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00:07:18:00	00:09:57:00	UH UH UH UH UH MEETING OF THE
00:09:57:00	00:10:01:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL IF YOU CAN
00:10:01:00	00:10:01:00	WATCH THE COUNCIL MEETING LIVE
00:10:01:00	00:10:02:00	ON YOUTUBE AT BOSTON.COM FOR
00:10:02:00	00:10:04:00	EACH LAST CITY DASH
00:10:04:00	00:10:04:00	COUNCIL DASH TV.
00:10:04:00	00:10:05:00	AT THIS TIME I ASK MY
00:10:05:00	00:10:06:00	COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE
00:10:06:00	00:10:08:00	AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE
00:10:08:00	00:10:08:00	THEIR CELL PHONES AND
00:10:08:00	00:10:08:00	ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
00:10:08:00	00:10:11:00	ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42 I
00:10:11:00	00:10:12:00	REMIND ALL IN THE CHAMBER THAT
00:10:12:00	00:10:14:00	NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR
00:10:14:00	00:10:15:00	DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE
00:10:15:00	00:10:15:00	PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.
00:10:15:00	00:10:19:00	THANK YOU.
00:10:19:00	00:10:19:00	MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL
00:10:19:00	00:10:20:00	THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE
00:10:20:00	00:10:23:00	PRESENCE OF A QUORUM
00:10:23:00	00:10:23:00	COUNCIL THE BRIEF COUNCIL?
00:10:23:00	00:10:24:00	COLLETTE AS OPPOSED TO
00:10:24:00	00:10:26:00	COUNCIL DURKAN.
00:10:26:00	00:10:27:00	YOUR COUNCIL FINANCE SANDERSON
00:10:27:00	00:10:30:00	COUNCIL FITZGERALD.
00:10:30:00	00:10:31:00	COUNCIL FLYNN.
00:10:31:00	00:10:31:00	YEAH.
00:10:31:00	00:10:34:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE HERE.
00:10:34:00	00:10:34:00	COUNCIL ME HERE.
00:10:34:00	00:10:35:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:10:35:00	00:10:35:00	YEAH.
00:10:35:00	00:10:38:00	COUNCIL A PIPPIN
00:10:38:00	00:10:38:00	COUNCIL SANTANA.
00:10:38:00	00:10:38:00	YEAH.
00:10:38:00	00:10:42:00	COUNCIL OVER HERE IN
00:10:42:00	00:10:42:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL.
00:10:42:00	00:10:43:00	A QUORUM.
00:10:43:00	00:10:45:00	THANK YOU.
00:10:45:00	00:10:46:00	I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK
00:10:46:00	00:10:47:00	THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.
00:10:47:00	00:10:49:00	I WANT TO THANK OUR CLERK, OUR
00:10:49:00	00:10:50:00	ASSISTANT CLERK AND
00:10:50:00	00:10:50:00	OCEANOGRAPHER FOR BEING HERE.
00:10:50:00	00:10:53:00	AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK
00:10:53:00	00:10:53:00	ASHLEIGH JIMENEZ WHO HAD A MEAL
00:10:53:00	00:10:54:00	FROM THE DO IT OFFICE WHO IS
00:10:54:00	00:10:57:00	HERE WITH US TODAY TO HELP TRY
00:10:57:00	00:10:57:00	TO IMPROVE THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
00:10:57:00	00:11:01:00	AND NOW EVERYONE'S ABILITY TO
00:11:01:00	00:11:04:00	USE THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE THE
00:11:04:00	00:11:05:00	DO IT TOOLS THAT WE HAVE TO TRY
00:11:05:00	00:11:06:00	AND TOOLS LIKE GRANICUS A LOT
00:11:06:00	00:11:09:00	MORE EFFICIENTLY.
00:11:09:00	00:11:09:00	SO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND
00:11:09:00	00:11:10:00	BEING WITH US HERE TODAY, OLAF.
00:11:10:00	00:11:13:00	NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO
00:11:13:00	00:11:13:00	INTRODUCE THIS WEEK'S CLERGY
00:11:13:00	00:11:17:00	RABBI RABBI YITZHAK AHARON
00:11:17:00	00:11:20:00	CORFE WHO BY PROVIDING OUR
00:11:20:00	00:11:21:00	INVOCATION INVITED BY
00:11:21:00	00:11:21:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:11:21:00	00:11:23:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE
00:11:23:00	00:11:24:00	FLOOR.
00:11:24:00	00:11:24:00	AFTER THE INVOCATION WE WILL
00:11:24:00	00:11:25:00	RECITE THE PLEDGE
00:11:25:00	00:11:25:00	OF ALLEGIANCE.
00:11:25:00	00:11:27:00	THANK YOU.
00:11:27:00	00:11:37:00	RABBI, COULD YOU JOIN US PLEASE
00:11:37:00	00:11:37:00	?
00:11:37:00	00:11:41:00	SO MANY OF YOU KNOW WHEN I GET
00:11:41:00	00:11:44:00	THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE IN
00:11:44:00	00:11:45:00	CLERGY.
00:11:45:00	00:11:45:00	RABBI, YOU ARE ALWAYS ONE OF MY
00:11:45:00	00:11:45:00	CHOICES.
00:11:45:00	00:11:49:00	SO I HAVE INTRODUCED HIM MANY
00:11:49:00	00:11:52:00	TIMES AND I SPEND A LOT OF TIME
00:11:52:00	00:11:53:00	IF YOU'VE LISTENED IN THE PAST
00:11:53:00	00:11:56:00	READING HIS BIO, HIS PAST, ALL
00:11:56:00	00:11:59:00	OF HIS DEGREES AND ALL OF THE
00:11:59:00	00:12:00:00	AMAZING THINGS HE'S DONE AND I
00:12:00:00	00:12:01:00	ASKED HIM IF IT WOULD BE OKAY
00:12:01:00	00:12:04:00	IF I JUST SPOKE FROM THE HEART
00:12:04:00	00:12:05:00	TODAY AND I'M NOT GOING TO
00:12:05:00	00:12:08:00	MENTION ALL OF HIS EDUCATION
00:12:08:00	00:12:08:00	AND HIS TITLES BECAUSE THE
00:12:08:00	00:12:12:00	REASON WHY I FEEL A CONNECTION
00:12:12:00	00:12:12:00	WITH RABBI AND FEEL THAT YOU
00:12:12:00	00:12:15:00	KNOW, HE'S A SPIRITUAL FRIEND
00:12:15:00	00:12:19:00	OF MINE IS BECAUSE HE'S JUST
00:12:19:00	00:12:20:00	KIND AND HE SHOWS UP FOR THIS
00:12:20:00	00:12:21:00	ALL OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE
00:12:21:00	00:12:23:00	CITY OF BOSTON.
00:12:23:00	00:12:24:00	HE SHOWS UP FOR OUR
00:12:24:00	00:12:25:00	FIREFIGHTERS, FOR OUR FIRST
00:12:25:00	00:12:25:00	RESPONDERS.
00:12:25:00	00:12:26:00	BUT HE'S ALSO A FAMILY MAN, A
00:12:26:00	00:12:30:00	FATHER, A HUSBAND, SOMEONE WHO
00:12:30:00	00:12:33:00	CARES SO MUCH ABOUT MAKING SURE
00:12:33:00	00:12:34:00	THAT YOU NEED TO START AT HOME
00:12:34:00	00:12:37:00	AND WHEN YOU DO THE RIGHT THING
00:12:37:00	00:12:38:00	AT HOME AND THEN WHEN YOU LEAVE
00:12:38:00	00:12:39:00	THE HOUSE AND MAKING SURE THAT
00:12:39:00	00:12:41:00	WHEN PEOPLE STRAY OR NEED
00:12:41:00	00:12:46:00	SUPPORT THAT HE'S SOMEONE HE I
00:12:46:00	00:12:47:00	ALWAYS SAY HE DOESN'T ANSWER
00:12:47:00	00:12:47:00	HIS CELL PHONE, HE DOESN'T TEXT
00:12:47:00	00:12:50:00	BUT HE DOES REPLY TO E-MAILS
00:12:50:00	00:12:50:00	QUICKLY.
00:12:50:00	00:12:53:00	SO THANK YOU ALWAYS FOR BEING
00:12:53:00	00:12:54:00	JUST AN E-MAIL AWAY AND KNOW
00:12:54:00	00:12:55:00	THAT WHEN I DO SEE YOU OUT
00:12:55:00	00:12:57:00	THERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND
00:12:57:00	00:12:58:00	IN THE COMMUNITY YOU ALWAYS ARE
00:12:58:00	00:13:01:00	BRINGING SUCH A STRONG MESSAGE
00:13:01:00	00:13:02:00	THAT I THINK SO MANY OF US NEED
00:13:02:00	00:13:02:00	TO HEAR.
00:13:02:00	00:13:05:00	YOU CAN NEVER HEAR IT ENOUGH SO
00:13:05:00	00:13:06:00	I'M JUST SO PROUD TO ASK YOU
00:13:06:00	00:13:06:00	BACK.
00:13:06:00	00:13:06:00	YOU WERE AVAILABLE.
00:13:06:00	00:13:08:00	THANK YOU.
00:13:08:00	00:13:09:00	BECAUSE OFTENTIMES YOU MAY BE
00:13:09:00	00:13:09:00	OUT OF THE COUNTRY DOING
00:13:09:00	00:13:13:00	WORLDLY IMPORTANT THINGS ALSO.
00:13:13:00	00:13:13:00	SO WE'RE JUST FORTUNATE TODAY
00:13:13:00	00:13:14:00	TO HAVE YOU OPENED OUR MEETING
00:13:14:00	00:13:16:00	SO THANK YOU.
00:13:16:00	00:13:16:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR.
00:13:16:00	00:13:20:00	IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE HERE AND
00:13:20:00	00:13:21:00	GOOD TO BE BACK.
00:13:21:00	00:13:24:00	SOME OF YOU I KNOW QUITE WELL
00:13:24:00	00:13:25:00	HAVE WORKED WITH FOR MANY
00:13:25:00	00:13:25:00	YEARS.
00:13:25:00	00:13:28:00	OTHERS THOUGHT THIS LONG BUT I
00:13:28:00	00:13:32:00	LOOK FORWARD TO IMPOSING MYSELF
00:13:32:00	00:13:33:00	ON YOU AND WORKING WITH YOU AS
00:13:33:00	00:13:36:00	CHAPLAIN IN ANY CAPACITY THAT I
00:13:36:00	00:13:39:00	THAT I CAN HELP.
00:13:39:00	00:13:42:00	SO LET US PRAY.
00:13:42:00	00:13:47:00	DEAR LORD, WE SEEM TO BE MAKING
00:13:47:00	00:13:50:00	QUITE A MESS OUT OF THE WORLD
00:13:50:00	00:13:50:00	YOU CREATED.
00:13:50:00	00:13:51:00	SO WE ASK FIRST FOR YOUR
00:13:51:00	00:13:55:00	FORGIVENESS AND SECOND FOR YOUR
00:13:55:00	00:13:59:00	GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION THAT
00:13:59:00	00:14:00:00	HERE IT'S SUCH AN INCREDIBLY
00:14:00:00	00:14:03:00	IMPORTANT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT
00:14:03:00	00:14:07:00	WE MAY BOTH RECOGNIZE AND FULLY
00:14:07:00	00:14:07:00	UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS AND THE
00:14:07:00	00:14:11:00	ISSUES AND WITH YOUR HELP AND
00:14:11:00	00:14:14:00	BLESSING OH LORD TOGETHER AS
00:14:14:00	00:14:16:00	ONE BODY, ONE PEOPLE, ONE
00:14:16:00	00:14:17:00	COMMUNITY FIX WHAT WE MAY HAVE
00:14:17:00	00:14:21:00	BROKEN AND IMPROVE WHAT IS NOT
00:14:21:00	00:14:21:00	BROKEN.
00:14:21:00	00:14:25:00	WE KNOW THAT IS HUMAN BEINGS.
00:14:25:00	00:14:25:00	NEITHER WE NOR OUR WORLD NOR
00:14:25:00	00:14:28:00	OUR GOVERNMENT ARE PERFECT.
00:14:28:00	00:14:32:00	SO PLEASE GRANT US THE STRENGTH
00:14:32:00	00:14:33:00	AND WISDOM TO DO OUR PART AND
00:14:33:00	00:14:36:00	SO FAR AS WE CAN WORKING FOR
00:14:36:00	00:14:40:00	OUR CITY AND OUR COMMUNITY AND
00:14:40:00	00:14:40:00	WITH EACH OTHER COOPERATIVELY
00:14:40:00	00:14:43:00	WITH PEACE, TOLERANCE,
00:14:43:00	00:14:44:00	UNDERSTANDING AND PURE
00:14:44:00	00:14:47:00	INTENTIONS TO MAKE WHAT IS
00:14:47:00	00:14:51:00	WRONG RIGHT AND MAKE BETTER
00:14:51:00	00:14:55:00	WHAT IS ALREADY RIGHT.
00:14:55:00	00:14:55:00	MAY YOUR STRENGTH OR LORD
00:14:55:00	00:14:58:00	SUSTAIN US.
00:14:58:00	00:14:59:00	MAY YOUR VISION OR LORD INSPIRE
00:14:59:00	00:15:02:00	US.
00:15:02:00	00:15:03:00	MAY YOUR WISDOM OH LORD GUIDE
00:15:03:00	00:15:05:00	US.
00:15:05:00	00:15:06:00	MAY YOUR POWER OR LORD PRESERVE
00:15:06:00	00:15:09:00	US.
00:15:09:00	00:15:09:00	MAY YOUR HAND.
00:15:09:00	00:15:10:00	OH LORD PROTECT US AND DIRECT
00:15:10:00	00:15:13:00	US AND MAY YOUR LOVE OUR LORD
00:15:13:00	00:15:16:00	GO WITH US THIS DAY AND
00:15:16:00	00:15:16:00	FOREVER.
00:15:16:00	00:15:17:00	MAY THIS BE GOD'S WILL AND LET
00:15:17:00	00:15:26:00	US SAY AMEN I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
00:15:26:00	00:15:27:00	TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED
00:15:27:00	00:15:30:00	STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE
00:15:30:00	00:15:32:00	REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
00:15:32:00	00:15:33:00	ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
00:15:33:00	00:15:35:00	INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND
00:15:35:00	00:15:39:00	JUSTICE.
00:15:39:00	00:15:43:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:15:43:00	00:15:47:00	I THINK IT WAS LIKE JUST
00:15:47:00	00:15:47:00	WATCHING MY ACORN.
00:15:47:00	00:15:48:00	ALL RIGHT.
00:15:48:00	00:15:48:00	THANK YOU.
00:15:48:00	00:15:49:00	IT'S A TIME TWIST.
00:15:49:00	00:15:53:00	THANK YOU.
00:15:53:00	00:15:57:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, GRANDMA.
00:15:57:00	00:15:57:00	BYE.
00:15:57:00	00:15:58:00	WHY A COFFEE?
00:15:58:00	00:15:59:00	IT IS A IT IS A JOY TO ALWAYS
00:15:59:00	00:16:00:00	HAVE YOU HERE IN CHAMBERS WITH
00:16:00:00	00:16:01:00	US AND FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR
00:16:01:00	00:16:04:00	CITY.
00:16:04:00	00:16:04:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
00:16:04:00	00:16:07:00	AMEND THE RECORD TO REFLECT
00:16:07:00	00:16:12:00	THAT COUNCILORS MAY HEAR AND I
00:16:12:00	00:16:12:00	BELIEVE WAS WEBER.
00:16:12:00	00:16:13:00	DID WE GET WEBER?
00:16:13:00	00:16:16:00	OKAY, THAT COMES FROM ME.
00:16:16:00	00:16:23:00	HE IS NOW PRESENTED WITH US.
00:16:23:00	00:16:23:00	THANK YOU.
00:16:23:00	00:16:27:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO PRESENTATION
00:16:27:00	00:16:28:00	AS WE HAVE PRESENTATIONS TODAY
00:16:28:00	00:16:31:00	HONORING JUNETEENTH.
00:16:31:00	00:16:31:00	JUNETEENTH AS WE KNOW IS AS
00:16:31:00	00:16:35:00	WE'VE COME TO KNOW IS A HOLIDAY
00:16:35:00	00:16:38:00	A FEDERAL HOLIDAY THAT MARKS
00:16:38:00	00:16:38:00	WHEN THE RESIDENTS ENSLAVED
00:16:38:00	00:16:42:00	PERSONS IN TEXAS LEARNED
00:16:42:00	00:16:42:00	OF THEIR FREEDOM VIA THE
00:16:42:00	00:16:45:00	EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION THAT
00:16:45:00	00:16:46:00	THEY LEARNED OF IT TWO YEARS
00:16:46:00	00:16:47:00	LATER BY A UNION GENERAL ORDER
00:16:47:00	00:16:50:00	IN GALVESTON, TEXAS.
00:16:50:00	00:16:50:00	WE DON'T HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING
00:16:50:00	00:16:53:00	NEXT WEEK BECAUSE OF THE
00:16:53:00	00:16:54:00	EFFORTS TO TURN JUNETEENTH INTO
00:16:54:00	00:16:55:00	A FEDERAL HOLIDAY AND I WANT TO
00:16:55:00	00:16:57:00	UPLIFT TEACHER COMMUNITY
00:16:57:00	00:16:57:00	ADVOCATE GRANDMOTHER
00:16:57:00	00:17:01:00	OF JUNETEENTH OPENLY WHO WAS
00:17:01:00	00:17:01:00	RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MUCH OF THE
00:17:01:00	00:17:04:00	ADVOCACY TO MAKE JUNETEENTH A
00:17:04:00	00:17:04:00	HOLIDAY.
00:17:04:00	00:17:08:00	AND TODAY WE HAVE WITH US TO
00:17:08:00	00:17:08:00	TWO FEARLESS LEADERS IN OUR
00:17:08:00	00:17:09:00	CITY WHO ARE GOING TO BE
00:17:09:00	00:17:12:00	HONORING JUNETEENTH ALONGSIDE
00:17:12:00	00:17:12:00	OF US.
00:17:12:00	00:17:13:00	THE FIRST IS DR. NOELLE TRENT
00:17:13:00	00:17:15:00	FROM THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN
00:17:15:00	00:17:16:00	AMERICAN HISTORY AND POET
00:17:16:00	00:17:19:00	COMMUNITY ACTIVIST SPOKEN WORD
00:17:19:00	00:17:20:00	ARTIST SO I COULD GO ON AND ON.
00:17:20:00	00:17:23:00	AMANDA SHAY WHO WILL BE READING
00:17:23:00	00:17:24:00	TWO POEMS I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO
00:17:24:00	00:17:26:00	WELCOME DR. NOELLE TRENT UP TO
00:17:26:00	00:17:40:00	THE DAIS DR. NOELLE TRENT IS
00:17:40:00	00:17:41:00	THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE
00:17:41:00	00:17:42:00	MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
00:17:42:00	00:17:44:00	HISTORY WHERE SHE BRINGS A DEEP
00:17:44:00	00:17:45:00	COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC HISTORY
00:17:45:00	00:17:48:00	AND A PASSION FOR PRESERVING
00:17:48:00	00:17:48:00	AND UPLIFTING BLACK NARRATIVES.
00:17:48:00	00:17:52:00	I WAS SO GLAD THAT DURING BLACK
00:17:52:00	00:17:52:00	HISTORY MONTH WE WERE ABLE TO
00:17:52:00	00:17:55:00	HAVE AN INCREDIBLE PANEL
00:17:55:00	00:17:55:00	BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE MUSEUM
00:17:55:00	00:17:58:00	WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE
00:17:58:00	00:17:59:00	, WHO HAD NEVER BEEN THERE
00:17:59:00	00:17:59:00	BEFORE TO REALLY LEARN ABOUT
00:17:59:00	00:18:00:00	THE RICH AFRICAN-AMERICAN
00:18:00:00	00:18:02:00	HISTORY AND BEACON HILL, A
00:18:02:00	00:18:03:00	BOSTON NATIVE WHICH IS A FUN
00:18:03:00	00:18:03:00	BACK END.
00:18:03:00	00:18:06:00	HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE.
00:18:06:00	00:18:06:00	DR. TRENT IS A NATIONALLY
00:18:06:00	00:18:09:00	RESPECTED MUSEUM LEADER AND
00:18:09:00	00:18:10:00	HISTORIAN WITH PAST ROLES
00:18:10:00	00:18:11:00	OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS
00:18:11:00	00:18:14:00	MUSEUM, THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE
00:18:14:00	00:18:14:00	NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.
00:18:14:00	00:18:17:00	HER WORK HAS SHAPED MAJOR
00:18:17:00	00:18:17:00	EXHIBITIONS, COMMUNITY
00:18:17:00	00:18:18:00	PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMEMORATIVE
00:18:18:00	00:18:21:00	EVENTS BOTH NATIONALLY AND
00:18:21:00	00:18:21:00	INTERNATIONALLY.
00:18:21:00	00:18:24:00	I ALSO WANT TO UPLIFT IN THIS
00:18:24:00	00:18:25:00	VERY DIFFICULT MOMENT AS RABBI
00:18:25:00	00:18:28:00	RABBI A.F. STATED WE ARE IN A
00:18:28:00	00:18:28:00	VERY CHALLENGING WORLD RIGHT
00:18:28:00	00:18:31:00	NOW AND WE'VE BEEN AND IT'S
00:18:31:00	00:18:32:00	BEEN GETTING MESSIER.
00:18:32:00	00:18:35:00	I WANT TO UPLIFT THE MUSEUM IN
00:18:35:00	00:18:36:00	BOSTON AS A POWERFUL PLACE THAT
00:18:36:00	00:18:37:00	TELLS THE STORIES AND HISTORIES
00:18:37:00	00:18:40:00	OF OUR BLACK ANCESTOR ON
00:18:40:00	00:18:40:00	JUNETEENTH IT BECOMES EVEN MORE
00:18:40:00	00:18:43:00	POIGNANT AND NECESSARY HELPING
00:18:43:00	00:18:44:00	US LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY
00:18:44:00	00:18:44:00	OF EMANCIPATION AND WHY IT
00:18:44:00	00:18:47:00	STILL MATTERS TODAY I HAD THE
00:18:47:00	00:18:48:00	GREAT PLEASURE OF BEING WITH
00:18:48:00	00:18:48:00	COUNCIL DURKAN CONGRESSWOMAN
00:18:48:00	00:18:51:00	AYANNA PRESSLEY MAYOR WU AND
00:18:51:00	00:18:51:00	STANDING AND DEFENDING
00:18:51:00	00:18:52:00	INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE MUSEUM
00:18:52:00	00:18:54:00	OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AT
00:18:54:00	00:18:55:00	THE MUSEUM JUST ABOUT A MONTH
00:18:55:00	00:18:58:00	AGO IN LIGHT OF FEDERAL
00:18:58:00	00:18:59:00	CHALLENGES AND ATTACKS, THE
00:18:59:00	00:19:02:00	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RECENTLY
00:19:02:00	00:19:03:00	PULLED HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
00:19:03:00	00:19:03:00	IN FUNDING, PUTTING ITS
00:19:03:00	00:19:06:00	PROGRAMS AND STAFF AT RISK.
00:19:06:00	00:19:07:00	CASTRO FILED A RESOLUTION HERE
00:19:07:00	00:19:10:00	ON THE COUNCIL SUPPORTING AND
00:19:10:00	00:19:11:00	RESTATING OUR SUPPORT OF THE
00:19:11:00	00:19:14:00	MUSEUM.
00:19:14:00	00:19:14:00	THIS IS PART OF A LARGER TREND
00:19:14:00	00:19:15:00	WHERE THE FEDERAL
00:19:15:00	00:19:15:00	ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO
00:19:15:00	00:19:17:00	SILENCE OR CUT SUPPORT FOR
00:19:17:00	00:19:18:00	INSTITUTIONS THAT TEACH THE
00:19:18:00	00:19:21:00	TRUTH ABOUT BLACK HISTORY AT A
00:19:21:00	00:19:22:00	TIME WHEN WE SHOULD BE
00:19:22:00	00:19:22:00	EXPANDING ACCESS TO THESE
00:19:22:00	00:19:25:00	HISTORIES EVER TO LIMIT THEM
00:19:25:00	00:19:25:00	ARE ESPECIALLY TROUBLING.
00:19:25:00	00:19:26:00	I WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT
00:19:26:00	00:19:29:00	PROTECTING PLACES LIKE THIS
00:19:29:00	00:19:30:00	MUSEUM IS ESSENTIAL IF WE WANT
00:19:30:00	00:19:30:00	TO TRULY HONOR JUNETEENTH AND
00:19:30:00	00:19:33:00	CONTINUE THE WORK OF JUSTICE.
00:19:33:00	00:19:33:00	AND SO ON BEHALF OF THE BOSTON
00:19:33:00	00:19:36:00	CITY COUNCIL DR. NO, I'LL TRY
00:19:36:00	00:19:37:00	TO HAVE THIS RESOLUTION THAT
00:19:37:00	00:19:37:00	I'D LIKE TO READ TO YOU.
00:19:37:00	00:19:38:00	IT'S AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION
00:19:38:00	00:19:40:00	PRESENTED BY BOSTON CITY
00:19:40:00	00:19:41:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT RICHARD
00:19:41:00	00:19:41:00	LOUIJEUNE BEER IS OFF TO THE
00:19:41:00	00:19:44:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS
00:19:44:00	00:19:44:00	CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. NOELLE
00:19:44:00	00:19:47:00	TRENT AND THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN
00:19:47:00	00:19:48:00	AMERICAN HISTORY IN RECOGNITION
00:19:48:00	00:19:49:00	OF YOUR DEDICATION TO HISTORY
00:19:49:00	00:19:51:00	AND UPLIFTING OUR BLACK
00:19:51:00	00:19:52:00	NARRATIVES ON JUNETEENTH AND
00:19:52:00	00:19:52:00	ALL YEAR ROUND IN YOUR
00:19:52:00	00:19:55:00	COMMITMENT TO THE MUSEUM
00:19:55:00	00:19:56:00	OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN
00:19:56:00	00:19:56:00	PRESERVING OUR STORY.
00:19:56:00	00:20:01:00	SO THANK YOU SO MUCH DR. TRENT
00:20:01:00	00:20:01:00	.
00:20:01:00	00:20:02:00	NOW IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE SOME
00:20:02:00	00:20:05:00	WORDS YOU MAY.
00:20:05:00	00:20:05:00	THANK YOU.
00:20:05:00	00:20:09:00	THIS IS A TREMENDOUS HONOR AND
00:20:09:00	00:20:09:00	I APPRECIATE THE RECOGNITION
00:20:09:00	00:20:14:00	FOR THE MUSEUM AND ITS LEGACY
00:20:14:00	00:20:14:00	AS PART OF BOSTON'S RICH
00:20:14:00	00:20:17:00	CULTURE CULTURAL HERITAGE
00:20:17:00	00:20:17:00	LANDSCAPE.
00:20:17:00	00:20:20:00	THIS YEAR MARKS THE 160TH
00:20:20:00	00:20:21:00	ANNIVERSARY OF THE JUNETEENTH
00:20:21:00	00:20:21:00	HOLIDAY.
00:20:21:00	00:20:24:00	WHEN GENERAL GORDON GRANGER
00:20:24:00	00:20:25:00	ARRIVED IN GALVESTON SHORTLY
00:20:25:00	00:20:25:00	AFTER THE SURRENDER
00:20:25:00	00:20:28:00	OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL E KIRBY
00:20:28:00	00:20:29:00	SMITH IN GALVESTON HARBOR,
00:20:29:00	00:20:32:00	GRANGER'S READING OF THE
00:20:32:00	00:20:32:00	EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS A
00:20:32:00	00:20:35:00	PRACTICE PERFORMED BY MANY
00:20:35:00	00:20:35:00	UNION GENERALS.
00:20:35:00	00:20:39:00	ONCE IT WAS SIGNED ON JANUARY
00:20:39:00	00:20:39:00	FIRST, 1863, ESSENTIALLY
00:20:39:00	00:20:43:00	STATING THAT SLAVES WITHIN ANY
00:20:43:00	00:20:44:00	STATE OR DESIGNATED PART OF THE
00:20:44:00	00:20:47:00	STATE THE PEOPLE WHEREOF SHALL
00:20:47:00	00:20:47:00	BE IN REBELLION AGAINST THE
00:20:47:00	00:20:50:00	UNITED STATES SHALL BE THEN
00:20:50:00	00:20:51:00	THENCE FORWARD AND FOREVER FREE
00:20:51:00	00:20:54:00	AND THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT
00:20:54:00	00:20:55:00	OF THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING
00:20:55:00	00:20:55:00	THE MILITARY AND NAVAL
00:20:55:00	00:20:58:00	AUTHORITY THEREOF WILL
00:20:58:00	00:20:58:00	RECOGNIZE AND MAINTAIN THE
00:20:58:00	00:21:01:00	FREEDOM OF SUCH PERSONS AND
00:21:01:00	00:21:02:00	WILL DO NO ACT OR ACTS TO
00:21:02:00	00:21:05:00	REPRESS SUCH PERSONS OR ANY
00:21:05:00	00:21:06:00	OF THEM IN ANY EFFORT THEY MAY
00:21:06:00	00:21:10:00	MAKE FOR THEIR ACTUAL FREEDOMS.
00:21:10:00	00:21:10:00	WITH THESE WORDS ENSLAVED
00:21:10:00	00:21:11:00	PEOPLE LEARNED THAT THEY WERE
00:21:11:00	00:21:13:00	FREE FROM  AND IN MANY
00:21:13:00	00:21:14:00	INSTANCES THE READING OF THIS
00:21:14:00	00:21:17:00	PROCLAMATION OF WE CANNOT FULLY
00:21:17:00	00:21:18:00	COMPREHEND THE LEVEL
00:21:18:00	00:21:21:00	OF EXUBERANCE EXPRESSED AT THE
00:21:21:00	00:21:22:00	HEARING OF THIS WORDS.
00:21:22:00	00:21:22:00	HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE
00:21:22:00	00:21:25:00	TO ASSUME THAT PEOPLE WAITED
00:21:25:00	00:21:25:00	FOR A PIECE OF PAPER.
00:21:25:00	00:21:29:00	OUR OWN VERY MEETING AFRICAN
00:21:29:00	00:21:29:00	MEETING HOUSE BORE WITNESS TO
00:21:29:00	00:21:33:00	THE NUMEROUS PEOPLE WHO BRAVELY
00:21:33:00	00:21:33:00	FLED FROM  AND AS FREDERICK
00:21:33:00	00:21:36:00	DOUGLASS STATED FLED WITH THEIR
00:21:36:00	00:21:37:00	USE, THEIR FAITH WITH THEIR
00:21:37:00	00:21:37:00	LEGS.
00:21:37:00	00:21:41:00	THESE INDIVIDUALS BECAME PART
00:21:41:00	00:21:41:00	OF BOSTON SOCIETY DESPITE THE
00:21:41:00	00:21:44:00	LACK OF REGARD OF THEIR HUMAN
00:21:44:00	00:21:45:00	RIGHTS AND THE LACK OF THEIR
00:21:45:00	00:21:45:00	CITIZENSHIP.
00:21:45:00	00:21:48:00	THEY CREATED A COMMUNITY HERE
00:21:48:00	00:21:49:00	ON THE NORTHERN  OF BEACON HILL
00:21:49:00	00:21:52:00	WHOSE STORIES WE PROUDLY SHARE
00:21:52:00	00:21:52:00	TODAY AND WHO DEVELOPED THEIR
00:21:52:00	00:21:56:00	OWN IDEAS AND CONVERSATIONS
00:21:56:00	00:21:56:00	AROUND FREEDOM, THE FUTURE AND
00:21:56:00	00:21:59:00	HOW THEY WOULD PLANT TREES
00:21:59:00	00:22:00:00	WHOSE SHADE THEY WOULD NOT SIT
00:22:00:00	00:22:00:00	UNDER.
00:22:00:00	00:22:03:00	SO JUNETEENTH THIS YEAR FOR THE
00:22:03:00	00:22:04:00	MUSEUM IS SPECIAL.
00:22:04:00	00:22:06:00	IT'S MORE THAN 160TH
00:22:06:00	00:22:07:00	ANNIVERSARY.
00:22:07:00	00:22:07:00	IT'S A TIME OF JOYFUL
00:22:07:00	00:22:11:00	REMEMBRANCE AND RESILIENCE.
00:22:11:00	00:22:12:00	OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS WE
00:22:12:00	00:22:12:00	HAVE FACED SIGNIFICANT
00:22:12:00	00:22:15:00	CHALLENGES MORE THAN THE LOSS
00:22:15:00	00:22:15:00	OF FEDERAL FUNDING.
00:22:15:00	00:22:19:00	THERE IS VOCAL OPPOSITION THAT
00:22:19:00	00:22:19:00	SEEKS TO MUTE US AT BEST AND
00:22:19:00	00:22:23:00	ERASE US AT WORST.
00:22:23:00	00:22:23:00	HOWEVER, WE ARE UNDETERRED.
00:22:23:00	00:22:27:00	WE REFUSE TO BE DESPONDENT.
00:22:27:00	00:22:28:00	WE DRAW STRENGTH FROM THE
00:22:28:00	00:22:30:00	ABOLITIONISTS WHO GATHERED AT
00:22:30:00	00:22:30:00	THE MEETING HOUSE.
00:22:30:00	00:22:31:00	THE PARENTS LIKE BENJAMIN
00:22:31:00	00:22:34:00	ROBERTS WHO FOUGHT FOR A BETTER
00:22:34:00	00:22:34:00	EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
00:22:34:00	00:22:37:00	AND OUR FOUNDER SUE BAILEY
00:22:37:00	00:22:38:00	THURMAN, WHO SAW THE NEED AND
00:22:38:00	00:22:41:00	SIGNIFICANCE OF PRESERVING
00:22:41:00	00:22:42:00	BOSTON'S BLACK HISTORY.
00:22:42:00	00:22:43:00	SO NEXT WEEK WE WILL HANG THE
00:22:43:00	00:22:46:00	JUNETEENTH FLAG CREATED BY
00:22:46:00	00:22:46:00	BOSTON RESIDENT BEN HAYES.
00:22:46:00	00:22:50:00	WE'LL CELEBRATE THIS DAY WITH
00:22:50:00	00:22:50:00	JOY A JOY THAT WAS STIFLED,
00:22:50:00	00:22:54:00	REFUSED TO BE STIFLED BY
00:22:54:00	00:22:56:00	GATHERING ORDINANCES AND
00:22:56:00	00:22:56:00	ENSLAVEMENT OVER 160 YEARS AGO
00:22:56:00	00:23:00:00	A JOY THAT RADIATES IN THE
00:23:00:00	00:23:01:00	PRESENCE OF OPPRESSION AND HATE
00:23:01:00	00:23:05:00	AND A JOY BY THAT BY ITS VERY
00:23:05:00	00:23:08:00	NATURE IS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
00:23:08:00	00:23:08:00	.
00:23:08:00	00:23:12:00	WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE CITY
00:23:12:00	00:23:12:00	COUNCIL FOR YOUR ONGOING
00:23:12:00	00:23:12:00	SUPPORT.
00:23:12:00	00:23:15:00	AS FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATED IF
00:23:15:00	00:23:16:00	THERE IS NO STRUGGLE THERE IS
00:23:16:00	00:23:17:00	NO PROGRESS AND MY FRIENDS WE
00:23:17:00	00:23:19:00	ARE IN A STRUGGLE AND WE HOPE
00:23:19:00	00:23:20:00	YOU WILL CONTINUE TO STAND WITH
00:23:20:00	00:23:23:00	US DURING THIS STRUGGLE.
00:23:23:00	00:23:24:00	MAY YOUR JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION
00:23:24:00	00:23:27:00	BE FILLED WITH JOY.
00:23:27:00	00:23:28:00	I INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AT THE
00:23:28:00	00:23:31:00	MUSEUM ON JUNETEENTH AS WELL AS
00:23:31:00	00:23:32:00	ON JUNE 30TH FOR THE OPENING
00:23:32:00	00:23:34:00	OF OUR NEWEST EXHIBITION BLACK
00:23:34:00	00:23:35:00	VOICES OF THE REVOLUTION.
00:23:35:00	00:23:38:00	THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS HONOR
00:23:38:00	00:23:39:00	AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO
00:23:39:00	00:23:41:00	PRESERVE THIS IMPORTANT LEGACY
00:23:41:00	00:23:52:00	OF BOSTON'S HISTORY.
00:23:52:00	00:23:53:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR. TRENTON,
00:23:53:00	00:23:56:00	FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO
00:23:56:00	00:23:57:00	AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US
00:23:57:00	00:23:58:00	THAT JUNETEENTH IS REALLY ABOUT
00:23:58:00	00:24:00:00	JUBILEE AND JOY EVEN IN THE
00:24:00:00	00:24:01:00	MOST CHALLENGING MOMENTS.
00:24:01:00	00:24:01:00	YES.
00:24:01:00	00:24:04:00	WELL, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE.
00:24:04:00	00:24:04:00	OKAY.
00:24:04:00	00:24:05:00	AND I ALSO WANTED TO WELCOME UP
00:24:05:00	00:24:08:00	AMANDA SHAY, A TWO TIME BOSTON
00:24:08:00	00:24:09:00	MUSIC AWARD WINNING SPOKEN WORD
00:24:09:00	00:24:12:00	ARTIST TO JOIN MEJIA AT THE
00:24:12:00	00:24:12:00	DIAS.
00:24:12:00	00:24:15:00	AMANDA IS NO STRANGER TO CITY
00:24:15:00	00:24:15:00	HALL, NO STRANGER TO MAKING
00:24:15:00	00:24:16:00	SURE THAT BLACK VOICES IN THIS
00:24:16:00	00:24:19:00	CITY ARE SHARED AND THAT WE ARE
00:24:19:00	00:24:19:00	MAKING SPACE FOR EVERYONE.
00:24:19:00	00:24:20:00	AND THEY SAID SHE'S AN ARTIST,
00:24:20:00	00:24:23:00	A PERFORMER, AN EDUCATOR, A
00:24:23:00	00:24:26:00	PUBLICIST, A CURATOR, A ROLLER
00:24:26:00	00:24:26:00	SKATER MASTER.
00:24:26:00	00:24:30:00	I SAW RECENTLY SHE CO-FOUNDED
00:24:30:00	00:24:30:00	SIX ITERATIONS OF ACTIVATING A
00:24:30:00	00:24:34:00	COMMUNITY FESTIVAL TO AMPLIFY
00:24:34:00	00:24:35:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR THROUGH ART
00:24:35:00	00:24:38:00	ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE.
00:24:38:00	00:24:39:00	HER WORK CAN BE FOUND IN THE
00:24:39:00	00:24:40:00	MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, THE BOSTON
00:24:40:00	00:24:43:00	GLOBE, TEDX X AND MORE.
00:24:43:00	00:24:43:00	TODAY SHE'LL BE READING TWO
00:24:43:00	00:24:44:00	POEMS.
00:24:44:00	00:24:46:00	SHE'LL BE DELIVERING TWO POEMS
00:24:46:00	00:24:46:00	RESILIENCE AND BLACK
00:24:46:00	00:24:47:00	EXCELLENCE.
00:24:47:00	00:24:50:00	BUT FIRST, ON BEHALF OF THE
00:24:50:00	00:24:50:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL, I WANTED
00:24:50:00	00:24:51:00	TO PRESENT YOU WITH THE
00:24:51:00	00:24:53:00	CITATION AND RECOGNITION
00:24:53:00	00:24:53:00	OF YOUR WORK.
00:24:53:00	00:24:54:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:24:54:00	00:24:54:00	RICHARD LOUIJEUNE.
00:24:54:00	00:24:57:00	BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON
00:24:57:00	00:24:57:00	CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS
00:24:57:00	00:24:58:00	CONGRATULATIONS TO AMANDA SHEA
00:24:58:00	00:25:01:00	IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR WORK AS
00:25:01:00	00:25:01:00	AN ARTIST, PERFORMER, EDUCATOR,
00:25:01:00	00:25:05:00	PUBLICIST AND CURATOR AND YOUR
00:25:05:00	00:25:05:00	ABILITY AND TENACITY TO AMPLIFY
00:25:05:00	00:25:08:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR THROUGH ART AND
00:25:08:00	00:25:08:00	ACTIVISM ON THIS JUNETEENTH AND
00:25:08:00	00:25:09:00	EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
00:25:09:00	00:25:17:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
00:25:17:00	00:25:21:00	GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
00:25:21:00	00:25:24:00	RESILIENCE WHEN THE TOUGH GET
00:25:24:00	00:25:28:00	GOING THE GOING GETS TOUGH MUST
00:25:28:00	00:25:29:00	AND I HAVE MET MY MOM.
00:25:29:00	00:25:32:00	THE SCARS SHE BEARS ARE
00:25:32:00	00:25:32:00	INVISIBLE.
00:25:32:00	00:25:33:00	ONLY THOSE WITH A THIRD EYES
00:25:33:00	00:25:36:00	COULD SEE YOU SEE HER BODY IS
00:25:36:00	00:25:40:00	STRONG, AGILE BUT WEAKENED BY
00:25:40:00	00:25:40:00	HER EXPERIENCES.
00:25:40:00	00:25:44:00	BLACK WOMEN ARE TO ONLY BE
00:25:44:00	00:25:47:00	STRONG NO COMPLAINTS, NO CHECK
00:25:47:00	00:25:48:00	INS ONLY CHECK UPS TO ENSURE
00:25:48:00	00:25:51:00	THE BODY IS INTACT HEAVY THE
00:25:51:00	00:25:52:00	HEAD WHO WEARS THE CROWN BUT I
00:25:52:00	00:25:55:00	SEE IT'S SLIPPING WEIGHT ON HER
00:25:55:00	00:25:55:00	SHOULDERS.
00:25:55:00	00:25:59:00	SHE CARRIES WORLDS AROUND.
00:25:59:00	00:25:59:00	WE SIMPLY ORBIT IN HER UNIVERSE
00:25:59:00	00:26:03:00	EVEN WHEN SHE'S LOST IN HER OWN
00:26:03:00	00:26:03:00	SPACE.
00:26:03:00	00:26:06:00	BUT WHO WHO WILL CARRY HER
00:26:06:00	00:26:06:00	BURDENS?
00:26:06:00	00:26:07:00	I MEAN HER ANGER, HER
00:26:07:00	00:26:10:00	DEPRESSION, HER ANXIETY, HER
00:26:10:00	00:26:11:00	BIPOLAR, HER GRIEF, HER WALLET
00:26:11:00	00:26:14:00	SHE DON'T NEED NO PARTNER BUT
00:26:14:00	00:26:15:00	SOCIETY'S PRICE TAGS TELLS HER
00:26:15:00	00:26:18:00	DIFFERENT STORIES FAIRY TALES
00:26:18:00	00:26:19:00	UNBEKNOWNST TO HER FOR SHE'S A
00:26:19:00	00:26:22:00	DOLLAR AND A DREAM MENTALITY.
00:26:22:00	00:26:23:00	DON'T WORRY I GOT THIS SWAG I
00:26:23:00	00:26:27:00	CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF NO
00:26:27:00	00:26:27:00	$0.02 TO RUB TOGETHER BUT SHE
00:26:27:00	00:26:31:00	RUB DOWN KNEELS WHO WILL
00:26:31:00	00:26:34:00	NOURISH HER SOUL IT'S TIRED
00:26:34:00	00:26:35:00	BEING BEATEN BUT NOT JUST BY
00:26:35:00	00:26:38:00	LIFE BY FAMILY WHO CAST HER
00:26:38:00	00:26:39:00	AWAY DIDN'T WANT TO HELP HER
00:26:39:00	00:26:42:00	REWRITE HER WRONGS RUNNING AWAY
00:26:42:00	00:26:43:00	FROM GENERATIONAL TRAUMA SHE'S
00:26:43:00	00:26:46:00	OUT OF BREATH.
00:26:46:00	00:26:46:00	PANIC ATTACKS HER NERVOUS
00:26:46:00	00:26:50:00	SYSTEM LIKE A BABY SHE BURST.
00:26:50:00	00:26:53:00	SHE SELLS SUZE RESILIENT BLACK
00:26:53:00	00:26:53:00	AND BROWN WOMEN OVERCOME SO
00:26:53:00	00:26:56:00	MANY OBSTACLES AND WHEN ASKED
00:26:56:00	00:26:56:00	HOW ARE YOU?
00:26:56:00	00:27:00:00	THEY REPLY MY MAMA REPLIES WITH
00:27:00:00	00:27:07:00	THESE REPLIES I REPLY I'M FINE.
00:27:07:00	00:27:18:00	RESILIENCE BLACK EXCELLENCE AND
00:27:18:00	00:27:22:00	THEN THE MOTHERLAND WHERE THE
00:27:22:00	00:27:22:00	SUN ILLUMINATES OUR MELANIN WE
00:27:22:00	00:27:25:00	GLOW DIFFERENT AFRO DESCENDANTS
00:27:25:00	00:27:26:00	FIGHTING OPPRESSION IN
00:27:26:00	00:27:30:00	SYSTEMATIC INSTITUTE RUSSIAN'S
00:27:30:00	00:27:31:00	BLACK MAGIC WE TURNED INTO
00:27:31:00	00:27:34:00	BLACK GIRL MAGIC THAT ENERGY
00:27:34:00	00:27:38:00	YOU CAN FEEL WE CALL IT VIBES
00:27:38:00	00:27:39:00	WE OUT HERE SNAPPING OUR NECKS
00:27:39:00	00:27:42:00	AND FINGERS LIKE YES OUR VOICES
00:27:42:00	00:27:46:00	CARRY JOY THEY BE LIKE HOW CAN
00:27:46:00	00:27:49:00	THESE PEOPLE BE SO LIBERATED
00:27:49:00	00:27:50:00	WHEN WE VIOLATE THEIR CIVIL
00:27:50:00	00:27:53:00	RIGHTS IN THEIR EXISTENCE?
00:27:53:00	00:27:54:00	WE EXIST IN OURSELVES OUR
00:27:54:00	00:27:58:00	ANCESTORS WHOSE BIRTH DOULAS IN
00:27:58:00	00:28:01:00	ORDER TO REPRODUCE BLACK BABIES
00:28:01:00	00:28:01:00	THAT IGNITE THE CULTURE NATURAL
00:28:01:00	00:28:06:00	HAIR BRAIDED LOCKS, WIGS WE
00:28:06:00	00:28:09:00	WEAVE BEAUTY INTO SCULPTS AND
00:28:09:00	00:28:10:00	MASTERPIECES HOW WE SPEAK WITH
00:28:10:00	00:28:13:00	OUR EYES AND WE BE NO ONE WITH
00:28:13:00	00:28:16:00	THAT LOOK WE CALL IT TELEPATHY
00:28:16:00	00:28:16:00	LIKE HOW OUR ANCESTORS SPEAK TO
00:28:16:00	00:28:20:00	US IN DREAMS HOW MULTILINGUAL
00:28:20:00	00:28:25:00	WE ARE WHEN WE SAY  BY SAY
00:28:25:00	00:28:28:00	NEIGHBORLY CAN LOOK LOOK I WHAT
00:28:28:00	00:28:29:00	DIDN'T DO HOMIE WAS SO WE
00:28:29:00	00:28:32:00	COMPLEMENT IN EACH OTHER LIKE
00:28:32:00	00:28:33:00	WHERE ARE YOU GOING DRESS LIKE
00:28:33:00	00:28:36:00	THAT MEANS YOU LOOK GOOD WITH A
00:28:36:00	00:28:39:00	T ON THE AIR WE EMBODY DEITIES
00:28:39:00	00:28:43:00	APHRODITE THEY TRIED TO ABANDON
00:28:43:00	00:28:43:00	US OVERSEAS.
00:28:43:00	00:28:44:00	WHAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW IS WE ARE
00:28:44:00	00:28:47:00	HEALING FOLK PROTECTED BY
00:28:47:00	00:28:47:00	CRYSTALS OBSIDIAN, BLACK
00:28:47:00	00:28:51:00	TOURMALINE ORISHAS LIKE
00:28:51:00	00:28:55:00	ME CARRIED US TO SAFETY SURELY
00:28:55:00	00:28:55:00	PROVIDING OUR FRUITFUL
00:28:55:00	00:28:56:00	LIVELIHOOD CROPPING OUT
00:28:56:00	00:28:59:00	NEGATIVITY AND PLANTING SEEDS
00:28:59:00	00:28:59:00	IN THE BACKYARDS AND
00:28:59:00	00:29:02:00	WINDOWSILLS TO FEED OUR
00:29:02:00	00:29:02:00	FAMILIES OUR CHANTS BECOME
00:29:02:00	00:29:06:00	MANTRAS CEREMONIES HELD IN
00:29:06:00	00:29:10:00	HOMES, IN CHURCHES AND CITY
00:29:10:00	00:29:10:00	HALL ANGOLA, NIGERIA.
00:29:10:00	00:29:15:00	GHANA, HAITI, IGBO PEOPLE WE
00:29:15:00	00:29:18:00	ARE HISTORIC.
00:29:18:00	00:29:18:00	WE WERE BURIED IN GOLD.
00:29:18:00	00:29:21:00	WE ARE THE DEFINITION
00:29:21:00	00:29:22:00	OF ROYALTY OUR MUSIC PULSATING
00:29:22:00	00:29:26:00	OF FREQUENCIES THAT DEMANDS YOU
00:29:26:00	00:29:26:00	TO MOVE.
00:29:26:00	00:29:29:00	LAURYN HILL JILL SCOTT KENDRICK
00:29:29:00	00:29:32:00	LAMAR RESONATES DEEPLY.
00:29:32:00	00:29:33:00	WE ARE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATED
00:29:33:00	00:29:36:00	AND YET WE STILL ACT
00:29:36:00	00:29:36:00	ACCORDINGLY.
00:29:36:00	00:29:40:00	WE CAN MOVE THINGS JUST BY
00:29:40:00	00:29:40:00	STANDING STILL.
00:29:40:00	00:29:44:00	IT'S COSMIC, IT'S SPIRITUAL,
00:29:44:00	00:29:44:00	IT'S GOD.
00:29:44:00	00:29:49:00	WE SPRINKLE ALL THAT RAZZLE
00:29:49:00	00:29:52:00	DAZZLE ON EVERYTHING NO MATTER
00:29:52:00	00:29:52:00	SOCIETAL CONSTRAINTS OR TACTICS
00:29:52:00	00:29:56:00	WE THRIVE PERIOD.
00:29:56:00	00:30:00:00	THE EPITOME OF BLACK
00:30:00:00	00:30:00:00	EXCELLENCE.
00:30:00:00	00:30:11:00	THANK YOU.
00:30:11:00	00:30:11:00	THANK YOU.
00:30:11:00	00:30:14:00	AMANDA SCHAFER THOSE BEAUTIFUL
00:30:14:00	00:30:15:00	, BEAUTIFUL PIECES AND I'M SO
00:30:15:00	00:30:16:00	GLAD THAT WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE
00:30:16:00	00:30:18:00	IN THE AUDIENCE WHO ARE HERE
00:30:18:00	00:30:19:00	WHO ARE ABLE TO HEAR FROM YOU
00:30:19:00	00:30:22:00	AND WE'RE ABLE TO HEAR FROM DR.
00:30:22:00	00:30:23:00	TRENT AND HOPEFULLY FEEL
00:30:23:00	00:30:26:00	AFFIRMED AND SEEN AND THE WORDS
00:30:26:00	00:30:27:00	THAT SHE SHARED WITH ALL
00:30:27:00	00:30:27:00	OF YOU.
00:30:27:00	00:30:31:00	AND I ALSO WE PUT OUT A
00:30:31:00	00:30:32:00	JUNETEENTH CALENDAR MY OFFICE
00:30:32:00	00:30:32:00	PUT OUT THERE'S EVENTS
00:30:32:00	00:30:35:00	HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT TWO
00:30:35:00	00:30:35:00	WEEKS.
00:30:35:00	00:30:36:00	AMANDA IS GOING TO BE AT A LOT
00:30:36:00	00:30:39:00	OF THEM SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU
00:30:39:00	00:30:39:00	COME OUT AND SUPPORT AND
00:30:39:00	00:30:42:00	CELEBRATE THE DAY OF JUBILEE
00:30:42:00	00:30:42:00	THAT IS JUNETEENTH AND I'D LIKE
00:30:42:00	00:30:43:00	TO CALL UP DR. TRENT AND MY
00:30:43:00	00:30:46:00	COLLEAGUES SO WE CAN TAKE A
00:30:46:00	00:31:16:00	PHOTO.
00:31:16:00	00:31:45:00	DR. MY ENGINEER THANK YOU SO
00:31:45:00	00:31:48:00	MUCH AMANDA AND DR. TRENT FOR
00:31:48:00	00:31:48:00	BEING HERE.
00:31:48:00	00:31:49:00	REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND I
00:31:49:00	00:31:52:00	THINK AGAIN THERE ARE GOING TO
00:31:52:00	00:31:53:00	BE MORE EVENTS SO I HOPE THAT
00:31:53:00	00:31:55:00	FOLKS REALLY DO GO OUT AND
00:31:55:00	00:31:56:00	SUPPORT ALL THE JUNETEENTH
00:31:56:00	00:31:56:00	EVENTS INCLUDING THE RAISING
00:31:56:00	00:31:59:00	OF THE JUNETEENTH FLAG HERE AT
00:31:59:00	00:31:59:00	CITY HALL.
00:31:59:00	00:32:00:00	ALSO I THINK WE SENT THIS EMAIL
00:32:00:00	00:32:03:00	OUT MY MY OFFICE BUT WE WILL BE
00:32:03:00	00:32:04:00	HAVING A LUNCH AND LEARN AFTER
00:32:04:00	00:32:05:00	WITH ROCHA FEATURING ROCHA
00:32:05:00	00:32:07:00	WHICH WILL BE CATERED BY RHYTHM
00:32:07:00	00:32:08:00	AND WRAPS FROM AUSTIN BLACK
00:32:08:00	00:32:10:00	OWNED RESTAURANTS I HOPE ALL
00:32:10:00	00:32:11:00	OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE ABLE TO
00:32:11:00	00:32:18:00	JOIN OKAY YEAH I KHAZZANI HE IS
00:32:18:00	00:32:19:00	ASKING THAT I SHOUT OUT THE
00:32:19:00	00:32:20:00	EXACT SCHOOL THAT IS HERE WITH
00:32:20:00	00:32:22:00	US TODAY AND I WANT TO WELCOME
00:32:22:00	00:32:23:00	TO THE SCHOOL I WANT TO WELCOME
00:32:23:00	00:32:26:00	TO THE CITY HALL AND TO OUR
00:32:26:00	00:32:26:00	CHAMBER EVERETT EDWARDS SCHOOL
00:32:26:00	00:32:29:00	YOUTH VISIT THANK YOU SO MUCH
00:32:29:00	00:32:32:00	FOR BEING WITH US IN CHAMBERS I
00:32:32:00	00:32:37:00	LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS BECAUSE
00:32:37:00	00:32:37:00	TECHNICALLY WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED
00:32:37:00	00:32:38:00	TO CLAP IN CHAMBERS AND THIS IS
00:32:38:00	00:32:40:00	A REALLY GREAT ALTERNATIVE.
00:32:40:00	00:32:41:00	SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
00:32:41:00	00:32:42:00	HERE AND I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT
00:32:42:00	00:32:44:00	THIS IS YOUR CITY HALL AND OUR
00:32:44:00	00:32:45:00	DOORS ARE ALWAYS OPEN TO YOU.
00:32:45:00	00:32:47:00	SO THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US
00:32:47:00	00:32:48:00	AND WE HOPE YOU TOO ARE ABLE TO
00:32:48:00	00:32:49:00	MAKE IT OUT TO CELEBRATE SOME
00:32:49:00	00:32:51:00	OF THE MANY JUNETEENTH EVENTS
00:32:51:00	00:32:52:00	THAT ARE HAPPENING BETWEEN NOW
00:32:52:00	00:32:55:00	AND JUNE 21ST.
00:32:55:00	00:32:55:00	SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. CLERK.
00:32:55:00	00:32:59:00	DO I NEED TO AMEND THE RECORD
00:32:59:00	00:33:00:00	FOR ANY OKAY.
00:33:00:00	00:33:00:00	YES.
00:33:00:00	00:33:00:00	MR. CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:33:00:00	00:33:01:00	AMEND THE ATTENDANCE RECORD TO
00:33:01:00	00:33:03:00	REFLECT THAT COUNSELOR BRYAN
00:33:03:00	00:33:04:00	WORRALL IS NOW PRESENT AND WITH
00:33:04:00	00:33:10:00	US.
00:33:10:00	00:33:11:00	OKAY WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST
00:33:11:00	00:33:12:00	ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE
00:33:12:00	00:33:14:00	APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM
00:33:14:00	00:33:14:00	THE MEETING OF JUNE 4TH, 2025.
00:33:14:00	00:33:18:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I ALEPPO SAY
00:33:18:00	00:33:19:00	NAME THE AYES HAVE IT THE
00:33:19:00	00:33:22:00	MINUTES OF THE JUNE 4TH MEETING
00:33:22:00	00:33:22:00	ARE APPROVED.
00:33:22:00	00:33:25:00	WE'RE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS
00:33:25:00	00:33:25:00	FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR
00:33:25:00	00:33:26:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:33:26:00	00:33:32:00	READ DOCKETS NUMBER
00:33:32:00	00:33:33:00	118118831190 TALKING ICON
00:33:33:00	00:33:34:00	NUMBER 1188 MESSAGE IN ORDER
00:33:34:00	00:33:37:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:33:37:00	00:33:42:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
00:33:42:00	00:33:45:00	OF $1,271,380.38 IN THE FORM
00:33:45:00	00:33:46:00	OF A GRANT FOR THE A YOUTH
00:33:46:00	00:33:49:00	PROGRAM GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:33:49:00	00:33:50:00	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
00:33:50:00	00:33:50:00	OF LABOR PASSED THROUGH THE
00:33:50:00	00:33:53:00	SCIENTIST DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
00:33:53:00	00:33:54:00	SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
00:33:54:00	00:33:57:00	THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
00:33:57:00	00:33:57:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:33:57:00	00:33:58:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE
00:33:58:00	00:34:00:00	COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
00:34:00:00	00:34:01:00	PROGRAMS TO SERVE ELIGIBLE
00:34:01:00	00:34:06:00	YOUTH AGES 14 TO 24 WHO FACE
00:34:06:00	00:34:09:00	BARRIERS TO EDUCATION TRAINING
00:34:09:00	00:34:10:00	AND EMPLOYMENT.
00:34:10:00	00:34:11:00	TUCKER NUMBER 1189 MESSAGE YOU
00:34:11:00	00:34:13:00	KNOW AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:34:13:00	00:34:14:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:34:14:00	00:34:19:00	THE AMOUNT OF $423,132 IN THE
00:34:19:00	00:34:20:00	FORM OF A GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:34:20:00	00:34:23:00	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE
00:34:23:00	00:34:24:00	TREASURY TO THE MASAYA
00:34:24:00	00:34:26:00	DEPARTMENT OF KOREA SERVICES TO
00:34:26:00	00:34:27:00	BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
00:34:27:00	00:34:30:00	OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:34:30:00	00:34:31:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND AND SUPPORT
00:34:31:00	00:34:33:00	JOB SEEKERS BY PROVIDING
00:34:33:00	00:34:34:00	STAFFING AT THE MASAYA CAREER
00:34:34:00	00:34:37:00	CENTERS TO HELP IT HELP THEM
00:34:37:00	00:34:38:00	ENROLL IN EDUCATION AND
00:34:38:00	00:34:41:00	TRAINING PROGRAMS FUNDED BY
00:34:41:00	00:34:44:00	ARPA UPSKILLING UPSKILLING
00:34:44:00	00:34:45:00	TALKING NUMBER 1190 MESSAGE YOU
00:34:45:00	00:34:48:00	KNOW AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:34:48:00	00:34:49:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:34:49:00	00:34:57:00	THE AMOUNT OF $350,000 WHAT 350
00:34:57:00	00:34:58:00	$151,000.85 IN THE FORM OF A
00:34:58:00	00:35:01:00	GRANT FOR THE KOREAN ESEA
00:35:01:00	00:35:05:00	PROGRAM FOR FIELD C Y 24 GRANT
00:35:05:00	00:35:08:00	AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES
00:35:08:00	00:35:09:00	DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASS
00:35:09:00	00:35:12:00	THROUGH THE MASS HI AND
00:35:12:00	00:35:12:00	DEPARTMENT OF CAREER SERVICES
00:35:12:00	00:35:13:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:35:13:00	00:35:16:00	OFFICE TO WORKFORCE
00:35:16:00	00:35:16:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:35:16:00	00:35:17:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND INDIVIDUAL
00:35:17:00	00:35:19:00	REEMPLOYMENT NEEDS
00:35:19:00	00:35:20:00	OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
00:35:20:00	00:35:23:00	CLAIMANTS AS WELL AS PREVENT
00:35:23:00	00:35:24:00	AND DETECT IMPROPER BENEFIT
00:35:24:00	00:35:27:00	PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION
00:35:27:00	00:35:30:00	ASSISTANCE FOR TRAINING AND
00:35:30:00	00:35:31:00	EDUCATION RESOURCES AND
00:35:31:00	00:35:34:00	PROGRAMS.
00:35:34:00	00:35:34:00	THANK YOU MR. CLERK AND THANK
00:35:34:00	00:35:38:00	YOU FOR VISITING US.
00:35:38:00	00:35:39:00	EDWARD EVERETT I HOPE YOU HAD A
00:35:39:00	00:35:40:00	GOOD TIME HERE AT CITY HALL.
00:35:40:00	00:35:40:00	THANK YOU.
00:35:40:00	00:35:44:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 118118831190
00:35:44:00	00:35:45:00	WILL BE REFERRED TO THE
00:35:45:00	00:35:46:00	COMMITTEE ON LABOR WORKFORCE
00:35:46:00	00:35:48:00	AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
00:35:48:00	00:35:51:00	MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
00:35:51:00	00:35:53:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1191 LUCKY NUMBER
00:35:53:00	00:35:54:00	1191 MESSAGE AN ORDER
00:35:54:00	00:35:55:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:35:55:00	00:36:03:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
00:36:03:00	00:36:04:00	OF $229,879.74 IN THE FORM OF A
00:36:04:00	00:36:07:00	GRANT FOR THE SHARED STREET AND
00:36:07:00	00:36:08:00	SPACES GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:36:08:00	00:36:11:00	DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO
00:36:11:00	00:36:11:00	BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:36:11:00	00:36:12:00	TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
00:36:12:00	00:36:15:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND SAFETY
00:36:15:00	00:36:15:00	INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN AND
00:36:15:00	00:36:19:00	CONSTRUCTION FOR A MORE
00:36:19:00	00:36:23:00	ACCESSIBLE GOOD EARL'S SQUARE
00:36:23:00	00:36:23:00	THANK YOU.
00:36:23:00	00:36:24:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:36:24:00	00:36:24:00	COUNCILOR DEREK AS THE CHAIR
00:36:24:00	00:36:25:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING,
00:36:25:00	00:36:26:00	DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION
00:36:26:00	00:36:26:00	.
00:36:26:00	00:36:27:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
00:36:27:00	00:36:27:00	YOU MIGHT BE ASKING WHERE GOOD
00:36:27:00	00:36:28:00	EARL SQUARE IS.
00:36:28:00	00:36:30:00	IT'S IN EAST BOSTON.
00:36:30:00	00:36:31:00	I HAVE MY TEAM IS SPOKEN WITH
00:36:31:00	00:36:34:00	THE DISTRICT COUNSELOR AND
00:36:34:00	00:36:35:00	SHE'S SUPPORTIVE OF MOVING THIS
00:36:35:00	00:36:35:00	GRANT FORWARD.
00:36:35:00	00:36:38:00	IT'S TO DEAL WITH DISABILITY
00:36:38:00	00:36:41:00	AND ACCESSIBILITY CONCERNS SO
00:36:41:00	00:36:42:00	IT'S AN IMPORTANT GRANT.
00:36:42:00	00:36:45:00	IT IS UNDER $230,000.
00:36:45:00	00:36:46:00	SO I WAS LOOKING TO PASS THIS
00:36:46:00	00:36:49:00	TODAY IF THERE IS ANY
00:36:49:00	00:36:50:00	OPPOSITION I DO HAVE A HEARING
00:36:50:00	00:36:53:00	THAT I CAN FIT THIS INTO.
00:36:53:00	00:36:54:00	I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:36:54:00	00:36:57:00	WE'RE MOVING FAST ON SMALL
00:36:57:00	00:36:57:00	ACCESSIBILITY CONCERNS SO I ASK
00:36:57:00	00:37:01:00	FOR IT SUSPEND AND PASS TODAY.
00:37:01:00	00:37:01:00	THANK YOU.
00:37:01:00	00:37:01:00	THANK YOU.
00:37:01:00	00:37:02:00	GOVERNOR DURKIN, IS ANYONE
00:37:02:00	00:37:05:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER
00:37:05:00	00:37:05:00	?
00:37:05:00	00:37:05:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN SEEK
00:37:05:00	00:37:06:00	SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
00:37:06:00	00:37:09:00	PASSENGER DOCKET NUMBER 1191
00:37:09:00	00:37:10:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
00:37:10:00	00:37:13:00	OPPOSE ANY GUYS HAVE AT THIS
00:37:13:00	00:37:13:00	TALK IT HAS PASSED.
00:37:13:00	00:37:14:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:37:14:00	00:37:17:00	DOCKET NUMBER 119231201 IT'S A
00:37:17:00	00:37:19:00	LOT OF READING.
00:37:19:00	00:37:23:00	THANK YOU, MS. CLERK DOCKING
00:37:23:00	00:37:23:00	NUMBER 119 TO MESSAGE YOU'RE
00:37:23:00	00:37:26:00	NOT AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:37:26:00	00:37:27:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:37:27:00	00:37:29:00	THE AMOUNT OF $200,000 IN THE
00:37:29:00	00:37:30:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE BOSTON
00:37:30:00	00:37:33:00	CLIMATE JOBS ALLIANCE GRANT
00:37:33:00	00:37:33:00	AWARDED BY THE CITIZENS BANK
00:37:33:00	00:37:37:00	FOUNDATION COMMUNITY RELATIONS
00:37:37:00	00:37:38:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:37:38:00	00:37:39:00	OFFICE OF WORK FORCE
00:37:39:00	00:37:41:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:37:41:00	00:37:42:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND CRITICAL
00:37:42:00	00:37:45:00	OUTREACH AND JOB COACHING FOR
00:37:45:00	00:37:46:00	WORKERS AND TRAINING TO ENSURE
00:37:46:00	00:37:48:00	A PLACEMENT INTO JOBS THAT
00:37:48:00	00:37:49:00	ENHANCE CLIMATE RESILIENCE AS
00:37:49:00	00:37:53:00	PART OF THE BOSTON CLIMATE JOBS
00:37:53:00	00:37:56:00	ALLIANCE NUMBER 1193 MESSAGE
00:37:56:00	00:37:56:00	YOU KNOW AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:37:56:00	00:37:57:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:37:57:00	00:38:02:00	THE AMOUNT OF $125,000 IN THE
00:38:02:00	00:38:03:00	FORM OF A GRANT FROM THE
00:38:03:00	00:38:03:00	LIBERTY MUTUAL CLAIM AND
00:38:03:00	00:38:06:00	RESILIENCY GRANT AWARDED BY
00:38:06:00	00:38:09:00	LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC.
00:38:09:00	00:38:09:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:38:09:00	00:38:12:00	OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
00:38:12:00	00:38:13:00	.
00:38:13:00	00:38:13:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND MITIGATE
00:38:13:00	00:38:16:00	OF A DEBT OF APPROACHES TO
00:38:16:00	00:38:17:00	CLIMATE CHANGE BY SUPPORTING
00:38:17:00	00:38:21:00	INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, SCALING
00:38:21:00	00:38:21:00	PROVEN STRATEGIES AND PROMOTING
00:38:21:00	00:38:24:00	NATURE BASED INITIATIVES.
00:38:24:00	00:38:25:00	THIS FUNDING EMPOWERS
00:38:25:00	00:38:27:00	GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TO TACKLE
00:38:27:00	00:38:35:00	ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES LIKE
00:38:35:00	00:38:35:00	NUMBER 1194 MESSAGE IN
00:38:35:00	00:38:38:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:38:38:00	00:38:44:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
00:38:44:00	00:38:44:00	OF $77,122.35 IN THE FORM OF A
00:38:44:00	00:38:45:00	GRANT.
00:38:45:00	00:38:48:00	THE CARRY AND WRI A DISLOCATED
00:38:48:00	00:38:52:00	WORKERS ADMINISTRATION GRANT
00:38:52:00	00:38:53:00	AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES
00:38:53:00	00:38:53:00	DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASSED TO
00:38:53:00	00:38:56:00	THE MAYOR SAYING TO PERMANENT
00:38:56:00	00:38:57:00	CAREER SERVICES TO BE
00:38:57:00	00:38:57:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
00:38:57:00	00:39:00:00	OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:39:00:00	00:39:00:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND
00:39:00:00	00:39:04:00	ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED
00:39:04:00	00:39:04:00	WITH PROVIDING PROGRAMING TO
00:39:04:00	00:39:07:00	HELP DISLOCATED WORKERS GET
00:39:07:00	00:39:08:00	BACK TO WORK AS QUICKLY AS
00:39:08:00	00:39:11:00	POSSIBLE AND OVERCOME BARRIERS
00:39:11:00	00:39:11:00	.
00:39:11:00	00:39:15:00	EMPLOYMENT TUCKER NUMBER 1195
00:39:15:00	00:39:15:00	MESSAGE YOU KNOW AUTHORIZING
00:39:15:00	00:39:16:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AN
00:39:16:00	00:39:19:00	EXPANDED OF $70,000 IN THE FORM
00:39:19:00	00:39:23:00	OF A GRANT FROM THE FRIENDS
00:39:23:00	00:39:24:00	OF YOUTH OPPORTUNITY BOSTON
00:39:24:00	00:39:27:00	AWARDED BY STAGE THREE GLOBAL
00:39:27:00	00:39:27:00	ADVISORS TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
00:39:27:00	00:39:30:00	THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
00:39:30:00	00:39:31:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:39:31:00	00:39:33:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND YOUNG
00:39:33:00	00:39:34:00	PEOPLE AGES 14 TO 24 AN
00:39:34:00	00:39:37:00	OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AND LEARN
00:39:37:00	00:39:38:00	ALONG WITH INTENSIVE STAFF
00:39:38:00	00:39:41:00	SUPPORT NUMBER 1196 MESSAGE A
00:39:41:00	00:39:42:00	NOTE AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:39:42:00	00:39:45:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:39:45:00	00:39:51:00	THE AMOUNT OF $60,573.35 IN THE
00:39:51:00	00:39:51:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE CAREY
00:39:51:00	00:39:54:00	AND WHITE ADULT ADMINISTRATION
00:39:54:00	00:39:58:00	GRANT AWARDED BY THE UNITED
00:39:58:00	00:39:58:00	STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASS
00:39:58:00	00:39:59:00	THROUGH THE MASS HIRED
00:39:59:00	00:40:01:00	DEPARTMENT OF CAREER SERVICES
00:40:01:00	00:40:02:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:40:02:00	00:40:05:00	OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
00:40:05:00	00:40:05:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:40:05:00	00:40:06:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND
00:40:06:00	00:40:09:00	ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED
00:40:09:00	00:40:09:00	WITH BOSTON'S MASS HIRE CAREER
00:40:09:00	00:40:13:00	CENTERS WHICH HELP RESIDENT
00:40:13:00	00:40:13:00	ADULT JOBSEEKERS ACCESS
00:40:13:00	00:40:17:00	EMPLOYMENT, JOB TRAINING,
00:40:17:00	00:40:18:00	APPRENTICESHIP AND SUPPORT
00:40:18:00	00:40:21:00	SERVICES.
00:40:21:00	00:40:24:00	DUCKY NUMBER 1197 MESSAGE AN
00:40:24:00	00:40:25:00	ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:40:25:00	00:40:28:00	OF BOSTON ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE
00:40:28:00	00:40:31:00	AMOUNT OF 50,000 $27.55 IN THE
00:40:31:00	00:40:35:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FROM
00:40:35:00	00:40:36:00	THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSITIONAL
00:40:36:00	00:40:39:00	WPP GRANT AWARDED BY MASS HIRED
00:40:39:00	00:40:40:00	THE DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
00:40:40:00	00:40:43:00	SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
00:40:43:00	00:40:44:00	THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
00:40:44:00	00:40:47:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:40:47:00	00:40:47:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND EMPLOYMENT
00:40:47:00	00:40:48:00	AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE CAREER
00:40:48:00	00:40:51:00	COUNSELING AND JOB SEARCH
00:40:51:00	00:40:52:00	ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS IN
00:40:52:00	00:40:55:00	NEED RECEIVE CASH ASSISTANCE,
00:40:55:00	00:40:59:00	FOOD ASSISTANCE IN HOUSING
00:40:59:00	00:40:59:00	ASSISTANCE TO HELP TRANSITION
00:40:59:00	00:41:00:00	FROM TEMPORARY TO
00:41:00:00	00:41:06:00	SELF-SUFFICIENT C TUCKER NUMBER
00:41:06:00	00:41:06:00	1198 MESSAGE YOU KNOW
00:41:06:00	00:41:07:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:41:07:00	00:41:13:00	ACCEPTING EXPEND AMOUNT
00:41:13:00	00:41:14:00	OF $34,349.36 IN THE FORM OF A
00:41:14:00	00:41:17:00	GRANT FOR THE CARRY AND
00:41:17:00	00:41:18:00	REGIONAL PLANNING GRANT AWARDED
00:41:18:00	00:41:18:00	BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
00:41:18:00	00:41:22:00	OF LABOR PASS THROUGH THE MASS
00:41:22:00	00:41:22:00	HIGHER DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
00:41:22:00	00:41:27:00	SERVICES TO BE FUNDED THAT THE
00:41:27:00	00:41:28:00	GRANT WILL FUND REGIONAL
00:41:28:00	00:41:31:00	PLANNING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE
00:41:31:00	00:41:32:00	CREATION OF REGIONAL PIPELINE
00:41:32:00	00:41:35:00	PROGRAMING FOR HIGH DEMAND
00:41:35:00	00:41:35:00	INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS IN
00:41:35:00	00:41:38:00	ALIGNMENT WITH REGIONAL
00:41:38:00	00:41:39:00	PLANNING PRIORITIES.
00:41:39:00	00:41:42:00	TOKEN NUMBER 1199 MESSAGE IN
00:41:42:00	00:41:45:00	NOTE AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:41:45:00	00:41:46:00	OF BOSTON ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE
00:41:46:00	00:41:51:00	AMOUNT OF $8,943.77 IN THE FORM
00:41:51:00	00:41:52:00	OF A GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:41:52:00	00:41:55:00	MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF CAREER
00:41:55:00	00:41:55:00	SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
00:41:55:00	00:41:58:00	THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
00:41:58:00	00:41:58:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:41:58:00	00:41:59:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND EMPLOYMENT
00:41:59:00	00:42:03:00	AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE, CAREER
00:42:03:00	00:42:03:00	COUNSELING AND JOB SEARCH
00:42:03:00	00:42:07:00	ASSISTANCE FOR DISABLED
00:42:07:00	00:42:08:00	INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE CLIENTS AT
00:42:08:00	00:42:13:00	BOSTON MESSIAH CAREER NUMBER
00:42:13:00	00:42:14:00	1200 MESSAGE IN AUTHORIZING THE
00:42:14:00	00:42:17:00	CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND
00:42:17:00	00:42:20:00	EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF $3,074.94
00:42:20:00	00:42:23:00	IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE
00:42:23:00	00:42:28:00	S C C P GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:42:28:00	00:42:31:00	DEPARTMENT OF CAREER SERVICES
00:42:31:00	00:42:31:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:42:31:00	00:42:34:00	OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
00:42:34:00	00:42:34:00	.
00:42:34:00	00:42:35:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND EMPLOYMENT
00:42:35:00	00:42:38:00	AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE CAREER
00:42:38:00	00:42:39:00	COUNSELING AND JOB SEARCH
00:42:39:00	00:42:39:00	ASSISTANCE FOR OLDER ADULTS AND
00:42:39:00	00:42:42:00	INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES
00:42:42:00	00:42:47:00	WHO ARE CLIENTS OF BOSTON'S
00:42:47:00	00:42:47:00	MASS HIRE CAREER CENTERS.
00:42:47:00	00:42:50:00	TUCKER NUMBER 1201 MESSAGE IN
00:42:50:00	00:42:53:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:42:53:00	00:42:58:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
00:42:58:00	00:42:59:00	OF $1,861.08 IN THE FORM OF A
00:42:59:00	00:43:02:00	GRANT FOR THE TRADE ADJUSTMENT
00:43:02:00	00:43:03:00	GRANT AWARDED BY THE UNITED
00:43:03:00	00:43:06:00	STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PASS
00:43:06:00	00:43:07:00	THROUGH THE MASAYA DEPARTMENT
00:43:07:00	00:43:07:00	OF CAREER SERVICES TO BE
00:43:07:00	00:43:10:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
00:43:10:00	00:43:10:00	OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:43:10:00	00:43:11:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND
00:43:11:00	00:43:14:00	REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES TO
00:43:14:00	00:43:15:00	WORKERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR
00:43:15:00	00:43:18:00	JOBS OR EXPERIENCE A REDUCTION
00:43:18:00	00:43:19:00	IN HOURS AND WAGES DUE TO
00:43:19:00	00:43:22:00	INCREASED IMPORTS OR SHIFTS IN
00:43:22:00	00:43:23:00	PRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE UNITED
00:43:23:00	00:43:25:00	STATES.
00:43:25:00	00:43:26:00	THANK YOU MR. CLERK FOR ALL
00:43:26:00	00:43:30:00	THAT READING THANK YOU DOCKETS
00:43:30:00	00:43:33:00	NUMBER 119231201 WILL BE
00:43:33:00	00:43:33:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:43:33:00	00:43:36:00	LABOR WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC
00:43:36:00	00:43:36:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:43:36:00	00:43:40:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS PUBLIC
00:43:40:00	00:43:40:00	OFFICERS AND OTHERS.
00:43:40:00	00:43:44:00	MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ
00:43:44:00	00:43:49:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO 0 TWO THREE
00:43:49:00	00:43:53:00	1 TO 0 FOUR DOCKET OVER 1202
00:43:53:00	00:43:54:00	COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM
00:43:54:00	00:43:54:00	THE MAYOR IN REGARDS TO THE
00:43:54:00	00:43:58:00	FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET THAT
00:43:58:00	00:43:58:00	HAS TAKEN EFFECT.
00:43:58:00	00:44:01:00	DUNCAN EMBER 1203 NOTICE WAS
00:44:01:00	00:44:02:00	RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR.
00:44:02:00	00:44:05:00	THE APPOINTMENT OF ANDREA
00:44:05:00	00:44:06:00	CARUSO AS AS DIRECTOR OF THE
00:44:06:00	00:44:08:00	DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY AND
00:44:08:00	00:44:11:00	DIVERSITY EFFECTIVE JUNE 9TH,
00:44:11:00	00:44:14:00	2025 AND DUNCAN AMBER 1204
00:44:14:00	00:44:14:00	COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM DR.
00:44:14:00	00:44:18:00	SAMUEL DE PINA, DEPUTY
00:44:18:00	00:44:18:00	SUPERINTENDENT OF OPERATIONS
00:44:18:00	00:44:21:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
00:44:21:00	00:44:21:00	TRANSFERRING CERTAIN
00:44:21:00	00:44:25:00	INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17 F
00:44:25:00	00:44:25:00	RELATIVE TO CONDUCT AND SAFETY
00:44:25:00	00:44:28:00	PROCEDURES AND POLICIES FOR THE
00:44:28:00	00:44:31:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN
00:44:31:00	00:44:34:00	DISTRICT THREE UNDER NUMBER
00:44:34:00	00:44:34:00	1142 PASS BY THE COUNCIL ON
00:44:34:00	00:44:37:00	JUNE FOUR, 2025.
00:44:37:00	00:44:41:00	THANK YOU.
00:44:41:00	00:44:41:00	THESE DOCKETS WILL BE PLACED ON
00:44:41:00	00:44:42:00	FILE.
00:44:42:00	00:44:45:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:44:45:00	00:44:48:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO 0 FIVE
00:44:48:00	00:44:49:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1205 THE CAST
00:44:49:00	00:44:52:00	OF BONDS OF RUTH BAEZ VALDEZ,
00:44:52:00	00:44:55:00	RUSSELL C CASTAGNA, DEREK
00:44:55:00	00:44:56:00	HUGHES AND MARK WEISSBERG HAVE
00:44:56:00	00:44:56:00	BEEN DULY APPROVED BY THE
00:44:56:00	00:44:59:00	COLLECTIVE TREASURER AND WERE
00:44:59:00	00:45:00:00	RECEIVED THANK YOU TO COSMO
00:45:00:00	00:45:03:00	BONDS AND RUTH BAEZ, VELEZ
00:45:03:00	00:45:06:00	RUSSELL C CASANI DEREK HUGHES
00:45:06:00	00:45:07:00	AND MARK WEISSBERG HAVING BEEN
00:45:07:00	00:45:10:00	DULY APPROVED BY THE COLLECTOR
00:45:10:00	00:45:10:00	TREASURER WERE RECEIVED AND
00:45:10:00	00:45:11:00	APPROVED UNDER THE USUAL TERMS
00:45:11:00	00:45:14:00	AND CONDITIONS.
00:45:14:00	00:45:18:00	OKAY WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS
00:45:18:00	00:45:18:00	OF COMMITTEES.
00:45:18:00	00:45:21:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:45:21:00	00:45:24:00	DOCKET NUMBER 039 FOR DOCKING
00:45:24:00	00:45:24:00	NUMBER ZERO THREE NAMED FOR THE
00:45:24:00	00:45:27:00	COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND
00:45:27:00	00:45:28:00	CRIMINAL JUSTICE JUSTICE WHICH
00:45:28:00	00:45:30:00	WAS REFERRED ON FEBRUARY 5TH,
00:45:30:00	00:45:33:00	2025 DOCKET NUMBER 0394 MESSAGE
00:45:33:00	00:45:34:00	IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:45:34:00	00:45:38:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
00:45:38:00	00:45:43:00	THE AMOUNT OF $1,735,107.39 IN
00:45:43:00	00:45:44:00	THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE
00:45:44:00	00:45:48:00	FISCAL YEAR 25.
00:45:48:00	00:45:48:00	SENATOR CHARLES SHINN AND
00:45:48:00	00:45:51:00	JUNIOR COMMUNITY SAFETY
00:45:51:00	00:45:52:00	INITIATIVE GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:45:52:00	00:45:55:00	MASS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC
00:45:55:00	00:45:55:00	SAFETY AND SECURITY TO BE
00:45:55:00	00:45:59:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE.
00:45:59:00	00:46:00:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND REGIONAL
00:46:00:00	00:46:02:00	AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
00:46:02:00	00:46:03:00	APPROACHES TO COMBAT GANG
00:46:03:00	00:46:06:00	VIOLENCE WHO COORDINATE
00:46:06:00	00:46:07:00	PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION LAW
00:46:07:00	00:46:10:00	ENFORCEMENT PROSECUTION AND
00:46:10:00	00:46:10:00	REINTEGRATION PROGRAMS.
00:46:10:00	00:46:14:00	SUBMITS THE REPORT RECOMMENDING
00:46:14:00	00:46:15:00	THE ORDER TO PASS.
00:46:15:00	00:46:15:00	THANK YOU.
00:46:15:00	00:46:19:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:46:19:00	00:46:19:00	COUNCILOR STANTON.
00:46:19:00	00:46:20:00	OH, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
00:46:20:00	00:46:21:00	UPDATE THE RECORD TO IMPLY THE
00:46:21:00	00:46:22:00	COUNCIL VOTED IN UNISON IS NOW
00:46:22:00	00:46:22:00	PRESIDENT WITH US.
00:46:22:00	00:46:23:00	THANK YOU.
00:46:23:00	00:46:26:00	MR COUNCILOR SANTANA, HAVE THE
00:46:26:00	00:46:26:00	FLOOR.
00:46:26:00	00:46:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:46:27:00	00:46:30:00	THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
00:46:30:00	00:46:30:00	AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE HELD A
00:46:30:00	00:46:31:00	PUBLIC HEARING ON DOCKET
00:46:31:00	00:46:34:00	NUMBERS 0394 ON FRIDAY, APRIL
00:46:34:00	00:46:37:00	25TH, 2025 AS THE CHAIR IS
00:46:37:00	00:46:40:00	TALKING AS A MESSAGE AN ORDER
00:46:40:00	00:46:41:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:46:41:00	00:46:45:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE FBI 25
00:46:45:00	00:46:45:00	SENATORS CHARLES E SHANNON
00:46:45:00	00:46:48:00	JUNIOR COMMUNITY SAFETY
00:46:48:00	00:46:49:00	INITIATIVE BRAND MORE COMMONLY
00:46:49:00	00:46:52:00	KNOWN AS THE SHANNON GRAHAM THE
00:46:52:00	00:46:57:00	FBI 25 GRANT AS IN THE AMOUNT
00:46:57:00	00:46:57:00	OF $1,735,107.39.
00:46:57:00	00:47:01:00	THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY
00:47:01:00	00:47:02:00	MAYOR MICHAUD AND REFERRED TO
00:47:02:00	00:47:04:00	THE COMMITTEE ON FEBRUARY 5TH,
00:47:04:00	00:47:04:00	2025.
00:47:04:00	00:47:08:00	WE WERE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES
00:47:08:00	00:47:08:00	COUNSELOR AT FLYNN HOUSE OR
00:47:08:00	00:47:09:00	JOHN FITZGERALD
00:47:09:00	00:47:11:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRUCE
00:47:11:00	00:47:12:00	LOUIJEUNE AND COUNSELOR MURPHY.
00:47:12:00	00:47:15:00	WE ALSO RECEIVED LETTERS
00:47:15:00	00:47:15:00	OF ASSISTANCE FROM COUNSELOR
00:47:15:00	00:47:19:00	PEPEN AND FROM HOUSE OVERALL
00:47:19:00	00:47:20:00	WHO WAS A COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR
00:47:20:00	00:47:21:00	OF THE SHANNON GRANT IS AN
00:47:21:00	00:47:23:00	INVESTMENT INITIATIVE THAT
00:47:23:00	00:47:24:00	SUPPORTS THE CITY OF BOSTON'S
00:47:24:00	00:47:26:00	COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC SAFETY
00:47:26:00	00:47:27:00	STRATEGY USING REGIONAL AND
00:47:27:00	00:47:30:00	MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
00:47:30:00	00:47:31:00	AND COLLABORATIONS AMONGST
00:47:31:00	00:47:33:00	VARIOUS STATE AND CITY AGENCIES
00:47:33:00	00:47:34:00	ALONG WITH PARTNERSHIPS WITH
00:47:34:00	00:47:38:00	FAITH BASED PHILANTHROPY AND
00:47:38:00	00:47:38:00	BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN
00:47:38:00	00:47:38:00	THE COMMUNITY.
00:47:38:00	00:47:41:00	SINCE 2015 THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:47:41:00	00:47:44:00	HAS USED A COMPETITIVE RFP
00:47:44:00	00:47:48:00	PROCESS OPENING APPLICATIONS TO
00:47:48:00	00:47:48:00	NONPROFITS, COMMUNITY
00:47:48:00	00:47:49:00	ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT
00:47:49:00	00:47:52:00	PROGRAMS WHERE THEY INVEST
00:47:52:00	00:47:53:00	COMMUNITY INTEREST IN
00:47:53:00	00:47:53:00	ADDRESSING AND RESPONDING TO
00:47:53:00	00:47:56:00	YOUTH VIOLENCE.
00:47:56:00	00:47:57:00	THIS PROCESS IS NOW PART OF THE
00:47:57:00	00:48:00:00	ANNUAL FUNDING CYCLE WHICH HAS
00:48:00:00	00:48:00:00	RECEIVED OVER 50 APPLICATIONS
00:48:00:00	00:48:00:00	PER YEAR.
00:48:00:00	00:48:04:00	I WANT TO EXTEND MY
00:48:04:00	00:48:05:00	APPRECIATION TO THE MAN BUILDS
00:48:05:00	00:48:05:00	FOR HIS LEADERSHIP THROUGH THIS
00:48:05:00	00:48:08:00	PROCESS EACH YEAR.
00:48:08:00	00:48:09:00	AS THE PROJECT COORDINATOR FOR
00:48:09:00	00:48:11:00	THIS FOR THE SHANNON GRAHAM IN
00:48:11:00	00:48:12:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON'S POLICE
00:48:12:00	00:48:12:00	DEPARTMENT UNDER DEMANDS
00:48:12:00	00:48:16:00	LEADERSHIP DPD HAS EXPANDED ITS
00:48:16:00	00:48:17:00	PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY
00:48:17:00	00:48:20:00	ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED IN EACH
00:48:20:00	00:48:21:00	OF THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
00:48:21:00	00:48:24:00	THE BOND JOINED US FOR THE
00:48:24:00	00:48:24:00	HEARING TO TESTIFY ON BEHALF
00:48:24:00	00:48:27:00	OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
00:48:27:00	00:48:28:00	LAST YEAR WE HELD A PRODUCTIVE
00:48:28:00	00:48:32:00	AND INSIGHTFUL PUBLIC HEARING
00:48:32:00	00:48:33:00	IN THIS COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT
00:48:33:00	00:48:35:00	OVERSIGHT OF THE FY 24 SHANNON
00:48:35:00	00:48:35:00	GRANT.
00:48:35:00	00:48:38:00	WE WERE JOINED BY THE MODELING
00:48:38:00	00:48:39:00	DIRECTOR CHEEVERS ALONG WITH
00:48:39:00	00:48:42:00	REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BOSTON
00:48:42:00	00:48:42:00	PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION,
00:48:42:00	00:48:43:00	BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND
00:48:43:00	00:48:46:00	FAMILIES AND THE BOSTON POLICE
00:48:46:00	00:48:47:00	DEPARTMENT WHO EACH IMPLEMENT
00:48:47:00	00:48:50:00	SOME OF THE PROGRAMS FUNDED IN
00:48:50:00	00:48:51:00	PART BY THE SHANNON GRANT.
00:48:51:00	00:48:53:00	THAT HEARING LED TO A
00:48:53:00	00:48:54:00	SUCCESSFUL PASSAGE BY THE CITY
00:48:54:00	00:48:57:00	COUNCIL OF THE ORDER TO ACCEPT
00:48:57:00	00:48:58:00	AND EXPAND THE FY 24 SHANNON
00:48:58:00	00:48:58:00	GRANT.
00:48:58:00	00:49:01:00	DURING THAT HEARING WE ALSO
00:49:01:00	00:49:01:00	LEARNED THAT SINCE THE
00:49:01:00	00:49:04:00	INCEPTION OF THIS GRANT IN 2000
00:49:04:00	00:49:06:00	AND 2006 THROUGH THE END
00:49:06:00	00:49:07:00	OF 2023 BPD HAS SEEN A 16%
00:49:07:00	00:49:11:00	DECREASE IN HOMICIDES, A 9%
00:49:11:00	00:49:14:00	DECREASE IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS
00:49:14:00	00:49:14:00	AND A 10% DECREASE IN TOTAL
00:49:14:00	00:49:15:00	VIOLENT CRIME ALL THROUGH THE
00:49:15:00	00:49:18:00	INVESTMENTS OF $350 PER YOUNG
00:49:18:00	00:49:21:00	PERSON BASED ON HOPEFUL
00:49:21:00	00:49:22:00	FEEDBACK FROM MY COLLEAGUES.
00:49:22:00	00:49:23:00	AFTER LAST YEAR'S HEARING I
00:49:23:00	00:49:26:00	WANT TO EXPAND THE OVERSIGHT
00:49:26:00	00:49:28:00	OF THE 2525 SHANNON GRANT TO
00:49:28:00	00:49:29:00	PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EACH
00:49:29:00	00:49:31:00	AND EVERY ONE OF THE 27 NON BPD
00:49:31:00	00:49:35:00	PROGRAMS THAT WILL BE FUNDED BY
00:49:35:00	00:49:35:00	THIS GRANT THIS YEAR TO SHARE
00:49:35:00	00:49:38:00	TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT THEIR
00:49:38:00	00:49:38:00	MISSION AND WORK.
00:49:38:00	00:49:39:00	I WAS HONORED I'M HONORED TO
00:49:39:00	00:49:42:00	HAVE HAD ALL OF THOSE 27
00:49:42:00	00:49:42:00	ORGANIZATIONS CONNECT WITH
00:49:42:00	00:49:45:00	ME AND MY OFFICE ABOUT
00:49:45:00	00:49:45:00	PARTICIPATING IN THE HEARING.
00:49:45:00	00:49:46:00	WE HAD A VERY INFORMATIVE AND
00:49:46:00	00:49:49:00	INSIGHTFUL HEARING FOR NEARLY 3
00:49:49:00	00:49:50:00	HOURS WITH NEARLY ALL OF THE
00:49:50:00	00:49:52:00	NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY
00:49:52:00	00:49:53:00	ORGANIZATIONS WHO STAND TO
00:49:53:00	00:49:56:00	RECEIVE FUNDS FROM THE SHANNON
00:49:56:00	00:49:56:00	FROM THE SHANNON GRANT JOINING
00:49:56:00	00:49:59:00	US IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY AND
00:49:59:00	00:50:00:00	THE REMAINING HANDFUL PROVIDING
00:50:00:00	00:50:03:00	EITHER A PRERECORDED VIDEO OR A
00:50:03:00	00:50:04:00	WRITTEN TESTIMONY.
00:50:04:00	00:50:05:00	IN MANY CASES WE ALSO HEARD
00:50:05:00	00:50:07:00	TESTIMONY DIRECTLY FROM YOUTH
00:50:07:00	00:50:08:00	AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE
00:50:08:00	00:50:09:00	DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THESE
00:50:09:00	00:50:11:00	PROGRAMS.
00:50:11:00	00:50:12:00	THE 27 NON THREE ORGANIZATIONS
00:50:12:00	00:50:16:00	THAT STAND TO RECEIVE FUNDS
00:50:16:00	00:50:16:00	FROM THIS GRANT SHOULD THE
00:50:16:00	00:50:19:00	COUNCIL APPROVE IT AND WHO THE
00:50:19:00	00:50:19:00	COMMITTEE HEARD FROM FOR THIS
00:50:19:00	00:50:23:00	HEARING ARE APPRENTICE LEARNING
00:50:23:00	00:50:23:00	BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER BOSTON
00:50:23:00	00:50:26:00	CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES
00:50:26:00	00:50:27:00	THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.
00:50:27:00	00:50:28:00	BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION
00:50:28:00	00:50:30:00	CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT
00:50:30:00	00:50:31:00	FATHERS OF LYFT, FREEDOM HOUSE
00:50:31:00	00:50:34:00	FUTURE CHEFS HYPE SQUARE TASK
00:50:34:00	00:50:35:00	FORCE JUSTICE RESOURCE
00:50:35:00	00:50:39:00	INITIATIVE THE LOUISE LOUISE D
00:50:39:00	00:50:39:00	BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE.
00:50:39:00	00:50:41:00	MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT
00:50:41:00	00:50:42:00	CORPORATION.
00:50:42:00	00:50:42:00	THE MAVERICK LAND AND COMMUNITY
00:50:42:00	00:50:46:00	SERVICE MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND
00:50:46:00	00:50:49:00	EQUALITY PROJECT WRITE INC
00:50:49:00	00:50:49:00	ROCHA SUFFOLK COUNTY DA'S
00:50:49:00	00:50:53:00	OFFICE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS ST
00:50:53:00	00:50:54:00	STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAM URBAN
00:50:54:00	00:50:57:00	CHILD VERONICA ROBERTS ROBLES
00:50:57:00	00:51:00:00	CULTURAL CENTER YOUNG MAN WITH
00:51:00:00	00:51:01:00	THE PLAN YOUTH GUIDANCE BAM
00:51:01:00	00:51:04:00	WILD YOUTH OPTIONS UNLIMITED
00:51:04:00	00:51:09:00	BOSTON YOUTH FIELD BOSTON AND
00:51:09:00	00:51:09:00	YOUTH CONNECT.
00:51:09:00	00:51:12:00	WE ALSO HEARD PUBLIC TESTIMONY
00:51:12:00	00:51:13:00	FROM SEVERAL STUDENTS FROM BP'S
00:51:13:00	00:51:16:00	COMMUNITY ACADEMY AND JP WHO
00:51:16:00	00:51:17:00	JOINED US IN PERSON TO SHARE
00:51:17:00	00:51:17:00	THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC
00:51:17:00	00:51:20:00	AND COMMUNITY SAFETY AND HOW
00:51:20:00	00:51:21:00	THEY HOPE TO SEE THESE FUNDS
00:51:21:00	00:51:22:00	FROM THIS GRANT AND OTHER
00:51:22:00	00:51:24:00	PROGRAMS USED.
00:51:24:00	00:51:24:00	I WANT TO EXTEND MY
00:51:24:00	00:51:25:00	APPRECIATION TO THOSE STUDENTS
00:51:25:00	00:51:28:00	AS WELL AS THOSE TEACHERS
00:51:28:00	00:51:31:00	ANSWER MUFFINS WHO ACCOMPANIED
00:51:31:00	00:51:31:00	THEM AND PROVIDED PUBLIC
00:51:31:00	00:51:32:00	TESTIMONY AS WELL.
00:51:32:00	00:51:35:00	I ALSO WANT TO EXTEND MY
00:51:35:00	00:51:36:00	APPRECIATION TO CORA MONTROSE
00:51:36:00	00:51:39:00	AND FROM CENTRAL OFFICE FOR HER
00:51:39:00	00:51:39:00	ASSISTANCE IN PREPARING THE
00:51:39:00	00:51:40:00	COMMITTEE REPORT FOR THIS
00:51:40:00	00:51:40:00	HEARING.
00:51:40:00	00:51:43:00	WE RECEIVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT
00:51:43:00	00:51:43:00	OF INFORMATION AT THIS HEARING
00:51:43:00	00:51:46:00	FROM THE TESTIMONY OF THE 27
00:51:46:00	00:51:46:00	ORGANIZATIONS I JUST LISTED AS
00:51:46:00	00:51:50:00	WELL AS INFORMATION SHARED BY
00:51:50:00	00:51:50:00	DEMAND BILLS ABOUT THE GRANT
00:51:50:00	00:51:53:00	ADMINISTRATION PROCESS AND THE
00:51:53:00	00:51:54:00	FUNDS THAT WOULD BE USED FOR BP
00:51:54:00	00:51:56:00	PROGRAMS AND OUR COMMITTEE
00:51:56:00	00:51:57:00	DETAILS ALL THE INFORMATION
00:51:57:00	00:52:01:00	WITH A OVERVIEW OF EACH PROGRAM
00:52:01:00	00:52:01:00	AND FUNDING AMOUNT.
00:52:01:00	00:52:02:00	AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON
00:52:02:00	00:52:04:00	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL
00:52:04:00	00:52:05:00	JUSTICE, I RECOMMEND MOVING
00:52:05:00	00:52:06:00	THIS DOCKET FROM THE COMMITTEE
00:52:06:00	00:52:08:00	TO THE FULL COUNCIL FOR
00:52:08:00	00:52:09:00	DISCUSSION AND FORMAL ACTION.
00:52:09:00	00:52:12:00	AT THAT TIME OUR RECOMMENDATION
00:52:12:00	00:52:13:00	TO THE FULL COUNCIL WILL BE TO
00:52:13:00	00:52:13:00	WILL BE ACCEPTANCE OF THE
00:52:13:00	00:52:16:00	COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE
00:52:16:00	00:52:16:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 039 FOR IT.
00:52:16:00	00:52:17:00	THANK YOU.
00:52:17:00	00:52:20:00	THANK YOU.
00:52:20:00	00:52:20:00	AND THANK YOU MR CHAIR FOR
00:52:20:00	00:52:21:00	HOLDING THIS HEARING.
00:52:21:00	00:52:24:00	IT WAS GREAT TO HEAR FROM THE
00:52:24:00	00:52:25:00	RECIPIENTS ABOUT WHAT THE GRANT
00:52:25:00	00:52:27:00	DOES AND WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
00:52:27:00	00:52:28:00	FOR US TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING
00:52:28:00	00:52:31:00	AND IT WAS A GOOD MODEL.
00:52:31:00	00:52:31:00	THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING ON
00:52:31:00	00:52:32:00	THE TRAINING GROUND.
00:52:32:00	00:52:32:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU
00:52:32:00	00:52:33:00	FOR THAT.
00:52:33:00	00:52:35:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRAFLOW
00:52:35:00	00:52:36:00	AND CONTROL AND YOU HAVE THE
00:52:36:00	00:52:36:00	FLOOR.
00:52:36:00	00:52:38:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:52:38:00	00:52:39:00	AND I WANT TO THANK THE THANK
00:52:39:00	00:52:42:00	THE CHAIR COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR
00:52:42:00	00:52:42:00	A VERY INFORMATIVE HEARING.
00:52:42:00	00:52:46:00	I WAS THERE FOR THE ENTIRE 3
00:52:46:00	00:52:49:00	HOURS LISTENING REALLY
00:52:49:00	00:52:50:00	LISTENING TO THE RECIPIENTS
00:52:50:00	00:52:53:00	THAT RECEIVED THIS MONEY, THIS
00:52:53:00	00:52:57:00	THIS AWARD AND THAT WAS THE
00:52:57:00	00:52:57:00	CRITICAL PART OF THIS HEARING
00:52:57:00	00:53:01:00	IS IS HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO
00:53:01:00	00:53:02:00	LISTEN IN, LEARN ABOUT WHAT
00:53:02:00	00:53:05:00	IMPACT THIS FUNDING IS ACTUALLY
00:53:05:00	00:53:09:00	HAVING ON AN ORGANIZATION AND
00:53:09:00	00:53:09:00	ON INDIVIDUALS.
00:53:09:00	00:53:10:00	AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU
00:53:10:00	00:53:13:00	TO COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR
00:53:13:00	00:53:16:00	CONDUCTING A VERY PROFESSIONAL
00:53:16:00	00:53:17:00	MEETING TO THE AWARD RECIPIENTS
00:53:17:00	00:53:19:00	THAT ARE RECEIVING MONEY
00:53:19:00	00:53:20:00	THROUGH THE SHANNON GRANT ALSO
00:53:20:00	00:53:24:00	FOR TALKING ABOUT YOUR
00:53:24:00	00:53:27:00	PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
00:53:27:00	00:53:28:00	AND AGAIN, IT WAS A THREE HOUR
00:53:28:00	00:53:28:00	SESSION AND FOR THOSE
00:53:28:00	00:53:31:00	COUNCILORS THAT WEREN'T THERE I
00:53:31:00	00:53:32:00	WOULD RECOMMEND WATCHING THE
00:53:32:00	00:53:34:00	VIDEO BECAUSE YOU'LL REALLY
00:53:34:00	00:53:38:00	LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE THE
00:53:38:00	00:53:38:00	TREMENDOUS NONPROFITS AND CITY
00:53:38:00	00:53:39:00	AGENCIES THAT ARE DOING
00:53:39:00	00:53:43:00	EXCEPTIONAL WORK ACROSS THE
00:53:43:00	00:53:43:00	CITY OF BOSTON.
00:53:43:00	00:53:46:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:53:46:00	00:53:47:00	THANK YOU.
00:53:47:00	00:53:47:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:53:47:00	00:53:48:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY TO THE FLOOR.
00:53:48:00	00:53:49:00	I'M.
00:53:49:00	00:53:50:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:53:50:00	00:53:51:00	THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR,
00:53:51:00	00:53:51:00	SANTANA.
00:53:51:00	00:53:54:00	I JUST WANTED TO RISE TO SAY
00:53:54:00	00:53:54:00	THANK YOU FOR REACHING OUT TO
00:53:54:00	00:53:58:00	THE ORGANIZATIONS ALSO, I KNOW
00:53:58:00	00:53:58:00	MANY OF THEM WERE HERE LIKE
00:53:58:00	00:54:01:00	YOUTHBUILD IN DC WHERE I EF AND
00:54:01:00	00:54:01:00	OTHERS WHO RECEIVED THESE
00:54:01:00	00:54:02:00	GRANTS AND I DO JUST WANT TO
00:54:02:00	00:54:05:00	SAY HOW IT WAS GOOD TIMING THAT
00:54:05:00	00:54:06:00	AT THE SAME TIME
00:54:06:00	00:54:09:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN WAS HOSTING
00:54:09:00	00:54:10:00	ABOUT 50 STUDENTS FROM THE
00:54:10:00	00:54:12:00	CONDON SCHOOL SO THEY WERE ABLE
00:54:12:00	00:54:13:00	TO COME INTO CHAMBER AFTER YOU
00:54:13:00	00:54:16:00	WERE FINISHED AND TALK TO YOU
00:54:16:00	00:54:17:00	ASKED ABOUT YOU KNOW, A LOT
00:54:17:00	00:54:18:00	OF THESE GRANTS THAT DO
00:54:18:00	00:54:20:00	DIRECTLY AFFECT OUR YOUTH SO
00:54:20:00	00:54:21:00	THANK YOU FOR THIS.
00:54:21:00	00:54:21:00	LOOKING FORWARD TO PASSING IT.
00:54:21:00	00:54:21:00	THANK YOU.
00:54:21:00	00:54:22:00	ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON
00:54:22:00	00:54:24:00	THIS MATTER BUT ANYONE ELSE
00:54:24:00	00:54:25:00	LIKE TO ADD THEIR OC CASO
00:54:25:00	00:54:28:00	SANTANA SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
00:54:28:00	00:54:32:00	COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE
00:54:32:00	00:54:33:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 0394.
00:54:33:00	00:54:36:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL GO
00:54:36:00	00:54:37:00	SAY NAY THINKING THE COMMITTEE
00:54:37:00	00:54:38:00	REPORT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN
00:54:38:00	00:54:39:00	DOCK NUMBER 0394 AS PASSED
00:54:39:00	00:54:40:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:54:40:00	00:54:50:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 08088808890885
00:54:50:00	00:54:53:00	AND 0886 DOCKING NUMBER 0888
00:54:53:00	00:54:54:00	THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
00:54:54:00	00:54:57:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO WHICH
00:54:57:00	00:55:00:00	WAS REFERRED ON APRIL 16, 2025
00:55:00:00	00:55:00:00	THOUGH I CAN NUMBER 0888.
00:55:00:00	00:55:04:00	MESSAGE GENERAL AUTHORIZING THE
00:55:04:00	00:55:07:00	CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND
00:55:07:00	00:55:07:00	EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF $4 MILLION
00:55:07:00	00:55:11:00	IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE
00:55:11:00	00:55:11:00	FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 25 HOUSING
00:55:11:00	00:55:14:00	FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS AWARDED
00:55:14:00	00:55:15:00	BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
00:55:15:00	00:55:17:00	OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:55:17:00	00:55:18:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:55:18:00	00:55:19:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:55:19:00	00:55:21:00	OF HOUSING.
00:55:21:00	00:55:22:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND SERVICES
00:55:22:00	00:55:25:00	FOR INCOME ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS
00:55:25:00	00:55:26:00	AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY AIDS.
00:55:26:00	00:55:29:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:55:29:00	00:55:29:00	FROM PRIOR YEARS.
00:55:29:00	00:55:33:00	SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING
00:55:33:00	00:55:35:00	THAT THE ORDER PASS TUCKER
00:55:35:00	00:55:36:00	NUMBER 0889.
00:55:36:00	00:55:36:00	THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
00:55:36:00	00:55:39:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO WHICH
00:55:39:00	00:55:42:00	WAS REFERRED ON APRIL 16TH,
00:55:42:00	00:55:43:00	2025 DUCK AND NUMBER 0889.
00:55:43:00	00:55:47:00	MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING
00:55:47:00	00:55:47:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT
00:55:47:00	00:55:50:00	AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF $2
00:55:50:00	00:55:51:00	MILLION IN THE FORM OF A GRANT
00:55:51:00	00:55:54:00	FOR THE FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 25
00:55:54:00	00:55:54:00	EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT
00:55:54:00	00:55:58:00	AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES
00:55:58:00	00:55:59:00	DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:55:59:00	00:56:02:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:56:02:00	00:56:02:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:56:02:00	00:56:02:00	OF HOUSING.
00:56:02:00	00:56:05:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE STREET
00:56:05:00	00:56:06:00	OUTREACH EMERGENCY SHELTER,
00:56:06:00	00:56:09:00	HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION, RAPID
00:56:09:00	00:56:09:00	REHOUSING ASSISTANCE AND
00:56:09:00	00:56:13:00	SHELTER SERVICES.
00:56:13:00	00:56:14:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:56:14:00	00:56:14:00	FROM PRIOR YEARS.
00:56:14:00	00:56:18:00	SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING
00:56:18:00	00:56:19:00	THAT THE ORDER TO PASS TUCKER
00:56:19:00	00:56:21:00	NUMBER 0885 THE COMMITTEE ON
00:56:21:00	00:56:22:00	HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
00:56:22:00	00:56:25:00	DEVELOPMENT TO WHICH WAS
00:56:25:00	00:56:28:00	REFERRED ON APRIL 16, 2025 DUCK
00:56:28:00	00:56:31:00	AND NUMBERS 0885 MESSAGE IN
00:56:31:00	00:56:32:00	ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:56:32:00	00:56:33:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:56:33:00	00:56:35:00	THE AMOUNT OF $18 MILLION IN
00:56:35:00	00:56:36:00	THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE
00:56:36:00	00:56:39:00	FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 25
00:56:39:00	00:56:40:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
00:56:40:00	00:56:44:00	GRANT AWARDED BY THE UNITED
00:56:44:00	00:56:44:00	STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
00:56:44:00	00:56:47:00	AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO BE
00:56:47:00	00:56:48:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE MAYOR'S
00:56:48:00	00:56:48:00	OFFICE OF HOUSING.
00:56:48:00	00:56:51:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND HOUSING,
00:56:51:00	00:56:52:00	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL
00:56:52:00	00:56:55:00	SERVICES PROGRAMS.
00:56:55:00	00:56:56:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:56:56:00	00:56:59:00	FROM PRIOR YEARS AMIDST A
00:56:59:00	00:56:59:00	REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE
00:56:59:00	00:57:05:00	ORDER TO PASS AND DOCK NUMBER
00:57:05:00	00:57:06:00	0886 THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING
00:57:06:00	00:57:06:00	AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO
00:57:06:00	00:57:09:00	WHICH WAS REFERRED ON APRIL 16,
00:57:09:00	00:57:12:00	2025 NUMBER 0886 MESSAGE IN
00:57:12:00	00:57:15:00	ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:57:15:00	00:57:16:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND
00:57:16:00	00:57:19:00	THE AMOUNT OF $6 MILLION IN A
00:57:19:00	00:57:20:00	FORMAL GRANT FOR THE FEDERAL
00:57:20:00	00:57:22:00	FISCAL YEAR 25 HOME INVESTMENT
00:57:22:00	00:57:26:00	PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM GRANT
00:57:26:00	00:57:27:00	AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES
00:57:27:00	00:57:27:00	DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:57:27:00	00:57:30:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:57:30:00	00:57:31:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:57:31:00	00:57:34:00	OF HOUSING.
00:57:34:00	00:57:34:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE
00:57:34:00	00:57:35:00	PRODUCTION OF NEW AFFORDABLE
00:57:35:00	00:57:38:00	RENTAL AND HOMEOWNERSHIP
00:57:38:00	00:57:38:00	HOUSING AND ALSO PROVIDE
00:57:38:00	00:57:42:00	OPERATING SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY
00:57:42:00	00:57:42:00	DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.
00:57:42:00	00:57:46:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:57:46:00	00:57:46:00	FROM PRIOR YEARS.
00:57:46:00	00:57:48:00	SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDS
00:57:48:00	00:57:53:00	THAT THE ORDER OUGHT TO PASS.
00:57:53:00	00:57:53:00	THANK YOU MR. CLERK.
00:57:53:00	00:57:54:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR
00:57:54:00	00:57:57:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
00:57:57:00	00:57:57:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
00:57:57:00	00:57:57:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
00:57:57:00	00:57:58:00	COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE
00:57:58:00	00:57:58:00	FLOOR.
00:57:58:00	00:58:01:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:58:01:00	00:58:04:00	THIS MONTH AS AS WE HEARD THIS
00:58:04:00	00:58:05:00	MATTERS WERE SPONSORED BY MAYOR
00:58:05:00	00:58:05:00	MICHELLE WOON REFERRED TO THE
00:58:05:00	00:58:07:00	COMMITTEE ON 16TH.
00:58:07:00	00:58:08:00	THE FOUR DOCKETS ARE A
00:58:08:00	00:58:11:00	COLLECTION OF NEW UNITED STATES
00:58:11:00	00:58:12:00	DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:58:12:00	00:58:12:00	DEVELOPMENT HUD GRANTS
00:58:12:00	00:58:16:00	DISTRIBUTED BY THE FEDERAL
00:58:16:00	00:58:16:00	GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATED BY
00:58:16:00	00:58:17:00	THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
00:58:17:00	00:58:20:00	THE AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NOT TO
00:58:20:00	00:58:23:00	EXCEED AMOUNTS AS THE ACTUAL
00:58:23:00	00:58:24:00	TOTALS ARE NOT AVAILABLE WHEN
00:58:24:00	00:58:24:00	THE DOCKETS ARE FILED.
00:58:24:00	00:58:27:00	THE CITY HAS SINCE BEEN
00:58:27:00	00:58:28:00	INFORMED OF THE ACTUAL AMOUNTS
00:58:28:00	00:58:28:00	TO BE AWARDED WHICH REMAINS
00:58:28:00	00:58:31:00	WITHIN THE NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT
00:58:31:00	00:58:32:00	FOR EACH DOCKET.
00:58:32:00	00:58:35:00	THESE HUD PROGRAMS ARE AT A
00:58:35:00	00:58:36:00	LEVEL FUNDED BY A CONTINUING
00:58:36:00	00:58:39:00	RESOLUTION PASSED BY CONGRESS
00:58:39:00	00:58:39:00	EARLIER THIS YEAR AND EACH
00:58:39:00	00:58:42:00	OF THE GRANT APPLICATIONS
00:58:42:00	00:58:43:00	ALLOCATIONS IS EXPECTED TO SEE
00:58:43:00	00:58:46:00	A MODEST REDUCTION IN FUNDING
00:58:46:00	00:58:47:00	COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS
00:58:47:00	00:58:47:00	PROGRAM YEAR.
00:58:47:00	00:58:51:00	MANY OF THESE ARE RECURRING
00:58:51:00	00:58:52:00	GRANTS SO WE'VE BEEN FAMILIAR
00:58:52:00	00:58:54:00	WITH THEM FROM OTHER YEARS.
00:58:54:00	00:58:55:00	THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
00:58:55:00	00:59:03:00	GRANT ALLOCATION IS 16,948,744
00:59:03:00	00:59:04:00	AND HOUSING AND EQUITY OFFICE
00:59:04:00	00:59:06:00	OF WORKSHOP, WORKFORCE
00:59:06:00	00:59:07:00	DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL AND LOCAL
00:59:07:00	00:59:10:00	BUSINESS PROGRAM OF THE OFFICE
00:59:10:00	00:59:11:00	OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND
00:59:11:00	00:59:14:00	INCLUSION TO SUPPORT HOMEBUYER
00:59:14:00	00:59:17:00	HOMEBUYER EDUCATION DOWN
00:59:17:00	00:59:17:00	PAYMENT ASSISTANCE HOUSING
00:59:17:00	00:59:21:00	REHABILITATION RENTAL HOUSING
00:59:21:00	00:59:21:00	DEVELOPMENT, JOB TRAINING AND
00:59:21:00	00:59:22:00	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
00:59:22:00	00:59:25:00	THE HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
00:59:25:00	00:59:25:00	PROGRAM.
00:59:25:00	00:59:32:00	HOME ALLOCATION IS 4,943,764.
00:59:32:00	00:59:36:00	MASSACHUSETTS THE MAYOR'S
00:59:36:00	00:59:36:00	OFFICE OF HOUSING ADMINISTERS
00:59:36:00	00:59:39:00	ALL HOME FUNDS FOR ELIGIBLE
00:59:39:00	00:59:40:00	ACTIVITIES WHICH INCLUDE
00:59:40:00	00:59:43:00	HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND
00:59:43:00	00:59:43:00	REHABILITATION.
00:59:43:00	00:59:44:00	AND FUNDS WILL SUPPORT THE
00:59:44:00	00:59:47:00	PRODUCTION OF NEW AFFORDABLE
00:59:47:00	00:59:47:00	RENTAL AND HOMEOWNERSHIP
00:59:47:00	00:59:47:00	PROGRAMS.
00:59:47:00	00:59:51:00	THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
00:59:51:00	00:59:57:00	PERSONS WITH AIDS HOPE HOPE WA
00:59:57:00	00:59:58:00	IS 3,649,543 ELIGIBLE.
00:59:58:00	01:00:02:00	ITS MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
01:00:02:00	01:00:05:00	ADMINISTERS THIS FUND FOR ALL
01:00:05:00	01:00:05:00	OF NORFOLK, SUFFOLK AND
01:00:05:00	01:00:08:00	PLYMOUTH COUNTIES.
01:00:08:00	01:00:09:00	ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE THE
01:00:09:00	01:00:13:00	CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATE
01:00:13:00	01:00:13:00	OF HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH
01:00:13:00	01:00:13:00	AIDS.
01:00:13:00	01:00:17:00	TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
01:00:17:00	01:00:17:00	SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.
01:00:17:00	01:00:20:00	HOUSING INFORMATION SERVICES.
01:00:20:00	01:00:21:00	PERMANENT HOUSING PLACEMENT
01:00:21:00	01:00:21:00	SERVICES.
01:00:21:00	01:00:24:00	SHORT TERM RENT.
01:00:24:00	01:00:24:00	MORTGAGE AND UTILITY
01:00:24:00	01:00:24:00	ASSISTANCE.
01:00:24:00	01:00:27:00	AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
01:00:27:00	01:00:28:00	THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT.
01:00:28:00	01:00:35:00	ESG ALLOCATION IS 1,511,334.
01:00:35:00	01:00:35:00	THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF THE
01:00:35:00	01:00:38:00	HOUSING ADMINISTERS ALL
01:00:38:00	01:00:41:00	OF THESE ESG FUNDS WHICH MAY BE
01:00:41:00	01:00:41:00	USED FOR FIVE PROGRAM
01:00:41:00	01:00:42:00	COMPONENTS STREET OUTREACH
01:00:42:00	01:00:45:00	EMERGENCY SHELTER, HOMELESSNESS
01:00:45:00	01:00:46:00	PREVENTION, RAPID REHOUSING AND
01:00:46:00	01:00:50:00	THE HOMELESSNESS MANAGEMENT
01:00:50:00	01:00:50:00	INFORMATION SYSTEM.
01:00:50:00	01:00:53:00	THE GRANTS AND COMMITTEE ARE
01:00:53:00	01:00:53:00	THAT WERE DISCUSSED IN GENERAL
01:00:53:00	01:00:54:00	TERMS BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
01:00:54:00	01:00:56:00	OF HOUSING AT THE WAYS AND
01:00:56:00	01:01:00:00	MEANS FINANCIAL YEAR 26 BUDGET
01:01:00:00	01:01:02:00	HEARING ON THE EVENING OF MAY
01:01:02:00	01:01:03:00	3RD MAY 19, 2025.
01:01:03:00	01:01:06:00	ADDITIONALLY, AS CHAIR I
01:01:06:00	01:01:07:00	REQUESTED AND RECEIVED
01:01:07:00	01:01:07:00	SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FROM
01:01:07:00	01:01:10:00	THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
01:01:10:00	01:01:11:00	REGARDING THE GRANTS WHICH HAS
01:01:11:00	01:01:13:00	BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE
01:01:13:00	01:01:14:00	REPORT SUBMITTED.
01:01:14:00	01:01:14:00	GIVEN THAT FEDERAL GRANT
01:01:14:00	01:01:18:00	PROGRAMS ARE LEVEL FUNDED BY
01:01:18:00	01:01:18:00	CONGRESS AND IN LIGHT OF A
01:01:18:00	01:01:21:00	CONTINUING UNCERTAINTY
01:01:21:00	01:01:22:00	SURROUNDING FUTURE FEDERAL
01:01:22:00	01:01:22:00	SUPPORT FOR MUNICIPALITIES, I
01:01:22:00	01:01:26:00	BELIEVE THAT PROMPT
01:01:26:00	01:01:26:00	AUTHORIZATION OF THESE GRANTS
01:01:26:00	01:01:27:00	IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE
01:01:27:00	01:01:29:00	CITY.
01:01:29:00	01:01:30:00	AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON
01:01:30:00	01:01:30:00	HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
01:01:30:00	01:01:33:00	DEVELOPMENT I RECOMMENDED THAT
01:01:33:00	01:01:33:00	THESE MATTERS UP TO PASS.
01:01:33:00	01:01:34:00	THANK YOU.
01:01:34:00	01:01:37:00	THANK YOU.
01:01:37:00	01:01:37:00	COUNCIL BRAYDON WOULD ANYONE
01:01:37:00	01:01:39:00	LIKE TO SPEAK ON THESE DOCKETS?
01:01:39:00	01:01:43:00	OKAY.
01:01:43:00	01:01:43:00	THANK YOU.
01:01:43:00	01:01:44:00	THE CHAIR THE CHAIR OF THE
01:01:44:00	01:01:47:00	COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
01:01:47:00	01:01:47:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEEKS
01:01:47:00	01:01:47:00	ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
01:01:47:00	01:01:51:00	REPORT AND PASSENGER DOCKET
01:01:51:00	01:01:51:00	0888.
01:01:51:00	01:01:55:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
01:01:55:00	01:01:55:00	OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU.
01:01:55:00	01:01:56:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:01:56:00	01:01:58:00	ACCEPTED IN DOCKET NUMBER 0888
01:01:58:00	01:01:58:00	HAS PASSED THE CHAIR OF THE
01:01:58:00	01:02:01:00	COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
01:02:01:00	01:02:02:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IF
01:02:02:00	01:02:02:00	ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
01:02:02:00	01:02:03:00	REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
01:02:03:00	01:02:06:00	NUMBER 0889 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR
01:02:06:00	01:02:06:00	SAY I.
01:02:06:00	01:02:09:00	I ALL OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU.
01:02:09:00	01:02:10:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:02:10:00	01:02:13:00	ACCEPTED AND DOCKET NUMBER 0889
01:02:13:00	01:02:14:00	IS PASSED THE CHAIR THE
01:02:14:00	01:02:14:00	COMMITTEE ON HOUSING IN
01:02:14:00	01:02:16:00	COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENTS
01:02:16:00	01:02:17:00	INTERCEPTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE
01:02:17:00	01:02:20:00	REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
01:02:20:00	01:02:21:00	NUMBER 0885 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I
01:02:21:00	01:02:23:00	I OPPOSED SAY NAY.
01:02:23:00	01:02:24:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:24:00	01:02:24:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:02:24:00	01:02:26:00	ACCEPTED IN DOCKET NUMBER 0885
01:02:26:00	01:02:27:00	IS PASSED THE CHAIR THE
01:02:27:00	01:02:27:00	COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
01:02:27:00	01:02:30:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEEKS
01:02:30:00	01:02:30:00	ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
01:02:30:00	01:02:33:00	REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
01:02:33:00	01:02:34:00	NUMBER 0886 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I
01:02:34:00	01:02:37:00	I ALL OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU.
01:02:37:00	01:02:37:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:02:37:00	01:02:40:00	ACCEPTED IN DOCKET NUMBER 0886
01:02:40:00	01:02:40:00	IS PASSED.
01:02:40:00	01:02:42:00	MR QUOTE WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
01:02:42:00	01:02:46:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1187 OKAY OH
01:02:46:00	01:02:47:00	MR COLE, COULD YOU PLEASE AMEND
01:02:47:00	01:02:47:00	THE ATTENDANCE RECORD TO
01:02:47:00	01:02:48:00	REFLECT THAT COUNCILOR CLAUDIA
01:02:48:00	01:02:50:00	ZAPATA IS NOW PRESENT AND WITH
01:02:50:00	01:02:50:00	US.
01:02:50:00	01:02:50:00	I APOLOGIZE.
01:02:50:00	01:02:51:00	OKAY.
01:02:51:00	01:02:54:00	THANK YOU, MR CLERK, COULD YOU
01:02:54:00	01:02:56:00	PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 1187
01:02:56:00	01:02:56:00	?
01:02:56:00	01:03:02:00	YOU COULD JUST SAY I CAN NUMBER
01:03:02:00	01:03:03:00	1187 WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.
01:03:03:00	01:03:03:00	THANK YOU.
01:03:03:00	01:03:07:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1187 SHALL REMAIN
01:03:07:00	01:03:07:00	IN COMMITTEE.
01:03:07:00	01:03:11:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO MATTERS
01:03:11:00	01:03:11:00	RECENTLY HEARD MR CLERK WHEN
01:03:11:00	01:03:14:00	YOU PLEASE READ DOCKETS NUMBER
01:03:14:00	01:03:17:00	IS 0266 AND 0423 LUCKY NUMBER
01:03:17:00	01:03:20:00	02664 FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS
01:03:20:00	01:03:21:00	PEDESTRIAN SAFETY TRAFFIC
01:03:21:00	01:03:24:00	CALMING AND EXPANDING THE
01:03:24:00	01:03:24:00	SAFETY SURGE PROGRAM IN THE
01:03:24:00	01:03:28:00	CITY OF BOSTON AND NUMBER 0423
01:03:28:00	01:03:29:00	OR FOUR A HEARING TO REVIEW THE
01:03:29:00	01:03:33:00	EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEED HUMPS IN
01:03:33:00	01:03:33:00	BOSTON.
01:03:33:00	01:03:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:03:33:00	01:03:34:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:03:34:00	01:03:36:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN THE CHAIR
01:03:36:00	01:03:36:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC AND
01:03:36:00	01:03:40:00	THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON
01:03:40:00	01:03:40:00	PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND
01:03:40:00	01:03:41:00	TRANSPORTATION.
01:03:41:00	01:03:41:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, YOU HAVE THE
01:03:41:00	01:03:43:00	FLOOR.
01:03:43:00	01:03:44:00	THANK YOU, CHAIR.
01:03:44:00	01:03:47:00	ON MONDAY, JUNE 9TH I CHAIRED A
01:03:47:00	01:03:48:00	HEARING ON DOCKETS 0266 AND OH
01:03:48:00	01:03:48:00	TWO FORTH.
01:03:48:00	01:03:50:00	I'M SORRY 0423 DISCUSSING
01:03:50:00	01:03:51:00	PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, TRAFFIC
01:03:51:00	01:03:54:00	CALMING AND EXPANDING THE
01:03:54:00	01:03:55:00	SAFETY SURGE PROGRAM IN THE
01:03:55:00	01:03:55:00	CITY OF BOSTON AND REVIEWING
01:03:55:00	01:03:58:00	THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEED
01:03:58:00	01:03:58:00	HUMPS IN THE CITY RESPECTIVELY.
01:03:58:00	01:04:01:00	0266 WAS SPONSORED BY
01:04:01:00	01:04:02:00	COUNCILORS FLYNN FITZGERALD AND
01:04:02:00	01:04:02:00	SANTANA.
01:04:02:00	01:04:05:00	0423 WAS SPONSORED BY
01:04:05:00	01:04:06:00	COUNCILORS MURPHY FLYNN AND
01:04:06:00	01:04:09:00	PEPEN.
01:04:09:00	01:04:09:00	WE WERE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES
01:04:09:00	01:04:10:00	COUNCILORS FLYNN, MURPHY,
01:04:10:00	01:04:13:00	FITZGERALD PEPEN, BREADON
01:04:13:00	01:04:14:00	COUNCILOR CLUTTER SUPPORTER AND
01:04:14:00	01:04:17:00	COUNCILOR MARIA.
01:04:17:00	01:04:17:00	WE ALSO RECEIVED LETTERS
01:04:17:00	01:04:17:00	OF OPINIONS FROM
01:04:17:00	01:04:18:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT ROSIE
01:04:18:00	01:04:21:00	LOUIJEUNE AND COUNCILOR WEBER
01:04:21:00	01:04:23:00	WHO'S HAD A HAD SOMEONE
01:04:23:00	01:04:24:00	GRADUATING FROM A HIGH SCHOOL
01:04:24:00	01:04:24:00	THAT DAY.
01:04:24:00	01:04:28:00	SO HE ALSO FILED A SIMILAR
01:04:28:00	01:04:28:00	HEARING ORDER THAT WILL BE
01:04:28:00	01:04:31:00	HEARD LATER THIS YEAR TO
01:04:31:00	01:04:32:00	PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION AND
01:04:32:00	01:04:33:00	TESTIMONY WE WERE JOINED BY
01:04:33:00	01:04:35:00	CHIEF FRANKLIN HODGE, THE
01:04:35:00	01:04:36:00	STREET'S CABINET COMMISSIONER
01:04:36:00	01:04:39:00	ANNETTE GOVE FROM BTD.
01:04:39:00	01:04:39:00	JULIA CAMPBELL DUFF, DEPUTY
01:04:39:00	01:04:42:00	CHIEF OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND
01:04:42:00	01:04:42:00	DESIGN.
01:04:42:00	01:04:43:00	LYDIA HOUSLEY CAPITAL PROJECTS
01:04:43:00	01:04:46:00	DESIGN DIRECTOR FOR THE STREETS
01:04:46:00	01:04:47:00	CABINET AND A RECORDING
01:04:47:00	01:04:47:00	DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING.
01:04:47:00	01:04:50:00	THE PANEL PROVIDED A SHORT
01:04:50:00	01:04:50:00	PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTING
01:04:50:00	01:04:51:00	BOSTON'S VISION ZERO GOALS THE
01:04:51:00	01:04:54:00	SAFETY SEARCH PROGRAM REFORMS
01:04:54:00	01:04:55:00	AROUND SAFER SIGNALS AND
01:04:55:00	01:04:58:00	FURTHER DETAILED AROUND THE
01:04:58:00	01:04:58:00	SPEED HUB PROGRAM.
01:04:58:00	01:04:59:00	THE SAFETY OF OUR STREETS IS
01:04:59:00	01:05:02:00	PARAMOUNT OF PARAMOUNT
01:05:02:00	01:05:02:00	IMPORTANCE.
01:05:02:00	01:05:03:00	IT IS THE TOPIC OF EVERY SINGLE
01:05:03:00	01:05:05:00	RESIDENT.
01:05:05:00	01:05:06:00	AN ELECTED OFFICIAL HAS IT A
01:05:06:00	01:05:07:00	TOP OF MIND EVERY DAY AS WE
01:05:07:00	01:05:10:00	WALK OUT OF OUR HOMES.
01:05:10:00	01:05:10:00	THE FIRST HEARING ORDER IS
01:05:10:00	01:05:11:00	FOCUSED ON EXPANDING AND
01:05:11:00	01:05:13:00	REFINING THE CITY'S SAFETY
01:05:13:00	01:05:15:00	SURGE PROGRAM AN AMBITIOUS
01:05:15:00	01:05:16:00	INITIATIVE LAUNCH IN 2023 MEANT
01:05:16:00	01:05:17:00	TO REDUCE FATALITIES AND
01:05:17:00	01:05:20:00	SERIOUS INJURIES.
01:05:20:00	01:05:20:00	THE SECOND HEARING CALLED FOR A
01:05:20:00	01:05:21:00	DATA DRIVEN REVIEW OF SPEED
01:05:21:00	01:05:24:00	HUMPS ONE OF THE MOST VISIBLE
01:05:24:00	01:05:25:00	TOOLS IN OUR TRAFFIC CALMING
01:05:25:00	01:05:25:00	TOOLKIT.
01:05:25:00	01:05:28:00	THE PANEL'S TESTIMONY WAS FULL
01:05:28:00	01:05:28:00	OF FACTS, INFORMATION AND
01:05:28:00	01:05:29:00	GUIDANCE AROUND WHAT'S WORKING,
01:05:29:00	01:05:31:00	WHAT ISN'T AND WHERE WE CAN
01:05:31:00	01:05:32:00	MAKE FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS.
01:05:32:00	01:05:32:00	ONE OF MY FAVORITE
01:05:32:00	01:05:35:00	RECOMMENDATIONS FROM
01:05:35:00	01:05:36:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD WAS THAT
01:05:36:00	01:05:36:00	EVERY DISTRICT COUNCILOR BE
01:05:36:00	01:05:39:00	ABLE TO DECIDE WHERE SOME SPEED
01:05:39:00	01:05:39:00	HUMPS HAPPEN.
01:05:39:00	01:05:40:00	SO I'M SURE WE'LL WILL BE
01:05:40:00	01:05:43:00	FOLLOWING UP ON THAT AS WELL.
01:05:43:00	01:05:44:00	REFLECTING THE IMPORTANCE
01:05:44:00	01:05:45:00	OF THIS TOPIC TO OUR
01:05:45:00	01:05:47:00	CONSTITUENTS WITH A HOST
01:05:47:00	01:05:48:00	OF RESIDENTS WHO JOINED US, IT
01:05:48:00	01:05:51:00	WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I
01:05:51:00	01:05:52:00	LOOK FORWARD TO MORE
01:05:52:00	01:05:52:00	CONVERSATIONS AROUND THIS
01:05:52:00	01:05:52:00	TOPIC.
01:05:52:00	01:05:55:00	AS THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
01:05:55:00	01:05:56:00	ON PLANNING DEPARTMENT
01:05:56:00	01:05:59:00	OF TRANSPORTATION BASED ON THE
01:05:59:00	01:06:00:00	TESTIMONY WE PROVIDED MY
01:06:00:00	01:06:03:00	RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL
01:06:03:00	01:06:04:00	COUNCIL IS THAT THIS OUGHT TO
01:06:04:00	01:06:04:00	STAY IN COMMITTEE AND MAYBE
01:06:04:00	01:06:06:00	THEY HEARD ANOTHER TIME WITH
01:06:06:00	01:06:07:00	THE OTHER DOCKET THAT IS
01:06:07:00	01:06:08:00	RELEVANT TO THIS TOPIC.
01:06:08:00	01:06:11:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:06:11:00	01:06:11:00	THANK YOU.
01:06:11:00	01:06:13:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN DOCKETS NUMBER
01:06:13:00	01:06:14:00	80266 AND 0423 REMAINING
01:06:14:00	01:06:17:00	COMMITTEE AND CONGRATULATIONS
01:06:17:00	01:06:18:00	TO COUNCILOR BARBARA SON WHO IS
01:06:18:00	01:06:21:00	GRADUATING FROM FOSTER AT
01:06:21:00	01:06:22:00	BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY.
01:06:22:00	01:06:24:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ
01:06:24:00	01:06:28:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0124 AND 0727
01:06:28:00	01:06:31:00	TALKING NUMBERS 0124 MESSAGE IN
01:06:31:00	01:06:31:00	ORDER FOR THE CONFIRMATION
01:06:31:00	01:06:35:00	OF THE APPEAL APPOINTMENT OF J
01:06:35:00	01:06:36:00	ANDREW IS PRONOUNCED AS AN
01:06:36:00	01:06:36:00	ALTERNATIVE MEMBER OF THE
01:06:36:00	01:06:39:00	ZONING BOARD OF APPEAL FOR A
01:06:39:00	01:06:44:00	TERM EXPIRING JULY 1ST, 2027 IN
01:06:44:00	01:06:44:00	NUMBER 0727.
01:06:44:00	01:06:45:00	MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR THE
01:06:45:00	01:06:48:00	CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT
01:06:48:00	01:06:48:00	OF LISA THARP AS A PRIMARY
01:06:48:00	01:06:51:00	MEMBER OF THE BACKPAY
01:06:51:00	01:06:52:00	ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT
01:06:52:00	01:06:55:00	COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIRING
01:06:55:00	01:06:55:00	DECEMBER 31ST, 2028.
01:06:55:00	01:06:56:00	THANK YOU.
01:06:56:00	01:06:58:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:06:58:00	01:06:59:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, THE CHAIR
01:06:59:00	01:07:00:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
01:07:00:00	01:07:02:00	DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION
01:07:02:00	01:07:02:00	.
01:07:02:00	01:07:02:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:07:02:00	01:07:05:00	THANK YOU.
01:07:05:00	01:07:06:00	THANK YOU, CHAIR.
01:07:06:00	01:07:06:00	YESTERDAY I PRESIDED OVER
01:07:06:00	01:07:10:00	NOMINATIONS HEARING WITH TWO
01:07:10:00	01:07:11:00	DOCKETS.
01:07:11:00	01:07:14:00	ANDREWS FOR NOW, WHO IS BEING
01:07:14:00	01:07:14:00	APPOINTED TO BE AN ALTERNATE
01:07:14:00	01:07:15:00	MEMBER OF THE ZONING BOARD
01:07:15:00	01:07:18:00	OF APPEAL.
01:07:18:00	01:07:19:00	AND LISA THARP FOR THE ROLE AS
01:07:19:00	01:07:19:00	PRIMARY MEMBER OF THE BARCLAY
01:07:19:00	01:07:22:00	ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION.
01:07:22:00	01:07:23:00	BOTH ARE HIGHLY, HIGHLY
01:07:23:00	01:07:23:00	QUALIFIED.
01:07:23:00	01:07:26:00	I WAS JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES
01:07:26:00	01:07:26:00	COUNCILORS GLEN FITZGERALD,
01:07:26:00	01:07:27:00	CLAUDIA ZAPATA BREEDON AND
01:07:27:00	01:07:29:00	COUNCILOR ROSIE LOUIJEUNE
01:07:29:00	01:07:30:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LUCY
01:07:30:00	01:07:33:00	LOUIJEUNE AS DISTRICT CITY
01:07:33:00	01:07:33:00	COUNCILOR.
01:07:33:00	01:07:34:00	I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT FOUR OUT
01:07:34:00	01:07:35:00	OF THE TEN HISTORICAL
01:07:35:00	01:07:37:00	ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICTS AND SO
01:07:37:00	01:07:38:00	IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO OVERSEE
01:07:38:00	01:07:41:00	MS. THARP'S NOMINATION AS SHE
01:07:41:00	01:07:41:00	WILL BE TASKED WITH
01:07:41:00	01:07:44:00	SAFEGUARDING THE ARCHITECTURAL
01:07:44:00	01:07:45:00	HERITAGE OF ONE OF THE CITIES
01:07:45:00	01:07:46:00	AND DISTRICT EIGHT MOST ICONIC
01:07:46:00	01:07:49:00	NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:07:49:00	01:07:49:00	MS..
01:07:49:00	01:07:50:00	THARP IS A IMPECCABLE DESIGNER
01:07:50:00	01:07:52:00	AND SHE'S DEEPLY COMMITTED.
01:07:52:00	01:07:53:00	MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE
01:07:53:00	01:07:56:00	MOVE HER FORWARD AND THAT TO
01:07:56:00	01:07:59:00	THE FULL COUNCIL THAT SHE BE
01:07:59:00	01:07:59:00	CONFIRMED.
01:07:59:00	01:08:02:00	SIMILARLY WITH ANDRE SPURR NOW
01:08:02:00	01:08:03:00	AS I MENTIONED YESTERDAY THE
01:08:03:00	01:08:06:00	ZBA IS ONE OF THE MOST
01:08:06:00	01:08:07:00	CONSEQUENTIAL NOMINATED BODIES
01:08:07:00	01:08:07:00	IN BOSTON.
01:08:07:00	01:08:10:00	AS SUCH I WAS HEARTENED BY THE
01:08:10:00	01:08:11:00	VIGOR AND VIGOROUS DISCUSSION
01:08:11:00	01:08:14:00	WE HAD WITHIN REVIEWING
01:08:14:00	01:08:15:00	MR BRUNO'S QUALIFICATIONS AND
01:08:15:00	01:08:15:00	MOTIVATION TO SERVE ON THE
01:08:15:00	01:08:18:00	BOARD AND HELP GUIDE BOSTON
01:08:18:00	01:08:19:00	TOWARDS A MORE ABUNDANT FUTURE.
01:08:19:00	01:08:22:00	HOPEFULLY.
01:08:22:00	01:08:23:00	I WANT TO REITERATE WHY
01:08:23:00	01:08:24:00	NOMINATIONS FOR THE ZBA ARE
01:08:24:00	01:08:26:00	IMPORTANT.
01:08:26:00	01:08:26:00	PLANNING DEPARTMENT ANALYSIS
01:08:26:00	01:08:29:00	OF 2023 HIGHLIGHTED HOW BOSTON
01:08:29:00	01:08:30:00	BY EVERY FORM AND COMPARISON
01:08:30:00	01:08:34:00	OF CITIES OF CONSIDERABLE SIZE
01:08:34:00	01:08:34:00	HAVE HAD SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER
01:08:34:00	01:08:38:00	AND MORE CONVOLUTED ZONING
01:08:38:00	01:08:38:00	CODE AND OUR CODE IS 40% LONGER
01:08:38:00	01:08:42:00	THAN NYC IS WHICH IS 13 TIMES
01:08:42:00	01:08:42:00	OUR POPULATION AND SIX TIMES
01:08:42:00	01:08:45:00	OUR LAND AREA.
01:08:45:00	01:08:46:00	SO I THOUGHT THAT WE NEEDED AND
01:08:46:00	01:08:49:00	WE SHOULD FOREVER BE A MEMBER
01:08:49:00	01:08:50:00	HAD A RIGOROUS DISCUSSION.
01:08:50:00	01:08:51:00	WAS GLAD THAT WE HAD THAT
01:08:51:00	01:08:52:00	YESTERDAY.
01:08:52:00	01:08:53:00	THROUGHOUT THE HEARING
01:08:53:00	01:08:53:00	MR BRUNELLE ANSWERED OUR
01:08:53:00	01:08:56:00	QUESTIONS AND HAD WITH
01:08:56:00	01:08:57:00	THOUGHTFULNESS AND POISE.
01:08:57:00	01:08:57:00	SO MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE
01:08:57:00	01:09:00:00	FULL COUNCIL IS THAT HIS
01:09:00:00	01:09:01:00	APPOINTMENT OUGHT TO BE
01:09:01:00	01:09:01:00	CONFIRMED.
01:09:01:00	01:09:01:00	THANK YOU.
01:09:01:00	01:09:04:00	THANK YOU.
01:09:04:00	01:09:05:00	AND YOU BE SEPARATELY SPEAKING
01:09:05:00	01:09:08:00	ON LISA THARP.
01:09:08:00	01:09:08:00	OKAY.
01:09:08:00	01:09:09:00	OKAY.
01:09:09:00	01:09:09:00	OKAY.
01:09:09:00	01:09:09:00	YOU HAVE YOU COVERED BOTH?
01:09:09:00	01:09:12:00	OKAY, GREAT.
01:09:12:00	01:09:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:09:12:00	01:09:13:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN COMFORTABLY.
01:09:13:00	01:09:15:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:09:15:00	01:09:15:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:09:15:00	01:09:18:00	AND I WAS AT THE MEETING AND
01:09:18:00	01:09:21:00	SPOKE AND ASKED QUESTIONS ON
01:09:21:00	01:09:24:00	DOCKET 0124 ON DOCKET 0727 BOTH
01:09:24:00	01:09:28:00	ARE EXCEPTIONAL AND WILL
01:09:28:00	01:09:28:00	PROVIDE EXCEPT EXCEPTIONAL
01:09:28:00	01:09:32:00	LEADERSHIP BOTH TO THE ZONING
01:09:32:00	01:09:33:00	BOARD AND TO THE BACK BAY
01:09:33:00	01:09:35:00	ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT
01:09:35:00	01:09:35:00	COMMISSION.
01:09:35:00	01:09:36:00	AND LET ME JUST HIGHLIGHT LISA
01:09:36:00	01:09:39:00	THARP.
01:09:39:00	01:09:40:00	I LISTENED CLOSELY TO HER AND
01:09:40:00	01:09:43:00	AND AND IN HER OPENING COMMENTS
01:09:43:00	01:09:46:00	SHE TALKED ABOUT THAT SHE
01:09:46:00	01:09:46:00	WANTED TO FOCUS ON
01:09:46:00	01:09:50:00	ACCESSIBILITY IN THE BACK BAY
01:09:50:00	01:09:50:00	AND I WAS REALLY EXCITED TO
01:09:50:00	01:09:51:00	HEAR THAT NIGHT OF WONDERFUL
01:09:51:00	01:09:54:00	CONVERSATION WITH HER ABOUT HOW
01:09:54:00	01:09:55:00	WE CAN ENSURE THAT ALL
01:09:55:00	01:09:58:00	NEIGHBORHOODS BUT CERTAINLY THE
01:09:58:00	01:09:59:00	BACK BAY IS ACCESSIBLE TO
01:09:59:00	01:10:02:00	PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
01:10:02:00	01:10:03:00	I KNOW SHE'S GOING TO BE A
01:10:03:00	01:10:06:00	TREMENDOUS ASSET FOR PERSONS
01:10:06:00	01:10:06:00	WITH DISABILITIES IN THE IN THE
01:10:06:00	01:10:10:00	BACK BAY AREA.
01:10:10:00	01:10:10:00	I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT PART
01:10:10:00	01:10:14:00	OF THE BACK BAY PART OF PART
01:10:14:00	01:10:14:00	OF BEACON HILL SO I LOOK
01:10:14:00	01:10:17:00	FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THEM IN
01:10:17:00	01:10:18:00	VOTING IN FAVOR OF BOTH
01:10:18:00	01:10:18:00	OF THESE TARGETS.
01:10:18:00	01:10:19:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:10:19:00	01:10:21:00	THANK YOU.
01:10:21:00	01:10:21:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
01:10:21:00	01:10:22:00	ON THESE MATTERS?
01:10:22:00	01:10:24:00	OKAY.
01:10:24:00	01:10:25:00	THE CHAIR, THE COMMITTEE ON
01:10:25:00	01:10:28:00	PLANNING AND PLANNING
01:10:28:00	01:10:29:00	DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION SEE
01:10:29:00	01:10:29:00	THIS HAPPENING TO THE COMMITTEE
01:10:29:00	01:10:30:00	REPORT AND PASSENGER DOCKET
01:10:30:00	01:10:32:00	NUMBER 0124 ALL IN FAVOR.
01:10:32:00	01:10:33:00	SAY I I OPPOSING IT.
01:10:33:00	01:10:35:00	THANK YOU.
01:10:35:00	01:10:36:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:10:36:00	01:10:38:00	ACCEPTED IN DOCKET NUMBER 0124
01:10:38:00	01:10:38:00	IS PASSED.
01:10:38:00	01:10:39:00	THE APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN
01:10:39:00	01:10:39:00	CONFIRMED.
01:10:39:00	01:10:40:00	THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON
01:10:40:00	01:10:42:00	PLANNING DEVELOPMENT
01:10:42:00	01:10:42:00	INTERPRETATIONS THE SENTENCE
01:10:42:00	01:10:43:00	OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND
01:10:43:00	01:10:45:00	PASSENGER DOCKET NUMBER 0727
01:10:45:00	01:10:48:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
01:10:48:00	01:10:49:00	SAY NAY.
01:10:49:00	01:10:49:00	THANK YOU.
01:10:49:00	01:10:50:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
01:10:50:00	01:10:51:00	ACCEPTED IN DOCKET NUMBER 0727
01:10:51:00	01:10:52:00	IS PASSED.
01:10:52:00	01:10:52:00	THE APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN
01:10:52:00	01:10:52:00	CONFIRMED.
01:10:52:00	01:10:55:00	MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
01:10:55:00	01:10:58:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0176 DUCK NUMBER
01:10:58:00	01:11:01:00	10176 ORDER FOR A HEARING ON
01:11:01:00	01:11:02:00	GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY,
01:11:02:00	01:11:06:00	TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESSIBILITY
01:11:06:00	01:11:07:00	OF DECISION MAKING PROTOCOLS IN
01:11:07:00	01:11:10:00	CITY GOVERNMENT.
01:11:10:00	01:11:10:00	THANK YOU.
01:11:10:00	01:11:11:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR
01:11:11:00	01:11:12:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON POST AUDIT
01:11:12:00	01:11:12:00	GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
01:11:12:00	01:11:14:00	TRANSPARENCY IN ACCESSIBILITY
01:11:14:00	01:11:15:00	COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE
01:11:15:00	01:11:15:00	FLOOR.
01:11:15:00	01:11:17:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:11:17:00	01:11:18:00	I JUST WANT TO THANK MY
01:11:18:00	01:11:18:00	COLLEAGUES.
01:11:18:00	01:11:22:00	COUNCILOR, MY CO-SPONSORS FIRST
01:11:22:00	01:11:24:00	OF ALL COUNCILOR ANDERSON AND
01:11:24:00	01:11:25:00	COUNCILOR ZERO FOR SPONSORING
01:11:25:00	01:11:28:00	THE HEARING THAT WE HELD LAST
01:11:28:00	01:11:28:00	NIGHT.
01:11:28:00	01:11:29:00	AND I WANT TO THANK BOTH
01:11:29:00	01:11:32:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY,
01:11:32:00	01:11:33:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL FOR
01:11:33:00	01:11:33:00	BEING IN COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:11:33:00	01:11:37:00	LOUIJEUNE FOR SHOWING UP AND
01:11:37:00	01:11:40:00	BEING THERE WITH US AND IT WAS
01:11:40:00	01:11:41:00	A IT WAS A MUCH NEEDED
01:11:41:00	01:11:44:00	CONVERSATION FOR THOSE WHO KNOW
01:11:44:00	01:11:47:00	IN 2022 OUR OFFICE HOSTED A
01:11:47:00	01:11:48:00	TOWN HALL IN REGARDS TO THE
01:11:48:00	01:11:51:00	ISSUE OF THE REDESIGN AND BLUE
01:11:51:00	01:11:54:00	LAB AND WE GAVE THE
01:11:54:00	01:11:55:00	ADMINISTRATION A LOT
01:11:55:00	01:11:55:00	OF FEEDBACK ON WHAT COMMUNITY
01:11:55:00	01:11:59:00	ENGAGEMENT COULD LOOK LIKE TO
01:11:59:00	01:11:59:00	ENSURE THAT THE VOICES OF THE
01:11:59:00	01:12:03:00	PEOPLE WERE BEING HEARD.
01:12:03:00	01:12:03:00	WHAT WE'VE LEARNED SINCE THEN
01:12:03:00	01:12:07:00	IS THAT SOME FOLKS STILL FEEL
01:12:07:00	01:12:08:00	LIKE WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB
01:12:08:00	01:12:10:00	AT DOING JUST THAT SO THE
01:12:10:00	01:12:11:00	HEARING PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY
01:12:11:00	01:12:14:00	TO GET A LOT OF FOLKS ON THE
01:12:14:00	01:12:15:00	RECORD ON SOME OF THE THINGS
01:12:15:00	01:12:18:00	THAT THEY HAVE FELT NEGLECTED
01:12:18:00	01:12:21:00	TO BE HEARD ON AND SO I'M
01:12:21:00	01:12:22:00	LOOKING FORWARD TO KEEPING THIS
01:12:22:00	01:12:26:00	IN COMMITTEE AND HOSTING A
01:12:26:00	01:12:27:00	SECOND HEARING JUST FOR PUBLIC
01:12:27:00	01:12:30:00	TESTIMONY AND DOING SO
01:12:30:00	01:12:31:00	VIRTUALLY SO THAT WE CAN GIVE
01:12:31:00	01:12:33:00	MORE PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
01:12:33:00	01:12:34:00	VOICE THEIR THEIR CONCERNS AND
01:12:34:00	01:12:37:00	KEEP THE DIALOG GOING AS IT
01:12:37:00	01:12:41:00	FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THERE
01:12:41:00	01:12:41:00	ARE A LOT OF BUSINESSES
01:12:41:00	01:12:45:00	ABUTTERS YOU KNOW, CHURCHGOERS
01:12:45:00	01:12:45:00	WHO ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT
01:12:45:00	01:12:49:00	THE WAY THAT THE PROCESS HAS
01:12:49:00	01:12:49:00	BEEN GOING AND I WANT TO MAKE
01:12:49:00	01:12:50:00	SURE THAT WE'RE DOING
01:12:50:00	01:12:53:00	EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO
01:12:53:00	01:12:54:00	CREATE SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO BE
01:12:54:00	01:12:56:00	HEARD.
01:12:56:00	01:12:57:00	SO I PLAN ON DOING JUST ONE
01:12:57:00	01:13:00:00	LISTENING SESSION FOR PUBLIC
01:13:00:00	01:13:00:00	TESTIMONY AND DOING SOME
01:13:00:00	01:13:04:00	VIRTUALLY BECAUSE MORE FOLKS
01:13:04:00	01:13:04:00	NEED TO BE HEARD.
01:13:04:00	01:13:08:00	THANK YOU.
01:13:08:00	01:13:08:00	THANK YOU.
01:13:08:00	01:13:09:00	THE CHAIR ORGANIZERS
01:13:09:00	01:13:10:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
01:13:10:00	01:13:11:00	FLOOR.
01:13:11:00	01:13:12:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:13:12:00	01:13:13:00	AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
01:13:13:00	01:13:13:00	COUNCILOR.
01:13:13:00	01:13:15:00	I'M HERE THE CHAIR OF THE
01:13:15:00	01:13:15:00	COMMITTEE THE CHAIR OF THE
01:13:15:00	01:13:18:00	MEETING FOR A VERY GOOD JOB
01:13:18:00	01:13:22:00	LAST NIGHT HER PROFESSIONALISM
01:13:22:00	01:13:26:00	LAST NIGHT IN ORGANIZED AND
01:13:26:00	01:13:26:00	MANAGING THIS HEARING WAS AN
01:13:26:00	01:13:30:00	IMPORTANT HEARING A THE
01:13:30:00	01:13:33:00	OPPORTUNITY TO STAY FOR THE
01:13:33:00	01:13:34:00	ENTIRE LISTENING PART PUBLIC
01:13:34:00	01:13:34:00	TESTIMONY.
01:13:34:00	01:13:37:00	THAT'S WHAT I REALLY CAME TO
01:13:37:00	01:13:41:00	HEAR LISTENING TO RESIDENTS
01:13:41:00	01:13:42:00	IT'S OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT MY
01:13:42:00	01:13:42:00	DISTRICT BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
01:13:42:00	01:13:45:00	ME TO BE INFORMED AND I HAD A
01:13:45:00	01:13:46:00	GOOD IDEA FROM RESIDENTS ON
01:13:46:00	01:13:49:00	EXACTLY WHAT THE CHALLENGES ARE
01:13:49:00	01:13:53:00	WITH THE WITH THE PROJECT.
01:13:53:00	01:13:54:00	I WON'T GET INTO THE SPECIFICS
01:13:54:00	01:13:54:00	AGAIN, IT'S NOT MY DISTRICT AND
01:13:54:00	01:13:57:00	I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE
01:13:57:00	01:13:58:00	FOR ME TO WEIGH IN ALL THAT
01:13:58:00	01:13:58:00	MUCH.
01:13:58:00	01:14:01:00	BUT I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
01:14:01:00	01:14:02:00	COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY
01:14:02:00	01:14:05:00	FOR BEING THERE IN IN OTHER
01:14:05:00	01:14:05:00	DISTRICT COUNCILORS FOR BEING
01:14:05:00	01:14:09:00	THERE AND LISTENING TO ALL
01:14:09:00	01:14:12:00	OF THE CONCERNS OF CONCERNED
01:14:12:00	01:14:13:00	RESIDENTS LAST NIGHT IT WAS
01:14:13:00	01:14:14:00	IMPORTANT TO HEAR FROM THEM
01:14:14:00	01:14:14:00	DIRECTLY.
01:14:14:00	01:14:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:14:17:00	01:14:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:14:17:00	01:14:17:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:14:17:00	01:14:18:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
01:14:18:00	01:14:21:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:14:21:00	01:14:21:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA.
01:14:21:00	01:14:24:00	I KNOW I SAID IT LAST NIGHT BUT
01:14:24:00	01:14:25:00	EVER SINCE YOU'VE BEEN ON THIS
01:14:25:00	01:14:28:00	COUNCIL YOU'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO
01:14:28:00	01:14:29:00	MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY'S
01:14:29:00	01:14:32:00	VOICE FEELS THAT THEY'RE HEARD
01:14:32:00	01:14:32:00	.
01:14:32:00	01:14:33:00	AND SO THANK YOU FOR GIVING THE
01:14:33:00	01:14:35:00	COMMUNITY A PLATFORM.
01:14:35:00	01:14:36:00	IT WAS A MUCH NEEDED
01:14:36:00	01:14:39:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO SHARE
01:14:39:00	01:14:40:00	THEIR CONCERNS.
01:14:40:00	01:14:40:00	MANY OF THEM WERE CONCERNS AND
01:14:40:00	01:14:43:00	FEELING AS THOUGH THEY HAVE NOT
01:14:43:00	01:14:44:00	BEEN LISTENED TO AND THAT
01:14:44:00	01:14:45:00	THINGS ARE GOING TO MOVE
01:14:45:00	01:14:47:00	FORWARD WITHOUT THEM BEING ABLE
01:14:47:00	01:14:48:00	TO HAVE A SAY GOING FORWARD.
01:14:48:00	01:14:51:00	I DID JUST WANT TO STAND TO
01:14:51:00	01:14:55:00	THANK OUR CENTRAL STAFF RON,
01:14:55:00	01:14:55:00	ETHAN AND CANDICE WHO WERE
01:14:55:00	01:14:59:00	THERE LAST NIGHT WHO WHEN WE
01:14:59:00	01:15:02:00	STEP OUTSIDE OF THIS CHAMBER
01:15:02:00	01:15:02:00	AND WE STEP OUTSIDE OF CITY
01:15:02:00	01:15:05:00	HALL, WE DO OPEN OURSELVES UP
01:15:05:00	01:15:06:00	TO HAVE A HARDER TIME TO MANAGE
01:15:06:00	01:15:10:00	WHAT WE HAVE THE YOU KNOW, THE
01:15:10:00	01:15:10:00	BACKUP AND SUPPORTS WE HAVE
01:15:10:00	01:15:11:00	HERE IN CITY HALL.
01:15:11:00	01:15:14:00	SO THANK YOU FOR BEING SO
01:15:14:00	01:15:14:00	PROFESSIONAL FOR BEING YOU
01:15:14:00	01:15:18:00	KNOW, I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH SO I
01:15:18:00	01:15:18:00	WANT TO APOLOGIZE IF ANY
01:15:18:00	01:15:21:00	OF THEM FELT AS THOUGH THIS PUT
01:15:21:00	01:15:22:00	THEM IN A POSITION WHERE THEY
01:15:22:00	01:15:25:00	DID NOT FEEL SAFE OR DID NOT
01:15:25:00	01:15:25:00	FEEL AS THOUGH THEY WERE BEING
01:15:25:00	01:15:26:00	TREATED WELL.
01:15:26:00	01:15:27:00	SO I DID JUST WANT TO PUT THAT
01:15:27:00	01:15:29:00	OUT THERE.
01:15:29:00	01:15:30:00	BUT IN NO WAY DO I THINK GOING
01:15:30:00	01:15:33:00	FORWARD WE SHOULD STOP HAVING
01:15:33:00	01:15:33:00	COMMUNITY MEETINGS OUT IN THE
01:15:33:00	01:15:33:00	COMMUNITY.
01:15:33:00	01:15:37:00	WE JUST NEED TO THINK THROUGH
01:15:37:00	01:15:37:00	IF NEEDED IF WE HAVE ANY BACKUP
01:15:37:00	01:15:38:00	PLANS THAT WOULD HELP SUPPORT
01:15:38:00	01:15:38:00	THAT.
01:15:38:00	01:15:41:00	SO THANK YOU.
01:15:41:00	01:15:42:00	THANK YOU AND I AND I ALSO WANT
01:15:42:00	01:15:42:00	TO ECHO BIG THANKS FOR CENTRAL
01:15:42:00	01:15:42:00	STAFF.
01:15:42:00	01:15:45:00	I WAS THERE EARLY AS THEY WERE
01:15:45:00	01:15:45:00	SETTING UP AND THEY WERE DOING
01:15:45:00	01:15:48:00	INCREDIBLE WORK AND THEY ARE
01:15:48:00	01:15:49:00	CENTERING I WANT TO THANK
01:15:49:00	01:15:51:00	MEREDITH TO IT AND THE AND THE
01:15:51:00	01:15:52:00	AMERICAN LEGION FOR FOR FOR
01:15:52:00	01:15:55:00	BEING THERE FOR LETTING US
01:15:55:00	01:15:56:00	HOUSE THE MEETING THERE.
01:15:56:00	01:15:57:00	BUT I ALSO WANT TO ECHO RON AND
01:15:57:00	01:15:59:00	CANDACE.
01:15:59:00	01:16:00:00	Y'ALL ARE AMAZING AND I AND
01:16:00:00	01:16:00:00	MICHELLE AND EVERYONE WHO WAS
01:16:00:00	01:16:03:00	INVOLVED IN MAKING SURE THAT
01:16:03:00	01:16:06:00	EVERYONE WAS GOOD AND YOU KNOW,
01:16:06:00	01:16:07:00	I ALWAYS WANT TO REMIND
01:16:07:00	01:16:10:00	EVERYONE THAT PUBLIC SERVICE,
01:16:10:00	01:16:11:00	YOU KNOW, WE'RE ELECTED AND THE
01:16:11:00	01:16:12:00	PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT US WARRANT
01:16:12:00	01:16:12:00	IT BUT STILL OFTEN HAVE TO
01:16:12:00	01:16:15:00	INTERFACE WITH THE PUBLIC.
01:16:15:00	01:16:15:00	AND SO I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT
01:16:15:00	01:16:16:00	CENTRAL STAFF AND WANT TO
01:16:16:00	01:16:18:00	UPLIFT MEREDITH MEREDITH TO IT
01:16:18:00	01:16:19:00	AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN MAKING
01:16:19:00	01:16:23:00	SURE THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS
01:16:23:00	01:16:24:00	EVENT IN THE COMMUNITY AGAIN,
01:16:24:00	01:16:24:00	IT TAKES A LOT OF RESOURCES IN
01:16:24:00	01:16:25:00	OUR END FOR PEOPLE TO GO OUT
01:16:25:00	01:16:27:00	AND BE IN COMMUNITY AND THEY
01:16:27:00	01:16:27:00	GET THERE EARLY AND THEY'RE SET
01:16:27:00	01:16:27:00	UP.
01:16:27:00	01:16:28:00	SO THANK YOU TO RON, TO
01:16:28:00	01:16:33:00	CANDACE, TO ETHAN AND TO ALL
01:16:33:00	01:16:33:00	OF THE MEMBERS OF CENTRAL STAFF
01:16:33:00	01:16:34:00	WHO WERE THERE THE TRACK AND I
01:16:34:00	01:16:34:00	JUST KINDS OF AN ENGINEER WHEN
01:16:34:00	01:16:37:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:16:37:00	01:16:37:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:16:37:00	01:16:40:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, FOR
01:16:40:00	01:16:41:00	HOSTING THE HEARING IN THE
01:16:41:00	01:16:44:00	COMMUNITY.
01:16:44:00	01:16:44:00	I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FILE FOR
01:16:44:00	01:16:45:00	A WHILE AND THEN I, YOU KNOW,
01:16:45:00	01:16:48:00	ASKED IF YOU COULD TAKE IT ON
01:16:48:00	01:16:48:00	BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN LEADING IN
01:16:48:00	01:16:51:00	THIS ON THIS ISSUE FOR A WHILE
01:16:51:00	01:16:52:00	AND I APPRECIATE YOU YOU KNOW
01:16:52:00	01:16:55:00	THAT HALF OF THAT PROJECT IS IN
01:16:55:00	01:16:55:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:16:55:00	01:16:58:00	I SHARE IT WITH
01:16:58:00	01:16:59:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL AND I GUESS A
01:16:59:00	01:17:00:00	BIT WITH COUNCILOR PIPPEN.
01:17:00:00	01:17:03:00	MY CORRECT A BIG CHUNK OF IT
01:17:03:00	01:17:07:00	AND SO THE ISSUE I THINK ALL
01:17:07:00	01:17:11:00	STARTED AND I KNOW AND I LIKE
01:17:11:00	01:17:12:00	TO PUT IT IN CONTEXT BECAUSE I
01:17:12:00	01:17:14:00	THINK I'M JUST HERE TO SPEAK
01:17:14:00	01:17:19:00	WITH TO MY CONSTITUENTS ON THIS
01:17:19:00	01:17:19:00	THE ISSUE HERE THAT IS ALL
01:17:19:00	01:17:20:00	STARTED WITH THIS OUR BLUE
01:17:20:00	01:17:22:00	HILL, OUR MASTER PLAN AND IT
01:17:22:00	01:17:25:00	DIDN'T START WITH THE
01:17:25:00	01:17:26:00	CONGRESSIONAL FUNDS.
01:17:26:00	01:17:29:00	IT STARTED BEFORE US.
01:17:29:00	01:17:29:00	AND SO THE CONTINUATION OF THE
01:17:29:00	01:17:33:00	ONGOING SEVERAL YEARS
01:17:33:00	01:17:36:00	OF PLANNING FOR THIS PROJECT
01:17:36:00	01:17:40:00	HAS I THINK HAS LEFT US SORT
01:17:40:00	01:17:40:00	OF RESIDUAL FEELING IN THE
01:17:40:00	01:17:41:00	COMMUNITY THAT THE COMMUNITY
01:17:41:00	01:17:44:00	ENGAGEMENT HAS NOT BEEN
01:17:44:00	01:17:45:00	TRANSPARENT OR HAS BEEN
01:17:45:00	01:17:48:00	INCLUSIVE ENOUGH AND SO THE
01:17:48:00	01:17:48:00	COMMUNITY HAS BEEN ASKING AND
01:17:48:00	01:17:52:00	PROTESTING AND THEN
01:17:52:00	01:17:52:00	CREATED SORT OF, YOU KNOW, A
01:17:52:00	01:17:53:00	CHANGE.ORG KIND OF YOU KNOW,
01:17:53:00	01:17:55:00	FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERMS KIND
01:17:55:00	01:17:56:00	OF SITE OR MOVEMENT WHERE
01:17:56:00	01:18:00:00	THERE'S BEEN OVER A THOUSAND
01:18:00:00	01:18:00:00	SIGNATURES OPPOSING THIS
01:18:00:00	01:18:04:00	PROJECT ROLL CALL US INTO THE
01:18:04:00	01:18:04:00	EAGLE ROOM AND SHE HAD SHE
01:18:04:00	01:18:05:00	DEBRIEFED US ON THE PROJECT
01:18:05:00	01:18:07:00	WHERE STATE REPRESENTATIVES
01:18:07:00	01:18:11:00	WERE THERE THERE I REMEMBER
01:18:11:00	01:18:14:00	RUSSELL HOMES AND I THINK SO
01:18:14:00	01:18:18:00	REP HOMES AND REP FLUKER AND
01:18:18:00	01:18:19:00	MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE WERE ALL
01:18:19:00	01:18:22:00	THERE AND IN THAT MEETING
01:18:22:00	01:18:23:00	SPECIFICALLY ONLY MYSELF AND
01:18:23:00	01:18:26:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL AND WRAP
01:18:26:00	01:18:27:00	AROUND VOICED I'M SURE PEOPLE
01:18:27:00	01:18:29:00	OTHER PEOPLE HAD QUESTIONS BUT
01:18:29:00	01:18:30:00	ONLY THE THREE OF US VOICED
01:18:30:00	01:18:33:00	THAT CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROJECT
01:18:33:00	01:18:33:00	SPECIFICALLY SAYING WE CANNOT
01:18:33:00	01:18:37:00	GO TO YOUR PRESS CONFERENCE, WE
01:18:37:00	01:18:37:00	CANNOT SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE THE
01:18:37:00	01:18:38:00	COMMUNITY HAS BEEN EXPRESSING
01:18:38:00	01:18:41:00	THAT THEY ARE OPPOSING IT.
01:18:41:00	01:18:44:00	WE WERE TOLD THEN THEN THAT IT
01:18:44:00	01:18:44:00	WAS OPTIONAL.
01:18:44:00	01:18:45:00	IT WAS NOT REQUIRED OR
01:18:45:00	01:18:48:00	MANDATORY IN ORDER TO MAKE THE
01:18:48:00	01:18:51:00	MIDDLE LANE IN ORDER TO EXPEND
01:18:51:00	01:18:51:00	THESE $50 MILLION FUNDS
01:18:51:00	01:18:55:00	CONGRESSIONAL FUNDS THAT AS
01:18:55:00	01:18:55:00	LONG AS IT PRIORITIZED TRANSIT
01:18:55:00	01:18:58:00	OR IMPROVE TRANSIT OR THE BUS
01:18:58:00	01:18:59:00	LANES THAT IT WOULD BE THAT'S
01:18:59:00	01:19:01:00	THAT WAS ONE OF THE
01:19:01:00	01:19:02:00	REQUIREMENTS AND WE COULD DO A
01:19:02:00	01:19:02:00	SIDE LANE.
01:19:02:00	01:19:05:00	YESTERDAY WE HEARD FROM THE
01:19:05:00	01:19:05:00	TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT CHIEF
01:19:05:00	01:19:08:00	FRANKLIN HODGE THAT AT THIS
01:19:08:00	01:19:09:00	POINT A DECISION WAS BEING MADE
01:19:09:00	01:19:12:00	AND I'M QUOTING HIM AND SO IT
01:19:12:00	01:19:16:00	LEFT TO THE CONSTITUENTS.
01:19:16:00	01:19:17:00	WOULDN'T FURTHER CONFUSION
01:19:17:00	01:19:18:00	BECAUSE WHO MADE THE DECISION
01:19:18:00	01:19:21:00	OBVIOUSLY THE MAYOR WHO MADE
01:19:21:00	01:19:21:00	THE DECISION AND WANTS THIS
01:19:21:00	01:19:25:00	MIDDLE LANE AND THE COMMUNITY
01:19:25:00	01:19:25:00	SAYING WELL WE'VE BEEN TELLING
01:19:25:00	01:19:26:00	YOU WE DON'T WANT THAT.
01:19:26:00	01:19:28:00	A DECENT FRANCHISE COMMUNITY
01:19:28:00	01:19:33:00	THAT LOOKS DILAPIDATED AND
01:19:33:00	01:19:36:00	BLIGHT AND COMPLETELY IGNORED.
01:19:36:00	01:19:37:00	NOW THERE'S FUNDING.
01:19:37:00	01:19:41:00	JUST IMPROVE IT FOR US SO THAT
01:19:41:00	01:19:41:00	WE CAN BOTH THIS ECONOMY ADD
01:19:41:00	01:19:42:00	FOR TRAFFIC AND SUPPORTED SMALL
01:19:42:00	01:19:45:00	BUSINESSES.
01:19:45:00	01:19:45:00	WHY?
01:19:45:00	01:19:45:00	WHY NOT LISTEN TO US?
01:19:45:00	01:19:48:00	OKAY SO CARBON AND CLIMATE
01:19:48:00	01:19:49:00	RESILIENCY AND ALL OF THAT CAME
01:19:49:00	01:19:49:00	INTO PLAY.
01:19:49:00	01:19:49:00	ABSOLUTELY.
01:19:49:00	01:19:52:00	WE WANT THAT.
01:19:52:00	01:19:53:00	WE LIKE BIKE LANES.
01:19:53:00	01:19:54:00	WE LIKE ALL OF THAT STUFF BUT
01:19:54:00	01:19:57:00	NOT WHEN IT ENCROACHES SO MUCH
01:19:57:00	01:19:57:00	SO THAT IT DISPLACES BLACK AND
01:19:57:00	01:19:58:00	BROWN BUSINESSES DOWN BOOTLE
01:19:58:00	01:20:00:00	AVENUE.
01:20:00:00	01:20:01:00	AND SO THE CONVERSATIONS ARE
01:20:01:00	01:20:02:00	SUPPOSED TO BE GOING BACK AND
01:20:02:00	01:20:02:00	FORTH.
01:20:02:00	01:20:04:00	YESTERDAY YOU HEARD SOMEWHAT
01:20:04:00	01:20:05:00	OF A COMPROMISE WHERE CHIEF
01:20:05:00	01:20:08:00	FRANKLIN HODGE TALKED ABOUT
01:20:08:00	01:20:09:00	THAT THE BIKE LANE WAS OPTIONAL
01:20:09:00	01:20:10:00	AND THAT THEY DIDN'T THEY WILL
01:20:10:00	01:20:12:00	NOT DO IT IF THE COMMUNITY SAYS
01:20:12:00	01:20:12:00	NO.
01:20:12:00	01:20:13:00	SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO GO ON
01:20:13:00	01:20:16:00	RECORD TO DOCUMENT THESE THINGS
01:20:16:00	01:20:16:00	BECAUSE IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
01:20:16:00	01:20:20:00	DO IT, IF YOU'RE SAYING THE
01:20:20:00	01:20:21:00	COMMUNITY IF THE COMMUNITIES
01:20:21:00	01:20:21:00	WANT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT.
01:20:21:00	01:20:22:00	IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE
01:20:22:00	01:20:24:00	COMMUNITY TO KNOW.
01:20:24:00	01:20:24:00	IN ADDITION TO THAT, HE ALSO
01:20:24:00	01:20:25:00	STATED THAT IT'S NO LONGER
01:20:25:00	01:20:28:00	LOSING 40% OF PARKING, IT'S
01:20:28:00	01:20:31:00	ONLY 10% PRESERVING 90% OF THE
01:20:31:00	01:20:31:00	PARKING WHICH IS SUPER
01:20:31:00	01:20:34:00	IMPORTANT.
01:20:34:00	01:20:35:00	SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
01:20:35:00	01:20:38:00	CONVERSATION IN THE FUTURE TO
01:20:38:00	01:20:38:00	WHATEVER WHEREVER CAPACITY I
01:20:38:00	01:20:41:00	MEAN BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BUILD
01:20:41:00	01:20:42:00	CONTINUITY TO WHATEVER THEY'RE
01:20:42:00	01:20:45:00	SAYING HOW ARE WE MONITORING
01:20:45:00	01:20:46:00	AND MEASURING THIS AND TRACKING
01:20:46:00	01:20:50:00	FROM WHAT THEY SAY FIRST AND IN
01:20:50:00	01:20:50:00	WHAT THEY SAY SECOND TO WHAT'S
01:20:50:00	01:20:53:00	TODAY IS IMPORTANT FOR THE
01:20:53:00	01:20:53:00	PROGRESS OF THIS PROJECT.
01:20:53:00	01:20:57:00	THE OTHER THING OF COURSE IT'S
01:20:57:00	01:21:00:00	THE MEETING ITSELF.
01:21:00:00	01:21:01:00	I THINK WHEN YOU DISENFRANCHIZE
01:21:01:00	01:21:05:00	A COMMUNITY AND YOU COME INTO A
01:21:05:00	01:21:07:00	COMMUNITY AND LOOK CHARLESTOWN
01:21:07:00	01:21:08:00	EVERYBODY WHITE, BLACK DOESN'T
01:21:08:00	01:21:08:00	MATTER.
01:21:08:00	01:21:09:00	EVERYBODY GETS GHETTO BEHIND
01:21:09:00	01:21:12:00	WHEN IT COMES TO THESE MEETINGS
01:21:12:00	01:21:13:00	SO LET'S NOT ACT LIKE IT WAS
01:21:13:00	01:21:16:00	YOU WENT TO MATTAPAN AND THINGS
01:21:16:00	01:21:17:00	GOT CHAOTIC AND PEOPLE GOT
01:21:17:00	01:21:19:00	DISRESPECTED.
01:21:19:00	01:21:20:00	I'VE HEARD OF MEETINGS LIKE
01:21:20:00	01:21:20:00	THIS.
01:21:20:00	01:21:20:00	I'VE BEEN TO MEETINGS
01:21:20:00	01:21:20:00	EVERYWHERE.
01:21:20:00	01:21:21:00	BRIGHTON AWESOME.
01:21:21:00	01:21:23:00	BRIGHTON, CHARLESTOWN, NORTH
01:21:23:00	01:21:24:00	END IT DOESN'T MATTER BACK BAY
01:21:24:00	01:21:27:00	EVERY BODY GETS ANGRY AND
01:21:27:00	01:21:28:00	DISORDERLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE
01:21:28:00	01:21:30:00	UPSET.
01:21:30:00	01:21:31:00	PEOPLE SHOW THEIR FRUSTRATION
01:21:31:00	01:21:35:00	AND THEIR EMOTIONS AND
01:21:35:00	01:21:38:00	UNDERSTANDABLY SO AND I THINK
01:21:38:00	01:21:39:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA DID A GREAT JOB
01:21:39:00	01:21:42:00	TRYING TO MANAGE THAT AND JUST
01:21:42:00	01:21:43:00	TO ECHO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES,
01:21:43:00	01:21:45:00	I WENT ON THE MIC AND I
01:21:45:00	01:21:46:00	APOLOGIZE ON BEHALF OF THE
01:21:46:00	01:21:49:00	COUNCIL TO RON WHO DID A
01:21:49:00	01:21:53:00	STUPENDOUS JOB PROFESSIONAL AND
01:21:53:00	01:21:53:00	RESPECTFUL, RESPONDED TO A
01:21:53:00	01:21:56:00	CONSTITUENT WHO WAS A BIT IRATE
01:21:56:00	01:22:00:00	SO AND EVEN WHO WE FORGOT AND
01:22:00:00	01:22:01:00	KANDACE WHO ALL WERE THERE
01:22:01:00	01:22:04:00	SUPPORTING US.
01:22:04:00	01:22:04:00	I THINK THAT THE COUNCILORS WHO
01:22:04:00	01:22:08:00	STAYED CAST AROUND COUNCIL ME
01:22:08:00	01:22:09:00	HERE AND COLLEAGUES WHO
01:22:09:00	01:22:12:00	REMAINED.
01:22:12:00	01:22:13:00	I THANK YOU EVEN IF IT'S NOT
01:22:13:00	01:22:14:00	EVEN IN YOUR DISTRICT.
01:22:14:00	01:22:16:00	BUT IT'S INTERESTING HOW WE
01:22:16:00	01:22:17:00	PLAY ON WORDS YOU WILL
01:22:17:00	01:22:21:00	COMPLETELY OPPOSE THOSE THINGS
01:22:21:00	01:22:21:00	THAT MAYOR DOES WHEN IT SUITS
01:22:21:00	01:22:24:00	YOU BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO THINK
01:22:24:00	01:22:24:00	ABOUT IT AND YOU'RE NOT
01:22:24:00	01:22:27:00	NECESSARILY TAKING A POSITION
01:22:27:00	01:22:28:00	WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO
01:22:28:00	01:22:31:00	CODDLE UNIONS WITH THE CITY
01:22:31:00	01:22:31:00	DEPARTMENTS.
01:22:31:00	01:22:34:00	LET'S TRY TO BE AT LEAST HONEST
01:22:34:00	01:22:35:00	ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IF IT
01:22:35:00	01:22:39:00	HURTS THE COMMUNITY IN A BLACK
01:22:39:00	01:22:39:00	COMMUNITY AND YOU SAY YOU CARE
01:22:39:00	01:22:40:00	ABOUT EQUITY, LET'S BE
01:22:40:00	01:22:43:00	CONSISTENT ACROSS THE BOARD
01:22:43:00	01:22:44:00	WHEN YOU'RE OPPOSING WILL STUFF
01:22:44:00	01:22:47:00	LET'S NOT OPPOSE WILL BECAUSE
01:22:47:00	01:22:47:00	WE DON'T LIKE HER, WE DON'T
01:22:47:00	01:22:48:00	WANT HER.
01:22:48:00	01:22:51:00	LET'S OPPOSE IT WHEN IT DOESN'T
01:22:51:00	01:22:52:00	MAKE SENSE LET'S SUPPORT IT AND
01:22:52:00	01:22:55:00	I DON'T I DON'T AND YOU GUYS
01:22:55:00	01:22:56:00	KNOW I DON'T CARE SAYS RESIGN
01:22:56:00	01:22:59:00	IT IS A MATTER I WILL SUPPORT
01:22:59:00	01:23:02:00	MALES POLICIES AS LONG AS IT
01:23:02:00	01:23:03:00	HELPS MY DISTRICT NO MATTER
01:23:03:00	01:23:03:00	WHAT.
01:23:03:00	01:23:07:00	THERE'S NO PETTINESS IN THIS
01:23:07:00	01:23:07:00	GAME.
01:23:07:00	01:23:07:00	IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE.
01:23:07:00	01:23:08:00	IT'S NOT ABOUT US.
01:23:08:00	01:23:11:00	SO LET'S ACT ACCORDINGLY.
01:23:11:00	01:23:11:00	THANK YOU.
01:23:11:00	01:23:11:00	THANK YOU.
01:23:11:00	01:23:15:00	I CAN MEJIA AS THE CHAIR.
01:23:15:00	01:23:16:00	I'LL ALLOW YOU TO SPEAK AND
01:23:16:00	01:23:16:00	THEN WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON.
01:23:16:00	01:23:18:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES FROM
01:23:18:00	01:23:19:00	HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:23:19:00	01:23:21:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND
01:23:21:00	01:23:22:00	I WANTED TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE
01:23:22:00	01:23:25:00	JUST AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE
01:23:25:00	01:23:29:00	IS THAT WHEN WE HOST THINGS
01:23:29:00	01:23:33:00	THAT ARE INCREDIBLY EMOTIONALLY
01:23:33:00	01:23:37:00	CHARGED IT IS BECAUSE EVEN IN
01:23:37:00	01:23:38:00	THIS CHAMBER LIKE WE HAVE TO
01:23:38:00	01:23:41:00	HAVE A LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL
01:23:41:00	01:23:41:00	INTELLIGENCE AND UNDERSTANDING
01:23:41:00	01:23:44:00	THAT PEOPLE WHEN WE COME WE
01:23:44:00	01:23:45:00	CREATE SPACES BECAUSE SO MANY
01:23:45:00	01:23:48:00	PEOPLE HAVE NOT FELT HEARD OR
01:23:48:00	01:23:48:00	SEEN OR FIRMS.
01:23:48:00	01:23:51:00	AND SO I THINK WE AS
01:23:51:00	01:23:52:00	FACILITATORS OF THESE
01:23:52:00	01:23:55:00	CONVERSATIONS ARE WELL SET UP
01:23:55:00	01:23:56:00	TO REALLY BE ABLE TO CHANNEL
01:23:56:00	01:23:57:00	THAT ENERGY IN A WAY THAT
01:23:57:00	01:23:59:00	PEOPLE CAN SO THAT WE CAN
01:23:59:00	01:23:59:00	AFFIRM THEM.
01:23:59:00	01:24:03:00	AND I THINK THAT WE GET THE
01:24:03:00	01:24:03:00	BRUNT OF PEOPLE'S ANGER BECAUSE
01:24:03:00	01:24:06:00	WE'RE THE ONES THAT ARE
01:24:06:00	01:24:07:00	STEPPING UP AND CREATING SPACE
01:24:07:00	01:24:09:00	FOR PEOPLE TO SPEAK TRUTH TO
01:24:09:00	01:24:10:00	POWER AND THEY ASSUME THAT WE
01:24:10:00	01:24:11:00	ARE THE POWER WHEN ACTUALLY
01:24:11:00	01:24:14:00	WE'RE NOT AND SO WE GET THE
01:24:14:00	01:24:18:00	WRATH OF THE FOLKS BECAUSE WHAT
01:24:18:00	01:24:18:00	WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS CREATE
01:24:18:00	01:24:19:00	SPACE TO SPEAK UP.
01:24:19:00	01:24:21:00	AND I WANT TO THANK THE FOLKS
01:24:21:00	01:24:25:00	THAT DID SHOW UP WE HAD OVER
01:24:25:00	01:24:29:00	SIX PAGES OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY
01:24:29:00	01:24:32:00	AND PEOPLE STAYED TO SPEAK AND
01:24:32:00	01:24:33:00	SOME OF THEM WENT OVER THE
01:24:33:00	01:24:37:00	ALLOTTED TIME BECAUSE I KNOW
01:24:37:00	01:24:37:00	COUNSELOR ANDERSON HAS SAID
01:24:37:00	01:24:40:00	THIS BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTS AND
01:24:40:00	01:24:41:00	THE WAY THAT WE OPERATE REALLY
01:24:41:00	01:24:43:00	ISN'T SET UP FOR PEOPLE TO
01:24:43:00	01:24:44:00	REALLY BE HEARD.
01:24:44:00	01:24:44:00	SO THERE'S THE TIMER.
01:24:44:00	01:24:48:00	THERE'S THIS, THERE'S THAT.
01:24:48:00	01:24:49:00	SO I THINK TRYING TO MANAGE ALL
01:24:49:00	01:24:51:00	OF THOSE THINGS AS CHAIRS
01:24:51:00	01:24:52:00	ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE DOING
01:24:52:00	01:24:52:00	THINGS THAT ARE HIGHLY
01:24:52:00	01:24:56:00	CONTENTIOUS WE HAVE TO REALLY
01:24:56:00	01:24:56:00	START THINKING ABOUT HOW WE
01:24:56:00	01:24:59:00	CREATE SPACE AND THINKING ABOUT
01:24:59:00	01:25:02:00	HOW WE RESPECT VOICE AND I
01:25:02:00	01:25:03:00	THINK THAT ONE LESSON IN THAT
01:25:03:00	01:25:07:00	WAS YESTERDAY YOU KNOW, WE HAD
01:25:07:00	01:25:10:00	LEWIS LISA SPEAKING AND THE
01:25:10:00	01:25:10:00	TIMER WAS GOING OFF.
01:25:10:00	01:25:14:00	WE HAD OMAR WHO WAS SPEAKING
01:25:14:00	01:25:15:00	AND THE TIMER WAS GOING OFF AND
01:25:15:00	01:25:18:00	BOTH MY COLLEAGUES WERE LIKE
01:25:18:00	01:25:21:00	LET LET THEM SPEAK AND I DO I
01:25:21:00	01:25:22:00	ALWAYS WANT PEOPLE TO SPEAK AND
01:25:22:00	01:25:25:00	THEN PEOPLE WERE GETTING MAD
01:25:25:00	01:25:25:00	BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET THAT
01:25:25:00	01:25:26:00	OPPORTUNITY.
01:25:26:00	01:25:29:00	BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY Y'ALL
01:25:29:00	01:25:30:00	AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN WE
01:25:30:00	01:25:33:00	HOST THESE HEARINGS OUR JOBS
01:25:33:00	01:25:34:00	ARE TO CREATE SPACE FOR PEOPLE
01:25:34:00	01:25:36:00	TO BE HEARD AND MORE
01:25:36:00	01:25:37:00	IMPORTANTLY WHAT PEOPLE WANT US
01:25:37:00	01:25:40:00	TO DO IS WHEN WE HEAR WHAT THEY
01:25:40:00	01:25:44:00	WANT OUR JOB IS TO FIGHT FOR
01:25:44:00	01:25:47:00	WHAT THEY WANT NOT TO ACT LIKE
01:25:47:00	01:25:48:00	WE LISTEN AND THEN WE DON'T
01:25:48:00	01:25:48:00	ACT.
01:25:48:00	01:25:51:00	AND SO AS IT RELATES TO THIS
01:25:51:00	01:25:51:00	PARTICULAR ISSUE, IT IS CLEAR
01:25:51:00	01:25:55:00	TO ME BASED ON THE TESTIMONY
01:25:55:00	01:25:59:00	THAT WE HEARD YESTERDAY THAT
01:25:59:00	01:25:59:00	PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD OR
01:25:59:00	01:26:02:00	THEY DON'T WANT IT AND I THINK
01:26:02:00	01:26:03:00	THAT WE ARE WELL POSITIONED TO
01:26:03:00	01:26:07:00	UTILIZE OUR MICROPHONES TO
01:26:07:00	01:26:08:00	REALLY HELP SUPPORT A PROCESS
01:26:08:00	01:26:14:00	IN WHICH WE ARE DOING OUR DUE
01:26:14:00	01:26:14:00	DILIGENCE.
01:26:14:00	01:26:14:00	AND ONE MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC
01:26:14:00	01:26:15:00	MENTIONED THAT REGARDLESS
01:26:15:00	01:26:18:00	OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE THIS
01:26:18:00	01:26:19:00	PARTICULAR ISSUE IS NOT IN YOUR
01:26:19:00	01:26:22:00	DISTRICT THAT WE ARE A BODY
01:26:22:00	01:26:22:00	OF 13 AND WHATEVER VOTES WE
01:26:22:00	01:26:25:00	TAKE ON THIS BODY IMPACTS
01:26:25:00	01:26:26:00	DORCHESTER, ROXBURY AND
01:26:26:00	01:26:26:00	MATTAPAN.
01:26:26:00	01:26:29:00	SO I REALLY WANT EVERYBODY TO
01:26:29:00	01:26:30:00	START RECOGNIZING THAT YOUR
01:26:30:00	01:26:33:00	VOTES DO MATTER IN THIS CHAMBER
01:26:33:00	01:26:33:00	AND YOUR VOTES DO IMPACT THE
01:26:33:00	01:26:37:00	LIVELIHOOD OF THE CITY AS A
01:26:37:00	01:26:37:00	WHOLE.
01:26:37:00	01:26:38:00	SO I'M GLAD THAT YOU FOR THOSE
01:26:38:00	01:26:40:00	WHO ARE THERE THANK YOU FOR
01:26:40:00	01:26:41:00	THOSE WHO MISSED IT, I WOULD
01:26:41:00	01:26:42:00	RECOMMEND THAT YOU WATCH THE
01:26:42:00	01:26:45:00	TAPE AND LISTEN AND LEARN AND
01:26:45:00	01:26:46:00	MORE IMPORTANTLY DO SOMETHING
01:26:46:00	01:26:48:00	ABOUT THIS ISSUE.
01:26:48:00	01:26:49:00	THANK YOU.
01:26:49:00	01:26:50:00	THERE IS NO SPEAKING FOR
01:26:50:00	01:26:52:00	MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT
01:26:52:00	01:26:52:00	COUNCIL MEETINGS.
01:26:52:00	01:26:53:00	THANK YOU.
01:26:53:00	01:26:56:00	THIS DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 0176
01:26:56:00	01:26:56:00	SHALL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.
01:26:56:00	01:27:00:00	WE ARE NOW ONTO MOTIONS, ORDERS
01:27:00:00	01:27:01:00	AND RESOLUTIONS.
01:27:01:00	01:27:04:00	REMINDER FOR SPONSORING
01:27:04:00	01:27:07:00	COLLEAGUES THAT YOU WILL HAVE 3
01:27:07:00	01:27:07:00	MINUTES TO SPEAK ON A DOCKET
01:27:07:00	01:27:11:00	THAT YOU ARE OFFERING
01:27:11:00	01:27:11:00	CO-SPONSORS OR OTHER COUNSELORS
01:27:11:00	01:27:14:00	WILL HAVE 2 MINUTES APIECE TO
01:27:14:00	01:27:14:00	SPEAK ON A DOCKET.
01:27:14:00	01:27:18:00	MR. CLERK AND MR. CLERK, COULD
01:27:18:00	01:27:21:00	YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 1
01:27:21:00	01:27:21:00	TO 0 SIX?
01:27:21:00	01:27:25:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 1 TO 0 SIX
01:27:25:00	01:27:26:00	COUNCILOR TO ZAPATA FOR THE
01:27:26:00	01:27:27:00	FOLLOWING ORDINANCE AMENDING
01:27:27:00	01:27:31:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON CODE SECTION
01:27:31:00	01:27:36:00	66.3 SCHEDULE OF PARKING FINES
01:27:36:00	01:27:36:00	THINK OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:27:36:00	01:27:37:00	THAT AS A PARTY YOU HAVE THE
01:27:37:00	01:27:37:00	FLOOR.
01:27:37:00	01:27:39:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:27:39:00	01:27:40:00	AND I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO MY
01:27:40:00	01:27:40:00	COLLEAGUES THAT I WAS LATE.
01:27:40:00	01:27:42:00	WE HAD THE HERO SQUARE SQUARE
01:27:42:00	01:27:43:00	UNVEILING FOR MAJOR GENERAL
01:27:43:00	01:27:47:00	WARREN SOMETHING THAT THIS
01:27:47:00	01:27:47:00	COUNCIL PASSED EARLIER THIS
01:27:47:00	01:27:48:00	YEAR AND WE DID IT AS A PART
01:27:48:00	01:27:50:00	OF PRIDE WEEK.
01:27:50:00	01:27:50:00	SO I APOLOGIZE FOR MY TARDINESS
01:27:50:00	01:27:53:00	FOR THIS PARTICULAR DOCKET.
01:27:53:00	01:27:54:00	I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
01:27:54:00	01:27:54:00	THIS CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE
01:27:54:00	01:27:57:00	COMMUNITY AND LETTING THE
01:27:57:00	01:27:58:00	COMMUNITY LEAD ON AN ISSUE THAT
01:27:58:00	01:28:01:00	THEY DEAL WITH EVERY SINGLE DAY
01:28:01:00	01:28:01:00	.
01:28:01:00	01:28:02:00	THE NORTH END IS ONE OF THE
01:28:02:00	01:28:02:00	MOST DENSELY POPULATED
01:28:02:00	01:28:03:00	NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY WITH
01:28:03:00	01:28:05:00	LIMITED ON STREET PARKING.
01:28:05:00	01:28:06:00	THIS IS EXACERBATED BY
01:28:06:00	01:28:09:00	THOUSANDS OF VISITORS TO THE TD
01:28:09:00	01:28:10:00	GARDEN WHO SEEK TO PARK ON OUR
01:28:10:00	01:28:13:00	STREETS WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY A
01:28:13:00	01:28:13:00	GARAGE OR LOT FEE.
01:28:13:00	01:28:16:00	THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY PAYING
01:28:16:00	01:28:17:00	PLAYING A GAME AND BETTING THAT
01:28:17:00	01:28:18:00	OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT
01:28:18:00	01:28:20:00	OFFICERS WILL NOT TO GET THEM.
01:28:20:00	01:28:24:00	THE PROBLEM IS THAT WHEN A
01:28:24:00	01:28:24:00	VISITOR PARKS IN RESIDENTIAL
01:28:24:00	01:28:27:00	SPOTS AND THEY PLAY THIS
01:28:27:00	01:28:28:00	LOTTERY AND THEY TAKE THAT
01:28:28:00	01:28:31:00	CHANCE EVEN WHEN THEY LOSE THE
01:28:31:00	01:28:32:00	TICKET IS STILL LESS THAN WHAT
01:28:32:00	01:28:35:00	THEY WOULD PAY IN A GARAGE OR
01:28:35:00	01:28:35:00	IN A PARKING LOT.
01:28:35:00	01:28:36:00	WE DID SOME RESEARCH THE THE
01:28:36:00	01:28:39:00	THRESHOLD OR THE THE LOWEST FEE
01:28:39:00	01:28:42:00	FOR PARKING TO THE TD GARDEN IS
01:28:42:00	01:28:43:00	AROUND $65 THE TICKET IF YOU
01:28:43:00	01:28:46:00	ARE A VISITOR PARKING IN A
01:28:46:00	01:28:47:00	RESIDENTIAL SPOT IS $60 AND SO
01:28:47:00	01:28:50:00	WHAT THIS ORDINANCE SEEKS TO DO
01:28:50:00	01:28:51:00	IS AMEND THE NORTH END
01:28:51:00	01:28:54:00	RESIDENTIAL ZONE UP TO OR THE
01:28:54:00	01:28:59:00	FINE FROM 60 TO $100 AND AFTER
01:28:59:00	01:29:00:00	21 DAYS YOU WOULD PAY $33 PER
01:29:00:00	01:29:03:00	DAY IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID THE
01:29:03:00	01:29:04:00	FINE YET AGAIN THIS CAME
01:29:04:00	01:29:04:00	DIRECTLY FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD
01:29:04:00	01:29:07:00	I THINK THEM FOR COMING TO BOTH
01:29:07:00	01:29:08:00	MYSELF AND THE MAYOR DURING THE
01:29:08:00	01:29:11:00	NEW WERE MEETING.
01:29:11:00	01:29:12:00	THIS WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT I
01:29:12:00	01:29:15:00	FEEL LIKE I SAY HIS NAME A LOT
01:29:15:00	01:29:15:00	IN THIS COUNCIL AND THAT'S HOW
01:29:15:00	01:29:16:00	YOU KNOW THAT HE HAS AN
01:29:16:00	01:29:16:00	INCREDIBLE LEGACY BUT
01:29:16:00	01:29:19:00	COUNCILORS THEY CAN PUT THIS
01:29:19:00	01:29:20:00	FORWARD IN 2015 TO HAVE A
01:29:20:00	01:29:22:00	SIMILAR PROPOSAL IN DISTRICT
01:29:22:00	01:29:23:00	DATA AROUND THE FENWAY WHICH
01:29:23:00	01:29:26:00	FROM MY COLLEAGUE IN DISTRICT
01:29:26:00	01:29:27:00	EIGHT HAS HAD IS HAS BEEN
01:29:27:00	01:29:30:00	EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL AND HAS
01:29:30:00	01:29:30:00	BEEN EFFECTIVE.
01:29:30:00	01:29:31:00	I SPOKE TO SOME BUSINESS OWNERS
01:29:31:00	01:29:33:00	AS WELL WHO UNDERSTAND THAT
01:29:33:00	01:29:34:00	THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE
01:29:34:00	01:29:37:00	RESIDENTS HAVE ASKED FOR AND
01:29:37:00	01:29:38:00	YOU KNOW THEY WILL BE A PART
01:29:38:00	01:29:38:00	OF THIS CONVERSATION.
01:29:38:00	01:29:41:00	I WELCOME THAT WE NEED TO GET
01:29:41:00	01:29:42:00	ALL STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED IN
01:29:42:00	01:29:44:00	THE DISCUSSIONS IN FUTURE
01:29:44:00	01:29:45:00	HEARINGS BUT THIS IS A WAY TO
01:29:45:00	01:29:48:00	INCREASE REVENUE AND ALSO
01:29:48:00	01:29:49:00	PROTECT SOME OF OUR RESIDENTIAL
01:29:49:00	01:29:52:00	PARKING SPACES, SOME FOLKS HAVE
01:29:52:00	01:29:53:00	COME TO ME AND SAID LET'S LOOK
01:29:53:00	01:29:54:00	WHOLESALE AT REFORMING PARKING
01:29:54:00	01:29:56:00	FINES IN THE CITY.
01:29:56:00	01:29:57:00	I CERTAINLY WELCOME THAT
01:29:57:00	01:29:57:00	CONVERSATION TOO BUT I THINK WE
01:29:57:00	01:30:00:00	NEED TO BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT
01:30:00:00	01:30:01:00	THAT CONVERSATION AS WELL AND
01:30:01:00	01:30:01:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE THINKING
01:30:01:00	01:30:04:00	ABOUT THE BROAD IMPLICATIONS
01:30:04:00	01:30:05:00	OF INCREASING PARKING FINES
01:30:05:00	01:30:05:00	ACROSS THE CITY.
01:30:05:00	01:30:06:00	WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS THIS
01:30:06:00	01:30:09:00	CONVERSATION JUST ON THE NORTH
01:30:09:00	01:30:10:00	END AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE
01:30:10:00	01:30:13:00	DISCUSSIONS WITH BOTH RESIDENTS
01:30:13:00	01:30:13:00	, MY COLLEAGUES AND BUSINESS
01:30:13:00	01:30:14:00	OWNERS ALIKE.
01:30:14:00	01:30:14:00	THANK YOU.
01:30:14:00	01:30:14:00	THANK YOU.
01:30:14:00	01:30:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:30:17:00	01:30:18:00	COMES ABOUT AS A PARTNER AND
01:30:18:00	01:30:19:00	THIS IS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
01:30:19:00	01:30:21:00	THIS TO THIS FILING AND TO
01:30:21:00	01:30:21:00	DISCUSSIONS.
01:30:21:00	01:30:24:00	IT'S A QUESTION AND QUESTIONS
01:30:24:00	01:30:24:00	THAT MY OFFICE GETS QUITE A BIT
01:30:24:00	01:30:27:00	ESPECIALLY AS WE DEAL WITH FINE
01:30:27:00	01:30:28:00	STRUCTURES THAT CAN SEEM
01:30:28:00	01:30:29:00	DIFFICULT FOR A LOT OF OUR
01:30:29:00	01:30:31:00	RESIDENTS.
01:30:31:00	01:30:32:00	SO THINKING ABOUT WHAT AN
01:30:32:00	01:30:32:00	UPDATED FINE STRUCTURE COULD
01:30:32:00	01:30:35:00	LOOK LIKE, YOU KNOW ESPECIALLY
01:30:35:00	01:30:36:00	AGAIN THE CONSTITUENT CALLS
01:30:36:00	01:30:39:00	THAT WE GET IN OUR OFFICE ABOUT
01:30:39:00	01:30:40:00	THE FINE STRUCTURE SO THINKING
01:30:40:00	01:30:40:00	ABOUT WHAT EXTENSIONS LOOK LIKE
01:30:40:00	01:30:43:00	SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS
01:30:43:00	01:30:43:00	CONVERSATION.
01:30:43:00	01:30:44:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
01:30:44:00	01:30:46:00	ON THIS MATTER BUT ANYONE ELSE
01:30:46:00	01:30:47:00	LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
01:30:47:00	01:30:51:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS
01:30:51:00	01:30:52:00	BREADON DURKIN, FERNANDO
01:30:52:00	01:30:55:00	ANDERSON FITZGERALD, BEN
01:30:55:00	01:30:58:00	SANTANA, WEBER WORLD PLEASE ADD
01:30:58:00	01:30:59:00	THE CHAIR THIS DOCKET DOCKET
01:30:59:00	01:31:01:00	NUMBER 1 TO 0 SIX WILL BE
01:31:01:00	01:31:02:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
01:31:02:00	01:31:02:00	GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
01:31:02:00	01:31:06:00	MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
01:31:06:00	01:31:07:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO 0 SEVEN
01:31:07:00	01:31:09:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1207
01:31:09:00	01:31:09:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY OFFER THE
01:31:09:00	01:31:12:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
01:31:12:00	01:31:12:00	TO REVIEW THE TRAFFIC AND
01:31:12:00	01:31:13:00	PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR
01:31:13:00	01:31:18:00	WHITE STADIUM GAME DAYS THINK
01:31:18:00	01:31:18:00	OF THE JARGON AS
01:31:18:00	01:31:19:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY
01:31:19:00	01:31:19:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY TO THE FLOOR.
01:31:19:00	01:31:20:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:31:20:00	01:31:21:00	LAST WEEK WE HAD A VERY
01:31:21:00	01:31:24:00	PRODUCTIVE HEARING ON THE
01:31:24:00	01:31:24:00	ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF WHITE
01:31:24:00	01:31:28:00	STADIUM AND I DID PROMISE FROM
01:31:28:00	01:31:28:00	THAT HEARING THAT I WOULD FILE
01:31:28:00	01:31:31:00	A SPECIFIC ONE BECAUSE A LOT
01:31:31:00	01:31:32:00	OF THE CONCERNS THAT CAME OUT
01:31:32:00	01:31:35:00	OF THAT HEARING WERE AROUND THE
01:31:35:00	01:31:35:00	CONTINUED QUESTIONS OF THE
01:31:35:00	01:31:36:00	TRAFFIC IMPACT AND THE TRAFFIC
01:31:36:00	01:31:39:00	PLAN GOING FORWARD.
01:31:39:00	01:31:40:00	SO I'M FILING THIS HEARING
01:31:40:00	01:31:43:00	ORDER FOR A PUBLIC REVIEW
01:31:43:00	01:31:43:00	OF THE CITY'S FINALIZED TRAFFIC
01:31:43:00	01:31:44:00	AND PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR
01:31:44:00	01:31:47:00	GAME DAYS AT WHITE STADIUM AS
01:31:47:00	01:31:48:00	WHITE STADIUM UNDERGOES
01:31:48:00	01:31:51:00	REDEVELOPMENT TO HOST THE
01:31:51:00	01:31:52:00	BOSTON LEGACY IN SOME LARGE
01:31:52:00	01:31:55:00	SCALE EVENTS NEARBY RESIDENTS,
01:31:55:00	01:31:55:00	SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY
01:31:55:00	01:31:56:00	ORGANIZATIONS HAVE RAISED
01:31:56:00	01:31:59:00	ONGOING CONCERNS ABOUT HOW
01:31:59:00	01:32:00:00	TRAFFIC PARKING IN TRANSIT WILL
01:32:00:00	01:32:03:00	BE MANAGE PARTICULARLY IN
01:32:03:00	01:32:03:00	DENSELY POPULATED NEIGHBORHOODS
01:32:03:00	01:32:06:00	LIKE ROXBURY, DORCHESTER IN
01:32:06:00	01:32:07:00	JAMAICA PLAIN THERE ARE ALSO
01:32:07:00	01:32:11:00	NEIGHBORS IN FIELDS CORNER AND
01:32:11:00	01:32:11:00	IN SAVIN HILL AREA WHO WERE
01:32:11:00	01:32:14:00	ALSO CONCERNED WHEN THEY KNEW
01:32:14:00	01:32:15:00	THAT TOO THE ORIGINAL PLAN HAD
01:32:15:00	01:32:19:00	FAILED CORNER IN JFK UMASS STOP
01:32:19:00	01:32:22:00	ALONG THE RED LINE AS WHERE THE
01:32:22:00	01:32:23:00	BUSSES WOULD PICK UP PEOPLE AND
01:32:23:00	01:32:26:00	SO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE
01:32:26:00	01:32:26:00	ALSO CONCERNED.
01:32:26:00	01:32:27:00	WE'VE SINCE HEARD THAT MAYBE
01:32:27:00	01:32:29:00	FIELDS CORNER WILL NOT BE
01:32:29:00	01:32:30:00	REDUCED TO A PLACE WHERE BUSSES
01:32:30:00	01:32:34:00	WILL BUS PEOPLE THERE BUT WE
01:32:34:00	01:32:34:00	STILL HAVE JFK UMASS ON THE
01:32:34:00	01:32:34:00	DOCKET.
01:32:34:00	01:32:37:00	SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:32:37:00	01:32:40:00	THOSE RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT
01:32:40:00	01:32:41:00	THREE COUNCILOR FITZGERALD'S
01:32:41:00	01:32:42:00	DISTRICT ARE WE ARE ALSO GOING
01:32:42:00	01:32:44:00	FORWARD IF THAT'S THE ONLY
01:32:44:00	01:32:45:00	PLACE WHERE WILL CARS PARK WHEN
01:32:45:00	01:32:48:00	THEY'RE GETTING ON BUSSES.
01:32:48:00	01:32:48:00	THE CITY'S DRAFT PLAN INCLUDES
01:32:48:00	01:32:51:00	PERMIT PARKING RESTRICTIONS,
01:32:51:00	01:32:51:00	TOWING ENFORCEMENT, SHUTTLE
01:32:51:00	01:32:55:00	SERVICES AND RIDESHARE ZONES.
01:32:55:00	01:32:55:00	HOWEVER, THE PUBLIC COMMENT
01:32:55:00	01:32:56:00	PERIOD CLOSED IN MAY.
01:32:56:00	01:32:59:00	THEY DID SAY THAT THEY GOT A
01:32:59:00	01:33:00:00	LOT OF COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK
01:33:00:00	01:33:03:00	BUT QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN
01:33:03:00	01:33:03:00	ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY OF THE
01:33:03:00	01:33:04:00	ASSUMPTIONS IN THE PLAN.
01:33:04:00	01:33:06:00	IT'S ENFORCEMENT AND IT'S
01:33:06:00	01:33:07:00	ALIGNMENT WITH LOCAL ACCESS
01:33:07:00	01:33:10:00	NEEDS AND EQUITY GOALS.
01:33:10:00	01:33:11:00	SO THIS HEARING SEEKS TO BRING
01:33:11:00	01:33:14:00	TRANSPARENCY TO THE PROCESS,
01:33:14:00	01:33:14:00	ENSURE THAT A REALISTIC
01:33:14:00	01:33:17:00	COMMUNITY INFORMED STRATEGY IS
01:33:17:00	01:33:18:00	FINALIZED BEFORE THE STADIUM
01:33:18:00	01:33:21:00	OPENS NEXT YEAR IN 2026.
01:33:21:00	01:33:22:00	WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT
01:33:22:00	01:33:25:00	RESIDENTS ARE NOT LEFT OUT
01:33:25:00	01:33:25:00	OF THE CONVERSATION AND THAT
01:33:25:00	01:33:26:00	OUR PUBLIC SPACES AND PUBLIC
01:33:26:00	01:33:29:00	DOLLARS WORK FOR ALL.
01:33:29:00	01:33:30:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO A ROBUST AND
01:33:30:00	01:33:33:00	BACK FULL DISCUSSION LIKE THE
01:33:33:00	01:33:34:00	ONE WE DID HAVE LAST WEEK ON
01:33:34:00	01:33:37:00	THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND
01:33:37:00	01:33:38:00	AS WE MOVE TOWARDS SOLUTIONS
01:33:38:00	01:33:41:00	THAT PROTECT AND UPLIFT OUR
01:33:41:00	01:33:41:00	NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:33:41:00	01:33:42:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
01:33:42:00	01:33:45:00	HEARING AND GET SOME ANSWERS
01:33:45:00	01:33:45:00	FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
01:33:45:00	01:33:45:00	OKAY.
01:33:45:00	01:33:46:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
01:33:46:00	01:33:48:00	ON THIS MATTER?
01:33:48:00	01:33:49:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
01:33:49:00	01:33:49:00	THEIR NAME?
01:33:49:00	01:33:52:00	MR QUICK PLEASE ADD
01:33:52:00	01:33:55:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR FLYNN
01:33:55:00	01:33:56:00	AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
01:33:56:00	01:33:59:00	THIS DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO
01:33:59:00	01:33:59:00	0 SEVEN WILL BE REFERRED TO THE
01:33:59:00	01:34:00:00	COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
01:34:00:00	01:34:02:00	DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION.
01:34:02:00	01:34:03:00	MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
01:34:03:00	01:34:08:00	THE NUMBER 1208 DUGAN NUMBER
01:34:08:00	01:34:08:00	1208 COUNCIL PLANNING OFF
01:34:08:00	01:34:09:00	OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
01:34:09:00	01:34:12:00	DENOUNCING THE RENAMING OF U.S.
01:34:12:00	01:34:13:00	NAVY SHIP HARVEY MILK AND OTHER
01:34:13:00	01:34:16:00	U.S. NAVY SHIPS NAMED AFTER
01:34:16:00	01:34:17:00	IMPORTANT CIVIL RIGHTS
01:34:17:00	01:34:20:00	ADVOCATES.
01:34:20:00	01:34:21:00	DID YOU RECOGNIZE THIS CAMERA
01:34:21:00	01:34:21:00	PLAYING YOU ON THE FLOOR?
01:34:21:00	01:34:22:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:34:22:00	01:34:23:00	MADAM CHAIR MAY I ADD
01:34:23:00	01:34:24:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS AN
01:34:24:00	01:34:24:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR
01:34:24:00	01:34:28:00	OF COUNCILMAN JONES SO ADDED
01:34:28:00	01:34:29:00	GENERAL FLYNN TO THE FLOOR.
01:34:29:00	01:34:29:00	THANK YOU.
01:34:29:00	01:34:31:00	I'M FINALLY ON THIS RESOLUTION
01:34:31:00	01:34:31:00	TO DENOUNCE THE DECISION TO
01:34:31:00	01:34:34:00	RENAME THE US NAVY SHIP HARVEY
01:34:34:00	01:34:34:00	MILK.
01:34:34:00	01:34:38:00	LAST WEEK THE UNITED STATES
01:34:38:00	01:34:38:00	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ORDERED
01:34:38:00	01:34:42:00	MULTIPLE US NAVY SHIPS TO BE
01:34:42:00	01:34:42:00	RENAMED.
01:34:42:00	01:34:43:00	THIS INCLUDES THE UNITED STATES
01:34:43:00	01:34:45:00	NAVY SHIP.
01:34:45:00	01:34:46:00	HARVEY MILK NAMED AFTER GAY
01:34:46:00	01:34:49:00	RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.
01:34:49:00	01:34:50:00	HARVEY MILK.
01:34:50:00	01:34:53:00	HARVEY MILK WAS THE FIRST
01:34:53:00	01:34:54:00	OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE TO BE
01:34:54:00	01:34:56:00	ELECTED IN CALIFORNIA.
01:34:56:00	01:34:57:00	HE SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE
01:34:57:00	01:34:58:00	SAN FRANCISCO BOARD
01:34:58:00	01:35:00:00	OF SUPERVISORS IN 1977.
01:35:00:00	01:35:04:00	HE BROUGHT FORWARD IN SUPPORT
01:35:04:00	01:35:08:00	OF LGBTQ BUS LEGISLATION
01:35:08:00	01:35:08:00	INCLUDING A BILL BANNING
01:35:08:00	01:35:09:00	DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL
01:35:09:00	01:35:12:00	ORIENTATION AND HOUSING,
01:35:12:00	01:35:12:00	EMPLOYMENT AND PUBLIC
01:35:12:00	01:35:13:00	ACCOMMODATION.
01:35:13:00	01:35:16:00	PRIOR TO BEING ELECTED, MILK
01:35:16:00	01:35:19:00	SERVED AS A UNITED STATES NAVAL
01:35:19:00	01:35:20:00	OFFICER DURING THE KOREAN WAR.
01:35:20:00	01:35:22:00	BETWEEN 1952 AND 1954.
01:35:22:00	01:35:26:00	IN 1955 HE WAS FORCED OUT TO
01:35:26:00	01:35:29:00	RESIGN BASICALLY FROM THE US
01:35:29:00	01:35:30:00	NAVY TO DUE TO BEING GAY AND
01:35:30:00	01:35:33:00	WAS DISCHARGED WITH OTHER THAN
01:35:33:00	01:35:33:00	HONORABLE STATUS.
01:35:33:00	01:35:37:00	WHICH EXCLUDED HIM FROM BEING
01:35:37:00	01:35:41:00	ENTITLED TO ANY MILITARY
01:35:41:00	01:35:41:00	BENEFITS.
01:35:41:00	01:35:42:00	THAT'S AN ISSUE I'VE SPOKEN
01:35:42:00	01:35:45:00	REPEATEDLY HERE AND WORKED ON
01:35:45:00	01:35:46:00	FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS WITH
01:35:46:00	01:35:49:00	COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO.
01:35:49:00	01:35:50:00	THAT'S WHY IT'S SO CRITICAL
01:35:50:00	01:35:53:00	THAT A LOT OF MEN AND WOMEN
01:35:53:00	01:35:53:00	THAT SERVED IN THE MILITARY
01:35:53:00	01:35:56:00	WERE KICKED OUT BASED ON BEING
01:35:56:00	01:35:57:00	GAY BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE
01:35:57:00	01:36:04:00	SAME BENEFITS BECAUSE THEY
01:36:04:00	01:36:04:00	DIDN'T GET AN HONORABLE
01:36:04:00	01:36:04:00	DISCHARGE.
01:36:04:00	01:36:05:00	MYSELF AND COMMISSIONER
01:36:05:00	01:36:08:00	SANTIAGO WORKED ON THAT FOR
01:36:08:00	01:36:11:00	SEVEN SEVEN YEARS SO THAT THOSE
01:36:11:00	01:36:12:00	THAT WERE DISCHARGED COULD GET
01:36:12:00	01:36:18:00	THE SAME LEVEL OF BENEFITS.
01:36:18:00	01:36:18:00	IN 1978 MILK WAS ASSASSINATED
01:36:18:00	01:36:21:00	BY A FORMER ELECTED SAN
01:36:21:00	01:36:22:00	FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR.
01:36:22:00	01:36:25:00	IN 2021 US NAVY SHIP HARVEY
01:36:25:00	01:36:28:00	MILK WAS CHRISTENED IN.
01:36:28:00	01:36:28:00	IT REPRESENTED A SIGNIFICANT
01:36:28:00	01:36:31:00	STEP TOWARD INCLUSIVITY WITHIN
01:36:31:00	01:36:35:00	THE US ARMED FORCES.
01:36:35:00	01:36:35:00	NOW THE REMAINING OF THE US AND
01:36:35:00	01:36:39:00	US HARVEY MILK COMES DURING
01:36:39:00	01:36:43:00	PRIDE MONTH AND DURING THIS
01:36:43:00	01:36:47:00	PERIOD OF TIME IS SHAMEFUL TO
01:36:47:00	01:36:50:00	READ DESIGNATE THIS SHIP FOR
01:36:50:00	01:36:50:00	POLITICAL REASONS.
01:36:50:00	01:36:54:00	IN ADDITION THE FEDERAL
01:36:54:00	01:36:54:00	ADMINISTRATION SET A DEADLINE
01:36:54:00	01:36:55:00	TO FORCE ACTIVE DUTY
01:36:55:00	01:36:58:00	TRANSGENDER SERVICE MEMBERS TO
01:36:58:00	01:37:01:00	IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AND LEAVE
01:37:01:00	01:37:01:00	THE MILITARY.
01:37:01:00	01:37:05:00	OTHER US NAVY SHIPS THAT ARE
01:37:05:00	01:37:09:00	BEING CONSIDERED TO BE RENAMED
01:37:09:00	01:37:09:00	IN CODE INCLUDING ALREADY NAMED
01:37:09:00	01:37:13:00	US NAVY SHIP THURGOOD MARSHALL
01:37:13:00	01:37:14:00	UNITED STATES NAVY SHIP RUTH
01:37:14:00	01:37:17:00	RUTH BADER GINSBURG BOTH NAMED
01:37:17:00	01:37:18:00	AFTER SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
01:37:18:00	01:37:21:00	THE UNITED STATES NAVAL SHIP
01:37:21:00	01:37:23:00	HARRIET TUBMAN, THE US AND A
01:37:23:00	01:37:27:00	LUCY STONE MEDGAR EVERS THE
01:37:27:00	01:37:28:00	UNITED STATES NAVAL SHIP CESAR
01:37:28:00	01:37:35:00	CHAVEZ ALL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
01:37:35:00	01:37:36:00	PARTOOK SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN
01:37:36:00	01:37:36:00	OUR MILITARY INSTEAD
01:37:36:00	01:37:39:00	OF STRENGTHENING OUR MILITARY
01:37:39:00	01:37:40:00	AND UNITING OUR SERVICE MEMBERS
01:37:40:00	01:37:43:00	FAMILIES AND VETERANS, THEY ARE
01:37:43:00	01:37:43:00	FUELING DIVISION FORCING OUT
01:37:43:00	01:37:46:00	THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO SERVE.
01:37:46:00	01:37:47:00	CUTTING THE DEPARTMENT
01:37:47:00	01:37:50:00	OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL BUDGET.
01:37:50:00	01:37:50:00	WE MUST DENOUNCE THESE
01:37:50:00	01:37:54:00	DELIBERATE ACTS TO RENAME THE
01:37:54:00	01:37:54:00	US NAVY SHIPS.
01:37:54:00	01:37:55:00	YES, IT'S SYMBOLIC BUT IT MEANS
01:37:55:00	01:37:57:00	A LOT.
01:37:57:00	01:38:01:00	THE LEGACIES OF LGBTQ PIONEER
01:38:01:00	01:38:02:00	HARVEY MILK SUPREME COURT
01:38:02:00	01:38:02:00	JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL.
01:38:02:00	01:38:05:00	RUTH CARTER GINSBURG.
01:38:05:00	01:38:05:00	HARRIET TUBMAN.
01:38:05:00	01:38:08:00	LUCY STONE.
01:38:08:00	01:38:08:00	MEDGAR EVERS.
01:38:08:00	01:38:12:00	CESAR CHAVEZ MUST BE TAUGHT
01:38:12:00	01:38:13:00	HONORED, RESPECTED.
01:38:13:00	01:38:15:00	LET'S CONTINUE TO STAND WITH
01:38:15:00	01:38:16:00	AND FIGHT FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS AND
01:38:16:00	01:38:20:00	CIVIL RIGHTS AND FOR OUR U.S.
01:38:20:00	01:38:20:00	SERVICEMEN, VETERANS AND
01:38:20:00	01:38:20:00	MILITARY FAMILIES.
01:38:20:00	01:38:24:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:38:24:00	01:38:24:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:38:24:00	01:38:25:00	COUNCIL MAJORITY ON THE FLOOR.
01:38:25:00	01:38:28:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:38:28:00	01:38:29:00	EARLIER THIS YEAR A TIME TO
01:38:29:00	01:38:31:00	SPEND.
01:38:31:00	01:38:32:00	I GOT TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH
01:38:32:00	01:38:33:00	THE COMMANDER OF THE USS THOMAS
01:38:33:00	01:38:35:00	HUDNER AND HE AS THE COMMANDER
01:38:35:00	01:38:36:00	TOLD ME THIS STORY ACTUALLY
01:38:36:00	01:38:39:00	THOMAS HUDNER IS A FALL RIVER
01:38:39:00	01:38:40:00	GUY THAT FOUGHT IN THE KOREAN
01:38:40:00	01:38:42:00	WAR AND INTENTIONALLY CRASHED
01:38:42:00	01:38:46:00	HIS PLANE TO SAVE HIS FELLOW
01:38:46:00	01:38:47:00	COMRADE WHO HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN
01:38:47:00	01:38:50:00	AND AND TRIED TO SAVE HIM AND
01:38:50:00	01:38:51:00	HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL
01:38:51:00	01:38:51:00	OF HONOR FOR THAT.
01:38:51:00	01:38:54:00	THE ONLY REASON I KNOW THAT
01:38:54:00	01:38:54:00	STORY ABOUT THIS GUY FROM FALL
01:38:54:00	01:38:55:00	RIVER AND THE HEROIC ACT HE DID
01:38:55:00	01:38:58:00	IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A SHIP
01:38:58:00	01:38:59:00	NAMED AFTER HIM AND THE
01:38:59:00	01:39:01:00	COMMANDER OF THAT SHIP WOULD
01:39:01:00	01:39:02:00	TELL THAT STORY TO ALL THE
01:39:02:00	01:39:05:00	FOLKS HE MET OF WHY THE SHIP HE
01:39:05:00	01:39:06:00	COMMANDS IS NAMED THE USS
01:39:06:00	01:39:06:00	THOMAS HUDNER.
01:39:06:00	01:39:08:00	AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT I FEEL
01:39:08:00	01:39:09:00	IT'S SUCH AN INTERESTING WAY TO
01:39:09:00	01:39:12:00	EDUCATE PEOPLE.
01:39:12:00	01:39:12:00	RIGHT.
01:39:12:00	01:39:13:00	AND IT MIGHT REPEAT IT MIGHT
01:39:13:00	01:39:15:00	REACH PEOPLE AND EDUCATING THEM
01:39:15:00	01:39:16:00	THROUGH THIS WAY AND TELLING
01:39:16:00	01:39:16:00	THE STORIES IN A MILITARY
01:39:16:00	01:39:20:00	FASHION IT MIGHT REACH PEOPLE
01:39:20:00	01:39:20:00	THAT MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE
01:39:20:00	01:39:21:00	EDUCATE THEMSELVES AROUND THESE
01:39:21:00	01:39:24:00	CERTAIN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY
01:39:24:00	01:39:25:00	THOSE OF CERTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS
01:39:25:00	01:39:27:00	ADVOCATES.
01:39:27:00	01:39:29:00	AND SO I THINK IT WAS A GREAT
01:39:29:00	01:39:29:00	IDEA.
01:39:29:00	01:39:31:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN, FOR
01:39:31:00	01:39:31:00	ALLOWING ME TO BE A CO-SPONSOR
01:39:31:00	01:39:32:00	ON THIS.
01:39:32:00	01:39:35:00	OBVIOUSLY IT'S AN IMPORTANT
01:39:35:00	01:39:36:00	THING AND WHAT A SHAME IT WOULD
01:39:36:00	01:39:39:00	BE TO TAKE AWAY THAT THAT MODE
01:39:39:00	01:39:42:00	OF EDUCATION OF HOW TO SHARE
01:39:42:00	01:39:42:00	THIS STORY AND MAKE SURE IT
01:39:42:00	01:39:43:00	GOES THROUGH HISTORY ESPECIALLY
01:39:43:00	01:39:45:00	FOR THOSE THAT ARE THE CIVIL
01:39:45:00	01:39:46:00	RIGHTS ADVOCATES.
01:39:46:00	01:39:46:00	SO THANK YOU.
01:39:46:00	01:39:47:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN THANK YOU,
01:39:47:00	01:39:47:00	MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:39:47:00	01:39:50:00	I THINK THAT JURGEN AS HIS
01:39:50:00	01:39:51:00	COUNTRYMAN HERE YOU HAVE THE
01:39:51:00	01:39:53:00	FLOOR AND I WANT TO THANK MY
01:39:53:00	01:39:53:00	COLLEAGUES.
01:39:53:00	01:39:54:00	I OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE FACT
01:39:54:00	01:39:57:00	THAT WHEN I LIVED IN NEW YORK I
01:39:57:00	01:39:58:00	WORKED AT THE HETRICK MARTIN
01:39:58:00	01:40:01:00	INSTITUTE, WHICH IS AN
01:40:01:00	01:40:05:00	ORGANIZATION THAT SERVES LGBTQ
01:40:05:00	01:40:08:00	STUDENTS AND THEN IN 2023 IT
01:40:08:00	01:40:12:00	BECAME THE OF THE HARVEY MILK
01:40:12:00	01:40:13:00	SCHOOL, A FULLY ACCREDITED
01:40:13:00	01:40:16:00	PUBLIC SCHOOL IN NEW YORK CITY
01:40:16:00	01:40:19:00	SERVING LGBTQ PLUS STUDENTS TO
01:40:19:00	01:40:19:00	LEARN IN A SAFE SPACE.
01:40:19:00	01:40:22:00	AND IT WAS THERE THAT I LEARNED
01:40:22:00	01:40:23:00	ABOUT HARVEY MILK AND ALL
01:40:23:00	01:40:24:00	OF THE WORK THAT HE HAD DONE
01:40:24:00	01:40:27:00	HERE WELL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
01:40:27:00	01:40:30:00	BUT TO GOING FROM NAMING THE
01:40:30:00	01:40:31:00	SCHOOL I KNOW THE IMPACT THAT
01:40:31:00	01:40:34:00	IT HAD ON THE STUDENTS THAT
01:40:34:00	01:40:35:00	ATTENDED TO SEE THEMSELVES
01:40:35:00	01:40:38:00	REFLECTED IN SOMEONE WHO HELD A
01:40:38:00	01:40:38:00	HIGH POSITION IN GOVERNMENT.
01:40:38:00	01:40:41:00	AND SO I THINK THAT IT WHILE IT
01:40:41:00	01:40:42:00	MAY SEEM LIKE A SYMBOLIC THING
01:40:42:00	01:40:46:00	IN TERMS OF NAMING, I THINK THE
01:40:46:00	01:40:47:00	IMPACT THAT IT HAD ON THE
01:40:47:00	01:40:50:00	STUDENTS REALLY SHIFTED THEIR
01:40:50:00	01:40:50:00	THEIR PERCEPTION.
01:40:50:00	01:40:53:00	SO I JUST WANT TO THANK
01:40:53:00	01:40:53:00	COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR FIERCE
01:40:53:00	01:40:54:00	ADVOCACY AND JUST WANTING TO
01:40:54:00	01:40:57:00	UPLIFT AND THE HETRICK MARTIN
01:40:57:00	01:40:58:00	INSTITUTE, THE HOME OF THE
01:40:58:00	01:41:01:00	HARVEY MILK SCHOOL IN NEW YORK
01:41:01:00	01:41:01:00	CITY.
01:41:01:00	01:41:01:00	THANK YOU.
01:41:01:00	01:41:02:00	THANK YOU.
01:41:02:00	01:41:02:00	THE CHAIR.
01:41:02:00	01:41:02:00	OKAY.
01:41:02:00	01:41:04:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
01:41:04:00	01:41:05:00	ON THIS MATTER?
01:41:05:00	01:41:06:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
01:41:06:00	01:41:10:00	THEIR NAME?
01:41:10:00	01:41:10:00	MR. CLERK, PLEASE.
01:41:10:00	01:41:11:00	I CAN JUST BREADON ZAPATA DERP
01:41:11:00	01:41:13:00	AND FERNANDO ANDERSON MCGWIRE,
01:41:13:00	01:41:13:00	MURPHY PIPPEN, SANTANA WEBER
01:41:13:00	01:41:16:00	WORLD PLEASE OF THE CHAIR
01:41:16:00	01:41:20:00	COUNCILORS FLYNN AND GERALD
01:41:20:00	01:41:20:00	SEEKS TO SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE
01:41:20:00	01:41:23:00	RULES AND DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO 0
01:41:23:00	01:41:24:00	EIGHT.
01:41:24:00	01:41:28:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I.
01:41:28:00	01:41:28:00	ALL THOSE OPPOSING.
01:41:28:00	01:41:30:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
01:41:30:00	01:41:38:00	CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL
01:41:38:00	01:41:41:00	CALL VOTE ON DUNCAN NUMBER
01:41:41:00	01:41:41:00	1208.
01:41:41:00	01:41:41:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:41:41:00	01:41:42:00	YES.
01:41:42:00	01:41:45:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:41:45:00	01:41:45:00	YES.
01:41:45:00	01:41:46:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE.
01:41:46:00	01:41:48:00	AS A PARTY COUNCILOR AS A PARTY
01:41:48:00	01:41:48:00	AS COUNCILOR DURKAN.
01:41:48:00	01:41:49:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
01:41:49:00	01:41:51:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON
01:41:51:00	01:41:52:00	COUNCILOR FINANCE SENSE AND
01:41:52:00	01:41:52:00	YES.
01:41:52:00	01:41:56:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
01:41:56:00	01:41:57:00	COUNCILOR WITH SHOW YES.
01:41:57:00	01:41:57:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:41:57:00	01:41:57:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
01:41:57:00	01:42:00:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES.
01:42:00:00	01:42:00:00	COUNCILOR ILLUSION YES.
01:42:00:00	01:42:01:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
01:42:01:00	01:42:04:00	COUNCILOR HERE.
01:42:04:00	01:42:04:00	YES.
01:42:04:00	01:42:05:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:42:05:00	01:42:05:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
01:42:05:00	01:42:08:00	COUNCILOR BACK IN
01:42:08:00	01:42:09:00	COUNCIL OPINIONS
01:42:09:00	01:42:11:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YEAH.
01:42:11:00	01:42:11:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
01:42:11:00	01:42:15:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
01:42:15:00	01:42:15:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
01:42:15:00	01:42:16:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
01:42:16:00	01:42:20:00	COUNCILOR WU YES.
01:42:20:00	01:42:21:00	TALKING NUMBER 1 TO 0 EIGHT AS
01:42:21:00	01:42:23:00	WE SEE IT OF A UNANIMOUS VOTE
01:42:23:00	01:42:23:00	IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
01:42:23:00	01:42:23:00	THANK YOU.
01:42:23:00	01:42:24:00	I'M GOING TO TRY AND INTERPRET
01:42:24:00	01:42:26:00	IT BROADLY AND IT LOOKS LIKE
01:42:26:00	01:42:27:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU WANT TO
01:42:27:00	01:42:27:00	ADD COUNCILOR STANTON AS A
01:42:27:00	01:42:28:00	THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?
01:42:28:00	01:42:31:00	YES.
01:42:31:00	01:42:32:00	AN OC COUNCILOR PLANNING TO
01:42:32:00	01:42:33:00	SUSPEND THE RULES AT
01:42:33:00	01:42:34:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD
01:42:34:00	01:42:34:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND
01:42:34:00	01:42:35:00	HEARING NO OBJECTIONS,
01:42:35:00	01:42:37:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA ADDED OKAY.
01:42:37:00	01:42:37:00	THANK YOU.
01:42:37:00	01:42:37:00	THANK YOU.
01:42:37:00	01:42:41:00	THIS RESOLUTION DOCKET NUMBER 1
01:42:41:00	01:42:45:00	TO 0 EIGHT HAS PASSED AND HAS
01:42:45:00	01:42:45:00	BEEN ADOPTED.
01:42:45:00	01:42:47:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ
01:42:47:00	01:42:50:00	NUMBER 1209 STRIKE NUMBER 1209.
01:42:50:00	01:42:51:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFERED THE
01:42:51:00	01:42:54:00	FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
01:42:54:00	01:42:55:00	OF ESTABLISHING A BLUE RIBBON
01:42:55:00	01:42:58:00	COMMISSION TO STUDY AND ADDRESS
01:42:58:00	01:42:59:00	DOWNTOWN OFFICE VACANCIES AND
01:42:59:00	01:43:02:00	CITY REVENUE.
01:43:02:00	01:43:02:00	THANK YOU.
01:43:02:00	01:43:03:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:43:03:00	01:43:03:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN CAROL FLYNN
01:43:03:00	01:43:04:00	NEAR THE FLOOR.
01:43:04:00	01:43:06:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:43:06:00	01:43:06:00	I'M FILING THIS RESOLUTION
01:43:06:00	01:43:09:00	AGAIN THIS YEAR TO CALL FOR THE
01:43:09:00	01:43:09:00	ESTABLISHMENT OF A BLUE RIBBON
01:43:09:00	01:43:12:00	COMMISSION MADE UP OF BUSINESS
01:43:12:00	01:43:12:00	LEADERS, CITY AND STATE
01:43:12:00	01:43:13:00	OFFICIALS, NEIGHBORHOOD
01:43:13:00	01:43:16:00	ADVOCATES, OTHER RELEVANT
01:43:16:00	01:43:17:00	EXPERTS TO STUDY AND MAKE
01:43:17:00	01:43:20:00	RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE
01:43:20:00	01:43:21:00	ISSUE OF OFFICE VACANCIES IN
01:43:21:00	01:43:24:00	DOWNTOWN BOSTON.
01:43:24:00	01:43:24:00	THIS BODY PASSED THIS
01:43:24:00	01:43:28:00	RESOLUTION ON THIS CRITICAL
01:43:28:00	01:43:28:00	ISSUE LAST YEAR.
01:43:28:00	01:43:29:00	I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN
01:43:29:00	01:43:31:00	ME ONCE AGAIN.
01:43:31:00	01:43:32:00	VACANCY RATES IMPACT THE VALUE
01:43:32:00	01:43:35:00	OF REAL ESTATE WHICH IN TURN
01:43:35:00	01:43:36:00	IMPACTS THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY
01:43:36:00	01:43:39:00	TAXES THE CITY COLLECTS.
01:43:39:00	01:43:40:00	THE LATEST JOINT STUDY FROM THE
01:43:40:00	01:43:43:00	BOSTON POLICY INSTITUTE AND
01:43:43:00	01:43:43:00	TUFTS UNIVERSITY FINDS THAT
01:43:43:00	01:43:46:00	THERE IS NOW A POTENTIAL
01:43:46:00	01:43:52:00	INCREASED SHORTFALL OF 1.7
01:43:52:00	01:43:52:00	BILLION TO 2.1 BILLION IN CITY
01:43:52:00	01:43:53:00	REVENUE OVER THE NEXT FIVE
01:43:53:00	01:43:53:00	YEARS.
01:43:53:00	01:43:56:00	THIS YEAR, ACCORDING TO A
01:43:56:00	01:43:57:00	REPORT BY THE REAL ESTATE FIRM
01:43:57:00	01:44:00:00	CUSHMAN WAKEFIELD, THE OFFICE
01:44:00:00	01:44:01:00	IN OFFICE VACANCY RATE IN
01:44:01:00	01:44:06:00	BOSTON IS AT 70% UP FROM 50%
01:44:06:00	01:44:09:00	LAST YEAR BOTH DURING AND NOW
01:44:09:00	01:44:10:00	FOLLOWING THE PANDEMIC.
01:44:10:00	01:44:10:00	WE HAVE SEEN OFFICES AND
01:44:10:00	01:44:14:00	STOREFRONTS BECOME VACANT DUE
01:44:14:00	01:44:14:00	TO REMOTE AND WORK FROM HOME
01:44:14:00	01:44:15:00	POLICIES AND A LACK OF FOOT
01:44:15:00	01:44:17:00	TRAFFIC.
01:44:17:00	01:44:18:00	IN 2023 I HELD A HEARING ON
01:44:18:00	01:44:21:00	BRINGING BACK ALL CITY
01:44:21:00	01:44:22:00	OF BOSTON BOARD MEETINGS IN
01:44:22:00	01:44:25:00	RELATED BUSINESS IN-PERSON WITH
01:44:25:00	01:44:26:00	A HYBRID OPTION FOR THE PUBLIC
01:44:26:00	01:44:29:00	IN AN EFFORT TO BRING BACK MUCH
01:44:29:00	01:44:30:00	NEEDED FOOT TRAFFIC IN ECONOMIC
01:44:30:00	01:44:33:00	ACTIVITY IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON AND
01:44:33:00	01:44:34:00	IMPROVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
01:44:34:00	01:44:37:00	I CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE MORE
01:44:37:00	01:44:38:00	IN-PERSON WORK FROM CITY
01:44:38:00	01:44:41:00	EMPLOYEES FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR
01:44:41:00	01:44:44:00	TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND HELP
01:44:44:00	01:44:45:00	RESTORE THE VALUE OF DOWNTOWN
01:44:45:00	01:44:48:00	BOSTON OFFICES IN REAL ESTATE.
01:44:48:00	01:44:49:00	DOWNTOWN BOSTON IS AN IMPORTANT
01:44:49:00	01:44:53:00	ECONOMIC DRIVER FOR OUR CITY,
01:44:53:00	01:44:53:00	STATE AND THROUGHOUT THE NEW
01:44:53:00	01:44:56:00	ENGLAND ECONOMY.
01:44:56:00	01:44:57:00	BUT OVER THE LAST YEAR A NUMBER
01:44:57:00	01:45:00:00	OF HIGH PROFILE BUILDINGS SOLD
01:45:00:00	01:45:02:00	FOR LARGE DISCOUNTS INCLUDING
01:45:02:00	01:45:03:00	ONE ON ONE OFF STREET SELLING
01:45:03:00	01:45:05:00	FOR 43 MILLION LESS THAN WHEN
01:45:05:00	01:45:11:00	IT WAS BOUGHT IN 20 20051
01:45:11:00	01:45:11:00	LINCOLN STREET FORMERLY KNOWN
01:45:11:00	01:45:12:00	AS A STATE STREET BUILDING AND
01:45:12:00	01:45:15:00	NOW HARBOR FEST WHICH WAS SOLD
01:45:15:00	01:45:15:00	FOR 400 MILLION AT A
01:45:15:00	01:45:19:00	FORECLOSURE AUCTION THIS YEAR.
01:45:19:00	01:45:22:00	IN 99 HIGH STREET WHICH SOLD
01:45:22:00	01:45:26:00	227 MILLION IN APRIL FOR $46
01:45:26:00	01:45:30:00	MILLION LESS THAN IN 2005.
01:45:30:00	01:45:33:00	AND THE FINAL ANALYSIS WITH
01:45:33:00	01:45:33:00	FALLING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
01:45:33:00	01:45:37:00	VALUES OF A 70% DEPENDANCE ON
01:45:37:00	01:45:39:00	PROPERTY TAXES AND MORE THAN
01:45:39:00	01:45:40:00	50% OF LAND ABSORBED BY OUR
01:45:40:00	01:45:43:00	LARGE NONPROFITS, WE HAVE A
01:45:43:00	01:45:44:00	LONG TERM FISCAL ISSUE TO
01:45:44:00	01:45:47:00	ADDRESS IN BOSTON.
01:45:47:00	01:45:48:00	IT IS SIMPLY UNSUSTAINABLE FOR
01:45:48:00	01:45:51:00	ALL SECTORS OF OUR ECONOMY TO
01:45:51:00	01:45:54:00	CONTINUE TO WORK FROM HOME AND
01:45:54:00	01:45:55:00	CONTRIBUTE TO DECLINING
01:45:55:00	01:45:55:00	REVENUE.
01:45:55:00	01:45:58:00	IT MAY NOT BE POPULAR BUT THE
01:45:58:00	01:45:59:00	TRUTH IS THAT THERE IS NO SUCH
01:45:59:00	01:46:02:00	THING AS A FREE LUNCH FOR THE
01:46:02:00	01:46:02:00	GOOD OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:46:02:00	01:46:05:00	THE PUBLIC SECTOR BUSINESS
01:46:05:00	01:46:06:00	LEADERS AND NONPROFIT PARTNERS
01:46:06:00	01:46:09:00	NEED TO PRIORITIZE IN-PERSON
01:46:09:00	01:46:10:00	WORK WITH GLOBAL ECONOMIC
01:46:10:00	01:46:14:00	ISSUES, HIGH INTEREST RATES AND
01:46:14:00	01:46:14:00	A SLOWDOWN IN DEVELOPMENT IN
01:46:14:00	01:46:14:00	THE CITY.
01:46:14:00	01:46:18:00	NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR
01:46:18:00	01:46:18:00	SIGNIFICANT TAX INCREASES ON
01:46:18:00	01:46:21:00	BUSINESSES OR RESIDENTS.
01:46:21:00	01:46:22:00	WE NEED TO EXERCISE FISCAL
01:46:22:00	01:46:25:00	RESPONSIBILITY, DISCIPLINE.
01:46:25:00	01:46:26:00	BOSTON WORKS BEST WHEN WE WORK
01:46:26:00	01:46:26:00	TOGETHER.
01:46:26:00	01:46:29:00	I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN
01:46:29:00	01:46:30:00	ME ONCE AGAIN ON THIS CRITICAL
01:46:30:00	01:46:30:00	ISSUE.
01:46:30:00	01:46:31:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:46:31:00	01:46:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:46:33:00	01:46:34:00	AS I KNEW IT WAS ANYONE I WAS
01:46:34:00	01:46:36:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER
01:46:36:00	01:46:37:00	BUT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
01:46:37:00	01:46:37:00	THEIR NAME.
01:46:37:00	01:46:40:00	MR CLARE, PLEASE.
01:46:40:00	01:46:40:00	THERE IS NO SPEAKING FROM
01:46:40:00	01:46:45:00	ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE BOOTH.
01:46:45:00	01:46:45:00	THANK YOU.
01:46:45:00	01:46:46:00	MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE ADD
01:46:46:00	01:46:48:00	COUNCILORS BRAYDEN MURPHY AND
01:46:48:00	01:46:52:00	WEBER COUNCIL FINANCING
01:46:52:00	01:46:54:00	SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
01:46:54:00	01:46:55:00	PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 1 TO 0
01:46:55:00	01:46:55:00	NINE.
01:46:55:00	01:46:56:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
01:46:56:00	01:47:00:00	I WAS OPPOSING THE ICE OUT
01:47:00:00	01:47:00:00	OF THIS DOCKET THIS PAST YEAR.
01:47:00:00	01:47:01:00	COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET
01:47:01:00	01:47:02:00	NUMBER ONE TO MR. CLERK?
01:47:02:00	01:47:03:00	COULD YOU PLEASE CONDUCT OUR
01:47:03:00	01:47:06:00	ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER
01:47:06:00	01:47:06:00	1 TO 0 NINE?
01:47:06:00	01:47:11:00	ROLL CALL VOTE ON I CAN HAVE A
01:47:11:00	01:47:14:00	1 TO 0 NAME COUNCILOR BARRY.
01:47:14:00	01:47:14:00	YES, COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:47:14:00	01:47:15:00	YES.
01:47:15:00	01:47:17:00	COUNCIL DECLARES A PER
01:47:17:00	01:47:17:00	COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PARTY.
01:47:17:00	01:47:18:00	YES.
01:47:18:00	01:47:20:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN SAID
01:47:20:00	01:47:21:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN PRESENT
01:47:21:00	01:47:25:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDO SANDERSON NO
01:47:25:00	01:47:29:00	COUNCILOR FINANCE AND NO
01:47:29:00	01:47:29:00	COUNCIL OF FITZGERALD.
01:47:29:00	01:47:29:00	YES.
01:47:29:00	01:47:30:00	COUNCIL OFFICIAL YES.
01:47:30:00	01:47:30:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:47:30:00	01:47:32:00	YES.
01:47:32:00	01:47:32:00	COUNCIL FLYNN.
01:47:32:00	01:47:33:00	YES.
01:47:33:00	01:47:33:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
01:47:33:00	01:47:36:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
01:47:36:00	01:47:36:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
01:47:36:00	01:47:36:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
01:47:36:00	01:47:37:00	YES.
01:47:37:00	01:47:37:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:47:37:00	01:47:40:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
01:47:40:00	01:47:40:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
01:47:40:00	01:47:43:00	COUNCILOR OPINIONS
01:47:43:00	01:47:44:00	COUNCIL SANTANA YES.
01:47:44:00	01:47:44:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
01:47:44:00	01:47:47:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
01:47:47:00	01:47:48:00	COUNCIL WORKER YES.
01:47:48:00	01:47:51:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
01:47:51:00	01:47:51:00	COUNCILOR WU YES.
01:47:51:00	01:47:54:00	TALKING NUMBER 1 TO 0 NINE HAS
01:47:54:00	01:47:55:00	RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
01:47:55:00	01:47:58:00	AFFIRMATIVE ONE PRESENT AND ONE
01:47:58:00	01:47:58:00	NEGATIVE.
01:47:58:00	01:47:59:00	THANK YOU.
01:47:59:00	01:48:01:00	LUCKY NUMBER 1209 HAS PASSED.
01:48:01:00	01:48:02:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
01:48:02:00	01:48:06:00	RECORD A NUMBER 1 TO 1 ZERO
01:48:06:00	01:48:09:00	DUCK IN NUMBER 1210.
01:48:09:00	01:48:09:00	COUNCILOR COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE
01:48:09:00	01:48:13:00	AND DURKAN ARE FOR THE
01:48:13:00	01:48:13:00	FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
01:48:13:00	01:48:16:00	OF HOME CARE WORKERS BARGAINING
01:48:16:00	01:48:20:00	FOR A FAIR CONTRACT.
01:48:20:00	01:48:24:00	THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:48:24:00	01:48:24:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
01:48:24:00	01:48:24:00	COUNCILOR.
01:48:24:00	01:48:27:00	THE OTHER FLOOR.
01:48:27:00	01:48:27:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:48:27:00	01:48:28:00	I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO REQUEST
01:48:28:00	01:48:31:00	TO EXPAND THE RULES AT
01:48:31:00	01:48:32:00	COUNCIL S.A. AS A THIRD
01:48:32:00	01:48:33:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEKING TO
01:48:33:00	01:48:35:00	SEE AND HEAR NO OBJECTIONS
01:48:35:00	01:48:36:00	COUNCILORS INTENDED SO ADDED
01:48:36:00	01:48:38:00	THANK YOU HOME CARE WORKERS
01:48:38:00	01:48:39:00	PROVIDE CRITICAL SERVICES THAT
01:48:39:00	01:48:42:00	ENABLE THOUSANDS OF BOSTON
01:48:42:00	01:48:42:00	RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY SENIORS
01:48:42:00	01:48:43:00	AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO
01:48:43:00	01:48:46:00	REMAIN SAFELY IN THEIR HOMES
01:48:46:00	01:48:46:00	AND COMMUNITIES.
01:48:46:00	01:48:47:00	BUT THEY ARE UNDERPAID EVEN
01:48:47:00	01:48:50:00	THOUGH DESPITE THEIR
01:48:50:00	01:48:50:00	DEDICATION, DESPITE DELIVERING
01:48:50:00	01:48:53:00	COMPASSIONATE PROFESSIONAL CARE
01:48:53:00	01:48:54:00	UNDER OFTEN DIFFICULT
01:48:54:00	01:48:54:00	CONDITIONS, HOME CARE WORKERS
01:48:54:00	01:48:57:00	RANK AMONG THE LOWEST PAID IN
01:48:57:00	01:48:57:00	THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.
01:48:57:00	01:48:58:00	THEY HAVE HIGH TURNOVER
01:48:58:00	01:48:59:00	CONCERNS, LOW WAGES AND POOR
01:48:59:00	01:49:01:00	WORKING CONDITIONS DRIVE HIGH
01:49:01:00	01:49:01:00	TURNOVER DISRUPTION DISRUPTING
01:49:01:00	01:49:05:00	CONTINUITY OF CARE FOR PATIENTS
01:49:05:00	01:49:05:00	AND PLACING ADDITIONAL STRAIN
01:49:05:00	01:49:06:00	ON THE BROADER HEALTH CARE
01:49:06:00	01:49:08:00	SYSTEM.
01:49:08:00	01:49:09:00	HOMECARE WORKERS ORGANIZED
01:49:09:00	01:49:11:00	THROUGH SEIU 1199 MASSACHUSETTS
01:49:11:00	01:49:12:00	OUR BARGAINING FOR A FAIR
01:49:12:00	01:49:14:00	CONTRACT THAT INCLUDES LIVABLE
01:49:14:00	01:49:15:00	WAGES, IMPROVED BENEFITS,
01:49:15:00	01:49:15:00	WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS
01:49:15:00	01:49:19:00	COMMENSURATE WITH THE DIGNITY
01:49:19:00	01:49:19:00	OF THEIR WORK.
01:49:19:00	01:49:20:00	ONE SUCH GROUP ARE THE LARA
01:49:20:00	01:49:22:00	HOME CARE WORKERS BARGAINING
01:49:22:00	01:49:23:00	FOR A WAGE INCREASE AMONG MANY
01:49:23:00	01:49:24:00	OTHER THINGS AND THEY
01:49:24:00	01:49:24:00	ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIFFICULT
01:49:24:00	01:49:27:00	FINANCIAL SITUATION BUT TO BE
01:49:27:00	01:49:30:00	TO REQUEST A $2 INCREASE AND TO
01:49:30:00	01:49:30:00	BE COUNTED WITH A FIVE CENT
01:49:30:00	01:49:31:00	INCREASE DOES NOT RESPECT THE
01:49:31:00	01:49:34:00	DIGNITY THE WORK THAT THEY DO.
01:49:34:00	01:49:35:00	I THINK IT IS ENDING RIGHT NOW.
01:49:35:00	01:49:37:00	IT ENDED EARLIER THERE A RALLY
01:49:37:00	01:49:40:00	TODAY FROM 11 TO 1 THE 1199
01:49:40:00	01:49:40:00	HOMECARE WORKERS DID IN SUPPORT
01:49:40:00	01:49:44:00	OF THEIR FIGHT FOR A FAIR WAGE
01:49:44:00	01:49:44:00	AND I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THEM
01:49:44:00	01:49:45:00	ALSO IN THE MOMENT THAT WE'RE
01:49:45:00	01:49:47:00	IN AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
01:49:47:00	01:49:48:00	IMMIGRANTS AND EVERYTHING SO
01:49:48:00	01:49:48:00	MANY OF OUR HOME HEALTH CARE
01:49:48:00	01:49:51:00	WORKERS ARE IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE
01:49:51:00	01:49:52:00	HERE HAVE BEEN HERE MAYBE NOT
01:49:52:00	01:49:55:00	THAT LONG HAVE BEEN HERE WHO
01:49:55:00	01:49:56:00	KNOWS BUT ARE CRITICAL TO OUR
01:49:56:00	01:49:59:00	HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY AND TO OUR
01:49:59:00	01:50:00:00	HEALTH HOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS
01:50:00:00	01:50:02:00	WANT TO SHOUT OUT EVERYONE WHO
01:50:02:00	01:50:03:00	WHO'S UPLIFTED THAT FAMILIES
01:50:03:00	01:50:06:00	OF LOVED ONES WHO HAVE HOME
01:50:06:00	01:50:06:00	HEALTH CARE WORKERS.
01:50:06:00	01:50:07:00	WE TALK ABOUT HOW THE SYSTEM
01:50:07:00	01:50:09:00	WOULD COLLAPSE IF WE DIDN'T
01:50:09:00	01:50:10:00	HAVE OUR IMMIGRANT WORKERS
01:50:10:00	01:50:11:00	SUPPORTING THOSE IN NEED
01:50:11:00	01:50:16:00	OF THAT ASSISTANCE.
01:50:16:00	01:50:16:00	THERE'S AN EQUITY FOCUS HERE.
01:50:16:00	01:50:17:00	THE WORKFORCE IS OVERWHELMINGLY
01:50:17:00	01:50:20:00	COMPOSED OF WOMEN PEOPLE
01:50:20:00	01:50:20:00	OF COLOR AND IMMIGRANTS GROUPS
01:50:20:00	01:50:21:00	THAT DESERVE RECOGNITION,
01:50:21:00	01:50:21:00	RESPECT AND A MEANINGFUL VOICE
01:50:21:00	01:50:24:00	IN SETTING THEIR EMPLOYMENT
01:50:24:00	01:50:25:00	CONDITIONS AND THERE ARE CITY
01:50:25:00	01:50:27:00	WIDE BENEFITS ARE SUPPORTING
01:50:27:00	01:50:28:00	OF COURSE THIS UNION AND THESE
01:50:28:00	01:50:29:00	EFFORTS FAIR COMPENSATION AND
01:50:29:00	01:50:32:00	STRONGER SUPPORT FOR HOME CARE
01:50:32:00	01:50:33:00	WORKER TRANSLATES INTO MORE
01:50:33:00	01:50:33:00	STABLE HIGH QUALITY CARE
01:50:33:00	01:50:36:00	BENEFITING ALL BOSTONIANS AND
01:50:36:00	01:50:36:00	REDUCING SYSTEMIC HEALTH CARE
01:50:36:00	01:50:37:00	COSTS.
01:50:37:00	01:50:40:00	ALSO WE ASK PEOPLE TO LIVE IN
01:50:40:00	01:50:40:00	THE CITY AND IT'S VERY
01:50:40:00	01:50:41:00	EXPENSIVE AND IT'S IMPORTANT
01:50:41:00	01:50:43:00	THAT WE SUPPORT OUR WORKERS
01:50:43:00	01:50:44:00	WHEN THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR A
01:50:44:00	01:50:44:00	WAGE INCREASE.
01:50:44:00	01:50:45:00	SO I HOPE THAT ALL OF MY
01:50:45:00	01:50:46:00	COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN ME IN
01:50:46:00	01:50:48:00	SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION.
01:50:48:00	01:50:51:00	OUR 1189 HEALTH CARE HOME
01:50:51:00	01:50:51:00	WORKERS WOULD BE REALLY
01:50:51:00	01:50:52:00	APPRECIATIVE OF THIS SUPPORT.
01:50:52:00	01:50:55:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:50:55:00	01:50:55:00	THANK YOU.
01:50:55:00	01:50:56:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:50:56:00	01:50:56:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN COURTESY
01:50:56:00	01:50:56:00	OF THE FLOOR.
01:50:56:00	01:50:58:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR I'M
01:50:58:00	01:50:59:00	HONORED TO CO-SPONSOR THIS
01:50:59:00	01:51:02:00	ALONGSIDE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:51:02:00	01:51:02:00	LOUIJEUNE IT WAS ONLY A FEW
01:51:02:00	01:51:03:00	MONTHS AGO THAT WE STOOD HERE
01:51:03:00	01:51:05:00	TO SUPPORT COLLECTIVE
01:51:05:00	01:51:06:00	BARGAINING FOR MGB PRIMARY CARE
01:51:06:00	01:51:09:00	PHYSICIANS AND I'M HONORED TO
01:51:09:00	01:51:10:00	DO SO AGAIN FOR HOME CARE
01:51:10:00	01:51:11:00	WORKERS ORGANIZED THROUGH SEIU
01:51:11:00	01:51:15:00	1199 THIS WORK IS SO PERSONAL
01:51:15:00	01:51:16:00	PERSONAL FOR ME.
01:51:16:00	01:51:19:00	MY I REMEMBER THE LAST FEW
01:51:19:00	01:51:20:00	YEARS OF MY GRANDFATHER'S LIFE
01:51:20:00	01:51:23:00	AND WHO TOOK CARE OF HIM AND
01:51:23:00	01:51:24:00	THE DIGNITY THAT THEY GAVE HIM
01:51:24:00	01:51:28:00	AND THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED WITH
01:51:28:00	01:51:28:00	HIM.
01:51:28:00	01:51:31:00	AND I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE
01:51:31:00	01:51:32:00	HAD AGING PARENTS AND
01:51:32:00	01:51:35:00	GRANDPARENTS HAVE BEEN
01:51:35:00	01:51:36:00	BANKRUPTED BY HOW MUCH THIS
01:51:36:00	01:51:39:00	COST AND YET WHEN THE PEOPLE
01:51:39:00	01:51:40:00	WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING THIS
01:51:40:00	01:51:43:00	WORK ARE STANDING UP AND ASKING
01:51:43:00	01:51:46:00	FOR A FAIR WAGE, THEY DON'T GET
01:51:46:00	01:51:46:00	ONE.
01:51:46:00	01:51:47:00	MEANWHILE, FAMILIES THAT ARE
01:51:47:00	01:51:50:00	DEALING WITH THE BILLS OF THESE
01:51:50:00	01:51:54:00	COMPANIES CANNOT AFFORD THEM
01:51:54:00	01:51:54:00	AND ARE GOING INTO DEBT TO MAKE
01:51:54:00	01:51:57:00	SURE THAT THEIR FAMILY MEMBER
01:51:57:00	01:52:00:00	GETS THE DIGNITY THEY DESERVE.
01:52:00:00	01:52:04:00	YOU KNOW IT'S THESE ARE FOLKS
01:52:04:00	01:52:05:00	CHANGING DIAPERS.
01:52:05:00	01:52:08:00	THESE ARE FOLKS DOING THE WORK
01:52:08:00	01:52:09:00	THAT CHANGING LIVES, DOING IT
01:52:09:00	01:52:12:00	REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT AND
01:52:12:00	01:52:13:00	IT'S DIRTY WORK.
01:52:13:00	01:52:16:00	IT'S IT'S NOT EASY WORK AND I
01:52:16:00	01:52:17:00	JUST GOT TO SEE IT WITH MY
01:52:17:00	01:52:21:00	GRANDFATHER AND THE DIGNITY
01:52:21:00	01:52:21:00	THAT THOSE HOME HEALTH CARE
01:52:21:00	01:52:24:00	WORKERS AND THEN FOLKS WHO
01:52:24:00	01:52:28:00	WORKED WITH HIM ONCE HE WAS IN
01:52:28:00	01:52:32:00	IN CARE LIKE THESE FEW FOLKS
01:52:32:00	01:52:35:00	DESERVE MORE THAN $2 AN HOUR
01:52:35:00	01:52:38:00	AND $0.05 IS A PITTANCE
01:52:38:00	01:52:39:00	COMPARED TO WHAT THESE FOLKS
01:52:39:00	01:52:39:00	DESERVE.
01:52:39:00	01:52:43:00	AND I ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL TO
01:52:43:00	01:52:43:00	STAND WITH US TODAY.
01:52:43:00	01:52:43:00	THANK YOU.
01:52:43:00	01:52:47:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
01:52:47:00	01:52:47:00	SANTANA CASTILLO TO THE FLOOR.
01:52:47:00	01:52:51:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR AND FIRST
01:52:51:00	01:52:51:00	ONE OF YOUR STAND
01:52:51:00	01:52:54:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT ROSALIE JANE
01:52:54:00	01:52:54:00	AND COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR
01:52:54:00	01:52:57:00	INCLUDING ME IN THIS RESOLUTION
01:52:57:00	01:52:58:00	.
01:52:58:00	01:52:59:00	I JUST WANT TO GO ON THE RECORD
01:52:59:00	01:53:02:00	OF SUPPORTING OUR HOME CARE
01:53:02:00	01:53:03:00	WORKERS WHO ARE RIGHT NOW
01:53:03:00	01:53:05:00	ORGANIZING FOR OUR FAIR UNION
01:53:05:00	01:53:09:00	CONTRACT INCLUDING HIGHER AND
01:53:09:00	01:53:10:00	BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS.
01:53:10:00	01:53:13:00	I THINK BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND
01:53:13:00	01:53:14:00	BOTH COUNCILOR DURKAN TOUCHED
01:53:14:00	01:53:14:00	ON THIS THAT THE WORKING
01:53:14:00	01:53:17:00	CONDITIONS THAT THESE HOMECARE
01:53:17:00	01:53:20:00	WORKERS GO THROUGH THEY'RE
01:53:20:00	01:53:21:00	TAKING CARE OF SOME OF OUR MOST
01:53:21:00	01:53:22:00	VULNERABLE RESIDENTS HERE IN
01:53:22:00	01:53:24:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:53:24:00	01:53:25:00	AS MANY OF YOU KNOW WITH MY
01:53:25:00	01:53:28:00	STORY WITH MY MOM OF BEING ABLE
01:53:28:00	01:53:29:00	TO BATTLE CANCER, WE'VE HAD TO
01:53:29:00	01:53:32:00	INVEST IN AND HAVING SOMEONE TO
01:53:32:00	01:53:33:00	HELP HER AROUND.
01:53:33:00	01:53:33:00	SO YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY WANT
01:53:33:00	01:53:35:00	TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
01:53:35:00	01:53:36:00	STANDING WITH OUR WORKERS HERE
01:53:36:00	01:53:39:00	THEY DON'T GET PAID VERY MUCH
01:53:39:00	01:53:40:00	BUT THEY DO SO MUCH FOR OUR
01:53:40:00	01:53:42:00	CITY AND KEEP OUR CITY MOVING
01:53:42:00	01:53:43:00	FORWARD.
01:53:43:00	01:53:43:00	SO I JUST WANT TO STAND WITH MY
01:53:43:00	01:53:44:00	COLLEAGUES.
01:53:44:00	01:53:47:00	I'M HERE AND WITH OUR HOME CARE
01:53:47:00	01:53:50:00	WORKERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY
01:53:50:00	01:53:50:00	GET A FAIR CONTRACT THAT THEY
01:53:50:00	01:53:50:00	DESERVE.
01:53:50:00	01:53:53:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:53:53:00	01:53:54:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:54:00	01:53:55:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
01:53:55:00	01:53:55:00	ON THIS MATTER?
01:53:55:00	01:53:58:00	AGAIN I JUST WANT TO ECHO
01:53:58:00	01:53:58:00	SUPPORT FOR THIS RESOLUTION.
01:53:58:00	01:54:01:00	I JUST TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE
01:54:01:00	01:54:02:00	HOME CARE WORKERS THAT ARE OUT
01:54:02:00	01:54:06:00	THERE THEY ARE SUCH A CRITICAL
01:54:06:00	01:54:06:00	PART TO OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
01:54:06:00	01:54:08:00	AND AS COUNCILOR DURKAN HAS
01:54:08:00	01:54:09:00	POINTED OUT A SERVICE THAT A
01:54:09:00	01:54:12:00	LOT OF OUR SENIORS DO RELY ON.
01:54:12:00	01:54:13:00	BIG SHOUT OUT TO SEIU 1199 FOR
01:54:13:00	01:54:17:00	ORGANIZING AND ADVOCATING AND
01:54:17:00	01:54:17:00	I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORT
01:54:17:00	01:54:20:00	THIS RESOLUTION WHEN ANYONE
01:54:20:00	01:54:21:00	ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME.
01:54:21:00	01:54:22:00	MR KIRKBY PLEASE OUR
01:54:22:00	01:54:24:00	COUNCILOR BRADING CATHOLIC.
01:54:24:00	01:54:24:00	COLETTA ZAPATA.
01:54:24:00	01:54:25:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
01:54:25:00	01:54:28:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN CAST MEJIA.
01:54:28:00	01:54:28:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:54:28:00	01:54:28:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN.
01:54:28:00	01:54:31:00	CASTLE WEBER PLEASE ADD THE
01:54:31:00	01:54:31:00	CHAIR.
01:54:31:00	01:54:34:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS
01:54:34:00	01:54:35:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
01:54:35:00	01:54:36:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN AND SANTANA
01:54:36:00	01:54:38:00	SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES
01:54:38:00	01:54:39:00	AND ADOPTION OF DOCKING NUMBER
01:54:39:00	01:54:39:00	1210.
01:54:39:00	01:54:42:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR I THOSE
01:54:42:00	01:54:43:00	OPPOSED AND SAY NOW THE AYES
01:54:43:00	01:54:43:00	HAVE IT.
01:54:43:00	01:54:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:54:46:00	01:54:47:00	DOCKING NUMBER 1210 HAS BEEN
01:54:47:00	01:54:47:00	ADOPTED.
01:54:47:00	01:54:49:00	MR. CLERK, YOU PLEASE BE DUNCAN
01:54:49:00	01:54:53:00	NUMBER 1211 DUNCAN NUMBER 1211
01:54:53:00	01:54:53:00	COUNCIL'S PIPPIN AND WE'RE ALL
01:54:53:00	01:54:55:00	FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
01:54:55:00	01:54:56:00	RECOGNIZING JUNE AS MEN'S
01:54:56:00	01:55:01:00	MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
01:55:01:00	01:55:01:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:55:01:00	01:55:02:00	THANK YOU.
01:55:02:00	01:55:02:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:55:02:00	01:55:03:00	COUNCILOR BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE
01:55:03:00	01:55:04:00	FLOOR.
01:55:04:00	01:55:04:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:55:04:00	01:55:09:00	AS YOU ALL KNOW SITTING HERE
01:55:09:00	01:55:10:00	JUNE IS MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
01:55:10:00	01:55:11:00	MONTH AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT
01:55:11:00	01:55:12:00	TO ME.
01:55:12:00	01:55:12:00	I'VE BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT THIS
01:55:12:00	01:55:13:00	OPENLY IN THE COUNCIL SINCE
01:55:13:00	01:55:16:00	JOINING.
01:55:16:00	01:55:17:00	OF ENSURING THAT MEN AREN'T
01:55:17:00	01:55:17:00	SCARED TO SPEAK UP ABOUT THEIR
01:55:17:00	01:55:20:00	EMOTIONS AND AS I SPEAK ABOUT
01:55:20:00	01:55:23:00	THIS I JUST WANT TO SHARE A
01:55:23:00	01:55:24:00	QUICK FACT WITH YOU ALL FROM
01:55:24:00	01:55:25:00	THE CDC WE SHARE IS THAT
01:55:25:00	01:55:27:00	SUICIDE RATE AMONG MALES IS
01:55:27:00	01:55:28:00	APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES HIGHER
01:55:28:00	01:55:30:00	THAN THE RATE AMONG WOMEN
01:55:30:00	01:55:31:00	ALTHOUGH THE RATE FOR FOR FOR
01:55:31:00	01:55:34:00	WOMEN OF DEPRESSION IS HIGHER.
01:55:34:00	01:55:37:00	MEN DON'T SPEAK UP.
01:55:37:00	01:55:41:00	WE ARE MORE WE DON'T SHARE OUR
01:55:41:00	01:55:42:00	EMOTIONS AND I JUST WANT TO
01:55:42:00	01:55:45:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE FEEL
01:55:45:00	01:55:46:00	COMFORTABLE ABOUT THAT, THAT WE
01:55:46:00	01:55:49:00	CREATE SPACES FOR FOR MEN TO
01:55:49:00	01:55:50:00	SPEAK ABOUT JUST WHAT THEY'RE
01:55:50:00	01:55:53:00	GOING THROUGH, MAKING SURE THAT
01:55:53:00	01:55:54:00	WE NORMALIZE THIS AND STOP
01:55:54:00	01:55:57:00	DOING THAT STIGMATIZE THE
01:55:57:00	01:55:57:00	NOTION THAT MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO
01:55:57:00	01:56:00:00	ALWAYS BE STRONG, THAT IT'S NOT
01:56:00:00	01:56:01:00	OKAY TO SHOW EMOTIONS, THAT
01:56:01:00	01:56:01:00	IT'S NOT OKAY TO CRY BECAUSE IT
01:56:01:00	01:56:04:00	IS OKAY.
01:56:04:00	01:56:05:00	AND I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE
01:56:05:00	01:56:08:00	PLACES THAT I PERSONALLY FEEL
01:56:08:00	01:56:09:00	GREAT IN AND IT'S ONE PLACE
01:56:09:00	01:56:11:00	IT'S THE BARBERSHOP, YOU KNOW,
01:56:11:00	01:56:12:00	WHERE WE WHERE WE COME ALONG AS
01:56:12:00	01:56:13:00	MEN AND WE JUST TALK ABOUT OUR
01:56:13:00	01:56:15:00	DAY TO DAY STUFF.
01:56:15:00	01:56:16:00	WE WE CAN SIT BACK, GET A NICE
01:56:16:00	01:56:17:00	HAIRCUT AND SOME OF US EVEN
01:56:17:00	01:56:19:00	STAY A LITTLE LONGER JUST CHAT
01:56:19:00	01:56:20:00	ABOUT SPORTS OR CHAT ABOUT WHAT
01:56:20:00	01:56:23:00	OUR LIVES WHERE OUR LIVES LOOK
01:56:23:00	01:56:23:00	LIKE.
01:56:23:00	01:56:27:00	SO I JUST WANT TO I JUST ALWAYS
01:56:27:00	01:56:27:00	ENCOURAGE OPEN UP SPACE FOR
01:56:27:00	01:56:30:00	THAT TYPE OF COMMUNITY SPACE
01:56:30:00	01:56:34:00	BUT I ALSO WANTED TO
01:56:34:00	01:56:34:00	ACKNOWLEDGE AN INSTITUTION IN
01:56:34:00	01:56:37:00	HIGH PARK THAT HAS CAUGHT MY
01:56:37:00	01:56:38:00	ATTENTION RECENTLY THAT IS
01:56:38:00	01:56:39:00	DOING A GREAT JOB AND THAT IS A
01:56:39:00	01:56:42:00	YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN.
01:56:42:00	01:56:42:00	IT'S RIGHT IN CLEARY SQUARE.
01:56:42:00	01:56:43:00	IT'S A IT'S AN ORGANIZATION
01:56:43:00	01:56:46:00	STARTED BY A TEACHER AND HE WAS
01:56:46:00	01:56:49:00	ABLE TO GET A SPACE IN HIGH
01:56:49:00	01:56:50:00	PARK RIGHT IN THE HEART
01:56:50:00	01:56:50:00	OF CLEARY SQUARE ACROSS THE
01:56:50:00	01:56:53:00	MUNICIPAL BUILDING WHERE.
01:56:53:00	01:56:53:00	HE ALLOWS TEENAGERS FROM MIDDLE
01:56:53:00	01:56:56:00	SCHOOLS IN HIGH SCHOOLS TO COME
01:56:56:00	01:56:57:00	IN FOR MENTORING BUT IT ALSO
01:56:57:00	01:56:58:00	PROVIDES A PLACE FOR THEM TO
01:56:58:00	01:57:01:00	MAKE THEIR OWN MEALS TO PLAY
01:57:01:00	01:57:01:00	VIDEO GAMES, TO GET MENTOR, TO
01:57:01:00	01:57:04:00	HAVE DIFFERENT RESOURCES FROM
01:57:04:00	01:57:07:00	THE CITY TO COME SPEAK TO THE
01:57:07:00	01:57:08:00	YOUNG MAN ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE
01:57:08:00	01:57:08:00	GOING THROUGH, HOW CAN THEY
01:57:08:00	01:57:11:00	BETTER ENHANCE THEIR LIVES IN
01:57:11:00	01:57:11:00	THE FUTURE?
01:57:11:00	01:57:15:00	LAST WEEK I WAS THERE AND I WAS
01:57:15:00	01:57:15:00	ABLE TO SIT DOWN.
01:57:15:00	01:57:18:00	I WAS PLAYING SOME TO K 25 WITH
01:57:18:00	01:57:18:00	THEM.
01:57:18:00	01:57:18:00	I LOST TERRIBLY BUT WHAT I'VE
01:57:18:00	01:57:21:00	NOTICED IS THAT EVEN IN THE
01:57:21:00	01:57:22:00	MIDST OF PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
01:57:22:00	01:57:22:00	WITH THE TEENAGERS WE WERE ABLE
01:57:22:00	01:57:25:00	TO TALK ABOUT THEM SIMILARITIES
01:57:25:00	01:57:26:00	OF WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH AND
01:57:26:00	01:57:28:00	REALIZE THAT DURING THESE TOUGH
01:57:28:00	01:57:33:00	TIMES IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND AN
01:57:33:00	01:57:33:00	OUTLET TO SPEAK.
01:57:33:00	01:57:36:00	AND I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A
01:57:36:00	01:57:37:00	HUGE SHOUT OUT TO A YOUNG MAN
01:57:37:00	01:57:38:00	WITH A PLAN FOR CREATING THAT
01:57:38:00	01:57:40:00	SPACE FOR YOUNG MEN IN HIGH
01:57:40:00	01:57:44:00	PARK THAT OFTENTIMES DON'T KNOW
01:57:44:00	01:57:44:00	WHERE ELSE TO GO.
01:57:44:00	01:57:47:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT
01:57:47:00	01:57:48:00	AND I JUST WANTED TO TO GIVE A
01:57:48:00	01:57:51:00	REMINDER TO EVERYONE OUT THERE
01:57:51:00	01:57:52:00	THAT ARE STRUGGLING WITH MENTAL
01:57:52:00	01:57:55:00	HEALTH TOO.
01:57:55:00	01:57:56:00	IT'S OKAY TO SPEAK UP.
01:57:56:00	01:57:56:00	IT'S OKAY TO LOOK FOR HELP.
01:57:56:00	01:57:57:00	YOU AREN'T ALONE.
01:57:57:00	01:58:00:00	THANK MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:58:00:00	01:58:00:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
01:58:00:00	01:58:01:00	AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:58:01:00	01:58:02:00	COUNCILOR OR OUTCOMES WHERE YOU
01:58:02:00	01:58:02:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:58:02:00	01:58:03:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:58:03:00	01:58:05:00	AND THANK YOU FOR THINKING
01:58:05:00	01:58:06:00	OF COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR
01:58:06:00	01:58:07:00	INTRODUCING THIS ANATOMY AS A
01:58:07:00	01:58:09:00	CO-SPONSOR.
01:58:09:00	01:58:10:00	WE DON'T TALK ABOUT MENTAL
01:58:10:00	01:58:13:00	HEALTH NUMBERS A LOT,
01:58:13:00	01:58:14:00	ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
01:58:14:00	01:58:14:00	MEN.
01:58:14:00	01:58:16:00	BUT THE NUMBERS SPEAK LOUD AND
01:58:16:00	01:58:16:00	CLEAR.
01:58:16:00	01:58:17:00	NEARLY ONE IN TEN MEN
01:58:17:00	01:58:20:00	EXPERIENCE DEPRESSION OR
01:58:20:00	01:58:21:00	ANXIETY AND YET LESS THAN HALF
01:58:21:00	01:58:24:00	EVER GET OUT.
01:58:24:00	01:58:25:00	AND WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK MEN,
01:58:25:00	01:58:25:00	THAT NUMBER DROPS EVEN FURTHER.
01:58:25:00	01:58:28:00	NOT BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL PAIN
01:58:28:00	01:58:31:00	BUT BECAUSE OF THE STIGMA
01:58:31:00	01:58:31:00	ATTACHED AROUND SEEKING HELP.
01:58:31:00	01:58:35:00	WE'RE TOLD NOT TO COMPLAIN THAT
01:58:35:00	01:58:36:00	WE SHOULD PUSH THROUGH.
01:58:36:00	01:58:39:00	THAT SILENCE IS STRENGTH.
01:58:39:00	01:58:40:00	BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS CLEARLY
01:58:40:00	01:58:43:00	TO ALL MY MEN OUT THERE
01:58:43:00	01:58:43:00	BROTHERHOOD AND SPECIFICALLY
01:58:43:00	01:58:46:00	BLACK MEN IS PLEASE PLEASE
01:58:46:00	01:58:47:00	COMPLAIN AND ALSO PLEASE SPEAK
01:58:47:00	01:58:47:00	UP.
01:58:47:00	01:58:51:00	YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT
01:58:51:00	01:58:51:00	BECOMES AN EMERGENCY.
01:58:51:00	01:58:55:00	THE E.R. SHOULD NOT BE OUR
01:58:55:00	01:58:55:00	FIRST THERAPIST.
01:58:55:00	01:58:58:00	AND SOMETIMES WE THINK WE'RE
01:58:58:00	01:58:58:00	DEPRESSED BUT WE'RE JUST
01:58:58:00	01:58:58:00	EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTED.
01:58:58:00	01:59:02:00	THAT EXHAUSTION IS THE WAY TO
01:59:02:00	01:59:02:00	SURVIVAL AND HEALING STARTS
01:59:02:00	01:59:05:00	WHEN WE STOP MISTAKING THE
01:59:05:00	01:59:06:00	BIBLE FOR STRENGTH.
01:59:06:00	01:59:07:00	MY OFFICE HAS WORKED TO CREATE
01:59:07:00	01:59:09:00	SPACES WHERE BLACK MEN CAN HEAL
01:59:09:00	01:59:10:00	AND EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY.
01:59:10:00	01:59:13:00	I WAS HONORED TO SERVE ON THE
01:59:13:00	01:59:13:00	BLACK MEN AND BOYS COMMISSION
01:59:13:00	01:59:17:00	BUT WE ARE LOOKING TO ADDRESS
01:59:17:00	01:59:17:00	MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH.
01:59:17:00	01:59:20:00	MY OFFICE IS ALSO SO ADVOCATED
01:59:20:00	01:59:21:00	FOR MORE DEDICATED SUPPORT FOR
01:59:21:00	01:59:24:00	MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH WITHIN THE
01:59:24:00	01:59:25:00	BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH
01:59:25:00	01:59:25:00	COMMISSION.
01:59:25:00	01:59:28:00	ALSO MORE FUNDING TO BOSTON
01:59:28:00	01:59:29:00	PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING THE
01:59:29:00	01:59:32:00	BUDGET PROCESS AND ALSO THE
01:59:32:00	01:59:33:00	MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
01:59:33:00	01:59:33:00	PROGRAMS.
01:59:33:00	01:59:37:00	I WAS ALSO PART OF THE
01:59:37:00	01:59:37:00	INAUGURAL BOARD FOR KINGS
01:59:37:00	01:59:40:00	AMONGST KING WHICH IS AN
01:59:40:00	01:59:40:00	AFFINITY GROUP WHICH CREATES
01:59:40:00	01:59:44:00	THAT BARBERSHOP FEELING THAT
01:59:44:00	01:59:44:00	COUNCILOR PEP AND WAS SPEAKING
01:59:44:00	01:59:47:00	OF BROTHERHOOD THAT'S ROOTED IN
01:59:47:00	01:59:48:00	NOT ONLY HEALING BUT REFLECTION
01:59:48:00	01:59:51:00	AND ALSO JUST REWRITING WHAT
01:59:51:00	01:59:52:00	MENTAL HEALTH LOOKS LIKE.
01:59:52:00	01:59:55:00	I ALSO BELIEVE THAT PUBLIC
01:59:55:00	01:59:55:00	SAFETY IS ABOUT MAKING SURE
01:59:55:00	01:59:59:00	THAT EVERY BOY HAS A GYM, A
01:59:59:00	02:00:00:00	SAFE PLACE TO CRY AND A CARING
02:00:00:00	02:00:03:00	ADULT TO TALK TO.
02:00:03:00	02:00:03:00	AND FOR ANYONE THAT'S LISTENING
02:00:03:00	02:00:04:00	TODAY MAY FEEL LIKE THEY NEED
02:00:04:00	02:00:07:00	SOMEONE TO SPEAK TO.
02:00:07:00	02:00:08:00	THERE IS A HOTLINE TO
02:00:08:00	02:00:11:00	BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HELPLINE AND
02:00:11:00	02:00:14:00	THE NUMBER IS 8337732445.
02:00:14:00	02:00:16:00	AGAIN THAT NUMBER IS
02:00:16:00	02:00:16:00	8337732445.
02:00:16:00	02:00:21:00	AND TO ALL MY MEN OUT THERE
02:00:21:00	02:00:24:00	AGAIN, LET THIS BE A REMINDER
02:00:24:00	02:00:24:00	YOUR MENTAL HEALTH DOESN'T
02:00:24:00	02:00:25:00	MATTER.
02:00:25:00	02:00:28:00	THANK YOU.
02:00:28:00	02:00:29:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, KATSURA.
02:00:29:00	02:00:29:00	IF I AM READING THE BODY
02:00:29:00	02:00:33:00	LANGUAGE CORRECTLY,
02:00:33:00	02:00:33:00	COUNCILOR PEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO
02:00:33:00	02:00:34:00	REQUEST TO ADD
02:00:34:00	02:00:35:00	COUNCILOR STANTON AS A THIRD
02:00:35:00	02:00:36:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR?
02:00:36:00	02:00:36:00	YES.
02:00:36:00	02:00:36:00	THANK YOU.
02:00:36:00	02:00:39:00	COUNCILOR SAYING COUNCILOR PET
02:00:39:00	02:00:40:00	PEN SEEKS TO SUSPEND THE RULES
02:00:40:00	02:00:42:00	THAT COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A
02:00:42:00	02:00:42:00	THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
02:00:42:00	02:00:43:00	SEEING AND HEARING NO
02:00:43:00	02:00:46:00	OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR SANTANA SO
02:00:46:00	02:00:47:00	ADDED CONSTITUENT WOULD YOU
02:00:47:00	02:00:47:00	LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE STOCK?
02:00:47:00	02:00:49:00	IT BECOMES AN ANTENNA YOU HAVE
02:00:49:00	02:00:49:00	THE FLOOR.
02:00:49:00	02:00:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:00:50:00	02:00:50:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I WANT TO
02:00:50:00	02:00:54:00	THANK MY MY COLLEAGUES
02:00:54:00	02:00:54:00	COUNCILOR PREPARED AND
02:00:54:00	02:00:56:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL FOR FOR
02:00:56:00	02:00:57:00	INCLUDING ME IN THIS AND YOU
02:00:57:00	02:01:00:00	KNOW A LOT OF SHOUT OUTS HAVE
02:01:00:00	02:01:01:00	GONE OUT AND I KNOW WE'RE
02:01:01:00	02:01:03:00	TALKING ABOUT MEN BUT THERE IS
02:01:03:00	02:01:07:00	ONE AMAZING WOMAN HERE AND IN
02:01:07:00	02:01:08:00	ROXBURY WHO OF THE NAME OF TONY
02:01:08:00	02:01:11:00	BLAIR AND WHO DOES SO MUCH WORK
02:01:11:00	02:01:14:00	IN THIS SPACE.
02:01:14:00	02:01:15:00	I KNOW THE COUNCILOR WORRELL
02:01:15:00	02:01:16:00	AND I JUST I THINK IT WAS
02:01:16:00	02:01:18:00	BELIEVED LAST WEEK ATTENDED HER
02:01:18:00	02:01:19:00	HER ANNUAL SUMMIT THAT'S
02:01:19:00	02:01:22:00	FOCUSED ON MENTAL HEALTH AND
02:01:22:00	02:01:25:00	WE'VE GOT TO MEET SO MANY GREAT
02:01:25:00	02:01:26:00	INDIVIDUALS FROM OUR
02:01:26:00	02:01:30:00	COMMUNITIES AND YOU KNOW, JUST
02:01:30:00	02:01:30:00	DON'T WANT TO REPEAT THE THINGS
02:01:30:00	02:01:31:00	THAT HAPPENED.
02:01:31:00	02:01:32:00	SO I THINK YOU'LL SEE A OF MY
02:01:32:00	02:01:33:00	JOURNEY YOU KNOW, GROWING UP
02:01:33:00	02:01:36:00	HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, I
02:01:36:00	02:01:37:00	KNOW THAT I RELIED ON MENTORS
02:01:37:00	02:01:41:00	WHO MET WITH ME WEEKLY, BI
02:01:41:00	02:01:42:00	WEEKLY AND MONTHLY AND IN SOME
02:01:42:00	02:01:46:00	CASES WE TOOK, YOU KNOW,
02:01:46:00	02:01:46:00	MOUNTAIN LIONS TO PLAY
02:01:46:00	02:01:47:00	BASKETBALL, TO PLAY BASEBALL
02:01:47:00	02:01:49:00	AND JUST TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE
02:01:49:00	02:01:52:00	TO TALK TO THEM AND HAVE A SAFE
02:01:52:00	02:01:52:00	PLACE WHERE WE CAN TALK.
02:01:52:00	02:01:55:00	AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S
02:01:55:00	02:01:56:00	SOMETHING THAT'S VERY PERSONAL
02:01:56:00	02:01:56:00	TO ME.
02:01:56:00	02:01:57:00	I CONTINUE TO DO THAT TODAY.
02:01:57:00	02:02:00:00	I TRY TO I HAVE SIX MENTEES
02:02:00:00	02:02:03:00	THAT I TRY TO SEE BI WEEKLY.
02:02:03:00	02:02:04:00	I'M NOT ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL WITH
02:02:04:00	02:02:05:00	THAT BUT I REALLY JUST WANT TO
02:02:05:00	02:02:07:00	BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM A SHOUT
02:02:07:00	02:02:07:00	OUT.
02:02:07:00	02:02:08:00	I WON'T NAME THEM BY NAME BUT
02:02:08:00	02:02:11:00	THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND IT'S
02:02:11:00	02:02:11:00	ACTUALLY PART OF MY MENTAL
02:02:11:00	02:02:14:00	HEALTH JOURNEY TO TO BE ABLE TO
02:02:14:00	02:02:15:00	BE WITH YOUTH AND BE ABLE TO
02:02:15:00	02:02:15:00	TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE
02:02:15:00	02:02:18:00	GOING ON HERE EDUCATING THEM BY
02:02:18:00	02:02:19:00	JUST THEM HEARING ME OUT TOO.
02:02:19:00	02:02:22:00	SO AS MUCH AS I KNOW IT'S IT'S
02:02:22:00	02:02:22:00	IT'S A SERVICE FOR THEM.
02:02:22:00	02:02:26:00	I RECEIVE SO MUCH FROM BEING
02:02:26:00	02:02:29:00	WITH THEM AND YOU KNOW, JUST
02:02:29:00	02:02:30:00	WANT TO BE ABLE TO INVEST IN
02:02:30:00	02:02:33:00	OUR YOUNG MEN HERE IN THE CITY
02:02:33:00	02:02:33:00	OF BOSTON, PARTICULARLY OUR
02:02:33:00	02:02:37:00	BLACK AND BROWN MEN, LATINO MEN
02:02:37:00	02:02:37:00	WHO GO THROUGH SO MUCH HERE IN
02:02:37:00	02:02:40:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON AND WE WANT
02:02:40:00	02:02:41:00	TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE
02:02:41:00	02:02:42:00	SOMEONE LOVING ADULTS WHO ARE
02:02:42:00	02:02:44:00	GOING TO TAKE CARE FOR THEM.
02:02:44:00	02:02:45:00	SO AGAIN, THANK YOU
02:02:45:00	02:02:47:00	COUNCILOR PREPARED AND FOR
02:02:47:00	02:02:48:00	BRINGING US HERE TODAY.
02:02:48:00	02:02:49:00	I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
02:02:49:00	02:02:52:00	YOU TALK A LOT ABOUT SO YOU
02:02:52:00	02:02:53:00	WANT TO QUICKLY SHUT OUR HOUSE
02:02:53:00	02:02:55:00	OR TURKEY HOUSE.
02:02:55:00	02:02:56:00	I DON'T THINK IT WAS PART OF A
02:02:56:00	02:02:57:00	MAIDEN SPEECH JUST MENTAL
02:02:57:00	02:02:59:00	HEALTH IN GENERAL I MEAN FOR
02:02:59:00	02:02:59:00	YOUR WORK IN THIS AREA.
02:02:59:00	02:03:00:00	THANK YOU.
02:03:00:00	02:03:03:00	MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:03:03:00	02:03:03:00	THANK YOU.
02:03:03:00	02:03:04:00	COUNCILOR S.A. THE CHAIR AND I
02:03:04:00	02:03:05:00	JUST WANTED TO HEAR YOU ON THE
02:03:05:00	02:03:06:00	.
02:03:06:00	02:03:06:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:03:06:00	02:03:09:00	AND THANK YOU TO THE MEN
02:03:09:00	02:03:10:00	STEPPING UP FOR OTHER MEN AS
02:03:10:00	02:03:13:00	WELL.
02:03:13:00	02:03:14:00	I LIKE TO SEE.
02:03:14:00	02:03:17:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO RISE AND
02:03:17:00	02:03:17:00	THANK YOU ALL.
02:03:17:00	02:03:18:00	I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE
02:03:18:00	02:03:20:00	CHAMBER.
02:03:20:00	02:03:21:00	MY GRANDFATHER DIED BY SUICIDE
02:03:21:00	02:03:25:00	AND MY COUSIN DID TOO AND HE
02:03:25:00	02:03:28:00	WAS STRUGGLING WITH HIS MENTAL
02:03:28:00	02:03:28:00	HEALTH.
02:03:28:00	02:03:31:00	HE WAS ALSO A MILITARY VET AND
02:03:31:00	02:03:35:00	POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
02:03:35:00	02:03:35:00	IS REAL AND JUST BEING A BLACK
02:03:35:00	02:03:39:00	MAN OR A LATINO MAN OR A MAN
02:03:39:00	02:03:39:00	OF COLOR PERIOD.
02:03:39:00	02:03:40:00	JUST A MAN IN GENERAL.
02:03:40:00	02:03:43:00	YOU HAD A LOT TO CARRY AND
02:03:43:00	02:03:44:00	OFTENTIMES THERE IS THIS NOTION
02:03:44:00	02:03:46:00	THAT YOU'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP
02:03:46:00	02:03:47:00	ON KEEPING ON.
02:03:47:00	02:03:48:00	SO WE SEE YOU AND WE AFFIRM YOU
02:03:48:00	02:03:50:00	AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
02:03:50:00	02:03:51:00	I'LL JUST SAY A FEW THINGS.
02:03:51:00	02:03:54:00	OUR OFFICE LAST YEAR HOSTED AN
02:03:54:00	02:03:58:00	EVENT FOR SOME OF THE BASEBALL
02:03:58:00	02:03:59:00	PLAYERS, SOME OF THE SOFTBALL
02:03:59:00	02:04:02:00	PLAYERS WHO GIUSEPPE BIASE, THE
02:04:02:00	02:04:05:00	MAN THAT WAS MURDERED BY A
02:04:05:00	02:04:06:00	YOUNG WIDOW I DON'T KNOW IF
02:04:06:00	02:04:09:00	THEY WERE YOUNG OR WHAT BUT IT
02:04:09:00	02:04:09:00	WAS THE MOTORCYCLE THE MOPED
02:04:09:00	02:04:12:00	INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED LAST
02:04:12:00	02:04:13:00	SUMMER AND A LOT OF THE MEN
02:04:13:00	02:04:16:00	WERE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR OWN
02:04:16:00	02:04:17:00	MENTAL HEALTH AND THEY DIDN'T
02:04:17:00	02:04:20:00	KNOW HOW TO PROCESS IT.
02:04:20:00	02:04:21:00	AND THERE'S A LOT OF MACHISMO
02:04:21:00	02:04:24:00	IN PARTICULARLY IN THE LATINO
02:04:24:00	02:04:28:00	COMMUNITY AND THE MEN WERE I
02:04:28:00	02:04:29:00	WENT TO VISIT AND I SAW THEM
02:04:29:00	02:04:32:00	INCREDIBLY BROKEN AND IT WAS A
02:04:32:00	02:04:35:00	BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE HOW THEY
02:04:35:00	02:04:36:00	WERE SUPPORTING EACH OTHER EVEN
02:04:36:00	02:04:39:00	THROUGH THEIR TEARS AND WE
02:04:39:00	02:04:42:00	CREATED AN ENVIRONMENT AND HAD
02:04:42:00	02:04:43:00	A THERAPIST COME IN AND DO A
02:04:43:00	02:04:44:00	SESSION AROUND WHAT IT LOOKS
02:04:44:00	02:04:46:00	LIKE TO HEAL AND TO HEAL
02:04:46:00	02:04:47:00	PUBLICLY BECAUSE WE HAVE TO
02:04:47:00	02:04:50:00	CREATE SPACE FOR THAT AND SO TO
02:04:50:00	02:04:53:00	THAT OUR OFFICE ON JUNE 30TH
02:04:53:00	02:04:54:00	WE'RE GOING TO BE HOSTING A
02:04:54:00	02:04:56:00	MEN'S EVENTS.
02:04:56:00	02:04:57:00	WE'LL HAVE MORE DETAILS SOON
02:04:57:00	02:05:01:00	BUT IT'LL BE JUNE 30TH AND
02:05:01:00	02:05:02:00	WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING IT IN
02:05:02:00	02:05:04:00	CELEBRATION AND IN SUPPORT
02:05:04:00	02:05:05:00	OF MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
02:05:05:00	02:05:08:00	MONTH FOR MEN.
02:05:08:00	02:05:09:00	AND I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT
02:05:09:00	02:05:10:00	TO I'M GOING TO START GIVING A
02:05:10:00	02:05:12:00	SHOUT OUT HERE BECAUSE
02:05:12:00	02:05:13:00	ANYBODY'S GOING TO GET MAD AT
02:05:13:00	02:05:14:00	ME BUT SHOUT THAT'S EVERYBODY
02:05:14:00	02:05:16:00	DOING THIS WORK.
02:05:16:00	02:05:16:00	THANK YOU.
02:05:16:00	02:05:16:00	THANK YOU.
02:05:16:00	02:05:17:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CAROLYN
02:05:17:00	02:05:19:00	KIND OF ON THE FLOOR.
02:05:19:00	02:05:19:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:05:19:00	02:05:22:00	AND I WANT TO THANK THE
02:05:22:00	02:05:23:00	SPONSORS FOR BRINGING THIS
02:05:23:00	02:05:26:00	IMPORTANT MESSAGE FORWARD AND
02:05:26:00	02:05:27:00	HAVING A DISCUSSION.
02:05:27:00	02:05:30:00	I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT FOR
02:05:30:00	02:05:34:00	MEN THE INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY
02:05:34:00	02:05:38:00	AND SERVICES OF VETERANS HAVE
02:05:38:00	02:05:38:00	AT THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION,
02:05:38:00	02:05:42:00	ESPECIALLY ON MENTAL HEALTH
02:05:42:00	02:05:45:00	COUNSELING WHETHER IT'S JAMAICA
02:05:45:00	02:05:45:00	PLAIN, WEST ROXBURY.
02:05:45:00	02:05:49:00	WE HAD ONE HERE ON CAUSEWAY
02:05:49:00	02:05:52:00	STREET THAT WAS DOWNSIZED.
02:05:52:00	02:05:56:00	BUT FOR MEN STRUGGLING IN THAT
02:05:56:00	02:06:00:00	THEY ARE VETERANS I DO WANT TO
02:06:00:00	02:06:01:00	I DO WANT TO SAY THAT THE VA
02:06:01:00	02:06:03:00	DOES TREMENDOUS WORK IN
02:06:03:00	02:06:03:00	SUPPORTING RETURNING VETERANS
02:06:03:00	02:06:04:00	YOUNG VETERANS BUT ALL THE
02:06:04:00	02:06:07:00	VETERANS AS WELL.
02:06:07:00	02:06:11:00	THERE'S THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT
02:06:11:00	02:06:12:00	GROUPS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO
02:06:12:00	02:06:15:00	MEN IN WOMAN OBVIOUSLY.
02:06:15:00	02:06:16:00	BUT IT'S A GREAT WAY TO TALK TO
02:06:16:00	02:06:19:00	PEOPLE ABOUT EXPERIENCES THAT
02:06:19:00	02:06:22:00	THEY'VE HAD WHETHER IT'S
02:06:22:00	02:06:27:00	ENGAGED IN COMBAT OR OR ANY
02:06:27:00	02:06:27:00	OTHER TYPE OF ISSUE.
02:06:27:00	02:06:30:00	MANY VETERANS DO HAVE
02:06:30:00	02:06:34:00	POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
02:06:34:00	02:06:34:00	.
02:06:34:00	02:06:35:00	NO, NO, IT'S ACTUALLY CALLED
02:06:35:00	02:06:37:00	POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS.
02:06:37:00	02:06:38:00	THEY DON'T NECESSARILY USE THE
02:06:38:00	02:06:41:00	DISORDER ANYMORE TO TAKE THAT
02:06:41:00	02:06:42:00	STIGMA AWAY FROM IT.
02:06:42:00	02:06:45:00	BUT I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
02:06:45:00	02:06:47:00	IF ANY VETERAN ACROSS THE CITY
02:06:47:00	02:06:48:00	ACROSS THE CITY IS IN NEED
02:06:48:00	02:06:51:00	OF VA SERVICES AND THEY'RE NOT
02:06:51:00	02:06:52:00	ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR VETERANS
02:06:52:00	02:06:56:00	SERVICES, THESE ARE SERVICES
02:06:56:00	02:06:56:00	THAT YOU'VE EARNED.
02:06:56:00	02:06:59:00	NO ONE'S GIVING THOSE SERVICES
02:06:59:00	02:07:00:00	OR PROGRAMS TO YOU.
02:07:00:00	02:07:03:00	YOU HAVE EARNED THEM THROUGH
02:07:03:00	02:07:03:00	YOUR SERVICE.
02:07:03:00	02:07:04:00	IF YOU'RE NOT ENROLLED IN THE
02:07:04:00	02:07:07:00	VA MEDICAL SYSTEM, PLEASE LET
02:07:07:00	02:07:11:00	ME KNOW AND I WILL HELP YOU GET
02:07:11:00	02:07:11:00	ENROLLED TO THE DISABLED
02:07:11:00	02:07:11:00	AMERICAN VETERANS.
02:07:11:00	02:07:15:00	BUT THEY DO HAVE EXCEPTIONAL
02:07:15:00	02:07:18:00	PROGRAMS AT THE VA FOR MEN AND
02:07:18:00	02:07:19:00	FOR EVERYBODY ESPECIALLY WITH
02:07:19:00	02:07:22:00	MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
02:07:22:00	02:07:22:00	AVAILABILITY.
02:07:22:00	02:07:23:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:07:23:00	02:07:23:00	THANK YOU.
02:07:23:00	02:07:24:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
02:07:24:00	02:07:26:00	MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
02:07:26:00	02:07:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:07:27:00	02:07:30:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR PEPEN AND
02:07:30:00	02:07:30:00	SANTANA MORALES FOR BRINGING
02:07:30:00	02:07:31:00	THIS FORWARD.
02:07:31:00	02:07:33:00	THE ONLY WAY WE'RE EVER GOING
02:07:33:00	02:07:34:00	TO BREAK DOWN THE STIGMA AND
02:07:34:00	02:07:38:00	NORMALIZE REACHING OUT FOR HELP
02:07:38:00	02:07:38:00	IN GETTING MENTAL HEALTH
02:07:38:00	02:07:39:00	SERVICES IF WE TALK ABOUT IT
02:07:39:00	02:07:41:00	AND WE SHARE OUR OWN
02:07:41:00	02:07:41:00	EXPERIENCES.
02:07:41:00	02:07:42:00	SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
02:07:42:00	02:07:44:00	IT'S SOMETHING I'VE DONE FOR
02:07:44:00	02:07:45:00	DECADES IN THE RECOVERY WORLD
02:07:45:00	02:07:46:00	WHICH YOU KNOW MANY PEOPLE ARE
02:07:46:00	02:07:49:00	DUAL DIAGNOSED SO MENTAL HEALTH
02:07:49:00	02:07:49:00	AND RECOVERY GO HAND IN HAND.
02:07:49:00	02:07:52:00	AND AS A MOTHER OF THREE BOYS,
02:07:52:00	02:07:53:00	THREE SONS AND A TEACHER TO SO
02:07:53:00	02:07:56:00	MANY BOYS WE OFTEN DO WHEN IT'S
02:07:56:00	02:08:00:00	BEEN SAID HERE EARLIER THAT YOU
02:08:00:00	02:08:00:00	KNOW, THE BOYS JUST HAVE TO
02:08:00:00	02:08:03:00	TOUGHEN UP OR IF THEY GET QUIET
02:08:03:00	02:08:04:00	WE JUST THINK THEY'RE OKAY.
02:08:04:00	02:08:04:00	SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE
02:08:04:00	02:08:07:00	REACH OUT AND LET THEM KNOW AND
02:08:07:00	02:08:08:00	I THINK IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU
02:08:08:00	02:08:11:00	STANDING UP AND LETTING YOUR
02:08:11:00	02:08:12:00	CONSTITUENTS KNOW THAT YOU CAN
02:08:12:00	02:08:15:00	REACH OUT TO YOU PERSONALLY AND
02:08:15:00	02:08:16:00	SHARING ALL OF THE WONDERFUL
02:08:16:00	02:08:17:00	RESOURCES ACROSS THE CITY
02:08:17:00	02:08:20:00	BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO
02:08:20:00	02:08:20:00	FEEL AS THOUGH THERE ISN'T HELP
02:08:20:00	02:08:21:00	OUT THERE FOR THEM.
02:08:21:00	02:08:24:00	SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS
02:08:24:00	02:08:25:00	TO THE COUNCIL FLOOR.
02:08:25:00	02:08:25:00	THANK YOU.
02:08:25:00	02:08:27:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:08:27:00	02:08:28:00	COUNCILMAN ANDREW AND SITTING
02:08:28:00	02:08:28:00	ON THE FLOOR.
02:08:28:00	02:08:31:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:08:31:00	02:08:34:00	WHO HAVE BEEN.
02:08:34:00	02:08:35:00	THANK YOU TO MY BROTHERS IN
02:08:35:00	02:08:39:00	SERVICE WHO FOLLOW THIS SUPER
02:08:39:00	02:08:39:00	IMPORTANT TOPIC.
02:08:39:00	02:08:39:00	RIGHT.
02:08:39:00	02:08:42:00	AND I FEEL I WOULD BE REMISS IF
02:08:42:00	02:08:43:00	I DIDN'T STAND AND SAY
02:08:43:00	02:08:43:00	SOMETHING.
02:08:43:00	02:08:49:00	I AM A MOM, A WIFE, A SISTER, A
02:08:49:00	02:08:49:00	DAUGHTER OF MEN.
02:08:49:00	02:08:53:00	SO I FEEL THAT I HAVE TO STAND
02:08:53:00	02:08:56:00	ON RECORD AND MAKE A STATEMENT
02:08:56:00	02:08:57:00	.
02:08:57:00	02:09:01:00	BUT THE WORK OF SUPPORTING OUR
02:09:01:00	02:09:01:00	MEN IN SOCIETY IN DO YOU GUYS
02:09:01:00	02:09:02:00	REMEMBER THE LAST TIME THIS WAS
02:09:02:00	02:09:05:00	ON THE FLOOR WHEN FRANK BAKER
02:09:05:00	02:09:06:00	WAS LIKE WHITE MEN MATTERED
02:09:06:00	02:09:06:00	TOO?
02:09:06:00	02:09:08:00	THAT WAS IT'S TRUE, RIGHT?
02:09:08:00	02:09:11:00	IT'S NOT JUST BLACK MEN BUT
02:09:11:00	02:09:16:00	THERE IS A LEVEL OF YOU KNOW,
02:09:16:00	02:09:17:00	THIS DOES DOES A BIT OF A
02:09:17:00	02:09:17:00	DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
02:09:17:00	02:09:19:00	ABOUT SPECIFICALLY IN THE BLACK
02:09:19:00	02:09:23:00	CULTURE HOW BLACK MEN ARE
02:09:23:00	02:09:27:00	EXPECTED TO JUST SUPPRESS THEIR
02:09:27:00	02:09:27:00	FEELINGS OR SHOW UP.
02:09:27:00	02:09:31:00	AND SO I HAVE TAKEN THIS VERY
02:09:31:00	02:09:34:00	PERSONAL IN MY IN MY LIFE IN MY
02:09:34:00	02:09:38:00	ROLE AS A MOTHER, AS A FOSTER
02:09:38:00	02:09:39:00	MOM, A PREVIOUS FOSTER MOM TO
02:09:39:00	02:09:39:00	ABOUT 15 BOYS.
02:09:39:00	02:09:42:00	THE ROSCOE GIRLS I SPECIFICALLY
02:09:42:00	02:09:45:00	CHOSE TO FOSTER AND MENTOR BOYS
02:09:45:00	02:09:48:00	AND PARTICULARLY AND I WORKED
02:09:48:00	02:09:49:00	ABOUT 11 YEARS IN THE MENTAL
02:09:49:00	02:09:52:00	HEALTH SECTOR WORKING
02:09:52:00	02:09:53:00	SPECIFICALLY WITH TEENAGE BOYS
02:09:53:00	02:09:56:00	AND I DID THAT BECAUSE I
02:09:56:00	02:09:59:00	BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THE HARDEST
02:09:59:00	02:10:00:00	JOBS TO DO IN AMERICA IS TO
02:10:00:00	02:10:03:00	PARENT A BLACK BOY, IS TO LOVE
02:10:03:00	02:10:07:00	A BLACK BOY AND IT COMES DEEPLY
02:10:07:00	02:10:07:00	WITH THIS.
02:10:07:00	02:10:08:00	YOU KNOW, MENTAL HEALTH IS AT
02:10:08:00	02:10:11:00	THE CRUX OF ALL OF THESE ISSUES
02:10:11:00	02:10:11:00	.
02:10:11:00	02:10:14:00	THEY'RE EXPECTED TO.
02:10:14:00	02:10:15:00	THEY'RE SEXUALIZED, THEY'RE
02:10:15:00	02:10:18:00	COMMODITIZED AND THEN THEY'RE
02:10:18:00	02:10:19:00	IN PRISON AND OVER CRIMINALIZED
02:10:19:00	02:10:22:00	AND THEN THEY'RE EXPECTED TO
02:10:22:00	02:10:22:00	HIDE THEIR FEELINGS AND
02:10:22:00	02:10:22:00	DEHUMANIZED.
02:10:22:00	02:10:26:00	SO I I HAVE TO SAY THAT MY JOB
02:10:26:00	02:10:30:00	AS A MOM HAS BEEN TO INVEST IN
02:10:30:00	02:10:33:00	EDUCATING MY CHILDREN BUT TO
02:10:33:00	02:10:37:00	INGRAIN THE CONFIDENCE AND THE
02:10:37:00	02:10:38:00	ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS
02:10:38:00	02:10:38:00	THEMSELVES TO DE-ESCALATE
02:10:38:00	02:10:41:00	CRISIS, TO DEAL WITH
02:10:41:00	02:10:42:00	INTERVENTIONS, TO BE ABLE TO
02:10:42:00	02:10:43:00	DEAL WITH HARDSHIPS BUT TO BE
02:10:43:00	02:10:45:00	ABLE TO ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT IT
02:10:45:00	02:10:48:00	IS OKAY FOR THEM TO COMMUNICATE
02:10:48:00	02:10:49:00	AND BE PATIENT WITH THEMSELVES
02:10:49:00	02:10:52:00	BUT BE KIND WITH THEIR OWN
02:10:52:00	02:10:52:00	EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS.
02:10:52:00	02:10:56:00	I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT SO FAR I
02:10:56:00	02:10:59:00	THINK I'VE DONE OKAY AND AS MY
02:10:59:00	02:11:00:00	SON SAYS, YOU KNOW YOU ARE THE
02:11:00:00	02:11:04:00	BEST MOM A MOM CAN MOM THAT A
02:11:04:00	02:11:08:00	SON CAN TALK TO IT CORNY BUT IT
02:11:08:00	02:11:08:00	MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME.
02:11:08:00	02:11:11:00	SO I SUPPORT YOU MY BROTHERS
02:11:11:00	02:11:12:00	HERE IN SERVICE AND THANK YOU
02:11:12:00	02:11:15:00	FOR FILING.
02:11:15:00	02:11:15:00	THANK YOU.
02:11:15:00	02:11:16:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
02:11:16:00	02:11:18:00	ON THIS MATTER?
02:11:18:00	02:11:19:00	JUST WANT TO THANK THE FILERS.
02:11:19:00	02:11:22:00	IT'S IT'S DO YOU SPEAKING OUT
02:11:22:00	02:11:26:00	VOCALLY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE
02:11:26:00	02:11:27:00	OF MENTAL HEALTH AND THE
02:11:27:00	02:11:27:00	VULNERABILITY AND OF SEEKING
02:11:27:00	02:11:30:00	THERAPY AND OF HAVING THOSE
02:11:30:00	02:11:31:00	SAFE SPACES THAT WE ACTUALLY
02:11:31:00	02:11:32:00	BEGIN TO CHIP AWAY AT THE
02:11:32:00	02:11:34:00	PROBLEM.
02:11:34:00	02:11:35:00	AND SO THANK YOU FOR BEING
02:11:35:00	02:11:35:00	THOSE VOICES HERE IN OUR
02:11:35:00	02:11:38:00	COMMUNITY AND I WANT TO UPLIFT
02:11:38:00	02:11:39:00	A LOT OF WHAT MY COLLEAGUE
02:11:39:00	02:11:41:00	STATED.
02:11:41:00	02:11:42:00	MENTAL HEALTH IS AS IMPORTANT
02:11:42:00	02:11:45:00	AS YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH AND
02:11:45:00	02:11:45:00	MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE TAKING
02:11:45:00	02:11:45:00	CARE OF PEOPLE'S.
02:11:45:00	02:11:48:00	ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO TAKE CARE
02:11:48:00	02:11:49:00	OF THEIR MENTAL HEALTH EVEN
02:11:49:00	02:11:49:00	ESPECIALLY IN THESE CHALLENGING
02:11:49:00	02:11:50:00	TIMES.
02:11:50:00	02:11:52:00	IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT.
02:11:52:00	02:11:56:00	AND I WANT TO UPLIFT A PROJECT
02:11:56:00	02:11:57:00	THAT VANIER ARROYO HAS BEEN
02:11:57:00	02:11:57:00	WORKING ON THE BARBERSHOP
02:11:57:00	02:12:00:00	CLINICS WHERE ACTUALLY IN
02:12:00:00	02:12:04:00	BARBERSHOPS THERE ARE LED BY A
02:12:04:00	02:12:04:00	THERAPIST.
02:12:04:00	02:12:05:00	THEY ARE HAVING THESE REALLY
02:12:05:00	02:12:08:00	DEEP DISCUSSIONS, PARTICULARLY
02:12:08:00	02:12:08:00	IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES
02:12:08:00	02:12:11:00	AND THAT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT
02:12:11:00	02:12:12:00	WORK.
02:12:12:00	02:12:12:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:12:12:00	02:12:13:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR
02:12:13:00	02:12:16:00	NAME MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE
02:12:16:00	02:12:19:00	ADD COUNSELORS BREADON ZAPATA
02:12:19:00	02:12:19:00	DURKIN FERNANDO ANDERSON
02:12:19:00	02:12:19:00	FITZGERALD.
02:12:19:00	02:12:20:00	FLYNN MEJIA.
02:12:20:00	02:12:24:00	MURPHY WEBER AND PLEASE HAVE
02:12:24:00	02:12:24:00	THE CHAIR COUNSELORS WITH PENN
02:12:24:00	02:12:27:00	WORLD AND SANTANA AS EXPANSION
02:12:27:00	02:12:27:00	OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
02:12:27:00	02:12:28:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 1211.
02:12:28:00	02:12:31:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
02:12:31:00	02:12:35:00	OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT.
02:12:35:00	02:12:36:00	THIS DOCKET IS PASSED.
02:12:36:00	02:12:36:00	MR.
02:12:36:00	02:12:37:00	MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE BE
02:12:37:00	02:12:38:00	TALKING NUMBER 1 TO 1 TO TALK
02:12:38:00	02:12:40:00	NUMBER 1 TO 1 TO COUNCILOR AS
02:12:40:00	02:12:41:00	MURPHY AND FLYNN OFFER THE
02:12:41:00	02:12:44:00	FOLLOWING RESOLU ATION IN
02:12:44:00	02:12:44:00	SUPPORT OF EXTENDED HYBRID WORK
02:12:44:00	02:12:48:00	ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ROSEMARY
02:12:48:00	02:12:49:00	CASEY DURING CANCER TREATMENT.
02:12:49:00	02:12:51:00	THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:12:51:00	02:12:52:00	COUNSELOR MURPHY.
02:12:52:00	02:12:52:00	COUNSELOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
02:12:52:00	02:12:55:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:12:55:00	02:12:56:00	I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES
02:12:56:00	02:13:00:00	AND ADD COUNSELOR FITZGERALD
02:13:00:00	02:13:01:00	AND COUNSELOR MURPHY'S SUSPEND
02:13:01:00	02:13:01:00	THE RULES ADD COUNSELOR FEATURE
02:13:01:00	02:13:04:00	TO THE 30 ORIGINAL CO-SPONSORS.
02:13:04:00	02:13:04:00	SEE?
02:13:04:00	02:13:04:00	AND HERE NO OBJECTIONS
02:13:04:00	02:13:05:00	COUNSELORS JOE SO ADDED
02:13:05:00	02:13:06:00	COUNSELOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
02:13:06:00	02:13:07:00	THANK YOU.
02:13:07:00	02:13:10:00	ROSEMARY PERSIO HAS SERVED WITH
02:13:10:00	02:13:11:00	DISTINCTION IN THE INSPECTIONAL
02:13:11:00	02:13:13:00	SERVICE DEPARTMENT SINCE
02:13:13:00	02:13:14:00	TRANSITIONING TO A HYBRID WORK
02:13:14:00	02:13:18:00	MODEL AT THE ONSET OF THE COVID
02:13:18:00	02:13:18:00	19 PANDEMIC.
02:13:18:00	02:13:21:00	DURING THAT PERIOD SHE WAS
02:13:21:00	02:13:21:00	DIAGNOSED WITH BLOOD
02:13:21:00	02:13:22:00	CANCER THAT METASTASIZED TO HER
02:13:22:00	02:13:25:00	BONES AND LATER SHE UNDERWENT
02:13:25:00	02:13:26:00	SHOULDER SURGERY TO ADDRESS
02:13:26:00	02:13:28:00	CANCER RELATED BONE
02:13:28:00	02:13:29:00	DETERIORATION AFTER EXHAUSTING
02:13:29:00	02:13:32:00	HER PAID LEAVE, ROSEMARY TOOK A
02:13:32:00	02:13:36:00	ONE YEAR UNPAID MEDICAL LEAVE
02:13:36:00	02:13:37:00	BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T REALIZE SHE
02:13:37:00	02:13:37:00	HAD OTHER OPTIONS.
02:13:37:00	02:13:40:00	SHE DID SPEAK TO HER UNION REP
02:13:40:00	02:13:41:00	WHO TOLD HER THAT SHE DID HAVE
02:13:41:00	02:13:44:00	OTHER OPTIONS AFTER SHE WAS OUT
02:13:44:00	02:13:47:00	UNPAID NOT KNOWING SHE COULD BE
02:13:47:00	02:13:47:00	BACK IN A HYBRID MODEL AND UPON
02:13:47:00	02:13:51:00	RETURN SHE ADOPTED A PHYSICIAN
02:13:51:00	02:13:54:00	SUPPORTED HYBRID WORK SCHEDULE
02:13:54:00	02:13:54:00	.
02:13:54:00	02:13:59:00	IS EVERYTHING OKAY?
02:13:59:00	02:13:59:00	ALL RIGHT.
02:13:59:00	02:13:59:00	OKAY.
02:13:59:00	02:14:02:00	I'M JUST IN PERSON.
02:14:02:00	02:14:03:00	HER WORK SCHEDULE IS IN-PERSON
02:14:03:00	02:14:06:00	MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY
02:14:06:00	02:14:07:00	MORNINGS WITH REMOTE WORK ON
02:14:07:00	02:14:10:00	THE AFTERNOONS OF THOSE DAYS IN
02:14:10:00	02:14:10:00	FULL REMOTE WORK ON TUESDAY
02:14:10:00	02:14:13:00	THURSDAY THIS HYBRID MODEL
02:14:13:00	02:14:14:00	ACCOMMODATION ACCOMMODATES HER
02:14:14:00	02:14:17:00	ONGOING TREATMENTS INCLUDING
02:14:17:00	02:14:18:00	INPATIENT INFUSIONS AND
02:14:18:00	02:14:21:00	POST-SURGICAL RECOVERY WHICH
02:14:21:00	02:14:21:00	PRODUCED SIDE EFFECTS SUCH AS
02:14:21:00	02:14:24:00	FATIGUE, NAUSEA, URGENT
02:14:24:00	02:14:25:00	PHYSICAL NEEDS, FREQUENT
02:14:25:00	02:14:28:00	BATHROOM USE AND WE CAN JUST
02:14:28:00	02:14:28:00	IMAGINE A LOT OF OTHER PHYSICAL
02:14:28:00	02:14:32:00	NEEDS THAT ARE BETTER MANAGED
02:14:32:00	02:14:35:00	AT HOME.
02:14:35:00	02:14:36:00	ROSEMARY HAS PERFORMED ALL JOB
02:14:36:00	02:14:39:00	DUTIES FULLY AND EFFECTIVELY
02:14:39:00	02:14:39:00	UNDER THIS WORK PLAN WITHOUT
02:14:39:00	02:14:40:00	DISRUPTION TO THE DEPARTMENT'S
02:14:40:00	02:14:43:00	OPERATIONS AND THE ESTEY HUMAN
02:14:43:00	02:14:46:00	RESOURCES IS NOW REQUIRING HER
02:14:46:00	02:14:47:00	TO RETURN TO A FULL TIME
02:14:47:00	02:14:48:00	IN-PERSON SCHEDULE ON MONDAYS
02:14:48:00	02:14:50:00	AND FRIDAYS AND HALF DAYS IN
02:14:50:00	02:14:51:00	PERSON ON WEDNESDAYS A SCHEDULE
02:14:51:00	02:14:54:00	SHE CANNOT MAINTAIN DESPITE NO
02:14:54:00	02:14:54:00	EVIDENCE OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES
02:14:54:00	02:14:58:00	AND WITHOUT CONSIDERATION
02:14:58:00	02:14:58:00	OF HER MEDICAL ACCOMMODATIONS.
02:14:58:00	02:15:02:00	SO I DON'T NEED TO CONTINUE TO
02:15:02:00	02:15:06:00	READ THE WHOLE RESOLUTION.
02:15:06:00	02:15:07:00	I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES WILL SHARE
02:15:07:00	02:15:08:00	SOME OTHER PERSONAL REASONS BUT
02:15:08:00	02:15:10:00	I DO BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD
02:15:10:00	02:15:14:00	LIKE WE DO WHEN WE VOTE ON NINE
02:15:14:00	02:15:15:00	NON-BINDING RESOLUTIONS SHOW
02:15:15:00	02:15:18:00	OF SUPPORT AND BEHIND ROSEMARY
02:15:18:00	02:15:19:00	WHO WAS GOING THROUGH A
02:15:19:00	02:15:23:00	DIFFICULT TIME THANK YOU TO
02:15:23:00	02:15:23:00	GERMANY.
02:15:23:00	02:15:26:00	I JUST ASK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:15:26:00	02:15:26:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
02:15:26:00	02:15:26:00	FLOOR.
02:15:26:00	02:15:29:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
02:15:29:00	02:15:30:00	THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR MURPHY
02:15:30:00	02:15:33:00	FOR LETTING ME BE A CO-SPONSOR
02:15:33:00	02:15:37:00	ON THIS AS WELL AS LEADERS
02:15:37:00	02:15:37:00	OF THIS CITY.
02:15:37:00	02:15:40:00	I BELIEVE IT IS IMPORTANT TO
02:15:40:00	02:15:41:00	SHOW COMPASSION AND UNDERSTAND
02:15:41:00	02:15:45:00	THE NEEDS OF OUR WORKERS WHO
02:15:45:00	02:15:45:00	ARE BATTLING ADVANCED
02:15:45:00	02:15:49:00	CANCER ROSEMARY IS A DEDICATED
02:15:49:00	02:15:52:00	WORKER AT INSPECTIONAL SERVICES
02:15:52:00	02:15:52:00	.
02:15:52:00	02:15:53:00	AS COUNCILOR MURPHY MENTIONED,
02:15:53:00	02:15:56:00	SHE HAS USED UP HER PAID LEAVE
02:15:56:00	02:15:59:00	WHILE FIGHTING ADVANCED BLOOD
02:15:59:00	02:16:00:00	CANCER THAT IS NOW IN HER
02:16:00:00	02:16:00:00	BONES.
02:16:00:00	02:16:03:00	SHE TOOK A FULL YEAR OF UNPAID
02:16:03:00	02:16:04:00	MEDICAL LEAVE AND NOW IS
02:16:04:00	02:16:07:00	WORKING A HYBRID SCHEDULE.
02:16:07:00	02:16:08:00	SHE'S A HARD WORKING DEDICATED
02:16:08:00	02:16:11:00	SHE PERFORMS HER JOB WELL.
02:16:11:00	02:16:15:00	SHE FOLLOWS THROUGH ROSEMARY IS
02:16:15:00	02:16:16:00	NOW BEING ASKED TO GET BACK TO
02:16:16:00	02:16:17:00	WORK AT THE INSPECTIONAL
02:16:17:00	02:16:19:00	SERVICE DEPARTMENT DESPITE
02:16:19:00	02:16:23:00	HAVING ONGOING TREATMENTS AND
02:16:23:00	02:16:24:00	INFUSIONS IN OTHER TYPES
02:16:24:00	02:16:24:00	OF HEALTH SIDE EFFECTS.
02:16:24:00	02:16:28:00	SHE HAS TO MANAGE, ROSEMARY HAS
02:16:28:00	02:16:28:00	MAINTAINED A GOOD WORK
02:16:28:00	02:16:31:00	PERFORMANCE WITH HER
02:16:31:00	02:16:31:00	ACCOMMODATIONS.
02:16:31:00	02:16:35:00	THERE WAS NO REASON WHY SHE
02:16:35:00	02:16:35:00	CANNOT CONTINUE TREATMENT WHILE
02:16:35:00	02:16:38:00	WORKING HER SCHEDULE.
02:16:38:00	02:16:39:00	I ASKED THAT REASONABLE
02:16:39:00	02:16:42:00	ACCOMMODATIONS BE PROVIDED FOR
02:16:42:00	02:16:43:00	ROSEMARY SO THAT SHE CAN
02:16:43:00	02:16:46:00	CONTINUE WITH HER JOB WELL
02:16:46:00	02:16:46:00	RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR
02:16:46:00	02:16:50:00	CANCER YOU HAVE TO BE BOTH
02:16:50:00	02:16:50:00	PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY TOUGH
02:16:50:00	02:16:53:00	TO FIGHT ADVANCED CANCER AND
02:16:53:00	02:16:57:00	THAT'S WHAT ROSEMARY IS DOING.
02:16:57:00	02:16:58:00	WORKERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MAKE
02:16:58:00	02:17:01:00	A DECISION ABOUT THEIR HEALTH
02:17:01:00	02:17:04:00	OR THEIR JOB.
02:17:04:00	02:17:05:00	ROSEMARY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO
02:17:05:00	02:17:08:00	CONTINUE TO WORK WITH
02:17:08:00	02:17:09:00	ACCOMMODATIONS AND PURSUE
02:17:09:00	02:17:13:00	TREATMENT WITHOUT THE TRIP,
02:17:13:00	02:17:13:00	WITHOUT THE THREAT OF ADVERSE
02:17:13:00	02:17:16:00	EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS.
02:17:16:00	02:17:17:00	I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN
02:17:17:00	02:17:20:00	ME TODAY IN SUPPORT OF ROSEMARY
02:17:20:00	02:17:24:00	TO RESPECTFULLY ASK INSPECTION
02:17:24:00	02:17:24:00	INSPECTIONAL SERVICES TO SHOW
02:17:24:00	02:17:27:00	COMPASSION PASSION AND TO LET
02:17:27:00	02:17:30:00	HER GET BACK TO WORK.
02:17:30:00	02:17:31:00	THIS IS ABOUT DIGNITY FOR A
02:17:31:00	02:17:34:00	CITY EMPLOYEE.
02:17:34:00	02:17:35:00	DON'T LET ANYONE TELL US WE'RE
02:17:35:00	02:17:38:00	NOT ALLOWED TO STAND UP AND
02:17:38:00	02:17:38:00	FIGHT ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE
02:17:38:00	02:17:41:00	WITHOUT A VOICE IN CITY
02:17:41:00	02:17:42:00	GOVERNMENT.
02:17:42:00	02:17:42:00	THAT'S EXACTLY THE JOB OF THE
02:17:42:00	02:17:43:00	CITY COUNCIL.
02:17:43:00	02:17:46:00	WE STAND UP FOR PEOPLE WHEN
02:17:46:00	02:17:47:00	THEY DON'T HAVE ANY VOICE AT
02:17:47:00	02:17:47:00	ALL.
02:17:47:00	02:17:49:00	THAT'S OUR JOB.
02:17:49:00	02:17:50:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:17:50:00	02:17:51:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:17:51:00	02:17:54:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY OF THE
02:17:54:00	02:17:54:00	COUNCILOR FOR JOURNEY OF THE
02:17:54:00	02:17:54:00	FLOOR.
02:17:54:00	02:17:58:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:17:58:00	02:17:58:00	THANK YOU.
02:17:58:00	02:17:59:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ADDED ME AS A
02:17:59:00	02:17:59:00	CO-SPONSOR.
02:17:59:00	02:18:01:00	WELL, ROSEMARY IS A RESIDENT
02:18:01:00	02:18:02:00	OF DISTRICT THREE AND I HAVE
02:18:02:00	02:18:05:00	SPOKE WITH HER ON THE PHONE AS
02:18:05:00	02:18:06:00	WELL AS WITH HER UNION AND
02:18:06:00	02:18:08:00	FOLKS THAT I SEE AT THE END
02:18:08:00	02:18:09:00	OF THE DAY ROSEMARY JUST NEEDS
02:18:09:00	02:18:09:00	TIME.
02:18:09:00	02:18:09:00	SHE'S RECOVERING.
02:18:09:00	02:18:13:00	SHE JUST HAD AN ARM SURGERY
02:18:13:00	02:18:14:00	PART OF IT THE UNION SHE
02:18:14:00	02:18:16:00	BELONGS TO IS GETTING A
02:18:16:00	02:18:17:00	QUALIFICATION THAT IS ACTUALLY
02:18:17:00	02:18:20:00	NOT EVEN RELEVANT TO THE JOB
02:18:20:00	02:18:21:00	SHE DOES AT THE MOMENT BUT SHE
02:18:21:00	02:18:21:00	CANNOT EVEN OPEN THE TEXTBOOK
02:18:21:00	02:18:24:00	WITH HER HAND HYBRID THE HYBRID
02:18:24:00	02:18:28:00	ACCOMMODATIONS ARE MADE FOR
02:18:28:00	02:18:28:00	EXACT INSTANCES SUCH AS THIS.
02:18:28:00	02:18:31:00	IT'S NOT MADE FOR THE HEALTHY
02:18:31:00	02:18:32:00	ABLE BODIED PERSON TO BE ABLE
02:18:32:00	02:18:33:00	TO BE HOME AND PUT THEIR FEET
02:18:33:00	02:18:36:00	UP AND WORK FROM HOME.
02:18:36:00	02:18:37:00	IT'S FOR INSTANCES SUCH AS THIS
02:18:37:00	02:18:39:00	WHERE SOMEONE'S BATTLING
02:18:39:00	02:18:40:00	CANCER CANNOT HAVE THE ENERGY
02:18:40:00	02:18:41:00	TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY BUT
02:18:41:00	02:18:43:00	STILL PRODUCES SOME OF THE BEST
02:18:43:00	02:18:43:00	WORK OUT OF THAT DEPARTMENT
02:18:43:00	02:18:44:00	OF ANYBODY.
02:18:44:00	02:18:47:00	AND SO I, I DO BELIEVE I KNOW
02:18:47:00	02:18:50:00	THAT MEDDLING IN OUR ISSUES IS
02:18:50:00	02:18:50:00	NOT SOMETHING THE
02:18:50:00	02:18:53:00	COUNCIL SHOULD BE INVOLVED WITH
02:18:53:00	02:18:54:00	ALL THE TIME.
02:18:54:00	02:18:54:00	HOWEVER, IN THIS CASE I STILL
02:18:54:00	02:18:57:00	THINK AS A RESIDENT DISTRICT
02:18:57:00	02:18:58:00	THREE AND YOU ALL MAY FIND OUT
02:18:58:00	02:18:59:00	ONE DAY WHEN A RESIDENT IN YOUR
02:18:59:00	02:19:01:00	DISTRICT COMES UP AND HAS AN
02:19:01:00	02:19:02:00	ISSUE LIKE THIS THAT YOU DO
02:19:02:00	02:19:05:00	WANT TO SPEAK FOR THEM.
02:19:05:00	02:19:06:00	RIGHT?
02:19:06:00	02:19:06:00	THESE ARE EXACTLY AS
02:19:06:00	02:19:06:00	COUNCIL FLYNN INPUT.
02:19:06:00	02:19:09:00	THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU DO
02:19:09:00	02:19:10:00	WANT TO SPEAK UP FOR AND MAKE
02:19:10:00	02:19:11:00	SURE THAT YOU ARE THERE VOICE
02:19:11:00	02:19:13:00	FOR THEM AND SO WHILE WE CANNOT
02:19:13:00	02:19:16:00	FORCE THIS TO HAPPEN I HOPE
02:19:16:00	02:19:17:00	THAT THOSE IN H.R. THAT I SEE
02:19:17:00	02:19:21:00	HERE ARE PLEASED TO PLEASE
02:19:21:00	02:19:21:00	INITIATE THE HYBRID
02:19:21:00	02:19:22:00	ACCOMMODATIONS BACK FOR
02:19:22:00	02:19:24:00	ROSEMARY AND JUST GIVE HER TIME
02:19:24:00	02:19:26:00	AND SHE WILL GET BACK TO A FULL
02:19:26:00	02:19:29:00	WORKFORCE WHEN AND IF SHE IS
02:19:29:00	02:19:29:00	ABLE TO WHEN BODY ALLOWS HER.
02:19:29:00	02:19:30:00	THANK YOU.
02:19:30:00	02:19:30:00	THANK YOU.
02:19:30:00	02:19:32:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES IT AS A
02:19:32:00	02:19:33:00	PARTY OF THE FLOOR.
02:19:33:00	02:19:33:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:19:33:00	02:19:36:00	I HAVEN'T HAD THE PRIVILEGE
02:19:36:00	02:19:36:00	OF MEETING ROSEMARY.
02:19:36:00	02:19:37:00	I WISH HER A SPEEDY
02:19:37:00	02:19:40:00	RECOVERY GENERALLY I'M A
02:19:40:00	02:19:40:00	PROPONENT OF THE HYBRID MODEL
02:19:40:00	02:19:43:00	ESPECIALLY IF IT IS CLASSIFIED
02:19:43:00	02:19:44:00	AS A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION.
02:19:44:00	02:19:47:00	I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS IN THIS
02:19:47:00	02:19:48:00	CASE I QUITE FRANKLY DON'T HAVE
02:19:48:00	02:19:50:00	ANY OF THE DETAILS OF THIS
02:19:50:00	02:19:51:00	CASE.
02:19:51:00	02:19:51:00	I'VE STOOD UP ON SIMILAR
02:19:51:00	02:19:54:00	RESOLUTIONS WHERE I'VE
02:19:54:00	02:19:58:00	CAUTIONED COLLEAGUES ON THE
02:19:58:00	02:19:59:00	TOPIC OF GETTING INVOLVED IN
02:19:59:00	02:20:02:00	VERY COMPLEX H.R.
02:20:02:00	02:20:03:00	OR PERSONNEL MATTERS WITH A
02:20:03:00	02:20:05:00	SIMPLE YES OR NO VOTE.
02:20:05:00	02:20:06:00	THERE IS A PROCESS IN PLACE
02:20:06:00	02:20:06:00	WITH AN H.R.
02:20:06:00	02:20:09:00	WITH MULTIPLE LAYERS.
02:20:09:00	02:20:10:00	THERE'S INVESTIGATIONS.
02:20:10:00	02:20:11:00	I KNOW THAT THERE MAY BE SOME I
02:20:11:00	02:20:13:00	ACTUALLY DON'T EVEN KNOW IF
02:20:13:00	02:20:14:00	THERE'S A UNION INVOLVED IN
02:20:14:00	02:20:17:00	THIS AND SO BECAUSE OF THOSE
02:20:17:00	02:20:18:00	REASONS I'LL BE VOTING PRESENT
02:20:18:00	02:20:18:00	ON THIS.
02:20:18:00	02:20:21:00	BUT I DO WISH ROSEMARY AGAIN A
02:20:21:00	02:20:21:00	VERY SPEEDY RECOVERY AND WITH
02:20:21:00	02:20:22:00	GREAT RESPECT AND ADMIRATION
02:20:22:00	02:20:25:00	FOR MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE
02:20:25:00	02:20:25:00	ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF THEIR
02:20:25:00	02:20:29:00	CONSTITUENTS I JUST WILL BE
02:20:29:00	02:20:30:00	VOTING PRESENT ON THIS.
02:20:30:00	02:20:30:00	THANK YOU.
02:20:30:00	02:20:31:00	THANK YOU GUYS RECORD AS A TO
02:20:31:00	02:20:32:00	AND NOT TO REPEAT BUT THAT'S
02:20:32:00	02:20:32:00	IT.
02:20:32:00	02:20:33:00	I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I
02:20:33:00	02:20:36:00	CONCUR AND ON THIS ISSUE WHERE
02:20:36:00	02:20:40:00	THAT SPECIFIC ABOUT AN EMPLOYEE
02:20:40:00	02:20:41:00	I IT IS I THINK IS THE BEST
02:20:41:00	02:20:44:00	INTEREST OF WHAT'S THE DIRECT
02:20:44:00	02:20:45:00	BUSINESS OF THIS COUNCIL THAT I
02:20:45:00	02:20:48:00	ALSO WISH HER WELL AND THINK
02:20:48:00	02:20:51:00	THAT INDIVIDUAL MATTERS THIS
02:20:51:00	02:20:52:00	BODY SHOULD BE NOT BE DELVING
02:20:52:00	02:20:55:00	INTO WHILE BEING ABLE TO
02:20:55:00	02:20:55:00	ADVOCATE MORE BROADLY FOR
02:20:55:00	02:20:59:00	POLICIES THAT SUPPORT THOSE WHO
02:20:59:00	02:20:59:00	NEED IT.
02:20:59:00	02:21:00:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONCERN
02:21:00:00	02:21:00:00	FOR AN INJURY.
02:21:00:00	02:21:02:00	ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:21:02:00	02:21:03:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:21:03:00	02:21:06:00	I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT,
02:21:06:00	02:21:07:00	YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL
02:21:07:00	02:21:10:00	LIKE FOR PRESIDENT TO SORT
02:21:10:00	02:21:10:00	OF ABSOLVE THEMSELVES OF THE
02:21:10:00	02:21:14:00	RESPONSIBILITY OF ACTUALLY
02:21:14:00	02:21:14:00	SHOWING TRANSPARENCY ON THIS
02:21:14:00	02:21:14:00	FLOOR.
02:21:14:00	02:21:18:00	AND WHEN I'VE WHEN I VOTED FOR
02:21:18:00	02:21:18:00	PRESIDENT, I THINK FOR ME I CAN
02:21:18:00	02:21:19:00	SPEAK FOR MYSELF.
02:21:19:00	02:21:22:00	IT'S BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW
02:21:22:00	02:21:22:00	ENOUGH ABOUT SOMETHING AND I
02:21:22:00	02:21:23:00	HAVE TO ACTUALLY GO RESEARCH
02:21:23:00	02:21:25:00	AND FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE I
02:21:25:00	02:21:29:00	COULD TAKE A POSITION BUT ALSO
02:21:29:00	02:21:29:00	I'VE SEEN BOTH SIDES I'VE SEEN
02:21:29:00	02:21:33:00	PEOPLE HERE SAY THAT WE CAN'T
02:21:33:00	02:21:33:00	GET INVOLVED IN IT.
02:21:33:00	02:21:36:00	I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DO IT OTHER
02:21:36:00	02:21:37:00	WAYS.
02:21:37:00	02:21:37:00	SO FOR EXAMPLE WRITE LETTERS
02:21:37:00	02:21:40:00	AND THEN HAVE COLLEAGUES AND
02:21:40:00	02:21:41:00	FOR THE SAKE OF LIKE FREEDOM
02:21:41:00	02:21:41:00	OF INFORMATION ACT HAVE
02:21:41:00	02:21:44:00	COLLEAGUES SIGN AND THEN PUT IT
02:21:44:00	02:21:45:00	ON RECORD, PUT IT IN
02:21:45:00	02:21:45:00	COMMUNICATIONS SO THAT IT'S
02:21:45:00	02:21:48:00	TRANSPARENT.
02:21:48:00	02:21:49:00	BUT I'VE SEEN THAT TOO.
02:21:49:00	02:21:49:00	SO I DON'T KNOW IF RESOLUTION
02:21:49:00	02:21:52:00	AND I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THAT A
02:21:52:00	02:21:53:00	RESOLUTION IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY
02:21:53:00	02:21:55:00	OR THE WRONG WAY TECHNICALLY
02:21:55:00	02:21:56:00	LEGALLY IT'S NOT.
02:21:56:00	02:22:00:00	HOWEVER, WE HAVE VOTED ON
02:22:00:00	02:22:00:00	RESOLUTIONS WHERE WE'RE JUST
02:22:00:00	02:22:00:00	MAKING A STATEMENT.
02:22:00:00	02:22:04:00	WE'RE JUST SAYING THIS IS HOW
02:22:04:00	02:22:05:00	WE FEEL WE SUPPORT A THING
02:22:05:00	02:22:07:00	ALTHOUGH WE KNOW IT'S NOT
02:22:07:00	02:22:07:00	LEGALLY BINDING.
02:22:07:00	02:22:11:00	SO I WILL BE VOTING YES BECAUSE
02:22:11:00	02:22:11:00	THAT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S THE
02:22:11:00	02:22:15:00	DECENT THING TO JUST SAY YEAH,
02:22:15:00	02:22:16:00	ON RECORD I SUPPORT THIS ALSO I
02:22:16:00	02:22:18:00	KNOW THAT LEGALLY IT'S NOT
02:22:18:00	02:22:19:00	BINDING.
02:22:19:00	02:22:19:00	THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING
02:22:19:00	02:22:20:00	ABOUT IT BUT IT'S JUST A
02:22:20:00	02:22:22:00	STATEMENT.
02:22:22:00	02:22:23:00	BUT YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAT
02:22:23:00	02:22:24:00	WITH COMMUNICATIONS AND YOU
02:22:24:00	02:22:24:00	COULD HAVE DONE THAT WITH A
02:22:24:00	02:22:27:00	LETTER AND SO HOPEFULLY MOVING
02:22:27:00	02:22:31:00	FORWARD YOU WILL BE DO IT
02:22:31:00	02:22:31:00	PROPERLY.
02:22:31:00	02:22:31:00	BUT TODAY I SUPPORT IT.
02:22:31:00	02:22:34:00	I WILL SAY YES BUT YEAH,
02:22:34:00	02:22:35:00	LEGALLY IT'S IT'S WRONG.
02:22:35:00	02:22:35:00	IT'S OFF.
02:22:35:00	02:22:38:00	THANK YOU.
02:22:38:00	02:22:39:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:22:39:00	02:22:40:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YOU HAVE THE
02:22:40:00	02:22:41:00	FLOOR.
02:22:41:00	02:22:42:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:22:42:00	02:22:45:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I I HAVE NEVER
02:22:45:00	02:22:46:00	VOTED PRESENT ON ANYTHING AND
02:22:46:00	02:22:49:00	I'VE TOLD PEOPLE I WOULD NOT.
02:22:49:00	02:22:49:00	I HAVE NOT.
02:22:49:00	02:22:50:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDEZ INNOCENT
02:22:50:00	02:22:53:00	BUT I BUT I WILL BE VOTING
02:22:53:00	02:22:56:00	PRESENT ON THIS IN PART BECAUSE
02:22:56:00	02:22:57:00	I'M NOT SURE WE SHOULD BE.
02:22:57:00	02:22:58:00	I'M SORRY.
02:22:58:00	02:23:01:00	YEAH.
02:23:01:00	02:23:02:00	NO, NO, IT'S IT'S A WHEREBY WE
02:23:02:00	02:23:03:00	WERE JUST WE WERE JUST JOKING.
02:23:03:00	02:23:07:00	THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE THAT YOU
02:23:07:00	02:23:11:00	KNOW HERE YOU KNOW, I.
02:23:11:00	02:23:12:00	I DON'T I THINK I'VE SPOKEN ON
02:23:12:00	02:23:14:00	THE FLOOR BEFORE WHERE THERE'S
02:23:14:00	02:23:15:00	A WHOLE YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
02:23:15:00	02:23:18:00	GRIEVANCE PROCESS AND THERE ARE
02:23:18:00	02:23:21:00	YOU KNOW, MATTERS TO BE WORKED
02:23:21:00	02:23:21:00	OUT.
02:23:21:00	02:23:22:00	I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE
02:23:22:00	02:23:25:00	ON EMPLOYMENT MATTERS FOR US TO
02:23:25:00	02:23:26:00	WEIGH IN LIKE THIS.
02:23:26:00	02:23:27:00	I DO WANT TO THANK
02:23:27:00	02:23:29:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD FOR FOR
02:23:29:00	02:23:30:00	SPEAKING TO THE UNION AND DOING
02:23:30:00	02:23:32:00	THAT KIND OF OUTREACH.
02:23:32:00	02:23:33:00	I STILL DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT
02:23:33:00	02:23:37:00	THIS TO TO TO VOTE ON IT.
02:23:37:00	02:23:38:00	I'M NOT GOING TO OPPOSE IT BUT
02:23:38:00	02:23:40:00	I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO SUPPORT
02:23:40:00	02:23:41:00	IT SO I WILL BE VOTING PRESENT.
02:23:41:00	02:23:41:00	THANK YOU.
02:23:41:00	02:23:41:00	THANK YOU.
02:23:41:00	02:23:45:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:23:45:00	02:23:46:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY WELL BEFORE I
02:23:46:00	02:23:47:00	GO TO KEVIN MURPHY COMES IN
02:23:47:00	02:23:49:00	HERE AND THEN I'LL GO TO BACK
02:23:49:00	02:23:50:00	TO YOU.
02:23:50:00	02:23:50:00	THAT'S MURPHY COMES TO MEJIA
02:23:50:00	02:23:51:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:23:51:00	02:23:52:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:23:52:00	02:23:53:00	AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE THINGS
02:23:53:00	02:23:56:00	AS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
02:23:56:00	02:23:57:00	RIGHT.
02:23:57:00	02:23:57:00	SO WE'VE BEEN FUNCTIONING
02:23:57:00	02:23:58:00	WITHIN THIS ITERATION OF THE
02:23:58:00	02:24:00:00	BODY FOR ALMOST A YEAR AND A
02:24:00:00	02:24:01:00	HALF AND I THINK
02:24:01:00	02:24:01:00	COUNCILOR ANDERSON MAKES A
02:24:01:00	02:24:04:00	GREAT POINT IN TERMS
02:24:04:00	02:24:05:00	OF SOMETIMES WE DO THIS,
02:24:05:00	02:24:05:00	SOMETIMES WE DO THAT.
02:24:05:00	02:24:08:00	I THINK WE ARE WITHIN THE LAST
02:24:08:00	02:24:08:00	SIX MONTHS THAT WE HAVE LEFT
02:24:08:00	02:24:11:00	WITH THIS ITERATION BEFORE WE
02:24:11:00	02:24:12:00	MOVE THROUGH, I THINK THAT WE
02:24:12:00	02:24:15:00	COULD ALL BENEFIT FROM HAVING A
02:24:15:00	02:24:15:00	VERY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
02:24:15:00	02:24:19:00	OF WHAT THIS RESOLUTION LOOKS
02:24:19:00	02:24:19:00	LIKE.
02:24:19:00	02:24:22:00	I JUST FEEL LIKE BECAUSE THEN
02:24:22:00	02:24:23:00	THAT WAY WE HAVE A STANDARD AND
02:24:23:00	02:24:26:00	RIGHT NOW IT JUST FEELS LIKE
02:24:26:00	02:24:26:00	EVERY SINGLE TIME WE COME HERE
02:24:26:00	02:24:30:00	AND I'M LIKE OKAY WELL THIS WAY
02:24:30:00	02:24:31:00	I JUST LET'S JUST LIKE FIGURE
02:24:31:00	02:24:34:00	IT OUT, COME UP WITH A MEMO,
02:24:34:00	02:24:37:00	TALK TO THE COLLEAGUES OR DO A
02:24:37:00	02:24:38:00	LITTLE WORK IN SESSION WHATEVER
02:24:38:00	02:24:38:00	WE NEED TO DO COME UP WITH SOME
02:24:38:00	02:24:41:00	TERMS AND AGREEMENTS OF LIKE
02:24:41:00	02:24:42:00	WHAT ARE THE TYPES
02:24:42:00	02:24:42:00	OF RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE GOING
02:24:42:00	02:24:45:00	TO BE ACCEPTABLE ON THE FLOOR,
02:24:45:00	02:24:45:00	WHAT CONSTITUTES THIS, THAT OR
02:24:45:00	02:24:46:00	THE OTHER.
02:24:46:00	02:24:49:00	SO THEN THAT WAY WHEN WE FIND
02:24:49:00	02:24:50:00	OURSELVES IN THESE SITUATIONS
02:24:50:00	02:24:53:00	THERE IS A STANDARD BUT RIGHT
02:24:53:00	02:24:57:00	NOW WE HAVE YET TO HAVE THAT IT
02:24:57:00	02:25:00:00	FEELS LIKE BECAUSE IT FEELS
02:25:00:00	02:25:00:00	SOMETIMES DIFFERENT STROKES FOR
02:25:00:00	02:25:01:00	DIFFERENT FOLKS AND DIFFERENT
02:25:01:00	02:25:04:00	THINGS FOR DIFFERENT THINGS AND
02:25:04:00	02:25:07:00	I WOULD APPRECIATE SOME
02:25:07:00	02:25:08:00	STANDARD THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE
02:25:08:00	02:25:11:00	UPON AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO
02:25:11:00	02:25:15:00	AS WE MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE IT
02:25:15:00	02:25:18:00	JUST GETS A LITTLE BIT MESSY
02:25:18:00	02:25:22:00	WHEN WE DON'T HAVE SOMETHING
02:25:22:00	02:25:22:00	THAT WE CAN POINT TO.
02:25:22:00	02:25:25:00	SO I THINK MOVING FORWARD NEXT
02:25:25:00	02:25:26:00	SIX MONTHS LET'S JUST FIGURE IT
02:25:26:00	02:25:29:00	OUT AND NOT KEEP DOING THIS.
02:25:29:00	02:25:30:00	THANK YOU CASMIR I HAVE
02:25:30:00	02:25:32:00	CAUTIONED AGAINST THIS APPROACH
02:25:32:00	02:25:36:00	FOR INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE MATTERS
02:25:36:00	02:25:36:00	.
02:25:36:00	02:25:37:00	YOU HAVE A HEARING ORDER THAT
02:25:37:00	02:25:37:00	TALKED ABOUT THEM GENERALLY
02:25:37:00	02:25:40:00	ABOUT HIRING AND FIRING
02:25:40:00	02:25:40:00	PRACTICES.
02:25:40:00	02:25:40:00	I THINK THOSE GENERAL
02:25:40:00	02:25:43:00	CONVERSATIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
02:25:43:00	02:25:44:00	I HAVE NOT WANTED TO STIFLE THE
02:25:44:00	02:25:47:00	VOICE OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THEIR
02:25:47:00	02:25:48:00	FILINGS WHICH IS WHY I HAVE NOT
02:25:48:00	02:25:50:00	LOOKED AND STATED RULE FIVE
02:25:50:00	02:25:51:00	PREVENTS THE BLOCKING BECAUSE
02:25:51:00	02:25:51:00	IT DOESN'T HAVE A DIRECT
02:25:51:00	02:25:55:00	BEARING ON THE BUSINESS OF THE
02:25:55:00	02:25:55:00	COUNCIL.
02:25:55:00	02:25:58:00	THESE INDIVIDUAL DISPUTES.
02:25:58:00	02:26:01:00	HOWEVER I DO TAKE YOUR POINT TO
02:26:01:00	02:26:02:00	TO HEART ABOUT HAVING SOME
02:26:02:00	02:26:05:00	FLAHERTY BASED ON CONVERSATIONS
02:26:05:00	02:26:06:00	WITH OUR COUNCILOR HERE ON THIS
02:26:06:00	02:26:09:00	BALL WITH MEGHAN AND OUR
02:26:09:00	02:26:10:00	CENTRAL STAFF DIRECTOR AND IN
02:26:10:00	02:26:13:00	TALKING TO CORPORATION
02:26:13:00	02:26:13:00	COUNCILOR I DO NOT WANT TO
02:26:13:00	02:26:14:00	SILENCE THE VOICE OF ANYONE ON
02:26:14:00	02:26:18:00	THIS COUNCIL BUT I ALSO WANT TO
02:26:18:00	02:26:18:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE USING OUR
02:26:18:00	02:26:19:00	TIME HERE PROPERLY.
02:26:19:00	02:26:21:00	THERE ARE DIFFERENT AVENUES
02:26:21:00	02:26:22:00	OF ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO
02:26:22:00	02:26:22:00	ARE IN NEED OF SUPPORT.
02:26:22:00	02:26:26:00	MANY OF THE CLAIMS OF WHICH
02:26:26:00	02:26:26:00	HAVE BEEN MERITORIOUS MYSELF
02:26:26:00	02:26:29:00	HAVING DRAFTED A LETTER IN
02:26:29:00	02:26:30:00	SUPPORT OF SOMEONE WHO IS
02:26:30:00	02:26:33:00	EXPERIENCING AN EMPLOYEE ISSUE
02:26:33:00	02:26:34:00	BUT IS IT WITHIN THE CONFINES
02:26:34:00	02:26:37:00	OF A DIANELLA CHAMBER?
02:26:37:00	02:26:38:00	IS THAT HOW WE SHOULD BE
02:26:38:00	02:26:39:00	SPENDING OUR TIME HERE ON
02:26:39:00	02:26:41:00	INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE MATTERS
02:26:41:00	02:26:46:00	THAT ARE NOT WITHIN OUR PURVIEW
02:26:46:00	02:26:46:00	?
02:26:46:00	02:26:46:00	I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
02:26:46:00	02:26:47:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:26:47:00	02:26:48:00	COUNCILOR DARKENING OF THE
02:26:48:00	02:26:49:00	FLOOR PER RULE FIVE I DON'T
02:26:49:00	02:26:50:00	THINK THIS IS PROPERLY BEFORE
02:26:50:00	02:26:53:00	THE BODY AND BECAUSE I THINK IF
02:26:53:00	02:26:56:00	WE LOOK AT 17 G OF THE CITY
02:26:56:00	02:26:59:00	CHARTER WE I DON'T THINK THIS
02:26:59:00	02:27:00:00	IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY SO
02:27:00:00	02:27:03:00	I WILL BE OBJECTING TO A VOTE
02:27:03:00	02:27:03:00	TODAY.
02:27:03:00	02:27:04:00	OKAY.
02:27:04:00	02:27:04:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN IS OBJECTING
02:27:04:00	02:27:07:00	TO A VOTE IN THIS MATTER WILL
02:27:07:00	02:27:11:00	BE SENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON I
02:27:11:00	02:27:14:00	MUST ASK YOU WHY NOT?
02:27:14:00	02:27:15:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY THERE HAS BEEN
02:27:15:00	02:27:18:00	AN OBJECTION AND I AM SENDING
02:27:18:00	02:27:22:00	THIS DOCKET TO THE COMMITTEE ON
02:27:22:00	02:27:23:00	LABOR ON LABOR WORKFORCE AND
02:27:23:00	02:27:26:00	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
02:27:26:00	02:27:27:00	THIS IS IN COMMITTEE.
02:27:27:00	02:27:31:00	THANK YOU MR. CLERK.
02:27:31:00	02:27:31:00	COULD I HAVE TWO OTHER
02:27:31:00	02:27:33:00	COLLEAGUES BEFORE ME BECAUSE
02:27:33:00	02:27:34:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY SO YOU HAVE
02:27:34:00	02:27:37:00	RAISED A POINT OF ORDER ABOUT
02:27:37:00	02:27:38:00	SPEAKING.
02:27:38:00	02:27:41:00	I DISAGREE WITH YOUR POINT
02:27:41:00	02:27:41:00	OF ORDER.
02:27:41:00	02:27:42:00	I HAVE RULED AGAINST YOUR POINT
02:27:42:00	02:27:42:00	OF ORDER.
02:27:42:00	02:27:45:00	I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE
02:27:45:00	02:27:45:00	SPEAKING IF SOMEONE HAS AN
02:27:45:00	02:27:48:00	OBJECTION AND IT IS THE
02:27:48:00	02:27:49:00	OBJECTION HAS BEEN MADE THE
02:27:49:00	02:27:50:00	DOCKET HAS BEEN WILL BE SENT TO
02:27:50:00	02:27:52:00	COMMITTEE AND SO THAT DOCKET IS
02:27:52:00	02:27:52:00	SENT TO COMMITTEE.
02:27:52:00	02:27:55:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE WE
02:27:55:00	02:27:56:00	ARE NOW ON TO GREEN SHEETS
02:27:56:00	02:27:59:00	BEFORE WE MOVE TO GREEN SHEETS
02:27:59:00	02:27:59:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR
02:27:59:00	02:28:02:00	NAME TO A VOTE OR TWO?
02:28:02:00	02:28:06:00	I WOULD LIKE TO MOTION TO
02:28:06:00	02:28:06:00	RECONSIDER A VOTE OR ADD THEIR
02:28:06:00	02:28:10:00	NAME TO A DOCKET THAT WHEN THEY
02:28:10:00	02:28:14:00	WERE OUT OF CHAMBERS THE CHAIR
02:28:14:00	02:28:15:00	RECOGNIZES COMPANY ENGINEERS
02:28:15:00	02:28:20:00	AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:28:20:00	02:28:20:00	THANK YOU.
02:28:20:00	02:28:23:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I THINK A
02:28:23:00	02:28:26:00	MOTION TO RECONSIDER GET A
02:28:26:00	02:28:29:00	SECOND HOUSE ON WHAT DOCKET TO
02:28:29:00	02:28:39:00	THE AU THE BLUE RIBBON BUT 1209
02:28:39:00	02:28:43:00	OKAY, SO THERE IS A MOTION TO
02:28:43:00	02:28:44:00	RECONSIDER ON THE FLOOR THE
02:28:44:00	02:28:47:00	SECOND IN OAK ALL IN FAVOR
02:28:47:00	02:28:47:00	OF SUPPORTING THE MOTION TO
02:28:47:00	02:28:48:00	RECONSIDER SAY I I ALL OPPOSING
02:28:48:00	02:28:51:00	NAY I HAVE IT YOUR VOTE WAS IN
02:28:51:00	02:28:54:00	THE MY VOTE WAS NO AND YOU
02:28:54:00	02:28:55:00	WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE
02:28:55:00	02:28:55:00	TO A YES.
02:28:55:00	02:28:55:00	OKAY.
02:28:55:00	02:28:58:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:28:58:00	02:28:58:00	CORRECT THE RECORD?
02:28:58:00	02:29:02:00	I DID SOME RESEARCH SO I
02:29:02:00	02:29:02:00	COUNCILOR FINE.
02:29:02:00	02:29:02:00	OKAY.
02:29:02:00	02:29:02:00	THANK YOU.
02:29:02:00	02:29:05:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:29:05:00	02:29:06:00	THEIR NAME OR A MOTION TO
02:29:06:00	02:29:06:00	RECONSIDER A VOTE?
02:29:06:00	02:29:07:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:29:07:00	02:29:09:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:29:09:00	02:29:09:00	MY LIGHT WAS ON FROM EARLIER.
02:29:09:00	02:29:09:00	OKAY.
02:29:09:00	02:29:12:00	THANK YOU.
02:29:12:00	02:29:13:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:29:13:00	02:29:13:00	THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET WHEN
02:29:13:00	02:29:16:00	THEY WERE OUT OF CHAMBERS OR A
02:29:16:00	02:29:17:00	MOTION TO RECONSIDER ON A VOTE?
02:29:17:00	02:29:21:00	OKAY, WE ARE NOW ON TO THE THIS
02:29:21:00	02:29:27:00	CORRECT.
02:29:27:00	02:29:31:00	OKAY.
02:29:31:00	02:29:32:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO LATE
02:29:32:00	02:29:32:00	FILES.
02:29:32:00	02:29:33:00	I AM INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT
02:29:33:00	02:29:35:00	THEIR AND THIS IS CHANGED.
02:29:35:00	02:29:38:00	OH WELL OKAY DOES ANYONE HAVE
02:29:38:00	02:29:42:00	ANY PULLS FROM THE GREEN SHEETS
02:29:42:00	02:29:42:00	?
02:29:42:00	02:29:43:00	NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.
02:29:43:00	02:29:46:00	OKAY WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO
02:29:46:00	02:29:46:00	LATE FILES.
02:29:46:00	02:29:47:00	I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE COURT
02:29:47:00	02:29:52:00	THAT THERE ARE 79 LATE FILE
02:29:52:00	02:29:56:00	MATTERS.
02:29:56:00	02:29:59:00	TEN ARE PERSONNEL ORDERS.
02:29:59:00	02:30:02:00	AND HOW MANY ARE FIVE FROM THE
02:30:02:00	02:30:02:00	MAYOR?
02:30:02:00	02:30:05:00	TWO.
02:30:05:00	02:30:09:00	OKAY.
02:30:09:00	02:30:09:00	OKAY.
02:30:09:00	02:30:09:00	OKAY.
02:30:09:00	02:30:13:00	THANK YOU.
02:30:13:00	02:30:16:00	WE WILL NOW TAKE A VOTE TO ADD
02:30:16:00	02:30:17:00	THE TEN PERSON NOW LATE FILE
02:30:17:00	02:30:21:00	MATTERS ONTO THE RECORD ALL IN
02:30:21:00	02:30:21:00	FAVOR OF ADDING THESE TEN FILE
02:30:21:00	02:30:22:00	ADDED ON TO THE RECORD.
02:30:22:00	02:30:25:00	SAY I I I'LL OPPOSE ANY THE
02:30:25:00	02:30:28:00	AYES HAVE IT THESE FILE
02:30:28:00	02:30:28:00	PERSONAL MATTERS HAVE BEEN
02:30:28:00	02:30:29:00	ADDED TO THE RECORD.
02:30:29:00	02:30:30:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:30:30:00	02:30:37:00	THEM INTO THE RECORD AND
02:30:37:00	02:30:38:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS
02:30:38:00	02:30:38:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:38:00	02:30:41:00	COUNCILOR COLOR
02:30:41:00	02:30:42:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:42:00	02:30:45:00	COUNCILOR COLOR
02:30:45:00	02:30:45:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:45:00	02:30:46:00	COUNCILOR COLOR
02:30:46:00	02:30:49:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:49:00	02:30:49:00	COUNCILOR OR ELSE
02:30:49:00	02:30:50:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:50:00	02:30:52:00	COUNCILOR WORLD
02:30:52:00	02:30:53:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:53:00	02:30:53:00	COUNCILOR WORLD
02:30:53:00	02:30:57:00	COUNCILOR ALLUSION FOR
02:30:57:00	02:30:57:00	COUNCILOR WORLD
02:30:57:00	02:30:57:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:30:57:00	02:31:00:00	COUNCILOR A MURPHY
02:31:00:00	02:31:00:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR CENTRAL
02:31:00:00	02:31:04:00	STAFF COUNCILOR WHO IS IN
02:31:04:00	02:31:06:00	FERGUSON FOR CITY
02:31:06:00	02:31:13:00	COUNCILOR STAFF THAT'S A THANK
02:31:13:00	02:31:14:00	YOU.
02:31:14:00	02:31:15:00	WE WILL NOW TAKE A VOTE TO ADD
02:31:15:00	02:31:15:00	THESE LATE FILED PERSONNEL
02:31:15:00	02:31:18:00	MATTERS TO WE WILL NOT TAKE A
02:31:18:00	02:31:21:00	VOTE ON THESE LATE FIVE
02:31:21:00	02:31:22:00	PERSONNEL MATTERS ALL IN FAVOR
02:31:22:00	02:31:25:00	SAY I I I'LL OPPOSE ANY THE
02:31:25:00	02:31:25:00	AYES HAVE IT.
02:31:25:00	02:31:26:00	THESE LATE PERSONNEL MATTERS
02:31:26:00	02:31:28:00	HAVE PASSED.
02:31:28:00	02:31:29:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIVE LATE
02:31:29:00	02:31:32:00	FILE MATTERS FROM THE MAYOR.
02:31:32:00	02:31:33:00	MR CLERK, DOES ANYONE HAVE A
02:31:33:00	02:31:34:00	COPY OF THOSE FILES ON THEIR
02:31:34:00	02:31:35:00	DESK?
02:31:35:00	02:31:36:00	YES.
02:31:36:00	02:31:36:00	OKAY.
02:31:36:00	02:31:40:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:31:40:00	02:31:40:00	THOSE LIKE FILE MATTERS INTO
02:31:40:00	02:31:43:00	THE RECORD?
02:31:43:00	02:31:43:00	OH YEAH.
02:31:43:00	02:31:46:00	IT'S THE UNION ONE AND THEN THE
02:31:46:00	02:31:46:00	FOUR SEPARATE.
02:31:46:00	02:31:47:00	OKAY, WE THE UNION FIRST INTO
02:31:47:00	02:31:56:00	THE RECORD THE UNION.
02:31:56:00	02:31:59:00	OKAY, YOU CAN READ THOSE TWO
02:31:59:00	02:31:59:00	MATTERS.
02:31:59:00	02:32:02:00	FIRST TWO LATE FILES FROM THE
02:32:02:00	02:32:02:00	OFFICE OF THE MAYOR.
02:32:02:00	02:32:05:00	DEAR COUNCILOR I TRANSMIT HERE
02:32:05:00	02:32:06:00	WITH A SUPPLEMENTAL
02:32:06:00	02:32:06:00	APPROPRIATION ORDER FOR THE
02:32:06:00	02:32:09:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
02:32:09:00	02:32:12:00	DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 25
02:32:12:00	02:32:15:00	IN THE AMOUNT OF $394,901 TO
02:32:15:00	02:32:19:00	COVER COST IS CONTAINED WITHIN
02:32:19:00	02:32:19:00	THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
02:32:19:00	02:32:22:00	AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SCHOOL
02:32:22:00	02:32:23:00	COMMITTEE AND THE CITY
02:32:23:00	02:32:23:00	OF BOSTON AND THE
02:32:23:00	02:32:29:00	ADMINISTRATIVE GUILD CC IU
02:32:29:00	02:32:29:00	LOCAL 888 THE TERMS OF THE
02:32:29:00	02:32:32:00	CONTRACTS ARE SEPTEMBER 1ST
02:32:32:00	02:32:35:00	2024 THROUGH AUGUST 31ST, 2027.
02:32:35:00	02:32:38:00	THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE
02:32:38:00	02:32:41:00	CONTRACTS INCLUDE BASE WAGE
02:32:41:00	02:32:42:00	INCREASES OF 2% AND FLAT
02:32:42:00	02:32:47:00	AMOUNTS OF $250 $900 AND $850
02:32:47:00	02:32:48:00	TO BE GIVEN IN SEPTEMBER
02:32:48:00	02:32:50:00	OF EACH FISCAL YEAR OF THE
02:32:50:00	02:32:51:00	CONTRACT.
02:32:51:00	02:32:51:00	THE CONTRACT ALSO SUPPORTS
02:32:51:00	02:32:55:00	INCREASED OPPORTUNITY FEES FOR
02:32:55:00	02:32:55:00	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND
02:32:55:00	02:32:58:00	MENTORING.
02:32:58:00	02:32:59:00	THANK YOU.
02:32:59:00	02:33:00:00	WE WILL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD THIS
02:33:00:00	02:33:02:00	MATTER ONTO THE RECORD.
02:33:02:00	02:33:03:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
02:33:03:00	02:33:07:00	AYE THOSE OPPOSED NAY I HAVE
02:33:07:00	02:33:07:00	IT.
02:33:07:00	02:33:08:00	THIS MATTER HAS BEEN ADDED ON
02:33:08:00	02:33:08:00	TO THE RECORD.
02:33:08:00	02:33:09:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:33:09:00	02:33:09:00	THE SECOND LADY?
02:33:09:00	02:33:10:00	I WILL MATTER ON THIS ISSUE
02:33:10:00	02:33:13:00	INTO THE RECORD FROM THE OFFICE
02:33:13:00	02:33:16:00	OF THE MAYOR I TRANSMIT HERE
02:33:16:00	02:33:17:00	WITH YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO
02:33:17:00	02:33:19:00	REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR 25
02:33:19:00	02:33:20:00	APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE
02:33:20:00	02:33:25:00	FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY
02:33:25:00	02:33:26:00	$384,901 PROVIDE FUNDING FOR
02:33:26:00	02:33:29:00	THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR
02:33:29:00	02:33:29:00	FISCAL YEAR 25 INCREASES
02:33:29:00	02:33:33:00	CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE
02:33:33:00	02:33:33:00	BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN
02:33:33:00	02:33:34:00	THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE
02:33:34:00	02:33:37:00	CITY OF BOSTON AND THE
02:33:37:00	02:33:41:00	ADMINISTRATIVE GUILD SEIU LOCAL
02:33:41:00	02:33:42:00	888 THEY ARGUE THE CHARGES
02:33:42:00	02:33:42:00	AGAINST COUNCIL ARE OUTCOMES
02:33:42:00	02:33:43:00	WHERE I HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:33:43:00	02:33:44:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:33:44:00	02:33:48:00	I APOLOGIZE ALL IN FAVOR
02:33:48:00	02:33:48:00	OF ADDING FOUND THAT ON THE
02:33:48:00	02:33:51:00	RECORD SAY I ABSENT OBJECTION
02:33:51:00	02:33:52:00	THIS MATTER IS ADDED ON TO THE
02:33:52:00	02:33:54:00	RECORD COUNCILOR ARE OUT YOU
02:33:54:00	02:33:54:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:33:54:00	02:33:58:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:33:58:00	02:33:58:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:33:58:00	02:34:02:00	I'LL BE LOOKING TO SUSPEND AND
02:34:02:00	02:34:03:00	PASS THIS LATE FILE.
02:34:03:00	02:34:06:00	THESE ARE UNION CONTRACTS FOR
02:34:06:00	02:34:06:00	276 WORKERS IN THIS GUILD.
02:34:06:00	02:34:10:00	HOW DO YOU OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
02:34:10:00	02:34:13:00	TO THE UNION AROUND THIS
02:34:13:00	02:34:13:00	CONTRACT AND THESE WORKERS EARN
02:34:13:00	02:34:17:00	SOME OF THE LOWER SALARIES IN
02:34:17:00	02:34:20:00	THE CITY START IN ABOUT 48,000
02:34:20:00	02:34:22:00	AND REGION UP TO FIVE 55,000 IN
02:34:22:00	02:34:23:00	TERMS OF BASE SALARY.
02:34:23:00	02:34:26:00	THIS CONTRACT ADDRESSES SALARY
02:34:26:00	02:34:30:00	INCREASES RETROACTIVELY FOR FY
02:34:30:00	02:34:33:00	25 ARE $250 PLUS 2% IN
02:34:33:00	02:34:33:00	SEPTEMBER THROUGH 2024.
02:34:33:00	02:34:37:00	STARTING IN SEPTEMBER IT'LL BE
02:34:37:00	02:34:40:00	$900 PLUS 2% FOR YEAR TWO AND
02:34:40:00	02:34:42:00	IN FY 27 IT WILL BE $850 +22
02:34:42:00	02:34:43:00	PERCENT.
02:34:43:00	02:34:46:00	SO IT FOLLOWS THAT PATTERN THAT
02:34:46:00	02:34:47:00	THE CITY HAS CREATED FOR OUR
02:34:47:00	02:34:49:00	LOWEST WAGE WORKERS TO INCREASE
02:34:49:00	02:34:50:00	THEIR PAY BY A BASE AMOUNT AND
02:34:50:00	02:34:53:00	THEN THAT UP BY 2% ON TOP
02:34:53:00	02:34:56:00	OPERATIONAL REFORMS INCLUDE
02:34:56:00	02:34:57:00	INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
02:34:57:00	02:34:57:00	INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
02:34:57:00	02:35:01:00	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT A
02:35:01:00	02:35:01:00	MENTORSHIP PROGRAM PARENT
02:35:01:00	02:35:04:00	TENURE GIRL SCHOOL SECRETARY TO
02:35:04:00	02:35:05:00	A NEW SCHOOL SECRETARIES AND
02:35:05:00	02:35:06:00	REVISED LANGUAGE TO EXPAND THE
02:35:06:00	02:35:09:00	WINDOW FOR POSTING AND HIRING
02:35:09:00	02:35:10:00	BUT GIVE VACANCIES OVER THE
02:35:10:00	02:35:12:00	SUMMER.
02:35:12:00	02:35:13:00	THIS ALSO EXPANDING THE POOL
02:35:13:00	02:35:14:00	OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR JOB
02:35:14:00	02:35:16:00	POSITIONS RANKED GRADE 23 AND
02:35:16:00	02:35:20:00	BELOW THE ALSO UPDATED LEAVE
02:35:20:00	02:35:21:00	AND HOLIDAY BENEFITS TO MAKE
02:35:21:00	02:35:23:00	THE GUILD BENEFITS CONSISTENT
02:35:23:00	02:35:24:00	WITH THOSE OF OTHER VP'S AND
02:35:24:00	02:35:27:00	CITY OF BOSTON UNIONS.
02:35:27:00	02:35:28:00	THESE WORKERS ARE THE
02:35:28:00	02:35:28:00	ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE IN
02:35:28:00	02:35:32:00	OUR SCHOOLS THEY'RE THE PUBLIC
02:35:32:00	02:35:32:00	FACE AND FOLKS FOR OUR PARENTS
02:35:32:00	02:35:32:00	GUARDIANS.
02:35:32:00	02:35:35:00	SO IF A PARENT IS GOING TO A
02:35:35:00	02:35:36:00	SCHOOL AND THEN INTERACTING
02:35:36:00	02:35:39:00	WITH SOMEONE THAT'S MOST MORE
02:35:39:00	02:35:40:00	THAN LIKELY A GUILD MEMBER AND
02:35:40:00	02:35:40:00	THE REASON WHY WE'RE LOOKING AT
02:35:40:00	02:35:42:00	SUSPENDING PASS IS THAT THESE
02:35:42:00	02:35:43:00	ARE SOME OF THE LOWEST WAGE
02:35:43:00	02:35:46:00	WORKERS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
02:35:46:00	02:35:47:00	WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
02:35:47:00	02:35:47:00	THESE FUNDS, THESE SALARIES,
02:35:47:00	02:35:50:00	THESE BONUSES GET TO THEM AS
02:35:50:00	02:35:51:00	SOON AS POSSIBLE.
02:35:51:00	02:35:51:00	THANK YOU.
02:35:51:00	02:35:52:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR AS ANYONE
02:35:52:00	02:35:57:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER
02:35:57:00	02:35:58:00	, CASTRO SHOULD SUSPEND THE
02:35:58:00	02:36:02:00	RULES AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:36:02:00	02:36:02:00	KINDS OF AMERICANS WHERE WE
02:36:02:00	02:36:03:00	HAVE THE FLOOR JUST WANTED TO
02:36:03:00	02:36:05:00	RISE AND THANK COUNCIL RAUL FOR
02:36:05:00	02:36:06:00	BRINGING THIS FORWARD KNOWING
02:36:06:00	02:36:09:00	THAT I'VE BEEN MANY OF THE
02:36:09:00	02:36:09:00	MEMBERS HAVE REACHED OUT ASKING
02:36:09:00	02:36:10:00	WHEN WE'LL BE PASSING IT SO
02:36:10:00	02:36:12:00	HAPPY THAT WE CAN GET THIS MOVE
02:36:12:00	02:36:13:00	FORWARD AND THEY'LL ANOTHER
02:36:13:00	02:36:16:00	UNION WILL HAVE THEIR CONTRACT
02:36:16:00	02:36:17:00	IN PLACE.
02:36:17:00	02:36:17:00	SO THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
02:36:17:00	02:36:17:00	THANK YOU.
02:36:17:00	02:36:20:00	AND I WANT TO ADD THAT
02:36:20:00	02:36:20:00	COUNCILOR, WHILE I KNOW THAT
02:36:20:00	02:36:21:00	THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE
02:36:21:00	02:36:23:00	UNION AND FOR OUR WORKERS AND I
02:36:23:00	02:36:24:00	AND I AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS
02:36:24:00	02:36:27:00	NOT ALWAYS THE THE METHOD THAT
02:36:27:00	02:36:28:00	YOU'D LIKE TO DO ON THESE BUT
02:36:28:00	02:36:28:00	IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THESE
02:36:28:00	02:36:28:00	WORKERS.
02:36:28:00	02:36:32:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:36:32:00	02:36:32:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
02:36:32:00	02:36:32:00	FLOOR.
02:36:32:00	02:36:33:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:36:33:00	02:36:35:00	I ALSO WANT TO THANK
02:36:35:00	02:36:35:00	COUNCILOR ROLE.
02:36:35:00	02:36:36:00	TRADITIONALLY WE DO HAVE A
02:36:36:00	02:36:39:00	HEARING BUT I DO UNDERSTAND
02:36:39:00	02:36:40:00	THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
02:36:40:00	02:36:43:00	THESE UNION WORKERS GET THEIR
02:36:43:00	02:36:43:00	PAY AS SOON AS THEY CAN.
02:36:43:00	02:36:47:00	THEY DO A TREMENDOUS JOB
02:36:47:00	02:36:48:00	THROUGH THEIR LOW PAID WORKERS
02:36:48:00	02:36:51:00	AND THAT'S THE JOB OF THE CITY
02:36:51:00	02:36:52:00	COUNCIL IS AGAIN, IT'S
02:36:52:00	02:36:55:00	ADVOCATING FOR PEOPLE FOR
02:36:55:00	02:36:59:00	DECENT WAGES, HEALTH CARE, SAFE
02:36:59:00	02:36:59:00	WORKING CONDITIONS.
02:36:59:00	02:37:00:00	THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
02:37:00:00	02:37:03:00	ALL ABOUT WITH WITH A VOICE
02:37:03:00	02:37:04:00	OF PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT ARE
02:37:04:00	02:37:05:00	STRUGGLING INCLUDING CITY
02:37:05:00	02:37:08:00	WORKERS.
02:37:08:00	02:37:08:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:37:08:00	02:37:09:00	THANK YOU.
02:37:09:00	02:37:11:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, IS ANYONE ELSE
02:37:11:00	02:37:12:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
02:37:12:00	02:37:12:00	MATTER?
02:37:12:00	02:37:15:00	OKAY, COUNCILOR WORRELL SEEKS
02:37:15:00	02:37:15:00	PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET.
02:37:15:00	02:37:19:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I
02:37:19:00	02:37:20:00	MR QUOTE CAN YOU PLEASE CONDUCT
02:37:20:00	02:37:21:00	THE ROLL CALL VOTE THE DOTTED
02:37:21:00	02:37:33:00	NUMBER FOR THE FIRST YES ROLL
02:37:33:00	02:37:34:00	CALL VOTE ON THE ORDER OF LATE
02:37:34:00	02:37:41:00	FILE OR BY THE MERE APPROPRIATE
02:37:41:00	02:37:41:00	$384,901.
02:37:41:00	02:37:41:00	COUNCILOR BREEN YES.
02:37:41:00	02:37:45:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:37:45:00	02:37:46:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTNER.
02:37:46:00	02:37:47:00	COUNCILOR CLOSE PARTY YES.
02:37:47:00	02:37:48:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN
02:37:48:00	02:37:48:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
02:37:48:00	02:37:51:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDES HANSON
02:37:51:00	02:37:52:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
02:37:52:00	02:37:55:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
02:37:55:00	02:37:55:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:37:55:00	02:37:58:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YES.
02:37:58:00	02:37:59:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY
02:37:59:00	02:38:02:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
02:38:02:00	02:38:02:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA
02:38:02:00	02:38:06:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES AND
02:38:06:00	02:38:06:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
02:38:06:00	02:38:10:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL YES I CAN.
02:38:10:00	02:38:13:00	THERE'S NO DOCUMENTS FILED BUT
02:38:13:00	02:38:14:00	IT HAS RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
02:38:14:00	02:38:14:00	AFFIRMATIVE.
02:38:14:00	02:38:18:00	THANK YOU MR QUICK AND ON THE
02:38:18:00	02:38:21:00	SECOND DOCKET SECOND YOU LEIGH
02:38:21:00	02:38:22:00	FILE DOCKET FROM THE AD THIS
02:38:22:00	02:38:24:00	ORDER IS REDUCING THE FISCAL
02:38:24:00	02:38:27:00	YEAR 25 APPROPRIATION FOR THE
02:38:27:00	02:38:27:00	RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE
02:38:27:00	02:38:33:00	BARGAINING BY $384,901.
02:38:33:00	02:38:33:00	THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
02:38:33:00	02:38:34:00	COULD WE PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL
02:38:34:00	02:38:36:00	CALL VOTE ON THAT DOCKET?
02:38:36:00	02:38:37:00	COUNCILOR BREEN
02:38:37:00	02:38:41:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES,
02:38:41:00	02:38:42:00	COUNCILOR CARLA ZAPATA
02:38:42:00	02:38:42:00	COUNCILOR IT AS A PARTY YES.
02:38:42:00	02:38:44:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN
02:38:44:00	02:38:44:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN YES.
02:38:44:00	02:38:45:00	COUNCILOR FINANCING
02:38:45:00	02:38:48:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
02:38:48:00	02:38:48:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
02:38:48:00	02:38:49:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN
02:38:49:00	02:38:53:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:38:53:00	02:38:53:00	LOUISE YES.
02:38:53:00	02:38:53:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
02:38:53:00	02:38:56:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YES.
02:38:56:00	02:38:57:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
02:38:57:00	02:38:57:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
02:38:57:00	02:39:00:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN YES
02:39:00:00	02:39:01:00	COUNCILOR OPINIONS COUNCIL ST
02:39:01:00	02:39:04:00	CLAIR COUNCILOR S.A. AS
02:39:04:00	02:39:04:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:39:04:00	02:39:05:00	COUNCIL MEMBER YES AND
02:39:05:00	02:39:07:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL YES
02:39:07:00	02:39:08:00	COUNCILOR WU YES THIS DOCKET
02:39:08:00	02:39:11:00	HAS RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE
02:39:11:00	02:39:11:00	AFFIRMATIVE.
02:39:11:00	02:39:12:00	THANK YOU.
02:39:12:00	02:39:14:00	THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED.
02:39:14:00	02:39:14:00	OKAY.
02:39:14:00	02:39:15:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO THE REMAINING
02:39:15:00	02:39:18:00	THREE LATE FILE MATTERS FROM
02:39:18:00	02:39:18:00	THE MAYOR.
02:39:18:00	02:39:19:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:39:19:00	02:39:22:00	READ THEM INTO THE RECORD?
02:39:22:00	02:39:23:00	THIRDLY, 5 MINUTES I HEREBY
02:39:23:00	02:39:25:00	TRANSMIT FOR YOUR APPROVAL AN
02:39:25:00	02:39:26:00	ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
02:39:26:00	02:39:29:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
02:39:29:00	02:39:32:00	THE MONETARY DONATION VALUED AT
02:39:32:00	02:39:33:00	$1,000 BY NOTE DONATED BY G.W.
02:39:33:00	02:39:36:00	KAY INVESTMENTS.
02:39:36:00	02:39:36:00	THE PURPOSE OF THIS DONATION IS
02:39:36:00	02:39:39:00	TO SUPPORT SPARC PRIDE EVENT
02:39:39:00	02:39:45:00	WHICH WILL OCCUR JUNE 18TH,
02:39:45:00	02:39:46:00	2025 FOURTH FILE MEMBER WITH
02:39:46:00	02:39:48:00	THE MAYOR I HEREBY TRANSMIT FOR
02:39:48:00	02:39:49:00	YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER
02:39:49:00	02:39:49:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
02:39:49:00	02:39:53:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND AN IN-KIND
02:39:53:00	02:39:56:00	DONATION VALUED AT $4,000
02:39:56:00	02:39:56:00	REPRESENTING THE COST OF A
02:39:56:00	02:40:00:00	GOOGLE MEET BOX DONATED BY
02:40:00:00	02:40:05:00	LENOVO IN THE FIFTH FLEET FUND.
02:40:05:00	02:40:06:00	MANNA FROM THE MAYOR AND I
02:40:06:00	02:40:08:00	TRANSIT HEREBY TRANSMIT FOR
02:40:08:00	02:40:09:00	YOUR APPROVAL AN ORDER
02:40:09:00	02:40:09:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
02:40:09:00	02:40:12:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND IN IN-KIND
02:40:12:00	02:40:17:00	DONATION OF FOOD VALUED AT TWO
02:40:17:00	02:40:18:00	$2,325 DONATED BY NORTHEASTERN
02:40:18:00	02:40:18:00	UNIVERSITY.
02:40:18:00	02:40:21:00	THE PURPOSE OF THIS DONATIONS
02:40:21:00	02:40:22:00	TO SUPPORT THIS PARK
02:40:22:00	02:40:26:00	COUNCIL CHESS WHICH WILL OCCUR
02:40:26:00	02:40:28:00	MAY THROUGH AUGUST 2025.
02:40:28:00	02:40:31:00	THANK YOU.
02:40:31:00	02:40:32:00	AS AN OBJECTION TO THESE LATE
02:40:32:00	02:40:36:00	FILE MATTERS THEY ARE ADDED ON
02:40:36:00	02:40:39:00	TO THE RECORD AND NOW I AM
02:40:39:00	02:40:40:00	GOING TO SEEK SUSPENSION AND
02:40:40:00	02:40:43:00	PASSAGE OF THESE LOW DOLLAR
02:40:43:00	02:40:43:00	IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HELP
02:40:43:00	02:40:47:00	WITH THE OPERATIONS OF OUR CITY
02:40:47:00	02:40:48:00	AND HELP IN HELPING OUR
02:40:48:00	02:40:48:00	RESIDENTS.
02:40:48:00	02:40:51:00	I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF PASSING
02:40:51:00	02:40:51:00	THESE MATTERS.
02:40:51:00	02:40:55:00	SAY I WILL OPPOSE ANY THE AYES
02:40:55:00	02:40:56:00	HAVE IT.
02:40:56:00	02:40:59:00	THESE DOCKETS HAVE PASSED.
02:40:59:00	02:41:00:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO THE NEXT LATE
02:41:00:00	02:41:03:00	MY OWN MATTER MR. CLERK COULD
02:41:03:00	02:41:04:00	YOU PLEASE READ IT INTO THE
02:41:04:00	02:41:04:00	RECORD?
02:41:04:00	02:41:07:00	THE RESOLUTION IS FINE IN THIS
02:41:07:00	02:41:07:00	MATTER OFFERED BY
02:41:07:00	02:41:08:00	COUNCILOR BRIAN ROYLE
02:41:08:00	02:41:10:00	RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING
02:41:10:00	02:41:11:00	JUNETEENTH IN THE CITY
02:41:11:00	02:41:14:00	OF BOSTON.
02:41:14:00	02:41:14:00	THANK YOU.
02:41:14:00	02:41:17:00	ABSENT OBJECTION THIS
02:41:17:00	02:41:18:00	RESOLUTION IS ADDED TO OUR
02:41:18:00	02:41:22:00	DOCKET AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:41:22:00	02:41:25:00	COUNCILOR I'LL THANK YOU MADAM
02:41:25:00	02:41:25:00	PRESIDENT.
02:41:25:00	02:41:26:00	I LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:41:26:00	02:41:29:00	LOUIJEUNE AS A REGIONAL
02:41:29:00	02:41:29:00	CO-SPONSOR.
02:41:29:00	02:41:30:00	THANK YOU.
02:41:30:00	02:41:30:00	I'M SO ADDED COUNCILOR WORRELL,
02:41:30:00	02:41:33:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND I'D LIKE
02:41:33:00	02:41:36:00	TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD
02:41:36:00	02:41:37:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA AS A THIRD
02:41:37:00	02:41:37:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
02:41:37:00	02:41:38:00	COUNCILOR ALSO JUST BEND THE
02:41:38:00	02:41:42:00	RULES THAT CONCERN ME.
02:41:42:00	02:41:42:00	HE HAS A THIRD RATE NO
02:41:42:00	02:41:43:00	CO-SPONSORS SEEING IN HERE, NO
02:41:43:00	02:41:43:00	OBJECTIONS CONCERN HE ALSO
02:41:43:00	02:41:44:00	ADDED BECAUSE WHERE I HAVE THE
02:41:44:00	02:41:44:00	FLOOR AND THANK YOU MADAM
02:41:44:00	02:41:47:00	PRESIDENT FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
02:41:47:00	02:41:47:00	THIS MORNING THANK YOU TO THE
02:41:47:00	02:41:51:00	POET AND ALSO IT'S ALWAYS GREAT
02:41:51:00	02:41:51:00	TO ALWAYS UPLIFT MUSEUM
02:41:51:00	02:41:54:00	OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.
02:41:54:00	02:41:55:00	WE ALL KNOW THAT THE MUSEUM WAS
02:41:55:00	02:41:58:00	SIMPLY THE LATEST TARGET IN OUR
02:41:58:00	02:41:58:00	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S ATTACK ON
02:41:58:00	02:42:02:00	OUR CITY'S DIVERSITY EQUITY AND
02:42:02:00	02:42:02:00	INCLUSION EFFORTS.
02:42:02:00	02:42:06:00	BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP US AS A
02:42:06:00	02:42:06:00	COUNCIL WE HAVE INCREASED
02:42:06:00	02:42:07:00	FUNDING TO THE OFFICE OF BLACK
02:42:07:00	02:42:10:00	MALE ADVANCEMENT TWO YEARS IN A
02:42:10:00	02:42:10:00	ROW.
02:42:10:00	02:42:10:00	ONE OF THOSE INCREASES IS
02:42:10:00	02:42:13:00	PAYING OFF WITH THE EQUITY
02:42:13:00	02:42:14:00	STUDY ON BLACK MALES IN BOSTON
02:42:14:00	02:42:16:00	NOW ONGOING, WE MOVE FORWARD
02:42:16:00	02:42:17:00	WITH THE TASK FORCE ON
02:42:17:00	02:42:17:00	REPARATIONS.
02:42:17:00	02:42:20:00	IN ADDITION, WE'VE MADE
02:42:20:00	02:42:21:00	PROGRESS ON EQUITY IN CITY
02:42:21:00	02:42:21:00	CONTRACTS AND MORE EQUITABLE
02:42:21:00	02:42:24:00	FUNDING ON THE CAPITAL BUDGET
02:42:24:00	02:42:24:00	FOR BLACK AND BROWN
02:42:24:00	02:42:28:00	NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH SAW DECADES
02:42:28:00	02:42:28:00	OF DISINVESTMENT.
02:42:28:00	02:42:29:00	WE KNOW FROM OUR PAST THAT
02:42:29:00	02:42:32:00	EQUALITY MIGHT BE DELAYED BUT
02:42:32:00	02:42:35:00	IT WILL NOT BE DENIED SLAVERY
02:42:35:00	02:42:36:00	IN BOSTON FOR ABOUT ONE THIRD
02:42:36:00	02:42:40:00	OF OUR CITY'S HISTORY IT WAS A
02:42:40:00	02:42:40:00	FUNDAMENTAL PIECE OF THE
02:42:40:00	02:42:41:00	FOUNDATION THAT BOSTON WAS
02:42:41:00	02:42:44:00	BUILT ON BUT IN THE END WE
02:42:44:00	02:42:44:00	PREVAILED.
02:42:44:00	02:42:47:00	YET THE CHANGE IT SO MANY BLACK
02:42:47:00	02:42:48:00	ANCESTORS STILL WEIGH ON US AND
02:42:48:00	02:42:51:00	ON OUR SYSTEMS THE PROFITS
02:42:51:00	02:42:51:00	OF SLAVE TRADE PAVED THE WAY
02:42:51:00	02:42:52:00	FOR MANY OF THE BUILDINGS AND
02:42:52:00	02:42:54:00	NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE BUILT
02:42:54:00	02:42:55:00	IN BOSTON IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
02:42:55:00	02:42:59:00	OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTED
02:42:59:00	02:42:59:00	DECADES OF SEGREGATION IN
02:42:59:00	02:43:03:00	EDUCATION AND HOUSING IN OUR
02:43:03:00	02:43:03:00	CITY THAT WE ARE STILL RECKONED
02:43:03:00	02:43:07:00	WITH AND UNRAVEL UNRAVELING THE
02:43:07:00	02:43:08:00	EFFECTS OF.
02:43:08:00	02:43:09:00	BUT I ACTED THIS YEAR AMID ALL
02:43:09:00	02:43:11:00	OF THESE WILLINGTON UNRELENTING
02:43:11:00	02:43:11:00	ATTACKS FROM OUR OWN FEDERAL
02:43:11:00	02:43:15:00	GOVERNMENT THAT WE SEE HOPE IN
02:43:15:00	02:43:18:00	OUR PUTTING UP OPTIMISM OF THAT
02:43:18:00	02:43:19:00	DAY 160 YEARS AGO IT WAS
02:43:19:00	02:43:22:00	FREEDOM DELAYED BUT NOT DENIED.
02:43:22:00	02:43:26:00	WE SHALL WE SHALL OVERCOME THIS
02:43:26:00	02:43:27:00	MOMENT, THESE FEELINGS AND THIS
02:43:27:00	02:43:28:00	STRUGGLE I BEG YOU AND I'M
02:43:28:00	02:43:30:00	SEEKING SUSPEND IN THIS PASS
02:43:30:00	02:43:31:00	THIS RESOLUTION FOR JUNETEENTH.
02:43:31:00	02:43:34:00	THANK YOU.
02:43:34:00	02:43:35:00	THANK YOU.
02:43:35:00	02:43:37:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MARYLAND
02:43:37:00	02:43:38:00	AGAIN HAPPY JUNETEENTH.
02:43:38:00	02:43:38:00	THERE WILL BE A LOT OF EVENTS
02:43:38:00	02:43:41:00	HERE MARKING JUNETEENTH.
02:43:41:00	02:43:42:00	IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
02:43:42:00	02:43:42:00	THAT JUNETEENTH IS ABOUT
02:43:42:00	02:43:45:00	JUBILEE AND ABOUT JOY FOR THE
02:43:45:00	02:43:45:00	LIBERATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
02:43:45:00	02:43:49:00	FOLKS HERE IN THE CITY.
02:43:49:00	02:43:50:00	SO AND I AGAIN WANT TO UPLIFT
02:43:50:00	02:43:50:00	AND THANK AMANDA SHAY AND DR.
02:43:50:00	02:43:52:00	NOELLE TRENT FOR JOINING US
02:43:52:00	02:43:53:00	THIS MORNING AS WE MARK
02:43:53:00	02:43:56:00	JUNETEENTH HERE ON THE
02:43:56:00	02:43:56:00	COUNCIL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:43:56:00	02:43:57:00	COMES FROM HERE COMES IN HERE
02:43:57:00	02:43:59:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:43:59:00	02:44:00:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:44:00:00	02:44:03:00	THANK YOU TO KOSOVO FOR ADDING
02:44:03:00	02:44:03:00	ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
02:44:03:00	02:44:08:00	I ALWAYS GET UP AND SAY THIS
02:44:08:00	02:44:11:00	BUT I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO THEN
02:44:11:00	02:44:12:00	COUNCILOR PRESIDENT JANEY AND
02:44:12:00	02:44:15:00	MY COLLEAGUE
02:44:15:00	02:44:15:00	COUNCILOR CAMPBELL.
02:44:15:00	02:44:20:00	WE THREE HAD THE AUDACITY HERE
02:44:20:00	02:44:20:00	ON THE BOSTON CITY
02:44:20:00	02:44:21:00	COUNCIL CONSIDERATION AND
02:44:21:00	02:44:23:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN WAS STILL HERE
02:44:23:00	02:44:24:00	AT THAT TIME WHEN WE PASSED
02:44:24:00	02:44:27:00	THAT HERE ON THE COUNCIL AND I
02:44:27:00	02:44:31:00	REMEMBER HAVING TO PUSH TO MAKE
02:44:31:00	02:44:32:00	SURE THAT IT WAS A PAID HOLIDAY
02:44:32:00	02:44:35:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE
02:44:35:00	02:44:38:00	MAYOR THEN MAYOR WALSH MADE
02:44:38:00	02:44:39:00	NOTE THAT WE WOULD HAVE THEM
02:44:39:00	02:44:40:00	FIRST MAKE IT A STATE HOLIDAY.
02:44:40:00	02:44:42:00	NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT HERE WE
02:44:42:00	02:44:42:00	ARE CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH AND
02:44:42:00	02:44:46:00	FOLKS ARE ABLE TO TAKE THE DAY
02:44:46:00	02:44:47:00	OFF AND I JUST WANT TO THANK MY
02:44:47:00	02:44:49:00	PREVIOUS SISTERS IN THE SERVICE
02:44:49:00	02:44:49:00	AND THEN PRESIDENT
02:44:49:00	02:44:53:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT JANEY AND
02:44:53:00	02:44:57:00	COUNCILOR CAMPBELL FOR ME TO BE
02:44:57:00	02:44:58:00	ONE OF THEIR THIRD CO-SPONSORS
02:44:58:00	02:45:01:00	ON THAT PARTICULAR PIECE
02:45:01:00	02:45:01:00	OF LEGISLATION.
02:45:01:00	02:45:05:00	SO HAPPY JUNETEENTH AND I LOOK
02:45:05:00	02:45:05:00	FORWARD TO CELEBRATING.
02:45:05:00	02:45:06:00	THANK YOU.
02:45:06:00	02:45:06:00	THANK YOU CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
02:45:06:00	02:45:09:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
02:45:09:00	02:45:10:00	ON THIS MATTER BUT ANYONE ELSE
02:45:10:00	02:45:10:00	LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
02:45:10:00	02:45:13:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:45:13:00	02:45:13:00	THAT COUNCIL WAS GREAT IN COLOR
02:45:13:00	02:45:19:00	ZAPATA DURKAN FITZGERALD FLYNN
02:45:19:00	02:45:19:00	SORRY.
02:45:19:00	02:45:20:00	UM, JUST BECAUSE ARE YOU ARE
02:45:20:00	02:45:24:00	YOU ADDING YOUR NAME TO THE FOR
02:45:24:00	02:45:27:00	THIS TREATY YOU LIKE TO SPEAK
02:45:27:00	02:45:27:00	ON THIS?
02:45:27:00	02:45:28:00	OKAY, WELL, WE LOOK AT
02:45:28:00	02:45:35:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCILOR IS
02:45:35:00	02:45:35:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AND HE DOES HE
02:45:35:00	02:45:36:00	HANDS UP COUNCILOR BEN
02:45:36:00	02:45:37:00	PATTERSON COUNCILOR WEBER
02:45:37:00	02:45:41:00	COUNCILORS WERE ALL I MYSELF
02:45:41:00	02:45:42:00	AND ME HE HAS EXPANSION OF THE
02:45:42:00	02:45:46:00	RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS
02:45:46:00	02:45:47:00	DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I
02:45:47:00	02:45:50:00	I ALL OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE
02:45:50:00	02:45:50:00	IT.
02:45:50:00	02:45:50:00	THIS DOCKET IS PASSED
02:45:50:00	02:45:51:00	COMFORTABLY AND IF YOU'D LIKE
02:45:51:00	02:45:53:00	TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER, YOU
02:45:53:00	02:45:54:00	MAY.
02:45:54:00	02:45:54:00	YEAH.
02:45:54:00	02:45:54:00	THANK YOU.
02:45:54:00	02:45:57:00	AND I'D LIKE MY NAME TO BE
02:45:57:00	02:45:57:00	ADDED AS WELL.
02:45:57:00	02:46:00:00	I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
02:46:00:00	02:46:00:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
02:46:00:00	02:46:04:00	COUNCILOR NOW NOW MAYOR JANEY
02:46:04:00	02:46:04:00	AND ATTORNEY GENERAL CAMPBELL
02:46:04:00	02:46:08:00	FOR THEIR WORK ON BRINGING THIS
02:46:08:00	02:46:09:00	FORWARD.
02:46:09:00	02:46:12:00	IT WAS WAS THE LEADERSHIP IT
02:46:12:00	02:46:13:00	WAS THE LEADERSHIP THAT BROUGHT
02:46:13:00	02:46:19:00	US FORWARD AND HELPED HELPED
02:46:19:00	02:46:19:00	HEAL THE CITY.
02:46:19:00	02:46:20:00	IT WAS BECAUSE OF YOUR
02:46:20:00	02:46:23:00	LEADERSHIP AND MAYOR CHANEY IN
02:46:23:00	02:46:24:00	, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL NOW
02:46:24:00	02:46:24:00	ATTORNEY GENERAL.
02:46:24:00	02:46:27:00	MADAM CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO
02:46:27:00	02:46:28:00	ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE AN
02:46:28:00	02:46:31:00	AFRICAN-AMERICAN VETERANS
02:46:31:00	02:46:32:00	DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME I'VE
02:46:32:00	02:46:35:00	SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN OVER THE
02:46:35:00	02:46:39:00	LAST EIGHT YEARS WORKING WITH
02:46:39:00	02:46:39:00	THE AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS
02:46:39:00	02:46:43:00	AT THE VA BUT I DO KNOW THAT
02:46:43:00	02:46:46:00	THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY HONOR
02:46:46:00	02:46:47:00	WITH INTEGRITY, WITH
02:46:47:00	02:46:51:00	DISTINCTION AND THEY DON'T GET
02:46:51:00	02:46:54:00	THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICES
02:46:54:00	02:46:55:00	RESPECT THAT OTHER VETERANS
02:46:55:00	02:46:59:00	HAVE AND THAT'S WHY I HAVE MADE
02:46:59:00	02:47:01:00	IT A COMMITMENT TO DO
02:47:01:00	02:47:02:00	EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN AS A
02:47:02:00	02:47:06:00	AS A CITY COUNCIL TO TO SUPPORT
02:47:06:00	02:47:06:00	ALL VETERANS BUT TO ESPECIALLY
02:47:06:00	02:47:09:00	SUPPORT AFRICAN AND AMERICAN
02:47:09:00	02:47:09:00	VETERANS.
02:47:09:00	02:47:13:00	THEY THEY WERE WOUNDED.
02:47:13:00	02:47:14:00	THEY WERE KILLED.
02:47:14:00	02:47:14:00	THEY CAME BACK TO THE UNITED
02:47:14:00	02:47:17:00	STATES AND WERE STILL TREATED
02:47:17:00	02:47:20:00	WITH A LEVEL OF DISRESPECT.
02:47:20:00	02:47:21:00	AND WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU'RE
02:47:21:00	02:47:23:00	FIGHTING IN WORLD WAR ONE OR
02:47:23:00	02:47:26:00	FIGHTING WORLD WAR TWO, SAVING
02:47:26:00	02:47:27:00	SAVING DEMOCRACY AND THEN
02:47:27:00	02:47:28:00	COMING BACK TO THE UNITED
02:47:28:00	02:47:30:00	STATES AND YOU CAN'T EVEN VOTE
02:47:30:00	02:47:34:00	OR GET THE SAME LEVEL OF BASIC
02:47:34:00	02:47:35:00	SERVICES AT THE VETERAN'S
02:47:35:00	02:47:38:00	ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL WE HAVE
02:47:38:00	02:47:39:00	WE HAVE MAJOR PROBLEMS.
02:47:39:00	02:47:39:00	THAT'S WHY I CONTINUE TO
02:47:39:00	02:47:42:00	ADVOCATE AND SUPPORT AFRICAN
02:47:42:00	02:47:43:00	AMERICAN VETERANS IN OUR CITY,
02:47:43:00	02:47:46:00	IN OUR COUNTRY.
02:47:46:00	02:47:47:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:47:47:00	02:47:47:00	THANK YOU.
02:47:47:00	02:47:47:00	OKAY.
02:47:47:00	02:47:50:00	OKAY.
02:47:50:00	02:47:50:00	THIS MATTER HAS PASSED.
02:47:50:00	02:47:55:00	WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE NEXT
02:47:55:00	02:47:55:00	LATE FILING MATTER.
02:47:55:00	02:47:56:00	MR QUINN, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:47:56:00	02:47:58:00	IT INTO THE RECORD LATE FILING
02:47:58:00	02:47:58:00	MANNER OFFERED BY COUNCILOR AS
02:47:58:00	02:48:01:00	FLYNN COUNCILOR OF
02:48:01:00	02:48:02:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AND FLYNN
02:48:02:00	02:48:05:00	EMERGENCY RESOLUTION TO CONDUCT
02:48:05:00	02:48:06:00	TO CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT
02:48:06:00	02:48:08:00	INVESTIGATION INTO CITY
02:48:08:00	02:48:09:00	TERMINATIONS, RETALIATION
02:48:09:00	02:48:13:00	CLAIMS AND SUPERVISORY CONDUCT
02:48:13:00	02:48:13:00	.
02:48:13:00	02:48:14:00	THANK YOU ALL IN FAVOR
02:48:14:00	02:48:15:00	OF ORDINANCE LIKE FILE MATTER
02:48:15:00	02:48:17:00	TO THE RECORD SAY I ALL OPPOSE
02:48:17:00	02:48:21:00	ANY IS THAT IS THAT AN
02:48:21:00	02:48:24:00	OBJECTION TO ADDING THIS MATTER
02:48:24:00	02:48:28:00	WILL NOT BE ADDED TO THE DOCKET
02:48:28:00	02:48:32:00	WE ARE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA
02:48:32:00	02:48:33:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE
02:48:33:00	02:48:33:00	CONSENT AGENDA.
02:48:33:00	02:48:33:00	I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK
02:48:33:00	02:48:36:00	THAT THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONS TO
02:48:36:00	02:48:36:00	THE CONSENT AGENDA.
02:48:36:00	02:48:37:00	THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON
02:48:37:00	02:48:39:00	APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS
02:48:39:00	02:48:40:00	CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT
02:48:40:00	02:48:40:00	AGENDA.
02:48:40:00	02:48:43:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
02:48:43:00	02:48:44:00	I THANK YOU.
02:48:44:00	02:48:45:00	THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN
02:48:45:00	02:48:47:00	ADOPTED WE ARE NOW ON TO
02:48:47:00	02:48:47:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS PLEASE REMEMBER
02:48:47:00	02:48:50:00	THAT THESE ARE FOR UPCOMING
02:48:50:00	02:48:51:00	DATES AND EVENTS OBVIOUSLY
02:48:51:00	02:48:54:00	STATED A JUNETEENTH IS COMING
02:48:54:00	02:48:55:00	UP NEXT TUESDAY AT 1230 WE'LL
02:48:55:00	02:48:56:00	BE RAISING THE JUNETEENTH FLAG
02:48:56:00	02:48:58:00	HERE AT CITY HALL.
02:48:58:00	02:48:59:00	I JUST PUT OUT A CALENDAR
02:48:59:00	02:49:01:00	OF EVENTS AROUND THE CITY
02:49:01:00	02:49:02:00	HAPPENING FOR JUNETEENTH SO I
02:49:02:00	02:49:03:00	HOPE TO SEE MY COLLEAGUES AND
02:49:03:00	02:49:05:00	COMMUNITY MEMBERS THERE.
02:49:05:00	02:49:06:00	THIS SATURDAY IS A PRIDE PARADE
02:49:06:00	02:49:09:00	STARTING I BELIEVE AT 11:00 IN
02:49:09:00	02:49:09:00	THE BACK BAY.
02:49:09:00	02:49:10:00	SO I HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE OUT
02:49:10:00	02:49:13:00	THERE CELEBRATING PRIDE AND ON
02:49:13:00	02:49:14:00	SUNDAY IS THE BUNKER HILL DAY
02:49:14:00	02:49:17:00	PARADE STARTING I BELIEVE AT
02:49:17:00	02:49:17:00	12:00 IN CHARLESTOWN.
02:49:17:00	02:49:21:00	SO WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE OUT.
02:49:21:00	02:49:21:00	A REMINDER THAT AFTER THIS
02:49:21:00	02:49:25:00	MEETING WE WILL HAVE A LUNCH
02:49:25:00	02:49:29:00	AND LEARN WITH ROCA A LUNCH
02:49:29:00	02:49:29:00	WITH ROCA AND WILL BE CATERED
02:49:29:00	02:49:32:00	WHICH WILL BE CATERED BY
02:49:32:00	02:49:33:00	VITAMIN WRAPS AND THEN O'S AND
02:49:33:00	02:49:36:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
02:49:36:00	02:49:37:00	SO I WANT TO SAY SOME HAPPY
02:49:37:00	02:49:37:00	BIRTHDAYS TO ALYSSA FLORES,
02:49:37:00	02:49:40:00	SYDNEY SCANLON, EDDIE CONNELLY,
02:49:40:00	02:49:43:00	OUR CENTRAL STAFF DIRECTOR
02:49:43:00	02:49:43:00	MICHELLE GOLDBERG WHO'S
02:49:43:00	02:49:44:00	CELEBRATING THIS WEEKEND COREY
02:49:44:00	02:49:48:00	RAYNE TYLER AND I GUESS SPENCER
02:49:48:00	02:49:49:00	WEBER HAS A BIRTHDAY COMING UP.
02:49:49:00	02:49:50:00	OKAY.
02:49:50:00	02:49:51:00	YEAH.
02:49:51:00	02:49:51:00	OKAY.
02:49:51:00	02:49:51:00	SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
02:49:51:00	02:49:54:00	I DO NOT KNOW THAT HAPPY
02:49:54:00	02:49:54:00	BIRTHDAY.
02:49:54:00	02:49:55:00	THERE IS NO SPEAKING FROM
02:49:55:00	02:49:55:00	ANYONE.
02:49:55:00	02:49:55:00	IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY.
02:49:55:00	02:49:58:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUT THERE IS NO
02:49:58:00	02:49:58:00	SPEAKING FROM ANYONE IN
02:49:58:00	02:49:59:00	CHAMBERS.
02:49:59:00	02:50:01:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:50:01:00	02:50:02:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:50:02:00	02:50:02:00	THANK YOU.
02:50:02:00	02:50:06:00	I WANT TO SPEAK ON DOCKET 0616
02:50:06:00	02:50:06:00	OR TEN UP.
02:50:06:00	02:50:07:00	I DON'T I'M TALKING JUST ABOUT
02:50:07:00	02:50:09:00	AN UPCOMING HEARING ORDER THAT
02:50:09:00	02:50:10:00	I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
02:50:10:00	02:50:13:00	COUNCILOR COUNCILOR MURPHY ON A
02:50:13:00	02:50:14:00	DOCKET NOT TALKING ABOUT THE
02:50:14:00	02:50:16:00	DOCKET I'M REFERENCING THAT WE
02:50:16:00	02:50:17:00	HAVE A HEARING ORDER COMING UP
02:50:17:00	02:50:18:00	AND I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN
02:50:18:00	02:50:20:00	MAYBE SCHEDULED SOONER THAN
02:50:20:00	02:50:21:00	AUGUST 14TH BECAUSE I HAVE
02:50:21:00	02:50:25:00	CONTINUOUSLY TALKED THE NEED
02:50:25:00	02:50:26:00	AND BECAUSE MURPHY THAT'S THE
02:50:26:00	02:50:28:00	ONE IT'S ONE OF MY ALL IF IT'S
02:50:28:00	02:50:29:00	THE ONLY WAY I CAN SPEAK.
02:50:29:00	02:50:31:00	YOU SPOKE CAPTAIN MURPHY YOU
02:50:31:00	02:50:32:00	SPOKE ON THE DOCKET IN ORDER
02:50:32:00	02:50:35:00	FOR ME TO BE FAIR TO ALL MY
02:50:35:00	02:50:36:00	COLLEAGUES ON THAT DOCK AND
02:50:36:00	02:50:37:00	YES, YES, COUNCILOR MURPHY, I'M
02:50:37:00	02:50:39:00	HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU ON A
02:50:39:00	02:50:40:00	SOONER DATE BECAUSE THAT IS IN
02:50:40:00	02:50:42:00	MY COMMITTEE.
02:50:42:00	02:50:43:00	AM HAPPY TO DO THAT.
02:50:43:00	02:50:44:00	I NEED TO BE FAIR ACROSS THE
02:50:44:00	02:50:47:00	BOARD SOMEONE OBJECTED WHEN YOU
02:50:47:00	02:50:48:00	WERE SPEAKING AND IN ORDER FOR
02:50:48:00	02:50:50:00	ME TO SEND THAT TO COMMITTEE
02:50:50:00	02:50:51:00	AND SO IF YOU'RE SPEAKING IN A
02:50:51:00	02:50:52:00	DOCKET THAT IS NOT FOR
02:50:52:00	02:50:54:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS I'M HAPPY TO WORK
02:50:54:00	02:50:54:00	WITH YOUR OFFICE FOR A SOONER
02:50:54:00	02:50:58:00	DATE THAT IS NO PROBLEM AT ALL.
02:50:58:00	02:50:58:00	NOW DURING ANNOUNCEMENTS AS I
02:50:58:00	02:50:59:00	STATED IN THE BEGINNING IS NOT
02:50:59:00	02:51:01:00	THE TIME TO SPEAK ON A DOCKET
02:51:01:00	02:51:02:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:51:02:00	02:51:02:00	COUNCILOR PATTON COMES WITHIN
02:51:02:00	02:51:05:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR COUNCILOR UP
02:51:05:00	02:51:09:00	AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR
02:51:09:00	02:51:09:00	COUNCILOR BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE
02:51:09:00	02:51:10:00	FLOOR COUNCILOR AND HAS THE
02:51:10:00	02:51:14:00	FLOOR COUNCIL CAN YOU HAVE THE
02:51:14:00	02:51:14:00	FLOOR?
02:51:14:00	02:51:15:00	I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO MY
02:51:15:00	02:51:17:00	PEERS OR OTHER COLLEAGUES SIT
02:51:17:00	02:51:17:00	DOWN.
02:51:17:00	02:51:17:00	COUNCIL COUNCILOR MURPHY I DID
02:51:17:00	02:51:21:00	NOT TELL YOU TO SIT DOWN AND
02:51:21:00	02:51:22:00	SAY WHAT I SAID WAS THAT
02:51:22:00	02:51:25:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE TOO TALK NOT
02:51:25:00	02:51:25:00	TO TALK ON THE DOCKET.
02:51:25:00	02:51:26:00	I NEVER SAID YOU DID THAT AND
02:51:26:00	02:51:28:00	SAID IT WAS YOU.
02:51:28:00	02:51:29:00	IT WAS ANOTHER CALL IT OH I, I
02:51:29:00	02:51:32:00	WAS TRYING TO MANAGE I DID NOT
02:51:32:00	02:51:35:00	HEAR ANYONE ELSE DID ANYTHING.
02:51:35:00	02:51:36:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, I AM HAPPY TO
02:51:36:00	02:51:36:00	WORK WITH YOUR OFFICE ON THIS
02:51:36:00	02:51:37:00	MATTER.
02:51:37:00	02:51:39:00	THANK YOU.
02:51:39:00	02:51:39:00	OKAY.
02:51:39:00	02:51:39:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:51:39:00	02:51:39:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
02:51:39:00	02:51:42:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:51:42:00	02:51:43:00	OKAY.
02:51:43:00	02:51:46:00	THANK YOU.
02:51:46:00	02:51:47:00	SORRY, I JUST I WOULD LIKE TO
02:51:47:00	02:51:50:00	THANK BHP'S SEBASTIAN ARTS
02:51:50:00	02:51:50:00	ACADEMY.
02:51:50:00	02:51:53:00	I RECOGNIZE THE GRADUATION THAT
02:51:53:00	02:51:54:00	WE HAD FOR MY SON THIS WEEK.
02:51:54:00	02:51:57:00	WE HAD A WONDERFUL GRADUATION
02:51:57:00	02:51:58:00	SPEAKER AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:51:58:00	02:51:59:00	LUCY LOUIJEUNE AND IF WE STILL
02:51:59:00	02:52:01:00	HAVE A QUORUM BUT I I'M JUST
02:52:01:00	02:52:05:00	YOU KNOW THAT SAID THAT
02:52:05:00	02:52:05:00	GRADUATION SHOWED WHY SCHOOLS
02:52:05:00	02:52:08:00	LIKE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY ARE A
02:52:08:00	02:52:12:00	GREAT RESOURCE FOR OUR KIDS ALL
02:52:12:00	02:52:12:00	THE PERFORMANCES IT WAS UNLIKE
02:52:12:00	02:52:13:00	ANY GRADUATION I'VE EVER BEEN
02:52:13:00	02:52:15:00	TO AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE
02:52:15:00	02:52:16:00	NOT JUST MY SON BUT BUT EVERY
02:52:16:00	02:52:19:00	KID AND ALL THE FAMILIES WHO
02:52:19:00	02:52:20:00	WHO CELEBRATED GRADUATION THAT
02:52:20:00	02:52:22:00	DAY I HEARD THERE WAS ANOTHER
02:52:22:00	02:52:23:00	GRADUATION FOR FOR ANOTHER
02:52:23:00	02:52:23:00	SCHOOL WHICH I'M NOT GOING TO
02:52:23:00	02:52:27:00	TALK ABOUT YET THAT DAY AT
02:52:27:00	02:52:27:00	BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL.
02:52:27:00	02:52:28:00	CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO THOSE
02:52:28:00	02:52:30:00	FAMILIES.
02:52:30:00	02:52:31:00	WE ALL LOVE EACH OTHER.
02:52:31:00	02:52:31:00	THOSE PARENTS YES.
02:52:31:00	02:52:34:00	NOTE NOTE I'D ALSO JUST LIKE TO
02:52:34:00	02:52:38:00	THANK ALICE LUCY BARROW'S
02:52:38:00	02:52:41:00	FAMILY FOR WELCOMING ME INTO
02:52:41:00	02:52:42:00	ALICE'S HOME IN THE COLLINS
02:52:42:00	02:52:45:00	APARTMENTS YESTERDAY FOR HER
02:52:45:00	02:52:49:00	100TH BIRTHDAY WE GOT TO TALK
02:52:49:00	02:52:50:00	ABOUT HOW AS A YOUNG GIRL IN
02:52:50:00	02:52:52:00	FRANCE HELPED THE FRENCH
02:52:52:00	02:52:57:00	RESISTANCE FIGHT THE NAZIS AND
02:52:57:00	02:52:58:00	OTHER STORIES THAT WERE AS
02:52:58:00	02:52:58:00	INTERESTING JUST THANK YOU TO
02:52:58:00	02:53:01:00	HER FAMILY FOR FOR WELCOMING TO
02:53:01:00	02:53:02:00	THE HOME AND I WAS GLAD TO MEET
02:53:02:00	02:53:04:00	ALICE.
02:53:04:00	02:53:04:00	THANK YOU.
02:53:04:00	02:53:05:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER AND
02:53:05:00	02:53:05:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
02:53:05:00	02:53:08:00	YOUR BIRTHDAY IS SOME DAY IN
02:53:08:00	02:53:09:00	THE FUTURE.
02:53:09:00	02:53:12:00	YES.
02:53:12:00	02:53:12:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COUNSELOR
02:53:12:00	02:53:13:00	WEBER.
02:53:13:00	02:53:16:00	JUNE 22ND HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
02:53:16:00	02:53:17:00	COUNSELOR WEBER, THE JACK AND
02:53:17:00	02:53:17:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN.
02:53:17:00	02:53:18:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:53:18:00	02:53:19:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:53:19:00	02:53:24:00	MADAM CHAIR, WHEN WE SEE WHAT'S
02:53:24:00	02:53:25:00	HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY WITH
02:53:25:00	02:53:29:00	DEMONSTRATION IN MAJOR CITIES
02:53:29:00	02:53:32:00	AND A LEVEL OF VIOLENCE THAT'S
02:53:32:00	02:53:36:00	TAKING PLACE, I THINK IN MY
02:53:36:00	02:53:40:00	OPINION WHAT'S IMPORTANT AS WE
02:53:40:00	02:53:42:00	TREAT EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT
02:53:42:00	02:53:46:00	IN THIS 40 WE HAVE TO HOLD
02:53:46:00	02:53:50:00	OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE IN
02:53:50:00	02:53:50:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN I DO AGREE WITH
02:53:50:00	02:53:54:00	YOU THAT WE HAVE TO HOLD EACH
02:53:54:00	02:53:55:00	OTHER IN RESPECT AND HAVE A
02:53:55:00	02:53:55:00	THANK YOU MADAM.
02:53:55:00	02:53:58:00	MADAM CHAIR, DO YOU HAVE AN
02:53:58:00	02:53:58:00	ANNOUNCEMENT?
02:53:58:00	02:53:58:00	YES, I DO.
02:53:58:00	02:53:59:00	MADAM.
02:53:59:00	02:53:59:00	OKAY FOR AN EVENT.
02:53:59:00	02:54:01:00	OKAY.
02:54:01:00	02:54:02:00	IF YOU HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
02:54:02:00	02:54:02:00	AN EVENT PLEASE ANNOUNCE IT.
02:54:02:00	02:54:04:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN.
02:54:04:00	02:54:04:00	THANK YOU.
02:54:04:00	02:54:05:00	OKAY.
02:54:05:00	02:54:08:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO
02:54:08:00	02:54:08:00	MEMORIALS.
02:54:08:00	02:54:09:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT A
02:54:09:00	02:54:11:00	NAME OF ANYONE WHO HAS PASSED?
02:54:11:00	02:54:15:00	TODAY WE WILL ADJOURN OUR
02:54:15:00	02:54:16:00	MEETING IN MEMORY OF THE
02:54:16:00	02:54:16:00	FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS.
02:54:16:00	02:54:19:00	ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR LOUISE
02:54:19:00	02:54:20:00	BONNER.
02:54:20:00	02:54:23:00	ON BEHALF OF MYSELF TIFFANY,
02:54:23:00	02:54:27:00	LAMAR KARL, PAPA JAY JOHNSON ON
02:54:27:00	02:54:28:00	BEHALF OF ALSO MYSELF GIANCARLO
02:54:28:00	02:54:31:00	JAN GONZALEZ.
02:54:31:00	02:54:35:00	A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
02:54:35:00	02:54:39:00	THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE
02:54:39:00	02:54:39:00	COUNCIL ADJOURN TODAY IT DOES
02:54:39:00	02:54:40:00	SO IN THE MEMORY OF THE
02:54:40:00	02:54:40:00	AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS.
02:54:40:00	02:54:43:00	I ALSO JUST WANT TO STATE SO WE
02:54:43:00	02:54:43:00	ARE CLEAR.
02:54:43:00	02:54:44:00	LAST TERM THERE'S ACTUALLY A
02:54:44:00	02:54:47:00	MOMENT ALMOST A YEAR WHERE
02:54:47:00	02:54:48:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS WERE CUT OFF.
02:54:48:00	02:54:50:00	WE NO ONE WAS ABLE TO MAKE
02:54:50:00	02:54:50:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS BECAUSE PEOPLE
02:54:50:00	02:54:53:00	WERE USING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
02:54:53:00	02:54:54:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS NOT TO ACTUALLY
02:54:54:00	02:54:54:00	ANNOUNCE UPCOMING DATES AND
02:54:54:00	02:54:54:00	EVENTS.
02:54:54:00	02:54:58:00	SO THE PRIOR COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:54:58:00	02:54:58:00	COUNCIL OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:54:58:00	02:55:01:00	FLYNN DID NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO
02:55:01:00	02:55:01:00	MAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS BECAUSE
02:55:01:00	02:55:02:00	PEOPLE WERE ABUSING THE
02:55:02:00	02:55:04:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION.
02:55:04:00	02:55:05:00	I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I AM
02:55:05:00	02:55:06:00	GIVING ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES THE
02:55:06:00	02:55:09:00	OPPORTUNITY TO BRING
02:55:09:00	02:55:09:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPCOMING DATES,
02:55:09:00	02:55:10:00	UPCOMING EVENTS AND I SAY THAT
02:55:10:00	02:55:13:00	AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
02:55:13:00	02:55:13:00	OF THAT SECTION SO THAT WE CAN
02:55:13:00	02:55:14:00	MAKE SURE THAT WHAT IS BEING
02:55:14:00	02:55:17:00	OFFERED IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A
02:55:17:00	02:55:17:00	BIRTHDAY, A DATE OR EVENT.
02:55:17:00	02:55:20:00	I DON'T ANYONE TO ABUSE THAT
02:55:20:00	02:55:21:00	PRIVILEGE OF BEING ABLE TO MAKE
02:55:21:00	02:55:23:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS AND I WANT TO
02:55:23:00	02:55:24:00	MAKE SURE THAT THIS BODY CAN
02:55:24:00	02:55:25:00	CONTINUE TO MAKE THOSE
02:55:25:00	02:55:25:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS JUST SO THAT
02:55:25:00	02:55:28:00	EVERYBODY IS ON THE ON THE SAME
02:55:28:00	02:55:29:00	PAGE AS TO WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
02:55:29:00	02:55:31:00	THAT WE RESTRICT IT TO DATES,
02:55:31:00	02:55:31:00	EVENTS AND UPCOMING MATTERS.
02:55:31:00	02:55:32:00	OKAY.
02:55:32:00	02:55:32:00	THANK YOU.
02:55:32:00	02:55:36:00	THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO
02:55:36:00	02:55:36:00	MEET AGAIN IN THE LOWER CHAMBER
02:55:36:00	02:55:39:00	ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH, 2025
02:55:39:00	02:55:39:00	AT 12 NOON.
02:55:39:00	02:55:40:00	THERE IS NO MEETING NEXT WEEK
02:55:40:00	02:55:43:00	IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH.
02:55:43:00	02:55:44:00	THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES
02:55:44:00	02:55:45:00	ESSENTIAL STAFF A LAWYER WHO
02:55:45:00	02:55:47:00	WAS HERE WITH US EARLIER TO THE
02:55:47:00	02:55:47:00	CLERK AND THE CLERK'S OFFICE
02:55:47:00	02:55:48:00	AND THE COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER
02:55:48:00	02:55:51:00	ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT.
02:55:51:00	02:55:51:00	PLEASE SAY HI.