GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ED FLYNN AND I AM THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. YOU CAN WATCH THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE BY VISITING BOSTON DOT GOV SLASH CITY COUNCIL DSTV. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE THEIR PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK THE AUDIENCE NOT TO POST ANY SIGNS. THANK YOU. I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT WE ALL BE RESPECTFUL TO EACH OTHER THAT WE DO NOT DISRUPT THE MEETING WHILE WE ARE HERE IF YOU ARE DISRUPTIVE YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND IF YOU FAIL TO COMPLY YOU WILL ESCORT IT OUT. AS I MENTIONED THERE ARE NO SIGNS AROUND THE CHAMBER PER CITY COUNCIL RULES. MR CLARK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM PLEASE? COUNCILOR ARROYO, DEAR COUNCILOR BAKER, COUNCILOR BORG ,COUNCILOR BREADON, COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON, COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLYNN YEAH. COUNCILOR COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR MURPHY AND COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR BORG. A QUORUM IS PRESENT. THANK YOU STICKWORK. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT . THIS WEEK'S CLERGY IS REVEREND GLORIA WHITE HAMMOND FROM BETHEL BETHEL AME CHURCH IN FROM AND REVEREND MARIAN WHITE HAMMOND FROM NEW ROUTES AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH INVITED BY COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCIL LOUISIANA. WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME TO THE PODIUM AT THIS TIME IN INTRODUCE OUR CLERGY FOR TODAY ? THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. I KNOW WE ARE BLESSED HERE WITH A DYNAMIC DUO OF REVERENDS TO PRAY OVER THIS BODY IN THE WORK THAT WE DO EVERY DAY AND I AM JUST SO GRATEFUL THAT BOTH OF THEM SAID YES, MOTHER DAUGHTER, PAIR OF FIERCE BLACK WOMEN DOING EXCELLENT AND INCREDIBLE WORK OF SHEPHERDING PARISHES HERE IN THIS CITY SO REVEREND GLORIA WHITE HAMMOND M.D. MOTHER IS PASTOR OF BETHEL AME CHURCH AND IS A SHWARTZ RESIDENT PRACTITIONER IN MINISTRY STUDIES AT HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL. DR WHITE HAMMON'S PEACE SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HEALING MINISTRY SPAN'S FOR DECADES AND TWO CONTINENTS. SHE RETIRED FROM THE SOUTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN 2008 AFTER SERVING TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AS A DEDICATED PEDIATRICIAN TO FAMILIES FROM SOME OF BOSTON'S MOST CHALLENGED COMMUNITIES. FROM 2001 TO 2003 SHE TRAVELED TO WAR TORN SOUTH SUDAN TO PARTICIPATE IN AN ELABORATE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO FACILITATE THE FREEDOM OF MORE THAN 10000 PEOPLE ENSLAVED IN NORTHERN SUDAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR. THE EXPERIENCE PROMPTED HER AND FIVE OF THE WOMEN FOUND MY SISTER'S KEEPER, A HUMANITARIAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION THAT CHAMPIONED SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN CONFLICT ZONES. REVEREND GLORIA WHITE HAMMOND SERVES ALONGSIDE HER HUSBAND REVEREND RAY HAMMOND AND ALSO FORMED TO PASTOR BENTHOS 500 MEMBER CONGREGATION. HER INNOVATIVE MINISTRIES INCLUDE DO THE RIGHT THING WRI A CREATIVE WRITING MINISTRY FOR AT RISK ADOLESCENT GIRLS SHATTER THE SILENCE ADDRESSES SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN AND MEN IN PREDOMINANTLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. PLANNING AHEAD ENCOURAGES CHURCH MEMBERS TO BEGIN CONVERSATIONS AND COMPLETE THEIR ADVANCE DIRECTIVES REGARDING THEIR WISHES FOR END OF LIFE CARE AND SACRED CONVERSATIONS. EQUIPS LAY IN CLERGY CONGREGATIONAL CAREGIVERS FROM DIVERSE FAITH TRADITIONS TO PROVIDE MORE EFFECTIVE SUPPORT FOR CONGREGANTS LIVING WITH SERIOUS ILLNESS. DR. WHITE HAMMOND WAS APPOINTED AS WARD'S RESIDENT PRACTITIONER IN MINISTRY STUDIES IN TWENTY FIFTEEN WHERE SHE DEVELOPS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, SPIRITUAL CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. SHE DIRECTS THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AIDS COURSE SPIRITUALITY AND HEALING IN MEDICINE VERY WELL. HER WORK IS VERY MUCH INTERSECTIONAL. IT REMINDS ME OF SOMEBODY ELSE WHO IS ALSO A CHIEF HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, REVEREND GLORIA WHITE HAMMOND IS A GRADUATE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, HARVARD DIVINITY AND HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL. SHE SHE'S THE RECIPIENT OF NUMEROUS HONORARY DEGREES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS. SHE'S A TRUSTEE EMERITUS OF THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MEMBER OF B.W. H. EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION, TRUSTEE EMERITUS OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND TRUSTEE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM AND A MEMBER OF THE CITY OF BOSTON'S COVID-19 HEALTH INEQUITIES TASK FORCE. NOW SHE DON'T WANT ME TO READ THE ENTIRE BIO BUT LIKE SHE'S AMAZING. EVERYONE NEEDED TO KNOW JUST EXACTLY HOW MUCH YOU'VE GIVEN TO THE CITY AND SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US, REVEREND WRIGHT HAMMOND. NOW TO THE OTHER REVEREND WRIGHT HAMMOND. REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT HAMMOND WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BOSTON AND BEGAN A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL MOSTLY POINTEDLY WITH PROJECT HIP HOP WHICH STANDS FOR HIGHWAYS INTO THE PAST HISTORY ORGANIZING AND POWER AND YOUTH ORGANIZATION YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND ENGAGING A NEW GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ACTIVISM. AFTER COLLEGE SHE BECAME THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PROJECT HIP WHERE SHE SERVED FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN SHE GRADUATED WITH HER MASTER'S DIVINITY AT FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND WAS ORDAINED AS AN ELDER IN THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN SHE FOUNDED NEW ROUTES AME CHURCH IN DORCHESTER WHERE SHE CURRENTLY PASTORS REVEREND MARY MARY SNOW WHITE HAMMON WAS APPOINTED AS CHIEF OF ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND OPEN SPACE IN APRIL TWENTY TWENTY ONE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON WHICH IS WHY YOU ALSO MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH HER FROM FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE AND ROLES SHE OVERSEES POLICY AND PROGRAMS ON ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND OPEN SPACE OVER THE COURSE OF OUR TIME WITH THE CITY SHE HAS SUPPORTED THE AMENDMENT OF THE BUILDING EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND DISCLOSURE ORDINANCE TO SET CARBON TARGETS FOR EXISTING LARGE BUILDINGS AND CONVENED A CITY LED GREEN JOBS PROGRAM. REVEREND MORIYAMA USES AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS IN HER ECOLOGICAL WORK CHALLENGING FOLKS TO SEE THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN IMMIGRATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENERGY, ENERGY POLICY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE. SHE'S RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE BAR FELLOWSHIP, THE CELTICS HEROES AMONG US, THE ROCKSMITH DAY AWARD AND THE BOSTON NAACP IMAGE AWARD. SHE WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF THE FIRST FIFTY PICTURES OF THE GRISS FIFTY FOUR TWENTY NINETEEN AND SOJOURNERS ELEVEN WOMEN SHAPING THE CHURCH REVEREND MYANMA WHITE HAMMOND WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE YOU. THANK YOU FOR THIS DYNAMIC DUO AND THANK YOU FOR PRAYING OVER THIS BODY. WE ASK THAT YOU ENTER INTO A POSTURE OF PRAYER WHATEVER THAT IS FOR YOU SACRED CREATOR OF THIS LAND WE CALL BOSTON STEWARD OF ALL THE TREES, BIRDS AND WATERS THAT STAND FLY AND FLOW THROUGH THIS CITY. GREAT REDEEMER WHO KNOWS THE HAIRS ON OUR HEAD SEES OUR BEAUTY AND OUR BROKENNESS AND LOVES US EACH WITH AN ABIDING ENDURING LOVE WHOSE LOVE ABOUNDS MOST FOR THOSE WHO ARE OVERLOOKED UNDER RESOURCED AND OPPRESSED HOLY SPIRIT MAKER OF GOOD TROUBLE STATUS QUO DISRUPTOR SHE WHO BRINGS NEW POSSIBILITIES INTO EXISTENCE AND WHO CALLS US TO BE BEACONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN AN UNJUST WORLD WE ACKNOWLEDGE NOT ONLY YOUR DIVINE PRESENCE BUT THAT OF THE ANCESTORS THE MASSACHUSETTS ANCESTORS WHO STEWARDED THESE LANDS WITH THOUSANDS OF YEARS THE ANCESTORS WHO CAME BEFORE US SOME BY DESIGN, SOME BY DEFAULT ,MANY LEAVING OUR HOMELAND WHERE THEY COULD NOT ARRIVE. WE ALSO GIVE HOMAGE OLD GOD TO OUR MAURY'S AND ELDERS LIKE JEAN MCGUIRE THOSE WHO CARRIED THE TORCH FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE, THOSE WHOSE LEGACY UPON OPEN DOORS FOR US TO BE FEMALE LEADERS SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF YOU THOSE WHOSE STRUGGLE SET THE FOUNDATION FOR AN ELECTORAL PROCESS THAT YIELDED A COUNCIL THAT LOOKS LIKE THE CITY IN WHICH WE LIVE MOST IMPORTANTLY OH GOD WE ASK THAT THE SPIRITS OF OUR YOUNGER AND NOT YET BORN GENERATIONS BE PRESENT IN THIS SPACE. WE REMEMBER THE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL TODAY, SOME OF WHOM HAD JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH HALLOWEEN CANDY. WE REMEMBER THAT TODAY WE ARE WRITING THE STORY THAT SHAPES THEIR LIVES AND INFORMS THEIR DESTINY THROUGHOUT THIS SESSION. OH GOD. LET US REMEMBER TO CARRY OUR SELVES WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY WATCHING THIS FEED FROM THEIR CLASSROOM WOULD BE PROUD TO KNOW THAT WE ARE THEIR LEADERS . WE ASK THIS AFTERNOON THAT YOU EQUIP EACH COUNSELOR TO SPEAK THEIR TRUTH TO REPRESENT OUR DISTRICTS AND TO SERVE THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND WE ASK THAT YOU ALLOW THEM TO LISTEN DEEPLY THE VOICES OF THEIR COLLEAGUES AS THEY ALSO REPRESENT THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND TO THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON ASSEMBLED HERE WHO COME TO BEAR WITNESS AND TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. MOST IMPORTANTLY WE ASK THAT EVERYONE HOLD IN THEIR HEARTS THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE, THOSE WHO CAN'T TAKE THE TIME OFF OF WORK, THOSE WHO LACK THE TEETH BEAR TO GET YOUR SOME WHO FEEL DISENFRANCHIZED BY THE PROCESS OR BETRAYED BY OUR SYSTEMS OF POWER. WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE DECISIONS ARE NOT EASY AND THE TRADE OFFS ARE REAL BUT WE ASK THAT THE WORK TODAY BE DRIVEN BY THE VALUES OF EQUITY AND JUSTICE THINKING NOT ABOUT THE NEXT ELECTION BUT THE NEXT GENERATION. AND SO AS THE COUNCIL DELIBERATES TODAY, MAKE THEM ONE BODY WORKING FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE CONTINUE TO MAKE US AND MOLD US INTO A SHINING EXAMPLE TO EVERY RESIDENT REGION AND REPUBLIC OF HOW YOU TAKE PEOPLE AND PLACES WITH AN IMPERFECT PAST AND TRANSFORM THEM INTO A PARAGON OF POSSIBILITY. GOD, WE RAISE THIS PETITION ON BEHALF OF EVERY RESIDENT FROM JAMAICA PLAIN TO SEVEN HILL FROM THE SOUTH AND TO SOUTH BOSTON FROM BLUE HILL AVENUE TO NEWBURY STREET. OH GOD WE FIND OURSELVES DECLARING LIKE BIG MAMA IF WE EVER NEEDED YOU LONG BEFORE WE SHOW DO NEED YOU NOW AND SO GOD WE PRAY THAT YOU WHO IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDINGLY AND ABUNDANTLY SO MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN ASK OR IMAGINE TURN OUR MESSES INTO GREAT MIRACLES TO YOU. OH GOD HAS BROUGHT US THIS FAR BY FAITH WHO IS PRESENT EVEN NOW RIGHT HERE TO YOUR GOD WE PRAY THAT WE WILL FULFILL YOUR DESIRE TO LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE WATER AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM. OH GOD LET IT BE WE PRAY AMEN. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US PLEASE JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE I PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF JUSTICE . THANK YOU REVEREND FOR BEING HERE WITH US FOR THE IMPORTANT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IN OUR CITY AND YOUR FAMILY HAS A LONG LEGACY OF HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US AND THANK COUNCIL LOUISIANA FOR INVITING OUR DISTINGUISHED CLERGY HERE WITH US. MR CLARK, CAN WE ENSURE THE RECORD IS REFLECTED THAT COUNCILOR BAKER IS PRESENT IN COUNCIL ? FLAHERTY IS PRESENT. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR FELIX ARROYO AND FORMER SENATOR DIANNE WILKERSON ARE ALSO HERE WITH US. WELCOME TO THE CHAMBER. WE'RE ONTO THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. THAT'S THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS APPROVAL OF THE MEDAD SEEING AND HEARING NO DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER THAT SHE MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MINUTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING SAY I OPPOSED SAY NAY. THANK YOU. THE MEETING THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING STAND HAS APPROVED COMMUNICATIONS FROM HER ON TO THE MAYOR. MR CLARK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FOUR THREE PLEASE DUCK NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR THREE MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FROM THE STATE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE COUNCIL ON THE AGING FORMULA ALLOCATION AWARDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ELDER AFFAIRS TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE STRONG COMMISSION. THE GRANT WILL FUND SERVICES FOR ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY OLDER ADULTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AT TWELVE DOLLARS PER PERSON, ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS DATA FROM UMASS BOSTON DONOHUE INSTITUTE. THANK YOU MR CARACTACUS. ONE THREE FOUR THREE OR REFER THE COMMITTEE AND STRONG WOMAN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. MR CORA, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FOUR FOUR NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR FOUR MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON FOR AN APPROPRIATION IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING COST OF A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND SCHEMATIC DESIGN WORK ASSOCIATED WITH ROOF BOILER AND WINDOW AND DOOR REPLACEMENT PROJECTS AT THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS. BUT JEREMIAH BURKE HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL THE DR. WILLIAM HENDERSON UPPER SCHOOL, THE DENTISTS HE DENNIS C. HALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN KIRRILY K THROUGH EIGHT SCHOOL THANK YOU DOCKET ONE THREE FOUR FOUR WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. MR CORA, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKETS ONE THREE FOUR FIVE PLEASE. DORKING NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR OR FIVE MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS ,DIVISION OF CONSERVATION SERVICES, PARKLAND ACQUISITIONS AND RENOVATIONS FOR COMMUNITIES PROGRAM. THIS GRANT IS AWARDED BY A WATER TO THE CITY OF BOSTON TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT FOR RENOVATIONS TO ODEY PLAYGROUND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH AND NABLE. THANK YOU DOCTOR. ONE THREE, FOUR OR FIVE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RESILIENCY AND PARKS. MR CORAK CAN YOU PLEASE READ A ONE THREE FOUR SIX PLEASE DUCK NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR SIX MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF 50000 CALLS FROM THE BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY EPA PURSUANT TO THE TWO HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN ALL COMMONWEALTH COOPERATION AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE BP DISASTER AND PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BOK. COUNCILOR BOK YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT. AS CHAIR ON THE COMMITTEE OF CITY SERVICES AND INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY I WANTED TO ASK FOR SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. IT'S FIFTY THOUSAND THAT COMES FROM BIDET ARTICLE EIGHTY AGREEMENT AND THEN THE CONTRIBUTION WILL BE USED TO FUND THE PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF DECORATIVE STREET LIGHTS KNOWN AS BOULEVARD ON DORCHESTER STREET NEAR THE PROPOSED PROJECT. SO I BELIEVE THE RESIDENTS IN YOUR DISTRICT AND I SAID THIS WAS ALREADY AGREED AS PART OF THE COOPERATION AGREEMENT BUT WE NEED AND ACCEPT AND EXPECTED TO FORMALLY ACCEPT IT. SO I'D ASK COUNCIL PASSAGE TODAY. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FOR COUNCIL WALK SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND POSITIVE DWARKA ONE THREE FOUR SIX ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE I OPPOSED SAY NAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET HAS PASSED REPORTS AND PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS MR KIRK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FOUR SEVEN AND ONE THREE FIVE ZERO TOGETHER I OVER ONE THREE FOUR SEVEN COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK OF THE FILING BY THE BOSTON RESIDENCY COMPLAINTS COMMISSION REGARDING THEIR ANNUAL REPORT JANUARY THROUGH DECEMBER TWENTY TWENTY DUKKHA NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR EIGHT COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK OF THE FILING BY THE BOSTON RESIDENCY COMPLAINTS COMMISSION REGARDING THEIR ANNUAL REPORT JANUARY THROUGH DECEMBER TWENTY TWENTY ONE DARK NUMBER ONE THREE FOUR NINE NOTICES RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF RACHEL SKERRITT AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE NOMINATING PANEL FOR A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 28TH. TWENTY TWENTY FOUR AND NO ONE THREE FIVE ZERO NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979 RELATIVE TO ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF OCTOBER 1910. TWENTY TWO THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE THREE FOUR SEVEN AND ONE THREE FIVE ZERO BE PLACED ON FILE YES ONE THREE FOUR SEVEN EIGHT ONE THREE FOUR ONE THREE FIVE ZERO WILL BE PLACED ON FILE. WE WILL HAVE TO SEE EVERYTHING OK TO HAS RELATES TO REDISTRICTING. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THOSE TOWARDS THE END. YEAH. ARE THE DOCKETS REVERTING TO REDISTRICTING? WE'LL DO WHAT WE'LL DO TOWARDS THE END. THANK YOU MR THANK YOU MR CLERK. WE'RE GOING TO DO REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS LOOK MATTERS RECENTLY HEARD OF A POSSIBLE ACTION MR CORRIGAN DOCKET ZERO TWO FOR ONE PLEASE. DOCKET NUMBER ZERO TWO FOR ONE ORDER FOR REHEARING EARNING A SUPPLEMENTAL SIDEWALK CLEARANCE PROGRAM DURING SNOWSTORMS IN BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR COUNCILOR BOK. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. AND WE HAD A SUCCESSFUL HEARING YESTERDAY. THANKS SO MUCH TO MY CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR EARL AND ALSO TO THE COUNCILORS MURPHY FLYNN AND THE ADJOURNED FOR ATTENDING. WE WERE JOINED BY SUPERINTENDENT ROLE TALKING ABOUT THE PILOT PROGRAM LAST WINTER AND KIND OF WHAT WE HAVE IN THE WINTER GOING AHEAD REALLY EXCITED. SO AS FOLKS MANY COUNCILORS KNOW LAST YEAR THE DEPARTMENT AGREED TO THROW A WHOLE BUNCH OF KIND BOBCATS AND SMALL SNOW EQUIPMENT AT CLEARING ESPECIALLY THE PEDESTRIAN RAMPS KIND OF HELPING IN PLACES WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE SIDEWALKS GETTING CLEARED BY THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER. BUT THE CORNERS ARE NOT ARE GETTING PLOWED IN AND PEOPLE CAN'T GET AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT HAS A BIG IMPACT AS WE KNOW ESPECIALLY ON FOLKS MOBILITY CHALLENGES OUR OLDER FOLKS WITH A STROLLER, ANYBODY WITH A WHEELCHAIR AND IT CAN BE REALLY DANGEROUS AND WE WANT OUR CITY STREETS TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE AND THAT MEANS THAT THE SIDEWALKS HAVE TO BE ACCESSIBLE SO LAST YEAR THEY PUT OUT A CALL FOR ALL THE CONTRACTORS WHO DO PLOWING FOR THE CITY TO ALSO BRING IN ANY BOBCAT'S ET CETERA THAT THEY OWNED AND ULTIMATELY ENDED UP WITH. WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE FORTY ENDED UP WITH SIXTY PIECES OF EQUIPMENT OUT AROUND THE CITY FOCUSING ON KEY INTERSECTIONS AND PEDESTRIAN AREAS WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF FOLKS. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT CAME TO US YESTERDAY AND SAID YEAH, IT'S NOT A PILOT ANYMORE. IT'S PART OF OUR OPERATION AND WE'RE ALSO EXPECTING FOR THIS WINTER TO BE ABLE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PIECES EQUIPMENT UP FROM 60 TO 80 SO THEY THINK THEY'LL SEE SOME SIGNIFICANT MORE CAPACITY. THERE WAS ALSO SOME LEARNINGS UNFORTUNATELY THE FOLKS WHO HAVE THE CABLES CAN DRIVE THE BOBCATS ARE THE SAME FOLKS WHO ARE DRIVING THE PLOWS. SO WHAT WE SAW WAS A QUICK STORM. THEY CAN JUST TURN RIGHT AROUND AND DO THIS THIS PEDESTRIAN CLEARING WITH A LONG STORM THERE KIND OF NEEDS TO BE A PAUSE THAT PEOPLE CAN LITERALLY SLEEP AND RECHARGE. SO I THINK KIND OF LEARNING THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION AND THEN WE DISCUSSED AS A COMMITTEE THE FACT THAT I THINK MANY OF US WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MORE ROBUST AND LIKE AND SORT OF LIKE COMMITTED SIDEWALK CLEARING PROGRAM. BUT IT'S SO MUCH MORE SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT WE KIND OF NEED TO BUILD TOWARDS THAT. SO THE COUNCIL DID FUND IN THE ARPA PACKAGE EXPANSION OF SIDEWALKS, NO CLEARANCE INTO OUR KIND OF MAIN STREET'S DISTRICTS. THAT HOWEVER IS SLATED TO START NOT THIS WINTER BUT THE FOLLOWING WINTER. SO THIS WINTER IT'S GOING TO BE AN EXPANSION OF WHAT WE WERE DOING LAST WINTER WITH MORE EQUIPMENT AND SOME LEARNINGS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SUPER ROLE SAID FOR ALL COLLEAGUES IS THAT IF THERE ARE PARTICULAR AREAS IN YOUR DISTRICT WITH HAPPY PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC THAT DOES SEEM AFTER THE FIRST STORM IF THEY'RE NOT GETTING THIS ATTENTION, IF YOU CAN FLAG IT UP FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO DIRECT AND WE AND THE CONSTITUENTS ARE ARE SOME OF THE FOLKS TO HELP THEM FIGURE THAT OUT. BUT I THINK EVERYONE WAS UNANIMOUS IN REALLY THANKING OUR HARDWORKING PUBLIC WORKS STAFF AND WE TALKED ABOUT YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TRYING TO RAISE THE SALARIES TO MORE COMPETITIVE CODDLES. ANYBODY WITH CDL RIGHT NOW IS SUPER EMPLOYABLE AS THE CITY IS HAVING A TOUGH TIME COMPETING. BUT THEY ARE RAISING THAT AND IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO WORK. SO ANYBODY WITH A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE OR WHO WANTS TO GET ONE WHO WANTS TO CAN WORK FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON. WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU AND THAT'S THIS DOCKET MR PRESIDENT ,WE'D LOVE TO HAVE STAY IN COMMITTEE. THANKS SO MUCH. THANK YOU. CONSTABLE DWARKA ZERO TWO FOR ONE WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. MR QUIRKILY WHO WANT TO EMOTION'S ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS. CAN WE COULD YOU PLEASE READ ONE THREE FIVE TWO TWO THE RUSSIAN DOGGETT'S ONE THREE FIVE ONE AND ONE THREE FIVE FOUR AS IT RELATES TO REDISTRICTING WE'LL TAKE IT TOWARDS THE END. MR CARR CAN YOU READ THE NEXT DOCKET WHICH IS ONE THREE FIVE DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE TWO COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY AH FOR THE FOLLOWING FOUR FOR A HEARING REGARDING DIVERSION SERVICES FOR TRASH AT LARGE BOSTON VENUES. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR OUR CITY COUNCIL FLAHERTY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. AS MENTIONED IN WHEREASES THE LARGE VENUES WITHIN THE CITY OF BOSTON PRODUCED TONS OF TRASH DURING EACH EVENT HELD AT THE VENUE. THINK TD GARDEN THINK FENWAY PARK. I THINK OUR CONVENTION CENTER THINK ABOUT ALL OF OUR FOLLOWING UNIVERSITIES, ALL THE SPORTING EVENTS, CONCERT VENUES, THEATERS ETC. ALL ACROSS THE CITY. SO CURRENT WASTE STREAMS FROM VENUES ARE SIMPLY DISPOSED OF AT THE END OF THE EVENT AND THEN GO TO LANDFILLS OR INCINERATORS. THERE ARE IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS FOR SORTING OF WASTE ITEMS FOR RECYCLING OR REPURPOSING, CONSERVING LANDFILL SPACE AND REDUCING CLIMATE POLLUTING GASES ARE A MAJOR, MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS OF OUR CITY. SERVICES SHOULD BE EXPLORED TO TO SORT THIS KIND OF TRASH AT LARGER EVENTS AND VENUES AND ADVISE THAT THERE ARE THESE TECHNOLOGY IN THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE FOR US AS A CITY TO EXPLORE IN FACT THE TWENTY THIRTY SOLID WASTE MASTER PLAN FOR THE CARMELLO AIMS TO REDUCE DISPOSAL BY 30 PERCENT OVER THE NEXT DECADE AND AS MUCH AS EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT OF TEXTILES THAT ARE THROWN AWAY TODAY COULD BE RECYCLED EVERY EPISODE. BOTTOM LINE IS TOO MUCH MATERIAL THAT COULD BE RECYCLED CONTINUES TO END UP IN OUR LANDFILLS. I LOOK FORWARD TO AN EXPEDITED HEARING URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO TO SIGN ON AND TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS INTO AND COMPANIES ETC. THAT YOU KNOW THAT SORT OF DO THIS TYPE OF STUFF TO COME FORWARD AND LET US KNOW WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE OUT THERE SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THOSE INTRODUCTIONS TO DECISION MAKERS HERE IN OUR CITY TO HELP US REDUCE THE WASTE THAT CURRENTLY GETS TO LANDFILLS INCINERATORS. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL . FINALLY AS ANYONE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER OR THE NAME MR CLARK, PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR BAUK COUNCIL CALERO COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON CANCELLARA COUNCILOR REGION COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR DROPPED ONE THREE FIVE TO GO TO THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY . MR CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE THREE DR NO. ONE THREE FIVE THREE COUNCILOR WE'RE OFFERED THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ALL COUNCIL WELL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN AND I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULE AND ADD COUNCILOR ANDERSON AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON IS OUTED AS A CO-SPONSOR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WU THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. WE WE ARE TIRED OF FEELING UNSAFE AT OUR PART AND JUST SIMPLY WALKING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE ARE TIRED OF BURYING FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES DUE TO GUN VIOLENCE AND THE MORE THAN ANYTHING WE ARE TIRED OF INACTION. I WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL WHEN MY 16 YEAR OLD COUSIN GREG WAS KILLED IN DORCHESTER OVER A PAIR OF SNEAKERS. MY UNCLE BENZI FOLLOWED A FEW YEARS LATER WHO WAS MURDERED THEN HIS HOUSE TO THROUGHOUT THE YEARS I'VE LOST MANY FRIENDS DUE TO GUN VIOLENCE AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES AS LAST WEEK I HAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO ANOTHER FRIEND MAX WHO WAS SHOT TWICE WHILE DOING WHAT HE LOVED CAN HERE BUILDING COMMUNITY. AND THE SAD THING IS THAT THIS STORY MY STORY ISN'T UNIQUE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND I'M NOT EVEN THE ONLY ONE ON THIS COUNCIL WITH A STORY LIKE THIS, LET ALONE IN THIS CITY VIOLENCE IS DOWN BUT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO REALIZE THOSE FACTS. THERE ARE A STRING OF VIOLENT ACTS. IT'S EVEN HARDER TO REALIZE THOSE FACTS WHEN OUR VICTIMS ARE YOUNG PEOPLE. THE IMPACT OF THIS VIOLENCE IS FAR AND WIDE FROM NEIGHBORS FEELING UNSAFE TO WALK FROM THEIR HOMES TO FAMILIES AND FRIENDS BEING THREATENED WITH RETALIATION FOR TOO LONG WE RELIED ON ONLY A HANDFUL OF TOOLS AVAILABLE AVAILABLE TO US TO DEAL WITH GUN VIOLENCE. THIS WILL ONLY GET US SO FAR IF WE ARE TRULY TO END GUN VIOLENCE IN BOSTON WE WILL NEED TO ADDRESS IT FROM ALL SIDES. THAT MEANS SHORT AND LONG TERM SOLUTIONS REBUILDING RELATIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND CITY DEPARTMENTS, INVEST INVESTING IN SOCIAL SERVICES WHICH INCLUDE SHORT AND LONG TERM SOLUTIONS. IT MEANS PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO ARE GRIEVING THE LOSS OF LOVED ONES AND IT MEANS WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITY LEADERS AND IT MEANS INVESTING IN COMMUNITY LONG IGNORED. IF WE'RE GOING TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES WE MUST FOCUS ON INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION. WE MUST PROVIDE IMMEDIATE RELIEF TO THOSE WHO STRUGGLE AND MAKE THE LONG TERM SYSTEMIC INVESTMENTS THAT REDUCE CRIME IN THE LONG RUN WE MUST SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE VERY DOING THE HARD WORK AND WE MUST DO IT NOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FERNANDES INNOCENT YOU HAVE THE FULL I THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN IT'S WITH GREAT HONOR THAT I RISE AND COSPONSORING THIS HEARING ORDER WITH CONSTABLE AROW. I THINK THAT IT TAKES A STRONG MAN TO SHOW HIS VULNERABILITY IN PUBLIC TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON ISSUES THAT IMPACT US AND I GUESS BY WAY OF INTERCONNECTIVITY WE ARE ALL IMPACTED AND SOME OF US BY WAY OF VISCERAL TRAUMA AND SOME OF US DIRECTLY EXPERIENCE THESE HARSH EXPERIENCES IN DISENFRANCHIZED COMMUNITIES. I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS IN TERMS OF HOW WE CAN INVEST OR CREATE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OR TRUE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND POOR COMMUNITIES THAT WILL ACTUALLY CURB POVERTY THAT WILL ACTUALLY EVENTUALLY INCREASE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE OR SUPPORT SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH THAT AS WE KNOW IT BY WAY OF BEST PRACTICES SUPPORT US IN DEALING WITH THESE ISSUES . WE NEED TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY SO WE KNOW THAT AND FOR THE STEREOTYPES THAT WE HEAR, WHY DON'T THEY JUST PULL THEMSELVES BY THE BOOTSTRAPS? WHY DO THEY KILL EACH OTHER OR WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN IN PARTICULARLY IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES? AND THEN WE MUST COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS. PEOPLE SAY WE MUST PROCESS THIS. WE MUST GO TO CLERGIES OR COMMUNITY CENTERS OR TO STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE HAVE TO TALK TO OUR ELDERS. I'VE EVEN HEARD RECENTLY WHEN YOU SPEAK TO THE POWERS THAT BE THEY RESPOND WITH YOU SHOULD MENTOR US AND DO SO WE CAN DO IT BETTER. IT'S PATRONIZES REALLY AND NO, NOT EVERYONE CAN PULL THEMSELVES BY BOOTSTRAPS TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. WE HAVE TO BE HONEST AND SINCERE ABOUT HOW THE CITY OF BOSTON IS INVESTING IN CAPITAL REAL PROJECTS, REAL CAPITAL INVESTMENTS IN THE BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO TURN OUR CITY AROUND TO GIVE BLACK AND BROWN WORKING CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE A TRUE CHANCE TO INCREASE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. I WANT THE OLDER BLACK WOMAN IN ROXBURY TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE JAZZ CLUB ON A WEEKEND TO DECOMPRESS. I WANT MISS DOROTHEA JONES FOR EXAMPLE WITH HER HALLOWEEN PARTY TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT ON A LARGER SCALE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SPACES WHERE IT'S NOT JUST A BOX BEING BUILT IN OUR COMMUNITY AND NOTHING TO DO ON THE WEEKEND. I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT THE STATISTICS IN TERMS OF HEAT ISLAND HOW WE ARE BEING DISPLACED COMMERCIALLY HOUSING ,CLIMATE, HEALTH BUT YOU ALL KNOW HOW THE STATISTICS BUT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR POLICIES AND YOUR PRIORITIES WE PRIORITIZE THINGS THAT HAVE IMPACT OUR DISTRICTS BUT WE ARE NOT VERY HONEST ABOUT HOW WE ARE INVESTING CAPITAL IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, HOW WE ARE NOT PUTTING ACTUAL COMMUNITY CENTERS IS THAT SUPPORT OR HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTERS THAT ACTUALLY HELP OUR LIVES THAT WE'RE NOT PUTTING AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS WE'RE NOT CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE OF COLOR. WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. WHAT WE DO IS WE PUT FIFTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN MATTAPAN AND THEN WE INVEST THREE HUNDRED MILLION IN FENWAY AND THEN WE SAY OH NO, NO. THAT'S BECAUSE MAJORITY OF THAT IS GOING TO THE ARTS SCHOOL. BUT IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN WHERE HOW ARE WE PRIORITIZING SCHOOLS IN MATTAPAN OR HOW ARE WE PRIORITIZING SCHOOLS IN DORCHESTER? SO IF THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO LEAD THEN THIS YEAR I WILL SAY CAN WE ACTUALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUDGET THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON? VIOLENCE PREVENTION MEANS THAT WE ACTUALLY TAKE THE MONEY FROM THE CITY AND THAT WE INVEST IN BLACK AND BROWN AND OUR MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN BOSTON IN REAL WAYS NOT THROUGH AFFORDABLE RENTAL. SO WE CAN SAY WE'VE CREATED HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF RENTAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND WE'VE SOLVED THE HOUSING CRISIS BUT SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY CREATE QUALITY WAY OF LIFE MEANING AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP SO THAT I CAN BUILD WEALTH SO THAT I CAN PASS DOWN TO MY FAMILY SO THAT WE CAN CLOSE THE WEALTH GAP SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME AND WORRY ABOUT WHAT EATING WHY AM I DOING HOMEWORK OR DO I HAVE A SHELTER OR HOW I'M MAKING IT OR IF MY KID IS SAFE GOING HOME. THIS IS REAL ISSUES THAT WE NEED TO TAKE TO OUR MAYOR THAT WE ALL NEED TO TALK TO EVERY ADMINISTRATION AND CHIEF OF DEPARTMENTS HERE TO BE ABLE TO SAY HOW ARE WE PRIORITIZING BLACK AND BROWN AND OUR MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN BOSTON IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HOLD DOWN A BULLET WOUND FROM YOUR FRIEND SO THAT THEY DON'T BLEED OUT AND DIE, YOU DON'T KNOW THIS ISSUE AND KNOW THEY DON'T WANT TO KILL THEMSELVES. THEY DON'T WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER. THEY ARE SURVIVING. YOU BUILD THE JUNGLE SO YOU GET ANIMALS AND THEN YOU SAY WHY DO YOU ACT SO BUILD A FOREST SO THAT I CAN FLY LIKE A BIRD? I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE RIVERS AND I WANT TO GO TO SEA AND I WANT TO ENJOY THOSE THINGS TOO AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS CONTRIBUTE OR IS A DEFICIT TO MY WAY OF LIFE. SO I'M ASKING THIS COUNCIL THIS BODY TO WORK ON THIS HEARING ORDER. I THANK YOU COUNCILOR FOR YOUR BRAVERY TO FILE THIS INTO ALLOW ME TO JOIN YOU ON THIS AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EVERYONE HERE IN AN OPEN, HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE ACTUALLY INVEST IN BLACK AND BROWN NOT TOKENISM, NOT YOUR LITTLE CRUMBS, NOT FIFTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS TO MATTAPAN. NOT SILLY LITTLE PARKS, NOT JUST THREE MILLION DOLLAR CLEAN UP THIS PARK BUT FIFTEEN MILLION BACK BAY NONE OF THAT. NO, NO, NO. I WANT REAL MONEY TO BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES SO WE CAN ACTUALLY CREATE REAL CHANGE. THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK COUNCIL FERNANDO SANDERSON THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR AND I STAND MORE THAN ANYTHING SUPPORT MY MY GOOD FRIEND IN DISTRICT FOUR . THIS IS A THIS IS A THIS IS A PRESSING ISSUE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS US ALL THE KIDS THAT ARE NOT KIDS BUT THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED THIS THERE'S LITTLE OR NO HOPE OUT THERE. I BELIEVE THAT I BELIEVE FOR US TO BUILD HOPE WE NEED TO EDUCATE WE NEED TO JOB TRAINING BUT WE ALSO NEED TO WHEN WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES IN FRONT OF US TAKE THEM. WE PASSED 500 MILLION DOLLARS IN OUR MONEY THIS YEAR. NOT ONE COMMUNITY CENTER, NOT ONE LIBRARY, NOT ONE BLOCK. NOTHING I ASKED FOR I ASKED FOR TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR A NEW COMMUNITY CENTER, A NEW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB THAT WOULD OFFER HOMEWORK HELP THAT WOULD OFFER WAYS TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO EAT THAT WOULD OFFER AFTER SCHOOL INDOOR INDOOR LEARNING THAT WOULD OFFER BASKETBALL, SOCCER ,BASEBALL, IT WOULD OFFER MUSIC. THIS COUNCIL HERE VOTED IT DOWN THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT IF WE VOTED IT WHEN WE WHEN WHEN WE HAD THE VOTE IN FRONT OF US THAT BUILDING WOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT ON COLUMBIA POINT ON COLUMBIA POINT COLUMBIA POINT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, MARY ELLEN MCCORMACK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND THE N LINDHOLM'S. SO THERE WERE OPPORTUNITIES HERE FOR US TO INVEST IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES AND WE DIDN'T TAKE IT BUT PLEASE SIGN ME ON AND BRIAN WELL COUNSELOR OUT WHEREVER YOU NEED ME PLEASE INVITE ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSOLO LOUISIANA COUNCIL OF VISION. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT. WHEN I RISE AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO MAX AND TO THE ENTIRE CELEBRITY CUTTS FAMILY AND OF COURSE TO MY COUNSELOR COLLEAGUE KATSUHIRO I KNOW HOW MUCH HE MEANT TO YOU AND HOW MUCH HE MEANT TO YOUR BROTHER AND TO YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY. AND SO THESE LOSSES ARE INCREDIBLY PERSONAL AND SO MY HEART IS WITH YOU AND WITH MAX BLACK MEN DESERVE TO GROW OLD AND TO EXPERIENCE JOY AND NOT FACE THIS TRAUMA AND IT IS TRAUMA AND WE HAVE TO DO A LOT MORE WORK WHEN IT COMES TO ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND TO GETTING THE PROLIFERATION OF GUNS OFF OF OUR STREETS. I ALSO JUST WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT. THERE'S SO MANY FOLKS THESE THESE TRAGIC INCIDENTS HAPPEN AND IT MAKES US FEEL LIKE FOLKS AREN'T DOING THE WORK BUT THERE'S SO MUCH WORK BEING DONE ON IT. WE ALL JUST HAVE TO LEAN IN MORE TO GET THE GUNS THAT ARE COMING FROM OTHER STATES OUT OF OUR STREETS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT LIKE CONSERVING ENERGY. ANDERSON WAS SAYING THAT FOLKS HAVE REASONS THAT WE ARE REALLY INVESTING ON THE FRONT END WHEN IT COMES TO MENTAL HEALTH WHEN IT COMES TO HOUSING LIKE WE DID WITH A LOT OF THE TARP MONEY TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE'S BASIC NEEDS ARE BEING MET AND TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN NOT JUST SURVIVE BUT CAN THRIVE. SO AGAIN REALLY JUST RISING TO SAY MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU BRIAN. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS CITY AND TO THE COLLECTIVE WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO TO HELP END GUN VIOLENCE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL REGION THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILMAN , YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU SEVERAL COUNCILOR ANDERSON FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE COUNCIL FLOOR AND MY CONDOLENCES AND LOVE TO ALL OF ALL OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE OUT ON THESE STREETS SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF VIOLENCE HERE. VERY SIMILAR IN 2010 MY COUSIN WAS MURDERED IN THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE IN JAMAICA PLAIN AND IT WAS THERE WHEN I MET. THAT'S WHERE I MET COURTNEY GRAY AT HIS FUNERAL. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRAUMA RESPONSE, WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE IMMEDIATE AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT GOES DOWN. BUT THEN THERE THERE HOLIDAYS THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER HOLIDAYS AND SO MANY OTHER INCIDENCES THAT PASS BY AND THAT SUPPORT FAMILIES STILL NEED. SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT THOSE INVESTMENTS LOOK LIKE. BUT I ALSO WANT TO JUST QUICKLY SAY THAT COUNCILOR ANDERSON IS RIGHT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INVESTMENTS HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON HAVING GROWN UP HERE AND DODGING MY OWN BULLETS, I KNOW THAT OUR COMMUNITIES FOR DECADES HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT VIOLENCE IN OUR STREETS AND YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR BUDGETS GET PASSED THAT DO NOT REFLECT THE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE VIOLENCE RIGHT. SO IT IS COME TO MY REALIZATION THAT AT SOME POINT THIS COUNCIL HAS A RESPONSIBILITY THIS YEAR AS WE ENTER THE NEXT WAVE OF BUDGET SHENANIGANS THAT WERE SUPER INTENTIONAL ABOUT WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK BECAUSE NOW THE MAYOR HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD IN WAYS THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR AND SO IT'S NOT A BUDGET THAT SHE'S INHERITING. IT'S A BUDGET THAT SHE'S GOING TO BE CREATING. AND BECAUSE THAT THAT IS WHERE THE OPPORTUNITY LIES FOR HER TO REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO REALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THE CITY OF BOSTON REALLY MAKE VIOLENCE AND THE SUPPORTS AND THE INTERVENTIONS AND THE PREVENTION AS THE MODEL AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAD WITH HERE. SO NEIL, I KNOW YOU'RE TAKING NOTES THERE. I SEE YOU AND I APPRECIATE IT. BUT JUST LET IT BE KNOWN THAT IF WE'RE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT VIOLENCE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON THAT WE NEED TO LEAN INTO THAT . AND YES, I AM A BIG SUPPORTER OF CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS. THOSE ARE IMPORTANT. BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CLIMATE WE ALSO HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF THE HEAT ISLANDS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW DANGEROUS IT FEELS TO RIDE YOUR BIKE. YOU WANT PEOPLE TO GET ON THEIR BIKES BUT YOU HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO RIDE THEIR BIKES IN. YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT CLIMATE JUSTICE UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT VIOLENCE. SHOES TO THOSE TWO THINGS INTERSECT. SO THIS IS WHERE I BELIEVE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY EXPAND THE LANGUAGE AND TALK ABOUT VIOLENCE IN ALL ASPECTS OF EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT THAT EXIST HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW VIOLENCE INTERSECTS WITH THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE GOING TO ALLOCATE TO SUPPORT THOSE EFFORTS. AND THAT IS WHAT WE NEED MORE OF IS WE NEED TO START THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND NOT JUST SAY WELL, VIOLENCE IS GOING TO BE FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION, HUMAN RESOURCES, THE HUMAN HEALTH AND SERVICES AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. NO VIOLENCE IS ALL HANDS ON HERE AND I THINK THAT THAT IS WHERE THE OPPORTUNITY LIES AND THAT IS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS IS FOR US TO ALL FEEL ACCOUNTABLE TO TO LEANING INTO THIS CONVERSATION. WHETHER YOU LIVE IN DORCHESTER, ROXBURY OR NOT, YOU'RE STILL IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE AND WE'RE THIRTEEN CITY COUNCILORS AND NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE OR WHAT CONSTITUENTS YOU SERVE, WE ALL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAN INTO THIS CONVERSATION. SO I'M GRATEFUL TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING YOU DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND I AM READY TO FIGHT AS HARD AS WE NEED TO TO FINALLY SEE THAT VIOLENCE IS GOING TO MAKE THE TOP LIST OF PRIORITIES IN THE BUDGET IN THE NEXT CYCLE. THANK THANK YOU COUNCILMAN . HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF OUR COUNCIL WHERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN. I JUST WANT TO RISE TO THANK COUNCILOR WIRRAL AND COUNCILOR ANDERSON FOR BRINGING THIS HEARING ORDER ON THE FLOOR AND TO JUST ECHO EVERYTHING THAT MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID. AND I HOPE THAT IN OUR CONVERSATIONS AROUND THE BUDGET THE CONVERSATION AROUND HOW WE'RE INVESTING IN YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOW WE'RE CONTINUALLY CONTINUOUSLY FUNDING YOUTH JOBS AND MAKING SURE THAT THOSE RESOURCES ARE COMING FROM SOMEWHERE MAINTAIN AND STAY IN THE CONVERSATION. I KNOW THAT I HAVE AND MAYBE NEED NOT HERE ON THIS FLOOR BUT I'M SURE THAT ALL OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES ARE TIRED OF ME TALKING ABOUT THIS ISSUE AD NAUSEUM AND ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE AS A STREET WORKER HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON DOING DIRECT VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION WORK AND THE WORK THAT WE DO WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON HOW THE YOUTH JUSTICE MOVEMENT HERE HAS CARRIED FOR SO LONG THE WEIGHT OF MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY TO FILL IN THE GAP WHEN THE CITY HAS FAILED TO DO SO AND SO FOR ME I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE LIKE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES MENTIONED APPROACH THIS ISSUE WITH A HOLISTIC LENS. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LEARNED WHEN I WAS A STREET WORKER IS THIS IDEA OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS FROM OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND THAT WHEN WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS AROUND IMPACT PLAYERS AND WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS AROUND THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON CARRYING GUNS, TRYING TO SURVIVE, PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THERE IS A SENSE OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS AND THAT SENSE OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS DOESN'T COME OVERNIGHT AND IT DOESN'T COME BY ACCIDENT. YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR, BLACK YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR ARE BEING DISCIPLINED IN HARSHER WAYS FROM THE MOMENT THAT THEY ENTER THE SCHOOLS TO THE MOMENT THAT THEY LEAVE THEY'RE BEING PHYSICALLY DISCIPLINED AT HIGHER RATES. THEY ARE BEING SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, ARRESTED AT HIGHER RATES INSIDE EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL ACROSS THE CITY AND WHEN THEY LEAVE BAPS THEY ARE BEING STOPPED AND FRISKED AT HIGHER RATES. THEY ARE BEING FIRED AT HIGHER RATES. THEY'RE BEING FOLLOWED AND CRIMINALIZED AT HIGHER RATES THAN ANY OTHER RACE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. AND WHEN THEY DO GET IN TROUBLE AND THEY GO TO COURT, THEY'RE RECEIVING HIGHER SENTENCING FOR SIMILAR CRIMES TO THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS. AND WHY IS THAT ALL IMPORTANT? I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY BECAUSE I THINK WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE AND WE TALK ABOUT BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES, WE LIKE TO THINK THAT IT IS AN ISSUE OF DISCIPLINE AND THAT SOMEHOW WE'RE NOT BEING HARD ENOUGH ON THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RECEIVING AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DISCIPLINE. THEY ARE GETTING MORE TOUGH LOVE THAN ANYBODY HAS EVER GIVEN THEM EVER IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL THAT WHAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING IS LOVE AND GRACE AND CARE. AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, A LOT OF THE TIMES WE THINK THAT WE HAVE TO COME DOWN WITH AN IRON FIST. BLACK AND BROWN YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ALREADY LIVING UNDER THE IRON FIST. WHAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IS HOW WE GIVE THEM LOVE AND HOW WE GIVE THEM GRACE AND HOW WE GIVE THEM A COMMUNITY THAT WILL WRAP AROUND THEM AND THAT LOOKS LIKE COMMUNITY CENTERS. THAT LOOKS LIKE ARTS AND CULTURE AND THAT LOOKS LIKE PARKS AND THAT LOOKS LIKE MENTORSHIP AND IT LOOKS LIKE STREET WORKERS AND IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF THINGS. BUT WHAT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IS HARSHER PUNISHING. AND SO MICHAEL, WHEN WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION AND THIS IS A CONVERSATION WE'RE HAVING NOT JUST HERE IN THIS CHAMBERS BUT OUTSIDE IS THAT WE START BEING HONEST ABOUT WHAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED AND THAT WE WORK REALLY HARD TO UPROOT THE NARRATIVES THAT ULTIMATELY TELL US THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE WORSE BEHAVED, MORE CRIMINAL AND NEED HARSHER PUNISHMENT. AND LIKE I MENTIONED IRONFIST TO TO KEEP THEM IN LINE AND TO STOP THEM FROM BEHAVING IN THE WAYS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE COUNCILOR ANDERSON SAID AND CONCERN ME, I SAID THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE THAT'S JUST SPECIFIC TO SOMEONE'S NEIGHBORHOOD AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT THAT THE WAY THAT WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM IS BY MAKING OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN ALL OF OUR BUSINESS AND THAT IS THE WAY THAT WE'VE SOLVED IT BEFORE AND THAT'S THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD. SO PLEASE ADD MY NAME PRESIDENT FLYNN AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING WORK HERE IN THE CITY. THANK THANK YOU COUNCIL . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL ARROYO COUNCIL ARROYO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THE FLOOR TO SEND MY CONDOLENCES TO MAX AND HIS FAMILY TO THE COUNCIL . WELL NO I APPRECIATE HIS SHARING OF HIS VULNERABILITY AND HIS STORY AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THAT MOVES HIS WORK AND TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON KNOWS THAT EVERY US THAT WE SUFFER IS A DIFFICULT LOSS WHETHER FOLKS ARE COMING FROM A DIFFICULT BACKGROUND, WHETHER THEY THEMSELVES ARE HURT, PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING PEOPLE OR WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE JUST INNOCENT BYSTANDERS. EVERY LIFE IN THIS CITY MATTERS. AND SO I HOPE THAT WE AS A UNIT, AS A BODY DO THE WORK NECESSARY TO CREATE A SAFE FOR BOSTON FOR EVERYBODY IN A HOLISTIC HEALING WAY THAT CREATES TRUE LONG TERM SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND SO THANK YOU, COUNCILOR , FOR RAISING THIS ISSUE AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FOR THIS ANDERSON, FOR YOUR WORDS AND FOR ALSO BEING AN ORIGINAL SPONSOR. THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ROYALTY CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, YOU THE FULL THING MR PRESIDENT, PLEASE ADD MY NAME AND THROUGH THE CHAIR TO THE MAKERS HAPPY IF IT COMES TO MY COMMITTEE TO HAVE AN EXPEDITED HEARING AND AS MANY HEARINGS AS MY COLLEAGUES WANT ON THIS TOPIC. MY SUGGESTION AS WE GO RIGHT OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS, WE GO RIGHT TO THE HOT SPOTS, FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE AND FIND OUT HOW WE AS A COUNCIL CAN WORK TOGETHER TO HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF CONDOLENCES OBVIOUSLY TO BRIAN'S FAMILY FRIEND TO ALL THOSE HERE THAT ANYONE IN OUR CITY THAT'S LOST A LOVED ONE DUE TO SENSELESS ACTS OF VIOLENCE. THANK US, PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL AUTHORITY IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER OR ADD THEIR NAME? I I ALSO WANTED TO EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES TO ALEX AND HIS FAMILY AND BUT WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE BRIAN COUNCILOR HIS SPEECH THE IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP HE PLAYS IN THIS CITY. I'VE BEEN WITH COUNCIL WELL MANY TIMES THE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED COMMISSION BLACK MEN AND BOYS AND HE PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE ON THAT COMMISSION TALKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES AND PROVIDING POSITIVE LEADERSHIP. SO I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND COUNCIL COUNCILOR RALPH MR MR CLARKE, PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ARROYO, COUNCILOR BAKER, COUNCILOR BOYLE, COUNCILOR BREAD AND COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCIL FLAHERTY COUNCIL ARE A COUNCILOR REGIONAL COUNCIL MEJIA COUNCILOR MURPHY AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE THREE WE REFER TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE ONE THREE FIVE ONE WE'LL BE PART OF THE REDISTRICTING DISCUSSION LATER ONE THREE FIVE FOUR ALSO WILL BE PART OF THE REDISTRICTING DISCUSSION WE WILL HAVE LATER. HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK WE'RE ON TO WE CAN DO WE CAN DO PERSONNEL ORDERS. MR MR COROT, PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE FIVE PLEASE LIKE NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE FIVE COUNCILOR FLYNN FOUR COUNCILOR SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND POSITIVE DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE FIVE ARE THOSE IN FAVOR SAY OUR POLICY NEIGHBORS HAVEN'T DOCKETS ABOUT MR KIRK PLEASE. WE'VE GOT ONE THREE FIVE SIX NO. ONE THREE FIVE SIX COUNCILORS ENOUGH OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE ETHAN VAIRA CITY COUNCIL CHAIR SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND POSITIVE DIKA ONE THREE FIVE SIX. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE SENIOR THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET HAS PASSED. MR CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE SEVEN PLEASE START NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE SEVEN COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA'S THAT SHE HAS SIX SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PART OF A ONE THREE FIVE SEVEN ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE I WOULD SAY NAY THE AYES HAVE IT THE DOCKET HAS PASSED. WE'RE ONTO LATE FILES. I'M INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONAL FILE MATTERS THE ADDITIONAL EIGHT FILE MATTERS INCLUDE AN ORDER FROM COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON AND A REPORT FROM THE MAYOR ON SURVEILLANCE, SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY AND DATA WORKING GROUP DELETE FILE THAT IS SHOULD BE ON EVERYONE'S DESK. WE'LL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD THESE FILE MATTERS INTO THE AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE FILE MATTERS INTO THE AGENDA SAY I THANK YOU. THE FILE MATTERS HAVE NOW BEEN ADDED TO THE AGENDA WHICH DO NOT. WE ALSO HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL AID FILE MATTER WHICH IS PART OF THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS AS WELL. YEAH MR CLARK PLEASE READ THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE THE LAST LATE FILE MADAM. FIRSTLY FIVE MEN OFFERED BY COUNCILOR FERNANDES HANDS IN ORDER RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION CLASSIFICATION IN THE CITY OF BOSTON IN FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY THREE WHEREAS THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON LED THE SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO AMEND OUR STATE CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW CLASSIFICATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAXATION ORDERED THAT PURSUANT TO GENERAL CLAUSE CHAPTER FIFTY NINE SECTION FIVE C AS AMENDED BY AS AMENDED A RESIDENTIAL EXEMPTION AND THE AMOUNT VALUE EQUAL TO THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE AVERAGE ASSESSED VALUE OF CLASS ONE RESIDENTIAL PARCELS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON B. AND HEREBY IS APPROVED FOR FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY THREE. THANK YOU. THANK MR CORBETT. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNáNDEZ ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON OF THE FOUR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THE ASSISTANT DEPARTMENT HAS ASSIGNED EACH PARCEL OF PROPERTY IN THE CITY TO A PARTICULAR CLASS THESE CATEGORIES ARE RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OPEN SPACE. PERSONAL PROPERTY IS TREATED SEPARATELY AND IS EXCLUDED FROM THIS CLASSIFICATION. STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT ALL PROPERTY BE ACUTE ASSESSED AT ITS FULL MARKET VALUE. BOSTON MUST DETERMINE ANNUAL THE PERCENTAGES OF THE TAX LEVY TO BE LISTED UNDER EACH PROPERTY CATEGORY FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. TAXPAYERS CAN SAVE CONSIDERABLE SUMS OF MONEY DUE TO CLASSIFICATION IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN A CHANGE IN STATE LAW ALLOWED FOR AN INCREASE IN THE RESIDENTIAL EXEMPTION TO THIRTY FIVE PERCENT WE CURRENTLY UTILIZE A MAXIMUM EXEMPTION ALLOWED BY LAW AND HAVE DONE SO SINCE NINETEEN NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE AND INTO TWENTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY ONE. THIS EXEMPTION SAVED QUALIFYING HOMEOWNERS TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS AND SEVENTY NINE CENTS OFF THEIR TAX BILLS BECAUSE OF THESE SAVINGS THE SUCCESSFUL PAST PRACTICES DUE TO UTILIZATION OF RESIDENTIAL MAXIMUM EXEMPTION AND AS CHAIR ON THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE I SPEAK TO APPROVE MAINTAIN THIS THIRTY FIVE PERCENT EXEMPTION RATE TO FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY THREE. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FOR INDIGENOUS. DOES ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER OR WOULD ANYONE LED TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR CLARK PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR BOK COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY COUNCIL OF OUR COUNCIL HERE PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR THIS LATE FINAL MATTER WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. MR CLARK PLEASE READ THIS THE NEXT LATE FILE MATTER WHICH IS THE MAYOR'S REPORT THE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDINANCE ON SURVEILLANCE OVERSIGHT AND INFORMATION SHARING. I AM PLEASED TO SHARE THE FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SURVEILLANCE DATA AND PRIVACY WORKING GROUP BEING GRATEFUL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE WORKING GROUP FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENGAGEMENT AROUND THE PUBLIC USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND DATA IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THIS LATE FILE MATTER WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. OK THIS THIS LATE FILE MATTER WILL BE PLACED ON FILE TO GREEN SHOOTS. I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WILL TAKE DOCKET ONE TO ONE ZERO. MR CLARK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ THAT INTO THE RECORD PLEASE? YEAH. THIS PAGE THREE OF THE GREEN SHEET IT WAS ASSIGNED FOR FURTHER ACTION ACTION MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR AN APPROPRIATION ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF THIRTY MILLION 300000 DOLLARS TO COVER THE COST OF DESIGNING CONSTRUCTING EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHING A NEW BUILDING FOR THE JOSIAH QUINCY SCHOOL DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO ONE ZERO. THANK YOU MR CARTER. MR CARTER, CAN YOU PLEASE PULL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SEE IF THEY WOULD THE DOCTOR TO COME BEFORE THE BODY COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDISON YES. COUNCILOR WARRELL ANSOLABEHERE COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCILOR BAKER I AND COUNCILOR BREEN OK DO I GET ONE TWO ONE ZERO IS NOW PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU THE FOUR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I ACTUALLY I THINK THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT WE'RE PULLING IN BEFORE THE BODY AND JUST ASKING FOR SUSPENSION AND PASSING OF THIS DOCKET THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON MOVES TO TAKE THE SECOND READING OF A ONE TO ONE ZERO. MR CARR, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET ONE TWO ONE ZERO PLEASE. DORKING NUMBER ONE TWO ONE ZERO ROLL-CALL VOTE COUNCILOR ARROYOS YES. COUNCILOR OH YES. COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BUT COUNCILOR BARKER COUNCILOR BREEN COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR CHOLERA COUNCILOR CHOLERA YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES HENDERSON COUNCILOR FOR AMANDA SANDERSON COUNCILOR FLORIDA YES COUNCIL FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES CANCELLARA COUNCILOR CANCELLARA AS COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR LET ME HEAR COUNCILOR ME HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. AND COUNCILOR WERE TALKING NO ONE TO ONE ZERO HAVING RECEIVED THAT SECOND READING HAS APPROVED. THANK YOU. WE'LL GO TO TAKE A FIVE RECESS THE WITH THE WE'RE BACK IN SESSION, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER ON AND THANK WHEN SOMETHING FOR THE GREEN SHADE. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT ELECT. PAUL TROWELS 64 FROM THE GREEN SHEET. MR ACHARA, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THAT INTO THE RECORD OF COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSS AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER TWO SIX SIX POINT ONE NINE THE TILSTON HOUSE DORCHESTER MASS. DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX THANK MR CLARKE. MR CLARKE, CAN YOU CALL THE COMMITTEE TO SEE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW THIS DOCTOR TO COME BEFORE THE BODY COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION COUNCILOR BAKER ? YES, COUNCILOR WARRELL. YES. COUNCILOR BREEN CANCELLARA AND COUNCILOR FLORIDA ALSO THE DOCKET IS NOW PROBABLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCIL . SO BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THIS IS JUST TAILFIN HOUSE ON TILSTON STREET. I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S ON TOWNSEND STREET BUT BASICALLY IT'S IN ODDLY ENOUGH THE NEPONSET SECTION OF DORCHESTER IN ST. ANNE'S PARISH. THAT'S HOW WE DO IT. IT'S NEPONSET AND THEN WHAT PARISH HEAR FROM ANYBODY IN DORCHESTER KNOWS. SO THIS IS JUST FOR HISTORICAL DESIGNATION FOR THE TILSTON HOUSE. I JUST WANT TO TAKE THE VOTE ON IT TO MAKE IT TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ON THE MATTER BEFORE US. TWELVE DOCK AT TWELVE SIXTY FOUR OH IN FAVOR SAY AY AY OPPOSED SAY THE AYES HAVE IT DOCKET TWELVE SIXTY FOUR THIS STOCK TWELVE SIXTY FOUR HAS PASSED WAS SKIPPING BACK NOW TO THE WE'RE ON TO A OPEN MEETING LAW. YEAH THAT HAS BEEN PASSED ALREADY IT SHOULD BE ON IT WILL BE ON EVERYONE'S DESK IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. YEAH IT'S THIRTY FIVE THE THIRD RATE FILE MATTER SHOULD BE ON EVERYBODY'S DESK BY NOW I CAN DISCUSS YEAH I'LL DISCUSS IT BRIEFLY BUT I'LL ALLOW THE CLERK TO READ IT INTO THE MARKETPLACE. ORDER OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT ETTLIN AS THE CITY COUNCIL RECEIVED A COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF THE OPEN MEETING LAW AND WHEREAS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE OPEN EATING LAW IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REGULATIONS, THE CITY COUNCIL IS REQUIRED TO REVIEW THE OPEN MEETING LAW COMPLAINT PRIOR TO SENDING A RESPONSE OR AUTHORIZING LEGAL COUNCILOR OR ANOTHER REPRESENTATIVE TO SEND A RESPONSE WHEREAS TO COMPLY WITH THE OPEN LINE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REGULATIONS ATTACHED TO THE STORY IS THE COMPLAINT THE REFERENCE IN AND THEREFORE BE IT ORDERED THAT THE LAW DEPARTMENT FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON ADDRESS THE MEETING LAW A COMPLAINT AND RESPOND ACCORDINGLY ACCORDINGLY ON BEHALF OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . THANK YOU MR BURKE. EVERYONE HAS IT NOW. EVERYONE CAN CAN READ IT. I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT IT. PEOPLE CAN READ IT. JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO EVERYBODY ON THE BODY. YEAH. MR CARET WE'RE GOING TO PLACE THIS ON FILE. YOU SEE MRS THAT'S THIRTEEN FIFTY ONE AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO GO TO DOCKET THIRTEEN FIFTY ONE MR CLERK PLEASE READ THAT DOCKET INTO THE RECORD DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE ONE COUNCILOR FLAHERTY FOR THE FOLLOWING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY COUNCIL ELECTORIAL DISTRICTS THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL ADVISORY COUNCIL AUTHORITY OF THE FOUR MR PRESIDENT JUST APPOINTED THAT IT SCRIBNER'S ERROR UNDER DISTRICT TWO THE LAST SENTENCE SHOULD READ QUOTE PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE IN SIX AND WHAT AGE SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH WOULD SIX AGAIN SCRIVNER ZERO POINT OF EDIT UNDER DISTRICT TO LAST SENTENCE SHOULD READ PRECINCT NUMBER ONE IN SIX AND WARD SIX SHOULD BE SIX ONE ONE IN ONE THROUGH NINE AND ONE SIX . I LISTENED AS PRESIDENT TO RESIDENTS CIVIC LEADERS ACROSS THE CITY AS WELL AS LEGAL COUNCILOR ASSIGNED TO THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS. THE MAP TODAY BRINGS COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNITY MAP SEEKS TO DO SOMETHING NO OTHER MAP HAS DONE SO FAR WHICH WE'RE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO DO WHICH IS INCLUDED IN OUR CITY CHARTER WHICH IS TO RESPECT A HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES. WE NEED TO UNITE COMMUNITIES THROUGH THIS PROCESS, NOT DIVIDE. IT UNITES MISSION HILL. IT UNITES MATTAPAN. IT UNITES THE SQUARE UNITES US BOSTON TO NAME A FEW. THIS MAP IS TRULY A NEIGHBORHOOD UNITY MAP. I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING A HEARING ON THIS AND ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SIGN SAY THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRIORITY WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME TO THIS PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR KARAK, WILL YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR MURPHY IN THE CHAIR? YEAH. THIS DOCKET 313 FIFTY ONE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING. MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN FIFTY FOUR PLEASE. DOG NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE FOUR COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR THE ADOPTION OF CITY COUNCIL REDISTRICTING PROTOCOLS THE CHAIR ON THAT MR CHAIRMAN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR . THANK YOU MR CHAIR. WE'VE ALREADY PASSED UNDER CHAIR BREADON THE PRINCIPLES. MY MY QUESTION REALLY IS THIS TO ME READS LIKE A RULE FIFTEEN SAME OR SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME OF THAT AND SO I WOULD JUST ASK THE CLERK FOR CLARIFICATION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS IN FACT A RULE FIFTEEN VIOLATION. I'M READY TO I'M READY TO I THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL ROYALLE HAVING READ THE ORDER AND DISCUSSED IT WITH THE CLERK WITH CENTRAL STAFF THE CONCLUSION IS THAT THIS DOCKET IS DIFFERENT FROM THE REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES THAT WERE PASSED. SO THIS DOCKET IS ALLOWED ON THE FLOOR. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THE MATTER? WHAT ANYONE LIKE TO AIR THEIR NAME? WELL CAN I CAN I THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES OUTSIDE COUNCILOR MURPHY THANK YOU. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN. SO ON OCTOBER NINETEENTH TWENTY TWENTY TWO THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ADOPT THE AMENDED VERSION OF DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT WHICH WAS IN ORDER FOR THE ADOPTION OF CITY COUNCIL REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES WHICH OUTLINES FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE THE CITY COUNCIL CURRENT REDISTRICTING PROCESS. THE MEMORANDUM WAS PREPARED BY PROFESSOR JEFFREY JEFFREY WEISS ,ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL WHO IS A SPECIALIST IN REDISTRICTING AND IDENTIFIED AS A RESOURCE ON THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS AND IS CONTRACTED BY CORPORATION COUNCILOR HERE IN THE CITY, PROFESSOR WEISS CONFIRMED IN HIS STATEMENT THERE IS CURRENTLY NO RISK OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT VIOLATION UNDER THE CURRENT COUNCIL MAP IT WAS ENACTED IN 2012 HISTORIC CONTEXT LED THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE ON CENSUS AND REDISTRICTING TO FACILITATE 2011 2012 REDISTRICTING PROCESSES BY INTENTIONALLY PRIORITIZING MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT OF RESIDENTS FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES NEIGHBORHOODS HISTORICALLY SPLIT ACROSS DISTRICT LINES WITH AMPLE TIME TO SCRUTINIZE PROPOSALS AT DOZENS OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS SPANNING MORE THAN ONE YEAR, THE COUNCIL SHOULD OFFER PUBLIC HEARINGS IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY ACROSS THE CITY ESPECIALLY THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT WILL BE MOST DISRUPTED BY PRECINCT CHANGES MAKING SURE TO HAVE A CLEAR TRANSPARENT PROCESS WITH NOTICES PUT OUT IN NATIVE LANGUAGES SUFFICIENTLY ADVERTISE THE PUBLIC HEARINGS SO RESIDENTS ARE AWARE OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS AND CONTENT AND CAN ATTEND TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD THE TRANSLATION MUST BE PROVIDED FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS. THE COMMITTEE CHAIR MUST APPROPRIATE FUNDS SO THE PROCESS OF REDISTRICTING CAN ENSURE LANGUAGE ACCESS LEGAL SUPPORT FACILITATORS OR MEDIATORS EXPERTS IN A BUDGET TO ADVERTISE THE PROCESS TO THE RESIDENTS SO THERE IS PROPER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THESE PROTOCOLS HAVE BEEN ADOPTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND STATE AND OFFER FLAHERTY ON HOW COUNCIL DISTRICTS SHOULD BE REDRAWN AND SHOULD ALSO BE ADOPTED IN THE CITY COUNCIL REDISTRICTING PROCESS. SO I KNOW THAT WE HAVE GONE BACK AND FORTH ON THIS FLOOR ABOUT PRINCIPLES, CRITERIA, PROTOCOLS. SOME SAY IT'S SEMANTICS. I DO BELIEVE THOUGH THAT PROTOCOLS ARE VERY DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA ARE THE SAME BUT PROTOCOLS ARE AN OFFICIAL PROCEDURE OF RULES GOVERNING AFFAIRS OF STATE OR DIPLOMATIC OCCASIONS. AND WHEN ASKED WHY WHY WOULD I WANT TO PUT THIS FORWARD BECAUSE I BELIEVE THESE PROTOCOLS ENSURE THAT WE INJECT SOME OBJECTIVITY INTO A PROCESS THAT IS FAR TOO SUBJECT WITHOUT ANY RULES AND WE ALREADY HAVE A CLOUD OF DOUBT CAST OVER THIS PROCESS. NUMEROUS VIOLATIONS HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE AND THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE BY DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS. THERE IS A REASON THEY ARE STANDARD. THEY KEEP LEGISLATIVE BODIES TO VOTE ON THEIR OWN DISTRICTS WITHIN LEGAL PARAMETERS. SO WE DON'T END UP IN COURT. WE HAVE TO PROTECT OURSELVES AS A BODY. WE ARE NOT UNIQUE. WE ARE NOT MORE CAPABLE OF RESISTING RENOVATIONS TO GERRYMANDERING. IT IS SELF-INTEREST. SO THAT IS WHY THEIR PROTOCOLS NEED TO BE IN PLACE. OTHERWISE THE DECISION SHOULD BE MADE BY A COMMISSION OR WILL LIKELY BE DECIDED IN THE COURT IN OUR CASE. SO I DO WANT TO SAY I KNOW I RECEIVE THEM AND I BELIEVE I SAW ALL OF OUR COUNCIL NAMES ON EMAILS BUT I DO JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE REACHED OUT SARAP TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN EMPOWERMENT CENTERS SENT THE COUNCIL AN EMAIL I AM WRITING TO REQUEST THAT THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE HOLD HEARINGS IN THE HAITIAN CREOLE LANGUAGE BEFORE VOTING ON REDISTRICTING LEGISLATION SARAP TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN EMPOWERMENT CENTER IS SERVING MORE THAN 200 FAMILIES PROVIDING HOUSING ASSISTANCE, MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND CIVIC EDUCATION, EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT SERVICES. ANOTHER ONE WE RECEIVED WAS FROM BINNINGTON, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CDV AND MASS. I WRITE TO REQUEST THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON COUNCILOR REFRAIN FROM VOTING ON THE MATTER OF REDISTRICTING UNTIL YOU HAVE A HEARING IN THE VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE. AS YOU KNOW THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY IN DORCHESTER STANDS TO BE IMPACTED LIKE ALL IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES BY THE REDISTRICTING LEGISLATION AND THE CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALSO EMAILED US YESTERDAY SAYING WE ARE WRITING THIS LETTER TO RESPECTFULLY REQUEST A FORMAL BOSTON CITY COUNCIL REDISTRICTING MEETING IN CANTONESE. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT RESIDENTS WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH ARE PART OF THIS REDISTRICTING PROCESS. AND FROM PAULO DE BARROS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CAPE VERDEAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON SAID PROVIDING THE APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE ACCESS IS CRITICAL TO EMPOWERING COMMUNITY COMMUNITIES. TYPICALLY LEFT OUT OF THIS DISCUSSION THE CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY IN BOSTON WILL BE IMPACTED. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S A HEARING A PUBLIC MEETING IN OUR LANGUAGE. AND LASTLY, WE ALSO RECEIVED AN EMAIL A LETTER FROM THE SOUTH BOSTON ANOXIA AT THE LAST SEVERAL MEETINGS THAT I PARTICIPATED IN IN PERSON AND ON ZOOME LANGUAGE ACCESS HAS NOT BEEN A PRIORITY WHEN ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO TRANSLATE FOR RESIDENTS, THE INTERPRETATIONS WERE DISRUPTED . I WANT TO REQUEST A REDISTRICTING HEARING IN SPANISH FORMALLY WE MUST ENSURE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF REDISTRICTING. SO I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE EMAILS AND I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE RECEIVED COUNTLESS CALLS AND WHEN WE'RE OUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS HEARING FROM PEOPLE CONCERNED THAT THEY'RE NOT BEING HEARD OR THIS PROCESS IS BEING RUSHED AND I DO HOPE THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS IN REDRAWING CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS. SO IT DOES INCLUDE LANGUAGE ACCESS IN MORE COMMUNITY MEETINGS. WE KNOW THAT THE DATE THAT MANY OF US DO WANT TO PASS A MAPAI HAS PASSED ANYWAY. I'VE BEEN ON RECORD SAYING THAT I DO FEEL LIKE THAT IS A RUSH AND THAT WE SHOULD TAKE THIS PROCESS SLOWLY. THERE IS NO NEED TO PASS THIS MAP QUICKLY. WE NEED TO DO IT RIGHT. SO THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY. WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ARROYO AND BEFORE I RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR , I JUST WANT TO SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES IN THE PUBLIC TO BE RESPECTFUL OF EACH OTHER, NOT TO YELL OUT ANYTHING FROM THE PUBLIC WHEN A COLLEAGUE ON THE COUNCIL IS SPEAKING WE HAD DEBATES HERE AND THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THE PUBLIC TO ENGAGE IN THE DISCUSSION. AND AGAIN, I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO BE RESPECTFUL TO EACH OTHER DURING THIS DURING THIS TENSE SITUATION. IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED A BREAK TO MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES, PLEASE TAKE A BREAK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF ROYAL COUNCILOR ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. SO I WANT TO SPEAK REALLY QUICKLY ON THESE BECAUSE IT STRIKES ME THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLING THEM PROTOCOLS ARE ESSENTIALLY PART AND PARCEL. WHAT WAS WRITTEN TO US BY ATTORNEY WEISS ON OCTOBER NINE BUT MISSING FROM THESE WE HAVE MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS HERE WHICH IS ALMOST EXACTLY FROM HERE WE HAVE COMPACTNESS WHICH IS ALSO HERE WE HAVE CONTINUITY WHICH IS ALSO HERE PRESERVATION NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH IS ALSO HERE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST WHICH IS ALSO HERE BASED ON PARTIZANSHIP WHICH IS ALSO HERE MAINTAIN EXISTING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES WHICH IS ALSO HERE BUT MISSING IS POPULATION EQUALITY, WHICH IS WHAT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS HAS REALLY COME DOWN TO. I THINK THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WHETHER OR NOT MR WEISS OR ATTORNEY WEISS WAS ASKED IF WE WERE WITHIN POPULATION EQUALITY AND THE ANSWER WOULD HAVE BEEN NO AND THE LARGEST ISSUE WITH THAT IS DISTRICT TWO WHICH IS ABOUT 13 FIVE OR TWELVE THOUSAND PEOPLE OVER. AND SO IF WE WERE TO DO THESE PROTOCOLS I WOULD THINK THAT POPULATION EQUALITY SHOULD BE FRONT AND CENTER. THE OTHER ISSUE THAT IS DIFFERENT IS THAT UNDER THAT LETTER ATTORNEY WEISS PUT REQUIRED CRITERIA AND INPUT NOT REQUIRED CRITERIA. THIS WOULD ATTEMPT TO NOT MAKE THAT DISTINCTION. THIS WOULD ESSENTIALLY SAY THAT ALL OF THESE ARE SOMEHOW REQUIRED CRITERIA OR RATHER THE LACK OF IT. I WOULD SAY IF WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS IT WOULD IT SHOULD BE WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT ADDS POPULATION QUALITY BUT ALSO MAKES CLEAR THAT SOME OF THIS IS ACTUALLY REQUIRED CRITERIA AND SOME OF THIS IS ACTUALLY ACCORDING TO ATTORNEY WEISS, NOT REQUIRED CRITERIA AND WE SHOULD DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND THEN FINALLY ON THE CHARTER IN NEIGHBORHOODS WITH THE CHARTER SPECIFICALLY SAYS IS THAT REDISTRICTING SHOULD BE DONE WITH A VIEW TOWARDS PRESERVATION OF EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH I AGREE WITH. I THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS WITH A VIEW TOWARDS PRESERVATION OF EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS BUT IT DOES NOT CREATE A REQUIREMENT WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT THAT WE SOMEHOW DO SO IT SAYS TO CONSIDER IT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO HONOR THAT BUT IT DOES NOT REQUIRE IT AND I THINK THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REQUIRED CRITERIA AND NON REQUIRED CRITERIA AND WE ARE GOING TO CREATE PROTOCOLS. WE SHOULD MAKE THOSE DISTINCTIONS AND FINALLY I'M ASSUMING IT WAS JUST A QUICK LAPSE AND WHAT WAS BEING TAKEN WHAT WASN'T. BUT THE POPULATION QUALITY IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT CONSIDERING THAT IS THE DRIVING FORCE OF THIS ENTIRE PROCESS. SO THAT IS IT FOR ME. MR CHAIRMAN. THANK YOU, COUNCIL . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE, COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FULL I. I WILL ALLOW MY COLLEAGUE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION AND THEN I CAN BECAUSE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES ME HERE OK SO YOU KNOW I'M NOT GOING TO BEHAVE OK? I'M GOING TO BE WHO I AM. I'M GOING TO SPEAK IN THE WAY I HAVE NAVIGATED THIS WORLD AND THAT IS JUST ALWAYS HONEST AND FEARLESS FRIEND AND IT REALLY BOTHERS ME THAT WHENEVER WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WE ALWAYS GO TO DECORUM AND HOW PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM SHOULD ACT. AND WHILE I APPRECIATE THAT, I KNOW THAT MY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS SPACE RIGHT NOW KNOW HOW TO BE IN PUBLIC AND I KNOW YOU IT JUST IS FRUSTRATING THAT THERE IS THIS SENSE OF OF KEEPING PEOPLE IN LINE AND I'M JUST NOT THAT MAKE FOR THAT. SO EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT WE HAVE TO ACT DIFFERENTLY I AM GOING TO FIGHT THAT BECAUSE I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DO THAT. BUT ANYWAYS, WHY DO I RISE? IT IS VERY INTERESTING TO ME AS AN IMMIGRANT WHO HAD TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH TO TRANSLATE FOR MY ENTIRE COMMUNITY, I UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO ENSURE THAT A PUBLIC HAS ACCESS IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE. IN FACT I PASSED AN ORDINANCE HERE IN THE COUNCIL AROUND LANGUAGE JUSTICE INFORMATION JUSTICE SO I UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT. BUT I ALSO KNOW AND YOU KNOW, FOLKS TALK ABOUT HOW DIVERSE THEIR STAFF IS AND HOW MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES PEOPLE SPEAK IN THEIR OFFICES. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS IS THAT WE'VE BEEN AT THIS AND IF WE WANT IT TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US COULD HAVE DONE OUR PART FOR THE COMMUNITIES IN THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES THAT WE SERVE. RIGHT. SO WHILE I DO APPRECIATE THE LETTERS, I WILL SAY THAT IN THE SPACES THAT I'VE BEEN IN WHEN I'VE TRIED TO TRANSLATE ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE I WILL SHUT DOWN OK WHEN WE WENT TO THE PUBLIC HEARING AND DORCHESTER WE HAD VIETNAMESE FOLKS THERE SPEAKING AND AS FAR AS I KNOW THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE HERE ON THIS COUNCIL HAS ALWAYS BEEN INCLUSIVE IN GETTING THE INFORMATION OUT TO FOLKS AND ORGANIZING GROUPS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS SPACE HAVE BEEN ACTIVATING THEIR BASE. SO TO SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE OUR DUE DILIGENCE IN ENGAGING PEOPLE IS UP FOR QUESTION. BUT I AM GOING TO STAND AGAINST THIS WHOLE IDEA OF ADOPTING A WHOLE NEW YOU KNOW, JUST THIS YOU JUST KEEP BRINGING IT BACK AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AND WHY WE'RE SO AFRAID OF MOVING FORWARD. HERE WE ARE AGAIN. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS THAT TURNED INTO AN HOUR WAITING FOR WHAT WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? WHAT IS THE I NEED TO KNOW BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE AND WE'RE NOT BEING HONEST WITH THAT. DON'T TALK TO YOU ALL BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO GET KICKED OUT SO I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S JUST A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENING HERE AND IF I AM GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS, I NEED EVERYONE IN THIS CHAMBER TO BE HONEST WITH WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS ARE AND HOW THEY'RE MOVING IN THIS SPACE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW NONE OF IT FEELS TO ME LIKE WE'RE MOVING IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY AS A WHOLE. BUT IT OFTEN FEELS LIKE TO ME THAT PEOPLE ARE MOVING IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEMSELVES AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO FLY. SO IF WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD, LET'S DO SO AND STOP WITH ALL OF THE BEATRIX. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN HILL. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR COUNCILOR BOK. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO RISE TO SAY THAT ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 17TH I CAME TO A HEARING OF THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE HELD BY THE CHAIR AND I SAT OVER THERE AND I REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY THAT THE CHAIR WANTED TO HAVE A COUNCIL DISCUSSION IN THE HEARING ABOUT THE REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES AND THAT THAT WAS IN FRONT OF US THAT THE LETTER FROM ATTORNEY WEIS WAS IN FRONT OF US AND THAT THAT WAS THE SUBJECT MATTER THAT MORNING THE MAP PROPOSED BY THE CHAIR COUNCILOR BREADON HAD COME OUT AND A HUGE PROPORTION OF COUNCILORS WHO WERE AT THE HEARING INCLUDING A NUMBER OF COUNCILORS WHO HAVE NOW INTRODUCED PUT THIS DOCKET IN THE PRIOR DOCKET LIKE THIS LAST WEEK SAID WHY WOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES TODAY? WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT MAPS . I FEEL A LITTLE BIT LIKE I'M GOING CRAZY BECAUSE I REMEMBER SITTING IN THAT CORNER AND THE FACT THAT NOBODY WANTED TO ENGAGE WITH THIS DOCKET WHICH THEN THE CHAIR PASSED WITH UNANIMOUS SUPPORT AT THE FOLLOWING MEETING. SO THEY'RE SO SORRY . YOU'RE RIGHT. MY MISTAKE I KNOW. I APOLOGIZE, COUNCILOR . PLEASE DO NOT INTERRUPT ANY SPEAKER FOR MY COLLEAGUES. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BUCK, THANK MY MISTAKE. SO WITH OVERWHELMING SUPPORT THE DOCKET PASSED IN COUNCIL . SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE HAVE A FORUM IN WHICH WE EDIT EACH OTHERS OR LIKE ORDINANCES. IT'S THE HEARING WE LITERALLY HAD ONE FOCUSED ON THIS DOCKET BUT ACTUALLY A NUMBER BEFOREHAND WHERE THIS DOCKET BEING REINTRODUCED AND IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT COUNCILORS WERE INTERESTED IN ENGAGING WITH. AND SO I JUST THINK THAT THIS EFFORT TO CONTINUALLY INTRODUCE VERY SIMILAR DOCKETS WITH SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS FEELS AGAIN TO ME IN LINE WITH COUNCILOR COUNCILMAN HE IS SAYING LIKE A STALL TACTIC RATHER AND SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF THE THING. AND I DO JUST WANT TO ALSO SAY BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT WHETHER THE COUNCILS HAVE ENOUGH PROCESS ON EVERYTHING THAT THIS DOCKET THAT THE CHAIR INTRODUCED WE HAD OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND PUBLIC WORKING SESSIONS AND FRANKLY IT WAS THE KIND OF DOCKET THAT SOME OF THE TIME THIS COUNCIL WOULD HAVE JUST SUSPENDED PASSED RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING AND WE DIDN'T DO THAT AND THE CHAIR HAD US TALKING ABOUT IT. SO I AND IT DID CHANGE OVER THAT COURSE. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY FOR THE RECORD THAT THIS HAS BEEN ON THE TABLE ON THE COUNCIL FOR MONTHS. THANK YOU, MR THANK YOU COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR HER FINAL STATEMENT ON THIS ISSUE. I THINK THAT THE ORIGINAL SPONSOR. THANK YOU CONSTABLE AND THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ARROYO FOR POINTING OUT WHAT I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT POPULATION AND I THINK IS THE ONLY THING WE ALL AGREE ON IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO SO I AM NOT TRYING TO REPLACE WHAT WE PASSED. I DID VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE DOCKET LAST WEEK BECAUSE I DO AGREE ALL OF THOSE NEED TO STAY IN PLACE. BUT SINCE OUR PROCESS SEEMS TO HAVE BEING RUSHED IN HEARING FROM SO MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ONE THERE WASN'T COMMUNITY MEETINGS THAT WERE NOTICED AND I DO JUST WANT TO QUICKLY STATE THAT I THINK MANY OF US ARE BEING NAMED IN OPEN MEETING VIOLATIONS AND BECAUSE IT IS SAFER FOR US AS A COUNCIL TO HAVE A COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING THAT IS 48 HOURS NOTICE THAT WE CAN ALL BE AT AND WE CAN ALL DEBATE. BUT WHEN WE'RE HAVING OUR OWN MEETINGS LAST MINUTE OR IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT'S WHEN THERE'S A FEAR OF TOO MANY OF US IN THE SAME ROOM OVER THERE AND WE CAN'T GIVE ANY TESTIMONY. SO YES, I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT I'M NOT TRYING TO REPLACE THE CRITERIA BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDING PROTOCOLS THAT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING BACK BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE'RE IN WHERE WE HAVE JUST VIOLATIONS IN JUDGES AND OTHERS ARE LOOKING AT THIS AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SAFE SAYING THAT WE CARE ABOUT LANGUAGE ACCESS AND WE CARE ABOUT COMMUNITY INPUT AND THAT'S THE TWO THINGS I FOCUSED . SO TO BE CLEAR TO COUNCILOR ROY, I WASN'T TRYING TO LEAVE OUT THE OTHERS. THE OTHERS MADE IT VERY CLEAR WHICH IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO FOLLOW IN WHICH IS OPTIONAL. SO THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL REGION. YOU HAVE THE FULL PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I'VE NEVER HEARD SOMETHING REASSURING PROTOCOLS. I THINK THE RECENTLY CALLED RELISTENING PRINCIPLES BUT I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT IT'S A BIT OF A MOOT POINT LIKE THIS FIGHT THAT WE ARE HAVING OVER THE DOCUMENT ACTUALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A COURT WILL LOOK WE'LL SEE LIKE WHAT HAVE YOU ACTUALLY DONE THINGS LIKE EQUAL POPULATION THAT REQUIRED WHETHER WE HAVE IT MEMORIALIZED OR NOT THAT A COURT CAN USE THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LANGUAGE ACCESS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VOTERS OF COLOR THAT'S A THAT'S MEMORIALIZED IN LOT IN THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LANGUAGE. SO IF THERE'S A VIOLATION THERE AND THERE ARE THINGS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH WHAT YOU'VE MENTIONED AND EVEN IF WE MEMORIALIZE IT AND IN THIS HEARING ORDER AND THE REGISTERING PROTOCOLS, IT WOULDN'T MATTER BECAUSE IT'S MOOT IT'S CRITERIA THAT OFTENTIMES COME IN CONFLICT WITH ONE ANOTHER AND SO WE AS A BODY HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT IS WHAT GETS PRIORITIZED OTHER THAN WHAT IS REQUIRED SUCH AS EQUAL POPULATION AND SO I HEAR THE ARGUMENTS THAT ARE BEING MADE AND NONE OF IT MATTERS. SO IT IS A STALL TACTIC BECAUSE IT WAS IT WAS ORIGINALLY FILED. IT WAS QUITE EXTENSIVE AND AND THEN IT WAS PARED DOWN BY THE CHAIR. IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER BECAUSE WE THE WHAT THE COURT WILL LOOK AT WILL WILL LOOK AT EXACTLY HOW THE LINES WERE DRAWN AND NOT ABOUT WHAT WE AGREED TO OR DIDN'T AGREE TO IN RELATION CRITERIA WHEN SOME OF IT IS REQUIRED BY LAW AND SOME OF IT ISN'T. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I THINK THIS DEBATE IS NO. ONE POINTLESS BECAUSE OF RULE FIFTEEN AND NUMBER TWO MOOT BECAUSE A COURT DOESN'T NEED A DOCUMENT TO DECIDE WHETHER SOMETHING IS LAWFUL. THEY HAVE THE TOOLS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. THANK THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR VISION THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FOR NAME IS ANDERSON YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT CONSERVATION HAS A POINT AND I WAS GOING TO I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING SIMILAR BUT I WOULD DISAGREE THAT SOME OF THIS DOES MATTER. SO HASHING OUT BEING PATIENT WITH EACH OTHER, WHETHER COUNCIL BACK GETS UP AND SAYS THE SAME THING SHE SAID LAST WEEK OR WHETHER WHOLY COUNCIL ME HERE MAKES THE SAME POINT ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE INCLUSIVE IN LANGUAGE ACCESS AND THEN REITERATES THE POINT THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT THAT WE ARE SAYING TO YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN HIS RULE 15 VIOLATION LIKE CAN YOU NOT CAN YOU NOT BE ACCOMMODATING ONLY TO CERTAIN PEOPLE, CERTAIN COUNCILORS AND SOMETIMES NOT TO US AND THEN ALSO IN TERMS OF THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, I MEAN HOW MANY COUNCILORS HERE ESPECIALLY DISTRICT OR AT LARGE ACTUALLY PROVIDED THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS? AND IF YOU DID, DID YOU SAY OH NO BALAKIAN AUJOURD'HUI DID YOU DO THAT? DID YOU SAY OH BEEN CRIOULO? I DIDN'T HEAR NONE OF THAT. OH ALTHOUGH I KNOW BY SETTING FINAL NO NONE OF THAT HAPPENED IS IF YOU KNOW THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN EITHER. SO THE ONE PERSON THE PERSON THAT CAN SPEAK CAN THAT CAN GO THROUGH THAT I WAS I HAD A MEETING IN MY DISTRICT. I OFFERED TRANSLATION THERE WAS NO ONE THAT NEEDED TRANSLATION OR INTERPRETATION IN MY IN THE MEETING AND ALSO WHO HERE HELD MEETINGS AND ACTUALLY OFFERED LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION. YOU HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY. WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT? WHY DIDN'T YOU PROVIDE IT? I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON HERE AND SO YES, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, COUNCILOR LUJáN THIS MOOT BUT IN A SENSE BUT IN A SENSE IT'S NOT THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON. THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY HOW THE POLITICS WORKS AND HOW WE GO BACK AND FORTH. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT WE HAVE A COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO HIS DISCRETION. HE CAN SOMETIMES RULE ONE WAY AND SOMETIMES FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE BEST FOR THE COUNCIL . WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, SOMETIMES IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE LOPSIDED, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE FILING THINGS THAT ARE REDUNDANT AND TO COUNCIL BOX POINT HEY COUNCIL BRIGHTON DID THE CHAIR DID PRESENT IT TO US AND A LOT OF US WERE LIKE NO WE READ IT, WE'RE GOOD. GOOD TO GO. IT'S NOT THAT WE SAID YOU DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS IT. SHE DID SAY DO YOU GUYS WANT TO REVISIT DO YOU WANT YOUR READERS YOU WANT TO REVIEW THIS? A LOT OF US SAID WE'VE READ IT. WE'RE GOOD TO GO. SO HERE WE ARE. IF YOU WANT TO AMEND AN HONESTLY SOME OF THIS STUFF WHEN I START HEARING PEOPLE TALK IT'S LIKE OH SO THAT'S WHERE THAT COMPLAINT CAME FROM . I WAS I WAS NOT IN NO COUNCILOR ARROYOS OFFICE WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM HAVING PRIVATE MEETINGS. WHAT THE HECK THIS IS HOT GARBAGE. IT'S RIDICULOUS. IT'S SILLY. IT'S IMMATURE AND HONESTLY THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON ARE WAITING FOR US AND RELYING ON OUR LEADERSHIP FOR US TO SET PRECEDENTS ON WHAT TRUE REALLY, REALLY LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL FERNANDEZ INNOCENT EXCUSE ME. I'M GOING TO GO TO COUNCILOR HERE FOR ONE MINUTE THEN I'LL GO TO YOUR COUNCIL THROUGH THE CHAIR. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA FOR ONE MINUTE . IS THAT ONE MINUTE? YES ONE MINUTE AND THE REASON COUNCILOR HERE IS YOU ALREADY SPOKE THIS THIS WAS YES. MY MINUTES STARTS NOW. OK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MCGILL. YEAH I WANT TO REITERATE THAT I DID ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION AT THE MEETING THAT YOU I BELIEVE WAS A PART OF PRESIDENT FLYNN AND I WAS SHUT DOWN AND I ALSO DO KNOW THAT AND I ALSO DO AGREE THAT THE ALLEGATION IN OF THE SPACES AND PLACES THAT I WAS IN IN THIS VIOLATION IS NULL AND VOID BECAUSE THIS IS NOT TRUE AND I'M HOPING THAT THERE ARE CAMERAS. MR PRESIDENT. EXCUSE ME. YEAH YEAH YEAH. OK, I'M GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF RECESS. WE'RE TAKING A BRIEF RECESS BACK IN SESSION FOR THE CHAIR TONY. I'M HUMAN CHIEF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE FOR THIRTY SECONDS. ALL RIGHT. SO NOW THAT WE'VE HAD OUR LITTLE TIME OUT, I I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR AS LIKE MY WHOLE THING IS IN REGARDS TO ALL OF THE WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE JUST FEELS LIKE WE JUST KEEP TRYING TO DELAY WHATEVER AND HOWEVER THAT LOOKS AND I JUST WANT US TO BE HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS PROCESS IS ALL ABOUT AND THAT'S ALL YOU'LL GET FROM ME. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR ME HERE, COUNCILOR ARROYO FOR A BRIEF MINUTE. WE WANT IT. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS BECAUSE IT GOT BROUGHT UP NOW TWICE. OH CAN WE NOT HAVE ANY DISCUSSION IN THE CHAMBER PLEASE. THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR THANK YOU AND I UNDERSTAND MY COLLEAGUES IS ANGER AT COMPLAINT THAT FALSIFIES ARE INVENTS MEETINGS . THE REALITY IS THE ISSUE WITH THIS ONE IS THAT THAT DAY I WAS ACTUALLY A PARK TALKING TO COMMUNITY WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL SEPARATELY AND APART AND THIS IDEA OF A ROLLING MEETING IN OUR OFFICE IS FRANKLY LAUGHABLE. AND SO THE ANGER AND FEELING OF BEING TARGETED OR THAT FOLKS ARE INVENTING OR CREATING CRISIS IS TO HOLD THIS MAP UP OR TO HOLD THIS BODY DOWN AND ARE TRYING TO USE OTHER COUNCILORS WHEN THEY ARE CLEARLY DOCUMENTED IN PLACES THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IS I THINK WHAT'S LEADING TO SOME OF THAT FOLKS BEING UPSET AND I JUST WANT THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS EVEN IS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE MAKING MENTION OF SOMETHING THAT THE PUBLIC HAS NOT BEEN MADE AWARE OF BECAUSE WE DIDN'T SPEAK ABOUT WHAT THE COMPLAINT IS BUT I WANTED PEOPLE TO BE CLEAR THAT THE COMPLAINT SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO SOME MEETING OR ROLLING MEETING AND I BELIEVE MY OFFICE WHEN I WAS LENA PARK AND OTHER COUNCILORS WHERE I LIVE IN A PARK AND SO THIS WHOLE THIS WHOLE COMPLAINT FRANKLY IS LAUGHABLE. BUT I WANT THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE ARE REFERRING TO. SO THANK YOU, MR THANK YOU COUNCILOR . YEAH. WHAT ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME THEY PUT UP PLEASE AT COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL FLAHERTY PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR COUNCILOR MURPHY SEEKS SUSPENSION THE RULES AND POSITIVE DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE FOR ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE SANEI MR KIRK MR MR COULD I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO BE RESPECTFUL AGAIN AND I'M GOING TO ASK THE PUBLIC TO BE RESPECTFUL. MR KIRK, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE THE ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET ONE THREE FIVE FOUR COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR ARROYO NO COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BURKE COUNCILOR NEE COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BREADON NO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR CALADO NO COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDISON COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON NO COUNCIL FLURRIED IS COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR I KNOW COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL ALLUSION COUNCILOR ME HERE NOW COUNCILOR TO HERE NO COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES AND COUNCILOR WORLD KNOW COUNCIL WORLD NO NINE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE AND FOUR VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE TALKING NUMBER ONE THREE FIVE SEVEN DOES NOT PASS THANK MR WE'RE GOING WE'RE ON TWO REPORTS COMMITTEES MR CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE PLEASE DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING TWO WHICH WAS REFERRED ON OCTOBER 19TH TWENTY TWENTY TWO DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE IN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY COUNCIL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE ORDINANCE TO PASS IN A NEW DRAFT. THANK YOU MR CLARK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR BREADON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. AT THIS TIME I MOVE TO SUBSIDIZE SUBSTITUTE THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND SUBSTITUTE THE NEW DRAFT OF DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE. COUNCILOR BREADON IS SEEKING TO SUBSTITUTE THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAVE A NEW DRAFT THE NEW DRAFT SHOULD BE ON EVERYONE'S TABLE ABSENT FROM ANY OBJECTION THE COMMITTEE REPORT IN DOCKET WILL BE SUBSTITUTED. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. AS CHAIR OF THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE I RECOMMEND PASSAGE OF DR DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY COUNCIL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS IN THE NEW DRAFT I SPONSORED THE DOCKET WITH COUNCILOR ARROYO AND IT WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON OCTOBER 19TH THIS SUBSTITUTION REFLECTS THE DRAFT I INTENDED TO SUBMIT AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING. THE NEW DRAFT MAKES FIVE CHANGES FOR THE LANGUAGE INITIALLY FILED IN LARGE PART DUE TO FEEDBACK RECEIVED FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS AND THE RESPECTIVE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT COUNCILORS SIX THREE REMAINS IN DISTRICT TWO TO THREE. FIFTEEN MOVED FROM DISTRICT TWO TO DISTRICT THREE 619 REMAINS IN DISTRICT THREE. SEVENTY TWO AND SEVENTEEN THREE REMAIN IN DISTRICT FOUR. I TOOK ON THIS PROCESS EIGHT WEEKS AGO ON AUGUST 31ST WHEN COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS ARE TEMPORARILY READJUSTED FROM THE START ALL COLLEAGUES ARE AWARE OF THE INTENDED TIMELINE AND I URGE EACH AND EVERY COUNCILORS ASSISTANCE WITH DISSEMINATING INFORMATION ON THE PROCESS TO MAXIMIZE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND I THANK COUNCILORS AND CENTRAL STAFF FOR THEIR SUPPORT AS WE NAVIGATE THE NAVIGATED PROCESS . THE 2020 CENSUS DATA REPORTED BY THE DEEP PDA DEMONSTRATED THAT BOSTON'S POPULATION GREW BY NINE POINT FOUR PERCENT FROM 2010 TO 2020. THE HISPANIC POPULATION GREW BY SIXTEEN POINT NINE PERCENT EIGHTEEN POINT SEVEN OF BOSTON'S TOTAL TOTAL GROWTH. ASIAN POPULATION GREW THIRTY SEVEN POINT EIGHT PERCENT ELEVEN POINT TWO PERCENT OF BOSTON'S TOTAL. THE NON HISPANIC WHITE POPULATION GREW BY THREE POINT EIGHT, FALLING TO FORTY FOUR POINT SIX OF BOSTON. THE NON HISPANIC, BLACK AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION FELL BY SIX POINT FOUR WITH A POPULATION SHARE DECREASED TO NINETEEN POINT ONE. BUT WE MUST KEEP IN MIND THAT THE CENSUS HAD A NATIONAL UNDERCOUNT OF THREE POINT THREE PERCENT FOR THE BLACK POPULATION AND FOUR POINT NINETY NINE PERCENT FOR THE HISPANIC POPULATION NATIONALLY THE COMMITTEE USED THE EZRI REDISTRICTING WEB BASED SOFTWARE FOLLOWING GUIDANCE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR AGGREGATION OF MULTIPLE RACE DATA. THE METHOD USED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES DIFFERS FROM THE METHODOLOGY COMMONLY USED BY DEMOGRAPHERS AND INCLUDING THOSE OF THE BPA. WE ALSO USE DISTRACTER A FREE BEAUJON BASED INTERACTIVE MAPPING TOOL FOR CONVENIENT SHARING OF MAPS. HOWEVER, THIS THEIR METHODOLOGY FOR AGGREGATING MULTIPLE REISTAD FOR THE SAME 2020 CENSUS DATA OFFERS ALSO DIFFERS FROM THAT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT SUCH AS REDISTRICTING, A FACIAL ANALYSIS OF DEMOGRAPHIC A DEMOGRAPHIC DATA RELIES ON THE EZRI PRODUCTS. THE TIMELINESS OF THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS WAS IMPACTED BY THE AVAILABILITY OF CENSUS DATA ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CURRENT CITY DISTRICTS AND NEW PRECINCTS. WHEN I TOOK THE CHAIR IN SEPTEMBER, DATA ON NEW PRECINCTS AND CURRENT DISTRICTS WERE NOT YET AVAILABLE NOT YET PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. WE RECEIVED DATA BY DISTRICT IN MARCH 2022 AND SEPTEMBER 14 THE COUNCIL ADOPTED A 17 OR 17 ORDER REQUESTING INFORMATION FROM THE BPA 2010 AND 2020 CENSUS POPULATION TOTALS TOTAL CHANGE THE PERCENT OF CHANGE FOR NEW PRECINCTS AND CURRENT DISTRICTS. THE BPA RESPONDED ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY THIRD PROVIDING THE REQUESTED DATA WHICH IS MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL COUNCILORS ON SEPTEMBER 26 MY OFFICE REPEATEDLY URGED THE COUNCIL TO PROMPTLY PUBLISH THE DATA SETS ON OUR OPEN DATA HOME PRECINCT LEVEL DATA WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER TWENTIETH. THE ELECTION COMMISSIONERS ADJUSTED PRECINCT BOUNDARIES INCREASING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PRECINCTS IN THE CITY FROM 255 TO 275 AS PRECINCTS ARE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND REDISTRICTING IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO REPLACING WHICH CONCLUDED IN APRIL OF TWENTY TWENTY TWO. WE DID NOT RECEIVE REDISTRICTING DATA ON THE NEW PRECINCT BOUNDARIES UNTIL JULY OF TWENTY TWENTY TWO AUSTINS EXEMPTION FROM MANDATORY REDISTRICTING LONG EXACERBATE TENSIONS IN STATE AND LOCAL REDISTRICTING AN ISSUE REFERENCED IN THE REDISTRICTING REPORTS OF AFENI IN TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY TWO THOUSAND TO TWENTY YEARS AGO AND CHAIR LENEHAN IN 2012. TEN YEARS AGO BOTH STATED AN INTENTION TO REVISIT THESE REVISIT REPRESENTING AHEAD OF FUTURE REDISTRICTING A HOME PETITION TO REMOVE BOSTON'S REPRESENTING EXEMPTION AHEAD FOR 2020 CENSUS WAS PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR IN 2011. HOWEVER, AS IT TURNS OUT IT WAS REIFIED FIVE TIMES AND EVERY SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE WITHOUT BEING PASSED IN TIME FOR THE 2020 CENSUS GOES THE WAY OF MANY HOME RULE PETITIONS REPRESENTING RESULTED IN SIXTEEN SPLIT PRECINCTS CROSSING BOUNDARIES OF MULTIPLE CURRENT DISTRICTS. THE COMMITTEE'S FIRST STEP WAS TO TENTATIVELY ASSIGN EACH PRECINCT TO AN ADJACENT DISTRICT BASED ON GENERAL CONSENSUS TO ESTABLISH A BASELINE ABOUT ALOUL AND THE 22 2002 AND 2012 REDISTRICTING CYCLES. THE COMMITTEE EXPANDED FUNDS WE STRESSED AT THE OUTSET THAT THERE WAS NO BUDGET ALLOCATED FOR THIS REDISTRICTING PROCESS BEYOND THE LICENSE LICENSE OF THE LICENSE FOR MAPPING SOFTWARE AT THE REQUEST COOPERATION COUNCIL AGREED FOR THE LAW DEPARTMENT TO RETAIN OUTSIDE COUNCILOR AND ENGAGE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERTS IN REDISTRICTING WHO HAD BEEN WHO HAD BEEN EXPERT WITNESSES AND VOTING RIGHTS CASES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ATTORNEY JEFFREY WEISS, SENIOR FELLOW WITH THE NEW YORK CENSUS AND REDISTRICTING INSTITUTE OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL DR. LISA HANDLEY OF US OF FOUR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS TO MEASURE BOSTON'S VOTING PATTERNS AND EVALUATE REDISTRICT PLANS FOR COMPLIANCE AND DR. MtN ADDITION OF THE MSG REDISTRICTING LAB AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY TISCH COLLEGE ATTORNEY ATTORNEY WHY APPEARED VIRTUALLY AT THE WORKING SESSION ON OCTOBER 11TH TO PRESENT THE CONTENT OF A MEMORANDUM HE PRODUCED COVERING FIVE REQUIRED REQUIRED CRITERIA POPULATION EQUALITY, VOTING RIGHTS, COMPACTNESS CONTIGUITY CONSIDERATION TOWARD PRESERVATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS THREE ADDITIONAL NON REQUIRED CRITERIA WHAT CAN BE CONSIDERED BUT ARE NOT REQUIRED BY FEDERAL OR LOCAL LAW COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST A BAN ON PARTIZAN AND MAINTAINING EXISTING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIRES THE CREATION OF AN EFFECTIVE MINORITY DISTRICT WHERE IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE MINORITY COMMUNITY FIRST COMPRISES AT LEAST 50 PERCENT OF AN IDEAL CONTIGUOUS AND REASONABLY COMPACT DISTRICTS VOTING AGE POPULATION MAY NOT MINORITY VOTERS COULD VOTE COHESIVELY FOR THE SAME CANDIDATES AND THERE IS A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH LEVEL OF RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTING FOR THE MAJORITY VOTE SIGNIFICANTLY AS A BLOCK TO PREVENT MINORITY VOTERS FROM ELECTING THEIR PREFERRED CANDIDATES OF CHOICE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE AS COOPERATION COUNCIL WILL RESPOND, RESPONSE INDICATED THAT THE SOLE REASON FOR THE PRESENT STATUTORY DEADLINE OF AUGUST 1ST 2026 IS BECAUSE THE RELEVANT CITY CHARTER PROVISION AS NET WAS NEVER BROUGHT INTO CONFORMITY FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABOLISHING THE STATE CENSUS HAVE CITIES ENABLING STATUTE BE PROPERLY AMENDED LIKE THE GENERAL LAWS OTHERWISE APPLYING TO ALL MUNICIPALITIES THEN THE DEADLINE WAS MOST LIKELY WOULD HAVE BEEN AUGUST 1ST TWENTY TWENTY TWO IN REALITY EVEN THE NOVEMBER 7TH TARGET DATE ONE YEAR PRIOR TO THE NEXT ELECTION IS INSUFFICIENT AS IT WOULD BE UNLIKELY FOR ANY POTENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ESTABLISH RESIDENCY IN A NEW DISTRICT AND SUCH A SHORT TIME ANY THOUGHT OF FURTHER PROLONGING THE PRESENT PROCESS RISKS BEING CHARACTERIZED IT CHARACTERIZED AS INCUMBENT PROTECTION IN REVIEWING THE DOCKETS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE. SEVERAL PRECINCT CHANGES WERE COMMON ACROSS MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE PROPOSALS. IT IS CLEAR THAT PURSUANT TO THE CITY CHARTER COUNCILORS KEEP KEPT IN MIND DRAWING DISTRICTS WITH A VIEW TOWARDS PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY OF EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS. EACH AND EVERY PROPOSAL TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO HOW TO CONFIGURE THE DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHWEST SECTION OF THE CITY, PARTICULARLY IN AND AROUND ROSLINDALE. ANY CHANGES SUBSEQUENTLY TRIGGER FURTHER SHIFTS TO ADJACENT DISTRICTS IN A COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTION TOWARD POPULATION GROWTH IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY. HAVING CHAIRED THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS FOR THE PAST EIGHT WEEKS, I HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE REDISTRICTING. WE MUST REPEAL THE CITY'S EXEMPTION FROM DECENNIAL REPRESENTING AND HAVE AN ACTION PLAN WELL IN ADVANCE. THE 2030 CENSUS WE ENGAGE REDISTRICTING EXPERTS TO LET AND FUTURE CYCLES SHOULD INVOLVE CITY DEMOGRAPHER AND CARTOGRAPHER'S EARLY ON PROPER FUNDS SHOULD BE SECURED FOR REDISTRICTING COUNCIL AND RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTING ANALYSIS DATA ANALYSIS. FINALLY I SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR FOR DECADES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT ADVISORY COMMISSION TO ADVISE THE COUNCIL AS IT REDRAWS DISTRICTS. AGAIN, I THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS THUS FAR AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING I SUBMIT THIS REPORT I THINK IT RUNS TO TWENTY 28 PAGES. I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES AND MEMBERS AGAIN I THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS SO FAR AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING I SUBMIT THIS REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE OUGHT TO PASS IN A NEW DRAFT. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL BRIGHT AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING IN TERMS OF AMENDMENTS. SO AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO LET MY COLLEAGUES KNOW IN THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT WE WILL TAKE A BREAK AND ALLOW ALLOW FOR THE REVIEW OF THE REPORT FROM COUNCILOR BREADON IN AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO READ IT THOROUGHLY BEFORE I DO THAT OUT OF RESPECT, I DO WANT TO I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOMETHING HERE. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA WOULD BE NICE TO SO I APPRECIATE THE BREAK BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND I MEAN WE HAVE BEEN GOING AT THIS FOR A LONG TIME SO I JUST NEED SOME UNDERSTANDING OF LIKE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A BREAK, A RECESS I SHOULD HAVE A RECESS, A RECESS, A BOOKABLE WE'RE GOING TO SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS BACK IN COMMITTEE. WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK NEXT WEEK. THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE POCA JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THAT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL ROYALLE. THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN. I WANT TO SPEAK AS A CO-SPONSOR ON THAT MAP, AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR ON THAT MAP AS TO THE MAP AND THE PROCESS. QUICKLY BEFORE WE TAKE THAT RECESS, I JUST WANT TO FIRST COMMEND CHAIR BRADIN FOR THE WORK THAT SHE HAS DONE. THIS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT. I THINK FOLKS CAN SEE JUST BY THE NUMBER OF RECESSES HOW HOW BRAIN BUSTING THIS PROCESS OF MOVING PRECINCTS FROM ONE NEIGHBORHOOD TO ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD CAN BE. IT'S A LITTLE BIT I'VE USED THE VERBIAGE IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE JENGA. YOU PULL ONE PIECE OUT THE REST OF IT FALLS DOWN. YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IT GOES. AND SO IT HAS BEEN A PROCESS. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS. WE HAVE HEARD A LOT OF VOICES AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT TAKE THIS MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS MAP WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE STRONGEST MAP THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BEFORE THIS BODY AND THAT IS FROM SOMEONE WHO IS ALSO PRESENTED ANOTHER MAP HAS BEEN AND IS THE STRONGEST MAP BECAUSE OF THAT COMMUNITY VOICE BECAUSE THOSE COMMUNITY ADVOCATES STOOD UP AND HAVE SAID THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE IS BETTER. THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE MAKES SENSE. AND SO I'M GRATEFUL TO THOSE COMMUNITY ADVOCATES WHO ARE THE VAST MAJORITY ARE UNPAID AND ARE TAKING THIS TIME TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES BECAUSE THESE DECISIONS PLAY OUT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. AND SO I WANT TO COMMEND THIS MAP PROCESS BUT I JUST WANT TO COMMEND THIS MAP. THIS MAP GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CREATING AND STRENGTHENING OPPORTUNITY DISTRICTS BUT THAT WE ARE ALSO DEALING WITH THE MAJOR ISSUE THAT WE HAVE AT HAND WHICH IS A POPULATION INEQUALITY IN HOW OUR MAPS ARE PUT TOGETHER. THAT WOULD BE WITH DISTRICT THREE HAVING THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION. AND THIS MAP IN TERMS OF NEEDING TO ADD ABOUT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED OR SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE AND DISTRICT TO HAVING ABOUT 12000 TO 13000 PEOPLE. AND WHAT THAT HAS MEANT IS THAT WE HAVE HAD TO COMPROMISE. THIS HAS BEEN CALLED THE UNITY MAP BECAUSE IT IS A COMPROMISE MAP. IT IS A MAP THAT ADDRESSES THE VARIOUS NEEDS OF VARIOUS COMMUNITIES IN A VERY SPECIFIC WAY. AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THESE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WE HAVE THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY IN DORCHESTER THAT THROUGH THE LAST REDISTRICTING PROCESS IT HAS BEEN CLEAR HAD SOME OF THEIR THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE EFFECTIVE CHOICE SPLINTERED THROUGH THE LACK OF COHESION IN FIELDS CORNER. BUT WE HAVE ALSO HAD A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT VOICES SPEAK TOWARDS HOW SPECIFICALLY DISTRICT TWO SHOULD SHED THOSE PRECINCTS. THAT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT PROCESS FOR THE CHAIR WHO HAS HAD TO GIVE PRECINT WITHOUT RECEIVING NEW ONES FRANKLY AND I WANT TO ALSO COMMEND HIM FOR GOING THROUGH A PROCESS THAT IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT IN THE SENSE THAT IT'S NOT JUST SHIFTING BUT A LOSS. HE IS LOSING CONSTITUENCIES. HE IS LOSING PRECINCTS AND I THINK THAT IS DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE AND I WANT TO JUST LET HIM KNOW THAT I RECOGNIZE THAT DIFFICULTY. BUT IN TERMS OF HOW WE PULL THOSE PROCESSES, WHETHER OR NOT THOSE LAST PRECINCTS COME FROM SOUTHEND OR SOUTH BOSTON HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF MUCH DEBATE AND WHAT CAME ABOUT THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY PROCESS WAS THAT THE SOUTH END SPECIFICALLY VICTORIAN CATHEDRAL SHOULD BE TREATED AS A WHOLE HOUSING PROJECT AND A CONTINGENT AND THAT THOSE SPECIFIC PRECINCTS HAVE COMMITTEES OF INTEREST THAT ARE TIED TO CHINATOWN THAT DUE TO GENTRIFICATION AND OTHER FORCES AT WORK THAT PEOPLE HAVE FELT THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT THEY HAVE A BEEN PUSHED SORT OF OUT OF CHINATOWN AND HAVE CREATED AND FEEL MOST POLITICALLY CONNECTED TO CHINATOWN. SO IF WE WERE TO TAKE THEM OUT OF DISTRICT TWO, THEY WOULD FEEL REMOVED AND SO THE RESPONSE WAS TO GO UP THROUGH DISTRICT TWO, UP THROUGH SOUTH BOSTON SPECIFICALLY TO UNIFY THE MACCORMICK HOMES WITH THE LARGE HOMES WHICH WE HAD HEARD QUITE A BIT ABOUT IN MY ORIGINAL MAP I HAD UNIFIED THEM BY PUTTING THE MACCORMICK HOMES WHICH IS SEVEN SEVEN WITH SEVEN SIX AND SEVEN FIVE WHICH ARE WITHIN DISTRICT TO ON THIS MAP. THEY ARE UNIFIED THOUGH NOT ENTIRELY ABOUT 90 TO 95 PERCENT OF THE AND THE CHINESE ARE UNIFIED BY GOING THROUGH SEVEN SIX SEVEN FIVE WITH SEVEN SEVEN IN THE MACCORMICK HOMES. AND SO THAT IS TO SAY THAT THERE HAVE BEEN GIVES IN THERE HAVE BEEN TAKES WE HEARD FROM COMMUNITY D2 SPECIFICALLY SIX THREE AND SIX WHICH IS THE D STREET PROJECTS WHERE SPLIT BETWEEN TWO PRECINCTS AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN UNIFIED AGAIN AND SENT BACK TO DISTRICT TWO BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MADE THE MOST SENSE FOR A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT POPULATION AND AND CALLS FOR COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST. THIS MAP AS IT'S PRESENTED TODAY UNIFIES MORE ROSENDALE THAN CURRENTLY EXISTS. ROSLINDALE HAS MORE POPULATION COMBINED NOW MORE COHESION THROUGH 1811 AND 1912 THAN THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY. IT MAKES EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT OTHER COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST SUCH AS AN OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT SUCH AS DISTRICT SEVEN CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THEIR ABILITY FOR EFFECTIVE CHOICE. THAT DISTRICT FIVE CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN ITS ABILITY FOR EFFECTIVE CHOICE AND BY SOME LAST MINUTE CHANGES I BELIEVE TWO WEEKS AGO THE CHANGE TO GIVE SEVENTEEN TO IN CODMAN SQUARE AT SEVENTEEN SIX BACK TO DISTRICT FOUR AND TURNING SIXTY NINE TO DISTRICT THREE MADE SURE THAT WE WEREN'T DILUTING THE ABILITY FOR DISTRICT FOUR TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE CHOICE. AND I THINK THAT THESE ARE ALL THE GIVES AND TAKES OF A PROCESS THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL. I THINK THE FACT THAT THERE IS DISAGREEMENT ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS INDIVIDUAL PRECINCT OR THAT INDIVIDUAL PRECINCT MAKES THIS MAP STRONGER I THINK SHOWS AND SPEAKS TO THE STRENGTH OF THE COMPROMISES THAT WERE MADE AND CHARGING MY BODY THE BODY TODAY TO PASS THIS MAP AS CHAIR BRATTON AND MYSELF I PRESENTED IT TODAY WITH THE AMENDMENTS THAT CHAIR BRATTON HAS ASKED FOR TODAY SPECIFICALLY THE CHANGING OF SIX POINT SIX THREE TO DISTRICT TWO AND THREE FIFTEEN WHICH THE BLOCK TO DISTRICT THREE AND I'M ASKING FOR THAT IN KNOWLEDGE AND FULL KNOWING THAT WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT AMENDMENTS AND I THINK WE WILL PROBABLY SPEAK ON ALL THOSE AMENDMENTS AS THEY COME UP AND WHEN THEY COME UP. BUT I DO BELIEVE AT THIS MAP AS CONSTRUCTED DOES THE VERY BEST JOB OF MEETING THE MOMENT OF MEETING THE NEEDS AND OF WITHSTANDING LEGAL CHALLENGE WHICH I THINK AT THIS POINT TO ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION. IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE ARE FORCES IN THIS CITY THAT ARE GOING TO SEEK TO POSE A LEGAL CHALLENGE TO THIS MAP AND I THINK IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS BODY TO KEEP THAT IN MIND AS THEY PUT THIS MAP FORWARD. THAT ONE THAT LEGAL CHALLENGE IS PUT FORWARD IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT THIS MAP MEET THAT MOMENT TO MEET THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND I THINK THIS MAP DOES THAT. I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THIS MAP CAN WITHSTAND LEGAL CHALLENGES. IT'S CREATED NOW BECAUSE THE PROCESS AND MAKING IT THE ACTUAL DECISIONS MADE TO MAKE IT WHERE AND WHAT WAS PUT WHERE IT WAS MAKES A LOT OF LEGAL SENSE. AND SO I BELIEVE THE REST OF THE COMMENTARY TO TO THE BODY AFTER THE AFTER THE RECESS THAT YOU ARE CALLING FOR MR . THANK YOU. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER BEFORE WE BEFORE RECESS? ARE WE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY THAT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL ARE WE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY DURING THE AMENDMENT PROCESS TO TO SPEAK AS WELL SPEAK NOW AND THEN WE WORKING HERE ON THE FLOOR WELL ,I'M NOT CLEAR WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE SHOULD HAVE VOTED ON IT. NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE A WORKING SESSION RIGHT NOW RIGHT HERE THE SO WE'RE READY TO VOTE ON THIS IS ALL KINDS OF CHANGES COMING UP AND WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THIS NOW I'M JUST NOT COMFORTABLE, MR CHAIR. NO, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT GOING ON HERE IN MAYBE I SHOULD I'M READY TO SPEAK THE WELL LET ME LET ME ALLOW COUNCILOR BRADIN COUNCIL WOULD YOU RESPOND TO COUNCILOR BAKER'S KIND OF QUESTION ABOUT HOW THE AMENDMENT PROCESS WILL WORK? THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. I PRESENTED THE REPORT. IT'S THROUGH AND IT'S BACKED UP BY THE ADVICE OF OUR LEGAL COUNCILOR . I AM CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS A SOLID DEFENDABLE MAP AND I MOVE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO PASS THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO ALLOW COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL BALK AND THEN I KNOW COUNCIL MEJIA WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AGAIN SO MR CHAIR WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO START A SERIES OF AMENDMENTS HERE NOW I BELIEVE SOME SOME COLLEAGUES HAVE ASKED ABOUT SUBMITTING AMENDMENTS TOTALLY AND I THINK THAT'S THAT'S PART OF THE PROCESS. YEAH OK THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN FOR FOR ACKNOWLEDGING ME TODAY I GOT A CALL FROM A LONG TIME FRIEND THIS MORNING HAPPENS TO BE CATHOLIC PRIEST HE TOLD ME TO KEEP SAYING MY PRAYERS GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY AND ON A SIDE NOTE HE SAID THE CLERGY EMBOSS AND THEY WERE ALL TALKING ABOUT THIS PROCESS RIGHT HERE AND AND THEY'RE VIEWING THIS EXERCISE AS AN ALL OUT ASSAULT ON CATHOLIC LIFE IN BOSTON AND IT'S NOT LOST ON THEM THAT THE PERSON THAT'S LEADING THE CHARGE IS A PROTESTANT FROM FIRMINO AS A MAN WE ARE VOTING INDICATE THE MAPS WE MAPS WE ARE VOTING TODAY INDICATE A BRIEF RECESS FOR BRIEFER'S. IT'S A PERSONAL WITH BACK IN SESSION COULD. GOOD EVENING. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. WE'RE BACK IN SESSION AT THIS TIME I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONE OF THE ROLES IN MY OPINION WAS BROKE BY COUNCILOR BAKER CONDUCTOR AND CITY COUNCIL ROLL RULE 38. I WANT TO GIVE CALL COUNCILOR BAKER AN OPPORTUNITY BEFORE WE STOP THIS SESSION TO ADDRESS THIS SITUATION AND TO APOLOGIZE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE TAKES PLACE ON THIS FLOOR AT THIS TIME I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR BAKER THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THAT WAS UNLIKE ME. I APOLOGIZE FOR US TO THE CHAIR AND TO THE BODY ALSO A GOOD CATHOLIC BOY LIKE MYSELF SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T DO THAT OR BE LIKE THAT. I AM ALEX. I'D LIKE TO HAVE IT STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD IF POSSIBLE. I KNOW IT WILL STAY ON THE IF POSSIBLE BUT I SHOULDN'T USE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT. I'M HEATED. I'M HEATED BECAUSE I THINK THAT NEIGHBORHOODS IN DISTRICT THREE THAT HAPPEN TO BE CATHOLIC ARE UNDER ATTACK SO CAN I DO MY TALKING OR I DO I I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO GET BACK TO COUNCILOR BREAD AND COUNCILOR BAKER. I DO WANT TO I DO WANT TO ASK IF COUNCILOR BREADON DID WANT DID WANT TO MAKE A STATEMENT I THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO RECOGNIZE COUNCIL BRIGHTON COUNCIL BRIGHTON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. YES I AM FROM NORTHERN IRELAND. YES I AM WAS RAISED PROSES PROTESTANT AND YES AS A AS A PROTESTANT FROM NORTHERN IRELAND GROWING UP IN A RURAL COMMUNITY THAT WAS BISECTED BY THE DIVISION OF IRELAND IN 1922 AND SET UP A PROTESTANT STATE FOR PROTESTANT PEOPLE THAT SYSTEMATICALLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST CATHOLICS IN HOUSING JOB OPPORTUNITIES, FUNDING OF EDUCATION ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, THE ABILITY TO OWN THE VOTING THE MOST THE GREATEST TRAVESTY IN NORTHERN IRELAND'S HISTORY WAS THE SYSTEMATIC DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF CATHOLIC PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IRELAND. THERE WAS NO ONE MAN, ONE VOTE . THAT'S WHAT THE NORTHERN IRELAND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT IN THE 1960S. THEY WERE OUT IN THE STREETS PROTESTING FOR ONE MAN, ONE VOTE JUST LIKE THE FOLKS HERE AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES DISCRIMINATION HOUSING I GREW UP WITH AS A KID. THE TROUBLE STARTED IN 1969. I WAS TEN YEARS OLD. VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS, PEOPLE GETTING BOMBED OUT OF THEIR HOMES BECAUSE THEY WERE CATHOLICS. PEOPLE GET BURNED OUT OF THEIR HOMES BECAUSE THE PROTESTANTS INTER COMMUNAL STRIFE ALL ABOUT RELIGION. I CAME TO NOT I'M A LESBIAN. I GREW UP IN NORTHERN IRELAND. I WAS ONLY ABLE TO LIVE FULLY MY LIFE AND EXPRESS MYSELF. I CAME TO BOSTON THIS LIGHT ON A HILL CITY ON A HILL I MARRIED A NICE IRISH CATHOLIC GIRL, MARY MCCARTHY, GRAND WOMAN. SHE IS SOME OF MY I COMMITTED MY ADULT LIFE TO TRYING TO FIX THE WRONGS IN THE WORLD. I LEFT NORTHERN IRELAND. I CAME TO BOSTON. I GOT INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN BOSTON I I I THIS IS MY HOME AND IT IS AN INSULT. IT IS AN INSULT TO ME TO HAVE A COLLEAGUE IN THIS CITY COUNCIL INSINUATE THAT I AM DISCRIMINATING AGAINST CATHOLICS. THAT IS NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. I'M STANDING FOR THE RIGHTS OF OUR MINORITY COMMUNITIES HISPANIC, ASIAN, BLACK TO HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO VOTING, VOTING AND TO HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT THE CANDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. AND IF THAT MEANS ANNOYING AND UPSETTING CATHOLICS, I'M VERY, VERY SORRY AND I DON'T THINK THAT IS REFLECTIVE OF CATHOLIC VALUES. ALTHOUGH I'M NOT A CATHOLIC I LEAVE SOME OF MY CATHOLIC FRIENDS TO SPEAK TO THAT THIS IS AN INSULT. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. WE HAVE WORK TO DO AS WE ARE UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. WE HAVE TO TRY AND CREATE SITUATIONS WHERE MINORITY COMMUNITIES ARE ABLE TO ELECT A CANDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE AND THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY DIFFICULT PROCESS AND AS PEOPLE FROM HER BLOCKADE'S BLOCKAGES AND OBSTRUCTIONS THE WHOLE WAY DOWN THE LINE OTHER PEOPLE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE PROCESS OR PEOPLE THROUGH ROADBLOCKS UP ALL OVER THE PLACE I AM JUST TRYING TO DO MY JOB. I'M THE DISTRICT COUNCILOR FOR ALLSTON BRIGHTON AND PEOPLE SAID WELL WHY DID SHE GET THE JOB LIKE NOTHING'S GOING TO CHANGE. NOTHING'S GOING TO CHANGE AT ALL FROM BRIGHTON BECAUSE WE'RE OUT ON THIS LITTLE ISLAND OUT THERE THAT IF YOU HAD TO CHANGE AND MOVE US ANYWHERE WE'D BE IN BROOKLINE NEWTON, WATERTOWN LIKE WE'VE GOT THIS MY MY COLLEAGUE HERE, KENZIE BALKANIZE SHARED BITS OF 21. THE NEXT TIME WE REDISTRICT DISTRICT IT'S COMING INTO DISTRICT. THERE'S A LOT OF CHANGE IN THIS CITY AND HOPEFULLY SOME OF IT'S FOR THE GOOD WE HAVE WE HAVE A GROWTH MAYOR WALSH SAID HAD A TARGET OF SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND NEW UNITS OF HOUSING IN THE CITY OF BOSTON LIKE SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE YOU CAMDEN SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND UNITS OF NEW HOUSING DO NOT EXPECT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE SOME BOUNDARIES AND CREATE SOME NEW DISTRICTS AND MOVE THINGS AROUND A LITTLE. SO WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH DATA. WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH THE WITH WITH LOGIC AND RATIONAL THINKING AND WE'RE TRYING TO DO THE BEST FOR ALL OF BOSTON AND I TAKE IT AS A PERSONAL ATTACK ANY WOULD ANYONE WOULD DOUBT MY SINCERITY AND COMMITMENT TO THIS PROCESS. I AM DOING THIS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN CIVIL RIGHTS. I BELIEVE IN AND IN VOTING RIGHTS AND I ACTUALLY URGE MY MY MY COLLEAGUES TO STAND WITH ME AND VOTE THIS VOTE FOR THIS MAN. IT'S DEFENDABLE MAP. IT'S ADDRESSING SOME LONG TERM LONG STANDING DISPARITIES IN OUR INNER CITY AND I REALLY FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MOMENT IS NOT SO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR , ON BEHALF OF AGAIN ON BEHALF OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL BRADIN PLEASE ACCEPT OUR SINCERE APOLOGY AT THIS TIME WE'RE IN RECESS IN WE'RE BACK IN SESSION AT THIS TIME I DO WANT TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THEY HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS TO DOCKET TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE. IF YOU DO, PLEASE LET US KNOW THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BOK COUNCILOR BLOCK, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. MR PRESIDENT, I WANT TO BEGIN BY COMMENDING THE CHAIR FOR THE PROCESS THAT SHE'S RUN TO GET US TO THIS REPORT. I THINK ANYBODY LISTEN TO THE COMMITTEE REPORT THAT WAS OFFERED EARLIER SHOULD KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN REALLY THOROUGHLY THOUGHT THROUGH AND ALSO THAT WE'VE HAD DESPITE IT BEING ONLY 60 DAYS ACTUALLY A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF WORKING SESSIONS AND HEARINGS AND A LOT OF PROCESS AND ONE IN WHICH I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN ABLE TO CONSISTENTLY SHOW UP AND SAY HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT I THINK MAKES SENSE. HERE ARE THE THINGS I'M CONCERNED ABOUT, ET CETERA. AND I JUST THINK IT'S A CREDIT TO THE CHAIR AND I THINK THAT YOU I THINK THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOT HAVING HAD A PROCESS AND PROCESS NOT WORKING OUT THE WAY THAT SOME PEOPLE HOPE IT WOULD. AND I JUST I REALLY WANT TO STRESS THAT I THINK THE CHAIR BRIDENSTINE A COMMENDABLE JOB IN A REALLY TIGHT TIMELINE AND TO SAY AGAIN AS I'VE SAID IN SEVERAL OF OUR WORKING SESSIONS THAT I THINK THAT IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON THAT WE SETTLE ON REDISTRICTING MAPS. I THINK THAT IT'S SIMPLY NOT FAIR TO POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE, FOR OUR OFFICES, FOR US NOT TO BE ABLE TO TELL THEM WHAT THE DISTRICTS ARE GOING TO BE SO THAT THAT'S DEFINITELY THE PRINCIPLE I'M OPERATING UNDER THAT IT'S A REAL DEADLINE THAT WE NEED TO MEET FOR PURPOSES OF TRANSPARENCY AND DEMOCRATIC ACCESS. AND I THINK THE CHAIR IS JUST REALLY ABLY NAVIGATED US THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND I WANT TO SAY THAT STRONGLY ON THE RECORD. I HAVE ONE AMENDMENT THAT I WANT TO PROPOSE TODAY AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE FOLKS WHO WISH I WOULDN'T PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT AND THERE ARE ALSO FOLKS WHO WISH I WOULDN'T BE VOTING FOR THIS MAP. I WANT TO SAY THAT LIKE I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTING THE CHAIR'S REPORT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT MY AMENDMENT SUCCEEDS. THE REASON I'M OFFERING IT IS BECAUSE I KIND OF THINK THAT AGAIN IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO IN THIS PROCESS IF WE DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER AND THEN WE THINK HEY, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S BETTER THEN OFFER IT AND THEN SEE WHETHER YOU HAVE THE VOTES. I DON'T THINK THAT VARIOUS TACTICS TO DELAY MAKES SENSE. I THINK THAT YOU AT THE END OF THE DAY THIS IS A IS A DEMOCRATIC BODY. THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS IS IN OUR HANDS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN VOTED IN BY THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON. AND SO I WANT TO INTRODUCE AN AMENDMENT BUT I WANT TO SAY BEFORE I INTRODUCE IT THAT WHETHER IT SUCCEEDS OR WHETHER IT FAILS, IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO THE SHERIFF'S REPORT WHICH I WILL BE SUPPORTING TODAY. MR PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE AN AMENDMENT I'M SEEKING A SECOND AND I WONDER, MR PRESIDENT, IF I COULD HAVE THE CITY MESSENGER PASS IT UP. YES, THOUGH THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. CITY MESSENGER PLEASE DISTRIBUTE DON'T. THANK YOU SIR. SO I THINK THAT ONE OF THE REALLY IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE OF THE OF THE MATHESON PROPOSED BY THE CHAIR IS THE EFFORT TO CREATE TO STRENGTHEN REALLY A FOURTH OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT IN DISTRICT THREE AND I THINK THAT THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON DESERVE THAT THAT IN A MAJORITY CITY OF COLOR THE REALITY IS IS THAT THE NUMBERS ARE THERE FOR US TO HAVE FOR STRONG OPPORTUNITY DISTRICTS AND WE HAVE HAD IN OUR PREVIOUS MAPS THREE AND THEN A COST OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT AND I KNOW THAT THE ISSUE OF HOW THE LINE IS DRAWN IN SOUTH DORCHESTER HAS BEEN A MAJOR ISSUE OF CONTENTION AND I THINK ALL OF US ARE AWARE OF THE CHALLENGES OF KEEPING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME I THINK AND I DISCUSSED THIS AGAIN IN A HEARING WITH WHERE WE'RE LIVING WITH DISTRICTS WHERE THE ORIGINAL LINES I THINK OF OF HOW DORCHESTER WAS SPLIT UP BETWEEN OUR DISTRICTS WAS A BIT OF A COLOR LINE AND HAS AND HAS KEPT US FROM FROM HAVING THE FULL OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO ELECT CANDIDATES THEIR CHOICE. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE CHANGES IN THE SOUTH OF THE MAP FOR THE CHAIR'S PROPOSING DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE THAT THERE ARE FOLKS WHO HAVE DONE THERE WHO ARE FRUSTRATED WITH IT. MY CONCERN AND AGAIN I'M SORRY TO SAY THIS AND THE WORKING SESSIONS HAS BEEN THAT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CANDIDATES FOR SORRY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO ELECT CANDIDATES OF THEIR CHOICE IN DISTRICT THREE THAT WE ARE STRENGTHENING IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. WE DO NOT THEN WEAKEN IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY AND WE HAVE DISCUSSED A BUNCH THE FACT THAT THE SOUTH BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING IS VERY FRUSTRATINGLY SPLIT ACROSS THE DIFFERENT PRECINCTS OF SOUTH BOSTON. THE FACT THAT IT'S SPLIT NOT ONLY IS A CHALLENGE FOR KEEPING OUR PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT EACH OF THE PRECINCTS THAT HOLD PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITIES ALSO CONTAIN A LARGE NUMBER OF NON PUBLIC HOUSING SOUTH BOSTON RESIDENTS AND BECAUSE OF THE HISTORIES OF RACIAL HOUSING SEGREGATION IN OUR CITY THAT REMAINS COUNCILOR FLYNN HAS WANTED TO KEEP THE PUBLIC HOUSING IN SOUTH BOSTON IS TO PRESERVE THE DIVERSITY THAT THERE IS IN HIS DISTRICT. BUT I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT BECAUSE OF THAT EACH TIME THAT WE ADD A SOUTH BOSTON PRECINCT TO DISTRICT THREE, WE FIND OURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE WE ARE NOT I THINK STRENGTHENING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO ELECT CANDIDATES THEIR CHOICE IN DAY THREE. AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR US TO NOT GO THAT DIRECTION WITH DISTRICT THREE. I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THE CHAIR PULLED BACK ONE PRECINCT SIX THREE IN THE REPORT TODAY AS AMENDED FROM THE REPORT WAS INTRODUCED ON MONDAY. BUT I THINK THAT DISTRICT THREE AS AN OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT WOULD BE STRONGER AND AND SOUTHWEST WOULD BE MORE WHOLE BOTH THINGS IF 75 WERE ALSO TRANSFERRED TO DISTRICT TWO. NOW I RAISED IN THE WORKING SESSIONS THAT WE HAD A NUMBER OF POSSIBLE WAYS TO DO THAT THAT INVOLVE MAKING CHANGES TO DISTRICT SEVEN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HEARD REPEATEDLY FROM MY COLLEAGUE, THE COUNSELOR FROM DISTRICT SEVEN BUT ALSO OTHERS WAS A CONCERN THE DISTRICT SEVEN WHICH IS ONE OF OUR HISTORIC BLACK DISTRICTS AND OPPORTUNITY DISTRICTS NOT BE WEAKENED IN THE EFFORT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH DISTRICT THREE. SO TAKING I AM MAKING THE ONLY THE ONLY SUGGESTION THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT I CAN MAKE MATHEMATICALLY THAT ALLOWS US TO PULL 75 BACK INTO DISTRICT TWO WITHOUT AFFECTING DISTRICT SEVEN AND THAT'S TO FLIP FIVE 13 THE VILLAGE PRECINCT WHICH IS THE ONLY PRECINCT THAT BORDERS MY DISTRICT THAT WOULD KEEP MY DISTRICT STILL UNDER THE FIVE PERCENT MOVE THAT INTO DISTRICT EIGHT AND MOVE SEVEN FIVE INTO DISTRICT TWO. NOW TO DO THAT I'M ALSO RECOMMENDING THAT WE THAT WE TRADE THREE 16, FOUR, THREE, 15 BECAUSE ONE OF THE CRITICISMS THAT I HEARD ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL WAS THAT IT CREATES TOO NARROW AN ISTHMUS BETWEEN 513 AND AND AND 315 THAT'S THE BLOCK AND BAY VILLAGE AND SO THEREFORE SO A PRECINCT WHICH IS ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT SIZE AND ALSO DOESN'T HAVE ONE OF OUR ONE OF OUR LARGE CHINESE COMMUNITY ELDERLY COMMUNITIES IN IT WOULD BE A WAY TO SORT OF MAKE THE NUMBERS AND MAKE THE MAP LOOK MORE RESPECTABLE. SO THAT'S THE PROPOSAL YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU COUNCILORS HAVE IN FRONT OF THEM A SUMMARY OF THE OF THE AMENDMENT THE TEXT IN LINE EDIT WHICH SHOWS YOU EXACTLY HOW DISTRICT TWO, THREE AND EIGHT ARE AMENDED THERE IN THE ORDINANCE AS FILED BY THE CHAIR AND THEN IN THE SECOND PAGE THERE'S JUST A PICTURE OF THE RELEVANT AREA SHOWING THE MAP CHAIRS REPORT TODAY AND THE MAP AS IT WOULD BE REFLECTED IN MY AMENDMENT AND THEN THERE'S JUST INFORMALLY AGAIN PULLED JUST BY IT FROM REDISTRICTING. SO NOT THE NOT THE FORMAL DEMOGRAPHIC DATA THAT THE CHAIR HAS IN HER REPORT. BUT JUST TO GIVE PEOPLE A SENSE OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND IT'S A IT'S ULTIMATELY A SMALL CHANGE BUT ONE I THINK MOVES IN THE DIRECTION OF MAKING DISTRICT THREE A STRONGER OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT WHICH I THINK IN LIGHT OF ALL THE OTHER CHANGES THAT ARE PROPOSED IS IN LINE WITH THE GOALS OF THE CHAIR'S MAP. SO I AM HOPING THAT MY COLLEAGUES WILL CONSIDER THIS AMENDMENT AND I WANT TO REPEAT AGAIN THAT WHETHER MY COLLEAGUES SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT OR NOT, I WILL BE VOTING FOR THE CHAIR'S REPORT WITH OR WITHOUT IT. SO THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE MATTER OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ARROYO CONSUL ARROYO, THANK YOU FOR. THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN. MR QUICK, IF WE CAN HAVE THE CITY MESSENGER PASS THIS OUT TO MY FELLOW COUNCILORS COUNCILOR , I REPEAT THAT IF THE CITY MANAGER OR ANY PERSON FRANKLY WHO'S AUTHORIZED TO DO SO IF THEY CAN PASS IT OUT TO MY FELLOW COUNCILORS YET. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN PASSED ON NOW. THANK YOU. SO WHAT WHAT I'M HANDING OUT RIGHT NOW IS A PHOTO OF PRECINCT SEVEN FIVE, PRECINCT SEVEN SIX, PRECINCT SEVEN FOUR AND WHERE THE MCCORMICK HOUSING LIES THE MCCORMICK HOUSING LIES ENTIRELY WITHIN SEVEN SEVEN WHICH IS ALSO A PICTURE AND IT SHOWS WHAT IS SORT OF THE CONUNDRUM THAT WE HAVE HERE WITH SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX WHICH IS THAT THE AND LARGE HOMES IS SPLIT BETWEEN THREE PRECINCTS HAVE COLOR CODED IT HERE SO THAT FOLKS CAN SEE IT CLOSER. YELLOW IS THE PORTIONS OF THE LARGE HOME THAT ARE SEVEN FIVE. THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER BIG HOUSING AND SEVENTY FIVE NEARBY THERE IS THE BLUE WHICH IS SEVEN SIX AND THEN THAT TINY LITTLE GREEN PIECE IS SEVEN FOR WHEN WE BEGAN THIS DISTRICTING PROCESS. IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT NUMBERS AND MAKING IT ONE PERCENT LESS WHITE WELL WHAT IT REALLY DOES IS THIS THIS AMENDMENT CHANGES THE BLACK POPULATION I THINK FROM SEVENTEEN POINT EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN POINT FOUR SIXTEEN POINT TWO TO SIXTEEN POINT FOR ITS MARGINAL CHANGES IN THE BLACK AND LATINO COMMUNITY THAT HAVE ADDED TO THE DISTRICT. IF WE WERE REALLY GOING TO FOCUS ON THIS PART, WHAT WOULD PROBABLY BE PROPOSED IS EIGHT ONE NINE ONE WHICH WASN'T PROPOSED FOR SPECIFIC REASONS. I GET TO FOUR SEVEN FIVE IN SEVEN SIX TOGETHER AND THE REASON THAT WASN'T PROPOSED IS BECAUSE THE CATHEDRAL HOUSING AND VICTORIA HOUSING HAVE MUCH IN COMMON AND IT I BELIEVE THE RIGHT DECISION TO NOT SPLIT THE VICTORIAN CATHEDRAL FROM ONE ANOTHER AND THIS INSTANCE TO MOVE SEVEN FIVE FROM SEVEN SIX WOULD DO THE VERY SAME THING THAT WE TRIED TO AVOID DOING TO THE VICTORIA TO TO THE MACCORMICK IN THE LINDHOLM'S IT WOULD TAKE THESE HOMES THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER THIS VARIATION . THE MAP PUT FORWARD TODAY BY COUNCILOR BREADON AND MYSELF ABOUT 90 95 PERCENT OF THAT IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THIS PHOTO RESIDES WITHIN ONE DISTRICT UNIFIED IF YOU WERE TO TAKE SEVENTY FIVE OUT YOU ARE NOW TAKING THE PORTION OF SEVEN FOUR AND A PORTION OF SEVENTY FIVE OF AND LARGE HOMES AND SEPARATING IT OUT FROM THE PORTION THAT'S IN SEVEN SIX AND I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY THE WRONG THING TO DO TO THOSE HOMES. AND SO IF WE ARE GOING TO DO AND SAY WE CAN'T GO INTO WHEN 9/11 AND JUST SO FOLKS KNOW WHAT THOSE NUMBERS LOOK LIKE IF YOU REPLACED THIS AMENDMENT WHICH TAKES SEVENTY FIVE AND LEAVES SEVEN SIX AND TAKES THREE 16 AND YOU JUST SAID EIGHT ONE NINE ONE FOUR SEVEN SIX SEVEN FIVE DIRECTLY THEN WHAT YOU WOULD END UP WITH IS NUMBERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY MUCH MORE TO THE POINT OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT NUMBERS YOU'D BE TALKING ABOUT THIRTY FIVE POINT SIX PERCENT WHITE EIGHTEEN POINT FOUR PERCENT BLACK AND SEVENTEEN POINT FOUR PERCENT HISPANIC. IT WOULD IT WOULD JUMP IT ALMOST BY A PERCENTAGE POINT AND ALL OF THOSE IT ACTUALLY WOULD LOOK BETTER IN THAT SENSE. BUT THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT CHASING RACIAL NUMBERS. WE'VE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS THAT THERE ARE OTHER VERY CLEAR RACE NEUTRAL ISSUES HERE AND THE GOAL HERE IS TO CREATE EFFECTIVE CHOICE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE EFFECTIVE CHOICE FOR A PERSON OF THEIR CHOOSING AND PART OF THAT IS RACIAL VOTING ANALYSIS AND WHAT RACIAL ANALYSIS LOOKS LIKE AND THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO LOOK AT THIS. AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT DISTRICT THREE WITH THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE ON SOUTHERN DORCHESTER WITH THE CHANGES THAT ARE MADE UP NORTH IN THE SOUTH BOSTON STARTED THE RACIAL VOTING ANALYSIS IS VERY DIFFERENT AND WHAT I WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW AND WHY I'M IN OPPOSITION TO THIS AMENDMENT IS I THINK THAT THE SAME CONSIDERATION THAT WE GAVE TO THE SOUTH END TO VICTORIA TO THE CATHEDRAL PROJECTS THAT THEY BEAT UNITED WHOLE WE GIVE TO THE AND LINDHOLM'S WHO IN THIS PROCESS WOULD GET SPLIT IN A WAY THAT I ACTUALLY THINK IS A LEGITIMATE SPLIT UNDER THE CURRENT MAP YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ALMOST 90 PERCENT OF IT OR MORE BEING WITHIN DISTRICT THREE. SO AT LEAST THEY'RE UNIFIED AND TOGETHER UNDER THIS VERSION YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE 50 PERCENT IS IN ONE PRECINCT IN DISTRICT ONE IS IN THE OTHER. AND SO TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS THAT COUNCILOR BARCA'S IS RAISING, YOU COULD DO IT WITHOUT HAVING TO KEEP SEVEN, SIX OR SEVEN FIVE AND WITHOUT HAVING TO DO THE SPLIT OF THE HOUSING. BUT WE'RE NOT DOING THAT BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT KEEPING VHA HOUSING TOGETHER IS REALLY SOLID AND STRONG. AND SO WHAT I WOULD ASK FOLKS TO DO YEAR IS 75 AND 76 TRULY BELONG TOGETHER. THAT IS AN LINDHOLM'S. AND SO IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AN AMENDMENT TO SEVEN FIVE WHERE YOU LEAVE SEVEN SIX SPLIT IN THIS WAY I THINK THAT IS A DISSERVICE TO THE FOLKS IN PUBLIC HOUSING THERE. I THINK THAT IS ACTUALLY A PROBLEM THAT IS MORE PRESSING TO ME THAN YOU KNOW, A PERCENTAGE POINT OF WHITE POPULATION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I THINK AS LONG AS THE RACIAL VOTING ANALYSIS HOLDS UP WHICH IT DOES AS LONG AS FOLKS IN THOSE HOMES ARE ABLE TO UNITE, ORGANIZE AND TALK AMONG THEMSELVES AND GET THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED IN A WAY WHERE 90 95 PERCENT OF THEM ARE COMPACT AND TOGETHER I THINK THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN SIMPLY SWITCHING IT OUT. AND I WOULD JUST ALSO NOTE THAT FROM, YOU KNOW, THE RELEVANT MAP WHICH I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THAT COUNCILOR INCLUDED THIS IN TERMS OF WHAT THE CHANGE WOULD LOOK LIKE. I KNOWING THAT THIS MAP IS DESTINED FOR LEGAL CHALLENGE, THIS ASPECT OF IT THE WAY THAT WE MAKE THESE SORT DECISIONS I'VE SORT OF SPOKEN ON IT ON THE FLOOR AND SPOKEN TO BEFORE. I AM PERFECTLY CONFIDENT THAT THE MAP THAT IS BEFORE THE BODY WITHOUT ANY AMENDMENTS WOULD PASS LEGAL MUSTER. I DON'T I DON'T I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY THE SAME ABOUT THIS AMENDMENT BUT MORE PRESSING TO ME IS THAT DIVISION BETWEEN SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX AND WHAT IT DOES TO FOLKS IN THE VHA. SO IF WE'RE GOING TO SAY THAT THE REASON WE'RE DOING THIS IS TO PROTECT VHA HOUSING RESIDENTS BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY SPLITTING THEM UP MORE THAT I THINK DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO ME AND IF WE'RE MAKING THE ARGUMENT THAT IT MAKES THE DISTRICT MORE RACIALLY DIVERSE BY A FULL PERCENTAGE POINT, THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS IT IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE RACIAL VOTING ANALYSIS ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY SPLITTING UP THE VHA IN THAT WAY AND MAKING THOSE DECISIONS. AND SO I AM OPPOSED TO THIS AMENDMENT. I THINK THIS AMENDMENT IS DONE AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THIS WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS. BUT I DO THINK THAT IT DOES GO TOO FAR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BORKA TUBORG WELL I'M SORRY I WANT TO GO TO COUNCIL BACK. I'M SORRY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER. COUNCILOR BAKER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR CHAIR. AGAIN I HAVE EIGHT IN FIVE TALKING OUT DISTRICT THREE THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT I'M CURRENTLY I BELIEVE SIXTY THREE SIXTY FIVE PERCENT NOT WHITE AND MY PROBLEM WITH THE PROCESS IS THE FACT THAT TO THE LEFT AND TO THE RIGHT HAVEN'T ASKED FOR MY OPINION CHAIR HASN'T ASKED FOR MY OPINION. THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM I'M OPPOSED TO ALL OF THESE ALL OF THESE AMENDMENTS HERE BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE A NEW MAP. THIS TELLS ME THAT WE SHOULD BE IN THE CURLY ROOM OR THE PIEDMONT ROOM FIGURING OUT THIS MAP BECAUSE IF WE STILL WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO TAKE A VOTE ON THIS AND AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE CONSENSUS AMONG US AND AS FAR AS A PROCESS CAN CONCERNED DISTRICT THREE HAS NOT BEEN LISTENED TO IT ALL TOTAL TOTAL DEATH IS SO WITH THAT BEING SAID AGAIN, I DON'T WE'RE READY FOR A VOTE HERE. WE'RE GOING TO I'D LIKE TO KNOW QUESTION TO YOU THROUGH THE BODY HOW MANY HOW MANY AMENDMENTS ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HERE? CAN WE GET THAT ANSWER? THANK THANK YOU BAKER I I'M GOING TO PROBABLY OFFER A FEW I I THINK MY COLLEAGUES WILL PROBABLY OFFER A FEW I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER FEATURED . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER FOR ONE. YEAH. JUST AND AGAIN SO YOU HAVE A FEW HE IS FOR CHANGE ONE, TWO, THREE FOUR CHANGES WHAT ELSE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE TWELVE PRECINCTS OUT HERE TODAY ON THE FLOOR WE CAN HAVE A WORKING SESSION WHERE WE ACTUALLY WORK TOGETHER. WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THIS ON THE FLOOR. JUST I WOULD LIKE TO GET A SENSE BECAUSE TO ME IF WE GOT FOUR CHANGES FROM EIGHT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COMING FROM FIVE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COMING OVER . LOOKS LIKE A NEW MAP TO ME. LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING BRAND NEW IN FRONT OF US. WE NEED TO DIGEST IT. I NEED TO DIGEST IT. THANK YOU. CONSIDER THAT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BLOCK COUNCIL . YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. TWO THINGS I MEAN ONE I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I THINK THAT AMENDMENTS ON LEGISLATION IS A STANDARD PART OF LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. THE SECOND THING I JUST WANT TO RESPOND TO COUNCILOR ARROYOS POINT. I THINK COUNCILOR ARROYO IS WELL AWARE THAT A NUMBER OF THE SCENARIOS THAT I THINK WOULD BE PREFERABLE IN TERMS OF BOTH DISTRICT THREE AND THE PUBLIC HOUSING IN SOUTH BOSTON WOULD INVOLVE ALSO OF SEVEN SIX UNFORTUNATELY ALL OF THOSE INVOLVE TOUCHING DISTRICT SEVEN AND BECAUSE AND IN DEFERENCE TO THE RECOGNITION OF AGAIN THE COALITION OF COUNCILORS BEING CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M PROPOSING. BUT I DO THINK THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE THAT CHANGE. BUT I'M NOT PROPOSING IT. I ALSO JUST WANT TO SAY THAT ONE ONE PERCENTAGE POINT IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE A LOT BUT THE THIS PRECINCT CHANGE ALONE THAT I AM PROPOSING WOULD SHIFT THE MAP TOWARD MORE TOWARDS A STRONGER OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT IN DISTRICT THREE BY FOUR TIMES AS MUCH AS THE CURRENT MAP IS. AND THAT'S THE REASON THAT I'M PROPOSING IT BECAUSE IT'S A SMALL CHANGE THAT WOULD MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCE COMPARED TO WHERE WE'VE LANDED BECAUSE OF A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER CONSTRAINTS ON THE MAP. AND THEN THE THING IS JUST TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK FROM A HOUSING PERSPECTIVE THAT THE WEST 9TH STREET HOUSING THE SENIOR HOUSING THERE IN SOUTH BOSTON IS IS EXTREMELY IDENTIFIED WITH AND PARTICIPATES IN ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF SOUTH BOSTON AND SO AND THAT IS ALSO A VERY DENSE PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THAT IS ENTIRELY IN SEVEN FIVE. I DO WANT TO AGREE WITH COUNCILOR ARROYO THAT AND I THINK WE'VE ALL SAID THIS THAT THE WAY THAT THE LINES ARE DRAWN IS VERY FRUSTRATING. AND I THINK ONE THING THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD BE LOOKING AT I REALLY APPRECIATED THE CHAIR'S RECOMMENDATION THAT WE LOOK AT PRESELECTING WELL IN ADVANCE OF 20 30. I THINK ACTUALLY THAT WE COULD ZONE IN ON SOME AREAS WHERE BECAUSE OF NON CONFLICT WITH STATE OR FEDERAL LINES WE COULD ACTUALLY DO REPRESENTING SOONER BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO WHERE THERE'S LINES THAT CROSS BUT WE COULD DO IT IN AREAS LIKE THIS AND SO I WOULD ACTUALLY HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL MIGHT HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON FIXING THE COLONIE PRECINCT LINE DIVISION. BUT I STILL JUST THINK THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS IN PRECINCTS IN FIVE ARE WHITE AND THEY ARE ARE NOT HELPING THE OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT STRENGTHENING OF DISTRICT THREE WHICH AGAIN LIKE I SAID I THINK IS A KEY A KEY ASPECT OF THE MAP THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US TODAY. SO I UNDERSTAND MY COLLEAGUE'S POSITION JUST WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR COLLEAGUES VOTE AND AGAIN SAY THAT I'LL BE SUPPORTING THE CHAIR IN HER REPORT REGARDLESS. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. YOU CAN'T BLOCK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MARIA COUNCILOR HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. SO I TWO THINGS. ONE IS I WANT TO REMAIN FOCUSED. WE'RE ALMOST AT THE FINISH LINE HERE AND I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES RIGHT. I KNOW THE PASSIONS ARE HIGH BUT I AM GOING TO WORK THROUGH IT MYSELF AND MODEL THE BEHAVIOR THAT WE ARE HOPING THAT WE ALL SHOW UP IN THE SPACE. SO I'M GOING TO ASK US TO JUST STAY FOCUSED AND STAY CENTERED IN THE TASK. I WILL ALSO REMIND US THAT WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT THE AMENDMENT PROCESS WAS PUBLIC AND THOSE THAT WERE HERE IN THE CHAMBER WERE ABLE TO SEE THE DELIBERATION HAPPENING AND I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS A MOMENT THAT IS ASKING FOR US TO GO BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AGAIN TO TALK THROUGH THESE THINGS. SO I'M GOING TO ENCOURAGE THE CHAIR TO KEEP US HERE AND TO MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT THE EXERCISE IS ALL ABOUT, WHICH IS VOTING ON THIS PROPOSED MAP THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN FOR THE LAST EIGHT WEEKS. WE ARE ALMOST AT THE FINISH LINE. LET'S GET THERE. THANK YOU. CONSTANTLY HEAR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT THROUGH THE CHAIR TO ALL THROUGH THE PRESIDENT TO THE CHAIR. I JUST HAVE A CLARIFYING QUESTION ABOUT THE COMMITTEE REPORT THAT WE HAVE ON OUR TABLES NOW BECAUSE THERE WAS A MAP IN OUR REPORT EMAILED TO US ON THE COUNCIL ON MONDAY AND THIS THE EXACT SAME ONE OR DID YOU MAKE CHANGES SINCE MONDAY? BECAUSE I DID READ THROUGH THE ONE ON MONDAY BUT WAS PRECINCTS X, WARD SIX, PRECINCT ONE IN WARD SIX, PRECINCT TWO SHIFTED BACK INTO DISTRICT TWO AND THE ONE THAT WE MAY BE VOTING ON BEFORE ANY AMENDMENTS ARE BROUGHT TO THE FLOOR. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON AND COUNCILOR AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. JUST AT THE VERY OPENING OF MY REMARKS THIS AFTERNOON WE RECOMMEND THAT A NEW DRAFT WITH FIVE CHANGES AND THE NEW DRAFT WAS ACCEPTED IN MARCH. SO WE HAD SIX THREE REMAINS DISTRICT TWO AND SO ALONG WITH ALONG WITH SIX TO DISTRICT TWO THREE FIFTEEN MILES FROM DISTRICT TWO TO DISTRICT THREE SIX NINE REMAINS IN DISTRICT THREE SEVEN TWO AND SEVEN THREE REMAINS IN DISTRICT FOUR AND THAT WAS THE AMENDED DRAFT THAT WE WE MOVED THIS MORNING THIS MORNING SO THAT THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES I THINK I THINK COUNCILOR BREADON ANSWER THE QUESTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY, I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR BOCK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR PRESIDENT, IF I COULD JUST ASK THAT THAT THAT COMMENTS BE LIMITED TO THE AMENDMENT BECAUSE I AM PREPARED TO CALL A QUESTION ON THE AMENDMENT BUT I DO WANT TO ALLOW COLLEAGUES TO SPEAK ON IT. BUT I THINK IF COLLEAGUES WANT TO SPEAK ON THE MAP AS A WHOLE, WE SHOULD WE SHOULD VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT AND THEN GO BACK BECAUSE TECHNICALLY WE'RE JUST IN A DISCUSSION ON MY AMENDMENT RIGHT NOW. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S WE'RE STILL ON THE AMENDMENT CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF ROYAL COUNCIL ROYAL AND I JUST WANT TO STATE ONE THING WHICH IS THAT MY MY ISSUE HERE IS THAT THERE ARE WAYS TO DO THIS WHERE YOU TAKE OUT SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX AND YOU DON'T GO INTO DISTRICT SEVEN, YOU CAN TAKE EIGHT ONE NINE ONE AND GIVE THAT RIGHT OVER TO DISTRICT THREE. THEN YOU GIVE SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX RIGHT OVER TO DISTRICT TO YOU COULD DO THAT. I MEAN IT WORKS NUMERICALLY IT ACTUALLY HELPS FROM THE ARGUMENT OF RACIAL NUMBERS. IT HELPS THE RACIAL NUMBERS SIGNIFICANTLY. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THE REASON THAT THAT ISN'T BEING PROPOSED THE REASON THAT WE'RE NOT DOING THAT IS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD COUNTLESS COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS IN WHICH WE'VE HEARD ABOUT SPLITTING UP EIGHT ONE NINE ONE FOR FOLKS AT HOME EIGHT ONE AND NINE ONE IS THE CATHEDRAL PROJECTS IN VICTORIA AND WE'VE HEARD FROM THE DILUTION OR THE WORRY THAT IT WOULD SEPARATE FOLKS WHO ARE CONNECTED TO CHINATOWN FROM THEIR VOTING POPULATION. AND SO WE MADE A DECISION WHEN THIS MAP WAS DONE AFTER ALL THAT COMMUNITY INPUT TO NOT DO THAT AND WE DID IT ON WHAT I THOUGHT WERE VERY SOLID GROUNDS WHICH WAS THIS IDEA OF SPLITTING UP THE VHA OR SPLITTING UP THAT POWER STRUCTURE TOGETHER. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS TO KEEP SEVEN SIX AND NOT KEEP SEVEN FIVE DOES THE SAME HARM TWO SEVEN SIX AND SEVEN FIVE THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH EIGHT ONE IN NINE ONE. AND I'M ASKING THIS BODY WHEN THEY MAKE THIS DECISION NOT TO MAKE THIS DECISION BASED ON A SINGLE PERCENTAGE POINT THAT WE KNOW EFFECTIVE VOTING RATE IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT SORT OF JUST THESE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS. WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ABILITY TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE CHOICE. I THINK THAT THIS DISTRICT AS DRAWN DOES THAT. BUT I ALSO THINK IT STANDS TO LEGAL SCRUTINY ON HOW IT LOOKS SPECIFICALLY. BUT IN TERMS OF SEVENTY FIVE AND SEVEN SIX SPECIFICALLY, IT ALLOWS THEM TO HAVE 90 PERCENT OF SORT OF THEIR THEIR BODY THERE AND THE OTHER THING I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON IN TERMS OF HOW WE TALK ABOUT THIS TAKING DISTRICT PRECINCT FROM SOUTH BOSTON DOES NOT REMOVE THAT PRECINCT FROM SOUTH BOSTON I PRECINCT REMAINS IN SOUTH BOSTON. SO IF YOU ARE IN SOUTH BOSTON AND ALL YOUR SERVICES ARE IN SOUTH BOSTON AND YOU TALK TO PEOPLE IN SOUTH BOSTON, YOU ARE NO LONGER IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S INVISIBLE WALLS. WE DIDN'T CUT YOU OUT. THIS HAS COME UP NOT JUST ON SOUTH BOSTON. IT'S KIND OF ON OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS IS ABOUT CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION. SO THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS TO ME CUTTING SEVEN, FIVE AND SEVEN SIX IS CUTTING THE MCCORMICK HOMES AND THE AND LINDHOLM'S IS ACCESS TO ONE ANOTHER SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE ONLY TIMES IN HALF AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT THEN YOU MAY AS WELL JUST DO IT THROUGH EIGHT ONE NINE ONE. BUT I THINK THERE ARE REASONABLE REASONS TO NOT DO THAT WHICH IS WHY I SUPPORT AND I ASK FOLKS TO SUPPORT THE MAP THAT IS CURRENTLY BEFORE YOU THAT DOES NOT DO THAT. BUT IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO SIT HERE AND TALK ABOUT RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS AND WHAT THAT DOES, THERE IS A WAY TO DO IT THAT DOESN'T TOUCH DISTRICT SEVEN. I'VE BEEN CLEAR ON THAT. I JUST DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO. AND I'M SAYING FOR THE SAME CONSIDERATIONS WE'RE NOT DOING THAT THAT WE CAN DO THAT TO SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL OIL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL FLAHERTY. THANK MR CHAIR. THE BROCHURE SHOULD BE ABOUT BRINGING NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER, NOT DIVIDING NEIGHBORHOODS BASED ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORIC BOUNDARIES MAKE A MOTION NOW TO SUBSTITUTE TARGET ONE THREE FIVE ONE WITH ONE TWO SEVEN STILL ON THE MARKET WAS STILL ON THE AMENDMENT WAS A MOVE TO MOVE THE QUESTION ON THE AMENDMENT, MR PRESIDENT AND THEN WE'LL ADDRESS A SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTING A DOCUMENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BLOCK I CALL THE PREVIOUS QUESTION I COULDN'T HEAR YOU. I'M CALLING I'M CALLING I'M CALLING THE QUESTION THAT I'M CALLING THE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. OK, I WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN SINCE IT IS MY DISTRICT. THANK YOU. MY MY HOME PRESENT IS SEVEN FOUR AND I LIVE JUST A SHORT WALK FROM SEVENTY FIVE WHICH IS PROBABLY 40 YARDS FROM MY HOUSE. THAT'S NOT THE REASON I'M ADVOCATING FOR A SEVENTY FIVE BUT I'M ADVOCATING FOR SEVEN FIVE TO STAY IN DISTRICT TWO BECAUSE DISTRICT TWO HAS ALWAYS HAD A LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY TENANTS DURING THIS PANDEMIC I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOCUS MOST OF MY TIME WORKING WITH VHA RESIDENTS IN SOUTH BOSTON IN THE SOUTH AND IN ROXBURY AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY COUNCIL BIOCONTROL ON FOOD ACCESS AND IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AS WELL RIGHT. BUT I SAY THAT AS I SAY THAT BECAUSE RESIDENTS OF PUBLIC HOUSING HAVE MUCH MORE IN COMMON WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH DISTRICT TO THEN THAN WHAT IS BEING STATED HERE TODAY. THESE RESIDENTS DESERVE TO BE UNITED AND NOT DIVIDED AND I'M NOT I'M NOT HERE TO CRITICIZE MY COLLEAGUES. EVERYONE'S ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION AND I RESPECT THAT. BUT ABOUT THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO AS THE DISTRICT OF THE CITY COUNCIL IS TAKE AWAY ANY PRECINCT THAT HAS TENANTS. THEY'RE AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR CITY. THEY CONTRIBUTE GREATLY TO BOSTON. THEY CONTRIBUTE GREATLY TO OUR COUNTRY. I ALSO KNOW THE SERVICES AND PROGRAMS THAT THEY NEED AND DESERVE AND TO ME AND I'M NOT CRITICIZING ANYBODY BUT TO ME IT'S MORE IT'S NOT ABOUT POLITICS. IT'S ABOUT PROVIDING THE BEST REPRESENTATION TO PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS. AND WHY DO I SAY IT'S NOT ABOUT POLITICS? BECAUSE A LOT OF A LOT OF MY CONSTITUENTS DON'T VOTE IN PUBLIC HOUSING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. BUT THAT HAS NO IMPACT ON ME. WHAT WHAT IMPACTS ME IS TRYING TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFE, TRY TO GET THEM SERVICES, TRYING TO GET THEM AT SCHOOL PUBLIC SAFETY DURING DURING DIFFICULT TIMES OF THE NINETEEN NINETEEN EIGHTIES THIS AREA OF SOUTH BOSTON WAS SEGREGATED IN PUBLIC HOUSING IN CHARLESTON. THE OPPORTUNITY AT THAT TIME TO BE AT ST. MONICA'S CHURCH WHICH IS IN THE HEART OF OF AN AREA WHEN THE VHA UNDER DORIS SPONTE, FORMER REPRESENTATIVE MARTY TENENT, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY APPOINTED BY MAYOR FLYNN WAS WITH ME AT THAT MEETING AT ST. MONICA'S WHEN WE ADVOCATED FOR THE INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN SOUTH BOSTON IN CHARLESTON AND I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE AS I SAID, THOSE WERE DIFFICULT DAYS . BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC HOUSING TENANTS IN WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS I'M GOING TO STAND UP AND DO WHAT'S RIGHT REGARDLESS OF THE POLITICAL IMPACT IT HAS ON ME. I'M GOING TO STAND UP AND SUPPORT TENANTS OF PUBLIC HOUSING REGARDLESS IF I LOSE IN AN ELECTION AND I WANT TO GO DOWN FIGHTING I GUESS SUPPORTING MY CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE THEY DESERVE THEY DESERVE A CITY COUNCIL THAT'S GOING TO GIVE IT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT ADVOCATING FOR THEM. THAT CONNECTION TO ME IS PERSONAL. IT'S REAL. I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY. I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS THEY HAVE AND THE AND THE PAIN AND THE DREAMS THEY HAVE. I'M ASKING YOU TO GIVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO REPRESENT MY CONSTITUENTS THE BEST WAY I CAN AND THAT'S THROUGH HARD WORK. THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S THE HONESTY AND SHOWING UP HERE EVERY DAY TRYING TO TALK TO AS MANY CITY DEPARTMENT HEADS AS I CAN IN SUPPORT OF MY CONSTITUENTS. I KNOW MY DISTRICT COLLEAGUES DO THE SAME THING AS I DO BUT GIVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE REPRESENTING MY CONSTITUENTS THE BEST WAY I CAN AND THAT'S THE HARD WORK THAT'S TO RECEIVE TREATING THEM WITH RESPECT, SUPPORTING THEM, SUPPORTING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY . DON'T DIVIDE THIS COMMUNITY, UNITE THIS COMMUNITY. THANK YOU COUNCIL . THANK YOU, MR WE'RE GOING TO I'M GOING TO ASK THE CLERK TO BRIEFLY READ THAT INTO THE RECORD THE AND THEN AND THEN WE'LL TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE MR WILL YOU PLEASE READ THAT INTO THE RECORD PROPOSED AMENDMENT OFFERED BY COUNCILOR BLACK DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE SUMMARY MOVE WARD THREE PRECINCT FIFTEEN POPULATE TWENTY TWO NINETY SEVEN FROM DISTRICT THREE TO DISTRICT TO MOVE WARD THREE PRECINCT SIXTEEN POPULATION TWENTY 767 FROM DISTRICT TO DISTRICT THREE MORE WARD FIVE PRECINCT THIRTEEN POPULATION TWENTY ONE TEN FROM DISTRICT TO DISTRICT EIGHT AND MOVE WARD SEVEN PRECINCT FIVE POPULATION 2041 FROM DISTRICT THREE TO DISTRICT TO MR CORACOID WE TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON AMENDMENT OFFERED BY COUNCILOR BOCK TO DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR ARROYO NO COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BAKER NO. COUNCILOR BURKE YES. COUNCILOR BURKE. YES COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR BREADON NO COUNCILOR COLLETTE COUNCILOR COLLETTA YES. COUNCILOR FOR ANY OTHER SANDISON COUNCILOR FOR AN END TO SCENES AND NO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. NO COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY. NO COUNCILOR FLYNN. YES COUNCILOR FLYNN. YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR I KNOW COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCIL LOUISIANA NO COUNCIL LET ME HEAR COUNCILOR HERE NO COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY NO AND COUNCIL WERE OF COURSE THE WORLD NO IN THE AMENDMENT TO DOCK NO ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE RECEIVED NINE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND THREE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE I MEAN EXCUSE ME NINE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE AND THREE IN THE POSITIVE DOES NOT THE AMENDMENT DOES NOT PASS. THANK YOU MR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR I THINK HE WAS PRESENT AT THIS TIME I LIKE TO MOVE SUBSTITUTION AT THIRTEEN FIFTY ONE FOR DOCKET TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE POPULATION SATISFIES THE POPULATION SO THAT SATISFIES THE DIVERSITY SATISFIES THE BALANCE KEEPS NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER AND PROTECTS FOLKS IN PUBLIC HOUSING ACROSS THE CITY AND URGE MY COLLEAGUES REQUIRES A SECOND OF COURSE URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT THIS SUBSTITUTION. THERE'S A SECOND FROM COUNCILOR BECOME FAMOUS. I CAN'T. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BLOCK COUNCILOR BOK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I'M CALLING A VOTE ON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY'S ACTION. MR THAT'S THIRTEEN FIFTY ONE MR CROOK ON DOCKET THIRTEEN FIFTY FIFTY ONE SUBMITTED BY COUNCIL FLUORIDATE SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTION CAN WE TAKE A ROLL-CALL VOTE ON COUNCIL CLARITIES PROPOSAL. THIS WAS A MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE NO ONE THREE FIVE ONE WITH DR NO ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE COUNCILOR ROYAL THIS IS THE MOTION FROM FLORIDA AND NOW IT WILL LEAVE AT THE SAME AS COUNCILOR ROYAL NO COUNCIL ARROYO NO COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BUT NO COUNCILOR VOTE NO COUNCILOR BREDON COUNCILOR BREADON NO COUNCILOR COLADA COUNCILOR I DON'T KNOW COUNCILOR FOR AN HOUR SANDERSON COUNCIL ANANDA'S HANDS AND NO COUNCILOR FLAIR YES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR AND NO COUNCILOR ILLUSION COUNCILOR LOUISIANA NO COUNCILOR ME HERE COMES TO ME HERE NO COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. AND COUNCILOR ERM COUNCILOR ON THE MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE DOCKET THIRTEEN FIFTY ONE WITH A TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE RECEIVED NINE VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE AND FOUR VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THE MOTION DOES NOT PASS. THANK YOU MR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BLOCK COUNCILOR BLOCK YOU HAVE THE FOUR MR PRESIDENT I WANTED TO MOVE THE PREVIOUS QUESTION I WANTED TO MOVE THE QUESTION THE PASSAGE OF THE CHAIR'S REPORT COUNCILOR BOK. I DIDN'T HEAR THE QUESTION I'M SORRY SORRY. SO I'M CALLING FOR A VOTE ON YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY WE DID THE AMENDMENTS WE DID THE SUBSTITUTION BUT WHAT THE CHAIR HAS ON THE TABLE IS ACCEPTANCE OF HER COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE THE NEW DRAFT AND I'M MOVING FOR A VOTE ON THAT. OH, YOU DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THE AMENDMENTS COUNCIL . YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I MEAN. OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN DECIDE TO DO THIS OR NOT, BUT I AM SUGGESTING THAT WE VOTE ON THE MATTER AND THEN WHAT DO THE AMENDMENTS AFTER NO NOT DO YOU KNOW BUT I AM SUGGESTING CUTTING OFF THE AMENDMENT PROCESS IF OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO BE AGAINST THAT, THAT'S FINE. BUT THAT'S MY SUGGESTION, MR KIRKWOOD, COULD WE TAKE A VOTE ON THAT WHEN WE TAKE YOU TO VOTE ON COUNCILOR BREEDEN'S MALCOLM THE CHAIR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ADVISORY COUNCIL FLAHERTY OF THE PLACE WHERE THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO TO VOTE ON THE AMENDMENTS IN THE CHAIR BASED ON THE COMMITTEE REPORT AS AMENDED. SO WE ARE SILENCING ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON AMENDMENTS THAT COLLEAGUES MAY HAVE ON THE UNDERLYING COMMITTEE REPORT AS AMENDED IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS PRESENT I BELIEVE I BELIEVE THAT'S THE CASE COUNCIL ALREADY. LET ME LET ME ASK THE CLERK TO WEIGH IN. THAT'S CORRECT. I BELIEVE THAT'S CORRECT. AND THROUGH THE THROUGH THE COURT OF THE CHAIR IT WOULD BE OBVIOUSLY MY ADVICE AS A COLLEAGUE THAT PARTICULARLY FOR IMPACT DISTRICTS THEIR DISTRICT OUR DISTRICT COLLEAGUES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROPOSE AMENDMENTS SO THAT WE'RE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE IN THIS PROCESS. MR PRESIDENT, DOES ANY COUNCILOR AT THIS TIME HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS TO TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE THEY COUNT BREADON THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON. I REALLY APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES EFFORTS TO OFFER AMENDMENTS AND OFFER ALTERNATIVE MAPS TO THE DOCKET THAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS. NO DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE AT THIS POINT I MOVE FOR ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE IN THIS NEW AMENDED DRAFT AND I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT WE CAN GET THAT DONE. THANK YOU MR CARTER. WE STILL HAVE TO VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE ACCEPTING AMENDMENTS RIGHT LONGER. I'M GOING TO PRESENT I'M GOING TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT AMENDMENTS TO TO MY COLLEAGUES LIKE HE'S DOING IN THE YES. YES. THAT'S WHY YOU SEE YOU'VE GOT A PRESIDENT FOR ME IT'S COULD I ASK THE JUST THREE DIFFERENT MR WITH MR NELSON ON THE SUBJECT TO MR PRESIDENT, WOULD YOU LIKE A BRIEF RECESS? NO, NO, NO I'M READY TO GO OK SO I JUST I DON'T KNOW ANTHONY SO I WAS GOING TO AND THEN HAVE THE BODY SAYING NO NO NO REAL JUST LET ME TELL YOU SANDWICH THANK YOU COUNCILOR . I COUNCILOR ROYAL MAY I PROCEED AND OFFER THE THREE AMENDMENTS TOGETHER AND SPEAK ON AT THE SAME TIME DO YOU HAVE A SECOND SECONDED AT THE CLERK JUST NEEDS A COPY OF THOSE AMENDMENTS THAT YOU CAN READ THEM INTO THE RECORD BUT I HEAR A SECOND IF WE CAN GET CHANGE IF WE CAN GET A COPY THAT TO THE CLERK SO I CAN AND THEN YOU'LL READ THEM IN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR CLARKE. YOU CAN READ IN THOSE AMENDMENTS THEY'RE SEPARATE, CORRECT? THAT'S RIGHT. NO YEAH. IF YOU CAN READ ALL OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME BUT THERE ARE THREE SEPARATE AMENDMENTS CORRECT? THAT'S RIGHT. YEAH OK SO THEY WOULD BE VOTED ON SEPARATELY BUT THE THREE AMENDMENTS AMENDMENT NO ONE OFFERED BY COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I CAN NO. TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE COUNCILOR IT'S BEEN OFFERED THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT IN DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE STRIKING THE SENTENCES PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH FOUR AWARDS SEVEN PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE OF WARD EIGHT AND PRECINCT NUMBER ONE OF WARD NINE UNDER DISTRICT TWO AND REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH SIX OF THE WARD SEVEN STRIKING THE SENTENCE PRECINCTS NO. TWO AND SIX OF WARD EIGHT ON THE DISTRICT THREE AND REPLACE THEM WITH THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH TWO AND SIX OF WARTY PRECINCTS. NO ONE OF WARD NINE AMENDMENT NO TO AMENDMENT OF COUNCILOR FLYNN ON DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE STRIKING THE SENTENCE SENTENCES OF PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH FOUR WARD SEVEN AND THE DISTRICT TWO AND REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS. NO NO ONE THROUGH SIX OF WARDS SEVEN AND ADDING THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE UNDER DISTRICT THREE PRECINCTS NUMBERED SIXTEEN OF WARD THREE AND AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE BY COUNCILOR FLYNN ON DYKEN NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE STRIKING THE SENTENCE PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH FOUR SIX 11 AND 13 OF WALL STREET AND THE DISTRICT ONE AND REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS NUMBER ONE THROUGH FOUR SIX AND ELEVEN OF WARD THREE STRIKING A SENTENCE CONSISTING OF PRECINCTS NUMBERED SEVEN EIGHT, 12 AND 14 THROUGH 16 OF WARD THREE AND THE DISTRICT TWO AND REPLACED IT WITH THE FOLLOWING CONSISTING OF PRECINCTS NUMBERED SEVEN EIGHT 12 THROUGH 14 OF WARD THREE STRIKING THE SENTENCE PRECINCTS NUMBERED ONE THROUGH THREE FIVE AND SIX AWARD FOUR AND THE DISTRICT TO REPLACE WITH THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS ONE THROUGH THREE AND SIX OF WARD FOUR STRIKING A SENTENCE CONSISTING OF PRECINCTS NUMBERED FOUR EIGHT, NINE AND 11 OF WARD FOR AND THE DISTRICT SEVEN AND REPLACING WITH THE FOLLOWING CONSISTING OF PRECINCTS NUMBERED FOUR THROUGH FIVE EIGHT NINE AND 11 OF WARD FOUR . THANK YOU MR CLARK FOR READING THE AMENDMENTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT PLAN IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND SPEAKING ON THOSE AMENDMENTS THE FLOOR IS YOURS. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . WHAT WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME AS THE DISTRICT COUNCILOR OF DESTRUCTO IS MAKING SURE MY CONSTITUENTS THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD IN THE PROCESS, IT'S LIKELY THESE ARE NOT GOING TO PASS BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM ADVOCATING FOR MY CONSTITUENTS. WARD SIX SHOULD BE UNITED WARDS SEVEN SHOULD BE UNITED. WE'RE DIVIDING THEM WARDS SIX IN WARDS SEVEN IN SOUTH BOSTON . LET ME LET ME HAVE A LET ME HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT MY COMMUNITY IN SOUTH BOSTON. WE HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF RESIDENTS LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING. BUT AFTER THIS MAP WE WANT AND DESTRUCTIVE. BUT WHAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IS THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH BOSTON IN DISTRICT TWO WILL STILL GET THE EXACT SAME WORK ETHIC FROM ME IF I REPRESENT THEM OR I DON'T REPRESENT THEM AND EASY FOR COLLEAGUES TO DISMANTLE A COMMUNITY THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THAT I KNOW I KNOW MY CONSTITUENTS. I WISH MY COLLEAGUES THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO KNOW THEM. TELL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE IN SOUTH BOSTON WE HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF RESIDENTS THAT SERVED KILLED SERVING IN VIETNAM. WHAT IS THE CONNECTION TO THAT TO PUBLIC HOUSING? THIS PREFERENCE FOR VETERANS AND PUBLIC HOUSING AS WELL. MARY ELLEN MCCORMACK WAS WORLD WAR TWO VETERANS. MY CONSTITUENTS ELECTED ME TO ADVOCATE FOR THEM WHETHER I HAVE SUPPORT FROM MY COLLEAGUES OR NOT. BUT I'M GOING TO ADVOCATE FOR MY CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE THEY'RE ENTITLED TO THAT SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT AS YOUR CONSTITUENTS IN PUBLIC HOUSING. AS I HAVE MENTIONED IN MY COLLEAGUES DIDN'T SUPPORT IT BUT IN PUBLIC HOUSING IN SOUTH BOSTON, MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY MEET. I LIVE BETWEEN WEST BROADWAY INFLUENTIAL COLONY WALKING WALKING FROM ANDREWS STATION. I GO BY BOTH PLACES EVERY DAY TAKING MY SON STEPHEN TO BASEBALL AND MOAKLEY PARK WHICH IS NOT IN MY DISTRICT WHICH IS WHICH IS IN DISTRICT THREE BUT MOSTLY PARK IS A CRITICAL PART OF THE OF THE DISTRICT AS WELL . IT'S THE MOST WELCOMING INCLUSIVE PARK YOU POSSIBLY COULD IMAGINE SURROUNDED BY PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS AND YOU SEE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHETHER THEY'RE PLAYING SPORTS OR WALKING OR THEY'RE THEY'RE ATTENDING THE AA MEETINGS AT LOCAL PARK. THAT'S A WELCOMING PLACE AND THAT'S WHAT'S SOUTH BOSTON IS ALL ABOUT. WARD SIX SHOULD STAY UNITED WARD SEVEN SHOULD STAY UNITED. I'M DISAPPOINTED MY COLLEAGUES FOR NOT SEEING IT THAT WAY. BUT AS I AS I HAVE MENTIONED, THERE'S STILL OUR NEIGHBORS THAT MY NEIGHBORS THERE, THE COUNCIL OF FLORIDA'S NEIGHBORS AND I KNOW COUNCIL OF FLORIDA WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THEM AS I WILL AND AS AS MY AT LARGE COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL AS WELL. BUT INSULT BOSTON. ONE THING WE DON'T DO IS TURN OUR BACK ON RESIDENTS AND I'M DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULTS TODAY BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO STOP ME STOP ME FROM ADVOCATING FOR MY NEIGHBORS IN SOUTH BOSTON BECAUSE I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT THEM. YOU THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THESE AMENDMENTS? I SEE COUNCILOR MEJIA, COUNCILOR MEJIA. THE FLOOR IS YOURS. THANK YOU SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND US AGAIN RIGHT. THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT US AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO SERVE OUR CONSTITUENTS. RIGHT. I THINK THAT THE EXERCISE IS REALLY FOR US TO REMAIN FOCUSED ON WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE. AND I DO APPRECIATE COUNCILOR FLYNN'S LOVE FOR THOSE THAT HE SERVES AND I AM GOING TO ASSUME THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU END UP IN TERMS OF WHAT DISTRICT LINES FOR THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ALWAYS WORK AS HARD FOR WHATEVER CONSTITUENCY IT IS THAT YOU ARE REPRESENTING. AND I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO ARE TUNING IN KNOW THAT WE WILL DO THE SAME AND I JUST WANT TO CONTINUE TO REMIND OURSELVES OF WHAT THIS EXERCISE IS ABOUT BECAUSE WHEN WE PERSONALIZE IT THEN WE COMPROMISE THE INTEGRITY OF WHAT IT IS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED TO DO IN THIS EXERCISE. SO I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THAT THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN . HERE I'M GOING TO MOVE THESE AMENDMENTS TO A VOTE SO WE'LL VOTE ON EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY. THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS A SWAP OF PRECINCT EIGHT ONE PRECINCT NINE ONE FOUR SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX OR SEVEN FIVE AND SEVEN SIX WOULD GO INTO DISTRICT TWO A ONE IN NINE ONE WOULD GO INTO DISTRICT THREE. MR CLARK, IF YOU CAN CALL THE ROLL IT'S AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE COUNCILOR ARROYO NO COUNCILOR ARROYO NO COUNCILOR BAKER. COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR OPERATING EXCUSE ME COUNCILOR BUT COUNCILOR BROOK NO COUNCILOR BREADON NO COUNCILOR COLOR COUNCILOR KILLARA NO COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON COUNCILOR BRENNAN SANDERSON NO COUNCIL FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY AS COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR AND NO COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCILOR ME HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE NOW COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES COUNCILOR NO COUNCILOR ERL NO. MR CLARK DECREED THAT TEN THE NEGATIVE THREE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AMENDMENT ONE HAS FAILED. AMENDMENT TWO IS TO SWAP THREE SIXTEEN TO DISTRICT THREE AND SEVEN SIX TO DISTRICT TO COUNCILOR ROYALLE NO COUNCILOR OR NO COUNCILOR BAKER . COUNCILOR BAKER YES COUNCILOR BUT COUNCILOR BACHNER . COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BREADON NO COUNCILOR COLADA COUNCILOR CHOLERA NO COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON COUNCILOR FOR ANY UNDERSTANDS AND NO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES COUNCILOR FLORIDA COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. TRANSPORT POLYNYAS COUNCILOR COUNCILOR AND NO COUNCIL LOUISIANA COUNCILOR REGIONAL COUNCIL MEMBER HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE NO COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES COUNCILOR WORLD COUNCILOR WORLD NO NAME FOR THANK YOU MR CLARK . AMENDMENT TWO HAS NINE IN THE IN THE NEGATIVE FOUR AND THE AFFIRMATIVE YES. AMENDMENT TWO HAS FAILED. AMENDMENT THREE IS A SWAP OF FOUR OR FIVE PRECINCT FOUR SORRY PRECINCT FIVE IN WARD FOUR BACK TO DISTRICT SEVEN AND THREE THIRTEEN WHICH IS THE HARBOR TOWERS CURRENTLY IN DISTRICT TWO BACK TO DISTRICT TWO. SO I WOULD KEEP FOUR OR FIVE IN DISTRICT SEVEN AND WOULD RETURN SO IT WOULD MOVE RIGHT NOW CURRENTLY FOUR OR FIVE IS IN DISTRICT ON THIS MAP IS IN DISTRICT TWO IT WOULD MOVE FOUR OR FIVE BACK TO DISTRICT SEVEN IT WOULD TAKE THREE THIRTEEN THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN DISTRICT TWO AND IS CURRENTLY IN DISTRICT ONE AND WOULD RETURN IT TO DISTRICT TWO. SO IT IS A SWAP OF FOUR OR FIVE IN DISTRICT SEVEN FOUR THREE THIRTEEN TO DISTRICT TWO THAT IS AMENDMENT YOU CAN CALL A VOTE MR CLARK COUNCILOR ROLE YOU KNOW COUNCILOR ARROYO NO. COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR BUT NO COUNCILOR BREDON COUNCILOR REED NO COUNCILOR CARLETTO. COUNCILOR COLLETTA NO COUNCILOR FERNANDES HANDS COUNCILOR FERNANDES HANDS AND NO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES COUNCILOR FLYNN YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR I KNOW COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL THE REGIONAL COUNCIL THE MEDIA COUNCIL LET ME HERE KNOW COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. AND COUNCILOR WERE ALL COUNCILOR WORLD NO NAMES AT AMENDMENT THREE HAS NINE IN THE NEGATIVE FOUR IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AMENDMENT THREE HAS FAILED. THANK YOU MR CLARK. MR AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO BRING UP DWARKA TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE AS AMENDED DUKKHA NUMBER TWELVE ONLY FIVE AS AMENDED COUNCILOR ROYAL YES COUNCILOR ROYAL YES COUNCILOR BAKER. COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BARR YES. COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR CALERA COUNCILOR CHOLERA YES. COUNCILOR FOR AMANDA HENDERSON COUNCILOR FOR ANY UNDERSTANDS AND YES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY NO COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR. YES COUNCILOR WHO IS IN COUNCIL LOUISIANA. YES COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR HE IS THE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY NO COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR . WELL YES NOT UNTAKEN NO ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE NINE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND FOUR IN THE NEGATIVE TO TALK AT TWELVE SEVENTY FIVE PASSES. THANK YOU MR QUIRK. WELL WE CAN'T WE STILL HAVE WE STILL HAVE THIS BUSINESS TO DO AND GET TO KNOW I'M I'M TAKING A BRIEF RECESS UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH SHE'S YEAH UH I ALWAYS SO YOU GO TO I'M JUST WAITING FOR ONE ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT'S PULLING POTENTIALLY PULLING SOMETHING FROM THE GRINCHY JUST BEAR WITH ME. YOU KNOW, UH UH SHE'S YOU KNOW THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR RIDGEN CONCLUSION YOU HAVE THE FOUR IS IT OK? CAN I PULL SOMETHING THE GREENSHIELDS YES. GREAT. AND I THINK I HAVE A COLLEAGUE WHO MAYBE GIVING OUT SINCE STAFF GIVING OUT COUNCILOR I'M GOING TO ALLOW THE CLERK TO READ I'M ASKING TO PULL DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR TWO AND NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR THREE. MR CLARK, CAN YOU READ BOTH OF THOSE INTO THE RECORD? DOUG IT'S ONE TWO FOR TWO FROM THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS MESSAGE DISAPPROVING AN ORDINANCE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES OF CHAPTER FIVE SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE POINT ONE ZERO REGARDING SALARY CAP CATEGORIES FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON CODE OR IS CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO DASH EIGHT POINT ONE SALARY OF THE MAYOR DOCKET OF OH NINE TO ZERO WAS PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO SALARY OF CITY COUNCILORS AND SECTION TWO SEVEN POINT ONE ONE SALARY OF THE MAYOR DUGGAN NUMBER ZERO NINE TO ZERO PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO AND ALSO FROM THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR THREE MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER AMENDING THE CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES CHAPTER FIVE SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE POINT ONE ZERO REGARDING SALARY CATEGORIES FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS AND CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCE CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO EIGHT POINT ONE SALARY OF CITY COUNCILORS AND SECTION TWO SEVEN POINT ONE ONE SALARY OF THE MAYOR FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON OCTOBER 17. TWENTY TWENTY TWO THANK YOU MR CLARK. I THINK WE'RE WAITING JUST FOR THAT AMENDED LANGUAGE TO GET PRINTED SO THAT EVERYONE CAN HAVE A COPY BUT SO JUST AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS PURSUANT TO RULE TWENTY FOUR I REQUIRE SUPPORT FROM THE GREENSHIELDS DOCKET TWELVE FORTY TWO ON PAGE TEN TWENTY TWO AND I AM GOING TO REQUEST SEEKING OVERRIDE OF THAT OF TWELVE FORTY TWO AND THEN WILL BE MAKING AN AMENDMENT TO A FORTY THREE. MR KIRK CAN WE PULL THE COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE WE PROPERLY BRING IT BEFORE THE BODY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COUNCIL ARROYO YES COUNCIL ILLUSION. YES COUNCILOR WE'RE L COUNCILOR MEET HERE COUNCILOR BURKE COUNCIL FLAHERTY AND COUNCIL COLLETTA IT'S PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WITHIN COUNCIL REGION YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. AS CHAIR OF THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS THEY SEEK AN OVERRIDE OF DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO AUDU DISAPPROVAL MESSAGE DOCKET NUMBER ZERO NINE TO ZERO IN ORDINANCE MEETING CITY OF BOSTON CODE ORDINANCE ACCORDING IN SECTION B SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE POINT TEN REGARDING SALARY CATEGORIES FOR CERTAIN OFFICES AS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE COUNCIL ON OCTOBER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO THE COURT A BRIEF RECESS WILL BE BACK IN SESSION. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL LOUISIANA COUNCILOR JANE YOU OVER THE FOUR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. AT THIS POINT I SEEK A VOTE ON THE OVERRIDE ON DOCKET NUMBER TWENTY TWO WHICH WAS STILL WAITING FOR THAT PAPERWORK TO BE AMENDMENT. I'M FINE. I'M FINE. YES, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE LANGUAGE ON THAT. DOES EVERYBODY HAVE THEIR LANGUAGE ON THEIR DESK? TWELVE FORTY TWO IS NOT ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE. IT'S JUST THE OVERRIDE TWELVE FORTY THREE THAT'S GOING TO HAVE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE. YEAH OK SO ON DWARKA TWELVE FORTY TWO WE'RE VOTING TO OVERRIDE THE MAYOR'S THE MAYOR'S VETO COUNCILOR DID YOU WANT TO SEE MR KIRK CAN YOU TAKE THE ROLE THAT OVERRIDE VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR TO COUNCILOR ARROYO THIS OVER OVERRIDE. YES I COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BUT YES COUNCILOR BUT YES COUNCILOR BREDON COUNCILOR BREDON YES. COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES HENDERSON COUNCILOR FOR AMANDA HENDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCIL FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR AND COUNCIL YES. COUNCILOR ILLUSION YES COUNCILOR LOUISIANIANS COUNCIL ME HERE COUNCILOR BE HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY NO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR WELL YES DOCKET THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL FIBROTIC WE HAVE TWO DOCKETS BEFORE US TO UP TO OUR FORTY TWO AND TWELVE IS ONE OF THEM DEALING WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS AND THE OTHER ONE DEALING WITH COUNCIL AND MAYOR OR IS THIS ALL TOGETHER. IT'S ALL TO WORK TOGETHER BUT WE HAVE RECOGNIZED AS COUNCILOR REGION CONSTITUTION CAN YOU RESPOND TO COUNCILOR IF IT'S ALL OF THEM TOGETHER AS ORIGINALLY FILED THE ORDINANCE HAD DEPARTMENT HEADS MAYOR CITY COUNCIL ON IN ONE ORDINANCE WE VOTED ON THAT UNANIMOUSLY FOUR WEEKS AGO AND THIS IS AN OVERRIDE OF THE MAYOR'S VETO OF WHAT WE UNANIMOUSLY VOTED ON. THANK YOU MR BUT MR KIRK, CAN YOU REFLECT THE RECORD OF THE COUNCIL AUTHORITY HAS VOTED NO ON DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR TO OVERRIDE THE MAYOR'S VETO. WE SEE NINE VOTES VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND FOUR VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE. THE OVERRIDE PASSES I WANT TO GET ON WITH WHAT THESE VOTES BUT IS THERE SOMETHING URGENT, COUNCILOR ? HOW ARE WE HERE VOTING ON TWO OF THE EXACT SAME THINGS ITS ITS PAY RAISES FOR US. THE MAYOR AND DEPARTMENT HEADS . IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING. I THINK WE JUST WE JUST TOOK ACTION TO OVERRIDE THE MAYOR'S VETO. I DON'T KNOW I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM FROM FROM THE CLERK THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME WEEK WAS IT RULE FIFTEEN OR FIVE THAT WE IMPOSED LAST WEEK FIVE HUH. YEAH FIFTEEN. SO EXACTLY THE SAME. WHAT ARE WE DOING? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONCLUSION CONCLUSION. CAN YOU RESPOND TO YOUR BAKER'S QUESTION? THANK YOU. SO WE JUST OVERRODE THE VETO THAT WAS FILED AS A SEPARATE DOCKET. THERE WAS A NEW DOCKET FILED. SO RIGHT NOW CURRENTLY RIGHT THAT LEGISLATION IS THE LAW. WE HAVE DOCKET NUMBER 12 FORTY THREE WHICH IS ALSO SOMETHING I PULLING FROM THE SHEETS THAT WE CAN ALSO ACT ON AND WE ARE GOING MY PROPOSAL THAT WE HAVE DONE IT IN AN AMENDED FORM. MR CHAIR, IF IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING I'M NOT SURE. SO WHEN IT WHEN IT BECOMES LAW IS IT WHAT WE JUST OVERRIDE OR IS IT THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND DOCKET AND WHAT WHAT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. THIS IS CONFUSING TO ME PLEASE PLEASE SHOW ME THE LIGHT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES ALSO BLOCK COUNCILOR BOK. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I THINK THAT RULE 515 ARE GENERALLY FOCUSED ON COUNCILORS FILING REPEAT DOCKETS AND ALSO OUR INVOKED AT THE TIME OF FILING THE MAYOR OBVIOUSLY FILED ANOTHER ANOTHER ORDINANCE ON THIS MATTER BECAUSE SHE WAS HOPING THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER IT INSTEAD DOING THE OVERRIDE BUT IT'S PROBABLY BEFORE THE BODY THE COUNCIL THE CHAIRWOMAN HAS PULLED IT MUCH LIKE WE MIGHT AT SOME POINT IN A YEAR LIKE YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT RAISE THE FINES IN ONE SECTION OF OF OF MUNICIPAL CODE AND THEN LATER IN THE YEAR RAISE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE. MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT COUNCILOR LUJáN IS PROPOSING IS NOW THAT THE OVERRIDE HAS GONE INTO EFFECT, WHICH MEANS THAT THE COUNCIL PASSED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO IS IN EFFECT SHE IS PROPOSING AN ADDITIONAL ACTION IN THIS SECTION OF MUNICIPAL CODE WHICH IS AN AMENDMENT OFF OF WHAT THE MAYOR HAD FILED AND THAT WE SEND THAT UP AND THAT THAT IF IT WERE APPROVED BY THE MAYOR WOULD SUPERSEDE THE LAW NOW WHICH IS THE VOTE THAT WE JUST WHICH IS THE OVERRIDE VOTE THAT WE JUST TOOK. SO BASICALLY LIKE THE OVERRIDE STANDS THE COUNCIL'S ACTION FROM A MONTH AGO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BUT NOW THE COUNCIL CAN TAKE ANOTHER ACTION ON THIS SECTION OF MUNICIPAL CODE AND SAY HEY, HERE'S ANOTHER THING THAT THE MAYOR COULD CONSIDER. SO THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING AND I DON'T KNOW COUNCIL THEY DON'T WANT TO SPEAK TO THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSAL BY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR JEAN CONSTITUTION. YES. YEAH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS IS AGAIN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF RESPECTING OUR ABILITY TO OVERRIDE SOMETHING THAT WE UNANIMOUSLY THIRTEEN TO ZERO VOTED FOR FOUR WEEKS AGO AND THERE ARE TWO DOCKETS AND WE FILED BY THE MAYOR SO SEPARATE FROM CITY COUNCIL FILINGS AS COUNCILOR STATED AND AS A COMPROMISE AND UNDERSTAND THAT TRYING TO GET THE BODY TO ACT COLLECTIVELY WE DID FOUR WEEKS AGO. I'M PROPOSING THIS AMENDMENT WHICH IS WHY AS THE CHAIR OF THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SEEKING TO AMEND AND PASS DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE FORTY THREE AS PRESENTED BY ALL OF YOU AND YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE THAT AMENDMENT BEFORE YOU SO AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS I AM SEEKING TO AMEND PAST ITEM NUMBER TWELVE FORTY THREE AS PRESENTED BEFORE YOU AND MR AND I'D LIKE TO CALL FOR A VOTE. I DON'T HAVE THE AMENDMENT THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. JUST TO BE VERY CLEAR AND I KNOW PEOPLE PROBABLY ARE STILL WATCHING AT HOME. WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE MAYOR VETOED ONLY A SECTION OF WHAT WE HAD VOTED ON LAST TIME AND IT WAS JUST THE COUNCIL SALARY SECTION AND WHEN THE MAYOR BROUGHT IT TO US, THIS BODY SHE COMBINED DEPARTMENT HEADS ALONG WITH OUR SALARY. HER SALARY IS DETERMINED BY AUTOMATICALLY IN THE CHARTER DOUBLE OF WHATEVER THE COUNCIL IS. SO THAT JUST HAPPENS BY DEFAULT. BUT WHEN WE WERE I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF WHEN I WAS VOTING THE LAST TIME IT WAS ALSO MAKING SURE THAT THE POLICE COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER COX WHO WAS PROMISED THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND THAT HIS RAISE WAS IN THERE THAT WE GET A LONG LIST OF DEPARTMENT HEAD RAISES INCLUDED IN OUR RAISE SO WE COULDN'T HAVE TS OUT INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENT HEADS SAYING YES TO THIS DEPARTMENT NO TO THIS YES TO US, NO TO THE MAYOR AND NOW IT'S BROUGHT BACK TO US BY THE MAYOR. BUT THE ONLY THING SHE VETOED WAS ONE SECTION AND THAT WAS THE COUNCIL SALARY. SO IS THAT CORRECT THAT WE'RE JUST NOW OVERRIDING THAT WE WANT TO KEEP OUR SALARY BUT EVERYONE ELSE EVERY OTHER DEPARTMENT HEAD THAT WAS LISTED IN THE LAST ONE IS STILL GETTING THEIR SALARY RAISES BECAUSE SHE DID NOT VETO THAT PART OF IT. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? YES. FIRST I'D LIKE TO CORRECT SOMETHING. THERE'S NOTHING IN THE CHARTER THAT REQUIRES THE SALARY TO BE DOUBLE BUT WHAT WAS VETOED OR WHAT WAS VETOED ORIGINALLY WAS THE COUNCIL SALARIES AND THE MAYOR SALARY UNDER THIS ORDINANCE UNDER WITH OUR OVERRIDE THAT HAS NOW PASSED THROUGH AND UNDER THIS AMENDMENT THIS AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW ALL OF THE CHANGES IN THE DEPARTMENT HAD SALARIES LIKE YOU STATED DURING THE SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THE BANDWIDTH TWO HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND FOR THE DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, THE POLICE COMMISSIONER AND FIRE COMMISSIONER THAT WOULD ALL GO THROUGH TOGETHER WITH OUR AMENDMENT. SO JUST SO THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINAL ROCKET DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE FORTY TWO WAS THE ONE THAT WE VOTED ON UNANIMOUSLY THAT INCLUDED OUR SALARY THE MAYOR SALARY INCLUDED THE SALARIES OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT WAS WE VOTED ON UNANIMOUSLY. THE MAYOR VETOED THAT. IT IS NOW BACK IT CAME BACK TO BEFORE US. WE JUST OVERRODE THAT. SHE ALSO FILED A DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE FORTY THREE WHICH WE ARE AMENDING TO SHOW THAT WE ARE ECONOMIZING IN TERMS OF HOW THE SALARIES FOR CITY COUNCILORS WILL INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. SO IT'S IT'S A DOWNWARD AMENDMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONTRIBUTION ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION I MR CARD, PLEASE READ THE AMENDMENT INTO THE RECORD AMENDMENT FAILED BY COUNCIL OCCLUSIONS CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCE CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO THE SEVEN POINT ONE ONE IS HEREBY AMENDED BY STRIKING THE WORDS TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND INSERTING IN PLACE THEREOF THE FOLLOWING PHRASE TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SECTION TWO CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO DASH EIGHT POINT ONE IS HEREBY AMENDED BY STRIKING THE WORDS ONE HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND INSERTING IN PLACE THEREOF THE FOLLOWING PHRASE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE MUNICIPAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY FOUR ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE YEAR TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE MUNICIPAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY SIX IN YEARS THEREAFTER TWENTY ONE HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS ON ON THE DOCKET BEFORE WE MOVE ON AMENDMENT ON DUQUAN ONE TWO FOUR THREE COUNCILOR ROYAL YES COUNCILOR ROYAL YES COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BOCK YES COUNCILOR FIVE YEARS COUNCILOR THREE YES COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR KHALIDA COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY NO COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR QUINN NO COUNCILOR COUNCIL YES COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY NO COUNCILOR MURPHY NO COUNCILOR EARLE COUNCILOR WU YES ON DARK AND NO ON THE AMENDMENT OF THE ONE TWO FOUR THREE NINE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND FOUR VOTES IN THE NEGATIVE. THE AMENDMENT PASSED THE TWELVE POINT THREE NOW NOW WE'RE VOTING ON DOCKET TWELVE FORTY THREE MR KURUP BEFORE WE DO THAT IS ANYONE WANT TO WEIGH IN AND OFFER COMMENTS BEFORE BEFORE WE VOTE ON DOCKET DOCKET TWELVE ONE TWO FOUR THREE. MR CARR CAN USE THE AMENDED AMENDMENT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE TRY TO DO TO RAISE STAFF'S SALARY INCLUDING DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THREE ONE ONE COUNCILOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AS WELL AS THE DIFFERENT HOKIES YOUTH JOBS. WE'VE LOOKED AT THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND HOW WE CAN PAY MORE ACCURATELY ACCORDING TO WHAT THE MARKET REQUIRES TO LIVE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO SHOUT OUT OFFICERS RYAN SERGEANT SORRY SERGEANT RYAN, OFFICER PAUL AND OFFICER KEVIN WHO YESTERDAY I HAD A FLAT TIRE I DRIVE OUR FORD FORTY FIFTY. IT'S A HUGE TRUCK. I'VE NEVER HAD A FLAT TIRE ON MY TRUCK. I HAD A HUGE FLAT TIRE AND THE WONDERFUL OFFICERS WERE SO THEY'RE ALWAYS POLITE BY THE WAY OFFICER NOT RYAN SORRY PAUL ACTUALLY HELPED ME WASH MY TRUCK IN THE IN THE GARAGE EXECUTIVE GARAGE BEFORE BECAUSE I COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. IT WAS LIKE MUDDY AND SNOW OR WHATEVER THE WEATHER. BUT YESTERDAY THEY WERE ON THE GROUND WITH ME UNDER MY TRUCK TAKING OUT THE DONUT, CHANGING THE TIRE. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR YOU IN WHETHER IT BE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING OR RAISES TO SUPPORT OUR EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THANK YOU COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT STORY. IT WAS PROBABLY THE BEST STORY I HEARD I HEARD TODAY AND I AGREE WITH YOU WE HAVE A WONDERFUL MUNICIPAL SECURITY OFFICERS, UNION WORKERS, THE MOST DIVERSE UNION CITY WORKERS IS OUR MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICERS. THE MOST DIVERSE UNION WE HAVE AND PROBABLY THE LOWEST LOWEST PAID LOWEST PAID UNION IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. AND THESE MEN AND WOMEN COME HERE EVERY DAY, PROTECT THE PUBLIC DIFFICULT TIMES. THEY GET A SMALL SALARY, THE FORCED TO LIVE IN THE CITY AND THAT'S THAT'S REALLY A PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING AND BEING ON THE CITY COUNCIL THAT YOU'RE ABLE YOU'RE ABLE TO ADVOCATE FOR DEDECKER CITY EMPLOYEES SUCH AS THESE MEN AND WOMEN. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR SHARING THAT WONDERFUL STORY. I THOUGHT WAS A WONDERFUL STORY AND I'M GLAD YOU DID AND WE'RE SO FORTUNATE AND PROUD TO HAVE DEDICATED CITY EMPLOYEES FROM THIS MUNICIPAL UNION POLICE OFFICERS. SO THANK YOU THANK YOU TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MUNICIPAL POLICE DEPARTMENT. I GOT OFF TRACK A LITTLE BIT. MR CARCANO. YEAH. MR CORACLE GOING TO VOTE ON TWELVE FORTY THREE AS AMENDED COUNCILOR I'M SORRY I DIDN'T SEE A COUNCIL BUT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OUR COUNCILOR BOK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR COUNCILOR JOHN FOR PROPOSING THIS COMPROMISE TODAY. I YOU KNOW THIS COMPROMISE IS GOING TO PUT IT THE COUNCIL SALARIES AT ONE FIFTEEN IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WHICH IS WHAT THE MAYOR HAD ORIGINALLY PROPOSED AND THEN INCREASE THEM IN THE FOLLOWING TWO YEARS SUCH THAT BY TWENTY TWENTY SIX WHEN THE MAYOR NEW SALARY GOES INTO EFFECT AT TWO FIFTY THAT'S WHEN THE COUNCIL WILL BE AT THE HALF AT THE ONE TWENTY FIVE I THINK I THINK IT'S A GOOD COMPROMISE AND ONE OF THE REASONS I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THAT IS BECAUSE IN MY CHAIR ROLES OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I'VE BEEN OVERSEEING THE CONTRACT HEARINGS ABOUT OUR CITY WORKERS AND SO WHEN YOU ACTUALLY TAKE THE KIND OF STANDARD CIVILIAN INCREASES THAT HAVE BEEN BAKED TO OUR UNION CONTRACTS OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS, WHAT IF YOU GO FROM ONE TO THREE POINT FIVE WHERE THE COUNCIL SALARY IS TODAY TO TWENTY TWENTY FOUR YOU GET TO ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN. SO THE ONE FIFTEEN IS IS REPRESENTATIVE THAT AND I THINK WE CAN COMFORTABLY SAY IF THE MAYOR APPROVES THIS CHANGE THAT WHAT WE'RE APPROVING IS A CHANGE THAT'S IN LINE WITH WHAT OUR MUNICIPAL WORKERS HAVE SEEN OVER THE TWO THREE YEAR CONTRACT PERIODS IN THAT INTERVENING SIX YEARS. AT THE SAME TIME IT DOES LAY OUT A PATH FOR A BIT OF A COUNCIL INCREASE OVER THE FOLLOWING COUPLE OF YEARS. I THINK THAT WHAT'S HONESTLY TO ME THAT IS GOING TO THAT IS GOING TO PUT PRESSURE ON US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING GOOD SALARIES FOR OUR MUNICIPAL WORKFORCE THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH THAT. BUT FRANKLY I THINK THAT WE ALL KNOW THAT IN TERMS OF COMPETING FOR TALENT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND COMPENSATING PEOPLE APPROPRIATELY, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE DOING THAT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. SO I FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT ESPECIALLY SINCE OBVIOUSLY ONCE THAT FINAL NUMBER ONE TWENTY FIVE WENT INTO EFFECT TWENTY TWENTY SIX YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT THE COUNCIL TO BE IMMEDIATELY ACTING ON IT. SO I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, THIS IS A RESPONSIBLE PROPOSAL THAT ALLOWS US TO PROJECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE IN LINE WITH INCREASES FOR A SMALL WORKFORCE THAT WE CAN ALSO SUPPORT. I'LL SAY LOOK, I THINK WE ALL KNOW IT'S REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE VOTING ON COUNCIL SALARIES AND I THINK THAT LOOKING AT A WAY TO CHANGE THIS GOING FORWARD AND COULD CHANGE COULD WE DO THE LANGUAGE IN A WAY THAT'S PEGGED OR SOMETHING TO INFLATION SO THAT IT'S NOT THIS KIND OF POLITICAL FOOTBALL WOULD BE GREAT BUT I THINK THAT IN THE INTERIM WHAT THE CHAIR IS PROPOSING HERE IS A IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE TO NOT JUST WHAT THE MAYOR SAID BUT ALSO WHAT COUNCILORS HAVE HEARD FROM FROM YOU KNOW, OUR CONSTITUENTS, WHAT COUNCILS HAVE EXPRESSED ON THE FLOOR ABOUT THE MUNICIPAL WORKFORCE AND WHY TO LOOK AFTER THEM. SO I JUST APPRECIATE THE CHAIR FOR THAT. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THANK ACCOUNTABLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THAT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR HIS OWN COUNCIL WHICH YES. I WAS TRYING TO LIMIT BUT I I SAY MORE I GUESS YESTERDAY WE WERE HERE FOR A HEARING ON PILOT PROGRAM FOR IT TO TO LOOK AT CLEARING THE SIDEWALKS AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW UNCOMPETITIVE OUR SALARIES ARE FOR FOLKS, PARTICULARLY FOLKS WITH CDL LICENSES AND WHAT WE'RE DOING TO RETAIN TALENT. SO I KNOW WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE JOB SHORTAGES HERE IN THE CITY A LOT THAT IS HOW ARE WE COMPETITIVE WITH THE PRIVATE MARKET? HOW WE COMPETITIVE TO MAKE WE KNOW THAT HOUSING IS SO EXPENSIVE HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. WE DO THIS WITH THE RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO RAISE ALL OF OUR SALARIES AND IT'S A POINT THAT I WILL CONTINUE MAKING ITS POINT THAT EVERYONE IN HERE MAKES ITS A POINT I AM YOU KNOW FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS I'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR MY FATHER WHO MAKES A VERY, VERY LOW WAGE AT THE AGE OF 73. ALL RIGHT WHEN WE WHEN WE SIT AND WE FIGHT ALONGSIDE LOCAL TWENTY SIX WE'RE FIGHTING FOR MY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO MAKE NOT LIVING WAGE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT I JUST GOT A TEXT WHEN WE'RE HERE PRESIDENT PUTIN WHEN I WAS AT BU LAST WEEK FIGHTING ALONGSIDE THAT IT CAN BE VERY ALONGSIDE THEIR WORKERS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR A CONTRACT WHICH I JUST GOT NEWS THAT THEY'RE YOU KNOW SO THAT THEY'RE THAT THEY ARE WORKING AND I JUST THINK THAT WE KNOW THE ISSUES BOTH FOR THE CITY EMPLOYEES AND FOR FOLKS WHO WORK IN INDUSTRY AROUND THE CITY, WHETHER THAT'S OUR HOSPITALS, WHETHER THAT'S OUR THAT WHETHER THAT'S OUR SCHOOLS, OUR CAFETERIA IS LIKE WHERE MY FATHER WORKS. EVERYONE DESERVES TO MAKE A LIVING WAGE SO THAT HE CAN LIVE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON SO THEY CAN NOT ONLY SURVIVE SO THEY CAN THRIVE DOING THIS WHICH GETS MOVES ALONG SALARY INCREASES. THE DEPARTMENT HAS IT. THE MAYOR IS EAGER TO MOVE ON. WE'RE DOING THIS TRYING TO DO THIS WITH HASTE AND ALSO WILL BE AS AGGRESSIVE IF NOT MORE AGGRESSIVE WHEN FIGHTING FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR ALL OF OUR CITY WORKERS SO THAT WE CAN ATTRACT AND RETAIN OUR TALENT, THAT WE CAN MAKE IT EASIER FOR BLACK AND BROWN FOLKS TO LIVE HERE AND TO AFFORD HOUSING HERE. AND THIS OF COURSE IS JUST GOING TO ALLOW US THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET BACK TO THE IMPORTANT WORK. SO THANK YOU AND I ASK FOR A VOTE ON NUMBER 43. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR JOHN. ANYONE COUNCIL VOTED YOU HAVE YOUR VOTE ON ON DWARKA TWELVE FORTY FOUR ON DOCKET TWELVE FORTY THREE HAS IT AS AMENDED ALL IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE SANEI NO DOUBT WITH MR CARR CAN WE DO A ROLL CALL THE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET ONE TWO FOR THREE AS AMENDED COUNCILOR ROYALLE YES COUNCILOR ARROYO YES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER NO COUNCILOR BUT COUNCILOR LIKE YES COUNCILOR BRAIN COUNCILOR BREEDING YES COUNCILOR KHALIDA AKUTSU COLLETTA YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES HENDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY NO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY NO COUNCILOR FLYNN NO COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR VISION COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR ME HERE COMES FROM HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY NO COUNCILOR WARRELL COUNCILOR WU YES DAQUAN NO. ONE TWO FOUR THREE AS AMENDED HAS RECEIVED NINE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND FOUR IN THE NEGATIVE DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWELVE POINT THREE AS AMENDED HAS PASSED. THANK YOU MR WE'RE ON WIRANTO MEMORIAL'S TODAY. WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN OUR MEETING IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN RIGHT FOR COUNCILOR BAKER ELIZABETH AND CONNELL. A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE EAT GMOS THAT WHEN WE ADJOURN TODAY WE DO SO IN MEMORY OF THOSE MENTIONED WE ARE SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE IANELLO CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER NINE FOR 12:00 KNOWN BEFORE. BEFORE WE ADJOURN I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY CITY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AND IN THE CAUCUS TEAM. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF, OUR SECURITY TEAM THAT'S ALSO HERE MUNICIPAL POLICE AS WELL AS AS WELL AS BOSTON POLICE AND IN THE PUBLIC ALL IN FAVOR OF A GERMAN POLICE SAY THE COUNCIL'S GERMAN