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From YouTube: Equitable Procurment Executive Order Signing
Description
Boston is committed to making sure that all residents and businesses in the city have access to the same opportunities. Mayor Walsh joins Cheif of Economic Development John Barros, Director of Equity and Inclusion Celina Barrios-Millner, other elected officials and local business owners in the Eagle Room to sign an Executive Order designed to support equitable procurement in the City of Boston.
A
A
Equity,
in
fact,
has
been
something
that
he's
asked
to
be
ingrained
in
the
work
of
every
department
and
every
policy
area
across
the
city
of
Boston.
That's
why
this
equity
procurement
policy
that
helps
to
standardize
how
every
department
is
doing
business
moving
forward
is
critical
and
that's
why
the
mayor
asked
that
we
have
in
a
an
advanced
team
internal
team
to
work
on
this
today.
A
This
policy
looked
at
it
and
thought
about
it.
You've
been
advocates
and
partners
with
us
in
this
work.
We
value
your
expertise
and
we
will
need
your
collaboration
as
this
work
continues,
while
the
challenge
of
equity
and
inclusion
is
citywide
and
beyond
city
government
and
larger
than
any
one
business
conversation,
it's
very
much
about
mayors,
Mayor,
Walsh's
leadership
and
his
administration's
values.
As
our
city
grows
and
the
economy
grows.
We
want
to
ensure
full
participation
for
all
Bostonians
and
we
have
made
significant
progress,
but
there
is
a
lot
of
work
to
be
done.
A
The
Economic
Development
Center
with
the
MIT,
which
the
mayor
announced
in
January
of
this
year,
is
a
vehicle
to
reach
all
Bostonians
in
every
neighborhood
and
provide
them
with
information
on
opportunities
for
growing
their
businesses
for
starting
their
businesses
for
job
training,
for
connecting
communities
directly
to
economic
opportunities
and
city
resources.
Given
the
city's
incredible
spending
power,
the
mayor
has
made
it
an
imperative
that
we
as
a
municipality,
develop
the
kind
of
policies
that
encourage
and
promote
engagement
with
women-owned
and
minority-owned
businesses
and,
as
the
mayor
launched
a
citywide
disparity
study
last
year.
A
B
Thank
you,
Thank
You,
chief
barrows
gonna
have
them
slinging
a
little
bit.
The
director
of
equity
inclusion,
Thank
You,
Selina
who's
done.
Some
amazing
work,
our
supplier
diversity,
Council.
Everyone
has
agreed
to
sit
on
this
council.
Thank
you
for
that
and
your
commitment
and
many
of
you
on
the
council
who
have
agreed
to
sit
on
on
the
council,
have
worked
in
in
this
space
for
a
long
time
and
and
I.
Thank
you
for
the
work
you've
done
in
moving
forward.
B
There's
been
an
interesting
week
and
a
good
week
in
Boston
and
Tuesday
was
Election
Day
and
a
lot
of
people
are
talking
about
history
being
made
eight
women
on
the
bus,
City
Council,
and
it
is
history.
But
if
you
look
at
Boston,
if
you
look
at
the
breakdown
of
Boston,
our
City
Council
today
truly
reflects
who
we
are
as
a
city
because
52%
of
the
people,
the
households
led
in
our
city,
I've,
led
by
women,
50%
of
people
in
our
city
at
people
of
color.
B
We
have
it,
we
have.
We
have
a
council
that
reflects
who
we
are
as
a
city,
and
that
was
Tuesday
this
morning.
Many
of
you
at
the
black
market,
talking
about
our
disparity
study
and
how
we're
going
to
move
forward
and
I
had
a
chance
to
go
there,
but
before
I
got
to
you
probably
went
there
this
morning,
I
was
at
the
firehouse
fire
at
the
Florian
Hall
and
there
were
350
female
firefighters
from
around
the
country.
B
Talking
about
the
health
and
well
being
a
female
firefighters
in
the
job
and
I
thought
to
myself
what
what
an
incredible
kind
of
a
great
advancement
from
what
the
conversations
have
been
over
the
last
many
years
now
I'm
not
saying
that
there's
equality
there
yet.
But
what
I'm
saying
is
that
there's
an
acknowledgement
and
an
incredible
conversation
that
happened
today
that
I
felt
an
energy
and
flowering
in
hall
that
I
hadn't
felt
in
a
long
time,
and
it
was
good
to
see
that
then
then
I
went.
Oh
did
I.
B
The
next
word
is
the
probably
one
of
the
most
important
words
I
can
say,
but
but
we
still
have
a
long
way
to
go.
We
still
have
to.
We
still
have
challenges
we
need
to
face.
There's
been
a
history
of
exclusion
in
our
country,
but
I'm,
not
the
president,
so
I'm
gonna
look
in
our
city
because
that's
what
we
can
change,
it's,
let's
unequal
opportunities.
It
requires
generational
and
structural
change
as
a
government.
B
B
Today,
as
I
said
earlier
this
morning,
at
the
black
market,
I'm
signing
an
executive
order
that
standards
I
standardizes,
that
steps
that
we
can
take
immediately.
It
helps
us
increase
access
to
opportunity
and
it
will
help
us
implement
stronger
business
practices
for
the
city
I'm,
going
to
talk
about
what
the
executive
order
entails,
then
I
want
to
kind
of
wrap
it
up
with
something
we're
making
easy
a
few
people
to
find
out
contracts
and
opportunities
within
the
city
not
make
a
challenging
and
make
it
easier.
B
We're
improving
the
way
to
do
outreach,
we're
ensuring
that
city
departments
use
best
practices
to
eliminate
structural
bias,
we're
creating
a
public
registry
of
certified
businesses,
including
small
businesses
and
those
owned
by
people
of
color
women
and
veterans,
we're
creating
a
training
program
for
city
employees
and
departments
who
manage
procurement.
Many
of
them
are
in
this
room
today,
we're
also
requiring
each
department
to
create
a
particular
plan
that
makes
equity
a
priority.
B
The
city
has
never
done
anything.
This
bold.
Regarding
procurement,
it's
one
of
several
steps
that
were
taking
our
office
of
economic
development
is
leading
a
disparity
study,
as
we
talked
about
this
morning
in
2003,
was
the
last
disparity
study
from
2011
to
2013,
and
the
opportunities
in
our
city
have
been
enormous
and
incredible
from
2003
to
2009
teen,
a
lot
of
people
left
behind
a
lot
of
people
didn't
have
a
chance
to
access
that
growth.
B
Hundreds
of
business
owners
told
us
about
their
experiencing
work.
Experience
working
with
the
city
over
the
years.
There's
not
enough
good
stories
about
that
experience.
It's
generally
a
bad
experience
story.
We're
gonna
make
sure
that
every
step
of
this
process
is
informed
and
we
work
the
feedback.
B
This
is
a
document
that
is
a
piece
of
paper
with
ink
on
it.
That
has
words
on
it.
That's
what
this
document
is.
It's
incumbent
upon
all
of
us
to
make
sure
that
it's
not
just
words
on
a
documents
and
ink
on
the
documents
we
need
to
collectively
work
together
to
make
change.
We
need
to
go
out
and
find
the
contractors
the
suppliers,
the
people
that
are
looking
to
build
capacity.
B
We
need
to
open
doors.
We
need
to
open
doors
on
people
that,
quite
honestly,
the
doors
have
been
shot.
Well,
they
don't
know
where
the
door
is
and
there's
an
opportunity
for
us
to
do
that.
We
have
successes
in
our
city
there,
one
offs,
we
have
correct
Jani
in
the
front
row
here,
whose
name
is
on
a
lot
of
big
buildings
in
Boston,
it's
a
one-off.
It
needs
to
be
consistent
across
the
city.
B
We
have
a
probably
one
of
the
greatest
food
contractors
and
I'm
not
saying
that,
because
he's
standing
here
in
city
fresh
food,
but
they
have
a
legit
business
that
has
an
incredible
record.
They're
a
one-off.
That's
not
gonna,
get
our
work
done.
Having
one
offs,
we
need
to
continue
to
push
each
other.
The
inaugural
meeting
of
the
supplier
diversity
Council,
is
today
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
participation.
You
represent
all
of
Boston's
neighborhoods.
B
You
bring
tremendous
amount
of
experience
both
in
the
public
and
private
sector
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
you
and
implementing
the
policy,
but
I
also
look
forward
to
growing
that
table.
It
can't
just
just
be
the
people
at
the
table.
It
can't
just
be
me:
I
can't
just
be
John
can't
just
be
Selena.
It
needs
to
be
all
of
us
working
collectively
together
to
open
it
and
make
that
table
a
bigger
table.
B
These
are
important.
Steps
might
make
my
words
on
this
page
say
these
are
powerful
steps.
I'm,
not
gonna,
say
that
yet
these
this
is
an
important
step,
I'm
hoping
to
be
sitting
in
this
room
a
year
from
now,
two
years
from
now
and
talking
about
seeing
a
real
change
in
the
number
to
say
that
we
made
powerful
steps
back
in
2019
that
made
real
impact.
B
This
is
the
second
time
that
I'll
file
this
type
of
executive
order.
This
is
the
last
time
I'm
gonna
file
a
set
of
executive
order,
because
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
we
see
real
change
and
real
access
and
real
opportunity.
I
want
to
thank
all
the
partners
for
being
here
today.
I
want
to
thank
John
burrows
for
his
work
on
this
and
his
team's
work
on
this
there's
a
lot
of
criticism
that
goes
around
and
that's
okay
with
the
jobs
that
we
do,
but
when
it's
time
to
somebody
it's
time
to.
Thank
somebody.
B
C
Thank
you
so
much
mayor
Walsh.
Thank
you
for
your
commitment
to
this
issue
and
for
aligning
your
entire
administration
around
these
efforts.
I'm
the
director
of
equity
and
inclusion,
and
the
mission
of
our
unit
is
to
connect
diverse
talent
to
economic
opportunity
in
Boston
and
I
want
to
pause
on
the
word
talent,
because
our
minority
and
women-owned
businesses
are
not
small.
They
are
not
deficient,
they
don't
lack
the
capacity
they
are
here.
C
They
have
expertise
and
they
have
the
vision
and
innovation
to
really
do
work
with
our
city,
and
so
I
just
want
to
pause
on
that,
because
I
think
we
always
speak
in
a
in
a
sense
of
deficiency
or
scarcity,
and
we
have
amazing
businesses
and
the
job
of
my
unit
is
to
connect
them
with
the
great
departments
we
have
here
that
have
a
lot
of
opportunities.
So
I
want
to
tell
you
about
this
executive
order
and
what
I
get
excited
about,
which
are
the
tools
that
it's
gonna
give
me
to
do
that
job.
C
So,
first
of
all,
we're
gonna
have
an
online
database
of
women
and
minority-owned
businesses,
which
will
help
us
not
only
identify
businesses
for
our
opportunities,
but
our
private
sector
partners
to
find
out
find
businesses
as
well.
We
often
get
calls-
and
we
have-
you
know,
send
lists
and
Excel
spreadsheets
back
and
forth
back
and
forth,
but
now
we're
going
to
have
something.
C
That's
not
only
online,
but
it'll
also
make
the
process
of
applying
for
certification
a
lot
more
streamlined,
because
you'll
be
able
to
do
it
online
and
it'll
be
kind
of
like
the
TurboTax,
where
it's
like.
You
did
a
little
bit
today.
You
save
it.
You
come
back
tomorrow,
it's
not!
Where
did
I
put
that
paper
or
where's
that
email,
it's
all
there
in
one
place
and
it'll
save
all
your
information
from
one
day
to
the
next.
C
The
other
piece
which
sounds
small
but
which
is
this
training
for
all
all
the
people
in
the
city
that
do
purchasing
now.
As
you
all
probably
know,
the
city
does
purchasing
in
a
decentralized
way.
So
we
have
a
procurement
department
that
purchases
goods,
but
every
other
department
is
also
purchasing
services.
Every
single
day
and
every
department
goes
about
at
their
own
way.
The
way
they
solicit
businesses
or
a
solicit
bids
is
their
own
way.
C
A
lot
of
them
are
doing
great
and
innovative
things,
and
we
we're
just
trying
to
capture
those
best
practices
and
do
it
citywide
so
now,
for
the
first
time,
we're
giving
direct
to
all
departments
as
to
how
they
should
solicit
bids
and
that
for
every
single
opportunity,
not
just
the
big
contracts,
every
single
opportunity,
both
50,000
and
above,
and
what
we
call
the
written
quote.
Contracts
which
are
10,000
to
50,000
will
include
the
solicitation
of
a
certified
business
from
our
database.
C
So
please
send
the
message
out:
it's
very
important
to
be
certified,
because
now,
every
time
someone
buys
anything
right
from
$10,000
to
a
million
dollars,
they
have
to
go
through
our
database
to
find
at
least
one
business,
that's
woman
or
minority
owned,
or
has
any
certification
in
our
database.
That's
huge
for
us.
The
other
piece
is
that,
in
my
role,
I
often
find
out
after
money
spent
how
we
spent
it
right.
C
So,
at
the
end
of
the
fiscal
year
at
the
end
of
the
quarter,
we
look
at
the
numbers
and
we're
disappointed
by
the
numbers
now,
for
the
first
time,
we'll
be
ahead
of
the
budget
process.
So
we
will
know
what
every
department
is
planning
on
buying
for
that
year,
which
allows
us
to
not
only
have
solicitation
strategies
with
those
departments
and
say:
hey.
You
have
this
opportunity
coming
up.
How
can
we
work
together
to
make
sure
that
there's
a
qualified,
M
or
WBE
for
that
opportunity?
It
allows
us
to
work
with
the
business
community.
C
The
minority
and
women-owned
business
community
and
say
hey
this
year,
we're
going
to
have
15
different
contracts
that
have
painting
in
it?
Is
this
a
possible
good
match
for
your
business?
Would
you
want
to
partner
or
grow
your
business
to
prepare
for
these
opportunities,
and
then
we
have
the
technical
assistance
on
hand
through
a
small
business
unit
to
get
people
prepared
for
those
opportunities.
So
these
are
real
tools
for
me
and
my
team
to
actually
connect
people
to
opportunity,
and
not
just
say
after
the
fact
man
I
wish
we
did
better.
What
can
we
do?
C
You
know
what
we're
going
to
need
to
build
this
and
we're
building
new
tools,
we're
creating
new
connections
so
that
our
procurement
process
will
be
standardized
not
just
for
certified
businesses,
but
for
all
businesses
to
have
an
equal
access
to
opportunities
and
to
have
transparency
of
what
the
city
is
buying.
This
is
huge
before
we
even
got
out
the
door,
we
already
had
the
systems
and
the
conversations
in
place
to
actually
execute
this,
so
these
aren't
just
nice
words
on
a
nice
piece
of
paper.
C
This
is
actually
an
agreement
amongst
all
of
us
of
how
we're
going
to
work
together
across
different
cabinets
across
different
departments
and
across
different
positions
in
the
city.
So,
for
the
last
six
months
we've
been
piloting,
some
of
the
strategies
laid
out
in
this
executive
order
and
chief
among
them,
is
to
identify
a
specific
contract
opportunity
and
so
and
do
outreach
to
specific
businesses
for
that
those
contracts
and
you'll
hear
from
one
of
the
contracts
in
a
minute
from
a
non-home
services.
C
What
we've
done
is
we've
we've
picked
a
contract,
we've
worked
on
RFP
language
with
Department
and
I
really
want
to
he's
out
in
the
hallway,
but
chief
Osgood,
who
oversees
our
streets
cabinet
and
the
Department
of
Public
Works.
We
actually
said
hey
this
waste
management
contract
is
enormous.
How
can
we
break
this
up
and
they
led
this
and
we
supported
them
in
those
efforts
to
actually
modify
it,
break
off
a
piece
and
then
do
very
targeted
outreach
and
hold
a
community
and
first
information
session.
C
C
D
Good
afternoon,
I
would
like
to
thank
mayor
Walsh
for
the
opportunity
to
have
us
here
to
speak
I'm
out
of
nurse,
and
this
is
my
business
partner.
Michael
Williams
we're
from
am
home
services
we're
vendor
with
the
city
of
Boston,
were
located
right
in
Roxbury
over
the
past
four
to
five
years.
We've
formed
relationships
in
secured
multiple
city
contracts,
and
this
has
been
made
possible
through
our
work
with
the
Office
of
Economic
Development.
They
reach
out
to
local
contractors
like
ourselves.
They
offer
opportunities
in
many
fields.
D
They
offer
information
sessions
trying
to
engage
the
community
and
they
publicize
opportunities,
as
well
as
educating
small
businesses
on
the
bidding
process.
Through
our
connection
with
the
Office
of
Economic
Development,
we
were
able
to
secure
the
contract
with
parks
and
recreation.
We
service
the
Roxbury
parks,
as
well
as
many
slopes
throughout
the
community.
Now
I
have
it
over
the
pardon
Mike.
E
This
year
we
are
teaming
up
with
Boston
Public
Works
and
we
are
responsible
for
the
mowing
and
landscape
maintenance
of
marina
Cass
Boulevard
from
Tremont
Street
to
Harrison
Ave
I
work
with
the
city
of
Boston
has
afforded
us
the
ability
to
grow
our
employee
count
and
we
we
are
also
able
to
offer
training
and
employment
year-round
to
the
people
from
our
community.
We
would
like
to
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
all
today
and
we
look
forward
to
connecting
with
you
all
in
the
future.
A
They
showed
up
to
trainings
that
with
EDC
and
came
and
took
it
very
seriously,
and
you
know
it
was
really
you
know.
I
was
talking
to
him
right
before
this
and
you
know
and
I
said,
look
we
look.
We
look
forward
to
do
more
business
with
you
say.
Well,
that's
the
only
reason
why
we're
here
this
is
nice,
but
we
look
forward
to
doing
more
business
with
you
right
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
I
just
want
to
highlight
that
and
I'm
serious
about.
You
know
talk
too.
A
But
this
is
what
it's
all
about.
It
really
is
the
mayor
this
morning
in
Roxbury
set
to
the
crowd.
You
know
it's
about
opening
doors,
creating
opportunities
right
and
allowing
people
to
who
have
talent
like
to
Selena,
said
and
have
skills
and
have
businesses
the
opportunity
to
be
a
part
of
this
economy
right
and
we're
hoping
that
these
initial
contracts
become
really
big
contracts.
So
we
have
to
understand
the
whole
system.
A
The
city
is
dead,
serious
and
the
mayor
continues
to
say
this
John
do
not
have
me
sign
a
piece
of
paper
with
words
that
we
can't
come
back
and
show
city
spent
has
increased
right.
So
don't
get
me
fired
folks
right
because
he
was
serious
when
he
said
it
to
me
we're
serious
about
it.
We
need
everybody
to
work
together,
but
we
need
to
change
the
outcomes
right
and
that's
going
to
take
all
of
us.
That's
why
it's
excited
for
us
to
be
here
as
part
of
the
inaugural
meeting
for
the
supplier,
diversity
Council.
A
You
guys
are
our
partners
and
making
sure
that
this
happens.
People
are
excited
in
Boston.
We
got
to
go
out
there
and
really
make
it
work.
Let
me
bring
another
gentleman
who
calls
me
and
cause
the
mirror
up.
You
know
you
know
often
to
make
sure
that
you
know
things
are
happening
in
moving
forward.
He's,
not
shy.
So
I'm,
not
sure
exactly
he's
gonna
say
today,
but
we're
gonna
bring
him
up.
Anyways
I
might
yank
him.
I'm
gonna
stand
right
here,
but
you
know
Joseph
D
Feaster
jr.
A
is
is
not
it's
not
a
stranger
to
folks
in
the
room.
I
would
like
to
let
you
know,
though
he
is
the
chair
of
my
brother's
keeper
initiative
that
the
mayor
started
a
few
years
ago
and
he's
been
working
hard
to
make
sure
that
the
young
people
in
our
city
are
inspired
and
that
they're
that
they
understand
the
opportunities
in
front
of
them
and
so
last
night,
when
I
called
him
actually
and
said
Joe
anyway.
He
had
some
questions
about
this
and
how
many
people
in
said,
can
you
say
some
words?
A
He
said
he
said:
yeah
I'm,
heading
down
to
speak,
to
foster,
have
put
together
some
group
of
young
young
professionals,
I'm
gonna,
go
down
and
speak
to
them
about
what
they're
doing
and
jazzed
him
up
right
and
get
them
get
them
inspired.
You
know
that's
what
you
go
to,
because
that's
what
you
do
right.
Yeah
he's
also
the
chair
of
the
Urban
League
and
a
bunch
of
other
things.
I
just
want
to
bring
them
up.
Let's
give
a
hand
for
mr.
FISA
jury.
F
Thank
you
very
much
John,
it
still
happens.
I
can
come
into
a
room.
Well,
first,
let
me
say:
whenever
I
come
to
the
Eagle
room,
I
know
it's
something
important.
The
other
thing
is
now.
You
know:
Steve
I,
walk
into
rooms
now,
and
particularly
what
Emerson
had
and
used
to
be
a
time
that
I
would
save
to
were
a
hundred
people
in
the
ailu
90
of
them
now
I
walk
into
a
room
and
I
only
know
ten
of
them,
but
I'm
glad
to
walk
into
this
room
because
I
know
the
majority
of
you
in
here.
F
Now,
I
overheard,
these
two
young
men
here
and
see
I
can
say
that
no
Greg,
these
young
men
here
and
act
and
what
they're
going
to
be
doing
because
they
do
landscaping
and
plowing,
and
you
know,
II's
dropped
and
the
work
that
they
do.
So
all
of
these
folks
are
homeowners
out
here.
A
lot
of
them
I
know
them.
F
She
works
with
and
under
the
Office
of
Economic
Development,
which
is
with
John
barrows
the
office
of
budget
and
management
and
administration
and
finance
cabinets,
so
they
will
capture
and
to
know
where
the
money
is
one
of
the
rules
that
you
know
and
Greg
and
I
have
talked
about
this.
It's
a
gun
follow
the
money.
You
follow
the
money.
B
But
right
before
I
sign,
I
sign
exactly
rota
as
I
sit
down
there
at
one
o'clock
in
this
room
we
have
a
department
head
meeting,
all
the
departments,
the
cabinet
from
the
entire
city
are
gonna,
be
in
this
room
and
the
topic
of
conversation
is
this
executive
order.
So
there
are
some
folks
in
this
room
right
now
that
obviously
that's
their
job,
but
those
other
departments
leading
explain
that
that
don't
have
you
know,
biown,
smaller
or
whatever.
B
Having
meeting
today
and
we're
gonna
continue
to
meet
with
the
department,
heads
and
they're
gonna
meet
with
their
managers
and
we're
gonna
meet
someone
and
so
forth
down
the
organization,
so
the
entire
organization,
the
entire
city
of
Boston,
understand
so,
if
you're
driving
a
truck
for
Public
Works,
you
know
what
our
commitment
is.
If
you
are
the
chief
of
streets
or
the
chief
of
whatever
you
are
you
understand
what
the
commitment
is
and
that's
what
I
commitment
here
in
the
city
of
Boston?
Isn't
this.