
people
up
or
helping
people
sign
up,
but
as
long
as
they
you
know,
as
long
as
their
home
can
access
the
infrastructure
with
comcast
it
just
I
think,
comes
down
to
paying
for
it.
G
What's
in
it
for
them
to
do
make
those
deals,
just
new
customers
they
so
their
internet
essentials
plan
is
ten
dollars
a
month.
They
are
waiving
the
first
two
months
of
of
cost
for
new
internet
essentials,
customers
as
a
response
to
kovid,
and
they
have
a
incredibly
frustrating
rule
to
have
forever
that
you
can't
sign
up
for
internet
essentials,
their
low-cost
plan,
if
you
have
subscribed
to
their
a
more
expensive
internet
in
the
past
three
months,
because
they
don't
want
people
just
switching
over.
G
B
H
Go
ahead,
no,
I
was
just
going
to
say
we
need
to
put
our
foot
down.
If
you
want
to
do
business
in
the
city,
we
think
about
children
as
priority,
and
if
this
was
1750
and
and
there
was
a
tax
on
lead
and
there
was
a
tax
on
paper,
and
so
only
people
who
had
access
to
resources
to
get
and
I'm
making
it
real
simple.
H
B
H
In
terms
of
the
learning
curve,
so
for
us
to
make
a
statement
of
saying
that
if
you
want
to
do
business
in
this
city
as
a
business
person
and
there's
some
pluses
in
this
form
by
giving
this
up
because
they're
developing
a
farm
system
where
these
folks
eventually
will
go
right
into
the
mainstream
of
their
business
but
by
them
giving
up-
and
I
I
they're
making
billions
and
yeah-
and
I
try-
I
truly
believe
this
they're
making
billions
by
them.
Setting
yourself
in
the
city
as
us
and
might
be
asking
this
question.
H
What
can
we
do
of?
How
do
we
force
the
idea
of?
If
you
want
to
do
business
in
the
city?
You
have
to
make
sure
our
children
are
being
taken
care
of
from
a
technology
standpoint,
because
they
need
to
have
a
pen
and
a
piece
of
paper
and
that
pending
a
piece
of
paper
is
a
laptop
or
a
notebook
or
whatever,
and
they
have
to
have
access
to
it.
And
that's
it.
B
A
I
I
I
think
we
shouldn't
it's,
you
know
after
six.
I
think
we
shouldn't
try
to
solve
it,
but
I
I
would
like
the
sense
of
the
commission
that
this
is
with
some
sense
of
urgency,
because
my
sense
of
talking
to
other
people,
I
don't
get
a
sense
of
urgency.
You
know
the
you
know.
We
saw
this
15
of
our
households.
Don't
have
internet
people
say
that
and
then
they
go.
H
Yes,
and
no
one
was
talking
about
that
and
that's
the
tragedy
and
when
they
laid
down
these
tables
in
the
early
days,
they
omitted
those
people
and
coming
up
a
lot
of
their
strategies.
It's
going
to
take
people
like
us
to
make
sure
you
cannot
continue
to
do
that,
because
those
folks
are
being
marginalized
all
over
the
place.
H
A
Right
for
some
reason
just
you
know,
I
don't
know
why
and
right
around
roxbury.
You
know
those
places
are
left
out
and
you
know
we
need
to
figure
out
a
way
around
this,
and
if
you
know,
if
we
take
this
on,
I
mean
we
need.
Somebody
needs
to
feel
a
sense
of
urgency
about
it
and
so
far
I
haven't
heard
anybody,
but
us
do
that
and
you
wanted
to
say
something.
So
if.
I
We
held
a
hearing
on
this
issue
and
who
it's
impacting
that
would
garner
attention
and
would
help
to
maybe
bring
that
sense
of
urgent
urgency
that
this
is
a
civil
rights
issue.
This
is
this,
is
you
know,
and
who
is
it
affecting
it's
affecting
the
people
that
don't
have
the
power
to
speak
out
the
most
the
the
poor,
the
people
of
color,
the
elderly,.
E
Yeah-
and
I
I
think
then
also
folks-
will
get
a
chance
to
hear
kind
of
what
what
is
being
done.
I
mean,
I
know,
the
city
invests
a
lot
in
teco's
home
and
a
lot
of
your
slots
are
for
boston,
public
schools.
There's
been
a
lot
of
work
done
around
boston,
public
schools
and
I
think
that
there
is
a
lot
there
are
a
number
of
people
that
want
to
move
this
forward.
Obviously
I
want
to
move
this
forward.
E
A
A
We
all
agree
that
this
is
something
that
needs
to
be
fixed
and
not
two
years
from
now
or
five
years
from
now
with
a
five-year
plan,
because
I
don't
think
cobit's
gonna
go
away.
Well,
maybe
it
will
go
away,
maybe
they
will
get
vaccinated
and
it
will
go
away.
Who
knows?
But
you
know
it's
still.
This
will
still
continue
to
be
an
issue
so,
but
I
really
appreciate
the
folks
who
are
our
guests
today
and
what
you
have
done
and
what
we
have
learned
from
you
and
obviously
you
got
us
excited.
A
So
we
appreciate
it.
Thank
you
for
all
your
good
work
and
for
sharing
it
with
us.
We're
really
we're
really
glad
that
you
did
and
thank
you
and
you,
you
you're
more
than
happy
to
stay
or
you're
you're
free
to
leave.
So,
thank
you
and
we
will
I
what
I
will
promise
is.
We
will
look
back
to
you
when
we
figured
out
how
to
solve
this
problem.
A
C
Okay,
thank
you
thank
you,
and
I
also
want
to
echo
your
sentiments.
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
all
the
the
polish
and
the
guests
that
joined
us
for
this
very
important
topic
to
move
on
to
december
10th.
Again,
as
you
all
know,
december
10th
is
the
international
human
rights
day.
That's
celebrated
throughout
the
world.
Really
we've
sort
of
been
circling.
The
idea
with
you
all
about
holding
a
hosting
an
event,
a
small
event.
C
Couple
weeks,
I
should
say
more
so
all
three,
all
four,
because
we've
had
several
meetings
about
this,
including
meetings
with
with
you
margaret
mark
chairwoman,
mckenna
meetings
with
leonard
lee,
as
commissioner
lee,
as
well
as
commissioner
leslie
harris,
who
unfortunately
had
to
leave
early
today.
But
when
we
landed
on
today.
C
A
C
You've
earned
your
money
girl.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
helping,
but
68
right
so
an
event
and
again
the
details
of
it.
We
can
we're
still
debating
exactly
what
it
looks
like,
but
but
we're
thinking
that
it
starts
more
or
less
with
with
me
doing
an
opening
and
framing
the
issue
and
kind
of
talking
about.
C
Why
we're
here
and
introducing,
hopefully
a
speaker
for
about
five
or
ten
minutes,
we'll
talk
in
general,
about
racism
and
about
black
men
and
about
the
facts
again
of
of
oppression
in
america
and
then
have
a
small
two
to
three
people
panel
discussion
that
that
would
go,
maybe
30
or
40
minutes
or
more
okay,
the
timeline
exactly
about
how
everything's
going
to
work
out.
We
haven't.
We
haven't
gotten
to
that
point
yet,
but
then,
beyond
the
final
discussion
we'll
have,
hopefully
you
know
closing
with
with
actually
lee.
C
Hopefully
nana
lee
will
do
the
closing
again,
but
the
intent
of
this
event
is
to
sort
of
be.
If
you
will
launch
and
pad
to
say,
okay,
we
we,
the
human
rights
commission
care
about
this
issue,
and
we
hope
to
in
in
2021
2021,
have
a
more
in-depth
discussion
that
will
come
late.
Hopefully,
would
maybe,
in
the
spring,
have
a
a
conference
or
a
seminar
that
will
be
much
more.
You
know
broad
in
depth
than
what
we're
trying
to
execute
here.
C
We
have
identified
some
speakers
in
the
potential
panel
panel
people
that
can
participate
in
the
panel.
They
they
are.
Most
of
them
are
down
down.
If
you
will
committed
to
to
doing
this,
we're
trying
to
work
on
the
logistics
and
finalize
everything
before
we
sort
of
get
going.
Obviously,
tommy
is
of
the
essence
and
I'll.
Let
lee
say
a
few
words
about
this
as
well,
but
times
of
the
essence.
C
H
It's
really
talking
about
human
rights,
for
the
in
the
existence
of
african
americans
hasn't.
Even
though
people
talk
about
it
really
hasn't
it's
like
the
constitution.
They
talk
about
it,
but
they
don't
talk
about
it
in
the
sense
of
of
people
of
color
like
the
constitution
was
written,
but
it
wasn't
written
for
the
people's
color.
So
I'm
putting
something
like
this
together.
H
H
H
B
H
A
There
are
a
couple
of
people
a
couple
other
places
too.
I
found
that
that
you
know
concentrate
to
have
a
group
of
people
working
on
this
issue,
so
if
he
did
something
that
had
you
know
this
sort
of
a
historical
con,
you
know
view
something
that
had
something
about
trauma
and
healing,
and
so
you
know
different
tracks
that
people
could
attend.
That
would
be
more
like
a
summit
rather
than
just
one
thing,
maybe
might
be
interesting,
but
let's
do
the
tenth
and
then
we'll
figure
out
where
to
go
from
there.
H
Yeah,
because
we
were
thinking
about
a
series
throughout
the
year
having
four
having
four
separate
series
and
and
bringing
different
people,
because
there
are
some
people
who
will
come
in
free
of
charge.
Like
john,
I
could
probably
convince
them
to
do
this
free,
but
there's
other
folks
who
are
who
who
have
been
out
here,
who
are
older
and
been
doing
this
work,
and
some
amazing
amazing
studies
that
they've
done
that.
A
A
H
A
And
jack
harris
and
judge
the
judge
right
yes
right
and
then
we're
going
to
find
a
date,
we're
going
to
meet
the
second
week
of
january
and
in
the
meantime,
we're
going
to
figure
out
how
to
fix
the
access
to
the
internet
in
hunger.
So
by
january
you
know
13th
to
14th
we're
going
to
have
access
to
the
engine.
Then
no
one's
going
to
be
hungry.
H
A
H
A
A
The
answer
is
no,
no,
no,
the
boston
public
schools
is
hooked
in
to
do
it
and
we
had
do
it
at
our
last
meeting.
If
you
remember
michael
lynch,
so
mike
mark
christine
who
works
who's,
the
dewey
guy
at
bps
is
hooked
into
mike
lynch
who's
hooked
into
david.
Whatever
his
name
is
he's
the
cio
and
there
are,
they:
don't
have
independence
from
do
it
basically
yeah
everything's
tied
in
central
aid
there,
but
I
haven't
given
up
centrally
we'll
we'll
see.
A
Okay,
so
members
of
the
public
will
now
have
an
opportunity.
I
don't
think
we
have
anybody
actually
opportunity
to
ask
questions.
Provide
public
comment
to
do
so.
Please
raise
your
hand
or
type
a
question
in
the
chat
application
via
the
zoom
meeting
platform.
If
you
are
calling
in
you
can
press
nine
to
raise
your
hand
or
you
can
send
your
questions
to
via
email
to
susan
henley
at
boston.gov.
C
Do
we
have
one
person
in
the
chat?
This
is
elena.
I
think
if
I'm
saying
her
name
correctly,
she's
she's
a
freaking
friar.
In
fact,
I've
been
in
touch
with
her
through
email,
so
she's,
very
interested
in
the
work.
I'm
gonna
try
to
connect
with
her
and
hopefully
see
how
we
can
collaborate
I'll.
Let
her
speak
if
she
had
anything
to
say.
C
F
A
Hey
so
good
meeting
energy,
so
I
don't
have
to
have
just
talk
to
myself
in
the
afternoon
by
myself,
banging
on
the
windows
or
knocking
my
head
on
the
wall.
I
can
come
here
and
do
it
so.
Can
I
have
a
motion
to
adjourn
a
move?
Second,
okay.
We
are
adjourned
and
have
a
happy
and
mostly
healthy
thanksgiving.
Please
same
to
you.
Thank
you.