00:00:00:00	00:03:50:00	AND.
00:03:50:00	00:10:47:00	I'M.
00:10:47:00	00:11:54:00	VERY.
00:11:54:00	00:17:44:00	AND.
00:17:44:00	00:24:42:00	>> I'M.
00:24:42:00	00:26:15:00	GOING.
00:26:15:00	00:31:36:00	I DON'T HAVE THIS.
00:31:36:00	00:31:43:00	I DON'T I DON'T BUT.
00:31:43:00	00:31:47:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:31:47:00	00:31:50:00	CAN YOU HEAR ME?
00:31:50:00	00:31:51:00	YES.
00:31:51:00	00:31:54:00	YOU KNOW I GOT THAT PREACHER
00:31:54:00	00:31:54:00	VOICE.
00:31:54:00	00:31:56:00	I REALLY DON'T NEED THE MIC.
00:31:56:00	00:31:58:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:31:58:00	00:32:01:00	I AM DISTRICT SEVEN CITY
00:32:01:00	00:32:02:00	COUNCILOR MINYARD CULPEPER.
00:32:02:00	00:32:05:00	I CALL TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING
00:32:05:00	00:32:06:00	OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
00:32:06:00	00:32:11:00	THE FIRST OF THE MUNICIPAL YEAR
00:32:11:00	00:32:14:00	2026 PURSUANT TO SECTION 17
00:32:14:00	00:32:16:00	OF THE CITY CHARTER.
00:32:16:00	00:32:19:00	AS A SENIOR MEMBER OF THIS
00:32:19:00	00:32:21:00	COUNCIL I WILL PRESIDE OVER THE
00:32:21:00	00:32:24:00	MEETING UNTIL THE ELECTION OF A
00:32:24:00	00:32:25:00	CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:32:25:00	00:32:27:00	VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE
00:32:27:00	00:32:30:00	COUNCIL MEETING LIVE@BARTON.GOV
00:32:30:00	00:32:33:00	CITY COUNCIL TV.
00:32:33:00	00:32:37:00	AT THIS TIME I ASK MY
00:32:37:00	00:32:38:00	COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN
00:32:38:00	00:32:40:00	ATTENDANCE TO PLEASE SILENCE
00:32:40:00	00:32:43:00	YOUR PHONES AND ANY ELECTRONIC
00:32:43:00	00:32:44:00	DEVICES THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
00:32:44:00	00:32:47:00	MR CLERK WILL YOU PLEASE CALL
00:32:47:00	00:32:49:00	THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE
00:32:49:00	00:32:51:00	PRESENCE OF A QUORUM?
00:32:51:00	00:32:54:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
00:32:54:00	00:32:55:00	HERE.
00:32:55:00	00:32:56:00	>> COUNCILOR COLLETTA.
00:32:56:00	00:32:57:00	ZAPATA.
00:32:57:00	00:32:59:00	COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
00:32:59:00	00:33:00:00	HERE.
00:33:00:00	00:33:01:00	>> COUNCILOR.
00:33:01:00	00:33:01:00	>> DURKIN.
00:33:01:00	00:33:02:00	COUNCILOR.
00:33:02:00	00:33:03:00	FITZGERALD.
00:33:03:00	00:33:04:00	COUNCILOR.
00:33:04:00	00:33:05:00	FLYNN.
00:33:05:00	00:33:06:00	YEAH.
00:33:06:00	00:33:07:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
00:33:07:00	00:33:08:00	COUNCILOR.
00:33:08:00	00:33:08:00	ME.
00:33:08:00	00:33:11:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:33:11:00	00:33:11:00	YEAH.
00:33:11:00	00:33:12:00	COUNCILOR.
00:33:12:00	00:33:12:00	PEPEN.
00:33:12:00	00:33:14:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:33:14:00	00:33:15:00	YEAH.
00:33:15:00	00:33:15:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
00:33:15:00	00:33:17:00	AND COUNCILOR EARLE.
00:33:17:00	00:33:19:00	A QUORUM IS PRESENT.
00:33:19:00	00:33:21:00	THANK YOU.
00:33:21:00	00:33:23:00	I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
00:33:23:00	00:33:25:00	CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.
00:33:25:00	00:33:27:00	AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO
00:33:27:00	00:33:30:00	INTRODUCE BISHOP THOMAS
00:33:30:00	00:33:32:00	WILLIAMS, UH, PASTOR OF THE
00:33:32:00	00:33:34:00	HOLY TEMPLE CHURCH IN ROXBURY
00:33:34:00	00:33:38:00	TO PROVIDE TODAY'S INVOCATION
00:33:38:00	00:33:39:00	AFTER THE INVOCATION.
00:33:39:00	00:33:42:00	PLEASE REMAIN STANDING AS WE
00:33:42:00	00:33:44:00	RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
00:33:44:00	00:33:44:00	.
00:33:44:00	00:34:06:00	IF WE WOULD BOW OUR HEADS, LET
00:34:06:00	00:34:06:00	US PRAY.
00:34:06:00	00:34:09:00	GRACIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER, LORD
00:34:09:00	00:34:10:00	GOD, WE COME BEFORE YOU EVEN
00:34:10:00	00:34:11:00	NOW.
00:34:11:00	00:34:12:00	FATHER GOD RECOGNIZING FIRST
00:34:12:00	00:34:13:00	OF ALL LORD GOD THAT ALLOWING
00:34:13:00	00:34:15:00	US TO COME INTO A BRAND NEW
00:34:15:00	00:34:18:00	YEAR AS WELL AS LORD GOD AND
00:34:18:00	00:34:20:00	OPENING OH GOD THIS BODY
00:34:20:00	00:34:21:00	COUNCILOR FATHER GOD IN THE NEW
00:34:21:00	00:34:24:00	YEAR OF 2026 AND GOD WE PRAY
00:34:24:00	00:34:25:00	AND ASK IN JESUS NAME FATHER
00:34:25:00	00:34:26:00	GOD THAT YOU WOULD MOVE WITH
00:34:26:00	00:34:29:00	YOUR GRACE AND FAVOR UPON EACH
00:34:29:00	00:34:30:00	AND EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER.
00:34:30:00	00:34:32:00	LORD GOD, WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD
00:34:32:00	00:34:34:00	GIVE THEM WISDOM, INSIGHT AS
00:34:34:00	00:34:37:00	WELL AS A SPIRIT OF UNITY AND
00:34:37:00	00:34:38:00	HARMONY AND TAKING CARE OF THE
00:34:38:00	00:34:41:00	BUSINESS AND THE AFFAIRS OF THE
00:34:41:00	00:34:42:00	RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:34:42:00	00:34:44:00	LORD GOD, TO THE BEST OF THEIR
00:34:44:00	00:34:44:00	ABILITY.
00:34:44:00	00:34:46:00	WE THANK YOU AS WELL FOR THEIR
00:34:46:00	00:34:46:00	FAMILIES.
00:34:46:00	00:34:47:00	OH GOD.
00:34:47:00	00:34:49:00	UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FAMILY
00:34:49:00	00:34:51:00	DYNAMIC PLAYS A VITAL PART IN
00:34:51:00	00:34:53:00	THE EMOTIONAL AND THE MENTAL
00:34:53:00	00:34:55:00	STABILITY OF THOSE OH GOD THAT
00:34:55:00	00:34:57:00	YOU HAVE GIVEN THIS CHARGE TO
00:34:57:00	00:34:58:00	WE PRAY DEAR GOD THAT NOT ONLY
00:34:58:00	00:35:00:00	THIS SESSION ON TODAY BUT FOR
00:35:00:00	00:35:02:00	THE REMAINDER OF THIS YEAR THAT
00:35:02:00	00:35:04:00	YOU WOULD BE PRESENT, THAT YOU
00:35:04:00	00:35:05:00	WOULD HELP THEM, LORD GOD, TO
00:35:05:00	00:35:07:00	GOVERN AND TO GUIDE WITH WISDOM
00:35:07:00	00:35:09:00	AND INSIGHT AND WE'RE GRATEFUL
00:35:09:00	00:35:11:00	AND WE ARE THANKFUL OH GOD FOR
00:35:11:00	00:35:13:00	EACH AND EVERYONE THAT IS ON
00:35:13:00	00:35:14:00	THIS COUNCIL FOR THEY ARE HERE
00:35:14:00	00:35:16:00	BECAUSE OF YOUR DIVINE
00:35:16:00	00:35:17:00	PROVIDENCE.
00:35:17:00	00:35:18:00	WE THANK YOU, WE PRAISE YOU AND
00:35:18:00	00:35:20:00	WE ASK THESE THINGS IN THE NAME
00:35:20:00	00:35:21:00	OF OUR GRACIOUS LORD AND SAVIOR
00:35:21:00	00:35:23:00	JESUS CHRIST.
00:35:23:00	00:35:24:00	THANK YOU LORD GOD.
00:35:24:00	00:35:26:00	AMEN, AMEN AND AMEN.
00:35:26:00	00:35:27:00	AMEN.
00:35:27:00	00:35:30:00	WE'LL NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE
00:35:30:00	00:35:30:00	OF ALLEGIANCE.
00:35:30:00	00:35:33:00	PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
00:35:33:00	00:35:36:00	>> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND
00:35:36:00	00:35:39:00	TO REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT
00:35:39:00	00:35:39:00	STANDS.
00:35:39:00	00:35:43:00	NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE
00:35:43:00	00:35:45:00	WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR
00:35:45:00	00:35:45:00	ALL.
00:35:45:00	00:36:03:00	MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE
00:36:03:00	00:36:04:00	RECOGNIZE THE COUNSELORS?
00:36:04:00	00:36:05:00	OKAY.
00:36:05:00	00:36:08:00	>> COUNSELOR.
00:36:08:00	00:36:08:00	>> DURKIN.
00:36:08:00	00:36:12:00	COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE AND
00:36:12:00	00:36:14:00	COUNSELOR WORRELL.
00:36:14:00	00:36:15:00	THANK YOU.
00:36:15:00	00:36:18:00	NOW ONTO THE FIRST ORDER
00:36:18:00	00:36:20:00	OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE
00:36:20:00	00:36:21:00	APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM
00:36:21:00	00:36:25:00	THE MEETING OF DECEMBER 10TH,
00:36:25:00	00:36:25:00	2025.
00:36:25:00	00:36:37:00	I'M SURE ALL OF Y'ALL KNOW
00:36:37:00	00:36:39:00	THOSE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER
00:36:39:00	00:36:39:00	10TH.
00:36:39:00	00:36:43:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
00:36:43:00	00:36:46:00	ALTHOUGH THE POLLS SAY NAY, THE
00:36:46:00	00:36:47:00	AYES HAVE IT.
00:36:47:00	00:36:50:00	THE MEMBER THE MINUTES OF THE
00:36:50:00	00:36:51:00	DECEMBER 10TH MEETING ARE
00:36:51:00	00:36:52:00	APPROVED.
00:36:52:00	00:36:54:00	OUR NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS.
00:36:54:00	00:36:58:00	WE WILL VOTE TO ADOPT THE 2425
00:36:58:00	00:36:59:00	COUNCIL RULES AS TEMPORARY
00:36:59:00	00:37:02:00	RULES OF THE BODY UNTIL
00:37:02:00	00:37:04:00	PERMANENT RULES FOR THE NEW
00:37:04:00	00:37:07:00	MUNICIPAL YEAR ARE ADOPTED.
00:37:07:00	00:37:11:00	MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ
00:37:11:00	00:37:13:00	DOCKET 0101.
00:37:13:00	00:37:16:00	DUKKHA NUMBER 0101 ORDER TO
00:37:16:00	00:37:18:00	ADOPT THE RULES OF THE BOSTON
00:37:18:00	00:37:20:00	CITY COUNCIL FOR MUNICIPAL
00:37:20:00	00:37:24:00	YEARS 2024 AND 2025 EXCEPT RULE
00:37:24:00	00:37:27:00	36 AS TEMPORARY RULES UNTIL
00:37:27:00	00:37:29:00	PERMANENT RULES ARE ADOPTED FOR
00:37:29:00	00:37:32:00	MUNICIPAL YEARS 2026 AND 2027.
00:37:32:00	00:37:34:00	THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
00:37:34:00	00:37:36:00	THE CHAIR MOVES FOR ADOPTION
00:37:36:00	00:37:38:00	OF DOCKET 0101.
00:37:38:00	00:37:40:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
00:37:40:00	00:37:42:00	THOSE OPPOSED?
00:37:42:00	00:37:44:00	THE AYES HAVE IT.
00:37:44:00	00:37:48:00	DOCKET 0101 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
00:37:48:00	00:37:52:00	WE WILL NOW PROCEED WITH THE
00:37:52:00	00:37:54:00	ELECTION OF A
00:37:54:00	00:37:55:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:37:55:00	00:37:57:00	MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ
00:37:57:00	00:37:59:00	DOCKET 0102?
00:37:59:00	00:38:03:00	THE NUMBER 0102 COMMUNICATION
00:38:03:00	00:38:05:00	OF INTENT FOR THE PRESIDING
00:38:05:00	00:38:06:00	OFFICER TO MOVE FOR ELECTION
00:38:06:00	00:38:08:00	OF CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:38:08:00	00:38:11:00	THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
00:38:11:00	00:38:11:00	WELCOME.
00:38:11:00	00:38:15:00	>> DOCKET 0102 WILL BE PLACED
00:38:15:00	00:38:16:00	ON FILE.
00:38:16:00	00:38:18:00	THE CHAIR MOVES TO PROCEED WITH
00:38:18:00	00:38:21:00	THE ELECTION OF A CITY
00:38:21:00	00:38:22:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT PURSUANT TO
00:38:22:00	00:38:24:00	SECTION 17 OF THE CHARTER.
00:38:24:00	00:38:27:00	THE CLERK WILL CONDUCT A ROLL
00:38:27:00	00:38:28:00	CALL VOTE.
00:38:28:00	00:38:32:00	EACH COUNCILOR, EACH
00:38:32:00	00:38:34:00	COUNCIL MEMBER SHALL SAY THE
00:38:34:00	00:38:36:00	NAME OF THE PERSON THAT THEY
00:38:36:00	00:38:38:00	WOULD LIKE TO ELECT PURSUANT TO
00:38:38:00	00:38:40:00	SECTION 17 WHICH STATES AS
00:38:40:00	00:38:41:00	FOLLOWS.
00:38:41:00	00:38:44:00	ALL ELECTIONS BY THE CITY
00:38:44:00	00:38:46:00	COUNCIL SHALL BE MADE BY A VOTE
00:38:46:00	00:38:47:00	VOICE VOTE.
00:38:47:00	00:38:49:00	EACH MEMBER WHO IS PRESENT
00:38:49:00	00:38:51:00	ANSWERING TO THE NAME WHEN IT
00:38:51:00	00:38:53:00	IS CALLED BY THE CLERK AND
00:38:53:00	00:38:55:00	STATING THE NAME OF THE PERSON
00:38:55:00	00:38:57:00	FOR WHOM THEY VOTE AND THE
00:38:57:00	00:38:59:00	CLERK SHALL RECORD EVERY SUCH
00:38:59:00	00:38:59:00	VOTE.
00:38:59:00	00:39:03:00	NO ELECTION SHALL BE VALID
00:39:03:00	00:39:05:00	UNLESS IT IS MADE AFORESAID.
00:39:05:00	00:39:08:00	UH EACH COUNCIL WILL HAVE TEN
00:39:08:00	00:39:13:00	MINUTES TO SPEAK AND I SEE
00:39:13:00	00:39:13:00	COUNCILOR.
00:39:13:00	00:39:17:00	JILL UMA HERE WITH HER LIGHT ON
00:39:17:00	00:39:18:00	PURSUANT TO RULE 39.
00:39:18:00	00:39:21:00	UH COUNCILMEMBER HERE I WILL
00:39:21:00	00:39:26:00	NOW TURN ON YOUR MIND TEN
00:39:26:00	00:39:26:00	MINUTES.
00:39:26:00	00:39:29:00	UM, SORRY I'M NOT READY.
00:39:29:00	00:39:30:00	I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GO
00:39:30:00	00:39:31:00	STRAIGHT TO THE VOTES.
00:39:31:00	00:39:32:00	I KNOW, FINE QUESTION.
00:39:32:00	00:39:33:00	GOT YOU TOO MUCH, I GOT YOU.
00:39:33:00	00:39:34:00	I'LL WAIT MY TURN.
00:39:34:00	00:39:35:00	THANK YOU.
00:39:35:00	00:39:36:00	THANK YOU.
00:39:36:00	00:39:40:00	EACH COUNCILOR WILL HAVE TEN
00:39:40:00	00:39:42:00	MINUTES TO SPEAK.
00:39:42:00	00:39:43:00	IF.
00:39:43:00	00:39:48:00	>> NOT OKAY.
00:39:48:00	00:39:48:00	>> OKAY.
00:39:48:00	00:39:52:00	ONE MORE TIME.
00:39:52:00	00:39:58:00	COUNCILOR WEBER SORRY.
00:39:58:00	00:39:59:00	POINT OF ORDER.
00:39:59:00	00:39:59:00	I'M JUST.
00:39:59:00	00:40:00:00	UH.
00:40:00:00	00:40:02:00	>> DO WE DO NOMINATIONS FIRST
00:40:02:00	00:40:03:00	OR REACHED?
00:40:03:00	00:40:05:00	WE'RE GOING IN ORDER.
00:40:05:00	00:40:07:00	CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT.
00:40:07:00	00:40:10:00	THE CHAIR IS GIVING EACH
00:40:10:00	00:40:11:00	COUNCILOR TEN MINUTES TO SPEAK?
00:40:11:00	00:40:13:00	THOSE COUNCILORS WITH THEIR
00:40:13:00	00:40:16:00	LIGHT ON AND NO ONE HAS A LIGHT
00:40:16:00	00:40:18:00	ON WILL BE GIVEN THE TEN
00:40:18:00	00:40:19:00	MINUTES TO SPEAK.
00:40:19:00	00:40:23:00	PURSUANT TO RULE 39.
00:40:23:00	00:40:31:00	SO NO LIGHTS TAKEAWAYS UP.
00:40:31:00	00:40:34:00	ON THE FLOOR.
00:40:34:00	00:40:36:00	YES WE HAVE A WE CAN.
00:40:36:00	00:40:39:00	>> HAVE A RECESS A BRIEF RECESS
00:40:39:00	00:40:39:00	.
00:40:39:00	00:40:40:00	YES.
00:40:40:00	00:40:42:00	>> IF THE.
00:40:42:00	00:42:39:00	THE COUNCIL IS BACK IN SESSION
00:42:39:00	00:42:42:00	ONE POINT OF CLARIFICATION WITH
00:42:42:00	00:42:44:00	YOUR TEN MINUTES AND I THINK
00:42:44:00	00:42:46:00	THIS IS WHERE SOME FOLKS SOME
00:42:46:00	00:42:47:00	COUNCIL MEMBERS WEREN'T CLEAR.
00:42:47:00	00:42:50:00	YOU CAN NOMINATE NOW AS PART
00:42:50:00	00:42:53:00	OF YOUR TEN MINUTES AFTER
00:42:53:00	00:42:54:00	EVERYONE HAS SPOKEN.
00:42:54:00	00:42:57:00	THOSE OF YOU THAT WISH TO SPEAK
00:42:57:00	00:42:59:00	THE CLERK WILL COME BACK AND
00:42:59:00	00:43:01:00	THEN WE'LL VOTE FOR A
00:43:01:00	00:43:02:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:43:02:00	00:43:04:00	SO THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO
00:43:04:00	00:43:05:00	MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS.
00:43:05:00	00:43:07:00	YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE ALL THE
00:43:07:00	00:43:10:00	TEN MINUTES BUT YOU DO HAVE AT
00:43:10:00	00:43:11:00	LEAST TEN MINUTES.
00:43:11:00	00:43:13:00	THE NOMINATIONS ARE PART
00:43:13:00	00:43:14:00	OF YOUR TEN MINUTES.
00:43:14:00	00:43:15:00	WE CLEAR?
00:43:15:00	00:43:24:00	I SEE COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN IS
00:43:24:00	00:43:24:00	LIGHT ON.
00:43:24:00	00:43:26:00	WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER
00:43:26:00	00:43:27:00	FLYNN.
00:43:27:00	00:43:28:00	YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES.
00:43:28:00	00:43:29:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN.
00:43:29:00	00:43:32:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
00:43:32:00	00:43:35:00	AND I WANTED TO TAKE THIS
00:43:35:00	00:43:40:00	OPPORTUNITY AND NOMINATE, UH,
00:43:40:00	00:43:41:00	CITY COUNCILOR BRIAN ALL.
00:43:41:00	00:43:44:00	AND THE REASON I WANT TO
00:43:44:00	00:43:45:00	NOMINATE CITY COUNCIL.
00:43:45:00	00:43:47:00	SAC CITY COUNCIL, BRIAN.
00:43:47:00	00:43:51:00	WELL, IS BECAUSE OVER THE LAST
00:43:51:00	00:43:54:00	SEVERAL YEARS AS WAYS AND MEANS
00:43:54:00	00:43:56:00	CHAIR AND AS VICE PRESIDENT
00:43:56:00	00:44:00:00	OF THE CITY COUNCIL, HE TREATED
00:44:00:00	00:44:01:00	EACH COLLEAGUE WITH RESPECT.
00:44:01:00	00:44:03:00	HE LISTENED TO PEOPLE.
00:44:03:00	00:44:05:00	HE ENGAGED PEOPLE.
00:44:05:00	00:44:07:00	SOMETIMES YOU.
00:44:07:00	00:44:09:00	AGREE WITH BRIAN AND SOMETIMES
00:44:09:00	00:44:11:00	YOU DIDN'T AGREE WITH BRIAN,
00:44:11:00	00:44:12:00	BUT HE ALWAYS HAD AN OPEN DOOR
00:44:12:00	00:44:14:00	AND HE ALWAYS LISTENED TO
00:44:14:00	00:44:14:00	PEOPLE.
00:44:14:00	00:44:16:00	I THINK THAT'S A CRITICAL PART
00:44:16:00	00:44:20:00	OF BEING A CITY COUNCIL OR AN
00:44:20:00	00:44:21:00	ELECTED OFFICIAL.
00:44:21:00	00:44:22:00	THE ABILITY TO LISTEN.
00:44:22:00	00:44:24:00	AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT
00:44:24:00	00:44:25:00	COUNCIL HAS DONE.
00:44:25:00	00:44:26:00	EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT.
00:44:26:00	00:44:29:00	BUT BESIDES THAT DURING
00:44:29:00	00:44:32:00	DIFFICULT TIMES AS WAYS AND
00:44:32:00	00:44:34:00	MEANS CHAIR WITH A CHALLENGING
00:44:34:00	00:44:34:00	ECONOMY.
00:44:34:00	00:44:39:00	UM BRIAN ENSURED EVERY CITY
00:44:39:00	00:44:40:00	COUNCILOR HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
00:44:40:00	00:44:42:00	SPEAK AND ADVOCATE FOR WHAT
00:44:42:00	00:44:44:00	THEY WANTED TO SEE IN THE
00:44:44:00	00:44:45:00	BUDGET AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY
00:44:45:00	00:44:48:00	TO TALK DIRECTLY TO THE CITY
00:44:48:00	00:44:50:00	DEPARTMENT HEADS IN THE MAYOR
00:44:50:00	00:44:52:00	ABOUT CITY PRIORITIES.
00:44:52:00	00:44:56:00	UH, HE DEMONSTRATED POSITIVE
00:44:56:00	00:44:57:00	LEADERSHIP OVER THE LAST
00:44:57:00	00:44:59:00	SEVERAL YEARS NOT JUST AS WAYS
00:44:59:00	00:45:02:00	AND MEANS CHAIR OR AS VICE
00:45:02:00	00:45:03:00	PRESIDENT BUT AS A LOYAL
00:45:03:00	00:45:05:00	COLLEAGUE THAT WAS THERE FOR
00:45:05:00	00:45:08:00	THE FOR HIS FELLOW COLLEAGUES.
00:45:08:00	00:45:12:00	AND IN MY OPINION HAS
00:45:12:00	00:45:14:00	DEMONSTRATED WHAT IT TAKES TO
00:45:14:00	00:45:15:00	BE A CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:45:15:00	00:45:18:00	WE CAN AGREE ON ISSUES AND WE
00:45:18:00	00:45:21:00	CAN DISAGREE ON ISSUES BUT WE
00:45:21:00	00:45:22:00	KNOW THAT THERE'S THAT ALWAYS
00:45:22:00	00:45:23:00	THERE'S ALWAYS AN OPEN DOOR
00:45:23:00	00:45:25:00	POLICY WITH COUNCIL AS WELL.
00:45:25:00	00:45:29:00	AND AND I KNOW IF HE IS ELECTED
00:45:29:00	00:45:30:00	CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT HE'LL BE
00:45:30:00	00:45:32:00	FAIR TO ALL OF.
00:45:32:00	00:45:33:00	US ALL.
00:45:33:00	00:45:35:00	13 CITY COUNCIL IS EQUALLY.
00:45:35:00	00:45:37:00	I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
00:45:37:00	00:45:38:00	ASPECT OF THE JOB.
00:45:38:00	00:45:40:00	WHETHER PEOPLE VOTE FOR BRIAN
00:45:40:00	00:45:42:00	FOR CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT OR
00:45:42:00	00:45:43:00	THEY DON'T VOTE FOR BRIAN.
00:45:43:00	00:45:45:00	UM, IF HE'S ELECTED I THINK
00:45:45:00	00:45:48:00	HE'LL ENSURE THAT EVERY CITY
00:45:48:00	00:45:50:00	COUNCILOR IS HEARD AND
00:45:50:00	00:45:50:00	RESPECTED.
00:45:50:00	00:45:52:00	AND THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
00:45:52:00	00:45:53:00	IN A CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:45:53:00	00:45:55:00	SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTANDS THE
00:45:55:00	00:45:58:00	BODY, UNDERSTANDS PEOPLE,
00:45:58:00	00:45:59:00	UNDERSTANDS RELATIONSHIPS,
00:45:59:00	00:46:02:00	SOMEONE THAT HAS A HAS ALREADY
00:46:02:00	00:46:03:00	DEMONSTRATED THAT CRITICAL
00:46:03:00	00:46:06:00	LEADERSHIP THAT IS NEEDED IN
00:46:06:00	00:46:07:00	THE CITY, ESPECIALLY DURING
00:46:07:00	00:46:10:00	THESE DIFFICULT TIMES AS WAYS
00:46:10:00	00:46:11:00	AND MEANS CHAIR.
00:46:11:00	00:46:13:00	HE KNOWS THE BUDGET INSIDE AND
00:46:13:00	00:46:16:00	OUT AND WE NEED THAT TYPE
00:46:16:00	00:46:17:00	OF LEADERSHIP AS THE CITY
00:46:17:00	00:46:19:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT WHEN WE GO
00:46:19:00	00:46:22:00	INTO A DIFFICULT AND ROCKY ROAD
00:46:22:00	00:46:24:00	UM OVER THE NEXT OVER THE NEXT
00:46:24:00	00:46:25:00	TWO YEARS OR THE NEXT SEVERAL
00:46:25:00	00:46:27:00	YEARS BUT ESPECIALLY AS WE
00:46:27:00	00:46:30:00	APPROACH THIS BUDGET PROCESS,
00:46:30:00	00:46:31:00	COUNCIL HAS DEMONSTRATED AN
00:46:31:00	00:46:33:00	ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE
00:46:33:00	00:46:36:00	BUDGET, UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET
00:46:36:00	00:46:40:00	THINGS DONE, HOW TO ENSURE THAT
00:46:40:00	00:46:42:00	CITY DEPARTMENTS COME TO THIS
00:46:42:00	00:46:45:00	BODY AND ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM
00:46:45:00	00:46:46:00	CITY CITY COUNCILORS.
00:46:46:00	00:46:47:00	AND THAT'S A BIG PART OF THE
00:46:47:00	00:46:50:00	JOB IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE
00:46:50:00	00:46:52:00	ADMINISTRATION AND I KNOW
00:46:52:00	00:46:53:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL CAN DO THAT
00:46:53:00	00:46:54:00	BECAUSE HE'S ALREADY
00:46:54:00	00:46:56:00	DEMONSTRATED THAT AS AN
00:46:56:00	00:46:58:00	OUTSTANDING CITY COUNCILOR, AN
00:46:58:00	00:47:00:00	OUTSTANDING FRIEND, AN
00:47:00:00	00:47:03:00	OUTSTANDING DISTRICT CITY
00:47:03:00	00:47:04:00	COUNCILOR AND HE HAS A
00:47:04:00	00:47:05:00	WONDERFUL WAY ABOUT HIM
00:47:05:00	00:47:08:00	BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
00:47:08:00	00:47:10:00	AND THAT'S THAT'S NOT JUST IN
00:47:10:00	00:47:10:00	HIS DISTRICT.
00:47:10:00	00:47:13:00	HE REACHES OUT ACROSS THE CITY
00:47:13:00	00:47:15:00	AND BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER AS
00:47:15:00	00:47:16:00	DOES HIS BROTHER UM
00:47:16:00	00:47:18:00	REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS WORRELL AS
00:47:18:00	00:47:18:00	WELL.
00:47:18:00	00:47:21:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS
00:47:21:00	00:47:23:00	OPPORTUNITY TO NOMINATE SOMEONE
00:47:23:00	00:47:25:00	THAT I KNOW WOULD BE AN
00:47:25:00	00:47:26:00	EXCELLENT CITY
00:47:26:00	00:47:28:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT BECAUSE I'VE
00:47:28:00	00:47:29:00	I ALSO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO
00:47:29:00	00:47:30:00	BE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:47:30:00	00:47:34:00	HE HAS THOSE EXACT QUALITIES TO
00:47:34:00	00:47:35:00	BE AN EXCEPTIONAL LEADER FOR
00:47:35:00	00:47:35:00	THE CITY COUNCIL.
00:47:35:00	00:47:37:00	UH, MISTER CHAIR, THANK YOU.
00:47:37:00	00:47:41:00	THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN
00:47:41:00	00:47:41:00	.
00:47:41:00	00:47:42:00	I SEE.
00:47:42:00	00:47:43:00	COUNCIL MEMBER.
00:47:43:00	00:47:46:00	MURPHY'S LIGHT IS ON.
00:47:46:00	00:47:49:00	COUNCIL MEMBER MURPHY, YOU HAVE
00:47:49:00	00:47:49:00	TEN MINUTES.
00:47:49:00	00:47:50:00	THANK YOU.
00:47:50:00	00:47:51:00	CHAIR AND WELCOME.
00:47:51:00	00:47:54:00	TO THE BODY WITH US.
00:47:54:00	00:47:54:00	UM.
00:47:54:00	00:47:57:00	AS WE KNOW, THIS PROCESS
00:47:57:00	00:47:57:00	SHOULDN'T BE ABOUT.
00:47:57:00	00:47:59:00	BACKROOM DEALS, BUT
00:47:59:00	00:48:00:00	UNFORTUNATELY.
00:48:00:00	00:48:01:00	IT USUALLY IS AND HERE.
00:48:01:00	00:48:01:00	WE ARE.
00:48:01:00	00:48:04:00	>> SO I DO WANT TO SECOND.
00:48:04:00	00:48:05:00	MY LIGHT.
00:48:05:00	00:48:06:00	>> WAS ON FIRST.
00:48:06:00	00:48:07:00	I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BUT
00:48:07:00	00:48:08:00	I DO WANT TO SECOND THE
00:48:08:00	00:48:08:00	NOMINATION OF COUNCIL EARL.
00:48:08:00	00:48:12:00	OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS
00:48:12:00	00:48:12:00	COUNCIL.
00:48:12:00	00:48:15:00	EARL HAS CONTINUED TO ENGAGE
00:48:15:00	00:48:17:00	COLLEAGUES RESPECTFULLY AND
00:48:17:00	00:48:18:00	CONSISTENTLY EVEN WHEN SUPPORT.
00:48:18:00	00:48:19:00	>> WAS AN IMMEDIATE.
00:48:19:00	00:48:21:00	BY STAYING IN CONVERSATION.
00:48:21:00	00:48:23:00	AND DOING THE WORK REQUIRED TO
00:48:23:00	00:48:23:00	.
00:48:23:00	00:48:24:00	>> BUILD TRUST.
00:48:24:00	00:48:26:00	HE EARNED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
00:48:26:00	00:48:28:00	AND CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE THE
00:48:28:00	00:48:29:00	KIND OF LEADERSHIP I BELIEVE
00:48:29:00	00:48:29:00	THIS BODY NEEDS.
00:48:29:00	00:48:32:00	LEADERSHIP IS NOT DEMONSTRATED
00:48:32:00	00:48:34:00	BY DECLARING VICTORY BEFORE.
00:48:34:00	00:48:35:00	A VOTE IS TAKEN.
00:48:35:00	00:48:37:00	THIS VOTE IS SUPPOSED TO BE US.
00:48:37:00	00:48:41:00	US 13 MEMBERS WHO DECIDE WHO IS
00:48:41:00	00:48:43:00	OUR NEXT PRESIDING
00:48:43:00	00:48:44:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:48:44:00	00:48:45:00	IT'S NOT BY TREATING AN OUTCOME
00:48:45:00	00:48:47:00	AS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
00:48:47:00	00:48:50:00	IN MY VIEW, LEADERSHIP ON THE
00:48:50:00	00:48:50:00	CITY.
00:48:50:00	00:48:51:00	COUNCIL REQUIRES ENGAGING.
00:48:51:00	00:48:53:00	ALL 13 MEMBERS AND HAVING A
00:48:53:00	00:48:54:00	GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL
00:48:54:00	00:48:55:00	OF US.
00:48:55:00	00:48:57:00	DESPITE WHERE WE LAND ON ISSUES
00:48:57:00	00:49:00:00	OR UM, PERSONALITIES.
00:49:00:00	00:49:01:00	AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
00:49:01:00	00:49:01:00	COUNCIL EARL.
00:49:01:00	00:49:02:00	FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
00:49:02:00	00:49:03:00	>> HAS SHOWN.
00:49:03:00	00:49:04:00	EVERY DAY AS HE.
00:49:04:00	00:49:05:00	COMES INTO THIS CHAMBER.
00:49:05:00	00:49:07:00	THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT BRIAN.
00:49:07:00	00:49:08:00	WE'RE ALL FROM THE BEGINNING
00:49:08:00	00:49:08:00	AND.
00:49:08:00	00:49:09:00	I'M CONFIDENT HE WILL LEAD
00:49:09:00	00:49:10:00	THIS.
00:49:10:00	00:49:12:00	PARTY WITH HUMILITY,
00:49:12:00	00:49:12:00	INDEPENDENCE AND RESPECT.
00:49:12:00	00:49:13:00	>> FOR THE INSTITUTION.
00:49:13:00	00:49:15:00	SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTE
00:49:15:00	00:49:16:00	FOR COUNCIL AS WELL.
00:49:16:00	00:49:17:00	THANK YOU.
00:49:17:00	00:49:18:00	>> I RECOMMENDED MOTIONS.
00:49:18:00	00:49:22:00	COUNCIL MEMBER WEBER.
00:49:22:00	00:49:25:00	YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES OR.
00:49:25:00	00:49:28:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:49:28:00	00:49:30:00	UH COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
00:49:30:00	00:49:32:00	UH, I JUST I'D LIKE TO
00:49:32:00	00:49:33:00	REITERATE, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT
00:49:33:00	00:49:34:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN AND
00:49:34:00	00:49:35:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY HAD TO SAY
00:49:35:00	00:49:37:00	ABOUT COUNCILOR EARL.
00:49:37:00	00:49:38:00	I THINK HE'S DONE AN INCREDIBLE
00:49:38:00	00:49:41:00	JOB AS A WAYS AND MEANS CHAIR.
00:49:41:00	00:49:43:00	UH, AND YOU KNOW, HE'S
00:49:43:00	00:49:44:00	DEFINITELY IMPRESSED ME WITH
00:49:44:00	00:49:46:00	HIS WORK ETHIC AND COMPETENCE
00:49:46:00	00:49:47:00	ON THE COUNCIL.
00:49:47:00	00:49:49:00	I THINK WHAT WE JUST HEARD WAS
00:49:49:00	00:49:51:00	ABOUT HOW BACKROOM DEALS
00:49:51:00	00:49:53:00	SHOULDN'T SWAY THIS COUNCIL.
00:49:53:00	00:49:54:00	YOU KNOW, BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN
00:49:54:00	00:49:56:00	IN THE LAST 24 HOURS IS A LOT
00:49:56:00	00:49:57:00	OF BACKROOM DEALINGS.
00:49:57:00	00:50:01:00	UH, AND YOU KNOW, I WANT THIS
00:50:01:00	00:50:03:00	COUNCIL TO BE UP FRONT WITH
00:50:03:00	00:50:05:00	PEOPLE AND NOT BE PICKING
00:50:05:00	00:50:08:00	FAVORITES AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I
00:50:08:00	00:50:09:00	THINK THE LAST 24 HOURS HAS NOT
00:50:09:00	00:50:11:00	BEEN THE FINEST ON THIS
00:50:11:00	00:50:11:00	COUNCIL.
00:50:11:00	00:50:13:00	UM, FOR THAT REASON I AM GOING
00:50:13:00	00:50:14:00	TO NOMINATE THE LONGEST SERVING
00:50:14:00	00:50:16:00	COUNCILOR LIZ BREADON AS
00:50:16:00	00:50:17:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
00:50:17:00	00:50:19:00	UH, SHE HAS IMPRESSED ME WITH
00:50:19:00	00:50:21:00	HER ABILITY TO BRING PEOPLE
00:50:21:00	00:50:23:00	TOGETHER TO BE A VOICE IN AN
00:50:23:00	00:50:25:00	OFTEN TEMPESTUOUS STORM, UH,
00:50:25:00	00:50:26:00	FOR CALM.
00:50:26:00	00:50:28:00	AND I HOPE THAT SHE.
00:50:28:00	00:50:29:00	>> CAN.
00:50:29:00	00:50:31:00	BRING CALMNESS AND DELIBERATION
00:50:31:00	00:50:32:00	TO THIS BODY SO THAT WE CAN
00:50:32:00	00:50:34:00	ADDRESS THE REALLY DIFFICULT
00:50:34:00	00:50:35:00	CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE FACING
00:50:35:00	00:50:36:00	US.
00:50:36:00	00:50:36:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:50:36:00	00:50:39:00	THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
00:50:39:00	00:50:39:00	MEMBER WEBER.
00:50:39:00	00:50:42:00	PLEASE NO CLAPPING OR
00:50:42:00	00:50:44:00	INDICATION FOR OR AGAINST
00:50:44:00	00:50:47:00	EITHER CANDIDATE OR THEIR
00:50:47:00	00:50:50:00	SPOKEN WORD COUNCILOR HERE.
00:50:50:00	00:50:52:00	I SEE YOUR LIGHT IS ON.
00:50:52:00	00:50:53:00	YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES.
00:50:53:00	00:50:56:00	GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
00:50:56:00	00:50:57:00	CONGRATULATIONS.
00:50:57:00	00:51:00:00	UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER, IT'S
00:51:00:00	00:51:01:00	GREAT TO SEE YOU HERE IN THIS
00:51:01:00	00:51:01:00	CHAMBER.
00:51:01:00	00:51:03:00	UM, AND GOOD.
00:51:03:00	00:51:04:00	AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE WHO IS
00:51:04:00	00:51:06:00	HERE CELEBRATING THIS
00:51:06:00	00:51:08:00	VICTORIOUS MOMENT WITH ALL
00:51:08:00	00:51:08:00	OF US.
00:51:08:00	00:51:10:00	SO IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING
00:51:10:00	00:51:12:00	ABOUT ME, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN
00:51:12:00	00:51:14:00	ABOUT THE PROCESS FOR ME.
00:51:14:00	00:51:17:00	IT'S MORE IMPORTANT HOW WE GET
00:51:17:00	00:51:18:00	THERE.
00:51:18:00	00:51:18:00	THAN GETTING THERE.
00:51:18:00	00:51:22:00	AND FROM THE ONSET, EVERY
00:51:22:00	00:51:24:00	SINGLE ELECTION THAT I'VE
00:51:24:00	00:51:25:00	PARTICIPATED HERE ON THE BOSTON
00:51:25:00	00:51:27:00	CITY COUNCIL HAS CREATED AN
00:51:27:00	00:51:27:00	OPPORTUNITY.
00:51:27:00	00:51:29:00	FOR ME TO LISTEN AND LEARN AND
00:51:29:00	00:51:31:00	HEAR FROM THE CANDIDATES THAT
00:51:31:00	00:51:34:00	ARE RUNNING UM TO SERVE IN THIS
00:51:34:00	00:51:34:00	POSITION.
00:51:34:00	00:51:36:00	IN THE LAST TWO.
00:51:36:00	00:51:38:00	ELECTION CYCLES WE.
00:51:38:00	00:51:38:00	>> HAVE BEEN STRIPPED.
00:51:38:00	00:51:40:00	AWAY OF THAT PROCESS.
00:51:40:00	00:51:42:00	AND HAVE CREATED.
00:51:42:00	00:51:43:00	>> A DYNAMIC IN WHICH A.
00:51:43:00	00:51:45:00	SMALL BODY OF FOLKS.
00:51:45:00	00:51:48:00	DETERMINED FOR AN ENTIRE BODY
00:51:48:00	00:51:51:00	WHO IS GOING TO OVERSEE THIS
00:51:51:00	00:51:53:00	BODY AND THAT CONTINUES TO
00:51:53:00	00:51:53:00	ERODE.
00:51:53:00	00:51:54:00	>> THE TRUST.
00:51:54:00	00:51:57:00	IN OUR ABILITY TO HAVE GOOD
00:51:57:00	00:51:59:00	WORKING RELATIONSHIPS.
00:51:59:00	00:52:01:00	IT'S NOT ABOUT WINNERS OR
00:52:01:00	00:52:01:00	LOSERS.
00:52:01:00	00:52:02:00	IT IS.
00:52:02:00	00:52:05:00	REALLY ALL ABOUT HOW WE.
00:52:05:00	00:52:06:00	CHOOSE TO SHOW.
00:52:06:00	00:52:07:00	UP FOR.
00:52:07:00	00:52:09:00	EACH OTHER AND REPRESENT OUR
00:52:09:00	00:52:11:00	CONSTITUENTS BY.
00:52:11:00	00:52:14:00	I FIND IT REALLY CHALLENGING IN
00:52:14:00	00:52:15:00	THIS MOMENT.
00:52:15:00	00:52:16:00	THAT WALKING.
00:52:16:00	00:52:20:00	INTO THIS CHAMBER UM WE HAVEN'T
00:52:20:00	00:52:22:00	HEARD FROM EVERYONE THE ONLY
00:52:22:00	00:52:25:00	PERSON THAT HAS MADE A REAL
00:52:25:00	00:52:28:00	CONCERTED EFFORT IN THIS
00:52:28:00	00:52:29:00	PROCESS TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT
00:52:29:00	00:52:30:00	LEADERSHIP WAS GOING TO LOOK
00:52:30:00	00:52:33:00	LIKE UNDER THIS TERM HAS BEEN
00:52:33:00	00:52:35:00	COUNCILOR, WE'RE UP FROM THE
00:52:35:00	00:52:38:00	MOMENT AFTER THE ELECTIONS WERE
00:52:38:00	00:52:39:00	CERTIFIED BECAUSE.
00:52:39:00	00:52:40:00	WE HAVE TO WAIT.
00:52:40:00	00:52:40:00	THERE IS A PROCESS.
00:52:40:00	00:52:42:00	UM COUNCILOR.
00:52:42:00	00:52:45:00	MORRELL HAS COMMUNICATED HAS
00:52:45:00	00:52:45:00	ENGAGED.
00:52:45:00	00:52:47:00	HAS SPOKEN TO EVERY SINGLE
00:52:47:00	00:52:50:00	MEMBER OF THIS BODY TRYING TO.
00:52:50:00	00:52:51:00	IDENTIFY WHAT IS.
00:52:51:00	00:52:52:00	>> GOING.
00:52:52:00	00:52:55:00	TO BE THE VISION FOR 2026 AND
00:52:55:00	00:52:55:00	2028.
00:52:55:00	00:52:58:00	THAT IS WHAT THIS MOMENT IS
00:52:58:00	00:52:58:00	CALLING FOR.
00:52:58:00	00:52:59:00	NOT A.
00:52:59:00	00:53:02:00	GROUP OF PEOPLE DECIDING FOR A
00:53:02:00	00:53:02:00	WHOLE BODY.
00:53:02:00	00:53:03:00	HOW WE ARE.
00:53:03:00	00:53:05:00	>> GOING TO FUNCTION.
00:53:05:00	00:53:07:00	THAT DOES NOT SET US UP FOR
00:53:07:00	00:53:07:00	SUCCESS.
00:53:07:00	00:53:08:00	WHAT THAT.
00:53:08:00	00:53:11:00	DOES IS CONTINUES TO PIT ONE
00:53:11:00	00:53:13:00	PERSON AND ONE GROUP AGAINST
00:53:13:00	00:53:14:00	THE OTHER.
00:53:14:00	00:53:16:00	AND WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THAT
00:53:16:00	00:53:16:00	HERE ON THIS BODY.
00:53:16:00	00:53:20:00	AND SO MY HOPE IS AS WE
00:53:20:00	00:53:20:00	CONTINUE TO.
00:53:20:00	00:53:21:00	DISCUSS WHO.
00:53:21:00	00:53:22:00	SHOULD BE.
00:53:22:00	00:53:23:00	OVERSEEING THIS.
00:53:23:00	00:53:25:00	BODY, WE SHOULD REALLY ASK.
00:53:25:00	00:53:27:00	OURSELVES WHO DO WE WANT TO BE
00:53:27:00	00:53:30:00	IN THIS NEXT TERM AND HOW ARE
00:53:30:00	00:53:30:00	WE GOING.
00:53:30:00	00:53:31:00	>> TO UTILIZE.
00:53:31:00	00:53:32:00	OUR POLITICS.
00:53:32:00	00:53:34:00	AND OUR POLITICAL CAPITAL TO
00:53:34:00	00:53:36:00	MOVE THE WORK FORWARD.
00:53:36:00	00:53:38:00	NOT IN THE INTEREST
00:53:38:00	00:53:39:00	OF OURSELVES BUT IN THE
00:53:39:00	00:53:41:00	INTEREST OF THOSE WHO PUT US IN
00:53:41:00	00:53:41:00	THESE SEATS?
00:53:41:00	00:53:43:00	AND SO YES, I.
00:53:43:00	00:53:45:00	AM THE CALL OUT QUEEN AND I
00:53:45:00	00:53:46:00	WILL BE CALLING OUT.
00:53:46:00	00:53:46:00	BAD BEHAVIOR.
00:53:46:00	00:53:48:00	THERE HAS.
00:53:48:00	00:53:51:00	BEEN A LOT OF SHENANIGANS
00:53:51:00	00:53:53:00	HAPPENING OVER THE LAST TWO AND
00:53:53:00	00:53:55:00	A HALF MONTHS AS IT RELATES TO
00:53:55:00	00:53:58:00	THIS PARTICULAR RACE, AND I
00:53:58:00	00:54:01:00	THINK THAT ALL EYES ARE ON US
00:54:01:00	00:54:03:00	TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE ARE
00:54:03:00	00:54:04:00	INDEPENDENT AND THAT WE CAN
00:54:04:00	00:54:05:00	MAKE DECISIONS FOR.
00:54:05:00	00:54:07:00	OURSELVES AND THAT WE DON'T
00:54:07:00	00:54:09:00	HAVE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES
00:54:09:00	00:54:11:00	DICTATING WHO IS GOING TO BE
00:54:11:00	00:54:12:00	OUR LEADER.
00:54:12:00	00:54:14:00	AND SO IF WE WANT TO BE THAT
00:54:14:00	00:54:18:00	BODY AND GET IN LINE AND DO
00:54:18:00	00:54:19:00	BUSINESS AS USUAL, THEN.
00:54:19:00	00:54:20:00	SO BE IT.
00:54:20:00	00:54:22:00	BUT IF WE WANT TO DEMONSTRATE
00:54:22:00	00:54:23:00	THAT WE HAVE.
00:54:23:00	00:54:24:00	BEEN ELECTED BY THE.
00:54:24:00	00:54:26:00	PEOPLE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE,
00:54:26:00	00:54:28:00	THEN THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO
00:54:28:00	00:54:29:00	BE WITH THE PEOPLE.
00:54:29:00	00:54:32:00	AND SO I AM.
00:54:32:00	00:54:33:00	GOING TO ENCOURAGE MY
00:54:33:00	00:54:35:00	COLLEAGUES TO REALLY THINK
00:54:35:00	00:54:35:00	ABOUT.
00:54:35:00	00:54:37:00	HOW ALL OF.
00:54:37:00	00:54:37:00	>> THIS.
00:54:37:00	00:54:38:00	CAME TO BE BECAUSE YOU ALL
00:54:38:00	00:54:41:00	PARTICIPATED IN IT AND AT THE
00:54:41:00	00:54:44:00	LAST MINUTE BECAUSE A GROUP
00:54:44:00	00:54:46:00	OF PEOPLE CANNOT HOLD ON TO
00:54:46:00	00:54:47:00	POWER.
00:54:47:00	00:54:49:00	HAVE DECIDED TO.
00:54:49:00	00:54:54:00	ORCHESTRATE A WHOLE DIFFERENT
00:54:54:00	00:54:56:00	CAMPAIGN AND WE HAVE YET TO
00:54:56:00	00:54:57:00	HEAR FROM THE PERSON WHO'S
00:54:57:00	00:54:59:00	RUNNING WHO HAS BEEN NOMINATED
00:54:59:00	00:54:59:00	.
00:54:59:00	00:55:01:00	I NEED TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE.
00:55:01:00	00:55:03:00	I NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE VISION
00:55:03:00	00:55:03:00	IS.
00:55:03:00	00:55:05:00	I NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW YOU'RE
00:55:05:00	00:55:05:00	GOING TO GOVERN.
00:55:05:00	00:55:07:00	I NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS
00:55:07:00	00:55:08:00	BODY IS GOING TO BUILD POWER.
00:55:08:00	00:55:10:00	I NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE ARE
00:55:10:00	00:55:12:00	GOING TO BE A TRUE INDEPENDENT
00:55:12:00	00:55:14:00	BODY AND THE PERSON WHO HAS.
00:55:14:00	00:55:16:00	DEMONSTRATED THAT LEADERSHIP
00:55:16:00	00:55:18:00	HERE ON THIS BOSTON CITY
00:55:18:00	00:55:19:00	COUNCIL HAS BEEN
00:55:19:00	00:55:19:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL.
00:55:19:00	00:55:21:00	I THINK.
00:55:21:00	00:55:23:00	WE HAVE THE MOST DIVERSE
00:55:23:00	00:55:23:00	COALITION.
00:55:23:00	00:55:25:00	WE HAVE CONSERVATIVES.
00:55:25:00	00:55:26:00	WE HAVE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
00:55:26:00	00:55:27:00	DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.
00:55:27:00	00:55:30:00	THIS BODY REPRESENTS A.
00:55:30:00	00:55:34:00	DIVERSE UM CONSTITUENCY.
00:55:34:00	00:55:35:00	AND IT CAN'T.
00:55:35:00	00:55:38:00	JUST BE THE SAME OLD SAME OLD
00:55:38:00	00:55:38:00	POLITICS.
00:55:38:00	00:55:39:00	WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO WORK
00:55:39:00	00:55:41:00	TOGETHER AND WORK ACROSS OUR
00:55:41:00	00:55:42:00	DIFFERENCES AND THE WORK THAT.
00:55:42:00	00:55:43:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL HAS.
00:55:43:00	00:55:45:00	DONE TO GET US HERE
00:55:45:00	00:55:48:00	DEMONSTRATES WHAT THIS CITY, UM
00:55:48:00	00:55:50:00	, IS ASKING FOR RIGHT NOW.
00:55:50:00	00:55:50:00	ESPECIALLY WITH.
00:55:50:00	00:55:52:00	>> ALL EYES ON US.
00:55:52:00	00:55:53:00	SO I'M ASKING.
00:55:53:00	00:55:55:00	>> US TO REALLY CONSIDER THE
00:55:55:00	00:55:57:00	NARRATIVE THAT'S OUT, UM, ABOUT
00:55:57:00	00:55:58:00	WHO THIS COUNCIL IS.
00:55:58:00	00:55:59:00	WHO WE HAVE BEEN.
00:55:59:00	00:56:01:00	WE'RE NOT A RUBBER STAMP.
00:56:01:00	00:56:03:00	WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT BODY
00:56:03:00	00:56:06:00	ELECTED TO SERVE, UM,
00:56:06:00	00:56:07:00	INDEPENDENTLY AND THAT WITH
00:56:07:00	00:56:09:00	SPECIAL INTERESTS AND AND YOU
00:56:09:00	00:56:12:00	KNOW, PEOPLE DOING POLITICS AS
00:56:12:00	00:56:12:00	USUAL.
00:56:12:00	00:56:17:00	AND SO I AM GOING TO, UM, STAND
00:56:17:00	00:56:19:00	ON BUSINESS HERE REGARDLESS
00:56:19:00	00:56:20:00	OF WHAT HAPPENS AND REGARDLESS
00:56:20:00	00:56:21:00	OF WHO.
00:56:21:00	00:56:22:00	THE PRESIDENT IS AT THE END
00:56:22:00	00:56:27:00	OF THE DAY OUR JOBS ARE TO LEAD
00:56:27:00	00:56:28:00	WITH FIDELITY.
00:56:28:00	00:56:31:00	UM AND MY HOPE IS IS THAT MY
00:56:31:00	00:56:32:00	COLLEAGUES FIND THE POLITICAL
00:56:32:00	00:56:32:00	COURAGE.
00:56:32:00	00:56:33:00	UH.
00:56:33:00	00:56:36:00	>> TO TO DO JUST THAT, UH, AND
00:56:36:00	00:56:38:00	TO SUPPORT US IN SUPPORTING
00:56:38:00	00:56:39:00	COUNCIL MORALE.
00:56:39:00	00:56:41:00	UM, AS HE HAS BEEN WORKING
00:56:41:00	00:56:42:00	HARD.
00:56:42:00	00:56:44:00	THE THING THAT WE DON'T WANT TO
00:56:44:00	00:56:45:00	DO IS JUST GIVE PEOPLE
00:56:45:00	00:56:47:00	SOMETHING THAT THEY DID NOT
00:56:47:00	00:56:50:00	WORK HARD FOR AND THIS IS THE
00:56:50:00	00:56:53:00	BODY THAT PEOPLE LOOK TO AND WE
00:56:53:00	00:56:55:00	ARE CONTINUING TO DEMONSTRATE
00:56:55:00	00:56:58:00	THAT ANYONE COULD JUST BE
00:56:58:00	00:57:00:00	PROPPED INTO A POSITION OR
00:57:00:00	00:57:02:00	SHEPHERD INTO A TITLE WITHOUT
00:57:02:00	00:57:03:00	REALLY DOING THE WORK.
00:57:03:00	00:57:06:00	SO I'D LIKE TO SEE.
00:57:06:00	00:57:08:00	COUNCIL OR ELSE HARD WORK PAY
00:57:08:00	00:57:11:00	OFF AND UM WOULD LIKE MY
00:57:11:00	00:57:13:00	COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT US IN
00:57:13:00	00:57:13:00	THAT QUEST.
00:57:13:00	00:57:14:00	THANK YOU.
00:57:14:00	00:57:19:00	THANK YOU COUNCIL TO HEAR.
00:57:19:00	00:57:23:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN I SEE YOUR
00:57:23:00	00:57:24:00	LIGHT IS ON.
00:57:24:00	00:57:26:00	YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES.
00:57:26:00	00:57:28:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILOR.
00:57:28:00	00:57:29:00	UH, CULPEPER.
00:57:29:00	00:57:32:00	UM, TODAY I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT
00:57:32:00	00:57:33:00	LIZ BREADON AND I WOULD LIKE TO
00:57:33:00	00:57:34:00	SECOND HER NOMINATION.
00:57:34:00	00:57:36:00	UM, FOR ME.
00:57:36:00	00:57:38:00	UM, I ACTUALLY SAT IN
00:57:38:00	00:57:39:00	COUNCILOR BRADEN'S OFFICE OVER
00:57:39:00	00:57:41:00	A YEAR AGO AND, UM, WE WERE
00:57:41:00	00:57:43:00	TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES OF THE
00:57:43:00	00:57:46:00	CITY OF BOSTON AND I TOLD HER
00:57:46:00	00:57:48:00	IN A SMALL GESTURE YOU WOULD
00:57:48:00	00:57:49:00	MAKE A GREAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:57:49:00	00:57:51:00	BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT SHE
00:57:51:00	00:57:52:00	TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUES, THE
00:57:52:00	00:57:54:00	WAY THAT SHE SPOKE WITH RESPECT
00:57:54:00	00:57:55:00	FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR
00:57:55:00	00:57:55:00	COLLEAGUES.
00:57:55:00	00:57:58:00	UM, AND I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT
00:57:58:00	00:57:58:00	HER.
00:57:58:00	00:58:01:00	I THINK, UH, WE'RE IN A MOMENT
00:58:01:00	00:58:02:00	TODAY WHERE THE CITY IS FACING
00:58:02:00	00:58:05:00	A TON OF ISSUES AND WE ARE ALL
00:58:05:00	00:58:08:00	WORKING ON THEM IN OUR OWN
00:58:08:00	00:58:09:00	JUNCTURES, OUR OWN DISTRICTS.
00:58:09:00	00:58:12:00	UH, BUT TODAY THE REASON I'M
00:58:12:00	00:58:13:00	PROUD TO SUPPORT
00:58:13:00	00:58:14:00	COUNCILOR BREADON IS BECAUSE
00:58:14:00	00:58:18:00	SHE TRULY IS GOING TO PUT OUR
00:58:18:00	00:58:19:00	BODY FIRST.
00:58:19:00	00:58:22:00	UM, THIS IS NOT ANY NEGATIVITY
00:58:22:00	00:58:24:00	, BUT THE PAST 24 HOURS HAVE
00:58:24:00	00:58:26:00	BEEN A WHIRLWIND AND I WOULD
00:58:26:00	00:58:28:00	LIKE TO ALSO SAY THAT
00:58:28:00	00:58:29:00	COUNCILOR CLYDE IS A PART
00:58:29:00	00:58:30:00	OF WHAT HAVE MADE AN AMAZING
00:58:30:00	00:58:32:00	PRESIDENT AND SHE WILL GET HER
00:58:32:00	00:58:33:00	TIME TO SHINE.
00:58:33:00	00:58:37:00	UM I TRULY THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
00:58:37:00	00:58:39:00	THAT IN THIS MOMENT THAT WE NOT
00:58:39:00	00:58:41:00	TEAR EACH OTHER DOWN, THAT WE
00:58:41:00	00:58:42:00	PICK WHO WOULD BE BEST FOR THE
00:58:42:00	00:58:44:00	BODY IN THIS MOMENT FOR THE
00:58:44:00	00:58:44:00	CITY.
00:58:44:00	00:58:47:00	WE HAVE 13 DIVERSE MEMBERS
00:58:47:00	00:58:48:00	OF THIS COUNCIL THAT ARE FROM
00:58:48:00	00:58:49:00	DIFFERENT PLACES.
00:58:49:00	00:58:51:00	UM IN LIZ WE WOULD BE PICKING
00:58:51:00	00:58:55:00	THE FIRST OUT LGBTQ MEMBER OUT
00:58:55:00	00:58:55:00	.
00:58:55:00	00:58:59:00	UH PRESIDENT WE WOULD BE UH
00:58:59:00	00:59:03:00	PICKING UH OUR SOMEONE WHO HAS
00:59:03:00	00:59:05:00	ACTUALLY LED MEETINGS BEFORE
00:59:05:00	00:59:07:00	SHE SHE HAS EXPERIENCE AS THE
00:59:07:00	00:59:09:00	PERSON WHO HAS HAD TO STEP IN
00:59:09:00	00:59:11:00	AND THOSE MOMENTS AND ON TOP
00:59:11:00	00:59:14:00	OF ALL OF THIS, UM, IT'S REALLY
00:59:14:00	00:59:15:00	THE CANDOR AND THE WAY SHE
00:59:15:00	00:59:16:00	TALKS ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE
00:59:16:00	00:59:18:00	OF HER COLLEAGUES THAT SHINES
00:59:18:00	00:59:18:00	THROUGH.
00:59:18:00	00:59:22:00	AND SO FOR ME, UM, I AM PROUD
00:59:22:00	00:59:23:00	TO CAST MY VOTE FOR HER.
00:59:23:00	00:59:25:00	THIS IS NOT NEGATIVE.
00:59:25:00	00:59:27:00	THIS IS REALLY JUST ABOUT
00:59:27:00	00:59:28:00	PICKING WHO I THINK WOULD BE
00:59:28:00	00:59:29:00	BEST FOR THE COUNCIL.
00:59:29:00	00:59:30:00	AND I THINK WE ALL HAVE THAT
00:59:30:00	00:59:31:00	DECISION TO MAKE.
00:59:31:00	00:59:32:00	I HAVE RESPECT FOR EVERY SINGLE
00:59:32:00	00:59:34:00	ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES.
00:59:34:00	00:59:35:00	JUST BECAUSE WE COME TO A
00:59:35:00	00:59:37:00	DIFFERENT CONCLUSION DOESN'T
00:59:37:00	00:59:40:00	MEAN UH YOUR VOICE AND YOUR
00:59:40:00	00:59:41:00	VOTE IS INVALID.
00:59:41:00	00:59:43:00	UH, BUT THE GAME OF CITY
00:59:43:00	00:59:44:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS TO GET TO
00:59:44:00	00:59:45:00	SEVEN.
00:59:45:00	00:59:47:00	UM, AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT I'M
00:59:47:00	00:59:49:00	PROUD TO SERVE ON THIS AUGUST
00:59:49:00	00:59:51:00	HISTORICAL BODY WHERE WE HAVE
00:59:51:00	00:59:51:00	TRADITIONS.
00:59:51:00	00:59:53:00	ONE OF THOSE IS PICKING OUR
00:59:53:00	00:59:54:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON THIS VERY
00:59:54:00	00:59:54:00	DAY.
00:59:54:00	00:59:57:00	AND SO WE ALL HAVE TO DO WHAT'S
00:59:57:00	00:59:58:00	RIGHT FOR US.
00:59:58:00	01:00:00:00	BUT UM, TRULY LIZ IS GOING TO
01:00:00:00	01:00:01:00	MAKE AN AMAZING
01:00:01:00	01:00:03:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND I URGE MY
01:00:03:00	01:00:04:00	COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME IN
01:00:04:00	01:00:05:00	SUPPORTING HER.
01:00:05:00	01:00:08:00	THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER
01:00:08:00	01:00:09:00	DURKAN.
01:00:09:00	01:00:12:00	COUNCIL MEMBER MURPHY I SEE
01:00:12:00	01:00:15:00	YOUR LIGHT IS ON AND UH, YOU
01:00:15:00	01:00:18:00	HAVE SPOKEN AND SO I WANT TO
01:00:18:00	01:00:20:00	MAKE SURE THAT NO OTHER
01:00:20:00	01:00:22:00	COUNCIL WANTS TO SPEAK BEFORE
01:00:22:00	01:00:26:00	WE GIVE YOU, UH, BACK TWO
01:00:26:00	01:00:26:00	MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.
01:00:26:00	01:00:28:00	I DON'T THINK YOU USE ALL TEN,
01:00:28:00	01:00:30:00	BUT WE WILL GIVE YOU TWO.
01:00:30:00	01:00:32:00	MR. CLERK, ARE THERE ANY.
01:00:32:00	01:00:35:00	THAT WE CAN GO?
01:00:35:00	01:00:35:00	THANK YOU.
01:00:35:00	01:00:37:00	>> I SEE MR FITZGERALD'S LIGHT
01:00:37:00	01:00:37:00	IS ON.
01:00:37:00	01:00:41:00	COUNCIL MURPHY I WILL COME BACK
01:00:41:00	01:00:43:00	TO YOU, BUT WE NEED TO GET
01:00:43:00	01:00:45:00	THROUGH THE FIRST ROUND
01:00:45:00	01:00:46:00	OF SPEAKING.
01:00:46:00	01:00:49:00	UH, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TO
01:00:49:00	01:00:49:00	YOU FOR TWO MINUTES.
01:00:49:00	01:00:50:00	MR FITZGERALD.
01:00:50:00	01:00:53:00	THANK YOU.
01:00:53:00	01:00:54:00	>> COUNCIL MEMBERS, WELCOME TO
01:00:54:00	01:00:55:00	THE COUNCIL.
01:00:55:00	01:00:57:00	UH, FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO MY
01:00:57:00	01:00:57:00	MIND.
01:00:57:00	01:00:59:00	THAT'S YOU GOTTA YOU GOTTA PUT
01:00:59:00	01:00:59:00	ME ON THAT.
01:00:59:00	01:01:00:00	IT'S ON.
01:01:00:00	01:01:01:00	UM.
01:01:01:00	01:01:02:00	>> THANK YOU AND WELCOME, SIR.
01:01:02:00	01:01:03:00	UM.
01:01:03:00	01:01:03:00	>> FIRST I.
01:01:03:00	01:01:04:00	>> JUST WANT TO.
01:01:04:00	01:01:05:00	>> ADDRESS SOME OF THE
01:01:05:00	01:01:05:00	RHETORIC.
01:01:05:00	01:01:06:00	AND FEELING IN THE ROOM OVER
01:01:06:00	01:01:07:00	THE LAST 24 HOURS PEOPLE HAVE
01:01:07:00	01:01:09:00	TALKED ABOUT BACKROOM DEALS AND
01:01:09:00	01:01:10:00	SHENANIGANS AND STUFF.
01:01:10:00	01:01:10:00	GUYS.
01:01:10:00	01:01:12:00	WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
01:01:12:00	01:01:13:00	THIS IS THE JOB.
01:01:13:00	01:01:13:00	BUT WE.
01:01:13:00	01:01:14:00	WERE SAYING THAT ELECTED.
01:01:14:00	01:01:16:00	TO DO THIS IS HOW IT OPERATES.
01:01:16:00	01:01:18:00	ONLY ONCE IN A STRONG MAYOR
01:01:18:00	01:01:19:00	SYSTEM.
01:01:19:00	01:01:21:00	IN ON THIS BODY AS US AS
01:01:21:00	01:01:22:00	ELECTED COUNCILORS.
01:01:22:00	01:01:24:00	DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SMALL
01:01:24:00	01:01:26:00	TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TO
01:01:26:00	01:01:27:00	DELIVER AN IMPACT.
01:01:27:00	01:01:29:00	FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND A LOT
01:01:29:00	01:01:30:00	OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE
01:01:30:00	01:01:31:00	COMMITTEES.
01:01:31:00	01:01:32:00	>> THAT WE GET AND MAKING THE
01:01:32:00	01:01:33:00	ADMINISTRATION HAVE.
01:01:33:00	01:01:34:00	LEVERAGE TO DEAL WITH US RIGHT
01:01:34:00	01:01:35:00	OR LEVERAGING THE
01:01:35:00	01:01:37:00	ADMINISTRATION TO DEAL WITH US
01:01:37:00	01:01:37:00	.
01:01:37:00	01:01:39:00	SO THAT'S ALL THIS IS I JUST
01:01:39:00	01:01:40:00	WANT TO SAY WHEN WE TALK TO
01:01:40:00	01:01:40:00	WHEN.
01:01:40:00	01:01:41:00	>> WE WHEN WE USE THAT RHETORIC
01:01:41:00	01:01:43:00	GUYS EVEN WHEN WE USE THAT IT
01:01:43:00	01:01:45:00	DOESN'T HELP US RIGHT?
01:01:45:00	01:01:46:00	THIS IS THE JOB.
01:01:46:00	01:01:47:00	NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED
01:01:47:00	01:01:48:00	EVERY.
01:01:48:00	01:01:48:00	TWO YEARS.
01:01:48:00	01:01:49:00	THIS IS THE STUFF THAT HAPPENS.
01:01:49:00	01:01:51:00	AND IT'S OKAY THAT IT HAPPENS
01:01:51:00	01:01:54:00	BUT WE DO HAVE TO USE IT EVERY
01:01:54:00	01:01:55:00	WEEK AND ONE OF US ARE TRYING
01:01:55:00	01:01:56:00	TO POSITION.
01:01:56:00	01:01:57:00	OURSELVES TO DELIVER FOR OUR
01:01:57:00	01:01:58:00	CONSTITUENTS.
01:01:58:00	01:01:59:00	THAT IS THE JOB.
01:01:59:00	01:01:59:00	NONE OF.
01:01:59:00	01:02:01:00	>> US CAN GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE
01:02:01:00	01:02:02:00	THAT ELECTED US AND SAY HERE'S.
01:02:02:00	01:02:03:00	>> THE.
01:02:03:00	01:02:04:00	DEAL I GOT AND I TOOK IT BUT
01:02:04:00	01:02:06:00	THERE WAS A BETTER ONE ON THE
01:02:06:00	01:02:06:00	TABLE.
01:02:06:00	01:02:06:00	THEY WILL LOOK.
01:02:06:00	01:02:08:00	>> AT US AND SAY, JOHN, WHY DID
01:02:08:00	01:02:08:00	YOU TAKE THAT DEAL?
01:02:08:00	01:02:09:00	RIGHT?
01:02:09:00	01:02:11:00	WE PUT YOU THERE TO DELIVER FOR
01:02:11:00	01:02:11:00	US.
01:02:11:00	01:02:13:00	SO THAT'S ALL THIS IS I THINK.
01:02:13:00	01:02:15:00	AMONGST US ALL I FEEL THAT WE
01:02:15:00	01:02:16:00	HAVE A GENUINE FRIENDSHIP
01:02:16:00	01:02:16:00	AMONGST.
01:02:16:00	01:02:17:00	ALL OF US I REALLY DO.
01:02:17:00	01:02:19:00	SOMETIMES WE HAVE.
01:02:19:00	01:02:20:00	HARD DECISIONS BUT THAT'S WHY
01:02:20:00	01:02:22:00	WE WE PUT OURSELVES HERE
01:02:22:00	01:02:24:00	BECAUSE IF FOLKS WERE IN OUR
01:02:24:00	01:02:25:00	SHOES TO BE HERE AND LOOK
01:02:25:00	01:02:26:00	FRIENDS IN THE EYE AND TELL.
01:02:26:00	01:02:26:00	THEM ONE.
01:02:26:00	01:02:28:00	>> THING AND DO ANOTHER.
01:02:28:00	01:02:28:00	IT HURTS.
01:02:28:00	01:02:31:00	IT'S HARD BUT IT'S THE ONLY
01:02:31:00	01:02:32:00	OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE.
01:02:32:00	01:02:33:00	SO NO MATTER.
01:02:33:00	01:02:35:00	WHO IS ELECTED, I KNOW WE'RE
01:02:35:00	01:02:35:00	GOING TO.
01:02:35:00	01:02:36:00	>> ALL WORK WELL TOGETHER.
01:02:36:00	01:02:37:00	WE HAVE TO SET THE TONE OFF.
01:02:37:00	01:02:39:00	>> RIGHT THIS YEAR FOR 2026 SO
01:02:39:00	01:02:40:00	I LOOK.
01:02:40:00	01:02:40:00	FORWARD TO IT.
01:02:40:00	01:02:41:00	WHOEVER IS THE PRESIDENT.
01:02:41:00	01:02:43:00	I COMMEND THEM AND I LOOK
01:02:43:00	01:02:44:00	FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM
01:02:44:00	01:02:45:00	AND ALL OF YOU AS WELL.
01:02:45:00	01:02:45:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:45:00	01:02:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:46:00	01:02:48:00	>> COUNCIL MEMBER FITZGERALD.
01:02:48:00	01:02:51:00	COUNCIL MEMBER MURPHY, YOU HAVE
01:02:51:00	01:02:51:00	TWO MINUTES.
01:02:51:00	01:02:52:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:52:00	01:02:54:00	UM, THROUGH THE CHAIR IF I
01:02:54:00	01:02:55:00	COULD IF HE WANTS TO HAVE A
01:02:55:00	01:02:56:00	QUESTION FOR COUNCIL WEBER,
01:02:56:00	01:02:57:00	JUST.
01:02:57:00	01:02:59:00	IF YOU.
01:02:59:00	01:03:00:00	>> WANT TO, UH, LAST A QUESTION
01:03:00:00	01:03:01:00	YOU CAN TELL ME FOR AN ANSWER.
01:03:01:00	01:03:03:00	WHEN YOU HAD NOMINATED YOUR
01:03:03:00	01:03:05:00	CANDIDATE COUNCILOR BREADON,
01:03:05:00	01:03:07:00	YOU HAD SAID THAT ONE OF THE
01:03:07:00	01:03:08:00	REASONS BECAUSE SHE'S THE
01:03:08:00	01:03:09:00	LONGEST SERVING.
01:03:09:00	01:03:10:00	IF I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY.
01:03:10:00	01:03:11:00	I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY FOR THE
01:03:11:00	01:03:12:00	RECORD THAT COUNCILOR.
01:03:12:00	01:03:12:00	FLYNN IS.
01:03:12:00	01:03:13:00	THE LONGEST.
01:03:13:00	01:03:14:00	SERVING IN COUNCIL AND MEJIA
01:03:14:00	01:03:15:00	CAME IN IN THE SAME YEAR.
01:03:15:00	01:03:18:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
01:03:18:00	01:03:19:00	THAT THERE WAS CLARIFICATION
01:03:19:00	01:03:19:00	NOW.
01:03:19:00	01:03:22:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:03:22:00	01:03:24:00	COUNCIL MURPHY IS THERE.
01:03:24:00	01:03:25:00	THAT WAS YEAH IF I HEARD.
01:03:25:00	01:03:26:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:03:26:00	01:03:28:00	JUST BECAUSE THE PUBLIC LISTENS
01:03:28:00	01:03:30:00	IN AND I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR
01:03:30:00	01:03:32:00	THAT WE'RE VOTING FOR JUST
01:03:32:00	01:03:33:00	BECAUSE SOMEONE'S FOR LONGEST
01:03:33:00	01:03:34:00	SERVING THAT THAT'S JUST GOING
01:03:34:00	01:03:34:00	TO THANK YOU.
01:03:34:00	01:03:36:00	IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN.
01:03:36:00	01:03:37:00	YOU'RE THE OLDEST.
01:03:37:00	01:03:39:00	YEAH WELL YOU'RE THE OLDEST BY
01:03:39:00	01:03:39:00	AGE.
01:03:39:00	01:03:40:00	>> BUT MR WEBER.
01:03:40:00	01:03:43:00	PLEASE CHAIR JUST A SHORT.
01:03:43:00	01:03:45:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER, FOR
01:03:45:00	01:03:45:00	YOUR POINT THAT I APOLOGIZE.
01:03:45:00	01:03:47:00	I MEANT TO SAY LONG, LONG
01:03:47:00	01:03:50:00	SERVING, UH, COUNCILOR NOT
01:03:50:00	01:03:50:00	LONGEST SERVING.
01:03:50:00	01:03:52:00	I APOLOGIZE TO COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:03:52:00	01:03:53:00	I APOLOGIZE TO COUNCILOR MEJIA
01:03:53:00	01:03:54:00	.
01:03:54:00	01:03:57:00	UH, I DO STAND BY MY COMMENTS
01:03:57:00	01:03:59:00	THAT, YOU KNOW, I DO THINK, UH,
01:03:59:00	01:04:00:00	COUNCILOR BREADON, UH, IS
01:04:00:00	01:04:02:00	SOMEBODY WHO IN VERY DIFFICULT
01:04:02:00	01:04:03:00	SITUATIONS IS SOMEBODY WHO'S
01:04:03:00	01:04:04:00	BROUGHT THIS BODY BACK.
01:04:04:00	01:04:05:00	TO A PLACE WHERE WE CAN.
01:04:05:00	01:04:07:00	>> BE PRODUCTIVE AND AND I I
01:04:07:00	01:04:09:00	THINK BASED ON WHAT I'VE SEEN
01:04:09:00	01:04:10:00	IN ONE TERM HERE THAT IF SHE
01:04:10:00	01:04:11:00	CAN DO IT THAT'S WHY I
01:04:11:00	01:04:12:00	NOMINATED HER.
01:04:12:00	01:04:14:00	UH, AND UH.
01:04:14:00	01:04:14:00	YOU KNOW.
01:04:14:00	01:04:17:00	I ALSO JUST WANT TO.
01:04:17:00	01:04:17:00	UH.
01:04:17:00	01:04:18:00	>> SUPPORT WHAT
01:04:18:00	01:04:20:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD SAID AND I
01:04:20:00	01:04:20:00	REALLY YOU.
01:04:20:00	01:04:20:00	KNOW.
01:04:20:00	01:04:21:00	>> REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS,
01:04:21:00	01:04:23:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
01:04:23:00	01:04:23:00	ALL OF YOU.
01:04:23:00	01:04:24:00	THANK YOU, MR WEBER.
01:04:24:00	01:04:26:00	COUNCIL MEMBER WEBER.
01:04:26:00	01:04:29:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN, YOU HAVE
01:04:29:00	01:04:30:00	SPOKEN.
01:04:30:00	01:04:31:00	UM.
01:04:31:00	01:04:34:00	>> WE DID NOT KEEP YOUR TIME
01:04:34:00	01:04:36:00	BUT I WILL GIVE YOU.
01:04:36:00	01:04:37:00	YOU DID?
01:04:37:00	01:04:38:00	DID IT?
01:04:38:00	01:04:40:00	>> DID HE USE HIS LAST ALL TEN
01:04:40:00	01:04:41:00	MINUTES?
01:04:41:00	01:04:43:00	HE'S GOT TIME.
01:04:43:00	01:04:44:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN.
01:04:44:00	01:04:45:00	THANK.
01:04:45:00	01:04:47:00	>> THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:04:47:00	01:04:50:00	MAY I MAKE A RECOMMENDATION?
01:04:50:00	01:04:50:00	UM.
01:04:50:00	01:04:53:00	ASKING COUNCIL RELL AND
01:04:53:00	01:04:55:00	COUNCILOR BREADON TO OUTLINE
01:04:55:00	01:04:57:00	THEIR VISION, UH, ON WHAT THEY
01:04:57:00	01:04:59:00	WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AND HOW THEY
01:04:59:00	01:05:01:00	WILL WORK WITH ALL COLLEAGUES.
01:05:01:00	01:05:04:00	UM, I DO THINK THAT WOULD BE
01:05:04:00	01:05:06:00	HELPFUL TO THE BODY.
01:05:06:00	01:05:09:00	SO WE ALL KNOW, UM, WHERE BOTH
01:05:09:00	01:05:11:00	COUNCILORS STAND ON HOW THEY
01:05:11:00	01:05:13:00	WANT TO ENSURE THAT COMMITTEE
01:05:13:00	01:05:15:00	ASSIGNMENTS ARE ADDRESSED, HOW
01:05:15:00	01:05:18:00	ISSUES ARE UH, DISCUSSED, UH,
01:05:18:00	01:05:20:00	HOW THEY WILL INTERACT WITH
01:05:20:00	01:05:21:00	CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF AS
01:05:21:00	01:05:21:00	WELL.
01:05:21:00	01:05:24:00	BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF BOTH
01:05:24:00	01:05:25:00	CITY COUNCILORS WOULD BE
01:05:25:00	01:05:28:00	WILLING TO AT LEAST OFFER WHAT
01:05:28:00	01:05:29:00	THEIR VISION IS TO BE CITY
01:05:29:00	01:05:30:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
01:05:30:00	01:05:34:00	NOW YOU KNOW, MR FLYNN
01:05:34:00	01:05:36:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN, THAT THEY
01:05:36:00	01:05:38:00	HAVE TEN MINUTES AND IT'S THEIR
01:05:38:00	01:05:40:00	CHOICE WHETHER OR NOT THEY USE
01:05:40:00	01:05:41:00	THOSE TWO MINUTES.
01:05:41:00	01:05:43:00	I DON'T SEE EITHER ONE OF THEIR
01:05:43:00	01:05:44:00	LIGHTS ON.
01:05:44:00	01:05:48:00	AND SO UNTIL I SEE ONE OF THEIR
01:05:48:00	01:05:50:00	LIGHTS ON COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN
01:05:50:00	01:05:52:00	WE KEEP ON MOVING.
01:05:52:00	01:05:57:00	NOW IF I DON'T SEE EITHER ONE
01:05:57:00	01:06:00:00	OF THE LIGHTS ON, I'LL ASK
01:06:00:00	01:06:02:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FITZGERALD TO
01:06:02:00	01:06:04:00	COME TO THE DIAS AND I'LL COME
01:06:04:00	01:06:06:00	AND TAKE YOUR SEAT AND I'LL
01:06:06:00	01:06:07:00	MAKE MY STATEMENT.
01:06:07:00	01:06:11:00	AS A CHAIR.
01:06:11:00	01:06:12:00	IN ORDER TO MAKE MY STATEMENT I
01:06:12:00	01:06:14:00	HAVE TO LEAVE THE DIAS TO MAKE
01:06:14:00	01:06:16:00	MY STATEMENT AND I'LL COME BACK
01:06:16:00	01:06:18:00	AFTER I MAKE MY STATEMENT.
01:06:18:00	01:06:24:00	ALL RIGHT.
01:06:24:00	01:06:25:00	>> HEADS UP WOULD HAVE BEEN
01:06:25:00	01:06:26:00	NICE AND, UH.
01:06:26:00	01:06:28:00	SO HERE WE ARE.
01:06:28:00	01:06:29:00	YOU KNOW I.
01:06:29:00	01:06:30:00	LIKE IT UP HERE, GUYS.
01:06:30:00	01:06:30:00	UM.
01:06:30:00	01:06:30:00	UH.
01:06:30:00	01:06:32:00	ANYBODY ANYBODY HAVE
01:06:32:00	01:06:32:00	NOMINATIONS?
01:06:32:00	01:06:35:00	I HAVE A NOMINATION TO GIVE.
01:06:35:00	01:06:35:00	ALL RIGHT.
01:06:35:00	01:06:36:00	UH.
01:06:36:00	01:06:39:00	>> COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
01:06:39:00	01:06:43:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:06:43:00	01:06:47:00	AND YOU DO LOOK GOOD UP THERE.
01:06:47:00	01:06:48:00	>> UH, THIS TWO.
01:06:48:00	01:06:53:00	COLLEAGUES I RISE TODAY HUMBLED
01:06:53:00	01:06:56:00	TO JOIN YOU AS THE ONLY NEWLY
01:06:56:00	01:06:58:00	ELECTED MEMBER TO THIS BODY.
01:06:58:00	01:07:01:00	AS WE WALK AWAY FROM OUR
01:07:01:00	01:07:04:00	SWEARING IN JUST HOURS AGO AND
01:07:04:00	01:07:07:00	INTO A NEW CHAPTER OF SERVICE,
01:07:07:00	01:07:08:00	I KNOW THAT WE DO SO WITH A
01:07:08:00	01:07:11:00	DEEP ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE
01:07:11:00	01:07:13:00	RESPONSIBILITY ENTRUSTED TO US
01:07:13:00	01:07:15:00	BY THE CONSTITUENTS OF THIS
01:07:15:00	01:07:16:00	CITY.
01:07:16:00	01:07:18:00	AND WHILE I MAY BE NEW TO THIS
01:07:18:00	01:07:21:00	CHAMBER, I AM NOT NEW TO THE
01:07:21:00	01:07:25:00	WORK OF THIS CITY NOR TO THE
01:07:25:00	01:07:27:00	COMMUNITIES WHO DEPEND ON THIS
01:07:27:00	01:07:29:00	COUNCIL TO LEAD WITH DISCIPLINE
01:07:29:00	01:07:30:00	, FAIRNESS AND CARE.
01:07:30:00	01:07:33:00	I TAKE MY ROLE AND I TOOK MY
01:07:33:00	01:07:35:00	ROLE AS THE PRESIDING MEMBER
01:07:35:00	01:07:37:00	OVER THIS COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:07:37:00	01:07:39:00	ELECTION SERIOUSLY.
01:07:39:00	01:07:41:00	WE ALL KNOW THAT THE ROLE
01:07:41:00	01:07:43:00	OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS NOT
01:07:43:00	01:07:44:00	CEREMONIAL.
01:07:44:00	01:07:46:00	IT'S OPERATIONAL.
01:07:46:00	01:07:48:00	IT'S INSTITUTIONAL.
01:07:48:00	01:07:50:00	IT REQUIRES SOMEONE WHO
01:07:50:00	01:07:52:00	UNDERSTANDS PROCESS COMMANDS
01:07:52:00	01:07:55:00	TRUST ACROSS HIS BODY AND KNOWS
01:07:55:00	01:07:58:00	HOW TO TRANSLATE DEBATE INTO
01:07:58:00	01:07:58:00	DELIVERY.
01:07:58:00	01:08:01:00	WHO WE ELECT MUST BE READY TO
01:08:01:00	01:08:04:00	STAND IN AS ACTING MET OF THIS
01:08:04:00	01:08:04:00	CITY.
01:08:04:00	01:08:07:00	A MOMENT WE NEVER WISH TO GET
01:08:07:00	01:08:08:00	TO OR WELCOME.
01:08:08:00	01:08:10:00	BUT ONE MUST BE READY AT A
01:08:10:00	01:08:12:00	MOMENT'S NOTICE TO ENACT.
01:08:12:00	01:08:15:00	IT IS IN THAT SPIRIT THAT I AM
01:08:15:00	01:08:18:00	HONORED TO NOMINATE AND SUPPORT
01:08:18:00	01:08:20:00	COUNCIL BURRELL TO SERVE AS THE
01:08:20:00	01:08:22:00	NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON
01:08:22:00	01:08:23:00	CITY COUNCIL.
01:08:23:00	01:08:26:00	OVER THAT NOTE REMEMBER I SAID
01:08:26:00	01:08:27:00	YOU CAN.
01:08:27:00	01:08:33:00	OVER THE LAST TWO TERMS
01:08:33:00	01:08:35:00	COUNCIL WORE WELL HAS
01:08:35:00	01:08:37:00	DEMONSTRATED COUNCILMAN WORRELL
01:08:37:00	01:08:39:00	CLEARLY AND CONSISTENTLY WHAT
01:08:39:00	01:08:41:00	EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP TO THIS
01:08:41:00	01:08:41:00	COUNCIL LOOKS LIKE.
01:08:41:00	01:08:44:00	AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON
01:08:44:00	01:08:46:00	CITY COUNCIL AND CHAIR OF THE
01:08:46:00	01:08:47:00	COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
01:08:47:00	01:08:48:00	COUNCIL, MORRELL HAS OVERSEEN
01:08:48:00	01:08:52:00	SOME OF THE MOST COMPLEX AND
01:08:52:00	01:08:54:00	CONSEQUENTIAL WORK THIS BODY
01:08:54:00	01:08:54:00	UNDERTAKES.
01:08:54:00	01:08:56:00	HE LED THE COUNCIL'S REVIEW AND
01:08:56:00	01:08:59:00	PASSES OF A 4.8 BILLION
01:08:59:00	01:09:02:00	OPERATING BUDGET, A 4.8 CAPITAL
01:09:02:00	01:09:02:00	BUDGET.
01:09:02:00	01:09:04:00	HE GUIDED THE APPROVAL OF MORE
01:09:04:00	01:09:07:00	THAN $250 MILLION AND
01:09:07:00	01:09:08:00	COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
01:09:08:00	01:09:08:00	AGREEMENTS.
01:09:08:00	01:09:12:00	HE HELPED TO OVER $9 MILLION IN
01:09:12:00	01:09:14:00	NEW COUNCIL DRIVEN INVESTMENTS
01:09:14:00	01:09:17:00	IN FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET
01:09:17:00	01:09:19:00	INVESTMENTS SAVED BY EQUITY,
01:09:19:00	01:09:22:00	FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND
01:09:22:00	01:09:22:00	COMMUNITY NEED.
01:09:22:00	01:09:25:00	IN HIS VERY FIRST TERM AS CHAIR
01:09:25:00	01:09:27:00	OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
01:09:27:00	01:09:29:00	COUNCIL WILL DEMONSTRATE WHAT
01:09:29:00	01:09:31:00	PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP LOOKS
01:09:31:00	01:09:33:00	LIKE WHEN IT MATTERS MOST
01:09:33:00	01:09:35:00	RARELY IN THIS COUNCIL TO
01:09:35:00	01:09:36:00	OVERRIDE A VETO.
01:09:36:00	01:09:39:00	THAT MOMENT WAS NOT ABOUT
01:09:39:00	01:09:39:00	POLITICS.
01:09:39:00	01:09:42:00	IT WAS ABOUT PROCESS,
01:09:42:00	01:09:43:00	PARTNERSHIP AND THE
01:09:43:00	01:09:45:00	COUNCIL ASSERTING ITS ROLE AS A
01:09:45:00	01:09:46:00	CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
01:09:46:00	01:09:50:00	AND IN FISCAL YEAR 26 IT WAS
01:09:50:00	01:09:51:00	COUNCIL WHO WILL DIRECT
01:09:51:00	01:09:53:00	LEADERSHIP HIS ABILITY TO WORK
01:09:53:00	01:09:55:00	WITH EVERY MEMBER OF THIS BODY
01:09:55:00	01:09:57:00	AND ACROSS COALITIONS THAT LED
01:09:57:00	01:09:59:00	TO THE MAYOR FINALLY ACCEPT THE
01:09:59:00	01:10:02:00	MAYOR WHO I LOVE THE COUNCIL'S
01:10:02:00	01:10:02:00	BUDGET.
01:10:02:00	01:10:05:00	THAT OUTCOME DID NOT HAPPEN BY
01:10:05:00	01:10:06:00	ACCIDENT.
01:10:06:00	01:10:08:00	IT HAPPENED BECAUSE
01:10:08:00	01:10:09:00	COUNCIL LORUSSO WELL KNOWS HOW
01:10:09:00	01:10:11:00	TO LISTEN, HOW TO NEGOTIATE,
01:10:11:00	01:10:14:00	HOW TO BUILD CONSENSUS WITHOUT
01:10:14:00	01:10:15:00	COMPROMISING THIS INSTITUTION.
01:10:15:00	01:10:18:00	TAKEN TOGETHER THOSE MOMENTS
01:10:18:00	01:10:20:00	SHOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS
01:10:20:00	01:10:21:00	COUNCIL NEEDS AS ITS NEXT
01:10:21:00	01:10:23:00	PRESIDENT SOMEONE WHO CAN
01:10:23:00	01:10:24:00	COLLABORATE WITH THE
01:10:24:00	01:10:26:00	ADMINISTRATION WHILE ALSO
01:10:26:00	01:10:29:00	RESTORING STRENGTH IN THE CITY
01:10:29:00	01:10:32:00	COUNCIL AS A SERIOUS EFFECTIVE
01:10:32:00	01:10:32:00	CHECK WHEN NECESSARY.
01:10:32:00	01:10:34:00	THAT KIND OF LEADERSHIP
01:10:34:00	01:10:36:00	REQUIRES MORE THAN POLICY
01:10:36:00	01:10:37:00	KNOWLEDGE.
01:10:37:00	01:10:40:00	IT REQUIRES STEADINESS,
01:10:40:00	01:10:42:00	TRANSPARENCY, THE CONFIDENCE
01:10:42:00	01:10:43:00	OF COLLEAGUES ACROSS DISTRICTS
01:10:43:00	01:10:44:00	AND IDEOLOGIES.
01:10:44:00	01:10:46:00	COUNCIL WILL WELL HAS EARNED
01:10:46:00	01:10:48:00	THAT CONFIDENCE BY MANAGING
01:10:48:00	01:10:50:00	COMPLEXITY WITH CARE AND
01:10:50:00	01:10:52:00	KEEPING THIS INSTITUTION
01:10:52:00	01:10:54:00	FUNCTIONING EVEN WHEN
01:10:54:00	01:10:56:00	DIFFICULTIES ARISE BEYOND THE
01:10:56:00	01:10:57:00	BUDGET.
01:10:57:00	01:10:58:00	COUNCIL WILL RAIL HAS FAR MORE
01:10:58:00	01:11:01:00	THAN 70 PIECES OF LEGISLATION
01:11:01:00	01:11:03:00	AND PASSED NEARLY 30 AND I
01:11:03:00	01:11:05:00	COULD KEEP GOING ON AND ON AND
01:11:05:00	01:11:06:00	ON AND ON.
01:11:06:00	01:11:08:00	BUT I INSTEAD OF YOU MY
01:11:08:00	01:11:10:00	BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS AND MY
01:11:10:00	01:11:12:00	COLLEAGUES OF THE COUNCIL WHO
01:11:12:00	01:11:14:00	AMONG US STANDS READY TO CREATE
01:11:14:00	01:11:17:00	A SENSE OF UNITY IN THIS BODY
01:11:17:00	01:11:19:00	AND RESTORE CONFIDENCE WITH THE
01:11:19:00	01:11:22:00	PUBLIC WHO AMONGST US HAS
01:11:22:00	01:11:24:00	PROVEN THROUGH RECORD NOT JUST
01:11:24:00	01:11:26:00	WORDS THROUGH RECORDS THAT THEY
01:11:26:00	01:11:28:00	CAN STAND AS A CHECK TO THE
01:11:28:00	01:11:30:00	ADMINISTRATION AND GENERATE
01:11:30:00	01:11:32:00	CONSENSUS ACROSS VIEWS.
01:11:32:00	01:11:35:00	THE OBVIOUS CHOICE IS
01:11:35:00	01:11:36:00	COUNCILOR BRIAN MORRELL.
01:11:36:00	01:11:39:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL HAS ALREADY
01:11:39:00	01:11:41:00	SERVED AS VICE PRESIDENT
01:11:41:00	01:11:41:00	OF THIS COUNCIL.
01:11:41:00	01:11:43:00	HE UNDERSTANDS THE
01:11:43:00	01:11:45:00	RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHAIR.
01:11:45:00	01:11:46:00	HE UNDERSTANDS THE RHYTHM
01:11:46:00	01:11:48:00	OF THIS CHAMBER AND HE
01:11:48:00	01:11:49:00	UNDERSTANDS THAT THE ROLE
01:11:49:00	01:11:51:00	OF THE PRESIDENT IS NOT TO
01:11:51:00	01:11:54:00	DOMINATE DEBATE BUT TO ELEVATE
01:11:54:00	01:11:55:00	IT TO ENSURE THAT EVERY
01:11:55:00	01:11:57:00	COUNCILOR, EVERY DISTRICT AND
01:11:57:00	01:11:59:00	EVERY RESIDENT KNOWS THEY HAVE
01:11:59:00	01:12:01:00	A FAIR VOICE IN THIS
01:12:01:00	01:12:01:00	INSTITUTION.
01:12:01:00	01:12:04:00	AS FOR ME, I'VE BEEN ASKED WHAT
01:12:04:00	01:12:05:00	COMMITTEE DO I WANT?
01:12:05:00	01:12:07:00	EVERYONE KNOW THAT.
01:12:07:00	01:12:08:00	>> MY EXPERTISE IS.
01:12:08:00	01:12:09:00	>> IN HOUSING.
01:12:09:00	01:12:11:00	BUT I WILL TAKE THE COMMITTEE
01:12:11:00	01:12:15:00	CHAIR OF THE BATHROOM CLEANING
01:12:15:00	01:12:15:00	COMMITTEE.
01:12:15:00	01:12:19:00	FOR ME IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT
01:12:19:00	01:12:20:00	COMMITTEE I TAKE.
01:12:20:00	01:12:23:00	I TAKE THIS WORK SERIOUSLY.
01:12:23:00	01:12:24:00	THAT'S WHY I RAN.
01:12:24:00	01:12:26:00	AND OF COURSE.
01:12:26:00	01:12:29:00	WHEN I LOOK AT MY COLLEAGUES,
01:12:29:00	01:12:30:00	ALL OF YOU TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
01:12:30:00	01:12:31:00	TOO.
01:12:31:00	01:12:34:00	LET ME JUST CLOSE ON THIS
01:12:34:00	01:12:35:00	DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID
01:12:35:00	01:12:39:00	IF YOU'RE A STREET SWEEPER THEN
01:12:39:00	01:12:41:00	SWEEP STREETS LIKE MICHELANGELO
01:12:41:00	01:12:44:00	PAINTED PICTURES, SWEEP STREETS
01:12:44:00	01:12:46:00	LIKE BEETHOVEN, COMPOSE MUSIC
01:12:46:00	01:12:48:00	LIKE SHAKESPEARE.
01:12:48:00	01:12:49:00	WHOA.
01:12:49:00	01:12:50:00	POETRY.
01:12:50:00	01:12:54:00	I TELL YOU THE COUNTLESS THAT
01:12:54:00	01:12:59:00	WE HAVE TO DELIBERATE DEBATE.
01:12:59:00	01:13:03:00	AND WE HAVE AN AWESOME
01:13:03:00	01:13:06:00	RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE WHAT'S
01:13:06:00	01:13:08:00	IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE
01:13:08:00	01:13:10:00	CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON
01:13:10:00	01:13:10:00	AT HEART.
01:13:10:00	01:13:14:00	AND SO I SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES
01:13:14:00	01:13:15:00	ONE DAY HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL
01:13:15:00	01:13:16:00	LOOK DOWN AT.
01:13:16:00	01:13:19:00	US AND THEY WILL SAY AND
01:13:19:00	01:13:22:00	THEY'LL PAUSE AND SAY THIS
01:13:22:00	01:13:25:00	COUNCIL, THIS COUNCIL THIS WAS
01:13:25:00	01:13:28:00	A COUNCIL THAT DID WELL BY THE
01:13:28:00	01:13:31:00	CITY OF BOSTON, THIS COUNCIL,
01:13:31:00	01:13:34:00	THIS COUNCIL THAT DELIBERATED,
01:13:34:00	01:13:37:00	DEBATED AND MADE DECISIONS ON
01:13:37:00	01:13:38:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:13:38:00	01:13:41:00	THIS COUNCIL DID THEIR JOB WELL
01:13:41:00	01:13:41:00	.
01:13:41:00	01:13:43:00	MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
01:13:43:00	01:13:47:00	MY NOMINATION IS FOR
01:13:47:00	01:13:49:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL AND MY VOTE
01:13:49:00	01:13:51:00	WILL ALSO GO TO COUNCILOR WU.
01:13:51:00	01:13:52:00	GOD BLESS YOU.
01:13:52:00	01:13:53:00	NO CLAPPING.
01:13:53:00	01:13:57:00	MISS OFFICIAL.
01:13:57:00	01:13:59:00	I WILL NOW RETURN TO THE.
01:13:59:00	01:14:01:00	>> DIOCESE THE BATHROOM
01:14:01:00	01:14:02:00	CLEANING COMMITTEE AS USA.
01:14:02:00	01:14:17:00	MR. CLERK.
01:14:17:00	01:14:25:00	>> COUNCIL OF AROUND I'LL
01:14:25:00	01:14:29:00	RECOGNIZE YOU FOR TEN MINUTES.
01:14:29:00	01:14:32:00	STARTED THAT TIME A LITTLE
01:14:32:00	01:14:34:00	EARLY I DIDN'T GET UP YET.
01:14:34:00	01:14:37:00	UM, BUT GOOD AFTERNOON, UH,
01:14:37:00	01:14:37:00	COLLEAGUES.
01:14:37:00	01:14:40:00	AND IT'S HARD TO GO AGAINST,
01:14:40:00	01:14:43:00	UH, MINISTER A REVEREND, BUT,
01:14:43:00	01:14:44:00	UM, I'M GONNA DO MY BEST.
01:14:44:00	01:14:46:00	UH, MR. CLERK FAMILY, FRIENDS,
01:14:46:00	01:14:48:00	MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND
01:14:48:00	01:14:48:00	EVERYONE WATCHING.
01:14:48:00	01:14:52:00	FIRST THING FIRST, I JUST WANT
01:14:52:00	01:14:53:00	TO CONGRATULATE ALL OF MY
01:14:53:00	01:14:54:00	COLLEAGUES, ALL OF MY
01:14:54:00	01:14:55:00	COLLEAGUES ON EARNING ANOTHER
01:14:55:00	01:14:56:00	TERM.
01:14:56:00	01:14:58:00	I KNOW WHAT IT TAKES.
01:14:58:00	01:15:00:00	THE LONG DAY THAT TURNED INTO
01:15:00:00	01:15:00:00	LONG NIGHT.
01:15:00:00	01:15:03:00	THE NEVER ENDING MEETINGS, THE
01:15:03:00	01:15:05:00	WEEKENDS THAT AREN'T REALLY
01:15:05:00	01:15:05:00	WEEKENDS.
01:15:05:00	01:15:07:00	THE DOORS YOU KNOCK THE HANDS
01:15:07:00	01:15:08:00	YOU SHAKE.
01:15:08:00	01:15:09:00	THE HARD CONVERSATIONS.
01:15:09:00	01:15:10:00	YOU DON'T GET TO SKIP.
01:15:10:00	01:15:13:00	AND BEHIND EVERY EACH ONE
01:15:13:00	01:15:17:00	OF YOU IS A TEAM FAMILY THAT
01:15:17:00	01:15:20:00	CARRIES A LOT OF THAT WEIGHT
01:15:20:00	01:15:22:00	QUIETLY, CONSISTENTLY IN OPTING
01:15:22:00	01:15:23:00	OUT WITHOUT THE CREDIT.
01:15:23:00	01:15:25:00	TO TO YOUR TEAMS AND TO YOUR
01:15:25:00	01:15:26:00	FAMILIES.
01:15:26:00	01:15:27:00	I WANT TO ALSO SAY THANK YOU
01:15:27:00	01:15:30:00	AND CONGRATULATIONS AND TO OUR
01:15:30:00	01:15:31:00	NEWEST MEMBER WELCOME.
01:15:31:00	01:15:33:00	YOU HERE BECAUSE YOUR DISTRICT
01:15:33:00	01:15:34:00	BELIEVES IN YOU.
01:15:34:00	01:15:37:00	WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU
01:15:37:00	01:15:39:00	ENGAGED IN THIS WORK BECAUSE WE
01:15:39:00	01:15:41:00	KNOW YOUR WORK ISN'T NEW TO THE
01:15:41:00	01:15:43:00	CITY AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
01:15:43:00	01:15:44:00	HAVE THE BATHROOM COMMITTEE.
01:15:44:00	01:15:46:00	I THINK YOUR SKILLS AND YOUR
01:15:46:00	01:15:47:00	TALENTS FAR EXCEED THAT.
01:15:47:00	01:15:51:00	AND THANK YOU TO THE MAYOR FOR
01:15:51:00	01:15:53:00	PRESIDING OVER OUR INAUGURATION
01:15:53:00	01:15:54:00	AND ALSO FOR OUR LEADERSHIP.
01:15:54:00	01:15:56:00	BUT I STAND HERE TODAY HUMBLED
01:15:56:00	01:15:59:00	AND GRATEFUL AND I ACCEPT THE
01:15:59:00	01:16:00:00	NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
01:16:00:00	01:16:03:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AND I
01:16:03:00	01:16:05:00	ACCEPT IT NOT AS A TITLE,
01:16:05:00	01:16:06:00	CERTAINLY NOT AS A TROPHY.
01:16:06:00	01:16:07:00	BUT AS A.
01:16:07:00	01:16:10:00	RESPONSIBILITY A RESPONSIBILITY
01:16:10:00	01:16:11:00	TO BUILD BRIDGES.
01:16:11:00	01:16:13:00	TO STRENGTHEN OUR ABILITY.
01:16:13:00	01:16:14:00	>> TO GOVERN AND.
01:16:14:00	01:16:15:00	TO MAKE SURE EVERY.
01:16:15:00	01:16:18:00	DISTRICT IN BOSTON HAS A
01:16:18:00	01:16:19:00	COUNCIL THAT SHOWS UP FOR THEM.
01:16:19:00	01:16:21:00	OUTSIDE OF BEING A FATHER.
01:16:21:00	01:16:23:00	THIS IS THE BEST.
01:16:23:00	01:16:26:00	JOB I'VE EVER HAD AND ONE
01:16:26:00	01:16:27:00	DEFINED BY A SIMPLE SHARED
01:16:27:00	01:16:29:00	MANDATE DELIVERED FOR BOSTON.
01:16:29:00	01:16:30:00	THIS IS.
01:16:30:00	01:16:32:00	>> REFLECTED IN THE OATH WE
01:16:32:00	01:16:33:00	JUST TOOK A.
01:16:33:00	01:16:34:00	COMMITMENT TO.
01:16:34:00	01:16:35:00	>> SERVE AND EMPOWER OUR
01:16:35:00	01:16:36:00	RESIDENTS.
01:16:36:00	01:16:38:00	IT'S ROOTED IN.
01:16:38:00	01:16:39:00	>> THE.
01:16:39:00	01:16:39:00	FIRST MOST.
01:16:39:00	01:16:41:00	POWERFUL WORDS OF OUR
01:16:41:00	01:16:41:00	CONSTITUTION.
01:16:41:00	01:16:43:00	WE THE PEOPLE.
01:16:43:00	01:16:46:00	THOSE WORDS ARE CLEAR.
01:16:46:00	01:16:48:00	OUR LOYALTY IS TO THE PEOPLE.
01:16:48:00	01:16:49:00	WE SERVE AND NOTHING ELSE.
01:16:49:00	01:16:51:00	THAT MEANS.
01:16:51:00	01:16:54:00	USING THIS PLATFORM TO EXPLAIN
01:16:54:00	01:16:56:00	TO PEOPLE PLAINLY WHAT'S
01:16:56:00	01:16:56:00	HAPPENING.
01:16:56:00	01:16:57:00	HOW IT.
01:16:57:00	01:16:58:00	>> AFFECTS THEIR LIVES AND HOW
01:16:58:00	01:16:59:00	THEY CAN HELP SHAPE IT.
01:16:59:00	01:17:02:00	UNFORTUNATELY WE MISTAKE
01:17:02:00	01:17:02:00	PERCEPTION.
01:17:02:00	01:17:03:00	>> FOR TRUTH.
01:17:03:00	01:17:05:00	THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR
01:17:05:00	01:17:05:00	NEIGHBORHOODS, THE.
01:17:05:00	01:17:08:00	TRUTH ABOUT OUR KIDS, THE TRUTH
01:17:08:00	01:17:08:00	ABOUT WHAT.
01:17:08:00	01:17:10:00	THIS COUNCIL CAN DELIVER.
01:17:10:00	01:17:13:00	I GREW UP IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
01:17:13:00	01:17:13:00	SHAPED BY.
01:17:13:00	01:17:15:00	POLICIES POLICIES THAT.
01:17:15:00	01:17:17:00	CONTRIBUTED TO SHORTER LIFE
01:17:17:00	01:17:17:00	EXPECTANCY.
01:17:17:00	01:17:19:00	LIMITED ACCESS TO QUALITY
01:17:19:00	01:17:21:00	EDUCATION AND KEPT FAMILIES OUT
01:17:21:00	01:17:22:00	OF HOUSING.
01:17:22:00	01:17:24:00	THESE POLICIES ARE STILL.
01:17:24:00	01:17:26:00	DRIVING NEGATIVE MEASURABLE
01:17:26:00	01:17:27:00	OUTCOMES ACROSS NEIGHBORHOODS
01:17:27:00	01:17:28:00	IN OUR CITY TODAY.
01:17:28:00	01:17:30:00	WE DON'T HAVE TO PRETEND
01:17:30:00	01:17:31:00	EVERYTHING IS FINE.
01:17:31:00	01:17:33:00	THE CENSUS.
01:17:33:00	01:17:33:00	THE ECONOMY.
01:17:33:00	01:17:35:00	THE LATEST RATE.
01:17:35:00	01:17:37:00	THE NUMBERS TELL US.
01:17:37:00	01:17:38:00	THE REAL STORY.
01:17:38:00	01:17:40:00	>> WHO'S BEING LEFT BEHIND?
01:17:40:00	01:17:43:00	I KNOW THIS BECAUSE THIS WAS MY
01:17:43:00	01:17:45:00	FAMILY'S EXPERIENCE AS.
01:17:45:00	01:17:45:00	>> A YOUNG.
01:17:45:00	01:17:46:00	BLACK BOY IN DORCHESTER.
01:17:46:00	01:17:48:00	I WAS TOLD THAT THE ODDS WERE
01:17:48:00	01:17:49:00	STACKED AGAINST ME.
01:17:49:00	01:17:50:00	I HEARD PREDICTIONS.
01:17:50:00	01:17:52:00	ABOUT MY LIMITS INSTEAD OF MY
01:17:52:00	01:17:52:00	POSSIBILITIES.
01:17:52:00	01:17:55:00	THIS WASN'T A.
01:17:55:00	01:17:56:00	DESIRE FOR VICTIMHOOD.
01:17:56:00	01:17:58:00	IT WAS A MATTER OF FACT.
01:17:58:00	01:17:58:00	EXPECTATION SETTING.
01:17:58:00	01:18:01:00	INFORMED BY DECADES
01:18:01:00	01:18:02:00	OF EXPERIENCE.
01:18:02:00	01:18:04:00	I THOUGHT I MADE PEACE WITH
01:18:04:00	01:18:04:00	THAT REALITY.
01:18:04:00	01:18:08:00	UNTIL I BECAME A FATHER.
01:18:08:00	01:18:11:00	WHEN MY SON WAS BORN I FELT AN
01:18:11:00	01:18:12:00	OUTPOURING OF LOVE AND THEN A
01:18:12:00	01:18:12:00	WORRIED.
01:18:12:00	01:18:17:00	WITH THE WORLD SEE HIS GIFTS OR
01:18:17:00	01:18:17:00	REDUCE.
01:18:17:00	01:18:18:00	>> THEM TO ANOTHER STEREOTYPE.
01:18:18:00	01:18:21:00	THAT FEAR IS.
01:18:21:00	01:18:22:00	>> REAL AND URGENT.
01:18:22:00	01:18:25:00	THAT FEAR BEING LEFT BEHIND.
01:18:25:00	01:18:26:00	IT'S NOT JUST THOUGHT BY YOUNG
01:18:26:00	01:18:28:00	BLACK BOYS FROM DORCHESTER.
01:18:28:00	01:18:29:00	IT CUTS ACROSS.
01:18:29:00	01:18:31:00	NEIGHBORHOODS AND DEMOGRAPHICS
01:18:31:00	01:18:31:00	.
01:18:31:00	01:18:33:00	IT'S OUR SENIORS ON FIXED.
01:18:33:00	01:18:34:00	INCOMES OR.
01:18:34:00	01:18:35:00	SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TRYING TO
01:18:35:00	01:18:36:00	HANG ON.
01:18:36:00	01:18:36:00	OUR YOUNG.
01:18:36:00	01:18:38:00	>> ADULTS ONE THAT CAN AFFORD
01:18:38:00	01:18:39:00	TO STAY.
01:18:39:00	01:18:41:00	AND WORKING CLASS FAMILIES WHO.
01:18:41:00	01:18:43:00	KEEP FIGURING OUT DAY IN AND
01:18:43:00	01:18:43:00	DAY OUT.
01:18:43:00	01:18:45:00	YOU CAN HEAR IT AT EAST.
01:18:45:00	01:18:48:00	HIGH PARK, SOUTH BOSTON
01:18:48:00	01:18:49:00	CHINATOWN, MATTAPAN.
01:18:49:00	01:18:51:00	DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.
01:18:51:00	01:18:53:00	SAME FEARS.
01:18:53:00	01:18:56:00	BOSTON CAN AND MUST BE THE
01:18:56:00	01:18:58:00	PLACE WHERE NO ONE IS WRITTEN
01:18:58:00	01:19:01:00	OFF, WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE A
01:19:01:00	01:19:02:00	FUTURE AND WHERE SYSTEMS WE
01:19:02:00	01:19:04:00	BUILD PULL IN THE SAME
01:19:04:00	01:19:04:00	DIRECTION.
01:19:04:00	01:19:06:00	STRUCTURAL EQUITY.
01:19:06:00	01:19:08:00	MEANS CHANGING CONDITIONS.
01:19:08:00	01:19:09:00	NOT ONE OFF MOMENT.
01:19:09:00	01:19:11:00	IT'S ABOUT BUILDING THE
01:19:11:00	01:19:13:00	INFRASTRUCTURE OF OPPORTUNITY
01:19:13:00	01:19:14:00	SO PEOPLE CAN FEEL IT.
01:19:14:00	01:19:16:00	IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES.
01:19:16:00	01:19:18:00	BECOMING A HOMEOWNER TRUST IN A
01:19:18:00	01:19:19:00	SCHOOL IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
01:19:19:00	01:19:21:00	AND HAVING A JOB A SMALL
01:19:21:00	01:19:23:00	BUSINESS THAT PAYS A LIVABLE.
01:19:23:00	01:19:25:00	WAGE SO THAT PEOPLE INDIVIDUALS
01:19:25:00	01:19:26:00	WORKING CLASS.
01:19:26:00	01:19:28:00	FAMILIES CAN STAY IN THE CITY
01:19:28:00	01:19:28:00	OF BOSTON.
01:19:28:00	01:19:30:00	WHEN PEOPLE.
01:19:30:00	01:19:31:00	CAN SEE.
01:19:31:00	01:19:33:00	>> A REAL PATH FORWARD IT.
01:19:33:00	01:19:34:00	>> BREEDS HOPE, CHANGES THE
01:19:34:00	01:19:35:00	CHOICES.
01:19:35:00	01:19:36:00	>> THEY MAKE AND.
01:19:36:00	01:19:36:00	CREATES A.
01:19:36:00	01:19:37:00	>> SENSE OF BELONGING.
01:19:37:00	01:19:39:00	THAT IS JUST THAT THAT THIS
01:19:39:00	01:19:40:00	CITY IS.
01:19:40:00	01:19:41:00	TRULY THEIRS.
01:19:41:00	01:19:43:00	THIS ISN'T ABOUT HANDOUTS.
01:19:43:00	01:19:44:00	BECAUSE I.
01:19:44:00	01:19:45:00	>> BELIEVE IN PERSONAL
01:19:45:00	01:19:47:00	RESPONSIBILITY BUT I ALSO KNOW
01:19:47:00	01:19:48:00	THAT SYSTEMS MATTER.
01:19:48:00	01:19:49:00	I THINK.
01:19:49:00	01:19:51:00	>> ABOUT A YOUNG MAN I MET AT A
01:19:51:00	01:19:53:00	SUMMER PROGRAM WHO TOLD ME OH,
01:19:53:00	01:19:55:00	YOU KNOW ONE PERSON ON MY
01:19:55:00	01:19:56:00	STREET WHO WENT TO COLLEGE.
01:19:56:00	01:19:58:00	HE DIDN'T SEE IT AS A REALISTIC
01:19:58:00	01:19:59:00	FOR HIM UNTIL HE.
01:19:59:00	01:20:01:00	GOT INTO A PROGRAM A PROGRAM
01:20:01:00	01:20:03:00	THAT PUT HIM ON A CAMPUS,
01:20:03:00	01:20:04:00	PAIRED HIM WITH THE MENTOR.
01:20:04:00	01:20:05:00	AND GAVE HIM A JOB THAT
01:20:05:00	01:20:06:00	RESPECTED HIS TIME.
01:20:06:00	01:20:08:00	HE SAID FOR THE FIRST TIME.
01:20:08:00	01:20:09:00	I COULD SEE MYSELF THERE.
01:20:09:00	01:20:11:00	THE STATISTICS.
01:20:11:00	01:20:12:00	ABOUT HIS NEIGHBORHOOD DIDN'T
01:20:12:00	01:20:13:00	CHANGE OVERNIGHT.
01:20:13:00	01:20:15:00	BUT HIS BELIEF DID.
01:20:15:00	01:20:17:00	THAT'S WHAT THOSE PROGRAMS DID.
01:20:17:00	01:20:18:00	>> FOR ME.
01:20:18:00	01:20:20:00	THEY DIDN'T RACE.
01:20:20:00	01:20:20:00	>> THE DATA.
01:20:20:00	01:20:22:00	BUT THEY CONVINCED ME THAT THE.
01:20:22:00	01:20:23:00	DATA DIDN'T HAVE THE LAST WORD
01:20:23:00	01:20:24:00	ON MY LIFE.
01:20:24:00	01:20:27:00	IT'S NEVER ONE THING.
01:20:27:00	01:20:28:00	IT WAS A COMBINATION.
01:20:28:00	01:20:29:00	FAMILY.
01:20:29:00	01:20:32:00	DISCIPLINE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
01:20:32:00	01:20:33:00	, PUBLIC.
01:20:33:00	01:20:33:00	POLICIES AND INVESTMENTS
01:20:33:00	01:20:35:00	OPENING UP DOORS.
01:20:35:00	01:20:37:00	TOO OFTEN THOSE PATHWAYS ARE A
01:20:37:00	01:20:38:00	LOTTERY.
01:20:38:00	01:20:40:00	OUR JOB AS PUBLIC SERVANTS IS
01:20:40:00	01:20:40:00	TO.
01:20:40:00	01:20:41:00	BUILD THEM AT SCALE.
01:20:41:00	01:20:43:00	SO OPPORTUNITY IS
01:20:43:00	01:20:44:00	INFRASTRUCTURE NOT LUCK.
01:20:44:00	01:20:46:00	IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
01:20:46:00	01:20:47:00	>> TO CELEBRATE INDIVIDUAL
01:20:47:00	01:20:48:00	WINS.
01:20:48:00	01:20:48:00	WE HAVE.
01:20:48:00	01:20:50:00	>> TO RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN WE
01:20:50:00	01:20:51:00	BUILD OUT POLICIES AND MAKE
01:20:51:00	01:20:53:00	INVESTMENTS IN PEOPLE AT SCALE,
01:20:53:00	01:20:55:00	WE CHANGE LIVES ACROSS
01:20:55:00	01:20:55:00	GENERATIONS.
01:20:55:00	01:20:57:00	WE ARE THE LEGACY OF.
01:20:57:00	01:20:59:00	LEADERS WHO FOUGHT, ORGANIZED
01:20:59:00	01:21:01:00	AND LEGISLATED FOR.
01:21:01:00	01:21:02:00	THE REPRESENTATION.
01:21:02:00	01:21:03:00	>> THAT WE HAVE ON THIS
01:21:03:00	01:21:03:00	COUNCIL TODAY.
01:21:03:00	01:21:06:00	THEY DIDN'T FIGHT SO WE COULD
01:21:06:00	01:21:07:00	STAND ALONE.
01:21:07:00	01:21:09:00	AND CELEBRATE.
01:21:09:00	01:21:10:00	PROGRESS AT THE MARGINS.
01:21:10:00	01:21:11:00	THEY POSSIBLY.
01:21:11:00	01:21:12:00	>> CAN.
01:21:12:00	01:21:13:00	STAND TOGETHER AND TRANSFORM
01:21:13:00	01:21:15:00	THIS CITY SO THAT FAMILIES IN
01:21:15:00	01:21:16:00	EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD CAN.
01:21:16:00	01:21:17:00	SHARE IN THE.
01:21:17:00	01:21:19:00	OPPORTUNITY THAT BOSTON HAS TO
01:21:19:00	01:21:19:00	OFFER.
01:21:19:00	01:21:22:00	OUR JOB NOW IS TO MATCH THE.
01:21:22:00	01:21:25:00	PRESENT WITH PERFORMANCE AND TO
01:21:25:00	01:21:26:00	LET THAT SHOW AND HOW WE
01:21:26:00	01:21:27:00	SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER.
01:21:27:00	01:21:30:00	REPRESENTATION MATTERS.
01:21:30:00	01:21:33:00	RESULTS MATTER AND RESIDENTS
01:21:33:00	01:21:33:00	DESERVE BOTH.
01:21:33:00	01:21:37:00	COLLEAGUES, IF YOU ENTRUST
01:21:37:00	01:21:37:00	ME WITH THIS ROLE.
01:21:37:00	01:21:40:00	I WANT A PRESIDENCY THAT
01:21:40:00	01:21:41:00	AMPLIFIES YOUR WORK.
01:21:41:00	01:21:43:00	A STRONG INDEPENDENT COUNCILOR.
01:21:43:00	01:21:44:00	GOOD FOR.
01:21:44:00	01:21:46:00	>> EVERY COUNCILOR AND EVERY
01:21:46:00	01:21:46:00	CONSTITUENT.
01:21:46:00	01:21:49:00	THAT MEANS MATCHING YOUR
01:21:49:00	01:21:51:00	PASSIONS AND SKILLS WITH REAL
01:21:51:00	01:21:52:00	RESPONSIBILITY.
01:21:52:00	01:21:54:00	I WANT COMMITTEE CHAIRS LEADING
01:21:54:00	01:21:55:00	IN AREAS.
01:21:55:00	01:21:55:00	WHERE THEY'RE.
01:21:55:00	01:21:57:00	>> ALREADY DOING THE WORK
01:21:57:00	01:21:59:00	WHETHER THAT'S SCHOOLS,
01:21:59:00	01:22:00:00	HOUSING.
01:22:00:00	01:22:02:00	PUBLIC SAFETY, SMALL.
01:22:02:00	01:22:02:00	BUSINESS.
01:22:02:00	01:22:05:00	>> TRANSPORTATION CLIMATE.
01:22:05:00	01:22:08:00	AND TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE.
01:22:08:00	01:22:10:00	CAPACITY WITHIN OUR BELOVED
01:22:10:00	01:22:11:00	CENTRAL STAFF.
01:22:11:00	01:22:13:00	THE CONSTITUENTS SHOULD BE ABLE
01:22:13:00	01:22:15:00	TO SEE YOUR FINGERPRINTS ON ON.
01:22:15:00	01:22:16:00	ON ALL OF OUR RESULTS.
01:22:16:00	01:22:18:00	IT ALSO MEANS A FAIR PROCESS.
01:22:18:00	01:22:21:00	THERE'S NO ALIENATION.
01:22:21:00	01:22:23:00	RESIDENTS EXPECT US TO WORK
01:22:23:00	01:22:24:00	TOGETHER ON.
01:22:24:00	01:22:25:00	>> THEIR BEHALF TO GET THINGS
01:22:25:00	01:22:25:00	DONE.
01:22:25:00	01:22:28:00	DISAGREEMENT IS PART OF THE
01:22:28:00	01:22:28:00	JOB.
01:22:28:00	01:22:30:00	BUT NO ONE SHOULD FEEL SHUT OUT
01:22:30:00	01:22:31:00	OF THE WORK.
01:22:31:00	01:22:35:00	AND TO TRULY BE AN INDEPENDENT
01:22:35:00	01:22:37:00	EFFECTIVE BODY WE HAVE TO
01:22:37:00	01:22:37:00	STRENGTHEN.
01:22:37:00	01:22:38:00	OUR OWN CAPACITY.
01:22:38:00	01:22:40:00	AND LOVE TO WORK.
01:22:40:00	01:22:40:00	TO BOLSTER.
01:22:40:00	01:22:43:00	OUR COUNCIL COMMUNICATIONS SO
01:22:43:00	01:22:44:00	RESIDENTS ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT
01:22:44:00	01:22:45:00	WE'RE FIGHTING FOR AND.
01:22:45:00	01:22:46:00	>> WHAT WE'VE BEEN DELIVERING.
01:22:46:00	01:22:47:00	>> ON THIS COUNCIL TOGETHER.
01:22:47:00	01:22:49:00	AND I ALSO SUPPORT THE BUDGET.
01:22:49:00	01:22:52:00	STAFF SHOUT OUT TO CHARISMA.
01:22:52:00	01:22:53:00	SO THAT.
01:22:53:00	01:22:54:00	>> EVERY MEMBER HAS THE
01:22:54:00	01:22:55:00	ANALYSIS YOU NEED TO.
01:22:55:00	01:22:57:00	ADVOCATE FOR YOUR PRIORITIES
01:22:57:00	01:22:58:00	AND TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE
01:22:58:00	01:22:59:00	ADMINISTRATION.
01:22:59:00	01:23:01:00	THAT'S THE KIND OF COUNCIL I
01:23:01:00	01:23:02:00	WANT TO LEAD.
01:23:02:00	01:23:04:00	WHEN WE SHARE POWER.
01:23:04:00	01:23:05:00	SHARE CREDIT.
01:23:05:00	01:23:07:00	AND SHOW THE CITY THAT THIS
01:23:07:00	01:23:08:00	BODY IS NOT JUST REACTING TO
01:23:08:00	01:23:10:00	THE MOMENT BUT SETTING THE
01:23:10:00	01:23:11:00	AGENDA FOR.
01:23:11:00	01:23:11:00	BOSTON'S FUTURE.
01:23:11:00	01:23:14:00	SO NOW'S OUR TIME.
01:23:14:00	01:23:16:00	TO RECREATE THAT VISION FOR.
01:23:16:00	01:23:16:00	THIS GENERATION.
01:23:16:00	01:23:19:00	IF WE WANT PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN
01:23:19:00	01:23:21:00	DEMOCRACY, WE HAVE TO SHOW THAT
01:23:21:00	01:23:21:00	IT.
01:23:21:00	01:23:23:00	BRINGS HOPE TO THOSE.
01:23:23:00	01:23:24:00	>> WHO FEEL DISCONNECTED AND IN
01:23:24:00	01:23:25:00	THAT IT DELIVERS WITH FAMILIES
01:23:25:00	01:23:28:00	AND INDIVIDUALS FEEL IT THE
01:23:28:00	01:23:28:00	MOST.
01:23:28:00	01:23:30:00	BELIEF COMES.
01:23:30:00	01:23:31:00	>> WHERE RESIDENTS SEE US
01:23:31:00	01:23:32:00	TACKLING THE CHALLENGES THEY
01:23:32:00	01:23:33:00	ARE LIVING WITH.
01:23:33:00	01:23:37:00	WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD AN
01:23:37:00	01:23:38:00	AMBITIOUS.
01:23:38:00	01:23:39:00	AGENDA AND THE.
01:23:39:00	01:23:41:00	COALITION TO MATCH IT, NOT
01:23:41:00	01:23:43:00	CONFRONTATION FOR ITS OWN SAKE
01:23:43:00	01:23:43:00	.
01:23:43:00	01:23:45:00	WE'LL PARTNER WITH POSSIBLE
01:23:45:00	01:23:46:00	PUSH WHERE NECESSARY.
01:23:46:00	01:23:47:00	BUT EITHER WAY.
01:23:47:00	01:23:48:00	>> WE WILL PROGRESS.
01:23:48:00	01:23:51:00	AS MEL KING HAS TAUGHT US,
01:23:51:00	01:23:52:00	PROGRESS IS THE CHAIN OF CHANGE
01:23:52:00	01:23:52:00	.
01:23:52:00	01:23:54:00	THAT EVERY IDEA CLEARS ON THE
01:23:54:00	01:23:55:00	FIRST.
01:23:55:00	01:23:56:00	VOTE AND THAT'S OKAY.
01:23:56:00	01:23:59:00	OUR JOB IS TO START
01:23:59:00	01:23:59:00	CONVERSATIONS.
01:23:59:00	01:24:00:00	BIG ENOUGH TO.
01:24:00:00	01:24:01:00	>> CHANGE THE CITY AND KEEP
01:24:01:00	01:24:03:00	ADDING LINKS UNTIL THEY DO SO.
01:24:03:00	01:24:05:00	I'LL KEEP REIMAGINING POLICIES.
01:24:05:00	01:24:08:00	INSTITUTIONS AND HOW WE DO THE
01:24:08:00	01:24:09:00	WORK.
01:24:09:00	01:24:11:00	I CARRY THAT WEIGHT WITH ME.
01:24:11:00	01:24:13:00	NOT AS AN ABSTRACTION BUT AS
01:24:13:00	01:24:14:00	THE FATHER.
01:24:14:00	01:24:15:00	MY SON ELIAS IS.
01:24:15:00	01:24:16:00	TWO AND.
01:24:16:00	01:24:18:00	>> HE'S TURNING 3 IN 15 DAYS.
01:24:18:00	01:24:18:00	HE'S DEEP.
01:24:18:00	01:24:20:00	>> IN HIS WHY STAGE RIGHT NOW
01:24:20:00	01:24:22:00	IS WHY BROCCOLI?
01:24:22:00	01:24:23:00	WHY THAT TIME WILL POINT TO
01:24:23:00	01:24:24:00	SOMETHING ON THE TABLE.
01:24:24:00	01:24:24:00	AND SAY.
01:24:24:00	01:24:27:00	>> WHAT IS THAT ONE DAY THOSE
01:24:27:00	01:24:28:00	WHYS AND WHAT WILL GET.
01:24:28:00	01:24:30:00	BIGGER THEY'LL START ASKING THE
01:24:30:00	01:24:32:00	SAME QUESTION THAT WE ASK
01:24:32:00	01:24:33:00	OURSELVES NOW.
01:24:33:00	01:24:34:00	WHY DID MY FRIENDS FAMILY HAVE
01:24:34:00	01:24:35:00	TO MOVE OUT OF OUR
01:24:35:00	01:24:35:00	NEIGHBORHOOD?
01:24:35:00	01:24:37:00	WHY DOES MY.
01:24:37:00	01:24:38:00	SCHOOL LOOK SO DIFFERENT.
01:24:38:00	01:24:39:00	FROM THE ONES IN OTHER
01:24:39:00	01:24:40:00	NEIGHBORHOODS AND TOWNS?
01:24:40:00	01:24:42:00	AND WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU.
01:24:42:00	01:24:43:00	SAT IN THAT SEAT AND YOU HAD
01:24:43:00	01:24:43:00	THE.
01:24:43:00	01:24:44:00	POWER TO CHANGE IT?
01:24:44:00	01:24:46:00	WHEN THAT DAY COMES.
01:24:46:00	01:24:47:00	I DON'T.
01:24:47:00	01:24:48:00	>> WANT TO TELL THEM HOW WE
01:24:48:00	01:24:50:00	MANAGE THE STATUS QUO, BUT I
01:24:50:00	01:24:52:00	WANT TO LOOK MY SON IN THE EYE.
01:24:52:00	01:24:54:00	AND EVERY CHILD IN THIS CITY
01:24:54:00	01:24:55:00	AND I WANT TO TELL THEM HOW.
01:24:55:00	01:24:56:00	>> WE DELIVERED.
01:24:56:00	01:24:56:00	.
01:24:56:00	01:24:58:00	>> OH HOW WE FOUGHT LIKE 
01:24:58:00	01:24:58:00	TRYING.
01:24:58:00	01:24:59:00	I'M ASKING.
01:24:59:00	01:25:00:00	>> YOU TODAY.
01:25:00:00	01:25:01:00	AND EVERY DAY TO JOIN ME IN
01:25:01:00	01:25:02:00	THAT FIGHT.
01:25:02:00	01:25:04:00	BUT WILLING TO THINK BOLD.
01:25:04:00	01:25:05:00	BIG AND BOLD.
01:25:05:00	01:25:07:00	BUILD COALITIONS AND STAY
01:25:07:00	01:25:08:00	FOCUSED ON RESULTS.
01:25:08:00	01:25:09:00	WE CAN.
01:25:09:00	01:25:11:00	>> USE THIS POWER ON THIS
01:25:11:00	01:25:12:00	COUNCIL TO FINALLY CLOSE.
01:25:12:00	01:25:13:00	A LOT OF THOSE.
01:25:13:00	01:25:15:00	GAPS THAT ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
01:25:15:00	01:25:15:00	THANK YOU.
01:25:15:00	01:25:16:00	>> THANK YOU.
01:25:16:00	01:25:17:00	>> VERY MUCH.
01:25:17:00	01:25:18:00	COUNCIL MEMBERS THERE WILL.
01:25:18:00	01:25:22:00	THEN NO OTHER COMMENTS.
01:25:22:00	01:25:26:00	I SEE ONE MORE GREEN LIGHT ON.
01:25:26:00	01:25:30:00	I SEE TWO GREEN LIGHTS ON.
01:25:30:00	01:25:31:00	COUNCIL MEMBER PRESENT.
01:25:31:00	01:25:35:00	THANK YOU CHAIR CULPEPER AND
01:25:35:00	01:25:37:00	WELCOME TO BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
01:25:37:00	01:25:40:00	WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE YOU AMONG
01:25:40:00	01:25:40:00	US.
01:25:40:00	01:25:43:00	UM MY NAME IS LIZ BREAD AND I'M
01:25:43:00	01:25:43:00	THE DISTRICT COUNCILOR FOR
01:25:43:00	01:25:45:00	DISTRICT NINE ALLSTON BRIGHTON.
01:25:45:00	01:25:47:00	I AM AN IMMIGRANT FROM NORTHERN
01:25:47:00	01:25:48:00	IRELAND.
01:25:48:00	01:25:49:00	UH, A PHYSICAL THERAPIST BY
01:25:49:00	01:25:52:00	PROFESSION AND I CAME HERE IN
01:25:52:00	01:25:52:00	1995.
01:25:52:00	01:25:55:00	UH, BEFORE THE PEACE, UH,
01:25:55:00	01:25:56:00	PROCESS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
01:25:56:00	01:25:57:00	KICKED OFF.
01:25:57:00	01:25:59:00	UH, I NEEDED A BREAK FROM GUNS
01:25:59:00	01:26:00:00	AND BOMBS AND ALL OF THAT.
01:26:00:00	01:26:03:00	UH, BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME
01:26:03:00	01:26:05:00	OF YOU KNOW MY STORY, I.
01:26:05:00	01:26:07:00	I GREW UP IN A RURAL COMMUNITY
01:26:07:00	01:26:09:00	IN COUNTY FERMANAGH, UH, WHICH
01:26:09:00	01:26:11:00	WAS PRETTY MIXED CATHOLIC
01:26:11:00	01:26:13:00	PROTESTANT BUT IT WAS AN AREA
01:26:13:00	01:26:15:00	OF SOUTHEAST FERMANAGH THAT WAS
01:26:15:00	01:26:17:00	DEEPLY UH, UNDERINVESTED IN UH
01:26:17:00	01:26:18:00	BY THE GOVERNMENT.
01:26:18:00	01:26:20:00	UH, I WENT TO A PRIMARY SCHOOL
01:26:20:00	01:26:21:00	OUT OF TWO ROOMS.
01:26:21:00	01:26:23:00	UH, WE HAD TWO TEACHERS.
01:26:23:00	01:26:25:00	UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRICITY.
01:26:25:00	01:26:26:00	WE DIDN'T HAVE RUNNING WATER.
01:26:26:00	01:26:29:00	UH, I WENT TO COLLEGE.
01:26:29:00	01:26:31:00	I WENT TO A COLLEGE AND STUDIED
01:26:31:00	01:26:33:00	TO BECOME A PHYSICAL THERAPIST
01:26:33:00	01:26:34:00	AND SERVED IN THE NATIONAL
01:26:34:00	01:26:35:00	HEALTH SERVICE.
01:26:35:00	01:26:37:00	UH, I WISH WE HAD A NATIONAL
01:26:37:00	01:26:38:00	HEALTH SERVICE IN THIS COUNTRY
01:26:38:00	01:26:39:00	WHERE PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE
01:26:39:00	01:26:40:00	WORRYING ABOUT GOING BANKRUPT
01:26:40:00	01:26:41:00	BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD THEIR
01:26:41:00	01:26:42:00	MEDICAL BILLS.
01:26:42:00	01:26:43:00	BUT I HAD THAT PRIVILEGE
01:26:43:00	01:26:44:00	OF WORKING IN THE HEALTH
01:26:44:00	01:26:46:00	SERVICE FOLLOWING MY FAMILY, MY
01:26:46:00	01:26:47:00	MOM AND MY ARMSTRONG NURSES.
01:26:47:00	01:26:51:00	UH, AND IN 1995 I HAD AN
01:26:51:00	01:26:54:00	OPPORTUNITY UM, AT THE URGING
01:26:54:00	01:26:54:00	OF A COLLEAGUE, A FRIEND
01:26:54:00	01:26:57:00	OF MINE FROM COLLEGE WHO, UH,
01:26:57:00	01:26:58:00	CAME HERE TO WORK IN THE
01:26:58:00	01:27:00:00	UNIVERSITY OF UNION UNIT IN NEW
01:27:00:00	01:27:02:00	HAMPSHIRE AND SHE SAID COME ON
01:27:02:00	01:27:02:00	OVER.
01:27:02:00	01:27:05:00	THERE'S 27,000 VACANCIES FOR
01:27:05:00	01:27:07:00	PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND I
01:27:07:00	01:27:09:00	NEEDED, UH, A BREAK, A LITTLE
01:27:09:00	01:27:10:00	SABBATICAL, SO TO SPEAK.
01:27:10:00	01:27:12:00	AND I CAME HERE FOR 18 MONTHS
01:27:12:00	01:27:14:00	TO, UH, WORK IN BOSTON MEDICAL
01:27:14:00	01:27:14:00	CENTER.
01:27:14:00	01:27:17:00	UM, BEING A PHYSICAL THERAPIST
01:27:17:00	01:27:18:00	, YOU SEE EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.
01:27:18:00	01:27:21:00	UH, AND I'M VERY ACUTELY AWARE
01:27:21:00	01:27:22:00	OF THE INEQUITIES AND THE
01:27:22:00	01:27:23:00	SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH.
01:27:23:00	01:27:26:00	UH, HAVING SERVED AND WORKED IN
01:27:26:00	01:27:28:00	THE CITY OF DERRY AS A STUDENT
01:27:28:00	01:27:28:00	.
01:27:28:00	01:27:33:00	UM, IT'S VERY APPARENT THAT THE
01:27:33:00	01:27:34:00	INEQUITIES THAT WE SEE IN OUR
01:27:34:00	01:27:35:00	HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ARE A DIRECT
01:27:35:00	01:27:39:00	AS A DIRECT RESULT OF POVERTY,
01:27:39:00	01:27:41:00	DISINVESTMENT AND UH, JUST
01:27:41:00	01:27:43:00	INEQUITIES IN CARE ACROSS THE
01:27:43:00	01:27:43:00	BOARD.
01:27:43:00	01:27:47:00	I CONSIDER MYSELF AN ALLY FOR
01:27:47:00	01:27:49:00	UH, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
01:27:49:00	01:27:53:00	UM, AND IT IS VERY HUMBLING FOR
01:27:53:00	01:27:55:00	ME TO BE HERE AMONG YOU ALL
01:27:55:00	01:27:55:00	TODAY.
01:27:55:00	01:27:58:00	UH, ASKING YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
01:27:58:00	01:27:59:00	AS THE NEXT CITY
01:27:59:00	01:28:00:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
01:28:00:00	01:28:02:00	COMING FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, I
01:28:02:00	01:28:04:00	UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY HOW
01:28:04:00	01:28:06:00	DYSFUNCTIONAL ELECTED BODIES
01:28:06:00	01:28:07:00	CAN JUST WASTE TIME AND NOT GET
01:28:07:00	01:28:09:00	ANYTHING DONE FOR THE PEOPLE.
01:28:09:00	01:28:11:00	THAT'S THE THAT'S BEEN THE CASE
01:28:11:00	01:28:12:00	AND IN THE NORTHERN IRELAND
01:28:12:00	01:28:13:00	ASSEMBLY FOR MANY YEARS.
01:28:13:00	01:28:14:00	THANKFULLY THINGS HAVE GOTTEN
01:28:14:00	01:28:15:00	BETTER.
01:28:15:00	01:28:17:00	UH AND THINGS ARE MOVING
01:28:17:00	01:28:18:00	FORWARD AGAIN.
01:28:18:00	01:28:21:00	WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THIS BODY
01:28:21:00	01:28:24:00	AS THE NEXT ELECTED UH, CITY
01:28:24:00	01:28:25:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS I AM SO
01:28:25:00	01:28:28:00	LUCKY TO BE ELECTED IS TO BE
01:28:28:00	01:28:28:00	FAIR.
01:28:28:00	01:28:32:00	I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO THE
01:28:32:00	01:28:34:00	WORK THAT WE DO HERE AS A CITY
01:28:34:00	01:28:34:00	COUNCIL.
01:28:34:00	01:28:37:00	UH, I KNOW THAT EVERY SINGLE
01:28:37:00	01:28:39:00	ONE OF US ONE OF US IS
01:28:39:00	01:28:39:00	PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT WE
01:28:39:00	01:28:41:00	BELIEVE IN THE PEOPLE THAT WE
01:28:41:00	01:28:43:00	SUPPORT, THE DISTRICTS THAT WE
01:28:43:00	01:28:45:00	WORK FOR AND THE JUST THE
01:28:45:00	01:28:47:00	FUTURE OF THIS CITY IN THIS
01:28:47:00	01:28:49:00	VERY, VERY SORT OF DANGEROUS
01:28:49:00	01:28:50:00	MOMENT RIGHT NOW.
01:28:50:00	01:28:53:00	WE ARE FACING INCREDIBLE
01:28:53:00	01:28:53:00	CHALLENGES.
01:28:53:00	01:28:56:00	WE HAVE A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
01:28:56:00	01:28:57:00	THAT IS SYSTEMATICALLY DIS
01:28:57:00	01:28:59:00	INVESTING IN OUR IN OUR UH IN
01:28:59:00	01:29:00:00	OUR GOVERNMENT HERE IN THE CITY
01:29:00:00	01:29:01:00	AND IN THE STATE.
01:29:01:00	01:29:03:00	THEY MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT
01:29:03:00	01:29:06:00	THAT WE ARE A A PROGRESSIVE
01:29:06:00	01:29:08:00	BLUE STATE AND A BLUE
01:29:08:00	01:29:08:00	PROGRESSIVE CITY WITH A
01:29:08:00	01:29:11:00	PROGRESSIVE MAYOR AND THEY WILL
01:29:11:00	01:29:13:00	DO ANYTHING TO TAKE US OFF THE
01:29:13:00	01:29:15:00	RAILS AND UH, HELP US, YOU
01:29:15:00	01:29:18:00	KNOW, JUST DEMEANORS AND
01:29:18:00	01:29:19:00	DEVALUE US AND WE'RE NOT GOING
01:29:19:00	01:29:21:00	TO STAND FOR THAT.
01:29:21:00	01:29:22:00	WE STOOD TOGETHER WITH THE
01:29:22:00	01:29:25:00	MAYOR ON THE CITY UH, ON ON THE
01:29:25:00	01:29:26:00	PLAZA A FEW MONTHS AGO.
01:29:26:00	01:29:28:00	UH, UNITED IN OUR SUPPORT
01:29:28:00	01:29:31:00	AGAINST THE THE INCREDIBLE
01:29:31:00	01:29:35:00	INJUSTICE AND, UH, WRONGHEADED
01:29:35:00	01:29:37:00	POLICIES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION
01:29:37:00	01:29:38:00	IN WASHINGTON.
01:29:38:00	01:29:40:00	WE HAVE TO BE UNITED.
01:29:40:00	01:29:43:00	WE ARE FACING SOME VERY, VERY
01:29:43:00	01:29:45:00	DIFFICULT DECISIONS IN THIS
01:29:45:00	01:29:46:00	BODY IN THE COMING YEARS.
01:29:46:00	01:29:48:00	THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN
01:29:48:00	01:29:48:00	PARTICULAR.
01:29:48:00	01:29:51:00	WE'RE HEADED INTO DIFFICULT
01:29:51:00	01:29:52:00	ECONOMIC TIMES.
01:29:52:00	01:29:56:00	WE DON'T KNOW WHAT, UH, FURTHER
01:29:56:00	01:29:58:00	CUTS ARE GOING TO BE MADE TO
01:29:58:00	01:30:01:00	OUR UH, BUDGETS ETC. BUT WE
01:30:01:00	01:30:04:00	HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER AND I
01:30:04:00	01:30:06:00	FEEL THAT IN THIS POSITION AS,
01:30:06:00	01:30:09:00	UH A LONG SERVING
01:30:09:00	01:30:11:00	COUNCILOR FROM NORTHERN IRELAND
01:30:11:00	01:30:13:00	WHO APPRECIATES THAT UH,
01:30:13:00	01:30:16:00	POLITICAL DIFFERENCE UH IS VERY
01:30:16:00	01:30:18:00	PROFOUND AT TIMES BUT WE CANNOT
01:30:18:00	01:30:21:00	LET POLITICAL DIFFERENCES AND
01:30:21:00	01:30:23:00	IDEOLOGICAL IDEOLOGY OR
01:30:23:00	01:30:24:00	MISUNDERSTANDINGS GET IN THE
01:30:24:00	01:30:26:00	WAY OF DOING THE WORK FOR THE
01:30:26:00	01:30:27:00	PEOPLE OF BOSTON.
01:30:27:00	01:30:32:00	IT'S INCREDIBLY HUMBLING FOR
01:30:32:00	01:30:33:00	ME TO BE HERE.
01:30:33:00	01:30:34:00	I DIDN'T KNOW I WOULD BE
01:30:34:00	01:30:36:00	STANDING HERE THIS TIME
01:30:36:00	01:30:36:00	YESTERDAY.
01:30:36:00	01:30:41:00	UM BUT THAT SAID I AM READY TO
01:30:41:00	01:30:41:00	LEAD.
01:30:41:00	01:30:44:00	I FEEL THAT I CAN BRING A
01:30:44:00	01:30:45:00	CERTAIN MINDSET TO THIS JOB.
01:30:45:00	01:30:47:00	I RESPECT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU
01:30:47:00	01:30:49:00	FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, YOUR
01:30:49:00	01:30:51:00	LEADERSHIP, UH, AND ALL THE
01:30:51:00	01:30:52:00	SKILLS THAT YOU BRING TO THIS
01:30:52:00	01:30:53:00	JOB.
01:30:53:00	01:30:55:00	I ALSO HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION
01:30:55:00	01:30:57:00	FOR ALL THE FOLKS THAT WORK FOR
01:30:57:00	01:30:59:00	YOU, YOUR STAFF AND THE
01:30:59:00	01:31:00:00	LEADERSHIP THAT YOU DEMONSTRATE
01:31:00:00	01:31:02:00	EVERY DAY IN THIS BODY.
01:31:02:00	01:31:05:00	UM, I REALLY, UH, HAVE NOT MUCH
01:31:05:00	01:31:06:00	ELSE TO SAY EXCEPT THAT I'M
01:31:06:00	01:31:09:00	VERY, UH, DETERMINED THAT WE
01:31:09:00	01:31:11:00	WILL CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF THE
01:31:11:00	01:31:12:00	OUTCOME OF THIS VOTE.
01:31:12:00	01:31:14:00	I WILL CONTINUE TO BE A
01:31:14:00	01:31:15:00	PEACEMAKER, A BRIDGE BUILDER
01:31:15:00	01:31:18:00	AND SOMEONE WHO HOPEFULLY WILL,
01:31:18:00	01:31:21:00	UH, BE INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING
01:31:21:00	01:31:23:00	US GO FORWARD POSITIVELY WITH
01:31:23:00	01:31:24:00	STRONG LEADERSHIP FROM ALL
01:31:24:00	01:31:26:00	OF US AND A UNITED LEADERSHIP
01:31:26:00	01:31:28:00	FROM ALL OF US SO THAT THE CITY
01:31:28:00	01:31:30:00	OF BOSTON CAN THRIVE AND OUR
01:31:30:00	01:31:31:00	PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEIR VOICES
01:31:31:00	01:31:34:00	ARE HEARD AND THAT WE WILL
01:31:34:00	01:31:35:00	PROSPER AND GET THROUGH THIS
01:31:35:00	01:31:36:00	VERY DIFFICULT PASSAGE THAT WE
01:31:36:00	01:31:37:00	ARE IN AT THE MOMENT.
01:31:37:00	01:31:39:00	SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR
01:31:39:00	01:31:39:00	CONSIDERATION.
01:31:39:00	01:31:41:00	I HUMBLY ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT
01:31:41:00	01:31:43:00	TO BE YOUR NEXT CITY
01:31:43:00	01:31:45:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND UM JUST
01:31:45:00	01:31:45:00	THANK YOU.
01:31:45:00	01:31:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:31:46:00	01:31:47:00	>> THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER
01:31:47:00	01:31:48:00	BREEDEN.
01:31:48:00	01:31:50:00	COUNCIL MEMBER MCCARTHY I SEE
01:31:50:00	01:31:51:00	YOUR LIGHT IS ON.
01:31:51:00	01:31:53:00	YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.
01:31:53:00	01:31:57:00	I STILL HAVE FIVE KNOWLEDGE.
01:31:57:00	01:32:00:00	COUNCIL MEMBER MEJIA.
01:32:00:00	01:32:02:00	YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.
01:32:02:00	01:32:06:00	UH.
01:32:06:00	01:32:10:00	>> SO I I'M JUST SO EXCITED TO
01:32:10:00	01:32:10:00	HAVE.
01:32:10:00	01:32:12:00	>> THIS CONVERSATION AND THAT
01:32:12:00	01:32:13:00	WE GET TO HAVE AN AUDIENCE.
01:32:13:00	01:32:15:00	WHY WE HAVE IT BECAUSE THE MOST
01:32:15:00	01:32:17:00	IMPORTANT VOTE THAT WE'LL MAKE
01:32:17:00	01:32:19:00	TODAY DECIDES THE TYPE OF BODY
01:32:19:00	01:32:20:00	AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO
01:32:20:00	01:32:21:00	FUNCTION.
01:32:21:00	01:32:23:00	IT IS ALL ABOUT POLITICAL
01:32:23:00	01:32:24:00	COURAGE AT THIS MOMENT.
01:32:24:00	01:32:27:00	IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO
01:32:27:00	01:32:29:00	DEMONSTRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE
01:32:29:00	01:32:32:00	AND OUR OPPORTUNITY TO
01:32:32:00	01:32:35:00	DEMONSTRATE WHAT TYPE OF BODY
01:32:35:00	01:32:36:00	WE ARE GOING TO BE.
01:32:36:00	01:32:38:00	THE FACT THAT COUNCILOR BREADON
01:32:38:00	01:32:40:00	JUST ANNOUNCED THAT SHE JUST
01:32:40:00	01:32:42:00	LEARNED THAT SHE WAS GOING TO
01:32:42:00	01:32:45:00	BE UP FOR THIS POSITION SHOULD
01:32:45:00	01:32:46:00	LET.
01:32:46:00	01:32:47:00	US IN.
01:32:47:00	01:32:51:00	BEHIND THE VEIL IN TERMS OF HOW
01:32:51:00	01:32:54:00	POLITICS IS GETTING DONE IN
01:32:54:00	01:32:55:00	THIS DAY AND AGE.
01:32:55:00	01:33:00:00	IF THAT DOES NOT ALARM YOU AS
01:33:00:00	01:33:02:00	YOU DECIDE WHAT VOTE YOU'RE
01:33:02:00	01:33:03:00	GOING TO MAKE TODAY.
01:33:03:00	01:33:06:00	ALL EYES ARE ON US.
01:33:06:00	01:33:09:00	ARE WE AN INDEPENDENT BODY
01:33:09:00	01:33:12:00	WILLING TO TAKE A STAND AND
01:33:12:00	01:33:15:00	SPEAK UP OR ARE WE GOING TO
01:33:15:00	01:33:18:00	CONTINUE TO ALLOW OTHER PEOPLE
01:33:18:00	01:33:20:00	TO DICTATE HOW THIS BODY
01:33:20:00	01:33:20:00	FUNCTIONS?
01:33:20:00	01:33:25:00	THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT WE'RE
01:33:25:00	01:33:26:00	ALL GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE WITH
01:33:26:00	01:33:29:00	HERE AFTER WE MAKE THIS VOTE.
01:33:29:00	01:33:33:00	THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO REALLY
01:33:33:00	01:33:34:00	CONSIDER.
01:33:34:00	01:33:40:00	PEOPLE ALREADY BELIEVE THAT WE
01:33:40:00	01:33:45:00	DO NOT FUNCTION AS A COLLECTIVE
01:33:45:00	01:33:45:00	.
01:33:45:00	01:33:49:00	PEOPLE ALREADY BELIEVE THAT WE
01:33:49:00	01:33:51:00	ARE A RUBBER STAMP.
01:33:51:00	01:33:56:00	THIS IS A MOMENT Y'ALL TO
01:33:56:00	01:33:59:00	DEMONSTRATE REAL COURAGEOUS
01:33:59:00	01:34:01:00	LEADERSHIP AT A TIME WHEN THE
01:34:01:00	01:34:04:00	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO
01:34:04:00	01:34:07:00	STRIP US AWAY OF OUR POWER ON
01:34:07:00	01:34:08:00	THE LOCAL LEVEL.
01:34:08:00	01:34:09:00	THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO
01:34:09:00	01:34:11:00	STAND UP AND RISE.
01:34:11:00	01:34:14:00	I THREW MY NAME IN THE HAT JUST
01:34:14:00	01:34:16:00	TO BE DISRUPTIVE BECAUSE WE
01:34:16:00	01:34:17:00	WERE NOT GOING TO DO BUSINESS
01:34:17:00	01:34:18:00	AS USUAL.
01:34:18:00	01:34:20:00	AND HERE IT COMES DOWN TO A
01:34:20:00	01:34:22:00	VOTE THAT THE PERSON WHO'S BEEN
01:34:22:00	01:34:24:00	NOMINATED AND HAS ACCEPTED THAT
01:34:24:00	01:34:26:00	NOMINATION HAS ADMITTED THAT
01:34:26:00	01:34:28:00	THEY WEREN'T EVEN THINKING
01:34:28:00	01:34:30:00	ABOUT IT UP UNTIL LAST NIGHT.
01:34:30:00	01:34:31:00	COUNCIL MEMBER.
01:34:31:00	01:34:32:00	SO THAT.
01:34:32:00	01:34:35:00	SAID LET IT BE SEEN HERE FOR
01:34:35:00	01:34:37:00	THE RECORD HOW WE ARE.
01:34:37:00	01:34:39:00	ALREADY SETTING THE STAGE FOR
01:34:39:00	01:34:40:00	HOW THIS COUNCIL IS GOING TO
01:34:40:00	01:34:41:00	LEAD.
01:34:41:00	01:34:43:00	SO JUST LET THAT MARINATE AND
01:34:43:00	01:34:45:00	SINK IN WITH THAT.
01:34:45:00	01:34:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:34:46:00	01:34:47:00	THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER.
01:34:47:00	01:34:53:00	>> LET ME.
01:34:53:00	01:34:57:00	>> JUST LOOK AT RULE 39 AGAIN
01:34:57:00	01:35:00:00	TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
01:35:00:00	01:35:01:00	FOLLOWING PROTOCOL.
01:35:01:00	01:35:06:00	BUT COUNCIL BREDON IF THIS IS
01:35:06:00	01:35:08:00	YOUR FINAL AND THIS IS THE ONLY
01:35:08:00	01:35:12:00	LIGHT I SEE ON A FEW OF THE
01:35:12:00	01:35:15:00	FINAL SPEAKER AND HOW MUCH TIME
01:35:15:00	01:35:17:00	DID SHE HAVE LEFT FOR A MOMENT.
01:35:17:00	01:35:22:00	WE'VE GOT FOUR MORE MINUTES
01:35:22:00	01:35:24:00	AFTER COUNCILOR BREEDEN.
01:35:24:00	01:35:27:00	MY PRAYER IS I WILL MOVE TO THE
01:35:27:00	01:35:28:00	CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL.
01:35:28:00	01:35:29:00	COUNCILOR BREDON.
01:35:29:00	01:35:31:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:35:31:00	01:35:33:00	THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT I WAS
01:35:33:00	01:35:34:00	INTENDING TO ASK.
01:35:34:00	01:35:35:00	WE MOVE TO A VOTE.
01:35:35:00	01:35:36:00	THANK YOU.
01:35:36:00	01:35:36:00	THANK YOU.
01:35:36:00	01:35:40:00	IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.
01:35:40:00	01:35:42:00	MR. CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL AND
01:35:42:00	01:35:43:00	SECONDED.
01:35:43:00	01:35:46:00	MR CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.
01:35:46:00	01:35:51:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:35:51:00	01:35:54:00	RANDOM COUNCILOR BREEN FOR
01:35:54:00	01:35:56:00	COUNCIL BREADON
01:35:56:00	01:35:57:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED.
01:35:57:00	01:36:01:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED
01:36:01:00	01:36:02:00	TO LIZ BREADON.
01:36:02:00	01:36:05:00	COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
01:36:05:00	01:36:09:00	ROLL COUNCILOR EARL.
01:36:09:00	01:36:12:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN.
01:36:12:00	01:36:16:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN.
01:36:16:00	01:36:16:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:16:00	01:36:17:00	BREADON.
01:36:17:00	01:36:20:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
01:36:20:00	01:36:21:00	COUNCIL MEMBER.
01:36:21:00	01:36:22:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:22:00	01:36:23:00	>> FITZGERALD.
01:36:23:00	01:36:24:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:24:00	01:36:24:00	WORLD.
01:36:24:00	01:36:27:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:27:00	01:36:28:00	FLYNN.
01:36:28:00	01:36:29:00	COUNCIL OF RIGHT AND WRONG.
01:36:29:00	01:36:31:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:36:31:00	01:36:31:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:31:00	01:36:32:00	WORLD.
01:36:32:00	01:36:35:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE ALSO.
01:36:35:00	01:36:37:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
01:36:37:00	01:36:37:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:37:00	01:36:38:00	BREADON.
01:36:38:00	01:36:40:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:40:00	01:36:41:00	MEJIA.
01:36:41:00	01:36:42:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:42:00	01:36:45:00	>> ISADORA.
01:36:45:00	01:36:46:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:46:00	01:36:46:00	>> MEJIA.
01:36:46:00	01:36:47:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:47:00	01:36:47:00	WORLD.
01:36:47:00	01:36:49:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:49:00	01:36:50:00	MURPHY.
01:36:50:00	01:36:50:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:50:00	01:36:51:00	>> CRIME FOR US.
01:36:51:00	01:36:52:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:52:00	01:36:53:00	>> MURPHY.
01:36:53:00	01:36:53:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:53:00	01:36:53:00	WORLD.
01:36:53:00	01:36:56:00	COUNCILOR PER CAN.
01:36:56:00	01:36:57:00	WHAT'S THE WORD?
01:36:57:00	01:36:59:00	COUNCIL PUT PEN.
01:36:59:00	01:36:59:00	COUNCILOR.
01:36:59:00	01:36:59:00	BRAIN.
01:36:59:00	01:37:04:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
01:37:04:00	01:37:06:00	THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE.
01:37:06:00	01:37:08:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA
01:37:08:00	01:37:09:00	COUNCILOR BRIEF.
01:37:09:00	01:37:12:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
01:37:12:00	01:37:14:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
01:37:14:00	01:37:14:00	COUNCIL AGREED.
01:37:14:00	01:37:18:00	COUNCILOR.
01:37:18:00	01:37:18:00	WORLD.
01:37:18:00	01:37:19:00	COUNCILOR.
01:37:19:00	01:37:20:00	>> COUNCILOR.
01:37:20:00	01:37:22:00	>> WORLD FOR COUNCILOR.
01:37:22:00	01:37:22:00	WORLD.
01:37:22:00	01:37:32:00	1256.
01:37:32:00	01:37:36:00	>> GOOD JOB.
01:37:36:00	01:37:37:00	RIGHT ONE.
01:37:37:00	01:38:01:00	SIX.
01:38:01:00	01:38:06:00	466.
01:38:06:00	01:38:11:00	UH.
01:38:11:00	01:38:17:00	>> REIGNS SEVEN SIX.
01:38:17:00	01:38:21:00	THE CLERK HAS TALLY THE VOTES
01:38:21:00	01:38:24:00	AS CASS AND COUNCILOR BREADON
01:38:24:00	01:38:26:00	IS OUR NEW COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
01:38:26:00	01:38:48:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:38:48:00	01:38:54:00	CONGRATULATIONS.
01:38:54:00	01:38:56:00	UH.
01:38:56:00	01:39:11:00	>> THANK YOU EVERYONE.
01:39:11:00	01:39:12:00	AND THIS IS THE.
01:39:12:00	01:39:21:00	THANK YOU EVERYONE.
01:39:21:00	01:39:25:00	>> UM, I WANT TO EXPRESS MY
01:39:25:00	01:39:27:00	DEEP GRATITUDE TO MY COLLEAGUES
01:39:27:00	01:39:29:00	AND FELLOW COUNCILORS FOR THEIR
01:39:29:00	01:39:29:00	SUPPORT.
01:39:29:00	01:39:31:00	IT IS AN HONOR OF MY LIFE TO
01:39:31:00	01:39:32:00	WORK FOR THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON
01:39:32:00	01:39:35:00	AND SERVE ALONGSIDE ALL OF YOU
01:39:35:00	01:39:35:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:39:35:00	01:39:38:00	THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
01:39:38:00	01:39:40:00	IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE AS
01:39:40:00	01:39:41:00	THE NEXT.
01:39:41:00	01:39:42:00	IT WILL BE MY PRIVILEGE TO
01:39:42:00	01:39:45:00	SERVE AS THE NEXT BOSTON CITY
01:39:45:00	01:39:45:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
01:39:45:00	01:39:48:00	AS I JUST MENTIONED, MY NAME IS
01:39:48:00	01:39:48:00	LIZ BRITAIN.
01:39:48:00	01:39:50:00	I'M THE CITY COUNCILOR FOR
01:39:50:00	01:39:51:00	DISTRICT NINE REPRESENTING
01:39:51:00	01:39:54:00	ALLSTON, BRIGHTON AND I CAME TO
01:39:54:00	01:39:55:00	THE ROLE OF BOSTON AS CITY
01:39:55:00	01:39:57:00	COUNCILOR AS SOMEONE WHO
01:39:57:00	01:39:59:00	PLANNED A CAREER, HAD NEVER
01:39:59:00	01:40:00:00	PLANNED A CAREER IN POLITICS.
01:40:00:00	01:40:02:00	BUT AS SOMEONE WHO CAME TO
01:40:02:00	01:40:02:00	PUBLIC SERVICE THROUGH
01:40:02:00	01:40:05:00	COMMUNITY BEFORE I WAS ELECTED
01:40:05:00	01:40:07:00	I WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN
01:40:07:00	01:40:09:00	THE IN ALSO IN BRIGHTON.
01:40:09:00	01:40:11:00	AND IN THIS ROLE I LEARNED THAT
01:40:11:00	01:40:12:00	LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT TITLES
01:40:12:00	01:40:14:00	BUT PERSISTENCE IS ABOUT
01:40:14:00	01:40:16:00	SHOWING UP AGAIN AND AGAIN EVEN
01:40:16:00	01:40:18:00	AT THOSE TIMES WHEN IT'S MOST
01:40:18:00	01:40:18:00	DIFFICULT.
01:40:18:00	01:40:20:00	AND AT THOSE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE
01:40:20:00	01:40:22:00	THINK YOU'RE UH, JOUSTING WITH
01:40:22:00	01:40:23:00	WINDMILLS AND THE NO CHANCE
01:40:23:00	01:40:24:00	OF WINNING.
01:40:24:00	01:40:28:00	TODAY IS INAUGURATION DAY.
01:40:28:00	01:40:31:00	IT'S A DAY OF RENEWAL AND
01:40:31:00	01:40:32:00	RESPONSIBILITY.
01:40:32:00	01:40:34:00	AND AS I LOOK OUT AT MY FELLOW
01:40:34:00	01:40:36:00	COUNCIL MEMBERS TODAY, I SEE A
01:40:36:00	01:40:38:00	BODY THAT CONTINUES TO BETTER
01:40:38:00	01:40:40:00	REFLECT THE CITY THAT WE LIVE
01:40:40:00	01:40:40:00	IN.
01:40:40:00	01:40:43:00	AS PRESIDENT I COMMIT TO WORK
01:40:43:00	01:40:45:00	WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU
01:40:45:00	01:40:46:00	DISTRICT COUNCILORS AND
01:40:46:00	01:40:48:00	AT-LARGE COUNCILORS TO
01:40:48:00	01:40:50:00	STRENGTHEN THIS INSTITUTION TO
01:40:50:00	01:40:51:00	SEEK TO CREATE A
01:40:51:00	01:40:52:00	COUNCIL CULTURE THAT VALUES
01:40:52:00	01:40:54:00	EXPERTISE, DEBATE AND MUTUAL
01:40:54:00	01:40:54:00	RESPECT.
01:40:54:00	01:40:57:00	FIRST I WANT TO THANK WELCOME
01:40:57:00	01:41:00:00	THE REVEREND COUNCILOR MINARD
01:41:00:00	01:41:01:00	CULPEPER.
01:41:01:00	01:41:03:00	UH, AS MAYOR WU SAID IN HER
01:41:03:00	01:41:05:00	ADDRESS TODAY, THIS MAY BE YOUR
01:41:05:00	01:41:07:00	FIRST DAY ON THE COUNCIL, BUT
01:41:07:00	01:41:08:00	IT'S CERTAINLY NOT YOUR FIRST
01:41:08:00	01:41:10:00	DAY IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND THANK
01:41:10:00	01:41:10:00	YOU FOR ALL OF THAT.
01:41:10:00	01:41:13:00	THANK YOU.
01:41:13:00	01:41:16:00	I WANT TO THANK OUTGOING CITY
01:41:16:00	01:41:17:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT RISHI
01:41:17:00	01:41:19:00	LOUIJEUNE FOR THE INTENTION AND
01:41:19:00	01:41:21:00	DEVOTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE SHE
01:41:21:00	01:41:23:00	BRINGS WITH HER EVERY TIME SHE
01:41:23:00	01:41:24:00	STEPS INTO THIS CHAMBER.
01:41:24:00	01:41:26:00	AND I AM TRULY IN YOUR DEBT.
01:41:26:00	01:41:28:00	THANK YOU RUSTY FOR YOUR
01:41:28:00	01:41:30:00	INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP OVER THE
01:41:30:00	01:41:30:00	PAST.
01:41:30:00	01:41:31:00	>> TWO YEARS.
01:41:31:00	01:41:36:00	COUNCILOR.
01:41:36:00	01:41:38:00	>> UH, JIM HERE WE HERE.
01:41:38:00	01:41:39:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
01:41:39:00	01:41:41:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
01:41:41:00	01:41:42:00	UM.
01:41:42:00	01:41:44:00	>> JULIA IS FAMOUS FOR WINNING
01:41:44:00	01:41:45:00	BY ONE VOTE.
01:41:45:00	01:41:47:00	UH, WHICH IS ALSO HER BIRTHDAY
01:41:47:00	01:41:49:00	IS THE 1ST OF JANUARY, SO GO
01:41:49:00	01:41:49:00	FIGURE.
01:41:49:00	01:41:51:00	NUMBER ONE'S A VERY IMPORTANT
01:41:51:00	01:41:52:00	NUMBER FOR JULIA.
01:41:52:00	01:41:55:00	UH, COUNCILOR MIA SHE IS
01:41:55:00	01:41:57:00	INCREDIBLY PASSIONATE ABOUT IN
01:41:57:00	01:41:58:00	HER FIGHT FOR GOVERNMENT
01:41:58:00	01:41:59:00	ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY
01:41:59:00	01:42:00:00	.
01:42:00:00	01:42:02:00	AND I COMMIT MYSELF TO CONTINUE
01:42:02:00	01:42:02:00	THAT WORK WITH YOU.
01:42:02:00	01:42:03:00	JULIE.
01:42:03:00	01:42:05:00	UH, COUNCILOR MEJIA,
01:42:05:00	01:42:07:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, I WANT TO
01:42:07:00	01:42:08:00	THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT
01:42:08:00	01:42:09:00	TO BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
01:42:09:00	01:42:10:00	ALL OF OUR FAMILIES.
01:42:10:00	01:42:13:00	UH, YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THE, UH
01:42:13:00	01:42:15:00	, STRONG WOMEN, FAMILIES AND
01:42:15:00	01:42:16:00	COMMUNITIES UH, COMMITTEE OVER
01:42:16:00	01:42:18:00	THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS BEEN
01:42:18:00	01:42:20:00	INCREDIBLE AND, UH, I THINK OUR
01:42:20:00	01:42:21:00	YOUNG PEOPLE OUR MOST IMPORTANT
01:42:21:00	01:42:23:00	WORK IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:42:23:00	01:42:25:00	WE WANT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO
01:42:25:00	01:42:26:00	HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE
01:42:26:00	01:42:29:00	TO HAVE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE AND
01:42:29:00	01:42:31:00	NOT MANY FOR A LOT OF OUR YOUNG
01:42:31:00	01:42:32:00	PEOPLE DON'T HAVE HOPE AT THIS
01:42:32:00	01:42:32:00	POINT.
01:42:32:00	01:42:34:00	SO WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO
01:42:34:00	01:42:35:00	TOGETHER.
01:42:35:00	01:42:37:00	COUNCILOR HENRY SANTANA FOR
01:42:37:00	01:42:39:00	EMPOWERING BOSTON'S YOUTH AND
01:42:39:00	01:42:41:00	ENSURING ALL VOICES HAVE A SEAT
01:42:41:00	01:42:41:00	AT THE TABLE.
01:42:41:00	01:42:44:00	AS ALSO WAS THE FIRST LGBT UH
01:42:44:00	01:42:47:00	UH LESBIAN TO BE ELECTED TO THE
01:42:47:00	01:42:48:00	CITY COUNCIL.
01:42:48:00	01:42:50:00	I WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY
01:42:50:00	01:42:51:00	FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE ADVOCACY
01:42:51:00	01:42:54:00	FOR LGBT COMMUNITY HERE IN THE
01:42:54:00	01:42:55:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:42:55:00	01:42:56:00	THANK YOU FOR THAT.
01:42:56:00	01:42:59:00	COUNCILOR GABRIELA, UH,
01:42:59:00	01:43:01:00	COLLETTA ZAPATA FOR YOUR
01:43:01:00	01:43:02:00	STEWARDSHIP OF THE GOVERNMENT
01:43:02:00	01:43:04:00	OPERATIONS UH, COMMITTEE OVER
01:43:04:00	01:43:05:00	THIS PAST FEW YEARS YOU'VE DONE
01:43:05:00	01:43:06:00	A REALLY INCREDIBLE JOB IN
01:43:06:00	01:43:07:00	LEADING THAT.
01:43:07:00	01:43:09:00	UH, I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU
01:43:09:00	01:43:10:00	FOR YOUR PASSIONATE ADVOCACY
01:43:10:00	01:43:15:00	AND ONGOING, UH, PERSISTENT AND
01:43:15:00	01:43:17:00	INSISTENT ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE
01:43:17:00	01:43:19:00	JUSTICE AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE
01:43:19:00	01:43:20:00	AS WE FACE.
01:43:20:00	01:43:23:00	UH, ESPECIALLY ALL ACROSS
01:43:23:00	01:43:24:00	BOSTON BUT ESPECIALLY IN YOUR
01:43:24:00	01:43:25:00	DISTRICT AND ACROSS THE
01:43:25:00	01:43:25:00	WATERFRONT.
01:43:25:00	01:43:30:00	COUNCILOR EDWARD FLYNN FOR YOUR
01:43:30:00	01:43:31:00	STALWART ADVOCACY FOR VETERANS.
01:43:31:00	01:43:35:00	UH, AND AND YOUR SERVICE TO OUR
01:43:35:00	01:43:36:00	COUNTRY AND TO THE CITY
01:43:36:00	01:43:36:00	OF BOSTON.
01:43:36:00	01:43:39:00	UM, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
01:43:39:00	01:43:41:00	THAT, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, FOR
01:43:41:00	01:43:43:00	YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY FOR THE
01:43:43:00	01:43:44:00	COUNTY HOSPITAL.
01:43:44:00	01:43:45:00	I THINK ONE OF THE FIRST
01:43:45:00	01:43:46:00	CONVERSATIONS WE HAD WHEN YOU
01:43:46:00	01:43:48:00	CAME ON BOARD WAS THE STEWARD
01:43:48:00	01:43:51:00	UH STEWARD UM, HEALTH CARE
01:43:51:00	01:43:53:00	SYSTEM WAS GOING TO CLOSE OUR
01:43:53:00	01:43:54:00	HOSPITALS AND YOU WERE RIGHT IN
01:43:54:00	01:43:56:00	THE FIGHT FOR THAT, UH,
01:43:56:00	01:43:57:00	INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT COUNTY
01:43:57:00	01:43:58:00	HOSPITAL.
01:43:58:00	01:43:59:00	IT'S NOT OVER YET.
01:43:59:00	01:44:01:00	WE STILL HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:44:01:00	01:44:02:00	YOUR DISTRICT AND THE COUNTY
01:44:02:00	01:44:04:00	HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE ACCESS
01:44:04:00	01:44:06:00	IN YOUR DISTRICT, UH, IS
01:44:06:00	01:44:09:00	IMPROVED IMPROVING QUALITY
01:44:09:00	01:44:10:00	OF LIFE ISSUES IN THE DISTRICT
01:44:10:00	01:44:12:00	ALSO THROUGHOUT ALL OF BOSTON
01:44:12:00	01:44:14:00	IN YOUR LEADERSHIP OF THE, UH,
01:44:14:00	01:44:16:00	THE, UM YOUR COMMITTEES.
01:44:16:00	01:44:19:00	COUNCILOR BRIAN MORRELL, I WANT
01:44:19:00	01:44:20:00	TO THANK YOU.
01:44:20:00	01:44:22:00	I KNOW THIS IS HARD.
01:44:22:00	01:44:24:00	I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR
01:44:24:00	01:44:26:00	INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO WAYS AND
01:44:26:00	01:44:28:00	MEANS, UH, AND TO WORK TO
01:44:28:00	01:44:29:00	ENSURE THE DREAM OF YOUR WORK
01:44:29:00	01:44:31:00	TO ENSURE THE DREAM
01:44:31:00	01:44:32:00	OF HOMEOWNERSHIP IS ATTAINABLE
01:44:32:00	01:44:34:00	FOR MORE BOSTON RESIDENTS.
01:44:34:00	01:44:35:00	WE SEE SO MANY PEOPLE BEING
01:44:35:00	01:44:36:00	FORCED OUT OF OUR CITY.
01:44:36:00	01:44:40:00	UH, AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IS.
01:44:40:00	01:44:42:00	THE NEATEST WAY TO TO.
01:44:42:00	01:44:44:00	IT'S A GREAT WAY OF RENT
01:44:44:00	01:44:44:00	CONTROL.
01:44:44:00	01:44:46:00	UH, BUT I DO THANK YOU FOR YOUR
01:44:46:00	01:44:48:00	PERSISTENCE, YOUR STRONG
01:44:48:00	01:44:49:00	ADVOCACY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
01:44:49:00	01:44:51:00	CONTINUE THAT THAT ADVOCACY
01:44:51:00	01:44:53:00	WORK WITH YOU GOING FORWARD.
01:44:53:00	01:44:56:00	COUNCILOR ENRIQUE PEPEN FOR
01:44:56:00	01:44:58:00	CHAMPIONING CHAMPIONING PUBLIC
01:44:58:00	01:44:59:00	TRANSIT AND WORKING TO MAKE
01:44:59:00	01:45:01:00	BOSTON SAFER FOR ALL.
01:45:01:00	01:45:03:00	UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU BRING
01:45:03:00	01:45:06:00	TO THE FOREFRONT OUR FOCUS THAT
01:45:06:00	01:45:07:00	PEDESTRIANS AND LITTLE PEOPLE
01:45:07:00	01:45:10:00	OUR CHILDREN AND OUR ELDERS AND
01:45:10:00	01:45:12:00	OUR PEDESTRIANS HAVE TO BE SAFE
01:45:12:00	01:45:12:00	ON OUR ROADS.
01:45:12:00	01:45:13:00	SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
01:45:13:00	01:45:15:00	FOR COUNCILOR BEN WEBER, FOR
01:45:15:00	01:45:16:00	CONSTANTLY FIGHTING FOR LABOR
01:45:16:00	01:45:17:00	RIGHTS AND PROTECTING SOME
01:45:17:00	01:45:18:00	OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE WORKERS
01:45:18:00	01:45:19:00	.
01:45:19:00	01:45:22:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN, FOR YOUR
01:45:22:00	01:45:23:00	UNABASHEDLY BOLD SOLUTIONS IN
01:45:23:00	01:45:25:00	THE HOUSING CRISIS WE NOW FACE,
01:45:25:00	01:45:27:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING
01:45:27:00	01:45:29:00	THAT WORK WITH YOU AND TO ALL
01:45:29:00	01:45:31:00	THE CENTRAL STAFF,
01:45:31:00	01:45:32:00	COUNCIL STAFF AND ALL THE CITY
01:45:32:00	01:45:34:00	STAFF WHO KEEP BOSTON RUNNING.
01:45:34:00	01:45:38:00	LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, I
01:45:38:00	01:45:39:00	WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY
01:45:39:00	01:45:40:00	CONGRATULATIONS TO MAYOR WU.
01:45:40:00	01:45:42:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE
01:45:42:00	01:45:43:00	CONTINUING OUR BOLD WORK TO
01:45:43:00	01:45:46:00	ADVANCE EQUITY, AFFORDABILITY,
01:45:46:00	01:45:48:00	CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND THE CITY
01:45:48:00	01:45:49:00	GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
01:45:49:00	01:45:51:00	NOT JUST FOR THE LOUDEST VOICES
01:45:51:00	01:45:53:00	ON THE MOST RESOURCED
01:45:53:00	01:45:54:00	INTERESTS.
01:45:54:00	01:46:01:00	UM I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR
01:46:01:00	01:46:02:00	ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO ARE WITH
01:46:02:00	01:46:03:00	US THIS AFTERNOON.
01:46:03:00	01:46:07:00	I WANT TO JUST GO BACK A LITTLE
01:46:07:00	01:46:08:00	BIT TO, UH, ALLSTON.
01:46:08:00	01:46:10:00	BRIGHTON IS A PLACE OF CONSTANT
01:46:10:00	01:46:11:00	CHANGE AND DEEP ROOTS.
01:46:11:00	01:46:14:00	IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD OF RENTERS
01:46:14:00	01:46:16:00	AND HOMEOWNERS, STUDENTS AND
01:46:16:00	01:46:18:00	SENIORS, LONG TIME RESIDENTS
01:46:18:00	01:46:18:00	AND NEWCOMERS.
01:46:18:00	01:46:20:00	IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HELPS
01:46:20:00	01:46:22:00	BOSTON'S ECONOMY AND CULTURAL
01:46:22:00	01:46:22:00	LIFE.
01:46:22:00	01:46:24:00	YET SO OFTEN FINDS ITSELF
01:46:24:00	01:46:26:00	TREATED AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT WHEN
01:46:26:00	01:46:27:00	DECISIONS ARE MADE DOWNTOWN
01:46:27:00	01:46:30:00	WHETHER ABOUT TRANSPORTATION,
01:46:30:00	01:46:31:00	INFRASTRUCTURE, HOUSING OR
01:46:31:00	01:46:32:00	PUBLIC SERVICES.
01:46:32:00	01:46:34:00	I HAVE FOLKS WHO COME TO ME AND
01:46:34:00	01:46:36:00	ARGUE THAT MADE THAT BRIGHTNESS
01:46:36:00	01:46:37:00	NOT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:46:37:00	01:46:38:00	GO FIGURE.
01:46:38:00	01:46:39:00	UH, AS.
01:46:39:00	01:46:40:00	>> THE PRESIDENT OF THIS BODY,
01:46:40:00	01:46:42:00	I INTEND TO CHANGE THAT.
01:46:42:00	01:46:43:00	NOT JUST FOR ALLSTON BRIGHTON
01:46:43:00	01:46:45:00	BUT FOR EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT
01:46:45:00	01:46:47:00	HAS FELT OVERLOOKED AND
01:46:47:00	01:46:48:00	UNDERVALUED BECAUSE CITYWIDE
01:46:48:00	01:46:49:00	LEADERSHIP DOES NOT MEAN
01:46:49:00	01:46:51:00	FLATTENING OUR DIFFERENCES.
01:46:51:00	01:46:53:00	IT MEANS RECOGNIZING THEM,
01:46:53:00	01:46:54:00	RESPECTING THEM AND ENSURING
01:46:54:00	01:46:56:00	THAT EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS A
01:46:56:00	01:46:58:00	REAL VOICE IN SHAPING BOSTON'S
01:46:58:00	01:46:58:00	FUTURE.
01:46:58:00	01:47:02:00	IN THIS MOMENT WE MUST GOVERN
01:47:02:00	01:47:03:00	WITH REAL URGENCY.
01:47:03:00	01:47:06:00	AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, WE FACE
01:47:06:00	01:47:08:00	DEEP UNCERTAINTY ATTACKS ON
01:47:08:00	01:47:09:00	DEMOCRATIC NORMS, ON CIVIL
01:47:09:00	01:47:11:00	RIGHTS ON AND A SOCIAL SAFETY
01:47:11:00	01:47:14:00	NET THAT SO MANY BOSTON
01:47:14:00	01:47:16:00	BOSTONIANS RELY ON IN THIS
01:47:16:00	01:47:16:00	CONTEXT.
01:47:16:00	01:47:18:00	CITIES MATTER MORE THAN EVER.
01:47:18:00	01:47:22:00	BOSTON MUST CONTINUE TO LEAD BY
01:47:22:00	01:47:23:00	PROTECTING IMMIGRANTS, BY
01:47:23:00	01:47:25:00	ADVANCING RACIAL AND ECONOMIC
01:47:25:00	01:47:27:00	JUSTICE, BY INVESTING IN PUBLIC
01:47:27:00	01:47:29:00	EDUCATION, BY TREATING HOUSING
01:47:29:00	01:47:30:00	AS A HUMAN RIGHT AND BY
01:47:30:00	01:47:33:00	STANDING FIRMLY BY OUR LGBTQ
01:47:33:00	01:47:35:00	PLUS, UH, EQUALITY,
01:47:35:00	01:47:37:00	REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND THE
01:47:37:00	01:47:37:00	DIGNITY OF ALL PEOPLE.
01:47:37:00	01:47:40:00	THE COUNCIL IS A CITY WIDE
01:47:40:00	01:47:40:00	BODY.
01:47:40:00	01:47:43:00	OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO THE
01:47:43:00	01:47:44:00	ENTIRE CITY AND OUR
01:47:44:00	01:47:45:00	ACCOUNTABILITY IS TO THE PEOPLE
01:47:45:00	01:47:46:00	WHO SENT US HERE.
01:47:46:00	01:47:48:00	WE ARE ELECTED BY HUNDREDS
01:47:48:00	01:47:49:00	OF THOUSANDS OF VOTERS ACROSS
01:47:49:00	01:47:50:00	BOSTON'S NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:47:50:00	01:47:52:00	AND WITH THAT MANDATE COMES
01:47:52:00	01:47:54:00	DUTY A DUTY TO GOVERN
01:47:54:00	01:47:56:00	TRANSPARENTLY, COLLABORATIVELY
01:47:56:00	01:47:56:00	AND WITH INTEGRITY.
01:47:56:00	01:48:01:00	AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN
01:48:01:00	01:48:02:00	TO SERVE AS THE PRESIDENT
01:48:02:00	01:48:04:00	OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I DO NOT
01:48:04:00	01:48:06:00	TAKE LIGHTLY THE RESPONSIBILITY
01:48:06:00	01:48:07:00	OF REPRESENTATION.
01:48:07:00	01:48:09:00	BUT REPRESENTATION ALONE IS NOT
01:48:09:00	01:48:09:00	ENOUGH.
01:48:09:00	01:48:11:00	WHAT MATTERS IS THAT WE DO WHAT
01:48:11:00	01:48:13:00	WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO WHAT WE
01:48:13:00	01:48:15:00	DO WITH THE POWER THAT HAS BEEN
01:48:15:00	01:48:15:00	ENTRUSTED TO US.
01:48:15:00	01:48:19:00	IN CLOSING, I BELIEVE DEEPLY
01:48:19:00	01:48:21:00	THAT WHEN WE SHARE A
01:48:21:00	01:48:22:00	RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNING WE
01:48:22:00	01:48:24:00	SHARE IT AND WE SHARE IN ITS
01:48:24:00	01:48:24:00	SUCCESS.
01:48:24:00	01:48:26:00	I AM GRATEFUL TO MY COLLEAGUES
01:48:26:00	01:48:28:00	FOR THEIR CONFIDENCE.
01:48:28:00	01:48:30:00	TO MY FAMILY AND LOVED ONES.
01:48:30:00	01:48:32:00	FOR THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT.
01:48:32:00	01:48:33:00	AND TO THE RESIDENTS
01:48:33:00	01:48:34:00	OF DISTRICT NINE FOR BELIEVING
01:48:34:00	01:48:35:00	THAT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
01:48:35:00	01:48:36:00	DESERVES A STRONGER VOICE IN
01:48:36:00	01:48:37:00	CITY HALL.
01:48:37:00	01:48:39:00	TOGETHER WITH THE CITY
01:48:39:00	01:48:41:00	COUNCIL AND THE MEMBERS OF THE
01:48:41:00	01:48:43:00	MAYOR'S ADMINISTRATION, I'M
01:48:43:00	01:48:44:00	CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN MEET THEM
01:48:44:00	01:48:46:00	THIS MOMENT, STRENGTHEN OUR
01:48:46:00	01:48:48:00	DEMOCRACY AND CONTINUE BUILDING
01:48:48:00	01:48:49:00	A BOSTON THAT TRULY WORKS FOR
01:48:49:00	01:48:50:00	ALL.
01:48:50:00	01:48:52:00	THANK YOU.
01:48:52:00	01:49:03:00	>> WE WILL NOW CONTINUE WITH
01:49:03:00	01:49:05:00	REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND
01:49:05:00	01:49:06:00	OTHERS.
01:49:06:00	01:49:07:00	MR CHAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
01:49:07:00	01:49:11:00	DOCKET 0103 THROUGH 0111?
01:49:11:00	01:49:17:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0103 NOTICES
01:49:17:00	01:49:19:00	RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR FOR
01:49:19:00	01:49:22:00	ABSENCE FROM THE CITY ON
01:49:22:00	01:49:24:00	WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH 2025
01:49:24:00	01:49:26:00	AT 2:55 P.M. RETURNING
01:49:26:00	01:49:29:00	SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27TH, 2025
01:49:29:00	01:49:33:00	AT 5 P.M. DOC AND NUMBER 0104.
01:49:33:00	01:49:34:00	NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE CITY
01:49:34:00	01:49:35:00	CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH
01:49:35:00	01:49:38:00	CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES
01:49:38:00	01:49:40:00	OF 1979 RELATIVE TO ACTION
01:49:40:00	01:49:41:00	TAKEN BY THE MAYOR AND PAPERS
01:49:41:00	01:49:43:00	ACTED UPON BY THE CITY
01:49:43:00	01:49:46:00	COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF APRIL
01:49:46:00	01:49:48:00	9TH 2025 DOCKET NUMBER 0105.
01:49:48:00	01:49:50:00	NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE CITY
01:49:50:00	01:49:52:00	CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH
01:49:52:00	01:49:54:00	CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES
01:49:54:00	01:49:57:00	OF 1979 REGARDING ACTION TAKEN
01:49:57:00	01:49:59:00	BY THE MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED
01:49:59:00	01:50:01:00	UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS
01:50:01:00	01:50:05:00	MEETING OF OCTOBER 29TH 2025.
01:50:05:00	01:50:08:00	NUMBER 10106 NOTICE RECEIVED
01:50:08:00	01:50:09:00	FROM THE CITY CLERK IN
01:50:09:00	01:50:11:00	ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX
01:50:11:00	01:50:14:00	OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979
01:50:14:00	01:50:15:00	REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE
01:50:15:00	01:50:17:00	MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
01:50:17:00	01:50:19:00	THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING
01:50:19:00	01:50:22:00	OF NOVEMBER 5TH, 2025, DOCKET
01:50:22:00	01:50:23:00	NUMBER 0107.
01:50:23:00	01:50:25:00	NOTICE RECEIVED FROM THE CITY
01:50:25:00	01:50:27:00	CLERK IN ACCORDANCE OF CHAPTER
01:50:27:00	01:50:30:00	SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979
01:50:30:00	01:50:32:00	REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE
01:50:32:00	01:50:34:00	MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
01:50:34:00	01:50:36:00	THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING
01:50:36:00	01:50:37:00	OF DECEMBER 3RD 2025.
01:50:37:00	01:50:41:00	TALKING ABOUT 0108 NOTICE
01:50:41:00	01:50:42:00	RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN
01:50:42:00	01:50:45:00	ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX
01:50:45:00	01:50:47:00	OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979, WE
01:50:47:00	01:50:48:00	GET AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE
01:50:48:00	01:50:51:00	MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
01:50:51:00	01:50:54:00	THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING
01:50:54:00	01:50:55:00	OF DECEMBER 10TH 2025 TALKING
01:50:55:00	01:50:58:00	NUMBERS 0109 NOTICE RECEIVED
01:50:58:00	01:50:59:00	FROM NICHOLAS MARINELLO
01:50:59:00	01:51:01:00	ASSESSING COMMISSIONER OF THE
01:51:01:00	01:51:02:00	APPOINTMENT OF BENJAMIN
01:51:02:00	01:51:04:00	STRATTON AS AN ASSISTANT
01:51:04:00	01:51:06:00	ASSESSOR EFFECTIVE DECEMBER
01:51:06:00	01:51:07:00	6TH, 2025.
01:51:07:00	01:51:10:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0110 NOTICE WAS
01:51:10:00	01:51:11:00	RECEIVED FROM NICHOLAS
01:51:11:00	01:51:13:00	MARINELLO, ASSISTANT
01:51:13:00	01:51:14:00	COMMISSIONER OF THE APPOINTMENT
01:51:14:00	01:51:16:00	OF GEOFFREY MURATA AS AN
01:51:16:00	01:51:18:00	ASSISTANT ASSESSOR EFFECTIVE
01:51:18:00	01:51:20:00	DECEMBER 29TH, 2025 AND DOCKET
01:51:20:00	01:51:22:00	NUMBER 0111.
01:51:22:00	01:51:24:00	COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM
01:51:24:00	01:51:27:00	EVANDRO CARVALHO, EXECUTIVE
01:51:27:00	01:51:28:00	DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE
01:51:28:00	01:51:30:00	OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND
01:51:30:00	01:51:32:00	TRANSPARENCY REGARDING AN
01:51:32:00	01:51:34:00	UPDATE ON THE CASES REVIEWED
01:51:34:00	01:51:35:00	AND ADJUDICATED BY THE BOSTON
01:51:35:00	01:51:37:00	POLICE DEPARTMENT'S INTERNAL
01:51:37:00	01:51:38:00	AFFAIRS DIVISION.
01:51:38:00	01:51:42:00	THANK YOU, MR CLERK.
01:51:42:00	01:51:47:00	UM, BEFORE I GO ON, I JUST WANT
01:51:47:00	01:51:49:00	TO UH I DIDN'T HAVE THE LIST
01:51:49:00	01:51:50:00	OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO
01:51:50:00	01:51:51:00	WERE IN ATTENDANCE.
01:51:51:00	01:51:54:00	UH, I'M HONORED TO HAVE MAYOR
01:51:54:00	01:51:55:00	WRESTLING WITH US THIS
01:51:55:00	01:51:55:00	AFTERNOON.
01:51:55:00	01:51:59:00	COUNCILOR MONICA, COUNCILOR AND
01:51:59:00	01:52:02:00	REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE
01:52:02:00	01:52:03:00	HOLMES, THANK YOU FOR BEING
01:52:03:00	01:52:03:00	HERE.
01:52:03:00	01:52:10:00	AND COUNCILOR YANCEY.
01:52:10:00	01:52:13:00	THANK YOU.
01:52:13:00	01:52:19:00	>> WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS
01:52:19:00	01:52:19:00	AUDITION RESOLUTIONS.
01:52:19:00	01:52:22:00	OH, YES.
01:52:22:00	01:52:23:00	UM.
01:52:23:00	01:52:25:00	THANK YOU.
01:52:25:00	01:52:30:00	DOCKETS 01010320111 WILL BE
01:52:30:00	01:52:30:00	PLACED ON FILE.
01:52:30:00	01:52:33:00	WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS ORDERS
01:52:33:00	01:52:33:00	AND RESOLUTIONS.
01:52:33:00	01:52:37:00	UM HERE RULE 39.
01:52:37:00	01:52:39:00	THE LEAD SPONSOR MAY HAVE THE
01:52:39:00	01:52:41:00	FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES WHEN
01:52:41:00	01:52:42:00	THE NEW FILE DOCKET IS
01:52:42:00	01:52:42:00	INTRODUCED.
01:52:42:00	01:52:45:00	CO-SPONSORS MAY HAVE THE FLOOR
01:52:45:00	01:52:46:00	FOR TWO MINUTES.
01:52:46:00	01:52:48:00	UH, MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU
01:52:48:00	01:52:48:00	PLEASE.
01:52:48:00	01:52:51:00	WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET
01:52:51:00	01:52:51:00	0112.
01:52:51:00	01:52:54:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0112
01:52:54:00	01:52:55:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR THE
01:52:55:00	01:52:57:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
01:52:57:00	01:52:59:00	REGARDING PARKING ACCESS FOR
01:52:59:00	01:53:01:00	TRAVELING BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
01:53:01:00	01:53:01:00	EMPLOYEES.
01:53:01:00	01:53:03:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:03:00	01:53:05:00	>> COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE
01:53:05:00	01:53:05:00	THE FLOOR.
01:53:05:00	01:53:06:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:53:06:00	01:53:07:00	UM.
01:53:07:00	01:53:10:00	>> AS SOME OF US MAY KNOW, MANY
01:53:10:00	01:53:11:00	OF OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL
01:53:11:00	01:53:13:00	EMPLOYEES INCLUDING ESPECIALLY
01:53:13:00	01:53:15:00	OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
01:53:15:00	01:53:17:00	, RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS,
01:53:17:00	01:53:18:00	SPECIALISTS AND SUPPORT STAFF
01:53:18:00	01:53:20:00	TRAVEL TO MULTIPLE SCHOOL SITES
01:53:20:00	01:53:22:00	THROUGHOUT THE CITY EACH DAY AS
01:53:22:00	01:53:23:00	PART OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL
01:53:23:00	01:53:24:00	RESPONSIBILITIES.
01:53:24:00	01:53:26:00	THESE TRAVELING EMPLOYEES PLAY
01:53:26:00	01:53:28:00	A VITAL ROLE IN PROVIDING
01:53:28:00	01:53:30:00	EQUITABLE ACCESS TO EDUCATION,
01:53:30:00	01:53:32:00	ENSURING THAT STUDENTS ACROSS
01:53:32:00	01:53:33:00	NEIGHBORHOODS RECEIVE THE
01:53:33:00	01:53:35:00	SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION AND
01:53:35:00	01:53:35:00	SERVICES THEY NEED.
01:53:35:00	01:53:39:00	CURRENTLY, BP PROVIDES A
01:53:39:00	01:53:40:00	LIMITED NUMBER OF PARKING
01:53:40:00	01:53:42:00	PASSES TO EMPLOYEES WHO MUST
01:53:42:00	01:53:44:00	TRAVEL BETWEEN SCHOOL SITES AND
01:53:44:00	01:53:46:00	SOME EMPLOYEES AS WE KNOW HAVE
01:53:46:00	01:53:49:00	INCURRED UM SIGNIFICANT PARKING
01:53:49:00	01:53:51:00	FINES WHICH IS A PERSONAL COST
01:53:51:00	01:53:53:00	AND ALSO A LACK OF UM TIME
01:53:53:00	01:53:54:00	WASTED DURING THE DAY TRYING TO
01:53:54:00	01:53:57:00	GET AROUND AND SPENDING MANY
01:53:57:00	01:53:58:00	MOST OF THEIR TIME LOOKING FOR
01:53:58:00	01:54:01:00	A PARKING SPOT SUPPORTING OUR
01:54:01:00	01:54:02:00	TRAVELING EDUCATORS NOT ALL
01:54:02:00	01:54:04:00	OF OUR TEACHERS BUT THOSE WHO
01:54:04:00	01:54:05:00	HAVE TO TRAVEL BETWEEN SCHOOLS
01:54:05:00	01:54:08:00	TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO OUR
01:54:08:00	01:54:10:00	STUDENTS ON IEPS I BELIEVE
01:54:10:00	01:54:11:00	DESERVE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO
01:54:11:00	01:54:13:00	PARKING AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT
01:54:13:00	01:54:14:00	WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.
01:54:14:00	01:54:16:00	AND SO THIS WAS UM A HEARING
01:54:16:00	01:54:19:00	THAT I FILED LAST YEAR THAT WAS
01:54:19:00	01:54:20:00	NOT BROUGHT UP.
01:54:20:00	01:54:20:00	>> IN.
01:54:20:00	01:54:21:00	THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
01:54:21:00	01:54:22:00	SO THIS IS THE FIRST.
01:54:22:00	01:54:26:00	UM HEARING ORDER FILED FOR THIS
01:54:26:00	01:54:27:00	TERM AND I'M HOPING THAT YOU'LL
01:54:27:00	01:54:28:00	HELP MAKE SURE THAT THIS AND
01:54:28:00	01:54:29:00	ALL THE OTHER HEARING ORDERS
01:54:29:00	01:54:31:00	THAT WE FILE GET HEARD IN THE
01:54:31:00	01:54:31:00	PROPER COMMITTEE.
01:54:31:00	01:54:32:00	THANK YOU.
01:54:32:00	01:54:32:00	THANK YOU.
01:54:32:00	01:54:34:00	>> COUNCILOR MURPHY, IS ANYONE
01:54:34:00	01:54:35:00	ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
01:54:35:00	01:54:35:00	MATTER?
01:54:35:00	01:54:40:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
01:54:40:00	01:54:40:00	THEIR NAME?
01:54:40:00	01:54:45:00	UH, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
01:54:45:00	01:54:48:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN HUNTER HERE.
01:54:48:00	01:54:50:00	AND SO WEBER,
01:54:50:00	01:54:52:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTA CLATTERS THE
01:54:52:00	01:54:53:00	POWDER COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
01:54:53:00	01:54:56:00	AND PLEASE ADD MY NAME AND UH
01:54:56:00	01:54:58:00	SORRY COUNCIL WORRELL AND
01:54:58:00	01:54:58:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN.
01:54:58:00	01:55:03:00	THANK YOU.
01:55:03:00	01:55:05:00	DOCKET 0304 WILL BE REFERRED TO
01:55:05:00	01:55:06:00	THE COMMITTEE.
01:55:06:00	01:55:09:00	OH SORRY.
01:55:09:00	01:55:12:00	WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG 10112
01:55:12:00	01:55:13:00	WILL BE REFERRED TO THE
01:55:13:00	01:55:14:00	EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
01:55:14:00	01:55:17:00	000 THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
01:55:17:00	01:55:19:00	UNTIL SUCH TIMES AS WE HAVE
01:55:19:00	01:55:19:00	COMMITTEES.
01:55:19:00	01:55:19:00	THANK YOU.
01:55:19:00	01:55:24:00	OH OKAY.
01:55:24:00	01:55:26:00	OKAY.
01:55:26:00	01:55:27:00	PRESIDENT.
01:55:27:00	01:55:27:00	UM.
01:55:27:00	01:55:28:00	>> THANK YOU.
01:55:28:00	01:55:31:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES.
01:55:31:00	01:55:31:00	RECOGNIZES.
01:55:31:00	01:55:32:00	WHEN ARE WE GOING?
01:55:32:00	01:55:38:00	WITH THE NEXT DOCKET 0113.
01:55:38:00	01:55:40:00	UH, COUNCILOR.
01:55:40:00	01:55:42:00	UM, MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
01:55:42:00	01:55:44:00	READ UH, DOCKET 0113.
01:55:44:00	01:55:47:00	TALKING NUMBERS 0113
01:55:47:00	01:55:48:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY OFFERED THE
01:55:48:00	01:55:49:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
01:55:49:00	01:55:50:00	TO EXAMINE BOSTON PUBLIC
01:55:50:00	01:55:53:00	SCHOOLS CLOSURE AND MERGER
01:55:53:00	01:55:55:00	ACTIONS RELATED TO THE 2026,
01:55:55:00	01:55:59:00	2027 AND 2027 2028 SCHOOL YEAR
01:55:59:00	01:56:01:00	AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE LONG
01:56:01:00	01:56:03:00	TERM FACILITIES PLAN.
01:56:03:00	01:56:05:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:56:05:00	01:56:08:00	UH, COUNCILOR UH, MURPHY, YOU
01:56:08:00	01:56:09:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:56:09:00	01:56:10:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:56:10:00	01:56:12:00	I WOULD LIKE TO ADD
01:56:12:00	01:56:13:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN AS AN ORIGINAL
01:56:13:00	01:56:13:00	CO-SPONSOR.
01:56:13:00	01:56:16:00	UH, SEEING NO OBJECTIONS,
01:56:16:00	01:56:17:00	COUNCILOR FRIENDS ADDED.
01:56:17:00	01:56:18:00	AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO SUSPEND
01:56:18:00	01:56:19:00	THE RULES.
01:56:19:00	01:56:19:00	>> AND.
01:56:19:00	01:56:21:00	ADD COUNCIL MEMBER HERE AS A
01:56:21:00	01:56:22:00	THIRD SPONSOR.
01:56:22:00	01:56:23:00	UH.
01:56:23:00	01:56:25:00	>> COUNCILMEMBER UH, COMES FROM
01:56:25:00	01:56:25:00	HERE.
01:56:25:00	01:56:26:00	SO ADDED THANK YOU.
01:56:26:00	01:56:27:00	THANK YOU.
01:56:27:00	01:56:30:00	>> UM, ADVANCED A SERIES
01:56:30:00	01:56:31:00	OF SCHOOL CLOSURES MERGES IN
01:56:31:00	01:56:34:00	GRADE RECONFIGURATION PROPOSALS
01:56:34:00	01:56:37:00	BEGINNING IN JANUARY 2025 WITH
01:56:37:00	01:56:39:00	INFORMATION TIMELINES EXTENDING
01:56:39:00	01:56:42:00	THROUGH THE 26, 27 AND 2728.
01:56:42:00	01:56:42:00	SCHOOL YEAR.
01:56:42:00	01:56:45:00	THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE HAS
01:56:45:00	01:56:47:00	VOTED ON MULTIPLE CLOSURES AND
01:56:47:00	01:56:50:00	MERGER ACTIONS DURING 2025, AND
01:56:50:00	01:56:51:00	ADDITIONAL DECISIONS AFFECTING
01:56:51:00	01:56:53:00	SCHOOL COMMUNITIES CONTINUE TO
01:56:53:00	01:56:54:00	BE BROUGHT FORWARD AS PART
01:56:54:00	01:56:56:00	OF THIS PROCESS.
01:56:56:00	01:56:59:00	IN JANUARY OF 2025, I FILED A
01:56:59:00	01:57:01:00	HEARING ORDER ALONG WITH
01:57:01:00	01:57:02:00	COUNCILOR EARL SEEKING
01:57:02:00	01:57:04:00	OVERSIGHT AND TRANSPARENCY
01:57:04:00	01:57:05:00	REGARDING THE BOSTON PUBLIC
01:57:05:00	01:57:07:00	SCHOOLS CLOSURE PLANS AND ITS
01:57:07:00	01:57:09:00	LONG TERM FACILITIES PLANNING
01:57:09:00	01:57:11:00	IN GOOD FAITH AND WITH THE
01:57:11:00	01:57:12:00	EXPECTATION THAT THE
01:57:12:00	01:57:13:00	ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCHOOL.
01:57:13:00	01:57:15:00	DEPARTMENT WOULD PROVIDE CLEAR
01:57:15:00	01:57:17:00	, TIMELY AND TRANSPARENT
01:57:17:00	01:57:18:00	INFORMATION TO THE CITY
01:57:18:00	01:57:19:00	COUNCIL AND TO THE PUBLIC.
01:57:19:00	01:57:21:00	THAT HEARING THAT WAS FILED 12
01:57:21:00	01:57:23:00	MONTHS AGO DID NOT OCCUR DURING
01:57:23:00	01:57:24:00	THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL TERM
01:57:24:00	01:57:26:00	DESPITE CONTINUED CLOSURE AND
01:57:26:00	01:57:29:00	MERGER ANNOUNCEMENTS, GROWING
01:57:29:00	01:57:30:00	CONCERN FROM AFFECTED SCHOOL
01:57:30:00	01:57:32:00	COMMUNITIES AND REPEATED
01:57:32:00	01:57:34:00	DOCUMENTED EFFORTS BY MY OFFICE
01:57:34:00	01:57:35:00	TO HAVE THE MATTER SCHEDULED
01:57:35:00	01:57:36:00	BEFORE THE APPROPRIATE
01:57:36:00	01:57:37:00	COMMITTEE.
01:57:37:00	01:57:40:00	I REGULARLY RECEIVE CALLS,
01:57:40:00	01:57:41:00	EMAILS AND REQUESTS FOR
01:57:41:00	01:57:43:00	ADVOCACY FROM STUDENTS,
01:57:43:00	01:57:45:00	FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL
01:57:45:00	01:57:46:00	COMMUNITIES WHEN SCHOOL
01:57:46:00	01:57:47:00	CLOSURES AND MERGERS ARE
01:57:47:00	01:57:48:00	ANNOUNCED AND CITY COUNSELORS
01:57:48:00	01:57:50:00	MUST HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAR,
01:57:50:00	01:57:52:00	COMPLETE AND ACCURATE
01:57:52:00	01:57:53:00	INFORMATION IN ORDER TO
01:57:53:00	01:57:55:00	EFFECTIVELY RESPOND, ADVOCATE
01:57:55:00	01:57:57:00	AND SERVE AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN
01:57:57:00	01:57:58:00	THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND THE
01:57:58:00	01:57:59:00	PUBLIC.
01:57:59:00	01:58:02:00	I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FACES REAL
01:58:02:00	01:58:04:00	FISCAL AND OPERATIONAL
01:58:04:00	01:58:06:00	CHALLENGES INCLUDING DECLINING
01:58:06:00	01:58:07:00	ENROLLMENT.
01:58:07:00	01:58:08:00	THE CONCLUSION OF ONE TIME
01:58:08:00	01:58:11:00	FEDERAL FUNDING AND THE
01:58:11:00	01:58:13:00	RESPONSIBILITY TO MANAGE AGING
01:58:13:00	01:58:14:00	FACILITIES AND PUBLIC
01:58:14:00	01:58:14:00	RESOURCES.
01:58:14:00	01:58:16:00	THIS HEARING ORDER IS NOT
01:58:16:00	01:58:18:00	INTENDED TO CHALLENGE WHETHER
01:58:18:00	01:58:20:00	LONG TERM FACILITY PLANNING IS
01:58:20:00	01:58:21:00	NECESSARY, BUT RATHER TO
01:58:21:00	01:58:23:00	EXAMINE HOW DECISIONS REGARDING
01:58:23:00	01:58:24:00	SCHOOL CLOSURES AND MERGERS ARE
01:58:24:00	01:58:27:00	BEING MADE COMMUNICATED IN
01:58:27:00	01:58:29:00	JUSTIFY FAMILIES, EDUCATORS,
01:58:29:00	01:58:30:00	STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS
01:58:30:00	01:58:32:00	HAVE RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT
01:58:32:00	01:58:34:00	LIMITED TRANSPARENCY, UNCLEAR
01:58:34:00	01:58:35:00	CRITERIA AND INSUFFICIENT
01:58:35:00	01:58:38:00	PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PRIOR TO AND
01:58:38:00	01:58:39:00	FOLLOWING CLOSURE AND MERGER
01:58:39:00	01:58:40:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS.
01:58:40:00	01:58:42:00	DPS IS REQUIRED AS PART OF ITS
01:58:42:00	01:58:43:00	AGREEMENT WITH THE
01:58:43:00	01:58:45:00	MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT
01:58:45:00	01:58:46:00	OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
01:58:46:00	01:58:48:00	EDUCATION TO DEVELOP AND
01:58:48:00	01:58:50:00	IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE LONG
01:58:50:00	01:58:52:00	TERM FACILITY PLAN WHILE VPK IS
01:58:52:00	01:58:54:00	REFERENCED ENROLLMENT
01:58:54:00	01:58:54:00	PROJECTIONS, BUILDING
01:58:54:00	01:58:56:00	CONDITIONS AND UTILIZATION
01:58:56:00	01:58:57:00	METRICS, THE PUBLIC AND THE
01:58:57:00	01:58:59:00	CITY COUNCIL HAVE NOT YET BEEN
01:58:59:00	01:59:00:00	PROVIDED WITH THE COMPLETE
01:59:00:00	01:59:03:00	CLEAR AND ARTICULATED LONG TERM
01:59:03:00	01:59:04:00	FACILITIES PLAN SO.
01:59:04:00	01:59:05:00	TIME IS UP.
01:59:05:00	01:59:07:00	I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING
01:59:07:00	01:59:08:00	THIS HEARING AND THE
01:59:08:00	01:59:10:00	APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE UM AS
01:59:10:00	01:59:12:00	SOON AS POSSIBLE AND AS THE
01:59:12:00	01:59:14:00	PREVIOUS HEARING ORDER THAT I
01:59:14:00	01:59:14:00	FILED I WOULD HOPE.
01:59:14:00	01:59:16:00	AS THE NEW COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:59:16:00	01:59:17:00	YOU HELP MAKE SURE THAT THAT
01:59:17:00	01:59:19:00	GETS SCHEDULED IN THE
01:59:19:00	01:59:19:00	APPROPRIATE.
01:59:19:00	01:59:21:00	MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION
01:59:21:00	01:59:23:00	ARE HERE TO HELP ANSWER THOSE
01:59:23:00	01:59:23:00	QUESTIONS.
01:59:23:00	01:59:24:00	THANK YOU.
01:59:24:00	01:59:25:00	>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:59:25:00	01:59:27:00	UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE
01:59:27:00	01:59:27:00	THE FLOOR.
01:59:27:00	01:59:29:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:59:29:00	01:59:31:00	AND THANK YOU TO
01:59:31:00	01:59:32:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR TAKING THE
01:59:32:00	01:59:33:00	LEAD ON THIS.
01:59:33:00	01:59:36:00	AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
01:59:36:00	01:59:37:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR HER LONG
01:59:37:00	01:59:41:00	TIME ADVOCACY OF DPS, UM
01:59:41:00	01:59:43:00	STUDENTS AND FAMILIES ACROSS
01:59:43:00	01:59:44:00	ACROSS THE CITY.
01:59:44:00	01:59:46:00	I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
01:59:46:00	01:59:47:00	DISCUSSION AND IMPORTANT
01:59:47:00	01:59:49:00	HEARING I'VE RECEIVED LIKE
01:59:49:00	01:59:50:00	PROBABLY ALMOST ALL OF MY
01:59:50:00	01:59:51:00	COLLEAGUES RECEIVED A LOT
01:59:51:00	01:59:54:00	OF CALLS FROM PARENTS AND
01:59:54:00	01:59:56:00	TEACHERS ASKING WHAT THE CITY
01:59:56:00	01:59:58:00	COUNCIL IS DOING OR IS THERE AN
01:59:58:00	02:00:00:00	OPPORTUNITY TO UM, HEAR THE
02:00:00:00	02:00:02:00	VOICES OF THOSE IMPACTED
02:00:02:00	02:00:04:00	SCHOOLS GIVING THEM AN
02:00:04:00	02:00:05:00	OPPORTUNITY TO TELL ABOUT THEIR
02:00:05:00	02:00:06:00	SCHOOL AND WHY IT SHOULD STAY
02:00:06:00	02:00:08:00	OPEN OR IT SHOULDN'T STAY OPEN.
02:00:08:00	02:00:10:00	BUT I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY
02:00:10:00	02:00:11:00	HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY HERE AT
02:00:11:00	02:00:12:00	THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
02:00:12:00	02:00:14:00	THAT'S WHY THIS HEARING IS
02:00:14:00	02:00:17:00	CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AND MOST
02:00:17:00	02:00:19:00	OF OUR STUDENTS OR A HIGH
02:00:19:00	02:00:21:00	PERCENTAGE OF OUR STUDENTS ARE
02:00:21:00	02:00:22:00	STUDENTS OF COLOR.
02:00:22:00	02:00:24:00	I THINK THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE
02:00:24:00	02:00:26:00	AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD AND
02:00:26:00	02:00:27:00	TO BE RESPECTED HERE AT THE
02:00:27:00	02:00:28:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
02:00:28:00	02:00:30:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:00:30:00	02:00:31:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:00:31:00	02:00:33:00	UH, CONSUMER HERE YOU HAVE THE
02:00:33:00	02:00:33:00	FLOOR.
02:00:33:00	02:00:35:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:00:35:00	02:00:37:00	UM, AND THANK YOU TO MY
02:00:37:00	02:00:38:00	COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR FIERCE
02:00:38:00	02:00:39:00	ADVOCACY.
02:00:39:00	02:00:41:00	I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT
02:00:41:00	02:00:42:00	LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU CAN WORK
02:00:42:00	02:00:44:00	ACROSS DIFFERENT POLITICAL
02:00:44:00	02:00:44:00	IDEOLOGIES.
02:00:44:00	02:00:47:00	YOU KNOW, COUNCILOR MURPHY AND
02:00:47:00	02:00:48:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN TEND TO LEAN
02:00:48:00	02:00:49:00	MORE ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE
02:00:49:00	02:00:50:00	AND I'M ON THE FAR LEFT OF THE
02:00:50:00	02:00:51:00	PROGRESSIVE SIDE.
02:00:51:00	02:00:52:00	BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUES
02:00:52:00	02:00:54:00	THAT IMPACT THE RESIDENTS THAT
02:00:54:00	02:00:56:00	I SERVE, I KNOW HOW I CAN REACH
02:00:56:00	02:00:58:00	ACROSS THE AISLE AND WORK IN
02:00:58:00	02:01:00:00	COLLABORATION WITH THIS BODY TO
02:01:00:00	02:01:01:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADVOCATING
02:01:01:00	02:01:03:00	AND FIGHTING FOR OUR
02:01:03:00	02:01:05:00	CONSTITUENTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE
02:01:05:00	02:01:05:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
02:01:05:00	02:01:08:00	SO I'M REALLY, UM, HAPPY TO
02:01:08:00	02:01:09:00	JOIN YOU IN THIS HEARING ORDER.
02:01:09:00	02:01:11:00	AND AGAIN, I'M GOING TO MAKE
02:01:11:00	02:01:13:00	ANOTHER CALL OUT, UM, AND
02:01:13:00	02:01:14:00	REITERATE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
02:01:14:00	02:01:16:00	FOR THIS BODY IN THIS ITERATION
02:01:16:00	02:01:18:00	OF THIS BODY THAT WE ARE GOING
02:01:18:00	02:01:19:00	TO BE UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.
02:01:19:00	02:01:21:00	COUNCILOR, UM PRESIDENT UH,
02:01:21:00	02:01:24:00	BRIGHTON UM, THAT WE ARE ABLE
02:01:24:00	02:01:28:00	TO ACTUALLY HAVE REAL
02:01:28:00	02:01:31:00	CONVERSATIONS HERE ON THE CITY
02:01:31:00	02:01:32:00	COUNCIL HOSTING PUBLIC HEARINGS
02:01:32:00	02:01:34:00	, BRINGING IN THE
02:01:34:00	02:01:35:00	ADMINISTRATION AND DOING OUR
02:01:35:00	02:01:36:00	JOBS.
02:01:36:00	02:01:38:00	I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO
02:01:38:00	02:01:39:00	WHOEVER GETS ASSIGNED AS THE
02:01:39:00	02:01:42:00	COMMITTEE CHAIR OF EDUCATION TO
02:01:42:00	02:01:44:00	ACTUALLY STEP INTO THEIR POWER
02:01:44:00	02:01:46:00	AND LEAD IN WAYS THAT ARE GOING
02:01:46:00	02:01:48:00	TO GET US THE ANSWERS THAT WE
02:01:48:00	02:01:50:00	NEED SO THAT WE CAN START DOING
02:01:50:00	02:01:50:00	THE WORK.
02:01:50:00	02:01:53:00	UM, AND REALLY HOLDING
02:01:53:00	02:01:54:00	OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE
02:01:54:00	02:01:55:00	ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
02:01:55:00	02:01:56:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS A
02:01:56:00	02:01:57:00	BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADUATE,
02:01:57:00	02:01:59:00	A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENT,
02:01:59:00	02:02:02:00	A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL AGITATOR
02:02:02:00	02:02:05:00	AND ORGANIZER I THINK IT IS
02:02:05:00	02:02:07:00	IMPERATIVE WHOEVER IS THE NEXT
02:02:07:00	02:02:09:00	EDUCATION CHAIR TO RECOGNIZE
02:02:09:00	02:02:10:00	THE IMPORTANT PIVOTAL MOMENT WE
02:02:10:00	02:02:12:00	HAVE RIGHT NOW TO HOST HEARINGS
02:02:12:00	02:02:15:00	AND EXECUTE AND DO OUR JOBS.
02:02:15:00	02:02:16:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO MAKING
02:02:16:00	02:02:17:00	SURE THAT THIS HEARING IS ONE
02:02:17:00	02:02:19:00	OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE
02:02:19:00	02:02:21:00	HEAR UM, IN THIS TERM.
02:02:21:00	02:02:21:00	THANK YOU.
02:02:21:00	02:02:23:00	>> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER
02:02:23:00	02:02:23:00	HERE.
02:02:23:00	02:02:27:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE UH, LIKE TO
02:02:27:00	02:02:28:00	SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?
02:02:28:00	02:02:30:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:02:30:00	02:02:30:00	THEIR NAME?
02:02:30:00	02:02:33:00	UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPER
02:02:33:00	02:02:33:00	COUNCILOR.
02:02:33:00	02:02:35:00	UH COLETTA ZAPATA COUNCIL.
02:02:35:00	02:02:36:00	DURKAN COUNCILOR.
02:02:36:00	02:02:38:00	FITZGERALD, COUNCILOR.
02:02:38:00	02:02:40:00	LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.
02:02:40:00	02:02:43:00	PEPEN, COUNCILOR WEBER
02:02:43:00	02:02:44:00	COUNCIL OUR REL AND UH PLEASE
02:02:44:00	02:02:45:00	ADD MY NAME.
02:02:45:00	02:02:51:00	DOCKET 110113 WILL BE REFERRED
02:02:51:00	02:02:52:00	TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
02:02:52:00	02:02:53:00	THANK YOU.
02:02:53:00	02:02:56:00	UM, I UNDERSTAND, UH, THAT WE
02:02:56:00	02:02:57:00	HAVE SOME LATE FILE.
02:02:57:00	02:02:59:00	WE MOVE ON TO LATE FILES WE
02:02:59:00	02:03:02:00	HAVE FOR LATE FILE MATTERS FOR
02:03:02:00	02:03:02:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS.
02:03:02:00	02:03:05:00	UH, WE WILL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD
02:03:05:00	02:03:06:00	THESE MATTERS TO THE AGENDA.
02:03:06:00	02:03:08:00	ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING
02:03:08:00	02:03:11:00	THE LATE FILE MATTERS SAY I ALL
02:03:11:00	02:03:11:00	OPPOSED.
02:03:11:00	02:03:12:00	SAY NAY.
02:03:12:00	02:03:13:00	THANK YOU.
02:03:13:00	02:03:15:00	THE LATE MY LATE FILE MATTERS
02:03:15:00	02:03:16:00	WILL BEEN ADDED TO THE AGENDA.
02:03:16:00	02:03:18:00	MR CLERK, PLEASE READ THE LATE
02:03:18:00	02:03:19:00	SIGNED MATTERS INTO THE RECORD.
02:03:19:00	02:03:21:00	FIRSTLY FILE MAN OF PERSONNEL
02:03:21:00	02:03:23:00	ORDER COUNCIL CULPEPER FOR
02:03:23:00	02:03:25:00	OFFICE EMPLOYEES LATE FILE
02:03:25:00	02:03:27:00	NUMBER THE SECOND LATE FILE
02:03:27:00	02:03:29:00	PERSONNEL ORDER
02:03:29:00	02:03:31:00	COUNCIL OF CULPEPER FOR OFFICE
02:03:31:00	02:03:33:00	EMPLOYEES LATE FILE THIRD LATE
02:03:33:00	02:03:36:00	FILED PERSONNEL ORDER COUNSELOR
02:03:36:00	02:03:38:00	CULPEPER FOR OFFICE EMPLOYEES
02:03:38:00	02:03:42:00	AND THE FOURTH LATE FILE
02:03:42:00	02:03:43:00	PERSONNEL ORDER COUNSELOR
02:03:43:00	02:03:45:00	CULPEPER FOR COUNSELOR PIPPIN.
02:03:45:00	02:03:48:00	THANK YOU.
02:03:48:00	02:03:51:00	UH, THE CHAIR MOVES FOR PASSAGE
02:03:51:00	02:03:52:00	OF THE THIS LATE FILE MATTERS.
02:03:52:00	02:03:53:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
02:03:53:00	02:03:55:00	ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY.
02:03:55:00	02:03:57:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE BEEN
02:03:57:00	02:03:58:00	ADOPTED.
02:03:58:00	02:03:59:00	WE NOW MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT
02:03:59:00	02:03:59:00	AGENDA.
02:03:59:00	02:04:03:00	UM, I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
02:04:03:00	02:04:06:00	CLERK THAT THERE ARE ZERO NO
02:04:06:00	02:04:07:00	ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT
02:04:07:00	02:04:07:00	AGENDA.
02:04:07:00	02:04:09:00	THE QUESTION NOW COMES TO ON
02:04:09:00	02:04:11:00	APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS
02:04:11:00	02:04:12:00	CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT
02:04:12:00	02:04:12:00	AGENDA.
02:04:12:00	02:04:14:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
02:04:14:00	02:04:14:00	AYE.
02:04:14:00	02:04:16:00	THANK YOU.
02:04:16:00	02:04:17:00	THE CONSENT AGENDA AGENDA HAS
02:04:17:00	02:04:18:00	BEEN ADOPTED.
02:04:18:00	02:04:20:00	MEMORIALS.
02:04:20:00	02:04:22:00	WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON ONTO
02:04:22:00	02:04:22:00	MEMORIALS.
02:04:22:00	02:04:23:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO LIFT UP
02:04:23:00	02:04:27:00	THE UM UH, LIFT UP THE NAME
02:04:27:00	02:04:28:00	OF ANYONE?
02:04:28:00	02:04:38:00	WE HAVE.
02:04:38:00	02:04:39:00	ANY LIST?
02:04:39:00	02:04:44:00	>> DOES ANYONE WISH TO LIFT UP
02:04:44:00	02:04:44:00	THE NAME OF ANYONE?
02:04:44:00	02:04:49:00	WITH A FEW?
02:04:49:00	02:04:53:00	>> COUNCILOR UH, RESOLUTION.
02:04:53:00	02:04:54:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:04:54:00	02:04:56:00	AND BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I'D ALSO
02:04:56:00	02:04:57:00	LIKE TO RECOGNIZE, UH,
02:04:57:00	02:04:58:00	COUNCILOR UH, REPRESENTATIVE
02:04:58:00	02:04:59:00	WORRELL WHO'S HERE?
02:04:59:00	02:05:01:00	THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
02:05:01:00	02:05:02:00	UH.
02:05:02:00	02:05:05:00	>> COUNCILOR RESOLUTION, YOU
02:05:05:00	02:05:05:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:05:05:00	02:05:07:00	I BETTER GIVE YOU THE MIC.
02:05:07:00	02:05:07:00	UM.
02:05:07:00	02:05:08:00	>> THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BENTON.
02:05:08:00	02:05:10:00	I'LL DEFER FIRST TO THE.
02:05:10:00	02:05:10:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:05:10:00	02:05:11:00	OH, SORRY I DIDN'T SEE YOU.
02:05:11:00	02:05:12:00	UM.
02:05:12:00	02:05:14:00	>> COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE
02:05:14:00	02:05:14:00	THE FLOOR.
02:05:14:00	02:05:16:00	THANK THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:05:16:00	02:05:17:00	AND THANK YOU TO
02:05:17:00	02:05:17:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.
02:05:17:00	02:05:21:00	MADAM CHAIR, I'D LIKE TO
02:05:21:00	02:05:24:00	REMEMBER MY GOOD FRIEND FROM
02:05:24:00	02:05:26:00	SOUTH BOSTON, JUDGE MICHAEL
02:05:26:00	02:05:29:00	FLAHERTY, WHO'S THE FATHER
02:05:29:00	02:05:32:00	OF CITY COUNCILOR FORMER CITY
02:05:32:00	02:05:32:00	COUNCILOR MICHAEL FLAHERTY
02:05:32:00	02:05:33:00	JUNIOR.
02:05:33:00	02:05:35:00	I WAS ALSO CLOSE WITH JUDGE
02:05:35:00	02:05:35:00	FLAHERTY.
02:05:35:00	02:05:39:00	HE'S A US NAVY VETERAN WHO'S A
02:05:39:00	02:05:41:00	MEMBER OF THE SAME VETERANS
02:05:41:00	02:05:44:00	POST THAT WE WE WERE PART
02:05:44:00	02:05:47:00	OF THE THE FITZGERALD POST 561
02:05:47:00	02:05:48:00	IN SOUTH BOSTON.
02:05:48:00	02:05:50:00	BUT I KNOW JUDGE FLAHERTY
02:05:50:00	02:05:53:00	REALLY IS MICHAEL FLAHERTY WHO
02:05:53:00	02:05:54:00	WAS A WONDERFUL MAN.
02:05:54:00	02:05:57:00	I WAS CLOSE WITH HIS WIFE ALSO
02:05:57:00	02:05:59:00	PEGGY FLAHERTY UM AND THEIR
02:05:59:00	02:06:01:00	SONS OBVIOUSLY MICHAEL AND JOHN
02:06:01:00	02:06:02:00	AND THEIR DAUGHTER.
02:06:02:00	02:06:04:00	UH.
02:06:04:00	02:06:05:00	>> WHO'S WHO'S A JUDGE HAVE YOU
02:06:05:00	02:06:08:00	FLAHERTY UM, BUT I WANTED TO
02:06:08:00	02:06:10:00	HIGHLIGHT HIM AS A NEIGHBOR IN
02:06:10:00	02:06:12:00	SOUTH BOSTON THAT WAS ALWAYS
02:06:12:00	02:06:14:00	THERE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MY
02:06:14:00	02:06:16:00	COMMUNITY ALWAYS GIVING BACK
02:06:16:00	02:06:17:00	WHETHER IT WAS FOR THE SOUTH
02:06:17:00	02:06:19:00	BOSTON CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OR
02:06:19:00	02:06:21:00	TO THE SOUTH BOSTON YOUTH
02:06:21:00	02:06:23:00	HOCKEY PROGRAM OR OTHER SPORTS
02:06:23:00	02:06:23:00	PROGRAMS.
02:06:23:00	02:06:25:00	YOU COULD SEE MICHAEL FLAHERTY
02:06:25:00	02:06:27:00	DOWN AT THE HOCKEY RINK
02:06:27:00	02:06:30:00	COACHING KIDS, MENTORING KIDS
02:06:30:00	02:06:33:00	ALSO GETTING KIDS YOUNG ADULTS
02:06:33:00	02:06:36:00	INTO DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS
02:06:36:00	02:06:38:00	AND EVEN WHEN HE WAS A JUDGE
02:06:38:00	02:06:40:00	HAD TWO PHONE CALLS AT 12:00
02:06:40:00	02:06:41:00	1:00 IN THE MORNING HELPING
02:06:41:00	02:06:43:00	PEOPLE GOING INTO DETOX.
02:06:43:00	02:06:45:00	SO THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT
02:06:45:00	02:06:47:00	MICHAEL FLAHERTY AND I OUR
02:06:47:00	02:06:48:00	PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM.
02:06:48:00	02:06:49:00	WE HE WAS BURIED LAST WEEK BUT
02:06:49:00	02:06:52:00	I KNOW HE HAD A LOT OF FRIENDS
02:06:52:00	02:06:54:00	AND SUPPORT THERE AND I JUST
02:06:54:00	02:06:56:00	WANT TO THANK MY FELLOW CITY
02:06:56:00	02:06:59:00	COUNCILORS FOR REMEMBERING
02:06:59:00	02:06:59:00	MICHAEL FLAHERTY.
02:06:59:00	02:07:01:00	UH, JUDGE MICHAEL FLAHERTY.
02:07:01:00	02:07:02:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:07:02:00	02:07:04:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:07:04:00	02:07:08:00	UH, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU.
02:07:08:00	02:07:08:00	>> HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:07:08:00	02:07:09:00	THANK YOU.
02:07:09:00	02:07:09:00	I WANTED TO.
02:07:09:00	02:07:10:00	DEFER BECAUSE I.
02:07:10:00	02:07:11:00	JUST WANTED TO ALSO JUST
02:07:11:00	02:07:13:00	REMEMBER, UH, JUDGE FLAHERTY.
02:07:13:00	02:07:16:00	UH, I DIDN'T KNOW HIM, BUT THE
02:07:16:00	02:07:17:00	FATHER OF, UH, A FORMER
02:07:17:00	02:07:17:00	COLLEAGUE OF OURS.
02:07:17:00	02:07:19:00	AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO.
02:07:19:00	02:07:19:00	UM.
02:07:19:00	02:07:21:00	>> MAKE SURE THAT WE REMEMBER
02:07:21:00	02:07:21:00	HIM.
02:07:21:00	02:07:23:00	AND I ALSO WANTED TO UPLIFT
02:07:23:00	02:07:25:00	JOSEPH EUBANKS, UH, JUNIOR WHO
02:07:25:00	02:07:26:00	PASSED AWAY.
02:07:26:00	02:07:27:00	UM.
02:07:27:00	02:07:30:00	>> UH, BIG ADVOCATE IN THE CITY
02:07:30:00	02:07:31:00	OF BOSTON IN ROXBURY IN AND
02:07:31:00	02:07:32:00	AROUND OUR CITY.
02:07:32:00	02:07:33:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
02:07:33:00	02:07:35:00	THAT WE UPLIFT AND REMEMBER, UH
02:07:35:00	02:07:36:00	, JOSEPH EUBANKS THANK YOU.
02:07:36:00	02:07:38:00	COULD YOU JOSEPH EBANKS.
02:07:38:00	02:07:42:00	JOSEPH EUBANKS EUBANKS.
02:07:42:00	02:07:45:00	E YOU THANK YOU.
02:07:45:00	02:07:47:00	UH, COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE
02:07:47:00	02:07:47:00	THE FLOOR.
02:07:47:00	02:07:49:00	THANK YOU.
02:07:49:00	02:07:51:00	UM, I WANT TO UPLIFT ALSO.
02:07:51:00	02:07:53:00	UM, BUT I WON'T REFER TO THEM
02:07:53:00	02:07:55:00	AS JUDGE FLAHERTY.
02:07:55:00	02:07:57:00	I'LL REFER TO THEM AS BIG MIKE
02:07:57:00	02:07:58:00	BECAUSE I FIRST MET HIM WHEN I
02:07:58:00	02:07:59:00	HAD HIS GRANDCHILDREN IN CLASS
02:07:59:00	02:08:01:00	AND ELLA AND JACK, MICHAEL'S
02:08:01:00	02:08:03:00	KIDS WERE VERY PROUD TO INVITE
02:08:03:00	02:08:05:00	THEIR GRANDFATHER IN FOR CAREER
02:08:05:00	02:08:05:00	DAY.
02:08:05:00	02:08:06:00	AND IT WAS ONE OF THE
02:08:06:00	02:08:07:00	HIGHLIGHTS THAT YEARS YOU KNOW,
02:08:07:00	02:08:09:00	20 YEARS LATER WE STILL TALK
02:08:09:00	02:08:11:00	ABOUT THAT DAY BIG MIKE CAME
02:08:11:00	02:08:11:00	INTO THE CLASSROOM.
02:08:11:00	02:08:13:00	SO I JUST WANT TO KEEP PEGGY,
02:08:13:00	02:08:15:00	JOHN, MICHAEL AND ALL THEIR
02:08:15:00	02:08:15:00	FAMILIES AND THEIR
02:08:15:00	02:08:16:00	GRANDCHILDREN IN.
02:08:16:00	02:08:17:00	OUR PRAYERS TODAY.
02:08:17:00	02:08:17:00	THANK YOU.
02:08:17:00	02:08:19:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR,
02:08:19:00	02:08:21:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY UM
02:08:21:00	02:08:22:00	COUNCILOR UM CULPEPER.
02:08:22:00	02:08:24:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:08:24:00	02:08:27:00	I WANT TO LIFT UP JUDGE LESLIE
02:08:27:00	02:08:29:00	HARRIS, ONE WHO SERVED ON THE
02:08:29:00	02:08:31:00	BENCH FOR MANY YEARS, ONE WHO
02:08:31:00	02:08:33:00	SERVED IN ROXBURGH FOR MANY
02:08:33:00	02:08:37:00	YEARS AND WE MAKE SURE WE WANT
02:08:37:00	02:08:38:00	TO MAKE SURE THAT HE'S LIFTED
02:08:38:00	02:08:41:00	UP AND REMEMBERED FOR ALL THAT
02:08:41:00	02:08:43:00	HE DID IN THE ROXBURY COMMUNITY
02:08:43:00	02:08:44:00	AND AROUND THE CITY OF BOSTON.
02:08:44:00	02:08:47:00	I ALSO WANT TO SOCIAL MYSELF
02:08:47:00	02:08:49:00	WITH COUNCILMAN LOUIJEUNE AND
02:08:49:00	02:08:52:00	REMEMBERING UH, JOSEPH EUBANKS
02:08:52:00	02:08:54:00	ONE WHO WAS A MEMBER OF MY
02:08:54:00	02:08:55:00	CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS.
02:08:55:00	02:08:57:00	MOTHER WAS ALSO A.
02:08:57:00	02:08:58:00	MEMBER OF.
02:08:58:00	02:08:58:00	>> THE CHURCH MANY.
02:08:58:00	02:08:59:00	MANY YEARS.
02:08:59:00	02:09:01:00	WOULD YOU MIND REPEATING THIS
02:09:01:00	02:09:02:00	TO NAME.
02:09:02:00	02:09:03:00	JOSEPH EUBANKS.
02:09:03:00	02:09:04:00	EUBANKS YES.
02:09:04:00	02:09:07:00	AND JUDGE LESLIE HARRIS.
02:09:07:00	02:09:11:00	GERARD JUDGE LESLIE HARRIS.
02:09:11:00	02:09:14:00	COULD YOU SPELL THAT LAST NAME.
02:09:14:00	02:09:16:00	H A R R I S?
02:09:16:00	02:09:21:00	JOSEPH EUBANKS OKAY.
02:09:21:00	02:09:25:00	UM, COUNCILOR UM,
02:09:25:00	02:09:26:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, YOU HAVE THE
02:09:26:00	02:09:26:00	FLOOR.
02:09:26:00	02:09:27:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:09:27:00	02:09:28:00	UM, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
02:09:28:00	02:09:31:00	UM, IT'S GREAT TO SAY THAT, UM,
02:09:31:00	02:09:34:00	SO WE HAD A HIT AND RUN
02:09:34:00	02:09:35:00	TRAGICALLY IN THE BACK BAY OVER
02:09:35:00	02:09:36:00	THE WEEKEND.
02:09:36:00	02:09:37:00	UH, JOHN AXELROD WAS HIT.
02:09:37:00	02:09:40:00	IT WAS UM IT'S STILL UNDER
02:09:40:00	02:09:41:00	INVESTIGATION BUT ESSENTIALLY,
02:09:41:00	02:09:43:00	UM, SOMEONE WAS KILLED IN MY
02:09:43:00	02:09:44:00	DISTRICT OVER THE WEEKEND AND
02:09:44:00	02:09:46:00	HE WAS, UH, WELL KNOWN ART
02:09:46:00	02:09:49:00	COLLECTOR AND UM, HIS DOG ALSO
02:09:49:00	02:09:51:00	PASSED AWAY UH, IN THAT MOMENT
02:09:51:00	02:09:51:00	OF COLLISION.
02:09:51:00	02:09:54:00	UM, TURNS OUT IT WAS, UM,
02:09:54:00	02:09:57:00	INTENTIONAL AND, UM, I JUST
02:09:57:00	02:09:58:00	WANT TO UPLIFT HIM AND WANT TO
02:09:58:00	02:10:01:00	MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW,
02:10:01:00	02:10:03:00	HIS WORK, UH, OR HIS, UM,
02:10:03:00	02:10:04:00	COLLECTION IS AT THE MFA.
02:10:04:00	02:10:07:00	UM, HE WAS A HUGE COLLECTOR
02:10:07:00	02:10:09:00	OF BLACK ARTISTS AND HE REALLY
02:10:09:00	02:10:11:00	WAS AN ART COLLECTOR WHO
02:10:11:00	02:10:13:00	VALUED, UM, PEOPLE WHO WERE
02:10:13:00	02:10:15:00	LESSER KNOWN BUT HAVE BECOME
02:10:15:00	02:10:17:00	BIG, UM, BIG DEALS IN OUR
02:10:17:00	02:10:17:00	COMMUNITY.
02:10:17:00	02:10:19:00	AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK HIM
02:10:19:00	02:10:20:00	FOR HIS PHILANTHROPY AND MOURN
02:10:20:00	02:10:21:00	WITH HIS FAMILY.
02:10:21:00	02:10:24:00	UM, IT'S INCREDIBLY TRAGIC TO
02:10:24:00	02:10:25:00	HAVE THAT HAPPEN ON THE COMMENT
02:10:25:00	02:10:27:00	OF MY ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE
02:10:27:00	02:10:29:00	THAT WE UPLIFT HIM JOHN
02:10:29:00	02:10:29:00	AXELROD.
02:10:29:00	02:10:30:00	JOHN AXELROD.
02:10:30:00	02:10:36:00	ANYONE ELSE?
02:10:36:00	02:10:41:00	>> THE CHAIR MOVES THAT THE
02:10:41:00	02:10:43:00	COUNCIL ADJOURNS TODAY AS IT
02:10:43:00	02:10:45:00	DOES IN MEMORY OF THE
02:10:45:00	02:10:46:00	AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUAL
02:10:46:00	02:10:50:00	DOCTOR AND JUDGE MICHAEL JOSEPH
02:10:50:00	02:10:53:00	EUBANKS, LESLIE HARRIS AND JOHN
02:10:53:00	02:10:54:00	AXELROD.
02:10:54:00	02:10:57:00	THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES,
02:10:57:00	02:10:58:00	CENTRAL STAFF, THE CLERK AND
02:10:58:00	02:11:01:00	THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND THE
02:11:01:00	02:11:01:00	COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER.
02:11:01:00	02:11:04:00	ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT
02:11:04:00	02:11:04:00	PLEASE SAY AYE.
02:11:04:00	02:11:05:00	UH.
02:11:05:00	02:11:06:00	>> THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED
02:11:06:00	02:11:08:00	UNTIL THE BODY IS CALLED TO
02:11:08:00	02:11:08:00	MEET AGAIN.
02:11:08:00	02:11:11:00	THANK YOU.
02:11:11:00	02:11:12:00	>> THANK YOU EVERYONE.
02:11:12:00	02:11:13:00	OKAY?
02:11:13:00	02:11:14:00	OKAY.