OH NOW EVERYONE OH MY NAME IS CITY COUNCILOR ED FLYNN. I'M THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE BY VISITING BOSTON DOT GOV SLASH CITY COUNCIL DASH TV. I'D LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES ELECTRONIC DEVICES. THANK YOU. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK EVERYONE TO BE RESPECTFUL AND DO NOT DISRUPT THE MEETING WHILE YOU ARE HERE IF YOU ARE DISRUPTIVE YOU'LL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND IF YOU FAIL TO COMPLY YOU'LL BE ESCORTED OUT. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT ACCORDING TO CITY COUNCIL RULES THERE ARE NO SIGNS ALLOWED IN THE CHAMBER. MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROAD TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM AT LAMBDAS ? YEAH. COUNCILOR WISHIN COUNCILOR MARIA COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR AROUND THERE IS A QUORUM. THANK YOU MADAM. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE COURT THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT . THIS WEEK'S CLERGY WAS INVITED BY CITY COUNCILOR COLLETTA AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO ASK CITY COUNCIL COLLETTA TO PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM AND INTRODUCE OUR CLERGY FOR TODAY COUNCILOR CARTER. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. I AM THRILLED TO WELCOME MY DEAR FRIEND FATHER MICHAEL DE LA PENA OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH OF PORT MAURICE PARISH IN BOSTON'S HISTORIC NORTH END. FATHER MICHAEL WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HE'S VERY PROUD TO HAVE GROWN UP IN A CLOSE AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE. HE WAS EXTREMELY INVOLVED WITH CIVIC AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE HE TOOK HIS VOWS AS A FRANCISCAN FRIAR. THE FRANCISCANS ARE A RELIGIOUS ORDER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT DEVOTE THEIR LIVES IN SERVICE TO OTHERS. TODAY THEIR MISSION SEEKS TO BRING ABOUT JUSTICE AND PEACE TO END VIOLENCE AND WAR, POVERTY AND OPPRESSION AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR PLANET. FATHER MICHAEL IS TRULY EMBLEMATIC OF THIS MISSION. HE SPENT YEARS TEACHING AND DIRECTING RETREATS BEFORE HEADING TO GUATEMALA AS A. , GLESS, THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR I'M HERE THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY, ACCESSIBILITY COUNCILOR HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESSIBILITY HELD A VIRTUAL HEARING YESTERDAY ON DOCKET ZERO TWO FIVE THREE ORDER FOR A HEARING TO AUDIT THE CITIES OF BOSTON'S PROCUREMENT PROCESSES, PROCEDURES AND PROGRESS. I BELIEVE IT WAS MONDAY. I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH MY DAYS. THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY MYSELF AND COUNCILOR ANDERSON AND WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON MARCH TWENTY SEVENTH TWENTY TWENTY THREE WE WERE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILOR PRESIDENT FLYNN OF DISTRICT TO COUNCILOR BREDON OF DISTRICT NINE COUNCILOR OF DISTRICT SIX. COUNCIL RURAL DISTRICT FOUR AND COUNCILOR ANDERSON OF DISTRICT SEVEN. WE ALSO RECEIVED A LETTER FROM COUNCILOR ILLUSION AT LARGE TESTIMONY WE HEARD FROM MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS INCLUDING LEWIS ROMANOS WITH AMPLIFY THAT INDEX ALLAN MILLER WHO IS THE MANAGER OF HOME IMPROVEMENT AND CLEANING INC DARREN JOHNSON WHO WAS WITH THE BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS. ROBERT GREENHILL, THE OWNER OF LAS PALMAS AND RAFIL THEN GUSMcO WHO IS WITH RAIL SERVICES INC TESTIMONY WAS TAKEN BY THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING WHO'S THE CHIEF OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND INCLUSION ANDRE LEMARQUE, DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIER AND WORKFORCE DIVERSITY MICHAEL MILLER, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PROCUREMENT. JENNIFER DOFOR WHO WAS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PROCUREMENT. WHAT THE VENDORS SAID DURING THE HEARING IS THAT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT THE VARIOUS OBSTACLES MANY OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND MICRO BUSINESSES FACE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ACCESS CITY CONTRACTS. THE VENDORS SHARE THE CHALLENGES OF ACCESSING CAPITAL AND HOW THAT WAS COMPOUNDING EFFECT WITH THE CITY'S PAYMENT SCHEDULE WE LEARNED THAT THE CITY TAKES 60 DAYS ON AVERAGE TO PAY VENDORS AFTER A GOOD OR SERVICE HAS BEEN RENDERED WHICH CAN TAKE A TOLL ON SMALL BUSINESSES AND MICRO BUSINESSES. ONE THING THAT CAME FROM OUR COMMUNITY PANEL IS AROUND FEEDBACK IF A BUSINESS IS NOT GIVEN A CONTRACT THEY HAVE ASKED THE CITY TO PROVIDE WHAT WHAT THEY COULD DO DIFFERENTLY AND WHATEVER FEEDBACK SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THOSE CHANGES AND BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN THE FUTURE. WE LEARNED THAT MANY BUSINESSES ARE NOT AWARE CONTRACT OPPORTUNITIES AND THE NEED FOR OUTREACH. MANY OF OUR COMMUNITY PANEL ALSO SHARED HOW OF HOW LEGALITIES OFTENTIMES AND THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING LEGAL TERMS HAS BEEN A BARRIER FOR MANY AND IT INTIMIDATES MANY OF THEM WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO GET A BID ON A CONTRACT. LACK OF UNIFORMITY AND PAPERWORK ALSO MAKES THAT MUCH HARDER TO NAVIGATE. I WAS REALLY ENTHUSIAST'S WITH THE ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE DURING THEIR PARTICIPATION THE ADMINISTRATION WAS ENTHUSIASTIC AND REALLY LEANING INTO THE CONVERSATION AND VERIFIED THAT MANY OF THE STEPS THAT THEY WERE ALREADY TAKING REALLY ADDRESSES A LOT OF THE ISSUES THAT THE COMMUNITY PANEL BROUGHT UP. WE WERE GLAD TO HEAR THAT THE CITY IS ATTEMPTING TO STANDARDIZE AND SIMPLIFY OUR FEES AND WE APPLAUD AND APPRECIATE THE MANY EFFORTS OF THE SUPPLIER AND WORKFORCE DIVERSITY DEPARTMENT FOR FILING IN THE TECHNOLOGY FOR FILLING IN THE TECHNOLOGY LACK'S AND PARTICULARLY AROUND CONNECTING BUSINESSES TO CONTRACT OPPORTUNITIES THEY SHARED HOW THEY HAVE REPURPOSED THEIR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO SHARE CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES IN ADDITION TO PUBLISHING A BUYING PLAN OFFERING OPPORTUNITY FAIRS, THEY SHARED HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE FIVE CONTRACTS UNDER THE SHELTER MARKET PROGRAM AND THE GRANTS THAT HAVE GIVEN UNDER THE THIRD ROUND OF OPPORTUNITY FUND. THESE ARE SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE STILL NEED A LITTLE BIT OF WORK ON AND WE WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROGRESS THAT THE CITY HAS MADE IN THE PROCUREMENT SPACE WHILE ALSO ACCEPTING THAT THERE STILL A LOT OF SPACE FOR GROWTH. THE CITY OF BOSTON IS STILL HOVERING OVER SIX POINT FOUR TO SIX POINT FIVE PERCENT OF OF MWP UTILIZATION. WE ASKED IF THERE HAS EVER BEEN AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERCENTAGE OF BUSINESSES IN THE CERTIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY IN COMPARISON TO THOSE THAT EXIST IN THE CITY IN ORDER TO INFORM OUTREACH EFFORTS AND EXPAND THE LIST OF AND WPE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION SAID THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO. THEY ALSO SAID THAT THEY ARE SEEKING WAYS TO WORK WITH IMMIGRANT BUSINESSES AND ADMITTED THAT THEY NEED TO WORK ON CREATING MORE CULTURALLY SENSITIVE ADVERTISEMENTS, OUTREACH EFFORTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT AS WELL AS EXPAND LANGUAGE ACCESS. AND SO I'M RECOMMENDING THAT WE KEEP THIS HEARING IN COMMITTEE AND I WANTED TO JUST AGAIN GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT TO CHIEF ILGWU AND HIS TEAM. WE RECEIVED AN EMAIL THIS MORNING FROM SOMEONE FROM HIS DEPARTMENT ASKING FOR FOR US TO CONNECT THEM TO SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT TESTIFY REALLY EAGER TO ENGAGE IN THIS WORK. SO I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK THE ADMINISTRATION FOR LEANING IN AND IDENTIFYING THAT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER WE CAN ALL GET THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN . HERE THIS STOCK AT ZERO TWO FIVE THREE WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. MADAM, CAN YOU ENSURE THE RECORD IS REFLECTED THAT COUNCILOR FERNANDES IS PRESENT SHOW MADAM PLEASE READ DAWKINS'S THREE FOUR ZERO ZERO THREE FOUR ZERO BORDERFREE HEARING TO DISCUSS THE RISE IN PUBLICAN'S ENERGY COSTS. THIS STOCK AT ZERO THREE FOUR ZERO WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. MADAM PLEASE READ DOCKET ZERO THREE TWO TWO ZERO THREE TWO TWO OR IF I HEAR ONE REGARDING A CITY BUDGET THANK YOU. BUT SHE RECOGNIZED COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. YESTERDAY WE HELD A HEARING ON DOCKET ZERO THREE TWO TWO OR FOUR HEARING TO DISCUSS HOW THE CITY BUDGET IS ADDRESSING EQUITY. WE WERE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILOR OR VICE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON A COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS BRYAN WARRELL COUNCILOR PRESIDENT FLYNN COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR LATA AND COUNCILOR BRITTON FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. WE WERE JOINED BY MARIANGELA SAWREY SABERA CHIEF OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION ALEX LAWRENCE, CHIEF OF PEOPLE OFFICER ASHLEY GRAFFIN BURGHER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER COLLECTOR TREASURER SANTIAGO GARCES CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER FROM THE COMMUNITY WE WERE JOINED BY DR MELLADO FLATIRON FOUNDER AND CEO OF THRIVE PROGRAM ELIZA PERA DIRECTOR OF MUNICIPAL FOR DEMOCRACY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY WHO ALSO AND ALSO THERE WERE A FEW PEOPLE WHO PROVIDED PUBLIC TESTIMONY. I FELT LIKE WE HAD A REALLY PRODUCTIVE ROBUST CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW THE CITY WAS ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING THEIR BUDGET WITH AN EQUITABLE LENS. WE DISCUSSED TOOLS AND A DIFFERENT SET OF DATA OR TOOLS TO THAT WHICH THE CITY USES TO COLLECT DATA. ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME UP WAS THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR GFA DEPARTMENTS AND CITY EMPLOYEES TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS INFORMATION AND ACTUALLY ASSESS WHAT IS THE INEQUITY BY NEIGHBORHOOD OR POPULATION BY DEMOGRAPHIC AS WELL. HOWEVER THAT THE DASHBOARD PROVIDED SOME OF THIS INFORMATION BUT THAT IT WASN'T AS COHESIVE OR AGGREGATED AS THEY WOULD LIKE IT TO BE THAT THEY WERE INTERSECTIONALITY IN TERMS OF DEMOGRAPHICS AND DETERMINING DIFFERENT SUBCATEGORIES OF RACE OR ETHNICITY SO THAT WE REALLY COULDN'T DETERMINE DATA AS WE NEEDED IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE INEQUITIES AGAIN BY NEIGHBORHOOD AND DEMOGRAPHIC AS OF YET. BUT THE TOOLS EXIST AND THAT ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME UP WAS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION OR CHIEF OF DEPARTMENTS OR DIRECT EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO ACTUALLY GET TRAINING IN ORDER TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE TOOLS OR THAT SOME OF THEM WERE USING THE TOOLS AND SOME OF THEM WERE NOT. THAT CONVERSATION WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE REALLY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE INEQUITY IN ORDER TO EVALUATE HOW ALL OF THIS WAS BEING MONITORED. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DATA OR THE INEQUITY, THEN HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT BUDGET? HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE WHICH NEIGHBORHOODS WERE GETTING WHAT THEY WERE GETTING OR HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY AND SO THE ADMINISTRATION AND OR THE PANELISTS ALL TALKED ABOUT HOW THE ADMINISTRATION GETS TOGETHER WITH OR THERE WAS A PROCESS BY WHICH THAT THE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENTS WOULD SUBMIT WRITTEN FORMS AND THAT IT TAKES A VERBAL CONVERSATION TO ABOUT EQUITABLE BUDGET PROCESS. HOWEVER, THE CONTENTION IS THAT WE ARE NOT HOW ARE THEY ABLE TO ACTUALLY DO THAT WITHOUT THE DATA? SO IF THERE'S DATA THEN HOW ARE WE ACTUALLY DOING THAT WITH AN EQUITABLE LENS OR HOW WE ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING SPECIFIC METRICS BASED ON THE NUMBERS BASED ON REALISTICALLY THE DIFFERENT INTEREST AREAS SOCIAL GERMANS OF HEALTH. SO I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A COUNCILOR OVERALL MY VICE CHAIR PROPOSED THAT HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON SOMETHING I AM NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS BUT LOOKING FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH COUNCIL ORALE TO TAKE THIS TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND HOPEFULLY IT MEANS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH ADMINISTRATION TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A CLEAR TRANSPARENT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE. AND I THINK THAT THE ADMINISTRATION DOES HAVE INTENTIONS TO MOVING TOWARD THAT WAY OF GETTING UNDERSTANDING THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR OR ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING IMPACT AND HOW WE'RE ALLOCATING FUNDS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. SOME OF THE ISSUES WAS ALSO THAT A LOT OF THE DEPARTMENTS ARE HIGHLY NOT THAT WE'RE NOT HIRING BLACK PEOPLE BUT WE WERE ACTUALLY DECREASING IN HIRING BLACK PEOPLE THAT IN TERMS OF LIKE LATINO AND ASIAN WAS INCREASING A LITTLE BIT THE CITY OF BOSTON BUT STILL THAT THE MAJORITY OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT AREN'T HIRED IN A CITY OF BOSTON MAKE VERY AH MORE ON THE LOWER END AND SO THAT THE HRR WAS DOING THE BEST THAT THEY COULD TO NOT ONLY RETAIN WITH TRAINING AND TECHNICAL TOOLS FROM THE EQUITY CABINET BUT ALSO THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO RECRUIT MORE BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE. SO WHEN WE LOOKED THE CHART THAT WAS PROVIDED IT SHOWED THAT THE NUMBERS WERE EITHER STAGNANT OR THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY DECREASING IN DIVERSITY OVERALL IN THE CITY OF BOSTON BUT THAT THEY THERE ARE A LOT OF TOOLS THAT A LOT OF INITIATIVES ARE PROGRAMS THAT ARE WORKING TOWARD INCREASING THOSE NUMBERS. BUT MY AGAIN, I THINK THE CONVERSATION ALSO HAS TO THE WORK HAS TO BE ABOUT ACTUALLY BEING INTENTIONAL IN CREATING THOSE PATHWAYS TO WORKFORCE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON BUT ALSO LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND SAYING YES, WE HAVE BLACK PEOPLE. I WORK FOR PARKS FOR EXAMPLE. WE HAVE BLACK PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR CUSTODIO OR I DON'T KNOW PUBLIC FACILITIES BUT WHAT ARE THEY GETTING PAID IN COMPARISON AND ACTUALLY AGGREGATING ALL OF THAT DATA AGAIN BY DEMOGRAPHICS IN REALLY DOING A FULL STUDY AND ASSESSMENT IN ORDER FOR US TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THE METRICS OR THE FORMULA WOULD LOOK LIKE TO MAKE IT EQUITABLE OR FAIR. SO I HOPE THAT YOU MY COLLEAGUES HERE AND EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON MY OUR AND EVERYONE ELSE WHITE, BLACK, BROWN ALIKE I THINK THAT PEOPLE AS AS WE STAND TODAY WE ALL WANT EVERYONE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY AND WE ALL WANT EQUITY BUT SYSTEMIC RACISM IS A MONSTER THAT HAS BEEN AT PLAY FOR CENTURIES AND NOW OR AT LEAST A COUPLE AND NOW WE HAVE IN ORDER FOR IT TO DISMANTLE IT WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT CRITICALLY AND STRATEGICALLY IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THESE METRICS OR THE SYSTEMS THAT MONITOR, EVALUATE, RECOMMEND ACTUAL PLAN OF ACTION THAT CAN WORK. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THIS WORK. I LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH COUNCIL RAO AND MY THE REST OF MY COLLEAGUES TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS WORK MORE INTENTIONALLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDES DOCKET ZERO THREE TWO WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. WE'RE ON TWO MOTIONS ORDERS RESOLUTIONS. THEN PLEASE READ DOCKET ZERO SIX SEVEN NINE ZERO SIX SEVEN NINE COUNTS OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR YOU HERE TO CREATE INDOOR PLAYGROUNDS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR . WE'RE ALL COUNCILOR . WE'RE ALL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU CHAIR. AND AS A NEW FATHER I HAVE A GROWING APPRECIATION FOR THE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR KIDS TO HAVE SPACE TO PLAY . MY SON IS ONLY TEN WEEKS OLD PLAY INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER, BURN OFF ENERGY FOR PARENTS, FIND CONNECTION AND SOCIALIZE WITH NEIGHBORS. BOSTON ESTABLISHED THE FIRST PUBLIC PARK IN AMERICA AND IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN BECAME THE SECOND MAJOR US CITY IN WHICH EVERY RESIDENT HAS ACCESS TO PUBLIC GREEN SPACE. BOSTON HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO LEAD AND PUBLIC RECREATIONAL SPACES IN ADDITION TO OUR WORLD CLASS PARKS AND OUTDOOR PLAYGROUNDS WE CAN OFFER OUR RESIDENTS YEAR ROUND ACCESS. INDOOR PLAYGROUNDS ARE AVAILABLE ALL YEAR PROVIDING WARMING AND COOLING CENTERS ALONGSIDE ENTERTAINMENT OPTIONS THEY CAN ASPIRE TO SUPPORT WITH CLIMBING CLIMBING GYMS IN ROCKWALL, THE WEIGHT ROOMS OF FITNESS CENTERS AND SPACES FOR CLASSES GATHERINGS THE BENEFITS GO BEYOND IMPROVED HEALTH REGULAR ACCESS TO PLAY FACILITIES HELP STUDENTS DO BETTER IN SCHOOL. IT HELPS THEM LEARN CRITICAL SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION SKILLS. IT EVEN HELPS TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND BUILD COMMUNITY WITH SCHOOL SITES SLATED FOR MERGER, ACQUIRE CENTERS IN NEED OF RENOVATION AND EXPANSION AND EMPTY STOREFRONT SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS. WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE NEW FACILITIES THAT DRIVE TRAFFIC AND NEIGHBORHOODS STILL RECOVERING FROM COVID PROVIDING OUR BOSTON BOSTONIANS ESPECIALLY OUR FAMILIES AND KIDS MORE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES WILL HELP BUILD COMMUNITIES. THESE CENTERS BECOME ANCHORS OF NEIGHBORHOODS BRINGING INCREASED FOOT TRAFFIC TO DOWNTOWN TO OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORHOOD TO NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL . WELL, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MADAM KIRK PLEASE. COUNCIL OF ARROYO COUNCIL ADVISORY COUNCIL BREADON COUNCIL COLLETTA COUNCIL OF FLORIDA COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL OUR COUNCIL AND COUNCIL MEJIA COUNCILOR MURPHY PLEASE AS THE CHAIR DOCKET ZERO SIX SEVEN NINE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT ,JUSTICE, RESILIENCY AND PARKS. WE'RE ON CHAIRPERSON AUTRES MADAM CLERK PLEASE READ DOCKET ZERO SIX EIGHT ZERO DOPEHEADS ZERO SIX EIGHT ZERO COUNCILOR FLYNN OR FOR THE FOLLOWING THE CHAIR SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND POLICIES OF DOCKET ZERO SIX EIGHT ZERO. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT THE DOCKET IS PASSED. MADAM CLERK PLEASE READ DOCKET ZERO SIX EIGHT ONE ZERO SIX EIGHT ONE COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFER THE FOLLOWING THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES A POSITIVE DOCKET ZERO SIX EIGHT ONE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE I OPPOSED SAY NAY THE AYES HAVE AT THE DOCKET THIS PASS OR UNTIL IT FAILS I'M INFORMED BY THE CORRECT UP THERE ARE ZERO ADDITIONAL EIGHT FILE MATTERS. IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE? YES. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL OF ROYAL COUNCIL AREA. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. I JUST WANT TO PULL SOMETHING FROM GREENSHIELDS. OK, LET ME SO NO ONE HAS ALLOWED FIRELIGHTERS WE'RE NOT AGREED SHEETS ANYONE WISHING TO DO SO AT THIS TIME PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF ROYAL COUNCILOR OF ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FOUR THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AS THE CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS I'D LIKE TO PULL DOCKET ZERO SIX ZERO SIX FROM THE GREEN SHEETS WHICH IS ON PAGE EIGHT AND IN TWO DOWN FROM THE TOP THERE AS CHAIR I'M SEEKING TO SUSPEND THE RULES FOR PASSAGE ON THIS MATTER. MADAM CORA, CAN WE PLEASE PULL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SEE IF THIS DOCKET IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCILOR ROYAL YES. LUJáN COUNCILOR YEAH. COUNCILOR MARIA COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. THIS STOCK AT ZERO SIX ZERO SIX IS NOW PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCILOR ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FOUR. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK AND THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. DOCKET NUMBER ZERO SIX ZERO SIX MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES MUNICIPAL OPT IN SPECIALIST ENERGY CODE WAS SPONSORED BY MAYOR MICHELLE WU AND REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON MARCH 22ND . TWENTY TWENTY THREE THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES ISSUED THE MUNICIPAL OPT IN SPECIALIZED STRETCH ENERGY CODE PURSUANT TO ITS AUTHORITY UNDER MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAWS CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE A SECTION SIX TO ADD RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL APPENDICES TO THE MASSACHUSETTS ENERGY CODE THAT IS ALREADY IN EFFECT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. IMPORTANTLY, THIS ORDINANCE ONLY APPLIES TO ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION AND MAJOR RENOVATIONS. THE SPECIALIZED STRETCH CODE FOCUSES ON MAXIMIZING ENERGY EFFICIENCY, REDUCING HEATING DEMAND AND PROMOTING EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION BY REQUIRING NEW CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDINGS UNDERGOING MAJOR RENOVATIONS TO BE AS ENERGY EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE. BUILDINGS THAT USE ONLY ELECTRICITY AS AN ENERGY SOURCE VERSUS FOSSIL FUELS CAN ELIMINATE THEIR EMISSIONS WHEN THE ELECTRICITY COMES FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES, RENEWABLE SOURCES. THE SPECIALIZED MUNICIPAL OPT IN CODE INCLUDES NET ZERO BUILDING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND IS DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE STATE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION LIMITS AND SUBLIMATES. THIS CODE HELPS MASSACHUSETTS MEET ITS GOAL OF 50 PERCENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTION FROM THE 1990 BASELINE LEVELS BY 2030 AND TO REDUCE EMISSIONS GRADUALLY TO NET ZERO BY 2050. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SEEK SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS MATTER TO ENSURE THAT WE NO LONGER DELAY THE CITY OPTING IN TO THIS ALREADY EXISTING LEGISLATION AT THE STATE LEVEL AND TO CEMENT BOSTON AS A LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE RESILIENCY MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL ROYALS' THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OUR COUNCIL OUR NEW OF THE FOUR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT BECAUSE THE CITY OF BOSTON IS DOING A LOT OF WORK IN TERMS OF MAKING OUR BUILDINGS GREEN AND THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT MOVING PIECES . WE'VE BEEN HAVING CONVERSATION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF JOINING THE TEN CITIES DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WHICH THE CITY OF BOSTON WAS NOT SELECTED TO DO. THERE IS A PATHWAY IN 2024 TO GO TOWARDS AN ELECTRIC BASED ON THE OUTCOME OF THE TEN CITIES DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. BUT ULTIMATELY WE'RE EITHER GOING TO END UP AT A PLACE WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE JUST GOING TO END UP SIMILARLY TO TODAY OPTING INTO SOMETHING THAT THE STATE HOUSE IS RECOMMENDING OR ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO WRITE OUR OWN ORDINANCE AS A CITY OF BOSTON, I WANT TO URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE TO PASS THIS TODAY. I THINK WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR BUILDINGS I'M GOING TO SAY THIS AGAIN 70 PERCENT OF OUR BUILDINGS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF OUR CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE WAY THAT WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT SLICES OF A PIE AND WE HAVE THE FOSSIL FUEL FREE THE ALL ELECTRIC ORDINANCE WHICH WAS WHICH WAS WE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE HOUSE TO BE CONSIDERED AND WE WERE NOT CONSIDERED FOR THAT. WE ALSO HAVE THE SPECIALIZED COAL AND NOW WE HAVE THIS OPT IN MUNICIPAL CODE IN ADDITION TO THE ZERO NET CARBON ZONING THAT ARE ALL KIND OF MOVING IN UNISON TOGETHER. SO WE'VE BEEN DOING AND MAYOR MAYOR WU'S OFFICE AND CHIEF WHITE HAMMOND AND HER STAFF HAVE BEEN DOING AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK TO ANALYZE ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT CODES AND SEE WHERE ALL OF THEM FIT IN. SO OPTING IN TO THIS MUNICIPAL CODE OR WHAT YOU'VE BEEN CALLING THE SUPERSTRUCT CODE WOULD REALLY HELP US COVER ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PIE. AND ONCE THE 10 CITIES DEMONSTRATION PROJECT GOES THROUGH, WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH IS LEFT TO COVER AND THEN WE WILL CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT THE ZERO CARBON ZONING CODE WILL MOVE FORWARD. AND SO ULTIMATELY I THINK THAT IT'S PUTTING US ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALLY REDUCING THE CARBON EMISSIONS THAT COME FROM OUR BUILDINGS. BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ABOUT WHAT IS IN CONSIDERATION AND THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE MOVING IN AS A CITY WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING OUR BUILDINGS GREEN. THANK YOU. COUNCIL OR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCIL FIRE TO YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. JUST THROUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL TO THE CHAIR AND BECAUSE WE'RE NOT HAVING A HEARING JUST WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S BEEN ANY DISCUSSION ON THE COMMITTEE OR WITH THE ADMINISTRATION WITH OUR BUILDING TRADES THE PIPEFITTERS, THE GAS FITTERS, THE PLUMBERS, THE ELECTRICIAN AS WELL AS OUR OTHER CONTRACTORS AND PARTNERS. HAS THERE BEEN ANY DIALOG BECAUSE THE FIRST I'M HEARING OF IT WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING. SO IF THE CHAIR HAS HAD ANY CONTACT WITH ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AND OR HAS BEEN DIALOG WITH THE ADMINISTRATION JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD AND IF WE'RE VOTING AFFIRMATIVELY TO SAY THAT WE'VE AT LEAST REACHED OUT TO OUR PARTNERS IN THE BUILDING TRADES AND OTHER CONTRACTORS AND SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU COUNCIL FIERI THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF ROYAL COUNCILOR ROYAL. WOULD YOU RESPOND TO COUNCILOR FLOWERY ABOUT AS WE DID ON BUILDING TRADES SO I CAN'T SPEAK FOR WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION DID FOR OUTREACH? I PERSONALLY HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THE BUILDING TRADES ON THIS SO JUST TO BE CLEAR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT COMMUNICATIONS EITHER THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHAIR OR THE ADMINISTRATION SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO THEM. I CAN ONLY SPEAK TO MYSELF. I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM BUT I HAVE ALSO NOT RECEIVED ANY ANY KIND OF COMMUNICATIONS FROM THAT THEY HAVE ANY OPPOSITION TO THIS PARTICULAR OFTEN COUNCILOR FIERY. I UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND YOUR YOUR CONCERN WE HAVEN'T HAD A HEARING ON THIS. I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES DO WE WANT TO SEEK SOME ASSISTANCE, SOME GUIDANCE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION ON WHAT TYPE OF COMMUNICATION WE HAVE HAD THE ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH THE BUILDING TRADES? CERTAINLY THEY'RE AN IMPORTANT PIECE, THE REPORT AND PARTNER. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT TYPE OF INTERACTION WE HAD WITH THEM AS WELL. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR VERY WELL THROUGH I THINK MY COLLEAGUE MAY HAVE A RESPONSE TO THAT ON THE OTHER SUGGESTION WHETHER IT MAKES SENSE TO MAYBE DO A BRIEF COMMITTEE ON THE BALL AND HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION COME IN AND JUST SORT OF EXPLAIN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD ASKED IF YOU HADN'T OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS MAYBE THEY HAVE. BUT JUST AGAIN, IF WE'RE TAKING THIS IMPORTANT STEP, REALIZING AND RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF IT IN LIEU OF A HEARING JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT AGAIN THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BUILDING TRADES INTO OR CONTRACTOR PARTNERS ARE AT LEAST YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEIR STAKEHOLDERS. AND WE HAVE SOME TALK ABOUT IF SOMETHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US IS NOT FOR US, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL PARTIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO AT LEAST BE HEARD. SO IF WE'RE TAKING THIS ACTION AND THEN WE LEARN AFTER THE FACT THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BUILDING TRADES, WE'RE NOT AWARE OF IT AND WE HAVE CONCERNS AND AGAIN THOSE ARE THE PIPEFITTERS GASPIN IS THE PLUMBERS, ELECTRICIANS, BIG TRADES FOR OUR CITY. WE ALL KNOW THEM VERY WELL AND THEY'RE GREAT PARTNERS AND THEY'RE SOME OF OUR LARGEST EMPLOYERS. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER STEPS WE'RE TAKING THEY HAVEN'T HAD THEY'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD AND THAT COULD COME IN THE FORM OF A COMMITTEE THE WHOLE BRIEFLY HERE OR A BRIEF RECESS AND HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION COME DOWN AND LET US KNOW WHO THEY'VE REACHED OUT TO AND AGAIN THROUGH THE CHAIR. MY COLLEAGUE MAY HAVE A RESPONSE TO THAT BUT THANK US PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. BEFORE CALL ON COUNCILOR , OUR COUNCILOR DO YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THAT DIRECTLY OR OK, I THINK THOSE ARE FAIR FAIR QUESTIONS TO TO BE ASKED AND I I THINK THE COUNCIL SHOULD GET THOSE GET THOSE QUESTIONS. WE'RE WE'RE CERTAINLY COUNCILOR FOR FLAHERTY. WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT A RUBBER STAMP HERE. I WANT TO KNOW SOME OF THOSE DETAILS AS WELL. BUT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR IRA COUNCILOR IRA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. PRESIDENT CLINTON. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLAHERTY FOR THAT QUESTION. I THINK THE SHORT ANSWER IS THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON CONVENED THE MAYOR WITH MYSELF AND A LOT OF LEADERS DID CONVENE THE BUILDING TRAINS THE PIPEFITTERS IN A MEETING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW WE WERE GOING TO TRANSITION OUR BUILDINGS INTO A GREEN SPACE. AND SO WE DID HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. OUR NEXT STEP AND THIS WAS SPECIFICALLY JUST TO BE CLEAR IT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE ALL ELECTRIC AND SO IT WAS IF WE WERE GOING TO BE A PART OF THE TEN CITIES DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WHICH WE ARE NOT. AND SO THAT PROCESS HAS SIGNIFICANT SLOWED DOWN BUT WE ARE IF WE DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WHICH I THINK WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE BUILDING TRADES THAT THEY HAVE CONCERNED CONCERNS ON THAT ONGOING ALL ELECTRIC THAT IS THE CONVERSATION WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW IF WE DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHICH ALL OF THE BUILDING TRADES HAVE BEEN INVITED TO JOIN TO BASICALLY HELP THE CITY OF BOSTON CREATE ITS ORDINANCE ABOUT WHAT THE ALL ELECTRIC TRANSITION IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL WAS THERE THE PIPEFITTERS EVERYBODY WAS ON THE SAME PAGE THAT WE WERE GOING TO CREATE THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ULTIMATELY HAVE THEM LET US KNOW WHAT WORKS SO WE CAN FIND OUT WHAT WORKS FOR ALL OF US IN THAT CONVERSATION . THE BUILDING TRADES THE PIPEFITTERS UNION. THEY LET US KNOW THAT THERE WAS STATE WORK WORK THAT THEY WANTED US TO SUPPORT THEM IN ON THEIR STATE LEGISLATOR WORK WHICH WE HAVE AGREED TO SUPPORT THEM AND HELP THEM MOVE THEIR AGENDA AT THE STATE HOUSE FOR THIS MUNICIPAL OPT-IN CODE SPECIFICALLY THIS IS A STATE CODE THE CITY OF BOSTON IS NOT WRITING ITS OWN ORDINANCE OR ITS OWN LAW. WE ARE OPTING IN TO WHAT THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS HAS OFFERED FOR US THIS MUNICIPAL OPT IN CODE WAS CREATED IN CONVERSATION WITH ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IMPACTED WHICH IT IS MY ASSUMPTION THAT IT ALSO INCLUDES LABOR FROM THE STATE HOUSE. AND SO WHEN COUNCILMAN ARROYO SAYS THAT WE SPECIFICALLY HAVE NOT CONVERSATION HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM IS BECAUSE IT WAS CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDERS BUT IT WAS CREATED AT THE STATE HOUSE AND THE CITY OF BOSTON IS OPTING INTO SOMETHING THAT THE STATE HOUSE HAS OFFERED THE MUNICIPALITIES ACROSS THE STATE. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL FIVE CITY COUNCIL FIRE YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL IN IF MOVING FORWARD OR THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL AND JUST MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT CRANE OPERATORS EXCAVATION COMPANIES, HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS THAT THEY BE INVITED OBVIOUSLY TO PARTICIPATE IN ADDITION TO OUR BUILDING TRADES THOSE THE MEN AND WOMEN THOSE ARE THE COMPANIES THAT ARE EITHER TAKING THE BUILDINGS DOWN OR EXCAVATING AND IT'S ALSO THOSE CRANES I MOST IF NOT ALL OF THEM ARE RUN BY DIESEL FUEL. I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THAT ARE ELECTRIC AND OR IF THEY ARE ELECTRIC IF THEY HAVE SORT OF THE HORSEPOWER, IF YOU WILL TO TO BE ABLE TO LIFT THE STAGING IN THE STEEL AND THE GRANITE. SO I THINK THAT THEY ALSO NEED TO BE INCORPORATED IN ANY DISCUSSION MOVING FORWARD. BUT THROUGH THE CHAIR THANKS TO THE TO MY COLLEAGUE FOR CLARIFICATION. THANK YOU COUNCIL FINALLY. THANK YOU COUNCILOR CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL YOU OF THE FLOOR THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I ALSO JUST TOOK THE MOMENT TO SPEAK WITH IDR REPRESENTATIVES HERE AND SO APPARENTLY LUBAN TARINI FROM THE CITY DID HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS AS WELL AS BRIAN DORETTI FROM THE GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL AND THEY IN SUPPORT OF THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WASN'T GOING TO SAY ANYTHING ON THIS BUT THIS SPECIALIZED STRETCH STRETCH CALLED APTLY NAMED STRETCH CALLED I JUST WANT TO READ ONE THING HERE REQUIRING MIXED FUEL BUILDING SETS EVERY PLACE WE LIVE, EVERY ONE OF US LIVES IN A MIXED FUEL BUILDING RIGHT NOW REQUIRE THOSE BUILDINGS TO ADD FOR FUTURE CONVERSION TO ELECT PETRIFICATION AND TO INSTALL SOLAR LIKE REQUIRED. IT'S WE'RE NOT HAVING A HEARING ON IT BUT WE DON'T WANT TO REQUIRE REQUIRE EVERY BUILDING IN THE CITY TO ADD FUTURE WIRING. IT'S AGAIN MORE BUREAUCRACY THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO WHICH NOT CONVERSATIONS THERE'S NO TALK ABOUT THE INCENTIVE TO DO TO TO GET TO ELECTRIFICATION AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS THE WAY NEW BUILDINGS THEY'RE ALL GOING TO BE ELECTRIC MOVING FORWARD. BUT FORCING THIS SORT OF STUFF I BELIEVE IS IS I DON'T WANT TO SAY BAD. IT'S I THINK IT'S SHORT SIGHTED . IT'S AGAIN TO TRY TO DELIVER ANOTHER VICTORY WITH A GREEN RIBBON HANGING ON IT. YEAH. I JUST KNOW ONE THERE'S NOT A BUILDER IF YOU TALK TO ANY BUILDERS IF YOU KNOW ANY BUILDERS IS NOT ONE OF THEM THAT'S GOING TO SAY I WANT TO BUILD A LESS EFFICIENT BUILDING AND WHAT ARE WE GIVING? WHAT DO WE GIVE? WHAT'S THE INCENTIVE FOR DOING ALL THIS YET THERE'S NEVER ANY INCENTIVE TO ALL FEELS PUNITIVE. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WILL BE VOTING NO BASED ON NO HEARING AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. I WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS DOESN'T IMPACT ANYONE'S HOME HERE. THIS IS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OR MAJOR RENOVATIONS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE. SO I GUESS IF YOU'RE MAJOR DOING MAJOR RENOVATIONS AT YOUR HOME THEN THIS MAY APPLY. BUT THIS IS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION. IT DOESN'T RETROACTIVELY TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE. AND I'LL JUST ALSO NOTE THAT RESEARCH HAS BEEN PRETTY CLEAR THAT CREATING ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES DOESN'T REALLY ADD TO THE BOTTOM LINE OF FOLKS WHO ARE BUILDING IT. AND SO THERE'S VERY LITTLE DISINCENTIVE TO DO SO. AND SO I WILL BE OBVIOUSLY VOTING IN SUPPORT OF THIS. BUT I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR FOR FOLKS THAT THIS DOESN'T GO BACKWARDS. IT'S ONLY FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION . THANK YOU COUNCIL . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OUR COUNCIL . LARA, YOU HAVE THE FORUM BEFORE I CALL ON COUNCILOR I I DO WANT TO KEEP THIS CONVERSATION GOING. IF PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTS SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE A HEARING ON IT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AT LEAST GET EVERYBODY'S OPINION OUT THIS TIME. SO I WANT TO BE BE MORE INCLUSIVE ON THIS ON THIS ISSUE . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BOROUGH COUNCIL WHERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT. AND I JUST WANT TO ECHO YOUR SENTIMENTS. I THINK THAT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER FOLKS QUESTIONS AS MUCH AS WE CAN AS WE MOVE THIS FORWARD. THERE IS A LEVEL OF TIME CONSTRAINT TO THIS WHICH IS WHY WE'RE TRYING NOT TO HAVE A HEARING BECAUSE THERE IS A DELAY IN IMPLEMENTATION AND SO WE ARE LOOKING AT LIKE AN EIGHTEEN MONTH ROADWAY HERE BECAUSE IT CALLS FOR A SIX MONTH WAITING PERIOD. I'M GETTING THE NUMBER CORRECTLY AND SO PASSING IT NOW WOULD MEAN THAT IT WOULDN'T COME INTO EFFECT UNTIL JANUARY OF TWENTY TWENTY FOUR AND IT WOULDN'T BE IMPLEMENTED UNTIL CLOSER TO THE SPRING AND THAT SUMMER AND IF WE WAIT TO DELAY IT TO APPROVE IT THEN IT ACTUALLY PUTS US A LITTLE BIT OVER TWO YEARS BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET IN UNDER THE WIRE HERE SO THAT WE HAVE THE WE HAVE TIME WHICH I THINK IS LIKE THE YEAR EIGHTEEN MONTH LEEWAY BUT NOT WAIT TOO LONG. IT WOULD MAKE IT SO THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT IT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS SO JUST WANTED TO GIVE SOME INSIGHT ABOUT WHAT WE'RE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION AND ALSO TO COUNCILOR BAKER'S POINT THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LEEWAY FOR IMPLEMENTATION FOR OFFERING INCENTIVES AND REALLY BEING SUPPORTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY IN TRANSITION. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU OF THE FLOOR AND THEN AFTER ALL RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR BALL COUNCIL AND IS INNOCENT. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I WONDER IF THE CHAIR OR COUNCILOR CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT POSSIBLE SENTENCE NOT JUST FOR THE DEVELOPERS BUT ALSO FOR RESIDENTS WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY TYPE OF SUPPLEMENTATION ON IF WE'RE DOING ELECTRIC COULD BE EXPECTED TO PURCHASE NEW EQUIPMENT IF THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY COME WITH IT. I OBVIOUSLY I'M IN SUPPORT OF THE IDEA BUT WANT TO UNDERSTAND JUST MORE ABOUT THE INCENTIVES AND AND I UNDERSTAND THE TIME CONSTRAINTS SO PROBABLY WILL SUPPORT IT BUT I DO AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES THAT IN DOING THIS IN SORT OF ON THIS PLATFORM IS PROBABLY NOT THE BEST WAY AND WOULD PREFER DOING IT THE ACTUAL LIKE WAY OF HOLDING A HEARING IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL ROYAL OVER THE PHONE. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. AND I WOULD JUST SAY THAT NORMALLY WE WOULD DO A HEARING HOWEVER AS THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS IS WELL AWARE PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE DAY BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF JUNE IS BOOKED BY THE CHAIR OF WAYS AND MEANS WHICH MAKES IT INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO HOLD HEARINGS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE DAYS FOR HEARINGS . AND SO ESSENTIALLY YOU KNOW AND I'M OPEN TO MAYBE WE HAVE A CONVERSATION AS A BODY ABOUT HOW WE DO HEARINGS, WE DO THREE A DAY OR HOWEVER WE DO IT. BUT UNTIL THEN I THINK LITERALLY THE NEXT TIME I COULD SCHEDULE THIS WOULD BE SOMETIME IN JUNE OR JULY AND THE DEADLINE FOR THIS IS JULY AND SO IT CREATES A REAL TIME RESTRAINT AS COUNCILOR HAD NOTED, THERE'S AN EIGHTEEN MONTH SORT OF RUN TO THIS. IT DOESN'T IT DOESN'T TAKE PLACE RIGHT AWAY AND SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON THAT. AS TO THE OTHER PART OF HER QUESTION, I BELIEVE AS THE ENVIRONMENT CHAIR COUNCILOR HAS SPENT MORE TIME ON THIS PARTICULAR PIECE IF SHE JUST WANTS TO SPEAK TO THAT. WHAT I WILL SAY ON THIS IS IT'S NOT FOR SO I THINK WE DO HAVE THE BRDO SPECIFICALLY GOES TOWARDS SORT OF RETRO AND ALL OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPEN. THIS ISN'T FOR RETROFITTING. IT'S FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION. SO IN TERMS OF HOMES THAT ARE NOT WIRED LIKE THIS, WHETHER THEY'RE CONSTRUCTING THOSE HOMES AND SO IT'S A IT'S FOR BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION OR MAJOR RENOVATION WORK AND SO I'M NOT REALLY SURE OF ALL OF THE LIBERAL ECONOMIC INCENTIVES THAT THEY HAVE TO THAT. BUT I WILL SAY THAT ALMOST EVERY BRAND NEW PROJECT THAT HAS COME INTO MY DISTRICT USES IT AS A SELLING POINT TO COMMUNITY WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO ACTUALLY GET THESE CONSTRUCTIONS, THESE NEW DEVELOPMENTS, THESE NEW PROJECTS TO GET COMMUNITY SUPPORT, THEY TEND TO LIST WHAT THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IS. THEY TEND TO LIST SORT OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO BE A NET ZERO BUILDING AND MOST OF THEM ARE PREPARING FOR THIS REQUIREMENT ALREADY IN THE CONSTRUCTION THAT THEY'RE DOING AT LEAST IN MY DISTRICT I CAN'T SPEAK FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S PROJECTS AND THEIR DISTRICTS. SO THAT'S THAT'S IT FOR ME. I DON'T KNOW IF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHAIRMAN ADD ANYTHING TO THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . PATIENTLY WAITING WAS COUNCILOR BALL COUNCIL BARTóK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANKS SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT. I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING TO CONSIDER WITH THIS IS THAT BUILDING CODE AND BUILDING CODE AS COUNCILOR LAURA ALLUDED TO IS ALL AT THE STATE LEVEL LIKE I THINK WE OFTEN ACTUALLY HAVE WANTED TO CHANGE THINGS ABOUT IT AT A CITY LEVEL AND WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE A BUNCH OF THINGS ZONING. BUT IF IT MOVES INTO THE BUILDING CODE SPACE WE GET PREEMPTED BY THE STATE. SO THE REALITY WITH THIS STRETCH CODE IS THAT THE YOU KNOW, THE STATE DID A SERIES OF PUBLIC HEARINGS, GOT HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PUBLIC COMMENTS ON IT OVER SUMMER, ISSUED DRAFT LANGUAGE IN SEPTEMBER, THEN UPDATED DRAFT LANGUAGE IN DECEMBER, THEN DID A SERIES OF TECHNICAL ADVICE SEMINARS AND AND FURTHER GUIDANCE AND ALSO UPDATED SOME OF THE LANGUAGE AGAIN BASED ON THE GUIDANCE IN FEBRUARY. SO THE THING IS IS THERE IS A WHOLE PROCESS GOING ON FOR THIS BUT IT'S AT A STATE LEVEL AND IT WILL NEVER BE AT OUR LEVEL BECAUSE BUILDING CODE JUST PREEMPTS US SO SO WHEREAS WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN FOSSIL FUEL FREE ONE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BRDO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON TAKING AN ACTION THAT PUTS US LIKE KIND OF AHEAD OF THE CURVE HERE LIKE OPTING INTO THE STRETCH CODE IS JUST A QUESTION OF ARE WE THE CITY GOING TO BE LIKE ON THE CURVE WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES AND IT'S NOT IT'S NOT ACTUALLY UP TO US TO EDIT THIS. SO TO ME IT FEELS AS THOUGH GIVEN THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE STATE PROCESS THAT'S GOING ON AND IF THE CORE QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, SOME COMMUNITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS ARE GOING TO HAVE THE GREENEST BUILDING CODE THAT'S RUN THROUGH THIS EXTENSIVE STAKEHOLDER PROCESS IN THE STATE AND SOME AREN'T WHICH OF THOSE TWO GROUPS DO WE WANT TO BE IN? IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE WE WANT TO BE IN THE FIRST ONE AND I I DO THINK THAT THERE'S BEEN QUITE A LOT OF STAKEHOLDER PROCESS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE AND THAT EVERYTHING I'VE LOOKED UP ON IT THAT THAT TECHNICAL ASPECT IS A BIG PIECE OF WHAT THE STATE IS THINKING ABOUT BECAUSE THE STATE HERE'S TO COUNCILOR BAKER'S POINT FROM ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS BEING LIKE IT BUT HOW DO I ACTUALLY DO THIS THING AND THAT'S WHY THE PROCESS IS SLOW. BUT I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF PIECES OF THIS GREEN BUILDING STUFF THAT WHERE THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT BUT HERE IT'S NOT REALLY AND THE ONE PIECE OF THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT IS WHETHER WE ACCEPT THE STRETCH CODE . SO I WILL BE VOTING IN FAVOR TODAY. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. CAN'T WALK. DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OUR COUNCIL OUR VIEW OF FOUR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. I JUST WANTED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT INCENTIVES THAT THROUGH THE CITY OF BOSTON DOES HAVE RESOURCES THROUGH BRDO ALLOCATED FOR PEOPLE TO FOR SMALLER HOMEOWNERS OR SMALLER BUSINESSES TO HELP THEM RETROFIT. BUT WE'RE VOTING ON TODAY, AS COUNCILOR MARK MENTIONED, IS WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO ADOPT THIS MUNICIPAL CODE . AND SO ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMATIC INCENTIVES WHICH THE CITY DOES HAVE A CONTROL OVER EXIST AND I'M SURE WE CAN EXPAND THEM AND WE CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS OR WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ABOUT HOW TO INCREASE INCENTIVES. BUT TODAY WHAT WE'RE TAKING A VOTE ON IS WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO OPT INTO THIS STRETCH CODE . ONE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO KNOW AS WELL IS THAT THIS IS NOT REQUIRING THAT NEW CONSTRUCTION MAJOR RENOVATIONS GO ALL ELECTRIC. I MEAN OBVIOUSLY THEY CAN AND WE HOPE THAT THEY WILL BUT IT IS REQUIRING THEM TO PUT IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO GO ALL ELECTRIC IN THE FUTURE AND SO YOU CAN UNDER US OPTING INTO THE SUPERSTRUCT CODE , HAVE A NEW CONSTRUCTION AND I USE GAS. BUT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO GO ALL ELECTRIC FOR FUTURE TRANSITION . SO JUST WANTING TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT THERE AS WELL. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE ? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR FOR YOU OF THE I DO FEEL LIKE THIS IS BEING RUSHED. I KNOW THAT IT'S HARD TO FIND TIME ON THE CALENDAR BUT WE'VE ALL PIECED IT TOGETHER, MADE IT WORK. I WAS REACHING OUT TO A FEW OF THE UNIONS AND THEY'RE TEXTING BACK WHICH I DON'T THINK IS AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO BE FINDING OUT WHILE WE'RE ABOUT TO TAKE A VOTE THAT THEY'RE NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS. SO I'M GETTING CONFLICTING STORIES BEFORE THE VOTE SO I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE VOTING ON THIS RIGHT NOW AND I KNOW IT HAS TO BE IN BY JULY BUT IT'S STILL MARCH. WE CAN FIND TIME THINGS DO OPEN UP. SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN JUST PAUSE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING ALL OF THE CORRECT INFORMATION FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ALSO BECAUSE I CAN'T VOTE IN GOOD FAITH KNOWING THAT I JUST ASKED TWO UNIONS AND THEY BOTH SAID NO THAT THEY ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS AND I DON'T KNOW WHY AND MAYBE I WON'T AGREE WITH THEM AFTER TALKING TO THEM BUT I DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY NOW WHAT TO DO THAT THANK THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY, COUNCILOR OR COUNCILOR ROYAL I THINK COUNCILOR MURPHY MAKES A GOOD POINT. SHE'S NOT COME VOTING ON THIS OR VOTING IN SUPPORT OF IT BECAUSE SHE SHE BELIEVES THAT SOME OF THE BUILDING TRADES HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD YET. SOME OF THEM HAVE SOME OF THEM HAVE IT I DON'T KNOW BUT BUT I THINK HER HER COMMENT IS IS LEGITIMATE THAT SHE SHE IS SEEKING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY COUNCILORS TO THE BUILDING TRADES ABOUT WHAT THEIR OPINION IS. THOUGHTS ARE ABOUT THIS. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR REAL ABSOLUTELY. I WOULD JUST NOTE THAT IT IS WITHIN OUR ABILITY AS COUNCILORS TO ABSTAIN FROM A VOTE TO VOTE PRESENT OR TO VOTE NO OR YES. AND SO THIS WILL BE CONTINUING TO SEEK A VOTE. IT IS NOW OUT OF COMMITTEE GOING TO ASK TO GO TO VOTE IF FOLKS FEEL LIKE THEY WANT TO ABSTAIN OR VOTE NO, THEY ARE FREE TO DO SO IF THEY VOTE TO SUPPORT IT THEY ARE FREE TO DO SO AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO SPEAK BEFORE I BEFORE I SPEAK? I AM ALSO CONCERNED AS COUNCILOR BAKER AND COUNCILOR MURPHY AND COUNCIL FLAHERTY THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A LAND COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON, THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A HEARING. THIS CONVERSATION HERE WAS HELPFUL. IT ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM COUNCILORS. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FOR COUNCILOR ENGAGING COUNCILORS ABOUT SOME CONCERNS THEY HAD. BUT I THINK THERE'S MORE QUESTIONS AND MORE COMMENTS CITY COUNCILORS HAVE. I THINK OUR COLLEAGUES ARE TRYING TO DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE THEY MAKE A MAJOR VOTE. I'M LIKELY TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT BUT I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU GUYS TO BE A RUBBER STAMP AND NOT KNOW ALL THE DETAILS ABOUT A PARTICULAR MATTER. WHAT'S SO HAVING SAID THAT, COUNCILOR , ARE YOU WOULD YOU CONSIDER PUTTING THIS OFF FOR A WHILE SO WE CAN GET MORE INFORMATION? CAN YOU? YEAH, WE'LL TAKE A BRIEF RECESS. MRS WE'RE IN A BRIEF RECESS ABOUT BEFORE WE CONTINUE. MADAM CLERK, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS DOCKET WAS PROPERLY READ INTO THE RECORD ALSO CAN YOU CAN YOU READ THE DOCKET INTO THE RECORD YOUR POUBELLE AND ORDINANCE ADAPTING A DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES MINISTER ARPIN SPECIALIZED ENERGY COURT. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL ROYALLE YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO FEEL LIKE THEY CAN'T GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED BEFORE THEY VOTE ON THIS. WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS PUT THIS OFF TABLE THIS UNTIL NEXT WEEK IN THE INTERIM WHAT I'VE BEEN INFORMED OF IS THAT IJAW IS WILLING TO HAVE ANY CONVERSATION WITH ANY COUNCILOR WE'D LIKE TO HAVE WITH THEM BUT ALSO CHIEF REVEREND MARION HAMMOND WHITE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL CABINET IS HAPPY TO SPEAK TO ANY COUNCILOR SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THEIR QUESTIONS ON THIS MATTER. IT IS MY INTENTION TO BRING THIS TO A VOTE AGAIN NEXT WEEK AND SO IF ANYBODY HAS ANY OUTLYING QUESTIONS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO CALL OR HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH ANYONE SPECIFICALLY THEY HAVE THAT TIME TO DO SO. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK THANK YOU. COUNCILOR ROYAL. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSERVATION COUNCIL REGION. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. AND I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY HAVE ONE OFF QUESTIONS BUT MAYBE I MEAN THE ADMINISTRATION DID ALSO OFFER TO HAVE A BRIEFING SUCH AS FINDING A TIME ON THE CALENDAR WHERE WE COULD JUST HAVE THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL HAVE A BRIEFING I THINK WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR REGIONAL WILL COORDINATE WITH COUNCILOR ARROYO MAYBE WILL PUBLICLY NOTICE THE MEETING AND AND HAVE THAT TYPE OF A MEETING WITH COLLEAGUES AND WITH THE MINISTRATION TEAM. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING BEING FLEXIBLE THAT THIS AT ZERO SIX ZERO SIX WILL BE PUT OVER TILL NEXT WEEK FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WAS STILL ON GREENSHIELDS YEAR ACONITE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BOCK COUNCILOR YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY I'D LIKE TO PULL DOCKET ZERO SIX ONE TWO ON PAGE THREE OF FIFTEEN OF THE GREEN SHEETS. MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE PULL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SEE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW THIS DOCKET ZERO SIX ONE TWO TO COME BEFORE THE BODY COUNCILOR BARQUE MR PRESIDENT DO WE READ IT FIRST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ IT PLEASE READ IT INTO THE RECORD THAT MESSAGE AND ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND AND IN CONDEMNATION OF WINTER ACCESSORIES AND TOYS VALUE-ADD TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS DONATED BY RECREATION EQUIPMENT INC ETAI LOCATED AT FOUR OR ONE PARK DRIVE BOSTON OR TWO TO ONE FIVE THE GRANT WOULD SUPPORT FLEISHAKER A MAYOR'S OFFICE OF NEW URBAN MECHANICS. PLEASE MAKE IN PARALLEL TO BRING THE LIGHT TO OUR PUBLIC SPACES AND EXPAND ACCESS TO RECREATION OR TOYS AND EQUIPMENT. THANK YOU MADAM. CAN YOU PLEASE PULL THE COMMITTEE TO SEE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW THE DOCTOR TO COME BEFORE THE BODY? COUNCILOR BARR YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES HENDERSON. THIS STOCK AT ZERO SIX ONE WHO IS NOW PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCILOR BLOCK YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT. MR PRESIDENT THIS CAME IN LAST WEEK BUT ACTUALLY WE REALLY SORT OF HAD A HEARING ON IT IN COUNCILOR BARLETTA'S COMMITTEE TALKING ABOUT THE HEARING THAT COUNCILOR HAD FILED ON WINTER PLACEMAKING ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS INITIATIVE THIS WINTER WHICH WAS TO KIND OF CREATE A SET OF EASILY ACCESSIBLE TOYS AND SLEDS AND SUCH FOR KIDS TO USE THE SLEDS PIECE OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T REALLY COME INTO PLAY THIS WINTER MUCH AND THAT'S WHY THIS THIS INITIATIVE WAS SORT OF SHIFTED FROM BEING A WINTER PLACE TO A KIND OF GENERAL PLACE SHED. BUT THE IDEA IS BASICALLY HOW DO WE ACTIVATE OUR OUTDOOR SPACES IN ALL SEASONS FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOSTON AND MAKE SURE THAT ACCESS TO TOYS AND AND THE GAMES TO REALLY DO THAT IN THE BEST WAY IS NOT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE LIMITED IN DEPENDING ON THEIR INCOME. AND SO IT IT'S A REALLY GREAT INITIATIVE. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AT LENGTH OF THIS HEARING AND KIND OF WANTING TO EXPAND AND EXTEND IT. SO OBVIOUSLY IT'S A SMALL GRANT. WE WOULD OFTEN SUSPEND AND PASS ANYWAYS AND IN FACT WE'VE HAD A HEARING ON IT SO I'M LOOKING FOR US TO TO PASS THIS TODAY SO THAT IT CAN ALL CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD. THANK MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR COUNCILOR BLOCK'S SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS STOCK ZERO SIX ONE TO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET IS PASSED. ANYONE ELSE ON GREENSHIELDS? WE'RE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THERE ARE ZERO ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. THE CHAIR FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED ARE THOSE IN FAVOR SAY THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED? WE WERE ON TO MEMORIALS AND AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. YES. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN OUR MEETING IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN INDIVIDUALS FOR COUNCIL OF ARROYO AND MARRE GEDO DEED OF COUNCILOR RONALD G. THOMKINS FOR COUNCILOR COLLETTA AND COUNCILOR CHRISTOPHER DE PREMA FOR COUNCILOR FLYNN AND COUNCILOR PRIORITY FREDERIC FREDDIE NE BENY HIM FOR COUNCILOR MURPHY AND THE ENTIRE BODY RICHARD COOK, A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN AND THAT'S ALSO FROM COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AS WELL ALSO FROM FOR THE ENTIRE BODY EDWARD BAKER, COUSIN OF COUNCILOR FRANK BAKER, FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE THE SULTAN IN ROXBURY NELKIN, VICTIMS OF THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING AND ALSO IN MEMORY OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD WILLIAM THOMAS BREADON AS WELL A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES USUALLY START WITH THE ROYAL BUT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO START WITH COUNCILOR WERLE AND WE'LL GO AROUND THAT WAY IF YOU'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT A LOVED ONE, A CONSTITUENT, A FRIEND, A NEIGHBOR OR OR AN ANNOUNCEMENT, PLEASE DO SO THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY, THANK COUNCILOR FOR YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN. I AM GOING TO BE SPEAKING ABOUT SHE JANIA WILSON WHO'S HERE WITH US. THANK YOU FOR COMING IN ON MARCH 30TH. NINETEEN NINETY NINE JANIA WILSON'S MOTHER AND BOYFRIEND WERE MURDERED IN THEIR DORCHESTER HOME LEFT BEHIND THE DESTRUCTION THAT DAY WAS SIX MONTH OLD GENEA WILSON WHO POLICE FOUND SAFE AND SOUND IN A DRESSER DRAWER WHEN THEY ARRIVED ON THE SCENE TOMORROW WILL MARK THE TWENTY FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THESE BRUTAL KILLINGS OF SHAQUANDA WILSON AND WILLIAM HAYNESWORTH AS WELL AS THE TWENTY FOURTH YEAR THE JANIA BEGINS WITHOUT THEM THE BABY LEFT BEHIND THAT DAY IS NOW ALL GROWN UP AS WE CAN SEE IN ADVOCATING FOR THE STORY OF HER MOTHER TO BE HEARD TO THIS DAY NO SUSPECT HAS BEEN ARRESTED OR CHARGED IN THE CONNECTION TO THIS THESE MURDERS THANKS TO GENIUS, COURAGE AND DETERMINATION. HOWEVER, THE STORY OF SHAQUANDA WILSON AND HER BOYFRIEND WILLIAM HAINSWORTH HAS RESURFACED THE SUFFOLK COUNTY A'S OFFICE HAS EXPLAINED TO SEVEN NEWS RECENTLY THAT THE CASES OF SHAQUANDA AND WILLIAM ARE ACTIVELY BEING INVESTIGATED AFTER GROWING UP WITHOUT HER MOTHER FOR TWENTY FOUR YEARS. JANIA HOLDS ON TO HOPE THAT ONE DAY SHE CAN LEARN WHO STOLE HER MOTHER FROM HER. I AM HOPEFUL THAT MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WILL SUPPORT JEANNA IN ADVOCATING FOR JUSTICE FOR HER MOTHER AND HER BOYFRIEND AND FINALLY LEARNING THE ENTIRE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. AND THANK YOU ALSO FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND COMING IN. SO SORRY FOR WHAT HAPPENED BUT THE COUNCIL WILL BE PRESENTING YOU BOTH WITH SOME THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCIL LOUISIANA. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN. I WANT TO JUST LIFT UP THE PREMA FAMILY WHICH I'M SURE CASTRO COLLETTA WILL WHILE THEY TRAGICALLY LOST THEIR SON AND UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT AND HE'S A BELOVED MEMBER OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE MODARRES EXTENDED FAMILY AND SO I WORK FAMILY AND SO I JUST WANT TO LIFT HIM UP AND HIS AND HIS STAFF UP IN PRAYER AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE ENTIRE BODY WANT TO EXTEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE KING FAMILY AT THE LOSS OF OF MEL KING WHO WAS JUST THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS TO SAY WHAT HE MEANS TO THIS CITY AND TO EVERY CORNER OF THIS CITY AS A YOUNG TEEN LEARNING ABOUT THE CITY IN ROXBURY AND IN SOUTH AND HE WAS IMMEASURABLE AND HE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A LASTING IMPACT FROM STORIES FROM HIS BRUNCHES TO PROFESSORS WHO CONTINUE TO TEACH HIS METHODOLOGY FOR CHANGE. IT'S JUST INCREDIBLY IMPACTFUL. AND SO I WANT TO LIFT HIM UP. I WANT TO LIFT HIS FAMILY UP SPECIFICALLY PAMELA KING WHO I SPOKE WITH YESTERDAY AND CONTINUES TO MOURN THE LOSS OF HER FATHER IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN WE EXPERIENCE IT. SO JUST THANK YOU TO MALCOLM FOR ALWAYS GIVING THE CITY THANK YOU CONSTITUTION. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. ON MONDAY I LOST A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND I'VE HAD MUHAMMAD AND I JUST WANTED TO LIFT HIM UP TODAY WE HELD THE GENIZA OR THE FUNERAL FOR HIM YESTERDAY. YESTERDAY? YES. IT WAS A VERY CLOSE FRIEND, A BROTHER AND THE PATRIARCH OF HIS FAMILY. HE IMMIGRATED FROM PALESTINE AT A VERY YOUNG AGE AND IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES AND BECAME A SELF-MADE BUSINESS RESTAURATEUR OR CLUB AND BAR OWNER AND I THINK PIZZA SHOPS AS WELL. YASSER WAS EXTREMELY FUNNY, VERY POSITIVE MAN. HE WOULD GO ON TO DOING A LOT OF CHARITY WORK GIVING TO ANYONE WHO ASKED AND SUPPORTING A LOT OF SINGLE PARENTS OR RETURNING CITIZENS BY WAY OF WORK. HE SUPPORTED THE UPPERMOST CORNER COMMUNITY OVER DECADES AND HE WILL BE TRULY MISSED BY EVERYONE A BELOVED FRIEND AND I PRAY THAT GOD FORGIVES HIM FOR EVERY EVERY SIN AND EVERY MISHAP AND REWARDS HIM FOR ALL OF HIS DEEDS JUST JUST JUST WE WE LOVE HIM AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE EVERY WEEK WHERE HONORING SOMEONE OR AT LEAST FOR MYSELF IN THE LAST MONTH FOR PEOPLE. SO IT JUST HOPEFULLY WE HAVE GOOD NEWS COMING AND THAT YASSER HAS A WARM AND COMFORTABLE STATE OF WAITING AND AGAIN THAT GOD ACCEPT HIM INTO THE HIGHEST HEAVEN AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDEZ ANDERSON, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR COMMITTEE OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. I JUST WANTED TO STAND TO REMEMBER CHRISTOPHER DE PREMA AS COUNCILOR LUIS AND JUST MENTIONED THAT THE PREMO FAMILY HAS SUFFERED A DEVASTATING LOSS OF THEIR SON WHO AT JUST 15 YEARS OLD PASSED DURING A TRAGIC SKIING ACCIDENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THEY WANT FOLKS TO REMEMBER HIM AS AN ACADEMICALLY GIFTED STUDENT AT SAL ACADEMY. HE LOVED TO PLAY CHESS. HE LOVED TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND YOU LOVE TO SPEND TIME WITH HIS FAMILY. THEY SAY THAT HE WAS KIND HE HAD A GOOD SMILE AND A GOOD LAUGH AND SO MY HEART GOES OUT TO HIS FAMILY WITH DEEP ROOTS NOT JUST IN EAST BOSTON BUT IN CHARLESTOWN ESPECIALLY HIS FATHER CHUCKIE SENIOR AND HIS COUSIN, MY GOOD FRIEND STEPHEN AND OF STATE REP. ADRIAN MADURO'S OFFICE. SO MY HEART GOES OUT TO THEM DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR CLUTTER THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ABRADE COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I WANTED TO TAKE TODAY IS THE TWENTY NINTH OF MARCH 50 YEARS AGO TODAY SOMETHING HAPPENED IN MY LIFE THAT HAS LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON ME. I WENT TO SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND I'M RETURNING. I WAS MET BY MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER'S BROTHER AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MY FATHER HAD DIED FROM A CATASTROPHIC CARDIAC ARREST AT THE TIME I WAS THE OLDEST OF FOUR CHILDREN AND ONLY FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND OVERNIGHT I HAD TO STEP UP AND TAKE ON PARENTAL ROLE TO SUPPORT MY MOTHER AND MY SIBLINGS. IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO SUPPORT, NO BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT ,NO SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOLS. WE STRUGGLED AND THAT EXPERIENCE HAS STRENGTHENED MY BELIEF THAT OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR TEACHERS ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT IN SUPPORTING THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT. THAT'S WHY WHEN COUNCILOR MURPHY TALKS ABOUT SPORTS IN SCHOOLS I'M PASSIONATE IN SUPPORTING ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION SCHOOL TO SCHOOL SPORTS AND THE ARTS PROGRAMS THAT OUR CHILDREN VITALLY NEED FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH PLAYING SPORT PROBABLY MY LIFE MY DAD WAS A GOOD MAN, A HARD WORKER. HE WAS A COMMUNITY ORIENTED GUY . WE DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRICITY AND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WE WERE IN ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED AREA OF NORTHERN IRELAND. WE DIDN'T ELECTRICITY WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG MY DAD WENT DOOR TO DOOR KNOCKING DOORS AND GETTING SIGNATURES TO NOT TO ADVOCATE FOR TO BRING ELECTRICITY TO THE AREA. I THINK WE GOT SOMEONE OUT FROM HIM SO HE PASSED AWAY. IT WAS A QUIET GUY. VERY FEW WORDS, VERY UNEMOTIONAL, PRETTY PRETTY CLOSED OFF IN MANY WAYS AND HE DIED AT THE AGE OF FORTY EIGHT YEARS. MY ONLY REGRET THAT I NEVER GOT TO KNOW HIM AS AN ADULT AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO REMEMBER HIM TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREDON THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR VIA COUNCIL BOK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT RONALD TOMPKINS WHO IN THE MEMORIALIZED FROM MY DISTRICT TODAY HE PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO A WEST END RESIDENT WITH HIS WIFE DENISE. THEY WERE SUPER INVOLVED IN THE WEST END AND HAVE THESE THREE FANTASTIC KIDS, MEGAN RYAN AND CAITLIN WHO HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET RECENTLY. BUT YOU KNOW, HE WAS A SURGEON AND SOMEBODY WHO WAS REALLY A VERY ACCOMPLISHED SURGEON AT MY AGE. HE HE HAD A WHOLE CAREER THERE SINCE NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN. HE WAS THE RESIDENT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, THE CHIEF OF BRAIN SURGERY AT THE HOSPITAL. HE WAS CHIEF OF STAFF AT SHRINERS FOR A LONG TIME, RAN A BIG NIH GRANT ON BURN INJURIES AND ACTUALLY WAS REALLY AN AUTHORITY ON HOW TO HELP PEOPLE HEAL FASTER FROM BURNS AND TRAUMA AND HAD A KIND OF MOTTO. HIS MOTTO WAS GPB GET PEOPLE BETTER AND AND HE WAS REALLY WELL KNOWN FOR ALSO JUST BEING EXTREMELY KIND SOMETHING WHICH WASN'T NECESSARILY THE KIND OF THE ETHOS OF SURGERY PROGRAMS IN THE LAST FEW DECADES. AND SO JUST TO SOMEBODY WHO THERE'S BEEN AN OUTPOURING FOR IN THE WEST END AND BEYOND AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF OF HIS FAMILY JUST TO SAY THAT WE MISS HIM AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW HIM AND JUST HE WAS JUST A WONDERFUL GUY. SO THINKING OF ALL THE THOMKINS AND THEN THE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT I WANTED TO MAKE MR PRESIDENT IN MY CITY SERVICES CHAIR THAT ROLE WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO KEVIN LINSKY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS WHO HAS BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR FIFTY YEARS STARTED AS A HOKIE ACTUALLY AT ROXBURY CROSSING SO THE EDGE OF MY DISTRICT AND CUSA FINISHED SANDERSONS AND IS NOW A SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEER WITH US WORKS ON REPAVING THE STREETS AND AGAIN HAS BEEN WITH THE DEPARTMENT FOR FIFTY YEARS AND FRIDAY'S HIS LAST DAY AND I THINK THERE WILL BE SOME CELEBRATION ON FRIDAY EVENING FOR HIM BUT WE DO HAVE A RESOLUTION FOR HIM AND WE'RE JUST LIKE REALLY AMAZED AND APPRECIATIVE OF HIS MANY, MANY DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO I WANTED TO MAKE THAT SHOUT OUT AS WELL. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BOK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU WONDERFUL. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING KEVIN LINSKEY. HE'S A LONG TERM EMPLOYEE. GOOD. YOU HAD MENTIONED CAZENAVE EARLIER. THANK YOU TO THE WHOLE COUNCIL . ED WAS MY CONTEMPORARY FIFTY SIX YEARS OLD LEFT YOUNG KIDS PROBABLY THE MOST GENEROUS PERSON THAT I THAT KNOW KNEW EVERYBODY EVERYBODY AT AWAKE IN THE FUNERAL THE THE FUNERAL LINE WAS ABOUT FOUR HOURS LONG NORTH RETTING AND NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. EVERYBODY IN THE LINE WAS CALLING IT THEIR BEST FRIEND AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A MASS BUT WE HAD SORT SORT OF A THING AT THE AT THE FUNERAL HOME ON THE SECOND DAY WAS MORE LIKE A ROAST HONESTLY IT WAS GOOD I WAS THE CLOSER AND HAD TO KIND OF SHAKE MY COMMENTS AROUND HIS YOUNG KIDS AND HOW THEY HAD GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM THAT THEY COULD SPEAK TO AND TRY TO HEAL BECAUSE SO MUCH OF OUR PAIN IS IS BASED IN THE PEOPLE THAT WE'VE LOST. MY SON THE DAY AFTER SAINT PATRICK'S DAY, EDDIE'S SON NOEL AND I WAS TEXTING WITH EDDIE ALL DAY THE DAY BEFORE BECAUSE NO ONE WAS COMING IN WITH A GROUP KIDS TO TALK TO ME ABOUT ADDICTION, HOMELESSNESS, THAT SORT OF STUFF. AND I GOT THE TEXT AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING THAT NOEL AND ACTUALLY FOUND EDDIE SO THERE'S PAIN AND IN REAL PAIN AND IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S LIVES ALL AROUND. BUT THERE'S SOME VERY PARTICULAR THAT I EXPERIENCE THROUGH MY NEPHEWS AND MY HEART GOES OUT FOR THEM AND YOU KNOW, THIRTY YEARS LATER THE PAIN IT DOESN'T IT DOESN'T GET EASIER OR BETTER. IT JUST GETS DIFFERENT. BUT IT DOC MY MY COUSIN THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FOUR I WANT TO START BY ACKNOWLEDGING MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANT LOSSES. COUNCILOR ANDERSON, COUNCILOR BAKER AND ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR BREADON, I FEEL SAFE IN SAYING THAT YOU ARE A WALKING TRIBUTE TO HIM IN HIS WORK IN HIS LIFE WORK. I AM CERTAIN THAT HE WOULD BE PROUD OF THE WAY THAT YOU CARRY YOURSELF IN THE WORK THAT YOU DO ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. IT ACTUALLY IS FRANKLY AN UNFORTUNATE PART OF LIFE THAT MANY OF THE BEST MOMENTS THAT I THINK PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IN TRIUMPH AND IN MOTIVATION AND IN MOVING FORWARD COME FROM GREAT PLACES OF GRIEF. AND SO I AM SORRY FOR ALL OF YOUR SIGNIFICANT LOSSES AND I HOPE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT COMES FROM THAT THAT IS POSITIVE AND THAT IS HEALING. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE KING FAMILY ON THE LOSS OF MAL WHO I'VE KNOWN SINCE I WAS A CHILD. I CAN THINK OF NO ONE WHO MAL WAS BARELY A PERSON TO ME TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I CONSIDER MYSELF SORT OF ICONIC IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY. HE WAS ALWAYS VERY HUMANE, VERY HUMAN BUT HE WAS ALWAYS BIGGER THAN HIMSELF TO ME I CAN'T THINK OF ANYBODY WHO EMBODIED THEIR NAME BETTER NAME WAS KING FOR A REASON CARRIED HIMSELF INCREDIBLY HUMBLY, RESPECTFULLY PROUD AT A TIME WHERE AS A YOUNG CHILD OF COLOR IN THIS CITY TO SEE SOMEONE LIKE HIM WHO WAS PROUD OF WHO HE WAS, WHO WAS STRONG AND WHO HE WAS WAS INSPIRING WAS SOMETHING TO MODEL WAS SOMETHING TO BE I CAN'T THINK OF ANYONE WHO HAS A STRAIGHT LINE TOWARDS PRETTY MUCH EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL OF COLORS DEVELOPMENT OR MOTIVATION FOR CHANGE OR SOME DIRECT CONNECTION OR LINE TO HIM AND HIS FAMILY. HIS SON NOSMO WAS ACTUALLY MY SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AT ONE POINT VERY PROUD OF HIS FAMILY'S CONTRIBUTIONS. PAMELA HAS DONE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS. THEY ARE MORE QUIET IN THE BACKGROUND BUT IT IS A FAMILY OF SERVICE. I'M GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR EXTENDING THEIR FATHER IS TIME WITH THE COMMUNITY AND MAKING THOSE SACRIFICES THAT I THINK SO OFTEN MANY ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE KNOW THAT THE SORT OF SACRIFICES THAT GET MADE BETWEEN BEING WITH FAMILY LOVED ONES AND DOING COMMUNITY WORK FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE AND YOUR LOVED ONES AND HE DID A WHOLE LIFETIME OF THAT AND SO I HOPE HE RESTS IN POWER GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR HIS IMPACT ON HIS FAMILY, FOR SHARING HIS TIME WITH US AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT HE MADE BOSTON HOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ARROYO, YOUR CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY AND THEN WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL FIRST WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL MEJIA COUNCILOR , I HEAR YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN YET. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR YOU THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT AND I JUST WANTED TO JUST EXTEND MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE KING FAMILY TOO. I WAS 13 YEARS OLD WHEN MAL RAN FOR MAYOR AND IT WAS EVEN THOUGH I WAS THIRTEEN IT WAS STILL AN EXCITING TIME TO SEE THAT SOMEONE COULD ACTUALLY REPRESENT US IN A WAY THAT REALLY MADE US FEEL SEEN AND HEARD AND MY DAUGHTER'S THIRTEEN. SO IT'S REALLY IRONIC THAT SHE IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MOMENT ALSO MEANS. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THE KING FAMILY AND I'M JUST SO INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO THEN MAYOR JANEY WHO DEDICATED THE SQUARE TO HIS NAME AND THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THE LOVE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE FOR HIM BECAUSE OFTENTIMES IT'S NOT UNTIL WE'RE GONE THAT WE GET TO SEE THE IMPACT THAT WE MADE. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THEN MAYOR JANEY FOR TAKING IT UPON HERSELF TO RECOGNIZE HIS COMMITMENT TO THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE KING FAMILY AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN . HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN. I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE HEATHER COOK WHO'S HERE WITH US ON MONDAY. SHE REACHED OUT TO OUR OFFICE TO TELL US THAT HER DEAR FATHER RICHARD COOK, BORN IN NINETEEN TWENTY FIVE WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN NAVY MARINES WAS COMING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORTED TO GO HOME IN HOSPICE AND HE PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY. AND WE JUST WANT TO SEND OUR CONDOLENCES TO YOU AND YOUR STRONG SELF AND FAMILY LIVE IN TENT CITY. I SEE. AND YOUR DAD WOULD ALWAYS PROUDLY SHOW UP TO THE VETERAN EVENTS AROUND THE CITY JUST JUST SO HAPPY TO BE OUT BUT ALSO SO PROUD TO ALWAYS HAVE THAT CAP ON HIS WORLD WAR TO CAP AND ANYONE WHO WOULD SPEAK TO HIM. HE ALWAYS WANTED TO SHARE STORIES WHICH I THINK IS SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR VETERANS THAT WE LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES THAT WE HEAR DIRECTLY FROM THEM WHAT IT WAS LIKE AND JUST TEACHES US SO MUCH SO I PERSONALLY AND I KNOW THIS BODY JUST WANTS TO SEND OUR CONDOLENCES TO YOU AND OUR FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF YOUR FATHER. SO THANK YOU FOR COMING IN TODAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF TWO PEOPLE AS WELL. MR CACAHUATE WHO WAS A CONSTITUENT AND I HAD A WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR HIS SERVICE AND SACRIFICE TO OUR NATION, TO OUR CITY AND TO THE WONDERFUL FAMILY HE HAS . HE WAS A FRIEND AND HE'LL HE'LL BE MISSED. I HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR AND AS MY COLLEAGUES ALSO HAVE HIGHLIGHTED HOW I'LL GO ON THE THE PASSING OF REPRESENTATIVE MALCOLM. WE ARE HONORED TO REMEMBER REPRESENTATIVE MALCOLM AS A RACIAL HEALER IN LIKE MANY HERE A FAMILY FRIEND THROUGHOUT LIFE MALCOLM WORKED TIRELESSLY TO BRING OUT THE BEST PEOPLE HE HELPED HEAL A DIVIDED CITY. HE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WORDS ACTIONS IN LEADERSHIP CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR CITY. SO I WANT TO THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUES FOR REMEMBERING LOVED ONES FAMILY MEMBERS, CONSTITUENTS. A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE. THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN WE ADJOURN TODAY WE DO SO IN MEMORY OF ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WE ARE NOW SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE INR CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH AT 12:00 NOON. BEFORE WE ADJOURN I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE ASSISTANT CLERIC WHO'S DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB TODAY. THANK YOU ASSISTANT WORK. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CLERKS TEAM FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING WORK. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE COURT STENOGRAPHER FOR HER PROFESSIONALISM. I ALSO WANT TO THANK MY CITY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR AND YOUR STAFF FOR YOUR HARD WORK. BUT I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF WHO REALLY PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORT TO ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES AND DON'T GET THE CREDIT BUT THEY DO THE HARD WORK SO HONORED TO RECOGNIZE EVERYBODY HERE TODAY ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT. PLEASE SAY WE'RE ADJOURNED