00:00:00:00	00:05:43:00	ADJOURNED AND YOU KNOW UH UH UH
00:05:43:00	00:11:26:00	UH UH UH UH AND THIS MEETING
00:11:26:00	00:11:27:00	OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
00:11:27:00	00:11:30:00	YOU CAN WATCH THE
00:11:30:00	00:11:31:00	COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE
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00:11:34:00	00:11:34:00	COUNCIL DASH TV.
00:11:34:00	00:11:35:00	AT THIS TIME I ASK MY
00:11:35:00	00:11:35:00	COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE
00:11:35:00	00:11:38:00	AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE
00:11:38:00	00:11:38:00	THEIR CELL PHONES AND
00:11:38:00	00:11:38:00	ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
00:11:38:00	00:11:42:00	ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42 I
00:11:42:00	00:11:43:00	REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER THAT
00:11:43:00	00:11:45:00	NO DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL OR
00:11:45:00	00:11:46:00	DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE
00:11:46:00	00:11:46:00	PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED.
00:11:46:00	00:11:49:00	THANK YOU.
00:11:49:00	00:11:50:00	MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL
00:11:50:00	00:11:50:00	THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE
00:11:50:00	00:11:51:00	PRESENCE OF A QUORUM?
00:11:51:00	00:11:54:00	COUNCILOR BREADON
00:11:54:00	00:11:54:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED
00:11:54:00	00:11:57:00	TO COUNCILOR DURKAN.
00:11:57:00	00:11:57:00	COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON.
00:11:57:00	00:11:58:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
00:11:58:00	00:12:01:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
00:12:01:00	00:12:01:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HERE.
00:12:01:00	00:12:02:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
00:12:02:00	00:12:04:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:12:04:00	00:12:05:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
00:12:05:00	00:12:08:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:12:08:00	00:12:09:00	COUNCILOR WEBER AND
00:12:09:00	00:12:12:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL QUORUM
00:12:12:00	00:12:12:00	PRESIDENT.
00:12:12:00	00:12:13:00	THANK YOU.
00:12:13:00	00:12:13:00	I I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
00:12:13:00	00:12:16:00	CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT
00:12:16:00	00:12:16:00	.
00:12:16:00	00:12:17:00	NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO
00:12:17:00	00:12:17:00	INTRODUCE THE CITY'S CLERGY
00:12:17:00	00:12:20:00	PASTOR JEFFREY JUMP.
00:12:20:00	00:12:20:00	THESE ARE KNOWN AFFECTIONATELY
00:12:20:00	00:12:23:00	AS PASTOR KIKI.
00:12:23:00	00:12:24:00	HE IS A PROFOUND FIGURE WITHIN
00:12:24:00	00:12:25:00	THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY AND
00:12:25:00	00:12:27:00	WITHIN OUR CITY OF BOSTON.
00:12:27:00	00:12:28:00	WE DIDN'T SEE HE WAS NAMED ONE
00:12:28:00	00:12:31:00	OF THE BOSTONIANS OF THE YEAR
00:12:31:00	00:12:31:00	BY THE BOSTON GLOBE.
00:12:31:00	00:12:32:00	BORN IN HAITI, HE MOVED TO THE
00:12:32:00	00:12:35:00	UNITED STATES AS A 20 AS AN
00:12:35:00	00:12:36:00	UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT EARLY IN
00:12:36:00	00:12:38:00	PATRICK HICKEY'S LIFE HE SHOWED
00:12:38:00	00:12:39:00	HIS COMMITMENT TO OTHERS IN
00:12:39:00	00:12:39:00	ADVOCACY BY ESTABLISHING THE
00:12:39:00	00:12:42:00	COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE
00:12:42:00	00:12:43:00	OF IMMIGRANTS IN 1993 WHICH
00:12:43:00	00:12:43:00	MOBILIZED SUPPORT PATIENT
00:12:43:00	00:12:46:00	RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:12:46:00	00:12:47:00	A GRADUATE OF BUNKER HILL
00:12:47:00	00:12:48:00	COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND GORDON
00:12:48:00	00:12:51:00	COLLEGE PASTOR FLAVORTOWN
00:12:51:00	00:12:51:00	FURTHERED IS THEOLOGICAL
00:12:51:00	00:12:54:00	EDUCATION AT GORDON COURT
00:12:54:00	00:12:54:00	CORNWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
00:12:54:00	00:12:55:00	EARNING BOTH A MASTER
00:12:55:00	00:12:58:00	OF DIVINITY AND A MASTER
00:12:58:00	00:12:58:00	OF THEOLOGY.
00:12:58:00	00:12:59:00	AND AS OF LAST WEEKEND A
00:12:59:00	00:13:02:00	DOCTORATE.
00:13:02:00	00:13:06:00	SO HE IS NOW DR. KATHY ON
00:13:06:00	00:13:06:00	BEHALF OF THE BOSTON CITY
00:13:06:00	00:13:06:00	COUNCIL.
00:13:06:00	00:13:09:00	I'D LOVE TO GIVE YOU THESE
00:13:09:00	00:13:10:00	FLOWERS IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR
00:13:10:00	00:13:10:00	ACCOMPLISHMENT AND YOUR
00:13:10:00	00:13:13:00	ACHIEVEMENT.
00:13:13:00	00:13:17:00	PASTOR KIKI'S LEADERSHIP
00:13:17:00	00:13:18:00	EXTENDS ACROSS MULTIPLE FRONTS.
00:13:18:00	00:13:18:00	HE'S THE PRESIDENT OF TRUE
00:13:18:00	00:13:21:00	ALLIANCE CENTER CHAIR
00:13:21:00	00:13:21:00	OF HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED IN
00:13:21:00	00:13:22:00	EXECUTIVE TEAM MEMBER
00:13:22:00	00:13:25:00	OF GREATER BOSTON INTERFAITH
00:13:25:00	00:13:25:00	ORGANIZATION.
00:13:25:00	00:13:26:00	HIS DEDICATION TO SOCIAL AND
00:13:26:00	00:13:29:00	ECONOMIC ISSUES IS ALSO EVIDENT
00:13:29:00	00:13:30:00	THROUGH HIS ROLES IN VARIOUS
00:13:30:00	00:13:32:00	COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
00:13:32:00	00:13:32:00	INCLUDING THE GREATER BOSTON
00:13:32:00	00:13:33:00	NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE CENTER
00:13:33:00	00:13:33:00	AND MATTAPAN SQUARE.
00:13:33:00	00:13:36:00	MAIN STREETS IN HIS MINISTRY,
00:13:36:00	00:13:39:00	PASTOR KIKI IS DEEPLY COMMITTED
00:13:39:00	00:13:40:00	TO MISSIONARY WORK.
00:13:40:00	00:13:40:00	REGULARLY TRAVELING TO PLACES
00:13:40:00	00:13:43:00	LIKE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, THE
00:13:43:00	00:13:44:00	BAHAMAS AND HAITI TO TEACH AND
00:13:44:00	00:13:47:00	INSPIRE AT HOME HE IMPACTS
00:13:47:00	00:13:48:00	LIVES THROUGH HIS RADIO AND
00:13:48:00	00:13:48:00	TELEVISION PROGRAMS DISCUSSING
00:13:48:00	00:13:51:00	SPIRITUAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
00:13:51:00	00:13:51:00	TOPICS.
00:13:51:00	00:13:55:00	IT'S A JOY FOR ME TO HAVE HIM
00:13:55:00	00:13:55:00	HERE.
00:13:55:00	00:13:56:00	I KNOW SOME OF MY OTHER
00:13:56:00	00:13:56:00	COLLEAGUES ALSO BRING HIM HERE
00:13:56:00	00:13:57:00	TO GIVE AN INVOCATION.
00:13:57:00	00:13:59:00	IT'S A JOY TO HAVE HIM HERE AS
00:13:59:00	00:14:00:00	A LEADER HERE IN THE HAITIAN
00:14:00:00	00:14:00:00	COMMUNITY.
00:14:00:00	00:14:02:00	DURING MAY HAITIAN HERITAGE
00:14:02:00	00:14:03:00	MONTH CELEBRATING ALSO HIS
00:14:03:00	00:14:06:00	DOCTORATE.
00:14:06:00	00:14:07:00	AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE MY ACTUAL
00:14:07:00	00:14:07:00	FATHER HERE IN CHAMBERS.
00:14:07:00	00:14:10:00	BUT TO HAVE MY SECOND FATHER
00:14:10:00	00:14:11:00	HERE IN CHAMBERS IS JUST SUCH A
00:14:11:00	00:14:11:00	BLESSING AND SUCH A JOY.
00:14:11:00	00:14:14:00	SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'LL
00:14:14:00	00:14:15:00	TURN IT OVER TO PASS TO KIKI
00:14:15:00	00:14:16:00	AND AFTER THE INVOCATION WE
00:14:16:00	00:14:18:00	WILL TOGETHER RECITE THE PLEDGE
00:14:18:00	00:14:18:00	OF ALLEGIANCE PACIFIQUE.
00:14:18:00	00:14:19:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
00:14:19:00	00:14:20:00	AND CONGRATULATIONS.
00:14:20:00	00:14:24:00	THANK YOU SO.
00:14:24:00	00:14:25:00	THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH TO MY
00:14:25:00	00:14:29:00	DAUGHTER WITH THE ROSARY AND
00:14:29:00	00:14:30:00	THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
00:14:30:00	00:14:32:00	AND THANK YOU FOR INVITING
00:14:32:00	00:14:33:00	ME TO COME IN THIS A SPECIAL
00:14:33:00	00:14:37:00	OCCASION THAT THE CELEBRATION
00:14:37:00	00:14:37:00	OF A HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH.
00:14:37:00	00:14:40:00	AND I WANT TO THANK EVERY
00:14:40:00	00:14:43:00	MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WHO
00:14:43:00	00:14:44:00	ALWAYS STAYED WITH OUR HAITIAN
00:14:44:00	00:14:47:00	COMMUNITY AND ALL THE ASIAN
00:14:47:00	00:14:48:00	COMMUNITY IN DIASPORA BUT ALSO
00:14:48:00	00:14:48:00	STAND WITH HAITI.
00:14:48:00	00:14:51:00	THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
00:14:51:00	00:14:52:00	LET US STAND AS WE ARE ABOUT TO
00:14:52:00	00:14:55:00	INVOKE THE NAME OF OUR MAKER,
00:14:55:00	00:14:56:00	OUR CREATOR.
00:14:56:00	00:14:59:00	LET US BOW OUR HEADS AS WELL IN
00:14:59:00	00:15:02:00	REVERENCE A GRACIOUS AND
00:15:02:00	00:15:02:00	SOVEREIGN GOD.
00:15:02:00	00:15:03:00	WE COME BEFORE YOU TODAY WITH A
00:15:03:00	00:15:06:00	GRATEFUL HEART AS WE GATHER IN
00:15:06:00	00:15:06:00	THIS SACRED CHAMBER OF PUBLIC
00:15:06:00	00:15:10:00	SERVICE TO HONOR YOUR NAME.
00:15:10:00	00:15:13:00	TO HONOR THE FATHER YOUR
00:15:13:00	00:15:14:00	PROTECTION AND TO HONOR THE
00:15:14:00	00:15:18:00	FATHER YOUR WISDOM TOWARD THE
00:15:18:00	00:15:21:00	PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
00:15:21:00	00:15:22:00	WE THANK YOU ALL, LORD, FOR
00:15:22:00	00:15:23:00	THIS OPPORTUNITY GRANTED BY THE
00:15:23:00	00:15:25:00	LEADERSHIP OF THE BOSTON CITY
00:15:25:00	00:15:26:00	COUNCIL, ESPECIALLY ITS
00:15:26:00	00:15:30:00	PRESIDENT TO UPLIFT A COMMUNITY
00:15:30:00	00:15:30:00	WHOSE STORY IS ONE
00:15:30:00	00:15:33:00	OF PERSEVERANCE AND HOPE AND
00:15:33:00	00:15:33:00	HISTORIC TRIUMPH AS WE
00:15:33:00	00:15:37:00	CELEBRATE ELECTION HERITAGE
00:15:37:00	00:15:37:00	MONTH WE INVITE YOUR DIVINE
00:15:37:00	00:15:41:00	PRESENCE OVER THIS COUNCIL AND
00:15:41:00	00:15:41:00	THE CITY.
00:15:41:00	00:15:42:00	WE REMEMBER THE COURAGE
00:15:42:00	00:15:45:00	OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US
00:15:45:00	00:15:45:00	THOSE WHO SUED THE FLAG
00:15:45:00	00:15:45:00	OF LIBERATION.
00:15:45:00	00:15:49:00	WE FIT IN THE HEARTS AND FIRE
00:15:49:00	00:15:49:00	IN THE BONES.
00:15:49:00	00:15:53:00	WE THANK YOU FOR THE STRENGTH
00:15:53:00	00:15:53:00	YOU HAVE INSTILLED IN THE
00:15:53:00	00:15:53:00	HAITIAN PEOPLE.
00:15:53:00	00:15:57:00	JUST AS A DECLARED IT TO
00:15:57:00	00:15:57:00	JOSHUA.
00:15:57:00	00:15:57:00	JOSHUA ONE NINE.
00:15:57:00	00:16:00:00	BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS.
00:16:00:00	00:16:01:00	DO NOT BE AFRAID FOR THE LORD.
00:16:01:00	00:16:04:00	YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER
00:16:04:00	00:16:05:00	YOU GO THROUGH REVOLUTIONS,
00:16:05:00	00:16:09:00	EARTHQUAKES, MIGRATIONS AND
00:16:09:00	00:16:09:00	HARDSHIP.
00:16:09:00	00:16:10:00	YOUR HAND HAS SUSTAINED US.
00:16:10:00	00:16:13:00	WE PRAISE YOU FOR THE COURAGE
00:16:13:00	00:16:17:00	TO RISE AGAIN AND AGAIN ECHOING
00:16:17:00	00:16:17:00	THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL
00:16:17:00	00:16:17:00	PAUL.
00:16:17:00	00:16:21:00	WE ARE HARD PRESSED ON EVERY
00:16:21:00	00:16:21:00	SIDE BUT NOT CRUSHED PERPLEXED
00:16:21:00	00:16:25:00	BUT NOT IN DESPAIR.
00:16:25:00	00:16:25:00	STRUCK DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED.
00:16:25:00	00:16:28:00	SECOND COURAGE IN FOUR, EIGHT
00:16:28:00	00:16:29:00	AND NINE WE LIFT UP THE VALUE
00:16:29:00	00:16:32:00	OF CONVICTION LORD.
00:16:32:00	00:16:33:00	JUST AS YOU TAUGHT US THROUGH
00:16:33:00	00:16:36:00	MICAH TO ACT JUSTLY, TO LOVE
00:16:36:00	00:16:37:00	MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY BEFORE
00:16:37:00	00:16:39:00	OUR GOD.
00:16:39:00	00:16:40:00	MAY OUR HERITAGE ALWAYS BE LEFT
00:16:40:00	00:16:41:00	WITH JUSTICE, UNITY AND
00:16:41:00	00:16:43:00	RIGHTEOUS PURSUIT DONE.
00:16:43:00	00:16:47:00	HAITI IS THE ARENOT BLACK
00:16:47:00	00:16:47:00	REPUBLIC, SAID THE ABOLITIONIST
00:16:47:00	00:16:51:00	FREDERICK DOUGLASS THAT SHE HAS
00:16:51:00	00:16:51:00	TAUGHT THE WORLD THE DANGER
00:16:51:00	00:16:52:00	OF SLAVERY AND THE VALUE
00:16:52:00	00:16:54:00	OF LIBERTY.
00:16:54:00	00:16:55:00	MAY WE HONOR THAT PROPHETIC
00:16:55:00	00:16:56:00	TRUTH TODAY BY CONTINUING TO
00:16:56:00	00:16:58:00	STAND FOR FREEDOM AND DIGNITY
00:16:58:00	00:16:59:00	FOR ALL PEOPLE?
00:16:59:00	00:17:02:00	FINALLY, FATHER, WE GIVE THANKS
00:17:02:00	00:17:02:00	FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
00:17:02:00	00:17:06:00	THE DOORS YOU CONTINUE TO OPEN
00:17:06:00	00:17:07:00	FOR OUR CHILDREN, OUR FAMILIES
00:17:07:00	00:17:10:00	AND THE RISING GENERATIONS AS
00:17:10:00	00:17:10:00	IT IS WRITTEN IN REVELATION
00:17:10:00	00:17:13:00	THREE IT I HAVE PLACED BEFORE
00:17:13:00	00:17:14:00	YOU AN OPEN DOOR THAT NO ONE
00:17:14:00	00:17:14:00	CAN SHUT.
00:17:14:00	00:17:17:00	WE RECEIVE THAT PROMISE TODAY.
00:17:17:00	00:17:18:00	BLESS THE DELIBERATIONS OF THIS
00:17:18:00	00:17:21:00	COUNCIL MAY EVERY DECISION BE
00:17:21:00	00:17:21:00	GUIDED BY WISDOM, COMPASSION
00:17:21:00	00:17:25:00	AND EQUITY.
00:17:25:00	00:17:25:00	MAY THE SPIRIT OF UNITY AND THE
00:17:25:00	00:17:28:00	PURSUIT OF THE COMMON GOOD
00:17:28:00	00:17:28:00	PREVAIL NOT JUST DURING THIS
00:17:28:00	00:17:31:00	MONTH OF CELEBRATION BUT IN
00:17:31:00	00:17:32:00	EVERY DAY THAT FOLLOWS.
00:17:32:00	00:17:33:00	MAY YOUR PEACE REST UPON THIS
00:17:33:00	00:17:36:00	CITY AND MAY YOUR JUSTICE WILL.
00:17:36:00	00:17:39:00	UNLIKE AREVA YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:17:39:00	00:17:40:00	LIKE NEVER FILLED IN STREAM.
00:17:40:00	00:17:41:00	IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS
00:17:41:00	00:17:43:00	CHRIST THE GOD OF JUSTICE
00:17:43:00	00:17:43:00	HEALING AND HOPE.
00:17:43:00	00:17:47:00	I PRAY.
00:17:47:00	00:17:47:00	AMEN.
00:17:47:00	00:17:50:00	AND THEN WE WILL NOW RECITE THE
00:17:50:00	00:17:50:00	PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND I
00:17:50:00	00:17:54:00	PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
00:17:54:00	00:17:58:00	OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
00:17:58:00	00:18:01:00	WHICH IS MISSION I HEREBY
00:18:01:00	00:18:01:00	INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND
00:18:01:00	00:18:08:00	JUSTICE FOR ALL.
00:18:08:00	00:18:13:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, PASTOR KIKI.
00:18:13:00	00:18:14:00	WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR
00:18:14:00	00:18:17:00	STEWARDSHIP HERE IN THE CITY
00:18:17:00	00:18:18:00	AND HOW YOU LEAD AND YOUR
00:18:18:00	00:18:18:00	PRAYER JUST BRINGING EVERYTHING
00:18:18:00	00:18:21:00	TOGETHER.
00:18:21:00	00:18:22:00	SO THANK YOU, MISS CHAMPION.
00:18:22:00	00:18:22:00	PASCAGOULA.
00:18:22:00	00:18:23:00	SOME OF THAT THING MAY BE UPSET
00:18:23:00	00:18:25:00	WITH OKAY, WE ARE GOING WE HAVE
00:18:25:00	00:18:28:00	TO PRESENTATION TODAY AND I
00:18:28:00	00:18:28:00	KNOW THAT THAT
00:18:28:00	00:18:29:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA'S PRESENTERS
00:18:29:00	00:18:32:00	ARE ON A TIME CRUNCH SO I'M
00:18:32:00	00:18:32:00	GOING TO BRING UP COUNSELOR
00:18:32:00	00:18:35:00	SANTANA WHO WILL BE HONORING
00:18:35:00	00:18:36:00	THOSE DOING THE WORK OF CANCER
00:18:36:00	00:18:39:00	RESEARCH AND THEN WE WILL HAVE
00:18:39:00	00:18:40:00	ANOTHER PRESENTATION FOR ME IN
00:18:40:00	00:18:43:00	HONOR OF HAITIAN HERITAGE
00:18:43:00	00:18:43:00	MONTH.
00:18:43:00	00:18:45:00	SO SANTANA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR
00:18:45:00	00:18:49:00	IN 5 MINUTES.
00:18:49:00	00:18:53:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:18:53:00	00:18:53:00	GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.
00:18:53:00	00:18:56:00	UM, DEFINITELY WANT TO INVITE
00:18:56:00	00:19:00:00	SAM ANTHONY AND DR. MAVE
00:19:00:00	00:19:04:00	EVERYONE TO COME UP HERE AS
00:19:04:00	00:19:04:00	THEY COME UP.
00:19:04:00	00:19:08:00	OH, TO BEGIN MY REMARKS.
00:19:08:00	00:19:09:00	UM, WANT TO SAY GOOD AFTERNOON
00:19:09:00	00:19:11:00	TO MY COLLEAGUES AND TO THE
00:19:11:00	00:19:12:00	MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE
00:19:12:00	00:19:12:00	WATCHING?
00:19:12:00	00:19:15:00	THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE
00:19:15:00	00:19:16:00	OPPORTUNITY TO RISE TODAY AND
00:19:16:00	00:19:19:00	SPEAK ON AN ISSUE THAT IS
00:19:19:00	00:19:20:00	DEEPLY PERSONAL TO ME AND
00:19:20:00	00:19:22:00	UNDOUBTEDLY TO SO MANY OF YOU
00:19:22:00	00:19:23:00	AS WELL.
00:19:23:00	00:19:26:00	OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS I'VE
00:19:26:00	00:19:27:00	WATCHED MY MOTHER THE STRONGEST
00:19:27:00	00:19:30:00	PERSON I KNOW BATTLED
00:19:30:00	00:19:30:00	CANCER WITH GRACE, COURAGE AND
00:19:30:00	00:19:34:00	UNWAVERING RESILIENCE.
00:19:34:00	00:19:35:00	IT'S A JOURNEY THAT HAS FOREVER
00:19:35:00	00:19:37:00	CHANGED ME AND IT'S ONE I KNOW
00:19:37:00	00:19:41:00	IT'S NOT UNIQUE WHETHER IT'S A
00:19:41:00	00:19:42:00	PARENT, A CHILD, A FRIEND OR
00:19:42:00	00:19:42:00	EVEN OURSELVES.
00:19:42:00	00:19:45:00	CANCER TOUCHES EVERY FAMILY AND
00:19:45:00	00:19:49:00	EVERY COMMUNITY AS A LARGE CITY
00:19:49:00	00:19:49:00	COUNCILOR REPRESENTING EVERY
00:19:49:00	00:19:50:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IN OUR GREAT CITY.
00:19:50:00	00:19:53:00	I CARRY THESE STORIES WITH
00:19:53:00	00:19:53:00	ME EVERY DAY.
00:19:53:00	00:19:56:00	BEHIND EVERY STATISTIC IS A
00:19:56:00	00:19:57:00	FACE, A NAME, A LIFE.
00:19:57:00	00:20:01:00	AND TODAY I RISE NOT JUST AS A
00:20:01:00	00:20:01:00	PUBLIC OFFICIAL BUT AS A SON, A
00:20:01:00	00:20:05:00	NEIGHBOR AND AN ADVOCATE TO
00:20:05:00	00:20:05:00	CALL ATTENTION TO THE URGENT
00:20:05:00	00:20:08:00	NEED TO PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN
00:20:08:00	00:20:08:00	FEDERAL FUNDING FOR LIFESAVING
00:20:08:00	00:20:12:00	CANCER RESEARCH.
00:20:12:00	00:20:12:00	BOSTON IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN
00:20:12:00	00:20:13:00	CANCER RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.
00:20:13:00	00:20:16:00	OUR CITY IS HOME TO SOME OF THE
00:20:16:00	00:20:16:00	WORLD'S FINEST HOSPITALS AND
00:20:16:00	00:20:20:00	RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND OUR
00:20:20:00	00:20:20:00	SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS AND
00:20:20:00	00:20:23:00	FRONTLINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS
00:20:23:00	00:20:24:00	ARE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
00:20:24:00	00:20:27:00	OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
00:20:27:00	00:20:28:00	LET ME JUST SHARE JUST ONE
00:20:28:00	00:20:28:00	EXAMPLE.
00:20:28:00	00:20:31:00	BETWEEN 2011 AND 2018 THE
00:20:31:00	00:20:33:00	DANA-FARBER HARVARD
00:20:33:00	00:20:37:00	CANCER CENTER CAUGHT IT RIGHT
00:20:37:00	00:20:38:00	HERE IN BOSTON AND HAS WHICH
00:20:38:00	00:20:39:00	WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR NEARLY HALF
00:20:39:00	00:20:41:00	OF ALL FDA APPROVED
00:20:41:00	00:20:42:00	CANCER TREATMENTS.
00:20:42:00	00:20:42:00	THAT'S NOT JUST PROGRESS.
00:20:42:00	00:20:45:00	THAT'S HOPE.
00:20:45:00	00:20:46:00	THAT'S LIVES SAVED.
00:20:46:00	00:20:46:00	BUT THAT'S PROGRESS.
00:20:46:00	00:20:50:00	IT'S NOW AT RISK.
00:20:50:00	00:20:51:00	PROPOSED FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS TO
00:20:51:00	00:20:54:00	THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES
00:20:54:00	00:20:54:00	OF HEALTH AND THE NATIONAL
00:20:54:00	00:20:55:00	CANCER INSTITUTE WILL BE A
00:20:55:00	00:20:58:00	DIRECT BLOW TO OUR CITY'S
00:20:58:00	00:20:58:00	ABILITY TO CONDUCT RESEARCH
00:20:58:00	00:21:01:00	THAT LEADS TO TREATMENTS TO
00:21:01:00	00:21:01:00	CURES AND TO SECOND CHANCES.
00:21:01:00	00:21:04:00	THESE CUTS COULD HALT CLINICAL
00:21:04:00	00:21:05:00	TRIALS, JEOPARDIZE JOBS AND
00:21:05:00	00:21:08:00	SLOW DOWN THE SCIENCE THAT
00:21:08:00	00:21:08:00	SAVES LIVES.
00:21:08:00	00:21:11:00	THAT'S WHY I INTRODUCED A
00:21:11:00	00:21:12:00	LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION THIS
00:21:12:00	00:21:12:00	WEEK URGING THE FEDERAL
00:21:12:00	00:21:16:00	GOVERNMENT NOT TO CUT FUNDING
00:21:16:00	00:21:16:00	FOR CANCER RESEARCH AND TO
00:21:16:00	00:21:20:00	FULLY FUND THE AI AGE AND NCI.
00:21:20:00	00:21:23:00	I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT EARLIER
00:21:23:00	00:21:26:00	TODAY THAT EARLIER TODAY THE
00:21:26:00	00:21:27:00	COUNCIL WILL BE VOTING ON THE
00:21:27:00	00:21:30:00	RESOLUTION AND IT WILL NOW BE
00:21:30:00	00:21:31:00	SENT TO THE YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY
00:21:31:00	00:21:35:00	WILL BE SENT TO THE
00:21:35:00	00:21:35:00	CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION AND
00:21:35:00	00:21:36:00	BOTH TO OUR U.S. SENATORS.
00:21:36:00	00:21:39:00	BUT THIS FIGHT IS ABOUT MORE
00:21:39:00	00:21:39:00	THAN JUST NUMBERS ON A
00:21:39:00	00:21:39:00	SPREADSHEET.
00:21:39:00	00:21:41:00	IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE.
00:21:41:00	00:21:42:00	THAT'S WHY I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT
00:21:42:00	00:21:45:00	THE UNIQUE, UNIQUE RISK FACED
00:21:45:00	00:21:46:00	BY OUR BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS DUE
00:21:46:00	00:21:49:00	TO THEIR EXPOSURE ON THE JOB.
00:21:49:00	00:21:50:00	FIREFIGHTERS HAVE A 9% HIGHER
00:21:50:00	00:21:53:00	RISK OF BEING DIAGNOSED WITH
00:21:53:00	00:21:55:00	CANCER AND A 14 HIGHER 14%
00:21:55:00	00:21:56:00	HIGHER RISK OF DYING FROM IT.
00:21:56:00	00:22:00:00	THE SCIENCE IS CLEAR THE VERY
00:22:00:00	00:22:00:00	ACT OF KEEPING US SAFE PUTS
00:22:00:00	00:22:01:00	THEM AT RISK.
00:22:01:00	00:22:03:00	THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
00:22:03:00	00:22:07:00	LATER TODAY I'LL BE INTRODUCING
00:22:07:00	00:22:08:00	WHY I'M PROUD TO STAND
00:22:08:00	00:22:08:00	ALONGSIDE BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS
00:22:08:00	00:22:11:00	LOCAL 718 PRESIDENT SAM DILLON
00:22:11:00	00:22:14:00	TO ANNOUNCE A FORTHCOMING
00:22:14:00	00:22:15:00	HEARING ON OCCUPATIONAL
00:22:15:00	00:22:15:00	CANCER RISK AMONG OUR
00:22:15:00	00:22:19:00	FIREFIGHTERS AND NOW THE CITY
00:22:19:00	00:22:19:00	OF BOSTON AND HOW THE CITY
00:22:19:00	00:22:22:00	OF BOSTON CAN DO MORE TO
00:22:22:00	00:22:22:00	SUPPORT THEIR PREVENTION,
00:22:22:00	00:22:26:00	DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
00:22:26:00	00:22:27:00	I'M THANKFUL TO COUNCILOR FLYNN
00:22:27:00	00:22:30:00	AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
00:22:30:00	00:22:31:00	WHO WILL BE COSPONSORING THIS
00:22:31:00	00:22:33:00	HEARING ORDER WITH ME LATER
00:22:33:00	00:22:34:00	TODAY.
00:22:34:00	00:22:37:00	THIS ISN'T JUST POSITIVE POLICY
00:22:37:00	00:22:37:00	.
00:22:37:00	00:22:38:00	THIS IS PERSONAL.
00:22:38:00	00:22:38:00	IT'S ABOUT MY MOTHER.
00:22:38:00	00:22:42:00	IT'S ABOUT YOUR FAMILY'S.
00:22:42:00	00:22:42:00	IT'S ABOUT FIREFIGHTERS, OUR
00:22:42:00	00:22:43:00	HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND THE
00:22:43:00	00:22:45:00	COUNTLESS PEOPLE IN BOSTON
00:22:45:00	00:22:46:00	WHOSE LIVES DEPEND ON US
00:22:46:00	00:22:48:00	SPEAKING OUT AND STEPPING UP.
00:22:48:00	00:22:52:00	I'M PROUD TO BE JOINED TODAY BY
00:22:52:00	00:22:52:00	TWO INCREDIBLE LEADERS IN THIS
00:22:52:00	00:22:52:00	FIGHT.
00:22:52:00	00:22:56:00	I'D LIKE TO NOW INVITE THEM TO
00:22:56:00	00:22:57:00	THE DAIS AND TO SHARE A FEW
00:22:57:00	00:22:57:00	WORDS.
00:22:57:00	00:22:59:00	FIRST WE'LL HAVE DR. MAE
00:22:59:00	00:23:03:00	O'BYRNE, A PRESIDENT, PHYSICIAN
00:23:03:00	00:23:06:00	AND PROUD MEMBER OF A C R C I R
00:23:06:00	00:23:07:00	SEIU WHO IS ON THE FRONT LINES
00:23:07:00	00:23:10:00	OF PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH
00:23:10:00	00:23:11:00	HERE IN BOSTON.
00:23:11:00	00:23:14:00	AND SECOND, I'LL HAVE SAM
00:23:14:00	00:23:15:00	DILLON AND THEN PRESIDENT
00:23:15:00	00:23:18:00	OF THE BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS
00:23:18:00	00:23:18:00	LOCAL SEVEN AND 718
00:23:18:00	00:23:22:00	REPRESENTING THE BRAVE MEN AND
00:23:22:00	00:23:22:00	WOMEN WHO SERVE OUR CITY EVERY
00:23:22:00	00:23:23:00	DAY.
00:23:23:00	00:23:24:00	PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING
00:23:24:00	00:23:24:00	THEM.
00:23:24:00	00:23:28:00	THANK YOU.
00:23:28:00	00:23:32:00	MY NAME IS DR. MAEVE O'BYRNE.
00:23:32:00	00:23:33:00	I'M A RESIDENT PHYSICIAN AT
00:23:33:00	00:23:35:00	UMASS CHAN MEDICAL CENTER AND A
00:23:35:00	00:23:36:00	PROUD PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN
00:23:36:00	00:23:38:00	FOR HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS ACROSS
00:23:38:00	00:23:39:00	THE COMMONWEALTH.
00:23:39:00	00:23:40:00	FIRSTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK
00:23:40:00	00:23:42:00	COUNCILOR S.A. FOR ORGANIZING
00:23:42:00	00:23:43:00	THIS PRESENTATION AND TO THANK
00:23:43:00	00:23:44:00	CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:23:44:00	00:23:46:00	LOUIJEUNE AS WELL AS THE
00:23:46:00	00:23:47:00	HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON
00:23:47:00	00:23:47:00	CITY COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING ME TO
00:23:47:00	00:23:50:00	SPEAK TODAY.
00:23:50:00	00:23:50:00	ADMITTEDLY THIS IS THE FIRST
00:23:50:00	00:23:51:00	TIME THAT I'VE SPOKEN AT A
00:23:51:00	00:23:54:00	HEARING LIKE THIS AND WHEN I
00:23:54:00	00:23:55:00	WAS DRAFTING MY REMARKS MY
00:23:55:00	00:23:57:00	INITIAL THOUGHT WAS TO CITE
00:23:57:00	00:23:57:00	FACTS AND STATISTICS.
00:23:57:00	00:23:59:00	I COULD TELL YOU THAT IN THE
00:23:59:00	00:24:04:00	UNITED STATES OVER 1,777,000
00:24:04:00	00:24:05:00	PEOPLE ARE NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH
00:24:05:00	00:24:05:00	CANCER.
00:24:05:00	00:24:09:00	THAT WAS IN 2021 ALONE.
00:24:09:00	00:24:10:00	BUT I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT
00:24:10:00	00:24:12:00	NUMBERS.
00:24:12:00	00:24:13:00	I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.
00:24:13:00	00:24:14:00	I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY
00:24:14:00	00:24:17:00	PATIENT WHO WE WILL CALL DANA.
00:24:17:00	00:24:19:00	DANA CAME TO MY PRIMARY CARE
00:24:19:00	00:24:19:00	CLINIC ONE AFTERNOON AFTER
00:24:19:00	00:24:20:00	FINDING OUT THAT HER MOTHER AND
00:24:20:00	00:24:23:00	YOUNGER SISTER WERE BOTH
00:24:23:00	00:24:23:00	DIAGNOSED WITH A TYPE
00:24:23:00	00:24:24:00	OF HEREDITARY  CANCER.
00:24:24:00	00:24:27:00	DANA IS SITTING UNDER
00:24:27:00	00:24:27:00	FLUORESCENT LIGHTS IN A GOWN
00:24:27:00	00:24:29:00	MADE OF PAPER ASKING A THOUSAND
00:24:29:00	00:24:30:00	EXCELLENT QUESTIONS, ALL
00:24:30:00	00:24:33:00	OF WHICH START WITH THE WORDS
00:24:33:00	00:24:33:00	WHAT IF?
00:24:33:00	00:24:37:00	IN HER LINE OF QUESTIONS SHE
00:24:37:00	00:24:38:00	REFERS TO HER OWN BODY AS IN
00:24:38:00	00:24:41:00	HER WORDS A QUOTE TICKING TIME
00:24:41:00	00:24:41:00	BOMB.
00:24:41:00	00:24:44:00	AND HER PHRASING STICKS WITH
00:24:44:00	00:24:45:00	ME EVEN TO THIS DAY.
00:24:45:00	00:24:46:00	I KNOW AS A PHYSICIAN THAT
00:24:46:00	00:24:48:00	DANA'S GENETIC
00:24:48:00	00:24:48:00	CODE DRAMATICALLY INCREASES HER
00:24:48:00	00:24:49:00	RISK OF DEVELOPING  CANCER IN
00:24:49:00	00:24:52:00	HER LIFETIME.
00:24:52:00	00:24:53:00	BUT I HAD NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT
00:24:53:00	00:24:55:00	THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT
00:24:55:00	00:24:56:00	OF CARRYING AROUND A THOUSAND
00:24:56:00	00:24:56:00	WHAT IFS.
00:24:56:00	00:24:59:00	I REASSURED HER THAT IN THE
00:24:59:00	00:25:00:00	CITY OF BOSTON ALONE THERE ARE
00:25:00:00	00:25:00:00	THOUSANDS OF RESEARCHERS
00:25:00:00	00:25:03:00	WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK
00:25:03:00	00:25:03:00	DISCOVERING INNOVATIVE WAYS TO
00:25:03:00	00:25:06:00	TREAT AND PREVENT CANCER.
00:25:06:00	00:25:07:00	I TOLD HER THAT WHATEVER
00:25:07:00	00:25:08:00	CURVEBALLS LIFE THROWS HER WAY
00:25:08:00	00:25:10:00	SHE WILL HAVE A WHOLE TEAM
00:25:10:00	00:25:11:00	STANDING BESIDE HER.
00:25:11:00	00:25:14:00	I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO CONSIDER
00:25:14:00	00:25:15:00	THE RESOLUTION THAT IS BEING
00:25:15:00	00:25:15:00	PRESENTED IN THIS CHAMBER
00:25:15:00	00:25:15:00	TODAY.
00:25:15:00	00:25:18:00	I ASK YOU TO PRESERVE FUNDING
00:25:18:00	00:25:18:00	FOR THE LIFESAVING RESEARCH
00:25:18:00	00:25:19:00	THAT GIVES HOPE TO PATIENTS
00:25:19:00	00:25:20:00	LIKE DANA AND TO PATIENTS
00:25:20:00	00:25:22:00	EVERYWHERE.
00:25:22:00	00:25:22:00	WITHOUT ANY OF MY TIME.
00:25:22:00	00:25:29:00	THANK YOU.
00:25:29:00	00:25:29:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:25:29:00	00:25:33:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
00:25:33:00	00:25:34:00	MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON CITY
00:25:34:00	00:25:34:00	COUNCIL AND ESPECIALLY
00:25:34:00	00:25:36:00	COUNCIL OF SANT'ANNA FOR
00:25:36:00	00:25:37:00	INVITING US HERE TODAY TO TAKE
00:25:37:00	00:25:40:00	ON THIS INCREDIBLY PRESSING AND
00:25:40:00	00:25:40:00	IMPORTANT ISSUE.
00:25:40:00	00:25:44:00	I WANT TO ECHO THE SENTIMENTS
00:25:44:00	00:25:45:00	OF COUNCILOR SANTANA, WHAT HE
00:25:45:00	00:25:45:00	JUST SAID.
00:25:45:00	00:25:49:00	THIS IS PERSONAL.
00:25:49:00	00:25:49:00	THIS FIGHT IS PERSONAL.
00:25:49:00	00:25:52:00	THERE'S NOT A MEMBER IN THIS
00:25:52:00	00:25:53:00	BUILDING TODAY WHO CAN'T SAY
00:25:53:00	00:25:53:00	THEY HAVEN'T BEEN PERSONALLY
00:25:53:00	00:25:56:00	IMPACTED BY A DIAGNOSIS
00:25:56:00	00:26:01:00	OF CANCER ADDED TO THEMSELVES A
00:26:01:00	00:26:01:00	FRIEND OR A LOVED ONE.
00:26:01:00	00:26:02:00	AND COUNCILOR SANTANA, WHILE I
00:26:02:00	00:26:04:00	NEVER HAD THE PLEASURE YOUR
00:26:04:00	00:26:05:00	MOTHER IS INCREDIBLY PROUD
00:26:05:00	00:26:07:00	OF YOU FOR TAKING THIS FIGHT.
00:26:07:00	00:26:11:00	THANK YOU.
00:26:11:00	00:26:11:00	AS PRESIDENT OF BOSTON
00:26:11:00	00:26:13:00	FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 718 I'M HERE
00:26:13:00	00:26:16:00	TODAY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY
00:26:16:00	00:26:17:00	BROTHER AND SISTER FIREFIGHTERS
00:26:17:00	00:26:21:00	AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE
00:26:21:00	00:26:22:00	CURRENTLY DEALING WITH THE
00:26:22:00	00:26:22:00	DEVASTATING IMPACTS
00:26:22:00	00:26:25:00	OF OCCUPATIONAL CANCER.
00:26:25:00	00:26:25:00	WITHIN THE BOSTON FIRE
00:26:25:00	00:26:26:00	DEPARTMENT AND THE FIRE SERVICE
00:26:26:00	00:26:29:00	AROUND THE WORLD, I'M JOINED BY
00:26:29:00	00:26:33:00	FIREFIGHTER DAN RHATIGAN, A
00:26:33:00	00:26:33:00	SECOND GENERATION BOSTON
00:26:33:00	00:26:36:00	FIREFIGHTER, THE PRESIDENT AND
00:26:36:00	00:26:39:00	FOUNDER OF THE BOSTON FIRE
00:26:39:00	00:26:40:00	CANCER FOUNDATION AND MOST
00:26:40:00	00:26:43:00	IMPORTANTLY HIMSELF A PROUD
00:26:43:00	00:26:44:00	SURVIVOR OF OCCUPATIONAL
00:26:44:00	00:26:44:00	CANCER.
00:26:44:00	00:26:48:00	DAN WASN'T PRESENTED WITH THE
00:26:48:00	00:26:51:00	FIGHT OF HIS LIFE.
00:26:51:00	00:26:51:00	HE WAS PRESENTED WITH A FIGHT
00:26:51:00	00:26:55:00	FOR HIS LIFE AND HE TOOK
00:26:55:00	00:26:55:00	CANCER ON THE WAY HE TAKES ON
00:26:55:00	00:26:59:00	FIRES HEAD ON FULL SPEED, FULL
00:26:59:00	00:27:01:00	TILT AND THEN KICK CANCER'S 
00:27:01:00	00:27:02:00	NOT JUST ON BEHALF OF HIMSELF
00:27:02:00	00:27:06:00	AND HIS FAMILY BUT FOR EVERY
00:27:06:00	00:27:06:00	BOSTON FIREFIGHTER WHO CAME
00:27:06:00	00:27:10:00	AFTER HIM WHO'S BEEN DIAGNOSED.
00:27:10:00	00:27:11:00	THE WORK THAT DAN DOES THROUGH
00:27:11:00	00:27:13:00	HIS FOUNDATION BENEFITS OUR
00:27:13:00	00:27:14:00	MEMBERS, BENEFITS OUR FAMILIES.
00:27:14:00	00:27:17:00	AND TODAY COURTESY OF EARLY
00:27:17:00	00:27:21:00	DETECTION CANCER AWARENESS AND
00:27:21:00	00:27:21:00	EARLY INTERVENTION, THERE ARE
00:27:21:00	00:27:22:00	BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE
00:27:22:00	00:27:25:00	ALIVE TODAY BECAUSE OF THE WORK
00:27:25:00	00:27:25:00	OF THAT FOUNDATION.
00:27:25:00	00:27:29:00	THE STATISTICS INVOLVING
00:27:29:00	00:27:29:00	OCCUPATIONAL CANCER IN THE FIRE
00:27:29:00	00:27:33:00	SERVICE ARE SOBERING.
00:27:33:00	00:27:33:00	AS YOU HEARD COUNCILOR SANTANA
00:27:33:00	00:27:39:00	SAY, BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS HAVE A
00:27:39:00	00:27:39:00	9% HIGHER RISK OF BEING
00:27:39:00	00:27:42:00	DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AND A 14%
00:27:42:00	00:27:45:00	HIGHER RISK OF DYING FROM THAT
00:27:45:00	00:27:50:00	DIAGNOSIS A 90% HIGHER CHANCE
00:27:50:00	00:27:53:00	OF BRAIN CANCER AND AN 81%
00:27:53:00	00:27:53:00	ELEVATED CHANCE OF RECEIVING A
00:27:53:00	00:27:57:00	HODGKIN'S AND FORMER DIAGNOSIS.
00:27:57:00	00:28:00:00	TO DATE 75% OF LINE OF DUTY
00:28:00:00	00:28:04:00	DEATHS WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE
00:28:04:00	00:28:04:00	ACROSS THE INTERNATIONAL.
00:28:04:00	00:28:07:00	THE NAMES THAT WE SADLY PUT ON
00:28:07:00	00:28:08:00	OUR MEMORIAL WALL EACH AND
00:28:08:00	00:28:10:00	EVERY YEAR 75% OF THOSE LINE
00:28:10:00	00:28:13:00	OF DUTY DEATHS ARE DIRECTLY
00:28:13:00	00:28:14:00	RELATED TO OCCUPATIONAL CANCER.
00:28:14:00	00:28:18:00	AS BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS, OUR JOB
00:28:18:00	00:28:21:00	IS TO RISK OUR LIVES TO SAVE
00:28:21:00	00:28:21:00	OTHERS.
00:28:21:00	00:28:22:00	WE DON'T ACCEPT THIS DANGER.
00:28:22:00	00:28:25:00	WE EMBRACE IT AND WE WEAR IT
00:28:25:00	00:28:25:00	LIKE A BADGE OF HONOR.
00:28:25:00	00:28:29:00	WE ALSO DON'T ACCEPT FAILURE
00:28:29:00	00:28:29:00	AND WE DON'T ACCEPT LOSS.
00:28:29:00	00:28:33:00	I'M HERE TODAY TO SAY ON BEHALF
00:28:33:00	00:28:36:00	OF LOCAL 718 WE HAVE FINISHED
00:28:36:00	00:28:36:00	STANDING GRAVESIDE TO OUR
00:28:36:00	00:28:40:00	FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO
00:28:40:00	00:28:44:00	GAVE THEIR LIVES DUE TO
00:28:44:00	00:28:44:00	OCCUPATIONAL CANCER FAR TOO
00:28:44:00	00:28:44:00	EARLY.
00:28:44:00	00:28:48:00	ANOTHER STATISTIC I DO WANT TO
00:28:48:00	00:28:49:00	HIGHLIGHT.
00:28:49:00	00:28:52:00	THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY
00:28:52:00	00:28:52:00	OF A RETIRED BOSTON FIREFIGHTER
00:28:52:00	00:28:56:00	UPON RETIREMENT IS FIVE YEARS
00:28:56:00	00:28:59:00	AND AN INCREDIBLE DRIVING FORCE
00:28:59:00	00:29:00:00	OF THAT FIVE YEAR RETIREE LIFE
00:29:00:00	00:29:03:00	EXPECTANCY IS OCCUPATIONAL
00:29:03:00	00:29:04:00	CANCER.
00:29:04:00	00:29:07:00	THE IMPACTS THAT THIS IS HAVING
00:29:07:00	00:29:08:00	ON FIREFIGHTERS ARE BRUTAL NOT
00:29:08:00	00:29:12:00	JUST THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE
00:29:12:00	00:29:12:00	DIAGNOSED AND NOT JUST THE
00:29:12:00	00:29:13:00	FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE PASSING
00:29:13:00	00:29:15:00	AWAY THEIR FAMILIES BEAR THE
00:29:15:00	00:29:18:00	BRUNT OF THAT AFTER THEIR LOSS
00:29:18:00	00:29:19:00	.
00:29:19:00	00:29:19:00	AN EMPTY SEAT AT DINNER A
00:29:19:00	00:29:22:00	PARENT NOT ATTENDING A BASEBALL
00:29:22:00	00:29:23:00	GAME.
00:29:23:00	00:29:26:00	SOMEONE WHO'S NOT THERE TO OPEN
00:29:26:00	00:29:27:00	PRESENTS ON CHRISTMAS MORNING.
00:29:27:00	00:29:30:00	THIS IS THE COLD REALITY
00:29:30:00	00:29:32:00	OF WHAT WE ARE FACING WITHIN
00:29:32:00	00:29:33:00	LOCAL 718 AND WITHIN THE FIRE
00:29:33:00	00:29:33:00	SERVICE.
00:29:33:00	00:29:37:00	I COMMEND THE WORK OF COUNSELOR
00:29:37:00	00:29:40:00	SANTANA AND I COMMEND THIS
00:29:40:00	00:29:41:00	HONORABLE BODY FOR BRINGING
00:29:41:00	00:29:44:00	THIS FIGHT OUT OF THE SHADOWS
00:29:44:00	00:29:45:00	AND BRINGING IT WHERE IT NEEDS
00:29:45:00	00:29:48:00	TO BE TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
00:29:48:00	00:29:49:00	WHERE THE DECISIONS HAVE TO BE
00:29:49:00	00:29:52:00	MADE THAT WILL CONTINUE TO SAVE
00:29:52:00	00:29:52:00	THE LIVES OF BOSTON
00:29:52:00	00:29:56:00	FIREFIGHTERS AND PREVENT THE
00:29:56:00	00:29:57:00	DEVASTATING IMPACTS THAT THIS
00:29:57:00	00:29:59:00	IS HAVING ON US AND OUR
00:29:59:00	00:30:00:00	FAMILIES.
00:30:00:00	00:30:03:00	WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE IT'S
00:30:03:00	00:30:04:00	ALMOST BECOME A QUESTION OF NOT
00:30:04:00	00:30:07:00	IF BUT WHEN WILL I GET THAT
00:30:07:00	00:30:08:00	PHONE CALL?
00:30:08:00	00:30:11:00	WHEN WILL I BE DIAGNOSED?
00:30:11:00	00:30:11:00	WHEN WILL ONE OF MY BROTHER OR
00:30:11:00	00:30:12:00	SISTER FIREFIGHTERS WHO I HAVE
00:30:12:00	00:30:15:00	SERVED ALONGSIDE FOR TEN, 12,
00:30:15:00	00:30:18:00	25 YEARS WHEN WILL THEY BE
00:30:18:00	00:30:18:00	DIAGNOSED?
00:30:18:00	00:30:19:00	WELL, LOOKING OVER OUR
00:30:19:00	00:30:22:00	SHOULDERS WHICH CAN'T HAPPEN
00:30:22:00	00:30:26:00	THERE'S NO POLITICS INSIDE OF A
00:30:26:00	00:30:26:00	BURNING BUILDING.
00:30:26:00	00:30:30:00	JUST OUR MISSION THE MISSION TO
00:30:30:00	00:30:30:00	SAVE LIVES AND PROTECT EACH
00:30:30:00	00:30:33:00	OTHER AT ALL COSTS AND BY ANY
00:30:33:00	00:30:34:00	MEANS NECESSARY.
00:30:34:00	00:30:37:00	ONCE AGAIN, I COMMEND THE
00:30:37:00	00:30:37:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL FOR
00:30:37:00	00:30:41:00	RECOGNIZING OUR FIGHT AND
00:30:41:00	00:30:42:00	JOINING US AS THE ALLIES THAT
00:30:42:00	00:30:44:00	WE HAVE TO HAVE INTO DESTROYING
00:30:44:00	00:30:48:00	THE DEATH SENTENCE THAT HAS
00:30:48:00	00:30:48:00	BECOME OCCUPATIONAL
00:30:48:00	00:30:51:00	CANCER WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE
00:30:51:00	00:30:52:00	.
00:30:52:00	00:30:52:00	IT HAS TO STOP AND THE
00:30:52:00	00:30:55:00	BEGINNING OF THAT END STARTS
00:30:55:00	00:30:56:00	TODAY BY HAVING THESE DIFFICULT
00:30:56:00	00:30:59:00	DISCUSSIONS AND DOING THE WORK
00:30:59:00	00:30:59:00	THAT MUST BE DONE.
00:30:59:00	00:31:00:00	I THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR
00:31:00:00	00:31:01:00	OF ADDRESSING THE CITY
00:31:01:00	00:31:03:00	COUNCIL TODAY.
00:31:03:00	00:31:04:00	THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH US
00:31:04:00	00:31:04:00	ON THIS FIGHT.
00:31:04:00	00:31:08:00	WE HAVE TO HAVE YOU.
00:31:08:00	00:31:08:00	WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO
00:31:08:00	00:31:09:00	HAVE YOU BY OUR SIDE.
00:31:09:00	00:31:11:00	I APPRECIATE THAT ON BEHALF
00:31:11:00	00:31:12:00	OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND OUR
00:31:12:00	00:31:12:00	FAMILIES.
00:31:12:00	00:31:18:00	THANK YOU.
00:31:18:00	00:31:22:00	CAN MY COLLEAGUES PLEASE JOIN
00:31:22:00	00:31:23:00	US UP HERE FOR A PERFECT
00:31:23:00	00:31:23:00	PICTURE?
00:31:23:00	00:31:24:00	JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK OUR
00:31:24:00	00:31:32:00	SPEAKERS TODAY.
00:31:32:00	00:31:38:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
00:31:38:00	00:31:47:00	SUPPORTING ME.
00:31:47:00	00:31:48:00	IT WAS A LONG TIME COMING AND
00:31:48:00	00:32:08:00	PULLED THE TRIGGER.
00:32:08:00	00:32:08:00	THANK YOU.
00:32:08:00	00:32:11:00	THANK YOU.
00:32:11:00	00:32:30:00	THANK I WANT TO THANK YOU SO
00:32:30:00	00:32:34:00	MUCH, COUNCILMAN SANTANA FOR
00:32:34:00	00:32:34:00	THAT PRESENTATION.
00:32:34:00	00:32:35:00	I KNOW THAT THIS FIGHT IS
00:32:35:00	00:32:38:00	PERSONAL FOR YOU.
00:32:38:00	00:32:38:00	WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR AND
00:32:38:00	00:32:41:00	UPLIFT YOUR MOTHER AND EVERYONE
00:32:41:00	00:32:42:00	HERE IN THE CITY WHO IS
00:32:42:00	00:32:46:00	BATTLING CANCER.
00:32:46:00	00:32:46:00	TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS WHO PUT
00:32:46:00	00:32:50:00	THEMSELVES AT RISK IN TAKING ON
00:32:50:00	00:32:50:00	THIS JOB AND THE INCREASE
00:32:50:00	00:32:53:00	OF OCCUPATIONAL CANCER.
00:32:53:00	00:32:57:00	SO WE WILL DO CONTINUE TO DO
00:32:57:00	00:32:57:00	WHAT WE CAN HERE.
00:32:57:00	00:32:58:00	WHAT INSPIRES ME INSPIRING MY
00:32:58:00	00:33:00:00	COLLEAGUES IS THAT WE ARE ALL
00:33:00:00	00:33:01:00	FIGHTING MULTIPLE FIGHTS
00:33:01:00	00:33:04:00	CARRYING HEAVINESS WITH US IN
00:33:04:00	00:33:04:00	THIS MOMENT.
00:33:04:00	00:33:05:00	THERE'S A LOT OF GRIEF AND
00:33:05:00	00:33:06:00	THERE'S A LOT OF PAIN IN OUR
00:33:06:00	00:33:08:00	CITY RIGHT NOW.
00:33:08:00	00:33:08:00	THAT WORK THAT WE'RE CARRYING
00:33:08:00	00:33:11:00	PERSONALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY BUT
00:33:11:00	00:33:12:00	WE'RE STILL HERE DOING THE WORK
00:33:12:00	00:33:13:00	MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE ON THE
00:33:13:00	00:33:16:00	FRONT LINES WITH THOSE WHO ARE
00:33:16:00	00:33:16:00	EXPERIENCING PAIN.
00:33:16:00	00:33:17:00	SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU
00:33:17:00	00:33:17:00	FOR.
00:33:17:00	00:33:20:00	FOR MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALL THE
00:33:20:00	00:33:21:00	WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING BECAUSE
00:33:21:00	00:33:21:00	I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY AND A LOT
00:33:21:00	00:33:24:00	OF THIS IS VERY PERSONAL.
00:33:24:00	00:33:25:00	SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
00:33:25:00	00:33:27:00	THAT I SHINE A LIGHT ON THE
00:33:27:00	00:33:28:00	TOUGH WORK THAT I KNOW SO MANY
00:33:28:00	00:33:31:00	OF YOU ARE DOING IN CARING SO
00:33:31:00	00:33:31:00	MUCH GRIEF.
00:33:31:00	00:33:36:00	IT IT'S A SO AGAIN, I JUST WANT
00:33:36:00	00:33:37:00	TO THANK DAN I WANT TO THANK
00:33:37:00	00:33:39:00	DR. MARVEL AND I WANT TO THANK
00:33:39:00	00:33:40:00	SAM AND TONY TONY COMING OFF
00:33:40:00	00:33:43:00	OF A BIG VICTORY CAIR, SEIU IN
00:33:43:00	00:33:43:00	THEIR CONTRACTS.
00:33:43:00	00:33:44:00	I WANT TO CONGRATULATE TONY ON
00:33:44:00	00:33:46:00	THAT TOO.
00:33:46:00	00:33:47:00	YOU KNOW ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH
00:33:47:00	00:33:51:00	I'LL TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT
00:33:51:00	00:33:54:00	MORE FOR RESOLUTIONS BUT IT'S A
00:33:54:00	00:33:55:00	MONTH WE'RE SUPPOSED TO
00:33:55:00	00:33:55:00	CELEBRATE AS PASTOR KIKI STATED
00:33:55:00	00:33:58:00	WHO WE ARE AS THE FIRST FREE
00:33:58:00	00:33:59:00	BLACK REPUBLIC IN THE WESTERN
00:33:59:00	00:34:01:00	HEMISPHERE, THE ONLY COUNTRY
00:34:01:00	00:34:02:00	FOUNDED FROM A SLAVE REVOLT.
00:34:02:00	00:34:06:00	AND HAITI IS AN SPIRALING IN
00:34:06:00	00:34:06:00	CHAOS RIGHT NOW AND UNCERTAINTY
00:34:06:00	00:34:09:00	AND INSTABILITY AND I DON'T
00:34:09:00	00:34:10:00	KNOW A PERSON WHO ISN'T WHO IS
00:34:10:00	00:34:13:00	A HAITIAN PERSON WHO IS NOT
00:34:13:00	00:34:13:00	AFFECTED BY WHAT'S GOING ON IN
00:34:13:00	00:34:14:00	HAITI.
00:34:14:00	00:34:17:00	IT'S IT'S IT'S BEEN REALLY
00:34:17:00	00:34:20:00	DIFFICULT AND SO A QUESTION WE
00:34:20:00	00:34:21:00	OFTEN GET IS WITH ALL THAT'S
00:34:21:00	00:34:24:00	GOING ON, HOW CAN YOU CELEBRATE
00:34:24:00	00:34:24:00	?
00:34:24:00	00:34:25:00	AND I THINK THE QUESTION IS
00:34:25:00	00:34:26:00	WITH ALL THIS GOING ON, HOW CAN
00:34:26:00	00:34:28:00	WE NOT HOW CAN WE FORGET WHO WE
00:34:28:00	00:34:28:00	ARE?
00:34:28:00	00:34:31:00	HOW CAN WE ALLOW BAD ACTORS AND
00:34:31:00	00:34:32:00	BAD PEOPLE TO ROB US OF OUR JOY
00:34:32:00	00:34:35:00	INTO ROB US OF OUR STORY?
00:34:35:00	00:34:36:00	WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AS A CITY.
00:34:36:00	00:34:38:00	WE ARE ON THE FRONT LINES FOR
00:34:38:00	00:34:39:00	OUR FIREFIGHTERS EXPERIENCING
00:34:39:00	00:34:43:00	CANCER FOR OUR LOVED ONES, FOR
00:34:43:00	00:34:43:00	OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WE'RE
00:34:43:00	00:34:46:00	UNDER ATTACK AND WE STAND
00:34:46:00	00:34:47:00	UNITED IN THAT FIGHT.
00:34:47:00	00:34:47:00	SO WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO
00:34:47:00	00:34:50:00	INTRODUCE WITH A LOT OF JOY
00:34:50:00	00:34:51:00	CHAOS DANCE STUDIO WHICH WAS
00:34:51:00	00:34:54:00	FOUNDED IN FEBRUARY 2011 BY
00:34:54:00	00:34:54:00	CINDY AUGUSTIN.
00:34:54:00	00:34:58:00	SHE'S A PROFESSIONAL DANCER,
00:34:58:00	00:34:58:00	CHOREOGRAPHER, A DANCE
00:34:58:00	00:34:59:00	INSTRUCTOR AND DANCE AWARD
00:34:59:00	00:34:59:00	RECIPIENT.
00:34:59:00	00:35:02:00	SHE STUDIED HAITIAN FOLKLORE,
00:35:02:00	00:35:03:00	HIP HOP AND JAZZ AT JOEL DONUT
00:35:03:00	00:35:06:00	TENT BELOW ÉCOLE THE DANCE IN
00:35:06:00	00:35:09:00	PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI AFTER
00:35:09:00	00:35:10:00	MOVING TO THE UNITED STATES IN
00:35:10:00	00:35:10:00	2009 TO CONTINUE HER DANCE
00:35:10:00	00:35:13:00	STUDIES IN MODERN CONTEMPORARY
00:35:13:00	00:35:13:00	AND BALLET AT PINE MANOR
00:35:13:00	00:35:14:00	COLLEGE WHERE SHE GRADUATED
00:35:14:00	00:35:17:00	WITH A MINOR IN DANCE CALMS
00:35:17:00	00:35:18:00	INDIA WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE
00:35:18:00	00:35:20:00	DANCE ENSEMBLE THE PINE MANOR
00:35:20:00	00:35:21:00	COLLEGE DANCE TEAM CAST DANCE
00:35:21:00	00:35:22:00	STUDIOS A DYNAMIC AND INCLUSIVE
00:35:22:00	00:35:25:00	DANCE ORGANIZATION ROOTED IN
00:35:25:00	00:35:25:00	THE GREATER BOSTON AREA WITH AN
00:35:25:00	00:35:28:00	ADDITIONAL LOCATION IN TAUNTON
00:35:28:00	00:35:29:00	, MASSACHUSETTS.
00:35:29:00	00:35:29:00	FOR OVER A DECADE THE STUDIO
00:35:29:00	00:35:30:00	HAS BEEN A VITAL PART OF THE
00:35:30:00	00:35:32:00	LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATING
00:35:32:00	00:35:33:00	IN CULTURAL EVENTS AND TOUCHING
00:35:33:00	00:35:33:00	HEARTS WITH ITS PASSIONATE
00:35:33:00	00:35:36:00	PERFORMANCES.
00:35:36:00	00:35:37:00	DANCE STUDIO OFFERS A BROAD
00:35:37:00	00:35:37:00	RANGE OF DANCE CLASSES
00:35:37:00	00:35:40:00	INCLUDING BALLET, HIP HOP,
00:35:40:00	00:35:40:00	AFROBEATS, HAITIAN FOLKLORE,
00:35:40:00	00:35:44:00	THE SURGICAL LYRICAL,
00:35:44:00	00:35:44:00	CONTEMPORARY ZUMBA BELLY
00:35:44:00	00:35:45:00	DANCING AND SOCIAL DANCES OPEN
00:35:45:00	00:35:48:00	TO STUDENTS OF ALL AGES AND
00:35:48:00	00:35:48:00	SKILL LEVELS.
00:35:48:00	00:35:49:00	THE STUDIO'S INCLUSIVE APPROACH
00:35:49:00	00:35:51:00	ENSURES THAT EVERYONE HAS AN
00:35:51:00	00:35:51:00	OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE THEIR
00:35:51:00	00:35:52:00	LOVE FOR DANCE REGARDLESS
00:35:52:00	00:35:55:00	OF THEIR BACKGROUND OR
00:35:55:00	00:35:55:00	EXPERIENCE.
00:35:55:00	00:35:56:00	AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO PUT IN A
00:35:56:00	00:35:59:00	PLUG FOR THEM FOR THIS SUNDAY
00:35:59:00	00:35:59:00	EVENING THEY'LL BE HAVING A
00:35:59:00	00:36:02:00	SHOW AT THE STRAND THEATER AT
00:36:02:00	00:36:02:00	6:00 AM SURE.
00:36:02:00	00:36:02:00	SURE.
00:36:02:00	00:36:04:00	IF YOU WANTED TO COME AND SAY A
00:36:04:00	00:36:06:00	FEW WORDS JUST ABOUT KISS DANCE
00:36:06:00	00:36:06:00	STUDIO AND THEN WE WILL BE
00:36:06:00	00:36:08:00	TREATED TO A WONDERFUL DANCE
00:36:08:00	00:36:12:00	PERFORMANCE.
00:36:12:00	00:36:16:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING
00:36:16:00	00:36:16:00	ME.
00:36:16:00	00:36:17:00	MY NAME IS CARMEN INDIA AND I'M
00:36:17:00	00:36:18:00	THE FOUNDER OF KEIRA'S DANCE
00:36:18:00	00:36:20:00	STUDIO SO I WOULD LIKE TO
00:36:20:00	00:36:21:00	INVITE YOU ALL AT THIS
00:36:21:00	00:36:23:00	WONDERFUL PRESENTATION
00:36:23:00	00:36:24:00	PERFORMANCE THAT WE'RE HAVING
00:36:24:00	00:36:24:00	AT THE STRAND THEATER ON
00:36:24:00	00:36:24:00	SUNDAY.
00:36:24:00	00:36:27:00	PERFECT DATE MAY 18, WHICH IS
00:36:27:00	00:36:30:00	HAITIAN FLAG DAY AT 5 P.M..
00:36:30:00	00:36:31:00	THE SHOW IS TITLED GENESIS THE
00:36:31:00	00:36:34:00	JOURNEY FROM HISPANIOLA TO
00:36:34:00	00:36:34:00	HAITI.
00:36:34:00	00:36:35:00	SO IF YOU'VE NEVER IF YOU DON'T
00:36:35:00	00:36:38:00	KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE HAITIAN
00:36:38:00	00:36:38:00	HISTORY IS A PERFECT
00:36:38:00	00:36:39:00	OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND SEE IT
00:36:39:00	00:36:42:00	LIVE ON STAGE.
00:36:42:00	00:36:45:00	THE STORY TAKES PLACE STARTING
00:36:45:00	00:36:46:00	FROM THE 14TH HUNDREDS BEFORE
00:36:46:00	00:36:46:00	CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ARRIVED IN
00:36:46:00	00:36:49:00	HAITI WITH THE TOWNSPEOPLE AND
00:36:49:00	00:36:52:00	WE END THE SHOW IN THE 1800S
00:36:52:00	00:36:53:00	WITH THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
00:36:53:00	00:36:57:00	WHICH MADE HAITI THE FIRST
00:36:57:00	00:36:57:00	BLACK INDEPENDENT NATION.
00:36:57:00	00:37:26:00	SO THANK YOU.
00:37:26:00	00:37:29:00	OH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE
00:37:29:00	00:37:30:00	OF IT THAT HE DID YOU SEE THAT
00:37:30:00	00:37:38:00	FELLOW AND HE DID YOU GLAD TO
00:37:38:00	00:37:38:00	SEE YOUR LITTLE GUY.
00:37:38:00	00:37:41:00	DO YOU REALLY?
00:37:41:00	00:37:42:00	OH, I DO.
00:37:42:00	00:37:48:00	I DO NOT BECAUSE WE BOTH DO.
00:37:48:00	00:37:52:00	BY BENJAMIN.
00:37:52:00	00:37:56:00	OH, NOW YOU WILL BE WILL BE.
00:37:56:00	00:38:03:00	I KEEP FEELING WHAT THIS KEEPS
00:38:03:00	00:38:06:00	WITH ME AND I.
00:38:06:00	00:38:14:00	I DON'T SAY THAT I LIVE IN I
00:38:14:00	00:38:19:00	KNOW I DID I KNOW I SAID I KNOW
00:38:19:00	00:38:23:00	NOW LA LA LA LA LA LA THAT HAD
00:38:23:00	00:38:38:00	A LOT THAT AND THE DAY I DID
00:38:38:00	00:38:43:00	BUT I'M GOING TO GO BACK I BUT
00:38:43:00	00:38:45:00	I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU GOT TO BE
00:38:45:00	00:38:46:00	COMPLETELY OBSESSED THAT
00:38:46:00	00:38:52:00	HOPEFULLY HE DID IT WHY THAT
00:38:52:00	00:39:00:00	THAT QUICKLY KNOW YOU'RE NOT
00:39:00:00	00:39:04:00	ONLY BACK TO BACK YOU KNOW LA
00:39:04:00	00:39:08:00	LIBERTÉ YOU GOT THERE NO I
00:39:08:00	00:39:12:00	DON'T KNOW WHO I KNOW BECAUSE
00:39:12:00	00:39:16:00	THAT DAY I ABOUT PEDRO I'VE
00:39:16:00	00:39:19:00	KNOWN HIM A LONG MACEO WHY
00:39:19:00	00:39:20:00	DON'T YOU WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE
00:39:20:00	00:39:26:00	TV MATCHES WHY DON'T THEY SAY
00:39:26:00	00:39:27:00	THIS REALLY GOOD OR BAD?
00:39:27:00	00:39:34:00	I LIKE OKAY BABY I SHALL WHAT?
00:39:34:00	00:39:41:00	DON'T TELL ME WHAT THEY SAID
00:39:41:00	00:39:43:00	WHAT TO ME ALONE HE MATCHES AND
00:39:43:00	00:39:52:00	MATCHES RECORDED EVERY DAY AND
00:39:52:00	00:40:06:00	I SAID I DON'T IF YOU GET TO
00:40:06:00	00:40:09:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH COULD PLEASE
00:40:09:00	00:40:10:00	JOIN US AND MY COLLEAGUES COULD
00:40:10:00	00:40:13:00	PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PHOTO AS
00:40:13:00	00:40:13:00	WELL AS PARSLEY.
00:40:13:00	00:40:14:00	KIKI WE HAVE OUR THE RESOLUTION
00:40:14:00	00:40:16:00	ACKNOWLEDGING ASIAN HERITAGE
00:40:16:00	00:40:17:00	MONTH THAT WE'LL BE INTRODUCING
00:40:17:00	00:40:18:00	LATER BUT WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU
00:40:18:00	00:40:23:00	ALL COULD COME FORWARD AND
00:40:23:00	00:40:24:00	WHOEVER MY FATHER IS TOO IF
00:40:24:00	00:40:25:00	YOU'D LIKE TO COME FORWARD BUT
00:40:25:00	00:40:49:00	DON'T WORRY.
00:40:49:00	00:40:49:00	THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.
00:40:49:00	00:41:10:00	THANK YOU.
00:41:10:00	00:41:15:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH ACROSS INDIA
00:41:15:00	00:41:15:00	AND FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL,
00:41:15:00	00:41:16:00	BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE AND I
00:41:16:00	00:41:18:00	HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL
00:41:18:00	00:41:19:00	PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY THE WORDS
00:41:19:00	00:41:22:00	OF THAT SONG WHAT WHEN HAITI IS
00:41:22:00	00:41:23:00	FREE OH HOW BEAUTIFUL IT WILL
00:41:23:00	00:41:25:00	BE AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT
00:41:25:00	00:41:25:00	FOR US TO CARRY WITH US.
00:41:25:00	00:41:28:00	SO THANK YOU.
00:41:28:00	00:41:32:00	OKAY.
00:41:32:00	00:41:32:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
00:41:32:00	00:41:33:00	AMEND THE RECORD TO REFLECT
00:41:33:00	00:41:36:00	THAT COUNCILORS COLETTE ZAPATA,
00:41:36:00	00:41:42:00	BRAYDEN AND NARELLE ARE NOW
00:41:42:00	00:41:46:00	PRESENTED WITH US.
00:41:46:00	00:41:47:00	OKAY NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER
00:41:47:00	00:41:47:00	OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THEIR
00:41:47:00	00:41:49:00	APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM
00:41:49:00	00:41:50:00	THE MEETING OF MAY SEVEN, 2025.
00:41:50:00	00:41:53:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I ALL
00:41:53:00	00:41:54:00	OPPOSING THE AYES HAVE IT.
00:41:54:00	00:41:57:00	THE MINUTES OF THE MAY 7TH
00:41:57:00	00:41:57:00	MEETING ARE APPROVED.
00:41:57:00	00:41:58:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS
00:41:58:00	00:42:00:00	FROM OUR HONOR.
00:42:00:00	00:42:01:00	THE MAYOR MR COURT WOULD YOU
00:42:01:00	00:42:02:00	PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 1051
00:42:02:00	00:42:05:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 01051 MESSAGE NOT
00:42:05:00	00:42:06:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:42:06:00	00:42:09:00	TO ACCEPT AN EXPENDITURE AMOUNT
00:42:09:00	00:42:13:00	OF $23,860 IN THE FORM OF A
00:42:13:00	00:42:13:00	GRANT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 25
00:42:13:00	00:42:17:00	FIREFIGHTERS SAFETY EQUIPMENT
00:42:17:00	00:42:17:00	GRANT ROUND TWO AWARDED BY
00:42:17:00	00:42:20:00	MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT
00:42:20:00	00:42:21:00	OF FIRE SERVICES TO BE
00:42:21:00	00:42:21:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE FIRE
00:42:21:00	00:42:24:00	DEPARTMENT.
00:42:24:00	00:42:24:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE
00:42:24:00	00:42:25:00	PROCUREMENT OF NECESSARY
00:42:25:00	00:42:25:00	EQUIPMENT.
00:42:25:00	00:42:28:00	FIREFIGHTER PERSONAL PROTECTIVE
00:42:28:00	00:42:29:00	AND SAFETY EQUIPMENT TO COMPLY
00:42:29:00	00:42:32:00	WITH THE NATIONAL FIRE
00:42:32:00	00:42:32:00	PROTECTION ASSOCIATION AND
00:42:32:00	00:42:36:00	OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
00:42:36:00	00:42:36:00	ADMINISTRATION STANDARDS.
00:42:36:00	00:42:36:00	THANK YOU, DOCTOR.
00:42:36:00	00:42:39:00	NUMBER 1051 WILL BE REFERRED TO
00:42:39:00	00:42:40:00	THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
00:42:40:00	00:42:43:00	AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
00:42:43:00	00:42:44:00	MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ
00:42:44:00	00:42:47:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1052 DOCKET
00:42:47:00	00:42:49:00	NUMBER 01052 MESSAGE DO NOT
00:42:49:00	00:42:50:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:42:50:00	00:42:53:00	TO ACCEPT AND THE AMOUNT
00:42:53:00	00:42:54:00	OF $15,000 IN THE FORM OF A
00:42:54:00	00:42:57:00	GRANT FOR THE BTR PROGRAM
00:42:57:00	00:42:58:00	AWARDED BY THE DONOR GROUP TO
00:42:58:00	00:43:00:00	BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:43:00:00	00:43:01:00	OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:43:01:00	00:43:04:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND FREE TAX
00:43:04:00	00:43:05:00	PREPARATION AND FILING SERVICES
00:43:05:00	00:43:06:00	TO LOW AND MODERATE INCOME
00:43:06:00	00:43:09:00	BOSTON RESIDENTS.
00:43:09:00	00:43:09:00	THANK YOU.
00:43:09:00	00:43:10:00	DOCKET NUMBER 105 TO BE
00:43:10:00	00:43:12:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:43:12:00	00:43:13:00	LABOR WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC
00:43:13:00	00:43:13:00	DEVELOPMENT.
00:43:13:00	00:43:16:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS
00:43:16:00	00:43:17:00	OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS.
00:43:17:00	00:43:17:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:43:17:00	00:43:23:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 105331055 DUGAN
00:43:23:00	00:43:26:00	NUMBER 1053 COMMUNICATION WAS
00:43:26:00	00:43:26:00	RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:43:26:00	00:43:29:00	LOUIJEUNE REGARDING CITY
00:43:29:00	00:43:31:00	COUNCIL RULE 48 LUCKY NUMBER
00:43:31:00	00:43:32:00	1054 COMMUNICATION RECEIVED
00:43:32:00	00:43:36:00	FROM SCOTT FINCH THE ORDER
00:43:36:00	00:43:39:00	TRANSMITTING A LIST OF FISCAL
00:43:39:00	00:43:40:00	YEAR 25 REALLOCATIONS MADE BY
00:43:40:00	00:43:42:00	THE MAYOR PRIOR TO APRIL 2025
00:43:42:00	00:43:46:00	FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING
00:43:46:00	00:43:49:00	OPERATIONS DOCKET NUMBER 1055
00:43:49:00	00:43:50:00	COMMUNICATION FROM COUNCILOR OF
00:43:50:00	00:43:54:00	FLYNN REGARDING DOWNTOWN PUBLIC
00:43:54:00	00:43:56:00	SAFETY IN DOCKET NUMBER 1056
00:43:56:00	00:43:57:00	COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM THE
00:43:57:00	00:44:00:00	CITY CLERK TRANSMITTING A
00:44:00:00	00:44:01:00	COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOSTON
00:44:01:00	00:44:04:00	LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR CITY
00:44:04:00	00:44:04:00	COUNCIL ACTION ON THE
00:44:04:00	00:44:07:00	DESIGNATION OF THE OLD NORTH
00:44:07:00	00:44:08:00	CHURCH AND CAMPUS 193 SALEM
00:44:08:00	00:44:12:00	STREET BOSTON, MASS.
00:44:12:00	00:44:12:00	AS A LANDMARK IN EFFECT AFTER
00:44:12:00	00:44:15:00	JUNE SIX, 2025 IF NOT ACTED
00:44:15:00	00:44:15:00	UPON.
00:44:15:00	00:44:19:00	THANK THESE COMMUNICATION
00:44:19:00	00:44:22:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 105321055 WILL
00:44:22:00	00:44:27:00	BE PLACED ON FILE.
00:44:27:00	00:44:27:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:44:27:00	00:44:28:00	COUNCILOR OUTCOMES WHERE ARE
00:44:28:00	00:44:30:00	YOU ON THE FLOOR.
00:44:30:00	00:44:30:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:44:30:00	00:44:37:00	I LIKE TO HAVE NUMBER 10541054
00:44:37:00	00:44:38:00	BE REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
00:44:38:00	00:44:38:00	COMMITTEE.
00:44:38:00	00:44:40:00	OKAY MR. CLERK CAN WE PLEASE
00:44:40:00	00:44:41:00	REFER DOCKET NUMBER 1054 TO THE
00:44:41:00	00:44:44:00	COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS?
00:44:44:00	00:44:44:00	THANK YOU.
00:44:44:00	00:44:45:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:44:45:00	00:44:45:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN.
00:44:45:00	00:44:46:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, YOU HAVE THE
00:44:46:00	00:44:47:00	FLOOR.
00:44:47:00	00:44:48:00	THANK YOU.
00:44:48:00	00:44:51:00	HAPPY PRESERVATION MONTH AS THE
00:44:51:00	00:44:52:00	CHAIR OF PLANNING DEVELOPMENT
00:44:52:00	00:44:52:00	AND TRANSPORTATION, I'M IN
00:44:52:00	00:44:55:00	STRONG SUPPORT OF THE BOSTON
00:44:55:00	00:44:55:00	LANDMARKS COMMISSION'S
00:44:55:00	00:44:56:00	UNANIMOUS DECISION TO DESIGNATE
00:44:56:00	00:44:59:00	THE OLD NORTH CHURCH AND CAMPUS
00:44:59:00	00:45:00:00	IN THE NORTH END AS AN OFFICIAL
00:45:00:00	00:45:00:00	BOSTON LANDMARK AS THE OLDEST
00:45:00:00	00:45:03:00	STANDING CHURCH BUILDING IN OUR
00:45:03:00	00:45:04:00	CITY AND ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC
00:45:04:00	00:45:04:00	IN OUR NATION.
00:45:04:00	00:45:07:00	OLD NORTH IS MORE THAN JUST
00:45:07:00	00:45:07:00	BRICKS AND MORTAR.
00:45:07:00	00:45:10:00	IT IS A LIVING SYMBOL OF OUR
00:45:10:00	00:45:11:00	COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AS
00:45:11:00	00:45:11:00	BOSTONIANS AND AMERICANS.
00:45:11:00	00:45:14:00	BUILT IN 1723 AND 1740, THIS
00:45:14:00	00:45:18:00	HISTORIC CHURCH STOOD AT THE
00:45:18:00	00:45:18:00	CENTER OF ONE OF THE MOST
00:45:18:00	00:45:19:00	CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENTS IN
00:45:19:00	00:45:21:00	AMERICAN HISTORY WHEN TWO
00:45:21:00	00:45:22:00	LANTERNS AND ITS STEEPLE
00:45:22:00	00:45:22:00	SIGNALED THE MOVEMENT
00:45:22:00	00:45:25:00	OF BRITISH TROOPS TO THE SONS
00:45:25:00	00:45:25:00	OF LIBERTY.
00:45:25:00	00:45:28:00	ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL 18, 1775
00:45:28:00	00:45:32:00	THIS IS IMMORTALIZED BY HENRY
00:45:32:00	00:45:36:00	WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WAS PAUL
00:45:36:00	00:45:37:00	REVERE'S RIDE AND ONE THAT
00:45:37:00	00:45:40:00	CONTINUES TO RESONATE AS A
00:45:40:00	00:45:40:00	POWERFUL EMBLEM OF LIBERTY AND
00:45:40:00	00:45:40:00	RESISTANCE.
00:45:40:00	00:45:43:00	AND I KNOW COUNCILOR CLAUDE AS
00:45:43:00	00:45:44:00	A POTTER WE HONORED THAT JUST
00:45:44:00	00:45:47:00	LAST MONTH.
00:45:47:00	00:45:47:00	GIVEN TODAY'S SOCIOPOLITICAL
00:45:47:00	00:45:48:00	ENVIRONMENT AND THE PROTECTION
00:45:48:00	00:45:52:00	OF THESE SYMBOLS AND OUR FOR
00:45:52:00	00:45:53:00	OUR PROSPERITY IS EVEN MORE
00:45:53:00	00:45:55:00	CONSEQUENTIAL.
00:45:55:00	00:45:55:00	THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OLD NORTH
00:45:55:00	00:45:56:00	EXTENDS BEYOND THE BIRTH OF OUR
00:45:56:00	00:45:56:00	NATION.
00:45:56:00	00:45:59:00	A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE
00:45:59:00	00:45:59:00	OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ENGLISH
00:45:59:00	00:46:02:00	ARCHITECTURE CULTURE TRADITION.
00:46:02:00	00:46:03:00	A GEORGIAN GEM INSPIRED BY SIR
00:46:03:00	00:46:07:00	CHRISTOPHER WREN AND A GROWING
00:46:07:00	00:46:07:00	COMMITMENT TO TELL A FULL
00:46:07:00	00:46:10:00	INCLUSIVE STORY OF ALL WHO
00:46:10:00	00:46:10:00	SHAPED IT.
00:46:10:00	00:46:11:00	TODAY RESEARCHERS AND ADVOCATES
00:46:11:00	00:46:14:00	ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO BRING
00:46:14:00	00:46:14:00	FORWARD THE STORIES OF BLACK
00:46:14:00	00:46:15:00	AND INDIGENOUS MEMBERS WHO HAVE
00:46:15:00	00:46:18:00	TOO LONG BEEN EXCLUDED FROM OUR
00:46:18:00	00:46:19:00	BROADER NARRATIVE OF OLD NORSE
00:46:19:00	00:46:19:00	HISTORY.
00:46:19:00	00:46:22:00	THIS DESIGNATION IS ABOUT
00:46:22:00	00:46:22:00	PRESERVATION AND ENSURES THAT
00:46:22:00	00:46:26:00	THE HISTORIC SITE WILL BE
00:46:26:00	00:46:26:00	PROTECTED FROM DEMOLITION OR
00:46:26:00	00:46:27:00	APPROPRIATE ALTERATION IN
00:46:27:00	00:46:29:00	PERPETUITY.
00:46:29:00	00:46:30:00	AND IT AFFIRMS THAT WE AS A
00:46:30:00	00:46:33:00	CITY VALUE OUR HERITAGE NOT
00:46:33:00	00:46:34:00	JUST FOR ESTHETIC BEAUTY OR
00:46:34:00	00:46:35:00	TOURISM VALUE BUT ALSO FOR THE
00:46:35:00	00:46:37:00	TRUTH THAT HOLDS AND THE
00:46:37:00	00:46:38:00	STORIES THAT IT INVITES US TO
00:46:38:00	00:46:38:00	KEEP TELLING.
00:46:38:00	00:46:41:00	AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I'M A
00:46:41:00	00:46:42:00	STRONG PROPONENT OF A DYNAMIC
00:46:42:00	00:46:45:00	AND CHANGING BOSTON TO FOSTER
00:46:45:00	00:46:46:00	GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WE NEED
00:46:46:00	00:46:46:00	IN OUR CITY.
00:46:46:00	00:46:49:00	BUT SOME THINGS SHOULD
00:46:49:00	00:46:49:00	ABSOLUTELY NOT CHANGE.
00:46:49:00	00:46:53:00	THAT SAME FUTURE WILL BE FOR
00:46:53:00	00:46:54:00	NAUGHT IF WE DON'T APPLY THE
00:46:54:00	00:46:54:00	SAME VIGOR TO PRESERVE
00:46:54:00	00:46:57:00	LANDMARKS OF OBVIOUS VALUE.
00:46:57:00	00:46:57:00	THIS LANDMARK.
00:46:57:00	00:46:58:00	I'M SURPRISED THAT THIS IS NOT
00:46:58:00	00:47:01:00	ALREADY A BOSTON.
00:47:01:00	00:47:03:00	THAT'S WHY I AM PROUD AS THE
00:47:03:00	00:47:03:00	CHAIR AND WHAT'S ONE OF MY
00:47:03:00	00:47:06:00	DEEPEST HONORS TO MOVE FOR THIS
00:47:06:00	00:47:07:00	LANDMARK DESIGNATION TO BE
00:47:07:00	00:47:11:00	VOTED ON BEFORE THE ENTIRE BODY
00:47:11:00	00:47:11:00	.
00:47:11:00	00:47:12:00	I WANT TO COMMEND THE
00:47:12:00	00:47:12:00	COOPERATION OF CHRISTCHURCH AND
00:47:12:00	00:47:15:00	OLD NORTH ILLUMINATED FOR THEIR
00:47:15:00	00:47:15:00	STEWARDSHIP AND I APPLAUD THE
00:47:15:00	00:47:18:00	BOSTON LANDMARKS COMMISSION FOR
00:47:18:00	00:47:19:00	THE UNANIMOUS VOTE AND THE
00:47:19:00	00:47:20:00	MAYOR FOR APPROVING THIS
00:47:20:00	00:47:22:00	DESIGNATION.
00:47:22:00	00:47:23:00	TODAY I URGE MY COLLEAGUES IN
00:47:23:00	00:47:24:00	THIS BODY TO DO OUR PART AND
00:47:24:00	00:47:26:00	ACTIVELY AFFIRMING THEIR
00:47:26:00	00:47:26:00	DECISION.
00:47:26:00	00:47:27:00	AND I'D LIKE TO PASS IT TO YOU
00:47:27:00	00:47:30:00	THAT MY DISTRICT
00:47:30:00	00:47:30:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUE
00:47:30:00	00:47:30:00	COUNCILOR CLAUDIA ZAPATA WHO
00:47:30:00	00:47:35:00	REPRESENTS THE AREA.
00:47:35:00	00:47:35:00	THANK YOU.
00:47:35:00	00:47:36:00	THE CHAIR AND I JUST HAVE TO
00:47:36:00	00:47:36:00	CALL IT AS A PARTY OF THE
00:47:36:00	00:47:37:00	FLOOR.
00:47:37:00	00:47:38:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND
00:47:38:00	00:47:38:00	THANK YOU CHAIR.
00:47:38:00	00:47:39:00	I WAS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE OLD
00:47:39:00	00:47:42:00	NORTH CHURCH UP AT THE
00:47:42:00	00:47:42:00	LANDMARKS COMMISSION ON APRIL
00:47:42:00	00:47:42:00	22ND.
00:47:42:00	00:47:45:00	I THINK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES
00:47:45:00	00:47:46:00	DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB TALKING
00:47:46:00	00:47:49:00	ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE OLD
00:47:49:00	00:47:49:00	NORTH CHURCH.
00:47:49:00	00:47:50:00	IT IS ACTUALLY FOR FOLKS THAT
00:47:50:00	00:47:50:00	DON'T KNOW.
00:47:50:00	00:47:52:00	IT IS THE OLDEST STANDING
00:47:53:00	00:47:53:00	CHURCH IN BOSTON.
00:47:53:00	00:47:56:00	IT IS A RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY
00:47:56:00	00:47:57:00	PRESERVED EXAMPLE OF GEORGIAN
00:47:57:00	00:47:57:00	ARCHITECTURE.
00:47:57:00	00:48:00:00	ITS STEEPLE REMAINS A DEFINING
00:48:00:00	00:48:01:00	FEATURE OF THE NORTH AND
00:48:01:00	00:48:04:00	SKYLINE AND ITS ORIGINAL
00:48:04:00	00:48:04:00	INTERIOR OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO
00:48:04:00	00:48:08:00	COLONIAL ERA LIFE AND WORSHIP
00:48:08:00	00:48:08:00	PRACTICES.
00:48:08:00	00:48:11:00	TODAY IT'S EVOLVED INTO AN
00:48:11:00	00:48:12:00	INCREDIBLE CIVIC ORGANIZATION
00:48:12:00	00:48:16:00	AND PROGRAMING AND EDUCATIONAL
00:48:16:00	00:48:16:00	FACILITY.
00:48:16:00	00:48:19:00	IT'S NOW CALLED OLD NORTH
00:48:19:00	00:48:19:00	ILLUMINATED.
00:48:19:00	00:48:20:00	IT WAS FORMERLY OLD NORTH
00:48:20:00	00:48:20:00	FOUNDATION.
00:48:20:00	00:48:23:00	IT PROVIDES THE PUBLIC
00:48:23:00	00:48:23:00	PROGRAMING SCHOOL VISITS
00:48:23:00	00:48:24:00	EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS AND
00:48:24:00	00:48:26:00	ENGAGES THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS
00:48:26:00	00:48:27:00	AND VISITORS EACH YEAR.
00:48:27:00	00:48:30:00	ITS ROLE IN CIVIC LIFE
00:48:30:00	00:48:31:00	CONTINUES TO EVOLVE WHILE
00:48:31:00	00:48:31:00	REMAINING GROUNDED IN ITS DEEP
00:48:31:00	00:48:34:00	AND AT TIMES CHALLENGING
00:48:34:00	00:48:35:00	HISTORICAL ROOTS.
00:48:35:00	00:48:35:00	SO DESIGNATING IT AS A LANDMARK
00:48:35:00	00:48:39:00	WILL ENSURE THAT WE HONOR AND
00:48:39:00	00:48:39:00	PRESERVE OUR PAST SO THAT WE
00:48:39:00	00:48:42:00	CAN BETTER INFORM THE
00:48:42:00	00:48:42:00	CITIZENSHIP OF OUR FUTURE.
00:48:42:00	00:48:43:00	AND I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO
00:48:43:00	00:48:47:00	SUPPORT THIS DESIGNATION AS A
00:48:47:00	00:48:47:00	LANDMARK.
00:48:47:00	00:48:47:00	THANK YOU.
00:48:47:00	00:48:48:00	THANK YOU.
00:48:48:00	00:48:50:00	THE JOURNALISM SCHOLARSHIP FUND
00:48:50:00	00:48:50:00	COUNCIL FOR ANY OTHER FLOOR.
00:48:50:00	00:48:53:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:48:53:00	00:48:56:00	I'M GOING TO SPEAK ON DOCKET
00:48:56:00	00:48:56:00	1055.
00:48:56:00	00:48:56:00	OKAY.
00:48:56:00	00:49:01:00	THAT'S NOT A WE'RE STILL ON
00:49:01:00	00:49:01:00	DOCKET NUMBER WHERE WE WENT TO.
00:49:01:00	00:49:03:00	WE KIND OF SKIPPED AHEAD AND
00:49:03:00	00:49:04:00	WENT TO 1056 SO I WILL CALL ON
00:49:04:00	00:49:05:00	YOU RIGHT WHEN WE'RE DONE.
00:49:05:00	00:49:08:00	IS ANYONE LOOKING ALSO SPEAKING
00:49:08:00	00:49:10:00	AS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
00:49:10:00	00:49:10:00	ON DOCKET 1056?
00:49:10:00	00:49:13:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN IF I'M CORRECT
00:49:13:00	00:49:14:00	, SEEKING PASSAGE OF THIS AS A
00:49:14:00	00:49:14:00	LANDMARK.
00:49:14:00	00:49:14:00	OKAY.
00:49:14:00	00:49:18:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN SEEKS AS CHAIR
00:49:18:00	00:49:18:00	OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
00:49:18:00	00:49:21:00	DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION AND
00:49:21:00	00:49:24:00	SEEKS PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER
00:49:24:00	00:49:24:00	1056.
00:49:24:00	00:49:25:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I.
00:49:25:00	00:49:26:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE
00:49:26:00	00:49:28:00	CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL
00:49:28:00	00:49:32:00	CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:49:32:00	00:49:33:00	1056.
00:49:33:00	00:49:33:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
00:49:33:00	00:49:38:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
00:49:38:00	00:49:39:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTY
00:49:39:00	00:49:40:00	COUNCILOR WAS A OF PARTY YES.
00:49:40:00	00:49:40:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN.
00:49:40:00	00:49:40:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
00:49:40:00	00:49:43:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANTOS AND
00:49:43:00	00:49:43:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
00:49:43:00	00:49:44:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
00:49:44:00	00:49:48:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILPERSON
00:49:48:00	00:49:48:00	YES.
00:49:48:00	00:49:48:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
00:49:48:00	00:49:51:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
00:49:51:00	00:49:52:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
00:49:52:00	00:49:52:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
00:49:52:00	00:49:52:00	YES.
00:49:52:00	00:49:55:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:49:55:00	00:49:56:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
00:49:56:00	00:49:56:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
00:49:56:00	00:49:59:00	COUNCILOR YES.
00:49:59:00	00:49:59:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:49:59:00	00:49:59:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
00:49:59:00	00:50:02:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
00:50:02:00	00:50:03:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
00:50:03:00	00:50:03:00	YES.
00:50:03:00	00:50:03:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.
00:50:03:00	00:50:06:00	COUNCILOR WU YES.
00:50:06:00	00:50:09:00	TALKING NUMBER 1056 HAS
00:50:09:00	00:50:10:00	RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
00:50:10:00	00:50:10:00	AFFIRMATIVE.
00:50:10:00	00:50:10:00	THANK YOU, DUNCAN.
00:50:10:00	00:50:13:00	NUMBER 1056 HAS PASSED.
00:50:13:00	00:50:14:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAD THE
00:50:14:00	00:50:15:00	FLOOR TO SPEAK ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:50:15:00	00:50:19:00	1055.
00:50:19:00	00:50:20:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:50:20:00	00:50:21:00	THIS IS A LETTER I SENT FROM
00:50:21:00	00:50:23:00	MYSELF, THE BOSTON POLICE
00:50:23:00	00:50:26:00	COMMISSIONER ABOUT CHALLENGES
00:50:26:00	00:50:27:00	WE EXPERIENCED IN THE DOWNTOWN
00:50:27:00	00:50:30:00	AREA OF BOSTON PUBLIC SAFETY
00:50:30:00	00:50:31:00	AND QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES.
00:50:31:00	00:50:34:00	THIS IS AN ISSUE I KNOW WELL,
00:50:34:00	00:50:35:00	I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS ISSUE
00:50:35:00	00:50:38:00	FOR SEVEN YEARS.
00:50:38:00	00:50:42:00	I KNOW THE DOWNTOWN AREA I WENT
00:50:42:00	00:50:43:00	TO I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL HERE.
00:50:43:00	00:50:45:00	I SERVED AS A PROBATION OFFICER
00:50:45:00	00:50:46:00	.
00:50:46:00	00:50:46:00	MY SON WENT TO HEIGHTEN.
00:50:46:00	00:50:49:00	MY SON WENT TO GRADE SCHOOL
00:50:49:00	00:50:50:00	HERE IN THIS AREA AS WELL.
00:50:50:00	00:50:53:00	I COME INTO THIS BUILDING EVERY
00:50:53:00	00:50:54:00	DAY AND SPEND A LOT OF DOWNTOWN
00:50:54:00	00:50:56:00	TIME IN THE DOWNTOWN BOSTON
00:50:56:00	00:50:57:00	AREA.
00:50:57:00	00:51:00:00	THE DOWNTOWN BOSTON
00:51:00:00	00:51:01:00	NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THE LAST
00:51:01:00	00:51:03:00	SEVERAL YEARS DECLINED
00:51:03:00	00:51:04:00	SIGNIFICANTLY IN MY OPINION.
00:51:04:00	00:51:07:00	PUBLIC SAFETY AND QUALITY
00:51:07:00	00:51:08:00	OF LIFE ISSUES.
00:51:08:00	00:51:11:00	HOWEVER, WE DID COME TOGETHER
00:51:11:00	00:51:16:00	AS A NEIGHBORHOOD, AS A CITY TO
00:51:16:00	00:51:16:00	ADDRESS THE ONGOING CRIME THE
00:51:16:00	00:51:19:00	ONGOING PUBLIC SAFETY
00:51:19:00	00:51:19:00	CHALLENGES.
00:51:19:00	00:51:23:00	WE CAME TOGETHER TO ACKNOWLEDGE
00:51:23:00	00:51:23:00	THAT WE HAD SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC
00:51:23:00	00:51:27:00	SAFETY ISSUES INCLUDING OPEN
00:51:27:00	00:51:31:00	DRUG DEALING AND OPEN DRUG USE,
00:51:31:00	00:51:35:00	VIOLENT CRIME, QUALITY OF LIFE
00:51:35:00	00:51:35:00	ISSUES.
00:51:35:00	00:51:38:00	WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE INTO
00:51:38:00	00:51:39:00	RECOVERY, INTO DETOX PROGRAMS.
00:51:39:00	00:51:42:00	THAT'S WHAT I'VE DONE MY WHOLE
00:51:42:00	00:51:43:00	LIFE AS A PROBATION OFFICER
00:51:43:00	00:51:46:00	HERE AT SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT
00:51:46:00	00:51:47:00	.
00:51:47:00	00:51:50:00	BUT HAVING SAID THAT, WE HAVE
00:51:50:00	00:51:51:00	TO ADDRESS PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:51:51:00	00:51:54:00	SELLING DRUGS AND USING DRUGS
00:51:54:00	00:51:58:00	FROM A CONSTANT ADVOCACY WE
00:51:58:00	00:52:02:00	HAVE WE'RE WORKING ON ENSURING
00:52:02:00	00:52:02:00	THAT ANYONE THAT IS USING DRUGS
00:52:02:00	00:52:06:00	OR SELLING DRUGS IN THE CITY IS
00:52:06:00	00:52:08:00	NOW ARRESTED AND WE HAVE
00:52:08:00	00:52:09:00	PROGRESS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA
00:52:09:00	00:52:13:00	ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST FOUR
00:52:13:00	00:52:13:00	OR FIVE MONTHS BECAUSE OF THIS
00:52:13:00	00:52:18:00	CHANGE IN POLICY NOT A CHANGE
00:52:18:00	00:52:19:00	IN LAW BUT A CHANGE IN POLICY
00:52:19:00	00:52:21:00	TO TO ARREST ANYONE THAT'S
00:52:21:00	00:52:24:00	SELLING DRUGS OR USING DRUGS.
00:52:24:00	00:52:25:00	THIS MORNING FAST FORWARD THIS
00:52:25:00	00:52:28:00	MORNING I ALONG WITH
00:52:28:00	00:52:31:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN HELD A KIND
00:52:31:00	00:52:32:00	OF A COFFEE HOUR MEETING IN THE
00:52:32:00	00:52:35:00	BOSTON COMMON AREA AND WE
00:52:35:00	00:52:38:00	DISCUSS THESE ISSUES THE
00:52:38:00	00:52:39:00	QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES WITH
00:52:39:00	00:52:43:00	RESIDENTS AND WITH NEIGHBORS,
00:52:43:00	00:52:44:00	WITH CIVIC GROUPS AND WITH THE
00:52:44:00	00:52:47:00	POLICE, WITH PRESENCE OF CITY
00:52:47:00	00:52:50:00	OFFICIALS AS WELL IN.
00:52:50:00	00:52:51:00	BEACON HILL.
00:52:51:00	00:52:52:00	THE BACK BAY WAS PRESENT THE
00:52:52:00	00:52:55:00	BAY VILLAGE, CHINATOWN, FORT
00:52:55:00	00:53:01:00	POINT AND IN OBVIOUSLY THE
00:53:01:00	00:53:04:00	DOWNTOWN AREA.
00:53:04:00	00:53:05:00	WHAT WE AGREED ON IS IT'S IT'S
00:53:05:00	00:53:08:00	INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT WE
00:53:08:00	00:53:08:00	WORK TOGETHER.
00:53:08:00	00:53:09:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY WAS THERE AS
00:53:09:00	00:53:09:00	WELL.
00:53:09:00	00:53:12:00	WHAT WE AGREED ON IS WE HAVE TO
00:53:12:00	00:53:13:00	CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO
00:53:13:00	00:53:16:00	ADDRESS QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES,
00:53:16:00	00:53:17:00	PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS AND
00:53:17:00	00:53:17:00	CHALLENGES.
00:53:17:00	00:53:20:00	I'M NOT GIVING UP ON THE
00:53:20:00	00:53:21:00	DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY.
00:53:21:00	00:53:24:00	I LOVE THAT.
00:53:24:00	00:53:24:00	I WAS ON A MEETING EARLIER THIS
00:53:24:00	00:53:28:00	WEEK WITH THE BEACON HILL CIVIC
00:53:28:00	00:53:29:00	ASSOCIATION AND THAT'S WHAT THE
00:53:29:00	00:53:32:00	RESIDENTS WERE ASKING US IS WE
00:53:32:00	00:53:35:00	NEED MORE SERVICES AND SUPPORT
00:53:35:00	00:53:36:00	IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON IN THE
00:53:36:00	00:53:36:00	BOSTON COMMON.
00:53:36:00	00:53:40:00	IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER AND
00:53:40:00	00:53:41:00	THAT'S WHAT I'M COMMITTED TO
00:53:41:00	00:53:44:00	DOING AS THE DISTRICT TWO CITY
00:53:44:00	00:53:44:00	COUNCIL WORKING WITH EVERYBODY
00:53:44:00	00:53:45:00	IN THIS ROOM AS WELL.
00:53:45:00	00:53:45:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:53:45:00	00:53:47:00	HEY, THANK YOU.
00:53:47:00	00:53:48:00	THAT DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1055
00:53:48:00	00:53:51:00	IS PLACED ON FILE THAT THE TO
00:53:51:00	00:53:52:00	REPLACE ON FILE AS WELL.
00:53:52:00	00:53:54:00	I WILL SPEAK BRIEFLY ON DOCKET
00:53:54:00	00:53:54:00	NUMBER 1053.
00:53:54:00	00:53:56:00	REGARDING THE CITY COUNCIL RULE
00:53:56:00	00:53:57:00	48 AS YOU SEE I WROTE INQUIRY
00:53:57:00	00:54:01:00	TO CORPORATION
00:54:01:00	00:54:02:00	COUNCIL REGARDING RULE 48 WHICH
00:54:02:00	00:54:02:00	STATES THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
00:54:02:00	00:54:05:00	SHALL AUTOMATICALLY REFER
00:54:05:00	00:54:05:00	MATTER TO THE COUNCIL UPON A
00:54:05:00	00:54:06:00	FELONY CONVICTION OF ANY MEMBER
00:54:06:00	00:54:09:00	BY ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT.
00:54:09:00	00:54:10:00	AND AS THIS IS COMMUNICATION I
00:54:10:00	00:54:13:00	WILL SPEAK BRIEFLY THIS SERVES
00:54:13:00	00:54:14:00	AS A REFERRAL OF THE MATTER
00:54:14:00	00:54:17:00	COUNT ASK THE CORPORATION
00:54:17:00	00:54:18:00	COUNCIL TO WEIGH IN IN LIGHT
00:54:18:00	00:54:21:00	OF THE TURNER DECISION WHICH
00:54:21:00	00:54:21:00	CAME AFTER RULE 48 WHICH
00:54:21:00	00:54:25:00	BASICALLY STATED THAT UNDER
00:54:25:00	00:54:25:00	CITY UNDER THE CITY CHARTER
00:54:25:00	00:54:26:00	NEITHER ON THE CITY CHARTER OR
00:54:26:00	00:54:29:00	UNDER STATE LAW DID THE CITY
00:54:29:00	00:54:29:00	COUNCIL HAD THE AUTHORITY TO
00:54:29:00	00:54:32:00	REMOVE CHUCK TURNER FROM THE
00:54:32:00	00:54:33:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
00:54:33:00	00:54:34:00	AND SO THAT IS CLEAR THAT IS A
00:54:34:00	00:54:36:00	CLEAR PRECEDENT THAT IS THE
00:54:36:00	00:54:37:00	SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OUR
00:54:37:00	00:54:40:00	HIGHEST COURT IN THE
00:54:40:00	00:54:40:00	COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
00:54:40:00	00:54:41:00	HAS STATED WHAT THE CITY
00:54:41:00	00:54:44:00	COUNCIL'S POWERS ARE AND ARE
00:54:44:00	00:54:47:00	NOT IT DID I APPROVE OF THE
00:54:47:00	00:54:51:00	CITY COUNCIL'S REMOVAL OF THE
00:54:51:00	00:54:52:00	COUNCILOR AT ISSUE THEN FROM
00:54:52:00	00:54:55:00	COMMITTEES AND CONDONE THAT AND
00:54:55:00	00:54:56:00	SO I WANTED TO HAVE THIS AS
00:54:56:00	00:54:59:00	PART OF THE RECORD AS REFERRING
00:54:59:00	00:55:00:00	TO THE COMMITTEE AS REFERRING
00:55:00:00	00:55:02:00	IT TO THE COUNCIL AND ALSO MAKE
00:55:02:00	00:55:06:00	NOTE THAT A MONTH AGO THE
00:55:06:00	00:55:06:00	COUNCILOR AT ISSUE
00:55:06:00	00:55:07:00	COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN WAS
00:55:07:00	00:55:10:00	REMOVED FROM ALL COMMITTEES.
00:55:10:00	00:55:11:00	SO JUST TO CLARIFY, MR CLERK,
00:55:11:00	00:55:13:00	DOCKET NUMBER 105321055 ARE
00:55:13:00	00:55:17:00	PLACED ON FILE AND DOCKET 1056
00:55:17:00	00:55:21:00	HAS PASSED 154080 SORRY YES
00:55:21:00	00:55:24:00	OKAY 11054 HE'S PLACED ON FILE
00:55:24:00	00:55:27:00	10542 WAYS AND MEANS 1055 IS
00:55:27:00	00:55:28:00	PLACED ON FILE AND 1056 IS
00:55:28:00	00:55:28:00	PASSED.
00:55:28:00	00:55:32:00	OKAY WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS
00:55:32:00	00:55:35:00	OF COMMITTEES.
00:55:35:00	00:55:36:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:55:36:00	00:55:41:00	DOCKET NUMBER 01442014 FOR THE
00:55:41:00	00:55:42:00	COMMITTEE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
00:55:42:00	00:55:45:00	TO WHICH WAS REFERRED ON
00:55:45:00	00:55:48:00	JANUARY 2025 NUMBER 0144
00:55:48:00	00:55:51:00	PETITION FOR A SPECIAL LAW
00:55:51:00	00:55:52:00	REGARDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING
00:55:52:00	00:55:56:00	IN BOSTON SUPPORTS THE REPORT
00:55:56:00	00:55:56:00	RECOMMENDING THAT THE DOCKET
00:55:56:00	00:56:06:00	OUGHT TO PASS AND A NEW DRAFT.
00:56:06:00	00:56:06:00	THANK YOU.
00:56:06:00	00:56:07:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR
00:56:07:00	00:56:11:00	THE GOVERNMENT OPS
00:56:11:00	00:56:11:00	COUNCIL COLETTE AS A PART
00:56:11:00	00:56:12:00	OF THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
00:56:12:00	00:56:14:00	THANK YOU VICE CHAIR AND I WANT
00:56:14:00	00:56:14:00	TO THANK THE MAKERS OF THIS
00:56:14:00	00:56:17:00	DOCKET COUNCILORS RUDY
00:56:17:00	00:56:18:00	LOUIJEUNE, COUNCILWOMAN HERE
00:56:18:00	00:56:18:00	AND COUNCILOR HENRY SANTANA.
00:56:18:00	00:56:22:00	THIS WAS REFERRED TO ORIGINALLY
00:56:22:00	00:56:25:00	TO THE COMMITTEE LAST YEAR BUT
00:56:25:00	00:56:26:00	AGAIN FORMALLY ON JANUARY 8TH
00:56:26:00	00:56:26:00	2025.
00:56:26:00	00:56:29:00	A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE
00:56:29:00	00:56:30:00	LEGISLATION AND THEN I'LL GO
00:56:30:00	00:56:33:00	INTO THE SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS
00:56:33:00	00:56:33:00	.
00:56:33:00	00:56:34:00	AFTER A LENGTHY REVIEW PROCESS.
00:56:34:00	00:56:37:00	DOCKET ZERO ONE FOR FOUR IS A
00:56:37:00	00:56:37:00	PROPOSED HOME RULE PETITION
00:56:37:00	00:56:40:00	THAT WOULD IMPLEMENT RANKED
00:56:40:00	00:56:40:00	CHOICE VOTING IN MUNICIPAL
00:56:40:00	00:56:41:00	ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:56:41:00	00:56:44:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING IS A
00:56:44:00	00:56:45:00	SYSTEM IN WHICH VOTERS RANK
00:56:45:00	00:56:45:00	CANDIDATES IN ORDER
00:56:45:00	00:56:48:00	OF PREFERENCE RATHER THAN
00:56:48:00	00:56:48:00	SELECTING JUST ONE.
00:56:48:00	00:56:51:00	VOTERS MAY RANK UP TO FOUR
00:56:51:00	00:56:51:00	CANDIDATES INCLUDING RIDINGS
00:56:51:00	00:56:54:00	FOR EACH CONTEST AND SINGLE
00:56:54:00	00:56:55:00	WINNER ELECTIONS IF NO
00:56:55:00	00:56:57:00	CANDIDATE RECEIVES MORE THAN
00:56:57:00	00:56:57:00	50% OF FIRST CHOICE VOTES.
00:56:57:00	00:57:01:00	THE CANDIDATE WITH THE FEWEST
00:57:01:00	00:57:02:00	VOTES IS ELIMINATED AND THEIR
00:57:02:00	00:57:05:00	VOTES ARE REDISTRIBUTED TO THE
00:57:05:00	00:57:05:00	NEXT HIGHEST RANKED ACTIVE
00:57:05:00	00:57:06:00	CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT.
00:57:06:00	00:57:08:00	THIS PROCESS CONTINUES IN
00:57:08:00	00:57:11:00	ROUNDS UNTIL ONE CANDIDATE
00:57:11:00	00:57:11:00	EARNS A MAJORITY AND IS
00:57:11:00	00:57:12:00	DECLARED THE WINNER AND
00:57:12:00	00:57:15:00	MULTIPLE WHEN A MULTI WINNER
00:57:15:00	00:57:16:00	CONTEST SUCH AS FOR AT LARGE
00:57:16:00	00:57:19:00	CITY COUNCIL RACES A CANDIDATE
00:57:19:00	00:57:20:00	IS ELECTED UPON REACHING A
00:57:20:00	00:57:23:00	SPECIFIC THRESHOLD AND SURPLUS
00:57:23:00	00:57:23:00	VOTES ARE REDISTRIBUTED TO HELP
00:57:23:00	00:57:27:00	DETERMINE THE REMAINING
00:57:27:00	00:57:27:00	WINNERS.
00:57:27:00	00:57:27:00	THIS METHOD ENSURES THAT THE
00:57:27:00	00:57:30:00	WINNING CANDIDATES HAVE BROAD
00:57:30:00	00:57:31:00	SUPPORT AND REFLECTS A MORE
00:57:31:00	00:57:31:00	REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORAL
00:57:31:00	00:57:34:00	OUTCOME.
00:57:34:00	00:57:35:00	THE HOME RULE PETITION
00:57:35:00	00:57:35:00	ADDRESSES DEFINITIONS RELATED
00:57:35:00	00:57:38:00	TO RECEIVE PROCEDURES RELATED
00:57:38:00	00:57:38:00	TO THE PRELIMINARY GENERAL AND
00:57:38:00	00:57:41:00	SPECIAL ELECTIONS.
00:57:41:00	00:57:42:00	THE TABULATION PROCESS
00:57:42:00	00:57:45:00	REPORTING RESULTS AND
00:57:45:00	00:57:45:00	IMPLEMENTATION IF PASSED AT THE
00:57:45:00	00:57:46:00	CITY AND STATE LEVEL.
00:57:46:00	00:57:49:00	THE PROPOSAL TO ADOPT RACV IN
00:57:49:00	00:57:50:00	BOSTON WOULD BE PLACED BEFORE
00:57:50:00	00:57:53:00	BOSTON VOTERS ON A FUTURE
00:57:53:00	00:57:56:00	ELECTION BALLOT IF APPROVED BY
00:57:56:00	00:57:57:00	A MAJORITY OF VOTERS.
00:57:57:00	00:57:58:00	RACV WOULD APPLY TO ALL GENERAL
00:57:58:00	00:58:01:00	AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS FOR MAYOR
00:58:01:00	00:58:01:00	AND DISTRICT CITY
00:58:01:00	00:58:04:00	COUNCILOR WHERE THERE ARE THREE
00:58:04:00	00:58:05:00	OR MORE CANDIDATES AS WELL AS
00:58:05:00	00:58:08:00	TO ALL GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR
00:58:08:00	00:58:09:00	CITY COUNCILORS AT LARGE.
00:58:09:00	00:58:11:00	THE LEGISLATION IS DESIGNED TO
00:58:11:00	00:58:12:00	EFFECT ONLY IF THE BALLOT
00:58:12:00	00:58:13:00	QUESTION IS APPROVED AND AT
00:58:13:00	00:58:16:00	LEAST 365 DAYS HAVE PASSED
00:58:16:00	00:58:19:00	SINCE THAT DATE.
00:58:19:00	00:58:20:00	ENSURING TIME FOR
00:58:20:00	00:58:23:00	IMPLEMENTATION UNDER SECTION
00:58:23:00	00:58:24:00	ONE OF THE PROPOSED COMPETITION
00:58:24:00	00:58:28:00	KEY TERMS RELATED TO THE
00:58:28:00	00:58:28:00	ADMINISTRATION OF RACV ARE
00:58:28:00	00:58:29:00	DEFINED INCLUDING ACTIVE
00:58:29:00	00:58:31:00	CANDIDATE REFERRING TO ANY
00:58:31:00	00:58:32:00	CANDIDATE NOT ELIMINATED,
00:58:32:00	00:58:35:00	WITHDRAWN OR DECEASED.
00:58:35:00	00:58:36:00	RANKING WHICH DENOTES THE ORDER
00:58:36:00	00:58:36:00	OF CANDIDATE PREFERENCES ON THE
00:58:36:00	00:58:39:00	BALLOT ON A BALLOT THE ELECTION
00:58:39:00	00:58:42:00	THRESHOLD WHICH IS USED TO
00:58:42:00	00:58:43:00	DETERMINE WINNERS IN MULTI SEAT
00:58:43:00	00:58:43:00	CONTESTS.
00:58:43:00	00:58:46:00	THIS SECTION ALSO DEFINES THE
00:58:46:00	00:58:47:00	SEQUENCE OF ROUNDS USED DURING
00:58:47:00	00:58:50:00	VOTE TABULATION AND OUTLINES
00:58:50:00	00:58:51:00	WHO QUALIFIES AS A WITHDRAWN OR
00:58:51:00	00:58:55:00	DECEASED CANDIDATE UNDER STATE
00:58:55:00	00:58:55:00	ELECTION LAW.
00:58:55:00	00:58:58:00	IN SECTION TWO IT ADDRESSES THE
00:58:58:00	00:58:59:00	USE OF RACV IN GENERAL AND
00:58:59:00	00:59:01:00	SPECIAL ELECTIONS MANDATING
00:59:01:00	00:59:02:00	THAT RACV RACV BE USED FOR ALL
00:59:02:00	00:59:05:00	GENERAL AND SPECIAL SECTIONS
00:59:05:00	00:59:06:00	FOR MAYOR AND DISTRICT CITY
00:59:06:00	00:59:06:00	COUNCILORS.
00:59:06:00	00:59:09:00	IF THERE ARE MORE OR IF THERE
00:59:09:00	00:59:10:00	ARE THREE OR MORE CANDIDATES
00:59:10:00	00:59:11:00	AND FOR ALL GENERAL ELECTIONS
00:59:11:00	00:59:13:00	FOR CITY COUNCILORS AT LARGE.
00:59:13:00	00:59:14:00	THIS SECTION SPECIFIES THAT
00:59:14:00	00:59:17:00	GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS WOULD
00:59:17:00	00:59:18:00	ALLOW VOTERS TO RANK UP TO FOUR
00:59:18:00	00:59:21:00	CANDIDATES INCLUDING RIDINGS IN
00:59:21:00	00:59:21:00	ORDER OF PREFERENCE.
00:59:21:00	00:59:22:00	IT ALSO PROPOSES TECHNICAL
00:59:22:00	00:59:25:00	UPDATES TO EXISTING CITY
00:59:25:00	00:59:26:00	ELECTION LAWS TO ALIGN WITH THE
00:59:26:00	00:59:29:00	RACV SYSTEM SUCH AS UPDATING
00:59:29:00	00:59:30:00	THE NUMBER OF BLANK WRITE IN
00:59:30:00	00:59:33:00	LINES AND CLARIFYING HOW VOTES
00:59:33:00	00:59:34:00	FOR ELIMINATED CANDIDATES
00:59:34:00	00:59:37:00	SHOULD BE COUNTED TO SUPPORT
00:59:37:00	00:59:37:00	THE SYSTEM.
00:59:37:00	00:59:40:00	THIS SECTION UPDATES EXISTING
00:59:40:00	00:59:41:00	LAW TO REQUIRE THAT BALLOTS
00:59:41:00	00:59:42:00	PROVIDE BLANK WRITE IN SPACES
00:59:42:00	00:59:45:00	EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF SEATS
00:59:45:00	00:59:48:00	BEING SELECTED BEING ELECTED.
00:59:48:00	00:59:49:00	IT ALSO CLARIFIES THAT IN
00:59:49:00	00:59:49:00	RANKED CHOICE ELECTIONS THE
00:59:49:00	00:59:52:00	NUMBER VOTES CREDITED TO A
00:59:52:00	00:59:52:00	CANDIDATE WHO IS ELIMINATED
00:59:52:00	00:59:56:00	WILL BE THE TOTAL THEY HELD IN
00:59:56:00	00:59:56:00	THE LAST ROUND BEFORE
00:59:56:00	00:59:57:00	ELIMINATION, PROVIDING A
00:59:57:00	00:59:59:00	CONSISTENT RECORD OF CANDIDATE
00:59:59:00	01:00:00:00	PERFORMANCE ACROSS ROUNDS.
01:00:00:00	01:00:02:00	SECTION THREE ADDRESSES THE USE
01:00:02:00	01:00:03:00	OF RACV AND PRELIMINARY
01:00:03:00	01:00:06:00	ELECTIONS BY INCREASING THE
01:00:06:00	01:00:06:00	NUMBER OF CANDIDATES WHO
01:00:06:00	01:00:07:00	ADVANCE FROM THE PRELIMINARY TO
01:00:07:00	01:00:11:00	GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR MAYOR AND
01:00:11:00	01:00:13:00	DISTRICT COUNCILOR FROM 2 TO 4.
01:00:13:00	01:00:14:00	LANGUAGE IN THIS SECTION ALSO
01:00:14:00	01:00:17:00	ENSURES THAT THE TOP FOUR VOTE
01:00:17:00	01:00:18:00	GETTERS APPEAR ON THE GENERAL
01:00:18:00	01:00:21:00	ELECTION BALLOT EVEN IN THE
01:00:21:00	01:00:21:00	EVENT OF A TIE.
01:00:21:00	01:00:22:00	REGARDING THE TABULATION
01:00:22:00	01:00:24:00	PROCESS, SECTION FOUR DETAILS
01:00:24:00	01:00:28:00	THE PROCESS FOR TABULATING THE
01:00:28:00	01:00:29:00	BALLOTS AS FOLLOWS IN SINGLE
01:00:29:00	01:00:32:00	WIN A SINGLE WINNER CONTEST
01:00:32:00	01:00:32:00	EACH BALLOT COUNTS FOR THE
01:00:32:00	01:00:35:00	HIGHEST RANKED ACTIVE CANDIDATE
01:00:35:00	01:00:35:00	AND IF NO CANDIDATE HAS A
01:00:35:00	01:00:39:00	MAJORITY THE CANDIDATE WITH THE
01:00:39:00	01:00:39:00	FEWEST VOTES IS ELIMINATED IN
01:00:39:00	01:00:40:00	SUCCESSIVE ROUNDS UNTIL A
01:00:40:00	01:00:42:00	WINNER EMERGES.
01:00:42:00	01:00:43:00	WHEREAS IN MULTI WINNER
01:00:43:00	01:00:47:00	CONTESTS SUCH AS AT LARGE RACES
01:00:47:00	01:00:47:00	THE THRESHOLD FOR ELECTION IS
01:00:47:00	01:00:51:00	CALCULATED BY DIVIDING THE
01:00:51:00	01:00:52:00	TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES BY FIVE.
01:00:52:00	01:00:55:00	ROUNDING DOWN AND ADDING ONE.
01:00:55:00	01:00:58:00	UNDER THIS SECTION CANDIDATES
01:00:58:00	01:00:58:00	WHO SURPASS THAT THRESHOLD ARE
01:00:58:00	01:00:59:00	ELECTED AND THEIR SURPLUS VOTES
01:00:59:00	01:01:02:00	ARE TRANSFERRED PROPORTIONALLY
01:01:02:00	01:01:03:00	TO REMAINING CANDIDATES.
01:01:03:00	01:01:06:00	IF NO MORE CANDIDATES REACH THE
01:01:06:00	01:01:07:00	THRESHOLD THE LOWEST VOTE
01:01:07:00	01:01:09:00	GETTERS ELIMINATED AND THEIR
01:01:09:00	01:01:10:00	VOTES REDISTRIBUTED.
01:01:10:00	01:01:13:00	THE SECTION ALSO PROVIDES RULES
01:01:13:00	01:01:14:00	FOR HOW BALLOTS ARE TREATED IN
01:01:14:00	01:01:16:00	CASES OF UNDER VOTING
01:01:16:00	01:01:17:00	OVERVOTING SKIPPED RANKINGS AND
01:01:17:00	01:01:21:00	REPEATED RANKINGS.
01:01:21:00	01:01:21:00	FINALLY THIS SECTION OUTLINES
01:01:21:00	01:01:24:00	HOW TIES ARE TO BE RESOLVED
01:01:24:00	01:01:25:00	USING PREVIOUS ROUND TOTALS OR
01:01:25:00	01:01:28:00	OTHER PROCEDURES AS ESTABLISHED
01:01:28:00	01:01:29:00	BY THE ELECTIONS COMMISSION
01:01:29:00	01:01:30:00	WITH RESPECT TO REPORTING
01:01:30:00	01:01:33:00	RESULTS, SECTION FIVE REQUIRES
01:01:33:00	01:01:33:00	THAT THE ELECTION COMMISSION
01:01:33:00	01:01:36:00	MAKE UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
01:01:36:00	01:01:36:00	INCLUDING ROUND BY ROUND
01:01:36:00	01:01:37:00	BREAKDOWNS AVAILABLE AS SOON AS
01:01:37:00	01:01:40:00	POSSIBLE AFTER THE POLLS CLOSE
01:01:40:00	01:01:40:00	ON ELECTION NIGHT.
01:01:40:00	01:01:43:00	THESE RESULTS MUST BE CLEARLY
01:01:43:00	01:01:44:00	LABELED AS PRELIMINARY.
01:01:44:00	01:01:44:00	UNDER THIS SECTION THE
01:01:44:00	01:01:47:00	COMMISSION IS ALSO REQUIRED TO
01:01:47:00	01:01:48:00	PUBLISH PUBLISH FINAL CERTIFIED
01:01:48:00	01:01:51:00	RESULTS THAT INCLUDE THE TOTAL
01:01:51:00	01:01:51:00	NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF VOTES
01:01:51:00	01:01:54:00	EACH CANDIDATE RECEIVED IN EACH
01:01:54:00	01:01:55:00	ROUND AND REPORT HOW MANY
01:01:55:00	01:01:59:00	BALLOTS BECAME INACTIVE IN EACH
01:01:59:00	01:01:59:00	ROUND WITH EXPLANATIONS FOR
01:01:59:00	01:02:03:00	THOSE OUTCOMES AND FINAL
01:02:03:00	01:02:03:00	ANONYMOUS RESULTS MAY BE MADE
01:02:03:00	01:02:06:00	AVAILABLE IN FORMATS THAT ALLOW
01:02:06:00	01:02:07:00	FOR PUBLIC VERIFICATION AND
01:02:07:00	01:02:08:00	ANALYSIS IN ORDER TO
01:02:08:00	01:02:10:00	EFFECTIVELY CARRY OUT THE NEW
01:02:10:00	01:02:11:00	PROCEDURES REQUIRED BY THIS
01:02:11:00	01:02:14:00	HOME RULE PETITION SECTION SIX
01:02:14:00	01:02:14:00	GRANTS THE ELECTION COMMISSION
01:02:14:00	01:02:15:00	AUTHORITY TO CREATE RULES AND
01:02:15:00	01:02:18:00	REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO
01:02:18:00	01:02:21:00	IMPLEMENT THIS LAW PURSUANT TO
01:02:21:00	01:02:22:00	SECTION EIGHT IMPLEMENTATION
01:02:22:00	01:02:23:00	OF RACV IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
01:02:23:00	01:02:25:00	WOULD NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL
01:02:25:00	01:02:26:00	UNLESS APPROVED BY A MAJORITY
01:02:26:00	01:02:28:00	OF VOTERS AT.
01:02:28:00	01:02:31:00	A FUTURE ELECTION DATE VIA
01:02:31:00	01:02:32:00	BALLOT TWO AT A FUTURE ELECTION
01:02:32:00	01:02:35:00	VIA A BALLOT QUESTION THAT
01:02:35:00	01:02:36:00	WOULD ASK VOTERS WHETHER THEY
01:02:36:00	01:02:39:00	HAVE ACCEPTED THE ACT TITLED AN
01:02:39:00	01:02:39:00	ACT TO IMPLEMENT RANKED CHOICE
01:02:39:00	01:02:40:00	VOTING FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:02:40:00	01:02:43:00	IF THE QUESTION PASSES THE LAW
01:02:43:00	01:02:43:00	WOULD TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY
01:02:43:00	01:02:47:00	BUT APPLY ONLY TO MUNICIPAL
01:02:47:00	01:02:49:00	ELECTIONS OCCURRING AT LEAST
01:02:49:00	01:02:50:00	365 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE
01:02:50:00	01:02:53:00	VOTER APPROVAL.
01:02:53:00	01:02:54:00	I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE
01:02:54:00	01:02:57:00	INFORMATION RECEIVED AT OUR
01:02:57:00	01:02:57:00	HEARINGS AND WORKING SESSIONS
01:02:57:00	01:03:04:00	BUT WE DID HOLD A HEARING ON
01:03:04:00	01:03:04:00	OCTOBER 10TH OF 2024 AND WE'VE
01:03:04:00	01:03:08:00	HELD TWO WORKING SESSIONS SINCE
01:03:08:00	01:03:08:00	THEN.
01:03:08:00	01:03:08:00	IN TERMS OF SUMMARY
01:03:08:00	01:03:09:00	OF AMENDMENTS THERE WERE A
01:03:09:00	01:03:11:00	NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS THAT
01:03:11:00	01:03:12:00	EMERGED THROUGH THIS ROBUST AND
01:03:12:00	01:03:19:00	EXTENSIVE REVIEW PROCESS AND
01:03:19:00	01:03:19:00	I'LL GO SEQUENTIALLY THROUGH
01:03:19:00	01:03:23:00	THROUGH THE DOCKET.
01:03:23:00	01:03:23:00	SO FOLLOWING THE WORKING
01:03:23:00	01:03:24:00	SESSIONS, THE FOLLOWING
01:03:24:00	01:03:24:00	AMENDMENTS WERE MADE TO THIS
01:03:24:00	01:03:26:00	DOCKET AS THE HOME RULE
01:03:26:00	01:03:27:00	PETITION AS AMENDED AS AMENDED.
01:03:27:00	01:03:30:00	IT CHANGES THE TITLE OF THE
01:03:30:00	01:03:30:00	PETITION FROM AN ACT RELATIVE
01:03:30:00	01:03:31:00	TO RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN
01:03:31:00	01:03:34:00	BOSTON TO AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT
01:03:34:00	01:03:37:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN BOSTON
01:03:37:00	01:03:37:00	THE HOME RULE AS AMENDED
01:03:37:00	01:03:38:00	UPDATES OUTDATED CITATIONS TO
01:03:38:00	01:03:42:00	MATCH THE 1951 QUALIFICATION
01:03:42:00	01:03:45:00	THE THIS HOME RULE PETITION AS
01:03:45:00	01:03:46:00	AMENDED INSERTS THE FOLLOWING
01:03:46:00	01:03:50:00	DEFINITIONS UNDER SECTION ONE
01:03:50:00	01:03:51:00	TO CLARIFY WHEN OUR CV APPLIES
01:03:51:00	01:03:52:00	.
01:03:52:00	01:03:52:00	THIS IS REGULAR ELECTION
01:03:52:00	01:03:55:00	SPECIAL ELECTION AND WRITE IN
01:03:55:00	01:03:56:00	THE HOME RULE PETITION AS
01:03:56:00	01:03:57:00	AMENDED STRIKES AND ASSERTS
01:03:57:00	01:04:00:00	LANGUAGE UNDER SECTION TWO
01:04:00:00	01:04:00:00	SUBSECTION D REMOVING OTHER AND
01:04:00:00	01:04:04:00	INSERTING NOT CONDUCTED BY
01:04:04:00	01:04:05:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING THE HOME
01:04:05:00	01:04:08:00	OF PETITION AS AMENDED STRIKES
01:04:08:00	01:04:08:00	AND INSERTS LANGUAGE UNDER
01:04:08:00	01:04:11:00	SECTION FOUR SUBSECTION AND B
01:04:11:00	01:04:14:00	AND D ENHANCING TABULATION
01:04:14:00	01:04:14:00	DETAIL REFINING SURPLUS
01:04:14:00	01:04:18:00	TRANSFER DESCRIPTION AND ADDING
01:04:18:00	01:04:19:00	TO THE STEP BY STEP TIEBREAK
01:04:19:00	01:04:22:00	HIERARCHY AND I'LL READ THIS
01:04:22:00	01:04:22:00	PARTICULAR AMENDMENT THROUGH
01:04:22:00	01:04:25:00	FOR FLAHERTY PURPOSES AS
01:04:25:00	01:04:26:00	AMENDED SECTION FOUR B READS
01:04:26:00	01:04:30:00	MULTI WINNER TABULATION IN ALL
01:04:30:00	01:04:30:00	CONTESTS FOR CITY COUNCILOR AT
01:04:30:00	01:04:31:00	LARGE CONDUCTED BY RANKED
01:04:31:00	01:04:34:00	CHOICE VOTING EACH BALLOT SHALL
01:04:34:00	01:04:38:00	COUNT IN IN WHOLE OR IN PART
01:04:38:00	01:04:38:00	FOR THE HIGHEST RANKED ACTIVE
01:04:38:00	01:04:41:00	CANDIDATE ON THAT BALLOT IN THE
01:04:41:00	01:04:41:00	FIRST ROUND.
01:04:41:00	01:04:42:00	EACH BALLOT SHALL COUNT AS ONE
01:04:42:00	01:04:45:00	VOTE FOR ITS HIGHEST RANKED
01:04:45:00	01:04:45:00	ACTIVE CANDIDATE AND THE
01:04:45:00	01:04:46:00	ELECTION THRESHOLD SHALL BE
01:04:46:00	01:04:49:00	DETERMINED BY DIVIDING THE
01:04:49:00	01:04:49:00	NUMBER OF VOTES CAST BY FIVE.
01:04:49:00	01:04:53:00	ROUNDING DOWN TO THE NEAREST
01:04:53:00	01:04:53:00	WHOLE NUMBER AND ADDING ONE
01:04:53:00	01:04:56:00	TABULATION SHALL PROCEED IN THE
01:04:56:00	01:04:57:00	ROUNDS AS FOLLOWING IN THE
01:04:57:00	01:05:00:00	ROUNDS AS FOLLOWS IF THE NUMBER
01:05:00:00	01:05:00:00	OF ACTIVE CANDIDATES IS EQUAL
01:05:00:00	01:05:01:00	TO THE REMAINING NUMBER
01:05:01:00	01:05:04:00	OF SEATS TO BE ELECTED, ALL
01:05:04:00	01:05:04:00	ACTIVE CANDIDATES SHALL BE
01:05:04:00	01:05:08:00	ELECTED IN THE TABULATION SHALL
01:05:08:00	01:05:08:00	BE COMPLETE.
01:05:08:00	01:05:09:00	IF AN ACTIVE CANDIDATE HAS A
01:05:09:00	01:05:12:00	NUMBER OF VOTES THAT EQUALS OR
01:05:12:00	01:05:12:00	EXCEEDS THE ELECTION THRESHOLD,
01:05:12:00	01:05:13:00	THE ACTIVE CANDIDATE WITH THE
01:05:13:00	01:05:16:00	MOST VOTES SHALL BE ELECTED IF
01:05:16:00	01:05:19:00	THE ELECTED CANDIDATE HAS A
01:05:19:00	01:05:20:00	NUMBER OF VOTES THAT EXCEEDS
01:05:20:00	01:05:21:00	THE THRESHOLD THE EXCESS PART
01:05:21:00	01:05:24:00	OF EACH VOTE RECEIVED BY THAT
01:05:24:00	01:05:24:00	CANDIDATE SHALL COUNT IN THE
01:05:24:00	01:05:27:00	NEXT ROUND FOR THE BALLOT'S
01:05:27:00	01:05:28:00	NEXT RANKED ACTIVE CANDIDATE IF
01:05:28:00	01:05:31:00	NO ACTIVE CANDIDATE EQUALS OR
01:05:31:00	01:05:32:00	EXCEEDS THE ELECTION THRESHOLD,
01:05:32:00	01:05:35:00	THE CANDIDATE WITH THE FEWEST
01:05:35:00	01:05:35:00	VOTES SHALL BE DEFEATED AND A
01:05:35:00	01:05:38:00	NEW ROUND SHALL BEGIN.
01:05:38:00	01:05:39:00	THE EXCESS PART OF EACH VOTE
01:05:39:00	01:05:40:00	RECEIVED BY THE CANDIDATE SHALL
01:05:40:00	01:05:42:00	COUNT IN THE NEXT ROUND FOR THE
01:05:42:00	01:05:43:00	CANDIDATE'S NEXT RANKED ACTIVE
01:05:43:00	01:05:46:00	CANDIDATE I.E. THE VOTER'S
01:05:46:00	01:05:46:00	SECOND OR THIRD ETC. RANKED
01:05:46:00	01:05:49:00	CANDIDATE THE VOTER'S SECOND,
01:05:49:00	01:05:50:00	THIRD ETC. RANKED CANDIDATE ON
01:05:50:00	01:05:50:00	THE BALLOT ONCE THE TABULATION
01:05:50:00	01:05:51:00	PROCESS HAS PROCEEDED THROUGH
01:05:51:00	01:05:55:00	SUCCESSIVE ROUNDS SHOTS SUCH
01:05:55:00	01:05:55:00	THAT EITHER THE NUMBER
01:05:55:00	01:05:58:00	OF ACTIVE CANDIDATES EQUALS THE
01:05:58:00	01:05:59:00	REMAINING NUMBER OF SEATS TO BE
01:05:59:00	01:06:01:00	FILLED OR NO FURTHER VOTE
01:06:01:00	01:06:02:00	TRANSFERS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO
01:06:02:00	01:06:02:00	EXHAUSTED BALLOTS OR THE
01:06:02:00	01:06:06:00	ABSENCE OF ADDITIONAL RANKED
01:06:06:00	01:06:06:00	CANDIDATES.
01:06:06:00	01:06:09:00	THE CONTEST SHALL BE CONCLUDED
01:06:09:00	01:06:11:00	AS A AS AMENDED.
01:06:11:00	01:06:15:00	SECTION FOUR ALSO GOES INTO
01:06:15:00	01:06:16:00	EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENS IN THE
01:06:16:00	01:06:16:00	MATTER OF A TIE.
01:06:16:00	01:06:18:00	I WON'T READ THAT ONE THROUGH
01:06:18:00	01:06:19:00	THAT'S IN YOUR COMMITTEE REPORT
01:06:19:00	01:06:21:00	THE  PETITION AS AMENDED
01:06:21:00	01:06:22:00	STRIKES AND INSERTS LANGUAGE
01:06:22:00	01:06:23:00	UNDER SECTION FIVE SUBSECTION A
01:06:23:00	01:06:26:00	TO STATE THAT OFFICIAL ROUND
01:06:26:00	01:06:26:00	UNOFFICIAL ROUND BY ROUND
01:06:26:00	01:06:30:00	RESULTS MUST BE RELEASED ON
01:06:30:00	01:06:30:00	ELECTION NIGHT CLEARLY MARKED
01:06:30:00	01:06:34:00	PRELIMINARY WITH A BEST EFFORT
01:06:34:00	01:06:36:00	DEADLINE OF 11:59 P.M..
01:06:36:00	01:06:37:00	THE WHOLE REPETITION AS AMENDED
01:06:37:00	01:06:37:00	INSERTS THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE
01:06:37:00	01:06:41:00	UNDER A SECTION FIVE SUBSECTION
01:06:41:00	01:06:43:00	B CLAUSE TWO TO REQUIRE THE
01:06:43:00	01:06:44:00	COMMISSION TO MAKE AVAILABLE
01:06:44:00	01:06:47:00	MATCH MACHINE READABLE FINAL
01:06:47:00	01:06:51:00	DATA TO ENABLE INDEPENDENT
01:06:51:00	01:06:51:00	VERIFICATION THE HOME RULE
01:06:51:00	01:06:52:00	PETITION AS AMENDED IN SEARCH
01:06:52:00	01:06:55:00	LANGUAGE UNDER SECTION SIX TO
01:06:55:00	01:06:56:00	REQUIRE THE ELECTIONS
01:06:56:00	01:06:59:00	COMMISSION TO ONE DESIGN EASY
01:06:59:00	01:07:02:00	TO READ RC V BALLOTS TO PRINT
01:07:02:00	01:07:03:00	CLEAR RANKING INSTRUCTIONS AND
01:07:03:00	01:07:07:00	THREE CONDUCT A MULTILINGUAL
01:07:07:00	01:07:07:00	VOTER EDUCATION CAMPAIGN THAT
01:07:07:00	01:07:08:00	ALSO ADHERES TO CITY DISABILITY
01:07:08:00	01:07:12:00	POLICIES THE HOME REPETITION AS
01:07:12:00	01:07:12:00	AMENDED IT CHANGES LANGUAGE
01:07:12:00	01:07:15:00	UNDER SECTION SEVEN TO ENSURE
01:07:15:00	01:07:16:00	THAT THAT THE PETITION IS
01:07:16:00	01:07:19:00	ADOPTED AS WRITTEN WITH THE
01:07:19:00	01:07:19:00	EXCEPTION OF CLERICAL OR NON
01:07:19:00	01:07:23:00	SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES.
01:07:23:00	01:07:23:00	THE  PETITION AS AMENDED
01:07:23:00	01:07:26:00	INSERTS LANGUAGE UNDER SECTION
01:07:26:00	01:07:27:00	EIGHT TO ENSURE FLAHERTY ON THE
01:07:27:00	01:07:30:00	PASSAGE PROCESS FOR THE
01:07:30:00	01:07:30:00	LEGISLATION AND THEN LAST THE
01:07:30:00	01:07:34:00	HOME RULE PETITION AS AMENDED
01:07:34:00	01:07:34:00	IN SEARCH LANGUAGE WITHIN THE
01:07:34:00	01:07:35:00	SECOND PARAGRAPH OF SECTION
01:07:35:00	01:07:38:00	EIGHT TO CLARIFY THAT THE LAW
01:07:38:00	01:07:39:00	DEPARTMENT WILL FINALIZE THE
01:07:39:00	01:07:41:00	SUMMARY AS AMENDED.
01:07:41:00	01:07:42:00	I'LL READ THIS THROUGH THE
01:07:42:00	01:07:44:00	SECOND PARAGRAPH OF SECTION
01:07:44:00	01:07:45:00	EIGHT READS AS THE CITY LAW
01:07:45:00	01:07:45:00	DEPARTMENT SHALL PREPARE THE
01:07:45:00	01:07:48:00	SUMMARY OF THE ELECTION WHICH
01:07:48:00	01:07:49:00	SHALL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT
01:07:49:00	01:07:49:00	ALONG WITH THE QUESTION
01:07:49:00	01:07:51:00	PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION
01:07:51:00	01:07:52:00	SUBJECT TO ANY NECESSARY
01:07:52:00	01:07:55:00	CHANGES REQUIRED BY LAW AND SO
01:07:55:00	01:07:56:00	AGAIN I JUST WANT TO THANK MY
01:07:56:00	01:07:56:00	COLLEAGUES.
01:07:56:00	01:08:00:00	I WANT TO THANK THE ACTIVISTS
01:08:00:00	01:08:00:00	OF THE RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:08:00:00	01:08:00:00	COALITION.
01:08:00:00	01:08:03:00	IT IS WITH A LOT OF PRIDE THAT
01:08:03:00	01:08:04:00	AS THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
01:08:04:00	01:08:08:00	ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS I
01:08:08:00	01:08:08:00	RECOMMEND MOVING THE LISTED
01:08:08:00	01:08:09:00	DOCKET FROM THE COMMITTEE TO
01:08:09:00	01:08:11:00	THE FULL COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION
01:08:11:00	01:08:12:00	AND FORMAL ACTION AND AT THIS
01:08:12:00	01:08:15:00	TIME MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE
01:08:15:00	01:08:16:00	FULL COUNCIL WILL BE THAT THIS
01:08:16:00	01:08:16:00	MATTER OUGHT TO PASS IN A NEW
01:08:16:00	01:08:18:00	DRAFT AND I WOULD LOVE TO PASS
01:08:18:00	01:08:19:00	IT TO THE DOCKETS LEAD SPONSOR
01:08:19:00	01:08:23:00	FOR ANY ADDITIONAL DETAILS YOU
01:08:23:00	01:08:23:00	MAY HAVE.
01:08:23:00	01:08:26:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
01:08:26:00	01:08:27:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PRESIDENT
01:08:27:00	01:08:27:00	LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR YOU HAVE
01:08:27:00	01:08:27:00	THE FLOOR.
01:08:27:00	01:08:30:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH MR CHAIR AND
01:08:30:00	01:08:31:00	THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR
01:08:31:00	01:08:31:00	OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
01:08:31:00	01:08:34:00	COUNCILOR GABRIELA CARLOTTA
01:08:34:00	01:08:35:00	ZAPATA WE'VE HAD A LOT
01:08:35:00	01:08:38:00	OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS.
01:08:38:00	01:08:39:00	YOUR OFFICE HAS DONE A LOT
01:08:39:00	01:08:41:00	OF REALLY GREAT WORK IN MAKING
01:08:41:00	01:08:42:00	SURE THAT THE REVISIONS WERE
01:08:42:00	01:08:43:00	MADE THAT IT WAS CLEAR.
01:08:43:00	01:08:45:00	SO THANK YOU TO ELLIE AS WELL
01:08:45:00	01:08:46:00	FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DID.
01:08:46:00	01:08:49:00	JESSI FOR MY OFFICE AND JUST
01:08:49:00	01:08:50:00	WANT TO THANK THE ENTIRE RAY
01:08:50:00	01:08:53:00	JOYCE CHOICE BOSTON COALITION,
01:08:53:00	01:08:54:00	SOME OF WHOM ARE HERE TODAY.
01:08:54:00	01:08:54:00	THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US AND
01:08:54:00	01:08:57:00	FOR YOUR DILIGENCE AND MAKING
01:08:57:00	01:08:57:00	SURE THAT THIS LEGISLATION WAS
01:08:57:00	01:09:01:00	READY FOR US TODAY.
01:09:01:00	01:09:01:00	THIS IS AN EXCITING DAY FOR THE
01:09:01:00	01:09:02:00	CITY OF BOSTON.
01:09:02:00	01:09:04:00	IT'S AN EXCITING DAY FOR
01:09:04:00	01:09:05:00	DEMOCRACY AND FOR WHAT IT LOOKS
01:09:05:00	01:09:08:00	LIKE TO BRING PEOPLE CLOSER TO
01:09:08:00	01:09:08:00	THE WORK OF DEMOCRACY RANKED
01:09:08:00	01:09:09:00	CHOICE VOTING MAKES OUR
01:09:09:00	01:09:12:00	ELECTIONS BETTER BY ALLOWING
01:09:12:00	01:09:12:00	VOTERS TO REMAIN CANDIDATES IN
01:09:12:00	01:09:15:00	ORDER OF PREFERENCE AND NOW I
01:09:15:00	01:09:16:00	LOVE IT WHEN BOSTON IS THE
01:09:16:00	01:09:17:00	FIRST AT SOMETHING BUT
01:09:17:00	01:09:20:00	UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT AN
01:09:20:00	01:09:20:00	AREA IN WHICH WE WOULD BE THE
01:09:20:00	01:09:21:00	FIRST.
01:09:21:00	01:09:21:00	THERE ARE MANY OTHER
01:09:21:00	01:09:23:00	JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE AND USE
01:09:23:00	01:09:26:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
01:09:26:00	01:09:27:00	DURING ONE OF OUR WORKING
01:09:27:00	01:09:27:00	SESSIONS WE SAW HOW THEY USE IT
01:09:27:00	01:09:31:00	IN SAN FRANCISCO AND USE IN NEW
01:09:31:00	01:09:31:00	YORK, MINNEAPOLIS, SAINT PAUL,
01:09:31:00	01:09:34:00	MINNESOTA.
01:09:34:00	01:09:34:00	SANTA FE.
01:09:34:00	01:09:35:00	CAMBRIDGE.
01:09:35:00	01:09:35:00	PORTLAND.
01:09:35:00	01:09:35:00	BOULDER.
01:09:35:00	01:09:35:00	EVANSTON.
01:09:35:00	01:09:38:00	SEATTLE.
01:09:38:00	01:09:38:00	SALT LAKE CITY AND IT'S ALSO
01:09:38:00	01:09:39:00	USED INTERNATIONALLY AND HAS
01:09:39:00	01:09:42:00	BEEN USED INTERNATIONALLY FOR
01:09:42:00	01:09:42:00	CENTURIES IN PLACES LIKE
01:09:42:00	01:09:46:00	AUSTRALIA AND IN PLACES LIKE
01:09:46:00	01:09:46:00	IRELAND WE KNOW RING TONES
01:09:46:00	01:09:47:00	VOTING WORKS AND IT'S
01:09:47:00	01:09:50:00	STRAIGHTFORWARD VOTERS HAVE THE
01:09:50:00	01:09:51:00	OPTION TO RANK CANDIDATES IN
01:09:51:00	01:09:53:00	ORDER OF PREFERENCE FOR A
01:09:53:00	01:09:53:00	SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH HOWEVER
01:09:53:00	01:09:57:00	MANY CANDIDATES THERE ARE WE
01:09:57:00	01:09:58:00	RANKED THINGS EVERY DAY IN LIFE
01:09:58:00	01:09:58:00	WE WAKE YOU KNOW WHETHER WHAT
01:09:58:00	01:10:01:00	KIND OF ICE CREAM WE WANT IF
01:10:01:00	01:10:01:00	OUR PARTNER GOES TO THE STORE
01:10:01:00	01:10:04:00	WE RANK OUR PREFERENCES FOR A
01:10:04:00	01:10:05:00	MULTITUDE OF THINGS WHAT KIND
01:10:05:00	01:10:08:00	OF FOOD YOU WANT IF THEY RUN
01:10:08:00	01:10:08:00	OUT OF THE FOOD THAT YOU YOU
01:10:08:00	01:10:09:00	KNOW YOUR FIRST CHOICE YOU GET
01:10:09:00	01:10:11:00	YOUR SECOND CHOICE AND YOUR
01:10:11:00	01:10:11:00	THIRD CHOICE AND IT ENSURES
01:10:11:00	01:10:15:00	THAT WHOEVER IS ELECTED ON THE
01:10:15:00	01:10:16:00	CANDIDATE'S SIDE HAS THE
01:10:16:00	01:10:16:00	MAJORITY SUPPORT OF THE
01:10:16:00	01:10:19:00	ELECTORATE.
01:10:19:00	01:10:20:00	THIS IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT
01:10:20:00	01:10:21:00	WE ARE BUILDING WE ARE BUILDING
01:10:21:00	01:10:23:00	A BETTER DEMOCRACY BY ELECTING
01:10:23:00	01:10:23:00	CANDIDATES WHO ARE ABLE TO
01:10:23:00	01:10:27:00	BUILD A BROAD MAJORITY
01:10:27:00	01:10:27:00	OF SUPPORT WHO AND WHO ARE NOT
01:10:27:00	01:10:30:00	JUST SPEAKING TO THEIR BASE,
01:10:30:00	01:10:31:00	WHO ARE NOT JUST SPEAKING TO
01:10:31:00	01:10:31:00	EXTREMISTS BUT WHO ARE DOING
01:10:31:00	01:10:34:00	THE WORK NECESSARY TO BUILD A
01:10:34:00	01:10:35:00	BROAD COALITIONS AND TO
01:10:35:00	01:10:35:00	REPRESENT EVERYONE IN A
01:10:35:00	01:10:39:00	DISTRICT WITH OUR VOTERS CAN
01:10:39:00	01:10:41:00	SINCERELY RANK CANDIDATES AND
01:10:41:00	01:10:42:00	KNOW THAT WHOEVER IS ELECTED IS
01:10:42:00	01:10:45:00	HAS THE MAJORITY SUPPORT
01:10:45:00	01:10:46:00	OF VOTERS.
01:10:46:00	01:10:46:00	I LIKE TO GIVE THE EXAMPLE
01:10:46:00	01:10:48:00	OF LET'S SAY YOU HAVE FIVE
01:10:48:00	01:10:48:00	PEOPLE RUNNING IN A RACE.
01:10:48:00	01:10:49:00	THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE WHO ARE
01:10:49:00	01:10:52:00	DOG LOVERS AND THERE'S SOMEONE
01:10:52:00	01:10:53:00	WHO IS A CAT LOVER.
01:10:53:00	01:10:56:00	THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOG LOVERS
01:10:56:00	01:10:57:00	END UP SPLITTING THEIR VOTE
01:10:57:00	01:11:00:00	AMONG THE DIFFERENT DOG LOVERS
01:11:00:00	01:11:01:00	AND YOU END UP GETTING THE CAT
01:11:01:00	01:11:02:00	LOVER WHO WINS WHEN IT'S VERY
01:11:02:00	01:11:04:00	CLEAR IN THAT DISTRICT THAT THE
01:11:04:00	01:11:05:00	MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS ALTHOUGH
01:11:05:00	01:11:08:00	THEY HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON
01:11:08:00	01:11:08:00	THE TYPE OF DOG THEY PREFER A
01:11:08:00	01:11:12:00	DOG AND SO GREAT CHOICE VOTING
01:11:12:00	01:11:12:00	IS MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE ABLE
01:11:12:00	01:11:15:00	TO BUILD CONSENSUS AND THAT
01:11:15:00	01:11:16:00	IT'S NOT JUST A WINNER TAKES
01:11:16:00	01:11:18:00	ALL IF THE WINNER TAKES ALL AT
01:11:18:00	01:11:18:00	21% WHAT 30%?
01:11:18:00	01:11:22:00	THAT'S NOT REALLY DOING THE
01:11:22:00	01:11:22:00	WORK OF DEMOCRACY AND I KNOW
01:11:22:00	01:11:23:00	PEOPLE WILL SAY OH WHAT WE HAVE
01:11:23:00	01:11:26:00	IT'S GOOD, IT'S WORKING IS
01:11:26:00	01:11:26:00	FINE.
01:11:26:00	01:11:27:00	I AGREE.
01:11:27:00	01:11:29:00	I NOW WON MY FIRST ELECTION.
01:11:29:00	01:11:30:00	I WON REELECTION WITHOUT RANKED
01:11:30:00	01:11:33:00	CHOICE VOTING AND I STILL
01:11:33:00	01:11:33:00	BELIEVE THAT THIS IS BETTER AND
01:11:33:00	01:11:34:00	GETS US CLOSER TO THE WORK
01:11:34:00	01:11:36:00	OF DEMOCRACY.
01:11:36:00	01:11:37:00	I HAVE FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE
01:11:37:00	01:11:37:00	WITH THIS WHEN I WAS WORKING AS
01:11:37:00	01:11:40:00	AN ATTORNEY WORKED ON MAINE'S
01:11:40:00	01:11:43:00	FIRST CONGRESSIONAL RACE THAT
01:11:43:00	01:11:44:00	THE COUNTRY'S FIRST FEDERAL
01:11:44:00	01:11:44:00	RACE THAT USE RANKED CHOICE
01:11:44:00	01:11:47:00	VOTING AND I REVIEWED THE
01:11:47:00	01:11:48:00	BALLOTS AND IN REVIEWING THE
01:11:48:00	01:11:49:00	BALLOTS I SAW WHAT I THINK IS
01:11:49:00	01:11:51:00	THE INTUITION THAT PEOPLE
01:11:51:00	01:11:52:00	UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO
01:11:52:00	01:11:55:00	RANK TO RANK.
01:11:55:00	01:11:56:00	AND SO SURVEYS IN RACV
01:11:56:00	01:11:56:00	JURISDICTIONS INDICATE THAT
01:11:56:00	01:11:59:00	VOTERS WERE ABLE TO CLEARLY AND
01:11:59:00	01:12:02:00	EASILY UNDERSTAND IN 2020 AND
01:12:02:00	01:12:02:00	2022 85% OF ALASKAN VOTERS
01:12:02:00	01:12:05:00	FOUND THE SIMPLE AND NEW YORK
01:12:05:00	01:12:08:00	CITY'S 2021 PRIMARY 95%
01:12:08:00	01:12:09:00	OF VOTERS REPORTED THAT THE
01:12:09:00	01:12:12:00	BALLOT WAS SIMPLE TO COMPLETE.
01:12:12:00	01:12:12:00	WHAT IS THE PROPOSED CHANGE FOR
01:12:12:00	01:12:15:00	BOSTON ELECTIONS?
01:12:15:00	01:12:16:00	THE ONLY CHANGE TO THE
01:12:16:00	01:12:16:00	PRELIMINARY ELECTION IS THE
01:12:16:00	01:12:19:00	ADVANCED POOR CANDIDATES TO THE
01:12:19:00	01:12:20:00	GENERAL ELECTION FOR MAYOR AND
01:12:20:00	01:12:23:00	COUNCIL DISTRICT SEATS.
01:12:23:00	01:12:23:00	WHEN VOTING IN THESE
01:12:23:00	01:12:24:00	PRELIMINARY CONTESTS VOTERS
01:12:24:00	01:12:26:00	WILL STILL PICK JUST ONE
01:12:26:00	01:12:27:00	CANDIDATE FOR DISTRICT AND FOR
01:12:27:00	01:12:31:00	MAYOR.
01:12:31:00	01:12:31:00	FOUR AT LARGE VOTERS WILL STILL
01:12:31:00	01:12:34:00	PICK UP TO FOUR CANDIDATES AND
01:12:34:00	01:12:35:00	EIGHT WILL STILL ADVANCE.
01:12:35:00	01:12:36:00	AND THEN WHEN WE GET TO THE
01:12:36:00	01:12:38:00	GENERAL ELECTION, THAT'S WHEN
01:12:38:00	01:12:38:00	WE START TO RANK.
01:12:38:00	01:12:39:00	IF THERE'S A CANDIDATE WHO HAS
01:12:39:00	01:12:41:00	ACHIEVED MORE THAN 50% OF THE
01:12:41:00	01:12:42:00	VOTE FOR THEIR DISTRICT OR FOR
01:12:42:00	01:12:45:00	THE ENTIRE CITY DURING TODAY'S
01:12:45:00	01:12:46:00	VOTING BECAUSE THE ELECTION DID
01:12:46:00	01:12:48:00	WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS
01:12:48:00	01:12:49:00	REFLECT THAT MORE THAN 50%
01:12:49:00	01:12:53:00	OF THE VOTERS SUPPORT YOUR
01:12:53:00	01:12:53:00	SUPPORT.
01:12:53:00	01:12:54:00	THAT CANDIDATE CAN ALSO THINK
01:12:54:00	01:12:57:00	OF RACHEL AS VOTING LIKE
01:12:57:00	01:12:57:00	INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING THE
01:12:57:00	01:13:00:00	CHANGE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION
01:13:00:00	01:13:04:00	IS ONE THAT VOTERS WILL WILL BE
01:13:04:00	01:13:04:00	ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
01:13:04:00	01:13:05:00	AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE NOW HAD THE
01:13:05:00	01:13:07:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT BEFORE US
01:13:07:00	01:13:08:00	ON THIS WORKING SESSION TWICE
01:13:08:00	01:13:12:00	THIS YEAR WE HAD A HEARING JUST
01:13:12:00	01:13:12:00	ON THE ELECTIONS TWO WEEKS AGO
01:13:12:00	01:13:16:00	AND YESTERDAY THEY WERE BEFORE
01:13:16:00	01:13:16:00	THE CITY COUNCIL AGAIN TALKING
01:13:16:00	01:13:17:00	ABOUT THE WORK THAT THEY'VE
01:13:17:00	01:13:19:00	DONE SINCE LAST YEAR WHEN WE
01:13:19:00	01:13:20:00	KNOW LAST YEAR WAS A HIGH
01:13:20:00	01:13:21:00	TURNOUT ELECTION, PRESIDENTIAL
01:13:21:00	01:13:24:00	AND GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS CAN
01:13:24:00	01:13:24:00	BE A HIGH TURNOUT ELECTION.
01:13:24:00	01:13:25:00	I PRAY FOR THE DAY WHEN WE AT
01:13:25:00	01:13:28:00	THE CITY LEVEL GET A TURNOUT IN
01:13:28:00	01:13:29:00	THE SAME WAY THAT WE GET AT THE
01:13:29:00	01:13:29:00	PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL AND AT THE
01:13:29:00	01:13:32:00	GUBERNATORIAL LEVEL.
01:13:32:00	01:13:32:00	I PRAY FOR THAT DAY BECAUSE
01:13:32:00	01:13:33:00	THAT WILL BE MEAN THAT WE'VE
01:13:33:00	01:13:35:00	DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB OF VOTER
01:13:35:00	01:13:36:00	EDUCATION AND VOTER TURNOUT AT
01:13:36:00	01:13:36:00	LOCAL ELECTIONS.
01:13:36:00	01:13:39:00	I BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL HELP
01:13:39:00	01:13:40:00	US GET THERE, THAT THIS WILL
01:13:40:00	01:13:41:00	HELP US EDUCATE PEOPLE AND GET
01:13:41:00	01:13:43:00	MORE PEOPLE MORE EXCITED ABOUT
01:13:43:00	01:13:44:00	VOTING.
01:13:44:00	01:13:44:00	SO OFTEN PEOPLE DON'T VOTE
01:13:44:00	01:13:47:00	BECAUSE OH MY VOTE WON'T MATTER
01:13:47:00	01:13:47:00	WHEN YOU RANK CANDIDATES YOUR
01:13:47:00	01:13:50:00	VOTE HAS A STRONGER CHANCE
01:13:50:00	01:13:51:00	OF MATTERING AND I THINK THAT
01:13:51:00	01:13:53:00	YOU KNOW THE ELECTION
01:13:53:00	01:13:54:00	DEPARTMENT HAS TALKED ABOUT THE
01:13:54:00	01:13:54:00	WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
01:13:54:00	01:13:55:00	THERE'S A DESIGNEE THERE FROM
01:13:55:00	01:13:57:00	THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE
01:13:57:00	01:14:01:00	AND WE SEE IT NOW THROUGH THE
01:14:01:00	01:14:01:00	BUDGET THAT THERE ARE GREATER
01:14:01:00	01:14:02:00	INVESTMENT IN THE ELECTION
01:14:02:00	01:14:04:00	DEPARTMENT IN UPGRADED
01:14:04:00	01:14:04:00	TECHNOLOGY.
01:14:04:00	01:14:05:00	THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY
01:14:05:00	01:14:06:00	WOULD BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT.
01:14:06:00	01:14:09:00	THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF BUILT IN
01:14:09:00	01:14:09:00	TIME IN THIS HOME ON PETITION
01:14:09:00	01:14:10:00	TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IT
01:14:10:00	01:14:12:00	RIGHT THAT THE ELECTION
01:14:12:00	01:14:12:00	DEPARTMENT GETS IT RIGHT.
01:14:12:00	01:14:13:00	AND LOOK, I KNOW THIS IS A
01:14:13:00	01:14:16:00	POLICY ISSUE AND PEOPLE DON'T
01:14:16:00	01:14:17:00	YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT ARE NEW
01:14:17:00	01:14:18:00	ARE OFTEN LOOKED AT WITH SOME
01:14:18:00	01:14:20:00	SORT OF TREPIDATION MAYBE I
01:14:20:00	01:14:20:00	WOULD FEEL DIFFERENTLY IF I
01:14:20:00	01:14:21:00	DIDN'T HAVE FIRSTHAND
01:14:21:00	01:14:24:00	EXPERIENCE WORKING ON A RANKED
01:14:24:00	01:14:25:00	CHOICE ELECTION AND SEEING THAT
01:14:25:00	01:14:27:00	VOTERS UNDERSTAND IT AND SEEING
01:14:27:00	01:14:28:00	THAT IT CAN GET BETTER RESULTS.
01:14:28:00	01:14:32:00	AND SO I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU
01:14:32:00	01:14:32:00	KNOW, SOMETIMES WILL BE POLICY
01:14:32:00	01:14:32:00	DISAGREEMENTS.
01:14:32:00	01:14:33:00	BUT I REALLY DO ENCOURAGE US TO
01:14:33:00	01:14:35:00	LOOK AT THIS AS A REALLY GREAT
01:14:35:00	01:14:36:00	OPPORTUNITY.
01:14:36:00	01:14:38:00	WE SAW IN 2020 WHEN THIS WAS A
01:14:38:00	01:14:39:00	STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURE THAT
01:14:39:00	01:14:42:00	BOSTONIANS OVERWHELMINGLY
01:14:42:00	01:14:42:00	SUPPORTED IT AT 62% AND I
01:14:42:00	01:14:43:00	BELIEVE WE CAN CONTINUE TO MOVE
01:14:43:00	01:14:46:00	THIS WORK FORWARD.
01:14:46:00	01:14:46:00	I AM ENCOURAGED BY THE
01:14:46:00	01:14:49:00	CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE HAD.
01:14:49:00	01:14:50:00	I'M ENCOURAGED BY THE
01:14:50:00	01:14:50:00	INCREDIBLE COALITION THAT ED
01:14:50:00	01:14:53:00	SHUMAKER BUILT ALONGSIDE SO
01:14:53:00	01:14:54:00	MANY PEOPLE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL
01:14:54:00	01:14:56:00	RIGHTS, MASS VOTE, JEWISH
01:14:56:00	01:14:57:00	COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL,
01:14:57:00	01:14:57:00	VETERANS FOR ALL VOTERS.
01:14:57:00	01:15:00:00	THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT
01:15:00:00	01:15:01:00	YOU DO AND THAT YOU SHOW UP
01:15:01:00	01:15:01:00	EVERY SINGLE DAY.
01:15:01:00	01:15:02:00	YOU KNOW ED CANNOT BE WITH US
01:15:02:00	01:15:04:00	HERE TODAY BUT FOR THE
01:15:04:00	01:15:05:00	COALITION MEMBERS, DOUG AND
01:15:05:00	01:15:05:00	EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS HERE,
01:15:05:00	01:15:06:00	THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH
01:15:06:00	01:15:07:00	US.
01:15:07:00	01:15:08:00	AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
01:15:08:00	01:15:09:00	THERE ARE OTHER JURISDICTIONS
01:15:09:00	01:15:09:00	IN THE COMMONWEALTH THAT HAVE
01:15:09:00	01:15:12:00	ENJOYED VOTING AND WE WILL
01:15:12:00	01:15:12:00	CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:15:12:00	01:15:15:00	VOTERS ARE EDUCATED AND THEY
01:15:15:00	01:15:16:00	UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE DOING
01:15:16:00	01:15:19:00	THIS TO SUPPORT THE WORK THAT
01:15:19:00	01:15:20:00	THEY STARTED VOTING STARTED IN
01:15:20:00	01:15:21:00	2020 AND CONTINUE TO CONTINUE
01:15:21:00	01:15:23:00	TO BUILD A STRONGER DEMOCRACY.
01:15:23:00	01:15:24:00	I ALSO WANT TO OF COURSE THANK
01:15:24:00	01:15:27:00	MY CO-SPONSORS COUNCILOR HERE
01:15:27:00	01:15:28:00	AND COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR ALL
01:15:28:00	01:15:28:00	OF THEIR WORK AND REALLY
01:15:28:00	01:15:31:00	BUILDING THIS MULTIRACIAL MULTI
01:15:31:00	01:15:31:00	NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION
01:15:31:00	01:15:32:00	OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING RANKED
01:15:32:00	01:15:35:00	CHOICE VOTING.
01:15:35:00	01:15:36:00	THEY WILL SPEAK TO THEIR OWN
01:15:36:00	01:15:36:00	EXPERIENCE OF WHY THEY BELIEVE
01:15:36:00	01:15:36:00	THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT.
01:15:36:00	01:15:38:00	I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR
01:15:38:00	01:15:39:00	THE CITY, FOR DEMOCRACY AND I
01:15:39:00	01:15:39:00	REALLY DO ENCOURAGE MY
01:15:39:00	01:15:42:00	COLLEAGUES TO VOTE IN SUPPORT
01:15:42:00	01:15:43:00	OF THIS FORMAL PETITION.
01:15:43:00	01:15:43:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:15:43:00	01:15:44:00	THANK YOU.
01:15:44:00	01:15:44:00	COUNCILOR.
01:15:44:00	01:15:47:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:15:47:00	01:15:47:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
01:15:47:00	01:15:48:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:15:48:00	01:15:51:00	THANK YOU, MR VICE PRESIDENT.
01:15:51:00	01:15:51:00	AND THANK YOU TO
01:15:51:00	01:15:52:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE PRESIDENT
01:15:52:00	01:15:54:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR
01:15:54:00	01:15:55:00	SHEPHERDING US THROUGH THIS
01:15:55:00	01:15:55:00	PROCESS.
01:15:55:00	01:15:58:00	I AM PROUD TO STAND HERE TO
01:15:58:00	01:15:58:00	BRING A LONG STANDING THIS
01:15:58:00	01:16:02:00	EFFORT TO THE FINISH LINE FOR
01:16:02:00	01:16:02:00	YEARS WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO
01:16:02:00	01:16:03:00	IMPLEMENT RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:16:03:00	01:16:05:00	HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND
01:16:05:00	01:16:06:00	MOVE FORWARD WITH A SHIFT THAT
01:16:06:00	01:16:09:00	IS ROOTED IN THE BELIEF THAT
01:16:09:00	01:16:10:00	OUR ELECTION SHOULD REFLECT THE
01:16:10:00	01:16:13:00	FULL VOICES OF OUR COMMUNITIES
01:16:13:00	01:16:13:00	.
01:16:13:00	01:16:14:00	IT IS A TIME MARKED BY DEEP
01:16:14:00	01:16:17:00	MISTRUST RIGHT NOW WITHIN OUR
01:16:17:00	01:16:18:00	INSTITUTIONS AND IT HAS BEEN.
01:16:18:00	01:16:21:00	NOW MORE THAN EVER MORE URGENT
01:16:21:00	01:16:21:00	TO GIVE VOTERS A PATHWAY TO
01:16:21:00	01:16:22:00	LEADERSHIP THAT IS
01:16:22:00	01:16:25:00	REPRESENTATIVE RESPONSIVE AND
01:16:25:00	01:16:25:00	ACCOUNTABLE.
01:16:25:00	01:16:28:00	I REMEMBER IN 2021 WORKING
01:16:28:00	01:16:29:00	ALONGSIDE RONALD BELL UNDER HIS
01:16:29:00	01:16:32:00	LEADERSHIP WE WERE THE ONLY
01:16:32:00	01:16:33:00	MUNICIPALITY IN THE ENTIRE
01:16:33:00	01:16:36:00	STATE THAT SENT A RESOUNDING
01:16:36:00	01:16:39:00	MESSAGE THAT WE WANT IT RANKED
01:16:39:00	01:16:40:00	CHOICE VOTING HERE IN THE CITY
01:16:40:00	01:16:41:00	OF BOSTON AND THIS IS JUST A
01:16:41:00	01:16:43:00	CONTINUATION OF THAT WORK.
01:16:43:00	01:16:44:00	I WANT TO THANK OTHER LEADERS
01:16:44:00	01:16:45:00	LIKE CHERYL CRAWFORD, DOUG
01:16:45:00	01:16:48:00	CHAVEZ SIGNATURE SULLIVAN,
01:16:48:00	01:16:48:00	RAHSAAN HALL, MARISOL SANTIAGO
01:16:48:00	01:16:52:00	AND I WANT TO UPLIFT THOSE
01:16:52:00	01:16:52:00	NAMES IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE
01:16:52:00	01:16:53:00	THERE IS A NARRATIVE THAT THIS
01:16:53:00	01:16:55:00	PARTICULAR EFFORT IS ROOTED IN
01:16:55:00	01:16:59:00	IN JUST WHITE PROGRESSIVE
01:16:59:00	01:17:00:00	LIBERAL STANDARDS.
01:17:00:00	01:17:01:00	BUT IN REALITY WHEN WE THINK
01:17:01:00	01:17:03:00	ABOUT WHO STANDS TO BENEFIT
01:17:03:00	01:17:04:00	MOST, I WANT TO UPLIFT THOSE
01:17:04:00	01:17:07:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR WHO HAVE OFTEN
01:17:07:00	01:17:08:00	BEEN MARGINALIZED AND DIFFERENT
01:17:08:00	01:17:11:00	DISENFRANCHIZED WHEN IT COMES
01:17:11:00	01:17:12:00	TO OUR VOTE.
01:17:12:00	01:17:13:00	SO I WANT TO THANK THOSE
01:17:13:00	01:17:15:00	LEADERS OF COLOR WHO HAVE STOOD
01:17:15:00	01:17:16:00	IN THE GAP IN SUPPORTING THIS
01:17:16:00	01:17:18:00	INITIATIVE, THIS GO ROUND
01:17:18:00	01:17:19:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING PUSHES
01:17:19:00	01:17:20:00	BACK ON SYSTEMS THAT LIMIT THE
01:17:20:00	01:17:23:00	PEOPLE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ONE OR
01:17:23:00	01:17:24:00	ANOTHER AND INSTEAD PROVIDES A
01:17:24:00	01:17:26:00	FULL MENU OF OPTIONS.
01:17:26:00	01:17:26:00	AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WE LIKE
01:17:26:00	01:17:30:00	OPTIONS WHICH THEY DESERVE.
01:17:30:00	01:17:31:00	IT PROMOTES CONSENSUS NOT
01:17:31:00	01:17:31:00	DIVISION.
01:17:31:00	01:17:34:00	IT ENSURES THAT THE LEADERS WHO
01:17:34:00	01:17:35:00	RISE TO REPRESENT US NOT JUST
01:17:35:00	01:17:38:00	ARE THE LOUDEST OR THE BEST
01:17:38:00	01:17:39:00	FUNDED OKAY BUT THOSE WHO HAVE
01:17:39:00	01:17:42:00	THE BROADEST AND THE DEEPEST
01:17:42:00	01:17:42:00	SUPPORT ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES.
01:17:42:00	01:17:45:00	THIS IS HOW WE BUILD A
01:17:45:00	01:17:46:00	GOVERNMENT THAT TRULY REFLECTS
01:17:46:00	01:17:49:00	THE PEOPLE.
01:17:49:00	01:17:50:00	I WANT TO THANK THE
01:17:50:00	01:17:50:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE FOR
01:17:50:00	01:17:51:00	HER STRONG LEADERSHIP IN THIS
01:17:51:00	01:17:53:00	SPACE AND MY FELLOW CO-SPONSOR
01:17:53:00	01:17:54:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR STANDING
01:17:54:00	01:17:58:00	ALONGSIDE US IN THIS WORK.
01:17:58:00	01:17:59:00	AND A BIG SHOUT OUT TO THE
01:17:59:00	01:18:01:00	CHAIR OF GOVERNMENT OPS KAZU
01:18:01:00	01:18:02:00	CLAUDIA ZAPATA FOR SHEPHERDING
01:18:02:00	01:18:02:00	US THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROCESS.
01:18:02:00	01:18:05:00	LET US BE CLEAR THIS IDEA DID
01:18:05:00	01:18:09:00	NOT START WITH ANY ONE OF US.
01:18:09:00	01:18:10:00	IT CAME FROM THE PEOPLE FROM
01:18:10:00	01:18:12:00	DAY ONE IN OUR OFFICE WE HAVE
01:18:12:00	01:18:13:00	BEEN COMMITTED TO A CORE
01:18:13:00	01:18:15:00	GOVERNANCE MODEL MAKING
01:18:15:00	01:18:16:00	DECISIONS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH
01:18:16:00	01:18:19:00	THE PEOPLE.
01:18:19:00	01:18:20:00	TODAY IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE THAT
01:18:20:00	01:18:23:00	WHEN WE STEP TO THE SIDE AND
01:18:23:00	01:18:23:00	LET THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING
01:18:23:00	01:18:24:00	THE REALITIES AND DOING THE
01:18:24:00	01:18:27:00	WORK LEAD THINGS CAN GET DONE.
01:18:27:00	01:18:28:00	SO SHOUT OUT TO THE RANK CHOICE
01:18:28:00	01:18:31:00	BOSTON COALITION AND ALL THOSE
01:18:31:00	01:18:31:00	WHO HAVE BEEN HOLDING US
01:18:31:00	01:18:34:00	ACCOUNTABLE IN SERVING AS KEY
01:18:34:00	01:18:35:00	PARTNERS TO GET US TO WHERE WE
01:18:35:00	01:18:36:00	ARE TODAY.
01:18:36:00	01:18:38:00	AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
01:18:38:00	01:18:39:00	THERE IS A ORGANIZATION CALLED
01:18:39:00	01:18:42:00	THE ANNIE INSTITUTE AND THEY
01:18:42:00	01:18:42:00	HAVE A CALL THAT SAYS THE
01:18:42:00	01:18:46:00	PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THEIR TRUE
01:18:46:00	01:18:46:00	POWER.
01:18:46:00	01:18:47:00	I'M GOING TO SAY THAT ONE MORE
01:18:47:00	01:18:47:00	TIME.
01:18:47:00	01:18:50:00	THE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THEIR
01:18:50:00	01:18:51:00	TRUE POWER AND THIS IS AN
01:18:51:00	01:18:54:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GIVE THE
01:18:54:00	01:18:55:00	PEOPLE BACK THEIR POWER.
01:18:55:00	01:18:57:00	AND SO I'M STANDING IN IN
01:18:57:00	01:18:58:00	SOLIDARITY AND AND REALLY
01:18:58:00	01:19:01:00	GRATEFUL TO SEE THIS COME UP
01:19:01:00	01:19:02:00	FOR A VOTE AND LOOK FOR A
01:19:02:00	01:19:05:00	FAVORABLE RESPONSE FROM ALL MY
01:19:05:00	01:19:06:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.
01:19:06:00	01:19:06:00	THANK YOU.
01:19:06:00	01:19:06:00	THANK YOU.
01:19:06:00	01:19:10:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:19:10:00	01:19:11:00	COUNCILOR KIPP SANTANA CATHY ON
01:19:11:00	01:19:11:00	THE FLOOR.
01:19:11:00	01:19:13:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:19:13:00	01:19:14:00	AND REALLY WANT TO THANK
01:19:14:00	01:19:15:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRUCE
01:19:15:00	01:19:18:00	LOUIJEUNE AND COUNCILMEMBER
01:19:18:00	01:19:19:00	HERE FOR INCLUDING ME IN THIS.
01:19:19:00	01:19:21:00	AND I WANT TO THANK CHAIR
01:19:21:00	01:19:22:00	CARLOS A PART OF OUR
01:19:22:00	01:19:25:00	CHAIRPERSON OF THE CHAPTER.
01:19:25:00	01:19:26:00	I TAKE US THROUGH THIS PROCESS
01:19:26:00	01:19:29:00	TODAY.
01:19:29:00	01:19:29:00	TODAY I'M PROUD TO STAND IN
01:19:29:00	01:19:30:00	SUPPORT OF THIS HOME RUN
01:19:30:00	01:19:33:00	PETITION TO BRING RANKED CHOICE
01:19:33:00	01:19:33:00	VOTING TO BOSTON VOTING CHOICE
01:19:33:00	01:19:36:00	VOTING GIVES PEOPLE MORE VOICE,
01:19:36:00	01:19:37:00	MORE CHOICE AND MORE CONFIDENCE
01:19:37:00	01:19:40:00	IN OUR ELECTIONS AND ALLOWS
01:19:40:00	01:19:41:00	VOTERS TO FULLY EXPRESS THEIR
01:19:41:00	01:19:44:00	PREFERENCES WITHOUT FEAR
01:19:44:00	01:19:44:00	OF WASTING THEIR VOTES AND
01:19:44:00	01:19:45:00	HELPS ENSURE THAT THE
01:19:45:00	01:19:48:00	CANDIDATES WHO WIN TRULY
01:19:48:00	01:19:48:00	REFLECT THE DIVERSE VALUES AND
01:19:48:00	01:19:52:00	PRIORITIES OF OUR COMMUNITY.
01:19:52:00	01:19:53:00	FOR A CITY AS DYNAMIC AND
01:19:53:00	01:19:56:00	DIVERSE AS BOSTON, WE SHOULD BE
01:19:56:00	01:19:57:00	LEADING THE WAY ON ELECTORAL
01:19:57:00	01:20:00:00	REFORM AND STRENGTHENING AND
01:20:00:00	01:20:00:00	STRENGTHENS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
01:20:00:00	01:20:01:00	AND INCREASES OUR
01:20:01:00	01:20:04:00	REPRESENTATION.
01:20:04:00	01:20:05:00	ONCE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW REAL
01:20:05:00	01:20:08:00	CHOICE VOTING WORKS THEY SEE
01:20:08:00	01:20:08:00	HOW IT SIMPLIFIES OUR
01:20:08:00	01:20:11:00	ELECTIONS, ENCOURAGES COALITION
01:20:11:00	01:20:12:00	BUILDING AND PROMOTING MORE
01:20:12:00	01:20:15:00	INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY.
01:20:15:00	01:20:16:00	THIS ISN'T ABOUT FAVORING ONE
01:20:16:00	01:20:16:00	GROUP OR PARTY.
01:20:16:00	01:20:19:00	IT'S ABOUT MAKING OUR DEMOCRACY
01:20:19:00	01:20:20:00	WORK BETTER FOR EVERYONE.
01:20:20:00	01:20:23:00	I'M PROUD TO BE A CO-SPONSOR
01:20:23:00	01:20:23:00	OF THIS HOME RULE PETITION AND
01:20:23:00	01:20:24:00	I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN
01:20:24:00	01:20:27:00	ME IN VOTING IN SUPPORT
01:20:27:00	01:20:27:00	OF THIS.
01:20:27:00	01:20:28:00	AND I KNOW THAT I JUST WANT TO
01:20:28:00	01:20:31:00	GIVE AN EXTRA SHOUT OUT ALSO TO
01:20:31:00	01:20:31:00	THE COALITION PARTNERS WHO ARE
01:20:31:00	01:20:34:00	HERE WITH US TODAY AND TO THOSE
01:20:34:00	01:20:34:00	WHO ARE WATCHING FROM WATCHING
01:20:34:00	01:20:38:00	US ONLINE.
01:20:38:00	01:20:39:00	MY COUNCILMEMBER HERE SAID THIS
01:20:39:00	01:20:41:00	CAME DIRECTLY FROM COMMUNITY
01:20:41:00	01:20:42:00	AND I'M PROUD TO STAND WITH
01:20:42:00	01:20:43:00	BOTH MY AT-LARGE CITY
01:20:43:00	01:20:45:00	COUNCILORS IN DOING JUST THAT.
01:20:45:00	01:20:46:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:20:46:00	01:20:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:20:46:00	01:20:49:00	DOES ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO
01:20:49:00	01:20:49:00	SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?
01:20:49:00	01:20:52:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:20:52:00	01:20:52:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCIL.
01:20:52:00	01:20:55:00	THE OTHER FLOOR.
01:20:55:00	01:20:55:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:20:55:00	01:20:59:00	AND BEFORE I BEGIN, I DO WANT
01:20:59:00	01:21:03:00	TO HIGHLIGHT RESIDENTS HAVE
01:21:03:00	01:21:06:00	ALSO ASKED US ABOUT AN ELECTED
01:21:06:00	01:21:10:00	SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND WE HAVEN'T
01:21:10:00	01:21:11:00	TAKEN ANY ACTION ON AN ELECTED
01:21:11:00	01:21:14:00	SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
01:21:14:00	01:21:18:00	VOTERS CLEARLY SAID TO US TO
01:21:18:00	01:21:21:00	THE CITY COUNCIL WILL YOU ACT
01:21:21:00	01:21:21:00	AND SUPPORT A SCHOOL COMMITTEE
01:21:21:00	01:21:25:00	AND WHAT IS OUR RESPONSE?
01:21:25:00	01:21:26:00	THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING.
01:21:26:00	01:21:36:00	WE HAVE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON IN
01:21:36:00	01:21:36:00	MY OPINION WANTING AN ELECTED
01:21:36:00	01:21:39:00	SCHOOL COMMITTEE MORE THAN MORE
01:21:39:00	01:21:39:00	THAN THEY WANT RANKED CHOICE
01:21:39:00	01:21:42:00	VOTING.
01:21:42:00	01:21:43:00	I WAS WITH COUNCILOR SANTANA
01:21:43:00	01:21:46:00	LAST NIGHT AT A COMMUNITY
01:21:46:00	01:21:50:00	MEETING IN SOUTH BOSTON.
01:21:50:00	01:21:53:00	THERE WAS 2025 PEOPLE THERE AND
01:21:53:00	01:21:53:00	IF THERE'S ONE PERSON THAT
01:21:53:00	01:21:56:00	SUPPORTED RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:21:56:00	01:22:00:00	WITH ALL THE IF ALL THE ISSUES
01:22:00:00	01:22:01:00	WE'RE FACING I DON'T BELIEVE
01:22:01:00	01:22:04:00	THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON ARE
01:22:04:00	01:22:07:00	ORIGINALLY ASKING US TO CHANGE
01:22:07:00	01:22:08:00	OUR VOTING SYSTEM.
01:22:08:00	01:22:11:00	WHAT I HEAR IS IT.
01:22:11:00	01:22:15:00	WHY DON'T YOU FIX PUBLIC AND
01:22:15:00	01:22:15:00	PEDESTRIAN SAFETY?
01:22:15:00	01:22:19:00	I WAS AT THE BOSTON COMMON
01:22:19:00	01:22:19:00	TODAY.
01:22:19:00	01:22:20:00	YET WE WANT MORE POLICE AND
01:22:20:00	01:22:23:00	RESOURCE IS IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON.
01:22:23:00	01:22:24:00	WHAT ABOUT RESIDENT PARK AND
01:22:24:00	01:22:26:00	AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
01:22:26:00	01:22:27:00	THE COST OF LIVING SUPPORTING
01:22:27:00	01:22:31:00	SMALL BUSINESSES.
01:22:31:00	01:22:31:00	WHAT THE RESIDENTS WANT US TO
01:22:31:00	01:22:34:00	FOCUS ON IS DELIVERING BASIC
01:22:34:00	01:22:35:00	CITY SERVICES AND ADDRESSING
01:22:35:00	01:22:38:00	QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES.
01:22:38:00	01:22:42:00	WELL, ELECTIONS ARE BASIC CITY
01:22:42:00	01:22:45:00	SERVICES AND WE KNOW AT THE
01:22:45:00	01:22:49:00	LAST ELECTION THE ELECTION
01:22:49:00	01:22:53:00	DEPARTMENT DIDN'T DO THEIR JOB
01:22:53:00	01:22:53:00	.
01:22:53:00	01:22:56:00	WE KNOW THAT 5:00 THE BOSTON
01:22:56:00	01:22:57:00	POLICE IN THEIR LIGHTS AND
01:22:57:00	01:23:03:00	SIRENS HAD TO TAKE BALLOTS FROM
01:23:03:00	01:23:04:00	CITY HALL AND DRIVE THEM TO
01:23:04:00	01:23:08:00	VOTING LOCATIONS IN MATTAPAN
01:23:08:00	01:23:11:00	AND HYDE PARK AND SOUTH BOSTON
01:23:11:00	01:23:11:00	.
01:23:11:00	01:23:15:00	IT WAS SO BAD THAT RESIDENTS IN
01:23:15:00	01:23:18:00	THE SOUTH END ESPECIALLY
01:23:18:00	01:23:23:00	ELDERLY PEOPLE HAD TO GO TO THE
01:23:23:00	01:23:23:00	CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL WHERE I
01:23:23:00	01:23:24:00	WENT WITH MY WIFE.
01:23:24:00	01:23:27:00	THE LIGHTS WEREN'T WORKING IN
01:23:27:00	01:23:27:00	THE POLLING LOCATION.
01:23:27:00	01:23:30:00	THEY WERE TELLING THE RESIDENTS
01:23:30:00	01:23:31:00	THAT WANTED TO VOTE TO USE YOUR
01:23:31:00	01:23:35:00	CELL PHONE LIGHT SO YOU COULD
01:23:35:00	01:23:38:00	READ THE BALLOT.
01:23:38:00	01:23:39:00	SOME RESIDENTS, SOME WONDERFUL
01:23:39:00	01:23:43:00	RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH END
01:23:43:00	01:23:43:00	ACTUALLY WENT HOME AND BROUGHT
01:23:43:00	01:23:46:00	LAMPS INTO THE CATHEDRAL HIGH
01:23:46:00	01:23:48:00	SCHOOL SO THAT THEIR NEIGHBORS
01:23:48:00	01:23:52:00	COULD READ THE BALLOT.
01:23:52:00	01:23:56:00	POLLING WORKERS WARDENS WERE
01:23:56:00	01:23:56:00	CALLING CITY HALL.
01:23:56:00	01:23:58:00	THOSE CALLS WENT ON WENT
01:23:58:00	01:24:02:00	UNANSWERED.
01:24:02:00	01:24:03:00	I CALLED PERSONALLY.
01:24:03:00	01:24:03:00	I CALLED THE ELECTION
01:24:03:00	01:24:06:00	DEPARTMENT FROM FROM THE
01:24:06:00	01:24:06:00	CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL, TALKED
01:24:06:00	01:24:09:00	TO SECRETARY GALVIN.
01:24:09:00	01:24:10:00	I DID MY DUE DILIGENCE.
01:24:10:00	01:24:14:00	I CALLED THE SECRETARY.
01:24:14:00	01:24:17:00	THEN I CALLED FOR A HEARING
01:24:17:00	01:24:21:00	WITH COUNCIL MURPHY.
01:24:21:00	01:24:22:00	I ADVOCATED FOR FOR A STATE
01:24:22:00	01:24:25:00	RECEIVER RECEIVERSHIP.
01:24:25:00	01:24:29:00	I ASKED FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND
01:24:29:00	01:24:29:00	CHANGES.
01:24:29:00	01:24:32:00	I CAME TO THIS BUDGET MEETING
01:24:32:00	01:24:32:00	ON THE ELECTION.
01:24:32:00	01:24:36:00	LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE DEBATE.
01:24:36:00	01:24:37:00	ADVOCATED FOR MORE RESOURCES
01:24:37:00	01:24:43:00	FOR THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT.
01:24:43:00	01:24:43:00	MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES WEREN'T
01:24:43:00	01:24:48:00	THERE AT THAT DEBATE AND THE
01:24:48:00	01:24:49:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT PRETTY MUCH
01:24:49:00	01:24:53:00	TOLD ME THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO
01:24:53:00	01:24:53:00	SEE THIS IMPLEMENTED.
01:24:53:00	01:24:56:00	THEY DON'T BELIEVE NOW IS THE
01:24:56:00	01:24:59:00	TIME TO MAKE SUCH A DRAMATIC
01:24:59:00	01:25:00:00	SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TO HOW
01:25:00:00	01:25:04:00	PEOPLE VOTE.
01:25:04:00	01:25:04:00	I LISTENED CLOSELY
01:25:04:00	01:25:07:00	COUNCILOR COLETTA AND I THOUGHT
01:25:07:00	01:25:08:00	YOU DID A WONDERFUL JOB.
01:25:08:00	01:25:10:00	I WOULD HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT
01:25:10:00	01:25:11:00	TIME EXPLAINING THAT PROCESS TO
01:25:11:00	01:25:15:00	MY CONSTITUENTS AND FOR OUR
01:25:15:00	01:25:19:00	DISTRICT OVER MANY OF THEM
01:25:19:00	01:25:19:00	DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
01:25:19:00	01:25:20:00	MANY OF THEM LIVE IN PUBLIC
01:25:20:00	01:25:22:00	HOUSING.
01:25:22:00	01:25:23:00	MANY OF THEM ARE SENIORS
01:25:23:00	01:25:26:00	ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.
01:25:26:00	01:25:27:00	I WOULD NOT BE COMFORTABLE
01:25:27:00	01:25:30:00	EXPLAINING THAT ENTIRE PROCESS
01:25:30:00	01:25:31:00	TO THEM IN SUCH A CLEAR WAY TO
01:25:31:00	01:25:35:00	EXPLAIN IT IN ONE MINUTE SO
01:25:35:00	01:25:35:00	THAT THEY CAN COMPLETELY
01:25:35:00	01:25:38:00	UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS.
01:25:38:00	01:25:39:00	I DON'T WANT TO SET US UP FOR
01:25:39:00	01:25:41:00	FAILURE.
01:25:41:00	01:25:42:00	THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
01:25:42:00	01:25:46:00	IF WE VOTE TODAY TO IMPLEMENT
01:25:46:00	01:25:46:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING YES,
01:25:46:00	01:25:50:00	THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING UP.
01:25:50:00	01:25:53:00	YES, PEOPLE WANT TO SUPPORT
01:25:53:00	01:25:54:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
01:25:54:00	01:25:54:00	IT HELPS THEM POLITICALLY.
01:25:54:00	01:25:57:00	I UNDERSTAND THAT.
01:25:57:00	01:25:58:00	BUT AT SOME POINT WE HAVE TO DO
01:25:58:00	01:26:01:00	WHAT'S BEST FOR THE RESIDENTS
01:26:01:00	01:26:02:00	OF BOSTON AND PROVIDE THEM WITH
01:26:02:00	01:26:06:00	WHAT THE POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
01:26:06:00	01:26:09:00	THAT THEY ELECTED US TO DO.
01:26:09:00	01:26:10:00	WE KNOW THIS SYSTEM IS GOING TO
01:26:10:00	01:26:13:00	FAIL.
01:26:13:00	01:26:13:00	THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT TOLD US
01:26:13:00	01:26:16:00	IT'S GOING TO THAT THEY'RE NOT
01:26:16:00	01:26:20:00	ABLE TO IMPLEMENT IT.
01:26:20:00	01:26:23:00	LET ME CONTINUE.
01:26:23:00	01:26:24:00	WE CANNOT NORMALIZE THE
01:26:24:00	01:26:27:00	FAILURES THAT TOOK PLACE IN
01:26:27:00	01:26:28:00	NOVEMBER IN THE BIGGEST
01:26:28:00	01:26:28:00	PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF OUR
01:26:28:00	01:26:31:00	LIFETIME.
01:26:31:00	01:26:32:00	WE HAD CITYWIDE BALLOT
01:26:32:00	01:26:35:00	SHORTAGES LONG DELAYS WAITING
01:26:35:00	01:26:35:00	FOR ADDITIONAL BALLOTS,
01:26:35:00	01:26:38:00	INCORRECT BALLOTS.
01:26:38:00	01:26:39:00	ENGLISH SPEAKING ENGLISH
01:26:39:00	01:26:42:00	SPEAKERS NEEDING TO USE CHINESE
01:26:42:00	01:26:43:00	BALLOTS IN THE SOUTH END
01:26:43:00	01:26:43:00	NEIGHBORS VOTING BY FLASHLIGHT.
01:26:43:00	01:26:47:00	AS I MENTIONED, POLL WORKERS
01:26:47:00	01:26:47:00	WERE ABLE TO REACH THE
01:26:47:00	01:26:47:00	ELECTION.
01:26:47:00	01:26:51:00	THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAD TO
01:26:51:00	01:26:54:00	SEND SOMEONE TO CITY HALL.
01:26:54:00	01:26:55:00	IF THIS ISN'T A FAILURE I DON'T
01:26:55:00	01:26:57:00	KNOW WHAT IS.
01:26:57:00	01:27:01:00	HOW CAN WE ADD MORE COMPLEXITY
01:27:01:00	01:27:02:00	TO THE BOSTON ELECTION
01:27:02:00	01:27:02:00	DEPARTMENT?
01:27:02:00	01:27:06:00	ARE WE SETTING THEM UP FOR
01:27:06:00	01:27:06:00	FAILURE?
01:27:06:00	01:27:07:00	THAT'S THE QUESTION WE HAVE TO
01:27:07:00	01:27:10:00	ASK OURSELVES RIGHT NOW.
01:27:10:00	01:27:18:00	WE ARE ON THE POLICY SIDE.
01:27:18:00	01:27:19:00	THERE WERE DELAYS WITH RANKED
01:27:19:00	01:27:22:00	CHOICE VOTING IN ALASKA AND NEW
01:27:22:00	01:27:22:00	YORK CITY.
01:27:22:00	01:27:23:00	THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
01:27:23:00	01:27:26:00	MISTAKENLY INCLUDED 135 TEST
01:27:26:00	01:27:27:00	BALLOTS AND THE RESULTS IN THE
01:27:27:00	01:27:30:00	MAYORAL ELECTION EVEN BEFORE
01:27:30:00	01:27:33:00	REALIZING THE MISTAKE.
01:27:33:00	01:27:34:00	MY FRIENDS, VOTING IS A CIVIL
01:27:34:00	01:27:37:00	RIGHTS ISSUE.
01:27:37:00	01:27:41:00	I REPRESENT THE LARGE IMMIGRANT
01:27:41:00	01:27:41:00	POPULATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01:27:41:00	01:27:45:00	LEARNERS AN OPTION TO RANK
01:27:45:00	01:27:49:00	CANDIDATES AND ADD COMPLEXITY
01:27:49:00	01:27:49:00	CAN POTENTIALLY CONFUSE
01:27:49:00	01:27:53:00	RESIDENTS AND LEAD TO VOTER
01:27:53:00	01:27:53:00	ERROR.
01:27:53:00	01:27:57:00	THIS CHANGE WILL BE HARMFUL TO
01:27:57:00	01:28:01:00	THEM IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS WHEN
01:28:01:00	01:28:04:00	RESIDENTS ACROSS THE POLITICAL
01:28:04:00	01:28:04:00	SPECTRUM ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
01:28:04:00	01:28:05:00	OUR ELECTION PROCESS.
01:28:05:00	01:28:08:00	THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IS
01:28:08:00	01:28:11:00	TO ADD CONFUSION WITH THE
01:28:11:00	01:28:14:00	SYSTEM.
01:28:14:00	01:28:15:00	IT IS ALSO CRITICAL THAT WE
01:28:15:00	01:28:16:00	MAINTAIN THE FAITH OF ALL
01:28:16:00	01:28:18:00	NEIGHBORS IN OUR ELECTORAL
01:28:18:00	01:28:19:00	SYSTEM AND DEMOCRACY WITH THE
01:28:19:00	01:28:22:00	PROCESS THAT ENHANCES
01:28:22:00	01:28:25:00	PARTICIPATION.
01:28:25:00	01:28:26:00	LET'S FIX OUR CURRENT VOTING
01:28:26:00	01:28:30:00	SYSTEM FIRST.
01:28:30:00	01:28:30:00	LET'S NOT SET UP THE BOSTON
01:28:30:00	01:28:33:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT FOR
01:28:33:00	01:28:33:00	FAILURE.
01:28:33:00	01:28:37:00	LET'S SUPPORT THEM.
01:28:37:00	01:28:38:00	I WANT TO MOVE ON FROM THAT
01:28:38:00	01:28:41:00	ELECTION FROM LAST YEAR AND THE
01:28:41:00	01:28:44:00	WAY I MOVE ON FROM THAT
01:28:44:00	01:28:45:00	ELECTION FROM LAST YEAR IS TO
01:28:45:00	01:28:48:00	FIX WHAT WHAT HAPPENED?
01:28:48:00	01:28:49:00	FIX THE MANY PROBLEMS THAT WE
01:28:49:00	01:28:49:00	HAVE.
01:28:49:00	01:28:52:00	WE CAN'T DOWNPLAY THAT.
01:28:52:00	01:28:53:00	THAT'S NOT OUR JOB TO DOWNPLAY
01:28:53:00	01:28:53:00	IT.
01:28:53:00	01:28:56:00	OUR JOB IS TO FIX IT.
01:28:56:00	01:28:57:00	TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
01:28:57:00	01:29:00:00	TO PROVIDE THE BEST ELECTION
01:29:00:00	01:29:00:00	DAY PROCESS THAT WE POSSIBLY
01:29:00:00	01:29:03:00	CAN.
01:29:03:00	01:29:04:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING IS NOT THE
01:29:04:00	01:29:04:00	ANSWER.
01:29:04:00	01:29:07:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN.
01:29:07:00	01:29:08:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:29:08:00	01:29:08:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:29:08:00	01:29:11:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL THE
01:29:11:00	01:29:11:00	OTHER FLOOR.
01:29:11:00	01:29:11:00	THANK YOU, CHAIR.
01:29:11:00	01:29:14:00	I WANT TO START BY THANKING
01:29:14:00	01:29:15:00	CHAIR CLAUDIA ZAPATA FOR WHAT I
01:29:15:00	01:29:18:00	BELIEVE IS A THOROUGH HEARINGS
01:29:18:00	01:29:18:00	AND WORKING SESSIONS.
01:29:18:00	01:29:21:00	THANK YOU FOR THAT.
01:29:21:00	01:29:22:00	JUST LAST MONTH MANY OF MY
01:29:22:00	01:29:25:00	COLLEAGUES ARGUED THAT IF A
01:29:25:00	01:29:26:00	SPECIAL ELECTION WAS TO HAPPEN
01:29:26:00	01:29:28:00	IN DISTRICT SEVEN IT WOULD BE
01:29:28:00	01:29:29:00	CONFUSING TO THE VOTERS.
01:29:29:00	01:29:32:00	IT WOULD BE BURDENSOME AND
01:29:32:00	01:29:33:00	EXPENSIVE TO THE ELECTION
01:29:33:00	01:29:36:00	DEPARTMENT EXCUSE ME THERE
01:29:36:00	01:29:37:00	WOULD BE NO DISTURBANCES FROM
01:29:37:00	01:29:37:00	THE PUBLIC.
01:29:37:00	01:29:40:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY
01:29:40:00	01:29:40:00	FOR.
01:29:40:00	01:29:40:00	THANK YOU.
01:29:40:00	01:29:44:00	AND I DO THINK ESPECIALLY WHEN
01:29:44:00	01:29:44:00	WE'RE TAKING VOTES THAT WILL
01:29:44:00	01:29:47:00	CHANGE THE LAWS ESPECIALLY ONES
01:29:47:00	01:29:50:00	THAT WILL CHANGE HOW WE VOTE
01:29:50:00	01:29:51:00	HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON THAT
01:29:51:00	01:29:54:00	IT'S IMPORTANT THAT DIFFERENT
01:29:54:00	01:29:55:00	OPINIONS ARE ABLE TO STAND UP
01:29:55:00	01:29:58:00	AND SPEAK AND TAKE AS MUCH TIME
01:29:58:00	01:29:58:00	AS THEY NEED TO.
01:29:58:00	01:30:02:00	THIS IS IMPORTANT.
01:30:02:00	01:30:02:00	BUT I BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW,
01:30:02:00	01:30:06:00	WHY IS RANKED CHOICE VOTING FOR
01:30:06:00	01:30:07:00	SOME REASON WE'RE NOT USING THE
01:30:07:00	01:30:10:00	SAME ARGUMENTS TO OUR VOTERS.
01:30:10:00	01:30:11:00	SO THAT IS A BIT CONFUSING TO
01:30:11:00	01:30:11:00	ME.
01:30:11:00	01:30:12:00	BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT OUR
01:30:12:00	01:30:14:00	CURRENT SYSTEM IS SIMPLE, CLEAR
01:30:14:00	01:30:15:00	AND ENSURES THAT EVERY VOTE
01:30:15:00	01:30:18:00	COUNTS, ADDING RANKED CHOICE
01:30:18:00	01:30:18:00	VOTING WOULD INTRODUCE
01:30:18:00	01:30:19:00	UNNECESSARY COMPLEXITY TO THE
01:30:19:00	01:30:22:00	PROCESS CONFUSING VOTERS AND
01:30:22:00	01:30:22:00	POTENTIALLY DISENFRANCHIZING
01:30:22:00	01:30:26:00	THOSE ALREADY MARGINALIZED
01:30:26:00	01:30:26:00	PARTICULARLY SENIORS IN
01:30:26:00	01:30:29:00	RESIDENTS WHOSE FIRST LANGUAGE
01:30:29:00	01:30:30:00	ISN'T ENGLISH.
01:30:30:00	01:30:33:00	AT A TIME WHEN WE SHOULD BE
01:30:33:00	01:30:34:00	WORKING TO MAKE VOTING MORE
01:30:34:00	01:30:36:00	ACCESSIBLE IN WHAT
01:30:36:00	01:30:37:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN DID SPEAK TO.
01:30:37:00	01:30:41:00	THANK YOU ON ALSO SUPPORTING
01:30:41:00	01:30:41:00	OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT WHO
01:30:41:00	01:30:42:00	NEEDS OUR SUPPORT RIGHT NOW.
01:30:42:00	01:30:45:00	I DO BELIEVE THAT IT'S A TIME
01:30:45:00	01:30:46:00	WHEN WE SHOULD BE WORKING TO
01:30:46:00	01:30:49:00	NOT MAKE VOTING LESS ACCESSIBLE
01:30:49:00	01:30:49:00	BUT IN MORE COMPLICATED.
01:30:49:00	01:30:52:00	AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS
01:30:52:00	01:30:53:00	PROPOSAL WILL MOVE US IN THE
01:30:53:00	01:30:53:00	WRONG DIRECTION.
01:30:53:00	01:30:56:00	THANK YOU.
01:30:56:00	01:30:56:00	THANK YOU.
01:30:56:00	01:31:01:00	COUNCILOR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:31:01:00	01:31:02:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
01:31:02:00	01:31:04:00	COUNCIL GAVE THE FLOOR.
01:31:04:00	01:31:04:00	THANK YOU.
01:31:04:00	01:31:05:00	I JUST WANTED TO JUST SAY ONE
01:31:05:00	01:31:06:00	THING VERY CLEARLY BECAUSE WE
01:31:06:00	01:31:08:00	HAD TWO SESSIONS AT LEAST WHERE
01:31:08:00	01:31:09:00	WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND PEOPLE
01:31:09:00	01:31:12:00	CAN GO REVIEW THE RECORD.
01:31:12:00	01:31:12:00	COMMISSIONER TAVARES STATED
01:31:12:00	01:31:15:00	THAT IF RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:31:15:00	01:31:15:00	WERE TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN IN
01:31:15:00	01:31:16:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON THE
01:31:16:00	01:31:18:00	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT IS WELL
01:31:18:00	01:31:19:00	WILL BE READY AND ABLE TO MOVE
01:31:19:00	01:31:20:00	FORWARD WITH IT AND I JUST
01:31:20:00	01:31:22:00	WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE REFLECT
01:31:22:00	01:31:23:00	THE RECORD OF WHAT WAS
01:31:23:00	01:31:23:00	ACCURATELY STATED BY
01:31:23:00	01:31:26:00	COMMISSIONER TAVARES ABOUT
01:31:26:00	01:31:27:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING DID NOT
01:31:27:00	01:31:28:00	EXPRESS AN OPINION AS TO RANKED
01:31:28:00	01:31:30:00	CHOICE VOTING BUT IN THE WORK
01:31:30:00	01:31:31:00	OF IMPLEMENTATION HER
01:31:31:00	01:31:34:00	DEPARTMENT WOULD BE READY TO
01:31:34:00	01:31:35:00	IMPLEMENT RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:31:35:00	01:31:35:00	ARE MACHINES RIGHT NOW ARE ABLE
01:31:35:00	01:31:38:00	TO DIRECTORIES VOTING WE NEED
01:31:38:00	01:31:38:00	NEW MACHINES AND WITH AN
01:31:38:00	01:31:41:00	UPGRADE WE CAN ALSO MAKE SURE
01:31:41:00	01:31:42:00	THAT WE'RE GETTING THE BEST
01:31:42:00	01:31:42:00	SOFTWARE.
01:31:42:00	01:31:43:00	SO JUST JUST TO CORRECT THE
01:31:43:00	01:31:45:00	RECORD IN TERMS OF WHAT THE
01:31:45:00	01:31:46:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT IS ABLE TO
01:31:46:00	01:31:46:00	DO AND WHAT THEY STATED AT THE
01:31:46:00	01:31:49:00	MANY HEARINGS, MANY THAT I
01:31:49:00	01:31:50:00	CHAIRED AND HAD THAN WE HAD
01:31:50:00	01:31:50:00	DURING BUDGET WHAT THEY'RE ABLE
01:31:50:00	01:31:53:00	TO DO WITH RANK CHOICE VOTING.
01:31:53:00	01:31:53:00	THANK YOU.
01:31:53:00	01:31:56:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
01:31:56:00	01:31:57:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKIN.
01:31:57:00	01:31:57:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:31:57:00	01:32:00:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:32:00:00	01:32:01:00	I APPRECIATE THE DISCOURSE
01:32:01:00	01:32:01:00	TODAY ON CHANGING THE STRUCTURE
01:32:01:00	01:32:04:00	OF OF ELECTIONS AND MOVING
01:32:04:00	01:32:05:00	TOWARDS THE USES USAGE
01:32:05:00	01:32:08:00	OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
01:32:08:00	01:32:09:00	AND ONE THING I WAS SORT
01:32:09:00	01:32:12:00	OF LIKE CAUGHT WITH TODAY IS
01:32:12:00	01:32:15:00	LIKE WHY DOES THIS CONVERSATION
01:32:15:00	01:32:19:00	MAKE ME SO AGITATED AND OR JUST
01:32:19:00	01:32:23:00	LIKE FEEL LIKE WHY DO I FEEL SO
01:32:23:00	01:32:23:00	LIKE UPSET ABOUT THIS
01:32:23:00	01:32:26:00	CONVERSATION?
01:32:26:00	01:32:27:00	AND I THINK IT'S BECAUSE YOU
01:32:27:00	01:32:31:00	KNOW A YEAR SORRY TEN YEARS AGO
01:32:31:00	01:32:31:00	TOMORROW I MOVED TO BOSTON TO
01:32:31:00	01:32:34:00	WORK IN BOSTON ELECTIONS.
01:32:34:00	01:32:35:00	I HAVE WORKED ON EVERY SINGLE
01:32:35:00	01:32:39:00	MUNICIPAL ELECTION SINCE 2015
01:32:39:00	01:32:42:00	IN SOME CAPACITY NOW MYSELF
01:32:42:00	01:32:43:00	TRYING TO GET REELECTED AND
01:32:43:00	01:32:46:00	I'LL JUST SAY THAT I THINK I
01:32:46:00	01:32:50:00	DISAGREE WITH THE CHANGE OF THE
01:32:50:00	01:32:51:00	MENTALITY OF OUR ELECTIONS.
01:32:51:00	01:32:54:00	I DO THINK CONDORCET ELECTIONS
01:32:54:00	01:32:55:00	ACTUALLY DO A GOOD JOB
01:32:55:00	01:32:58:00	OF PICKING WHO WOULD THRIVE IN
01:32:58:00	01:33:02:00	A HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON WHERE
01:33:02:00	01:33:02:00	I DO THINK A LOT OF STRATEGIC
01:33:02:00	01:33:05:00	VOTING HAPPENS WHEN WE
01:33:05:00	01:33:06:00	INTRODUCE RUNNING CHOICE
01:33:06:00	01:33:06:00	VOTING.
01:33:06:00	01:33:09:00	I ALSO AGREE WITH THAT MY
01:33:09:00	01:33:12:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUE FROM DISTRICT
01:33:12:00	01:33:16:00	TWO I DO THINK HAVING GOTTEN
01:33:16:00	01:33:17:00	SIGNATURES FROM FROM
01:33:17:00	01:33:21:00	CONSTITUENTS JUST RECENTLY WHO
01:33:21:00	01:33:24:00	SPEAK MULTIPLE LANGUAGES THE
01:33:24:00	01:33:25:00	BARRIER TO ENTRY IN OUR
01:33:25:00	01:33:25:00	ELECTIONS PROCESS RIGHT NOW IS
01:33:25:00	01:33:28:00	VERY HIGH AND ADDING ADDITIONAL
01:33:28:00	01:33:32:00	BARRIERS TO ENTRY IS JUST A
01:33:32:00	01:33:33:00	DIFFICULT THING FOR ME TO STAND
01:33:33:00	01:33:37:00	BEHIND AND I HAVE VOTED IN
01:33:37:00	01:33:40:00	SUPPORT OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:33:40:00	01:33:41:00	IN OTHER ELECTIONS BEFORE SO I
01:33:41:00	01:33:43:00	OFTEN HEAR IN THIS CONVERSATION
01:33:43:00	01:33:44:00	BROUGHT UP OH BOSTON THE
01:33:44:00	01:33:45:00	MAJORITY VOTED FOR RANKED
01:33:45:00	01:33:47:00	CHOICE VOTING THE MAJORITY
01:33:47:00	01:33:48:00	OF BOSTONIANS VOTED IN SUPPORT
01:33:48:00	01:33:51:00	OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN
01:33:51:00	01:33:52:00	DIFFERENT ELECTIONS NOT THESE
01:33:52:00	01:33:52:00	ELECTIONS.
01:33:52:00	01:33:55:00	THIS IS IN MY OPINION A
01:33:55:00	01:33:56:00	DIFFERENT TYPE OF ELECTION.
01:33:56:00	01:33:59:00	WHILE I MAY SUPPORT IT IN
01:33:59:00	01:34:00:00	THEORY AND POTENTIALLY FOR
01:34:00:00	01:34:03:00	FEDERAL OFFICES I'M
01:34:03:00	01:34:03:00	SPECIFICALLY AGAINST OUR RACV
01:34:03:00	01:34:04:00	IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FOR
01:34:04:00	01:34:07:00	BODIES THAT HAVE
01:34:07:00	01:34:07:00	MULTI-CANDIDATE OFFICES AND
01:34:07:00	01:34:08:00	MULTI MEMBER AT-LARGE
01:34:08:00	01:34:11:00	CHARACTERISTICS CONCURRENTLY
01:34:11:00	01:34:14:00	WHAT THAT MEANS IS RIGHT NOW WE
01:34:14:00	01:34:15:00	HAVE A SYSTEM THAT WORKS PRETTY
01:34:15:00	01:34:15:00	WELL.
01:34:15:00	01:34:16:00	WE HAVE A PRELIMINARY ELECTION
01:34:16:00	01:34:18:00	THAT GETS DOWN TO THE TOP
01:34:18:00	01:34:23:00	CANDIDATES AND THEN WE HAVE A
01:34:23:00	01:34:23:00	FINAL ELECTION.
01:34:23:00	01:34:27:00	I THINK THAT RACV IN THIS
01:34:27:00	01:34:27:00	INSTANCE IS SOLVING FOR A
01:34:27:00	01:34:28:00	PROBLEM THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE
01:34:28:00	01:34:31:00	SOLVED FOR AND I'LL JUST SAY
01:34:31:00	01:34:34:00	THAT CURRENTLY I DON'T THINK
01:34:34:00	01:34:35:00	THERE IS ENOUGH TRACK RECORD IN
01:34:35:00	01:34:38:00	THE US TO ASCERTAIN THE EFFECTS
01:34:38:00	01:34:38:00	OF OUR CDD ON VOTER TURNOUT FOR
01:34:38:00	01:34:41:00	MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND THAT'S
01:34:41:00	01:34:42:00	BEEN A CONSTANT THING THROUGH
01:34:42:00	01:34:42:00	THIS PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN
01:34:42:00	01:34:45:00	PUSHED FORWARD IS THAT IT WOULD
01:34:45:00	01:34:45:00	INCREASE PARTICIPATION THAT I
01:34:45:00	01:34:48:00	DON'T THINK THAT EVIDENCE IS
01:34:48:00	01:34:49:00	THERE IN FACT THIS PAST
01:34:49:00	01:34:53:00	NOVEMBER NO MAJOR CITY WITH
01:34:53:00	01:34:53:00	SOMEWHAT OR A SIMILAR STRUCTURE
01:34:53:00	01:34:56:00	OF ELECTIONS FROM OUR MUNICIPAL
01:34:56:00	01:34:57:00	ELECTED BODY HAD OUR CB
01:34:57:00	01:35:01:00	WASHINGTON DC DID RECENTLY
01:35:01:00	01:35:01:00	ADOPT RACV BUT HASN'T HAD ANY
01:35:01:00	01:35:04:00	ELECTIONS SINCE THEN.
01:35:04:00	01:35:05:00	I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A TRACK
01:35:05:00	01:35:08:00	RECORD OF HOW PARTICIPATION AND
01:35:08:00	01:35:09:00	INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT CHANGES
01:35:09:00	01:35:12:00	OR DOES NOT IN OTHER
01:35:12:00	01:35:13:00	JURISDICTIONS BEFORE MAKING
01:35:13:00	01:35:16:00	BOSTON A GUINEA PIG FOR THIS
01:35:16:00	01:35:17:00	AND AGAIN I KNOW WE'RE HAVING
01:35:17:00	01:35:20:00	THIS CONVERSATION ON THE
01:35:20:00	01:35:21:00	COUNCIL FLOOR BUT I'VE TALKED
01:35:21:00	01:35:23:00	TO MY STATE HOUSE COLLEAGUES.
01:35:23:00	01:35:24:00	I'M ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO
01:35:24:00	01:35:27:00	HAS TWO VERY IMPORTANT MEMBERS
01:35:27:00	01:35:28:00	REPRESENTING PARTS OF MY
01:35:28:00	01:35:28:00	DISTRICT.
01:35:28:00	01:35:29:00	THIS HAS NO FUTURE AT THE STATE
01:35:29:00	01:35:31:00	HOUSE.
01:35:31:00	01:35:32:00	IT DOESN'T HAVE A FUTURE AT THE
01:35:32:00	01:35:32:00	STATE HOUSE.
01:35:32:00	01:35:35:00	SO I'M NOT AGAINST US HAVING
01:35:35:00	01:35:35:00	THIS CONVERSATION.
01:35:35:00	01:35:36:00	OUR JOB IS TO HAVE THIS
01:35:36:00	01:35:38:00	CONVERSATION.
01:35:38:00	01:35:42:00	BUT I THINK FOR ME AS SOMEONE
01:35:42:00	01:35:42:00	WHO HAS WORKED ON EVERY SINGLE
01:35:42:00	01:35:45:00	BOSTON ELECTION SINCE 2015,
01:35:45:00	01:35:49:00	RAIN OR SHINE, I JUST I'M
01:35:49:00	01:35:49:00	WHOLLY AGAINST THIS.
01:35:49:00	01:35:53:00	I HAVE A LOT OF CONSTITUENTS
01:35:53:00	01:35:54:00	WHO REACH OUT TO ME IN SUPPORT.
01:35:54:00	01:35:54:00	I HAVE A CONSTITUENT WHO'S HERE
01:35:54:00	01:35:54:00	TODAY.
01:35:54:00	01:35:57:00	I FEEL REALLY BAD HAVING A
01:35:57:00	01:35:57:00	DIFFERENCE OF OPINION FROM
01:35:57:00	01:36:01:00	REALLY WELL MEANING SMART
01:36:01:00	01:36:05:00	EDUCATED FOLKS IN MY DISTRICT
01:36:05:00	01:36:05:00	AND SO IT PAINS ME TO HAVE TO
01:36:05:00	01:36:08:00	SPEAK ON THE COUNCIL FLOOR
01:36:08:00	01:36:09:00	ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WILL NOT
01:36:09:00	01:36:12:00	HAPPEN WHETHER WE VOTE ON IT
01:36:12:00	01:36:12:00	TODAY OR NOT.
01:36:12:00	01:36:13:00	BUT I NEED TO MAKE MY POSITION
01:36:13:00	01:36:15:00	KNOWN AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN
01:36:15:00	01:36:19:00	AT THE DOORS REQUESTING A VOTE
01:36:19:00	01:36:20:00	FOR AN AT LARGE COUNCILOR AND I
01:36:20:00	01:36:23:00	KNOW HOW COMPLICATED IT IS.
01:36:23:00	01:36:23:00	I KNOW HOW THOSE CONVERSATIONS
01:36:23:00	01:36:26:00	HAVE GONE.
01:36:26:00	01:36:27:00	I'VE KNOCKED THOUSANDS AND
01:36:27:00	01:36:30:00	THOUSANDS OF DOORS IN BOSTON
01:36:30:00	01:36:33:00	AND I KNOW WE ALL HAVE BUT
01:36:33:00	01:36:38:00	ME IN PARTICULAR I THERE'S NOT
01:36:38:00	01:36:38:00	ANYONE ON THIS COUNCIL THAT'S
01:36:38:00	01:36:39:00	WORKED ON MORE MUNICIPAL
01:36:39:00	01:36:41:00	ELECTIONS THAN ME BECAUSE THAT
01:36:41:00	01:36:42:00	WAS MY JOB BEFORE I GOT HERE
01:36:42:00	01:36:45:00	AND I'M AGAINST THIS SO THANK
01:36:45:00	01:36:45:00	YOU.
01:36:45:00	01:36:46:00	THANK YOU.
01:36:46:00	01:36:48:00	COUNCIL THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:36:48:00	01:36:49:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:36:49:00	01:36:52:00	COUNCILOR THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
01:36:52:00	01:36:52:00	THANK THANK YOU.
01:36:52:00	01:36:53:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:36:53:00	01:36:56:00	AND I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO
01:36:56:00	01:36:57:00	GO BACK AND CORRECT THE RECORD
01:36:57:00	01:37:00:00	THAT WAS CORRECTED BY ONE OF MY
01:37:00:00	01:37:04:00	COLLEAGUES BUT I LISTENED
01:37:04:00	01:37:07:00	CLOSELY AND CAREFULLY TO THE
01:37:07:00	01:37:08:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT AND TALKED
01:37:08:00	01:37:11:00	TO THEM AFTER I WAS AT EVERY
01:37:11:00	01:37:15:00	SINGLE HEARING AND WE ALL KNOW
01:37:15:00	01:37:15:00	THAT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO
01:37:15:00	01:37:18:00	IMPLEMENT RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:37:18:00	01:37:19:00	.
01:37:19:00	01:37:22:00	WE KNOW THAT I DON'T WANT TO GO
01:37:22:00	01:37:23:00	BACK TO THE 2024 ELECTION ON
01:37:23:00	01:37:26:00	WHAT HAPPENED BUT DISTRICT
01:37:26:00	01:37:27:00	COUNCIL IS KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
01:37:27:00	01:37:30:00	BECAUSE DISTRICT EXCUSE ME AND
01:37:30:00	01:37:34:00	I'M GOING TO ACT THIS FINAL
01:37:34:00	01:37:34:00	WARNING ANY FURTHER
01:37:34:00	01:37:37:00	DISTURBANCES WE WILL HAVE YOU
01:37:37:00	01:37:40:00	REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS
01:37:40:00	01:37:41:00	DISTRICT COUNCIL IS NOT WHAT
01:37:41:00	01:37:43:00	HAPPENED IN 2024 WE RECEIVED
01:37:43:00	01:37:47:00	THE CALLS FROM OUR
01:37:47:00	01:37:47:00	CONSTITUENTS.
01:37:47:00	01:37:51:00	MAYBE THEY DON'T WANT TO SPEAK
01:37:51:00	01:37:51:00	ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THEIR
01:37:51:00	01:37:54:00	PARTICULAR DISTRICT.
01:37:54:00	01:37:55:00	IT'S NOT GOOD TO CRITICIZE THE
01:37:55:00	01:37:59:00	ADMINISTRATION.
01:37:59:00	01:37:59:00	I UNDERSTAND THAT.
01:37:59:00	01:38:00:00	BUT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT IS
01:38:00:00	01:38:02:00	STANDING UP FOR OUR CONSTITUENT
01:38:02:00	01:38:03:00	THAT DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO A
01:38:03:00	01:38:06:00	BALLOT.
01:38:06:00	01:38:09:00	ONE WOMAN LEFT AFTER ONE HOUR
01:38:09:00	01:38:13:00	WAITING IN LINE AND SHE SAID TO
01:38:13:00	01:38:14:00	ME, ED, I HAVE TO GO HOME
01:38:14:00	01:38:17:00	BECAUSE I HAVE A SPECIAL NEEDS
01:38:17:00	01:38:17:00	CHILD AT HOME.
01:38:17:00	01:38:20:00	I NEED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO MY
01:38:20:00	01:38:24:00	CHILD.
01:38:24:00	01:38:24:00	I RECEIVE CALLS FROM THE
01:38:24:00	01:38:29:00	ELDERLY LIKE LIKE ALL MY
01:38:29:00	01:38:29:00	DISTRICT COUNCIL COLLEAGUES
01:38:29:00	01:38:31:00	HAVE AND PROBABLY AT LARGE AS
01:38:31:00	01:38:32:00	WELL ELDERLY PEOPLE WAITING IN
01:38:32:00	01:38:36:00	LINE FOR AN HOUR AND THEY SAID
01:38:36:00	01:38:39:00	I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER.
01:38:39:00	01:38:43:00	I HAVE TO GET HOME PERSONS WITH
01:38:43:00	01:38:46:00	DISABILITIES WAITING IN LINE
01:38:46:00	01:38:50:00	NOT FOR 5 MINUTES, NOT FOR 10
01:38:50:00	01:38:53:00	MINUTES FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS
01:38:53:00	01:38:56:00	WAITING FOR A BALLOT TO COME
01:38:56:00	01:38:57:00	FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON TO
01:38:57:00	01:39:00:00	MATTAPAN.
01:39:00:00	01:39:01:00	AND WE'RE AFRAID WE'RE AFRAID
01:39:01:00	01:39:08:00	TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THAT.
01:39:08:00	01:39:08:00	WE KNOW THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN.
01:39:08:00	01:39:11:00	WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS FOR US TO
01:39:11:00	01:39:12:00	ACKNOWLEDGE THE SYSTEM IS
01:39:12:00	01:39:15:00	BROKEN AND TO FIX IT BUT TO
01:39:15:00	01:39:19:00	DENY IT AND TO TO GLOSS OVER IT
01:39:19:00	01:39:22:00	AS IF THERE'S NO PROBLEM AND
01:39:22:00	01:39:23:00	LET'S GO ON TO SOMETHING BIGGER
01:39:23:00	01:39:23:00	AND BETTER AND MORE PROGRESSIVE
01:39:23:00	01:39:26:00	THAT'S NOT THE ANSWER.
01:39:26:00	01:39:27:00	THAT'S NOT WHAT OUR
01:39:27:00	01:39:27:00	CONSTITUENTS WANT.
01:39:27:00	01:39:30:00	THEY'RE LOOKING FOR US TO
01:39:30:00	01:39:31:00	PROVIDE POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
01:39:31:00	01:39:34:00	DURING DIFFICULT VOTES AND I'M
01:39:34:00	01:39:34:00	GLAD WE'RE HAVING THIS
01:39:34:00	01:39:37:00	CONVERSATION AND IT GIVES EVERY
01:39:37:00	01:39:38:00	CITY COUNCILOR AN OPPORTUNITY
01:39:38:00	01:39:39:00	TO SPEAK WHETHER YOU'RE IN
01:39:39:00	01:39:42:00	FAVOR OF IT OR YOU'RE AGAINST
01:39:42:00	01:39:42:00	IT.
01:39:42:00	01:39:43:00	AND I'M GLAD NO ONE IS SHUTTING
01:39:43:00	01:39:45:00	THE CONVERSATION DOWN DOWN
01:39:45:00	01:39:46:00	BECAUSE THAT'S OUR JOB IS TO
01:39:46:00	01:39:50:00	SPEAK ON PARTICULAR ISSUES AND
01:39:50:00	01:39:50:00	LET RESIDENTS KNOW EXACTLY
01:39:50:00	01:39:50:00	WHERE WE STAND.
01:39:50:00	01:39:54:00	WHETHER YOU SUPPORT SOMETHING
01:39:54:00	01:39:54:00	OR YOU'RE AGAINST SOMETHING BUT
01:39:54:00	01:39:57:00	NOT THAT YOU WANT TO END THE
01:39:57:00	01:39:58:00	CONVERSATION IMMEDIATELY BUT I
01:39:58:00	01:40:02:00	WOULD RECOMMEND TO MY
01:40:02:00	01:40:02:00	COLLEAGUES IF YOU HONESTLY
01:40:02:00	01:40:06:00	THINK THE CITY OF BOSTON
01:40:06:00	01:40:09:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT IS CAPABLE
01:40:09:00	01:40:10:00	OF IMPLEMENTING RANKED CHOICE
01:40:10:00	01:40:14:00	VOTING RIGHT NOW THEN THEN VOTE
01:40:14:00	01:40:14:00	FOR IT.
01:40:14:00	01:40:17:00	BUT IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE
01:40:17:00	01:40:18:00	CITY OF BOSTON IS UNABLE TO DO
01:40:18:00	01:40:21:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING AFTER WHAT
01:40:21:00	01:40:24:00	HAPPENED IN 2024 THE ANSWER IS
01:40:24:00	01:40:27:00	PRETTY CLEAR IT'S EITHER
01:40:27:00	01:40:28:00	POLITICS OR DO WHAT'S IN THE
01:40:28:00	01:40:31:00	BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY
01:40:31:00	01:40:31:00	OF BOSTON.
01:40:31:00	01:40:32:00	THANK YOU MR CHAIR.
01:40:32:00	01:40:32:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
01:40:32:00	01:40:35:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MEJIA.
01:40:35:00	01:40:36:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:40:36:00	01:40:36:00	THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT.
01:40:36:00	01:40:39:00	AND I TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES
01:40:39:00	01:40:42:00	FOR THIS ROBUST OPPORTUNITY TO
01:40:42:00	01:40:43:00	BE FULLY EXPRESSED.
01:40:43:00	01:40:44:00	SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT
01:40:44:00	01:40:44:00	BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE
01:40:44:00	01:40:46:00	TO DO TO DELIBERATE AND FIGHT
01:40:46:00	01:40:47:00	AND STAND UP FOR WHAT WE
01:40:47:00	01:40:50:00	BELIEVE IN.
01:40:50:00	01:40:50:00	SO I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY
01:40:50:00	01:40:54:00	TO DO JUST THAT PROUD TO SO I
01:40:54:00	01:40:54:00	WANT TO BE CLEAR AND I JUST
01:40:54:00	01:40:57:00	KIND OF WANT TO JUST LEVEL SET
01:40:57:00	01:41:01:00	JUST QUICKLY HERE AND SO AS
01:41:01:00	01:41:02:00	SOMEONE IN THE NOW I'M GOING TO
01:41:02:00	01:41:03:00	PULL A LITTLE BIT OF RANK IN
01:41:03:00	01:41:04:00	TERMS OF EXPERIENCE.
01:41:04:00	01:41:05:00	SO I STARTED OFF MY CAREER
01:41:05:00	01:41:08:00	WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE BUT
01:41:08:00	01:41:09:00	THEN I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
01:41:09:00	01:41:11:00	GO WORK AT MTV IN 2000 AND I
01:41:11:00	01:41:14:00	WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL ACROSS THE
01:41:14:00	01:41:15:00	ENTIRE COUNTRY TRYING TO GET
01:41:15:00	01:41:18:00	YOUNG PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND
01:41:18:00	01:41:18:00	THEIR POWER.
01:41:18:00	01:41:23:00	AND WHAT I HEARD ACROSS THE
01:41:23:00	01:41:23:00	COUNTRY IS THAT THEY DID NOT
01:41:23:00	01:41:26:00	FEEL SEEN OR AFFIRMED OR
01:41:26:00	01:41:27:00	REFLECTED IN THE PEOPLE WHO
01:41:27:00	01:41:30:00	WERE RUNNING AND THAT WAS 25
01:41:30:00	01:41:30:00	YEARS AGO.
01:41:30:00	01:41:35:00	AND SO WHILE I MAY HAVE MET A
01:41:35:00	01:41:35:00	LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN MUNICIPAL
01:41:35:00	01:41:38:00	ELECTIONS FROM A NATIONAL
01:41:38:00	01:41:38:00	PERSPECTIVE, I'VE DEDICATED MY
01:41:38:00	01:41:41:00	ENTIRE CAREER SINCE THEN TO
01:41:41:00	01:41:42:00	ACTIVATING PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND
01:41:42:00	01:41:45:00	THEIR POWER.
01:41:45:00	01:41:46:00	AND I CAME BACK TO BOSTON AND I
01:41:46:00	01:41:50:00	ESTABLISHED A VOLUNTEER LED
01:41:50:00	01:41:50:00	INITIATIVE TO GET PEOPLE
01:41:50:00	01:41:53:00	OF COLOR ENGAGED IN MUNICIPAL
01:41:53:00	01:41:56:00	ACTIONS BECAUSE LOCAL POLITICS
01:41:56:00	01:41:57:00	MATTER TEN YEARS LATER THE SAME
01:41:57:00	01:42:00:00	SENTIMENT THAT I HEARD ON A
01:42:00:00	01:42:01:00	NATIONAL LEVEL WAS HAPPENING
01:42:01:00	01:42:04:00	HERE LOCALLY RESIDENTS DID NOT
01:42:04:00	01:42:07:00	FEEL THAT THEY WERE BEING SEEN
01:42:07:00	01:42:08:00	HEARD.
01:42:08:00	01:42:08:00	ALL FIRMS AND THE PEOPLE WHO
01:42:08:00	01:42:11:00	WERE RUNNING DID NOT REPRESENT
01:42:11:00	01:42:12:00	THEM OR THEIR ISSUES.
01:42:12:00	01:42:16:00	AND SO FOR ME WHEN I THINK
01:42:16:00	01:42:17:00	ABOUT MY LITTLE ONE WILL WIN
01:42:17:00	01:42:20:00	BECAUSE IT WAS VERY TRAUMATIC.
01:42:20:00	01:42:20:00	I BELIEVE THAT THAT ELECTION
01:42:20:00	01:42:24:00	REALLY PROVED THAT PEOPLE WHO
01:42:24:00	01:42:27:00	ARE UNDER-RESOURCED CAN HAVE
01:42:27:00	01:42:28:00	THE OPPORTUNITY TO WALK INTO
01:42:28:00	01:42:28:00	THIS CHAMBER AND REPRESENT
01:42:28:00	01:42:31:00	FOLKS AND FOR THE THINGS THAT
01:42:31:00	01:42:34:00	YOU AND I AND EVERYONE WHO
01:42:34:00	01:42:35:00	COMES INTO THIS CHAMBER FIGHT
01:42:35:00	01:42:38:00	FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS.
01:42:38:00	01:42:39:00	SO THE POTHOLES, THE VIOLENCE,
01:42:39:00	01:42:42:00	ALL OF THOSE THINGS CHANGE WHEN
01:42:42:00	01:42:45:00	PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS CHAMBER
01:42:45:00	01:42:46:00	LIVE THE REALITIES AND FIGHT
01:42:46:00	01:42:46:00	FOR IT.
01:42:46:00	01:42:49:00	AND THAT'S WHY I THINK RANKED
01:42:49:00	01:42:50:00	CHOICE GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY
01:42:50:00	01:42:54:00	TO RESTORE TRUST IN OUR
01:42:54:00	01:42:54:00	ELECTORAL PROCESS BECAUSE RIGHT
01:42:54:00	01:42:58:00	NOW THOSE WITH THE BIGGEST BANK
01:42:58:00	01:43:01:00	USUALLY HAVE THE GREATEST
01:43:01:00	01:43:02:00	OPPORTUNITY TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL
01:43:02:00	01:43:05:00	CAMPAIGN AND WIN.
01:43:05:00	01:43:06:00	THIS GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO
01:43:06:00	01:43:09:00	LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR
01:43:09:00	01:43:12:00	FOLKS WHO ARE OFTEN UNDERSEEN
01:43:12:00	01:43:13:00	AND UNHEARD.
01:43:13:00	01:43:16:00	AND SO I JUST WANT TO
01:43:16:00	01:43:17:00	ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS AN
01:43:17:00	01:43:20:00	IMMIGRANT WHOSE LANGUAGE IS MY
01:43:20:00	01:43:24:00	NATIVE LANGUAGES SPANISH AND
01:43:24:00	01:43:25:00	WHO GREW UP WITH A MOM WHO
01:43:25:00	01:43:28:00	NEVER EVEN MADE IT BEYOND THE
01:43:28:00	01:43:29:00	THIRD GRADE, I HAVE TO BELIEVE
01:43:29:00	01:43:32:00	THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO
01:43:32:00	01:43:33:00	UNDERSTAND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
01:43:33:00	01:43:36:00	TO PICK THE PEOPLE THAT THEY
01:43:36:00	01:43:36:00	LIKE.
01:43:36:00	01:43:39:00	IT IS SIMPLE.
01:43:39:00	01:43:40:00	IT IS SIMPLE AND TO THINK THAT
01:43:40:00	01:43:43:00	WE CAN'T THAT FEELS
01:43:43:00	01:43:47:00	DISRESPECTFUL AND SO I WANT TO
01:43:47:00	01:43:50:00	UPLIFT THAT PEOPLE CAN AND WILL
01:43:50:00	01:43:54:00	BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR
01:43:54:00	01:43:58:00	POLITICAL WILL AND DECIDE WHO
01:43:58:00	01:44:01:00	ARE THEIR TOP CHOICES.
01:44:01:00	01:44:02:00	I THINK YOU KNOW, TO SAY THAT
01:44:02:00	01:44:06:00	THAT WE CAN'T DO IT MAKES ME AS
01:44:06:00	01:44:06:00	AN IMMIGRANT AND A NON ENGLISH
01:44:06:00	01:44:10:00	SPEAKER FEEL LIKE I DON'T HAVE
01:44:10:00	01:44:11:00	THE CAPACITY TO PICK PEOPLE TO
01:44:11:00	01:44:13:00	REPRESENT ME AND I WANT TO
01:44:13:00	01:44:16:00	REJECT THAT NOTION AND SO I
01:44:16:00	01:44:17:00	JUST WANT TO AFFIRM THAT WE CAN
01:44:17:00	01:44:21:00	DO THIS AND I KNOW THAT CHANGE
01:44:21:00	01:44:24:00	IS REALLY SCARY FOR SOME FOLKS
01:44:24:00	01:44:24:00	BUT WE'RE IN A MOMENT THAT
01:44:24:00	01:44:28:00	CHANGES WHAT THE CITY NEEDS.
01:44:28:00	01:44:29:00	WE CAN'T CONTINUE TO DO
01:44:29:00	01:44:32:00	BUSINESS AS USUAL AND BELIEVE
01:44:32:00	01:44:33:00	THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE
01:44:33:00	01:44:34:00	REPRESENTATION THAT WE ALL HAVE
01:44:34:00	01:44:36:00	BEEN LITERALLY DYING FOR.
01:44:36:00	01:44:37:00	SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO
01:44:37:00	01:44:41:00	REAFFIRM MY STRONG SUPPORT FOR
01:44:41:00	01:44:44:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING AND FOR
01:44:44:00	01:44:44:00	ME IT'S NOT ABOUT POLITICS
01:44:44:00	01:44:45:00	BECAUSE I ALWAYS SAY I LOVE MY
01:44:45:00	01:44:49:00	JOB, I DON'T NEED IT TO DO THE
01:44:49:00	01:44:49:00	WORK.
01:44:49:00	01:44:52:00	AND SO FOR ME THE VOTES THAT I
01:44:52:00	01:44:53:00	TAKE ARE BECAUSE THOSE ARE MY
01:44:53:00	01:44:55:00	VALUES NOT BECAUSE I'M GETTING
01:44:55:00	01:44:56:00	ANY POLITICAL POINTS FROM
01:44:56:00	01:44:56:00	ANYBODY.
01:44:56:00	01:44:59:00	SO I WANT TO I WANT TO REJECT
01:44:59:00	01:45:00:00	THAT MOTION AND THAT NOTION
01:45:00:00	01:45:03:00	THAT THIS IS POLITICAL THEATER
01:45:03:00	01:45:04:00	BECAUSE IT'S NOT FOR ME.
01:45:04:00	01:45:04:00	THANK YOU.
01:45:04:00	01:45:07:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA THE
01:45:07:00	01:45:08:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BRAYDEN
01:45:08:00	01:45:11:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:45:11:00	01:45:11:00	THANK YOU.
01:45:11:00	01:45:12:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN.
01:45:12:00	01:45:15:00	AND THANK YOU TO THE ADVOCATE.
01:45:15:00	01:45:19:00	SO, UM, I STILL THINK COALITION
01:45:19:00	01:45:22:00	I SEE A VERY FAMILIAR FACE BUT
01:45:22:00	01:45:22:00	LOOKING LIKE A SHOWBOAT.
01:45:22:00	01:45:25:00	IT HAS BEEN WORKING THIS ISSUE
01:45:25:00	01:45:25:00	FOR YEARS.
01:45:25:00	01:45:26:00	EVERYWHERE HE GOES HE'S THERE
01:45:26:00	01:45:27:00	WITH HIS CLIPBOARD TALKING
01:45:27:00	01:45:29:00	ABOUT RANKED CHOICE VOTING AND
01:45:29:00	01:45:30:00	HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR ICE CREAM OR
01:45:30:00	01:45:33:00	WHATEVER ELSE YOU WANT TO
01:45:33:00	01:45:33:00	CHOOSE.
01:45:33:00	01:45:36:00	I'M FROM NORTHERN IRELAND AND
01:45:36:00	01:45:37:00	ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
01:45:37:00	01:45:38:00	CHARACTERIZES OUR POLITICS OR
01:45:38:00	01:45:40:00	HISTORICALLY OUR POLITICS IN
01:45:40:00	01:45:41:00	NORTHERN IRELAND IS A DEEP
01:45:41:00	01:45:44:00	SECTARIAN DIVIDE AND
01:45:44:00	01:45:45:00	POLARIZATION IN OUR ELECTORATE
01:45:45:00	01:45:48:00	VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SEE IN
01:45:48:00	01:45:49:00	THE UNITED STATES TODAY AND
01:45:49:00	01:45:51:00	NORTHERN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
01:45:51:00	01:45:55:00	IN THE 2022 ELECTIONS THEY HAD
01:45:55:00	01:45:56:00	A THING CALLED PROPORTIONAL
01:45:56:00	01:46:02:00	LIKE CHOICE VOTING WHICH WE WE
01:46:02:00	01:46:02:00	THEY CALL IT A SINGLE
01:46:02:00	01:46:03:00	TRANSFERABLE VOTE.
01:46:03:00	01:46:06:00	IT'S THE SAME CONCEPT BUT
01:46:06:00	01:46:06:00	NEARLY 3 MILLION VOTERS WENT TO
01:46:06:00	01:46:10:00	THE POLLS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
01:46:10:00	01:46:11:00	AND IN SCOTLAND IN THE LOCAL
01:46:11:00	01:46:13:00	ELECTIONS BOTH COMMON BOTH
01:46:13:00	01:46:14:00	CONTESTS DEMONSTRATED THE
01:46:14:00	01:46:17:00	PROMISE OF A SINGLE
01:46:17:00	01:46:18:00	TRANSFERABLE VOTE KNOWN IN THE
01:46:18:00	01:46:18:00	UNITED STATES AS PROPORTIONAL
01:46:18:00	01:46:21:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN
01:46:21:00	01:46:22:00	NORTHERN IRELAND THE
01:46:22:00	01:46:27:00	PROPORTIONAL REPRESENT NATION
01:46:27:00	01:46:28:00	CHOICE OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:46:28:00	01:46:31:00	HAS HELPED TO BRIDGE SECTARIAN
01:46:31:00	01:46:32:00	DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
01:46:32:00	01:46:32:00	NATIONALISTS AND UNIONISTS
01:46:32:00	01:46:35:00	WHILE IN SCOTLAND IS HOW TO
01:46:35:00	01:46:36:00	ENSURE A FAIR REPRESENTATION
01:46:36:00	01:46:39:00	BOTH JURISDICTIONS AFTER
01:46:39:00	01:46:39:00	OFFERING CASE STUDIES ON HOW
01:46:39:00	01:46:40:00	THE UNITED STATES WOULD BENEFIT
01:46:40:00	01:46:43:00	FROM PASSING SUCH A SUCH A LAW
01:46:43:00	01:46:45:00	TO HAVE RANKED CHOICE VOTING
01:46:45:00	01:46:46:00	AND I THINK REALLY WHAT IT
01:46:46:00	01:46:49:00	FORCES PEOPLE TO DO IS TO SORT
01:46:49:00	01:46:50:00	OF THE MORE EXTREME ELEMENTS ON
01:46:50:00	01:46:53:00	EITHER END OF OUR POLITICAL
01:46:53:00	01:46:53:00	SPECTRUM.
01:46:53:00	01:46:57:00	IT FORCES EACH PARTY BECAUSE WE
01:46:57:00	01:46:58:00	WORK IN A PARTY SYSTEM OVER
01:46:58:00	01:47:01:00	THERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND SINN
01:47:01:00	01:47:02:00	FEIN WON THE MOST SEATS AND
01:47:02:00	01:47:05:00	WILL BE ENTITLED TO A POST AS
01:47:05:00	01:47:07:00	THE FIRST MINISTER AFTER
01:47:07:00	01:47:08:00	WINNING 29% OF THE FIRST
01:47:08:00	01:47:10:00	PREFERENCE VOTES NATIONALLY
01:47:10:00	01:47:14:00	WHICH TRANSLATED INTO 2027 OUT
01:47:14:00	01:47:14:00	OF 90 SEATS.
01:47:14:00	01:47:15:00	THE PARTY WAS ONCE THE
01:47:15:00	01:47:17:00	POLITICAL WING OF A MILITANT
01:47:17:00	01:47:18:00	PROVISIONAL IRA, A REPUBLICAN
01:47:18:00	01:47:21:00	ARMY, THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY
01:47:21:00	01:47:21:00	.
01:47:21:00	01:47:22:00	BUT IN THIS CAMPAIGN IT FOCUSED
01:47:22:00	01:47:22:00	LAST ON THE QUESTIONS
01:47:22:00	01:47:25:00	OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AND MORE
01:47:25:00	01:47:26:00	ON THE KITCHEN TABLES ISSUES
01:47:26:00	01:47:29:00	LIKE THE COST OF LIVING AND THE
01:47:29:00	01:47:29:00	NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.
01:47:29:00	01:47:32:00	AND IT'S REALLY ABOUT FOCUSING
01:47:32:00	01:47:33:00	THE ISSUES AND I DON'T THINK
01:47:33:00	01:47:37:00	ANY OF US SHOULD BE AFRAID
01:47:37:00	01:47:38:00	OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING BECAUSE
01:47:38:00	01:47:39:00	IF WE ARE REALLY RELATING TO
01:47:39:00	01:47:41:00	THE BROADEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE
01:47:41:00	01:47:42:00	IN OUR ELECTORATE AND TALKING
01:47:42:00	01:47:45:00	ABOUT THE ISSUES REALLY MATTER
01:47:45:00	01:47:45:00	TO THEM, WE SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID
01:47:45:00	01:47:48:00	OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
01:47:48:00	01:47:49:00	AND I THINK THE ISSUE THAT
01:47:49:00	01:47:52:00	DISCOURAGES PEOPLE FROM VOTING
01:47:52:00	01:47:53:00	IN OUR ELECTIONS IS THAT IF YOU
01:47:53:00	01:47:56:00	HAVE A FIELD OF CANDIDATES AND
01:47:56:00	01:47:57:00	YOU HAVE SOMEBODY THAT YOU
01:47:57:00	01:48:00:00	REALLY LIKE BECAUSE OF THEIR
01:48:00:00	01:48:00:00	WHATEVER POSITION THEY HOLD ON
01:48:00:00	01:48:04:00	A CERTAIN ISSUE AND YOU WANT TO
01:48:04:00	01:48:07:00	VOTE FOR THEM, YOU YOU THE
01:48:07:00	01:48:08:00	NOTION OF THE WASTED VOTE IS
01:48:08:00	01:48:11:00	VERY PREVALENT AND AND RANKED
01:48:11:00	01:48:15:00	CHOICE VOTING SYSTEM THAT'S
01:48:15:00	01:48:16:00	WASTED VOTE YOU MAKE YOUR
01:48:16:00	01:48:18:00	STATEMENT YOU VOTED THAT
01:48:18:00	01:48:19:00	SOMEBODY THAT YOU LIKE AND YOU
01:48:19:00	01:48:19:00	WANT TO SUPPORT THE PARTICULAR
01:48:19:00	01:48:22:00	ISSUES THEY STAND ON BUT IF YOU
01:48:22:00	01:48:25:00	HAVE IF YOU THEN RANK SOMEBODY
01:48:25:00	01:48:26:00	AS YOUR SECOND CHOICE IF YOUR
01:48:26:00	01:48:28:00	FIRST CHOICE DOESN'T MAKE IT,
01:48:28:00	01:48:29:00	THEN YOUR SECOND CHOICE THAT
01:48:29:00	01:48:29:00	YOU'RE THAT VOTE GETS
01:48:29:00	01:48:32:00	TRANSFERRED TO SECOND CHOICE.
01:48:32:00	01:48:33:00	AND I THINK THAT'S A WAY TO
01:48:33:00	01:48:36:00	REALLY KEEP MORE PEOPLE ENGAGED
01:48:36:00	01:48:37:00	AND IT'S ALSO A WAY TO BUILD
01:48:37:00	01:48:40:00	CONSENSUS ACROSS OUR POLITICAL
01:48:40:00	01:48:41:00	BODY HERE IN THE CITY.
01:48:41:00	01:48:44:00	BUT A NATIONALLY WOULDN'T IT BE
01:48:44:00	01:48:44:00	WONDERFUL IF WE HAD RANKED
01:48:44:00	01:48:47:00	CHOICE VOTING ACROSS THE
01:48:47:00	01:48:48:00	COUNTRY WE WOULD HAVE A MUCH
01:48:48:00	01:48:51:00	MORE CIVIL DISCOURSE AND I
01:48:51:00	01:48:52:00	THINK IT'S A WAY TO BUILD
01:48:52:00	01:48:54:00	CONSENSUS AND TO REALLY LIFT UP
01:48:54:00	01:48:55:00	THOSE PEOPLE WHO FEEL
01:48:55:00	01:48:55:00	DISENFRANCHIZED AND ON THE
01:48:55:00	01:48:58:00	MARGINS OF OUR SOCIETY THAT
01:48:58:00	01:48:59:00	THEY HAVE A VOICE IN THE SYSTEM
01:48:59:00	01:49:01:00	IN THIS PROCESS AND THAT THEY
01:49:01:00	01:49:02:00	WILL FEEL EMPOWERED TO VOTE
01:49:02:00	01:49:06:00	MORE AND AND REALLY HELP CHANGE
01:49:06:00	01:49:09:00	HOW WE DISCUSS POLITICS HERE
01:49:09:00	01:49:10:00	AND REALLY GET DOWN TO THE
01:49:10:00	01:49:13:00	BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE INSTEAD
01:49:13:00	01:49:14:00	OF THIS SORT OF BACK AND FORTH
01:49:14:00	01:49:16:00	FIGHTING THAT WE SEE ACROSS
01:49:16:00	01:49:17:00	COUNTRY.
01:49:17:00	01:49:17:00	SO I AM OBVIOUSLY VOTING IN
01:49:17:00	01:49:18:00	FAVOR OF THIS.
01:49:18:00	01:49:21:00	I THINK IT'S A GOOD A GOOD
01:49:21:00	01:49:21:00	OPTION FOR US.
01:49:21:00	01:49:22:00	I FULLY APPRECIATE THAT IT HAS
01:49:22:00	01:49:24:00	TO GO TO THE BALLOTS.
01:49:24:00	01:49:25:00	PEOPLE OF BOSTON GET AN
01:49:25:00	01:49:28:00	OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON THIS AND
01:49:28:00	01:49:29:00	WE'RE NOT GOING TO INTRODUCE IT
01:49:29:00	01:49:29:00	NEXT WEEK.
01:49:29:00	01:49:33:00	WE HAVE A WE HAVE A WE HAVE A
01:49:33:00	01:49:33:00	RUNWAY WE HAVE A TIMELINE THAT
01:49:33:00	01:49:35:00	THIS WILL BE INTRODUCED ON SO
01:49:35:00	01:49:36:00	THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S
01:49:36:00	01:49:36:00	GOING TO HAPPEN AND I FULLY
01:49:36:00	01:49:40:00	ENDORSE THE NOTION THAT OUR
01:49:40:00	01:49:40:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT NEEDS MORE
01:49:40:00	01:49:40:00	RESOURCES.
01:49:40:00	01:49:43:00	THEY USED TO HAVE 30 PEOPLE
01:49:43:00	01:49:44:00	THEY'RE DOWN TO 29 NOW AND
01:49:44:00	01:49:44:00	THEY'RE DOING A LOT.
01:49:44:00	01:49:46:00	THEY'RE NOT JUST DOING
01:49:46:00	01:49:46:00	ORGANIZING ELECTIONS.
01:49:46:00	01:49:50:00	THEY SUPERVISE THE SUPERVISOR,
01:49:50:00	01:49:50:00	THE CENSUS.
01:49:50:00	01:49:51:00	THEY DO A LOT OF WORK THAT IS
01:49:51:00	01:49:54:00	BEHIND THE SCENES ON THIS.
01:49:54:00	01:49:55:00	SO I'M A GREAT ADVOCATE FOR
01:49:55:00	01:49:57:00	ALSO FULLY FUNDING OUR OUR
01:49:57:00	01:49:58:00	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT SO THEY
01:49:58:00	01:50:01:00	CAN DO THIS JOB AND DO IT WELL
01:50:01:00	01:50:01:00	.
01:50:01:00	01:50:02:00	THANK YOU.
01:50:02:00	01:50:02:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
01:50:02:00	01:50:03:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PEP IN
01:50:03:00	01:50:04:00	COUNCIL THE OTHER FLOOR.
01:50:04:00	01:50:08:00	THANK YOU MR CHAIR AND FOR ME I
01:50:08:00	01:50:09:00	AM ONE OF THE DISTRICT
01:50:09:00	01:50:12:00	COUNCILORS THAT HAD SOME ISSUES
01:50:12:00	01:50:12:00	IN MY DISTRICT.
01:50:12:00	01:50:16:00	I WAS ACTUALLY OUT THERE WITH
01:50:16:00	01:50:16:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE HELPING
01:50:16:00	01:50:20:00	VOTERS TELLING THEM TO NOT
01:50:20:00	01:50:20:00	LEAVE THE LINE TO STAND STRONG
01:50:20:00	01:50:24:00	AND I ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT OUR
01:50:24:00	01:50:24:00	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT DOES NEED
01:50:24:00	01:50:28:00	HELP AND WE WE JUST HAD THEIR
01:50:28:00	01:50:31:00	BUDGET HEARING WAS IT YESTERDAY
01:50:31:00	01:50:32:00	TWO DAYS AGO WE LEARNED THAT
01:50:32:00	01:50:32:00	THEY'RE GETTING READY TO
01:50:32:00	01:50:35:00	IMPLEMENT NEW CHANGES AS WELL
01:50:35:00	01:50:36:00	AND TO GIVE MORE INVESTMENT
01:50:36:00	01:50:38:00	INTO THE DEPARTMENT.
01:50:38:00	01:50:42:00	BUT I DON'T THINK THAT BECAUSE
01:50:42:00	01:50:43:00	OF THE STRUGGLES THAT THEY
01:50:43:00	01:50:43:00	EXPERIENCED LAST YEAR, IT
01:50:43:00	01:50:44:00	SHOULDN'T TAKE AWAY FROM THE
01:50:44:00	01:50:45:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EXPLORE
01:50:45:00	01:50:46:00	AND CONSIDER RANKED CHOICE
01:50:46:00	01:50:50:00	VOTING I AM I'M A BIG BELIEVER
01:50:50:00	01:50:53:00	IN MAKING THINGS FAIRER AND
01:50:53:00	01:50:57:00	MAKING SURE THAT VOTERS IN OUR
01:50:57:00	01:50:57:00	CITY AND EVEN ACROSS THE NATION
01:50:57:00	01:50:58:00	JUST HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
01:50:58:00	01:51:01:00	CHOOSE SOMEONE THAT THEY
01:51:01:00	01:51:01:00	IDENTIFY WITH.
01:51:01:00	01:51:02:00	AND I WAS ABLE TO FIND
01:51:02:00	01:51:05:00	SOMETHING THAT I THAT I REALLY
01:51:05:00	01:51:06:00	APPRECIATE HEAR FROM
01:51:06:00	01:51:06:00	ORGANIZERS.
01:51:06:00	01:51:09:00	SO I'M GOING TO READ IT SAYS
01:51:09:00	01:51:12:00	THAT IT EMPOWERS VOTERS WITH
01:51:12:00	01:51:13:00	MORE CHOICE AND ELIMINATES THE
01:51:13:00	01:51:16:00	FEAR OF WASTING YOUR VOTE AND
01:51:16:00	01:51:16:00	IT ENSURES THAT WINNING
01:51:16:00	01:51:17:00	CANDIDATES HAVE REAL MAJORITY
01:51:17:00	01:51:19:00	SUPPORT.
01:51:19:00	01:51:20:00	THIS MEANS MORE LEGITIMACY,
01:51:20:00	01:51:23:00	MORE ACCOUNTABILITY AND MORE
01:51:23:00	01:51:24:00	COLLABORATION QUALITIES WE
01:51:24:00	01:51:27:00	URGENTLY NEED IN OUR LEADERSHIP
01:51:27:00	01:51:27:00	.
01:51:27:00	01:51:28:00	WHEN I HEAR THESE THINGS I
01:51:28:00	01:51:30:00	THINK ABOUT EVEN WHEN WHERE I'M
01:51:30:00	01:51:31:00	RUNNING FOR OFFICE RIGHT NOW
01:51:31:00	01:51:35:00	AND WE ALL KNOW THAT WE LOOK AT
01:51:35:00	01:51:36:00	WE LOOK AT THE PRECINCTS IN THE
01:51:36:00	01:51:38:00	WARDS AND VOTER TURNOUT WHICH
01:51:38:00	01:51:39:00	ONES COME OUT OF VOTING MORE
01:51:39:00	01:51:42:00	THIS WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THAT
01:51:42:00	01:51:42:00	BECAUSE THIS WILL MAKE
01:51:42:00	01:51:43:00	ELECTIONS MORE BROADLY FAIRER.
01:51:43:00	01:51:46:00	IT'S GOING TO MAKE US WORK EVEN
01:51:46:00	01:51:46:00	HARDER.
01:51:46:00	01:51:47:00	IT'S GOING TO MAKE US REACH
01:51:47:00	01:51:48:00	VOTERS WHERE THEY DON'T USUALLY
01:51:48:00	01:51:50:00	REACH THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T
01:51:50:00	01:51:50:00	USUALLY COME OUT OF WORK GOING
01:51:50:00	01:51:53:00	TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY
01:51:53:00	01:51:54:00	OH YEAH, I MET THIS PERSON.
01:51:54:00	01:51:57:00	I'M GOING TO CONSIDER THEM FOR
01:51:57:00	01:51:57:00	A VOTE.
01:51:57:00	01:51:58:00	BUT IT'S ALSO GOING TO OPEN UP
01:51:58:00	01:51:59:00	THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE THAT
01:51:59:00	01:52:01:00	HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO LOOK TO
01:52:01:00	01:52:02:00	RUN FOR OFFICE BEFORE AND SAY I
01:52:02:00	01:52:05:00	ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE AT THIS.
01:52:05:00	01:52:06:00	I WAS AT BIG HIGH SCHOOL THIS
01:52:06:00	01:52:08:00	MORNING IN A ROOM FILLED
01:52:08:00	01:52:09:00	OF STUDENTS OF HAITIAN,
01:52:09:00	01:52:13:00	CAMBODIAN, DOMINICAN, A
01:52:13:00	01:52:13:00	FILIPINO, SOMEONE FROM JORDAN
01:52:13:00	01:52:16:00	AND SOMEONE FROM PAKISTAN AND
01:52:16:00	01:52:17:00	EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM ASKS
01:52:17:00	01:52:18:00	ME DO YOU THINK I HAVE THE
01:52:18:00	01:52:21:00	CHANCE OF RUNNING FOR OFFICE?
01:52:21:00	01:52:21:00	AND I SAID YOU DO.
01:52:21:00	01:52:22:00	BUT I THINK ACTUALLY IS WHAT
01:52:22:00	01:52:23:00	MAKES IT EVEN MORE OF A
01:52:23:00	01:52:24:00	POSSIBILITY FOR THEM TO BECOME
01:52:24:00	01:52:24:00	AN ELECTED OFFICIAL BECAUSE
01:52:24:00	01:52:27:00	THESE PEOPLE DON'T COME FROM I
01:52:27:00	01:52:28:00	MEAN THEY SAY TO THEMSELVES
01:52:28:00	01:52:31:00	THEY DON'T HAVE WHAT WE CALL
01:52:31:00	01:52:32:00	THE BACKGROUND OR THE PEDIGREE
01:52:32:00	01:52:33:00	TO RUN FOR OFFICE AND I THINK
01:52:33:00	01:52:35:00	THAT WE SHOULD GIVE THIS A
01:52:35:00	01:52:35:00	CONSIDERATION.
01:52:35:00	01:52:39:00	COUNSELOR YOU MENTIONED THAT
01:52:39:00	01:52:43:00	THIS WILL POTENTIALLY DIE IN
01:52:43:00	01:52:43:00	THE STATE HOUSE.
01:52:43:00	01:52:44:00	I SAY LET'S GIVE THEM THE
01:52:44:00	01:52:44:00	CHANCE TO DEBATE IT.
01:52:44:00	01:52:47:00	LET'S GIVE THEM THE SAY TO DO
01:52:47:00	01:52:47:00	THAT.
01:52:47:00	01:52:51:00	I SAY LISTEN, IF WE VOTE TO
01:52:51:00	01:52:51:00	SUPPORT THIS TODAY WE KNOW IT'S
01:52:51:00	01:52:52:00	NOT GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED
01:52:52:00	01:52:52:00	IMMEDIATELY.
01:52:52:00	01:52:55:00	STATE HOUSE CAN HAVE TO VOTE ON
01:52:55:00	01:52:55:00	IT.
01:52:55:00	01:52:56:00	PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT TO VOTE ON
01:52:56:00	01:52:56:00	IT.
01:52:56:00	01:52:56:00	LET'S MOVE FORWARD TO IT.
01:52:56:00	01:52:58:00	THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT IT.
01:52:58:00	01:52:58:00	THANK YOU.
01:52:58:00	01:52:59:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEP IN THE
01:52:59:00	01:53:02:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:53:02:00	01:53:02:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNTS THE
01:53:02:00	01:53:05:00	OTHER FOUR.
01:53:05:00	01:53:06:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR.
01:53:06:00	01:53:09:00	WELL, IF EVERYONE THAT CAN VOTE
01:53:09:00	01:53:10:00	IN THIS CITY ACTUALLY VOTED I
01:53:10:00	01:53:11:00	DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE HAVING
01:53:11:00	01:53:13:00	THIS CONVERSATION.
01:53:13:00	01:53:13:00	THERE WAS 100% FOLKS VOTING
01:53:13:00	01:53:16:00	THAT COULD.
01:53:16:00	01:53:17:00	SO I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT
01:53:17:00	01:53:20:00	TO STRESS THAT TO BE SEEN, TO
01:53:20:00	01:53:21:00	FEEL HURT, TO FEEL SEEN AND
01:53:21:00	01:53:21:00	HEARD.
01:53:21:00	01:53:24:00	VOTING IS THE SINGLE MOST
01:53:24:00	01:53:25:00	IMPORTANT TOOL WE HAVE IN OUR
01:53:25:00	01:53:25:00	DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
01:53:25:00	01:53:28:00	AND SO I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY NO
01:53:28:00	01:53:28:00	MATTER WHICH HOW THE ELECTION
01:53:28:00	01:53:31:00	WORKS TO PLEASE COME OUT AND
01:53:31:00	01:53:32:00	VOTE BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY
01:53:32:00	01:53:35:00	WAY TO DEAL SEEN TO BE HURT.
01:53:35:00	01:53:35:00	BUT THERE IS A MAJORITY OF THE
01:53:35:00	01:53:38:00	CITY THAT IS OBVIOUSLY CHOSEN
01:53:38:00	01:53:39:00	NOT TO VOTE RIGHT?
01:53:39:00	01:53:39:00	WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
01:53:39:00	01:53:42:00	FROM THE ELECTORAL PROCESS THAT
01:53:42:00	01:53:45:00	IS THE CHOICE THAT THEY RANKED
01:53:45:00	01:53:46:00	FIRST THAT THEY WOULD CHOOSE
01:53:46:00	01:53:46:00	NOT TO VOTE.
01:53:46:00	01:53:49:00	AND SO I DISAGREE WITH CHANGING
01:53:49:00	01:53:50:00	THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS JUST TO
01:53:50:00	01:53:53:00	APPEASE THOSE THAT CHOOSE NOT
01:53:53:00	01:53:53:00	TO PARTICIPATE IN IT.
01:53:53:00	01:53:57:00	AND THEREFORE I LOOK TO THE
01:53:57:00	01:53:57:00	VOTE.
01:53:57:00	01:53:57:00	THANK YOU, JEFF.
01:53:57:00	01:53:58:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:58:00	01:53:58:00	COUNCILOR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:53:58:00	01:54:00:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FOR IS NOW
01:54:00:00	01:54:04:00	YOURS OKAY I GUESS I'M NOT
01:54:04:00	01:54:07:00	GOING TO CALL IT ANOTHER
01:54:07:00	01:54:08:00	COUNCILOR BUT YOU LOOKING AT
01:54:08:00	01:54:10:00	THE SAME DATA I REACH A
01:54:10:00	01:54:11:00	DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.
01:54:11:00	01:54:14:00	I RESPECTFULLY YOU KNOW I THINK
01:54:14:00	01:54:15:00	WHEN WE WERE TALKING IN THE
01:54:15:00	01:54:15:00	HEARING WITH THE ELECTIONS
01:54:15:00	01:54:18:00	DEPARTMENT WHEN MAYOR RAY
01:54:18:00	01:54:21:00	FLYNN, YOU KNOW, WAS ELECTED IN
01:54:21:00	01:54:22:00	1983, 70% OF BOSTON TURNED OUT
01:54:22:00	01:54:26:00	FOR THAT ELECTION IN THE LAST
01:54:26:00	01:54:28:00	FEW MAYORAL ELECTIONS IT'S
01:54:28:00	01:54:32:00	CLOSER TO 30% AND I THINK AS
01:54:32:00	01:54:33:00	COUNCIL WHERE L AND I WILL
01:54:33:00	01:54:35:00	REVIEW SOME OF THE DATA WHILE
01:54:35:00	01:54:36:00	30% COME OUT TO VOTE, EVEN
01:54:36:00	01:54:40:00	FEWER PEOPLE EVEN VOTE FOR THE
01:54:40:00	01:54:40:00	CITY COUNCIL.
01:54:40:00	01:54:41:00	THEY'RE VOTING FOR MAYOR AND
01:54:41:00	01:54:43:00	THEY LEAVE THE REST BLANK.
01:54:43:00	01:54:44:00	THIS IS A WAY TO INCREASE
01:54:44:00	01:54:47:00	PURCHASING PATIENT PEOPLE ARE
01:54:47:00	01:54:47:00	SHOWING UP.
01:54:47:00	01:54:48:00	WE WANT THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN
01:54:48:00	01:54:54:00	VOTES FOR THE CITY COUNCIL AND
01:54:54:00	01:54:55:00	THIS IS ONE WAY TO DO THAT.
01:54:55:00	01:54:55:00	AND WHILE I THINK THAT, YOU
01:54:55:00	01:54:58:00	KNOW, MAJORITY RULE IS NOT
01:54:58:00	01:55:02:00	ALWAYS THE WAY TO GO, WE HAVE
01:55:02:00	01:55:02:00	TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS
01:55:02:00	01:55:05:00	OF EVERYONE HERE WHERE THE
01:55:05:00	01:55:05:00	VOTERS OF BOSTON ARE
01:55:05:00	01:55:09:00	ENCOURAGING US TO USE A FORM
01:55:09:00	01:55:13:00	OF VOTING FOR OUR OFFICE KNOW
01:55:13:00	01:55:14:00	WE SHOULD WEIGH THAT AS A
01:55:14:00	01:55:14:00	FACTOR.
01:55:14:00	01:55:17:00	AND I DO LOOK AT THAT AS AS
01:55:17:00	01:55:18:00	ANOTHER REASON WHY WE SHOULD
01:55:18:00	01:55:18:00	SUPPORT THIS.
01:55:18:00	01:55:18:00	THANK YOU.
01:55:18:00	01:55:22:00	THANK YOU.
01:55:22:00	01:55:23:00	COUNCILOR WEBER THE CHAIR
01:55:23:00	01:55:23:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKIN
01:55:23:00	01:55:23:00	COUNCIL.
01:55:23:00	01:55:24:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:55:24:00	01:55:25:00	THANK SO MUCH.
01:55:25:00	01:55:26:00	I KNOW IT WAS LONG WINDED SO
01:55:26:00	01:55:28:00	I'LL BE SURE I THINK FOR THE
01:55:28:00	01:55:29:00	EXACT SAME REASONS THAT FOLKS
01:55:29:00	01:55:32:00	ARE PROPOSED SAYING RANKED
01:55:32:00	01:55:33:00	CHOICE VOTING FOR BOSTON ARE
01:55:33:00	01:55:37:00	THE REASONS AND THE FACTS THAT
01:55:37:00	01:55:38:00	I'M BRINGING TO BE AGAINST IT.
01:55:38:00	01:55:40:00	I THINK IN THE 2021 PRIMARY
01:55:40:00	01:55:44:00	RIGHT AFTER NEW YORK CITY PUT
01:55:44:00	01:55:44:00	THIS FORWARD.
01:55:44:00	01:55:48:00	LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES WERE
01:55:48:00	01:55:49:00	LESS LIKELY TO USE RANKED
01:55:49:00	01:55:52:00	CHOICE VOTING LOWER INCOME
01:55:52:00	01:55:52:00	COMMUNITIES SHOWED LESS
01:55:52:00	01:55:55:00	ENGAGEMENT WITH RANKED CHOICE
01:55:55:00	01:55:56:00	VOTING IN THEIR FIRST NEW YORK
01:55:56:00	01:55:58:00	CITY PRIMARY WHILE 90%
01:55:58:00	01:55:59:00	OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS USED IT TO
01:55:59:00	01:56:02:00	PICK A NOMINEE FOR MAYOR, AN
01:56:02:00	01:56:02:00	ECONOMIC DIVIDE EMERGED BETWEEN
01:56:02:00	01:56:06:00	THOSE WHO ADOPTED PRACTICE
01:56:06:00	01:56:06:00	FULLY AND THOSE WHO DID NOT AND
01:56:06:00	01:56:10:00	THE WEALTHIEST BOROUGHS WERE
01:56:10:00	01:56:10:00	THE ONES IN THE FIRST ELECTION
01:56:10:00	01:56:14:00	IN NEW YORK TO USE RANKED
01:56:14:00	01:56:15:00	CHOICE VOTING AND THERE ARE AND
01:56:15:00	01:56:18:00	I I DON'T WANT TO GO AND
01:56:18:00	01:56:21:00	CORRECT YOU KNOW EVERY SINGLE
01:56:21:00	01:56:22:00	ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES STATEMENTS
01:56:22:00	01:56:25:00	BUT I THINK I SAID IT REALLY
01:56:25:00	01:56:26:00	WELL WHEN I SPOKE EARLIER WE
01:56:26:00	01:56:28:00	WOULD BE THE FIRST ELECTION TO
01:56:28:00	01:56:31:00	HAPPEN WITH A MULTI MEMBER
01:56:31:00	01:56:35:00	DISTRICT MULTI MEMBER AT LARGE
01:56:35:00	01:56:40:00	DISTRICTS THAT NEW YORK HAS
01:56:40:00	01:56:40:00	INSTALLED I MEAN WASHINGTON
01:56:40:00	01:56:41:00	D.C. HAS INSTALLED THIS BUT HAS
01:56:41:00	01:56:44:00	NOT YET HAD AN ELECTION AND
01:56:44:00	01:56:47:00	THERE ARE A COUPLE EXAMPLES
01:56:47:00	01:56:48:00	THAT WERE USED BY MY COLLEAGUES
01:56:48:00	01:56:51:00	THAT THAT IT'S NOT LIKE FOR
01:56:51:00	01:56:52:00	LIKE THEY'RE NOT SIMILAR TO OUR
01:56:52:00	01:56:54:00	ELECTION SO IT JUST WHILE OTHER
01:56:54:00	01:56:55:00	PLACES HAVE USED IT WHILE OTHER
01:56:55:00	01:56:58:00	PEOPLE HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY
01:56:58:00	01:56:58:00	FROM DIFFERENT PLACES WITH
01:56:58:00	01:56:59:00	RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
01:56:59:00	01:57:03:00	BOSTON IS UNIQUE AND OUR
01:57:03:00	01:57:06:00	ELECTIONS ARE HISTORIC AND THE
01:57:06:00	01:57:07:00	WAY THAT WE DO ELECTIONS HERE
01:57:07:00	01:57:10:00	ARE HISTORIC AS WELL AND I.
01:57:10:00	01:57:14:00	I UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND WHY
01:57:14:00	01:57:14:00	PEOPLE WOULD SAY THAT RANKED
01:57:14:00	01:57:17:00	CHOICE VOTING IS A GOOD IDEA.
01:57:17:00	01:57:18:00	I PERSONALLY HAVE WITNESSED A
01:57:18:00	01:57:18:00	LOT OF REALLY LARGE
01:57:18:00	01:57:21:00	CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS WHERE
01:57:21:00	01:57:22:00	THERE ARE 20 PEOPLE RUNNING
01:57:22:00	01:57:25:00	WHERE PEOPLE HAVE MULTIPLE
01:57:25:00	01:57:26:00	PEOPLE THEY LIKE AND THEY DON'T
01:57:26:00	01:57:29:00	KNOW HOW TO GET THEIR ON THIS
01:57:29:00	01:57:29:00	BODY.
01:57:29:00	01:57:32:00	WE ARE NONPARTISAN.
01:57:32:00	01:57:33:00	WE ARE ELECTED IN A NONPARTISAN
01:57:33:00	01:57:37:00	MANNER SO THE THE THREAT OF NOT
01:57:37:00	01:57:41:00	BEING ABLE TO CHOOSE IN YOUR
01:57:41:00	01:57:41:00	DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY OF LIKE THE
01:57:41:00	01:57:44:00	OPTIONS YOU WANT TO CHOOSE I
01:57:44:00	01:57:45:00	UNDERSTAND THAT PROBLEM AND I
01:57:45:00	01:57:48:00	DO THINK THERE IS DEFINITELY AN
01:57:48:00	01:57:49:00	ARGUMENT FOR THAT PROBLEM TO BE
01:57:49:00	01:57:50:00	SOLVED THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM
01:57:50:00	01:57:52:00	OR SOLVING HERE.
01:57:52:00	01:57:53:00	SO I JUST THINK THERE'S LESS
01:57:53:00	01:57:56:00	EVIDENCE TO PRODUCE THAT THIS
01:57:56:00	01:57:56:00	WOULD BE A GOOD CHOICE FOR
01:57:56:00	01:57:56:00	BOSTON.
01:57:56:00	01:57:59:00	SO I WILL BE VOTING NO AND BUT
01:57:59:00	01:58:00:00	I DO RESPECT MY COLLEAGUES.
01:58:00:00	01:58:03:00	THIS CONVERSATION IS A
01:58:03:00	01:58:04:00	CONVERSATION THAT WE SHOULD
01:58:04:00	01:58:04:00	HAVE.
01:58:04:00	01:58:07:00	I PERSONALLY AM AGAINST
01:58:07:00	01:58:08:00	ADVANCING IT TO THE STATE HOUSE
01:58:08:00	01:58:10:00	BECAUSE AGAIN, I ACTUALLY THINK
01:58:10:00	01:58:14:00	THERE ELECTIONS ARE MORE LIKELY
01:58:14:00	01:58:15:00	TO BE HELPED BY THIS THAN OUR
01:58:15:00	01:58:15:00	ELECTIONS.
01:58:15:00	01:58:19:00	SO THANK YOU.
01:58:19:00	01:58:19:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
01:58:19:00	01:58:22:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY
01:58:22:00	01:58:22:00	COUNCILOR HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:58:22:00	01:58:23:00	THANK YOU.
01:58:23:00	01:58:23:00	I JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD
01:58:23:00	01:58:26:00	BECAUSE I'VE HEARD IT MANY
01:58:26:00	01:58:26:00	TIMES TODAY AND THROUGH THIS
01:58:26:00	01:58:29:00	WHOLE DEBATE PROCESS OVER THE
01:58:29:00	01:58:30:00	LAST FEW MONTHS BUT I DO NOT
01:58:30:00	01:58:34:00	BELIEVE ANY VOTE CAST IS EVER
01:58:34:00	01:58:34:00	WASTED EVEN IF THE PERSON THE
01:58:34:00	01:58:37:00	CANDIDATE YOU VOTED FOR DOESN'T
01:58:37:00	01:58:38:00	WIN THE ELECTION AND I DON'T
01:58:38:00	01:58:39:00	BELIEVE YOU SHOULD GET A BACK
01:58:39:00	01:58:42:00	UP PLAN IF YOUR FIRST CHOICE
01:58:42:00	01:58:43:00	LOSES AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE
01:58:43:00	01:58:46:00	PROUD OF WHO WE VOTED FOR AND
01:58:46:00	01:58:50:00	STICK BY THEM AND OUR MY I TAKE
01:58:50:00	01:58:50:00	IT RESPONSIBILITY TO ENGAGE
01:58:50:00	01:58:53:00	MORE PEOPLE TO VOTE IF 20%
01:58:53:00	01:58:54:00	OF THE PEOPLE COME OUT IN THE
01:58:54:00	01:58:57:00	CITY OF BOSTON WE'RE
01:58:57:00	01:58:58:00	CONSIDERING THAT KIND OF A HIGH
01:58:58:00	01:58:58:00	TURNOUT NOWADAYS AND THERE'S
01:58:58:00	01:59:01:00	SOME DISTRICTS WHO ARE LESS
01:59:01:00	01:59:02:00	THAN 5%.
01:59:02:00	01:59:04:00	SO I'M GOING TO FOCUS MORE ON
01:59:04:00	01:59:05:00	ENCOURAGING THOSE WHO HAVE THE
01:59:05:00	01:59:08:00	ABILITY TO VOTE TO GET OUT AND
01:59:08:00	01:59:09:00	LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD.
01:59:09:00	01:59:10:00	BUT I DON'T WANT I WANT TO JUST
01:59:10:00	01:59:12:00	BE CLEAR THAT ANY VOTE CAST
01:59:12:00	01:59:13:00	SHOULDN'T BE CONSIDERED WASTED
01:59:13:00	01:59:17:00	JUST BECAUSE THE CANDIDATE
01:59:17:00	01:59:17:00	DIDN'T WIN.
01:59:17:00	01:59:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:59:17:00	01:59:18:00	COUNCILOR THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:59:18:00	01:59:21:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE IS A PARTY
01:59:21:00	01:59:21:00	COUNCILOR.
01:59:21:00	01:59:21:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:59:21:00	01:59:22:00	THANK YOU, VICE.
01:59:22:00	01:59:23:00	JUST ONE QUICK FINAL CLARIFYING
01:59:23:00	01:59:23:00	POINT.
01:59:23:00	01:59:27:00	THE EARLIEST THAT WE COULD
01:59:27:00	01:59:28:00	POTENTIALLY IMPLEMENT THIS IS
01:59:28:00	01:59:32:00	LIKELY 2028 2029 WHERE WE'RE
01:59:32:00	01:59:36:00	TALKING ABOUT SIGNATURE FROM
01:59:36:00	01:59:37:00	THE MAYOR AND THEN GOING UP TO
01:59:37:00	01:59:37:00	THE STATE HOUSE THE END
01:59:37:00	01:59:39:00	OF THEIR LEGISLATION
01:59:39:00	01:59:40:00	LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS NEXT
01:59:40:00	01:59:43:00	YEAR AND THEN SIGNATURE FROM
01:59:43:00	01:59:44:00	THE GOVERNOR AND THEN FROM
01:59:44:00	01:59:45:00	THERE IT GOES ON TO THE NEXT
01:59:45:00	01:59:48:00	ELECTION BALLOT AND THEN
01:59:48:00	01:59:51:00	DOESN'T TAKE EFFECT UNTIL 365
01:59:51:00	01:59:52:00	DAYS AFTER THAT.
01:59:52:00	01:59:55:00	SO WE'RE LOOKING AT 2028, 2029
01:59:55:00	01:59:55:00	LIKELY.
01:59:55:00	01:59:58:00	AND SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY
01:59:58:00	01:59:59:00	SOME POINTS ABOUT SOME CITIES
01:59:59:00	02:00:00:00	NOT ADOPTING THIS AND WANTING
02:00:00:00	02:00:02:00	TO SEE IT HAPPEN.
02:00:02:00	02:00:03:00	WE WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
02:00:03:00	02:00:03:00	DO THAT.
02:00:03:00	02:00:05:00	THANK YOU.
02:00:05:00	02:00:06:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
02:00:06:00	02:00:09:00	ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK?
02:00:09:00	02:00:10:00	I'LL JUST TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY
02:00:10:00	02:00:13:00	TO OFFER JUST A FEW BRIEF
02:00:13:00	02:00:16:00	REMARKS.
02:00:16:00	02:00:17:00	FIRST I WANT TO JUST THANK
02:00:17:00	02:00:17:00	MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:00:17:00	02:00:20:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE AND ALSO
02:00:20:00	02:00:21:00	COUNCILOR, SAID TINA FOR THEIR
02:00:21:00	02:00:23:00	WORK ON THIS AND ALL YOUR
02:00:23:00	02:00:23:00	LEADERSHIP.
02:00:23:00	02:00:24:00	I ALSO WANT TO JUST THINK THE
02:00:24:00	02:00:27:00	CHAIR FOR YOUR THOROUGH PROCESS
02:00:27:00	02:00:28:00	ON BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
02:00:28:00	02:00:31:00	I DO BELIEVE IN DEMOCRATIC
02:00:31:00	02:00:32:00	REFORMS AND I SUPPORT THE
02:00:32:00	02:00:32:00	PRINCIPLE THAT VOTERS SHOULD
02:00:32:00	02:00:35:00	HAVE MORE TO SAY WHO REPRESENTS
02:00:35:00	02:00:35:00	THEM.
02:00:35:00	02:00:38:00	IF OUR GOAL IS TO VOTER TURNOUT
02:00:38:00	02:00:42:00	A GOAL I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT
02:00:42:00	02:00:43:00	THEN I BELIEVE THIS ALONG WITH
02:00:43:00	02:00:46:00	VOTER EDUCATION CLEAR OUTREACH
02:00:46:00	02:00:47:00	AND OPERATIONAL READINESS WILL
02:00:47:00	02:00:50:00	GET US THERE.
02:00:50:00	02:00:50:00	I BELIEVE THAT THE STRUGGLES
02:00:50:00	02:00:51:00	OF THE PAST SHOULDN'T BE A
02:00:51:00	02:00:54:00	REASON WE DON'T STRENGTHEN OUR
02:00:54:00	02:00:54:00	DEMOCRACY AND PERCEIVED
02:00:54:00	02:00:58:00	OBSTACLES IN THE FUTURE.
02:00:58:00	02:00:59:00	IT SHOULDN'T STOP US FROM DOING
02:00:59:00	02:00:59:00	THE RIGHT THING IN THE PRESENT.
02:00:59:00	02:01:02:00	SO I BELIEVE THIS DOES THIS ALL
02:01:02:00	02:01:03:00	THIS DOES STRENGTHEN OUR
02:01:03:00	02:01:05:00	DEMOCRACY BUT LET'S CONTINUE TO
02:01:05:00	02:01:06:00	INVEST IN PROVEN TOOLS AN
02:01:06:00	02:01:09:00	INCREASE IN VOTER ENGAGEMENT
02:01:09:00	02:01:09:00	AND VOTER TURNOUT.
02:01:09:00	02:01:13:00	WITH THAT THE CHAIR OF THE
02:01:13:00	02:01:16:00	COMMITTEE LOOKS FOR SEEKS
02:01:16:00	02:01:17:00	ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE
02:01:17:00	02:01:19:00	REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
02:01:19:00	02:01:19:00	NUMBER 0144.
02:01:19:00	02:01:20:00	MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE DO A
02:01:20:00	02:01:23:00	ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE
02:01:23:00	02:01:27:00	ON DOCKET NUMBERS 014 FOR
02:01:27:00	02:01:27:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:01:27:00	02:01:31:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:01:31:00	02:01:32:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE A PART
02:01:32:00	02:01:32:00	OF COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A
02:01:32:00	02:01:32:00	PARTY?
02:01:32:00	02:01:34:00	YES.
02:01:34:00	02:01:35:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN.
02:01:35:00	02:01:35:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN NO.
02:01:35:00	02:01:38:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDES AND
02:01:38:00	02:01:38:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
02:01:38:00	02:01:39:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD NO.
02:01:39:00	02:01:42:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:01:42:00	02:01:43:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN NO.
02:01:43:00	02:01:46:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:01:46:00	02:01:46:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:01:46:00	02:01:47:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
02:01:47:00	02:01:50:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
02:01:50:00	02:01:50:00	YES.
02:01:50:00	02:01:51:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:01:51:00	02:01:51:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY KNOW
02:01:51:00	02:01:55:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN YES.
02:01:55:00	02:01:55:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN YES.
02:01:55:00	02:01:56:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
02:01:56:00	02:01:58:00	COUNCILOR YES.
02:01:58:00	02:01:59:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:01:59:00	02:01:59:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:01:59:00	02:02:02:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.
02:02:02:00	02:02:02:00	YES.
02:02:02:00	02:02:03:00	COUNCILOR EARL YES.
02:02:03:00	02:02:07:00	DUCKING NUMBER 0144 HAS
02:02:07:00	02:02:08:00	RECEIVED EIGHT VOTES IN THE
02:02:08:00	02:02:09:00	AFFIRMATIVE AND FOUR IN THE
02:02:09:00	02:02:09:00	NEGATIVE.
02:02:09:00	02:02:12:00	THANK YOU.
02:02:12:00	02:02:12:00	I KNOW IT'S A CELEBRATION, BUT
02:02:12:00	02:02:16:00	PLEASE NOTE NO CLAPPING IN THE
02:02:16:00	02:02:16:00	CHAMBER.
02:02:16:00	02:02:16:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:02:16:00	02:02:19:00	THE COMMITTEE REPORT HAS BEEN
02:02:19:00	02:02:19:00	ACCEPTED AND DOCKET NUMBER 0144
02:02:19:00	02:02:23:00	HAS PASSED AND A NEW DRAFT.
02:02:23:00	02:02:24:00	MR. CLERK, WE ARE NOW ON TO
02:02:24:00	02:02:28:00	MATTERS WE JUST RECENTLY HEARD
02:02:28:00	02:02:32:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE READ DOCKETS
02:02:32:00	02:02:34:00	NUMBER 082220845 DUNCAN EMMA
02:02:34:00	02:02:38:00	0822 THROUGH 80824 ORDERS FOR
02:02:38:00	02:02:39:00	THE FISCAL YEAR 26 OPERATING
02:02:39:00	02:02:42:00	BUDGET INCLUDING ANNUAL
02:02:42:00	02:02:42:00	APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENT
02:02:42:00	02:02:45:00	OF OPERATIONS FOR THE SCHOOL
02:02:45:00	02:02:46:00	AND FOR OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT
02:02:46:00	02:02:49:00	BENEFITS ALSO KNOWN AS OPEN
02:02:49:00	02:02:55:00	DOCKET NUMBERS 082520827 ORDERS
02:02:55:00	02:02:55:00	FOR A CAPITAL FUND CREDIT
02:02:55:00	02:03:01:00	APPROPRIATIONS SO I CAN NUMBERS
02:03:01:00	02:03:02:00	082820830 ORDERS FOR THE
02:03:02:00	02:03:02:00	CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING LOAN
02:03:02:00	02:03:05:00	ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE
02:03:05:00	02:03:10:00	AGREEMENTS IN DOCKET NUMBERS
02:03:10:00	02:03:11:00	083120845 ORDERS AUTHORIZING
02:03:11:00	02:03:11:00	LIMITS FOR DEPARTMENTAL
02:03:11:00	02:03:15:00	REVOLVING FUNDS INCLUDING LAW,
02:03:15:00	02:03:19:00	TOURISM AND ARTS CULTURE
02:03:19:00	02:03:20:00	ENVIRONMENT BOSTON CENTERS FOR
02:03:20:00	02:03:23:00	YOUTH AND FAMILY SCHOOLS AND
02:03:23:00	02:03:23:00	POLICE AND OTHER BUDGET RELATED
02:03:23:00	02:03:26:00	DOCKETS.
02:03:26:00	02:03:27:00	THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:03:27:00	02:03:31:00	COUNCILOR ALSO.
02:03:31:00	02:03:31:00	I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO
02:03:31:00	02:03:32:00	STAY IN CHAMBERS AT THE.
02:03:32:00	02:03:35:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:03:35:00	02:03:35:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:03:35:00	02:03:37:00	THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
02:03:37:00	02:03:38:00	HAS HELD A ROBUST SERIES
02:03:38:00	02:03:41:00	OF HEARINGS TIED TO DOCKET ZERO
02:03:41:00	02:03:43:00	TAX NUMBER 082230830 AND DOCKET
02:03:43:00	02:03:43:00	NUMBER 0838.
02:03:43:00	02:03:49:00	OFFERING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE
02:03:49:00	02:03:50:00	PROPOSED EQUITY 26 INVESTMENTS
02:03:50:00	02:03:51:00	AND PRIORITIES BEFORE WE JUMPED
02:03:51:00	02:03:53:00	IN WE'VE CLOCKED 77 HOURS 43
02:03:53:00	02:03:56:00	MINUTES AND 39 SECONDS ACROSS
02:03:56:00	02:03:57:00	35 PARENTS AND WORKING SESSIONS
02:03:57:00	02:03:57:00	SO FAR.
02:03:57:00	02:04:00:00	A LOT OF GROUND COVERED AND
02:04:00:00	02:04:01:00	MORE TO GO.
02:04:01:00	02:04:01:00	NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE
02:04:01:00	02:04:04:00	WITHOUT THE DEDICATION OF MY
02:04:04:00	02:04:05:00	TEAM CENTRAL STAFF
02:04:05:00	02:04:06:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND THEIR
02:04:06:00	02:04:09:00	TEAMS IDR AND EVERYONE WHO IS
02:04:09:00	02:04:12:00	WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES.
02:04:12:00	02:04:13:00	ON THURSDAY MAY EIGHT AT 10
02:04:13:00	02:04:14:00	A.M. THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
02:04:14:00	02:04:17:00	MEANS HELD A HEARING TO REVIEW
02:04:17:00	02:04:17:00	THE 26 BUDGET FOR THE BOSTON
02:04:17:00	02:04:20:00	PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION TO GO
02:04:20:00	02:04:21:00	OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE CHILD
02:04:21:00	02:04:24:00	ADOLESCENT OR FAMILY VIOLENCE
02:04:24:00	02:04:24:00	PREVENTION AND BEHAVIORAL
02:04:24:00	02:04:27:00	HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
02:04:27:00	02:04:28:00	PRESENTING ON BEHALF OF THE
02:04:28:00	02:04:28:00	ADMINISTRATION WE'RE
02:04:28:00	02:04:31:00	COMMISSIONER OF THE PUBLIC
02:04:31:00	02:04:31:00	HEALTH AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
02:04:31:00	02:04:32:00	OF BPA.
02:04:32:00	02:04:35:00	DR. DAKOTA AND DIRECTOR
02:04:35:00	02:04:35:00	OF BUDGET AND FISCAL COMPLIANCE
02:04:35:00	02:04:39:00	FOR H.S. DIRECTOR VALDEZ
02:04:39:00	02:04:43:00	COUNSELORS IN ATTENDANCE
02:04:43:00	02:04:44:00	INCLUDED COUNCILOR FLYNN,
02:04:44:00	02:04:46:00	BREADON FITZGERALD AND MURPHY.
02:04:46:00	02:04:47:00	AT THE HEARING BPA PRESENTED
02:04:47:00	02:04:50:00	UPDATES ON COURT FOCUS AREAS
02:04:50:00	02:04:50:00	INCLUDING MATERNAL AND INFANT
02:04:50:00	02:04:53:00	HEALTH, VIOLENCE PREVENTION,
02:04:53:00	02:04:54:00	MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH,
02:04:54:00	02:04:57:00	INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND HEALTH
02:04:57:00	02:04:57:00	EQUITY INITIATIVES.
02:04:57:00	02:05:00:00	THE HEARING ALSO COVERED BPA
02:05:00:00	02:05:01:00	STRATEGIES TO CLOSE LIFE
02:05:01:00	02:05:04:00	EXPECTANCY GAPS ADDRESS SOCIAL
02:05:04:00	02:05:05:00	DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND
02:05:05:00	02:05:05:00	SUSTAIN CRITICAL COMMUNITY
02:05:05:00	02:05:09:00	PARTNERSHIPS A MISSED SHIFT IN
02:05:09:00	02:05:09:00	FEDERAL FUNDING THE
02:05:09:00	02:05:12:00	ADMINISTRATION OUTLINED A
02:05:12:00	02:05:13:00	PROPOSED 3% INCREASE TO THE
02:05:13:00	02:05:16:00	BUDGET DRIVEN BY COLLECTIVE
02:05:16:00	02:05:16:00	BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.
02:05:16:00	02:05:19:00	TARGETED BUREAU INCREASES AND
02:05:19:00	02:05:20:00	INVESTMENTS IN TRAUMA RESPONSE
02:05:20:00	02:05:23:00	AND MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAMS.
02:05:23:00	02:05:24:00	COUNSELORS RAISED QUESTIONS
02:05:24:00	02:05:24:00	ABOUT OUTREACH TO UNHOUSED
02:05:24:00	02:05:27:00	INDIVIDUALS HIV SUPPORT FOR
02:05:27:00	02:05:28:00	ASIAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS FACING
02:05:28:00	02:05:28:00	MENTAL HEALTH BARRIERS.
02:05:28:00	02:05:32:00	STAFF SHORTAGES AND PUBLIC
02:05:32:00	02:05:32:00	HEALTH NURSING PAY PARITY FOR
02:05:32:00	02:05:36:00	CONTRACTED HEALTH EDUCATORS TO
02:05:36:00	02:05:36:00	BETTER SUSTAIN THEM AND THEIR
02:05:36:00	02:05:39:00	WORK IN SUSTAINABILITY
02:05:39:00	02:05:40:00	OF CRITICAL PROGRAMS LIKE THE
02:05:40:00	02:05:43:00	MEN'S MENTAL INITIATIVES.
02:05:43:00	02:05:44:00	AN ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE
02:05:44:00	02:05:49:00	PUBLIC.
02:05:49:00	02:05:50:00	CONCERNS WERE ALSO VOICED ABOUT
02:05:50:00	02:05:52:00	GENTRIFICATION, IMPACT ON
02:05:52:00	02:05:53:00	HEALTH DISPARITIES AND THE
02:05:53:00	02:05:53:00	FINANCIAL STABILITY FOR
02:05:53:00	02:05:56:00	COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS.
02:05:56:00	02:05:57:00	POST CARNEY HOSPITAL CLOSURE.
02:05:57:00	02:06:00:00	IN RESPONSE BPC EMPHASIZED
02:06:00:00	02:06:00:00	ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL
02:06:00:00	02:06:03:00	HEALTH CENTERS, STRATEGIC
02:06:03:00	02:06:04:00	WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
02:06:04:00	02:06:04:00	INITIATIVES AND THE CITY'S
02:06:04:00	02:06:07:00	PROACTIVE MEASURE TO PREPARE
02:06:07:00	02:06:07:00	FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE
02:06:07:00	02:06:08:00	OUTBREAKS.
02:06:08:00	02:06:11:00	THE COMMISSION COMMITTED TO
02:06:11:00	02:06:14:00	ENHANCING DATA TRANSPARENCY,
02:06:14:00	02:06:14:00	EXPANDING CULTURALLY COMPETENT
02:06:14:00	02:06:18:00	CARE AND MAINTAINING SERVICES
02:06:18:00	02:06:18:00	DESPITE FEDERAL FUNDING
02:06:18:00	02:06:19:00	UNCERTAINTIES.
02:06:19:00	02:06:19:00	THE HEARING CONCLUDED WITH
02:06:19:00	02:06:23:00	FOLLOW UP REQUESTS FOR STAFFING
02:06:23:00	02:06:23:00	DATA BUT THE BREAKDOWNS FOR
02:06:23:00	02:06:26:00	VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS
02:06:26:00	02:06:26:00	AND CONTINUED COLLABORATION TO
02:06:26:00	02:06:27:00	ADDRESS SYSTEMIC HEALTH
02:06:27:00	02:06:30:00	INEQUITIES IN BOSTON'S MOST
02:06:30:00	02:06:30:00	IMPACTED NEIGHBORHOODS ON
02:06:30:00	02:06:33:00	THURSDAY, MAY 8TH AT 2 P.M..
02:06:33:00	02:06:34:00	THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING TO
02:06:34:00	02:06:37:00	REVIEW THE FBI 26 BUDGET FOR
02:06:37:00	02:06:38:00	THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH
02:06:38:00	02:06:40:00	COMMISSION TO GO OVER EMERGENCY
02:06:40:00	02:06:41:00	MEDICAL SERVICES,
02:06:41:00	02:06:44:00	RECOVERY SERVICES AND HOMELESS
02:06:44:00	02:06:44:00	SERVICES PRESENTING ON BEHALF
02:06:44:00	02:06:45:00	OF THE ADMINISTRATION WHERE
02:06:45:00	02:06:48:00	COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
02:06:48:00	02:06:49:00	AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BPC
02:06:49:00	02:06:52:00	DR. OJUKWU AND DIRECTOR
02:06:52:00	02:06:53:00	OF BUDGET AND FISCAL COMPLIANCE
02:06:53:00	02:06:56:00	AT BPC DIRECTOR VALDES AND EMS
02:06:56:00	02:07:00:00	CHIEF JULIE LEAD COUNSELORS IN
02:07:00:00	02:07:01:00	ATTENDANCE INCLUDED CASSIUS
02:07:01:00	02:07:01:00	FLYNN, BRAEDON FITZGERALD
02:07:01:00	02:07:04:00	MURPHY COLETTE AS A PARTNER
02:07:04:00	02:07:04:00	HERE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:07:04:00	02:07:05:00	LOUIJEUNE AND THE VICE CHAIR
02:07:05:00	02:07:07:00	OF THE COMMITTEE
02:07:07:00	02:07:07:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN RECEIVED A
02:07:07:00	02:07:10:00	LETTER OF ABSENCE FROM
02:07:10:00	02:07:11:00	COUNCIL SANTANA.
02:07:11:00	02:07:12:00	THE HEARING FOCUSED ON BOSTON'S
02:07:12:00	02:07:14:00	RESPONSE TO THE OPIOID CRISIS,
02:07:14:00	02:07:14:00	MENTAL HEALTH AND EMERGENCY
02:07:14:00	02:07:18:00	MEDICAL SERVICES.
02:07:18:00	02:07:19:00	COUNCIL STRESSED THE NEED FOR
02:07:19:00	02:07:19:00	TARGETED RECOVERY SERVICES THAT
02:07:19:00	02:07:22:00	BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN DETOX
02:07:22:00	02:07:22:00	AND PERMANENT HOUSING,
02:07:22:00	02:07:22:00	ESPECIALLY FOR UNSHELTERED
02:07:22:00	02:07:26:00	INDIVIDUALS.
02:07:26:00	02:07:27:00	THE CITY CONTINUES TO INVEST IN
02:07:27:00	02:07:27:00	WORKFORCE TRAINING AND HARM
02:07:27:00	02:07:30:00	REDUCTION INITIATIVES.
02:07:30:00	02:07:31:00	HOWEVER, GAP POSSESSED AND
02:07:31:00	02:07:34:00	RESOURCES FOR DO DIAGNOSIS
02:07:34:00	02:07:34:00	CARE, MASS HEALTH, COVID
02:07:34:00	02:07:34:00	TREATMENT AND AFFORDABLE
02:07:34:00	02:07:37:00	HOUSING PATHWAYS.
02:07:37:00	02:07:38:00	EMS LEADERS TALKED ABOUT
02:07:38:00	02:07:41:00	RESPONSE TIMES AND ISSUES
02:07:41:00	02:07:42:00	CAUSING THEM PROMPTING
02:07:42:00	02:07:42:00	COUNCILORS TO PUSH FOR MORE
02:07:42:00	02:07:45:00	PARAMEDIC PARAMEDIC UNITS IN
02:07:45:00	02:07:46:00	EAST BOSTON AND CHARLESTOWN.
02:07:46:00	02:07:49:00	CONCERNS WERE ALSO RAISED ABOUT
02:07:49:00	02:07:52:00	PRIVATE FACILITIES USING EMS
02:07:52:00	02:07:53:00	FOR NON-EMERGENCY TRANSFERS
02:07:53:00	02:07:53:00	PULLING RESOURCES FROM FROM
02:07:53:00	02:07:56:00	CRITICAL CALLS, WORKFORCE
02:07:56:00	02:07:57:00	RETENTION ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN
02:07:57:00	02:08:01:00	AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN EMS WAS
02:08:01:00	02:08:01:00	ANOTHER FOCUS WITH CALLS FOR
02:08:01:00	02:08:04:00	BETTER TRACKING AND SUPPORT
02:08:04:00	02:08:04:00	OF IT.
02:08:04:00	02:08:05:00	TESTIMONY STRONGLY SUPPORTED
02:08:05:00	02:08:05:00	THE EXPANSION.
02:08:05:00	02:08:08:00	BUT BOSTON PEOPLE'S RESPONSE A
02:08:08:00	02:08:08:00	NON-POLICE MENTAL HEALTH
02:08:08:00	02:08:12:00	INTERVENTION MODEL WITH THE
02:08:12:00	02:08:12:00	CITY HAS FACED CHALLENGES IN
02:08:12:00	02:08:13:00	FINDING A PARTNER TO SCALE THE
02:08:13:00	02:08:15:00	PROGRAM.
02:08:15:00	02:08:16:00	ON MONDAY, MAY 12 AT 10 A.M.
02:08:16:00	02:08:19:00	THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING TO
02:08:19:00	02:08:20:00	REVIEW THE NY 26 BUDGET FOR THE
02:08:20:00	02:08:23:00	PLANNING DEPARTMENT PRESENTING
02:08:23:00	02:08:24:00	ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRATION
02:08:24:00	02:08:24:00	ADMINISTRATION WITH CHIEF
02:08:24:00	02:08:27:00	OF PLANNING CHIEF CHEN IS THAT
02:08:27:00	02:08:31:00	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BPA DIRECTOR
02:08:31:00	02:08:35:00	BOHEMIANS AND DIRECTOR CHIEF
02:08:35:00	02:08:35:00	OF PLANNING AND DEPUTY CHIEF
02:08:35:00	02:08:38:00	COURT COUNCILORS IN ATTENDANCE
02:08:38:00	02:08:39:00	INCLUDED COUNCILORS FLYNN
02:08:39:00	02:08:42:00	MURPHY, FITZGERALD DURKAN HERE
02:08:42:00	02:08:43:00	IT AS A PARTNER
02:08:43:00	02:08:43:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
02:08:43:00	02:08:46:00	WE RECEIVED LETTERS OF ABSENCE
02:08:46:00	02:08:47:00	FROM THE VICE CHAIR OF THE
02:08:47:00	02:08:47:00	COMMITTEE COUNCILOR PEPEN AND
02:08:47:00	02:08:50:00	BREADON.
02:08:50:00	02:08:50:00	DURING THE HEARING COUNCILORS
02:08:50:00	02:08:53:00	PRESSED THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
02:08:53:00	02:08:53:00	ON HOUSING PRODUCTION
02:08:53:00	02:08:57:00	AFFORDABILITY STRATEGIES AND
02:08:57:00	02:08:57:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
02:08:57:00	02:08:57:00	COUNCILORS EMPHASIZED THE NEED
02:08:57:00	02:09:01:00	FOR HYPERLOCAL IMAGES TO
02:09:01:00	02:09:02:00	REFLECT BOSTON'S NEIGHBORHOOD
02:09:02:00	02:09:04:00	INCOME GAPS WHILE THE
02:09:04:00	02:09:05:00	DEPARTMENT NOTED CHALLENGES IN
02:09:05:00	02:09:06:00	BRIDGING FINANCIAL GAPS FOR
02:09:06:00	02:09:08:00	AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT STILL
02:09:08:00	02:09:09:00	REQUIRE SUBSIDIES.
02:09:09:00	02:09:09:00	DISCUSSIONS DIDN'T FOCUS ON
02:09:09:00	02:09:13:00	INCLUSION ON REZONING AND
02:09:13:00	02:09:13:00	DEVELOPER PROFITS, CLIMATE
02:09:13:00	02:09:17:00	RESILIENCY WAS A KEY FOCUS WITH
02:09:17:00	02:09:17:00	UPDATES ON PROJECTS LIKE THE
02:09:17:00	02:09:20:00	CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD AND LONG
02:09:20:00	02:09:20:00	WHARF FLOOD BARRIERS.
02:09:20:00	02:09:21:00	THE DEPARTMENT OUTLINED HOW
02:09:21:00	02:09:24:00	THEY WERE WORKING TO SECURE
02:09:24:00	02:09:24:00	FUNDING FROM CITY CAPITAL,
02:09:24:00	02:09:27:00	FEDERAL RESOURCES AND HISTORIC
02:09:27:00	02:09:27:00	PRESERVATION FUNDS.
02:09:27:00	02:09:31:00	IN DISCUSSING THE DISPLACEMENT
02:09:31:00	02:09:32:00	OF BLACK FAMILIES CONCERNS
02:09:32:00	02:09:32:00	BASED ON THE INCREASED
02:09:32:00	02:09:35:00	PRODUCTION OF SMALL RENTAL
02:09:35:00	02:09:35:00	UNITS WHILE FAMILY SIZE
02:09:35:00	02:09:39:00	AFFORDABLE HOMES REMAIN IN
02:09:39:00	02:09:39:00	SHORT SUPPLY, THE PLANNING
02:09:39:00	02:09:40:00	DEPARTMENT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
02:09:40:00	02:09:43:00	ECONOMIC DRIVERS FAVORING
02:09:43:00	02:09:43:00	SMALLER UNITS BUT REITERATED
02:09:43:00	02:09:46:00	THE COMMITMENT COMMITMENT TO
02:09:46:00	02:09:47:00	PRIORITIZING LARGER FAMILY SIZE
02:09:47:00	02:09:51:00	UNITS AND PUBLIC LAND DEALS AND
02:09:51:00	02:09:51:00	STRATEGIC REZONINGS ON
02:09:51:00	02:09:54:00	COMMERCIAL DISPLACEMENT
02:09:54:00	02:09:54:00	COUNCILORS RAISED CONCERNS
02:09:54:00	02:09:55:00	ABOUT SMALL IMMIGRANT OWNED
02:09:55:00	02:09:58:00	BUSINESSES BEING PUSHED OUT.
02:09:58:00	02:09:58:00	AS NEIGHBORHOOD SQUARES GET
02:09:58:00	02:10:02:00	DEVELOPED REDEVELOPED AND CALL
02:10:02:00	02:10:02:00	FOR BETTER ENGAGEMENT WITH
02:10:02:00	02:10:02:00	THESE COMMUNITIES.
02:10:02:00	02:10:05:00	ON MONDAY MAY 12 AT 2 P.M. THE
02:10:05:00	02:10:08:00	COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING TO
02:10:08:00	02:10:09:00	REVIEW THE FBI 26 BUDGET FOR
02:10:09:00	02:10:09:00	THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
02:10:09:00	02:10:12:00	COMPLIANCE AND WORKER
02:10:12:00	02:10:13:00	PROTECTIONS LAW AND THE LAW
02:10:13:00	02:10:15:00	DEPARTMENT REVOLVING FUND
02:10:15:00	02:10:16:00	PRESENTING ON BEHALF OF THE
02:10:16:00	02:10:20:00	ADMINISTRATION WHERE WERE
02:10:20:00	02:10:20:00	COOPERATION COUNCIL CEDARBAUM
02:10:20:00	02:10:23:00	CHIEF OF STAFF AND POLICY AT
02:10:23:00	02:10:24:00	THE LAW DEPARTMENT DENNING
02:10:24:00	02:10:27:00	SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER FOR
02:10:27:00	02:10:28:00	LIVING WAGE AND WAITSTAFF THE
02:10:28:00	02:10:31:00	OFFICE OF LABOR COMPLIANCE AND
02:10:31:00	02:10:31:00	WORKER PROTECTIONS DIRECTOR
02:10:31:00	02:10:34:00	MITCHELL AND DEPUTY CHIEF FOR
02:10:34:00	02:10:35:00	THE OFFICE OF LABOR CLIENT AND
02:10:35:00	02:10:39:00	WORKER PROTECTIONS DEPUTY CHIEF
02:10:39:00	02:10:39:00	SUGARMAN BRAZIL COUNSEL'S IN
02:10:39:00	02:10:44:00	ATTENDANCE INCLUDED CONSTANCE
02:10:44:00	02:10:44:00	FLYNN FITZGERALD, COLETTE
02:10:44:00	02:10:46:00	ZAPATA HERE BREADON AND
02:10:46:00	02:10:47:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
02:10:47:00	02:10:48:00	WE ALSO RECEIVED A LETTER
02:10:48:00	02:10:49:00	OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCILOR WEBER
02:10:49:00	02:10:50:00	.
02:10:50:00	02:10:50:00	THE ADMINISTRATION PRESENTED
02:10:50:00	02:10:51:00	UPDATES ON HOW THE OFFICE
02:10:51:00	02:10:54:00	OF LABOR COMPLIANCE ENFORCES
02:10:54:00	02:10:55:00	LABOR STANDARDS LIKE THE BOSTON
02:10:55:00	02:10:58:00	RESIDENTS JOB POLICY, LIVING
02:10:58:00	02:10:58:00	WAGE, PREVAILING WAGE AND WAGE
02:10:58:00	02:11:01:00	STAFF ORDINANCES.
02:11:01:00	02:11:02:00	KEY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED THE
02:11:02:00	02:11:02:00	EXPANSION OF COMPLIANCE
02:11:02:00	02:11:05:00	MONITORING.
02:11:05:00	02:11:06:00	THE SUCCESS OF THEIR NEW REAL
02:11:06:00	02:11:08:00	TIME DASHBOARD FOR TRACKING
02:11:08:00	02:11:09:00	WORKFORCE DIVERSITY METRICS AND
02:11:09:00	02:11:10:00	OUTREACH EFFORTS THROUGH
02:11:10:00	02:11:12:00	MULTILINGUAL SAFETY TRAININGS
02:11:12:00	02:11:13:00	IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IMMIGRANT
02:11:13:00	02:11:17:00	WORKS WORKER CENTERS, THE LAW
02:11:17:00	02:11:17:00	DEPARTMENT OF OVERVIEW ITS ROLE
02:11:17:00	02:11:20:00	IN ADVISING CITY DEPARTMENTS
02:11:20:00	02:11:21:00	DEFENDING THE CITY IN
02:11:21:00	02:11:23:00	LITIGATION.
02:11:23:00	02:11:24:00	MANAGING PUBLIC RECORD REQUESTS
02:11:24:00	02:11:28:00	IN LEADING LEGAL RESPONSES TO
02:11:28:00	02:11:28:00	FEDERAL ACTIONS AFFECTING
02:11:28:00	02:11:29:00	BOSTON RESIDENTS COUNSEL'S
02:11:29:00	02:11:31:00	RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BJP
02:11:31:00	02:11:32:00	ENFORCEMENT, PARTICULARLY
02:11:32:00	02:11:35:00	AROUND HIRING STANDARDS,
02:11:35:00	02:11:36:00	CONTRACTOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND
02:11:36:00	02:11:39:00	THE USE OF COMPLIANCE DATA IN
02:11:39:00	02:11:40:00	PROCUREMENT DECISIONS.
02:11:40:00	02:11:40:00	THEY ALSO PRESSED THE LAW
02:11:40:00	02:11:43:00	DEPARTMENT ON STAFFING
02:11:43:00	02:11:43:00	CHALLENGES DIVERSITY IN OUTSIDE
02:11:43:00	02:11:44:00	COUNCILOR CONTRACTS AND THE
02:11:44:00	02:11:47:00	STRAIN OF MANAGING HIGH VOLUMES
02:11:47:00	02:11:48:00	OF LAWSUITS AND PUBLIC RECORD
02:11:48:00	02:11:50:00	REQUESTS.
02:11:50:00	02:11:51:00	CONCERNS WERE VOICED VOICED
02:11:51:00	02:11:52:00	ABOUT ENSURING ADEQUATE LEGAL
02:11:52:00	02:11:55:00	SUPPORT FOR FAIR HOUSING
02:11:55:00	02:11:56:00	IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE AND FOR
02:11:56:00	02:11:58:00	ITS ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS AND
02:11:58:00	02:11:59:00	MAINTAINING A STRONG FOCUS ON
02:11:59:00	02:12:02:00	WORKER PROTECTIONS AMID RISING
02:12:02:00	02:12:02:00	FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS.
02:12:02:00	02:12:03:00	ADDITIONALLY, THE HAS ADVOCATED
02:12:03:00	02:12:06:00	FOR BETTER COORDINATION WITH
02:12:06:00	02:12:07:00	THE EQUITY CABINET TO ENHANCE
02:12:07:00	02:12:10:00	DIVERSITY IN CITY CONTRAST.
02:12:10:00	02:12:13:00	IN RESPONSE THE ADMINISTRATION
02:12:13:00	02:12:14:00	COMMITTED TO EXPANDING THE BJP
02:12:14:00	02:12:14:00	DASHBOARD TO INCLUDE TRADE
02:12:14:00	02:12:18:00	SPECIFIC DATA AND DEVELOPING
02:12:18:00	02:12:18:00	SIMILAR TO THE WASTE THAT A
02:12:18:00	02:12:21:00	LIVING WAGE COMPLIANT.
02:12:21:00	02:12:22:00	THE LABOR DEPARTMENT
02:12:22:00	02:12:22:00	ACKNOWLEDGED RESOURCE
02:12:22:00	02:12:23:00	CONSTRAINTS BUT AFFIRMED THAT
02:12:23:00	02:12:26:00	THE PROPOSED NY 26 BUDGET
02:12:26:00	02:12:26:00	ALLOWS FOR STRATEGIC HIRES.
02:12:26:00	02:12:29:00	THE MINISTRATION AGREED TO
02:12:29:00	02:12:30:00	PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DATA ON
02:12:30:00	02:12:30:00	PENDING LAWSUITS.
02:12:30:00	02:12:33:00	DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC LEGAL CASES
02:12:33:00	02:12:34:00	AND EFFORTS TO DIVERSIFY
02:12:34:00	02:12:37:00	OUTSIDE LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS.
02:12:37:00	02:12:37:00	BOTH DEPARTMENTS EMPHASIZED
02:12:37:00	02:12:41:00	ONGOING EFFORTS TO STREAMLINE
02:12:41:00	02:12:41:00	OPERATIONS, ENHANCE
02:12:41:00	02:12:42:00	TRANSPARENCY AND ENSURE BOSTON
02:12:42:00	02:12:45:00	POLICIES REFLECT PROTECT
02:12:45:00	02:12:46:00	COMMUNITY NEEDS.
02:12:46:00	02:12:49:00	ON TUESDAY, MAY 13TH AT 10 A.M.
02:12:49:00	02:12:51:00	THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING TO
02:12:51:00	02:12:52:00	REVIEW THE FBI 26 BUDGET FOR
02:12:52:00	02:12:53:00	THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT
02:12:53:00	02:12:55:00	PRESENTING ON BEHALF OF THE
02:12:55:00	02:12:56:00	ADMINISTRATION FROM THE FIRE
02:12:56:00	02:12:56:00	DEPARTMENT WHERE THE
02:12:56:00	02:12:59:00	COMMISSIONER CHIEF BURKE CHIEF
02:12:59:00	02:13:00:00	OF OPERATIONS FOR SUPPORT
02:13:00:00	02:13:03:00	SERVICES CHIEF MARSHAL CHIEF
02:13:03:00	02:13:03:00	OF OPERATION FULFILL SERVICES
02:13:03:00	02:13:07:00	CHIEF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND
02:13:07:00	02:13:10:00	AND FOR BUDGET DEPUTY
02:13:10:00	02:13:10:00	COMMISSIONER COIN DIVERSITY
02:13:10:00	02:13:14:00	RECRUITMENT OFFICER MICHAEL
02:13:14:00	02:13:18:00	GASKINS AND COUNSELORS IN
02:13:18:00	02:13:18:00	ATTENDANCE INCLUDED COUNCILORS
02:13:18:00	02:13:18:00	FLYNN MURPHY, BREADON
02:13:18:00	02:13:23:00	FITZGERALD, WEBER DURKIN LED AS
02:13:23:00	02:13:23:00	A PARTNER AND THE VICE CHAIR
02:13:23:00	02:13:25:00	OF THE COMMITTEE COUNT
02:13:25:00	02:13:26:00	COUNSELOR PEPEN AND
02:13:26:00	02:13:26:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
02:13:26:00	02:13:29:00	THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DISCUSSED
02:13:29:00	02:13:29:00	THEIR BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING
02:13:29:00	02:13:33:00	YEAR WHICH IS INCREASING BY
02:13:33:00	02:13:33:00	1.3%.
02:13:33:00	02:13:35:00	THEY ALSO OUTLINED THE EIGHT
02:13:35:00	02:13:36:00	ACTIVE FEDERAL GRANTS THAT
02:13:36:00	02:13:38:00	TOTAL A LITTLE OVER $3 MILLION.
02:13:38:00	02:13:39:00	THEY REPORTED THAT THE FIRE
02:13:39:00	02:13:42:00	CADET PROGRAM IS MOVING EIGHT
02:13:42:00	02:13:43:00	WOMEN TO THE ACADEMY WHICH WILL
02:13:43:00	02:13:43:00	INCREASE THE TOTAL NUMBER
02:13:43:00	02:13:46:00	OF WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS FROM 28
02:13:46:00	02:13:46:00	TO 36.
02:13:46:00	02:13:49:00	THEY DETAILED HOW THE NEW CADET
02:13:49:00	02:13:50:00	PROGRAM IS BEST APPROVED AS THE
02:13:50:00	02:13:53:00	BEST APPROVED WAY TO DIVERSIFY
02:13:53:00	02:13:54:00	THE RANK AND FILE OF OUR
02:13:54:00	02:13:54:00	FIREFIGHTERS.
02:13:54:00	02:13:57:00	THEY ALSO DISCUSSED NEW FIRE
02:13:57:00	02:13:58:00	BOATS, NEW ENGINES AND LADDERS
02:13:58:00	02:14:01:00	THEY RECENTLY OPENED ENGINE 17
02:14:01:00	02:14:02:00	AND THE DESIGN OF ENGINE THREE
02:14:02:00	02:14:04:00	A STUDY OF ENGINE EIGHT
02:14:04:00	02:14:04:00	BUILDING AND MULTIPLE REPAIRS
02:14:04:00	02:14:08:00	AT OTHER STATIONS AS WELL AS
02:14:08:00	02:14:11:00	UPGRADES AND EXPANSIONS AT 155
02:14:11:00	02:14:11:00	LIVERMORE COUNCIL QUESTION
02:14:11:00	02:14:12:00	CENTERED ON IMPROVEMENTS TO
02:14:12:00	02:14:15:00	FIREFIGHTERS, FIREFIGHTERS,
02:14:15:00	02:14:15:00	MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL
02:14:15:00	02:14:18:00	HEALTH WORK LIFE BALANCE
02:14:18:00	02:14:19:00	TRACKING AND WORKING TO
02:14:19:00	02:14:19:00	DIVERSIFY THE HIGHER RANKS
02:14:19:00	02:14:22:00	OF THE FIREFIGHTER
02:14:22:00	02:14:22:00	FIREFIGHTERS.
02:14:22:00	02:14:23:00	OVERALL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO
02:14:23:00	02:14:26:00	VARIOUS DISTRICTS IN THE RECENT
02:14:26:00	02:14:27:00	FISCAL YEAR SPIKES IN OVERTIME
02:14:27:00	02:14:30:00	WHICH ROSE FROM 36 MILLION AND
02:14:30:00	02:14:33:00	BY 23 TO 46 MILLION AND THAT BY
02:14:33:00	02:14:35:00	24 BUT IS ON PACE TO DECREASE
02:14:35:00	02:14:37:00	TO 40 MILLION BY 25 THROUGH THE
02:14:37:00	02:14:38:00	FIRST THREE QUARTERS.
02:14:38:00	02:14:39:00	THIS IS A STARK CONTRAST FROM
02:14:39:00	02:14:42:00	THAT FY 12 TO FY 21 WHEN FIRE
02:14:42:00	02:14:45:00	OVERTIME WAS ALWAYS BETWEEN $18
02:14:45:00	02:14:48:00	MILLION AND $28 MILLION.
02:14:48:00	02:14:51:00	ON TUESDAY MAY 13 AT 2 P.M.
02:14:51:00	02:14:52:00	COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING TO
02:14:52:00	02:14:55:00	REVIEW THE FY 26 BUDGET FOR
02:14:55:00	02:14:55:00	PEOPLE OPERATIONS IN THE
02:14:55:00	02:14:58:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT PRESENTING
02:14:58:00	02:14:58:00	ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRATION
02:14:58:00	02:15:01:00	WITH CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER AND
02:15:01:00	02:15:02:00	ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER CHIEF
02:15:02:00	02:15:03:00	LAWRENCE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
02:15:03:00	02:15:05:00	OF THE OFFICE OF PEOPLE AND
02:15:05:00	02:15:06:00	CULTURE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
02:15:06:00	02:15:09:00	HERNANDEZ COMMISSIONER
02:15:09:00	02:15:09:00	OF ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER
02:15:09:00	02:15:10:00	TAVARES COMMISSIONER OF CITY
02:15:10:00	02:15:14:00	RECORDS COMMISSIONER CHANG AND
02:15:14:00	02:15:17:00	HEAD ASSISTANT REGISTRAR
02:15:17:00	02:15:18:00	OF VOTERS ASSISTANT REGISTRARS
02:15:18:00	02:15:22:00	MONTE COUNCILORS AND ATTENDEES
02:15:22:00	02:15:22:00	INCLUDED COUNCILORS FLYNN,
02:15:22:00	02:15:26:00	BREADON AND FITZGERALD WEBER
02:15:26:00	02:15:26:00	MEJIA CARLETTA ZAPATA, VICE
02:15:26:00	02:15:27:00	CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
02:15:27:00	02:15:28:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN AND
02:15:28:00	02:15:29:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
02:15:29:00	02:15:29:00	THE PEOPLE OPERATIONS CABINET
02:15:29:00	02:15:32:00	DETAILED EFFORTS TO INCREASE
02:15:32:00	02:15:33:00	DIVERSITY IN THE CITY'S
02:15:33:00	02:15:36:00	WORKFORCE DURING THE PAST FIVE
02:15:36:00	02:15:37:00	YEARS.
02:15:37:00	02:15:37:00	THE NEW CODE OF CONDUCT POLICY
02:15:37:00	02:15:41:00	CHANGES AND COLLECTIVE
02:15:41:00	02:15:41:00	BARGAINING TO HIRE LOWER WAGE
02:15:41:00	02:15:42:00	WORKERS INCREASE AND
02:15:42:00	02:15:44:00	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
02:15:44:00	02:15:44:00	OPPORTUNITIES.
02:15:44:00	02:15:45:00	REWORKING JOB DESCRIPTIONS FOR
02:15:45:00	02:15:48:00	HIGH VACANCY JOBS AND
02:15:48:00	02:15:48:00	STREAMLINING THE HIRING
02:15:48:00	02:15:49:00	PROCESS.
02:15:49:00	02:15:52:00	THEY HOPE TO IMPLEMENT A NEW
02:15:52:00	02:15:53:00	APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM IN
02:15:53:00	02:15:53:00	THE COMING YEAR.
02:15:53:00	02:15:56:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT REITERATED
02:15:56:00	02:15:57:00	THE CHANGES IT HAS MADE AFTER
02:15:57:00	02:15:59:00	THE 2024 ELECTION AND DESCRIBED
02:15:59:00	02:16:02:00	HOW THE $750,000 MIDYEAR
02:16:02:00	02:16:02:00	TRANSFER FOR THE MAYOR'S
02:16:02:00	02:16:05:00	ALLOCATION WAS DONE IN ORDER TO
02:16:05:00	02:16:06:00	ALLOW FOR AN RFP TO PUT OUT A
02:16:06:00	02:16:09:00	BID FOR NEW MACHINES.
02:16:09:00	02:16:10:00	COUNCILORS ASKED ABOUT THE
02:16:10:00	02:16:12:00	CODE OF CONDUCT THE FAIR CHANCE
02:16:12:00	02:16:13:00	ACT'S CREATION OF THE DIRECTOR
02:16:13:00	02:16:16:00	OF DIVERSITY POSITION RESIDENCY
02:16:16:00	02:16:17:00	WAIVER AND IF THEY GRANTED MORE
02:16:17:00	02:16:19:00	LIBERALLY FOR THE CITY'S TOP
02:16:19:00	02:16:20:00	EARNERS EXTENDING SOME
02:16:20:00	02:16:23:00	COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BENEFITS
02:16:23:00	02:16:24:00	LIKE TUITION REIMBURSEMENT TO
02:16:24:00	02:16:25:00	EMPLOYEES HOUSEHOLDS AS WELL AS
02:16:25:00	02:16:28:00	RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY BENEFITS
02:16:28:00	02:16:29:00	WHICH ARE SORTED OUT ON THE
02:16:29:00	02:16:31:00	STATE LEVEL.
02:16:31:00	02:16:32:00	IN REGARDS TO THE ELECTIONS A
02:16:32:00	02:16:35:00	NEED FOR MORE STAFF TRUCKS AND
02:16:35:00	02:16:35:00	COMMUNICATION WERE DISCUSSED AS
02:16:35:00	02:16:36:00	WAS THE EXPANSION OF THE
02:16:36:00	02:16:39:00	STUDENT POLL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
02:16:39:00	02:16:40:00	BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
02:16:40:00	02:16:41:00	AND AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
02:16:41:00	02:16:43:00	ON WAYS AND MEANS I RECOMMEND
02:16:43:00	02:16:45:00	THAT THESE DOCKETS REMAIN IN
02:16:45:00	02:16:45:00	COMMITTEE.
02:16:45:00	02:16:49:00	THANK YOU.
02:16:49:00	02:16:50:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR CHAIR.
02:16:50:00	02:16:52:00	AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
02:16:52:00	02:16:53:00	SHEPHERDING US THROUGH THIS
02:16:53:00	02:16:53:00	BUDGET PROCESS.
02:16:53:00	02:16:56:00	I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SLOWLY
02:16:56:00	02:16:57:00	INCHING OUR WAY THERE BUT THE
02:16:57:00	02:17:00:00	HEARINGS BUDGET HEARINGS HAVE
02:17:00:00	02:17:01:00	BEEN REALLY INFORMATIVE BOTH
02:17:01:00	02:17:01:00	JUST ON THE BUDGET AND ON THE
02:17:01:00	02:17:04:00	OPERATIONS OF WHAT OUR CITY IS
02:17:04:00	02:17:04:00	DOING.
02:17:04:00	02:17:07:00	SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
02:17:07:00	02:17:08:00	THE CHAIR AND FOR SHEPHERDING
02:17:08:00	02:17:09:00	US THROUGH THIS.
02:17:09:00	02:17:12:00	YET AGAIN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:17:12:00	02:17:12:00	COUNCILOR PLINY ON THE FLOOR.
02:17:12:00	02:17:13:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND THANK
02:17:13:00	02:17:15:00	YOU TO THE CHAIR OF THE WAYS
02:17:15:00	02:17:16:00	AND MEANS.
02:17:16:00	02:17:16:00	THE IMPORTANT JOB HE'S DOING
02:17:16:00	02:17:19:00	IMPORTANT ROLE HE'S PLAYING ON
02:17:19:00	02:17:20:00	ON THIS BUDGET PROCESS.
02:17:20:00	02:17:23:00	I JUST WANT TO ADD I KNOW IT
02:17:23:00	02:17:24:00	WASN'T MENTIONED BUT ONE OF THE
02:17:24:00	02:17:27:00	CONCERNS I BROUGHT UP TO THE
02:17:27:00	02:17:30:00	ADMINISTRATION TEAM THAT WAS
02:17:30:00	02:17:31:00	TESTIFYING TO THE HUMAN
02:17:31:00	02:17:35:00	RESOURCES OFFICER THAT WAS
02:17:35:00	02:17:38:00	PRESENT IS WHAT IS THE POLICY
02:17:38:00	02:17:42:00	FOR CITY EMPLOYEES INCLUDING
02:17:42:00	02:17:43:00	CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY
02:17:43:00	02:17:46:00	COUNCIL STAFF CITY EMPLOYEES AS
02:17:46:00	02:17:46:00	IT RELATES TO TIME AND
02:17:46:00	02:17:47:00	ATTENDANCE?
02:17:47:00	02:17:51:00	I THINK ENSURING THAT WE TRACK
02:17:51:00	02:17:54:00	OUR TIME IN ATTENDANCE
02:17:54:00	02:17:55:00	ESPECIALLY DURING AN ELECTION
02:17:55:00	02:17:57:00	YEAR IS CRITICAL.
02:17:57:00	02:17:59:00	WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE PROVIDE
02:17:59:00	02:18:02:00	RESIDENTS WITH A FULL DAY
02:18:02:00	02:18:05:00	OF WORK AND THAT WE'RE NOT
02:18:05:00	02:18:08:00	USING ANY TIME FOR POLITICAL
02:18:08:00	02:18:08:00	CAMPAIGNS.
02:18:08:00	02:18:12:00	THIS IS SOMETHING I'M GOING TO
02:18:12:00	02:18:16:00	MAYBE HAVE A HEARING ORDER IN.
02:18:16:00	02:18:17:00	I ENCOURAGE THE ADMINISTRATION
02:18:17:00	02:18:17:00	TO COME UP WITH WRITTEN
02:18:17:00	02:18:20:00	GUIDELINES FOR ALL CITY
02:18:20:00	02:18:21:00	EMPLOYEES ON WHAT'S EXPECTED
02:18:21:00	02:18:24:00	OF THEM IF THEY WANT TO TAKE A
02:18:24:00	02:18:27:00	DAY OFF TO DO CAMPAIGNING.
02:18:27:00	02:18:28:00	AND IS THERE A LIMITED NUMBER
02:18:28:00	02:18:31:00	OF HOURS A PERSON IS ABLE TO
02:18:31:00	02:18:35:00	TAKE TO CAMPAIGN FOR SOMEONE?
02:18:35:00	02:18:36:00	FOR EXAMPLE, CAN YOU TAKE THREE
02:18:36:00	02:18:36:00	WEEKS OFF?
02:18:36:00	02:18:39:00	CAN YOU TAKE TWO WEEKS OFF?
02:18:39:00	02:18:40:00	CAN YOU TAKE ONE MONTH OFF TO
02:18:40:00	02:18:43:00	GO CAMPAIGN FOR A PARTICULAR
02:18:43:00	02:18:43:00	CANDIDATE?
02:18:43:00	02:18:47:00	I WOULD LIKE ALL OF US TO KNOW
02:18:47:00	02:18:47:00	EXACTLY WHAT THE RULES ARE SO
02:18:47:00	02:18:51:00	WE'RE PROTECTING OURSELVES AND
02:18:51:00	02:18:51:00	PROTECTING THE BODY.
02:18:51:00	02:18:54:00	WE'RE PROTECTING THE CITY BUT
02:18:54:00	02:18:55:00	ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY THAT
02:18:55:00	02:18:58:00	RESIDENTS DO GET A FAIR.
02:18:58:00	02:19:01:00	AN EMPLOYEE THAT DOES THEIR JOB
02:19:01:00	02:19:02:00	THAT GIVES OVER 40 HOURS TO THE
02:19:02:00	02:19:06:00	RESIDENTS OF THE CITY.
02:19:06:00	02:19:06:00	I DO THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
02:19:06:00	02:19:07:00	PART OF THE DISCUSSION.
02:19:07:00	02:19:07:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:19:07:00	02:19:10:00	THANK YOU.
02:19:10:00	02:19:13:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 082220845
02:19:13:00	02:19:16:00	REMAINING COMMITTEE WE ARE NOW
02:19:16:00	02:19:17:00	ON TWO MOTIONS ORDERS AND
02:19:17:00	02:19:19:00	RESOLUTIONS.
02:19:19:00	02:19:20:00	JUST A REMINDER THAT THESE
02:19:20:00	02:19:20:00	SPONSORS HAVE 3 MINUTES TO
02:19:20:00	02:19:23:00	SPEAK ON A DOCKET AND
02:19:23:00	02:19:23:00	CO-SPONSORS AND OTHER
02:19:23:00	02:19:24:00	COLLEAGUES HAVE 2 MINUTES TO
02:19:24:00	02:19:27:00	SPEAK ON A DOCKET.
02:19:27:00	02:19:27:00	THANK YOU NEAL FOR BEING WITH
02:19:27:00	02:19:28:00	US TODAY.
02:19:28:00	02:19:31:00	APPRECIATE YOU MR. CLERK, COULD
02:19:31:00	02:19:32:00	YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER
02:19:32:00	02:19:34:00	1057 DUGAN NUMBER 1057
02:19:34:00	02:19:35:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR THE
02:19:35:00	02:19:37:00	FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
02:19:37:00	02:19:38:00	RECOGNIZING ME AS HAITIAN
02:19:38:00	02:19:41:00	HERITAGE MONTH IN MAY 18TH AS
02:19:41:00	02:19:45:00	HAITIAN FLAG DAY.
02:19:45:00	02:19:45:00	THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
02:19:45:00	02:19:49:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:19:49:00	02:19:49:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
02:19:49:00	02:19:49:00	COUNCIL.
02:19:49:00	02:19:50:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:19:50:00	02:19:52:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR CHAIRMAN.
02:19:52:00	02:19:53:00	THANK YOU.
02:19:53:00	02:19:57:00	TODAY WE HAD TUSKEGEE DO THE
02:19:57:00	02:19:57:00	INVOCATION.
02:19:57:00	02:19:58:00	WE HAD A PERFORMANCE FROM
02:19:58:00	02:20:00:00	KASDAN'S STUDIO AND I THINK
02:20:00:00	02:20:03:00	REALLY SORT OF SHOWED THE
02:20:03:00	02:20:04:00	BALANCE OF WHERE THE COMMUNITY
02:20:04:00	02:20:04:00	IS RIGHT NOW.
02:20:04:00	02:20:07:00	AND I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO
02:20:07:00	02:20:08:00	SAY HAPPY HAITIAN HERITAGE
02:20:08:00	02:20:08:00	MONTH TO EVERYONE.
02:20:08:00	02:20:11:00	IT REALLY HAITIAN HERITAGE
02:20:11:00	02:20:12:00	MONTH STARTED HERE IN THE CITY
02:20:12:00	02:20:14:00	OF BOSTON AND THE FIRST PERSON
02:20:14:00	02:20:15:00	TO RAISE THE HAITIAN FLAG HERE
02:20:15:00	02:20:18:00	ON CITY HALL WAS A FORMER
02:20:18:00	02:20:22:00	POLICE OFFICER EVE DAN BRAVO,
02:20:22:00	02:20:25:00	HIS BROTHER HIM AND HIS BROTHER
02:20:25:00	02:20:25:00	WERE BOTH VETERANS OF THE
02:20:25:00	02:20:26:00	VIETNAM WAR.
02:20:26:00	02:20:29:00	HIS OLDER BROTHER WAS THE FIRST
02:20:29:00	02:20:30:00	HAITIAN POLICE OFFICER TO BE
02:20:30:00	02:20:33:00	HIRED BY THE CITY OF BOSTON AND
02:20:33:00	02:20:33:00	HE WAS THE SECOND.
02:20:33:00	02:20:36:00	HIS BROTHER DIED OF CANCER AND
02:20:36:00	02:20:37:00	HE DIED ACTUALLY WAS KILLED IN
02:20:37:00	02:20:42:00	HAITI AND SO I JUST WANT TO
02:20:42:00	02:20:42:00	MAKE SURE THAT I GIVE MY LOVE
02:20:42:00	02:20:43:00	AND RESPECT TO THE DANVILLE
02:20:43:00	02:20:45:00	FAMILY AND TO THE UN TO THE
02:20:45:00	02:20:46:00	PEOPLE ON HIS SHOULDERS.
02:20:46:00	02:20:48:00	I STAND HERE AS THE FIRST
02:20:48:00	02:20:49:00	HAITIAN ON THE BUS THAT
02:20:49:00	02:20:49:00	HAITIAN-AMERICAN IN THE BOSTON
02:20:49:00	02:20:50:00	CITY COUNCIL BUT ON THE
02:20:50:00	02:20:52:00	SHOULDERS OF OTHER HAITIAN
02:20:52:00	02:20:52:00	ELECTEDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH
02:20:52:00	02:20:55:00	SUCH AS MARIE SAINT FLEUR WHO I
02:20:55:00	02:20:56:00	INTERNED FOR WAS THE FIRST
02:20:56:00	02:20:56:00	HAITIAN-AMERICAN ELECTED IN THE
02:20:56:00	02:21:00:00	COMMONWEALTH AND LEONARD WAS AN
02:21:00:00	02:21:01:00	A FOR A FORMER STATE SENATOR.
02:21:01:00	02:21:03:00	AND SO IT'S A IT'S A MOMENT
02:21:03:00	02:21:04:00	OF JUBILEE FOR ME TO COME IN
02:21:04:00	02:21:07:00	CHAIR AND AND TO CELEBRATE MY
02:21:07:00	02:21:10:00	CULTURE ALTHOUGH I WAS VERY
02:21:10:00	02:21:11:00	MUCH BORN HERE AND IN A LOT
02:21:11:00	02:21:11:00	OF SPACES WHEN YOU HEAR
02:21:11:00	02:21:14:00	ME SPEAK CREOLE YOU ALL CAN'T
02:21:14:00	02:21:14:00	TELL BUT I SPEAK WITH AN
02:21:14:00	02:21:15:00	AMERICAN ACCENT.
02:21:15:00	02:21:18:00	I THINK MY FATHER WHO IS HERE
02:21:18:00	02:21:19:00	FOR ALL HE DID FOR ME AND MY
02:21:19:00	02:21:21:00	SISTERS AND WE'RE YOUNGER TO
02:21:21:00	02:21:21:00	MAKE SURE THAT HAITIAN CULTURE
02:21:21:00	02:21:22:00	THAT WE KNEW WHO WE WERE AND
02:21:22:00	02:21:23:00	WHERE WE CAME FROM AND THAT WE
02:21:23:00	02:21:25:00	KNEW HOW TO READ, SPEAK AND
02:21:25:00	02:21:25:00	WRITE CREOLE.
02:21:25:00	02:21:28:00	I ALSO KNOW THAT THIS IS AS I
02:21:28:00	02:21:29:00	STATED EARLIER A MOMENT
02:21:29:00	02:21:32:00	OF DIFFICULTY BOTH FOR THOSE
02:21:32:00	02:21:33:00	WHO ARE BACK HOME IN HAITI
02:21:33:00	02:21:33:00	RIGHT NOW WITH THE GANGS
02:21:33:00	02:21:36:00	KILLING PEOPLE IN PORT AU
02:21:36:00	02:21:37:00	PRINCE, KILLING PEOPLE OUTSIDE
02:21:37:00	02:21:37:00	OF THE CAPITAL, IT'S A VERY
02:21:37:00	02:21:41:00	HEAVY MOMENT IF YOU KNOW IF YOU
02:21:41:00	02:21:41:00	HAVE TO CONSTANTLY INTERACT OR
02:21:41:00	02:21:44:00	INTERACT WITH HAITIAN RESIDENTS
02:21:44:00	02:21:44:00	HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON,
02:21:44:00	02:21:48:00	JUST KNOW THAT IS DIFFICULT TO
02:21:48:00	02:21:48:00	COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO ISN'T
02:21:48:00	02:21:49:00	EXPERIENCING A PERSONAL LOSS
02:21:49:00	02:21:52:00	RIGHT NOW IN HAITI IN WAYS THAT
02:21:52:00	02:21:53:00	I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE UP THIS
02:21:53:00	02:21:55:00	FLOOR TO TALK ABOUT.
02:21:55:00	02:21:56:00	BUT IT'S REALLY, REALLY, REALLY
02:21:56:00	02:21:57:00	TRAGIC RIGHT NOW AND I WANT TO
02:21:57:00	02:21:59:00	HOLD SPACE FOR THAT.
02:21:59:00	02:22:00:00	AND I ALSO WANTED TO HOLD SPACE
02:22:00:00	02:22:02:00	FOR THE PERSONAL LOSS THAT WE
02:22:02:00	02:22:03:00	SEE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TO OUR
02:22:03:00	02:22:04:00	IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES THAT FEAR
02:22:04:00	02:22:06:00	WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL
02:22:06:00	02:22:07:00	LEVEL.
02:22:07:00	02:22:10:00	AND I ALSO WRITE MULTIPLE
02:22:10:00	02:22:10:00	LEVELS OF PAIN COMES WITH THE
02:22:10:00	02:22:14:00	PAIN AND I LAST NIGHT WERE IN
02:22:14:00	02:22:14:00	HIGH PARK TALKING TO COMMUNITY
02:22:14:00	02:22:17:00	MEMBERS AND RESIDENTS AFTER THE
02:22:17:00	02:22:18:00	TRAGIC DEATH OF THE FIVE YEAR
02:22:18:00	02:22:21:00	OLD LENS ARTHUR JOSEPH AND I
02:22:21:00	02:22:25:00	WAS WITH HIS PARENTS LAST NIGHT
02:22:25:00	02:22:26:00	AND IT'S JUST AN IMMEASURABLE
02:22:26:00	02:22:29:00	PAIN AND LAST WEEK LAST
02:22:29:00	02:22:29:00	THURSDAY ANOTHER 14 YEAR OLD
02:22:29:00	02:22:33:00	HAITIAN-AMERICAN HIGH PARK
02:22:33:00	02:22:34:00	RESIDENT DIED IN HIS SLEEP AND
02:22:34:00	02:22:37:00	THAT FAMILY IS FACING
02:22:37:00	02:22:37:00	IMMEASURABLE PAIN.
02:22:37:00	02:22:38:00	SO WHEN I SAID AT THE BEGINNING
02:22:38:00	02:22:40:00	WE'RE HOLDING SPACE FOR BOTH
02:22:40:00	02:22:44:00	JUBILEE AND A LOT OF PAIN I
02:22:44:00	02:22:45:00	SHARE WITH YOU MY PERSON I KNOW
02:22:45:00	02:22:48:00	THAT EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN
02:22:48:00	02:22:48:00	PAIN AND AND JOY THAT THEY'RE
02:22:48:00	02:22:49:00	BALANCING HOW TO FIGURE OUT
02:22:49:00	02:22:51:00	IT'S SOMETHING THAT I REALLY
02:22:51:00	02:22:55:00	ACTIVELY ACTIVELY FEEL SO I
02:22:55:00	02:22:55:00	THAT WON'T TAKE AWAY FROM THE
02:22:55:00	02:22:56:00	FACT THAT I AM SO PROUD OF WHO
02:22:56:00	02:22:59:00	I AM AND WORK EVERY DAY TO SEE
02:22:59:00	02:23:03:00	TRUE AND REAL LIBERATION IN THE
02:23:03:00	02:23:06:00	CITY IN THE COUNTRY OF HAITI.
02:23:06:00	02:23:07:00	I'M GLAD THAT WE WILL BE
02:23:07:00	02:23:08:00	RAISING THE FLAG ON FRIDAY SO
02:23:08:00	02:23:10:00	PLEASE JOIN US AT NOON WHEN WE
02:23:10:00	02:23:14:00	RAISE THE HAITIAN FLAG ON CITY
02:23:14:00	02:23:15:00	HALL AND WHEN WE'RE HONORING
02:23:15:00	02:23:17:00	HAITIAN-AMERICANS IN THE TRADES
02:23:17:00	02:23:18:00	AND HOPEFULLY I WILL SEE YOU ON
02:23:18:00	02:23:19:00	SUNDAY FOR THE HAITIAN-AMERICAN
02:23:19:00	02:23:22:00	UNITY PARADE LED BY PASTOR KIKI
02:23:22:00	02:23:22:00	AND HAITIAN-AMERICANS UNITED AS
02:23:22:00	02:23:26:00	WE GO DOWN TO HILL AVENUE IN
02:23:26:00	02:23:29:00	CELEBRATION OF THE SECOND
02:23:29:00	02:23:32:00	LARGEST DIASPORA PER CAPITA A
02:23:32:00	02:23:32:00	HAITIAN-AMERICAN DIASPORA HERE
02:23:32:00	02:23:33:00	AND THE THIRD LARGEST BY THE
02:23:33:00	02:23:36:00	NUMBERS, BOSTON IS OUR HOME.
02:23:36:00	02:23:37:00	WE LOVE IT AND CONTRIBUTE TO
02:23:37:00	02:23:38:00	THE ECONOMY AND IN SO MANY
02:23:38:00	02:23:38:00	DIFFERENT WAYS CHILDREN'S IN
02:23:38:00	02:23:40:00	OUR SCHOOLS AND IT'S A MOMENT
02:23:40:00	02:23:41:00	OF CELEBRATION EVEN AS THERE'S
02:23:41:00	02:23:41:00	TREMENDOUS PAIN.
02:23:41:00	02:23:44:00	THANK YOU.
02:23:44:00	02:23:45:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR.
02:23:45:00	02:23:45:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
02:23:45:00	02:23:46:00	PEPEN CARROLL YOU HAVE THE
02:23:46:00	02:23:47:00	FLOOR.
02:23:47:00	02:23:48:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
02:23:48:00	02:23:49:00	AND I JUST WANT TO STAND IN
02:23:49:00	02:23:51:00	SOLIDARITY WITH OUR
02:23:51:00	02:23:51:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT IN DISTRICT
02:23:51:00	02:23:51:00	FIVE.
02:23:51:00	02:23:52:00	I REPRESENT A BEAUTIFUL AND
02:23:52:00	02:23:55:00	VIBRANT HAITIAN COMMUNITY WHERE
02:23:55:00	02:23:56:00	EVERY DAY I GET TO SEE THEIR
02:23:56:00	02:23:59:00	CONTRIBUTION TO OUR CITY NOT
02:23:59:00	02:24:00:00	ONLY MY DISTRICT IT JUST IT
02:24:00:00	02:24:02:00	JUST STARTED TO REALLY WORK
02:24:02:00	02:24:06:00	CLOSELY WITH THE COMMUNITY AND
02:24:06:00	02:24:06:00	I JUST FEEL VERY THANKFUL I'M
02:24:06:00	02:24:07:00	GETTING TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR
02:24:07:00	02:24:10:00	CULTURE AND WORKING CLOSELY
02:24:10:00	02:24:10:00	WITH OUR MADAM PRESIDENT ABOUT
02:24:10:00	02:24:11:00	THE THINGS THAT THAT COMMUNITY
02:24:11:00	02:24:14:00	NEEDS MAKING SURE THAT IN THESE
02:24:14:00	02:24:17:00	TOUGH TIMES AT A FEDERAL LEVEL
02:24:17:00	02:24:18:00	OR NATIONAL LEVEL NOT JUST HERE
02:24:18:00	02:24:19:00	IN BOSTON THAT WE JUST THAT
02:24:19:00	02:24:22:00	THEY HAVE OUR SUPPORT AND THEY
02:24:22:00	02:24:23:00	KNOW THAT WE ARE THERE FOR
02:24:23:00	02:24:25:00	THEM, THAT BOSTON IS THEIR
02:24:25:00	02:24:25:00	HOME, THAT BOSTON IS WELCOMING
02:24:25:00	02:24:26:00	TO EVERYBODY.
02:24:26:00	02:24:28:00	SO I JUST WANT TO STAND UP AND
02:24:28:00	02:24:29:00	SHOW MY SOLIDARITY IN
02:24:29:00	02:24:29:00	PARTNERSHIP TO THEM AND LOOKING
02:24:29:00	02:24:32:00	FORWARD TO CELEBRATING THEIR
02:24:32:00	02:24:33:00	BEAUTIFUL CULTURE THROUGHOUT
02:24:33:00	02:24:33:00	THIS MONTH.
02:24:33:00	02:24:33:00	THANK YOU.
02:24:33:00	02:24:37:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
02:24:37:00	02:24:37:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:24:37:00	02:24:37:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA.
02:24:37:00	02:24:38:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:24:38:00	02:24:38:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
02:24:38:00	02:24:41:00	AND I WANT TO THANK COUNSELOR
02:24:41:00	02:24:44:00	LOUIJEUNE FOR ALL THAT YOU DO
02:24:44:00	02:24:44:00	FOR THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY AND
02:24:44:00	02:24:47:00	HOW WELL YOU REPRESENT YOUR
02:24:47:00	02:24:47:00	PEOPLE.
02:24:47:00	02:24:51:00	IT IS SEEN AND DEEPLY FELT AND
02:24:51:00	02:24:56:00	APPRECIATED AND I REMEMBER WHEN
02:24:56:00	02:25:00:00	YOU FIRST ENTERED THE SCENE
02:25:00:00	02:25:00:00	RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND WE SHARE
02:25:00:00	02:25:04:00	AN ISLAND THE ISLAND I USED TO
02:25:04:00	02:25:04:00	CALL ESPANOL AND SO YOU
02:25:04:00	02:25:05:00	EDUCATED ME WAS WHICH IS THE
02:25:05:00	02:25:07:00	ISLAND OF KISKA YEAH.
02:25:07:00	02:25:11:00	AND WAS REALLY HAPPY TO KNOW
02:25:11:00	02:25:12:00	THAT I HAD SOMEONE ON THE OTHER
02:25:12:00	02:25:12:00	SIDE OF THE ISLAND WHO WAS
02:25:12:00	02:25:14:00	GOING TO COME INTO THIS CHAMBER
02:25:14:00	02:25:15:00	TO FIGHT COLLECTIVELY FOR THE
02:25:15:00	02:25:15:00	PEOPLE THAT WE LOVE.
02:25:15:00	02:25:16:00	RIGHT?
02:25:16:00	02:25:18:00	AND SO AS WE CONTINUE TO HONOR
02:25:18:00	02:25:22:00	THIS MOMENT I REALLY DO
02:25:22:00	02:25:22:00	APPRECIATE THE SENTIMENT AROUND
02:25:22:00	02:25:26:00	THE PAIN THAT IS THAT HAITI IS
02:25:26:00	02:25:27:00	EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW.
02:25:27:00	02:25:29:00	AND I ALSO UNDERSTAND THE
02:25:29:00	02:25:30:00	COMMITMENT AND THE
02:25:30:00	02:25:30:00	RESPONSIBILITY THAT DOMINICAN
02:25:30:00	02:25:34:00	COMMUNITY HAS TO STAND IN
02:25:34:00	02:25:37:00	SOLIDARITY STEP BY STEP
02:25:37:00	02:25:37:00	ALONGSIDE HAITI.
02:25:37:00	02:25:38:00	SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT
02:25:38:00	02:25:41:00	AS A AFRO-LATINOS ALWAYS CLAIM
02:25:41:00	02:25:42:00	MY BLACK ROOTS EVEN BEFORE I
02:25:42:00	02:25:45:00	WAS A POLITICIAN I'VE ALWAYS
02:25:45:00	02:25:46:00	SAID YOU ARE MY BROTHER, YOU
02:25:46:00	02:25:46:00	ARE MY SISTER.
02:25:46:00	02:25:50:00	AND SO I WANTED TO JUST
02:25:50:00	02:25:50:00	CONGRATULATE YOU FOR YOUR
02:25:50:00	02:25:53:00	LEADERSHIP IN THIS SPACE AND
02:25:53:00	02:25:54:00	HOW MUCH JOY YOU HAVE BROUGHT
02:25:54:00	02:25:57:00	INTO THIS CHAMBER IN
02:25:57:00	02:25:58:00	CELEBRATION OF YOUR PEOPLE.
02:25:58:00	02:26:01:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:26:01:00	02:26:01:00	THANK YOU.
02:26:01:00	02:26:02:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
02:26:02:00	02:26:04:00	ON THIS MATTER?
02:26:04:00	02:26:05:00	SO I SAY THANK YOU TO
02:26:05:00	02:26:08:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LUIS
02:26:08:00	02:26:09:00	LOUIJEUNE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
02:26:09:00	02:26:09:00	I JUST WANT TO THANK THE
02:26:09:00	02:26:12:00	HAITIAN COMMUNITY FOR THEIR
02:26:12:00	02:26:16:00	CONTINUED CONTRIBUTION WHETHER
02:26:16:00	02:26:16:00	IT'S AROUND INDEPENDENCE
02:26:16:00	02:26:20:00	LIBERATION HERE IN BOSTON OR
02:26:20:00	02:26:21:00	SPIRITUAL LEADERS THEY'RE ALSO
02:26:21:00	02:26:24:00	OUR CIVIC LEADERS, OUR
02:26:24:00	02:26:24:00	BUSINESSES, OUR IMMIGRATION
02:26:24:00	02:26:25:00	LEADERS JUST WANT TO THANK YOU
02:26:25:00	02:26:28:00	FOR ALL THE SACRIFICE AND THE
02:26:28:00	02:26:29:00	CONTRIBUTIONS THAT YOU HAVE
02:26:29:00	02:26:30:00	MADE AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
02:26:30:00	02:26:32:00	CELEBRATING WITH YOU THIS
02:26:32:00	02:26:32:00	SUNDAY.
02:26:32:00	02:26:35:00	ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
02:26:35:00	02:26:40:00	MR CLEARY CAN YOU PLEASE ADD
02:26:40:00	02:26:40:00	COUNCILOR BRAIDING
02:26:40:00	02:26:41:00	COUNCILOR CLETA ZAPATA
02:26:41:00	02:26:44:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN CASA
02:26:44:00	02:26:44:00	FITZGERALD JUSTICE HERE CASA
02:26:44:00	02:26:48:00	CASA MURPHY CASA PEPEN CASA
02:26:48:00	02:26:48:00	SANTANA CASTLE WEBER AND PLEASE
02:26:48:00	02:26:51:00	ADD THE CHAIR.
02:26:51:00	02:26:55:00	COUNCILOR YEAH, I'M GONNA DEAL
02:26:55:00	02:26:55:00	WITH THAT COUNCILOR PRESIDENT
02:26:55:00	02:26:58:00	LOUIJEUNE SEEKS SUSPENSION
02:26:58:00	02:26:58:00	OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
02:26:58:00	02:27:01:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 1057 ALL THOSE
02:27:01:00	02:27:04:00	IN FAVOR SAY I THE AYES HAVE
02:27:04:00	02:27:04:00	IT.
02:27:04:00	02:27:07:00	THANK YOU, DUNCAN NUMBER 105
02:27:07:00	02:27:11:00	HAS BEEN ADOPTED OUT MOVED TO
02:27:11:00	02:27:11:00	GO TO A BRIEF RECESS.
02:27:11:00	02:27:14:00	NO, I JUST WANT MY DAY.
02:27:14:00	02:27:15:00	OH, SORRY.
02:27:15:00	02:27:15:00	AND MR. CLERK, YOU PLEASE ADD
02:27:15:00	02:27:18:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN ANYTHING YOU
02:27:18:00	02:27:19:00	CAN MOVE TO GO TO A BRIEF
02:27:19:00	02:27:20:00	RECESS.
02:27:20:00	02:28:55:00	THANK YOU, MR WE ARE BACK IN
02:28:55:00	02:28:55:00	SESSION JUST FOR A REMINDER AND
02:28:55:00	02:28:58:00	THIS IS A FINAL REMINDER FOR
02:28:58:00	02:29:01:00	THAT I MEAN IF THERE IS NO
02:29:01:00	02:29:02:00	SPEAKING IN CHAMBERS UNTIL
02:29:02:00	02:29:02:00	YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN A WARNING,
02:29:02:00	02:29:05:00	THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL SPEAKING
02:29:05:00	02:29:06:00	WE'LL HAVE TO REMOVE YOU FROM
02:29:06:00	02:29:06:00	THE FRONT CHAMBERS.
02:29:06:00	02:29:10:00	I ALSO JUST WANT TO CORRECT THE
02:29:10:00	02:29:10:00	RECORD, MR. CLERK.
02:29:10:00	02:29:11:00	I DIDN'T SPEAK I SHOULD HAVE
02:29:11:00	02:29:11:00	SAID I SOUGHT SUSPENSION AND
02:29:11:00	02:29:13:00	PASSAGE.
02:29:13:00	02:29:14:00	THAT'S WHY I WAS PUTTING MY LOT
02:29:14:00	02:29:15:00	ON 41057 SO I WAS SEEKING
02:29:15:00	02:29:16:00	SUSPENSION OF PASSAGE.
02:29:16:00	02:29:17:00	THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR FOR
02:29:17:00	02:29:18:00	MOVING FOR IT.
02:29:18:00	02:29:18:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:29:18:00	02:29:25:00	READ DOCKET NUMBER 10581058
02:29:25:00	02:29:26:00	COUNCILOR ALERT AS A FOLLOW UP
02:29:26:00	02:29:27:00	TO THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE SIX
02:29:27:00	02:29:28:00	PER DAY IN THE REVIEW
02:29:28:00	02:29:29:00	OF COASTAL RESILIENCE PROJECTS
02:29:29:00	02:29:30:00	BY AMENDING ARTICLE 25 A
02:29:30:00	02:29:34:00	RESILIENCE REVIEW AND IN THE
02:29:34:00	02:29:34:00	ZONING CODE OF THE CITY
02:29:34:00	02:29:34:00	OF BOSTON.
02:29:34:00	02:29:38:00	THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:29:38:00	02:29:38:00	COUNCILOR CODE AS THE PARTY
02:29:38:00	02:29:39:00	OF THE FLOOR.
02:29:39:00	02:29:39:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:29:39:00	02:29:41:00	I'M SEEKING SUBSTITUTION OF THE
02:29:41:00	02:29:42:00	ORIGINAL DOCKET TO CHANGE IT TO
02:29:42:00	02:29:45:00	A FORMAT FOR TEXT AMENDMENT TO
02:29:45:00	02:29:46:00	THE ZONING CODE RATHER THAN AN
02:29:46:00	02:29:49:00	ORDINANCE THAT MOTION SECONDED
02:29:49:00	02:29:50:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
02:29:50:00	02:29:53:00	SAY THE AYES HAVE IT.
02:29:53:00	02:29:53:00	THE MOTION FOR SUBSTITUTION IS
02:29:53:00	02:29:54:00	ALLOWED THE DOCKET DOES
02:29:54:00	02:29:56:00	EVERYONE HAVE THE NEW ORDINANCE
02:29:56:00	02:29:57:00	IN FRONT OF THEM?
02:29:57:00	02:30:03:00	YES.
02:30:03:00	02:30:03:00	OKAY, GREAT.
02:30:03:00	02:30:04:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE IS A PARTY ON
02:30:04:00	02:30:04:00	THE FLOOR AND YOU MAKE IT TO
02:30:04:00	02:30:04:00	NEW.
02:30:04:00	02:30:04:00	THANK YOU.
02:30:04:00	02:30:05:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY
02:30:05:00	02:30:05:00	COLLEAGUES.
02:30:05:00	02:30:06:00	I FIRST WANT TO THANK RESIDENTS
02:30:06:00	02:30:07:00	OF HARBOR TOWERS WHO BROUGHT
02:30:07:00	02:30:08:00	THIS TO MY ATTENTION NORMAN
02:30:08:00	02:30:09:00	MIZER, MATT RUBINS, JOANNE
02:30:09:00	02:30:11:00	HAYES RYANS AND I ALSO WANT TO
02:30:11:00	02:30:12:00	THANK FOLKS FROM THE
02:30:12:00	02:30:15:00	ADMINISTRATION RICH MCGINNIS,
02:30:15:00	02:30:16:00	LISA HARRINGTON WHO HAS WORKED
02:30:16:00	02:30:19:00	CLOSELY WITH MY OFFICE
02:30:19:00	02:30:19:00	INCLUDING MY CHIEF OF STAFF TO
02:30:19:00	02:30:23:00	TRY TO COME UP WITH SOME SORT
02:30:23:00	02:30:23:00	OF SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM THAT
02:30:23:00	02:30:26:00	WE FACED WITH HARBOR TOWERS
02:30:26:00	02:30:27:00	SIMPLY JUST TRYING TO FORTIFY
02:30:27:00	02:30:30:00	THEIR PROPERTY FROM COASTAL
02:30:30:00	02:30:31:00	FLOODING DUE TO SEA LEVEL RISE
02:30:31:00	02:30:34:00	AND SO FOR FOLKS THAT DON'T
02:30:34:00	02:30:34:00	KNOW HARBOR TOWERS IS DIRECTLY
02:30:34:00	02:30:38:00	ON THE WATERFRONT, IT'S AN OLD
02:30:38:00	02:30:38:00	URBAN RENEWAL PROCESS OR EXCUSE
02:30:38:00	02:30:41:00	ME OLD URBAN RENEWAL PARCEL AND
02:30:41:00	02:30:42:00	THE PROCESS THAT THEY WENT
02:30:42:00	02:30:45:00	THROUGH WAS JUST MIND BOGGLING
02:30:45:00	02:30:46:00	AND I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO
02:30:46:00	02:30:46:00	PUSHING THIS THROUGH.
02:30:46:00	02:30:49:00	WE'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT
02:30:49:00	02:30:49:00	IT.
02:30:49:00	02:30:50:00	I DON'T KNOW WHICH COMMITTEE
02:30:50:00	02:30:50:00	IT'LL GO THROUGH BUT LOOK
02:30:50:00	02:30:52:00	FORWARD TO HAVING THE RESIDENTS
02:30:52:00	02:30:53:00	THERE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR
02:30:53:00	02:30:54:00	EXPERIENCE FROM A FIRSTHAND
02:30:54:00	02:30:57:00	PERSPECTIVE.
02:30:57:00	02:30:58:00	SO I RISE TO SPEAK ON AN ISSUE
02:30:58:00	02:31:00:00	BECOMING MORE URGENT BY THE DAY
02:31:00:00	02:31:01:00	HOW WE PREPARE BOSTON'S
02:31:01:00	02:31:01:00	NEIGHBORHOODS FOR ESCALATING
02:31:01:00	02:31:04:00	IMPACTS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
02:31:04:00	02:31:04:00	SPECIFICALLY HOW WE REMOVE
02:31:04:00	02:31:05:00	UNNECESSARY ADMINISTRATIVE
02:31:05:00	02:31:08:00	BARRIERS THAT PREVENT OUR
02:31:08:00	02:31:08:00	CONSTITUENTS FROM PROTECTING
02:31:08:00	02:31:09:00	THEIR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES
02:31:09:00	02:31:12:00	FROM COASTAL FLOODING.
02:31:12:00	02:31:13:00	THE ZONING AMENDMENT IS ABOUT
02:31:13:00	02:31:15:00	URGENCY, EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY
02:31:15:00	02:31:15:00	.
02:31:15:00	02:31:16:00	ARTICLE 25 OF THE ZONING
02:31:16:00	02:31:16:00	CODE GOVERNS RESILIENCE DESIGN
02:31:16:00	02:31:20:00	REVIEW A CRITICAL PROCESS FOR
02:31:20:00	02:31:20:00	ENSURING HOW NEW DEVELOPMENT
02:31:20:00	02:31:23:00	AND RETROFITS IN FLOOD PRONE
02:31:23:00	02:31:23:00	AREAS ARE DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND
02:31:23:00	02:31:27:00	IMPACTS OF CLIMATE EVENTS LIKE
02:31:27:00	02:31:28:00	STORM SURGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE.
02:31:28:00	02:31:31:00	RIGHT NOW THE PROCESS ISN'T
02:31:31:00	02:31:31:00	WORKING AS EFFICIENTLY AS IT
02:31:31:00	02:31:32:00	SHOULD, ESPECIALLY FOR PROPERTY
02:31:32:00	02:31:35:00	OWNERS WHO ARE JUST TRYING TO
02:31:35:00	02:31:35:00	DO THE RIGHT THING AND PROTECT
02:31:35:00	02:31:36:00	THEIR PROPERTY.
02:31:36:00	02:31:39:00	LET ME BREAK DOWN ONE OF THE
02:31:39:00	02:31:40:00	CORE OBSTACLES LAND DISPOSITION
02:31:40:00	02:31:43:00	AGREEMENTS OR ELDERS AND ELDERS
02:31:43:00	02:31:44:00	IS A LEGAL CONTRACT THAT THE
02:31:44:00	02:31:47:00	CITY ENTERS INTO WHEN IT
02:31:47:00	02:31:47:00	TRANSFERS PUBLIC LAND TO A
02:31:47:00	02:31:50:00	PRIVATE OR NONPROFIT ENTITY.
02:31:50:00	02:31:50:00	THESE AGREEMENTS INCLUDE
02:31:50:00	02:31:51:00	RESTRICTIONS AND OBLIGATIONS
02:31:51:00	02:31:54:00	THINGS LIKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
02:31:54:00	02:31:54:00	REQUIREMENTS, OPEN SPACE
02:31:54:00	02:31:58:00	PROTECTIONS AND SPECIFIC DESIGN
02:31:58:00	02:31:58:00	CRITERIA.
02:31:58:00	02:31:59:00	IN PLACES LIKE CHARLESTOWN, THE
02:31:59:00	02:32:01:00	NORTH END AND THE WHARF
02:32:01:00	02:32:02:00	DISTRICT, WE HAVE MANY SUCH
02:32:02:00	02:32:03:00	PARCELS STILL GOVERNED BY
02:32:03:00	02:32:05:00	ELDERS ESPECIALLY THOSE WITHIN
02:32:05:00	02:32:05:00	URBAN RENEWAL AREAS.
02:32:05:00	02:32:09:00	HERE'S THE PROBLEM WHEN A
02:32:09:00	02:32:10:00	PROPERTY OWNER UNDER AN ELDER
02:32:10:00	02:32:10:00	TRIES TO MAKE RESILIENCE
02:32:10:00	02:32:13:00	UPGRADES SAY RAISING MECHANICAL
02:32:13:00	02:32:14:00	SYSTEMS OR FLOOD PROOFING A
02:32:14:00	02:32:17:00	GROUND FLOOR THEY GO THROUGH
02:32:17:00	02:32:18:00	PLANNING AN TO GET APPROVAL AND
02:32:18:00	02:32:21:00	THEN ONLY AT THE END DOES LEGAL
02:32:21:00	02:32:22:00	FLAG THE COMPLIANCE ISSUE
02:32:22:00	02:32:24:00	WITHIN THE ELDER.
02:32:24:00	02:32:25:00	THAT MEANS THAT THE ENTIRE
02:32:25:00	02:32:26:00	PROCESS STARTS OVER COSTING
02:32:26:00	02:32:29:00	TIME, MONEY AND MOMENTUM.
02:32:29:00	02:32:30:00	THIS ARTICLE TWO ARTICLE.
02:32:30:00	02:32:33:00	THIS AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 25 A
02:32:33:00	02:32:33:00	FIX IS THAT IT ESTABLISHES A
02:32:33:00	02:32:36:00	RESILIENCE REVIEW COUNCIL A
02:32:36:00	02:32:36:00	COORDINATED BODY MADE UP
02:32:36:00	02:32:40:00	OF PLANNING URBAN DESIGN, LEGAL
02:32:40:00	02:32:41:00	AND OTHER RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS
02:32:41:00	02:32:41:00	INSTEAD OF WORKING IN SILOS.
02:32:41:00	02:32:44:00	THEY REVIEW ELDER GOVERNANCE
02:32:44:00	02:32:45:00	PROPERTIES TOGETHER AND UPFRONT
02:32:45:00	02:32:47:00	BEFORE A HOMEOWNER OR DEVELOPER
02:32:47:00	02:32:48:00	GETS THE PERMANENT STAGE.
02:32:48:00	02:32:48:00	THIS WILL CREATE A CLEAR,
02:32:48:00	02:32:51:00	PREDICTABLE AND EFFICIENT
02:32:51:00	02:32:51:00	PROCESS.
02:32:51:00	02:32:52:00	WE CAN'T AFFORD MORE
02:32:52:00	02:32:55:00	BUREAUCRATIC DELAYS WHEN THE
02:32:55:00	02:32:56:00	NEXT STORM COULD BE ONE THAT
02:32:56:00	02:32:56:00	DISPLACES HUNDREDS OR DAMAGES
02:32:56:00	02:32:59:00	MILLIONS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
02:32:59:00	02:32:59:00	OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
02:32:59:00	02:33:00:00	AND WE CERTAINLY CAN'T ALLOW
02:33:00:00	02:33:04:00	OUR OWN LEGAL AND ZONING
02:33:04:00	02:33:04:00	PROCESSES TO BE BARRIERS TO
02:33:04:00	02:33:05:00	CLIMATE JUSTICE.
02:33:05:00	02:33:08:00	THANK YOU.
02:33:08:00	02:33:09:00	YOU HAVE A LOT OF THANK YOU
02:33:09:00	02:33:11:00	CONSTRUCTIVE AS A PART OF THE
02:33:11:00	02:33:11:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:33:11:00	02:33:12:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
02:33:12:00	02:33:12:00	FLOOR.
02:33:12:00	02:33:15:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND
02:33:15:00	02:33:15:00	THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL FOR
02:33:15:00	02:33:16:00	BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
02:33:16:00	02:33:18:00	I SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL.
02:33:18:00	02:33:21:00	I'LL DO WHATEVER I POSSIBLY CAN
02:33:21:00	02:33:22:00	TO SUPPORT TO SUPPORT IT AND TO
02:33:22:00	02:33:25:00	ADVOCATE FOR THE HARBOR TOWERS
02:33:25:00	02:33:26:00	COMMUNITY.
02:33:26:00	02:33:28:00	I PROUDLY REPRESENTED THEM FOR
02:33:28:00	02:33:29:00	SIX YEARS.
02:33:29:00	02:33:29:00	I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS WELL HAVE
02:33:29:00	02:33:32:00	A GREAT RELATIONSHIP.
02:33:32:00	02:33:33:00	THEY'RE WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND
02:33:33:00	02:33:36:00	JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
02:33:36:00	02:33:37:00	COUNCILOR COLETTA FOR BRINGING
02:33:37:00	02:33:37:00	THIS FORWARD.
02:33:37:00	02:33:38:00	I'M JEALOUS THAT SHE REPRESENTS
02:33:38:00	02:33:40:00	THE HARBOR TOWERS BECAUSE THEY
02:33:40:00	02:33:44:00	ARE SUCH WONDERFUL WONDERFUL
02:33:44:00	02:33:44:00	PEOPLE AND I MISS REPRESENTING
02:33:44:00	02:33:45:00	THEM.
02:33:45:00	02:33:45:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:33:45:00	02:33:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:33:45:00	02:33:49:00	THE CHAIR I CAN I JUST KIND
02:33:49:00	02:33:49:00	OF A PENNY ON THE FLOOR.
02:33:49:00	02:33:50:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:33:50:00	02:33:51:00	I FULLY SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE
02:33:51:00	02:33:55:00	SEA LEVEL RISING IS REAL AND
02:33:55:00	02:33:56:00	IT'S HAPPENING AND I HAVE HAD
02:33:56:00	02:33:59:00	THE OPPORTUNITY OF SITTING DOWN
02:33:59:00	02:34:00:00	WITH KRISTINA SCHLEGEL WHO IS
02:34:00:00	02:34:01:00	ACTUALLY MY FRONT DOOR NEIGHBOR
02:34:01:00	02:34:03:00	AND SHE'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
02:34:03:00	02:34:04:00	OF THE GLOBAL CENTER FOR
02:34:04:00	02:34:04:00	CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR THE ENTIRE
02:34:04:00	02:34:04:00	STATE.
02:34:04:00	02:34:07:00	AND JUST LEARNING ABOUT THE
02:34:07:00	02:34:08:00	SERIOUS CONCERNS WE HAVE WITH
02:34:08:00	02:34:11:00	CLIMATE CHANGE THAT WE'RE
02:34:11:00	02:34:11:00	EXPERIENCING HERE IN BOSTON.
02:34:11:00	02:34:12:00	I ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
02:34:12:00	02:34:15:00	HOST A FLOODING MEETING.
02:34:15:00	02:34:15:00	YES, WE DO HAVE FLOODING
02:34:15:00	02:34:18:00	CONCERNS EVEN IN ROSLYN THOUGH
02:34:18:00	02:34:19:00	WE HAD THE BOSTON WATER AND
02:34:19:00	02:34:19:00	SEWER COMMISSION COME OUT AND
02:34:19:00	02:34:22:00	HAVE A MEETING WHERE WE WERE
02:34:22:00	02:34:23:00	ABLE TO LEARN THAT THERE IS AN
02:34:23:00	02:34:23:00	AMAZING TOOL COST TO CALL THE
02:34:23:00	02:34:26:00	BOSTON INUNDATION MODEL THAT
02:34:26:00	02:34:27:00	YOU CAN USE OF.
02:34:27:00	02:34:27:00	YOU'RE CURIOUS IF THERE'S ANY
02:34:27:00	02:34:30:00	FLOODING CONCERNS IN YOUR AREA.
02:34:30:00	02:34:30:00	AND TO MY COLLEAGUES AND TO
02:34:30:00	02:34:31:00	ANYONE HEARING, I ALSO
02:34:31:00	02:34:34:00	ENCOURAGE YOU TO WATCH THE
02:34:34:00	02:34:34:00	INUNDATION DISTRICT.
02:34:34:00	02:34:38:00	IT'S A DOCUMENTARY BASED ON
02:34:38:00	02:34:39:00	EVERYTHING THAT BARTLET COULD
02:34:39:00	02:34:39:00	POTENTIALLY SEE IN THE NEAR
02:34:39:00	02:34:41:00	FUTURE BUT SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED
02:34:41:00	02:34:42:00	ON SEA LEVEL RISING.
02:34:42:00	02:34:45:00	SO THIS IS WHY I'M IN SUPPORT
02:34:45:00	02:34:45:00	OF THIS.
02:34:45:00	02:34:46:00	WE'VE GOT TO DO MORE.
02:34:46:00	02:34:47:00	WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
02:34:47:00	02:34:47:00	DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO
02:34:47:00	02:34:49:00	PROTECT OUR CITY.
02:34:49:00	02:34:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:34:50:00	02:34:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:34:50:00	02:34:51:00	ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON
02:34:51:00	02:34:53:00	THIS MATTER?
02:34:53:00	02:34:54:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:34:54:00	02:34:54:00	THEIR NAME?
02:34:54:00	02:34:56:00	MR. CLERK SAID COUNCILORS
02:34:56:00	02:35:01:00	BREADON FITZGERALD FLYNN MCGEER
02:35:01:00	02:35:01:00	MURPHY PITT.
02:35:01:00	02:35:04:00	BEN PLEASE OF THE CHAIR THIS
02:35:04:00	02:35:04:00	DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER.
02:35:04:00	02:35:04:00	OH, OKAY.
02:35:04:00	02:35:09:00	AND COUNCIL ORAL I DOCKET
02:35:09:00	02:35:10:00	DOCKING NUMBER 1058 WILL BE
02:35:10:00	02:35:11:00	REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON
02:35:11:00	02:35:11:00	PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND
02:35:11:00	02:35:14:00	TRANSPORTATION AND I WANTED TO
02:35:14:00	02:35:15:00	ALSO SAY COUNCILOR COLETTE IS
02:35:15:00	02:35:16:00	ABOUT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR
02:35:16:00	02:35:16:00	LEADERSHIP IN THIS AREA.
02:35:16:00	02:35:18:00	THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON
02:35:18:00	02:35:18:00	BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS.
02:35:18:00	02:35:19:00	THEY HAVE ALSO TOLD ME HOW
02:35:19:00	02:35:22:00	INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THIS IS.
02:35:22:00	02:35:23:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO ELEVATE AND
02:35:23:00	02:35:24:00	THANK YOU FOR FILING THIS.
02:35:24:00	02:35:24:00	OKAY.
02:35:24:00	02:35:26:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE BE
02:35:26:00	02:35:28:00	TALKING NUMBER 1059 SO I CAN
02:35:28:00	02:35:29:00	NUMBER 1059 COUNCIL OFFLINE OFF
02:35:29:00	02:35:32:00	OF THE FILING ORDINANCE
02:35:32:00	02:35:32:00	ESTABLISHING A ROAD SAFETY AND
02:35:32:00	02:35:35:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMISSION
02:35:35:00	02:35:36:00	.
02:35:36:00	02:35:36:00	THANK YOU.
02:35:36:00	02:35:36:00	SORRY.
02:35:36:00	02:35:36:00	SORRY.
02:35:36:00	02:35:39:00	CONTINUE TO REGULATE THE USE
02:35:39:00	02:35:40:00	OF BICYCLES, BICYCLES,
02:35:40:00	02:35:43:00	MOTORIZED BICYCLES AND
02:35:43:00	02:35:44:00	MOTORIZED SCOOTERS IN THE CITY
02:35:44:00	02:35:44:00	OF BOSTON.
02:35:44:00	02:35:49:00	THANK YOU THE CHAIR AND I JUST
02:35:49:00	02:35:49:00	KIND OF A FUN KIND OF VOLUNTEER
02:35:49:00	02:35:50:00	THE FLOOR.
02:35:50:00	02:35:55:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:35:55:00	02:35:56:00	ACROSS BOSTON THE CITY HAS
02:35:56:00	02:35:58:00	IMPLEMENTED CHANGES TO THE
02:35:58:00	02:35:59:00	TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM BY
02:35:59:00	02:36:02:00	INCREASING THE AMOUNT
02:36:02:00	02:36:03:00	OF BICYCLE LANES AND CONDENSING
02:36:03:00	02:36:06:00	EXISTING ROADWAYS IN THE
02:36:06:00	02:36:07:00	RECENTLY PUBLISHED CITY
02:36:07:00	02:36:10:00	TRANSPORTATION REVIEW CONDUCTED
02:36:10:00	02:36:13:00	BY SUPERINTENDENT BRILL AND
02:36:13:00	02:36:13:00	NINE PAGE MEMO REGARDING STREET
02:36:13:00	02:36:17:00	DESIGN CHANGES INDICATED THE
02:36:17:00	02:36:20:00	CITY WAS HEAVY HANDED IN RECENT
02:36:20:00	02:36:21:00	YEARS IN ITS COMMUNICATION WITH
02:36:21:00	02:36:24:00	NEIGHBORS AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:36:24:00	02:36:25:00	WE HEARD CONSISTENT FEEDBACK
02:36:25:00	02:36:28:00	THAT THE PROJECT COMMUNICATION
02:36:28:00	02:36:28:00	AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WERE
02:36:28:00	02:36:32:00	INADEQUATE, THAT DECISIONS
02:36:32:00	02:36:35:00	SEEMED PREDETERMINED AND THAT
02:36:35:00	02:36:36:00	PROCESSES TOO OFTEN DID NOT
02:36:36:00	02:36:39:00	ACHIEVE CONSENSUS CONTRIBUTING
02:36:39:00	02:36:43:00	TO A LOSS OF COMMUNITY TRUST,
02:36:43:00	02:36:44:00	HE SAID.
02:36:44:00	02:36:47:00	AND I AGREE WITH THE
02:36:47:00	02:36:49:00	SUPERINTENDENT IN DISTRICT TWO
02:36:49:00	02:36:50:00	IN PARTICULAR THE IMPACT OF THE
02:36:50:00	02:36:54:00	DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTING
02:36:54:00	02:36:54:00	FASHION AND CONSTRUCTION
02:36:54:00	02:36:58:00	OF BICYCLE LANES LACK KAIKOHE
02:36:58:00	02:36:58:00	OF INEFFECTIVE DESIGN.
02:36:58:00	02:37:01:00	THERE'S NO FORESIGHT OF A
02:37:01:00	02:37:02:00	COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN
02:37:02:00	02:37:05:00	CAUSING SAFETY TRAFFIC AND
02:37:05:00	02:37:05:00	CONSTRUCTION ISSUES.
02:37:05:00	02:37:09:00	THAT'S WHY I RECENTLY CALLED
02:37:09:00	02:37:10:00	FOR A HEARING ON TRANSPORTATION
02:37:10:00	02:37:12:00	PLANNING WITH ARTICLE 80
02:37:12:00	02:37:13:00	DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS THE
02:37:13:00	02:37:16:00	CITY HAS NOW PLANNED FOR
02:37:16:00	02:37:19:00	MULTIPLE BIKE LANES TO NOWHERE
02:37:19:00	02:37:20:00	THAT LACK ANY CONNECTION TO A
02:37:20:00	02:37:23:00	COMPREHENSIVE NETWORK AND
02:37:23:00	02:37:24:00	ABRUPTLY NEAR DANGEROUS
02:37:24:00	02:37:28:00	INTERSECTIONS, THERE'S ONE THAT
02:37:28:00	02:37:31:00	WILL BE RANDOMLY STUCK ON
02:37:31:00	02:37:32:00	DORCHESTER AVENUE IN FRONT OF A
02:37:32:00	02:37:35:00	HOTEL PROJECT NEXT TO DOUGHBOY
02:37:35:00	02:37:35:00	DONUTS LEADING INTO A DANGEROUS
02:37:35:00	02:37:38:00	INTERSECTION AT A STREET.
02:37:38:00	02:37:39:00	THERE'S ANOTHER THAT WAS
02:37:39:00	02:37:42:00	DECIDED AFTER THE PUBLIC
02:37:42:00	02:37:43:00	PROCESS AND DURING THE PUBLIC
02:37:43:00	02:37:46:00	IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION REVIEW
02:37:46:00	02:37:46:00	IN FRONT OF IMRAN'S RESTAURANT
02:37:46:00	02:37:49:00	ON WEST BROADWAY IN SOUTH
02:37:49:00	02:37:50:00	BOSTON THAT COMES IN DIRECT
02:37:50:00	02:37:53:00	CONFLICT WITH THE CITY'S SOUTH
02:37:53:00	02:37:54:00	BOSTON TRANSPORTATION ACTION
02:37:54:00	02:37:57:00	PLAN WHICH THE BOSTON
02:37:57:00	02:37:58:00	TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND
02:37:58:00	02:38:01:00	THE BPD BOTH SAID WOULD NOT
02:38:01:00	02:38:05:00	INCLUDE BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY
02:38:05:00	02:38:05:00	.
02:38:05:00	02:38:08:00	WE HAVE SEEN CYCLING RELATED
02:38:08:00	02:38:09:00	COLLISIONS AND CRASHES INCREASE
02:38:09:00	02:38:13:00	INCLUDING MANY INCIDENTS THAT
02:38:13:00	02:38:13:00	GO UNDOCUMENTED DUE TO A LACK
02:38:13:00	02:38:17:00	OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
02:38:17:00	02:38:18:00	FOR BICYCLES, ELECTRIC AND
02:38:18:00	02:38:20:00	MOTORIZED BICYCLES AND
02:38:20:00	02:38:21:00	SCOOTERS.
02:38:21:00	02:38:25:00	NEIGHBORS ESPECIALLY OUR
02:38:25:00	02:38:26:00	SENIORS WHO WALK AROUND THEIR
02:38:26:00	02:38:29:00	NEIGHBORHOOD CONSIST ONLY BRING
02:38:29:00	02:38:30:00	UP THE LACK OF ENFORCEMENT ON
02:38:30:00	02:38:32:00	THESE TWO WHEELED VEHICLES
02:38:32:00	02:38:33:00	OPERATING ON SIDEWALKS, RUNNING
02:38:33:00	02:38:36:00	RED LIGHTS GOING THE WRONG WAY,
02:38:36:00	02:38:37:00	CAUSING CYCLISTS THAT ALSO DO
02:38:37:00	02:38:40:00	NOT FOLLOW TRAFFIC RULES.
02:38:40:00	02:38:44:00	THEY FEEL UNSAFE TO WALK
02:38:44:00	02:38:47:00	THROUGHOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:38:47:00	02:38:48:00	THAT IS WHY IN FEBRUARY I ALSO
02:38:48:00	02:38:52:00	CALLED FOR A HEARING WHICH MANY
02:38:52:00	02:38:52:00	OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE ADDED
02:38:52:00	02:38:53:00	THEIR NAME TO THAT WOULD
02:38:53:00	02:38:56:00	DISCUSS REQUIRING ALL
02:38:56:00	02:38:56:00	MICROMOBILITY DEVICES TO BE
02:38:56:00	02:39:00:00	LICENSED REGISTERED AND
02:39:00:00	02:39:00:00	INSURED.
02:39:00:00	02:39:03:00	I'VE ALSO HEARD CONCERNS FROM
02:39:03:00	02:39:03:00	OTHER NEIGHBORS AND BUSINESSES
02:39:03:00	02:39:07:00	ABOUT COMMUNITY PROCESS ON HOW
02:39:07:00	02:39:08:00	THE REMOVAL OF VEHICLE TRAVEL
02:39:08:00	02:39:12:00	LANE IN CERTAIN HIGH TRAFFIC
02:39:12:00	02:39:12:00	CORRIDORS AND COMMERCIAL AREAS
02:39:12:00	02:39:15:00	HAVE IMPACTED TRUCK DELIVERIES
02:39:15:00	02:39:16:00	THE LOADING OF GOODS AND
02:39:16:00	02:39:19:00	SERVICES, RIDESHARE PICKUPS AND
02:39:19:00	02:39:20:00	DROP OFFS AS WELL AS THE IMPACT
02:39:20:00	02:39:21:00	ON SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE
02:39:21:00	02:39:23:00	LOSS OF PARKING SPOTS.
02:39:23:00	02:39:26:00	AGAIN WE'VE REMOVED OVER NINE
02:39:26:00	02:39:26:00	PARKING SPOTS ON BOYLSTON
02:39:26:00	02:39:30:00	STREET LAST YEAR.
02:39:30:00	02:39:31:00	THEY MAY NOT SAY PUBLIC IT
02:39:31:00	02:39:34:00	PUBLICLY BUT I ALSO HEARD
02:39:34:00	02:39:36:00	PRIVATELY FROM FIRST RESPONDERS
02:39:36:00	02:39:37:00	ABOUT THE NEED FOR A BETTER AND
02:39:37:00	02:39:40:00	COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHEN IT
02:39:40:00	02:39:40:00	COMES TO IMPLEMENTING BIKE
02:39:40:00	02:39:43:00	LANES IN HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS
02:39:43:00	02:39:44:00	INCLUDING ON CAMBRIDGE STREET
02:39:44:00	02:39:47:00	BEHIND US AS WE DECREASE THE
02:39:47:00	02:39:48:00	ROAD SPACE FOR CARS TO MOVE OUT
02:39:48:00	02:39:52:00	OF THE WAY.
02:39:52:00	02:39:52:00	WE HAVE A GENERAL HOSPITAL WE
02:39:52:00	02:39:55:00	NEED A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND
02:39:55:00	02:39:56:00	COMMUNITY DRIVEN APPROACH TO
02:39:56:00	02:39:59:00	DEVELOPING SAFE BICYCLE LANES
02:39:59:00	02:39:59:00	THAT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION
02:39:59:00	02:40:03:00	ENGINEERING EXPERTISE AND
02:40:03:00	02:40:03:00	ADVICE SAFETY, INFRASTRUCTURE,
02:40:03:00	02:40:06:00	DATA IN A LEGITIMATE AND
02:40:06:00	02:40:07:00	THOROUGH PUBLIC PROCESS WHICH
02:40:07:00	02:40:10:00	RELIES ON THE INSTITUTIONAL
02:40:10:00	02:40:11:00	KNOWLEDGE THIS KNOWLEDGE AND
02:40:11:00	02:40:14:00	YEARS OF EXPERIENCE FROM
02:40:14:00	02:40:15:00	RESIDENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES AND
02:40:15:00	02:40:18:00	NONPROFITS.
02:40:18:00	02:40:18:00	I'M FILING THIS ORDINANCE TODAY
02:40:18:00	02:40:21:00	ON ESTABLISHING A ROAD SAFETY
02:40:21:00	02:40:22:00	AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
02:40:22:00	02:40:25:00	COMMISSION TO DISCUSS HOW WE
02:40:25:00	02:40:25:00	CAN BETTER REGULATE THE USE
02:40:25:00	02:40:29:00	OF BICYCLES E-BIKES MOTORIZED
02:40:29:00	02:40:33:00	BICYCLES, MOTORIZED SCOOTERS IN
02:40:33:00	02:40:33:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON BOSTON CAN
02:40:33:00	02:40:37:00	NO LONGER BE THE WILD WEST.
02:40:37:00	02:40:38:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:40:38:00	02:40:38:00	THANK YOU.
02:40:38:00	02:40:39:00	I RECOGNIZE THIS COMES WITH
02:40:39:00	02:40:41:00	PAIN BECAUSE OF A PENNY ON THE
02:40:41:00	02:40:41:00	FLOOR.
02:40:41:00	02:40:42:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:40:42:00	02:40:45:00	THIS IS MORE OF A QUESTION TO
02:40:45:00	02:40:46:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN THROUGH THE
02:40:46:00	02:40:48:00	THROUGH THE CHAIR.
02:40:48:00	02:40:49:00	SO WHEN YOU SAY THE WORDS
02:40:49:00	02:40:53:00	REGULATE THE USE OF BICYCLES, I
02:40:53:00	02:40:53:00	SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
02:40:53:00	02:40:54:00	BUT CAN YOU ELABORATE A LITTLE
02:40:54:00	02:40:56:00	BIT MORE ON WHAT ARE YOU
02:40:56:00	02:40:59:00	FORESEEING FOR IBM BECAUSE
02:40:59:00	02:41:04:00	THERE'S A WIDE POPULATION
02:41:04:00	02:41:04:00	OF PEOPLE THAT USE BICYCLES.
02:41:04:00	02:41:05:00	SO I'M THINKING LIKE THERE'S
02:41:05:00	02:41:08:00	EVEN CHILDREN THAT USE BICYCLE
02:41:08:00	02:41:08:00	.
02:41:08:00	02:41:08:00	THERE'S PEOPLE THAT USE
02:41:08:00	02:41:09:00	BICYCLES THAT AREN'T
02:41:09:00	02:41:12:00	NECESSARILY USING IT AS THEIR
02:41:12:00	02:41:12:00	MODE OF TRANSPORTATION.
02:41:12:00	02:41:16:00	SO ARE YOU ENVISIONING THAT
02:41:16:00	02:41:16:00	GOING TO BE REGULATED TOO?
02:41:16:00	02:41:17:00	THANK YOU.
02:41:17:00	02:41:21:00	THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
02:41:21:00	02:41:21:00	ALSO YOU DIRECTED YOUR QUESTION
02:41:21:00	02:41:22:00	TO THE CHAIR ABOUT THE FEATURES
02:41:22:00	02:41:25:00	DIRECTED THROUGH THE CHAIR AS
02:41:25:00	02:41:25:00	WELL.
02:41:25:00	02:41:25:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, IF YOU'D LIKE
02:41:25:00	02:41:27:00	TO RESPOND TO THE CHAIR YOU MAY
02:41:27:00	02:41:27:00	THANK.
02:41:27:00	02:41:32:00	THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
02:41:32:00	02:41:32:00	QUESTION THANK YOU
02:41:32:00	02:41:33:00	COUNCIL CHAIRMAN FOR THAT
02:41:33:00	02:41:35:00	QUESTION.
02:41:35:00	02:41:36:00	IT'S A FAIR QUESTION.
02:41:36:00	02:41:37:00	IT'S SOMETHING I'M GOING TO
02:41:37:00	02:41:39:00	CONSIDER.
02:41:39:00	02:41:40:00	I HAVE ADVOCATED FOR BICYCLES
02:41:40:00	02:41:47:00	TO BE REGISTERED TO BE INSURED
02:41:47:00	02:41:48:00	AS WELL.
02:41:48:00	02:41:51:00	I DO THINK THEY SHOULD BE
02:41:51:00	02:41:52:00	REGULATED IN SOME SENSE.
02:41:52:00	02:41:56:00	I DO SEE BICYCLES INVOLVED IN
02:41:56:00	02:41:56:00	COLLISIONS IN AT TIMES.
02:41:56:00	02:41:59:00	I DO SEE AN UNREPORTED
02:41:59:00	02:42:02:00	COLLISIONS WITH BICYCLES AND
02:42:02:00	02:42:03:00	IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR
02:42:03:00	02:42:06:00	EXCHANGING PAPERS WHEN SOMEONE
02:42:06:00	02:42:08:00	ON A BICYCLE OR AN E-BIKE OR A
02:42:08:00	02:42:10:00	MOPED DOESN'T HAVE ANY
02:42:10:00	02:42:11:00	IDENTIFICATION IN TERMS OF A
02:42:11:00	02:42:14:00	WAY TO DESCRIBE WHO THEY ARE.
02:42:14:00	02:42:18:00	BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK
02:42:18:00	02:42:18:00	IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A
02:42:18:00	02:42:21:00	CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT AND TO
02:42:21:00	02:42:22:00	DISCUSS THAT SPECIFIC QUESTION
02:42:22:00	02:42:25:00	IN A HEARING AND I'D LIKE TO
02:42:25:00	02:42:26:00	LISTEN TO THE PROS AND CONS
02:42:26:00	02:42:29:00	ABOUT WHY BICYCLES SHOULD BE
02:42:29:00	02:42:33:00	REGULATED OR NOT REGULATED.
02:42:33:00	02:42:34:00	I HAVE AN OPEN MIND BUT I DO
02:42:34:00	02:42:37:00	BELIEVE WE HAVE TO ENFORCE THE
02:42:37:00	02:42:40:00	RULES OF THE ROAD.
02:42:40:00	02:42:41:00	TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IS
02:42:41:00	02:42:41:00	CRITICAL.
02:42:41:00	02:42:44:00	I WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT TODAY
02:42:44:00	02:42:45:00	AT THE BOSTON COMMON WITH
02:42:45:00	02:42:47:00	RESIDENTS.
02:42:47:00	02:42:48:00	BOSTON CAN NO LONGER BE THE
02:42:48:00	02:42:48:00	WILD WEST.
02:42:48:00	02:42:52:00	WE HAVE TO ENFORCE TRAFFIC LAWS
02:42:52:00	02:42:55:00	IN THE CITY REGARDLESS OF IF
02:42:55:00	02:42:56:00	IT'S A VEHICLE, IF IT'S A
02:42:56:00	02:42:57:00	BICYCLE, IT'S AN E-BIKE, A
02:42:57:00	02:42:59:00	SCOOTER, AN ELECTRIC BIKE.
02:42:59:00	02:43:03:00	WE NEED TO PROVIDE A SAFER AND
02:43:03:00	02:43:03:00	HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT FOR
02:43:03:00	02:43:03:00	EVERYBODY.
02:43:03:00	02:43:04:00	THANK YOU, MICHEL.
02:43:04:00	02:43:07:00	THANK.
02:43:07:00	02:43:08:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
02:43:08:00	02:43:09:00	BUT THEN YOU MAY RESPOND TO THE
02:43:09:00	02:43:10:00	CHAIR IF YOU IF YOU LIKE.
02:43:10:00	02:43:11:00	THANK YOU AND THANK YOU TO
02:43:11:00	02:43:12:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR RESPONDING
02:43:12:00	02:43:12:00	TO THAT.
02:43:12:00	02:43:15:00	I FULLY SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING
02:43:15:00	02:43:18:00	AND I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE THAT
02:43:18:00	02:43:19:00	BOSTON IS THE WILD WEST WHEN IT
02:43:19:00	02:43:23:00	COMES TO TRANSPORTATION.
02:43:23:00	02:43:23:00	I'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING VERY
02:43:23:00	02:43:26:00	RECENTLY IN MY DISTRICT AND
02:43:26:00	02:43:27:00	THROUGHOUT THE PAST YEAR AND A
02:43:27:00	02:43:27:00	HALF IN OFFICE WHERE IT
02:43:27:00	02:43:30:00	CONTINUES TO GET THAT.
02:43:30:00	02:43:31:00	SO I'M FULLY COMMITTED TO
02:43:31:00	02:43:31:00	WORKING ON TRANSPORTATION
02:43:31:00	02:43:35:00	SAFETY, MAKING SURE THAT
02:43:35:00	02:43:38:00	DRIVERS ARE THERE NOT VIOLATING
02:43:38:00	02:43:38:00	THE LAW ACROSS OUR CITY.
02:43:38:00	02:43:39:00	BUT IN REGARDS TO REGULATING
02:43:39:00	02:43:43:00	THE USE OF BICYCLE SPECIFIC I'M
02:43:43:00	02:43:44:00	STILL IN I DON'T KNOW HOW TO
02:43:44:00	02:43:47:00	LOOK AT THIS SO I WON'T BE
02:43:47:00	02:43:47:00	SUPPORTING THIS ORDINANCE BUT
02:43:47:00	02:43:48:00	IF YOU WOULD BE OPEN TO HAVING
02:43:48:00	02:43:50:00	A HEARING ABOUT THIS INSTEAD I
02:43:50:00	02:43:50:00	COULD SUPPORT THAT.
02:43:50:00	02:43:54:00	AND THIS FRIDAY IS BIKE TO WORK
02:43:54:00	02:43:54:00	DAY IN THE CITY.
02:43:54:00	02:43:55:00	SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A BIG
02:43:55:00	02:43:58:00	COALITION OF BICYCLE RIDERS IN
02:43:58:00	02:43:58:00	ON THE DOWNTOWN SIDE OF THE
02:43:58:00	02:43:58:00	PLAZA.
02:43:58:00	02:44:01:00	SO MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD
02:44:01:00	02:44:02:00	OPPORTUNITY ALSO TO ENGAGE WITH
02:44:02:00	02:44:03:00	FOLKS AND SEE WHERE THEY STAND.
02:44:03:00	02:44:05:00	BUT YEAH, YEAH.
02:44:05:00	02:44:05:00	THANK YOU.
02:44:05:00	02:44:06:00	THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
02:44:06:00	02:44:09:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:44:09:00	02:44:10:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN AND THEN COMES
02:44:10:00	02:44:10:00	FROM HERE.
02:44:10:00	02:44:12:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR.
02:44:12:00	02:44:13:00	ANYONE WHO LIVES IN BOSTON CAN
02:44:13:00	02:44:16:00	ATTEST TO THE HUGE PROBLEM OUR
02:44:16:00	02:44:16:00	CURRENT TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
02:44:16:00	02:44:17:00	CAUSES TO RESIDENTS FROM TIME
02:44:17:00	02:44:21:00	LOST IN WAITING IN TRAFFIC TO
02:44:21:00	02:44:21:00	ASTHMA AND CARDIOVASCULAR
02:44:21:00	02:44:24:00	ILLNESS.
02:44:24:00	02:44:25:00	BUT WHAT MY COLLEAGUE PROPOSES
02:44:25:00	02:44:28:00	TODAY IS PAUSING DATA DRIVEN
02:44:28:00	02:44:29:00	SOLUTIONS THAT REDUCE THE NEED
02:44:29:00	02:44:32:00	FOR PEOPLE TO RELY ON A VEHICLE
02:44:32:00	02:44:32:00	TO MOVE AROUND TOWN.
02:44:32:00	02:44:33:00	WE KNOW THAT BIKE LANES HAVE
02:44:33:00	02:44:36:00	REDUCED THE AMOUNT OF VEHICLES
02:44:36:00	02:44:36:00	IN BOSTON.
02:44:36:00	02:44:39:00	DATA RELEASED JUST LAST WEEK
02:44:39:00	02:44:41:00	FOR 2024 SHOWS A 30% REDUCTION.
02:44:41:00	02:44:42:00	LET ME REPEAT THAT 30% OF ALL
02:44:42:00	02:44:46:00	VEHICLE IS MOVING ACROSS THE
02:44:46:00	02:44:46:00	MASSIVE BRIDGE DURING THE
02:44:46:00	02:44:50:00	MORNING RUSH WERE PEOPLE ON
02:44:50:00	02:44:50:00	BICYCLES.
02:44:50:00	02:44:52:00	THAT'S UP FROM 20% TWO YEARS
02:44:52:00	02:44:53:00	AGO IN DESERT TO SUMMER STREETS
02:44:53:00	02:44:56:00	ON EVEN MORE DRASTIC CHANGE THE
02:44:56:00	02:44:59:00	RATE DOUBLED FROM 5 TO 10%.
02:44:59:00	02:45:02:00	AND WHAT CHANGE?
02:45:02:00	02:45:03:00	BOSTON STRENGTHEN OUR BICYCLE
02:45:03:00	02:45:03:00	NETWORK.
02:45:03:00	02:45:04:00	WE INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE
02:45:04:00	02:45:06:00	THAT ALLOWS RESIDENTS AND
02:45:06:00	02:45:07:00	COMMUTERS TO MAKE A CHOICE NOT
02:45:07:00	02:45:08:00	TO BRING THEIR CARS INTO THE
02:45:08:00	02:45:08:00	CITY.
02:45:08:00	02:45:10:00	NOW WHAT HAPPENS IF WE CREATE A
02:45:10:00	02:45:11:00	COMMISSION THAT PROPOSES TO
02:45:11:00	02:45:14:00	PAUSE ALL TRANSPORTATION
02:45:14:00	02:45:14:00	IMPROVEMENTS?
02:45:14:00	02:45:20:00	ACTUALLY READING 11 1204 AND
02:45:20:00	02:45:20:00	THAT'S ONE.
02:45:20:00	02:45:21:00	THE FIRST IS ENSURE THAT PUBLIC
02:45:21:00	02:45:24:00	WORKS DEPARTMENT ANY OTHER
02:45:24:00	02:45:24:00	THIRD PARTY IMMEDIATELY
02:45:24:00	02:45:27:00	DISCONTINUES THE CONSTRUCTION
02:45:27:00	02:45:28:00	OF ALL BICYCLE INS IN THE CITY
02:45:28:00	02:45:29:00	UNLESS AND UNTIL A MASTER PLAN
02:45:29:00	02:45:32:00	IS DEVELOPED BY THE COMMISSION
02:45:32:00	02:45:32:00	AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR
02:45:32:00	02:45:35:00	PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION.
02:45:35:00	02:45:39:00	THIS IS KIND OF TURNING BACK
02:45:39:00	02:45:40:00	TIME IN TRANSPORTATION IN THE
02:45:40:00	02:45:43:00	CITY AND AS OUR CHIEF
02:45:43:00	02:45:43:00	OF STREETS STATED BEFORE THE
02:45:43:00	02:45:46:00	CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RECENTLY,
02:45:46:00	02:45:47:00	IT IS A GEOMETRY PROBLEM
02:45:47:00	02:45:50:00	BECAUSE THE ROADS ARE NOT
02:45:50:00	02:45:51:00	GETTING ANY BIGGER.
02:45:51:00	02:45:52:00	IF WE WANT BOSTON TO GROW BY
02:45:52:00	02:45:54:00	ADDING MORE RESIDENTS AND
02:45:54:00	02:45:55:00	CREATING MORE JOBS, WE HAVE TO
02:45:55:00	02:45:57:00	REALIZE THAT WE CAN MAKE THE
02:45:57:00	02:45:58:00	PROBLEM MUCH WORSE BY FOCUSING
02:45:58:00	02:46:01:00	ON SOLUTIONS THAT FIRST GOT US
02:46:01:00	02:46:04:00	INTO THIS POSITION.
02:46:04:00	02:46:05:00	THIS RESPECTFULLY IS NOT
02:46:05:00	02:46:06:00	SOMETHING THAT I WOULD BE
02:46:06:00	02:46:09:00	WILLING TO SUPPORT AND I DO
02:46:09:00	02:46:16:00	THINK THERE WAS RECENTLY A
02:46:16:00	02:46:19:00	SOMEONE HEAD THAT I THAT I KNEW
02:46:19:00	02:46:21:00	BY A BUY ON A BIKE AND I JUST
02:46:21:00	02:46:24:00	THINK WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON
02:46:24:00	02:46:27:00	SAFETY.
02:46:27:00	02:46:28:00	WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON GETTING
02:46:28:00	02:46:28:00	PEOPLE THROUGH OUR STREETS
02:46:28:00	02:46:30:00	SAFELY.
02:46:30:00	02:46:31:00	WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON
02:46:31:00	02:46:32:00	INDIVIDUAL TRANSPORTATION
02:46:32:00	02:46:34:00	PROJECTS.
02:46:34:00	02:46:35:00	THIS TO ME IS JUST TOO BROAD
02:46:35:00	02:46:38:00	SCALE AND IT'S NOT DETAILED
02:46:38:00	02:46:39:00	ENOUGH.
02:46:39:00	02:46:39:00	THANK YOU.
02:46:39:00	02:46:43:00	THANK YOU.
02:46:43:00	02:46:43:00	THE CHAIR.
02:46:43:00	02:46:44:00	CAN I JUST COME TO MEJIA
02:46:44:00	02:46:44:00	BECAUSE WE HEAR YOU ON THE
02:46:44:00	02:46:44:00	FLOOR.
02:46:44:00	02:46:45:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:46:45:00	02:46:46:00	I AM GOING TO MAKE AN
02:46:46:00	02:46:47:00	ASSUMPTION THAT THIS IS AN
02:46:47:00	02:46:49:00	ORDINANCE THAT WE WILL
02:46:49:00	02:46:50:00	DEFINITELY BE HAVING A HEARING
02:46:50:00	02:46:50:00	ON.
02:46:50:00	02:46:51:00	I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE
02:46:51:00	02:46:53:00	SUSPENDING AND PASSING AND
02:46:53:00	02:46:57:00	DELIBERATING ON THIS TODAY BUT
02:46:57:00	02:46:58:00	THERE IS A PROCESS BY WHICH WE
02:46:58:00	02:47:01:00	GO ABOUT DOING BUSINESS HERE SO
02:47:01:00	02:47:02:00	I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO WORRY
02:47:02:00	02:47:02:00	ABOUT IT TODAY.
02:47:02:00	02:47:05:00	BUT GETTING RIGHT TO SAY THAT I
02:47:05:00	02:47:08:00	I THINK LAST YEAR WHEN THERE
02:47:08:00	02:47:13:00	WAS THE THE INCIDENT AND WHERE
02:47:13:00	02:47:16:00	YOU SAID B BIAS WAS MURDERED,
02:47:16:00	02:47:16:00	WE HOSTED AN EMERGENCY TOWN
02:47:16:00	02:47:20:00	HALL AROUND THE MOPEDS AND JUST
02:47:20:00	02:47:21:00	KIND OF LIKE THE FRENZY THAT
02:47:21:00	02:47:24:00	WAS HAPPENING IN OUR STREETS
02:47:24:00	02:47:24:00	AND CONCEPT OF BEING IN
02:47:24:00	02:47:28:00	COUNCIL, FLYNN JOINED MY OFFICE
02:47:28:00	02:47:28:00	IN IN SHEPHERDING A CITYWIDE
02:47:28:00	02:47:32:00	TASK FORCE THAT RIGHT NOW IS
02:47:32:00	02:47:33:00	LOOKING AT QUALITY OF LIFE
02:47:33:00	02:47:33:00	ISSUES.
02:47:33:00	02:47:35:00	AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS
02:47:35:00	02:47:36:00	IS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
02:47:36:00	02:47:39:00	AND SO I'M TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE
02:47:39:00	02:47:40:00	LOOKING AT A MORE FORMAL
02:47:40:00	02:47:43:00	STRUCTURE FOR FOLKS TO HAVE A
02:47:43:00	02:47:44:00	PATHWAY TO BE HEARD.
02:47:44:00	02:47:47:00	AND I ALSO HONOR THE TASK FORCE
02:47:47:00	02:47:51:00	AND THE WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN
02:47:51:00	02:47:51:00	DOING IN PARTNERSHIP AND
02:47:51:00	02:47:52:00	IDENTIFYING A COMMUNITY
02:47:52:00	02:47:54:00	CENTERED APPROACH TO DEALING
02:47:54:00	02:47:55:00	WITH THESE ISSUES.
02:47:55:00	02:47:59:00	SO I'M HOPING THAT ONCE WE HAVE
02:47:59:00	02:47:59:00	THE FIRST HEARING WE CAN INVITE
02:47:59:00	02:48:00:00	SOME OF THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS
02:48:00:00	02:48:02:00	TO AMPLIFY THEIR VOICES AND THE
02:48:02:00	02:48:06:00	THINGS THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING
02:48:06:00	02:48:07:00	IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL OF OUR
02:48:07:00	02:48:07:00	OFFICES.
02:48:07:00	02:48:10:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AND
02:48:10:00	02:48:14:00	THEN YOU KNOW, I WAS KNOCKED
02:48:14:00	02:48:17:00	OFF OF A BIKE WHEN I WAS A KID
02:48:17:00	02:48:21:00	AND SOMEONE LITERALLY KICKED A
02:48:21:00	02:48:21:00	GERMAN SHEPHERD ON ME IN IN THE
02:48:21:00	02:48:25:00	SEVENTIES AND I'VE SHARED THIS
02:48:25:00	02:48:26:00	STORY IN THE PAST AND SO I HAVE
02:48:26:00	02:48:28:00	A VERY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
02:48:28:00	02:48:29:00	WHEN IT COMES TO BIKE SO I
02:48:29:00	02:48:32:00	DON'T REALLY RIDE THEM MUCH.
02:48:32:00	02:48:32:00	BUT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY
02:48:32:00	02:48:33:00	MEAN THAT I DON'T APPRECIATE
02:48:33:00	02:48:35:00	PEOPLE WHO DO.
02:48:35:00	02:48:36:00	I JUST WANT TO I JUST WANT TO
02:48:36:00	02:48:39:00	NAME THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A
02:48:39:00	02:48:42:00	AN ENERGY THAT IS MANIFESTING
02:48:42:00	02:48:46:00	IN THIS CITY WHERE IT'S PEOPLE
02:48:46:00	02:48:47:00	VERSUS BIKES AND AND I THINK
02:48:47:00	02:48:48:00	THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
02:48:48:00	02:48:51:00	REALLY START CONVENING
02:48:51:00	02:48:53:00	COLLABORATIVELY AND AND AND
02:48:53:00	02:48:54:00	TAKING OWNERSHIP OF OF HOW WE
02:48:54:00	02:48:58:00	ARE GOING TO HANDLE THE
02:48:58:00	02:48:59:00	PEDESTRIAN PROBLEM WHILE ALSO
02:48:59:00	02:49:02:00	LOOKING AT IT FROM A PLACE THAT
02:49:02:00	02:49:02:00	COMMUNITIES USUALLY HAVE THE
02:49:02:00	02:49:05:00	BEST SOLUTIONS.
02:49:05:00	02:49:06:00	AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
02:49:06:00	02:49:07:00	THEY ARE ALSO PART OF THE
02:49:07:00	02:49:10:00	PROBLEM AND THAT I KNOW MY TIME
02:49:10:00	02:49:10:00	WENT OVER.
02:49:10:00	02:49:11:00	I ALSO JUST WANT TO NAME THAT I
02:49:11:00	02:49:11:00	DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE
02:49:12:00	02:49:13:00	HABIT OF PENALIZING.
02:49:13:00	02:49:16:00	IT'S ALREADY HARD ENOUGH FOR
02:49:16:00	02:49:17:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR AND LOW INCOME
02:49:17:00	02:49:20:00	PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR TO EVEN
02:49:20:00	02:49:21:00	HAVE A BIKE LET ALONE IF YOU'RE
02:49:21:00	02:49:22:00	GOING TO HAVE A BIKE AND THEN
02:49:22:00	02:49:24:00	HAVE TO REGISTER IT.
02:49:24:00	02:49:25:00	AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT
02:49:25:00	02:49:28:00	FINANCIAL COST COULD BE AND I
02:49:28:00	02:49:31:00	WANT TO BE SUPER MINDFUL THAT
02:49:31:00	02:49:32:00	BIKES ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE
02:49:32:00	02:49:35:00	AN ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY AND I
02:49:35:00	02:49:35:00	DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE
02:49:35:00	02:49:36:00	BUSINESS OF PENALIZING LITTLE
02:49:36:00	02:49:39:00	KIDS TO RIDE THEIR BIKES IN THE
02:49:39:00	02:49:39:00	HOOD.
02:49:39:00	02:49:43:00	THANK YOU.
02:49:43:00	02:49:44:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:49:44:00	02:49:44:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AND
02:49:44:00	02:49:44:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
02:49:44:00	02:49:46:00	THANK YOU.
02:49:46:00	02:49:47:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:49:47:00	02:49:50:00	SO I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS
02:49:50:00	02:49:51:00	GOING TO BE A VOTE OR NOT.
02:49:51:00	02:49:51:00	I WILL FIND OUT.
02:49:51:00	02:49:51:00	THAT'S FINE.
02:49:51:00	02:49:54:00	BUT I DO WANT TO RISE TO JUST
02:49:54:00	02:49:58:00	SAY THAT MOST OF OR A LOT
02:49:58:00	02:49:59:00	OF OUR CONVERSATIONS HERE ON
02:49:59:00	02:50:01:00	THIS COUNCIL SINCE I'VE BEEN
02:50:01:00	02:50:02:00	HERE HAVE BEEN AROUND ROAD
02:50:02:00	02:50:05:00	SAFETY AND WE'VE HAD TRAGEDY
02:50:05:00	02:50:06:00	AFTER TRAGEDY AND I THINK EVERY
02:50:06:00	02:50:07:00	NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE CITY
02:50:07:00	02:50:10:00	AND I ALSO BELIEVE THAT CARS
02:50:10:00	02:50:10:00	ARE RESPONSIBLE.
02:50:10:00	02:50:14:00	PODESTA FRIENDS ARE RESPONSIBLE
02:50:14:00	02:50:17:00	ALSO FOR MAKING SURE THEY CROSS
02:50:17:00	02:50:18:00	IN THE CROSSWALK AND ALSO ARE
02:50:18:00	02:50:21:00	BEING SAFE AROUND THE ROADS AND
02:50:21:00	02:50:22:00	THE STREETS AND OUR PEOPLE ON
02:50:22:00	02:50:25:00	BICYCLES ARE SO WE SHARE THE
02:50:25:00	02:50:26:00	ROAD AND I DO THINK WE SHARE
02:50:26:00	02:50:27:00	THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
02:50:27:00	02:50:30:00	SAFETY OF THOSE IN CARS AND
02:50:30:00	02:50:30:00	THOSE WALKING THOSE ON BIKES.
02:50:30:00	02:50:33:00	AND I DON'T THINK IT'S A BAD
02:50:33:00	02:50:34:00	IDEA AT ALL TO ESTABLISH A ROAD
02:50:34:00	02:50:37:00	SAFETY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
02:50:37:00	02:50:38:00	COMMISSION.
02:50:38:00	02:50:38:00	I THINK IT WOULD BE AN
02:50:38:00	02:50:41:00	IMPORTANT GROUP OF PEOPLE
02:50:41:00	02:50:45:00	COMING TOGETHER TO REALLY LOOK
02:50:45:00	02:50:46:00	AT THE HOW DO WE MAKE OUR
02:50:46:00	02:50:49:00	STREETS SAFER WITHOUT
02:50:49:00	02:50:50:00	PENALIZING ANY ONE GROUP
02:50:50:00	02:50:53:00	OF PEOPLE HOW THEY GET ALONG.
02:50:53:00	02:50:57:00	MANY BIKERS ALSO RIDE DRIVE
02:50:57:00	02:50:57:00	THEIR CARS.
02:50:57:00	02:50:58:00	SO I THINK HAVING THIS
02:50:58:00	02:51:01:00	CONVERSATION IS IMPORTANT AND.
02:51:01:00	02:51:01:00	I ALSO THINK HAVING A
02:51:01:00	02:51:02:00	COMMISSION THAT IS REALLY
02:51:02:00	02:51:03:00	LOOKING OUT WE HAVE MANY
02:51:03:00	02:51:05:00	HEARINGS AND I KNOW IT'S NOT
02:51:05:00	02:51:06:00	BECAUSE THE CHAIR DOESN'T WANT
02:51:06:00	02:51:06:00	TO SCHEDULE THEM.
02:51:06:00	02:51:08:00	WE HAVE FULL CALENDAR WITH
02:51:08:00	02:51:09:00	BUDGET HEARINGS BUT WE HAVE
02:51:09:00	02:51:12:00	MANY HEARINGS IN THE
02:51:12:00	02:51:13:00	TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ON
02:51:13:00	02:51:16:00	THESE EXACT ISSUES ABOUT
02:51:16:00	02:51:16:00	WANTING TO GET THE
02:51:16:00	02:51:17:00	TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IN
02:51:17:00	02:51:20:00	FRONT OF US THE SAFETY TO PART
02:51:20:00	02:51:20:00	OF DEPARTMENTS IN FRONT OF US
02:51:20:00	02:51:21:00	ON HOW CAN WE ENSURE AND HOW
02:51:21:00	02:51:24:00	CAN WE LIFT UP THE VOICES THAT
02:51:24:00	02:51:25:00	ALL OF US HEAR ACROSS THE CITY
02:51:25:00	02:51:28:00	NO MATTER WHAT DISTRICT YOU'RE
02:51:28:00	02:51:28:00	IN AND IF YOU'RE AN AT-LARGE
02:51:28:00	02:51:28:00	COUNCILOR?
02:51:28:00	02:51:31:00	EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD TALKS ABOUT
02:51:31:00	02:51:31:00	SAFETY ON THE ROADS PARKING
02:51:31:00	02:51:35:00	ISSUES, CROSSWALKS ALL OF THIS
02:51:35:00	02:51:35:00	IS SO IMPORTANT.
02:51:35:00	02:51:36:00	SO THANK YOU FOR FILING THIS
02:51:36:00	02:51:39:00	AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING
02:51:39:00	02:51:39:00	ALONGSIDE THE ADMINISTRATION ON
02:51:39:00	02:51:45:00	MAKING OUR ROAD SAFER FOR
02:51:45:00	02:51:45:00	EVERYONE.
02:51:45:00	02:51:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:51:45:00	02:51:46:00	THE CHAIRMAN OF THIS
02:51:46:00	02:51:46:00	COUNCIL WHERE YOU HAVE THE
02:51:46:00	02:51:49:00	FLOOR.
02:51:49:00	02:51:49:00	THANK YOU.
02:51:49:00	02:51:52:00	I JOINED COUNCILOR PEPEN IN
02:51:52:00	02:51:53:00	BEING CONCERNED ABOUT REQUIRING
02:51:53:00	02:51:56:00	CHILDREN TO REGISTER OR HAVE
02:51:56:00	02:51:56:00	THEIR BIKES REGISTERED.
02:51:56:00	02:51:59:00	I DID HAVE A QUESTION AS WE AS
02:51:59:00	02:52:00:00	WE WHEN WE HAVE A HEARING ON
02:52:00:00	02:52:01:00	THIS AT SOME POINT IN THE
02:52:01:00	02:52:04:00	FUTURE AND I DON'T KNOW IF IF
02:52:04:00	02:52:08:00	THE FILER WANTS ANSWER NOW
02:52:08:00	02:52:09:00	WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THE
02:52:09:00	02:52:09:00	CHAIR.
02:52:09:00	02:52:12:00	JUST I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT
02:52:12:00	02:52:12:00	THE IMPACT ON BLUE BIKES AND
02:52:12:00	02:52:13:00	YOU KNOW IT TALKS ABOUT
02:52:13:00	02:52:16:00	REGISTRATION PEOPLE NEED TO
02:52:16:00	02:52:17:00	REGISTER IF THAT'S GOING TO IF
02:52:17:00	02:52:20:00	THERE'S I HAVE I ADMIT I
02:52:20:00	02:52:20:00	HAVEN'T READ EVERY WORD
02:52:20:00	02:52:20:00	OF THIS.
02:52:20:00	02:52:23:00	SO YOU KNOW, IF IT HASN'T BEEN
02:52:23:00	02:52:24:00	ADDRESSED, YOU KNOW, I THINK
02:52:24:00	02:52:26:00	GOING FORWARD WE NEED TO NOT
02:52:26:00	02:52:27:00	PROHIBIT PEOPLE FROM USING A
02:52:27:00	02:52:31:00	BLUE BIKE BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T
02:52:31:00	02:52:32:00	REGISTERED IT JUST IN A SECTION
02:52:32:00	02:52:34:00	11 DASH 12.05 IS THERE'S ANY
02:52:34:00	02:52:34:00	PERSON OPERATING A BICYCLE I
02:52:34:00	02:52:38:00	DON'T KNOW IF THAT INCLUDES A
02:52:38:00	02:52:38:00	BLUE BIKE.
02:52:38:00	02:52:41:00	SO ANYWAY I'M JUST GOING TO I I
02:52:41:00	02:52:42:00	I'LL LEAVE IT TO THE FILER IF
02:52:42:00	02:52:43:00	HE WANTS TO ANSWER THAT NOW OR
02:52:43:00	02:52:46:00	WE'LL DEAL WITH THAT AT THE
02:52:46:00	02:52:46:00	HEARING.
02:52:46:00	02:52:47:00	THANK YOU.
02:52:47:00	02:52:47:00	THANK YOU.
02:52:47:00	02:52:52:00	CATCH A PLANE YOU HAVE TO FLY.
02:52:52:00	02:52:52:00	THANK YOU.
02:52:52:00	02:52:55:00	AND AGAIN I RESPECT RESPECT TO
02:52:55:00	02:52:55:00	YOUR QUESTION.
02:52:55:00	02:52:59:00	I THINK WHAT WHAT I'M TRYING TO
02:52:59:00	02:53:00:00	DO IS FOR PEOPLE TO COME
02:53:00:00	02:53:03:00	TOGETHER IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER
02:53:03:00	02:53:06:00	AND TO HAVE A CIVIL
02:53:06:00	02:53:07:00	CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN
02:53:07:00	02:53:10:00	IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, HOW
02:53:10:00	02:53:14:00	WE CAN IMPROVE OUR ROADS, OUR
02:53:14:00	02:53:14:00	SIDEWALKS BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT
02:53:14:00	02:53:18:00	IS TAKING PLACE NOW IS NOT
02:53:18:00	02:53:18:00	WORKING.
02:53:18:00	02:53:21:00	I'M OPEN TO IDEAS FROM MY
02:53:21:00	02:53:22:00	COLLEAGUES AND MANY PEOPLE HERE
02:53:22:00	02:53:22:00	HAVE EXCELLENT IDEAS.
02:53:22:00	02:53:25:00	SOME IDEAS ARE BETTER THAN
02:53:25:00	02:53:26:00	BETTER THAN WHAT I PROPOSED.
02:53:26:00	02:53:29:00	I WELCOME THOSE COMMENTS IT
02:53:29:00	02:53:30:00	MAKES FOR A BETTER DISCUSSION
02:53:30:00	02:53:33:00	AND MAKES FOR A ROBUST
02:53:33:00	02:53:33:00	DISCUSSION.
02:53:33:00	02:53:34:00	SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE MY
02:53:34:00	02:53:36:00	COLLEAGUES TO CONTINUE TO BE
02:53:36:00	02:53:37:00	ENGAGED TO CONTINUE TO ASK
02:53:37:00	02:53:41:00	THOSE TOUGH QUESTIONS BECAUSE
02:53:41:00	02:53:41:00	THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR IS
02:53:41:00	02:53:44:00	TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
02:53:44:00	02:53:45:00	BUT IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS IS
02:53:45:00	02:53:48:00	I'M NOT GOING TO SIT BACK AND
02:53:48:00	02:53:49:00	AND ALLOW BOSTON TO CONTINUE TO
02:53:49:00	02:53:52:00	BE THE WILD WEST.
02:53:52:00	02:53:55:00	I ASKED ABOUT A YEAR AGO THE
02:53:55:00	02:53:56:00	POLICE COMMISSIONER IN CHIEF
02:53:56:00	02:53:59:00	FRANKLIN HODGE TO ADDRESS
02:53:59:00	02:54:03:00	MOTORBIKES, E-BIKES SCOOTERS
02:54:03:00	02:54:04:00	THAT WERE THAT WERE RUNNING
02:54:04:00	02:54:07:00	RUNNING AMOK THROUGHOUT THE
02:54:07:00	02:54:07:00	CITY OF BOSTON AND TO HAVE SOME
02:54:07:00	02:54:11:00	TYPE OF REGULATION ENFORCEMENT
02:54:11:00	02:54:11:00	ON THEM.
02:54:11:00	02:54:15:00	UM THE COMMISSIONER RESPONDED
02:54:15:00	02:54:15:00	WE HAVE MADE SOME PROGRESS ON
02:54:15:00	02:54:19:00	THAT AND I'M THANKFUL THAT THEY
02:54:19:00	02:54:19:00	THEY TOOK MY RECOMMENDATIONS
02:54:19:00	02:54:22:00	THIS IS AN ISSUE FOCUSED ON FOR
02:54:22:00	02:54:26:00	SEVERAL YEARS BUT BOSTON IS NOT
02:54:26:00	02:54:29:00	SAFE FOR MANY PEOPLE WALKING
02:54:29:00	02:54:30:00	ACROSS THE STREET FOR FOR
02:54:30:00	02:54:33:00	DIFFERENT REASONS IN SOUTH
02:54:33:00	02:54:37:00	BOSTON I STILL SEE PEOPLE
02:54:37:00	02:54:38:00	DRIVING 4050 MILES AN HOUR TO A
02:54:38:00	02:54:41:00	RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN
02:54:41:00	02:54:44:00	ELDERLY PEOPLE SUCH AS SUCH AS
02:54:44:00	02:54:45:00	MY PARENTS MIGHT BE IN A
02:54:45:00	02:54:48:00	CROSSWALK, SOMEONE MIGHT DRIVE
02:54:48:00	02:54:51:00	BY THEM GOING 40 MILES AN HOUR.
02:54:51:00	02:54:55:00	I ALSO SEE PERSONS WITH
02:54:55:00	02:54:56:00	DISABILITIES WALKING TOWARDS
02:54:56:00	02:54:59:00	THE SOUTH LIBRARY GOING GOING
02:54:59:00	02:55:02:00	INTO THE WALKING ON ON THE
02:55:02:00	02:55:03:00	CORNER OF EL AND BROADWAY AND
02:55:03:00	02:55:06:00	THE PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
02:55:06:00	02:55:07:00	WILL BE WALKING ACROSS THE
02:55:07:00	02:55:07:00	STREET IN THE CROSSWALK AND
02:55:07:00	02:55:10:00	SOMEONE WILL GO BY THEM 4050
02:55:10:00	02:55:10:00	MILES AN HOUR.
02:55:10:00	02:55:14:00	I SEE PARENTS THEIR LITTLE KIDS
02:55:14:00	02:55:14:00	TO SCHOOL.
02:55:14:00	02:55:17:00	THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING.
02:55:17:00	02:55:20:00	TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IS CRITICAL
02:55:20:00	02:55:21:00	.
02:55:21:00	02:55:21:00	I REALIZE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
02:55:21:00	02:55:25:00	POLICE OFFICERS IN THE CITY
02:55:25:00	02:55:25:00	OF BOSTON.
02:55:25:00	02:55:26:00	MOST OF OR MANY OF THEM ARE
02:55:26:00	02:55:32:00	WORKING 16 HOURS A DAY.
02:55:32:00	02:55:32:00	BUT I'VE WORKED AND WANT TO
02:55:32:00	02:55:36:00	CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR MORE
02:55:36:00	02:55:36:00	TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT FROM OUR
02:55:36:00	02:55:37:00	BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.
02:55:37:00	02:55:40:00	I THINK THAT SHOULD BE A
02:55:40:00	02:55:41:00	CRITICAL PART OF PUBLIC SAFETY
02:55:41:00	02:55:43:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON ENFORCING
02:55:43:00	02:55:44:00	THE CURRENT RULES OF THE ROAD
02:55:44:00	02:55:48:00	INCLUDING THE THE SPEED LIMIT.
02:55:48:00	02:55:51:00	I WORK TO REDUCE THE SPEED
02:55:51:00	02:55:52:00	LIMIT THAT'S AT 25 MILES AN
02:55:52:00	02:55:55:00	HOUR NOW I THINK IT SHOULD BE
02:55:55:00	02:55:58:00	FROM 25 MILES AN HOUR TO 20
02:55:58:00	02:55:58:00	MILES AN HOUR.
02:55:58:00	02:55:59:00	PEOPLE WILL DISAGREE WITH
02:55:59:00	02:56:02:00	ME BUT GOING 25 MILES AN HOUR
02:56:02:00	02:56:05:00	DOWN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD
02:56:05:00	02:56:06:00	IS EXCESSIVE IN MY OPINION.
02:56:06:00	02:56:09:00	WE HAVE TO DO WE POSSIBLY CAN
02:56:09:00	02:56:12:00	TO ENSURE PEOPLE ARE SAFE ON
02:56:12:00	02:56:16:00	CROSSING IN OUR CROSSWALKS IN
02:56:16:00	02:56:17:00	OUR SIDEWALKS.
02:56:17:00	02:56:18:00	AND IF THIS COMMISSION IS THE
02:56:18:00	02:56:20:00	ANSWER THEN THEN LET'S BEGIN.
02:56:20:00	02:56:21:00	IF IT'S NOT THE ANSWER, MAYBE
02:56:21:00	02:56:24:00	THERE'S SOME RECOMMENDATIONS WE
02:56:24:00	02:56:25:00	CAN TAKE FROM IT THAT WE CAN
02:56:25:00	02:56:29:00	LEARN AND IMPLEMENT THEM INTO
02:56:29:00	02:56:29:00	POLICY AND IN THE CITY.
02:56:29:00	02:56:33:00	BUT THE STATUS QUO I KNOW IS NO
02:56:33:00	02:56:33:00	LONGER AN ANSWER.
02:56:33:00	02:56:36:00	WE HAVE TO ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN
02:56:36:00	02:56:37:00	SAFETY AND COME UP WITH A
02:56:37:00	02:56:40:00	COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE
02:56:40:00	02:56:40:00	RECOMMENDATIONS USUALLY ARE THE
02:56:40:00	02:56:44:00	BEST FROM RESIDENTS.
02:56:44:00	02:56:45:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA AND
02:56:45:00	02:56:45:00	COUNCILOR PEPPER AND THEY WERE
02:56:45:00	02:56:47:00	LISTENING TO RESIDENTS AND
02:56:47:00	02:56:48:00	MYSELF ON ZOOM WITH RESIDENTS
02:56:48:00	02:56:51:00	ACROSS THE CITY COUNCIL HERE.
02:56:51:00	02:56:52:00	THOSE RESIDENTS HAD GREAT
02:56:52:00	02:56:55:00	RECOMMENDS OPTIONS.
02:56:55:00	02:56:56:00	SOME OF THEM WERE BETTER THAN
02:56:56:00	02:56:59:00	THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE ALL MADE
02:56:59:00	02:57:00:00	AND WHEN I LISTENED TO THE
02:57:00:00	02:57:03:00	RESIDENTS TALKING ABOUT WHAT
02:57:03:00	02:57:03:00	THEY ADVOCATED FOR AS IT
02:57:03:00	02:57:07:00	RELATES TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, I
02:57:07:00	02:57:07:00	SAID TO MYSELF WOW, THAT'S A
02:57:07:00	02:57:08:00	GREAT RECOMMENDATION.
02:57:08:00	02:57:10:00	I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT.
02:57:10:00	02:57:11:00	BUT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO
02:57:11:00	02:57:12:00	RESIDENTS AND YOU LISTEN YOU
02:57:12:00	02:57:14:00	LISTEN TO THEIR CONCERNS, YOU
02:57:14:00	02:57:15:00	GET A BETTER AND A DIFFERENT
02:57:15:00	02:57:18:00	PERSPECTIVE AND AND AND WHAT
02:57:18:00	02:57:21:00	WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM YOU
02:57:21:00	02:57:22:00	MIGHT NOT THINK ABOUT OR YOU
02:57:22:00	02:57:26:00	MIGHT NOT REALIZE AND SO WANT
02:57:26:00	02:57:27:00	TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILOR HERE
02:57:27:00	02:57:29:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR THE
02:57:29:00	02:57:30:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THEY HAVE
02:57:30:00	02:57:32:00	BEEN DOING AND I'M LOOKING
02:57:32:00	02:57:33:00	FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION AND
02:57:33:00	02:57:33:00	WORKING WITH MY COLLEAGUES.
02:57:33:00	02:57:34:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:57:34:00	02:57:37:00	THANK YOU.
02:57:37:00	02:57:37:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CLAUDIA
02:57:37:00	02:57:37:00	ZAPATA.
02:57:37:00	02:57:38:00	I'VE ALSO BEEN VERY LEANING ON
02:57:38:00	02:57:40:00	TIME HERE BECAUSE ABOUT I KNOW
02:57:40:00	02:57:41:00	YOU HAVE SPOKEN ON THIS SO BUT
02:57:41:00	02:57:45:00	YOU'RE JUST GOING TO GET BETTER
02:57:45:00	02:57:45:00	AT KEEPING TIME.
02:57:45:00	02:57:46:00	THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE ACTING AS
02:57:46:00	02:57:46:00	CONSUL CARLOS ZAPATA.
02:57:46:00	02:57:47:00	THANK YOU, CONSUL PRESIDENT.
02:57:47:00	02:57:48:00	I CAN APPRECIATE THAT.
02:57:48:00	02:57:49:00	ONE QUICK THING JUST BECAUSE
02:57:49:00	02:57:51:00	THIS IS GOING TO COME HOPEFULLY
02:57:51:00	02:57:52:00	TO MY COMMITTEE, I DO HAVE SOME
02:57:52:00	02:57:55:00	CONCERNS ABOUT PREEMPTION
02:57:55:00	02:57:55:00	ISSUES.
02:57:55:00	02:57:59:00	THE STATE AND CITY CREATE
02:57:59:00	02:57:59:00	CERTAIN REGULATIONS AROUND
02:57:59:00	02:58:03:00	BIKES AND MOPEDS.
02:58:03:00	02:58:03:00	FROM WHAT I CAN GATHER, THE
02:58:03:00	02:58:04:00	STATE ESTABLISHES LAWS FOR
02:58:04:00	02:58:08:00	OPERATIONS OF BIKES ON MOPEDS
02:58:08:00	02:58:10:00	SO LICENSING REGISTRATION AND
02:58:10:00	02:58:11:00	GENERAL TRAFFIC ISSUES AND THEN
02:58:11:00	02:58:14:00	THE CITY IS MORE AROUND THE
02:58:14:00	02:58:18:00	ENFORCEMENT OF THAT AND WITH
02:58:18:00	02:58:18:00	WITH NUANCED AND TAILORED REGS
02:58:18:00	02:58:19:00	FOR OUR CITY.
02:58:19:00	02:58:22:00	BUT IT'S MORE AROUND THE
02:58:22:00	02:58:23:00	ENFORCEMENT AND THEN THE
02:58:23:00	02:58:25:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SO I
02:58:25:00	02:58:26:00	REALLY DO LOOK FORWARD TO THESE
02:58:26:00	02:58:26:00	CONVERSATIONS.
02:58:26:00	02:58:29:00	I DO KNOW THAT SENATOR
02:58:29:00	02:58:30:00	BROWNSBURG HAS BEEN LOOKING
02:58:30:00	02:58:30:00	INTO THIS.
02:58:30:00	02:58:33:00	WE GOT A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH
02:58:33:00	02:58:33:00	SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE
02:58:33:00	02:58:34:00	STATE HOUSE WHO HAVE BEEN
02:58:34:00	02:58:37:00	LOOKING AT THIS AND NOT JUST
02:58:37:00	02:58:38:00	HIM BUT OTHERS.
02:58:38:00	02:58:38:00	SO I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE
02:58:38:00	02:58:40:00	THAT THEY ARE HOPEFULLY
02:58:40:00	02:58:41:00	INVOLVED IN THE CONVERSATION SO
02:58:41:00	02:58:42:00	THAT WE CAN ALIGN WITH WHAT
02:58:42:00	02:58:44:00	THEY'RE THINKING AND
02:58:44:00	02:58:45:00	POTENTIALLY LEARN FROM THEM IN
02:58:45:00	02:58:45:00	THIS AS WELL.
02:58:45:00	02:58:48:00	THANK YOU.
02:58:48:00	02:58:49:00	THANK YOU THAT YOUR ORGANIZERS
02:58:49:00	02:58:49:00	CONSIDERING HOW WHERE THEY'RE
02:58:49:00	02:58:50:00	GOING TO HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:58:50:00	02:58:51:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:58:51:00	02:58:52:00	AND I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
02:58:52:00	02:58:53:00	A ROBUST DISCUSSION AND I KNOW
02:58:53:00	02:58:55:00	THAT WHILE MY APPROACH MIGHT
02:58:55:00	02:58:58:00	DIFFER FROM MY COLLEAGUE FROM
02:58:58:00	02:58:58:00	DISTRICT TWO, I DO THINK IT'S
02:58:58:00	02:59:02:00	REALLY IMPORTANT THAT MY MY
02:59:02:00	02:59:02:00	APPROACH IS ACTUALLY DIFFERING
02:59:02:00	02:59:03:00	FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS
02:59:03:00	02:59:06:00	VERY BUILDING RIGHT NOW.
02:59:06:00	02:59:07:00	THERE ARE PATCHES OF BOLLARDS
02:59:07:00	02:59:09:00	AND BIKE LANES THAT ARE
02:59:09:00	02:59:10:00	DISAPPEARING FROM MY DISTRICT
02:59:10:00	02:59:13:00	RIGHT RIGHT NOW WITH NO PUBLIC
02:59:13:00	02:59:14:00	PROCESS AND THAT'S WHERE MY
02:59:14:00	02:59:15:00	ANGER IS COMING FROM ON THIS
02:59:15:00	02:59:18:00	PARTICULAR ISSUE.
02:59:18:00	02:59:18:00	I HAVE A LOT OF DOUBLE PARKED
02:59:18:00	02:59:21:00	CARS BECAUSE BOLLARDS ARE JUST
02:59:21:00	02:59:24:00	MISSING AND I'M REALLY UPSET
02:59:24:00	02:59:25:00	BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
02:59:25:00	02:59:29:00	LIVE IN MY OWN BUILDING.
02:59:29:00	02:59:29:00	THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON MY
02:59:29:00	02:59:30:00	STREET WHO RELY ON THE BIKE
02:59:30:00	02:59:32:00	INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS
02:59:32:00	02:59:33:00	CURRENTLY THERE TO GET TO WORK
02:59:33:00	02:59:36:00	AND THEY'RE BEING PUT IN DANGER
02:59:36:00	02:59:36:00	BY NOT HAVING PROTECTION.
02:59:36:00	02:59:40:00	I'M REALLY UPSET.
02:59:40:00	02:59:41:00	I'M LIKE MET I MEAN I CAN TELL
02:59:41:00	02:59:43:00	YOU I HAD A MEETING WITH A
02:59:43:00	02:59:44:00	CONSTITUENT AND I WAS LIKE
02:59:44:00	02:59:47:00	MOVED TO TEARS ABOUT JUST HOW
02:59:47:00	02:59:48:00	UNSAFE THEY FEEL GETTING TO
02:59:48:00	02:59:51:00	WORK AND ESPECIALLY DURING
02:59:51:00	02:59:52:00	NATIONAL BIKE TO WORK WEEK IT
02:59:52:00	02:59:56:00	JUST FEELS LIKE HAVING THIS
02:59:56:00	02:59:56:00	DISCUSSION FEELS JUST VERY
02:59:56:00	02:59:59:00	OUTDATED TO THE NEEDS OF OUR MY
02:59:59:00	03:00:03:00	CONSTITUENCY.
03:00:03:00	03:00:04:00	AND I'LL JUST SAY I KNOW HOW
03:00:04:00	03:00:07:00	FRAUGHT IT IS.
03:00:07:00	03:00:08:00	I KNOW TRAFFIC, I KNOW ALL
03:00:08:00	03:00:09:00	THESE THINGS AND I DO WANT TO
03:00:09:00	03:00:11:00	COME TO A SOLUTION AND SO MAYBE
03:00:11:00	03:00:14:00	THAT MEANS ME AND MY COLLEAGUE
03:00:14:00	03:00:15:00	FROM DISTRICT TWO HAVING A TALK
03:00:15:00	03:00:16:00	OFFLINE ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS
03:00:16:00	03:00:18:00	BUT PEOPLE BEING UNSAFE ON THE
03:00:18:00	03:00:22:00	STREETS, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE
03:00:22:00	03:00:22:00	BEING HIT RECENTLY IN MY
03:00:22:00	03:00:26:00	DISTRICT I JUST IT MAKES
03:00:26:00	03:00:27:00	ME REALLY, REALLY UPSET AND I I
03:00:27:00	03:00:30:00	DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH HOW
03:00:30:00	03:00:30:00	UPSET I AM ABOUT IT OTHER THAN
03:00:30:00	03:00:33:00	TO SAY TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES
03:00:33:00	03:00:34:00	WE NEED A CONNECTED BIKE
03:00:34:00	03:00:37:00	NETWORK IN THE CITY THAT MOVES
03:00:37:00	03:00:38:00	PEOPLE AROUND WHERE THEY ARE
03:00:38:00	03:00:41:00	NOT IN PERIL AND I DO THINK
03:00:41:00	03:00:41:00	THAT THE CONVERSATION IN THIS
03:00:41:00	03:00:44:00	BODY SHOULD REFLECT THE
03:00:44:00	03:00:45:00	SEVERITY OF THE STATEMENTS THAT
03:00:45:00	03:00:48:00	WERE LIKE THIS IS SERIOUS, THIS
03:00:48:00	03:00:48:00	IS PEOPLE'S LIVES.
03:00:48:00	03:00:52:00	I KNOW I HAVE FELT LESS SAFE IN
03:00:52:00	03:00:53:00	THE PAST FEW MONTHS THAN I HAVE
03:00:53:00	03:00:55:00	EVER FELT ON A BIKE.
03:00:55:00	03:00:58:00	SO LET'S LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
03:00:58:00	03:01:02:00	THANK YOU.
03:01:02:00	03:01:02:00	THANK YOU.
03:01:02:00	03:01:03:00	IS ANYONE ELSE WILLING TO SPEAK
03:01:03:00	03:01:03:00	ON THIS MATTER?
03:01:03:00	03:01:06:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
03:01:06:00	03:01:06:00	THEIR NAME?
03:01:06:00	03:01:10:00	YEAH.
03:01:10:00	03:01:13:00	OH, MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE
03:01:13:00	03:01:17:00	ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY THIS
03:01:17:00	03:01:19:00	DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1059 WILL
03:01:19:00	03:01:20:00	BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
03:01:20:00	03:01:23:00	GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
03:01:23:00	03:01:25:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE BE
03:01:25:00	03:01:30:00	DARK IN NUMBER 1060 DARK NUMBER
03:01:30:00	03:01:30:00	1060 COUNCILORS WERE ALL AND
03:01:30:00	03:01:32:00	COLETTE AS A OFF OF THE
03:01:32:00	03:01:32:00	FOLLOWING ORDINANCE CODIFYING
03:01:32:00	03:01:37:00	THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION
03:01:37:00	03:01:37:00	TECHNOLOGY THANK YOU THE TRACK
03:01:37:00	03:01:38:00	AND I THIS COMES ACROSS AS A
03:01:38:00	03:01:44:00	PATTERN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR THE
03:01:44:00	03:01:44:00	GERAGOS COMES FORWARD WHILE YOU
03:01:44:00	03:01:45:00	HAVE THE FLOOR SORRY CO-SPONSOR
03:01:45:00	03:01:47:00	IS COMFORTABLE AS A ONE THANK
03:01:47:00	03:01:47:00	YOU MADAM PRESIDENT I TWO
03:01:47:00	03:01:49:00	MOTION FOR A SUBSTITUTION AND
03:01:49:00	03:01:50:00	THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR
03:01:50:00	03:01:55:00	IS IT SECONDED SECOND ALL THOSE
03:01:55:00	03:01:55:00	IN FAVOR OF SUPPORTING THE
03:01:55:00	03:01:58:00	MOTION NO SUBSTITUTE SAY I I
03:01:58:00	03:01:59:00	OBVIOUSLY NAY GUYS HAVE IT.
03:01:59:00	03:02:00:00	THE MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE IS
03:02:00:00	03:02:02:00	BEFORE THE BODY.
03:02:02:00	03:02:02:00	THANK YOU.
03:02:02:00	03:02:03:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I ALSO LIKE TO
03:02:03:00	03:02:06:00	SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD
03:02:06:00	03:02:06:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE AS
03:02:06:00	03:02:09:00	THE ORIGINAL THIRD CO-SPONSOR
03:02:09:00	03:02:09:00	COUNCILOR OR ELSE WE SUSPEND
03:02:09:00	03:02:13:00	THE RULES ADD MYSELF AS A THIRD
03:02:13:00	03:02:13:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING
03:02:13:00	03:02:14:00	HAVING NO OBJECTIONS AND SO
03:02:14:00	03:02:17:00	ADDED COUNCIL WHERE YOU HAVE
03:02:17:00	03:02:17:00	THE FLOOR.
03:02:17:00	03:02:18:00	I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULE IN
03:02:18:00	03:02:18:00	THAT COUNCIL.
03:02:18:00	03:02:19:00	HE HAS A FOURTH DIVISION I KNOW
03:02:19:00	03:02:20:00	I CAN'T DO THAT BUT IF I COULD
03:02:20:00	03:02:22:00	I WOULD ADD COUNCIL ME HERE.
03:02:22:00	03:02:23:00	THIS ORDINANCE IS A REAL REFILE
03:02:23:00	03:02:26:00	FROM LAST YEAR.
03:02:26:00	03:02:27:00	LAST YEAR WE HELD A HEARING ON
03:02:27:00	03:02:27:00	THIS ORDINANCE.
03:02:27:00	03:02:30:00	WE HEARD FROM CHIEF GARCES AND
03:02:30:00	03:02:30:00	THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION
03:02:30:00	03:02:33:00	AND TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS WELL
03:02:33:00	03:02:34:00	AS THE CIO FROM PITTSBURGH,
03:02:34:00	03:02:38:00	SOUTH BEND AND CAMBRIDGE WHO
03:02:38:00	03:02:38:00	SHARED BEST PRACTICES ON HOW
03:02:38:00	03:02:39:00	CODIFYING THE IT DEPARTMENT
03:02:39:00	03:02:42:00	STRENGTHENS SERVICES, SERVICE
03:02:42:00	03:02:43:00	DELIVERY AND DATA GOVERNANCE
03:02:43:00	03:02:46:00	THROUGH THOSE CONVERSATION AND
03:02:46:00	03:02:47:00	WE WERE ABLE TO STREAMLINE THIS
03:02:47:00	03:02:48:00	ORDINANCE TO REFLECT BOSTON'S
03:02:48:00	03:02:51:00	UNIQUENESS WHILE ADDRESSING THE
03:02:51:00	03:02:51:00	GAPS IDENTIFIED IN OUR CITYWIDE
03:02:51:00	03:02:54:00	TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT BY
03:02:54:00	03:02:55:00	CODIFYING THE DEPARTMENT
03:02:55:00	03:02:55:00	OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY,
03:02:55:00	03:02:58:00	WE'RE FUTURE PROOFING BOSTON'S
03:02:58:00	03:02:59:00	ABILITY TO MANAGE DATA, DELIVER
03:02:59:00	03:03:02:00	SERVICES AND STAY RESPONSIVE
03:03:02:00	03:03:03:00	REGARDLESS OF WHO'S IN OFFICE.
03:03:03:00	03:03:06:00	TECHNOLOGY IS THE BACKBONE
03:03:06:00	03:03:07:00	OF MODERN GOVERNMENT IS HOW WE
03:03:07:00	03:03:07:00	REACH RESIDENTS, DELIVER
03:03:07:00	03:03:10:00	SERVICES AND MAKE DATA DRIVEN
03:03:10:00	03:03:10:00	DECISIONS THAT TELL US WHERE
03:03:10:00	03:03:11:00	WE'RE FALLING SHORT AND HOW WE
03:03:11:00	03:03:13:00	CAN DO BETTER.
03:03:13:00	03:03:14:00	GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE 21ST
03:03:14:00	03:03:14:00	CENTURY REQUIRES GOOD
03:03:14:00	03:03:17:00	TECHNOLOGIES STEWARDSHIP.
03:03:17:00	03:03:18:00	AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS
03:03:18:00	03:03:21:00	ORDINANCE IS A FORMALIZATION
03:03:21:00	03:03:21:00	OF A MEMORANDUMS
03:03:21:00	03:03:22:00	OF UNDERSTANDING WITH QUASI
03:03:22:00	03:03:25:00	INDEPENDENT AGENCIES.
03:03:25:00	03:03:26:00	THESE EMPLOYEES ARE CRITICAL TO
03:03:26:00	03:03:27:00	IMPROVING DATA ACCESS AND
03:03:27:00	03:03:29:00	ALIGNMENT ACROSS ALL ENTITIES
03:03:29:00	03:03:30:00	THAT SERVE BOSTON RESIDENTS
03:03:30:00	03:03:33:00	ENSURING WE BREAK DOWN SILOS
03:03:33:00	03:03:33:00	AND MAXIMIZE TRANSPARENCY.
03:03:33:00	03:03:37:00	THIS ORDINANCE AIMS TO IMPROVE
03:03:37:00	03:03:40:00	GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY, INCREASE
03:03:40:00	03:03:41:00	DEPARTMENT TOE COLLABORATION
03:03:41:00	03:03:42:00	AND KEEP ALL CITY EMPLOYEES
03:03:42:00	03:03:45:00	UPSKILLED AND WITH THE
03:03:45:00	03:03:46:00	TECHNOLOGY WE NEED TO DO OUR
03:03:46:00	03:03:50:00	JOBS WELL WHEN I THINK ABOUT DO
03:03:50:00	03:03:50:00	IT AND HOW THEY CAN BEST HELP
03:03:50:00	03:03:52:00	OUR CITY, I KEEP THINKING BACK
03:03:52:00	03:03:52:00	TO THAT BUDGET HEARING AND
03:03:52:00	03:03:55:00	CHIEF GARCES TALKING ABOUT THE
03:03:55:00	03:03:56:00	NEW PERMANENT PROCESS THEY'RE
03:03:56:00	03:03:56:00	WORKING ON.
03:03:56:00	03:03:59:00	IT WILL MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR
03:03:59:00	03:04:00:00	THE PERSON APPLYING FOR CITY
03:04:00:00	03:04:00:00	DEPARTMENT.
03:04:00:00	03:04:03:00	THAT'S THE TYPE OF PROGRESS
03:04:03:00	03:04:04:00	THAT I THINK THE DO IT DO IT
03:04:04:00	03:04:07:00	TEAM CAN IMPRINT ON OUR CITY
03:04:07:00	03:04:08:00	AND THIS FORWARDNESS FURTHER
03:04:08:00	03:04:11:00	FURTHERS THAT GOAL.
03:04:11:00	03:04:12:00	I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR
03:04:12:00	03:04:12:00	OF GOVERNMENT OPS JAY COLLETTE
03:04:12:00	03:04:14:00	AS A PARTNER HER TEAM FOR THEIR
03:04:14:00	03:04:15:00	WORK ON THIS ORDINANCE AND I
03:04:15:00	03:04:18:00	ALSO WANT TO THANK CHIEF GARCES
03:04:18:00	03:04:19:00	, KARI JORDAN ALIYAH AND THE
03:04:19:00	03:04:19:00	WHOLE ENTIRE DO IT TEAM FOR
03:04:19:00	03:04:23:00	THEIR COLLABORATION AND I
03:04:23:00	03:04:23:00	RESPECTFULLY WOULD LIKE TO
03:04:23:00	03:04:23:00	REQUEST A SUSPENSION.
03:04:23:00	03:04:26:00	OTHER RULES AND PASSAGE OF THIS
03:04:26:00	03:04:26:00	ORDINANCE.
03:04:26:00	03:04:31:00	THANK YOU.
03:04:31:00	03:04:31:00	THANK YOU KATSUHIRO THE CHAIR
03:04:31:00	03:04:32:00	RECOGNIZES CONSTRUCTION AS A
03:04:32:00	03:04:34:00	PARTY ON THE FLOOR.
03:04:34:00	03:04:34:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:04:34:00	03:04:35:00	AND I WANT TO SHOUT OUT THE
03:04:35:00	03:04:37:00	MAKER OF THIS COUNCIL HERO FOR
03:04:37:00	03:04:38:00	HIS LEADERSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP.
03:04:38:00	03:04:39:00	I WANT TO THANK YOUR STAFF AND
03:04:39:00	03:04:41:00	MY STAFF AS WELL.
03:04:41:00	03:04:42:00	I ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT
03:04:42:00	03:04:42:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN AND
03:04:42:00	03:04:44:00	COUNCILOR BREADON WHO WERE
03:04:44:00	03:04:45:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSORS ON A
03:04:45:00	03:04:48:00	HEARING ORDER THAT I HAD LAST
03:04:48:00	03:04:48:00	YEAR TALKING ABOUT THE
03:04:48:00	03:04:49:00	TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN
03:04:49:00	03:04:52:00	OUR CITY AND FROM THERE WE
03:04:52:00	03:04:52:00	REALIZED A LOT OF DIFFERENT
03:04:52:00	03:04:53:00	THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE
03:04:53:00	03:04:57:00	UPDATED AND AND JUST HOW VITAL
03:04:57:00	03:05:00:00	OUR TECHNOLOGICAL
03:05:00:00	03:05:01:00	INFRASTRUCTURE IS IN THIS CITY
03:05:01:00	03:05:01:00	TO PROVIDE SERVICES THAT
03:05:01:00	03:05:04:00	RESIDENTS DEPEND ON.
03:05:04:00	03:05:05:00	AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT
03:05:05:00	03:05:08:00	THIS.
03:05:08:00	03:05:08:00	THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF OUR
03:05:08:00	03:05:11:00	LEGISLATIVE POWER AND WHAT WE
03:05:11:00	03:05:12:00	COULD DO TO JUST MAKE THINGS
03:05:12:00	03:05:15:00	RUN BETTER, RUN MORE
03:05:15:00	03:05:16:00	EFFECTIVELY AND GIVE
03:05:16:00	03:05:16:00	DEPARTMENTS THE AUTHORITY THAT
03:05:16:00	03:05:19:00	THEY NEED.
03:05:19:00	03:05:20:00	DO IT RIGHT NOW IS SIMPLY
03:05:20:00	03:05:23:00	EXISTING THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE
03:05:23:00	03:05:23:00	ORDER.
03:05:23:00	03:05:24:00	WHILE YOU KNOW WE'VE DONE THIS
03:05:24:00	03:05:27:00	A COUPLE OF TIMES, I THINK THAT
03:05:27:00	03:05:28:00	THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR IS
03:05:28:00	03:05:31:00	SPECIAL BECAUSE IT'S WORK IS
03:05:31:00	03:05:32:00	IT'S LIKE AN OCTOPUS LIKE DO IT
03:05:32:00	03:05:35:00	CAN NOW HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO
03:05:35:00	03:05:36:00	INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
03:05:36:00	03:05:40:00	WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND IT'S
03:05:40:00	03:05:40:00	JUST IT'S AMAZING.
03:05:40:00	03:05:41:00	SO AGAIN, I WOULD JUST WANT TO
03:05:41:00	03:05:43:00	SHOUT OUT COUNCILMAN RALPH FOR
03:05:43:00	03:05:43:00	WORK.
03:05:43:00	03:05:44:00	I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN
03:05:44:00	03:05:50:00	US IN PASSING THIS TODAY CHIEF
03:05:50:00	03:05:50:00	GARCES WHO'S DOING AN
03:05:50:00	03:05:51:00	INCREDIBLE JOB.
03:05:51:00	03:05:52:00	AND OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW AND
03:05:52:00	03:05:53:00	LOVE KERRY JORDAN WHO USED TO
03:05:53:00	03:05:54:00	WORK HERE WITH US.
03:05:54:00	03:05:54:00	THANK YOU.
03:05:54:00	03:05:58:00	THANK YOU.
03:05:58:00	03:05:58:00	THANK YOU TO CANCER AWARDS
03:05:58:00	03:05:59:00	COUNCILS WHERE OUTCOMES AS
03:05:59:00	03:06:02:00	OPPOSED TO A KIND OF CODE AS
03:06:02:00	03:06:03:00	OPPOSED TO I KNOW THAT THIS IS
03:06:03:00	03:06:03:00	AN ISSUE THAT ALL OF MY
03:06:03:00	03:06:04:00	COLLEAGUES CARE ABOUT BECAUSE
03:06:04:00	03:06:05:00	IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SUPPORT
03:06:05:00	03:06:08:00	THE WORK OF THIS OFFICE AND
03:06:08:00	03:06:09:00	CODIFY DO IT HERE IN THE CITY
03:06:09:00	03:06:10:00	AND WE LOST OUR VERY OWN KERRY
03:06:10:00	03:06:13:00	TO DO IT BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE
03:06:13:00	03:06:14:00	HE'S DOING REALLY GREAT WORK
03:06:14:00	03:06:16:00	THERE AS WE WORK TO CLOSE THE
03:06:16:00	03:06:17:00	DIGITAL DIVIDE, AS WE WORK TO
03:06:17:00	03:06:19:00	MAKE SURE THAT OUR BUSINESSES
03:06:19:00	03:06:20:00	ARE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, APPLY
03:06:20:00	03:06:20:00	FOR PERMITS ONLINE.
03:06:20:00	03:06:23:00	THERE'S SO MUCH WORK THAT DO IT
03:06:23:00	03:06:24:00	DOES OR HELPS WITH AND I'M
03:06:24:00	03:06:27:00	PROUD TO STAND WITH MY
03:06:27:00	03:06:27:00	COLLEAGUES IN CODIFYING THEIR
03:06:27:00	03:06:28:00	OFFICE.
03:06:28:00	03:06:30:00	JUST ONE NOTE TO THE MAKERS
03:06:30:00	03:06:30:00	THAT WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE
03:06:30:00	03:06:33:00	TO UPDATE THE ORDINANCE DOESN'T
03:06:33:00	03:06:34:00	HAVE TO BE MOTION SUBSTITUTE
03:06:34:00	03:06:36:00	BUT JUST TO CORRECT THE
03:06:36:00	03:06:37:00	SPELLING OF SOME OF THE NAMES
03:06:37:00	03:06:37:00	IN THE TITLE.
03:06:37:00	03:06:38:00	THANK YOU.
03:06:38:00	03:06:40:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:06:40:00	03:06:41:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
03:06:41:00	03:06:41:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
03:06:41:00	03:06:42:00	FLOOR.
03:06:42:00	03:06:45:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND I
03:06:45:00	03:06:45:00	LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING
03:06:45:00	03:06:45:00	THIS.
03:06:45:00	03:06:48:00	THIS IS AN ISSUE OF I'VE
03:06:48:00	03:06:51:00	SUPPORTED AND WORKED ON FOR
03:06:51:00	03:06:51:00	SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AND HAVE
03:06:51:00	03:06:55:00	BEEN FULLY ENGAGED AND THE DO
03:06:55:00	03:06:59:00	IT MISSION AND ENSURING
03:06:59:00	03:06:59:00	RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY
03:06:59:00	03:07:00:00	ESPECIALLY RESIDENTS LIVING IN
03:07:00:00	03:07:03:00	PUBLIC HOUSING PERSONS WITH
03:07:03:00	03:07:06:00	DISABILITIES ARE AS OUR
03:07:06:00	03:07:07:00	IMMIGRANTS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO
03:07:07:00	03:07:10:00	CITY SERVICES THROUGH
03:07:10:00	03:07:11:00	INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
03:07:11:00	03:07:14:00	THAT'S CRITICAL AND WE NEED TO
03:07:14:00	03:07:18:00	CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THOSE
03:07:18:00	03:07:19:00	RESIDENTS THAT REALLY DON'T AT
03:07:19:00	03:07:22:00	TIMES HAVE A VOICE IN
03:07:22:00	03:07:23:00	GOVERNMENT WHETHER THEY'RE IN
03:07:23:00	03:07:26:00	PUBLIC HOUSING OR THERE ARE OUR
03:07:26:00	03:07:26:00	SENIORS OR PERSONS WITH
03:07:26:00	03:07:26:00	DISABILITIES.
03:07:26:00	03:07:29:00	BUT PROVIDING THEM AN
03:07:29:00	03:07:30:00	OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE CITY
03:07:30:00	03:07:33:00	GOVERNMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
03:07:33:00	03:07:33:00	IS CRITICAL.
03:07:33:00	03:07:36:00	MY COLLEAGUES HAVE MENTIONED
03:07:36:00	03:07:37:00	KERRY JORDAN AS WELL.
03:07:37:00	03:07:40:00	I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE KERRY
03:07:40:00	03:07:40:00	WHO'S DEDICATED WONDERFUL
03:07:40:00	03:07:44:00	PROFESSIONAL CITY EMPLOYEE.
03:07:44:00	03:07:45:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:07:45:00	03:07:45:00	THANK YOU.
03:07:45:00	03:07:49:00	I ALSO WANT TO DISREGARD THE
03:07:49:00	03:07:49:00	SPELLING IS CORRECT SO WE'RE
03:07:49:00	03:07:52:00	FINE WITH THE VERSION THAT
03:07:52:00	03:07:53:00	COMES OR I'LL FILE.
03:07:53:00	03:07:53:00	THANK YOU.
03:07:53:00	03:07:54:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES TIMES ARE
03:07:54:00	03:07:55:00	BAD AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:07:55:00	03:07:56:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:07:56:00	03:07:59:00	AND THANK YOU TO THE MAKERS.
03:07:59:00	03:08:00:00	IT'S REALLY I'M DELIGHTED TO BE
03:08:00:00	03:08:00:00	DOING THIS.
03:08:00:00	03:08:02:00	THIS IS PAST DUE.
03:08:02:00	03:08:03:00	I THINK ONE OF THE IMPORTANT
03:08:03:00	03:08:07:00	ASPECTS OF DO IT IS YOU KNOW,
03:08:07:00	03:08:11:00	IT'S LONG PAST THE TIME WHEN WE
03:08:11:00	03:08:11:00	WERE JUST USING IT AS A
03:08:11:00	03:08:12:00	MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.
03:08:12:00	03:08:14:00	IT MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION
03:08:14:00	03:08:15:00	SYSTEMS TO JUST DO THE DAY TO
03:08:15:00	03:08:18:00	DAY THINGS THIS THIS DEPARTMENT
03:08:18:00	03:08:19:00	IS HUGELY IMPORTANT AND
03:08:19:00	03:08:22:00	SUPPORTING ALL OF US AT THE
03:08:22:00	03:08:22:00	DEPARTMENT ALL ALL OF THE OTHER
03:08:22:00	03:08:25:00	CITY DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
03:08:25:00	03:08:25:00	ACROSS ACROSS THE CITY.
03:08:25:00	03:08:26:00	BUT THE OTHER IMPORTANT THING
03:08:26:00	03:08:29:00	RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT IS THE
03:08:29:00	03:08:30:00	THREAT OF CYBERSECURITY.
03:08:30:00	03:08:34:00	CYBERSECURITY THREATS AND DO IT
03:08:34:00	03:08:34:00	IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE
03:08:34:00	03:08:37:00	STEP IT UP AND SUPPORT
03:08:37:00	03:08:38:00	CODIFYING THEM, MAKE THEM THEIR
03:08:38:00	03:08:42:00	OWN DEPARTMENT AND GIVE THEM
03:08:42:00	03:08:42:00	THE MONETARY AND FINANCIAL
03:08:42:00	03:08:45:00	SUPPORT TO HAVE THEY HAVE THE
03:08:45:00	03:08:49:00	INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO
03:08:49:00	03:08:50:00	PROTECT US AS BEST WE CAN FROM
03:08:50:00	03:08:53:00	CYBER CYBERSECURITY THREATS AND
03:08:53:00	03:08:53:00	I'M REALLY EXCITED.
03:08:53:00	03:08:56:00	I THINK THEY'RE DOING
03:08:56:00	03:08:57:00	INCREDIBLE WORK AND I WILL BE
03:08:57:00	03:09:00:00	VERY, VERY HAPPY TO VOTE IN THE
03:09:00:00	03:09:01:00	AFFIRMATIVE ON THIS ONE TODAY.
03:09:01:00	03:09:01:00	THANK YOU.
03:09:01:00	03:09:01:00	THANK YOU.
03:09:01:00	03:09:04:00	CANCER BRITAIN IS ANYONE ELSE
03:09:04:00	03:09:05:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
03:09:05:00	03:09:05:00	MATTER?
03:09:05:00	03:09:06:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
03:09:06:00	03:09:09:00	THEIR NAME?
03:09:09:00	03:09:10:00	MR. CLERK ACCUSED COUNCILORS
03:09:10:00	03:09:12:00	BREADON FITZGERALD.
03:09:12:00	03:09:16:00	FLYNN MEJIA MURPHY, PIP SANTANA
03:09:16:00	03:09:17:00	, WEBER COUNCILORS WORL BREADON
03:09:17:00	03:09:20:00	AND LOUIJEUNE EXPANSION OF THE
03:09:20:00	03:09:20:00	RULES AND ADOPTION PASSAGE
03:09:20:00	03:09:26:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 1060 ALL THOSE
03:09:26:00	03:09:27:00	IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL OPPOSE
03:09:27:00	03:09:30:00	ANY THE AYES HAVE IT.
03:09:30:00	03:09:31:00	THIS DOCKET IS PASSED.
03:09:31:00	03:09:32:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
03:09:32:00	03:09:47:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1061 OH OH
03:09:47:00	03:09:47:00	COUNCILOR ROONEY HERE YOU HAVE
03:09:47:00	03:09:48:00	A POINT OF ORDER SO OKAY, WHAT
03:09:48:00	03:09:50:00	IS YOUR POINT OF ORDER?
03:09:50:00	03:09:51:00	I THOUGHT COUNCILOR WORRALL
03:09:51:00	03:09:55:00	COLETTA AND LOUIJEUNE AND THEN
03:09:55:00	03:09:55:00	YOU SAID BREADON, I APOLOGIZE.
03:09:55:00	03:09:58:00	SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE FOR
03:09:58:00	03:09:58:00	THE RECORD AND THE STENOGRAPHER
03:09:58:00	03:09:59:00	AND EVERYBODY WHO'S LISTENING
03:09:59:00	03:10:02:00	THAT THE I'M SORRY I WILL TRY
03:10:02:00	03:10:05:00	TO GIVE YOU NO, BUT I JUST
03:10:05:00	03:10:06:00	HEARD IT INCORRECTLY SO THANK
03:10:06:00	03:10:06:00	YOU.
03:10:06:00	03:10:09:00	THAT IS CORRECT.
03:10:09:00	03:10:09:00	THAT IS SUSTAINED BECAUSE IT IS
03:10:09:00	03:10:10:00	CORRECT I BELIEVE I DID SAY
03:10:10:00	03:10:13:00	COUNCILOR BREADON APOLOGIES IT
03:10:13:00	03:10:14:00	TO THE HEAD AND NOT THE HEART.
03:10:14:00	03:10:15:00	THAT'S CANCER ORAL CANCER COVID
03:10:15:00	03:10:17:00	ZAPATA AND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
03:10:17:00	03:10:21:00	SAT SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND
03:10:21:00	03:10:21:00	PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 1061.
03:10:21:00	03:10:24:00	SO MR. CLERK, DID YOU GET THAT
03:10:24:00	03:10:24:00	CORRECTION?
03:10:24:00	03:10:25:00	THANK YOU.
03:10:25:00	03:10:25:00	GET THAT YOU GOT MEJIA.
03:10:25:00	03:10:28:00	OKAY.
03:10:28:00	03:10:28:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
03:10:28:00	03:10:30:00	READ TALKING NUMBER 1061 DUNCAN
03:10:30:00	03:10:31:00	NUMBER 01061.
03:10:31:00	03:10:34:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND BRAIN
03:10:34:00	03:10:35:00	OFF OF THE FOLLOWING PETITION
03:10:35:00	03:10:38:00	FOR A SPECIAL LAW REGARDING AN
03:10:38:00	03:10:38:00	ACT TO THE OFFICE OF DISTRICT
03:10:38:00	03:10:43:00	COUNCILOR IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
03:10:43:00	03:10:44:00	.
03:10:44:00	03:10:44:00	THANK YOU, MR CLERK.
03:10:44:00	03:10:47:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:10:47:00	03:10:48:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
03:10:48:00	03:10:50:00	COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:10:50:00	03:10:56:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MR. CHAIR
03:10:56:00	03:10:56:00	SO THIS IS A FORMAL PETITION
03:10:56:00	03:10:58:00	THAT IS THE SECOND PART OF THE
03:10:58:00	03:10:59:00	PETITION THAT WE FILED A FEW
03:10:59:00	03:10:59:00	WEEKS AGO.
03:10:59:00	03:11:02:00	IT'S REASSURING THAT WHOEVER IS
03:11:02:00	03:11:03:00	ELECTED IF THERE'S A VACANCY IN
03:11:03:00	03:11:05:00	A DISTRICT COUNCIL SEAT THAT
03:11:05:00	03:11:05:00	THAT PERSON IS SEATED AS
03:11:05:00	03:11:09:00	QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AFTER THE
03:11:09:00	03:11:10:00	ELECTIONS ARE CERTIFIED IN
03:11:10:00	03:11:13:00	NOVEMBER.
03:11:13:00	03:11:15:00	I'M NOT BEING SUSPENDED IN 2000
03:11:15:00	03:11:16:00	BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE
03:11:16:00	03:11:17:00	THAT I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT
03:11:17:00	03:11:17:00	WE'RE TALKING WITH THE STATE
03:11:17:00	03:11:19:00	HOUSE IN TERMS OF HOW THIS
03:11:19:00	03:11:22:00	MOVES FORWARD AND THE THINGS
03:11:22:00	03:11:23:00	THAT ARE CURRENTLY THERE.
03:11:23:00	03:11:26:00	BUT THIS IS JUST TO ENSURE THAT
03:11:26:00	03:11:27:00	WE ARE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE
03:11:27:00	03:11:27:00	AND THAT WE HAVE THIS IN THE
03:11:27:00	03:11:30:00	EVENT THAT WE NEED TO PASS THIS
03:11:30:00	03:11:31:00	SO THAT WE CAN GET WHOEVER IS
03:11:31:00	03:11:34:00	ELECTED IN THE EVENT OF A
03:11:34:00	03:11:34:00	VACANCY SEE IT.
03:11:34:00	03:11:35:00	THANK YOU.
03:11:35:00	03:11:37:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR WOULD
03:11:37:00	03:11:38:00	ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON
03:11:38:00	03:11:41:00	THIS MATTER WITH ANYONE ELSE?
03:11:41:00	03:11:42:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:11:42:00	03:11:42:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
03:11:42:00	03:11:45:00	COUNCILOR THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
03:11:45:00	03:11:45:00	THANK YOU.
03:11:45:00	03:11:48:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
03:11:48:00	03:11:52:00	I DO.
03:11:52:00	03:11:53:00	I DO WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS
03:11:53:00	03:11:56:00	MATTER AS IT RELATES TO THE
03:11:56:00	03:11:56:00	STATUS OF THE DISTRICT SEVEN
03:11:56:00	03:12:00:00	SEAT I ALSO THINK IT'S
03:12:00:00	03:12:00:00	IMPORTANT FOR US AS CITY
03:12:00:00	03:12:03:00	COUNCILORS DURING THESE
03:12:03:00	03:12:04:00	CRITICAL AND CHALLENGING TIMES
03:12:04:00	03:12:07:00	TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE ARE
03:12:07:00	03:12:10:00	TAKING STEPS TO REGAIN THE
03:12:10:00	03:12:11:00	PUBLIC TRUST WITH BOSTON
03:12:11:00	03:12:11:00	RESIDENTS.
03:12:11:00	03:12:14:00	I BELIEVE THAT WE'VE LOST TO A
03:12:14:00	03:12:15:00	SERIES OF ETHICAL CHALLENGES
03:12:15:00	03:12:18:00	AND LEGAL LAPSES OVER THE LAST
03:12:18:00	03:12:19:00	SEVERAL YEARS INTEGRITY,
03:12:19:00	03:12:22:00	ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY
03:12:22:00	03:12:23:00	MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR ALL
03:12:23:00	03:12:26:00	CITY COUNCILORS.
03:12:26:00	03:12:27:00	THIS PROCESS BEGINS IN MY
03:12:27:00	03:12:30:00	OPINION WHAT ETHICS, ETHICS
03:12:30:00	03:12:30:00	REFORM.
03:12:30:00	03:12:30:00	ACCOUNTABILITY.
03:12:30:00	03:12:33:00	TRANSPARENCY WORK ETHIC THROUGH
03:12:33:00	03:12:37:00	POSITIVE LEADERSHIP I WANT TO
03:12:37:00	03:12:40:00	CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE MY CITY
03:12:40:00	03:12:41:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT A
03:12:41:00	03:12:41:00	COMPREHENSIVE ETHICS REFORM
03:12:41:00	03:12:45:00	PACKAGE INCLUDING HAVING ALL
03:12:45:00	03:12:45:00	CITY COUNCILORS RELEASED STATE
03:12:45:00	03:12:49:00	AND FEDERAL TAX RETURNS FOR THE
03:12:49:00	03:12:49:00	LAST FIVE YEARS.
03:12:49:00	03:12:52:00	RELEASE AND STATEMENT
03:12:52:00	03:12:52:00	OF FINANCIAL INTEREST FORM TO
03:12:52:00	03:12:56:00	BOTH THE STATE AND THE PUBLIC.
03:12:56:00	03:12:57:00	IT'S CRITICAL THAT THE CITY
03:12:57:00	03:12:59:00	COUNCIL WORKS CLOSELY WITH THE
03:12:59:00	03:13:00:00	STATE ETHICS COMMISSION TO
03:13:00:00	03:13:03:00	PROVIDE ENHANCED TRAINING FOR
03:13:03:00	03:13:04:00	CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES AND
03:13:04:00	03:13:07:00	CURRENT STAFF AS WELL.
03:13:07:00	03:13:08:00	THIS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY
03:13:08:00	03:13:11:00	RELATED TO THIS PARTICULAR
03:13:11:00	03:13:11:00	DOCKET BUT I THINK IT'S
03:13:11:00	03:13:15:00	IMPORTANT FOR ME TO WEIGH IN
03:13:15:00	03:13:15:00	PUBLICLY ON ON THIS THIS
03:13:15:00	03:13:19:00	POTENTIAL FOR A VACANT VACANCY
03:13:19:00	03:13:21:00	IN DISTRICT SEVEN.
03:13:21:00	03:13:24:00	I CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR
03:13:24:00	03:13:25:00	ESTABLISHING A BOSTON CITY
03:13:25:00	03:13:25:00	COUNCIL OVERSIGHT COMMISSION
03:13:25:00	03:13:29:00	MADE UP OF OUTSIDE AND RELEVANT
03:13:29:00	03:13:32:00	EXPERTS MAYBE A STANDALONE
03:13:32:00	03:13:33:00	ETHICS COMMITTEE THAT WAS VOTED
03:13:33:00	03:13:36:00	DOWN HIRING A AN ATTORNEY TO
03:13:36:00	03:13:40:00	ENSURE COMPLIANCE TRANSPARENCY
03:13:40:00	03:13:40:00	AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE BODY
03:13:40:00	03:13:44:00	IN MAY IT IN MY OPINION NOW IS
03:13:44:00	03:13:44:00	THE TIME FOR POSITIVE AND
03:13:44:00	03:13:47:00	ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FROM THE
03:13:47:00	03:13:47:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AT THIS
03:13:47:00	03:13:51:00	TIME WE HAVE NOT TAKEN THE
03:13:51:00	03:13:52:00	NECESSARY STEPS TO REGAIN OUR
03:13:52:00	03:13:55:00	CREDIBILITY WITH THE PUBLIC.
03:13:55:00	03:13:55:00	THANK MR CHAIR.
03:13:55:00	03:13:56:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR.
03:13:56:00	03:13:56:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:13:56:00	03:13:58:00	COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR GOT
03:13:58:00	03:13:59:00	THE FLOOR.
03:13:59:00	03:13:59:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
03:13:59:00	03:14:02:00	I THINK WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING
03:14:02:00	03:14:05:00	HERE IS THAT WE AMEND THE HOME
03:14:05:00	03:14:06:00	RULE PETITION THAT IS ALREADY
03:14:06:00	03:14:07:00	UP AT THE STATE HOUSE IN THE
03:14:07:00	03:14:10:00	EVENT THAT AS WE DID IN THE IN
03:14:10:00	03:14:14:00	THE MAYORAL ELECTION A FEW
03:14:14:00	03:14:18:00	YEARS AGO A MAYOR WAS SWORN IN
03:14:18:00	03:14:21:00	ONCE HER VOTES WERE CERTIFIED
03:14:21:00	03:14:22:00	AND SHE TOOK OFFICE IN NOVEMBER
03:14:22:00	03:14:23:00	RATHER THAN BE SWORN IN IN
03:14:23:00	03:14:25:00	JANUARY BECAUSE OF THE VACANCY
03:14:25:00	03:14:28:00	IN THIS MOMENT DISTRICT SEVEN
03:14:28:00	03:14:29:00	IS IN THE MIDST OF AN ELECTION
03:14:29:00	03:14:29:00	CAMPAIGN.
03:14:29:00	03:14:32:00	THERE'S MANY, MANY CANDIDATES
03:14:32:00	03:14:32:00	WHO ARE IN MEETING WITH THEIR
03:14:32:00	03:14:36:00	CONSTITUENTS WITH FUTURE
03:14:36:00	03:14:36:00	CONSTITUENTS, TALKING TO THE
03:14:36:00	03:14:39:00	RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT SEVEN AND
03:14:39:00	03:14:42:00	YOU KNOW, IT WILL BE A ROBUST
03:14:42:00	03:14:46:00	AND THOROUGH REVIEW AND VETTING
03:14:46:00	03:14:47:00	OF ALL THE CANDIDATES AND THE
03:14:47:00	03:14:47:00	DISTRICT SEVEN WILL CHOOSE
03:14:47:00	03:14:50:00	THEIR BEST CANDIDATE TO
03:14:50:00	03:14:51:00	REPRESENT THEM IN THIS COUNCIL.
03:14:51:00	03:14:54:00	SO I THINK THIS IS JUST THIS IS
03:14:54:00	03:14:55:00	JUST A SORT OF AN AMENDMENT TO
03:14:55:00	03:14:58:00	TRY AND ENSURE THAT WHOMEVER
03:14:58:00	03:15:02:00	GETS ELECTED IN NOVEMBER TO
03:15:02:00	03:15:03:00	REPRESENT DISTRICT SEVEN WILL
03:15:03:00	03:15:03:00	BE ABLE TO TAKE THEIR SEAT
03:15:03:00	03:15:06:00	WHEREAS THE REST OF US, IF
03:15:06:00	03:15:07:00	WE'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE
03:15:07:00	03:15:07:00	REELECTED WILL BE SWORN IN
03:15:07:00	03:15:09:00	AGAIN AND IN JANUARY.
03:15:09:00	03:15:10:00	SO IT'S A VERY SMALL THING AND
03:15:10:00	03:15:14:00	IT'S JUST REALLY TO ENSURE THAT
03:15:14:00	03:15:14:00	THE THE THAT THE ELECTED
03:15:14:00	03:15:18:00	REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT SEVEN
03:15:18:00	03:15:18:00	WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE THEIR
03:15:18:00	03:15:19:00	SEATS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
03:15:19:00	03:15:20:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR AT THE
03:15:20:00	03:15:21:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
03:15:21:00	03:15:21:00	MURPHY.
03:15:21:00	03:15:22:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:15:22:00	03:15:25:00	THANK YOU CHAIR LOOK FORWARD TO
03:15:25:00	03:15:25:00	THIS HEARING.
03:15:25:00	03:15:28:00	I WILL DO MY HOMEWORK LIKE I
03:15:28:00	03:15:31:00	DID WHEN THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE
03:15:31:00	03:15:35:00	WAS FILED AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
03:15:35:00	03:15:36:00	KIND OF LOOKING BECAUSE I KNOW
03:15:36:00	03:15:37:00	THAT IF I COULD THROUGH THE
03:15:37:00	03:15:40:00	CHAIR TO THE DISTRICT TO
03:15:40:00	03:15:40:00	COUNCILOR ASK IS IT TRUE THAT
03:15:40:00	03:15:43:00	WHEN YOU WERE ELECTED FOR
03:15:43:00	03:15:44:00	DISTRICT TWO THERE WAS A
03:15:44:00	03:15:47:00	VACANCY WITH COUNCIL COUNCILOR
03:15:47:00	03:15:48:00	LENIHAN BUT YOU WERE NOT
03:15:48:00	03:15:52:00	ALLOWED TO ENTER THE SEAT EARLY
03:15:52:00	03:15:53:00	IF I COULD THROUGH THE CHAIR
03:15:53:00	03:15:55:00	ASKING TO THE CHAIR
03:15:55:00	03:15:55:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU MAY RESPOND
03:15:55:00	03:16:02:00	IF YOU LIKE SO THANK YOU
03:16:02:00	03:16:07:00	MR CHAIR AND THANK YOU TO THE
03:16:07:00	03:16:07:00	COUNCIL MEMBER FOR ASKING THE
03:16:07:00	03:16:07:00	QUESTION.
03:16:07:00	03:16:10:00	YES, THE DISTRICT CITY
03:16:10:00	03:16:13:00	COUNCIL RESIGNED I BELIEVE AND
03:16:13:00	03:16:14:00	I BELIEVE IN OCTOBER IF I'M NOT
03:16:14:00	03:16:17:00	MISTAKEN HE RESIGNED IN
03:16:17:00	03:16:21:00	OCTOBER SO THE SEAT WAS VACANT
03:16:21:00	03:16:21:00	BASICALLY FROM OCTOBER TO
03:16:21:00	03:16:25:00	JANUARY.
03:16:25:00	03:16:26:00	I WASN'T SWORN IN AND I WASN'T
03:16:26:00	03:16:28:00	SWORN IN EARLY.
03:16:28:00	03:16:29:00	I WAS SWORN IN WITH EVERYBODY
03:16:29:00	03:16:32:00	ELSE I GUESS I GUESS MAYBE
03:16:32:00	03:16:36:00	MAYBE COULD COULD WE AMEND THE
03:16:36:00	03:16:39:00	PROPOSAL AND MAKE IT A GENERIC
03:16:39:00	03:16:43:00	A GENERIC PROPOSAL WHERE IF ANY
03:16:43:00	03:16:47:00	SEAT IS VACANT THAT A CITY
03:16:47:00	03:16:51:00	COUNCIL CAN CAN GET SWORN IN
03:16:51:00	03:16:54:00	EARLY IF IF A PERSON RESIGNS
03:16:54:00	03:16:58:00	INSTEAD OF MAKING IT SPECIFIC
03:16:58:00	03:16:58:00	TOWARDS DISTRICT SEVEN, MAYBE
03:16:58:00	03:17:02:00	IT MIGHT HAPPEN AGAIN FOR
03:17:02:00	03:17:02:00	DIFFERENT REASONS.
03:17:02:00	03:17:06:00	A CITY COUNCILOR MAY RESIGN AND
03:17:06:00	03:17:07:00	IN THE SUMMERTIME MAYBE OR IN
03:17:07:00	03:17:10:00	THE FALL AND THE SEAT MIGHT BE
03:17:10:00	03:17:10:00	VACANT BUT MAYBE IT'S AN
03:17:10:00	03:17:14:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO TO
03:17:14:00	03:17:16:00	FORESEE THAT TYPE
03:17:16:00	03:17:17:00	OF CIRCUMSTANCE HAPPENING.
03:17:17:00	03:17:20:00	TAKE ACTION NOW AND MAYBE
03:17:20:00	03:17:21:00	COLLECTIVELY COMBINE THEM.
03:17:21:00	03:17:25:00	SO ANY TYPE OF VACANT VACANCY
03:17:25:00	03:17:28:00	FOR WHATEVER REASON AND IF A
03:17:28:00	03:17:29:00	CITY COUNCILOR RESIGNS MAYBE
03:17:29:00	03:17:32:00	HAVING A EARLY SWORN IN
03:17:32:00	03:17:32:00	CEREMONY FOR THAT
03:17:32:00	03:17:36:00	COUNCILOR JUST A THOUGHT.
03:17:36:00	03:17:37:00	THINK MR CHAIR.
03:17:37:00	03:17:37:00	THANK YOU.
03:17:37:00	03:17:40:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLAME.
03:17:40:00	03:17:42:00	YOU FORGET THE FLOOR AND SO AS
03:17:42:00	03:17:43:00	WE KNOW MANY PEOPLE HERE KNOW
03:17:43:00	03:17:44:00	THAT IT IS DIFFERENT AND I
03:17:44:00	03:17:46:00	DON'T THINK THE PUBLIC IS
03:17:46:00	03:17:47:00	ALWAYS CLEAR BECAUSE MANY
03:17:47:00	03:17:47:00	PEOPLE ARE ASKING ME BECAUSE I
03:17:47:00	03:17:50:00	DID GET SWORN IN EARLY WHEN
03:17:50:00	03:17:51:00	COUNCILOR WU VACATED HER SEAT
03:17:51:00	03:17:54:00	TO BE SWORN IN EARLY BECAUSE
03:17:54:00	03:17:58:00	MAYOR WALSH HAD VACATED HIS
03:17:58:00	03:17:58:00	SEAT.
03:17:58:00	03:18:02:00	SO IT IS COMPLICATED AND THE AT
03:18:02:00	03:18:02:00	LARGE COUNCILORS DO HAVE
03:18:02:00	03:18:03:00	DIFFERENT RULES WHEN IT
03:18:03:00	03:18:05:00	OBVIOUSLY COMES TO VACANCIES
03:18:05:00	03:18:06:00	BUT ALSO SWEARING IN YOU HAVE
03:18:06:00	03:18:07:00	TO BE REPLACED IMMEDIATELY NO
03:18:07:00	03:18:10:00	MATTER HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT ON
03:18:10:00	03:18:10:00	THE CALENDAR.
03:18:10:00	03:18:11:00	SO I THINK IT WOULD BE
03:18:11:00	03:18:14:00	IMPORTANT TO HAVE A LARGER
03:18:14:00	03:18:15:00	CONVERSATION ABOUT THE PROCESS
03:18:15:00	03:18:18:00	BEFORE WE CHANGE ANY CHARGES
03:18:18:00	03:18:19:00	AND I DO AGREE THAT MAYBE IT
03:18:19:00	03:18:21:00	SHOULDN'T JUST BE A ONE OFF AND
03:18:21:00	03:18:22:00	I KNOW WE OBVIOUSLY CAN MAKE
03:18:22:00	03:18:23:00	THOSE CHANGES DURING THE
03:18:23:00	03:18:25:00	HEARING AND ALSO WHEN WE VOTE
03:18:25:00	03:18:26:00	ON THE COMMITTEE REPORT.
03:18:26:00	03:18:29:00	SO THANK YOU.
03:18:29:00	03:18:30:00	THANK YOU.
03:18:30:00	03:18:30:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR
03:18:30:00	03:18:31:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLETTE AS
03:18:31:00	03:18:31:00	A PARTNER.
03:18:31:00	03:18:32:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:18:32:00	03:18:33:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH AS VICE CHAIR
03:18:33:00	03:18:36:00	AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THE
03:18:36:00	03:18:37:00	MAKER FOR TAKING THIS NECESSARY
03:18:37:00	03:18:40:00	STEP IN CORRECTING WHAT COULD
03:18:40:00	03:18:41:00	BE PERCEIVED AS AN ARCHAIC RULE
03:18:41:00	03:18:44:00	THE GOOD THING ABOUT MUNICIPAL
03:18:44:00	03:18:47:00	GOVERNMENT IS THAT WE HAVE THE
03:18:47:00	03:18:47:00	OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THINGS
03:18:47:00	03:18:50:00	THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE WORKING
03:18:50:00	03:18:50:00	.
03:18:50:00	03:18:51:00	WHAT WORKED IN 1907 MAY NOT
03:18:51:00	03:18:54:00	WORK IN 2025 OR EVEN BEYOND
03:18:54:00	03:18:57:00	THIS IS I JUST WANT REMIND
03:18:57:00	03:18:58:00	FOLKS THAT THIS IS WHAT WE DID
03:18:58:00	03:19:00:00	FOR MAYOR AND 2021 BUT I DO
03:19:00:00	03:19:01:00	LOOK FORWARD TO A CONVERSATION.
03:19:01:00	03:19:03:00	I PRESUME THIS WILL BE IN MY
03:19:03:00	03:19:04:00	COMMITTEE AND SO I HOPE FOR AN
03:19:04:00	03:19:07:00	EXPEDITIOUS HEARING.
03:19:07:00	03:19:08:00	BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK
03:19:08:00	03:19:08:00	YOU FOR DEMONSTRATING POSITIVE
03:19:08:00	03:19:11:00	AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP.
03:19:11:00	03:19:11:00	THANK YOU.
03:19:11:00	03:19:16:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
03:19:16:00	03:19:16:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON.
03:19:16:00	03:19:17:00	CASSIE HAD THE FLOOR.
03:19:17:00	03:19:17:00	THANK YOU.
03:19:17:00	03:19:19:00	I KNOW FOR MORE DETAILED
03:19:19:00	03:19:23:00	CONVERSATION WHEN WE WHEN WE IT
03:19:23:00	03:19:24:00	GOES TO COMMITTEE AND THAT WE
03:19:24:00	03:19:26:00	WILL TRY TO EXPEDITE THIS THIS
03:19:26:00	03:19:27:00	PROCESS YOU KNOW EVERY EVERY
03:19:27:00	03:19:30:00	EVERY CYCLE WE DO SOMETHING
03:19:30:00	03:19:31:00	SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AND AND IN
03:19:31:00	03:19:34:00	IN IN THE INSTANCE OF WHEN
03:19:34:00	03:19:35:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY JOINED THE
03:19:35:00	03:19:37:00	COUNCIL SHE CAME IN SIXTH PUT
03:19:37:00	03:19:38:00	THE PERSON WHO CAME IN FIFTH
03:19:38:00	03:19:41:00	DIDN'T DECLINE TO TAKE THE
03:19:41:00	03:19:41:00	POSITION AS CITY COUNCILOR AND
03:19:41:00	03:19:44:00	SHE CAME IN AT THE END AS ONE
03:19:44:00	03:19:45:00	AND SHE CAME IN SIXTH SO WE
03:19:45:00	03:19:47:00	HAVE THIS SORT OF ALMOST
03:19:47:00	03:19:51:00	BESPOKE SORT OF APPROACH TO THE
03:19:51:00	03:19:52:00	CIRCUMSTANCES IN EVERY
03:19:52:00	03:19:52:00	DIFFERENT INSTANCE.
03:19:52:00	03:19:56:00	SO I THINK THAT WE CAN THIS IS
03:19:56:00	03:19:58:00	AN IMPORTANT THING TO DO AND I
03:19:58:00	03:19:59:00	THINK WE SHOULD DO IT IN A
03:19:59:00	03:20:00:00	TIMELY WAY SO THAT WHOMEVER
03:20:00:00	03:20:02:00	GETS ELECTED FROM DISTRICT
03:20:02:00	03:20:03:00	SEVEN WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE A
03:20:03:00	03:20:04:00	SEAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH
03:20:04:00	03:20:06:00	WITH THE ASSENT OF THE OF THE
03:20:06:00	03:20:07:00	FOLKS AT THE STATE HOUSE.
03:20:07:00	03:20:10:00	OBVIOUSLY.
03:20:10:00	03:20:11:00	THANK YOU.
03:20:11:00	03:20:11:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR THE CHAIR
03:20:11:00	03:20:12:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCIL PRESIDENT
03:20:12:00	03:20:14:00	LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE
03:20:14:00	03:20:14:00	FLOOR?
03:20:14:00	03:20:14:00	YES.
03:20:14:00	03:20:15:00	AND I JUST WANTED TO CORRECT
03:20:15:00	03:20:15:00	SOMETHING JUST SO THAT FOLKS
03:20:15:00	03:20:18:00	KNOW THAT THIS HOMER PETITION
03:20:18:00	03:20:18:00	WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN FOR ANY
03:20:18:00	03:20:22:00	VACANCY FOR THIS YEAR.
03:20:22:00	03:20:23:00	SO I THINK THERE WAS A
03:20:23:00	03:20:24:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN MADE A GOOD
03:20:24:00	03:20:24:00	POINT ABOUT GENERALLY THIS IS
03:20:24:00	03:20:25:00	NOT JUST ABOUT DISTRICT SEVEN.
03:20:25:00	03:20:26:00	IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT ANY ANY
03:20:26:00	03:20:26:00	DISTRICT, ANY VACANCY.
03:20:26:00	03:20:29:00	THIS YEAR IF ONE WERE TO ARISE.
03:20:29:00	03:20:32:00	SO IT'S VERY GENERAL IT'S
03:20:32:00	03:20:33:00	GENERALLY WRITTEN BUT IT'S
03:20:33:00	03:20:33:00	APPLICABLE TO THIS YEAR AND I
03:20:33:00	03:20:36:00	DO THINK THAT THERE IS PROBABLY
03:20:36:00	03:20:37:00	OPPORTUNITY NOT SURE IF IT'S
03:20:37:00	03:20:38:00	NOW BUT FOR THAT LARGER
03:20:38:00	03:20:40:00	CONVERSATION ABOUT A CHANGE TO
03:20:40:00	03:20:41:00	STATE LAW I THINK IT WOULD BE
03:20:41:00	03:20:45:00	TRICKY FOR SOME OF THE REASON
03:20:45:00	03:20:45:00	THAT COUNCILOR BREADON
03:20:45:00	03:20:46:00	MENTIONED BUT LIKE HOW DO WE
03:20:46:00	03:20:48:00	ENSURE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A
03:20:48:00	03:20:49:00	VACANCY THIS IS ALWAYS
03:20:49:00	03:20:49:00	SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS?
03:20:49:00	03:20:51:00	I'M OPEN TO THAT CONVERSATION.
03:20:51:00	03:20:54:00	I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A HARDER
03:20:54:00	03:20:55:00	AND LONGER ONE TO HAVE AND TO
03:20:55:00	03:20:56:00	MEET THE NEEDS THAT WE MAY HAVE
03:20:56:00	03:20:58:00	FOR THIS YEAR.
03:20:58:00	03:20:59:00	I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
03:20:59:00	03:20:59:00	BUT IT IS JUST GENERALLY
03:20:59:00	03:21:02:00	WRITTEN AND IT IS NOT
03:21:02:00	03:21:02:00	APPLICABLE JUST TO ONE
03:21:02:00	03:21:03:00	DISTRICT.
03:21:03:00	03:21:03:00	JUST SAY THANK YOU.
03:21:03:00	03:21:06:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR PRESIDENT
03:21:06:00	03:21:07:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
03:21:07:00	03:21:09:00	ON THIS MATTER?
03:21:09:00	03:21:10:00	I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
03:21:10:00	03:21:14:00	YOUR POSITIVE LEADERSHIP AND
03:21:14:00	03:21:14:00	LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
03:21:14:00	03:21:14:00	CONVERSATION.
03:21:14:00	03:21:15:00	BUT I DO AGREE I THINK WE HAVE
03:21:15:00	03:21:18:00	TO TACKLE THE SITUATION NOW AND
03:21:18:00	03:21:18:00	AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE LARGER
03:21:18:00	03:21:18:00	CONVERSATION.
03:21:18:00	03:21:22:00	ON IF REFORM IS NEEDED.
03:21:22:00	03:21:22:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR
03:21:22:00	03:21:26:00	NAME AND MR. CLERK COULD YOU
03:21:26:00	03:21:27:00	PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR CLAIRE
03:21:27:00	03:21:27:00	ZAPATA COUNCILOR DURKAN
03:21:27:00	03:21:29:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
03:21:29:00	03:21:30:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN CASIMIR HERE
03:21:30:00	03:21:31:00	CASTLE MURPHY CASTLE SANTANA
03:21:31:00	03:21:33:00	CASTLE WEBER PLEASE ADD THE
03:21:33:00	03:21:36:00	CHAIR DUNCAN NUMBER 100
03:21:36:00	03:21:39:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN SORRY.
03:21:39:00	03:21:39:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 1061 WE REFER TO
03:21:39:00	03:21:42:00	THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT
03:21:42:00	03:21:43:00	OPERATIONS.
03:21:43:00	03:21:45:00	MR. CLERK COMPLETELY DARK AT
03:21:45:00	03:21:48:00	NUMBER 1062 DUNCAN NUMBER 1062
03:21:48:00	03:21:48:00	COUNCIL OF S.A. FOR THE
03:21:48:00	03:21:51:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
03:21:51:00	03:21:51:00	REGARDING OCCUPATIONAL
03:21:51:00	03:21:55:00	CANCER RISK FOR BOSTON FIRE
03:21:55:00	03:21:56:00	FIGHTERS AND PROGRAMS THE CITY
03:21:56:00	03:21:59:00	OF BOSTON OFFERS OR COULD OFFER
03:21:59:00	03:22:00:00	TO PROVIDE FOR PREVENTION,
03:22:00:00	03:22:03:00	DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
03:22:03:00	03:22:03:00	THANK YOU.
03:22:03:00	03:22:04:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
03:22:04:00	03:22:05:00	SANTANA CASA SANTANA GIVE THE
03:22:05:00	03:22:06:00	FLOOR.
03:22:06:00	03:22:11:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:22:11:00	03:22:12:00	AND I'M SORRY I'M GOING TO SIT
03:22:12:00	03:22:12:00	DOWN.
03:22:12:00	03:22:12:00	I'M BATTLING A MIGRAINE.
03:22:12:00	03:22:14:00	I'M STANDING UP AND SITTING
03:22:14:00	03:22:14:00	DOWN.
03:22:14:00	03:22:15:00	IT'S JUST A LOT FOR ME.
03:22:15:00	03:22:18:00	BUT I TALKED EARLIER IN THE
03:22:18:00	03:22:20:00	PRESENTATION THAT I DID EARLIER
03:22:20:00	03:22:21:00	ABOUT THIS SO WE'LL SPEND TOO
03:22:21:00	03:22:23:00	MUCH TIME.
03:22:23:00	03:22:27:00	BUT I DO WANT TO ADD COUNSELOR
03:22:27:00	03:22:31:00	AT FLYNN AND WOULD LIKE TO
03:22:31:00	03:22:32:00	SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD
03:22:32:00	03:22:33:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT AS AN
03:22:33:00	03:22:36:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR.
03:22:36:00	03:22:37:00	THANK YOU COUNSELOR FLYNN IZZO
03:22:37:00	03:22:39:00	ADDED COUNSELOR SANTANA SUSPEND
03:22:39:00	03:22:40:00	THE RULES ADD MYSELF AS A THIRD
03:22:40:00	03:22:41:00	ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND
03:22:41:00	03:22:43:00	HEARING NO OBJECTIONS I'M SO
03:22:43:00	03:22:43:00	ADDED COUNSELOR SANTANA YOU
03:22:43:00	03:22:44:00	HAVE THE FLOOR RIGHT?
03:22:44:00	03:22:47:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:22:47:00	03:22:47:00	THIS IS SOMETHING THAT AGAIN
03:22:47:00	03:22:50:00	THAT'S VERY PERSONAL TO
03:22:50:00	03:22:51:00	ME SPOKE ABOUT MY FAMILY'S
03:22:51:00	03:22:54:00	SITUATION WITH CANCER AND YOU
03:22:54:00	03:22:58:00	KNOW, I THINK IT'S WORTH HAVING
03:22:58:00	03:22:59:00	A HEARING ORDER A HEARING ABOUT
03:22:59:00	03:23:01:00	IT AND BEING ABLE TO DISCUSS
03:23:01:00	03:23:02:00	THE IMPACTS THAT IT HAS HERE ON
03:23:02:00	03:23:05:00	OUR RESIDENTS, OUR FAMILIES,
03:23:05:00	03:23:06:00	OUR SENIORS HERE IN THE CITY
03:23:06:00	03:23:09:00	OF BOSTON.
03:23:09:00	03:23:10:00	I WON'T SPEAK MORE ABOUT IT BUT
03:23:10:00	03:23:12:00	ALLOW MY CO-SPONSORS TO SAY
03:23:12:00	03:23:13:00	ANYTHING ELSE THAT THEY MAY
03:23:13:00	03:23:13:00	WANT TO SAY.
03:23:13:00	03:23:17:00	THANK YOU, GOVERNOR S.A. THE
03:23:17:00	03:23:17:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
03:23:17:00	03:23:17:00	FLYNN.
03:23:17:00	03:23:18:00	GENERAL FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
03:23:18:00	03:23:18:00	FLOOR.
03:23:18:00	03:23:20:00	THANK YOU.
03:23:20:00	03:23:20:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:23:20:00	03:23:21:00	AND THANK YOU,
03:23:21:00	03:23:23:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR INCLUDING
03:23:23:00	03:23:23:00	ME.
03:23:23:00	03:23:24:00	I APPRECIATE IT.
03:23:24:00	03:23:27:00	THANK YOU FOR INVITING SAM
03:23:27:00	03:23:30:00	DILLON AND THE TEAM FROM LOCAL
03:23:30:00	03:23:33:00	718 BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS.
03:23:33:00	03:23:34:00	WE HAD AN EXCELLENT HEARING
03:23:34:00	03:23:37:00	ACTUALLY SERVE SEVERAL HEARINGS
03:23:37:00	03:23:38:00	OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
03:23:38:00	03:23:41:00	COUNSELOR SANTANA THAT YOU KNEW
03:23:41:00	03:23:42:00	SHE HAD AND THEY WERE THEY WERE
03:23:42:00	03:23:43:00	ON THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS
03:23:43:00	03:23:45:00	OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
03:23:45:00	03:23:45:00	BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
03:23:45:00	03:23:48:00	I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR FOR
03:23:48:00	03:23:52:00	YOUR LEADERSHIP AS WELL.
03:23:52:00	03:23:52:00	FIREFIGHTERS OFTEN EXPERIENCE
03:23:52:00	03:23:53:00	AS COUNSELOR SANTANA WAS
03:23:53:00	03:23:56:00	TALKING ABOUT IN THE SAM DILLON
03:23:56:00	03:23:59:00	WAS TALKING ABOUT OCCUPATIONAL
03:23:59:00	03:24:00:00	HEALTH ISSUES SUCH AS CANCER,
03:24:00:00	03:24:03:00	HEART RELATED DISEASES.
03:24:03:00	03:24:04:00	THEY HAVE A LOWER LIFE
03:24:04:00	03:24:05:00	EXPECTANCY EXPECTANCY DUE TO
03:24:05:00	03:24:06:00	DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS THEY
03:24:06:00	03:24:07:00	SERVE AND WITH THE EXPOSURE
03:24:07:00	03:24:10:00	OF TOXIC MATERIALS AND
03:24:10:00	03:24:11:00	HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOREVER
03:24:11:00	03:24:14:00	CHEMICALS STAY WITH THEM.
03:24:14:00	03:24:18:00	WE WE LEARNED THAT THE AVERAGE
03:24:18:00	03:24:18:00	NUMBER OF YEARS WHEN A
03:24:18:00	03:24:23:00	FIREFIGHTER RETIRES IS AT THE
03:24:23:00	03:24:23:00	MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE.
03:24:23:00	03:24:26:00	BUT THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF YEARS
03:24:26:00	03:24:29:00	A FIREFIGHTER LIVES IS FIVE
03:24:29:00	03:24:33:00	YEARS.
03:24:33:00	03:24:34:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING
03:24:34:00	03:24:34:00	WHERE WE CAN COME TOGETHER TO
03:24:34:00	03:24:37:00	IDENTIFY PROGRAMS AND FUNDING
03:24:37:00	03:24:38:00	FOR THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING
03:24:38:00	03:24:41:00	OCCUPATIONAL CANCERS AS WELL AS
03:24:41:00	03:24:41:00	PROGRAMS THAT EDUCATE, RAISE
03:24:41:00	03:24:45:00	AWARENESS AND COURAGE
03:24:45:00	03:24:45:00	PREVENTIVE CARE DETECTION
03:24:45:00	03:24:49:00	IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATE
03:24:49:00	03:24:49:00	INTERVENTION AND TO HELP SAVE
03:24:49:00	03:24:53:00	THE LIVES OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS.
03:24:53:00	03:24:54:00	I WANT TO AGAIN SAY THANK YOU
03:24:54:00	03:24:56:00	TO WELL CALL 718 AND SAY THANK
03:24:56:00	03:25:00:00	YOU TO JOE FINN WHO IS THE
03:25:00:00	03:25:01:00	FORMER FIRE COMMISSIONER FOR
03:25:01:00	03:25:03:00	THE IMPORTANT WORK HE HAS DONE
03:25:03:00	03:25:04:00	SAM DILLON AND PATTY KELLY AS
03:25:04:00	03:25:07:00	WELL AND THIS ISSUE IS ALSO
03:25:07:00	03:25:11:00	PERSONAL TO ME IS MY MY UNCLE
03:25:11:00	03:25:12:00	DENNIS FLYNN WHO IS A DECORATED
03:25:12:00	03:25:15:00	VIETNAM VETERAN WAS A BOSTON
03:25:15:00	03:25:19:00	FIREFIGHTER AND HE DIED IN AN
03:25:19:00	03:25:20:00	EARLY AGE DUE TO HEART DISEASE.
03:25:20:00	03:25:23:00	SO I THINK I THINK OF MY UNCLE
03:25:23:00	03:25:24:00	DENNIS AS WELL EVERY TIME I GO
03:25:24:00	03:25:27:00	BY A FIRE STATION OR I SEE A
03:25:27:00	03:25:29:00	FIREFIGHTER I THINK OF THE THE
03:25:29:00	03:25:30:00	SHORT NUMBER OF YEARS HE LIVED.
03:25:30:00	03:25:33:00	BUT I ALSO THINK ABOUT THE
03:25:33:00	03:25:34:00	INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS HE
03:25:34:00	03:25:37:00	MADE AS A AS A VIETNAM VETERAN,
03:25:37:00	03:25:41:00	AS A BOSTON FIREFIGHTER, AS A
03:25:41:00	03:25:42:00	AS A HUSBAND, AS A FATHER, AS A
03:25:42:00	03:25:45:00	GRANDFATHER, AS AN UNCLE AND AS
03:25:45:00	03:25:47:00	A VETERANS ADVOCATE AND ONE
03:25:47:00	03:25:47:00	WONDERFUL PERSON.
03:25:47:00	03:25:48:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:25:48:00	03:25:52:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR FLYNN AND
03:25:52:00	03:25:52:00	I ALSO WAS ONE OF THE
03:25:52:00	03:25:53:00	ENCOUNTERS SANTANA FOR FILING
03:25:53:00	03:25:53:00	THIS.
03:25:53:00	03:25:56:00	I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT
03:25:56:00	03:25:56:00	HEARING.
03:25:56:00	03:25:57:00	I DON'T KNOW WHY IT HIT SO HARD
03:25:57:00	03:25:58:00	BUT IT DID WHEN WE HAD THE
03:25:58:00	03:26:00:00	HEARING AND WE HAD FOLKS FROM
03:26:00:00	03:26:03:00	THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TALK ABOUT
03:26:03:00	03:26:04:00	THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS ISSUES
03:26:04:00	03:26:07:00	BOTH MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL
03:26:07:00	03:26:08:00	HEALTH AND THE INCREASE
03:26:08:00	03:26:08:00	OF OCCUPATIONAL CANCER AND JUST
03:26:08:00	03:26:10:00	TO STOP AND THINK ABOUT
03:26:10:00	03:26:11:00	FIREFIGHTERS KNOWINGLY SIGNED
03:26:11:00	03:26:15:00	UP TO DO THIS WORK KNOWING THAT
03:26:15:00	03:26:16:00	IT WILL INCREASE BY I BELIEVE
03:26:16:00	03:26:17:00	THEIR STAT WAS 9% THEIR IN
03:26:17:00	03:26:18:00	THEIR LIKELIHOOD OF GETTING
03:26:18:00	03:26:18:00	CANCER AND YET THEY STILL
03:26:18:00	03:26:21:00	SIGNED UP TO DO THIS JOB.
03:26:21:00	03:26:22:00	THEIR NUMBER OF FIREFIGHTERS
03:26:22:00	03:26:22:00	RIGHT NOW PEOPLE WHO I CALL
03:26:22:00	03:26:25:00	FRIENDS WHO ARE BATTLING
03:26:25:00	03:26:26:00	CANCER HERE ON OUR AIR FORCE
03:26:26:00	03:26:28:00	AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
03:26:28:00	03:26:29:00	THAT THEY KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW,
03:26:29:00	03:26:33:00	WE ARE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
03:26:33:00	03:26:34:00	DOING WHAT IT NEEDS OF IS WE'RE
03:26:34:00	03:26:37:00	MOVING FAST FROM AS FAST AS
03:26:37:00	03:26:37:00	POSSIBLE BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO
03:26:37:00	03:26:38:00	GET DOWN TO ZERO AS MUCH FAST
03:26:38:00	03:26:44:00	AS POSSIBLE FROM THE GEAR AND
03:26:44:00	03:26:45:00	WHATEVER ELSE THE RESEARCH
03:26:45:00	03:26:46:00	TELLS US TO DO THAT WE THAT WE
03:26:46:00	03:26:46:00	TAKE THOSE STEPS BECAUSE IT'S
03:26:46:00	03:26:49:00	WORTH IT.
03:26:49:00	03:26:50:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:26:50:00	03:26:50:00	CANCER RATING HAS A RATING
03:26:50:00	03:26:52:00	OF THE FLOOR.
03:26:52:00	03:26:52:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
03:26:52:00	03:26:53:00	AND THANK YOU TO COUNSELOR
03:26:53:00	03:26:56:00	SANTANA FOR SHARING HIS IS A
03:26:56:00	03:26:59:00	STORY ABOUT HIS FAMILY AND AND
03:26:59:00	03:27:00:00	THANK YOU TO ALL OF US AND
03:27:00:00	03:27:03:00	FIREFIGHTER FIREFIGHTERS WHO
03:27:03:00	03:27:04:00	TURN UP EVERY DAY TO WORK
03:27:04:00	03:27:07:00	KNOWING THAT WHAT THE JOB
03:27:07:00	03:27:07:00	ENTAILS IN TERMS
03:27:07:00	03:27:09:00	OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS AND
03:27:09:00	03:27:10:00	DANGERS.
03:27:10:00	03:27:10:00	I THINK THE ONE THING THAT
03:27:10:00	03:27:11:00	WE'RE MISSING IN THIS
03:27:11:00	03:27:13:00	CONVERSATION IS TO JUST
03:27:13:00	03:27:14:00	HIGHLIGHT JUST HOW DISGRACEFUL
03:27:14:00	03:27:18:00	IT IS THE ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND
03:27:18:00	03:27:21:00	AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IN THE
03:27:21:00	03:27:22:00	TRUMP REGIME AT THE MOMENT IS
03:27:22:00	03:27:26:00	SLASHING FUNDING FOR NICHE CDC,
03:27:26:00	03:27:30:00	THE EPA WHICH FOCUSES ON
03:27:30:00	03:27:33:00	FOREVER CHEMICALS AND ALL
03:27:33:00	03:27:33:00	OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES
03:27:33:00	03:27:37:00	OF DISEASE AND ILLNESS IN IN IN
03:27:37:00	03:27:39:00	IN JOBS THEY'RE ALSO SLASHING
03:27:39:00	03:27:43:00	THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
03:27:43:00	03:27:47:00	INFRASTRUCTURE AS WELL AND YOU
03:27:47:00	03:27:48:00	KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO SEE A
03:27:48:00	03:27:50:00	TREMENDOUS IMPACT OF ALL
03:27:50:00	03:27:51:00	OF THAT IN BOSTON BECAUSE WE
03:27:51:00	03:27:55:00	ARE SORT OF THE FLAGSHIP FOR
03:27:55:00	03:27:55:00	HEALTH AND AND HEALTH RESEARCH
03:27:55:00	03:27:59:00	IN THE NATION AND I FEEL THAT
03:27:59:00	03:28:04:00	IT'S WHEN WE WANT TO SUPPORT
03:28:04:00	03:28:05:00	OUR ALL THOSE WHO ARE DEALING
03:28:05:00	03:28:07:00	WITH CANCER AND ESPECIALLY
03:28:07:00	03:28:10:00	OCCUPATIONAL CANCERS WE ALSO
03:28:10:00	03:28:11:00	HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS
03:28:11:00	03:28:15:00	AN ALL HANDS ON DECK MOMENT TO
03:28:15:00	03:28:15:00	PROTEST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
03:28:15:00	03:28:19:00	TERMS OF OUR HEALTH CARE
03:28:19:00	03:28:19:00	INFRASTRUCTURE AND IT'S
03:28:19:00	03:28:22:00	HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
03:28:22:00	03:28:23:00	AS WELL.
03:28:23:00	03:28:26:00	SO I'M JUST SAYING I'M JUST
03:28:26:00	03:28:30:00	SAYING AND IT MAKES ME VERY SAD
03:28:30:00	03:28:31:00	AS A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL
03:28:31:00	03:28:31:00	THAT A LOT OF THE GAINS THAT
03:28:31:00	03:28:34:00	WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST DECADES
03:28:34:00	03:28:35:00	AND OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY
03:28:35:00	03:28:37:00	ARE ALL FOR NOTHING BECAUSE
03:28:37:00	03:28:41:00	RESEARCHERS WHO ARE RESEARCHING
03:28:41:00	03:28:41:00	CANCER TREATMENTS, ETC. ARE
03:28:41:00	03:28:42:00	HAVING THEIR THEIR GROUND
03:28:42:00	03:28:45:00	SLASHED AND STOPPED.
03:28:45:00	03:28:45:00	RIGHT.
03:28:45:00	03:28:46:00	AND THAT STOPS THE WHOLE THING.
03:28:46:00	03:28:49:00	PATIENTS WILL BE SEEING THAT
03:28:49:00	03:28:52:00	THEIR EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS
03:28:52:00	03:28:53:00	WILL BE ABANDONED AND THEY'LL
03:28:53:00	03:28:56:00	BE LEFT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER
03:28:56:00	03:28:57:00	HELP.
03:28:57:00	03:28:58:00	SO I HOPE THAT WE CAN TURN THIS
03:28:58:00	03:29:01:00	SHIP AROUND AND IT JUST IS VERY
03:29:01:00	03:29:01:00	DISTRESSING AT THIS MOMENT TO
03:29:01:00	03:29:05:00	THINK ABOUT ALL THE LIVES THAT
03:29:05:00	03:29:06:00	COULD BE SAVED IF WE GOING IN A
03:29:06:00	03:29:06:00	DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
03:29:06:00	03:29:09:00	THANK YOU.
03:29:09:00	03:29:09:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON IS
03:29:09:00	03:29:10:00	ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON
03:29:10:00	03:29:10:00	THIS MATTER?
03:29:10:00	03:29:12:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
03:29:12:00	03:29:13:00	THEIR NAME?
03:29:13:00	03:29:13:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS
03:29:13:00	03:29:16:00	BREADON DURKAN FITZGERALD HERE
03:29:16:00	03:29:23:00	MURPHY THE BEN WEBER WORLD
03:29:23:00	03:29:27:00	COUNCILOR THIS DOCKET DOCKET
03:29:27:00	03:29:28:00	NUMBER 1062 WILL BE REFERRED TO
03:29:28:00	03:29:31:00	THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
03:29:31:00	03:29:31:00	AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
03:29:31:00	03:29:35:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ
03:29:35:00	03:29:37:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1063 DUCKY NUMBER
03:29:37:00	03:29:38:00	1063 COUNCIL OF CLEAN OFF
03:29:38:00	03:29:41:00	OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A
03:29:41:00	03:29:41:00	HEARING TO DISCUSS BOSTON
03:29:41:00	03:29:44:00	PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION'S
03:29:44:00	03:29:45:00	HEALTH OF ASIAN RESIDENTS IN
03:29:45:00	03:29:48:00	BOSTON REPORT THANK YOU THE
03:29:48:00	03:29:48:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:29:48:00	03:29:49:00	COUNCILOR PHONE CATCHER FLYNN
03:29:49:00	03:29:51:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:29:51:00	03:29:52:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:29:52:00	03:29:55:00	MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ADD
03:29:55:00	03:29:56:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AS AN ORIGINAL
03:29:56:00	03:29:56:00	CO-SPONSOR?
03:29:56:00	03:29:57:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY SO OUT IN
03:29:57:00	03:29:59:00	CALIFORNIA THE FLOOR.
03:29:59:00	03:29:59:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:29:59:00	03:30:02:00	LAST WEEK THE BOSTON PUBLIC
03:30:02:00	03:30:03:00	HEALTH COMMISSION PUBLISHED THE
03:30:03:00	03:30:04:00	FIRST HEALTH OF ASIAN RESIDENTS
03:30:04:00	03:30:07:00	IN BOSTON.
03:30:07:00	03:30:08:00	THE REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION
03:30:08:00	03:30:11:00	AND DATA ON THE PHYSICAL AND
03:30:11:00	03:30:11:00	MENTAL HEALTH OF ASIAN
03:30:11:00	03:30:15:00	RESIDENTS IN BOSTON AS WELL AS
03:30:15:00	03:30:15:00	THE HEALTH OF CHINATOWN
03:30:15:00	03:30:16:00	RESIDENTS.
03:30:16:00	03:30:20:00	I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO DR.
03:30:20:00	03:30:23:00	OJUKWU TAKUTO FOR DOING THIS.
03:30:23:00	03:30:24:00	I APPRECIATE HER WILLINGNESS TO
03:30:24:00	03:30:27:00	WORK WITH ME AND WANT TO SAY
03:30:27:00	03:30:29:00	THANK YOU FOR HER TEAM FOR
03:30:29:00	03:30:30:00	GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO INCLUDE
03:30:30:00	03:30:34:00	THE HEALTH OF CHINATOWN
03:30:34:00	03:30:35:00	RESIDENTS THAT WAS EXCLUDED
03:30:35:00	03:30:38:00	EXCLUDED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
03:30:38:00	03:30:38:00	BUT I'M THANKFUL THAT DR.
03:30:38:00	03:30:41:00	OJUKWU TO WORK WITH ME TO
03:30:41:00	03:30:42:00	INCLUDE THAT HEALTH DATA FOR
03:30:42:00	03:30:46:00	CHINATOWN RESIDENTS.
03:30:46:00	03:30:46:00	THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO
03:30:46:00	03:30:49:00	REVIEW IT AND TO STUDY IT.
03:30:49:00	03:30:50:00	ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS BUREAU
03:30:50:00	03:30:53:00	IN THE REPORT, 66,000 ASIANS
03:30:53:00	03:30:57:00	LIVE IN BOSTON NOW AND THE
03:30:57:00	03:30:58:00	ASIAN COMMUNITY MAKES UP 10%
03:30:58:00	03:31:01:00	OF THE CITY'S POPULATION.
03:31:01:00	03:31:02:00	CHINATOWN HAS THE HIGHEST
03:31:02:00	03:31:07:00	POPULATION ASIAN RESIDENTS WITH
03:31:07:00	03:31:09:00	46% IDENTIFYING AS ASIAN
03:31:09:00	03:31:10:00	FOLLOWED BY ALLSTON AND
03:31:10:00	03:31:12:00	BRIGHTON ROXBURY.
03:31:12:00	03:31:13:00	I KNOW THERE'S THERE'S A LOT IN
03:31:13:00	03:31:19:00	CHARLESTON AS WELL.
03:31:19:00	03:31:20:00	THE REPORT DELVES INTO MANY
03:31:20:00	03:31:23:00	SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
03:31:23:00	03:31:24:00	INCLUDING MATERNAL AND INFANT
03:31:24:00	03:31:27:00	HEALTH SUBSTANCE USE, CHRONIC
03:31:27:00	03:31:28:00	DISEASE MORTALITY RATES.
03:31:28:00	03:31:31:00	WHILE MUCH OF THE DATA REPORTED
03:31:31:00	03:31:34:00	FAVORABLY FOR ASIAN RESIDENTS,
03:31:34:00	03:31:35:00	AREAS THAT REQUIRE ATTENTION
03:31:35:00	03:31:38:00	INCLUDE IMPROVING ACCESS TO
03:31:38:00	03:31:42:00	MEDICAL CARE, EXPANDING MENTAL
03:31:42:00	03:31:42:00	HEALTH OUTREACH AND EDUCATION,
03:31:42:00	03:31:46:00	FOCUSING ON SUCH CANCERS AS
03:31:46:00	03:31:50:00	LIVER IN LUNG CANCER SCREENING
03:31:50:00	03:31:54:00	FOR WOMEN FOR  EXAMINATION AS
03:31:54:00	03:31:58:00	WELL AS IS A CRITICAL ISSUE.
03:31:58:00	03:32:02:00	96% OF ASIAN ADULTS HAVE HEALTH
03:32:02:00	03:32:02:00	INSURANCE ON PAR WITH BOSTON AS
03:32:02:00	03:32:02:00	A WHOLE.
03:32:02:00	03:32:05:00	BUT ONLY 65% OF THE RESIDENTS
03:32:05:00	03:32:06:00	REPORTED HAVING A REGULAR
03:32:06:00	03:32:10:00	DOCTOR COMPARED TO 83% OF THE
03:32:10:00	03:32:13:00	NON-ASIAN POPULATION.
03:32:13:00	03:32:13:00	THERE IS LESS ACCESS TO
03:32:13:00	03:32:16:00	CONSISTENT MEDICAL CARE AND
03:32:16:00	03:32:17:00	LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
03:32:17:00	03:32:20:00	ACCESS SOMETHING
03:32:20:00	03:32:21:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA HAS ALWAYS
03:32:21:00	03:32:21:00	ADVOCATED FOR.
03:32:21:00	03:32:24:00	THAT'S CRITICAL IN THE MEDICAL
03:32:24:00	03:32:24:00	COMMUNITY.
03:32:24:00	03:32:28:00	THE REPORT ALSO FOUND THAT
03:32:28:00	03:32:29:00	ALTHOUGH A PERCENTAGE OF ASIAN
03:32:29:00	03:32:31:00	ADULTS 61% REPORT THAT THEY
03:32:31:00	03:32:31:00	WOULD SEEK THERAPY OR MENTAL
03:32:31:00	03:32:35:00	HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IF NEEDED
03:32:35:00	03:32:35:00	COMPARED TO THEIR NON ASIAN
03:32:35:00	03:32:39:00	COUNTERPARTS 74%.
03:32:39:00	03:32:40:00	THE REPORT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
03:32:40:00	03:32:43:00	THE LOWER REPORTED RATES COULD
03:32:43:00	03:32:46:00	BE DUE TO SUCH FACTORS AS
03:32:46:00	03:32:47:00	CULTURAL STIGMA WHICH LEADS TO
03:32:47:00	03:32:51:00	UNDERREPORTING OF SYMPTOMS.
03:32:51:00	03:32:52:00	HAVING WORKED WITH CHINATOWN
03:32:52:00	03:32:55:00	RESIDENTS FOR SO LONG THE
03:32:55:00	03:32:55:00	IMPORTANCE OF INCREASED MENTAL
03:32:55:00	03:32:58:00	HEALTH OUTREACH AND EDUCATION
03:32:58:00	03:32:59:00	FOR YOUTH FAMILIES, IMMIGRANTS
03:32:59:00	03:33:02:00	AND SENIORS CANNOT BE
03:33:02:00	03:33:02:00	OVERSTATED.
03:33:02:00	03:33:06:00	IT IS CRITICAL THAT THE BOSTON
03:33:06:00	03:33:06:00	PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION
03:33:06:00	03:33:07:00	CONTINUE TO OUTREACH AND INVEST
03:33:07:00	03:33:11:00	IN RESOURCES IN THE AME IN THE
03:33:11:00	03:33:11:00	ASIAN COMMUNITY INCLUDING
03:33:11:00	03:33:14:00	LANGUAGE ACCESS TO ENSURE THAT
03:33:14:00	03:33:14:00	RESIDENTS WHO MAY NEED PHYSICAL
03:33:14:00	03:33:18:00	AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT CAN
03:33:18:00	03:33:19:00	SEEK AND CAN SEEK THAT ACCESS.
03:33:19:00	03:33:22:00	I'D BE REMISS NOT TO MENTION
03:33:22:00	03:33:22:00	THE UNION OF CONCERNED
03:33:22:00	03:33:26:00	SCIENTISTS REPORT IN 2019 WHICH
03:33:26:00	03:33:29:00	FOCUSED ON INEQUITIES EXPOSURE
03:33:29:00	03:33:30:00	TO AIR POLLUTION FROM VEHICLES
03:33:30:00	03:33:33:00	IN MASSACHUSETTS, THE REPORT
03:33:33:00	03:33:37:00	STATED IN DISCUSS THE IMPACT
03:33:37:00	03:33:38:00	OF TRANSPORTATION AIRPORT
03:33:38:00	03:33:41:00	POLLUTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS
03:33:41:00	03:33:45:00	, ASIAN-AMERICANS AND LATINO
03:33:45:00	03:33:45:00	RESIDENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
03:33:45:00	03:33:46:00	THEY FOUND THAT CHINATOWN
03:33:46:00	03:33:49:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IN BOSTON IS THE
03:33:49:00	03:33:49:00	MOST DISPROPORTIONATELY
03:33:49:00	03:33:52:00	IMPACTED AREA AND THE CITY AND
03:33:52:00	03:33:53:00	IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
03:33:53:00	03:33:56:00	MYSELF AND THEN CITY
03:33:56:00	03:33:57:00	COUNCIL WERE AT THAT PRESS
03:33:57:00	03:33:59:00	CONFERENCE WHEN THE UNION
03:33:59:00	03:34:00:00	OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
03:34:00:00	03:34:03:00	RELEASED THEIR REPORT THAT WAS
03:34:03:00	03:34:04:00	WHERE JOSIAH QUINCY SCHOOL
03:34:04:00	03:34:07:00	CURRENTLY STANDS.
03:34:07:00	03:34:08:00	THE NEW SCHOOL CHINATOWN
03:34:08:00	03:34:11:00	RESIDENTS INCLUDING CHILDREN
03:34:11:00	03:34:12:00	AND ELDERLY SUFFER FROM HIGH
03:34:12:00	03:34:15:00	ASTHMA AND RESPIRATORY ILLNESS
03:34:15:00	03:34:15:00	AS WELL.
03:34:15:00	03:34:16:00	I HOPE TO DISCUSS THE FINDINGS
03:34:16:00	03:34:19:00	OF THIS REPORT WITH THE TEAM AT
03:34:19:00	03:34:19:00	BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION
03:34:19:00	03:34:23:00	TO SEE WHAT TYPE OF WORK AND
03:34:23:00	03:34:23:00	COLLABORATION WE CAN DO TO
03:34:23:00	03:34:27:00	ENHANCE HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THE
03:34:27:00	03:34:27:00	ASIAN COMMUNITY.
03:34:27:00	03:34:30:00	AGAIN, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
03:34:30:00	03:34:31:00	DR. OJUKWU TOO FOR WORKING WITH
03:34:31:00	03:34:34:00	ME OVER THE LAST YEAR TO MAKE
03:34:34:00	03:34:35:00	THIS HAPPEN.
03:34:35:00	03:34:35:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
03:34:35:00	03:34:38:00	THANK YOU FOR JOINING AS IS
03:34:38:00	03:34:38:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE
03:34:38:00	03:34:39:00	FLOOR.
03:34:39:00	03:34:39:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND
03:34:39:00	03:34:42:00	THANK YOU CONSTABLE FLYNN FOR
03:34:42:00	03:34:42:00	YOUR ADVOCACY IN THE CHINATOWN
03:34:42:00	03:34:42:00	COMMUNITY.
03:34:42:00	03:34:46:00	BUT ALSO FOR ALL OF OUR AGENTS
03:34:46:00	03:34:46:00	ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON.
03:34:46:00	03:34:49:00	AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK
03:34:49:00	03:34:50:00	I KNOW SHE SPOKE ABOUT IT AT
03:34:50:00	03:34:52:00	OUR BUDGET HEARING THAT SHE HAS
03:34:52:00	03:34:53:00	COMMISSIONED THIS REPORT AND
03:34:53:00	03:34:54:00	THAT IT HAD COME OUT.
03:34:54:00	03:34:56:00	SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
03:34:56:00	03:34:57:00	HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC HEALTH
03:34:57:00	03:34:59:00	COMMISSION ON THE DATA THAT
03:34:59:00	03:35:00:00	THEY FOUND AND I DO BELIEVE
03:35:00:00	03:35:01:00	THAT WITHOUT THAT WE'RE NOT
03:35:01:00	03:35:04:00	ABLE TO PUSH POLICY THAT WILL
03:35:04:00	03:35:05:00	HELP SUPPORT THE HEALTH OF OUR
03:35:05:00	03:35:08:00	AGENTS.
03:35:08:00	03:35:08:00	I KNOW COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU
03:35:08:00	03:35:09:00	WENT INTO DETAIL.
03:35:09:00	03:35:12:00	THANK YOU ON THE DISPARITIES
03:35:12:00	03:35:12:00	THAT OUR AGENTS ACROSS THE CITY
03:35:12:00	03:35:13:00	FACE IN HEALTH ISSUES.
03:35:13:00	03:35:16:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
03:35:16:00	03:35:16:00	HEARING AND CO-SPONSORING IT
03:35:16:00	03:35:17:00	WITH YOU.
03:35:17:00	03:35:20:00	THANK YOU.
03:35:20:00	03:35:20:00	THANK YOU.
03:35:20:00	03:35:21:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
03:35:21:00	03:35:25:00	ON THIS MATTER?
03:35:25:00	03:35:25:00	WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
03:35:25:00	03:35:26:00	I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME
03:35:26:00	03:35:27:00	MR CLARE BECAUSE THAT
03:35:27:00	03:35:28:00	COUNCIL IS BRAEDON CLARE AS A
03:35:28:00	03:35:28:00	PARTNER DURKIN FITZGERALD MEJIA
03:35:28:00	03:35:31:00	BUT THEN SANTANA WEBER WORLD
03:35:31:00	03:35:34:00	PLEASE OF THE CHAIR ARE THIS
03:35:34:00	03:35:38:00	DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 1063 WILL
03:35:38:00	03:35:39:00	BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
03:35:39:00	03:35:42:00	PUBLIC HEALTH HOMELESSNESS AND
03:35:42:00	03:35:42:00	RECOVERY.
03:35:42:00	03:35:45:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE BE
03:35:45:00	03:35:45:00	TALKING NUMBER 1064?
03:35:45:00	03:35:48:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 106 FOR
03:35:48:00	03:35:49:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY FOR THE
03:35:49:00	03:35:50:00	FOLLOWING SECOND ORDER
03:35:50:00	03:35:51:00	REQUESTING CERTAIN INFORMATION
03:35:51:00	03:35:53:00	UNDER SECTION 17 OF REGARDING
03:35:53:00	03:35:57:00	DISCLOSURE OF INDIVIDUAL
03:35:57:00	03:35:57:00	RECEIPTS OF CITY FUNDED DOWN
03:35:57:00	03:36:01:00	PAYMENT ASSISTANCE GRANTS TO
03:36:01:00	03:36:01:00	ESCROW SINCE 2021.
03:36:01:00	03:36:02:00	THANK YOU.
03:36:02:00	03:36:02:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:36:02:00	03:36:04:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY
03:36:04:00	03:36:05:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
03:36:05:00	03:36:05:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:36:05:00	03:36:08:00	JUST FILING AGAIN WITH MORE
03:36:08:00	03:36:08:00	CLARIFICATION ON SOME OF THE
03:36:08:00	03:36:09:00	INFORMATION THAN I HAD SAID
03:36:09:00	03:36:12:00	BEFORE.
03:36:12:00	03:36:13:00	I DID NOT GET RETURNED IN THE
03:36:13:00	03:36:14:00	FIRST FILING.
03:36:14:00	03:36:16:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.
03:36:16:00	03:36:16:00	THANK YOU.
03:36:16:00	03:36:20:00	THANK YOU.
03:36:20:00	03:36:26:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:36:26:00	03:36:30:00	COUNCILOR BREADON BECAUSE
03:36:30:00	03:36:31:00	THEY'RE WAITING YOU HAVE THE
03:36:31:00	03:36:34:00	FLOOR NORMALLY THERE'S NO
03:36:34:00	03:36:34:00	SPEAKING ON 17TH.
03:36:34:00	03:36:38:00	MADAM CHAIR, I FEEL THAT THIS
03:36:38:00	03:36:38:00	IS REDUNDANT.
03:36:38:00	03:36:42:00	THE THE THE THE AS THE CHAIR
03:36:42:00	03:36:42:00	OF HOUSING HAVE REVIEWED ALL
03:36:42:00	03:36:45:00	THIS MATERIAL THAT WAS SENT
03:36:45:00	03:36:45:00	BACK.
03:36:45:00	03:36:47:00	THERE ARE LITERALLY, YOU KNOW,
03:36:47:00	03:36:48:00	ALMOST 100 PAGES OF OF A
03:36:48:00	03:36:52:00	MATERIAL SENT BACK WITH REGARD
03:36:52:00	03:36:53:00	TO THESE QUESTIONS AND I THINK
03:36:53:00	03:36:56:00	THERE WAS SOME LEGALITY ISSUES
03:36:56:00	03:36:59:00	OF LEGALITY WITH REGARD TO
03:36:59:00	03:37:00:00	INFORMATION THAT THEY COULD NOT
03:37:00:00	03:37:03:00	DISCLOSE.
03:37:03:00	03:37:06:00	UM AND I FEEL THIS IS A
03:37:06:00	03:37:06:00	REDUNDANT 17 IF AT THIS POINT I
03:37:06:00	03:37:09:00	RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT UM, YOU
03:37:09:00	03:37:10:00	KNOW THAT WE PERUSE THE
03:37:10:00	03:37:13:00	INFORMATION THAT WE'VE GOTTEN
03:37:13:00	03:37:14:00	IS VERY VALUABLE AND I'D ALSO
03:37:14:00	03:37:17:00	LIKE TO THANK THE STAFF AT THE
03:37:17:00	03:37:18:00	MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING AND
03:37:18:00	03:37:18:00	THE BOSTON HOMELESS CENTER AND
03:37:18:00	03:37:21:00	THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY
03:37:21:00	03:37:22:00	AND I DON'T WANT THIS TO
03:37:22:00	03:37:25:00	DISCOURAGE APPLICANTS.
03:37:25:00	03:37:25:00	I WANT TO ENCOURAGE APPLICANTS
03:37:25:00	03:37:26:00	TO PURSUE THE HOMEOWNERSHIP
03:37:26:00	03:37:29:00	DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
03:37:29:00	03:37:29:00	MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE
03:37:29:00	03:37:30:00	MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING IN
03:37:30:00	03:37:32:00	THE BOSTON HOME CENTER AND
03:37:32:00	03:37:33:00	THROUGH THE BE HERE J FROM AND
03:37:33:00	03:37:37:00	ALSO TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO GO
03:37:37:00	03:37:38:00	TO BOSTON DR. BACKSLASH HOME
03:37:38:00	03:37:41:00	CENTER FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
03:37:41:00	03:37:41:00	THE HOMEOWNERSHIP ISSUES AND
03:37:41:00	03:37:45:00	HUGELY IMPORTANT IN ALLSTON
03:37:45:00	03:37:46:00	BRIGHTON THIS IS A VERY
03:37:46:00	03:37:46:00	VALUABLE PROGRAM FOR OUR
03:37:46:00	03:37:48:00	NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALLSTON
03:37:48:00	03:37:49:00	BRIGHTON WHICH HAS THE LOWEST
03:37:49:00	03:37:52:00	HOMEOWNERSHIP ALLSTON HAS THE
03:37:52:00	03:37:53:00	LOWEST HOMEOWNERSHIP IN THE
03:37:53:00	03:37:54:00	CITY WAS ALONG WITH MISSION
03:37:54:00	03:37:56:00	HILL AND THIS THIS PROGRAM IS
03:37:56:00	03:38:00:00	INCREDIBLY VALUABLE AND IF IF
03:38:00:00	03:38:03:00	IF THE LEGAL OPINION IS THAT
03:38:03:00	03:38:04:00	IT'S INAPPROPRIATE TO SHARE
03:38:04:00	03:38:07:00	PEOPLE'S RECIPIENTS FULL NAME
03:38:07:00	03:38:08:00	THE GRANT AMOUNT TO DATE
03:38:08:00	03:38:12:00	OF DISPERSAL AND THE PROGRAM
03:38:12:00	03:38:12:00	UNDER WHICH THE GRANT WAS AND
03:38:12:00	03:38:15:00	THE PROPERTY THE PROPERTY THAT
03:38:15:00	03:38:16:00	WAS BOUGHT WITH THE GRANT
03:38:16:00	03:38:17:00	ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRANT I
03:38:17:00	03:38:19:00	THINK THAT WE NEED TO RESPECT
03:38:19:00	03:38:20:00	PEOPLE'S PRIVACY IN THIS
03:38:20:00	03:38:20:00	MOMENT.
03:38:20:00	03:38:20:00	THANK YOU.
03:38:20:00	03:38:23:00	THANK YOU.
03:38:23:00	03:38:24:00	WE ARE IN A QUICK FIVE MINUTE
03:38:24:00	03:51:20:00	RECESS.
03:51:20:00	03:51:23:00	WE ARE BACK IN SESSION SO THERE
03:51:23:00	03:51:26:00	WERE LIGHTS ON FOR 17 HOURS
03:51:26:00	03:51:30:00	USUALLY DISCOURAGE CONVERSATION
03:51:30:00	03:51:31:00	ON 17 APP BUT THERE IS NO RULE
03:51:31:00	03:51:34:00	THAT STATES THAT ONLY THE FILER
03:51:34:00	03:51:35:00	BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A 17 APP
03:51:35:00	03:51:35:00	ALTHOUGH IT'S USUALLY
03:51:35:00	03:51:38:00	DISCOURAGED BECAUSE 17 APPS GO
03:51:38:00	03:51:39:00	FORWARD WITH IT USUALLY WITH NO
03:51:39:00	03:51:42:00	ISSUE BUT EVEN AT TIMES LAST
03:51:42:00	03:51:45:00	TERM THERE WAS A POINT OF ORDER
03:51:45:00	03:51:46:00	YOU CAN SPEAKER'S POINT
03:51:46:00	03:51:46:00	OF ORDER WANT TO SPEAK POINT
03:51:46:00	03:51:49:00	OF ORDER WHEN WE WENT INTO
03:51:49:00	03:51:50:00	RECESS I SPOKE WITH YOU AND YOU
03:51:50:00	03:51:51:00	DID SAY YOU WOULD COME BACK AND
03:51:51:00	03:51:53:00	TALK TO ME BEFORE THE RECESS
03:51:53:00	03:51:54:00	ENDED BUT YOU WENT RIGHT INTO
03:51:54:00	03:51:54:00	THE COUNCIL.
03:51:54:00	03:51:57:00	OH, I WAS HERE AND YOU DIDN'T I
03:51:57:00	03:51:57:00	DIDN'T SEE YOU COME TO ME.
03:51:57:00	03:51:58:00	I DIDN'T I SAW YOU AT THE DOOR
03:51:58:00	03:52:01:00	AND THEN OH COME RIGHT.
03:52:01:00	03:52:01:00	OKAY.
03:52:01:00	03:52:02:00	WE ARE WE ARE IN A BRIEF RECESS
03:52:02:00	03:55:03:00	SO YOU CAN TO ME IN SESSION AND
03:55:03:00	03:55:07:00	SO I WAS SPEAKING ABOUT 17 APPS
03:55:07:00	03:55:07:00	USUALLY TYPICALLY DISCOURAGED
03:55:07:00	03:55:11:00	BUT I DO REMEMBER RECALL FROM
03:55:11:00	03:55:12:00	MY FIRST TERM DISCOURAGED BUT
03:55:12:00	03:55:15:00	NOT DISALLOWED THERE WERE
03:55:15:00	03:55:15:00	LIGHTS ON TO SPEAK ON THIS
03:55:15:00	03:55:16:00	MATTER.
03:55:16:00	03:55:16:00	IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO
03:55:16:00	03:55:19:00	CONTINUE SPEAKING ON THE 17TH
03:55:19:00	03:55:23:00	YOU MAY DO SO.
03:55:23:00	03:55:23:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
03:55:23:00	03:55:23:00	FLYNN.
03:55:23:00	03:55:24:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
03:55:24:00	03:55:26:00	FLOOR YEAH.
03:55:26:00	03:55:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:55:27:00	03:55:30:00	I WASN'T REALLY GOING TO SPEAK
03:55:30:00	03:55:30:00	ON THIS.
03:55:30:00	03:55:33:00	I DO KNOW THAT ON 17 F FCU TO
03:55:33:00	03:55:36:00	KIND OF ALMOST A GUARANTEE THAT
03:55:36:00	03:55:37:00	IT'LL BE APPROVED BUT THERE'S
03:55:37:00	03:55:40:00	REALLY NO DISCUSSION.
03:55:40:00	03:55:41:00	BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION MADAM
03:55:41:00	03:55:42:00	CHAIR AND I WANT TO BE
03:55:42:00	03:55:44:00	RESPECTFUL BUT GOING FORWARD
03:55:44:00	03:55:48:00	WILL THERE BE DISCUSSIONS ON 17
03:55:48:00	03:55:51:00	APPS IF A COLLEAGUE WANTS TO
03:55:51:00	03:55:52:00	DISCUSS IT OR ARE YOU SAYING
03:55:52:00	03:55:53:00	THAT THERE WILL BE NO
03:55:53:00	03:55:56:00	DISCUSSIONS GOING FORWARD JUST
03:55:56:00	03:55:57:00	SO THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME
03:55:57:00	03:55:59:00	PAGE BUT HISTORICALLY THERE'S
03:55:59:00	03:56:03:00	ALWAYS BEEN NO VERY LIMITED OR
03:56:03:00	03:56:03:00	NO DISCUSSIONS ON 17 APPS.
03:56:03:00	03:56:04:00	BUT IF IF IF WE ARE GOING TO
03:56:04:00	03:56:08:00	HAVE DISCUSSIONS I WOULD I
03:56:08:00	03:56:08:00	WOULD LIKE TO WEIGH IN
03:56:08:00	03:56:11:00	EVENTUALLY ON IT.
03:56:11:00	03:56:11:00	THANK YOU.
03:56:11:00	03:56:12:00	SO IT IS DISCOURAGED BY IT.
03:56:12:00	03:56:15:00	THERE'S NO RULE AGAINST IT.
03:56:15:00	03:56:16:00	DURING MY FIRST TERM WHEN YOU
03:56:16:00	03:56:17:00	WERE COUNCIL PRESIDENT, 17 APPS
03:56:17:00	03:56:18:00	USUALLY DID GO THROUGH
03:56:18:00	03:56:18:00	ROUTINELY BUT THERE WERE
03:56:18:00	03:56:21:00	INSTANCES WHERE THERE WAS
03:56:21:00	03:56:22:00	DISCUSSION ON 17 APPS THAT WERE
03:56:22:00	03:56:25:00	AT ISSUE AND WERE A SO WHERE I
03:56:25:00	03:56:28:00	SAW LIGHTS GO ON ON AN ISSUE I
03:56:28:00	03:56:29:00	ALLOW THAT I WENT I WENT INTO A
03:56:29:00	03:56:31:00	BRIEF RECESS TO CONFIRM MY
03:56:31:00	03:56:32:00	UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WAS
03:56:32:00	03:56:33:00	NOTHING THAT LIMITED
03:56:33:00	03:56:36:00	PARTICIPATION ON ADDITIONAL
03:56:36:00	03:56:37:00	SPEAKING ON SOMETHING AS IT IS
03:56:37:00	03:56:39:00	JUST HIGHLY DISCOURAGED SO THAT
03:56:39:00	03:56:40:00	WE CAN CONTINUE THE FLOW OF THE
03:56:40:00	03:56:43:00	MEETING BUT WHERE THERE ARE
03:56:43:00	03:56:44:00	STRONG OPINIONS ON A 17 APP
03:56:44:00	03:56:47:00	WHERE THERE USUALLY GOES
03:56:47:00	03:56:47:00	THROUGH IN WHERE IT DOESN'T
03:56:47:00	03:56:50:00	LOOK LIKE IS GOING TO GO
03:56:50:00	03:56:50:00	THROUGH WITH UNANIMOUS SUPPORT
03:56:50:00	03:56:51:00	AND THEN THERE NEEDS TO BE A
03:56:51:00	03:56:52:00	ROLL CALL VOTE ON IT.
03:56:52:00	03:56:54:00	I WILL ALLOW FOR DISCUSSION ON
03:56:54:00	03:56:54:00	THAT MATTER.
03:56:54:00	03:56:55:00	AND SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
03:56:55:00	03:56:58:00	SPEAK ON THIS MATTER,
03:56:58:00	03:56:59:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU MAY DO SO
03:56:59:00	03:56:59:00	NOW.
03:56:59:00	03:57:01:00	YES, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:57:01:00	03:57:02:00	MADAM CHAIR, MAY I RESPECTFULLY
03:57:02:00	03:57:05:00	ASK A QUESTION TO
03:57:05:00	03:57:05:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY?
03:57:05:00	03:57:06:00	YOU MAY THROUGH THE CHAIR YOU
03:57:06:00	03:57:09:00	MAY.
03:57:09:00	03:57:09:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:57:09:00	03:57:12:00	I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW
03:57:12:00	03:57:13:00	THE REQUEST THAT SHE'S REALLY
03:57:13:00	03:57:16:00	ASKING ABOUT BUT JUST FOR JUST
03:57:16:00	03:57:19:00	FOR THE AUDIENCE THAT'S
03:57:19:00	03:57:20:00	LISTENING ALSO AND FOR
03:57:20:00	03:57:23:00	COLLEAGUES THAT MAY NOT HAVE AN
03:57:23:00	03:57:24:00	UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE
03:57:24:00	03:57:27:00	REQUEST IS AND I KNOW WHAT'S
03:57:27:00	03:57:28:00	IT'S IN THE AGENDA TOO.
03:57:28:00	03:57:31:00	BUT COUNCILOR MURPHY CAN, YOU
03:57:31:00	03:57:32:00	GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND
03:57:32:00	03:57:35:00	ON WHAT YOU'RE SEEKING THE
03:57:35:00	03:57:36:00	CHAIR TO THE CHAIR CATHERINE
03:57:36:00	03:57:39:00	MURPHY WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND.
03:57:39:00	03:57:43:00	YOU MAY I ORIGINALLY FILED THIS
03:57:43:00	03:57:43:00	ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS I'M
03:57:43:00	03:57:46:00	ASKING NOW AND THIS WAS A LATE
03:57:46:00	03:57:50:00	RESPONSE BUT WE DID I DID
03:57:50:00	03:57:50:00	RECEIVE A RESPONSE.
03:57:50:00	03:57:51:00	WE ALL RECEIVE IT AND THERE
03:57:51:00	03:57:54:00	WERE LOTS OF PAGES WITH NUMBERS
03:57:54:00	03:57:57:00	AND THEN I GUESS THE PROGRAMS
03:57:57:00	03:58:01:00	WHICH PROGRAM THEY GOT MONEY
03:58:01:00	03:58:02:00	FOR BUT IT WASN'T IN ANY WAY
03:58:02:00	03:58:05:00	THAT IT KIND OF GAVE US
03:58:05:00	03:58:05:00	INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP
03:58:05:00	03:58:09:00	WITH DATA BECAUSE I WAS ASKING
03:58:09:00	03:58:09:00	WE ONLY THEY ONLY INCLUDED
03:58:09:00	03:58:10:00	AGGREGATE NUMERICAL DATA
03:58:10:00	03:58:13:00	WITHOUT IDENTIFY ANY OF THE
03:58:13:00	03:58:13:00	QUESTIONS I ASKED.
03:58:13:00	03:58:17:00	SO THAT'S WHY I WENT BACK AND I
03:58:17:00	03:58:17:00	HAD A CONVERSATION WITH CLAIRE
03:58:17:00	03:58:18:00	ABOUT IT AND WE DID DISAGREE
03:58:18:00	03:58:20:00	ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE
03:58:20:00	03:58:24:00	ADMINISTRATION SHOULD OR SHOULD
03:58:24:00	03:58:25:00	IN OR LEGALLY HAS TO GIVE US
03:58:25:00	03:58:25:00	THIS INFORMATION.
03:58:25:00	03:58:28:00	BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THAT
03:58:28:00	03:58:29:00	SHOULD BE ON THEM TO COME BACK
03:58:29:00	03:58:32:00	TO ME IN THIS SECOND REQUEST IF
03:58:32:00	03:58:32:00	THEY FEEL AS THOUGH IT'S NOT
03:58:32:00	03:58:33:00	LEGAL BECAUSE I DID HAVE A
03:58:33:00	03:58:35:00	CONVERSATION AND CLAIRE KNOWS
03:58:35:00	03:58:36:00	THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH THEIR
03:58:36:00	03:58:39:00	OPINION NOW THAT IT'S NOT LEGAL
03:58:39:00	03:58:39:00	TO SHARE SOME OF THE
03:58:39:00	03:58:40:00	INFORMATION THAT I WAS ASKING
03:58:40:00	03:58:42:00	FOR.
03:58:42:00	03:58:43:00	THANK YOU AND COUSIN MURPHY I
03:58:43:00	03:58:46:00	JUST I PULLED UP THEIR RESPONSE
03:58:46:00	03:58:46:00	.
03:58:46:00	03:58:47:00	SO I'VE TALKED TO LEGAL I'VE
03:58:47:00	03:58:47:00	TALKED TO THEM AND IT JUST SAY
03:58:47:00	03:58:50:00	THAT RECORD CUSTODIANS MUST
03:58:50:00	03:58:50:00	WEIGH THE PRIVACY INTEREST
03:58:50:00	03:58:51:00	OF INDIVIDUALS AGAINST A PUBLIC
03:58:51:00	03:58:54:00	INTEREST IN DISCLOSURE AND THE
03:58:54:00	03:58:55:00	VERY SPECIFIC DATA THAT YOU ASK
03:58:55:00	03:58:58:00	FOR IS NOT DATA THAT HAVE EVER
03:58:58:00	03:58:58:00	TURNED OVER.
03:58:58:00	03:59:01:00	AND WHILE THERE MAY BE WHEN
03:59:01:00	03:59:02:00	THERE ARE GRANTS TURNED OVER
03:59:02:00	03:59:03:00	FOR A BUSINESS, THE PRIVACY
03:59:03:00	03:59:06:00	INTEREST HERE MY UNDERSTANDING
03:59:06:00	03:59:06:00	OF HOW I'M READING THIS BOTH AS
03:59:06:00	03:59:09:00	A COUNSELOR, AS AN ATTORNEY IS
03:59:09:00	03:59:10:00	THAT THEY'RE SAYING THAT THERE
03:59:10:00	03:59:10:00	ARE PRIVACY INTEREST IN TURNING
03:59:10:00	03:59:11:00	OVER.
03:59:11:00	03:59:13:00	SO IT'S THE SAME REQUEST THAT
03:59:13:00	03:59:14:00	THEY'VE ALREADY DENIED THAT IS
03:59:14:00	03:59:17:00	BEFORE THE BODY AGAIN ARE
03:59:17:00	03:59:17:00	CONCERNED.
03:59:17:00	03:59:18:00	MURPHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO
03:59:18:00	03:59:21:00	RESPOND TO THE CHAIR YOU MAY IT
03:59:21:00	03:59:22:00	WAS DEFINITELY A LITTLE
03:59:22:00	03:59:24:00	DIFFERENT AND THAT'S A
03:59:24:00	03:59:25:00	CONVERSATION I HAD WITH IDR.
03:59:25:00	03:59:29:00	AND JUST TO BE CLEAR RECIPIENTS
03:59:29:00	03:59:29:00	OF LOW INCOME LOTTERIES ARE
03:59:29:00	03:59:29:00	PUBLIC RECORDS.
03:59:29:00	03:59:32:00	PEOPLE GET THEM ALL THE TIME
03:59:32:00	03:59:33:00	THE MEDIA LOVES TO SHARE WHO
03:59:33:00	03:59:36:00	HAS OR WHO HASN'T RECEIVED IT.
03:59:36:00	03:59:36:00	REMEMBER THERE WAS A WHOLE
03:59:36:00	03:59:40:00	MEDIA EXPOSÉ AND SHEILA AND SHE
03:59:40:00	03:59:43:00	DYLAN HAD TO BE INTERVIEWED ON
03:59:43:00	03:59:44:00	THE AMOUNT OF CITY EMPLOYEES
03:59:44:00	03:59:46:00	WHO RECEIVE LOW THESE LOW
03:59:46:00	03:59:47:00	INCOME LOTTERIES AT A BUILDING
03:59:47:00	03:59:51:00	SO IT ISN'T TRUE AND I KNOW THE
03:59:51:00	03:59:52:00	MAYOR HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCES
03:59:52:00	03:59:55:00	CELEBRATING THE RECIPIENTS.
03:59:55:00	03:59:56:00	I KNOW PEOPLE USE THEM IN
03:59:56:00	03:59:58:00	CAMPAIGN MAILERS CELEBRATING
03:59:58:00	03:59:59:00	THAT WE HAVE HELPED ADVOCATE
03:59:59:00	03:59:59:00	FOR RESIDENTS AND IT'S
03:59:59:00	04:00:02:00	SOMETHING I WANT TO CONTINUE TO
04:00:02:00	04:00:03:00	DO AND FOR THIS INFORMATION I
04:00:03:00	04:00:06:00	WAS ASKING AND I WANTED TO BE
04:00:06:00	04:00:06:00	SPECIFIC TO SEE WHICH
04:00:06:00	04:00:09:00	NEIGHBORHOODS WERE RECEIVING
04:00:09:00	04:00:10:00	THIS THESE GRANTS WERE WE BEING
04:00:10:00	04:00:13:00	EQUITABLE WHERE WE'RE MAKING
04:00:13:00	04:00:14:00	SURE THAT WE WERE DOING ALL OR
04:00:14:00	04:00:17:00	I'M DOING ALL I CAN TO MAKE
04:00:17:00	04:00:18:00	SURE THAT MORE RESIDENTS ACROSS
04:00:18:00	04:00:21:00	THE CITY ARE AWARE OF THESE
04:00:21:00	04:00:21:00	WONDERFUL PROGRAMS AND THAT
04:00:21:00	04:00:22:00	THEY'RE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN
04:00:22:00	04:00:25:00	THEM AND THE INFORMATION I WAS
04:00:25:00	04:00:25:00	ASKING I WAS JUST ASKING FOR
04:00:25:00	04:00:28:00	CLEAN CLEAR INFORMATION THAT IS
04:00:28:00	04:00:29:00	LEGALLY I BELIEVE SOMETHING WE
04:00:29:00	04:00:32:00	SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET.
04:00:32:00	04:00:32:00	SO THIS ASSUMPTION THAT IT'S
04:00:32:00	04:00:36:00	NEGATIVE OR THAT I'M SOMEHOW
04:00:36:00	04:00:36:00	TRYING TO STEER PEOPLE AWAY
04:00:36:00	04:00:39:00	FROM TAKING PART I VOTED YES
04:00:39:00	04:00:40:00	TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
04:00:40:00	04:00:43:00	I'VE NEVER VOTED AGAINST ANY
04:00:43:00	04:00:44:00	EXPANSION OF HOMEOWNERSHIP OR
04:00:44:00	04:00:47:00	RENTAL ASSISTANCE IN THE CITY
04:00:47:00	04:00:48:00	SO I JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD
04:00:48:00	04:00:49:00	THERE BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO HAVE
04:00:49:00	04:00:51:00	BEEN AN ASSUMPTION THAT I'M
04:00:51:00	04:00:51:00	TRYING TO ASK FOR INFORMATION
04:00:51:00	04:00:55:00	TO SOMEHOW STOP PEOPLE FROM
04:00:55:00	04:00:55:00	WANTING TO APPLY.
04:00:55:00	04:00:59:00	WE WERE AT THE BUDGET HEARING
04:00:59:00	04:00:59:00	THAT COUNCIL WERE ALL CHAIRED
04:00:59:00	04:01:02:00	IN DISTRICT AND THERE WAS A
04:01:02:00	04:01:02:00	WOMAN WHO WAS THERE WHO WAS
04:01:02:00	04:01:03:00	VERY WILLING TO SHARE IN
04:01:03:00	04:01:05:00	THANKING US THAT SHE IS A
04:01:05:00	04:01:06:00	HOMEOWNER NOW BECAUSE OF THIS
04:01:06:00	04:01:09:00	PROGRAM BECAUSE OF OUR ADVOCACY
04:01:09:00	04:01:09:00	HERE ON THE COUNCIL AND I THINK
04:01:09:00	04:01:13:00	THIS INFORMATION LIKE WE DO
04:01:13:00	04:01:14:00	WITH LOTTERIES WHEN PEOPLE WIN
04:01:14:00	04:01:17:00	LOW MORTGAGES, TWO LOTTERIES AT
04:01:17:00	04:01:21:00	DIFFERENT APARTMENTS THAT GO UP
04:01:21:00	04:01:22:00	ACROSS THE CITY, IT'S IMPORTANT
04:01:22:00	04:01:22:00	THAT WHEN WE ASK FOR
04:01:22:00	04:01:25:00	INFORMATION THEY GIVE US THE
04:01:25:00	04:01:25:00	INFORMATION WE NEED.
04:01:25:00	04:01:29:00	I NEVER STOP OTHERS
04:01:29:00	04:01:29:00	COUNCIL MAYOR HERE RECENTLY
04:01:29:00	04:01:30:00	ASKED FOR NO INFORMATION ON
04:01:30:00	04:01:33:00	CITY EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE CARDS
04:01:33:00	04:01:33:00	RIGHT.
04:01:33:00	04:01:34:00	IT'S LIKE I'M NOT GOING TO
04:01:34:00	04:01:35:00	QUESTION WHAT SHE WANTS THE
04:01:35:00	04:01:37:00	INFORMATION FOR.
04:01:37:00	04:01:38:00	WE HAVE A RIGHT TO WAIT AND WE
04:01:38:00	04:01:40:00	CAN USE DIFFERENT AVENUES BUT I
04:01:40:00	04:01:41:00	THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE AS
04:01:41:00	04:01:42:00	COLLEAGUES, WE SUPPORT OUR
04:01:42:00	04:01:45:00	COLLEAGUES AND IF OUR IF PEOPLE
04:01:45:00	04:01:45:00	USE THE INFORMATION IN A WAY WE
04:01:45:00	04:01:48:00	DON'T LIKE GOING FORWARD, THEN
04:01:48:00	04:01:49:00	YOU CAN BUTTON IT TO MAKE AN
04:01:49:00	04:01:52:00	ASSUMPTION THAT I WOULD WANT TO
04:01:52:00	04:01:52:00	USE IT IN ANY NEGATIVE WAY.
04:01:52:00	04:01:53:00	I DON'T I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR
04:01:53:00	04:01:56:00	THAT THAT'S NOT MY INTENT.
04:01:56:00	04:01:56:00	IT NEVER HAS BEEN.
04:01:56:00	04:01:57:00	THANK YOU.
04:01:57:00	04:01:59:00	AND COUNCILOR MURPHY, JUST SO I
04:01:59:00	04:02:00:00	CAN CLARIFY LOOKING AT YOUR 17
04:02:00:00	04:02:03:00	IT ASKS FOR RECIPIENTS FULL
04:02:03:00	04:02:03:00	NAME GRANT UP RECEIVED DATE
04:02:03:00	04:02:04:00	OF DISBURSEMENT SO IS THAT IS
04:02:04:00	04:02:04:00	THAT CORRECT?
04:02:04:00	04:02:07:00	CORRECT.
04:02:07:00	04:02:07:00	THANK YOU.
04:02:07:00	04:02:07:00	THE CHAIR ADDRESS WHICH CLAIRE
04:02:07:00	04:02:08:00	AND I DID SPEAK ABOUT I MEAN
04:02:08:00	04:02:10:00	THE DEEDS ARE PUBLIC.
04:02:10:00	04:02:11:00	ANYONE CAN JUST TYPE IN
04:02:11:00	04:02:12:00	ANYONE'S NAME AND SEE WHERE
04:02:12:00	04:02:15:00	THEY LIVE AND IF THERE IS A
04:02:15:00	04:02:15:00	MORTGAGE ATTACK.
04:02:15:00	04:02:16:00	SO I MEAN MY OFFICE COULD DO
04:02:16:00	04:02:18:00	THAT WORK IF NEEDED BUT IT'S
04:02:18:00	04:02:19:00	OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT'S VERY
04:02:19:00	04:02:22:00	PUBLIC AND THEY NEED CITY FUNDS
04:02:22:00	04:02:24:00	ARE GIVEN OUT LIKE I'VE
04:02:24:00	04:02:25:00	REFERENCED LAST TIME WHEN I
04:02:25:00	04:02:25:00	FIRST FILED IT LIKE SPACE
04:02:25:00	04:02:29:00	GRANTS AND OTHER AWARDEES ARE
04:02:29:00	04:02:29:00	SHARED BECAUSE WHEN YOU RECEIVE
04:02:29:00	04:02:33:00	PUBLIC FUNDS IT HAS TO BE
04:02:33:00	04:02:33:00	PUBLIC INFORMATION NOT SHARED.
04:02:33:00	04:02:34:00	THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING.
04:02:34:00	04:02:37:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY,
04:02:37:00	04:02:38:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:02:38:00	04:02:38:00	COUNCILOR ALCANTARA.
04:02:38:00	04:02:39:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:02:39:00	04:02:40:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:02:40:00	04:02:44:00	AND YOU?
04:02:44:00	04:02:45:00	THIS THIS IS A HARD ONE FOR
04:02:45:00	04:02:45:00	ME BECAUSE I AM A HOME
04:02:45:00	04:02:48:00	OWNERSHIP ADVOCATE AND DOWN
04:02:48:00	04:02:48:00	PAYMENT ASSISTANCE IS ONE
04:02:48:00	04:02:51:00	OF THE REAL WAYS ON HOW TO HELP
04:02:51:00	04:02:52:00	LOW TO MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES
04:02:52:00	04:02:55:00	YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY BUY HERE ONE
04:02:55:00	04:02:56:00	OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE REAL
04:02:56:00	04:02:59:00	ESTATE MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY.
04:02:59:00	04:03:00:00	BUT I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS I
04:03:00:00	04:03:02:00	DO HAVE CONCERNS ON SHARING
04:03:02:00	04:03:10:00	PEOPLE'S INFORMATION.
04:03:10:00	04:03:11:00	A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU
04:03:11:00	04:03:11:00	MENTIONED WHETHER THEY'RE
04:03:11:00	04:03:14:00	COMING HERE TO TESTIFY GOING IN
04:03:14:00	04:03:14:00	FRONT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE,
04:03:14:00	04:03:15:00	YOU KNOW THEY'RE DOING THAT
04:03:15:00	04:03:15:00	WILLINGLY.
04:03:15:00	04:03:18:00	YOU KNOW, THEY'RE VOLUNTARILY
04:03:18:00	04:03:19:00	COMING IN WANTING TO SHARE
04:03:19:00	04:03:22:00	THEIR STORIES.
04:03:22:00	04:03:23:00	SO I JUST YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T
04:03:23:00	04:03:25:00	WANT TO DO ANYTHING TO REDUCE
04:03:25:00	04:03:26:00	THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE
04:03:26:00	04:03:30:00	SIGNING UP AND THERE ARE SOME
04:03:30:00	04:03:33:00	REAL PRIVACY CONCERNS THAT THE
04:03:33:00	04:03:33:00	ADMINISTRATION HAS SHARED WITH
04:03:33:00	04:03:34:00	US AROUND RELEASING ALL THAT
04:03:34:00	04:03:37:00	INFORMATION.
04:03:37:00	04:03:38:00	SO I THINK THIS THIS IS A
04:03:38:00	04:03:40:00	RESOURCE THAT WE SHOULD BE
04:03:40:00	04:03:41:00	ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO USE AND
04:03:41:00	04:03:44:00	TRYING TO PROMOTE IT.
04:03:44:00	04:03:45:00	I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD TRY TO
04:03:45:00	04:03:49:00	ADD ANY MORE BARRIERS AROUND
04:03:49:00	04:03:50:00	PRIVATE PRIVACY CONCERNS AROUND
04:03:50:00	04:03:53:00	THIS OR EVEN TRYING TO ATTACH
04:03:53:00	04:03:53:00	ANY STIGMAS.
04:03:53:00	04:03:54:00	THANK YOU.
04:03:54:00	04:03:54:00	THANK YOU.
04:03:54:00	04:03:56:00	THE JARGON IS KIND OF FUNNY ON
04:03:56:00	04:03:56:00	THE FLOOR.
04:03:56:00	04:03:59:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
04:03:59:00	04:04:00:00	I THINK WE HAVE TO DECIDE AS A
04:04:00:00	04:04:03:00	BODY IF RESIDENTS RECEIVE
04:04:03:00	04:04:07:00	PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE CITY IF
04:04:07:00	04:04:08:00	THAT IF THOSE PUBLIC FUNDS
04:04:08:00	04:04:11:00	SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC SPACE
04:04:11:00	04:04:11:00	GRANTS.
04:04:11:00	04:04:14:00	SOMEONE MENTIONED THE
04:04:14:00	04:04:15:00	COUNCIL METHOD MENTIONED
04:04:15:00	04:04:15:00	SPACECRAFT TO SUPPORT SMALL
04:04:15:00	04:04:15:00	BUSINESSES.
04:04:15:00	04:04:19:00	I THINK WE ALL SUPPORT ABOUT
04:04:19:00	04:04:19:00	BUT DOES THE PUBLIC HAVE A
04:04:19:00	04:04:22:00	RIGHT TO KNOW WHO RECEIVE SPACE
04:04:22:00	04:04:23:00	GRANTS?
04:04:23:00	04:04:25:00	I THINK THEY DO.
04:04:25:00	04:04:30:00	I THINK THE CITY DID COME UP
04:04:30:00	04:04:30:00	WITH A LIST OF WHO RECEIVE
04:04:30:00	04:04:30:00	SPACE GRANTS.
04:04:30:00	04:04:34:00	THE NAMES IN THE NAME OF THE
04:04:34:00	04:04:37:00	THE BUSINESS IT IS TAXPAYER
04:04:37:00	04:04:37:00	MONEY.
04:04:37:00	04:04:41:00	DOES THE PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT TO
04:04:41:00	04:04:45:00	WHO RECEIVED GRANTS TO HELP FOR
04:04:45:00	04:04:46:00	A FOR A MORTGAGE OR FOR OR FOR
04:04:46:00	04:04:48:00	HOME OWNERSHIP?
04:04:48:00	04:04:49:00	I THINK THEY DO.
04:04:49:00	04:04:52:00	I THINK THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT
04:04:52:00	04:04:55:00	TO KNOW IF IT'S PUBLIC FUNDS.
04:04:55:00	04:04:56:00	WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:04:56:00	04:04:57:00	PUBLIC FUNDS ARE SPENT
04:04:57:00	04:05:00:00	APPROPRIATELY AND THE PUBLIC
04:05:00:00	04:05:03:00	HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHEN WHEN
04:05:03:00	04:05:06:00	SOMEONE DOES RECEIVE THIS
04:05:06:00	04:05:10:00	OF GRANT HOW MUCH IT WAS FOR
04:05:10:00	04:05:10:00	WHO WAS GIVEN TO WHAT
04:05:10:00	04:05:13:00	NEIGHBORHOODS WERE IMPACTED TO
04:05:13:00	04:05:17:00	ENSURE THAT WE ARE BEING
04:05:17:00	04:05:20:00	TRANSPARENT, THAT WE ARE BEING
04:05:20:00	04:05:25:00	ABOVE BOARD THE THAT WE ARE
04:05:25:00	04:05:25:00	BEING ETHICAL, WE ARE PROVIDING
04:05:25:00	04:05:28:00	POSITIVE LEADERSHIP.
04:05:28:00	04:05:29:00	I THINK TRANSPARENCY IS A
04:05:29:00	04:05:32:00	CRITICAL ROLE THAT WE PLAY HERE
04:05:32:00	04:05:33:00	IN THE COUNCIL.
04:05:33:00	04:05:34:00	THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW
04:05:34:00	04:05:37:00	WHERE THEIR MONEY IS SPENT.
04:05:37:00	04:05:37:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
04:05:37:00	04:05:38:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:05:38:00	04:05:38:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
04:05:38:00	04:05:40:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:05:40:00	04:05:40:00	THANK YOU, MS..
04:05:40:00	04:05:41:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:05:41:00	04:05:44:00	AND YOU KNOW, AS ANYONE WHO
04:05:44:00	04:05:45:00	LOOKED AT THE AMOUNT
04:05:45:00	04:05:51:00	OF INFORMATION THAT IS ACTUALLY
04:05:51:00	04:05:51:00	BEEN GIVEN THIS YEAR, DETAILS
04:05:51:00	04:05:52:00	OF THE AWARD, THE INTEREST
04:05:52:00	04:05:52:00	SUBSIDY AMOUNT, THE PROPERTY
04:05:52:00	04:05:56:00	ZIP CODE, WHETHER IT OR NOT AS
04:05:56:00	04:05:59:00	A BEACH OR A BEACH BOSTON BEACH
04:05:59:00	04:06:02:00	C PROGRAM AND WHAT IS IT?
04:06:02:00	04:06:03:00	IS IT A ONE BOSTON ONE PLUS
04:06:03:00	04:06:06:00	BOSTON MORTGAGE PROGRAM?
04:06:06:00	04:06:09:00	IT'S THERE'S 28 PAGES.
04:06:09:00	04:06:15:00	IT'S SOMETHING LIKE ALMOST A
04:06:15:00	04:06:15:00	THOUSAND A THOUSAND CASES IN
04:06:15:00	04:06:19:00	THIS PACKET.
04:06:19:00	04:06:23:00	AND I REALLY DO FEEL THAT FOLKS
04:06:23:00	04:06:24:00	WHO WORK HARD SAVE FOR THEIR
04:06:24:00	04:06:27:00	DOWN PAYMENT GET SOME DOWN
04:06:27:00	04:06:28:00	PAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
04:06:28:00	04:06:31:00	THERE'S NUMBERS HERE.
04:06:31:00	04:06:31:00	GET SOME DOWN PAYMENT
04:06:31:00	04:06:31:00	ASSISTANCE.
04:06:31:00	04:06:35:00	I DON'T THINK IT'S ANYBODY'S
04:06:35:00	04:06:38:00	BUSINESS WHEN THEY APPLY FOR A
04:06:38:00	04:06:42:00	MORTGAGE THAT THAT THIS BECOMES
04:06:42:00	04:06:42:00	PUBLIC RECORD.
04:06:42:00	04:06:46:00	I THINK GIVING PEOPLE'S NAMES
04:06:46:00	04:06:47:00	THE FULL NAME THE GRANT AMOUNT
04:06:47:00	04:06:50:00	RECEIVED THE GRANT AMOUNT
04:06:50:00	04:06:51:00	RECEIVED AS YOU KNOW IF THIS IS
04:06:51:00	04:06:53:00	PUBLIC MONEY IT'S IT'S ALL HERE
04:06:53:00	04:06:54:00	IDENTIFYING THE DATE
04:06:54:00	04:06:54:00	OF DISBURSEMENT THE PROGRAM
04:06:54:00	04:06:58:00	UNDER THE GRANT WHICH THE GRANT
04:06:58:00	04:07:01:00	WAS AWARDED THAT'S IN HERE THE
04:07:01:00	04:07:01:00	PROPERTY ADDRESS ASSOCIATED
04:07:01:00	04:07:02:00	AROUND THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT
04:07:02:00	04:07:05:00	FROM A SPACECRAFT THIS IS
04:07:05:00	04:07:05:00	SOMEBODY'S DOMICILE.
04:07:05:00	04:07:06:00	THIS IS WHERE SOMEBODY RAISES
04:07:06:00	04:07:09:00	THEIR FAMILY.
04:07:09:00	04:07:09:00	THIS IS WHERE SOMEBODY WHO
04:07:09:00	04:07:10:00	WANTS TO STAY AND LIVE AND
04:07:10:00	04:07:12:00	CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY
04:07:12:00	04:07:13:00	OF BOSTON.
04:07:13:00	04:07:13:00	THEY COULD GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
04:07:13:00	04:07:17:00	AND GET A HOME FOR LESS THAN
04:07:17:00	04:07:17:00	THEY'D PAY IN BOSTON.
04:07:17:00	04:07:19:00	I THINK THIS IS A GROSS AND A
04:07:19:00	04:07:21:00	GROSS INFRINGEMENT ON THEIR
04:07:21:00	04:07:21:00	PRIVACY AND ALSO WANT TO SAY
04:07:21:00	04:07:24:00	THAT FOLKS ARE UNSATISFIED WITH
04:07:24:00	04:07:25:00	THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN
04:07:25:00	04:07:28:00	THIS AND IN WHAT I'M BRINGING
04:07:28:00	04:07:32:00	UP MY MY QUESTIONS YOU CAN ASK
04:07:32:00	04:07:35:00	PROBLEMATIC QUESTIONS
04:07:35:00	04:07:36:00	PROGRAMMATIC QUESTIONS THAT THE
04:07:36:00	04:07:39:00	WAYS AND MEANS HEARING
04:07:39:00	04:07:39:00	FINANCIAL YEAR 26 THERE'S GOING
04:07:39:00	04:07:42:00	TO BE A BUDGET HEARING ON MAY
04:07:42:00	04:07:46:00	19TH 2025 AND ALSO IF YOU'RE
04:07:46:00	04:07:46:00	UNHAPPY WITH THE RESPONSE OF A
04:07:46:00	04:07:50:00	RECORDS DEPARTMENT YOU CAN
04:07:50:00	04:07:50:00	SUBMIT AN APPEAL TO A DENIAL
04:07:50:00	04:07:54:00	OF ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS TO
04:07:54:00	04:07:54:00	THE SUPERVISOR OF RECORDS AT
04:07:54:00	04:07:57:00	BOSTON, AT THE PUBLIC RECORDS
04:07:57:00	04:07:58:00	DIVISION AT THE OFFICE OF THE
04:07:58:00	04:07:58:00	SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
04:07:58:00	04:08:04:00	OF MASSACHUSETTS BY CALLING
04:08:04:00	04:08:05:00	6177272832 AND WE HAVE A
04:08:05:00	04:08:08:00	PROCESS I THINK I THINK THE
04:08:08:00	04:08:08:00	ADMINISTRATION, THE DEPARTMENT,
04:08:08:00	04:08:11:00	THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
04:08:11:00	04:08:12:00	AND VHA HAVE GIVEN US AN
04:08:12:00	04:08:14:00	INCREDIBLE AMOUNT
04:08:14:00	04:08:15:00	OF INFORMATION AND I THINK
04:08:15:00	04:08:16:00	GOING THIS EXTRA STEP TO FIND
04:08:16:00	04:08:19:00	PEOPLE'S IDENTIFY AS
04:08:19:00	04:08:20:00	INDIVIDUALS BY THEIR ADDRESS
04:08:20:00	04:08:21:00	AND THEIR FULL NAME IS A STEP
04:08:21:00	04:08:21:00	TOO FAR.
04:08:21:00	04:08:23:00	THANK YOU.
04:08:23:00	04:08:24:00	THANK YOU.
04:08:24:00	04:08:24:00	COUNCILOR BREADON
04:08:24:00	04:08:25:00	COUNCILOR HERE, YOU'RE ON THE
04:08:25:00	04:08:27:00	FLOOR.
04:08:27:00	04:08:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND
04:08:27:00	04:08:30:00	MY BELOVED COLLEAGUES, I THINK
04:08:30:00	04:08:31:00	IT'S TIME FOR US TO RECOGNIZE
04:08:31:00	04:08:34:00	THAT IT'S OKAY TO DISAGREE
04:08:34:00	04:08:34:00	WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE.
04:08:34:00	04:08:37:00	I THINK THIS IS WE'VE HAD A
04:08:37:00	04:08:38:00	LONG DEBATE IN REGARDS TO THIS.
04:08:38:00	04:08:41:00	I THINK I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL
04:08:41:00	04:08:45:00	ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW,
04:08:45:00	04:08:45:00	STIGMATIZING PEOPLE WHO ARE
04:08:45:00	04:08:49:00	ALREADY YOU KNOW, APPLYING FOR
04:08:49:00	04:08:49:00	I DON'T KNOW.
04:08:49:00	04:08:50:00	I JUST FEEL LIKE A LITTLE WEIRD
04:08:50:00	04:08:50:00	AROUND THERE BUT LIKE I JUST
04:08:50:00	04:08:52:00	WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT
04:08:52:00	04:08:53:00	PRIVACY.
04:08:53:00	04:08:53:00	I ALSO THINK THERE'S AN
04:08:53:00	04:08:56:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY
04:08:56:00	04:09:00:00	START THINKING ABOUT THE
04:09:00:00	04:09:00:00	PATTERN THAT I KNOW
04:09:00:00	04:09:04:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS NAMED IN
04:09:04:00	04:09:06:00	REGARDS TO SOME OF OUR PUBLIC
04:09:06:00	04:09:07:00	HEARING HOURS 17 REQUESTS THAT
04:09:07:00	04:09:11:00	SOMETIMES GETS WE GET BITS AND
04:09:11:00	04:09:11:00	PIECES OF INFORMATION HERE AND
04:09:11:00	04:09:14:00	THERE SO THAT'S A LONGER
04:09:14:00	04:09:15:00	STRUCTURAL CONVERSATION I WOULD
04:09:15:00	04:09:18:00	RECOMMEND THAT WE POTENTIALLY
04:09:18:00	04:09:19:00	JUST INSTEAD OF GOING BACK AND
04:09:19:00	04:09:22:00	FORTH ALMOST 17 STANDPOINT IS
04:09:22:00	04:09:23:00	THAT MAYBE WE COULD JUST DO A
04:09:23:00	04:09:25:00	DEEPER DIVE IN AN AUDIT IN
04:09:25:00	04:09:26:00	TERMS OF THE PROTOCOLS,
04:09:26:00	04:09:29:00	POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AROUND
04:09:29:00	04:09:29:00	ALL GRANT GIVING AND SUPPORT
04:09:29:00	04:09:33:00	SERVICES THAT THE CITY
04:09:33:00	04:09:33:00	ALLOCATES WHETHER THAT BE
04:09:33:00	04:09:36:00	THROUGH NONPROFITS, WHETHER
04:09:36:00	04:09:37:00	THAT BE THROUGH THE SPACE GRANT
04:09:37:00	04:09:40:00	YOU KNOW ALL OF OUR HOUSING
04:09:40:00	04:09:41:00	SUPPORTS MAYBE WE COULD JUST DO
04:09:41:00	04:09:44:00	A DEEPER DIVE ON THE CITY AS A
04:09:44:00	04:09:45:00	WHOLE AND HOW WE'RE SPENDING
04:09:45:00	04:09:48:00	OUR MONEY AND I'M GOING TO RISE
04:09:48:00	04:09:49:00	AGAIN TO SAY THAT'S WHY I AM
04:09:49:00	04:09:52:00	TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE
04:09:52:00	04:09:52:00	OF INSPECTOR GENERAL BECAUSE
04:09:52:00	04:09:56:00	SOME OF THESE THINGS COULD LIVE
04:09:56:00	04:09:56:00	UNDER THE PREVIEW OF SUCH AN
04:09:56:00	04:09:56:00	ENTITY.
04:09:56:00	04:10:00:00	AND SO I THINK IN THE INTEREST
04:10:00:00	04:10:01:00	OF JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE PUT
04:10:01:00	04:10:03:00	A BUTTON ON THIS, I WOULD
04:10:03:00	04:10:04:00	RECOMMEND THAT WE MAYBE JUST
04:10:04:00	04:10:08:00	PIVOT AND CREATE ANOTHER SPACE
04:10:08:00	04:10:11:00	TO HAVE A BIGGER CONVERSATION
04:10:11:00	04:10:11:00	THROUGH MAYBE POTENTIALLY A
04:10:11:00	04:10:15:00	HEARING ORDER THAT COMES FROM
04:10:15:00	04:10:16:00	MURPHY COULD FILE FOR A UNDER A
04:10:16:00	04:10:19:00	POST AUDIT LENS SO THAT I CAN
04:10:19:00	04:10:22:00	YOU KNOW HELP SUPPORT AND
04:10:22:00	04:10:22:00	ENSURE THAT WE HAVE AN
04:10:22:00	04:10:23:00	EXPEDITED HEARING IF THAT'S
04:10:23:00	04:10:26:00	AGREEABLE WITH YOU, I THINK
04:10:26:00	04:10:27:00	THAT MIGHT BE THE BEST WAY FOR
04:10:27:00	04:10:27:00	US TO MOVE FORWARD.
04:10:27:00	04:10:28:00	THANK YOU.
04:10:28:00	04:10:30:00	THANK YOU.
04:10:30:00	04:10:30:00	OKAY.
04:10:30:00	04:10:31:00	ANYONE ELSE WILLING TO SPEAK ON
04:10:31:00	04:10:34:00	THIS MATTER?
04:10:34:00	04:10:34:00	OKAY.
04:10:34:00	04:10:34:00	MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE
04:10:34:00	04:10:36:00	CONDUCT OUR ROLL CALL VOTE ON
04:10:36:00	04:10:43:00	THE 17TH ROLL CALL VOTE ON
04:10:43:00	04:10:44:00	DOCKET NUMBER 106 FOR
04:10:44:00	04:10:47:00	COUNCIL LIBRARY NO
04:10:47:00	04:10:48:00	COUNCILOR BREADON NO
04:10:48:00	04:10:52:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS OPPOSED
04:10:52:00	04:10:53:00	NO COUNCILOR AS PART AND NO
04:10:53:00	04:10:54:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN
04:10:54:00	04:10:54:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN NO
04:10:54:00	04:10:55:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON
04:10:55:00	04:10:58:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
04:10:58:00	04:10:59:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
04:10:59:00	04:11:02:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
04:11:02:00	04:11:03:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
04:11:03:00	04:11:03:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE NO.
04:11:03:00	04:11:06:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE NO.
04:11:06:00	04:11:06:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
04:11:06:00	04:11:09:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE PRESENT
04:11:09:00	04:11:10:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY
04:11:10:00	04:11:10:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
04:11:10:00	04:11:14:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN COUNCILOR NO.
04:11:14:00	04:11:17:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA
04:11:17:00	04:11:17:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA NO.
04:11:17:00	04:11:22:00	COUNCILOR WEBER NO COUNCIL WITH
04:11:22:00	04:11:23:00	A NO AND COUNCILOR WORRELL NO
04:11:23:00	04:11:25:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL NO.
04:11:25:00	04:11:26:00	OKAY THIS 17 F ORDER HAS NOT
04:11:26:00	04:11:26:00	PASSED.
04:11:26:00	04:11:27:00	NOPE.
04:11:27:00	04:11:29:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
04:11:29:00	04:11:31:00	READ DOCKET NUMBER 1065 ON
04:11:31:00	04:11:32:00	RECORD.
04:11:32:00	04:11:32:00	OH.
04:11:32:00	04:11:36:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, WE'VE READ
04:11:36:00	04:11:37:00	THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.
04:11:37:00	04:11:37:00	OKAY.
04:11:37:00	04:11:38:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
04:11:38:00	04:11:42:00	READ AS NUMBER 10651066 DOCKET
04:11:42:00	04:11:42:00	NUMBER 1065 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR
04:11:42:00	04:11:46:00	THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
04:11:46:00	04:11:46:00	DESIGNATING A HERO SQUARE AT
04:11:46:00	04:11:47:00	THE INTERSECTION OF STRATFORD
04:11:47:00	04:11:49:00	TO CANADA STREETS IN WEST
04:11:49:00	04:11:50:00	ROXBURY IN RECOGNITION
04:11:50:00	04:11:53:00	OF WILLIAM RODDIE AND TUCKER
04:11:53:00	04:11:56:00	NUMBER 1066 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR
04:11:56:00	04:11:57:00	THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
04:11:57:00	04:12:00:00	DESIGNATING A HERO SQUARE AT
04:12:00:00	04:12:00:00	THE INTERSECTION OF STRATFORD
04:12:00:00	04:12:04:00	AND KENNETH STREETS IN WEST
04:12:04:00	04:12:05:00	ROXBURY IN RECOGNITION
04:12:05:00	04:12:05:00	OF THOMAS WRITING THANK YOU THE
04:12:05:00	04:12:09:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:12:09:00	04:12:09:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
04:12:09:00	04:12:10:00	SEE WHY YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:12:10:00	04:12:12:00	OKAY.
04:12:12:00	04:12:12:00	THANK YOU.
04:12:12:00	04:12:13:00	I'LL TRY TO BE QUICK.
04:12:13:00	04:12:15:00	I KNOW THERE'S A LARGE POWER
04:12:15:00	04:12:18:00	OUTAGE ACROSS THE CITY NEARLY
04:12:18:00	04:12:18:00	25,000 BUILDINGS AFFECTED,
04:12:18:00	04:12:22:00	PEOPLE STUCK IN ELEVATORS AND
04:12:22:00	04:12:23:00	MAYBE TRAFFIC LIGHTS UP HERE.
04:12:23:00	04:12:26:00	I THINK WE NEED TO GET OUT
04:12:26:00	04:12:27:00	THERE AND YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE
04:12:27:00	04:12:29:00	WE'RE HELPING OUR CONSTITUENTS
04:12:29:00	04:12:29:00	.
04:12:29:00	04:12:30:00	I JUST YOU KNOW, THIS IS TO SET
04:12:30:00	04:12:33:00	UP A HERO SQUARE IN STRATFORD
04:12:33:00	04:12:34:00	AND CHEMISTRY IN WEST ROXBURY
04:12:34:00	04:12:37:00	TO RECOGNIZE ONE FAMILY'S
04:12:37:00	04:12:40:00	INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE.
04:12:40:00	04:12:43:00	TWO BROTHERS DIED IN WORLD WAR
04:12:43:00	04:12:46:00	TWO WILLIAM ANDREW RODDY, 21,
04:12:46:00	04:12:51:00	DIED WHEN THE USS BAR WAS HIT
04:12:51:00	04:12:54:00	BY A TORPEDO FROM A GERMAN
04:12:54:00	04:12:57:00	SUBMARINE OFF THE NORTH COAST
04:12:57:00	04:13:01:00	OF AFRICA IN MAY 1944.
04:13:01:00	04:13:04:00	HIS OLDER BROTHER THOMAS RODDY
04:13:04:00	04:13:05:00	, 25, WAS KILLED ON NOVEMBER
04:13:05:00	04:13:08:00	30TH, 1942 WHEN HIS SHIP IN THE
04:13:08:00	04:13:12:00	PACIFIC, THE USS JUNEAU WAS
04:13:12:00	04:13:15:00	SUNK AT THE NAVAL BATTLE
04:13:15:00	04:13:19:00	GUADALCANAL, THE USS JUNEAU WAS
04:13:19:00	04:13:23:00	AS WELL KNOWN.
04:13:23:00	04:13:26:00	IT'S ON THAT SHIP WHERE THE
04:13:26:00	04:13:27:00	FIVE SULLIVAN BROTHERS WHO ALL
04:13:27:00	04:13:30:00	DIED IN THE SINKING OF THAT
04:13:30:00	04:13:30:00	SHIP.
04:13:30:00	04:13:34:00	IN ADDITION THERE WERE
04:13:34:00	04:13:38:00	APPARENTLY AROUND 100 OFFICERS
04:13:38:00	04:13:38:00	OR MILITARY MEMBERS, NAVY
04:13:38:00	04:13:41:00	SEAMEN WHO SURVIVED THE SINKING
04:13:41:00	04:13:45:00	BUT WERE LEFT IN THE WATER FOR
04:13:45:00	04:13:45:00	EIGHT DAYS AND ONLY TEN OF THEM
04:13:45:00	04:13:48:00	SURVIVED.
04:13:48:00	04:13:49:00	THE FACT THAT THOMAS RIDING IS
04:13:49:00	04:13:53:00	OF BELL'S GRAD AND A B.C.
04:13:53:00	04:13:54:00	STUDENT WHO DROPPED OUT TO GO
04:13:54:00	04:13:57:00	FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY OR TO WAS
04:13:57:00	04:14:00:00	THERE, YOU KNOW, IN THAT WE
04:14:00:00	04:14:01:00	COULD PLAY SOME ROLE IN
04:14:01:00	04:14:03:00	RECOGNIZING HIS SACRIFICE AT
04:14:03:00	04:14:07:00	THIS HERO SQUARE.
04:14:07:00	04:14:08:00	YOU KNOW, IT IS JUST A TRIBUTE
04:14:08:00	04:14:10:00	TO TO THAT FAMILY FOR WHAT THEY
04:14:10:00	04:14:14:00	SACRIFICED FOR US.
04:14:14:00	04:14:15:00	SOME OF THEIR RELATIVES STILL
04:14:15:00	04:14:15:00	LIVE IN WEST ROXBURY.
04:14:15:00	04:14:18:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO GATHERING
04:14:18:00	04:14:19:00	WITH THEM THE HERO SQUARE.
04:14:19:00	04:14:21:00	I INVITE ALL MY COLLEAGUES IF
04:14:21:00	04:14:28:00	WE CAN GET THIS SET UP AND SO
04:14:28:00	04:14:29:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
04:14:29:00	04:14:33:00	I APOLOGIZE TO I I GUESS I
04:14:33:00	04:14:33:00	WOULD LIKE BOTH OF THESE
04:14:33:00	04:14:36:00	RESOLUTIONS TO TO PASS IF
04:14:36:00	04:14:40:00	THAT'S HOW THIS USUALLY WORKS.
04:14:40:00	04:14:40:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT YES.
04:14:40:00	04:14:41:00	YOU'RE SEEKING SUSPENSION
04:14:41:00	04:14:42:00	OF PASSAGE ON BOTH OF THE
04:14:42:00	04:14:43:00	DOCKETS.
04:14:43:00	04:14:44:00	OKAY.
04:14:44:00	04:14:44:00	OKAY.
04:14:44:00	04:14:44:00	YEAH, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT
04:14:44:00	04:14:45:00	PASSAGE TODAY.
04:14:45:00	04:14:47:00	THANK VERY MUCH.
04:14:47:00	04:14:48:00	THANK YOU.
04:14:48:00	04:14:48:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
04:14:48:00	04:14:49:00	UNDER THESE DOCKETS?
04:14:49:00	04:14:52:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:14:52:00	04:14:52:00	COUNCILOR FOR ANY OF THE FLOOR.
04:14:52:00	04:14:53:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
04:14:53:00	04:14:55:00	I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
04:14:55:00	04:14:56:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FOR BRINGING
04:14:56:00	04:14:59:00	THIS IMPORTANT MATTER BEFORE
04:14:59:00	04:14:59:00	THE BODY.
04:14:59:00	04:15:00:00	INCREDIBLE SACRIFICES FROM THIS
04:15:00:00	04:15:03:00	FAMILY WEST ROXBURY, AS
04:15:03:00	04:15:04:00	COUNCILOR WEBER KNOWS, HAS A
04:15:04:00	04:15:07:00	TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MEN AND
04:15:07:00	04:15:08:00	WOMEN THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED
04:15:08:00	04:15:11:00	GREATLY TO THIS NATION AND THE
04:15:11:00	04:15:11:00	U.S. MILITARY.
04:15:11:00	04:15:14:00	SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
04:15:14:00	04:15:15:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FOR RECOGNIZING
04:15:15:00	04:15:19:00	THIS WONDERFUL FAMILY THE THE
04:15:19:00	04:15:19:00	INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS THEY
04:15:19:00	04:15:23:00	HAVE MADE TO OUR TO OUR NATION.
04:15:23:00	04:15:26:00	THERE WAS A SOUTH BOSTON
04:15:26:00	04:15:27:00	GENTLEMAN ON THAT SHIP AS WELL,
04:15:27:00	04:15:33:00	THE USS JUNO MARTIN F MCDONAGH
04:15:33:00	04:15:33:00	.
04:15:33:00	04:15:34:00	THEY NAMED THE VETERANS POST
04:15:34:00	04:15:37:00	AFTER HIM ON WEST BROADWAY AND
04:15:37:00	04:15:37:00	COUNCILOR WEBER IS EXACTLY
04:15:37:00	04:15:41:00	RIGHT ABOUT THE USS THE
04:15:41:00	04:15:41:00	SULLIVANS.
04:15:41:00	04:15:41:00	THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL NAVY SHIP
04:15:41:00	04:15:45:00	THE USS THE SULLIVANS THAT'S
04:15:45:00	04:15:45:00	STATIONED IN FLORIDA AS WELL.
04:15:45:00	04:15:49:00	BUT I KNOW CONSUL WEBER, THIS
04:15:49:00	04:15:50:00	WILL BE A TREMENDOUS HONOR AND
04:15:50:00	04:15:52:00	THE FAMILY WILL RESPECT THE
04:15:52:00	04:15:53:00	INCREDIBLE WORK THAT YOU'RE
04:15:53:00	04:15:57:00	DOING HERE TODAY.
04:15:57:00	04:15:57:00	THANK YOU.
04:15:57:00	04:15:57:00	THANK YOU AND THANK YOU.
04:15:57:00	04:15:58:00	YES, I WANT TO UPLIFT AND THANK
04:15:58:00	04:16:00:00	YOU COUNCILOR WEBER FOR DOING
04:16:00:00	04:16:00:00	BOTH OF THESE.
04:16:00:00	04:16:04:00	I'M HERO SQUARE DESIGNATIONS.
04:16:04:00	04:16:05:00	IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WORK AND
04:16:05:00	04:16:08:00	ALSO I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS
04:16:08:00	04:16:09:00	THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED
04:16:09:00	04:16:11:00	IT THERE THERE IS AN AEROSPACE
04:16:11:00	04:16:12:00	POWER OUTAGE AFFECTING A LOT
04:16:12:00	04:16:12:00	OF THE CITY INCLUDING THE
04:16:12:00	04:16:13:00	BOWLING AND SEVERAL OF OUR
04:16:13:00	04:16:13:00	SCHOOLS.
04:16:13:00	04:16:15:00	IT APPEARS THAT IT MAY BE
04:16:15:00	04:16:16:00	RESOLVED BUT I DO UNDERSTAND
04:16:16:00	04:16:16:00	THAT THERE ARE COUNSELORS WHO
04:16:16:00	04:16:19:00	URGENTLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:16:19:00	04:16:19:00	THEIR DISTRICTS AND EVERYTHING
04:16:19:00	04:16:20:00	IS OKAY.
04:16:20:00	04:16:23:00	SO OKAY, WE WILL TAKE EACH
04:16:23:00	04:16:25:00	DOCKET ONE BY ONE.
04:16:25:00	04:16:26:00	OH, WOULD ANYONE ELSE?
04:16:26:00	04:16:26:00	OKAY.
04:16:26:00	04:16:28:00	WE'RE GOING TO START WITH
04:16:28:00	04:16:28:00	DOCKET 1065 WOULD ANYONE LIKE
04:16:28:00	04:16:33:00	TO ADD THEIR NAME MR. CLERK,
04:16:33:00	04:16:33:00	PLEASE?
04:16:33:00	04:16:34:00	THAT COUNTS WAS BREADON
04:16:34:00	04:16:35:00	COLLETTE ZAPATA DURKIN
04:16:35:00	04:16:36:00	FITZGERALD, FLYNN MEJIA MURPHY
04:16:36:00	04:16:40:00	BUT BEN SANTANA WORLD PLEASE
04:16:40:00	04:16:41:00	ADD THE CHAIR ALL THOSE IN
04:16:41:00	04:16:44:00	FAVOR OF COUNSELOR WEBER.
04:16:44:00	04:16:45:00	SO YOU JUST MENTIONED AN
04:16:45:00	04:16:47:00	ADOPTION OF DOCK NUMBER 1065
04:16:47:00	04:16:47:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
04:16:47:00	04:16:50:00	I ALSO SAY NAY.
04:16:50:00	04:16:51:00	THE AYES HAVE IT.
04:16:51:00	04:16:52:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1065 HAS BEEN
04:16:52:00	04:16:52:00	ADOPTED.
04:16:52:00	04:16:55:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR
04:16:55:00	04:16:56:00	NAME TO DOCKET NUMBER 1066?
04:16:56:00	04:16:59:00	MR. CLERK TO THE COUNCIL'S
04:16:59:00	04:16:59:00	BRAYDEN ZAPATA.
04:16:59:00	04:17:00:00	DURKIN FITZGERALD.
04:17:00:00	04:17:02:00	FLYNN MCGUIRE.
04:17:02:00	04:17:03:00	MURPHY PIPPIN SANTANA WORLD
04:17:03:00	04:17:06:00	PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR
04:17:06:00	04:17:06:00	COUNCIL WEBBER'S EXPANSION
04:17:06:00	04:17:07:00	OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
04:17:07:00	04:17:09:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 1066 ALL THOSE
04:17:09:00	04:17:12:00	IN FAVOR SAY I THE POSTING A
04:17:12:00	04:17:13:00	THINK OF THE DOCKET DOCKET
04:17:13:00	04:17:16:00	NUMBER 1066 HAS BEEN ADOPTED
04:17:16:00	04:17:18:00	MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ
04:17:18:00	04:17:21:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1067 DOCK NUMBER
04:17:21:00	04:17:21:00	1067 COUNCIL S.A. FOR THE
04:17:21:00	04:17:25:00	FOLLOWING RESOLUTION URGING THE
04:17:25:00	04:17:26:00	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOT TO CUT
04:17:26:00	04:17:30:00	LIFESAVING CANCER RESEARCH IN
04:17:30:00	04:17:30:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON.
04:17:30:00	04:17:30:00	THANK YOU.
04:17:30:00	04:17:31:00	THE CHAIR NOW RECOGNIZES
04:17:31:00	04:17:32:00	COUNSELOR SANTANA KAISER
04:17:32:00	04:17:33:00	CENTENNIAL OF THE FLOOR.
04:17:33:00	04:17:33:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:17:33:00	04:17:37:00	I WON'T SPEAK ON ALL ON THIS
04:17:37:00	04:17:38:00	BECAUSE I SPOKE A LOT OF DURING
04:17:38:00	04:17:40:00	THE PRESENTATION.
04:17:40:00	04:17:41:00	BUT I DO WANT TO ADD I WOULD
04:17:41:00	04:17:43:00	LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR DURKIN AS
04:17:43:00	04:17:44:00	AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR TO THIS
04:17:44:00	04:17:47:00	RESOLUTION.
04:17:47:00	04:17:48:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKIN.
04:17:48:00	04:17:49:00	AND SO ADDED COUNCILOR SYDNEY,
04:17:49:00	04:17:51:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:17:51:00	04:17:52:00	THANK YOU.
04:17:52:00	04:17:52:00	I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND AND
04:17:52:00	04:17:53:00	PASS THIS RESOLUTION TODAY.
04:17:53:00	04:17:55:00	THANK YOU.
04:17:55:00	04:17:55:00	THANK YOU.
04:17:55:00	04:17:56:00	THE CHAIR RECORDING OKAY.
04:17:56:00	04:17:59:00	THANK YOU COUNCILORS SANTANA
04:17:59:00	04:18:00:00	AND DURKIN SEEK SUSPENSION
04:18:00:00	04:18:01:00	OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION
04:18:01:00	04:18:02:00	OF DOCKET NUMBER 1067.
04:18:02:00	04:18:06:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I ALL
04:18:06:00	04:18:07:00	OPPOSING THE AYES HAVE IT.
04:18:07:00	04:18:08:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
04:18:08:00	04:18:08:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
04:18:08:00	04:18:10:00	READ OUT THE NUMBER 1068 DIANE
04:18:10:00	04:18:13:00	AMBER 1068 COUNCIL DISCIPLINE
04:18:13:00	04:18:13:00	AND COUNCILOR IS MURPHY AND
04:18:13:00	04:18:16:00	FLYNN OFF OF THE FINE
04:18:16:00	04:18:16:00	RESOLUTION AND SUPPORT
04:18:16:00	04:18:20:00	OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND A
04:18:20:00	04:18:20:00	COUNCIL VOTE ON THE STATUS
04:18:20:00	04:18:21:00	OF COUNCIL TANYA FERNANDES
04:18:21:00	04:18:24:00	SANDERSON THANK YOU.
04:18:24:00	04:18:24:00	THE CHAIR AGONIZES
04:18:24:00	04:18:25:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY GOVERNOR
04:18:25:00	04:18:27:00	MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
04:18:27:00	04:18:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:18:27:00	04:18:31:00	SO I DID FILE THIS LAST WEEK AS
04:18:31:00	04:18:32:00	A LATE FILE BECAUSE WE DID
04:18:32:00	04:18:35:00	THINGS DID CHANGE AFTER THE 10
04:18:35:00	04:18:36:00	A.M. REQUIREMENT TO FILE
04:18:36:00	04:18:39:00	ANYTHING AND IT WAS BLOCKED
04:18:39:00	04:18:40:00	WHICH THAT'S OKAY AND HERE WE
04:18:40:00	04:18:40:00	ARE.
04:18:40:00	04:18:42:00	SO LIKE I SAID I WAS GOING TO
04:18:42:00	04:18:43:00	FILE IT AGAIN THIS WEEK ON THE
04:18:43:00	04:18:46:00	COUNCIL AGENDA SO EVERY DAY
04:18:46:00	04:18:47:00	CONSTITUENTS ASKED ME WHY IS
04:18:47:00	04:18:50:00	SHE STILL THERE JUST THIS
04:18:50:00	04:18:50:00	MORNING AT THE COFFEE HOUR THAT
04:18:50:00	04:18:54:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN AND FLYNN
04:18:54:00	04:18:54:00	HOSTED UP AT THE PUBLIC GARDEN.
04:18:54:00	04:18:58:00	I MEAN THE BOSTON COMMON TO
04:18:58:00	04:18:58:00	PEOPLE THERE ASKED ME AGAIN
04:18:58:00	04:19:01:00	THIS MORNING AND THEY'RE
04:19:01:00	04:19:01:00	REFERRING TO THE DISTRICT SEVEN
04:19:01:00	04:19:02:00	COUNCILOR WHO RECENTLY PLED
04:19:02:00	04:19:05:00	GUILTY TO FEDERAL CORRUPTION
04:19:05:00	04:19:05:00	CHARGES.
04:19:05:00	04:19:06:00	LEGALLY SHE REMAINS IN OFFICE
04:19:06:00	04:19:09:00	UNTIL SENTENCING BUT MORALLY
04:19:09:00	04:19:09:00	THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY.
04:19:09:00	04:19:13:00	I UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL
04:19:13:00	04:19:13:00	CONSTRAINTS THE SUPREME
04:19:13:00	04:19:17:00	JUDICIAL COURT'S DECISION IN
04:19:17:00	04:19:17:00	TURNER VERSUS CITY OF BOSTON
04:19:17:00	04:19:18:00	CLARIFIED THAT THE
04:19:18:00	04:19:21:00	COUNCIL LACKS THE AUTHORITY TO
04:19:21:00	04:19:21:00	REMOVE A MEMBER BEFORE
04:19:21:00	04:19:25:00	SENTENCING RULE 48 MANDATES THE
04:19:25:00	04:19:26:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO REFER SUCH
04:19:26:00	04:19:29:00	MATTERS TO THE COUNCIL UPON A
04:19:29:00	04:19:29:00	FELONY CONVICTION BUT IT
04:19:29:00	04:19:32:00	DOESN'T GRANT REMOVAL POWERS IN
04:19:32:00	04:19:36:00	RESPONSE TO OUR RESOLUTION, THE
04:19:36:00	04:19:37:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT HAS CITED
04:19:37:00	04:19:39:00	RULE 48 IN THE TURN A DECISION
04:19:39:00	04:19:40:00	ASSERTING THAT THE
04:19:40:00	04:19:41:00	COUNCIL LACKS THE AUTHORITY TO
04:19:41:00	04:19:44:00	REMOVE A MEMBER BEFORE
04:19:44:00	04:19:44:00	SENTENCING.
04:19:44:00	04:19:45:00	WHILE I AGREE THIS IS LEGALLY
04:19:45:00	04:19:48:00	ACCURATE IT MISSES THE END
04:19:48:00	04:19:48:00	ESSENCE OF MY PROPOSAL.
04:19:48:00	04:19:52:00	THIS PROPOSAL RESOLUTION
04:19:52:00	04:19:52:00	DOESN'T SEEK TO ENFORCE A LEGAL
04:19:52:00	04:19:55:00	REMOVAL BUT TO EXPRESS OUR
04:19:55:00	04:19:56:00	COLLECTIVE MORAL STANCE BY
04:19:56:00	04:19:59:00	LEANING ON LEGAL
04:19:59:00	04:19:59:00	TECHNICALITIES.
04:19:59:00	04:20:00:00	THE COUNCIL RISKS APPEARING
04:20:00:00	04:20:03:00	EVASIVE, AVOIDING A CLEAR
04:20:03:00	04:20:04:00	POSITION ON AN ISSUE THAT
04:20:04:00	04:20:06:00	DEEPLY CONCERNS OUR
04:20:06:00	04:20:06:00	CONSTITUENTS.
04:20:06:00	04:20:07:00	HOWEVER, THIS ISN'T ABOUT LEGAL
04:20:07:00	04:20:10:00	AUTHORITY.
04:20:10:00	04:20:11:00	IT'S ABOUT MORAL
04:20:11:00	04:20:11:00	RESPONSIBILITY.
04:20:11:00	04:20:15:00	WE AS ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE AN
04:20:15:00	04:20:15:00	OBLIGATION TO UPHOLD THE
04:20:15:00	04:20:18:00	INTEGRITY OF OUR OFFICE AND THE
04:20:18:00	04:20:18:00	TRUST OF OUR CONSTITUENTS.
04:20:18:00	04:20:21:00	REMAINING SILENT SENDS THE
04:20:21:00	04:20:22:00	WRONG MESSAGE.
04:20:22:00	04:20:22:00	THE RESOLUTION I FILED ALONG
04:20:22:00	04:20:26:00	WITH COUNCILOR FLYNN ISN'T
04:20:26:00	04:20:27:00	ABOUT FORCING ANYONE OUT.
04:20:27:00	04:20:30:00	IT'S ABOUT TAKING A STAND.
04:20:30:00	04:20:30:00	WE PASSED NON-BINDING
04:20:30:00	04:20:31:00	RESOLUTIONS ON VARIOUS ISSUES
04:20:31:00	04:20:34:00	ALL THE TIME ON INTERNATIONAL
04:20:34:00	04:20:37:00	CONFLICTS, NATIONAL POLICIES,
04:20:37:00	04:20:38:00	HISTORICAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR
04:20:38:00	04:20:41:00	EXAMPLE, THE COUNCIL HAS
04:20:41:00	04:20:41:00	PREVIOUSLY PASSED RESOLUTIONS
04:20:41:00	04:20:42:00	SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN
04:20:42:00	04:20:45:00	RIGHTS EFFORTS EVEN THOUGH WE
04:20:45:00	04:20:46:00	LACK THE AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE
04:20:46:00	04:20:49:00	SUCH MATTERS.
04:20:49:00	04:20:50:00	THESE ACTIONS, WHILE SYMBOLIC,
04:20:50:00	04:20:53:00	REFLECT OUR COLLECTIVE VALUES
04:20:53:00	04:20:54:00	AND OUR COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE.
04:20:54:00	04:20:57:00	SO WHY HESITATE NOW WHEN THE
04:20:57:00	04:21:00:00	ISSUE IS WITHIN OUR CHAMBER?
04:21:00:00	04:21:01:00	THE DISTRICT SEVEN
04:21:01:00	04:21:01:00	COUNCILOR CONTINUES CONTINUED
04:21:01:00	04:21:04:00	PRESENCE UNDERMINES PUBLIC
04:21:04:00	04:21:05:00	TRUST AND DISTRACTS FROM OUR
04:21:05:00	04:21:05:00	WORK.
04:21:05:00	04:21:08:00	HER DISTRICT DESERVES EFFECTIVE
04:21:08:00	04:21:09:00	REPRESENTATION AND THE CITY
04:21:09:00	04:21:12:00	DESERVES A COUNCIL THAT LEADS
04:21:12:00	04:21:12:00	WITH INTEGRITY.
04:21:12:00	04:21:13:00	SOME ARGUE THAT TAKING A VOTE
04:21:13:00	04:21:16:00	IS DIVISIVE OR PREMATURE BUT
04:21:16:00	04:21:19:00	LEADERSHIP ISN'T ABOUT WAITING
04:21:19:00	04:21:19:00	FOR THE COURTS.
04:21:19:00	04:21:20:00	IT'S ABOUT RESPONDING TO THE
04:21:20:00	04:21:23:00	COMMUNITY CONCERNS.
04:21:23:00	04:21:24:00	BY VOTING ON THIS RESOLUTION WE
04:21:24:00	04:21:27:00	DEMONSTRATE OUR COMMITMENT TO
04:21:27:00	04:21:28:00	THE ETHICAL GOVERNANCE AND
04:21:28:00	04:21:31:00	ACCOUNTABILITY.
04:21:31:00	04:21:32:00	SO I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN
04:21:32:00	04:21:35:00	ME IN THIS STAND.
04:21:35:00	04:21:35:00	LET'S SHOW THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON
04:21:35:00	04:21:36:00	THAT WE HEAR THEM.
04:21:36:00	04:21:39:00	WE RESPECT THEM AND WE'RE
04:21:39:00	04:21:39:00	COMMITTED TO DOING WHAT'S
04:21:39:00	04:21:43:00	RIGHT, NOT JUST WHAT'S LEGALLY
04:21:43:00	04:21:43:00	REQUIRED.
04:21:43:00	04:21:43:00	THANK YOU.
04:21:43:00	04:21:44:00	THANK YOU.
04:21:44:00	04:21:45:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES JACLYN.
04:21:45:00	04:21:49:00	CAROLYN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:21:49:00	04:21:49:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
04:21:49:00	04:21:50:00	I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THIS
04:21:50:00	04:21:53:00	BODY TO DEMONSTRATE POSITIVE
04:21:53:00	04:21:56:00	LEADERSHIP ETHICS,
04:21:56:00	04:21:57:00	ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY.
04:21:57:00	04:22:00:00	I THINK THE STATUS QUO IS NO
04:22:00:00	04:22:01:00	LONGER AN OPTION.
04:22:01:00	04:22:03:00	WE NEED TO SHOW TO THE
04:22:03:00	04:22:04:00	RESIDENTS OF BOSTON THAT WE
04:22:04:00	04:22:08:00	UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANT
04:22:08:00	04:22:12:00	CHALLENGE ETHICAL CHALLENGES
04:22:12:00	04:22:15:00	THIS BODY FACES AND WE MUST
04:22:15:00	04:22:16:00	RISE TO THE OCCASION AND ENSURE
04:22:16:00	04:22:20:00	THAT ETHICS WILL ALWAYS BE PART
04:22:20:00	04:22:24:00	OF CITY GOVERNMENT AND THAT WE
04:22:24:00	04:22:25:00	WILL ADDRESS ISSUES THAT COME
04:22:25:00	04:22:27:00	ALONG EVEN IF THEY ARE
04:22:27:00	04:22:28:00	CONTROVERSIAL.
04:22:28:00	04:22:32:00	BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO
04:22:32:00	04:22:35:00	COLLECTIVELY COME TOGETHER AS
04:22:35:00	04:22:36:00	AS A BODY AND PROVIDE THE
04:22:36:00	04:22:40:00	LEADERSHIP THAT HAS BEEN
04:22:40:00	04:22:41:00	LACKING FOR A PERIOD OF TIME
04:22:41:00	04:22:43:00	BECAUSE OF OUR INACTION ON THIS
04:22:43:00	04:22:44:00	PARTICULAR MATTER.
04:22:44:00	04:22:47:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
04:22:47:00	04:22:48:00	THANK YOU.
04:22:48:00	04:22:48:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
04:22:48:00	04:22:52:00	I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE THING
04:22:52:00	04:22:54:00	VERY CLEAR THE 40 A EMAIL THAT
04:22:54:00	04:22:58:00	I WROTE ASKING GUIDANCE FROM
04:22:58:00	04:22:58:00	CORPORATION COUNCILOR WAS IN NO
04:22:58:00	04:22:59:00	WAY SPARKED BY ANYBODY'S FILING
04:22:59:00	04:23:02:00	AS A PRESIDENT OF THIS
04:23:02:00	04:23:02:00	COUNCIL I ACT ON WHAT I BELIEVE
04:23:02:00	04:23:05:00	MY AUTHORITY IS AND SHOULD BE
04:23:05:00	04:23:06:00	AND UNDER RULE 48 IT STATES
04:23:06:00	04:23:08:00	THAT I HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO
04:23:08:00	04:23:09:00	REFER SOMETHING AUTOMATICALLY
04:23:09:00	04:23:10:00	THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
04:23:10:00	04:23:13:00	ANYBODY'S RESOLUTION FILING.
04:23:13:00	04:23:14:00	THAT WAS ME IN MY CAPACITY AS
04:23:14:00	04:23:16:00	PRESIDENT OF THIS BODY SEEKING
04:23:16:00	04:23:17:00	COUNCILOR AND GUIDANCE ON A
04:23:17:00	04:23:20:00	RULE THAT PRECEDED A LEGAL
04:23:20:00	04:23:21:00	DECISION THAT THEN TOOK A LOT
04:23:21:00	04:23:24:00	OF THE POWER OR MEANING OUR
04:23:24:00	04:23:24:00	SUBSTANCE OUT OF RULE 48 THAT
04:23:24:00	04:23:25:00	IS MERELY NOW BECOME A
04:23:25:00	04:23:28:00	PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENT THAT
04:23:28:00	04:23:28:00	PERHAPS SHOULD BE REVISITED.
04:23:28:00	04:23:32:00	SO JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR
04:23:32:00	04:23:33:00	THAT THAT WAS ME ACTING IN MY
04:23:33:00	04:23:34:00	CAPACITY AS A PRESIDENT NOT IN
04:23:34:00	04:23:36:00	RESPONSE TO ANYBODY'S FILING.
04:23:36:00	04:23:37:00	I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT
04:23:37:00	04:23:37:00	ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.
04:23:37:00	04:23:39:00	IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO MAKE
04:23:39:00	04:23:40:00	SURE THAT THAT WAS REFERRED TO
04:23:40:00	04:23:43:00	THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL REMOVED
04:23:43:00	04:23:43:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDO ANDERSON
04:23:43:00	04:23:47:00	FROM COMMITTEES DID THAT UPON
04:23:47:00	04:23:50:00	NOTICE OF HER INTENT TO PLEAD
04:23:50:00	04:23:51:00	GUILTY MORE THAN A MONTH AGO IN
04:23:51:00	04:23:54:00	DECEMBER AS A PRESIDENT OF THE
04:23:54:00	04:23:58:00	CITY COUNCIL I STATED WHAT I
04:23:58:00	04:23:58:00	BELIEVED WAS IN THE BEST
04:23:58:00	04:23:59:00	INTEREST OF THIS BODY SPEAKING
04:23:59:00	04:24:02:00	ON BEHALF OF THIS BODY I
04:24:02:00	04:24:02:00	BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE THE PUBLIC
04:24:02:00	04:24:03:00	INTEREST IS SO IMPORTANT
04:24:03:00	04:24:06:00	BECAUSE PUBLIC TRUST IS SO
04:24:06:00	04:24:06:00	IMPORTANT BECAUSE MAKING SURE
04:24:06:00	04:24:09:00	THAT VOTERS AND RESIDENTS
04:24:09:00	04:24:10:00	BELIEVE IN US IN OUR ABILITY TO
04:24:10:00	04:24:13:00	DO THIS WORK THAT I BELIEVE
04:24:13:00	04:24:13:00	THAT IT WAS IN THE BEST
04:24:13:00	04:24:14:00	INTEREST OF THE COUNCILOR TO
04:24:14:00	04:24:17:00	RESIGN SAID THAT CLEARLY
04:24:17:00	04:24:17:00	EMPHATICALLY AND I REPEATED
04:24:17:00	04:24:21:00	THAT SUCH AS THE LEADER OF THIS
04:24:21:00	04:24:21:00	BODY WHO KNOWS THAT RESIDENTS
04:24:21:00	04:24:24:00	WANT TO FILL IN POTHOLES,
04:24:24:00	04:24:25:00	CLEANING STREETS, DOING ALL
04:24:25:00	04:24:25:00	OF THAT.
04:24:25:00	04:24:26:00	SO I'M HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:24:26:00	04:24:28:00	WE'RE DOING THE WORK THE PEOPLE
04:24:28:00	04:24:29:00	THAT WE'RE NOT PLAYING POLITICS
04:24:29:00	04:24:33:00	AND THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING THE
04:24:33:00	04:24:33:00	LETTER OF THE LAW.
04:24:33:00	04:24:33:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:24:33:00	04:24:34:00	CONTRACTORS BY THE END OF THE
04:24:34:00	04:24:35:00	FLOOR.
04:24:35:00	04:24:36:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM
04:24:36:00	04:24:36:00	PRESIDENT.
04:24:36:00	04:24:37:00	I THINK EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS
04:24:37:00	04:24:40:00	THAT I'VE GONE ON RECORD ABOUT
04:24:40:00	04:24:40:00	THIS PARTICULAR MATTER.
04:24:40:00	04:24:43:00	YOU CAN LOOK UP MY STANCE IN
04:24:43:00	04:24:44:00	MANY PUBLICATIONS AND SO I
04:24:44:00	04:24:47:00	THINK I WOULD HOPE THAT FOLKS
04:24:47:00	04:24:50:00	UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN I WHEN I
04:24:50:00	04:24:51:00	YOU KNOW, I'M SPEAKING ON THIS
04:24:51:00	04:24:52:00	NOW THAT I'VE ALREADY GONE
04:24:52:00	04:24:55:00	PUBLIC, I'VE ALREADY MADE MY
04:24:55:00	04:24:56:00	STANCE ON THIS AND EVERYBODY
04:24:56:00	04:24:58:00	HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT
04:24:58:00	04:25:02:00	WHETHER AND IF YOU DON'T WANT
04:25:02:00	04:25:03:00	TO SAY ANYTHING I THINK IT'S UP
04:25:03:00	04:25:05:00	TO YOU AND THE DISTRICTS THAT
04:25:05:00	04:25:06:00	YOU REPRESENT OR WHETHER OR NOT
04:25:06:00	04:25:09:00	THAT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR YOU.
04:25:09:00	04:25:10:00	I'M NOT HERE TO TELL ANYBODY
04:25:10:00	04:25:13:00	WHAT THEY SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T
04:25:13:00	04:25:14:00	DO AND I'VE HAD MANY
04:25:14:00	04:25:17:00	CONVERSATIONS WITH WITH MY
04:25:17:00	04:25:17:00	CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THIS AND
04:25:17:00	04:25:21:00	WHAT THEY HAVE SAID IS THAT IN
04:25:21:00	04:25:22:00	PAST YEARS THERE HAS BEEN A LOT
04:25:22:00	04:25:25:00	OF ACRIMONY ON THIS BODY AND
04:25:25:00	04:25:29:00	THEY WANT ME TO DO THE WORK.
04:25:29:00	04:25:29:00	THEY WANT ME TO FIX OUR
04:25:29:00	04:25:29:00	POTHOLES.
04:25:29:00	04:25:32:00	THEY WANT ME TO FIX OUR
04:25:32:00	04:25:32:00	STREETS.
04:25:32:00	04:25:35:00	THEY WANT ME TO PASS
04:25:35:00	04:25:36:00	LEGISLATION AND POLICY THAT
04:25:36:00	04:25:36:00	EXPANDS AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
04:25:36:00	04:25:40:00	THEY WANT ME TO USE OUR
04:25:40:00	04:25:40:00	LEGISLATIVE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE
04:25:40:00	04:25:43:00	HERE THAT I REVERE SO MUCH
04:25:43:00	04:25:44:00	WITHIN THIS CHAMBER TO FURTHER
04:25:44:00	04:25:45:00	THE WORK OF PEOPLE OF THE
04:25:45:00	04:25:47:00	PEOPLE THAT BETTERS OUR
04:25:47:00	04:25:48:00	COMMUNITIES THAT AT THE END
04:25:48:00	04:25:51:00	OF THE DAY WE ALREADY HAVE
04:25:51:00	04:25:51:00	LEGAL GUIDANCE ON THIS.
04:25:51:00	04:25:52:00	THIS IS A NON-BINDING
04:25:52:00	04:25:54:00	RESOLUTION.
04:25:54:00	04:25:55:00	THIS WON'T ALLOW US OR ENABLE
04:25:55:00	04:25:58:00	US TO REMOVE OUR COLLEAGUE.
04:25:58:00	04:26:02:00	I'M NOT NECESSARILY SURE WHAT
04:26:02:00	04:26:03:00	THIS IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
04:26:03:00	04:26:06:00	IT URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION TO
04:26:06:00	04:26:09:00	FORMALLY ADDRESS THE MATTER AND
04:26:09:00	04:26:10:00	I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS
04:26:10:00	04:26:12:00	SOMETHING THAT HAS ALREADY
04:26:12:00	04:26:13:00	TAKEN PLACE.
04:26:13:00	04:26:14:00	I DO THINK THAT USING A
04:26:14:00	04:26:21:00	RESOLUTION IN THIS CHAMBER IS
04:26:21:00	04:26:21:00	WHAT SOME WOULD CALL AN
04:26:21:00	04:26:24:00	INAPPROPRIATE USE OF OUR POWER
04:26:24:00	04:26:24:00	HERE.
04:26:24:00	04:26:29:00	I JUST DON'T AGREE THAT THIS IS
04:26:29:00	04:26:29:00	THIS IS THE CORRECT VEHICLE TO
04:26:29:00	04:26:30:00	DO THIS.
04:26:30:00	04:26:33:00	AND SO I AGAIN, I'VE ALREADY
04:26:33:00	04:26:33:00	GONE ON RECORD ON THIS ISSUE
04:26:33:00	04:26:37:00	AND I RESPECTFULLY SAY THIS
04:26:37:00	04:26:40:00	THAT I JUST DON'T THINK THAT
04:26:40:00	04:26:41:00	THIS IS A GOOD USE OF OUR CITY
04:26:41:00	04:26:44:00	COUNCIL TIME AND RESOURCES.
04:26:44:00	04:26:45:00	THANK YOU.
04:26:45:00	04:26:45:00	THANK YOU.
04:26:45:00	04:26:46:00	CAN TALK ABOUT AS A PARTNER AND
04:26:46:00	04:26:48:00	THANK YOU I BELIEVE THAT YOU
04:26:48:00	04:26:49:00	CAME THE SAME DAY THAT I CAME
04:26:49:00	04:26:49:00	OUT.
04:26:49:00	04:26:50:00	YOU ALSO CAME OUT AND MADE A
04:26:50:00	04:26:51:00	STATEMENT VERY CLEAR STATEMENT
04:26:51:00	04:26:52:00	SAYING WHERE YOU STOOD AND I
04:26:52:00	04:26:53:00	WAS AGAIN PRESIDENT OF THIS
04:26:53:00	04:26:55:00	BODY MADE THAT STATEMENT VERY
04:26:55:00	04:26:55:00	CLEAR.
04:26:55:00	04:26:56:00	REMEMBER FRIDAY WE HAD AN
04:26:56:00	04:26:59:00	ELECTIONS HEARING MEETING.
04:26:59:00	04:27:00:00	IT WAS DECEMBER AND I MADE A
04:27:00:00	04:27:03:00	STATEMENT SO AND IT'S IMPORTANT
04:27:03:00	04:27:04:00	THAT WE JUST SAY THAT EVERYONE
04:27:04:00	04:27:07:00	IS EMPOWERED TO DO WHAT THEY
04:27:07:00	04:27:08:00	WANT AND IT EXEMPLIFY
04:27:08:00	04:27:11:00	LEADERSHIP AS YOU SO CHOOSE.
04:27:11:00	04:27:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COMES
04:27:12:00	04:27:12:00	OPERATING HAS A RIGHT AND YOU
04:27:12:00	04:27:13:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:27:13:00	04:27:18:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:27:18:00	04:27:18:00	WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS
04:27:18:00	04:27:21:00	FOR MONTHS.
04:27:21:00	04:27:24:00	I SHARE THE FRUSTRATION OF MANY
04:27:24:00	04:27:29:00	OF MY CONSTITUENTS THAT WE
04:27:29:00	04:27:29:00	SPEND WAY TOO MUCH TIME FOCUSED
04:27:29:00	04:27:32:00	ON THESE ISSUES AND THAT WE
04:27:32:00	04:27:33:00	NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS
04:27:33:00	04:27:34:00	OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR
04:27:34:00	04:27:36:00	CONSTITUENTS.
04:27:36:00	04:27:36:00	I THINK THE POTHOLES NEED
04:27:36:00	04:27:37:00	FIXING.
04:27:37:00	04:27:40:00	WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND
04:27:40:00	04:27:44:00	FRANKLY, YOU KNOW, THE LEGAL
04:27:44:00	04:27:45:00	PROCESS IS TAKING ITS COURSE
04:27:45:00	04:27:48:00	AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE
04:27:48:00	04:27:48:00	OUR DIRECTION.
04:27:48:00	04:27:49:00	WE'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE
04:27:49:00	04:27:52:00	OUTCOME.
04:27:52:00	04:27:52:00	AND I FEEL THAT AT THIS MOMENT
04:27:52:00	04:27:55:00	WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE WORK
04:27:55:00	04:27:58:00	THAT WE ARE SENT HERE TO DO AND
04:27:58:00	04:28:02:00	AND IF IF IF THAT'S NOT SEEMS
04:28:02:00	04:28:03:00	APPROPRIATE AND WE FEEL THAT WE
04:28:03:00	04:28:06:00	NEED FURTHER FURTHER
04:28:06:00	04:28:06:00	DISCUSSION, THEN WE SHOULD WE
04:28:06:00	04:28:07:00	SHOULD SEND THIS TO THE
04:28:07:00	04:28:09:00	COMMITTEE ON THE WHOLE OR
04:28:09:00	04:28:09:00	SOMETHING.
04:28:09:00	04:28:10:00	BUT I REALLY FEEL AT THIS POINT
04:28:10:00	04:28:11:00	WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS
04:28:11:00	04:28:13:00	WAY TOO LONG.
04:28:13:00	04:28:14:00	THANK YOU.
04:28:14:00	04:28:17:00	HAS A RATING IS THAT A ARE YOU
04:28:17:00	04:28:18:00	ARE YOU SEEKING SUSPENSION IN
04:28:18:00	04:28:18:00	ADOPTION?
04:28:18:00	04:28:21:00	IT WAS AT AN OBJECTION.
04:28:21:00	04:28:21:00	I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT'S AN
04:28:21:00	04:28:22:00	OBJECTION.
04:28:22:00	04:28:24:00	IT'S AN OBJECTION TO DOCKET
04:28:24:00	04:28:25:00	NUMBER 1068.
04:28:25:00	04:28:28:00	THIS DOCKET WILL BE REFERRED TO
04:28:28:00	04:28:29:00	THE COMMITTEE ON THE WHOLE.
04:28:29:00	04:28:29:00	OKAY.
04:28:29:00	04:28:36:00	I BELIEVE WE ARE MOVING ON TO
04:28:36:00	04:28:36:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS.
04:28:36:00	04:28:37:00	BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, WOULD
04:28:37:00	04:28:40:00	ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME
04:28:40:00	04:28:41:00	TO A MATTER OR ASK FOR A MOTION
04:28:41:00	04:28:44:00	TO RECONSIDER ON A VOTE IF YOU
04:28:44:00	04:28:45:00	WERE OUT OF CHAMBERS AT A TIME
04:28:45:00	04:28:46:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
04:28:46:00	04:28:50:00	WEBCAMS ARE WE ON THE FLOOR?
04:28:50:00	04:28:50:00	UH, I APOLOGIZE.
04:28:50:00	04:28:51:00	I WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY NAME TO
04:28:51:00	04:28:54:00	DOCKET NUMBER 1058.
04:28:54:00	04:28:55:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE I
04:28:55:00	04:28:58:00	KIND OF ORBIT A DOCKING NUMBER
04:28:58:00	04:29:02:00	1058 TWO.
04:29:02:00	04:29:02:00	THANK YOU.
04:29:02:00	04:29:05:00	ANYONE ELSE?
04:29:05:00	04:29:05:00	OKAY.
04:29:05:00	04:29:06:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO
04:29:06:00	04:29:10:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS.
04:29:10:00	04:29:10:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
04:29:10:00	04:29:13:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS?
04:29:13:00	04:29:15:00	DOCKING NUMBER 1069 PERSONNEL
04:29:15:00	04:29:16:00	ORDER COUNCILOR ALLUSION AND
04:29:16:00	04:29:19:00	TOKEN NUMBER 1070
04:29:19:00	04:29:20:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
04:29:20:00	04:29:23:00	COUNSELOR MURPHY.
04:29:23:00	04:29:23:00	THANK YOU.
04:29:23:00	04:29:24:00	THE CHAIRMANSHIP PASSAGE
04:29:24:00	04:29:26:00	OF DOCKETS NUMBER ONE DOCKETS
04:29:26:00	04:29:29:00	NUMBER 106931070.
04:29:29:00	04:29:30:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
04:29:30:00	04:29:31:00	I ALSO SAY NAY.
04:29:31:00	04:29:31:00	THANK YOU.
04:29:31:00	04:29:32:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE
04:29:32:00	04:29:33:00	PASSED.
04:29:33:00	04:29:33:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO GREEN
04:29:33:00	04:29:34:00	SHEETS.
04:29:34:00	04:29:37:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO PULL
04:29:37:00	04:29:40:00	ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS
04:29:40:00	04:29:40:00	?
04:29:40:00	04:29:40:00	NO.
04:29:40:00	04:29:41:00	NO.
04:29:41:00	04:29:41:00	OKAY.
04:29:41:00	04:29:42:00	WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO LEAD
04:29:42:00	04:29:43:00	FILES.
04:29:43:00	04:29:44:00	I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE COURT
04:29:44:00	04:29:47:00	THAT THERE ARE THREE LATE FILE
04:29:47:00	04:29:49:00	MATTERS TWO PERSONNEL ORDERS
04:29:49:00	04:29:50:00	AND ONE ABSENCE LETTER.
04:29:50:00	04:29:51:00	CAN YOU PLEASE READ THE ALL THE
04:29:51:00	04:29:53:00	FILED MATTER?
04:29:53:00	04:29:54:00	CAN YOU PLEASE BE THE TWO
04:29:54:00	04:29:57:00	PERSONNEL LATE FILED MATTERS
04:29:57:00	04:29:57:00	INTO THE RECORD?
04:29:57:00	04:29:58:00	FIRSTLY FROM THE PERSONNEL
04:29:58:00	04:30:01:00	ORDER COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
04:30:01:00	04:30:02:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AND
04:30:02:00	04:30:05:00	SECONDLY FAR MATTER PERSONNEL
04:30:05:00	04:30:05:00	ORDER COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
04:30:05:00	04:30:08:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD THANK YOU
04:30:08:00	04:30:13:00	ALL IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING THESE
04:30:13:00	04:30:14:00	FILE MATTERS SAY I AM OPPOSING
04:30:14:00	04:30:16:00	A THE AYES HAVE IT.
04:30:16:00	04:30:17:00	THESE MATTERS ARE ADDED TO THE
04:30:17:00	04:30:20:00	RECORD ALL IN FAVOR OF PASSING
04:30:20:00	04:30:21:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS I I ALL
04:30:21:00	04:30:24:00	OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT.
04:30:24:00	04:30:27:00	THIS DOCKET IS PASSED AND
04:30:27:00	04:30:28:00	MR QUOTE COULD YOU PLEASE READ
04:30:28:00	04:30:29:00	THE LEAD FILE ABSOLUTE LETTER
04:30:29:00	04:30:31:00	INTO THE RECORD THIRDLY FOR
04:30:31:00	04:30:35:00	PERHAPS THIS LETTER FROM
04:30:35:00	04:30:35:00	COUNCILOR AT TANYA FEENEY IN
04:30:35:00	04:30:36:00	THE SENSE AND DEAR COLLEAGUES I
04:30:36:00	04:30:39:00	HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU
04:30:39:00	04:30:40:00	WELL IN WRITING TO LET YOU KNOW
04:30:40:00	04:30:42:00	THAT I AM UNABLE TO ATTEND
04:30:42:00	04:30:43:00	TODAY'S COUNCIL MEETING AS I AM
04:30:43:00	04:30:46:00	STILL ATTENDING TO AN ONGOING
04:30:46:00	04:30:47:00	FAMILY MEDICAL MATTER THAT
04:30:47:00	04:30:51:00	REQUIRES MY CARE AND ATTENTION
04:30:51:00	04:30:51:00	.
04:30:51:00	04:30:51:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR.
04:30:51:00	04:30:52:00	FINANCE MINISTER THANK YOU.
04:30:52:00	04:30:55:00	THIS LATE FILE AND LETTER WILL
04:30:55:00	04:30:58:00	BE PLACED ON FILE.
04:30:58:00	04:30:59:00	WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE
04:30:59:00	04:30:59:00	CONSENT AGENDA.
04:30:59:00	04:31:00:00	I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
04:31:00:00	04:31:01:00	CLERK THAT THERE ARE NO
04:31:01:00	04:31:02:00	ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT
04:31:02:00	04:31:02:00	AGENDA.
04:31:02:00	04:31:03:00	THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON
04:31:03:00	04:31:06:00	APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS
04:31:06:00	04:31:06:00	CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT
04:31:06:00	04:31:06:00	AGENDA.
04:31:06:00	04:31:09:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
04:31:09:00	04:31:09:00	I THANK YOU.
04:31:09:00	04:31:10:00	THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN
04:31:10:00	04:31:10:00	ADOPTED.
04:31:10:00	04:31:13:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.
04:31:13:00	04:31:13:00	PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE
04:31:13:00	04:31:14:00	FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
04:31:14:00	04:31:17:00	BIRTHDAY RUMORS BIRTHDAY IS
04:31:17:00	04:31:21:00	TODAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLMAR
04:31:21:00	04:31:22:00	AND COUNSELOR SANTANA'S OFFICE
04:31:22:00	04:31:24:00	MEGAN CAVANAUGH AND COUNSELOR
04:31:24:00	04:31:25:00	MURPHY CELEBRATE NEXT WEEK MAY
04:31:25:00	04:31:25:00	20TH.
04:31:25:00	04:31:28:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO COUNSELOR
04:31:28:00	04:31:29:00	MURPHY AND TO OUR OWN COUNSELOR
04:31:29:00	04:31:32:00	RIGHT THERE.
04:31:32:00	04:31:33:00	I DIDN'T SEE YOU, MEGAN
04:31:33:00	04:31:36:00	CAVANAUGH GEMINI'S RIGHT ON
04:31:36:00	04:31:36:00	TAURUS.
04:31:36:00	04:31:40:00	OKAY, THIS IS MAY 21ST.
04:31:40:00	04:31:40:00	I'M A SENIOR GEMINI, SO I'M
04:31:40:00	04:31:41:00	ALWAYS OKAY.
04:31:41:00	04:31:42:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TAURUS IS
04:31:42:00	04:31:43:00	ALSO I STATED BEFORE BUT WE'RE
04:31:43:00	04:31:46:00	RAISING THE FLAG ON FRIDAY AT
04:31:46:00	04:31:49:00	NOON AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL
04:31:49:00	04:31:50:00	THERE.
04:31:50:00	04:31:50:00	THERE'S ALSO THE HAITIAN UNITY
04:31:50:00	04:31:58:00	PARADE ON SUNDAY AT NEW 1230 IN
04:31:58:00	04:31:58:00	MATTAPAN SQUARE.
04:31:58:00	04:31:59:00	AH THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:31:59:00	04:31:59:00	COUNCILMAN GERALD
04:31:59:00	04:32:00:00	COUNCILMAN JODY ON THE FLOOR.
04:32:00:00	04:32:00:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:32:00:00	04:32:01:00	I JUST WANT TO SAY HAPPY
04:32:01:00	04:32:04:00	BIRTHDAY TO MY SON MAC.
04:32:04:00	04:32:05:00	I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME AND
04:32:05:00	04:32:06:00	EAT CAKE WITH HIM TONIGHT.
04:32:06:00	04:32:07:00	HE TURNED SIX AND I'M SO PROUD
04:32:07:00	04:32:07:00	OF HIM.
04:32:07:00	04:32:08:00	THANK YOU FOR SOME HAPPY
04:32:08:00	04:32:11:00	BIRTHDAY TO MAC'S MAC MAC'S
04:32:11:00	04:32:15:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAC MAC HAPPY
04:32:15:00	04:32:15:00	BIRTHDAY.
04:32:15:00	04:32:15:00	OKAY.
04:32:15:00	04:32:16:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:32:16:00	04:32:16:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY TO THE FLOOR.
04:32:16:00	04:32:18:00	THANK YOU.
04:32:18:00	04:32:20:00	I JUST WANT TO RISE TO SAY THAT
04:32:20:00	04:32:20:00	THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY HEARING
04:32:20:00	04:32:23:00	ORDERS THAT I HAVE FILED THAT
04:32:23:00	04:32:24:00	HAVE JUST I WOULD SAY DIED IN
04:32:24:00	04:32:27:00	COMMITTEE AND HAVE NEVER BEEN
04:32:27:00	04:32:27:00	HEARD.
04:32:27:00	04:32:28:00	AND A COUNCIL COLLEAGUE
04:32:28:00	04:32:31:00	RIGHTFULLY SO USED THE WORD
04:32:31:00	04:32:34:00	HOUNDED WHEN SHE SAID THAT
04:32:34:00	04:32:35:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS HOUNDED
04:32:35:00	04:32:36:00	OUR OFFICE TO TRY TO GET A
04:32:36:00	04:32:38:00	HEARING SCHEDULED AND I RESPECT
04:32:38:00	04:32:38:00	THE STRONG WORD BECAUSE IT'S
04:32:38:00	04:32:41:00	WHAT I DID HAVE TO DO AND I'VE
04:32:41:00	04:32:42:00	SAID TO MY STAFF ALSO THAT IT
04:32:42:00	04:32:45:00	TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY AND WE'RE
04:32:45:00	04:32:46:00	SPENDING SO MUCH TIME WHICH I
04:32:46:00	04:32:49:00	AGREE WITH ALL MY COLLEAGUES WE
04:32:49:00	04:32:50:00	SHOULD BE WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS
04:32:50:00	04:32:52:00	DELIVERING ON THE SERVICES THAT
04:32:52:00	04:32:53:00	WE NEED AND I SPEND SO MUCH
04:32:53:00	04:32:56:00	TIME JUST TRYING TO GET HEARING
04:32:56:00	04:32:56:00	ORDERS SCHEDULED.
04:32:56:00	04:33:02:00	BUT ON MARCH 5TH OF 2020 50616A
04:33:02:00	04:33:02:00	HEARING ORDER TO DISCUSS AND
04:33:02:00	04:33:03:00	ESTABLISH GUIDELINES FOR THE
04:33:03:00	04:33:06:00	FILING AND ADOPTION OF COUNCIL
04:33:06:00	04:33:06:00	RESOLUTIONS WAS FILED AND THAT
04:33:06:00	04:33:10:00	HAS NOT BEEN SCHEDULED.
04:33:10:00	04:33:11:00	SO I'M RISING IN HOPE THAT WE
04:33:11:00	04:33:12:00	CAN GET THERE AND WE HAVE TO DO
04:33:12:00	04:33:13:00	OKAY SO THAT WE CAN.
04:33:13:00	04:33:14:00	IT'S THE REVIEW OF CURRENT
04:33:14:00	04:33:14:00	PRACTICES ESTABLISHMENT
04:33:14:00	04:33:17:00	OF CLAIRE GUIDELINES AND
04:33:17:00	04:33:18:00	PROMOTION OF CONSENT IS
04:33:18:00	04:33:21:00	SOMETHING THAT I ALSO AGREE SO
04:33:21:00	04:33:22:00	I DO WANT TO GO ON RECORD THAT
04:33:22:00	04:33:25:00	AS WE PASS MANY RESOLUTIONS AND
04:33:25:00	04:33:25:00	I DO AGREE THAT IT'S SOMETHING
04:33:25:00	04:33:28:00	THAT PEOPLE SHOULD COME TO
04:33:28:00	04:33:29:00	THEIR COLLEAGUES WHEN THEY SEE
04:33:29:00	04:33:30:00	IT POP UP ON MONDAY AT NOON IF
04:33:30:00	04:33:33:00	YOU DISAGREE IF YOU WANT TO
04:33:33:00	04:33:33:00	BLOCK, IF YOU DON'T THINK IT'S
04:33:33:00	04:33:34:00	SOMETHING THAT SHOULD GO
04:33:34:00	04:33:36:00	FORWARD THAT IS NOT GOING TO
04:33:36:00	04:33:36:00	MAKE THIS BODY STRONGER WHICH
04:33:36:00	04:33:40:00	IS SOMETHING I HAVE ALWAYS
04:33:40:00	04:33:40:00	WANTED TO DO BECAUSE WE DO
04:33:40:00	04:33:41:00	BLOCK THAT STRENGTH.
04:33:41:00	04:33:44:00	I BELIEVE IN THIS BODY AND SO I
04:33:44:00	04:33:45:00	THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT I GET
04:33:45:00	04:33:47:00	THAT ON THE RECORD THAT NOT
04:33:47:00	04:33:48:00	JUST THIS HEARING ORDER BUT MY
04:33:48:00	04:33:51:00	LONG LIST OF HEARING ORDERS IN
04:33:51:00	04:33:51:00	MY OFFICE THAT WE'RE STILL JUST
04:33:51:00	04:33:52:00	TRYING TO GET IN FRONT
04:33:52:00	04:33:56:00	OF DEPARTMENT HEADS OR US AS A
04:33:56:00	04:33:57:00	BODY AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE
04:33:57:00	04:33:57:00	WHOLE TO DISCUSS IMPORTANT
04:33:57:00	04:33:57:00	ISSUES.
04:33:57:00	04:34:00:00	THANK YOU AND I BELIEVE THAT MY
04:34:00:00	04:34:00:00	OFFICE HAS YOU WROTE DATE IN
04:34:00:00	04:34:03:00	AUGUST I BELIEVE WE HAVE A DATE
04:34:03:00	04:34:04:00	FOR THAT HEARING ORDER THAT IS
04:34:04:00	04:34:04:00	IN MY COMMITTEE.
04:34:04:00	04:34:05:00	SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
04:34:05:00	04:34:07:00	THE RECORD IS CLEAR THERE.
04:34:07:00	04:34:08:00	THE CHAIR RECORDED THIS COUNT
04:34:08:00	04:34:08:00	OFFLINE.
04:34:08:00	04:34:10:00	YOU HAD THE FLOOR.
04:34:10:00	04:34:11:00	YEAH.
04:34:11:00	04:34:11:00	THANK YOU.
04:34:11:00	04:34:12:00	AND ALSO JUST A REMINDER THAT
04:34:12:00	04:34:12:00	FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS I ALLOWED
04:34:12:00	04:34:14:00	THIS IS ABOUT ANNOUNCEMENTS.
04:34:14:00	04:34:15:00	YES.
04:34:15:00	04:34:15:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
04:34:15:00	04:34:18:00	I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
04:34:18:00	04:34:18:00	WHEN SOMEONE DOES BLOCK A
04:34:18:00	04:34:23:00	HEARING ORDER OR
04:34:23:00	04:34:23:00	COUNCIL OFFLINE THIS IS FOR
04:34:23:00	04:34:23:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS.
04:34:23:00	04:34:24:00	THIS IS NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT AND
04:34:24:00	04:34:25:00	SO IT BECOMES OFFLINE.
04:34:25:00	04:34:26:00	WE ARE MOVING ON.
04:34:26:00	04:34:27:00	I'M SORRY IF IT'S NOT AN
04:34:27:00	04:34:29:00	ANNOUNCEMENT WE ARE MOVING ON.
04:34:29:00	04:34:30:00	DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE AN
04:34:30:00	04:34:31:00	ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT AN UPCOMING
04:34:31:00	04:34:34:00	EVENT IN THEIR DISTRICT OR IN
04:34:34:00	04:34:34:00	THE CITY?
04:34:34:00	04:34:37:00	NO.
04:34:37:00	04:34:37:00	OKAY.
04:34:37:00	04:34:38:00	WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO
04:34:38:00	04:34:38:00	MEMORIALS.
04:34:38:00	04:34:41:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO UPLIFT ANY
04:34:41:00	04:34:42:00	I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I SEE
04:34:42:00	04:34:45:00	THE NAME OF THE 14 YEAR OLD WHO
04:34:45:00	04:34:48:00	DIED IN HIS SLEEP IN HYDE PARK
04:34:48:00	04:34:48:00	.
04:34:48:00	04:34:49:00	HIS FAMILY IS TRAUMATIZED AND I
04:34:49:00	04:34:50:00	JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
04:34:50:00	04:34:52:00	CONTINUE TO UPLIFT HIM AND THE
04:34:52:00	04:34:52:00	NEEDS OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
04:34:52:00	04:34:55:00	THAT ARE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW
04:34:55:00	04:34:56:00	AND THAT IS MARVIN OLIVIA
04:34:56:00	04:34:59:00	CASSIUS.
04:34:59:00	04:34:59:00	MY FATHER KNOWS THE FAMILY FROM
04:34:59:00	04:35:02:00	CHURCH OF SAINT CARMEL SAN
04:35:02:00	04:35:06:00	ANGELO'S IN MATTAPAN SQUARE IN
04:35:06:00	04:35:07:00	THE WHOLE PARISH THERE IS
04:35:07:00	04:35:07:00	DISTRAUGHT AND SO I JUST WANT
04:35:07:00	04:35:10:00	TO MAKE SURE WE'RE UPLIFTING
04:35:10:00	04:35:11:00	THE CASSIUS FAMILY.
04:35:11:00	04:35:11:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME
04:35:11:00	04:35:14:00	CELEBRATE AND CONSECRATE AND
04:35:14:00	04:35:15:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:35:15:00	04:35:18:00	I'D LIKE TO REMEMBER MICHAEL
04:35:18:00	04:35:18:00	WHITLOW.
04:35:18:00	04:35:22:00	HE'S A RESIDENT FORMER RESIDENT
04:35:22:00	04:35:23:00	OF JUST PAST THIS WEEK AND A
04:35:23:00	04:35:26:00	RESIDENT OF BRIGHTON, A LONG
04:35:26:00	04:35:26:00	TIME RESIDENT MUCH BELOVED IN
04:35:26:00	04:35:30:00	THE NEIGHBORHOOD, A LONG BATTLE
04:35:30:00	04:35:33:00	WITH DIABETES AND IT PASSED
04:35:33:00	04:35:36:00	PEACEFULLY IN HIS OWN BED AND
04:35:36:00	04:35:37:00	JUST WANT TO EXTEND OUR
04:35:37:00	04:35:40:00	CONDOLENCES TO HIS WIFE AND
04:35:40:00	04:35:44:00	NORINE WHITLOW AND GIVE HER THE
04:35:44:00	04:35:45:00	STRENGTH AS SHE GOES FORWARD.
04:35:45:00	04:35:45:00	THANK YOU.
04:35:45:00	04:35:49:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
04:35:49:00	04:35:50:00	HIS NAME IS MICHAEL LITTLER.
04:35:50:00	04:35:50:00	MICHAEL.
04:35:50:00	04:35:52:00	OKAY.
04:35:52:00	04:35:52:00	THANK YOU.
04:35:52:00	04:35:53:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:35:53:00	04:35:53:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTNER.
04:35:53:00	04:35:55:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
04:35:55:00	04:35:56:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
04:35:56:00	04:35:57:00	I JUST WANT TO SPEAK CHRISTIAN
04:35:57:00	04:35:59:00	MAYO'S NAME INTO THESE CHAMBERS
04:35:59:00	04:35:59:00	.
04:35:59:00	04:36:00:00	HE IS A FORMER CLASSMATE
04:36:00:00	04:36:01:00	OF MINE UNFORTUNATELY PASSED
04:36:01:00	04:36:03:00	UNEXPECTEDLY THIS PAST WEEKEND
04:36:03:00	04:36:04:00	AND SO I'M SENDING LOVE TO HIS
04:36:04:00	04:36:05:00	MOM DENISE AND THE ENTIRE MALE
04:36:05:00	04:36:08:00	FAMILY.
04:36:08:00	04:36:08:00	THANK YOU.
04:36:08:00	04:36:08:00	THANK YOU.
04:36:08:00	04:36:09:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PART
04:36:09:00	04:36:12:00	OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:36:12:00	04:36:12:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN.
04:36:12:00	04:36:13:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN, YOU HAVE THE
04:36:13:00	04:36:13:00	FLOOR.
04:36:13:00	04:36:13:00	HI.
04:36:13:00	04:36:15:00	I'D LIKE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:36:15:00	04:36:16:00	WE ADJOURN IN MEMORY OF FATHER
04:36:16:00	04:36:19:00	JAMES DORAN WHO WAS TRAGICALLY
04:36:19:00	04:36:22:00	KILLED IN A BICYCLE ACCIDENT
04:36:22:00	04:36:23:00	EARLIER THIS WEEK AND HE'S WITH
04:36:23:00	04:36:26:00	THE THE OBLATE VIRGIN MARY
04:36:26:00	04:36:30:00	WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE FENWAY
04:36:30:00	04:36:30:00	.
04:36:30:00	04:36:30:00	THANK YOU.
04:36:30:00	04:36:34:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
04:36:34:00	04:36:34:00	COUNCILOR AND
04:36:34:00	04:36:35:00	COUNCILOR DEPENDING ON THE
04:36:35:00	04:36:35:00	FLOOR.
04:36:35:00	04:36:37:00	I WOULD LIKE TO JUST GIVE MY
04:36:37:00	04:36:41:00	PRAYERS AND WARM WITH WARM JUST
04:36:41:00	04:36:42:00	HUGS TO THE FAMILY TO THE
04:36:42:00	04:36:42:00	BHUTTO FAMILY.
04:36:42:00	04:36:45:00	HER NAME IS O'MEARA BHUTTO.
04:36:45:00	04:36:47:00	SHE'S THE MOM OF TWO DIRECTOR
04:36:47:00	04:36:48:00	311 ERKKI BHUTTO AND SHE WAS
04:36:48:00	04:36:52:00	ALSO HER WAS A CLASSMATE
04:36:52:00	04:36:52:00	OF MINE IN HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL.
04:36:52:00	04:36:53:00	SO JUST DEEP CONDOLENCES TO THE
04:36:53:00	04:36:55:00	FAMILY.
04:36:55:00	04:36:55:00	THANK YOU.
04:36:55:00	04:36:56:00	TODAY WE WILL ADJOURN OUR
04:36:56:00	04:36:59:00	MEETING IN MEMORY OF THE
04:36:59:00	04:37:00:00	FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ON BEHALF
04:37:00:00	04:37:03:00	OF COUNCILOR DURKIN FATHER
04:37:03:00	04:37:03:00	JAMES DORAN ON BEHALF
04:37:03:00	04:37:07:00	OF COUNCILOR COLETTE ZAPATA,
04:37:07:00	04:37:12:00	PETER BALDASSARE, CHRISTIAN J.
04:37:12:00	04:37:12:00	MAYO ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL BEEN
04:37:12:00	04:37:15:00	A MIRROR WIDOW ON BEHALF
04:37:15:00	04:37:16:00	OF COUNCIL VILLAGE GERALD
04:37:16:00	04:37:19:00	CHARLENE ROBERTS HAYDEN DA
04:37:19:00	04:37:23:00	HAYDEN'S MOTHER ON BEHALF
04:37:23:00	04:37:23:00	OF MYSELF DANIEL ANGE
04:37:23:00	04:37:27:00	CLAIRSVILLE I'M A HALF OF ALL
04:37:27:00	04:37:30:00	ALSO MYSELF MARVIN OLIVER
04:37:30:00	04:37:31:00	CASSIUS AND ALSO ON BEHALF
04:37:31:00	04:37:31:00	OF THE ENTIRE BOSTON CITY
04:37:31:00	04:37:34:00	COUNCIL ALL THE PASSING
04:37:34:00	04:37:35:00	OF DAVID'S MOTHER OUR MOMENT
04:37:35:00	04:37:37:00	OF SILENCE ALSO MARY AND ALSO
04:37:37:00	04:37:38:00	MARY LOU CRONAN ON BEHALF
04:37:38:00	04:37:43:00	OF THE ENTIRE BOSTON CITY
04:37:43:00	04:37:43:00	COUNCIL AND OUR BELOVED
04:37:43:00	04:37:44:00	COUNCILOR BRAYDEN MICHAEL
04:37:44:00	04:37:51:00	HITLER, A MOMENT OF SILENCE THE
04:37:51:00	04:37:51:00	CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE
04:37:51:00	04:37:52:00	COUNCIL ADJOURNED TODAY IT DOES
04:37:52:00	04:37:53:00	SO IN MEMORY OF THE
04:37:53:00	04:37:55:00	AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS.
04:37:55:00	04:37:55:00	THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO
04:37:55:00	04:37:56:00	MEET AGAIN IN THE DIANELLA
04:37:56:00	04:37:58:00	CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST,
04:37:58:00	04:37:59:00	2025 AT 12 NOON.
04:37:59:00	04:38:02:00	THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES TO
04:38:02:00	04:38:02:00	CENTRAL STAFF.
04:38:02:00	04:38:03:00	WELCOME BACK ELLEN.
04:38:03:00	04:38:03:00	WE MISSED YOU.
04:38:03:00	04:38:05:00	THE CLERK IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE
04:38:05:00	04:38:06:00	AND THE COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER
04:38:06:00	04:38:07:00	ALL IN FAVOR OF GENTLEMEN,
04:38:07:00	04:38:08:00	PLEASE SAY THAT THE COUNCIL IS