PAYOFF'S SEVENTY SEVEN. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ED FLYNN ON THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE BY VISITING BOSTON. THEY ARE DUSHKA GUVS CITY COUNCIL DSTV. I'D LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES THOSE IN ATTENDANCE TO PLEASE SILENCE THEIR PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. PLEASE ALSO BE RESPECTFUL AND DO NOT DISRUPT THE MEETING WHILE YOU WERE HERE. IF YOU ARE DISRUPTIVE YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND 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. CLARK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROAD TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM UNTIL THE BOOK COUNCIL BREADON COUNCIL COLLETTA COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY NATSUO FLYNN YEAH COUNCIL ALARA COUNCIL LUZHIN COUNCIL LET ME HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY AND COUNCILOR UPON THIS PROCESS I HAVE BEEN INFORMED TONY BENNETT FROM THE BOSTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INVITED BY COUNCILOR BRIAN WERLE COUNCILOR BRIAN, WE'RE ALL WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP TO THE PODIUM TO INTRODUCE OUR CLERGY TODAY? THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND GREAT TO SEE SO MANY FACES IN THE PEOPLE'S ROOM TODAY. I'M HAPPY THAT YOU GUYS ARE JOINING US AND PASTOR COURTNEY BENNETT HAS BEEN A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY SINCE KINDERGARTEN SECOND GRADE. I HAVE KNOWN COURTNEY SINCE SECOND GRADE PASTOR COURTNEY AND FIRST LADY LAURA BENNETT RECENTLY PLANTED A CHURCH IN QUINCY, MASS. WHILE STILL SERVING AS ASSISTANT ASSISTANT PASTOR AT BOSTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND BRIAN REDMOND. COURTNEY HAS A STRONG HISTORY MINISTER AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP. HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN 2004 AS A YOUTH MINISTRY PASTOR AT BOSTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH. REVEREND BENNETT WAS ORDAINED WITH THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL INTERNATIONALE IN 2012 AND 2013 HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. THE CHURCHES OF THE UK. HE HAS WORKED IN THE COMMUNITY OF BOSTON MENTORING YOUTH AS A LICENSED SOCIAL WORKER AND HELPING THEM REACH THE SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL WITH OUTREACHES LIKE 180 180 DEGREES TO CHRIST IN ORGANIZED ORGANIZATION BUILT TO UPLIFT TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS. PASTOR COURTNEY AND FIRST LADY LAURA BENNETT ALSO ON LOCAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS GM GETTING GIRLS EQUIPPED AND MENTORED AND AMI YOUNG MAN GROUP HE HOLDS A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE WITH SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY AND IS CURRENTLY PURSUING HIS M.D. IVY AT LIBERTY UNIVERSITY. REBEN AND FIRST LADY BENNETT HAVE THREE CHILDREN WHO SERVE ALONGSIDE THEM IN MINISTRY. NO FURTHER INTRODUCTION GORDON BENNETT, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. I AM FROM THE CITY OF BOSTON AND BEEN HERE ALL MY LIFE AND I APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU GUYS DO WHEN I LOOK ACROSS AND I SEE WHAT I SEE AS LEADERS AND WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM LEADERSHIP SOMETHING IS REQUIRED OF YOU AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS DAY AND AGE PEOPLE ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH LEADERSHIP AS IT IS CURRENTLY CONSTITUTED. IT IS THAT JUMP OVER SOMEBODY TO GET AHEAD MENTALITY. BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THE GOOD BOOK I FIND THAT JESUS WAS THE LEADER. WE FIND THAT HE HAD TWELVE INDIVIDUALS ORIGINALLY FOLLOWING HIM AND AFTER THAT MANY MORE BUT WHAT WE CALL HIM WE CALL HIM A SERVANT LEADER. HE IS A LEADER. HE WAS A LEADER WHO LED BY SERVING MANY PEOPLE SAY THAT WITHOUT VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH. THAT IS A WORD FROM THE SCRIPTURE BUT MANY TIMES LEADERS FOCUS ON THE VISION AND THEY FORGET THAT IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE VISION ONE HAS TO WORK ON THE MISSION. WE CAN FOCUS ON BEING CALLED TO DOING A WORK AND LOOKING TOWARDS WHAT IS GOING TO BE BUT NOTHING WILL EVER BE WITHOUT WORKING ON THE MISSION. WE CAN LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURES AND WE FIND A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF DAVID HE WAS CALLED HE WAS ANOINTED TO BE THE NEXT KING YET IT TOOK HIM NEARLY THIRTY YEARS TO BECOME KING OVER THE PEOPLE IN WHICH HE WAS PROMISED. BUT THAT ENTIRE TIME HE DID NOT TWIDDLE HIS THUMBS DOING NOTHING. HE WORKED ON THE MISSION AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE HERE AS YOU BEGIN TO WORK ON PLANS TO DEVELOP THINGS IN THIS WONDERFUL CITY THAT YOU WORK AND FOCUS ON THE MISSION WHICH IS TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED, WHICH IS TO SERVICE OUR COMMUNITY. I KNOW MANY OF YOU HAVE WORKED HARD AND YOU HAVE GREAT VISIONS FOR THE CITY BUT IN WORKING TO GET TO THAT VISION, LET'S NOT FORGET THE DAY TO DAY BUSINESS OF DOING THE MISSION. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE MANY OF YOU MUCH OF YOUR TIME TODAY BECAUSE I KNOW YOUR TIME IS PRECIOUS AND AND YOU HAVE THINGS TO DO. SO IF WE CAN STAND WE'RE GOING TO PRAY TOGETHER AS A AS A GROUP AND WE'RE GOING TO ASK GOD TO TOUCH THIS ASSEMBLED GROUP HERE TODAY SO THAT YOU WOULD REMEMBER THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE VISION THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE BUT THE MISSION WHICH IS TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE LESS THAN YOURSELF. SO LET'S PRAY GOD OF ABRAHAM ISAAC AND GOD OF JACOB. WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO WORK THE WORK WHICH YOU HAVE SENT US AND CALLED US TO DO. WE ACT RIGHT NOW GOD THAT IN THE MIDST OF THIS COUNCIL THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM VISION LORD BUT ALSO HELP THEM LORD TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE HERE NOT FOR THEMSELF BUT FOR THE PEOPLE IN WHICH THEY SERVE. WE ASK GOD THAT THEY WOULD DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER, EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN CAN CAN POSSIBLY THINK UP TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN TASKED TO DO WE ASK LORD THAT YOUR HANDS WOULD BE UPON THEM, THAT YOUR SPIRIT WOULD CONTINUALLY GUIDE THEM. WE PRAY FOR WISDOM. WE PRAY FOR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND WE ASK GOD THAT YOU WOULD PUT YOUR HAND UPON THEM, GIVE THEM A SPECIAL ANOINTING FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS WE PRAY GOD THAT YOUR YOUR HANDS LORD WOULD WITH LEAD THEM IN DIRECTIONS IN WHICH THEY NEED TO BE AT THE AT A PLACE AND TIME IN WHICH THEY NEED TO BE SO THAT YOU COULD USE THEM FOR THE GLORY OF YOUR KINGDOM. WE ACCEPT THEY WOULD HAVE IT UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY ARE HERE BY YOUR ALLOWANCE AND THAT THEY ARE HERE BY THE ALLOWANCE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ELECTED THEM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS WE PRAY GOD THAT YOU WOULD USE THEM, USE THEIR VOICES, USE THEIR THEIR INTUIT AND THEIR INTELLIGENCE LORD TO BUILD UP THIS CITY THE CITY OF BOSTON WHICH IS A CITY THAT IS PLACED UPON UNTIL WE THANK YOU TODAY FOR YOUR LOVE AND FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND YOUR PRECIOUS NAME WE PRAY AMEN. PLEASE JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. THANK YOU MR. CLARK. PLEASE REFLECT THE RECORD THAT COUNCILOR ARROYO IS PRESENT COUNCILOR ME HERE AS PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL OF FERNANDES ANDERSON A. PRESENT WE HAVE TWO SEPARATE PRESENTATIONS TODAY ONE IS FROM COUNCILOR MEJIA AND THE OTHER AS COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL MEJIA WILL BE RECOGNIZING A GROUP HATAM JANE LEWIS WHO IS BAPS BOSTON CITY WIDE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM HEAD COACH COUNCILOR MEJIA PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM AND INTRODUCE YOUR GUEST PLEASE. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN FOR GIVING US AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE OUR BELOVED COACH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND I WOULD LIKE TO BEFORE I BEGIN I WOULD LIKE TO ASK ONE OF MY TEAMMATES WHO ACTUALLY WAS THE ONE THAT INTRODUCED ME TO COACH AND HIS STORY. SO I'M GOING TO ASK SARAH LAYTON WHO IS MY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP LIAISON TO COME HERE BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT BE CELEBRATING HIS WORK HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE STORY THAT YOU SHARED WITH ME. AND I WANT YOU TO BE PRESENT AS A RESULT OF THAT. SO COME ON UP AND AS SARAH MAKES HER WAY UP HERE, I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SARAH WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE A PART OF THE CITYWIDE CROSS TEAM HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND WAS THE ONLY GIRL FOR A LONG TIME AND AND SHE WAS A TRAILBLAZER THEN AND CONTINUES TO BE SO LET'S HONOR WHO WE ARE HERE TODAY TOGETHER WITH SO TODAY WE ARE FEATURING OUR COACH, HER TEAM, JEAN LEWIS WHO IS THE SON OF ANNE MARIE AND JEAN LEWIS, FATHER OF SWEET BLUE JEAN LEWIS AND HUSBAND WHO PETUNIA BUT TO BE PAT I'M GOING TO SAY THIS RIGHT PAT TOONER PETROVNA GOT IT. OK, JEAN LEWIS AND WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE YOUR SERVICE AND COMMITMENT TO BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ATHLETES THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER, A TEAM ALSO KNOWN AS COACH H IS A HAITIAN AMERICAN BORN AND RAISED IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SINCE TWENTY THIRTEEN A TEAM HAS SERVED AS AN ASSISTANT VOLUNTEER TRACK COACH FOR EXCEL HIGH SCHOOL, A HEAD COACH FOR THE FORMER WEST ROXBURY ACADEMY AND MOST RECENTLY BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY GOLD DRAGONS. DURING THE CROSS-COUNTRY SEASON, HOWEVER, A TEAM SERVED AS THE HEAD COACH FOR THE BOSTON CITY WIDE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WHICH UNITES ALL OF BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONTO ONE CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM. SO IMAGINE THAT CITYWIDE UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP A TEAM AT BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ALL ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON IN THEIR STRONG EFFORT TO ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST HONORS IN SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD AND CROSS-COUNTRY IN HIS CAREER AS THE HEAD COACH FOR CROSS-COUNTRY, A TEAM LED THE TEAM TOWARDS ITS FIRST INVITATIONAL WIN IN THIRTY YEARS BY TAKING THE BIG WAVE TEAM TITLE IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN WHILE COACHING INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TRACK WITHIN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, A TEAM HAS SUPPORTED AND PRODUCED OVER SIXTY BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL CITYWIDE CHAMPIONSHIPS TWO STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR CITY BOSTON MVP'S AND THREE UNDEFEATED TRACK AND FIELD SEASONS. OK NOW THAT IS WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY. IN ADDITION, IN ADDITION TO ATHLETE ACCOLADES, COACH H IS A FORMER STATE CHAMPION IN THE 600 METERS AT RANDOLPH HIGH WAS RECENTLY AWARDED THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE TRACK AND COACHES ASSOCIATION OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD COACH OF THE YEAR OF DIVISION THREE WHILE ALSO BEING A FULL TIME COACH. HER TEAM HAS SERVED THE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON TEACHERS UNION AS A BENEFIT SPECIALIST HAVING RECENTLY BEEN PROMOTED TO OFFICE MANAGER LAST MAY. IN ADDITION TO WORKING FOR THE BITTU, HER TEAM SERVES AS A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BAY STATE RUNNING OFFERING COMMENTARY, INTERVIEWS AND PREVIEWS OF THE STATE'S BEST HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES. A TEAM ALSO HAS THE HONOR OF SERVING AS AN EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER OF THE MS T.S.A. SINCE 2019. EVERY DAY COACH H REMINDS OF STUDENT ATHLETES THAT DREAMS ARE TANGIBLE GOALS, EMPHASIZING THE NEED TO PUT WORK AND EFFORT INTO EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR LIFE AND AS A MENTOR TO MOST OF ATHLETES, COACH H IS THE EPITOME OF WHAT A COACH SHOULD BE A PASSIONATE AND DRIVEN LEADER WHO IS CONTINUOUSLY ADVOCATING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HIS STUDENT ATHLETES. AS A RESULT, MANY OF HIS ATHLETES ALUMS HAVE GRADUATED AND GONE ON TO LEAD SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE CAREERS. I HOPE THIS CITATION SERVES TO RECOGNIZE HIS TEAM AND HIS WORK AND THE WORK OF ACTIVE BOSTON PARENTS, TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO SUPPORTED HIM IN THE CITYWIDE TEAM AND THEIR ENDEAVORS. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT A TEAM AND THE STUDENT ATHLETES OF THE BOSTON CITYWIDE CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM WILL ACHIEVE OVER THE COMING YEARS AND I HAVE TO SAY JUST SPENDING A LITTLE AT A TIME WITH THOSE WHO WHO ARE HERE TO CELEBRATE HIM IT WAS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE EVERY PERSON HE INTRODUCED ME TO PLAYED A ROLE IN HIS IN HIS JOURNEY AND I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE ALL HERE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS AS WE HONOR A TEAM FOR HIS WORK A TEAM PLEASE COME HERE, GET AWARD. JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION. THERE WERE OTHER WOMEN ATHLETES BUT SARA WAS THE FIRST CAPTAIN . SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT FOR THE RECORD. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. GOOD AFTERNOON. I USUALLY START OFF PRACTICE WITH THE WORD OF THE DAY IN THE WORD OF THE DAY TODAY IS EXAMPLE THERE WOULD BE ONE MOMENT PLEASE. SO EXAMPLES. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M SINCERELY HUMBLED TO BE RECOGNIZED AND HONORED FOR MY CIVIC DUTY AS A COACH. I'M AN EXTENSION OF THE FAMILIES THAT WE SERVE HERE IN THE COMMONWEALTH. I'M THE MIRROR REFLECTION OF WELL WISHES. I'M THE ECHO OF MORALS AND VALUES THROUGHOUT OUR CITY. I BELIEVE THIS SPORTS IS A POWERFUL TOOL AND I BELIEVE IN THE COACHING. KRAKOFF IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT, INSPIRE AND TEACH AND INFLUENCE THE NEXT GENERATION. I DIDN'T GET HERE BY MYSELF AND I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME GET HERE. I STAND ON A LOT OF SHOULDERS. IN 1963 MY GRANDFATHER MOTO MOTO JEAN-LOUIS MIGRATED TO THE CITY OF BOSTON SEEKING FOR BETTER OPPORTUNITY FOR MY FATHER AND MY FOUR AUNTS. L.C CATLEY LYDIA MILKHA. MY MOTHER MIGRATED TO THE CITY IN 1970. THOSE ARE MY FIRST EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP MY GRANDFATHER WORKING WHO OUR JOBS ESTABLISHED HIS FAMILY ON THE PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION AND FAITH WHILE WORKING TWO JOBS. MY GRANDFATHER WAS A PILLAR IN CREATING THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY WHERE HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS CAN SEEK FOR A PLACE TO WORSHIP BY STABLISH IN THE FIRST HAITIAN BAPTIST CHURCH IN MY GRANDPARENTS LIVING ROOM IN 1960 NINE MY GRANDPARENTS WERE MY EXAMPLES. UNFORTUNATELY MY GRANDMOTHER I NEVER GOT TO MEET HER SO SHE PASSED WHEN MY FATHER WAS NINETEEN BUT MY GRANDFATHER PUSHED HIS CHILDREN TO GRADUATE FROM BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH MY AUNT GRADUATED FROM JAMAICA PLAIN HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL AS MY FATHER WHICH IS OUR BOSTON ENGLISH. MY MOTHER WHEN SHE REACHED THE STATE HAITIAN IMMIGRANT ITSELF SHE GRADUATED FROM RACC THEN SHE LATER ON GRADUATE FROM UMASS BOSTON AS WELL AS MY BROTHER GRADUATED FROM UMASS BOSTON AND HE WAS A GRADUATE FROM BOSTON ENGLISH. SO THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS BEEN THE FOUNDATION IN THE GRASSROOTS OF MY FAMILY STRUCTURE. SO I'M HONORED TODAY TO BE HERE GROWING UP I WATCHED MY FATHER IN 1986. AS I SAID HE DEALT WITH A DIFFERENT PANDEMIC THE PANDEMIC OF 1986 WAS THE AIDS VIRUS HIV WATCHED MY FATHER CREATE THE FIRST SOUP KITCHEN OUT OF ONE OF THE LOCAL CHURCHES WHERE MY AUNT LYDIA WAS THE MANAGER. MY AUNT MILKHA WOULD DO THE BEST WORK THE BACK END STUFF MY COUSIN PIERRE, MY BROTHER MY OLDER BROTHER LINCOLN WE WILL BE DELIVERY DRIVERS REALLY MY COUSIN PIERRE AND I WILL DROP OFF FOOD TO THE AIDS PATIENTS IN THE EARLY 80S OR LATE LATE 80S EARLY 90S DROPPING OFF FOOD TO THOSE AIDS PATIENTS. THAT'S WHERE I LEARNED HUMAN INTERACTION SINGING THE JOY OF THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE I WOULDN'T BE DELIVERING FOOD THEY'D BE NOURISHING FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT GET THAT MEAL AFTER A MORNING OF DELIVERING MY FATHER DROPPED MY COUSIN PERRINI. HE'D BRING US TO THE PLACE TO EAT EVERY WHITE STADIUM BECAUSE MY UNCLE GARY, HIS BEST FRIEND WAS A TEACHER, OUR BASIC ENGLISH HE RETIRED AS JIM JEREMIAH BURKE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL UNCLE GARY WAS MY FIRST COACH AS A SOCCER COACH GARY AND MY DAD WOULD BE WARMING UP THE HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS ARE ON THE WEEKEND WEEKDAY AND I WOULD RUN AROUND FRANKLIN PARK PLACE THAT WITH THEM AND MY COUSIN PETER AND THEN ON THE WEEKENDS MY FATHER AND UNCLE GARY BE COACHING A SEMIPRO PROFESSIONAL. IT'S A NATIONAL LEAGUE THAT WAS AT WHITE STADIUM. SO YEARS LATER THE SAME PLACE THAT I HAD MY FONDEST MEMORIES AS A CHILD WOULD BE A PLACE THAT I WOULD GO ON TO COMPETE IN HIGH SCHOOL TO FORTY YEARS LATER SERVE THE COMMUNITY SOME TRULY BELIEVE THAT I'M A SON OF FRANKLIN PARK OR MY GREATEST FONDEST MEMORIES HAVE BEEN IN THAT PARK. BUT LIKE I SAID, THE WORD OF THE DAY IS THE EXAMPLE MY AUNTS, UNCLES, MY GRANDFATHER SET THE EXAMPLE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. I NEVER KNEW WHERE I WOULD BE IF I'D BE DOING THIS AND RECEIVING THESE ACCOLADES BUT IT STARTED WITH THOSE PEOPLE. SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY AUNT, MY AUNT, MY FATHER, MY GRANDFATHER AND MY MOM FOR THEIR HARD WORK WHEN I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL MY MY HIGH SCHOOL COACHES ARE VERY INSTRUMENTAL FOR ME. I WAS VERY TALENTED, GIFTED RUNNER AND I HAD SOME ISSUES WITH BEHAVIOR BUT THEY WERE VERY PATIENT WITH ME AND THEY CHALLENGED ME TO BE GREAT. SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR RECIPES. COACH SULLIVAN FROM THE END OF HIGH SCHOOL GARY POWELL AND ROBERT MCCREADIE FROM XAVERIAN FAST FORWARD TWENTY THIRTEEN I BUMP INTO A MAN IS IN THE ROOM. HIS NAME IS AVERY ISDELL. HE'S A CITYWIDE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR. AVERY, IN 2013 WE STARTED THE REPORT BY 2015. AVERY, IF WE COULD BRING BACK CROSSCOUNTRY BECAUSE I THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT WAS SO INSTRUMENTAL FOR ME GROWING UP AVERY SAID SURE WHY NOT JUST HAVE A SKELETON TEAM WHEN I FIRST STARTED? SOME OF THEM ARE HERE. SOME OF THOSE ATHLETES STANDING BY ONE OF THEM RIGHT NOW AND I JUST WANTED TO BE THE COACH THAT I NEEDED AND WE STARTED 2015 WHO WERE DEAD LAST IN MASSACHUSETTS. SO I WAS LIKE I WAS MOTIVATED. I WAS LIKE WE GOT TO WORK HARDER AND HARDER. SO THE NEXT YEAR WE WERE SECOND TO LAST AND MOVED UP ONE SPOT BUT BY TWENTY NINETEEN WE'RE TOP TWENTY FIVE TEAM IN MASSACHUSETTS AND NOW TODAY TWENTY TWENTY TWO. I'M LOOKING FORWARD IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS FOR US TO MAKE HISTORY TO BE THE FIRST TEAM TO MAKE THE STATEMENT OVER THE YEARS I'VE HAD MANY GREAT RIGHT A LONG SHOT. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT TODAY HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN MY CAREER IN SHORT TO ALL MY STUDENT ATHLETES PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE DREAMS A TANGIBLE GOALS CONTINUE TO WORK HARD AND WHAT I SAID TEN YEARS AGO HAPPENED I SAID THAT YOU GUYS ARE MAKING HISTORY EVERY TIME YOU RUN IN A RACE FOR EVERY PRACTICE, FOR EVERY WIN OR LOSS WE'RE MAKING HISTORY TODAY IS A TESTAMENT OF THAT. I THINK YOU GUYS THE FAMILIES I SERVE AND YOU WE HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE NOW COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON, WILL YOU PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM AND RECOGNIZE IRIS CALDERON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR HIM. THAT'S OR THAT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THAT'S THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDEZ. INNOCENT WE DO HAVE A THIRD PRESENTATION. IT'S A PRESENTATION SPONSORED BY COUNCIL REGION. IT'S THE A.K.A. SOBRIETY DAY HERE IN CITY HALL CONSTITUTION. WILL YOU PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRESIDENT FLYNN. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I'M COUNCILOR LOUISIANA AND I'M SO EXCITED TO BE HERE SPONSORING A.K.A. DAY IN CITY HALL. BUT BEFORE I GET TO THAT I ALSO JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE MR JEAN-LOUIS AND I WANT TO CAUTION WE ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I HAD THE HONOR OF HONORING YOUR FATHER. DR. EUSTACHY JOINED ME THIS WEEKEND AT THE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE WORK YOU DID DURING THE HIV AIDS EPIDEMIC WHEN HAITIANS WERE BEING STIGMATIZED AND YOU WERE REALLY REBUFFING AND WORKING ON THAT. SO I SAY THANK YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. THANK YOU. OK, BUT NOW FOR THE REASON I'M ON THE MIC IS BECAUSE OF ALL OF THESE LOVELY LADIES IN PINK AND GREEN HERE. OK, I WANT TO SAY A WARM HEARTFELT WELCOME TO THE CYO MEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED, THE OLDEST GRADUATE CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED IN NEW ENGLAND WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN FEBRUARY NINETEEN TWENTY SIX IN THE SPIRIT OF SISTERHOOD, SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE. THE SITE OMEGA CHAPTER HAS HAD NINETY FIVE YEARS OF REMARKABLE AND CONTINUOUS SERVICE IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THE SITE OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. WAS STARTED IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS IN NINETEEN TWENTY SIX THIS IOMEGA CHAPTER HAS TWO HUNDRED PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN THAT ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN IMPLEMENTING THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. SERVICE AND SISTERHOOD HAVE IN THE CORNERSTONE OF THE SORORITY SINCE ITS INCORPORATION IN NINETEEN 08 WITH THE THEME SOARING TO GREATER HEIGHTS OF SERVICE AND SISTERHOOD THE TWENTY TWENTY TWO TO TWENTY TWENTY SIX INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE SORORITY SEEKS TO BUILD UPON SORORITIES RICH LEGACY OF SERVICE BY EMPOWERING OUR FAMILIES, BUILDING OUR ECONOMIC WEALTH AND ENHANCING OUR ENVIRONMENT AND IN ADVOCATING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UPLIFTING THE COMMUNITY IS AT THE CORE OF WHAT THE CYTOMETER CHAPTER OF THE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. DOES HERE IN BOSTON. THIS IOMEGA SERVICE ACTIVITIES HAVE INCLUDED AMONG OTHER THINGS PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PURSUING HIGHER EDUCATION, SUPPORTING BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES WITH SHOP AND SIP'S HBC AWARENESS AT THE BAPS CALL IT COLLEGE CAREER FAIR UPLIFTING AND SUPPORTING CANCER WARRIORS AND SURVIVORS TO MAKING STRIDES CANCER WALK THE PRECIOUS PEARLS DEBUTANTE PROGRAM WHICH INCLUDES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THAT ENCOURAGE POSITIVE SELF IMAGE AND HIGH MORAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR YOUNG WOMEN. I NEED A NEW HAND COVID-19 EDUCATION PANEL PROGRAM FOR THE COMMUNITY, VOTER REGISTRATION, EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING EDUCATION PANEL PROGRAM FOR THE COMMUNITY. WE HAD AN AMAZING PANEL LAST NIGHT THAT INCLUDED A LOT OF THE SAWHORSE AND FOLKS FROM THE CITY OF BOSTON AND ADVOCATES LIKE SHERRY MILLS, CHRIS BURKE, MICHELLE MCCARTHY FROM BPA AND THE ENGAGEMENT FROM THE STARS WAS JUST THROUGH THE ROOF. I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT TOGETHER WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE SOME OF THIS CITY'S MOST DIFFICULT ISSUES AT CITY HALL SEEKS TO BUILD VALUABLE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEMBERS PSI OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. AND OUR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS SAY OMEGA CHAPTER HELD ITS FIRST DAY AT CITY HALL IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN AND THE EVENT WAS SPONSORED IDENTITY COUNSELOR AYANNA PRESSLEY THE FOLLOWING YEAR CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ANDRE CAMPBELL SERVED AS A SPONSOR FOR THE EVENT AND I AM PROUD TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION AND SPONSOR THIS YEAR WITH MY OFFICE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME WORKING ALONGSIDE YOU TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SO MANY WHO ARE HERE. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE FIRST THE CHAPTER'S CONNECTIONS AND SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE CHAIRED BY RACHEL WEBSTER AND ALSO THE SITE OMEGA CHAPTERS PRESIDENT CATHY AND WE'LL HEAR FROM HER AS WELL. VICE PRESIDENT ALIAS ALONE. LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING HERE AND MAKING TODAY A SUCCESS SO I HAVE A CITATION. SO IF WE CAN HAVE BOTH CATHY AND RAQUEL COME FORWARD SO IT READS THE CITY OF BOSTON CITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL RESOLUTION PRESENTED BY COUNCILOR AT LARGE UTILITIES CAN BE RESOLVED AT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS CONGRATULATIONS TO PSI OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. IN RECOGNITION OF NINETY FIVE YEARS OF REMARKABLE AND CONTINUOUS SERVICE IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA AND EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THIS IOMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. IS THE OLDEST GRADUATE CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS BEST WISHES FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ATTESTED TO AND A COPY THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE THIS RECOGNITION. I'M CATHY LUCAS. I SERVE AS THE PRESIDENT OF OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. AT THE OMEGA CHAPTER IS SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THIS RECOGNITION IN FRONT OF YOU. I LIKE THE MEMBERS OF THE SIRINGO CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA TO JOIN US UP HERE ON STAGE BECAUSE I DON'T DO THIS ALONE FOR ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS WE HAVE BEEN SERVING IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA IN THE ARENAS THAT YOU HEARD A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. WE ARE SO PROUD TO BE HIGHLY EDUCATED COLLEGE WOMEN THAT CONTINUE TO GIVE BACK IN SERVICE AND SISTERHOOD TO THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS. WE WORK VERY HARD IN THIS AREA TO MAKE SURE THAT OTHERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE THEIR DREAMS AND THEIR GOALS AND SPECIFICALLY YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR IN ENGAGING IN SECONDARY EDUCATION. SO AGAIN, COUNSELOR PRESIDENT, WE ARE APPRECIATIVE TO BE HERE AND ACCEPT THIS AND I AM GOING TO ASK MY SOURCE TO SAY KIWI HEALY THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND IF WE CAN ASK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES CAN JOIN ME FOR A PHOTO . THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE ONE FINAL PRESENTATION THAT I'M GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUE, CITY COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON TO COME TO THE PODIUM AND RECOGNIZE THE PERSON THAT WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE TODAY. AND JUST AS A REMINDER TO MY COLLEAGUES, EACH COLLEAGUE IS ABLE TO BRING FORTH TWO PEOPLE ,TWO AT SEPARATE TIMES TO BEAR TO BE RECOGNIZED LEADER. SO I KNOW SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT AS WELL. SO JUST JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER COUNCILOR FERNANDES, THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN IN 1999 FORMER COUNCILOR CHARLES YANSI INITIATED A RESOLUTION TO COMMENCE A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GHANAIAN CITY OF SECUNDA, TAKORADI IN NINETEEN NINETY NINE. THE RESOLUTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AND TWO YEARS LATER IN NINETEEN IN 2001 THE FORMAL SIGNING OF THE RESOLUTION DOCUMENT OCCURRED WENT INTO EFFECT THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF THIS UNIQUE AND ENRICHING RELATIONSHIP IS WEDNESDAY TODAY OCTOBER 19TH, 2010 TO BACK IN 1999 COUNCIL YANSI MET WITH OFFICIALS FROM SECONDEES TAKORADI TO DISCUSS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SISTER CITY PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO CITIES. ONE THING THAT COUNCIL YANSI CONJOLA POINTED OUT AT THE TIME WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH BOSTON HAD SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIPS WHICH CITIES IN ASIA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA THE SISTER THE CITY OF BOSTON DID NOT HAVE SUCH A RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY CITY IN THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA . SECONDLY, TAKORADI SHARES SOME SIMILARITIES WITH OUR CITY AND A POPULATION ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO OURS THE PREDOMINANTLY THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN THE CITY. ENGLISH IS ENGLISH THOUGH LIKE BOSTON THERE ARE A VARIETY OF OTHER LANGUAGES SPOKEN SECOND-RATE CORRADI IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST INDUSTRIALIZED CITIES IN GHANA AND THE CITY IS RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES SUCH AS GOLD, DIAMONDS AND IRON ORE. I'D LIKE TO THINK THAT THE FATHER OF INDEPENDENT GHANA, KWAME NKRUMAH IS SMILING DOWN ON BOTH OF OUR SISTER CITIES TODAY WHILE THERE IS STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE TO RESIST REMNANTS OF COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM THAT IMPACT AFRICA, OUR PARTNERING WITH SECONDING TAKORADI IS NICE AS IT IS A NICE ANTIDOTE TO THE LEGACY OF THAT HORRIFIC LEGACY. I THINK CONSTANTLY YANSI, FOR SPEARHEADING THIS IMPORTANT WORK IN 1999 AND HAPPY TO RECOGNIZE THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARTNERSHIP. WE LOOK FORWARD TO MANY MORE YEARS OF INTEGRAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE PEOPLE OF CICCONI TAKORADI, THE NATION OF GHANA AND THE RICH AND BEAUTIFUL CONTINENT OF AFRICA THAT THEY ARE LOCATED WITHIN. I'D LIKE TO BRING ON COUNCILOR YANSI FOR JUST TWO MINUTES. I DO. I REMEMBER MEETING COUNCILOR YANSI. I'M NOT TRYING TO AGE PEOPLE BUT WHEN I WAS 15 I WOULD I WORKED FOR A ROXBURY MULTISERVICE CENTER AND I WOULD INVITE COUNCILOR YANSI TO ALL OF MY EVENTS YOUTH STUFF AND HE HE DIANN I REMEMBER SENATOR WILKENSON, MAYOR MENINO, EVERYONE WOULD COME AND COUNCILOR YANCEY IS A POET AS WE KNOW A PHILOSOPHER THAT I'M GIVING YOU THIS TITLE. BUT WE HAVE A BRIEF MOMENT IF WE CAN HEAR YOUR STATEMENTS. IT'S AN HONOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO, PRESIDENT FLYN I HAD YOUR TITLE AT THE TIME AND I SERVED IN THE CITY COUNCIL SINCE 1984 AND LIKE COUNCILOR FOR THE ENDA'S ANDERSON CITY AND THE OFFICE ONCE HELD BY BOSTON CITY COUNCILOR RAYMOND FLYNN. SO THIS IS A VERY EMOTIONAL MOMENT FOR ME AND I'M WONDERING IF WE HAVE ANY REPRESENTATIVES GARNER IN THE AUDIENCE AT THIS TIME. THEY THEY'RE NOT HERE BUT WE HAVE TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY GRANTED BY COUNCILOR TANYA FERNANDEZ ANDERSON TO RECOGNIZE WHAT TOOK PLACE TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO WHEN THE RESOLUTION WAS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL COUNCILOR MICHAEL FLAHERTY WAS MY VICE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME. SO I WANT TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SUPPORT OF THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL TOOK A POSITION INVOLVING THE CONTINUITY OF AFRICA SINCE 1984 WHEN THIS PARTY INITIATED THE DIVESTMENT MOVEMENT FOR MAJOR CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY PASSING A RESOLUTION WHICH REQUIRED THE CITY TO DIVEST OF ANY ASSETS, INVEST IT IN COMPANY SUPPORTED THE APARTHEID REGIME AND NAZI LIKE MAJIME THAT WAS TAKING PLACE IN SOUTH AFRICA. IT WAS THIS PART WAS INITIATED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND HIS WISDOM IT WAS SIGNED BY THE THEN MAYOR OF BOSTON, RAYMOND L. FLYNN. SO I WANT TO TELL MAYOR FLINS SON PRESIDENT FLYNN INCIDENTALLY HIS FATHER NEVER MADE IT TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . HIS SON DID SO I ACKNOWLEDGE SINCE I WON'T BE AVAILABLE AS THE FLYNN FAMILY FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK SO ON OCTOBER 19TH, 2001 THE MAYOR OF BOSTON, THE MAYOR OF SEGUNDA, WE TALK ABOUT HIM AND THE EQUIVALENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY AND SECONDLY TAKORADI IN THE PARLIAMENT SIGNED AN AGREEMENT THAT BEGAN EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. IT BEGAN THAT RELATIONSHIP WHICH CONTINUES TO THIS DAY ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT AS ACTIVE TODAY AS IT WAS SOME TWENTY YEARS AGO. SO I THOUGHT IT WAS ALTOGETHER FITTING THAT WE TAKE THIS A FEW MINUTES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA AND SPECIFICALLY OF SISTER CITY SEGUNDA TO CONVEY THAT WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BUILD ON THE FOUNDATION THAT WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AND I HAVE TO SAY AS I LOOK OUT TO THESE WONDERFUL LEADERS IN OUR CITY THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DIVERSE AND PERHAPS NEVER MORE TALENTED WITH THE EXCEPTION PERHAPS NOW I WON'T EVEN QUALIFY. THIS IS CERTAINLY THE MOST DIVERSE AND TALENTED CITY COUNCIL THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE HISTORY OF THIS CITY AND YOU KNOW IT I THE CITY SHOULD KNOW IT AND YOU MAKE SACRIFICES EVERY DAY. YOU DON'T WORK NINE TO FIVE YOU'RE ON CALL 24/7. YOUR MEETINGS FIGHTING ON POLICY ISSUES AND LABORING SEEMINGLY ALONE. BUT BELIEVE ME ROUGHLY 700000 PEOPLE DEPEND UPON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU EVERY TO BE THEIR ADVOCATE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY RESPONDS TO THEIR ACTIONS. WHENEVER I SEE AN ORDINANCE LIKE THIS I SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD STAND UP STRAIGHT AND BE PROUD, ACT LIKE YOU OWN THE CITY OF BOSTON BECAUSE YOU DO AND YOU HAVE MORE THAN EIGHTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE WORKING IN YOUR INTERESTS. BUT YOUR CHIEF POLICY MAKERS ARE IN THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL WORKING WITH THE MAYOR OF BOSTON. SO I WILL COMMUNICATE WITH OUR LIAISON. WE HAVE A MEMBER OF THE BAR SAID THE BOSTON SEGUNDA TAKORADI ASSOCIATION GOING TO GHANA THIS AFTERNOON. I WILL LET HIM KNOW OF THE ACTION TAKEN BY THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL ON COVID 19, 2000. TWENTY TWO TO REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT TO DEVELOP A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP THAT BEGAN MORE THAN TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO. GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REMINISCE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY COLLEAGUES JOHN THANK YOU. MY FRIEND ERIKA. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT YANSI. I HAVE KNOWN COUNCIL PRESIDENT YANSI FOR 40 YEARS AND HE'S MADE AN EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT GHAZI. NOW WE'RE ONTO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MERITS SEEING AND HEARING NO DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER. THE CHAIR MOVES TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING SAY I OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU. THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING STAND IS APPROVED COMMUNICATIONS FROM OR ON TO THE MAYOR. MR. KORAC, PLEASE READ DOCKET TWELVE FORTY TWO DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR TWO MESSAGE DISAPPROVE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY OF BOSTON CODE ORDINANCES FIVE SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE POINT ONE ZERO REGARDING SALARY CATEGORIES FOR CERTAIN OFFICES AND CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO DASH EIGHT POINT ONE SALARY OF CITY COUNCIL COUNCILORS IN SECTION TWO THERE ARE SEVEN POINT ONE ONE SALARY OF THE MAYOR DOCKET NUMBER ALL NINE TO ZERO PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO OVER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE TWO FOUR TO BE SIGNED FOR FURTHER ACTION AND BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. MR. CLARK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET TWELVE FORTY THREE DOCKET NUMBER TWELVE FORTY THREE MESSAGE FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND ORDER AMENDING CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES FIVE SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE POINT ONE ZERO REGARDING SALARY CATEGORIES FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS AND CITY OF BOSTON CALLED ORDINANCES CHAPTER TWO SECTION TWO DASH EIGHT POINT ONE SALARY OF CITY COUNCIL IN SECTION TWO SEVEN POINT ONE ONE SALARY OF THE MAYOR WHILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON OCTOBER 17. TWENTY TWENTY TWO THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE TWO FOUR THREE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. MR. CORAK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FOUR FOUR IN ONE TWO FOUR OR FIVE DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR FOUR MESSAGE IN FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVES FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING A THIRTY ONE MILLION SEVENTY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY NINE DOLLARS TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COSTS CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON TEACHERS UNION. BTU LOCAL SIXTY SIX OFFED MASSACHUSETTS AND DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR OR FIVE MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OR FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE IN THE AMOUNT OF THIRTY SEVEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE COST ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE BOSTON TEACHERS UNION BTU LOCAL SIXTY SIX OFFED MASSACHUSETTS. THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT SEPTEMBER 1ST 2021 THROUGH AUGUST 31ST TWENTY TWENTY. THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACTS INCLUDE BASE WAGE INCREASES OF TWO POINT FIVE PERCENT IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY TWO SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY THREE AS WELL AS OTHER COST ITEMS INCLUDING INCLUSION REFORM IMPLEMENTATION FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON OCTOBER 17, 2022. THANK YOU DOCKETS ONE TO FOUR FOR ONE TWO FOUR FIVE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE CITY CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY. MR. CARR CAN YOU PLEASE READ ONE TWO FOUR SIX NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR SIX MURSHID MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND A GRANT FROM THE BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FOUR MILLION SIX HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE DOLLARS WHICH WILL BE ALLOCATED TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE FOR ITS WORK ON PUBLIC ARTS AND CULTURE EFFORTS THAT COULD TARGET ONE TO FOUR SIX WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE IN ARTS CULTURE SPECIAL EVENTS. MR. CARL, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FOUR SEVEN AND ONE TWO FOUR PLEASE DOG NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR SEVEN MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF FOUR HUNDRED FORTY ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWO BURN JUST ASSISTANCE GRANT LOCAL ALLOCATION AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MANAGEMENT ANALYST AT THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER, A HUB AND CENTER OF RESPONSIBILITY COORDINATOR AND A TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR FOR MULTIPLE DATA COLLECTION REPORTING AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN NO ONE TO FOUR A MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF THREE HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY TWO DNA CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AND BACKLOG REDUCTION PROGRAM AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND TWO CRIMINAL POSITIONS LAB SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION EXPENSES. THANK YOU ONE TWO FOUR SEVEN AND ONE TWO FOUR EIGHT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. MR. CLARK, PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FOUR NINE DUCK NUMBER ONE TWO FOUR NINE MESSAGE IN HONOR AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF 167 THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOUR DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC VEHICLE INCENTIVE PROGRAM GRANT FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND THE PROCUREMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF LEVEL THREE DC FIRST CHARGE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS IN BOSTON, DORCHESTER AND RASAM WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY. THANK YOU JACK AT ONE TWO FOUR NINE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION. MR. CORRE PLEASE READ A ONE TWO FIVE ZERO DUFKA NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE ZERO MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND SPEND THE AMOUNT OF FORTY NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE RUGGLES CORPS ART PROJECT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE. THE GRANT WILL FUND THE DESIGN OF THE RUGGLES CORRIDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECT IN ROXBURY. THANK YOU CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLLETTA CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARTS CULTURE AND SPECIAL EVENTS COUNCIL COLLETTA YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AS CHAIR OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMITTEE I'M SEEKING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE ZERO WHICH IS A MESSAGE AND AUTHOR MESSAGE AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF FORTY NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR GRANT TO FUND THE RUGGLES CORRIDOR PROJECT. THIS GRANT WILL FUND THE DESIGN OF THE RUGGLES CORRIDOR, A PUBLIC ART PROJECT IN ROXBURY AND I WANT TO BE SURE TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR HER WORK IN THIS SPACE AND FIERCELY ADVOCATING FOR THE ARTERY ROXBURY. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS GRID IS SEPARATE FROM THOSE EFFORTS BUT SHE INITIALLY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA AND WILL IN THIS WORLD NONETHELESS HELP SUPPLEMENT ENHANCING THE VIBRANCY OF DISTRICT SEVEN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . QUITE A SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES OF PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE ZERO. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET IS PASSED. MR PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE ONE TWO ONE TWO FIVE SIX TALKING ABOUT ONE TWO FIVE ONE MESSAGE TRANSMUTING AN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN IF RELATIVE TO NINETEEN OR FIVE CENTER STREET IN 1911 CENSUS STREET DUKKHA NUMBER ONE ZERO THREE SIX PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 31ST TWENTY TWENTY TWO DUFKA NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE TWO MESSAGE RETRANSMITTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN WELL TO THE RENTAL RELIEF FUND DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE ZERO PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 28TH. TWENTY TWENTY TWO TALKING ABOUT ONE TWO FIVE THREE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN F REGARDING RESIDENT RETAIL RESIDENTIAL KITCHENS DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE ONE PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 28 TWENTY TWENTY TWO DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE FOUR MESSAGE TRANSMUTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN F RELATIVE TO SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF FUND DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE TWO PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 28TH TWENTY TWENTY TWO DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE FIVE MESSAGE TRANSMITTING CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN F RELATIVE TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAMS. DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE THREE PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY EIGHTH TWENTY TWENTY TWO TALKING ABOUT ONE TWO FIVE SIX MESSAGE TRANSMITTING SOON INFORMATION UNDER SECTION SEVENTEEN F RELATIVE TO SENIORS SAVE PROGRAM TARGET NUMBER ONE ONE NINE FOUR PASSED BY THE COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 28 TWENTY TWENTY TWO THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE ONE TWO ONE TWO FIVE SIX WILL BE PLACED ON FILE PETITIONS MORELL'S MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE SEVEN DOG NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE SEVEN PETITION OF WE DRIVE YOU FOR A LICENSE TO OPERATE MOTOR VEHICLE CALLS FOR THE CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS FOR OVER CERTAIN STREETS IN BOSTON . THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE SEVEN WILL BE FREE TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION. REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICES AND OTHERS. MR. CLARK, PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE EIGHT POLICE DOG NUMBER ONE TWO FIVE EIGHT COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT ED FLYNN CALLING FOR THE ELECTION OF THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON COVID-19 TWENTY TWENTY TWO. THANK YOU. THE DOCKET WILL BE PLACED ON FILE. THIS DOCKET IS RELATED TO THE ELECTION OF AN ASSISTANT CITY HORROR. AS YOU KNOW, THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD NEED TO ELECT A NEW CITY ASSISTANT CLERK AS WE HAVE A VACANCY HAVING POSTED AN OPEN POSITION FOR ASSISTANT CITY CLERK FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON, THE CITY COUNCIL RECEIVED SEVENTEEN TOTAL APPLICATIONS OF WHICH SIX APPLICATIONS WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK POSITION INCLUDE KNOWLEDGE OF CITY DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES IN LOCAL AND STATE LAWS PERTAINING TO THE WORK OF CITY DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY COUNCIL . GIVEN HER EXPERIENCE NOT ONLY WITH ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB POSSIN BUT SPECIFICALLY IN THE ROLE OF ASSISTANT CLERK FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON INTER PROFESSIONAL IN THE LONG STANDING PUBLIC SERVICE I WILL BE RECOMMENDING DARSEY BEACHUM FOR THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT CITY CLERK FOR A TERM ENDING FEBRUARY 20 25. I'D LIKE TO NOW MOVE TO ELECT AN ASSISTANT CITY CLERK. IS THERE A SECOND PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVENTY C OF THE CITY CHARTER? I WILL NOW ASK THE CITY CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL SO THAT EACH CITY COUNCILOR CAN SAY THE NAME OF THE PERSON THAT THEY CHOOSE . MR. CLERK, PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE TAKE A ROLE. YOU SAY THE NAME IS THE SAME FOR THANK THANK YOU COUNCIL BAKER DARSEY BEACHUM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL LEADER MR. CLARK, WOULD YOU TAKE A ROLL CALL OF THE OF THIS ELECTION PLEASE? COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR ARROYO, CBG COUNCILOR BAKER AND AC BEACHUM COUNCILOR BAKER C. BEACHUM COUNCILOR PARKE DASI BEACHUM COUNCILOR BUT SEE BEACHUM COUNCILOR DARCY BEACHUM COUNCILOR OF THE ACP COUNCILOR COLLETTA DARCY BEACHUM COUNCILOR DARCY BEECHAM FERNANDES COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON CPQ COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY DARCY COUNCILOR FLYNN DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR FLYNN DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR COUNCILOR ILLUSION DARCY BEECHAM COUNCIL AND CITY COUNCIL PREMIER DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR . LET ME HEAR DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR MURPHY DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR MURPHY DARCY AND COUNCILOR DARCY BEECHAM COUNCILOR WORLD CPQ THANK YOU MR KIRK DARCY AND RECEIVED TWELVE VOTES IS NOW THE NEW ASSISTANT CITY CLERK ASSISTANT CLERK WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN US MR AND MR CORA CAN YOU REFLECT THE RECORD THAT CITY COUNCILOR BAKER IS PRESENT? YES CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU MR CARR CAN YOU PLEASE DOCKET ONE TWO FIVE NINE TO ONE TWO SIX THREE PLEASE DOUG IN ABOUT ONE TWO FIVE NINE NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF THE TEKA AS PENTEL IS A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON FAIR HOUSING COMMITTEE FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 1ST. TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX ZERO NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR OF THE APPOINTMENT OF ASHLEY WOLFENSBERGER AS A TRUSTEE OF THE BOSTON COMMON MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY TWELVE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX ONE NOTICE WAS RECEIVED ON THE ME OF THE APPOINTMENT OF ASHLEY OFTEN BERGER AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOSTON COMMON MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 12, 2024 DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX TWO NOTICE WILL RECEIVED FOR THE YEAR THE APPOINTMENT OF ASHLEY AND BERGER AS TRUSTEE OF THE FRANKLIN PARK MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 12, 2024. TALKING ABOUT ONE TWO SIX THREE NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM ME OF THE APPOINTMENT OF ASHLEY GROFF AND BERGER AS CHAIRPERSON THE FRANKLIN PARK MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND FOR A TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 12. TWENTY TWENTY FOUR TALKING NO ONE. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU DOGGETT'S ONE TWO FIVE NINE TO ONE TWO SIX THREE YOU WILL BE PLACED ON FILE MR CARD PLEASE READ AUKLETS ONE TWO SIX FOUR TWO ONE TWO SIX EIGHT PLEASE DUKKHA NUMBER ONE TWO SIX FOUR COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF PETITION NUMBER TWO SIX SIX POINT ONE NINE TILSTON HOUSE DORCHESTER MASS. EFFECT AFTER NOVEMBER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO IF NOT ACTED UPON AND DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX FIVE COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR A CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER TWO SEVEN FOUR POINT TWENTY ONE MOUNT CALVARY HOLY CHURCH CONGREGATION SHAQRA TO FLOW SYNAGOGUE ROXBURY MASS. IN EFFECT AFTER NOVEMBER 13TH TWENTY TWENTY TWO IF NOT ACTED UPON DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX SIX COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER TWO ONE FOUR ZERO TWO ONE FOUR ZERO FIVE BLESSED SACRAMENT COMPLEX JAMAICA PLAIN MASS IN EFFECT AFTER NOVEMBER 13 TWENTY TURNING TO IF NOT ACTED UPON AND DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO SIX SEVEN COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER TO SIX ONE POINT TWENTY ONE. FREDERICK ER MENTIONED A. BACK BACKPAY MESSAGE IN EFFECT AFTER NOVEMBER 14, 2012 TO IF NOT ACTED UPON. NUMBER ONE TWO SIX EIGHT COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE PETITION NUMBER TWO SIX NINE POINT TWO THE HOW KINGSLEY HOUSE DORCHESTER MASS IN EFFECT AFTER NOVEMBER 14 TWENTY TWENTY TWO IF NOT ACTED UPON. THANK YOU. DOCKET ONE TWO SIX THREE TWO ONE TWO SIX EIGHT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE ZERO ONE NINE IN ONE ZERO TWO ZERO PLEASE WHICH IS I DON'T HAVE SIX SEVEN. OK. YEAH OK. ALL RIGHT MR. CLARK, WE'RE ON TWO DOCKETS ONE TWO SIX NINE ONE TWO SEVEN ZERO ONE TWO SEVEN ONE AND ONE TWO SEVEN TWO DOUG NUMBER ONE TWO SIX NINE NOTICEBOARDS FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE RELATIVE TO ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF SEPTEMBER FOURTEEN TWENTY TWENTY TWO TALKING NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN ZERO NOTICE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979 RELATIVE TO ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 21ST. TWENTY TWENTY TO THIRTY NO ONE TO SEVEN ONE NOTICE FOUR WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE RELATIVE TO ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR ON PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 20TH. TWENTY TWENTY TWO IN INDOCHINE NO ONE TO SERVE AND TO NOTICE WAS RECEIVED ON THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE RELATIVE TO ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF OCTOBER SIX. TWENTY TWENTY TWO. THANK YOU MR. KRUPP. THOSE DOCKETS WERE PLACED ON FILE REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE ZERO ONE NINE NINE ONE ZERO TWO ZERO DARK NUMBER ONE ZERO ONE NINE THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO WHICH WAS REFERRED IN AUGUST 31ST TWENTY TWENTY TWO DOCKET NUMBER ONE ZERO ONE NINE MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT OF THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE SAFE AND SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE AWARDED BY THE MAYOR'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND A COMPREHENSIVE INTERAGENCY STRATEGY THAT CONNECT LAW ENFORCEMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES TO REDUCE YOUTH VIOLENCE IN THE COMMONWEALTH SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE ORDER TO PASS AND NO ONE ZERO TWO ZERO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO WHICH WAS REFERRED ON AUGUST 31ST TWENTY TWENTY TWO TALKING ABOUT ONE ZERO TWO ZERO MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE SECURING THE CITIES CONTINUATION AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND CONTINUED ENHANCEMENT FOR REGIONAL CAPABILITIES TO DETECT IDENTIFY ,REPORT AND INTERDICT NUCLEAR AND OTHER RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL OUT OF REGULATORY CONTROL AND PROVIDE REGIONAL TRAINING AND EXERCISE OPPORTUNITIES NECESSARY TO ENHANCE REGIONAL CAPABILITIES. SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE ORDER ARE TO PASS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY CRIMINAL JUSTICE COUNCIL . FIHRI YOU HAVE THE FUNDS MR PRESIDENT. THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT AND INFORMATIVE HEARING ON BOTH DOCKETS DOCKET ONE ZERO ONE NINE SS Y.A. FOCUSES ON YOUNG ADULTS AGE OF 17 TO TWENTY FOUR IDENTIFIED AS PROVEN RISK FOR MOST LIKELY TO BE PERPETRATORS OR VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME. S WHY I RECEIVED REFERRALS FROM PARTNER AGENCIES TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WHO SATISFY THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA IN ORDER TO MEET THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. AN INDIVIDUAL MUST BE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 17 AND 24 AND MEET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS REPEATEDLY ENGAGES IN CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS REPEATEDLY ENGAGES IN WEAPONS VIOLENCE IS IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE. THE GANG IS SUBSTANTIALLY INVOLVED IN GANG ACTIVITY OR VIOLENCE SIGNIFICANT FACILITATES GANG ACTIVITY OR STREET VIOLENCE. AN INDIVIDUAL MUST ALSO RESIDE IN THE COMMUNITY. SPEND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME IN THE COMMUNITY ARE EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED FROM CUSTODY INTO THE COMMUNITY BPD CONTRACTS WITH THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION. THE PROGRAM IS THAT LIDDIE THE LEAD AGENCY THE CASE MANAGERS AT REFER CLIENTS TO PARTNER AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNSELING, EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. THIS PROGRAM HAS PROVEN TO REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS PROGRAM IS ESSENTIAL TO REDUCING CRIME ESPECIALLY SINCE SIMILAR PROGRAMS HAVE STOPPED AND ASSESS WHY IS ONLY HAS BEEN THE ONLY CONSTANT AND SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM AS OTHER PROGRAMS CONTINUE TO COME ALONG IT REALLY SPEAKS VOLUMES TO ASSESS WHY AND THE IMPACT THAT THEY'RE HAVING ON BEHALF OF OUR CITY. SO WITH THAT AS MOVING FORWARD MOVING FOR PASSAGE OF A ONE ZERO ONE NINE AS PERTAINS TO TARGET OF ONE ZERO TWO ZERO ALSO EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE SECURING CITIES. THE STC IS A FIVE YEAR FEDERALLY FUNDED GRANT PROGRAM WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PREVENTING THE POSSESSION MOVEMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND COMPONENT MATERIALS . AN ADVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES 950000 WILL BE ALLOTTED TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT, BACKFILL AND OVERTIME FOR PERSONNEL EQUIPMENT TRAINING AND ALSO THE STC BOSTON PROGRAM MANAGER EQUIPMENT TO BE PURCHASED INCLUDES BACKPACK DETECTION SYSTEMS AND MOBILE DETECTOR DEVICES THAT ALLOW FOR THE DETECTION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS IN PUBLIC AREAS WHERE THERE ARE LARGE CROWDS AS WELL AS A RADIO. SO TOPI IDENTIFICATION DEVICE THAT PROVIDES THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN NON-THREATENING MATERIALS AND HIGH LEVEL THREATS AND AGAINST YEAR FOR PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE ZERO TWO ZERO THANK MISPRISION . THANK YOU. CONSOLE FIRE IN THOSE HEARINGS ARE VERY INFORMATIVE. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLAHERTY THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DALKIN ONE ZERO ONE NINE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE NAY THE AYES HAVE IT. MR. CLARK, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE THE ROLL CALL VOTE? WILL WE GO OR DO TURN NINETEEN MR. CLARK ON THAT TIME DOCKET TO NINETEEN ROLL-CALL VOTE ON DIAKITE TEN NINETEEN CONSOLO ROYAL COUNCIL AROY YES. COUNCILOR BAKER YES COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCIL VOTE COUNCILOR BOK YES. COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR CALERA COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA'S HANDS AND YES COUNCIL FLAHERTY YES. COUNCIL FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR ILLUSION CONCLUSION YES COUNCILOR ME HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. AND COUNCILOR COUNCILOR TWELVE VOTED THE THE DOORS OF HIS HOUSE COUNCILOR FIRE THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY CRIMINAL JUSTICE SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT THE PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE ZERO TWO ZERO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I AM OPPOSED TO MR CLARK PLEASE TAKE A ROLL-CALL VOTE ROLL-CALL VOTE ONE ZERO TWO ZERO COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCILOR BAKER YES. COUNCILOR BURKE. COUNCILOR BUCKETS. COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR CARLETTO. COUNCILOR KILLARA YES. COUNCILOR FOR AMANDA ANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FLIER YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR COUNCILOR WHO IS IN COUNCIL LOUISIANA YES COUNCIL . LET ME HEAR COUNCILOR MAY HERE YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES AND COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR YES. TWELVE VOTES AND THEREFORE ONE ZERO TWO ZERO HAS PASSED MATTERS RECENTLY HEARD FOR POSSIBLE ACTION MR KIRKLEES DOCKET ONE TWO ONE ZERO DUFKA NUMBER ONE TWO ONE ZERO MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR AN APPROPRIATION OR ANY AMOUNT THIRTY MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO COVER THE COST DESIGNER CONSTRUCTING EQUIPMENT, EQUIPPING AND FURNISHING A NEW BUILDING FOR THE JOSIAH QUINCY UPPER SCHOOL. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON AS CHAIR OF THE COMMAND WAYS AND MEANS COUNCILOR ANDERSON FINISHES ANDERSON YOU THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN, COUNCIL PRESIDENT THIS MONDAY I ACTUALLY FELL ILL AND SO I'D LIKE TO JUST TAKE A TIME TO THANK LOUISIANA FOR HOLDING DOWN THE FORT DOCKET TWELVE ONE TO ONE ZERO IS IN ORDER FOR AN APPROPRIATION AMOUNT OF THIRTY MILLION AND THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH DESIGNING CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, EQUIPPING AND FURNISHING A NEW SIX STORAGE AS I APPEAR QUINCY BUILDING AT NINE HUNDRED WASHINGTON STREET. THIS APPROPRIATION IS NEEDED TO FINISH THE ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AT THE SCHOOL AND IS ELIGIBLE IN PART FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY. THE COMMITTEE HELD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DOCKET ON MONDAY AND AGAIN CHAIRED ON MY BEHALF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC FACILITIES DEPARTMENT KATHY GRIFFIN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS CARLETON JONES, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER FOR JOSIAH QUINCY PROJECT RON MCNULTY AND SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER FOR MSBA SCHOOLS BRIAN MCLAUGHLIN TESTIFIED ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND DISCUSSED THE PROJECT. THE SCHOOL IS SLATED TO OPEN FOR TWENTY TWENTY SCHOOL YEAR AFTER CONFERRING WITH COUNCIL EUGENE I AM RECOMMENDING THAT THIS DOCKET BE READ FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ASSIGNED FOR FURTHER ACTION. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON CONCLUSION DO YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR JOHN COUNCILOR JOHN, THANK YOU. WE HAD A VERY WE HAD A VERY INFORMATIVE MEETING ON HEARING ON MONDAY ABOUT THIS DOCKET. WE TALKED ABOUT THE INCREASED LABOR COST THAT CAUSED THEM TO COME BACK AND REQUEST MORE MONEY TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT. BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF GOOD CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE'RE ALSO USING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS CLIMATE RESILIENCY ISSUES. THE POLLUTION ISSUES THERE ARE THERE ARE THAT FACE ESPECIALLY FOR RESIDENTS IN CHINATOWN. SO IT WAS A GOOD CONVERSATION. THEY ALSO WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE UNDERREPRESENTED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WOMAN AND BIOKO BUSINESSES ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. I THINK THE TARGET IS 10 PERCENT RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE ALMOST 12 PERCENT ELEVEN POINT FIVE SIX PERCENT. AND THEN WE ASKED FOR DISAGGREGATED DATA SO THAT WE COULD FIGURE OUT AMONG THOSE UBS A PERCENTAGE OF WHICH ARE WOMEN IN THE PRESENT OF WHICH ARE BIPAC. THEY ALSO SAID THAT THEY WERE ON TRACK. YOU KNOW, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN MEETING RIGHT NOW AT THIS MOMENT THEIR BALSEROS JOB POLICY GOALS BUT THEY ARE PUT IN EVERY EFFORT TO MAKING SURE THAT THOSE GOALS ARE BEING MET AND THEY TALK ABOUT IT AND EVERY CONTRACTOR AND IT'S PART OF EVERY SUB CONTRACT EVERY EVERY CONTRACT THAT THE CONTRACTOR HAS AND SUBCONTRACTORS. SO IT WAS REALLY GREAT HEARING THE THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR REQUEST. I MEAN I RESPECT THE CHAIR'S DECISION HERE. I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT IT OUGHT TO PASS BUT I DEFER TO THE CHAIR ON THE ACTION THAT SHE WANTS TO TAKE. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES INNOCENT COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FULL COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND I MY APOLOGIES I I TAKE YOUR RECOMMENDATION AND I AM SUGGESTING THAT THE PASS THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR IT IS RIGHT RIGHT. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT IN THE FIRST READING OF DOCKET ONE TWO ONE ZERO. MR CLARKE, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE THE ROLE FIRST READING ON DUGIT ONE TWO ONE ZERO COUNCILOR ROYAL COUNCILOR ROYAL YES COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BAKER I CAN SUPPORT COUNCILOR BAAGHI COUNCILOR GREEN YES COUNCILOR BREDON YES COUNCILOR COLLETTA YES SOKOLOVA COUNCIL FOR ANANDA SANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES'S AND COUNCIL FIRE AND YES COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR SUBDIVISION COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR ME HERE COUNCILOR MEDIA COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR DARCIE NO ONE TWO ONE ZERO HAS RECEIVED ITS FIRST READING AND ELEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU MR CARR. THE DOCKET HAS RECEIVED ITS FIRST READING AND IT WILL BE ASSIGNED FOR FURTHER ACTION. MR CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT DOCKET NUMBER ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT ORDER FOR A HEARING REGARDING REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON ALSO GREAT AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR PRESIDENT FLYNN, THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING WAS REFERRED TO ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT ORDER FOR THE ADOPTION OF REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES OFFERED BY THE CHAIR AND REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE SEVEN WEEKS AGO ON AUGUST 31ST, 2022. THE DOCKET IS A PROPOSED ORDER FOR THE CITY OF SYDNEY BOSTON CITY COUNCIL TO ADOPT A SERIES OF PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE AND INFORM PROCEDURES LED BY THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING FOR CRAFTING LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE CITY COUNCIL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON. THESE PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLES INVOLVE THE FOLLOWING DECORUM AND CONDUCT DURING DEBATE AND DELIBERATION ENSURING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION TO EXPAND CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS INCLUDING TRANSPARENCY THROUGH LIVE STREAMED AND RECORDED SESSIONS. LEGAL REVIEW OF PROPOSED PLANS BY OUTSIDE COUNCILOR TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND CONSIDERING PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY REVIEWING COMPARATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FOR THE BASELINE DISTRICTS OVER THE PAST FOUR AND A HALF WEEKS THE COMMITTEE HELD A VIRTUAL WORKING SESSION ON SEPTEMBER 16TH A WORKING SESSION IN THE PARTY ROOM ON SEPTEMBER 20TH A VIRTUAL WORKING SESSION ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY THIRD WORKING SESSIONS IN THE PARTY ROOM ON SEPTEMBER 26 AND 27 A PUBLIC HEARING ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY NINTH WORKING SESSIONS ON SEPTEMBER 30TH AND OCTOBER 7TH A MEETING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON OCTOBER 11 AND A WORKING SESSION ON MONDAY OCTOBER 17TH. LAST TUESDAY OCTOBER 11TH THE COMMITTEE RECEIVED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHAIR COMMUNICATION FROM COOPERATION COUNCIL TRANSMITTING A MEMORANDUM CONVEYING BASIC PRINCIPLES OF REDISTRICTING REDISTRICTING CRITERIA BY THE CITY COUNCIL PREPARED BY PROFESSOR GEOFFREY WEISS OF A NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL A RECOGNIZED EXPERT ON REDISTRICTING, THE MEMO OUTLINED FIVE REQUIRED CRITERIA POPULATION EQUALITY, MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS COMPACTNESS COUNTING COULD NEVER GET MY GOOD CONGRUENT CONTIGUITY. EXCUSE ME I'M HAVING TONGUE TIED AND PRESERVATION OF THE THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S TRADITIONAL NON REQUIRED CRITERIA WERE DISCUSSED COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST, A BAN ON PARTIZANSHIP AND MAINTAINING EXISTING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES IN DRAFTING AND PREPARING DELIBERATION FOR THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDER THE COMMITTEE REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED THE PRECEDENT OF PAST REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES ADOPTED OR APPLIED BY THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . THESE INCLUDED THE INTERIM REPORT OF CHAIRWOMAN ROSEMARY SANSHIN IN NINETEEN EIGHTY ONE THE REPORT BY CHAIR TERRY MCDERMOTT IN NINETEEN TO AN ORDER PASSED BY THE COUNCIL IN 1991 A RESOLUTION OFFERED BY COUNCILOR CHUCK TURNER AND 2001 AND INCORPORATED INTO THE REPORT BY CHAIR MAUREEN FEENEY IN 2002 AND AND TWO MESSAGES OF DISAPPROVAL FROM MAYOR TOM MENINO IN 2012. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO OUTLINE THE UPCOMING COMMITTEE EVENTS. THERE WILL BE A COMMITTEE MEETING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY TOMORROW EVENING THURSDAY OCTOBER 20TH AT 5PM. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LOCATION HAS BEEN MOVED DOWN THE STREET TO THE CAFETERIA OF THE COMMUNITY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH AT ELEVEN CHARLES STREET AND FEEDS CORNER ACROSS FROM THE RED LINE TO STATION MEMBERS. THE PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO OFFER REMARKS THE RECORDING OF THE PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE POSTED ONLINE AND REBROADCAST. THE COMMITTEE WILL HOLD A WORKING SESSION ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 21ST AT 10:00 A.M. MONDAY OCTOBER 24TH, 10:00 A.M. AND TUESDAY OCTOBER 25TH AT 10:00 AND CITY HALL. THE COMMITTEE IS WORKING TO ENSURE EACH WORKING SESSION CAN BE LIVE STREAMED. THERE WILL ALSO BE ALSO BE PUBLIC HEARINGS IN THE CHAMBER THE AFTERNOON OF MONDAY, OCTOBER 24TH AND ALL PUBLIC NOTICES WILL BE PUBLISHED AND POSTED SHORTLY. THE COMMITTEE REQUESTED FURTHER LEGAL OPINIONS AND INFORMATION FROM THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND REDISTRICTING EXPERTS AND WILL SHARE INFORMATION WITH ALL COUNCILORS. THE CHAIR INTENDS TO RECOMMEND POTENTIAL ACTION ON A REDISTRICTING PROPOSAL IN ONE WEEK ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING, I RECOMMEND THE DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT FOR THE ADOPTION OF REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES ARE TO PASS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL BRIGHTON COUNCIL BREDON SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT POSITIVE DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY MR. CLARKE CAN YOU TAKE A ROLL-CALL VOTE ROLL-CALL VOTE MEMBER ONE ZERO NINE EIGHT COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR BAKER. COUNCILOR BAKER NAY. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR BUT COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR RYAN YES. COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR KHALIDA YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES HENDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FLAHERTY YES. COUNCILOR 30 YEARS COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. CANCELLARA COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR MEJIA COUNCILOR MEJIA CITY COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR . WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE ZERO NINE HE HAS RECEIVED A MAJORITY THE DAKOTAS. THANK YOU MR KIRK. MR KIRK PLEASE READ DORKBOT ONE ZERO NINE NINE IN ONE ONE ZERO ZERO DARK NUMBER ONE ZERO NINE NINE MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO DECLARE SURPLUS THE PARCEL OF LAND CURRENTLY OWNED BY THE CITY OF BOSTON LOCATED AT HARRISON AVENUE IN THE ROXBURY DISTRICT WARD EIGHT PARCELS ZERO TWO FOUR TWO SIX ZERO FOUR AND TO TRANSFER THE PARCEL TO THE PUBLIC FACILITIES COMMISSION FOR THE CARE CUSTODY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF SAID PARCEL AND DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE ZERO ZERO MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO DECLARE SURPLUS TWO PARCELS OF LAND CURRENTLY OWNED BY THE CITY OF BOSTON LOCATED AT WASHINGTON STREET IN THE ROXBURY DISTRICT WARD EIGHT PARCEL ZERO TWO FOUR TWO SIX ZERO TWO ZERO AND WARD EIGHT PARCEL ZERO TWO FOUR SIX ZERO ONE ZERO RESPECTFULLY AND TO TRANSFER THE PARCELS TO THE PUBLIC FACILITIES COMMISSION FOR THE CARE CUSTODY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF , SAID PARSONS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTATION COUNCILOR BAKER YOU HAVE THE FULL YEAR SO I'LL SPEAK ON BOTH OF THEM AND THEN YOU'LL SEPARATE THE VOTE. YES, YES. WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL VOTE. OK, I'M BOTH GOING TO SPEAK ON BOTH OK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YESTERDAY WE HAD A MEETING IN THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION I THINK MY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR SHOWING UP HERE. YES. THIS WAS BASICALLY A SURPLUS PROPERTY SURPLUS PROPERTY COMMITTEE HEARING. WE NEED TO TAKE THE VOTE TO SURPLUSED SO THE SO THE CITY CAN ENTER INTO A POINT WHERE THEY CAN DISPOSE OF IT IN AND PLAN IT FOR FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AS I SAID, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN WAS HERE. JANE SMITH, THE SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE MANAGER IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING AND DONALD WRIGHT, THE DIRECTOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT AND SALES FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING. WE WERE THE AT DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE NINE IS A CITY PARCEL COMPRISED OF APPROXIMATELY NINE THOUSAND SIXTY EIGHT SQUARE FEET OF VACANT LAND AS DETAILED BELOW FOR SIR SURPLUS THE ADDRESS IS IN UNNUMBERED HARRISON AVENUE ROXBURY ADDRESS PASS WARD EIGHT PARCEL ZERO TWO FOUR TWO SIX ZERO FOUR ZERO NINE THOUSAND AND SIXTY EIGHT SQUARE FEET IN IN COUNCIL DISTRICT NUMBER SEVEN. DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PARCEL OF LAND WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH PLANNED NUBIAN SQUARE IN ROXBURY'S EGYPT MASTERPLAN A COMPETITIVE RFP PROCESS FOLLOW LED BY THE BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENTS AGENCY WHICH INCLUDED THE SUBJECT PARCEL IN THE ADJACENT THIRTY EIGHT HUNDRED NO THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND TWO SIXTY FIVE SQUARE FOOT PARCEL OWNED BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ALSO KNOWN AS POSSIBLY THE PROPOSED PROJECT KNOWN AS NEW RESIDENCE IS A MIXED USE MIXED INCOME RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN UNITS WITH BOTH AFFORDABLE AFFORDABLE RENTAL AND HOME OWNERSHIP UNITS. THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES THREE THOUSAND THREE THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF GALLERY CAFE TANTE TEN LIVE WORK UNITS AND TEN GROUND FLOOR PARKING SPACES. THE DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES A PUBLIC PARK TO BE TENTATIVELY CALLED ROXBURY GATEWAY PARK. NOW DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE ZERO ZERO IS TWO CITY OWNED PARCELS COMPRISED OF APPROXIMATELY TEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE SQUARE FEET OF LAND WITH BUILDINGS AS DETAILED BELOW FOR THE SURPLUS ADDRESS FOR PARCEL NUMBER ONE IS AN UNNUMBERED WASHINGTON STREET ROXBURY WARD EIGHT PASOS ZERO TWO FOUR TWO SIX ZERO ONE ZERO THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE SQUARE FEET IN COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN ADDRESS PARCEL NUMBER TWO ON THE ON THE DOCKET ONE ONE 00 IS IN UNNUMBERED WASHINGTON STREET ROXBURY WARD EIGHT PASOS ZERO TWO FOUR TWO SIX ZERO TWO ZERO SEVEN THOUSAND AND SIXTY SQUARE FOOT LOT IN DISTRICT SEVEN ROXBURY PLANGENT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE CONTIGUOUS PIECES OF LAND WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLAN NOUVION SQUARE AND ROXBURY STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS FOLLOWED BY A COMPETITIVE RFP. THE PROPOSAL THE PROPOSED PROJECTS WILL RENOVATE AND REPURPOSE THE HISTORIC NONFACTOR NCW AND FACTORY BUILDING UTILIZING THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT HEIGHT AND MACING THE NEW PROPOSED USE IS A REHEARSAL STUDIO SPACE PROVIDING SPACE FOR THE COMMUNITY TO PERFORM AND TEACH ENRICHING ENRICHING THE CULTURE RESOURCES FOR THE ARTS IN ROXBURY. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL INCLUDE SEVEN STUDIOS, A TWELVE SQUARE FOOT CULTURAL SPACE ON THE GROUND FLOOR WILL RUN WILL RUN THE LENGTH OF THE BUILDING'S INTERIOR PROVIDING A GALLERY SPACE FOR THE DISPLAYS DEPICTING THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF KNEW OF THE NUBIAN NEIGHBORHOOD EXTERIOR PLANS INCLUDING AN OUTDOOR PLAZA AND A FITNESS PARK BASED ON THE DOCUMENTS AND AND THE HEARING WE HAD YESTERDAY THE INFORMATION PRESENTED AT THE HEARING AND HAVING CONSIDERED THE SAME I RESPECTFULLY REMEN RECOMMEND THAT A ROLL-CALL VOTE BE TAKEN ON THESE MATTERS TO PASS. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK COUNCILOR BAKER. COUNCILOR BAKER SEEKS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND POSITIVE DOCKET ONE ZERO NINE NINE MR CLARK, WE'RE GOING TO DO A ROLL CALL VOTE ON ONE ZERO NINE NINE PLEASE. DUKAN NUMBER ONE ZERO NINE NINE ROLL CALL VOTE COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BY COUNCILOR BUCKEYE COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCIL CALERO COUNCILOR FOR AN END THE SAME AS COUNCILOR FOR AN IN THE SENSE AND COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCIL FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES COUNCILOR COUNCILOR COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR LET ME HEAR COUNCILOR HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES COUNCILOR WU YES COUNCIL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE ZERO NINE NINE HAS RECEIVED A UNANIMOUS VOTE. THANK YOU MR CLARK. MR CORBETT , WOULD YOU TAKE THE ROLL-CALL VOTE ON ONE ONE 00 ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET ONE ONE ZERO ZERO COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR ARROYO YES. COUNCILOR BAKER I COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BOOK COUNCILOR BARKER COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR KHALIDA YES. COUNCILOR FOR AN M.D. ANDERSON COUNCILOR FOR AMANDA SANDERSON . COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR FLORIDA YES. COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCILOR LOUISIANA YES COUNCILOR ME HERE COUNCILOR YOU HERE. YES COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR WU YES TALKING NO ONE ONE 00 HAS RECEIVED A UNANIMOUS VOTE. THANK YOU MR MR KIRK. DOCKET ZERO ZERO EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE AS THE HEARING WAS POSTPONED. WE'RE ON TWO MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS MR CLARK. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE TWO DOCKETS OUT OF ORDER AT THIS TIME AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHAIR AND AT THE REQUEST OF MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR BOK, ONE OF THEM IS STUDENTS FROM HERE FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY THAT ARE HERE AND THE OTHER IS WORKERS FROM LOCAL TWENTY SIX THAT ARE ALSO HERE. SO WE DON'T WANT TO TRY TO WE WANT TO TRY TO GET THEM OUT AS SOON AS WE CAN SO IF WE COULD TAKE ONE TWO SEVEN SEVEN FOR US, MR CLARK CAN NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN SEVEN COUNCILOR FLYNN OVER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX HIGH CENTRIC HOTEL WORKERS TO GET A FIRST CONTRACT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR COUNCILOR RIGHT. MAY I ADD COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE IN COUNCIL COLLETTA AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSORS PLEASE? UM COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. THOSE ALSO MAY IT MAY BE ADDED TO THE THANK YOU COUNCIL BREADON THIS IS A RESOLUTE AND SUPPORTING OUR UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX HIRED CENTRAL HOTEL WORKERS AS THEY NEGOTIATE THEIR FIRST CONTRACT. MANY OF THEM ARE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY. THE HOTEL WORKERS AT THIS HOSPITAL AT THIS HOTEL OWNED BY HYATT CENTRIC AT FANEUIL HALL AREA JOIN UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX IN MARCH TWENTY TWENTY ONE IN MANY OF ITS WORKERS EARN FOUR DOLLARS LESS PER HOUR THAN UNION HOTELS UNION WORKERS AT OTHER HOTELS MOST OF THE HYATT CENTRIC WORKERS ARE NOT ON THE EMPLOYER SPONSORED HEALTH INSURANCE. THE HYATT CENTRIC HOTEL WORKERS ARE ASKING FOR SIMILAR WAGES, BENEFITS, WORKING CONDITIONS AS OTHER UNION WORKERS WHO DO SIMILAR WORK WORK AT OTHER HOTELS. YEAH, WITH OVER A YEAR OF BARGAINING THIS THIS HOTEL GROUP MAGNA HOSPITALITY IN THE WORK IS REPRESENTED BY THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM UNITE LOCAL TWENTY SIX. THEY HAVEN'T REACHED AN AGREEMENT AND THE HYATT CENTER WORKERS HAVE BEGUN CONDUCTING PICKET LINES IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL. I KNOW MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES THAT ARE AROUND THIS TABLE HAVE BEEN THERE NOT JUST ON LABOR DAY BUT OTHER DAYS AS WELL. SO THIS RESOLUTION IS TO SUPPORT THESE WORKERS AND TO ASK MAGNER HOSPITALITY TO NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH WITH OUR WORKERS. IMAGINE WORKING AND RECEIVING FOUR DOLLARS LESS THAN YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WE CALL THIS COMPASSIONATE CITY THE MOST PROGRESSIVE AND LIBERAL CITY IN THE COUNTRY LIMITED HEALTH CARE BENEFITS THAT THEY HAVE AS WELL. THEY WORK HARD. THE FIRST PEOPLE THAT COME TO BOSTON VISITORS COME TO BOSTON IS THE HOTEL WORKERS GREET THEM . THEY TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT. THEY WELCOME TO OUR CITY AND THIS HOTEL IS NOT ABLE TO PAY THEM A FAIR WAGE, GIVE THEM GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE, DIGNITY IN RETIREMENT. THIS HOTEL IS IN MY DISTRICT. IT'S IT'S IT HAS UNION WORKERS. BUT I'M EMBARRASSED WHEN MY MY CONSTITUENTS AND WORKERS IN MY CITY IN MY DISTRICT DON'T RECEIVE EQUAL EQUAL WAGES. THAT'S AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE CITY OF BOSTON TO EMBARRASSMENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL HERE AS WELL. SO I'M PROUD TO STAND HERE WITH ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES CONSTITUTION COUNCILOR COLLETTA AS WELL. I KNOW COUNCILOR COLLETTA AS FAMILY THAT WORK AT LOCAL TWENTY SIX SO JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR NOT JUST THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS BUT FOR WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WHENEVER THE SEEKING ECONOMIC JUSTICE I HOPE THAT WE CAN SUSPEND AND ADOPT THIS RESOLUTION TODAY. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUISIANA COUNCILOR FOR THE REGION. YOU HAVE THE FOUR CELEBRATING AND THANK YOU TO PRESIDENT FLYNN FOR ADDING ME TO THIS ORDER. THANK YOU TO ALL THE UNITE HERE LOCAL. TWENTY SIX MEMBERS ARE BEING HERE AND FOR YOUR SOLIDARITY ALL THE TIME WITH WORKERS I'M NOT GOING TO I THINK PRESIDENT FLYNN LAID IT OUT PRETTY WELL THAT YOU MADE FOUR DOLLARS LESS THAN UNION WORKERS IN ABOMINATION IN THIS VERY EXPENSIVE CITY WHERE FOLKS ARE SUFFERING FROM FOOD INSECURITY AND HOUSING INSECURITY AND WE DEPEND ON YOU AS ESSENTIAL WORKERS AS THE FOLKS WHO ARE DOING THE WORK THAT ARE SO CENTRAL AND SO IMPORTANT TO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO FUNCTION THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO BE THE WORLD CLASS CITY WHERE PEOPLE COULD COME AND VISIT AND ENJOY AND BE TOURIST AND HAD BUSINESS MEETINGS. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT ALL OF YOU. AND SO WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT IN SOLIDARITY AS PRESIDENT FLYNN SAID, WE WERE THERE ON LABOR DAY AND THERE ARE OTHER DAYS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE THERE WITH YOU. WE KNOW THE VICTORIES THAT UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX CAN WIN. WE SAW THE RECENT VICTORY AT NORTHEASTERN IN THE DINING MANY OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS INCLUDING MY FATHER WORK AND SO WE KNOW THAT WHEN WE STAND TOGETHER AND FIGHT TOGETHER WE WIN IN SOLIDARITY AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS TO BUILD THE WORK OF POWER IN THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STANDING THE GAP OF CORPORATE OVERREACH. SORRY , I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MODERN HOSPITALITY IS LISTENING AND THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO COME TO THE TABLE AND BARGAIN AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH WITH ALL OF YOU AND UNTIL THEN YOU HAVE OUR COMMITMENT TO BE THERE WITH YOU ON THE PICKET LINE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR REVISION COUNCILOR COLLETTA YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR BRITTON AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THE LEAD SPONSOR COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR PUSHING THIS FORWARD AND ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR. IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE HEARING TO TALK ABOUT MATTERS RELATED TO UNIONS AND HEARING JUST HOW STRONG YOUR ADVOCACY IS IN SEEING YOU BE A CHAMPION. SO I JUST WANT TO CALL THAT OUT . I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX AND SUPPORT THE CENTRIC WORKERS TO GET THEIR FIRST CONTRACT. I JUST FOUND OUT THAT YOU ARE LOCATED LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET. YOU ARE OUR NEIGHBORS SO WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU. MY FAMILY MEMBERS ARE PROUD LOCAL TWENTY SIX MEMBERS AND BEYOND THAT I'VE GOTTEN A CHANCE TO KNOW AND LOVE MEMBERS WHO WORK AND RESIDE IN MY DISTRICT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AS WE KNOW A RESOLUTION IS A WAY TO AFFIRM OUR COLLECTIVE OPINIONS AND VALUES AND SO I WILL ALWAYS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HOTEL INDUSTRY AND RESTAURANT WORKERS FOR THEIR CONTRACT THAT PROVIDES A LIVING WAGE BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH AND YOU DESERVE ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE AND BENEFITS AND SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS AND EVERY DAY THAT PASSES BY WITHOUT A CONTRACT IS A DEVALUATION OF YOUR TIME, YOUR HARD WORK AND YOUR ENERGY AND AS COUNCILOR MENTIONED, AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO JUST KNOW THAT I STAND WITH YOU ALL IN THIS ENDEAVOR AND CALL FOR THE HYATT CORPORATION WHICH MAKES BILLIONS OF MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO GIVE THEIR EMPLOYEES THE DIGNITY THAT THEY DESERVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR CANADA, IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? OH, BEG YOUR PARDON. UH, I COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR I THINK I'D BETTER GET YOUR MICROPHONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CASTLEBURY WE ARE STRONGER AS A CITY WHEN OUR WORKERS ARE WELL PAID AND TREATED WITH DIGNITY THAT THEY DESERVE OUR SUPPORT ESTHETICALLY AREOPAGUS PRIOLEAU IN THIS AGE OF RAMPANT EDUCATION AND RUNAWAY HOUSING COSTS WE CAN CANNOT FORGET OR CAN FORGET THAT THE HISTORY OF BOSTON IN THE HISTORY OF THIS WORKING CLASS BOTH IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE BORN WE ARE AT OUR CORE BLUE COLLAR CITY AND DESPITE THE OUTRAGEOUS COST OF LIVING THAT HAS BEFALLEN US, MANY OF OUR PEOPLE REMAIN SO AND THIS IS WHERE A STRONG LABOR MOVEMENT COMES IN . THIS IS WHERE WHEN YOU HAVE A STRONG UNION YOU CAN ATTAIN BETTER WAGES WHEN YOU HAVE A STRONG UNION YOU CAN ATTAIN BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS. WHEN YOU HAVE A STRONG UNION YOU CAN ATTAIN BETTER BENEFITS . I STAND HERE IN SUPPORT OF YOU BUT I ALSO WANTED TO ADD THAT THERE A PSYCHOLOGICAL WAGE INVOLVED AS WELL. I AND YOU BEGIN TO HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH AND BEGIN TO SPEAK UP FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FELLOW WORKERS AND I STAND HERE WITH YOU AND I CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THANK YOU SO MUCH. I HOPE THAT I LIKE TO GO ON RECORD OF SUPPORT. OF COURSE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDES. I UNDERSTAND COUNCILOR WU YOU HAVE THE FLOOR THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. WE ALL KNOW THAT UNION JOBS ARE CENTRAL TO A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS PROVIDING GOOD WAGES, BENEFITS AND STABILITY. WE TALK ABOUT LESS OFTEN IS THAT THERE ARE GOOD FOR BUSINESSES WORKING TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE SIDE EFFECT CERTIFICATION, HELP PRODUCTIVITY LONGEVITY. PERHAPS EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, THERE ARE GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES HOW CAN KEEP MONEY IN LOCAL ECONOMIES RATHER THAN SENDING THEM BACK TO HEADQUARTERS OR BANK ACCOUNTS OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS CORPORATIONS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC HOTEL WORKERS ARE ALREADY AMONG THE HARDEST WORKERS WITH THE LOWEST PAY EARLY IN THE PANDEMIC THEY WORK TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE DOCTORS, NURSES AND OTHER SUPPORT PERSONNEL ARE CLEAN AND COMFORTABLE ROOMS TO STAYING WITH TOURISM REBOUNDING, IT IS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP OUR HOTELS OPEN AND OPERATING AND TO SHARE THE PROCEEDS. I'M PROUD TO STAND HERE WITH THE HYATT CENTRIC EMPLOYEES AND URGE MAGNER HOSPITALITY TO NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH. WE UNITE HERE LOCAL TWENTY SIX TO ENSURE THAT WORKERS ARE PAID FAIRLY. THANK YOU AND I STAND IN SUPPORT. THANK YOU CONSTABLE CONSUL MARIA YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION TO THE COUNCIL AND NAMATJIRA THIS GRACIAS ATOLLS I'M DEDICATING A KEY ITALIAN RACHEL DELATTRE I HAVE ALWAYS OK AND I'M SAYING THAT IN SPANISH SPECIFICALLY FOR MY MOM WHO I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT MAYBE TEN OR TWELVE YEARS AGO WE TRIED TO GET HER DINING HALL TO BE UNIONIZED AND TO THIS DAY SHE'S SEVENTY THREE YEARS OLD AND SHE IS STILL TOO POOR TO RETIRE. AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JUSTICE AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WORK WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE NEED TO SEND A STRONG STATEMENT TO CORPORATE GREED AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND DEVALUE AND DISREGARD AND DISRESPECT OUR WORKFORCE. SO I STAND HERE IN SOLIDARITY WITH YOU TODAY AND ALWAYS PLEASE SO MANY THANK YOU. THANK YOU ME HERE WHEN ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR BAKER, COUNCILOR BOK COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR WARRELL AND PLEASE ADD MY NAME COUNCILOR FLYNN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION THIS RESOLUTION ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THOSE OPPOSED SAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BRIGHTON MR KIRK, CAN WE TAKE DOCKET ONE AWAY TO NEXT PLEASE? DOCUMENTABLE WANT TO WAIT TO COUNCILOR BAYCOL FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE WORKERS UNION. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL BAR COUNCIL BOK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT . AND I'D LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR BRITTON AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR AND SUSPEND RULE TWELVE TO ADD COUNCILOR LUCJA HEARING NO OBJECTION BOTH AROUND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WORK GREAT THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING US TAKE THIS OUT OF ORDER. I'M GLAD TO HAVE THE TWO BACK TO BACK BECAUSE I THINK IT REALLY SHOWS HOW FOR US TO HAVE A STRONG WORKERS MOVEMENT IN BOSTON WE NEED TO HAVE UNIONS AT EVERY LEVEL AND FOR EVERY TYPE OF WORK AND I THINK IT'S SO EXCITING TO ME THAT THE GRAD WORKERS AND BIU ARE RAISING THEIR VOICES TO SAY THAT THEY WANT TO BE UNIONIZED AND THAT SPECIFICALLY THEY WANT TO UNIONIZE WITH SEIU FIVE OR NINE WHEN SEIU IN VARIOUS FORMS ORGANIZE A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER WORKERS AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY INCLUDING THE JANITORS AND THEN WE'VE GOT OUR UNIVERSITY DINING HALL ORGANIZATIONS WITH LOCAL TWENTY SIX. SO I JUST I THINK IT JUST REMINDS US THAT SO OFTEN IN THIS COUNTRY THE GOAL OF CAPITAL IS TO DIVIDE WORKERS AND MAKE WORKERS FEEL LIKE CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTED AND AND THAT'S A WAY THAT WE KEEP PEOPLE FROM HAVING THE DIGNITY AND COMPENSATION THAT THEY DESERVE AND WORK. I MYSELF AM A FORMER GRADUATE WORKER. I KNOW THAT IT'S REAL WORK. I KNOW ALSO THAT IN MANY WAYS OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS CAN BE VERY VULNERABLE IN THEIR WORKPLACES. OFTEN THEY'RE WORKING FOR PEOPLE WHO ALSO CONTROL THE FUTURE OF THEIR SORT OF LIVES PROFESSIONALLY AND IT CAN OFTEN BE LIKE IN A WORKPLACE WHERE THEY'RE JUST A WORKER ALONE OR WITH ONLY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE. SO IT COULD BE A VERY VULNERABLE SITUATION, ESPECIALLY OUR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WHOSE VOICES ARE CONNECTED TO THEIR STUDENTSHIP CAN BE HARD TO SPEAK UP ABOUT WORKPLACE VIOLATIONS AND FUNDAMENTALLY WE STILL HAVE FAR TOO MANY GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO EVEN AS THEY'RE WORKING REALLY DOING THE WORK THAT MAKES OUR UNIVERSITY WORK, THEY'RE STILL FACING HOUSING INSECURITY, FOOD INSECURITY, CONCERNS ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE CASE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY REALLY INFERIOR DENTAL CARE. THERE'S JUST THERE'S A HOST OF ISSUES AND TO ME IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT WE STAND UP AND SAY TO OUR BIG UNIVERSITIES AND IN THIS CASE IS BOSTON UNIVERSITY HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ONE OF THE BIGGEST EMPLOYERS IN THE CITY. YOU'RE A NONPROFIT AS WE FREQUENTLY DISCUSS AND IF THAT'S THE CASE AND THE AND THE FOCUS IS TO BE THINKING ABOUT A PRO SOCIAL MISSION, THEN ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO IS TREAT YOUR WORKERS WITH RESPECT AND THE THE GRIB WORKERS UNION, THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE AN AMAZING JOB COLLECTING A HUGE NUMBER OF CARDS THAT WELL OVER THE MAJORITY OF THEIR UNIT HAVING ALREADY SIGNED CARDS SAYING THEY WANT TO ORGANIZE AND SO THE TIME HAS COME FOR BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO RECOGNIZE THEM VOLUNTARILY AND THERE'S JUST THERE'S NO REASON WHY THE UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL EVERY STEP OF THE WAY HERE WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKERS IN THIS UNION HAVE ALREADY RAISED THEIR HAND AND SAID HEY, WE WANT TO BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY, WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO THIS WORK WELL AND WITH DIGNITY AND WE WANT YOU TO SIT DOWN AND BARGAIN WITH US FOR A FAIR CONTRACT SO THE RESOLUTION TODAY IS NOT JUST TO SUPPORT THE GRAD WORKERS BUT SPECIFICALLY TO CALL ON BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO VOLUNTARILY RECOGNIZE THEIR UNIT SO THAT THEY CAN BEGIN THAT WORK OF NEGOTIATING A FAIR CONTRACT. AND I'M REALLY PROUD TO BE JOINED BY COUNSELORS BRAD AND JEN AND I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT ALL THE COUNSELORS HERE IN THE CHAMBER TODAY WILL JOIN IN SENDING THAT MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY WHICH AS I SAID, IT'S A GREAT UNIVERSITY. I AM PROUD TO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF ITS CAMPUS IN DISTRICT BUT B WORKS BECAUSE THEY DO SO. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON AND COUNCIL BREADON YOU HAVE THE FULL THANK YOU COUNCILOR PRESENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK TO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR BOK FOR INCLUDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR DISTRICT NINE ALLSTON BRIGHTON IS HOME TO MANY GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITIES IN OUR DISTRICT AND PARTICULARLY BOSTON UNIVERSITY. THEY ARE MY CONSTITUENTS AND BOX CONSTITUENTS AND MANY OF THE OTHER OF US HAVE CONSTITUTE TO A GRADUATE WORKERS. I FULLY SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE AND JOIN THE SEIU LOCAL FIVE OH ONE FIVE OR NINE . THESE GRADUATE STUDENT WORKERS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR UNIVERSITIES. THEY LIVE AND WORK IN ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES IN THE COUNTRY AND THEIR WAGES ARE INSUFFICIENT TO MEET THEIR THE COST OF LIVING. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DOING REAL WORK. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COMES UP IN CONVERSATIONS. IT'S THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE STUDENTS. THEY'RE NOT DOING REAL WORK BUT ABSOLUTELY THEY ARE DOING REAL WORK. THEY DESERVE THE BENEFITS OF BEING MEMBERS OF THE UNION AND TO HAVE THEIR UNION RECOGNIZED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY AND I URGE THAT NOT ONLY WOULD THEIR UNION BE RECOGNIZED BUT THAT BOSTON UNIVERSITY WOULD NEGOTIATE WITH THEIR LOCAL UNIT IN GOOD FAITH SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT STUDENTS GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO CONTRIBUTE SO MUCH TO OUR STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE SO MUCH TO THE UNIVERSITIES IN OUR CITY THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR NEEDS RECOGNIZED AND AND RECOGNIZED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL BRENDAN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR AND CONCLUSION YOU OF THE FLOOR AS AN EXCELLENT AND I THINK RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTABLE FOR ADDING ME TO THIS MATTER. I WANT TO THANK THE GRAD STUDENTS FROM OF ALL OF YOUR ORGANIZING WORK BECAUSE WE'RE FOLLOWING YOUR LEAD. WE KNOW THAT YESTERDAY YOU ALL DELIVERED EIGHTEEN HUNDRED CARDS TO THE NLRB. THERE'S A REASON WHY BYU IS NOT RECOGNIZING YOU. OF COURSE YOUR WORK IS REAL WORK. SO MANY OF US WHEN WE WERE IN COLLEGE DEPENDED ON OUR GRAD SCHOOL WORKERS AND THE PROFESSORS WEREN'T REALLY DOING ALL THEY DID IS COME IN FOR AN HOUR TO LECTURE AND THEN YOU DO THE REAL WORK. THERE'S NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD BE SUFFERING FROM HOUSING OR FOOD INSECURITY WHETHER YOU ARE GRAD SCHOOL WORK OR WORK OR AT A HOTEL. AND SO I THANK YOU FOR REALLY LEADING THE CHARGE IN AS MORE UNIVERSITY GRAD STUDENTS REALLY BEGIN TO PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN AND RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR LABOR SHOULD BE VALUED. MY STAFF A HOME IN A BEAUTIFUL AREA WAS THERE WITH YOU DEMANDING THAT BE RECOGNIZED YOU AS A UNION AND SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO STAND WITH YOU BY THE WAY, ALL THE WAY DURING THE PANDEMIC WE USE ENDOWMENT GREW BY NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE BILLION DOLLARS. THAT'S ALMOST A BILLION DOLLARS UP TO THREE IN THEIR TOTAL ENDOWMENT IS UP TO THREE POINT FOUR DOLLARS BILLION. THERE'S NO REASON WHY THEY CAN'T RECOGNIZE YOU. THERE'S NO REASON WHY THEY CAN'T PAY YOU JUSTLY AND SO THAT YOU'RE NOT SUFFERING FROM FOOD INSECURITY. WE NEED TO STAND IN THE GAP YEAR AS WELL EVEN IF THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS. RIGHT. THESE ENDOWMENTS ARE PROOF POSITIVE THAT THEY CAN DO MORE THAT THEY SHOULD DO MORE AND THAT WE WILL ALL DEMAND COLLECTIVELY THAT THEY DO MORE. SO I SALUTE YOU WILL BE WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONCLUSION WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK IN THIS MATTER? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ME HERE. COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. AND I'M JUST SO SUPER INSPIRED BECAUSE WE JUST KEEP GETTING YOUNGER AND YOUNGER IN TERMS OF ORGANIZING RIGHT AND SENDING OUT A STRONG MESSAGE. SO I JUST WANTED TO RISE AND SUPPORT AND TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE SPACE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR SETTING THE STAGE FOR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO VALUE WORKERS. I HOPE THAT WHEN MY DAUGHTER REACHES THAT AGE OR EVEN BEFORE THEN THAT SHE RECOGNIZES THAT THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE HAVE CREATED A SPACE FOR HER TO BE ABLE TO BE FULLY HONORED AND VALUED. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND PLEASE SIGN MY NAME. THANK YOU ANSOLABEHERE. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLARK PLEASE ADD COUNCIL ARROYO BAKER COUNCIL BAKER COUNCIL CALERO COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FLAHERTY COUNCIL MEJIA PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR COUNCIL THE BAR COUNCIL OF LUJáN COUNCIL BRAYLON SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DR. 128000. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED AND AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF MY COLLEAGUES COULD JOIN US UP FOR PHOTO AND IF LOCAL TWENTY SIX COULD YOU JOIN US FOR A PHOTO AND THEN I'LL HAVE THE STUDENTS FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENTS IN BOSTON UNIVERSITY AFTER ONE IN EVERYBODY IN THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT. YES. OH YEAH AND I KNOW LIKE IN FACT COME ON COME ON COME ON. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO READY. YES. I'M SORRY . THANK THE CONGRATULATIONS GUYS. GET AS LONG AS YOU CAN TAKE A BREAK. YEAH YEAH. LUDLAM'S COBLESKILL MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN THREE DORKING NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN THREE. COUNCILOR BAKER OFFERED THE FOLLOWING IN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY COUNCIL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER ,YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. LET ME FIRST JUST SAY GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE, CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. EVERY TEN YEARS WE WERE OBLIGATED TO GO THROUGH THIS STRENUOUS REDISTRICTING PROCESS AND I'M NO STRANGER TO DOING SO. I WAS THE ONLY ONE HERE LAST TIME ON THE BODY TEN YEARS AGO WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THIS. I'M COMMITTED TO THE GUIDELINES SET FORTH BY THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. THE MAP I PROPOSE KEEPS OUR CURRENT CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS CAMPATH CONTIGUOUS, PRESERVES OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND KEEPS OUR COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS INTACT INCLUDING PARISH BOUNDARIES WHICH COULD BE VILLAGES WHICH ARE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE A FACTOR THAT THIS PROPOSED MAP CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN DISTRICTS JUST DISTRICT IS ALREADY EXISTING OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT STATUS. I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT'S ALSO AN EXISTING LEGACY DISTRICT WHICH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LEGACY DISTRICTS. FIRST TIME I HEARD IT IT SAID ONE IN NINE ONE TOGETHER IN DISTRICT TWO WHICH WE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM THE CHINESE PROGRESSIVES AND THAT CONNECTION HAPPENS TO THE SOUTH THEN WITH DISTRICT TWO. THIS ALSO IS SOMETHING THAT MASS VOTERS TABLE HAVE REPEATEDLY MENTIONED. DISTRICT THREE BECOMES THIRTY PERCENT WHITE MAKING IT THIRD SIXTY THREE PERCENT NONWHITE COALITION AND MAP. MR PRESIDENT, EVERY DISTRICT THAT WE HAVE YOU NEED TO FORM A COALITION TO WIN DISTRICT THREE IS A COALITION WHICH I FORMED TEN YEARS AGO WITH VIETNAMESE HELP WITH CAPE VERDE AND HELP WITH SPANISH WITH BLACKS HELP. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO EVERYONE IN YOUR DISTRICT. YOU KNOW THAT MR PRESIDENT. ALL CORNERS OF YOUR DISTRICT UNDER THE MAPAI FILE UNITING FIELDS CORNER IN LITTLE SAIGON DISTRICT AND BRING THEM WARD SIXTEEN ENTIRELY UNDER DISTRICT THREE WE WANT TO STAY TOGETHER. IN ADDITION BAY VILLAGES MOVE INTO DISTRICT EIGHT SHIFTING FROM DISTRICT TO MORE OF A DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MY GOOD COLLEAGUE OVER HERE THERE'S MINIMAL IMPACT FROM THE BASELINE MAP ROUGHLY A DOZEN PRECINCTS MOVE. DISTRICT THREE DOES NOT GO INTO SOUTH BOSTON AND CHOP UP HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS ALTHOUGH IT DOES HAS SEVEN SEVEN WHICH IS MARY ELLEN MCCORMACK WHICH I GOT TEN YEARS AGO WHICH REMAINS WHICH ALSO HAS COMMONALITY IN THE TRANSPORTATION AND THE RESILIENCY OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD . THE MAP I'M PROPOSING IS SIMILAR TO A MAP THAT WAS PROPOSED BY THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO AN ACTUAL WORKING SESSION WHERE WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT PRINCIPLES. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRECINCTS. WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE WE TRADED AROUND PRECINCTS AT ALL. WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BAKER. WHAT ANYONE ELSE WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND, MR. CLARK, PLEASE THAT COUNCILOR BREADON PLEASE. THE AD COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY PLEASE. AD COUNCILOR MURPHY, PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN THREE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING. MR CARACTACUS ONE TWO SEVEN FOUR HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN SINCE THE SPONSOR IS ABSENT. MR CARR CAN YOU PLEASE READ IT ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE BLOCK NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE COUNCILORS BREADON AND ARROYO FOR THE FOLLOWING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY COUNCIL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BRENNAN YOU FOR PRESIDENT THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT OUR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IS THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IF WE SO CHOOSE. MASSACHUSETTS IS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF STATES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT ENSURES THE RIGHT TO FREE PETITION AND INTERPRETATION IN OUR STATE IS UNIQUE COMPARED TO ALL OTHERS. THIS PRINCIPLE CAN BE TRACKED BACK TO THE 12TH LIBERTY OF IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BODY OF LIBERTIES FROM SIXTEEN FORTY ONE AND IT CAN BE FOUND IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1780 IN ARTICLE NINETEEN ACCORDING TO THE STATE LAW LIBRARY, MASSACHUSETTS IS THE ONLY STATE IN THE COUNTRY THAT GIVES ITS CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO FILE BILLS DIRECTLY IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE. THE SPIRIT OF THIS PRINCIPLE IN OUR STATE CONSTITUTION COULD BE APPLIED TO HOW WE CONDUCT OUR WORK HERE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING THAT IS THE INTENT OF THIS REDISTRICTING PROPOSAL I AM INTRODUCING ALONGSIDE MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR ARROYO. I ALSO WANT TO STATE THAT IT IS NOT UNUSUAL OR UNPRECEDENTED FOR THERE TO BE NUMEROUS MAPS FILED BY COUNCILORS NOR THE COMMITTEE CHAIR AND I WELCOME THE ADDITION OF COUNCILOR BAKER'S MAP THIS AFTERNOON IN 2012 THEY WERE ABOUT A DOZEN MAPS FILED, AT LEAST THREE OF WHICH WERE FILED BY LANAHAN AND IN 2002 THERE WERE AT LEAST TEN MAPS FILED INCLUDING THREE FILES SUBMITTED SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PLANS A, B AND C BY CHAIR FEENEY AS COUNCILORS ARE AWARE A COALITION OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AND NEIGHBORHOOD AND NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CRAFTED WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS A UNITY MAP AND PRESENTED IT TO COUNCILORS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR CITY'S 40 YEAR HISTORY, A DISTRICT BASED LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE OF DISTRICT BASED LOCAL REPRESENTATION A PROPOSAL CRAFTED BY AND FOR THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BROUGHT PROPERLY BEFORE THE COUNCIL AS A FIVE DOCKET. I ADMIT I HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO DO SO AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT ANY COUNCIL HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE SAME AT THEIR DISCRETION BY THE REQUEST OF ANY RESIDENT OF OR OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CIVIC ASSOCIATION . WHILE THE PROPOSAL WAS BROUGHT FORTH THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NAACP, BOSTON BRANCH, I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT IT IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A LARGER BECAUSE THEY LOCALLY, REGIONALLY AND NATIONALLY AND WITHIN THE URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, THE CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION, THE NEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE, THE NEW DEMOCRACY COALITION MASS VOTE AND MORE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IN REDISTRICTING LAWSUITS THE COURTS HAVE ADDED AS PLAINTIFFS TO PRESENT THEIR OWN ALTERNATIVE MAPS TO DEMONSTRATE WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO DRAW MORE EQUITABLE DISTRICTS PROVIDING GREATER OPPORTUNITY FOR PROTECTED CLASSES TO ELECT THEIR CANDIDATES OF CHOICE UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. IN FACT, THE COURT CASE AGAINST THE CITY 40 YEARS AGO INVOLVED A COMMUNITY DRAWN ALTERNATIVE MAP THAT WAS COMPARED AGAINST THE PLAN B PASSED BY THE COUNCIL . BRINGING THIS PROPOSAL FORMALLY BEFORE THE BODY IS IS TO IDENTIFY MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND MISPLACED PRIORITIES OF PAST DECADES IN ORDER TO TAKE BOLD CORRECTIVE ACTION. THE VERY CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS COMING TO US WITH CONCERNED ARE THE VERY ORGANIZATIONS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY INITIATE COMPLAINTS UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. SO IT IS ACTUALLY ESSENTIAL THAT THEY ARE INTIMATELY AND DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN INFORMING OUR DELIBERATIONS SO THAT WE AS A BODY CAN TAKE ALL NECESSARY INFORMATION TO PASS A LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE MAP. I AM CONFIDENT THAT FORMALLY BRINGING THIS PROPOSAL BEFORE THE BODY WILL MAKE A PROFOUND STEP TOWARDS ENSURING THAT WE PASS A MAP THAT WILL ALLOW EACH AND EVERY RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON TO HAVE A FAIR CHANCE TO ELECT THEIR CANDIDATES OF CHOICE NO MATTER WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD OR DISTRICT THEY LIVE IN. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF ROYAL COUNCIL OF ROYAL. YOU HAVE FOR THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR BREADON FOR HER GRACE DURING THIS PERIOD REDISTRICTING CAN CAN GET FOLKS WORKED UP AND SO IT'S GREAT TO SEE SOMEBODY WHO'S EVEN KEELED SORT OF LEADING THE WAY IN TERMS OF THE MAP THAT WAS PRESENTED BY COUNCILOR BREADON TO MYSELF, I THINK IT GOES A LONG WAY TOWARDS BEING A TRUE COMPROMISE OF THE MAP PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED BY MYSELF AND COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON AND PREVIOUSLY REPRESENTED BY COUNCILOR BREADON AND COUNCILOR WHERE THERE ARE MANY SIMILARITIES IN THAT MAP THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES AND CHANGES BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE VIDEOS AND RECORDINGS OF OUR WORKING SESSIONS OF OUR LISTENING COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS, YOU WILL SEE THAT THE MAP PRESENTED TODAY LARGELY IN PARTNERSHIP AND COMPLETE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NAACP, THE CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION, THE URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, THE NEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE, THE MASS VOTER TABLE, THE DEMOCRACY COALITION AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY GROUPS. IT ALSO TAKES INTO ACCOUNT WHAT WE HEARD FROM COMMUNITY HERE AT THIS PODIUM OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. IT DOES MUCH TO UNITE SOUTHERN DORCHESTER. IT DOES MUCH TO UNITE THE CHINESE AND ASIAN COMMUNITY AND THE SOUTH END WITH CHINATOWN TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THEIR VOICE COLLECTIVELY HEARD SOMETHING WE HEARD REPEATEDLY WAS IMPORTANT TO BOTH COMMUNITY AND COUNCILORS. IT DOES MUCH TO KEEP AND STRENGTHEN OUR OPPORTUNITY DISTRICTS AS OUR MANDATE IS BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT WHICH I BELIEVE THIS MAP IS GROUND IT IN IN FIRMLY LED BY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT WEEK HAVING CONVERSATIONS AND BUILDING UPON WHAT I THINK IS A VERY SOLID FOUNDATION AND IT'S A SOLID FOUNDATION BECAUSE IT WAS NOT JUST DONE HERE IN THIS ROOM BUT IT WAS DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY AND BY REINCORPORATING FEEDBACK BOTH FROM COUNCILORS IN THIS ROOM AND FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO I THINK THAT'S WHERE THE BEST THINGS COME. I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS UNITY THAT BEING PRESENTED TO THIS COMMITTEE AND BEING HEARD. I THINK THE COALITIONS THAT ARE ALREADY IN SUPPORT OF THIS MAP AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY VOICED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THIS MAP IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND ALMOST JUST THAT WE JUST PUT IT THERE AND LEAVE IT THERE SO WE CAN HAVE FURTHER CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. I THINK THE OBJECTIVES OF OF COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST IN TRYING TO UNIFY AND HIT AS MANY OF THOSE PIECES AS WE CAN I THINK THIS MAP DOES A TREMENDOUS JOB DOING THAT CONSIDERING THE TREMENDOUS DIFFICULTY AND THE REALITY THAT NOT EVERY COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS NOT EVERY GROUP IS GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH ANY MAP THAT WE PUT FORWARD ULTIMATELY AND PASS. AND SO I THINK CONSIDERING THE RESTRAINTS AND SORT OF THE CONSTRAINTS OF NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE EVERY SINGLE PERSON HAPPY, I THINK THIS MAP DOES QUITE A BIT OF GOOD AND SO THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON. THANK YOU TO THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN LEADING ON THIS HAVE NOT JUST LET ON IN THIS ITERATION BUT HAVE BEEN PRESENT AND CONSTANT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES OF MAKING SURE THAT WE DO A GOOD JOB OF REPRESENTING WHAT BOSTON SHOULD BE NOW BUT ALSO MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . WHY WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD IN NAME PLEASE PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR CLARK PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR FERNANDES A.N. PLEASE AT COUNCIL AGAIN PLEASE PLEASE THAT COUNCIL ME HERE I DON'T WANT TO SET THE PRECEDENT I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT. I'M NOT I'M NOT ALLOWING SPEAKING AT THIS TIME I GET ONE TWO SEVEN FIVE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING. MR CLARK PLEASE READ IT ONE TWO SEVEN SIX PLEASE DOG NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN SIX COUNCILOR LOUISIANA FOR THE FOLLOWING OR FOR A HEARING ON DISCRIMINATION IN LENDING AND APPRAISALS THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR JANE YOU OF THE FLOOR THANK YOU VERY MUCH PRESIDENT FLYNN. THIS IS SOMETHING MY OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING ON AND WE'VE BEEN DEBATING ABOUT WHEN WE WOULD HOLD THIS HEARING. BUT IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT THESE NOW, ESPECIALLY YESTERDAY ALONG WITH PSI OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC. TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT BLACK AND BROWN HOMEOWNERS FACE BLACK AND BROWN WANT TO BE HOMEOWNERS FACING OUR CITY AND THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY FACE. SO JUST READ INTO THE RECORD OH MY BAD COUNCIL PRESIDENT. COULD I PLEASE ADD A COUNCILOR TANYA ANDERSON AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON IS OUT OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR JOHN. THANK YOU. APOLOGIES. OK SO SOME OF THESE NUMBERS ARE REALLY ALARMING AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THEY BE READ INTO THE RECORD SO FOLKS KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS FIGURES, BOSTON IS EXPERIENCING A NET DEPARTURE OF BLACK RESIDENTS WERE APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FEWER BLACK PEOPLE ARE CALLING BOSTON HOME IN THE LAST TEN YEARS SPECIFICALLY DORCHESTER SAW A 13 PERCENT DECLINE IN BLACK RESIDENTS, MATTAPAN A FIVE PERCENT DECLINE AND ROXBURY A 12 PERCENT DECLINE IN BLACK RESIDENTS OVER THE LAST DECADE, ACCORDING TO BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY DATA. AND SO WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM BOTH IN THE RENTAL MARKET WITH FOLKS FACING DISPLACEMENT BUT WE ALSO HAVE THE DESIRE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO BECOME HOMEOWNERS THAT IS IN A AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE THAT SO MANY OF FAMILIES ARE UNABLE TO EXPERIENCE HERE. AND SO WE HAVE BLACK AND BROWN FOLKS LEAVING FOR BECAUSE THE RENT IS TOO HIGH AND WE HAVE BLACK AND BROWN FOLKS LEAVING BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING DENIED ACCESS TO HOMEOWNERSHIP. THE TWENTY TWENTY ONE PARTNERSHIP FOR FINANCIAL EQUITY REPORT FOUND THAT BLACK HOUSEHOLDS WERE FAR MORE LIKELY THAN WHITE HOUSEHOLDS TO BE REJECTED FOR A LOAN EVEN WHEN ACCOUNTING FOR CONTROL MEASURES SUCH AS LEVELS OF INCOME. THE REPORT ALSO FOUND THAT LARGE INSTITUTIONAL BANKS ARE FAILING US BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LENDING. WHEN WE HOLD EVERYTHING WAS CONSTANT. SO NOT ONLY ARE WE FACING DISCRIMINATION IN LENDING ALSO FACE DISCRIMINATION IN APPRAISALS A TWENTY TWENTY ONE ANALYSIS BY FREDDIE MAC FOUND THAT TWELVE POINT FIVE PERCENT OF HOMES APPRAISED IN BLACK COMMUNITIES WERE VALUED AT LESS THAN THE ORIGINAL COST OF CONSTRUCTING THE. THAT FIGURE COMPARES TO SEVENTEEN POINT FOUR PERCENT OF HOMES IN WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS AND NINETY NINE POINT FOUR PERCENT OF HOMES IN LATINO AREAS AND OTHER STUDIES SHOW ON AVERAGE FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS OR LESS. THE HOMES IN BLACK COMMUNITIES ARE VALUED AT FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS. FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS THAN THE APPRAISED VALUE OF THE HOME IT WAS IT WAS CONSIDERED OWNED BY A WHITE PERSON. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO IN THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SEEING JUSTICE NOT ONLY IN THE LENDING PROCESS BUT ALSO IN APPRAISALS. AND OFTENTIMES IT'S REALLY HARD BECAUSE LIKE WE SAY WHAT CAN WE DO AS A CITY? WELL, WE HAVE BANKS THAT PARTNER WITH US IN OUR ONE MORTGAGE PROGRAM, OUR ONE PROGRAM. BUT WE'VE ALSO BEEN SEEING BANKS LEAVE THAT PROGRAM. SANTANDER, A REALLY BIG LENDER FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON IN THOSE PROGRAMS HAS LEFT THE MORTGAGE MARKET. SO WE NEED TO HOLD THESE MORTGAGE COMPANIES TO TASK WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE ROXBURY, MATTAPAN, DORCHESTER NEIGHBORHOOD SUFFERED FROM BLOCKBUSTING AND REDLINING IN THE 1960S AND 1970S. WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE CORRECTIVE ACTION THAT WE TO TAKE AND AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BANKS TO HOLD THEM TO TASK. WE BROKE OUT OF REDLINING WAS A COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT WHERE BANKS WERE HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO SERVE COMMUNITIES IN LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE PREDOMINATELY BLACK AND BROWN AND A LOT OF BANKS ARE NOT LIVING UP TO ARE NOT LIVING UP TO THOSE REQUIREMENTS. AND WHEN I TALK ABOUT BANKS, WE HAVE OUR LARGE INSTITUTIONAL BANKS, WE HAVE COMMUNITY BANKS AND THERE ARE OTHER REALLY GREAT IDEAS FLOATING OUT THERE SUCH AS PUBLIC BANKS ABOUT HOW TO HELP US SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. BUT WE NEED BANKS TO REALLY LEAN IN AND SO THERE'S GREAT WORK HAPPENING AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HOLDING THIS HEARING ALONGSIDE MY COUNSELOR COLLEAGUE TONY ANDERSON WHO HAS BEEN ON UNEQUIVOCAL VOICE IN SUPPORTING THE NEED FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS AND ESPECIALLY IN DEVON. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING WORK IN THE SPACE PARTNERSHIP FOR FINANCIAL EQUITY, FORMERLY THE COMMUNITY BANKING COUNCIL AND ALL THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS LED BY BLACK AND BROWN FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR MORE INVESTMENTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH MORE LOANS THAT ARE NOT LOANS THAT WE SAW DURING THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THOSE SORTS OF LOANS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE LOANS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CORRECTIVE FOR THE DISCRIMINATION THAT THESE COMMUNITIES FACE. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH OUR FAIR HOUSING OFFICE ON THIS ISSUE INTO ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE HOMEOWNERSHIP MORE OF A REALITY AND SO WE DON'T SEE SO MUCH FLIGHT FROM OUR COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE HOMEOWNERSHIP REALITY AND MYSELF RECENTLY BECAME A HOMEOWNER IN THE PROCESS OF DOING SO THERE WERE JUNCTURES WHERE I WAS LIKE WOULD THEY BE ASKING ME THESE QUESTIONS IF I WERE A WHITE APPLICANT? AND SO WE KNOW THAT THE ISSUES ARE DEEP AND MANY AND THAT BUT HEARING WHAT OUR LOAN IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT INVOLVES THE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL BUT IT'S GOING TO BE A START AND WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS ALREADY WORKING ON THIS ISSUE SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING. THANK YOU COUNCIL AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES INNOCENT. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AND THANK YOU TO CONCLUSION FOR ALLOWING ME TO PARTNER WITH YOU ON THIS HEARING ORDER THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY AND NATION IT HAS BEEN BLATANT DISCRIMINATION IN LENDING AND APPRAISALS DEMANDING ON THE COLOR OF THE PERSONS ATTEMPTING TO GET A LOAN OR HAVE THEIR PROPERTY APPRAISED. BLACK AND BROWN BORROWERS WERE RECENTLY SYSTEMICALLY STEERED INTO SUBPRIME LOANS EVEN WHEN MANY OF THEM QUALIFY FOR STANDARD LOANS. THIS ENDED UP CONTRIBUTING TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 2007 IN BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS WERE IN BOSTON. NEIGHBORHOODS WERE HISTORICALLY RED LINE AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT BLACK PEOPLE COULD ONLY BUY IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS BLACK AND LATINO HOMEOWNERS. AS MY COLLEAGUE ALREADY ALLUDED ,WHO ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO GET LOW APPRAISAL RATES AS THEY ARE WHITE COUNTERPARTS HOMES IN BLACK AND LATINO HISPANIC NEIGHBORHOODS ARE OFTEN VALUES LOWER PRICE FOR TWO REASONS THE MARKET PRICE IS HELD DOWN BECAUSE OF BIAS AGAINST NEIGHBORHOODS OR AND VALUES CAN BE DEPRESSED STILL FURTHER THROUGH DISCRIMINATION IN LENDING MARKETS AND APPRAISALS . RECENTLY A BLACK FAMILY HAD THEIR HOME APPRAISED FOR FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. LATER THEY HAD A FRIEND OF THEIRS, A WHITE FRIEND OF THEIRS TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR PLACE TO GET APPRAISED AND THE HOME WAS VALUED AT SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND. SUCH EXAMPLES ARE SO BLATANT AND MANIFEST AT THE SATIRICAL PAPER THE ONION RECENTLY HAD AN ARTICLE POKING FUN AT THIS WHERE A YOUNG BLACK HOMEOWNER PUT UP PHOTOS OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS ALL OVER HIS HOUSE AND THEN LEFT DURING THE APPRAISAL. THE VALUE OF THE HOUSE OF COURSE SKYROCKETED IF ONLY OUR REALITY WAS A BIT MORE REMOVED FROM SATIRE. IN ANY CASE, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO REGARDING THIS MATTER AND THEREFORE AGAIN I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO PARTNER WITH THIS ON THIS WITH YOU AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FOR NAME IS ANDERSON. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER BEFORE I CALL COUNCILOR WELL AND CULTURAL MEJIA IN OTHERS I JUST WANTED TO BEFORE I CALL ON COUNCILOR OUR OWN COUNCILOR HERE I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK ON THE REDISTRICTING. ANY OF THAT DISCUSSION I WASN'T TAKING TESTIMONY HERE THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE IN THE HEARING AND IN THE WORKING SESSIONS DURING THE WEDNESDAY MEETING. THAT'S WHERE THE REAL WORK WILL GET DONE IS AT THE IN THE MEETINGS NOT ON THE WEDNESDAY, NOT THE WEDNESDAY MEETING. SO THAT IS THE REASON I'VE BEEN CONSISTENT ON THAT. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR. WE'RE ALL COUNCILOR ARE ALL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL JAN FOR ELEVATING THIS ISSUE. DISCRIMINATION AND RACE ISSUES AND HOUSING ARE NOTHING NEW, ESPECIALLY IN BOSTON EVEN IN CONTROLLING FOR INCOMES AND CREDIT SCORES BLACK, BROWN AND LGBTQ AMERICANS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE LIKELY TO BE DENIED LOANS. THOSE WHO ARE APPROVED OFTEN PAY HIGHER INTEREST RATES THAN THE MAJORITY COUNTERPARTS. THE RESULT EXACTLY WHAT ONE WOULD EXPECT AND IS THAT WE SEE TODAY BLACK AND BROWN BOSTONIANS LEAVING THE CITY TO FULFILL THEIR DREAMS OF HOMEOWNERSHIP OR PAYING MORE TO GET LESS INCREASE IN HOMEOWNERSHIP AMONG BLACK BOSTONIANS IS CRITICAL. IT IS NOT ONLY ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO ENHANCE INDIVIDUAL WEALTH BUT IS ALSO A KEY STEP IN WORKING TO STABILIZE FAMILIES COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AS A COUNCIL WE NEED TO WORK WITH BANKS TO ENSURE THAT THEY OFFER LOAN PRODUCTS THAT TARGET THESE FAMILIES FOR DEVELOPERS TO TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS ENOUGH AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK AND WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE HOMEOWNERSHIP VOUCHERS TO GET PEOPLE INTO HOMES THE LONG TERM FISCAL FISCAL HEALTH OF OUR CITY DEPENDS ON IT. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL TO HOLD BANKS ACCOUNTABLE AND ASSURE ALL BOSTONIANS HAVE A FAIR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THEIR HOMES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR . ALL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES ME HERE COUNCILOR ME YOU HAVE THE FORM AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN. ALL RIGHT. SO YOU KNOW HERE IN THIS COUNCIL IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE WHAT THIS MOMENT IS ALL ABOUT. RIGHT. AND WHENEVER WE BRING IN RACE INTO ANY CONVERSATION, THERE'S ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, CLAP BACK IN REGARDS TO DO WHAT WE'RE BRINGING ON TO THIS FLOOR AND WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR. BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS BEEN PRESENTED AND FOUGHT FOR TEN OR SO YEARS AGO, YOU WE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE MORE RESIDENTS OF COLOR STILL LIVING HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. RIGHT. SO AS WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THESE PROCESSES, I WANT TO BE SUPER MINDFUL THAT WE NEED TO BE OK TO TALK ABOUT RACE AND WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BE COURAGEOUS AROUND THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND NOT MAKE IT SEEM LIKE IT'S US VERSUS THEM WHICH IS KIND BY THE WAY, USUALLY LANDS FOR A LOT OF FOLKS. SO I'M GOING TO ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES AS WE CONTINUE TO GRAPPLE WITH THESE ISSUES THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT MOST OF THE FOLKS WHO HAVE LEFT THE CITY OF BOSTON GREW UP HERE AND COULD NO LONGER AFFORD TO PURCHASE THEIR HOMES HERE. SO NOW BUILDING LEADERSHIP IN BROCKTON AND RANDOLPH. SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT LOSING RESIDENTS BUT WE'RE ALSO LOSING STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. AND SO IF WE'RE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING A HANDLE ON THIS ISSUE, THEN I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO LEAN INTO IT AND DO SO WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS AROUND MAKING SURE THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO STAY IN THE CITY IN WHICH THEY WORK SO HARD FOR. SO WITH THAT I THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR HAVING THOSE COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS AND BRINGING IT ONTO THE COUNCIL FLOOR AND FOR ALL OF US TO BE ABLE TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND DO THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BALL COUNCIL BARKING OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. I'LL BE BRIEF. I JUST WANTED TO SAY PLEASE SIGN MY NAME. IT'S BEEN MY PLEASURE TO BE WORKING OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE AND MAHAT AND I JUST WANTED TO ECHO JOHN'S POINT. YOU KNOW, EVERY BASICALLY EVERY GOOD MORTGAGE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY HAS ACTUALLY COME OUT OF THE RECOGNITION OF THIS ENDURING DISCRIMINATION AND THAT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE PREDECESSORS TO ONE PLUS MORTGAGE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE NOW. AND I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THE FINANCIAL THE PARTNERSHIP FOR FINANCIAL EQUITY, WHICH IS THE REBRANDING OF MCPEAKE THAT'S CONTINUING TO TAKE THESE ISSUES FORWARD. I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC THAT COUNCILOR GENETIC COUNSELOR FINISHED ANDERSON, ARE LEADING THIS PUSH TO SEE WHAT WE THE COUNCIL CAN DO. BUT I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THERE THERE IS NO CONVERSATION ABOUT THE PUBLIC EFFORTS TO TRY TO PROVIDE BETTER FIRST TIME HOME BUYER AND FIRST GENERATION HOMEBUYER PROGRAMS IN THIS CITY WITHOUT COMBINING IT WITH DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORICAL DISCRIMINATION THAT THERE'S BEEN IN THIS SPACE. SO THANK YOU, COUNCILOR COUNCILOR. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL BREADON COUNCIL AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE CO-SPONSOR YOU KNOW, HOUSING ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAS BECOME COMMODIFIED AND IT IS SEEN AS AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUTSIDE INVESTORS WHO TURN UP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WITH CASH. THEY DON'T HAVE TO SEEK A MORTGAGE. THEY DON'T HAVE TO GET APPROVAL AND THEY BUY UP OUR HOUSING STOCK WHICH IS ANOTHER FACTOR IN WHICH MAKES IT SO UNFAIR THAT OUR FOLKS WHO LIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ARE BEATEN TO THE PUNCH WHEN IT COMES TO BEING ABLE TO BUY A HOME AND ESTABLISH SOME LONG TERM HOUSING STABILITY IN OUR GREAT CITY. WE NEED TO URGENTLY, URGENTLY ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND ENSURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS OF COLOR HAVE EVERY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO BUY A HOME AND SECURE INVEST AND AND GROW THEIR WEALTH AND ESTABLISH LONG TERM RESIDENCY IN THE CITY WITHOUT FEAR OF DISPLACEMENT DUE TO INCREASED RENTS ETC. SO I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THIS THIS ORDER AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL BRAD PITT EVERYONE TO ADD THE NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR. CLARK PLEASE COUNCIL ROYALLE COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCIL FERNANDES COUNCIL FLAHERTY COUNCIL MEMBER HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL . WE'RE ALL PLEASED THAT THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN SIX WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION ADVANCEMENT. HE DID THE HE DID THE HOTEL MR MY MR TURNER PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT ONE ONE THAT'S OUT OF ORDER AS WELL STUCK IN NO ONE TO ONE COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION DECLARING GUN VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CAN'T OPERATE AND MAY I ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING NO NO OBJECTION COUNCILOR MURPHY SOUNDED AS CO-SPONSOR. THANK YOU, COUNCIL BREADON, THIS THIS RESOLUTION IS THIS IS CALLING GUN VIOLENCE AND DECLARING IT A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON . I PREVIOUSLY DID THAT ON A SPEEDING VEHICLE. I THOUGHT A SPEEDING VEHICLE WAS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY. I ALSO THINK I ALSO THINK GUN VIOLENCE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN OUR CITY. IT'S DESCRIBED AS AN EPIDEMIC. MANY PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SEE GUN VIOLENCE AS A HEALTH CRISIS. PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. I CERTAINLY DO. THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION CALLING IT THIS ALONG WITH THE CENTER DISEASE CONTROL CALLED GUN VIOLENCE A SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT IN TWENTY TWENTY ONE. I DON'T THINK THEY THEY CALL IT AN EMERGENCY OF GUN VIOLENCE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AND INJURIES IN THIS COUNTRY CAUSING HARM TO NOT ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL BUT TO COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCE GUN VIOLENCE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS MORE THAN TWO DECADES AFTER CONGRESS BANNED THE CDC FROM FUNDING RESEARCH INTO GUN VIOLENCE, THE CDC IS FINALLY FUNDING RESEARCH INTO FIREARM VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN TWENTY TWENTY ONE WHICH ALLOWS THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHERS NOW TO STUDY WAYS TO REDUCE FIREARM DEATHS AND INJURIES. AT A RECENT BOSTON CITY COUNCIL , PUBLIC SAFETY CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE HEARING WITH SORT OF FLAHERTY WE DISCUSS YOUTH VIOLENCE, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES, PUBLIC SAFETY. YOU DECLARED THAT TREATING GUN VIOLENCE WAS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND THAT WE NEED TO TREAT IT THIS WAY. LOOK, LOOKING THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH LENS WILL ALLOW RESEARCHERS INCLUDING RESEARCHERS IN BOSTON TO STUDY THIS ISSUE AND TO SEE WHAT OTHER OPPORTUNITIES IN PROGRAM SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE WITH THIS DECLARATION IN BOSTON HAVE TWENTY ONE FATAL SHOOTINGS IN ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE FATAL SHOOTINGS SO FAR THIS YEAR. RECENT INCIDENTS OF GUN VIOLENCE REMIND US THAT THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT WORK TO DO IN TERMS OF GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION INTERVENTION IN RECOGNIZING GUN VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY WILL HELP RAISE AWARENESS AND ELEVATE THIS ISSUE TO FACILITATE THE ATTENTION AND URGENCY THAT IS REQUIRED. IT WILL ALLOW OUR DEDICATED AND PROFESSIONAL CITY DEPARTMENTS IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION TO WORK TOGETHER TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO REDUCE AND PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE. SO I HOPE THAT DECLARING GUN VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY WE COULD HAVE BETTER RESEARCH. WE COULD HAVE MORE FUNDING FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH DEALING WITH GUN VIOLENCE AS THE HEALTH EMERGENCY THAT IT IS. I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN ME IN SUSPENDING IN ADOPTING THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. COUNCIL READ. THANK YOU COUNCIL FRIEND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR UNDER EIGHT AMERICANS PER DAY IN GUN RELATED TRAGEDIES CONTINUE TO SURGE FROM SUICIDES TO PUBLIC MASS HOMICIDES. MANY HEALTH EXPERTS ARE CALLING FOR FUNDING TO STUDY AND COMBAT FIREARM VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIC AS THE CHAIR OF PUBLIC HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND HOMELESSNESS, I AM PROUD TO BE A CO-SPONSOR ON THIS RESOLUTION WITH THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE WORK AHEAD TO HELP COMBAT THIS CRISIS WE SEE PLAYING OUT ON OUR STREETS IN BOSTON IN UNFORTUNE IN ITALY, EVEN IN OUR SCHOOLS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR WHERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR THANK YOU PRESIDENT FLYNN FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS CRISIS. GUN VIOLENCE HAS ROBBED MANY FAMILIES OF THEIR LOVED ONES AND LEFT TOO MANY COMMUNITIES IN A PERPETUAL CYCLE OF GRIEF. WHY OUR CURRENT SYSTEM MAY HELP INDIVIDUALS FIND JUSTICE AFTER THE FACT. IT IS CLEAR THAT WE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT THESE INCIDENTS FROM HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE NUMBERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. THERE HAVE BEEN 142 SHOOTINGS SINCE JANUARY JANUARY 1ST TODAY THE 289 DAY OF THE YEAR. THIS MEAN THAT AT LEAST ONE BOSTONIAN HAS BEEN VICTIMIZED ON GUN VIOLENCE EVERY OTHER DAY WE KNOW WHAT WORKS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE. IN FACT WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE THE BOSTON MARATHON TO REDUCE YOUTH HOMICIDES BY SIXTY THREE PERCENT IN JUST TWO YEARS IT BECAME A NATIONAL MODEL THAT OTHER CITIES ARE PROTECTING THEIR COMMUNITIES BY DOING WHAT BOSTON DID. BOSTON ON THE OTHER HAND, ABANDONED THIS PROGRAM AND HAS PAID THE PRICE SINCE BOSTON MUST LEAD ONCE AGAIN WE KNOW THAT JOBS AND MEDICATIONS WORK TO BREAK DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT VIOLENCE WE KNOW THAT PUBLIC HEALTH MODELS HELP STOP VIOLENCE BEFORE IT SPREADS AND WE KNOW THAT WE THAT WE KNOW THAT WE DO WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT THAT WE MUST DO IT. WE SUPPORT FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AFTER THE SHOOTING IS IMPORTANT BREAK BREAKING CYCLES AS WELL AS WHAT WE DO BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS ISSUE UP AND IT'S TIME TO BE URGENT AND GET MORE RESOURCES TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT AFFECTED MOST BY GUN VIOLENCE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONSTANT CONSTANT. DO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? I THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREADON AND I WASN'T GOING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER BUT I FELT MOVED TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF MY COUSIN WHO I NEVER MET MATTHEW MURRAY WHO WAS LOST. BILLIONS ARE LOST BY AN UNINTENTIONAL AND ACCIDENTAL FIREARM INJURY AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY HIS NAME BEFORE BUT WE KNOW ONE LIFE IS TOO MANY. ONE GUN IN THE HANDS OF OUR YOUTH ARE TOO MANY AND WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN GUN VIOLENCE IN CHARLESTONIANS. WE'RE ALL TAKING THAT VERY SERIOUSLY. AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THE AND YOUTH ADVOCATES WHO ARE DOING THIS INCREDIBLE WORK AND KNOW THAT THIS IS VERY PERSONAL TO ME. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? I'D ALSO JUST LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS. COUNCILOR FLYNN REFERENCED THAT THE TWO DECADE, TWO DECADE TWO DECADES AGO THAT THE CDC WAS BANNED FROM RESEARCHING GUN VIOLENCE. I CAME HERE AS A PHYSICAL THERAPIST IN 1994 AND I WORKED MY FIRST JOB WAS AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND WE HAD A PRESENTATION BY THE BOSTON BU SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THAT WAS THE VERY SUBJECT THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING. THEN SHORTLY THEREAFTER SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH WERE BANNED FROM DOING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF GUN VIOLENCE LARGELY DUE TO THE PRESSURE FROM THE GUN LOBBY AND THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY TO NOT DO THE RESEARCH. AND THERE'S SO MUCH PREVENTATIVE WORK THAT CAN BE DONE TO UNDERSTAND HOW GUN VIOLENCE COMES ABOUT THE CAUSES FOR IT AND THE REMEDIES FOR IT. SO I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TODAY. I WOULD WHO CONSIDER FORENSIC SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. I WOULD ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? CANCELLARA COYO COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BARQUE COUNCILOR COLLETTA COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FLORIDLY COUNCILOR LOUISIANAN COUNCILOR MEJIA AND COUNCILOR WARRELL AND MY NAME PLEASE COUNCILOR FLYNN SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF THIS RESOLUTION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY I ALL OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED. THANK YOU. YES I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO MY COLLEAGUES GOING OUT OF ORDER THE LAST ONE I THINK COUNCILOR FLAHERTY CAME UP BEHIND CHANGE THE NUMBERS AROUND. SO I THINK WE HAVE TO BLAME COUNCIL FLAHERTY ON THEM. MR CORRA CAN WE PLEASE READ DOCKET TWELVE'S WE'VE GOT A TWELVE 2083 TARGET NUMBER ONE TWO EIGHT THREE COUNCIL FOR AMANDA SANDERSON OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MASHA EMINI BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER TWENTY THIRD AS THE DAY OF A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO SELF EXPRESSION BOSTON'S HITCHER DE THANK YOU MR KIRK. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. I THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT AND MR CLARK FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS PEOPLE OF GOOD CONSCIENCE OR A MONTH OR SO FROM AROUND THE WORLD HAVE JOINED IN PROTEST THE THOUSANDS CROSS OVER IRAN DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR MAXO EMINI, THE TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD KURDISH IRANIAN WOMAN WHO DIED AFTER THREE DAYS IN CUSTODY OF IRAN'S NOTORIOUS MORALITY POLICE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF NOT PROPERLY COVERING HER HAIR. THESE PROTESTS IN THE HEART OF IRAN HAVE FEATURED BRAVE WOMEN BURNING THEIR SCARVES AND CUTTING THEIR HAIR IN THE FACE OF ARREST, ABUSE AND IN SOME CASES EVEN DEATH TO SHOW THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND THEIR WILL FOR FREEDOMS AND ACCESS TO A JOYFUL LIFE ABSENCE, OPPRESSION, ABSENCE OF SUPPRESSION FROM AN OPPRESSIVE STATE. UNFORTUNATELY, MANY PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THESE PROTESTS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SLANDER ISLAM THE IRANIAN CULTURE FOR FURTHER SILENCE THE AND FURTHER SILENCE THE VOICE OF WOMEN ACROSS THE WORLD WE CAN NEVER FORGET THE GOAL ATTAINING JUSTICE FOR ARMINE FIRST AND FOREMOST THERE IS WHAT THESE PROTESTS ARE ABOUT. THAT IS WHAT THESE PROTESTS ARE ABOUT. BUT MANY HAVE RIGHTLY COME TO SEE YEMENI'S DEATH AS SYMBOLIC OF SOMETHING MORE MORE TO AND WE CANNOT ALLOW MISOGYNY, ISLAMOPHOBIA OR RACISM TO DISTRACT US FROM THIS POINT. THE AYRAN IRANIAN PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THIS ISSUE IS NOT AN ISOLATED ONE AND THE WIDESPREAD PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN OF YOUNG IRANIAN MEN PROTESTING SHOWED THE FORMS OF PROTEST PARTICULARLY THE BURNING OF HEADSCARVES, HIJAB OR HIJAB AND CUTTING OFF THEIR HAIR ARE NOT REJECTIONS OF FAITH OR REJECTION OF THE COUNTRY'S HEAVY HANDED RESPONSE RESPONSE TO DISSENT LAWS RESTRICTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND THE LAW, THE LOSS OF SELF-DETERMINATION. THOSE WHO MISS THIS POINT OR TRIED TO CHARACTERIZE THIS AS A REJECTION OF ISLAM EITHER DON'T UNDERSTAND OR DON'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO FAR IN THE KORAN TO LEARN THERE IS NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION TO SAY THAT HIJAB OR VEIL OR SCARF IN AND OF OF THEMSELVES OPPRESSES WOMEN WITHOUT REDIRECTING THE SAME ENERGY TOWARDS YAMAKA OR SAY A PRIEST FROCK. IT IS TO SAY THAT THE SOURCE OF WOMEN'S POWER BUT NOT A MAN'S IS HER BODY AND NOT HER MIND THAT IS THAT IS MISOGYNY AND IT'S DISGUSTING. A WOMAN'S DRESS CODE IS A UNIFORM LIKE ANY OTHER AND REPRESENT ONE WAY A PERSON CHOOSE TO EXPRESS THEIR FAITH AND THE WEARING OR NOT WEARING THE HIJAB HAS LONG BEEN A TOOL FOR MUSLIM WOMEN TO EXPRESS THEIR OPPOSITION OF PATERNALISTIC AND OPPRESSIVE REGIMES ACROSS THE WORLD. IN FACT, IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THE CHERCOVER IRAN ACTUALLY BANNED THE HIJAB AND WAS MET WITH RESISTANCE ACROSS THE COUNTRY CAUSING MANY TO BE ARRESTED WHILE ROCKING THEIR SCARVES IN PROTEST SIMILAR SIMILAR RESPONSES EMERGED AFTER FRANCE BANNED HEAD COVERINGS AND THE BURQINI. EVEN HERE IN AMERICA, MANY MUSLIM WOMEN BEGAN WEARING THE HIJAB FOR THE FIRST TIME AS IT EMERGED AS A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE TO RISING ISLAMOPHOBIA, VISUALLY EXPRESSING UNITY WITH MUSLIMS ACROSS A NATION. SO TO PRESUME A WOMAN WEARS A VEIL ARE FORCE WITHOUT ASKING OR UNDERSTANDING HER REASON IS BOTH RACIST AND SEXIST. THIS WORLD HAS OFTEN TRY TO CONTROL THAT WOMEN WHAT WOMEN CAN WEAR AND WIELDING POWER OVER WOMEN HAS BECOME THE PRIMARY WAY A STATE CHOOSES TO EXPRESS POWER OVER ITS POPULATION. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT OUR CURRENT BATTLE OVER A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO OF CHOICE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH HERE IN AMERICA SHAMING, FORCED VEIL UNVEILING AND ANY OTHER EXPRESSION OF CULTURAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. LET'S REMEMBER THAT THE NEXT TIME WE WANT TO LET WOMEN TO TELL WOMEN WHAT SHE CAN AND CANNOT DO WITH HER OWN BODY. I LIKE TO JUST TAKE A FEW SECONDS TO KINDLY SHOW YOU THE DIFFERENCE AND IT'LL BE QUICK. THIS IS CALLED A KEEMA SHOUT OUT TO MY SOMALI'S SISTERS FOR THEIR KEEMA JUST A SIMPLE SCARF AND IT JUST GOES OVER YOUR HEAD AND YOU PULL IT OFF SIMPLE. THE ONE THAT GOES TO THE FLOOR MAYBE A BURKA BUT OR A PRAYER GARMENT THIS WHEN YOU SEE IT THIS WAY YOU WILL CALL IT HIJAB YOU'LL BE LIKE OH WHAT'S THAT CALLED A HIJAB? NO, ACTUALLY I'M NOT ARAB. IT'S JUST CALLED THE SCARF. BUT FOR TRANSLATION PURPOSES HIJAB ALSO MEANS VEIL SCARF OR PROTECTION AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS IS CALLED THE NIQAB AND IT GOES OVER HERE AND RAP AND YOU'LL SEE WOMEN COVERING AND WILL SEE JUST THEIR EYES. IT'S JUST BASICALLY AN EXPRESSION IN A STRUGGLE ANYTHING THAT WE CALL A STRUGGLE, A SACRIFICE IS CONSIDERED A, A SACRIFICE OF SELF SO THAT YOU ARE FORCED TO DEAL WITH SELF AND NOT YOUR BEAUTY OR YOUR OUTER APPEARANCE . I AN AFRICAN GIRL OR WOMAN I LIKE TO THINK YOU KNOW, I'M STILL YOUNG. I WEAR I TAKE MY SCARF AND I PUT IT IN A BUN. IT'S SIMPLE MOXA ARMINE SAID I'LL JUST WRAP IT AROUND. IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL. IT'S JUST A SCARF. YOU SEE WHETHER I WEAR IT OR I DON'T IT'S MY CHOICE. I CHOOSE TO WEAR A BUN MOST MUSLIM WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD DON'T WEAR HIJABS. MOST MUSLIM WOMEN EXPRESS BECAUSE ISLAM OR SUBMISSION TO FAITH IS IN YOUR HEART, YOUR CHARACTER AND HOW YOU BEHAVE. SO I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INDULGING ME IN THIS KIND OF EDUCATIONAL RESOLUTION AND I ASK YOU TO SUSPEND AND PASS THIS TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR YOU OVER THE FLOOR. MR PRESIDENT, I JUST RISE TO SAY TO PLEASE ENTHUSIASTICALLY ADD MY NAME THIS THE VALUE OF REPRESENTATION WE LEARN SO MUCH I'M SO GLAD THAT YOUNG MUSLIM WOMAN HAVE YOU TO LOOK TO AND LOOK UP TO AND FOR FRAMING THIS AS A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHETHER IN IRAN YOU'RE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO WEAR NOT TO WEAR A HEAD COVERING AND IN INDIA THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FOR THEIR RIGHT TO WEAR ONE ON THE FIGHT CONTINUES IN FRANCE AND ACROSS THE WORLD. SO I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE ON THE COUNCIL AND TO HAVE US BE ABLE TO LEARN SO MUCH AND TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE IN WHATEVER WAY THAT FORM THAT TAKES. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR JOHN. I WOULD LIKE I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES ANSOLABEHERE THAT IS OK AND I KNOW COUNCILOR SO I WASN'T SURE WHO WAS FIRST BUT THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES ME. THANK YOU. UM SO I JUST WANT TO THANK MY SISTER. IT IS BEAUTIFUL, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE THOSE WHO ARE ALSO TO ME AND SO I JUST WANT TO RISE AND GRATITUDE FOR HELPING US UNDERSTAND AND CELEBRATE. SO IT IS IT IS AN HONOR TO SERVE ALONGSIDE YOU AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU BRING TO THIS FLOOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CAN'T HEAR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR VERY OFTEN. THANK YOU MR. HERE. I JUST WANT TO ALSO THANK COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR BOTH HER ELOQUENCE BUT ALSO THE STRENGTH AND POWER IN WHICH SHE PERFORMS WELL RAISING ISSUES THAT ARE DEEPLY, DEEPLY IMPORTANT. AND SO I STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH YOU AND ON THIS ISSUE AND SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO REALLY WALK PEOPLE THROUGH WHAT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS MEAN TO PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY. I THINK IT SPEAKS TO THE POWER OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ON THIS BODY BUT IT ALSO SPEAKS TO THE POWER OF HAVING YOUR SPECIFIC VOICE ON THIS COUNCIL FLOOR. SO THANK YOU. THANK MISCHIEF. THANK YOU. COUNCIL COUNCILOR, I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT AND THANK YOU THANK ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR FOR HER THOUGHTS ON HER HER EDUCATION, EDUCATING US ON SOME OF THE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF HER RELIGION SO WE USE THIS BODY HERE TO EDUCATE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING ON TELEVISION. SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TWO WEEKS AGO I WAS TALKING TO COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON. I VISITED THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSTON CULTURAL CENTER AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH MANY OF THE LEADERS AT THE CHURCH AND THAT WAS SOME OF THE THAT WAS ONE OF THE ISSUES WE TALKED ABOUT. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HATE CRIMES AGAINST AGAINST IMMIGRANTS ACROSS OUR CITY AND ACROSS ALL OF OUR COUNTRY INCLUDING HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY. I I GREW UP IN A MUSLIM COUNTRY FOR ABOUT SEVEN SEVEN MONTHS AS WELL. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR PROVIDING IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT THAT WILL HELP US BE BETTER CITY COUNCILS AS WELL. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. MR KIRKLEES AD COUNCIL ARROYO COUNCILOR BAWK COUNCIL BRADIN COUNCILOR CALERO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL MEDIA COUNCILOR PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR COUNCIL FERNANDES A.N. IS SEEKING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET WANT TO WAIT FOR ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE NAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED MR CLARK CAN WE GO TO DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN EIGHT PLEASE DOCTOR NO ONE TWO SEVEN EIGHT COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON OFFER THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS THE NEED FOR A HEALTH CENTER IN NUBIANS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLEM DE HEALTH OF OUR CITIZENS IS OF UTMOST CONCERN BUT AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS THERE ARE GLARING HEALTH DISPARITIES AND INEQUITIES CONSISTENT CONSISTENT WITH RACISM, CLASS INEQUITY. IT IS DAMNING BUT ALL TOO TRUE THAT THERE ARE PARTS OF ROXBURY WHERE THE AVERAGE EXPECTANCY IS FIFTY NINE YEARS OLD AND MERELY A HALF A MILE AWAY IN BACK BAY LIFE EXPECTANCY IS NINETY TWO YEARS OLD THAT IS THIRTY THREE YEARS DIFFERENCE IN LIFE EXPECTANCY BETWEEN PEOPLE LIVING A HALF A MILE APART OF TWO OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR NATIONS ON THIS EARTH ONLY SIXTEEN HAVE SHORTER LIFE EXPECTANCY THAN PEOPLE OF ROXBURY IN ROXBURY AND NORTH DORCHESTER. THE ASTHMA RATE APPROACHED TWENTY PERCENT AND OUR HOSPITALIZATION RATES OF AILMENT ARE NEARLY 80 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE CITY'S OVERALL AVERAGE. FURTHERMORE, BLACK RESIDENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS HAVE MORE THAN TWICE THE RATE OF DIABETES COMPARED TO THE WHITE RESIDENTS AND MORE THAN FOUR TIMES OF MANY DIABETES RELATED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISITS. ADDITIONALLY, THE SQUARE AREA AND ITS SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES IS CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM AN OPIOID EPIDEMIC WHICH HAS CONTRIBUTED TO INCREASE HOMELESSNESS, MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND OTHER PROBLEMATIC INDICATORS PERTAINING TO THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN THE AREA BECAUSE OF THESE COMPELLING MATTERS NOUVION SQUARES AND HE IS IN NEED OF A STATE OF THE ART CULTURAL AND HEALTH CENTER THE NOUVION SQUARE CENTER OR THE NOUVION SQUARE HEALTH CENTER WOULD OFFER NOT ONLY QUALITY STANDARD MEDICAL TREATMENT BUT WOULD ALSO OFFER THE ESSENTIAL HEALTH SERVICES AND PROVIDERS SUCH AS NUTRITIONIST, ATHLETIC TRAINERS, YOGA INSTRUCTORS AND MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC HEALERS AMONG OTHERS NEED RESOURCES AND SUPPORT. I LOOK FORWARD TO HOLDING A HEARING WITH PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS HEALTH SECTORS SUCH AS BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION DOCTORS, NURSES AND HOLISTIC PROVIDERS TO BE ABLE TO EXPLICATE THE NEED FOR SUCH A CENTER AND WHY NUBEENA GREEN RELIGIOUS LOGISTICAL LOGISTICAL LOCATION FOR IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR OF FLAHERTY COUNCIL FLAHERTY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. PLEASE ADD MY NAME ENTHUSIASTICALLY OBVIOUSLY AS A LONG TIME ADVOCATE AND RECOGNIZED CHAMPION FOR OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS WE BOAST SOME OF THE BEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS IN THE WORLD. AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHERE OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THEM, THEIR CONNECTION CLEARLY TO HELPING SUPPORT AND PROVIDE GOOD, EXCELLENT QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR SOME THE MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENT. BUT YOU ALSO LOOK AT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND OUR BUSINESS DISTRICTS ALL THE THINGS THAT SORT OF FLOW AS A DIRECT RESULT FROM A GOOD STRONG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER. SO AGAIN, PLEASE ADD MY NAME, LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH MY COLLEAGUE TO HOPEFULLY MAKE THAT A REALITY AND TO BE IN SQUARE WORKING WITH THE LEAGUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS AS WELL AS OTHER ADVOCATES. I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORTED THANK MISPRISION. THANK YOU. COUNCIL FLORIDA THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I RISE TO TO SIGN ON AND ALSO SHOUT MY COMMUNITY IN DORCHESTER WHERE THE WHERE THE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER MOVEMENT STARTED AND VERY FIRST ONE COLUMBIA WRAPPED AROUND THE COLUMBIA POINT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ST. CHRISTOPHER'S PARISH. THEN WE HAD AN NEPONSET HEALTH CENTER, THE SECOND ONE WRAPPED AROUND BUSINESS DISTRICT ST. IN SAINT SAINT BRENDAN'S PARISHES . AND THEN WE HAD THE LITTLE HOUSE HEALTH CENTER WHICH MY MOTHER AND HER FRIENDS ACTUALLY STARTED FORM. MY FATHER AND HIS FRIENDS DID THE CONSTRUCTION ON IT ST. MORITZ PARISH AND THEN WE HAVE WE HAVE MANY MORE SO I SIGNED ON TO THIS AS AS AS SOMEONE THAT BENEFITED FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS THAT WERE IN MY DISTRICT MY MOTHER STARTED IT STARTED HER REASON FOR WANTING A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN ST. MARGARET'S PARISH BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE IDENTIFIED BY OUR PARISH. THAT'S WHAT WE DID ANYWAY. THAT VILLAGE IS WRAPPED AROUND THE PARISHES FOR ANYBODY THAT DOESN'T KNOW WAS BECAUSE IT WAS DURING THE SEVENTIES EARLY SEVENTIES WHEN WE STARTED TO EXPLO EROSION OF UNWED MOTHERS, SOME IN MY FAMILY ALSO IN MY MOTHER'S MY MOTHER'S ROLE AT THAT HEALTH CENTER. MY MOTHER MY MOTHER ONLY WENT TO THE FIFTH GRADE FIFTH GRADE EDUCATION. HER FATHER WAS ILLITERATE. HER ROLE WAS TO HELP TO NURTURE THOSE YOUNG WOMEN THAT HAD NEW BABIES AND SHOW THEM HOW TO LOVE THEIR BABIES, SHOW THEM HOW TO BREASTFEED. SO I DO THIS AS MUCH ONE OF MY MOTHER IN MY FAMILY AND ALSO TO LEND SUPPORT FOR NEWBORNS WHERE IF THEY NEED A HEALTH CENTER WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO BUILD ONE FOR THEM. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BAKER. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER AS WELL. I CERTAINLY SUPPORT THIS INITIATIVE AND IT'S DESPERATELY NEEDED AND WILL BE IN SQUARE. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND I THINK THE FIRST HEARING I HAD WAS WITH FIVE YEARS AGO IS WITH COUNCILOR KIM JANEY AND WAS ON HEALTH DISPARITIES IN COMMUNITIES OF AND COUNCILOR JANEY NOW AFTER MARRIAGE AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE HEALTH DISPARITIES ESPECIALLY WOMAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN IN BOSTON BUT IT WAS THIS IS DESPERATELY NEEDED. I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE SOUTH BOSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ON ON MONDAY AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM. THE SOUTH END HAS AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM THERE. THEY PARTNERED WITH THE EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER SOUTH KOVE AND MY DISTRICT IS EXCELLENT ALONG WITH ALONG WITH THE FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER WHICH I SHARE WITH COUNCILOR BOK AND THEN COUNCILOR BREADON AS WELL. ANYWAY, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MR CLARK. PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR COUNCILOR BAKER COUNCIL BAR COUNCIL ABRADED COUNCILOR CITY COUNCILOR ALLUSION COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN EIGHT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH HOMELESSNESS AND RECOVERY . MR CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO SEVEN NINE PLEASE TALK NUMBER ONE TWO SEVEN NINE COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS HOW THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN MORE EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF ITS MUSLIM STUDENTS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YOU OF THE FLOOR THANK FLYNN. MAY I PLEASE ADD COUNCIL LOUISIANIAN LET ME HERE TO THIS ORDER AS CO-SPONSORS CONSULTATION AND COUNCILOR HERE COUNCILOR ARE HERE ARE HEARING NO OBJECTION THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH. FIRST BEFORE I BEGIN I LIKE TO SAY JUST A FEW A COUPLE OF WORDS OF GRATITUDE TO MY SISTER. ALEIKUM GIRL WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE WHO I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO HAVE MANY CONVERSATIONS OR SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ENGAGEMENT, PARENT INVOLVEMENT AND HOW WE CAN SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILY OVERALL TO CREATE A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT TOWARDS THEIR ACADEMICS SAYS I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TENACITY IN THIS WORK AND ALWAYS REPRESENTING ALL OF THE CHILDREN IN BAPS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND SHARING THIS MOMENT WITH ME. FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM MAKE UP THE SECOND BIGGEST RELIGION GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO ATTEND OUR SCHOOLS. THEY NEED TO BE SERVICED AND SUPPORTED BY CULTURALLY COMPETENT EDUCATORS WHO ARE AWARE OF HOW TO HONOR THEIR IDENTITIES ALLOWING THEM TO FLOURISH IN THE MANNER THEY ARE ENTITLED TO. LIKEWISE OUR MUSLIM STUDENTS ARE DESERVING OF FACULTIES, FOOD, BATHROOMS AND RESPECT FOR THEIR RELIGION NEEDS THAT ARE OFTEN THERE ARE TOO OFTEN LACKING AT THE CURRENT MOMENT. ADDITIONALLY, MANY MUSLIM STUDENTS IN BOSTON AND BEYOND SUFFER FROM BULLYING AND HARASSMENT ON A CONSISTENT BASIS IN THE BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE FROM LAST YEAR. SIXTY ONE PERCENT OF MUSLIM STUDENTS POLLED IN BOSTON AND IN THE SURROUNDING SCHOOLS SAY THAT THEY HAVE BEEN BULLIED AND IN 14 AND 14 PERCENT DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE TELLING THEIR PEERS THAT THEY ARE MUSLIM. ADDITIONALLY, 40 PERCENT SAID THAT THEY HAVE HEARD A MUSLIM STUDENT BEING PHYSICALLY HARASSED AT SCHOOL AND 17 PERCENT OF THOSE SURVEYED SAY THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE HAD THEIR HIJABS PULLED OR TUGGED OR TAKEN OFF. SO FIRSTLY MORE MUST BE DONE TO CONDEMN AND STEM SYSTEMIC THE STEM THE SYSTEMIC THAT IS RELIGION THAT THIS RELIGIOUS BULLYING BEING METED OUT OF MUSLIM STUDENTS. BUT THERE IS NO MORE THE FACILITIES AND MUST BE IMPROVED OR UTILIZED IN A MANNER THAT HONORS THE STUDENTS OF ITS MUSLIM STUDENTS AND ALL STUDENTS. OUR PRACTICING MUSLIM STUDENTS NEED DESIGNATED SPACES WHERE THEY CAN PRAY DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. THIS IS MANDATORY FOR US. THIS IS THEIR RIGHT AS A LAW AS LONG AS THEY ARE UNOBTRUSIVE IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THESE SPACES BE EITHER LOCATED OR CREATED . STUDENTS HAVE SHOWN THE RELIGIOUS INVOLVEMENT CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MENTAL HEALTH, ESPECIALLY AMONG MARGINALIZED ETHNIC COMMUNITIES. SO IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE IDENTITY OF MUSLIM STUDENTS BE SO RECOGNIZED AND RESPECTED. THE GENERIC DIETARY OPTIONS CURRENTLY MADE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS ARE NOT ARE OFTEN NOT OPTIONS FOR MUSLIM YOUTH TO TO PARTAKE IN THIS CREATES CONDITIONS IN WHICH MUSLIM STUDENTS EITHER MUST ABSTAIN FROM SAID OPTIONS OR BRING THEIR OWN FOOD DIETARY OPTIONS OFFERED BY BAPS THAT ARE FULLY EDIBLE TO ITS MUSLIM STUDENTS WOULD GO A LONG WAY SHOWING THAT FULLY INVESTED IN THE HEALTH AND EDUCATION OF MUSLIM STUDENTS. AND THERE ARE I CAN I COULD GO ON AND ON AND I IN AN INTEREST OF RESPECTING TIME I WANT TO JUST LIST SORT OF NUMBERS DURING RAMADAN FOR EXAMPLE WHERE WE FAST AND IT'S TO DRIVE FAST. IT'S NOT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DRINK WATER OR FOOD OR ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN BEHAVIORS AS WELL AS BATHROOM USING FACILITIES. NOT SURE IF YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN THE STAND UP COMEDIAN SHOW ON NETFLIX BUT HE TALKS ABOUT HOW THE WHOLE WORLD THE MUSLIMS ARE WATCHING THE WHOLE WORLD AND SAYING WHY AREN'T YOU WASHING WITH WATER AND SOAP OPERA? USE THE BATHROOM. THIS IS ACTUALLY MANDATORY FOR US TO BE CLEAN. WE CAN'T PRAY UNLESS WE WASH WATER AND SOAP EVERY SINGLE TIME WE USE THE BATHROOM SO SOMETHING AS SOMETHING I'VE SEEN AS MY NUTE AS THAT IS ACTUALLY MANDATORY FOR MUSLIMS. OUR SCHOOLS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN TEACHING EACH OTHER HANDS, FOSTERING FULL FLOWERING IDENTITIES. I THINK THAT TEACHING ALSO CULTURALLY COMPETENT RELIGIOUS AWARENESS OR UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE'S CULTURE IN OUR PRACTICES COULD GO A LONG WAY AND HOPEFULLY WORK ON ADDRESSING THESE BULLYING ISSUES BECAUSE OF THIS I LOOK FORWARD TO A HEARING WITH BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATORS, THE CHIEF OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION, THE SENIOR ADVISOR FOR YOUTH IN SCHOOLS, EDUCATORS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND OTHER CONCERNS ENTITIES TO ENSURE THAT OUR MUSLIM STUDENTS ARE BEING PROPERLY ATTENDED TO AND TREATED IN IN FAITH WITH FAIRNESS IN OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES AS THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR AND CONCLUSION YOU OF THE FLOOR YOU PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR AN ENERGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL , AN INVITATION FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP HERE. I THINK I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS HEARING TO LEARN MORE TO SEE HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE PRACTICING INCLUSIVE AND CREATING SAFE SPACES FOR OUR MUSLIM STUDENTS. I THINK OF THAT SAME REPORT THAT YOU QUOTED FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE A THIRD OF MUSLIM STUDENTS HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY'RE MUSLIM OR THEIR APPEARANCE OR THEIR NAME JUST SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE SOMEWHAT OF A COMFORTABLE SCHOOLING EXPERIENCE AND THAT'S NOT OK. WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW UP IN SCHOOLS AS A TRUE AND FULL SELVES. AND SO IF THERE'S MORE AND THERE IS MORE THAT WE CAN BE DOING AT BPS TO MAKE PEOPLE COMFORTABLE WHETHER THEY'RE WEARING A HEAD COVERING OR NOT LEARNING ABOUT THEIR CULTURE AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR CITY HERE IS ALWAYS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. SO I THINK YOU FIND THIS HERE IN ORDER AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HOLDING THIS HEARING ALONGSIDE BPS TO LEARN MORE. THANK YOU COUNSELOR. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR I'M HERE COUNCILOR ME HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. SHOUT OUT TO FARAH. WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR MANY, MANY DECADES. IT FEELS LIKE OUR OLD SCHOOL CULTURE AND CLIMATE BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THAT I THINK THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY REALLY DOING A DEEPER DOVE AROUND SOME VERY SPECIFIC CULTURAL NORMS THAT WE NEED TO TACKLE IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SO I'M GRATEFUL TO BOTH COUNCILOR ANDERSON AND YOURSELF FOR BRINGING THIS INTO THE SPACE AND WORKING ALONGSIDE US TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO HOW WE'RE GOING TO CREATE THE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENTS THAT REALLY EMBRACE OUR STUDENTS AND CREATE SPACE FOR THEM TO BE FULLY EXPRESSED. I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW THAT IN 20 2001 I LIVED IN NEW YORK DURING 9/11 AND I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT DURING THAT TIME I SAW THE HOSTILITY AND I USED TO WORK AT MTV. SO YOU KNOW, I USED TO WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE THOUGH AT THE TIME THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK BEING DONE ACROSS THE COUNTRY AROUND HOW DO WE CREATE SPACE FOR FOLKS AND I FEEL LIKE THAT WAS 20 SOMETHING YEARS AGO AND IT FEELS LIKE THAT SO LONG AGO BUT STILL THE IMPACT OF THAT THAT AS I DO STILL EXIST AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. AND I AND I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME IN TERMS OF JUST REALLY SIMPLE THINGS, THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT DOING THOSE SIMPLE THINGS RIGHT NOW SPEAKS VOLUMES TO HOW MUCH WE NEED TO DO IN TERMS OF CREATING THE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY LIVE OUT THE YOU KNOW, THE THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED TO DO AS PART OF THEIR CULTURE AND THEIR RELIGION. RIGHT. THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE DEDICATED SPACES AND PLACES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO PRAY THAT'S CRAZY, RIGHT? THAT IS A SIMPLE FIX AND THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TO TO MAKE HAPPEN. WE COULD JUST SAY HEY AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHEN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMES HERE FOR THE HEARING IS HOW MANY SPACES ARE ALREADY DEDICATED. SO THEY BETTER COME WITH THAT DATA BECAUSE I KNOW YOU LIKE TO HEAR THOSE NUMBERS. SO THOSE FOR THOSE WHO ARE TUNING IN FROM BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS KNOW THAT THESE ARE THE SORT OF QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO ASK AND WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU COME HERE WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. I MEAN THINGS THAT THAT ARE QUICK FIXES THAT WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW THAT DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT AND MAKE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WAIT ANYMORE FOR THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED. SO THANK YOU, COUNCILOR ANDERSON, FOR ADDING ME TO BE A SPONSOR ALONGSIDE YOU AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HOSTING THIS AND THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE SO WE CAN MOVE THINGS ALONG AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR HERE. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WHAT ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR CARR PLEASE AT COUNCILOR ARROYO COUNCILOR BALL COUNCILOR BRIGHTON COUNCIL AT A COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY COUNCILOR WERLE, PLEASE COUNCILOR MURPHY, PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE TO SEVEN I WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. MR CLARK PLEASE AT ONE TWO EIGHT ZERO DUKAN NUMBER ONE TWO EIGHT ZERO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY OFFERED THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN THE NEWMARKET AREA BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PRIORITY COUNCILOR FIRE TO YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I'LL TRY TO BE AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE I KNOW THE TIME TO DEBATE THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSIONER WILL BE AT THE HEARING AND I KNOW THAT OUR COLLEAGUE HAS INVITED US ALONG WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TO ATTEND AN EVENT. SO I KNOW WE'RE PRESSED FOR TIME. OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO START WITH RESPECT TO HOW DEFEATING IT WAS TO HEAR ABOUT THE BEST PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION AND SOME OF THEIR PARTNERS DISTRIBUTING DRUG KITS, COOKERS, CRACK PIPES AND METH PIPES OVER IN THE MASS INCARCERATION. I'LL START BY SAYING THAT I'M ON BOARD. I FULLY SUPPORTED AND FUNDED THE NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM VERY SUCCESSFUL BOSS AND PROBABLY DISTRIBUTE ABOUT A MILLION NEEDLES A YEAR GIVE OR TAKE. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS WE ACTUALLY GET MORE THAN WHAT WE DISTRIBUTE BACK. SO THE PROGRAM IS CLEARLY WORKING. I'VE ALSO SUPPORTED AND FUNDED THE MOBILE SHOPS TEAM AND THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY DO FRANKLY WE PROBABLY NEED MORE OF THEM. WE SHOULD PROBABLY CONSIDER INCREASING FUNDING. THEY'RE ALSO SUPPORTED THE LOCAL RESPONSE AS PERTAINS TO MENTAL HEALTH WITH OUR BOSTON POLICE AND ABOUT BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION AS WELL AS SUPPORTING AND FUNDING A WHOLE OTHER ANOTHER WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE'S LIVES BACK ON TRACK TO GET FOLKS CLEAN AND SOBER AND TO GET THEM THE MENTAL HEALTH AND TREATMENT AND RECOVERY THAT THEY NEED BUT DID NOT SIGN UP FOR BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION OVERSEEING PASSING COOKER'S TO TAKE THE POWDERED FORM OF FENTANYL ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUGS IF NOT THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG ON THE MARKET OR AT LEAST OUT IN THE STREET AND THEN TO PROVIDE THE OTHER COOKING AND CONSUMPTION MATERIALS I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD AGREE THAT THAT'S MAKING MACING CASANI SAFER. IN FACT TO REPORT THE FIRST TEN MONTHS OF TWENTY TWENTY TWO THERE'S BEEN OVER 34000 CALLS FOR SERVICE, OVER TWENTY ONE THOUSAND FOR POLICE, OVER FOUR THOUSAND FOR FIRE AND OVER EIGHT FOR E.M.S. VIOLENT CRIME IS UP 15 PERCENT. I GOT TO THINK THERE'S A CORRELATION BETWEEN CRACK AND IN METHAMPHETAMINE IN THOSE NUMBERS AND SO SOME FOLKS WILL TALK WELL IT'S HARM REDUCTION AND IT'S REDUCING THE SPREAD OF HIV AND AIDS AND I'LL JUST DISCLOSE ONCE AGAIN I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM AND THAT WE DO GIVE OVER A MILLION NEEDLES A YEAR AND WE GET MORE OF THEM BACK. THIS ISN'T ABOUT THAT. THIS IS ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE GET TREATMENT RECOVERY NO ONE OVER THAT AREA IS GETTING TREATMENT IN RECOVERY . NO ONE IS GETTING THEIR LIFE BACK ON TRACK AND THE LETTERS, THE EMAILS, THE PHONE CALLS I'VE GOT HOT BREAKING FROM MOTHERS WHO HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OVER THERE AND THEY'RE OVER THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS LOOKING FOR THEIR SON, LOOKING FOR THEIR DAUGHTER. AND WHAT THEY'RE SEEING OVER THERE IS ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING. THE PHONE CALLS I'VE GOTTEN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS THE EMAILS HAVE GOTTEN HAPPY TO SHARE WITH FOLKS AND WITH THEIR EXPERIENCES AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COMMON DENOMINATOR MOST OF THE MOTHERS TALKED ABOUT IS WHEN THEY LEARN THAT THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER HAD THIS ADDICTION, THE FIRST THING THEY LEARNED WAS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NABLE DON'T ALLOW YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER TO DO DRUGS AT OR TO BE PRESENT AT HOME OR AROUND YOUR FAMILY. AND I THINK ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES PROBABLY CAN SPEAK TO THAT BETTER THAN ANYBODY IN THE LIVES BY THAT MAKING SURE THAT IT'S THE TOUGH LOVE PIECE OF IT AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO STEER THEIR CHILD TO TREATMENT RECOVERY IN THE COMMON DENOMINATOR FOR ALL THOSE MOTHERS THAT HAVE CONTACTED MY OFFICE IS THAT THEY FEEL THAT THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION IS ENABLING THEIR OWN SON AND DAUGHTER. THEY WERE TOLD NOT TO DO IT. THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER CAN GO OVER THERE, GET THEIR DRUG OF CHOICE IN THE CITY. BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION AND THEIR PARTNERS WILL PROVIDE THE DRUG PARAPHERNALIA TO ALLOW YOU TO INGEST OR TO STALK OR TO SHOOT. AND SO LOOK FORWARD TO THE HEARING NEED TO HEAR FROM THE GOOD DOCTOR IN HER TEAM OVER THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION HOW THEY THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA FOR BOSTON ,HOW THEY THINK THAT THAT'S HELPING FOLKS GET TREATMENT OR RECOVERY , HOW THEY THINK IT'S GOING TO MAKE THAT AREA SAFER IS RESIDENTS OVER THERE THIS BUSINESSES OVER THERE, THERE'S EMPLOYEES OVER THERE. EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM WANTS TO HELP. EVERYBODY IS SICKENED BY WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER THERE. AND AGAIN, NOTHING WAS MORE DEFEATING TO ME PERSONALLY TO HEAR THAT YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A DISTRIBUTION OF OF COOKER'S CRACK PIPES AND METH PIPES. IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE. AND SO I WOULD LOVE FOR SOMEONE IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR TO TELL ME HOW THEY THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. AND ONE LAST THING WHEN YOU GET THESE KITS, IF YOU NOTICE IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN THEM NO BUSINESS CARD IN THERE, NO BROCHURE THERE, NO ONE TAPPING YOU ON THE SHOULDER ASKING YOU IF YOU WANT TREATMENT OR RECOVERY OR IF YOU NEED A DETOX OPPORTUNITY. YOU'RE ALMOST JUST I USE THE EXPRESSION YOU'RE IN LINE AND THEY'RE ALMOST AS THEY'RE PASSING THE KIT THEY'RE LOOKING BEHIND YOU TO SEE, YOU KNOW, ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE AT A DELI COUNTER AT STOP AND SHOP THAT HAS TO STOP. AND I THINK THE RESIDENTS THE PEOPLE THE FAMILIES HAVE LOVED ONES OVER THERE. THEY DESERVE BETTER THAN THAT. AND WHAT THEY'RE CRYING OUT IS THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY THINK THAT WE'RE ENABLING THE CITY THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION IS ENABLING THAT ENVIRONMENT WHEN THEM THEMSELVES THE FAMILY MEMBERS, THE BROTHERS OR SISTERS, THE PARENTS, THE GRANDPARENTS HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. IT RUNS COUNTER TO THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS, WE'RE GOING TO CLEAN UP THE THE THE THE AREA FOR BUSINESSES FOR RESIDENTS. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IF WE'RE GOING TO GET FOLKS BACK ON TRACK, GET THE WHEELS BACK ON THE BUS, GET THEM TREATMENT OR RECOVERY , GET THEM SOBER, GET THEM THINKING STRAIGHT BECAUSE THE WAY IT'S WORKING RIGHT NOW NO ONE OVER THERE IS GETTING GETTING THAT IN FACT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO THINK RATIONALLY. THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES FOR THEMSELVES. AND SO WE OBVIOUSLY IN GOVERNMENT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FAMILY MEMBERS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OUTREACH GROUPS ARE TRYING TO DO THAT. BUT WHEN YOU'RE PASSING COOKIES ,CRACK PIPES AND METH PIPES AND SO WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? WE'RE JUST BEING IN OUR HEADS AGAINST THE WALL AND THERE'S A REASON WHY, MR. PRESIDENT, THERE'S A REASON WHY THE NUMBERS HAVE GROWN OVER THERE. IT'S A BIG COME ON OVER. COME ON. AND THEY'RE COMING FROM EVERYWHERE. EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE FOLKS OVER THERE ARE NOT FROM BOSTON. THEY'RE COMING FROM COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE PLACE. WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE GIVING THEM THE MATERIALS TO DO IT. WHY YOU ALSO GET TEN BUCKS EVERY EVERY DIRT ON EVERY DIRTY NEEDLE YOU TURN IN YOU GET TEN BUCKS FOR THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LITTLE BIT OF A HUSTLE GOING ON OVER THERE, YOU KNOW, AND NOT IN THERE NOT TO MENTION WHAT'S GOING ON OF ITSELF MILE ALL THOSE BUSINESSES AND THE EMPLOYEES WHAT THEY HAVE TO ENDURE OVER THEIR STUFF GETTING STOLEN ON A REGULAR BASIS TO MAKE A QUICK TURN, MAKE A QUICK BUCK RIGHT BACK OVER TO MARCINKUS NUFF SAID ON IT AGAIN LOOK FORWARD TO THE DISCUSSION . FORWARD TO THE DEBATE. I LOOK FORWARD TO OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS BUT NOTHING AGAIN WAS MORE DEFEATING AND DECIDING TO HEAR THAT BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION OVERSEEING THE DISTRIBUTION OF COOKER'S CRACK PIPES AND METH PIPES OR A MASSIVE GAS LEAK. MR. PRESIDENT, THANK YOU COUNCIL . FINALLY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER, COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. PLEASE SIGN ME ON. DENIAL IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT . THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE'RE DENYING WHAT'S HAPPENING DOWN THERE. THAT'S AN AA THING TOO BY THE WAY. MY MOTHER WAS AN ENABLER. MY BROTHER RICKY DIED THIRTY YEARS AGO. MARCH WILL BE THIRTY IS HIS HIS ANNIVERSARY HEROIN OVERDOSE HE WAS PROBABLY IN I DON'T KNOW TWENTY FIVE OR MORE DETOXES COULD NEVER GET IT TOGETHER. HE HATED HIMSELF MORE THAN MORE THAN ANYBODY ON THE PLANET. EVERYBODY LOVED MY BROTHER RICKY. HE HATED HIMSELF FOR WHATEVER IS FOR WHATEVER REASON AND THAT HEROIN WAS HIS PAINKILLER. THE PAIN THAT FOR WHATEVER REASON HE WAS UNHAPPY WITH HIMSELF. IT WAS HEROIN THAT HE USED TO STAMP HIS HIS FEELINGS IN MY FAMILY WHEN HE WHEN HE OVERDOSED IT WAS STILL YOU WANT TO TALK STIGMA WAS STILL YOU CAN'T SAY THAT YOUR BROTHER OVERDOSED YOU YOU KNOW, UNFUSSY IN CIRCUMSTANCES WE PUT IN THE GLOBE OBITUARY RICKY BAKER OVERDOSED ON HEROIN BECAUSE WE KNEW IT WAS A PROBLEM. WE HAD IT IN OUR FAMILY AND IT WAS SPREADING BACK THEN. IT WAS VERY, VERY FEW OUTWARD HEROIN ADDICTS NOW NOW ARE GOING TO GO DOWN MASS IN CARS AND IT'S WE ARE PROVIDING BASICALLY THE ABILITY FOR PEOPLE TO LAY AROUND ON THE STREET, SHOOT UP WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO. YOU GET YOUR DRUGS, YOU CAN PROSTITUTE THIS WOMAN HERE. YOU CAN STAB THIS GUY, YOU CAN DO THAT. YOU CAN DO ALL THOSE THINGS. BUT NOW WE'RE PUTTING THEM IN HOTELS AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO GROW THE PROBLEM. AND ON TOP OF GROWING THE PROBLEM, PEOPLE JUST SEND THEIR PEOPLE TO US. THE MONEY THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AND SAY OH JEEZ, LOOK WHAT WE JUST SPENT ON THIS IF WE CAN GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER OUT OF ACROSS THE HALL THERE UPWARDS OF TWENTY PLUS MILLION AT JUST AROUND HOUSE. THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE THERE. BRIAN'S GOING TO BRIAN'S HOPEFULLY IN SIX IS GOING TO GET A COMMUNITY COUNCIL AROUND IS HOPEFULLY GOING TO GET A COMMUNITY CENTER IN FIVE OR SIX YEARS THAT'LL HELP TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE RIGHT FLAHERTY PAUL'S GOING TO NEED TWENTY TO THIRTY DOLLARS MILLION TO HELP THAT COMMUNITY AND THEY REALIZE I HAD BROUGHT BEFORE THIS BODY RIGHT HERE MOSTLY VOTED AGAINST IT TO HAVE ANOTHER CENTER IN DORCHESTER AT COLUMBIA POINT. RIGHT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT AN EIGHTEEN MONTHS IF WE GOT THE MONEY WHEN I ASKED FOR IT. NOW THAT'S PROBABLY THREE OR FOUR YEARS OR WHATEVER BUT IT SEEMS TO BE WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM DUMPING MONEY INTO THIS AND WHEN WE SAY ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE, IT'S NOT THE TRUTH. ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE. WE DON'T HAVE A SECTION THIRTY FIVE PROGRAM. WE DON'T HAVE A SECTION TWELVE PROGRAM AND PART THAT PART OF IT EVEN JUST DOING DOING SWEEPS IS WHEN PEOPLE HAVE THEY HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THE LAW IF THEY HAVE WARRANTS YOU'RE GOING TO GO IN FRONT OF A JUDGE AND THE JUDGE IS GOING TO SAY LOOK AT THIS POOR GUY RIGHT HERE. HE'S GOT TWENTY WARRANTS AND NOT ONE OF THEM REALLY WARRANTS ANYTHING OTHER THAN DRUG TREATMENT. SO WHEN WE'RE NOT ALLOWING THE POLICE TO DO THEIR JOB AND WHEN WE CLOSE THE SATELLITE COURTHOUSE THAT WE HAD OVER THERE THAT WOULD HAVE A HELP PEOPLE CLEAN UP THEIR WARRANTS BECAUSE ONE OF THE REASONS WHY NOBODY WANTS TO GO BACK INTO REGULAR LIFE BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THESE WARRANTS BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN POISON IN THEIR VEINS FOR SO LONG SO THAT COURTHOUSE COULD HAVE USED AS THEY COME ON AND LET'S CLEAN YOUR WARRANTS UP AND WHEN WE'RE CLEANING YOUR WARRANTS UP, WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TO DETOX. SO WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION. WE HAD IT AGAIN LAST WEEK ABOUT ABOUT CLIFTON PARK AND WHAT DO WE COME UP WITH SAFE INJECTION SITES. IT'S THAT IT'S THE NATIONAL AGENDA BACK HERE SAFE INJECTION SITE. WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM THAT WE'RE USING THAT WE'RE POWERED IN MONEY AND TO SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND ON THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING INTO OUR BOUNDARIES. WELL, WE'RE NOT SPENDING ON OUR KIDS WHAT WE'RE NOT SPENDING ON GROWTH. WELL, WE'RE NOT SPENDING UNCLARITY, PAUL. CERTAINLY NOT SPENDING IT IN COLUMBIA POINT WHAT I ASKED FOR BUT WE'RE GOING TO SPEND, SPEND, SPEND TO PUT PEOPLE ON HOSPICE. IT'S A FIVE YEAR HOSPICE DOWN THERE. KEEP SHOOTING THEM UP WITH MORPHINE UNTIL THEY DIE. NO QUALITY OF LIFE, NO EVEN KNOW EVEN THOUGHT OF WHAT TOMORROW COULD LOOK LIKE. COULD TOMORROW BE BETTER? I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING NOBODY WANTS TO BE DOWN THERE BUT THEY END UP DOWN THERE MAYBE SOME DAY SOME LITTLE FEED ME THREE SQUARES AND BRING ME BUD LIGHTS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE TILL I JUST DRINK MYSELF TO DEATH. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE YOUNG IF YOU DRANK BUD LIGHTS IN THE CORNER POCKET YOU GOT ARRESTED, YOU GOT ARRESTED FOR BUD LIGHT AND YOU GOT PUT IN FRONT OF A JUDGE THAT WASN'T RIGHT. SO WHAT'S GOT TO GIVE HERE? WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE ARE ALL OPTIONS BECOME DOUBLE DOWN WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH MORE HARM REDUCTION HARM REDUCTION IF YOU LOOK AT WHEN WE WENT HEAVY INTO HARM REDUCTION, THE OVERDOSES SKYROCKETED. THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ON DRUGS SKYROCKET IT ALL THE NUMBERS, ALL YOUR DATA PEOPLE GET TO LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAST TEN FIFTEEN IS WHEN WE WERE DOUBLE DOWN ON ON HARM REDUCTION. EVERYTHING'S GONE THROUGH THE ROOF. WE'RE LOSING PEOPLE EVERY DAY. MY FIRST TERM EVERY WEEK WAS ONE TO PEOPLE CAN YOU HELP MY SON, MY DAUGHTER GET INTO DETOX ? I'M NOT REALLY GETTING THOSE CALLS ANYMORE. IT ALMOST MAKES ME FEEL LIKE MAYBE THE KIDS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD LEARN THE LESSON BECAUSE WE LOST A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM IN SOUTH BOSTON AND IN DORCHESTER. THE GUYS THAT ARE PROBABLY AROUND THIRTY FIVE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I KNOW I KNOW A BUNCH OF THEM THAT HAVE BURIED SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT FRIENDS A LOT OF THEM IT WAS WHAT A HOCKEY PLAYER HE WAS HURT HIS NECK DOCTOR PRESCRIBED HIM ENDED UP FROM PRESCRIPTION EATING PILLS. IF ONE MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD SEVEN MAKES YOU FEEL GREAT THAT'S THE ADDICT. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. THEY CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES. SO LET'S BRING IN THREE SQUARES AND A CASE OF BUD LIGHT. IT'S NO DIFFERENT BUT I'M CONCERNED THE MORE HEARINGS WE HAVE LIKE THIS BECAUSE IT'S CAUGHT IN SOMETHING IN THE IS IT'S GOING TO END UP BEING SAFE INJECTION SITES AND IT'S GOING TO BE MORE COMFORT STATIONS AND IT'S GOING TO BE MORE YOU CAN'T TOUCH THEM. YOU GOT TO LEAVE THEM ALONE THERE AND IT'S ALL OTHER PEOPLE AND WE'RE NOT TAKING CARE OF OUR KIDS RIGHT NOW TRYING TO GET THROUGH COVID TRYING TO GET THROUGH COVID WE SHOULD BE INVESTING IN OUR CHILDREN, NOT IN FLOPHOUSES LIKE THE ROUNDHOUSE THE INVISION HOTEL. I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY IF YOU GET OUT AND GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER THAT THOSE CHOICES ARE TOTAL DISASTERS, YOU KNOW, AND IF WE WERE EVER TO GO OVER THERE AND TOLD THEM THEY'D BE ALL CLEANED UP BEFORE WE WENT THERE. DID YOU HEAR THE STATS? THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND IN AN AREA THAT'S ON A REDISTRICTING MAP. IT'S THIS BIG ON A REDISTRICTING MAP THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND. WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CITY BUDGETS? AT WHAT POINT DO WE SAID WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE? NASHUA STREET SITTING EMPTY COULD BE REPURPOSED AS A AS A AS A RAIL FACILITY RAIL FACILITY. WE DON'T CALL IT A JAIL. WE CALL IT A FACILITY. S.A.S. ALREADY FIVE SECTION TWELVE RIGHT THERE. BRING THEM IN AND WHEN YOU HAVE WHEN YOU HAVE THE PERSON WHO'S ON DRUGS AND YOU FIND YOU CAN GET THEM OFF MAYBE A WEEK AND THEY MIGHT HAVE NO MORE DRUGS IN THEIR SYSTEM, THERE'S STILL A SCREWED UP UNIT. THEY STILL NEED MONTHS OF THERAPY. THEY STILL NEED SOMEONE THERE IN THEIR FACE. OK, WHAT ARE GOING TO DO NOW? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW? DO YOU WANT TO DO YOU WANT TO TALK HOUSING? DO YOU WANT TO TALK HOW REUNITED WITH YOUR FAMILY DO YOU WANT TO TALK MAYBE YOU CAN DO FOR A JOB BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY HOW DO YOU GO FROM METHAMPHETAMINE INDUCED PSYCHOSIS? YOU GO DOWN THERE THERE THERE'S PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND NAKED SPINNING AROUND. THAT'S METHAMPHETAMINE. HOW DO YOU GO FROM THAT TO OK, I'M GOING TO GO BE A POSTAL WORKER NOW I DON'T THINK YOU DO. SO UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING REAL AND CHANGE THE WAY WE'RE DOING WE'RE ALL DISRUPTERS AROUND HERE. EVERYBODY WANTS TO DISRUPT AND WE'RE GOT TO CHANGE THAT SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM THAT'S IN PLACE NOW DOWN THERE NEEDS TO BE CHANGED BECAUSE IT'S NOT WORKING. WE'RE ALL ON THIS TREADMILL AND WE HAVE THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE ON HOSPICE FIVE YEAR HOSPICE. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR THE FOR THE LEAD SPONSOR HERE AND PLEASE SIGN ME ON. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BAKER, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK OR READ THE NAME PLEASE? RAISE YOUR HAND, MR. CLARK. PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR FERNANDEZ ANDERSON PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT ZERO WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH HOMELESSNESS HOMELESSNESS IN RECOVERY . WE'RE ON TWO PERSONALITIES. MR. CLARK, PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT FOUR PLEASE TALK NO ONE TO WAIT FOR COUNCIL FRIEND FOR COUNCILOR WHILE THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE TO WAIT FOR ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY AYES HAVE AT THE DOOR GOING TO SPACE MR. KIRK PLEASE READ ONE DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT FIVE NUMBER ONE TWO EIGHT FIVE PLAN FOR COUNCILOR ARROYO THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND POSITIVE A ONE TWO EIGHT FIVE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I AM OPPOSED SAY THE HOW ABOUT THE DOCKET PASS MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO SIX DOCKET NUMBER ONE TWO EIGHT SIX COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCIL SEEK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT SIX ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I SAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE DOCKET IS PASSED. MR. CLARK PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT SEVEN PLEASE START NUMBER ONE TWO EIGHT SEVEN COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR COUNCIL . LET ME HEAR THE CHAIR SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE TWO EIGHT SEVEN ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE ANY OF THIS HAVE ON THE DOCKET HAS PASSED. WE'RE ACTUALLY PHILES I'M INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT THERE ARE THREE LATE FILE MATTERS. THE LEAD FILE MATTERS INCLUDE A LETTER OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCIL OF A PERSONAL ORDER, A MESSAGE IN ORDER FROM THE MAYOR FOR A TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT DELAYED FILE MATTER SHOULD BE ON EVERYONE'S DESK. WE'LL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD THESE ITEMS INTO THE AGENDA ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE LATE FILE ADD US INTO THE AGENDA. SAY I THANK YOU. THE LATE FILE IS READY. MR. QUIRT, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THE FIRST SLATE FILE MATTER WHICH IS A LETTER FROM COUNCIL ALARA LETTER FROM CITY COUNCILOR LARA DEAR COUNCIL PRESIDENT FLYNN I AM REGRETFULLY UNABLE TO ATTEND TODAY'S COUNCIL MEETING. BOTH THERE AND I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING OFF THE SINCE MONDAY AND I AM AT HOME RESTING HOPING TO RECOVER IN TIME TO REJOIN THE REDISTRICTING WORKING SESSIONS LATER THIS WEEK THOUGH I AM NOT THERE I LIKE TO VOICE MY SUPPORT FOR A COMMUNITY MAP SPONSORED BY COUNCILORS BREADON IN ARROYO. I AM ENCOURAGED BY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO GROWING AND MAINTAINING THEIR POLITICAL POWER COMING TOGETHER TO COLLABORATE COLLABORATIVELY, BUILD A MAP FOR THE FUTURE OF BOSTON IF POSSIBLE PLEASE ADD MY NAME A MEMBER OF MY STAFF WILL BE PRESENT TO TAKE NOTES AND REPORT TO ME AS NEEDED. I LOOK FORWARD TO REVIEWING THE RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING. I SINCERELY CITY COUNCILOR KENDRA ALARA. THANK YOU MR CLARK. CAN YOU READ A SECOND AID FILE INTO THE RECORD WHICH IS THE PERSON OUR YEAH I GET THAT LETTER FROM COUNCILOR CAN YOU PLACE THAT ON FILE PERSONAL ORDER COUNCILOR FLYNN EFFECTIVE SATURDAY OCTOBER 22ND TWENTY TWENTY TWO THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS TO BE HEREBY ARE APPOINTED TO THE POSITION SET AGAINST THE NAME ON FRIDAY DECEMBER SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS LATE FILE MATTER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSED NAY NAY THE AYES HAVE IT. THE SECOND LATE FILE MATTERS PAST MR CLARK THE THIRD LATE FILE MATTER INTO THE RECORD WHICH IS THE ORDER FROM THE MAYOR. THE COUNCIL IS HEREBY TRANSMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY THOUSAND TWENTY DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A GRANT L CENTRAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDED BY THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY. THE GRANT WOULD FUND THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR EL CENTRO WEIGHT TRAINING PROGRAM GRADUATES I URGE YOUR HONORABLE TO ADOPT THIS ORDER SO THE CITY OF BOSTON MAY ACCEPT THE FUNDS EXPEDITIOUSLY AND EXPEND THEM UPON AWARD FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY ARE GRANTED. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BLOCK THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL . BOK YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR PRESIDENT. I WANT TO MOVE FOR SUSPENSION PASSAGE. THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING MAINLY FOR IMMIGRANTS AND AND FOLKS WHO HAVE OFTEN COME TO THIS COUNTRY WHERE THEY HAD WHITE COLLAR JOBS BACK IN THEIR PRIOR COUNTRY BUT NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO SORT OF GET ESTABLISHED HERE AND SO THEY GO THROUGH THE PROGRAM AND THEN THIS THESE FUNDS ACTUALLY PAY FOR US TO HAVE ONE OF THEM AS A FELLOW IN DO IT SO IT'S A GREAT KIND OF ACTUAL JOB AFTER THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND WE'D LOVE TO SEE IT FUNDED SO THAT SOMEBODY CAN BE IN THAT ROLE. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BARCZYK SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF THE SECOND LATE FAIL MATTER NOW TO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSE SENIOR THE THE THE AYES HAVE IT THROW IT AWAY FROM SORRY HAS PASSED. WE'RE ONTO THE GREEN SHOOTS ANYONE WISHING TO REMOVE THE MATTER FROM THE GREEN SHEETS MAY DO SO AT THIS TIME. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BAKER, COUNCILOR BAKER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR PAGE THIRTEEN I BELIEVE NINETEEN. MR CLARK WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR INTO THE RECORD FROM THE COMMITTEE AND PLANNING DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DOCKET NUMBER ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON THE DESIGNATION OF PETITION NUMBER TWO FIVE FOUR THOUGHT SIXTEEN THE WARREN HOUSE ROXBURY MASS. IN EFFECT AFTER OCTOBER 29TH TWENTY TWENTY TWO IF NOT ACTED UPON. MR CORA, CAN YOU PLEASE PULL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SEE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW THE DOCTOR TO COME BEFORE THE BODY COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION COUNCILOR BAKER YES COUNCILOR YES COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR AND COUNCILOR FLAIR, THANK DOCKET ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR IS NOW PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCILOR BAKER YOU OF THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. THE BOSTON LANDMARK'S PETITION NO TO FIVE FOUR POINT ONE SIX THE WARREN HOUSE ROXBURY WAS UNANIMOUS UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION AND SOME CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SITE IS THIS IS A GOTHIC REVIVAL BUILDING COMPRISED COMPRISED OF A TWO AND A HALF STOREY CROSS GABLED MAIN BLOCK, A TWO STOREY AND GABLE REIA WING AT THE EAST ELEVATION AND A ONE STORY IN GABLED ADDITION AT THE EASTERNMOST WALL OF THE RAILWAY WING THE MAIN BLOCK AND THE RAILINGS ARE CONSTRUCTED OF LOCAL ROXBURY PUTTING LATE IN RANDOM ASHLI WITH GRANITE TRIM. THE WARMING HOUSE IS HISTORICALLY AN ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT HABITABLE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE BUILT BY DESCENDANTS OF THE NATIONALLY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURE DR JOSEPH WARREN. WARREN PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE LEAD UP TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND DRAFTED A DOCUMENT THAT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE INFLUENCED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. HE BECAME THE FIRST HIGH RANKING AMERICAN OFFICER KILLED IN THE WAR IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL DURING THE REVOLUTION. SEVERAL OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE WARREN FAMILY WHO WERE EITHER BORN IN OR LIVED AT THIS SITE MADE AN UNPRECEDENTED CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF MEDICINE TODAY COUNTIES IN 14 STATES BEAR THE NAME OF JOSEPH WARREN AS FOUR TOWNS IN NEW ENGLAND. THE STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY OF ROXBURY PUTTING STONE AND TYPE OF STONE UNIQUE TO EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND THE BUILDING IS ONE OF THE FEW PUTTING STONE COTTAGES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. IT'S A CONTEMPORARY IT'S A CONTEMPORARY AREA OF THE FRAME GOTHIC COTTAGE COTTAGES STILL A DECENT ALONG MONTROSE STREET IN THE MORELAND STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT OF ROXBURY. HAVING CONSIDERED ALL THIS I RESPECT WE RECOMMEND THAT THIS MATTER PASS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL BAKER COUNCILOR BAKER MOVES FOR PASSAGE OF DOCKET ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AY AY OPPOSING THIS HABIT DOCKET ONE ONE EIGHT FOUR IS PASSED OUT TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT THERE WAS ONE ADDITION TO THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT YEAR FOR ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MEMORIAL'S TODAY WE WILL ADJOURN OUR MEETING IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR COUNCILOR BAKER WILLIAM BILL BROCK FOR COUNCIL OF COLLETTA JANE TAGLIATELLE OF CHARLESTOWN MARY MAY MAY CARDOSA ANTHONY DEPIETRO FOR COUNCIL OF FERNANDES ANDERSON EDNA RIJN WILLIS MORELLE FOR COUNCIL FLAHERTY FLYNN BAKER MURPHY MERIDETH KIND OF COUNCILORS FLYNN FIRE REBECCA FRANK MIRASOL A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE. THE MOVES THAT WHEN WE ADJOURN TODAY THAT WE DO SO AND THOSE MENTIONED INDIVIDUALS WE ARE NOW SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE IANELLO CHAMBER ON OCTOBER WEDNESDAY OCTOBER TWENTY SIX AT 12:00 NOON BEFORE WE BEFORE WE ADJOURN I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CLERK THE ASSISTANT CLERK. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE, CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF TO MY COLLEAGUES TODAY FOR BEING VERY PROFESSIONAL. WE'RE DEALING WITH VERY DIFFICULT ISSUES BUT JUST WANT TO SAY THANK FOR CONDUCTING YOURSELVES IN THE MOST RESPECTFUL MANNER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT. PLEASE SAY I THE THE THE COUNCIL'S ADJOURNED