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From YouTube: COVID-19 Media Availability 4-19-21
Description
Boston Mayor Kim Janey hosts a media availability to discuss updates relating to COVID-19.
The Mayor will also shares updates relating to the environment and open spaces LIVE from the Nightingale Community Garden in Dorchester.
B
B
Our
good
colleague
harry
will
be
wiping
down
the
microphone
and
the
podium
for
us.
So
thank
you
harry
for
doing
that.
Our
gratitude
to
our
hosts,
the
trustees
of
reservations
not
only
for
their
hospitality
today,
but
for
their
stewardship
of
very
special
places
like
nightingale
throughout
our
city
and
indeed
throughout
the
commonwealth.
B
B
We
know
how
precious
these
spring
hours
are
to
all
of
you,
so
we
promise
not
to
take
up
too
much
time
and
spring
is
about
beginnings.
In
two
weeks,
I
will
be
beginning
a
new
role
as
the
executive
director
of
the
rose
kennedy,
greenway
and
as
excited
as
I
am
about
that
role
today
is
about
who
soon
will
begin
in
the
role
of
chief
of
environment,
energy
and
open
space.
B
It
is
a
role
that
I've
been
humbled
to
have.
It
is
also
the
latest
in
a
series
of
extraordinary
opportunities
that
the
city
of
boston
has
given
me
fifteen
years
that
began
at
the
boston,
public
schools
and
continued
at
the
mayor's
office
of
arts,
tourism
and
special
events,
the
parks
department
and
now,
as
a
member
of
the
mayor's
cabinet.
B
B
I
also
want
to
thank
my
family,
my
hero
and
my
wife
anya,
who,
if
there's
one
bright
side
of
the
pandemic,
it's
showing
me
how
to
lead
with
equity
in
everything
you
do,
and
she
certainly
does
that
with
her
students
and
I've
been
able
to
witness
how
she
teaches
from
this
remote
learning.
I've
been
very
grateful
for
that,
and
I
want
to
thank
our
children,
cyr
and
roshin
the
time
sheets
associated
with
these
jobs
don't
reflect
the
sacrifices
families
make,
especially
in
the
most
precious
of
resources.
B
Climate
work
isn't
about
the
what
it's
about
the
who,
if
we
have
limited
time
and
limited
resources
which
we
do,
who
can
we
protect,
and
how
can
we
expand
opportunities
for
them?
Mayor
janie
understands
this.
Her
passion
for
open
space
led
to
comprehensive
renovations
at
parks
like
malcolm
x.
Now
as
mayor.
She
is
using
those
same
projects
as
examples
of
how
the
city
can
lead
a
more
equitable
procurement
system,
a
champion
of
urban
gardens.
Just
like
this
one
mayor
janie
understands
that
we
need
to
restore
our
relationship
with
the
earth.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
mayor
kim.
A
Janey,
thank
you
harry
and
thank
you
all
for
being
here.
My
heart
is
very
full
as
I
stand
here
in
this
beautiful
community
garden.
I
want
to
begin
my
remarks
with
thanking
chris
cook,
our
chief
of
what
I
call
all
things
green
for
that
amazing
introduction.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
years
of
service
to
the
city
of
boston.
You
have
truly
been
a
champion
for
our
open
spaces.
A
I
wish
you
all
the
best,
certainly
as
you
move
forward.
As
I've
already
said,
I
know
you
will
be
close
by
and
continue
to
be
an
amazing
partner
for
the
city,
so
I
am
really
grateful
for
your
leadership
and
for
what
you
will
continue
to
do
for
the
city
of
boston
and
I
want
to
acknowledge
your
family.
Yes,
please
give
it
up
for
chief
cook.
A
I
want
to
acknowledge
that
we
are
also
joined
by
your
beautiful
family,
who
have
sacrificed
a
lot
to
let
you
flourish
in
this
role,
certainly
anya
and
your
beautiful
daughters
anya,
who
is
a
schoolteacher
here
in
boston,
public
schools,
and
I
look
forward
to
visiting
your
classroom.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
for
all
that
you
have
given
to
the
city
of
boston
as
a
teacher
and
also
as
a
partner
to
chief
cook.
A
I
want
to
also
acknowledge
members
of
the
team.
You
know,
commissioner
ryan
woods,
and
certainly
commissioner
carl
spector
for
being
here-
we've
got
members
of
the
parks
department
that
chief
cook
has
already
acknowledged
and
they
have
been
amazing
partners
to
me
my
entire
time
in
government.
So
I
want
to
give
them
a
shout
out
as
well.
A
It
is
certainly
a
pleasure
to
be
here
this
morning
at
the
nightingale
community
garden,
and
I
would
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
acknowledge
my
mother,
who
I'm
still
not
used
to
telling
her
all
the
different
amazing
events
that
I
have
on
my
calendar.
She
should
be
here
with
us
this
morning,
but
she's,
certainly
here
in
spirit,
and
she
is
the
reason
that
I
have
a
deep
love
for
the
earth
and
for
gardening.
A
As
a
gardener
myself,
I
certainly
miss
the
time
I
used
to
have
to
spend
in
my
garden,
but
I
want
to
acknowledge
my
mom
for
instilling
in
me
the
importance
of
this
work.
I
want
to
thank
the
trustees
of
the
reservations
who
owned
this
beautiful
space,
along
with
eleanor
thompson
and
vida
tico
members
of
the
nightingale
community
garden.
This
shared
garden
was
established
in
the
1970s
by
residents
who
reclaimed
and
transformed
it
from
an
empty
lot.
A
We
have
a
number
of
lots
throughout
our
city
that
have
long
been
blighted
and
when
residents
kind
of
step
up
and
take
that
and
claim
it
as
their
own
as
a
beautiful
space
to
convene
to
come
together
as
residents
is
so
powerful
and
then,
on
top
of
that,
as
a
place
where
we
can
grow
food
together,
I
just
it's.
It's
amazing.
This
particular
garden
has
a
hundred
and
thirty
four
plots
that
serve
over
two
hundred
and
fifty
gardeners
who
grow
more
than
twenty
five
thousand
pounds
of
fresh
produce
annually.
A
Before
I
go
on,
I
want
to
acknowledge
that
we
are
joined
by
reverend
mariama
white
hammond's
partner
and
husband
ron
dorsey,
who
is
here
with
us
who,
in
his
own
right,
has
dedicated
his
life
to
serving
this
city,
not
just
as
a
city
employee,
a
prior
city,
employee,
but
just
in
all
of
his
work,
and
we
are
also
joined
by
reverend
white
hammond's
parents,
reverend
ray
hammond
and
reverend
gloria
whitehammond.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
all
you
have
given
to
the
city
of
boston,
so
grateful
to
have
you
here
with
us.
A
A
She.
She
has
demonstrated
experience
and
positive
youth
engagement
through
her
many
years
as
the
founder
and
director
of
project
hip-hop,
and
that
is
how
I
know
her.
Almost
what
20
years
ago,
project
hip-hop
was
a
non-profit
organization
where
she
used
the
arts
as
a
tool
to
raise
youth
awareness
on
social
justice
issues.
She
is
the
founding
pastor
of
new
roots,
ame
church
in
dorchester,
a
diverse
spiritual
community
that
is
reimagining
new
ways
of
being
a
church,
her
activism
and
secular
and
interfaith
justice.
A
Efforts
include
using
intersectional
lens
and
her
ecological
work,
a
lens
that
challenges,
people
to
see
the
connections
between
immigration
and
climate
change
or
the
relationship
between
energy
policy
and
economic
justice.
It
gives
me
great
pleasure
to
welcome
reverend
mariama
whitehammond
to
my
team.
I
look
forward
to
the
work
that
she
will
do
in
the
coming
days
and
months
as
we
plan
for
an
equitable
recovery,
reopening
and
renewal
of
boston,
reverend
white
hammond.
The
floor
is
I'm
yours,
gonna
wipe
this.
C
C
Sometimes
we
get
some
other
kinds
of
days,
but
as
a
gardener,
I've
learned
to
appreciate
even
those
times
when
it's
rainy,
because
then
I
don't
have
to
get
up
and
go
and
water
myself.
So
I
wanna
say
such
a
deep
thanks
to
the
mayor
when
chris
cook
first
called
me
and
asked
me
to
consider
this.
He
said,
don't
say
anything
just
think
about
it.
C
I
saw
the
way
her
eyes
lit
up
as
she
thought
about
putting
in
those
seedlings
and
putting
everything
together,
and
I
knew
after
that
that
this
was
an
important
opportunity
to
move
forward
the
agenda
that
she
has
developed
for
our
city.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
thinking
of
me
and
for
giving
me
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
this
important
time
in
boston's
history.
C
C
All
of
this
he's
had
his
own
experience
being
a
chief
and
so
trying
to
help
me
pace
myself
and
figure
out
how
to
do
this
work.
Well,
I
want
to
thank
the
community
of
boston
that
has
supported
and
raised
me
over
the
years,
I'm
a
child
of
this
city,
I've
taken
the
23
and
the
19
and
been
on
the
28th,
maybe
times
when
I
wasn't
supposed
to
be
there.
C
C
As
mayor
janie
mentioned,
her
agenda
is
really
about
bringing
our
city
back
back
from
this
last
year.
That
has
been
challenging.
For
so
many
of
us.
It
is
tested
and
tried
ourselves
our
families
and
all
of
our
systems,
and
it
has
exposed
the
deep
fragility
and
vulnerability
of
so
many
of
our
communities.
C
I
will
not
be
able
to
do
this
work
alone,
so
I'm
putting
all
of
our
growers
on
notice
that
we
need
your
help.
We
need
you
to
engage
young
people
and
your
neighbors,
like
you've
already
been
doing,
but
at
a
scale
like
never
before
I'm
excited
to
work
on
issues
of
summer
heat
and
to
do
so
in
such
a
way
that
doesn't
exacerbate
our
our
carbon
footprint.
So
brad
I'm
get
we'll
get
started
on
that
right
away.
C
How
are
we
going
to
do
that
together
and
thinking
really
about
green
jobs
as
a
pathway
for
our
youth,
and
particularly
our
youth
of
color?
In
the
bps
system,
green
jobs
can
be
great
jobs
on
which
people
can
raise
their
families
and
far
too
many
of
our
young
people
are
not
on
track
for
the
kinds
of
jobs
that
are
sustainable
and
will
allow
them
to
remain
residents
of
this
city.
C
C
C
A
A
My
chief
of
communications
and
press
secretary
nick
martin
also
joined
by
stephanie
garrett
stearns,
who
is
a
senior
advisor
to
me
in
the
mayor's
office,
and
she
is
joined
by
her
little
girl
who
was
on
school
vacation,
so
very
happy
to
have
children
here
sharing
in
this
space
with
us
today
I
hope
and
pray.
I
got
everyone.
There
are
other
staffers
here,
but
thank
you
so
much
for
for
being
here
and
if
there
are
a
few
questions
happy
to
take
them
for
myself,
chief
cook
or
chief
white
hammond.