DRIFFIELD, GOOD FOR YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. GOOD EXPERT. KNOW WHO'S THE THIRD PERSON? AND I KNOW FOR SOME GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ED FLYNN AND I'M A CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE COUNCIL MEETING LIVE. YES, BUT ON YOUTUBE BY VISITING BOSTON DOT GOV SLASH CITY COUNCIL DASH TV STATION, I'D LIKE TO ASK ALL MY COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. THANK YOU. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK ALL OF US TO BE RESPECTFUL AND DO NOT DISRUPT THE MEETING IF YOU ARE DISRUPTIVE YOU'LL BE ASKED TO LEAVE. IF YOU FAIL TO COMPLY YOU WILL BE ESCORTED OUT. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT ACCORDING TO CITY COUNCIL RULES THERE ARE NO SIGNS ALLOWED IN THE CHAMBER . MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM THEY COUNCILOR COUNCILOR COUNCIL GERKIN HERE COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON, COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, COUNCILOR FLYNN HERE COUNCILOR COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL . LET ME HEAR YOUR COUNCILOR MURPHY AND COUNCIL COUNCILOR IS A THANK YOU. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CORRECT THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT AT THIS TIME. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK COUNCILOR OF FLAHERTY TO PLEASE COME FORWARD AND TO INTRODUCE OUR CLERGY FOR THIS AFTERNOON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I HAVE THE GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOR OF INTRODUCING GRAND RABBI CORF BORN AND RAISED IN MATTAPAN SINCE NINETEEN SEVENTY FIVE HE'S BEEN THE CHAPLAIN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON SERVING THE BOSTON POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT, MAYOR'S OFFICE AND OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES AND SPIRITUAL LEADER OF CONGREGATIONS OF BOSTON, MIAMI AND JERUSALEM SERVING ALSO WITH CHIEF RABBIS OF ISRAEL IS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER OF THE JERUSALEM GREAT SYNAGOGUE. HE'S A JUDGE OF JEWISH LAW, THE RABBINICAL COURT OF BOSTON AND COUNCIL OF RABBIS. HE'S ALSO PRINCIPAL OF COURSE ASSOCIATES CONSULTANTS FOR BUSINESS DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW RELATIONS COUNCILOR TO THE GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRIA AND PUBLISHER OF THE BOSTON BASED JEWISH NEWSPAPER THE JEWISH ADVOCATE. HE'S RECEIVED THREE ORDINATIONS . HE'S BEEN TUTORED PRIVATELY BY MASSES OF RECIDIVISM IN KABBALAH. HE'S A GRADUATE. IT IT SPEAKS TO THE TO THE NOTION OF OFTEN SAID IT HE'S GOT MORE DEGREES THAN A THERMOMETER. HE'S A GRADUATE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY ,HEBREW COLLEGE, BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL, BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND HE HOLDS A B.A. B.G. A JD AND LLN DEGREES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY AND THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER. HE'S RECEIVED A MASTER'S IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND AN M.D. IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY AS WELL AS A PH.D. IN INTERNATIONAL LAW WHO'S ALSO A GRADUATE OF HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL. HE'S ADMITTED TO THE BAR IN MASSACHUSETTS, WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. U.S. COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN US TAX COURT. HE SIMULTANEOUSLY COMBINED CAREERS AS A RABBI CHAPLIN LAWYER, DIPLOMAT, BUSINESSMAN AND ENTREPRENEUR. HIS GRANDFATHER JACOB KOF WAS A HASIDIC RABBI AND EVENTUALLY ASSUME THE POSITION OF A SUCCESSOR TO HIS GRANDFATHER. HE ORGANIZED AND STAFF ONE OF THE FIRST WHITE COLLAR CRIME UNITS AND JUVENILE DIVISION UNITS IN THE UNITED STATES AS A SPECIAL CONSULTANT TO THE NORFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ALSO SERVED AS A SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR MASSACHUSETTS. HE HAS A BACKGROUND IN ENTERTAINMENT AND HAS SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS AND SERVED AS AN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF VIACOM. HE HAS SERVED AS AN ADVISOR AND CONSULTANT IN BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ASSISTING NUMEROUS GOVERNMENTS INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRIA, THAILAND, CHINA, JORDAN AND OTHERS IN MATTERS OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP AS HE ADVISED NUMEROUS NATIONAL AND MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS VENTURES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD, WE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM LOCATED AND HOST IN BOSTON AND TO BE CURRENTLY SERVING AS OUR CHAPLAIN HERE AND AT WARM WELCOME CITY COUNCIL WELCOME FOR OUR GRAND RABBI RABBI YAAKOV. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE TIME LEFT FOR A MEETING. THE LAST TIME WAS COUNCILOR MURPHY THAT GAVE MY EULOGY. GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN. AND AS I SAID THE LAST TIME YOU NEED ME FOR ANYTHING REACH ME THROUGH BOSTON FIRE ALARM OR BOSTON POLICE OPERATIONS. SO LET US PRAY. DEAR LORD, HELP US TO LIVE FOR OURSELVES BY LIVING FOR OTHERS . TEACH US TO USE BOTH OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARTS STRENGTHENED US TO THINK LIKE MEN AND WOMEN OF ACTION AND TO ACT LIKE MEN WOMEN OF THOUGHT IN THE SPIRIT OF COOPERATION, UNITY AND COMPROMISE HELP US TO BE MODEST IN OUR DEMANDS AND GENEROUS IN OUR GIVING. KEEP US GENTLE IN OUR SPEECH AND STRONG IN OUR ACTIONS. BRING US CLOSER TO ONE ANOTHER WITH LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING WITH SHARED CONCERNS AND MUTUAL RESPECT. HELP US TO DRAW UPON OUR CAPACITY TO CARE AS WE ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIMES AND OF OUR CITY AND HELP US TO RISE TO THE DIGNITY AND THE RESPONSIBLE OF THE OFFICE WE HOLD. GIVE US THE GIFT OF BEING ABLE TO BE MORE INTERESTED IN OTHER PEOPLE THAN IN OURSELVES AND SUSTAIN US THAT WE MAY DO ALL THE GOOD THAT WE CAN BY ALL THE MEANS THAT WE CAN IN ALL THE WAYS THAT WE CAN IN THE PLACES THAT WE CAN AT ALL THE TIMES THAT WE CAN FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WE CAN AS LONG AS EVER WE CAN WE INVOKE THY BLESSINGS O LORD, ON THIS CITY FAMILY THAT IS GATHERED HERE AND WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT WE MEAN AND FOR WHAT WE BRING TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON. MAY THIS BE GOD'S WILL AND LET US SAY AMEN AT THIS TIME. PLEASE JOIN IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC WHICH IS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU RABBI CORFO THE INSPIRING WORDS. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FIERI FOR BRINGING AND INVITING RABBI QUAFF TO THE CITY COUNCIL . MR CORA, CAN YOU ENSURE THE RECORD IS REFLECTED THAT CITY COUNCILOR BAKER IS PRESENT? WE'RE ON TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTE SEEING AND HEARING NO DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER. THE SHAREHOLDERS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING ALL THOSE IN FAVOR APPROVING THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING SAY I OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING STAND IS APPROVED MR KIRKLAND TO ENSURE THE RECORD AS REFLECTED THAT COUNCIL WERE ALWAYS PRESENT COMMUNICATIONS FROM HER ON AND THE MAYOR. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE SEVEN THREE PLEASE DUCK NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN THREE MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND ORDINANCE OF SUPPORT PUBLIC SAFETY AS THE CITY DOUBLES DOWN ON A PUBLIC HEALTH LED APPROACH TO THE CRISIS OF MENTAL HEALTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS CONCENTRATED IN THE AREA OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE IMMEDIATELY ACCESSIBLE BY THINK OF THIS DOCKET BEFORE I SIGN. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY FOR WHAT PURPOSE? MR PRESIDENT, THERE'S NO OBJECTION LIKE TO MOVE A SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE. NOBODY IN THIS ROOM I'VE SEEN ENOUGH OF THE TENTS THEY CAN STAND TAKEN DOWN. I SURE THAT WE HAVE HAPPENSTANCES HISPANIC. YES. EXCUSE ME . EXCUSE EXCUSE ME BEFORE I SIGN IT I'M PLANNING TO DECIDED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS ALSO ROLLED THROUGH THE UNITED STATES THE THE TIME FOR QUESTIONING THE DEBATE IS AT A PUBLIC HEARING BUT COUNCIL FINALLY ARE YOU DID YOU MAKE A MOTION MAKE A MOTION ABSENT OBJECTION I OBJECT OK THERE'S THERE'S ONE OBJECTION WHICH MEANS THIS THIS DOCKET THIRTEEN SEVEN ONE THREE SEVEN THREE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE SEVEN FOUR AND ONE THREE SEVEN FIVE PLEASE? DOUG NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN FOUR MESSAGE NINE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON THROUGH ITS MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING TO APPLY FOR EXCEPTIONAL SPEND THE FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2003 CONTINUUM OF CARE GRANT FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS THE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE SERVICES AND HOUSING TO A PERSON'S EXPERIENCE IN HOMELESSNESS AND DARCIE NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN FIVE MESSAGE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FROM THE COMMONWEALTH BUILD A PROGRAM AWARDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING. THE GRANT WILL FUND THE CREATION OF WORKFORCE HOMEOWNERSHIP UNITS AND LONG TERM AVAILABILITY OF THOSE UNITS TO ELIGIBLE MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. THESE TWO DEMOCRATS THIRTEEN SEVEN FOUR YOU HAVE THIRTEEN SEVEN FIVE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE THREE SEVEN DUCKING NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN SIX MESSAGE NOT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR SECURING THE CITY'S CONTINUATION GRANTS AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND CONTINUE ENHANCEMENTS FOR REGIONAL CAPABILITIES TO DETECT, IDENTIFY, REPORT AND INTERDICT NUCLEAR AND OTHER RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS OUT OF REGULATORY CONTROL AND PROVIDE REGIONAL TRAINING AND EXERCISE OPPORTUNITIES NECESSARY TO ENHANCE CAPABILITIES TO STRIKE AT THIRTEEN SEVENTY SIX WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY CRIMINAL JUSTICE. WE'RE ON THE DOCKET THIRTEEN SEVENTY SEVEN DUCKING NO ONE THREE SEVEN SEVEN AND NOT AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TO ENTER INTO A LONG TERM CONTRACT FOR CONSTITUENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR BOSTON THREE ONE ONE CALL CENTER FOR A TERM OF UP TO TEN YEARS. THANK YOU. THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN SEVEN SEVEN WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN SEVENTY EIGHT TALKING NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN EIGHT MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO DECLARE SURPLUS THE CITY OWNED PARCEL CURRENTLY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND TRANSFER THE CARE CUSTODY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF SAID PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC FACILITIES COMMISSION. THE LAND IS LOCATED AT ONE FIFTY ONE CAMBRIDGE STREET IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT WARD THREE PARCEL'S ZERO ZERO SIX FIVE SIX ZERO ZERO ZERO. THANK YOU. THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN SEVENTY EIGHT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE ONE DOCKET OUT OF ORDER AT THIS TIME WHICH IS WHICH IS A RESOLUTION FROM COUNCILORS LOUISIANA AND COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY TWO DUKAN NUMBER ONE THREE NINE TWO COUNCILORS LOUISIANA FOUR IN THE SAME HOUSE AND OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK. THANK YOU. THANK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCIL JANUARY FOUR THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN I'M PLEASED TO INTRODUCE THIS RIGHT. OH CAN I SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD KARLSTROM HERE AS AN ORIGINAL THIRD CO-SPONSOR? THANK YOU AND PLEASE INTRODUCE THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING HEARING NO OBJECTION COUNCILOR ME HERE IS THAT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WE THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. I'M PLEASED TO INTRODUCE THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILOR FOR UNDERSTANDING MEJIA FOR THEIR COSPONSORSHIP LAST WEEK MY OFFICE ATTENDED THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION'S RECOGNITION OF BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK AT THE AS THE LAST WEEK OF AUGUST IN THE CITY OF BOSTON THEY WERE INSTALLING THEIR LATEST LACTATION INSTALLMENT IN AT THE BOWLING BUILDING. THE GOAL OF RECOGNIZING THIS WEEK IS TO IMPROVE BLACK BREASTFEEDING RATES IN BOSTON AND TO ADDRESS WIDER RACIAL INEQUITIES IN MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH. BREASTFEEDING IS AN IMPORTANT WAY TO SUPPORT CHILDREN'S HEALTH IN DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPMENT DURING THEIR FIRST TWO YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE CDC, ONLY TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF INFANTS BORN IN 2020 WERE EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFED IN THEIR FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE AND MOST FAMILIES DO NOT HAVE BREASTFED DO NOT BREASTFEED THEIR BABIES DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS I STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BY THE CDC AND THE ACADEMIC AND THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS THERE ARE EVEN LOWER RATES OF BREASTFEEDING AT SIX MONTHS AND ONE YEAR IN FAMILIES COMPARED TO WHITE COUNTERPARTS AS WELL AS LOWER RATES OF BREASTFEEDING INITIATION AND EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING FAMILIES SHOULD HAVE THE OPTION TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN IN A WAY THAT SUITS THEM BEST. AND RIGHT NOW THERE ARE STRUCTURAL BARRIERS THAT PREVENT BLACK PANTS FROM ACCESSING THAT ARRAY OF OPTIONS. THESE BARRIERS INCLUDE DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION, BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT AND BREASTFEEDING FRIENDLY WORK ENVIRONMENTS AND OTHER SPACES. THE BIGGER PICTURE OF BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH HERE IS THAT WE KNOW THAT EVEN THOUGH MANY BLACK BOSTONIANS HAVE CLOSE TO SOME OF THE NATION'S BEST HOSPITALS IN TWENTY TWENTY ONE BLACK RESIDENTS IN BOSTON EXPERIENCED INFANT MORTALITY AT A RATE OF NINE POINT SEVEN DEATHS PER THOUSAND LIVE BIRTHS MORE THAN TWICE THE CITYWIDE AVERAGE. MATTAPAN HAD THE MOST BABIES BORN OUT OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT IN THE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOODS WITH HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS OF BLACK RESIDENTS HAS SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE MATERNAL HEALTH OUTCOMES COMPARED TO OTHERS. BY IMPROVING BLACK BREASTFEEDING RATES WE CAN HELP ENSURE THAT BLACK INFANTS ARE IN THE BEST POSITION TO GROW AND THRIVE. IT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO REDUCING AN UNACCEPTABLE DISPARITY IN HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, RECOGNIZING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK THIS WEEK IS AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS DOING THAT. SO LAST WEEK THERE'S THE UNVEILING OF THE LACTATION PODS BY MOM AVA AND BPCI LAUNCHED THEIR LOVE FOR THAT PROGRAM A NEW CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT AND CELEBRATE BREASTFEEDING AMONG BLACK FAMILIES IN THE CITY. AND AS WE RECOGNIZE THIS WEEK, I'M HONORED TO WELCOME LEADERS FROM THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION. SOME OF THEM NOT EVERYONE COULD BE HERE TODAY AND NOT ALL THE COMMUNITY LEADERS COULD BE HERE. BUT WE RECOGNIZE BECKY CRUZ, CROSSON DIRECTOR OF HEALTHY START SYSTEMS CHILD ADOLESCENT FAMILY HEALTH BUREAU. MELISSA HEKTOR, DIRECTOR OF EQUITABLE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES. MORGENTALER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HEALTHY START SYSTEMS CHILD ADOLESCENT FAMILY HEALTH BUREAU AND TIFFANY VASELLA, THE NEIGHBORHOOD BIRTH CENTER. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH ISSUES HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND YOUR WORK IN HELPING CLOSE THE HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THOSE GAPS. MR PRESIDENT, I'M LOOKING FOR A SUSPENSION AND PASSAGE AND I'M ALSO LOOKING FOR AT THE AND ONCE MY COLLEAGUES ARE DONE VOTING AND SPEAKING AND ABLE TO PRESENT CITATIONS TO THOSE WHO ARE PRESENT. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LET MEJIA COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE FOR ADDING ME AS CO-SPONSOR AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO NAVIGATE MY OWN BREASTFEEDING JOURNEY. I OFTEN THINK THAT THERE'S A LACK OF CULTURAL COMPETENCY WHERE WE'RE DEALING WITH WOMEN OF COLOR AND CREATING SPACE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET THE ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED. SO I'M REALLY HAPPY TO JOIN MY LEAD SPONSOR IN THIS AND IN MY NAME. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK IN THE BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH SPACE HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS. SO WHEN IT DEALS WITH ALL THINGS LIKE BABY MAMAS HERE FOR IT SO I JUST REALLY EXCITED TO LEND MY NAME AND SUPPORT OF THIS AND HAPPY TO BE A CO-SPONSOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. HERE THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LAURA COUNCILOR LARA YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO THE ORIGINAL SPONSORS FOR PUTTING THIS ON THE FLOOR. I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE FROM OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION BUT ALSO FOLKS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD BIRTH CENTER. MY TIME AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION WAS ACTUALLY ONE INTRODUCE ME TO BOTH THE BENEFITS OF BREASTFEEDING BUT ALSO HOME BIRTHING UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF NATURAL REAL WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD BIRTH CENTER. AND SO I HOPE THAT MYSELF AND ALL OF THE OTHER BLACK AND BROWN WOMEN IN THE CITY WHO HAVE BENEFITED FROM ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK SERVES AS A TESTAMENT THAT WE CAN MAKE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH RATES IN THE CITY. I WAS VERY LUCKY AS A MOTHER TO HAVE SUPPORT FROM ORGANIZATIONS LIKE MOMMY AND ME IN JAMAICA PLAIN AND LACTATION CONSULTANTS THAT WERE OFFERED TO ME THROUGH THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION TO HELP WITH MY BREASTFEEDING JOURNEY WHEN THEY WERE VERY LITTLE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE FOR ME AS A YOUNG BLACK MOTHER HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. I AM INDEBTED AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK SO I WANT IT TO STAND AND PERSONALLY SAY THANK YOU. THANK THE PRESIDENT FOR THANK YOU COUNCIL OR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL . THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. JUST STANDING IN SUPPORT AND THANKING MY COLLEAGUES FOR FORWARDING THIS HERE I COME FROM A FAMILY OF BREASTFEEDING ADVOCATES. I GUESS MY MOTHER MY MOTHER WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE LITTLE HOUSE HEALTH CENTER AND HER JOB WAS TO HELP THE NEW YOUNG MOTHERS COME IN AND NURTURE THEM, SHOW THEM HOW TO NURTURE THEIR BABIES AND ONE OF THAT ONE OF THAT CHARGES WAS TO TEACH THEM ABOUT BREASTFEEDING, HOW TO BREASTFEED AND THEN THE BENEFITS OF AND ALSO IN MY OWN HOME HAVING THAT BACKGROUND I WAS ABLE TO WHEN WE HAD OUR TWINS MY WIFE HAD I DIDN'T OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T HAVE THE TWINS. IT'S WHATEVER STAY AWAY FROM THAT. I WAS ABLE TO YOU KNOW, HELP MY WIFE AND WALK THROUGH WITH HER AND WE CAME TO DECISION THAT BREASTFEEDING WAS ABSOLUTELY HANDS DOWN. THE BEST WAY TO DO IT AND SHE HAD TO AT ONCE ONE WAS RIGHT AWAY. NO PROBLEM FEEDING THE OTHER ONE THE BOY. WE HAVE PROBLEMS TO OUR ENTIRE LIVES LADIES. HE HAD PROBLEMS BREASTFEEDING AND WE WERE ABLE TO WITH COLTRANE BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE OK AND WAS QUITE A SIGHT TO BABIES BREASTFEEDING AT THE SAME TIME IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT, IT'S PRETTY COOL. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER. WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WHAT ANYONE LIKE TO SIGN YOUR NAME AND WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK THEN AFTER THAT WHENEVER I LIKE TO SIGN THE NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. MR. CLERK PLEASE. COUNCIL OF ROYAL COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL ABRADED COUNCIL COLLETTA CONSIDER COUNCIL FIVE CITY COUNCIL BOROUGH COUNCIL MURPHY COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR I WILL SPEAK VERY BRIEFLY ON IT. WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT MATTER FORWARD CELEBRATING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE AT THE EVENT LAST WEEK AT THE BOEING BUILDON AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET GET THERE EARLY AND BEFORE IT STARTED ABOUT AN HOUR EARLY AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO BECKY AND I LEARNED MORE IN THAT ONE HOUR THAN I HAVE IN A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO TO BECKY FOR EXPLAINING WHY THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION. DR. OJUKWU TOO AND THE ENTIRE TEAM FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORT AND OUTREACH THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING WOMEN ACROSS THE CITY SO HONORED TO BE WITH YOU LAST WEEK. OBVIOUSLY WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY AS WELL WITH CONSULARS LOUISIANA COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF OUR DOCKET. THIRTY NINE TO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSED SAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED AND AND AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO CALL CONCLUSION TO TO THE PODIUM TO MAKE A PRESENTATION COUNCILOR THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN AND I KNOW THAT YOU WERE THERE LAST WEEK. I WAS THERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE UNVEILING, MELISSA. YOU SAW ME THERE AT THE VERY BEGINNING BY CHANCE AND THE UNVEILING OF THE LACTATION POD JUST SO FOLKS KNOW THERE'S NOW ONE IN THE BOWLING BUILDING. THERE IS ALSO ONE DOWNSTAIRS ON THE MEZZANINE. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS DOWNLOAD THE MOM OF OUR APP AND THEY GIVE YOU A CODE AND IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SO IF ANYONE NEEDS TO SAFE IN PRIVATE PLACE TO BREASTFEED, THERE IS THAT PLACE ON THE THIRD FLOOR HERE IN THE MEZZANINE SHOUT OUT TO MY STAFF HOTAN WHO WAS THERE LAST CAN I KNOW THERE WERE STAFFERS TWO FROM COUNCILOR MURPHY'S OFFICE PRESIDENT FOR THE UNVEILING LACTATION POD AND I THINK IT WAS ESPECIALLY SPECIAL FOR MY STAFF WROTE IN TO BE THERE BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAS BEEN AN EMPLOYEE AT THE WORKING ON THESE ISSUES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. AND SO I KNOW THAT YOUR MOTHER WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT AND I KNOW THAT YOU WERE ON PHOTO DUTY. BUT I DO ASK YOU TO COME UP HERE TO ACCEPT THE CITATION ON BEHALF OF YOUR MOTHER FOR THIS IS AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION FROM MY OFFICE FOR OBAYASHI IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING BLACK BREASTFEEDING RATES AS A MEANS TO ADDRESS WIDER RACIAL INEQUITIES IN MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH AND THEN I WANT TO ASK EVERYONE ELSE TO COME UP HERE WE HAVE MELISSA HECTOR, BECKY CRUZ CROSSON MORGENTALER HOTAN. I WANT YOU UP HERE TO AND TIFFANY VASSALL TIFFANY TIFFANY IS NOT HERE. OH, SHE'S YEAH SHE CAME IN. YES. THAT WAS HER BABY THAT BABY. SO I WANT ALL OF YOU AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT TIFFANY FLAHERTY IS HERE ON BEHALF OF IJAW FROM TEAM. SO I JUST WANT TO HAVE EVERYONE COME UP AND PRESENT YOU WITH YOUR CITATION BECKY. AND THEY ALL SAY FOR IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING BLACK BREASTFEEDING RATES AS A MEANS TO ADDRESS WIDER REGIONAL INEQUITIES AND MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH ESPECIALLY AS YOU ARE LAUNCHING LOVE TO LATCH MORGENTALER I COULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES MELISSA I ALSO OFFERED IF ANYBODY WANTED TO SAY THIRTY SECONDS OF YOUR WORDS. WELCOME BACK FIVE OK WELL THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR INCREDIBLE WORK. SO YOU HAVE MY COLLEAGUES RIGHT HERE. HEY BUDDY. IT'S THANKSGIVING. YOU WANT SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. KNOW YOU DESERVE TO HAVE TO BE SURE IT'S NOT THE BEST WAY THEY ARE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING. I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING. I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. ARE AFTERNOON I'M GOING TO SHARE A COUPLE OF WORDS ON BEHALF OF MY AMAZING COLLEAGUES BECKY AND MORGAN WHO DO INCREDIBLE WORK. SO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ME , MY NAME IS MELISSA HECTOR AND I SERVE AS DIRECTOR OF EQUITABLE AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION. AND I JUST WANT TO GIVE A HUGE HATS OFF TO BECKY WHO'S CROSSING RAISE YOUR HAND BECKY AND MORGENTALER IN OUR CHAT ADOLESCENT FAMILY HEALTH BUREAU FOR ALL THE AMAZING WORK THAT THEY DO THE HEALTH COMMISSION HAS A WIDE VARIETY OF RESOURCES TO REALLY HELP IMPACT A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE FACE ON THE GROUND AS RESIDENTS IN THIS CITY AND BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH AS WE ALL KNOW HAS BEEN A MAJOR ISSUE WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHERE A LOT OF THE AMAZING RESOURCES IN THIS CITY THAT MOST PEOPLE LIVE LESS THAN A MILE AWAY FROM ARE NOT TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF INFORMATION. SO WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT INTO A COMMUNITY. SO ANY TIME YOU SEE EVENTS PUT ON AT THE HEALTH COMMISSION ARE PUT ON BY THE CAFERO, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY SUPPORT THAT YOU CAN OFFER AND BEING GALVANIZES OF THAT INFORMATION TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE. AND JUST THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BECKY AND MORGAN FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU DO AND MAKING SURE THAT BLACK MOTHERS HAVE THE RESOURCES. THANK YOU. OH MR. CLERK, CAN WE ENSURE THE RECORD IS REFLECTED THAT COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON IS PRESENT? I WOULDN'T LIKE TO TAKE ONE OTHER MATTER OUT OF ORDER AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF COUNCILOR VERNON IS INNOCENT WOULD PLEASE COME FORWARD FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION. COUNCILOR FERNANDES INNOCENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN GREETINGS EVERYONE. TODAY I'D LIKE TO PRESENT AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION AUTHORED BY MYSELF AND HOPEFULLY ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US TO TO NOYER BURTON ALSO KNOWN AS TOYE BURTON MRS SOME KEY POINTS. THANK YOU. IF I MAY I'D LIKE TO SAY SOME WORDS FOR YOU ABOUT YOU. WE'VE MET JUST MAYBE ABOUT THREE YEARS NOW AND I'VE BEEN OBSERVING YOU AND WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TO SUPPORT SOME OF YOUR PROJECTS NOT NEAR AS CLOSE AS OTHERS OF COURSE, BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER. YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL WOMAN. I AM ABSOLUTELY HUMBLED TO KNOW YOU AND ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN WHAT YOU REPRESENT SO TODAY AND RECOGNITION OF YOUR VISIONARY LEADERSHIP IN ESTABLISHING ROXBORO UNITY PARADE AND SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHING ITS INAUGURAL PROCESSION ON JULY 22ND, 2018 THE ROXBORO UNITY PARADE HAS EVOLVED INTO EVOLVED INTO A VIBRANT CARAVAN WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE RECOGNITION OF ROXBURY'S RICH HERITAGE AND SIGNIFICANCE AS A THRIVING NEIGHBORHOOD AND AS A DISTINGUISHED HUB OF BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE WITHIN BOSTON. YOUR EFFORTS HAVE ILLUMINATED OUR STREETS AND HEARTS AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDED ITS BEST WISHES AND CONTINUED SUCCESS THAT THIS RESOLUTION DULY SIGNED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AND WE WANTED TO RECOGNIZE TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW ME I AM ALSO MY NAME IS TOIBA AND I AM ALSO THE FOUNDER OF SUICIDE PREVENTION AND FAMILY SUPPORT. DIDI WAS MY SISTER. SHE DIED BY SUICIDE WHEN SHE WAS 23, 1986. I STARTED TO CRY IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN WHEN I NOTICED THAT ORGANIZATIONS THAT FOCUS ON SUICIDE PREVENTION WAS THE FOCUS ON BOSTON'S BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY. I AM NOT A COUNSELOR ANYTHING. I WAS A PRESCHOOL TEACHER AT THE TIME. I WAS JUST SOMEONE THAT WAS ANGRY THAT MY NEIGHBORHOOD WASN'T IN THOSE RESOURCES. SO IN THE SIX YEARS THAT THIS CRIME HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE WE ALSO ADVOCATE IN THAT KINGSTREE PARK IN ROXBURY BECOME A MEMORIAL FOR THOSE THAT LOST THEIR LIFE TO SUICIDE AND THE CITY OF BOSTON WE DO HAVE A PEACE GARDEN FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. THOMAS BUT THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS YET TO WRAP HIS ARMS AROUND THE SUICIDE LOSS COMMUNITY DESCRIBED AS NOT RECEIVE FUNDING. SO I'M ADVOCATING THAT THEY DESCRIBE ON THE CITY'S LINE ITEM. I'M ALSO ADVOCATING FOR BURIAL SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES. IF YOU KNOW IF YOU DO HAVE LIFE INSURANCE OF THE DEATH IS BY A SUICIDE MORE THAN LIKELY THE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL NOT GIVE THE FAMILY MONEY FOR THE BURIAL . SO WE ARE ASKING FOR SUPPORT FOR THE LEADERS CRY TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR FAMILIES WHO LOST SOMEONE TO SUICIDE AND FOR THE MEMORIAL FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY SUICIDE. TODAY I CELEBRATE TWENTY FIVE YEARS CLEAN AND SOBER SO SO TO TALK ABOUT CARS WHEN I WAS ON ALCOHOL AND I WAS USING CRACK DRUG USE WAS MY WAY OF MASKING MY PAIN. SO PLEASE JUST FIND GRACE WITH PEOPLE WITH DESCRIBED WE GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS A ROOT CAUSE WHY THERE'S DRUG ABUSE SO SUPPORT THOSE AMASS AND CAST AND PROGRAMS BECAUSE SUPPORT IN CLEAN NEEDLES, PROVIDING CLEAN NEEDLES, PROVIDING HOUSING ALL THAT IS GOOD BUT IT IS A SUSTAINABLE IF THEY MANTELL TALENTI IS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES TO PLEASE COME UP FOR A PHOTO OH MY DAUGHTER MY DAUGHTER GRANDDAUGHTER TO ME AND TRACY THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I ACTUALLY MET YOUR LOVELY EARLY COME BACK BUT I DID MY IT MYSELF SINCE I WAS OVER HERE WE WRITE I'LL TAKE THIS TO THE TOP OF THIS EVERY DAY WITH THIS SIGN. OKAY THANK YOU. SOMEBODY TAKE A PICTURE SO I CAN ASK OK THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH APPRECIATED. SORRY . YES DEFINITELY THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO THANK YOU COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR THAT WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. I DO ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE TO THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL THE INR CHAMBER WELCOMED THEM HERE IS THE BOSTON POWERCORE. GOOD TO BE WITH YOU GUYS. WE KNOW YOU'RE DOING TREMENDOUS WORK IN THE COMMUNITY AND KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND BOSTON'S A BETTER CITY CITY BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP. WE'RE ON TO REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE DOCKET THIRTEEN SEVENTY NINE THROUGH THE THIRTEEN POLICE DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE SEVEN NINE COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN REGARDING UPDATED CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT ZERO NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ED FLYNN OF THE DESIGNATION OF COUNCILOR SHARON DURKIN AS THE EX OFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE BOSTON GROUNDWATER TRUST FUND. THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL A NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT ONE NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN REGARDING THE REASSIGNMENT OF DYKEN NUMBER ONE TWO NINE THREE TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION DAQUAN NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT TWO NOTICES RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF SHANTEAU LEMA BARBOSSA AS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE. THANK YOU MR CORRECT THOSE DOCKETS THIRTEEN SEVENTY NINE THIRTEEN EIGHTY TWO WILL BE PLACED ON FILE. WE'RE ON YOUR DOCKET. THIRTEEN EIGHTY THREE MR. CLERK DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT THREE THE CONSTABLE BONDS OF DONNA MOORE AND IAN RANDALL HAVING BEEN DULY APPROVED AND RECEIVED BY THE COLLECTOR TREASURER WERE RECEIVED BY THE CITY CLERK. THIS STOCK AT THIRTY THREE HAS BEEN PASSED UNDER THE USUAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS MATTERS RECENTLY HEARD FOR POSSIBLE ACTION. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ELEVEN EIGHTY EIGHT DUCK NUMBER ONE ONE EIGHT CONCILOR MEJIA HERE FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES CHAPTER TWELVE SECTION TWELVE NINETEEN IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ARROYO, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COUNCIL OF YOU OF THE FOUR THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HAVE A HEARING ON TUESDAY AUGUST TWENTY NINTH TWENTY TWENTY THREE ON DOCKET ELEVEN EIGHTY EIGHT AND AMENDING CITY OF BOSTON CODE ORDINANCES CHAPTER TWELVE SECTION TWELVE NINETEEN IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE SPONSORED SPONSORED BY COUNCILOR JULIE HERE LIKE TO THANK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR ATTENDANCE MEDIA COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN, COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, COUNCILOR MURPHY AND COUNCILOR ANIMES ANDERSON. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR ATTENDANCE. MONIQUE NGUYEN WHO'S THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS FOR ATTENDING SPECIFICALLY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE AND MIRADA CLASS, THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH JUSTICE FOR THE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. THIS ORDINANCE SEEKS TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. FORMERLY THIS OFFICE SHALL ALSO ENSURE THAT ANY SERVICE PROVIDED BY CITY AGENCY SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL IMMIGRANTS OR OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH SERVICE TO THE SAME EXTENT SUCH SERVICE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO CITIZENS UNLESS SUCH AGENCY IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO DENY ELIGIBILITY FOR SUCH SERVICE. DURING THIS HEARING WE HEARD FROM MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE CURRENT WORK THE ADMINISTRATION CURRENTLY DOES FOR THE RESPECT FOR THESE RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES. ADDITIONALLY, WE HEARD FROM COMMITTEE STAKEHOLDERS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE IMPACT IT CAN HAVE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, I RECOMMEND THAT THIS MATTER ON THE REMAINING COMMITTEE SO THAT THE COMMITTEE CAN HAVE A WORKING SESSION TO DISCUSS ANY LANGUAGE EDITS AND SUGGESTIONS THAT COUNCIL COLLEAGUES IN THE ADMINISTRATION MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THIS STOCK AN ELEVEN EIGHTY EIGHT WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE MR. CLERK WIRANTO DOCKET ELEVEN NINETY SIX PLEASE LIKE THE NUMBER ONE ONE NINE SIX MESSAGE NOT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE NBA DIGITAL EQUITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED BY BROADBAND NON-EQUITY. THE GRANT WILL FUND SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR RESIDENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO CANNOT AFFORD BROADBAND SERVICES AND OR INTERNET CONNECTED DEVICES OR LIKE THE DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS NEEDED TO UTILIZE THE INTERNET. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WHILE THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL REVENUE OF THE FOUR. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING ON TUESDAY AUGUST 29TH TWENTY TWENTY THREE TO DISCUSS DOCKET NO. ONE ONE NINE SIX. THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY FROM PANELISTS WHICH INCLUDED KERRY GERTA JORDAN CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY PETER FAVORITO DIGITAL EQUITY ADVOCATE I DO IT AND JUDGE JESSICA POWDER'S SPECIAL KRATZMANN TO TO THE PANELISTS PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW OF THE FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS ROBYN INSTITUTE ALSO KNOWN AS SBI DIGITAL EQUITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. THE GOAL OF THE GRANT IS TO BUILD CAPACITY WITH STAKEHOLDERS, GO TO CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, ENABLE SCALABLE PROGRAM, FACILITATE FACILITATED BY EXPERT PARTNERS AND TO PREPARE FOR DIGITAL EQUITY INITIATIVES AND UPCOMING PLAN AND ACTIVITIES. SIXTY THREE PERCENT OF THIS GRANT WILL GO TOWARDS THE DIGITAL EQUITY FUND, WHICH IS A MINI GRANT PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS WHICH BOLSTER ACP ENROLLMENT DEVICE REFURBISHMENT AND TELEHEALTH ACCESS. TWENTY TWO PERCENT OF THIS GRANT WILL SUPPORT DIGITAL LITERACY PROGRAMS AT MORE THAN THIRTY BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY SITES INCLUDING COMPUTER CLASSES, RESIDENT AMBASSADORS AND LOCAL LOCAL DIGITAL DIGITAL CAPACITY BUILDING. LASTLY, 50 PERCENT OF THIS GRANT WILL FIND OUT THE WICKED FREE WI-FI AT FOUR TO FIVE SIZE TARGET AREAS WITH FEWER BROADBAND SUBSCRIPTIONS. CHAIR AT THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY. I RECOMMEND MOVING THEIR LISTED DOCUMENT FROM COMMITTEE TO THE FULL COUNCIL AND FORMAL ACTION AT THIS TIME MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL WITH THIS WILL BE TO THIS MATTER OUGHT TO PASS. THANK THANK YOU COUNCIL . ALL THE COUNCIL EARL SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF THIS TARGET ONE ONE NINE SIX ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AY AY AY OPPOSING THE THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED. WE'RE ON TWO MOTIONS ORDERS IN RESOLUTIONS. CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY FOUR DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT FOUR COUNCILORS COLLETTA MEJIA FOR THE FOLLOWING AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING STREET FOOD ENTERPRISES IN THE CITY BUS AND MUNICIPAL CODE BY INSERTING CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SECTION TWENTY TWO PERMITTING AND REGULATION OF NON MOTORIZED STREET FOOD CARTS. THANK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR COLLETTA YOU HAVE THE FOURTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH PRESIDENT FLYNN. I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND RULE TWELVE THAT COUNCILOR WARRELL IS THE THIRD CO-SPONSOR HEARING NO OBJECTION COUNCILOR WHERE I WAS OUT OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I JUST WANT TO THANK MY CO-SPONSORS FOR JOINING YOU ON THIS AND THEIR LEADERSHIP PRIOR TO THIS ORDINANCE ON EVERYTHING RELATED TO SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. EVERYBODY. THE GOAL OF THIS ORDINANCE IS TO FORMALIZE THE INFORMAL WE ARE CREATING AND INSERTING INTO BOSTON'S CODE REGULATIONS FOR SIDEWALK FOOD HEART-RENDING OR NON MOTORIZED VENDING. THIS LANGUAGE DOES A COUPLE OF THINGS WHICH INCLUDES ESTABLISHING A STREAMLINED PROCESS TO MAKE IT EASIER AND ACCESSIBLE FOR VENDORS TO NAVIGATE CITY GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN NECESSARY APPROVALS SETS GUIDELINES FOR STREET VENDORS WITH OVERSIGHT OF CITY DEPARTMENTS THROUGH THE CREATION OF A SPECIALIZED REVIEW COMMITTEE. LASTLY, IT LOWERS THE COST OF PERMITS AND THEREFORE BARRIERS OF ENTRY FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST. THE KEY TAKEAWAY HERE IS THAT ONCE WE PASS THESE REGULATIONS WE HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO UNLOCK AN ECONOMIC TOOL THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT UPFRONT COSTS FOR BUSINESSES. THUS THIS WILL ALLOW FOLKS TO BUILD CAPITAL QUICKLY WITHOUT EXPENSIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OBTAINING A BRICK AND MORTAR OR A FOOD TRUCK. THESE COMMERCIAL SPACES LARGELY REMAIN UNAFFORDABLE FOR MANY GIVING THE RISING RATE RISING RATES TO BUY OR LEASE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, STREET VENDING IS THE OLDEST INFORMAL VERSION OF COMMERCE. VENDING IS LARGELY ASSOCIATED WITH SPORTS EVENTS OUTSIDE FENWAY PARK OR TD GARDEN OR LATE NIGHT FOOD OPTIONS IN DOWNTOWN WHICH I HAVE FREQUENTED FROM TIME TO TIME. MY NEIGHBORS IN EAST BOSTON CAN ATTEST THAT POST PANDEMIC STREET VENDING HAS EMERGED MORE FREQUENTLY OUTSIDE OF HUBS LIKE MAVERICK AND AIRPORT STATION WITH FOLKS SELLING FRUIT, SAYS ALEPPO'S OR TOMALIS. THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE SELLING THEIR PRODUCTS LARGELY OF BABY STROLLERS, TRUCK BEDS AND SHOPPING CARTS. OPERATORS OF THESE SIDEWALK ENTERPRISES ARE PREDOMINANTLY THOSE WHO HAVE IMMIGRATED HERE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATING AND FOSTERING ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SHARE THEIR CULTURE AND CULINARY TALENTS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS VARIOUS ENTRY POINTS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SELL FOOD TO BEVERAGE OR GOODS OUT OF A MOBILE APPARATUS IN CONVERSATIONS WITH OEO I THE PROCESS IN WHICH TO TO OBTAIN CORRECT PERMITS MANIFESTS AS A TANGLED WEB OF BUREAUCRACY. THEY RECOGNIZE IT AND THEY ARE READY AND WILLING TO REFORM THESE SYSTEMS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THIS BODY. THE EXISTING PROCESS REQUIRES CREATING A BUSINESS PLAN, SUBMITTING TO GEOEYE, OBTAINING A HEALTH PERMIT FROM IMMEDIATE 10 TO MASAB GOING TO GET A FIRE PERMIT AT 115 SOUTHAMPTON'S STREET APPROVAL FROM PUBLIC WORKS OR BTD FOR SIDEWALK OCCUPANCY JUST TO NAME A FEW AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN GET TO THE STATE PROCESS TO GET A HAWKER'S PUZZLER'S LICENSE THAT REQUIRES YOU TO GO TO THE PPD AND GET A CHARACTER WITNESS STATEMENT AND ACTUALLY PAY THEM TO PROVIDE THAT FOR YOU. THIS WOULD BE CONFUSING FOR ANYONE LET ALONE IF YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE IS NOT ENGLISH. IT TAKES PRECIOUS TIME AND RESOURCES TO FIGURE OUT WITH THE HELP OF AN ATTORNEY THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM AND REGULATIONS ARE NOT NEW AND ADD TO THE GROWING TREND NATIONWIDE WASHINGTON DC CITY COUNCIL JUST PASSED SWEEPING LEGISLATION IN MAY WITH NEW YORK CITY AND LOS ANGELES ON AWAY. I KNOW FOLKS THROUGHOUT THIS CONVERSATION AND I DO ENCOURAGE ROBUST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS. PEOPLE WILL TALK ABOUT COMPETITIVENESS AND CONTROLLING THE MARKET FOR ESTABLISHED BRICK AND MORTARS FIRST THIS LANGUAGE AND IT'S JUST A FIRST DRAFT GRANTS AUTHORITY TO A COMMITTEE TO CREATE PRE DESIGNATED ZONES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY AND TO WE HAVE EXAMPLES OF CITIES THAT HAVE ATTEMPTED TO BAN SIDEWALK VENDORS AND IT HAS HAD NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON THE LOCAL ECONOMY. WHEN STREET VENDORS WERE CLEARED FROM ONE AREA IN BROOKLYN FOR EXAMPLE, BRICK OR MORTAR RETAILERS REPORTED 20 PERCENT DROPS IN REVENUE BECAUSE OF THE DROP IN FOOT TRAFFIC HERE IN BOSTON WE HAVE THE FOOD TRUCK PROGRAM WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN 2011. THIS WAS HAILED AS AN INNOVATIVE IDEA TO HELP BUSINESS OWNERS BREAK INTO AN UNAFFORDABLE MONOPOLISTIC MARKET. BUT IT STILL HAS ITS BARRIERS. FOOD TRUCKS ARE EXPENSIVE TO BUY. THEY'RE EXPENSIVE TO OWN, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE. WE SIMPLY SEE NON MOTORIZED PUSH CARTS AS A MORE AFFORDABLE PATHWAY AN EXTENSION OF THIS PROGRAM IF DONE CORRECTLY, THIS COULD BE THE FUTURE OF LOCAL COMMERCE THAT WILL ATTRACT NOT JUST IN DOWNTOWN BUT TO MAIN STREETS AND CORNERS ACROSS BOSTON. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD THESE CONVERSATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS AND AGAIN WORKING WITH ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO CREATE THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOMES THAT WILL BREAK BARRIERS DOWN IN THIS BUILDING AND PROVIDE ANOTHER TOOL FOR ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN BOSTON. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU COUNCILOR QUATER THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA, COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR COLORA FOR INVITING MY OFFICE TO SIGN ONTO THIS ORDINANCE AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AS THE CHAIR OF LABOR WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. MY OFFICE IS DEDICATED TO EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES TO OUR RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY IMMIGRANT OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES. I BELIEVE THIS ORDINANCE REPRESENTS A NATURAL PROGRESSION OF THE TWENTY TWENTY ONE RESIDENTIAL KITCHEN ORDINANCE THAT OUR OFFICE PASSED NOT TOO LONG AGO SO THAT WE CAN START BUILDING FINANCIAL PATHWAYS FOR WEALTH BUILDING FOR LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO JOIN YOU ON THIS. I'M REALLY JUST IN AWE OF YOUR DEDICATION AND YOUR PASSION AROUND THIS ISSUE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE I'M IN EAST BOSTON WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS WHO COME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH OFTENTIMES A SUITCASE FULL OF DREAMS AND OFTENTIMES DON'T HAVE A WAY TO MAKE THOSE DREAMS A REALITY AND SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THIS BREAKING DOWN THOSE BARRIERS AND CRACKING THE DA VINCI CODE BASICALLY TO BE ABLE TO BUILD A PATHWAY FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO THIS INDUSTRY AND PATHWAYS. I THINK I'M JUST HAPPY THAT YOU ARE DOING THIS AND I KNOW THAT JUST FOR EAST BOSTON IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT ACROSS THE CITY BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THE COMMUNITY THERE I KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT DEFINITELY WILL BENEFIT IS BOSTON IN PARTICULAR THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS HAS LONG BEEN LOOKING AT WAYS TO INCLUDE NONVOTER STREET CARTS AS A BUSINESS OPTION. BUT THE LICENSE HAS NEVER EXISTED BY CREATING A PERMITTING SYSTEM FOR NON MOTORIZED STREETCARS TO EXIST, WE ARE EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE A LIVING LEGALLY MANY STREET VENDORS ALREADY EXIST AND PUNISHING BECAUSE THE CITY HAS NOT CAUGHT UP. IS THAT HELPFUL? I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO BUILD UPON THESE PATHWAYS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CLOSING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND AS WITH EVERYTHING, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BACK AND FORTH AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH OUR COLLEAGUES SO THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT NOT THE HOW BUT THE WIN AND WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET THE POLITICAL COURAGE TO MOVE THESE THINGS ALONG. SO THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE SPACE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING A BIG MOUTH ALONGSIDE YOU TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR COLLETTA FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN ADAMIA AS A ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR ON THIS ONE OF THE MOST ACCESSIBLE PATHWAYS FOR A RESTAURATEUR IS A STREET FOOD FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO FOLKS COOK UP SIMPLE DELICIOUS FOOD TO SELL OUTSIDE OF SPORTING EVENTS, CONCERTS AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS WITH MINIMAL INVESTMENTS IN ENTREPRENEUR TO START A BUSINESS WHILE BUILDING THE CULTURE OF THE CITY. UNLIKE MOST TO PURSUE A PATHWAY THROUGH CAR OPERATION PROVIDES A LOW LOW COST OPPORTUNITY THAT IS OPEN TO ALL THAT IS OFTEN BENEFICIAL FOR THE COMMUNITY. I LACK LARGE CAPITAL AND POLITICAL CONNECTIONS AS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER MYSELF I'M ALL TOO FAMILIAR WITH THE BARRIERS TO OPEN A SMALL BUSINESSES. WE MUST MAKE OUR PARTNERSHIP EASIER FOR OUR RESIDENTS NOT ONLY BY STREAMLINING AND SIMPLIFYING EXISTING PROCESSES BUT ALSO BY ALLOWING FOR NEW INDUSTRIES AND OPPORTUNITIES 15 YEARS AGO AND COUNCIL KALITTA POINTING THIS OUT FEW THOUGHT THAT TRUCKS AS ANYTHING MORE THAN LIKE AN ICE CREAM MAN TODAY IS A ONE POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY THAT HAS SPARKED FOOD REVOLUTIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. GIVEN BOSTONIANS A TASTE OF SOME OF THE MANY CULTURES THAT THRIVE IN OUR CITY. AS CHAIR OF A SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO OPEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL OF OUR CONSTITUENTS AND BREAK DOWN BARRIERS TO BUSINESSES AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH MY COLLEAGUES TO STREAMLINE OUR BUSINESS CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATION PROCESS AND MAKE IT EASIER FOR ENTREPRENEURS TO COME TO OUT TO MARKET. THANK THANK YOU COUNCILOR . WE'RE ALL IT IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER ? IS ANYONE LOOKING TO SIGN THEIR NAME? PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR KARAKA PLEASE HEAD COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCIL OUR COUNCIL REGION COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR DURCAN THIS DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY FOUR WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS MR CORCORAN TO DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY FIVE DUCKING THE ONE THREE EIGHT FIVE COUNCILORS BREADON AND DURCAN OFFER THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING ON STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND FLOOD HAS MITIGATION IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BRIGHTON COUNCIL GREAT AND YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES. COUNCILOR COLLETTA AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR HEARING NO OBJECTION COUNCILOR KAWADA IS OUT OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BRIGHTON SO STORMWATER FLOODING ALSO REFERRED TO AS INLAND OR URBAN FLOODING OCCURS AND THE VOLUME OF WATER ON LAND EXCEEDS THE CAPACITY OF OUR DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND RESULTS IN STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOWING INTO BELOWGROUND SPACES SUCH AS BASEMENTS, GARAGES AND SUBSURFACE INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH SUBWAY STATIONS AS WE ALL KNOW FROM THE PREVIOUS FEW WEEKS WE'VE HAD SEVERAL INSTANCES IN WHICH TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL FELL WITHIN A TWO HOUR PERIOD OF TIME AND OUR OFFICE HAS RECEIVED CALLS ABOUT GARDEN LEVEL AND BASEMENT LEVEL APARTMENTS HAVING WATER COMING THROUGH WINDOWS ONE BELOW BEDROOM HAD FOUR FEET OF WATER AFTER A WINDOW WELL FLOODED AND THOUSANDS OF GALLONS POURED INTO THE APARTMENT. THANKFULLY IT HAPPENED DURING THE DAY AND NO ONE WAS INJURED IF IT HAD HAPPENED DURING THE NIGHTTIME FOLKS WERE SLEEPING IT MAY BE A DIFFERENT STORY. COMMONWEALTH AVENUE WAS FLOODED AND THE GREEN LINE WAS CLOSED DUE TO STANDING WATER. WE HAD REPORTS OF WATER BUILDING WATER ISSUES A NEW BUILDINGS BUT HADN'T HAD FLOODING BEFORE AND THE FEMA FLOOD MAPS ARE POOR PREDICTORS OF WHERE WE ARE GOING TO SEE FLOODING ARE RETROSPECTIVE MAPS AND THEY DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE INCREASED FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY OF RAINFALL IN THIS REGION. CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL. CLIMATE CHANGE IS HERE RIGHT NOW AND WE NEED TO BE PROACTIVE IN IN IN ANTICIPATING ITS IMPACT ON OUR RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY. WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THE CHALLENGES OF RISING SEA LEVEL AND NUISANCE FLOODING ALONG THE COASTLINE AS THE FOLKS WHO LIVE IN DORCHESTER ALONG MOISY BOULEVARD AND OUR FRIENDS IN EAST BOSTON ARE ALL TOO FAMILIAR WITH AND EVEN HERE ALONG ALONG THE HARBOR. BUT WE WILL SEE INCREASED STORM WATER FLOODING INLAND. WE NEED TO ANTICIPATE THAT THIS TYPE OF FLOODING WILL BE MORE COMMON AND MORE SEVERE WITH EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET SIX INCHES OF RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND AT SEA IN THAT SCENARIO WE COULD SEE LIFE THREATENING A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION SIMILAR TO THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK IN RECENT YEARS WHERE RESIDENTS AND BASEMENT APARTMENTS ACTUALLY WERE DROWNED. I'M CALLING THIS HEARING TO BRING TOGETHER CITY AGENCIES BOSTON WATER AND SEWER AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES TO TRY AND ELEVATE THIS ISSUE AND TAKE CONCRETE STEPS TO HELP PREPARE FOR WHAT IS COMING AND MITIGATE ITS IMPACT. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT GREEN STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, PERMEABLE LANDSCAPES AND WHAT REGULATIONS DO WE NEED TO HAVE WHEN WE ARE CONSIDERING PERMITS FOR BELOW GRADE LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS. WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR EDU POLICY OR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT PERMITTING BELOW GRADE BASEMENT APARTMENTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE PRONE TO FLOODING. THIS IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. IT'S AN URGENT ISSUE AND I THANK MY CO-SPONSORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN THIS IN THIS HEARING ORDER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. OH MY MY FIRST CO-SPONSOR IS COUNCILOR DRUKEN SINCE SHE IS GOING TO NOT SPEAK UNTIL HER MAIDEN SPEECH COUNCILOR COLLETTE WILL BE OUR NEXT STOP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BRETT AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CALERA COUNCILOR GALATA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH PRESIDENT FLYNN AND I WANT TO THANK MY CO-SPONSORS LEAD SPONSOR COUNCILOR BURTON AND CO-SPONSOR SHARON GERKIN. AS MENTIONED, SEVERE WEATHER SYSTEMS ARE HAPPENING ON A MORE FREQUENT BASIS AND IT'S DIRECTLY RELATED TO A CHANGING CLIMATE. THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. SO WE NEED TO BE PROACTIVE AND BOSTON SHOULD BE LEADING ON THIS. WE ARE BEHIND GLOBALLY OF BEHIND SISTER CITIES AND I SAY THIS QUITE OFTEN IN CONVERSATIONS TALKING ABOUT THE FLOOD ZONE. IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF BUT WHEN WE GET OUR OWN HURRICANE IRENE THE WAY THAT NEW YORK DID WHERE THERE WAS TWO HUNDRED NINETY SIX MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE, 10 DEATHS TOO. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE TAKING VERY SERIOUSLY AND THE GOAL SHOULD BE TO PRIORITIZE PERMEABLE SPACES AS MUCH SO THE ABILITY TO TAKE IN WATER MOVING FROM GRAY TO GREEN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND USING EVERY LEVER THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US EVERY TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX AS A MUNICIPALITY TO MAKE IT A REALITY. I HAVE SPOKEN AD NAUSEAM ABOUT THE NEED TO MAKE ALL FORTY SEVEN MILES OF OUR COASTLINE RESILIENT IN ORDER TO MEET THE SEA. SO I WON'T FOCUS ON THAT. BUT YOU HAD MENTIONED GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH I THINK IS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. I WALKED AROUND NEW YORK CITY IN THE WEST VILLAGE AND OTHER PLACES AND IN THE SIDEWALKS OR FLOWERBEDS THERE WAS GREENERY, THERE WAS TREES AND IT HELPS WITH STORMWATER RUNOFF AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WHICH WE SHOULD BE LOOKING INTO THE BBA AS WELL UNDER SMALL PROJECT SMALL OR LARGE PROJECT REVIEW ARTICLE EIGHTY THEY DO REQUIRE DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE A STORMWATER MITIGATION PLAN SO THAT SURROUNDING PROPERTIES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED. IT'S LARGELY AD HOC AND THE ADMINISTRATION IS GOING THROUGH THIS ARTICLE ANY MODERNIZATION. SO I WOULD LOVE TO READ THOSE CONVERSATIONS TOGETHER AND MAKE SURE THAT THE PEABODY IS AT THE TABLE AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN THE REFORMATION AS WELL THINKING ABOUT ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THAT LAYER AND THAT COMPONENT WE NEED TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL ONCE WE DO DECIDE TO IMPLEMENT THIS IN PRIORITIZING RESOURCES WE CAN'T ENTIRELY DEPEND ON BEING RESPONSIVE TO SOME OF THE MOST RESOURCED SECTIONS BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THE LOUDEST. SO AS WE DISCUSS WHERE TO PRIORITIZE RESOURCES, WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT WE NEED TO PUT IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES FRONT AND CENTER IN THIS CONVERSATION. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MY COLLEAGUE FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE DISCUSSIONS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL QUATER WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS PANEL? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OUR COUNCILOR IRA YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO THE ORIGINAL SPONSORS OF THIS HEARING. A FEW MONTHS AGO WE HELD THE AND THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESILIENCY AND PARKS HELD A HEARING ON GREEN WATER GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I THINK THAT THIS IS JUST A NATURAL CONTINUATION OF THIS CONVERSATION AS I BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO BE ONGOING UNTIL WE HAVE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE REALLY GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE, ESPECIALLY THAT ARE REALLY GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE, ESPECIALLY AS COUNCILOR COLLETTA PUT IT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES. I JUST WANTED TO STAND IN SUPPORT TO SIGN ON MY NAME AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE SPONSORS TO SCHEDULE A HEARING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL REGIONAL COUNCIL , REGIONAL YOGA FOR THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. I WANT I JUST THINK CASARES BRADIN DURCAN IN QATAR FOR INTRODUCING THIS HEARING ORDER AND I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THE CONSTITUENTS WHO I'VE TALKED TO THIS WEEK AS AN AT LARGE CITY COUNCIL ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW IT'S AFFECTING ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES. I SPOKE TO SOMEONE WHO WORKED FOR BOSTON WATER AND SEWER A FEW DAYS AGO, TALKED ABOUT HOW MATTAPAN AND DORCHESTER ARE REALLY SUFFERING AND ARE FORGOTTEN IN SOME PIPES THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED AND I REALLY HOPE THAT AS YOU STATED THAT WE ARE SENDING THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE OFTEN MOST FORGOTTEN WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO PREVENT THE FLOODING THAT WE SEE IN A YEAR WHERE WE HAVE HAD A DISPROPORTIONATE I DON'T THINK ANYONE WAS EXPECTING THE AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT WE'VE HAD AND OUR RESIDENT WHO EITHER I THINK COUNCILOR BREDON HAD MENTIONED OR MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY OUR RESIDENTS WHO LIVE IN 82 UNITS OR IN BASEMENT LEVEL GARDEN LEVEL APARTMENTS THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE REALLY STRUGGLING, ESPECIALLY RESIDENTS IN COMMUNITIES WHO WANT TO LEND MY SUPPORT. AND I THINK THAT I HOPE THAT THIS CAN BE A ROBUST CONVERSATION THAT INCLUDES ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN AFFECTED BY STORMWATER AND THE STRATEGIES THAT WE CAN USE BRINGING THE CITY TO THE TABLE BOSTON WATER AND SEWER TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN BETTER MANAGE THIS PROBLEM. THANK YOU, ANTHONY . YEAH, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK WITH ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND, MR. CLERK, PLEASE COUNCIL ROYALLE COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FIRE CITY COUNCIL BOROUGH COUNCIL REGIONAL COUNCIL MAYOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY, WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR YOU KNOW AND I'LL SPEAK VERY BRIEFLY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. THIS IS A CRITICAL ISSUE FACING MANY NEIGHBORHOODS THE CITY INCLUDING THE FORT POINT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WHICH ONE OF MY CONSTITUENT IS HERE NOW BUT IT'S ALSO A MAJOR ISSUE IN CHINATOWN, THE SOUTH END WE A WATER MAIN BREAK. WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH WATER AND SOIL LAST WEEK AND HAD SOME ISSUES IN SOUTH BOSTON AT END OF SQUARE LAST WEEK AS WELL. I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE MEN AND WOMEN AT THE WATER COMMISSION FOR THE IMPORTANT WORK THEY DO EVERY DAY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON. THIS STOCK AND THIRTEEN EIGHTY FIVE WE REFER TO THE COMMITTEE . WELL I WAS I WAS GOING TO PLACE IT TO THE THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY BUT I KNOW WE HAVE A KIND OF A COMPANION DOCKET THAT'S ALSO SIMILAR SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT IT INTO THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESILIENCY AND PARKS COMMITTEE. MR. CLERK, CAN WE CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 13 86 DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT SIX COUNCIL LOUISIANA FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR REHEARING AND WAYS TO INCREASE TRASH PICKUP FOR LARGE BUILDINGS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR RIDGEN COUNCIL REGION. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT LANE. AS A CITY WE WANT RESIDENTS TO BE PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY LIVE IN AND THAT BECOMES DIFFICULT WHEN OUR STREETS ARE FILLED WITH TRASH, WHEN OUR DUMPSTERS OVERFLOWING. I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS QUITE A BIT HERE ON THE COUNCIL AS WE'VE WORKED CITYWIDE REALLY ADDRESSING ISSUES OF OUR OVERFLOW IN DUMPSTERS. IT'S BECOME A PROBLEM ESPECIALLY OUR LARGE BUILDINGS AND ESPECIALLY APARTMENT BUILDINGS. THESE BUILDINGS ONLY HAVE THEIR TRASH COLLECTED ONCE A WEEK AND IT OFTEN LEADS TO OVERFLOWING DUMPSTERS WHICH LEADS TO THINGS LIKE INCREASED RODENT INFESTATION WHICH I KNOW CLAUDIA WAS RECENTLY TALKING ABOUT ON TV. AND I THINK THAT IT'S AN ISSUE THAT A LOT OF US ARE SEEING THROUGHOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE CAN ONE WAY TO MITIGATE THE RODENT INFESTATION THAT WE ARE SEEING IS BY HAVING CLEANER NEIGHBORHOODS, CLEANER APARTMENT BUILDINGS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE DUMPSTER OVERFLOWING THAT AREN'T NATURAL HABITATS FOR RODENTS CURRENTLY IT'S CHEAPER FOR LANDLORDS TO PAY FINES FOR OVERFLOWING TRASH THAN TO CONTRACT FOR INCREASED PICK-UPS. SO WE WANT TO WORK TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM INCLUDING LOOKING AT WAYS OF OF OF OUTSOURCING TRASH COLLECTIONS FOR CERTAIN LARGE BUILDINGS OR FOR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF OF PICKUPS THAT WE HAVE FOR LARGE BUILDINGS. WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY DO A REALLY GREAT JOB WITH THEIR SOME OF THEIR BUILDINGS THAT HAVE TRASH COLLECTION TWICE A WEEK THAT HAS BEEN OUTSOURCED. THOSE DUMPSTERS ARE MORE SANITARY AND THEY'RE BETTER MAINTAINED. I THINK IT'S ESSENTIAL TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY BURDEN OF INCREASED TRASH PICKUP ISN'T PASSED ON TO OUR RESIDENTS. THAT IS A FEAR POTENTIALLY WITH WITH THIS WITH OUTSOURCING. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT'S AN ISSUE AND WE'RE LOOKING AT OVERFLOWING DUMPSTERS AND AND STREETS THAT ARE OVER IT AND WITH TRASH THEY HAPPEN TO THE MOST DISAFFECTED COMMUNITIES DISPROPORTIONATELY BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES AND LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL OF CARE AND ATTENTION AS AS OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY. THE FACT THAT BHP HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS LEADING WITH A LOT OF ENCOURAGEMENT WE CAN GET THIS RIGHT. I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK THE PUBLIC SERVANTS I'VE MY OFFICERS WORKED REALLY CLOSELY WITH OFF THE PUBLIC WORKS WHENEVER WE GET AN ISSUE OF OVERFLOWING DUMPSTERS THAT'S MY GIRL DENNIS ROJ. THEY'VE BEEN LIKE AMAZING PARTNERS WITH HELPING US WITH ABSENTEE LANDLORDS ESPECIALLY TO HELP HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE ON MAKING SURE THAT THE DUMPSTERS WERE CLEAN. BUT NOW WE JUST NEED TO MOVE TO THIS NEXT PHASE. A LOT OF OTHER LIKE CITIES NO LONGER ARE ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN AND PICK UP THAT LARGE BUILDINGS AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD DATA WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING TO FIND A SOLUTION THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE. EVERYONE BELIEVES TO LIVING IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AFFIRM THEIR DIGNITY THAT ARE SANITARY ENVIRONMENTS. AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A CRITICAL STEP TO GETTING THERE WAS A HEARING ORDER AND THEN FROM THE HEARING ORDER WE'LL SEE WHAT MAKES MORE SENSE FOR US TO UPDATE THE MUNICIPAL CODE WITH AN ORDINANCE. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN. THANK YOU, CONSUL GENERAL. AND IT WAS ALSO TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER WHAT ANYONE LIKE THEIR NAME? PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLERK. PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR BRADIN, COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL ALARA COUNCIL DURCAN COUNCIL MEJIA COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR AND I'LL SPEAK VERY BRIEFLY ON IT THIS IS A CRITICAL ISSUE IMPACTING EVERY EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD. IT'S AN ISSUE I'VE WORKED ON FOR SIX YEARS BUT IT ALSO GOES WORKS CLOSELY WITH THE ON PEST CONTROL ISSUES AS COUNCIL THE REGION MENTIONED CRITICAL THAT WE DO MORE WORK ON PEST CONTROL BUT ALSO THE DUMPSTERS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY. THERE'S ONE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE IT'S NOT MAINTAINED. THE BOTTOM IS NOT MAINTAINED SO IT'S EASY ACCESS FOR RATS MICE TO TO GET IN AND OUT. SO WE NEED TO ALSO DO A BETTER JOB OF MAINTAINING THE EQUIPMENT THE THE DUMPSTERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE UP TO STANDARD UP TO CODE . SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR FOCUSING ON THIS ISSUE. THIS AT THIRTEEN EIGHTY SIX WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY. MR. CLERK, WE'RE ON THE DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE EIGHT SEVEN COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN RELATIVE TO DATA FROM THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SUMMER SCHOOL. TWENTY TWENTY THREE THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I FILED THIS ORDER A FEW DAYS AGO AS PART OF OUR CONTINUING EFFORT TO GIVE THE CITY COUNCIL THE TOOLS TO COLLECT INFORMATION SO THAT WE ARE EQUIPPED WITH THE NECESSARY DATA TO IDENTIFY WHERE THE SUPPORTS ARE NEEDED. THIS IS DATA THAT MY OFFICE HAS BEEN COLLECTING AND UTILIZING SINCE I TOOK OFFICE AND HELPS US GAUGE THE SUCCESS OF PROGRAMS AND IN THE SUMMER THIS PAST SUMMER WE HAD OVER FOURTEEN THOUSAND STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN LEARNING ENRICHMENT AND FUN ACTIVITIES. THIS IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD ACCOUNTING MEASURE THAT WE CAN USE TO MEASURE THE SUCCESS OF PROGRAMS THIS SUMMER AND HELP BETTER PREPARE MY OFFICE AS WE ADVOCATE FOR OUR SCHOOLS FOR NEXT SUMMER. SO THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN. THANK COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY, SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY OPPOSING THE AYES HAVE IT THIS THIRTY SEVEN HAS PASSED. WE'RE ON TO TALK AT THIRTEEN EIGHTY EIGHT. MR. CLERK LIKE ANOTHER ONE THREE EIGHT EIGHT COUNCILORS DEREK AND FLYNN OFF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DESIGNATING A HERO SQUARE INTERSECTION OF WEIGHT STREET AND HONITON AVENUE IN MISSION HILL IN RECOGNITION OF NELSON EDWARD YOUNG MS COUNCILOR FINN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCIL BRIGHTON. JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKIN FOR REALLY DOING THE MAJORITY OR ALL OF THE WORK ON THIS AND I KNOW SHE'S NOT OBVIOUSLY SPEAKING. SHE'S SHE'S WAITING JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKIN BUT ALSO HERSELF ARE DOING OUTSTANDING WORK ON THIS RESOLUTION BUT ALSO FOR YOUR SUPPORT FOR VETERANS MILITARY FAMILIES AS WELL AS WITH THE THIS IS REGARDING PRIVATE FIRST CLASS EDWARD EDWARD YOUNGGU IN IN COUNCIL BRIGHTON. BEFORE I CONTINUE, COULD I ASK THAT COUNCILOR MURPHY BE ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR? I AM SEEING OR HEARING NO OBJECTIONS. COUNCILOR MURPHY WOULD BE ADDED THANK PRIVATE FIRST CLASS EDWARD YOUNG. HE JOINED THE U.S. ARMY THE DAY AFTER HIS 17TH BIRTHDAY A VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT HE AND LIKELY HAD TO CONVINCE HIS PARENTS TO SIGN HIS ENLISTMENT PAPERWORK AS HE WAS STILL A MINOR. IT IS THE PRACTICE OF THE US MILITARY THAT ANY SERVICE MEMBER WHO WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY IS PROMOTED TO THE RANK DIRECTLY ABOVE THEM. SO PRIVATE 1ST CLASS YOUNG WAS ACTUALLY PRIVATE YOUNG JUST AS IT IS TODAY THERE IS NO RANK SYMBOL FOR PRIVATE. IT'S JUST A BLANK SPACE. MR YOUNG SERVED AND DIED WITH ONLY TWO EMBLEMS ON HIS UNIFORM THE UNIT INSIGNIA AND THE AMERICAN FLAG. HE WAS ONE OF THE LOWEST IN LIKELY THE YOUNGEST SOLDIER EVERYWHERE HE WENT NO DOUBT HE WAS THE LITTLE BROTHER TO HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS AND THE PRISONER OF WAR. HE MAY HAVE BEEN OUTRANKED FOR HIS NINETEEN YEARS OF LIFE BUT TODAY WE WOKE UP TO HIM AS AN ELDER IN OUR CITY AND OUR COMMONWEALTH AND WE SALUTE HIM FOR HIS LIFE OF SELFLESS SERVICE IN THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, THE SUPREME SACRIFICE. MR YOUNG WAS THE ELDEST OF EIGHT SIBLINGS TIMOTHY RONALD BERNEY CAROL AND JANE. MOST OF HIS SIBLINGS WERE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER HIS FAMILY. THE YOUNG FAMILY WAS ONE OF GENERATIONS OF COUNTLESS AMERICAN FAMILIES WHO WERE RAISED BY GRIEVING PARENTS WHO HAD HEARTBREAK AND OPEN QUESTION ABOUT AMEA AND ALL OF THEM LIKELY FAR TOO MANY KIDS. THEY GREW UP IN A HOME WHERE A PHOTO OF A YOUNG STRANGER IN THE YOUTH UNIFORM WAS ALWAYS NEXT TO THE FAMILY PORTRAIT. SO THIS CITY LOST A SON. THIS FAMILY LOST A CHILD, A SIBLING AND FRIEND AND I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING IS COMING TOGETHER AS A CITY, AS A COMMUNITY TO WANT THIS SUPREME SACRIFICE AND TO LET THIS FAMILY KNOW THAT WE STILL REMEMBER HIM. WE STILL REMEMBER THIS FAMILY AND THE PRICE THE SUPREME PRICE THIS FAMILY HAS PRAYED HAS PAID FOR OUR FREEDOMS. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON. THANK YOU, COUNSELOR FRIEND COUNSELOR MURPHY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER QUICKLY AND PROPERLY? HONORING OUR HEROES JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN. THE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE. SO THANK YOU TO YOUR OFFICE COUNSELOR GERKIN FOR MAKING SURE THIS ONE AND THE OTHER ONE PUT FORWARD AND I WON'T REPEAT WHAT COUNCILOR PRESIDENT FLYNN SO ELOQUENTLY STATED ABOUT THIS HERO AND I DO JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE KNOW WE NEED TO SUBMIT THIS ONTO THE OFFICE OF VETERAN SERVICES AND THAT'S A CHAIR OF VETERAN SERVICES. I HAVE ATTENDED MANY IF NOT ALL IN MY TEAM TO THESE HEROES WHERE CELEBRATIONS AND IT'S JUST A WONDERFUL WAY TO REMEMBER AND RECOGNIZE IN THE QR CODES NOW AND THE NEW WAY THAT THEY ARE PUT INTO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THESE STREET CORNERS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE PEOPLE IN OUR YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE ABLE TO LEARN AND REMEMBER THE SACRIFICES THAT OUR VETERANS HAVE MADE TO MAKE THIS SUCH A GREAT COUNTRY. SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME JOIN AND I WILL BE THERE TO SUPPORT THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? I WOULD JUST SAY A FEW WORDS. I HAD THE HONOR OF ATTENDING REDEDICATION OF A HERO SQUARE IN ALLSTON, BRIGHTON JUST LAST WEEK. I REALLY WANT TO COMMEND THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HERE IN THE CITY FOR MAKING SURE THAT THESE HEROES SQUARES ARE RECOGNIZED, THAT THEY'RE MARKED AND I REALLY LOVE THE NEW THING THAT THEY'RE DOING. THEY'RE PUTTING A LITTLE LITTLE PLAQUE WITH A QR CODE THAT YOU CAN GO AND GO INTO THE DATABASE AND READ THE STORY OF THE FOR THE FOLKS THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR OUR COUNTRY. IT WAS VERY MOVING AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER HOW THESE FOLKS FOUGHT AND DIED. UH, TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY AND TO FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM IN WORLD WAR TWO AND THE ONE I WAS ATTENDING WAS WORLD WAR TWO VETERANS WAS VERY, VERY MOVING . OK, COUNCILOR DURCAN AND CONSTITUENCY'S SUSPENSION O'HARA OR ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME SORRY COUNCILOR ARROYO, COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR ACROSS FROM ME LEVY COMES FROM HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY UM COUNCIL WARRELL AND MYSELF COUNCILOR DURCAN AND COUNCILOR FLYNN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADAPTATION ADOPTION OF DOCKET ONE THREE EIGHT EIGHT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAY NAY THE AYES HAVE IT DOCKET ONE THREE ER THAT HAS BEEN ADOPTED THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL BRIGHTON MR CORRIGAN DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY NINE. THAT'S NOT THE ONE WE'RE GOING FORWARD. YEAH UM MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN EIGHTY NINE TALKING NUMBER ONE THREE NINE COUNCIL ANANDA'S SANDISON AFTER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY IN INDIAN CULTURAL DAY ON AUGUST 15TH ANNUALLY AS THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL HOLIDAY. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE BEFORE THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN. ON AUGUST 15TH WE STOOD IN COMMEMORATED THE MOMENTOUS OCCASION IN HIS INDIA'S HISTORY HARD WON INDEPENDENCE. IT FROM NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN WE HELD A BEAUTIFUL FLAG RAISING CEREMONY AND ENJOYED THE MUSIC AND FOOD OF INDIA. WE WERE JOINED BY TALENTED NORTH-EASTERN SANSKRIT STUDENT ASSOCIATION AND THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON AND OF COURSE WE WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO PARTICIPATE WITH US. INDIAN STRUGGLED FOR FREEDOM REFLECTING ON TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH COLONIAL RULE, OPPRESSION, ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION AND TRAGIC MASSACRES, WE ARE RECOGNIZING A NEARLY FIVE MILLION INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES THE 10TH LARGEST DIASPORA IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ENRICH OUR SOCIETY IN EVERY WAY THEIR BEAUTIFUL CULTURE AND POPULATIONS A JOYOUS AND BIG HEARTED INDIVIDUALS CAN BE FELT THROUGH OUR CITY AND WE MUST HONOR INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AS WELL AS INDIAN CULTURAL DAY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR FATHER REACHING IMPACTS BEYOND BORDERS AND REMIND US OF THE SACRIFICES AND PERSEVERANCE THAT LED TO THEIR FREEDOM. LET US EXPRESS GRATITUDE AND VALUES OF UNITY WITH THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU JAI AND JAI BHARAT. I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY WONDERFUL STAFF HACHINOHE DARCY WHO IS ALSO WHO IS INDIAN AND WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE OF MY OR A PART OF OUR TEAM AND JUST THANK YOU TO ALL THE COUNCILORS WHO CAME OUT. I AM ASKING FOR SUSPENSION PASS. I KNOW THAT THIS IS A COUPLE OF WEEKS PASSED BUT WANTED TO ASK FOR SUSPENSION AND PASS WITH MY COLLEAGUES TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ROYALE COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL BRIGHTON COUNCIL COUNCILOR DURCAN COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR BOROUGH COUNCIL REGIONAL COUNCIL MAYOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR OF PLEASE OF THE CHAIR COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN EIGHTY NINE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY TALKING NUMBER ONE THREE NINE ZERO COUNCILOR FOR NANCY ANDERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DESIGNATING A HERO SQUARE THE INTERSECTION OF CRAWFORD STREET AND WALNUT AVENUE IN RECOGNITION OF SERGEANT SYDNEY DELAINE JR. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND TO COLLABORATORS I LIKE TO CONSIDER THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OF PARTNERSHIP DRAWING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS A MILITARY MOTHER I DEEPLY UNDERSTAND THE PROFOUND SIGNIFICANCE OF HONORING THE IMMENSE SACRIFICES THAT OUR LOVED ONES MAKE DURING THEIR SERVICE TO OUR NATION. THIS UNDERSTAND THIS UNDERSTANDING UNDERSCORE THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF INITIATIVES LIKE HERO SQUARES WHICH TRANSCEND MERE RECOGNITION HERE FOR SQUARES RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ONGOING NEEDS OF CHALLENGES THAT VETERANS FACE DURING AND PULL SERVICE. THEY NOT ONLY STAND AS TANGIBLE MONUMENTS BUT AS LIVING TESTAMENT TO THE SACRIFICES THAT PRESERVE FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS WITH WE CHERISH AS STEADFAST REMINDERS OF THE SUBSTANTIAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH UPHOLDING THE VERY ESSENCE OF FREE A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY HONORING SIDNEY DILLANE JR. IS AN ENDEAVOR THAT CANNOT BE OVERSTATED BY HUMANIZING THE STORY WE EXTEND A HAND OF CONNECTION NOT ONLY TO HIS MEMORY BUT ALSO TO HIS FAMILY. IT IS THROUGH A PERSONAL LINK THAT WE ENSURE HIS LEGACY REMAINS ALIVE AND CHERISHED, PROVIDING A LASTING SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. HERO SQUARE OUR VALLEY SQUARES OUR VALUE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE AND FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY PRIDE AND UNITY. IT IS WITH IMMENSE JOY AND RESPECT THAT I SHARE THE NEWS OF FORTHCOMING TRIBUTE FOR SYDNEY DILLANE JUNIOR IN THE HEARTFELT BOSTON ROXBURY AND I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES TODAY ALSO FOR SUSPENSION AND PASS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CONSUL FOR IS INNOCENT WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER WOULD LIKE TO ADD A NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL BREDON COUNCIL COLLETTA COUNCILOR DURCAN COUNCIL FIRE CITY COUNCIL OUR CONSERVATION COUNCIL MEDIA COUNCIL MURPHEY COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR COUNCILOR FERNANDO FERNANDEZ ANDERSON IS SEEKING SUSPENSION THE ROLES IN ADOPTION OF THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN NINETY ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY ONE DOCKING NUMBER ONE THREE NINE ONE COUNCILOR BAKER FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION HONORING PETER THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT I AM PETER DE LUCA HAS DEDICATED 62 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE SERVICE TO THE THE YOUTH BOXING PROGRAM AT THE JOHN JOHN MCCAIN POST AA BOXING YOUTH PROGRAM AND THIS IS JUST TO THANK HIM FOR THAT. I MEAN WE RUN ACROSS PEOPLE THAT TELL US THEY WENT TO THE MCCAIN PROGRAM THIRTY YEARS AGO AND HOPEFULLY IT'S A PROGRAM THAT WILL CONTINUE INTO THE FUTURE. BUT THIS IS JUST A WAY FOR US TO WANT TO ONE OF THE LONG STANDING PEOPLE THAT PUTS HIMSELF BEFORE FOR OTHERS AND TEACHES THE GAME OF BOXING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . I'M LOOKING FOR A SUSPENSION ON ADOPTION. THANK COUNCILOR BAKER. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WHAT ANYONE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLERK, PLEASE. THAT COUNCILOR ROYALLE COUNCIL BREADON COUNCILOR COUNCILOR DURCAN COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANACIN COUNCIL FIVE CITY COUNCIL OUR RECONCILIATION COUNCIL HEAR COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR COUNCILOR BAKER IS SEEKING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN NINETY ONE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I. I ALSO SAY MAYBE I IT THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE'RE ON TO DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY THREE MR. CLERK DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE NINE THREE COUNCILOR MIKIO FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2021 AS BLACK JOY DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. SINCE TWENTY TWENTY OUR OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH THADEUS SMILE'S TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE BLACK JOY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THADEUS IS A PILLAR IN THE CITY AND A BRINGER OF ALL THINGS JOY HE HAS ORGANIZED AMAZING CELEBRATIONS FILLED WITH POETRY, MUSIC, WORDS OF AFFIRMATION AND ALL THINGS BLACKNESS AND SINCE THEN HAS PRODUCED A BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN BY BLACK YOUTH TITLED MY KING WAS PUBLISHED HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. BLACK JOY IS A DYNAMIC MOVEMENT ,AN ACT OF RESISTANCE THAT RECLAIMS OUR SHARED HUMANITY AND STANDS AS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR SURVIVAL. RAISING THIS ISSUE IS OF UTMOST SIGNIFICANCE DUE TO ITS POTENTIAL TO INSPIRE AND FOSTER A SENSE OF UNITY AND JOY AND EMPOWERMENT WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. THE REALITY FOR PEOPLE IN BOSTON UNDERSCORES THE URGENT NEED FOR MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS, POSITIVE AND SUPPORT A MR CHALLENGES FACED BY OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY. THE CELEBRATION OF BLACK JOY DAY BECOMES A BEACON OF HOPE A REMINDER THAT REGARDLESS OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCE WE CAN COME TOGETHER TO SHARE IN MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS AND RESILIENCE BY RECOGNIZING THE REALITIES THAT INDIVIDUALS IN BOSTON CONFRONT DAILY WE HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATING SPACE. WE ENJOY UNITY AND STRENGTH CAN THRIVE FOSTERING A MORE INCLUSIVE AND VIBRANT CITY FOR ALL OF US. THE ANNUAL BLACK JOY DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED ON SEPTEMBER THE 9TH, 2023. THIS YEAR I HOPE THAT YOU WILL ALL JOIN US AND VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION AND TODAY I'D LIKE TO ADD TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS THIS RESOLUTION SO THAT WE CAN AGAIN BEGIN TO CELEBRATE BLACK JOY DAY HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. AND YOU KNOW, IN THE INITIAL PHASES IN 2020 AT THE HEIGHT OF COVID THIS WAS REALLY CAME TO BE AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT DESPITE OUR STRUGGLE THERE'S ALWAYS STRENGTH IN THE WAY THAT WE SHOW UP. AND I THINK THAT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT BLACK JOY IT'S REALLY ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR ASSETS BECAUSE OFTENTIMES WE'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE DEFICITS AND THE THINGS WE DON'T HAVE. AND SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO CELEBRATE AS A CITY ALL OF THE AMAZING EFFORTS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATE MORE IMPORTANTLY THE JOY THAT EXISTS EVEN DESPITE THE STRUGGLES THAT WE GO THROUGH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MEJIA WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLERK PLEASE COUNCIL ROYAL COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL CONSELHEIRO COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COUNCIL . YOUR NAME IS ANDERSON COUNCIL FLORIDA COUNCIL OF OUR CONSERVATION COUNCIL MURPHEY COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR COUNCIL HERE SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THIS STOCK AT THIRTEEN NINETY THREE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED . THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING HERE WITH US TODAY. YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME BACK ANYTIME. OK OK. UM BEFORE WE GO ON TO THE PERSONAL ITEMS, I ALSO WANT TO DO RECOGNIZE TWO OF OUR COLLEAGUES THAT WORKED ON THIS ON BLACK JOY AS WELL MAYOR JAYNIE AND CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY AS WELL. WE'RE ON TWO PERSONALITIES. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE BE DOCKET 13 FOR DOCKET NUMBER ONE THREE NINE FOR COUNCIL AND FOR COUNCIL COUNCILOR BAKER THE CHAIR SIX SUSPENSION SUSPENSION THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE I SUPPOSE AND ER THE AYES HAVE IT THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED. MR COURT, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY FIVE DUQUAN NUMBER ONE THREE NINE FIVE COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCIL AND ME CHAIR SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE I OPPOSING NAY THE AYES HAVE IT THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY SIX DUKKHA NUMBER ONE THREE NINE SIX COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCILOR TO HEAR THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES OF PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE SAME NAVY I HAVE AT THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY SEVEN DURCAN NUMBER ONE THREE NINE SERVING COUNCIL TIME FOR COUNCILOR MURPHY JASIEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I OPPOSE ANY OF THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE DOCK DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY EIGHT I CAN NO ONE THREE NINE EIGHT COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCILOR BRING THE CHAIR SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE AYE OPPOSING NAY THE AYES HAVE IT. HISTORIANS PAST MR. CLERK PLEASE READ DOCKET THIRTEEN NINETY NINE TALKING OF ONE THREE NINE NINE COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCILOR BRING THE CHAIR SUSPENSION RULES OF PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSING THE AYES HAVE IT THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE BE TALKING FOURTEEN HUNDRED DUCK NUMBER ONE FOUR ZERO ZERO FLINTOFF FOR THE FOLLOWING THE CHAIR SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY SAY NAVY SEVEN THIS DOCK IT IS PAST MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET FOURTEEN ZERO ONE I CAN HAVE A ONE FOUR ZERO ONE COUNCIL FLENER FOR THE FOLLOWING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY OUR POLICY IN ER THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET IS PASSED MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET FOURTEEN ZERO DARK NUMBER ONE FOUR ZERO TWO COUNCILOR FOR COUNCIL A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES THE PASSAGE OF THIS DOCKET ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE OPPOSED SAY THE AYES HAVE IT THIS STOCK OF HAS PASSED WE'RE UNDULATE PHILES I BELIEVE AT THIS TIME WE HAVE THREE LATE FIVE MATTERS WE HAVE FIVE MADE FIVE WEEK TWO OF THEM ARE PERSONNEL ORDERS. ONE IS A RESOLUTION FROM COUNCIL REGION ONE OF RESOLUTION COUNCIL AUTHORITY TO IN A LANDMARK DESIGNATION FROM THE MAYOR. MR. CLERK, DO YOU WANT TO READ THESE INTO THE INTO THE RECORD AND THEN YEAH AND THEN WE'LL ACCEPT THEM AS PART OF THE AGENDA ITEM WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A VOTE TO ACCEPT THESE LATE FILE MATTERS INTO THE AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE OPPOSED SAY THESE LATE FILE MATTERS ARE ADDED INTO THE AGENDA. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . THANK YOU. THE LANDMARK ONE WILL BE PASSED ALONG IN THE MEANTIME WE'LL DO THE PERSONNEL FIRST LEAVE FROM OUR PERSONNEL OR COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCIL CHAIR SEEK SUSPENSION OF RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS LATE FILE MATTER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY OPPOSED SAY NAY. THE SLATE FILE MATTER HAS PASSED SECOND PERSONNEL ORDER COUNCIL FLYNN FOR COUNCIL KALITTA THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES THE PASSAGE OF THIS LATE FILE MATTER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE OPPOSED SAY NATIVE SLATE FILE THAT HAS PASSED THE NEED FOR AN ORDER FILED BY COUNCILORS LUZHIN AND COUNCILORS COUNCILOR BAKER RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS EFFORTS TO UNIONIZE AT UPPERMOST ON OUR HEALTH CARE CENTER WHEREAS HEALTH CARE WORKERS THAT HAPPENS CORNER HEALTH CARE CENTER ARE PURSUING A PATH TO FORM A UNION WITH SUPPORT FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF THE ONE ONE NINE NINE SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS E AND AT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL GO ON RECORD IN SUPPORT OF THE WORKERS AND THEIR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT THE SERVICES AND JOBS ASSOCIATED AT THE HEALTH CARE CENTER PROVIDE QUALITY CARE TO FAMILIES THROUGHOUT BOSTON. MR. CLERK THIS IS SPONSORED BY COUNCIL LOUISIANIAN COUNCIL BAQER THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL LOUISIANA COUNCIL JANUARY THE FOUR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. CAN WE RESPOND TO AN AD COUNCILOR BRIAN MORALEZ, AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR HEARING NO OBJECTION COUNCILOR . ALL IS OUT OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSOLATION. THANK PRESIDENT FLYNN AS THE CALLER STATED, HEALTH CARE WORKERS AT ABMS CORNER HEALTH CARE CENTER ARE PURSUING A PATH TO FORM A UNION WITH ELEVEN NINETY NINE. THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE AS HAS BEEN FURTHER RULED BY THE NLRB AND EMPLOYERS SHOULD NOT BE ENGAGED IN ANY TACTICS TO PREVENT THEM FROM DOING SO. RECENT RULING STATED THAT UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES IN THE RUN UP TO A UNION ELECTION WILL LEAD TO AN ELECTION BEING CANCELED AND THE BOARD WILL ORDER THE EMPLOYER TO IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE THE UNION AND I THINK THAT'S THE OVERARCHING RULING THAT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE SUPPORTING WORKERS AND ARE THINKING ABOUT EMPLOYERS ARE INTERFERING WITH A WORKER'S RIGHT TO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS ALBUMS CORNER HEALTH CARE CENTER. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PREDOMINANTLY CAPE VERDEAN LATINO HAITIAN HEALTH CARE WORKERS WHO RECOGNIZE THAT THEIR POWER AS WORKERS INCREASES IF THEY'RE ABLE TO FORM A UNION. IT'S A WAY THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO BUILD THIS SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTHEN THEIR VOICE SO THAT WE ASK THAT MANAGEMENT DOESN'T TAKE A POSITION HERE AND ALLOWS WORKERS TO VOTE ON A UNION ELECTION WITHOUT INTERFERENCE. I WANT TO COMMEND THE WORK THAT ELEVEN NINETY NINE HAS BEEN DOING. DARREN HOWELL IS HERE. THE POLITICAL DIRECTOR FOR MASSACHUSETT. I'VE BEEN HELPING WITH THE ORGANIZING EFFORTS THAT HAS REALLY STARTED FROM THE WORKERS THEMSELVES REALLY GRASSROOTS RECOGNIZING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BETTER PAY, BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS AND BETTER RETIREMENT OPTIONS IF THEY'RE ABLE TO FORM A UNION AND HAVE THE UNION SUPPORT THAN WE'VE BEEN SEEING AN INCREDIBLE MOMENTUM IN WORKERS REALIZING THAT POWER AND WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT THEM. AND SO I THINK MY COLLEAGUES, COUNCILOR BAKER AND COUNCILOR RALPH ARE JOINING WITH ME IN THIS RESOLUTION. I REALLY DO ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THIS. AND MR PRESIDENT, I AM SEEKING A SUSPENSION AND PASS THANK YOU . THANK YOU. COUNCIL REGION THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL BECAUSE YOU ON THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILOR RIDGEN FOR ALLOWING ME TO SIGN ONTO THIS UP. I'M GOING TO RESIGN MY DISTRICT. I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS. WHEN MY MOTHER WAS SICK WE HAD HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN THE HOUSE PROBABLY SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE CAME TO MY MOTHER TO MY MOTHER'S WAKE. THEY CARED FOR MY MOTHER. THEY LIKE THIS IS AN AREA WHERE THIS DISCUSSION THAT'S LONG OVERDUE. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE ARE TAKING CARE OF OUR ELDERS JUST LIKE WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING CARE OF OUR KIDS. THOSE ARE TWO AREAS WHERE WE'RE LACKING BEGINNING OF LIFE AND END OF LIFE. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME ON HERE AND AGAIN, LET'S SUPPORT LET'S SUPPORT THESE WORKERS HERE. THEY DO AN AMAZING JOB. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PAY ATTENTION NOW FUNERALS OF PEOPLE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIE AT ALL TIME AS YOU ALWAYS SEE THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS HERE BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT THEY WORK FOR AND THAT'S AND THAT'S WITHOUT BEING UNIONIZED. THAT'S WHAT WITH WITH NOT REALLY BEING PAID FAIRLY OR CORRECTLY. SO I THINK THIS IS AN AREA THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON AND MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING PAID. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILOR , FOR ALLOWING ME TO SIGN ON. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BAKER. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL ROLE COUNCIL . WILL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO MY CO-SPONSORS AND THANK YOU TO DARREN HOWE AND THE ELEVEN NINETY NINE SEIU AND WE SHOULD NOT NO ONE SHOULD EVER STOP OR TRY TO PROHIBIT ANY WORKERS FROM UNIONIZING. WE KNOW HOW POWERFUL UNION CAN BE AND HOW THEY CAN ADVOCATE FOR QUALITY WORK WORKERS RIGHTS. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE STANDING IN SUPPORT AND I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR INCLUDING ME AND THANK YOU TO DARYN. THANK YOU FOR WELL WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR . THANK YOU. I STAND WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION AS SOMEONE WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO WHEN I WAS AT THE COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNCILOR SERVICES TO UNIONIZE. I UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR WORKERS TO BE ABLE TO UNIONIZE AND CONDUCT EFFORTS TO UNIONIZE WITHOUT INTIMIDATION OR HARASSMENT OR ATTEMPTS TO FEARMONGER, SPREAD MISINFORMATION BY THOSE WHO ARE EMPLOYING THEM AND BY THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE IS FUNDAMENTAL. IT'S MY BELIEF THAT EVERY UNION THAT I HAVE SEEN PROVIDES BENEFITS MUCH STRONGER BENEFITS THE NON UNIONIZED WORKFORCES AND SO I STAND IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION FOR THEM TO BOTH UNION ORGANIZED FOR THEM TO RECEIVE THE BENEFITS THAT THEY DO BUT ALSO TO ENSURE THAT FOLKS AREN'T PARTAKING IN EFFORTS TO DISCOURAGE THAT UNIONIZATION OR TO INTIMIDATE OR OR CAST FEAR AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING TO UNIONIZE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE, COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE BEFORE THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO RISE AND THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR OUR PRESENTING THIS RESOLUTION AND I WANT TO JUST ALSO JUST RISE UP IN AND THEN MY SUPPORT AND YOU KNOW, I OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT MY MOM IS NOW SEVENTY FOUR YEARS OLD AND STILL TOO POOR TO RETIRE BECAUSE SHE'S NEVER HAD UNION REPRESENTATION AND I REMEMBER TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO WHEN I MET KNOW HOW MANY YEARS AGO IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO WORKING ALONGSIDE YOU LIKE TWENTY SIX WHEN WE WERE TRYING TO HELP HER UNION HALL THE SHE'S A FOOD HANDLER AT A LOCAL COLLEGE AND THEY WERE TRYING TO UNIONIZE AND THE EFFORT FELL SHORT BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE AFRAID TO GO UP AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT AND BECAUSE OF THAT WORK I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT THE INJUSTICES THAT SO MANY EMPLOYEES WERE GOING THROUGH AND THAT IS WHY I WANT TO NOT JUST LEND MY VOICE AND SUPPORT HERE BUT GOING TO ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO FIGHTING FOR MAKING SURE THAT UNIONS ARE ABLE TO PUT IN PLACE TO BE ABLE TO UNIONIZE. I UNDERSTAND BY WITNESSING FIRSTHAND THE MANIPULATION THAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM HAVING A FAIR PROCESS. SO I JUST WANT TO LEND MY VOICE IN SUPPORT OF A CORNER AND JUST WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE FLOOR AND SIGN MY NAME AND I LOOK FORWARD TO UPLIFTING THIS ISSUE AS WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THIS PROCESS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN , WOULD ANYONE OUTSIDE TO SPEAK WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO HAVE THE NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLERK, PLEASE. AT COUNCIL ARROYO COUNCILOR BRADIN COUNCIL COUNCILOR DRAGAN COUNCIL FLAT CITY COUNCIL BOROUGH COUNCIL MEET HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY, PLEASE HAVE THE CHAIR COUNCILORS LOUISIANA AND COUNCILOR BAKER SEEKING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THIS DOCKET. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THIS DOCKET. THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR. CLERK, THE NEXT RESOLUTION FORTHE LATE FAIL ORDER WAS OFFERED BY COUNCILORS FLAHERTY AND MURPHEY RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AUGUST 31ST TWENTY TWENTY THREE AS OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CITY COUNCIL FIRE TO YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I FILED THIS WITH OUR PROBABLY COUNCILOR MURPHY IN MEMORY OF MY COUSIN RICHI IN A MEMORY OF ANYONE HERE WHO'S LOST A LOVED ONE OR FRIEND OR ANYONE WATCHING AT HOME TO TO A DRUG OVERDOSE WHEREASES REALLY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. BOSTON IS THE EPICENTER OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC AS WE CONTINUE TO DRAW AN INFLUX OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND LAST YEAR. IT'S THE MOST OVERDOSE DEATHS WE'VE EXPERIENCED AS A CITY ACTUALLY MORE THAN BOTH SPRINGFIELD AND WORCESTER COMBINED. BUT REALLY WHEREAS THAT I'M DRAWN TO THE MOST IS THAT THE LAST WHEREAS WHICH STATES THAT THE MAIN GOALS OF INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY ARE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THE RISK OF DRUG OVERDOSE, TO MOURN THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES TO ADDICTION AND TO SEND A STRONG MESSAGE THAT PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS AND WHO ARE IN RECOVERY ARE VALUE. AND SO WITH THAT LOOKING FOR SUSPENSION AND ADOPTION. BUT I'M SURE WE ALL HAVE A STORY VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO US A LOVED ONE, A FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR, SOMEONE WE GREW UP WITH THAT SUCCUMBED TO TO DRUG OVERDOSE AND THREW THE CHAIR RECOGNIZING THE CO-SPONSOR AS WELL FOR HER EXPERIENCE WITH THIS ISSUE AND ALL OF OUR CONTINUED EFFORTS AND FIGHT TO RESOLVE THE OBESITY CRISIS HERE IN THE CITY. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL FINALLY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU AND THANK YOU COUNCIL COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY AND I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I GOT A CALL FROM THE IRONWORKERS BECAUSE THEY HAD RUN OUT OF NARCAN AND THREE OF THEIR MEMBERS HAD FATALLY OVERDOSED ONE WEEK AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FIGURE A WAY TO GET SOME. SO I WANT TO THINK THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION I CALL JEN TRACY FROM THE OFFICE OF RECOVERY SERVICES AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS JOHN MCGANN WILL NOT BE SURPRISED THAT HE WAS ABLE TO COME THROUGH AND GET THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED WHILE THEY WAITED FOR A NEW SHIPMENT. I KNOW THAT THE GOVERNOR HAS INVESTED MONEY AND WILL BE ABLE TO EXPAND THAT PROGRAM BUT WHEN PEOPLE NEED IT REAL TIME IT DOES SAVE LIVES IN EARLIER TODAY WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING TRADES UNION, I JOINED THEM AT THEIR ROUND TABLE. THEY HAD TO STAND DOWN IN THE SEAPORT EARLIER TO MAKE SURE THEIR WORKERS ALL THE UNION WORKERS KNOW THAT THEIR EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ARE THERE FOR THEM AND WE REALLY HAVE TO BREAK DOWN THE STIGMA AND KNOW THAT THE CAN GO TO THEIR UNION LEADERS TO GET SUPPORT. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE RECOGNIZING THIS DAY I'VE SAID IT ALL ALONG. IT'S SHARING OUR STORIES. I KNOW COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE ALWAYS SHARED YOUR PERSONAL STORIES WHICH HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN SO MANY LIVES. SO THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING SO WILLING TO DO THAT AND EMPLOYEES IN THE UNION FEEL BUT ALL ACROSS EVERYONE IS SUFFERING FROM THIS. SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING THEM HERE ON THE COUNCIL AND THAT OUR CITY HAS THE RESOURCES AND WE HAVE BEDS AND OTHER THINGS THAT CAN REALLY HELP PEOPLE MAKING SURE WE'RE CONNECTING THOSE TO THOSE SERVICES. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. JUST LIKE COUNCIL FLAHERTY I STAND FOR MY BROTHER RICKY. MY NIECE BROKE A MULTIPLE MULTIPLE OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY THIS WAY AND EVEN JUST THE OVERDOSES BUT ALSO THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE DRINKING AND DRIVING THEN I KNOW THAT ARE IN ALTERCATIONS WHEN THEY WERE DRUNK OR THEY WERE DIFFERENT THINGS HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THE SITUATIONS YOU PUT YOURSELF IN WHEN YOU USE. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE AN INTERESTING POINT. IT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS THE LAST THREE YEARS WELL IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS WHERE WE'VE GONE HEAVY REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN THE LAST THREE YEARS. WELL, SECTION THIRTY FIVES ARE GOING DOWN, OVERDOSES ARE GOING UP. WE HAVE AT LEAST ONE A DAY IN BOSTON, MASS IN CARS. WE THINK WE NEED AN ORDINANCE TO GO DOWN THERE AND CLEAN IT UP. DON'T WE NEED TO DO WE CAN USE SECTION THIRTY FIVES. WE CAN USE A POWERS AND WE CAN PUT PEOPLE INTO HOUSING. BUT YOU IT REALLY NEEDS WE REALLY NEED EVERY OPTION ON THE TABLE. WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS BUT EVERY OPTION IS NOT ON THE TABLE. SO LET'S GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS . WELL, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE ORDNANCE. IT'S ALREADY IT'S ALREADY PASSED BUT THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR FOR THIS HERE TODAY. IT IS TOMORROW I BELIEVE ON THE DAY WHEN WE AND WE WOULD NORMALLY HAVE A PRESS SERVICE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT A SERVICE REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT AND IT'S BASICALLY BECAUSE OF DESPAIR THAT PEOPLE PUT THEMSELVES IN THESE POSITIONS BECAUSE KIDS DON'T HAVE JOBS BECAUSE MUM AND DAD CAN'T PAY FOR THEIR KIDS FOR THINGS LIKE THAT. IT'S STRUCTURAL STUFF THAT IF WE'RE WORKING ON IT WE'RE WORKING ON JOB TRAINING SOLUTIONS. IF WE'RE WORKING ON REAL EDUCATION, IF WE'RE ENGAGED WITH OUR KIDS, LOOK WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THE WEEKEND THAT'S THAT'S KIDS THAT DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE ANYTHING THAT'S KIDS THAT ARE WATCHING THE BEHAVIORS DOWN EN MASSE. AND KASEEM, WHY SHOULD I LIVE LIKE STRAIGHT IF THEY'RE ABLE TO GO INTO TARGET AND ROB THEM ,THEY'RE ABLE TO USE THEIR DRUGS ON THE STREET. THEY'RE ABLE TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO WITHOUT ENGAGING OUR KIDS? WE SPEND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS ON A MASSIVE CAS. I THINK IT'S UPWARDS OF TWENTY TWENTY MILLION ON ON JUST THE ROUND HOUSE. TWENTY MILLION AND OUR KIDS ARE OUR OUR KIDS POTENTIALLY ALIGNING THEMSELVES UP TO TO GET INTO THIS LIFE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE HOPE RIGHT NOW THOSE KIDS THAT ARE DOWN AND HELP THOSE KIDS THAT WERE IN IN THE IN THE MOVIE THEATER DOWNTOWN THEY FEEL LIKE THEY DON'T HAVE SOMETHING IN BOSTON. SOMETHING IN BOSTON IS GIVEN THEM AND THAT SORT OF ANGER THAT LEADS TO HOPELESSNESS THAT LEADS TO A LIFE DOWN THAT PATH WITH THE MIGHT START WITH A BUDWEISER BUT IF IT ENDS UP WITH A NEEDLE IN YOUR IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO COME BACK TO SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE FOR CARING ABOUT THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BOROUGH COUNCIL WHARE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FLYNN THERE IS AN OLD ADAGE THAT SAYS THAT EVERY PERSON DIES TWO DEATHS. THE FIRST ONE IS WHEN THEY LEAVE US IN THEIR PHYSICAL FORM AND THE SECOND DEATH IS THE LAST TIME THAT SOMEBODY SAYS THEIR NAME AND SO IN THE SPIRIT OF THAT I WANT TO STAND NOT ONLY IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION BUT TO SPEAK THE NAME OF MICHAEL DUREL MCCARREN WHO WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND DIED OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE WHEN HE WAS TWENTY TWO. YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO COUNCILOR BAKER SPEAK SO PASSIONATELY I DON'T DISAGREE. MY BEST FRIEND MICHAEL LOST BOTH OF HIS PARENTS IN THE SPAN OF A YEAR AND IT THREW HIM INTO A SPIRAL AND UNFORTUNATELY LOST HIS LIFE AND MICHAEL WAS AN INCREDIBLY BRIGHT STUDENT, A DIVISION ONE BASEBALL PLAYER WAS ON HIS WAY TO PLAY FOR THE BOSTON RED SOX AND I MISS HIM DEARLY AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I TAKE THE TIME TO SEE HIS NAME AGAIN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LARA. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF VISION AND THEN WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL ROYAL COUNCILOR ALWAYS WITHIN YOU OF THE FOUR I THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO THE MAKERS. I JUST WANTED TO RISE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE QR CODES FOR THE HERO DEDICATION'S SQUARES THAT ARE NOT REALLY INFORMATIVE IN LETTING PEOPLE KNOW PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW THERE ARE PROBABLY AROUND THE CITY RIGHT NOW IN RECOGNITION OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FROM OVERDOSE AND I JUST WAS ABLE TO ATTEND A CEREMONY THAT THE NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES PUT OUT AND HELPED PUT OUT SOME OF THOSE PURPLE RIBBONS WHICH I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO REMEMBER THE DIGNITY OF FOLKS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING AND SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE OF DRUG ADDICTION. AND IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY MOVING EVENT FOR ME TO BE A PART OF IT AND PUT UP RIBBONS IN EAST BOSTON AND IN ROXBURY AND ACROSS THE CITY TO REMIND US I THINK ALSO OF WHAT COUNCILOR BAKER STATED THE IMPORTANT WORK OF INVESTING IN PEOPLE, INVESTING IN PREVENTION . AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOUT THEM OUT FOR THE ADOPT A POLL CAMPAIGN THAT THEY'RE RUNNING AND IN RECOGNITION OF ALL OF THOSE WHO'VE LOST LOVED ONES TO OVERDOSE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL WHICH AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCIL THE ROYAL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. I WANT TO STAND AND THANK BOTH THE ORIGINAL SPONSORS AS WELL AS ALL THOSE WHO SHARED THEIR PERSONAL LOSSES AND UPLIFTED THOSE WHO PASSED AWAY AS A FORMER PUBLIC DEFENDER I HAD MANY, MANY CLIENTS WHO WERE THROES OF ADDICTION TO HEROIN AND FENTANYL. I UNFORTUNATELY LOST SEVERAL AND THE THING THAT STUCK WITH ME THE MOST IN INTERACTING WITH AND WORKING WITH THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES WAS THE SHORT TERM NESS OF SIMPLY EVERY SOLUTION. SO YOU WOULD SEND FOLKS TO SECTIONING AND THAT WOULD BE 35 DAYS OR 30 DAYS BUT NOBODY MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO 30 DAYS BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A BACKLOG. ALMOST EVERYBODY WAS RELEASED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AND ONCE THE DRUG WAS OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM AND THEN THEY WOULD GO BACK TO USING BECAUSE THERE WAS NO BED AVAILABLE, THERE WAS NO ACTUAL FULL LONG TERM CARE FACILITY SPACE AVAILABLE. AND SO THERE WAS THIS GAP IN THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES FROM BEING SECTIONED AND BEING PUT INTO A SITUATION WHERE THERE SORT OF REMAINED BUT THEN THEY GET BACK PUT OUT INTO SOCIETY WITHOUT A FOLLOW UP PLAN OR THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH HOUSING OR WITH CARE OR WITH ANY OF THOSE THINGS AND THEN IT WOULD BE THIS CYCLE OF ARREST SECTION PERHAPS OR ARREST PRISON PERHAPS. BUT THE LONG TERM SOLUTIONS ON THE BACK AND WE'RE ALWAYS OVERBURDENED AND UNDER SUPPORTED AND I HOPE AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO TRULY ADDRESS THIS ISSUE IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN THESE SORT OF SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS, THESE SORT OF MEETING THESE MOMENTS IN IN REACTING IMMEDIATELY TO THEM WITHOUT GIVING FOLKS A LONG TERM SOLUTION ON THE BACK END TOWARDS MORE CARE AND MORE HOPE. AND I JUST WANT TO STATE THAT I THINK THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS SPENT CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES AND TRYING TO MEET THE NEED. I WISH WE WOULD SEE MORE INVESTMENT FROM THE STATE. I WISH WE WOULD SEE MORE INVESTMENT FROM OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS AND COLLECTIVELY WITH BOSTON. BUT I ALSO WISH WE WOULD SEE MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANY OF THESE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND MANY OF THESE HOSPITALS THAT HAD A DIRECT ROLE IN GETTING FOLKS HOOKED ON PAINKILLERS AND GETTING FOLKS INTO THIS. AND I THINK THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN NEARLY ENOUGH FROM THEM TO STEP UP INTO THIS VOID AS WELL FINANCIALLY FOR A PROBLEM THAT MANY OF THEM THROUGH THEIR RESPONSE PRACTICES, THROUGH THIS FOR PROFIT OXYCONTIN AND PURDUE PHARMA PROCESS THAT MANY OF THESE HOSPITALS EVEN HERE IN BOSTON PARTICIPATED IN HAVE LED FOLKS DOWN THIS PATH, MADE IT EASIER FOR THEM TO ACCESS THESE DRUGS, MADE IT EASIER FOR THEM TO BE ADDICTED TO THESE DRUGS PAIN PILL FACTORIES. THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS WHEN I WAS A PUBLIC DEFENDER THAT I WOULD SEE ON A REGULAR BASIS THAT EXPLOITED THESE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE HEALTH CARE SIDE AND IT'S MY HOPE THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD WE LOOK AT LONG TERM SOLUTIONS THAT DON'T JUST PUT THE BURDEN SOLELY ON THE CITY OF BOSTON, DON'T JUST PUT THE BURDEN SOLELY ON THE STATE BUT RATHER WORK COLLECTIVELY WITH ALL OF THESE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS BECAUSE THERE IS A VERY SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOW FOLKS WHO INTRODUCED OXYCONTIN'S AND PURDUE AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THESE HOSPITALS AND THESE INSTITUTIONS ENGAGED IN PRACTICES THAT HARMED OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR RESIDENTS. AND I THINK THE SETTLEMENT WITH SOME FOR LIKE TWENTY MILLION TWO MILLION EVERY YEAR THAT'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. AND MY HOPE IS THAT WE SEE ADDED PRESSURE FOR FOR MORE EFFORT FROM THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL. THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ARROYO, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE. COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS FOR LIFTING THIS ISSUE. I WANT TO RISE AND ALSO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE MY COUSIN PASSED AWAY TO AN OVERDOSE BUT THE REALITY WAS IS THAT MY FAMILY WAS UNABLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS AN OVERDOSE AND YOU KNOW THE STIGMA THAT EXISTS AND SO MANY OF OUR FAMILIES WHEN THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN, EVERYTHING ONCE IT GETS SWEPT UNDER THE RUG AND YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY WE CAN HELP SUPPORT PEOPLE IS IF KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS AN ISSUE AND MY FAMILY TILL THIS DAY IS UNABLE TO ACCEPT THAT AS WHAT IT WAS. AND SO I JUST WANT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF OF MY COUSIN AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS PAIN. AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN THE 90S THERE WAS A TREND HAPPENING IN SOUTH BOSTON IN PARTICULAR WHEN I USED TO DO A LOT OF WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND THERE WAS QUOTED AS THE SOUTHEY SUICIDES AND IN MANY OF WHICH THERE WERE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR OWN ADDICTION AND I THINK THAT THAT WAS IN LATE 1997. NINETY SIX WHEN I WAS DOING WORK IN THIS SPACE AND I WAS A NEW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN SUPPORT THIS COMMUNITY AND I STILL DON'T THINK THAT BACK THEN WE EVEN HAD THE TOOLS OR THE LANGUAGE OR THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE WERE DEALING WITH THEN. BUT A LOT OF IT HAD TO DO WITH YOUNG PEOPLE NOT BEING ABLE TO BE FULLY EXPRESSED OR NOT HAVING THE TYPE OF SUPPORT SERVICES THAT THEY NEEDED BACK THEN IN SOUTH BOSTON TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH. SO I THINK THAT IN MANY WAYS LOOKING AT THIS 20 OR 30 YEARS LATER WE'RE STILL FEELING THE IMPACT EVEN WHAT HAPPENED THEN IN SOUTHIE I STILL THINK THAT WE DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT THAT HAD ON SO MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT LOST THEIR LOVED ONES AND THEIR FRIENDS TO OVERDOSES. AND I THINK THAT AS A CITY WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY NOW KNOWING WHAT PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH THEN AND IF WE DON'T LEARN FROM THAT HISTORY, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO REPEAT IT. SO WHILE WE ARE LOOKING AT HONORING AND ACKNOWLEDGING I THINK THAT PART OF OUR MANDATE SHOULD ALSO BE WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THAT ERA AND HOW CAN WE PUT WHATEVER SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO REPAIR THAT HARM? SO I JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THE SOUTHIE SUICIDES AS WE TALK ABOUT OVERDOSES HERE BECAUSE I KNOW BACK THEN IT WAS AN ISSUE THAT MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES AND I WANT TO BRING THAT INTO THE SPACE AS WE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THE NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND, MR KIRKLEES. THAT COUNCIL OF ROYAL COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL BREDON COUNCIL COUNCILOR DURCAN COUNCIL BOROUGH COUNCIL REGIONAL COUNCIL HERE COUNCIL . WE'RE PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY IN COUNCIL MURPHY SEEKS SUSPENSION . THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR. CLERK, WE'RE ONTO THE NEXT LATE FILE MADAM FIFTH FLEET FOULMOUTHED OF COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PARK HOUSE 60 SCHOOL STREET BOSTON, MASS. AS A LANDMARK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I WAS ACTUALLY SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT THE POCA HOUSE WASN'T ALREADY LANDMARKED. THIS HAS ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION. THIS IS JUST FOR US TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL AS PEOPLE KNOW THE PARKER HOUSE 60 SCHOOL STREET AND ONE OF ITS CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT'S WHERE THEY DEVELOPED THE BOSTON CREAM PIE. MULTIPLE PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS HAVE STAYED THERE. EVERYONE EVERYONE FROM MARY TODD LINCOLN TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AND SO SOME PEOPLE HAVE WORKED THERE. CHI MINH WORKED IN THE KITCHEN AND MALCOLM ACTUALLY WORKED THERE ALSO. SO THIS IS WELL WITHIN SOMEPLACE. IT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LANDMARKED YEARS AGO BUT THIS IS JUST THE FORMALITY AND I'M LOOKING FOR A SUSPENDED PASS ON THIS. MR PRESIDENT, PLEASE. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BAKER. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A VOTE ON THIS ONE SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A VOTE ON ADDING THE PARKER HOUSE WHICH IS A SIXTY SCHOOL STREET TO THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION AS A TO BE A LANDMARK. WE'LL TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU CALL THE ROLL PLEASE? ROLL CALL VOTE ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PARKER HOUSE AS A LANDMARK COUNCIL ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR BAKER. I COUNCILOR BAKER I CAN'T BREATHE. I CAN'T BREATHE. COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR COLLETTE AH YES. COUNCILOR DURCAN YES. COUNCILOR DURKIN YES. COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON COUNCIL VOTING YES COUNCILOR THIRTY YEARS COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR AH YES COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES COUNCIL HERE COUNCILOR HERE YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES AND COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR . WELL YES THAT DESIGNATION HAS PASSED WITH TWELVE VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU MR. CLERK. MR. CLERK THAT'S IT WITH LATE FILES WE'RE ON TO WE'RE ONTO THE GREEN SHEETS NOW ANYONE WISHING TO PULL SOMETHING FOR THE GREEN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WE'RE ALL COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL YOU HAVE FOR THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN I'D LIKE TO PULL DOCKET NUMBER ELEVEN NINETY FIVE FROM PAGE SEVENTEEN ON THE GREENSHIELDS MR. CLERK ON ON THAT DOCKET PLEASE READ IT INTO THE RECORD AND THEN VOTE FOR THE COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE IT'S PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY FROM THE GREEN SHEETS ERM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE FIVE MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR THE APPROVAL IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO APPROPRIATE THE AMOUNT OF NINETY MILLION SIX HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING COSTS CONSTRUCTING EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHING A NEW BUILDING FOR THE WILLIAM ICARDA SCHOOL AT THREE NINETY SIX NORTH HAMPTON STREET IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. MR. CLERK AND WE TOLD THE COMMITTEE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON COUNCIL WORLD YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCIL HERE COUNCILOR WHO IS IN COUNCILOR BAKER AND COUNCILOR BREADON. IT'S PROBABLY BEFORE THE BODY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WE'RE ALL COUNCILOR ALL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR PRESIDENT FLYNN AS A REMINDER TO DARK IT IS FOR AN APPROPRIATION IN THE AMOUNT COVID 19 MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING COSTS FOR CONSTRUCTING, EQUIPPING AND FURNISHING A NEW BUILDING FOR THE WILLIAM YUKATA SCHOOL. WE TOOK OUR VOTE FIRST VOTE ON THIS DOCKET ON AUGUST NINE AND NOW ACTS FOR OUR SECOND VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . MR. CLERK CAN WE DO A ROLL-CALL VOTE ON ON THIS DOCKET RELATING TO THE CORDASCO ROLL-CALL VOTE IN A SECOND READING ON DUKAN NUMBER ONE ONE NINE FIVE CONSOLO ROYAL COUNCIL OF ROYAL COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL BREDON BUT YES, CONSIDER AND CONSIDER AND YES, CONSIDER FERNANDA SANDISON, COUNCIL OF FLORIDA COUNCIL 30 YEARS COUNCIL FLYN YES COUNCIL AND YES COUNCIL COUNCILOR LARA YEARS COUNCIL LOUISIANA YES COUNCIL LOUISIANANS COUNCIL ME HERE ANSWER MEJIA. YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES AND COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR . YES. TALKING ABOUT ONE ONE NINE FIVE HAS RECEIVED THE SECOND READING AND IT WAS RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU MR. CLERK. THIS DOCKET ONE ONE NINE FIVE HAS PASSED. THANK YOU COUNCIL . WELL THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE SCHOOL, THE KIND OF SCHOOL THEY DO TREMENDOUS WORK HELPING SO MANY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES BUT IT'S A REAL TREASURE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THEY'RE DOING OUTSTANDING INSPIRING WORK HELPING OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES BUT ALSO THE TEACHERS AT THIS EXCEPTIONAL PROGRAM. ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO TAKE ANYTHING FROM THE GRINCHY? WE'RE RANCHO MEMORIALS. I BEFORE WE BEFORE WE GO ON TO MEMORIALS WE'RE GOING TO DO THE CONCEPT AGENDA. I'VE BEEN INFORMED THE CORRECT THAT THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS TO THE CONTENT AGENDA. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE'RE ON TO MEMORIALS FOR COUNCIL ROYAL RAYMOND ORLANDO ATOM'S DELMONTE PHILMONT FOR COUNCIL BREADON RICHARD MARKES FOR COUNCIL COLLETTA AND SIMONNE FRANCOPHONIE FOR COUNCIL FLAHERTY NICOLE JAYNIE LUZIE BPD DESPATCHER JAMES JIMMY AUDE AND THE BOSTON EMT FOR COUNCIL OF FLORIDA AND COUNCIL FUND DENNIS GROVE DARRIS ELIZABETH COFFEE FOR COUNCIL REGION THOMAS MCWHIRTER SHAMY AND CHEMICA JAMES JAMES FOR COUNCILOR MURPHY RITA ALVARADO FOR THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. VICTIMS OF THE WHITE SUPREMACY HATE CRIME IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE. THE CHAIR IS THAT WHEN WE DO ADJOURN TODAY WE DO SO IN MEMORY OF THOSE MENTIONED. WE ARE SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THIS IN OUR CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH AT 12:00 NOON. BEFORE WE ADJOURN, I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES TO CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF, TO THE COURT STENOGRAPHER, TO THE CLERK, THE ASSISTANT CLERK AND TO THE PUBLIC ALL IN FAVOR OF A GERMAN POLICE SAY I THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU